CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Japan and Russia have settled all
claims and counter claims growing out
of the war.
It is estimated that burglars have
secured 1500.000 in New York City
since June 1.
The Socialist mayor of Milwaukee,
Wis., has been sued for slander by a
judge of the Circuit court.
Julius Kruttschnitt predicts chaos
on Harriman lines if demands of rail
way emloyes are granted.
Many parties of strikebreakers are
being quietly hurried West, presum
ably to operate the Harriman lines in
case of a strike.
A hurricane and high tide combined
at Charleston., S. C., caused the
death of five persons and immense
property damage.
Fire destroyed the buildings of the
Great Northern mine, in the Blue
River district of Oregon, and started
a disastrous forest fire.
Government Food Expert Wiley has
barred green oranges from market,
and California growers fear to ship
their fruit East, lest it be confiscated.
SERUM CURES HOGS.
VICE PRESIDENT OF HARRIMAN SYSTEM. WHO IS HASTEN
ING WESTWARD FOR CONFERENCE WITH WORKMEN.
California Professor Solves Problem
of Curing Cholera.
Berkeley. Cal.—Results of experi
ments conducted by the bureau of
animal industry of the State Agricul
tural Experiment station here, under
the direction of Dr. C. M. Haring,
with a view to making the raising of
pork a profitable industry in this state
has been officially announced by Direc
tor Wickaon, of the station here.
The tests were conducted following
an appropriation of $16,000 by the
state legislature, starting last June,
following a report from the state vet
erinarian. declaring that a very small
part of the pork consumed in this
state was raised locally. Following a
statement that the industry was un
profitable mainly because of heavy
losses through cholera, an appropria
tion was made to conduct tests in se
curing a serum. The report of results
of the experiments was as follows:
“Careful and persistent attention to
preventive measures, such as quaran
tine, disinfection, proper feeding,
etc., on the part of the farmers gener
ally would no doubt result in material
reduction in the yearly losses from
hog cholera. The importance of ob
serving these precautions cannot be
overestimated.
“However, as it is regarded as im
practicable to enforce a general and
completely effective quarantine, the
bureau of animal industry has endeav
ored for years to find a medicine or
serum which could be used for pre
venting hog cholera, or for curing
hogs sick of that disease.
“It is a well-known fact that hogs
which have recovered from hog chol
era are thereafter immune from the
disease. The experiment of the bu
reau of animal industry resulted in the
discovery that when such immunes
are injected with the blood from a
sick hog, ’the immune is not made
sick, but as a result of this infection
its blood acquires the power to protect
other hogs from hog cholera.
It is
now entirely possibleRto protect hogs
if they are treated with serum from a
properly-treated immune.
In the
tests practically 2,000 hogs, located on
47 separate farms, were treated. The
problem has finally been solved.”
Following orders from the state au
thorities, the new serum used as a re
sult of the experiments is to be sold
by the board of regents of the univer
sity, as fast as it is made up. to farm
ers in several parts of the state. Ac
cording to Professor Wickson, the
serum is to be sold at cost, a tempor
ary price having been set at 2J cents
a cubic centimeter.
OREGON HOPS BEST.
Coast Product Is Rich In
Says Sciantist,
Ji i n s Kin i i-si iix i rr.
■MEN ARE TREATED FAIRLY."
Kruttschnitt
Says Harriman
Should Be Praised.
Lines
FIVE KILLED BY COLLAPSE
OF UMPQUA VALLEY BRIDGE
Roseburg. Or. Five men were al
Omaha — Julius Kruttschnitt said most instantly killed and five others
when here Saturday forenoon on his were injured, four of them seriously,
way West that the strike question when the big wooden bridge spanning
rested wholly with the employes of the Umpqua river m Coles valley, 18
the Harriman lines.
I miles northwest of Roseburg, col
In an interview. Mr. Kruttschnitt lapsed and fell into the water, a dis-
declared that the matter of a strike on i tance of about 60 feet. All the killed
A Chinese steamer is en route to
the Harriman system was up to the ■ and injured were members of the
the United States with 72 young Chi
men and that the railroad had never I Douglas County bridge gang, and had
nese students aboard, including two
refused to confer with its employes.
' been at work repairing the ill-fated
women, all of whom are coming to
“So far as we are concerned.” said structure for about three weeks,
study in American schools.
he, “we are having no trouble with i With the south end of the bridge in-
our men. We are paying the best 1 tact, the crew began removing the
Officials declare that all precautions
wages of any road in the country, and false work to the opposite end of the
required by law were fully observed in
notwithstanding that business has structure to replace some defective
the moving picture theater at Canons
been bad for months, we have been eyebeams.
burg, Pa., in which 26 people were
carrying on our payrolls a large num
They had only partly completed the
killed in a panic following. a false
ber of people not needed. We have task when the whole span suddenly
alarm of fire.
always treated our men with fairness, quivered and an instant later crashed
and at the present time are paying out to the water below. The entire crew
The salmon pack on the Columbia
annually between $300,000 and $400,- was removing the floor planking when
river for the season is estimated to be
000 to superannuated employes.”
worth $6,000.000.
the collapse came, and none were able
Mr. Kruttschnitt refused to discuss to escape.
The painting “Mona Lisa,” stolen
the question of reorgnizing the feder
The injured were caret!
for by
from the Louvre in Paris, is said to
ated labor organization. He would not neighboring farmers and doctors were
have been taken to Belgium on a
express an opinion as to whether or rushed from Roseburg and Oakland in
freight train.
not the present retrenchment move automobiles to the scene of the disas
ment on the Harriman system had ter, where everything possible was
Mrs. Jane Dowie, widow of the late
reached its limit.
It all depended done for the injured men.
The five
founder of Zion City, will start a new
upon business, he asserted. In this bodies of those killed were also recov
ALASKA IS WONDER.
colony at her summer home near
connection, Mr. Kruttschnitt declared ered by farmers and taken to Rose
Whitehall, Mich.
the Harriman lines should be praised burg for interment.
A barrel of oil exploding in the Secretary Fisher’s Visit [to North for deferring the cutting down of
The bridge consisted of a single
Proves Revelation,
their forces so long, rather than be span 332 feet long, and was built in
shaft of a mine at Ely, Nev., caused
the death of seven men and serious in
A steel
Cordova, Alaska—Completing a 400- blamed for doing it now. Other roads, 1891. at a cost of $22.000.
he said, had been laying off men for bridge will probably be built in its
jury to three others.
mile trip along the Copper River months.
place.
valley into the interior of Alaska,
PORTLAND MARKETS,
REBELS BEATEN OFF.
Walter L. Fisher, secretary of the in
HUNNEWELL IS TAXLESS.
Wheat—New crop, bluestem, 836/ terior, stepped from his train bubbling
84 e; club, 796/80c; red Russian, 78c; over with admiration and wonder at President-Elect of Ecuador Wins Im Fight Between Council and Woman
valley, 796/ 80c.
portant Victory.
the great sights he had seen on his
Mayor Also Empties Treasury.
Millstuffs — Bran. $24.506/25 per journey to Kenncott, the terminus of
Guayaquil, Ecuador— General Tre-
Hunnewell, Kan, — Hunnewell is
ton; middlings, $12; shorts, $25.50 the Copper River & Northwestern vine, at the head of 800 troops loyal
(a 26; rolled barley, $30.506/31.50.
railroad.
to Emilio Estrada, president-elect of confronted with the problem of meet
Corn—Whole, $33; cracked, $34 per
Secretary Fisher and his party, to Ecuador, occupied Jini Japa, province ing city expenses without a tax levy,
as a result of the war between Mrs.
ton.
gether with a delegation of Cordova of Manabi, without resistance.
Barley—New, feed, $286/28.50 per business men. made the trip on a spe
The rebels under Colonel Carlos Al Ella Wilson, mayor, and the city
ton; brewing, $326/33.
cial train.
At Cihtina, Secretary faro, who have flocked to General Fla council, who objected to a woman ex
Oats—Old white, $27 per ton; new, Fisher addressed a mass meeting of vio Alfaro’s standard on his attempt ecutive.
The city council failed to fix the an
$25.
citizens. He gave them assurance of to wrest the office of chief executive
Hay—Timothy, valley, $156/16; al fair play.
At the Bonanza copper from Estrada, evacuated the town on nual tax levy, and the time limit
falfa, $11; clover, $8.506/9; grain mines, Secretary Fisher showed much the approach of the government within which the levy may be made
hay, $9.506/10.
interest in the mines, and was con troops. It is announced that Alfaro’s has expired.
Mayor Wilson is considering the ad
Fresh Fruits — Cantaloupes, $16/2 ducted through the works
force is now disbanding.
per crate; peaches, 65c6/$1.25 box;
During the entire trip Secretary
A new band of outlaws appeared visability of bringing ouster suits
watermelons, lc pound; plums, 90c Fisher was busy shaking hands with near San Borondon, province of Ix>s against members of the council on the
6/$1.75 crate; prunes $1.75 box; new old prospectors and pioneers and took Rios, cheering for Alfaro.
After grounds of negligence.
apples, $1.756/2.50 box; blackberries, a deep interest in their affairs and two skirmishes with the police this
The woman mayor is casting about
$1.506/1.75; pears, $1.256/1.75 box; asked many questions regarding the force was dispersed, leaving four for some method of securing money to
Casabas,
$2.256/2.50 per dozen; pressing need of their particular lo killed and five wounded on the field. pay town expenses. She urged that a
grapes, $1.50611.65 per box.
calities. The prospectors replied that Ten of the band were made prisoners. poll tax be collected, but this required
Vegetables — Beans, 56/10c; cab the most pressing need was cheaper
The government losses were two an ordinance by the council, and the
council refuses to pass such an ord
bages, $2 per hundredweight; corn, fuel.
men killed and several wounded.
25e/30c per dozen; cucumbers, $16/
As in other places he has visited, he
A resolution was passed by congress inance.
1.25 per sack; eggplant, 56/8c pound; asked the citizens concerning their providing for Estrada's assumption to
garlic, 106/ 12c pound; lettuce, 306/ views of the best ‘method of opening the presidency.
JOHN D. RELISHES GAME.
35c dozen; hothouse lettuce, $1.256/ the coal lands. While many said they
1.75 per box; peppers, 86/10c pound; were willing to leave that question to
Oil King's Stock Rises $11,000,000
Coast Guns Hit Targets.
radishes, 12ic dozen; tomatoes, 90c6/. Mr. Fisher and congress, al) agreed
While He Plays Golf.
Fort
Stevens,
Or.
—
The
12-inch
mor
$1 .25 box; new carrots, $1.75 per that prompt action was necessary.
tars were fired in full service target
Cleveland, O.—While John I). Rock
sack; turnips. $1.25; beets, $1.75.
practice, using a 1046-pound projec efeller was playing golf with Captain
Potatoes — Oregon,
li6zljc per
tile and firing several thousand yards I,evi Scofield and others in a foursome
Record Flight Planned.
pound; sweet potatoes, 4i6/5c per
St. Louis—Plans for a trans-Missis- to sea at a rapidly moving target at Forest Hill links Wednesday morn
pound.
Onions'—‘Walla 'Walla, $1.75 per sippi hydroplane flight next month of towed by the steamer Fimance. Out ing, Standard Oil stock was soaring
not less than 1,500 miles, sufficient to of 10 shots fired eight were hits. on the New York curb. It went up a
hundred.
Poultry—Hens, 156J15Jc; springs, eclipse the world's record just estab This is a phenomenal record for mor total of 47 points in the morning.
Rockefeller's play was interrupted
15c; ducks, young, 17c; geese, 11c; lished by Harry N. Atwood, are well tars, one hit out of 10 being consid
under way here. Two courses are un ered fair shooting, bcause of the fact several times while he received and
turkeys, 186/ 19c.
Butter—City creamery extra, 1 and der consideratio—to start at St. Paul that mortars are tire«! several miles in sent telegrams. It is believed he was
2-pound prints, in boxes, 31c per and finish at Vicksburg, Miss., a dis the air and under most difficult condi directing buying operations that
pound; less than box lots, cartons and tance of 1,511 miles, or to start at tions. Mortars are fired at one-minute caused the remarkable rise. All mes
sages were received and sent by Rock
Dubuque,"la., and finish at New Or intervals.
delivery extra.
efeller’s private operator at his home.
The purpose of
Eggs — Fresh Oregon ranch, leans, 1,555 miles.
Men Wdl Not Compromise,
Answers as received were delivered to
the flght is to focus attention on the
candled, 26c per dozen.
Mississippi on the eve of the deep wa
San Francisco—E. L. Requin, presi the oil king by a boy on a bicycle.
Pork—Fancy, 10J6/ 11c per pound.
Rockefeller's holdings increased in
ter convention at Chicago.
dent of the San Francisco Federation
Veal—Fancy, 136/ 14c per pound.
of the shop employes of the Harriman value $11,000,000 between breakfast
Hops—1911 contracts, 406/41c per
Bathers Must Be Modest.
lines, said Saturday night that he be and luncheon.
pound; 1910 crop, 386/40c; 1909
Atlantic City, N. J.—The thousands lieved a secret vote being taken here
crop, 27c; olds, 176/20c.
Troops Sent to Africa.
Wool—Choice Eastern Oregon, 96/ of pretty young women from New by the Federation would be unanimous
The result of a vote
Madrid Dispatches from Las Pal
16c per pound, according to shrink York, Philadelphia and other large for a strike.
“It now mas, Canary islands, say 500 Spanish
age; valley, 156/17c per pound; mo cities, who are fond of disporting will not be made public.
hair, choice. 366/37Jc.
themselves on the beach, and also on rests entirely with the company,” soldiers are making preparations to
Cattle—Extra choice steers, $5.60 the streets of this resort, clad in bath said Requin. "The men all over the embark on the transport Almirante
6/5.75; good, $5.256/5.50;
choice ing suits and high heeled shoes, are country have declared unanimously for Lobo, to occupy Saint Croix la Mineu
cows, $4.506/4.75; good, $4.256/4.50; sorely distressed over an order which a strike unless our conditions are met. ro, on the Moroccan coast, where the
good, average 1050 pounds, $46/4.25; Acting Mayor Carmany has issued. We are determined we shall be recog arrival last July of the German war
common, $2.756/3; choice heifers, The order bars the wearer of an un nized as a Federation.”
ship Panther stirreifup the present in
ternational dispute over Morocco.
$4.906/5; choice bulls, $3.506/3.75; draped bathing suit from appearing on
Burn Judge in Effigy.
choice calves, 200 pounds and under, the street so garbed.
The news reporting the movement of
$7.256/7.50 ;'*gWxl to choice calves,
Seattle — United States District a Spanish force U> Southern Morocco
Girl Swims 15 Miles.
$5.506/6; common,
$46/5; choice
Judge Hanford was hanged in effigy has not yet been confirmed.
stags. $1.506X4.75; good, $4.256/4.50.
New York —Elaine Golding of Bat Saturday, by a crowd in front of
Gold Output $3.000,000.
Hogs — Extra choice light hogs, Beach swam from the Battery in New Dreamland rink at a mass meeting to
$8.156/8.25; choice heavy, $76/7.25; York to Coney Island , 15 miles. Miss protest against his action in issuing a
Seattle According to estimates at
heavy rough, $6.256/6.50.
Golding is 20 years old and weighs 190 temporary injunction in the trouble the Seattle assay office, the output of
Sheep—Choice yearlings, wethers, pounds.
She wen many champion between the Seattle, Renton & South the Iditarod gold district in Alaska
$3.256/3.50; choice two and thrx.es,_ ships at short and middle distances. ern railway and its patrons in the Rai this season has reached $3,000,006.
$36/3.15; choice mountain lambs, Her time, one minute more than six nier valley.
Judge Hanford issued Within the last two months the local
$4.25///4.35; choice valley lambs, $4 hours, is regarded as exceptional, as the injunction 'restraining passengers offices have received $300,000 from
6/4.15; choice killings ewes, $2.506/. heavy rain fell all the time and the and the city from interfering with the this district and a like amount ia said
2.75.
sea was choppyJJ
company’s efforts to collect extra fare. to have gone to San Francisco.
SOIL EXPERT IS HERE.
Lupulln H. W. Grunsky, ot Medlord, to
spect Oregon Farms.
In
Medford
Thu United States de
Corvallis Investigations made dur
ing the past year by H. V. Tartar, partment of Agriculture him recently
chemist of the Oregon Experiment Sta »aligned on« of its ex;iort» in irriga
tion, show that Pacific Coast hops are
not surpassed in quality by hops from tion, H. W. Grunsky, of thia city, to
any other part of the world. The re conduct a aeries of investigations in
sults indicate that preference for for one or more of the many promising
eign hope and New York hops are' agricultural districts east of the Cas
largely prejudice and cannot be backed cade range.
up with facts. The present “rub and
The irrigation investigation office
nose” method of judging hops has hi a gradually extended its field of
been fount! to be sadly in error, anil operations from small tieginnings, 15
unreliable for determining accurately ( or 20 years ago, until now it has a
the real value of hops for commercial corps of trained engineers invading
use. When the old prejudices and ouch of the states west of the Missis
faulty methods of judging are laid sippi river us well as many of those
aside, Pacific Coast hops will rank east.
differently and much higher in the , Of all the offices anti branches of
markets of the world.
the department of agriculture there is
Professor Tartar believes that one perhaps none more directly helpful
of the best things that can be done for to the condition of the individual
the hop industry in this state is to em farmers ami the districts in which it
ploy standards for judging the product o|M'rates than this office.
U|*>n a scientific basis.
The Oregon
Mr. Gronsky has opened an office at
hops are very rich in lupulin anti bit 530 Heck building, Portland, ami is
ter principles, and this should be rec anxious to get in touch with all In
ognized and its value considered in terested farmers.
the market price paid-
“My flrat duty,” said Mr. Grunsky,
A movement for the adaption of “will l>e to decide just where to oper
new standards for the valuation of ate, anti what lines of investigation
hops already has been started in this will be most helpful. We do not care
country by the International Hop to throw ourselves into the arms of
Prize exhibit, which will be held Oct. j disinterested parties, but
will go
11 anti 12 at Chicago. At this exhib where, other things being equal, we
it the hops will be judged for the first receive the best welcome.
The funds
time by a scientific standard.
The at our dfitposal are limited ami we need
truth regarding real value of hops the co o|>eration of wide-awake farm
from the different localities will be ers who are willing to meet us half
ascertained.
way in experimentation. Some of the
"The Oregon hopgrowers should by , most probable lines of inquiry open
all means participate in this exhibit, are: The amount of water to be ap
and thus aid in showing the superior! plied for the best economic returns;
quality of Pacific Coast hops," sail! time und number of applications;
Professor Tartar.
effect of water on soils ami effect of
irrigation on different crops with re
PEAR SHIPMENTS HEAVY.
spect to a particular locality."
Medford Growers ian to Build Sto**-
'age ,’lant.
SHIPPERS GET REQUEST.
Medford Thirty-three cars of Bart Northwest Fruitmen Granted "Stor
lett pears have been shipped from the
age in Transit” Rato.
valley since the season opened, two
Portland
Fruit shippers in the
weeks ago, and the fruit is going out
at the rate of live cars a day. The Northwest were granted the long-
fruit ia maturing rapidly untier favor prayvd-for "storage in transit” rate
able climatic conditions, and the by the various railroad» iqierating out
Howell |>ears are now being harvested. | of this territory.
This information was received in
The Howells are exceptionally fine this
year, and are expected to bring good Portland by a telegram sent by Frank
W. Robinson, ’general freight agent
prices.
All the fruit that has been shipped of the Harriman lines, 'to Harvey E.
so far is being held in Chicago await Ix/unsberry, assistant gene/al freight
ing the clearing of the market of agent. All other roads have advised
cheap fruit. The local association is their local agents of the arrangement.
In effect the new rate will be 10
greatly in need of a cold storage plant
here, anil tentative plans are being 1 cents per hundred [s/undii on apples
made for the erection of a $100,000 sent from anywhere in the Northwest
I to any Eastern destination, in addi
plant next season.
With such a plant in Medford, local tion to the regular published freight
growers will be able to holt! their rates. Storage will be permitted at
fruit for the prices they want, instead any main line point subject to local
of having to ship them to commission conditions, such as switching charges
I and warehouse rates.
houses from the trees.
This arrangement will give the
J Northwest dealers advantage of the
FRUIT SHADOWS STOCK.
i Eastern market as soon as possible
I after favorable prices are quoted.
A shipper will I h * able to bill his
Tillamook County Find» Bigger Prof
j fruit through to his Eastern market
its in New Industry.
ami store it at any convenient point.
Bsy City - Tillamtx/k county is When the market ia sufficiently at
awakening to the possibilities that lie tractive hr will be able to continue
in a development of its agricultural the movement to destination.
resources. It has been found that an
This additional charge of 10 cents
acre of land, if used for the feeding of will enable the shipf/er to take advan
dairy stock, will only produce a return tage of the through rate. Otherwise,
of about $75, but that if the same I if he desired to »tori' his fruit so as to
land is plowed and set to small fruit I be near the market he would be re
ami vegetables, the income to be quirt'd to pay the combination of local
derived will be in the neighborhood of rates.
$600 or $700, or, in other words, from
eight to nine times greater.
APPLE CROP TO BE LIGHT.
Mohler, the new townsite on the
Pacific Railroad & Navigation com
pany line; the Commercial club of Hood River Growers Expect Only
Half ot Last Year,
Nehalem, just in the process of form
ation; the Commercial club of Bay
Hood River—”If the tiemanti for
City, and the Development league of small-sized apples, which prevailed
Tillamook, have joined for the ad throughout the markets last season,
vancement of this new line of develop continues this year, ” said Charles It.
ment.
Cartner,
county
fruit
ins;>ector,
"Hood River growers will find a ready
HAS NEW ATTRACTION.
market for their products.
Because
of the desire of the consumer to be
Managers of State Fair Secure Noted able to purchase small-sized fruit last
Prima Donna.
year, the local orchardists have not
Salem— Madam Marie Begue, who done as much thinning this year as
was formerly a member of the Metro last.”
W. K. Newell, president of the
politan Grand Opera company of New-
York City, is to sing at the Salem state board of horticulture, was in
State Fair during the week it is in this city and met with the different
progress, September 11 to 16.
This fruit men, marketers and growers.
is the first time that a prima donna | Estimates of th«' valley’s product this
has ever appeared at a state fair, and season place the crop nt between 50
it opens up a new era in the history of and 60 per cent of last year’s. The
the organization which has an even I Apple Growers’ union is distributing
half century of progress behind it. ’ among the growers estimate blanks.
With the prima donna, who sings con These probably will be in before the
tralto, is her husband. Sig. Bernard middle of September, and then it will
Begue, a baritone of rare voice and I be ;x>ssiblle to make definite esti
great dramatic intensity. The couple mates.
will be accompanied by the great Fer-
Citizen* Improve Own Harbor.
rullo Band, which has become famous
Tillamook — Without government
in the Pacific Northwest.
aid, and relying solely on their own
resources, residents of Nehalem have
Clackamas Hogs Have Cholera.
undertaken the construction of a jetty
Oregon City Hog cholera in a viru
at tin' mouth of the Nehalem river,
lent form has made its appearance in j
which will give them excellent harlsir
this county.
Dr. II. M. Thomas, a
facilities. At a cost of $50,000, a
veterinarian of Gladstone, found that. jetty from the south shore of the Ne
11 hogs on one farm had the disease.
He notified State Veterinarian Lytle! halem, extending 2,000 feet seaward,
with a solid wall of rock rising from
and the latter had the hogs qunran-
In to 3lt feet als/ve the river bottom,
tined. ”1 >r. l.yile does not think tl
will be built.
is any danger of the disease spreading. [
This is the first time the disease has
Canal May Be Rushed,
appeared in this county, and Dr. Lytle
Oregon
City President Hedges, of
says it will soon be eradicated.
the Oregon City commercial club, has
receivi'd a telegram from Representa
Beef Prices Prices Are High.
tive Hawley giving the information
Prineville Heavy movement of cat that no further congressional action
tie through Prineville was the feature I was necessary in connection with the
of the week in the local stock market. construction of the canal on the east
More than $100,0(H) worth of beef on side of the Willamette river at the
the hoof was sold here in one lot last falls. Mr. Hawley is of the opinion
week.
that the work will be started soon.