A CURRENT EVENi-S OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume of Important Event« Presented in Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Seven murderers were electrocuted in Sing Sing prison within an hour's time. China is preparing to establish a fleet of commercial ships for foreign trade. ' Two trunks""containing 122,000 worth of opium were seised by officers at Los Angeles. Girl plunges SOO feet off Mount Rainier to death, breaking every bone in her body. China has offered the post of adviser to the government to William Rock­ hill, an American. Three hundred ironworkers in San Francisco, went on strike, demanding $1 per day increase in wages.“ Twc chained convicts leaped from a Northern Pacific train at Whitehall, Mont., and made good their escape. Thirty-six soldiers 'and 20 passen­ gers were slaughtered by Zapatistas when a train was attacked from am­ bush. President^Taft will likely appoint Colonel William V. Judson, a United States army engineer, as governor of Panama. The youngest mother recorded in medical history is an 11-year-old girl near Davenport, Iowa, who gave birth to an pound child. A mother bear stole into the Taft children’s camp at Yellowstone Park at night and took her cub that had been captured by the party. The Equitable Life Insurance com­ pany of New York will build a 36- story home on the site of the building, which was destoryed by fire [last win­ ter. An explosion of black damp and coal dust in a mine at Gerth, Ger­ many, caused the death of 103 miners and 27 escaped with injuries. Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton, a prominent suffragist of Washington, will be a candidate for state represen­ tative on the Democratic ticket. Spokane has let contracts for the erection of a new $300,000 city hall, and Eastern bond buyers have refused to purchase the bonds issued to pay for the work. The Continental Building & Loan association of San Francisco, has been closed up by the state commissioner, who declares the institution insolvent. The St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway company has given a mortgage on its property for $200,- 000,000, running 40 years and bearing 6 per cent interest The national palace of Hayti at San Domingo, was blown up and set on fire by a terriffic explosion, killing the president of the republic and many attendants and employes of the capi- tol. PORTLAND MARKETS Wheat—Track prices: New: Club, 76 ®77c: bluestem. 18it80c; fortyfold. 78c: Valley, 78(§79c; old wheat, nom­ inal. Millstuffs—Bran. $25 per ton: shorts. $28: middlings. $32; rolled barley. $29. Hav—Eastern Oregon timothy, $15; Valley timothy. $12®13; alfalfa. $11® 12; clover, $10; oats and vetch, $10® 11; grain hay, $10® 11. Oats—New. $26 per ton. Fresh Fruits—Apples, new. 90c® $2 25 per box; peaches, 35®85c per box: plums, 75c®$1.10 per box: pears. $ 1.20® 1.50 per box: apricots, $1.25 per box: grapes. $1(3 2 per crate; black­ berries. 75c® $1.25 per crate. Melons—Cantaloupes. 75c® $1.50 per crate; watermelons, SI'S 1.15 per hun­ dred. Potatoes—Jobbing prices. Burbanks, new, 6O*5i 90c per hundred. Vegetables—Artichokes, 65® 75c per dozen: beans. 2c; cabbage, lfi 184c per pound; cauliflower, $1'31.25 per doz­ en; celery, 75® 85c per dozen: corn. 15® 25c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per box: eggplant, 7® 10c per pound; head lettuce, 20® 25c per dozen; peas, 8® 9c per pound; peppers, 8® 10c per pound; radishes. 15®20c per dozen. Sack Vegetables—Carrots, $1.50 per sack; turnips, $1.25 per sack; beets, $1.50 per sack. Eggs—Case count, 23c; candled, 25c; extras, 27c per dozen. Butter — Oregon creamery butter, cubes, 31c per pound; prints, 32%c per pound. Pork—Fancy, 10%® 11c per pound. Veal—Fancy, 14% ©15c per pound. Poultry—Hens, 13®13%c; broilers, 15®15%c; ducks, young. 12c; geese. 10®11c; turkeys, live, 18@20c; dressed 24® 25c. Hops—1912 contracts, 18<£20c; 1911 crop, nominal. Wool—Eastern Oregon. 14®18c per pound according to shrinkage; Valley, 21%®22%c per pound. Cattle — Choice steers, $6.75® 7.00; good. $6®6.50; medium. $5.75®6: choice cows, $5.75® 6; good, $5.50® 5.75; medium. $5@5.50; choice calves, $7®8.50; good heavy calves. $6®,6.50; bulls, $3.50® 5; stags, $4.75@6. Hogs—Light, $8<&9; heavy, $6.25® 7.50. Sheep—Yearlings. $3®4.50; wethers, $3® 4.60; ewes, $3®3.75; lambs, $4® $.2». ; HOUSE OVERRIDES VETO Democrats Have Bid of 21 Republic­ ans in Vote Measure. Washington. D. C.—By the narrow margin of five votes the House passed the wool tariff revision bill over Pres­ ident Taft's veto. The vote. 174 to 80, was made possible only by the defec­ tion of 21 republicans, who voted with the democrats. The announcement of democratic success created a wild scene in the house and amid great confusion the republican leaders protested that Speaker Clark must count as voting ten members who answered ‘pres­ ent'* to their names, a ruling which would have defeated the democratic program by overcoming the five vote margin and making possible the re­ cording of the necessary two-thirds vote. This the speaker declined to do. Less than an hour after the wool bill had been repassed in the house, the conferees on the sugar tariff bill met and disagreed. They decided to report to both the houses that it had been found impossible to reach a compromise between the Underwood and Ixxige-Bristow bills. This action is expected to mark the end of sugar tariff consideration in the present session and the excise tax bill, which was framed to make up revenues that would have been lost by the reduction of the sugar tariff, probably will remain in conference when Congress adjourns. While democratic and progressive senate leaders believe the wool bill cannot be passed in that body over the President’s veto, they will con­ tinue to demand action on the cotton tariff measure. The vote on the wool bill came as a surprise to the republican leaders of the house. When they discovered that defection from their ranks was to be expected it was too late to pre­ vent it. As a result the following republicans went over to the demo­ cratic camp and made victory possible for the majority: Akin. New York; Anderson. Davis, IJndbergh. Miller. Steenerson and Stevens. Minnesota; Anthony, Rees and Young. Kansas; Cooper and Morse, Wisconsin: Hau­ gen and Woods. Iowa; Helgeson. North Dakota; Kent. California: 14»f- ferty, Oregon: I-a Follette and War­ burton. Washington; Norris and Sloan, Nebraska. Not in the memory of the oldest members of the house has a tariff measure ever been passed over the president's veto by the lowest branch of Congress. MEXICAN TROOPS ARE ROUTED INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE DALLAS FAIR BIGGER ONE. Second Annual Harvest Festival to Be Held In October. . Dallas—The second annual Harvest Festival and School Fair will be held here on Thursday, Friday ail Saturday, October 3. 4 and 5. Thia was decided upon at a meeting of the Dallas Com­ mercial Club held lu this city recently, and a committee on preliminary ar­ rangements was apia/inted. Last year this fair was given during the hop­ picking season, ami this fact Injured its success. However, it Is believed this year that this festival will be one of the best events of the season. It will be larger and better than lust year and Will be advertised much more. It is planned to have a Salem and Portland day. and to have a special train run from Portland to accommo­ date the Portland visitors. Upon this day the Chamber of Commerce of Port land and the Salem Board of Trade will be invited to furnish some speak­ ers for exercises to be held. It Is be­ lieved that the Portland Chamber of Qommerce will be interested In this, for the members who visited Dallas during the Winter with the business men's excursion were favorably im­ pressed with this city The Commercial Clubs of Independ­ ence and Falls City will be asked to lend their aid this year to make this the biggest affair ever held In Polk county. The County Court has appro­ priated a liberal amount of money for it. and the Dallas Commercial Club has authorized an expenditure of $1,000 to make it a success. AGATE CARNIVAL IS HELD. Curry County Has Largest Attendance on Record. Port Orford—Port Orford's second annual agate carnival was closed with a fine display of fireworks and a re­ production of the famous Indian battle of Battle Rock on a larger scale than last year. The largest attendance was gathered In the history of Curry coun­ ty. Over 30 automobiles came from Coos and neighboring counties. Mrs. Robert McKenzie won the lov­ ing cup offered by Frank B. Tlchenor. of Portland, for the best display of agates. Mr. Tichenor suggested the Idea Of an agate carnival to the Commercial Club here last year which was adopted and will be made an annual feature He has also suggested the building of an agate palace to include hall of the same material for Oregon Sons, and this has been unanimously adopted by the Commercial Club. It will be built in time for the next, or third annual agate carnival. Port Orford has the best agate beaches on the Pacific Coast, but owing to the inaccessibility heretofore th«- outside world has not known it. This year the bail game, foot races, horse races and athletic events created great enthusiasm and all agree that this was the biggest and best celebration ever held in Curry county. Rebels Capture Ixtapam, Killing 300. Many Women and Children. Mexico City—Government troops have been defeated in a series of en­ counters with Zapatistas in the Ten- ancingo district of the State of Mex­ ico. a few miles south of Toluca, the state capital, and rebels are in pos­ session of all villages in that district, according to advices received here. In their attacks the Zapatistas are credited with displaying a ferociiy rarely displayed in Mexican warfare. At Ixtapam. the town taken, 300 persons, including women and chil­ dren. are reported to have been killed and virtually every building razed. Only a small number of the dead were rebels. An encounter occurred in a canyon not far away from Ixtapam. There a PORTERS ACQUIRE TIMBER. detachment of 250 men. on Its way to the relief of Ixtapam, was ambushed. Hill Line Man in $257,000 Deal on Fighting lasted four hours, terminat­ Siuslaw. ing in a rout of the government forces. Eight dead were left in the Astoria—D M. Stuart, of Portland, trenches. Ten thousand cartridges who was in the city recently, rej/orts that the Stuart & Ferguson Timber POPULIST PARTY IS ALIVE Company, a number of stockbolfirrs of which reside In Astoria, has closed At National Convention Platform a deal for the sale of approximately 5.000 acres of yellow fir timber In the Drafted; No Candidate Named. River district to Johnson I* St. Ix>uis.—The eieht delegates to Siuslaw Porter, of Portland, a member of the the Populist National convention, aft­ firm of Porter Bros., who are t'le con­ er nearly six hours' argument, adopted fidential contractors of the Hill lines. a platform reaffirming the 1892 plat­ The consideration paid Is $257.000. form, and adding a number of new Porter Bros, own about 1.000.060.00« planks, one of which favors the rec­ feet of timber In the Siuslaw district, ognition of the Chinese Republic. as well as a sawmill near the month “We did not come here to nominate of that stream, and this purchase Is a candidate for president,” said J. F. simply adding to their already exten­ Ferris, chairman of the national com­ sive holdings. The Stuart * Ferguson mittee. “We wish merely to keep our Timber Company also owns «another organization alive for future useful­ tract there containing 304,000,000 feet ness. The platform to be adopted is of fir. our principal object.” Ferris told about being summoned Medford Pears Abroad. by Senator Clapp to a; pear before the Medford—Because of the great In­ Senatorial committee investigating flux of pears from California. Roeue campaign expenses. "I finally begged off. he said, "after River Valley fruit growers are hold­ having convinced Clapp that we had ing their crop as long as possible In no campaign funds to speak of and the hone that better prices will ph>- that Wall street had never yet found vali. The pears are sizing beautifully ft necessary to attempt to corrupt us and unless extreme heat sets in thev by big contributions to our treasury.” can remain on the trees for at least another week. The Southern Pacific is anticipating Auto Sets Woods Afire. the picking and has 19 cars on the side T-akefort.—A brisk forest fire near tracks ready for immediate transpor­ Bartlett Springs had its origin in an tation. One carload from the Daggert ranch unusual accident near artlett. R. S. Dallas, of San Francisco, was return­ has already been sent East and It is ing by automobile with his family to planned to forward It from there to his home. An overheated brake shoe Liverpool. This is the first time that set fire to the gasoline tank, which a carload of pears have been sent was hung between the rear wheels. abroad from Medford. The tank exploded, scattering liquid fire in the dry brush at either side Dallas Considering Paving. of the road, and the flames traveled through the brush to the timber. Dallas—An effort Is being made to Dallas and his family escaped un­ get the business section of the city hurt, but the automobile is nothing paved with hard-surface pavement. but a huge cinder. This city has spent thousands of dol­ lars to macadamize Its streets, and nearly every street has been macadam­ Alfalfa Meal Is Demand ized. However, the macadam upon the Kansas City.—"I am told that in principal streets that was put in first some cities of the Northwest feed is will soon need repairing, and a great many of the citizens are urging the in such demand that sawdust mixed construction of hard-surface pavement with molasses actually is being sold to take its place. It Is believed that on the market for $20 a ton,” H. H. next season wMI witness construc­ Cottrill, of Manhattan. Neb., told the tion of at least'ten blocks the Convention of the National Alfalfa of pavement In this city. of this kind Miller's Association. The demand for alfalfa meal, the speaker said, has Albany to Help Eugene Celebrate. grown to such an extent in the last Albany — The Albany Commercial few years that more than 100 mills are unable to keep all orders filled. Clnb Is Inaugurating plans already for a big excursion from this city to Eu­ gene, when the Lane County city cele­ Ohio Mob Lynches Negro. Columbus, O.—After holding up of­ brate« the completion of the Oregon ficials in the courthouse a mob of Electric. Hundreds of Eugene people about 40 men here took T. Z. Cotton, came here on July 4 to help this city alias T. Z. McElhenny. a 16-year-old commemorate the completion of the negro, who was on trial, and lynched Salem-Albany extension and resident« him just beyond the city limits. The of Albany desire to Join with the Eu­ negro was accused of killing Cedron gene people In the festivities In honor of the extension of the line to Eugene. I .And, a white boy, two months ago. PEACE IN MEXICO DOUDTFUL. THOUSAND DEAD IN EARTHQUAKE Believed Qeneral Orosco Will Resist Ovorturos. Mexico City. Official Mexico ap­ pears Io regard with much pessimism WEST HAS NEW PLAN. the outlook for peace. Attemps prob­ ably will be made to reopen negotia­ Legislature Will Be Asked to Name tions with General Orosco, but It is Five to Six Times as Many In* Special Board. generally believed the rebel lender iu jured In Turkey. Salem—Consolidation of ail of the the North w ill resist overtures by the state institutions under the manage­ government. Ilo was reported tn a ment of one board ia a recommenda­ tion which Governor West will make special telegram to KI Dlarlo as hav­ Fire ¡Adds to Awful Havoc—Light» bouts Topplss Over — Cities' to the next session of the legislature, ing refused to meet General Huerta at according to a statement made by the u point south of Juurvs and there sur­ Plight Is Gravs. render, nddiug that ho would lead his chief executive. At the present time the state board, forces Into the capital Itself wlthl/i a which includes the governor, secretary month. Constantinople Reports bore Indi­ of state and state treasurer, has con­ An echo to the charge by the Mexi­ cate that the groat earthquake which trol of the two asylums, the state can government that Benator Fall was school for the feeble minded and the responsible for the failure of Minister was fell through a large part of Tur­ atate training school. The governor Hernandes to bring about an agree-! key was accompanied by much heav­ has practically exclusive control over inent between the government and i ier I sa of life than at first announced. the atate penitentiary and at the sol­ Orosco wa« contained in a special dis The newspapers estimate the number diers' home at Roseburg. The state patch from El Paso. Ill that It was1 oi victim« at a tiiousuud killed, while school for the deaf and the state charged that an American In El 1‘aao the injured uro said to number from school for the blind are controlled by had negotiated with the rebels, not 5000 tu tiooo. the purpose of preventing Orosco the state board of education, while for from entering the United States ter­ The details of the earthquake, the tuberculosis sanatorium is under ritory, but to keep the war going. It the control of « special board, of uas charged that ho represented a which are coming lu slowly, owing to which the governor is a member ex- group of American bankers whose in the Interruption of the wires, Indi­ officio and the balance are appointees teresta, it was alleged, would be fav­ cates that the seismic disturbance« Thousands are from various parts of the state. ored by the continuance of hostilities. ; was widespread. lu this paper it was asserted that ■ homeless and outbreaks of fire have “Useless waste haa been discovered in connection with the many institu­ the American Government had served occurred In many towns and villages. tions,” said the governor. “Thia is notice on Mexico that ¡>eace must be The entire district between Con- not because the members of the vari­ restored at an early date. No confir­ mation of thia assertion could be se­ (i«e« an act of the greatest courtesy and kind yet used. Revelations of the sugar and other one calculated to make even warmer frauds convinced Secretary MacVeagh and more cordial the existing rela­ there was someth lai; radically wrong tions between the two governments. TROUT ARE PLANTED. with the appraising system He be­ lieves an Inca'culable siimRs being lost Women to Guard Women Ashland District Waters Aided By every year l/y careless and antiquated Berlin A novel experiment In pen­ Bonneville Hatchery. methods. The committee Is charged ology la about to be ;nnde by the Ashland—Under the auspices of the to recommend revisions and Improve­ Prussian authorities, who have de­ Gun and Rod club 50 cans of young ments to stop all loopholes. cided to open In Berlin n women's trout, 40 of rainbow and 10 of Eastern prison exclusively managed by women. LINERS IN COLLISION. brook, reached this city from the state Not only the guards and wardens, but hatchery at Bonneville to be dis­ Frankfort and Barmen Returning to superintendents and directors of the I various prlaon labor departments will tributed in streams and lakes in this Port With 1200 Immigrants. j t>e of the s«m(> «ex ns the prisoners. vicinity, the apportionment being 10 There will be 36 women Inspectors cans of Eastern brook in Ashland Amsterdam, Netherlands.—The North creek, five cans of rainbow and a like ,German Lloyd steamship Frankfurt, I and several teachers will also be ap­ for Canada from Bremen with pointed to Instruct the Inmates in use­ number of same variety in the head­ bound 1200 emigrants on board, collided with ful and remunerative occupations. It waters of Emigrant and Neil creeks, the German steamer Barmen, from la a theory of the authorities thBt n respectively and 30 cans in Lake of the | Rotterdam for Bremen, while off the women’s prison exclusively under Woods. Hook of Holland lightship, and Is now feminine management would not only This shipment is but a forerunner proceeding to the hook under tow. , avoid many administrative difficulties of others soon to follow, it being the Wireless dispatches received at ¡arising under the old system, but intent of local sportsmen to have the Schevenlngen from the Frankfurt say ’ would bring about n more Intelligent waters hereabouts well stocked. The all her passengers are on board Hnd and systematic treatment of the pris­ work of planting these fish was done the vessel Is in no danger. The timely oners. The Institution will be opened of two stenmers calmed the I In October. under the superintendence of H. V. arrival passengers after the collision and the Richardson, an enthusiastic angler ¡disabled veasel was taken In tow. and nimrod. Mount Katmal Is 8moklng Reward, Alaska.—Passengers on the Acme Honora Crssmery Opening Geographers to Travel mall steamship Dora, which arrived Florence — An all-day picnic was New York.—Fifty representatives of given at Acme to celebrate the open­ i geographical societies and unlversl- on her monthly trip from the west­ ward, say Mount Katmal, which was ing of the new creamery just erected by (ties of 16 European countries have violent eruption In June, Is emitting the Siuslaw Dairymen’s association. enrolled for a tour of the United In great volumes of dense smoke. The The creamery is operated by the Ha­ i States as guests of the American geo­ Dora brought word that the fishing zelwood company, and in honor of the graphical Society. The tour Is to be­ season on Bristol bay la closed. All occasion Hazelwood ice cream was gin with a celebration here of the canneries there reported capacity served free. Dr. James Withycombe, opening of a new building of the Am­ packs. The armored cruiser Maryland of the Oregon Agricultural college, erican Geographical Society, marking returned from Cordova last night to delivered an address. Attention was the 60th anniversary of the orgnnlza- wait for the party of navy men who Professor William Morris Davis, have gone to Inspect the Matanuska called to the development of the Itlon. Harvard, Is to conduct the excur­ coal field. dairying industry in this valley within ¡of sion. which will cover approximately the past three or four years, and it is ¡10,000 miles and take two months* -believed greater progress will be made. time. Taft Signs Farm Bill Washington, D. C.—The agricultur­ New O. A. C. Catalogue Out. Legende of Gold Luree al appropriation bill, morn than a Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­ New York.—The legend of $30.000,- vallis—The new catalogue of the Ore­ 000 gold hidden on Cocos Island In tho month overdue In taking effect, was signed by President Taft, and released gon Agricultural college, of which an Pacific Ocean la the lure which i for field work a small army of em­ issue of 8000 copies has just come j brought Frederick Smodden from Cal- ployes held up during the delay on from the office of the state printer, i gary, Canada, to this city, whence he the measure. Secretary Wilson or­ announces the opening of the 28th !has sailed for Central America. Smod- dered Immediate resumption of farm year of the state institution on Sept. I den said his knowledge of the treas- demonstration work In many states. 20, when registration and the examina­ I ure's whereabouts was handed down On tho Pacific Coast, belated experi­ tions for admission of students who do by Captain Trevan. a sea dog of many mental work to develop potash re­ not come from accredited schools, will J generations back, whose plan to search sources will be taken up. take place. Recitations do not begin, for the gold was frustrated by a fatal Illness. Miss Gould Host to 600 - however, until Sept. 24. Hlghton. N. Y.—Helen Gonld had Yiddish Paper to Start 600 negroes ns her guests on her play­ Deer Tame and Plentiful. Francisco.—A newspaper print­ grounds hero. Most of them came Hood River—Deer are numerous in ed San In the Yiddish language and de­ from Now York churches. All the the Hood River valley this season. voted entirely to the Interests of the trolley cars were In use for the cele- Although the season haa been open Jewish race, la to be established here hratlon of the opening of a new trolley but a week, hunters in the Green under the editorial guidance of Dr. lino and the party had to walk six Point and Ix>«t Lake region« have al­ Charles Wortsman, a wldelytknown miles from the railroad station «nd Jewish scholar. back again. ready killed a dozen bucks.