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EASTERN ROADS TO USE CANAL Demand Right to Send Freight ers to (oast Forts. Dock* K«cur«d In Boaton and Plana Ready for Ships—Will Appeal From Commission. Man Francisco— The New York, Naw Haven & Hartford railroad has an nounced in New York"ihat when the Tanaina canal is open for business it will have a line of a learners in service between Boston and New York as the eastern terminals “and San Francisco and San Pedro as the western 'porta of call. Negotiations are pending ip New York for ample docking accommoda tions for the line. Accommodations have already been secured In Boston. This announcement comes In the face of the passage of the Panama canal act, which forbade the use of the canal to railroad owned ships. The New York, New Haven A Hart ford will contest the law, first in the Interstate commerce commission and aftewards in the courts. It feels so certain that its view of the situation will be adopted that plana for the needful ships are ready. Vice President Buckland, of the New Haven, has given out the follow ing outline of the company's plana: " Wc are going to send ships through the Panama canal. We do not pro- |K>se to allow the Western railroads to dictate what New England shall pay for transportation of its commodities to Pacific porta. Eighty per cent of our freight traffic Is bound up with New England industries. New Eng land's prosperity is dear to us and if the Panama route is of advantage to New England shippers and our service by water in connection with our land lines may be useful, we shall endeavor to accommodate them. OCTOPUS QUITS FUEL OIL. Standard's Move to -Work Havoc In Manufacturing Line. Chicago -Action stopping ssls of fuel oil after December 1, a step exj pected to advance prices in many im portant manufacturing lines as much ss 50 per cent, has been taken by th < Standard Oil company. The large incearses In the use of gasoline for propelling automobiles and other machinery is given as the cause for the abandonment of ths fuel oil branch of the business. It has been more profitable to refine the oil than to sell it for fuel. The situation Is serious for manu facturers whose furnaces are fitted for oil. The independents cannot sup ply the demand and it will coat for tunes to revamp plants to meet the new conditions. Scores of millions of barrels of crude oil are burned as fuel yearly. The International Harvester company alone usee 8,000,000 barrels annually. Manufacturers will be forced to use more expensive sorts of fuel, and are already sending out notices of advan ces In the price of their products. TAKEN FOR WAR Tramway Service In Constantinople la Suspended. Minneapolis — That if he choose, some day he may inherit the estate and title of Lord Muncaater, master of an English estate, was the state ment of Edmund Pennington, presi dent of the “Soo” line, and well known throughout the Northwest. President Pennington said, however, that he would not attempt to obtain the title, but would remain an Ameri can. Tbe story became known on receipt of a dispatch saying that Lord Mun caater was searching for the descend ants of a branch of the family which came to America many years ago and asking concerning Mr. Pennington’s ancestors. “I have known about this for years,” Mr. Pennington said. “My niece has visited tbe estate of Lord Muncaster and members of my family tell me that there ia no doubt that I am the legal heir to the title and es tate. 1 am not interested in investi gating the matter or in communicat ing with Lord Muncaster.“ TROOPS PREVENT RACES. Germany Proposes to Olve Premiums to Poor Mothers. Berlin—The government will pro pose a aeries of legislative measures after the close of Its inveatigation of the race suicide propensities of the German population. The first of these announced is a bill prohibiting the sale and use of non-hygienie baby bottles and putting the industry under government control. The second step, which is still under consideration, ia the giving of premiums to poor moth- era. This, it appears, may be adopted by the reiehatag. At a meeting of the German society in Berlin, held to consider the situa tion, it war agreed that the race sui cide tendency was developing more rapidly in the Fatherland than in any other country. The evil affected all large German towns and is spreading with appalling rapidly over the entire country. Keeping Quality of Oregon Fruit Ob Rapidity^of War in Balkans Causss ject of Federal Official. Much Comment. Hood River, Or.—B. B. Pratt, of ixmdon — After a four-days' heavy the pomological office of the United battle, the Bulgarians are resting. States department of agriculture, says Tho Bulgarians have not decided he will use about 600 boxes of apples whether they will attempt to capture from different parts of the state in testa to bo made in Portland this win Adrianople by assault or to starve out ter. His efforts will he to determine its garrison by a siege. The full ex tho comparative keeping qualities of tent of the Turkish disaster at Kirk apples taken from different soils, Kilisseh is unknown here, but it is ; those well and partly colored and ripe almost certain that the bulk of the and green fruit. Mr. Pratt does not believe that ex garrison there effected a retreat be periments to determine the relative fore the town fell into the hands of keeping quality of apples grown on the Bulgarians. different soils will ever make much The early capture of Kirk Kiliaaeh headway. The fruit companies oper was a great surprise even to Bulgar ating in different diatricta should ian staff officers and their allies and make observations of the keeping the swift progress of tho war unex qualities of fruits grown on different pected by Europe generally. It has soils over long periods, he thinks. been only nine days since Turkey de EMPLOYES NOT TO DRINK. clared war and yet events have reacheci the point where possibility of intervention by the powers is being Government Orders Total Abstinence talked of. In Indian Service. CAR HORSES “Soo" President Doos Not Wish to Bo Lord Muncaotor. RACE SUICIDE ALARMING. APPLE TESTS SCHEDULED. EUROPE IS AMAZED. Nicaragua,Spoiled Childtf&ntralAiHerica BRITISH TITLE SPURNED. Washington, D. C.—Total absti nence has been enjoined on all Indian agents and Indian employee by Acting Commissioner Abbott, of the Indian bureau, who has issued directions to employes to co-operate in overcoming the great difficulties of keeping in toxicating liquors from the Indians. “Employes must set the example," the letter says. “There cannot be one law in Indian country for Indians and a different law for white em ployee. In the future there must be no misunderstanding and no possible ground to plead ignorance of the law and regulations.“ Constantinople—The Sultan had an audience with the minister of war and the minister of works on the occasion of their departure for the front. The departure of the foreign military at taches for the seat of war again has been postponed. Tramway service in Constantinople has been suspended and all the horses have been requisitioned for war pur poses. It is still maintained here that the reported capture of Kirk Kilisseh by the Bulgarians is fiction; that com Naw York Leads In Wheat. munications with the city are working Washington, D. C.—During Sep regularly and that the Turkish troops tember, according to the official fig are holding all their positions be tween Kirk Kilisseh and Adrianople. ures of the department of commerce and labor, Portland, exported 924,567 bushels of wheat, bringing its total Hart Dooms Conventions. export thus far this year up to 2,998.- New York—Political conventions— 546 bushels. This, however, ia more both state and national —are doomed than a million and a half bushels be to natural deaths within a few years, low its export for the first nine according to a diagnosis by Albert months of 1911, and only 700,000 Bushnell Hart, professor of govern bushels more than from Puget Sound. ment at Harvard university, who finds New York exported more than 3,000,- democratic government to he suffering 000 bushels in September and its total from “conventionitis. ” It is doubt for nine months is now 6,844,811. ful, he said, if even the national con Heart is On Wrong Side. vention lives to see its 15th birthday, four years hence, and he declared his New York—Because his heart is on belief that the presidential primary the right side, little David Krunish would soon be as generally adopted as left the Fordham hospital well en the the Australian ballot. road to recovery. If his heart had been normal, the physicians say, he Turks Pursued by Servians. probably would have been carried off David, Belgrade—Telegrams received here in a coffin several days ago. from Pristina, ten miles west of the who is 11 years old, fell on a picket Servian frontier, which was captured fence recently and one of the spikes Wednesday hy the Servians, say the penetrated his breast three inches di Mohammedan Arnauta and Turkish rectly over the place where his heart troops are retiring southward, follow should be. ed by the Servians, who are pressing Man Buys Entire Town, their pursuit without intermission. Mount Vernon, N. Y.—Charles M. Thu entry of Pristina by the Servian advance guard was preceded by des Ama, head of several Mount Vernon perate fighting at Teresh Pasha and manufacturing firms, has just com pleted contracts for the purchase of other positions around the town. the entire town of Turnerville, Conn. Rebels Active In Peru. Hie new property consists of two fac " Guayaquil, Ecundor—A revival of tories, a hotel, several stores and resi the revolutionary movement in the dences. He says he bought the town province of Esmeraldas ia reported as an investment. and the rebels are said to have occu Greek Moves From Turk Street. pied the town of Limones. They are San Francisco—Georgepoulos Sta- commanded by Colonel Savedra Bnsta- He moved mente, who fought under General matis is a Greek peddler. Flavio Alfaro In the last revolution. recently because the name of Turk The torpedo boat destroyer Liberator street, in’which he lived, has become Bolivar left here with 250 soldiers on intolerable tojhim since the declara tion of war. board for the port of Esmeraldas. Indiana Militia Keeps All Awsy From Track By Order of Governor. N the diplomatic service Managua, a rare state of comparative peace, and Nicaragua, Is regarded the worst encouraged foreign capital to the stu post In the world. Men who have pendous profit of the investor and Ze been stationed there sometimes laya. The country, extraordinarily form little groups In the Metro rich, under his rule received unprece dented development. His financial politan club, In Washington, and talk of their Nicaraguan service as Rus genius, however, was confined to the sians talk of the siege of Port Arthur crude sandbag method and the more or survivors speak of I-adyamlth. The the country prospered, the poorer the old Hpanlards called the place the people became. Ultimately Zelaya "Paradise of .Mahomet,” but the taste fell victim to that disease so fatal to of the conqulstadorea In hourls was Latin American dictators—the idea notoriously catholic. It Is actually a that the United States can be bluffed place of villainous climate, wretched forever. people, poverty, heat and disease, I also knew his partisan and suc writes Paxton Hlbben, late American cessor Doctor Madriz—a shy. studi charge d’affalrs to Chile, in the In ous-looking, bespectacled little man dianapolis News. with mild, agreeable manners. He We have often before this been tn was a scholar and a clever lawyer, more or less difficult les with the gov- but he lacked the magnetism of Ze ernmen’ of Nicaragua and sometimes laya. His purposes were excellent, with other governments over Nicara but he bad no chance to carry them gua In 1854 the U. 8. S. Cyane bom out; the taint of bls association with barded and burned the Atlantic port Zelaya was his undoing No one will of San Juan del Norte, and the follow ever distinguish him with any of the ing year the soldier of fortune, Wil thousand legends which still ding to lis m Walker, with his American pha the memory of the great dictator. lanx. began his brief but picturesque How Feud Will Die Out. Central American career In Nicara Since then, conditions have not Im gua, of which country he was presi I roved much in Nicaragua. Yet they dent for a while. must improve soon, for the sanitary By 1884 we had had to much trou state of the country is a constant ble with the country that, when the menace to the canal zone and the Nicaraguan canal project was belryt financial and economic conditions of talked of. renegotiated a treaty with the republic are desperate. The an that republic expressly providing for cient rivalry of Leon aud Granada, American Intervention whenever it representing the Liberal and Conser might seem necessary for us to pro vative parties, respectively, is no tect any canal that might be built, foundation upon which to build either but the treaty never became opera peace or prosperity. On the contrary, tlve. In 1907, Mr. Root, then secre it is a sort of feud that will die out tary of state, conceived the altruistic only with the extension of commer scheme of insuring permanent peace cial Intercourse. But the extension in Contra! America by establishing an of commercial Intercourse demands international Central American arbi peace and a security of government tration court In Costa Rica, but it was for its establishment upon any sure scarcely opened when the Nicaragu foundation. So, far, the vast unex ans had violated both the letter and ploited resources of the country have the spirit of this arrangement Final offered such alluring profits, in spite ly, the United States expelled Don of everything, that the Nicaraguans Jose Santos Zelaya, the arch trouble are alive to no necessity for a com maker, but peace has no more reigned plete change in their point of view since his departure than before. towards their government. The possibility of the construction Nicaragua has a permanent source of difficulties in the existence of the of an interoceanic canal through their two ancient cities of Leon and Grana territory has thrown their country in da. the guelf and ghibelllne rivals, as to more international prominence than bitterly hostile as were ever Florence any other of the Central American and Pisa. To put an end to their con states, and has Implanted In them the tinental struggles. In which the whole idea of the domination of a Cen country was Involved, Managua was tral American union, which was Ze built between the two, in 1851, and laya’s dearest dream. They have made the capital of the republic in know the spotlight and will not easily place of Granada. A leas favorable lo be persuaded to tbe uneventful walks cation for a city than that of Managua of mere trade; they are the spoiled would be difficult to conceive. The children of Central America, now ca heat la Intense and the situation of joled, now flattered, now spanked. the place, on I-ake Managua, could Once again the moment has come not be more exposed or leas pleasing. when they must meet Uncle Sam In The streets are dusty and unpaved. the woodshed, and they are howling The buildings have none of the charm over the prospect. of age and good architecture which redeem those of lx*on and Granada, to Should Take Wifey There Oftener. a certain extent They are of plas They entered the brilliantly lighted tered adobe, one-storied, stained, sun- cafe in a venturesome attitude, with faded, unclean, forlorn and the people out the nonchalance of regular pat are as stained, unclean and forlorn rons, and seated themselves at a small as their houses. One can not blame aldo table, studied the menu earnestly the people for fighting. The victory and ordered a simple dinner. of a Nicaraguan grave may be an He was a middle aged man with a easy one, but there la surely not much very settled, matrimonial expression in sting to death. his kindly face. His companion was Birdseye of Corlnto. younger, probably about thirty—that Corlnto, the Pacific port. Is. if any Intangible age—and she was one of thing. worse. As a port. Its accommo those women whose smile reveals a dations are better than those of any fun-loving heart, which has made a harbor between Mexico and Panama, desperate effort to cling to the illu because at least ocean going ships sions and Ideals of youth, but whose, may dock at Corlnto. which cannot be sad, wistful eyes, with the fine lines done in the splendid anchorage off around them, tell the close observer Amapala. A funny little railroad, with she has failed Her frock was eirlish engines that take one back to one's and In good taste, in obvious Avr.trast childhood, running parallel to the to many of the overdressed, overfed beach, a few scorching streets, with women about her. The orchestra was playing a spright sandaled, almost naked Indians pat tering up and down them, some ware ly. popular selection. Between two houses, the property of foreigners, spoonfuls of her cafe parfait the young strung along the shore, and a truly woman paused and smiled at the man dreadful hotel kept by an Italian— opposite her, and in a cheery vioce she that is Corlnto. Hotbed of yellow said: “Aren't we having a good time, fever, malaria, fleas, lice, plague and other discomforts, it is only two days' dear? It doesn't seem as if we are rail from the canal zone, where we really married, does It? And it will have exterminated these thlnga at be thirteen years next month, too.”— Kansas City Star. such cost. I was there four years ago, when I met Zelaya—a quick, shrewd, cun Reason for Secrecy. ning. fearless man. with close-cropped Senator Cullom of Illinois was asked black hair. Having seen him, I be by a correspondent why the committee lieved the stories I heard of him— on foreign relations had enjoined se and some of them were wonderful crecy on the text of the new treaty stories, indeed. He was no doubt a with Great Britain, when the text of great rogue and probably a brutal the treaty was printed in all the morn one; but I found nothing sinister ing papers. “Just eo. just so,” said about the man, as there was abou| the senator; that's the reason the in junction of secrecy was placed upon the Castro, of Veneiuela. He really did great things for his treaty. We knew that if we made It country, not, of course, forgetting public at once not a paper In the coun himself. For 1« yearn he maintained try would print Its full text " I Porter, Ind.—Tbe Mineral Springs race track at Porter is in the hands of the Indiana state troops. Ordered by Governor Marshall to remain at tbe track until all racing had been stop ped, tbe troops arrived Thursday morning bringing with them three days’ rations. It had been decided by tbe owners of the course to make an attempt to bold tbe races in defiance of the gov- eror’s order, but when the horses ap peared from the paddocks for the first race they were halted by the troops and the races were called off. With the advent of the state troops many of the horsemen began shipping their stables away, apparently having come to the conclusion that racing at the Mineral Springs track is at an end. ELY RESUMING NORMAL. Several Hundred Return to Work in Mine and Smelter. Ely, Nev.—Several hundred miners and smeltermen have returned to their work here. The Carpenters’ union at McGill has called the strike off and it is reported that the machinists have asked consent from their national headquarters to take the same action. There have been no recent disturb ances and the camp is assuming its normal condition rapidly. Bingham. Utah.-»Nearly 2000 men are at work in tbe mines here. Many former employes of tbe Utah Copper company returned to work and tbe to tal number of men now at work for this company is more than 1000. The district is now producing about 50 per cent of its normal outpuL CHANGES PLANS OF TAFT. Washington Hears Rumor of Special Session on Mexico. Washington, D. C.—Speculation con nects the approaching return to Wash ington of President Taft, contrary to arrangements previously made for a sojourn at Hot Springs, Va., with the critical situation in Mexico, and there are hints of the possibility of a spe cial session of congress to relieve the president of a decision as to whether the time is ripe for intervention. Officially the idea is scouted and the determination of the government to adhere to its present policy in regard to Mexico is reaffirmed. Secretary Stimson is returning to Washington from New York, it ia un derstood in advance of original plans. LOYAL TROOPS TAKE VERA CRUZ General Felix Diaz Captured With Little Trouble. Officers of Rebellious Troops, With Every Tenth Man, Will Be Ex ecuted by Shooting Vera Crux, Mex.—The revolt of General Felix Diaz, nephew of the exiled president, has been short-lived. Tbe town of Vera Cruz, which he oc cupied with about 2000 adherents for several days, was captured by tbe federal forces. The casualties were few. Two federal columns, commanded by Colonel Jiminez Castro and General Joaquin Beltran, entered Vera Crux from the north and south. There was slight opposition to their advance. Colonel Castro, with fewer than 50 men, captured General Diaz, whose 300 men at police beadquarters re fused to fire at his command. The killed and wounded number fewer than 100. No foreigner was hurt. Desultory firing continued af ter the federala entered the town. Instead of a great battle, everything was in a muddle. Rebels and federala encountered each other in the streets without one knowing which aide the other was affiliated with, as uniforms of all were alike. • » ------------- Mexico City—Following the retak ing of Vera Crux by federal forces, which was accomplished with little real fighting. General Felix Diaz, Col onel Jose Diaz Ordaz and all the offi cers of the rebellious troops and mar ines will be haled immediately before a court-martial and doubtless will suf fer the death penalty. Orders have been issued for the convening of the court, which will be presided over by General Beltran. General Diaz, although not now a member of the army, is amenable in such a court under the law which pro vides for such trial of any civilian un der like circumstances. The soldiers of the rebellious troops will be decimated—one in ten being executed. They will be chosen by lot to pay the penalty for all. The collapse of the Diaz movement one week after its inception with a minimum of fighting and bloodshed has created the greatest surprise here. In administration circles, where op timism has been the keynote since the beginning, the outcome is regarded as the highest possible vindication of the confidence always expressed in the loyalty of tbe army. General Felix Diaz, after General Reyes, has been regarded as the man who could wield tbe greatest influence with the army and the people general ly. His rebellion, ending |in a fiasco only slightly less pronounced than that of Reyes last December, removes a danger that long has loomed on the political horizon. WOMEN IN MEAT RIOT. Berlin Housewives Raid Butchers Who Formed Combine. Berlin—Hundreds of Berlin house wives joined in a wild riot Thursday because the butchers in the union markets refused to handle meat im ported so as to reduce the cost of liv ing. The principal troubles occurred in the Wedding district, which is entire ly inhabited by working people. Hun dreds of women who went to tbe mu nicipal market hoping to profit by reduced prices found that the butchers had agreed not to deal in meata im ported by the municipality. Then they stormed the butchers’ stalls, seized all the native raised meat, trampled it on tbe ground and fought with the butchers. The police were forced to close the market to stop the riots. The municipality declares its inten tion of punishing the butchers by can celling their licenses. Gunboat Runs Aground. Norfolk, Va.—To keep from collid ing Thursday morning with a dredge off Bush Bluff light, the gunboat Nashvile struck her nose in the mud and remained aground until 9 o’clock p m.( when, with the assistance of three powerful tugs from the navy yard, she was pulled back into deep water. The Nashville was bound to Money Painter In Prison. Guantanamo with supplies for war Chicago — Louis Gadmore, who ships ordered to Mexico, and was en deavoring to make her way through a turned his talent as an artist into the veritable network of vessels at anchor painting of $10 counterfeit govern off Lambert’s Point, awaiting coaling. ment notes, was sentenced to serve one year in the United States prison Grand Duke Alexis III. at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., after he St. Petersburg—The Russian Crown had emitted his guilt He was start Gadmore told Prince, the Grand Duke Alexis, is ser ed for prison at once. iously ill at the imperial hunting the court he had painted the notes so lodge of Spala, in Russian Poland, as that he could support his wife and the result of an accident on October child when he found he could not sell The authorities de 15. He then suffered an injury on the his paintings. left side of the groin, which caused no clared the notes were eo well executed anxiety until a few days later, when that it was difficult to detect them. hie temperature was 103.6. Several Explosion Fatal to Five. court physicians are in attendance. The Grand Duke is only eight years Hailey City, Ont—Five persons old. were killed and three seriously, per haps fatally, injured when the plant Turks Massacre Christians. of the Energetic Explosive company Belgrade—The first column of the was blown up Thursday afternoon. second Servian army has captured the The factory was empletely ruined and town of Kotschana, 45 miles east of bouses throughout the village were Uakup. One report has it that before demolished. The cause of the explo retiring the Turks massacred many sion is not known. Flames shot 200 Christian inhabitants. The first Ser feet into the air, and flying roofing vian army began an attack on Kuman- and splintered timbers were thrown ova. 10 miles north of Uskup, and ex through nearby buildings. pects to capture it without difficulty. John D. Underestimated. Admiral to Be Cautious. Yonkers, N. Y.—Talking to the stu Washington, D. C.—No trouble is dents of the commercial department of expected on election day, November 3, Yonkers high school, Henry Clews, in Nicaragua,- according to a cable the New York financier, told them from Rear-Admiral Southerland, in that John D. Rockefeller once worked charge of the American forces there. for $15 a week, and when be tried to The admiral said, however, that he get an increase was informed that his considered it wise to be prepared and services were not worth any more would retain the present force on than that Clews said tbe story of shore until after the election. tbe incident was “brand new.“