NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Briei A house committee proposes to build mail ears for government use. Party line« were entirely forgotten In a currency debate in the senate. Mr. and Mrs. Sayre, the White House newlyweds, hsve arrived in London. A terrific snow storm, accompanied by a 60-mlls gale, swept the New Eng land states. The president of the Missouri Pacific says low rates ti rsatsn the solvency of the railroads. Democratic leaders regard Wilson's nomination for president in the next campaign as certain. It ia claimed the Coast artillery Is abort of men necessary to properly man the fortifications. Cincinnati was practically •dry” for several days, owing to the break- ing of a 60-inch water main. An international campaign to pre serve the game birds and animals of ths world haa been started at Berne, Switserland. San Francisco Chinese Uphold Rebel Caoae San Francisco—If the radical wing of Uw revolutionary party in China succeeds in Ite plane to start an up rising for the overthrow of President Yuan Shi Kai it will receive financial aid and moral support from the San Francisco Chinese, who filled the war chests that overthrew the Manchu dynasty. the Two thousand members of ____ _ China __________ Young association, at a secret meeting In Chinatown, adopted resolu tions indorsing ths plans of ths radical wing for immediate civil war. The San Francisco Chinese also tabled a promise to send their reaerve fund when it should be needed. News of the radicals' action spread like wildfire throughout the section. Coincident with the news of the Young China association's action haa come the disclosure of a split in the revolutionary forces in China. Officials of the Young China asso ciation. which financed and directed the war against the Manchus from this city, explained that the revolu tionary party in China was divided in to radicals and conservatives. The radicals favor immediate rebellion to overthrow President Yuan Shi Kai, whom they charge with seeking to set himself up as emperor. The radicals are directed by Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former provisional president of China, who, though in Kobe, is In complete touch with the situation. City’s Work Arranged to Benefit Workingmen Portland. Or., gave a "municipal" band concert, charging 10 cents ad Portland—For the benefit of labor mission, and took in 366. The ex* ers and others unable to secure work pense was 3200. during the winter months, the city A theatrical manager at Oregon City, Or., held a "fake" baby lottery. commission has decided to change its and ths house could not hold the heavy construction season in the water crowds who bought tickets. and sewer departments from Summer to the winter months. In accordance Vilhjalmar's Stefansson's Arctic ex with the policy, as much of the sewer ploration vessel, the Karluk, is drift and water main laying will be put ing helplessly in an ice pack some through between now and spring as where in the Arctic, with 25 of the possible, and work will be shut down crew on board. during the summer, either partially A terrific storm Nov. 30 dashed or altogether. The change Is season has been water against the lenses of the light on Tillamook Rock, off the Oregon brought about by labor conditions coast, 132 feet above average high which members of the commission say are bad. Mayor Albee says there is water, breaking one of the glasses. not a day that he does not receive Remnants of the Mexican federal letters, telephone calls or personal garrison of Chihuahua together with calls from persons who cannot get many other rebel troops and officers work and have families to support. and many civilians, have reached Ojinga, across the Rio Grande from Presidio, Tex., after a desperate march of 185 miles through a region parched by heat and devastated by the Walla Walla. Wash.—That the State warring armies. college experiment station ia trying Dr. Anna Shaw has been re-elect«! to grow wheat which will resist smut, head of the North American Woman was told at the college extension Suffrage association. school here. G. Schaefer said that the collgee has secured an Alaskan Denver, Colo., 1» completely tied up wheat which resists smut, but which by a heavy »now«torm and blitxard. haa a low yield and milling quality. Mrs. Pankhurst arrived in England It haa been crossed with Washington and was arrested on board the steamer wheat of high yield and milling qual ity, and it is hoped the hybrid will before she could land. have the good qualities of both. Fruitgrowers of North Yakima, L. C. Crow, of Pullman, president Wash., won about 11000 in prizes at of the State Farmers' union, said the the Spokane Apple show. organisation in five years had saved A tremendous fall of enow extends farmers over 13,000,000, an average over the entire Rocky Mountain sec of 31500 for the 2000 members. He •aid on wheat sales they had saved tion! of the United States. 32.500,000, 3 cents each on sacks or Civil and military authorities in 3750,000, and the warehouse charges Germany have a serious clash over a have been rcdcued from 75 cents to 50 triffiing matter in the town of Zabern. cents a ton. Washington College Seeks New Smut*I)efying Wheat PORTLAND MARKETS Wheat—Track prices : Club, 83c per bushel; bluestem, 93(u94c; 40-fold, 84c; red Russian. 81c; valley, 83c. Oats—No. 1 white, 325.50 per ton. Coro—Whole, 336 ton; cracked, 337. Oats—No. 1 white, 325 50 ton. Coro—Whole. 336; cracked, 337 ton. Barley — Feed. 324 6t 24.50 ton; brewing, 325; rolled, 326. Millfeed — Bran, 320.606421 ton; shorts, 822.506323; middlings, 329<< i .30. Hay—No. 1 Eastern Oregon timo thy. 316.50; mixed timothy, 314; al falfa, 314; clover, 896110; valley grain hay. 311<<£13. Onions — Oregon, 32.50 sack; buy ing price, 32.10 f. o. b. shipping pointe. Vegetables Cabbage. 1631 }c pound; cauliflower, 32.50 crate; cucumbers, 406(45 doxen; eggplant, 106(12c pound; head lettuce, 82.256(2.50 crate; peppers, 5617c pound; radishes, 1063 12c; per pound; head lettuce, 32.25 box; garlic, 12(6115c per pound; sprouts, 11c; artichokes, 81.50631.75 doxen; squash, 1 pal|c pound; celery, 83.5O(<(4 per crate; beans, *<.:! im pound; rhubarb, 3}c pound; turnips, 31.25 per sack; carrots, 31.10; pars nips. 31.25; beets, 31.25. Green Fruits — Apples, 60c6f82.25 box; pears, 31631.50; grapes, crates, 81.50631.75; cranberries, 311 barrel. Potato»» Oregon, 8Ocot31 per hun dred; buying pric», 70(<i80c at ship ping pointe. Poultry —Hena, 146314}«; springs, 13idb 14c; turkeys, live, 18c; dressed, choice, 23 (<f 25c; ducks, 12 63 15c; geese, 12(d 12}c. Eggs -Oregon fresh ranch, 40&41c doxen; storage, 29(<i,34e. Butter Oregon creamery, prints, extras, ITitSfle; cubes, extras, 34c; cubes, firsts, 32c. Pork Fancy, 106310}« pound. Veal—Fancy, 14c pound. Hops -1913 crop, prime and choice, 206(21«; 1912 crop, nominal. Cattle — Prime steers, 87.75638; choice, 87.506(17.75; medium, 37637.60; choice cows, 86636.50; medium. 35.76 6(6; heifers, 866(6.75; light calves, |8«(9; heavy. 366(7.75; bulls, 356(6; stags. 35.506(6.50. Hogs — Light, 37.256(8.10; heavy, 6.506(7.25. Sheep Wethers, 34635; ewes, 33.25 634; lambs, 846(6. Teamsters Resume Work. Indianapolis— Two thousand union teamsters who have been on strike for a week will return to work, according to union officials. Several more team owners signed union contracts within the past few days, it was reported at the labor temple. No action was taken at the union meeting for a general settlement of the strike, and only employes of the team-owners who have signed agree ments to pay the union scale and not discriminate against union men will be permitted to return to work. Woman War Nurse Dies. Santa Barbara, Cal.—Mrs. Mina Finger, said to have been the only woman in the United States entitled to a pension for personal services dur ing the Mexican war, died here Satur day. She was 78 years old. Mrs. Fin ger ministered to the sick and injured during the Mexican war, in which her husband fought as a United States soldier. The government awarded a medal to Mrs. Finger in 1876. Auto Judgment Is 115,000. Oakland, Cal.—The heaviest damage ever awarded as the result of an auto mobile accident in California was given to Mrs. Francesca Birglia by a jury In Judge Harris’ department of the Alameda County Superior court. The verdict was 315,000 in a suit for 325,000 directed againat Charles H. Spear, whose automobile ran down and killed Mrs. Birglia'» hueband. Daniels Reports Saving. Washington, D. C.—An additional saving on the purchase of material for the new battleship Pennsylvania was announced by Secretary Daniels in con nection with the award of a contract for the purchase of four »tern tub •hafts, which haa been placed with an independent Baltimore company. The bid was little over half of that of the lowest submitted by three great steel companies. Income Tax to Be Collected. Washington, D. C. Secretary Mc Adoo says the income tax will be col lected while suits are pending attack ing its validity, and should the Su preme court decide against the law, the money will be returned. Oregon's Com Show Opens Visitors’ Eyes Plans to Reorganize Agriculture Department ADVANCE LIMIT OF PARCEL POST Washington, D. C.—Reorganization of ths department of agriculture forces is foreshadowed in Secretary Hous ton's first annual report. A plan to Pendleton — With 150 entrlee and corn cannot be satisfactorily grown. lie submitted to congress In th» fiscal Home of the largest vara of corn over more than 6000 ears of corn on exhib exhibited in the United States were year estimates fur 1916, proposes to it, the Corn show opened in thia city. here from Baker county. carry out th» work of th» department There were exhibits from evsry With moat of the enlriea were re county in Oregon penetrated by the ports of yields per acre and coat per in five or six main groups, such aa~re O.-W. R. A N. company, under whose bushel. On irrigated land the produc search, state relations, rural organisa Weight Limit In Outer Zones In- tion runs as high as 85 bushels per tion. forest service, weather and reg auspices the show was hold. creased to 20 Pounds Books C. L. Smith, agriculturist for ths acre, and on dry land from 26 to 45 ulation. Such a plan, Secretary Hous May Go at Parcel Ratea. railroad, declares the corn on display bushels. Ths most successful yields ton believes, will promote co-ordina are all from seed produced In Oregon. compared favorably with any dis played at any show In the country, The universal experience is that seed tion. Plans for rodlstrlctlng the country Washington, D. C. — Postmaster and says the exhibit demonstrates that imported from the East does not do there is no section of Oregon in which well until acclimated. for the enforcement of the pure food General Burleson's policy to increase law are announced, and the secretary the weight limit of parcel poet pack announces his Intention to ask for au ages In first and second sones from thority to prepare amendments to ths 20 to 50 pounds, to admit books to the pure food law to Improve the food sup parcel poet and to reduce ratea In the third, fourth, fifth and sixth sones, ply. protect the public health and pro was approved by the interstate com- mote uniformity in food legislation. I merce commission. Free distribution of seeds by mem '-The maximum weight of parcels to I.a Grands — Farmers from many three state. bers of congress should be discontin all zonhe beyond the secund waa in- Members of the union marched In a ued, the secretary recommends. He I creased from 11 to 20 pounds. parts of Oregon, Southern Idaho and body to the meeting place headed by would substitute a constructive work The commission's "consent” to the Eastern Washington who are member« (he La Grande band. in distributing new seeds and plants. proposed change was transmit tod In of the National Educational and Co Conditions vary widely in the Unit three iettera from Chairman Clark to Arthur Swift, state president of the operative Union of America convened The inion and vice president of the nation ed States, says the report, because , Postmaster General Burleeon. in their fourth annual convention here changes In rates and •I organization, presided. Mr. Burk farmers do not equally need better approved Former Mayor Hall welcomed the holder, of Coquille, in his address said: credit arrangements end all sections weights. to be in effect January I, visitors and speeches in response were "The farmers* union will be felt as are not similarly circumstanced. The 1914, are as follows: made. The session was featured by To reduce the rates in the third sone a great power in the commercial world secretary believes there does not ap committee deliberations and speeches to be need for unique or special from 7 rents for the first pound sod 6 as well as in the political world and pear by a national officer. legislation or for legislation which rents for each additional pound to 6 In the evening the La Grande Com- will be recognized by the greatest pol shall aim to give the farmer credit on cents for the first pound and 2 cento iticians of the country. ” merial club was host at a reception, easier terms than other members of for each additional pound. President Crowe, of the Washington society. after which there w'aa an address on What is needed Is the crea To reduce rates for the fourth sone "Marketing” by Professor McPher organisation, spoke, and was followed 1 tion of conditions and machinery from 8 cents for the first pound and 6 by L. M. Rhodes, of Tennessee, who which will put him on credit founda son, of Oregon Agricultural college. cents for each additional pound, to 7 Three hundred members were in at •aid that all the farmer wants is a tions to secure money at the same cents for the first pound and 4 cents tendance, with state official^ from square deal, and ho will get It. rates as those which prevail for other i for each additional pound. classes and for other sections. To reduce the ratea for the fifth To gain information to enable the sone from 9 cents for the first pound department to serve rural women bet and 7 cents for each additional pound, i ter, the secretary has addressed letters to 8 cents for the first pound and 6 La Grande Eastern Oregon lumber 'of inouiry to the women of 55,000 se cents for each additional pound. Chicago Oregon made good Satur day at the United States Land Show men at a meeting here took steps to lected farms, covering every county. To reduce th« ratea for the sixth Analysis of th« small part of the sone from 10 cents for the first pound in the Coliseum in the prediction that prevent permanent closing of the . letters as yet digested shows that and 9 cents for each additional pound, it would show the Middle West the true meaning of the term "booating. ” Plummer gateway in Idaho, whereby farm women desire assistance In all to 9 cents for the first pound and 8 It was Oregon day at the exposition Eastern Oregon would lose Milwaukee phases of home management, especial cents for each additional pound. "It seems obvious,” says the com and if anyone doubted it that doubt road connections to pointe east of ly as to ways of obtaining running wa was soon dispelled by the Amalgamat Minneapolis. The lumbermen have ter. labor-saving arrangements and mission, "that the service to the the better hygienic and sanitary condi public will be promoted by these ed Association of Oregon Boosters, not organised a sub-organisation of the tions. The overwork of women and changes, provided the revenue from incorporated. Representatives of nine commercial Western Pine Manufacturers* associa children and difficulty of securing do the service is not less than the coet mestic help sre mentioned by several thereof. Your experiences and sta clubs, development leagues and com tion. missions and special commissioners ap The Interstate Commerce commis- of the writers. The department be tistics seem to show clearly that the pointed by Governor West united in •ion recently suspended until February lieves that intelligent help to women revenue will not be less than the coat celebrating the day. its order closing the Plummer gate In matters of home management will of the service.” All day long the aisle near the ex way, and the Eastern Oregon men will contribute directly to the agricultural It purposes, hibit of the Oregon State Immigra have counsel to bring argument success of the farm. therefore, to ask congress for means tion commission was crowded with •gainst the closing. visitors. The Oregon boosters gave The meeting held here result«! in and authority to make more complete 14 illustrated lectures in the Great •uch steps being taken. Reaolutlons studies of domestic conditions on the Washington, D. C.—Reports recent Northern railway lecture hall and the were adopted and forwarded to the : farm. ly emanating from official sources regular exposition halls. commission setting out that great have said that the United States Two men who attracted considera harm will be done if the Middle West 'steamship Dolphin, which sailed Mon ble attention were William Hanley, ern market is closed so that the Ore- day for Santo Domingo, Is being sent the Harney county ranchman, and D. (on &. Washington will be the only there in connection with the "observ M. Ix>we, special representative of the carrier. They pleaded for open gates Mexico City—Foreigners must not ation” of elections to be held In De Aahland Commercial club, who has an st Spokane and Silver Bow, which be interfered with If fighting occurs in cember, ostensibly for the purpose of exhibit of 314 products grown on his ■ heretofore afforded added rate compe- ■ the federal district. This indication insuring fairness in the elections. It Rogue River Valley ranch. Colonel ' tition and markets. The matter is is said on reliable authority, however, Hanley gave two lectures. Interesting serious with Eastern Oregon millmen, is contained in the general army or that the State department Is confront These orders ed with a grave situation in the con- the visitors with personal stories of as the difference in rates with the ders Issued Munday. how homesteaders are "making good" gate closed ia material. specifically say that in the event of ■ duct of Its affairs in Santo Domingo. — in Oregon. It Is learned that certain funds of fighting the officers in command of the In the evening the Oregonians sere the Dominican government, held tem government troops must understand naded the different exhibits, accom porarily in the custody of an official that the lives and property of all for panying from booth to booth the Ro appointed by the President of the tary Quartet, of Chicago, singing Ore eigners are to be respected; that no United States, have lieen transferred Bend — Upon hie return from a meet gon songs. The Royal Rosarians and moneys or supplies are to be exacted from the Bank of St. Mitchellena to the Eugene Radiators, in uniform, ing of The Dalles power project com from them and that they must be per the Banco National without authority accompanied the singers. D. M mittee, several daya ago, Vernon A. mitted to leave the scene of the fight from Washington. Lowe, wearing overalls and carrying a Forbes broached a project whereby it ing at any time. The American minister of Santo little pig and a hoe, was also along. is hoped to obtain 3450,000 from the The government haa disregarded the Domingo, James Msrk Sullivan, wrote Sprigs of mistletoe and fir were dis Federal government for the irrigation warning of the Zapata forces that they to the receiver general of customs, tributed to the women and envelopes of 20,000 acres west of the Deschutes would shoot sny railway employes in Walter Vick, authorising him to containing small graine to the men. river and adjacent to the present state case the operation of trains on the make this transfer of funds. The Cuernavaca line was attempted after owner of the Banco Nacional, N. M All were treated to Hood River apple Tumalo project. At the time the so-called "Columbia December 1, and as a result a pitched Jarvis, was a friend of Mr. Sullivan*» cider. Southern bill” waa introduced in the | battle haa taken place between Cuer before his appointment as minister. last legislature, the secretary of the navaca and Iguala. Lula Valdes, a The power to grant such authority interior said, in effect, that the gov Mexican who was naturalized In Texas lies solely with the officials of the ernment policy would be to match and Is a member of the Order of Rail bureau of insular affairs of tbe War state appropriations for such projects, way Conductors, who was in charge of Department. It waa said at tbe bu Wedderburn -The fishing season on dollar for dollar. In the Deschutes the train, waa shot and seriously reau of Insular affairs that the trane- Rogue River closed by law on Novem investigation, where the state put up wounded, while another conductor, a fer waa not made on orders. ber 20, but few fish were caught dur 350,000 for survey work, the national Mexican, also was wounded. ing the month. The fall run of fish government also contributed 350,000. The Zapata forces had made ar did not come up to expectations nor to Now it appears that the department of rangements to dynamite the train, but that of former years when the late P. the interior has notified The Dalles through miscalculation they fired on D. Hume operated the cannery here. Power Project that It has set aside the train just before it reached the The Macleay Estate company put up 315,000 for co-operative surveys and mine. The train stop;>ed and a fight nearly 6000 cases of canned salmon investigation of the CeliIo water proj ensued in which several of the eacort- Berlin Professor Branca, the fam and 187 tierces of mild cured fish dur ects on the Columbia. ing soldiers were killed. ous paleontologist, haa advanced what ing the past season. The law opening « "■ he terms a new theory of the origin of Rogue river to commercial fishing i life. He does not accept the theory » Stick to Farm Is Advice. Railroad Buys at Eugene. went into effect June 4, this bqing Washington, D. C.—"Stick to the of spontaneous generation as a scien Eugene—By agreement, the South the first commercial fishing done in Rogue river since it was closed in ern Pacific company has just paid farm and keep out of politics,” was tlfic solution nor the Biblical explana 1910. Under the new law, the season 35000 to Mrs. Annie McClaren for the admonition given to 1200 boy and tion which pre-aupposea a miracle and la therefore unacceptable. His theory commences next year on April 15. 2.31 acres of land at the Western lim girl corngrower» from Ohio by Spank la that life la as old as the lifeleee its of Eugene, in order that a "Y” ' er Clark at a reception tendered the matter of which the stars and planets may be laid to connect the main line young farm experts here by the Ohio are composed. New Line May Be Delayed. Life, he holds, haa Rpeaker been "vaccinated" into the earth by Eugene — Recent rains along the of the Southern Pacific with the tracks congressional delegation. of the Willamette-Pacfic. The con- Clark said legislators who amounted life germa from other planets through coast are causing concern to engineers nection now made gives direct access to anything In thia country were elth meteorites. in charge of the construction of the to the coast line from the East on the er bom or brought up In rural dis The scientist maintains that'thia hy- Willamette-Pacific railroad from Eu Southern Pacific, and it is desired to tricts. Senator Pomervnn said: "If |Mithc»l» la strongly supported by In gene to the Siuslaw, giving rise to the have another branch from the North I were a girl I would rather be able to fear that it will be impossible to fin west. The whole of the included tri bake a good loaf of bread than dance dications of the existence of life in all the planets. ish some of the concrete abutments angle is purchased. the tango." before the rivers rise. Without all New Indian Tribe« Found. the abutments it will be impossible to IHaiMMr of Dead Timber, Cream Rates Protested. . . finish track to the tidewater by the Philadelphia Three tribes of In Salem—The Portland Pure Milk and Spokane Arrangements for dispos first of the year, as bad been hoped Cream company haa filed a complaint ing of the timber damaged In the III10 diana hitherto unknown, have been for. A landslide at the western portal with the State Railroad commission forest fires In the Pnrlfle Northwest discovered by the University of Penn of the Noti tunnel makes necessary to against the American Exprees com are being made by the Federal govern sylvania Amaron expedition in rs<ioM «end out a steamsbovel. pany. alleging that its rates for send ment, according to I xmls I,. Sharp, of Brasil never before penetrated by ing cream over the O.-W. R. & N. be chief of field division of the depart white men. according to a letter re- Troutdale Gets Woman Mayor, tween Portland and other place« In ment of the Interior, who waa In Hho r«lv«d nt the university museum last Troutdale— Oregon and the Went Oregon are excessive. Eight other kane recently. Mr, Sharp said that Hatiirdny from Dr. Farabee, head of won another woman mayor when Mr». Portland creameries also have signed there are vast areas of such timber, the expedition. The Indian» call Clara Latourelle Larsson, daughter of a petition which haa been filed with which mini he marketed al <m.. i.. themselves I'orocntoa, Ajamaras, and the late Joseph Latour:lie, one of the the commission protesting against the get anything out of It, 1!, »nd ami Wl. which If Zapneaa IK "tit Dr. Farabee obtained vo pioneers of Oregon, was elected head rates. used now wl.. ' ________ Ill have ronsld«t»lila cum cabularies of their language. Arch- of the Troutdale city government with merelal value. aenliiglenl specimens of raro interest Oakland Skunks Plentiful. only five votes to spare. Her oppon •lio were found. JIHen’« I'itime Ilnme Made. ent was S. A. Edmundson. Oakland—Skunks are so plentiful In thia vicinity that catching them has London Among passsogets taking Napolenn llouse Fading. Pendleton Gets Thanks. become a lucrative occupation. A lo the boat train at Foston to Mil on the l'aria Renetta bave b een received Pendleton— Expressing her thanks cal barber haa SI 35 worth of skins of Mauretania tor New York recently llint laingwooil house in Su Helena. for the Pendleton Indian bathrobe sent animals caught during receasea from was Mme. Luisa Tetrasslnl, the f»m W liete Namlunn died, ia falling to her as a wedding present, a letter was tonsori al duties and Ralph Lucas, a mi» <>|mralle star, whn wore a hat pieve» fot lark of fonda to repair it received by the Commercial eljb from high school boy, took a day off from whlrh was apparently adorned with udì l'iately In o'oaequence. «eversi Mrs. Francis B. Sayre. The wedding the study of algebra and composition aigrettes of the most aspenslya vari p tnml fieni damiti«« bave prepared a present was the gift of the association to catch enough of the animals to aty, but tornei! mit to he, on rloser In Ifieaaute sabine fot an appropriai ion »peelton, merely ehleltan feathers in behalf of the eitiaens of Pendleton. bring him SIS. nf 34« , tifiti (ut Ine npiieep of tbe bcuee. 50-Pound Packages Carried in First Two Zones. Farmers in Convention Demand Square Deal Seek Open Gateway Oregon Boosters Make for Oregon’s Timber Big Showing at Chicago Santo Domingo Affaire Cause Battirehip Trip Will Protect Foreigners in City of Mexico Big Tumalo Project After Government Aid Rogue River Fish Pack Is Not Up to Average. SCIENTIST HAS NEW THEORY AS TO ORIGIN OF’ LIFE