CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
G e n e ra l R e su m e o f Im p o rta n t E v e n t
P re se n te d in C o n d e n s e d F o r m
f o r O u r B u s y R e a d e rs.
Owing to a strike of printers, Chi
cago dailies are issued with only four
pages.
Carter Harrison has been renomi
nated for mayor of Chicago by the
Democrats.
Long Beach, Cal., authorities have
begun a crusade agaist immodest
bathing suits.
Train service is established on the
Oregon Trunk from Fallbridge, Wash.,
to Metolius, Ore.
Sir Thomas Lipton has raised a cry
of alarm oyer annexation as a result
of the reciprocity treaty with Canada.
A squaw captured in the fight with
renegade Indians in Nevada says the
band killed nine men during the past
year.
Fire destroyed the big plant of the
Oregon & Washington lumber com
pany at Portland, causing a loss of
$75,000.
It is believed that Abe Ruef’s last
hope for freedom is gone and that he
must serve his 14-year sentence at
San Quentin.
Two masked and heavily armed rob
bers held up and looted an express car
within the city limits of St. Louis,
escaping with several valuable pack
ages and the money box.
Prohibition of profanity and vulgar
ity on the stage by a city ordinance is
being urged upon the New York aider-
men by representatives of a hundred
churches and religious societies.
Junction City, Wash., had a $100,-
000 lumber fire.
San Francisco will have a new
$800,000 hospital.
A derelict ship has been found froz
en in the ice in the Caspian sea, and
with her entire crew of 30 frozen to
death.
A premature explosion of dynamite
killed four men and wounded six, who
were clearing the channel of the Co
lumbia below Celilo.
Two soldiers are walking from New
York to San Francisco, carrying new
ly-invented knap-sacks and outfits
weigthing 16 pounds each.
PO RTLAND
M ARKETS.
W heat — Track prices: Bluestem,
81c; club, 78c; red Russian, 76-77c;
•valley, 80c; forty-fold, 78-79c.
Barley—Feed, $23-23.50 ton; brew-
jng, nominal.
Millstuffs—Bran. $21-22 per ton;
middlings, $27-28; shorts, $22-24;
rolled barley, $25.50-26.50.
Com —Whole, $28; cracked, $29 ton
Oats—No. 1 white, $27-27.50 ton.
Hay —Track prices: Timothy, East
ern Oregon, No. 1, $19-20; mixed,
$16-18; alfalfa, $12-12.50; grain hay,
$13-13.50; clover, $11-12.
Apples—Fancy, $1.50-2.50; choice,
$1-1.25; common, 50c-$l per box.
Green Fruits Pears, $1.50-1.75 per
box; cranberries, $13.50 per barrel.
Vegetables — Cabbage, $1.25-1.50
pcrcw t; celery, California, $3-3.25
per crate; garlic, 10-12c per lb;
pumpkins, 2c; sprouts, 8c; carrots,
90c-$l per cw t.; parsnips, $1; tur
nips, 90c-$l; beets, $1.25.
Potatoes —Oregon, buying prices:
$1.25-1.40 per cwt.
Onions—Buying price: $2.50 per
cwt.
Poultry — Live: Hens, 18-19c;
springs. 18-18Jc; turkeys, 20c;
ducks, 20-23c; geese, 12-12JC
Dressed: Turkeys, choice, 23-25c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 21-
22ic per dozen.
Butter—City creamery, extras, 1
and 2-pound prints, in boxes, 33c per
pound; less than boxes, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork—Fancy, ll- lljc per pound.
Veal—Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 13J-
14c per pound.
Hops—1910 crop, 18J-19c; 1909
crop, 12-14c; contracts, 15-16c.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, 12-18e, ac
cording to shrinkage; valley, 17-19c;
mohair, choice, 30c per pound.
Cattle—Prime steers, $6-6.85; good
to choice. $5.75-6; fair to good,
$5 .25-5.75; common, $4-5; choice to
prime cows, $5-5.25; good to choice
beef cows, $4.75-5; common to fair
beef cows, $2-4; choice spayed heif
ers. $5.25-5.50; good to choice heif
ers, $5-5.25; choice *n good fat bulls,
$4.25-4.50; fair to good fat bulls,
$3 -3.50; good to choice light calves,
$7.75-8; fair to good light calves, $7-
7.50; (rood to choice light calves.
$3.75-4.75; good to choice stags. $5-
6.25; fair to good stags, $4-4.50;.
Hogs Choice, $8.25-8.76; good to
choice, $8-8.25; poor. $7-7.50.
Sheep — Choice yearling wethers,
grain fed, $4.25-4.60; old wethers,
grain fed, $4-4.26; choice ewes, grain
fed, $3.50-4.60; fair to medium ewes,
grain fed, $2.75-3.25; choice lambs,
grain fed, $5.75-6: good to choice,
grain fed. $5.50-5.76; fair to good,
$4.50-5.60; poor lambs, $2.50-3.50.
Hay fed sheep and lambs 50c lower
than grain fed.
W A R O N E L E C T R IC T R U S T .
G o v e rn m e n t
B e g in s
S u it
A lle g e d C o m b in e .
A g a in st
Cleveland, March 4. —The United
States government began a fight here
today against what is alleged to be
one of the most complete monopolies
in the country, when suit was filed
against 35 concerns engaged in the
manufacture of incandescent lights.
The National Electric Lamp com
pany, which has its headquarters here,
and the General Electric company, of
New York, are named as two of the
defendants, and together are charged
with being the keystone of a trust
that has ramifications in every state
in the Union.
According to the government’s pe
tition, the defendant companies are in
a conspiracy in restraint of trade and
thereby have control of 97 per cent of
the country’s supply of electric lights.
The trust is alleged to have had its
origin soon after 1904, the year in
which the patents on carbon filament
lamps expired. In 1906, it is charged,
a combination known as the Independ
ent Lamp Manufacturers association
obtained control of the lamp output
and fixed prices, allotted business and
prescribed rules of sale for its mem
bers.
The General Electric company of
New York is stated to have owned
75.2 per cent of the stock in this com
bination and is accused of having ob
tained exorbitant profits by restrain
ing trade and forcing high prices.
The petition asserts that the profits
of the combination, as paid in divi
dends, were $50,000 in 1904; $260,000
in 1909 and $300,000 in 1910. Last
year the company is said to have held
$1,439,158 as an undivided surplus.
The capital is now listed at $5,000,-
000 .
The extent of the industry thus
brought under fire is shown in the
statement that approximately 80,000,-
000 lamps are sold in this country
every year for an aggregate purchas
ing amount of $18,000,000.
A V IA T IO N
RECO RD BRO KEN.
T w o Fly 106 M ile s in 2 H o u r s and 7
M in u t e s in A r m y A re o p la n e .
Lardo, Tex. —A world’s aviation
record was broken between this city
and Eagle Pass when Lieutenant Ben
jamin Foulois, U. S. A., and Aviator
Philip C. Parmalee drove an army
aeroplane 106 miles in 2 hours and 7
minutes.
This is a world record in point of
time and also a record for the United
States for a two-men flight.
Under ideal weather conditions the
machine arose at Fort McIntosh at 2
o’clock this afternoon and the landing
was made at Eagle Pass at 4 :07. A
speed of a mile a minute was made on
several spurts. Great crowds cheered
the aviators when they started and
greeted them on landing.
L o r im e r W illin g to Pay.
Washington, March 4.—An item to
reimburse Lorimer for expenses- in
defending his title to his seat was
struck out of the general deficiency
bill by the senate tonight, on motion
of Lorimer himself. Even after Lori
mer had made his motion several sen
ators protested against the item ever
having been put in the bill. Culber
son and Clarke, of Arkansas, and
Borah, the former two with much an
ger, suggested that some members of
the committee on appropriations had
not known that the item was in the
bill.
1 0 0 , 0 0 0 B ib le s Ordered.
New York—One hundred thousand
Bibles have been ordered for general
distribution by the Gideons, as the
members of the Christian Travelers’
association of Americaa style them
selves. The order is said to be the
largest ever placed and it forms part
of a national plan to place a Bible in
every hotel bedroom in the country.
W. E. Henderson, national secretary
of the Gideons, said here that he had
been promised one-fourth of the order
for San Francisco and the Pacific
coast.
S e a m e n A re T h re a te n in g .
Antwerp—The International Sea
men’s congress which threatens to ad
vocate a general strike throughout
the world at the time of the corona
tion of King George, unless ship own
ers satisfy their demands, will open
here Monday. The men included in
their demands a cessation of the use
of the rubber stamp on the wrist by
doctors as a means of showing medical
examination, better quarters and food,
and the abolition of shipping masters.
T w e n ty “ W o r k e r s " R e le ase d .
Fresno. Cal., March 4.—Twenty In
dustrial Workers of the World had
been released from the county jail up
to noon today. This is exclusive of
the 37 released yesterday. The men
felt jubilant over the compromise on
the free speech question arrived at
with the city authorities, and indulged
in songs as they packed up their be
longings. preparatory to their libera
tion.
S u f f r a g is t s D e alt B lo w .
Topeka, Kan.—Presidential suffrage
for women w as voted down by the
Kansas house in committee of the
whole, 50 to 48, after it had been
acted upon favorably by the senate.
Both houses have already voted to sub
mit a woman suffrage constitutional
amendment to the voters, but this
proposition does not include the ballot
for president.
DAILY DOINGS OF OREGON
STATE LAWMAKERS AT SALEM
Salem, Feb. 28. -Governor Oswald
West and State Treasurer Kay re
turned today to Salem from their visit
to definitely locate the site for the
branch asylum at Pendleton. The
governor says that though the site
recommended by the legislative in
vestigating committee does not accord
with the views as to the proper loca
tion of the buildings held by himself
and Mr. Kay, he considers the matter
settled, since the legislature accepted
the report of the joint committee and
the work of building the Eastern
Oregon asylum will be carried on as
expeditiously as possible and Eastern
Orgon will get the finest institution
to be had for the money.
More land will be necessary, the
governor thinks, in order to acquire
necessary water rights, intake and
right of way for water for power pur
poses. Though the m atter is not yet
fully determined, all the buildings at
Pendleton will probably be of con
crete. They will be arranged in a
crescent shape, with the administra
tion building in the center and front
ing, with two retreating wings on
either side and the other buildings
will be in the rear.
Regarding the Eastern Oregon in
stitution, the governor says:
“ The tract selected by the old board
is about equally divided between hill
and bottom land, the latter being sep
arated from the former by the O. R. &
N. tracks and the county road. The
proposed building site was upon the
hill tract, but the present board, after
careful investigation, decided that the
said site was unsuitable and their
findings were borne out by the reports
both of the special committee appoint
ed by the board and the legislative
committee.
“ The legislative committee, how
ever, reported that the bottom tract
afforded a suitable site for the build
ings, and this report was adopted by
the legislature.”
Salem, Feb. 27.—Baker’s demand
for greater consideration at the hands
of the Oregon & Washington Railroad
& Navigation company in the way of
distributive and special commodity
rates was taken up for investigation
officially today by the railroad com
mission. Baker has made a demand
similar to the one made by the city of
Medford for distributive rates as fav
orable as those enjoyed by the larger
shipping centers such as Portland,
Spokane and Seattle.
Attorney Arthur C. Spencer of Port
land, is conducting the case for the
railroad company. Attorney F. H.
McCune of Portland, is attorney for
the Baker Commercial club, the plain
tiff bringing the complaint against
the railroad company. At 11 o’clock
when the case opened before the com
mission Attorney Spencer put on the
stand General Freight Agent F. W.
Robinson, of the Oregon & Washing
ton railroad company and he read into
the records a stupendous amount of
statistics and figures showing the bus
iness relation of the business of the
road to the different cities and centers
of population in Oregon.
É. H. Flagg, chief clerk of the
state senate, and John P. Hunt, assist
ant clerk, were prominent figures in
the recent controversy over the revis
ion of the senate journal. Flagg went
into the courts to prevent Hunt and
Colonel Mercer from revising the jour
nal, as they had been directed by a
senate resolution to do, and won his
point.
This incident was of more impor
tance than the average reader may
suppose. A record of every bill en
acted into law must be kept and set
forth from the time of its introduc
tion, and unless this record is correct
in every detail the law may be as
sailed in the courts. Legal authori
ties differ as to whether a law can
stand if it is not backed by a complete
ly accurate record.
U M A T I L L A P L A N S H IG H W A Y .
Fin e 1 5 -M ile B o u le v a rd to R u n
Pe n d le ton to A the na.
Fro m
Pendleton — Umatilla county is to
have at least one permanent highway,
notwithstanding the failure of the
good roads measures before the recent
legislature. The county court, backed
up by the Umatilla County Good
Roads association, many prominent
farmers and heavy taxpayers, will un
dertake the construction of a modem
highway from Pendleton to Athena,
by way of Adams, a distance of 15
miles.
Plans were under way to construct
this road in accordance with the pro
visions of the Tuttle road law, but
since the legislature repealed this
measure the only thing left to do is to
build it, and this will be done.
S h e lb u r n W a n t s W a itin g Room.
Salem, Feb. 28.—A petition was
received by the railroad commission
this morning from citizens who live in
the vicinity of Shelburn, where the
Corvallis & Eastern railroad inter
sects with the Springfield branch of
the Southern Pacific company, asking
that the commission investigate condi
tions, and, if it is found necessary, to
make an order requiring these roads
jointly to build a depot or waiting
station at the point of intersection.
O il W ell D o w n 2 , 0 0 0 Feet.
Dallas—The Whiteaker oil well has
reached a depth of 2.000 feet and the
drill is being operated to its full ca
pacity. Promoters of the venture are
greatly encouraged with the prospects
of striking oil.
MUCH
LU M B ER U SED HERE. -
O r e g o n In d u strie s R e q u ire d in
8 0 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 Feet.
1909
Out of the 2,000,000,000 feet, board
measure, of timber cut in the state of
Oregon during the year of 1909, 800,-
000,000 feet were used in Oregon.
This fact is shown in a report just is
sued by the Oregon Conservation com
mission and the United States Forest
service. Howard B. Oakleaf, of the
United States Forest service, pre
pared the data under the direction of
J. B. Knapp, who is in charge of the
engineering work of the service in
this district.
Of the 800,000,000 feet used in the
state, 296,791,900 feet were taken by
the wood-using industries. Dividing
the wood-using industries into their
respective lines of manufacture, it is
found that pulp in 1909 required 93,-
367,600 feet; boxes, 77,946,500;
sashes and doors, 43,158,500; interior
finish work, 22,660,000; cooperage,
20,685,000; furniture manufacture,
9,835,350; excelsior, 4,320,000; bask
ets and veneers, 3,102,000 and other
minor lines make up the balance.
P O W E R L 'N E
PRO G RESSES,
B ig Plant al S p r i. g f ie ld W ill S o o n D e
live r C u r r e n t I h r o u g h Valley.
Eugene The transmission line ex
tending from the Oregon Power com
pany’s big electric plant at Spring-
field down the valley as far as Albany,
is practically complete, the linemen
having reached Albany. The use of
this line means the electrification of
practically the entire Upper Willam
ette valley, for numerous towns and
cities besides Springfield, Eugene and
Albany will be supplied with lelectric
lights and power from the line. The
line, however, cannot be used for some
time yet, because the substations at
Albany and other points are not yet
completed. The line is 45 miles long
and is said to be one of the longest
on the Coast. It was built at a cost
of $2,000 a mile. The poles, which
are all over 40 feet high, are the heav
iest obtainable and the big porcelain
insulators cost over $1 apiece. The
heavy copper wire is almost a quarter
of an inch thick. It is easily seen
that the cost of the transmission line
is quite heavy.
The towns of Coburg, Harrisburg
and Junction City are already being
supplied with light and power from
the plant at Springfield over this
transmission line and the company is
planning on furnishing these commod
ities to the other villages and farming
communities in this part of the state.
D R A IN
O w yhee
1 ,0 0 0 A C R E S .
F a rm e rs
W o u ld
M o is t u r e In S o il.
R e gulate
Nyssa — A meeting of land owners
has decided that preliminary steps for
the drainage of 1,000 acres of land
under the Owyhee ditch be taken and
that the engineer start the work at
once. Some of the land in question is
suffering from too much moisture, but
the greater portion is as yet in fair
condition. The owners realize the
necessity of drainage and the steps are
taken to prevent the land from being
waterlogged. Some of the section is
owned by what is commonly called the
“ road grant company,” and the steps
taken depend a great deal on the way
these people look at the proposition.
The engineer is preparing to put his
men in the field to sound the soil and
to run the preliminary survey for the
right of way.
E x te n d P o w e r L in e s.
Milton—City Electrician Coyle and
a large crew of men will commence
work next week setting poles and
stringing wire for two power lines to
be projected into the country north
and west of Milton. The line is to be
built at once, while another is soon to
be built on the east side of the Walla
Walla river.
The new lines will be similar to
those built by the city two years ago,
and which have been in use ever
since. The past two years have dem
onstrated to many of the farmers the
cheapness of electricity for pumping
purposes, and it is now thought that a
large field is opening up for the sur
plus of municipal juice which has been
generated since the extension and en
largement of the municipal plant.
B a k e r W a n t s O w n Plant.
Baker—The city commissioners at
a meeting instructed the city engineer
to prepare estimates and cost for in
stalling a municipal lighting plant.
The plan is to construct a pipe line
from Elk creek to Salmon creek to re
place the old flume. It is believed the
new plan will furnish sufficient power
for an electric lighting plant to be
owned by the city. The plan also in
cludes the construction of a new reser
voir of 3,000,000 gallons. If carried
out the enterprise will save the city
thousands of dollars in lighting every
year and will also furnish cheap pow
er for commercial purposes.
CO N G RESS A SKED
Fifty
T O "H A L T ."
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S a n A n to n io
C itiz e n s " D e m a n d "
N o n -In te rfe re n c e .
Washington—That the president and
congress shall “ call a halt and take
hands off ’ in the matter of the Mexi
can revolution is the “ demand” of
certain residents of San Antonio, Tex.
The demand reached the senate in a
petition bearing 50 signatures. The
document was addressed to “ The Pres
ident of the United States and to the
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives,” and read:
We the undersigned citizens of San
Antonio, Texas, and liberty-loving
people of the United States, do here
by most earnestly protest against your
taking any part in the Mexican rev
olution, now going on in Mexico.
There is not an honest, liberty-loving
man in this country, knowing the
cause of this revolution, but who is at
heart and soul in sympathy with those
revolutionists; we therefore demand
that you call a halt and take hands off
of same and let old despot Diaz and
the revolutionists fight it out.”
R U E F W IL L G O T O
PEN.
B id s F r ie n d s G o o d -B y e a n d S u r r e n
d e r s to D e p u ty S h e riff.
San Francisco, Feb. 28.—After be
ing at liberty for 15 months on a bail
bond aggregating $600,000, Abraham
Ruef was taken into custody at mid
night tonight, following the vacation
of the Supreme court’s order remand
ing the case for rehearing.
Early in the evening, Ruef held a
consultation with his attorneys and,
after bidding friends about town good
bye, went home. A deputy was wait
ing at his residence with a bench war
rant issued by Judge Lawler. Ruef
quietly surrendered himself and the
pair started for the county jail.
An appeal to the United States
Supreme court on some constitutional
ground is his only recourse now. If
such action is not taken, Ruef prob
ably will start for San Quentin in a
day or two to begin serving a 14-year
term on a charge of bribery.
E A T IN G D O G S A N D C A T S .
S t a r v in g C h in e se U s e P e ts
O f f Death.
to
W a rd
Shanghai.—A missionary who ar
rived here from the famine district,
where he had been engaged in relief
work, says that 3,000 persons are dy
ing daily and that 350,000 are wholly
dependent on the foreign famine com
mittee, which was organized here.
In many places dogs and cats are
being killed for food and houses are
pulled down by the occupants and the
debris exchanged for anything that
can be eaten.
There is urgent need of help pend
ing the arrival of the American trans
port Buford, which is bringing sup
plies donated by the people of the
United States.
C h o le r a K ills H a w a iia n s.
Honolulu — Four more deaths from
cholera have occurred among the Ha
waiians isolated at the quarantine sta
tion because of contact with infected
persons. This makes a total of six
deaths since the disease first made its
appearance, here.
San Francisco—F. E. Tritter, chief
quarantine officer of the port, notified
all shipping men that vessels clearing
from Honolulu must obtain a certifi
cate from the chief quarantine officer
of the Hawaiian port. Vessels not so
provided will be sent to quarantine on
arrival here.
5 0 0 to T r y to F la n k M a d e ro .
El Paso, Tex.—The Mexican mili
tary commander has ordered the regu
lar schedule on the Mexican North
eastern railroad, operating from Jua
rez south to Casas Grandes and Pear
son, discontinued and commanded all
cars to take sooth 500 soldiers and
two field pieces. These men will try
to flank Madero, who is reported south
of Juarez, marching on Chihuahua,
with 500 Federals that left Juarez
Friday in his rear. This troop move
ment will leave only about 400 sol
diers in Juarez.
J a p C o o lie s G o in g H o m e .
San Francisco.—The number of Jap
anese laborers in the United States
has decreased 11,152 in the past three
years, if statistics prepared by the
Japanese foreign office are correct.
The figures were made public by Mat-
suzo Nagai, Japanese consul general
for San Francisco. The report indi
cates that the United States has lost
6,371 Japanese, of all classes, by ex
cess of departures over arrivals in the
three years.
U n c le S a m M a y L ic e n s e
A u to s.
Washington —The Federal automo
bile license bill introduced by Wanger,
of Pennsylvania, was favorably re
ported by the house committee on in
terstate and foreign commerce. The
measure provides a Federal license in
addition to the local license, but ex
empts the automobile from the local
license of other states through which
it may pass. Provision also is made
for the licensing of drivers.
D e v e lo p C o a l In C o q u ille .
Coquille—A deal in Oregon coal
lands involving about $155,000 was
closed here when H. B. Guthrey,
George E. Pike and R. E. Doan sold
to the Pulaski Coal A Navigation com
pany 329 acres of coal land at Coquille
near tidewater. The company will
begin immediately to arrange at a cost
of about $75,000 for the development
of the property on an extensive scale
asid the shipment of coal to Coast
points. It is of first-class quality.
Po lice P a rty M a y B e L o tt .
Dawson, Y. T.—A police expedi
tion of four men, which left Fort Mc
Pherson and Herschel Island, in the
Arctic Ocean, a week before Christ
mas, with police advices and mail
from whalers, traders and trappers,
has not yet arrived here, though the
journey should have been made in 30
days. A relief expedition has gone
out from Dawson. Indians report one
whaler at Herschel.
CHINESE FAMINE
SUFFERERS RIOT
Bands of Starving People Sack
Large Villages.
C itiz e n s R e sis t and F ig h tin g is D e s
p e ra te — M a ra u d e rs T rap p e d
and B u rn e d to D e ath .
Victoria, B. C., March 2.—Rendered
desperate by the famine, bands of
hundreds of starving refugees are rov
ing through the stricken districts and
plundering and killing, and a reign of
terror prevails. Some harrowing in
cidents are reported by arrivals by the
steamer Tamba Maru, which reached
port from the Orient today.
At Kunshan, a walled village within
50 miles of Shanghai, the villagers,
after a desperate raid in which stores
were looted and many killed, meted
out punishment, peculiarly Chinese in
its grim callousness, to the raiding
refugees. A band of more than 500
were surrounded in a compound and
burned to death.
The refuges had taken possession of
Kunshan and for two days ransacked
the stores of everything eatable, kill
ing or wounding all who resisted.
Many villagers were slain and others
taken prisoners and held for ransom.
When the raiders moved on to
plunder the next village the Kunshan
people held a council of war and or
ganized to pursue the refugees. They
came up with them in a small village
and surrounded the houses. Gates
were locked and kerosene poured over
the houses and fired. More than 500
perished in the holocaust.
The refugees took five prisoners in
to the compound in view of the be-
seigers and threatened to kill them un
less the siege was raised and, on the
villagers’ pressing them back to the
burning buildings, they hacked the
five men slowly to death. Prisoners
wer&tied to stakes in the burning
buildings and were burned with their
captors.
A number of the refugees who es
caped were reinforced by other bands
and returned, and desperate fighting
ensued, in which many villagers were
killed. Troops were then sent for and
have been hurried to the scene.
V O L IV A IS R U L E R O F Z IO N .
P a y m e n ts o f D e b ts R e m o v e s R e c e iv e r
and C ity S h r ie k s W ith J o y .
Chicago.— A wild shriek of joy
burst from the throats of the inhabi
tants of Zion City, when they learned
that the “ blight” of being a prophet
who must take orders from the Federal
court had been removed from the
shoulders of Wilbur Glenn Voliva and
that the great estate left by John Al
exander Dowie had passed finally into
his hands.
The payment of $700,000 in Judge
Landis’ court by Cobe & McKinnon,
Voliva’s brokers, to Gus D. Thomas,
receiver for the estate, placed the $1,-
350,000 property in the hands of the
overseers. Cobe & McKinnon were
secured in this payment by a $950,000
bond issue.
From the moment the news reached
the city founded by Dowie there were
scenes of delirious joy in the streets.
Thousands of horns were dragged forth
from nobody knows where and blown
as long as men, women and children
behind them could muster lung power.
W ild e r C a lls f o r M o r e H elp.
Washington.—To meet the pressing
needs of the starving people of China,
American Consul General Wilder at
Shanghai has cabled the secretary of
state in an urgent appeal to the Amer
ican people for the contribution of
$100,000 more to be sent by cable to
the stricken people.
Mr. Wilder makes it plain that this
amount will be needed before the army
transport Buford, now loading at Se
attle, can reach China with supplies.
" W e t s " W in B a c k C itie s.
Indianapolis, In d .— The “ wets”
gained several of the larger cities of
Indiana that previously had been on.
the “ dry” side in local option elec
tions in 14 counties of the state; The
“ drys” held the county, townships and
some cities, but the people decided for
the return of saloons in the cities of
Marion, Wabash, Vevay, Rushvilfe,
Huntington, Connellsville, Decatur
and Kokomo. Cities that voted to re
main dry were Delphi, Tipton, Peters
burg, Green Castle, Gas City and No-
bteaville.
O ld M e n In h e rit M illio n .
Leicester, Eng.—It is reported that
two men living at Blaby, a short dis
tance from here, who were drawing
government old age pensions of five
shillings weekly on account of extreme
poverty, have inherited $1,000,000.
The money, so the story goes, was be
queathed them by a brother, Henry
Bowns, who died recently at Salt
Lake, Utah. This information is said
to have been contained in a letter from
the testator’s son.
B o r d e r W ill B e W a tch e d .
Washington—Disturbances are in
creasing along the Mexican frontier
and the situation necessitates the close
watching by the American troops of
practically every inch of the line in
order to preserve the neutrality of
the United States. A shipment of
arms en route to Mexico has been cap
tured by United States marshals near
Douglas, Ariz.