Cottage Grove leader., October 07, 1913, Image 3

NEWS OF TK WEEK
General Resume of Important Events
Tiirouglwnt (Re World.
Tariff bill Is up to tbe president.
Portland day at state fair Is record-
breaker.
Deer are destroying crops In north­
ern Washington.
The copper mine strike at Calumet,
Mich., Is again becoming serious.
Hansom must be paid Chinese ban­
dits who hold American missionaries.
Power drills are being used to free
the entombed miner at Centralia, Pa.
Panama earthquake only slightly in­
jures the great Gatun locks of the
canal.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts
continues to 'mprove after a delicate
operation.
Secretary of the Interior Lane has
so far improved in health that he is
able to travel.
American missionaries are tied to
posts and forced to witness Chinese
butcheries in Tsao-yang.
Ten passengers are hurt by a colli­
sion of the Portland Express and Los
Angeles Flyer at Oakland, Cal.
“ Father's Day" is proposed by a
resolution in the house; June 1 is the
day and the rose the emblem.
The League of Northwest Municip­
alities is in session at Portland, Or.,
with many prominent speakers pres­
ent.
Four persons drown in streets of
San Antonio, Tex., when flood does
$5,000,000 damages to property and
crops.
Colonel Roosevelt’s trip to South
America is planned and will Include
the penetration of the jungles where
bands of Indians rove.
Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst, the Eng­
lish militant suffragette, will not be
received in Philadelphia, on her pro­
posed visit to the United States.
Victor Paresco and Joe Prlncipi, of
Los
Angeles,
alleged
blackhand
agents, were sentenced to serve 20
years in San Quentin. The men were
found guilty of having dynamited the
home of G. D. Trapani here last June.
First unit of Seattle’s municipal
railway will start about January 1.
Five thousand attend Salem fair on
first day.
An imprisoned miner at Centralia,
Pa., can be heard tapping on rails.
Los Angeles messenger boy uses
his own auto to deliver messages.
Mexicans declare American soldiers
Invaded their country and as proof
produce cavalryman’s bat found across
border.
A Cleveland, O., boy stole $1400
that he might enter Oxford University.
It is reported that Secretary of
State Bryan would appoint J. N. Teal
of Oregon as minister to Greece.
JUDG ES
OVERRULE
H U M P H R IE S
Settle Socialists 6ent to Jail Releas­
ed By Other Court.
Seattle, Wash. — After Superior
Judge John E. Humphries had sent 12
men and six women to the county jail
Friday for contempt of his court, a
consultation of other judges of the
superior court was held and Thorwald
Siegfried, an attorney, who had previ­
ously complained to the bar associa­
tion of Judge Humphries’ excessive
use of the writ of injunction, was sent
tor by the judges and requested to
apply for a writ of habeas corpus for
the prisoners.
Siegfried applied to Judge Smith for
the release of Glenn Hoover, attorney
for the Free Speech Defense League
and ex-assistant attorney-general of
Washington, aud O. M. Hodgson, one
of the signers of “ resolutions of pro­
test” against Humphries’ injunctions,
and they were released on their own
recognizance.
Both men, a short time before, had
been sentenced to pay fines for con­
tempt and in addition Hoover had
been “ forever disbarred” by Hum­
phries.
Judge Smith said he would release
all the prisoners who sought freeoom
on writs of habeas corpus. Judge
Smith said:
"It seems to me that the petitioners
clearly are entitled to their liberty
pending further hearing. They have
raised a question on which they are
entitled to be heard. There is no oc­
casion to allow these men to lie in jail
pending such hearing."
Judge Humphries was wroth when
he heard of the consultation of his
fellow judges and the release of two
of the prisoners. He made a state­
ment denouncing the other judges.
“ My fellow members of the bench
have conspired against me and have
fought me from the first. They were
against me in my campaign and they
are against me now. Judge Smith had
no right to shove in on this. The right
of habeas corpus does not apply in
contempt of court cases.”
Glenn Hoover, attornoy for the pris­
oners, wae fined, disbarred and or­
dered removed to jail as soon as he
began to speak. Hulet Wells, another
defendant, an attorney, was disbarred
and fined without being permitted to
speak a word in self-defense.
Mrs. Humphries, secretary of a So­
cialist local, wag dismissed with a
small fine, the judge saying he did not
wish to humiliate a member of his
own Scotch clan.
Mrs. William McNally stood up with
a baby in her arms. The judge said
he did not wish to send a baby to Jail.
“ Never mind,” the woman said bit­
terly, “ the baby is as guilty as 1 am.”
She was fined $100 and sent to jail
with the baby and a little boy. The
woman’s husband, a Spanish war vet­
eran, also was fined $100 and sent to
jail. Six women and two children are
in the county Jail,
During the judge’s lecture on the
evil of street-speaking he declared
that Albert R. Parsons, the anarchist
hanged in Chicago after the Haymark-
et riots, was guilty of murder through
incitement to riot.
An elderly woman, dressed in black,
standing on a chair in the rear of the
courtroom, cried: “ That is untrue.
He was an innocent man. I am Par­
sons’ widow.” As soon as Judge Hum­
phries could recover from his surprise
he shouted to the woman, who was
Lucy Parsons:
“ Widow or no widow; you had bet­
ter keep quiet or you’ll find yourself
in the county Jail.”
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts un­
derwent an operation for gastric ulcer RANSOM W I L L S A V E C A P T I V E S
which has left him in a serious con­
dition.
T o Rescue Missionaries Bandits Must
President Wilson has accepted an
invitation to speak in Baltimore in
September, 1914, at a celebration of
the centennial of the writing of the
“ Star-Spangled Banner,” by Francis
Scott Key.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Wheat—Track prices: Club, 78®
79c; bluestem, 88@89c; forty-fold,
80c; red Russian, 77@78c; valley, 80c.
Oats—No. 1 white, $25® 26.
Mlllstuffs — Bran, $22 per ton;
shorts, $24; middlings, $31.
Hay—Fancy Eastern Oregon tim­
othy, $15@16; timothy and clover,
$14®15; timothy and alfalfa, $13@14;
alfalfa, $12; clover, $8 50@10; oat and
vetch, $10@11; cheat, $100)11; valley
grain hay, $1O0>11.
Onions—Oregon and Walla Walla,
$1.50 per sack.
Vegetables — Beans,
3@4c
per
pound; cabbage, l% c ; cauliflower, $2
per crate; corn, 10®15c dozen; cu­
cumbers, 20®40c per box; eggplant,
6 ® 7c pound; head lettuce, 35®40c per
dozen; peas, 5 ® 7c per pound; pep­
pers, 5@7c per pound; radishes, 10®
12c per dozen; tomatoes, 10@30c per
box; garlic, 10c per pound; sprouts,
8c per pound; artichokes, $1 per doz­
en; squash, l% c per pound; pump­
kins, l*4c per pound; celery, 40@60c
per dozen.
Potatoes—Oregon, $1.00 per hun­
dred; buying price, 75@85c at ship­
ping points; sweet potatoes, $2®2.25
per crate.
Green Fruit—Apples. 60c @ $2.50
per box; cantaloupes, $1.50®1.75 per
crate; peaches, 40®75c per box;
plums, 30@35c per box; pears. $1®
1.50 per box; grapes, 50c@$1.25 per
crate, 15®20c per basket; casabas,
$1.75 per dozen; cranberries, $9 per
barrel.
Poultry—Hens. 14®14%c; springs,
17@17%c; turkeys, live, 20®22c,
dressed, nominal; ducks, 12®15c;
geese, 12@12%c.
Eggs—Oregon fresh ranch, candled,
35® 36c per dozen.
Butter—Oregon creamery butter
cubes. 34c per pound; butter fat, de­
livered, 34c per pound.
Pork—Fancy, 11V4012C per pound.
Veal—Fancy, 15@15Hc per pound.
Hops— 1913 crop. 23 0 25c per pound;
1912 crop, nominal.
Cattle—Prime
steers,
$7.75@8;
choice steers. $7.50® 7.75; medium
steers, $7.2507.50; prime cows. $6.75
@7.00; choice cows, $6.10 @6.75: mid-
iura cows. $6.25@6.50; betters, $6.25
@7.00; light calves. $8@9; heavy
calves, $6.7507.75; bulls, $405.50;
stags. $5.7506 25; hogs, light, $8.40®
$.71, heavy, $7.45 0 7.80; sheep, weth­
ers, $3.5004.35; ewes $304.15; lambs,
$405.25.
Be Bought.
Pekin.—Reports
that
foreigners
were being maltreated by Chinese
brigands at Tsao Yang has given
much concern to the American lega­
tion. It is feared the Chinese govern­
ment troops will not be able to secure
the release of the American and Nor­
wegian missionaries held in captivity
there. These troops are neither capa­
ble nor loyal.
The legation believes ransoms may
have to be paid to save the lives of
those In captivity. It is believed that
the ransoms demanded may not be
heavy, as Chinese ideas in monetary
matters are not extravagant.
By the efforts of the American lega­
tion and consulates, the missionaries
have been sept out of unsafe districts
the past two years.
“FATHERS’
DAY”
IS
PROPOSED
House Resolution Would Set Aside
June 1 and Make Rose Emblem.
Washington, D. C.—Representative
Moore, of Pennsylvania, the father of
eight children, has introduced in the
house a resolution designating the
first day in June as Fathers' day, with
the rose as its emblem.
Mr. Moore said the resolution was
introduced at the suggestion of Char­
lotte E. Kirkbride and Carrie B. Stern­
berg, of Philadelphia, who have ob­
tained a charter for Fathers’ day un­
der the laws of Pennsylvania. The
resolution would not make the day a
legal boliday.
Street Peril Emphasized.
New York.—The National Highways
Protective Society has placed its ban
on roller skating, “one-old cat,” push-
mobiles and other Juvenile street
amusements. The September report
shows an unusually large number of
children killed or Injured In street
accidents. The secretary of the or­
ganization said that school teachers
should warn pupils of the ever-increas­
ing danger of playing on the streets
and that clergymen urge parents to
forbid their children to use the streets.
Since the first of the year 193 children
have been killed.
"D ry ” Campaign Put Off.
Los Angeles.—The state executive
committee of the Anti-Saloon League
of southern California at its meeting
here took a stand against the propos­
ed initiative campaign for prohibition
in California In 1914. It was argued
that such a move by the anti-saloon
elements would mean defeat and post­
ponement of wbat was considered an
eventual victory at the polls at some
future date.
M E X IC A N
OREGON STATE NEWS IN GENERAL
FOR
BONDS
Coos County Court Asked
Special Election.
OUT
LARGE
ACREAGE
IS T A K E N
UP
to Call Hundreds Are Seeking Homesteads on
Lake County Lands.
Coquille.—Petitions praying
the
county court to call a special election
in November next for the purpose of
voting on the question of issuing $450,-
000 in bonds for the construction of
a system of permanent highways are
being circulated here. The proposed
bonds are to run 20 years at 5 per
cent. A second petition asks that the
county board expend the money so
raised on tbe highway from the Doug­
las county line by way of Bridge,
Myrtle Point, Coquille, Marshfield,
North Bend and Empire to Sunset
Bay and from the Curry county line
to Bandon and thence to Coquille.
This petition also requests that the
court have the work performed under
the immediate direction of an expert
highway engineer, preferably one in­
dorsed by the United States bureau of
roads and by State Highway Engineer
Bowlby.
It is not contemplated to complete
the extensive system next year, nor
can the work of hard surfacing the
100 miles be accomplished with the
bond issue, but it is proposed to ex­
tend the work over three years, each
year raising the full 10-mill tax al­
lowed by law, applying about three-
quarters of the money thus made
available to the trunk lines and the
balance for general upkeep of laterals.
The Coos County Good Roads As­
sociation, which has been instrument­
al in promoting the proposition to its
present stage, recommends the con­
struction of a concrete highway nine
feet in width, with frequent turnouts,
the roadway to be graded 16 feet, with
a view to adding to the width of the
concrete in future years.
There is a strong sentiment through­
out Coos county for better highways.
Even the ranchers remote from the
proposed trunk line realize that its
construction will better conditions and
enhance values and is patiently wait­
ing for the building of laterals that
will afford still greater benefit.
When the people of Coos definitely
determine that a hard-surfaced high­
way will be constructed from the
Douglas county line to the ocean it is
expected that Douglas county will im­
prove its end of the highway to Rose-
burg, thus perfecting one of the most
scenic routes to be found anywhere
on the coast. Douglas has practically
promised to carry out its part of the
programme.
IS
IN
TERROR
Foreigners Warned to Fiee as Federal
Troops Advance.
Industrial and Educational Items o f Interest To Oregonians
P E TITIO N S
C ITY
Piedras Negras, Mex.—Terror has
gripped this city, the provisional cap­
ital of the Mexican Constitutionalists,
with the victorious northward march
of the Federáis and the arrival of
hundreds of refugees from the sur­
rounding devastated country.
Obeying the instructions of United
States Consul Blocker, American resi­
dents of Piedras Negras joined the ex­
odus and hundreds of persons crossed
the international bridge into Eagle
Pass, many carrying on their backs
such of their possessions as they
could assemble hurriedly.
Consul Blocker's warning to foreign­
ers to quit Piedras Negras immediate­
ly was in anticipation of rioting should
the Constitutionalists be forced to
abandon their provisional capital. As
the rebel urmy is being driven north­
ward by the government troops under
General Maas the retreating insur­
gents are setting fire to villages.
Reports from the front Indicate that
the Federáis are closing in on the
town of Sabinas, from which the Con­
stitutionalists are expected to fall
back on either Matamoras, across the
line from Brownsville, Tex., or on
Piedras Negras.
United States troops are hurrying
from San Antonio to reinforce the
garrison at Eagle Pass.
W. W. Vaughan, a well-known en­
gineer, and Alford Williams, a drug­
gist, were ordered peremptorily to va­
cate their homes with their families
on constitutionalist notification that
the property would be destroyed, de­
spite any protest to the American gov­
ernment, for the reason that it was
owned by federal sympathizers. Per­
mission was refused to many Mexican
refugees and a large number of Jap­
anese to enter the United States.
It was said that the Mexicans were
likely to become public charges and
that the Japanese had not made prop­
er application.
An appeal to Washington for excep­
tion in the latter case will allege that
the Japanese are in danger of death
from the federáis for having aided the
constitutionalists.
It is reported that many prisoners
confined in the jail on sedition charges
have been shot, among them Felipe
Sanchez, wanted in Carlzzo Springs,
Tex., as a member of the smuggling
band charged with the murder of a
deputy sheriff.
About 2000 of the refugees who
crossed the international bridge here
were unable to obtain lodging in Eagle
Pass and it was necessary to open
public buildings and obtain empty
boxcars to afford them shelter.
Flcksburg.—The forestry service
has notified applicants for lands in
the national forests here that much
land in this vicinity probably will be
thrown out of the service at an ea ly
date. These lands will then come un­
der the control of the department of
the interior and some, in that case,
will be taken as enlarged homesteads
when designated by the secretary of
the interior.
Hundreds of people from ail sec­
tions of the country are coming to
Lake county by way of Bend seeking
320-acr9 homesteads. The lands tak­
en have shown such profitable results
that settlers are sending for their
friends and urging them to trek into
the new country. One family consist­
ing of three girls and two boys have
settled on 1600 acres adjoining and
Intend to make their bolding one of
the finest grain and stock ranches in
the state. One settlement of 30 fam­
ilies has come into the Christmas val­
ley, and the people intend to raise
high-grade dairy stock, using the rich
bunch grass lands as a pasture, grow­
ing their winter feed and sending
their products to the local cheese fac­
tory and creamery. As each one in
this party is financially equipped to
tandle their lands, it means a great
step forward in this new country.
The yield of grain, hay and forage
crops throughout the county this year
is fully 50 per cent above an average.
Southern Lake county has a pheno­
menal crop of hay and grain, and
optimistic farmers before threshing
estimated about two-thirds of what
the grain turned out after being
threshed and sacked. The only ex­
ception to the rule is in the central
part or the Summer Lake valley,
where it has been about one-third less.
Northern Lake, where the new home­
stead settlements
have recently
sprung up, has demonstrated beyond
a shadow of a doubt that even with
ordinary methods of farming, such
as used in all unirrigated countries,
the grain and hay crops are sure, and
where summer fallowing and mois­ H E A V Y
DAMAGE
IN
FRANCE
ture conserving is the rule there is
not the slightest chance of a crop fail­
ure. Threshing now going on shows Storm Kills Fourteen, Injures 30 and
Many Are Mlsalng.
DUTY
ON
M O H A IR
P L E A S E S a profit equal in many instances to
that obtained on high-priced lands
Cebere, France.—A terrific thunder
elsewhere.
storm, which raged for 12 hours, has
Salem Dealer Says Industry In Oregon
spread death and ruin throughout this
Will Be Advanced.
FARMERS
BUY
FLOUR
M IL L city. Fourteen persons are known to
have been killed and 30 Injured, and
Salem.—William Brown, of William
Brown & Co., dealers in mohair sup­ Plant at Burns to Be Operated on there are many missing.
Co-operative
Plan.
A stream which passes through the
plies, was notified by telegraph that
the new tariff bill provided a duty on
Burns.—About 50 farmers of the city was soon over its banks and
mohair which would be entirely satis­ Harney valley have organized a co­ flooded the streets. In a hardware
factory to dealers and growers. The operative company and have taken establishment, petroleum, alcohol and
telegram, which was from the presi­ over the Bums flouring mill property, other inflammables and a cask of cal­
dent of the Griswold Worsted com­ including more than 200 acres of land cium carbide were stored, the water
pany, of New York City, was as fol­ and the waterpower on the Silvies dissolved the chemical and enormous
lows:
river à short distance north of the volumes of gas were formed. A ter­
“ Duty raw mohair 15 per cent, tops city, which has been owned and oper­ rific explosion occurred, which com­
20 per cent, yarns 25 per cent; cloths ated the past few years by a corpora­ pletely wrecked two buildings and en­
40 pw* cent and plushes 45 per cent. tion composed of Bums business men. veloped two others in flames. Three
In view of free wool the mohair grow­
The mill is equipped with modem persons who were passing were killed
ers are to be congratulated.”
machinery and turns out a first-class outright. Five families were buried
“This is of the greatest importance grade of flour. It is the intention of in the ruins.
Nearly every house in Cebere is
to mohair growers,” said Mr. Brown, the new owners to run it to its ca­
“and will be the means of advancing pacity and to sell the product at such flooded and quantities of the provi­
an industry which otherwise would a price as practically will make it sions have been spoiled.
In answer to an urgent appeal from
surely have been destroyed.”
impossible for mills in outside points
to ship flour to this county and com­ the mayor, the prefect at Sorpignam
dispatched several tons of bread to
$1800 N E T
FROM
$3000 FARM pete.
It is also the Intention to establish meet the pressing needs of the inhabi­
Linn County Rancher Grows 6000 a packing plant in connection with tants. A company of infantry was
the mill for the curing of bacon and rushed from Colicure to assist in the
Bushels of Oats on 160 Acres.
hams, manufacturing of lard and other rescue work and search the ruins.
The floods also carried away the
Albany.—Raising 14,000 bushels of hog products. This will encourage
oats on 250 acres of land, M. Kelly, a the raising of hogs, which have been greater part of the Paullles dynamite
farmer residing in the northwestern increasing rapidly the past few years. factory and caused tremendous dam­
part of Linn county, near Shelbum,
It is the intention of the new organi­ age throughout the department. The
established a splendid record during zation to buy all the grain possible to railroad has been washed out in sev­
the past season.
handle at the best price it can afford, eral places and a passenger train is
Many yields have been reported in and such as cannot be ground will Imprisoned in the tunnel at Banyuls-
this county this year which ran 50 be fed to hogs, either around the mill Sur-Mar.
bushels to the acre and one yield of or on the farms of the grain-growers,
W O R R Y ” S AY S
M IN ER
111 bushels an acre, but these were on and these wil! be handled at tbe pack­ “ D O N ’T
smaller tracts. In such a large tract ing plant.
as Kelly devoted to oats the total
Entombed Man Receives Milk and
yield is regarded as a very big one.
G R A N D RO N D E F R U I T IS SOLD
Eggs Through Tube.
On 120 acres of a 160-acre tract
Centralia, Pa.—As darkness envel­
which he bought a few years ago for More Than 25 Cars of Hall Specked
oped the Continental Colliery of the
$3,000, Mr. Kelly realized a profit of
Applet Reported Bought.
Lehigh Coal company Tuesday night,
$1800. This tract yielded 6000 bushels
of oats, which he sold for 38 cents a
La Grande.—Notwithstanding the the voice of Thomas Toshesky, who
bushel.
fact that it was rumored that the has been entombed in the mammoth
Grand Ronde would be passed up by vein since last Friday morning, was
P O W E R S E R V IC E IS E X T E N D E D the apple buyers this year, reports are heard through a tube 50 feet long
being received from throughout the which had been inserted in a hole
Farms and Packing Plants Near Ash­ valley indicating that more than 25 bored through a wall of coal from an
cars of second-grade apples, chiefly adjoining gallery. His first inquiry
land Are Supplied.
of the Ben Davis variety, are already was about his family.
Ashland.—The Oregon & California contracted for at the price of $1.15
“ Tell them not to worry too much,”
Power company is extending Its serv­ per box. The advance buying appears he said, “ as I am in pretty good shape.
ice lines to the lnterurban districts. to be in the hail-specked apples, which Since I got those bottle of milk and
Connections have been made with the Is accounted for to a great extent by whipped eggs I feel much stronger.
Snncrest Orchard packing plant, and the fact that the growers are loathe I had a long sleep after I ate and
about a dozen big ranches on the at this time to sell their fancy stock. drank. I think I’ll be rescued before
roads between Ashland and Talent. Two cars of fancy Ganos are reported there is another fall of top and coal.”
The Runcrest people use more than contracted at $1.30 a box and It is
The entombed man said he was
100 lights, besides power, and the expected that the better varieties of nervous because of the long confine­
farmers are supplied with current for Jonathans. Winter Bananas and Spltz- ment and absolute quiet.
light and power for pumps, separa­ enbergs will command $1.76 a box.
tors, etc. The corporation extends The high prices of apples is having
Woman Walks 1500 Miles.
this service as faBt as the demands a decided effect on the apple land
Justify i t
________
Minneapolis.—Finishing & 1500 mile
sales, and causing the prices to be
considerably stlffer.
walk on the trail of Edward Payson
Timber Not T o Be Cruised.
Weston, Mrs. Marie Chester, of Mid­
dletown, N. Y„ mother of ten children,
Salem.—County Judge Bushey has
Astoria to Raise $100,000.
three of whom accompanied her, ar­
announced that a proposition to have
Astoria.—The Port of Astoria com­ rived in Minneapolis Tuesday, having
the timber of the county cruised
would not be accepted. He Intimated mission has voted to levy a tax of 5 left New York City on July 31. Sev­
that the court had profited by the mills on this year's roll. That will eral business men of Middletown
experience of the other county Judges raise approximately $100,000, or suf­ agreed to rebuild Mrs. Chester's burn­
who were censured by the people for ficient to pay for the property recent­ ed home at an expense of $4000, pro­
going to the expense of having cruises ly purchased as a site for a public viding she made the trip in 66 days.
made. "The timber has been cruised dock, to make up the amount sub­ It was accomplished in 63 days of
several times.” he continued, "and It scribed for assisting In Improving tbe actual walking time. The children ac­
is not necessary to do the work at month of tbe river and pay the com- companying Mrs.Chester were one girl
and two boys, aged respectively 16, 14
this time. James Culver, ex-sheriff,
current expenses during the
cruised tbe timber several times, and ensuing year. The question of chang­ and 12 years.
J. A. W. Heldecke. a cruiser of De­ ing the pier head line so as to permit
$200,000 Is Bid for Horse.
troit. Or., did the work a few years tbe North Bank company to build Its
New
York.—August Belmont, chair
ago.
proposed new steamship dock was tak­ man of the Jockey club, has refused
en
up.
an offer of $200,000 for Tracery, the
Rain at Roseburg Heavy.
4-year-old son of Rock Sand-Topiary.
Roseburg.—Douglas county experi­
Oregon Receives $55,000
Tracery has been racing with much
enced Its heaviest rainfall for the sea­
Salem.—Governor West has receiv­ success for two seasons In England.
son 8unday. when a trifle over 90-100
of an Inch of rain fell In 10 hours. ed a check for $55,000 from Secretary The offer came by cable from W. Al­
With most of the prune crop safe in of the Treasury McAdoo, which is 25 lison, the well-known newspaperman
the dryers, the rain is considered ben­ per cent of the income from federal and breeder abroad, who. It Is thought
here, acted In the capacity of an agent.
forest reserves up to June 30, 1913.
eficial rather than detrimental.
T IF F H ll IS LAW
Cliief Executive Sips Measure With
Two Gold Pens.
Wilson Sayn Rest o f Problem Is
Chiefly Financial—Bill Be­
comes Law at Once.
Washington, D. C.—Surrounded by
the leaders of a united Democracy,
President Wilson signed the Under
wood-Simmons tariff bill at 9:09
o'clock Friday night at the white
house. Simultaneously telegrams were
sent to customs collectors throughout
the country by the treasury depart­
ment, putting into actual operation
the first Democratic tariff revision
since 1894.
A happy group of legislators, mem­
bers of the cabinet and friends en­
circled the president as he signed the
bill, using two gold pens. He present­
ed to Representative Underwood the
pen that had written the word “ Wood-
row,” and the one which had complet­
ed his name to Senator Simmons.
Amid impressive silence the presi­
dent delivered in easy, natural tones
an
extemporaneous
speech
that
brought prolonged applause.
He said that the Journey of legisla­
tive accomplishment had only been
partly completed; that a great service
had been done for the rank and file
of the country, but that the second
step in the emancipation of business
was currency reform. He earnestly
called upon his colleagues to go “ the
rest of the Journey” with fresh im­
pulse.
“Gentlemen, I feel peculiarly pleas­
ed," the president began, "in what
I have Just done by taking part in
the completion of a great piece of
business. It is a pleasure which is
very hard to express in words which
are adequate to express the feeling,
because the feeling that I have is that
we have done the rank and file of
the people of this country a great
service.
“ It is hard to speak of these things
without seeming to go off into cam­
paign eloquence, but that is not my
feeling. It is r feeling of profound
gratitude that, ’ -king with the splen­
did men who have carried this thing
through with studious attention and
doing justice all around, I should have
had a part in serving the people of
this country as we have been striving
to serve them ever since I can remem­
ber.
“ I have wished to see the accom­
plishment of something like this ever
since I was a boy, and I know men
standing around me who can say the
same thing—who have been waiting
to see the things done which it was
necessary to do in order that there
might be Justice in the United States.
“And so it is a solemn moment that
brings business to a conclusion and I
hope will not be thought demanding
too much of myself or colleagues
when I say that this, great as it is, Is
the accomplishment of only half the
journey. We have set the business of
this country free from those condi­
tions which have made monopoly not
only possible, but in a sense easy and
natural. But there is no use taking
away the conditions of monopoly If
we do not take away also the power
to create monopoly, and that in a fi­
nancial, rather than a merely com­
mercial and economic power.”
STE A M E R SPOKANE H IT 8 ROCK8
Passengers All 8aved When ‘3. O. 8.’
Is Answered By Oother Vessels.
Seattle, Wash.—Captain E. L. Mc-
Noble, superintendent of the Pacific
Coast Steamship company, received a
message late Friday night from Cap-
steamer Spokane, saying that all pas­
sengers were saved. They were trans­
ferred, says the message, from the
Spokane to the steamer La Touche
and will be brought directly to Seattle.
Portland, Or.—Wireless distress
calls, caught at stations in Portland
and at Corvallis Friday night at 10
o’clock, told of tbe rapid sinking of
the steamship Spokane, 16 miles north
of Cape Lazo, on the Inside passage,
about 100 miles north of Victoria, B.
C., and off Vancouver Island.
The steamer La Touche, of the
Alaska Steamship company, was one
of the first vessels to answer and at
10:30 was standing by and at 10:45
began taking off passengers from the
ill-fated Spokane.
“ Taking water fast, send all assist­
ance possible,” was one of the flashes
received almost immediately after the
first distress call, which read:
"Steamer Spokane, 15 miles north
Cape Lazo, wants assistance.” The
commander signed.
The steamer Dolphin and the steam­
er Minnesota also answered.
Mine Deaths Increase.
Washington, D. C.— Fatalities in
the coal mines of the United States
during the first seven months of tbe
year numbered 1437, as compared with
1419 In the like period last year, ac­
cording to reports to the bureau of
mines here. Pennsylvania leads the
list with 763 deaths, an increase of
193 over last year. Of these 380 were
in the anthracite and 383 in the bitum­
inous fields. West Virginia, with 181
deaths, shows a decrease of 72 over
the fatalities in the first seven months
of 1912. Then In order follow Ohio 99.
Illinois 97, Alabama 55, Colorado 47,
Indiana 32 and Tennessee 25.
326-Year-Old Oak Felled.
Monmonth, Or.—In the year 1587,
when Europeans were planting col­
onies In America, one of the oldest
and largest white oak trees in Polk
county began to grow. The massive
oak, which has been cut down on the
Whlteaker farm, two miles north of
this city, was 326 years old, as estim­
ated by counts of the rings. Its cir­
cumference was 19 feet, and the diam­
eter about six feet. A short distance
away stands another giant oak. Its
circumference is 26 feet