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CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
A daughter was born to Queen Vic
toria, of Spain.
Taft approved the commission's re
port opposing Federal regulation of
railway securities.
British railroad directors have
granted full recognition of the Rail
road Workmen's union.
The constitutionality of the Idaho
state printing law has been upheld by
the state Supreme court.
James J. Jeffries, ex-pugilist, will
make his wife a Christmas present of
a $50,000 insurance policy on his life.
Bert H. Franklin, employed by the
defense in the McNamara trial, has
been indicted for attempted jury brib
ing. A convict in the penitentiary at Sa
lem, Or., pried his way through three
successive sets of barred windows and
escaped.
Fire destroyed a portion of the
buildings of Luna Park, at Coney Is
land, New York, causing a loss of
$150,000.
Work will begin immediately on a
$3,000,000 irrigation project for the
Silver Lake country, Oregon, to water
100,000 acres
Three miners were rescued alive
. from the Cross mountain mine, near
Knoxville, Tenn., after being impris
oned three days.
JJ Fire' destroyed the plant of the
West Oregon lumber company at Linn
ton, near Portland, causing a loss of
$150,000, about half of which was
covered by insurance. The mill will
be rebuilt at once.
Four well-defined cases of smallpox
were discovered at Marion, ten miles
south of Salem, Or. They were being
treated by an unlicensed physician,
and the entire population of the vil
lage, about 50, have been exposed.
Th champion fat steer at the Chi
cago Live Stock show sold to a depart
ment store for 90 cents a pound.
A rancher at Pacific City, Wash.,
stumbled and fell while carrying a
charge of dynamite and was blown to
atoms.
A New York girl only 19 years old
spent $21,406 in high living in 18
months, and her guardian wants to
throw up his job.
It has been decided that holders of
fractional shares in the subsidiary
companies of the Standard Oil com
pany, will have no votes.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
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KINO GEORGE IS EMPEROR.
Made Ruler of India In Georgeou
Pageant at Delhi.
'.-Delhi. India. Before thousands of
their .eulijts, , .white, brown aud
black,';. ,K!n; jWrse. V and Quoon
Mary were proclaimed Emperor and
Empress- of India. The ceremonial
was the crowning glory of the Dur
bar and. It la asserted, surpassed all
spectacles of modern times.
In two amphitheaters erected on
the beautiful plain of Delhi the cere
monies by which cltisens of British
India hailed their rulers were en
acted in oue before high , white and
Indian officials, Prince and promt
nent uersous and in. the larger one
before a' multitude ot the people,.
A holiday had been declared
throughout the hind and thousands
upon thousands had flocked to
city to witness the coronation.
The day was perfect for the nuig-
niflcant ,, pageantry and not an un
toward incident marred India's great
est fete. Royal robes and gems
splashed and glittered in the sunlight
as the nobility and soldiery of the
royal procession made their way from
the Durbar camp to the great tempo
rary auditoriums, where the actual
acclamation of the Emperor and his
consort took place.
Following the ceremonies the Kins
Emperor made it konwn that he
would give a large sum of money for
popular education, with other gilts
to follow. The Viceroy announced
that His Majesty was so charmed
with Delhi that he had determined
to move the Indian capital here from
Calcutta. Calcutta has been the cup
ital of India since 1773. It is esti
mated that the removal of the capital
will cost $25,000,COO.
The native Princes ana army are
pleased at the revival of the ancient
glories of Delhi. It is feared, how
ever, that It will be resented in Cal
eutta and by the Mohammedans in
Eastern Bengal.
The government has acquired the
Durbar territory on easy terms and
it is proposed to utilize the site tor
a new city, which will take two or
three years to build.
"POWDER TRUST" TO FIGHT.
Constitutionality of Washington's Law
to Be Carried Up.
Olympla, Wash. It was announced
at a conference before the Industrial
Insurance Commission that the Du
pont Powder Company, the so-called
"Powder Trust," would fight the new
Washington liability law. The Du
pont Company was represented by
J. P. Laley. chief counsel for the
company, who came out from Wil
mington, Del., to appear.
The Dupont Company will test the
constitutionality of the law before the
United States Supreme Court upon
the ground that It confiscates prop
erty without due process of law. The
Imperial Powder Company of Che
halis is now contesting in the Su
perior Court of Thurston County the
right of the Commission to allow
certain claims !n connection with
the death of eight girls in its plant
on November 1, when the establish
ment was partially destroyed by fire.
TURKISH ATTACK REPULSED.
Wheat Track prices : Bluestem,
82c; club, 79c; red Russian, 78c; val
ley, 80c; forty-fold, 80c.
Corn Whole, $37; cracked, $38
ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $23 per ton; mid
dlings, $30; shorts, $24; rolled bar
ley, $3738.
Oats So. 1 white, $31 per ton.
Hay No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim
othy, $18(18.50; No. 1 valley, $15
16; alfalfa, $1314; clover, $ll(g,12;
grain hay, 1213.
Barley Feed, 3637 ton.
Fresh Fruits Pears, B0c$1.50 per !
box; grapes, $1.2o1.50 per box;
cranberries, $11.5012 per. barrel;
casabas, $1.50 per crate.
Apples Jonathans, $1.50(2.25 per
box; Spitzenbergs, $1.2.50; Bald
win, 75c($1.50; Red Cheek Pippin.
$1.251.75; Northern Spy, $1.25(5
1.75; Winter Banana, $23; Bell
flower, $1.10(?1.50.
Potatoes Buying price: Burbanks,
9ucttg$1.20 per hundred.
Onions Jobbing price: $1.50 sack.
Vegetables Artichokes, 90c per
dozen; cabbage, lfijljc per pound;
celery, 75c'$l per dozen; cucumbers,
$1.251.75; garlic, 810cper pound;
lettuce, $2.50 per crate; peppers, 8
10c per pound; pumpkins, l(Sjlic;
squash, liftglje carrots, $1 per sack;
beets, $1; turnips, $1; parsnips, $1.
Hops 1911 crop, 4345c; olds,
nominal.
Woo) Eastern Oregon, 916cper
pound; valley, 1517c; mohair,
choice, 35(gi37c.
Butter Oregon creamery, solid
pack, 36c; prints, extra; butter fat,
lc less than solid pack.
Poultry Hens, 14 144c; springs,
1314c; ducks, young, 16l7c;
geese, 13(fi;14c; turkeys, live, 20c;
dressed, choice, 23c.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled,
42c.
Pork Fancy, 8fa9c per pound.
Veal Fancy. 13(o)13ic per pound.
Cattle Choice steers, $5.40(tZ5.75;
good. $5.25&5.40: choice cows, $4.60
(cg4.75; good, $4.25(a4.50; choice
spayed heifers, $4.75(?i5; good to
choice heifers, $4.50z;4.60 ; choice
bulls, $4.254.50; good, $44.25;
choice calves, $77.50; good, $6(?g
6.50.
Hogs Choice light hogs, $6.80
7.10; good to choice hogs, 6.506.70
fair, $6(S6.25; smooth heavy hogs,
$5.25(cr5.50.
Sheep Choice yearling wethers,
$4(9)4.25; choice twos and threes,
$3.8Rftft4: choice killinir ewps. t:? 2'r
3.60; c'-'oict Jh ntis. $4. ?.V I. ' 0 : giuui
to '.choice, $4'(. 4. .': : cul:s, a. 75.
Attempt to
at
Benghazi.
was made
Penetrate Italian Lines
Benghazi Fails.
Tripoli. Another attack
by Turkish troops. They
attempted to break through the ad
vance lines of the Italians, but were
unsuccessful, retreating with a loss
of 63 dead. The Italian authorities
say that the Italians lost three dead
and 12 wounded.
Marseilles, France. The British
steamer Baron Polwarth, which sailed
from Manila on November 8 for this
port, reported that she had been
fired upon by an Italian cruiser while
passing through the Red Sea on
November 30. Her bows were badly
damaged when she came into port.
The captain says the commander of
the Italian cruiser apologized for the
occurrence.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
V INDIAN LAND OPEN.
Rich
Klamath Reservation , Offers
Opportunity. '
Klamath Falls Agitation to have
the Klamath Indian reservation form
ally opened has led Superintendent
Watson to say that the reservation
virtually open now and that no form
al action needs to be taken. The con
ditions are somewhat different from
those on other reservations whic
have been opened in . that nearly all
agricultural lands have been allotted
to the Indians, and the only acreage
remaining unallotted is in timber,
This does not mean that there is no
opportunity for white men to acquire
homes and property on the reserva
tion, says Watson, who asserts that it
offers the greatest opportunities
to the homeseeker of any reservation
ever opened in the United States
There is no such thing as free land
now, he says, and for that .matter
never was, as in land openings only
about 20 per cent of the applicants
ever received anything and it usually
cost them as much as it was worth
before their settlement was completed.
According to an estimate made last
year, there were 5,500,000,000 feet o
standing timber 00 the reservation
and fully one-half of this is Bubject to
application for purchase. Naturally
most of this will be bought by lum
bering concerns and manufactured
It is asserted that this development
will mean a big thing for the reserva
tion and the northern part of Klamath
county.
At this time there are thousands of
acres of the best agricultural lands on
the reservation for sale, says Watson.
The best lands can be bought at very
low figures. He says that a third of
the farm lands around Modoc Point,
and from a third to one-half of the
sagebrush and meadow lands along
Sprague River, belong to the estates
of dead Indians. These lands were
among the first to be selected and al
lotted and naturally were the choice
pieces. Application can be made at
any time for their sale, and after ap
praisal bids are advertised for, and
the lands usually sold to the highest
bidder.
SLEEK GOATS TO PRANCE.
Miners Scrawl Messages.
Briceville, Tenn. Messages scrawl
ed on the alls of compartments of
the Cross Mountain mine, where Sat
urday an explosion entombed more
than 100 men, encouraged
to renewed efforts in the hope of i rich loam soil of the bottom lands.
finding more men alive. The riles-1 m. Haines, out of curiositv. nlanted
Northwest Angora Association to
Hold Show at Dallas.
Dallas The Northwest Angora Goat
association, in conjunction with the
Polk County Poultry association, will
hold their annual shows here from Jan
uary 3 to 5, inclusive.
Cash prizes and premiums have been
offered by the promoters of the goat
show, and many exhibitors have en
tered or have signified their intentfon
of displaying their choice animals.
The committee supervising the goat
show is made up of 0. S. Grant, A. L.
McDonald, H. L. Fenton, J. C. Guth
rie, G. W. McBee and W. A. Ayres.
In a letter issued by the committee
exhibitors are asked to communicate
with W. A. Ayres, Dallas, Or. Spe
cial prizes have been offered to com
petitors owning bucks ranging in age
from 9 months up, and does with the
same age range.
Firms offering special prizes include
William Brown & Co., Salem; North
west Angora Goat association; Amer
ican Angora Goat Breeders' associa
tion; Multnomah Mohair Mills, Port
land; Angora Goat Breeders' Journal,
Portand; William Riddle & Sons,
Monmouth; Angora Rug company,
Salem, and the Oregon Agricultural
ist. Portland.
The Angora Goat Breeders' Journal
also will give a year's subscription of
the Journal to every exhibitor at the
show and to every purchaser of an An
gora buck.
Space will be given at the show for
the exhibition of sheep.
Hill'boro Man Paises Peanuts
Hillsboro F. A. Haines, of Hills-
boro, has demonstrated that peanuts
I may be grown tor commercial pur-
rescuers 1 poses in the Willamette valley in the
sages evidently were written by a
party of men. When driven out of
one place by gas, they would write
Indicating where the were going. Af
ter the trail was followed through
several entries It was lost and hope
of finding more men alive again was
abandoned.
Warm Wave Starts Sap.
New York. Wednesday was the
hottest December 12 on record and
only twice in the annals of the
Weather Bureau has the record even
been approached. At 2 'o'clock in the
afternoon the thermometer was just
a shade under 60. On the same day
in 3873 and 1899 the mercury
touched 59. The hot wave is gen
eral throughout the East. Up in
the Berkshires the maple sap is run
ning like it does in Spring, and the
pussy willows are budding.
Warship's Men Scalded.
Portsmouth, England. Commander
Herbert N. Garnett, of the Naval Ord
nance Department, four engineer offi
cers and 15 of the crew of the dread
nought battleship Orion were badly
burned or scalded on their' faces and
hands as the result of the explosion
of an oil tank. The Orion is lying In
one of the basins at the dockyards,
where she Is being completed for
commission. She is fitted for the
consumption of both oil and coal.
Whitney Wins Election. ,
Toronto, Ont Sir James Whitney's
government was again returned to
power at t.be provincial election bc1
throughout Ontario Wednesdv ""v
Liberals mada a nst gain of (s-vr
seats
curiosity
some peanuts a year ago. The other
day while digging in the garden he
found the peanuts in the ground, fully
matured and of good quality.
It is generally believed that a sandy
poil is required to raise peanuts, but it
has been proved by several experi
ments conducted by horticultural ex
perts that the black loam soil of the
Willamette valley river and bottom
land will grow the peanut with sur
prising success.
Nehnlem Harbor Improved
Nehalem With less than $50,000
spent on the improvement of the Ne
halem river bar, positive results have
already been obtained, with the full
assurance that a continuance of the
work will accomplish what was de
sired. Those cornmerciiJly interested
in the vicinity of Ncbalj.n suWiibed
the $50,000 to have the tortuous and
uncertain channel straightened and
deepened by the building of a jetty.
This undertaking was not looked upon
favorably by shipping men, who con
sidered it a waste of money.
For Better Rural Schools
Corvallis The State Bankers' as
sociation has named a committee of
six men who will have charge of the
movement for improving rural condi
tions, especially in the matter of edu
cational facilities, so as to stern the
tide of country boys an I girls going
into the cities, and keep them on the
home . fr-n, 'nr te:r own future
profit as w II k f.u- 1 he beat inteiests
of the stat; and nation.
VISITING CHICKS WIN.
Many Surprise Among Poultry Show
Blue Ribbonera
Portland Judges and officials agree
in declaring the poultry show of the
Oregon Poultry and Pet Stock asso
ciation, , in the Multnomah hotel at
Third and Pine streets, to be the best
In quantity and quality that has been
held in the Northwest this seson. '
' l have judged more than a doien
shows in British Columbia, Washing
ton, Idaho and Oregon before coming
to this show," said W. M. Coats, of
Vancouver, B. C, who with Elmer
Dixon, of Oregon City, is scoring the
fowls entered, "and I can safely gay
that this Is the largest show In which
I have officiated this year. There are
more fowls entered and thoy are of
8s high class in every respect as any
of the fowls I have judged at previous
shows. The number of disqualiflca
tions we have made so far is not only
much less than it was last year, but is
far less than I expected to be obliged
to make, although I was prepared to
find an improvement in the stock over
last season."
R. J. Renney, of Vancouver, Wash
carried oil the highest honors in ex
hibits in the White Leghorn class.
Mr. Renney's entries won four blue
ribbons. Close at his heels in prize-
winning were Miller Brothers, of Ta-
coma, and W. B. Brown, of Portland,
each with three blue ribbons displayed
on the coops of their fowls.
Mr. Renney's showing was remark
able in many respects. In the single-
comb White Leghorn class, with only
three fowls entered, he won two
prizes; first n cockerel and fifth on
pullet. In the rose-comb class of the
White Leghorns, he won first prize on
cock, cockerel and pullet.
The finest fowl in his coops was the
winner of the first prize for cockerels,
which carried otr the blue ribbon over
50 contestants, all of which scored
high. In every point this bird appears
pre-eminent, and there was a crowd of
admirers about its coop all day. Many
predictions were made that if it
should appear next year, after it has
grown out of the cockerel class, it
could give "Old Ben," the winner of
the prize for White Leghorn ' cocks,
the run of his life in the scoring.
"Old Ben" was another celebrity
that came in for a big share of the
attention. The rooster received the
homage of its admirers with the royal
indifference of "one that has for two
seasons carried off the blue ribbons
against all comers. "Old Ben" is the
property of W. B. Brown, of this
city. Last year "Old Ben was toted
to the show ignominiously in a gunny-
sack, and electrified the judges and
poultry fanciers by beating out the
entire field, in which there were more
than 50 high-bred competitors. Com
petition was keen this year also, but
'Ben succeeded in keeping up the
pace he had established when a cock
erel, and accepted the blue ribbon as
his just due.
EXPERIMENTS TO FATTEN PIGS
Value of Shorts and Middling to
Supplant Wheat.
Corvallis Experiments to test the
value of shorts and middlings as a
supplement to ground wheat in the
fattening of pigs are being conducted
by the animal husbandry department
at the Oregon Agricultural college
under the direction of Prof. E. L.
Potter. In the wheat growing dis
tricts of Eastern Oregon, where the
ranchers are beginning to be greatly
interested in hog taising, shorts and
middlings are the most available feeds
for use as a supplement to the wheat,
and thus the experiments will be of a
special benefit to that district.
Previous tests have proven on the
college experiment farm that wheat
alone is not the best feed for fatten-,
ing, and if some good supplement
available to the Eastern Oregon farm
ers can be found, it will do much to
encourage swine breeding in that part
of the state.
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Tho all absorbing question at thin muiHon of tho year in
What Am I Going to Give
My Friends for
CHRISTMAS
WE HAVE PROVIDED AN UNU8UALLV I LARCE 'ASSORT
MENT OF
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Holiday Novelties
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WHICH ARE NOW ON DISPLAY, ALL MARKED IN PLAIN
FIGURES. REMEMBER THAT OUR CASH STORE" PRICES
WHICH "CREDIT 8TORE8" CANNOT MATCH, APPLY TO
HOLIDAY GOODS AS WELL AS TO ALL REGULAR LINES. ' I
Dolls, Games and ; Picture Books
For tho Cljildrcn
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Dressing Cases, Manicure Sets, Mil
itary Sets, CufF and Collar Boxes
and AN ENDLESS VARIETY OF NOVELTIES 8UITABLE FOR
CHRISTMAS PRE8ENT8 for OLDER PEOPLE.
You'll contribute Just much to the Good Cheer that pre
vails during the Holidays If you give your friends
PRACTICAL PRESENTS
Articles of every day use tha they need. DRE8S GOODS, CLOTH
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Guns, Ammunition and Fishing Tackle
Bicycles and Repairing
Pocket Cutlery and Razors Sun Typewriter, $10
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Horse Shoeing General Repairing
We do all kinds of Wagon and Carriage Work and keep in
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Of
Experts Growth of Mineral Wealtn
Corvallis Prof. H. M. Parks, head
the school of mines at the Oregon
Agricultural college, predicts a gene'
ral advance in the mineral output of
the state and the development of min-
ng into one of Oregon's leading in
dustries. The vast mineral wealth,
not including gold, silver, and coal,
such as raw materials for soda, ce
ment and many other natural elements
abounding in this region, awaits cap
ital and men to fit it for the needs of
industry. Gold, silvir, coal, granite,
sandstone, limestone, clay for brick,
tile, and pottery, mineral water, cop
per, sand and gravel, and lime and
gypsum are included in the list of val
uable mineral products of the state.
Survey Partly Finished.
Eugene The last gap in the first
' 23-mile section of the right of way
for the Eugene-Coos Bay extension
was closed this week when the Lane
County company transferred its inter
est in the 30 acres of land at Powell
Pass six miles west of Eugene, to the
Southern Pacific. Condemnation pro
ceedings were already under way
against this property, but a settlement
could not have been reached before the
March term of cw Th't" )a"d ii
high and will rl'-sor.H. h-H pra.inj'
will probably bein tlx re at once.
ITS BEST re
CONSIDER QUALITY FIRST AND THEN QUANTITY. WHBN
YOU ARE BUYING FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. THAT HAS
ALWAYS BEN OUR MOTO, AND THAT IS WHY WE ALWAYS
8HOW THE BEST MEATS IN THE MARKET8. IF YOU HAVE
GOOD FAT CATTLE OR HOGS WE WANT THEM AT THE
HIGHEST MARKET PRICES.
Both Phones.
WILL H. BLOCH,
INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
Cfte l::t"cp'Btee Decry Darn
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By Day, Week or Month.
Horses Boarded
Best of Care and Feed. Prices as low as