Independence enterprise., January 12, 1912, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
EIGHT PAGM-
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
PAGE TWO
Perfection of IDetail
General Resume of Important Events
Presented in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Carnegie has agreed to appear as
witness in the Steel trust probe.
James Rolph, Jr., the reform mayor
elect of San Francisco, has taken his
office.
Russia demands that China recog
nize the independence of outer Mon
golia.
Sheriff Harbinger, of New York, has
appointed three more women deputy
sheriffs.
Richard T. Crane, an Eastern mil
lionaire who severely criticized the
big universities, is dead.
Young Chinese of Portland held
big meeting in celebration of the birth
of the new Chinese republic.
The senate passed a bill favoring an
appropriation of $1,000,000, for a new
postomce building in Fortlarid, Or.
A sympathetic strike involving
300.000 railroad shopmen of the Har
riman lines may be called within
week.
A new drug has been discovered
which can be injected hypodermically
and takes effect instantly, which will
take the place of cocaine and similar
drugs in surgical operations.
John McNamara, known to the po
lice as "Australian Mack," has been
arrested at Los Angeles charged with
the looting of the Bank of Montreal at
New Westminster, B. C, last Septem
ber.
A man on board the steamer City of
Topeka. bound for San Francisco,
went violently insane and emptied his
revolver twice at the captain and
members of the crew. He was finally
blinded by the searchlight being
thrown full in bis face and then over
powered by the help of a stream of
water from the ship's pumps.
California representatives have
asked congress for $50,000 to aid in
fighting the Mediterranean fruit fly.
New York county, New York, will
not have any women deputy sheriffs,
as it has been found that "every dep
uty sheriff must be a voter.
An agent of the Royal Mail steam
ship company is in Portland arranging
for the establishment of a direct line
of steamers to Europe via the Panama
canal.
The Northern Pacific plans to spend
$4,000,000 on improvements in the
Inland Empire this year.
The president of the Outlook Pub
lishing company, for whose magazine
Roosevelt is one of the principal
writers, says Roosevelt will not be
presidential candidate this year.
A Boise, Idaho, man, believing him
self dying, gave a check for $3,000 to
a neighbor woman who had befriended
him. Next morning he found himself
feeling better than usual, and tried to
stop payment on the check.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices : Bluestem,
83(&84c; club, 81c; red Russian, 80c;
valley, 81ffi82c; forty-fold, 82c.
Millstuffs Bran, $23 per ton;
shorts, $25; middlings, $30; rolled
barley, $3738.
Oats No. 1 white, $30.50 per ton.
Hay No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim
othy, $1718; No. 1 valley, $1516;
alfalfa, $1314; clover, $12; grain,
$14.
Barley Feed, $3637 per ton.
Corn New, whole, $33; cracked,
$34; old, whole, $36; cracked, $34;
old, whole, $36 ; cracked, $37.
Potatoes Buying prices: Bur
banks, 90c$1.15 per hundred.
Onions Association price, $1.50
per sack.
Vegetables Artichokes, 90c per
dozen; cabbage, ljc per pound; gar
lic, 810c; lettuce, $2.502.75 per
crate; pumpkins, lljc per pound;
sprouts, 78c; squash, llc; tur
nips, $1.25 per sack; rutabagas,
$1.25; carrots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.25;
beets, $1.50.
Butter Oregon creamery butter,
solid pack, 38c; prints, extra; butter
fat, lc less than solid pack prices.
foultry Hens, I5lbc; springs,
15 Jc; ducks, young, 20c; geese, 13
14c; turkeys live, 17c; dressed,
choice, 2021c.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled,
37c per dozen ; case count, 35c.
Pork Fancy, 9c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 13J14c per pound.
Hops 1911 crop, 4244c; olds,
nominal, 1912 contracts, 25c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 916c per
pound; valley, 1617c; mohair,
choice, 3537c.
Cattle Choice steers, $66.15;
good, $5.756; choice cows, $5.15
5.25; good, $4.505; choice spayed
heifers, $5.355.50; good to choice
heifers, $55.26; choice bulls, $4.25
4.50; good, $44.25; choice calves,
$7.508; good, $6.757.
Hogs Choice light hogs, $6.75
6.95; good to choice hogs, $6.40
6.60; smooth heavy hogs, $5.756.
Sheep Choice yearling wethers,
$4.504.75; choice killing ewes,
$3.854; choice lambs, $55.85;
good to choice lambs, $4.504.75;
culls, $34.75.
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ADMIRAL ROBLEY D. EVANS.
DEATH CLAIMS
ADMIRAL EVANS
Indigestion Suddenly Lays Low
Famous Fighter.
Feeling Fine in Morning,
Lunch at Noon, and
4:45 O'clock P.
Has Hearty
Dies at
M.
Washington, Jan. 3. Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans "Fighting Bob" to
an admiring nation died suddenly to
day at his home in this city. Acute
ndigestion ended the career of one of
the most popular officers of the navy.
He was ill less than three hours.
Admiral Evans arose today appar
ently in better health and spirits than
he had enjoyed in some time. Far
years a sufferer from old wounds sus'
tained in the Civil war and from re
current attacks of rheumatic gout, the
aged fighter seemed to have shaken off
the burden of his advancing days. He
displayed high spirits at breakfast,
and ate a hearty luncheon at noon.
When in his library at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon the admiral was strick-
His family sent instantly for Dr,
S. S. Adams, who on arrival found him
in great pain. After treatment, Ad
miral Evans fell into a restless sleep,
and it was thought the danger had
passed. Shortly after 4 o'clock, how-
ver, he awakened and, raising him
self, with difficulty, announced that he
was choking.
'I cannot get my breath, he said,
and sank back. At 4 :45 o'clock he
died, conscious to the end.
At his bedside were his wife, his
daughter, Mrs. H. I. Sewall, and his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. F. T. Evans,
wife of the admiral's only son, a lieu
tenant commander in the navy and
now on duty on the torpedo boat des
troyer Monahan at Boston. The only
other member of his immediate fam-
ly who was not present was his
daughter, Mrs. Marsh, wife of Cap
tain Charles C. Marsh, commanding
the armored cruiser North Carolina.
The news spread with great rapid-
ty and caused a profound shock in
official circles. President Taft was
one of the first to express his grief
and condolence.
"Admiral Evans was one of the
most successful squadron commanders
we have had in the navy for a long
time," said the president. "He was
rigid disciplinarian of quick decision
and admirably advised in the intri
cacies of machinery on cruisers and
battleships and skilled in drilling
them. I am very sorry to hear of his
death."
One of the iron links that bound the
old navy to the new, a commanding
figure in each, was Robley D. Evans.
He did not take kindly to the sobrie-
quetof "Fighting Bob," for, although
of gruff exterior, he was a man of the
kindliest impulses. Thus it never was
used in his presence by his friends.
BATTLE DANGER REDUCED,
Navy
of
Arranges to Strip Ships
Wood When in Action.
Washington, D. C. Every year the
battle practice in the American navy
more closely approximates the condi
tions of actual warfare.
In the spring practice of the Atlan
tic fleet this year the idea of rid
ding a ship as far as possible of com
bustible material and woodwork that
might cause splinters in action is to
be carried out. The plans contem
plate the removal of all wooden boats,
the bunks and the wooden furniture.
Not even the mess tables will be left
and the bluejackets will have to eat
their meals squatting, tailor-fashion,
on deck.
More damage and loss of life have
resulted on shipboard in time of war
from suffocating fires and flying splin
ters than from shot and shell wounds,
therefore it has been decided to de
termine just how much woodwork can
be dispensed with when a craft clears
for action.
The spring practice of the fleet in
the West Indian waters with Guan
tanomo as the base, will occupy ten
days more than two months, begin
ning January 10. After that is com
pleted the big ships will come north to
the Southern drill grounds off the
Chesapeake capes, for the regular bat
tle practice.
NEW PLOT IS FEARED.
Ship
Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Ammunition to Mexico.
New Orleans Evidence indicating
a more widespread revolutionary plot
against Mexico than heretofore has
been attribted to the opponents of the
Madero administration has come to
light in the shipment of eight carloads
of ammunition and explosives from
points in Pennsylvania and New Jer
sey within the last 50 days.
The fact that these shipments were
detoured at points north of New Or
leans is said to have been established,
leading to the supposition that the
real destination was one of the Gulf
ports between this city and Mobile,
from which in the past many filibus
tering expeditions have cleared.
In addition to these eight carloads,
agents of the Mexican government
assert, one of the firm in New Orleans
has shipped 150 rifles a week for the
past five weeks to points in Texas,
near the Mexican border.
Shop is Looted Openly.
Newark, O. In full view of pass
ing crowds and in one of the principal
business streets of this city, three
burglars Wednesday evening looted a
jewelry store of diamonds and other
valuables valued at more than $10,
000. A woman and a little girl who stood
watching the men as they removed the'
jewels from the windows and placed
them in sacks, thought the burglars
were employes of the store, but later
decided to report the matter to the
police.
Ulster Planning Revolt.
Belfast The Unionist council of
Ulster has issued a manifesto declar
ing that a provisional government will
be constituted in Ulster immediately
after a home rule measure has been
passed by the British parliament. The
most extreme measures will be resort
ed to for the defense of Ulster by the
Loyalists, says the document. This
manifesto is reported to be the ex
pression of the unalterable decision of
the anti-home rule forces.
English is Coming Tongue.
San Francisco Leaders of the revo
lutionary movement in this country
are discussing plans for the unifica
tion of the Chinese peolpes through
the medium of a common language.
It is the intention of the leaders of
this movement to make English the
language of general use in China, but
before this hope can be realized there
is much of educational work to be
done in converting the more than 100
different dialects into an understand
able language for the whole people
of China.
Aid Postal Employes.
Washington, D. C. The enactment
of a law to compensate all postal em
ployes, including letter carriers, for
injuries sustained in the line of duty
but not attributable to their own neg
ligence, is urged in the annual report
of C. P. Grandfield, first assistant
postmaster-general. There were in
operation June 30, 509,237 postoflices
of all classes in the United States.
The delivery service is now in opera
tion on 42,000 rural routes.
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