Independence enterprise., January 19, 1912, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
EIGHT PAGES
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
60-CENT BUTTER IN SIGHT.
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
' The U. S. Supreme court upholds
the national employers liability law,
Investigation of Bell Telephone
affairs seems likely to disclose a big
monopoly.
An official will be sent to investi
gate charges against Governor Frear,
of Honolulu.
The late Chief Justice Harlan left
an estate of $13,000, of which $7,200
was life insurance.
President Taft is not averse to
Hitchcock's) proposal of government
ownership of telegraph lines.
Chico, Cal., felt a slight earth
quake, which is believed to have been
more severe in the mountains.
Representative Borland, of Mis
souri, would build a national road, 60
feet wide, from New York to San
Francisco and Olympia.
The will of Richard T. Crane, Chi
cago millionaire, provides a fund of
$1,000,000 for the assistance of de
serted wives and children.
The Rock Island railroad has sold
$20,000,000 worth of bonds, the cash
to be used for improvement of termi
nals and the system generally.
San Francisco plans the highest
power wireless telegraph station in
the world, as a permanent memorial
of the Panama-Pacific exposition.
A bomb was thrown at Premier
Yuan Shi Kai, of China, killing two
soldiers and the horses attached to the
carrige, but not injuring the premier.
High water in the Willamette river
has closed the Oregon City pulp and
paper mills, throwing over 1,500 em
ployes out of work for a few days at
least.
Madame Schuman-Heink, world
. renowned singer, is suing her Ameri
can husband for divorce, and her chil
dren by her first marriage are much
elated, believing she will now be able
to use her wealth to complete their
musical training.
Intense cold still envelops the Middle
West, the mercury is falling and no
relief is in sight
The Port of Portland has decided to
publish maps and plats of the entire
Columbia river basin.
Elgin Butter Board Forcing Up
Prices at Chicago,
Chicago Sixty-cent butter! Chi
cagoans faced such a possible record
breaking situation Wednesday, when
the retail price of Elgin creamery
butter the staple of the market
reached 47 cents in many stores the
highest price in the city's history,
dealers declared and promised to go
much higher within the next few days.
The wholesale price, 42 cents a
pound, fixed by the Elgin Butter
board, broke all wholesale records for
21 years, and commission men de
clared that advances in the price which
would place it high above the present
point, seemed inevitable.
This addition to the high cost of
living is blamed by some interested
men to the scarcity of butter, while
other persons ascribe it to an alleged
trust which is already under investiga
tion by Federal authorities, or to a
corner by Easter houses.
The Elgin butter barons raised the
price in one day 4 cents. The advance
was communicated to the Chicago
wholesale market immediatey and had
no sooner been shifted to the retail
trade than it was tried on the con
sumer the only one who cannot shift
the burden.
Chicago retailers are charging an
average of about 45 cents a pound for
fresh butter, and are ready to increase
the price as quickly as the butter
board gives the word.
Retailers are agreed that the price
would not stop short of 50 cents and
one dealer ventured to sav that 60
cents a pound would not hold it
An injunction to restrain members
of the Chicago Butter & Egg board
from continuing to fix the prices of
food will be sought in the Federal
court, as a result of their acquiescing
in the 40-cent a pound quotation is
sued by the Elgin Butter board.
BREWERS WILL
RAISE OWN HOPS
Acquire Many Acres in Oregon
and California.
Planting Now Under
Avert Repetition
Prices of 1911
Way Aim
of High
Crop.
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CHINESE HAIL PREMIER.
John Day valley, Oregon, has more
than two feet of snow, with a temper
ature of 14 degrees below zero.
The National Dressmakers' associ
ation voted to return to the natural
waist line in women's garments.
W. Morgan Shuster, recently re
moved treasurer general of Persia,
has left that country and is en route
to Europe.
Taft and Roosevelt are practically
the only candidates now left in the
race for the Republican presidential
nomination.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
85c; club, 81c; red Russian, 80c;
valley, 82c; forty-fold, 82c.
Millstuffs Bran, $23 per ton;
shorts, $25; middlings, $30; rolled
barley, $3738.
Oats No. 1 white, $30.50 ton.
Hay No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim
othy, $1718; No. 1 valley, $1516;
alfalfa, $1314; clover, $12; grain
hay, $14.
Barley Feed, $3637 ton.
Corn New, whole, $33 per ton;
cracked, $34; old, whole, $36; cracked,
$37.
Cranberries, $10$11.60 per barrel.
Potatoes Buying prices: Bur
banks, 90c(S$1.15 per hundred; sweet
potatoes, $3 per crate.
Vegetables Artichokes, $1.25 per
dozen; cabbage, llc per pound;
cauliflower, $1.902 per crate; cel
ery, $5.25 per crate; garlic, 810c
per pouna; lettuce, ?z.&uz. 75 per
crate; peppers, 10c per pound;
pumpkins, lljc per pound; squash,
lilc; sprouts, 78c; turnips,
$1.25 per sack; rutabagas, $1.25; car
rots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.25; beets,
$1.50.
Onions Association price, $1.75
per sack.
Butter Oregon creamery butter,
solid pack, 38c; prints, extra; butter
fat, lc less than solid pack prices.
Poultry Hens, 12 Jc; springs, 12 Jc;
ducks, young, 18c; geese, llj12c;
turkeys, live, 17ic; dressed, choice,
20(c!j22ic.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled,
35c per dozen.
Pork Fancy, 8J9c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 13$ 14c per pound.
Choice steers, $66.25; good, $5.75
6; choice cows, $55.35; good,
$4.404.(i0; choice spayed heifers,
$5.35(3)5.50; good to choice heifers,
$55.25; choice bulls, $4.25rt4.50;
good, $4.25(5J5; choice calves, $7.50
8; good, $6.757.
Hogs Choice light hogs, $6.807;
good to choice hogs, $6.406.60;
smooth heavy hogs, $5.756.
Sheep Choice yearling wethers,
$4.50(i7!4.85; choice killing ewes,
$3.854.25; choice lambs, $5.50
5.75; good to choice, $4.505; culls,
$3.754. I
Congratulations On Escape Pour In
On Yuan Shi Kai.
Pekin Congratulations from all
quarters, including the legations, have
been pouring in on Premier Yuan Shi
Kai throughout the day.
The attack on the premier apparent
ly has removed doubts in the views of
the Manchus as to his loyalty. Fore
ign legations declare that Yuan's
death would throw North China into a
state of lawlessness, demanding im
mediate intervention by the powers.
ihe belief is general that Yuan is
necessary to the transition from the
old to the new order. Otherwise
change would make a shambles of
Pekin. The bomb thrower, who is a
native of Kwei Chow, it is said, will
be executed immediately.
It is believed the three Republican
cruisers that arrived at Lheioo were
convoying troops from Shanghai,
which are remaining outside for the
present. Three hundred revolution
ists who recently seized Tangchowfu,
in Shantung, were transported to the
landing place by a Japanese steamer.
Orave disorders are reported in
Honan, particularly at Chengchow,
where the French minister is consider
ing the advisability of calling in the
railway employes. There is renewed
unrest at Tientsin and serious dis
orders are prevalent in other places.
Bishop Bassford, of the Methodist
Episcopal mission at Shanghai, and
other prominent American mission
aries, have sent a cablegram to the
administration at Washington express
ing the views that a republic is in
evitable and is practicable.
Harriman Records Safe.
New York Anxiety of the officials
of the Union and Southern Pacific
railways was relieved when a steeple
jack scaled the walls of the burned
Equitable building and found the re
cord books of the two railway compan
ies intact in the vaults on the third
floor, although that part of the build
ing was a mass of wreckage. The
books include the names and addresses
of stockholders, and had they not been
found, a tedious canvass through this
and foreign countries would have been
necessary.
Salem, Or. Large Eastern brew
ers, feeling the necessity of securing
a foothold in Facillc Coast hopyards,
have pooled interests to gain control
of heavy acreage in Oregon and Cali
fornia for their own benefit This an
nouncement was made in a statement
given out here by Theodore Eder,
general superintendent for E. Clemens
Horst company, who is now in this
city. It is planned by the brewers to
plant 1,300 acres of hops this year.
Half a million dollars has been ap
propriated for the purpose and from
200 to 250 acres will be set to hops
in Oregon fields. Appraisals have
been completed.
"Owing to the high price of hops of
the 1911 crop," said Mr. Eder, "about
25 large Eastern brewers, forming the
nucleus of the United States Brewers'
association, approached E. C. Horst,
president of the E. Clemens Horst
company, with the idea of taking over
a considerable number of shares in
their extensive hopgrowing interests
on the Pacific Coast with the special
proviso that the money put up by the
brewers be at once used to plant at
least 1,300 acres of new hops in the
spring of 1912.
"The American appraisal company,
of Mil waukee, was selected to value
the old properties, which consist of
over 2,500 acres of hops located in
practically every hopgrowing district
in Oregon and California.
"All of the $500,000 subscribed by
the brewers is being used to put in
new yards this spring. The acreage
to be planted is about as follows:
"Seven hundred acres at Del Paso,
200 acres at Wheatland, 150 acres at
Tehama, 100 acres at Consumme,
making a total of 1,150 acres in Cali
fornia.
In addition, some 200 to 250 acres
of virgin soil is to be planted in our
Oregon yards, where the Krebs broth
ers and H. D. Landon now have three
large donkey engines and over 200
men at work clearing; land for that
purpose.
"The 1,150 acres to be planted in
California will all be irrigated and
will easily yield a ton an acre this
coming year, because the ground has
been fertilized and two-thirds of it is
being planted with nursery roots.
The 200 or more acres at Independence
should yield fairly well, being all on
virgin soil, leveled for irrigation.
Hop planting is already under way
in California, over 350 acres having
been set out and the entire 1,350 acres
will be planted before March 1, so
that maximum results will be realized
in 1912. The E. Clemens Horst com
pany will harvest over 3,000 bales of
hops in Oregon and California in 1912.
RADICALS FORCE CRISIS.
Swedish Women to Vote.
Stockholm, Sweden Women hence
forth are to take a full and equal share
with men in the political life of Swe
den. The speech from the throne at
the opening of the Riksdag contained
the announcement that a bill was to be
introduced enfranchising women and
making them eligible at elections to
the Riksdag on the same conditions as
men. Every Swede more that 24 years
of age and not under any legal disabil
ity has the right to vote.
Salmon Pack $29,869,000.
Seattle The Pacific Coast salmon
pack for 1911 was valued at $29,869,-
000, according to a statement prepared
by the Puget bound Cannery Packers
association. Twenty-one new salmon
canneries will be constructed and oper
ated in Alaska during the coming sea
son. The silver salmon pack on Puget
sound in 1911 was the largest ever
made of this species.
Fowls Cause Gold Rush.
Minitonas, Manitoba As the result
of the finding of nuggets of gold in
numerous fowls killed upon the Elliott
farm, four miles from here, stores and
shops have been closed here while
their keepers hastened to the place to
stake out claims. More than 50
claims already have been marked out
and scores of persons are hastening to
the spot.
Spanish Government Again Threat
ened With Disruption.
Madrid The Spanish cabinet, of
which Jose Canalejas was premier,
has resigned. The cabinet resigned
as the result of a divergence of views
with King Alfonso as to the advisa
bility of commuting the death sen
tence or one or trie rioters who mur
dered a judge and who wounded sever
al court officers in the town of Cul
era, province of Calencia, last Sep-
tember.
The strike at that time involved
plot to assassinate General Weyler
and the king was compelled to suspend
the constitutional guarantees. The
radicals seized upon the affair as
weapon to attack the government in
the same way that they utilized the
refusal to reprieve Ferrer to bring
about the downfall of the Maur cab
inet.
Textile Mills to Cloe.
Lawrence, Mass. Although there
was no repetition of the violent out
breaks that marked the beginning of
the strike of textile operatives who
object to a decrease in their wages in
cident to the curtailment by two hours
of the working time under the new 54
nour law, mm agents ana owners are
considering the idea of a general shut
down until conditions have become
more nearly normal. Such a shut
down would affect upwards of 25,000
persons. The Everett mills have
closed indefinitely.
Prison Reform Espoused, "
Globe, Arizona As soon as he be
gins his term of office, about February
1, Governor Hunt will join the ranks
of state executives who have been
making unusual adventures into the
realm of prison reform. At a ban
quet given by promoters of the Men's
Forward Movement of the Presbyter
ian church, the governor said he
would appoint as warden of the peni
tentiary a man who would give the
convicts "Christian treatment."
Aeroplane Outflies Wind.
Pau, France Jules Vedrine, the
French aviator, beat the world's speed
record by covering 142 kilometers, 150
meters (about 88 1-3 miles) in" one
hour, in his monoplane at the Aero
drome here.
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