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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. EIGHT PAOE PAGE TWO CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK COFFIN SHIP REACHES DOCK, Told in Brief. 198 Bodiet of Titanic Victims Saved; IIS Buried at Sea. Halifax, N. S. With 196 bodies on board, victims of the great Titanic DoiRgS Cf the World St Large "coffin ship," has returned here from its gruesome trip. ine ixwies or iwo women are included among those re covered. The body of Colonel John Jacob Ai' tor was identified by the jewelry he wore and cards found in his pockets, say members of the Mack ay-Bennett's crew. One hundred and sixteen other bodies were found, but their condition precluded the possibility of bringing them here, and they were buried at sea. As the vessel docked all church bells in the citv tolled and flasrs were low ered to half-mast. A hundred blue jackets with bands of mourning on their sleeves patrolled the harbor, keeping all Bmall craft from the dock. Bluejackets from the cruiser Niobe policed the pier, barring all persons except those bearing passes. As the Mackay-Bennett approached, piles of bodies which littered the deck were plainly visible. Some were wrapped in burlap, others were un covered, with the arms and heads ex posed to full view. Bundles of clothing, wrapped in burlap, occupied other parts of the deck. The uncovered bodies were removed first These were taken Jon stretchers to waiting wagons and hurried to the "Titanic morgue. Amidships of the Mackay-Bennett a huge tarpaulin was lifted, and an enormous group of dead was disclosed. They lay in cramped positions, their features horribly distorted, tneir laces marked by stains of the sea. Horri ble grimaces marked other laces, showing the fear with which they went to their deaths. There was no crowd of curiosity seekers about the dock, the city con tinuing its business quietly, the peo ple passing the dock with faces averted. As the uncovered bodies were re moved, each was placed in a rough pine box and put in a wagon. lne corpses were taken from the ship at the rate of one a minute. Captain Roberta, of Colonel John Jacob Astor's vacht conferred with Captain Lardner, of the Mackay-Ben nett Later Roberts declared that he was satisfied that Astor's body was aboard. He said that possibly the body believed to be Widener'a was that of the millionaire's valet. He pointed out that valets frequently wear their master's clothing without removine the name tags. Widener's body was identified by tags. The head of the body supposed to be that of Widener was crushed, and it is impossible to positively identify it by the features. The bodies of Colonel John Jacob Astor and Isidor Straus were placed in coffins as soon as recovered. The Mackav-Bennett's crew say that none of the bodies found bore bullet marks, but that all were in a horrible condi tion. Many were frozen, discolored and battered, absolutely unrecogniza ble. Those buried at sea were in the worst possible condition. A coffin was pulled from a pile and opened on the deck. Captain Roberts gazed at the body for a moment, then turned awav. saying: "That is Col onel Astor." General Resume of Important Event Presented in Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers, Senatorial inquiry into the Titanic disaster is about ended. Federal suit to dissolve the harves ter trust has been filed at St. Paul, Minn. Secretary Knox is en route to the Pacific coast, via Atlanta and New Orleans. The Mississippi river is again rising and has reached the danger point at St. Louis. American residents in Western Mexico are leaving as rapidly as they can find means of travel. Yuan Shi Eai, in a message to the senate of the new Chinese republic, urges progress and modernization. The sprine cleanup is now on in Alaska, the earliest ever known. Gold shipments will begin in June. The Interstate Commerce commie sion has ruled that "tap lines or "feeders" are not common carriers, The Chicago Daily Socialist has sua pended publication after a five years' fight against the "capitalist system, Senator Works says that under the laws of New York. Christ would be punished for practicing healing there. An explosion in a coal mine in Jap an has entombed 283 miners, and there is small chance that any are alive. Thirty of the rifles shipped to American residents in Mexico City were seized by the Mexican author ities while being distributed, but were later returned, without explanation. Jules Vedrines, France's most fam ous aviator, fell while trying to make a new record flight and suffered a compound fracture of the skull. There is little chance for his recovery. A oarade of work horses will be a feature of the Portland Rose Festival in June. It is shown that Moorish women were ringleaders in the torture and massacre of the French legation at Fez. Six thousand Mexican rebels under General Orozco are fully equipped and ready for battle. Estimates of flood losses in ishes in Northwest Louisiana damage at $11,000,000. C. D. Hillman was recognized from an old photograph in the Rogues Gal lery when he reached the penitentiary at McNeill s island. TOWNS WRECKED; THIRTY KILLED Tornado Tears Through Okla homa and Texas. Farmlna: Districts Suffer Most IB Dead at One Place Wires Down, Damage Immense. 11 par- set the A Portland streetcar conductor had his little finger torn off by catching in the harness of a team which his car was passing in close quarters. PORTLAND MARKETS. REBELS ARE DEFEATED. Wheat Track prices : Bluestem, $1.08; red Russian, $1.01; valley, $1.03; forty-fold, $1.03. Millstuffs Bran, $24 per ton; shorts, $26: middlings, $31. Corn Whole, $39; cracked, $40 per ton. Hay Timothy, $1617 per ton; alfalfa, $12.5013; clover, $8.50; oats and vetch, $10.5Ull; grain hay, $9. Oats No. 1 white, $3940 per ton. Fresh Fruits Strawberries, $23 per crate; cranberries, $1011.B0 per barrel; apples, $1.253 per box. Potatoes Jobbing prices: Bur- banks, old, $1.601.65 per hundred; new California, 5c per pound; sweet potatoes, $3.25 per crate. Unions Bermuda, $33.oU per crate. Vegetables -r Artichokes, 7590c per dozen; asparagus, California, $1.75 per crate; beans, 7e per pound; cabbage, 4c; cauliflower, $2.75 per crate; celery, $&(cgB; cu cumbers, ,'$22.50 per dozen; egg plant, 25c per pound; head lettuce, $2 per crate; hothouse lettuce, 75c$l per box ; peas, 10c per pound ; pep. pers, 25c; radishes, 30c per dozen; rhubarb, 2Je per pound; spinach, $1.15 01.25 per box; tomatoes,, $3.50 per . box; garlic, 810c per pound; tur nips, $11.10 per sack; beets, $1.50; rutabagas, $11.10; carrots, $1. Butter Oregon creamery butter, solid pack, 26c per pound. Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, 21c per dozen; case count, 20Jc. Pork Fancy, 10Jllc per pound. Poultry Hens, 16c per pound; springs, 15Jc; broilers, 2530c; ducks, 20c; geese, 11c; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 25c. Hops 1911 crop, 3939Jc; olds, nominal; 1912 contracts, 2426c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1017Jc per pound; valley, .1819c; mohair, choice, 35i(S336cf Cattle Choice steers, $6.507.20; good, $6.256.40; medium, $46.25; choice cows, $5.506.25; good, $5(i? 5.50; medium, $4.505; choice cal ves, ?5.80(gje.o; good neavy calves, $68.50; bulls, $3.505.5Q; stags, $4.756.35. Hogs Light, $88.40; heavy, $6.507.50. Sheep Yearlings, $4.605.60; wethers, $55.50; ewes, $45; lambs, $4.50(gj6; spring lambs, $6 7.50. Mexican Garrison. Aided by Police, Drive Off Insurrectos. Tepic, Mexico With 220 dead and more than this number wounded, many of whom were unable to crawl from the battlefield. 2000 rebels, under command of Manuel Guerrero, have been completely routed by the garri son of this city, aided by the police of the local commandery. The battle occurred on Wednesday, April 24, the rebels appearing on the hills surrounding Tepic on the day previous and demanding the surrender of the garrison, which was under com mand of Colonel Martin Espinosa. Colonel Espinosa responded to the messenger of the rebel chief by means of a cannon ball, which killed three rebels and wounded two. Town Finds Name Odious. Sioux City, la. According to dis patches from Ismay, Mont., the hus tling young town on the Puget Sound extension of the St. Paul railway, the residents are contemplating Bteps to change the name of the town since the Titanic disaster and the resultant crit icism leveled at J. Brue Ismay, man aging director of the ill-fated ship. A majority of the residents favor adopt ing the name of some man who acted a hero's part on the doomed vessel, and are divided between Astor, Butt, Smith and Straus. Oklahoma City Thirty-one persons are reported to have been killed by i tornado that swept Southwestern Okla homa and the southeastern corner of the Texas panhandle late Sunday. A dosen towns were struck and farming communities suffered. Communication facilities are para lyzed andjit is impossible to confirm the reports of life or estimate the proper ty damaged. The greatest loss of life reported is at Lugert, where it is said 15 persons were killed. A special train sent from Altus with physicians and nurses picked up 10 injured persons and start ed back for Altus. Two of the injured ones died on the train. It is reported that a Kansas City, Mexico & Orient train had been blown from the track and 20 persons killed, but it developed that only two cars had been derailed and no one was hurt. The tornado started just across the Texas border and first killed several persons at Kirkland, Te., demolish ing 30 buildings, and blew a Rock Island work train off the track. Tearing on northward the storm struck Eldorado, killing four; Calumet, killing three; and Lugert, Rocky, where half the town is in ruins; Yu kon, Warren, Martha, Blair and Lone Wolf. At each of these places many per sons were hurt. Several of those towns are cut off from communication. What is believed to be the tail of the storm destroyed several buildings at Mulhall, 50 miles north of Oklahoma City, but so far as known there were no casualties there. PRESIDENT AND SPEAKER IN LEAD FOR NOMINATIONS New York The New York Herald publishes the following estimate of the relative strength of the presiden tial candidates, as the result of an im partial reveiw of the situation: Republicans. Taft 416 Roosevelt 2OT La Follette 86 Cummins 10 Uncertain B Needed to nominate. .540 Yet to choose 406 Democrats. Burke 10 Uncertain 101 Needed to nominate.. 7U8 Clark 149 Wilson 118 Marshall 30 Underwood 24 Continuing, the Herald says the president is virtually assured of the nomination at Chicago at this writing, adding: "Speaker Clark is gaining steadily and Governor Wilson is losing some of the big lead he had two and three weeks ago. Other Democratic aspir ants for the nomination are far in the HIGHBINDERS KILL THREE. Tacoma Gets Oil Tanks. Tacoma The Indian Refining com pany, said to be controlled by the Rothschilds, has bought Beven and one-half lots at Center and M streets and the city commission has been asked to' grant a permit for building of six oil tanks immediately. The permission was given, subject to the approval of the fire chief. Between $60,000 and $75,000 will be spent there at this time in establishing the concern. Yaquis Raiding in Sonora. : Tucson, Ariz. Reports received here tell of depredations committed at Toledo, Sonora, last Sunday by the Yaqui Indians.'- Three Mexican team Bters and one rancher were killed in a raid on a hacienda. Quiet was -reported south of Culiacan, as far as Tepic, to which point wire communi cation was restored; Fourth Chinaman Wounded in Battle at Salinas, Cal. Salinas, Cal. Five highbinders broke into a room here where four Chinese were playing cards, shot three of them dead, wounded the fourth ser iously and escaped. Murdered and murderers are alike unidentified. The wounded man will make no statement. From the fact that none of the com batants is known here, it is supposed that all of them were tong warriors planning a raid on marked men, but that the second party, having learned the errand of the first, tracked them to the room where they were hiding, and shot them down. The police believe both parties come either from San Francisco or Watson-ville. Steamer Harvard Afire. Los Angeles The steamer Harvard, of the Pacific Navigation company, had a narrow ecsape from destruction by fire while lying at her dock at East San Pedro. There were no passengers aboard and no one was injured. The total damage was approximately $3000. " The fire started in the galley from a defective oil pipe and it re quired an hour's work by the fire tug Warrior to extinguish the blaze. The entire galley and six staterooms on the main deck were destroyed. Mexicans Cause Wreck, Mexico City The wreck of the Mexico City-Guadalajara train last Week near IrapUato was credited to the striking American railway men by newspaper reports in Guadalajara. ' It is now reported that Consul McCJill has filed a protest at this accusation with the governor of the state. Fur ther investigation of the wreck seems to point to an explosion of an. oil tank due to carelessness or ignorance on the part of Mexican employes. Fire Sweeps Damascus. 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