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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
HOUSE OVERRIDES VETO
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume of Important Event
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Reader.
THOUSAND DEAD
IN EARTHQUAKE
Five to Six Times as Many In
jured In Turkey.
Democrats Have Bid of 21 Republic
ans In Vote Measure.
Washington. D. C. By the narrow
margin ot five votes the House passed ;
the wool tariff revision bill over Prrs-1
Wont Tuft's veto. The vote, 1.4 to M),
was marie possible ouly by the defec
tion of 21 republicans, who voted with
the democrats.
The announcement of democratic
success created a wild scene In the
house and amid great confusion the
republican leaders protested that
Speaker Clark must count as voting
ten members who answered '"pres
ent" to their names, a ruling which
w,ould have defeated the democratic
program by overcoming the five vote
margin and making possible the re-
Seven murderers were electrocuted cording of the necessary two-thirds
in Sing Sing prison .within an hour's ! vote. This the speaker declined to
time i a0,
i iss than an hour after the wool
China is preparing to establish albill had been repassed in the house,
fleet of commercial ships for foreign the conferees on the sugar tariff bill
trade. i 'J" ,0 the that lt had j ot victims at a thousand killed, while
I Two trunks"containing $22,000 been found impossible to reach a j the Injured are said to uumber from
worth of opium "were seized by officers compromise between the Underwood j 5m to 000.
at Los Angeles. j andldge-Brlstow bills, j Th d tall8 of the earthquake,
K This action is expected to mark the . . fc . . .
800 feet off Mount end of sugar tariff consideration m ' -
bonethe present session ana tne excise me uuerrupwuu m me mien, mm-
tax bill, wnics was rramea to maKe;cttt0s that the seismic disturbances
up revenues that would have been lost j ., -.t.wnrpnri Thnimsmla r
China has offered the post of adviser; by the reduction of the sugar tariff,'- outbreaks of fire have
. . ,,.,... r..i. Inmhohlv i' I Kmn n n nn forunpo ! UOOieieSS anil OUlUrtatlH Ol UIO U4H
to the government to wimara xwcu-i"
k.-n J , im:n when Cougress adjourns.
hill, an American. j whe democratic aild rroSTe8sive
"Three hundred ironworkers in San I senate leaders believe the wool bill
Francisco, went on strike, demanding ; cannot oe passea n mat ooay over
Firs JAdds to Awful Havoc Light
house Topples Over Cltiea
Plight Is Grave.
ConstantinopleReports here Indi
cate that the great earthquake which
was felt through a large part ot Tur
key was accompanied by much hav
ler 1 ss ot life than at first announced.
Tlio newspapers estimate the number
Girl plunges
Rainier to death, breaking every
in her body.
l per day increase in wages. J
Two chained convicts leaped from a
Northern Pacific train at Whitehall,
Mont., and made good their escape.
Thirty-six soldiers 'and 20 passen
gers were slaughtered by Zapatistas
when a train was attacked from ambush.
President'Taft will likely appoint
the President s veto, they will con
tinue to demand action on the cotton
tariff measure.
occurred In many towns and villages.
The entire district between Con
stKPtWnle and Adrlanople felt the
shock severely. Fugitives from My
rlophito report 300 killed and COO in
jured. The town was burning when
The vote on the wool bill came as a .w left
surprise to the republican leaders of j (;anos-Hore has been wiped out, SO
the house. When they discovered ' persong being killed and 30 Injured,
that defection from their ranks was 1 Thn wrecked huildlnirs took fire and
to be expected It was too late to pre
vent it. As a result the following
republicans went over to the demo
cratic camp and made victory possible
for the majority: Akin, New York;
was destroyed and two nearby villages
were engulfed. Adrlanople suffered
little damage, but Tehorlu was partly
destroyed by the earthquake and fire.
The course of the disturbance appears
to have liwn in the recion of the Dar-
OUng, Kansas; I Hnnellps. Eve witnesses from that
Conner and Morse. Wisconsin: Han- i n ,., v, .....t., ...,,
I 1 i - - sex uvu 1. 1 1 L" um luniug aiwuuis vi
rvil William V. Judson. a United Anderson, Davis, Lindbergh. Wilier,
ct.. .inwMni governor of i Steenerson and Stevens, MinnesotaJ
n j . i nthony, Rees and You
M. auaiiia,
PEACE IN MEXICO DOUBTFUL.
Believed General Oroico Will Resist
Overtures. , .
Mexico Clty.-Orrioiul Mexico ap
pears to record with much pessimism
the outlook for peace. Attempt prob
ably will bo made to reopen negotia
tions with General Oronco, but It lt
generally believed the rebel leader In
the North will resist overtures by the
government. Ho was reported In
special teloKram to Kl Dlurlo as hav
big refused to meet General Huorta at
a point south ot Juarez and there .sur
render, adding that ho would lead bis
forces into the capital Itself within a
month.
An echo to the charge by the Mexi
can government that Senator Fall was
responsible for tho failure of Minister
Heniandes to bring about an agree
ment between tho government and
Orozco was contained in a special dls
patch from El l'nso. In that It waa
charged that an American in Kl Paso
had negotiated with the rebels, not
for the purpose of preventing Oroico
from entering tho United States ter
ritory, but to keep tho war going. It
waa charged that ho represented
group of American bunkers whoso In
terests, it was aliened, would be fav
ored by the continuance of hostilities.
In this paper it was asserted that
the American Government had served
notice ou Mexico that peace must be
restored at an early date. No confir
mation of this assertion could be se
cured.
FRUIT BILL IS PASSED.
Provision Alms to Protect Growers
From Importation of Pests.
ashlngton, D. C The Simmons
most of them were burned. Shar-Kolj fruit quarantine bill, of great value to
every fruitgrower and horticulturist
on the Pacific Coast, has passed the
House. The hill has been demanded
by Const fruitgrowers for a loug time
It provides a rigid Federal quarantine
In the United States against fruit,
The youngest mother recorded in sen and Woods, Iowa: Helgeson. j the havoc wrought,
edical history is an 11-year-old girliXortn Dakota; Kent, California; Laf- j The majority of the houses In Galll-...n-.-nnni
Tw who crave birth Ongon: La Follette and War-; poll are ln rufns Bnd the people are
med
near Davenport, Iowa, who gave birth
to an 8J pound child.
A mother bear stole into the Taft
children's camp at Yellowstone Park
at night and took her cub that had
been captured by the party.
The Equitable Life Insurance com
pany of New York will build a 36
story home on the site of the building,
which wag destoryed by fire past winter.
no I are in ruins and tne neonle are
burton, Washington; Norris and Sloan, jCamplng In the fields. Tchanak-Kal-Nebraska.
( ess 3 an equally bad plight, but
Not in the memory of the oldest j tne i08s" 0f nre in these towns is
members of the house has a tariff j BDlalli although the Injured are many,
measure ever been passed over the Warshlns anchored In the Dardan.
president's veto. by the lowest branch !eue8 fejt tne shock severely. It was
of Congress.
seeds, bulbs and nursery stock from
other countries which may be Infected
with Insect pests of any klad.
1 he bill primarily was drawn to
protect fruitgrowers against tho Medi
terranean ny and the Malolos orange
worm, the latter coming across the
Mexican border and having created
havoc in Southern California, llere-
first attributed to Italian torpedo- tofore the California state horttcultur-
MEXICAN TROOPS ARE ROUTED ' DoatS- The captain or the American ista had to fight these pests uuas-
si-aiij'4 iiifeiuia iri'UKO luai imq BIB Lt?U
b-k.i. rn-. ivt,n3m ifiiiinn -wo ! lRhthouse at Ganos-Hore. In the Sea
Rebels Capture Ixtapam, Killing 300, 1 of Marmora haa disappeared and that
many women ana vniiaren.
Mexico City Government troops
have been defeated in a series of en-
, " piuB1Uu y ' v r i counters with Zapatistas in the Ten
coal dust in a mine at Gerth, Geiv,, distHct of tne gtate of Mex.
many, caused the death of 103 miners ico a few TOiles 80Uth of ToiUca, the
and 27 escaped with injuries. 8tate capital,- and rebels are in pos-
Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton, a 'session of all villages in that district,
prominent suffragist of Washington, j according o
will be a candidate for state represen-
Utive on the Democratic ticket rarely displayed la Mexican warfare.
Spokane has let contracts for the At Ixtapam, the town taken, 300
erection of a new $300,000 city hall, I persons, including women . and chil-
and Eastern bond buyers have refused j dren, are reported to have been killed
to purchase the bonds issued to pay
for the work.
The Continental Building & Loan
association of San Francisco, has been
closed up by the state commissioner,
who declares the institution insolvent
The St Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railway company has given a
mortgage on its property for $200,
000,000, running 40 years and bearing
and virtually every building razed
Only a small number of the dead
were rebels.
An encounter occurred In a canyon
not far away from Ixtapam. There a
detachment of 250 men, on its way to
the relief of Ixtapam, was ambushed.
Fighting lasted four hours, terminat
ing in a rout of the government
forces. Eight dead were left in the
trenches. Ten thousand cartridges
POPUI 1ST PARTY IS ALIVE
e per cent interest.
The national palace of Hayti at San i At National Convention Platform
Domingo, was blown up and set on fire j Drafted; No Candidate Named,
by a terriffic explosion, killing thej gt Louis. The eight delegates to
president of the republic and manyie popuist National convention, aft-
attendants and employes of the cap
tol
the villages In the surrounding coun
try are In flames. He was unable to
anchor and give assistance because
of the violent movement of the Bea.
SECRETARY KNOX IS MADE
SPECIAL ENVOY TO JAPAN
Washington, D. C For the first
time in the history of the United
States, the Secretary of State has
been designated as a special ambassa
dor to a foreign power.
President Taft assigned Secretary
of State Knox as special ambassador
to Japan to attend the funeral of the
late Emperor Mutsuhito on Septem
ber 12, with the statement that the
mission was given to the premier of
the cabinet as evidence of the Amer
ican friendship for Japan. When the
Japanese ambassador to Washington
heard of the mission he asserted lt
would be taken by the Japanese as
an act of the greatest courtesy and
one calculated to make even warmer
and more cordial the existing rela
tions between the two governments.
The bill appropriates $25,000 for
the first year, and becomes effective
October 1. After the first year the
agricultural appropriation bill will
carry an annual appropriation to en
force the quarantine. Itepresentatives
from the Coast have urged this bill be
fore the agricultural committee sev
eral times, and lt Is due to their ef
forts that the measure was favorably
reported and hag passed the House.
This bill will soon pass the Senate,
where it Is unopposed.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Women to Guard Women
Berlin. A novel experiment in pen
ology Is about to be made by the
Prussian authorities, who have de
cided to open In Berlin a women's
prison exclusively managed by women.
Not only the guards and wardens, but
superintendents and directors of the
various prison labor departments will
be of tho same Bex as the prisoners.
There will be 30 women inspectors
er nearly six hours' argument, adopted
a platform reaffirming the 1892 plat
form and adding a number of new
planks, one of which favors the rec
ognition of the Chinese Republic.
"We did not come here to nominate
Wheat Track prices: New: Club, 76 ! a candidate for president," said J. F.
7Tc; bluestem, 1880c; fortyfold, , Ferris, chairman of the national com-
78c: ValleV. 78r??79c: Old Wheat, nom- tnlttoo "Wa xi-ich momlv in lff.n nnr
inal. organization alive for future useful- i an1 several teachers will also be ap-
Millstuffs Bran, $25 per ton; shorts, ; ness. The platform to be adopted is i Pln,e(J to instruct the inmates in use
$28; middlings, $32; rolled barley, $29. our princjpai object." j ful and remunerative occupations. It
Hav Eastern Oregon timothy, $15; Ferris told about being summoned i's a theory of the authorities that a
Valley timothy, $1213; alfalfa, $UiSj1,y Senator Clapp to appear before the I women's prison exclusively under
12; clover, $10; oats and vetch, $10 Senatorial committee Investigating ' feminine management would not only
11; grain hay, $10(11. i campaign expenses j avoid many administrative difficulties
Oats New. $2C ner ton. ! r !!!, h,H 'nff ha ,m "oftor i arising under the old system, but
Fresh Fruits-Apples, new 00c(7E having convinced Clapp that we had ! W0?M b.ring ?&out a intelligent
J2.25 per box; peacnes, dotsac Per, o 'campaign funds to speak of and
box; plums, 75c$1.10 per box; pears, ; tnat Wa1 gtreet had never t found
$1.201.50 Per box; apricots, $1.2o per;,,. ecessary to aUempt to corrupt us
"OOX; grapes, $lrr,2 per crate; black-.. mntrihuHnnf. tn nnr trRi.rv"
MACVEAGH ORDERS PROBE
Largely Increased Customs Revenues
Expected as Result
Washington, D. C Plans for a
sweeping investigation of the methods
of appraising importations into the
United States, which Is expected to
Increase the revenues of the govern
ment by millions of dollars annually,
have been completed by Secretary of
the Treasury MacVeagh, and a com
mittee has been appointed to make
the Inquiry.
Revelations of the sugar and other
frauds convinced Secretary MacVeagh
there was somethli? radically wrong
with the appraising system. He be
lieves an incalculable sum is being lost
every year by careless and antiquated
methods. The committee Is charged
to recommend revisions and Improve
ments to stop all loopholes.
LINERS IN COLLISION.
Melons Cantaloupes, 7ocrti$1.50 per
crate; watermelons, $11.15 per hun
dred. Potatoes Jobbing prices. Burbanks,
iew, COf590c per hundred.
Vegetables Artichokes, C5n)75c per
dozen; beans, 2c; cabbage, lic per
pound; cauliflower, $1(1.25 per doz
en; celery, 7585c per dozen; corn,
15(25c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per
box'; eggplant, 7(S)10c per pound; head
lettuce, .2025c per dozen; peas, 8
9c per pound; peppers, 810c per
pound; radishes, 15rt20c per dozen,
Sack Vegetables Carrots, $1.50 per
sack; turnips, $1.25 per sack; beets,
$1.50 per sack.
Eggs Case count, 23c; candled, 25c;
extras, 27c per dozen.
Butter Oregon creamery butter,
cubes, 31c per pound; prints, 32&c
per pound.
Pork Fancy, 10llc per pound.
Veal Fancy, WAtrilSc per pound.
Poultry Hens, 13(313 c; broilers,
15(ffl5c; ducks, young, 12c; geese,
Auto Sets Woods Afire.
Lakefort. A brisk forest fire near
Bartlett Springs had Its origin ln an
unusual accident near artlett. R. S.
Dallas, of San Francisco, was return
ing by automobile with his family to
his home. An overheated brake shoe
set fire to the gasoline tank, which
was hung between the rear wheels.
The tank exploded, scattering liquid
fire in the dry brush at either side
of the road, and the flames traveled
through the brush to the timber.
Dallas and his family escaped un
hurt, but the automobile Is nothing
but a huge cinder.
and systematic treatment of the pris
oners. The institution will be opened
ln October.
Alfalfa Meal Is Demand
Kansas City. "I am told that in
some cities of the Northwest feed is
in such demand that sawdust mixed
with molasses actually is being sold
nn tho mnrlrot fnr a ton " TT TT
10llc; turkeys, live, 1820c; dressed Cottrn of Manhattal) NeD tod the
247z25c.
Hops 1912 contracts, 1820c; 1911
crop, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 14rt71c per
convention of the National Alfalfa
Miller's Association. The demand for
alfalfa meal, the speaker said, has
grown to such an extent in the last
L,U,n?rding t0 srinkaSe: Valley'!few years that more than 100 mills are
21(22y2c per pound unable to keep all orders filled.
Cattle Choice steers, $6.75ffv.OO;
good, $CG.50; medium, $5.757.:6;
choice cows, $5.75ff?6; good, $5.50
5.75; medium, $55.50; choice calves,
$7?i;8.50; good heavy calves, $G?i;G.50;
bulls, $3.505?5; stags, $4.75 6.
Hogs Light, $89; heavy, $G.25
7.50.
Sheep Yearlings, $3(3)4.50; wethers,
$3(34.60; ewes, $33.75; lambs, $4
f.25'. J
Ohio Mob Lynches Negro.
Columbus, O. After holding up of
ficials in the courthouse a mob of
about 40 men here took T. Z. Cotton,
alias T. Z. McElhenny, a 16-year-old
negro, who was on trial, and lynched
him just beyond the city limits. The
negro was accused of killing Cedron
Land, a white boy, two months ago.
Mount Katmal Is Smoking
Seward, Alaska. Passengers on the
mall steamship Dora, which arrived
on her monthly trip from the west
ward, say Mount Katmai, which -was
In violent eruption in June, Is emitting
great volumes of dense smoke. The
Dora brought word that the fishing
season on Bristol bay Is closed. All
canneries there reported capacity
packs. The armored cruiser Maryland
returned from Cordova last night to
wait for the party of navy men who
have gone to Inspect the Matanuska
ccal field.
Taft Signs Farm Bill
Washington, D. C The agricultur
al appropriation bill, more than a
month overdue ln taking effect, was
signed by President Taft, and released
for field work a small army of em
ployes held up during the delay on
the measure. Secretary Wilson or
dered immediate resumption of farm
demonstration work in many states.
On the Pacific Const, belated experi
mental work to develop potash re
sources will be taken up.
Miss Gould Host to 600
Ulghton, N. Y. Helen Could had
000 negroes as her guests on her play
grounds here. Most of them came
from New York churches. All the
trolley cars were In use for the cele
bration of the opening of a new trolley
line and the party had to walk six
miles from the railroad station and
back again.
Frankfort and Barmen Returning to
Port With 1200 Immigrants.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. The North
German Lloyd steamship Frankfurt,
bound for Canada from Bremen with
1200 emigrants on board, collided with
the Cerman steamer Barmen, from
Rotterdam for Bremen, while off the
Hook of Holland lightship, and is now
proceeding to the hook under tow.
Wireless dispatches received at
Selipvenlngpn from tho Frankfurt say
all her passengers are on board and
the vessel is in no danger. The timely
arrival of two steamers calmed the
passengers after the collision and the
disabled vessel was taken in tow.
FIFTY-FIRST
OREGON
STATE
FAIR
SALEM, SEPT. 2 - 7, 1912
$18,000.00 OFFERED IN PREMIUMS
ON LIVESTOCK, POULTRY,
AGRICULTURAL AND
OTHER PRODUCTS
Races, Dog Show, Shoot
ing Tournament, Band
Concerts, Fireworks
and
Free Attractions
Send For V re ni i u m
List and Entry Blanks
Reduced Rates On All
Railroads
For Particulars Address
FRANK MEREDITH, Secretary,
Salem. Oregon
You Vlau Admire
Tho clever advertising that draws you to a store, but you
won't go ugain if the promises made are of the pie criiHt
kind,
You Jvlust Admire
however, the store where promises arc moro than fulfilled
where you buy groceries and crockery better than you
expected and at price lower than you expected to pay.
Thai's tho kind of a store this is. Tlie fctorc of Perfection,
rromiso and Price.
b. G. REEVES
Main and C Streets. I N I KPEN I) K.NCK, Olt KG OS
Geographers to Travel
New York. Fifty representatives of
geographical societies and universi
ties of 16 European countries have
enrolled for a tour of the United
States as guests of the American geo
graphical Society. The tour is to be
gin with a celebration here of tbV
opening of a new building of the Am
erican Geographical Society, marking
the COth anniversary of the organiza
tion. Professor William Morris Davis,
of Harvard, Is to conduct the excur
sion, which will' cover approximately
10,000 miles and take two months'
time.
Legends of Gold Lures
New York. The legend of $30,000,
000 gold hidden on Cocos Island ln the
Pacific Ocean is the lure which
brought Frederick Smodden from Cal
gary, Canada, to this city, whence he
has sailed for Central' America. Smod
den said his knowledge of the treas
ure's whereabouts was handed down
by Captain Trevan, a sea dog of many
generations back, whose plan to search
for the gold was frustrated by a fatal
Illness.
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