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PAGE TWO CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume of Important Event Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Turkey "and Italy are reported to have signed preliminary articles of peace. The steamer Senator arrived at Se attle from Nome with $1,200,000 in gold dust and a large cargo of furs. A noted Chicago artist has been ar rested charged with circulating num erous hand-painted counterfeit 10 bills. Jules Vedrine, a French aviator, won the world's speed championship at Chicago by a flight averaging 105.5 miles per hour. Blistering heat continues from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Cows refuse to eat and the milk sup ply is almost cut off. A'Norwegian explorer declares he has "found the descendents of the Norsemen who were lost in the Arctic regions 500 years ago. Masked, and armed robbers held up the stage between Fort Bidwell and New Pine Creek, Or., relieving the passengers of about $150. Secretary Knox and suite arrived in Japan as special envoys to the funeral of the late emperor Mutsuhito, and re ceived a cordial welcome. 'James J. Hill has organized a trust company with a capital of $2,000,000 and it is believed he intends to em bark in the steel business. New born monkeys at Baltimore are to be raised as nearly like human ba bies as possible, in an effort to learn to what extent the Darwinian theory will bold. Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, former ly Miss Jennie Crocker, of San Fran cisco, arrived in New York with her husband and $60,000 worth of pet dogs. The city museum of Portland, Or., has been presented with a copy of the Boston Gazette of March 12, 1770, in which is an editorial urging colonists to refuse to buy tea from England. Indications are that the apple crop will not be up to expectations, and prices are advancing. Mexican rebels are reported to have sacked and burned the town of Abuab uetilan, cremating one merchant in his store. Hundreds of horses have died in Kansas from an epidemic of spinal meningitis. A sack of gold containing $10,000 is mysteriously missing from the office of the treasurer of Mercer county, California. The German army is to have a new dirigible balloon capable of a sustain ed flight of 60 hours and a speed of 50 miles an hour. Oppressive heat brings misery to Chicago and the Middle West. Two persons died of sunstroke and 26 were bitten by rabid dogs. PORTLAND MARKETS Wheat Track prices: Club, 80c; bluestem, 8283c; forty-fold, 81c; valley, 81c. Barley Feed, $25.5026.50 ton; brewing, $28.5029 per ton; Mill stuffs Bran, $23.50 ton; shorts, $26; middlings, $32; rolled barley, $28. Corn Whole, $38.50; cracked, $39.60 ton. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15; valley timothy, $1213; clover, $10; oats and vetch, $1011; grain hay, $1011. ! Oats Spot, $2930 ton. Fresh Fruits Apples, 60c$1.50 per box; peaches, 3565c box; plums, llc pound; pears, 2c; grapes, $11.50 box; blackberries, 50c $1.35 crate. Onions Walla Walla, 7585c sack. Potatoes Jobbing prices: Bur banks, 6065c hundred. Vegetables Artichokes, 6575c dozen; cabbage, lljc pound; cauli flower, $11.25 dozen; celery, 60(5! 75c; corn, 1525c; cucumbers, 60c box; head lettuce, 20 g 25c dozen; peppers, 56c pound; tomatoes, 50(5; 60c box; garlic, 810c pound; carrots, $1.50 sack; turnips, $1.25; beets, $1.50. Eggs Case count, 2223c; can dled, 2526c; extras, 2829c. Butter Oregon creamery, cubes, 33c pound; prints, 3434c. Pork Fancy, llj12c pound. Veal Fancy, 14J15c pound. Poultry Hens, 13 Jc; broilers, 14i15c; ducks, young, 10c; geese, 8(3!l2c; turkeys, live, 22c; dressed, 25c. Cattle Choice steers, $77.25; good, $6.256.75; medium, $6(5)6.25; choice cows, $6(5)6.25; good, $5.50 6.75; medium, $55.25; choice cal ves, $78.50; good heavy calves, $6.257; bulls, $34.50; stags, $5 5.75. Hogs Light, $8.759.25; heavy, $8(ff!8.50. . . Sheep Yearlings, $3.504.65; wethers, $44.60; ewes, $2.853.75; lambs, $55.60. APATHY IN WASHINGTON. Governor Hay Renominated Without Opposition Vote Light. Seattle The Btatewide primaries were marked by apathy. The Seattle newspapers made elaborate arrange ments to display election returns, but only a handful of people gathered. Governor Marion E. Hay, Republican, was nominated without any real op position. In the First, or Seattle congress dis trict, Representative Will E. Humph rey was similarly renominated. For congressman-at-large Frank Hammond and J. E. Frost are leading in Seattle, bat it is asserted that Hammond will run behind Henry B. Dewey else where. For state insurance commissioner, John H. Schively, against whom a bitter personal fight was made, ran far behind State Senator H. O. Fish back in King county and throughout the state. On the Democratic side no illumin ative figures on the governorship are obtainable, except that King county scattering returns show that Elmer C. Million, Democrat, is not running bo well as was expected. Charles G. Heifner, Democrat, seems to have won the congress nomination in the First district over Thomas R. Horner. Supreme Justices Ralph O. Dunbar, Overton G. Ellis and Wallace Mount were renominated unopposed. For attorney-general, W. V. Tan ner, Republican, is renominated al most unanimously. In the first, or Seattle, district. 20 King county precincts give Heifner, Democrat, for congress, 204; Horner, 96. Heifner's nomination is conceded. Eighteen precincts in King county for congressman-at-large give Frost 211, Hammond 161. Returns from various parts of the state indicate the nomination of Frost for one of the two seats. There was only one Socialist can didate for each office. The Socialist ticket, headed by Miss Anns Maley, for governor, was nom inated bv a mail referendum two months ago, but under the state law the candidates were obliged to go on the primary ballot. REBELS WELL FED. Salazar's Men Live OfF Ranchers As They Travel. Douglas, Ariz. With his 400 fol lowers living on the .'fat of the land, Inez Salazar, the rebel general, is moving slowly to the west along the international boundary. He is closely watched by United States cavalrymen, who are following the rebel move ments from the American side of the line. Salazar and his men remain at a ranch until all the choicest cattle and provisions are consumed and then move a few miles west They are slowly nearing Augua Prieta, the Mexican town just opposite Douglas. At last reports to United States army officers here, Salazar's command camped on the Mescal ranch, 25 miles east of Augua Prieta, where the fed eral garrison was strengthened by the arrival of 100 soldiers from the South. This makes the garrison number 300 men, but Salazar's force may be strengthened at any time by the many groups of from 200 to 400 rebels operating in the vicinity. RELICS ARE SAVED. General Sickles Not Forced to Part With War Trophies. New York General Daniel E. Sick les will not be obliged to part with his relics of the Civil war, which were to have been sold at auction to satisfy a judgment of $8200 held by the Lincoln Trust company. Daniel P. Hayes, the general's lawyer, announced that money to ' satisfy the judgment had been raised and that the case would be settled. Tbe relics included commissions of the peneral. many of them signed by Abraham Lincoln, medals won by the general in the war and at UettysDurg, whnrA he lost his lee. letters from men prominent in the affairs 'of the Union and swords used in famous bat tles. Valley Crops One-Half In. Salem, Or. The continued bad weather has damaged grain in the shock about 10 per cent. Hops have molded considerable, and possibly there will be loss of 15 per cent. The nrunes are undamaged, with only a fair crop on the trees, as the frost caught some of them early m the snrinc. The foreeoincr refers only to the unharvested portion of the crops. At least one-half of hops are harvest ed, and grain one-half in the bin, and we think more. Barley is off color, and will not be used for brewing. Rain Increases Potato Crop. Cornelius. Or. The following fig- urea nro an near aa it is possible to judge at present: Potatoes, bumper crop, increased by rain probably 10 percent; wneat, average crop, eam aoeA bv rain nrobablv 10 oer cent; oats, average crop, one-half damaged by rain, one-half not damaged; hay, average crop, damage for entire sea son, 35 per cent; hops, heavy crop, damaged at present 10 per cent. The potato crop is the largest known. Famine Threatened In Siam. Eugene, Or. A letter from C. A. Steele, a newspaperman at Bangkok, Siam, says that there is grave danger of a famine in that country. There has been little rain fall for two years, and the exportation of rice has prac tically ceased. , INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF BIGGER FAIR URGEP. J. H. Booth Proposes State Show to Cost $1,000,000. Snlem A $1,000,000 state fair is the plan that J. H. Booth, of Rose burg, president of the Oregon State Board of Agriculture, hopes to see worked out He believes that at least $1,000,000 should be appropriated by the legislature, not all at once, how ever, and that some definite plan be adopted for the permanent upbuilding of the fair. "The university and agricultural college and other state institutions are given appropriations almost without stint," said Mr. Booth. "While prob ably they need the money and deserve it, I believe that there is no greater educational factor in the state than the state fair. This is essentially an agricultural state. Any move which tends toward developing the state's agricultural interests to the highest do nt of efficiency is, tinanciauy ana in every other way, an upbuilding factor in the state s progress. By setting out a definite plan for the state fair grounds and obtaining stated amounts biennially to be used toward working out that plan, the state fair could be developed into one of the most magnificent features of the state, that would repay the money exDended in many ways. "Upon the nucleus which we have we could build up tc the hnal attain ment of the scheme for a great fair. Every improvement which is put in the grounds should be a permanent one "There should be good walks, good buildings, a cattle judging arena elec trically lighted, so that judging could be done at night. The difficulties that we have encountered this year with the rains should be obviated by all permanent covered ' buildings. W hope to have a permanent pavilion constructed with the $50,000 which the last legislature appropriated, and which, we trust, will be given us by the next legislature overriding the governor's veto. "The fair should be placed in a po sition where it will be able to handle the crowds whether the weather is wet or dry, a place provided where agricultural lectures can be given daily for the farmers, and the entire show given over to the agricultural interests. The agricultural and stock displays at the fair I place first, and the amusements last. The fair is for educational purposes, and it is toward that end we are constantly striving." COVE CHERRIES STILL RIPE. C. M. Stackland Thinks Oregon Is Ideally Located. Portland Although the bulk of the cherry crop in Cove district has long since been gathered and marketed, cherries are still ripe in that section. C. M. Stackland, of Cove, was in Port land, Saturday, and brought to tbe Commercial club samples of Bing and Royal Anne cherries he had picked from his own orchard, which are in perfect condition. Mr. Stackland is a member of the firm of Stackland Bros., one of the largest fruitgrowing concerns of the Cove district Mr. Stackland had some interesting figures to offer concerning this year's cherry crop. From 227 trees, growing on two acres, he sold 13 tons of Royal Anne cherries to a cannery for $1000. "That the community may well en courage the fruitgrower," says Mr. Stackland, "is indicated in the wages paid to workers in the Cove cherry or chards. My brother and I picked 16, 000 gallons of cherries from eight acres, and the picking and packing cost $997.03. This means that $125 an acre was paid for labor in harvest ing the crop, which shows that the re turns from the cherry crop are widely distributed throuhout the country. "Although Cove is one of the best known cherry districts in the state, I believe that there are great areas in Oregon, now lying idle, that could be cultivated and made to produce fruit just as good." Steel Bridges in Umatilla. Pendleton Umatilla county has more steel bridges than any other county in Oregon, according to C. H. Martin, the civil engineer employed by the county recently to construct permanent highways and bridges throughout the county. Every bridge built in the county during the last six years has been of steel and at the present time 12 of these structures are in course of construction. Two of the new bridges are to replace wooden ones carried out by the Butter creek cloudburst. Rain Saves Loss From Fire. Medford Favorable climatic con ditions and efficient fire protection have saved Jackson county more than a million dollars this season. Accord ing to M. L. Erickson, supervisor of the Forest service, there will be no more forest fires in 1912, the recent rains having eliminated the possibil ity, the season of 1912 will establish a record in the history of forest fires in Southern Oregon. Trout Stream Fished Out.. Dufur A petition requesting that Fifteen-Mile creek be stocked with trout has recently been filed with the state fish and game commission. At one time Fifteen-Mile creek teemed with trout, but at the present time this creek is practically fished out, and unless it be stocked at an earlv date it will be next to impossible to locate a j fish in this creek. OUR HOME STATE ROAD NEARS END. Grading Is Finished and Rails Laid Moat of Way to Friend. Dufur The work of extending the Great Southern railroad from, this city to Friend, about ten miles distant, is nearing completion, and it is expected that regular trains will be in opera tion to Friend within a month. Rails are being laid on the last two miles of. the work, the grading being all finished and the rails laid up to within about two miles of the pro posed terminus, and work trains are being operated over the new road for this distance. s Sixty-pound rails are being used and the roadbed and bridges are being constructed in the best possible man ner so that the heaviest kind of traffic can be run over the road when com pleted. After the completion of this exten sion the line from here to The Dalles will be repaired, both roadbed and bridges, and put in first-class shape. The extension of the terminus will probably necessitate tbe moving of the trainmen and their families to Friend. The officers of the Great Southern company are seriously considering the advisability of purchasing some sort of a motor car to add to their passon ger service. It is yet undecided whether they will purchase a gasoline motor or a car propelled by an electric storage battery. However, as soon as the business warrants the addi tional service, it will be made as sug gested. The addition of a motor car will cut the running time to The Dalles and return nearly half, and be of great convenience to the people along the line. The Great Southern expects a large freight business, both in grain and in fruit, this fall, and is making prepar ations for handling this traffic. MEDFORD WILL BUILD ROAD. Citizens Determined to Have Line to Seaport. Rail Medford Medford is to have a rail road to the coast. Tired of promises by railroad companies and outsiders, prominent Medford business men have decided to do the job themselves Papers were filed for the incorporation of the Medford & Crescent City Kail way company, and the preliminary capitalization has been placed at $50, 000. . That such a road will be of incal culable benefit to Medford and the Rogue River valley cannot be gain said. It will open up a virgin mineral and timber region, will tap the fertile but undeveloped Applegate valley, and will bring a great reduction in freight rates. With the construction of the Panama canal, it will mean that fruit and produce can be shipped by water to Atlantic Coast ports, and incident ally a delightful summer resort will be within easy distance of this city. OREGON NATIVES GO EAST. Albany Couple to Devote Nine Months to Extensive Tour. Albany Robert L. Burkhart, one of the beat-known breeders of Jersey cattle on the Pacific Coast, has started on a trip East, during which he will inspect the leading Jersey herds of the country. On May 20, last, Mr. Burkhart sold tbe Jersey herd which he had been developing for several years for $17,000 at one of the largest public Bales ever held in Oregon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart, who are native Oregonians, have never visited the Atlantic Coast and they will devote nine months to an exten sive tour of the East. Big Hop Yard is Down. Grants Pass Borne down with the great crop of hops, with the added weight of the rain on the dense foli age, the entire Flanagan-Cornell hop- yard of 100 acres lies flat on the rain soaked ground, the supporting wires having broken under the strain. Pick ing had been in progress in the yard for several days, but two weeks' work is yet to be done before the crop is all in the bale. A force of men is busy raising the vines to bupports, and if no further rain falls the quality of the hops will not be damaged. First Box From Eugene. Eugene The first freight sent out of Eugene over the new Oregon Elec tric railway was shipped to Junction City by the owners of a local grocery and meat market. They sent to one of their customers a consignment of meat and vegetables, the shipment going in a box car drawn by the con struction engine. The track layers have reached the business section of the city, but the crossing has not been made at the intersection of West Fifth and Blair streets at the edge of the city, where the P. & E. lines run. Dallas to Install Fountains. Dallas To accommodate the travel ing public, the visiting farmers and the local citizens, Dallas is to have four public drinking fountains in stalled on four of the principal corners of this city. There is to be a large fountain for horses-at the Main street intersection. An effort is to be made to get the drinking fountains in be fore the Harvest Festival and School children's Fair, October 3, 4 and,E. MAINE GOES REPUBLICAN. Haines Leads for Governor By 4000 Local Issuti Rule. Portland, Mit,' Mains turned back to the Republican party in the state election, William T. Haines, of Wa tervllle, being elected governor over Governor Plalsted, his Democratic op ponent, who sought a second term, while the Republicans regained one of the two congressional districts lost to the Democrats two years ago. The new legislature is expected to have a small Republican majority, al though returns before1 midnight were not sufficient to show whether Edwin C. Burleigh, ex-prepreaentatlve in congress, Republican, or Senator Gardner, Democrat, will be chosen to the United States senate. Returns for governor from all but 37 small towns give: Haines, Repub lican, 69.615; Plalted, Democrat, 66,152. The missing towns In 1910 gave: Republicans, 1157; Democrat, U94. Haines' plurality is estimated at 3840. These returns show a Republican gain of 9 per cent and a Democratic loss of 8 per cent. COLORADO VOTE LIGHT. Democrats Outnumber Republicans, But None Show Interest. Denver, Colo. Returns from Colo rado's first state-wide primary at a late hour were meager. The Demo cratic returns received outnumbered the Republican three to one. Rough estimates show only one-third of the registered vote In the state was cast. In Denver the percentage is es timated a( only one-fifth. Results so far as known indicate that E. M. Amnion is leading for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Clifford C. Parks, regular Republi can, is leading Phillip H. Stewart, Roosevelt Progressive Republican, for the head of the Republican ticket Governor Shafroth is leading Alva Adams and T. J. O'Donnell for the Democratic long-term senatorial nomi nation, while Merl D. Vincent, Roose velt Progressive Republican, bends Clyde C. Dawson, regular Republican. Charles S. Stone is unopposed for the Democratic nomination for the Bhort term in the United States senate. James H. Brown is leading C. W. Waterman for the Republican short term in the United Status senate. The light vote in the rural districts was due to the fact that farmers took advantage of the clear weather to har vest their heavy crops. Few women voted, some explaining the fact that the ballot seemed so complicated they were afraid of losing their vote and so, paradoxically, they stayed away from the polls. VOTE LIGHT IN ARIZONA. Hardly 10 Per Cent of Registered Voters at Phoenix Go to Polls. Phoenix, Ariz. Early returns in dicate that the vote cast at the Ari zona state primaries was exceedingly light. Hardly 10 per cent of the reg istered vote in Maricopa county, in which Phoenix is situated, was cast. Returns from Douglas showed that only 30 per cent of the registered vot ers had cast their billots there. The figures so far reported from that city gave: Democrats, 142; Roosevelt Progressives, 139; Republicans, 21, and Socialists, 11. The total vote for the Progressives reported from Prescott was 67. In the same section W. E. Jones, E. A Torres and George Babbitt, electoral candidates, were leading; the Demo cratic vote there by a strong majority. Yuma, Ariz. The vote here at the primaries was light. In Yuma and two outside precincts, the Democratic ticket received nine votes; the KooHe velt Progressive, 72: the Socialist, 20 and the Republican 12. Great Highway Proposed. Indianapolis, Ind. A macadam roadway to extend from New York to San Francisco, a distance of 3310 miles, and to cost $25,00 0,000, was proposed here at a banquet of 300 In diana automobile manufacturers and dealers, who subscribed $300,000 to start the campaign in this state. The plan is to furnish material, at a cost of about $12,000,000, free to the counties through which the road will pass, the counties to pay only the cost of construction, which is to be under government supervision. . Idaho Women Plan Bolt. Boise, Idaho A Republican ticket, made up entirely of women candi dates, will be placed in the field in Idaho this fall against the regular Republican and Progressive tickets. The'women members of the Republi can party In Idaho announced that they bad become disgusted with the wrangling in the party and decided to place a ticket of their own before the people. The women will hold their convention here this week. Subway Plans Complete. Chicago Plans for Chicago's pro posed subway system were completed and presented by a sub-committee to the city council committee on sub ways. The plans provide for four main lines traversing the city. The estimate for construction is $96,257, 000, and for equipment $34,884,000. The system would have a capacity of 187,000 passengers an hour. Ismay Resigns, New York J. Bruce Ismay, who figured in the news a few months ago by being among the Titanic survivors, is to resign as president of the Inter national Mercantile Marine company. I. A M. RAILWAY TIME CARD From Independence to Dallas- Trnla No. CO loaves Independence dally nt 2:30 p. iu, ftud Monmouth at 2; 40 p. ni. w'd arrives at Dallas ut 3:05 p. m. Train, No. 61 loaves Independence dully at 6:15 a, ra. and MimoutU at dully wt 6:00 a. in. and Monmouth at 6:3J a. in., and arrives at Dallas at 7:00 a. in. Trnln No. 63 loaves Independence at 10:50 a. m Monmouth at 11:05 m m and arrives at Dallas at 11:30 a, m. Trnln No. 70 lewves Independence at 6:15 p. ra. and Monmouth, at 6:30 p. m., and arrives nt DHns wt 6:65 p. m. From Independence to Alrl. Train No. 61 loaves Independence at 6:30 . in. and Monmouth at 6:45 a. in., and arrives at AKUo ftt 7:20 a. in. Train No. 73 leaves Independence at 3:35 p. m. and Monmouth at 4:i0, p. in., and arrives nt Alrllo nt 4 US p. m. From Dallas to Independence- Train No. 73 loavos Disllus dally at 3:30 p. m. and Monmouth at 3:55. Trnln No. 65 loaves Dallas dally nt 8:30 a. in. and Monmouth at 8:55 a m. and arrives at Indepondoco nt 9:15 a. in. Trola No. 69 lenves Diallas dally nt 1:00 p. in. and Monmouth at 1:25 ! m. and arrives at Independence 1:40 p. in. Train No. 71 leaves Dallas daily ftt 7:20 p. m. acid Monmouth at 7:45 p. m., and arrives at Independence at 8:05 p. ni. From Alrlle to Independence. Train No. 62 loaves Alrllo dully t 7:30 a. m. and Monmouth nt 8:05 a. m , and nrrlveeat Indepondece at 8' 15 si m. Train No. 72 loaves Alrllo dally nt 5:00 p. ni. and Monmouth nt 6:35 a. ., and arrives at Independence nt 6:45 p. m. From Independence to West Salem. Train No. 124 leaves Independence da'ly at 8:20 a. m. and arrives at West Salem at 9:00 a- m. Train No. 126 lenves Independence at 4:05 p. m. and arrives nt West Sn lem nt 4:45 p. m. From West Salem to Independence. Trnln No. 123 leaves West Snlem daily at 9:60 a. m. and arrives at In-, dependence at 10:25 a. ni. Train No. 125 leaves West Salem dully at 5:00 p. m. and arrives at Independence nt 6:40 p. m- Chas. D. Smiley, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Plans And Estimates Furnished On Short Notice. DWELLING HOUSES A SPECIALTY Bell Phone 521. C. W. HINKLE Funeral Director and Liconted Embalmer. Lady assistant if desired. Calls attended dayir night. Independence, Oregon. W. R. ALLIN, D. D. S. DentUt Both phones. Cooper Bldg. Independence, Oregon. B. F. SWOPE Attorney at Law and Notary Public Will practice in all courts of the State. Probate matters and collec tions given prompt attention. Office, Cooper Bldg. Independence, Oregon.. SNYDER'S POULTRY PARKS Independence Oregon. 8. C. W. LEGHORNS and BARRED PLYMOTH ROCKS Pure Bred Eggs $1.00 per 13 or $6.00 Per 100 P. O. Box 181.' Home Phone 7521 HOMER LODQE, No 45 meets every Monday . evening in their castle hall, Independence, Ore- 'Visiting Knights wel come. 7: SO is the hour. M. MORAN, C. C. J. W. RICHARDSON, JR., K. R. S. 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