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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT PAGES- NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in Brief. OIL TANK STEAMER ROSECRANS, WRECKED AT MOUTH OK COLUMMA JAN. 7, 1913 THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. m rim rsiin rmmm w MMM MB mmm mm mammm m m The all absorbing question at This time of the year is . Whatam I going to give Mv friends for Christmas? Wo liavo provided an unusually larp assortment 0 The formation of a glue trust is be lieved to be under way. Manufacturers and importers are bepging congress to let the present tariff alone. President Taft greatly lauds the genius, persistence and tenacity of the Jewish people. Ex-President Castro has taken per sonal charge of his legal fight to re main in America. Turks refuse flatly to cede Adrian ople to Bulgaria and peace negotia tions are broken off. The Supreme court refuses to per mit Union Pacific stockholders to buy Southern Pacific stock. The Supreme court has ruled that cotton brokers must stand trial for at tempting to corner cotton. The newly-elected woman mayor of Warrenton, Or., walked through the snow to attend her first council meet ing. A decision of the Supreme court greatly curtails the power of the states over railways and express com panies. Women of the allied Balkan states show utmost fortitude over their griefs and sufferings resulting from the war with Turkey. Sixteen persona whose ages aggre gated 1070 years were gathered at a holiday dinner at Marshfield, Or. Their ages averaged nealy 70 years. William Rockefeller, whom the house money trust investigating com mittee was unable to serve with a summons, is now in the Bahama isl ands. The woman city recorder of Park City, Utah, is accused of padding the payrolls of that city. Shortages are also alleged in other departments un der her supervision. A move has been started to pay the fines of the" Boise, Idaho, newspaper men who were sentenced to jail for criticising the Idaho Supreme court for its decision barring Progressive candidates for presidential elector from the ballot, and Colonel Roosevelt has sent the first $10. Senator Jeff Davis, senior member of the upper house from Arkansas, is dead. Trans-Atlantic steamships have adopted a new route in order to avoid icebergs. Operations in the hop market are completey blocked by refusal of the growers to sell. The Russian crown prince has com pletely recovered from the recent at tempt upon his life. A one-legged boy playing on the street in Portland was hit by an auto mobile and his other leg broken. Over five hundred persons were killed in automobile accidents on the streets of New York City during 1912. The Bates & Chesebrough steamship company, rivals of the Pacific Mail, have failed with liabilities of $300, 000. Vexed by a sharp letter from At torney General Wickersham, the Uni ted States attorney for South Dakota has resigned. PORTLAND MARKETS Wheat Track prices: Club, 80 80c; bluestem, 85(3 86c; forty-fold, 81c; red Russian, 78c; valley, 81c. Barley Feed, $22. 50(323. 00 per ton; brewing, nominal; rolled, $25.50 26.50. Corn Whole, $27; cracked, $28 ton. Hay Timothy, choice, $17(318 per ton; mixed Eastern Oregon timothy, $12(3jl5; oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa, $11.50; clover, $10; straw, $6(3,7. Millstuffs Bran, $22 ton; shorts, .. $24; middlings, $30. Oats No. 1 white, $25(325.50 ton. Fresh fruits Apples, 50c(3$1.50 pr box; grapes, Emperors, $5 per bar rel ; Malagas, $8; cranberries, $12.50. Potatoes Jobbing prices: Bur banks, 5060c per hundred; sweets, 2(33c per pound. Onions Oregon, $1 per sack. Vegetables Artichokes, $1.251.50 per dozen ; cabbage, lc per pound ; cauliflower, $2.50 per crate; celery, $3.504; head lettuce, $1.50(3:2; sprouts, 8c per pound; garlic, 5fe6c; turnips, 75c per sack; carrots, 75c; beets, 75c; parsnips, 75c. Eggs Fresh locals, candled, 32 35c per dozen. Butter Oregon creamery, cubes, 37c per pound; prints, 3839c. Poultry Hens, 15c; broilers, 15c; turkeys, live, 2223c; dressed, choice, 2627c; ducks, nominal; geese, 13c. Pork Fancy, 1010ic per pound. Veal Fancy, 1414Jc per pound. Hops 1912 crop, prime and choice, 18(ffi20c per pound. Cattle Choice steers, $77.75; good $6.506.75; medium, 6(ffi6.35; choice cows, $66.50; good, $5.50 5.75; medium, $4.505.25; choice calves, $7.509; good heavy calves, $6(3j7; bulls, $35.50; stags, $56. . Hogs Light, $7.508.10; heavy, $6.507.25. Sheep Yearling wethers, fi.zbfa 5.75; 1 6.75. ewes, $44.85; lambs, $5 r''y !'' :ll l w ft ' ill - B- . -w wuiUi-UMufZi : i .ti.? Jf"' - " t 1 rri V 30 MEET DEATH OFF COLUMBIA Oil Steamer Rosecrans On Peacock Spit. Sinks Lifesaving Crews Battle All Day With Gale Ocean Tugs Res cue Lifeboat and Crew. Uwaco, Wash. Twenty-nine men perished in the sea, one died after be ing rescued and three are believed to be safe from the wreck of the oil tank steamer Rosecrans, which went on the rocks at Peacock Spit at 5:20 o'clock Tuesday morning. Fred Peters, third quartermaster, who clung to a plank, swam until un conscious and was washed ashore at Tioga Point, seven miles from the scene of the wreck, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Three of the remaining 33 of the ill-fated crew were rescued by the Point Adams life-saving crew. One man, an oiler, died in the stern of the life-saving boat. The heroic rescue by the life-saving crew was effected at 3 :30 o'clock after the three men had clung to the' rigging of the vessel for almost five hours af ter the Rosecrans sank, at 10:30 a. m. The Rosecrans went aground in a gale estimated at about 70 miles. It was five hours later when the vessel was sighted for the first time after repeated efforts to locate the wreck and heroic battling against the storm by the life crews and three tugs, the One onta, the Fearless and the Tatoosh. At 3 o'clock the Point Adams life saving crew effected a rescue of the three men who clung to the rigging. The Cape Disappointment life crew had been capsized and several of the members badly injured in the repeated attempts to reach the Rosecrans. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon un til about midnight the Point Adams life-saving crew and its three rescued men were storm-tossed on the outside of the bar in a disabled craft unable to get to shore. At midnight the tug Oneonta located the survivors on the lightship and sent a wireless that one of the Rosecrans' crew, an oiler, had perished from the long strain. The Rosecrans is a total wreck. Her captain, L. F. Johnson, and three other dead bodies, have been picked up by the life-saving crew. Besides wreckage from the oil-tanker and two of her lifeboats, which were washed ashore, nothing more from the wrecked steamer reached land. It was daylight before an effectual attempt to make to sea was under taken. It was 8 :30 a. m. before the scene of the wreck was sighted, as the wireless "S. O. S." "Striking the bar and breaking to pieces," from the ill fated steamer had been lost long be- Consul-General Is Dead. London Paul Nash, United States consul general at Budapest, died sud denly at a hotel here. Although it was apparent that death was due to natural causes, an inquest will be nec essary. Consul General Nash arrived here only the day before. At the hotel he asked for a quiet room, as he was suffering from insomnia. He was found dead there next morning. Nash was 36 years old and had been in the diplomatic service at Bangkok, Ven ice, Vladivostok, Rheims and Budapest. , i i -3. . m fore, as the water flooded her hull and the apparatus was rendered useless. The tugs fearless, Tatoosh and One onta, with the Cape Disappointment lifesaving crew, were forced to turn back to Fort Canby. At 9 :10 the naval radio station lo cated the wreck and by radio gave the tugs the location. The rescue work was the most peril ous undertaken at Coumbia bar in its history. It was only when a lull in the storm occurred about noon that the lifesaving crews were able to make to the scene of the wreck, and then the gale was so furious that it was im possible to get within 400 yards of the wreckage. In the wild breakers three of the crew of the lifesavet were washed overboard, but were rescued. The men who had clung to the mast of the Rosecrans jumped into the water and were saved. As the Rosecrans disappeared, only 40 feet of the mainmast remained above water. The men in the rigging kept warm by climbing up and down the ratlines. At 11 a. m. the life saving crews started for the wreck. When they hove in sight hundreds of people ashore at North Head cheered them. The lifeboats were passing through solid walls of water and some times they would seem to be swamped by every breaker going overthe boats. COLD GRIPS ENTIRE COUNTRY Coldest Reported Is 24 Below; Win ter wheat Menaced. Chicago Winter, as the term is un derstood in the Great Lakes region, already more than three months over due, made another and more successful attempt Sunday and Monday to fasten itself upon the Middle West. The deadly cold, originating in Western Canada, where 16 degrees below zero prevails at many points, is spreading rapidly over the country. It reached Chicago in the form of a snow storm, which later turned to rain and still later to heavy sleet, with continued falling of the temperature. The intense cold has not yet arrived in Chicago, but government forecast ers say it will be here soon and re main a long time. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and all Northwestern states report below zero weather and growing colder. Apple Men Take Heart. Hood River, Or. "It is an ill wind that blows no one good," and the apple men expect the disastrous freeze that swept the Southern California orange district to cause an advance in apple prices. J. S. Crutchfield, a Pittsburg commission man, said that the happen ing of two things would greatly aid the marketing of the year's fruit. "One, " he said "is a destructive cy clone in the banana belt and the other a hard freeze in the orange belt." Fire Put Out With Milk, Santa Cruz, Cal. With the water supply cut off by frozen pipes, the family of A. D. Houghton, in Cliff Drive, near Capitola, resorted to pans of milk in fighting a fire that threat ened to burn the home Monday morn ing. The flames were extinguished with small loss. Dog Is Sent By Parcel Post. Yonkers, N. Y. A brindle bulldog was the first parcel post package mailed in Yonkers. It was in a box addressed to William Trievor, of 30 Woodworth avenue. Although live animals are not accepted for transpor tation through the mails, 'Postmaster Warren made an exception, as it was the first parcel, and had a carrier de liver it. The postmaster went in his private carriage to deliver personally a six-pound roast from New York ad dressed to a Yonkers housewife, so it might be in time for dinner. -rjr 2 COLD MENACES CITRUS CROPS California Orange Trees Hung With Icicles. Lowest Temperatures in 20 Years Smudge Pots Avail Little Water Kept Running. Los Angeles Freezing weather, such as Southern California has not experienced in 20 years, swept down from Tehachapi's top on the great orange belt of San Bernardino, Ven tura, Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties Sunday. Damage estimated at many millions of dollars is being wrought to citrus fruits, in spite of desperate efforts of the growers to check the menace by smudging. At Covina the mercury dropped to 22 degrees. At Santa Ana icicles hung from the orange trees. Snow is reported from north of Ox nard. Sugar beets, bean and grain crops are suffering also, but the chief damage is to oranges and lemons. High winds are blowing at Santa Bar bara, Redlands and Coltcn, which it is hoped will prevent heavy frosting. Reports from the Lompoc valley say the loss to fruits there will be enor mous. At Santa Barbara the temperature was below the freezing point all day, and at 10 p. m. it was 22. At Red lands the mercury was 30, and the sky was black with smudges. At Whit tier several hundred thousand young orange trees are exposed to tho ele ments, and the owners fear a total loss. For the most part the sudden drop, despite the United States weather bu reau's warning, was totally unexpect ed by the people, and not mure than a tenth of the growers, it is reported, were prepared. The temperature stood at 18 degrees at Riverside at 10 o'clock. Prayers were offered in the churches for the saving of the citrus groves. The local weather forecasts say the temperature is lower than it has been in 20 years. From all the orange pro ducing points the most depressing re ports are received. At Riverside, which has laid claim to being in the frostless belt, nothing short of a mir acle can save the crop. In San Gabriel, another highly-favored section, the thermometer regis tered 24 degrees at midnight, and growers were turning the irrigation water pipes open in the hope of reduc ing the fast lowering temperature. Not over ten per cent of the ranchers are prepared with smudging pots, and even if all were, little good could be done, as a difference of only six to eight degrees can be made by that method. Sacramento recorded the lowest temperature of 15 years. Suffragists' Rout Chief. Washington, D. C. Major . Sylves ter, superintendent of the Capitol po lice, who announced that the Washing ton suffragists would not be allowed to hold a pageant on March 3, the day before the inauguration, was routed by the suffragists almost as soon as he made the rash announcement. James F. Oyster, president of the chamber of commerce, quickly took up the suffra gists' cause, as did other prominent men, and Sylvester receded from his position. The women will hold their demonstration as planned. b 1 go aii which nro now on display HeineiiilH'r Hint ur"0.SII Htores" can't niutoli, apply to regular linen. 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