THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
EIGHT PAGES
PAGE TWO
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT week
Resume of World's Important
Events Told in Brief.
INVENTS NEW "COLD LIGHT"
A Chicago detective was killed in a
fierht with a much-wanted auto bandit
whom he had trapped.
Portland's city jail is so crowde
there are not enough bunks, so the
prisoners sleep by turns. ,
Inquiry into the alleged Telephone
trust has been turned over to the In
terstate Commerce commission.
Governor Blease, of South Carolina,
will not permit the state militia to at
tend the inauguration of Wilson.
Heavy snows are again falling in the
Cascade mountains and transconti
nental roads fear another blockade.
A sreneral reception will take the
nlace of the inaugural ball when
Woodrow Wilson takes office March 4.
) Governor Wilson has introduced in
'the state legislature of New Jersey
seven bills for the regulation of
trusts.
Clothing makers at Rochester, N,
Y., are on strike, claiming they were
comDelled to finish work left undone
by the New York strikers.
Mrs. Edyth Ellerbeck Read, mem
ber of the Utah legislature, died from
nervous prostration brought on by her
strenuous campaign last fall.
Prof. Campbell, of Lick Observa
tory, California, announces that the
North Star is three separate stars, re
volving around a common center.
Nearly two-score new locomotives
will be received by the O.-W. R. & N
company for distribution over the sys
tem before June 1, in accordance with
a general order for 189 engines re
cently placed bv the Harriman offi
cials.
Joseph Tuffree, who would have
been 103 years old in less than a
month, is dead at his home in Mar
shalltown, la. Tuffree is said to have
been the oldest member of the order
of Elks in the world, having joined the
organization on his 100th birthday an
universary. A tepee 150 feet high, 50 feet in
diameter at the base and 16 feet at
the top, built of logs, will be the ex
hibit of Washington at the Panama
Pacific exposition, if a plan of Senator
Bethel, of Lincoln county, is adopted.
Though blinded by an oil cup explo
sion while in the clouds over Hemp
stead Plains, N. Y., Miss Benetta A.
Miller retained her nerve, guided her
aeroplane to the ground, 1800 feet be
low, and alighted without injuring
herself or the machine.
Thousands of Orangemen and Un
ionists held demonstrations in Belfast
and burned a copy of the home rule
bill.
The English house of commons
passed the home rule bill and the
house of lords passed it on first read
ing. f
Because he married beneath his sta
tion, the Grand Duke Michael, of Rus
sia, has been stripped of his rank by
his brother, the czar, and all his prop
erty placed in the hands of a guardian.
PORTLAND MARKETS
French Scientist May Revolution
ize Electric Lighting.
Paria M. Dussaud, a French scient
ist, who has discovered a means for
the production of what he terms "cold
light," has made public some details
of his discovery, which it is thought
may revolutionize electric lighting.
He has constructed an electric lamp
in which the light is concentrated on
a single point and thence is projected
through a lens, magnifying a thousand
fold. Thus he has succeeded in con
centrating a 2000-candle power light
on one point, and in passing 32 volts
into an eight-volt lamp, with which
the ordinary light would burst.
Experiments with this lamp have
established that the new light abso
lutely is without danger, as no heat is
piven off and it required 100 times .
less current than the ordinary lamp.
It can be worked by a tiny battery or
sufficient motive power can be ob
tained from a jet of water from an or
dinary faucet or even a squirrel turn
ing a cage. The light has been tried
with great success in the Biarritz light
house, and M. Dussaud is working on
its BDDlieation to searchlights for the
ministry of war.
DOINGS OF OREGON'S LEGISLATURE
A ISricf Resume of l'rocecdings of the People's Representatives
at the State Capital, Bills Introduced, Passed, Rejected, Etc.
LANE IS ELECTED SENATOR 'APPROPRIATION BILLS RIG
PARCEL POST CHICKEN
ON ROAD TOO LONG
Portland A chicken that had spoil
ed in transit arrived in Portland Wed
nesday by parcel post from an interior
town in Nebraska. The package was
properly wrapped, directed and had 34
cent3 in stamps attached, but the four
or more days' travel in steam-heated
postal cars had spoiled the pullet for
eating purposes and it was delivered
to the city garbage crematory in post
haste. Of such disposition of parcel
post matter no record is kept, as the
sender transmits- the package at his
own risk and the postoffice authorities
are expected to use only the same care
as is given other classes of mail mat
ter.
'FREE MEAT" IS PROPOSED
Measure Blocked by Taf t Veto Will
Come Up Again.
Washington, D. C. "Free meat,
proposed by the house Democrats at
the last session of congress but block
ed by a presidential veto, was indicat
ed as part of the extra session of con
gress' tariff! revision program at the
hearing before the house committee on
ways and means.
Members of the committee empha
sized the majority sentiment in favor
of free meats and a strong trend to
ward free cattle in accord with the
general policy of Democrats last year
to transfer the necessities of life, in
cluding sugar and lumber, to the free
list.
Protest against putting cattle and
meats on the free list was made by S.
H. Cowan, of Fort Worth, Tex., as
spokesman for the cattle industry west
of the Mississippi river. Mr. Cowan
said that such a plan, if adopted,
would mean a flood of cheaper meats
from the South American ranges, and
pictured a ruin of the industry in
Texas.
ICE FLOE FRIGHTENS INDIANS
That
Wheat Track prices : Club, 85
86c per bushel : Bluestem, 92c; forty
fold, 86c; red Russian, 83c; valley,
86c.
Barley Feed, $24 per ton ;' brew
ing, nominal; rolled, $25.50026.50,
Hay Timothy, choice, $16rS17;
mixed, Eastern Oregon timothy, $12
(a:15; ?bat and vetch. $12; alfalfa,
$11.50; clover, $10; straw, $6(7.
Millstnfiffs Bran, $22 ton; shorts,
$24; middlings, $30.
Oats No. 1 white, $26.50(7i$27 ton.
Eggs Fresh locals, candled, 29
30c dozen.
Butter Oregon creamery, cubes,
37ic pound; prints, 38itfj;39c. .
Poultry Hens, 13J14c; broilers,
13(5;14c; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed,
choice, 25c; ducks, 1314c; geese,
12c.
Pork Fancy, 10c pound.
Veal Fancy, 1414$c pound.
Hops 1912 crop, prime and choice,
19(S;20c pound; 1913, contracts, 15c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 14fijl8c
pound; valley, 21i22c; mohair,
choice, 32c.
Cattle Choice steers, $7.30(fjj8;
good, $77.30; medium, $6.50(S!7;
choice cows, $6.50(u,7; god, $66.50;
medium, $5.5006; choice calves, $8(i;
9; good heavy calves, $6.507.50;
bulls, $3(5:5.50.
Hogs Light, $7.257.50; heavy,
$6(ffi6.50.
Sheep Yearling wethers, $5(fl6.25;
ewes, $4(rf4.85; lambs, $3607.35.
Fresh Fruits Apples, 5Oc0,$15.O
per box; pears, $1.5$0 O2; grapes,
Emperors, $5 per barrel. m
Potatoes Jobing prices: Burbanks,
5O0j6Oc per hundred; sweet potatoes,
3Jc per pound.
Vegetables Artichokes, $1.50 per
dozen; cabbage, le per pound; cauli
flower, $2.75 per crate; celery, $5.50
per crate; cucumbers, 75c0$2 per
dozen; eggplant, 10c pound; head let
tuce, $2.50 per crate; peppers, 10c
per pound; radishes, 35c per dozen;
sprouts, 10c pound; tomatoes, $2.25
per box; garlic, 506c pound; tur
nips, 75c per sack; " carrots, 75c;
.beets, 75c; parsnips, 75c.
Onions Oregon, $1 per sack. .
Colorado River Jammed So
Work Is Suspended.
Los Angeles Work on the big gov
ernment dike near Fort Mohave has
I been practically suspended, according
I f r nffipial ronnrta hfipnnao tha Tnrlian
laborers employed on the project de
cline to risk their frail boats among
the ice noes that are rushing down the
Colorado river. These Indians are
adepts at shooting the rapids, which
abound in the big stream, but the ice
has so filled the river that they fear to
trust themselves to the turbulent cur
rents. This is the first time that ice
in such quantities has ever been seen
on the Colorado river in thi3 latitude.
Stand-ratters, Bull Moosers, Pro
gressives and Democrats Unite.
Salem Scarcely a ripple of excite
ment was attendant upon the election
by the state legislature of Dr. Harry
Lane, of Portland, as the junior Unit
ed States senator from Oregon.
Standpatter, Hull Moosers, Progres
sives, Democrats and anti-statement
No. 1 senators practically united on
the Democratic candidate with the ex
ception of three members. Scarcely
more than the usual crowd was in the
visitors' seats behind the rails.
Two in the senate and one in the
house declared their opposition to
Lane, and Ben Selling, of Portland,
was accorueu tnree complimentary
votes.
Senators Bean and Calkins, both of
whom did not take Statement No. 1,
voted for Ben Soiling, as did Repre
sentative Meek, who also did not take
Statement No. 1. Repesentative Bel-
land, who did not take the statement,
explained his vote and cast it for
Harry Lane.
BIG PLUMS FOR MULTNOMAH
on
Democrats Get Chairmanships
Five Important Committees.
State Capitol, Salem James D. Ab
bott, of Multnomah, is chairman of
the wavs and means committee of the
house of representatives. Multnomah
county also drew another important
assignment in the appointment of J
T. Latourette to the chairmanship of
the judiciary committee.
Westerlund, of Jackson, one of the
leading orchardists of the Rogue River
valley, is chairman of the committee
on horticulture. Reams, of Jackson,
is chairman of the committee on rail
roads. The chairmanship of the com
mittee on printing, likely to be im
portant by reason of the proposal to
repeal the law placing the printer on a
flat salary, passed in 1911, went to
Eaton of Lane.
Speaker McArthur gave the import
ant chairmanships of expositions and
fairs, judiciary, labor industries, res
olutions and ways and means to Mult
nomah county. Multnomah gets 12
chairmanships out of the 41.
lhe important chairmanships going
to outside counties are : Assessment
and taxation, banking, educations,
fisheries, game, insurance, irrigation,
railroads, revision of laws and roads
and highways.
Democrats were given chairman
ships on the committees on agricul
ture, forestry and conservation, game
and railroads. All other chairman
ships go to the Republicans. No mem
ber has more than one chairmanship
nor more than four committee places.
FIGHT OVER VETOED BILLS
Up
Chinese Loans Faltering,
New York American members of
the Chinese six-power loan syndicate
were unable to confirm Pekin cables
saying negotiations with the Chinese
government have been abandoned be
cause of the European money strin
gency. Jfrivate advices irom various
continental sources, however, were
generally to that effect. It was said
in reliable quarters that the French
bankers in the syndicate were among
the first to withdraw, basing their ac
tion on the uncertain financial condi
tions arising from the Balkan trouble.
City Chauffeurs Wanted.
San Francisco Municipal chauf
feurs, 20 of them, at $140 a month
each, is the proposal submitted to the
Board of Supervisors by the Civil
Service and Fire commissioners. The
commissioners recommended that the
chauffeurs be employed as experts for
one year to teach firemen how to drive
and care for the motor-driven fire
apparatus. The fire department, re
cently resolved never to buy another
horse-drawn engine.
Taf t to Allow Hearing.
Washington, D. C. Before deciding
how he w-ill act upon the immigration
bill pending in congress, President
Taft will give a hearing to some
prominent Jews opposing its passage.
The president has not made up his
mind as to the merits of this measure.
He), ; is anxious that opportunity for a
hearing be given to all 'and as soon as
the bill is sent to him he will arrange
for a hearing in the White House.
Measures Killed in 1911 Come
for Reconsideration.
State Capitol, Salem War to the
finish will be declared between con
flicting factions of the state senate
when the governor's vetoed bills come
up for final disposition, and determin
ation will be reached as to whether
Governor West or Treasurer Kay will
have a dominating influence in that
body.
When the judiciary committee met
for a final consideration of vetoed sen
ate bills the two that affect the ad
ministration vitally were given long
consideration. These are bills which
were introduced in 1911 by Wood, of
Washington. One provides that it
shall be unlawful for any official, trus
tee, manager, director or superintend
ent or board of commissioners of any
public institution to create a defi
ciency. In event of a deficiency where the
life of the institution is imperiled a
board of emergency including the gov
ernor, secretary of state and state
treasurer, with the speaker of the
house, president of the senate and the
chairmen of the two ways and means
committees, may meet and cover such
an emergency. Any other means of
covering an institutional decfieincy
carries a heavy penalty under the bill.
The other Wood bill prevents the sec
retary of state from auditing a claim
for which there ia no appropriation.
West is opposed to these two bills.
Kay is heartily in favor of them, ac
cording to numerous statements made
in the judiciary committee meeting.
Change in Registration Act.
State Capitol, Salem To provide
that when an elector has once regis
tered in a precinct, he need not regis
ter again until he changes his resi
dence is the main object ' of a bill
which was intoduced in the senate by
Carson," of Marion. The bill also pro
vides that all who did not register in
1912 must register with a notary pub
lic, justice of the peace or county clerk.
In addition to these provisions the bill
also prohibits anyone from voting in
the state unless he is registered, as in
the act provided.
Requires Physical Examination.
State Capitol, Salcm'-No marriage
icense will be issued in the state un
less the application, istacc,qmparjied by
a certificate from a practfeing physi
cian that the male party to the mar
riage has been examined by such phy
sician at least 12 hours prior to the
ceremony and that he is physically fit
io enter into sucn marriage contract,
should a bill introduced by Senator
Dimick become a law.
$1,078,700 Asked for, With Several
Millions More Coming.
Salem Appropriation bills muking
demands on the state treasury to the
extent of $1,078,700 nave been intro
dueed in the Oregon legislature during
the first week of the session. This is
a double record breaker, us it ia the
first time that appropriation bills have
ever been introduced during the first
week.
This does not include the big appro
priation bills which are to come and
which will probably carry about $4,
500,000, or perhaps more. Should this
pace be kept up for two or three
weeks there is a Kssibility of the
appropriation bills running riot, but
many of the bills that have been in
troduced will be badly slaughtered or
the appropriations which they carry
will be sliced with no gentle hand.
The actual total of the appropria
tions which are included in the bills so
far introduced is $1,578,700, but two
of the bills are duplicates, each carry
ing an appropriation of $500,000 for
the Panama-Pacific exjiosition.
It seems to be a pretty well settled
fact that this appropriation will not
get past the $250,000 mark at the
outside, although some of the mem
bers are boosting for $300,000. A
great number of them have settled on
$200,000 as the proper figure, while
others are even anxious to go lower
than that.
The appropriation of $15,000 for the
biennial period, which has been intro
duced in connection with McArthur's
bill establishing a state board of con
trol, is really a substitute appropria
tion for a similar amount which is car
ried in the State Purchasing board
appropriation bill, which was passed
two years ago. In event the Mc
Arthur bill goes through, it will virtu
ally do away with the State Purchas
ing board by placing the duties of that
board with the state board of control.
A few of the bills have been intro
duced for agricultural experiment sta
tions. One of these is for Coos coun
ty, while another bill makes provision
for an argicultural test farm also in
Coos county. Further requests are
made for an experiment station in
Clatsop county and an experiment sta
tion in Malheur county.
The appropriation of $3000 a year
which is carried for the salary of the
governor's secretary is practically a
duplicate of the present cost to the
state for that office. Now he acts as
clerk of several boards of the various
institutons. In event the Board of
Control bill goes through these duties
would be taken from him and his sal
ary dropped to $1200 a year, the ob
ject of the bill being to keep his sal
ary at the present mark.
The appropriation of $50,000 car
ried in the public levee bill, according
to the plan stated by the introducers
of the bill, will not come as a dead
loss to the state. The introducers
state that the $50,000 is inserted in
the bill to provide for reimbursing the
railroad company in event it is deter
mined that the Southern Pacific has
any vested rights in the levee property
on which is located the West Side sta
tion.
beveral $50,000 appropriations are
included in the list of bills which have
been introduced. Among these are in
eluded an appropriation for the State
Bureau of Mines, one for the estab'
lishment of a state reformatory at Sa
lem; another for investigation of the
water resources of the state, another
for an industrial accident commission,
and another to reimburse certain In
dian War veterans.
These are by no means the last of
the bills to come which will carry ap
propriations in addition to the appro
priations of magnitude which will be
included in the institutional bills by
the ways and means committee.
The State Board of Agriculture con
templates introducing a bill providing
for $100,000 for the construction of a
pavilion at the State Fair grounds, as
well as also asking tor the usual ap
propriation for premiums and some
money to pay for State Fair defi-
ciences.
In addition numerous other appro'
priation requests will be thrown into
the jackpot during the next week or
so.
To Protect Wage Workers.
Salem Drastic provisions are con
tained in a bill which will be intro
duced by Senator J. C. Smith, of Jo
sephine, early in the next week of the
session. The bill makes provision
that all corporations, firms or individ
uals,employing working men or work
ing women at a regular salary or rate
of wages, or purchases supplies for
the maintenance of the business, shall
before entering into such employment
orinaking such purchase maintain a
cash reserve to meet all accounts for
wages or supplies.
You May Adrwe
The olovor iulvertiing that draws you to a store, but you
won't no again if the promises made tiro of the pio orunt
kind.
You JVTust Admire
however, the utore whore promices uro more Until fulfilled
whore you buy groceries and crockery betti r than you
expected and at prices lower than you expected to pay.
That's the kind of a store this is. Tho store of Perfection,
i'roiniso and Price.
Li. G. REEVES
Mum and C'Strcets.
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Hanna Brothers
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K
LYDE'S
ANDY
ITCHEN
THE PLACE
that PLEASES
Home-made Candies Our Specialty.
Hot and Cold Drinks, Cigars and
Tobaccos. Everything Fresh.
C Street.
INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
Clover Leaf Dair;y
PURE, CLEAN, FRESH MILK AND CREAM AT RIGHT TRICE3
TWICE A DAY DELIVERY.
Grant McLaughlin
rhone 8322
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
Initiative Draws Fire.
Salem The initiative and referen
dum and the corrupt practices act are
being made in prospect the subject of
numerous mendatory acta at the pres
ent session of the legislature, but ac
cording to indications the majority of
the amendments to these acts which
have already been proposed will meet
with scant favor from the committees
to which they have been referred.
BUY DIRECT from FACTORY
WHY BUY MISFIT FURNIT URE WHEN YOUCAN GET FUR
NITURE MADE TO ORDER TO MATCH AND FIT YQUR HOME
AT A VERY REASONABLE FIGURE, DIRECT FROM FACTORY.
MILLER & KANNE
Opposite New Hotel.
Independence, Ore.
Get in the Habit
of Trading Here
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make a specialty of fancygrocerles goods with a reputation
for quality that pleases the most exacting taste, and we take
special pride In recommendln our grocery department to the peo
ple of Independence and vicinity. But our efforts to keep our
GROCERY DEPARTMENT In the front ranks have been no great
er than have been our efforts to make every department of the
store Just right If you are not In the habit of making this estab
lishment your shopping headquarters, get In the habit.
Drexler & Alexander
INDEPENDENCE,
OREGON.
rsra3Jiujme"u
UPHOLSTERING
REPAIRING OF FURNITURE,
RENOVATING FURNITURE,
FIXABLE MENDED. WILL
GOODS.
STOVES, SEWING MACHINES,
SHEARS SHARPENED. ANYTHING
CALL FOR AND DELIVER ALL
R. J. BASGUE
Garage Building,
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
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