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DOINGS OFTHE WEEK Current Events of Interest Gatherei From the World at Large. General R esum e o f Important Event! P resen ted In C on d en sed Form fo r O ur Busy R eaders. Theodore R oosevelt w ill speak Portland April 5. In M exican rebels and fed erals both claim victory at Sahuaripa. Carrie Nation Is a nervous wreck and d octors say sh e w ill not re cover. N ational banks are holding In re serve $86,000,000 m ore than required by law. C arnegie has doubled h is original offer of $14,000 for a public library at Salem , Ore. T hree laborers w ere killed by a sn ow sild e near Truckee, Cal., w hile clearin g snow from the railroad tracks. A volcanic eruption has nearly de stroyed a sm all island In the Philip pin es and several hundred people are b elieved to have perished. Aviator McCurdy flew from the F lorida coast to within ten m iles of H avana, Cuba, when he was forced to alight by lack of oil. Ills pontoon attach m en ts kept him safely afloat until picked up by a torpedo boat destroyer. T he W ashington legislatu re Congress to curb im m igration. P olice again used C hicago strik e riots. their urges clubs In P resid en t T aft d eclares for Im m ed ia te step s to create a m erchant m a rine. R E B E L S T R A P FE D E R A L S . Mexican Insurgents W in Decisive V ic tory in Sonora. Douglas, A ril., Jan. 28.— N ew s has reached Douglas today of fierce fight ing betw een M exican troops and the rebels in the vicin ity of Sahuaripa, follow in g the capture of that city by the in su rgen ts several days ago. The federal forces are said to have been decoyed into a disadvantageous position, w hence the rebels poured a deadly fire, resuftlng in the com plete defeat of the govern m en t forces. M ayor Chiapa of M octezuuia, who organized the federal forces to resist the advance of the rebels, is reported killed in the engagem ent. F ollow in g the battle, which oc curred m idway betw een the cities of Sahuarpia and M octezum a, the gov ernm ent telegraphed an urgent call to D ouglas for a special train to bring more troops south. The train was quickly m ade up and 50 soldiers gathered togeth er In Agua Prieta, op p osite Douglas, w ere sent to Nac- azari, the southern term inus of the Machari roailroad These sold iers arrived there th is m orning and at once started on an overland march to M ovtezum a in an attem p t to sa v e that city from fall in g in to the hands of the rebels. T h is latest d efeat o f the federal forces is said to leave the rebels in com plete com mand of th is section of the S tate of Sonora. F ollow ing the b loodless surrender of Sahuaripa a few days ago, Jefe Chiapa, of M octezum a, organized a force of about 200 volunteers which was added to later by 53 volunteers from Cumpas, for the purpose of resistin g the northward advance of the rebels. The insurrectos follow ed their u s ual tactics of g ettin g the superior position from w hich they poured volley after volley into the unpro tected ranks of the federals. The rebels are reported to have taken charge of all public offices in Sahuaripa and are exten d ing protec tion to the w iv es and fam ilies of form er officials who have fled. A M exican colonel, ordered to ar rest h is own son s as rebels, deserted w ith h is en tire com mand. DEATH Three T h e W isconsin legislatu re Is con sid erin g a bill to perm it trouser sk irts and forbid the hobble skirt. IN B L IZ Z A R D . Children Freeze; M other and Daughter Cripple. P endleton, Ore.— T hree of the four children of K. E. O rossehem ig, a for N ew Orleans, fearin g defeat, Is mer resident of th is county, were se ek in g to delay final action on the frozen to death in a recent Saskatche P anam a exp osition bill In con gress. wan blizzard, w h ile the m other and fourth child w ere so badly frozen The K ansas legislatu re is blocked that each will lose a leg. N ew s was by the advance effects of a political received here in a letter from Canada. fight tw o years hence. The m other and her four children, tw o boys and tw o girls, started in A R oslyn m iner dropped a spark st^arch of som e sh eep which had from a cigarette Into a can of powder strayed from the flock. W hen they and the exp losion badly Injured every were tw o m iles from hom e the bliz one of h is fam ily, Including him self, zard cam e w ithou t warning. The and w recked h is house. boys tried so save the sheep, be A U. S. revenue cu tter captured cam e lost and were dead when found. on e C hinese sm u gglin g v essel near The m other drew her two daughters Santa llarbara. Cal., but several oth to her and huddled down in the snow. The younger of the girls died w ithin ers escap ed In a fog. a few hours after help reached them, Leaders In con gress thin k an ex w hile the older girl and the m other are yet in a seriou s condition. tra sessio n w ill be avoided. W hile a resid en t o f th is county A Portland pollcem tn captured G osseh em ig w as tw ice under arrest, once for keeping h is children out of three highw aym en who attem pted tc hold him up, a fourth man escaping. school and o n ce for m aking a young girl and young boy herd sh eep in a snow storm w hile they were w ear PO RTLAND M A R K ET8. W heat— Track prices: Bluestem , ing sh o es through which their toes 48c; club, 80c; red R ussian, 79c; Val protruded. Domes or oreeon state legislature Salem , Jan. 30.— Superintendent S teiner, of the O regon Insane Asylum and S tate Treasurer Kay cam e to the bat for their inuings in the asylum controversy tonight when they ap peared before the w ays and m eans com m ittee. Superintendent S teiner entered into a general refutation of the ch arges m ade again st him on the sen a te floor and in the report of the le g is lative com m ittee and left $1500 with the w ays and m eans com m ittee to be given to the Young Men’s Chris tian A ssociation if a penny's w aste in h is m anagem ent of the asylu m is proved. Even in far-off N orway in terest is being taken in the spiritual w elfare of the O regon legislature. T h is afternoon m em bers o f the sen ate all received a con sign m en t o f ap propriate scriptural quotations, the com m unication being anonym ous, but the postm ark w as dated at Stordalem , Norway. W hat proved to be the m ost decided con test of the m orning in the sen a te developed o ver H owerm an’s bill to create the office of A ssista n t Secre tary of S tate and em pow er th a t of ficial with all of the duties, p rivileges and powers of the Secretary in the ab sen ce of h is su|>erior. Frequent clash es betw een Senators K ellaher and Maiarkey, intim ations that the m em bers of the Oregon Kail- road Com m ission w ere taking unus ual in terest in the su b ject and charges that if the bill were enacted it would prove unconstitutional marked the initial public hearing be fore the sen ate railroad com m ittee tonight when Senator M alarkey’s bill providing for a State Public S ervice Com m ission w as considered. The com m ittee will hold further hearings before reporting the m easure to the senate. Salem , Jan. 28. — Conspiracy on the part o f a number o f m em bers of the house o f rep resen tatives to pre ven t a session today was follow ed this morning by issuance o f w arrants for the arrest by the sergean t-at-arm s and an assistan t, o f seven m issin g Multno mah county representatives and any others he m ight find in Portland. The action taken th is m orning w as approved by the 37 members who g a th ered in the assem bly hall and who found that they lacked three o f a quorum. It is the first tim e sin ce the fam ous “ hold-up” session o f 1897 that such a course has been follow ed. Good roads won a third victory in the senate yesterday when the b ill pro v id in g the m ethod for bond issu es by cou n ties m aking effectiv e an am end m ent to the constitution adopted by the people last N ovem er, w as passed by a vote o f 20 to 8. Only one other good roads m easure is le ft pending in the sen ate. T h is is the bill which provides for w orking city and county prisoners on the roads, senate bill 72, w hich w as found to be im properly printed and had to be sen t back to the printer. Senator Josep h ’s naval m ilitia b ill, which continues the organization al ready formed and restain s the present officers in command, w ent through the sen ate yesterday w ith 21 affirm ative votes and seven in the n eg a tiv e. A l though B arrett o f W ashington m ade a hard fight for his bill reducing the li cense for country peddlers, the senate yesterday turned down the bill by 16 to 11. The bill would have cu t the li cense for peddlers on foot from $25 to $10, one horse and w agon from $100 to $25 and m ade the rate for tw o horses or auto $50, instead of $150 for two horse and w agons and $300 for auto m obiles. ley, 81c; 40-fold, 81c. B LA C K H A N D GANG S P L IT S . B arley— Feed, $23.50® 24 per ton; brew ing, $27®27.50 per ton. M lllstuffs— Bran, |23® 24.50 per ton; A fte r Routing W h ite Hand, It Starts Factional W ar. m iddlings, $30® 31; shorts, $24®26.50; rolled barley, $26®27. Chicago.—The W hite Hand society, Corn— W hole, $29; cracked, $30 per an organization o f w ealth y and influ ton. en tial Italians, formed for the pur Oats— No. 1 w h ite, $28.50 per ton pose of driving the Klack Hand out H ay— Track prices: T im othy, W il of the city, has itse lf been routed Salem , Ore., Jan. 27.—W ith only lam ette V alley, $19@20 per ton; E ast and rival bands of the crim inal or ern Oregon, $21® 22; alfalfa, $14; ganization have en tered upon a war ten d issen tin g votes, the h ou se to grain hay, $14.50® 15.50; clover, $13® of exterm ination again st each other, day passed K uchanan’s bill ab olish 14. according to police officials. ing the w hipping post. By the pro A ppl-e—W axen, 5 0 c ® $1; Baldwin, Fully a dozen of the unexplained 75c@ $1.25; Northern Spy, 00c® $1.50; m urders on the North Side during v isio n s of the bill, w ife-b eatin g is Snow, $1.25; Red Cheek Pippin, $1® the last year now are attributed by m ade punishable in the sam e m anner 1.26; W inter Banana, $1.75® 2; Spitz the p olice to in tern ecin e strife be as other aggravated cases o f assa u lt enberg, $1.50®2.50; Y ellow N ew tow n. tw een the Klack Handers. The po and battery. The debate on the bill, $1.75; A rkansas Black, $2; Delaware lice have given ou t a list of five dead which w as d efeated in the le g isla Red, $1.75; Gano, $1.25; W lnesap. and say they have estab lish ed a con ture two years ago, w as brief. Bu $1.75. nection betw een th e se men and a chanan argued that the law w as a Sack V egetab les— Carrots, $1 hun Klack Hand suspect who is in the blur on the statu te books o f the dred; parsnips, $1.50©1.75; turnips. custody of the United S tates authori state, w hile its en forcem en t did not $1; b eets, $1.25. ties on the ch arge o f u sing the m ails deter any man from beating h is wife. V egetab les— B eans, 12'/4 per lb.; to extort money. R ecom m endations th at the house cabbage, $1.50®1.75 per hundred; joint m em orial to con gress a sk in g for cauliflow er, $2.25 per crate; celery, $250,000 for the U oseburg federal California, $3® 3.25 per crate; cucum Philadelphia Plans Tube. building and a m em orial a sk in g for bers, $2 tier box; e g g plant, 15c per Philadelphia.—Tt is learned that the passage of H aw ley’s bill in con lb.; garlic, 8c® 10 per lb.; green on am ong Mayor Key burn’s plans for gress for the support of the Indian Ions, 15c per dozen; head lettu ce, 50c the im provem ent of Philadelphia is war veterans, received favorable* con ® 60 per box; h othouse lettuce, 75c® a four-track subw ay the en tire length sideration in the sen a te today. $1 per box; peppers, 15c per lb.; of Kroad street, a d istan ce of 11 A m ove for a joint com m ittee be pum pkins, lc@ lV 4c per lb.; radishes m iles, to be owned by the city, the tw een Oregon and California to pass 30c® 35 per dozen; sprouts, 8c; exten sion of the Market street sub on gam e law s and a re olution for a squash, lc ® l% per lb.; tom atoes way system to Camden, N. J., statem en t of in creasin g and con tinu $2® 2.75 per box. ihrough tunnels under the Delaware ing appropriations were g iven un P otatoes— Oregon, buying price river, and an Im m ense convention favorable consideration by the com $1.25©1.40 per hundred; sw eet pota hall in Edgem ont park. The pro m ittee. toes, $3.75 per hundred. The h ou se today defeated Bige- posed im provem ents are to he made O nions— B uying price, $2 per hun under a $60,000,000 city loan, 0 f i low ’s hill authorizing the governor dred. bv sp ecial proclam ation to create which $28,000,000 will be spent on P oultry— L ive: l.e n s , 19c® 20; the Kroad street subway. bird and gam e refuges on sta te or 8prlngs. 18c@19V4; turkeys, 22c© 23; private iands. T h is m easure w a s ob- ducks, 22c© 23; geese, 12c® 14; d ress Royal P a ir Live H appily. to, from ,<'a r l})a t “ * • * ame ed turkeys, choice, 25c® 26. ' 7 warden, in recom m ending the crea Eggs— O regon ranch, candled, ?0c© W ashington.— The attention of the Mon of th e se refuges, m ight tresp a ss 32; E astern, 27c© 30. Spanish legation has been attracted ,l,n m nch on p rivileg es now en- Butter—City cream ery extra. 1 and 2 pound prints, In boxes, 85c per hy certain publications to the effect Civil war veteran s w ill con tinu e to pound; less than boxes, cartons and that d om estic in felicity lias brought nay required peddler’s licen se, d elivery extra. „i— » - an about - estran —*— gem - en * t betw — een •* King the house today k illin g by indefinite Pork— Fancy, 1044c®1144 per lb. Mfonso and h is royal spouse. Queen postponem ent R ep resen tative J o n es’ V eal— F ancy, 85 to 125 lbs., 13c® 15 Victoria. M inister R leno has en hill exem p tin g old sold iers from the per lb. tered an em phatic denial of the operation of th is statu te. Cattle— P rim e steers, $R.25®6.50; story. He a sse r ts that the royal good to choice steers. $6 00®6.25; nalr en joy the happiest relations. Lieutenant-Governor W anted. fair to good steers, ♦o.50©6.00; com The rum ors of a separation are 1»«»- | n u n steers, $4.0l)®5.00; ch oice to lieved bv him to h ave been set afloat i Salem , Or., Jan. 26.—The h o u se to* prim e cow s, $5.25©5.50; good tc by anti-dynastic influ en ces. day adopted S en ator C alkins’ Joint ch oice beef cow s, $4.75@ 5.25; fair resolution proposing a con stitution al to good b eef cow s, $4.25®4 75; com amendment, for a Lieutenant-G over n o n to fair beef cow s, $2 0 0 0 4 00; Shaft Is L iving Tomb. nor. B efore doing so the house good to ch oice heifers. $5.00®5.50; adopted an am endm ent providing that San Bernardino, Cal.—G eorge Kra fair to good h eifers, $5.00®5.50; com the sj>eaker shall be next in the order n o n to fair heifers, $4 ,0 © 4 25; choice mer. a m ine owner, w as rescued by o f su ccession to the G overnor’s chair, to good fat bulla, $4.50®4.75; fair to his partners after he had been im in even t o f death, ab sen ce from the good fat bulls, $4.00®4 25; com mon prisoned for 24 hours in their m ine sta te or «liability, after the L ieu ten bulls, $2 50@3 25; good to ch oice light ant-Governor and p resident o f the calves, $ 7 .7 5 0 8 00; fair to good light near W ingate pass. He w as nncon- 8ea.a if ^aa. 8t'rve.^ resolution calves, $7.00®7.50; good to choice scions when found and was revived and be su b m itted to the people in with difficulty. I lls hands h eavy calves, $5.25® 6 00; fair to good fingers w ere bleed in g from h is efforts j general election , N ovem ber, 1912. heavy calves. $4.75®5.25; com mon calves, $3.7504.75; good to choice to dig through a m ass of gravel and O il P ainting of Tw o Asked. stags. $5 00® 5.25; fair to good stags rock which had caved in and blocked the shaft en trance $4 0 0 04.50. Salem , Or., Jan. 26.—Through the H ogs—Choice h ogs, $8.8509.00; Panic 9 ie z e t Hundreds. adoption o f a h ou se concurrent reao good to ch oice hogs. $8.50 0 8 85. C h ica g o — Fire brought about 600; Intlon. introduced by the resolu tion s Sheep— Y earling w ethers, grain fed $4 25tfi>5.25; old w ethers, grain fed j gu ests from their room s In the Ma ’ com m ittee, the bouse today approved 3 75(f?4 25; good to ch oice ew e« g^a’n iestic and Great Northern hotels, the purchase by the sta te o f oil which adjoin at Dearborn and portraits of ex-O overnor B enson and fed. $3 25(^3 75; feeders. $2 254*3 00 choir© lamb«, grain fed. $6 254?6 50 Quincy streets. T h e fire, which ex-A cting G overnor Dowerm an, to he Rood to choice, grain fed. $6 004i started in the kitchen of the grill exhibited in eith er the h ou se or sen- The resolution goes 6.2 5; fair to rood, $5 25® 5 75; poor room on the sev en teen th floor of the ate cham bers. M ajestic, was extin gu ish ed with a to the se n a te for its favorable ac- Iambs. $4 954*6.00. Hay fed sh eep and lam bs, 50c lower loss of about $40,000, m ostly from , iton before the pain tin gs w ill he or- water. * dered. than grain fed. Salem , Or., Jan. 26.— P lace all con v icts on the roads w hen not needed for other purposes at the S tate P en itentiary and create a S ta te H ighway C om m ission. T h ese are the m oves carried In two bills th a t passed the sen a te th is afternoon a fter a pro longed fight. S om eth in g of the conflict w as pre saged w hen M cCulloch o f Baker, ob jected to creation of a S ta te H ighway C om m ission, as Joseph 's Senate Bill N'». 42 cam e uu for consideration. This bill w as passed upon favorably by the sen ate, T uesday, w hile sitting as a com m ittee of the w hole to hear the p leas of m en rep resen tin g 300 lead in g Portland citizen s. Then only eig h t v o tes w ere recorded against it. P assa g e of the m easure w as thought to be com paratively ea sy today until unexpected opposition appeared. M cCulloch declared th a t from the sagebrush country in E astern Oregon there had com e down th e line the word that they do not w ant the High way C om m ission, and that he would be com p elled to vote again st it. Rigid and thorough in vestigation of the affairs and m anagem ent of the O regon S tate Insane A sylum w as ordered by both the sen a te and the h ou se in resolu tion s adopted today. T h e sen a te adopted a resolution providing for a co m m ittee of five m em bers, three from the house and tw o from the sen ate, w h ile the house provided for a sp ecial com m ittee of five o f its own m em bers to conduct the Inquiry. Both resolu tion s in stru ct the in v es tig a tin g com m ittee to m ake a report of th eir findings to the legislature prior to adjournm ent. U n le ss the two h o u ses got togeth er and decided on a jo in t com m ittee it is p o ssib le an in v estig a tio n m ay be conducted by tw o separate com m it tees. Salem , Or., Jan. 25.— Sale of the sta te pilot schooner San J o se w as au thorized by the house yesterday af ternoon. T he bill presen ted by Lein- en w eb er o f Clatsop, w as unanim ously passed a fter the author had explained that the sh ip w as a dead w eight upou the hands o f tho pilot com m ission. C latsop county now a w a its only the sig n a tu re o f the governor to san ction the proposed two and a h alf m ill tax to raise funds for the A storia cen ten nial celebration. S en a te bill No. 61, au th orizin g the tax, w as approved by the house, follow in g b rief exp lan a tio n s by R ep resen ta tiv es L einenw eber and K elland of Clatsop. T h e proposal to con stru ct a bridge acro ss the Columbia river a t Portland to con n ect Oregon and W ashington, w hich w a s killed at the la st sessio n , has been revived. B igelow of Mult nom ah presented a resolution in the house, appropriating $5000 for an in v estig a tio n by the sta te en gin eer to learn w h eth er or not th e project is feasib le. The bridge would form a co n n ectin g link for the proposed P a cific h igh w ay betw een the two sta tes. P eterson of U m atilla w ithdrew h ou se bill No. 49, p erm ittin g any per son to se rv e sum m ons in a legal a c tion. M em bers of the revision of law s com m ittee refused to aprove it on the grounds that it m ight be used a s a m edium of fraud by unscrupu lous persons. B igelow of M ultnom ah presented a resolution asking th e five M ultnomah county circuit jud ges to appear be fore th e com m ittee on judiciary and d iscu ss the bill to in crea se the bench to seven . Abram s o f M arion would have the governm ent set a sid e 30.000 acres in the K lam ath Indian reservation and Crater Lake national fo rest for perm an en t use a s grounds for m aneuvers of the U nited S ta tes troops and m il itia. NEW POTATO K IN G . M aurice Zuckerm an Invades C ali fornia Field and Rules M a rke t. Ldg A ngales, Cal.—M aurice Zucker- luau, head o f a large produce house and form erly southern California agen t for G eorge Shim a, the Japanese "potato king," h as gone in for the spud m onarchy uu his ow n account and apparently h as Shim a fairly de posed. P otatoes cost half as m uch again a s they did a year ago, becau se of last year's gen eral shortuge. Zucker man foresaw , apparently, before Shim a, that there would be a co n se quent sh ortage th is sea so n and be gan "cornering’' six m onths ago. Zuckermau invaded Shim a's terri tory, buying all the river and high land stock he could g et and sim ply holding it. T hen he sen t u g eu ts to Idaho, the n ex t source of supply, tying up p ractically the w hole crop. Other producing section s, including Oregon, were not overlooked. Now the effect is felt. The "new k in g ’’ is holding all his San Joaquin potatoes for the Sau F rancisco m arket and su p p lyin g the south from Idaho. Produce m en here find it im p ossib le to g e t rivers or highlands. P rices are goiu g up al m ost daily. Zuckerman, bein g a w ise monarch, is not trying to realize all at once, nor heading back to sq u eeze prices to the top notch, but lettin g out enough to m eet the dem ands fairly and keep aw ay Colorado and other d ista n t potatoes. H is h old ings are known to be enorm ous, a third greater, indeed, than Sh im a w as ever able to control, and he w ill m ake a fortune if n oth in g in terferes. Jobbers say p rices will in crea se $1 a hundred pounds before April. B E R T H S M U S T BE B O U G H T . Pullm an Reservations to Require Cash in Future, Say Officials. Chicago.— T ra v elers desirous of se curing Pullm an accom m odations soon will have eith er to m ake full pre paym ent of their Pullm an fare at tim e reservation is m ade or w ait until the tim e of train departure and take their ch a n ces o f secu rin g space, if a plan bein g considered by the w estern railroads is put in to effect A t a m eetin g ju st held by the heads of the p assen ger tra ffic de partm ents o f the largest lin es in the w est, the m atter was giveu consid eration, and definite action upon it postponed only b ecau se the n ew Pull man rates are to go into effect on February 1, and th e p assen ger traffic officials decided to defer final con sid eration until a fter the new tariffs have been issu ed . It is a sserted th a t th e railroads now labor undor a great incon v en ien ce and u n n ecessary ex p en ses because of lax regu lations surround ing the m anner in which sleep in g car reservation s can be m ade. O IL T R U S T IN L IB E L S U IT . Standard Sues H am pton’s Publishers fo r $250,000 Damages. N ew York.— T h e Standard Oil Com pany h as brought suit in the United S ta tes circu it court for $250,000 dam a g es a g a in st the Broadway P ublish ing Com pany, Inc., p ublishers of Ham pton's M agazine, and Cleveland Moffatt, the m agazin e w riter. The current Issue of H am pton’s contains an a rticle in w hich it is a lleged that su b sidiaries of the Standard sell glu cose to con fection ers. "The on ly p ossib le con n ection be tw een the Standard and the m anufac turers o f g lu co se ,” said cou n sel for the Standard, "is that tw o m en who m ake glu co se are on the Standard directorate.” So far as is recalled the Standard has never brought suit before against any o f th e m any pu b lication s that Salem , Or., Jan. 24. — Although both have attack ed it. h ou ses of the leg isla tu re worked in dustriously th is m orning, little w as Chicago Cars May Stop. accom plished beyond th e passage of Chicago. — Chicago J s threatened a few bills of little gen eral im port with one of the greatest labor dis ance. The good roads en th u sia sts will turbances in its history. A strik e of have their Innings in the sen a te th is 8000 street car m en. m ean ing a tie- up of all su rface lin es in the city, is afternoon, the b ills on that subject possible, on accou n t of differences being m ade a sp ecia l order. A new resolution ca llin g for an in over w ages. So seriou s h as the sit uation becom e that Mayor B u sse has vestig a tio n o f affairs a t the sta te in intervened in an effort to prevent a sane asylum w as Introduced by Dim- possible rep etition of the sc e n e s of ick in the sen a te and w en t to com m lttee. It d irects particular inquiry v iolen ce and bloodshed which marked the last stree t car strik e in Chicago as to the num ber o f em p loyes and the and have accom panied th e se labor n ecessity for their em p loym en t and g iv es pow er to com pel a tten d an ce of stru ggles in other cities. w itn e sses for takin g of testim on y on all ph ases o f the situ ation . Verbal cla sh es o f rival in terests cam e last night In co m m ittee m eet ings o v er the sa ilo rs’ boarding house bill, the eight hour bill and the naval m ilitia bill. T h e la tter will com e from th e sen a te com m ittee with a provision retaining p resen t officers of the reserve in office. The sen a te passed one bill and k ill ed another this m orning, but the se s sion w as featu reless. C om m ittees are slow in reporting ou t their bills. T h e house passed four b ills. The legislatu re w a s storm ed today hy 300 Oregon ad v o ca tes of the Good Roads m ovem ent. Two-hundred cam e from Portland urging that M ultnomah county, by the term s o f the five h ig h w ays bills framed by the Oregon Good R oads asso cia tio n , is presenting the sta te with road m aking funds for the d irect benefit o f ev ery other county but with in d irect benefit, only to b u sin ess Interests. Floor FOR PEOPLE President Taft Takes Firm Stand For Cheaper Living. Absolute Silence Is H is Only Answer To A ll Pleas For a Change Of A ttitud e. W ashington.— Em barrassed is a mild word to define the predicam ent in which m em bers of C ongress have found th em selv es sin ce P resident Taft subm itted h is proposition for a reduction In the cost of livin g through the m edium o f reciprocity with Can ada. H igh p rotection ists, confident of the sym pathy of the E xecutive, have not h esitated to go to the W hite H ouse with predictions that the party will be disrupted if the program is in sisted upou. Insurgent Republicans, m any o f whom have becom e unac custom ed to v isit the W hite H ouse at all, have b een -u u rsu in g a policy of silen ce. W hile som e of them are ready to adm it that the p rop osed -agreem en t is in Hue with the tariff argum ents, they fear to adopt it lest they bring upon their heads tho wrath o f agri culturists. P resid en t T aft is said to be about the only one who is sh ow in g no con cern about the situ ation . H e is said to have m et all argum ents again st the agreem ent with a determ ination to disregard m ere political objec tions, w hether they com e from stan d patters or insurgents. H e b eliev es that w hat he h as rec om m ended is right, anil he has muue it clear that so long as he continues so to believe, he cannot be dissuaded from u sin g every force a t h is com mand to prom ote legislation to put the agreem en t into operation. That P resid en t T aft realized fully w hat argum ents would be advanced by p rotection ists a g a in st freedom of tariff realutions with Canada is prov ed by the w ays and m eans com m ittee of the house, or the finance com m it tee of the senate, w as apprised in advance as to what articles would be affected by the agreem ent. H is con su ltation s w ere had ex clu s ively with the G overnm ent trade e x perts and only such of th ose a s weTe b elieved to be beyond p olitical influ en ce. In n othing he has done sin ce he has been President, h as Mr. Taft displayed so independent a spirit. P rogressive R epublicans are de riving som e com fort from the fact that Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon and others o f the "old guard” apparently were a s much in the dark as any oue e ls e about the P resid en t’s plans. R A TS MAY PROVE MENANCE. Physician Secs Danger of Plague in Rodent-Infested Ships. Chicago.— “U ntil all sh ip s com ing to the U nited S ta tes from plague- in fested China are stopped outside the harbors o f ports of entry and the rats aboard ab solu tely destroyed. Am erica will continue to be in grave danger of a death-dealing plague, in every way as bad a s that now raging in the O rient.” T his w arning is sounded* by Dr. G. Frank Lydston, p rofessor of gen- ito-urinary surgery at the U n iversity of Illinois, w ell known w riter and one of C hicago’s b est known phy sician s. Dr. L ydston personally in vestig a ted the second ep id em ic of bubonic plage in A ustralia a few years ago. and is one of the b est in formed m en on the su b ject in the country. "The rat flea plague o f all typ es is essen tia lly a C hinese d isea se,” said Dr. L ydston. "If the plague is o f a particularly virulent type, as I un- dertsand is the case in th is present C hinese plague, and if the resista n ce of the victim is low, the victim dies before the glands, w hich are really protective barriers again st poisons in the blood, h ave a ch an ce to react. T h is accounts for the lack o f v isib le bubonic sym ptom s in th is C hinese plague.” Mob Denounces Lease. Guayaquil, Equador. — Im m ense crow ds paraded through the streets in p rotest a g a in st the proposal to lea se th e G alapagos isla n d s to the United S ta tes. The dem onstrators gathered in front of the h ou se occu pied by P resid en t Alfaro, who is stopping here, and hooted the govern m ent and A rcher Harmon, president o f the G uayaquil & Quito R ailw ay Company, who is regarded a s being responsible for th e project of leasin g the islands. C rew Prays for Safety. A storia. Ore.— K n eelin g on the deck with heads bared, officers and crew o f the Italian sh ip Speranza Satur day afternoon offered p rayers for a sa fe voyage. For m ore than five m inutes. In accordance w ith an an cien t Italian naval custom , the men, led by Captain Luddanza, continued their in vocation s desp ite a drizzling Bleached Flour Loses Friends. rain that fell. T he Speranza left out Salem . Jan. 24.— Fortified by a de Im m ediately follow in g the religions cision o f the U n ited S ta tes d istrict rites, bound for Sydney, Australia. court for the eastern d istrict of Louis She carries 2,000,000 feet o f lumber. iana and by a report o f official test w herein rabbits w ere poisoned and Sleet Blocks Railroads. killed hy n itrates glean ed from bleach Chicago.— S leet and fog. w hich in ed flour. Sen ator Dan K ellaher is preparing to w age a w ar on the m any p laces turned to rain, caused bleached brands, a s he did at the trouble for railroad and telephone sessio n tw o years ago. The bill 1m- com panies in the T.ake region and the T he storm extended l>oses a penalty of $100 to $250 fine Middle W est. for first offense of m anufacturing or as far north as M innesota, w est to offerin g for sa le th e oleached pro Lincoln. Neb., and K ansas City, Mo., duct in th is state, w ith a prison se n south to St. Louis, and ea st to Indi ten ce o f from 60 days to six m onths. anapolis. The sle e t storm is expected to turn to rain in the Lake region with warm er w eather. COAST A P PLE M E N C O M B IN E Growers of N orthw est Meet at P ort land— Com m ittees Named. Portland.—R ep resen tin g an aggre gate capital of $50,000,000, in v ested in apple orchards and an output of 10,- 000 cars yearl, h aving a value of from $6,000,000 to $8,000,000, more than 100 applegrow ers from Oregon, W ashington and Idaho gathered iu the Y. M. C. A. auditorium for the pur pose of form ing a N ational selliu g agency of sufficient breadth uud width to control and d isp o se o f the apples produced in the three sta te s m en tioned. A com m ittee o f 15 w as appointed at the clo se o f the day’s work to prepare a w orking plan for the con sideration of the convention tom or row morning. L eading apple cu ltu rists from the three sta tes took part in the proceed ings. Ex G overnor M iles C. Moore, of W ashington; Judge F rem ont Wood, of B oise, Idaho; Miles Cannon, of W eiser, Idaho; E. C. Benson, o f P ros ser, VV ash., ex-president o f the V\ asli- uigtou S tate H orticulture S o ciety ; C. E. W htsler, of Medford, representing the R ogue R iver F ruit and P roduce A ssociation; H. C. A tw eli, of F orest Grove, Or., p resident of the Oregon .State H orticultural S ociety; J. N. Stone, of M ilton, Or.; H. C. Richards, of N orth Yakima, W ash.; A. P. Baie- inan, of M osier, Or., aud C. H. Sprout, of Hood River, Or., were am ong the more a ctive sp irits of Lite enterprise. T he only opposition to the plan proposed cam e from the p essim istic tone that prevailed through the talk of E. H. Shepherd, editor of B etter Fruit, published at Hood River. Al though tho d iscu ssio u lasted through out the day and tho sp eak ers w ere num erous, Mr. Shepherd could not see the lig h t a s advanced by the more hopeful in the plan o f creatin g a cen tral d istrib u tive agency for the output. H e m aintained that there was no way for an organization—at least lie had heard of no plan— which would eq u alize the values betw een the a p p les produced iu the various d istricts. H e w as certain that there was no chance for over-production. That he regarded as a bug a boo cre ated by the railroads and the press. "All G overnm ent sta tistic s,” said the speaker, "that 1 have been able to g et hold of, all the inform ation that 1 have gathered and all of the in ter view s with old-tim e nursery m en go to show that over-production is im possible, in ap p les at least. T here is no such a thin g a s over-production in th is country in any food product. There may be fa u lts o f distribution for a continuous num ber of y ears— that has n ever occurred and cannot occur iu any known food product.” R egard less o f Mr. Shepherd's view s, the applegrow ers continued iu their d elib eration s and appointed the fol low ing com m ittee to draft a plan; H. W. O tis, o f W enatchee, W’ash.; H. C. Sproat, of Hood River; H. C. Lamb, of M ilton, Or.; John Forbis, of P ort land; C. F. W hisler, o f Medford, Or.; A. P. B atem an, o f M osier, Or.; M iles Cannon, of W eiser, Idaho; C. L. Sm ith, of L ew iston, Idaho; W ill F. Ritz, of W alla W alla, W ash.; W. M. N elson, o f N orth Yakima, W ash.; George C. Eaton, of Granger, W ash.; C. H. Clark, of W enatchee, and G. H. Sprague, o f Cashm ere, W ash. T he con ven tion w as called to order by P resid en t A tw ell, o f the O regon S tate H orticultural S ociety, Frank W . Power, of Portland, w as m ade se c retary. A com m ittee on cred en tials was selected and they m ade a report in the afternoon. The call of the convention specified that the o b ject of the m eetin g w as to form a co-oper ative se llin g agen cy and to provide som e m ean s for apple box leg isla tion. S u g g estio n s w ere tendered as to the b est plan of procedure and d iscu ssion d isclosed the fact that the appointm ent of a com m ittee should be m ade to work out a plan, C. E. W hisler took the lead In the debate and contended that the diffi cu lties o f the undertaking w ere, first, the m ethod of esta b lish in g grades and, second, w hat should be done with regard to the division of the re ceip ts o f the se llin g agency. Should there be a "jack-pot” created, as the si>eaker called it, in which all should be given an equal share o f the pro ceeds, or should va lu es be placed upon the a p p les o f each d istrict and d ivision of the receip ts be placed on this basis? In th is debate G eorge A ggers, of W hite Salm on; A. F. Hell- in well, of W hite Salm on; J. G. T ate, o f Hood River; C. B. Clark, of W en atch ee; J. N. Stone, of M ilton; W. K. N ew ell, o f G aston; C. L. Dick, o f Sa lem, and others took part. Jap Socialists Hang. S trike H alts Passover. N ew York.— The output o f un leavened bread, eaten over all the world by orthodox fam ilies during the fea st o f the P assover, Is tied up by a general strik e of the Matzo bakers here. T he strik e w en t in to effect as or d ers w ere pouring in from distant cities for the p assover supply. New York is the cen ter of the Matzo trade. Strike leaders say 1000 bak ers are involved in the strik e which is for higher w ages. Tokio.— D isregarding a stream of protests from all o v er the world, the Jap an ese govern m en t wiped out by m eans o f the g a llo w s tho liv e s of Denjiro Kotoku, h is m istress, Surga Kanno, and 10 other Jap an ese S ocial ists con victed in secret se ssio n s of the court, o f h aving conspired again st the life of the m ikado. T h e h an ging of th e 12 v ictim s o f the governm ent's fear o f S ocialism began at 9 o ’clock in the m orning in the central prison and the trap w as not sprung for the last one until 1 p. m. Jules V erne Is Outdone. Floods Block Train s. S ea ttle.— T he d evelop m en t o f the Ix>s A n geles.—Traffic on the Coast Japanese port of Taurnga has m ade lin e of the Southern P acific is ser it p ossib le to go around the world in iou sly offected as the resu lt of flood 37 days. l e a v in g S ea ttle or Van conditions in the northern part of couver by steam er, a traveler m ay Santa Barbara County. T h e reports land in Yokoham a In 12 days. By received at the local offices o f the taking train to Tauruga and stea m er Southern Pacific are to the effect I to the trans-Siberian Railroad term that the tracks have b een covered inus and co n tin u in g by the fa stest with debries at the Mud flats w est of train to London he m ay cover the Gavlota. T h e track is reported to d ista n ce from Yokoham a in 16 days. be intact, but it w ill take several By the fa stest stea m ers and trains he hours to clear it. m ay travel from London to S ea ttle in a little m ore than nine days. Refugees Swarm From Mexico. Nation to H ide Paroles. E l Paso, T ex.— M exican refu gees are flocking over the border into W ash in gton .— Men who have their T exas near La .litas, ea st of here in B rew ster County, to esca p e t a k in g : paroles from F ederal prisons here sid es eith er with the fed erals or the , a fter will step back into the world to insurgents. Many are bringing their begin life an ew unadvertised and h orses and ca ttle and U n ited S tates w ithout the lim elig h t of publicity. G overnm ent officials are som ew hat ( puzzled o v er the situ ation that con-1 Attorney-G eneral W Ickersham and fronts them . If they se iz e the an i Robert W. Ladow, chairm an of the T o Reform Judicial System. m als for duty the M exirans will parole board, h ave decided that pub T ra v e l To Coast H eavy. Salem , Jan. 24.— P lan n in g com pre be d estitute. Few o f th e refugees licity in such ca ses help s to d efea t San F ran cisco.— R eports to railway h en siv e reform o f the judicial system have any food, but will be able to o f the state, which Is gen erally re- headquarters h ere Indicate an in work their way into the sta te s a n d , the o b ject o f the parole law. earded a s having been m ade ea sy hy j crease of p a ssen g er traffic from the get em ploym ent. G aynor’a Foe In Prison. the adoption of sw eep in g am endm ents F ast that is breaking all records for Jamaica W ants 1915 Fair. Since th e res N ew York.— Ja m es J. G allagher, to the con stitution at the last ele c j M id-W inter travel. K ingston. Jam aica.— T he Jam aica who sh ot M ayor G aynor and S treet tion. Sen ator Wood h as introduced a toratlon o f norm al con d ition s In the hill for the appointm ent o f a com i m ountain passes, which were blocked cham ber o f com m erce is d irectin g a ; C om m issioner Edw ards on a stea m proposal to recom m end to the G ov ship on a dock at H oboken last An- by heavy snow for a few days, the m lttee to d ev ise a n ew judicial act j to co v er the en tire field of Jtirv s y s - ! lim ited train s from the F a st are run ernm ent the holding of a b ig expos! «nist. w as taken to the N ew J ersey tern and courts. T h e hill ca lls for ning In extra se ctio n s above the regu tion here In 1915. coin cid en t with the S tate Prison to s ir v e 12 yea rs at lar schedu les. J formal opening of the Panam a Canal hard labor. a com m ission of 30 m em bers.