DOINGS OFTHEWEEK SO C IE TY LE AD E R , W H O SE E X P E R IM E N T A L F A R M FOR SU F F R A G IS T S IS F A ILU R E . Current Events oi Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. A tugboat at Vancouver, B. C., pulled her entire stern out while tow ing a big log raft An ensign was killed and several men wounded in a fight with hostile natives in the Philippines. Nearly 1,000 clerks have struck in the general offices o f the Illinois Cen tral railroad at Memphis, Tennessee. Germany is trying to prevent a war between Italy and Turkey, fearing other powers would be drawn into such a struggle. A New Brunswick, N. J., under taker who is running for the office of sheriff, used his automobile hearse to display election signs. Four persons were killed in a Chi cago tenement house fire. A woman weighing 154 pounds was carried from the fourth floor by firemen. A woman committed to the Oregon insane asylum has been making her living as a shoemaker and passing herself for a man for 49 years. A daughter o f ex-Governor Rich ards, o f Wyoming, with her husband, were found shot to death on their ranch near Redbank, Wyoming. » n t». o. it. r . ni i u o v i . A Newport butler organized a D E S TR O Y ED FROM O U TS ID E , “ smart set” o f 100 among the serv R E V O L U T I O N T H R E A T E N S SP A IN ants o f wealthy society people and General Strikes Called and Nation is Ruins of Battleship Maine Are made himself "social dictator.” Under Martial Law. Cleared o f Slime. A Chicago couple have been " g e t Madrid— Spain is face to face with Havana— The Maine was destroyed ting married” repeatedly, each time giving the minister a counterfeit $20 a crisis equal to that following the by an external explosion. There no bill and getting $10 in good money in riots in Barcelona in 1009. The agi longer remains any doubt as to the change. tation and the power o f the agitators manner in which the United States Dissolution o f the Steel trust pre on the masses have increased in pro battleship was sunk in this harbor on sents a stupendous problem and has portion to the rigor o f the repressive j the night o f February 15, 1898. caused great stir in Wall street. measures undertaken by the govern-1 The cofferdam about the wreck his Canada has voted against the party .. . . , I been pumped out and the mud cleared which favored reciprocity by a large What, at its origin, was purely a r r labor movement, now has developed awaY to a greater extent than ever majority. War is on between settlers and lum into a revolutionary conflict, a com- before. The clearing away o f wreck- bermen over fine redwood forests near mune having actually been proclaimed af,e reveals the double bottom o f the at two towns near Valencia and the I ship with part of the keel standing in Ukiah, Cal. authorities driven out. “ Progressive” Republicans deny The affiliated trades unions have a perpendicular position 28 feet higher that they are planning to nominate decided to call a general strike all than the natural position. Hughes for president. over Spain, and the government has This perfectly confirms the report decided upon the drastic step of “ sus and testimony which Ensign Powel- San Francisco wins its fight for a pending the constitutional guarantee” son gave before an investigating board right o f way to the ferry landing for throughout the country. This virtu after the disaster and which was based a municipal street railway. ally means martial law. upon reports made to him by divers Meetings have been forbidden. The j just after the explosion, It is estimated the Alaska salmon m ilitary authorities, it is said offi- j It is indicated by engineers here pack will amount to 2,800,000 cases. daily, will not assume control except , that such a tearing o f the ship’s bot- The "annexation speech” o f Champ m extreme cases. tom could not have been produced by Clark in the last session of congress A t Bilboa troops fired on a crowd an interior explosion. It is further is blamed for the defeat o f reciprocity that was endeavoring to free prison said that no regulation m ilitary mine by Canada. ers, including strike leaders, who could have wrought such terrific The treasury department has or were being taken through the streets. havoc. It must have been a huge dered the prohibition o f the importa Twenty-six persons were wounded. mine, as Captain Sigsbee and others suggested at the time; perhaps a sug tion o f tea containing artificial color The situation is grave. King Alfonso has signed a decree ar mill boiler or large cask loaded ing matter. suspending the constitutional guaran with explosives. Fifty-six'convicts in the Colorado tee throughout Spain. This act, penitentiary attended the matinee which had been under consideration performance at a theater and en for some days, was taken to give the joyed the play hugely. government power to deal sharply and promptly with the revolutionary agi PO RTLAND M ARKETS. tation now fermenting in many parts Wheat — Export fbasis: Bluestem, o f Spain, especially in the cities and Marseilles, France— Fire broke out 84///86c; club, 80fe81c; red Russian, industrial districts, where republican in the ammunition hold o f the French 80c; valley, 80(//,81c; 40-fold, blftt and revolutionary plans are being battleship Liberte and the vessel blew, 82c; fife, 80@81e. furthered under cover o f workingmen’s up and sank 19 minutes later. Nearly M illstuffs— Bran, $24.50//z.25 per strikes. ton; middlings, $82; shorts, $25.60 The most serious situation is at 500 o f the crew are dead. The bat (z/26; rolled barley, $33.60//Z 34.50. Valencia, where a general strike was tleship was built about five years ago Corn—Whole, $33; cracked, $34 per declared. The city was at once and was a sister ship o f the Verite, ton. placed under martial law, and though which met with misfortune at the Barley New feed, $310/32 per ton; there was more or less rioting maneuvers a few days ago, going on brewing, $37. throughout the day, the authorities the rocks and suffering considerable data— New white, $280/28.50 ton. had matters pretty well in hand until damage before being pulled off. Hay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim after dark, when the disturbers T A F T B U S Y IN S T . L O U I S . othy, $ 150/16; No. 1 valley, $14; al vented their fury in an attack on the falfa, $12; clover, $8.50; grain hay, officials in the adjacent township o f $90/11. Urges Power o f Impeachment In Cullera. Poultry— Hens, 16/ilfiJc; springs, stead of Recall for Judges. The rioters murdered a judge and 150/15jc; ducks, young, 160/17c; wounded other officials o f the court St. Louis — During a moderately geese, 11c; turkeys, 18fti)19c. which had been engaged in the trial busy day here Saturday, a President j u ajf iici c uatuivinj, i comcuv, Butter — Oregon creamery, solid of those arrested earlier in the day. I T aft made sjx speeches, took a forty pack, 31c; prints, extra. The mob was finally dispersed hy mile automobile ride, opened the local Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, can- guards from the custom house. football season by tossing the pigskin died, 30c per dozen. onto the gridiron at St. Louis Univer Pork Fancy, 110/ llJ c per pound. Gila Monster Bites Man. sity, laid the cornerstone o f a new Y. Veal Fancy, 13//z.l3Jc per pound. I«os Angeles — Prompt treatment W. C. A. building, sat through nine Fresh Fruits — Cantaloupes, 60cot: innings o f exciting baseball between $1.25 per crate; peaches, 500/.75c per with a vacuum pump saved the life o f Louis ------- and ------ Philadelphia Na E. Eigenherr, a miner from the St. H ia w n a a ----- ----------- . .-----«--------- box; watermelons, 75c///$1.25 per Mathias hundred; plums, 500/l76c per crate; Arizona, who was bitten by a Gila | tional League teams, visited the Ma- prunes, 1 Jo/2c per pound; pears, 600/ monster while he was exhibiting the sonic Club to be made a life member $1 per box; grapes, 6!>c0/.$l per box; animal on the street here. He had o f that organization and, after ad- the monster secured in a box. He met dressing a throng in the Coliseum in apples, $10/1.75. Vegetables — Artichokes, 75c per some friends and tried to open the box I the evening had nothing to do but dozen; beans, 50/10c; cabbages, $1.50 to show the creature, when it fastened travel all night in order to be in the 0/ 2 per hundred; corn, 250/ 30c per its teeth in his arm. Eigenherr was insurgent state o f Kansas on Sunday. On the eve o f entering this reputed dozen; cucumbers, $10/1.25 per sack; rushed to the receiving hospital, where hostile territory. President T aft eggplant, 5/z8c per pound; garlic, 10 the surgeons succeeded in extracting The brought forward the suggestion o f a 0/12c per pound; lettuce, 40o/50c per the poison from the wounds. wider powrer o f impeachment as a sub dozen; hothouse lettuce $1,250/1.75 monster was shot by a policeman. stitute for the more radical proposal perh ox; peppers, 6o/fic per pound; o f a judiciary recall. Girls’ Smokes Now Cost. radishes, 12Jc per dozen; sprouts, 8c 500 SAILORS PERISH WHEN FRENCH WARSHIP BLOWS UP per pound; tomatoes, 60/// 75c per box; carrots, $1.50 per sack; turnips, $1; beets, $1.75. Potatoes Oregon, l j c per pound; sweet potatoes, 2Jc per pound. Onions California, $1.50 per hun dred. Hops 1911 crop, 320/ 33c; olds, nom inal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 90/;16c per pound, acording to shrinkage; valley 150/ 17c; mohair, choice S6o; 37Jc. Catete Choice steers, $5.40o/5.50; good, $50/5.25; fair, $4.75(//5; med ium, $4,600/ 4.76; poor, $3.75o/ 4.50; choice cows, $4.50(f/ 4.75; fair. $4ra 4.40; common, $2.60^3.60; Extra choice spayed heifers, $4.75(<T.5; choice heifers, $4 .500/4.75; choice bulls, $3(4/3.25; good, $2.75(0 3; com mon, $2if/2.50; choice calves, 200 pounds and under, $7.26(4/7.60; Rood to choice, $6/1/6.50; common, $4(4/5; choice stag*. $4.50(4/4.75 goeci, $4.25 (n 4.50. H og»- Choice light hogs. $7.75(fi 8; good, $7.50(ft 7.76; fair, $7.25(0.7.60; common, $7(4/7.25. Sheep Choice yearling wethers, coarse wool, $3,360/3.65 Choice yearling wethers, east of mountains, $3,350/3.65; choice twos and threes, $3(4/3.25; choice lambs. $4.75(</5; choice yearlings, $4.60(o 4.75; good to choice lambs, $4.25(4/ 4.50; culls, $2.50(o 3. Los Angeles — Cigar makers and other tobacco factory workers, includ ing girls, who have been accustomed to having all the “ free smokes” they want, must pay hereafter for the makin’s” and for all the cigars they use, according to a ruling o f Claude I. Parker, collector o f internal revenue. ‘ The government is deprived annually o f vast amounts o f revenue by this practice o f tobacco factory employes taking cigars, cigarettes and and to bacco from untaxed stocks,” said the collector. Aviator Falls to Death. Dewitt, la.— John A. Rosenbaum, o f Chicago, was killed here when his aeroplane fell from a height o f 50 feet. He had been in the air only 20 minutes when he lost control o f the machine. Rosebaum was making a trial flight when he met death. Other aviators previously had failed to make successful flights in the same machine and Rosenbaum declared he would prove that the machine would fly. He had just started to descend. Etna's Lava Bars People, Catania, Italy — The eruption of Mount Etna again was renewed Wed nesday. Shots from guns o f people who have been shut off by the lava were heard, but the people could not be rescued. Four Firms Undar Fire, San Francisco— Four Pacific Coast business combinations are under in vestigation by the government as be ing in restraint o f trade, and indict ments against them are likely to be forthcoming within 10 days according to «advices received here from Los Angeles. A part o f the government’s evi dence, it is reported, already has been presented to the Federal grand jury. It is understood that action also is contemplated in San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. 1 Cheese Poisons Child. Portland — One wee slice o f cheese nearly caused the dea h o f Florence George, aged three, late Saturday night, and a like amount o f the same food brought hours o f agony to her four brothers. Theodore, seven; Roy, 10; Willim , 13; Adam, 16. The physician was called at 11 o ’clock and it was not until daylight that he con sidered the little one out o f danger. The illness was due to limburger. It resulted in ptomaine poisoning. FRENCHMEN DIE BRAVELY. Men on Burning Battleship Fire to the Last, Fought Toulon, France— More than 300 offi cers and men o f the French battleship Liberte lost their live« when the ship was torn apart and totally destroyed in the harbor here by an explosion of her magazines. The'battleship Republique was bad ly damaged and the battleships Demo cratic and Verte suffered heavily from the masses o f twisted iron and armor- plate hurled upon their decks This is the greatest disaster that has ever befallen the French navy, and in magnitude is almost without precedent in the annals o f the world's fighting ships. The explosion which wiped out one o f France’s most powerful battleships occurred at 5:30 o ’clock in the morn ing. It was the result o f an outbreak o f fire. The flames spread rapidly in spite o f all efforts to extinguish them, and reached the magazines before there was time to flood them. The magazines exploded with tremendous violence, sowing death and destruction in every direction. The naval author ¡ties now estimate the killed at be tween 350 and 400. It will be neces sary to go through the ship’s muster rolls before a full list o f the victims can be prepared. Several men were taken alive from the torn and twisted mass o f wreck age, and hope was strong that others might be reached. The work of rescue began quickly An ambulance station was installed in the arsenal and Admiral Marin-Darbel Maritime Prefect, superintended the work of extricating those imprisoned under the shattered steel. The first body recovered was that of an officer, which was hauled from un der an awning with a boathook. Forty bodies have been taken out and 94 injured transferred to the hospital. Electric shears to cut through the plates and powerful floating cranes to lift the masses of steel were used Divers are at work exploring the in terior o f the hull. The Liberte now looks as if the bows had doubled over onto the stern. Men could be heard groaning and screaming for help, which often the rescuers were unable to give. The lower deck was a heartrending sight. One man’s foot was held under a mass o f steel weighing tons. A fte r three hours’ vain effort to lift the mass a surgeon amputated the foot. Through a hole in the armor portions o f bodies, contorted and piled to gether, could be perceived, all o f them charred by the flames. One o f the survivors, a warrant officer who came out o f the explosion with only a slight cut on the forehead, said : "T h e fire broke out in the general store, among cans of oil, turpentine, paint and other inflammables. In spite o f every effort flames spread to the coal bunkers, and after that it was difficult to prevent them from gaining the powder magazine. It was about 5 :30 o’clock and dawn was breaking, before the danger seemed to be realized. Assistance was then be ing sent us from the port and three other warships lying in the harbor. Disaster Regarded as Evil Omen, Paris— The minister o f marine is preparing to render aid to the famnles o f the victims o f the Liberte explosion. Everywhere the explosion is regarded as an evil omen, coming on the heels o f the peaceful settlement o f the Mo roccan difficutlies with Germany. According to Captain Jaurès’ re port, there were 32 officers on the warship. One third o f the officers and 72 men had been given shore leave over Sunday and the remainder o f the lost crew were seeping between decks. The minister o f marine thinks that the fire started in ' the storeroom, ad jacent to the magazine, and short- circuited the electric wiring, causing the explosion. As the sailors took their posts for fire drill slight explos ions were felt, followed by flames bursting out all over the after quar ter. Explosions then followed at brief intervals, the third shooting the fire mast high. By this light the crew was visible fighting the flames from the magazine. Ghost Stories to Be Exploded. London— A young girl living in Coatsb/idge has been driven mad by fright on seeing what she thought to be a ghost, and Dr. Wallace, o f the Spiritualistic Alliance, uses the case as the text for a sermon on the danger o f telling ghost stories to children and frightening them into obedience with threats to give them to the " b ig black man” or some other bugaboo. Dr. Wallace is organizing lyceums for children to teach them the truth about “ ghosLs, ” so they will have no fear o f the old-fashioned creepy tales. Nuptial Fee Spurious. Chicago — A dozen preachers are condoling with one another over the loss o f good money o f which they were defrauded by a counterfeiter and a woman accomplice, who repeatedly presented themselves for marriage and also presented false $20 bills in payment o f a $10 fee. The clergyman who told o f the fraud refused the names o f the preachers involved, as secrecy had been agreed on in a de nominational meeting at which the victims condoled with one another over their losses. Mirror "T a lk »” 42 Miles. Pasadena, Cal.— Equipped with an ordinary mirror, a little more than a foot square, Ray Clifford, o f Pasadena, heliographed messages from the top of Mount Wilson to the steamship Yale as it was leaving San Pedro harbor. The distance was about 42 miles. The feat was unique in that young Clifford used an ordinary mirror in stead of the combination o f several re quired in heliographic work. The ship answered the signals. The Courtship °£ M iles Sta With Illustrations by * * H ow ard Chandler Christy ( C opyright, Thm D o b b s -M e r r ill Com pany) Filled with the name and the fame of of the Puritan maiden Priscilla; Every sentence began or closed with the name of Priscilla, Nothing was heard in the room but Till the treacherous pen, to which ho confided the secret, the hurrying pen of the stripling, Or an occasional sigh from the labor Strove to befray It by singing and shouting the name of Priscilla! ing heart of the Captain, Reading the marvelous words and Finally closing Hl3 book, with a bang of the ponderous cover. achievements of Julius Caesar. After a while he exclaimed, as he Sudden and loud as the sound of a sol dier grounding his musket. smote with his hand, palm down Thus to the young man spake Miles ward. Standish, the Captain of Ply Heavily on the page: “ A wonderful mouth: man was this Caesar I Love and Friendship Such as you think best adapted to win the heart of a maiden.” When ho had spoken, John Alden, the fair haired, taciturn stripling. All aghast at his words, surprised, em barrassed, bewildered. Try lug to mask his dismay by treat ing the subject with lightness, Trying to smile, and yet feeling his heart stand still in his bosom. Just as a time-piece stops in a house that la stricken by lightning. Thus made answer and spake, or rather stammered than answered: “ Such a message as that, I am sure l should inauglo and mar It; If you would have It well done— I am only repeating your maxim— You must do It yourself, you must not leave it to others!” But with tho air of a man whom noth ing can turn from his purpose, Gravely shaking his bead, made an swer the Captain of Ply mouth: “ Truly the maxim Is good, aud I do not mean to gainsay it; But we must use it discreetly, and not waste powder for nothing. Now, as l said before, 1 was never a maker of phrases. I can march up to a fortress and sum mon the place to surrender. But march up to a woman with such a proposal, 1 dare not. Pm not afraid of bullets, nor shot from the mouth of a cannon, But of a thundering ’N o !’ point-blank from the mouth of a woman, That I confess I’m afraid of, nor am I ashamed to confess it! So you must grant my request, for you are an elegant scholar, Having the graces of speech, and skill in the turning of phrases.” Taking the hand of his friend, who still wus reluctant and doubtful, Holding it long In his own, and press ing It kindly, ho added: "Though I have spoken thus lightly, yet deep Is the feeling that prompts me; Surely you can not refuse what I ask In the name of our friendship!" Then made answer John Alden: “ Tho name of friendship Is sacred; What you demand In that name, I have not the power to deny you!” So the strong will prevailed, sub duing and molding the gentler, Friendship prevailed over love, and Alden went nn his errand. (T O B E C O N T IN U E D .) “A Wonderful Man Was Caius Julius Caesar.” “ When you have finished your work, I have something important to tell you. Be not, however, in haste; I can wait; I shall not be impatient!” Straightway Alden replied, as ha folded the last of his letters, Pushing his papers aside, and giving respectful attention: “ Speak; for whenever you speak, 1 am always ready to listen. Always ready to hear whatever per tains to Miles Standish.” Thereupon answered the Captain, em barrassed. and culling his phrases: “ T is not good for a man to be alone, say the Scriptures. This I have said before, and again and again I repeat it; Every hour in the day, I think it, and feel It, and say it. Since Rose Standish died, my life has been weary and dreary; Sick at heart have I been, beyond the healing of friendship. Oft In my lonely hours have I thought of the maiden Priscilla. She is alone in the world; her father and mother and brother Died in the winter together; I saw her going and coming, Now to the grave of the dead, and now to the bed of the dying, Patient, courageous, and strong, and said to myself, that if ever There were angels on earth, as there are angels in heaven, Two have I seen and known; and the angel whose name is Priscilla Holds in my desolate life the place which the other abandoned. Long have I cherished the thought, but never have dared to reveal It, Being a coward In this, though valiant enough for the most part. Go to the damsel Priscilla, the love liest maiden of Plymouth, Say that a blunt o!d Captain, a man not of words but of actions, Now to the Grave of the Dead. Offers his hand and his heart, the hand and heart of a soldier. he was right when he said it Twice was he married before he was Not in these words, you know, but this In short Is my meaning; twenty, and many times after; Battles five hundred he fought, and a I am a maker of war, and not a maker of phrases. thousand cites he conquered; He, too, fought in Flanders, as he him You, who are bred as a scholar, can say it in elegant language. self has recorded; Finally he was stabbed by hla friend. Such as you read In your books of the pleadings and wooings of lovers. the orator Brutus! Now, do you know what he did on a certain occasion in Flanders, When the rear guard pf his army re treated, the front giving way. too. And the immortal Twelfth Legion was crowded so closely together There was no room for their swords? Why, he seized a shield from a soldier, Put himself straight at the bead of his troops, and commanded Uie captains. Calling each by his name, to order forward the ensigns; Then to widen the ranks, and give more room for their weapons; So he won the day. the battle of some thlng-or-other. That’s what I always say: If you wish a thing to well done. You must do it yourself, you must not leave it to others!” You are a writer, and I am a fighter, but here is a fellow Who could both write and fight, and in both was equally skilful!” Straightway answered and spake John Alden, the comely, the youthful: “ Yes, he was equally skilled, as you say, with his pen and his weap ons. Somewhere have I read, but where 1 forget, he could dictate Seven letters at once, at the same time writing his memoirs.” “Truly,” continued the Captain, not heeding or hearing the other, “Truly a wonderful man was Caius Julius Caesar! Better be first, he said, In a little I! erlan village. Than be second In Rome; and I think Stolypin’ * Slayer Hanged. Kiev, Russia— Dmitry Bogroff, the assassin o f Premier Stolypin, who was condemned to death hy court-martial, All was silent again; the Captain has been hanged. Before his execu continued bis reading. 15.000 Socialists Protest. tion the young man asked that he Nothing was heard in the room but Paris- A mass meeting o f Socialists might see a rabbi, but refused this the hurrying pen of the stripling and I.ahorites to protest against a war consolation when informed that the Writing epistles important to go next with Germany brought out 15,000 per interview must be in the presence of dav by the Mayflower, officials. sons here. The Finishing Touch. "No,” says the eminent actress ear nestly, "I cannot approve of the fash ion that so many members of my pro fession have of being photographed continually.” The reporter makes some feverish notes and she continues: “ It seems to me that because one Is on the stage Is no reason why he or she should consider his or her face of absorbing interest to the public.” She continues for half a column and as the reporter is stowing away his notebook she smiles sweetly and say9: “ Here is one of my latest photo graphs for you to use with the inter view. I sat for it only yesterday, so you may be sure it has never before been reproduced.”—Judge. Unconventional it lea. "If I were you, Mrs. Jelllcks, 1 wouldn’t smile so often. You show too much of your gums.” "Mrs. Gunderby, you ought to wash your children’s faces occasionally; Billy’s nose needs attention right now.” “ I’m asking you for your daughter, Mr. Singletree, because that’s the cus tomary thing to do; we’re going to marry anyway.” “ Your talking doesn’t disturb me a bit, Mr. Feathertop; I ’m paying no at tention to It.” “ Yes, George, I admire your new au tomobile very much. I wish some oth er man was taking me out in I t ” Most Unusual. "A little Boston boy is visiting the family of a neighbor.” “ Does he wear glasses?” "No.” “ Is his first name Carlyle, Emerson or Plato?” “ No His chums call him Bill.” .“ Does he speak seven languages, discuss political economy, the Darwin ian theory, the hermetic philosoph ers?” “ Why, certainly not. He’s just a healthy youngster with a big appetite, who likes to play around the streets with other boys.” “ How singular.” There Was a Difference. A local Protestant clergyman has decided, much to the disappointment of his congregation, to accept a call to another pulpit In an eastern city A few days ago, one of the neighbors met the little son of this minister, and said: “ So your father Is going to work in Rlanktown. is he?” The little boy looked up In surprise. “ Oh, no,” he said. "Only to preach there.” His Wonderful Memory. "Excuse me," said the absent minded professor, “but haven t we met be fore ?’’ “ Why. yes.” replied the beautiful girl. "Our hostess Introduced us just before alnuer tonight.” "Ah, I remember! I never forget a face!”— Stray Stories. Every Sentence Began er Cloeed With “ Priscilla.”