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DOINGS OF THE K EK Current Events of Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r O u r Busy Readers. Senator Stephenson, o f Wisconsin, admits he spent $107,000 to be elected The czar o f Russia is steadily grow ing in popularity with the poorer classes. San Francisco has begun a war on bucket shops, and landed 20 at the first raid. Sixty thousand Arabs have joined the Turkish forces in Tripoli and a des perate war seems probable. President Markham, o f the Illinois Central, is said to be the best poker player, as well as the best railroader, in the Middle West. The Southern California conference o f the Methodist church urges the abolition o f the rules against cards dancing and theaters. One man was killed and three badly hurt in a riot when strikebreakers dis embarked to go to work in the rail road shops at Houston. Workmen cannot be had to search the ruins at Austin, Pa., for bodies, and it is feared the ruins will have to be burned for sanitary reasons. M A D E R O IS C H O S E N . Mexican Leader Elected Preaident Without Opposition, Mexico City Francisco I. Madero was officially chosen by the people of Mexico as their president at the na tional elections. The election o f Ma dero was little more than a formality, as he was the only ¡candidate in the field, following the withdrawal of General Keyes, and interest centered in the choice for the vice presidency. Madero himself, in a statement, de dared that there was no doubt that his candidate for the vice presidency, Jose Pino Suarez, o f Yucatan, had re ceived a plurality o f the votes. Offi cial figures on the number o f ballots cast, cannot be obtained as yet Madero based his conclusion on in formation received from various parts o f the republic. According to late reports received here, the Madero-Suarez ticket was de feated in the state of Chihuahua by the Madero-Gomez ticket. A t Torreon Reyistas and partisans o f Gomez re frained from voting, leaving a clear field for the Madero-Suarez ticket, heavy vote was polled. Estimates o f the results o f the bal loting at Tampico show a majority for Madero and Suarez, notwithstanding that this is Gomez’ state. The 120 electors from the districts o f Bravos, Galeana, Iturbide, Cambar go and one-half o f Benito Juarez, em bracing one-fourth o f the state o f Chi huahua, will be unanimous for Madero for president, and for Governor Abram Gonzales of Chihuahua for vice president. As Gonzales is not a candidate, the vote will ultimately probably be given to Dr. Francisco Vasquez Gomez. A t Puebla Madero and De la Barra received a majority o f the vote There were no disorders. | ITALY MAKES WAR ON TURKS E fleet has blockaded the Tripolitan! coast. There are unconfirmed reports that Turkey intends to send an ultimatum to Greece to abandon her claims on Crete and is massing troops on the Thessalonian frontier. The greatest activity ensued on the receipt o f news that war had been declared and notification o f a blockade was sent out. It is uuderstood the var ious governments will receive the cus tomary neutralify notices and will de vote their diplomatic efforts to bring Italian Squadron Blockades Port of hostilities to an end and especially to Tripoli, Which Refuses to Sur avoiding complications in the Balkans. render on Demand. Warships Drive Turkish Trans ports On Flocks. London— A state o f war exists be tween Italy and Turkey, and hostili ties have begun. No sooner had the time limit fixed by the ultimatum ex pired than, ignoring the Turkish con ciliatory request for delay, Italy de clared war. The Turkish representa tives in Italy received their passports. The Turkish commander at Tripoli was asked to surrender the town, but Duke of Abruzzi. According to Italian advices, the government plans to land 40,000 men in Tripoli by October 7. No bombard ment will be attempted unless the property o f Italians or other foreign ers is endangered. It is understood the Italian ministers have elaborated a scheme for the administration of Tripoli with the Duke o f Abruzzi as first governor. Among the first acts of the neW government will be the abolition o f many taxes now imposed on the Tripolitans. The Courtship Miles Standish With Illustrations by H ow ard Chandler Christy ( C opyright, Tha lio b b s - M e r r ill C'on\puny) So the strong will prevailed, and Al- den went on his errand, Out of the street of the village, and into the paths of the forest. Into the tranquil woods, where blue birds and robins were building Towns in the populous trees, with hanging gardens of verdure, Peaceful, aerial cities of joy and af fection and freedom. All around him was calm, but within him commotion and conflict. Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous Impulse. To and fro In his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As In a foundering ship, with every roll of the vessel, Washes the bitter sea, the merciless surge of the ocean! “ Must I relinquish It all,” he cried with a wild lamentation, “ Must I relinquish it all, the Joy, the hope, the illusion? Was it for this I have loved, and waited, and worshiped in silence? Was It for this I have followed the flying feet and the shadow Over the wintry sea, to the desolate shores of New England? Truly the heart is deceitful, and out of its depths of corruption Rise, like an exhalation, the misty phantoms of passion; . Angels of light they seem, but are only delusions of Satan. All Is clear to me now; I feel it, I see It distinctly! This is the hand of the Lord; It is laid upon me in anger, For 1 have followed too much the heart’s desires and devices. Worshiping Ashtoreth blindly, and Impious idols of Baal. This is the cross I must bear; the sin and the swift retribution.” So through the Plymouth woods John Alden went on his errand; Crossing the brook at the ford, where It brawled over pebble and shal low. Gathering still, as he went, the May flowers blooming around him. Fragrant, filling the air with a strange and wonderful sweetness, Children lost In the woods and cov ered with leaves in their slumber. “ Puritan flowers,” he said, “ and the type of Puritan maidens, Modest and simple and sweet, the very type of PriBcilla! So I will take them to her; to Priscilla the May flower of Plymouth, Modest and simple and sweet, as a parting gift will I take them; Breathing their silent farewells, as they fade and wither and perish, Soon to be thrown away, as U the heart of the giver.” So through the Plymouth woods John Alden went on his errand; Came to an open space, and saw the disk of the ocean, Sailless, somber and cold with the comfortless breath of the east wind; Saw the new-built house, and people at work in a meadow; Heard, as he drew near the door, the musical voice of Priscilla Singing the hundredth Psalm, the grand old Puritan anthem, Music that Luther 6ang to the sacred words of the Psalmist, The Kubak river in Alaska, sup S T R IK E R IO T F A T A L . posed to be a small stream, has been found to be navigable for 300 miles, and for small craft at least 200 miles One Dead and Three Hurt When Strikebreakers Reach Houston. more. Houston. Tex. — One o f the men A fund o f $20,000,000 for govern ment irrigation work is available on guarding the shops o f the Southern demand o f the secretary o f the inter Pacific railroad, is dead; another is Kinjf Victor Kmmanuel, o f Italy. ior, yet not a cent can be obtained by shot and seriously wounded; a special Western projects, and steps are being guard is badly cut and bruised, and Captain S. D. Sisk, special guard, declined, and the Italian forces imme Prevesa When Italian gunboats en taken to find out why. bady battered these are the results diately occupied Tripoli and Benghazi. countered two Turkish transports with Bellingham, Wash., experienced o f a melee that followed the disem Apparently the Turks offered no resis 2,000 troops aboard, the transports de distinct shock o f earthquake Thursday barking shortly after midnight of tance, but this is only an assumption, termined not to be captured. They evening. strikebreakers brought from New Or as immediately on landing the Italians steamed bravely on the rocks off Pre vesa and hundreds o f soldiers were Governor Dix, o f New York, urges leans to replace employes in the Hous evidently seized the telegraph lines, A Constantinople dispatch makes no drowned. the repeal of the law which legalizes ton shops o f the Harriman lines now on strike. boxing. Conflicting statements are made as A French admiral believes that de to the responsibility for the affray. composing powder was responsible for the fire and explosion which destroyed Salt Lake City The Oregon Short the battleship Liberté. Line railroad took the offensive Mon Tea merchants are greatly agitated day for the first time since the fed over the action o f this govermennt in erated shopmen left their jobs last A circular letter was is enforcing the regulations against the Saturday. sued to the striking shopmen promis importation o f colored tea. ing them employment if they returned Jonh D. claims that his attention was directed to the possibilités o f the to work on or before Wednesday, but oil business by the porter o f the store stating that those who did not return where he began work as clerk 56 then need never apply for further em ployment with the road. years ago. The strikers claim that the shops Persian rebels lost 600 in a battle are in a crippled condition, and say that they are in a position to stand a with government troops. President T a ft in a speech in Iowa, long siege. delcared that the war against trusts RAT E R U L IN G E V A D E D . must go on. McMinnville, Or., will present President T a ft with ten pounds o f the Railroads Strive to Get Around Re- cent Decision. choicest selected Yamhill county wal nuts. Washington, D. C. By means of Residents o f Honolulu greatly fear new rates filed with the Interstate the introduction o f mosquitoes from Commerce commission it becomes ev Central American ports, believing ident that the railroads expect to de they will bring yellow fever and ma feat the plan o f the commission to mention o f resistance and a mere pro Salonika — An Italian cruiser has laria which Bre now unknown in the lower freight rates to Spokane, Salt test by the governor would be in line destroyed a Turkish destroyer in the Lake and other intermountain points with Turkey’s announced policy. Hawaiian islands. harbor o f Prevesa in Epirus and land after November 1. The Turkish cabinet resigned when ed troops. ;The Turkish authorities Proposed new rates, instead o f low war was declared, and a new ministry are sending a battalion of^troops to PO R TLAN D M AR KETS. ering tarifTs to intermountain |K»ints was formed under Said Pasha, but re Prevesa. Wheat— Export basis: Bluctsem, to bring them within the ruling of taining the former able war minister, 854/'/87c; club, 82c; red Russian 80c; the commission, are made to conform Constantinople— News reached ¡here Mahmoud Shefket Pasha. valley 82; 40-fold, 82(//83c; fife, 82c. to the relative requirements o f the de from the city o f Tripoli to the effect MillstufTs — Bran, $24.50(025 per cision by raisingthe rate to the Coast. that a large Italian cruiser had gone ton; middlings. $32; shorts, $5.50(0 For example, after November I it will ashore there. 26; rolled barley, $33.50(1/34.60. cost $14 more to ship first class Corn— Whole, $33; cracked, $34 per freight from New York to San Fran Paris The Matin’s Athens corres ton. cisco and other Pacific Coast points. pondent says that the telegraph offi Barley— New feed, $31«/32*per ton; Two months ago the commission, cials at Vonitza, Greece, telegraphs to brewing, $37. construing the amended long and the government that a naval battle oc Oats— New white, $29 per ton. short-haul section, decided that from curred off Prevesa at 2 o’clock in the Hay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim the Missouri river to interior points afternoon. othy, $16(1/17.60; No. 1 valley, $15(ff the rate might be no higher than to 15.50; alfalfa, $12.50; clover, $9; Pacific Coast terminals. From Chi Tripoli— The Italian squadron which grain hay, $100/10.50. cago it might be 7 per cent higher, has been standing in the offing came Poultry Hens, 140/15c; springs, from Pittsburg 15 to 25 per cent. close to shore this morning and the 14otl5c; ducks, young, 160fil7c; destroyer Garibaldi steamed into the geese, 11c; turkeys, 18(<fl9c. Both Demand Dynamite. harbor flying a white flag. A fte r re- Butter - - Oregon creamery, solid Indianapolis, Ind. — The question connoitering, the destroyer demanded pack, 31c; prints, extra. whether dynamite and detonating ap the surrender o f the entire garrison. Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, paratus seized by the police here on The Turkish commander replied that 32c per doz. the arrest o f John J. McNamara he was unable to comply with the de Pork— Fancy, lOJoz 11c. would be taken to Los 'Angeles, to be mand and emphatically refused to sur Veal— Fancy, 13(Tz 13Jc per pound. used in the trial o f the McNamara render. The destroyer then retired Fresh Fruits — Cantaloupes, 50c0/' brothers, arose when subpoenas were and rejoined the fleet. $1.50 per crate; peaches, 600/ 65c per received by police officials summoning box; watermelons, 75c(</$1.25 per them to appear in court at Los Angel hundred; plums, 50oi 75c per crate; Italians Enthused By War. es and bring with them all evidence in prunes, 140/2c per pound; pears, $1 Chiasso, Switzerland — Dispatches their possession. County Prosecutor 0/.I.25 per box; grapes, 80c(</$1.15 Frank P. Baker said the evidence was from larger Italian cities tell o f much per box; apples, $10/ 2.50; huckleber needed here in a case pending against enthusiasm over the expedition to ries, 8c pound. Mahmoud Shefket I’anha. Turkish War Miniater John J. McNamara and W. J. Burns. Tripoli, the regiments composing Vegetables — Artichokes, 75c per which are now centered at various! dozen; beans, 60/10c; cabbages, Turkey continues efforts to secure ports. A ll the officers have volun-1 News Is Uncertain. $1.500/2 hundred; corn, 250/30c doz In the teered for service, but those who w i l l ! London— Out o f a maze o f conflict intervention by the powers. en; cucumbers, $10/1.25 sack; egg meantime Italy is actively pursuing take part in the expedition are to be plant, 5o/8c pound; garlic, 100/12c ing reports and rumors, it is utterly hostilities. Italian battleships are re-1 chosen by lot. Larger contingents o f pound; lettuce, 400/ 50c dozen; hot impossible to sift the grains o f truth ported to have appeared off Smyrna troops and carabineers are occupying house lettuce, $1.250rl.76 box; pep concerning the opening days o f the the more riotous districts. The Ital It appears doubt and Salonika. pers, 5o/6c pound; radishes, 124c doz Turko-Italian war. An Italian cruiser landed troops at; ian fleet is expected to have occupied I Through the Plymouth Woods John en; sprouts, 8c pound; tomatoes, 60c ful whether there has been any actual Alden Went. Prevesa, after destroying a Turkish the whole coast from Tripoli through | 0/$2.25 box; carrots, $1.25 per sack; bombardment or occupation o f T ri torpedo boat destroyer, and the Italian Benghazi to Derna bv 9n«day. Full of the breath of tho Lord, con poli. It seems also certain that the turnips. $1; beets, $1.75. soling and comforting many. Potatoes—Oregon, l|c per pound; reported destruction o f the Turkish Then, as he opened the door, he be Big Sugar Cargo Comes. Steel Tru st Chief Talks. fleet is untrue. In fact, the only re sweet potatoes, 24c. held the form of the maiden San Francisco— The largest ship New York—Judge Gary, chairman Onions California, $1.60 hundred. sult o f the first three «lays’ hostilities Seated beside her wheel, and the Hops- 1911 crop, 33c; olds, nominal. for which it can be vouched is the des ment o f foreign sugar ever received in o f the United States Steel corpora- ’ carded wool like a snow-drift Wool— Eastern Oregon, 9f(i 16c per truction o f the Turkish destroyers by California entered San Francisco bay tion, following a meeting o f the di-1 Saturday morning. It was sent from rectors and finance committee of the , Piled at her knee, her white hands pound, according to shrinkage; val the Duke d ’ Abruzzi’s ships. feeding the ravenous spindle. the East Indies. The sugar was im corporation Wednesday afternoon, is ley. 17c; mohair, choice, 36(r/374c. ported for the use o f fruit canners, sued the following statement: Situation Unchanged. " E x - 1 While with her foot on the treadle Cattle Choice steers, $5.25fn 6.46; 6he guided the wheel In its motion. Salt Lake, Utah—The strike situa who, it is said, cannot get Hawaiian isting conditions are affecting business good, $5(05.25; fair, $4.76(//5; me Open wide on her lap lay the well- dium, $4.50(o 4.76; poor, $3.75(0 4.50; tion on the Oregon Short Line remains sugar in exchange for canned goods to the extent that, instead o f contract worn psalm-book of Ainsworth, In this city the strikers exported and on that account want bookings for forward delivery, custo choice cows, $4.30(o 4.50; fair, $4(o unchanged. Printed in Amsterdam, the words and 4.15; common, $2.50(0.3.60; extra say there are 250 men on strike, while foreign sugar. It is said that its im- mers are buying only for immediate music together. choice spayed heifers, $4.40(0.4.60; the railroad says that 40 men are at portation will not affect the local mar requirements. Nevertheless, strange The value o f the shipment is as it may seem, the volume o f business Rough-hewn, angular notes, like stones A t Pocatello, Idaho, where ket. choice heifers, $4.25(0 4.40; choice work. In the wall of a churchyard. bulls, $3.25(0 3.50; good, $2.75(0.3 ; 475 men are out, there were no dis- $1,000,000, duty paid. The tariff on is larger than usual, specifications run Darkened and overhung by the run ning upwards o f 30,000 tons a d ay." common, $2 o 2.50; choice calves, turbancs, and the railroad was operat the importation is $300,000. ning vine of the verses. ?7.15(o7.25; good, $7(o7.15; com ing trains on schedule time. Railroad Such was the book from whose pages "T u rk e y Will Do Her Duty.” Women Convict Boyer. mon, $4(o 5; choice stags, $4.50(p officials at Ogden say they will not abe sang the old Puritan anthem. Belleport, L. I.— The Turkish am hire any new men for the present. Tacoma— Reginald H. Boyer, alias 4.75; good, $4.25(o4.50. bassador, Zia Pasha, expressed aston Fagin, who is alleged by the police to She, the Puritan girl. In the solitude H ogs-C hoice light hogs, $7.6<Vo About 400 men went out Saturday. of the forest. ishment when informed at his summer have been conducting a school for 7.75 good to choice, $7.50(0.7.60; fair, Strikebreakers Stoned. home Saturday that Italy had declared Crime, teaching young boys to steal, Making the humble house and the $7.25(o7.50; common $7(07.25. modest apparel of homespun state of war between Italy and Tur was convicted o f grand larceny in the Jackson, Miss. A carload of strike Sheep — Choice yearling wethers coarse wool, $3.65(0,4; choice yearl breakers on their way to New Orleans key. Zia Pasha said: " I am deeply Superior Court by a jury, the majority Beautiful with her beauty, and rich with the wealth of her being! He was spe ing wethers east o f mountains, $3.35 over the Illinos Central were stoned pained to learn that Italy has declared o f whom were women. (<(3.65; choice twos and threes, $301 by a mob as they passed through Mo- war upon my country. Turkey has cifically charged w’ ith short changing Over him rushed, like a wind that Is keen and cold and relentless. Windows were broken done everything to avoid war, but now an old man out o f $80. The jury was 3.25; choice lambs, $4.60(o4.80; comb, Miss. choice yearlings, $4.60(o4.75; good to and several o f the m£n were injured that war has come, you may rest as out hut five minutes, finding him guil- Thoughts of what might have been. And the weight and woe of his er choice lambs, $4.25(u4.50; culls $2.50 by broken glass or by being hit with sured that Turkey will not hesitate to ty as charged, The verdict was unan- rand; do her duty." imous. stones. -4 ^ . 4 3 All the dreams that had faded, and all the hopes that had vanished. All his ii o henceforth a dreary and tenant less mansion, Haunted by vain regrets, and pallid, sorrowful faces. Still he said to himself, and almost fiercely he said it: “ Let not him that putteth his hand to the plow look backward; Though the plowshare cut through the flowers of life to its fountains, Though it pass o’er the graves of the dead and the hearths of the living. It is the will of the Lord; and liis mercy endureth for e v er!” So he entered the house: and the hum of the wheel and the singing Suddenly ceased; for Priscilla, aroused by his step on the threshold, Rose as he entered, and gave him her hand, in signal of welcome, Saying, “ I knew it was you, when I heard your step in the passage; For I was thinking of you, as 1 sat there singing and spinning.” Awkward and dumb with delight, that a thought of him had been mingled Thus in the sacred psalm, that came blurted ft out like a sch oolboy Even the Captain himself could hard ly havo said it more bluntly. Mute with amazement and sorrow« Priscilla, the Puritan maiden. Looked into Alden’s face, her eyes diluted with wonder, Feeling his words like a blow, thAt stunned her and rendered her speechless; Till at length she exclaimed. Inter* rupting the ominous silence: “ If the great Captain of Plymouth la so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!” Then John Alden began explaining and smoothing the matter, Making it worse us he went, by say ing tho Captain was busy— Had no time for such things;— such things! tho words grating harshly Fell on the ear of Priscilla; and swift as a flash she made answer: “ Has he no time for such things, ns you call it, before he Is married. Would he be likely to find it, or make it, after tho wedding? That is tho way with you men; you don’t understand us, you can not. When you havo made up your minds, after thinking of this one and that one, Choosing, selecting, rejecting, com paring one with another, Then you make known your desire, with abrupt and sudden avowal, And are offended and hurt, and indig nant perhaps, that a woman Does not respond at once to a lovo that she never suspected, Does not attain at a bound tho height to which you have been climbing. This is not right nor Just: for surely a woman’s affection Is not a thing to bo asked for, and had for only the asking. When ono is truly In love, one not “ Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John." from the heart of the maiden, Silent before hey he stood, and gave her tho flowers for an answer, Finding no words for his thought. He remembered that day in the winter, After the first great snow, wrhcn he broke a path from the village, Reeling and plunging along through the drifts that encumbered tho doorway, t Stamping the snow from his feet as he entered the house, and Priscilla Laughed at his snowy locks, and gave him a seat by the fireside, Grateful and pleased to know ho had thought of her In the snow-storm. Had he but spoken then, perhaps not in vain had he spoken; Now It was all too late; the golden mo ment had vanished! So he stood there abashed, and gave her the flowers for an answer. only says It, but shows It. Had ho but waited a while, had ha only showed that he loved me. Even this Captain of yours— who knows?—at last might have won me, Old and rough ns he is; but now it never can happen.” Still John Alden went on, unheeding the words of Priscilla, Urging the suit of his friend, explain* ing, persuading, expanding; Spoke of his courage and skill, and ol all his battles In Flanders, How with the people of God he had chosen to suffer affliction. How, in return for his zeal, they had mado him Captain of Plymouth; He was a gentleman born, could trace hiB pedigree plainly Back to Hugh Standish of Duxbury Hall, In Lancashire, England, Who was the son of Ralph, and the tho grandson of Thurston de Standish; Heir unto vast estates, of which he was basely defrauded, Still bore the family arms, and had for his crest a cock argent Combed and wattled gules, and all the rest of the blazon. He was a man of honor, of noble and generous nature; Though he was rough, he was kindly; she knew how during the winter He had attended the sick, with a hand as gentle as woman’s; Somewhat hasty and hot, he could not deny It, and headstrong, Stern as a soldier might be. but hearty, and placable always. Not to be laughed at and scorned, be cause he was little of stature; For he was great of heart, magnani mous, courtly, courageous; Any woman In Plymouth, nay, any woman In England. Might be happy and proud to be called the wife of Miles Standish! Then they sat down and talked of the birds and the beautiful spring time. Talked of their friends at home, and the Mayflower that sailed on the morrow. “ I have been thinking all day,” said gently the Puritan maiden, “ Dreaming all night, and thinking all day, of the hedge-rows of Eng land,— They are in blossom now, and the country is all like a garden; Thinking of lanes and fields, and the song of the lark and the linnet. Seeing the village street, and familiar faces of neighbors Going about as of old. and stopping to gossip together, And, at the end of the street, the vil lage church, with the ivy Climbing the old gray tower, and the quiet graves in the churchyard. Kind are the people I live with, and dear to me my religion; Still my heart Is so sad, that I wish myself back In Old England. You will say It Is wrong, but I can not But as he warmed and glowed. In help It: I almost his simple and eloquent language. Wish myself back In Old England, I Quite forgetful of seif, and full of the feel so \oneIy and wretched.” praise of his rival. Archly the maiden smiled, and. with Thereupon answered the youth: “ In eyes overrunning with laughter, deed I do not condemn you; 8aid In a tremulous voice, “ Why don’t Stouter hearts than a woman’s have you speak for yourself, John?” quailed In this terrible winter. (T O B E C O N T IN U E D .) I Yours Is tender and trusting, and needs a stronger to lean on; Quaker Slang. So I have come to you now, with an A visitor to Philadelphia. unfnmlV an offer and proffer of marriage lar with the garb of the Society of Made by a good man and true. Miles Friends, was much interested In two Standish, the Captain of Ply demure and placid Quakeresses who mouth!” took seats directly behind her in the Broad street station. After a few Thus he delivered his message, the minutes’ silence she was somewhat dexterous writer of letters— startled to hear a gentle voice in Did not embellish the theme, nor quire: “ Slater Kate, will thee go to ray It in beautiful phrases. the counter and have a milk punch But came straight to the point, i on me?”— Llpplncott’e.