DOINGS OFTHEWEEK Current Events oí Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Evente Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Francisco I. Madero formally takes office as president of Mexico. Portland has become second only to San Francisco as a tourist center. Complete official returns give pro hibitionists a slight majority in Maine. Union labor leaders point out many alleged flaws in the employers’ lia bility act. With censorship removed, Chinese papers score the Imperialists for need less massacres. Pekin has fallen into the hands of the revolutionists and the royal family o f China has fled and cannot be found A second package o f bank bills was found near the scene o f the robbery o f the Bank o f Montreal at New West­ minister, B. C. AVIATOR WHO HA8 COMPLETED FIRST CROSS-CONTINENT FLIGHT EVER BLADE. MEN W ILL N O T YIELD. Shop Employes o f Railroads Continue Struggle. Will San Francisco— A t the end o f the first month o f the strike o f the shop employes o f the Harriman lines, both sides in the Pacific Coast division are declaring their forces unimpaired and that they are ready to continue the tight. Officials o f the railroad point to the fact that traffic has continued uninterrupted and that the shops at Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dunsmuir, Oakland and San Francisco have been kept in operation with almost full forces at work. Leaders among the strikers point to the fact that there has been almost an entire absence o f violence and declare it is their intention to continue the strike peaceably. E. L. Reguin, pres­ ident o f the San Francisco local of the Shop Employes’ Federation, is hopeful o f a victory for the strikers. " W e were prepared for the strike when we began,’ ’ he said, “ and we are prepared to continue it. We knew it would be a long, hard fight, and teat all our resources, but we have something to fight for and we will fight it out. Our men have refrained from violence and I am sure will con­ tinue to do so.’ ’ Officials of the Southern Pacific”road would make no statement other than that the strike has not seriously inter­ fered with the business o f the board and that the shops will be kept in operation. Rumors o f elaborate pre­ paration against attack by strikers in the building o f stockades and the em­ ployment o f hundreds of private watch­ men were denied. Courtship °£ Miles Standish pending electrical thrills through every nerve In his body. Z2f Lo! in the midst of this scene, a breathless messenger entered, Bringing in hurry and heat tho ter­ rible news from tho village. Yes; Miles Standish was dead!—an Indian had brought them the tid­ ings.— Slain by a poisoned arrow, shot down In the front of tho battle, Into an ambush beguiled, cut off with the whole of his forces; All the town would be burned, and all W ith Illustrations by the people be murdered! Such wpro the tidings of evil that burst on the hearts of the hear­ ers. ( C o p y r ig h t. T h e U o b b s - M e r r i l l C o m p a n y ) Silent and statue-Uke stood Priscilla, Bertha, the Beautiful Spinner.” her face looking backward Here the light foot on the treadle Still at the face of the speaker, her grew swifter and swifter; the arms uplifted in horror; spindle But John Alden, upstarting, as If the Uttered an angry snarl, and the thread barb of the arrow % Month after month passed away, and snapped short in her fingers; in autumn tho ships of the While tho impetuous speaker, not Piercing the heart of his friend had struck his own, and had sundered merchants heeding the mischief, continued: Came with kindred and friends, with "You are the beautllul Bertha, the Once and forever the bonds that held him bound as a captive. cattle and corn for the Pilgrims. spinner, the queen of Helvetiu; All in the village was peace; tho men She whose story I read at a stall in Wild with excess of sensation, the awful delight of his freedom, were intent on their labors, the streets of Southampton, Busy with hewing and building, with Who. as she rode on her palfrey, o’er Mingled with pain and regret, uncon­ garden-plot and with merestead, scious of what he was doing. valley and meadow and moun­ Busy with breaking the glebe, and Clasped, almost with a groan, the tain. mowing the grass in the meadows, Ever was spinning her thread from motionless form of Priscilla, Searching the sea for Its fish, and Pressing her close to his heart, as for a distaff fixed to her saddle. huutlng the deer in the forest. ever his own, and exclaiming: She was so thrifty and good, that her All In the village was peace; but at times the rumor of warfare Filled the air with alarm, and the ap­ prehension of danger. Bravely the stalwart Mild# Standish was scouring the land with his forces, Waxing valiant In fight and defeating tho alien armies, Till his name had become a sound of fear to the nations. Anger was still in his heart, but at times the remorse and contrition Which in all noble natures succeed the passionate outbreak, Came like a rising tide, that encount­ ers the rush of a river, Staying its current a while, but mak­ ing it bitter and brackish. H ow ard Chandler Christy The $ pinning Wheel AVIATOR IS AT GOAL EMPEROR M UST ABDICATE. Rebels Insist on Absolute Surrender o f Manchus. Shanghai —The central machine o f the revolutionary government does not trust the throne, nor does it agree Turkish troops recaptured the city o f Dema, after killing 500 Italians with the throne’s terms. It is, there­ and capturing the rest o f the garrison fore, proceeding to arrange to control in a terriffic battle. the nation's affairs in expectation of A pouch o f mail containing $20,000 the sucess which it regards as certain. PIONEER AVIATO R KILLED. in currency disappeared between Ra­ The retirement o f the machine dynasty Almost Mobbed by Enthusiastic Spec­ leigh, N. C., and New York City, and will be demanded. California Air Expert Victim o f Acci­ tators—Declares Mechanism Must no trace o f it has been found. The official list drawn up includes dent With Glider. Be Revolutionized, A United States warship has been Dr. Wu Ting Fang, at one time minis­ San Jose, Cal.-—Professor John J. dispatched to Tripoli, though the War Montgomery, o f Santa Clara college, » ♦♦»♦ ♦♦ »♦♦♦♦♦„♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦a- ♦♦♦♦♦>! ter at Washington, who has accepted department denies that it is an answer is dead from the effects o f a terrible the post o f secretary o f foreign a f­ to an appeal from Turkey for interven­ Statistics o f Rodgers' Flight fall from an aeroplane glider he was tion. Total distance traveled, 4,231 * fairs; Wen Tsong Y do, at one time experimenting with in the foothills miles. J Chinese resident in Thibet, to whom " The department o f agriculture be­ about two miles east of Evergreen. Actual flying time, 4,924 min- £ the post o f under secretary has been He apparently lost control o f the lieves that seaweed, to be found in al utes, or 3 days, 10 hours, 4 minutes. ; offered; Ehr Tang, atone time direc­ most unlimited quantities along the machine, according to eye witnesses, Elapsed time of journey, 49 days. S Pacific Coast, is worth many millons and fell 20 feet, sustaining injuries tor o f the American council o f Canton, Average speed when flying, 51.72 j yearly as fertilizer, containing large to the back and base o f the brain, who has accepted the military gover­ miles an hour. which resulted in dcgth a little more quantities o f potash. norship o f Che Kiang and Kiang Su than an hour and a half after he was Five o f the unidentified girl victims brought back to Santa Clara in the provinces; L i Ping Shui, head o f the o f the Chehalis powder explosion were automobile o f Dr. J. L. Beattie, who Pasadena— In a flying machine that Shanghai gentry, who has accepted the buried in one grave. was summoned immediately. held together only through the good civil governorship o f those provinces, Professor Montgomery had been an will o f Providence. Calbraith P. Rod­ A striking machinist at Portland and Yu Y a Chiog, a leading merchant, authority on aerial navigation ever gers, the transcontinental aviator, was shot and killed in a street fight since the first elements o f the science glimpsed the Pacific ocean Saturday, who has accepted the mayoralty o f by a machine shop proprietor. developed into practical result. He as he soared over the gray top of Shanghai. The Chinese chamber o f commerce won international fame as the in­ Mount Wilson and settled down in Government officers are investigat­ ventor o f an electrical rectifier and of Tournament Park, amidst a clamorous has declared for the rebels and urged ing an alleged comer in wheat. several patent appliances to facilitate multitude, waiting to welcome him at the consular body to prevent the im­ what was virtually the finish o f his perial fleet from entering the Whang Kyrle Bellew, once famous actor aerial navigation. Recently he sold for 1,700,000 his flight from Sheepshead Bay. N. Y. Po river. The populace fear a repeti­ died o f pneumonia at Salt Lake City. rights to certain aeroplane improve­ Rodgers landed at 4:10 o ’clock in the tion o f the Hankow brutalities. Perfect order was maintained in Excesses by victorious Chinese ments, the payment o f this sum being afternoon. troops have temporarily checked peace contingent on the winning of a suit Rodgers appeared on the sky line Shanghai and the outlying districts against the Wright Brothers for al­ shortly after 3 o ’clock, a few moments the first night after the capitulation overtures. leged infringement. His electrical after he had risen at Pomona, 20 o f the city to the revolutionists. Temperance union workers have rectifier was the subject o f extensive Li Ping Shui, responsible head of miles away. He was sighted first by started an anti-cigarette crusade in litigation for two or three years, telescopes levelled at him from the the new administration in the native Milwaukee. which resulted in the complete vindi­ solar observatory on Mount Wilson, city and suburbs, is completing his cation o f his right to the exclusive and word flashed down the mountain organization. - He informed the cor­ Roosevelt says the wars now in pro­ title. by telephone caused a swarming of respondent that he recognized only the gress Bhow the folly o f peace treaties republic and would guarantee order. 20.000 people to Tournament Park. on vital questions. The aviator, flying at a height of The only disorderly elements now in JAPS B ATTLE RUSSIANS. Aviator Rodgers ran out o f gasoline 5.000 feet, hovered over the city for a China, he said, are the ex-officials, and the Manchu and was forced to land at a lonely aid One Slain When Czar's Patrol Cruiser few minutes, then warping the planes their supporters troops, who never again woùld be per­ that previously had been as motionless ing in the Arizona desert, where the Traps Poacher. as the spreading pinions o f a soaring mitted to control. only inhabitant was a telegraph oper­ There is reason to believe that the Victoria, B. C.— News o f a fatal eagle, he sailed in a wide spiral and ator. A special train brought him a sealing raid at the Copper islands by volplaned down to the greensward in revolutionary sentiment throughout the South strongly favors the uncon­ new supply from Yuma, 60 miles Japanese sealers has been received the middle o f the park. west. here. The Japanese schooners Boso Rodgers literally was mobbed. He ditional abdication o f the emperor and Maru, Chitose Maru and Toyei Maru was borne hither and thither by the the establishment o f an entirely new A jury investigated the Chehalis anchored off the seal rookeries in a regime. powder mill fire and reports that mist. The Russian patrol cruiser ar­ surging crowd. Eager hands clutched and scratched him, but his leather they were unable to determine the rived and they all weighed anchor and Colored Oranges Barred. clothing was strong ynough to resist cause of the fire, but held the company ran, leaving their small boats. San Bernardino, Cal.— Because the attack, although afterwards the avia­ blameless, as every precaution was There were five boat crews ashore taken and all rules o f safety fully from the three ships and when the tor declared his ribs would surely artificial coloring o f oranges is no lon­ manifest black and blue marks o f an ger permitted, by order o f the bureau complied with. Russian guards came to arrest them over-enthusiastic greeting. some o f the raiders opened fire on the Rodgers started on the last dash of o f food and drug inspection, Eastern Thanksgiving will be P O R TLA N D M ARKETS. Russians with rifles. his flight from Banning, a little town tables this The sealers took shelter behind out in the desert, where his arrival without oranges as far as Southern Prominent Wheat— Export basis : Blucstem, 83 rocks and endeavored to keep off the had interrupted the only diversion of California is concerned. (»84c; club, 79(»80c; red Russian, 77 guards. One Russian was killed and the year— the funeral dance o f the orange shippers estimate that this sea­ Fifteen Japanese Mojave Indians. (»78c; valley, 79(»80c; forty-fold, 80c. several wounded. The aviator saw a son’s crop will be from two to four squaw, 101 years old, who had danced weeks late because o f the order. Com— Whole, $36; cracked, $37 ton. were captured. The captives were taken to Vladi­ all night and day, fall in a swoon. Heretofore, by use o f the coloring de­ Oats— No 1 white, $31(»31.50 ton. vice, the first o f the crop have been in MillstufTs— Bran, $23 per ton; mid­ vostok and members o f the crew of Then he took the air at noon. New York in time for the country’s dlings, $31; shorts, $24; rolled bar­ the schooner Boso Maru, which has annual feast day. returned to Japan, say that one o f the ley, $34»/35. Glacial Ice Uncovered. Hay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon, tim­ number is expected to be sentenced to Klamath Falls, Or.— While William Speculators Hold Fruit. othy, $17»/18; No. 1 valley, $15(016; death. McCully was digging gravel in Bul­ Sacramento— One hundred thousand alfalfa, $13(0 14; clover, $11(»12; Post Cards Are Censored. lard's canyon recently he was sur­ boxes o f apples are being placed in grain, $11»/12. Chicago- Censors will be appointed prised to encounter a large body of cold storage here by speculators, who Barley— Feed, 31 per ton; brewing, every Chicago sub-postal station, glacial ice several feet below the sur­ will hold them until spring, when they nominal, He took will be sold in California and Eastern Fresh Fruits— Pears, 75c»/$1.75 per the superintendents o f which Postmas­ face o f the gravel bed. Seventy thousand boxes some o f the cakes into the town of markets. box; grapes, 75«»$1.26 per box; ap­ ter Daniel A. Campbell has given 30 Merrill, where it was judged to be o f have already been shipped here and ples, $l»/2.25; cranberries, 4'u5c per lays in which to stamp out the dis­ good quality. Thirteen years ago stored, and others are coming in car pound. tribution o f objectionable postcards. what is supposed to be the same body lots daily. The cold storage concern Potatoes— Oregon, l } c per pound; The superintendents’ salaries will be o f ice was uncovered, but it became handling this business has decided to sweet potatoes, $2.15»/2.25 per crate. reduced and they will ultimately be covered and not until the late dis­ double its storage room, although it Onions— Oregon, $1.26 per hundred. discharged i f objectionable cards pass covery was it supposed to be still in has only recently completed a large Vegetables — Artichokes, 75c per through their offices. The chief pic­ addition to its plant in expectation o f dozen; beans, 5(» 10c per pound; cab- tures ordered barred from distribution existence. this business. l>»Ke, 4(»|c; cauliflower, 5 0 «» $1 per are those o f men and women fondling dozen; garlic, 10»/ 12c per pound; hot­ each other, women in abbreviated cos­ Mammoth's Bone Dug Up. Fowler Decends Suddenly, house lettuce. $1.26 per box; pump­ tumes and animal pictures. Hillsboro, Or. Part o f the femur El Paso, Tex.— R. G. Fowler, the kins, 1»/1 Jc per pound; sprouts, 8(» o f a mammoth was found here while 9c; squash, l j ( » l j c ; tomatoes, 60c» workmen were digging a well for the eastbound coast-to-coast aviator, ar- Rebels Fight Recklessly. $1 per box; carrots, $1 per sack; tur­ Hillsboro ’water system. The bone rived here at 3:10 Monday afternoon Hankow— Hundreds were killed or nips, $1; beets, $1; parsnips, $1. was found 11 feet in the earth, on a on an El Paso & Southwestern passen- Butter Oregon creamery, solid wounded on both sides in the battle beaverdam deposit, and must have 8er train, unhurt after an accident pack, 324c; prints, extra; butter fat, Saturday. Churches, offices and store­ been buried for thousands o f years, which compelled him to leave his bi- rooms were uses! by the Red Cross for It is well preserved and measures six plane one mile from Mastodon, N. M., lc less than solid pack. The rebels showed inches in diameter. Search was made about 14 miles west o f El Paso, Poultry— Hens, 14c; springs, 13c; the wounded. They charged, for other portions of the skeleton, but Fowler had made 400 miles since leav- ducks, young, 16»/164c; geese, 114» ' reckless courage. 12c; turkeys, alive, 20c; dressed, cheering, in close formation and faced nothing was found, and it is evident ' n(t Douglas, Ariz., in the morning, the deadly Maxims unflinchingly. that the femur had been washed some when one of the sparkers on his en- choice, 25*/ 26c. E g g s - Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, They sacrificed probably ten men to distance after the skeleton was dis- 8ine failed to work. the imperialists' one. The one idea 40»/ 424c. membered. .... ~ I .. , , o f the rebels seemed to be to go for­ ________, _________ Witnesses Confirm Atrocities, Pork— Fancy, 9(V/ 94c. ward at any cost. The loyalists, on Turkoy Grows for Taft. Malta— Steamer passengers arriv- Veal— Fancy, 13(»134c. Newport, R. I. Horace Vose, the ing from Tripoli describe the scene as Hops— 1911 crop, 424(»'434c; olds, the contrary, with machine-like disci­ pline, obeyed the bugles and whistles. Westerly turkey fancier, is preparing a reign o f terror. Strong military nominal. his annual Thanksgiving g ift for the patrols are continually conducting rig- Wool— Eastern Oregon, 9(/il6c per Nature Numbers Peak. president's table. The T a ft turkey orous house-to-house searches and on pound; valley, 16»/17c; mohair, Husum, Wash.— Mount Adams has this year is a fine bronze gobbler, the smallest pretext summary punish- choice, 3 6 » 37c. Many victims Cattle Choice steers, $5.60»/5.95; a number o f its own standing out in which is gaining weight every minute ment is meted out. The number 167 is on a diet o f chestnuts, which produces have been shot in their own houses, good ,1 $5.25»/5.50; fair, $5(»5.25; bold figures. In the absence o f any attempt to p