CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume o f Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
The sugar trust admits it is in r
tal fear o f the cartoonists.
A severe wind storm did much dam­
age in Clay county,^Kansas.
Army engineers approved the plan
for free government locks at Oregon
City.
Jewish families to the number of
980 have been expelled from several
large cities in Russia.
A hundred-million dollar combine o f
Chicago street car lines and terminal
companies is proposed.
It is said the death o f o f King Ed­
ward leaves Kaiser Wilhelm in a much
more prominent light than formerly.
George Sontag, ex-train robber, des­
perado and convict, will lecture on the
uselessness and folly o f a life o f crime.
Count Jacques de Lesseps crossed
the English channel in a Blériot mono­
plane. He intends to return by the
same method.
Socialists at their national congress
refused to vote at elections where their
candidates have been eliminated from
the ticket through the commission
form o f city governments.
GIVEN BACK.
Thousands o f Acres Are Made Avail­
able In Western States.
Washington, May 23.— Temporary
withdrawals from the public domain
for power sites were made by Secre­
tary Ballinger today o f approximately
3,440 acres along the John Day river,
in Oregon; 5,547 acres along the Wind
river in Wyoming; 8,620 acres along
the Price river, in Utah; and 606
acres along the Blue river, in Colo­
rado. Large tracts o f land in Montana
and New Mexico were designated for
settlement under the enlarged home­
stead act.
About 69,130 acres in the former
state were placed within the terms of
that act and approximately 57,236
acres in the latter were so designated
as not being susceptible o f successful
irrigation at a reasonable cost from
any known source o f water, supply.
An aggregate of nearly 100,000
acres have been thrown out o f national
forests in Oregon and added to the un­
reserved public domain by the latest
proclamations issued by the president
in carrying out the plan recently adopt­
ed for rearranging the forest boundary
lines.
The folowing shows the total elimin­
ations from each of four national fo r­
ests in that state:
Malheur, 4,485
acres; Whitman, 61,756 acres; De­
schutes, 16,152 acres, and Umatilla,
69,518 acres.
The total eliminations in the en­
tire country amount to 721,714 acres,
and the total additions to national for­
ests aggregate 199,003 acres.
DUE TO SURRENDER.
KING GEORGE V
PARDONS MANY
Ancient Customs of New Rulers
Freely Indulged In
Remission o f Sentences Extends Also
to Army and Navy—Will Insist
on Action by Parliament.
London, May 24.— A demonstration
o f a monarch’s greatness of heart and
his sympathy with the multitudes o f
his subjects characterized this, the
second day o f the real reign of King
George V.
It was announced officially that the
king was graciously pleased to grant
remission o f sentences to prisoners in
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
who tomorrow have still more than a
month’s sentence in prison to serve.
These remissions are o f from one to
three months, according to length of
sentences.
Similar orders were issued to the
board o f admiralty“ by the king’s direc­
tion. To all persons in the navy who
are under sentence of imprisonment
for terms o f not exceeding three
months for disciplinary offenses, in­
cluding drunkenness and desertion,will
be granted remission o f the remainder
o f their sentence.
A similar act o f clemency has been
issued in the case of soldiers.
Kaiser Wilhelm will leave tomorrow
afternoon on board thb yacht Hohen-
zollern. He lunched today with the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught and
later with King George indulged in a
long automobile ride about London.
The political truce hoped for will
probably not continue as long as was
expected.
When parliament meets
this week speeches by John Redmond
and others of the factions combined
with the Liberals will indicate an in­
tention to press the issue o f the Lord’s
veto and Ireland's demand as soon as
possible.
It is announced that King George in­
tends to maintain royal racing stables
at Newmarket and a breeding stud at
Sandringham and that he will patron­
ize racing on the same extensive scale
as his father.
One Killed, Many Injured, and Many
Towns Devastated.
Pauls Valley, Okla., May 21.— Tor­
nadoes and hail and rain storms trav­
ersed sections o f Garvin, McClain and
Pontotoc counties last night, killing
one person, seriously injuring several
others and partially devastating a large
rural area.
The village o f McCarty, 11 miles
southwest of here, was literally wiped
out, stores, a school house and resi­
dences being ripped into splinters.
Mrs. George Dewberry, wife o f a
minister, was injured by flying tim­
bers.
She died in a few hours. A
little girl living two and a half miles
from Pauls Valley, who had sought re­
fuge in a storm cave, was seriously in­
jured by timbers which penetrated the
roof o f the cave.
The 13-year-old
daughter o f Robert Clark, living in the
same neighborhood, was injured in a
similar manner.
The town of Maysville was reported
to have been blown away, but commu­
nication with that point cannot be es­
tablished tonight and the report is un­
confirmed.
Considerable damage was done at
Paoli, seven miles north o f Pauls Val­
ley, and an unconfirmed rumor says the
town was blown away.
Another report from Madill that one
man was killed and several houses
wrecked is denied.
The McCarty
tornado destroyed
practically everything on 1,000 acres.
It originated three miles east of the
village, traveled in a northeasterly di­
rection and spent its force near Pauls
Valley.
Houses and barns were wrecked,
fences blown away, many cattle and
horses killed and crops were beaten in­
to the earth by rain and hail.
Nearly all the physicians o f Pauls
Valley have been called to the stricken
district. Until they return and until
the country is surveyed tomorrow,
the actual extent o f the damage and
the number o f injured will not be
known.
The latest news from Elmore is
that the town o f Paoli was blown en­
tirely %way.
EARTH PASSES
COMET’S TAIL
Millions Who Watched for Phe­
nomena Saw Nothing.
No III Effects Nor Electrical Distur­
bances Apparent—Many Sun
Spots In Evidence.
Portland, May 19.— The comet came,
the comet went, and this old earth is
no worse and no better, and thus far
very little wiser.
There was no collision, as the super­
stitious and the ignorant feared, and
now that the comet is headed away
from us, there will be no recurrence o f
the manifestations o f terror that were
recorded from all parts of the world.
The earth did pass through the tail
o f the comet, but nobody suffered from
the deadly cyanogen gas. To the naked
eye, the tail o f the comet was indeed
the “ veriest approach to nothing set in
the midst o f naught.”
In fact, the phenomena o f the day­
light hours of yesterday were far the
more interesting. During the after­
noon sunspots were observed in vary­
ing numbers from five Western observ­
atories at the same hour, but the as­
tronomers who recorded them were al­
most unanimous in the belief that these
disturbances had nothing to do with the
approach o f the comet.
Two were
seen from San Jose, with 13 smaller
spots; three “ considerably accentuat­
ed’ ’ spots from Chicago; three connect­
ed spots from Vallejo, Cal., and two
from Portland, Oregon.
None o f the Eastern observatories
had anything o f note to report, either
during the day or the night. Near
Chicago, at Williams Bay, Wis., where
is the great Yerkes telescope, the con­
ditions for observations seemed the
best and the astronomers there: were
confident thqt the negative as well as
the positive results o f their examina­
tion would be o f lasting scientific
value.
The whole performance took little
more than five hours.
Observers dif-
ered as to the exact time at which
the earth began to pass through the
comet’s tail, but the opinion averages a
moment between 10 and 11 o ’clock at
night, Eastern time.
The combined speed o f the tail and
the earth was estimated at slightly
more than 46 miles a second, and the
breadth o f the tail at about 1,000,000
miles.
Friday the comet will become visible
again, headed away from us, with the
tail sticking straight up out o f the
western sky a little above the spot
where the sun sinks. There will then
be no light from the rising sun to dim
the glory o f the spectacle and it is
likely to be far more majestic than in
the stages o f the approach. A t the
end o f this month, good-bye for another
75 years.
Nicaraguan Rebels Surrounded and
The World’s Sunday School conven­
Supplies Captured.
tion at Washington elected President
Bluefields,
Nicaragua, May 23.—
Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, King George
o f England, President Diaz of Mexico, “ Have enemy completely surrounded
and cut off from ammunition and pro­
and W. J. Bryan as life members.
visions.
Expect surrender at any
A partly wrecked areoplane was the time.”
only accident that marred the aviation
This was the message that came to
meet at Sutherlin, Ore.
KING EDWARD IS BURIED.
General Juan Estrada, leader o f the
Firemen on the Deleware, Lack- insurgent forces, from General Mena
auwanna & Western have been given today.
Greatest Throngs Ever Known Watch
The Estrada forces, under Mena, ac­
an increase of 12 per cent in wages.
Funeral Pageant.
cording to the plan which had been de­
A Greeley, Colo., man paid up all
London,
May 21.— Sovereigns and
cided upsn, executed their first move
his old debts so he might die with a
representatives o f the powers o f all the
yesterday afternoon at Rama.
clear conscience when the comet came.
world paid their last tribute yesterday to
General Almena allowed General
England’ s great monarch, Edward VII,
Thieves stole a package containing Chavarias, of the Madriz forces, to
whose body now rests in St. George’ s
$32,024 from the express office at Oil close upon Rama, when he moved a
chapel at Windsor castle, where the
City, Pa., while the agent wasn’ t look­ small body o f his forces in a feint to
bones o f Edward IV, the sixth and
attack Chavarias’ forces. A t the same
ing.
eighth Henrys, Charles I, the third
time General Moncado, at the head o f
A woman in San Ana, Cal., went in­
and fourth Georges and William IV
sane and another tried to commit suicide an insurgent detatchment, made a
are entombed.
forced march from Muelle de Bueys, a
through fear of the coming o f the
Bright sunshine followed a night of
Salem, Mass., May 24.— While the
distance o f 40 miles west o f Rama, and
comet.
attacked Chavarias’ ammunition and value o f immense gifts bequeathed to thunder storms that swept the city,
Princeton by the will o f the late Isaac and soaked the funeral^decoratior.s that
George Pepoon, o f
Northport, provision train.
They
Wash., was found guilty o f murder in
The entire train, with 200,000 rounds C. Wyman is estimated at $10.000,000, hung along the line o f march.
the first degree for poisoning his wife o f ammunition and a large amount o f its exact amount is unknown, even to had no deterrent effect on the thous­
ands who from midnight until dawn
last August.
provisions, was captured, and General the trustees. John M. Raymond, an
attorney o f this city, who is one o f the sought points of vantage from which
Chavarias’
supplies.
General
Chava­
J. Voliva, former overseer on the
trustees, does not think the estate to watch the passing cortege.
Dowie farm near Chicago, has begun rias now holds a position facing Rama,
London’ s millions filled the streets
would exceed $10,000,000, and he was
suit to recover control of the property, with General Almena close behind him.
not prepared to say whether it would and open places as they have never
valued at $1,000,000.
been filled before at either tuneral or
equal it.
COOL HEADS AVERT PANIC.
Many farmers in Wisconsin removed
“ There are millions enough,” he ad­ festival.
The pageantry that marked the bur­
the lightning rods from their buildings Blaze Devours Circus Tent, But 15,- mitted, “ to take care o f the needs of
as a precautionary measure against in­
the proposed graduate college for ial o f Victoria was as naught compared
OOO People are Unhurt.
jury from the effects of the comet.
which, under the terms o f the will, the with the magnificence o f the day’s COM ETS IMMATURE PLANETS.
Schenectady. N. Y ., May 23.— Bar- money is designed.”
ceremony, which was splendidin its ac­
Twenty-eight bodies have been re­
num & Bailey’s " b ig top,” the main
companiments of gilded coaches, bril­
P rofessor See Advances Theory Af­
covered from the ruins of the barracks
tent o f the circuis, caught fire here
liant uniforms and decorations, far sur­
CHERRIES $ 6 ,0 0 0 A CAR.
at Pinar del Rio, Cuba, which were de­ today from a cigar stump and burned
ter Years o f Research.
passing the ceremony attending the re­
stroyed by an accidental explosion of
like an overturned hot air balloon.
Mare
Island, Cal., May 19.__Profes­
moval
o
f
the
king’
s
body
from
Buck­
California Growers Are Obtaining
dynamite.
Fifteen thousand people, who filled
sor T. J. J. See, astronomer in charge
ingham palace to Westminster hall.
Record Prices.
George Westinghouse has invented the seats to overflowing, filed out like
The procession included nine sover­ of the United States naval observatory
Stockton, Cal., May 24. — Cherry eigns; an ex-president of the United at Mare Island, announced today as the
an air-spring for vehicles which will do school childern at drill.
away with pneumatic rubber tires,
Spectators first smelled the smoke, growers are making more money this States, Theodore Roosevelt, who alone outcome o f years o f research in cos-
and reduce the coat o f automobiles and discovering the fire, began to beat season than at any time they have was not in uniform, the heirs to sever­ mical evolution, a theory on the origin
it with their coats. The blaze leaped been in the business.
about one-half.
al thrones; the members o f the royal o f comets, which, he said, were some
The present crop o f Black Tartar- families; the officers of the households; of the primitive masses once forming
above their heads and the next effort
The steam schooner J. Marhoffer was
to conquer it came from circus employ­ ians is about marketed and this week the officials o f the governments; field the solar nebula and could be popularly
burned off the Oregon coast.
She was
Royal Anns will begin to arrive and
beached when the fire was discovered, es, who began to tear out huge patches buyers promise 7 cents for that varie­ marshals, generals and admirals; de­ described as immature, undeveloped
of canvas. Their efforts met with no
tachments o f troops of all the British planets.
and all hands were saved, but one man
better success, for the fire, eating up­ ty, though they may have to pay high­ arms; representatives of foreign arm­
“ In course o f researches made at
died from exposure.
Black Tartarian cherries were ies and navies in variegated uniforms Mare Island during the past two years
ward, soon worked ita way to the top­ er.
sold in large quantités the past few — a solid phalanx of glittering colors. on the origin o f the solar system, ”
A pair o f scales, exact duplicate of most peak.
those used in weighing sugar at the
Energetic men and cool women in days at 6 cents a pound, and at times
The lines o f redcoated soldiers were said Professor See, “ I have proved
custom houses, were exhibited in the the crowd, aided the employes, as the price went up to 8 cents, finally drawn up as on that other great occas­ that comets are really survivals o f the
cents ion o f England’s mourning, nine years outer shell o f ancient nebula, from
sugar fraud trial in New York, and it sumed direction o f the audience and reaching the top figure o f 9
was plainly shown how they were orderly files were soon moving steadily yesterday.
ago, wth arms reversed and regimental which our system was developed. All
If the Royal Ann prices drop, grow­ flags dipped to the ground.
made to weigh nine pounds short on from the exits. When a woman faint­
the inner parts o f the nebula have been
ed or a child shrieked, shouts o f reas­ ers look for the canneries to get into
less than a thousand.
cleared away in producing planets and
the market, but just now the only buy­
surance
rose
and
strong
arms
were
in­
satellites, but many small masses still
Prohibition was defeated in Denver
Long
Jump
Brings
Death.
ers
are
the
shippers,
who
are
taking
all
stantly ready for support.
survive in the outer shell o f the old
city elections.
Not a soul was hurt, not an animal the cherries offered. At these high
San Francisco, May 21.— Jumping nebula. These are the comets.”
Henry Watterson says “ yellow jour­ injured. The total damage is esti­ prices cherries are worth $6,000 a car, from the cupola o f the Call building at
nalism" is causing the press to loae its mated at $10,000.
11 o’ clock yesterday morning, Nichol­
Ball o f Radium is Theory.
hold upon public opinion.
as Lichkaskis struck'the sidewalk amid
14 Are Killed in Battle.
Portland, May 19.—“ I believe Hal­
a crowd of passersby with such force
Giant M erger for Chicago.
Two dogs at Condon, Ore., were so
B _ ,,
Washington, May 24. — Two days
ley’s comet is a ball of radium,” de­
Chicago, May 23.— R«»lw«y ^inter- ^ fìg-htinfr ne»r Rama, Nicaragua, has that his body bounced and fell in a
badly injured in a fight with a porcu­
eats o f Chicago are considering the ad­ coat the Estrada forces 14 killed and 29 heap amid passing wagons and automo­ clared Dr. Davidson Buchanan last
pine that they had to be killed.
biles. That the leap o f 320 feet was night, in his lecture before the maga­
visability o f organising a $100,000,000
M Tacoma man, his w ife and daugh­ corporation for the purpoee o f consoli­ wounded, according to a report to the long ago adopted by the man as the zine class at the Y. M. C. A . “ And I
State department from Consul Moffatt
ter, are critically ill from eating what dating under one ownership anti under
means of committing suicide was es­ think,” he continued, "th a t the proof
at Bluefields. The casual ities o f the
thay supposed were mushrooms.
one management all o f the belt rail­ Madris forces, he adds, were not tablished when a receipt for $75 from o f this theory will be established by
an undertaker to defray his funeral ex­ the results of observations o f scientific
Millions of dollars were secured roads, all o f the switching railroads, learned.
penses “ in case of death” was found in men now studying the comet. Like
f r o « cotton buyers all over the world and all of the so-called terminal rail­
General Mena retired after the fight
I radium, the comet furnishes its own
a pocket ol the dead man’s coat.
roads
in
and
about
Chicago.
by swindlers who used bogus bills of
to his entrenchments.
Large quanti­
j luminosity and continues for years
This giganic financial undertaking, ties o f ammunition and provisions, said
lading.
without decreasing in w e ig h t” Dr.
Fast Continued 21 Days.
which undoubtedly would effect for Chi­ to be the entire stores of the Madris
A lieutenant and eight men from the
Butte, Mont, May 21,— Twenty-one 1 Buchanan said this at the close o f an
cago an annual economy aggregating forces at Bluefields, were reported
regular army will spend the summer
days without food, with the exception interesting talk on comets in general.
many millions, is in its first stages— captured by General Moncada.
making maps of the coast about Sea­
o f water and lemon and orange juice,
that o f careful study and consideration.
side, Oregon.
Harvest o f Converts is Reaped.
is the record established by Henry
Snow Sweeps New Mexico.
Standford, Ky., May 19.—Scores o f
A millionaire ( ;as manufacturer o f
Strikers Return Monday.
Albuquerque, N. M., May 24.— Roberts, of this city. Roberts is en­
negroes professed salvation at all-
Illinois has offered extensive financial
New York. May 23.—All the strik­ Northwestern New Mexico is in the deavoring to correct stomach trouble.
night sessions held in their churches
aid to the bribery inveatigâtions now ing employes o f the International Pa­ grip o f a heavy snow storm tonight
here last night to prepare themselves
in progress there.
Six Inches Snow in Dakota.
per company returned to work this The storm, evidently s continuation of
for whatever might happen when the
morning.
Terms
o
f
egeement
were
the
one
which
swept
Southwestern
Col­
Shippers from the Pacific coast to
Lead, S. D., May 21—Six inchea of earth passed through the com et's tail.
the East have challenged the railroads entered into between officers o f the orado, yesterday, is cantered at Fol­ snow fell here between last midnight
Fields are practically deserted by the
bn prove that any necessity exists for company and the officers o f the pulp som. It is expected that great loss o f and noon today.
This is the third | farm hands, for negroes have refuted
makers’ and paper makers’ unions.
livestock will result.
•now storm since the 1st o f May.
I to mark and are fleeing to town.
PRINCETON EXPECTS
GIFT OF $10,000,000