CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Briet
General Return« o f Important Event*
Presented in Condensed Form
fo r O ur Busy Readers.
Eleven persons have been killed by
beat in Chicago this season.
Corea has been taxed $4,000,000 < n;
nually to support the Japanese army
Roosevelt says he is ready and eager
to take hold and help solve the nation's
problems.
Mrs. Longworth has laid off her wed
ding ring and suffragettes take it as a
sign that she strongly favors their
cause.
The entire population o f Oyster Bay
welcomed Roosevelt to his home town.
He has absolutely nothing to say about
politics.
E L E V E N B IL L I O N M E S S A G E S .
Estimated Number Given in Census
Bureau's Report fo r 1907,
Washington, D. C. — There were
more than 11 billion messages, or
“ talks,’ * over the telephone in the
United States in 1907, an increase of
124.3 per cent over the approximately
5 billion
similar conversations re
ported in 1902, according to estimates
presented in the Census bureau’s report,
now on the press, on the census o f the
physical
equipment,
service,
and
financial operations o f the commercial,
mutual, and independent rural tele
phone lines for 1907.
Other large increases are conspicu
ously apparent.
In 1907 the total
number o f systems and lines was 22 ,-
971, as compared with 9,136 in 1902,
an increase o f 151.4 per cent.
The
miles o f wire in 1907 were 12,999,369,
an increase of 165.3 per cent over 4,-
900,451 in 1902.
The salaried em
ployees in 1907 numbered 25,298, as
compared with 14,142 in 1902, the per
cent o f increase being 79.1. The sal
aries in 1907 amounted to $19,298,432,
as against $9,886,886 in 1902; a gain
o f 95.2 per cent The average number
o f wage earners in 1907 was 118,971,
W o u ld
MEXICANS KILL
AND PLUNDER
Smith W ants Eggs
W « w ill p a r as fo llo w « fo r ftr»t-cla»a pro
duce. Ship by expreaa.
El Paso, Texas— W ith the national
elections a week off and the muttering
against the administration o f Presi
dent Diaz louder than they have ever
been before, and with outlaws terror
izing the state o f Vera Cruz, killing
men and women, burning buildings and
tearing up raiiroad tracks, Mexico is
in a state o f turmoil.
Already, one
American, Norman Lawler, manager
o f the Monte Pio plantation has been
killed by the bandits, who are contin
uing their ravages upon the state in
open defiance o f the authorities.
Follow ing the murder o f the A m eri
IOC
Pork .........................................
12c
L iv e H e n s ..................................... 1®C
L iv e S p r in g C h ic k e n s, lb 2 0 t o 22$C
E g g s .............................................. 2 5c
Robbers Take Advantage of
Political Turmoil.
National Elections Approaching and
Opposition to Diaz Regime Rap-
|idly Gains Headway.
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F R A N K L. S M IT H M E A T CO.
“F ig h tin g the B eef Trust”
PO RTLAND, OREGON
Blood Humors
O u tc la s s e d .
Wearied with his everlasting hike,
the Wandering Jew stopped to rest.
"What's the use?” he exclaimed. ‘T
can't keep up with old man Weston to
save my life! He's forty miles ahead
of me and going like the wind!"
Running a trembling hand through
his flowing beard, he proceeded to heap
a few choice maledictions on the day of
his birth.
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Commonly cause pimples, bolls, hives,
eczema or salt rheum, or some other
form of eruption; but sometimes they
exist In the system. Indicated by feel
ings o f weakness, languor, loss o f ap
petite, or general debility, without
causing any breaking out.
They are expelled and the whole sys
tem is renovated, strengthened and
toned by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Get It today In usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
REDUCE THE
COST OF LIVING;
Tended
use CRESCENT
C o n e eM to n *.
“ In a true love affair concessions
must be made on botii sides.”
“ That 1« what the duke says. He
has offered to give up baccarat If dad
will part with another million.” — Kan
sas City Journal.
BAK ING P O W D E R
25c. FULL POUND
A T R I P TO PO R TLA N D FRE F
Two revivalist preachers near L e x
ington, K y., fought a duel with knives
in the pulpit during services and one
was killed.
CUT RATES IN
PAINLESS DENTISTRY
P a in less E x t r a c t io n .......F ree
S ilver F i l l i n g s .....................30c
Gold F illin g s ........................ 75c
22 K. Gold C r o w n s ................ $3
. .
f 'j ¥ Porcelain C r o w n s .................$3
¿ IT '
j L.
M ola r Gold C r o w n s ...............$4
I -? * *
V
B ridge W o r k , 22 K. G o ld . . . . $3
In la y Fills. P u re G o l d .........$2
V e r y N ic e R u b b er P l a t e . . . . $4
B e st R u bbe « P la t e on E a rth ................................ $7
A L L T H I 8 W O R K IS G U A R A N T E E D .
D on ’ t th ro w y o u r money a w a y . A dollar saved
Is tw o d o lla rs earned. Our o rig in a l reliab le M odern
Pain less M eth od s and our p e r fe c te d office eq u ip
m ent saves us tim e and your m oney.
Arizona and New Mexico are wild
with joy over the passage o f the state
hood bill, and many enthusiastic cele
brations are being held.
Surffagettes are trying to prevent
women appearing on any parades or
floats in Chicago on July 4, and men
may have to take their places.
BOSTON DENTISTS, 5th« Morrison, Portland
A quartermaster’s sergeant from
Fort Stevens, Ore., has been missing
fo r ten days and is believed to have
met with foul play in Portland.
Entrance 291 Va Mormon. oppo*ite Pottoffiee and Meier A
Frank. Fctab!i*hed in Portlind 10 years. Open evenings
■mil 8 and Sunday» until 12:30. for people who work.
SWEDISH
SANITARIUM
N ew York City was swept by a
frigh tfu l wind and rain storm just
after the welcoming o f Roosevelt was
over. Several persons were killed by
lightning and wreckage and great
damage done.
Census figures show a most amazing
increase in the use o f telephones.
C u t Out D o ffs .
‘*Tn Norway,” remarked the globe
trotter, “ no girl Is allowed to have a
beau until she can bake bread and
knit stockings.”
“ In this country," rejoined the fussj
bachelor, “ there should be a law for
bidding any girl having a beau until
she Is able to navigate the streets
without the aid of a dog on the end
of a string.” —Chicago News.
Theodore R oosevelt, Jr. and his bride, nee Miss E lean or Bu tler A lex an d er.
M arried Monday, June 20, 1910.
A cloudburst in Hungary destroyed
several villages and killed nearly 300 as against 6,628 in 1902, an increase
persons.
o f 83.9 per cent. The wages paid in
A Los Angeles attorney is charged 1907 amounted to $48,980,704, as com
with being an extensive operator in pared with $26,369,735 in 1902; a gain
of 85.7 per cent.
The capital stock
stolen horses.
and funded debt outstanding in 1907
Governor Hadley o f Missouri, be was $814,616,004 while in 1902 it was
lieves Roosevelt will be ready to an $348,031,058, an increase o f 134.1 per
nounce a Republican platform imme cent. The income in 1907 was $184,-
diately upon his arrival in New York.
461,747 as compared with $86,825,536
in 1902; a gain o f 112.5 per cent. The
An O. R. A N. freight train hit a
operating expenses and fixed charges,
boulder on the track near Alrington,
except interest on funded debt, in
Ore., derailing and wrecking almost
1907, amounted to $128,486,196, as
the entire train, and badly injuring
against $61,652,823 in 1902; an in-«
four men.
crease o f 108.4 per cent. The inter
A crank armed with a loaded revol est on the funded debt in 1907 amount
ver called at the White House and in ed to $12,316,109 as compared with
sisted on seeing President Taft.
He $3,511,48 in 1902, the per cent o f in
was immediately placed under arrest crease being 250.7.
and is believed to be insane.
Between 1902 and 1907 there was an
Eleven hundred machinists on the addition o f 8,098,918 miles o f wire for
Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain rail the use o f the telephone systems o f the
road systems refused the proposition country, as compared with an increase
o f the company to settle the strike, o f 25,611 in the mileage o f owned and
which has been in progress since May leased wire for the use of commercial
telegraph systems.
S.
A t Indianapolis the motor o f a
C H IC AG O M E R C U R Y M O U N T S .
W righ t bi-plane became clogged and
stopped while the machine was 800
fe e t in the air, but the aviator calmly People Die, Dogs Go Mad, Horses
Fall in the Streets.
glided to the ground and alighted in an
open field.
Chicago. —Seven persons dead, a
The Russian senate granted the ap score prostrated in hospitals, dogs go
peal o f the Jewish pharmacists at Mos ing mad in the streets and horses drop
cow, who are subject to expulsion from ping from exhaustion and a tempera
the city on the ground that they are ture of 90 degrees were the features of
not practicing actively their profes the second day o f the hot wave which
sion, and ordered the repeal of the is w ilting Chicago.
Starting at 71 degrees in the morn
ministerial circular dated July 23,
1909, under the authority o f which the ing, the mercury climbed rapidly and
provincial authorities recently began death and suffering followed. A t noon
the teperature had reached 88 and at
to act.
2 o ’clock it touched the 90 mark.
Mark Twain's niece won the first
Dogs afflicted by the heat attacked
prise in English composition at Cornell seven persons, who w ill be treated at
university.
the Pasteur institute to guard against
Blackmail w ill be the defense of rabies. In tenement districts women
Senator Lorimer, o f Illinois, on trial and children sought in vain for refuge
from the stifling heaL
In many dis
for bribe-giving.
tricts children ran about almost nude.
A 10-year old boy livin g near Eu
Thousands flocked to the lake and
gene. Or., killed a hear with a 82-
parks.
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ealibre Winchester rifle.
Loss o f Life Frightful.
A Chicago theater w ill employ girls
Vienna.—-The destruction o f life and
instead of men to take tickets, believ
ing they will not become grafters.
property by floods throughout Hungary
exceeds all records.
The number of
The Ilearst- Agnew anti-betting law
o f New York has been declared valid. deaths has not been ascertained, but it
is believed they w ill aggregate 1,000.
I t w ill stop betting at Coney Island.
The damage done to crops and property
The International Harvester company w ill amount to several million kronen.
avers that it deals in 21 different lines The entire harvest is threatened with
o f business, and therefore is not a destruction. In the Kronstadt district
trust.
300 bodies have been recovered.
In
Thirty Japanese driven from the the Moldava district 100 persons per
town o f Darrington, Wash., w ill return ished as the result o f the sudden col
fo work in the mills there under pro lapse o f houses, and in the Temesvar
district 180 persons have been drowned.
tection o f officers.
can, the Twenty-ninth regiment o f in
fantry was ordered out from Vera
Cruz, but the outlaws find plenty o f
hiding places in the rough hills and the
soldiers have been unable to even catch
up with them.
A fte r the killing o f Lawler, the rob
bers ravaged the plantation and have
repeated the performance at several
other establishments, although so far
as is known Law ler is the only A m eri
can who has fallen a victim to the ban
dits’ thirst for ¡blood and gold. Sev
eral natives have been ruthlessly slain.
W hile the feeble and ¿ineffectual at
tempts are being made to protect Vera
Cruz from the outlaws. President Diaz
and his administrative aides are mak
ing one o f the strongest fights o f their
political lives.
Those opposed to Diaz b itterly com
plain that his administrtion is persecu
ting those who held opposite political
beliefs, arresting and imprisoning op
posing candidates. These charges are
increasing the dissatisfaction o f the
people.
Our method o f treating diseaHcn is not u new one but
an old and w ell tested one. worthy o f it trial to any
diaoouruged and hopleas sufferer. Being graduates of
" Sweden
tden and employing all the European methods
method» t the
results
in curing
raculotm to which hundreds
ilts In
ourin* are m raculotis
o f pat teat« in all station* o f life w ill testify. Our
methods are not entirely dnighwe hut we" adhere to
the use o f physical me'hods aa much ha ponsihle such
os Electricity, Chiropractic, Hinaen rays. Bake-oven,
»nimilatiffins. Bath» o f all kinds, Physical Culture.
*o the famous Nauheim treatment prescribed so
u.uoh iu Europe for heart trouble and asthma.
Our Sanitarium is especially equipped with a mod
ern surgery and a staff o f Burysons and Physioians
o f wide experience and hi»»h repute. We cure Rheu
matism. Diseases peculiar to Women, Chronio Con
stipation. Kidney. Bladder. L iv e r and Stomach Trou
ble. Blood and Hklu Diseases. Paralysis. Habits o f
various sorts o f both old and young, and all N erv
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rich the blood and enable the stomach to
get all the nourishment from food that la
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W E GROW
P reven t Baldness, G row L a d ie s ’ and C h ildren ’»
H a ir rapidly, so ft, glossy and bean tifu l.
W e Furnish out o f tow n people home trea t
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PORTLAND. OREGON.
Consultation F ree. 8 to 6.
E ffort to Raise Money With Which to
Get Release From Prison.
SEND THIS AD. FOR FREE PREMIUM LIST
N ew York C ity— The entire contents
o f the ChHres W. Morse residence at
172 F ifth avenue are to be sold at auc
tion.
The fittings o f the house are Mrs.
Morse's personal property, which she
is going to sell to obtain money with
which to fight fo r the release o f her
husband, who is serving a term in the
Federal prison at Atlanta.
They include rugs, furniture o f every
description, silver and hangings. Also
there w ill be included in the sale a
considerable amount o f jew elry belong
ing to Mrs. Morse, including pearl
necklaces, gold toilet articles, etc. A
rough guess at the value o f the goods
to be sold puts 1t at $200,000. Mrs.
Morse ia at present in Washington, on
her way home from Atlanta.
Pacific Coast Biscuit Company
Burden Placed on Corea.
A serious forest fire is raging in the
Weston's Record Beaten.
Victoria, B. C.— Four new divisions
timber north and east o f Fort W il
Chicago.—“ Honest" John
Ennis, o f the Japanese army are to be raised
liams, Ontario.
One town ia
who hopes to lower Edward Payson i by General Terauchi. war minister,
pletely surrounded.
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Si
Weston's ocean-to-ocean record from follow ing his appointment as resident
Governor Haskell, o f Oklahoma, waa 106 to 100 day», delivered f e t t e r from general in Corea. I t is estimated that
•jrred with paper» by • Federal court Mayor Gay nor, o f New York, to Mayor ths annual coat o f maintenance o f this
offirere for removing the capital o f I Bus»«, o f this city, • day ahead o fi force w ill be $6,000,000 to be borne by
that stats to Oklahoma City.
, Was ton's schedule.
Corea.
blank and
THE G A R LO W H A IR G R O W IN G C<X
M O RSE G O O D S T O BE S O LD .
Chinese F e a r Sacrifice.
Victoria, B. C.— An anti-foreign out
break is anticipated in Yunan in West
ern China, according to advices just re
ceived from Shanghai.
Following the
recent rioting at Chaoting, which was
suppressed and the leaders executed, a
rumor was started that in order to pre
vent further accidents on the new
railroad being built there, it had been
found necessary to sacrifice to the god
o f railroads a large number o f boys
and girls. Some reports had it that
hundreds would be required to sacrifice,
one report being 1,200 were needed.
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