/ CURRENT EVENTS EXPE C T CR O P SHORTAGE. Northwest Railroad Experts Say Crop Will Fall Below Average. 0F T H E W 1 GOOD NATURE WON CONGRESS 1 Sherm an P la y & C o, Chicago— Alarmed over unfavorable crop reports, railroads extending into ESTABLISHED 40 YEARS the Northwest have decided to inaug­ SIX TH , A T M O R R IS O N ST., P O R T L A N D , O R . urate one o f the most rigid retrench­ W e want you to try this Piano IN YOUR ment policies o f recent years. A ll HOME FREE. W e want you to try it at Western railroads, including those run­ our expense because— ning from Chicago into the Northwest At the end of thirty days the Piano General Resuma o f Important Event* and into Canada, have had experts out Many Reform s Refused to Ex-Presi­ ITS E LF will cenvinoe you of the following on their lines fo r the past ten days facts: Presented In Condensed Form dent Are Granted to T aft—Only It’s the best value ou earth for the price gathering data regarding crop condi­ One Measure Failed. for Our Busy Readers. (»275). tions. These men have made reports I t ’s M U S IC A L L Y and M E C H A N IC A LLY to various railroad managements, which have caused general alarm as to right! Washington, D. C.— Through con­ Secretary of W ar Dickinson says the tonnage o f the future. We know there is so much real value in Ballinger will be fully vindicated. ciliation and compromise, and in a Several o f the Northwestern rail­ this Wellington Piano—w e’re selling for $275— on easy payment»— that On advice o f Ballinger, President roads have already called conferences friendly spirit o f co-operation. Presi­ w e’ re willing to let it be I T S O W N SALESM AN. T a ft vetoed the Silets settlers’ land between operating officers with a view dent T a ft secured from congress, dur­ I t will tell it's own story to you—in your home—if you’ll send us the o f g ivin g them information regarding ing the session just closed, more im­ bill. coupon. The Weyerhaeuser Tim ber company conditions and discussing retrench­ portant legislation than has been enact­ Please send me full particulars concerning this unusual Piano offer. is accused o f extensive tim ber land ment. Railroad crop reports fo r the North ed in any other one session o f recent frauds in Idaho. west indicated that along the lines of years. His whole legislative program, Name............................................. Address. Senator Gore, the blind senator from the St. Paul, Burlington, Northwest­ with the exception o f one bill, is now Oklahoma, says there is much corrup­ ern, Minneapolis & Omaha and other law. tion in his state. roads the wheat crop, in several states, In no single session o f the strenuous Secretary o f W ar Dickinson refuses will not be greater than 50 per cent. Roosevelt administration were so many to remove the colored troops from Fort The experts declare that in Minnesota important bills enacted, nor did con­ and in North and South Dakota, for Lawton, near Seattle, Wash. example, a large proportion o f the gres so nearly carry out the wishes o f In those days con­ The Postal Telegraph company and wheat acreage is being plowed up and the executive. Portland Bratti* Spokana gress yielded to the big stick, and gave the Western Union and Bell companies sown to flax. Aak for Their Goeda and grudgingly; in the late session con­ are in a big lawsuit over rights in New An early drouth in this section, fol Mexico. lowed by days o f continuous hot winds, gress met the president more than half way and gave him all that fo r which I t is said Roosevelt will urge Hughes which took the moisture out o f the he made a special plea— all save the ground and started the wheat to head­ to resign the Supreme court bench, to anti-injuction bill. which he was recently appointed, and ing out, have been the causes o f the From the administration standpoint threatened crop shortage. On all o f run again for governor o f New.York. the Northwestern roads all new con­ and from the party standpoint it was A 7-year old boy at Louisville Ky., struction has been ordered stopped. a remarkably successful session, for They W ill Secure Y ou M any Useful TR AD E M A R K found a railroad torpedo, and calling One road which has several hundred Articles Without Coat his mother to see the fun, hit it with miles o f new road graded and ready a hammer. He was instantly killed by fo r rails has ceased work on this im­ the explosion. provement. Track forces have either been cut to Three robbers, after committing a W e Cure all Scalp Diaeanea. atop Falling Hair. Prevent Baldness. Grow Ladies’ and Children'a robbery and double murder at Lynn, a minimum or ordered reduced in the Hair rapidly, a o ft glossy and beantlfuL Mass., were pursued by citizens in immediate future. W e Fumish out of town people home treat­ m en t. W rite ua today for question blank and autos, one being killed, one captured, particulars. badly wounded, and the third forced to FARM S C A L L FOR H A R V E S T E R S THE G A R L O W H A IR G RO W ING CO. commit suicide. SPECIALISTS 207-8 RothchMd Building, A Mississippi river excursion boat, Kansas Gets 25,000 Men and Needs rourth and Washington Streets. as Many M ore. with 1,500 persons on board, caught Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. Taft’s Record of Achievement Rivals “Big Stick.” SEND THIS AD. FOR FREE PREMIUM LIST M Pacific Coast Biscuit Company LE TI SAVE THESE SWASTIKA ENDSEALS THEY ARE VALUABLE WE GROW Are and was entirely destroyed. So far as known only three persons lost their lives, though witnesses say many leaped into the water and were not rescued. The census bureau announces that it w ill soon begin givin g out returns o f the 1910 census. The beef trust indictments in Chi­ cago have been quashed, and a new grand jury is ordered. One day’s heat record in Chicago in­ cludes six dead, nineteen prostrated and four bitten by rabid dogs. While running at high speed a Chi­ cago A Alton train was derailed and turned turtle, badly injuring 17. I t is found that after all allotments in the Yakima reservation are made there will be no land le ft fo r settlers. Louis Alexander Robertson, noted poet, is dead. He did his best w rit­ ing while suffering severely from lo­ comotor ataxia. Topeka, Kan.— The big rush o f the wheat harvest is now on in 50 counties o f Kansas. A call for 40,000 men to help in the fields has been responded to by probably 25,000 and as many more could be used in the grain and alfa lfa cutting with profiL The Kan­ sas eight-hour law does not apply to the wheat fields, and a day’s labor o f 16 hours more properly fills the bill in the harvest fields. Kansans respect Sunday as a day of rest and fo r religious worship, but they consider it a duty to go into their fields and work on that day to save their crops i f that is deemed necessary. In years past wheat farmers have worked in their fields on many Sun­ days, and they are doing so this season with a w ill. Local employment agen­ cies have been deluged with calls for hundreds o f men from all sections o f Southern and Central Kansas and Okla­ homa. In Oklahoma word comes that many fields o f wheat are so ripe that the grain is falling on the ground. There has not been sufficient labor to take care o f ¡L Nicaraguan rebels have 1,500 troops ready to attack the town o f Bluefields, and all non-combatants have been g iv ­ D EATH F O L L O W S en 12 hours notice to leave the city. W IN D STORM A N avajo Indian in Dakota shot and Three Killed, Seven Injured When killed a ranchman who accused him o f Cyclone Strikes Canada. cattle stealing, then rode 70 miles to Mooee Jaw, Saskatchewan— A frig h t­ the agency to surrender to the officers. ful story o f death and desolation as the Frederick Kohler, the “ golden rule” result o f a storm has reached the city ch ief o f police o f Cleveland, Ohio, has over the long distance telephone from been entirely cleared o f all charges of mounted police station 34-19-3, which misconduct against him and w ill be is situated in the South country about 60 miles from Mooee Jaw. reinstated. While details are not concise It ap­ A train transporting Mexican troops pears that a cyclone struck the neigh­ to the scene o f the revolt along the borhood st 2 p. m., and was imme­ Northern border dashed down a steep diately followed by a terrific hail grade and le ft the track on a curve, storm which swept s stretch o f coun­ killing about 20. try half a mile wide. Bremerton, the navy yard town of Every house and shack in path o f the Puget sound, has voted " w e t ’ ’ by 520 storm was destroyed. Three persons to 239. were killed and seven more or less in­ The crops were utterly des­ The dry trust o f New York jured. City has obtained another o f the large troyed. The dead are Edward Mad- digan and his two little children. retail store« there. The injured are his mother, two sisters Robert A. Taft, son o f the president. and two brothers, besides four hired Is among those taking the highest hon­ men. As soon as the message was re­ or* at Yale this year. ceived medical help was rushed to the To commemorate its 100th annivers­ scene o f the tragedy. ary In 1910, Y ale w ill raise a $2,000,- 000 endowment fo r its medical depart­ ment. The senate w ill investigate the charges o f bribery in connection with the election o f Senator Lorimer, o f Illinois. A party o f students from English colleges will tour the United States and Canada to get actual experience in farm work. President Taft has been invited to attend the Dry Farming congreeaa in Spokane next October, and then visit the Pacific Coast. Senator Lorimer. of Illinois, on trial for bribery, abandoned hit own defense on finding that his own witnesses would do him more harm than good. The National Conference of Govern­ or*, which was inaugurated as a regu­ lar annual event In the Roosevelt ad­ m in is tra tio n , - I I I be held this y e « .1 Frankfort nn3 LoolavilU, Ky., No­ vember 21. HAIR PORTLAND. OREGON. Consultation Free. 8 to 6. Is It C o m in g to T h ie f Beggar (returning a penny to the g iv e r )— Excuse me, lady, I can’t take less than 3 cents. ’’Why not?” "Them 's the union's rules, and if I take less I lose my card.”— Meggen- dorfer Blaetter. PRESIDENT PORFIRIO DIAZ Aged 80 years, re-elected President o f the Re­ public o f Mexico. The Health Problem-Solved the platform pledges largely have been fulfilled and harmony has ^been re­ stored between the executive and con­ gress. If you are in search of It is noteworthy, too, that the most good health try the plan important legislation o f the session adopted by thousands of forms a part o f the much-exploited “ Roosevelt policies.” This legislation successful users— take Hos- was repeatedly urged by President tetter’s Stomach Bitters— Roosevelt, but congress turned a deaf and watch the results. It is ear. Y e t the lawmakers allowed them­ selves to fall prey to the persuasive the Keystone to Health, smile and touching entreaty o f Presi­ f o r Indigestion, Dyspepsia, dent T a ft, and passed fo r him the very Costiveness, Poor Appetite, bills that had been denied his prede­ cessor. A ll o f which demonstrates the Biliousness, Cramps, Head­ wisdom o f a remark made by President ache, Diarrhoea and Malar­ Rooeevelt when he declined to accept ia, F ever and Ague it is ex­ another nomination. He then said that some other man, in sympathy cellent T ry it today, but with hia views, could accomplish more insist on having the genu­ with congress than he himself. ine Hostetter’s, with our The legislative record o f the recent session, is ample answer to those who Private stamp over neck. charge that T a ft ia disloyal to the Rooeevelt policies. O f all the legislation enacted in com­ D A IS Y FLY K ILLER pliance with the recommendation o f Neat.clean.c taL co* renient, cheap. the president, the interstate commerce L illi »11 HMM. Mad« ol metal, a sset bill, creating a court o f commerce and •pill or tip over, will Mt •osi or Injur* anything-. enlarging the powers o f the interstate Guaranteed efectivo. Of ali «Mion or Ml commerce commission, takes first rank. prepaid lor 20 cent«. -0 BAROLO SOM!*® It was the foremoat feature o f the iM Délai h i««, T a ft programme, and the one en which •coohlym. 1.1* he spent most time and effort; collab­ orating as he did with his attorney- general, and with the leading lawyers o f congress to g e t moat effective law possible to devise. Many o f the chang­ es made by this law were advocateed Ftrat clean work at by President Rooeevelt, but congress rneeonable price*. put aside hia recommendations and Free examination waited for hia successor to renew and perfectly fitted them. xlannne aa low aa N ext in importance, undoubtedly, $ 2.00 stands the postal savings bank law. This, also, was on the Rooeevelt pro­ DR. C . L H A T W I S N° gram, but never during the former ad­ Suite 427 , M arquam Building ministration would congress pass this Fourth Floor bill, though all manner o f pressure was Oppowte Portland Hotel. Portland Orn. brought to bear by the executive. Seven Parish in Storm. Seward, Alaska— Seven men are be­ lieved to have been loet in a storm which swept (Cook’s inlet Wednesday night, according to a report received here from United States Commissioner Hildreth, of N ick precinct, Cook’s in- IcL The men, among whom were Joseph Laubner, a prominent citisen of Seward: F. R. Stewart, o f Stewart City; W. C. M. Perkins, and John Winter, set oat in • dory from Kern Rebels Make Gains. Creek to crons the inlet. The water Bluefields, Nicaragua— A column of was rough when they started and a the provisional force* under General terrific storm camejup. Arsino Cruse has captured La Libertad and Juigalpa, important towns in the Roosevelt, J r .. At Home. department of Chotanle*. This col­ San Francisco— Theodore Roosevelt umn ia part of General Mena’s army, Jr., who was married to Mias Eleanor detached to occupy advantageous points Butler Alexander in New York a few within reasonable distance of Acoy- days ago, has arrived here with hia Generml Mena, with the body bride. The couple will make their of his troops, is within gunshot of home in San Francisco, where young Acoyapa, which ia guarded by several Rooeevelt will be connected with e hundred of the Madris forces. Gen- large carpet establishment, as assistant *r*i Celon. another provisional leader, to the sales manager. has taken Sanubakkv. 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