ÔOINGSOFTHEWEËK E M IN E N T C H IN E S E W H O W I L L H A V E P A R T IN G R E A T W A R IM P E N D IN G IN FLO W ERY K IN G D O M WRECK KILLS SR Nebraska Freight end Pas Meet on Sharp Cum. Current Events nf Interes! Gathered From the World at Large. Twenty Injured— Army Corps Rescue— Engineer Says He Hid' N o O rders. General Retume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Omaha— Seven persons were kill and 20 injured, four o f them serioi ly, in a] collision between Mia Pacific passenger train No. 105, azd bound, en route fo r this city, asd|l fast freigh t train. T a ft urges California women to use the ballot, now that they have won it. Henry Hona, a laborer, completed a walk from Jersey City, N. J., to San Francisco, in 71 days. The W right Brothers are working on a new type o f aeroplane, safety being the first consideration. The Panama canal commission pre diets the early opening o f the canal and urges congress to fix tolls. A woman agent has been sent by the government to study the price o f foodstuffs in Portland markets. Sixty-five thousand Chinese rebels Bre marching to meet the imperial troops, being sent against them. REBELS NEAR P E I Control W ooing Province and De­ clare New Repellile. Suffragists trailed a candidate for Revolutionist Forces en Route to governor o f Massachusetts through Meet Imperial Troops -F o re - five towns and broke up his meetings. iegn Consuls Notified. Promoters o f the Pacific highway from Oregon and California met and exchanged greetings in the Siskiyou London— A dispatch from Shanghai mountains. to the Central News says that a re Mexican Federal troops surrounded public has been declared at Wuchang a force o f Zapatist rebels and killed and that the rebel leader at Hankow over 200 o f them, wounding and cap­ has notified foreign consuls that a new turing several hundred more. government has been established. The captain and third officer o f the The rebellion is spreading rapidly. steamer Santa Rosa, wrecked off the Formidable outbreaks have been re­ California coast in July last, have ported at Tientsin and Paotingfu, and similar outbreaks are expected at any been suspended fo r 12 months. moment at Canton and Nanking. An alleged plot to dynamite a rail­ The authorities at Pekin are in a road bridge in Southern California panic. A strong force o f rebels has just before the presidential train was le ft Hankow to meet the imperial due, was frustrated by a watchman. troops from the north. The Chinese rebellion is growing The rebels have commandeered and seems to be well directed and well trains and forced terrified engineers to financed take them where they demanded to go. Arbuckle w ill make war on the sug­ ar duty, declaring it only helps the beet sugar interests. PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS. Wheat — Export basis: Bluestem, 83(u 85c; club, 80f<$81c; red Russian, 796(80c; valley, 80<&81c; forty-fold, 80«i8 lc. Mill stuff s — Bran, $24.50(0,25 per ton; middlings, $32; shorts, $25.50di. 26; rolled barley, $33.50@34.50. Corn— Whole, $33; cracked $34 ton. Barley— New feed, $32(t$32.50 per ton; brewing, $37. Oats— No. 1 white, $30(0.31 per ton. Hay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim ­ othy, $17(i(18; No. 1 valley, $15@16; alfalfa, $12.50; clover, $10@11; grain hay, $ll(i£12. Poultry— Hens, 14c; springs, JI4c; ducks, young, 15*£16c; turkeys, 18@ 22c. Butter — Oregon creamery, solid pack, 33c; prints, extra. Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, 34«! 35c per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 9l(u;10c per pound. Veal— Fancy, 13(<()13tc per pound. Fresh Fruits — Peaches, 36«i 65c box; plums, 50(n.75c crate; prunes, 2«i,24c per pound; pears, 76cdi$1.76 box; grapes, 85c(1 jured. A ll o f these were sent on thi way. Those more seriously injun are being cared fo r at the Army pital at Fort Crook. Governor Gilchrist, o f Florida, wb was a passenger on the northbouni| train, was uninjured. Passenger train No. 105, out ofl Kansas Ctiy, in charge o f F. R. Tra-1 vers, conductor, was running late. L I P. Gross, conductor o f the freight I passed South Omaha at 8 :30. He hail “ signed o ff” but evidently did not! check the train register as to the | whereabouts o f No. 105. A t the point o f collision the trackl make a sharp curve, shutting off the! view o f the F o rt Crook station. It I was at this point that Engineer Craw- ford o f the freig h t sighted No. 105, which was coming at high speed. En­ gineer Crawford, it is said, had no orders in regard to No. 105, but he whistled and slackened speed. When | the passenger did not answer he con­ cluded it wag a train on the adjoining Burlington tracks. When within a fe w car lengths of each other, both engineers realized the danger and reversed their engine«. The momentum o f the passenger train however, was so great that in a mo­ ment it was piled high upon the freight engine, which had almost stopped. The crews o f both engines jumped. Dr. John Colliver, o f Los Angeles, a passenger in the Pullman, rushed to the front and worked heroically to as­ sist the injured. The crew and uninjured passengers formed themselves into a band that worked under the direction o f Dr. Col- iiver until the arrival o f the Army medical corps, from F ort Crook, under Major Dale and Lieutenant Clark. A call was sent to Omaha for medi­ cal assistance The engineer of the passenger declared he heard no whistle from the freig h t train. H e said he was not goin g over 25 or 30 mile9. Washington, D. C.— An order lo r Washington, D. C.— By the sweeping decree entered in the United States the immediate consideration o f the Circuit court at Toledo, the backbone perplexing questions, “ What is beer?’ ’ o f the so-called electrical trust was “ What is vinegar?” and “ What is a broken and in the judgment o f A tto r­ soft drink?” was passed by the board ney General Wickersham the govern­ o f food and drug inspection at a m eet­ ment was equipped with precedents o f ing in the office o f Dr. H arvey W. genuine value in its prosecutions o f W iley, chief o f the bureau o f chemis­ commercial combinations forbidden by try and chairman o f the board. The the Sherman law. three problems have been under con­ Meeting the government’s charge sideration nearly two years, but mem­ that the trust controlled the lamp bers o f the board have been unable to business o f the country, regulating by agree. Vinegar w ill be the first sub­ Hear­ agreement prices at which all lamps ject considered by the board. were sold, the decree severs all con­ ings have been held on the subject o f nection between the General Electric pure beer, vinegar and soft drinks. company and the National Electric It is the contention o f Dr. W iley that Lamp company. The latter concern pure vinegar should be made only and all its subsidiaries are ordered from cider, and that vinegars made dissovled. from malt, sugar, molasses, wine and The important principle was laid other ingredients should not be brand­ down, according to the attorney gen­ ed as “ pure vinegar.” Dr. D oolittle eral, that once a lamp is sold by a is said to hold similar views. manufacturer, the price at which it is Action against " s o f t drinks” sold resold by a dealer or jobber must be from soda fountains w ill be taken. open to free competition. The decree The government police power w ill was acquiesced in by the defendant give Dr. W iley the opportunity to companies and this gives the govern­ enforce his rulings in Washington by ment the moral certainty that there confiscating impure drinks at local w ill be no appeal. A fte r the Supreme soda fountains. court’s decision in the Standard Oil “ The pure soft drink should contain and Tobacco cases, Mr. Wickersham only a pure fru it extract, sugar, spice said, the electrical companies ex­ and pure w a ter,” said Dr. W iley. pressed a willingness to withdraw “ I f I had my way, no other soft A T T A C K IN G T U R K S LOSE. their original answers and submit to drinks would be permitted on the mar­ a decree, Mr. Wickersham added: ket.” Invading 'F orce Leaves Behind On- “ The National Lamp company and CO RN C R O P W IL L BE SHORT. all its subsidiary companies are or­ Dead and Field Gun, dered to be dissolved, and the General T rip oli— R efore dawn Sunday morn­ Flax Only Leading Staple to Show Electric company is forbidden hereaf­ ing 200 Turkish infantrymen attacked Increase O ver I9IO. ter to conduct any business in the the intrenched advance posts of the manufacture or sale o f electric lamps Washington, D. C.— The govern­ Italians, west o f Boumeliane. except in its own name. The practice ment’s crop report estimates that corn A fte r an hour’ s fighting, the Italian o f fixing the retail price on any style w ill yield 256,000,000 bushels less infantry, backed by field guns landed o f lamp is hereafter forbidden. than last year and that flax is the only from the fleet, forced the Turks to “ The method by which competition important crop to show a greater har­ beat a retreat, leaving one dead, * in unpatented articles has been sup- [ vest than in 1910. quick firing gun with ammunition and pressed through the use o f a patented Official preliminary estimates o f various supplies. article is declared to be unlawful and 1 production o f crops follow s: Four Italian soliders w ere wounded. is forbidden. The practice consisted i Crop 19U 1910 231.399.000 in a system o f contracts with dealers, Sprinif W h e a t............... 200.3S7.000 W in te r W h e a t................ 465.149.000 Constantinople— The Turkish parli»- 464.044.000 jobbers and consumers by which they AH W h e a t.......................«65.516.000 695.443.000 ment was opened Saturday afternoon, O a ts .................................873,461.000 1.126.765.000 were compelled to agree to purchase B a r l e y ..................................... 146.961,000 the Sultan’s speech being read by the 162.227.000 from defendants all their supply o f B y * ; , ...................... 30.677.000 33.-039.000 grand v izie r in the presence of the 60.978.000 carbon lamps on which the patent had H a y (t o n s )...................... 46.694.000 The indicated total production o f sultan, the oldest Turkish princes, the expired, as a condition to the right to foregin diplomats and the heads of the purchase certain lamps known to the important crops not yet harvested, as foreign banks. shown by the condition on ^October 1, trade as tungsten, tantalum and metal- f.The speech declared that Italy ized filament lamps, which are patent­ follow s: opened hostilities before the expire' Crop 1911 ed, it is still asserted. 1910 C om ................... ■ NUN 3. H Ann tion o f 24 hours a fte r the ultimatum “ By means o f aggregatin g dis­ Buckw heat........ H MMM 17.239.000 was given and with firing upon tor­ Potatoes........... 27S.561.0li0 counts on lamps claimed to-be patent­ 338.911.000 Tobacco (lb s .)___ nun i i IM MMH pedo boats in the A d riatic when they ed with discounts on lamps not patent­ Flax ....................... 24.046.400 I4 .lin .iw m were saluting, ignorant that hostili­ M2. 0 0 ed, another weapon was used to sup­ R ice.................... PinMM ties had broken out. press competition in unpatented Revolutionists Beheaded. lamps. Carmen Standing Firm. Hankow— Much firing is heard in “ Both these practices had the effect Several Kansas C ity— “ W e w ill never t o f continuing a monopoly on an aritcle the direction o f Wu Chang. ___________ _______ i______ by large fires are seen. Twenty-eight in ,” was the reply made by M. long a fter the |____ patent had ___ expired, tieing up its sale with a patented arti-1 Chinese revolutionists have been ar- Ryan, internation! president of d e which the trade required. ! at Wu Chang, which is the cap- Brotherhood o f Carmen, when as ------------------------ I ital o f the province o f Hupeh. Four i f the unions were going to gi** Fruit Fly Real Menace. ! °? them, wer* ^headed in front o f the the strike against the Harriman lii ' viceroy s yamen. The arrests and ex- "E v e ry th in g is peaceful, so far as S acrarnento-m an effort to prevent e^Viona ¿ H o w e i the unions are concerned,” continued the Mediterranean fru it fly from en- j revolutionarv ni*t i , ( ( - » 7 1 Ryan. “ I a m receiving daily rep* tering California, State Horticultural cession here A Snm^h Ru**lan. con‘ from various towns saying that Commissioner Jeffery has cabled a , . A ^ 7 “ ! exf lw men are p erfectly satisfied with quarantine order to Honolulu directing for the m a ru fa rte r.” / * * * ? money they are r e t i r i n g from that no bananas or pineaoDles shinned rorlth« maTluf»cture o f explosives benefit fund. They receive from to Cal,fo rn i, untii s ^ m e Z d o f ^ S * P‘ “ ^ on Wu Chang, to $7 a week while they are on stri ing which shall insure that no pest is (M aoero Is Conciliatory. Conciliatory. 1« the wrapping ia adopted. Mexico City— Desirious apparently W eather Delays Rodgers. The reports brought back by E. K. o f conciliating all factions, F. I. Ma- Vinta,lOkla.— A v ia to r Rodgers, ' Cranes, superintendent o f the State dero has issued a manifesto declaring arrived here on his trip across insectary. who returned from the is­ he w ill accept for vice president any lands recently, indicated that strin­ one o f the three candidates, even Dr continent, was detained by adv< weather conditions. H e w ill leave gent precautions are Gomes. Fort Worth, Tex.