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Food Frozen In Transit and
Hurt by Frost.
Chicago — Winter,
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.ns of Interest Gathered
«the World at Large.
snorting and snarling,
freeze a few
sudden
which
Crops
arrived
did more than
persons to death.
advent
of
The
cold weather sent
the prices of all foodstuffs skyrocket
ing, so that those who
initial
blast
will
STORM DEALS DEAID
survived
become
the
Blizzard Follows Cyclone In 6r
Lakes Region.
painfully
moral Resume o f Important Event* aware that winter has set in in ear Chicago Suffers
. Presented In Condensed Form
for Òur Busy Reader*.
/’ resident Taft is planning addition-
' let legislation.
if; Uedo,
0 ., elected a Socialist asses-
>d two couneilmen.
*
^ior Fowler arrived at El Paso,
* his Paciiic-to-Atlantic .flight.
fears a rush o f cheap labor
1c coast when the Panama
pleted.*
easels o f the Chinese im-
deserted thè Manchus
uti^rrrists.
Rodgers has rallied from
j^ rco n d itio n resulting from his
When he attempted to complete
icean-to-ocean flight Sunday, and
ger to complete his trip.
nest.
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The reasons £iven for the advance
in food staples are that hens cease
laying, cows give a limited supply o f
milk, carloads o f fruit and vegetables
were frozen in transit and the source
o f much o f this supply damaged by
frost. There is also the further rea
son that snow is falling heavily over
a wide area and trains are likely to
become stalled and food supplies will
be slow in arriving. Here are some
o f the advances following the cold
weather:
Eggs, up 3 cents, retailing at 40
to 42 cents a dozen.
Potatoes, 35 cents a peck, and the
price will go much higher.
Creamery butter, 38 cents a pound.
Ham, 17 cents a pound.
Dressed chickens, 16 cents a pound.
Coal dealers have given notice that
they will advance prices at once. They
have had two lean years, due to the
strike and overproduction in mild sea
sons, and prospects o f a long, hard
winter affords them an opportunity to
even matters up.
The charitable organizations o f Chi
cago are fortifying themselves against
unusual demands this winter.
Hot Wave, Then
Rain Follows, Turning to
Snow and Ice.
Chicago— Reports tell o f death and
injury and extensive property loss
resulting from cyclonic storms that
raged late Saturday in Southern Wis
consin, Illinois and Iowa and near the
Great Lakes. The storm followed an
unusually hot period during which sev
eral persons were prostrated.
Many persons are known to be
dead, several dying, and scores are in
jured.
Intense suffering from the
bitter cold, snow and sleet which des
cended upon the homes is reported in
the wake o f the storm.
Southern Wisconsin was the hardest
hit. Near Orfordville six deaths are
reported to have occurred, and at Mil-
ton, a few miles away, there was a
seventh.
In the village o f Virginia, near
Springfield, 111., nearly every public
building was
damaged, including
stores, churches and city property.
Many were injured in the swirl o f
flying timbers and some o f these prob
ably will die.
In Iowa a 50-degree drop in the
temperature turned the pouring rain
into driving sleet and a coat o f ice
covered the cities, stopping entirely
electric and steam traffic.
Property loss mounted up rapidly in
the trail o f the Wisconsin cyclone.
Late advices indicate that the dead
in Rock' county, Wisconsin, alone will
number at leaSrt 17.
Two deaths at
Milton, W is., were reported to the
train dispatcher’s office o f the Chica
go, Milwaukee & St; Paul railroad,
but the wires were blown down by the
storm before the report could be veri
fied.
Severe weather conditions are re
ported all the way from the Rocky
Mountains. At Chicago the wind ob
tained a sweep o f 44 miles an hour,
and in the Yellowstone Park and at
Helena, M on t, the thermometer in
the government weather bureau regis
tered 8 below zero.
At the Sault Ste. Marie canal in
Michigan more than an inch o f rain
fell.
John Mahoney, a freight handler in
Chicago, was overcome by the heat
while at work in an open freight
warehouse.
The government ther
mometer registered 74 degrees at the
time.
This was the hottest Novem
ber day since 1888, and the greatest
number o f prostrations occurred o f
any other November day on record.
Later on, however, a driving rain
started.
Vivid lightning and heavy
thunder accompanied the downpour.
terrific winter storm is sweeping
|, Atlantic icoast, and much wreck-
is coming
ashore.
Freezing
lather extends into Louisiana, and
iruit and garden truck is suffering
P nsiderable loss.
A German war correspondent left
Tripoli in disgust rather than main
tain silence regarding the atrocities
W O O L MEN SC O R E TARBELL.
committed by the Italian soldiers. He
says the stories already given out do
not tell half the truth.
$ 1 ,0 0 0 Raised to Tell Public Truth
About Industry.
A French scientist has discovered
unmistakable evidences that some pre
Baker, Or.—To bring out the real
historic men at least were vegetarians.
truth about the wool business as op
Women o f Brooklyn, N. Y., formed posed to what has been told by writers
a marketing club and are buying their like Ida Tarbell, who, by fictional
supplies at wholesale, saving nearly
magazine [and newspaper articles,
60 per cent.
they declare, have put the wool indus
Banker Robnett, pleaded gu|lty to try before the public in an entirely
embezzlement of the funds o f the false light, delegates to the 14th an
ewiston, i Idaho, national bank and
entenced to ten years* imprison nual convention o f the Oregon Wool-
growers’
association,
subscribed
ment
$1,000 for publicity purposes.
PORTLAND M A R K ETS.
The subscription was raised in a
W heat— Export basis:
Bluestem, few minutes by the delegates, whose
82(«,84c; club, 780('.79c; red Russian, enthusiasm had been stirred by an
7 6 @ 7 7 c ; valley, 7 8 @ 7 9 c ; forty-fold, dress by W. S. McClure, secretary o f
the National Woolgrowers’ associa
80c.
Corn— Whole, $3 7; cracked, $38 tion, who spoke on ‘ 'W oolgrowing and
Its Relation to the T ariff.’ ’
McClure
ton.
Millstuffs— Bran, $23 per ton; mid scathingly arraigned writers like Miss
dlings, $ 3 1 shorts, $24; rolled bar Tarbell for giving untrue statements
and denounced the present laws, which
ley, $35('«,36.
Oats— No. 1 white, $31(<i:32 per ton. he said make the wool industry a pre
Hay— No. 1 E. O. timothy, $18<ri 19; carious calling, where in the past it
[N o. 1 valley, $ 1 6 ® 1 7 ; alfalfa, $13(«. has been one of the substantial nat
[1 4 ; clover, $ 1 1 @ 1 2 ; grain, $11@ 12. ural resources t>f the country.
“ How is it that woolen goods, the
Barley— Feed, $32.60^£33 per ton;
raw wool for which I purchased for
brewing, nominal.
■ Fresh Fruit*— Pears, 76c6i:$l .76 per $1.67, could not be made into a suit
jyrapes, 76cf«£$1.25; cranberries for less than an added cost o f $35?’ ’
1.60 per b a-rel; huckleberries, asked McClure. “ Going to Washing
ton with goods for a suit, the wool for
1 pound.
Lpplea— Jonathans, $1.60(<i 2.25 per which cost me $1.67, the first tailor I
KING O FF FOR INDIA.
Spitzenberg, $ 1 («2 .50; Baldwin, asked agreed to make it into a suit for
76&>U$1.50; Red Cheek Pippin, $1.26 $45. Others varied some, with the
British Rulers Sail for Scene o f C or
((£1176; Northern Spy, $ t .2 5 (« 1 .7 5 ; lowest bidder asking $35.’ ’
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onation in East,
W in ter Banana, $26£S; Bellflower, $1
®1.J|6
Potatoes— Buying prices, Burbanks,
90c® i|L10 per hundred.
Onions— Buying price. $1.10 sack.
Vegetables— Artichokes, 76c dozen;
beans, 541'10c pound; cabbage, lift l i e ;
cauliflower, 50c(a$l dozen; celery, 60
(<t76c; cucumbers. $2.60 box; garlic,
10 ® 1 2 c pound; lettuce, 75<<£80c d o z.;
hothouse lettuce, $1.26 box; peppers,
SOClOc per pound; pumpkins, l w l f c ;
squash, lj(n :lic per pound; tomatoes,
60cfd$l per box; carrots, $1 per sack;
turnips, $ 1 ; beets, $1 ; parsnips, $1.
■ \v Butter — Oregon creamery butter,
•oiM pack, 36 $c; prints, extra; but
ter rbt, lc less than solid pack price.
Poultry— Hens, 13|(<£14c; springs,
12(il 13c;
ducks,
young,
16 o il7 c;
geese, U i(u :12c; turkeys, alive, 22Jc;
dressed, choice, 26fit27c.
Pork— Fancy, 9«£9|c.
Veal— Fancy, 13(<ilS}c.
C attle--Choice steers, $5.45(ii.5.75;
good, $6.3<K«:6.46; fair. $6.16(i«6.30;
choice cows, $4.60(i£4.75; fair, $4(n
extra
4 .2 6 ; common, $ 2 .50<u8.5 0 ;
heifers,
$4.76<it6;
choice spayed
choice
choice heifers, $ 4 . 60414 . 60 ;
bulls. $ 3 .7 5 ® 4 ; good. $3.26«£S.60;
common, $ 2 («!t.6 0;
choice calves,
$7 .60e «7.7 6; good. $ 7 .2 6 ® 7 .5 0 ; com
mon. $ 4 ® 6 ; choice stags, $ 4 .6 0 ® 4 .7 6 ;
good. $4.26*04.60.
H o g * -C h o ic e light,
$ 6 .7 5 « « .8 5 ;
to
choice. $ 6 .6 0 ® 6 .7 5 ; fair.
Lt $ ® C 6 0 ; common. $6ni6.86.
»— Choice yearling wethers,
i wool, $ 3 .7 5 « f4 ; choice yearling
|rs. east o f mountain*. $ 3 .4 0 ®
Ice tows and threes, $3.20*«
sice mountain lamb*. $ 4 .2 6 ®
to choice lamb*. $ 4 .tS ®
to choice lamb*. $4<u4.25;
ibs. $3.76<a 4 ; culls. $ 3 ®
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ZION ITE O P P O S E S C E M E N T .
Christ Would Avoid New Sidewalks,
Reason for Asking Injunction.
Zion City, 111.— Rupert Deveraux, a
member o f the old Dowie faction in
Zion’ s affairs, filed a petition with
the Zion City board o f aldermen ob
jecting to the proposed construction o f
cement sidewalks here, on the ground
that Christ never walked on cement
and therefore “ would avoid Zion City
on the Savior’ s approaching second
coming to earth.”
The petition said that Dowie would
return to life with the second coming
o f Christ.
One o f Deveraux’ followers, it was
said, recently attempted to get some
word from the late Alexander Dowie
by sleeping three successive night* on
Dowie’ s grave in the cemetery here.
He is said to have reported to Dever
aux that the expected message did not
come to him.
Los Angeles Faces Election Troubles
Los Angeles— W ith a total registra
tion o f more than 190,000, election
officers in Los Anglers are now facing
one o f their most vexing problems.
How to arrange voting booths so all
can vote is the problem.
In some
precincts more than 2,000 voter* are
registered. In others it ranges from
600 to 1,800.
According to officers, it
i* a physical impossibility for all o f
those registered in the larger precincts
to vote within the 12-hoar limiL
Thief Returns Serm
W ilkes barr». P*. — A
titled. "Prepare to Meet Thfc .*
which was taken from the pnetfrh.
Rev. M. E. W illiam s, a Me
crop. 4 3 *t4 3 }c : oldS| minister at Athens, Pa., wk
■ this city recently, by pickpockets
extracted a large wallet, has
Oregon, f a i l « * ; val
Ir, (M r 3$®37 c . i
London— The richly equipped Me
dina, conveying King George and
Queen Mary and escorted by a squad
ron o f battleships, weighed anchor at
Portsmouth Monday for the historic
voyage to India,[where their majesties
will be the chief figures in the corona
tion Durbar, December 12.
The king and 'queen left London in
the morning. As this was their maj
esties' last appearance in the capital
for nearly three months, their depar
ture was made with much ceremony.
Accompanied by the Prince o f
Wales and Princess Mary, and escort
ed by the Imperial Horse Guards, they
drove in an open carriage by a round
about way to Victoria statipn.
The
streets were lined with people, who
gave the royal party an enthusiastic
sendoff.
While doubtless saddened by the
thought o f a long absence from Eng
land, the king and queen seemed in
the highest spirits.
Hen* Flaunt Tri-C olor.
Mountain View. C al.— Patriotism
to the ultimate degree is exemplified
in a new breed o f hens now flaunting
the national color* at the poultry farm
o f Dr. I. G. Royte. o f this town.
Bright red o f head, pure white o f
body, and indigo blue o f tail, the
fowls came into the world a short time
ago. There are several o f the vari-
hued bird* and Dr. Royte asserts that
their extraordinary plumage is the re
sult o f long experimentation.
Widow’ s Pension Asked.
Saa Francisco- Club women o f this
city sre planning a system o f pension
ing widow*
with
children.
Dr.
Jessica Peixotto. o f the university o f
California, urged the proposition at a
meeting.
The plan is to have the
state authorities set aside a fund to be
/disbursed annually.
A stat- board is
inmenL
SCHOONER E
AT MOUTH OF COLUMBIA
Astoria, Or., Nov. 14.— A fter pass
ing 24 hoQr* helplessly in the wild and
' "ing waters 'just off North Head,
the* steam schooner W
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towed in on the hawsers o f the sea tui
Tatoosh, shortly after dark last night,
with all hands saved, after the vessel
had been given up for lost.
The Washington was like a ship
that was gone to her destruction, and
last night when her crew and passen
gers were landed at Callender’s dock,
they were greeted and cheered like
men who had come back from the
dead.
Her rescue was daringly accomplish
ed by the tug Tatoosh, with Captain
“ Buck" Bailey in command, while
scores of men and women stood on the
wind-swept shore and cheered.
Laden with lumber, the Washington
went out over the bar shortly after
noon Sunday, in the teeth o f thefbitter
gale from the southwest that swept
the seas all day, with 26 passengers
and a crew o f 22.
Other captains
dared not make the attempt, for the
bar was breaking clear across and the
gale persisted with a fury that boded
ill for any craft that sought to win
her way out into the open sea.
Just what happened has not been
clearly told, but it seems that she
was just well on the bar, or fairly
well across it, when something hap
pened.
One story is that several
great seas struck her and carried
away a portion o f her deckload o f lum
ber and that in an instant the loosened
chains and ropes that had bound the
deck lumber down had been swept into
the propeller and rudder chains.
At
all events it seemed to those on her
but an instant before she lay helpless
and at the mercy o f the pounding
waves.
The great seas struck and battered
her, shaking Jher from end to end.
Before the wind and waves she slowly
drifted to the north, luckily missing
the rocks and surf off Cape Disap
pointment, and finally drifting toward
“ Dead Man’s H ole,” that lies just off
from and between McKenzie’s Point
and North Head. There the Washing
ton dropped anchors, fore and aft,
and, luckily, they held her from the
rocks, though she kept drifting slowly
all the while.
NEW PRISON IN D U STR Y.
6IVES 1251100,01
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Packers On Trial.
Chicago — A fter more than nine
years’ investigation by the govern
ment, the first criminal prosecution of
individual meat packers under the
Sherman anti-trust act has begun here
before Judge Carpenter, in the United
States District court.
Ten Chicago
packers will be placed on trial, charged
with monopolizing and restraining in
terstate trade in fresh meats. The
penalty which may be inflicted if they
be found guilty is a fine o f $600 or a
sentence o f one year in the county
jail, or both._______________
Women Launch Widespread Campaign
New York— Following the victory
o f the East in the national convention
o f the woman suffragists, it is an
nounced that a campaign is to he in
augurated here that will have for its
chief purpose the spreading o f the
propaganda o f the suffrage among the
wage-earning women o f this part * f
the country. The campaign will place
emphasis upon the economic phase of
the issue. A force o f several thous
and wage-earning women will be or
ganized.
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Catnegie Organizes Corporation to
Handle Foblic Donations.
Great Philanthropist Turn* Over All
Benevolent W ork, Together With
Millions in Stock.
New York — Andrew Carnegie has
announced that he has given $25,00 0,-
000 to the Carnegie corporation o f
New York, organized here under a
charter granted by the New York leg
islature last June, “ to promote the
advancement and diffusion o f know
ledge and understanding among the
people o f the United States.”
In bestowing this g ift upon the cor
poration organized especially to re
ceive it and to apply its income to the
purpose indicated, Mr. Carnegie said
that he intended to leave with the cor
poration the work o f the founding and
aiding o f libraries and educational in
stitutions which he as an individual
has carried on for many years.
The statement follows:
“ The Carnegie corporation o f New
York, incorporated by an act passed
by the New York legislature June 9,
1911, was organized November 10,
1911. The purposes o f the corpora
tion as stated in the charter are as
follow s:
“ Section 1.
Andrew Carnegie,
Elihu Root, Henry S. Pritchett, W il
liam N. Frew, Robert S. Woodward,
Charles L. Taylor, Robert A . Franks,
James Bertram and their successors
are hereby constituted a body corpor
ate by the name o f the Camegiq Cor
poration of New York, for the pur
pose o f receiving and maintaining a
fund or funds and applying the income
thereof to promote the advancement
and diffusion o f knowledge and under
standing among people o f the United
States by aiding the technical school
institutions o f higher learning, librar
ies, scientific research, hero funds,
useful publications and by such other
agencies and means as shall from
time to time be found appropriate
therefor.”
California Warden Would Have Ex
pert Cracksmen Build Safes.
San Quentin, Cal.— Warden Hoyle,
o f the state penitentiary, is planning
what he believes will be the most pe
culiar prison industry on earth. It is
nothing more or less than the manu
facture commercially
o f safes by
skilled workmen who are now serving
sentences in the penitentiary for bank
robberies, safe-blowing and similar
violations o f the law.
That the industry will be profitable
Warden Hoyle is convinced. In test
ing his plan before advancing it be
yond the tentative stage, he has se
cured results, as proof o f which he
displays a vault and a safe in the
office o f the prison clerk, Mark E.
Noon, which have been virtually re
constructed from old outworn articles
by a prisoner under sentence o f ten
years for robbing a safe at Monvorvia.
This man, who is a skilled mechan
ic, will have charge o f the division o f
the machine shop where the manufac
ture o f safes will be carried on, if
Warden Hoyle’s plans do not go awry.
There are in the penitentiary many
mechanics who are conversant with
the manufacture o f safes, and Warden
Hoyle is confident he can build up an
able working force.
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8 3 ,2 0 6 W O M E N T O T O V O T E .
Total Registration in Los Angeles Is
More Than I9I.OOO.
Los Angeles—The total registration
o f Los Angeles for the coming city
election has reached a total o f 191,941.
O f these 108,736 are men and 83,205
are women voters.
Owing to the unprecedented regis
tration, officials express a fear that
there may have been many duplica
tions, especially among the women,
and for that reason the exact number
o f voters that will decide whether the
Socialists or the Good Government
forces shall rule this city for the next
two years will not be known for several
days.
The work o f checking off the lists
has already begun.
What dupli
cations there may be, election officials
say, are principally due to inexper
ience either on the part o f the person
registering or the registration clerks,
hundreds of whom were women, with
a limited knowledge o f the election
l a w s . _____________
C R O C K E R S PAY $ 3 6 6 ,0 0 0 ,
C.
D. Hillman Announces Sale o f
6 ,0 0 0 Acres Near Seattle.
Seattle — Upon his return from a
month’s trip to California, C. D. Hill
man, o f this city, announced the sale
o f his Cathcart property, consisting of
more than 6,000 acres, for $355,000 to
Crocker B rother^ o f Portland. He
stopped at Portland on the way North
and closed the deal, taking $25,000
earnest money and arranging for the
payment o f $100,000 within 30 days or
as soon as the abstracts o f title can be
arranged
His Cathcart acreage amounts to 6,-
250 acres and is situated near Maltby,
about 11 miles north o f the Univer
sity o f Washington.
About 2,000
acres are cleared and sown to grass.
The county recently spent $25,000
in ronsructing two boulevards through
the property.
Big Embezzler Paroled.
Peoria, 111. — Newton Dougherty,
formerly treasurer o f
the
Peoria
school board, who was sent to Joliet
for an indefinite term, was paroled by
the state board o f pardons.
Dough
erty’ s peculations during his tenure in
the school board position amounted to
close to $800,000.
He was sentenced
on his own confession to an indeter
Free Paper is Demanded.
minate sentence o f from one to 14
New York— The American Publish year* and has served a little more than
ers’ association, through Ji
five years.
chairman o f its commit
Loss i f Wheat Enormous.
has sent a letter to
urging that the govemmet
Winnipeg. Man.— Between 30,000,-
good faith in the obsei
000 and 40.000.000 bushels o f wheat
favored-nation danse o f
lie buried and worthless under a foot
with respect to the free
o f frozen snow on th* prairies o f
tion o f pulp and paper
Western Canada, according to the
from unrestricted wood.
o f local grain men.