DOINGS OF THE WEEK Current Events of Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume of Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Los Angeles women hold the balance o f power in the politics o f that city. Persia begs the powers to interfere and prevent the aggressions o f Russia. Alarm and distress increase in Seat tle as the water supply rapidly disap pears. James J. Hill extolls the wonders of the Pacific Northwest at the Chicago Land show. Millions will change hands in Los Angeles at the coming election if the Socialists are defeated. Chinese officials confirm the reports that a massacre o f foreign mission aries has occurred at Sian Fu. It is reported that Princess Lai, mother o f the child emperor o f China, has eloped with a Chinese actor. President Taft was forced to cancel several engagements on account o f a severe cold, but is now improving. REBELS ARE GATHERING. Beseigers at Nanking Well Armed and Attack Imminent. San Francisco — Revolutionary troops are assembling in great num bers just outside o f Nanking, accord ing to a cable dispatch received by the Chinese Free Press. Advices say that the troops are commanded by General Chao Shu Ching, former general tin der the Manchu government. The at tack on Nanking is expected to begin at any time. The revolutionists are well supplied with arms and ammuni tion. Hongkong advices to the Chinese Daily Paper say that the former vice< roy o f Canton, Chong Ming Chi, has cut off his que and gone to Europe. District Magistrate Yen Ping has abandoned his post to the Republican party and fled. The commander in chief o f the Republican army in Can ton is sending one regiment north and will head the other troops in his com mand in the attack on Pekin. American Woman is Slain. Pekin— The killing o f foreigners at Sian Fu, Shan Si (province, has been further confirmed by two Chinese stu dents who have arrived from that city. I During the fighting in Sian Fu a mob attacked the China Inland mis sion, just outside the city. The mob murdered Mrs. Beckman, who is said to be an American, and five o f the mission children. Mr. Beckman was wounded, but escaped, saving an in- fant. SUFFRAGETTES BEATEN. A Portland Chinaman arrested in a gambling raid proved that the “ lot tery ticket” found in his possession Attempt to Storm Parliament Fails — Many Arrested. was a dairy he had kept for many years. London — The suffragettes fared Texas state troops are rushed to the badly at the hands o f the police in this Mexican border with orders to seize city Wednesday. They had threatened all contraband arms and ammunition. to force their way into the house of commons and make a protest on the A "la zy father” in Sacramento has floor against the prime minister’s re been sentenced to work two years on fusal to pledge the government to a the county roads at $1.50 per day, the bill giving equal suffrage to both money being paid to his family. sexes, but they failed to reach the en trance to parliament. Threats by the railroads to establish Thwarted by the police, who arrest competitive steamer lines is said to ed 220 women and three men, the have resulted in preventing the estab suffragettes resorted to a campaign o f lishment o f independent water lines window smashing. Driven from par via the Panama canal. liament square by the police, 1,800 o f whom were on duty, the women, ac PORTLAND MARKETS! companied by sympathizers and gangs Wheat — Export basis: Bluestem, o f rowdies, proceeded through White 83c; club, 80c; red Russian, 78c; val hall, armed with bags o f stones, con cealed under their coats, and broke ley, 80c; forty-fold, 81e. Corn— Whole, $37; cracked, $38 windows in public offices, the Liberal headquarters and the National Liberal ton. Millstuffs— Bran, $23 per ton; mid Club. They extended their operations dlings, $31; «hurts, $24; rolled bar to the Strand, where windows o f the Postoffice bank and other private con ley, $35(d 36. cerns suffered from the onslaught. Oats— No. 1 white, $31(ff32 ton. The militant tactics o f the suffra Hay— No. ,1 Eastern Oregon tim othy, $18(q;l9; No. 1 valley, $16(q)17; gettes followed a statement by Prem alfalfa, $13(1(14; clover, $ U @ 1 2 ; ier Asquith that the government was unable to introduce a bill to enfran grain, $1 lfif) 12. Barley— Feed, $32.50<fl'{(3 per ton; chise women, as the cabinet was di vided on the question, but would allow brewing, nominal. Fresh Fruits— Pears, $1.25(0)1.60 an amendment to be introduced to the per box; grapes, 5 0 cw $ l; cranber proposed manhood suffrage bill, leav ing it to the house o f commons to de ries, $11.50(0)12 per barrel. Apples—Jonathans, $1.50(<i2.25 per cide whether women should be given " - ---- - — box; Spitzenbergs, $1(<|2.50; Bald a vote. win, 75c(ii $ 1.50; Red Cheek Pippin, $1.25(01.75; Northern Spy, $1.25(0 STRIPPED BY JOHN D. 1.75; Winter Banana, $2@ 3 ; Bell flower, $1(01.25. Michigan Miner Claims Financier Got Potatoes — Buying prices: Bur Millions By Trickery, banks, $90c(i(1.20 per hundred. Onions— Buying prices, $1.15 sack. Vegetables-—Artichokes, 76c dozen; beans, 5(u:10c; cabbage, 1(0l i e per pound; cauliflower, 60c(O$l per dozen; California, $4 per crate; ¡garlic, 10(0 12e per pound; lettuce, 76c0(80c per dozen; hothouse lettuce, $1.25 per box; pumpkins, l(0 1 lc per pound; sprouts. 8(q'9c; squash, 1 J (0 ljc per pound; tomatoes, 50c(0$l per box; carrots. $1 per sack; turnips, $1; beets, $1; parsnips, $1. Butter — Oregon creamery butter, solid pack. 37c; prints, extra; but ter fat. lc less than solid pack price. Poultry— Hens, 10«U2c; springs, 10(<(12c; ducks, young, 18dil7c; geese. llj(0 1 2 c ; turkeyi.'live, 180i 20c; dressed, choice, 22}(n'24c. Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 50c per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 8J(09e per pound, Veal— Fancy, 124(<>)13c per pound. Hope— 1911 crop. 44(«45c; olds, nominal. Wool—Eastern Oregon, 9l<( 16c per pound; valley, 16(<417c; mohair, choice, S5(ii'37c. Cattle— Choice steers, $5.45(1(6.86; good, $6.30((i)4.46; fair, $5.15(it6.30; choice cows, $4.60(i(4.85; fair, $4(<i 4.25; common, $2.50(d3.60; extra choice spayed heifers, $4.50(1.4.60; choice bulls, $4.25(i(4.50; good, $4oi 4.25; common. $2n(2.60; choice cal ves. $7.25(ii7.50; good, $7«£7.25; common, $4«i 5; choice stags, $4.60*4 4.75; good. $4.25*44.50. Hogs—Choice light hogs, $6.75*4 6.86; good to choice hogs. $6.60*4 6.76; fair, $6.25ui6.60; common, 6*4 6.26. Sheep — Choice yearling wethers, coarse wool. $4«iS; choice yearling wethers, east of mountains. $3.40*4 3.60; choice twos and threes, $3.20*4 8.35; choice lambs, $4.60*44.75; good. $4*1)4 25; valley lambs. $8.75*4 4 ; colls. $3 k (3.50. Washington, D. C.— Alfred Merritt, o f Duluth, Minn., first president of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern rail road, who styled himself a “ lumber ja ck ,” unacquainted with the methods o f the “ money trust,” told the house Steel trust investigating committee that through loans o f less than $1,- 000,000, from John D. Rockefeller, he had lost his holdings in the Missabe iron mines and the railroad property now owned by the United States Steel corporation and estimated to be worth $700,000,000. Merritt declared that he was induced through F. D. Gates, Mr. Rockefeller’s secretary, "in charge o f his charitable work,” to put up all his holdings 'as collateral for loans. Two months after he had put up his collateral with Mr. Rocke feller during the panic o f 1893, Rocke feller called in the loan, giving him 24 hours to raise $420,000, and that being unable to raise the money, he and his brother lost their property. Italians Repulse Turks. Tripoli—The Italians report that the Turks ‘ were repulsed Wednesday in three outpost attacks with 29 killed. Five aeroplanes, returning to camp, reported that there had been no change in the Turkish position. They succceeded in dropping bombs inside the Turkish camp, which was destroy ed. At the same time the Italian armored cruiser Carlo Alberto bom barded the village o f Amrus and the fort o f Henni, 3 miles from Tripoli. Castro Victor In Battle. Mexico City— A dispatch to the Nuevo Era from Caracas says that General Cipriano Castro, ex-president o f Venezuela, has won in a battle which occurred in Venezuela, having entered his native country with thous ands o f followers. CHARLES NAGEL, CABINET OFFICIAL W HO WOULD SUPPLEMENT, NOT kEPEAL, SHERMAN LAW. ~ 1 BUZZARD GETS FOUR Bodies Buried in Snow-Drills Near Kamloops, B. c. P5v pi : M ' Ü Three Bodies Found in Field Near Roadside—Victims Had Tried to Make Camp. : •. 1 % TEXAS DRIVES OUT REBELS. Mexican Plotters Against Madero Ordered Across Line. Chinese Empire on Verge Reign oi Terror. ol Robber Bands Organize and Plunder — Both Sides in War Power less to Check. Washington, D. C.— Affairs in China apparently have reached such a point that neither the rebels nor the imper ialists are able to check acts o f law lessness. Advices to the State depart ment report that brigandage is on the increase in various parts o f empire. Business is reported in a critical con dition and finances in very bad shape. Rear-Admiral Murdock, commandant o f the American naval forces in China, reports that Nanking is cut off from communication with the outside world by railroad and telegraph and that the natives are leaving in disorder. All the missionaries except three are re ported to have left Nanking for Wu Hu. There are no disorders in Che Foo, but many robberies have been committed in the vicniity. Later advices from Nanking, where the decisive battle o f the revolution is thought to be impending, are to the effect that all is in readiness on both sides. The naval officers report that it will be extremely difficult to protect foreign property inside the walls, be cause it is so widely scattered. The revolutionary forces are still concen trating. They now hold all the territory in the vicinity o f Nanking. The princi pal advance o f the revolutionaries on Nanking is from the direction o f Chin Kiang. The advance guard is made up o f trained troops who are well equipped. The imperial warships which were captured by the revolutionists, or sur rendered voluntarily after the fighting at Hankow, are reported to be lying at Chin Kiang. Minister Calhoun has grave doubts as to the stability o f the new cabinet formed by Yuan Shi Kai. The arrival o f Yuan Shi Kai in Pekin has done much to steady the situation, but the government is in need o f financial help. __ ________ Dangerous Rapids Won. Grand Canyon, Ariz. — Tired and wet, but happy, Emory C. and Ells worth Kolb arrived at their home Sat urday after a 900-mile contest with the rapids o f the Green and Colorado rivers, on their journey from Green River, W yo., to the Gulf o f Califor nia. The little boat in which they made the trip was in good condition. The Sockdolager section, supposed to be worst o f the entire trip, was passed in safety. Air Scouts Us* Lights. Washington, D. C.— Night scouting in aeroplanes equipped with search lights has been tried for the first time at the army aviation school at College Park. Md. Successful surveys were made and. returning, the machines without the aid o f watch Area, Austin, Tex.— “ All revolutionists in the vicinity o f Laredo must leave within 48 hours,” reads a specific < der from Governor Colquitt, o f Texas, to Adjutant General Hutchinson, who is at Laredo trying to cope with the situation there. Federal authorities seized a quan tity of ammunition and arms said to be a part o f a store provided by per sons who hoped to lead a revolt against the Madero government in Mexico. The officers were led to the cache by Juan Meriga soon after his arrest on a Federal indictment re turned at the same time as the one against General Bernardino Reyes. Meriga was formerly a Mexican cavalry captain. His arrest is the fifth in connection with the alleged revolutionary plot. General Reyes was arrested in San Antonio and three others said to be implicated were tak en into custody at Laredo. Meriga is said to have made a con fession regarding the alleged revolu tionary plot said to have been led by General Reyes. The officers say Me riga told them he had been engaged in storing horses, arms and ammunition, a considerable amount o f which has already been sent into Mexico. It was said by United States Mar shal Brewster that other important de velopments were expected within a few days. PRINCE PINES FOR HOME. Heir to Baroda Throne Say* Ameri can Girls Are “ Too Cold.” Cambridge, Mass.—Jaisint Gaek- war, prince o f Baroda, and heir ap parent to the throne o f that country and now a senior at Harvard, longs for the time that he can shake the dust o f Ameirca from his heels and return to the lands o f his nativity. “ I can’ t say that I admire your women, and you can say emphatically that I have no intention o f taking an American bride home with me. I have found your girls too cold. They are over-fond o f show and awfully affe-ted.” 3 ,000 to Run Big Farm. Sacramento, Cal.— Morris Brook, of this city, has secured an option on a tract o f 22,000 acres o f foothill land in Glenn and Colusa counties for a col ony o f Russians that will include 3,- 000 persons. The land will be farmed as a whole if the deal is completed, and there will be no individual hold ings. The colonists will farm it on a community plan, all living in a town that will be established by the man agement. 29,818 Flock to Coast. Salt Lake City- Reports just com piled at the local offices o f the Harri- man lines show that 29,818 homeseek- ers were carried to the Pacific Coast over the Harriman roads from Sep tember 15 to October 15 this year. Of this number. 16,320 passed through the Ogden gateway. 9,929 were car- ried via El Paso. 8689 via Los Angeles and 8,701 via Portland. Victoria, B. C. — Overtaken by a blizzard while returning to their home from Kamloops, B. C., a family of four lost their way and were found frozen to death. The dead: John Keefer, a rancher; James A. Tronson, K eefer’s brother-in-law; Elizabeth Keefer, aged 14; May Keefer, aged 11. The first intimation o f their fate came through the discovery by Joseph Frolic o f the bodies o f Keefer, Tron son and the youngest child, which since have been brought to Kamloops. The body o f Elizabeth Keefer has not been found. The snow is smooth and level, from three to five feet deep in the vicinity, and there is small probability o f re covery of this body until the snow melts with the advent of spring. The Keefer farm is a little off the Nicola road, along which Joe Frolic was driving into Kamloops when this gruesome discovery was made, this being at a point nine or ten miles from the Keefer place. The bodies o f the three were located in one o f Rancher McConnell’s fields at the side o f the road, partially cov ered with blankets. This is cited as circumstantial evidence that the quar tet o f unfortunates had stopped possi bly with the thought o f making camp, fearful o f losing their way if they continued. The horses had been un hitched and it was the neighing o f one that first attracted Frolic’s attention. James Tronson’s body was discov ered a few feet from the sleigh, cov ered with about two feet of snow, with about two feet more underneath it. K eefer’s corpse was in the seat of the sleigh and the younger child in a pitiful, huddled heap between his knees. The little girl was warmly clad and had probably lived some hours longer than the men. APPROVE PARCELS POST. Trans-Mississippi Congress Will Meet on Pacific Coast. Kansas City— A fter selecting Salt Lake City as the meeting place for 1912 and Kansas City, Mo., as official headquarters, the 22d annual session o f the Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress adjourned Saturday. Although the date for holding the next meeting was not definitely decid ed upon, it was tentatively agreed up on to convene in the last week o f Au gust. The official headquarters were located for only one year, E. J. Beck er, o f this city, was elected secretary, to succeed Arthur T. Francis, o f Crip ple Creek, Colo., after which Mr. Francis was elected an honorary mem ber o f the congress for life. George B. Harrison, a banker o f this city, was elected treasurer. A resolution was adopted recom mending that the congress meet at a Pacific Coast city in 1915, the year of the Pacific-Panama exposition. San Francisco and Seattle are rival aspir ants for the meeting at that time. Consideration o f the report o f the committee on resolutions occupied most o f the session. The resolution declaring that the congress was against the parcels post, which was adopted, provoked acrimonious discus sion The vote was 90 for and 16 against the resolution. A vigorous verbal scrimmage followed, in which charges were made that a “ steam rol ler” was being operated by those in control o f the meeting and that the tendency o f the congress was to take no definite stand on anything. Launch Party in Peril... Marshfield, Or. — A. H. Powers, head o f the Smith-Powers company, and a party o f friends in his speed boat, narrowly escaped death from be ing caught in a water spout which swept across Coos bay when the recent big storm was at its height. A col umn o f water was drawn up 150 feet high by a whirlwind with such force that big logs were thrown up out o f the bay. The awe-inspiring column was at times 10 feet in diameter. Germs Lurk for Horses. Los Angeles — Individual drinking cups for horses will be a reality |pi Los Angeles if a recommendation bp the Los Angeles board o f veterinary Bur geons is carried ou t Watering trop*hs are breeding places fot glan germs, say the veterinarians. report urges each driver o f a team to provide himself with a bucket, from which his horses, and no others, may