DOINGS OP THE WEEK MEN or THE HOUE IN THE CHINESE CRISI3. CHURCHES. Church of the Visitation, Verboort —Rev. L. A. Le.Miller, pastor. Sun­ day Early M a s ,; at 8 a. m.; High Mass at 10:30 a. m.; Vesper at 3:00 p. m. Week days Mass at 8:30 a. m. Current Events of Interest G a tM From the World at Large. Christian Science Hall, 115 Fifth st., between First and Second ave. South— Services Sundays at 11 a. m .; Sunday school at 12 m.; mid-week meeting Wednesdays at 7:30 p. m. General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Free Methodist church, Fourth st., between First and Second Avenue J. F. Le se, Pastor. Sunday School at 10 a. m.; preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Prayer meeting Wednes­ day 7:30 p. in. Russian and Persian troops have had a battle near Tabriz. Alaska delegation says that terri­ tory can support millions o f people. Senator Borah plans a new irriga­ tion loan which will help the Umatilla project. Indicted packers in Chicago declare the public was benefitted by their bus­ iness methods. President discusses currency, army reforms, parcels post and other topics in a message to congress. A telephone rate war has begun in California and is expected to extend over the entire Pacific coast. Hop interests o f America, backed by J. Ogden Armour, are planning a big combine to handle the crops in fu­ ture. The powers are now trying to in­ duce the Chinese rebels to accept terms offered by the government and end the war. C. L. Smith, newly appointed agri­ culturist for the O.-W. R. & N. Co., will visit many farms along the line to gather pracitcal information. A B O V E , ■>■(. W U T l \ f i F A V O , W H O I l K l 'K K S K v r i R E P I B I.IC N E G O T IA T IO N S , A N O VI AN S H I K V I, WHO CONCEDES FOR M F 1 IIU C . B E L O W , A N O T HSUS P IC T U R E O F U H . H IS F A VIH.V. A government engineer has ap­ proved the proposed expenditure of $800,000 for the improvement o f Til­ lamook bay, on the Oregon coast. A boiler explosion in a sawmill at, Apiary, near Ranier, Or., killed two men and injured two others, a fifth man digging himself out o f the Wrecked building without a scratch. President Taft, while quietly mak­ ing purchases in a crowded bookstore, was jostled by an army lieutenant, who was entirely unconscious that had bumped against his coinmander-in- chief. President Taft officially abrogates the Russian treaty, but ratification is held up in the senate by Heyburn. The river Avon, in Wales, is out o f its banks and a large territory flooded. In a Kansas City four persons were injured. Dr. Sun Yat Sen president o f China convention. tiolley-car wreck killed and seven has been elected by a revolutionary Secretary McVeagh urges congress to take up currency and banking re­ form legislation at once. Suit has been filed by the govern­ ment to dissolve the Pacific Coast Plumbing Supply association. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, 81(x82c; club, 79c; red Russian, 78c; valley, 80c; forty-fold, 79 m 80c. Corn— Whole, $87; cracked, $38 ton. Millstuffs— Bran, $23 per ton; mid- ilings, $30; shorts, $24; rolled bar- ey, $37M;38. Oats— No. 1 white, $30.50oi31 ton. Hay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon timo- .hy, $18(qjl8.B0; No. 1 valley, $16ftr 6; alfalfa, $13sen; cabbage, lMI 1 ic per pound: luliflower, $1.90(x:2 per crate; cu- imbers, $1.25 c c . Reis e a n d b 1 ’d. m> the consumer is least burdened by the Ludw, Keeper of Records and Seal. price and the producer most needs pro- G. A. R.—J. B. Mathews Post No. tection. ___ “ Another method o f meeting the 6, meets the first and third Wednes­ day of each month at 1:30 p. m., in Believes Difference Between Cost at | difficulty o f taxing the grease pound is arcf h e b re a th es ! O v e r th e sn ow j to assess a specific duty on grease K. o f P. hall. John Baldwin, Corn- Home and Abroad Is Proper d ju s t now th e cro w in g cocK , wool in terms o f its scoured contents, mander. Basis for Tariff. This obviates the chief evil o f the j Masonic— Holbrook Lodge No. 30, The sh ad o w y fiicKer to a n d froi -------- present system, namely, the discrim- \ p & a . M., regular meetings held „ „ ¡nation due to different precentages. ! nr8t Saturday ln each month. D. D. Thé C ricK et chirps: th e light b u m s low: Washington, D. C.— President Taft and thereby tends greatly to equalize j n ur M . y Kori e T is nearlyj tw e lv e o clocK . sent a message to congress Thursday the duty. The board reports that this re^ary S h a K e hands, b efo re y o u die, recommending a downward revision o f met,h^ i« feasibie in practice and W. O. W.—Forest Grove Camp No. , could be administered without great A x^Old y e a r , w e ’ll d e a r ly ru e for the tariff on wool, Accompanying the | cxpen8e 98, meets ln Woodmen Hall, every ¥ 7 '//W hat is it w e c a n do for y o “ They should be reduced and so ad-1 Saturday. A. J. Parker, C. C.; Janies message was the report o f the tariff board. Neither the message nor the justed to the rate o f wool as to bear j H. Davis, Clerk, •-T: i rw 3pe'aK out b efo re y o u die. Artisans— Diamond Assembly No. report attempts to fix the rate o f duty, their proportion to the real rate levied on the actual wool imports. 27, meets every Tuesday in K. of H is fae'e is grow in g sh a rp an but the president recommends that the The duties on many classes o f wool P. Hall. C. B. Stokes, M. A ; John A la c k ! 'our. frien d is gone, proposed revision adhere to a policy o f , manufacture are prohibitory and Boldrick, Secretary. protection based upon the difference in greatly in excess o f the difference in C lo s e u ?5 ju s ey eS ; tie u p hi^ c h in :-x Rebekahs—Forest Lodge No. 44 cost o f production at home and 1 c o s t ° f production here and abroad, Step- from th e corpse, a n d let jum in The findings o f the board show meets the first, third and fifth Wed­ abroad. T h ekTstahdeth th e re alone' nesdays of each month. Miss Alice that in this industry the actual manu­ The message says that .the present facturing cost, aside from the ques- Crook, N. G.; Secretary, Miss Carrie A n d ^ w aiteth at ' method o f assigning the duty on raw tion o f the price o f material, is much Austin. wool operates to exclude wools o f higher in this country than abroad; ! j 0 0 F. _ W aidilngton Lodge No. V ' c f ' - T h ere's a n e w f< w ---- ------------- high shrinkage in scouring, but o f fine , that in the making o f yarn and cloth , g m e e t , every Monday In I. O. O. F. (; t - u^T-Aricl a n e w fa c the domestic woolen or worsted manu- Van Antwerp. N. G.; quality, from the American market. facturer has in general no advantage A new face at Robert Taylor, Secretary. and thereby lessens the range o f wools ¡„ the form o f superior machinery or —T en n yso n . Modern Woodmen of America— available to the domestic manufactur- more efficient labor to offset the high­ Camp No. 6228, meets the second and er, and that the duty on scoured wool er wages pBid in this country. The . „„ . . ..... , . findings show that the cost o f turning fourth Friday of each month. Sam of 83 cents >s proh.b.tory and operates ^ w^ , into yarn jn ^ CQuntry « Marshal, Consul; Geo. G. Paterson, confession and fasting." A lively peal j i Healthy and V/ise of bells Is often rung at the end of the to exclude the importation o f elqan, about double that in the leading corn- Clerk. Sunday morning service, and Is called ZNjeu) Year low-priced foreign wools o f inftRior peting countries and that the cost of Rosewood Camp. No. 3835 R. N. "Pudding Bell." Perhaps Its purpose grade, which are, nevertheless, valua- turning yarn into cloth is somewhat A., meets first and third Fridays of “ Resolution No. 1— I will try to be­ Is to announce to the stay-at-homes ble material for manufacturing and more than double. Under the protec- each month in I. O. O. F. Hall. Mrs. come more Intelligent concerning my that service is over and that the pud­ which cannot be imported in the tive policy a great industry, involving M. S. Allen, Oracle; Mrs. Wlnnlfred body,” says Dr. Jean Williams ln ding may come out of the oven. Every grease because o f their heavy shrink- j the we|fBre 0 f hundreds o f thousands Aldrich, Recorder. Woman's Home Companion for Janu­ night at 9:05 "Great Tom," the great age. Such wools, if imported, might 0f peop|e, has been established despite Gale Grange No. 282, P. of H.. ary, “looking with greater respect upon bell of Christ Church college at Ox­ be used to displace the cheap substi­ these handicaps. meets the first Saturdays of each my physical resources and trying to ford, booms out its ponderous note 101 tutes now in use, the president says, “ In recommending revision and re­ month ln the K. o f P. Hall. A. T. realize more fully that upon them the times. This particular number was and continues: duction. I therefore urge that action These discriminations could be be taken with these facts in mind, to Buxton, Master; Mrs. H. J. Rice, force and success of my life largely chosen in accordance with the number depend. of students at the foundation of the overcome by assessing a duty o f ad the end that an independent and estab- Secretary- "Resolution No. 2—1 will arrange. If college. valorem terms, but this method 18 lished industry may not be jeopard- ! C IT Y . possible, to supply sufficient pure air open to the objection, first, that it in­ izod.” Mayor—J. A. Thornburgh. for every breath I take, thus better to creases administrative dilficluties and Recorder—R. P. Wirtz. combat every source of disease that Treasurer—E. B. Sappington. New Treaty is Considered might attack me, to improve my chance Commission Form Wins. St. Petersburg— Having accepted in Chief of Police— P. W. Watkins. Street Commissioner—E. B. Sap- for long life and to Increase my ef­ Raker, Or. — Mayor Palmer made an equable spirit the notification of ficiency. Shakespearean Mottoes for public his first annual report under the American amhnssadnr that the plngton. "Resolution No. 3— 1 will be kinder ,tne Amer,cl‘ n amnassaaor that tn e;Hea,th officer—Dr. J. S. Bishop. commission form o f government and ! treaty o f commerce and nativation en- to my illgesrlve'oreans avoiding all ex­ the N ew Year says he believes that tho new form, tered into by the United States iCouncilnien— Chas. Hines, George S. cess and not asking them to struggle Allen, V. S. Abraham, Carl L. Hln- Heaven grant us its peace.—Meas although beset with many difficulties and Russia in 1832 would be abrogated with food for which they have repeat­ ure for Measure. resulting from inexperience and reor­ on January 1, 1913, officials o f the j man, O. M. Sanford and John Mc- edly shown antagonism. Nanier. ganisation. has, on the whole, proved Russian government are now directing "Resolution No. 4— 1 will treat my City Schoot. entirely satisfactory and that it is their attention to the question o f a „ , Let each man do his b est—King brain and nervous system with great­ better, because those in charge have new treaty. It is recognized that dl-|So^ . , “ r£ ; t„<^ -M . Peterson. ■ M rs. er consideration, and 56 hours of each Henry IV. Edward Seymour, Buxton. H. T. given constant consideration to the plomacy of the most experienced kind week shall be devoted to sleep. municipal affairs. The necessary will be required, especially on the Clerk— R. P. Wirtz. Time is the nurse and breeder of al) Juetlce of the Peace— W. J. R. Beach. “ Resolution No. 5— 1 will try to do changes and improvements, have American side, if negotiations for a good.—Two Gentlemen of Verona. Constable— Carl Hoffman. ln eight hours as much hard work as caused an expense o f 14.7 mills, while new treaty are to proceed. I should do ln one day. COUNTY. for next year they will be 6.4 mills. Takw from my mouth the wish of Resolution No. 6— 1 will devote at Would Change Homestead Law. Judge— R. O. Stevenson. happy years.—King Richard IL least twe of the 24 hours to such exer­ Postal to String Heavy Wires. Shertff—George G. Hancock. Washington, D. C. —Secretary Fish- cise as I find most beneficial. New York— Minor M. Davie, rho er, o f the department o f the interior. Clerk—John Bailey. Time shall unfold what plaited cun­ "Resolution No. 7—1 will give my was recently appointed superintendent | is not disposed to favor an out-and-out Recorder—T. L. Perkins. ning hides—King Lear. Treasurer—E. B. Sappington. moral support to every effort, public or o f telephones for the Poetal Telegraph ! three-year homestead bill, such as Surveyor—Geo. McTee. private. In behalf of the betterment of Cable company, announced that his that introduced by Senator Borah, o f j Corcme E. C. Brown. That It shall hold companionship In company has issued instructions to its Idaho, but rather inclines to the view | Commissioner»—John McClaran, John health conditions. peace with honor as ln war.—Corlo- construction department to proceed that the homestead period should re- NyMrg. lanua. with the erection o f additional heavy I main five years, as at present, but | School Sup't— M. C. Case, copper wires between all important with the provision that the home- Be of good cheer; points on the system o f the company steader need not maintain his resi- 8. P. TIME TABLE, They shall no more prevail than we for the purpose o f extending the tele- dence upon his land the first two North Bound, ilve way to.—King Henry VIIL ¿XCaaagt o f the $)e!U phonice use o f the same to the inde- J years after initiating his entry. Sheridan No. 4 ....................... 8:27 a. m. pendent telephone companies. Corvallis No. 2 ....................... 4:63 p. m. The metal tongue of the big bell ___ This lies all within the will of God Dynamite Left in Garden. South Bound. rings out many changes to our mod­ To whom I do appeal.—King Henry V. Chaperonaga is Urged. I » s Angeles—Twenty-two sticks o f Corvallis No. 1 ....................... 8:44 a. m. ern ear». In many parts of England Chicago— Better medical «upervis-1 high-power dynamite were found in Sheridan Nr. 3 ....................... 6.-00 p. m. the bell which tolls the old year out Is ien in co-educational institutions, the shrubbery near the residence of called the^Old Lad's Passing bell." In There's rosemary and rue; these keep training in the newer vocations f o r ! Arthur Letts, owner o f two o f the SUBSCRIBE FOR the wlntei western England the bells peal merrlta ^ women, self-government and eloeer largest department stores in Loa An- on "Oak Apple Day." to celebrate the ' ‘« “ »--W in te r Tale. chaperonage o f girls were urged in gelea, by a gardener. A fter an in­ escape of Charles at Bosco bel. Anoth- resolutions adopted at the d ose o f the vestigation, the police announced that Tha U r * Faper with AH t K S e n . Only II er bell, rung at the beginning of Lent. 1 Let*aU^ Is known as as "Pancake "Pancake Bell." Rell - h fifth biennial conference o f deans and they believed the dynamite had been per yww. Th* P m > * aquippad to do. and be- - Let all the anda thou alm’st at be th> advisers o f women in state aaiversi- placed in the yard by someone who doaa. tha Brat Job Printing. Rv«r> thing la can»*. In old-time phrase. It "summon. ! tiee. j wanted to get rid o f it. thin Una dona to plaaaa. Pricoa right. oeoiile away from their pancakaa to ! v m d truth'».—King Henry THE FOREST GROVE PRESS