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ALL ARE SAVED FROM
WRECKED LINER TITANIC
New York—Wireless dispatches up
to noon Monday showed that the pas
sengers of the White Star liner Titan
ic, which struck an iceberg off the
Newfoundland coast, were being
transferred aboard the steamer Car-
pathia, a Cunarder.
Already 20 boatloads had been
transferred, and, allowing 40 to 60
persons as the capacity of each life
boat, some 800 or 1,200 passengers
had been transferred.
Latest reports indicated that the
transfer is being carried on safely.
The sea is smooth and the weather
calm. It is probable that all passen
gers of the Titanic are safe.
While badly damaged, the Titanic
is still afloat, and is reported to be
making her way toward Halifax un
der her own steam.
Ti e Titanic is the largest steamship
ever built. She is 882 feet long and
has 46,323 tons displacement. She
was launched last May, and this was
her maiden trip.
Among the passengers are Colonel
and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Alfred G.
Vanderbilt, Major Archibald Butt,
military aid to President Taft, F. D.
Millet, the artist. Mr. and Mrs. Isador
Straus, J. G. Widener, of Philadel
phia, President Hays, of the Grand
Trunk railway, J. B. Bruce Ismay,
managing director of the White Star
line, W. T. Stead, and others.
The liner carried 1,400 passengers
and a crew of 800.
Another liner, the Parisian, of the
Allan company, which sailed from
Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is al
ready close at hand and is assisting in
the work of rescue. The Baltic and
Virginian also are near, and the
Olympic apparently is near at hand,
as the wireless information concerning
the transfer comes from Captain Had
dock, of the Olympic.
Northwest Unions Form Big Mar
keting Association.
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Portland — Consolidation of the
General Frederick D. Grant died
Northwestern Fruit Exchange with the
suddenly at his hotel in New York
growers’ representatives interested in
City.
the movement to establish a mutual
Spokane men made $500,000 in two
fruit selling agency was effected in
days on the rise in Granby Smelter
Portland and the future systematic
stock.
and successful sale of the enormous
fruit crops of the Northwest became
Several inches of snow fell over
assured.
Northern California, and the storm
It is expected more than 50 per
was reported to be moving north.
cent
of the fruitgrowers of Oregon,
The Rio Grande road has granted
Washington,
Idaho and Montana, rep
increases in pay to its firemen, en
resenting an investment of more than
gineers, conductors and trainmen.
$250,000,000, at once will become affil
iated with the organization, which has
Black and white prisoners in the
for its purpose the creation of a wider
Kansas penitentiary have rival base
market for the fruit products of the
ball teams and will play for the prison
Northwest and the distribution of the
pennant.
fruit through those markets that while
C. D. Hillman, convicted millionaire
the
price to the consumer may be de
promoter, has been ordered to McNeill
creased, the return to the grower will
island to serve his sentence of two and
be increased.
one-half years.
While this statement may sound
illogical, officials of the Northwestern
A Portland bartender was sentenced
Fruit Exchange predict it is a possi
to a fine of $100 and six months' im
ble result through elimination of ruin
prisonment for using profane language
ous competition and the merciless com
over the telephone.
mission men, as was done in Cali
Burt Hicks, owner of a machine
fornia.
shop in Portland, was found not guilty
This action was the result of nego
of killing a striking machinist whom
tiations that have been in progress for
he shot to death last November.
more than a year between the various
fruitgrowing interests of the North
About 200 I. W. W. members on
west, and for more than three weeks
route from Los Angeles to Alaska' took
between the growers and the officers
possession of an unused hotel at Oak
of the exchange.
land, Cal., and were running the place
M
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.
In the evolution of the movement, a
to its full capacity when discovered by
committee of 11 growers, represent
the owner.
Will Be Held Responsible for ing almost every district in the North
Taft and Roosveelt delegates in the Peop'e Acts
west, was appointed at a conference
Against Americans.
convention in Michigan fought for
at Walla Waila early in 1911 to
possession of the convention hall, and Washington, D. C. — Warning has held
perfect a plan of organizing a mutual
after police and militia had quieted been issued by the United States to or
co-operative marketing system.
the disturbance each side elected six the Mexican government, as well as Representatives
of this committee
delegates at large to the national con General Pascual Orozco, chief of the have
been
in
conference
with the di
revolutionary
forces,
that
the
United
vention.
rectors of the exchange for several
States
“
expects
and
must
demand
that
A landslide buried the tracks of the
the result
was
life
and property
within
the days,
. . with
. . for
... the
.. that . two a plan
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail American
republic
of
Mexico
must
be
justly
and
Perfected
umt.ng
organ.z-
road between Laconia and Rockdale, adequately protected, and that this at.o^is-the growers and the exchange.
Wash., a few minutes before a pas n
----- Mexico and the The exchange amended its by-laws
must hold
senger train was due. The engineer government
provide for mutualization, elected
Mexican
people
responsible
for all to
saw the obstruction in time to avert wanton or illegal acts sacrificing
growers’ representatives to its board
or
an accident.
directors and created an advisory
American life or endang of
council, the members of which will be
Secretary Knox and party have ar endangering
ering
American
property
interests.”
rived at Kingston, Jamaica, on their The attitude of the United States, elected by the various local fruit
unions of the Pacific North
Southern tour.
as expressed to both the rebel and fed growers’
west. Provision was made for estab
eral
officials,
is
that
any
interference
an office at Spokane. The
A St. Louis publisher who is now
American citizens ‘‘will be deep lishing
growers’ committee was represented
worth millions, claims to have started with
ly
resented
by
the
American
govern
conference by its chairman,
in business with $1.25.
ment and people, and must be fully in H. the
W. Otis, of Peshastin, Wash.; its
Four young Elks have started from answered for to the American peo secretanr.
L. E. Meacham, of Walla
Brooksfield, Mo., to walk to the Elks’ ple.”
Walla, Wash.; and A. P. Bateham, of
convention at Portland in June, 1912. Orozco recently refused to recognize Mosier,
president, of the Oregon State
Mr. Letcher as the American consular Horticultural
society. Otis and Bate
Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, physical representative,
the United ham were elected
directors and vice-
culture expert of Harvard, says house States withheld because
recognition
of
the
work is the best possible exercise for rebel cause. The repesentations to presidents of the exchange.
women.
Orozco accuse him of “ practical mur
of Thomas Fountain, an Ameri
Owing to energetic measures em der”
gunner enlisted with the federáis,
ployed by citizens and police at Aber can
summarily put to death last week
deen, the I. W. W. strike there is on but
when taken prisoner by the insurrec
the .wane.
tos.
Cape Race, N. F. — At 10:15 o’clock
Though declining to justify partici Sunday night the steamship Titanic
PO R TLAN D M ARKETS.
pation of Americans on either side,
” C. Q. D. ” and reported she
Wheat—Track prices: Bluestem, the United States expressly stipulates called
struck
an iceberg. The steamer said
984(0 $1; club, 94(<i)96c; red Russian, that American combatants, when that immediate
assistance was requir
92c; valley, 94(0 96c; forty-fold, 95c. taken prisoners, must receive humane ed. Half an hour
afterward another
MillstufTs—Bran, $22(o23 per ton; treatment in accordance with the in message came that they
were sinking
shorts, $24(0125; middlings, $30.
ternational rules of war.
by the head and that women were be
Corn—New, whole, $34; cracked,
ing put off in lifeboats.
$35 per ton.
Earth's Danger Far Off.
The Marconi station at Cape Race
Hay—No. 1 Eastern Oregon timo Fasadena, Cal.—Disquieting reports notified
the Allan liner Virginian, the
thy, $l4(o:16; No. 1 valley, $12(014; from Eastern scientific centers to the captain of
which immediately advised
alfalfa, $12(0)12.50; grain hay, $9. effect that the earth was plunging at he was proceeding
the scene.
Oats—No. 1 white, $35.50 per ton. a terrific rate toward the cluster of At midnight the to Virginian
170
Cranberries—$10(0 11.60 per barrel. Hercules, whose 12 suns would burn it miles distant, from the Titanic was
and
Apples — Yellow Newtown, $2<«i! to a cinder, failed to create consterna pected to reach that vessel by 10 ex
A.
2.50; Spitsenbergs, $1.75(0.3: Bald tion among the scientists in the Mount M. Monday.
win, $1.60(0)2; Ben Davis, $1*£1.75, Wilson observatory.
The steamship Baltic also reported
Red Cheek Pippins, $2(o2.50; Gano, Residents of Pasadena have received herself
200 miles east of the
$1(0)1.75; California Newtowns, $1.75 the reassuring information from Pro Titanic as and about
making
all possible speed
@2 per box.
fessor
W.
S.
Adams
that,
while
it
was
toward
her.
Potatoes — Buying prices: Bur true that the earth was racing toward The last signals from the Titanic
banks, $1.60tol.66 per hundred; sweet the
fiery suns at the rate of 600 miles were heard by the Virginian. At
potatoes, $3.26 per crate.
a
minute,
require several 12:27 a. m. the wireless operator on
Vegetables — Artichokes, 75*(90c million years ft to would
reach
the
and the Virginian says these signals were
per doa.; asparagus, white, $1.26(<( even the course of the earth cluster,
might
be blurred and ended abruptly.
1.60 per crate; green, $2 ($2.26; changed before the collision.
beans, 16(($17ic; cabbage, 3*£34c per
Crop Disaster Feared.
pound; cauliflower, $2.26 crate; cel
Ntw
Flyer
to
Cut
Rscord.
Chicago—Wheat
prices suddenly ad
ery, $5466 crate; cucumbers, $2(o)2.60 Portland—A new fast train that
dosen; eggplant, 26c pound; garlic, will be faster than the Shasta Limited vanced Saturday in a manner that at
8® 10c pound; head lettuce, $2 crate;
tracted widespread attention. The
hothouse lettuce, 76e(<l$l per box; will be placed in operation between cause was that damage to the soft win
peas, 10c pound; peppers, 26c pound; Portland and San Francisco before ter crop appeared to have reached
radishes, 80c doten; rhubarb, $1.26 June 1, according to present plana of nearly the proportions of a disaster.
per box; spinach, $1.16(0:1.26; toma the Southern Pacific traffic depart Many millers from interior points
toes, $1.75(0)2 per box; turnips, $1(0 ment. On account of the constantly bought cash wheat freely and were
1.10 per sack ; beets, $1.60; rutaba increasing movement of passengers not backward in confirming reports
between the two cities this step has that hundreds of fields that were ex-1
gas, $1(01.10; carrots, $1.
Butter — Oregon creamery, solid become necessary. The schedule has pected to produce a fine harvest would
not been worked out, but it is prob have to be plowed under. The injury,
pack, 334c; print*, extra.
Eggs—Fresh Oregon ranch, cand able that the running time between was said to be confined to the states
Portland and San Francisco will be west of the Missouri river.
led, 21c dosen; case count, 204c.
Pork—Fancy, 94<«i 10c per pound. cut down to nearly 24 hours.
Taft'a Taxes Take Jump.
Veal—Fancy, 114(o 12 q per pound.
Poultry—Hens, 164(rfl7e; springs, Carmania Encounters Icebergs.
Cincinnati — President Taft’s per
17c; stags. 124(olSc; broilers. 25«C- New York—Twenty-five ’icebergs, sonal tax return, now on file at the
30c; ducks, 20c; geese, 11c; tur one of which was 250 feet high, were Hamilton county court house here,
keys, live, 20c; dressed, 26c.
encountered in a sea of ice miles in shows that he is $10.720 richer in
Hops — 1911 crop, 38<o.39c; olds, length, by the steamship Carmania, of property subject to taxation than he
nominal; 1912 contracts, 25*(26c.
the Cunard line, which has arrived was last year. In that time he has
Wool—Eastern Oregon, 14(d) 16c per here. Wh le the steamship was accumulated $60,000 worth of stocks,
pound: valley. I6*«17c per pound mo ploughing through the ice at reduced while last year he held only $10,000
hair, choice, 32c per pound.
speed and dodging icebergs, the wire worth. Hia cash has decreased from
Cattle— Choice steers, $6.50*£7; less operators picked up a message 83,720 to $840 and hi* debts are listed
good, $6.26(1(6.40; medium, $4(<i6.25; that stated that the steamship Niag $6.500. The total value of the
choice cows, $6.500(6; good, $6*t ara, of the French line, was having president’« property ia $51,940.
6.60; medium, $4.60005; choice cal trouble in the ice tone.
Bad'Matches Must Psy Taxes.
ves, $8.50008.76; good heavy calves,
Arabs Leave 4 0 0 Dead.
$6ot6.60; bulls. $4.26o(6; stags,
Washington, D. C. — The president
$4.76*1,6.
Paris—According to dispatches pub has signed the bill to tax white phos
Hogs — Light, $8*£8.40; heavy, lished here, Italian force* in attempt phorus matches. It ia asserted the
$6 60*67.60.
ing to make a landing on the eastern law will In effect prohibit their manu
Sheep—Yearlings, $6.50*06; weth coast of Tripoli, came into conflict facture. The matches have been de
ers, $4.86*i6.46; ewes, $4.60*04.86; with the Arabs. After severe fight nounced in congressional hearing ae
lambs, $4.60*06.46; spring lambs, ing the Arabs retreated, leaving 400 harmful to laborers engaged in their
$»»*010.
dead. The Italians lost heavily also. manufacture.
BIG LINER HITS ICEBERG,
WIRELESS CALLS CEASE
I am prepared to deliver fresh
milk to all parts of the city for 6
cents per quart, delivered night
and morning. I will do my best
to satisfy you. A. K in n ey , Dai
ryman, Third St., Forest Grove,
Oregon.
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County:
I am a candidate for the office
of County Clerk, and have filed
a petition asking to have my
name placed on the official nom
inating ballot of the Republican
party for the primary election to
be held April 19, 1912. In said
petition and at all times I pledge
myself, if elected, to perform the
duties of said office as prescribed
by law and for the best interests
of the public.
E dw . C. L uce ,
. Candidate for County Clerk.
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