DOINGSOFTHEWEEK Current Events oí Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume of Important Event* Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. 18009386 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. County Clerk Investment Realty Abstract Company To the For Voters of Washington Makes Your Abstract Offices, with Forest Grove Press, Hoffman Building. Law Office, M. B. Bump, Hillsboro. GUARANTEES RELIABLE SERVICE Notice Competition and Commissions Believ­ ed to Be Eliminated— Invest­ ments of $ 2 6 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 . 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 E X I C O IS W A R N E D . 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(