NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of World's Importan
Events Told in BrieL
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The craws of eight ducks killed by
St. Helens, Or., man produced
many gold nuggets.
A huge steel caisson used by tho U
S. navy in tests is wrecked by a aingl
shot of n new explosive.
After being set nfiro four times
within 24 hours, a Eugene, Or., houso
was totally destroyed by fire.
Senator Lnnc, of Oregon, says con
gress is grinding out too many laws
and thinks a pause is advisable.
lno uarranzn-villa mediation con
fcrenco adjourned after signing a pro
tocol covering all of its discussions.
Captain Bartlett, of the Karluk, de
nies he gave report of the loss of eight
men in the iStefansson Arctic expedi
tion.
Tho National Education association
went on record for equal pay for tench
ers of both sexes and endorsed woman
suffrage.
A nignt-Dioommg cereus plant in
Portland, opened a flower nine inches
in diameter between G and 9 o'clock in
the evening.
Tho administration is strongly op
posed in its first attempt to appoint
two members of the Federal Reserve
banking board.
Prisoners in the penitentiary at
Blackwell's Island. New York, mu
tinied in the tailor shop, setting a fire
and cutting a big power belt.
Chicago meat packers predict that
beef will have to be sold to the meat
markets at 16 cents, at an early date
on account of cattle shortage.
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, daughter
of Col. Roosevelt, sailed for home
from Southampton, England.
Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Stan
ford University, has been elected pres
ident of the National Education Asso
ciation, in session in St. Paul.
The constitutionalist forces in Mex
ico capture the City of 'Guadalajara,
the second largest city in Mexico,
after routing 12,000 federal soldiers.
Francis A. Ogden, a wealthy octo
genarian who died at Houston, Tex.
June b, lei t a. will in wnicn he pro
vides that his entire estate be devoted
to the education of country children,
especially children whose educationa
advantage are limited.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
"Wheat Track prices : New club.
7778c per bushel; new forty-fold
vowjyc: new Diuestem, ozc: new red
Russian, 76c; old club, 86c.
Millfeed Bran, $23 per ton; shorts,
26; middlings, $30.
Barley Feed, $2021 per ton
brewing, $21.5022; rolled, $23.50.
Hay Choice timothy, $1617 per
ton; mixed, timothy, $1215; valley
grain hay, $1012; alfalfa, $11.
Vegetables Cucumbers, 5090c per
dozen ;4eggplant, 15c per pound; pep
pers, 20c; radishes, 15 17Jc per
dozen; head lettuce, $1.75 per crate
artichokes, 85c per dozen; celery
$1.50; tomatoes, 75c per crate; spin
ach, 57c per pound; rhubarb, 2J3c
cabbage, lie; asparagus, $1 1.50
dozen; peas, 46c per pound; beans,
67c; corn, 3035c per dozen; tur
nips, new, $1.25 per sack; carrots,
$1.50; beets, $1.50.
Onions Red, $3.25 per sack; yel
low, $3.25; Walla Walla, $3.25.
Green Fruits Apples, old, $1.50
2 per box; new, $11.25; cherries, 3
8c per pound; apricots, $1.50 per box;
cantaloupes, $2 2.50 per crate;
peaches, 40c$l per box; plums, 75c
$1.25; watermelons, l 2c per
pound; loganberries, 7590c per crate.
Potatoes Oregon, new, 12ljc per
pound.
isggs Tesn uregon ranch, case
count, 24c per dozen; candled, 2526c.
Poultry Hens, 14c per pound;
springs, 1819c; turkeys, live, 20c;
dressed, choice, 25c; ducks, 1213c;
geese, 10c.
Butter Creamery prints, extra,
27Jc per pound; cubes, 2223c.
Pork Fancy, 1010Jc per pound.
Veal Fancy, 10llc per pound.
Hops 1913 crop, prime and choice,
1416Jc; 1914 contracts, 15c.
Wool Valley, 1820$c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 16 20c; mohair,
1914 clip, 27ic
Cattle Prime steers, $7 7.25;
choice, $6.757; medium, $6.500.75;
choico cows, $6.256.50; medium, $6
($6.25; heifers, $6.256.75; calves,
$68.50; bulls, $35; stags, $5
5.50.
Hogs Light, $7.25(28.20; heavy,
$6.257.25.
Sheep Wethers, $44,8C; owes,
$8.2G4.25; yearling lambs, $4,500
4.85; spring lambs, $5.500. J
Wilson Agrees to Modify
7 rust Legislation Program
Washington, D. C. Ropresonta
tives of "big business" had a long
conferonco with Prolsdont Wilson at
the White House Friday about tho nd
ministration's anti-trust program
Ton leading members of tho Chlncgo
Association of Commorco gavo Mr.
Wilson their ideas of proper trado
commission and railroad securities
bills and as a result tho bills passed by
the houso and now pending in tho son
ate may bo modified as to details.
As a direct result of tho discussion
tho Prcsidont tolegraphed to Ropreson
tativo Covington, of Maryland, who
framed tho houso trado commisison
bill, asking him to return to Washing
ton to confer with tho Chicago dolcga
tion.
Tho Chicago delegation advocated a
trado commission with broad powers
of investigation and authority to order
tho discontinuance of practices con
trary to law. They objected to mak'
ing all corporations return annual re
ports to tho commission, and thought
too many definitions of illegal prac
ticcs wore unnecessary.
President Wilson was particularly
pleased to hear that the delegation did
not object to tho projxsed commission
passage on questions of unfair compe
tition and practices.
The Chicngoans summarized tho
points for which they contended as
follow :
Tho Sherman law should be retained
and not changed. It should bo admin
istcred by a strong, busincss-liKc com
mission, which should act on its own
initiative, on the request of tho Presi
dent, tho department of Justico or on
complaint of aggrieved individuals.
An extensive system of definitions is
not practicable. Each caso should de
pend on its own circumstances. The
criterion is not whether competition
is to some extent reduced, but whether
the practice is fair or reasonable and
not against the public interest.
The commission should havo broad
powers of investigation and power to
determine and order the discontinuance
of'those practices foridden by tho law,
and such investigation should precede
action in the courts by tho attorney
general.
The commission should havo juris
diction over individuals as well as corporations.
The commission should have power
to award damages as reparation to in
jured parties.
With regard to the Clayton anti
trust bill, the association maintained
that section two, forbidding discrimin
ation in price between different pur
chasers, necessarily would make fixed
prices and destroy, rather than aid,
competition.
It held that section three, forbidding
refusal of owners of mines and others
to sell to any representative of a firm,
will be covered by the' Sherman law.
where such practices wero made con
trary to public benefit; that section
four, forbidding the disposition of
merchandise on condition that the pur
chaser shall not use or deal in mer
chandise of a competitor, can bo read
ily .reached by the Sherman law, and
that u applied literally, it would re
duce the incentive to capitalize good
will in American trado names.
Other sections the association
thought covered by the Sherman law
and section seven, exempting certain
organizations from the operation of
the act, it held to be "class discrim
ination."
School Superintendents Fix
Rules for Rural Districts
Salem Superintendent of Public
Instruction Churchill has announced
that tho county school superintendents,
who havo been in session here for more
than a week, had agreed upon a sot of
rules for tho standardization of tho
rural and village schools.
Oregon was ono of tho pioneer states
in starting tho work of standardizing
her schools. Already thoro aro such
schools in Coos, Polk, Marion, Linn,
Lane, Douglas, Jackson, Klnmath,
Umatilln and Yamhill.
Tho rules provide that a flag must
bo unfurled above school buildings
when tho weather ia propitious, school
buildings must bo well lighted, must
havo jacketed Btoves and propor ven
tilating systems at tho windows, tho
desks must bo properly adapted and
suitably placed; thoy must havo black
boards and window shaded In good con
ditlon. The schoolrooms must bo nt
tractive, tho irroumltt must bu clean
and tmiHt havo Decennary wulkn and at
least three features of piny apparatus.
Each room must have at least one
standard .picture framed. Tho li
brary must havo n caso for bookn and
volumes must bo catalogued. Tho
school miiHt bo supplied with pure
drinking water. Outbuildings tmiHt
bo in good repair and sanitary.
It is provided that tho teachers must
arrive at schools not later than 8 :!i0
o'clock. The teacher must mibcrlbo
for at leant ono educational paper.
Tho attendance inUBt bo of an average
of 92 per cont a year and must not ox
eved 2 per cont in tnrdlnosH. A term
of not less than eight months is provided.
Car Shortage Hoped to Be
Avoided by Commission
Salem Announcement has boon
mado by tho State Railroad commis
sion that it would in a fow days send
to shippers and railroad managements
rules and suggestions designed to min
imize tho threatened car shortago tho
coming fall. A similar sot of rules
and suggestions was issued by tho com
mission last year and, as a result, tho
crops wero handled more expeditiously
thnn in previous yenrs.
Because of the immense grain crop
in Eastern Oregon, tho increasing nc-
tivitiy in the lumber industry and tho
largo fruit yield, it is feared that tho
shortago this year will bo more seri
ous than usual, and tho commission
will do everything possible to increase
efllcioncy by urging teamwork among
shippors, consignees and railroads.
Tho shippers will bo urged to load
cars as rapidly as pons! bio to full ca
pacity, tho railroads to provido emp
ties and take away loaded cars without
delays and tho consignee will unload
cars with tho utmost dispatch.
xao ruics ana reinitnituim unginnicu
by tho Oregon commission last year
havo boon adopted by tho commissions
of sovcral states, notably Kansas,
which ia facing tho problem of ship'
ping ono of its largest crops of grain.
PEACE IN MEXICO
THOUGHT NEAR
General Ilucria to Resign
Part of Program.
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Arrangements Made tor an Honest
Election Dictator to Leave
Under Safe ICscort.
Hood River District Ships
65 Tons Choice Cherries
Hood River "Hood River has re
coived tho record price for its crop of
Royal Ann cherries this year," Baid
Wilmcr Sicg, Bales manager of tho
North Pacific Fruit Distributers, who
has just returned from Spokane, whero
ho has been attending a meeting of tho
board of trustees.
'Cherries form ono of tho most in
definite factors wc havo to deal with
in Northwestern fruit circles. Wo
Japan Is Wholly Neutral
With U. S. and Mexico
Washington, D. C. How Japan has
adhered to its declared intention of
maintaining neutrality in Mexican
troubles was described in a report re
ceived at the Navy department from
Captain Andrews, of the cruiser Mary
land, on the Pacific Coast.
"I am told by Captain Moryama, of
the Idzuma (Japanese) cruiser," said
the report, "that the Japanese mer
chant steamer Soiyo Maru, which
touched at Manzaniilo and Salina Cruz,
her regular ports of call, recently, did
not bring any arms or ammunition to
Mexico, because the Japanese govern
ment did not permit her to do bo.
Before tho departure of the Soiyo
Maru from her last Japanese port she
-was thoroughly searched by tho Jap
anese government to make sure that
she did not carry any arms and am
munition.
"I am further informed by tho cap
tain of the Idzuma that the Mitsui
company has or had a contract with
the Huerta government for arms and
ammunition, but that the Japanese
government would not permit delivery
at this time, out of friendship to the
United States. "
find that wo havo got from threo to
five times as many as wo had figured
on, and instead of a short crop wo aro
having an excess. Last year wo mar
keted from Hood River 50 tonB of
Royal Anns. This year the associa
tion shipped 65 tons.
"That there i'b good money in cher
ries -is shown by tho report of J. R.
Nunamaker, who has tho largest orch
ard in tho valley. Ho told me ho
would net $1300 from an aero and a
quarter of his Royal Anns.
"BingB, Lamberts and Black Repub
licans have been damaged in all sec
tions by weather conditions and rains.
The effect on the market has not yet
been determined, but the bad fruit
will havo a bad effect on the good
quality stuff."
air. &ieg says tnat excellent pros
i a. . a a
pects lor tne XNorinwestern apple crop
continue, provided there is the fullest
co-operation in marketing.
In protection to tho apple industry,
the independent shipper must cease to
being competitive and must realize the
necessity of affiliating with some re
sponsible marketing agency."
lhe strawberry season is nearly end
.1 mt a a
eu. me season nas been a long one
and a heavy crop has been harvested
in all sections. Hood River growers
have received a satisfactory return.
Polk Display Planned.
Rickreall Preparations are under
way in various sections of Polk county
for exhibits at the Panama-Pacific ex
position in 1915. Prune and hop sam
pies, grains, sheep, goats, hogs, cows
and poultry will be exhibited. Tho
fine flocks of sheep and goats of Wil
Hum Riddell & Sons, of Monmouth,
and F. A. Kozer, of Rickreall, aro to
be represented. This stock has won
in strong competition in tho North
west for many years.
Polk County Completes
Oiling All Main Roads
Dallas Oiling of all tho main
roads of Polk county was com
pleted last week. Tho road oiling be
gan when tho two and one-half milo
stretch out of Monmouth was oiled last
year.
Realizing tho valuo of thin work,
Vera Cruz Tho nwlgnntlon of Pro
visional President Huerta may lie
placed before congress within tho next
few dnyH, tho general departing Imme
diately thoroaftor for Puorta Mexico
or Vera Cruz, under British escort, ac
cording to reports in circulation hero,
which originated from a source that in
usually well informed.
Washington, D. C. Information
was received from Molxco City by
diplomats hero that General Huerta
would resign within two or three days
In favor of I ranciHco Carbajal, nowly
appointed minister of foreign affairs.
It wan learned that thu appoint
ment of Carbajal, In part of a general
program by which it In hoped to mako
peaco with tho constitutionalists, Tho
Huerta delegates to tho Niagara
conferonco aro understood to havo been
awaiting tills move for several days.
Carbajal has long been a mutnbor of
tho Supremo court of Mexico and My
31 last wan olected chief justice.
Realizing that tho constitutionalist
generals would disapprove tho plan for
peaco conferences with representatives
of General Huerta an proposed by tho
mediators, because thoy do not wish to
havo dealing" in any form with
Huerta, tho suggestion wan mado to
tho Huerta group that another man
bo placed In power with whom tho
constitutionalists might feel dtsjwsed
to treat.
It In believed hero that Carbajal
will endeavor to arrange terms of
peaco whichjwlll bo virtually terms of
surrender.
tho County court offered to put up dol- T)i. r c:. r
lar for dollar with any dub, individual "lame for Sinking of Em
or community to oil tho roads of this
county.
Tho Dallas Commercial club took up
tho proposal and raised money to oil
six milcB cast on tho Salem road.
Indcpcr.dcnco oiled six miles north to
tho point whero the road meets tho
Salem-Dallas road. A committee of
tho Independence club mot a commit
tee from tho Salem club and mado ar
rangementa to oil tho romalning,jjx
miles to Salem. Sinco that timotho
main roads out of Dallas and Falls
City havo been oiled, tho roads from
Monmouth north and south havo all
been oiled.
rrt a a a , i a .
i no on manes mem as level as a
water-bound macadam.
Fifteen Hurt by Collision.
rarlbauit, Mlnn.i'llteen persons
were injured, several probably fatally,
when a freightt rain crashed into a
suburban car near hero lato Thursday.
Women and men in the forward end of
theZcar wero jammed and cut with
broken glass and wooden splinters.
Ono woman had both eyes put out by
glass. Tho motorman of tho car did
not hco tho on-coming freight until too
uto to avert tho collision,
Compensation Plea Filed.
Salem Retail meat, poultry fish
markets and grocery stores do not
como under tho Workmen's Compensa
tion act, according to an announce
ment to the State Industrial Accident
commission. Thu commission said tho
businesses were not of a hazardous na
ture. C. W. Pcttijuhn, of Lowell,
who wbb seriously injured whilo oper
ating a donkey engine, filed an appli
cation for compensation. He is cm-
ployed by Wilbur Hyland.
Railroad Work Pushed.
Crescent City -Work on tho Califor
nia-Oregon Coast railroad, la progress
ing rapidly. Tho pile driver has again
been shifted and is driving plies for
the Applcgato structure. It Is ex
pected that boforo track laying in thin
section in completed, arrangements
will havo boon made to complete con
struction to CrcHcent City,
Silocrton Wins Its Suit.
Salem Declaring that no evidenco
tending to provo that the emptying of
sowago into Silver Creek at Sllvertoit
had constituted a nuisance had been
introduced nt tho trial, tho Supremo
court reversed tho judgment of tho
Marion County court in tho suit of
the State Board of Health against Sil
. . mm
venon. circuit juugo uaiioway en
joined tho city from emptying scwago
into the creek and tho Supremo court
now dissolves tho injunction.
r .a m .
v armors living uciow tho city com
plained that tho creek water was con
taminatcd. Tho opinion says thoro
was no issue raised that privato prop
erty was taken, health menaced, or
that tho stream was rendered foul-
Bmelling. Attorney Grant Corby. rep
resenting Silverton, contended that tho
existence of a nuisance must bo proved.
Express Company Liable.
Salem W. S. Foster, local manntrcr
oi the ureat Northern express enm.
pany, has been notified by Sheriff Esch
that the company had been indicted for
shipping liquor into dry territory with
out having it properly labeled. Tho
liquor was consigned to J. A. Bcnia
min, of this city, having boon shipped
Dy mo uoso uity import nir comnanv.
or Portland. Tho police declared tho
package was not labeled as intox
icating liquor, and Governor West
natructed District Attorney Riwro to
start prosecution. It was later learned
that tho Portland company had labeled
tho package as required by law, but
tho express company had covered the
abel with ono of Its own.
Hop Crop Is Promising.
Independence Tho hot wcathnr nf
tho Inst few weeks has kent tho linns
free from vermin in this district. Tho
growers aro going ahead and preparing
wj spray moir nops jtiBt tho samo, Tho
vines aro showing a irood trrowth and
aro In first-class condition and a good
crop is looked for from thin part of tho
vauoy. a few yards aro a tt o snot.
ted, Int thin la duo somewhat tn a
slow growth of Homo of tho vlnoH,
IT an m
press or lrciana riacca
Quebec Alfred TuftcncH, third ofll
cer of the Danish collier Storstad, wan
held by tho Wreck commission to bo
directly to blamo for tho collision with
tho LmprcMH of Ireland in tho St Law
rence river that caused tho loss of
moro than 1000 liven.
Tho commission flnda tho young
mate wan "wrong and negligent in
keeping tho navigation of tho vessel
in his own hands and failing to call
tho captain when he saw the fog com
ing on."
Tho report nys tho disaster wan not
due to any special characteristics of
tho St. Lawrence. It was a disaster
which might havo occurred in any
river in similar circumstances. It in
held that tho dominant cause of tho
collision waa tho Storstad's change of
course, which tho third officer ordered
without consulting his superior, tho
first officer, who waa in chargo of tho
ship at tho time.
Tho report notes a radical conflict in
tho testimony of officers of tho Em
press and of the Storstad.
"Witnesses from tho Storstad."
reads tho report, "say thoy were ap
proaching so ns to pass red to red.
while Ihoso from tho Empress nay thoy
wero approaching ho hb to pass green
to green. Tho BtoricB aro aro irre
concilable. Wo havo, therefore,
thought It advisable to found our con
clusions almost entirely on tho oventa
spoken of by tho witnesses and on
their probablo sequence in order to ar-
rivo at n solution of tho difficulty,"
Women Are Told "Baby
Crop" Should Come First
Washington, D. C, -Declarimr that
"tho American baby crop" Is tho moBt
important product of this country nnd
that tho work incident thereto is a
big job, Miss Mnrjorio Dorman. Becre-
tary of tho Wago Earnora' Antl
Buffrago league, Issued a statement
that possession of tho ballot will In-
juro rather than benefit working women.
Since, according to tho last census.
only 19.5 per cent of tho women of
this country aro unmarried," declared
Miss Dorman, "it is only natural to
Bupposo that tho great majority of
women aro concentrating and npecial
Izing on tho baby crop.
iils is tho most direct influonco n
woman can bring to bear unon the
state"
Train Kills Six Picnickers.
Rochester, N. Y, Six persons ro.
turning from a Sunday hcIiooI picnic
wero killed when tho buckboard wairon
a good on which thoy wero riding was hit by a
iroigm train, Tho party of 10 wan
Inglng "Nearer, My God to Thco" as
their wagon rumbled down tho road
toward
fmi iifinlfu urift fink .istl.i.i...
Walker BrothorH recently sold 80 ImlcH drowned out tho iioIho of tho train.
ji uioir iuj hops ror 10 cento. Thla Tho doad.all wero botwoon 14 and 18
a tho only milo recorded hero of lato, yearn of ago,