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PRAY: CO ihed every Wednesday by W. R. BURNER Editor and Proprietor -. THE COUREEX -la devoted to the beet Interest of SPRAY and WHEELER COUNTY. The liberal patron. as of thecltlieneof this aes tion la respectfully "'itri. Subscription Ratea Per rear . ..$1.60 Per six monthe.,. . . . Per three) month. . . 1.00 VOL. XI. SPRAY, OKEGOiN", .WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1012. NO. 51. URIEE. CURRENT EVENTS - OF THE WEEK Doings of tho World at Large ' Told in Briet General Resume of Important Event! Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Reader. . The war in the Balkans iejexpected to be of short duration. Roosevelt says he hopes the presi i dential fight will go right on. The bail of Schrank, Roosevelt's would-be assassin, has been doubled, making it $15,000. . , , i Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, is dead x as the reBult of persistent overwork . while In failing health. ', : Colonel Roosevelt continues to im- , prove, the only danger being the pos sibility of blood poisoning, j . Mexico is concentrating her entire ' military forces in an effort to put .down the new revolution of Helix Diax. Guards shot and killed two Greek , strikers at McGill, Nevada, who had ' attacked non-union men on their way to work. -. ' It is believed that nearly all the blame for the Ironworkers' dynamit ing plots will be placed on the Me Namaras and McManigal. ' - - A German railway manager has dis appeared with about $100,000 in his -'possession, and defalcations in his ac counts of over $5,000,000. The only passenger ' boat at Vera Cruz, Mexico, is kept in readiness to take away non-combatants in case of a battle between rebels and government forces. j An Italian at Wilmington, Del., threatened to shoot Wilson if he at tempted to speak in that city. Many extra guards were placed at the hall but no trouble was experienced. A girl who was badly burned was .saved by grafting of skin from the in jured leg of a newsboy, which was af terward amputated, and the girl is re covering far more rapidly than the boy."; The University of Oregon at Eugene has a "freshman" 85 years old, who is the father of two children, and who enters into the spirit of college life with as much energy, as any of the other "boys". Chicago dancing masters have de cided to abolish all rag-time dances. Mexican rebels held np a railway train and kidnaped a rich Kl raso eipok broker. ' An ensign stepped overboard from a launch during the New York naval review and was drowned. PORTLAND MARKETS "' Wheat Track prices: Club, 80c; bluestem. 83c: forty-fold, 80c; red Russian, 78c; valley, 81c Barley Feed, $2424.60 ton; brewing, $26.6027.5O; rolled, $26 27.50. Corn Whole, $38; cracked, $39 ton Hay Timothy, ' choice, $1718; No. 1, $16; oat and vetch, $12; alfal fa, $12; clover, .$10; straw, $67. Oats White, $24. 5025 ton; gray, feed, $24; gray milling, $25.50. Fresh Fruits Apples, ordinary, 50c $.B0 box ; ., peaches, 25oi65c box; pears; $1.251.60 box; grapes, 60c $1 per box. . . i Onions Oregon, $1 per sack. . Potatoes Jobbing prices : Bur- banks, 75c per hundred; sweet pota toes, ljr32c per pound. . Vegetables Artichokes, 7686c per dozen ; beans, 5c pound ; cabbage, lCrijllc; cauliflower, 26(zS75c dozen; celery, 25275c; corn, 60c$I sack; cucumbers, 50c box ; bead lettuce, 20 26e dozen; peppers, 68e pound, Eggs Fresh . locals, candled, 40c dozen; case count, 3536c. - Butter Oregon, creamery, . butter, cubes, 36Jc pound; prints. 36J37c Pork Fancy, 11c pound. ; Veal Fancy. 13gl3ie pound. Poultry Hens, 12Jc; broilers, 121c; ducks, young, 121S)13g; geese, 11c; turkeys, live, 18(g,22c; dressed, 25c Hops 1912 crop, prime and choice, 18f20ie pound. ..Wool Eastern Oregon, 14018c pound; valley, 21i22Jc; mohair, choice,- 82c . : ' Cattle Choice steers, $6.75(3)7; good, $6.25(56.65; medium, $6(3:6.25; choice cows, $6(8)6.50; good, $5.60(8! 5.75; medium, $51,5.25; choice cal ves, $7(i8.75; good heavy calves, $6.25(5.7; bulls, $25; stags. $4.75 (go. 25. Hogs Light, $8.253.75; heavy, $707.60. - Sheep -r- Yearlings, $4.254.85; wethers. $3.60(34.60; ewes, $2.754; lambs, $S.855.75. ITALY GETS EVERYTHING. Turk Yield All Points Other . blet Pressing. Trou1 Ouchy, Switzerland After months of diplomatic strife for better terms, Turkey surrendered and the Ottoman and Italian plenipotentiaries signed the protocol of a peace treaty which ends the war between Italy and Tur key, and. incidentally, relieves the Ottoman empire of a crushing handi- cap in the forthcoming struggle In the Balkans. The precise terms will not be avail able nntil a definitive treaty is signed. Their tenor, however, is well known. The treaty will provide for absolute sovereignity of Italy in Lybia, with out formal recognition there of Italy by Turkey, and free exercise of relig ious authority by the Khalif; Turkey to withdraw her regular troops from Lybia; Italy to pay an indemnity equivalent to Lybia's contributions to the Ottoman treasury; restitution of the captured islands to Turkey with guarantees for the Christian people; no indemnity payable by eitner siae toward the cost of the war, and re-es tablishment of former diplomatic and commercial relations. During the past week there has been doubt as to whether the war, which lasted for more than a year, would be brought to an end. . Italy'B time limit for the conclusion of peace expired on October 12, but on that day she granted three days' grace 'to Tur key to decide whether it should be peace or a continuance of the war. CHINESE GUNS DO HAVOC. Americanized" Oriental Freed After 10-Year Sentence Starts Duel. New York La Way, an "Ameri canized" Chinese of the Hip Sing tong, who returned from Sing sing to Chinatown only a day or two ago after serving a 10-year sentence for a Chinatown killing, stepped out of the doorway of 13 Pell street and opened fire upon an On Leong tong Chinaman who had just come out of zs fell street to the west. Within the next few moments one Chinaman not connected with any tong was shot dead as he looked into the street from the high balcony of the Chinese Delmonico restaurant at 24 Pell street, across ' the street from the gunman; a Chinese laundryman lay dead between the two gunfighters that started the row ; an unidentified Italian, supposed to be a barber, stag gered out of Pell street and dropped dead in the Bowery, shot through the heart; a Russian Jew locksmith stum bled westward through Pell street and dropped dead at Pell and Mott streets with a bullet in his head; a Jersey City freight conductor lay critically injured in Pell street with a bullet in his left side; a stableman lay in the office of a livery stable in Mott street in a line with Pell street, shot in the foot, and still another locksmith lay at Pell street and the Bowery uncon scious and bleeding from a scalp wound where a bullet had torn his head. The initial duel had touched off a tong war that sent bullets singing east and weat in Pell street as China men popped in and out of their war rens to bang at an enemy. The shots from policemen's revolvers added to the uproar of shots. v SERIOUS INJURY ESCAPED. Colonel Not Scarred By Previous Brushes With Fate. Washington, D. C Probably the most serious accident in which Colonel Roosevelt figured was in 1902, when his carriage was struck by a trolley ear near Pittsfield, Mass., and a secret service man was Killed. loionei Roosevelt was thrown heavily to the ground. In October, 1905, toe colonel was journeying down the Mississippi river on the lighthouse tender magnoli when the vessel was run down by the steamer Esporta near New Orleans and several great holes cut in ber bull, Only last summer the train on which Mr. Roosevelt was going to Chicago ran into a boulder that had rolled onto the track. Send Ransom to Rebels. El Paso Twelve hundred and fifty dollars in coin was sent by special train from Pearson, Mexico, to San Pedro, near where John T. Cameron is held for ransom by Inez Salazar, the rebel general. The rebels came down from their original demand for $15,000. E. G. Polly, his business associate, is a prisoner with Cameron. Nothing has been heard from Arthur McCormick, foreivan of" the Palomas ranch, also held captive. China to Join in Exposition. San Francisco From the State de partment at Washington comes1 word that China has accepted an invitation to participate in toe Panama-Pacific International exposition, making the 19th foreign nation thus far to accept. Civil Service Extended. New York President Taft on board the yacht Mayflower, signed an exec utive order putting 85,000 fourtfa clasa postmasters in the classified service. 1 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE WEST WOULD CUT COST. Change to Be Urged In Transports- tlon of Convict. Salem The system of transporta tion of convicts from the place of con viction to the state penitentiary will be materially changed at what prom ises to be a great saving, according to plans which Governor West is making for a recommendation, to be incorpor ated In his message to, the next legis lature, and founded on the results which have been secured in the change made in transportation of pa tients to the state insane asylum. Under the old law patients were transported to the asylum under the care of a sheriff or his deputy. Now an attendant is sent from the asylum to bring in the patient. Under the old law covering trans portation for asylum patients to that institution from the place of commit ment, the records show that for the 22 months between January, 1908, and October, 1904, the average cost for transportation of the insane under the old law was $64.51 per patient. Under the new law the average cost is shown to be $36.17, or almost half the cost that was charged under the old law. With the transportation of several hundred patients annually it amounts into a handsome saving. During 1911 it cost the state a total of $10,844 to transport patients from the place of conviction to the prison. Of this amount $672 was for expenses incidental to transportation of pa tients and officers. The per diem of sheriffs and guards amounted to ap proximately $2200. On tue ratio of the saving on transportation of insane, a saving of practically 50 per cent, or about $5000 annually, would be made in transporting prisoners. -. 8TRAWBERRY CROP GOOD. Tollman Farmer Produces Second : Growth of Fine Fruit. Albany A unique plan to produce two crops of strawberries on his vines each year has been developed by M. f, Briggs, a farmer residing near Tall man. Mr. Briggs has a quarter erf a acre in strawberries, and picked an un usually large crop last June. He then mowed down . the vines, covered the natch with straw and set it on fire. The vines were burned off so that the field was entirely bare. New vines came up soon and rapidly blossomed out, and Mr. Briggs is now picking his second crop, which Is two- thirds as large as his big crop in June. In many strawberry gardens near this city and in some of the big mar ket gardens along the santiam river at Lebanon second crops of strawber ries were picked this year. This con dition was largely due to the unusual rains in August and September, and many growers are planning to make arrangements to irrigate their gardens for a second crop next summer. POTATOES ARE FOOT LONG. Record Spuds for JSize and Number Found at Hood River. Hood River The record for potato production in Hood River valley is just reported by J. R. Steele. Last May he planted an acre that had been in alfalfa for ten years to Early Rose and Garfield varieties. They were irrigated twice. Last week he started to dig them and found that the hills had run together so that each row was one continuous line of solid spuds. Many of the plants had enough on them to fill a five-gallon oil can. Most of the spuds are a foot long and some weigh four pounds each. The acre yielded 700 sacks, or 1400 bushels. Mr. Steele also raised a cabbage this summer weigh ing .28 pounds. Hood River Gets Fish. Hood River A great deal of 'activi ty in stocking the streams of Hood River valley with game fish has been noted this summer, and further work is to be done. So far about 250,000 trout have been planted in the various streams, and another carload was dis tributed last week. Everybody helps in the work. Ranchers have left their work to haul cans of fish ten miles back to the headwaters, and two wag ons made the trip to Lost lake. The state game and fish commission has appropriated $500 to place a fish lad der at the Devil's Punch Bowl, and the work will be done, this fail. Mb Angel Geta Crusher. Mount Angel-r-At a eost of almost $2000 the Marion county court has in stalled a new rock-ernshing plant at Mount Angel. This plant, which is operated by a dynamo, the power be ing secured from silverton, take the place of the steam crusher. At the nominal expense of about $1.50 daily its crushing capacity is about 160 yards a day, almost double the amount turned out by the steam plant THREE FAMILIES BIG AID. Management of Wallowa County Fair Grateful to 24 Boy. Enterprise "The County Fair would not be much of a success, so far as the amusement program is con cerned, if it were not for the Tippett, McFetridge and Warnock boys." This-- remark, made by one of the officers of the Wallowa County Agri cultural Fair association at the close of the recent exhibition here, has led to an interesting confirmation. In the three families there are 24 boys. They were to the front in nearly every contest put on by the fair. Whenever an added number was desired, all the management had to do was to appeal to these boys, and almost any kind of an exciting contest could be arranged. S. T. Tippett has nine sons, each of whom is fully able to take care of himfelf in any event pertaining to horsemanship. The sons are William, ,", J. H., G. W., 1 C. C, Koy K., Chris, Teddy and Lawrence, or Buster. John C. McFetridge furnishes seven husky young men William, Millard, Fred, Alvin, Elmer, John and Chester. William Warnock's five sons are Elmer, Perry, Earl, Jesse and Vernon. Di.niel W. Warnock has three sons Charles, William and Daniel. In the first day's amusement pro gram, the three groups of boys came to the front In the slow mule race, Elm' r Warnock, John McFetridge and Charles Tippett being the contestants, whHe S. T. Tippett, the father, could not keep out of the contest himself, but furnished one of the mules. El mer "Warnock and J. H. Tippett were on deck for the next event, the tbree- mile mule relay. Tippett and Warnock furnished one string of horses for the great 15-mile relay. - Lola Warnock was a contes tant in the girls' race, showing the boys were not the only members of the family who could ride horses.. In the saddle-horse contest, S. T. Tippett and J. H; Tippett provided the win ning horses. - Dan Warnock's horse wae jecondJa the quarter-mile dash. Jack Tippett beat his brother, J. H in the packing contest. On the third day, Alvin McFetridge appeared in the chariot race. Dan Warnock s horse was second in a quarter-mile dash. S. T. Tippett fur nished the horse that came in second in the boys' race. On Friday, Elmer McFetridge cap tured the cowboy race, defeating Charis, Guy and J. H. Tippett John McFetridge distinguished himself by riding Hot Foot, the famous Union county outlaw. Saturday brought out J. H. Tippett as winner of the cowboy race, with John McFetridge contes tant. ' ' In addition, the three families were well represented in the exhibits, and won a fine lot of prizes. . POMONA RESCINDS ACT. State Printer Flat Salary Measure In dorsement Taken Back. Salem Unanimously indorsing the recent action of Salem Grange and repudiating the initiative measure providing a flat salary for the state printer, Marion County Pomona Grange, representing the eight grang es of the county, passed a resolution expressing its sentiments as to the proposed bill. The resolution which was adopted by the Marion County Pomona Grange follows: Resolved, .That Marion County Po mona Grange rescind its action of June 12, 1912, in indorsing the alleged flat salary measure and after consider ing the authorities cited and consulted commend and indorse the report of Sa lem grange No. 17 in the flat salary in itiative measure and senate bill No. 75. Mrs. Zella S. Fletcher, secretary. Senate bill No. 75 is the flat-salary law as passed by the legislature of 1911 to become effective January 1, 1915. The flat-salary initiative meas ure, which comes before the people in November, would make senate bill No. 75 effective December 1 this year. New Railroad Incorporate. Salem Article of incorporation have been filed by the Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway company, with a capitalization of $1,000,000. The ar ticles show that the road contemplates building from the mouth of the Ump qua river following along Smith and Siuslaw rivers to Cottage Grove, and then following Row river and Cham pion creek to the Champion quartz mill. Trespass Notice Invalid. Salem That it is not criminal tres pass to hunt upon uninclosed or unim proved lands, even though trespass notices are posted, was tbe substance of an opinion by the attorney general. Tbe statute provides that criminal trespass ssi7 bold on inclosed or im proved lands. ROOSEVELT RESTS EASY; CONDITION SATISFACTORY Chicago, Oct. 16. Colonel Roose velt awoke soon after 2 o'clck this morning and his clinical record was taken. His pulse had fallen to 80 and was not far above normal. His tern' perature remained stationary at 98.8 and his respiration was 18. He felt wakeful and switched on his night light and began to read. Chicago, Oct 15. Colonel Roose velt, shot last night by a crank in Mil waukee, was resting easy tonight and his physicians said, after a day of nervous strain, that they were pleased by bis condition. . The clinical record showed, how ever, that his condition was hardly as favorable as when he entered the hos pital early in the morning. His pulse at 10 o'clock was 86, or 14 counts above normal, and two counts above the record two hours after he was shot His temperature was 99.2, or three- fifths of a degree above normal. It was believed the night would indicate whether the wound would heal nor mally. Tetanus anti-toxin was injected into the Colonel's abdomen a short time before he went to sleep. A rise in temperature followed, together with slight local irritation. Otherwise the patient exhibited no symptoms from the anti-toxin, although tho surgeons were prepared for the slight nausea and dizziness that sometimes follow the treatment The six-tenths of a degree of temperature, it is said. were not caused by the condition of the wound, as up to the time of the injection the patient's temperature virtually was normal. The increase in the rate of bis pulse is not account ed for. TAFT REVIEWS BIG FLEET. 123 War Venal Pan Majestically Before Preaident. New York The ..Atlantic fleet steamed out to sea Tuesday afternoon, From the super-dreadnaughts Arkan sas and Wyoming, to the tiniest sub marine, the 12 war vessels passed In review before President Taft The column wasllS miles long and was nearly two hours in passing. secretary of the Navy Meyer stood with the president on the bridge of the president s yacht Mayflower, while the long line moved paBt Flying the flag of Rear Admiral Ob terhaus, the fleet - commander, the Connecticut led the way, with the Ar kansas following. When abreast the Mayflower the Connecticut fired a six- pounder. It was tbe hrst gun ol the long presidential salute. Tens of thousands of persons black ened the shore line of the Hudson aB the fleet steamed out. Another army viewed the pageant from downtown skyscrapers. Other thousands were aboard a fleet of excursion steamers. One accident marked the review, when the torpedo boat Craven bumped against a lighter. Examination proved that she had been damaged only slightly. ROBBER8J"SHOOT UP" CAR. Attempted Hold Up In Busy Part of City Fail. Portland Two men were shot, two slightly injured in a scuffle and one woman was badly bruised and shocked Tuesday night when two masked men held up a South Portland streetcar go ing south at Third and Hall streets. Both robbers escaped from the car and were chased into the hills in the vicinity, but one was later caught downtown and confessed to a part of the crime. A second is also held as an accomplice. The holdup occurred within two blocks of the brilliantly lighted South Portland Ghetto and part of the affair was enacted on the South Portland bridge, under the glare of high-power advertising and street lights. T. R.'s Guide Found Dead. Cebolla, Colo. The body of How ard Carpenter, Colonel Roosevelt' guide to the Gunnison country a few years ago, was reported found at the headwaters of Elk creek, 70 mile west of Gunnison, after a search for him of two weeks. The flesh virtu ally was stripped from the bones. It is believed he had been attacked by a wounded bear and dragged into tbe thicket in - which his body was found. Strikebreakers Travel Under Guard Denver Guard prevented a party of Western Federation of Miners member from entering ear on which strikebreakers from the East were brought through Denver headed for Bmgbam, Utah. Union Pacific train No. 103 was delayed 20 minute because of the incident ASSASSIN FIRES AT ROOSEVET Bullet Penetrates Clothing and Makes Flesh Wound. Colonel Proceeds to Hall and Make Brief Address, Then Retire i . to Private Car, : ;.. Milwaukee, Wis. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was shot in tbe abdominal region shortly before 8 o'clock Monday night while sitting In his automobile in front of the Gilpatrlck House in Milwaukee, about to start for the au ditorium to deliver his acheduled ad dress. According to latest accounts the bullet is imbedded In the muscular tissue and the wound la not serious. The attempted assassination and all its accompanying scenes were dra matic in the extreme. The would-be murderer was John Shrank, of New York city, a man apparently demented on the subject of the third term. He was captured and locked up. Unconscious of his wound, Colonel Roosevelt proceeded to the auditor ium, and when his condition was dis covered, in spite of the protest ef his physician, he made a stirring address on the subject of his attempted mur der. Weakened from Iobs of blood and at the conclusion of bis Bpeech he was taken to the Emergency hospital, where, after an examination by phy sicians, the nature of his wound was ascertained. It was not considered ' serious enough to compel a stay in Milwaukee, and at 12 !50 a. m. he was taken aboard his special train on a slow run to Chicago. The colonel announced that he would spend the night on the train and after a few hours here would go on to Indianapolis to fulfill bis engagement ' there. ' : Chicago Colonel Roosevelt arrived in Chicago at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday moming. The colonel was said to be resting easy. He had experienced no discomfort during the trip from Mil- ' waukee. Ha had slept all the way. His temperature was norma) and his pulse 84. That the wound was not more ser ious was due to the fact that the bul let was spent from passing through the colonel's army overcoat, spectacle case and the manuscript of hi con- . templated speech. f Henry F. Cochems seized the as sassin and held him until policemen came up. A mob surged around the man, who apparently Tb a radical on the subject of Roosevelt's running for r another term for president The assassin, who is small of sta ture, admitted firing the shot and said that "any man looking for a ttiird term ought to be shot" " In notes found in the man's pockets at the police station were statements that the man had been visited in a dream by the spirit of William Mc Kinley, who he said, indicating Roose velt, "This is my murderer; avenge my death." The colonel felt no pain at the time the shot was fired and was not aware that he was shot until he was on bis way ty the auditorium. His attention was then called to the hole In his overcoat, and he found that be was not badly hurt A superficial exam ination of the wound was made when he reached the auditorium, and three physicians agreed he was in no imme diate danger. Colonel Roosevelt s life was probably saved by the manuscript of his speech which be made. The bullet struck the manuscript, which retarded its force as it passed through into the flesh. The assassin was prevented from firing a second shot by Albert H. Mar tin, one of Colonel Roosevelt's two sec retaries. Colonel Roosevelt had just stepped into an automobile when the assassin pushed bis way through the crowd to the street and fired. Mar tin, who was standing in the car with the colonel, leaped to the man's shoulders and bore him to the ground. A wild cry of "lynch him" went up from the crowd. Colonel Roosevelt spoke to tbe people and told them to spare the would-be assassin. In spite of the entreaties of physi cians, Colonel Roosevelt insisted upon delivering his address. . I will make this speech or die. one or the other." New Alfalfa I Solution. Washington,' D. C Secretary Wil son expressed belief that the agricul tural problem In the arid lands of the West had been solved by the alfalfa brought from Siberia. "Draw aline from the northern boundary of North Dakota down to tbe Gulf of Mexico," said Mr. Wilson. "That's arid land. Up in Siberia they are getting alfalfa and that hardy product w will put In to tbe arid section. It will be the sal vation of the arid country."