CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Urge
Told in Brief.
Uanaral Resume of Important Evant*
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Hot weather is sending wheat prices
up.
President Dial., of Mexico, advise*
Taft to modify bi* Nicaraguan policy.
An aviator in a Wright biplane
reached a bright of 6,175 feet at At
lantic City, N. J.
A lairglar serving three and a half
years in San Quentin, boasts that he
ha. SIH.lHHl cached in the hills.
At the international aviation meet
just closed at Rheims, France, the
monoplane* proved to be the beat a II-
around machines.
Vital statistics of Kansas show a
large decrease in the birth rate, and
the cause is »aid to be the great in
terest in autoing.
Sunday, July 10, was the hot teat
day of the season.
Temperature at
Dayton, ‘Wash., was 104; Roseburg,
Or., 98; Portland, Or., 97.
A fireman was knock«! from the cab
of a North Bank engine at Cascade and
instantly killed, and his absence was
not discovered until the train had gone
seven miles and the steam began to run
low.
Th--
| and fireman of a St.
Ixiuia passenger train prevented a rob
bery by slipping away from the robber*
in the darkness am! dashing to th.' en
gine, where they jumped alsiard and
got the train under way before the
robbers realised that they were being
tricked.
Count Apponyi, a leading Hungarian
politician, has warm praise for Roose
velt.
The first death from bubonic plague
in three year* has occurred in Hon
olulu.
President Taft has withdrawn 35,-
073,164 acres of coal land in North and
South Dakota.
A receiver has been named for the
Boston Herald, which is bankrupt with
*2,200,000 indebt«incaa.
A new opera by Wagner, son of the
famous composer, nearly caused a riot
at its first production in Berlin.
Experts say that oiling of roads and
streets goes a long ways toward ex
terminating flies ami m<*M,uilo«-s.
A Chico, Cal., man has twice at
tempt«! suicide on account of disap
pointment at the defeat of Jeffries.
San Diego Cal., would elect A. G.
Spalding, veteran sport ami sporting
goo.la manufacture, for U. S. senator.g
A select commission from parlia
ment has recommended a raiae of 9<>5,-
000 per year in the salary of King
George.
Without warning or explanation the
Western Union cut off its bucket shop
brokerage wirea in ten of the large cit
ies of the East.
SAYS T. R. DOES NOT KNOW
Wife ot Ruler of Baroda Condemns
Guildhall Talk.
RECOGNITION FOR
NICARAGUANS
New York The Guildhall speech of
Theodore Roosevelt. in which he gave
Great Britain advice on how to run her
colonies, echoed across the seas to In
dia ami found one of its many aneweer
from the lips of the Maharanee of Ba
roda, who with her husband, the Goek-
war. in now in New York on a trip
around the world.
"I don’t like the speech of youreold- Practically Takes Opposite
Stand
ier, Roosevelt," said the Maharanee.
From United Stat*» Some
"in which he told the English h«w to
thing Back of Movement.
rule my people and the Egyptians.
He has never I
What can he know?
He should not
been In my country.
Washington Germany has formally
•peak of thing* of which he knows
put the stamp of her approval on the
nothing.
"One cannot learn the heart of a Madrix government in Nicaragua.
This information reach«! Washing
people in a year, or in 100 years, and
ton
through confidential channels out
my people do not show their hearts
side the State department on the heel«
easily."
The Maharanee is well cducat«! and of the announcement of a recent en
speaks several language, in which her gagement at Pearl lagoon, in which the
Estrada forces, aided by a force of
husband shares in iimits.
" Woman's influence," he said, "is American planters, inflict«! a serious
most potent, and I want the women of defeat on the Madrix navy and disabled
the guntoat San Jacinto.
my country to think for themselves."
Germany'*
action was taken In
That is as far aa the Gaekwar will
go. "Suffragwttea?” he ask«!. "Are April, before the recent series of Es
trada victories.
there really such things?
I thought
No other European government, so
they were fatiuloua, like the unicorn
No, they would not be popular in my far as available information shows, has
adopted a similar attitude. With th«'
country."
His wife thinks that Amerian wo ex- ■ ption of Germany, they have con
tent«! theroaclvcs with retaining, with
men are Ix-autiful. perhaps.
"But their style*," she add«!, "are the Madrix government, the relations
not for our country.
Our standard of which had existed with that of Zelaya,
beauty is simple grace the natural the predecessor of Madrix. and have
•ha|ie of the head, the natural grace of taken no particular notice of the strug
gle which haa been devastating Nic
the figure. That is all.”
aragua.
Germany, however, has made a defi-
EX-SLAVE WANTS VOTE.
i nite though confidential announcement
of her sympathy with the Madrix fac
Aged Negro Secure* Ir.junction on tion. Thi* declaration was contained
"Grandfather Clsuse.”
in a letter from Emperor William of
Germany
to Madrix, written on April
Guthrie, Okla. On application of
Following i* a
Daniel Sim*, an ex slave and property 26 from Strasburg.
owner of this city, Federal Judge John translation of the document:
"Wilhelm, by the grace of God, em
II. Cotterail issued a temporary in
junction restraining the alate election peror of Germany and king of Prussia,
board, the state board of affair* and to the president of Nicaragua :
"Great and Good Friend: I am in
the secretary of state from having
print«! the propos«! "grandfather form«! by your letter of the 27th of
clause" amendment to the «institution Decern tier of the year ('«st. that your
on the ballot for the state primary excellency waa elected president of the
republic by the merited confidence of
election on August 2.
In his petition Sim* seta up that the your fellow eitiaene and that your ex-
propos«! amendment would disfran cellency entered ujxm your most honor-
chise him, mi he is unable to read or able duties on the 21st of said month.
"1 beg you t«i accept, Mr. Presi-
w rite, and that it discriminates against
him because of previous conditions of dent, my congrstultaions on this event
servitude.
It is also alleged that a ■ad ba IMOiad alio that my govern
pro|«rtKx! amendment to the constitu ment will endeavor bi maintain and cul
tion must lie voted on st a regular tivate the best relations which hsfipily
election and not a primary, to be legal. already exist between the German Ea»-
pire and the
Republic
of * "
Nicaragua.
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"Extending to you thanks for your
BOMBS WRECK BRIDGE.
benevolent desires, I assure you of my
best wishes for your personal welcome
Lehigh Valley R. R. Trestle Blown ami for that of the Republic of Nica
Up by Dynamite.
ragua, and for both my greatest re
WILHELM II."
New York Dynamite bombs placed spect.
The significance of the |ieraonai lat
under the new trestle being built by
the I.ehigh Valley railroad along Hu ter from the cmjwror of Germany to
bay shore of Jersey City badly damag Madrix. in the opinion of th.«- who
ed the steel structure ami smashed are acquiainted with its cl is terne, is
windows for half a mile around in the considerably increased by informa
Greenville section. Two 60-foot iron tion, which was |M-rmitUd to emanate
girders were wrenched loose at the from the Slate department.
Thia Was to the effect that the de-
first explosion, one of them being driv- I
en through a steel car of the New Jer- partment has received a communica
S«-y Central near the trestle.
For 40 tion which stated that the Madrix fac
feet on either aid* of the point of de tion hail offered a Nicaraguan island aa
tonation the cement foundation of the a coaling station to a European power
structure were shattered
A second in return for intervention in behalf uf
explosion 45 minutes later toasrd up the Madrix government.
two more girder*, and even a greater
amount of concrete conatruction was
MONOPLANES ARE BEST.
thrown up.
Kaiser Wilhelm Expresses In
terest and Esteem.
Win Nearly All Prues and Make Best
Records at Rhaims Mest.
COEUR d'ALENES ABLAZE.
BLEACHED FLOUR
IS ADULTERATED
WOMAN AVIATOR FALLS
Lost Nerv* and Stoppad Motor
Arm* and Lag* Broken.
Both
Bethany Hain*, Rhaims, France —
The second distressing accident of the
aviation moet here occurred when Bar
oness de la Roche, driving a Voisin
biplane, lost her nerve at a height of
Ml meters, shut off th* power and fell
with her machine to the ground.
Her leg* and arm* were broken and
•he suffered severe contusions, but the
doctors who have her case in hand hope
for her recovery. It first was thought
•he hail sustained a fracture of the
skull, but thio was not the rase.
At a height of 8(1 meters, the Bar-
one«* de la Roche had flown one*
around the field. The spectator* in the
grand stand were applauding her vocif
erously. Suddenly she appeared to be
come frightened at the approach of
two other aeroplanes, one of which, a
Sommer, driven by M. Lindpainter,
passed directly over her.
The baroneM. in a period of con-
•ciousnea* after the accident, said, that
the rush of air from the motor over
head had thrown her into consterna
tion, and that she had put out the igni
tion and lost' control. The machine
fell like a meteorite to the ground.
The crowd* rushed out on the field
and extricated the mangleU and bloody
form of the woman aviator from the
tangled debris, and conveyed her to a
nearby hospital.
Meanwhile, Lindpainter had descend-
«d. and the crowd, believing him to be
responsible for the accident, threatened
to lynch him.
Gendarmes, however, threw a cordon
about the aviator and dispersed the ex
cited spectators. An inquiry by the
judges’ committee showed that Lind-
painter was in no way re*|>onaible for
the aceidenL
The first accident of the meeting oc-
curred on the opening day, Shen
Charles Wachter's Antoinette mono
plane collsjmed at a height of 500 feet,
and dropped like a stone, instantly
killing Wachter.
Oliclager, not satisfied with hi* rec
ord of one hour, 58 minutes ami 20
seconds for the 150 kilometers, set out
again and cut it to one hour, 54 minu
tes 2-5 seconds.
He used a Blériot
machine.
Two other records were broken by
M. Leblanc, who also used a Blériot
monoplane,
The first was the 10 kilometers,
which was made in six minutes, 33 4-5
seconds, and the accond the five kilo-
meters, the time for which was caught
at three minute* 12 and 4 5 seconds.
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Olielager,
in a ___
Blériot,
won
000 prise fur distance. He covered 140
milee in 2:55:52 3-5.
AIM MAY BE AT AMERICA
Closing ot Door in China Seen
Rusto-Jspansse Compact.
in
Pure Food l^aw I pheld by Kan
sis City Jury.
Government Win* in Prosecution of
MJIers Price of Wheat Will
be Reduced Greatly.
Kansas City, Mo. "We. the
find that the flour seised was
led.”
"We. the jury, 'find that the flour
seised was misbranded."
These two verdicts were returned to
the F«lcral court here by the jury that
for more than five weeks ha* listened
to argument* for and against the
charge by the government that the 625
sacks of flour, bleached and sold by the
Lexington, Mill 4 Elevator company,
of Lexington Nvb., and seised by the
government while in the possession of
the purchaser, a grocer at Sable. Mo.,
were adulterated and misbranded.
The verdicL returned after seven
hours of deliberation, was acomplete
victory for the government, which
prosecuted the suit under the national
pure fo««i and drug* set.
The government charged that the
flour was adulterated in that it was
bleach«! by the Alaop process, which
make* use of nitrogen peroxide in
bleaching flour.
Misbranding
_ was
charged in that the flour seised was
lal>el<d fancy patent, which the govem-
- ment contended it was not, because
it was oot made from a first grade
hard winter wheat
Bruce Elliott, chief counsel for the
millers, made the following statement
after the jury had reported:
"Thia case wax not one that should
have been tried by a jury, I called
personally ujam President Taft ami
assured him all the millers desired was
a fair teaL
“The president assured me the__
mil-
lera would not be harried ami that a
fair teat should tie had. Immediately
thereafter, under instructions ef the
attorney general, the seiiurcs began in
different parts of the country. We
started out to defend the cases on the
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assumption that the „
government
would
permit th« m to be triad before a ref-
eree.
"President Roosevelt appoinb-d a
I ma rd of scientific men for just such
pur|*iae* and the board has settled
many case* that came up under the
pure food law, such, for instance, as
the benioste of soda case. But when
this case to trial the attorney general
refused to let this board aet and insis
ted on a jury trial."
Attorneys for the miller* will file a
motion for a new trial within 20 days.
Arguments will be heard by Judge Mc
Pherson atxiut September 1.
Millers
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• _ y that the bleached
flour decision will
handicap the farmer* of th« Southwest
to the extent of $15,000,000 to 918,-
000,000 a year.
They say the old
differential of 5 cents a bushel in
vogue in Chicago and, SL Louis mar
kets, will soon reappear.
Berlin The liveliest interest is felt
in official circles regarding the Russo-
Japaneao agreement, the text of which
has not yet b«-n fowaded to the Ger
man government. The maintenance of
the status quo, which the sgreement
is
ostensibly
intend«!
to secure, is con
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aider«! most desirable.
The nwet delicate °*oinl in the agree
ment refers, according to the semi
official Frankfurter Zcitung, to the un
derstanding to act actually on the de
fensive against the intervention by any
thin! power in Manchuria, which still |
belong* to China.
The agreement,
therefore, cannot be directed against
China.
It is point«! out that America ob-
tain«l from China concessions fur the
A I gun-Ch inc how railroad, and the ques
lion is now raised here whether the
agreemenl is intended to oppose Amer-
ics’s unwelcome intrusion in the Russo
Japancm- sphere
influence. If so,
the agreement is taken to mean the
closing of the open door.
‘
RUSSO-JAP PACT SIGNIFICANT
Mikado's Manchurian Interests Safe
guarded Against U. S.
Tok io A British paper, published
in Yokohama, says
the conclusion
. that
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"f
nr* Ruaso-Japanes«- agreement,
on the "Glorious Fourth." was signifi-
in that it follow«) the failure of
Secretory Knox's Manchurian
___ IIVUUHI" neutral-
ixation proposal.
Thia plan, it alleges, was really the
cause of a closer entente between Rus
sia anti Japan. It adds that the new
understanding is apparently an answer
«
C hin <' ho * A k “” railway scheme.
T°k‘“
'p- . |.r'f>1,
r*. . *l’an
r at *’^l,a|n. together with America,
^rogJ^n^th
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"r 'O.’ '*tcr d**«'l-
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Japanese to
l*.r
q. . .' '
I"’1") of the Lnitcd
Oklahoma has won its suit against
the Waters Pierce Oil compsny, which
Bethany Plaine, Rhcima, France--
Forest Ranger* Go to Help Settler*
has agreed to pay a fine of 975,000 and
The international meeting, at which
on Pina Creek.
obey the laws hereafter.
new records for height, distance, speed
Spokane, Wash. With six home and time were aet, closed July 10. Th*
Miss Nellie Anheuscr, daughter of
steads in immediate danger of destruc meeting was a triumph for monoplane*,
the St. lx>uis brewer, is fighting her
tion anti over 1,200 acre* of the finest which made all the records and carried
dentist over a bill of 9500.
The den
white pine timber a mans of raging off the majority of the priiea.
tist chsrg«l 925 an hour for his work.
flames, the biggest forest fire of the
The experts declare that the moat
Sergeant Run* Amuck.
The Pullman Palace Car company present year in the Coeur d’Alenes is important achievement was the record
Port
Townaerrf. Wash.
f Sereeant
„
will fight the pro|xised reduction in sweeping up the valley at Kingston, on made by Ix-on Moranc. who attained a
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u. the
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.wen.y ....n
mf.ntry
Sorel
I, of
’h infantry
rate* by the Interstate commerce com Fine creek, 16 miles west of Wallace, I speed of
106
kilometers
65.93
miles
oi ivxi
os».s»3 mile*
(color«!), stationed st Fort Lawton.
mission, claiming that under the pro Idaho.
an hour. They believe that this will beiran drinkinc aa s»on ms he learned
poaeil new rates some lines would be
The fire, has grown far beyond con be followed soon by a speed of 180 to the victory of J«k Johnaon. Return
operated at a loss.
trol of the h«imcat«*ader* and the forest 200 kilometer*.
ing to the fioet, he ran amuck with a
The distance and duration records knife, threatened officers and men, and
Director Newell is to be dropped service men, numbering about 20, and
a call for assistance haa been made on established by M. Labouchere, 340 severely cut a private. Sorell fled to
from the reclamation service.
the Coeur d’Alene Forest' Protective kilometers — 211.14 miles
in four
David Starr Jordan denounce** col association in the ho(>c that Mim«thing hours, 37 minutes and 45 seconds were Seattle, took passage on a steamer for
Victoria, wan headed off by a telegram
lege football a* sordid and degrading. i may b«* done to check the fire.
broken by Olieslagvrs, who made a
and was not allowed to land at Vic ,
Crops Wither Under Sun.
magnificent flight of 393 kilometers
It is lielieved that a train dispatcher
tori a, and was brought to Port Town-
244.44 mile* in five hours, three min
Washington — The grain crop« in
caus«! the Big Four wreck in which 2)
"Money Is Countrx's God.'
x-nd, where a detachment of Soldier. Montana and the We«t"ero"p.,r‘t?m of
and nTe
five seconds.
peraons were killed.
Helena, Mont. - In th«- I'nit.xl State* i * ute*
”*" ana
itrrrstvu him.
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, "**' Dakota* which are not receiving
A toy balloon'set fire to the town of court James S. Lee, who calls himself
Aero Treaty to Be Made.
.'"'«»••on water are literally dried up
Flame» Under Control,
Newburg, Indiana, and destroyed the the prophet of God. who, with hi« two
anna, is on trial for counterfeiting,
Visalia, Cal. The forest fire which
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Washington The proposal to trans ta .
"Cr®.n,in<
principal business buildings.
took th«' stand and admitt«! that he has been burning on the Sierra slope« port freight by airship from Arisona to ■ let a statement issued by the reclama
Roosevelt plainly implies that he
tion
service.
Continuous
hot
winds
made the 22 coonterfeil gold coins near General Grant National park, and , New Mexiro will have the effect of
will support Miles Poindexter, for U. M-ix«i by the government "Money is which entered the forest of giant trees
with the mercury near the 10U mark are
bringing the United States and Mexico
S. senstor from the state of Washing the god of the country," •aid
r--4 the
•*— i 50
m miles
—n—
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cast of a
here,
is -—
thought
to be into an early agreement relative to the proving extremely disastrous, it is
ton.
bearded and long-hair«! prophet, "and now J under control.
Backfiring has first aerial treaty. The Mexican gov- •aid. The engineer* in charge of the
1
only
wanted
to
show
how
easily
that
It is believ«! beyond doubt thst ex
been reported to in order to save the «•rnment has approv«! in a general way reclamation projects reported that the
Governor Hugh<*s, of New York, will god could be counterfeited.” Continu big trees and it is planned to corral the original draft of the treaty which i settlers upon the irrigsted lands were
be appoint«! chief justice of the Uni ing Lee predicted many dire things, in- th«' fire between two ereeka. The fire Ambassador de la Barra suggested to receiving a plentiful supply of water
and their crop* were in excellent shape.
ted State«, to succeed the late Chief i eluding the destruction of the govern had eaten into the reserve but none of Secretary Knox.
ment by "the people from the WesL” the trees were burned, although the
Justice Fuller.
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Harriman in Danger?
escape was narrow. A large force of
Opium Smuggler* Caught.
Goshen, N. F.—A dynamite cart-
A miner in Colorado Spring* now
soldiers, civilian* and ranger* ha* been
Forest Fire* Seen 50 Mile*.
El Paso, Texas — Through the con- Iridge, hanging from a tree at a
claim* to have ascended ML McKinley
Denver Forest fires raging west of I fighting the flames for three day*.
I fession of J. C. Hall, with many height where a paaaing automobile
and found the records Dr. Cook claims
aliases, and information obtained here would strike and ¡explode it, was found
to have left there. Dr. Cook’s backer* (•olden. Colo., lighted the somber peaks
Forest Fires Disastrous.
of the Rocky mountains with a ra-
by officials, the arrests of almoat a above the road over which the Harri
will investigate the story.
j diance seen for 50 miles across the
Eau Clair, Wia. A survey of the - -lotrn people, charged with opium
man automobiles travel. The 'Iste E.
Premier Canalejaa will submit to the (ilain*. Meagre advice* are to the ef districts in Northern Wisconsin which smuggling have been made in several H. Herriman, his wife and daughters
forest fires 1 naits of the country. The action, it is have always been popular in thia vicin
king of Spain a bill forbidding further fect that Golden Gate forest, in the have suffered through
religious order* to enter that country canyon of the same name, is burning. bring* the eetimate of the total dam- ! expected, will break up one of the big- ity and there is no explanation for
pending negotiations at the Vatican for The extent of the damage is not age of the past three weeks to •bout gest organised bands of opium traffick what appear* an alarming piece of
|4.000,0«.
known.
the revision of the concordat
er* the country haa ever known.
malie«.
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