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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1910)
•< I ’ • • • * • < . «• .V. t ». . la J-..': « » - K <■«> y. « • • • • V : ’ 'r •, s > * I CURRENT EVENTS OF TUE WEEK • ' . s • • 9> F • CHICAGO IS SECOND CITY. Population Almoat Doubles in Year* Fourth in World. 20 Washington The population of Chi- i -ago ia 2, ¡85,283, an incresae of 486,- 70« or 26.7 per cent as compared with ■«tings of the World at Large 1.698,575 in 1800. This announcement leaves Chicago Told in Brief ranking in population as the second city of the United States and the General Return« of Important Eventi fourth in the world. Chicago has almost doubled Its popu Presented In Condensed Form lation since )«96, when the flgurvo for Our Busy Readers. were 1,099,650. Its greatest growth during that period was between 1690 American apples are bringing 8 to and 1900, when there was an increase 12 cents a pound in England. of 54.4 per cent. Its increase in population during the Secretary of War Dickinson met last decade was not so great propor with a hearty reception at Pekin. Two freight trains met in head-on tionately as that of New York, the killing four rate of increase being 10 per cent less than that scored by the Eastern city. President Taft will ask <2.006,660 New York is yet ahead of its closest to begin the fortification of the Pana rival by 2.M1.A5O. ma canal. Chicago, however, can claim distinc The Spanish parliament ia expected tion in having jumped from sixth to to fully endorse the policy of Premier foutth place among the big cities on Canalejas. the globe, il is following on the heels Union and Confederate soldiers min of Paris, whose population by its cen gled at Grand Army reunion at At sus in 1901 was 2,714,086. Chicago lantic City, N. J. King Emmanuel, of Portugal, has takes percedrnce over Tokio and Berlin According to the appointed 16 new peers, all supjoriers by close margins. census taken in each of the two cities of the present ministry. By an alliance with Bulgaria and in 1908, Tokio had 2,0X6,160 anti Ber Servia, Montenegro ia elevated from a lin 2.040,148. The |>>pulation of New Orleans ia principality to the ranks of a full 339,075, an increase of 61,971 or 18.1 fledged kingdom. per cent as compared with 287,104 in New Orleans is disappointed at the 1900. While New Orleans' growth poor showing made in the census, and the last decade was only slightly below fears it may affect her chances for the her percentage of increase of the dr 1916 Panama exposition. cade, the Crescent City through the Thr<-e out of 13 entries in the balloon rapid growth of other cities in the contest which started at Indianapolis 100,000 class loses its position of 12th returned to earth within 24 hours, in the district of the country's larg-st cities and now occupies 15th [««sition. having made about 40« miles. Detroit. with a 63 per cent increase, Secretary Wilson pays postage on Milwaukie, with 31 |>er cent, and New copies of bis speech which were sent ark, with 47.2 per cent, all have through the mails, refusing to take jum|>ed ahead of New Orleans in the advantage of the franking privilege. number of inhabitants. Captain Klaus I.arsen, in a small Holyoke, Maas., has 67,730 people, motor boat, traversed Niagara rap an increase of 12,018, or 26.3 per cent ids for a distance of 4 S miles below as compared with 46,712 in 1900. the falls, but was Anally thrown on the Lowell. Mass., has 106,294 people, rocks and hauled ashore by a rope. an increase- of 11,326, or 11.9 |ier cent The boat was hat. as compared with 94,969 in 1900. Pittsfield, Maas., has 32,121 people, Charles M. Schwab, ex president of the Steel trust, says that San Francia- an increase of 10,355, or 47.6 |>er cent co is "oliaesaed with unionism,“ and as compared with 21,766 in 1900. collision near Cairo, III., men. that in case he gets the contract for a number of new battleship« for China, they will not be built there. UPRISING IS PREDICTED. President Taft celebrated his 53rd Professor Roes Expects Disturbance In China. birthday, Thursday, Septmcber 16. Victoria, B. C. Professor E. A. Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, Rosa, of the sociology department of charges Roosevelt with insincerity. the University of Wisconsin, who has Roosevelt deferuis his "New Nat been making extend«! journeys lonaliam" in an address at Oyster Bay. ■ through China during the past six "Uncle Joo" Cannon has ticen re months, studying sociological condi nominated for congress by a small ma tions, has arrived here by the steamer Empress of China. He said China was jority. on the verge of a crisis, and the next San Francisco police are charged by few months would show whether there the mayor with protecting dancehall would be a great uprising, ¡wrhape proprietors. with much bloodshed, or a ¡«-accable Fourteen cases of cholera were found revolution. on a ship which had just arrived at Al- Í ProL-aaor Rosa says there ia a strong movement for reform, and that the menla, Spain, from Egypt younger element s«*eking the change is It ia estimated that 2,400 people went waiting to see what the prince regent to the Salem. Ore., fair from Port will do. The reformers consider the land on Portland day, September 16. attitude of Pekin more or leas a sham Highwaymen held up two auto par to impress the powers and there is a ties within a mile of Oregon City and disposition to look upon the Man- Secured about <1,000 in money and chu officials as obstacles in the way jewelry. of the eagerlv sought reforms. It is probable that Yuan Shi Kai The Are loss on the south aide of will return to I’ckin, and thia would be Eraser river. B. C., ia estimated at <200,000, and several persona are the means of preventing a rising if the reformers arc satisfied that in his missing. hatvia China would go forward. Cur President Taft, in a letter to Secre rency reform will be a great boon, tary Nagel, announces that Federal and the doing away with the growing patronage will not be withheld from in-! of opium, a movement which ia being sargenta. energetically carried out, will also Retail grocers of the state of Wash greatly aid China. ington have paaaed resolutions against trading stamps, premiums, and the Judge Calls Fee Too High. parcels post. Ixw Angeles Judge Rives, of the Senator Beveridge told the conven probate court has refused to lend ju tion of Indiana bankers that the govern dicial approval to a contract granting ment should have supervision over sll attorneys for Beatrice Anita Turnbull- Baldwin, 50 per cent of the amount big eorporstions. they may recover for from the eatatc Caleb E. Powers, who was alleged of Elias Jackson Baldwin. Attorneys to have been concerned in the murder acting in behalf of Miss Turnbull- of Governor Goebel, of Kentucky, has Baldwin, made the request for such a been nominated for congress. contract to authorise the employing Helen Gould gave a children'a circus of certain attorneys, with the agree j at he* country home in New York, in ment to give them half of whatever which over 400 members of her sewing should be recovered by litigation or compromise. class and frisada participated. George H. Primcwe, the world- famed minstrel, is about to be re-uni- ted with hie wife, from whom he sep arated last July. He ia now 60 years old. Five persons have died of cholera at Danslg. Prussia, and many more are ill. The Southern Paciflc has sutweribed <40,000 to the New Orleans exposition fund. ¡ * * %. ’ J?' •• • /*%'** *7 r • *' * .* • **_- - •• . a * .* . ‘ *'* « K f2* ‘•V*** •* ' ’ » • v ■•A* ?< «• Z../’' ■ ■ . • - • . >• ‘ % Russia and Turkey Allies. Railroad officials say increased Paris The Temps confirms the re freight rates nearly all goes back to port that Turkey and Russia have en the people. tered into military alliance, and says Fire destroyed an Alaska cannery, that the convention indicate« Turkey's together with <120,060 worth of freshly spprochement with the power« in the triple alliance. parked salmon. *' f' * • • ’ r •xa JL FLAG SALUTED BY OLD RIVALS - •* • >- - ’*k TANG TAKES REINS, Progress.vs Friend of Americs sumes Control in China. Re LATEST ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP BURNED Victoria. B. C. Kokomin Shimbun, j of Tokio, in the course of a long ar- ’ tide on the change of policy at Pekin I inion and Confederate Veterans i in recalling Tang Shao Yi and making Benzine Tank Explodes While Ship Is Being Housed overtures to Yuan Shia Kai to return, Mingle at Atlantic ( it) Í says the appointment foretells great ■ievelopmcnt of American influence in The Kokumin Three of Crew Hurt Balloon an En. "Disi«" Arouses Cheers Movement China in the future. tire Wreck—Had Been In to Unite Grend Armies to Elim inate Sectional Feeling. ¡««y*: Passenger Service. "It ia out of the question to expect _____ that the policy of Tang Shao Yi, who aecured hta position as a representa Baden Baden The lateat type of Atlantic City, N. J.. Sept. 20.--The live uf the Yuan party, wilt be favor Count Zrppelin'e inventive geniua met hotels, piers ami board walk ate crowd ed with old soldiers aid their families able to Japan. Moreover, he is a no with disaster here when the dirigible here to attenJ the 44th annual encamp torious pro-American atateaman and balloon Zeppelin VI took fire after an ment of the Grand Army of the Repub his appclnttr.rn! feretelb the great de explosion while being warped into her lic. Every train brings re enforce velopment of American influence in shed. A score or more of men were engaged in the task of houaing the air ments to the crowd that began arriv * China in the future. He repreaented ship when a benxine tank in the rear ing last week. Five thousand Veterans gs the red in China in America and made many gondola exploded, setting fire to an ad The explosion the Savoy theater and listened to a promises in America regarding Man- jacent compartmenL patriotic sermon by the Rev. Rols-rt i churls and railway questions. It will of this compartment was followed by the explosion of the 16 others. A. Elwo<d. chaplain of th« department be interesting to watch the progress There was a gush of flames and the of Pennsylvania. whole structure was destroyed in a Commander Van Sant and Hilary A. of these dvs<i promisee." The Kokumin looks upon Tang Shao few minutes. Three of the crew were Herbert, of Albany, ex secretary of the navy and a general in the Confed Yi a* "one of the principal factora in injured. Nothing remain«! of Count Zeppe erate army, were the principal speak ' diplomatic circlea in the Far East," lin's latest model except a tangled ers st a large gathering of veterans on and considers him the enemy of Japan of aluminum frames. the steeplechase pier. The shed also caught fire, but the General Herbert eulogized the mem- and friend of America. iicra of th« Grand Army. Hr told how Tang Shao Yi, who was reinstated blue was rut out without serious dam the wearers of the blue and the wear in hia poet of minister of communica age. Several workmen were , burned, ers of the grsy were welded together tions last month, is decidedly progres but none fatally. in the cause of the Union. The igniting of the Iwnxine occurred sive. After his restoration the re Commander-in chief Van Sant ami gent, Prince Chun, issued a strict edict while workmen were cleaning the ma General Daniel E. Sickles both said notifying viceroys and governors that chinery, during which the benzine The cause of the they would work for the proposition foreign loans are indispensable in the holders were open. advocated by General Herl>ert, of development of the imp-nsl railway fire hue not been ascertained. bringing the grizzled veterans of the system, and instructing them to su|>- Zeppelin VI, during the last 18 days, North snd South together. It is be preas anti-foreign agitation. Tang is has made 34 pas-enger trips, covering lieved that thia demonstration of feel an ardent friet-d of America, sbout 2,000 miles, and carrying more ing will end th« agitation against the than 300 passengers. The flights of placing of a statue of General R. E. the dirigible were made regularly, oft SEA WALL IS WASHED OUT. Lee in Statuary Hall at Washington. en in unfavorable weather. A remarkable acene occurred with This is the fifth K'-rious accident the entrance of General Sickles. As Scores of Men Work to Savs Houses which has befallen the Zeppelin dirig on Long Beach. he swung down the aisle the veterans ibles. arose as one man and four of his com The Zeppelin VI was under charter Los Angele« Scores of men are mand lift«) him. chair and all, and working unceasingly to fortify resi | of the Passenger Airship company, placed him on the platform while the dences along the ocean front at Long having replaced in the passenger ser band played “Dixie” and the crowd Beach againat the waters which broke vice the recently wrecked Deutschland. cheered as General Sickles grasped the through a protecting cement wall and It was transferred from Friedrichshaf folds of a huge silk Aag, with Com left the houses ex|)oaed to the fury of en to this place, anil after being fitted mander Van Sant. General Herbert the breakers. with improved propellers and new stepped up and said: Many l»rach house« were left under features, made a trial trip on August "Had 1 been told when I waa in Antie mined by the washing of the waves, 119. It proved to !«• the speediest" of tam that in the years to come I would snd unl«*aa the foundations are rein its type, and it was announced that it stand side by aide with F«drral sold forc'd within the next few hours they would maintain a speed of 38 miles an iers snd grasp the Stars and Stripes will fall into the sea. A half mile of hour. with them, I would have been insulted. the breakwater, as much of the sea The dirigible was reconstruct«! to But 1 love that old flag now." wall, and nearly a mile of concrete erry 10 passengers, stxi in the last few Commander Van Sant said he was aidewalk were waahed out. days had made several trips. Many proud of the fact that no American One building colla|«ed from the Americans were among the exeuraion- army ever surrendered to anything force of the waves. An apartment i tats. Baron Rudolph Goldamidt-Roth- but an American army. house of 40 rooms ia in a m<«t perilous | child had chartered the airship for the A ripple of applause greeted the insition, and there ia every probability use of a private party. He had agreed mention of Colonel Roosevelt during that the building will fall. The house U> pay t .’•<><» for the first two hours of the Grand Army leader's address. The is now standing on the sheerest ledge. the excursion, and <250 for each ad name of President Taft waa men The danger had treen threatened for ditional hour. tioned. three days and residents were appre hensive of their momentary peril. FALLIERES SEES DIRIGIBLES. NEW NAVY FOR CHINA. Electric light poles fell during the night like ninepins. The trouble ia French Army Corps Use Aeroplanes Entire Fleet of Battleships May Be due to the unusually high tides. In Field Maneuvers. Built on Coast. San Francisco A fleet of battle ship« for the Chinese navy ia to be built in San Francisco. Millions will lie spent here in the (»urchaae of sup plica ami for the living expenses of thousands of workmen needed to turn out the gigantic order, if the efforts of some of the foremost financiers of thia country arc crowned with success. This ia the pur|>o«c« of a visit which Charles M. Schwab, ex-president of the United States Steel cvr|x>ration and owner of the Union Iron works ami other large planta. ia to pay to thia coast. The big financier ia hurrying across the continent in hie private ear to mwt Prince Teal Haun, uncle of the emperor of China, who ia due to arrive on the steamer Manchuria. Schwab and hia party, which comprises promi nent steel magnst-a, will accompany the Chinees imperial party to Wash ington. Ward Workers Unionised. Milwaukee, Wis. One of the first unions of city employes in the country waa organized here by ward workers of the Seventh. Eleventh, Twelfth snd Fourteenth wards, and sponsored by Socialist municipal officiate. There were* 30 present, waterwagon drivers, ward teamsters, steam roller men and street sweepers. There waa some sus picion on the part of the wardworkers as to what position they would be in if the preaent administration should be ousted al the next election two years hence. Shadowed The«« Years, Chicago George W. Fitzgerald, a former aaaorting teller in .the Chicago Federal subtreaaury, waa arrested by deputy United States marshals,charged with the theft of <173,000 from the subtrraaury on February 9, 1907. Fitlgerald was arrested on a bench warrant on an indictment returned se cretly by a Federal grand jury Febru ary 17, 1910. * l z . • y. "«L « * Cattle Firm Indicted. Sacramento -A special to the Union from Carson City, Nev,, says that the Federal grand jury has found an in dictment againat the Golconda Cattle company, of Nevada, of which William E. Kent, Republican candidate for con gress from the Second district of Cali fornia. ia preaident. The charge ia il legal fencing of government land. Castro is Accused of Plot. Teneriffe, Canary Island« A man ifesto bearing 1,506 signature« and ac cusing ex President Castro, of Vene zuela, of organising a plot in the Can aries againat the life of the present Vcneiuelsn executive. Juan V. Gomes, is being circulated here. ALL PARTIES GIVEN SHARE. Metropolitan Street Railway Impartial in Campaign Gifts. New York The admission that ev ery corporation with which he had ever been identified had not only contribut ed to political campaign funds, but had rontriliuted to the campaign fund of "everybody that ever ran for office" waa made on the stand by H. H. Vree land, ex-president of the Metropolitan Street Railway company. Mr. Vrecland could only be made to specify amounts for the year 1903. During that year the corporation of which he had then lieen president, the Metropolitan Securities company, had contributed <20,000 to <30,600 to the Republican State committee and <17,- 006 to <18,000 to the Democratic State committee. The company may have also made campaign contributions lo cally, but the witness waa not positive on 'hat point. Grandvillieres, France — President Fallierea, aecompaneid by the presi dent-elect of Brazil, Marshal Hermoe Fonseca, Premier Briand and foreign military attaches, witnessed the opera tion of dirigibles in the army maneu vers. Three dirigibles and six aero planes, including those manned by Latham and Paulhan, took prominent part in the operation. Thus far aeroplane« have given bet ter results than the dirigiblea, which for two day« were prevented from leaving their station« by high wind«. Army officers are enthuaiaatic over the reoulte. General Picqaart, commanding the Second corps, and General Meunier, commanding the Third corfia, each morning before 7 o'clock were in j>o«a«*aaion of an accurate description of the location and movements of each other s force«. Meunier outgeneraled Picquart, succeding in turning the latter's position. New Island Rises in Sea. Britain Told to Leave, Seward, Alaska A new island waa added to the Aleutian chain at the same time that the towns of Unalaska and Dutch Harbor were shaken by an earthquake Septcmlwr 1. The island rose from deep water, at a point where ‘ a sounding by the Geodetic survey last I year showed 70 fathoms. The islsnd ■ ia in the form of a great rounded hill, very close to Perry Peak, the island that rose last year and waa discovered by officers of the revenue cutter Perry. The revenue cutter Bear brought news of thia discovery. Geneva, Switzerland—The annua) meeting of the permanent committee of the Young Egypt party, the aim of which is autonomy and which haa juat open«! here, afforded an opportunity of which aeverai Egyptian« availed themselvea to attack ex-President Roosevelt because of hie sfieeches at Khartoum and London. Among the epithets appli«i to the colonel were '‘.n,,8"r blusterer" and "self-adver tiser." The committee sent a tele- gram to Ixindon demanding immediate evacuation of Egypt by tne Britiah. Eight Injured by Airship. Drug Sale to Be Stopped. Milwaukee Eight persona, five wo men and three men, were more or less seriously injured here when a Wriight aeroplane, driven by Arthur Hosey, swerv«i sidelong from its course and plunged into a crowd before the grand stand at the atete fair. The aviator waa uninjured. None of the injured will die. J Pittsburg— A country-wide cam paign «gainst the illegitimate traffic in narcotics and habit-forming drug« began here when the National Asaocia- tion of Retail Druggiata went on rec ord aa favoring a national law along these linea. Plague Has Grip on Italy. Rome, Sept. 17.—During hours in the department of Southeastern Italy, there deaths from cholera and caaea of the disease. the last 24 Apulia, in were five nine new Portugal Exiles Monks. Lisbon - The monastery of the Span ish Jesuit« at Aldeira-Ponte haa been closed by a government decree, and the Jesuits have been expelled from the country. They are warned that if they return to Portugal they will be arrested. 4
