CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
OREGON HAS 072.70ft.
PEACE OVERTURES MADE.
! State Entitled to Another Repreeen-
tativa— Idaho Ha* 325.598.
Mexican
Government
Approaches
Rebels With Whit* Fleg.
EDDY IS DEAD
WINTER GALE
STRIKES CHICAGO
Chiahuehua, Mas.. Dec. 3.—Tbc
Washington Oregon has a popula-
peace commission appointed by Praai-i
j lion of 672.765, as shown by the Kith
i dent Diaz left here tonight to «roofer
, census. The population ten years ago t
«••413,.-:;.;.
th .
m r. . . u»« r.«»t
ten years, therefore, ha* been 62. < per
täte the passage of the commiaaion's
cant. The population in 1880 was <
special train, which floated a white
313,767. The increase in 20 year* ha* '
The ri-nsu« bu- !
flag. Thi* ia the first time in 30 year*
been 114 per cent
' that the Mczicsn government ha*
reau's figures indirstr that Oregon
Owing to Strikes and Lockouts. Many
General Resume of Important Evant* wl|| tw, w titled to another representa Preumonia Given a* Cause of Death j made such overtures.
Cupboard* srs Bare Storm In-
Follower*
W»ep
at
Reading
of
tive in congress two year* hence,
Presented In Condensed Form
E) Paso, Tex.. (Dec. 3. The insur
create*. Mercury Fall*.
«ven if the ratio of representation is
Farewell
Letter.
for Our Busy Readers.
rectionary trouble* in Mexico took on
' increased, in accordance with custom.
an entirely new and uncx|>ectcd aapect
The announcement of the population
here tonight when it became known
I of Idaho, also made public, indicate*
Chicago, Dec. 1 Old fashioned win
Boston, Dec. 5.-- Mr*. Mary Baker that the government had made over
Unionists have made great gaina in ' that that stale also will gain one rep-
ter, which ha* t»een lurking in the
Glover Eddy, discoverer and foumier tures for peace.
The
peace
commis
British elections.
| reecntative.
offing for some lime, swooped down
' of Christian science, i* dead. An
The figure* «how that there are in nouncement of the passing of the ven sion ha* been appointed by Dist, ac- upon Chicago in earnest today tn the
The election campaign in England is
,
cording
to
a
special
dispatch
fom
Chi
Multnomah county, outside of Port erable leader, which occurred late Sat
shs|>e of a blizzard that sent the popu
marked by a radical change of policy
land, 19,047 persona. The population urday night at her borne at Chestnut huahua, and is composed of Chihuahus lation scurrying fur shelter.
The
by the Tories. |
of the county is given ns 226,261, the i Hill, wa* made at the morning service men, but the pesonnel is not given.
storm find* thousands out of employ
The
explanation
of
this
move
is
that
Disastrous storms have swept the population of Portland having t»een an-
of the mother church in this city ye» foreign Interests have brought strong ment through »trike* and other causes,
Philippines,
killing many native*
and ‘ nounced previously
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“
, a* 207,214. .The
terday.
; pressure to bear on the government to many empty cupboards and fireless
doing great property damage.
whole county shows an increase of
"Natural cause*“ explained the «-nd the turmoil by placating the in- gratae.
General W««sley M«-rritt, |<-ommandcr ' 123,094. The county ha* more than death, according to Dr. Georgs L. ' »urgent*.
Listi-d as first victim of the winter,
of the land force«* in the Philippines doubled its po|>ulation in the past ten West, a district medical examiner,
■is William Cronin, aged 38, who was
years. It had a population of only who wo* summon«»«! a few h«>ur* after
during the Spanish war, ia dead.
Douglas, AH*,, Dec. 3. It ia reli found frozen to death before a stove in
4,180 In I860, the first year in which Mr*. Eddy died.
Later Dr. West ably reportard t««day that the rebels which there wa» no fire.
It ia said President Taft ia making there is a record of the county's I*°
smuggled
5,000
While aero weather was not exper-
: addml that the more immediate cause have successfully
every effort to bring about peace be i pie.
rounds of ammunition over the interna ; ienced today, the weather man says it
wa* pneumonia.
tween the different Republican fac
The figure* of the bureau show that
is on the way and w ill make an extend
The new* of Mrs. Eddy’s death was tional line into the state of Sonora.
tions.
Idaho, which ia credited with a total
Mexican guanis discovered the camp ed stay when it arrives. In the North
made known simultaneously by Judge
A clairvoyant mtxlium in San Fran population <>f 325,.:««, as compared , Clifford P. Smith, first reader of the i of the smugglers in the Sierre Madrc west the cekl wave is increasing in in
cisco has been sentenced to five years' with 161,272 in l»«>0, a gain of 1U1.9 mother church, at the cloae of the mountains on the East San Bernardino tensity arid advancing Eastward rap
Imprisonment for swindling a patron per rent, ha* a greater increase in
, ranch, in the San Simon valley, two idly. The British Northwest, Mon
the past ten years than any other state ,
out of 8150.
nights ago
The camper* openxai fire tana and the Dakota* all report below
in the Union thus far announced, ex« ’
and a brush with the guard* en»ued.
zero weather. High Northwest winds
Robert E. Davia, aged 23, known as cept Oklahoma.
The smugglers succeeded in getting added to the discomfort caused by the
the “boy broker" of New York, ha*
away with the ammunition.
drop in temperature.
disappeared with several
hundred
LOVE NOT JAP MOTIVE.
Today's blizzard was the last kick
thousand dollars belonging.to investor*.
CONSTITUTION NEAR FINISH.
of a storm which passed over Chicago
Kyrle Bellow, a noted actor, will fit
and which ia now *w«-eping out to sea
up a large steamer with a complete Great Britain's Belief In Friendship
l*Mf New England roast.
Amons Convention
Adopt* Strict
Shattered.
theater and make a world tour, cover
Storm signals were ordered up to
Corporation
Measure.
ing three years, carrying two theatri
London--When Ja[>an recently gavi-
day on Lake* Michigan and Superior.
Phoenix, Aris. Rapid progrci
cal companies.
order* for a new dreadnaught to Is
* The cold wave is scheduled to spreiui
being made toward completing Ans
to the Southeast and government fore-
The Chicago garment
wurk««r»' built in England, the proponents of th«
one's constitution, and unless unfore
' caster* say freezing weather will be
strike has finally reached the ;«>int of English Japanese alliance were loud in
seen
developments
occur,
the
conven
experiened a* far South as the middle
arbitration, ami a settlement has been referring to this act as having been
tion will tic ready to adjourn Tuesday,
inspired solely By an desire of Great
of Florida, which probably mean* the
reached with one of the largest cloth-
<
The
afternoon
session
was
largely
Britain's Far Eastern ally to prove by
customary destruction of the orange
ing manufacturing «xmcerna.
consumed
by
the
third
reading
and
friendship the pact wa* not obtained
ami other crops in the South.
final passage of measures for the reg-
A Spokane anti-suffragist will give with th«- flavor of t-unin« »* bargaining,
Thousands of winter tourists, who
ulation
of
corporations.
cooking lesson* to young men.
The
first
but simply intendi-d gracefully to draw
have already moved South, will find
I
measure
adopted
was
that
for
the
gov-
The Navy department opcne«l bid* more tightly the “tie* of alliance. ’
the brand of weather there very much
i-mmcnt of
municipalities, giving
All thia sentiment has been rudely
for two new Dreadnaughte, one to coat
the same as that they sought to escape.
cities of 3,SOO population or greater
ahattereti by Fred T. Jane, naval ex
85.760,000.
In Michigan t<day train service was
the
power
to
frame
their
own
charters.
pert and student of international fight-!
demoralized and one line wa* put out
President Diaz wa* again inaugura
The article for the regulation of
ing ships.
of business. Oi e fool of snow is re-
tad a* president of Mexico.
Thi* I*
foreign and
domestic corporations
M*KY HAKEH M>I>Y
“The report that Japan, while leav
I conlwl in some localities.
hi* eighth term.
paused
by
a
vote
of
34
to
4
in
almost
ing five of her own shipyards empty,
The Pera Mar.|uette line steamer of
j the Identical form tentatively adopted.
It is reported that the Mexican reb ha* order»«! a dreadnaught to l»e built morning service, and by Alfred Far-
Manistee, which left Milwaukee at 9
els have control of 2<X) mile* of coun in England to show her admiration for low, of the Christian Science publica and that creating the corporation com o’ctock last night in a heavy storm,
try and many imp«‘rtant town*.
the Anglo Japanese alliance, is *ome- tion committee, in a statement to th« mission and prescribing its duties was I had not arrived at Luddington at 2 p.
also adopted without amendment.
press.
sxprwsa
driv.-r.'
"
r "f
i m. today, although she wa* due to ar-
The New York
According to Mr. Farlow. Mr*. E.idy i
cause,
Mr.
Jane
assert*.
; rive at 4 a. m.
strike has been Kettled, th«' men win
“The actual fact* appear to i»e that passed away at 10:45 o'clock Saturday : MEAT PRICES ARE REDUCED.
ning all but the clossd shop principle.
night.
although Japanese yards arc now fully
HOP MEN WILL COMBINE.
“She had been indisposed for about Quotations Drop in Both Wholesale
A private yacht drawing 17 feet of capable of turning out m< He rate- six««!
water navaguted the Panama canai vessels and very g<««1 destroyers, the nine days,” said Mr. Farlow's stata
and Retail Markets,
Grower* Plan to Eliminate Middle
from the Atlantic side a* far a* th« building of monstrous battleship* is ment, “but had been up and dressed,
New York Meat prices continue to
man in Future.
big Gatun dam.
rather bey«»nd the capacity of their ex- ; and as late a* Thursday transacted drop in the New York meat markets,
some busin«-»* with one of the official* both wholesale and retail. The prices
Sacramento- Hop growers will gath
isting
plants.
This
probably
explain*
Two girl strikebreaker* in the gar
of the church. She took her daily af . quoted now are the lowest in more er here Saturday to organize into an
ment workers strike In Chicago were the trsmendoue delay* in recent Jap- •
ternoon drive until two daya before than flv«- months and dealers express association that will control thu price*
anese
construction.
It
is
far
chca|H-r
brutally tieaten by two men and one's
death. Saturday night she fell quietly the opinion that the decline ia likely to and eliminate the middleman.
and
cx;ieditious
to
have
a
ahip
built
purse wa* taken.
Plans now being discusec«i are to
outright in England than to import asleep and lh««ae around her could at continue for some time yeL
( hlcago garment workers have no large quantities of material to ta- put first hardly realise that she had gone.
Wholesale prices for No. 1 beef in have this association include grower*
faith in Mayor Buaae'a efforts to effect together in Japan.
Her thought was clear until the last the New York market compared with in all Coast states ami in those of the
a settlement, and are preparing for an
and she left no final m«-a*ag»-.
those that ruled 10 days ago and seven M.idle W set, so that hop* of the coun
indefinite struggle.
try can be controlled in the market and
weeks ago. tell the following tale:
ARBITRATION REACHED.
MEXICANS RESUME
FIGHTING
sold by growers direct to users.
N ot »I. Ort 11
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
Kibs an«l tan»
H. W. Furs man pointe out that the
in»
l«<*
president, made her debut in Washing
io
>BH
Chicago Garment Worker*
Reach Pases Commission Closely Followed K-sirsla
hop grower* have been compelled to
Oiueka
•
ton society at a brllllnat reception in
»H
Agreement With Big Firm.
By Government Troop*.
Her honor at the White House.
Retail prices quoted in the Washing sell their hops through the middleman,
El
Paso,
Tex.
—
A
telegram
from
ton market as compared with those of who paid 9 cent* or less than the coat
Chicago Through
■ * I’ « Pullman
Ml
| i ■ y VI has
™- ' offered
we V- — V« a
w the Influence of
The
company
Marfa,
Tex.,
states
thst
apprehension
last week are:
Beef, porterhouse, of production, and then disposed of the
20 tier cent reduction in the price of lh” City Council committee, which
Prominent
and
excitement
prevails
at
both
Presi
25c.
last
week
28c;
lamb chops, 22c. same hop* for 25 «cents.
berth*, but the Interstate Commerce realised that a continuation of the
hopgrower*
of
Sutter,
Sonoma.
Men
dio
and
Candelaria,
90
miles
south
of
last week 25c; pork loin*, 18c, last
commission says that ia not sufficient garment worker*' strike meant a big
docino, Yuba and Sacramento counties
reduction
financial burden on the city, an arbi *he lexassideof the river, owing to week 20.
have been invited to join the organisa
tration has bean reached between the ,h«' revolutionary disorder* reported on
tion.
SHANGHAI RIOTS SERIOUS.
Nothing
A big rush ia expected among
_ Spo- firm of Hart. Schaffner A Marx, ami the
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u‘*’ Mt-xican
Mexican aide.
aids.
Plan* now being worked out are to
kane women when the registration iu Jo 000
W|K, have been on ha" 7el l‘ern •••med of the reported
books open.
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-------- •------ night.
fight -•
at «•«
Ojinaga
Fir Troops Called to Quell Oistu«4»ance* manag«- the new association along the
strike ’ for nearly two months.
and Protect Foreigners.
*ame line» as that of the almond grow-
With nearly 100,000 fieraona affect- ing has been h<-srd st intervals, but so.
Madero's brother says the Mexican
Victoria. B. C.
Serious rioting
J»«ve been very successful in
far
as
can
be
learned
there
has
been
no
revolt ia gaining and that President •<! by the strike, it was rapidly beeom
followed the outbreak of bubonic pla-
l-uyer» to pay them better
loss of life.
ing
a
serious
problem
to
the
city
au-
Dial ia badly scared.
Member*
of
the
peace
commisaior:
gue
at
Shanghai,
!
Stori«»
were
spread
. .. ,
thorities. This mass of people, mostly
A bank at Bath. Me., has
to
Chihuahua
and reported that
took eul.u.xie
sufferers
...........
•
V
’ ..»a....... ..ese
...... the health officers »A«.
’JVIRAUOn BIOSes.
Groat Lake* ' Navigation
Close*.
T-> *' ' ° foreigners, were destitute, and with returned
account of competition, after
Chicago Lifesavera on Lak«- Mich-
years
advance of cold weather the situa that their work was greatly «-mbarraa»- to the hospital to secure their eyes and
of aucceeaaful carver.
tion would have become a dca|«*ratc ed by the fact that soldiers followeil at heart* for foreign medicine, am! the igan. with common min.J came Into
their heels. At Guerrero. ju*t as they health officers were aasnuIted.
Riot their respective station* at midnight
The German leather industry is cn- one.
30, registered
their attendance,
attendance
The Council committee conferred all were beginning to talk with the insur- ing followed, and the Shanghai vulun- Nov;. 8<»,
dangervd by the high price of the
registered their
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r.. recto*, a peon arrived with word that tear cor|« was called out to protect »uh off their storm clothing carefully
American hide supply.
day
behind closed doors with repre-
sentativ«-* of the clothing maker*, but ‘h* soldier* were on the way, whereup foreigners and property.
packed away lifesaving apparatus and
Austria refuse* to discontinue dia- details of the conference are withheld on the meeting promptly came to an
The
recent
foreign the eeaaon of life saving duty for this
-
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— outbreak
i— ,—« against
—
crimination against American oil and until the terms are voted up«»n by the ',r>^-
er* in Kwangtung was fomented by year was terminated except for the
it* product* and a diplomatic conflict employes. It ia known, however, that j
anti dynastic rrbels. Insurgents from •tationa where men with powerful mo-
ia on.
“Boy Broker" Disappear*.
Hunan aided, and it was not until tor boats will remain all winter,
in the compromise the strikers
Nav-
Boston After a meteoric career of 8,000 troop* were sent that the upria- (gallon is now officially cl<«ed I
Louis Brendels, of Boston, assert* won substantial gains.
for the
several years in high finance, Robert ing was suppressed.
Churches and winter.
that American railroad* coukl save 81,-
E. Davia, the boy stock broker, is I property were destroyed at Leincbow
000,000 a day by scientific manage ■
Fatal Portent Fulfilled.
missing from Boston.
Simultaneous and Sancfiang, but no foreigner* lost
Battleship* Face Gals.
ment.
New York—For the rcaaon that both j with
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hi* vanishing a month ago, sums : their live*.
Cherlourg. France A fierce gale ia
The proponed river and harbor bill • his brother and his sister had died just wtimated at from 8300.000 to 8500.-|
raging along the coast and the battit
t«» be placed before the coming session a* each was approaching the age of 000 have disappeared. The police have j
Japs Predict Struggle.
ship* of the second division «•
»„«
oi the
of congress carries appropriation* ag 17, John Smyth, a young resident of a warrant for hia arrest on a nominal ■
j United States Altantlc fleet have been
Victoria, B. C. Japanese newspa-
i
gregating 830,000,000.
the Upper East Side, had frequently charge of larceny of 810,000 worth of
, per* comment at length on the exixdi- . forced to stand off shore under full
___ __
______ for a i Chinese pressure. It is undent««»! that an
Rate expert* testifying on behalf of express«*! a fear that he wouhl never stocks from a woman. Davis ia 23,
' lion
of ______
arrangement*
shippers before the Interstate Com 1 live to celebrate his own 17th birthday. one of the y.^ngest and at one time constitution and opening of Fa. parlia- American packet has been sunk and
merce commission declare the proposed He was nearing what he considered the moat successful man of affairs on met,t in 1913.
The constitution will J seven men lost. A launch from the
rate increases were unjust and unfairly thia crucial age, when Saturday be fell State street. Scores of financial firms be declared in July, 1911. and a gen- battleship Ixiuisiana made
__ _ a _
_____
gallant
eight stories through the elevator shaft and brokers are losers.
distributed.
eral election will take place the follow rescue of the crew from the launch of
I off a new building at Broadway and
ing 'May.
The Japanese newspapers
French armored cruiser Dupleix,
The report of the Washington state Ninety-second street, and died as the
Uprising Is Ridiculed.
attribute the shortening of the time to which was swamped by the heavy seas'
board of control on the insane a* I yum last rites of the church were being ad-
Seattle—-A cable dispatch from Fair apprehension*
engendered
by th«- Many of the American bluejackets are
shows that the coat of living ha* in ministered to him.
banks reporting an Indian uprising is Russo-Japanese alliance and the an- «shore, unable to reach their ships,
creased out of all proportion to the in
ridiculed by men familiar with the_______
_____ stewspa-
nexation _ of _______
Coras. ____
Japanese
crease in wages.
Twu-Dollar Counterfeits Out.
Mount McKinley country.
To begin ¿¿ia"predict
fwra nr«*dirt a
■ atrugg'te
atriicrgyl«» to
t«* tbs
th*» dsatt
^«atE ’bZ
Kn. !
R»al Fir* on Can«**.
Mexican rebels at Chihuahua have
Washington Christmas shoppers in with, ths white men in the district tween Manchu and Chinese.
Pittsburg Spectatoraof a moving
been reinforced and a big battle ia ex Chicago and other Middle Western cit much outnumber the Indians and are
I picture
. t «bow at * Mount Washingtm,'
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*
Russian Dies, Aged IO0.
ies will do well to examine eloeely any better armed. The Indiana have al
pected.
•uburb aen«« the Ohio river, sat at*el|.
»
a
-
b.
1
I
—
a
.A
a
ways
been
friendly,
and
do
not
num
two
dollar
bills
they
may
receive
in
New York—Joseph Zeitlin, a Rus- t>ound
_________
while flames destroyed the big
The commission form of government
on which the picture* were
-
has failed to cut down municipal ex change. A new counterfeit two-dollar ber more than 100 in the whole dis si an, who died in Br««kiyn Saturday, | canvas
silver certificate has been discovered in trict alleged to be in peril.
was 108 years «»Id. Jlle spent moat of thrown, i _ if determined to have
pense* in Tacoma.
circulation. The note is not a good
The cabled story was that the In hi* life in M<«row and said he saw Na their nickels' worth ofexcitea^L
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worth of excitement.
The physical valuation of railroads one on cloae examination, but would dians in the Kantiahna district were po ron when he¿I"»*1«!
" they calmly awaited the arrival of fire
is believed tn be a long step towards easily deceive any one not accustomed in arms and that six white men were 1812. He smoked and drank and said engines and had to be
. ordered out to
reported killed.
to paper money.
it did not hurt him.
regulation of rata*.
make room for th- firemen.
—
doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
Founder of Christian Science
Church of America.
to
'idim "inter freezes
Before Empty Stove
a