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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1910)
I CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK WAB SCARE ONLY TRICK. Shipbuilder* and Steel Trust Wut Big Order*. Washington —Back of th* war sears I caused by Secretary D.eklnson's coufi ! dent «1 answer to the request of Con gre««m.xn Mcluxchlan of California is the artirity of the shipbuilding interests ! 4nd the steel trust ss an active factor I in the agitation. A year ago eorres | |H>udents of Pacific Coast |«pers were General Resume of Important Event* ! importuned by representative* of Pa Presented In Condensed Form eifie Coast shipbuilding concern* to for Our Busy Readers. urge the need of a fleet of submarines and the enactment of a law to provide that during the nett ten years flu sub English Tories ar* bitter over their marine* be built on th* Pacific Coast. defeat and threaten reekl««e filibuster This frank admission that th* West ing ia parliament. era shipbuilding interests wer* largely Th« leading hotel* of San Francisco will allow women to smoke in any part responsible for th* agitation which at that time was carried oi to alarm the of the building, the same aa men A boy at Salem, Ore., died of lockjaw West roast people, was made to me but not the slightest evidence of infec when I sought to sKertain why So sud tion could be found upon hi* body. deal* patriots bad discovered the so Magnetic brake*, operated by wire called defenseless position of the West less, have been madr entirely «ucees* coast. ful on the Canadian Pacific railway. A meeting of some of the Pacific An aviator at Memphis, Tenn., Coast senator* and representatives had reached an altitude of 9,364 feet, hi* been called and a dinner had been giv aeroplane l>eing coated with ice when en, on* of th* resulta of which had l>een ho alighted. Queen Lilinokalani of Honolulu now th* appointment of a committee of ask* the territorial legislature for a members from Washington and Call lump sum of *2'*0,000 in full settlement fornia to present to the president a of all claims against the I'nited Slates memorial embodying plan* for subma t man from Okanogan, Wash., I* in rinc* These facts were given me by a rep Pennsylvania to gather tin 1,000 cat*, to be shipped Weal Io rid too farm* and rosentalive of a Kcsttl* ship yard. garden* of Okanognu county of rat* ‘ working with whom, a* he admitted, was the vice president of a Han Fran and gophers. cite» ship yard. Prisoners in th« Lima, Ohio, jail a* AI kiii I that time Recretary Meyer de saulted their guard« and four escaped livered an address at Philadelphia in The 15-year old aon of the sheriff which he advocated th* building of bat bluffed the other six with an empty tieship* for one reason—that it gave rifle and held them at bay until help businrs* to the steel industry. came. Apparently Congressman Tawney is General Hodges, commanding the De right in charging mor* or less conspir partment of the Great Lakes, any* it acy to scare th* country into bolstering would undoubtedly be easv for a for up th* program of military enthusiasts eign power to invade the Pacific Coast, Th--«« rviileneea point to^activities by but he i* certain Japan does not want a ship yard to lobby and the advocates of a large standing army, war with any one at preaent Recretarv Dickinson hint* nt the nec-I A Spokane boy aged 17 died from of a etnnding army of 450,000 men, in the effect* of raw alcohol given him by stCe.1 of th* present effective fvtcr of a trainman. 115.000. The international importance of the Roosevelt advised the students of t act* of those war propagandists is Harvard to go into politice* "for their , «hown by editorials in Japanese new« own good." paper*, telegraphed to the stat* depart A Kansas man applied for a divorce me^t her*, citing th* proposal* to for because his wife smoked cigarettes. standing army and create a powerful but it was refua<«L F»<-ifi<- fl.'-.T. n« --vi lt-nr--* to the Tl>e Supreme court of the United ties* that thia country desires war with States ha* decided that a conspiracy them. Strangely, the war «care come« at the under the Sherman anti trust law may very time when the peace society is in be a "continuing offense.” »c«sion here, ar if the scare had boon An Atlantic Coast liner with 309 planned to offset th* pleas for dinar passenger* and a hold full of cotton moment. took fire and was destroyed. The pas sengers and crew were saved. MEXICAN TROOPS LOSE joings of the World at Large Told in Brief. » Representatives of the Mexican relí ela have presented proofs at Washing ton that their wounded and prisoners were butchered by the government troops. A mechanic attached to the govern ment forces at Fort Stevens. Ore., has invented a safety appliance to prevent large guns from being fired prema turely. Canadian* de*ire a permanent pence treaty with the United State*. With in the last two years, nine di*(>ute* be tween Canada and the United States have been di»|>oeed of by negotiations and agreements. Flood* in Northern Italy are becom ing serious and many village* are iso lated. Aldrich and Lodge intimate that they are willing to revise the tariff piecemeal. ¡•Government Forces Nearly Annihllated by In»urrectos at La Ju".la. El Paso, Tes.—President Dias’ Meal can army has suffered a loas of 95« men in dead and wounded ia a battle at Ln Junta, according to the latest news from the scene of hostilities The federal troops engaged in the fight numbered 1000 men. When they raised the white flag there were only 50 able bodiel men in the force that surren de red to thr victorious revolutionist*. La Junta is a small town on the Mexico, Northwestern A Orient rail road. Near* of the battle and its re suit wns sent out bv railway employes The telegraph wires were cut later There ha« been fighting near Ojiniga, south of Marfa. Toxas. Many horses belonging to Mexican troops escaped into Texas and it is believed that the federal* were annihilated Reinforce monte should have arrived there last night or today if the» were not de feated, marching westward from the Orient railroad station at Falomir. They left Chihuahua last Sunday for Falomir Troop* «ent out from Jimines, the railroad junction point for the road leading into Parral, have not been heard from They were attempting to ioin Navarro's force* marching from Chihuahua. Today order* were issued throughout the state of Chihuahua by the Jefes of village* and towns instructing all men having arms to come in and register thdm and give an account of why they are in their possession. TWELVE KILLED IN EXPLOSION ,*('W FIRST BLIZZARD OF SEASON Tsrrifhc Storm Sweep* Atlantic Coast — Life Savar* Bus*. Boston, Dec. 17.—A northwest blis- sard last night and today brought dis- aster to shipping along the Maaaa. hu eetta coast and U.IgM four ach««>r..r* I (irk ( ent Till lower House Completely Wrecked. wer*known u ha,re l*cn wre^'d- r other was in tow, disabled, on* barge had foundered, and other t arge* were CARNEGIE GIFT TO END WARS Stocks and Bonds Worth $11, 500,000 for That Purpose Sara English-Speaking Nations Can Trolley Car Hurled on Top of Auto r*Port«i adrift and missing. Insure Success Believes Eng The revenue cutter Gresham, which By Blast Children In Hospital land Is Ready. look aboard the crews of two sinking Narrowly Escape. schooners and AM.strd other vessels, spent the entire dsy and rn«-at of the N«w York, Ifac. 19 Twelve persons night undoing the havoe of the storm. Ironmaster'* Leading Known Ben were killed, two of them women, an<l Up to tonight no definite report of loss efaction* Aggregai* •179.- 30 were injured ia a double explosion of life had reached this city. 600,000. of gas and dynamite in th* new electric The vessels which suffered from the puwi-r house of th* N*w York C*ntral Following are the chief known Railroad, shortly after 6 o'clock this storm Included: contri bullona of Andrew Carnegie Schooner Thoma* B Garland, of morning to benevolent and educational pur- The /»roe of th* explosion shattered Portsmouth, a total wreck on Great («■e«-* : Point bar, Nantucket. The crew were hundreds <>f windows in the big hotel* Librarlas. t’ntwd Slat»« and ipartmeut houses in the neighbor rescued early today by the Coak ata Ijbrarwa. Kurae« f ' tern lifesaving crew, t-dur«temei fts-Miellon.............. 15 ««>.000 |*ttl»bwra Insolute .................... IS.CSXl.OOO alarm among the guest*. Th* dynamite i Schooner Abbie G. Cole, of Machias. Wash.nsttm Instituís 12.«e.000 blast picked up . a northbound' trolley ------ .. . :■ Me., stranded and waterlogged ir l-w- lindáis« 10,(i«l.«0 ear, ) '■-« “ ■ Hcotek t'nlvsroose to <m ion 'he *? Stone Horae shoal, off Monorooy poinL Hero tund« .. 5.000. crashing down upon an automobile ! The crow were rescued by the Gresh t arrwew Steel < -«npsny, which was passing along the other side am this morning, when M<.rorroy point f.m|.ko*s Knduwmsnt. ... »,000.000 tSinferTnltne ............ .. 5.000,«10 of the street. Four of the passenger« j llfesaver* found the sea* loo heavy to (■«Iterhnir Seh>>.| Intuburv S.iwu.oou were killed, and every one in the car | The Fracs Tesn|.l* 1.".'«>«W launch their lifeboat*. was injured. « led t t’, ineer» .'■■<.•• — l.fro.OUO Hvrvau ■ Amvru-sn FepuMte* »Mi.uOB The railroad aervic* was osly tern- I The two-masted schooner IL E. fanali t .dieses. t'nitsd States 20 <*■> «O p<>rarily interrupted The new sub ata Ayer, taken In tow by the Gresham off MlsesUarw—us tn lunt*, estimated 2.14)0 («O lion power house, where the explosion ■ Old Harbor. MlssaUansous tn L'. S..Xsstunalsd 20.000.Oto British schooner *S. A. Fowne*, occurred, is at Fiftieth street and Lex ! T..-al »It*.» 0*0 ingion avenue, which is half a doren ashore off Monomoy Point The Kurkrfellrr brnsfwtssi*. estimated 1211.0O.<00 blocks north of the Grand Central ata Gresham took on board the crew late Ilalanc«» In fukur Camr<w». . I !*9,5uru<lO : tion. today. The explosion partly wrecked the Lumber laden schooner Stephen G. engine house near by 'and prevented txrud, abandoned .'13 mile* southeast of Washington Surrounded by 27 trus the firemen from gttiug their appar Boston light. The crew were rescued tees of his choosing, comprising el- atuv into th« street. Monsignor* La I’ette *n<i Hayes and Father* O't'onuor, thia morning by the steamer A. W. cabinet members ex-ambassadors, col McQuade, Sinnott and Byrne*, of Rt Perry and brought here. At Portsmouth, N. IL, the three- lege presidents, lawyers and educators, Patrick's Cathedral, hurried to the scene and administered the last rite* masted schooner Annie F. Conlon ar Andrew Carnegie transferred to them of the churefa to the mor* seriously in rived today in a dies tiled condition, 21 110,000,000 in 5 per cent first mort jured. days out from Phildadelphia. gage bonds valued at {11,500,000, to At the postofflre mibatation nt For The barge Maywood, on< of a tow of lieth and Madison avenue«, the explo three behind the tug Margaret, found be devoted primarily to the establish sion slightly injured several clerk« and er cd last night off Cape Cod, ana the ment of universal peace by the aboli threw the mail all over the floor In other bargee of the tow, the Scranton tion of war between nations and such the New York Nurwry and Child's! One friction as may impair "the progress Hospital ceilings were partly shaken | and'Binghampton, are missing. down, and the windows broken, but of the barges in tow of the tug Cum- and happini M of man." li also rvp-.rU-d m »»mg. When war* between nations shall there was bndly injured. JAPAN HAS TROUBLES The power house, which ia buih of have*ceased, the fund is to be applied stone an.| brick, and is six «tori«« high. Ito such altruistic proposes as will ' *- ■ ■ r ■1 . ■ xp • .. ,i■> j ■ .. Will Strsnghtan Navy. Despite Her "beet help man in his glorious ascent latariar was prsetinally hu^ndl out Heavy Indebtedness. i onward and upward" by the banish sltiw! what rauttM the doubli* exptoaion niav probably never be known. For innately for the thousands of eomniut er* on the New York Central lines, th* for** of |he dvnemit« blasts was di rooted in an opposite direction from the railroad track*, otherwise the load- cd incoming trains might have been wrecked. Official* of the railroad learned that there were many workmen in the bui!<l itig at the time > of the explosion, and these had been account ed for. In th* Bible Teachers’ Train ing School. <>n Lexington avenue, di rcctly nptwisito the power house, 125 m«n an<l women who were on their way to breakfast, . wore thrown to the floor by the blast t Many of the men and women were injured, and several of them were I taken to hospitals All the window« in I the building were blown in and the ceilings fell. The damage to I the power ____ house ____ and other building* has not been estimated but it was stated that it will likely exceed »*><10.000. The employes of the railroad have been unable thus far definitely tn an • ign the cause of the explosion, but it is believed a large quantity of dyna ~ ’ 1 mite stored ‘ 1 in magatine« close to (he substation was responsible for the greater part of the damage. Wireless Stop* Train. Ottawa. Canada—Drawing a train nf twelve ears and rushing over the rails at a speed of forty five miles an hour Representative Tawney, of Minne on a stretch of track near the city of sota, may succeed Ballinger aa secre- Toronto, a powerful engine on the Ca tary of the interior. nsdian Pacific railway service was brought to a tyiiek standstill, with the Roosevelt announces he ia in favor throttle wide open, and the engineer of a radical program of refsrm, to be standing in his cab. a mere spectator, enacted by conservatives. like those present with him to view the Mexican relíela were routed In > Wonder The brake* had been applied on the stubborn fight in which they lost 70 big locomotive and train of cars bv a men, while the government loss was wireloss wave of eleetriritv It seemed 14, including two officer*. a* if a giant had seised the equipment and held it with esse Dr. Georg* Edgar Vincent, of the Experiment* with » wireless train University of Chicago, ha* been elect control system have been quietly eon ed president of th* University of Min ducted bv the Canadian Pacific Rail nesota, at a salary of 110,000 a year. wav companv since last May. and this Burglar*. Trapped Killed Pollc* demonstration was the culmination of a The A*ro club of New York has London Burglar* who killed two long series of successful testa. challeng<-d the Royal Aero club of Eng land to an all-round contest for the policemen last Right in a pistol duel Tube 1000 Mil*« Long with five officer* were tunneling to a aeroplane championship of the world. Chicago—The Record Harald tomor vault containiag »lOn.ftoo. according to Si* men were’drowned by the cspsia- Information given out at Scotland nur will annotince the eomplct <>n nf ing of a launch on the ’Snohomish riv Yard Th* robber* had started th* an Engineering project fnr the cr>n«triic er, Washington. The boat wax being tunnel from a home in Cutler street to rocked by three drunken logger* on top •hr vsutts f the llcnrv llsrri* jew-lry tlnn of a tunnrl he» wenn here and New A« of the cabin. •hop at Hounilsditeh and the boring York and other Ea«tcrn eitles ■ was nearly completed. A policeman eording to the plan*, the tunnel will be By an imperial order the ban against nf «uffieient dimensinns to carrv tele discovered th* tunnel and snmm«no>l Jew* in Moscow. Russia, has been r*- help In th* fight >hat fol! wr<l tW-> phnne and telegraph wiro« and a pneu of moved. policemen wer* killed and th* robber* matie tnbe fnr the transmission pvekagrs ••Terminals her* and in N«w escaped. Ths deficit In the Fustal department Vor» have been eonstrueted,” *ity« the has dwindled {11,000,000 during the rep-.rt. '‘and in a short time men will Tremendous Earthquake Recorded. past year. be . plaeed __ ____ along ____ the nropoeed nropo**d root route to Cleveland. O.—An earthquake similar begin the artna) work* of escavati Ion.” A Missouri man has established hia to that which wrought such havoc in claim to a 110,000 estate by a peculi the island nf Java many years ago, Hebrews Ara to Convene. was recorded on the seismograph at Rt arity in hia voice. the Ignatius college The records of New York Theodore Roosevelt, It ia announced that the Klamath two quakes are being compared. Mavnr flavnor. Osear R Rtraiiss, Judge cut-off of the Southern Pacific will lie Toslah Cohen of Pittsburg, and Hr Washington, Dec IT,—Reeretary of David Phillipaon nf Cincinnati will ad finished by June. 1911. the Navy Meyer this afternoon assigned ,lre«« the twenty second conference of Four member* of one family near the obsolete cruisers Boston and Con the Pn'on of American Hebrew Congre Silverton, Or., died of black smallpos, cord to the Oregon and Washington na gntions to he held here on January val militia, respectively. 16 to If» inclusive. and three other* are seriously ill. Tokio, The budget for 1911-12, _ as ment of the "moat degrading evil or _____ __________________ finally completed, was announced today evils" then harassing mankind. aa follow*: Receipts, ordinary, 492,138,000 yen, [ Ai Mr. Carnegie read an informal extraordinary, 487,969,37; expendi deed of trust announcing at length the tures, ordinary, 407,118,274; extraer genera) purpose of his gift, there was dinary, 133,821,699. A yen ia «quiv- prolonged applause. He then ex nk-nt to alout ;>0 cents in American plained the incidents which inspired ' money. Marquis Katsura, premier ami min- the gift at this time, and declared > istcr of finance, take* a hopeful view with emphasis that if the English- of the fiscal situation. F ’ During the speaking race in the United State* and year past the government hs* had a 11 Great Britain once consolidated in the particularly heavy burden to carry. The nairy has called for" an Increasot n»*«’»«’» for International peace, the <-x|>enditure in order to avoid the crili cism of neglect in the face of the ad- vance made by other power*. The an- twxation of Corea and have added materially to the extraord in.ry expenditures. Marqui* Katsura lay.> down these fwn Mlle»« **■ effective »•frasi’f I Vo in in directing ilirecl inir the fF,». two rule« aa VSSM7 gk V V I I I SSI«-I I fa e policy V* of the government; First To maintain the balance of revenue and expenditure in the general estimate* and not to look to loan* as financial reaouree*. Second To maintain th* program of annual redemption of the public debt by an amount of 50,000,000 yen or more, lie aay* the government has com (n milled itaelf to these principle*, the neat ail years #2,000,000 yen will be spent in supplementing and improv ing the navy. »ucreax of the measure in the rest of the world would be assured. That Great Britain stood ready to . cuprate w>th th.a country, .Mr. Car- r<fie ,aW he f<?|t ccnai >nd thgl w M now *u now ne^ed nerded was wan the the concurrence concurrence of th(. (,rv.,dent Bnd the jn a . . _r . mulgating the movement on behalf of the United States. SECRET MESSAGE WARNS. Country Wholly Unprepared for [¿vision by Foreign Power. In- Washington A report from the War department showing h«>w the country was inadi-quately protected againat in vasion from foreign governments was sent to the house a* a aecret document and. after several conference* and hur ried telephone messages, was returned to the War department because the Meteor Grate« Logger. Astoria, Or.—While John McCulley, house could not receive a aecret report. Member* of congress who saw the an employe of the Sorcnaun Logging company’» camp near Svenaon. was diH'ument before its withdrawal say Dickinson fastening the rigging t>n a lug a bias- the report of Secretary ing rock ahot down as from the heav poinU out that the country is wholly en* and struck the log 10 feet away unprepared for war; that there is a from him. Examination of the object woeful inadequacy of men, guns and showed that it was a meteor the aise ammunition; that the army should lie and that a council of na of a billiard ball. The glow on the>, recognised ... a<.rr»t>rv of war aa- m *> exterior had gone when McCulley ex tional t,on‘l defense, **»>•*. with • a secretary amined it, but when he broke it open | at h*“d' ,h<’UW ** <‘rea,cd bX «®* be found the center red hot. The me teor came with terrific force and made Curtiss' Offer Accepted. a dent in the log. Washington The offer of Glenn IL Man is Impaled Like Fish. Curtis* to instruct a naval officer in lew Angeles, Cal. — When a streetcar the operation of the aeroplane will be struck his wagon on Broadway, J. H. accepted by the Navy department. Craig, an express driver, was thrown Following the department’* expressed out and impaled upon a bale hook view that the airship undoubtedly which hung beside his seat The would be a valuable adjunct of fighting pronged tool caught him in the back of ships in the warfare of the future, Mr. the neck, and, piercing the under side Curtirá proposed to drill an officer in of his jaw. protruded from his mouth the flying and management of an aero like a fish hook. The surgeons at the plane in all its details at the aviation receiving hospital pronounced him set grounds in the vicinity of Ixw Angeles, Cal. The instructions will be given ioualy injured. this winter. ------ - | 'Christmas Goods Burned. Tacoma, Wash. Fire of unknown ' ___ 1,000 Teacher* Sought. origin totally destroyed McCormack St. Johns., N. B.- M. H. Stewart, Bro*. big department store here, caus a member of the board of education of ing a Iona which ’ will amount to up Alberta, ia here to sail on the Empresa ward* of 1100,000. with insurance one- of Britain for Ireland to engage 1,000 third that amount The McCormack school teacher* for Alberta and Sask Bron, store was one of the largest in atchewan. He say* new districts have the city, having a frontage of 160 feet been opened *o rapidly this year that on Pacific avenue and running half a teachers cannot be found to teach the block deep. I school*.
