CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
OPPOSES RECIPROCITY.
National Grange Demands Reduction
On Everything or Nothing.
JUAREZ RECEIVES
REINFORCEMENTS
POWDER CAUSED EXPLOSION
I
Gothsm Horror Was Result of Ac
cident to 10.000 Pounds.
New York - The machinery of the
New York Ten thousand pounds of
organisation
National Grange, an
black powder on board the lighter
Katherine W. “contrary to the com
claiming a membership of 1,000,000
pany's policy or orders," probably
farmers In 30 states, has been started
caused the explosion of dynamite at
to defeat the ratifleation by congress
Cummunipaw, N. J., on Wednesday,
of the Canadian reciprocity treaty.
states Dr. H. W. Hudson, inspector of
The legislative committee of
the
General Resume of Importan! Event grange at a special meeting recently Federal Tram Derailed But Forces the K. 1. Dupont de Nemours Powder Dynamite on Lighter in Harbor Blows
Up Without Warning. Spread
adopted
a
resolution
protesting
company.
Proceed and Roach City After
Presentad lo Condensad Form
ing Awful Destruction.
This
powder,
he
said,
•«»
part
of
a
■gainst
the
enactment
of
the
recipro
Hard
Fighting.
for Our Bu«y Readera.
city bill, called upon the membership
Dupont shipment for South America,
to exert pressure upon representatives
as was the dynamite, but it should
El Paso, Feb. fl.—At 11:15 p. m. have been delivered to a steamship, be
New York. Feb. 2.- Dynamite in
Mexican insurgents have captured from their various districts to vote
two more towns.
against the measure and decided to go the exact result« of today's develop maintained, before the dynamite was transit from a freight car to the hold
of a lighter moored at pier No. 7,
Wholesale grocers and millers favor to Washington to map out a campaign ments in the situation about Juares are taken aboard.
beclouded by numerous conflicting re
a national anti-flour-bleaching bill.
there.
"Contrary to general belief," said Communipaw, N. J., exploded st one
The legislative committee is com ports. From the Federal viewpoint Dr. Hudson, "black powder is far more minute ¡'«st noon to»lsy and in the
The house of representatives has
voted in favor of San Francisco for the pooed of ex-Govemor Nahum J. Bash the situation may be summarised as dangerous than dynamite, We believe widespread ruin that followed eeven
the powder became ignited and in ex- men are known to have been killed,
elder, of Concord, chairman; Aaron follows:
Panama exposition in 1916.
plodlng detonated some of the dyna- seven fatally wounded and hundreds
Jones, of South Bend, Ind., and T. 8.
Colonel
Rabago.
with
300
men
Directors of the Harriman roads Atkeson, Morgantown, W. Va.
mite not much of iL
Dynamite less seriously injured. Various reporta
As
have ordered the double-track Ing of all soon as the terms of the proposed marched into Juarex at 9;26 tonight, freexes at about 46 degrees Fahren place the number unaccounted fur at
lines,alongjhe Columbia river.
treaty became public they exchanged unmolested by the insurrectoa, and heit. and it ia nearly impossible to ex from 15 to 30.
The tempera
Thirty seems to be a conservative
' A Chicago millionaire, over 50 years telegrams, decided upon New York as amid the joyful acclaims of eitixens plode it when froaen.
ture on the day of ths explosion was estimate of the dead, and 8750,000 of
of agr, has suddenly turned out to be a n meeting place, and left their homes and «oldiers.
below 45 degrees.
property lose.
without delay, to head off any possible
first class artist in oil painting.
Rabago'a command repoUe«l the at
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, an
The explosion occurred 150 yards
campaign that might be started for the
tack of Oroaoco's force at Bauch today, authority on explosives, is inclined to south of the Jersey City terminal of
A Minnesota couple are Spending bill's enactmenL
with only two dead snd six wounded, the same («lief. He agreed that the the Central Railroad of New Jersey,
their honeymoon taking a six-wceka'
" We are not opposed to ■ general
inflicting on the insurgents s loss of after effects of the explosion suggested and is variously attributed to the drop
course al the agricultural college.
reduction of the tariff," Mr. Atkeson
140 killed snd wounded. Insurrectoa gunpowder rather than dynamite.
ping of a case of dynamite and the
The National Refining company, of said, "but we are opposed to any ar
reported badly scattered us a result of
"The eight arrests are only a begin blowing up of a boiler of a boaL
New Jersey, has sued Hawmeyer for rangement which will make Ash of one
the clash.
ning,” said Prosecutor Garvin, of Hud
The Jersey Central terminal was
the return of 110,000,000 worth of industry and flesh of another. Revise
General Navarro’s command, ’of a son county, “it is not our intention to wreexed; three ferryboats in the slip
the tariff yes, but do it all at once,
sugar stock.
strength unknown, reported marching pick out little men in the employe of
were damaged;
lower
Manhattan,
and not by a reciprocal treaty with a
A man and his wife were knocked
to the relief of Juares and expected to the corporations.
We are after the ■cross the river, was shaken from
country whirh exports agricultural
arrive tonight or tomorrow.
off a trestle over Deep creek on the
men really responsible."
street level to the top of tbe Singer
products almost exclusively.
From the insurrecttai’ viewpoint, the
CBladero electric line near Portland,
tower; severe damage was done in
"Remove the tariff on steel and iron
situation stands as follows;
and fell to the rocka 60 feet below,
Brooklyn and Staten Island and to the
■nd manufactured articles along with
LOUISIANA TO EXHIBIT.
* Rabago'« command reached Juarex
both being killed.
immigration detention station on Ellis
farm products and we won't object
tonight, after defeat at Bauche, in
Island; the shock was felt at Amity-
But we do not think it fair to compel
Carrie Nation Is a
Southerns»-»
Will
Show
at
Panama-
which they are reported to have lost
; ville, N. J., 35 miles diatanL
■nd doctors say ah
the farmers to compete with foreign
Pacific Exposition.
more than 100 men ¡and a substantial
The damage is so widely scattered
cover.
products and allow the manufacturer
part of their arms and «»quipment.
that it ia im(»<>ssible to more than esti-
New
Orleans
If
the
plana
of
the
National banka are holding In re to derive the benefit of a high protoe-
Alania* rebel force of 600 men in a
i mate it, but in Manhattan alone it is
serve 8s6.000.uu0 more than required ■ live tariff.
fight with 100 Fedcrals 25 miles cast Ixxuisiata development league are car
¡»laced at 8100,OVO; on Ellis Island
"Acting along these lines we have
by law.
< f J jarex..
ried out, the state of Louisiana will
from 810,000 to 825,000, and in all
decided to op|x»e the enactment of the
Alania
expected
to
join
Oruxoco
some
Carm-ale has doubled bls original bill. The committee issued a state
have one of the moot attractive and other quarters of 8100,000.
nilt U|«-n Jun
offer of fit.ooo for a public library ment thia afternoon which will be sent tin»- t •» ¿lit for in
Tbe lighter receiving the dynamite
beneficial exhibits at th«- Panama
rex. which ia scheduled for about day
at Salem, Ore.
the Katherine W., owned by James
to every one of the 1,500 granges In
Pacific exposition at San’Francisco.
light tomorrow.
Healing, of Jersey City—vanished
■
the
organisation..
Plans
are
now
under
way,
according
PORTLAND MARKETS.
General Navarro in command of 700
utterly with her crew of seven men, in
Wheat Track
prices:
BluMtem.
Fedarals, consisting of infantry and to C. H. Willard, one of the directors
IRRIGATION
CONGRESS.
cluding the master, Edward Traver.
46c; club. She; red Russian, 79c; Vai
cavalry, left Gallego Friday for Jua of the organixation, to this end. Mr.
Alongside was the lighter Whistler,
ley. 61c; 40 fold, 61c.
rex.
which, was so badly shattered that she
Willard
said:
Harley-Feed. 823.50024 per ton; Great Preparations Making for Na-
The fatal policy of delay having en
brewing. |27<fl7.50 i«rr ton.
tional Meeting In Chicago.
"Louisian« cannot'afford not to have sank with her crew of two, while the
abled reinforcement» to reach Juarex,
British ateam barkentine Ingrid was
Xlllstuffs -Bran. 823024.U) per ton.
Chicago - Plans are being formu the probabilities of taking that city an exhibit at San Francisco. We have
middlings. 1306-11; shorts. 82402150.
■tripped of her rigging an<i two deck
Istcd by the Chicago board of control are now considered much more remote been put to the teat. and we must do
rolled barley, 82« «27.
hands aboard were killed.
Corn Whole, 829; cracked, ISO per | to make the 19th annual convention of than before.
our best in order that thia state have
Fragments of one man’s head were
Other
reinforcement»,
in
the
shape
the
National
Irrigation congress,
ton.
an adequate representation of its pro found swinging high on a tangled piece
Oata—No. 1 white, |36 50 per ton ' which will meet here I>ecember 6 to of General Navarro’« column, are en ducts and resources.
We want to of rope.
Hay—Track prices: Timothy, Wil 9, 1911. of world wide interest. Pres route from Chihuahua and will reach ! make the Louisiana exhibit the moat
The Katherine W was tied to the
lametta Valley, 819020 ¡»er ton; East ident Taft has promised to speak at Juares tonight or tomorrow, and’it is
attractive in the big show.
outer end of the pier, snd the crew of
ern Oregon. 821072; alfalfa, 614 ¡one of the sessions on the closing day. believed hft» that the F<-»i»-r«l« will tM
"It will be a center of observation deckhands was unloading a consign
grain hay, 614 50615 50; clover, 6130 «nd. in addition, there will be re pre able to hold th»-fcity, and that know
on account of the magnificent efforts ment of 50-pound boxes from two
14.
sentativee from practically every irri- '«If Ibis, the insurrectoa will retire,
made by our people to win the prise. freight cars to the lighter when the
Appl*»-Waxen. *0cff8t; Baldwin gated district on this continent, gov-
There
ia a ----------
rumor that the Insurrectoa
—----- i—
75c« 81 25; Northern Spy. Che© 81 50 ernment experts, railroad officials. cap- »re near jJuarex. but thia cannot be We have come out of the contest with crash came.
Only the Whistler's flagstaff haa
Know, 6126; Red Cheek Pippin, 61« italista and delegates from foreign verified. The net result of the battle honor and with clean hands. We have
won the respect and admiration of the t»een found. The freight car went up
125; Winter Banant^ 81 7502; Spits
at
Bauche
today
between
Oroxoco
and
rntierg. 815002 50. Yellow Nowtown ' countries.
world for pluck and energy, and every in a puff of dual. On the rear deck of
Former Judge Charles F. Fishback, Rabago was two killed and five wound-
81 76; Arkansas Black. 82; Delaware
one who attends will want to see what the barkentine Ingrid were found n
Red, 8176; Gano. 81 25; Wlncsap a member of the board of governors, «"<1 among the insurrectoa. The Federal Louisiana has done.
pair of iron trucks. They msy ba the
has interested 30 prominent business ¡<*s cannot be learned, as they carried
81.75.
"I believe the commercial organisa trucks of the dynamite csr or of one of
Sack Vegetable«—-Carrots, 81 httn and prof«»«sional men of Chicago in the ■ their wounded with them,
tions and the people generally will the other four cam standing near,
dred; parsnips. 11.5001.75; turnips work of the local board of control, of
come forward anil assure a handsome which were also torn to bits.
which be ia chairman, and the coopers
81; beets. 8125.
CAPITOL BUILDING BURNS.
state building and other displays.”
Fifty yards back stood another car
Vegetable«--Beans, 12% per lb.; tion of the people of Chicago and the
of dynamite. The explosion blew the
cabbage, 81 50,1 1 75 t-er hundred; millions tributary to this great central
doors in, but the dynamite itself did
cauliflower, 82 25 per crato; celery. market ia bound to be a tremendous Convicts Make Heroic Fight for Mis
BLUESTEM DOOMED TO GO.
not explode.
souri's Stats House.
California, 83 0 3 25 per crate; cucum aid to the movement, which has for its
On boerd the Ingrid, the steel mix*
hers. 82 ¡»er box; egg plant. 15c ¡»er chief pur|»<>s«-« the saving of forests.
Jefferson City, Mo.- The Missouri Walla Walla Farmers Say New Hy ten mast snapped off above the lower
lb.; garlic, 6c0IO per lb ; green on
storing of fl«xi waters, ’reclamation of Capitol building was totally destroyed
yards, and the tangled wreckage came
brid Variety Better.
Iona, 15c ¡»er d<>xen; head lettuce 50c
«60 per bog; hothouse lettuce. 75c« deserts and making homes on the land, by fire. The total lo»«, includine the
tumbling about the decks. Everything
Walla
Walla,
Wash.
—
That
blue
"The National Irrigation congress building and many records and state
81 per box; peppers. 15c per lb.;
aloft was leveled flat, but the steel
pumpkins, 1c01%c per lb.; radish»-« will have the support of our public- i papers, ia estimated at •1,000,000, stem wheat, fur many years the lead plates of the hull held.
spirited
men,
”
said
Judge
Fishback.
j
with
no
insurance.
30c «36 per doxen;
sprouts, 6c;
ing grain grown in the Walla Walla
For 100 feet the pier end was de
struck the
dome ra||
ine oome
wj||
d|,placed wlthin two molished. The planking seemed to
squash, lc0!% per lb.; tomatoes. "and with the assistance of our I Lightning which sirucx
friends In other psrts of tne country shortly after 7 o’cl lock spread flames i
82« 2.76 per box.
have been ground to powder.
Over
Potato«-»--Oregon,
buying
price there is every reason to believe that i to the roof and in less than half an or three years by a hybrid variety, is the broken e»lg»-s twisted steal rails of
81 3501 40 ¡»er hundred; sweet pot» the coming convention will be the most hour it was apparent that the building the opinion of leading farmers of the
tracks projected. A steel gondola car
toes, 83.75 ¡»er hundred.
I important in the history of the organ 1 was doomed.
Walla Walla valley in attendance at on the southernwat track looked like
Onions—Buying price, 82 per hun ixation."
Because of the inadequate water the Farmers’ convention here.
an old h«t used for ■ football.
dred.
pressure, the fire could not be reached.
All about were strange freaks of the
Bluestem,
they
point
out,
has
always
Poultry—Live:
hens,
19c02O;
Aviator Encircles Dorns.
and no aid could be rendered for some
Springs. l»c«19%; turkeys. 23c »23.
had fsults of being easy to burn, easy explosion. One freight car had the
Sacramento -Charles F. Willard, the t»®« by the local fire company.
ducks. 22c«23; geese, 13c014; dres»
to free».- out, and a light yiekier. Hy roof blown inward, as if it had been
Curtiss aviator, encircled the dome of ,^ Governor
G«»vern<.r Hadley personally directni
directed
e»l turkey«, choice. 25c© 26
brids originated at the Washington crushed by a falling boulder, but the
Fighting tb* fight ~
against
' * * the
* flames, which,
Egg» -Oregon ranch candled. ?0c® the Capitol here Monday.
state
college, they claim, do away with sides were undamaged.
one of the trickiest winds In his exper (»cause of the building's great age, all these faults, and add many virtues
32; Eastern, 27c« 10.
In the trainshed of the terminal,
rapidly
gained
great
headway.
The
Butter—City creamery extra, 1 and ience, Willard, in a flight that lasted
nearly the whole southern ex ¡»usure of
that
the
old
variety
never
hail.
Be
3 pound prints. In boxes. 35c per nearly an hour, raced from Agricultur ¡»enitentiary fire department wa called aides yielding better, they are hardier, the glass roof cullapsed, showering the
pound; less than boxes, cartons and al Park, the scene of the three days' to the scene and the convicts worked
Ono
and do not burn as easy as doea blue passengers with broken glass.
delivery extra.
meet just opened, to the capitol, swung heroically, scaling walls and taking stem. And the milling quality of at man was struck by a 20 pound frag
Pork—Fancy. 10%cO11% per lb.
dangerous
chances.
“
around the golden-tipped dome, drop
ment and so severely cut thst he died.
Veal—Fancy. 65 to 125 lbs . 13c«15 ping a message of greeting and wel
The local military company was least two of the hybrids io just as good An engineer in a shunting locomotive
as
is
that
of
Bluestem.
which
has
been
per lb.
come within three feet of the window called out and formed a cordon around raised simply because it brings two to waa blown from his cab and died of a
Cattle- Prime steers, 86 250* 50;
looking from the offlje of Governor ' the building, driving spectators from ’ six cents better to the bushel.
fractured skull.
A tugboat captain
good to choice steers. 8*0006 25;
Johnson,
and scudded upward and away I dangerous positions and removing rec
waa hurled from his wheelhouse snd
fair to goo<l steers, so.5006 00; com
Many
of
the
farmers
will
plant
ex
; ords.
tensively with the hybrids this spring. fished out of the water 15 minutes
m»»n steers, fl MOSOfi; choice to into the teeth of a strong wind.
later.
prime cows, 85 2505 50; good to
Gen. Piet Cronjs ia Dead,
Fadsrals Beslan at Coyome.
choice beef cow«, 84 7505 25; fair
Morgan's
Loan
Is
Rejected.
El Pasco, Tex. —- Mail advices ■ay
Kcrksdorp, Tranvaa) General Piet
to good beef cow«, 8< 2504 75; corn
Nude Art Shocks Pennsylvania.
New York.—Confirmation of recent
mon to fair beef cow«. •3 OO04.M; A. t'ronje, the noted Boer general, that a special train has arrived here
Harrisburg, Pa. No matter what
Piet from the Northeast, bringing many cable advices for Tegucigalpa, via San the
good to choice heifer«. 8'« 0005 50; died here Saturday, Feb. 4.
people of Pennsylvania may
fair to good heifers. 85 0005 50; com Cronje was commander of one of th«» wounded from the vicinity of Coyome. Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, that the have felt about the building of the
mon tn fair heifer«. 8t Off 4 25; choice Boer armies in the early part of the Chihuahua, where the rebels defeatoi
Honduran congress has refused to ap state capitol, there ia going to be noth
to good fat bulls. 84 5004 75; fair to war with Great Britain, which laated the Federal» and killed 170.
The cor- ;
good fat bulls. 8* 00« I 25; common from October, 1 ><99 to June, 1901. He respondent says the death list ia con prove the Morgan loan transaction, ing shocking about the statuary that
Far from auch.
bulls, 82 5003 25; good to choice light occupied a strong position at Magers- firmed by several mining men. all of was supplied by Senor Parades, the adorns Ito fronL
Beautiful white drapery made of plas
cal87 75«6 00; fair to goo«! light
Honduran
financial
agent
in
thia
coun
calve«. 87 0007 50; good to choice dorp in the Orange Free state in Ds- whom report the people In the region try, whose special mission was to ne ter of Paris to match the exquisite
1699, and repelled several are out of auppliea and almost starving.
white of th» marble—genuine— of the
heavy calve«. •6.250 6 00; fair to good cembcr
gotiate the loan. Senor Parades said
heavy calve«. 84 7505 25; common reckless assaults from the British force -One man says he saw 19 Federal
nude figure», has been added to the
he
had
received
a
telegram
from
Presi
calve«. 83.750 4 76; good to choice 'under General Lord Wethercn, who wounded guarded by soldiers and that
group that is to adorn the front facade.
he saw also a wagon load of uniforms dent Davila, announcing the rejection The first figures have been put up and
«tags 85 00 0 5.35; fair to good stag« suffervd terrible Ineses.
of the loan convention by the congress
taken from the Federal dead.
84 0004 50
Harrisburg people are admiring th«
Puerto Cortex Taken Over.
of Honduras.
Hogs—Choice hogs.
8' 4509 00;
nightgown-like effect
Ssa
Wipes
Out
Village.
good to choice hogs. 8* 5008 85.
Puerto Cortes. Honduras General
Sheep—Tearllng wethers, grain fed. Ix-e Christmas, the revolutionary mili
Blirrard Sweeps Nome,
Helsingfors, Norway — An entire
H»lsn Pink" Rsplscsx "Alics Blus.’
»
’ •
rs, grain IM tary leader, arrived here with parts of Ashing village of 253 men which had
Nome.—The worst blixxard of the
Washington-"Helen pink" has sup-
3 7504 36; good to choice ewes grain his force to take over the administra been established on the ice outside season is raging here and there io much
planted "Alice blue” among Washing-
fed 83 7503 75; feeders. 87 2503 00;
tion of this city, evacuated several Bkorko Sound, was carried out to sea suffering on the trail. Thomas White ton_* ’mBrt **L Ever since Miss Hel-
choice lambs, grain fed, 86.2606 Ml;
good to choice, grain fed. 86 000 days ago by the government troops and In a gale on Friday nighL The discs* died of heart disease following expos en Taft assumed the leadership among
«25; fair to good. 85 260 5.76; poor held by the international forces pend ter was not diecoverred until morning, ure to the extreme cold. Ed Johnson the younger set thia color has been
ing the arrival of the revolutionist«. when the village was already out of was brought in with both feet froaen growing favor. The president’s daugh
lambs. 84 95 0 5 00.
Hay fed sheep »ad lambs, 60c lower Fuerte Cortes is the m«i«t important sight. Boats have been sent to the and must submit to amputation to save ter s chosen eolor is a brilliant Ameri-
¡port on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. I roecue, but have not yet returned.
bis life.
than grain fed.
can Beauty pink, verfint
red.
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
Givernment Troops Take Ad
vantage of Rebels’ Delay.
New York Harbor .Scene of
Terrific Explosion.