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•¿JUL.
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
HUNDREDS DIE FROM HEAT
Middls
West 8>ggi«d Under
Sun ths Fourth.
NOTED EDUCATOR WHO REFUSES TO RUN TOR RE ELECTION
AS PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Torrid
Chicago
From all over the Middle
West dispatch«-» are pouring ln/wlib
the ru<-»*agc that this was the hottest
Fourth of July cMWrlcnced slno* the
records were first k*-pL From West
ern Kansas to the Atlantic sealsvard
the extreme h«*at exacted Its toll «1
«leath. drove im-n to suicide and left
General Resuma of Important Event*
huudreds prosit al«* ami Suffering
Presented in Condensed Form
It was the third day of an ascend
for Our Busy Reader*.
Ing scale of temjreratures and the
unwelcome new» Is offered that tire
top of the bill may not yet bate been
Salem, Oregon, annual cherry fa
reached.
»op. OS.
There war rain In the far North
President Taft Is spending a frw west and a temporary lessening of
Aa
day*
ou his llngshlp, the Mayfiowe-- the thermal stress but from that re
talking politics.
glon comes
Information
American archers are jdannlng tn deaths lna«le up the tribute
hunt cougars, wildcats ami jsircupl It** tallty.
In th«- wilds of British Columbia
In Chicago, which seen:
Hpe<lal victim, the fflclal Go
Victims of the Intense heat In the thermometer In the lofty d«*ii ur u( thv
East for July 6. are
Chic: tig
st : Federal
al building registt-red •I
New York, 44. Philadelphia. 14 l loa lime log.
10J.
With on«
t«*n. 49
JltD4 1901, It was the hiKheM
tem|>erature <wer tMorded in
Five hundred loaves of
In street th kettnoineten the
hrowu bread w«*re destroyed
at midnight •t<K»d firm nt 94
land to fln«l a diamond i
Chicago's toll of death
from a miiers tinger.
Horses se«<ti ued to aufier tuorv than
The Standard Oil Company Is to lie their masters.
Despite
cooling
hr«
reorganited and split Into 15 or 3P
part*, each oja-ratlng In It« own tor •prang up over night. 20
recorded In New York,
ritory Independent
had nine and l'lttsburg 15, and In
panie».
all three cltb*s there w sre hundreds
An expert Board of Engineers ot
■f prostrations of a serie us character
the navy will make a thorough esani
In th«- d> atli lists due d! Irectiy to the!
Inatlon In order to ascertain. If |>o*
heat no accouut is tak< ?n of liable»
• lb)e. the exact cause of th® wrtMck
who are dying by scorei l. The conn I
of the battleship Maine
try at large re|«»rta an aggregate of
Mil«. Ill *
The automobile of J II Kelly blew more than 50 drowning* for the day.
up at Grants Pass. Ore . burning to which profierly belong In the heaf
death bl* llyenr-ul«! daughter an<! casual U m , a» the victim» were »lain J
PASSENGEPS
SAVED.
The gaso while trying to escape from the tor ■
n-rlously Injuring four,
•*
line tank «a* at ruck by a projecting rlulty.
Kanias
City
refsirt* four deaths Santa Rosa Breaks Amidships
rock In the road.
from heat and a score of prost rath
Reef on California Coast.
Miss Ixils Warwick age«! 75, 01 •ome of them serious.
icrious. Topeka.
To|ieka. R«*
lalla and At< hl»on. Kan . »»« lt«-r«*«l
Ran Francisco, wbosc uilnd I» d.
Surf. Cal
The second officer
...
- . - - - . Ranta Rosa,
T< v.i
ranged. was taken from a train it. ind« r r« tompsratur* of ¡"4
Minnesota und It was found that h«
tKilnts came within th« scope of th" the l'acinc Coast Steamship Cotntmny
<
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dothlng was "lltorallv llned" «Ith -iuperheat«-«! area and temiH-raturev which went ashore at Point Arguvlla
K«>ld plecv* amountlng lo 112.1100.
went skyrocketing
early Friday, were drowned when a
In Rt l«oul*. street thermometer» IlfelMist «apslx-d while the lessen
PORTLAND MARKETS.
registered a* high as loti and 110 g«-rs of the wrecked vessel were tie
I'wo men. drb«*n mad by tin- heat Ing taken ashore by the c rew late
The official ! In the night.
Blu«*»tem. 97 took their own Ilves
\\ I., ,it Trai k l-ili*-
Pittsburg ex' I
I'nconBrmed reports are that a
-o,
. ut . *•» fl 8«C
Russian. »5*1 emperature was 101.
uerlenccd tetnperaturva quite as high number of passengers, variously e*tl
F«c; Valley 8«c; 4" fohl *5*1 M»c
is those at Hl. larul*.
All through mated nt from three to twec-y al«n
Mlllstuffs— Bran »24 .50« 28 per t<>n.
)hlo, Indiana. Illlmd* and Southern are missing.
»25
in
:
2Í
shorts,
Ml
middling«, I
Michigan. Fourth of July celebration*
Owing to the Isolation of the scene
rnlled barley »29« 30.
were curtailed
Chicago »hare* with <,f the wreck and difficulty In the op
enuk'-d, »II pc*
Cora— Whole.
nany others the danger ot a «learth "ration of the wire less and telegraph
ton,
if Ice.
Emergency deliver!«* are lines accurate Information w a* unob
Barley ■Choice feed. |27 (I 27.50 pel
r«-d:t«-d with saving many llv«-s In tainable at a late hour.
ton.
the hospital*, and the Ice companies
The vessel cracked amldshlt«« at
Oats— No.
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have sent out idea* to private fam 5 30 P. M . with all the l>a**etiger* on
per ton.
Iles and hotel* to curtail the con . lM>ar«l
It split In two, half an hour
Ilay—Timothy, 818*121 per ton
•uni pilou of Ice a* much a* poulble later, with the 285
2k
iwiul* on board
alfalfa »12 50*113; clover, new. I«
It was a Godsend to the poor that huddled In the forward section
fj9; gratti hay. new, Il"
they did not have to work In lac
At 10:30 P. M . the last of the crew
Fresh Fruii Rtrawbcrrles |1 <i I ■
j-er erste; gnnaa-berrlea, 5*1Oc jh * i lorie» the Fourth
were taken from the vessel In th ■
pound; chcrrlc». 5*pl6c per pound
brvc« h«-» buoy, leaving only Cajdaiti
sprlciUs |I5O per erste: cantaloupe*
K O. Faria and 10 volunteers on th«*
TROOPS SAVE AIRSHIP
12« 2 35 ; peaches. »1 50; « atrrinvl
wreck««! vesM-l The vessel. Its carg'i
ft
75
i
<t
jicr
pound;
plum*.
ons, 2c
and all the belongings of the passen
Ma
Angered
Cowboys
Would
Throw
ra*|iberrle*.
»1
75;
logan
ber
crai*;
gers are lost.
rie*. SI .75«2; black ca|Mt. I.’ *i J 25.
chine In the Yellowstone.
As th«* »hades of evening fell, the
l'Iutns. »1 50*i 1 75 per box; prune*,
tedious work of rescue, rife with
i
h<*
Gh-ndlve.
Mont.
—
A
comjiany
of
Il 50« 1 75 per !»ox.
heart-rending Incidents commenced
VegetablM Asparagus. 75*185c per state militia today, by quick action The last shadow of th« • Nd* ttlng sun sift
prevented
an
tnd
pointed
bayonet*,
doge n ; bean*. 7« 8c; cabbage, »3*1
Ing through the Iron death forecasting
2 25 l«er hundredweight; corn. 40« angry crowd headed by a numtwi
chasm of the burst vessel silhouette«!
r.oc l>«-r <!oz«'n; cucumbers. »I4 i 12>5 «if cowboy* from running an aero
the scores of passenger* against the
per box; eggplant. 5c per ismtid. gar plane Into th«* Yellowstone River,
Felix Schmidt, «larkenlug sunset. A heavy wall arose
Ile, lo*i 12c |"'r pound: lettuce. 30« because It did not fly
|,«r «|oz*-n; hot house lettuce i Chicago aviator, and his mechanl I from the brate crowd waiting on the
»125/1175 p< r box. |'«-as 4 4:5c ; «-r clan, Eugene Grubbin. fled j«nnlc beach to atari the work of caving
pound; |,ci>i>ers. 25« 30c per pound stricken when the cowboys yelled for ; Ilves.
It was 5 45 P M , that the fir*’
radishes. 12’*c per d>i»»*n. rhubarb, them to be thrown Into the river
imat, containing Third Engineer C
2'*f2i*<- per jsiund; tomatoes. »1 n with the airship.
1.75.
Major D. J. Donohtle. of th«* H«>con<! Brown and it woman passenger left
Hack Vegetables--New carrots, >2 , Regiment. Montana National Guard. the III fate«! ve»»el. They doused Into
jer sack, turnips. *2. beets, »2
I saved tire day for the airship
Real the breaker* amid cries from thorn* on
They were lifted out and the
Potatoes Old. »303.25 per him Hing the seriousness of the situation. shore
dred; new California, 3H04c per • he ordered the soldier* to fix their landsmen cheered.
pound.
Brow n carried a line to shore an !
tmyonets and charge back the crowd.
12 21;
Onlona- -Yellow,
red.
I ; w hlch already had the machine halt when he lutd effected a landing, after
whlte, »3 P<-r hundred
| way to the river, and *a* traveling the desperate battle with the wave*,
15*f18c;
Poultry —Hen».
Spring*
a net was rigged on the shore Un«
- swiftly.
1 k ♦: 3<>c;
■lucks,
young,
14 It 15c:
and .the passengers, women and ehll
Heveral
thousand
spectators
had
gee»«, lie! turkeys, 2l>c; dressed
«Iren flrat, w«-re taken from the floun
wafted
for
several
hours
for
Schmidt
chofrc, 25c.
dering ship, three and four at a time
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled. 22« to fly and when word was announced
The throbbing spectacle seemed tn
!
there
no
flight*.
a
cow
Im
y
would
be
23c per dosen; case count, 2O*|21c;
last for hours Every five minutes the
the
thing
Into
the
to
dump
I
yelled
April firsts. 25c.
| river. A lariat whistle«! through the net on the shore line at which fren
Butter—City creamery extra 1 «nd
tied men and women tugged, landed
2 pound print«, in lanes. 24<* per , air. encircled Itself about the pro-
women and children In groupa of
l*Mind: le** than I mi * Iota, cartons pellcr of the aeroplane, a hundred
hands grabls-d the rope and with a three on the sand.
and delivery extra
Just before the vessel burst, a life
cowtxiy astride his horse, a quick
Pork- — Fancy, 9*i I Or per jmund
Veal Fancy, ll*tll*4c per pound trot was made for the Yellowstone's boat containing the second officer
an«! Seamen Fred Johnson. E W
Hop* — 1911
contract*.
25c
per bank.
Jebsen. John Pflffer and Oscar Peter
pound. 1910 crop. 23c; 1909 crop, ISc;
son. dashed to bit* against the side*
olds. Sil 10c
of the ve«*c|.
Oscar Peterson was
Floods Cover Bulgaria.
Mohair—Choice,
3«©37Hc
per
washed ashore helpless and the other
ponntl
Phlllpopolis, Bulgaria.—The damage
four lost their Ilves.
Wrml - Eastern Oregon. 114117c i*« r
jsuinil according to shrinkage; Vai done by the recent floods Is enormous.
icy, 15« 17c per pound.
SUFFRAGE WILL BE ISSUE.
The monetary loss la estimated at
|2<*.oooo.ooil.
Many bu'ldlngs were
t'atll«* Prime hay fed steers, 4
.11«.
•'25; choice, . »5 75««;
75,1«. fair to g--*sl washed away by the rain swollen
Man Losing Jeb by Woman's Vote to
,5 25 ■> 5 50 common. »5*f5
streams and crops and market gar Boost It, Nevertheless, to Teacher*.
Cows »5 u 5 25; goo«l to choice. »150 dens were ruined In wide areas
Ran Francisco—An effort will tie
*1 4.75;
r to good. 14 25*i 4 8®;
Now a water famine threatens the
25. choice heifer* |5«i city, as the mains have been uncov made to force the Issue of woman
pone
5 50;' <
bull*. Il 25«i I 75. choice ered and ao torn apart that a month suffrage upon the National Education
»7 417 50; good to choice will tie required with their repair.
al Association, and by a man. too,
light <
»<'>75*i7; ch«dce heavy
light
The Inhabitants of many villages In when John Francis Murray, et State
to choice, »I 25y 4 50,
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the south of Bulgaria have sought Suiirrintendent of Public Instruction
calves 7 »5*15 541; choice stags. 83*i
In Colorado—by the way, the last
refuge In the mountain*.
5 25; good to choice stag* JI7f>«i 5
man to hold the job -presents to the
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Hogs—Choice
hogs
convention's committee on
résolu-
good to choice, »g 704f«9O; chotee
i
Ely Fac*a Peril In Air.
8« 25*1« 40; common. »50«;
stock.
Reno. Nev—After barely skimming
Troop* to Halt Castro.
»«'* 75 - 7 5o
Caracas—The Venesuelan Govern
Hheep- Choice Rprlng lambs »5 4t a clump of treea In the start, running
8; eholc* vearllng* »I75.il
g«»>d the gauntlet of cold and bot air strata meat, In order to be In readiness for
eventuality
that
may
arise
to choice yearlings. ».1 50*fJ 75; fair above the Truckee River and attain any
to m«dlum »3*»3 50; choice ewes, »5 ing a height of 5041 feet, only to be through the landing on the Goajtra
«3 50; goo«1 to choice ewes. »2«5’i1. warned by grinding noises that the Peninsula of Cipriano Castro, the ex
fair to medium. »2 50« 2 75: gews! to machine was crippled. Eugene Ely lied president of the republic, haa
choice heavy wether*. »150<f3 75: nade a perilous but successful descent dispatched two battalion* of troop*
old heavy wether*. »3 (J 3.50; mixed here July 4 In his Curtiss biplane af thither on th* warship General Lo-
lots, »4(| 5.
ter a flight of five mile*.
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Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
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HOT DAY ADDS
TO DEATH LIST
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Showers Fill Chicago Streets
With Steam.
Total Deaths 300 Mors Thsn Pr*
Vious Week Stock D>* or Ran»
ges Crops Destroyed.
Murray
bead of
Colo
educati*
apartment thirltn*
• nd IN 4. during the term of
Waite. Ihiring hl* term the
franchise was extended to women in
Colorado, and at the next election a
woman was elected to succeed Mui-
ray and
offlc»* of State Hujx*rln-
n«l the office
tendent tn Colorado ha* ever since
been held by a woman.
Mr Murray ha* lieen a resident of
San Francisco for a number of year*
and I* now secretary of the California
Democratic State Central Committee
But the fact that woman suffrage
robbed him of hl* job. and for nearly a
»core of year* ha* kept any other man
out of the office, ha* not In the least
lesM’acd Murray * ardor for equal suf
frage. a* proved by the radical set of
resolution*, drawn by him, which he
will prenent to the National Educa
Uonal Association Convention.
EXPERTS TO EXAMINE MAINE
July 10.
Fourteen more
ieath* had been addevl to the appalling
list due to the heat at 9 o'clock to
night. The temperature hovered near
the 90-d<-gre<* mark throughout the
day, but the humidity was
more
mark«1 than ever ami intensified the
suffering.
Dispatch«» from outside
jaunt* indicate that the two day»' re-
spite from torrtdity had been endevi in
temperature
many place« and that the
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Is rising again at all point*.
sprinkle of rain fell this afternoon,
but it was turned to steam the mo-
ment it »truck the hot 1 pavements and
reasing the »uffer-
buidings, thus
mg.
Chicago's death rate jumped to the
highest point in many year* this week.
Burial jwrmit* had been ik.aued for
M2 person* up to Sunday night, and
it is considered probable that there
will lie S|>piications for approximately
Not nil of th«--c
r<H) more tonight,
are direct victim* of the heat, but a
in that class,
Ninety of the number weie stricken
ileail by the sun.
The total number of deaths WM 800
more than the previous week, and the
mortality among babie« was more
than doubled. One hundred and sixty-
five babies died from heat causes.
The alarming
infant
mortality is
causing much anxiety in the health
dejiartment and special nurses and
physicians are being sent through th«*
congested districts to assist mothers.
Free ice is being distributed to all the
poor and poster* printed in many lan
guages are placisl in the Ghetto ami
elsewhere warning parents of the need
of especial care of childen.
Advice* from <wintry districts say
the corn crop is again imjieriled. Ok
lahoma reports that everything except
.-.■I', n
jir.i.-t illy -i<-.-*tr- vi ard .«,
js-als are coming in to the governor t<»
take steps to help people w ho are al
ready destitute.
Rains and cooler
weather are reported in 5! ississijipi
and Western Arkansas.
Dispatches from Galveston say that
thousands of cattle are perishing on
the Western Texas rang« -, where the
long drouth has burned off the grass.
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POTATOES NEVER SO HIGH.
Exact Cause of Explosion Sought By
Drouth Follows Frost in California—
Navy Department.
Washington, July •>—A board of
naval expert* I* being »elected by
the Navy Department to «study the
hull of the battleship Maine, In Ila
vana harbor as the water Is pumped
from the cofferdam now surrounding
th«- wreck
The Navy Dejiarf ment officers are
confident that the examination will
prove the correctness of the findings
of the Sampson board. which decided
that the explosion which sank the
Maine was caused by a torjx-do ot
mln«- and that the explosion of «hip's
magazines followed
In view of the renewed Interest at
ta< hlng to the actual cause of the
d* • I ruction of the Maine, General
W. H Blxbee, chl«-f of engineer*, w ho
has just returned from Havana, to
day Issued the following signed state
ment:
The work of unwatering the Maine
■<■ far prove* nothing m to the origin
of th«* explosion of the magazines,
but already »hows such extensive de
st ruction from the forward part of
th«' boat that It 1» quite probable that
fuller unwatering will fall to give any
proof* either way ns to the origin
of such explosion«,
I have s<i far
mail«* no report* or statements as to
the origin of the explosion."
JUDGE READY TO FIGHT
Court
Resent* Charge He
tored" Cox Papers.
“Doc
Cincinnati
Charging that Judge
W illiatn Dickson had mutilated the
rc« ««r«l of George B Cox perjury ea*-*'.
Prosecuting
Attorney
Avery pre-
cipilated a jiervonal encounter in the
chamber that ended in his being or-
derril to leave the room. The irate
judge is said to have offered to set
tle the dispute by personal combat.
The trouble ar««*-«* when Avery and
another assistant prosecutor went to
Judge Dickson, who recently quashed
the indictment ngainst Cox, and com-
plained that the bill of exceptions
bv which the state hopes to get the
cn-M* into the Supreme Court of the
state had been altered by the jurist.
Government Pay* Double.
San Franci*co That good old stand
by. the potato, was never before so
high in price as this year, is the *ad
fact gleaned from local produce men
who know whereof they speak. The
king of the vegetables, however, is
not the only exalted member of that
kingdom, for orange*, apricot.«, cher
ries and pears have advanced and even
the lowly and odorous onion has risen
to such height* that a »mall fortune is
necessary to buy a boiled dinner.
During the early jtarl of the season
the crop of early potatoes wa* nipped
by an unexpected and unusual frost.
Immediately the demand for that veg
etable for home consumption and the
export trade greatly exceeded the sup
ply.
Government
contracts took
from th* local
market* enormous
quantities of potatoes. Now that ex
cessive heat ha* almost ruined the
crops in the truck-raising country in
the East. California will have to stand
the brunt of the demamis (or Western
fruits and vegetables. As the pick of
California fruit* and vegetables al
ways go East, a more serious problem
will soon be confronting the local mar
ket*.
Prices paid last year for government
potatoes WM 81.14 per hundred, while
this year the potatoes are costing the
government 82.53.
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Castro's Course Mystery.
Caracas, Venezuela — The govern
ment haa not been able to confirm that
Cipriano Castro haa landed in Venezu
ela or in neighboring territory,
it is
not considered possible that the ex
president, even if he ha* secured a foot
hold in Venezuela, has lieen able to get
any considerable following. Neverthe
less. troops have already been dis
patched to the gulf of Maracaibo. Cas
tro ia reported to have made his land
ing on the Goajira peninsula, in Co
lombia.
D*rigibl* Make* Naw Record.
Compeigne, France The dirigbie
balloon Clement Bayard IV, which
Horn Blower In Prl«cn.
Saturday
Akron. O.—Because Thoma* Fisher started at 10'50 o'clock
coni«! not play "Yankee Doodle" to night on a 24-hour trial trip, flying
stilt Mayor Hawver when arraigned between Compeigne and Soisson*. de
In police court, charged with disturb scended at 2 :45 o'clock Sunday after
Ing the peace by tooting a large noon, having beaten the world> dirig
bM* born In hl* bearing on the ible record for time and distance over
Fourth, he was lined.
The officer a fixed circuit.
The dirigible will
who made the arreat declared Fisher become a part of the French aerial
was making an awful noise.”
fleet.
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