CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume of Important Event!
Presented in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
The United States .* preparing for
intervention in Hayti.
Admiral Togo has arrived in New
York City on a visit to America.
The senate has pass«! the ^appor
tionment bill, insuring another repre
sentative for Oregon.
Wool merchants of San Francisco
are up in arms against the new wool
tariff, saying Japan will profit by it.
An angry ball-player at Seattle
hurled the ball at the umpire's head
and then knocked him senseless with
a blow from his flat.
The International Harvester com-
pany will wage active war against
tuberculosis in all its great manufac
turing establishments.
ASSAY OFFICES DOOMED.
Government Says Operation
Considerable Loes,
Is
By
Washington, D. C. - More land
marks of the Old West will begin to
disappear January 1, unless congress
should pass legislation to maintsm the
Western assay offices on their present
basis.
The government has decided to
double the charge for assaying at
Deadwood, Carson, Salt Lake, Helena,
Boise, and Seattle. Members of con
gress from those places protest that
increased charges will close the offices
because the mining companies will
prefer to send their gold to the mints,
where the assaying charge will not be
increased.
Treasury officials say the offices
have been a dead lose for years. Se
attle, they say, does quite a business
in assaying gold that comes from
Alaska, but at all others the govern
ment loses money.
The government established most
of these offices in the stirring days
when a messenger setting out with a
fortune in his saddle bag often failed
to return, and the professional "as-
sayer" was classed with the card
sharper and the "gun man."
No
miner was assured of an honest assay
of his treasure.
But with the advent of mining ma
chinery the offices became less useful
because many of the big companies
sent their gold direct to the mints.
MORGAN WILL BE CALLED.
Many bones have been found in the
wreck of the battleship Maine, but it
is ns yet impossible to remove them Financier of Steal Trust to Be Put
from the tangled iron and steel.
on Defensive.
A San Francisco woman who shot
ar.d killAd her worthless, drunken hus
band because she could not reform
him. wan released on 1100 bail and
will probably lie acquitted on grounds
of temporary insanity.
A clone and friendly understanding
between Germany and Japan as re-
ga ds questions affecting their inter
• sts in the Pacific is foreshadowed as
a probable direct result of the Anglo-
American arbitration treaty.
Six German soldiers were found on
the French frontier, where they had
cut the telegraph wires and broken
down several poles.
PORTLAND
MARKETS.
New York The congressional com
mittee of inquiry Into the United
States Corporation is now desirous of
hearing ¡x-monally from J. Pierpont
Morgan with regard to the absorption
of the Tennessee Coal & Iron company
by the Steel corporation in 1097. This
was made known here at the commit
tee headquarters
That a subpoena will be issued
within a few days for Charles M
Schwab, ex-president of the corpira-
tion, also was revealed.
"The liest man to defend J. P. Mor
gan for his ;>art in the Tennessee Coal
A- Iron transactions," said Chairman
Staley, "is Mr Morgan ' himself. I
sincerely hope that Mr. Morgan’s en-
gsgements in Europe will not deter
him from appearing. Mr. Morgan's
own story of that transaction and the
momentous events at the time of that
financial panic, and the effect of the
steel stock transfer in the midst of it
are certain to be of great value."
That the New York financier will !>e
subpena«! to appear before the com
mittee when he does return now seems
certain.
RICH MAN COINS
BOGUS MONEY
Wealthy San Franciscan Is An
Expert Counterfeiter.
Formerly Accomplished Metal Work
er, Claims Me First Made Bad
Coins As Pastime.
San Francisco--George Wilson, the
most skillful counterfeiter of gold
coins ever captured in San Francisco,
was arrested by secret service opera
tives and has made a complete con
fession.
At his home, a $10,000
house in a fashionable street of the
Richmond district, the secret service
men found a complete outfit for mak
ing counterfeit $5 coins. JVhen Wil
son was searched 15 coins bf his own
make were in his possession.
He is
reputed to be moderately wealthy.
The perfection of the molds and the
startlingly fine workmanship of the
counterfeits drew from the officers
the statement that the coins are the
most nearly perfect ever seen.
Wil
son formerly was an expert metal
worker.
For some time the secret service
men worked quietly in tracing the
authorship of the almost perfect $5
counterfeit coins. When srrested Wil
son at once confessed and led the
secret service men to the hiding place
of his molds and counterfeiting tools.
These were kept in a desk drawer in
the living room of the Wilson home.
Mrs Wilson, a nervous woman, who
has lived for weeks in terror of just
such a termination of her husband's
work, collapsed when the
officer*
crosM-d her threshold
Wil»n h.«l
not been content with the plaster of
paris molds used bv tfir unskilled coun
terfeiter, but constructed his of cop
per. cast with wonderful skill, and in
both the old and new designs of the
fivc-dollar coins.
In his confession Wilson implicated
his wife, but said that she did not
pass any of the illegal coins and had
no part in their production. She was
not arrested.
Wilson bore a good reputation. He
was well-known in the Richmond dis
trict, where he had lived for some
time. His ham)some home is sur
rounded by residences of many of San
Francisco's best-known business men,
many of whom were his friends. Wil
son said that he began making the
coin* experimentally, anti they looked
so good to him that he could not resist
the temptation to make more of them.
GERMANS ATTACK EMPEROR
Moroccan Quesbon Settlement Cause
of Trouble.
Berlin— The prospect of a speedy
settlement of the Monicran question
between Germany and France is wel
comed on every hand, but the term*
of the agreement wpn they become
known, probably will cause considera
ble dissatisfaction.
Details still remain to be arranged.
Both Germany and France have been
compelled to concede Weighty pointe
because neither was prepared to press
matters too far.
The first indications of indignation
have appeared in the Pan-German
Post and Zukunft. the organ of Maxi-
milien Harden.
The leading article
of the Pan-Gerfiian Post not only at
tacks foreign minister Von Kiderlin-
Waechter and Imperial Chancellor
Von Bethmann-Hollwrg, and demands
their retirement from office, but
makes a terrific onslaught upon Em
peror William, asking .
"What has happen«! to the Hohen-
Bollerns?"
It also calls the emperor the strong
est supporter of the Anglo-French
policy.*
The Pan-German Post concludes by
calling the emperor "William the
Timid," and "The Valorous Poltroon."
Herr Arden in the Zukunft also at
tacks His Majesty severely, naming
him "William the Peaceful."
MEAT INQUIRY OROERED.
Freight Rales to Be Special Subject
of Commission's Quest.
Washington, D. C. A sweeping in
quiry, numbering 162 railroads in the
West, South and Southwest, as re
spondents. was ordered by the inter
state commerce commission into the
freight rates charg«i on livestock,
fresh meats and packing house prod
ucts. It is indicated by the commis
sion that the purpose of the inquiry is
not only to secure a parity of rates,
but to establish by definite order,
rates which the commission shall re
gard as reasonable and not unjustly
discriminatory.
Incidentally,
commercial rivalry
between two sets of meat packer* in
Chicago enter* into the case.
In view of the great importance of
the several proceeding* heretofore in-
stitut«!, it was decided by the com
mission to consolidate them into one
case. It was regarded a* next to im
possible so to adjust the rates as to
insure parity of charges throughout
the territory by the consideration and
disposition of individual cases.
HAYTI PRESIDENT
PUT TO FLIGHT
Island Rebels Triumph and
Ruler Forced to Quit.
Government Chamberlain Slain and
Five Others of Party Killed—
Daughter Wounded.
Port Au Prine«. Hsyti The revolu
tion in Hayti has triumphed.
Presi
dent Simon fled the capita) Thursday
and took refuge on board the Haytian
cruiser Seventeenth of December,
formerly the yacht American.
With
him went hie wife and children and a
number of his follower*.
On ail sides the capital is invest«!
by followers of General Firmin, one of
the revolutionary leaders.
The city
itself is in the hands of a committee
of safety and there is no general dis
order. Foreign interests are believed
to be secure.
None of the foreign
warships has landed bluejackets.
As the sged president was embark
ing there was a clash in which hie
chamberlain. Deputy Prin, and five
other persons were killed and Clemen
tina Simon, his daughter, and six
other persons were wounded.
The
injuries of Miss Simon are slight.
Promptly at 4 o’clock Simon came
out of the main entrance of the palace.
Over hi* shoulder the old man. who
had drclarvd that he would fight to
the end, carried his rifle. With head
erect, he marched down to the wharf.
At hi* side his daughter, Clemen
tina, walk«!. Other members of his
family previously had taken refuge on
board the Seventeenth of December.
As Simon and his daughter reached
the wharf there was a rush from the
mob, which had gathered to witness
the departure. Miss Simon was the
center of the attack, and several wo
men, howling and shrieking, succeed-
«1 in pulling off her hat. The chief
of police l«i the young woman toward
a schooner, and Deputy Prin offered
Flis arm to Miss Simon.
As he did so a man rush«! up and,
pressing the barrel of his rifle into the
deputy's face, shot and kill«! him.
Firing became general and before it
ceased five other persons had been
killed and six wounded.
Wheat New crop, Rluestcm, HOoi
Hlc; club, 75<ii76c; red Russian, 74c;
valley.
Millstuff» Bran, $24.5<k<i 25; mid
dlings, $32; shorts, $25.60<>i26; rolled
HEAT RECORD IS MADE.
barley, $2H6i 29.
TOGO RIDES WITH ENGINEER
Corn Whole, 1.13, cracked, $34 ton.
Barley New Feed, 124.50 per ton:
Summer Hottest in United States
brewing. $2M per ton.
Noted Japanese Admires America's
For Forty Years.
Oats Old white. $25 ton; new, $24
Electrical Eminence.
Washington,
D. C.—Not in the past
JAILS PLACES OF EASE.
Iley Timothy, valley, $15oi 16; al
New York Admiral Togo left New 40 years have temperatures in the
falfa. $11; clover, $M.50i<i9; grain
York Friday night for Washington. Unit«! States during the late spring
WRECK GIVES UP BONES,
hay, $ 10.
Federal Judge Seeks Real Punish
His departure had a feature quite as and early summer been so uniformly
Fresh Fruits Cherries, Lamberts.
ment for Guilty Forgers.
unusuail as hi* midnight arrival and high for so long a period and over
Engineer«
Find
Relle*
of
Msme
Vic
$2.50<-i3 j>er bog; apricots, $l«( 1.25
welcome in New York bay the night such a large portion of the country as
St. ixMiia, Mo. Federal Judge Dyer
tim* on Every Mend.
|>er crate; cantaloupes, $1.5(k>i2.25
before, for he left the city in the cab this year, according to Weather Bu
per crate; peaches, 75coi$1.5o per is looking for a Missouri jail where
Havana With the gas-bla*t appar of a big electric engine, drawing a reau officials. The high tem|M-ratures
Federal
prisoners
are
kept
in
confine
box; watermelons, lc per pound;
were moat pronounc«! over the more
plums, $1.75 per crate; prunes. $1.75 ment, and not allowed to go fishing. atus installed by the engineers, the heavy Pennsylvania train for the capi
central and northern portions of the
tangled barnacled mass that was once tal.
per box; new apples, $l.75o;2.50 per The judge made his wishes known in
the United States battleship Maine is
Although the private car Olivette, country, while the Southern states
box; raspberries, $1.7561 1.65; logan pasting sentence on a forger of money
being dislodged from the muck of the which the government has provided were comparatively exempt from un
orders.
He
fixed
the
punishment
at
berries,
$1.25*11.75;
blackberries.
harbor, where it was sunk by a mys for him, was attached to the trjiin. the usual heat
six months in jail,
1.756!1.90; |>ears. $2.50 per box.
naval hero elected to sit by the en
The intense heat over the more pop
"But," said Judge Dyer, "1 want a terious explosion in 1696.
Vegetables
Beans. A*» 10c; cab
Within the past week almost every gineer's side and watch him operate ulous sections caused severe suffering
few
days
tn
determine
what
jail
I
will
bage, $l.5ooi2 per hundred; com. 30
step taken by the engineers in the ex the 4.000-horscpower motor.
in the congert«! portions of the cities
<>r40c per doten; cucumbers, $U<il.25 send the prisoner to. Recently 1 heart)
"1 am intensely interest«! in your and resulted in the loss of probably
ploration of the wreck has revealed
per br
eggplant, 16c per pound; that government prisoners are allowed
the bones of ill-fated men-o'-war*men world pre-eminence in electrical en thousands of lives.
garlic, 1 ten 12c per pound; lettuce. 30 absolute freedom in the rural jails.
who went down with her.
gineering and railroading," the little
Lack of rainfall over the great agri
"I
have
been
told
that
prisoners
oi 36c per tloxen; hot house lettuce,
Of the remains found this week, admiral sai l through his interpreter, cultural districts during most of the
$l.25oi 1.76 per box; peas, 4615c per sent to Montgomery City were permit
only one set of bones has been identi "and I wish to avail myself of thia op long heated period greatly retarded
pound; peppers, 9»<rl0c;
radishes, ted to go out and fish al) day and re
fied. and in this instance it is possible portunity to observe, so 1 will ride vegetable growth and threatened a
turn
to
jail
at
nighL
1
also
heart!
of
I2|c ;>er doxrn; rhubarb, 2$6i3c per
with the engineer. ”
serious 'curtailment of crop produc
pound; tomatoes, 90e<«i $1.25 per box; one pvrson who went to ace a prisoner that the engineers are mistaken. The
identification was that of the bon«*
tion.
Opportune
rains,
however,
new carrots. $1.75 per sack; tumi;>s, and was surprised when the prisoner
of Assistant Engineer Merritt, pos
with cooler weather, greatly improv«!
Work
Maks*
Earth
Paradise.
met
him
at
the
railroad
station."
$1.75; beets, $1.75.
sible from the fact that the upper
New York Thomas A. Edison has conditions, and the outlook at the
Potatoes New Oregon, lpo lfc per
jaw contains two gold teeth, and from start«! for a European trip for the present time is favorable for the
pound.
Old Glory Shelters Babe.
a peculiar mark on the skull.
first time in 22 year*.
With him on gathering of the usual harvests of
Onions Walla Walla, $1.76 per
Seattle, Wash. Mrs. George Snow
The bones supposed to 'be those of the Mauretania were his son, Charles, most great staples.
hundred.
den, a niece of Prvedent Taft, who has Merritt were discovered at the precise
Tlie period of greatest discomfort
and in London Mrs. Edison and their
Poultry Hens. 15$otl6ci springs. been making her home temporarily in
spot where Midshipman Boyd testified daughter
Madeline will soon jein wa* from June 22 to July 10. Higher
iMc; ducks, young. 15c; geese, nomi Vancouver. B. C.. hastened to Seattle
that he and Merritt had been separ them. The family will make an auto temperatures oceurr«! at other periods
nal; turkeys, nominal.
some days ago to gn* birth to a grand ated by the inrush of water while
mobile tour of the Continent. Edison over much of the territory, but the
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, can- nephew to the president, which was
struggling to make their way from was ask«! if he had anything new up resulting discomfort and loss of hu
died. 27c per dosen.
born a few days ago at the Minor the junior officers' wardroom to the
his sleeve. He replied: "No. 1 have man life were doubtless augmented in
•bitter -City creamery, extra, 1 and Hospital.
Mrs. Snowden says she main deck.
just
finished something new. My talk the period ju«t passed by the fact that
2-pound prints, in boxes, 2Hc per could not bear the idea of being ths
Bones of two other men were found ing pictures are complete. Two hun the most intense heat occurred to
found; leas than box lots, cartons and mother of a child that was not bom
near the warrant officers' quarters on dred sets of them have been made and ward the close of a long heated
delivery extra.
under the ting of the country in which the port side of the berth deck, but
they are wonderful. You ought to see period, when animal vitality had been
Pork Fancy, lOoilOfc per pound.
her uncle in president, so she came to identification is impossible. The total
largely depleted and therefore was not
them and hear them."
Veal Fancy. 12«tl3c per pound.
Seattle that the babe might be a na number of bodies recovered is 21.
in condition to withstand further the
Hops
1911 contracts, 3o(- jmt tive-born American.
debilitating effect of still grester
Woman Steam Tug Pilot.
pound; 1910 crop,
26<«i27c;
1909
Aviator Dive* Into Sea.
crop,
■ !0c; olds, 10«i 15. J
Tacoma The little steam tug Fawn, heat. The nearest approach to the re
Bore for Buried Miner.
Wool Eastern Oregon. 9‘<il6c per
Ixing Bench, Cal.— After thrilling a of Tacoma, comes now to the front cent hot waves wa* in 1901.
Joplin, Mo. More than 100 men
pound, according to shrinkage ;’val
great throng of Sunday visitors to the with a distinction all her own. She
Taft's Stsnd is Opposed.
ley. !6oil7e; mohair, choice, ¿36<>i and tsiys are working desperately in beach here with a spiral dip close to has a regular "lady skipper," Captain
an effort to sink a shaft tn the drift of
Seattle Following closely the dec
37|c per pound.
the wave tops. Aviator Frank Cham Mrs. T. J. Walthey.
Mr*. Walthey
a mine east of here in which Joseph
Cattle
Choice steers $5.Ste.ifi;
pion startled the spectators with an ha* a pilot license for vessels of 100 laration of President Taft advocating
Clary, 21 years old, is held a prisoner
g"»d. $5.25«<i5.50; medium, $4.5te»5;
unexpected plunge into the surf a hun ton* plying between Cap« Flattery the leasing*’system for the develop
under 70 fret of earth and rock.
common, $3.75614; choice cows, $4.50
dred feet from shore. Bathers and and Puget Sound points.
Captain ment of the Alaskan coal resources,
As it will be days before Clary can
At 4.75; good. $4 25*1 4.50; good, aver
life guards swam to his aasisatance. Walthey, her husband, who is at pres the Rotary club went on record unani
be reached they are boring a six-inch
age* 1050 pounds, $4«i4.25; common,
unfasten«! the straps which bound ent taking orders from Mrs. Walthey mously as opposing the leasing system
hole through which Clary can be fur
$2.75">3; choice heifers, $4.756i5;
him to his seat and brought him safely as engineer, says the license would and favoring private ownership at the
nished with air. food and water if he
choice bulla,
$3.fib'll 3.75;
choice
ashore.
Hr had been blinded, he qualify his wife to act a* mate on one weekly luncheon at the New Washing
is still alive.
The resolution adopted
calves, 2oo pounds and under, $7fri
said, by oil flying from the engine of of the big steamers that come into ton hotel.
will be presented in turn to the cham
7.25; good to choice, $5.5ten6; com
his monoplane, and steered down hop port from ail over the word.
Stone
ber of commerce, the Commercial
mon, $4 ii 5; choice stags. $4.50m
ing to lami on the beach.
• to Mark Site of Debate.
Storm Hits Southwest.
club, the Arctic club and the Seattle
I 15; good. H
i I 50
Bloomington. III. — A red granite
'British Warship Ashore.
Hogs — Extra choice light hogs. boulder weighing six tons, discovered
Kansas City Rains which have fal chapter of the American Mining con
$7.35«|H; heavy, $6.6fx>i6.90; heavy by the Woodford County Historical so
Halifax, N. S.~ A wireless dispatch len in Southwest Missouri, .Southeast gress.
rough, $5.76''i6.25.
ciety on the farm of Thomas Bratt, received here says the British cruiser ern Kansas and Norther Oklahoma
Eastern Mills Shut Down.
Sheep — Choice yearling wethers, near Low point, will be used to mars Cornwallis is stranded on the I«Igea of since Wmlneeday morning have done
coarse wool,
$3.25m T.50;
chojffc the spot where Lincoln and Ih>uglas Cape Sable, a few miles from where damage estimated at more than $1,-
Fall River. Ma**.—Notires were
yearling wethers, east of mountains, met in their famous debate at Mata- the Canadian flagship Niobe went on 000,000. At (¿»well, near Galena, an posted in the Fall River Iron Works
$3.25'd 3.50. choice two ami threes, mora in 1656. The stone will be dedi the rocks July 30.
The message said electric company dynamited its 30- company mill that after August 4
$3613.25; choice spring lambs, $5.25 cated at the annual meeting << the that the Cornwallis was not tak foot power dam. which cost nearly they will be shut down until further
«<i5.5O; good, choice spring lambs, $5 Old Settler« of Woodford county next ing water and apparently had sus $500,000, in order to save the costly notice. Th« shutdown affects 5,000
«15.25; choice killing ewes, $2.75<<i3. month
tained no serious damages.
machinery of its plant
operatives.