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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1911)
CTRRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume of In portent Event* Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Reader*. President Taft will make a tour of the country thia fail, including the Pacific Coast. The strike of carmen in Ixmdon. which threatened starvation to the city, has been settled. Statistics show that births in the rural districts of Oregon greatly ex ceed those in the cities. Admiral Togo was aniseed at the size of the American dreadnaughts building in Eastern navy yards. Western railroad men have served notice abrogating their wage agree ments with the road«, and a big strike is looked for. Rossevelt freely admits having ap proved the steel merger while he wu in office, saying it was the only way to avert a panic. An American actor who lost his life in a Ixmdon hotel fire, had a premoni tion of approachng death, and had all his business affairs arranged accord ingly. The British house of Ionia reluc tantly passed the veto bill, which greatly curtails their own powers and increases the power of the house of commons. An itinerant clock repairer, 8ft years old, is walking from Portland to Ixmg Creek, Or., carrying his tools and supplies. He expect* to earn bls living en route. President Gompera, of the American Federation of luibor, protests against higher postal rate* nn s<-c<-nd-class matter, «aying it will interfere with many iatxir publications. Hops are selling in kets at 35 cents. PORTLAND Portland mar MARKETS. Wheat New crop Bluestem. Me; club, 77c; red Russian, 75c; valley, 77c. Millstuffs Bran. (24.Mm 25 per ton; middlings. *32; shorts. *25.50 (<i26; rolled barley, |2*>i29. Com Whole, *33; carcked, *34. Barley — New, feed, f 25.5lHu 26, brewing, *30t«31. Oats -Old white, *25 per ton; new, *24. Hay Timothy, valley, *15«<i 16; al falfa. *11; clover. *H.*Oöt»; grain hay, ,10. Fresh Fruits Cantaloupes, *1.25f«i 2 per crate; peaches, 60tffi.tl.26 per boa; watermelons, hülfe per pound; plums, 90c(<i 11.75 per crate; prunes, *1.75 per boa; new apples, *1.7561 2.50 per box; raspberries, *2«i.2.5t>; blackberries, fl.75m 1.90; pears, *2m 2.50 per box. Vegetables Brans, 5«i 10c; cab bage. *2 per hundredweight; corn. 30m 40c per dozen; cucumbers. *l«i 1.25 per boa; egg plant. 10«12*c j*r |M>und; garlic, 10m 12c; lettuce, 3om 35c per dozen; hothouse lettuce, *1 25 «11.75 per box; pepper*. 8m 10c per pound; radishes. I|m2c per dozen; to matoes, 90cm,t.25 |>er box; new car rots. *1.75 per nek; turnijn, *1.36; beets, *1.75. Potatoes New Oregon, l|m l|c per pound. Onions Walla Walla,,1.75 per hun dred. Poultry Hens. 16ml6jc; springs, 18oil8|e; ducks, young. 15c; geese, nominal; turkeys, nominal. Egg» Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, 27c per doien. Butter City creamery extra. 1 and 2-pound prints, in boxes, 30c per p >und; lea* than box lota, cartons and delivery extra. Pork -Fancy. low 10|c per (round. Veal Fancy. 12(413c per pound. Hops -1911 contracts, 30m 32c per pound; 1910 crop. 29c; 1909 crop, 20 (<t22c; old*. 13m 17c. Mohair — Choice, 36«>t.37|c per pound. Cattle Extra choice steers, *5.75*1 6; good, ,6.25m 5.M; choice cows. *4 75m4.80; good. *4.25*14.50; good, average 1050 pounds, *4m4.25; com mon. ,2.75m 3; choice heifers, ,4 75 m5; choice bull*. *3.50«*3.75; choice calves. 200 pounds and under, ,7m 7.25; good to choice, ,5.50m6; com mon. ,4>'t5; choice stags. ,4 50m 4.75; good. ,4 25m 4 50. Hogs Extra choice light bogs, *7.85m 8; choice heavy. 27(4 7.25; heavy rough, ,6.25m* 50. Sheep Choice yearlings, wether*, coarse wool. *3.25m 3.50; choice year ling wether*, east of mountain*. *3 25 m3.50; choice two and threes. ,3»r 3.50; choice apring lambs, ,5.25m 5.50; good to choice spring lambs, *5m5.25; choice killing ewe*. ,2.75 W 3. ANARCHIST HURLS KNIFE. San Fin *< o Rad* Da*, Police and Start Riot. ENGLISH CITIES TORN BY RIOTS San Francisco Efforts of the police to break up a meeting of alleged an- | archists here Sunday showed net re sult* of three riot calls, the arrest of 10 men, and narrow escape of two firemen from a hurled knife and a de tective badly bitten in the hand. For several month* the “anarch E*t*n*iv* Movement I* Thrsstened ists" have lx-en bolding Sabbath meet Striker* May T>a Up Entire ings un the sidewalk in the Latin Transportation of Isle*. quarter. The Italian Roman Catholi; church is n»t far distant, and a wor shipper on h s way to mass beard re Ixmdon Great Britain appear* to marks from one < f the speakers that caused him to lodge a protest over the be confronted by a grave lal<or move- telephone with the police. | ment, compared with which the lx>n- | Two detectives were sent t<f investi gate, and were hooted at when they don »trike just ended would be a small interrupt«! the speaker. Thereupon affair. the officer* placed Micha<l Cenetrone Together with the furious street and Philip Berime under arrest and battle* in Liverpool in which one con- started to take them to jail. ' stable was killed and 40 policemen, With a yell of rage that brought everybody in the neighborhood on the including the superintendent, were in run, the 200 assembled '•anarchists” jured. and serious riots at Glasgow, charged the detectives, who wen- come* the new* of meeting* of rail forced to take refuge in a Broadway way employes at Liverpool, Glasgow, fire station. ' Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield and oth A riot call brought a squad of pa er large cities. at w-hich threat* were trolmen to the scene and seven other made of a general strike of all rail men were taken into custody. They, way men. transport worker* ami dock too, were lodged in the fire station. ers. un)r«s existing disputes aie set A* the big outer door was closing tled promptly. on the retiring police, the alleged In lx>mk>n itself both railway and leader of the “anarchist*” created a • treetcar strikes still threaten. The sensation in front of the truck house. men discussed the situation but have Shouting at the top of hi* voice, he not taken active measures for going jerked off his gaudy straw hat, threw out. A* in Glasgow, London’* tram it to the ground and danced madly on way *ervice is run by the municipal it Then, whipping out a huge clasp ity. knife, he sprung the blade and hurled A serious feature of the situation Is the wea|un through the closing door. the deep resentment the »peakers dis It was a 75-foot throw, but the play«! at the employment tof military knife went true as a bullet and ami police from other town*. The So- whistled past the ears of Firemen F. 1 cialtst party ia doing ita utmost to fan M. Hogan and Jack Edgar, imbedding ; this resentment itself in a wail. At a mm-ting of 2,0W railroad men belonging to the Midland. Great Cen- ROOSEVELT RECEIVES TOGO. i tral and Metropolitan line* it was de | cidod to call a general strike on all Japanese Admiral Present* Costly ■ the railway* am! tube* in the Ixmdon l district unless grievance* were reme ' Souvenir to Warrior. died within a week. It is rumored New York Admiral Togo [»aid a (hat the London" tran.way men have wafrior’* tribute to Colonel Roosevelt. also sent an ultimatum to the county Apparently Roosevelt, the fighter, had council. ap(M*aled to the Japanese admiral, In Glasgow, where streetcar service rather than Roosevelt, the peace war discontinued. 30,000 workmen maker. for when he marched up Saga met on Glasgow green and the strike more Hill to meet the ex-president he leaders threatened drastic measures if carried Mr. Roosevelt a two-foot min the nonunion men continued to sup iature of a soldier’s armor. plant striker*. This unique souvenir was of glisten ing metal, exquisitely carved, and was MASTODON SKULL FOUND. encased in a heavy mahogany box, adorned with Japanese color*. Admiral Togo had kept the pros Human {and Animal Bona* Dug Up [Are Fantastically Engraved. pcctive gift secret, and had apparent ly carried it on hi* travels from the San Jose. Cal. One of the strang time he left Japan. eat relics the Santa Crux mountains, The Japanese admiral journeyed to with th«-ir 5,000-year old tNM and Oyster Hay on a special train on the other curiosities. have ever given up Ixmg Islam) road. Colonel Roosevelt, was found by R. S. McWhorter, of in a dark suit and immaculate white thi* city, and presented to the cham vest, stepped out on the veranda and ber of commerce. It is the skull of a greeted the admiral, who wore a giant mastodon, engrav«! centuries white service uniform. ago with fantastic designs of inter “Delighted to meet you'” excaimed link«! human and animal heads, or the colonel, his face Ix-aming else eroded into these shapes by count- The party filed into the l-road recep l«-*s year* of wear. tion room and the admiral presented McWhorter exhibited the skull in hi* gift. The colonel expressed his the city. It is apparently only the gratitude in a broadside of su;wrla- upper part, the jaws having been tive*. worn away. It is partly petrified and After luncheon the party gather«! ha* been lying partially exposed for on the wide veranda whence sound* of some time in a wet spot, moss having frequent laughter and the vigorous grown on it* sides. At first it ap voice of Mr. Roosevelt often issued. pear«! like an old stump, but investi The luncheon was strictly private. gation »bowed It to be ancient bone. One hilled. Many Injured, In Street Battle. COUNTLESS CHINESE DEAD. OPEN NEW POSTAL BANKS. Flood* Along Yangtt* Cause Suffer- - Pacific Coast to Get Three New ing Beyond Description. Government Depositaría*. Victoria, B. C. Floods have caused Washington, D. C. Encourag«-d by loss of hundreds of lives and great the successful trial of two weeks of suffering in China, where several riv the postal savings bank system in the ers have overflowed along the Yangtse. great posto filers of New York, Chi Arrivals from Shanghai by the Em cago, St. Ixiuis and Boston. Postmas press of Japan say that the distress ter General Hitchcock has ilecided to which followed the flood* is so great extend the system rapidly , to all the that children are being ex|io*ed for large cities and disgnat«! as potal sale. savings depositaries Kansas City, One eye witnes* from Hankow tells Pittsburg, Detroit. Buffalo, San Fran of seeing a band of refugees cam|>ed cisco. Cincinnati, Seattle. Wash., In under hovel* of matting with a num dianapolis, Denver and Portland. Or. ber of children herded under a sign The deposits in New York, Chicago, announcing them for sale at the rate St. Ixiuis and Boston for the first five of 16 string* of cash (about 5o cents) days amounted to 1110.0(H), at which for a boy and eight string* of cash rate the annual deposits for the four (about 25 cent*) for a girl. cities would amount to about (7,000,- 000. Japs After Canal Trad*. Socialist Mayor Woeful. Victoria. R. C. News was brought Milwaukee, Wis Emil Seidel, So by the Empress of Japan that the Osaka Shosen Kaisha has in view the cialist Mayor of Milwaukee, in review establishment of a steamship line via ing the alleged wrongs that the party the Panama canal when it is com had suffered at the hands of local cap pleted. At the annual meeting held italists, bewailed the fact that he had shortly 1-efore the empres* liner de be«'n deposed as head of the police de parted, Nakagawa and Chiura, offi partment, and acknowl«ig«i that the cial* of the company, were ordered to present city government was a ma visit the Panama tone in the United chine, but explained that it was only States ami South America to investi a machine to help the workingmen. gate trade possibilities in this connec He said that when the Socialists got tion. The Japanese line proposes to possession of the court* they wuuld be used to define the law in the interest* run into New York via the canal. of tbe working classes. Senator Treasure Ship. Woman Juror* Called. Seattle. — Seven hundred thousand Tacoma- Thirty-four women are in dollar*' worth of Alaska gold was brought to Seattle by the steamship cluded in the venire of 129 juror* for Senator. The gold was ship;*«! from tbe September term of the Superior the Nome and Iditamd district*. Half court. Thi* is the first time since of this gold will be sent direct to the Washington was admitted to the Un »melter in San Francisco and the re ion that the names of women have mainder is consigned to Seattle bank*. been drawn on the regular venire. BARLEY JUMPS TO St 43. For First Tim* in Yaars Cereal H-ghar Than Wheat. I* Stockton. Cal. - For the first time in | many year* barely is selling for more than wheat, and there ia much excite ment along grain row in thia city, the gram center of the slate. The cereal ha* l*en advancing very rapidly of late, and on the board it haa jumped up almost a dollar during the past week. The crop in this section is unusually heavy, and the cash price is high Thi* has caused the dealers to * send agents into tbe country in an effort to get a new line on the yield and the quality, which they thought might possibly have been over-estimated. It ha* been shown that it has been many year* since a larger and better crop was produced. Some of the cautious buyers have dropped out of the market, as they fear a break almost any time. Some declare that the sudden bulge in prices is due to a speculative demand, and there will I* a reaction Other* in sist barley .will g<> to 1150 before there ia any reaction. The farmers in the meantime are making a large profit. NOVEMBER 30 DESIGNATED AS THANKSGIVING PAN Washington, D. C. President Taft will designate Thursday, November 30. as Thanksgiving Day, despite th«- request of bankers that the president name Thursday, November 23. It haa always been the custom to designate the last Thursday in Novem ber as Thanksgiving Day, and Mr. Taft will adhere to that custom. The bankers wanted November 23 se lected, declaring that the making of November 30 a legal holiday would seriously interfere with their work. The law r«;uires that National banks make their statements to the Treasury department on the first day of every month, and a holiday falling on the last day of the month would tie most inconvenient, said the banker*. There we* some doubt a* to what Thursday in Novemlmr would be se lected this year, as the month con tain* five Thursdays. The White House has b«-en besieged by theatrical managers and those in charge of col lege football games to settle this doubt, so that definite arrangements can be made for the array of special performance* and sport* that mark the day. NORTHWEST HAS ONLY GOOD CROP Situation Throughout Country Worst In Tears. Government'* Monthly Report Dt- coursgmg Increated Acreage Maks* Up to Som* Estent. ! Northwest Wheat Crop Will Large ly Esceed That of IS i O. • • • • • I | ; • : ; ; : ; : • • j • • • Washington. D. C. Preliminary estimate* by the department of ag- riculture on the wh«-at Crop fix the 1911 winter wheat crop of Oregon at 11.766.000 bushel*, or 698,000 bushel» over the crop of 1910. The quality of thi* crop Auguit 1 ia re- ported to have been 95 per cent and the yield per acre 22.2 bushel*. Washington's winter wheat crop is estimated at 19,800,0‘Mi bushels, as against 13,858,000 bushels last year. It* condition is re;»>rt«l as 97 per cent and the yield per acre a* 27.3 bushels. Spring wheat figure* arc given for Washington only and show the condition on August 1 to be 86 per cent, as compared with 93 on July 1. The Washington spring wheat crop was 62 on August 1. 1910. Washington, D. (’. A tremendous decline in crops generally throughout the country, traceable to drought aril intense heat, occurr«i last mouth, as indicated by official figures and esti mate* made in the monthly crop re port of the department of agriculture. The report is the worst, as to gen eral crop conditions, that the depart ment haa isau«l for any one month since 1901. Th«- ar«-a most seriously affected ex tend* from New York and Pennsyl vania westward to the Rocky Moun tains, embracing all the great corn, wheat and hay producing states in the country. Condition* in the Pacific Northwest lad as axcsllant, although during July that territory suffered from a brief but excessively hot per iod. Tbe figure* of the report indi cate a material slump in the prospecta of all crops. Com. which at this sea son is the most important, declined TAFT NEEDS REST. during the month from a condition of about 5 Mr cent lielow the a«>:ra. ■ Western Trtp Depend* On Oppor indicat«! b> the July report, to nearly tunity to Recuperate, ■ ’ Wa-i ingb i D. C Num« roue invi AMERICAN FLAG BURNED. tation* continue to reach the White House for President Taft to visit cities throughout the South and West "Yankee Hater” in Canadian Town during his coming trip, but owing to Vent* Spleen on Emblem. the uncertainty of the date of the ad Buffalo, N. Y. A dispatch from journment of congress, the President 1 x> nd on. Ont., says: ha* not definitely dtreided Upon the Thomas -Mnlgely, who prides him itinerary. self on the title of “Yankee Hater,” The president is constantly receiv publicly burn«! the Stars and Stripe* ing appeals to include the Pacific in the atreet* of the town of Wood- (oast in his program. He has said stock. A few hours before, *om«>ne, that if he could get a month of good in a spirit of mischief, had nailed an rest at Beverly, he w< uld not object Amercan flag above the door of his to including the Far West in his jour shop. When Midgdy saw the flag hr ney. but that he must have some time called his neighbors around him and for recuperation. He is to start on walking to th«- middle of the street, his Southern and Western trip Sep light«-«! a fire and bum«-d th«- flag. tember 16. Then he scattered the ashes about the street, “that the horses might tram RIOTERS LOOT SHOP. ple them under their feet.” Troop* Meet W,th Hostile In Liverpool, Reception Liverpool The calm of the strike situation here was dissipated by ser ious rioting in the vicinity of the Lime street station. A mob wrecked about 20 shops anti loot«*! them of boots and clothing. Neary 500 additi onal troops who arrived in the city met with a hoatle rrcrptiion. London The strike of dockmen. lightermen, 'coalporter* and carmen, which for several days haa seriously disturbed all business in Ixmdon and resulted in a shortage of food stuffs, coal, petrol anti other necessities, was end«! with the settlement of the ligh- tcrers’ dispute. The men were con ceded a 10-hour day and an increase of about 25 per cent in wages. Want Diaz to Return. Lucerne, Switzerland — General Porfirio Diaz, ex-president of Mexico, has received many cablegrams from opponents of Francisco I. Madero, urging him to return to Mexico and "restore order.” One from the Mexi can society of New York informs tbe deposed executive that the society is getting up a huge petition begging him to intervene in the Mexican sit uation. The society haa re-elected Diaz as president. General Diaz does riot heed these communications, and i* looking for a villa here. Rubber Ptant* Return«. Woonsocket, R. I. The mill* of the Woonsocket Rubber company, which have been closed for a month because of dullness in the rubber business, have resumed operation* in several departments. Nearly 2,500 band* will find employment. NEW INVASION EXPECTED Msgon Junta Pi-spare* to Continue War in Lower California. San Diego. CaJ.- Dr. J. Diaa Prieto, Mexican consul in San Diego, confirms the report that the Msgon junta in lx»s Angeles is preparing for a second arrn«i insurrection in Ixiwer California. Consul Pri«-to said he had been in touch with the situation on the border the past six or sevt-n days and that he was in communication with Colonel Celso Vega, jefe politico at Ensenada. Ixiwer California. Thirty Mexicans, led by an Italian who served in the rebel army in Ixiw er California, are said to have left San Diego in groups during the past 21 hours and two excited gatherings of Mexicans in the lower end of the city were dispersed by the police. Brother Probably Kidnapper. Chicago Inspector Revere, who has been conducting the search for 6-year- oid Angelo Mareno, granted Philip Marrno. the child's brother, 21 hours in which to produce the missing boy on pain of being locked up. The police believe now that the kidnaping of little Angelo was the result of a fam ily disagreement |and that the elder brother knows who has the boy and where he ia hidden. Philip is said to have t*rn th* only one who knew of his father's savings of a little over • LOW. Frost Hit* Canadian*. St. Paul According to report* re ceived by the local weather bureau, Edmonton and Calgary, Canada, ex perienced breath* of frost Thursday morning, the temperature dropping to 36 degree*.
