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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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*.