CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
REBELS GET
FEDERAL
LEADER
Oroico Is Revenged on Former Rival
— Refugees in Danger.
STRIKERS MAKE
URGE GAINS
POWER TRUST FEARED.
Csmmlllisiw of Corporations Urges
Conservation of Remaining Bitsa.
ENTIRE EAST IS
BURIED IN SNOW
El Paso, Tex.— Word was received
Washington, D. C.—Concentration
here that General Pancho Villa, the
of control over water powers by large
federal leader in the Laguna district
interests in imp>rtant localities is in-
of Mexico, had been captured by reb­
crossing so rspidly, in the opinion of
els and ordered shot and that a severe
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of
battle was fought at Gurnet Palacio a
corporations, that be has reported to
week ago
Twenty-two hundred fore­
President Taft that the government
General Returns of Important Eventa igners in the Laguna district are said 275,000 Wags Earners Share Raias should [reserve title to the remainir.g Train» JAbandored Everywhere
75
to be trying to escape from the coun­
power sites and develop them to pre­
Daye Continuous Snow in In­
Negotiations Pending With Al!
Presse'ed In Condensed Form
dians Southwest la Hit.
try.
vent possible monopolisation by [ublic
Remaining Milla.
for Our Busy Reader«.
News of the battle waa brought in
utility companies.
by three refugee Americans, the van­
Commissioner Smith directs partic­
guard of the French, German and
Chicago The ground bog was sched­
Boston Wage increases aggregat­ ular attention to the incroaairg affilia­
Two Meiiran federal forces surj
other foreigners fleeing from Mexico. ing more than 52d.OUO.OUU will go into
rendered to the rebels.
uled to end his six weeks' voluntary
tion
of
water
power
concerns
and
pub
­
Thirty-eight federal soldiers and Un the pockets of New England textile
Rhode Island manufacturers have \ rebels were killed in the fighting, it workers in the )next 12 months, ac lic service agencies, such as street retirement and come forth at 11
increased the wsgee of 26.000 cotton was reported. The engag- ment was cording to authoritative estimates of railway and lighting evrporatlona and o'clock Saturday, thereby giving offi­
mill workers.
| not decisive.
Torreon and Gomsx the result of the present upward trend oftentimes banks as well.
The ron- cial notice that gentle spring had ar­
England takes the German navy a» Palacio, a large railroad station, are of wages in rotion and woolen mills.
nection
between
such
concerns
he re­ rived. As far as Chicago and all its
On the basis of an annual payroll of
a standard in making up her estimates ’ connected by streetcar. The latter was
territory ia concerned, the groundhog
I and is still in the hands uf the to- 579.uuo.000 in the woolen mills, the gards of serious [Hiblic significance.
for the ensuing year.
j called liberals, 'or rebels, while the increase there will amount to 55.600,- The concentration of control over wa­ would have four«I it necessary to equip
himself with a snowplow before he
The howling of a pot cat awakened former is controlled by the govern­
000, while cutton mill operatives will ter powers, the commissioner declares, could get to the surface.
a Tacoma family just in time to os- ment troops.
• an «drat
f|
The blixxard which raged all of one
is exercised partly by direct owner­
cape from their burning house.
Pablo luivir.e, a supposed federal
Fully 275,000 operatives will share
day and night was the worst of the
ship
of
stock,
but
mainly
through
in
­
Forty thousand Canadian boys will officer, was discovered to have been in the increase by April I if all the
season. When the sun penetrated the
lo gin training thia year in calisthen­ taking rifles and ammunition from mills that have nut yet joined the terlocking directorates
dense clouds about noon the anew
Torreon to Gomel Palacio, and it was movement follow the lead of the larg­
The rapidly increasing concentration ceased and the wind died down, but
ics, military drill and rifle practice.
determined to attack Gomes Palacio er concerns. Announcements of con­
of water power control about which . the temperature remained cold enough
A bribery scandal has turnel up in at once.
A force of 2,000 federal
the New Mexico legislature and four volunteers was assembled for the pur templated advances affect upward of the commissioner sounds a warning . to prevent the snow from melting.
Because of the lateness of the sea­
reprssenatlva« have resigned under puse. The federal regulars, number­ 200,000 millworkers, while other rot- may become, he say», the nurelus for
t<m*manufacturvrs havo indicated an
son, the storm caught the country
fire.
ing l.KOO men. declared that they intention of equaling the wage ad­ a monopoly of both water and steam unprepared.
All the Northwest, the
Prominent Portland women approve were loyal to Madero, but that they vances.
power. If the water power cannot Middle West and Central states were
of the window smashing crusade of would not leave the city to the danger
The New Bedford offer of a 5 per
envelope, and the storm will swoop
The volunteer army cent incerare will be acted on early meet the entire demand of a given Io down on the East before its mission
English suffragettes, claiming their from looters.
cality.
hr
points
out
that
the
owners
waa
mvl
on
the
outskirts
of
Gomex
condition fully justifies it.
this week by the textile council, which
Mi irnful tales <>f al an-
can acquire auxiliary fuel plants and m i n 1« >1
Palacio and thousands of 'hots were
A derelict, floating bottom-up off fir«!. The volunteers then retreated recently presented a demand for a 10 handle water and fuel power over the doned and delayed trains came from
pet cent advance.
the Southern Oregon coast, is believed
same distributing lines and thus a every direction. No road, steam or
back to Torreon.
Although them is a division of opin­
electric, esca|ied.
In Illinois two
to lie tile gasoline schooner Randolph,
The report of the capture of Gen ion among the operatives, many are complete commercial power monopoly
missing from Cooa Ray with a crew of eral Pancho Villa came in a telegram
might gradually be built up in fact trains were hopelessly stalled, and in
• aid to favor accepting the manufac
one instance passengers are without
six men
,
from General Orosco to General Ponce turerà’ offer, reviving their demand already exists in tome communities.
Ten great groups of interests, with food, and efforts to reach them with
Thirty two persons were killevl by at Juarex. The telegram repeated a for 10 per cent when business im­
Many
the General Electric company as the food have been unavailing.
the explosion of a locomotive boiler in report wh.-ih Oroxco had received from proves.
trains are held in the great snowdrifts
most
powerful,
arc
declared
by
Com
the Southern Pacific shops at San An General Salaxar at the front that Colo­
The textile council, representing
in Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas
tonio, Tex. A woman in a house sev­ nel Salaxar, a semi independent lead­ five unions of Fall River operatives, i missionor Smith to control or »trongly and Montana, while all schedules in
eral blocks away is among those ser­ er. killed, wounded or captured a per has vot«-d to reject the offer of an nd Influence about 60 per cent of the de­ Colorado have been abandoned and
iously injured. The shop was manned tion of Villa'a small force and said vance of 5 per cent and demand 16 per veloped commercial water power of trains now out must do the best they
by strike breakers from the East.
that he had overtaken and captured cent. Negotiations between the labor the United States. These ten groups
can. Trains arc being held at all di­
Villa and 29 of his men. w ith 29,000 representatives ar.d mill agents will themselves arc more or l<ss inter-re­
vision headquarters in the West, and
Dr. Jessie .Murray, of Ixindon, told
lated.
with
resultant
growing
com
­
pesos.
continue.
will not t>e sent forward until tracks
a Chicago audience that bombs may
munity
of
interests.
Villa wan said to have offered to
Cioè« observers believe a compro
■■Mill l»e substituted for rocks in the join the liberal movement, in reply to
Mr. Smith, urging the immediate are cleare I.
. mise will tie arranged.
On the ad­
South Bend, Ind., reports its 75th
English window smashing crusade.
which Oroxco, according to his tele­ vance in Fall River will depend the formulation of a definite policy of de­
consecutive day of snowstorms, con­
veloping
the
remaining
water
power
The Winnipeg. Manitoba, electric gram, ordered him shot.
Oroxco and probable final attitude of the New
sites on the public domain, recom­ cluding with u blixxard that drove
railway system and its allied interest« Villa were personal enemies.
Bedford unions.
everyt-ody to shelter.
All through
have been
purchased
by Joseph
Villa, like Oroxco. waa one of Fran­
Although a few of the big Lawrence mends, generally speaking, that the
Choate, Jr., of New York, aniJ. cisco I. Madero's trusted leaders in mills are nominally under the ban of government retain the ultimate con­ Northern Illinois and Northern In­
They should be diana interurban traffic was Huspend-
Pierpont Morgan.
the revolution against President Diax. the strike, indications point to a gen­ trol of these sites.
develojied at once, he declares, not ed.
It is announced that contracts have When the present revolt started his eral return to work.
Five persons also perished in a tor­
only to conserve the fuel supply of the
been let and work will begin within attitude was a matter of s|>eculati' n
Statisticians figure the injury by
nado in Alabama, and government re-
country,
but
because
they
are
fast
Both sides claimed the Lawrence strike to manufacturers
ten days on the Roseburg Coos Bay for some time.
porta announce heavy winds lashing
him. Three weeks ago he declared at 5L5od,0<>0 in business in hand and passing into private control. It is es­
railroad.
the whole Ixiwer Atlantic coast. One
himself loyal to his old chief, Madero. advance business lost; a forfeit by timated that the water power now in
peculiarity of the pre-sent unscheduled
use
saves
33,000,000
tons
of
coal
an
PORTLAND MARKETS.
the strikers of about an equal amount
storm is that it came from the South-
WRECK AVERTED BY DREAM
in wages and a cost to the state and nually. and Mr. Smith adds, the water * • ’.
Wheat Track prices:
Bluestem,
power resource is not expended in its
city of 5100,000 for militiamen and
90i9lc; club, hHc; red Russian, Me; Section
using.
Foreman
Has Vision of extra police.
BURBANK SUES FOR RIGHTS.
valley. HHc; «».fold. KHc.
Washout. Finds It True.
THREE-YEAR
BILL
HAS
CHANCE
Millstuffs Bran. 52o <1,22 per ton;
Wirard Wants Damages for Lost Con­
Dynamite Plot Seen.
Atlanta, Ga. Awakening from a
shorts. 122'0 24; middlings. (30.
trol ot Thornless Plants.
Corn New, whole, 134; cracked. sleep in which he had dreamed that
San Diego, Cal. Accused of having Borsh-Jonss Homestead Mratura to
the nearby trestle on the Southern conspired to terrorise the city by
535 per ton.
San
Francisco
Luther Burbank,
Be Voted on Soon.
Hay No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim­ railroad had been washed away, al­ wholesale dynamiting, six men, as­
plant wixard, has gone to court for
Washington, D. C.—The Borah- the first time to defend bis control
othy, 515i<il6; No. I valley, 513<<il4; though suffering from illness, a sec­ serted by the police to be leaders of
Jones
three-year homestead bill was abroad of the thornless cactus, one of
alfalfa, 512.5061, 13; clover, 59; oat tion foreman arose from his bed ami the street-speaking
agitators who
and vetch, 111 (<t 11.50; other gram went to South river, six miles from have been ¡making a campaign here made the special order for considera­ his great creations.
The Thornless
here, before dawn Monday morning, to for a number tf weeks, were arrested.
hay. 59.
tion in the bouse next Wednesday, and Cactus Farming company, in which
discover that his dream was a reality.
Oats No. 1 white. |34 <i 34.60.
Burbank ia a factor, filed suit in the
The names of the prisoners are
The foreman found that the stream, withheld from the public, but Chief of unless the debate is protracted, it will Su|«rior court against Wells-Fargo A
Cranberries |10«i 11.50 per barrel.
Potato«« Buying prices : Burbanks, swollen by heavy rams, had carried Police Wilson says that he has posi­ be voted upon that day, with evary Co., for approximately 512.OOU, in­
away a trestle spanning a 65-foot tive proof of the dynamiting plot, and prospect that it will be passed
This cluding the value of a shipment of
51.5O«r2 per hundred.
chasm. He knew that a passenger that it has to do with the street- will be the last opportunity the op- 5.H50 thornless cacti plants to Sydney,
\ egctaldea
Artich >kcs, J
ponenta of the bill will have to Voice Australia, and damages for the loss of
per doten; asparagus. 52*1:2.26 per train from Atlanta to Columbus. Ga., • ;>eaking campaign.
crate; cabbage, I(.i2jc par pound; soon waa due to arrive at the opposite
According to Chief Wilson the men their opposition, and attacks, inspired the exclusive control of cacti in Aus­
garlic, Hoi.iOc; head lettuce, |1.75oi side of the river, but he had no means did not contemplate taking lives, but by Secretary Fisher's objections, are tralia.
2.50 per crate; hothouse lettuce, 60<<i of reaching that point to warn the en­ did contemplate the destruction of a expected.
The plants represented the first
If the bill passes the bouse, how­ shipment ever made from California
75c per box; radishes, 35c per itosen; gineer of the danger, as the river is number of large office buildings and
rhubarb, California. 51.5u<<i 1.75 per three-quarters of a mile wide.
industrial plants here.
The dyna­ ever, its final enactment seems as­ to a foreign country, and were sent
Standing on the bank, the man re mite was stolen two weeks ago from sured. The special order entered was out in 1909. The cacti were shipped
box; sprouts, He j>er pound; turnips,
5 Im 1.10 per sack ; beets, 11.60; ruta­ peatedly ''hallooed” for half an hour. the magxxines of the city sewer de­ •••cured through the joint efforts of through the Wells-Fargo company to
Finally he heard an answering shout, partment At that time the munici­ Senator Borah, Speaker Clark and an agent for Burbank in Australia
bagas, Hot 1.10; carrots, 11.
Onions
Association price, 52 26 and callroljout a warning to J. E. pal authorities gave no hint that they Representative Taylor, of Colorado, The person for whom they were in­
Daniel, the man who had heard him. believed the explosive had been stolen who reported the bill. Speaker Clark tended w as not prepared to pay for
per sack.
Apples
Yellow Newtown, 52 u Daniel flagged the train just as it for any other purpose than that of will make a speech urging the passagt- them, and the shipper waa notified of
2 50; Spitxenbergs, 51.75*1.3; Bald­ neared the brink of the stream.
of the bill.
the fact.
financial gain.
win. 11.6<»m 2; Ben Davis, lift: 1.76;
Walla-Fargo was then instructed to
Eaby's Nams It "Oceana "
Sals ot Road la Denisd.
Red Cheek Pippins, 2 m. 2 60; Gano,
Chinese Brave st Fire,
hold the valuable plants subject to the
IxM Angeles Oceana Thomas Turn­
51m.l.75; California Newtowns, 51.76
San Francisco—G. C. Hiatt, view­ order of the Cactus Farming company,
San Francisco — Fire, supposed to
er is the name selected by Mrs. I.eo have been caused by spontaneous com­ president and general manager of the which [>aid 5310 charges and storage,
Qi2.
Butter Oregon creamery butter, Turner, of Tacoma, for her daughter, bustion, started in the cotton cargo in Bellingham Bay A British Columbia and later sent James F. Reynolds from
who was born at sea on the liner Pres­ the bold of the Pacific Mail liner Man­ railroad, denied that the railroad prop­ San Franciaco to Australia to aell the
solid pack, 33 jc; prints extra.
fr-K«* Oregon candled, 20c per dox- ident, in a heavy gale. Captain Thom­ churia, as she lay at her dock here.
erty had been sold to the Chicago, Mil­ cacti to some responsible party.
as of the President, suggested it. A
en.
One day before Reynolds' arrival
Members of the Chinese crew who waukee A Puget Sound railroad, as
parting assurance of the skipper, as were called to aid the fire-fighters dis­ reported by an official of the latter there. Wells Fargo, it is asserted,
Pork Fancy, R|r<t9c per pound.
his ship moved away from the dock tinguished themselves by their gallan­ road, and also denied that any trans­ turned over the plants to an unauthor­
Veal Fancy, 12m 12|c per pound.
Poultry — liens, 16m17e; springs, waa that he would be "on deck” for try, a Chinese boatswain's mate hav­ fer of the railroad was under consider­ ised person, who proceeded to set
15<-1 154c; ducks 16c; geese. X-lIOc; the christening and would act in the ing been the first to go below and lo­ ation. Further than this, Hiatt, who them out. thereby depriving Burbank
capacity of god father when the Pres­ cate and ascertain where the flames is staying at the San Francisco hotel, of the control of ths plants, not only
turkeys, live. 16c; dresssd, 20m 21c.
Hops 1911 crop, 39m40c; olds, ident again returnod to port.
in Australia, but elsewhere, provided
refused to discuss the case.
were.
nominal; 1912 contracts, 26 u 27c.
the ower desires to develop them.
Premier Quits Pekin.
Japs Quit Caucasians.
Sugar Bill is Called Plot.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 14 i 16c per
pound; valley,
16<il7c;
mohair,
Pekin Premier Shang Tao Yi has
Bloodhounds Find Gama.
Seattie -The Japanese liner Sado
Washington, D. C. Republicans of
choice, 32c.
left here for Nanking. The Southern Maru arrived here from the Orient, in the house in caucus declared that the
Chicora. Fa. — A posse headed by
Cattle Choice steers, 56.20*16.50; delegates, with whom he came to Pe­ command of Captain I. tsakawa, who free sugar bill proposed by the Demo­ Police Chief W. D. Rider followed
good. 55.00m 6.10; choice cows, >5.30 kin. departed several days ago. Some displaced Captain James C. Richards crats of the bouse was a political plot bloodhounds
to an abandoned hut
< i5.60; good. 54 75 16; choice spayed foreign ministers, who havo
met as master.
It is sa d ¡that Captain for votes and that the extension of three miles from McIntyre Hill, where
heifers, |5.50(05.65; good to choice Shang Tao Yi. consider him some­ Richards was the last Caucasian offi­ the corporation tax to individuals and II. A. McKee, of Chicago, a jewelry
heifers, S5.35«i 5.50; choice bulls. thing of a visionary. The four pow­ cer on any J apancre liner. When the co-partnerships, to make up the reve­ salesman, was held up and robbed
54.5<»m 5.76; good. 54.25'u 4 50; choice ers’ group of financiers are of the big Japanese •teamship companies be­ nue that would be lost from sugar, by three masked men.
They discov­
calves, 57.75mH.25; good,
57.25<<i opinion that his financial policy is dan­ gan service 16 years ago, European was its companion piece
The meet­ ered hie samples, valued at 52,000,
7.50.
gerous an<l accuse him of trickiness in masters, mates and engineers were ing was attended fully by regulars and but found no trace of the robber that
Hogs Choice light hogs. 56.60»<i7; negotiating the promt loans with employed altogether, but they have •'progressives."
secured 59»xi in cash from McKee, who
smooth heavy bogs, 55.75 u.6; rough which he waa entrusted.
been dropped one by one.
is suffering from injuries he received
Cordova Must Import Ice.
heavy. 55
when he resisted the highwaymen.
Unrest
in
China
Receding.
Oroxeo's
Father
Takes
Field.
Sheep Choice wool yearling«. 54 75
Seattle
A letter from Cordova,
W5; choice twos and threes. 55.15nt
Nanking The outlook in China is
El !’>«> Colonel Oroxco, father of Alaska, says that it will be necessary
Tea Boards Reports Standards
4.50; choice killing ewes, 54 264(4.60; more hofieful than at any time since the insurrector chief, with 300 men as to bring ice from the Copper River
Washington, D. C.— The new tea
culls. 52
1.3.25; choice fed wool the outbreak of the revolution. Care­ a permanent
garrison, arrived at glaciers to supply the commercial and board reported to Secretary MacVeagh
lambs. 55.75(<r6;
choice grain-fed fully compiled reports received here Juarex tn relieve General Antonio household needs of Cordova during that it had established standard sam­
lambs, 55.5O«i 5.60; choice spring show that while the unrest is general, Rogaa who will take his force to Fale- the summer.
ple« to govern the importation of tea.
lambs, 54.75<>l6; good to choice lambs. during the last week disorder has de­ mir. Rojaa* purpose ia said to be
Ordinarily the lakes near the town These are designed to keep out of the
54.60<<t4.75; fair to good lambs, 54.25 creased steadily, and there is increased to capture the federal garrison at Oji- furnish thick ice, but the warm win­ »untry all artificially colored or faced
(•I 4.50.
confidence in the restoration of trade.
naga.
teas.
ter kept the water open.
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
Textile Workers Will Benefit
$20.000.000 Annually.
Worst Storm of Season Takes
Place of Spring.