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rr f. .1 I r p. IONE PROCLAIMER VMMUMri (Mr rrkasy IONB .OREGON EVENTS OFTHE DAY Newsy Items Gathered from All v farts of the world. Less Important but Not Less lntr- Mtlng Happening from Points Outid the 8ut. Cholera li raging among ell .classes in Seoul, Korea. The Santa Fe baa obtained traek privilege in San Franeiseo. A huge boycott against Japan has ben unofficial! started In Unin. If Crush to see aviation titi In Paris caused a riot and wreck on railroad. William Jennings Bryan was greeted. by an immense crowd oa bis arrival la Portland. It ! reported that Mill Gladys Kerens, of St. Louis, will wed Prinos Bchoenberg, of Baxony. The Boek Island railroad has been mulcted of about $300,000 by over- eonfidenee in one of Its big shippers. Enormously rich deposits of silver and eobalt have been found in Canada, after having been overlooked for 30 years. The real reason for the recall of Charles H. Crane, minister to China, is said to be indiscreet utterances while is Chicago. It has been revealed that two Chicago aldermen are heads of one of the most gigantie graft and corruption syitemi ever known. Wu Ting Fang visited a spiritualist meeting in Washington and appeared much Interested, and intimated that be might attend again. Hearst has accepted the Domination for mayor of New York. A trainwroek in Kanaaa killed 17 laborers and wounded 10 others. . 1 Freight cars ara scares In the Eaat and a serious shortage la predicted be fore wintar. Prlnca I to, president of too privy council of Japan, will mak a long tour of Manchuria. Professor Fryer, of California, says China it preparing to mako wu on en croaching foreign power. Wright mad bli first flight In a gov ernment aeroplane and began the in struction of signal officers. Congressman Land is says the navy la top-heavy and needs a strong mer chant marina to baok It up in time of war. A steamer reports that several thou sand natives were drowned on the is land of Yucatan by the recent Gujf hurricane. Captain de Gerlach, who commanded an Antarctic, expedition in 1907, has no doubt that both Cook and PeeVy reached the Pole. Mix, tb American balloonist who won the international balloon race in Swltaerland, is about to lose the prise because aome peasants dragged him to the ground for a moment. Director of Canaan Dana Durand ba llevea that college studsnts will make excellent census enumerators, and he purposes to auggeat that educational institutions gives leaves of absence In April next toaoeh students as may care to Join the army of 66,000 enum erators. Taft immensely enjoyed the beauties of the Yoaemlto valley. Spanish revolutionists predict a rev olt against King Alfonso, British and Qermaa admirals shook bands serosa the banquet table. Glenn R. Curtis anode three soc essful flights in his airship at St Loaia, Near-beer dealers ef Tennessee will have to pay a tax of $1,160 each yearly. Dewey says the U. 8. navy la by no means bluff. He advocates more warship and a ship subsidy. ,., Accumulated sewer gae and waato from neigbboring garage cans id Nebraska Baptists are oeh wrought am bsonosi a Mormon convict ha been appointed sbaplala ef the aUte peni tentiary 1 General Wood denies that the frwtao army and navy mansovssa aaaosd aicknoaa and enye maoa valuable kaowl edge was gained. . AH tha oflMabj of Manballtown, leva, have been Indicted by tha Moral grand Jary for wspriaaatag government as erst aetviee scents. . i. Artfi ""- nraasawiven eesnss nan nam China Into a treaty whereby the open V ia MasMboriato sensed to all hat too Jsssiae. and ess in iMasfiii CHUf A BBOIXS BOTOOTT. Insulting Aggression of Japan Is Otvesi as Season. . Tokio, Oct. 18. Copies of circulars isined in North China by body of Chinese calling .Itself the Popular As sociation of the Three Eastern Prov ince! have been received in Japan after hewing been spread broadcast among Chineie of the lower classes. The cir culars contain inflammatory statements against the Japanese. They bear upon wbat ii called the "weakness of poor China'.' and ths "Insulting aggression Of JDB." Assertions arc made that Japan has devastated the arable lands of North China and has enslaved laborers along the line of the Antung-Mukde railroad, that Japanese officials have beaten the men, jusnlted the women and terrorised the people. The circulars point oat that the weak neas of China in a military sense makes It impossible for her to resent this, treatment, except by a boycott, and call upon the people of China generally to rerun ail dealings w.m tne jiwans All students and persons who value freedom are called upon to propagate the doctrines and join in adopting the programme of the association. Failing in this, they are threatened with vio lence and even deatn. The document concludes with the re quest that Chinese vehicles, vessels and railroads refuse to carry Japanese goods. An endless chain is sought on the request that patriotic citizens into whose hands the circulars may fall shall have them reprinted and scattered broadcast, until Japan is completely shut out from all commercial communi cation with China. These circulars have created some thing of a sensation in Japan. Effort is being made to prevent the spreading of their contents among Japanese of the i (rno rant class because the denser of arousing feeling at this time is rccog nieed. Meanwhile there Is reason to believe that Japan has called, or will immedi etely call ths attention of the Chinese authorities to the boycott propaganda, demanding that the circulars be out lawed as illegal documents, snd that the Popular Association of the Three East era Provinces be brought under disci pline. The exact method by which China Is able to control her doodIs. to this wav is not known, but it is believed Acre that the government of China can sup press promptly any boycott movement All merchants of standing in China have official rank and can be disci plined. BOTTBN WITH OBAFT. New Chief of Polios Bxposes Terrible Condition ba Chicago, Cbiesgo, HI., Oct. 18. Appalling con ditions brought to light during the trial of Inspector McOann of vice conditions on the West Side, the immediate for mation of Jewish erusadera to drive their people out of the pandering; busi ness, the organisation' of reformers. state, national and- international, to rheck, if possible, the infamous "white slave" traffic, all expose. the shameful fact that two men who have crown enormously rich in criminal business still hold important municipal positions here and continue to have a prominent voice In making the city laws. The drastic order issued last night by Chief of Police Steward to all mem bers of the department to stamp out vice, exposes frightful conditions in the first ward, the very heart of the city, where two politicians who hold office in the city eonneil ere collecting aa nuallv more than ill 7,000, every pennv of which is spotted with blood and crime. These two mea and their army of - "specialists' have tha treat red light district on the South Bid abso lutely under control. From the dives, the shady hotels, the saloons and the gamblers of the South Ride territory, extending to and era- nracing the Twenty -second street "red light" levee, two powerful business men of the district are pocketing a golden stream of graft. . For years the gigantic, system of corruption has obtained. It puts the v cat Side ring ef tribute collectors that was reated by State's Attorney Warms n, through the eon vie Hon of Police Inspector MrOann, to shame. An army of lies tenants ' has ' been mar nhaled together to see to It that no blood-stained penny even escapes the coffers of the saaster-seldlers of the night. They arc constantly en guard. No breaks of faith ever sever the masters from the victims. Thsre are never any knife -In -the-back tactics that result In scandals. Cholera Threaten Bsosi. BeonL Oct It. Choiera threatens to become a seriona opidemle hers. The authorities are taking every preeaatlen. Nit Seonl is act a sanitary city, and the llseaag has spread raoidlv. The nali m -emperor has been Invaded and the "home of the resident-general hat not been immune. The schools are rleM regularly for fnmigarioa. For a year the sanitary authorities appointed by the Japaaeee feetdent -general have he cleaning up the city, but osrr those whe have gone into the altera nd bvwav ef Beeal eaa knew of the uaekseallsoas her. Fifty Thnnsasw IMsctples Attend, r Pittsburg. Oct. It. Whet I asserted t he the largest religion eelebrattea and conventi. ever held In this sees- begi her tessetvow, wbca the letematieaal eeeseanial eelebratiea and - - - . - - - ..u - f tk imhMm M nkt 1 ik. nu a i. , u -eUaseted that fell SO.Ooo aut-1 aad visiters frees all parte of the werid I AfiMY LEARNS TO FLY Wright Teaches Officers to Use Mllltirj Aeroplanes. : MAIES ALMOST NILE A MINUTE After Two Fight Alone Wnght Take Signal Officers 150 Feet in Ajr -1 at Brest Speed. College Park, Md., Oct B. For the Drat time in ths history of America, an aeroplane owned by tb United State government soared in tb air today. Guided by Wilbur Wright, tt flew Ave times In the dedication of tb govern ment' tract of land bora a an aviation ground. With almost ideal conditions for spectators and a breeze blowing scarcely at ths rate of a mile an hour, Mr. Wright began the flight to teach officers of tha signal corps how,, to handle tha machine. Off the starting rail at 8:00. be circled the field for three minuta. Again at 4:09 Mr. Wright was off for another flight. Thl time be wu in tha air Ave min ute. At 4:61 o'clock be soared away to re torn after about five minute. Each time he had kept to .the reserva tion ground. Then Li torn ant Labtn took bin place in tb extra seat. At 6 :16 p. m. tha two rose probably ISO feet They went a mile and a half toward Wash ington In hardly mora than a many minute. In about five minutes after they had left they landed within SO feet of tha starting rail. In another abort flight, Mr. Wright took Lieuten ant Humphreys with him. - - Flights probably will be nude to morrow and on days following until the officer are familiar with tb new art. CHINA PREPARES FOB WAR. Preparing Her Youth to Resist Oread of Foreign Power. Berkeley, Oct 9. That China h making thorough preparation for armed resistance in the encroachments of foreign power at the present time waa the statement mad at tha stu dent's mooting st the University of California today by Professor John Fryer,, head of the department of Ori ental languages, who baa just returned from a year's travel in the Par Eaat 'The large body of Chine youth and man," said Professor Fryer, "now to ba found m the universities and lower school of to United Statee it an Indication of the advanced educa tion which the tmpire has com to consider necessary. There is bat one reason for it to prepare (he young Chine to take part in a struggle that t surely eonmg. 'Educated u ear college, the young men an ssatt hack to China and form tha nucleus for the corps of lead ers that wilj one time direct tb CbJ neoe army. Everywhere in tha empire are to ba found evidences that the Chi nese are planning for war. Their sol diers r constantly drilled, and drilled in tb mast modern way. The Chinees have reeebfd tb point' where the ill no longer endure the encroach ments of foreign power, and am time, before very long, they will take to the field of battle to aettto their difficulties." CURTISS THRILLS THOUSANDS File m a IB-MH Wind So aa Not to Pi i appoint Crowd. s St Louis, Oct f, Under advene conditions, Glenn H. Curtis, by a Sight In hi biplane lata today ia For est Park, received the applsoae end cheer of many thoaaand of persons who had waited for hour for the wind to slacken. Curtis, facing la-tall wind rose In hi machine 80 feat from the ground and flew the length of tha aero Bald. He covered a eoarter of a mile and waa aloft 46 seconds. Early today he remained in the air a minute and a hall and soiled tbree- Quartor of mil amiss a t-aUn wind. . ... , - famfco at Oar la Near. Chics go, Oct .-Tha railroad of tbeewntrf are already face to fee with a freight ear sswrtag. The information disclosed 4a that tha aw Dhns ef fraiewt ears ef tha anthw country baa practically bean wiped out Where Uttw snore than a year ago there war nearly 40,0000 Idle freight eara standing on sidetrack, there hi now a saacil ehaitag" "ev er! Una of hrafle, Tb aredictioo t freely mad that Utor waster the eoantr will h faebMf the ecverasi ear abertag in ths history T railroad. WWas PlnstB Cilsreds, thsnvw, Oat -A ft B Bemoan anaaaeBBmeso wj ia aaasa section waa reported from Clerndo Dvaaca vssmg. ra Desreera light snow fell. Mo FARM CENSUS ECONOMV. Director Durand Hop to Save Sev eral Hundred Thousand Dollars. Washington, Oct 11. U. 8. Ceneoa Dlreeotr Dana B. Durand hop to save several hundred thousand dollars in taking the census of agriculture and also to in creese tha accuracy of tha statistic. : The director stated today that at tbe eenau of 1900 tbe agricultural data war handled by mean of punched cadr.?- For ach farm a large number of cards had to bo punched, aa tbe number of facta recorded regarding a farm waa far greater than tb number of facta required regarding an individ ual la tbe population esnsua. Director .Durand said tb statistics of population and of agriculture are collected by a different force from that employed ia gathering the . atatisties of manaafctur, Tb population and agricultural data are secured by enum erator of whom there will be about 66,000 at the prevent census, they in turn Being appointed by the supervis ora, of whom there era about 330. . Tbe difficulty of securing competent and faithful enumeratora ia eery great Tbe length of service i very short, 16 day in tb cities and 80 day in the country districts. Tb pay ia small, averaging perhaps thro dollar per day to too country districts and a trifle more in tha cities, practically tb pay of ordniary mecbaniec Not only, therefor, are most of those who aaek to be neumeratora able to command only moderate pay in their occupa tions, but many of them ara men who can not command regular employment and who are looking for odd job. - The director hopes that a consider able number of the coUeegs and univer- sitio of the oantry,may see fit to give leave of absence to tbelr students for tb short time required to do this work of enumeration. Tbe college student is a very useful enumerator in eome caeca, but it fo exceedingly desirable that enumerators should actually live in the diitritoe where they work, and tbere are multitudes of district where no college students reside or where such stodenta ara in institutions bund rede or thousands of miles from their homes. Another elaas who can render good ear- vice aa enumerators ara school teach ers, but, with tb enumeration taking place ia April and May Instead of June as formerly, few school t each re can be spared from their dotie to take the oansda. DRV FARMING OONOREBS. Qreet Interest I Shown From All Parts Of the Country. Billing, Montana, Oct 11.. An In teresting flxampl of tbe widespread interest in tb dry farming movement was given in tb morning mail received by tb secretary the other day when fourteen statra and Canada were rep resented in tbe memberships recorded. Tbeae ranged from the Pacific coast on the Wert to Penney Ivan i a on tha East and from Canada to Now Mexico. There were several xosmbersbipa from Canada. Tbe statee from which tbe application cam war California, Col orado, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebrakaa, New Mexico, North Dakota. Oregon, Penaayhrania, South Dakota, Wsebington and Wis consin. Membership are being received at such rate that tha edition of the Hand book of Information, which contains the report of the third mm ion of tb coogreee, baa been exhausted and the secretary has been oompelled to an- noonce to new member that tbere are no mora of the valuable books avail able. All pereona joining the congress from 4h time on will receive tb eee- ond annual Handbook which wilt Coo- tain the proceeding of tb Fourth Dry Farming congress which will meet at Billing, Montane, October 6-28, end a re so ma of tbe oontente of the first edition. I-The officer ef tha congress set out after the close of the Cheyenne meet ing with the ambition of making the membership of tbe congress tote) 10. 000 before tbe Billing meeting and the andieationa are that they will coanc very near that goal. In one day re cently1 tha secretary received 180 meawershipa coming from all parts of thie country and from several foreign Every mail brfngaj Worn Blchas hi Old Age. Lea Angeles, Oct 1L By a decision ef the United States elreatt court of ap peals today, Timothy CarrelL pioneer of Soethcra,. California, wina ki flahtl ji. - - i wLiLsi ih- 111;. aLL- rHWUl-meee me seny sstanitst lu compel ue Los Ailmitoa Sugar Com paay to pay km royalty ea his patent beet dump. Tbe decision crowns with victory the straggle ef Carroll, who 70 years eld, against poverty aad hard ship. It will mak him independently rich before tbe expiration of his pal' sate six years henee. It will pet aa end te litigation that eoameaeed U years age, when the eagar eoaipaoy refased te reoogaia Carroll rights. - Fas ea Old Baa Antonio, Tex; Oct 11.,.. .James Fagaa, an aged witeb.aa here, re ceived emeial word today that a Car negie pesetas of 40,000 waa awaiting his Hspaaal. Vegan worked ea Ue Peaaayrvanio railsmy whe Mr. Cbtr-' , neane waa Us dtvisioe aswerlatendeat ' aad the aw,000 b aeeasiabUiee ef a; sang pais a a pet ease As the switoanaaa, t yeaia ag WIN BALLOON RACE American Distances AH Rivals ; for Bennett Cap. FROM SWITZERLAND TO RUSSIA Boar Through Rain and Fog Across Europe Taken by Russian Police, ' . - DeapHe Passport. Zurlob, Switserlsnd, Oct 7. AH Zur ch tonight toasted America and bar champion, Edward W. Mix, who, after a rcoarkable and .dramatis struggle against wind and rain storm, ha car ied off first honors in the international balloon race for tbe Gordon Bennett cup by aailing from Zurich to tbe heart of the forest north of Warsaw ia Bua sisn Poland. It ia calculated that Mix covered a distance of between 1,046 kilometer (648.94 mil) and 1,120 kilometer (696.68 miles). Alfred LeBlanc, tb French pilot, placed aecond, with distance of 884 kilomeUrs (617.81 miles) Captain Measner, one of tha Swiss pilots, third, with 800 kilo meters (496.80 miles), and Captain Scbaeck, another Swiss sntry, fourth. While there la disappointment be cause of tb failure of tb Swiss pilots to repeat last years victory, tbe gen eral sentiment ia one of satisfaction that America has taken the prise. Mix had continuous rain and fog throughout hi voyage and aaw tha ana for the first time aa ba waa landing on Tuesday morning. In a personal dis patch to tb Associated Press from Ostrolsnka,- be said : "I landed In a largo pine tree hi the forest of Gutova, west of Ostrolenka and north of Warsaw, at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning. I encountered a besvy rain. My ballast was exhausted whan I earn down. At present I am in tha band of tha polios, bat all ia going wlL "I had bad weather Sunday night It waa cloudy and rain fell, and I osed half my ballast before morning. Tb weather waa ao thick that it waa im possible to locate my position for one hour south of Prague." EXPLORE IN AIRSHIP. German. Headed by Prince Henry, Back Arctic Expedition. Friederichehafsn, Oct 7. Prince Henry of Prussia, presided here yea terday at a meeting of persons inter ested In North Polar research by means of a dirigible balloon. Amons; those present wore Count Zeppelin, Dr. Felix LowakL of tbe ministry of the interior, and Colonel Mann, chief engineer of the Zeppelin work. It was toeided to organise society to ba known aa the Gorman Society for tb Exploration of Polar Pagions. Prince Henry presided today over the meeting of the board of directors of the Zeppelin airship Aretie expedi- . tion to bo undertaken under tha saw pioss of the Qermaa society. It waa decided to send an advance party during the cummer of 1910 to Spitsbergen, with all tha raquialto equipment for ths operation of an air ship in tbe polar regioaa. 1 CALL HALT ON SPAIN. Preneh General Says Giber Interests - - Are In Danger. Paris, Oct 7. General A. G. L d'Amide, leader of tha French expedi tion In Morocco, fa) a aenaatio' al inter view fat tha Matin tbia morning, do dare that the time has arrived for Franas to call a halt on Spain' opera tions ia Morocco and to intervene to save tb oeonosoie and political intsa eata f Africa, - He declared French interests and tin tranquility of a large -area are threat ened and that Texas, Morocco, which is tbe natural outlet of a large area to tha Atlantic la likely to fall into the banda of the Spanish. Tfax would ho disastrous to French interest. . y For Intevvmflonal Union. Weahmgton, Oct 7. "Tb visit ef President Samuel Gompers to Europe mtasvmtional federation of labor. the autonomy f the trade anion asooa- -set of each country being; ordained atvi goeiented,"eaid Frank Morrison, secretary of the Anuria Federal mw of Labor today. "Tbe general purpose , of oa) international federation Of labor," aoatiaood Mr. Morrieon, "wftt be far the protection and the odvoaoo- ' moot of tha rights, mterest asm yea- . tie of the wago-wssfcmo," . King Bdword oa OsndBalor. bsndoa, Oct T. Far the Brot tfaoo k bio reign, tha Bang la openly toass vemms; la dsaaaotis ssTofaw. Hi aer- eaotored hi M. effort to prevent tbaiatined by she mkaialsye aha ting ci i ;t la attsad. ) I i m "V- t -V i wiU be