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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. Q eneral Resume o f Im p ortan t Events Presented in Condensed F o rm fo r O u r Busy Readers. Germany’s reply to the arbitration proposal is reported to be favorable. English troops have fired on strik ers in Liverpool, and a general strike o f transport workers has been called. An 18-year-old girl was killed by falling 185 feet onto jagged rocks while climbing Mount Juneau, Alaska. Boys in the Upper W illam ette val ley are making $2 to $2 per day pick ing fir cones with which the forestry department is reseeding burned-over lands. The Southern Pacific has applied to the Interstate Commerce commission for permission to charge a higher rate o f fare for passengers over the Siski you mountains. A hungry Italian in Boston went to the immigration Btation and declared he believed he was Buffering from cholera, but admitted later that he did it to get something to eat. T W O A V IA T O R S K IL L E D . O ne Plunges to Bottom o f O th e r Falls Into Pit. Lake; Chicago — Two aviators, William R. Badger, o f Pittsburg, and St. Croix Johnstone, o f Chicago, both young men, lost their lives in the interna tional aviation meet here. Both accidents revealed the frailty o f the machines in which the aviators were gliding about the air with scarcely a pause. Badger, a wealthy young man, came to his death in a pit in the aviation field. There had been a flaw in one of the wings o f the propeller o f the Bald win machine he drove. Centrifugal force broke the propel ler and upset the delicate equilibrium o f the machine, and Badger dashed 100 feet to the bottom o f the pit. His neck was broken. Johnstone fell 600 feet under his engine and was drowned. Caught under the heavy engine in the Mois- sant monoplane, he was carried deep into Lake Michigan, and his body was not brought to the surface until an hour later. Badger lived three-quarters of an hour after he had been extricated from the wrecked machine. He did not recover consciousness. Thirty-five flyers have dipped and glided here for three days, and this was the first fatal accident. Three aviators fell but were unhurt. _ GERMANY IS FAVORABLE TO TREATY WITH U. S. The husband o f a rich Seattle wo Washington— Almost in the same man disappeared from their hotel in Iras Angeles with a handbag contain hour that the senate committee for ing $30,000 worth o f gems and jew el eign relations reported Wednesday to ry, and no trace o f him can be found the senate its convention that the re cent negotiated arbitration treaties A Tacoma hotel keeper is under ar between this country and Great Bri rest because the sheets on his beds tain *and .France were /‘ breeders of and w ar,” Germany, are not up to the legal size. He bitterness swears the linen has been shrunk by through its ambassador here, was an the laundries and refuses to put up nouncing its desire to be a party to a similar Arbitration compact with the bail. United States. Crowds were so great and so unruly Germany made known to Secretary at the registration for lands o f the Knox, through Ambassador Von Bern- Berthold Indian reservation in North storfT, its acceptance o f the general Dakota that the registrar threatened principles o f arbitration as laid down to put them out o f the building on ac in the secretary’s draft, recently sub count o f their violence. mitted. A few ^exceptions were President T a ft will make a tour o f noted, however, and Count Von Bern- the country this fall, including the storfT will sail for Germany to consult his government further. He will re Pacific Coast. turn in October. The Btrike o f carmen in London, L IV E R P O O L IN T E R R O R . which threatened starvation to tho city, has been settled. Soldiers and M obs Have Pitched INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE P E S T W O R S E T H A N F IR E . GO LD S TA M P E D E 8 BEND. Forests S u ffe r M illions o f D ollars by City Nearly Unpeopled By Rich S trik e . Insect O nslaught. Medford— Presenting the fact that insects do more damage in the forest than do forest fires, B. I. Shannon secretary o f the Jackson county fire patrol association, secured the assist ance o f the Medford Commercial club in working for the establishment o f a local field station here by the bureau o f entomology. “ There is more than four and one- half billion feet o f good commercial timber tributary to this little valley o f 30,000 acres, to say nothing o f the immense acreage o f yellow pine on the east slopes o f the Cascades,” said Mr. Shannon. “ Besides that amount there is nearly 2,000,000,000 feet readily accessible in West Josephine county and on the West Siskiyous. “ The damage done by the insects alone, now, in the National forest is equal to the loss by forest fires, and in private holdings this is also true. There are variations o f from 400 to 1,400 feet in elevation in this district and there is the wet, warm climate of the west slope contrasting with the cold, arid conditions o f the east slope, making the investigations cover large field. An entomological station here would mean a saving o f thousands and perhaps millions o f dollars in tim ber destroyed in the Crater National forest and private holdings.” N A T IO N T E S T IN G A P P L E S . G overnm ent E xp erts T ry Qualities o f F ru it. Keeping Hood River— A fte r having spent Thursday afternoon and Friday morn ing obtaining data on local storage conditions, B. B. Ramsey and H. J. Pratt, experts from the pomological offices o f the United States depart ment o f agriculture, le ft for White Salmon, where they w ill conduct the same work. The experts, who have been In Cali- forna for the last few years working on systems o f refrigeration for citrus fruits, say that the government is planning to make extensive experi ments in fruit storage and transporta tion in the Northwest. They will visit all o f the principal apple sec tions o f the Northwest between now and picking time and make a study o f the different soil conditions o f every locality. Apples will be obtained from every district by the experts and will be subjected to tests to ascertain their keeping qualities. This season’s work, it is said, will merely be pre liminary. The experiments next year w ill be on a larger scale. The government experts inspected the Union warehouses and were pre sented with Yellow Newtowns grown last year. The fruit was in a perfect state o f preservation and o f excellent flavor. R epo rt o f Bend— What is characterized as the most remarkable gold rush experienced in Oregon for many years burst into full swing at Bend last week. As t result o f the discovery o f quartz which assays have Bhown to contain i commercially valuable amount o f gold, the town is all but deserted. The gold-bearing quartz was discovered 12 miles west o f here on the edge o f the forest reserve among the foothills o f the Cascade mountains. Several mer chants deserted their stores and joined the army o f gold seekers. In the van o f prospectors are several ex-miners recently come from Alaska, whose en thusiasm concerning the discoveries has had much to do with the general excitement. As far as can be ascertained, the first discovery, upon which work was actually done, was made by Carl Lade- wig, a Bend man who has spent much o f his time prospecting in the adja cent country. Ladewig let a number o f local men o f means into his secret, and a group o f claims was taken. It was not until several weeks after the inauguration o f this secret work that its nature became generally known. Then the rush started. Assays from the original group of claims, which have been christened the Golden Raes, have run from $5 to $10 a ton, free milling ore. However, the rock assayed thus far has been taken entirely from the surface. Sev eral tunnels are being driven, and, according to the miners working them, the appearance o f the rock en countered is becoming more promis ing. Already over 50 claims have been staked. Historical Institute to Have Speakers at Astoria, San Francisco Rads Defy Police-and S ta rt Riot. San Francisco— Efforts o f the police to break up * meeting o f alleged an archista here Sunday showed net re sults o f three riot calls, the arrest of 10 men, and narrow escape o f two firemen from a hurled knife and a de tective badly bitten in the hand. For several months the “ anarch ists” have been holding Sabbath meet ings on the sidewalk in the Latin quarter. The Italian Roman Catholic church is not far distant, and a wor shipper on his way to mass heard re marks from one o f the speakers that caused him to lodge a protest over the telephone with the police. Two detectives were sent to investi gate, and were hooted at when they interrupted the speaker. Thereupon the officers placed Michael Cenetrone and Philip Perone under arrest and started to take them to jail. W ith a yell o f rage that brought everybody in the neighborhood on the run, the 200 assembled "anarchists’ charged the detectives, who were forced 1o take refuge in a Broadway fire station. A riot call brought a squad o f pa trolmen to the scene and seven other men were taken into custody. They, too, were lodged in the fire station. As the big outer door was closing on the retiring police, the alleged leader o f the “ anarchists” created sensation in front o f the truck house. Shouting at the top o f his voice, he jerked off his gaudy straw hat, threw it to the ground and danced madly on it. Then, whipping out a huge clasp- knife, he sprung the blade and hurled the weapon through the closing door. It was a 75-foot throw, but the knife went true as a bullet and whistled past the ears o f Firemen F. M. Hogan and Jack Edgar, imbedding itself in a wall. R O O S E V E L T R E C E IV E S T O G O . P A S T W IL L BE T O L D . Noted Japanese A dm iral Presents Souvenir to W a rrio r. Costly New York — Admiral Togo paid warrior’s tribute to Colonel Roosevelt. Apparently Roosevelt, the fighter, had appealed to the Japanese admiral, rather than Roosevelt, the peace maker, for when he marched up Saga more Hill to meet the ex-president he carried Mr. Roosevelt a two-foot min iature o f a soldier’s armor. This unique souvenir was o f glisten ing metal, exquisitely carved, and was encased in a heavy mahogany box, adorned with Japanese colors. Admiral Togo had kept the pros pective g ift secret, and had apparent ly carried it on his travels from the time he left Japan. The Japanese admiral journeyed to Oyster Bay on a special train on the Long Island road. Colonel Roosevelt, in a dark suit and immaculate white vest, stepped out on the veranda and greeted the admiral, who wore a white service uniform. “ Delighted to meet you !” excaimed the colonel, his face beaming. The party filed into the broad recep tion room and the admiral presented his gift. The colonel expressed his gratitude in a broadside o f superla tives. C O O S E N L IS T S M O R E M E N . A fte r luncheon the party gathered on the wide veranda whence sounds of County's Naval Reserve to Be Trained frequent laughter and the vigorous on C ru is e r Boston, voice o f Mr. Roosevelt often issued. Marshfield — Coos county now has The luncheon was strictly private. better representation in the Oregon naval militia than any other county in C O U N T L E S S C H IN E S E D E A D . the state. With the organization of the new division at Bandon the county Floods Along Yangtse Cause S u ffe r has three divisions in the reserve and ing Beyond D escrip tio n. the Coos Bay band besides. The total Victoria, B. C.— Floods have caused number o f enlisted men is about 150. Twenty-five from Marshfield and 10 loss o f hundreds o f lives and great from the new Bandon division have suffering in China, where several riv gone to bring back the cruiser Boston, ers have overflowed along the Yangtse. which will be here August 16 to remain Arrivals from Shanghai by the Em two months. In that time, all the press o f Japan say that the distress men will receive training on the ves which followed the floods is so great sel. The new Bandon organization that children are being exposed for will be known as the fifth division. sale. One eye witness from Hankow tells The commander is Dr. L. P. Sorenson, who has the rank o f junior lieutenant. o f seeing a band o f refugees camped Dr. Smith J. Mann is assistant sur under hovels o f matting with a num geon, and Earl S. Gher, ensign. Dr. ber o f children herded under a sign E. E. Straw, senior lieutenant, of announcing them for sale at the rate Marshfield, has command over all three o f 16 strings o f cash (about 60 cents) divisions. Uniforms w ill at once be for a boy and eight strings o f cash furnished the Bandon men and a drill (about 25 cents) for a girl. hall has already been provided for. Salem— Several more speak ers who will participate in the historical edu cational institute, which will be held in Astoria September 6, 6 and 7, have announced their intention o f being present. George H. Himes, president o f the Orgeon historical society, will be among the speakers. Professor F. G. Young o f Eugene, secretary o f the same society, will speak on “ Signifi cant Oregon HiBtory for the L ife o f Today.” Professor Joseph Schaefer, o f Eugene; Frederick V. Holman, o f Portland; Eva Emery Dye, Oregon City, and State Superintendent Aider- man will be among the other speakers. As nearly as possible historical ad dresses will be given on the spot where the incidents which furnish the sub ject matter for the addresses occurred. Superintendent Alderman is confi dent that these “ on the spot” histori cal addresses w ill be the cause o f widespread interest throughout the Northwest and that the institute both along educational and historical lines will be among the greater successes o f the Astoria Centennial celebration. Rossevelt freely admits having ap Battles in S treets. proved the steel merger while he was Liverpool— A reign o f terror exists in office, saying it was the only way here and troops are pouring into the to avert a panic. city to put down disorder. A special An American actor who lost his life guard has been detailed to protect the in a London hotel fire, had a premoni- landing stage o f the trans-Atlantic ■ tion o f approachng death, and had all steamers which, it is asserted, the his business affairs arranged accord rioters have planned to destroy by ingly. fire. F ive 'prison vans escorted by 50 Western railroad men have served soldiers who were carrying riot pris notice abrogating their wage agree ments with the roads, and a big strike oners from the police court to Walth am jail were attacked by 3,000 mem is looked for. bers o f the roughest class in Vauxhall D E E R L A W S S T R IC T . The mob threw missiles o f The British house o f lords reluc street. tantly passed the veto bill, which every description and in defending Shipm ent o f G am e F ro m S tate F o r greatly curtails their own powers and themselves the hussars fired. bidden by Ruling. A t first blanks were used by the increases the (rawer o f the house of soldiers, and then ball cartridges Salem— Deer hunters from Califor commons. One man was killed and many persons nia will be disappointed to learn that The troops hereafter no deer carcasses, horns or An itinerant clock repairer, 86 were severely wounded. years old, is walking from Portland then charged with drawn sabers and any part o f the animal killed in this So daring were state can be taken into California. to Irang Creek, Or., carrying his tools cleared the street. and supplies. He expects to earn his the rioters that one o f them tried to The law in this regard was recently unhorse an officer, who was obliged to construed by Attorney-General Craw livin g en route. use his revolver, wounding the man ford, and every precaution w ill be PO RTLA ND M ARKETS. severely. taken by officers o f the Fish and Game Another less serious affray in which commission to see that it is enforced. Wheat New crop— Illuestem, 81c; the troops were again compelled to Attorney-General Crawford's decision club, 77c; red Russian, 75c; valley, fire took place in Bond street. Only is that the commission has no author 77c. a few persons were injured. ity to issue permits to take deer M illstuffs— Bran, $24.50(1/25 per killed in this state across the line into ton; middlings, $22; shorts, $25.60 Insurance Probe G row s. California. The only condition under (« 26; rolled barley, $28(n 29. Detroit— More representatives of which game can be taken out o f the Corn— Whole, $33; carcked, $34. companies under investigation were state is for propagation or exhibition. Barley — New, feed, $25. &()(</, 20; quizzed by the special committee se Already a number o f applications have brewing, $30(//31. lected by ¡the national convention of been received for permission to take Oats— Old white, $25 per ton; new, insurance commissioners to probe ¡¡the game out o f the state, and these have $24. methods o f certain industrial insur all been denied. Hay— Timothy, valley, $15(/z;16; al ance concerns doing business in the falfa, $11; clover, $8.60(zfi9; grain United States. The committee’s re F U N D S R A IS E D F O R F A IR . hay, $10. port is expected to be ready Thursday Fresh Fruits— Cantaloupes, $1.25(«! or Friday. It is said that something Klam ath Falls P la n t Big Exposition 2 per crate; peaches, 60c(x$1.25 per in the nuture o f a report may be read T his Fall. box; watermelons, l(</]ljc per (raund; at the national convention o f state in plums, 90c(</>$1.75 per crate; prunes, Klamath Fall»— That Klamath will surance commissioners in Milwaukee $1.75 per box; new apples, $1.75(i0 have the greatest county fair this fall next eek. 2.60 per box; raspberries, $2(0,2.50; in its history is believed by those who F a ir Success Assured. blackberries, $1.75(«:1.90; pears, $2(</ are promoting the project. Several Young G om ez Is Accused. Medford— Raising $900 at a meet 2.50 per box. Havana — Following the revolver prominent men have taken hold o f the ing o f 30 men, with promises o f more, Vegetables— Beans, 65i)10c; cab affair and promise to build grand bage, $2 per hundredweight; corn, duel in the Cafe Cosmopolita between stands, exhibit booths, stalls for stock the committee o f merchants and busi ness men are assured the success o f a 30(« 1 40c per dozen; cucumbers, $1 (Oil.25 Miguel Gomez, son o f President Go and other necessary structures. district fair here in October. The per box; egg plant, 10<cl26c per mez, who opened the fire, and Con Business men have been asked to (raund; garlic, l()(//12c; lettuce, 30(<z) gressman Artnandi Andres, editor of raise $1,600 for purses, and already only difficulty has been that o f raising 35c per dozen; hothouse lettuce, $1.25 El Dia, an anti-administration news volunteer donations o f $900 have been funds, and it was finally decided to (o 1.76 per 1 m > x ; peppers, 8(i/.10c per paper, that publication asserts that made. It is planned to hold a four- sell stock at $50 a share in a $5,000 pound; radishes, 1 4 «/ 2 c per dozen; to many friends o f Gomez fin'd upon the day fair, with racing and other sports. fair corporation. A few men, with limited liability, matoes, 90c(i/$1.25 per box; new car editor. The walls o f the Cafe Cosmo w ill be behind the fair, and in case of rots, $1.76 per sack; turnips, $1.25; politan and the fronts o f the adjacent Coos County Roads Prom oted rain or other untoward event, will buildings [show bullet marks greatly beets, $1.75. Two commit Marshfield —A permanent good roads stand for the losses. Potatoes — New Oregon, l j d l l j c exceeding ¡in number the shots that could have possibly been fired by the association for the purpose o f advanc tees, one to sell stock and another to per pound. ing the interests o f the county is the take subscriptions, were appointed. Onions- Walla Walla,$1.76 per hun principals. purpose o f a movement which has dred. F o rty -T h re e Rattlesnakes Bagged. 6 0 th F air Will Be Bast. been started by the North Bend com Poultry— Hen», 16o/164r; springs, Spokane Forty-three rattlesnakes mercial club. A committee has been Salem— A t a banquet at the Marion 18«/18Jc; ducks, young, 15c; geese, were the result o f a day’s hunt in the appointed to confer with other com hotel in honor o f J. H. Booth, o f Rose- nominal; turkeys, nominal. near Wilson mercial bodies in the county, and a burg, president o f the State board of Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, Wilson Creek draw, Creek, Wash., by Mat Ferral and general meeting will be called, when agriculture, a movement was inaugur 27c per dozen. Butter City creamery extra, 1 and Frank I.amphere, visitors from Kan representatives o f the different com ated to make the 50th anniversary of 2-pound prints, in boxes, 39c (ter sas, and Bruce Webley, a rancher liv munities will be asked to be present the State fair this year the greatest in Pio pound; less than box lots, cartons and ing north o f Wilson Creek. The larg and co-operate in the plan, it s be the history o f the organization. est snake was four feet in length. lieved that much good work can be neers o f the state will be entertained delivery extra. The hides o f several o f the snakes accomplished. on the first day o f the fair, this being Pork Fancy, 10m l()Jc per pound. measured *six inches in width. The a new feature and all o f Salem will Veal— Fancy, 12«/ 13c per pound. (O riole M ine to Install M ill. close its doors to honor these pioneers. Hops 1911 contracts, 30(o 32c per rattles taken from the reptiles half Grants Bass — The Oriole mine in Among those at the gathering was R. pound; 1910 crop, 29c; 1909 crop, 20 filled an ordinary shoe box. (i/22c; olds, 13<n 17c. the Galice district will put in a big P. Boise, who attended the first State Asylum Guards Caught. gold mill. Heretofore the company fair, 50 years ago. Mohair — Choice, 36(i/i37Jc per Chicago For a week three detec has been shipping the ore to Tacoma, : pound. Fru it Shipm ents B eg ir. Cattle Extra choice steers, $6.76<o tives have been “ patient»” at the but this will be brought to an end by The com 6; good, $5.25(1/6.50; choice cows. Cook County asylum for the insane at installation o f the mill. Medford — Beginning fruit ship $4.75(1/ 4.80; good, $4.25(>z 4.50; good, Dunning. The result o f their deten pany has an overhead ledge exposure ments from the Rogue river valley, a average 1050 pounds, $4«/4.25; com tion was seen Wednesday when Presi 600 feet. This compnay hai in opera car o f Rartlett pears was shipped mon, $2.75o/'3; choice heifers, $4.75 dent Bartzen, o f the county board, tion a power plant connected with ( from the Irwin tract in the Burrell hi 5; choice bulls, $3.50«/ 3.75; choice suspended four attendants, charged Rogue River. The mine’s tunnels, orchard. The pear crop promises to calves, 200 pounds and under, $7«/ with cruelty. The secret investiga crosscuts and drifts make about one exceed the estimated 400 carloads, 7.26; good to choice, $5.60(i/6; com tors, while confined with the insane, mile o f underground work. and the association is even now mon, $4<i/5; choice stags, $4.50«/ watched physicians, nurses and other clamoring for pickers and packers. 3 6 -C e n t H op O ffe r Refused. attendants and made reports o f their 4.75; good, $4.25«/ 4.60. The hot weather in July has made the Hogs — Extra choice light hogs, actions. Salem Geroge I.. Rose states that fruit ripen well, and it is in excellent $7.85(0 8; choice heavy, $7«(.7.25; he received and refused bona fide condition for picking. The greater part “ Be G entle“ E d ito r F ig h t*. heavy rough, $6.25«/6.50. offers to sell 250 bales o f 1911 hops o f the pear crop here will be Bartlett». Sheep— Choice yearlings, wethers, St. lamia Albert Solomon, o f this for 35 cents. He would not say who M any Hunt in C u rry M ountains. coarse wool, $3.25(<z 3.50; choice year city, editor o f the Humanitarian, in made the offer. The same kind o f an ling wethers, east o f mountains, $3.25 which he admonishes everybody to Ira offer was made to McLaughlin A Marshfield— Many hunters are now (</3.60; choice two and threes, $3(<z kind and gentle, is under arrest on the Hirschberg. o f Independence, by the in the mountains o f Coos and Curry 3.50; choice spring lambs, $5.25«/ charge o f beating his w ife ami fight same parties. Cables received here counties after deer. Several sought 5.50; good to choice spring lambs, ing with his brother-in-law. The indicate that crop conditions both in the most favored places several days $5«/5.25; choice killing ewes, $2.76 brother-in-law is locked up on a cross Germany and England continue to be before the open season began so that t l 3. charg* o f disturbing Solomon’» peace. worse. they would be first on the ground. NORTHWEST HAS ONLY GOOD CROP A N A R C H IS T H U R L S K N IF E . Japs A fte r C anal T ra d e . Victoria, B. C.— News was brought by the Empress o f Japan that the Osaka Shoscn Kaisha has in view the establishment o f a steamship line via the Panama canal when it is com pleted. A t the annual meeting held shortly before the empress liner de parted, Nakagawa and Chiura, offi cials o f the company, were ordered to visit the Panama zone in the United States and South America to investi gate trade possibilities in this connec tion. The Japanese line proposes to run into New York via the canal. Film s Lure B acksliders. San Jose, Cal. — Illustrated songs and a sermon made more interesting by motion pictures, featured the ser vices at the Christian church here Sunday last. Pictures have been used in the churches here before to illustrate lectures and midweek ser vices, but this marks their first ap pearance in the regular Sunday ser vices. Inasmuch as motion pictures have driven legitimate theatricals out o f the city, keen interest marked the appearance o f the pictures at the Sun day service at a church. Knox Helping M exicans. Washington, D. C.— In annnouncing that the United States has granted authority to Mexico to send troops across United States territory to Low er Caifomia, Secretary o f State Knox complimented President de la Rarra on his efforts to restore order in Mex ico. Mexican rurales will be per mitted to go from Douglas. Arizona, to T ia Juana, Mexico, to suppress lawlessness in the northern part of Lower California. Senator T reasure Ship. Seattle. — Seven hundred thousand dollars’ worth o f Alaska gold was brought to Seattle by the steamship Senator. The gold was shipped from the Nome and Iditarod districts. Half o f this gold w ill be sent direct to the smelter in San Francisco and the re mainder is consigned to Seattle banks. BARLEY J U M P S TO SI 40. F o r F irs t T im a In Y ears C e re a l H ig h e r Than W heat. Is Stockton, Cal. —For the first time in many years barely is selling for more than wheat, and there is much excite ment along grain row in this city, the grain center o f the state. The cereal has been advancing very rapidly o f late, and on the board it has jumped up almost a dollar during the past week. G overnm ent’s M onthly Report D is The crop in this section is unusually couraging— Increased Acreage heavy, and tthe cash price is high. This has caused the dealers to send M akes U p to Som e Extent. agents into the country in an effort to get a new line on the yield and the quality, which they thought might possibly have been over-estimated. N orthw est W heat C ro p Will L arg e It has been shown that it has been ly Exceed T h a t o f I9 IO . many years since a larger and better crop was produced. Washington, D. C.— Preliminary Some o f the cautious buyers have estimates by the department o f ag dropped out o f the market, as they riculture on the wheat crop fix the fear a break almost any time. Some 1911 winter wheat crop o f Oregon declare that the sudden bulge in prices at 11,766,000 bushels, or 698,000 is due to a speculative demand, and bushels over the crop o f 1910. The there will be a reaction. Others in quality o f this crop August 1 is re sist barley ¡w ill go to $1.50 before ported to have been 95 per cent and there is any reaction. The farmers in the yield per acre 22.2 bushels. the meantime are making a large Washington’s winter wheat crop profit. is estimated at 19,800,000 bushels, as against 13,858,000 bushels last year. Its condition is reported as 97 per cent and the yield per acre as 27.3 bushels. Spring wheat figures are given Washington, D. C.— President T a ft for Washington only and show the w ill designate Thursday, November condition on August 1 to be 86 per 30, as Thanksgiving Day, despite the cent, as compared with 93 on July request o f bankers that the president 1. The Washington spring wheat name Thursday, November 23. crop was 62 on August 1, 1910. It has always been the custom to designate the last Thursday in Novem Washington, D. C.— A tremendous ber as Thanksgiving Day, and Mr. decline in crops generally throughout T a ft w ill adhere to that custom. The the country, traceable to drought and bankers wanted November 23 se intense heat, occurred last month, as lected, declaring that the making o f indicated by official figures and esti November 30 a legal holiday would mates made in the monthly crop re seriously interfere with their work. port o f the department o f agriculture. The law requires that National banks The report is the worst, as to gen make their statements to the Treasury eral crop conditions, that the depart department on the first day o f every ment has issued for any one month month, and a holiday falling on the since 1901. last day o f the month would be most The area most seriously affected ex inconvenient, said the bankers. tends from New York and Pennsyl There was some doubt as to what vania westward to the Rocky Moun Thursday in November would be se tains, embracing all the great corn, lected this year, as the month con wheat and hay producing states in the tains five Thursdays. The White country. House has been besieged by theatrical Conditions in the Pacific Northwest managers and those in charge o f col are regarded as excellent, although lege football games to settle this during July that territory suffered doubt, so that definite arrangements from a brief but excessively hot per can be made for the array o f special iod. The figures o f the report indi performances and sports that mark cate a material slump in the prospects the day. o f all crops. Corn, which at this sea son is Jthe most important, declined T A F T NEEDS REST. during the month from a condition of about 5 per cent below the average as indicated by the July report, to nearly W estern T rip Depends O n O p p o r tunity to Recuperate,* 16 per cent below the average. Washington, D. C.-—Numerous invi A M E R IC A N F LA G B U R N E D . tations continue to reach the White House for President T a ft to visit “ Y ankee H a te r” in Canadian T ow n cities throughout the South and West during his coming trip, but owing to Vents Spleen on Em blem . Buffalo, N. Y .— A dispatch from the uncertainty o f the date o f the ad journment o f congress, the President London, Ont., says: Thomas Midgely, who prides him has not definitely decided upon the self on the title o f “ Yankee H ater,” ! itinerary, The publicly burned the Stars and Stripes TK“ president is 'constantly receiv in the streets o f the town o f Wood- ing appeals to include the Pacific He has said stock. A few hours before, someone, Coast in his program. in a spirit o f mischief, had nailed an that i f he could get a month o f good Amercan flag above the door o f his rest at Beverly, he would not object shop. When Midgely saw the flag he to including the Far W est in his jour called his neighbors around him and ney, but that he must have some time walking to the middle o f the street, for recuperation. He is \ to start on ighted a fire and burned the flag. his Southern and Western trip Sep Then he scattered the ashes about the tember 16. street, “ that the horses might tram R IO T E R S L O O T S H O P . ple them under their fe e t.” Situation Throughout Country Worst In Years. NOVEMBER 30 DESIGNATED AS THANKSGIVING DAY N E W IN V A S IO N E X P E C T E D . M agon Junta P repares to Continue W a r In L o w e r C alifo rn ia. San Diego, Cal.— Dr. J. Dias Prieto, Mexican consul in San Diego, confirms the report that the Magon junta in Los Angeles is preparing for a second armed insurrection in Lower California. Consul Prieto said he had been in touch with the situation on the border the past six or seven days and that he was in communication with Colonel Celso Vega, jefe politico at Ensenada, Lower California. Thirty Mexicans, led by an Italian who served in the rebel army in Low er California, are said to have left San Diego in groups during the past 24 hours and two excited gatherings o f Mexicans in the lower end o f the city were dispersed by the police. T ro o p s M ee t W ith Hostile In Liverpool. Reception Liverpool— The calm o f the strike situation here was dissipated by ser ious rioting in the vicinity o f the Lime street station. A mob wrecked about 20 shops and looted them of boots and clothing. Neary 500 additi onal troops who arrived in the city met with a hostle receptiion. London— The strike o f dockmen, lightermen, ¡coalporters and carmen, which for several days has seriously disturbed all business in London and resulted in a shortage o f food stuffs, coal, petrol and other necessities, was ended with the settlement o f the ligh- terers’ dispute. The men were con ceded a 10-hour day and an increase o f about 25 per cent in wages. Q uake Rekindles Fires. B ro th e r Probably Kidnapper. Chicago— Inspector Revere, who has been conducting the search for 6-year- old Angelo Mareno, granted Philip Mareno, the child's brother, 24 hours in which to produce the missing boy on pain o f being locked up. The police believe now that the kidnaping o f little Angelo was the result o f a fam ily disagreement |and that the elder brother knows who has the boy and where he is hidden. Philip is said to have been the only one who knew o f his father’s savings o f a little over $ San Bernardino, Cal.— Smouldering logs dislodged and rolled down the mountain sides by a sharp earthquake shock started another forest fire which may prove serious. Forest Super visor Charlton has despatched 40 men to fight the new blaze. The new fire is in D evil’s Canyon, above which the recent conflagration raged last week. There were two shocks, one at 3 :40 and another at 10:20 a. m. Though the buildings were shaken severely, the damage done in this city was trival. 1 , 000 . W ant Diaz to Return. 9 3 D row n In M ed iterranean. Gibraltar— The French steamship Emir foundered five miles east o f Tar- fa, Spain, in the Straits o f Gibraltar. Ninety-three persons were drowned. The ship sailed from here for a Moroc can port. An hour later, in a dense fog, she collided with the British steamship Silverton, bound from New port, England, for Aranto, Italy. The crew o f the Silverton rescued 27 o f the Emir’s crew and passengers. The Sil verton later put in here with her star board bow stove in and her forepeak full o f water. Lucerne, Switzerland — General Porfirio Diaz, ex-president o f Mexico, has received many cablegrams from opponents o f Francisco I. Madero, urging him to return to Mexico and "restore order.” One from the M exi can society o f New York informs the deposed executive that the society is getting up a huge petition begging him to intervene in the Mexican sit uation. The society has re-elected Diaz as president. General Diaz does not heed these communications, and is looking for a villa here. M ea t D e a re r In N ew Y o rk . S trik e S tren gth Display. Chicago— Railroad officials declare that the strike which threatens West ern railroads is being planned as a demonstration o f strength o f the rail road department o f the American Fed eration o f Labor. The railroad de partment o f the American Federation of Labor was organized four years ago. It is said to have a membership of nearly 700,000, comprising shopmen and telegraphers o f 18 o f the most important roads. New York— Prices o f beef are to be raised and local retail dealers say the advance makes the cost o f meat pass the high water mark o f last fall. Prices have been steadily advancing for two week». The wholesale price o f hind quarters o f beef has jumped from 11 to 14 cents, while pork loins have gone up from 10 to 15 cents a pound. Wholesalers say the cause of the advance is the scarcity o f good cattle in the West and Southwest. Rubber Plants Resume. F ro st H its Canadians. SL Paul— According to report» re ceived by the local weather bureau. Edmonton and Calgary, Canada, ex perienced breaths o f frost Thursday -noming, the temperature dropping to 36 degrees. Woonsocket, R. 1.-— The mills o f the Woonsocket Rubber company, which have been closed for a month because o f dullness in the rubber business, have resumed operations in several departments. Nearly 2,500 hands will find employment.
