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.
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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.