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CIMENT EVENTS OF THE WEE K Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume o f Important Eventa Presented in Condensed Form for O u r Busy Readers« Irving Bedell Dudley, ambassador to Brazil, is dead. The Santa Fe railroad is blockaded by snow and ice in New Mexico. Manchu troops have captured Han Yan and put the Chinese rebels to rout. Twenty-seven brass bands combined in one immense band at the Spokane Apple Bhow. The turkey supply in Portland mar kets was less than expected and prices are on the rise. A small schooner with 23 Chinese on board was caught trying to land the celestials at Monterey, Cal. The proposed lumber combine o f Northwest mills gets little encourage ment from Attorney General Wicker- sham. The strike o f coal miners in North ern Colorado is becoming serious and the governor is about to call out troops. Two San Francisco policemen and an informer were killed trying to ar rest a Greek wanted for a murder in Greece. The landing o f Japanese forces in the disturbed provinces o f China was with tho full knowledge and consent o f the powers. America denies emphatically that she interfered in any way with the ne gotiations between England and Ger many regarding Morocco. Italians report a fierce battle with the Turks in which the city o f Henni was captured and 500 Turks killed and many prisoners taken, including sev eral officers. The timber ouptut o f Washington for the past year is estimated to be worth $54,750,000. Representative Underwood, o f A l abama, has declared against the in itiative and referendum. A free ship bill in congress may de feat the combine against an Atlantic- Pacific steamer line via the Panama canal. John D. denies that he took any un due advantage o f the M erritt brothers in securing title to vast mineral de posits in Michigan. A gigantic smuggling plot has been revealed whereby hundreds o f Chinese have been brought to Chicago and New York from Canada. R E B E L S G E T N A N K IN G . Imperial Tro o p s Rally and Capture Hang Yang. Nanking— The revolutionists entered the four gates o f the city o f Nanking early Wednesday morning. Pekin— Hang Yang has been occu pied by the imperial forces, which crossed the Han river 20 miles above that place. Wuchang has made a pro visional capitulation, and it is evident that the government is getting a strong hand in that part o f Hupeh province, where a few weeks ago the rebels seemed to have supreme control. There is no news o f Li Yuen Hing, the revolutionary commander, and it is not known whether he led the de fense o f Hang Yang or directed it from Wuchang. It is believed that the rebels will not surrender; rather that they will prefer to take chances o f flight in the open country. The rebels have endeavored to obtain the terms offered by Yuan Shi Kai three weeks ago, but it is reliably reported that Lieutenant General Fang Ko Chwang, commander {of the imperial troops at Hankow, refused to grant them. A Hankow consular report says it was a foregone conclusion that the im perialists would win i f they attacked seriously, because o f superior organ ization. During the attack every po sition was heavily shelled. The im perialists numbered probably 30,000 modern drilled men. The rebels were for the most part volunteers, perhaps equal in numbers to the imperial forces. Yuan Shi K a i’s position seemed hopeless two days ago. He was de serted by former followers upon whose help he counted. Both Chinese and foreign residents in Pekin believed that the dynasty was on the verge o f abdication. Friends urged the pre mier to capitulate; others, fearing his assassination, endeavored to persuade him to take refuge in the foreign con cessions at Tien Tsin. Today Yuan Shi Kai is the one-man government, combining in himself both legislative and executive powers, but it is now expected that the men recently appointed to the cabinet will come to Pekin promptly. A certain awe surrounds Yuan Shi Kai. The national assembly feared him and did not dare to insist upon his presence before it. The membership preferred to leave the capital when the army rallied unexpectedly. The premier removed suspected offi cers and rewarded the soldiers with bits o f money, in spite o f the treas ury’s plight. He even Bent Manchu troops away from the capital to the front and he is now sending reinforce ments to Pukow, opposite Nanking, as well as to Hankow and Shansi. I f the premier were able to obtain a foreign loan he would control the situation. The opinion is held, how ever, that the revolution is by no means ended. The legations believe the dynasty Baved unless the rebels succeed in fulfilling their threat to kill Yuan Shi Kai with dynamite. The premier recently informed Sir John Jordan, the British minister, that he did not fear assassination. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE W A TE R P R O JE C T GBOW S. Big Lakeview Bond Issue is Believed Assured. . Lakeview— Supplementing a million dollar bond issue through underwriters headed by James H. Pershing, o f Den ver, H. 1. Reid, ex-city engineer o f Colorado Springs, has spent the past 10 days in Lakeview collecting data and investigating the work done by the Lakeview Irrigation & Power company toward the reclamation o f 60,000 acreB in Goose lake valley. That the report o f the engineer will be a favorable one is evident in his enthusiasm regarding this country and aside from a few legal technical»* ties it is believed that the bonds are practically taken up now. In order to facilitate the bond issue, the Oregon Valley Land company transferred its property rights to the Lakeview Irrigation & Power company who in turn last week transferred its entire holdings to a corporation known as the Goose Lake Irrigation company. Warranty deeds were given for all holdings and quit claim deeds to all rights o f way, water rights and water contracts. Up to the present time, nearly $1,- 000,000 has been spent on the Drews creek project, which is now about 70 per cent complete. In addition to the completion o f the Drews project, con struction work will go forward in early spring on the Cottonwood pro ject, which roughly estimated, will cost close to three-quarters o f a mil lion dollars. With these two projects completed, sufficient water w ill be available for watering every acre o f land in the valley as far south as the California state line. BEND A U T O TR U C K S READY. Trip s to Be Made to B u rn t Now All Year Round. Bend— A fte r many delays in getting them here, the two auto trucks which the Central Oregon Trucking company will operate between here and Burns, hauling freight to the Harney country, have arrived. Several car loads o f freight have been w aiting here for weeks to be freighted to the interior. The road to be traveled is smooth and solid now. The auto truck will get much o f the freighting business from this termin al, from present indications. In ad dition to the line to Burns, cars w ill be operated to Lake county towns. Frank McKay, o f Portland, has ar rived with a machine to be used for runs to all towns in the interior where freight offers. Only a very deep snow will stop these cars, as the roads in this part o f Central Oregon remain firm the year round. A ID S IN W A T E R F IG H T . Government Helps Ind'ans to Win Pendleton Controversy. Pendleton— Government aid for the Governor West, o f Oregon, has com Indians in the water rights contro W A T E R W A L L H I T S S H IP . muted the sentence o f another murder, versy with the Byers M illing company and asserts he w ill not allow capital is promised in a letter received by punishment so long as he remains in Sailors Swept O ff Decks By Big Major E. L. Swartzlander, agent on office. Wave on Atlantic. * the Umatilla reservation, from C. F. I. W- W. disturbers at Aberdeen, New York— Captain Pavey, o f the Hauke, second assistant commissioner Wash., attempted to rescue some o f Fabre line Santa Ana, which arrived o f Indian affairs. their number from jail, but were Wednesday from Marseilles and N a Hauke says the department o f jus routed by streams o f water from the ples, tells o f a wave 100 feet high, tice has already been instructed to fire hose. which his ship encountered on the A t funrish the Indian service with data A Portland justice court decided lantic. The great mass o f water rose showing the exact status o f the situa that a willow plume is a necessity o f before the ship like a wall and swept tion. As soon as this is obtained, he life for a woman, and a dry goods the decks clean o f everything portable. declares, the courts will be called up house in that city is unable to enforce Four seamen were carried overboard on to settle once for all the right o f and three others stretched unconscious the Indian lands on which water is payment for the ornament. on the deck. needed for irrigation purposes. If I had the engines reversed at the government and the Indians win it P O R TLA N D M A R K ETS . once,” said Captain Pavey. ‘ ‘ The will make possible the irrigation of Wheat— Track prices: Bluestem, four men came up through the foam, 5,600 acres o f valuable land imme 82d(H3c; club, 79(i()80c; red Russian, three o f the being limp on the waves. diately contiguous to Pendleton. 77(,1,78c; valley, 79(<i)80c; forty-fold, The falling wall o f water had knocked them senseless. The fourth man was Potato Experiments Success. 80c. Corn— Whole, $37; cracked, $38 ton. just able to reach out and grab a buoy Gold H ill— With the idea o f propa MillstulTs— Bran, $23 per ton; mid flung overboard. We could not lower gating a potato suited to soil and cli dlings, $31; Bhorts, $24; rolled barley, a boat, as the sea was so hig.” The spine o f one o f the sailors matic conditions in Southern Oregon, $35. knocked down on deck was broken, which has no particular claim to fame Oats—No. 1 white, $31 per ton. H ay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim and he died two days later. The oth as a potato county, George Holcomb hus experimented the past season with othy, $18(11-18.50; No. 1 valley, $160(! ers injured will probably recover. vines grown from seed from all the 16; alfalfa, $13(n)14; clover, $ll(n)12; potato-producing countries o f the X-R ay on Shaker’s Death. grain, $ll(i(jl2. world. Although potatoes grown di Barley — Feed, $34( k 35 per ton; Tampa, Fla.— The question o f how rect from seed are supposed to be brewing, nominal. Egbert Gillette and Elizabeth Sears, about the size o f marbles, Mr. Hol Fresh Fruits— Pears, 50cfd)$1.60 per members o f the Shaker colony near comb has some as large as eggs. He b ox; grapes, 75 c ( k $ 1.26; cranberries, Kissimee, assisted a co-religionist hopes to discover the best potato for $12.50(ii 13 per barrel. "ou t o f life ” by euthanasia, will be cultivation in the Rogue River valley. Apples—Jonathans, $1.50(<i2.25 per taken up by a grand jury that may box; Spitzenberg, $1(1(2.60; Baldwin, hold the pair for manslaughter. Both Primary Voting Day Longer. 76c(«i$1.60; Red Cheek Pippin. $1.25 Gillette and Miss Sears admit they Salem— Letters are being sent from (ii 1.75; Winter Banana, $2(u3; Bell gave chloroform to Sadie Marchant to the office o f the attorney-general to all flower, $l(it 1.25. expedite her death because, they o f the county clerks in the state call Potatoes — Buying prices: Bur claim, she was in the final stage o f tu ing their attention to the fact that un banks, 90 c ( i i $1.20 per hundred. berculosis. A medical examination der the law, as amended by the last Onions— Buying price, $1.16 per disclosed, it is declared, that Sister session o f the legislature, the polls at sack. Marchant was not so near death. primary nominating elections will be Vegetables — Artichokes, 76c per open from 8 o ’clock in the morning dozen; cabbage, l(n l j c per pound; Scientist Seeks Whales. until 7 o'clock in the evening, instead cauliflower, $1.906(2 per crate; cel New York—The collection o f whales o f from noon until 7 o ’clock, as here ery, 75c per dozen; garlic, 10oi 12c per pound; lettuce, 7B(rl.'80c per dozen; at the American Museum o f Natural tofore provided. The early letters are hothouse lettuce, $l<u l.25 per box; History, already the largest in the being sent to the clerks so that the peppers, 8oi 10c per pound; pumpkins, world, is to be further reinforced by section will not be overlooked, and the l d i l j c ; sprouts, 8(n9c; squash, H(ri) whatever finds may result from an ex notices will be sent out properly. 14c; tomatoes, 90c(i/$1.60 per box; pedition leaving New York Wednes The expedition, in charge of Coos Bay Seeking Oil. carrots, $1 per sack; turnips, $1; day. Professor Ray C. Andrews, o f the Marshfield Final arrangements for beets. $1; parsnips, $1. Butter Oregon creamery butter, museum staff, is undertaken primarily oil boring have been made by the Coos solid pack, 36c; prints, extra; butter in search o f a gray California whale, the rarest o f its species. Andrews will Bay Oil & Gas company, recently or fat, lc less than solid pack. Poultry -Hens, 12(u'124c; springs. also seek a humpback whale on the ganized by local men. The company 12c; ducks, young. 16oi 16c; geese, 12 coast o f Corea, and a great how-head is capitalized for $25,060 and nearly <i/13c; turkeys, live, 2(ki(2lc; dressed, ed whale, now almost extincL $18,000 o f the stock has been sub scribed. C- M. Maupin, formerly o f choice, 25(n 26c. D r. Blue Called Home. the California oil fields, will probably Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, 60c. Honolulu— Dr. Rupert Blue, o f the be chosen as genernl manager. The Pork— Fancy, 8*i9c per pound. United States Public Health and Mar first boring w ill be made on the Veal— Fancy, 12(u 13c per pound. Hops 1911 crop, 43(u46c; olds, ine Hospital service, who has been in Catching Inlet, near this city. Honolulu since the threatened cholera nominal. Potatoes, 2 60 Sacks, Acre, Wool Eastern Oregon, 9(u. 16c per epidemic several months ago. has been He pound; valley, 16(ul7c; mohair, ordered to return to Washington. Freewater Two hundred and fifty will be succceeded by Dr. George W. sacks o f |x>tatoes to the acre is the choice, 3Vu 37c per pound. It is believed here that Dr. record made on the Grandview tracts Cattle—Choice steers, $5.40<i( 6.50; McCoy. good, $56/'5.35; choice cows, $4.65(ii' Blue's return to Washington is in con near Freewater by Bradley and Far- 4.65; fair, $4.25(-i4.60; extra choice nection with the choosing o f a succes rish. The potatoes are o f the Bur spayed heifers, $4.75d( 6.40 ; choice sor to the late Dr. W alter Wyman, bank variety and are smooth and uni heifers, $4.500(4.60; choice bulls, surgeon general o f the service. form. They average from a pound to $(.25iii4.50; good, $4(j:4.25; choice a pound and a half each in weight, Law Will Close Mines. calves, $7(1(7.76; good, $7( k 7.25. and sell for a cent and a half per Pittsburg, Kan. According to sev pound. Hogs—Choice light, $C.55*( 6.70; good, $6.35ii(6.50; fair, $6.200(6.25; eral leading coal mine operators in Schedule of Doctors' Fees. this district, 30 per cent o f the mines common, $5<i(6. Baker A uniform rate o f fees for Sheep Choice yearling wethers, o f Kansas will bis shut down January coarse wool. $4.250(.4.50; choice twos 1 because o f the state workmen’s com the doctors o f this county will be and threes, $4(u4.26; choice killing pensation law, which goes into effect placed in effect if the plans which ewes, $3.25(1(3.60; choice lambs, on that date. The operators declare were discussed at the |meeting o f the $4.500(4.75; good to choice, $4.26(d they cannot afford to take the risk of Baker County Medical association are adopted. liability to injured employes. 4.50; culls, $36(3.75. N E W T R IB E F O U N D . Eskimo* Who Ressmbls Europeans Sea First Whits Man. Edmonton, Alberta — A fte r spend ing three and one-half years on the Arctic trails o f the wilds o f the far O . A . C Plans New W ork for Farm North, J. C. M elville has returned to ers' Short Course. civilization. One o f the tribes o f Es Oregon Agricultural College, Cor kimos that he visited had never seen vallis— A course in rural hygiene is to a white man before. be inaugurated this winter at the Ore These people show many traits com gon Agricultural cojlege during the mon to the European races. They short course. A popular course o f lec probably are actual descendants of tures will be given on the factors fa survivors o f Sir John Franklin’s two vorable and otherwise to health in ru ships] that were lost in these regions ral communities. Prof. T. D. Beck in the middle o f the 19th century and with, head o f the bacteriology depart never heard o f again. Another theory is that they are the ment, w ill give these lectures. descendants o f the Scandinavian set “ The farmer ordinarily gives far tlers o f Greenland, who in the middle more attention to the health o f his ages had to move from that conutry stock than to that o f himself and fam and proceeded along the Northern ily ,” said Prof. Beckwith, speaking of coast o f the American continent and the proposed lectures. “ The point finally settled among the tribes some- that the health o f the people may be [ where in the vicinity o f where they reckoned in dollars and cents to the were found by the travelers. So great is the struggle for exist community escapes the average* citi zen in his mad scramble for more evi ence within the Arctic Circle, that the dent wealth. For example, it is com female infants are destroyed lest they puted that the annual loss to the prove too great a strain on the slender United States through human tubercu resources o f the tribe. A mother will losis amounts to $600,000,000, which bring up one girl, and only one. I f is approximately three-fourths the val any other girl baby is born, it is ex ue o f the entire wheat crop o f the posed to the cold to kill it. Boys, on country. This immense annual loss, the other hand, are regarded as an They can work about 75 per cent o f which is prevent asset to the tribe. able, is due solely to carelessness and and hunt and fish and forage for them ignorance of the most rudimentary selves. One result o f this savage, though rules o f life and health. O f vastly greater importance than the money from their point o f view, necessary loss is the pain and suffering, most o f slaughter o f the females ic that the which can be prevented by a little men far outnumber the women and many o f the former have no wives. care and knowledge.” He confessed that there are days in The short course lectures, which will be illustrated with stereopticon the Northern winter when he and the views, will cover such subjects as other white men o f the party could water supply (especially from wells), not venture outside for any length of their location and construction as to time owing to the severity o f the health; sanitary methods o f sewage weather, although the hardy Eskimos disposal, the use and abuse o f ceptic and Northern Indians pursued their tanks; transmission o f disease, such hunting trips with apparently little or as tuberculosis and typhoid; flies and no discomfort from the bitter weather. germ carrying; cause o f colds and T R U N K S ARE H E LD . grippe and other epidemics. NORTHWEST WINS RATE REDUCTION T O T E A C H R U R A L H Y G IE N E . T O H A V E P U M P IN G S Y S T E M Electric Power to Be Used gating Arid Land. in Irri La Grande— Another plan o f reclam ation o f the areas o f arid and semi- arid land in Grande Ronde valley, one heretofore deemed impracticable on so large a scale, w ill be given a tryout here this winter an ! next Bummer. The Eastern Oregon Light and Power company, having operating stations all over Eastern Oregon, will carry on the experiments on 1,600 acres o f land which the company controls in the heart o f the few patches o f land that are dependent on artificial water dur ing the summer. Mining engineers are on the ground ready to commence digging and dril ling the first well. A distance o f 60 feet downward, or where the water raises automatically, the diggers will construct a slum— an underground res ervoir run at right angles to the shaft and extending 50 feet in each direc tion. This reservoir, or slum, will fill with water and act as a reserve pond when the drain from the pumps on the well is heavy. Electricity is to be used as power for pumping. T IM B E R O W N E R S F I G H T T A X . Forest Assessments in Coos Bay De clared to Be T o o High Marshfield — The county judge has been notified that the Menasha YVood- enware company and the Field Timber company will appeal from the findings o f the county board o f equalization in the assessment o f timber lands. It is said that other timber companies will probably join in the movement. Representatives o f several timber owners appealed to the county board for a lowering o f the assessment of timber lands generally throughout the county. While some changes were made in individual cases, the board refused a general lowering o f the as sessment. It was alleged by the timber owners in their original petition that the tim ber was not assessed fairly as com pared to the ranch land o f the county. Has Novel Fish Screen. Gold H ill—Charles Kell, local black smith, has secured a patent on his fish screen for power and irrigation ditch es. The invention consists o f a screen cylinder, rotated by paddles hung on the axis inside the screen. As the cylinder revolves it carries trash and d rift over and down stream, prevent ing the passage o f fish up the ditch. The invention is the result o f the screening law, on the statutes o f all western states, requiring all power and irrigation ditches to be effectually screened against the passage o f fish. Customs Officers to Question Angeles People. No k Serious Loss Threatened— Plea of Roads Unheeded and Own Figures Taken. Washington, D. C. — Portland, Se attle and Tacoma jobbers won an im portant victory before the Interstate Commerce commission Saturday when that body ordered a 20 per cent reduc tion o f all interstate class rates from these cities to points in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, and di rected that the new rates be put into effect January 2, 1912. The fight for this reduction was made by the chambers o f commerce of Portland and Seattle. This order in dorses the tentative decision o f the commission, announced some months ago, the railroads having utterly failed in their endeavor to show that 20 per cent reduction would be ruinous or even unfair to them. When the commission first an nounced its belief that a 20 per cent cut should be made the railroads ob tained six months in which to submit figures showing what losses they would sustain if such regulation should be made. The commission, after study ing these figures, lost no time in pro mulgating its order, for it discovered from the statistics compiled by the railroads themselves that a 20 per cent cut in class rates would deprive the railroads in question o f less than 1 per cent o f their operating revenue. In view o f the financial condition of the four roads affected, the commis sion holds that they w ill not be ad versely affected by this reduction. A L L O P A T H S A R E G R IL L E D .' Los Senator W orks Also Objects to In spection of School Children. New York— Customs men o f this port seized several trunks with valu able furs, laces, gowns and trinkets, which Miss Louisa Bradbury, a mid dle-aged woman, fashionably dressed, and said to be member o f a prominent Los Angeles family, brought into this country on the steamship .Lusitania. Miss Bradbury wept bitterly over the affair. She is not charged with at tempting to smuggle in goods, but she frankly said she purposed to make no declaration as to their value. She and her niece, Marion Winston, of Los Angeles, were questioned as to why they had defied the customs au thorities. A fte r the hearing, deputy surveyor o f the Port Smythe said that Miss Bradbury had given the excuse that many o f her frends had brought fore ign goods back from Europe without paying duty. She refused to give their names, but some other source named several Los Angeles people who, Smythe said, will be summoned before the customs officials there. The customs officials estimate that Miss Bradbury’s goods are worth $4,- 000 here and she w ill have to pay this sum, plus the possible penalty o f $1, 000, to recover her baggage. P L U M B IN G T R U S T Commission Orders Cut of 20 Per Cent Eastward. G IV E S U P . Government Evidence Against C o m bine on Coast Strong. Washington, D. C. — The “ plumb ing trust,” which government officials say controls the sale o f plumbers’ sup plies in most o f the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast regions, has cap itulated to the department o f justice and is seeking to avoid court proceed ings. Representatives o f the trust will present their ideas o f dissolution at a conference to be held later in the week. The evidence against t.he combina tion, it was said, is strong. United States District Attorney McCormick, o f Los Angeles, who is familiar with the workings o f the combination, has been ordered to Washington by Mr. Wickersham to be present at the con ference. Chicago — United States Senator Works, o f California, addressing the National League for Medical Free dom here, assailed the allopathic school o f medicine, which he charged was seeking to form a trust to the ex clusion o f all other methods o f heal ing and particularly denounced the medical examination o f public school pupils. His remarks were directed chiefly to the part o f the school in spection involving girls in the upper grades. He said: “ I sincerely hope you never have medical inspection here. Do you know that in many states, under medi cal inspection practice, girls o f from 14 to 20 are required to bare their bodies to the waist and submit to an inspection, usually by an unsucessful or under-doctor just out o f school, and all this without the knowledge or presence o f their mothers?” Suffragette Leader Defiant Sentenced to Prison. • l When London— The public sitting in Bow Street police court hissed openly and vigorously when the magistrate sen tenced Mrs. Pethick Lawrence to 30 days in jail for her part in the suffra gette riots. Mrs. Lawrence was charged with assulting .the police and obstructing them in the performance o f their duty. The testimony was that Mrs. Lawrence struck a police man in the face twice and struggled for 15 minutes before she was over powered and carried away. Mrs. Lawrence declared that she struck the policeman because he was choking one o f ther comrades. Mrs. Lawrence made a statement in court, with reference to a poster pro duced in court, calling on women to assemble and “ see fair play and pro tect women from being brutally vic timized by the police in uniform and plain clothes, as they were on Black Friday, 1910, as the result o f ill usage, one woman died and many were seriously injured. “ Ia m gald to state,” she said, “ that as the police in my vicinity were concerned, there was no repeti tion o f the brutal usuage o f women. I am inclined to think that what hap pened on the former occasion was done on the instructions o f the govern ment.” The others accused, almost without exception, took their sentences with indifference, choosing jail in preference to the payment o f the fines. C O A L IS R E Q U IR E D . Navy Finds O ther Fuel on Coast Is Insufficient.! Washington, D. C.— In his annual report, the secretary o f the navy will Bay: “ During the past year the depart ment has continued its efforts to as certain whether there are steaming coals obtainable from mines on the Pacific Coast suitable for naval use, but so far efforts to obtain suitable coal have not met with success. A ct ual steaming tests aboard two armor ed cruisers o f the same class have been made o f six representative coals mined in the State o f Washington and three kinds o f coal mined in British Columbia. The coals tested were the best obtainable and were selected after an exhaustive inquiry regarding the kinds o f coal most probably suited for naval needs. “ The department has directed a further test o f Western coast coals, to be conducted when suitable supplies are available, and the work o f select ing representative coals mined in Brit ish Columbia, Utah, Colorado, Wyom ing and New Mexico is now being prosecuted. “ The department understands that the analyses o f coals mined in Alaska indicate that coal exists there equal to the best coal mined. When Alaska is developed it is hoped that this coal may be available for use on the Pa cific Coast.” T U R K S H E M IN T R IP O L I. A R M Y D E S E R T IO N S F E W E R . Falling O ff Attributed to Severe Pun ishment Prescribed. Tables Turned on Italians, Who N ow Beseiged. Are Paris— That the town o f Tripoli is virtually beseiged by Turks and that Homs is in no better situation is the opinion o f the correspondent o f the Temps, who has succeeded in joining the Ottoman forces near Zouagher. He telegraphs regarding the Turkish side o f the war, under date o f Novem ber 12, and says: “ It is certain that after a month and a half o f war, after large expend itures and serious losses, the Italians are no farther advanced than on the day following their disembarkation. I f the Turkish forces are inferior in number to the Italians, they make up in confidence. I expected to find dis order and discouragement. On the contrary, everywhere I met order, dis cipline and contentment. “ Patient and ready for everything, the Turk is accepting all without com plaint. I f he suffers he knows it is for the empire o f Islam, while the Arab knows that i f he dies, Paradise and Mohammed will be his.” The correspondent is unable to di vulge the number or plans o f the Turks, merely saying that their m ili 33 Killed By Explosion. Liverpool— Thirty-three workers are tary attacks must await observation. known to have been killed and up Rich Babe Seeks Home. ward o f 100 others injured by a boiler Los Angeles— To find a healthful explosion at the oil cake mills o f J. Bebby & Sons. Many o f the injured spot in which to build a home for their were terribly mangled. The force of $200,000,000 baby, heir to the com the explosion was so terrific that the bined wealth o f John R. McLean, roof o f the mill was blown off, while owner o f the Washington Post, and the walls split and crumbled. An out the late John R. Walsh, o f Colorado, burst o f flame followed. There were Mr. and Mrs. Edward McLean arrived 400 workers in the building. Twenty- here Saturday in their private car two bodies have been recovered and it and left soon afterward for San Diego. is believed others are still beneath the The important baby is delicate and the parents hope that somewhere on debris. the sunny slopes o f California a place may be arranged suitable for the tiny Mors* May Get Pardon, Washington, D. C.— President T a ft baby. Washington, D. C.— The extraor dinary decrease in desertions from the army in the past two years was at tributed by General Ainsworth, adju tant general, in his annual report just made public, to the vigorous measures that have taught the enlisted men how relentlessly desertion • is punished. There were 2,489 desertions in the last fiscal year, or 2.06 per cent o f en listed strength o f the army. This is the lowest rate for 90 years, save in the Spanish war in 1898. General Ainsworth voiced the hope that relaxation o f severe measures o f punishment “ will not be brought about through the clamor o f sensation mongers or the urging o f theorists seeking to exploit themselves or their views in the face o f adverse exper ience and regardless o f the interests o f the servee.” The army cannot be made a reform atory without grave injury to its mor als and its efficiency, said General Ainsworth. Pirates Threaten Liners. Hongkong — The West river is swarming with pirates and traffic to Wuchoo and Kwangsi province is ser iously imperiled. The steamships are greatly alarmed and are considering the suspension o f service. They are continuing for the present with an armed crew. Much indignation has been arosed by the attack by pirates on the British steamship Shiuon a few days ago, when Chief Officer Nichol son was murdered. The people are becoming clamorous for intervention Steelhead Tro u t Released in Rivers Jto put down the lawlessness. Portland — Deputy Game Warden has direced the warden o f the Atlanta W ar Shifts to Aegean. Craig, o f the Fish and game commis penitentiary to transfer Charles W. Paris— Notwithstanding the strict Morse, the New York banker, to the sion, has just completed the work of releasing 50,000 steelhead trout from censorship in Italy over war news, a United States army hospital at Fort the Clackamas hatchery in the waters dispatch has come through from Se- McPherson, near Atlanta, where he o f Stayton river, Satianm river and. w ill be under medical observation. Moseby ertek. near Cottage Grove. 1 ^ ° ' o f M,lan- say inK reports are cur The president's further action in the Mr. Craig said the three transfers had rent in Rome that an action has com- case it was said at the White House, all been made without the loss o f a menced in the Aegean Sea and that a would be determined by the observa fish. Another 30,000 are soon to be bombardment is actually in progress. tions o f the army physicians. Infor placed in streams in the Willamette Officials maintain silence, but the mation which has reached Washington valley. A large number o f applica- fact that telephone communication is that Morse is suffering from an lions for these have been received by abroad has completely stopped and acute form o f kidney disease. the game warden's office. that telegrams are subjected to long delays, is taken to indicate that the Miners' Head Accuses. Law Will Be Enforced in Future. I gravest events are afoot. Columbus, O. — The Columbus Dis Salem— The corporation department patch says: One o f the biggest sensa Yuan Now Against Rebels? o f the secretary o f state's office has tions in the history o f the United Mine declared that the law will be enforced Paris— The Pekin correspondent to Workers o f America, involving the in reference to the filing o f annual re the Temps says that Yuan Shi Kai has direct charge by President White that ports o f corporations. A fine o f $100 , again changed his attitude and has or fraud prevailed in the election contest is provided for in the law on failure to dered a resumption of hostilities at for president o f the order between file such reports. There are numerous Nanking, whither reinforcement* have| himself and Tom L. Lewis last Janu companies that are from one to three been senL It is understood that he is ary and that the returns o f 49 unions years behind with such reports, and again strongly ssupporting the dy- j in Illinois disappeared after they had the department intends to clean them nasty. The change is attributed to ; reached international headquarters in up. All o f the companies so delin | the rally in Shan-tung. and it is also | Indianapolis, has been disclosed. quent are being notified. probable that Yuan can more easily 1 obtain the financial support he wants 1 Picture Thief Caught. Lower Columbia Poultry Show. by breaking with the rebels. Florence. Italy — Fra Angelico's Astoria—-The members o f the Lower famous painting, “ The Madonna Della Japanese Reinforce Guard*, Columbia River Poultry association S tella," which was stolen last Sunday are busily engaged in making prepara Tokio— A statement issued by the night from the monastery at San tions for their annual poultry show, foreign office says the Japanese troops Marco, now used as a museum, has which is to be held here from Decem at Pekin and Tien tsin will be rein been recovered by the police, who ar ber 19 to 21 inclusive. The associa forced immediately. Such reinforcer rested a man with a package under his tion will accommodate 400 contest menta are limited to one battalion of arm. “ The Madonna" was found in ants. infranty and machine guns. the package undamaged. 0 J A IL S E N T E N C E H IS S E D . Motion Will Be Granted. Washington, D. C.— Hearing on the motion to make permanent the injunc tions o f the Commerce court in the transcontinental rate cases w ill be held by the Court on Tuesday, December 5. The motion w ill be granted and a final decree will be entered by the. court. All parties in interes*w ill be notified officially o f the hearing. It is regard ed as deisrable by all parties that the injunctions be made permanent, in or der that the constitutionality o f the long and short haul provision may be placed before the Supreme court. Packers' Stay Referred. Washington, D. C.— C hief Justice White refused to grant a stay in the trail o f the Chicago beef packers, but referred the attorneys making the ap plication to the entire bench, declar ing that the question was o f too much importance for him to pass on individually. Attorney M iller an nounced that such an application to the entire court would be made at the first sitting December 4. The appli cation will be for a “ supersedeas.” Monarchist Attack Fails. Lisbon— Advices from Montenegro says that a small group o f monarch ists, beieived to be the vanguard o f the main body, has crossed the fron tier and tried to capture that town but was repulsed. I-
