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.
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