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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
7
International unrest includes riots in Mexico and Spain, with redress sought in Morocco. A Canadian report notes a flying machine reaching 24 mph with passengers. Greece, Turkey, and Colombia face political shifts as leaders resign or pursue independence. A Cal-ifornia man endures 30 days without hunger, while Chicago forecasts a 1940 city population.
A Wabash passenger train No 4 derailed into the Missouri river 30 miles east of Kansas City killing six and injuring 36 more with three possibly fatally hurt. The disaster followed days of undermining flood waters as a 50 foot stretch of roadbed collapsed while the train was crossing at 14 mph.
Mark Twain will serve as pilot on the boat carrying President Taft from St Louis to New Orleans. The itinerary includes Cape Girardeau Caruthersville Cairo Memphis and Vicksburg with Clemens always invited when a president travels by river and he is likely to accept.
Official dispatches report renewed bombardment near Mesilla to prevent enemy massing. The gunboat Martin Alonzo Pinzon aided operations and chased two suspected contraband steamers. Moors are gathering in large numbers, about 20,000, in the Rift region for a possible attack.
London newspapers publish editorials praising Bleriot in a move that awakens English imagination to aviation. They warn the aeroplane is no toy and must be viewed as a potential instrument of warfare demanding attention from soldiers and statesmen.
In Los Angeles on July 27 a heavy trolley on the Monrovia to Los Angeles Pacific Electric line crashed into the rear of a Pasadena Short Line car near East Lake Park. The Short Line vehicle was telescoped and passengers say the cars were within about 300 yards of each other.
A southbound Big Four passenger train derailed near Zionaville Indiana injuring 42 people. The baggage car and coaches left the track as the train traveled at about 60 miles per hour. Most passengers were able to continue to hospitals and onward to their destinations.
In Nebraska during 1908 the state canceled 17 990 farm mortgages valued at 126 377 791 and recorded 16 658 new farm mortgages totaling 36 482 657 leaving about 90 000 to the credit of the property.
Speed test reports the battleship Michigan, returning from a trial trip in Philadelphia, breaking all records for its class by hitting a fraction over 19 knots. The ship’s speed requirement was 17 knots.
The fishing schooner Minnie W. reached Pensacola Florida with its rigging damaged and sails torn after a Gulf hurricane on Wednesday. It reported three crew dead and two injured or missing, while two others survived.
John Leonard Roeder died Saturday at 108 and was buried today. He served as an orderly to General Blucher during the battle of Waterloo.
Proceedings from Washington note the tariff report as reported by conferees was submitted to the House by Chairman Payne and ordered printed in the Congressional Record. Discussion of the conference report to begin at 10 tomorrow with indications that a single day may suffice for adoption.
Republican tariff conferees conclude their session bowing to President Taft and plan to submit the report to the house. Two tentative agreements were repudiated by the president. The bill now awaits his approval with added protections for gloves and lumber and maintained free hides and reduced duties on manufactured goods.
Washington July 24 The hide issue was settled and unsettled to day with no firm resolution on their status in the new tariff bill. President Taft’s interest remains but none of the prominent questions were settled in the executive conference. Conferees expect to spend Sunday wrestling with the problems.
Washington reports the conference committee completed its work on tariff rates. Lumber rough at 1.40 per thousand feet, with Senate differentials. print paper at 3.75 a ton. Lath shingles and finished lumber rates differ between houses, gloves and leather duties outlined, hides on free list pending House rule. If laid Friday, vote Saturday.
Washington reports the resignation of President Reyes of Colombia was formally accepted. He sent the message from Hamburg stating he irrevocably resigns all future claims to the presidency. Reyes has four years left in office and survived two assassination attempts as he steps down abroad indefinitely.
Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Forestry service, declares a hard line against Secretary Ballinger with warlike rhetoric, while F. H. Newell, director of the Reclamation service, adopts a passive stance awaiting the president’s decision as final arbiter.
Mrs Nichol as Longworth daughter of ex President Roosevelt has become an aviation enthusiast. She attends Wright aeroplane trials and may fly herself not in the plane but in a balloon with A Holland Forbes of New York, acting president of the Aero club of America, who will take her up in Washington on July 31.
Washington reports an ultimatum from Chairman Payne and other congressmen demanding a lumber duty of 121000 or defeat of the tariff conference report. The White House talks extended late with Payne and allies insisting the Senate must accept a $1 per 1000 lumber rate or the conference report fails. The House reportedly won concessions on free hides and free oil while agreeing to higher rates on gloves and hosiery in exchange for Senate concessions on coal iron ore and print paper.
The government and Truckee Electric Co. near agreement over using Lake Tahoe storage waters for the Truckee Carson irrigation project. A contract has been drafted and only minor technicalities remain before signing by the secretary of the interior.
Washington July 30 Attorney General Wickersham said Utah Fuel company subsidiary of Denver and Rio Grande settled suits to recover illegally acquired lands. It pays 73000 in cash and reconveys 800 acres of coal lands valued at 40000 to the government. He vows a rigorous probe into further land ownership.
Washington notes that hides may be added to the free list if the tariff on boots shoes and leather goods drops below House rates. The tariff conferees settled this to a plan and adjourned to 11 o clock with House leaders to report on rule jurisdiction to lower leather rates.
Mr McClelland of the Honolulu chamber of commerce has arranged a congressional junket to Hawaii. The party assembles at Chicago August 19, goes to San Francisco for a day, sails to Honolulu on the Siberia August 24, and plans to return to San Francisco September 24.
Washington reports that if interest returns when Congress reconvenes in December a special committee may be created to investigate Mr Heney the special prosecutor for the Department of Justice his work and the payments he received under department direction
The Department of the Interior announced that over 213000 acres in Montana withdrawn during the Roosevelt administration are now open for entry. The withdrawal was linked to alleged opposition by a powerful combination to settlement in the mid portion of the period.
It seems probable Presidents Taft and Diaz of Mexico will meet in San Antonio Texas rather than El Paso late in September or early October. The plan aligns with Taft's stance on American presidents visiting foreign countries and follows a strict precedent.
A marble statue of late Idaho statesman Shoup was delivered to the Capitol today and will be unveiled next winter. The gift of Idaho will be installed in Statuary Hall with ceremonies led by the Senate and House.
Four horse teams hauled wagons piled with railway equipment from The Dalles toward the Deschutes river. Porter Bros railroad contractors moved 40 wagons after a long day and may establish five or six camps along Oregon Trunk surveys. The rush suggests a bid to contest Harriman traffic or a Hill backed push to build a line.
Louis Bleriot, the French aviator, crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in 23 minutes covering about 22 miles. He lands near Dover Castle at 4 63 a.m. his foot burned by petrol but unharmed otherwise. A torpedo boat destroyer followed, his wife and friends join him later aboard. He wins a $5 000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail.
From Malaga 26 July the steamer Menorquin arrived with 80 wounded from Melilla where hospitals are crowded. Reports say Moorish tribes around General Marina’s camp number about 16 000 with losses near 1000, while Spanish forces suffered at least 3000 dead. Hand to hand fighting marked Friday’s engagements. The Moors retreated as Spanish bayonets pressed them back before dusk.
Police Inspector Edward C. McCann was indicted for malfeasance in office over protection money collected from West Side illegal establishments. The case mirrored a prior indictment against Detective Sergeant Jeremiah Griffin. McCann posted bonds totaling $220,000 after his arrest following the grand jury action.
At least two dead, one trainman missing after a Wabash passenger train derailed and fell into the Missouri River 80 miles east of Kansas City. The wreck left the engine, baggage car, mail car, smoker, and sleeper submerged as debris washed away.
A Norwegian navy captain, Englestad, was killed during a thunderstorm while conducting meteorological observations. He was slated to demand action regarding the ship from the Reventern polar region.
Rioters clash in Guadalajara and Mexico City streets during a Delgado theater mass meeting on Diaz re election. Two Americans wounded amid destruction of Hotel Garcia and other properties. Police and state troops faced volleys and arrests as Reyes supporters are blamed.
Grass Valley Ore July 27 Porter Bros blockades the Deschutes canyon supply line to Twohy Bros by buying Fred Gurtz homestead and closing the only road to Horse Shoe bend. They reportedly paid 30000 for the land and posted trespass warnings guarding the barbed wire fence and gates.
Chicago July 27 The Transcontinental Passenger association set fall colonist fares to California and North Pacific states at 33 dollars from Chicago 32 from St. Louis and 25 from the Missouri river with availability limited to September 15 to October 15 to capture peak travel period. About 25 000 people expected to use the rates for single trips.
In San Francisco on July 27 the police set guards over the sloop Gjoa beached at Golden Gate Park to deter relic hunters who have carved away at its timbers, threatening the historic vessel once meant as a nautical museum.
A new island has risen in the Pacific near the Society and Gambier islands, according to Iain Quatrevaux of the French ships Thiers. The uncharted rock, described as jaw and uninviting, is a few hundred yards in circumference and of likely volcanic origin.
A tornado yesterday afternoon leveled the village of Meechlin on the Canadian Pacific line in Saskatchewan. No one was seriously hurt.
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