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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1914)
NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Congress Is Busy H’ifA Issues Arising From ll’nr Washington,* D. C.—To prepare for an emergency arising from the Euro- I pean war, the president and adminia- > tration leaders are endeavoring to as- 1 sure the presence of a quorum of both Resume of World’s Important houses of congress in Washington. House leaders have made imperative Events Told in Brief demand for return of absentees and they are flocking in on every train. Already there is a substantial quorum. While the conference primarily is to Premier Asquith praises the Belgian determine the nature of a war revenue heroism in the house of commons. measure to offset losses in revenue, Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium, with some aspects of the foreign relations her children, has arrived in England. of the nation with particular reference Tacoma suffers a $160,000 fire, may be considered. Philippine extorts are giving the which destroyed a large packing plant. administration concern just at thia The Germans have imposed a fine of time, because of the conflict between $300,000 on the Belgian town of Char Japan and Germany. A plan to place leroi. a ban on all extorts from the islands, A report from Antwerp says the except to the United States, while the French defeated 50,000 Gentians in war in Europe continues is under con sideration. It is argued that should battle. the shipments from the islands to Ger A Japanese liner was chased into many or Austria be captured by the port at San Francisco, by a German Japanese, an embarrassing situation gunboat. might arise. The same might be A small German cruiser which ran true should exports to Japan be seized ashore in a fog. was blown up by the by Germany. Administration senators who have Russians. been studying the situation believe an More than 4000 prisoners were taken ounce of prevention ia worth a pound by the Russians in battle with the of cure, and they are urging action by Austrians. congress to avert trouble which might The Russian army is reported crush be precipitated through Philippine Is ing the Prussians and making headway land commerce. They recognize, how ever, that if commerce is stopped toward Berlin. some provision must be made to com About 30.000 Grand Army veterans are holding the 48th national encamp pensate for losses that will follow. ment at Detroit, Mich. The conclave of cardinals to elect a new pope was inaugurated in Rome with imposing ceremonies. Nearly 8000 reserves of Germany and Austria are being held prisoners by the British in South Africa. Boston will have no grand opera this winter, owing to the enlistment of many members in the European war. Butte, Mont., miners have threat ened to lay the city in ashes if the state or federal troops attempt to enter the city. Americans and all other foreigners in Brussels are safe, according to a message from American Minister Whitlock. Armies of the allies are battling to save Paris from the Germans. A con flict between millions is believed to be in progress. It is officially announced that the Russians have occupied Tilsit, a town 60 miles northeast of Koenigsberg, East Prussia. The ballot in the California election this fall will be four feet long and con tain forty-eight initiative and referen dum measures. One of the largest liners in the world, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, was sunk by a British cruiser off the coast of Africa. It is said that British marines have occupied Ostend to prevent the Ger mans from getting a foothold on the English Channel. Xavier de Castelnau, the 12-year-old son of General Castelnau, chief of staff of the French army, was among the killed in a recent action. An official statement from the Brit ish consulate in Galveston, Tex., says three British warships have been sent at full speed to protect cotton and oil traffic in the Gulf of Mexico. Home Secretary McKenna, of Lon don, said that no spies had been shot in England. There have been rumors that many persons in the secret em ploy of Germany had been executed. Premier Asquith and Arthur J. Bal four, one of the leaders of the opposi tion in the house of commons, are to speak in the historic Guild hall, in the city of London, this week in an effort to encourage recruiting. The United Railways company of San Francisco, ha3 inaugurated a plan whereby employes may receive small loans from the company at 5 per cent a year. The system is to save em ployes from the loan sharks. The official press bureau of London, in an announcement says the govern ment has gratefully 'accepted an offer from the people of Alberta of a half million bushels of oats for the army and from the government of Quebec of 4,000,000 pounds of cheese. Both Germany and Great Britain have accepted the proposal of the United States that the wireless sta tions at Tuckerton, N. J., and Say ville, L. I., be permitted to send code messages to belligerent countries, sub ject to censorship by American naval officers. The British steamship Holmwood has been sunk by a German cruiser off the coast of South America, according to a cablegram received by the owners of the Katherine Park, at New York, which has the crew of the ship aboard. The cablegram, which was from Rio Janeiro, did not state the time or place of the sinking, nor did it give the name of the German cruiser. French Capital Storing Supplies tor Emergency Paris — The French capital has rushed its plans to resist a siege by the German army. The city is being truned into an entrenched camp. Following the decree issued by the military governor, ordering residents of the district within the city's line of defense forts to desert and destroy their homes within four days, enormous stacks of food were placed within the state warehouses. The Bois de Boulogne presents a pictur esque aspect. It has been transformed into a vast pasture filled with cows and sheep. The animals have been di vided into groups and are guarded by reserves wearing the large shirts of drovers. The number of sheep pas tured in the parks exceeds 10,000. The decree calling for the evacua tion of the military zone around the forts was a formal notice, although army engineers recently made a tour of the environs of the forts and ex plained that the residents might be called on to destroy their property, which was deemed an obstruction. Many of the houses in the line of fire are those of poor people whose owners are now at the front. Many of these families lack resources and will be without refuge. Nevertheless, they took the situation without com plaint, although they addressed a pe tition to the military governor, re questing that he use the power vested in him only as a last extremity. Japanese Are Cautioned to Avoid War Discussions San Francisco — Japanese associa tions in this city are circulating a note of advice to Japanese residents in America, which was issued by the Japanese Association of America. It reads: “Japanese should endeavor to avoid heated talks and discussions with Europeans and Americans on the war situation. “In California there is a large popu lation of German subjects and special care should be taken in your attitude toward them. “Japanese should refrain from con versations and actions which might tend to excite the sentiment of Euro peans and Americans. “As the United States declared neu trality, Japanese in America should recognize aryl bind themselves to the neutrality obligations. Outside of the necessary and proper support of their mother country, they should not give any support or assistance to any of the belligerents. ” German Honors His Foe. Rome — (Via Paris) — A di peat ch from Berlin says the defense of Longwy, department of Meurthe-et- Moselle, France, was the most heroic since the beginning of the war. The town surrendered only after an extra ordinary display of valor. Of 36 siege guns, all except one had been disman tled. The Germans so admired the bril liant resistance that Crown Prince Frederick William begged the French commander at the moment of surrender to keep his sword. 10,000 to Flee Albania. Ixmdon — The Exchange Telegraph compnay’s correspondent at Barri, Italy, says that the Italian government has arranged for the transportation of 10,000 fugitives who wish to leave Albania as soon as Prince William, of Wied, departs, as they fear anarchy. An American warship has been dis Prince William has asked Italy to patched to Turkey, presumably to leave the armored yacht Mysuratta at his disposal, as he may be forced to carry gold to American missionaries. abandon the throne at any time. Secretary Bryan cabffdldl American embassies and legations in Europe to Opera Singers Off to War. urge Americans to leave Europe with Chicago — So many singers are en out delay. dangering their lives and voices in the A Boulogne dispatch to the Standard European conflict that the directors of at London says the town of Tournai, the Chicago Grand JJpera company, capital of the Department of Hainaut, after a^< ^pairing two days’ meeting, Belgium, occupied by the Germans, announced that there would be no per was compelled to pay an indemnity of formances the coming season. Ber $400,000 within an hour, the burgol nard Ulrich, manager of the company, master being held as a hostage unti cabled the singers notifying them their the money was paid. contracts had been canceled. Battle Line ot Allies Suit to Recover 50,000 Is Moved Backward 'PARIS TO RAZE OWN SUBURBS Acres State Land Urged According to the Salem C. B. McConnell, a lawver cattle companies. of Burna, has conferred with Attorney lawyer, the land was obtained several General Crawford in regard to insti years ago through the use of dummies and other alleged settlers, who worked tuting suits for the recovery by the : in conjunction with the company. state of large tracts of grazing land in The Pacific Livestock company is Harney and Malheur counties, control fighting the suit of the state on the of which Mr. McConnell charges was grounds that it obtained the land in a obtained by fraud. Suit is (tending legal way and that action by the state against the Pacific Livestock company should have been started earlier. for the recovery of 27,000 acres of Circuit Judge Harris recently, in the school land. The company has entered Hyde-Benson school land case, which suit to prevent the adjudication of ia similar to the one against the live water rights on the Silves river, and stock company, decided that the state it was while making investigation of would have to show a good excuse for its allegations that Mr. McConnell any» its delay in bringing suit. The atlor- he found that about 50,000 other acres i noy general has appealed on the > ground that laches do not apply to the had been obtained through fraud. This land, he said, is largely held by I state. Burns, Or., Fire Destroys Eugene Light and Power Companies in Rate H«r $60,000 Worth ot Property Eugene A long-anticipated rate war between the municipal power plant and the Oregon Power company was opened here this week with the an nouncement by the power company that it will not only meet but will un dercut the reduction announced by the city plant. The private company has filed its new schedule of rates with the State railroad commission, declining to an nounce the extent of the cut. The city’s reduction amounted to 11 per cent and before the cut was made the maximum rate of 9 cents for light ing and 5 cents for power was lower than offered in any city in the Wil lamette valley outside of the vicinity of Portland. The new schedule of 8 cents maximum for lighting and 4 4 cents maximum for power, with a min imum of 1.2 cents for 10,000-kilowatt quantities, is almost half the rates in Eugene two years and a half ago, be fore the entrance of the city plant, which claims the credit for the reduc tion. The present rate war was forecast recently when the water board asked the State railroad commission to curb the activities of the private company and the latter responded with a re quest for unrestricted competition. Neither was wholly granted. Highway Condemnation Suits Are Being Tried St. Helens—About 100 farmers, sev eral attorneys and State Highway En gineer Bowlby and his assistants, ap peared before the County court in the condemnation proceedings for right of way for the Columbia Highway. Claims for back-hill places on logged-off lands have been put in at $500 an acre and for agricultural land that is taken nothing less than $1000 an acre is being asked. As there are more than 100 claflMs. the County court will take several days for the hearings, after which its decis ion will be given on all claims at the same time. Flour Holds at $5.20. The lowest wholesale price of flour in the Portland market now is $5 a barrel, the only mill that quoted less than that figure having advanced its price 20 cents only a day or two ago. Other mills are asking $5.20 a barrel. The flour market is keeping pace with the advance in milling wheat. Blue stem sold at $1.03 a bushel, a gain of a cent over a preceding day’s price. Farmers are holding very firm and are taking advantage of the situation to ' get all they can for their wheat. The present price of $5 a barrel for flour compares witfl the quotation of $4.70 on this date last year. $5.10 on the same date in 1912, $4.95 three years ago, $5.35 four years ago, $6.25 five years ago, and $4.85 in 1908. Water System for Fair. Salem—An independent water sys tem for the State Fair grounds has been decided upon by the board of di rectors, and the drilling of the first well has been started. According to Mr. George E. Scott, the contractor, a large river flows un der the grounds and Salem, and he ad vises that the city eventually obtain its water supply from the stream. Secretary Meredith announced that the cottage city district at the fair grounds would be moved to a tract west of the new pavilion before the opening of the fair September 28. Burna The worst fire in the history of Burna began Monday at midnight and in three hours a large num ber of business houses were in ruin. The blaze was started in the hay loft of McKinnon’s livery barn, sup posedly by someope sleeping there, and it quickly spread to every building in that block, including the Hotel French and a large two-story building contain ing a pool hall and living rooms. Three small dwellings in the block to the east were burned and the flames spread to the block to the south. They jumped the Harney County National bank, which is of stone, and caught in two franfe buildings, which were quickly destroyed. Then they com municated to the roof of the stone building occupied by the Bedell saloon and barber shop and also to another atone building, occupied by the Donne- gan & Logan abstract office and Frank Davies’ and Charles Ellis’ law offices. The postoffice and Harney County News office, adjoining these, were saved. In the livery stable 27 horses were burned to death. The losses will reach $60,000. with about $30,000 insurance. Several buildings on the west side of the street caught fire, but the flames were extinguished. The owners of the destroyed proper ty will rebuild. A heroic fight was made against the blaze by firemen and citizens. It was due to this and favorable wind that the entire city wax not wiped out. Five Fires Burn Over Tract ot 2000 Acres Cottage Grove Nearly 2000 acres of the forest reserve was burned over in the recent fires in the London coun try. Probably 200,000 or .'loo.,.... f.-. t of timber was destroyed. There were five fires in progress at one time, that on Little river, near Black Butte, being the most serious. I"ire Warden Frank Brumbaugh and a crew of eight men have thia and smaller fires under control. Fire Warden S. P. Shortridge has gained control of three fires in the same territory. The blaze on Wilson creek is still burning, required a month’s fighting with crews ranging from three to six men. Five hundred acres were burned over in the three fires handled by Mr. Shortridge and hlxiut 100,000 feet of timber <l«- stroyed. He thinks that the fires handled by Mr. Brumbaugh covered 1500 acres. It is probable that at least 200,000 feet of timber was lost. Several fires occurred in the Row river country during the past week. Two Months' Work Needed. Astoria — Captain Groves, su|>erin- tendent of dredges for the Port of Portland commission, says he expects about two months’ work with the dredge Multnomah will be required to open up the Tongue Point channel. The intention is to dig a channel 300 feet wide and 25 feet deep from No. 2 buoy down, a distance of approximate ly 4000 feet. The operation of the dredge entails an expense of lietween $8000 and $9000 a month, which is being paid by the Commission. Hood River Relic Goes. Hood River — The oldest structure now standing in Hood River, built 28 years ago by Robert Rand, and occu pied by the city’s first barber, was destroyed by fire Wednesday. The structure was occupied by a plumbing company and the fire started in a pile of tar-covered ropes. Its frame walls were dry as tinder, and the flames Rig Estate Is Inherited. were pouring from doors and windows Adjoining business Pendleton — John Guriado and his in an instant. sister, Mrs. Tulita Adams, wife of a blocks were saved by quick work of the volunteer fire department. laborer, are on their way to Ix>s An geles with Colonel James A. Raley, Car Line Pays $71,000. a prominent attorney of Pendleton, to Oregon City- More than $100,<400 claim their shares in the estate of their father, John Guriado, who died recent was collected Tuesday in the tax col ly, leaving $150,000 and no will. Their lecting department. Tuesday was tne identity has been established, attorneys last opportunity for the taxpayers to say. The elder Guriado and his wife settle their account with the county quarreled when the children were without paying the 10 per cent added young, and the family became split up, penalty. The Portland Railway, Light Power company paid more than the children going with their mother. $74,000, the largest amount. Less The mother died a few years ago. than $50,000 will be turned oyer to the sheriff’s office on the delinquent tax Canadian Company Sued. Hat.________ Salem A temporary restraining or Ruenn Vista Clover Poor. der against the National Mercantile Buena Vista Clover hulling, which company doing business in Oregon was issued by Circuit Judge Galloway. The is in progress in this district, Is exftos- action was started by Attorney General ing a poor yield. The midge, grass Crawford at the instance of Corpora hoppers, and the long dry spell are tion Commissioner Watson, who al blamed for the noted decrease. From leged that the company had not com one bushel to two and one-half bushels Some growers plied with the corporation laws of the are being obtained. state. The company is a foreign cor report even less than a bushel an acre. poration, having headquarters in Van The Polk county acreage this year is couver, B. C., and, according to the said to be the largest yet planted and corporation commissioner, ia conduct estimates for its value has been at a high mark. ing in Portland a loan business. Paris An official statement issued by the war department says: “In the North the Franco British lines have been moved back a short distance. In a general way our offensive between Nancy and Vosges makes headway. Our right, however, has been obliged to fall back slightly In the region of St Die. “In the North resistance continues. The enemy ap|»earn to have suffered considerable loss, more than 1500 bodies having been found in a very small space in a trench. Some had been stricken as they stood, in the at titude of firing their rifles. “A series of fiercely contested com bats has Iwen going on during the past throe days in the region, which wore generally to our advantage. “A decree will be published author ising special promotions of officers for the period of the war, regardless of seniority.” Residences in Way of Ports to Be Destroyed. Invading German Army Hopeful of Penetrating Lines Refore Russians Reach Herlin. Paris It is officially announced that the military governor has ordered all residents of the zone within action of the city’s defending forts to evacuate and destroy their houses within four days from August 31. As far as can be learned, the French troops »¡»pear to be intact, except for those losses which were inevitable in a week’s heavy fighting over a vast front. If the British and French retire on the western flank it is explained that they do so in order to choose their ground for fiercer resistance. Every new day has seen reinforcements mov ing up to aid the French troops engag ed on the Belgian frontier. The French operating along the in terior lines arc able to shift un army cor|»s from one part of the frontier to another swiftly, and it is said that the allies probably are in stronger position than last Sunday. The Germans, apparently owing to the increasing pressure of Russia, seem to la- throwing themselves against intrenched ¡switions and arc suffering severely. They are gaining ground and seemingly are hopeful of being able to break through before Berlin is invested. French wounded are arriving at the provincial towns. Ixmdon A closer veil than ever seems to be drawn over the progress of the war. Little news has come to hand concerning the operations on either frontier. The Russians, how ever, ap(M-ar to be continuing their ad vance in East Prussia towards Posen, with the Germans in retreat. The only news from the French side ia that the French troops were attack ed along the Alsace-1xirraine line, but repulsed all the attacks successfully. There is no indication that the German attack was in any great force, but if it was, the French success shows that they are now in a stronger position along this frontier, from which they will be driven only by great sacrifices on the ¡»art of the Germans. A more hopeful feeling prevails in England an to the strength of the French defensive position. The re pulse the French sustained at t’harle roi has been partly due to the desire of the French army to accomplish a bril liant incursion into Alsace and Ix»r- raine, which led them to weaken their forces on the Belgian frontier. Hav RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, ing recognized the danger of this WRITER, ARRESTED AS SPY course, they have now reverted to what apiiears to ex|>erta to be a more Ixmdon Only by exceptionally good logical strategy, abandoning their in vasion of the provinces and concen fortune was the life of Richard Hard trating their strength in the defense ing Davis, »¡»ecial war correspondent, spared by the Germans, who sus|iccted of the northern frontier. him of being a spy, according to the story told by James R. Evans, an Clash ot Butte, Mont., American engineer, who arrived from Miners Is Renewed Brussels which ¡»lace he left Thursday Butte, Mont. More than 1000 in night. For hours the Germans debated surgent miners marched to the mines Thursday night with the announced whether to shoot Mr. Davis, who had purpose of preventing any Western followed in the wake of the German Federation of Miners members from advance. Hr was some distance south of the Belgian capital when taken into descending to work. Arriving at the Anaconda mine, the custody by the German officers. insurgents, who are now known as the Butte Mine Workers’ union, massed Germany’s Naval Loss their forces sround the collar of the Off Heligoland Is 670 shaft and notified the shifts going off London — Tweniy-iiinu killed and 38 work that unless they joined the now union l»efore they went on shift sgain wounded was the price in men paid by and were wearing the new union’s but the British for the naval action against ton, they would be prevented from go the Germans in Heligoland waters ing to work by a force of the memliers Friday. An official statement issued here of the'new union. says that of 1000 men cum|>oaing the Following their ultimatum to the meml»ern of the Western Federa crews of the warship sunk off Heligo tion ot Miners, the insurgents again land, only 330 were saved. The British losses are described as paraded the streets, ending at the Au ditorium, where a meeting was held, follows: “The light cruiser Arethusa lost no one being admitted except those wearing the buttons of the new union. Lieutenant Eric Weetmacott and nine men killed, four seriously wounded, and Lieutenant Robinson and 11 men wounded, but not seriously. ABSENTEE MEMBERS OE "The tor| as Io-boat destroyer Liberty CONGRESS ARE RETl RNING lost commander Bcrtcllot and six men killed, one man has since died from Washington, D. C. — Prospects of wounds, one dangerously wounded, five losing a day’s pay for each day’s ab seriously wounded and five slightly sence brought Representatives troop wounded. ing back to the house and the rollcall “The destroyer Laurel suffered ten showed 267 of the 435 in their seats men killed, one has since died of ,hix in the house - the greatest number in wounds, two men dangerously wound weeks. ed, seven seriously wounded and two “This is the second line of reserves slightly wounded.” arriving," announced the leader of one returning party, “the third line is on London Paper Holds Up the way.” America as Good Example “Who is that man?” demanded Speaker Clark, ¡»ointing with his gavel Ixmdon The Daily News, in an ed at a strange face. A clerk explained itorial denouncing secret diplomacy that it was a returned member. says: A deluge of applications for leave "Can Europe ever again tolerate the “on account of illness*’ came down on appalling peril of secret diplomacy? the clerk. Majority Leader Under Can we ever again play about on the wood announced that the sergeant-at- deck with sails and compasses, making arms would have to be satisfied of the our little laws and imagining that we validity of every such application. are self-governing, while down in the hold of our ship of state there is a Jews Pray for Peace. powder magazine, the existence of Brooklyn — A prayer for ¡»eace l>e- which we are not permitted to know?. “Secret diplomacy belongs to the tween the warring nations of Europe traditions of autocratic and personal has been prepared by members of the government. It has no place in a Union of Orthodox Jewish Congrega democratic world, and the example of tions of America, of which Bernard the United States must become the It is being model of the civilized world on thia Drachman is president. sent to all congregations affiliated with vital matter, if Euro|»e is to be free the union, with the request to use it from menace in the future.” in the services during the war. The trend of the prayer is a bitter denun Czar Lauds Scots Greys. ciation of the men who are now ruling Ixmdon — The official press bureau the destinies of their soldiers and asks for a quick ending of the slaughter and has issued the following notice: massacre taking place in Euro|»e. “Hix Majesty the Emperor of Rus sia, who is colonel in chief of the "All~ Water" Voyage Made. Scots Greys, has sent the following New York—The first all-water voy gracious message to his regiment: *1 age from San Francisco to New York am happy to think that my gallant by way of the Panama canal was com regiment, the Royal Scots Greys, is pleted here Thursday on the arrival of fighting with Russia against the com Convinced that they the Pleiades, of the Luckenbach mon enemy. Steamship company. The Pleiades, will uphold the gracious traditions which flies the American flag, sailed of the past, I send them my warm from San Francisco on July 24 and greetings and Wish them victory in the battle.' ” passed through the canal August 16. Prince, Surrounded, Dies. King Mingles With Troops. Rome — How Prince Frederick Wil liam of Lippe died in the fighting be fore Liege is described tersely in a dispatch received here from the head quarters of the German army. The Prince’s regiment was surrounded by the Belgians under the walla of Liege an<l he wax struck by two bullets while standing among his men. Ha died in stantly. London -According to the Antwerp correspondent of the Daily News, King Albert constantly mingles with his troops, and was in the trenches in the fighting around Malines. He was al ways nt the ¡mints of the greatest «langer, assisting the encouraging the men. He went among them attired simply as a soldier, and his sympathe tic conduct had a remarkable effect.