COAST TOWNS RAIDED BY WORLD S DOINGS ITALIAN AUSTRIAN NAVAL AND AIR ELEET WAR DECLARED ON Of CURRENT WEEK AUSTRIA BY ITALY Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Foreign exchange quotation« decline at New York, A black^ruHt «care »ends up wheat price* on the Chicago market. Roumanian« engage in demonstra­ tion« against the Austro-Germans. General Ixxinard Wood declare* that danger of invasion of America is in­ creasing. Patriotism in at'fevcr heat in Rome over the entry of Italy into the Euro­ pean war. Ton days’ run al the Cornucopia mine, in Eastern Oregon, gave an out­ put of 120,000, The Italian parliament has con­ ferred on the cabinet full power to act in the war question. A French trawler was torjiedocd and literally blown to pieces by a subma­ rine, oidy her captain escaping. Great Britain denies that Americans are suffering any injustice by the de­ tention of American ships and cargoes. Riga, a Russian ;«>rt on the Baltic, is reported captured by the Germans and a big naval battle is said to have been fought. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., denies having hail anything to do with direct­ ing the Colorado <>|>erator«' moves against the coal^strikers. A fruit steamer on the Atlantic coast rc|>orts having sighted the "at­ tacking fleet" of the American navy, which is engaged in practice maneu­ vers. Advices from Mitylene confirm the destruction of the Turkish forts at Kilid Bahr, on the Dardanelles, and state that the bombardment of other forts still continues. A senior student in the mining de­ partment of the University of Cali­ fornia has invented a process for elim­ ination of the |M>isonous gases given off in copper smelting. Food has become so scarce in Mexico City that the inhabitants are facing starvation, and General Carranza has been appealed to by the international committee there. The American Red Cross society also has been asked to take steps to relieve the situation. The crews of the Britirh trawlers Chrysolite and Crimond, which had been sunk by Germans, landed in Scot­ land. The captain of the latter de­ clares the German commander forced him at the ¡>oint of a revolver to cut the waste piftes on his vessel to facili­ tate her sinking, A royal decree issued by King Hum­ bert provides that all foreigners resi­ dent in Rome must register their names, addresses, etc., within three days, on pain of arrest and fine. If it is discovered that any person has given false information, he may be punished by fine, imprisonment, or expulsion from the kingdom. A new gold strike is reported from Nome. Heavy rains check battles in Flan­ ders and France. Ix>rd Kitchener asks England for 300,000 more men. Shocks of a alight earthquake in East Portland are reported. Spokane is visited by a $150,000 fire which burned a wholesale grocery house. At a conference of Western gov­ ernors at Seattle a strong plea is made for stronger coast defense. Resignation of the veteran sailor, Ix»rd Fisher, has forced a crisis which will result in the reorganization of the British cabinet. An entire German army corps is moved from France to the frontier of Russia and that country now looks to the allies for aid. Washington hears that German sub­ marine warfare in the war zone is to lie abandoned until after Berlin replies tothe American note. Atlantic fleet, five miles long, passes before President Wilson in the annual inspection parade in New York. The fleet goes to sea for maneuvering pur­ poses. A Petrograd correspondent declares a collapse of the Russian forces is hinted in a bulletin issued in that city. Wallace Bray, manager of the Ven­ ice ball team, and known to the fans as "Happy Hogan, ” dies suddenly of pneumonia. It is reported that a ship hearing the distress call of the Lusitania was not permitted to go to her aid by German submarines. Probable entrance into the war by Italy is said to be one of the causes of delay of Germany answering the American note. Ixmdon— The Austrian war office has issued the following official state­ ment regarding the operations against Italy: “Our fleet on the night following the declaration of war undertook ac­ tion against the Italian ra«t coast be­ tween Venice and Barletta and suc­ cessfully bombarded at several points objects of military im|>ortanco. "At the same time our aeroplanes threw bombs on a balloon shed at Thi- arvalla, military building« at Ancona and the arsenal at Venice, causing vis­ ible damage and fires.” It is apparent from the foregoing dispatch that Austrian aeroplanes have virtually swept the entire eastern coast of Italy. From Venice, at the head of the Adriatic, they have made their way a« far south as Barletta, a distance of 350 mile«, committing acts of hostility during their progress. The official Italian statement regard­ ing the raid follows: "It was foreseen that on the declar­ ation of war offensive actions would occur against our Adriatic coast, with the pur|M>ae of seeking moral effect rather than attaining a military pur- |«jae. But we were able to prepare for these and render their duration short. "Small naval units of the enemy, enpecially destroyers and torpedoboata, fired their guns upon our Adriatic coa«t May 24, l>etween 4 and 5 o’clock in the morning. At the same time aeroplanes attempted to attack the arsenal at Venice. "The enemy’s ships, after a short cannonade, were forced by our tor- |Mrtation, and Secretaries Bryan, Red­ field and McAdoo and Postmaster Gen­ eral Burleson later added their recom­ mendations for «teamship lines inde­ pendent of Europe to ply between all the principal ports of the two Amer­ icas. Expression of this idea culminated in the promise of Secretary McAdoo to select a committee of representatives of the United States and of South Amreican countries, including Argen­ tina, Brazil, Chile and possibly others, to take up the question of steamship lines, either co-operative under these governments or under private control. Submarine Sinks Norwegian Ship and Tires Torpedo at Rescue Boat Newcastle, England—The Norwe­ gian steamer Minerva was sunk by a German submarine Saturday night. The crew of the steamer was landed here by the steamer Iris. The captain of the Iris reports that after he had rescued the crew of the Minerva the submarine Bent a torpedo at the Iris, narrowly missing her. The Minerva was bound from South Shields for Nor­ way. ________________ Italy Offer» Pardons. formal Notification Is Delivered in Vienna by Government ITALIAN CHASSEURS DRIVE OUT PATROL Thirty Thousand Italian Residents Are Detained and Fate of 600 Who Left Trieste Is Unknown. Rome, via Paris—Contemporaneous­ ly with the issuance of a general mo­ bilization order, the Italian govern­ ment Sunday night officially announced that it had declared war against Aus­ tria-Hungary. The first skirmish of the Italo-Aus- trfan war occurred between Italian and Austrian troops at Forcellini di Mon- tozzo, in the pass between Point di Legno and Pejo. An Austrian patrol crossed the fron­ tier, but was attacked by Italian Al­ pine Chasseurs and driven back over the border. Baron von Macchio, the Autro-Hun- garian ambassador to Italy, received his passports at 3:30 o’clock. The Italian ambassador at Vienna, Baron Avarna, has been recalled. The report reaching Rome that the German and Austrian governments have prevented 30,000 Italians from leaving the’territory of those countries has created a profound impression here. The Giornale d'Italia declines to be­ lieve the truth of this report, not only because this would be opposed to the rights of nations, but for the reason that the Italian government not only permitted the departure of Austrian and Germans from Italian soil, but protected these nationals. From the Austrian side of the fron­ tier, news reaches Udine that the Ital­ ian residents are actually being hunt­ ed, that the fate of 600 who left Trieste, hoping to reach Italy is un­ known and that the greatest anxiety for their safety is felt. At Rovigno, in Istria, 62 Italian citizens have been arrested. These include the mayor, Signor d’Avanzo, and the secrearty of the municipality. All Italian citizens residing near the fortifications of Polo have been taken into custody by the police and at Cor- mons, on the frontier, 1000 Italians, for the most part women and children, have been concentrated and prevented from leaving the te.ritory. A Verona dispatch says that Mario Weber, of Trieste, who, notwithstand­ ing his German name, was an ardent Italian, enlisted in the French army when the war began. He was taken prisoner by the Germans and when it was learned that he had resided in Trieste.he was handed over to the Aus­ trian authorities and was hanged at Linz. The town of Trent, one of Austria's strongly fortified towns, has been ter­ rified by the explosion of mines, with which the military authorities were destroying houses, bridges and every­ thing within the fortified zone that might interfere with future artillery actions. Eruption of Mount Lassen Terrorizes Residents of flat Creek Valley, Cal. Redding, Cal.—Lassen Peak poured out another large eruption of ink-black smoke Sunday night, it was reported by returning automobile parties late Monday, who said that a rift in the rain clouds when they were at Viola had shown billows of smoke ascending to a considerable height. The volcanic avalanche from the crater of the (teak was diverted in its ruinous rush into old lava beds and the lower part of the fertile Hat Creek valley was temporarily saved from the threatening flood. In spite of the lull in Lassen's activity, a feeling of ter­ ror prevailed throughout the danger zone and more than 100 refugees re­ fused to return to their homes. Ranchers took advantage of the mountain’s somnolence to return to their lands and drive their stock off to the high lands. San Francisco—The Italian govern­ ment has issued an edict granting a blanket pardon to all fugitives from Italian military service now in Amer­ ica if they will return for service in the army within three months, accord­ ing to E. Patrizi, publisher of L’Italia Daily News. Mr. Patrizi estimated there were 20,000 such Italians in War Cost in Year Figured. America. The pardon includes those Paris — Captain Edmond Thery, Italians who fled Italy to escape mili­ tary service and Italian youths who widely known as an economist, esti­ failed to return to Italy for service af­ mates that the total military expendi­ ter reaching the age of 20. tures for the first year of the war will be 50 billion francs ($10,000,000,000) German Reply Is Delayed. for the seven allies and 37 billion Berlin, via London—Germany’s re­ francs ($7,400,000,000) for Germany, ply to the American note will not be Austria and Turkey. This makes an ready for several days. Officials of average of 7,250,000,000 francs ($1,- the foreign office are so occupied with 440,000,000) a month, 242,000,0(81 the Italian developments that they francs (48,400,000) a day, 10,000,000 have had no time to elaborate the francs ($2,000,000) an hour. He be­ draft of the note. lieves Great Britain, France and Rus­ It is pointed out that the delay in sia can support the strain morj> easily. the publication of the German reply will give an opportunity for the public Italians Close to Enemy. to view the situation more dispassion­ London — "Austrian and Italian ately. forces are facing each other at some places only a half-mile apart," says King Will Leave Rome. the Geneva correspondent of the Daily Florence, Italy—A report is current Express. “The forces at the front here that the Italian court is to be are estimated at a million men on each moved from Rome and installed in the side. The Austro-German headquar­ Pitti Palace in Florence. From here ters’ staff has arrived at Trent and the the king will make frequent trips to Austrians have mounted artillery in the front and the queen will direct the Stelvio Paas. A continuous operations of the Italian Red Cross so­ stream of troops from the Tyrol is ar­ ciety, of which she is president. riving near the Italian frontier." NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; : GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS Portland -Wheat : Blueetem, $1.16: forty-fold, $1.14; club, $1.11; red Fife, $1.06; red Russian, $1.04. Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $26.- 506427 ton; shorts, $27.50(1428; rolled barley, $27.506428.50. Corn—Whole, $35 ton; cracked, $36. Hay- Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 64I6 ton; valley timothy, $126412.50; grain hay, $10(1412; alfalfa, $12.5064 13.50. Vegetables — Cucumbers, Oregon, 75 c 64$1.10 dozen; artichokes, 75c doz­ en; tomatoes, $5 crate; cabbage, 2} 6t3}c pound; celery, $3.50 crate; head lettuce, $1.215642.25 crate; spinach, 5c pound; rhubarb, 1641jc pound; as­ paragus, 75c64$1.25; eggplant, 25c pound; peas, 7647}c pound; beans, 10 6412c; carrots, $1.50641.75 sack; beets, $1.50642; turnips, $1.50642. Green Fruita— Strawberries, Ore­ gon, 75c6tl.50 crate; apples, $1641.75 box; cranberrries, $116412 barrel; cherries, Oregon, 86410c pound; Cali­ fornia, $1.50641.75 box; gooseberries, 4645c pound. Potatoes—Old, $1.75642 sack; new, 56z,5}c pound. EggH — Fresh Oregon ranch, case count, 19c; candled, 20c dozen. Poultry—Hens, 126413c; broilers, 18 64 25c; turkeys, dressed, 22 64 24c; live, 18 64 20c; ducks, old, 9 64 12c; young, 186420c; geese, 8649c. Butter — Creamery prints, extras, 25c pound in case lots; }c more in less than case lots; cubes, 21}6422}e. Veal—Fancy, 106411c pound. Pork—Block, 10(<410}c pound. Hops — 1914 crop, 106410}c pound; contracts, 11c pound. „ Wool — Eastern Oregon, medium, 25c; Eastern Oregon, fine, 186420c; valley, 236428c; mohair, new clip, 32} 6433c. Cascara bark—Old and new, 4644}c pound. Grain bags—Nominal, 7}647}c. Cattle—Best steers, $7.50648.20; choice, $7647.50; medium, $6.75647 ; choice cows, $6.256i.6.80; medium, $5 6/5.75; heifers, $5646.75; bulls, $3.50 @5.75; stags, $5616.75. Hogs — Light, $7.15648.25; heavy, $6.50647.35. Sheep — Sheared wethers, $6 64 7 ; sheared ewes, $4615.75; sheared lambs, $6617.50. Full wools $1 higher. Mills Buying Wool. The Eastern Oregon wool market is still inactive. A number of buyers are out, but they are making no deter­ mined effort to procure wool, and the growers seem content to await the regular sales days before offering their clips. The rain and cold weather has delayed shearing for over a week and some of the scheduled public sales will be postponed until a later date. In western Idaho, a' little business has been done on the basis of 23 to 25 cents in the grease, the scoured cost being estimated at about 65 to 67 cents. Wool purchases in Utah to date are estimated at over 5,000,000 pounds. The recent buying has been on the basis of 20 to 22 cents for fine and 23 to 25 cents for medium, the scoured basis being 60 cents and upward for fine and 57 to 58 cents for medium. Dealers have offered 25 cents freely in the Soda Springs and Triangle section and have obtained some wool, though most growers ask more. The famous wool clip was among those sold at Soda Springs. 150 Prize Chickens Lost. Kennewick, W’ash. — The houses, coops, pens and practically the entire flock of pure-bred White Leghorn chickens owned by Mounsey Bros, on their poultry ranch three miles west of town were destroyed by fire one night this week. The incubator-house, in which is located a mammoth 300-egg incubator, was saved, however. One hundred and fifty birds, many of which were prize-winners and with splendid laying records, were burned, while less than two dozen birds escaped. Moun- sey Bros, for a number of years have been the largest breeders of fancy poultry in this section and among the largest in the state. Hardly enough of their famous strain has been left to start another flock. R. C. Mounsey, manager, announced that they will start another flock. Walla Walla Has Heavy Rains. Walla Walla—Rains of the last two weeks have practically insured a rec­ ord wheat crop in the Prescott district unless unfavorable weather conditions should prevail later during the grow­ ing and maturing season, says E. H. I^onard, manager of the Portland Flour Mills, of Prescott. S. C. Con­ rad, a Freewater district farmer here, said that exceptionally heavy rains in the Freewater and Hudson Bay sec­ tions have leveled much alfalfa, and farmers are expecting to have some difficulty in harvesting the first crop. Walla Walla Apple Crop Bumper. Walla Walla—The Walla Walla ap­ ple crop will be approximately 450 car­ loads this year. This is the estimate of H. G. Barnes, manager of the Wal­ la Wans subcentral agency of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors and District Horticulturalist Charles Gil­ breath. The Baker Langdon orchard will have nearly 150 carloads and in addition there are many new orchards. Last year the crop was 300 carloads. Governor Names June 11 Legal “Holiday of Roses” At the request of the committee having in charge the Rose Festival, and of many interested Portland busi­ ness men, Governor Withycombe has set aside Friday, June 11, the final day of the Festival, as "Oregon’s Holiday of Roses" and declared it a legal holi­ day. The governor’s proclamation fol­ lows: Whereas, the Annual Rose Festival held in Portland has come to be Ore­ gon’s most notable public celebration, whose fame has spread far and wide, and Whereas, all Oregonians have a di­ rect interest in making of this event the fullest possible success, as it not only furnishes enjoyment to the state at large but also offers valuable adver­ tisement of Oregon’s attraction in the eyes of the world and brings many desirable visitors here, and Whereas, the Festival in 1915 bids fair to surpass all previous rose car­ nivals and has especial significance and importance because the great ex­ positions of our sister state are draw­ ing so many guests to the hospitable West, whom Oregon also should seek to impress, and Whereas, it is most desirable that every encouragement be given thia event, Now, therefore, I do hereby pronounce Friday, June Eleventh, Nineteen Hun­ dred and Fifteen, as Oregon’s Holiday of Roses, proclaiming that day a legal holiday throughout the State of Ore­ gon, by virtue of the authority vested in me as governor; and I further urge all loyal Oregonians to participate, so far as they are able, in enjoyment of the Rose Festival on that day, and if they cannot attend the Festival to de­ vote themselves in some way to the encouragement and development of things beautiful in Oregon, and espe­ cially cutlivation of that emblem of our state’s productivity and charm, the Oregon Rose. Willamette Pacific Hurries Work on Coos Bay Road Eugene—Twenty miles of steel rails ready for the completion of the two are to be shipped from the Willam­ ; bridges. ette Pacific’s material yards in Eugene These are to be constructed almost this week. They will go by way of simultaneously. In the past two Portland to Coos Bay, and their ar­ weeks a small settlement has sprung rival will mark the beginning of track up at the site of the Siuslaw structure laying from Coos Bay to meet the rails at Acme, where the construction from Eugene. The move is one step camps have been built. The erection in an effort to rush to completion this of the false work has already com­ year the road to Coos Bay in compli­ menced, and with the arrival of rails ance with the recent orders of Chief from Mapleton, near where they were Engineer Hood. long delayed by a right of way diffi­ Another 30 days will see the rails culty, actual bridge construction will extended from the Eugene end to ; begin. Acme, according to H. P. Hoey, assis­ T. O. Russell, assistant Southern tant engineer, in charge, and with the Pacific engineer, in charge of the con­ rails pushing north from Coos Bay to struction of the Willamette wagon the Umpqua, this will leave but 20 road, announces that he will place a miles of steel to build upon the com­ force of 40 men and 30 horses at work pletion of tne Siuslaw and Umpqua this week on the Upper Willamette. bridges. It is also probable that steel The railroad will spend from $10,000 will be shipped up the Umpqua and to $15,000 on this wagon road this pushed north, making the entire road I summer. United States Is Among Poorest Oregon Leads United States Potato Paisers in Whole World in Official Tested Cow Herds Of the potato growing countries of Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­ the world, the United States stands vallis—‘‘It was necessary a few years third from the bottom in yield per | ago to go back East for foundation acre, says the newly issued bulletin of dairy stock, but now we can get the the University of Oregon entitled best at home,” says E. R. Stockwell, “Markets for Potatoes.” . instructor of dairying at the Agricul­ It is in the method of culture rather tural College. “Oregon has more Jer­ than from poor soil conditions that the sey herds under official test than any United States falls behind other coun­ other state in the United States, and _ . ,. . _ : that has resulted in aiding breeders to tries. r The — average yield in Germany ~ the tegt producers for breeding in 1912 for example, was 223 bushels; stock. in the United States it was 113.4, “It is a well known fact that the bushels. Longer rotation, more fer­ longer animals are pure bred along one tilization and more cultivation, and line, the more likely they are to trans­ more and better seed, are necessary to mit their characters to their offspring. enable this country to compete in Testing also encourages breeders to quantity and quality with such potato put forth their best efforts, since it in­ raisers as the Germans, says the bul­ creases the number of sales they are letin. able to make and the prices they re­ Means of bettering the general in­ ceive for their stock sold. dustry in Oregon 'and elsewhere are “Holstein breeders in Oregon have suggested as follows: Use of better been slow to take up official testing seed; rotation of crops; improvement work. However, some of the breeders of pack; establishing a system of co­ have conducted the seven-day official operative marketing. test, among them W. K. Newell, Seg- The Belgium average yield per acre hers; Ernest Werner, Aurora; Dr. J. in 1912 was 313 bushels, that of Hol­ R. Wetherbee, Langlois; Walter Zets- land 286, that of Germany, 223, of the man, Cornelius, and Jacob Luscher, United Kingdom 177, of Canada 175, Portland. of Sweden 173, of Japan 148, of Ar­ “Guernsey breeders are coming to gentine 138. Other countries surpass­ the front We are now supervising ing the United States were France, the tests of the herds of A. I. and J. Chile, Switzerland, European Russia, Hughes, Oregon City; Chase Brothers, Austria-Hungary and Spain. The only Independence, and A. L. Gilem, Chi­ countries falling below were Italy with nook, Washington. It is a fact that 79 bushels per acre, and Australasia the Guernsey breeders of the United with 104. States have conducted more official yearly tests than any other breeders. It is largely through the advanced reg­ Oregon Hopgrowers Claim to istry system that the breed has become Have Formed Strong Organization so popular.” Mr. Stockwell has a list of 33 Jer­ Salem—Seventy-five per cent of the capital stock of the Oregon Hopgrow­ sey breeders doing official testing. The ers’ association is said to have been state having the next largest number subscribed, and it is believed that by of herds on official test is New York, July 1 the greater portion of the $150,- which state, however, has more ani­ 000 capital stock of the association mals under the test. He gives the fol­ will be paid up. The association is lowing summary: Oregon has 33 herds, 248 cows on said to have already tied up 50,000 New bales of hops with contracts. Word test, 16 being 700-pound cows. has been received that the California York has 21 herds, 336 cows, 25 700- association has incorporated with a pound cows. Ohio has 26 herds, 198 Michigan capital of $500,000. The recent rains, cows, 2 700-pound cows. it is said, have proved very beneficial has 13 herds, 117 cows, 15 700-pound cows. Massachusetts has 10 herds, 93 to the hop crop. cows, 37 700-pound cows. There have been about 150 700- Alien Lunatics Remain. Salem—The sinking of the Lusitania pound cows in the United States, and Oregon has produced her share. And frustrated a plan of Dr. R. E. Lee yet testing was not begun in this state Steiner, superintendent of the State until 1904, and has become general Insane asylum, to save money to the only in a very recent period. state. He had arranged to deport three British lunatics, who were to School Fair Big Success. sail on the Lusitania the voyage fol­ Prineville — Superintendent C. H. lowing the fatal one. After the sink­ ing of the vessel the department no­ Poole, of the city schools, held the tified Dr. Steiner that he could not de­ annual school fair here last week. port any more men on British vessels Each of the rooms was decorated with the work of the schools for the past until after the war. Dr. Steiner has deported 20 lunatics year. A short literary program was given. The exhibit of manual train­ this spring. ing was by far the best the school yet has had. In the eighth grade state Monroe Gets Co-operative Store. Monroe—At a meeting of the mem­ examination the class all passed, mak­ bers of the proposed eo-operative asso­ ing the best record the school has At the ciation it was decided to transfer the made in the last five years. annual county field meet the Prineville membership to the Benton County Co­ operative association and that associ­ school won three gold medals. ation will open a general store in this Mr. Withycombs to Visit Klamath. city. The business of this associa­ Klamath Falls—It has just been an­ tion, which is organized under the Rochdale system, is rapidly increasing nounced that Governor Withycombe, and will reach $100,000 by the close of of Oregon, will visit Klamath county its first year of existence, next month. the latter part of June to view the ag­ The first annual meeting occurs in ricultural districts and observe the operation of the Klamath project. June.