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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-
|M<doboata to withdraw. The enemy’s
aeroplane« were fired on by our anti
aircraft artillery and attacked by our
aeroplanes and by a dirigible flying
over the Adriatic.”
War Develops New Channels of
Trade for Western Hemisphere
Washington, D. C.—Some of the ob
stacles which war across the Atlantic
has thrown into the paths of industrial
and commercial prosperity and the
march of trade in the Western Hemi
sphere were outlined Tuesday at the
first session of the Pan-American
finance conference.
The outstanding thought of the con
ference as it was expressed by many
sfwakers was the crying need for im
provement of transportation, for a re
adjustment of methods of financial ex
change and for uniformity of laws
north and south of the Equator in rela
tion to subjects which vitally affect in
ternational relations.
Steps were taken at the close of the
day to pave the way for uniform stat
utes through the appointment of a
committee with a representative from
each invited nation and several repre
sentatives of the United States.
President Wilson, who welcomed the
delegates to this country, dwelt upon
the need for development of trans-
|s>rtation, 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.
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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
_
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: 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.