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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1915)
COWBOYS RECOVER KIDNAPED YOUTHS Arizona Posse Crosses Mexican Border and Defies Iroops. HN DARING AMIRKANS ALI QilllKIV Two Boys, Victims of Raiders, Re turned to U. S. Soil Colonel] Menaced With Guns. Nogales, Arlz.—A posse of 10 Amer ican cowboys and miners rode eight miles across the border into Santa Cruz, Sonora, late Sunday, and, level ing their guns at the colonel commaisl- ing the garrison, while 150 Mexican soldiers looked on, secured the imme diate release of two American boys kidnaped by three of the soldiers on the Arizona side of the border earlier in the day. The colonel gave up his two 17-year- old prisoners, George Vaughn, sun of the storekee|>er at Duquesne, and Henry Chang, son of a Chinese-Amer ican citizen of Washington Camp, Ariz., without demur, and the posse rode triumphantly back to the United States. Army officers had been notified of the affair and a |>o«ae under Sheriff McKnight, of Sarita Cruz, started from here, for the scene. News of the affair was brought in by O. K. Franklin, a miner. Franklin said he saw the Mexicans on horseback near the line, marching the boys ahead of them on foot. The boys’ hands were tied, he said, and the soldiers krpt their prisoners covered with revolvers. Being unarmed, Franklin rode back to liuquense to summon help. Santa Cruz, is garrisoned by forces of Jose Maytorena, the Villa governor of Sonora. Allies Report Extensive Gains On Turktsh lines About Darddndles Ix>ndor>- Official announcement was made Monday that the British troops at the Dardanelles, as a result of their new offensive movement last week, captured two lines of Turkish trenches along a three-mile front. The state ment in part follows: “On the night of June 3-4 the Turks, having heavily bombarded a small fort in front of the extreme right of the French |>oaition, which previously had been captured, launched infantry attack against it, which was repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy. At the same time the Turks set fire to scrub in front of the left center of the l>oaition occupied by the British divis ion and attacked, but met with no suc cess. “On the morning of June 4 Sir Ian Hamilton ordered a general attack on the Turkish trenches in the southern area of the Gallipoli Peninsula, pre ceded by a heavy bombardment by all guns, assisted by battleahi|>s, cruisers and destroyers. “At a given signal the troops rushed forward with bayonet. They were im mediately successful all along the line except in one spot, where the heavy wire entanglements were not destroyed by the kiombardment. “Indian troops on our extreme left made a magnificent charge. They cap tured two lines of trenches, but owing to the fact that the troops on the right wore hung up by the wire entangle ments, they were obliged to retire to their original line.“ Austrian Cible Is Cut. Rome—The following official state ment was issued by the War depart ment Monday: “Naval detachments yesterday cut the cables uniting the continent and the islands of the Dal matian archipelago. All lighthouses and outlook stations of these islands wore destroyed. The railway between Cat taro and Ragusa were bombarded and seriously damaged. “The same day a group of our de stroyers, which were unsuccessfully attacked by aeroplanes, again bom barded Monfalcone and sank several sailing craft laden with merchandise.” San Francisco Is Shaken. San Francisco—Two slight but dis tinct earth shocks were felt generally throughout the city at 9:15 Monday morning. No damage was reported, L, At the University of California nt Berkeley, acrons the bay, whero the shocks were felt. Professor A. C. Law- son, of the mineralogy and geology de partment, who su[M»rvises the seismo graph records, said that the temblor was comparatively insignificant. Observers at Lassen peak reported the volcano somnolent and that no shake was felt there. Passports Are Revoked. Berlin, via London — The passports of two American citizens living in Dresden, Leon Raines and Karl Reck nagel, have been ordered revoked by the American embassy on instructions from the State department at Wash ington. The men, it is said, adversely criti- siaed the American government’s pol icy in the present crisis anil reported in newspaper circles that they were ashamed of their citizenship. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS Portland—Wheat: Bluestem, 11.10; forty-fold, |1.0H|; club, $1.05j; red Fife, 11.02; red Russian, II. Millfeed S|>ot prices: Bran, $27*4 27.50 ton; shorts, |29*t29.50; rolled barley, 126.50**27.50. Corn Whole, $35 ton; cracked, $36. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, 115 (il 1 fl ton; valley timothy, $12**12.50; grain hay, |10**12; alfalfa, >12.50** 18.50. Vegetables—Cucumbers, Oregon, 40 **75c dozen; artichokes, 75c; toma toes, $5 crate; cabbage, 1} ** 2|c pound; celery, $3.50 crate; head let tuce, |1 **1.15; spinach, 5c pound; rhu barb, 1 ** 2c; asparagus, 75c**|1.25 crate; eggplant, 25c pound; peas, 6c; beans, 7c; cauliflower, 11.25 crate; carrots, 11**1.50 sack; beets, 11.50; turni|si, 11.85. Green Fruita — Strawberries, Ore gon, |1 *4 1.75 crate; apples, 85c** 11.75 box; cranberries, |11**12 bar rel; cherries, Oregon, 6** 8c pound; 90c **$1.25 box; gooseberries, 2**3c pound; cantalou|>ea, 12.50**6 crate. Potatoes Old, 11.75**2 sack; new, 3**4c pound. Onions—Yellow, $1 ** 1.25; White, 11.75; red, 12 sack. Eggs — Fresh Oregon ranch, case count, 19c dozen. Poultry—Hens, 12c; broilers, 15*4 23c; turkeys, dressed, 22**24c; live, 164418c; ducks, old, 9**llc; geese, 8 **9c. Butter — Creamery prints, extras, 27Jc pound; cubes, 24c. Veal Nominal, 9c pound. Pork—Block, 10c pound. Hof» — 1914 crop, 10 ** lOJc; con tracts, 10**1 lc. Wool — Eastern Oregon, medium, 25c; Eastern Oregon fine, 18**20c; valley, 25*/28c; mohair, new clip, 30 **31 c pound. Cascara Bark Old and new, 4**4jc. Cattle — Beat steers, $7.30**7.65; good, 17**7.25; medium, $6.750*7; choice cow«, $6.35**6.60; good, $6*4 6.35; heifers, $5**7; bulls, $3.504*5; stags, $5**6.50. Ilogs — Light, $7.50**7.85; heavy, $6.75**7.05. Sheep Sheared wethers, $6**7.25; sheared ewes, $4**5.25; sheared lambs, i $6**7. Full wools $1 higher. Grain Bag Shortage Seen. Olympia — In order to warn grain producen in Washington of the possi ble shortage of grain bags this season, owing to the handicaps to ocean ship ping incident to the European war. Governor Lister has taken up with the board of control and the state grain dejiartment the question of supply. Inquiry by the grain department re veals that grain bag dealers in the West have orders placed for 50,000,000 bags from Calcutta and that they ex pect to receive them, though no assur ance is had that shipping facilities will be available. The state board of control reports that the penitentiary mill has now on hand 1,250,000. It is also learned that there are now 1,000,000 bags available in Portland; that the private manufacturers in this section will produce 4,000,000 and that the California penitentiary will pro duce 3,000,000. If the shipments from Calcutta are handled as they would be were ship ping not handicapped, there will be no trouble in supplying the need. Should the shipments be held up, however, it might be necessary, thinks Governor Lister, for the farmers in many cases to handle their grain in bulk. Prune Crop Will Be Large. Prune prices are going to rule lower this year from all indications. The Pacific Coast has a large crop and but little chance to export the surplus, as the war has paralyzed the foreign de mand. A little business is being done by packers on the basis of a materially lower market than prevailed at the opening last season. Various estimates have been made of the size of the California prune crop, but a fair average of the yield is 175,000,000 pounds. In Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho the dried prune out put will run at least 25,000,000 pounds, according to the best-posted prune men. It is, therefore, almost assured there will be a tonnage this year of 200,000,000 pounds on the Pacific Coast, against 100,000,000 pounds last year. For the past four or five years, ac cording to official statistics, the ex- ports of Northwestern and California prunes have been about 45 per cent of the total production. This year, a conservative estimate is 10 per cent. GERMANY WILL PAY LOSS OE GOLE LIGHT Sinking of American Merchant Ship Declared Error. BERLIN BLAMtS BRIIISH PAIRO! BOAIS American Flag Not„Seen Until Tor pedo Is Discharged—Regret Is Expressed for Mistake. Washington, D. C.—Germany, in a note cabled to the State department Saturday by Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, expresses regrets that through “an unfortunate accident" a German submarine had torpedoed the American steamship Gulflight and declared itself “reaily to furnish full recompense for the damage thereby sustained by American citizens.” In the same communication the Ger man foreign office said it had not yet been possible to clear up fully the caBe of the American steamer Cushing, re ported attacked by a German aero plane, and asked that the United States communicate the information in its possession concerning this incident. Blame for the attack of the Gulf light was placed by the foreign office on the proximity of two British patrol boats and the absence from the steamer’s freeboard of the distinctive markings usually carried by neutral ships in the war zone. “That the at tacked steamers carried the American flag,” the note adds, “was first ob served at the moment of firing the shot." The Gulflight was torpedoed in the English Channel five weeks ago, while bound from Port Arthur, Tex., for Rouen, France, with oil. She was towed to Crow’s Sound and beached for repairs. Two seamen were drowned when the crew took to the boats immediately after the attack and the captain died of heart trouble next day. The expressions of regrets and offers More than half of the city of Colon, Panama, was destroyed by the recent great conflagration. The photograph of reparation in the note follow the gives a view of the ruins from Bolivar street looking toward Cristobal. The ruins of the market are seen in the principle outlined in the circular re cently sent to neutral nations by Ger background. many, disclaiming any intention of at CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS tacking neutral vessels carrying non contraband cargoes. r w GERMAN DESTROYER AT ANTWERP Carranza's Reply to United States Note to Be “friendly and Serene” Vera Cruz—"Appreciative, friendly and serene." Such will be the tone of General Carranza’s reply to President Wilson’s note. After carefully con sidering the note, General Carranza concluded that it contains nothing other than hopefulness for the consti tutionalist cause, and it was officially announced that his reply to President Wilson would be handed to John R. Silliman, personal representative of President Wilson in Mexico, for trans mission to Washington within the next few days. The reading of the note by Carranza officials and members of his cabinet has created a feeling that President Wilson intended no harsh action to ward Mexico. A distinct feeling prevails that a more definite attitude at Washington will result in hastening a solution of the Mexican problem without foreign aid. General Carranza expresses the This photograph of a German destroyer passing through the docks of opinion that his intended reoccupation Antwerp was taken secretly by a resident of that city, despite the German of Mexico City soon will place the con threat of fine and imprisonment for anyone taking photographs. It would stitutionalists in a better position to seem to indicate that Holland's neutrality has been violated. be recognized by the Washington gov ernment. When Mr. Silliman called at the lighthouse he was informed that a reply to the note was being formulated by the constitutionalist foreign minis ter. It was said that the tone of the reply would be “appreciative, friendly and serene." German Press Asks Calm. London—“The German newspapers, " says the Exchange Telegraph’s Am sterdam correspondent, “while admit ting that the fall of Przemysl is a sat isfactory achievement, warn the public against attaching exaggerated import ance to it, declaring that this event is overshadowed in importance by the threatening situation created by the attitude of the United States, Rou- Fruit to Go to Chicago. mania and Bulgaria. Private mes Albany, Or.—As a result of the re sages from Berlin are pessimistic, and cent organization of the Linn and Ben a rupture with the three countries is ton Co-operative Growers’ association, feared at an early date. plans are being made to ship fruit out Jews in Warsaw Suffer. of Albany in carload lots direct to Chi Lodez, Russian Poland, via London cago. From indications this section of the state this season will have the best —Warsaw newspapers, which have opportunity it has ever had to market been smuggled through the lines, say its fruit crop on a satisfactory basis. the number of homeless Jews on the As a step in the plans now being devel Russian side is increasing steadily. oped, the Great Northern Express com At a conference in Moscow recently pany has petitioned the city council of the Jewish Aid society, it was es for permission to use the Oregon Elec timated that the number of these homeless persons is about 100,000. tric spur for loading can. The greatest distress prevails Wool Market in Stronger Position. among the homeless in the government In commenting on the wool market, of Lomza, numbering about 22,000. the Boston Commercial Bulletin sizes Submarine Defeat Hinted. up the situation as follows: “Confi Lisbon, Portugal — Newspapers of dence seems to have begotten more con fidence in wool, and the market is un this city say that the steamship De- doubtedly in a stronger position than a marara, from London Lisbon for Liv week ago. Whether or not clothiers erpool, fired on the periscope of a sub have given the manufacturers reason to marine, which was following her. It be more optimistic by placing orders is said the submarine disappeared and more freely is not clear, but there is that soon thereafter large quantités of no doubt of the fact that wool the oil were seen floating] in the surface world over is in a very firm poeition. of the sea. Camille Saint-Saëns, the famous French composer and the first dele gate of the Franco-American commis sion for the Development of Political, Economic, Literary and Artistic Rela tions, photographed as he landed in New York. The composer, who is eighty years old. looks forward with uncommon pleasure to revisiting the United States. He will be entertained extensively by the French societies in the many cities he expects to visit during the three months of his stay here. This Is the residence at Forest Hills, Long Island, which Gen. Victoriano Huerta has leased and in which he has installed his wife and their household of 30 children, grandchildren, tutors and servants. Safety Matches Running Short. According to a Melbourne dispatch to the Sydney (Australia) Herald, re produced in a commercial report, strict economy in the use of safety matches 1 b being advocated by mer chants who know how limited the stocks in Australia are at present, and how difficult It is to procure further supplies while the war lasts. Al ready prices have risen 133 per cent la the wholesale market, and only a ■tost careful use of these matches can prevent ah aetnat shortage. The chief reason for this state of affairs is said to be the regulation in force in England that compels the factory which supplies nearly all the Aus tralian matches to show no lights at night, it being situated close to the Thames estuary. Consequently, the output is reduced to one-third of the normal quantity. Select Circle. ; “Don't any of your friends come to see you on visiting days?” asked the kindly old lady. "No'm,” responded No. 777,444; "they're all here with me." Why Men Eat More Than Women. That men eat five or six per cent more than women—not because they are gluttons, but because they actually require that much more nourishment —appears as a result of an investiga tion made in the nutrition laboratory of the Carnegie Institute at Washing ton by Francis O. Benedict and L. E. Eames, says the Literary Digest. The reason for the discrepancy seems to be that women have a smaller propor tion of active tissues than men of the same weight and more inactive material, such as fat. The Investiga tion disclosed that the average wom an generates only 1,355 heat units In the 24 hours, as against 1,638 pro duced by the man. or about two per cent more for the latter per pound of body weight. When groups were com pered, after careftri selection of indi viduals of nearly the same height and weight, the men w,ere found to pro duce about 12 per cent more heat than women.