ON STAND ADMITS
WORLD’S DOINGS ROOSMLT
OfTTN CONSUUING BOSS PIATT Bridge Bonds' Interest
Still Unpaid by County
OF CURRENT WEEK
Syracuse, N. Y , — Theodore Roose
velt admitted under croea-examination
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
Portland experiences heavy rain and
hail storm.
Editor Blethen, of the Seattle Times,
is reported seriously ill.
The English house of ^commons votes
to double the tax on spirits.
A Medford, Oregon, woman, aged
74, is cutting a new set of teeth.
A German air craft dropped several
bombs on Ipswich, England, setting a
fire which burned three dwellings.
Witnesses for John R. Lawson tes
tify that deputy sheritfs started the
battle of Ludlow in the Colorado strike
trouble.
A Gold Hill, Oregon, couple motors
to near Medford, overtakes a minister
and are married beneath a large tree
by the roadside.
Colonel Roosevelt is still making
explanations of his political affiliations
in the suit for $50,000 libel, for which
he is defendant.
Grand jury o f Portland indicts three
election boaid officials for altering 126
ballots at a recent election. They are
all in jail in default of cash bail.
Women in session at The Hague de
mand that people have voice in foreign
policies, and oppose cession of terri
tory without consent of the inhab
itants.
An infuriated divorcee fires several
shots at her ex-husband in the Port
land municipal court room. One shot
strikes the stenographer, while the
rest go wild.
An immense bridge in Vancouver, B.
C., is burned, and public sentiment ac
cuses foes of Great Britain as the in
cendiary; the authorities, however,
place no blame.
A German life bouy marked Kolberg
has been found on the Scotch coast,
and is thought to confirm the report of
the sinking o f the cruiser Kolberg in
the naval battle o f January 24.
Tuesday in the suit for alleged libel
which William Barne# has brought
against him, that while governor he
had freely consulted the "boas” of the
Republican party in New York state
in reference to the appointment of off!
cials in the state government and var
ious legislative and political matters.
The “ boss” named was Thomas C.
Platt, who at that time represented
New York in the United States sen
ate.
The ex-president said he took
the advice of the senator in many mat
ters, among them appointing a Dem
ocrat to the office of tax commissioner
to “ please G rady," whom the Colonel
described as a “ lieutenant boss” of
Richard Croker, then leader of Tam
many Hall.
The testimony resulted from ques
tions asked after letters of a series
that passed between Colonel Roosevelt
and Senator Platt had been read to the
jury. In these letters, both writers
discussed all manner o f political and
legislative affairs.
In one. Colonel
Roosevelt asked the senator’s advice
about making speeches.
In another, Senator Platt told the
Colonel he had received a copy of a bill
introduced by Grady, in which the sen
ator said he considered it inadvisable
to give Tammany from $3,000,000 to
$12,090,000 on an appropriation to ex
pend upon the water front o f New
York, as “ it would simply be putting
an unnecessary club in the hands of
those people with which to knock our
brains out.”
With another letter, the colonel sent
the senator a proof of his message to
the legislature, which dealt with,
among other things, public utilities,
the franchise tax, the trusts, indus
trial conditions and labor.
The part
dealing with the trusts, the colonel
wrote, “ had been submitted to several
“ experts,’ including Elihu Root, Presi
dent Hadley, Professor Jenks, of Cor
nell, and James A. Dill, who was
described in the letter as ‘a big cor
poration lawyer.’ ”
Salem Through an oversight of the
Multnomah county otficiala or the State
Tax commission there will be no money
in the state treasury this year for the
payment of interest on the interstate
bridge bonds.
The county court places the blame
on the Tax commission and the com
mission delcares the county is at fgult.
At any rate, no levy was made for
the payment of the money and it has
none to pay.
State Treasurer Kay
receive«! a
ch«*ok frtmi the county treasurer of
Multnomah for $294,000, the last pay
ment of the first half o f the taxes, ami
the announcement that $31,250 had
been retain«»! for paying interest on
the bonds.
The annual interest is
$62,500, and, unless a settlement is
reached, the county will retain the
balance out o f the last-half tax pay
ments.
Under the law providing for the
bridge, notification of the interest on
the bonds must be made to the State
Tax commission by the county court
before January 1 each year. N«>tifi-
cation was mails«! to the commission
the last day of December, but the tax
levy had been made ami the various
counties notified of it.
It was then
too late to make a change to include a
levy for the payment o f interest on the
bonds.
“ No levy having been made for that
specific purp«vu>, the «*ounty clearly has
no right to withhold m«>ney with which
to pay this interest," d«>«'lariHl Assist
ant State Treasurer Ryan. “ This de-
pnrtmcnt cannot be held r«>aponalble
for the mistake, for it nee«ls every
cent f«>r specific appropriations.
“ I f the county insists upon retain
ing the money the only thing I see to
do is for the state treasurer to demaml
interest on it.
That probably woulii
result in the filing of a suit to deter
mine whether the state has to pay
This office will make a demand upon
the c«>unty treasurer for the money
which he is withholding.”
The law providing for the building
of the bridge empowere«) Multnomah
county to raise the money for building
it by issuing bonds, the state to pay
the interest on the bonds.
A fter
certain period the county is to start
sinking fund to liquidate the indebtini-
ness.
State Treasurer Kay said that he
would notify the members of the Tax
Commission of the action uf the Mult
nomah county treasurer, ami it is
probable that Attorney General Brown
wil be aske«l to advise the commission
reganling what steps it should take to
collect the money.
Oregon Hens Make Fine
Record at Panama Fair
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
The Leghorns likewise took second
vallis— Having led in both the pen rec place in the term ruce to date, with
ords and the individual records for the record of 560 eggs, first place going to
past month in egg-laying at the Pana the Canada flock of G. D. Adarns, with
ma-Pacific Exp«ieition has placed the 607 eggs. The fourth place has been
O. A. C. fl«>cks very close to the lead taken by the O. A. C. Harrisl Rocks
in both these divisions for the entire ami the fifth place by the crosses, the
time of the contest. The three flocks number uf eggs laid by each pen being
entered by the college represent the 527 and 524 respectively.
Second,
White Leghorns, Barred Rocks and a third and fourth places are now held
pen of cross-reds, ten in each pen.
in the individual term record by an O.
The Leghorns took first place for j A. C. cross With 83 eggs, another O.
the month ending April 15 with a rec A. C. cross with 82 eggs, and an O. A.
ord of 237 eggs, while the Barred C. Leghorn with 81 eggs.
Rocks took second place with 225 j The official report from which these
eggs. The best individual, showing figures were taken says that no other
was made by an O. A. C. cross-bretl exhibit on the ground attracts more
hen, which laid 30 eggs in the 31 days. attention from the thousands of daily
The fifth best record was that of the i visitors than this egg-laying contest
College Barred Rock biddy that pro- with its fine flocks from_different parts
Washington, D. C.— Announcement duced 26 eggs.
of the world.
from Newport News late Tuesday that
Commander Gives Notice of Intent
to Intern Cruiser Kronprioz Wilhelm
The millions o f crickets in the army
which invaded Grant county, Washing
ton, early this week, has split into
four divisions. The crickets eating in
the wheat fields cover a strip four
miles long and 12 feet wide.
the commander of the big German sea
Four Masked Men Kill Sheep
raider Kronprinz Wilhelm had given Daylight Is Let Through Last
notice he would intern for the war
Tunnel On New Coos Bay Line
On Eastern Oregon Range
without
waiting expiration of the
Eugene — “ Daylight” was broken
Prineville — Appearance o f four
time allowed her by the United States
government to make hi3 ship sea last week in tunnel No. 7, the longest masked men on the ranch o f Isadore B.
worthy, was received with surprise bore on the Willamette-Pacific.
For Meyers, of Tost, on Crooked river,
Marion
and relief by government officials.
Twenty-day-old twins in
county, Oregon, are the largest bene
ficiaries o f the state compensation law,
being posthumous heirs. The mother,
who is 20 years old. I f she lives to be
42, the age of expectancy, will receive
a total of $15,120.
Captain L. D. Hockersmith, 82 years
old, who is reputed to have dug his
way out of the Columbus, O., peni
tentiary during the war between the
states and to have liberated his com
mander, the Confederate general, John
H. Morgan, with a number o f his men,
died at his home in Madisonville, Ky.,
Friday. Morgan and a remnant o f his
command was captured near Pomeroy,
O., in July, 1863, on a raid through
Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
Germany is purchasing foodstuffs for
a siege of four years’ duration.
David Warfield has appeared in the
play “ The Auctioneer” for the 1400th
time.
The raider’s action relieves the
Navy department of the necessity of
keeping watch over the Wilhelm and
an eye on the cordon o f allied ships off
the Virginia capes to assure the main
tenance of American neutrality during
the time the cruiser had been allowed
to make repairs. It is understood that
several days of that period still re
mained.
The Navy department had deter
mined to permit the Wilhelm to take
on 4500 tons of coal, and on the heels
o f reports from Newport News that
the cruiser had begun to coal, came
Lieutenant Captain Thierfelder’s un
expected announcement to the collector
o f the port. The German commander’s
communication was laconic and gave
no reason for the internment as had
the letter presented by
Captain
Thierichens when he interned the
Prinz Eitel Friedrich, the first of the
raiders to seek a haven in Hampton
Roads.
Twenty-one jitney bus drivers in
It was suggested here that Captain
Seattle are arrested for doing business
Thierfelder’s announcement was made
without having bonds.
after
he
had
received
instructions
Ex-president T a ft is scheduled to from the German government through
^nake several speeches in Oregon and the embassy here not to attempt a
dash through the line of hostile war
Washington egrly in the fall.
A plague o f crickets is reported in
Grant county Washington, and much
damage to crops is the result.
One of V illa ’s major generals has
resigned, at the request of his mother,
and joined the British forces.
A holdup man in Spokane, Wash.,
kicks his victim on the leg and breaks
it; secures $2 in cash and flees.
The commerce investigation in Chi
cago protests an increase o f freight
rates on meats, which is proposed by
the railroads.
Theodore Roosevelt, who is being
sued for libel, admits on the stand that
he was on easy terms with New York’s
political bosses.
A ll records for April heat are being
broken in the Eastern states, and in
some localities the thermometer regis
ters 97 degrees.
Governor Johnson, of California,
signed the Meek convict labor bill,
permitting prisoners of the state peni
tentiaries to build state highways. A
statement was issued by the governor
in which he said that apprehension
that free labor will be affected is
groundless.
ships off the capes.
Heat It Damaging Crops.
Washington, D. C. — A scorching
heat wave is hovering over the East
ern half of the United States from the
Mississippi valley to the Atlantic
coast, causing suffering in the cities
and serious damage to wheat and other
crops in the agricultural districts.
Reports show new temperature records
for April established as follows: Wash
ington, D. C., and Richmond, Va., 94
degrees; Toledo, O., 90; Grand Rapids,
Mich., Cincinnati, O., and Elkins, W.
Va., 88; Port Huron, Mich., 86, and
Green Bay, Wis., 84.
Wireless Record Is Made.
New York— A new distance record
for wireless telephony in railroad serv-.
ice is claimed by officials of the Lacka
wanna railroad.
Communications by
wireless concerning the movement of
Lackawanna trains were exchanged
between railroad superintendents at
Scranton, Pa., and Binghamton, N.
Y., 63 miles.
Trains between those
two cities were moved for several
hours under orders sent or received by
wireless.
Czar Loses 26 Trenches.
Vienna— The war office has issued
Four masked men make raid of
15astern Oregon ranch, killing 30 head the following: “ Our troops, pursuing
occupied 26 Russian
o f sheep and destroying farm house the enemy,
and barn by fire.
trenches which contained much war
material.
The Russians before Uzsok
Methodist ministers
from many Pass, after their attack failed, re
states are meeting in Chicago for the treated in full flight.
We gained
purpose o f establishing a $10,000,000 ground ot the southeast of Koziowa. ’
fund to be used for old age pensions
for members o f the clergy.
Relief Fund $25,000,000.
The allies are reported as having
landed large forces on both shores of
the Dardanelles straits, and are at
tacking the forts and positions o f the
Turks who are defending the city of
Constantinople.
London— The national reilef fund of
the Prince o f Wales reached the total
o f £5,000,000 ($25,000,000),
King
George has opened with a donation of
$2500 a subscription list o f the British
committee for relief in Belgium.
18 months compressed air drills have near Pauline Butte, in Crook county,
been bomig into both sides of this and an attack by these men on Mr.
4200-foot tunnel that pierces the di Meyers’ sheep gives rise to a belief
vide between the Umpqua and Coos that the old range war between sheep-
Bay valleys.
For two weeks the men and cattlemen has flamed forth
sounds of the drills could be heard with its old time vigor.
Mr. Meyers
from both sides and finally a shot reported to the sheriff’s office that the
men had entered his range, burned his
opened the tunnel.
This was the last tunnel on the line sheep camp, stolen the guns ami am
munition and then shot and killed at
to be pierced. There are eight in all, least 30 head of sheep and wounded
the first being at Noti, 30 miles west many others.
of Eugene, and the last in the lake
M. Montgomery, a sheepherder for
region north of Coos Bay.
The last Mr. Meyers, said he was ordered to
two tunnels are not completed, how stand aside while the men fired about
ever, as a small bore preceeds a few 100 shots into the flock. Some of the
feet ahead o f the main body of the bullets passed dangerously close to the
tunnel.
herder. Wounded sheep were kill«»)
A. 0. Peterson, sub-contractor for by the employ«» o f the sheep camp.
Hauser & Hauser, arrived in Eugene,
Belief that the attack is the outcome
telling of the tunnel progress, and of of bitterness between sheepmen and
the speed being made in the comple cattlemen is fostered by an incendiary
tion of the trestle work along the attack on the sheep ranch o f J. N.
lakes. C. R. Broughton, bridge en- Williamson, ex-representative to
gineer, accompanied him from Acme, gress. A t that time Mr. Williamson
where a large force of men has estab- lost 80 tons of hay.
lished camps for the erection of the 1 The majority o f the ranchers in the
Siuslaw drawbridge.
Pauline Butte district .ire cattlemen.
Fishermen Will Build.
Recess Lengthened and Farmers’
Bay City— The Tillamook Bay Fish \
Week Will Be First in January
company, a co-operative company of
the fishermen on this bay, is preparing
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
to drive the piling for its new build vallis — Of great interest to farmers
ing.
A. Ramsay, the company’s and homeseekers as well as to regular
manager, says it is undecided whether college students is the announcement
a cannery will be built this year or that the next term of Farmers’ and
not, but that with the evident low Conference Week will be held at the
price of canned goods for the year, he college during the first week of Janu
believes they will handle the catch ary. Since the instructors’ time as
fresh.
well as housing accommodations are
Arrangements have been completed needed by the thousands of people tak
to open wholesale establishments in ing the work of the week, it is impos
Boise, Butte and Portland for handling sible to conduct the exercises of the
the fresh fish.
week while the regular degree work is
It is believed that the whole catch in progress. Hence the Christmas re
can be disposed of in this way, making cess has been lengthened to January
a cannery unnecessary.
10, permitting the regular students to
pass their vacation at home.
Pioneer Women T o Meet.
Another important change in the cal
Baker— Old-time residents of East endar is the arrangement whereby
ern Oregon plan an organization. A t commencement will be held prior to
final examinations o f the second semes
a meeting held at the home of Mrs. M. ter for the three lower classes. This
F. Harper it was decided to ascertain change will give the undergraduates
the possibilities of having a pioneer an opportunity to attend commence
society and to include the gathering of ment exercises and at the same time
historical data of this part of the coun to leave for home as soon as their last
try. Mrs. Harper has been in this vi examination has been given.
It has
cinity 40 years, and has had several also been announceed that vocational
gatherings of the pioneer women with students will have commencement
such success that the organization recognition and will be given diplomas
seems assured. I f Baker old settlers upon completing their course.
take kindly to the plan, other cities
w ill be asked to co-operate.
Teachers Have Session.
Farmers Demand Water.
Baker— More than 1000 acres are so
involved in a water dispute north of
here that State Water Superintendent
Cochran at La Grande has been ap
pealed to. Farmers along laterals on
the Baldock and Shaw d'tches allege
that the Sunnyslope irrigation farmers
have been taking so much moisture
from Powder River that a shortage is
threatened in the Fairview district.
Assistant Water Superintendent Hol
land was sent from La Grande to make
i a survey.
Clackamas— The regular session of
the Clackamas Schoolmasters’ club was
held at the Clackamas schoolhouse on
Saturday. A picked club of the school
masters went down to defeat in the
morning in a game of baseball with
the Clackamas school by a score of 22
to 7. A banquet was served by the
school at 1 o’clock. A discussion was
le«l by Supervisor Vedder on the topic,
“ Industrial Follow-up W ork,” and an
address on “ Standard Schools” by
Assistant State Superintendent Wells
made this session one of the best.
NORTHWEST MARKET
REPORTS.
IVrtlaml Wheat Ulueatein, $1.32;
forty-fold, $1.27; dub, $1.26; rod Rus
sian, $1.19.
Oats No. 1 white food, $33.25.
Barley No. 1 feed, $24; bran, $24;
shorts, $24.50,
Millfeed
Spot prices: Bran, $26
ton; shorts, $28; rolled barley, $30
6131.
C«>rn- Whole, $35 t«>n; cracked, $36.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $14(<i
15; valley tim«>thy, $12«t'12.60: grain
hay, $U)«t12; alfalfa, $12.5(kujl3.60.
Vegetables — Cui-umbvrs, hothouse,
$1 («01.50 dozen; artichokes, 75c; toma
toes, $5 crate; cabbage. 2|(u3Jo |x>und;
celery, $4.60 crate; cauliflower, 76o6t!
$1.26 dozen; heat! lettuce, $2.25 crate;
spinach, 5c pound; rhubarb, 14 « i 2 c ;
asparagus, 75c (ill $1.10 dozen; egg-
plant, 25c pound; peas, 7(«iHc, ¡loans,
12i<«til6c.; carrots, $1.60 sack; beets,
$1.50; parsnips, $1.26; turnips, $l(ic
1.60.
Green Fruits — Strawberries. $2
crate; apples, $16(1.75 box; cranber
ries, $ U (a l2 barrel; gooseberries, 86C
11c pound.
Potatoes — Old. $1.76 Ot 2.26 sack;
new, 6<«(i8r pound.
Onions — Oregon selling price, 75c
sack, country points; California, job
bing price, yellow, $1,756(2; white,
$2.25 crate.
Eggs — Freeh Oregon ranch, case
count, lHQtlhic dozen.
Poultry— Hens, 16c; broilers, 26«(
274c; fryers, 18<«i.20c; turkeys, ilress-
ed. 22<i«24c; I iso, 18(«t 20c; ducks, 12
(«( 13c; geese, 8(«(9c.
Butter — Creamery, prints, extras
25c pound in case lots; ¿c more in less
than case lots; cubes, 21(«i.22c.
Veal -Fancy, 11 ¿expound.
Pork— Block, KkolOJc poutxl.
Hops — 1914 crop, nominal; con
tracts, 11c pound.
W« hi I - Eastern Oregon, medium, 25
(<t26c; Eastern Oregon, fine, 16o(lBc;
valley, 28(<i.S0c; mohair, new dip, .324
((i>33o-
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,
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Casrara bark— Old and new, 4 f v l}c
pound.
«
Cattle — Best steers, $7.50 («6 7.76;
choice, $76(7.25; medium, $6,766(7;
choice cows, $6,256(6.76; medium, $5
(«1.5.76; heifers, $5<«i.6.26; bulla, $4<«l
5.76; stags, $56(6.60.
Hogs— Light, $7(«t8.06; heavy, $6(<t
7.06.
Sheep— Wethers, $6,756(7; sheared
ewes, $5.50 6( 5.75; sheartal lambs,
$7,766(8; full wtxds $1 higher.
Tacoma — Apples — Winesaps ' and
Yellow Newtown Pippins, $1,666(1.76.
Comb Honey— Yakima, $3.60 crate;
strain«*! honey, $5.60; Idaho, $3.50;
Nevada. $3.60.
Strawberries — $1.36 to $2.26 crate,
according to size.
Vegetables Cabbage, Winningstadt,
$3.25 cw t.; carrots, $1.50(<(1.65 sack;
beets, home grown, $16(1.26; turnips,
$1.25; potatoes, Yakima, $34(<i.35 ton;
Idaho, $3; sweets, $4 c w t.; new po
tatoes, 6|c pound; tomatoes, $4,506«;
5.50 rase; onions, green, 20c dozen;
Walla Walla, $1.76 box; Oregon Yel
low Danvers, $1.50; Yakima, $>.60;
California, $1.50; garlic, 30c pound;
radish«», local, 20c dozen bunches;
California, 25e; parsley, 30c; lettuce,
head, $2.25 crate; spinach, local, 5c
pound; Walla Walla, 76c box; cucum
bers, local hothouse, 60c(«i$1.26 dozen;
celery, $4 ut, 4.50 crate;
rutabagas,
$1.85 sack; artichokes, 76c dozen;
rhubarb, local, 3c pound; asparagus,
Washington, $1.15(«i,1.65 box; green
peas, 8|c pound; green and wax beans,
136(14c pound.
E’ resh Meats — Steers,
1266124c
pound; cows, 12c; heifers, 12 («cl 24 c;
wethers, 144c; dress«*! hogs, 114 c;
trimmed sides, 154c; combinations,
15c; Diamond T. f t , 164c; ewee, 18c.
Poultry— Ducks, live, 106112c; hens,
dressed, 166618c; live, 16c; springs,
dressed, 22c; live, 14(«$15c; squabs,
live, $2.50 dozep; dressed, $6; tur
keys, live, 18c; dressed, 28 66 80c;
geese, 20c.
Butter— Washington creamery, 2468
25c; Oregon, 24c.
Eggs— Fresh ranch, 17(«(20e.
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SU B M AM SINKS
AMERICAN TANKER
Washington Stirred by German
Attach Off Scilly Islands.
CAPIAIN AND 1W0 SAHORS ARE DEAD
Seriousness Is Admitted, and Note to
Berlin Speaking o f “ Strict Ac
countability“ Recalled
Dam
ages May Be ¡Demanded.
London- ITte American oil tank
steamship Gulflight was sunk by a
German submarine Saturday at noon
off the Scilly Islands, according to a
dispatch to the (Central News agency.
Thu Gulflight sailul from Port Arthur,
Tex., April 10, for Rouen, Franco.
The captain died from heart failure
as a result uf shock, and two seamen
jum|H<d overboanl and weru drowned.
The other members of the crow wore
taken off by a patrol lx>at and landed.
The vessel was towod into Crow aourai
and beachc«!.
Washington, I). C. Press reports of
the torpedoing o f
the
American
steamer Gulflight and the loss of her
captain and some members of the crew
creat«al a stir in official circles here,
where the seriousness of the occurrence
was everywhere admitted.
In the absence o f President Wilson,
officials made no comment as to (he
probable action o f the United * State*
government, beyera) saying that a
thorough iix|utry as to tna manner of
thp torpedoing and thp responsibility
far it you Id ffn eb e rixpi i rod before a
decision rouhl be reached ns to the
kind of representations to bu made.
I f first reports are borne out, the at
tack on the Gulflight constitutes the
first rase of an American ship struck
by a torpedo, with the consequent lose
of lives. Two American vvaaela have
been sunk by mines, the roaponaibility
for whirh never lias been fixed, and
one American, Iajon C. Thresher, was
drowned when the British ship Falaba
was tor|M>daed.
It was generally recalled that in the
note sent by the United States to Ger
many in answer to Germany’s procla
mation of a war zone around the Bri
tish Isles and Ireland, the Washington
government assert«»! that it would hold
the German government "to a strict
accountability” for the loaa of any
American livea or veaaela, the phrase
ology being so drawn as to cover at
tacks on belligerent vessels on which
Americana were traveling.
America’s Right to Ship Anns Con
ceded, but Food Should 6« Free
Philadelphia — Dr. Bernhard Dern-
burg, former colonial secretary of Ger
many, protested at Sunday's session of
the annual metffing of the American
Academy of Political and Social Sci
ence, against • declaration at a recent
meeting of the academy that Germany
hn«l declare«! aganist the right of the
United Statea to sell and distribute
arms to belligerent countries.
Dr. Dernburgcame here as a listener
to the discussions on the effect of the
European war on America’a interests
and at the close of the session made a
brief speech in which he said the
declaration was "absolutely false.”
The address in which the statement is,
aaid to have been made was delivered
by Chari«» Noble Gregory, of Wkeh-
ington, D. C., who apoke on ‘The Sale
of Munitions o f War by Neutrals to
Belligerents.”
Dr. Dernburg explain«»! that Ger
many had only complained of the in
equality o f the treatment that hia
country is receiving in that foodstuffs
Quick Digging Is Urged.
are shut out of Germany, whereas
Spokane, Wash.— Immediate action there is a free transit of arms t6 Great
in digging many miles of trenches ex Britain.
tending through the center o f Wilson
British Win in Africs.
Creek valley w ill be the only means
of saving the south half o f the valley
Cape Town — The following official
from the devastation from the Coulee statement reganling the operations in
cricket, declared Cbcil W. (¿reel, cereal
South Africa was issue«! Monday:
and fo u n t uugtci expect.. cuuuecled.
General MeKanzn^s mounted f<«roes'*
with the United Staten department o f
Agriculture, who arrived here from which were designated to rut off-the
Germans who, after the evacuation
the cricket-infest<*1 district. Trenches
three miles long have been plowed on o f Keetmanskop retreated northward
the 6000-acre farm o f W. C. Marling along the railway, inflicted serious
and a patrol of six men is being main defeat on them in the vicinity of
Gibson, raptured a whole railway
tained in the destruction of millions of
train, several transport wagons, a
the wingless insects.
great quantity o f live stock, two
field guns, several Maxims and 200
Wallowa Crop'Outlook Good.
prisoners.”
Wallowa, Wash.— The recent rains
have been a great help to the Wallowa
Flirt Recruits Tommies.
valley and the outlook for crops is ex
London — Flirting can be made an
cellent.
The fall grain has never effective recruiting exp«»iient.
At a
looked better. The acreage of spring recent recruiting rally a girl held up
grain will be large, owing to the high her hand and announced that she had
prices. The season is at least three sent five young men to the front. At
weeks earlier than usual.
The fruit the end of the meeting she indicated
trees are blossoming and unless un the young man at her aide and de
favorable weather conditions prevail clared, “ Here’s the sixth !”
This
the prospect is favorable for much causixl the speaker to Nay, "F lirtin g Of
fruit, as the rains have not damaged that kind is the right sort.” He ad-
the buds. The spring so far has been vised the young girls o f the audience
quite free from hard frosts.
to use their wiles in behalf o f country.
Douglas Sends First Berries.
Roseburg, Or.— C. E. Henry, a well-
konwn rancher of Dillard, has the dis
tinction of shipping the first crate of
strawberries from Douglas county to
the Portland markets.
The berries
left here Saturday. They were large,
of excellent color and were well fla
vored
They met ready sale at fancy
prices in the Portland markets.
Hail A* Big As Baseballs Falls.
St. Louis-—Hail atones as large as
baseballs were hurled upon scattered
sections of Missouri Sunday.
The
damage to crops and livestock will nin
into thousands of dollars. ‘ A t 'Stur
geon, Mo., a boy was k ill« ! by light
ning. In St. Louis the streets ware
flooded in places by several feet of wa
ter.