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NEWS NOTES OF U. S. Cash Warship to Aid to Carry Sisal Crop Bureau of Fisheries Finds New Field on Oregon Coast CURRENT WEEK F-4 IS LOCATED IN NEW PLACE PRZKMYSL SURRENDERS TO RUSSIAN BESIEGERS Washington, D. C. — An American l’etrograd, via London — The garri warship will take to Yucatan money to finance the movement of Mexico's sisal Washington, D. C. — During the | fishermen made 21 trips to the ground, son of 1‘rtemysl, which capitulated to hemp crop, needed to make twine for summer of 1914 the department of taking about 660,000 pounds of hali the Russian army Tuesday, surrend valued at about $24,000. Trip# ered without a fight. Resume of World’s Important binding the enormous wheat crop made Commerce, through the bureau of fish but, 40,000 pounds were made in The hoisting of the white flag over Lost Anchor of Battleship Has by farmers of the United State# this eries, conducted an exploration of cer yielding Deceived Re«scuers. four days or less. Irrespective of the this fortress, which was said to be on Events Told in Briet year. The money — $626,000 in cur tain fishery grounds off the coast of abundance of fish, weather conditions, rency, which manufacturers propose to Oregon to determine if halibut were and the lack of habors will inhibit fish the point of surrender on a number of to the hemp growers—is in present in sufficient quantities to sup ing expecting from April to October. occasions, caused little surprise, as It fragments of Superstructure Com Peace rumor* are causing lower advance a fishery. Goo# Bay is expected to produce hal was generally known that it was in a bank vaults at Galveston, Tex., but port A halibut wheat price# in Chicago markets. ground of some value was ibut in limited numbers; and the en terribly weakened condition, without ing to Surface Verify iMtest until recently no safe means of getting Secretary Bryan has called on Zapata to Mexico had been found. found off Newport, Ore., covering an tire coast of Oregon was found to Discovery Hope Gone. or ammunition, and its endurance for reparation for an insult to the it Secretary area of approximately 260 square abound in flounders, soles, rock cod food was only a question of days. Daniels agreed to permit run of fish on this bank and black cod—a valuable food supply War office advices report that nine American dag. the use of a warship for the purpose, mile*. The its maximum in August and when market conditions warrant its Austrian generals wore taken, more Honolulu After making the heart The Belgian Relief commission is after hearing a statement by Edward reaches September, but apparently is of com exploitation. The report of the in- than 800 officers 60,000 men. preparing to extend aid to 2,600.000 C. Heidrich, Jr., of Peoria, III., rep mercial discovery Sunday that rescuers importance as early as June, 1 vestigation, with charts, will soon be The Russian and general commanding rending resenting the sisal purchaser*, who and probably destitute French people. had I teen working in the wrong spot, some halibut could be Issued and may be obtained on applica the difficulties that had been taken in the latter part of April. As tion to the bureau of fisheries, Wash- the investing army has been decorate«! the United States submarine F-4 waa An American submarine with a crew outlined with St. George’s cross. It is probable that a an immediate result of the Andlngs, I lngton, D. C. locate«l outside the harbor. of 26 men is missing in Honolulu har encountered. A heavy snow storm failed to check definitely gunboat or destroyer now in Southern Pieces of of the bor. and it is feared all are lost. the enthusiastic demonstrations in vessel have the been au|ieratructure waters will be sent to Galveston to brought to the sur A prominent Russian statesman says transport the money. which the civil and military population face. united when the fall of Przemysl was W. C. Parks, civil engineer, has the world must, in the future, seek There are said to be some 260,000 announce«!. The crowiia. floundering started «•onstructlon of an immense new methods of preserving peace. bales of sisal ready for shipment at in ileep drifts which tied up street diving bell, a large cast Iron pipe Progress©, the port, and Merida, the Sir John French says the French traffic, cheereti the officer* and soldiers seven feet in height, fitted with heavy center, of Yucatan. Since troops, regaining confidence, are bet railway United States government pre Hood River — While the growers of ' the Distributors. No objection has who remained to participate in the plate glasa ports. ter man for man than the Germans. the Carranza from blockading Pro other Northwestern fruit districts are been raised against the methods em celebration. A hydro-aeroplane has Itoen made Many American Red Cross nurses vented From the Kazan Cathedral, the ready gress© the chief obstacles in the way instant (light if rcquir«><l. have made their wills and volunteered of moving this supply have been scar prone to regret that Hood River has ployed in marketing the fruit. So far strains of the national anthem swelle«! The for tiredge will shift its for service in the typhus-infected lone city of labor and shipping facilities. seen fit to announce a probable with- ; as I can gather, the fact is that Hood in volume as the crowd gathered, and moorings, and California tt gs will in from the Norht Pacific Fruit River growers feel that with about 70 from other points throughout the city all directions. Should criss-crosa of Serbia. Several ships are now awaiting car drawal their drags Distributors, H. F. Davidson, a mem per cent of their tonnage consisting of mysteriously hidden behind the dense however, and the labor situation on the F-4, a chain net will be German and Austrian families are goes, of the board of directors of the a specialty, namely, Newtown# and curtain of falling snow, music burst catch is improving, according to reports to ber woven around the submerged l>oat and leaving Italy, and one ••inspired" the association, the local Spitzenbergs, they will not need the forth and atldetl to thu general spirit the floating State department. Arrival of the Applegrowers’ crane from Pearl Harbor newspaper declares the time is ripe American of the central agency, and benefits of a large and extensivo sell of enthusiasm. money is expected to result affiliation will attempt a direct lift. for a decisive blow. president of the Fruit Distributors, ing machine to the extent that is nec immediate further improvement. who returned from a meeting of the essary in other districts producing a The moral effect of the victory on Despair supplant«#! hope earlier in An inheritance tax of $313,616 must in Discussing the Mexican situation board of trustees of the latter organiz large number of varities and requiring Russia, it is expected, will be great, the day when two djver* discovered be paid by Mrs. Annie L. Sears, generally. Secretary comment ation, says the central marketing con distribution over a much wider area." awakening hope* that this will be the that chains from the dr«-dgor Califor widow of Richard W. Sears, according ed on conditions with Bryan turning point in the Galician and Car nia, which had l>een fould with some a reiteration of cern will continue to exist. to a court order entered in Lake the declaration that recognition of any "The local ©rgatfiation will be pathian campaign. on the floor of the ocean outside county, Illinois. Mrs. Sears was the faction had not been considered by this This is welcome news to local mar- strengthened," says' Mr. Davidson, The ending of the long siege is con thing Honolulu since Friday, were sole legatee of the $15,000,000 estate government. He spoke hopefully of ketmen, who declare that an ideal sit i “since a few grower* who have been sidered here of great importance. It not attach«#! harbor left by her husband, who died last Sep the plans to insure transportation of uation will exist, since organisation shipping independently have expressed gives Russia control of virtually all of an old anchor. to the lost craft but to tember. preserved in other district*. themselves as anxious to affiliate with Eastern Galicia and releases for serv All the resoursea at the commaml of sisal and announced receipt of an offi will "So be far as I can observe," said thel local agency, provided its entire ice elsewhere the Russian army which naval officer* here had been employe«! cial expression of regret by the Zapata Three hundred striking ’longshore Mr. Davidson, "there is no complaint efforts are expended in advancing the has been besieging the city. men, strikebreakers and sympathizers government for the murder of an among for two days and nights in an effort to the Hood River growers against I interests of Hood River." engaged in a riot on the principal American citizen, John B. McManus, raise this anchor which was supposed streets of Tacoma. Wash., about mid in Mexico City. to be the F-4. Avalanche Buries fifty Advertising and Selling night Thursday. Several shots were Concerning conditions in the Mexi State May Drop Suit is believed to have btjen lost by Miners, Wives and Babes the It battleship fired, but no one was hit. Two men can capital, the secretary said no ser Oregon. Against Livestock Co. of Farm Products were cut with razors. Many were ious complaint had been received by Streams of bubbles seen rising to Britannia Beach, B. C.—Fifty sleep badly beaten. The police used their the department recently. Asked if Salem — While the members of the Oregon Agriculturae College, Cor ing miners were killed and 20 injured the surface of the water and floating night sticks freely and arrested a score matters had progressed far enough in State Land board have decided that vallis — Marketing farm products is when a landslide of snow and earth patches of oil ha«l given encouragement the revolution-torn republic to effect the suit filed by the state against the perhaps the biggest question before broke away from the upper workings to the belief that the dredge's chains of men. change in the policy of the United, the mines here Sunday night and had become lodge*! on the submarine, The Belgian towns of Malines, Ter- any States, Mr. Bryan said that there was Pacific Livestock company to recover the American farmers today, accord of swept through the settlement, engulf which disappears«! Thursday when at monde, Louvain and Liege never will no ing to Dean J. A. Bexell of the school about 26,000 acres of land in Harney change of policy. target practice. ing every building in its path. be rebuilt on their present sites, if the county should be dismissed, announce of commerce at the Oregon Agricul Eighteen of the dead have been re Effurta to raise the object that held undercurrent of discussion among dredge's chain* failed and crews of ment was made that formal action tural college. As long as the middle covered. Rescue parties worked all the prominent Belgians results in action Ex-Secretary Root Warns in the debris, while doctors and men worked untiringly to bring what when peace is made. These Belgians of Coming National Crisis would not be taken until Attorney man can market the products better day nurses who arrived in a special steam waa confidently believtsl to lie the un propose that new cities be built on Brown had made an investiga than the farmer, he will be paid, and er from Vancouver cared for the in dersea craft Into more shallow water. sites adjoining the ruins, which are to Philadelphia—Elihu Root, ex-United General tion of the litigation. The suit was paid well, for his services, but with a jured. Naval officers, expressing the hope be left as "monuments to the suffer States senator from New York and ex- started that life might remain In the bodies of Of the dead several are women and by ex-Attomey General Craw- better organization among farmers, Secretary of war, was the guest of ings of Belgium." some, at least, of the 21 men impris children living in homes in the path of ford, upon instruction of ex-Governor honor at a reception given here by the which is now growing rapidly, a large Raymond Biege and Mabel Pullen, the avalanche. The greatest number oned in the F-4, sought to expedite of the Union League. The West. Circuit Judge Biggs recently part of the proceeds will go into the of of Medford, Ore., the 17-year-old members occurred in the bunkhuuse operations in every way possible. farmers’ pocket. ovemiled a demurrer to the complaint, league’s historic gold medal of honor, children who eloped more than a week the first recipient of which was Presi and unless dismissed the suit will be Dean Bexell showed that the farmer and deaths cookhouse, which were caught in ago, after a strenuous search were dent Lincoln and which had been given tried soon upon its merits. the slide, carrie«! a distance down the Electrified Wire fence is the largest salesman in the world, found at the home of the boy’s grand on 16 occasions, was presented to Lawyers for the company several selling about $10,000,000,000 of go<xls mountain and finally buried under the mother in Central Point. The children Senator Root. and Puddle Kill Three debris. The mine offices, rock- a year. They are very inefficient In days ago asked that the suit be dis had overlooked the formality of a mar Senator Root, in outlining what he missed upon the ground that it was marketing their crops, although they house and tramway terminal store, were also Ixi* Angeles—When Cornelius Valk- riage license, however, so, after con termed the mission of the Republican barred by the statute of limitation. are the most expert traders in the engulfed. hoff went out to his rabbit Sun sulting with County Judge Touville, party “at this crisis of the nation’s They also contended that the company world. When everyone was in bed there day to procure a hare for a hutch birthday they were married and left for Cali history," said: a report like a dynamite explosion, was an innocent purchaser, the land He suggested that the farmers co was he steppe«! into a water puddle fornia. in fact, the survivors declare they first dinner "The party'B'duty is to restore con having been held by several concerns operate to secure good, uniform prod thought as he touche«! latch of the hutch had blown up, gate and fell the Nearly 30 per cent of the personal fidence in business, wipe out the mis prior to the present ownership. ucts in their districts, and then adver and a mass the of magazine dead. An electric cable rock, snow and huge property of the late Field Marshal Earl understanding which has arisen be It was charged that the land orig tise them persistently on the commun trees swept down from near the sum leading to a nearby crematory had Roberts, who died in France last No tween the farmers of the West and inally was obtained through the use of ity plan and thus create a demand for broken during the night and turn«! vember, was in Minnesota, according South and the captialists of the East dummy entrymen. C. B. McConnell, I that particular kind of produce. The mit of the mountain, upon a ledge half its 2200 volt current into the wire down, and carried off from this a fence surrounding the hutch. Mrs. to a copy of the famous soldier's will and North, fight to the last ditch of Burns, has filed on the water rights ad must be "news," the name and way bunkhouse, cookhouse and one or two Valkhoff received by Attorney General Smith, against increased governmental regu in the tract, and has aided the state in label must always mean high class of her husband writhe and houses occupied by the wives fall in a saw of that state. The total personality is lation of business and prevent the its legal fight. Asked by Mr. W«sst, goods, a reputation for quality and and the families contort«*! and rush«-«! the employes. The out to aid him. She heap, given at $375,697. The Minnesota power of the Federal bureaucracy then governor, at one of the meetings, service, the goods must be parked and entire mass of of debris step|ie<! into the shot down puddle as she touched his hand, property, railroad shares and iron hold from becoming stronger." if he would relinquish his water claims graded so that they will arrive on the ward and expended its then and force half a ings, valued at more than $104,000 In the present lack of confidence, he if the state won the suit, Mr. McCon market in the beat possible condition mile farther down near the Britannia fell across his bo«!y dead. .. . will net the state $653 inheritance declared, the nation is facing a crisis nell Baid he would not, but that he and have good appearance. Skinner, who occupied half creek, where some of the mine work of Harris tax. the Valkhoff dwelling, was the next as great as that of the Civil war and would sell them for a low price. ings are situate«!. “will inevitably go to ruin unless the to invatlc the fatal bent Wages Are To Be Cut. Turks are routed by the British business One man was buried in the snow for on giving aid, and he short-circuit, men of the country assert too, died. Big Cannery To Go Up. Hood River — Local apple growers when they made a second charge on themselves, hours, only his hand appearing as they did when they The Dalles — After several months will endeavor to cut the cost in pro several of the Valkhoff'* child the Suez canal. above the surface. He was rescue«! ren, The who shrieks elected McKinley in 1896 and in were uncomprehending wit devoted to inspecting the various fruit duction of apples this year by making unhurt, although nearly frozen. A sharp campaign for members by 1900.” ______________ nesses of the tragedy, A. T. growing sections of the Pacific North , substantial decreases in the labor American capital is largely interest Slaten, a policeman. attracted the Portland Chamber of Commerce Slaten entered ed in the Britannia mines, which pro the back yard just as the girls sped resulted in adding 1647 in one day. west, Libby, McNeil & Libby have de 1 scale. The orchardists of the Pine duce lurks Are Routed by copper and silver in extensive toward the deadly water puddle, and cided to erect their new plant in The Italy is fortifying the Islands of the I Grove district, one of the heaviest British Near Suez City quantities. Dalles. shatching their hair braids he jerked White Sea with heavy guns and it ¡ bearing districts in the valley, have them back to safety. In doing so, This was announced officially by rep made said steamers are taking munitions of London—A statement was given out resentatives plans for the organization of all however, he came into contact with of the company. Con growers in the district, in order that Whole Serbian Populace by the official press bureau here telling war there. struction will be started within a few the charged fence wire, and was of a defeat inflicted on a Turkish force scale may be maintained. Seriously Plague Infected Fifty-six bodies have been recovered operating against the Egyptian town days and will be rushed so that the the It wage thrown 20 feet. is proposed that hereafter not from the avalanche at the Britannia of Suez. The statement says: plant will be ready to handle the London—"Just as it took fire to stop more than $1.75 or $1 and board will mine in British Columbia. No hope "On the 22d at dawn one of our cherry crop in this section in June. great plague in Iondon, so fires More paid for the ordinary day’s work in the of recovering many others is enter patrols discovered a party of the en A large force will be employed on be are needed to clear Serbia of typhus. Italy Awaiting the orchard. Heretofore this has usu tained. favorable Opportunity emy near El Kubri Post, opposite the plant and 300 persons will be re ally cost $2.60 a day. Infected houses and the clothing of the quired in the factory. A steady mar "While the matter of packing will people must be burned, as the disease Rome -Italian intervention has been Many passengers and a crew of 65 Suez. Shots were exchanged. were rescued from the sinking steamer "Aeroplanes estimated the numbsr ket at home is assured for the fruit- ' be left with the shipping organiza is carried by vermin, which is omni postponed again. Despite the failure Denver in mid-ocean, through the aid at about 1000, composed of infantry, raisers of this section. An entire tions, who should name the price, the present," said Sir Thomas Lipton in a of Prince von Huelow'a negotiations to block bounded by Second, Court and I packer should receive and his respon statement to the Associated Press, in conclude a permanent agreement be artillery and a few cavalry. of the wireless. Washington streets and the Columbia sibilities, we suggested that not more which he recounted the appalling con tween Austria and Italy, there is posi “The guns at El Kubri opened fire Riots in Constantinople are reported and inflicted casualties, whereupon the river has been selected as the site for than 3 cents a box be paid, where the ditions in Serbia, where he spent a tive evidence that this country will untre and the city is calm. The allied enemy retired and formed a camp the plant, which will cost $50,000. time in personal investi not enter the war until toward the end packer follows a grading machine," considerable fleet is proceeding slowly up the Dar eight miles east of the Suez canal. Hundreds of tons of pears, cherries gations. April, and possibly not so early as says C. A. Reed, who attended the danelles to the Turkish seat of gov “Early on the morning of the 23d, a and apricots will be purchased every Pine Grove meeting. "Where women "I met on the country roads the of that. ernment. force under General Sir G. Younghus- year, and it is probable that large the work of men they are to receive sick, too weak to crawl to a hospital. It must not be understood that there The German emperor has ordered the band attacked and routed the enemy, quantities of berries and vegetables do Bullock carts were gathering them up. has been any change in Italy's atti equal pay.” will be taken also. removal to Berlin of valuable paint who is now in full retreat. Often a woman and children were lead tude, except in putting off interven Mr. Reed declares that local orchard ings and tapestries from his mountain "A prisoner says this this force ing bullocks, the husband and father In tion until a date when it is expected ists have made poor arrangements for castle known as the Leatkoenigsberg, came direct from Bir el Saba, having the cart raving with fever. Scarcely the Dardanelles New Plant To Be Built. will have been forced handling their labor. on the Alsatian side of the Vosges taken 12 days en route, and that Gen Roseburg — Work on the Roseburg "We have few bunkhouses," he enough people remain unstricken to and Constantinople possibly mountains. French aviators recently eral von Traumer and three other Ger Sand & Gravel company’s plant near said, "and yet those growers who have dig graves for the dead, which lie ex with the co-operation occupied, of Bulgaria, and flew over the imperial summer resi man officers were with it." posed in the cemeteries. when the Russians will have passed erected structures to house their pick Shady Point will begin Monday, ac dence, which fmormerly belonged to a the Carpathinna and invade«! Hungary. cording to O. T. Larson, of Portland, ers and fruit thinner# say that the king of France. Airman Attacks Steamer. 60-Day Term Tears Late. who arrived here to supervise the con- work has certainly been well worth Governor Spry of Utah has vetoed Southampton—The British steamer stiuction work. The plant will cost while. It gives the laborers a place Chicago—Edward Gard, an ex-«letec- Big Coast Liner Delayed. the Shields initiaive and referendum Pandion, which arrived here recently approximately $25,000. The gravel to dry their wet clothing after a rain, tive, fought four years and lost 19 San Francisco — Due to the serious bill. He gives as his reasons that the from Rotterdam, reports that in the bars to be developed have, according a place to get warm, and to engage in court decisions trying to avert a 60- trouble with the’turbines of the liner initiative is unnecessary at this time, to Mr. Larson, an almost inexhausti a sort of social intercourse.” of the North Hinder lightship, ble jail sentence for contempt of Great Northern, she will not steam as the people of the state may petition vicinity supply of material, and with their While individual growers will be ex day court. he voluntarily began from this port for Flavel, Or., as she was twice attacked by a German the legislature if they wish; that the aeroplane. Seven bombs were dropped development and the consequent reduc pected to make arrangements with serving Tuesday the sentence, which had been scheduled, Wednesday, and it is permanent laborers as they see fit, all tion of the price of gravel he believes expense of its operation will be dis by aircraft, some of which fell the officials of Douglas and other near are asked not to pay more than $45 a affirmed by the Supreme court of the possible that next she will not resume her proportionate to the benefits to be de close the to the Pandion, but the steamer by counties will see the economy of month for new, inexperienced men, to United States. schedule until April although there rived and that the constitutionality of escaped damage. Gard got into trouble by arrest is hope of getting her 8, away 4. whom houses are furnished. the measure is questionable. more durable roads. ing a man who had just been freed The Great Northern, making April Owing to this incident the Zeeland remark owners of the steamer, here on a writ of habeas corpus. able time, had to turn back to port at The Prussian diet has given permis company, Marshfield Cuts Expense. Sitting Hen Has Journey. after will not transport British, Bel The judge who freed the man con noon when she was off Point sion to English subjects residing in gium, Marshfield—Several Coo# county cit sidered the detective’s action an Reyes, Saturday and a thorough examination Germany to appear as plaintiffs in tary age. French or Russian men of mili Hood River — Mrs. A. T. Boyntop, who recently removed from near Tilla ies find themselves'obliged to adopt a affront. developed that it will take some time cases before the court. to put the machinery in shape. mook to the community lying between retrenchment policy immediately, Sir Thomas Lipton declares that the Railroad Head Sentenced. Texas Fruit Hard Hit. largely because there will be no saloon this city and Mosier, has an old Rhode only hope of eliminating the plague in Marshall, Tex.—With the thermom Island Red hen which arrived at her revenue in 1916. Marshfield led off Jerseyville, III. — Edgar M. Davis, Three Cargoes Iron Ore Sunk. Serbia is by fire, such as was done in eter as low as 22 degrees this week, new home, sitting on a nestful of eggs and curtailed fixed expenses about president of the Alton, Jacksonville & Stockholm—The loss in the Baltic of London many years ago. fruitgrowers say the Harrison county after having stayed on them while on $2500 yearly by withdrawing a monthly Peoria Electric railroad, was sentenced three German cruisers, the Ravaria, "Seventeen Belgians, most of whom fruit crop is ruined and the yield in the a train, in a room at Portland and on a support of $160 for the Coos Bay Con Tuesday to an indeterminate term of the Germania, and the Koenigsberg, were young peasants, were shot at main Texas belt this year will be way boat. The hen had been set on 18 eggs cert Band and doing away with one one to 14 years in the Illinois state all laden with iron ore, is announced In daybreak Wednesday in the Ghent below normal. A leading orchard com two weeks before the family moved. man on the street-cleaning force. prison at Chester. the Social Demokraten. The Ravaria barracks. They were found guilty by pany estimates the loss in this county The hen and eggs were placed in a Mayor Topping, of Bandon, has issued He had been convicted of appropri went down March 15 with her entire a German court-martial of espionage alone will total more than $1,000,000. nest in a basket and Mrs. Boynton notice of a meeting of the Bandon ating $49,000 from the property of his crew. The cause of her sinking is not in the interest of the allies," says Repeated failutes have disheartened carried them. Fourteen of the eggs counicl to decide where the city can mother-in-law, for whom he was revealed. No details of the destruc most easily bring about a saving. growers. tion of the other vessels are given. dispatch. trustee. ; hatched a few days ago. Hood River Fruit Agency Will Not Quit Distributors b