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
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