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NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT W1 Seattle Car M en Strike; R iot s and Disorder Ensue Seattle, Wash.— A »trike of street railway employe« working on the Se attle line« of the Puget Sound Trac tion, Light and Power company wa« Resume o f W orld’s Important Events Told in Brief. called by a maaa meeting of all labor union« held by the Central labor coun cil Wednesday. The vote to call out the carmen was taken at 9 o ’clock, and within a few minute* committees were out appealing to the motoriuen and conductors to leave their posts and join the union. The strike was called to compel recognition of the union. Service on lines operated by the company was seriously interrupted, and during the first two hours was completely disorganised. On several downtown streets deserted cars block od traffic until inspectors and shop em ployes appeared to remove them to the barns. Except for these delays no line was completely tied up, although blockades occurred frequently when crowds which filled the streets at the principal junc tion points cut trolley ropes, broke windows and endeavored to take off crews who refused to strike. In a few intsances trolley wires were broken and fell sputtering to the street but no one was injured, and the company ickf t fe damage' Lord Kitchener, of England, ha« prohibited the use of liquor in his household during the war. Secretary Bryan has ordered a case of Oregon loganberry juice for table use instead o f grape juice Vitlla and Zapata have agreed to the neutrality o f Mexico City, but the consent of Carranxa is lacking. A rate expert declares some o f the railroads asking for rate increases are already accumulating a surplus. The United States begins an investi gation into the death of an American on a torpedoed British liner. Ten thousand men returned to work in the steel mills and factories of Chi cago Heights, a suburb of Chicago. Test Cooking Qualities of Various Kinds of Apples Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis - Knowledge o f the cooking val ue o f standard varieties of apples on the part of housewives and other per sons that prepare this fruit for table use has long been considered by Pro fessor C. I. Lewis, chief of the divis ion o f horticulture at the college, as one o f the steps to a more satisfactory market system. "Buyers of apples for home use should learn the qualities of the leading Oregon varieties and than call by name for the variety they w ant," Professor Lewis said several years ago. And he has kept on saying it until the truth of the proposition has been generally recognised and is now beginning to be acted upon in a systematic attempt to cultivate a more intelligent and stable demand for good apples. In carrying out this policy o f learn ing the fruit and its qualities, a series o f experiments to determine the cook ing qualities o f 71 varieties o f apples grown in Oregon the Home economics department of the college has made and reported an exhaustive test. The teat includes the cooking qualities of these varieties used as sauce, pies, dumplings, marmalade and jelly. Tl)e fruit was judged on the basis o f color, flavor and texture o f sauce, flavor, way cooked, and tenderness of pies and dumplings, and flavor, texture, color, clearness and surface o f jells. In sauce and marmalade 50 points were allowed ' for flavor and 26 each for texture and color. For pies and dumplings, 66 points were given for perfect flavor 20 for way cooked and 16 for tender ness. In jells texture and flavor were given 36 points each for perfect score with 16 for color, 10 for clearness and 6 for surface. Judging was done by a number of college experts who were unaware o the varieties as they judged them, so that no prejuuice entered into their verdict. By this means satisfactory knowl edge o f the qualities of all varieties tested was reached, and this informa tion is now offered the people of Ore gon who are Interested in this subject in a bulletin just prepared. The bul letin should not only prove to be a rell able guide in the purchase of apples for home cooking, but it will also have considerable value for the dealers and growers. Copies may be had on appli cation to the college. In addition to the score awarded to each variety in the uses heretofore mentioned, the bulletin furnishes In formation on the seasonal value of the varieties, on the relative value of some of the varieties for each of the purposes named, and the correlation of values for sauce and for jelly pur poses. Much other useful information is also contained In the bulletin, such as giving recipes for crusts, cooking directions, amount o f sweetening and suitable utensils. Two Ships Torpedoed; 150 Lives A re Lost London About 16U lives wore lost in the sinking by German submarines of the African liner Kalaba and the British steamer Aguila, bound from Liverpool for Lisbon. The Kalaba was torpedoed in Ht. George's Channel Sunday afternoon. The vessel carried a crew of 90 and about 160 |tassengors, and o f this total only 140 were rescued. Of those res cued eight died later from exposure. The Aguila had a crew o f 42 and three passengers, and of these 23 of the crew and all the passengers were lost. In both cases, on sighting the sub marine, th* captain tried to escape by putting on all speed possible, but the under-water craft overtook the steam ers, showing that Germany now has some of her most modern submarines engaged In the blockade operations against England. The captain o f the Falaba, who was one o f those lost, was given flve min utes to get his passengers and crew In to the boats, but, according to the sur vivors, before this was possible a tor pedo was fired, striking the engine- room and causing a terrible explosion. Many persons were killed and the steamer sank in ten minutes. Trawlers which happened to be in the vicinity rescued most o f those who were saved; others got away in the boats, which were ready for launching and which were quicklv lowered when the order was given to abandon the ship. Those who were still on board the steamer when the explosion occurred were thrown into the sea and It took the fishermen an hour or more to pick up the persons in the water who man aged to keep themselves afloat. The Aguila as attacked off the Pem brokeshire coast. The sumbarine, which in this case was the U-2H, opened Are with her guns, shells from hich killed a woman passenger, the chief engineer and two o f the crew. Even after the crew had commenced to lower the boats, according to the story o f the survivors, the Germans kept up their Are, and some of the boats were riddled with bullets. The captain of the trawler Otlllie, whom the commander o f the submarine told o f the sinking of the Aguila, went to the rescue snd picked up the three boats containing 19 of the crew. The fourth boat, which contained the other members of the crew, could not be found, and it is believed that it had foundered. On their arrival at Fish guard, several of the crew wore band ages, having been wounded by the fire from the submarine. Another Dutch steamer, the Amstel, o f 496 tons, has been blown up by mine off Flamborough Head, but her crew was rescued. An anarchist on trial for placing bombs in a New York church declared that a detective forced him to do bam Atkinson, international organ work and directed it. ! iter o f the Amalgamated association A man arrested for vagrancy in San of Street & Electric Railway Em Francisco had $5000 in bills in his ployes of America, and W. B. Fits pocket and proved himself to be the gerald, chairman o f the executive board of that organization, directed owner of buildings worth $200,000. the movement They said that 100 Coast artillery companies at Fort carmen had left their posts in response Winfield Scott, San Francisco, made to the call and that they had SCO mem from 90 to 100 per cent at ranges of bers who have applications on file 7000 yards, approximately four miles. a result o f their campaign. They said A writer in the London Daily Mail this demonstration was only the be declares that dogs of the German dasc- ginning o f the strike and that within hund variety are being treated shame a few days the tie-up would be com fully in England, out of pure prejudice. plete. They said the only question at Salem— Definite action was taken by Hansett, who has had experience in The British steamship Seven Seas issue was the right to organise. the State board of control in starting flaxgrowing in Ireland, to give the A. L. Kempster, general manager and the French steamship Emma were the flax industry in Oregon in compli farmers certain instructions. He will torpedoed by German submarines off of the company, disputed the union ance with an act passed at the recent be paid only when actually at work or Beachy Head, in the English Channel, officials concerning the result of the session o f the legislature by a decision during the flax season and his salary strike call. Thursday. to offer growers in this county $16 a probably will be $160 a month. During the night the police .were The bill authorizing the state to en A commander o f a German subma kept busy preventing attacks on the ton for Btraw delivered at the State courage the growing o f flax, carrying rine says the service is improving rap cars, which soon were without passen penitentiary. This is from $3 to $4 a ton more an appropriation o f $60,000 and speci idly with experience and practice, and gers. Many arrests were made on the ring around England is becoming charges of disorderly conduct. None than the market price in other states, fies that the money may be used only and was offered as an inducement to for giving employment to the convicts tighter every day. were streetcar men. Although several farmers to grow flax. * Governor Withycombe said he wai Warships of the allies keep up an men were bruised or slightly cut dur Governor Withycombe said he was anxious that farms near the prison be ing fights around the cars, no one was incessant bombardment of the Dar confident that three tons could be planted to flax, so the convicts could danelles, to prevent the Turks from reported seriously injured. grown tc the acre and he believed the work them and be returned to the in Supporters o f the strike movement repairing their damaged forts and to price offered would make it one o f the stitution at night. It is planned that advanced the argument that with j it protect minesweepers. state's most profitable crops. The they do all the work, even to the har neys available to handle traffic the board w ill furnish the seed to the vesting of the crop, but the growers The Russky Slovoe, of Petrograd, public would not be inconvenienced. farmers for $3^a bushel, the money to roust deliver the straw at the prison. prints a note intimating that the Rus be paid to the state when the straw is Because o f the fact that it was sian government has been approached delivered. new industry Governor Withycombe through neutral channels with over fo u r Prominent Pioneers was virtually decided to employ thought expert men should be employed tures from Austria for a separate of Seattle Die in River an It expert in the manufacture o f flax to to assist in planting, cultivating and peace without Germany’s knowledge. Seattle, Wash.— Four persons, mem install the retting machinery at the retting and and he believed the board An Austrian steamer loaded with bers o f prominent Seattle familes, prison and superintend the construc should obtain such help as soon as pos arms and ammunition, on its way from were drowned in the Duwamish river tion of the buildings necessary. Gov sible. He said he had been informed Semi in to Panosova, both ports on the late Tuesday when an automobile be ernor Withycombe Baid he believed the machinery and buildings necessary Special Train Carries Danube river, struck a mine in the longing to Mrs. Morgan J. Carkeek John C. Cady, of Albany, would be a would not be expensive. U. S. Troops to Border It has nev river and was blown up. Serbian ar ran off the bridge at Allentown, on good man for the place. San Antonio, Texas— Three batteries Mr. Cady er been the intention o f the board to tillery completed the destruction of the the Tacoma road, 10 miles south of recently came to Oregon from Minne use all the appropriation in the flax in of the Third Field Artillery, including ship and cargo. Seattle. sota, where he was engaged in the flax dustry and if it does not furnish em 460 men ami 12 guns, in command of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Proscb, business. It was decided to defer the ployment for all convicts other means Colonel George W. Vandeusen, at Fort German prisoners of war in French Miss Margaret Lenora Denny and Mrs. appointment until all the members of for doing so will be devised. The Sam Houston, were entrained Tuesday camps receive the same rations their French guards, with the excep Harriet Foster Beecher, an artist, the board could confer with him. It board plans growing flax on several of for Brownsville and were ordered rushed to the border by a special train. A ll were members of was decided virtually to employ Emil the state farms. tion of a little less meat, and are in were killed. Major General Frederick Funston good spirits and well satisfied with prominent pioneer families. The party, a delegation from the Selling Oregon Made their treatment. They all believe some state aid. A committee o f five departed also upon receipt o f advices Seattle Historical society, was going Germany is bound to win. was appointed to co-operate with the from Brownsville after ordering out Clay Wares Advised Commercial He said that the in to Tacoma to inspect the exhibit of the club and the county court the artillery. The French government is still buy State Historical society there. fantry at Texas City would not be sent in an effort to procure assistance from Oregon Agricultural College, Cor ing horses in Eastern Oregon. to the border for the present, but The chauffeur jumped clear as the vallis— There are thirty manufacturers the State highway commission, and A ll efforts to raise the submarine automobile fell and swam safely to subscriptions to the funds available would be held in readiness. General Funston, commanding the F-4, in the Honolulu harbor have shore. Mrs. Carkeek also succeeded of brick and other clay wares in Ore for the improvement. in getting clear of the wreckage and gon at the present time, according to failed. Incidentally the membership o f the department of the South, will take charge of the situation at Brownsville took refuge on top o f the car, where Dean J. A. Bexell, of the Oregon A g Commercial club was increased 100. Salem, Ore., has a $40,000 fire and he has discretionary powers to act she stood waist deep in the water until ricultural College School o f Commerce, which destroys a large fruit plant and who advocates an organization of the in the event firing into Brownsville by rescued. Snow In Cascades Is I a > w . its contents. Thomas W. Prosch was 65 years old, manufacturers for the purpose o f get- Albany— That there is little danger either Mexican force continues. He Four persons drown at Seattle when son of Charles Prosch, who founded ing their Oregon-made wares more o f floods in the Willamette valley this served formal notice on the command an automobile skids and runs into the the Puget Sound Herald at Steilacoom prominently before the public and into year ia indicated by the fact that there ers o f the two forces that they would Duwamish river. in 1858. He bought the Seattle In the markets by means o f advertising is less snow in the Cascade mountains be held personally responsible for shots telligencer in 1879, the paper being and co-operative effort. The combined now than at this season for many fired into the Texas town, and that It is rumored that the Germans en merged two years later with the Se output of the industries is about $730,- years. What snow fell last winter has American troops would be prepared to trenched near Brussels will abandon attle Post. Mr. Prosch was editor of 000 annually, and the expenditures been going out early and also gradual enforce the order. their lines on account of the fall of An attempt is being made to sur the Post-Intelligencer for some years average about $1500 for each $50,000 ly. Unless there should come an un Przemysl. and was the principal authority on of output. A part of this sum will be usually cold period before summer, in round and attack the Villa forces un He was post expended in promoting a demand for which snow should fall in the moun der General Jose Rodrigues, in camp Part of the U. S. fleet that will pass Washington pioneer. through the Panama canal at its form master o f Seattle under President the clay goods, especially drainage tains, there is no likelihood whatever at Las Ruias, by Carranza troops ap tiles. al dedication, will visit Portland as Grant. of high water in the Willamette and proaching in two columns from differ In the clay industries as in most oth its tributaries this spring. Mrs. V irginia McCarver Prosch was well as other Pacific Coast harbors. A heavy ent directions, according to a message a daughter o f General Morton M. Mc ers the attention given to production warm rain this time o f the year usual from Matamoros, Mexico. One body of about 800 troops with Governor Hunt, o f Arizona, has de Carver, founder of the city of Tacoma. is disproportionate to that given to ly makes a flood probable, but there is cided that he was becoming too stout She was 64 years old. 16 cannon was said to be moving from creating and enlarging the demand. said to be no danger this year. the south and another column under and forthwith decided on outdoor exer Margaret Lenora Denny was the Right quality o f prodcut that will General Ildefonso Castro, with 170u cise— mowing the lawns of the capitol daughter o f Arthur A. Denny, who maintain a permanent demand together Cows Supplant Babies. grounds every day. The chosen hour founded Seattle in 1851. Miss Denny with due advertising and publicity, men, was reported approaching from Eugene, Or.— Babies must give way Nuevo Laredo and expecting to reach is noon, indicating that luncheon has was one o f the last survivors o f the will, thinks Mr. Bexell, bring success to cows at the 1916 Lane County Fair. Las Rnstas before daybreak Wednes been taken off the governor’s schedule schoonerload of people that landed at in this business. of meals. * ______________ _ Seattle in November o f that year. She The fair board has abolished the eu day. inherited a great fortune from her JIard-surfacing of County genics department of the county fair A. L. Flynn, o f Cottage Grove. Ore., Germans Active in Baltic. father. She was 70 years old. and substituted additional prizes for is a puzzle to medical science. He has Highway Is Planned the dairy department. London—German ngval activity has Mrs. Harriet Foster Beecher was lived for months with a pulse beat of "Lan e county is a dairy county, and been resumed in the Baltic Sea and the w ife o f Captain Herbert R. Forest Grove — The Forest Grove 30 a minute, that would mean certain Beecher, son of the late Henry Ward commercial club held another luncheon will become more so within the next the Gulf of Bothnia, with the inten death to normal persons. During Mr. Beecher, the famous Brooklyn clergy Thursday, at which there were present few years,” said a member o f the fair tion o f carrying out a blockade cam Flynn’s illness his pulse beat was as man. Mrs. Beecher was well known 100 business men of the community board. "T h e board aims to do all pos paign against the trade of Finland low as 13 a minute, remaining that as a portriat painter and musician. She and farmers living in the vicinity. The sible to encourage the production of and .Sweden, according to a Copen way for several days and missing was 55 years old. subject for discussion was "B etter better cattle. We thought it better hagen dispatch to the Daily News. often. Roads for Washington County.” D. to put the money into stock than into A German fleet has been observe«! $1500 Educator Tutors One. At a British cabinet meeting re B. Reasoner, judge o f the county babies.” north o f thé Aland islands. Several cently there was every reason to be Madison, W is.— There is an average court, and Rodell Matteson, county Danish and Swedish vessels are re Need N o t Take Husband's Name. ported to have been halted by German lieve that it considereid the liquor ques of one professor or instructor to each commissioner, were guests. tion, and the stampnig out of the evil, Salem— Miss Marian Sheldon o f The submarines, but, so far as known, only The project which is being pushed which is now one of the greatest prob seven students in the University of by the Commercial club of Forest Dalles need not take her husband's one was fired on and she escaped un Wisconsin, according to the report of lems of the nation. There Btill is Grove and the farmers of Gales Creek name if she decides to marry, is the harmed. much talk of prohibition, but it is not the state university survey, compiled and Thatcher vicinity is hard-surfacing opionin of the attorney general given generally believed that this course will by Dr. William H. Allen, o f New o f the main thoroughfare leading from in response to the question o f the per Shot “ S tr a y ," Says Britain. / be adopted, although it is conceded York. The report charges extrava Gales Creek and Thatcher neighbor plexed woman, asking i f there was Washington, D. C.— American Con that some step of a drastic and uni gance and criticises the regents as un hoods into Forest Grove, and the any law against a woman retaining sul Green at Hamilton, Bermuda, able to learn from the faculty the versal character will Boon be taken. county court is co-operating to obtain her maiden name after marriage. The cabled the State department that the needs of the institution. In many attorney general has notified Miss According to an opinion of Oregon’s cases, the report asserts, there are Sheldon that there is nothing to hinder British authorities had Informed him, Bandon Debaters Win. attorney general any married woman classes of less than 10 students. A her from retaining her name instead ‘ it was a stray shot,” that hit George Eugene — The Bandon High School may hold property in her maiden name. case is alleged o f a class of one having of taking that o f her husband in case B. Montgomery, o f Buffalo, N. Y., who recently was shot in the foot and as its instructor a $1500 educator. debating team, taking the affirmative of her marriage if she so desires. Streetcar operators in Seattle have seriously woulded white sailing near a on the government ownership o f rail gone on strike and the city traffic is camp o f German prisoners o f war in fren ch Buy Union Horse». roads, defeated Medford High School Grain field s In Good Condition. much impaired as the result The Union, Or.— A buyer for the French in Eugene, two to one. The Bandon Union— Heavy rains in the valley the Bermudas. The consul said a full strikers declare the jitneys will care army has been here for several days team now must debate Salem High and snow in the nearby mountains report was being forwarded by mall. for the public until their terms are contracting for all available heavy School. The winner then will meet have brought the moisture to about the met by the car company. Italy and Germany Trade. horses. The prices ranged from $125 the Eastern Oregon champions for the usual condition for this season o f the Unusually cold weather for this sea to $175 a head. Some farmers are state title. The affirmative contended year. Cloudy skies and south winds London— A dispatch to the Morning son of the year prevails throughout selling their older work teams and that government ownership is neces promise more rain. The ground has Post from Berne says Germany has Pennsylvania. There was snow in some breaking in colts to finish seeding and sary for economic development. The been too wet for cultivating and seed agreed to send coal to Italy. Food sections and in the mountain regions do their summer’s work. The suply negative declared it financially impos ing is delayed. Most o f the spring stuffs and certain other products are the thermometer registered as low as of available animals is diminishing sible, since the valuation of American seeding is in and grain Is in good con to be received in return, says the dis 6 degrees above zero. notably. dition. railroads is $16,000,000,000. patch. j Flax-Growing Industry to Be Aided by State Boara ALLOTS BIG SUM FOR NORTHWEST $2,926,175 for Improvement of Oregon and Washington. Other Projects Are Designated, but finishing Touches on Celilo Canal Deterred. Washington, D. C.— One million flve hundred thousand dollars has been al lotted by th* secretary of war to con tinue work on the north jetty at the mouth of the Columbia river during the 16 montha ending June 30, 1916. This Is within $260,000 of the amount that would have been appro priated had the rivers and harbors bill been passed as it was repuorted to the senate and $260,000 greater than the amount proposed to be appropriated by the houae. Furthermore, this allot ment ia the largest made out of the $30,000,000 lump appropriation, ex cept the allutmenta for the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The total amount allotted by Secre tary Garrison for Oregon and Wash ington is $2,926,176, or within $646,- 600 o f the amount carried by the rivers and harbors bill when It failed. Home Oregon projects will receive the same amount provided by the bill, and in all instances th« amount allotte«! to these projects is higher prop«irtlonately than the average for the entire country. The only important project for which no allotment was made and for which an appropriation was proposed ia the Celllo canal, and this was left out be cause the $80,000 first recommended was for flnslhlng toucher, which can be put on later. Other allotments for Northwest wa terways are as follows: Columbia am) Willamette, below Portland, $460,000; Coquille river, $76,000; Coo* bay, $70,000; Coos river, $3000; Siuslaw river, $117,600; Yatpiina river. $3000; Nehalem bay, $116,176; Snake river, $20,000; Upper Columbia river, Celllo Falls to mouth of Snake river, $37,- 000; Willamette and Yamhill rivers, above Portland, $26,000; Cowlitz and I« w is rivers, $16,000; Clatakanie river, $1000; Gray's harbor and bar, $460,000; waterway connecting Port Townsend Hay and Oak bay, $16,000; waterway connecting Puget Sound and Lakes Union and Washington, $17,- 000 . For other work on the Pacific Coast, allotments were made as follows; I x » Angeles, $76,000; San Franciaco, $12,000; Oakland, Cal., $80,000; San Pablo bay, $16,000; Humboldt bar and bay, $300,000; Petaluma creek and Napa river, $160,000. The Mississippi river and its tribu taries receive the largest allotment of all. The Hudson receives $1,600,000 in all. General allotments for the country at large include: Hudson river, $877,780. in addition to which there was appropriated by separate acts $622,220, making the total for the Hudson $1,600,000; Del aware river from Philadelphia to the sea, $1.000,000; Savannah. Ga., $283,- 000; Jacksonville, Fla., to the ocean, $360,000; Southwest Pass, Mississippi river, $400,000; channel work at Gal veston. Port Bolivar and Texas City, $190,000, Houston ship channel, $200,000; inland waterway on coast o f Texaa, $625,000; Mississippi river be- tween mouths o f Ohio and Missouri rivers, $300,000; mouth of Missouri to Minneapolis, $1,066,000; Missouri river, Ksnsaa City to mouth, $1,000,- 000; Ohio river, open channel work, $310,000; locks and dams, $3,000,000; Chicago harbor and rivers, $660,000; St. Mary’s river, Mich., $1,006,000. Threat Stirs British. I,ondon— In an editorial on Ger many’s threat of reprisal against Bri tish officers held prisoners in Germany if the prisoners o f submarine boats held in England receive treatment different from other war prisoners, the Daily Chronicle says: " I t is time to realize the pass to which things are leading. A t the end o f the war, the allies will have two alternatives: They can allow the practice o f ribb- marines sinking merchantmen to be come usage recognized by internation al law, or they can, after trial, hang the German officers responsible for in itiating it, including, if his responsi bility Is shown, Admiral von Tirpitz (the German minister of Marine). Wo do not at present see any third al ternative.” Rout Attributed to Spy. Petrograd — Sensational disclosures explaining the recent disastrous rout of the Russian Tenth army corps in the Mazurian lakes fighting were hinted at in official circles, following the official announcement that Colonel Miasoyedoff had been proved to be a German spy and was hanged after a trial by court martial. Several of Miasoyedoff’s al leged accomplicea are in custody. A thorough Investigation Is being made of their cases and it ia believed possi ble the world may soon know why an entire Rusaian army corps was lost. Vessel Dives 200 feet. Quincy, Mass.— The new submarine L -l, built here for the United States navy, returned Monday after a success ful trial trip to Cape Cod bay. The boat, one o f a group o f four required by contract to submerge to a depth of 200 feet, and remain under water at rest for 48 hours, settled to the re quired depth, and, according to those aboard, showed no effects from the strain of water pressure. The 48 hours’ test will be made later.