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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1918)
Pace 0 CROOK COUNTY JOlUXAb' NOVKMMCR 7. IOI 343 PERISH WHEN STEAMEjUSWRECKED Princess Sophia, With All on Board, Lost in Alaskan Waters. J! 1 1 &5S No Mystery in Meat Some things are so simple that they have to be explained again and again. When things are obvious, people keep looking for mysteries behind them. So it is with the packing bus iness. The mere size of Swift & Company confuses many. Because their imaginations are not geared up to scale, they be lieve there must be magic in it somewhere some weird power. Swift & Company is just like any other manufacturing business run by human beings like yourself; it takes in raw material on the one hand and turns out a finished product on the other. Swift & Company keeps down the "spread," or the expense absorbed be tween raw and finished material, to as low a figure as possible. (If it didn't it would be put out of business by others who do.) . How much Swift & Company pays for the raw material, and how much it gets for the finished product, depends upon conditions which Swift & Company does not control. It depends entirely upon how much people want the finished product, and how much raw material there is avail able to make it from. ; The profits of Swift & Company amount to less than one cent per pound on all meats and by-products less than one-fourth of a cent on beef. Keep Your Pledge Make Good for Our Fighting Men BUT WAR . SAYINGS STAMPS Swift & Company, U.S. A. You Carry the Only Key Safe Deposit Boxes in our Fire-Proof and Burguiar-Proof Vault may be rented by the year for a nominal sum. Absolute protection for your valuable papers and jewels Ask Us CROOK COUNTY BANK! PRINEVILLE, OREGON A Classified Ad Brings Quick Results Victory Flour v and "Crescent" , , means victory In the kitchen also. '', 11 i You'll have success with your cakes if you use u CRESCENT Baking Powder . to raise the dough Grocers Sell it 25c lb. Seattle, Wash. Three hundred and forty-three persona, most ot them out bound Alaskans and residents of the Yukon territory, lost their Uvea when the Canadian Steamship company's passenger steamer Princess Sophia was picked up by storming winds and waters, dragged across Vanderblfl reef and dropped te the bottom of Lynn canal, an arm of the inside pas sage not far south of 8kag way, Alaska. "No survivors," read a wireless from Juneau, Alaska, telling ot the loss. The loss ot lite Is ths largest in volved in any ot the many marine dis asters ot the north Pactfte and the greatest number ot persons that ever perished In any shipwreck oft the Alaskan coast The vessel went te her doom in a storm, carrying with her all those aboard, both passengers and crew. According to reports received by local Canadian Pacific officials, there were 268 passengers and T5 members of the crew. Those perishing undoubtedly Include a number of Alaska operators of prom inence especially from Fairbanks. Ruby, Idltarod and other lower Yukon districts; also presumably a large num ber of Klondike operators and resi dents ot Dawson and other towni along the Canadian Yukon. GERMANY AWAITS ARMISTICE TERMS Copenhagen. Germany's answer to President Wilson's latest communica tion says: "The German government has taken cognizance of the answer ot the presi dent of the United States. The presi dent is aware of the far-reaching changes which have been carried out and are being carried out in the Ger man constitutional structure, and that peace negotiations sre being conduct ed by a people's government in whose hands rests, both actually and consti tutionally, the power to make the de ciding conclusions. "The military powers are also sub ject to it "The German government now awaits proposals for an armistice, which shall be the first step toward a just peace, as, the president has de scribed it in his proclamation. . (Signed) "SOLF." AMERICAN MISSION ARRIVES Problems Facing Allied Diplomats Are Called Complex by Col. House. Paris. The American delegation has arrived in Paris to attend the In terallied diplomatic council which opened its sessions Tuesday In Ver sailles. The party included Colonel E. M. House, Admiral Benson, Frank Cobb otNew York, Joseph G. Grew of the state department and Benson's aids, Commander Carter and Lieutenant Commander Russell. "We are now confronted with dif ferent and more complex problems than we considered 11 months ago," said Colonel House. "I feel confident they will be met with the high cour age and wisdom that comes from lofty motives and unselfish hearts." Llebknecht Gets Ovation. Paris. An enormous crowd assem bled before the Reichstag building in Berlin, calling for the abdication of Emperor William, and the formation of a republic, according to a special dispatch from Zurich to L'lnforma tlon. Dr. Carl Llebknecht, the socialist leader, who has Just been released from prison, was applauded franti cally. He was compelled to enter a carriage filled with flowers, from which he made a speech declaring that Che time of the people had arrived. Austria Accepts Wilson's Views. Amsterdam. Austria in her reply to President Wilson accepts all the views expressed by the president in his note of Qctober 18. Austria says she is ready and will ing, without awaiting the result of other negotiations, to negotiate peace and an Immediate armistice on all Austro-Hungarian fronts. Germans Suspect Empire's Solvency. Amsterdam. Public anxiety over the solvency of the empire apparently is becoming acute in Germany. The hoarding of money has become so rampant as to cause great inconveni ence. There has been a general run on banks. Hlndenburg's Retirement Is Reported. Zurich. Reports that Field Marshal vo Hindenburg has resigned are printed in German newspapers. Did one of these 200 letters come to you? A DUSTY courier slid off his motor-cycle at the big double hut in a French town and tramped up to the canteen. "Got a note for the secretary from my commanding officer he said. He handed a piece of paper across the counter to a smiling middle-aged man. This is the note the Secretary read: We landed here three days ago miles from anywhere Can you send us some supplies, especially writing paper? This is the first chance the boys have had to write home and we have no paper to givo them, " The older man looked up and grinned. "Got you away off in the woods, have they?" ' "I'll say they have!" "Can you carry anything ?H "All you'll give me I" From the shelves the secretary tpok big packages of paper and envelopes. "Too much?" He asked. "It will be gone ten minutes after I get back!" said the boy. "Tonight," the secretary went on, 'Til drive out a truck with more supplies and a man to stay with you. And tell the boys that if their Jetters are finished, Til bring them back with me tonight, and get them into the mails. An hour later that motor-cyclist whizzed into camp, loaded down with writing paper, and in ten minutes letters were being written to 200 American homes. The United War Work organizations know what letters mean to American soldiers. They know that fighters want to get letters and want to write letters. So in every hut and on every ship your boys find writing paper, envelopes, ink, pens and pencils, and tables where they can get off by themselves and tell the folks back home how things are going. Millions of sheets are given away free every week to American boys overseas. That is why the letters you get from your boy are written on the stationery of one of these organizations. It is one of the plans to bridge the Atlantic. Help keep the letters coming I Your dollars will supply a whole Company for several days. Dig deep today; help to bind together France and here. Why you should give twice as much as you ever gave before! The need la for a sum of 70$ greater than any gift ever asked (of ssnoe the world began. The Government has Axed this sum at 1703O0,oo. By giving te these seven organisations ail at onea, the cost and effort ot sU ad ditional campaigns is saved. Unless Americans do give twice as mock as aver before, oor aoidiaia and saDcn may not enjoy during 1919 their I 1,600 Recreation Buildings 1.000 Mum of Movie Film 100 Leading Stage ttara 1,000 Athletic Directors - Whan yo givcdonble, yow make tore that every Bfhtar has the cheer and comforts of these ssvan organisations evary step of the way from borne 10 the front and back again. You provide him with a church, a theatre, a cheerful home, a store, a school, a club and aa athletic fi.ld and a knowledge that the folks back home are with Urn, heart and soul I You have loaned youf money to Supply their physical need. Mow give to maintain the Morale that la winning the war I UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN COMHUNrrvVuVKS 3 J JFi MItCAH LIIRAHV This Space Contributed for Winning the War by 2,500 Libraries supplying 8,000,000 books 85 Hoetass Hooaas 1S.0O0 Big-brother "secreMrleea -Millions of dollars of home comforts 9 CROOK COUNTY BANK ; . i !