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THE MORNING OREGONIAJT, THURSDAY. AUGUST 13. 1914. 9 CRUISER LEIPZIG IN NEED OF COAL German War Vessel Arrives in San Francisco to Re plenish Bunkers. BRITISHER DODGES NORTH Belligerent, in Pacific Can Take Fuel Only Sufficient to Carry Them to Their Xearest Port of Nationality. BAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 12. The Ger man cruiser Leipzig steaming into this port for roal. As the Custom-House closed at p M . formal application for coal needed cannot be maoe by the German rofcsul. Franz Bopp. until tomorrow The Leipzig is expected to lie at anchor through the night. .,.,. The British sloop of war Algerine was spoken off Cape Mendocino at o F M. vesterday by the American coast er Beaver, which arrived here f.om Portland today. The cleared for action and not a sailors head showed above the rails. The Al-;er:nc wig-w;rged the Beaver to approach and the two vesse s lay alongside while the captato. UOM through megaphones for half JJt hour For God's bake," implored the cap tain of th Alge-lne as PBMj" cording to Caplsin Mason, of the Beav er. "don't tell the Leipzig where we are. We're too small." Vessel Is Without Wireless. The Alaerlne reported that she was without wireless and for 10, days she had been dodging up the coast from San Diego. Her captain had no news of the war. and at first was even a. little skeptical that war really had been declared. He was glad to hear that the Rainbow was safe, but bad no informa tion as to the whereabouts of the sloop-of-war Shearwater, the only other Brit ish vessel in these waters. More flotoam from some British war ship was thrown up by the tide today on th- northern shores of the Golden Gate There was nothing to Indicate what vessel it came from, and the sup position still stands that it Is debris thrown overboard by the Rainbow when she cleared for action on leav ing this port before dawn last Satur day. Prises Depend on Fuel Supply. Whether the two German men-of-war now patrolling outside the . nirbot take any prizes is largely a matter of how long their coal holds out There are eight British vessels and three Frenchmen due here at almost any tl!Tn"e Leipzig can come into port for sufficient coal to take her to the near est home port at any time she wishes. In the case of German vessels oft th s coast, the nearest home port is Pal uall. Island of Savaii, German Samoa, distant between two and three weeks steaming. . The Nurnberg is in different plight. Her last known port of call was Hon olulu under the American flag, and she is not eligible to call for coal at another American port for three months subsequent to the date of her departure, unless in the meantime she has touched at a home port. Inasmuch as she was sighted west of Honolulu on July 29. near Midway Island, this Is not believed possible. Fnel Must Be Captured. Either she must capture coal soon or put back to Samoa for It. A possible complication in the situation is that a British tramp laden with coal consigned to the United, States coaling station at California City, on San Francisco Bay, Is due here soon. As a ship under the registry of a hostile nation, this col lier is technically liable to capture, whoever the consignee. Seventeen British vessels. two Frenchmen and five Germans are tied ui in the harbor. Four of them are laden and two have taken out thrjr clearance papers, but do not dare move. Among these is the Union liner Moana, bound for Australasia, due to sail to morrow. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company canceled today the sailing of Its linef Persia, due to clear August 23 for the Orient The Persia is under British registry and will be kept in this port until further notice. DEFEAT OF FORAKER FOR SEN ATOR IS CERTAIi. Tilllix Nr. tun! by Republicans for Gov. ernor Cox' Majority on Demo cratic Ticket In 60,000. COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. 12. Leaders in the major political parties began to night preparing for the platform con ventions which will be held in this state on August 26. Reliable returns from yesterday's state-wide primary had left in doubt tonight only the nominees for Congress in one or two districts, and nominees for some minor offices. The narrow margin that had separated ex-Senator Foraker and War ren G. Harding, of Marlon, early in the day. was changed by further returns that assured the nomination ot Harding as Republican candidate for United States Senator. The returns received today only served to increase the total of Timothy S. Hogan. present Attorney-General, over his two opponents. John J. Lenta and John U Zimmerman, for the Demo cratic nomination. Frank B. Willis. Representative in Congress from the Eighth District, re ceived a telegram today from his op ponent. ex-State Senator Tod, con gratulating Willis on his no ination for Governor by the Republicans. The majority of Governor Cox for re nomlnation by the Democrats will ap proximate 60,000 or more over Repre sentative Whltacre. of Canton. . OLYMPIA LAND MAN HELD 1. R. Collier Arraigned at Centralia on Fraud Charge. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) For alleged defrauding of Cen tralians by liling them on occupied tim ber lands In Skagit County and alleged collection of $150 from each patron, D R. Collier, a resident of Olympia, was bound over to the Lewis County Su perior Court yesterday under $150C bonds. Howard Breen, Lowell Scott. C. J. Miller and Pearl Norman. com: piainants against Collier, testified yes terday. It was testified that Collier took 11 persons to Skagit County and showed them the same tract of land. "They must be easy marks," said At torney Vance, of Olympia, Collier's counsel. "They sure are," replied Prosecuting Attorney Cunningham. MR. BAILEY SEEKS SENATE Ex-Senator to Campaign as Foe of Prohibition and Women's Votes. EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 12. Ex-United States Senator Bailey will be a candi date for nomination as United States (.natov In 1916. he announced at the Democratic state convention today. Defending his platform resolutions, which denounced National prohibition and woman suffrage. Mr. Bailey de clared that if the resolutions were de feated ho would take the issue before the people of Texas as a candidate for Senator. The resolutions were reject ed 645 to 107. POL PLANCON IS DEAD French Bass Singer, Xoted as Mephistopheles, III Since June. DiDis Amr 12. Pol Plancon, the opera singer, died today. He had been ill since June. Pol Plancon was a bass singer and i papio riehnt in the part of Mephistopheles in 1893. With that part his name nas oeen uioacij "-- 800,000,000 PERSONS ATFECTED TRIPLE ENTENTE Population. t,,.,..- 166.2.10,000 Prance and colonies. .. . 93,850,000 Gt Britain and colonies..43S,000,000 siam- ::::::::: littm flontfnegro S00.000 Totals ...707,032.784 2,388.500 DUAL ALLIANCE. Kegular Population. Army. .. 64,925.993 870,000 . .. 51,340,378 390,000 Germany Austria - Hungary. Totals 116.266,371 STILL NEUTRAL. I'oinilrir Population. . 36,476,000 Italy and colonies. throughout his career. He came to the Metropolitan Opera-house in 1893, where he sang with Melba. Calve. Karnes, Nordica and Jean and Edouard de Reszke. Plancon sang ior years at Covent Garden. London. He was 55 years old. CHERRIES TO GO BY CANAL Clarke County Fruit Probably First to Be Sent Via Panama. . . . ..fATTi-i? wnn A ii c 12. (Spe- Cial ) The first consignment of cher ries from the Pacific Coast to Pass -t, the Panama Canal, probably will be from Clarke County. One of the first steamers m through the canal to the Atlantic sea board will be the Navadan, of the American-Hawaiian nsssmiv pany. and on It will be 270 cases of t- ', nnA rric heiner shipped to several buyers in New York City by The Clarke County growers iuiuu. Douglas Children to Get Prizes. ortor-niTnn or Ann-. 12. (Special.) JllOULf.tw, v - - The Douglas County Fair Board to- J... .nnrlutul 1250. With Which tO purchase prizes for the winners of the school children s exniDiis ai me muuo trial fair to be held in conjunction iv, i. Pn,mtv fair in SeDtember. Lo cal merchants will be asked to donate other prizes for the children s contests. Gerard Goes to Amsterdam. LONDON, Aug. 13. The Morning Pnsfs Amsterdam correspondent says James W. Gerard, American Ambassador to Germany, has left Benin lor Amsterdam. Unidentified Body Found ASTORIA, Or.. Aug. 12. (Special.) The body of an unidentified man was found this morning among the logs in the Larkin-Green Company's boom at Blind Slough. The remains are SERVIAN WAR BODY LISTED WITH BEST Bravery of Battle-Swept Little Country Shown by Popula tion Reduced by 401,000. PAST SHOWING STELLAR National Geographic Society at Washington Reports United States Would Have 1(6,000,000 Sold iers Under Servian Plan. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. (Special.) "If the United States should call to the colors as many men in proportion to the population as Servia has, it would mean an army of upward of 8,000,000 men," says a statement is- BY WORLD'S GREATEST WAR. AND ALLIES. tegular Total War Strength. 5,590,000 4,000,000 731,000 222,000 240,000 50,000 9,833,000 Armv. Reserves. 3,300,000 3,280.000 476,500 180,1100 208,000 1,290,000 720,000 254,500 42,000 32,000 50.000 7,444,500 Total War Strength. 6,300,000 2,000,000 Reserves. 4,430,000 1,610.000 1,260,000 6.040,000 7,300,000 Total War Strength. 1,200,000 Army. Reserves 250,000 950,000 sued by the National Geographical Society here today, "and this does not take into account the fact that the recent wars in the little country have ,-..,.,1 nrija intn the Dercent- age of adult male population. Prob ably, if the united states cwieu many men to the colors in proportion to the adult male population, it would mean an army of 12,000,000 men. "These figures show what a heavy hand Austria-Hungary lays upon the Kills rtmmrrv U'hnCn nrmv "TaVfl SUCh a remarkable' account of itself during the two wars it Had passed inrougu before the third battle descended upon it How terrible the ravages of the wars in the Near East have been is territory taken by Bulgaria in the early months or me present year. xuai count showed that where, previous to the wars, there had been a population of 702,000 there is now a population of only 301,000. Of course. Servia did not suffer that much, but these fig-, ures are indioative of the great wars it had to face. Servla'a Record Praised. "Military critics everywhere admit that in discipline, leadership, adaman tine spirit, and elan, there is no army its size in the world that can make a better showing than the Servian army made during its wars with Turkey and Bulgaria. It is a fighting force that is conceded to have every quality of strength that a military machine may possess. "Its plan of organization is distinc tive. Compulsory service is personal for all ablebodied men and pecuniary for all who are incapable cf personal service. These latter must pay an indirect tax of 30 per cent additional. The military forces are divided into a. national army and the Landstrum, which forms the last line of defense. Service in the national army begins at 21 and ends after 45. In the Land strum it begins at 17, ends at 21, be gins at 46 and ends at 50. "The national army consists of three bans: the first ban including all able bodied men between 21 and31; the sec- THREE SONS OF KAISER, ALL OF WHOM ARE AFIELD FROM LEFT, 1'KINCE ond ban all between 31 and 38, and the third those between 38 and 45. Army Service Mandatory. "The first ban has its cadre, a school through which every ablebodied man of 21 must pass. No one is allowed to change his nationality while be longing to the first ban; nor can any member thereof receive any outside appointment or become even a monk until he has served his term in the army. "The term of service in the standing cadre is two years in the cavalry and artillery, and one and a half years in the other branches of the establish ment. There is a six months' service for those in the schools of the coun try who can pass an examination for Lieutenant of Reserves. There is also a six months' enlistment for recruits from whose homes at least two others have served the full term. "All those who possess cattle and suitable carts are under obligation to turn them over to the army wiian needed. Those who do not possess cat tle and carts have 6 per cent added to their taxes for the remount fund." FIGURES VARY GREATLY FEDERAL ENGINEERS REPORT ON NORTH CANAL UNIT. Company Asks 9300,000 for Project and Experts Say It Could Be Built for C184.000. SALEM. Or., Aug. 12. (Special.) That the work on tne North Canal unit of the Central Oregon irrigation proj ect, which the company has offered to sell to Oregon and the United States Government for f300,000, could be built at present for J184.000 is a report made to Secretary of the Interior Lane by Government engineers. A copy of the report has been forwarded to Governor West. Announcement was made by the company when its offer was submittted that if the deal was consummated the money would be used in completing the work on the other units. The Interior Department has only $420,000 available for co-operative work in Oregon and it is not probable that a deal can be made in the near future for the completion of the North Canal project through state and Federal co operation. As a result it will be nec essary for the company to complete the improvement or for the time being concentrate its efforts in improving the canals on other parts of the proj ect. Regarding the offer of the com pany to sell the North Canal unit Gov ernor West said: "The subject was submitted to Sec retary Lane for Investigation, with a view to completing the project through state and Federal co-operation. The reporting engineers find the amount expended in works to be $225,000, but make no allowance for preliminary surveys or other expenditures con nected with the development of the project. The report says that the works could be reproduced now for $184,000 arid recommend that this fig ure be accepted as the value of the plant. The report suggests a plan whereby the amount can be reduced. The plan is to serve both the North Canal arid- the Pilot Butte lands to a certain extent through the North Canal and apportion the above cost of works to both systems. It also is planned to charge off an amount to cover certain other lands of the com pany which could be irrigated from the North Canal. Under this plan the amount In cash to be paid to the com pany would be $50,000." PESTS IN FOREST STUDIED Agricultural College Professor Col lects Hood Kiver Specimens. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Aug. 12 (Spe cial.) Professor H. S. Jackson, of the Oregon Agricultural College, accom panied by J. R- Winston and Professor H. A. Moznette, both of Hood River County experiment station, have been on a tour of the forest in the remote part of the valley to secure specimens of fungi and insect pests that have been destroying the natural flora at the base of Mount Hood. Professor Moznette also secured for experimental purposes specimens of beetles that have been at work on the forest trees. The Prlbllof Islands is the seat of the most important seal colony in the world. Next in Importance is the Commander herd, owned by Russia, while the Kuril herd, owned by Japan, comes third. JOACHIM. CttUHA 1'KIKCK FREDERICK 100-11 LION FUND NOW NATION S AIM Secretary McAdoo and Chair man Underwood of House Committee Discuss Tax. TOBACCO TOLL IN VIEW Levy on Beer and Increase of In come Tax Also Considered, but Question to Rest Pending Study of War Losses. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. How to raise something like $100,000,000 to offset the loss to the United States in import duties expected to result from the war in Europe will be the subject of a conference tomorrow between Sec retary McAdoo and Representative Underwood, chairman of the House ways and means committee. Treasury experts completed tonight a statement showing imports from the war zone. They did not huzard an es timate of probable loss in revenues, though formally it was admitted that the total might be in the neighborhood of $100,000,000 for the year. Figures also have been prepared to demon strate what might be raised by in creased taxes "on liquors and tobacco and by adding to the income tax. President's Advice Sought. Representative Underwood and Sen ator Stmmons, chairman of the Senate finance committee, are making a thor ough study of the situation, but will not attempt to frame a definite plan of action until Secretary McAdoo has out lined actual conditions. Then the ad vice of President Wilson will be sought. The normal revenue on importations from the countries now affected Ger many, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary. Russia, France and Belgium approx imate $116,000,000 a year. Germany ex ports many things that the customs experts say may be provided by Eng land and other countries. Japan might take advantage of the opportunity to increase its exportations of articles normally supplied by Germany. The chief loss will be In pottery, laces and embroideries, toys, dyes and the like. Among the plans being informally considered is one to change the in ternal revenue tax on cigars and to bacco, making it an ad valorem tax in stead of a flat tax on amounts. In this way it is estimated about $40,000,000 could be raised. From an increased beer tax it is estimated $30,000,000 could be brought in. No change in the income tax could be effective until after July 1 next One Would Tax "Wealtay Only. Senator Shields, of Tennessee, issued a statement today urging the use of the income tax to provide any addi tional revenue needed. "I favor an increase in the income tax," he said, "thus placing the burden on the wealth of the country, which, although receiving greater protection and benefits, has always borne, propor tionately, the smallest share of Its maintenance." The Treasury statement showed to day that the custom receipts for the month of August up to date, aggre gate $7,766,538, 1 against $10,205,968 for the same period last year and that since July 1, the total has been $30, 755,003, about $7,000,000 less than dur ing the first six weeks of last year. RUSSIAN DOWAGER IS ILL Sister of Queen Mother Alexandra May Undergo Operation. BERNE, Switzerland, via Paris, Aug. 12, 7:25 P. M. The Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, of Russia, has ar rived here seriously ill, and, it is said, will undergo a surgical operation. The Dowager Empress, who is the sister o Queen Mother Alexandra, was stopped in Berlin on August 3, on her way to St. Petersburg. Eventually she WITH TROOPS. AND PRINCE OSCAR PEOPLES HAS Big Winner IN The Scales A Drama of Terrific Action on Circumstantial Evidence Played by Daniel Frohman's Famous Player Only Three Today, Friday lOc- -Only- was permitt:! to go to Stockholm. She has decided to remain in Switzerland during the war. DOCK BONDS AUTHORIZED City Council Passes Emergency Act to Sell $150,000 Issue. as an emergency measure an ordinance Introduced Dy commissioner p"Bi" uu. f.-.r- th hRiinnrfl und sale of JlUVlUi'ifi . ' dock bonds, series "E," in the sum of 5150,000. The sum to be made available by the issue was asked by the Commission of Public Docks to finance the construc- . . .. , ...vw.ne.. at Ihn tear of Dock L1UII U ti . ............. No. 1 at the foot of Seventeenth street. and to take care oi any urn iciuiicicb that might result from outstanding contracts, particularly the building of East Side Dock No. 1. BIG VESSEL PASSES CANAL First to Enjoy Distinction Reports Sighting British Cruiser. NEW YORK, Aug. 12. The steamer t-ritnhl. which arrived tonight from Cristobal, has the distinction of being th first vessel of any considerable size to navigate the r-anama Canal in both directions. The vessel sighted the British cruis er Suffolk at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The warship was then about five miles southeast of Scotland lightship, near the New York harbor channel. Bend Alleges Overcharge Rates. SALEM, Or., Aug. 12. (Special.) Complaint was made by the City of Bend to the State Railroad Commission today that the charges of the Bend, Light & Power Company are excessive and discriminatory. It is alleged that the rates are based on an over-valuation of the property. La Pine Bank Chartered. SALEM, Or., Aug. 12. (Special.) State Superintendent Sargent today is sued a charter to the La Pine State Bank, of La Pine. Its capital stock is $1500. The officers are A. A. Aya, president; F. W. Tomes, cashier, and George TV'. Dobson, vice-president. Falling Rock Kills Miner. ROSDYN. Wash., Aug. 12. (Special.) Walter Hurrell, aged 30. a miner at the Jonesville mines of the Roslyn Fuel Company, was killed last night by a falling piece of cap rock. He left a wife and two-months-old baby. Fifty London, England, teachers are to visit the Panama Canal. . THEATER A of Justice Days More and Saturday lOc believed to be those of a stranger who about three weeka "go started to walk from the boom-houiw to the com pany's camp and whose blanket were found several days later, lying, beside the trail. WAR TO AFFECT HATS l II. I.! Mil Ml IMM. liN will m:t vrLi: Winter Headaear to ll"c I .urnncan Features a rrn b American le alffnerN, la l,eneral Opinion. If the war continues one month or several years, its effect on millinery In Portland will be the same rather startling. Mldseanon or Winter hats will be decidedly fcr-ign, and the army that becomes the most popular will have Its peculiar headgear and colura perpetuated and dlplaed on tlie heads of American women. All styles will have European features, as srrii by American designers. Of course, 1'arls, Vienna, Bert la and London already have provided sailor hats not the Merry Widow kind -turbans and toques for Fall wt -, but those fashion centers havu no opportu nity whatever to dictate what .-.hall be a proper hat for milady in I ha United States about Christmas time or Easter. Velvet has been used more than any other material in the present styles, but Its price already has advanced 10 per cent since war began. "Germany supplies thr schappe used in velvet by American manufacturers." said J. B. Bradshaw. of a milliner firm, yesterday at the Benson, "and now that shipping has been stopped, the supply on hand will soon gle out anJ prices will Jump even higher. Kelts will replace the demand In this coun try." "There Is a quandary concernlnsT Spring styles." declared L Lowengart. who returned from Europe Just bsfore the war. Mr. Lowengart also said that right now the American designers are making models embodying the colors and characteristics of the hats and caps worn by the soldiers of the war ring nations so as to be ready for a rush. .. . It Is admitted by local dealer that less than 1 per cent of the hats are imported. They say styles are brought over and modified and altered to mi the requirements of this country. Most of the materials have been coming from across the Atlantic, but these can be made In America and consequently will have a tendency to start menu facturlng Interests now Idle and pro vide work for more of our people, they declare. Experiment In cotton In Southern s have Men .o .ucc...ful taat Tj asay Sj ons of the. nuntr' mom Import'' ft ! manning & j 35c Coffee Manning's Coffee Store Jones' Market Fourth and Alder J House of orlslnallly MAKERS OF The Best in the Piano-Makers' Art. It will pay you to inves tigate before purchasing. II AKCFACT CKCIll, WHOLES ALB. 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