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on;" Lb ... ). ? VOLUME 41 WESTON, OHECON. FRIDAY. JUNE 28, 1918 NUMBER 4 We ADER OREGON HEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST a'aln Industrial errldeut commleelnn 1 r 111" wr-k ending June 20 than fur any oihnr week : ( tb rompenaa linn set became rfftwllve. The total number of accident reported n 161, of which all wr fatal. Tha fatal KMnelnal Fvanta ftf thi Wink ' ': Jhn Maxw.ll. Portland. "i'- I T . ahlpbulldlm: o. K. Ay. Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. The annual (ration of lha Pmpqna llaptlal association waa held In Roe burr (jursllnnnalree ara being malli'd Ihta wnk to fount men who rrgletered In tha draft Jun I. Formation of two eompaiilea of tha I'matllla county guard from tha old Pendleton company baa been complet ed. Tha loganberry eeaeun la In full hlaet In tha L'mpqua valley, and tha different eertlone ara scenes of great activity at tha present lima. Peter Autsen. president of lha renin aula national bank at Bt Johna waa almoat Inalantly killed In an autoiuo blla sotldent near Portland. Tba annual csmpmeetlng of tha Seventh Day AdvenUsl church of t- Ayara, Llnnton, lumber manufacturing; C. Noreoe, Portland, ahlpbulldlm; Mlka Baccel. lierl, Hand, lumbrr manufacturing; Chart McCormlrk, MarabfUld, lum ber manufacturing; YV. W. Knight, between Oawego and Good in, killed In railroad wreck. Tha memberahlp of lha fifth junior rainbow regiment haa now climbed to mora than looo, but J. A. Churchill, su perintendent of public Inatrurtlon, wilt nut close lha enrollment until all tha namea that ara likely to bo reported from the public school ara In, a another regiment will not ba atarted at Ibla Uine. Pake aaleamen of corporation atork have made their appearance In Oregon, according to Corporation Commleelon r Schulderman, and bava eucreeded In making aalea to bualnaea men In Portland and elaewhere. Their method la to alop for a abort time In each town visited.' aell stock and finally GENERAL BOROEVIC MRS. F. C. AXTELL ' ' I I V A If (s i) V J J a jL - " firmer ' ii,i..n........i,,-i. J 4 AMERICAN LOSSES INCREASE AOSTRIAtIS EECF.0SS PI AVE IM DiSOEBEB suit of Badly Defeated Enemy. Oeneral Perahlng'a Report Show SU4 Killed, Wounded and Mleeing. Waahlngton. Caaualtiea In tha American army overeea thtia far re- ported by General Pershing. Including Italians PftSS ForWSrd if! Pur the Hat made public Sunday, total 8(34, aa compared with 8085 a week ago. They were, divided In tha war departments weekly aummary aa fol low a: Killed In action (Including 21 loat at aea). 1312. Died of wounda, 432. Died of dleea.ee. 128. Died of accident and other can, 44. Wounded In action, 4811. Mlaalng in action. Including prison er. 265. Caaualllra among the marinea ara not Included In thia liat With tome 900.000 men now In France, the email number of death for disesae reported la considered remarkable. Rome. Prom Montello to lb aea the enemy baa been defeated ' aad forced by tha lullana to reeroea the Plave river In dlaorder. The Italian bava croaeew the Ptav In pursuit of the fleeing Austrian. Infantry and cavalry forces hav crossed the flooded rirer la the r glon of CapoaUe, It was seml-offlclally elated. Tbouaanda of Auatrlana kave been captured. Other thousands have been wiped out by artillery, machine gnat and rifle fire, by air bombs and bp drowning. Italian eavalrr la nuraulnar the en emy far beyond the Plave. The horse men are pnahlng forward toward the line between Conegliano and Oder. er Oregon and southern Idaho opened get out of tha atal before officer can at Dakar and will contlnu unUI June apprehend them. SO. Oregon will play a highly Important part la tha Fourth of July program for tha emergency fleet corporation and a minimum of II wood bulla will be launched In thl district J. D. Parrell, president of the Oregon-Washington Railroad Naviga tion company, will be the corporate bead of tb Union Pacific system In the west, with headquarter at Port land. Oaorge A. Steel, pioneer In Port land, twice postmaster of the city, builder of Its first sleet rlc lines and for on term atate treasurer of Oregon, died at lb Oood Samaritan hospital la Portland. Lorn Comb I dead and Robert Potter and Cordon Rtmbo ara suffer ing from serious Injuries a the re sult of being caught In a cloudburst In Little Duckhorn creek, about 4S tulles west of Fossil , Prohibition of the sale and uaa of all klnda of flreworka and a perfectly aafe and noiseless Fourth of July sr asked by State Fir Marshal Wells In a lat ter being sent out to lha mayor of cities throughout Oregon. A Gorman church, located In lha norihweaiern part of Polk county, haa rvaaed the us of the Oertnan language and In the future at all services. Includ ing Sunday school and the weekly prayer meeting, English, alone will be used. The first east of the big six ton propeller for the emergency fleet ships wss successfully poured at lb Astoria Marin Iron Works In tb foundry department. "As casting la th largest of It kind ver mid la the stats. A campaign to nllt Portland bust- -nes men for farm service in Oregon at harvest lime will be started on July 1 by J. W. Brewer, federal farm help specialist. In co-operation with a com mittee representing various civic or ganisations. Sheriff throughout the stats ar experiencing conaldorsble difficulty tn retaining competent deputies, due to Increased wagea In all lines of In dustry, according to complaint mad at the slat convention of sheriffs tn session tn Portland. Chester J. Mogue, Oregon secretary of th West Coast Lumbermen's asso ' clstlon, has obtained a temporsry leave of absence that he may take charge of construction work on a 120,000,000 shipyard now being built by th Union Iron Work at Ban Francisco. Confronted with a serious short age of driver du to many of Its em r ploy entering military service, th Oorst ft King Automobile company, op erating a Jitney servlcs between North Bend and Marshfleld, Is contemplating employing young women drivers to re place the men. I A serious milk shortage In Portland may result from th scarcity of bay J and feed and the high cost of labor, ; two " factor which ar becoming burden that th milk producing farm ers cannot bear at the present prices of wholesale milk and which Is sen- Ing msny milk cow to th slaughter J. R. 8tannard and Frank Tlchenor received four vote each for the demo cratic nomination for representative from Coos and Curry counties, and C J. Edwards and R. J. Moore also re ceived four vote each for th demo cratic nomination for representative from Tillamook and Yamhill count!. Under th law breaking of tie of thla kind ta decided by lot , Becauee of the prevalence of aheep cable In Mini Wlllsmett vslley flocks during last winter and spring, and bee uaa of danger of Ita spread ing to other flocks In th state, th state livestock ssnltary board haa de clared a quarantine sgalnst tb move ment of any aheep in western Oregon that have been affected, the quaran tine to bold until due precaution hav been taken. Representative Ilawley waa assured by tha aviation section of the algnal corpa that an aeroplane would be aept to Eugene to participate In th Fourth of July celebration if Major Emmona, In command of th aviation camp at Sacramento, deem It feasible for one of hi men to attempt th 600 mil flight The mschlne used at Sacra mento carry only enough gasoline for 12S mllea. The public service commission re ceived word from R. II. Aiahton. re gional director for tb railroad admin istration at Chicago, that th Southern Pacific haa appealed from th com mission's order requiring th Installa tion of a reinforced concrete crossing at Divide. In Lane county, because of war conditions. Tb regional director asked the commission to postpone con struction of the crossing. ' A price Interpretation committee ' which hss been appointed by Federal Food Administrator W. B. Ayer to pre vent profiteering In food products will Investigate costs and publish weekly reports. Figures at which the articles are selling nd suggesting prices at which they should reasonably b of fered to th consumer will be an nounced. It is then hoped that the retailer will be forced to sell at the latter figure. if th labor shortsge, already acuts, becomes mor sorloua. Salem stores will make arrangementa to slose, so tbst employes may go to th berry yards and orchards as harvester.. A raolutlon to thla affect was paased at a special meeting of the Salem com mercial club. To overcome a short age of more than 2000 pickers the Red Cross chapter hss taken tha situation In hand, and mad a house-to-house -canvass for laborers. By an ordsr issued from the office. ot Federal Food Administrator W. B General Sietosar Boreevlc,' " mender of the Austre Hungarian troops which failed In thslr offensive en the Italian front TO LAUNCH MANY VESSELSJULY 4TH Washington. Celebration of July 4 thla year will be made notable for all ' tlm by th launching from American shipyards of tb largest number of hip of th greatest aggregate ton nag ever put Into the water In one day. Independence Day' contribution to th merchant fleet will be at least ti vessels, with a capacity of 43M8S deadweight tons. ...Thirty-seven r( the bulls expected H with the Haienbach Wallace abow. which was traveling In two sections or a Michigan Central train going from Michigan City to Hammond. At East Ivanbo a hot box caused the second section to stop. A train of empty Pull msns crashed Into it, the locomotive plowing its way through the waycar and four aleeplng coaches. 'v Edward If. Ballard, general manager of the circus, Issued a statement say ing that figures Indicated that the death list would total 84. He said that a hasty check up of the scattered, em ploye showed a Hat ot 60 missing In addition to the 24 Identified dead. Mr. Frsncfs C. Atell, who haa been promoted to the ehslrmrfnshlp of th Unltd Stats Employ Compensa tion Commission. 62 DEAD IN WRECK OF CIRCUS TRAIN Chicago. Sixty-two persons ar known to be dead and US Injured aa a result ot the rear end collision of a circus train and a atrlng of empty Pullmans at Ivanhoe, near Gary. Ind. Tha wreck caused by the collision raugbt fire snd msny of the desth resulted from the flame. The disas ter occurred Just at break of dawn. The victims of the dlssster were mostly connected In varioua capacitlea Lumber Output Decreaeed In 1917. Waahlngton. Lumber cut in th United Bute amounted to 25.S31.23,- 000 feet in 1917, th- forest service an- The Infantry haa followed th cavalry nounced. That waa approximately 10 across and la operating on th east per cent less than in 1916. Tb do- bank at three points on the 20-mlI crease ws du principally to largely front between Muntello aad Pontl dl curtailed private building operation. Piav. carclty of labor, and transportation Th work of th American aviator, difficulties. Waahlngton waa th larg- bo appeared on th front but week est producer with a cot ot 4.S70.000, 000 feet; Louisiana waa aecond with 4.210.000,000 feet; Oregon third, with 2,685.000.000 feet Town of CI Elum, Wash., Burned. Cle Elum, Wash. Fire awept a path through thia city Tueaday afternoon, destroying more than 20 block in the business nd residence district, mak ing 1500 people, mostly foreigners, homeless snd entailing a money losa In excess of 11,500.000. Th fire burn ed itself out at midnight, leaving wreck and ruin In its path. be launched will be steel, with a ton nsga ot 254.680. The Pacific coast yard will launch 26 wooden and 17 ateel vessels, total ling 250.700 deadweight Ions. Th Bethlehem Union plant at San Franriaco will hav the honor ot launching the biggest Individual ton nage -of any yard In the country with three steel ships totalling 2S.400 dead weight tons. Seattle will be the acene of a triple launching, but the three hulls will be distributed among three different yards. Aberdeen, Wssh., with th launching of four hullSj will hav th honored position among th wooden shipbuild ers. Tacoma. Wash., and Portland. Or., will each see three wooden bulls slide Into the water. Ksrensky Coming to United State. London Alexander Kerensky, for mer provisional premier of Russia, haa arrived in London. Former Premier Kerensky 1 on hi way to America. for th first tlm. contributed notably to the disorganisation of the Austria, force. A th Austrian wer pressed by the Italiau they threw away thefr gun aad equipment They even left on the Montello stack of bread, canned meat and preserve which Aus trian aviator had succeeded ta bring ing to them. All the Italian guns loat on thla front last week are reported to bava been recaptured. Nine Austria di visions (108.000) hav been complete ly annihilated. Fifteen other have been worn out in th Sn Dona dl Plave region, where entire regiments hve been deetroyed. V . LUMBER PRICES ARE SET BRIEF NEWS OF THE WAR Eight hundred nd thlrty flv Ger man airplane have been destroyed einne January 1. according to an of ficial French announcement. Along the French front th action of th last week consisted mainly ot ralda. The lull there Is advantageous for tha allies because It permits them to replenish (heir manpower. " The aerloua food shortage In Austria Hungary hss given cause for sensa tional rumors. One of these, from Amsterdam, says an attempt has been made on the life of Emperor Cbarlea. American forces hsve continued their Intense activity on the front where they are holding positions. Northwest ot Chateau Thierry they have pushed their line forward once more and east ot the city have bom barded bodies of German troop. Th defeat ot tha Austrian armies on the western bank of the. Plave New Scalsa Increase Douglas Fir $2.75 Per Thousand Feet In Northwest. Washington. Maximum prices for fir logs and fir lumber produced In the Pacifio Northwest were announced by the war Industries board. Douglas fir prices, applying to lum ber manufactured tn the Pacific North west, represent an average increase of approximately $2.75 a thousand board feet. It was officially announced, yel low pine prlcea are increased approxi mately $4.80 a thousand. The new prices apply to govern ment, allied and civilian purchases alike. It waa officially atated. Douglas fir prices will advance only alightly, fivery consumer of coal In Oregon, householders excepted, will be immedi ately recorded and classified in the or der of their importance to the govern ment in the winning of the war. In accordance with the general plan of the national fuel administration for this census. State Fuel Administrator Holmes addressed letters to every coal dealer In Oregon Instructing them to aend in immediately the total amount of bituminous coal they sold last year. At the same time he began a survey of industrial concerns with a view of ascertaining their fuel require- GERMANY HAY ' KEEP BELGIUM London. Dr. Richard von Kuehl mano, the German foreign secretary, declared to the relchstag ia Berlin that Germany could not bind herself to any pledgee In regard to Belgium, says a dispatch from Amsterdam. ; Referring to Germany'a war aims. Dr. von Kuehlmann aald: We wish tor th German people and our allies a tree, strong. Independ ent existence within th boundaries drawn for us by history. W deslr m.nts and their Importance a. a direct oveeM. ,d,n ts of the aea, carrying our trad to all parts of th world." Chief blame for instigating tha war wss laid at Russia's door by Dr. Tea Kuehlmann. Franc and England wer) named a th next power ia order el culpability. or Indirect factor in the war machine. The action of the Oregon public aerv Ice commission in granting a franchise for logging operation on the Sulslaw river, from Its source to its mouth, to the Sulslaw Boom company, is th first step In a tremendous project for the cutting ot timber In that water shed, according to a statement mad . . . by L. E. Bean, attorney for the log- YANKEES HOLDING 33 MILES ging company. It la estimated thar are 14.000,000,000 feet ot timber in the American Are In Six Different PlaM watorahed and moat ot this wiU b ,on0 Frneh I1", taken out through th river, he stated. Washington. American soldier ara. The Starret t Hover' Interests, own- now holding the fighting line for Si if any, to the commercial trade under' )ng lftrg0 tracts of thia Umber, are distance of 38 mllea on the western th new rate. The prices. It w ex- fin.nClnB the Sluslaw Boom company, front, according to Information slvn It is atated that an expenditure ot ev- members ot the house military cos.' eral hundred thousand dollars will be mittee at the weekly conference witn. required in cleaning out the river and Secretary Baker and General March the construction of dams tor losstna chief of staff. operations. plained, are maximum prices, not fixed prices, and lumber may be sold below the government's figure and usual trade discounts allowed. Regulations have not been made for transactions other than sales by man ufacturer at acheduled prices, the of ficial statement said. ' 1u4 ( Mtnnl.ta 'Tha ratrABl wtitntt Ayer. housewives of Oregon re now ; ,n M ordw, be. permttt.dtopurchabut25poundiotJCimt wnd dlgorg,nUed d con. sugar for canning and preserving pu , M thousands of Austro- ; ' . i . .1 J" Hungarians surrendered at the first family is sttll llmlted to the purchaae , opportunlt wnen ov,rUken Dy of two pounds ot augar st any one time, whll th rancher's fsmlly can obtain but tlv pounds on sny on trip to town. It I provided that where pursuers. So hurriedly was the retro grade movement of the Austrian at aome polnta that they did not attempt to aav their guns and stores, great Bulger and Turks Dispute. ,. Amsterdam. Differences have aris en between Bulgaria and Turkey over the division of lands taken from Rou mania under the peace . agreement with the central powers. Dr. Von Kuehlmann, the German foreign sec retary, Indicated In addressing the relchstag at Berlin. Befor th Counter-Attack. "I , wonder what tomorrow hss la store for me." said Mrs. Bargtns, scan Bint the Sunday advertisements. THE MARKETS country buyers may need a quantity : quantltlei of whlca now , ,n ,UUan .'houses. i.' The state highway commission must I advertise for bids on highway repair iWork as well as tor regular construc tion work, and If no aatlstactory bid : is received the commission may then 'do the work by force account, - Assis tant Attorney Oeneral Van Winkle , holds, In reply to an Inquiry by Btate . Highway Engineer Nunn. .larger than fiv pound to car for " threshers or special crews of workers they may obtain a permit raising the five-pound limit by spplytng to the county food administrator. , More. fociBU wars fstorUl to th ipsritncs la tb futiu.M hands. Th losses to th enemy are described a enormous, both tn men killed, wounded or mad prisoner. An official statement from Rome to the Italian embassy in Washington asserts that th Austrian hav lost 40,000 Worth Whll Quotation. ' men In prisoner alon. " "Some people seem to take tin all,' . . ' th sorrow of th past! to them they Nureery Not, add the burdens of the present ; then It costs Paris nearly $100,000 a year they look ahead nnd anticipate a great to care for the trees on It streets and many more trials than they will over boulevard and In its parks, more than Rallroada Lea Money. Chicago. The railways ot the Uni ted States after tour months ot federal operation show a deficit of $250,000,-' 000, according to computations an nounced by the bureau-ot railway newa and statistic ot Chicago, i Portland. Oats No. 2 white feed. $59.50 ton. Barley Standard Feed, $50 per ton. Corn Whole, $73; cracked. $74. Hay Timothy, $32 38 per ton; al falfa, $24.50- Butter Creamery. 44o per lb. Eggs Ranch, 38c per doxen. ' Potatoes $1.251.60 per hundred. Poultry Hens 25c; broilers 30032c, roosters, 16 17c ; This mllesga ia held by "all-AuerV can" forces under command of Anttrfc can officers, located at six different places along the fighting line. Othefj Americans are at the front with Brit lsh and French units. . Members of the committee war told that ther wss no thought of dimin ishing th movement ot troop serosa the Atlantic because of th operation ot U-boata off the American coast, i : 1,000 niw ones bslcx planted tonualij. Btt ot Gotham." Wlae Msn'a Town. The original Gotham, a name some times applied to New Tort, was a vlllnce near Nottingham, in England, aad was the reputed horns of th "wis Seattle, v Butter creamery, 49o per lb. Eggs Ranch. 48c per doxen. ' Poultry Hens, heavy, dressed, 35e; light. S3c; .broilers. 42c; roasterr, dressed. 8ci ducks, live, 30c; dressed. jltc; gees, Uv, 27c; dressed. 35c 400-Yard Gain Made by Americans. With the Americana on the Marne. The Americana in Belleau wood drove forward 400 yards despite fierce Ger man resistance. They inflicted sever losses on the enemy, captured a num ber ot machine arina and then dug themselves securely Into their new lines. Only a little fringe of the woods now remains In the hands of th Boche. i Not Much ef a Hardship. "Fob. de life o me," said Cads Eben, "I can't see no hardship In food regulations dat puts It up to folks to cat mostly cornbresd an' chick eo,"