WHEAT CROP IS HUGE OF CURRENT WEEK Advene Weather and Labor Condi­ tions Curtail Planted Area, but Crop Will be Near Record. FAMINE FOLLOWS IN WAKE OF) A A A A A A A A A. A. a a a s W W W W W WWW WWWW W w STATE N EW S IN BRIEF. Make Cottage Cheese Food That la Nutritious and Cheaper Than Moot The Gladstone school was closed this week for the pur|x>*e o f fumigating the building. During the past three weeks there have been a number of case* o f smallpox. Meats in Furnishing Protein Washington. D. C.— Hope for the billion-bushel wheat crop, for which Brief Resume Most Important the government is striving this year, Starving Persians Turn to Dogs was strengthened Thursday by the de­ On Friday, May 10, a special elec­ Daily News Items. and Cannibalism. tion will be held in Wallowa for the partment o f Agriculture's May crop purpose o f authorizing the city council report forecasting a production o f to issue and sell bonds amounting to 572,539,00tl bushes! iff winter wheat. $7682.39 for the establishment o f a Secretary Houston, in a statement sewer system. Thursday, said there was every reason Far back in the mountains, 41 n s ' c m to anticipate increase«! farm yields cast of Albany, isolated and alone, S t m U o f Noted People, Government« this year over the record production of Kook Situation in Germany Growing Hen Wilson, a shirker, o f German I>arentage, was arrested Tuesday by a last year. and Pacific North weal and Other Worse Daily Ukraine Granaries detail o f the Albany Home Guards, He added, however, that the promise brought to Albany and placed in the Thing* Worth Knowing. Offer Only Slight Relief. did not warrant relaxed efforts for county jail. greater production and for greater con­ 1). P. Markey, of Detroit, Mich., servation, and he called upon the peo­ supreme «'onimander o f the Knights of Two women spies, Josephine Alvar- ple o f towns and cities to realise that Washington, D. C. — Conditions in the Maccabees, «le live red an addresa to ez and Victoria Faucher, condemned the farmer cannot work miracles and Persia are describe«! as desperate in a the member» o f the Salem tent Tuea- to death by courtmartial January 26, His itinerary ir Oregon dispatch to the State Department day night. at Nantes, France, were executed to lend him the assistance needed at «■alia for addresses at C orval'.s. Saleiit, We«lnesday from the Ainerii'an lega­ Portland and Albany. harvest time. Tuesday morning. « ^ f Famine ia increas­ Realization o f a winter wheat crop tion at Teheran. A Reuter dispatch from Tokio says The school house recently built in ing. ami typhua, the message said, la that the Russian authorities at Irkutsk I as large as that forecast would place prevalent in most o f the cities. the Little Canyon district west of this year’s harvest o f that grain as the have arrested the Japanese vice consul The f«HKi shortage, the legation re­ Oakland, in the Coaat Kange*m«un- and another prominent official on the third largest ever gathered. The esti­ ported, has foreed the population to tains, has been burnt*«!, and the neigh­ mate is 12.500,000 bushels more than charge of being military spies. forecast in April from conditions then eat dogs and even practice cannibal­ bors and some o f the directors claim that the fire was o f incendiary origin. May 6 wfcs the hottest in the history existing, and 154,400,000 bushel more ism. Through American relief starieties The building waa modem ami had just o f the New York City weather bureau. than the crop harvested last summer. A t mid-afternoon, the official thermo­ On conditions from now until harvest the Unite«l States has already done been paid for by the district. meter registered 84, breaking by four time will depend whether the crop will much to help the Persians. At a meeting o f members o f the Some time ago the State department lllihee Country club in Salem, Homer ! degrees the record established on Mav be larger or smaller than the present was obliged to explain to the Persian Smith was elected president to take | 6, 1896. forecast, based on conditions May 1. government, in response to a request the place left vacant by the resigna­ In the week since then generally fa­ A thousand young women, students for a loan, that it was not possible for The club has I at high schools and colleges in New vorable weather for wheat develop­ the United States to ien«l money di­ tion o f Asahel Hush. York City, raised about $50,000 for ment continued and the crop has made rectly except to co belligerents, but the appointed F. W. Steusloff, Fred D. J Thielsen and Curtis B. Cross a com-1 the relief o f Belgian babies by selling excellent progress in all principlal pro­ «iepartment interestet! private parties mittee to inaugtirate a campaign for forget-me-nots Tuesday. Nearly 400,- ducing areas. who supplied more money than, was new members. Efforts have been made to stimulate 000 purchased the flowers. Preparing Homamada Cottaga Chaaaa for tha Market. production o f spring wheat and prelim­ asked for by the Persians in the shape The citizens o f Poe Valiev, in the Roberto Boring, aged 2 } years, died inary reports indicate an increase in o f a government loan. Klamath Falls vicinity, have been so If a rondeusury Is within rensonnhli* ^n addition tn protein, energy for in Stockton, Cal., Tuesday from the the acreage o f that crop which may be effects o f an onslaught from a vicious sufficient under good growing condi­ Washington. D. C.— Further infor- desirous of securing good roads that distance the crettmrrymnn sometimes performing body work must be fur­ gamecock in the yard o f her parents. tions to bring the total wheat produc­ mation revealing how critical the food they have co-operated in grading ami Can sell Ills skim milk there. Very nished by food. As a source of en­ The beak o f the fowl penetrated to the tion this year well toward the billion- situation in Germany has become making the highway in that district few creameries, however, are so altu- ergy. also, «*otlage cheese Is cheaper reache«! the State department in semi­ second to none in the county. They ated. mid the largest opportunity for than most meats at present prices. The base o f the skull, injuring the brain. bushel mark. have donate«! time, labor ami teams to the creameryman to divert skint milk official dispatches. No official report has yet been made E. J. Purcell, American railway en­ this cause ami are rewarde«! by having and buttermilk Into channels of hu­ following table shows the comparison The munitions committees o f the gineer, who was captured and robbed on the acreage o f spring wheat; the an excellent road. man consumption la by the miiiiufsc- when energy Is considered. reichstag and landtag have been hold­ by a band o f Chinese bandits in the in­ first announcement will be made in On the basis of energy supplied, 1 ture of cottnge cheese, anys the United ing daily sittings. The «question of Need o f farm help is beginning to June. Reports indicate the seed al­ terior o f China last month, arrived at pound o f «rottage cheese «xjunls: Sts tea department o f agriculture. reducing the present rations has not cause serious complaint about Rose- a Pacific port Tuesday from the Orient, ready planted has germinated well been decidetl. 8 1-3 ounces alrlolli steuk. burg, for the first time since the war This product la easy to make and util­ accompanied by his wife and three generally. It is indicated there is small hope of began. Farmers have been scouring izes skim milk and good grndea of 11*4 ounces round steak. children. relief fr«>m the Ukraine, where the every nook for help, while men are bultermllk. 1114 «unices chuck rib beef. Cottage cheese la one of the Impor­ Miss Anna Held, an actress, who is HALF MILLION TROOPS OVER large cities are already suffering from quitting the farms to go to the Pacific 104s ounces fowl. critically ill with anaemia in New insufficient food. Even if Ukraine highway work, the sawmills and the tant meat ahbatttute*. It contains n 314 ounces fresh ham. York, has undergone an operation for supplies are obtained it will not give shipyards. The railroad is also hiring larger percentage of protein (the chief 5 ounces smoked ham. Baker Declares His Promise to Con­ transfusion o f blood, which had an im­ an increase in the food ration every available man for various p*iei-1 material for hotly building) than most 6 ounces loin pork chop. gress More Than Fulfilled. meats ami furnishes tide materlnl at mediate good effect. Ernest Lane, a An official report made public in tions, even as bookkeepers. 7 1-3 ounces hind leg of lamb. a lower cost. In every pound of cot- motor truck driver, volunteered to Washington, D. C.— More than 500.- Germany on May 2 said there were The extension department for work i 12\ ounces breast of veal. give his blood. 000 American soldiers have been sent 12,000 carloads o f grain ready in Rou- in agriculture an«! home economics i tage cheese there Is about one-fifth of A yield of 15 or more pounds of cot­ a pound of protein, nearly all of which mania for shipment to Germany, but Mrs. La Mira V. Kendig, said to to France. Secretary Baker Thursday in Yamhill county will take th«- , Is digestible. tage cheese from 10O pounds of skim Meats, on the other even if it is transported it will do n > > have been a motion picture actress, authorized the statement that his fore­ form o f a second farm home stu dy) hand, usually contain less protein and milk can readily lie ohthlnc«!. nr a mix­ was found shot dead Monday in her cast to congress in January that 500.- more than to prevent a reduction of tour n ex t, Thursday, when mod­ besldra have a «certain waste, such as ture of two parts skim milk and '»ne food allotments. 000 troops would be dispatched to home, in Los Angeles, after Patrolman ern farm homes will be visited in the bone and other Inedible material. A of buttermilk will give the same re­ France early in the present year now G. L. Stowe had staggered out with a San Francisco— Approximately 15,- county under the auspices o f the coun­ pound of cottage cheese dally would sults. * The wholesale price on most bullet wound in his head, probably fa­ had been surpassed. 000,000 pounds o f excess wheat flour try life council o f the county. A train supply all the protein required by the estahllshtMt markets varies from *% Mr. Baker dictated the following tally wounded. held in warehouses and by wholesalers, o f autos will leave McMinnville on ordinary adult engaged tn a sedentary cents s pound «luting the early sum- statement: retailers, restaurants, bakers and indi­ Thursday morning for the round trip. occupation. mer to 7 cents «luring the winter, the Alexander Effman, private in the “ In January I told the senate com­ The following fable shows thnt cot­ 1917 price showing mark«-«! Increases Provisional Squadron, U. S. Signal mittee that there was strong likelihood viduals throughout the state, will be J. O. Stapp, who waa arrested at Corps, was accidentally killed on the that early in the present year 500,000 assembled immediately for direct ship­ Buckett’s lumber camp, near Klamath tage cheese Is much cheaper than over former years. When making as south beach near Newport, Or., Tues­ American troops would be dispatched ment to France, it was announced Falls, as being insane, and was later meats tn furnlahlng protein for the much as 800 pounds a day the total cost of mnuufacture, Including labor, day, while engaged in railroad work. to France. I cannot either now or Wednesday by Ralph P. Merritt, fed­ released, was again taken into custody diet. For supplying protein. 1 pound of coal, power, water, packing (tubs), and Effman was caught beneath a falling perhaps later discuss the number o f eral food commissioner for California. on the Keno road late last week. depreciation on equipment. Is from 8 The 15,000,000 pounds represents Stapp is a powerful man and is re­ cottage ch«*e*e equals: tree and crushed. American troops in France, but I am tu 10 cents a hundred pounds of skim California’s surplus over the official al­ 1.27 pounds sirloin steak. ported to be a fine fellow except when A wounded British airman back in glad to be able to say that the fore­ milk. 1.09 pounds round steak. lotment o f six pounds a month a per­ a spell o f violence attacks him. during London from France reports that the cast I made in January has been sur­ It Is quite evident that the cream­ son and had been acquired prior to the which he loses all mental control o f 1.37 pounds chuck rib beef. squadron operating in an important passed.” eryman Is In position to make Ills pa­ 1.52 pounds fowl. The secretary chose his words about formulation o f the new wheat saving himself. He says that the s|iells are sector on the Amiens front has prob­ trons a good business proposition. In program. The excess was determined caused by a bad fall when a boy. He 1.46 pouuds fresh ham. ably established a record by bringing the troops in France with the utmost most sections lie cun offer them a cash- by an exhaustive survey by county 1.44 pounds smoked ham. will probably lie committed to the down 106 enemy machines in six care. He would not amplify the state­ market for their skim milk at a prlr# 1.58 pounds loin pork chop. asylum for expert treatment. ment in any way. and specially asked food administrators. weeks, including 21 in one day. at least equivalent to the value ob- 1.31 pounds hind leg of lumb. that the press refrain from speculation Fire which started Monday after­ taln«-«l from feeding to aulmala. An auction will be held at Klamath 1.37 pounds breast of veal. as to what precise figures his guarded Nicaraguans Declare War on Germany. noon in a warehouse o f the Independent San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, May Indian agency June 1, o f 75 tracts o f remarks covered or as to what possi­ Packing company in North St. Louis, bilities o f early further increase in the 7.— The Nicaraguan congress today de­ land belonging to the estates o f dead * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ J should be turm-it Into a pall of appro­ destroyed five storage houses o f the force on the other side there might be. clared war on Germany and her allies. or aged Indians. It is the policy of priate sizes ami ns much ground feed­ packing company, the Rogers grain the government in this way to grad­ The declaration o f war was adopted There have been repeated official an­ stuff mixed with them ns can be ntir- elevator with several hundred thousand ually open the reservation to settle­ nouncements, however, that the gov­ by congress at the suggestion o f Presi­ red In with a strong Iron spoon or a bushels o f wheat, the four-story build­ ernment is bending every energy to dent Chamorro with only four dissent­ ment and also to furnish funds for the wooden stirring stick. The amount ing o f the Union Packing company, Indians who are too old to work. These ing votes. rush men across to back up the allied anil kinds of ground fe<-