STEAMER BEACHED
German Army Appears
Near Dunkirk on Coast NORTHWEST MARKET
REPORTS.
London—That a German army is be-
tween__Fumes and Dunkirk and nearing
the latter place, which is on the Eng
lish Channel, less than 50 miles from
the coast of Dover, is reported in
Rotterdam dispatch from a German
source to the Daily Mail, under date of
Sunday night.
A dispatch to the Mail from Dun
kirk, dated Sunday night, says that
heavy firing has been heard near Dun
kirk since 8 o’clock Sunday morning.
Severe fighting is taking place. It
is supposed that destroyers or gun
boats are being used in the canals.
Berlin — All signs indicate that a
tremendous change is impending in
the protracted struggle in Northern
France, where for weeks the hostile
armies have faced each other in such
strongly entrenched positions that
neither has been able to advance, ex
cept at enormous cost.
The present effect of the miitual
flanking operations has been to extend
the battle lines without either side’s
finding a weak^spot.
Portland.
Road Through
Reservation Now Assured
Portland — Hop buying continues Dallas — The construction of a per Siletz basin. A special tax of 5 mills
without interruption at steady prices. manent highway through Dallas and is planned upon. This will provide
Big Coastwise Liner Takes Fire on
$10,000.
Dealers report that it is difficult to in Falls City to the Lincoln county line aboftt
Thè
proposed road through the Siletz
terest brewers in new business, and to connect with the road being built by will lessen
Way to Portland.
the distance between Port
this is to be expected in view of the Lincoln county now seems assured. land and Newport by 16 miles; will
approaching elections and the fact that Voters of Falls City this week re afford a scenic route to the coast, and
hops are being offered to brewers at a pealed the charter creating a separate will be through a country noted for
Fireman Cremated, but Rest oi
steadily declining scale of prices. road district out of Falls City. This game and fish.
Crew Saved—Explosion Starts
There is a great deal of uncovered con puts the city in road district No. 21 It is planned to call a special elec
Blaze in Stoke Hole.
tract business to be taken care of, of Polk county, which, reaches to the tion in Road district 21 this fall so
that work can be commenced on the
however, and it is this that is keeping Lincoln county line.
The county court needed the votes in new road next spring. Most of the
the trade employed.
This week's purchases were made at Falls City to vote a special tax. The work will be confined to grading and
Portland,^Or. — The steamer Santa
a range of 8 to 12 cents. The largest vote that repealed the charter will be widening the present road. Automo-
Catalina, a huge $700,000 steel
deal was closed by McNeff Bros., who sufficient to carry the special tax nec biles now travel with ease to a point
freighter of the W. R. Grace Co.’s
bought 340 bales from Demaris Bros., essary to carry on the proposed con several miles the other side of the
line, plying between New York and
of
Yakima. This firm also bought 175 struction of the highway through the summit.
Pacific Coast ports, including Portland,
bales in The Dalles section, the crops
took fire and was beached late Sunday
of Frieson, Smith & Gates and one Reclaming of 46,500 Acres Residents Along Eugene
afternoon against the Oregon shore of
other, also 100 bales from Salem deal
the Columbia river, two miles from
In Lake County Approved
Millrace Win Injunction
era.
St. Helens. She is practically a total
The
apple
m
arket
was
good
for
Salem—State
Engineer
Lewis
said
Eugene—Clearing the title to resi
loss.
cheap and medium-priced fruit, but recently that he approved the applica dence property conservatively valued
Two carloads of ammunition in her
there was not much demand for the tion of the Goose Lake Irrigation com at $250,000, but bcttling the present
cargo exploded with the fire, adding
higher-priced grades.
horrors and damage.
Grapes are steady here and prices pany for the reclamation of 46,500 factory district from further expansion
Forty-two members of her officers’
cannot be advanced, in spite of the acres of land and the construction of a so far as water power is concerned, a
staff and crew are safe, but one fire Attack by Submarine
firmness of the California market. A large reservoir in Goose Lake valley decree in the Circuit court from Judge
man, Gus Johnson, is dead. He was
car of cantaloupes arrived from Med in the southern part of Lake county. Hamilton, of Roseburg, enjoined the
entrapped in the engine room instantly
Was
Complete
Surprise
when the explosion occurred, and Aberdeen, Scotland—The attack on ford.
He said the company soon would com Chambers Power company from at
heroic efforts of Captain J. F. Rose the British cruiser Hawke, which was Wheat — Bid: Bluestem, $1.02; plete
the reservoir and main canals at tempting to widen the mill race, and
forty-fold,
99ic;
club,
96c;
red
Rus
and his aides to rescue him before the sunk by a German submarine, came as
sian, 90c; red Fife, 92c.
a
cost
of approximately $1,000,000. declared the property holders owners
ship was abandoned were futile.
great surprise to those aboard the Oats—Bid: No. 1 white, feed, $25 The impounding
Among the rescued are Mrs. Rose, a cruiser,
dam, which is 66 feet in fee of the property along the banks.
to the survivors who per ton.
wife of the captain, and their baby, arrived according
high,
200
feet
long
at the bottom and This ended, so far as the Circuit court
here.
Nothing
was
seen
to
Barley—Bid:
No.
1
feed,
$20
per
who were lowered over the sides of the indicate the presence of a submarine ton; brewing, $21; bran, $22; shorts, 600 at the top, has been
completed, its is concerned, a controversy which has
burning vessel while still in mid until after the explosion, when the $23.
storage capacity being 65,000 acre- been continued for 14 years, involving
stream.
of the boat was detected Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $25@ feet. The north and south canals, two a virtual feud between the power com
The fireboat David Campbell, of periscope
pany’s workmen and the property own
moving
away
some distance.
25.50 per ton; shorts, $27@28; rolled of the largest, are completed with the ers.
Portland, fought the flames in the big The Hawke at sank
The decree also enjoined the
exception
of
certain
flumes.
in
five
minutes
and
barley,
$26@27.
linerjafter making a fast run from hundreds of men, some of them in
power company from runinng cordwood
Corn—Whole, $37 per ton; cracked, “ The company,” said Mr. Lewis, down
Portland.
the mill stream.
“ will sell water at the rate of $25 an
jackets and others hanging to $38.
The Santa Catalina was capable of cork
The
power company lost its right,
acre,
and,
as
soon
as
the
land
under
pieces
of
wreckage,
were
scattered
Hay
—
Eastern
Oregon'
timothy,
carrying 10,000 tons dead weight and about in the water.
once
possessed,
it allowed a
the
present
canal
has
been
sold,
the
$15.50@16
per
ton;
grain
hay,
$10@
had just entered the Columbia river on “ I was on the forenoon w atch,” said 11; alfalfa, $12@13.50; valley tim project will be extended by the con residence district because
to
grow
up along the
her second voyage to Portland. She one of the stokers, “ and we were en othy, $13@14.
struction of high line canals which banks of the stream’unprotested. The
made her maiden trip last December. joying ourselves. Someone was sing
held that it made no effort to use
Vegetables — Cucumbers, $1.50 per probably will bring the total acreage court
She was one of the first great liners to ing and the others had joined in the box;
its
right
to widen the banks for a
under
the
project
to
60,000.
Fees
col
eggplant,
7c
per
pound;
peppers
make a passage through the Panama chorus when the Hawke was struck.
period
of
more
than 48 years.
lected
by
this
office
on
approval
of
the
5@c;
artichokes,
85c
per
dozen;
toma
canal, having arrived at San Francisco The ship vibrated violently and imme
aggregate $526.09. While
from New York about 10 days ago. She diately started to cant over. When I toes, 50@90c per crate; cabbage, ljc permits
Marion Tax Roll Is Less.
per pound; peas, 10c; beans, 6c; cel water rights for the project were
left San Francisco Friday and carried reached the deck the captain was call ery’,
50@75c per dozen; cauliflower, initiated under the old law, the com Salem—Marion county's tax roll for
about 2000 tons of mixed cargo, 1400 ing, ‘I t’s everybody for him self.’
75c@$l; asparagus, $2 box; sprouts, pany handling the bonds insisted that 1914 is $37,893,165, which is $408,790
tons of which were for Portland.
•the same be brought under the state
I jumped overboard and managed 10c per pound.
In the cargo for Portland was a to “ keep
although the w ater was Onions—Yellow, $1@1.25 per sack. water code to secure protection offered less than last year. The decrease is
large supply of ammunition, which ex bitterly afloat,
due to the water company property
picked up by the Green Fruits — Apples, 75c@$1.75 by it.”
______ i_
ploded within a few minutes after the only boat cold, that until there
was
tim
e
to
and steel bridge having been assessed
per
box;
cantaloupes,
$1@1.60
per
vessel took flame. The exploding cart launch. For a time we rowed around
by the state and not by the county, as
ridges created a near-panic among the picking up men, but the boat was soon crate; casabas, $1.25@1.50 per dozen; State’s fish Hatcheries
sailors and crew and made the work of overcrowded and beyond throwing life pears, 50c@$1.25 per box; peaches,
|
last year.
Best
Record
in
History
fighting the blaze still more hazardous belts to the men in , the water, we 40@60c; grapes, 75c@ $l.25 per crate; Salem—R. E. Clanton, superintend Assessor West says the property
cranberries,
$8@8.50
per
barrel.
and nearly impossible. Three of the could do no more. A Norwegian
seamen jumped overobard, two swim steamer came up and picked up a few Potatoes—Oregon, $1.25 per sack; ent of hatcheries, at a meeting of the valuation is approximately the same
sweet potatoes, 2(ii2\c per pound.
ming to the Oregon shore, a third be
State Fish,and Game commission, said as in 1913. The acreage value is $22,-
but for the large majority she Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, case that
ing rescued by a small river fishing men,
town and city lot improve
the take of salmon eggs for hatch ! 899,490;
count, 29(f?32c per dozen; candled, 33
boat, which went to the aid of the was too late.”
ments,
$10,021,995;
improvements on
eries this year was the largest in the land not deeded or patented,
@35c; storage, 27J@28c.
Santa Catalina as soon as the explosion
$48,600;
Poultry—Hens, 121<Sil3c per pound; history of the state. He said the take, (steamboats, sailboats, stationary en
was heard up and down the Columbia Native Born Canadians
springs, 121(fil3c; turkeys, young, 18 which is principally of the early Chi gines, automobiles and manufacturing
in the vicinity of St. Helens.
in New Army Are few @20c;
dressed, 22@25c; ducks, 10@ nook, will total more than 30,000,000. machinery, $669,495; merchandise and
14c;
geese,
10@ llc.
in trade, $1,228,496; farm im-
Toronto,
Ont.
—
Charges
are
made
Anti-German Riots Started that many native-born Canadians are Butter— Creamery,
prints, extras, C. F. Stone, of Klamath Falls, for j j stock
plements,
money, notes and
merly a member of the commission j accounts, $202,280;
per pound; cubes, 30@31c.
in Many Parts of London not enlisting for service in the Euro 35c Veal—Fancy,
$872,890; shares of stock,
12@12Jc pier pound. and reappointed recently when Harold $821,990; hotel, rooming house and
London — Anti-German rioting in pean war. One estim ate goes so far Pork—Block, 9J@10c
per pound.
Clifford, of Baker, resigned, attended office furniture, $81,500; horses and
as
to
say
that
of
the
first
contingent
London Sunday night caused the de
Hops—1914
crop,
8@
llc;
1913 crop, the meeting. A resolution providing mules, $559,700; cattle, $389,515;
no
fewer
than
85
per
cent
were
British
struction of a score of shops. Damage
that all employes of the department sheep and goats, $43,980; swine, $48,-
was done in the Deptford borough and born, most of whom came to Canada nominal.
having expense accounts must furnish 415, and dogs, $5020.
in Old Kent road. In the former dis within the last five years.
receipts for expenditures or make affi
Seattle.
trict several stores were attacked and This estim ate is combated by many,
them, was adopted. It was
among others by the Canadian life Seattle—Numerous sailings to Alas davits to that
Scholls Fair Success.
set afire.
all heads of departments Hillsboro
In Old Kent road meat markets were insurance companies, who patriotically ka drew heavily of fresh eggs and but decided
— The Grange Fair at
file reports for the year ending Scholls, 10 miles
smashed and this was followed by the have decided not to enforce the war ter from this market, and eggs sold as must
southeast of this city,
December
1
not
later
than
December
wrecking of a confectionery store. clause in their policies, which entitles high as 47c on a jobbing basis, with 17.
closed
after
a
two
days' session. The
them
to
impose
a
super-prem
i^i
of
Some of the shops were pillaged.
wholesale
prices
firm
to
higher
at
46(ft'
A
vote
of
thanks
was
extended
to
livestock
exhibits
were
numerous, and
$50
a
thousand.
Instead
of
doing
this
Police were called out and 20 arrests
few sales were reported at 48c. Mr. Clifford for his work while a mem the fair is considered the
best ever
made. Precautions have been taken they are carrying all policies in force 47c. The A tendency
in immediate futures ber of the commission.
at the time of enlistment at the old is for an advance,
to prevent further rioting.
held
in
the
locality.
The
exhibits
of
and
jobbers
do
not
Great excitement prevailed through rate, therehy substantially increasing hesitate to predict a 50-cent market
swine
were
as
good
as
those
at
the
their
liabilities
without
any
compen
out Sunday in Deptford and neighbor
Expert Talks on Clover.
before the end of next week. Ranch
State Fair, and blooded cattle and
ing boroughs. Crowds thronged the sating revenue. They say their lists stock is decreasing so heavily that job Albany—C. W. Creel, a government sheep
the display. An or
streets and refused to move at the or of policy holders show a large propor bers are buying from each other in agricultural expert of Washington, D. ganizer completed
of
girls’
clubs, under direction
ders of the police. The rioters tion of Canadian born.
to fill local and shipping de C., addressed the clover growers of of the domestic science
teacher of O.
threatened to attack German places However, the highest estim ate of order
mands.
C.t delivered an address.
in Bromley and other boroughs if the Canadian born in the contingent is 40 There has been a heavier movement Linn county at the Commercial club A. The
management of the fair had the
per cent, 60 per cent being British storage eggs, with a top on locals of recently.
authorities permitted them to open.
entire
exhibit
under tents, and there
The rioting was led by 100 docks born, although according to the last of
The season is showing that the Sixty-five clover growers attended was a good attendance,
despite in
laborers, who had been turned out of a census the latter number only 11 per 31c.
local
egg
has
remained
in
better
con
the lecture.
clement
weather.
The
Scholls
Grange
lodging house to make room for Bel cent of the population.
than the Easterns which went to Mr. Creel talked to the growers on holds a fair every year, and the
gian refugees. The men gathered in That a serious situation is indicated dition
ice simultaneously and that they methods to be used in exterm inating just closed was its first experiment fair
in
a German saloon and smashed the win by the circumstance is admitted by the
not as yet give any of the custom the midge and rootborer, which have livestock exhibits,
Canadian patriots. In explanation it do
dows and the bar.
"storage” taste.
injured the clover crop this J
The dockers charged the owner of is argued that many of the British ar ary The
butter m arket is steady and materially
year.
Library Day Is Arranged.
the saloon with having started a re- rivals had miltiary training, and fur well balanced.
The liberal supply in In 1912, between $100,000 and Stanfield—November
21 is to be ob
port that two British battleships had ther, having severed home ties, they sight, together with
the
heavy
flow
of
been destroyed, The shop of a German were freer to respond to the call of cream, which seems to be uninter $125,000 worth of seed was produced served in Stanfield as library Day. The
Last year the crop amounted Library board has laid plans for the
butcher, in the window of which a war. It is admitted that this is only a
and the well proportioned vol here.
to
$225,000.
The Linn county clover occasion, and will especially entertain
picture of Emperor William was dis partial explanation and that possibly rupted,
of trade, is tending to keep the men will co-operate
Oregon con all visitors. Opportunity will also be
there is a more serious underlying ume
played, was wrecked.
street independent of bullish influ gressmen in securing with
an appropriation | given the people of town and country
The rioting proceeded for a distance cause.
ences
that
m
ight
be
put
upon
it
by
of $10,000 to establish an experi to donate books. The books so donated
of about a mile before it was stopped It has also been pointed out that few other large distributing centers.
by a detachment of soldiers. The French Canadians enliBted for the first Eggs— Select ranch, 40fa42c dozen. mental station in Oregon to be de | will not become part of the county
I library, but will be the nucleus of a
shopkeepers all lived above their contingent. The incident illustrates Poultry—Live hens, 10@16c pound; voted to the clover industry.
I strictly Stanfield library, and remain
places of business and their apart how slender is the bond of sentim ent old roosters, 10c; 1914 broilers, 13(a
that now connects “ New France” with 14c; ducklings, 10(S12c; geese, 10c;
the property of the community. The
Hybrid Ducks Killed.
ments were sacked.
Library board appointed by the mayor
The rioting in the German shops in old France. Nevertheless, in demon guinea
Silver
Lake
—
A
new
species
of
fowl,
$9
per
dozen.
High street, Deptford, was resumed at stration of loyalty to the British em Dressed mutton— 10<fj,17ic pound. | ducks, at least a new kind to Central James M. Kyle, consists of G. L. Hurd,
11 o’.clock. Sunday night. A large pire, an entire brigade of French Vegetables — Artichokes, 75 85 ; Oregon, has made its appearance on president; Mrs. Florence B. Connor,
force of police who tried unsuccessful Canadians is being rapidly organized dozen;
Lake county lakes with the opening of secretary; Mrs. J. M. Richards, Mrs.
beans, green, 7i<i£8c; bell pep 1 the
ly to put down the distrubance had and will be incorporated in the second pers, California,
season. The stranger ap- Frank Sloan, Mrs. George C. Coe and
30-lb. boxes, $1.25; pears hunting
expedition.
several of its members injured.
to be a bluebill-mallard hybrid. Thomas Richards.
beets, new, $1(0,1.25 sack; cabbage, • | Only
two of the new birds have been
lc pound; red, l |c ; corn, green,
so far, but hunters report hav- Astoria Opposes Waterfront Bills.
Prince Saved by Illness.
Prisoners' Exchange Due. 1 local,
$1.50(§)1.75 sack; carrots, local, 85c 1 killed
London—That Prince Oscar, the fifth London—The Amsterdam correspond (ft$ 1 sack; cauliflower, local, 75c ing seen a flock of a dozen or more of Astoria—The Port of Astoria Com
son of the emperor, owes his life to ent of Rueter’s Telegram company dozen; cucumbers, hothouse, 75<885c ; apparently the same kind of ducks.
mission at its meeting adopted resolu
his attack of heart disease is stated in says the Cologne Gazette has published ¡dozen; field, 35<fJ45c; lettuce, local,
tions opposing the passage of the in
90-Cent Wheat Is Scarce.
a dispatch from Copenhagen. It ap- a message from Kiel, saying that 157 40(i/50c dozen; potatoes. W hite rivers,
itiative measure known as the "public
pears that a party of Turros were fir- j prisoners of war, men attached to the $21 (fii 23 ton; Yakimas, $25 0 1 27; Pendleton—More than 150,000 bush docks and water frontage amendment”
ing from trees and shot down every British ambulance corps, have arrived ¡sweets, $1.90@2 hundred; radishes, els of club wheat changed hands Sat- as well as the initiative measure en
officer surrounding the prince. T h e1 at the German-Danish frontier for ex local, 15c dozen bunches; rutabagas, j urday at 90 cents a bushel. While titled the “ municipal wharves and
sudden excitement led to the heart at change with an equal number of Ger Alaska, $2 sack; Spinach, local, 90c(a this price is phenomenal, local buyers docks bill.” The resolutions recite
tack and the prince fell unconscious. man ambulance corps men held b y the $1 crate; tomatoes, local, 30fo40C|Were unable to obtain more at this that each of the proposed measures is
The Turcos believed he was dead and , British. The Englishmen will travel crate; turnips, new, white, $1.25 figure. Many farm ers declare they detrimental to the best interests of the
stopped firing.
state.
home by way of Copenhagen.
sack.
{ are holding for $1.
j