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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1916)
UHf WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT YEEK New Supreme Court Member and Wife. Of Ccneral Interest IN AMERICAN PORT NEWS ITEMS GERMAN SUBA Brief Resume of General News From Ml Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A KUTSHOJ I've News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. RusBsian army in Turkey retires 80 miles in Bagdad region to await cooler weather. Germans fail in counter attack against the French, who hold ground they won along the river Somme. Vienna admits defeat of the Aub trians, when they were driven back nearly five miles from their positions. The new Swiss war loan of 100,000, 000 francs at 4 per cent, issued at 97, has been oversubscribed by 51,000,000 francs. Admiral Jellicoe, of the British navy, reporting on the North Sea naval battle, estimates the Germans lost 21 ships. Since the beginning of the European war the SwiBS national debt has risen from an average of 28 francs per cap ita to 150 franca. Theodore Tobiason, owner of a mil linery store in Spokane, was shot and killed in his store by Alphonse Pan siera. Fansiera, according to the po lice, said, Tobiason owed him 5000. It is understood that the report that Sir Edward Grey, the English foreign secretary, is to be raised to the peer age, is correct, and that in fact he al ready has accepted Buch an offer. A baronetcy of the United Kingdom probably will be conferred upon him. The War department has announced that it will call to the colors within a few days the regular army reserve, consisting of between 4000 and 5000 men who have served in the army, in order to hasten organization of new units provided by the army reorganiza tion act. ' A new project for saving life at the time of naval engagements is reported from Copenhagen. It is said several prominent Danes intend to organize a fleet of several hundred motor boats along the west coast of Jutland. These boats, flying the Red Cross flag, will be sent out to pick up the wounded after each sea battle. Petitions carrying 75,000 names in support of initiative No. 24, which au thorizes the operation of breweries and sale of beer direct to consumers, were filed with the secretary of state of Washington. It is estimated that 50, 000 of the petitioners will be found qualified to sign, while the law needs only 32,000 signatures to place on the ballot. Loss of at least 17 lives and prop erty damage which may total several millions of dollars resulted from the tropical storm which swept the east Gulf Coast and turned inland Saturday. All the deaths reported occurred near Beloit, Ala., where 17 negroes lost their lives. Several resorts along the coast in the vicinity of Mobile had not been heard from. There was no loss of life in either Mobile or Pensacola, the largest cities in the storm's path, according to messengers from those places, which still were cut off from the direct wire communication. A bill to establish a National park service, with a compensation system of supervision, and a bill to accept from the state of Oregon exclusive jurisdiction over the Crater Lake Na tional park, were among measures passed by the house of representatives. The customs bureau of the Treasury department begins an examination to learn the total amount of arms and am munition that has been exported to Mexico within the last year. The work was undertaken at the request of the War department. Orders were sent to all customs insieetors to tabu luto the information and send it to Washington as soon as possible. Three deaths from heat were report ed to the police in St. Louis Tuesday. The victims were elderly men. The highest temperature was 94 degrees. No soldier along the border is to be without a Bible, if efforts now being made to provide each fithtine man with a pocket-size khaki-bound volume at a cost of 5 cents are successful. The army chaplains who have been in terested in the movement are lending their assistance to it The Bibles are provided at cost. ii .' " il j! v. Y I ' y I-' Lit 1 -f 'tT ' s '- ! i , ; : s i f ' ah""' h H Is t if If This photograph shows Associate Justice robes of office. 1 IS ENTERED MERCHANTMAN Batlimore The daring German sea men who brought the submarine mer chantman Deutschland across the At lantic slept quietly aboard their vessel which lay moored to a carefully screen ed pier guarded by a strong squad of Baltimore police. Captain Paul Koe nig, the skipper, had delivered his pa pers to the North German Lloyd office, entered his vessel at the custom-house as a commerce carrier, and had pre sented to a German embassy official a packet of correspondence for von Bernstorff. Now the submarine is ready to dis charge her million-dollar cargo of dye stuffs and take on board for the return trip to Germany metal and rubber needed by the emperor's armies and navy. The return merchandise is waiting on the dock, and the time for leaving port will depend largely on plans for eluding vigilant enemy cruisers expect ed to be waiting outside the entrance of Chesapeake Bay for the reappear ance of the vessel. OMNIBUS REVENUE BILL PASSES HOUSE, INCREASING INCOME TAX Washintgon, D. C The administra tion omnibus revenue bill, creating a tariff commission, imposing a protec tive tariff on dyeBtuffs, repealing pres ent stamp taxes and providing for new taxes on incomes, inheritances and war munitions profits, passed the house late Monday by a vote of 240 to 140. During the closing hours of debate several amendments, providing for elimination of the bankers' tax and modifying the tariff commission sec tion, were adopted over the opposition of Democratic leaders. The amendments cut the salaries of members of the tariff commission from $10,000 to $7500 annually; struck out the provision unjer which no member or former member of congress could serve on the commission, and provided a single appropriation of $300,000 to pay expenses of the commission the first year, instead of the bill's stipula tion of a continuing annual appropria tion of that amount. The entire sec tion levying a tax of $1 for each $1000 of capital, surplus and undivided profits held by bankers was stricken out. Many amendments proposed by the ways and means committee also were adopted, including one under which cigarette manufacturers must pay a special tax of 3 cents for every 10,000 cigarettes. Banks' Opinions Differ. New York A wide divergence of opinion among the banks of the coun try as to whether the Federal reserve1 act has been successful after a year's operation is shown in a report issued Tuesday by a New York trust com pany, which has completed a nation wide survey of the attitude of banks toward the act. More than 5000 re plies were received to the queries sent out, 1760 of them being favorable, 1773 unfavorable, and 1811 noncommittal. S4 Louis D. Brandeis for the first time in his One of Captain Koenig's first acts after he moved his ship up the harbor from quarantine early Monday was to announce that the Deutschland was only one of a fleet of mammoth sub mersibles built or building for a regu lar trans-Atlantic freight and mail service. He said the next to come would be the Bremen, and that she might be looked for at some port along the coast within eight weeks, The German catpain submitted his craft to a thorough inspection by the surveyor of the port and an agent of the department of Justice. These officers agreed that there was on sign of armament of r any description on board, and that there was no doubt in their minds about the boat's being en titled to thf status of an ordinary mer chantman, The captain asserted that his voyage had established the fact that a subma rine of the type of the Deutschland could travel anywhere that the ordi nary vessel could go, 13000 miles, if necessary. He had no fears, he said. of his ability to elude enemies that might be waiting for him off the Vir ginia Capes when he starts his return trip, "I will be able to submerge within the three-mile limit, and they cannot catch me after that," he said, Newest Photo of Republican Chairman mUMM R. WJLLLQ& This is the latest photograph of Wil liam R. Wilcox, new chairman of the Republican National committee, who will manage the campaign for the election of Charles E. Hughes. King of Annam Deposed. Faris - Duy-Tan, the 16-year-old king of the French protectorate of An nam, on the China sea, has been de throned as a result of a revolt of An namites at Quang-Ngai, which he has been accused of having fomented. The governor general of French Indo-China reports that the outbreak was sup pressed quickly and the king arrested near Hue. ,He is succeeded by Prince Bun-Dao, who has just been crowned king in his stead. Crop Shortage Will Be Offset by Higher Prices This Year Washineton. D. C. - The monthly bulletin of the Federal Reserve board, issued this week, disscussing business conditions of the Pacific Coast, says: "While the crops of this section will be less than the average, due to dam age by late frosts and drouth, the farmers and fruit growers will be pro tected from loss through the greater prices which they will receive for their products. Peach growers who last year permitted their crops to rot on the trees because of the unprofitable prices prevailing are this year con-1 trading to sell their product, which will be 40 to 60 per cent of the aver age, at more than double the prices prevailing at the same time last year. "The damage from the frost to ap nle and near in the Northwest has been quite serious and general but the prediction is made that notwithstand ing this the year's crop will exceea that of 1915. This vear's erain cron of the twelfth district will be from 20 to 30 per cent less than that of last year. This short age is due to the unusual drouth which has prevailed during the spring m cer tain parts of California. A material decrease in acreage is reported from the Northwest. It is asserted that the carry over from last year's wheat crop in Oregon and Washington equals 20 to 40 per cent of last year's crop. "Mining during the past year has been the most profitable industry within this district. The next most profitable one has been livestock. "Recent rains in Idaho have greatly benefitted the grazing lands. Sheep, wool and cattle are all bringing high prices in all of the states of this dis trict. Dairying is also prosperous." Representative Sinnott Now Wears Oregon Jackrabbit Fedora Washington, D. C. High-grade felt hats can be manufactured from the fur of Oregon jackrabbits. This is no longer a theory, but a demonstrated fact, and Representative N. J. Sinnott, of Oregon, is today proudly wearing the first and only felt fedora ever man ufactured in the country from jackrab bit fur. Last winter Mr. Sinnot discovered that felt hat manufacturers were em barrassed because their supply of Ger man rabbit fur was cut off with the war. It occurred to him that jackrab bit fur might be substituted and he sent to Oregon for a consignment of jackrabbit skins. These he turned over to the largest and best-known hat manufacturers in the East, with the request that they experiment with the rabbit fur and determine its suitabili ties for hat manufacture. The jackrabbit hat seems to be the equal of any $5 felt hat on the market. It is of fine, soft texture, smooth to the touch and clear in color anrt orrnin Members who examined it pronounced it a nrst-clase headpiece and one that ought to command a good price in the market. Mr. Sinnott was told by manufactur ers, who entered upon the experiment with some doubts, that th n jackrabbit fur made a much better hat than they had anticipated. He also learned from them that be valuable for hat manufacture must De Killed in the winter months, when the fur is heaviest, and must come from the colder portions of the West. New Route Proposed. Klamath Falls A shorten the distance from Eugene to uiauiitiu county points ana to make a new route for tourists from that sec tion bound for California, is being con sidered in this citv. A have been completed for taking the nnpatinn iim n,itk .U H nlu, lae county court next week at its regular Julv term ti, present route from Eugene to Crescent is via mcKenzie Pass and Bend, a dis tance of 170 miles. The proposed route, in connection with the old mili tary road, would make the distance from Eugene to Crescent 109 miles and would have the effect of routing the southern-bound tourist thmnnv. r cent via Crater Lake and Klamath Jails and on into California via Tule roau, tnrough the Modoc lava beds. Record Mortgage Filed. Astoria Onp f tha u i i j . r,. "ugesi mort gages filed in Clatsop county for manv years was recorded this week It was given by the Crown Willamette Paper company to the Continental & Com mercial Trust & Savings bank and Frank H. Jones, of Chicago. It covers all the paper company's extensive tim berland holdings in Oregon and Cali i?nnana.ndwas 89 security for $6,000,000 in 6 per cent bonds, LuZ by the company. U-lincr Crosses Atlantic With Cargo if Valuable Dyestuffs. KAISER WRITES TO PRIStDEH Vessel Successfully Breaks Blockade of British Warships-Will Take Home Needed Supplies. Baltimore The world's first subnu. rine merchant vessel, the German un. derwater liner Deutschland, anchored below Baltimore Sunday night, after voyaging safely across the Atlantie, passing the allied blockading squad. rons and eluding enemy cruiser, watching for her off the American coast. She carried a message from Emperor William to President Wilson, a quan. tity of mail estimated at 150 tons and a cargo of 750 tons of costly chemicals and dyestuffs, and is to carry back home a similar amount of nickel and crude rubber sorely needed by the Ger man army. Sixteen days out from Bremerhaven to Baltimore, the submarine reached safety between the Virginia capei at 1 :45 o'clock Sunday morning, by a heavy pall of darkness which settled over the entrance of the bay, with the setting of a tell-tale half moon. Once inside, the visitor threw cau tion aside and began shrieking his si ren signalling a pilot and at the same time attracting the attention of the tug Thomas F. Timmons, which had been waiting in the lower bay for nearly two weeks to greet the Deutsch land and convoy her into port. Little was known here about what happened during the epoch-making cruise across the ocean, which in a small measure at least breaks the blockade on German trade with the rest of the world. None of the sub marine's crew had landed and the agents of her owners had received only meager reports. Such informational was available came directly from the pilot and from Captain Hans F, Hinsch, of the North German Lloyd Liner Neckar, laid up here Bince the beginning of the war. J. F. Gillies, Washington State fund Looter, Escapes From U Olympia, Wash.-J. F Gillies, twice convicted of embezzling $20,000 from state industrial insurance funds while employed as claim agent for the state, Sunday night pried off two flimsy locks with a bolt as a jimmy and escaped from the Thurston county jail. With him went Henry Roberts, awaiting transfer to the reformatory for a stat utory offense. Prosecuting Attorney Yantis ordered the arrest of Mrs. Gillies on a warrant charging her with aiding the escape of the prisoners. Mrs. Gillies was not locked up, but was taken to the home of a policeman and placed in the care of the officer's wife. It is believed the prisoners boarded a train bound for Portland. . .... An automobile is known to nave ic town about midnight, and it is be lieved to have taken the two men to ward Canada. At a late hour no trace had been reported of either. , Shortly after dark Gillies and Rob erts locked an old man held on a minor charge in his cell and pried their wsy out. Sheriff McCorkle was at Centrali and James Fennell, County game den, who occasionally slept at the jail was out of town. By sawing off the riveted end of the bolt by which their cell would hve been locked, had that precaution been taken, Gillies and Roberts slipped out the bolt and then sawed the end of off on the bias to make a chisel point by which they pried their way out Gillies evidently let himself from the window to the ground 15 feet belo with a blanket. Alaska Sends in Bullion. Seattle, Wash. Seven hundred fifty thousand dollars in gold bull the largest shipment received fto" Alaska this year, was brought M Sunday by the steamer HumboW; which arrived from Skagway. Ta gold, the first of the Spring clejw in interior Alaska, was shipped Fairbanks by the first steamer up Yukon and transported to Skagw over White Pass from White Hor the head of river navigation.
