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WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT YEEK
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NEWS ITEMS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.