WORLD'S
DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the EarLh.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSIiEU
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
A boy of 10 was killed and two girl
playmates injured at Portland when
their coaster wagon ran into a motor
truck.
British authorities say they have
proof that two additional German
dreadnaughts were sunk in the Jutland
patue.
The captain of the German subma
rine freighter says German freight
carrying Zeppelins will soon visit
America.
War's increase of food Drices in Eu
rope, as shown bv the bureau of labor
statistics, has touched neutrals almost
as heavily as it has the belligerents
Russian troops have canttireH the
town of Mamakhatum, 50 miles west
or fcrzerum, on the Tuzulu river, by
assault. The retreating Turks set fire
to me town.
By the overturning of an automobile
on rrospect road, a tew miles from
San Jose, Cal., Dorothy Parker, 18, a
aaugnter oi "rainless" Parker, a den
tist, was killed.
A corporation will be organized by a
group oi American bankers, headed by
J. P. Morgan & Co., and Brown Broth
ers & Co., to lend 1100,000,000 to the
trench government.
The Georgia house refused, 91 to 21,
10 auopt a special rule for conBidera
tion of a suffrage amendment The
result is expected to end the fight for
sun rage at this session of the legisla
ture. Four men were killed, one is missing
and more than a score of others were
more or less injured by an explosion of
600 pounds of ' nitroirlvcerine. In the
mixing house of the Du Pont powder
piant in Maskell, N. J.
William Zimmer, aged 12 years, was
arrested in New Orleans, charged with
Kining nis mother. The boy, accord
lng to the police, said he shot his
mother because she threatened to beat
mm when he returned home after an
unsuccessful search for work.
The engagement is announced of
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow of
the late British statesman, and the
Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, rector
oi oi. Margaret, and canon of West
minster. Before her marriage, Mrs.
Chamberlain was Miss Mary Endicott,
of Massachusetts.
Lester Stillwell, 12 years old, was
killed by man-eating shark while
bathing in an arm of Raritan bay near
Matawan, N. J. Stanley Fisher, 24
years old, who went to his aid, was so
badly injured in a struggle with the
sea monster that he died while being
taken to a Long Branch hospital.
The Bethlehem Steel company plans
to spend J70.000.000 in improvements
and extensions to its plants, according
to E. G. Grace, president, in addition
to $40,000,000 which it was said would
be Bpent at the plants of the Pennsyl
vania and Maryland Steel companies,
recently acquired by the Bethlehem.
The Socialist newspaper, Tribune,
of Amsterdam, asserts that 65,000
workmen employed in the munition
lactones and electrical works in Ber
lin and in an aerodrome at Johaniathal
nave gone on strike as a protest
gainst me prison sentence imposed on
i-r. an ueuknecht, Socialist leader,
for participation in the May Day dem
onstration at Berlin.
The Dagens Nyhedcr, at Copenha
gen, announces that a sea battle is
believed to have occurred in the Baltic
outside of Haefringe on Sunday night.
Violent cannonading was heard from
several points on the coast and it is
presumed that the German and Russian
patrolling squadrons clashed.
A cherry tree at White Salmon,
Wash., yields 1071 pounds of fruit.
The Union Pacific decides to cut the
lumber freight to Eastern points 5
cents, making the tariff 45 cents per
hundred pounds, instead of 50 cents.
The change is due September 1.
General Smuts, in command of the
British forces in German East Africa,
has occupied Tangs, according to i
statement issued by the war office
The Germans offered only slight resistance.
PRMI'SIGNS RURAL CRMS
BILL CREATING 12 LAND BANKS
Washington, D. C President Wil
son signed Monday the rural credits
bill passed recently by congress. He
used two pens, afterward giving one
to Senator Fletcher, of Florida, w ho
will present it to the Southern Com
mercial Congress. Several members
of the house and senate were f resent,
among them David Lubin, one of the
originators of the National grange,
the Framers' Educational and Cooper
ative congress and the National Coun
cil of Farmers' cooperative associa
tions. The President delivered a brief
address.
"I cannot go through the simple
ceremony of signing this bill without
expressing the feeling that I have
signing it," he said. "It is a feeling
not only of profound satifsaction, but
of real gratitude that we have com'
pleted this piece of legislation, which
I hope will be immensely beneficial to
the farmers of the countrv.
"The farmers, it seems to me, have
occupied hitherto a singular position
of disadvantage. They have not had
the same freedom to get credit on
their real estate that others have had
who were in manufacturing and com
mercial enterprises, and while thev
have sustained our life, they did not in
the same degree with Borne others
share in the benefits of that life.
"Therefore, this bill, alone with the
very liberal provisions of the Federal
reserve act, put them upon an equality
with all others who have genuine
assets and makes credit of the countrv
available to them.
"I look forward to the benefits of
this bill, not with extravagant expec
tations, with confident expectations
that it will be of very wide-reaching
benetit. and. incidental v. it will he of
advantage to the investing community.
for 1 can imagine no more satisfac
tory and solid investment than this
system will afford those who have
money to use."
Commission Denies Rehearing
In Astoria Rate Decision
Washington. D. C. The order nf
the Interstate Commerce commission
in the Astoria rate case promulgated
February 19, will become operative on
or before September 15. the eommis-
Bion Tuesday having deneid the motion
oi tne railroads lor a rehearing.
As originally drawn the Astoria rate
decision was to have gone into effect
May 1, but its operation was susnend
ed when the carriers no March 19 filed
motion for rehearinir. When that
motion was filed the commission tem
porarily suspended its order until it
could investigate the grounds nnnn
wnich rehearing was asked.
that investigation has since been
made, and the order of the commission
is indication that it finds the grounds
insufficient to justify a modification of
its original order. In denying the ne
tition for rehearing the commission
does not state the grounds of its action
and makes no statement of the
whatever, merely entering its order.
American Navy Has longest Range
Anti-Air Craft Guns in World
Washington. D. C Construction nf
enough high-powered anti-aircraft guns
to supply all active battleships and
cruisers of the navv has bean mm.
pleted, it was announced Tuesday by
Secretary Daniels. The new Weannna
is believed by navy experts to be the
longest range guns of that type in the
world.
The new gun is a three-inch. Kft .i;.
ber weapon that will throw a shell 27,.
000 feet in air at an angle of 90 de
grees. -On each Bhip one will be
mounted forward and one aft win.
aii-round nre so that the pair can
sweep the skies in any direction.
Guns Thunder on Vardar.
Paris The war office has given out
the following statement covering the
operations of the army of the Orient
from July 1 to July 15:
"East of the Vardar artillery ac
tions, often intense, have occurred
daily on the front. Advance post en
gagements of little importance took
place July 7 north of Kalinokn. in kii.
ometers south of Lake Doimn "wi
of the Vardar our patrols and light de-
lacnmenis nave had frequent skirm
ishes with the enemv. whn iu-.,.. ...
-I.l: j a . . ..' . "-jo oo
uuugeu io retreat."
Bootleggers to Be Shot.
Charleston. W. VP
employed by the Chesapeake 4 Ohio
rauroaa in West V rerini. k.- k
ordered to carry rifles as well as revol-
vers to resist efforts of bootleggers and
their agents to bring liquors into this
state.
These officers have ft I fin heart inatm.
ted to work in squads of four or singly
or in pairs. The nr,)e.
.vouncu irura
the increased numbers of attempts to
violate the state prohibition laws.
I MR Ws TTRMS
" . . ,
Of Cencral Interest!
About Oregon
Buyers' Week Dates Are
August 7 to 12 Inclusive
The fourth annual Buyers' Week to
be held in Portland has been fixed'for
August 7 to 12, for the convenience of
Northwest merchants. Invitations are
ready to be sent to all the merchandis
ing trade territory, where Portland
jobbers and manufacturers maintain
affiliations.
Plans for the event are being worked
out by the arrangements committee of
that city and it is intended to mix bus
iness and pleasure in most alluring
proportions.
Following the outline of the highly
successful Buyers' Week of 1915, the
work of preparing for the 1916 Buy
ers' Week visitors will be in the hands
of the trade and commerce bureau of
the Chamber of Commerce, of which
Nathan Strauss is chairman.
It is believed that the forthcoming
Buyers' Week will attract a much
larger attendance than any of its three
predecessors.
The number of buyers has grown
each vear. and the territnrv thev ren.
resente has spread, so that the annual
Buyers Week has become one of the
fixed institutions of the city. Portland
jobbers and manufacturers get to
gether with their retail friends from
UDState. downstAte. acrnss the river
and east of the Cascades for a week of
profitable conferences.
Neither the out-of-town merchant or
the representatives of the big mer
chandising establishments of the city
would permit Buyers' Week to be
thrown overboard.
County Courts Decide to Push
Work on Dixie Mountain Road
Baker Meeting at the dividing line
of Grant and Baker counties at Austin,
57 miles west of here, Tuesday after
noon, members of the County courts of
the two counties decided to push the
work on the Dixie Mountain that will
give a thoroughfare connecting the
counties. The road on the Grant
county side was found in worse shape
than that on this side of the line, but
this the Grant County court consented
to remedy at once, with the ultimate
idea of building a road along the John
Day river from Susanville, touching at
the Dixie Meadows mine, which will
make a much safer grade than that on
the road now in use.
In regard to the
. , " j iur
lowing the John Day river and con
necting Baker, Grant and Malheur
counties, the Grant COUntv mmmi'o.
sioners announced that they will push
Freuminary survey, it was ascer
tained that the United Statea F,.-
IVicOkljr
department would pay the greater part
ui uw survey in uaker county. No
arrangements were made as to how the
balance of the expense could be met.
Mills To Pay Families.
Oregon CitV Families nf mi.-J.
- v .uaiufr
men who were employed in the local
mills of the Crown. Willamette p..
... : oyer
company will be cared for by the mill
as long as the Oregon soldiera are
way from home. Mill ffin;i. v....
- - V.U1.1U0 nave
round 11 families which were left by
guardsmen employed in the local plant
The money will he naM tn th .
the men, the mill giving 26 days' pay
- unuui, less iD paid Dy the govern
ment to the soldi era The nr;t
l n m. wumi-nu.
Iamette mills and the Hawley Pulp &
Paper company are holding jobs open
for men now at the -border.
Bond Issue Carries.
Medford-By a vote of nearly 3 tol
I x, JT 866 inst-the people
of Medford Monday approved the con
tract with Mr. Bullis for the construe
tion of a railrnaH tn the m t.j-
....u uiuo ijeuire
Itl IU Hint ... .1 ... "
I Jr uver lne California line,
about 36 mi e frm iut i ,.'
di T j ----- "iwuwu, me
Blue Ledge boosters celebrated their
J-.u S parade of automobiles
With tooting hnrna tW,,U i .
. , . v...Vu6n me BireetS.
I ?,th,wd lights- led by Med-
u-uu. Leaaen. of the movement
Bwenaaea and speeches were
made on the street by enthusiastic cit
izens. Forces To Be Combined.
BandonRoderick L. Macleay, man
ager of the Wedderburn Trading com
rtM8 few months ago pur
chased the Fishermen's Cooperative
Cannery, on the Lower r,,;nr..-..
at Wedderburn. on Rogue River are to
be combined. Tk; i. j .. .
. ,. , " uinue possible
by the fact that the salmon do no
commence to run here until after the
season is over on the Rogue
Improvements and additions to the
local plant are heir, i e
tion for the fall sea"
If NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS
Portland Wheat Bluestem, 79c
per bushel; fortyfold, 97c; club, 86c;
red Fife, 86c; red Russian, 86c.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $23
tf!24 per ton; valley timothy, I19&22;
alfalfa, $Hil5.
Millfeed-Spot prices: Bran, $26$
26.60 pe' ton; shorts, $29(i;29.50;
rolled barley, $31.5032.50.
Corn Whole, $37 per ton, ; cracked
$38.
Vegetables Artichokes, 75tfj$l per
dozen; tomatoes, $1.501.65 per crate;
cabbage, $2(T;2.25 per hundred; garlic,
lc per pound; peppers, 25c; eggplant,
lc; horseradish, 8Jc; lettuce, $lfal.25
per crate; cucumbers, $l(gl.25 per
box; rhubarb, lj(g2c per pound; peas,
8(c4c; cauliflower, $1.25 per crate;
beans, 5(7c per pound; celery, $1.10
1.25 per dozen; corn, 56c per
dozen.
Potatoes-Old, $1.501.65 per sack;
new, 22Jc per pound.
Onions California red and yellow,
$3(3.25 per sack.
Green Fruits Apples, new, $1.75
2 per box: cherries. 4(ffi7c per pound;
cantaloupes, $2.75 3.75 per crate;
peaches, 75c,$l per box; watermel
ons, l)2c per pound; figs, $11.50
per box; raspberries, $1(0,1.25 per
crate; plums, $1.151.50 per box;
prunes, $1.251.50; loganberries, 50c
dill per crate: blackcaps. $1.50(21. 75:
currants, $11.25; pears, $2.75(0 3 per
box.
Eees . Orecon ranch. Exchance
price, current receipts, 23Jc per dozen.
Jobbing prices: Oregon ranch, can
dled, 25c; selects, 26c.
Poultry Hens. 14(S!l5c per pound:
broilers, 1718c; turkeys, live, 20
22c; ducks, 1215c; geese, 9llc.
Butter Cubes, extras, no bid: prime
firsts, 24c. Jobbing prices: Prints,
extras, 2729c; butterfat, No. 1, 26c;
No. 2, 24c; Portland.
Veal Fancy, 1212Jc per pound.
Pork Fancy, 1010Jc per pound.
Hops 1915 crop. 8(ffillc per pound:
1916 contracts, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, fine, 2326c
per pound; coarse. 30fti32c: vallev. 30
33c.
Cascara Bark Old and new, 4c per
pound.
Cattle Steers, choice, $7.508.30;
good, $6.757.25; cows, choice, $6.25
&b.50; good, $5.506.25; heifers, $4
6.50; bulls, $35; Btags, $4.506.
Hogs Prime light, $8.20 8.80;
good to prime, $7.758.10; rough
neavy, sy.0UM7.75: P ZS and sk na
Art S-M flA r '
o.owgjf.iu.
bheep Yearlings, $66.50; weth
ers. $5.50(5)6.50: ewes ii 7K(k ok.
i i . y t
lamos, Sb(g8.z6.
Northwest Wheat Crop Estimated
at 55,000,000 Bushels
The wheat crop of the Pacific North.
west is estimated by grainmen at from
54, 000, 000 to 56, 000, 000 bushels. The
remarkable improvement made in th
past few weeks justifies them in rais
ing their estimates to these figures,
At tne present time the weather could
not oe oetter ror niiinir nut w
ing reports are coming in from all
sections.
AS to the future nr res tha tit...
won ib as uncertain as it ever was
, r 1 .v D.bua-
dui one thing seems sure that is that
the market will be on the basis of Chi-
tago. ine tendency now is to get on
a parity with the East Th i.f n.:
cago bulge put that market up about 7
wuereas prices here have ad
vanced only about 3 cents. The coast
...arsei is not yet on the Chicago par-
'o iivi iu irom it.
Ship 12 Cars Fruit Dailv.
Puyallup, WashWith more than
euuu berry pickers in the valley and
the berries ripening verv fast prr
.. -
uent w. a. raulhamus, of the Fruit
growers association, said that the
association will shin . a .
Ko..: j . uuien cars OI
" ' " uy ior the coming week
.Tul P'cKefS can still be used
mo vaiiev. Mr. Pun ham.,,.
umi.es. nanchers in the .
T". . . -""mo coll
P,,oii . :iy oi
"joiiuu are in create mj i
ers than are Sumner ranchers, because
most of the Puyallup berries are Ant
Srife-ipen mul
"'" "ib uinberts.
Hay Harvest Starts on Coast.
Marshfield. Or
H lea mli a. A : r . ttlau
snrf fh ,eeon' 18 tull swing
and the crop is alumf tu ,6
e r " ranch-
ZZ! be.e" busy with
" V -""'"is uiacnines for the past
week, and the C,niii
-also harvestingTh h MTny
Coos county stockraisers depend upS
corn ensilage rather thm h... ..j?
op will be gathered laleV iXyZ.
Roseburg Shipping Sheep.
Roseburg Or. -More than 1000
ep Were hmntrhf k . . "
George Koh ThaX Zl.T? P
ing shinneH tn thVc-T . y 10 e-
kpT. V "ancisco mar
kets. As manv mni-o m -i .
mann, local livestock buyers.
flOOD DIAGff
CAROLINAS IARG
Hundreds Homeless and Many
oeuevea urowned.
STREAMS ARE RISING RAPIDLY
Property Loss Is $10,000,000-.
ways and Telegraph Lines Demoralized-Five
Perish.
Atlanta. Ga. Serious flnn0 . .
Carolina, South Carolina, and Virgin,
Sunday caused five known deaths, rend,
ered hundreds homeless and damuS
property and crops to the extent !
$10,000,000, according to early j.
mate, and demoralized railway '
graph and telephone communion
Following the hurricane thot
the South Atlantic coast Thursday
precedented rains have fallen, dri'vine
rivers and Bmaller streams from their
banks and imperilling many lives.
The French Broad river has broken
from its course near Asheville, flood,
ing factories and homes in the i
- - ... tuner
part of the city. At Biltmore tW
persons Captain G. C. Line, m
Nellie Lipe and Mrs. Leo Mulholland
were drowned when the Lipe house
was flooded. The Vanderbilt estate
at Biltmore was not damaged.
Two persons were drowned t i.v.
ville while trying to get food to flood
refugees in the second story of the
Glenn Rock hotel.
Throughout Western Carolina tk.
situation la reported serious. TW
dams at Hendersonville collapsed, re
leasing great volumes nf W fit or aJ
mm
fears are felt for the big dam at Lake
Toxaway.
The Southern Railway bridge over
the Catawba river at Belmont, N. C,
has been washed away, carrying 10 or
12 workmen into the river. Whether
they were drowned has not been
learned.
Charlotte, N. C Eighteen men, 14
of whom are construction officials and
employes of the Southern Railway, and
four linemen of the Western Union
Telegraph company, were missing Sun
day night and are believed to be either
drowned or marooned in trees on the
Catawba river about 12 miles from
Charlotte. The river is rising rapidly.
One Slain, One Wounded in Tacoma
Strike Battle; Two Shot in Seattle
Tacoma, Wash. Rangval Leinann,
a strikebreaker, was shot and killed
and Sam Jones, a union lonehsoremsn.
sustained a probably fatal gunshot
wound in a pitched battle Sunday,
when union men attacked an automo
bile carrying nonunion workers to the
niiiwauKee docks.
Four men were in the automobile re
turning from the city to the dockB
when they were ambushed near the
Eleventh-street brido-e hv about 15
strikers. The latter began hurling
bricks at the occupantB of the auto
mobile and when the drivers put on
more speed a shot rang out.
ieinann, who had a revolver but
who had not been able to use it, ac
cording to the others in the car, fell
over dead. One nf the other occu
pants, which one the police have not
been able to learn, nicked up the dead
man's gun and returned the fire,
wounding James.
The ailtnmnhila turned orwl onpH for
the central police station with the body
oi tne strikebreaker, while the stnK
ers, who had B cut stsnHinir near the
scene of the shooting, rushed James to
a nospitai.
Seattle. Wash T wn mpn were shot
but not dangerously wounded, and
third was severelv heaten. during
fight between 16 non-union longshore
men and Btrike sympathizers at the
Pike Place Public Market Saturday
night. Several other men received
less serious injuries.
F. A. Wehh a Vintta anA atrtr deal-
er.in the market, was struck in the leg
by a stray bullet. William Clarke,
unoin longshoreman, was shot in the
leg. O. W, a snecial
policeman employed as a guard at Pier
o, was seriously beaten and kicked.
Flames Threaten Athens.
Paris The fire which rfpatrnved the
summer residence nf Kincr rnnstantine
of Greece, situated at Tatoi, on the
outskirts of Athens, is still raging in
the forest in which the roval chateau
stood. A Havas dispatch from Athens
says it is feared the flames will reach
the city. Amonur thnsn whn Inst their
lives in the fire were Colonel de 1
Parta, of the engineers; M. Chryssos
pathis, the head of the roval secret
service and 20 soldiers.