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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1914)
TURKS ON VERGE OF JOINING WAR Ottoman Cabinet Wavers as to Projected Action. Great Britain, Russia and France View Situation With Disfavor, But Are Cautious. Washington, D. C. Tension is so acute in Constantinople that diplomats there fear Turkey may at any moment be drawn into the general European war on the site of Germany and Aus tria. A strict censorship has been placed on the papers in Turkey, which are now controlled by the military and are being used, according to diplomatic dispatches here, to create a strong pro German feeling. The Turkish cabinet is wavering be tween a declaration of war and the preservation of neutrality. The dip lomatic representatives of the various powers are in constnat conference with the government officials, England and Russia endeavoring to keep Turkey neutral. The German ambassador, it is said, has intimated that, while Ger many wishes Turkey to remain neu tral, he believed the Ottoman empire should mobilize to prevent an invasion by Russia. Feeling is acute over the entry into the Dardanelles of the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau. Great Britain, Russia and France requested 10 days ago that if these ships were purchased by Turkey the crews be sent to either Germany or Austria, under safe con duct. Many of the German sailors are still on board and 150 or more are said to have been distributed among Turkish torpedo boats. The British government is observing these incidents with much disfavor and the situation has been aggravated by the inability of English merchant ships to pass through the Dardanelles, even after the Grand vizier has given the requisite permission. Subordinate offi cials disobeyed the instruction in a way as yet unexplained. Great Britain has let it be Jtnown that if the Goeben and Breslau enter the Mediterranean with Germans aboard they will be fired on by the English. LINER ADMIRAL SAMPSON SUNK; 15 THOUGHT DEAD Seattle, Wash. Within 20 miles of this port Thursday morning, at 6:30 o'clock, the passenger steamer Ad miral Sampson was rammed and sunk by the Princess Victoria, a Canadan Pacific liner. The collision occurred in dense fog off Point No Point. It is believed 15 lives were lost. The official list of dead furnished by the Pacific Alaska company contains 11 names, eight members of the crew, two passengers and an alleged stow away, Dut lour other passengers are missing and are believed to have per ished. The Admiral Sampson, bound for Alaska, was just creeping along in the Bmoke and fog, blowing her horn. The Princess Victoria, also whistling and traveling prudently, struck the Alaska boat at a quarter angle just abaft the beam and sliced almost three-fourths of the way across the Sampson. The oil tank of the Sampson was cut into by the Princess and oil was set on fire. Immediately the middle of the Samp son and interlocking bow of the Princess were enveloped in flame. The officers of both boats had good control of their crews. The lifeboats of the Victoria and some of those on the Sampson were lowered immedi ately, the latter containing passengers. Persons on the Sampson began to leap into the water and were picked up speedily by the Victoria's boats and taken to the Canadian ship. The captain of the Princess held his boat in the gap of the Sampson until the Sampson began to settle in the wa ter and then withdrew. The Sampson sank a few seconds later. Captain Moore, Quartermaster Mar quist and Wireless Operator Recker stayed on the Sampson until they had seen all the others leave. Then they tried to lower a lifeboat, but were too late and they were engulfed with the ship. As a result of the collision the Pacific-Alaska Navigation company filed a libel of $670,000 against the Prin cess Victoria. King Albert at Malines. Paris A dispatch to the Havas agency from Antwerp says that King Albert is at present at the Belgian army headquarters at Malines. Two Saxon princes, the correspondent con tinues, have installed themselves in the royal chateau at Laeken. Laeken is a suburb of Brussels and has a royal park and a residence of King Albert. Another dispatch to the Havas agency from Berne, Switzerland, says the Ger man government has admonished the public to be economical in the use of kerosene and gasoline. Ball Players Aid Red Cross. New York Twenty-five per cent of the gate receipts at all the National League baseball parks September 4 are to be given to the American Red Cross association for use in Eurbpe, according to announcement made by John A. Heydler, secretary of the lea gue. Mr. Heydler said the announce ment was made on authority of Presi dent Tener. European War Will Not Hurt IT. S., Say 8 Expert Washington, D. C. Daniel C. Rop er, for many years statistical expert of the ways and means committee and an authority on economic subjects, has prepared the following summary of the important economic conditions and changes in the United States, brought about by the war in Europe: The European war has precipitated a distinct movement in the economic development of the United States, the potential benefits of which will be realized by our people regardless of what course that conflict may take or what its ultimate outcome may be. This movement begins with a certain shock to the economic organism. We have been called upon to liquidate large foreign holdings of American se curities. Temporarily we have been cut off from much of our foreign sup ply of materials for manufacturers and from important foreign markets for our surpuls food products, raw mater ials and manufactures. This constitutes a disturbance of normal conditions sufficiently serious to cause alterations of the fundamental industrial organization and to create new channels of trade. The1 ultimate beneficial effect of such a disturbance is well known and eventuates even when the disturbance is accompanied by great disaster and loss, which is clearly not our case in the .present in stance. Our country ii in a self-contained and self-supporting state. It imports only $18 worth of goods per capita annually, and exports in return $25 per capita. This foreign trade is not large enough compared with our do mestic commerce to be vitally essen tial to our national well being and such as it is, the balance is safely in our favor. The importance of our foreign trade, though great, is therefore easily exaggerated. But there is no reason to fear any important stoppage of our foreign trade. Shipping is not suspended; our commerce can be adjusted to the changed conditions; the machinery for international exchanges remains unim paired. The circumstances of the war are such that at the present time the ves sels of all belligerents except Germany and Austria, as well as the vessels of all neutral nations, are free to sail on the high seas without any danger of molestation that need deter them, es pecially in view of the provision by the several governments of war-risk insurance. Only about one-sixth of the tonnage of our foregin trade has been carried under the flags of nations whose ship ping is now suspended. It is reason able to expect that the shipping meas ures now being authorized by congress will effectually supply any vessels needed in addition to those now avail able. Moreover, it is to be noted that cessation of shipping between belliger ent nations and the establishment of effective blockades leaves free many vessels that may be employed in Amer ican trade. Grain Exports Are Cut Nearly 100,000,000 Bushels Chicago The trade does not seem to grasp the fact that in the European war the allies' control of the sea re moves Germany as a wheat buyer, says H. E. Rycroft. "She has been a direct buyer of from 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 bushels each year, but in addition she has been the final market for a large part of"the takings of Bel gium and Holland. "These two countries import an av erage of about 125,000,000 bushels a ear and have a crop of about 20,000, 00 bushels, making a supply of 145,- 000,000 bushels. Their own consump tion, with a popualtion of 13,000,000. is only 80,000,000 bushels, bo that over 60,000,000 of their imports are des tined for Germany. This trade is also cut off, so that the total European de mand is reduced nearly 100,000,000 bushels on account of Germany's isola tion. "Should the allies obtain naval su premacy in the Mediterranean it will make possible to again draw Russian supplies from the Black Sea, and as she is not a wheat-eating country her wheat will come out in exchange for the credit 1 she needs in prosecuting her arms. Instead of the war stimu lating the demand for wheat in Eu rope it seems that the opposite for the present is more likely, and export bus iness must be more or less restricted. Liner to Race Enemy. San Francisco Japan's declaration of war against Germany has not alter ed the sailing time of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamer Shinyo Maru. The big liner ia scheduled to sail for Japan with 200 passengers and with more than 2000 tons of merchandise in her hold. It is probable that the ship will steam no further than Nagasaki, where she will be overhauled. Passengers for more distant points will be transferred It is considered probable that the ship, with many others, will be utilized by the Japanese government as transports. Carlsbad Refugees Arrive. London Steamers from Flushing, the Netherlands, brought here 650 Americans, most of whom were at Carlsbad when the war broke out. Among the passengers were Frank A, Munsey, the publisher, who has been active among relief workers at Carls bad, and Archer M. Huntington, presi dent of the American geographical so ciety, and his wife, who were arrested at Nuremburg two weeks ago and held by the German police for a day or two as spies. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS. Portland. Portland There was a big run of all kinds of stock at the North Port land yards. The result on prices was a decline of a quarter on hogs and a weaker feeling in the cattle market. Sheep held firm. The best price obtainable in the cat tle market for steers was $7.15, only one load going at that figure. Five loads were sold at $7 and two at $7.05. The bulk of sales were at $6.50 and $7. Good cows sold from $5.60 to $6, and calves at $8. In the hog market the top price was $9.25, as against a $9.50 market throughout most of last week. The larger part of the mutton trans actions were in lambs, most of which brought $6. Ewes sold readily at 35, wethers at $5 and yearlings at the same price. Cattle Prime steers, $7$7.25; choice, $6.757; medium, $6.256.75; choice cows, $5.756; medium, $5.25 5.75; heifers, $5.506.60; calves, $68.25; bulls, $34.50; stags, $4.50 5.75. Hogs Light, $99.25;' heavy, $8 8.25. Sheep Wethers, $45; ewes, $3.50 4.35; lambs, $56. The price of bluestem continues to advance, but other kinds of wheat are no more than holding their own. At the Merchants' Exchange session blue stem bids were advanced half a cent to 99 J cents, and sellers likewise raised their asking price to $1.05. No busi ness was put through during the ses sion. There were reports from the country of bluestem deals at $1.02, Coast basis, for account of interior mills, and in view of the firmness of farmers, these reports were not ques tioned. Bids for bluestem, 99ic; forty-fold, 89c; club, 88c; red Russian, 86c; red Fife, 87c. Oats No. 1 white feed, 26Jc. Barley No. 1 feed, 21c; brew ing, 21c; bran, 241c; shorts, 25Jc. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $25 25.50 per ton; shorts, $2727.50; rolled barley, $23.6024.50. Corn Whole, $37 per ton; cracked. $38. Hay Old timothy, Eastern Oregon, $15 16; new crop timothy, valley, $12.5013; grain hay, $810; alfal fa, $1112. Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, case count, 25c per dozen; candled, 2830c. Poultry Hens, 15c per pound; springs, 1717Jc; turkeys, 22c; dress ed, choice, 22c; ducks, ll12c; Pe- kins, 1314c; geese, 10c. Butter Creamery prints, extras, 35c per pound; cubes, 81c; storage, 28 28Jc. Pork Block, 21c per pound. Veal Fancy, 1414Jc per pound. Vegetables Cucumbers, 50c box ; eggplant, 8c per pound; peppers, 6 7c; head lettuce, $1.70 per crate; arti chokes, $1 per dozen; tomatoes, 40 60c per crate; cabbage, l2c per pound; peas, 56c; beans, 46c; corn, $11.25 per sack; celery, 60 85c per sack. Onions Yellow, $1.25 per sack. Green Fruits Apples, new, 75c $1.75 box; cantaloupes, 60c$1.35 per crate; peaches, 3060c per box; plums, 60c$l; watermelons, 85c per cwt; casabas, $1.502 per dozen; pears, $12 per box; grapes, 85c $1.75 per crate. Potatoes Oregon, 11c per pound. Hops 1913 crop, 1617ie; 1914 contracts, 1818Jc. Wool Valley, 18i:20ic per pound; Eastern Oregon, 16 20ic; mohair, choice 1914 clip, 27Jc. Seattle. Seattle The outlook for next week is continued low markets for fruit, the food staple that has not as yet partici pated in the excitement incident upon the war. Cantaloupes may be the sole exception, but these have been so low recently as to scarcely pay the cost of handling. Low apples are outlined for the bal ance of the Beason, running far into the cold storage regions with $11.25 predicted by jobbers as the top for the year. It is pointed out that even though the war should stop tomorrow, the season is too far advanced to per mit of shipping the fruit to the be sieged countries without appalling bhrinkage. Growers in the Wenatchee valley, with a fair price this season, would have gone on a cash basis. cantaloupes are scneduied to go higher next week. The market, glut ted for the past week with good qual ity fruit, shows slight reduction in vol ume of receipts, and growers will make an attempt to get a profit from the fruit. Prices are 75c for por.ies and $1 for standards. There has been much complaint as to the general quality of the peach offerings. Hanford has shipped in the best Elbertas, and while other sec tions are contributing, the standard is not what it has been in previous years, The quality of the Crawfords is not good. The market is 4060c for best fruit. Eggs Select ranch, 33c per dozen. rouitry t,ive hens, lUftt:l5c per pound; old roosters,. 9c ; 1914 broilers, 1415c; ducklings, 1012c; geese, 10c; guinea fowl, $9 perdozen. Ranch butter 16c per pound. Apples JNew cooking, fiOcwjl per box; new eating, $1.?51.50; Grav- ensteins, $1.251.75. Watermelons lc per pound. Dressed Beef Prime beef steers, 12 12Je per pound; cows, HJ12c; heifers, 12c. Dressed Veal 15 16c per pound. Dressed Hogs Whole, packing house, 13c per pound. Dressed Spring Lamb 1213c per pound. Dressed Mutton 9l10ic pound. JAPAN DECLARES WAR ON KAISER Emperor's Ultimatum Is Unan swered by Germany. Bombardment of Tsing Tau Com- menced by Nipponese United States Neutrality Liked. Tokio The Yamato in an extra ed ition Monday says that the bombard ment of Tsing Tau by the Japanese fleet has commenced. This message was passed by the censors of the navy department. Washington, D. C. The Japanese ambassador here announced that a state of war existed between Japan and Germany since noon Sunday (Jap anese time) and that a declaration of war was issued at 6 p. m. Japan s declaration of war has reached Berlin, according to official reportB received in Washington. Whether the declaration was sent by cable or wireless was not indicated. Viscount Chinda, in making his an nouncement, repeated assurances re cently given by Great Britan that Japan's actions would be confined to the Far East. Aside from informal verbal ex changes between Viscount Chinda and Secretary Bryan in Washington and between United States Ambassador Guthrie and the foreign office in To- kio, however, there is nothing of rec ord so far to commit the Japanese to this limited field of war. The impression prevails here among diplomats, howeyer, that the state ment of Chinda taken in connection with the speech in the Japanese Diet last week of Count Okuma, the Japan ese premier, is quite sufficient to bind the Japanese government to a strict performance of its obligations in re gard to the return of Kiau Chau to China and of the limitiation of the field of hostilities definitely set out in the British statement. No mention was made by Ambassa dor Chinda of the status of the rail roads in Shantung province directly or indirectly controlled by the Germans. It was said at the Japanese embassy here that in all probability the Japan ese army would content itself with the seizure of the railroads running inland to Tainan, about 200 miles in length, because this was German in every re spect. It was not expected that any attempt would be made to take posses sion of the system of railways lying between Tientsin and Nanking, be cause, although these were financed by Germans, they were nominally Chinese railroads. Tokio The proclamation of the em peror who declared war on Germany has sent a thrill through the country. Japan's entrance upon the fulfilment of her obligations to her ally, Great Britain, responds to the popular will from one end of the land to the other. Cheering crowds assembled before the buildings occupied by the department of foreign affairs and the administra tion of the navy. Count Von Rex, the German ambass ador in Tokio, has received his pas sports. He probably will leave here for America. George W. Guthrie, the American ambassador, will repre sent Germany. It iB reported here that Gremany has been trying to transfer the German railroad in Shantung, China, to Amer ica. Tokio believes, however, that the United States, pursuing the policy of neutrality, will not accept the offer. Girls Dance With Enemy. London A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Ostend says : When the Germans entered Brussels they removed the British and French flags and in the center they flew the arms of the city of Brussels with the colors of Belgium and Germany on the right and left. In their dealings with the shopkeep ers the German privates are compelled to pay cash, but the officers are giving checks which the shopkeepers are re quired to accept, although they regard the chances of cashing them as rather dubious. There have been some lively scenes in the city. At evening the German officers gather at the principal hotels, where they drink champagne and dance with the pretty girls of the town. The private sildera and the in habitants mingle freely, eating, drink ing and smoking together. Son Sent to His Death. Paris Colonel Folque, commander of a division of artillery at the front, recently needed a few men for a peril ous mission and called for volunteers. "Those who undertake this mission will perhaps never come back," he said, "and he who commands will prob ably be one of the first sons of France to die for his country in this war." A young graduate of a polytechnic school asked for the honor of leading. It was the son of Colonel Folque. The latter paled, but did not flinch. His son did not come back. Italy May Fight Austria. Paris There are indications of acute diplomatic tension between Vienna and Rome, according to the correspondent of the Petit Parisien in the latter city "Austria, it is declared, has reproach ed Italy for according facilities to the allied fleets in the Adriatic and it is possible that a declaration of war be tween Italy and Austria will be an nounced early next week. FABLESE: IN (EMI SLANG me : tonmitr octal ap The New Fable of the Man Who Wai In Poeitlun to Take Advantage of a Good Thing. Once there was a prosperous Man ufacturer who had made his Stake by handling an every-day Commodity at a small Margin of Profit. One Morning the Representative of a large Concern dealing In guaranteed Securities came in to sell him some gilt-edged Municipal Bonds that would net a shade under five per cent "I'll have to look Into the Proposi tion very carefully," Bald the Investor, as he tilted himself back in his jointed Chair. "I must have the History of all previous Bond Issues under the same Auspices. Also the Report of an Expert as to possible Shrinkage of As sets. Any Investment should be pre ceded by a systematic and thorough Investigation." Having delivered himself of this Signed Editorial he dismissed the Bond Salesman and went back to bis Morning Mail. The next Caller wore a broad Som brero, leather Leggings and a Bill Cody Goatee also the Hair down over the Collar. He looked as If he had Just escaped from a Medicine Show. After lowering the Curtains he pro- He Produced a duced from a Leather Pouch a glisten ing Nugget which he had found in a lonely Gulch near Death Valley. The careful Business Guy began to quiver like an Aspen and bought 10,000 shares at $2 a share on a Personal Guarantee that It would go to Par be fore September 1. MORAL It all depends ou the Bait. The New Fable of the Dancing Man Who Wore Out HI Pump and His Rating. Once there was a Porch Rat, who was also a Parlor Snake and a Ham mock Hound. He worked the popular Free Lunch Routes for thirty years before deciding to hook up and begin paying for his own Food and Drink. When he started flitting from Bud to Debutante to Ingenue to Fawn to Broiler to Kiddykadee back in 1880 he was a famous Beau with Bkln-tight Trousers, a white Puff Tie run through a Gold Ring and a Hat lined with White Satin, the same as a Child's Coffin. In 1890 he was parting his Hair In the Middle, la Imitation of a good Bird Dog, and had been promoted to the Veteran Corps of the iron-legged Dancing Men and the Insatiable Diners-Out. He would eat on his FriendB abijut six Nights In each Week and repay them every Christ mas by Bending a Card showing a Frozen Stream In the Foreground and Evergreen Trees beyond. In 1900 he was beginning to alt out some of the numbers. Also-, when he got into his Evening Togs, his gen eral Contour suggested that possibly he had Just swallowed a full-sized Watermelon without slicing It UP But be was still Jolinny-answer-the-bell when It came to Dinner Parties. In 1910 he carried a little Balloon under each Eye and walked as If he had Gravel In his Shoes. He was still trying to be Game, although he bad a different kind of Digestive Tablet in each Pocket and would rather tacklo Bridge than the Ham Dance. The Path was becoming Lonely and the whispering Trees seemed tall and forbidding. He decided to whistle for a Companion. The Dear Girls had been dogging him for three Decades and he decided to let one of theml have her Wish at last. He hunted un one aeeri 54 anH hrnkn the Glad News to her and she told him not to rattle his Crutches over the Mosaic Floor as he went out the Front Way. He Is now living at a Club or ganized as a Home for Men who hav Gone Wrong. When he pushes the Button the Bell-Hopa match to see who will be Stuck. MORAL There Is an Age Limit,' even for Men. The New Fable of the Morning on Which He Should Have Overslept. One Morning a Precinct Parasite owing Allegiance to a Political Party of Progressive Principles went aroundi to the dingy office of a Fuel Supply Co. to pull off the customary Fake Primary. v He was met at the Door by a broad faced Lady of benevolent Mien and black Ribbons on her Nose-Glasses, who told him to use the Mat and not track up the Place. "What Is the Idea?" asked the alco holic Henchman looking vainly about for Bottle-Nose Burley, Mike the Pike, Glistening Nugget. and Smltty the Dip, who always had been his Associates In the sacred Taskj of registering the Will of the People. Instead of the old familiar strong-; arm Phalanx he saw a Ilevy of Plump Joans who were hanging Chintz Cur tains, arrunging a neat design of Sweet Peas around the Ballot llox and getting ready to fire up a Samovar. When he glanced Into the Polling! Booth and saw that It was draped with Doilies he nearly had a Hemor-i rhage. "This is the Glad Day you have! heard so much about," replied Laurai Chlvington Cadbury, displaying her Dainty Badge, which showed that she was a Judge. "You will be expected to wear Gray Gloves with a Morning Coat and put a Gardenia in your La pel. As the Voters arrive you will softly Inquire their Names and lead them along the Receiving Line and make sure that each is given either; a Macaroon or an Olive." That evening when they sorted thei Votes and decided to throw out allj that were Soiled or folded Improperly, he was over In a corner making out a list of Guests for the waiting Re-, porters. MORAL Equal Suffrage will have a demoralizing Effect on one of the principal Sexes. France' Birth Rate. In France last year births exceeded deaths by but 41,901. This Is a bad showing, but Is far from being the worst France has made in recent years. In 1907 there were 19,071 more deaths than births, and this record was passed in 1901, when there were 742,114 births and 77G.983 deaths. Tho vitul statistics of France are full of gloomy suggestions to French publi cists, whose sentiments are voiced by the Temps in remarking that the pop ulation increase in Germany in 1913 was 20 times that of France. The significance of this comment becomes apparent when we remember that Germany's army expansion forced France to return to the three-year Bervlce system. Germany has a sur plus of recruits every year, whereas, France Is compelled to Increase length: of service because it cannot command an Increase of recruit supply. Bosteaj Transcript.