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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1915)
NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in Brief. Sixteen thousand Chicago carpen ters go on strike. German submarine sinks Dutch freight ship while at anchor off The Netherlands. John Bunny, the noted motion pic ture comedian, is near death at his home In Brooklyn. Two Zeppelins raid English town on the eastern coast Friday and do con siderable damage to property. Ten Tacoma dairies are closed by health authorities, who claim milk from tubercular cows was freely sold. Germany declares Russian invasion of Hungary was a failure, and that the Czar's army has been brought to a halt. Fast melting snow in Arizona wash out two dams near St Johns and drown eight persons, besides doing half million dollars' damage to prop erty. Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont announces that 500 women of New York will march to the office of United States Senator O'Gorman here April 30 to ob tain his views on Woman Suffrage. The steamer Northern Paclfio of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship company, sister ship of the Great Northern, sails on her maiden trip be tween San Francisco and Flavel, Or. William L. Miller, 101 years, of Jop lln, Mo., announces his wedding to Mrs. Nancy B. Pike, 60, and issued a general invitation to the public to at tend. Miller was married twice pre viously. P. C, Jenkins, a prominent resident of Butler county, Kentucky, was found guilty in circuit court and sentenced to four years and one day in the peni tentiary on the charge of being con nected with night raiding operations in western Kentucky. Twelve thousand men employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining company, Calumet, Mich., and subsidiary prop erties, received an increase of 10 per cent in wages. The wage rate in ef fect prior to the outbreak of the Euro pean war is thereby restored. The British government has offered a "full and ample apology" to the Chil ean government for the sinking on March 14 in Chilean territorial waters of the German cruiser Dresden, the Internment of which had already been ordered by the maritime governor of Cumberland Bay when the British squadron attacked and sank her. Select and common councils of Phil adelphia have decided to allow the his toric Liberty Bell to be sent to the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Resolu tions providing for its trip across the continent were unanimously adopted by both branch. Mayor Blanken burg announced that he would sign the resolutions and only minor details now remain to complete the arrangements. Vehemently asserting that he had nothing to do with the death of tfYan clsco Madero, General Vlctorlano Hu erta, ex-provlslonal president of Mexi co, issued a long signed statement in New York setting forth what he term ed his side of the Mexican question. General Huerta declared that he knew who was responsible for Madoro's death, but that he was keeping it as a "professional secret." . An attack by the allies on the Ger mans, is declared to be near. London gives out the lost list on the Neuve Chapelle battle as nearly 8000. The United States is building a sub marine that will withstand a 100-day dive, A big copper mine in Josephine county, Oregon, has been sold for $250,000. Spokane policemen are stopping jit ney drivers who have not filed $2500 bonds, required by a recently-passed ordinance. ' A Petrograd dispatch reports that the Kaiser personally directs defense of Hungary and that the Russian ad vance is broken. Six instructors of Willamette uni versity, Salem, Oregon, have resigned. The move on the part of the teachers is said to be voluntary. Ex-presidents Taft and Roosevelt act as honorary pallbearers to the late Professor Thomas Lounsburg of Yale college. The two ex-presidents shook hands formally. An expressman on the Oregon Elec tric railroad saves life of a small child who was standing on the track at Eu gene. The trainman dashed ahead of the train and jerked the tot to safety. In the West the French forces ap parently are satisfied with their recent successes between the Meuse and the Lorraine frontier and say only that they have come in contact with the German entanglements in this region. Official German reports assert that de termined attacks by the French have been repulsed along this sector. Condolences for the loss of F-4 sub marine are sent the United States by Germany. The Portland Beavers were defeated 6 to 3 by the Venice team in the open ing game of the Pacific Coast baseball league. Because Arizona is a dry state, water will be used to christen the bat tleship Arizona it the New York navy yard June 19. The water to be used ty the sponsor, who is yet to be named, will be the first to flow over the spillways of the Roosevelt reser voir dam. JAPAN UNJUSTLY SUSPECTED BY AMERICANS, DELEGATES DECLARE New York At a dinner here Tues day welcoming them home from their recent mission to Japan as represent atives of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Dr. Shaller Mathews, dean of the Univer sity of Chicago, and Dr. Sidney L. Gulick expressed the necessity in this country of a better understanding of the Japanese in order to allay what they describe as the unjust suspicions entertained for the motives of Japan. Both speakers brought messages of peace and friendship for the United States from Count Okuma, the Japan ese prime minister, and other Japanese statesmen. The dinner was attended by mem bers of the council, of the Japan so ciety, of the New York Peace society and the Church Peace union. The present situation as regards China furnishes a supreme opportunity for the United States and Japan to show the meaning not only of their friendship for each other, but for China as well, declared Dr. Mathews. It was difficult at present, he said, to hold an unqualified conviction that Japan's plans toward China were mag nanimous in the interests of China, and herein "the United States and Japan have an opportunity to demon strate the power of diplomacy based on the giving of justice." Dr. Mathews, discussing the de mands made on China by Japan, said that if Japan's only purposewas to build up an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine the American people can hardly fail to sympathize with her, particularly as we recall her need for territory in which to expand. Many Squatters Rush to Take Up Government Land in Alaskan Port Seward, Alaska Rumors that the Alaska Engineering commission had decided to throw open to settlement the 60-acre terminal 'tract here ac quired by the government with the purchase of the Alaska Northern rail road caused a stampede of squatters who have occupied almost all of the tract. Many prominent business men and several women are among the squat ters, who have armed themselves with rifles to prevent claim jumping. There have been several minor quarrels, but as yet no one has been hurt. United States District Judge Fred M. Brown had planned to obtain use of this tract as a temporary camp for the hundreds of men who are hurrying to Seward from all parts of Alaska and from the United States as a result of the announcement that Seward would be the tidewater terminus of the gov ernment railroad to Fairbanks. Despite a snow storm, which blank eted Seward, the stampede continued and squatters were busy setting up tents and clearing their lots. Italy to Fight, Is Report. Rome The Giornale d'ltalia pub lishes an interview with an unnamed neutral diplomat, who is quoted as having Baid: "That Italy will partic ipate in the war has been decided on. What now is necessary is to agree on the delimitation and distribution of the Eastern coast of the Adriatic be tween Italy and the Slavs. Italy can not risk a war to drive out Austria from the Adriatic and have Austria re placed, in a military sense, by the Russian advance guards. Italy must have her strategic points completed. Attack on Kiel Forecast. Vancouver, B. C That 300 scow shaped, self-propelled lighters, capable of carrying 300,000 troops, are being constructed in Great Britain, is the in formation received by A. E. Short, of this city, who is a member of an Eng lish shipbuilding firm. These lighters are to be completed by June 1. Mr. Short gave it as his opinion that the scows would be used to land troops on the German coast line of Schleswig Holstoin and that the Kiel canal would be the objective point. Britain Charges Murder. London The admiralty issued the following statement: "Sunday a Ger man submarine torpedoed and sank the trawler Vanilla. The trawler Fermo endeavored to rescue the crew, but was fired at and driven off. All the crew of the Vanilla were lost. This killing of fisherfollt for no military purpose should not escape attention. It is the second murder of this charac ter committed within week. A care ful record is kept of these events." Troops Move on Straits. Berlin A cablegram received here from Athens says that unusual activity prevails at the Port of Mudro, on Lem- noas island, in the Aegean sea off the entrance to the Dardanelles straits. Almost all the French troops on the island have been sent away on trans sports. A total of 35,000 British and French soldiers were landed at Mudros last week. It is reported that the operations against the Dardanelles are about to be resumed. Two Who Mulct BarsFreed. Chicago Two men who were arrest ed after they refused to pay for drinks which they ordered in a saloon Sunday were discharged by Judge Gemmill in the municipal court here. "You don't have to pay for drinks you get in CM cago on Sunday," declared the judge, "If the saloons are open they are open in violation of the law." 64,000 Acres Valley May Be Opened Baker Steps have been taken which, if carried through, will compel the Powder Land & Irrigation company to give up its proposed plan of carry ing the Thief Valley project, in the Powder Valley northeast of Baker, to completion. It will mean that if suc cessful the 64,000 acres now tied up by the company will be thrown open by the proceedings to entry and there is a possibility that if the Powder Val ley company's contract is cancelled a co-operative irrigation district will be organized. Acting upon the request of several families in the Lower Powder and North Powder districts and in Baker, ex-Governor West and Claude C. Mc Culloch, attorneys of Portland, have begun the preliminary work toward drafting a petition to the State Desert Land board at Salem, to cancel the Powder Valley company's contract and to the Interior Department at Wash ington, D. C, to restore the lands to entry. It is expected that by the time the petitions are ready to be pre sented there will be at least 50 sub scribers. It is thought they will be ready within 60 days. The reasons given for the request State Places On 11 Oregon Counties Salem. To prevent the spreading of rabies, .the State Livestock Sanitary Board, at a meeting held here recent ly, issued an order placing 11 counties under quarantine. It was announced that the disease had been communi cated by coyotes to' horses, dogs, cats and other animals in eight counties in the eastern part of the state. The counties included in the quarantine are Lake, Harney, Crook, Baker, Uma tilla, Malheur, Wheeler and Union, where rabies prevails, and Multnomah, Clackamas and Jackson, to which it is feared the disease may spread. The order requires that all does, un less used in herding livestock, be muz zled. State Veterinarian Lytle, who attended the meeting, said that all violators of the quarantine would be punished to the fullest extent of the law, the penalties being fines from $50 to $100 for each offense. Mr. Lytle announced that all peace officers would be called upon for assistance in enforcing the order. The veterin arian declared that conditions were especially alarming in Lake county, rabid coyotes and dogs running the range in large numbers. He said that All-Day Community Meet at Scio Well Attended Albany. More than 500 people at tended the all-day community meeting held at Scio Saturday and it was one of the largest and best gatherings of the kind ever held in Linn county. People went from a distance of 15 miles to hear school questions, good roads and dairying discussed by ex perts. The meeting was held in the assembly-room of the Scio High School, but, with a good many unable to gain ad mission at the morning session, an overflow meeting was held later in an other schoolroom. M. S. Pittman, of the extension de partment of the Oregon State Normal School, was the principal speaker at the morning session. He discussed school problems and said it was the mission of a school to find out what a person is fitted for, inspire him to fol low that line of work and then pre pare him for it. The remainder of the session was devoted to contests among the schools of that section of the coun ty In school songs, solos, declamations and dramatizations. Songs by the Scio High School Glee Club were a feature. In the overflow meeting . Professor G. V. Shelton gave a practical talk on the construction of good roads with the material available. Professor Schrant substituted for State Dairy Commissioner Mlckle, who was unable to attend. E. M. Reagan and others, representing the Albany Commercial Club, explained the proposed County Fruit Growers' association. A basket dinner was served at 12 o'clock. Improper Packing Hurts Price of Good Apples Hood River. Northwestern apple market men declare that indifference of growers in maintaining a good sys tem of grading and packing resulted in more harm the past year than any other detrimental influence. H. F. Davidson believes the change in system of packing apples has been responsible for much of the deteriora tion of grade and pack. Formerly the growers paid a daily wage to their packers, who gave the fruit close in spection. Sorting and sizing for the most part was done by band. Now the fruit is Bized and graded by ma chines. Payment is made on a piece basis. Sam O. Campbell, who for the past two years has been chief Inspector for the North Pacific Fruit Distributors, declares that low prices to a great ex tent have been caused by poor pack, and that the remedy lies in the control of the growers themselves, rather than with the marketing agencies. Albany Janitor Is Thrifty. Albany. What a man can accom plish who attends strictly to business and works steadily, on a small salary, is illustrated by M. E. Bllyeu, Janitor at the Linn county courthouse, who has attained a record of ten years' continuous service.' Ten years ago Bllyeu, a widower with five small chil dren to support, began work at the courthouse. His salary was $40 a month, and during all of this time it has not averaged more than $50 a month. Besides his other duties, he takes pride la the courthouse lawn. in Thief for cancellation are that Carey act projects have proved unsuccessful, that the Powder Valley company has not done any. work on the land, that it has shown itseff unable to finance the project, and these lands having been idle and of no use to anypne for six years, should be thrown open to those who seek farming land. According to Mr. McCulloch, the assertion that Carey act porjects have not proved a success - is based on in vestigation in all parts of the United States and he says that Secretary of the Interior Lane has committed him self as ; being against the Carey act idea and is for the co-operative dis trict plan Mr. ' McCulloch declares that at the last irrigation congress at Den ver, which was attended by Mr. West and other governors, it was shown that there-are $12,000,000 of Carey act securities in default. He says that there is only one successful Carey act project in the country and that is in Idaho, and its success is declared due to unusual circumstances. Mr. Mc Culloch added that only one Carey act project has been completed in Oregon, that of the Central Oregon Irrigation company in Crook county, and he said this has not been a financial success. Quarantine many cattle and a number of persons had been bitten there. "We shall try to get the city authori ties of Portland to enforce the order there," continued Dr. Lytle. "It will require that dogs be muzzled, and, when on the street, in leash. The board will see that it is enforced in Multnomah county outside the city. "Stock owners have suffered severe ly in eastern counties. The situation is especially hard for the poor home steaders, where some of them have lost their only cow through being bit tenby a hydrophobic coyote or dog. Even cats are becoming afflicted with the disease and they are being killed by fear-stricken owners." Everett Goodman was appointed spe cial agent to investigate sheep scab reported in Douglas county. Mr. Lytle said that he has no fear that the dis ease is of serious proportions. The board made arrangements for payment to the owners for horses and mules it may be found necessary to kill because of glanders. Animals un der 1000 pounds will be paid for at the rate of $25 a head, and animals weigh ing more than 1000 $35 a head, Bayocean To Have Water-grade Highway From City of Tillamook Tillamook The matter of the con struction of the Bayocean road was amicably decided upon here at a meet ing of the county court and represent atives of a realty company. It was agreed that the county court expend $10,250 which is now available on the road and in addition to this the Bay ocean people are to build two miles and a half of the road. About four miles and a half remain to complete the road, which will be on the south side of Tillamook Bay and on a water grade from Tillamook City. It will have deep water for vessels by the side of it nearly the entire distance. The county court will call for bids for work on this end of the road and the Bayocean people will take hold of the other end, commencing work at once with their dredge. It will be open for travel probably early next year. The progress of Bayocean has been kept back for years for want of a road, but now that this is assured a large number of lot owners are ex pected to erect substantial cottages. Apart from this the Bayocean people will expend $500,000 in improvements. Last year a large natatorium was erected costing $75,000. Newberg Lays Plans for Great Agricultural and Horticultural Fair Newberg A recent meeting of the governors of the Commercial club to discuss the feasibility of having an agricultural and horticultural fair held here this faH was enthusiastic. To enlist the co-operation of farmers and fruit growers, meetings will be held at the schoolhouses in the vicin ity. Prizes will be offered to boys and girls on various lines of industry. Newberg is the center of one of the most productive sections of the Wil lamette valley. Immediately after the club adjourned a conference was held by the governors and an advisory com mittee in regard to arousing the inter est of farmers boys, who wjll be ex pected to make displays. Boy Earns $5; Fined $4.15. Ashland Verl Baruthouse, local Southern Pacific call boy, motorcycled to Medford with a passenger Jwho missed his train and overtook it . at that station. The distance, 12 miles, was covered in 14 minutes. He re ceived $5 for this service, the regular fare being 40 cents. For speeding on the Pacific Highway he was arrested and fined $4.15. Later on he received a check from the stranger for $5 to square the fine. The passenger whom Baruthouse accommodated turned out to be a British army officer. Six AstoriaDealers Fined. Astoria In the Circuit court here six Astoria wholesale liquor dealers pleaded guilty to indictments charging them with selling liquor for delivery in dry districts. Each was fined $50, but the penalty was suspended, provid ed the defendants refrained hereafter from violating the law. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS. Portland Wheat Bluestem, $1.30; forty-fold, $1.28; club, $1.27; red Fife, $1,231; red Russian, $1.21. Millfeed Spot. prices: Bran, $26 ton; shorts, $28; rolled barley, $3081. Corn Whole, $35 ton; cracked, $36. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $14 16; valley timothy, $1212.50; grain hay, $1012; alfalfa, $12.60 13.50. Vegetables Cucumbers, hothouse, $4.50 crate; cauliflower, 75c$1.25; artichokes, 7585c dozen; tomatoes, $6 crate; cabbage, 231c pound; cel ery, $4.50 crate; cauliflower, 75c $1.25 dozen; head lettuce, $2.25 per crate; hothouse lettuce, 75c$l box; spinach, 5c pound; rhubarb, 7690c box; asparagus, $11.75; eggplant, 80c pound; peas, 78c; carrots, $1.50 sack; beets, $1.60; parsnips, $1.25; turnips, $1.75. Green Fruits Strawberries, $4 crate; apples, 50c$1.50 box; cran berries, $1112 barrel. Potatoes Oregon, $1.351.50 sack; Washington, $1.25 1.50; Idaho, $1.50; new potatoes, 89c pound; sweet potatoes, Sjc. Onions Oregon selling price, 75c sack, country points; California, job bing price, $1.75 crate. Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, case count, 17J18c dozen; candled, 19c. - Poultry Hens, 1516c pound: broilers, 2527Jc; fryers, 1820c; turkeys, dressed, 2223c; live, 16 19c; ducks, 1215c; geese, 89c. Butter Creamery prints, extras, 27Jc pound in case lots ; ie more in less than case lots; cubes, 22$23c. Veal Fancy, llj12c pound. Pork Block, 9110c pound. Cattle Best steers, $7.25 (5)7.75: choice, $77.25; medium $6.757; choice cows, $66.60; medium, $5 5.75; heifers, $56.25; bulls, $3.50 6; stags, $56.60. Hogs Light, $6.607.65; heavy. $5.906.65. Sheep Wethers, $78.25; ewes $6 7; lambs $7.259.25. Seattle Wheat Bluestem, $1.29; forty-fold, $1.28; club, $1.26; fife, $1.25; red Russian, $1.22. Barley $25 per ton. Tacoma Apples Cooking, 7590c; wineBaps, $1.361.50 box; local, 85c. Comb honey Yakima, $3.50 crate; strained honey, $5.60; Idaho, $3.50; Nevada, $3.50. Vegetables Cabbage, Winning- stadt, $3.26; carrots, $1.501.65; beets, home-grown, $11.25; turnips, sack, $1.25; potatoes, Yakima, $30 32 ton; "Idaho, $2830; sweets, $4 cwt. ; early rose seed, $50 ton; toma toes, $4.50 case; onions, green, 20c dozen; Walla Walla, $1.75 box; Ore gon yellow Danvers, $1.75; Yakima, $1.60; garlic, 30c pound; radishes, lo cal, 20c dozen bunches; California, 25c; parsely, 30c dozen bunches; let tuce, head, $2.25 crate; spinach, local, 5c pound; Walla Walla, 75c box; cu cumbers, local hothouse, 75c$1.50; celery, $4 4.50; rutabagas, $1.85 sack; cauliflower, $2.25 crate; Ore gon, $3; artichokes, 75c dozen; rhu barb, local, 3c; asparagus, Walla Walla, $1.85 box; Kennewick, $1.25 1.35; green peas, 9c. Fresh Meats Steers, 12 121c pound; cows, 12c; heifers, 1212Jc; wethers, 14 Je; dressed hogs, 111c; trimmed sides, 151c; combinations, 15c; Diamond T. C, 16Jc; yearlings, 15c; ewes, 13c. Poultry Ducks, live, 10(i)12c: hens. dressed, 16 18c; live, 10 14c; springs, dressed, 22c; live, 1416c; squabs, live, $2.50 dozen; dressed, $6; turkeys, live, 18c; dressed, 2830c; geese, 20c. Spokane Cattle Prime steers, $6 7 cwt. ; heifers and cowb, $56. Sheep Wethers, $67; ewes, $5 6; lambs, $67. Hogs Heavy live hogs, $6.25 cwt.; light hogs, $7.26. , Wheat $45 ton, delivered in city. Oats $34 ton whole; $36 rolled, de livered in city. Bran $25 ton; shorts, $32; bran and shorts, $27 Hay Timothy, $16 ton; $15 in car loads; alfalfa, $15, delivered in city; $14 in carloads. Corn $37 ton; cracked, $38. Barley Rolled, $32 ton. Oil Meal Soy bean meal, $50 ton. 1 Cucumbers On Market. Tacoma Green cucumbers from the local hothouses are now on the market and enjoying large opening sales at 75c to $1.50 a dozen, according to size. The Eastern cucumbers have been forced off the market. Apple prices in Eastern Washington have again taken a rise and are now leaving the cold storage houses at $1.35 a box. Prices here, however, have not been affected, but advances will be made soon. Deal ers say the movement of apples is en couraging to the growers, who are cleaning up their stocks rapidly. Wheat to New York. Seattle The American-Hawaiian liner Oregonian began loading 1300 tons of Washington wheat for New York. Two other liners to sail this month for New York; will take 1,000 tons each. These are the first large shipments of wheat by steamer to New York, and the business promises to be come fixed. The same company is also beginning to carry Oriental rice to New York regularly. All the steamers use the Panama canal. MISSIONARIES ASK FOR INTERVENTION Long Cablegram Sent to Wilson by Americans in China. TROUBLE FOR UNCLE SAM PREDICTED President Is Urged to Tell Japan to Withdraw Her Excessive Forces. Tolls Amounting to $6000, Paid by Pekin Officials. Pekin. Intervention by the United States in the negotiations now pro ceeding between China and Japan is recommended to President Wilson in the appeal recently sent to him by American missionaries in this coun try. The message of 5000 words was cabled to Washington Monday. It characterizes the Japanese demands on China as acts of aggression such as eventually will present a menace to the United States. Recalling the fact that. Japan has at present in this country1 doubled her usual quota of troops (amounting to 60,000 men), the missionaries urge that Japan be notified that the excess of troops should be removed. The understanding here is that a Chinese official or several officials paid the cable charges, amounting to nearly $6000, on the message to Presi dent Wilson. This communication was signed by missionaries all connected with the American Presbyterian mis sion at Pekin; Rev. Chauncey Good rich, of the American board of com missioners for foreign missions, who is stationed at Tien Tsin; Rev. H. H. Lowry, of the Methodist Episcopal mission at Pekin, and Rev. C. F. Hub bard. The petition asks President Wilson to demand of China and not of Japan American participation in the confer ences now under way. It is suggested that Great Britain and other nations be invited to participate. There are in China several hundred American missionaries, of whom the great majority have not seen the mes sage. Some of them who were re quested to sign it, declined. The Amer ican board recently requested its mis sionaries to avoid public expression of opinion on political affairs and al though it is said the missionaries gen erally side with China In the present controversy, few of them have been active politically. The missionaries ask "that the gov ernments of both China and Japan be notified that the presence of unusual bodies of Japanese troops on Chinese soil not only embarrasses the freedom of negotiations, but constitutes an out rage to the rights of China and a seri ous menace to the peace and safety of Americans and foreigners, generally, and recommends that "pending the re moval of excessive contingents of Jap anese troops all negotiations should be suspended." Ex-Governor West Wins Yerdict In Copperfield, Or., Saloon Case Baker, Or. Ex-Governor West won in the suit brought in circuit court here against him by William Wlegan, Copperfield saloonkeeper, for damages alleged to have been caused by the re moval of liquor and saloon fixtures from his saloon, when Governor West declared martial law in Copperfield, ' after Fern Hobbs' visit on January 2, 1914. The jury returned the verdict after being out seven hours. Nine were for the ex-governor and three dissenting. The first several ballots the jurors stood eight for the defendant and four against. The verdict was a surprise here, be cause it was thought that the length of time occupied by the jury in its de liberations indicated an anti-West ver dict, and when the verdict was read by Circuit Judge Anderson the few pres ent seemed dazed. Ex-Governor West also was not pres ent, although he was notified in time. At the Geiser-Grand hotel, while pack ing to leave for Portland, he clearly showed elation. "I came here convinced I would get a square deal, even should I lose," he said. I was naturally anxious that the verdict should be in my favor, for the case has been one which attracted statewide attention involving the great question of human rights. The ques tion, I believe, is now settled for good and all, and the rights of the human being are acknowledged to be superior to those involving mere property." Road Buying Equipment. Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Railroad company has entered the market for approximately $20,000,000 worth of new equipment and for new material for cars and locomotives which it will build in its own shops. The equipment program includes 144 new locomotives, 146 all-steel passen ger cars and about 10,000 freight cars. All the locomotives, 66 of the passen ger care and 2102 of the freight cars will be built at the company's shops at Altoona, while the remainder will be placed with outside companies. The, new equipment is to be used for re placements and will not be additions to the present equipment Allies' Campaign Is On. Paris. The allied offensive on the western front is developing. Accord ing to the military authorities here, the offensive movement has been in progress for several weeks at strategic points from the sea to the Alps, with successes in Champagne, at Les Epar ges, Neuve Chapelle, Notre Dame de Lorette, La Bolsselle, Dlxmude and south of Metz and in Alsace. Hard fighting was in progress Monday in northeastern France and in this way the pressure is gradually being increased. f