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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1915)
1 1 WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from Mi Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. ' Twenty-three miners were killed in a mine explosion at Nanaimo, B. C. Italian troops were the first to bring down an aeroplane of the opposing lorces. Italians have brought heavy artillery to bear on the Austrian positions on the frontier. A department of Finance official predicts hat America will dominate the hnances of the world. Torrential rains in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma have seriously damaged crops and demoralized traffic. Scientists who have climbed the crater of Mount Lassen declare the en tire aspect of the mountain is changed. Urumiah, Persia, has been occupied by the Russians after an engagement with the Turks in the direction of Dil man and near Bachkala. Arizona senators ignore Bryan's plea that Mexican murderers in that state be reprieved for fear of reprisals againBt Americans in Mexico. British official reports say the losses of the Turks during the recent fighting on the peninsula have proved to be much heavier than were originally es timated. Another British battleship, the Ma jestic, was torpedoed by a submarine and sunk in the Dardanelles. Nearly all her officers and crew of 800 or more were saved. She was 20 years old. The Illinois waterway bill, providing for a canal to connect the Lakes with the Illinois river, and thus with the Gulf of Mexico, is ready for the signa ture of Governor Dunne, who was the originator of the bill. A dispatch to the London Times from its Mudros correspondent says that 460 men of the crew of the Brit ish battleship Triumph, which was sunk Wednesday by a submarinejn the Gulf of Saros, were saved. The captain of the steamer Nebras kan, says he saw no submarine either before or after bis ship was struck, but he firmly believes it was a torpedo which injured her, while Germany de clares her mines are harmlesswhen adrift. The kaiser has pardoned five minB of the convent at Roye, France, who were convicted of having concealed a wounded French soldier in the convent last December. When the soldier was convalescent they gave him women's clothes to wear and hid him .success fully for several weeks. It is said that King Alfonso, of Spain, has offered the Escorial Palace to Pope Benedict as a residence in case the Pontiff decides to leave Italy. The Escorial Palace iB part of the famous monastery of San Lorenzo, 31 miles northwest of Madrid. The monastery was built in the 16th century. Fifty German soldiers, passengers in a streetcar at Ostend, were killed by a bomb dropped from an allied aero plane, according to a dispatch from that city describing a series of air raids made by the allies' aviators. The railroad station, shipping in the harbor and numerous houses have been dam- Italy places all blame on Austria for going into the war. German diplomats are busy trying to keep Roumama out of the war. The Austro-Germans are reported having captured 23,240 Russians near Przemysl. The French are reported having taken another German trench after two weeks battle. Lord Kitchener still retains the post of Secretary of War in the new made' over British cabinet. South American business men are in session at Washington, D. C, and the needs and opportunities of their na tions are laid before the business men of the United,States. Fifty persons were drowned when the Chilean steamer Maximiano Erra- zuris struck a reef and sank near San tiago, Chile. The Maximiano En zuris was a vessel of 1186 tons and 250 feet long. She was built in 1872. A Dayton, Ohio, girl is suing a Linn county, Oregon, man for $10,000 for breach of promise, which was al leged to have been contracted by mail. All property of the British-American Tobacco company in Germany has been placed under German supervision, ac cording to the Berlin correspondent of the Telegraaf. Baker, Ore., gives reception to wel come new Americans, which included a German, Englishman, Scotchman, Italian, Norwegian and a Swede, all of whom have sworn allegiance to the United States. Portland Wheat: Bluestem, $1,174: forty-fold, $1,131; club, $1.12; red Fife, $1,084; red Russian, $1.06. Corn Whole, $35 ton; cracked, $36. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 16; valley timothy, $12 12.50; grain hay, $1012; alfalfa, $12.50 13.50. Vegetables Cucumbers, Oregon, 75c 1.25 dozen; artichokes, 75c; toma toes, $5 crate, ; cabbage, 2 2Jc pound; celery, $3.05 crate; head let tuce, $1.25; spinach; 5c pound; rhu barb, 1 2c; asparagus, 75c $1.25 crate; eggplant, 25c pound; peas, 7 8c; cauliflower, $1.25 crate; carrots, $11.50 sack; beets, $1.60; turnips, $1.40. Green Fruits Strawberries, Oregon, 75c$1.25 crate; apples, 85c$1.75 box; cranberries, $11 12 barrel; cherries, Oregon, 810c pound; Cali fornia, $1.601.75 box; gooseberries, 34c pound. Potatoes Old, $1.751.85 sack; new, 44Jc pound. Unions Yellow, fimi.io: white, $1.75 crate. thgea Fresh Uregon ranch, case count, 18J19c; candled, 2021c. Poultry Hens, 12124c; broilers, 15 22c; turkeys, dressed, 22 24c; live, 1618c; ducks, old, 9 11c; geese, 89c. Butter Creamery, prints, extras, 27c pound. Veal Fancy, 10llc pound. . Pork Block, 10104c pound. , Wool Esatern Oregon, medium, 25c; Esatern Oregon, fine, 18 20c; valley, 2528c; mohair, new clip, 30 31c. Cascara bark Old and new, 44Jc pound. Pelts Dry long-wooled pelts, 14c; dry short-wooled pelts, 10c; dry shear lings, each, 1015c; salted shearlings, each, 1525c; dry goat, long hair, each, 13c; dry goat, shearlings, each, 1020c; salted long-wooled pelts, May, $12 each. Grain bags Nominal, 7J7Jc. Cattle Best steers, $7.30 7.55; good, $7 7.25; medium, $6.75 7; choice cows, $6.356.60; good, $6(5 6.35; heifers, $57; bulls, $3.506; stags, $56.50. Hogs Light, $7.50 7.75; heavy, $6.757.05. Sheep Sheared wethers, $6 7.25; sheared ewes, $4 5.75; sheared lambs, $67. Full wools $1 higher. Cereal Crops Are Doing Well. The following summary of weather and its results on the condition of the principal crops in Oregon for the week ending May 25, 1915, is based upon in vestigations made by a number of cor respondents reporting to the Portland office of the Weather Bureau : Showers fell every day in the week in the Western counties, ana on two or more days in the Eastern portions of the state. There was much cloudi- , and in consequence the day tem peratures were unusually low, but the night temperatures were about normal and no damaging frosts were reported. The weather was especially favor able for fall and spring-sown cereals, legume hay crop, pasture and ranges, Fall wheat is now in the boot and in some places it has begun to head. On low lands in the Willamette valley the rains have caused some fields of grain to turn yellow. Weeds are getting troublesome and there has not been enough dry weather to enable the farmers to do as much cultivation as necessary. The weather has also been too cool for corn to make much prog ress and it has been very injurious to strawberries, which have rotted on the vines and in transit. Other fruit is doing nicely, except in a few locali ties where fungus has made its appear ance on the apples. Wool Sale Falls Flat. f endleton Wo wool sales were con summated at Echo, buyers and grow ers being unable to agree. Seven clips, containing 290,000 pounds, were put up for bids, drawing offers of from 14 to 19 cents for fine and 264 cents for coarse grades, but growers held out for a 20-cent basis. One hundred thousand pounds in warehouses was not ottered. Bidders were numerous but not talkative. Growers talk of pooling and ship ping the combined clip to Portland for sale. Several predict that the poor offers for fleeces will cause sheep prices to drop $1' a head all over the state. Eight hundred yearlings were sold by J. C. Hoskins, of Echo, at $4 a head. Many buyers are in Pendleton for the sale here, with 250,000 pounds in warehouses. The Echo sale is viewed as indicating the probable trend of the market at Pendleton and Pilot Rock, Half a million pounds are at Pilot Rock. Local Bids for Wheat Are Higher. Portland There is a firmer feeling in the local wheat market, but no busi ness was put through, because of the wide margin between the ideas of buy ers and sellers. Bids for prompt de livery were advanced 1 to 14 cents on white wheat and 24 to 4 cents on red Offers for futures were also higher, Une hundred tons ol June oats were sold at $28.25, an advance of a quarter over this week's top bid. Offers for feed grains in other respects were lower. The European visible wheat supply iB estimated 92,952,000 bushels, Big Timber Deals at Aberdeen Aberdeen Two timber deals, aggre gating $100,000, transpired here this week. Both were in favor of the Simpson Logging company. One sale was by W. H. Able and probably ag gregated $75,000, and the other was from the Port Blakely Mill Co., and amounted to probably $25,000. AMERICAN VESSEL HIT IN WAR ZONE Nebraskan, in Ballast, Suffers Damage in Irish Sea. NGLAND ATTRIBUTES ACT TO DIVER Captain Sends Message to Owners Indicating Cause Unknown Washington in Doubt. London The American steamship Nebraskan, returning from Liverpool in water ballast to Delaware Break water, either was torpedoed by a sub marine or struck by a drifting mine off the south coast of Ireland Wednesday night at 9 o'clock. The sea was calm and no lives were lost. The Nebraskan immediately sent out a wireless call for assistance and meanwhile the crew took to the boats. Subsequently the crew returned to the vessel, which was observed not to have been mortally hurt. Subsequently a dispatch from Lloyds' reported the Nebraskan proceeding un der her own steam past Kinsale, Ire land, flying the signal : I am npt under control. Another message to Lloyds says that an armed trawler went to the assist ance of the Nebraskan and stood by her all night. New York Officials of the Ameri can-Hawaiian Steamship company, owner of the Nebraskan, are in doubt whether the vessel had encountered a torpedo or a mine. They showed a wireless message from Captain John S. Green, of the Nebraskan, saying: ' Struck either by mine or torpedo, 48 miles west of Fastnet and steaming to Liverpool. Water in lower hold. No one jnjured. " Washington, D. C. The courselof the United States government in the case of the American steamer Ne braskan, damaged off the coast of Ire land, is undetermined because officials were without definite information as to whether the ship was torpedoed or struck by a mine. Messages from Ambassador Page transmitted the report of the British admirality that the vessel had been torpedoed, but officials noted with much interest the captain's report to his owners, indicating a doubt as to whether the Nebraskan was hit by a torpedo or a mine. President Wilson himself read all the official and unofficial dispatches. In view of the positive position which the United States has taken on the subject of submarine activity in the war zone and the delicacy of the situa tion with Germany arising out of the Lusitania disaster, the story of the Nebraskan's experience is awaited with unusual interest. Should it de velop clearly that she was torpedoed without warning, an aggravating cir cumstance will have been added to an already tenBe situation. Tariff Rebate Is Sustained by United States Customs Court Washington, D. C. The so-called "5 per cent" clause of the tariff law, granting a reduction of duties to that amount on goods imported in American ships, is sustained by the customs court, which held also that the 5 per cent rebate must be granted on all goods imported in ships of those coun tries with which the United States has favored nation" treaties. As such treaties exist with the prinr cipal countries of the world the effect of the decision is practically to reduce the customs revenue by 5 per cent. If the decision is sustained by the Supreme court of the United States, to which it will be appealed, approxi mately $15,000,000 in duties already collected must be refunded. In a dissenting opinion Judge Dev- ries pointed out that the majroity de cision means that goods imported in about 5500 foreign vessels of favored nation countries shall receive this re duction in customs. Rome Fears Air Raids. Rome It being believed that Aus trian aeroplanes may appear over Rome, special measures of protection have been adopted. A close watch is to be kept along the Adriatic coast. Equal vigilance will be exercised on the crest of the Appenines, while nearer Rome observation posts are to be established at points of vantage. Stations for Italian aeroplanes have been established at Centocille, on the Appian Way, and at Lake Bracciano, about 25 miles from the capital. Aero planes are ready to start instantly, 17,000 War Plants Here. LondonThe Daily Mail strongly advocates recourse to the United States for ammunition supplies, and says : "The Germans have complained bitterly of the efficiency of American shells turned out by American bed stead makers. It is calculated that there are no fewer than 17,000 metal-working businesses in the United States alone that could help us in the manufacture of all varieties of war munitions." AEROPLANES AiD WARSHIPS IN THE -m:iim-v.y-; t J. d w This photograph, taken In the Dardanelles, shows the return of a seaplane to a cruiser after making a flight over the Turkish fortifications. One of the wings was perforated by the rifle fire of the Turks. The seaplane Is being taken in tow by a cutter. f:a.il.:ir"-Si'Z.ii .rxt.-..ii.:xi-. ir.rrrr r.iir--iir.ii.;:ji::3:i nr.nr.u ...jii....n.-ni 11 ....n .m r.ix-.zix-. Remarkable photograph of Austrian by the fences seen along the river. WOMAN RAILWAY PORTER Women are taking tho place of tho male railroad porters who have gone to the front for England, and are prov ing quite equal to the work. Room Rocks Under Mourners. The surface subsiding In Buck Moun tain, a mining hamlet east of this city, caused foundations of bouses to set tle eight Inches in some cases and the tenants of the Lehigh Valley Coal com pany fear their homes will be swal lowed up. At the home of Mine Foreman Mor gan Beddow, where his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Smith, lay dead, the house quaked as mourners surrounded the bier, causing considerable anxiety. Slush and rock are being carried Into underground workings to fill them up. Mahoney City (Pa.) Dispatch to Philadelphia Inquirer. Frankly 8poken. "So you want to marry my daugh ter, eh?" said the wealthy old gen tleman. "That Is my wish, sir," replied the impecunious suitor. "Ahem! 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'" "Exactly. And if my wish Is grant ed I never expect to do any extensive walking again." AUSTRIAN TRENCHES IN GALICIA trenches in Gallcla, which are to MINE PLANTING BY im.. 'II" WW ''' -v ?, !" !, ... ill V4;r( tiaffig Photograph of mine-planting drill by the coast defense corps of tha United States army, showing a harbor mine about to be dropped over tha side of a ship. These mines weigh about 150 pounds, and In time of war are loaded with trotol, a French explosive, and set off by electric current from the shore. Storm Indicator. When a sudden storm comes up in the Bummer and the clouds are black we naturally turn on all the electric lights. Sometimes this happens so suddenly that the companies which supply the electric current are taken unawares with only the normal day time current that is entirely inade quate to meet a general demand. Hence electric companies have to keep a man with a keen weather eye constantly "on the Job." One of the largest concerns in New York recent ly Installed a storm detector similar to a wireless telegraph receiving ap paratus, which is affected by neigh boring thunderstorms and announces their presence by ringing a boll. The nearer the storm the more frequent ly does the bell ring, and within an hour to a half hour before the storm DARDANELLES !r"t""w some extent concealed from the enemy AMERICAN ARMY breaks the bell rlngB continuously. Thus there Is ample warning to pre pare additional generators for serv ice when abnormal demands for cup rent are felt. Lives Close to Nature. Burroughs, who recently the seventy-eighth milestone; John tramped a mile and a half on the oc casion to see his grandchildren, and In an Interview made this statement: "I feel as chipper as twenty-five. And I put In a young man's day's work be fore I started out to get the nip of tho spring breeze and warm up my blood. I cleaned out my furnace, chopped a stack of cordwood, raked the yard and did all the chores. I live a, very uneventful life going much more to the woods than to the cities." 'iW4s-r8 lite ItM'-S