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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1915)
OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSP Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Spokane hag 15 announced candi datesior three city ofliceB. Dead and missing In the recent Gulf storm arenow said to number 259. Germany reperts destroying a email British cruiser and a destroyer by tor pedoing in a naval engagement. Italy, according to reports from Rome, is making slow but steady prog ress against Austrians on all fronts. German submarines sunk the White Star liner Arabic, an English ship, with a 1ms of 20 lives, two of whom are Americans. Three British and one Norwegian steamer were sunk by German sub marines, in addition to the big liner Arabic, Thursday. The chief signal officer at the island of Stromboli, off the Italian coast, re ports the eruption of a large quantity of lava from Stromboli volcano. The lava is forming a lake of fire between the craters and the sea. Companies operating mining proper ties in the Coeur d'Alenes, especially those producing zinc, which is in de mand for war munitions, are said to be employing detectives to guard their workings, according to Spokane re ports. An evangelist speaking in Portland declares the prophesies in the 24th chapter of Matthew have been accur ately fulfilled up to the present time, and that the present generation will witness its complete fulfillment and the return of the Lord to the world. Edward Brown, ex-convict, sen tenced to four years in San Quentin for burglary, explained on the witness stand that a certain kind of whisky is made regularly within the walls of Folsom and San Quentin prisons. The juice of potatoes and fruits is used in preparing the concoction, he Bald. Compilations just completed by the auditing department of the O.-W. R. & N. company show that during the calendar year 1914 the company spent for wages, taxes, construction and other purposes incident to the conduct of its business in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, an aggregate of $16,673, 865.92, the equivalent of $60,892.30 for each working day of the year. Because of the delay in shipping, caused by the war, Baker county, Ore gon, ranchers barely escaped a disas trous grain sack shortage just as the threshing season was on. Nearly 30, 000 sacks had been ordered early from Calcutta. Farmers were preparing to construct temporary bins and wheat wbs filling every available receptacle when 6000 sacks arrived. Nearly 25, 000 are expected within a few days. The Lausanne Gazette, of Geneva, says that the English government has recently placed large orders for am munition, especially Bhells, with Swiss factories, supplying the raw material to the Swiss through France, and that Swiss watchmakers by thousands are engaged in making the more delicate parts of projectiles. Germany, the Gazette says, likewise has placed or ders for munitions with Swiss manu facturers. Carranza is said to be preparing a reply refusing peace proposals. Yuan Shi Kal Is considering the ad visability of proclaiming himself em peror of China. Application has been made for the appointment of a receiver for the Mis souri Paciflcrallroad. A Georgia mob took Leo M. Frank, serving a life sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan, from jail and hanged him. The executive committee of the Ger man National Liberal party declares permanent peace can only be had by a wide extension of German frontier in all directions. A cablogram from Paris announces the death of Jacques Neyvatte, a mem ber of the French aviation corps. Ney vatte was formerly a newspaper man ofP hoenix.A ril. He was licensed by the Aero Club of France in 1908, and appeared in aerial exhibiitons in this country. He served in the Boer war as a balloonist. A terrific Gulf storm wrecked many vessels and did much other damage along the (Gulf coast, and particularly at Galveston. A German submarine torpedoed the British transport Royal Edward in the Aegean sea, otT the Turkish coast, and about 1000 lives were lost. Nancy Hanks, 2:04, champion trot ter 1 from 1892 to 1894, died at Ham burg Place, the estate of J. E. Mad den, who purchased the horse several years ago to pension her until her death. Nancy Hanks was foaled in 1886. REAR ADMIRAL CAPERTON Rear Admiral Caperton is in com mand of the United States naval forces that have occupied Port au Prince and Cape Haltlen, Haiti. $30,000,000 FEDERAL CASH TO BE SENT TO PROTECT COTTON Washington, D. C. Treasury offi cials have made public an announce ment by Secretary McAdoo, that in view of the action of the allies in put ting cotton on the contraband liBt, he would, if it became necessary, deposit $30,000,000 or more in gold in the Federal Reserve banks at Atlanta, Dallas and Richmond for the purpose of enabling the reserve bankB to re discount loans on cotton secured by warehouse receipts, made by national and state banks belonging to the Fed eral reserve system. The gold would be deposited tempo rarily, at least, without interest charge. ' It was explained that if it appeared that the object could be accomplished with greater efficiency thereby, the deposits woud be made directly with National banks agreeing to lend the money on cotton at a rate not to ex ceed six per cent. Secretary McAdoo authorized the announcement from his summer home at North Haven, Maine. It came at the cloBe of a day's speculation in offi cial circles bb to the nature of the steps which the entente powers have indicated they will take to uphold the cotton market in the face of their con traband order. Thousands Are Cut Off by Floods; Rescue Steamers Forced to Quit Little Rock, Ark. Five thousand people in the town of Newport, Ark., are marooned by the flood waters of White River. According to a telephone message received here, the populace is in des perate straits. Eight persons are re ported to have lost their lives. The town is inundated to a depth ranging from 5 to 12 feet and most of the population has sought refuge in the upper floors of the hotels and the courthouse. Because of recent heavy rains, the river rose to such an extent that all the levees protecting the town gave way, letting loose one of the most dis astrous floods in the history of the community. Two steamboats continued making trips up and down the river in the vi cinity of Newport and succeeded in rescuing a number of families from the roofs of houses, whither they had gone to escape the flood. Finally the flood became too great, and the boats had to withdraw. All means of communication with the town, save the telephone wires, has been destroyed, and it was feared that even the telephone wire would be destroyed. Several passenger trains are stalled at Newport. With food and water supplies almost exhausted and with many refugees in the town from other points along the river, the situation was one which au thorities here considered grave. Wheat Crop Estimated. Washington, D. C. The Canadian West is expected to produce some where between 200,000,000 and 260, 000,000 bushels of wheat this season probably around about 240,000,000 bushels, so it Is reported to the depart ment of commerce. The total grain crop is expected to aggregate 325,000,000 bushels. Of this total it is expected that 250,000,000 bushels will be available for lake ship ment, and that from 130,000,000 to 150,000,000 bushels will be available for export. Stefansson Not Sighted. Nome, Alaska The United States coast guard cutter Bear, which carried the mails to Point Barrow, the most northerly point of Alaska, returned to Nome Tuesday and reports that no word of Viljalmur Stefansson, the ex plorer, and his two companions had been received. The Bear reported that nothing further has been heard of the gasoline schooner New Jersey, hereto fore reported missing. The New Jer sey left Nome last fall. Ninety Take Military Course. Tacoma, Wash. - Ninety business and professional men, including one minister and a half dozen capitalists, reported for the camp of instruction for business men in command of Colo nel R. H. Wilson, Fourteenth Infan try, United States Army, at Cos grove, American Lake. They will spend three weeks receiving military instruction from regular army officers. UNREST OF BUSINESS HAS MANY CAUSES 11. S. Investigating Commission Makes Report STRICT INHERITANCE TAX ADVOCATED Each Delegate Files Opinion and No Decision of Committee Found; Suggestions Are Offered. Chicago Summaries of the reports, three in number, of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations as to findings and recommendations for the information of congress, were made public here Monday. The com mission was composed of three repre sentatives each of the employers, the employed and the general public. It became apparent some time ago that they would be unable to agree on a single report, and it is said that none of the reports given out can properly be called a "majority" report. The report of the representatives of the employes, known as the "staff" report, drawn up by Basil M. Manly, director of research and investigation for the commission, was signed by Commissioners Walsh, Lennon, O'Con nell and Garretson. In connection with the main reports these commissioners issued three "supplemental opinions and suggestions." The report of the commissioners representing the public, and the sum mary thereof, were written by Com missioner Commons. He and Mrs. Harriman signed it without reserva tion. Commissioners Aishton, Ballard and Weinstock approved it in large part, and, in part, their dissent to por tions of it, and to the Manly report, are expressed in the so-called Wein stock report, signed by Weinstock, Aishton and Ballard. The reports agree on a Federal in heritance tax and on the general plan for its use. The Manly report dis agrees in recommending practically the single tax and other things, while the employers disagree with the Har-riman-Commons report only on the boycott and some minor labor details. The Manly summary finds "that the causes of industrial unrest group them selves almost without exception under four main sources which include all the others. They are: 1. Unjust distribution of wealth and income. 2. Unemployment and denial of op portunity to earn a living. 8. Denial of justice in the creation, in the adjudication and in the adminis tration of the law. 4. Denial of the right and oppor tunity to form effective organizations. Remedies are suggested. The Commons report says : "The greatest cause of industrial unrest is the breakdown of the labor laws and the distrust of our municipal, state and national governments on the part of a large portion of our people." The report outlines a plan for remedy ing conditions through the institution of a permanent "industrial commission and advisory council" with comprehen sive powers. Russians Sink Big German Cruiser Moltke and Ten Other Vessels London A dispatch to the Central News from Petrograd says: "The president of the Duma has an nounced that the Germans had lost the battle cruiser Moltke, three cruisers and seven torpedo-boats in the Riga battle." The announcement of the president of the Duma as sent was as follows: "In the Riga battle the Germans lost one battle cruiser, the Moltke, three cruisers and seven torpedo-boats. The German fleet has withdrawn from Riga bay. ' "The Germans tried to make a de scent near Pernpvin (Pernigel), on the east shore of the gulf of Riga, some 35 miles north of Riga. Four barges crammed with soldiers took part in the decent. They were repulsed by the Russian troops, without the co-operation of artillery, the Germans being exterminated and the barges cap tured." Soldiers Learn Cooking. London The British war office has taken the advantage of the vacation season in the city schools to turn sev eral of the buildings into cooking schools, where 1500 soldiers are learn ing the culinary art. There are 100 men billeted in each building, and they must provide their own food on the customary war office allowance of 40 cents a day. If they cannot eat the meals they prepare they must go with out. "To cook rapidly and well is an art which can be easily acquired," says the war office manual. British Lose 3 Vessels. London The British steamer Cober, of 3060 tons, has been sunk by a Ger man submarine. The crew has been landed in safety. The British steamers Windsor and William Dawson have met disaster. The Windsor, a vessel of 6055 tons, has, according to a report issued here, been sunk, while the Wil liam Dawson, an old steamer of 284 tons, has been blown up. The crew of the Windsor was saved, but five men of the Dawson's crew wer lost. LINER TORPEDOED; AMERICANS PERISH fourteen of Ship's Passengers Remain Unaccounted for. WASHINGTON ANXIOUS OVER REPORTS Seriousness of Affair Depends Upon Whether Ship Tried to Ram or Sharply Changed Course. New York. A revised list of the surviving passengers and those un accounted for, corrected according to the only dispatch received by the White Star line Saturday, was given put here. It showed 14 passengers still missing, after careful checking. The list Included two Americans Mrs. Josephine L. Bruguiere and Ed mund F. Woods. White Star lists cabled previously contained the names of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burgess as among the survivors. Officials were unable to explain the error If, according to consular reports. WILLIAM E. TUTTLE, JR. William E. Tuttle, Jr., for two terms Democratic congressman from New Jersey, and a prominent banker and business man, has been appointed United States commissioner to the Panama exposition which opens No vember 3. The last congress appro priated $25,000 for this country's par ticipation In the exposition, and Mr. Tuttle Is arranging for the exhibit. they are missing. Burgess, a chauf feur, and Mrs. Burgess, a maid, were in Mrs. Bruguiere's employ. The company's message from Liver pool mentioned five Burvivors who had sailed at the last moment and whose names were not on the Hat cabled here Thursday night. When the White Star offices closed late Saturday night, it was announced that the list then stood at 14 passen gers missing, two of whom were Americans. Washington, D. C Tension in creased in official quarters Saturday when consular messages forwarding affidavits of American survivors of the British liner Arabic brought def inite information that the vessel was torpedoed without warning and that probably some Americans had been lost. It seemed that but one point re mained to be cleared us whether the Arabic attempted to ram the subma rine er whether a change of the liner's course to assist the already sinking British steamer Duasley nearby was misinterpreted by the German subma rine commander as a hostile approach. The attitude of the American gov ernment for the moment Is receptive, anxlouftly awaiting accurate details and reserving judgment as to whether the action was "deliberately unfriend ly." The final decision rests with Presi dent Wilson. Fear Felt For Islander. New Orleans. Efforts are being made to reach Marsh Island, about 150 milos southwest of here, to learn the fate of 100 island residents, who, It Is feared, may have been lost In the storm. Persons on the Island mostly are fishermen, but several parties of campers were known to have been there when the hurricane struck. The sea was still too rough to be navigable, and an appeal was sent to Governor Hall, who ordered the state conservation commission to direct one of its large boats to go to the rescue. Climber Killed on Rainier. Tacoma. While climbing to Gibral tar Rock on Mount Rainier, with a party of eastern tourists, G. F. Ord way, of Boston, plunged to death down a canyon. Mrs. Ordway saw her hus band's body go crashing down the cliff. Ordway's body was recovered by members of the party. Although 23.000 tourists hava registered at the national park this season, this is the first accident of the kind since 1912, when a young woman fell from peak. GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS: Portland Wheat: BlueBtem, $1.01 bushel; forty fold, 95c; club, 93c; red Fife, 92c; red Russian, 90c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $25.50. Barley No. 1 feed, $25; brewing, $26. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $27 ton; shorts, $28; rolled barley, $29 80. Corn Whole, $38 ton; cracked, $39. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $16 17 ton; valley timothy, $15; alfalfa, $12.5013.50; cheat, $10.6011; oat and vetch, $1112. Vegetables Cucumbers, Oregon, 15 20c dozen; artichokes, 90c; tomatoes, 2650c box; cabbage, lc pound; head lettuce, $1 crate; beans, 2J4c pound; green corn, 1520c dozen; garlic, 10 12Jc pound; peppers, 45c; egg plant, 67c; pumpkins, lie Green Fruits Cantaloupes, 65 $1.75 crate; peaches, 3060c box; watermelons, llic pound; plums, 60c ($$1.25 box; new apples, Astrachans, 75cC?$l ; Gravenstein, $1(3)1.25; pears, $1 1.25; grapes, $1 1.75 crate; huckleberries, 6 7c pound; casabas, $1.762 dozen. Potatoes New, 70 80c sack; sweets, SJ4c pound. Onions 6075c sack. Eggs Oregon ranch, buying prices: No. 1, 25c dozen; No. 2, 20c; No. 8, 17c. Jobbing price: No. 1, 27c. Poultry Hens, 13 14c pound; springs, 16 17c; turkeys, 1819c; ducks, 812c; geese, 22i26c. Butter City creamery, cubes, ex tras, 27c pound; firsts, 25c; seconds, 24c; prints and cartons, extra; butter fat, No, 1, 28c; second grade, 2c less; country creamery cubes, 22J26c. Veal Fancy, 1212Je per pound. Pork Block, 9J10c pound. Hops 1915 contracts, nominal, 13(a) 14c pound; 1914 crop, 14c; olds, 12 13e. Hides Salted hides, 15Je pound; salted kip, 16c; salted calf, 18c; green hides, 14c; green kip, 16c, green calf, 18c; dry hides, 25c; dry calf, 27c. Wool Eastern Oregon, medium, 25 28Jc; pound; Eastern Oregon, fine, 182ljc; valley, 2630c; mohair, new clip, 30pic. Cascara bark Old and new, 4e. Pelts Dry long wooled pelts, 5Jc; dry short-wooled pelts, lljc; dry shearlings, each, 10 15c; salted shearlings, l25e; dry goat, long hair, 17c; dry goat, shearlings, 10 20c; salted long-wooled pelts, May, $1 2. Grain bags In car lots, 7c; small lots, Jc more. Cattle Best steers, $6.50 6.75; good, $6 6.25; medium, $5.75 6; choice cows, $5.255.35; heifers, $5 5.85; bulls, $4.505; stags, $5.50 6. Hogs Light, $7.607.60; heavy, $7.257.40. Sheep Wethers, $4.755; ewes, $34.50; lambs, $4.756.25. A complex local situation is apt to make the Portland wheat market un usually dull. The farmers are showing themselves totally unwilling to meet in any way the prices offered by exporters. In fact, following telegraph reports that sterling had declined to $4.58, one leading firm of exporters announced that they were not in the market, and, moreover, did not expect to be in the near future. The grower, generally, is not in clined to take below $1.06, the price current a week ago, prior to the recent slump. "And, if he holds for that price, he is apt never to sell his grain," re marked one leading shipper. "The farmer is confident that grain will go up," said another. "But then the farmer fails to consider such little questions as exchange. " The opinion seemed general that wheat trading locally would be. at a standstill for some little time, the water rate of 60 cents by the canal making it practically impossible for local mills to buy wheat here and com pete with flour on Eastern markets. Exporters asserted that unless he had ships which he was compelled to fill, a buyer would be unlikely to buy at all, because he might have to face a heavy defleit by the time his 60-day payment bill became due. With the farmers firm for wheat at $1.06 and over, and buyers soy until the money market is more settled, there does not appear much chance of heavy sales of Northwest grain. Few Apples Yet Unsigned. Wenatchee, Wash. The apple crop of the Wenatchee district is now al most entirely lined up for market 85 per cent is the estimate of one fruit man. The greater part of the unsigned tonnage is in the hail-affected districts. The tonnage in other sections has been sold for cash or placed as a whole through a unit of the Growers' League. Prospects are that almost one-fourth of the entire tonnage will be sold for cash. Estimates say the tonnage will vary from 4000 to 6000 cars. Approx imately 850 cars are under contract. Hop Prospects Favorable. Portland A cable received by leading firm of hop exporters indicated that the English crop would be 270,000 cwt., in place of 250,000 cwt., the es timate given a week ago. At the same time the lice conditions in Oregon are improving, and cables indicate that weather conditions abroad are favor able to a big crop. Hop buyers report that 137,000 cwt. of last year's Eng lish crop remain unsold, and this is a factor in the market. The Portland stockyards market con- tinned firm, although arrivals were light. Sheep receipts were heavy. TORNADO DEATH LIST EXCEEDS 100 Property Loss In Texas Storm Estimated at $30,000,000. 500 HOUSES GO DOWN IN GALVESTON Waves Break Causeway and Destroy Water Supply Mains Fires Are Started Troops, Called. Deaths by Flood on Southeast Texas Coast. With Urga sections of the flood swept area IB Texas not yet hear from, tne osuniato 01 aeoo isi Vlrnlnia Point. 14 Texas City SI Galveston 14 Morgana Point 7 Hitchcock 7 La Porto 7 Raabroek 8 Houston 3 Dleklniwn .- 1 Port Arthur -.. 5 Pattoa II Bay Itiage 3 Sabine 3 Lynchburg I Sylvan Bettth.. S Dallas, Tex. Direct word from the sterm-swept communities of the south east Texas eoast breught details of the tropical hurricane which put Galves ton, Heustea, Texas City and scores of other cities and towns In dire peril. With large seetloas of the district yet unheard from, the death list was more than 11, the heaviest reported loss being from Texas City, opposite Gal veston. The property damage may exceed $30,.t0. with Galveston contribut ing halt that amount. Property loss estimates were vague except in a few Instances. Houston, Texas City and Port Arthur advices gave fairly definite figures for those places, but most of the other towns reported in such phrases as ''consider able," "very heavy" and "not yet esti mated." Some of the estimates were as fol lows: Oalveston SlE.lie.OO Seabrook.... 3100,000 Sabine 110,000 Sabine Pass 110,000 Kemah 60,000 MOUStOK .... 2,ft,ftf Texas City 4I0.IM Port Arthur 200,101 The comparatively small loss of life is attributed by residents to the les sons of 1S00. The Galveston popula tion sought refuge la the strongest buildings of the city, whereas In the disastrous storm of 15 years ago they remained in their homes, feeling se cure against the gale which took the lives of S000. Railroads running into the city an nounced they had begun moving all available men and machinery into the storm zone, from north Texas to re pair tracks and water mains, but this progress Is slow. In bearing the brunt of the storm, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsu la served as barriers to break the force of the hurricane against the lit tle bay shore towns whloh skirt the large body of water lying to the north of the island. The bay towns have suffered heavily, but probably have been saved from utter devastation. Dependable accounts of the losses In these lesser towns have not been thus far obtainable, but the loss of lives is proportionately greater in each of the bay towns than in Galveston. In Virginia Point, the north end of the causeway, 14 are dead; at Texas City 32, 10 of whom were soldiers, are reported drowned, seven at La Porte and three at Lynchburg. At Houston three were killed during the storm, one, W. E. Evans, a car penter, killed by a falling barn, and another, an unidentified negro, killed by a live wire. The property loss has been estimated at $2,000,000. The hurricane struck Houston, ac cording to reports reaching here, shortly after every wire to Galveston had been put out of commission by the storm. The hurricane was declared to be the worst In the history of the city. Damage was wrought chiefly to buildings by the wind and to merchan dise by water. 35 In I Autos Held Up, Butte, Mont Five highwaymen held up and robbed nine successive automobile parties within the space of an hour here Saturday night. The hold-ups occurred on Harrison avenue, a main thoroughfare. Thirty-five persons were robbed of cash and jewelry which the police be lieve will total more than $6000. As the motoring parties approached the scene of the robberies they were stopped, robbed and forced to take seats at the side of the road, until 35 persons were seated In a row. Tree Yield $3000 Crop. Washington, D. C What appears to he the most valuable fruit tree In the world stands at Whlttier, In Los Angeles county, Cal. It is an avacado (alligator pear) and Is insured against wind and fire by Lloyds, of London, to the amount of $30,009. The value of this tree ariaes from the great value of its product This tree last year yielded 3109 pears which averaged to the owner 60 cents each. It also produced $1500 worth of bud wood, making a total production for the year of $3909. Schedule Change Curbed. Olympia, Wash. The time-worn de vice on railroad timetables announc ing that the railroad "reserves the right to change this schedule at pleas ure" or without notice, is doomed In the state of Washington, unless the railroads can offer a convincing ex cuse. The publio service commission has Issued an order forbidding chang ing of timetables without 10 days' no tice, posted beforehand In the stations.