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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1915)
Of CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News Fra All Around the Earth. OERSAl HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHD Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Ruulani are bombarding Bulgarian porta with great energy. Large forcei of Germani ami Aus trian have invaded Serbia. An interchange of telephone! in Portland, Or., boteli la ordered by tbe Oregon State Public Service conv mlMion, It la now declared a fact that Bui garlamadea definite agreement last Hay to enter the war on the aide of Germany. Information reachei Geneva by way of Munich from a source which ii re garded aa reliable that Roumania will soon Issue decree for general mobil isation. An aeroplane coming from Bulgaria dropped numerous bombs on Nlsh, kill' Ing five persons and wounding two others. It then returned safely to Bulgaria. - -Able German agents have convinced the general public of Greece that Ger many is Invincible, and the Greeks are not enthusiastic over going to war against the Teutons. Apples picked from the oldest apple tree on the Pacific Coast, in Vancouver Barracks, Wash., have been sent to the department of Agriculture by A, A. Quarnberg. This famous tree is almost 90 years old and produced a fair crop of applea this year. . A shaggy-haired goat overestimated his fighting ability at the Portland zoo when he wandered Into the buffalo paddocks and gave battle to one of the big male buffaloes. The goat's bat tered remains were taken to the city Incinerator for cremation. Total casualties of officers in the British army from the beginning of the war up to September 27 have reached a total of 17,074. Of this number 6176 were killed or had died of wounds, while 10,469 were wounded and 1429 were listed as missing. Reports from the western front say that Moroccan soldiers captured by the Germans consider themselves guests of Germany and not prisoners, says the Overseas New Agency. They are op posed to France, which compels them to fight against their religious convic tions. A well-defined earthquake was felt In San Francisco at 9 :26 o'clock Fri day evening. Buildings shook percep tibly but no reports of damage have been received. Tables on the fourth floor of the Metropolis Bank building slid across the floor. There was no excitement on the streets, however, American harvests this year will be te most valuable ever produced. With the whefct..rrop exceeding a billion bushels, the largest ever turned out In one season by any nation; a corn crop which also may prove to be the largest ever grown, the government's October erop report announces preliminary eg' 1 1 mates which indicate record harvests of oats, barley, rye, sweet potatoes, rice, tobacco and hay. Congress probably will be asked to approve in December a continuing building policy for the navy, having for its object maintenance of the navy on the basis of at least 48 first-class battleships. The proportion of super battle cruisers, scouts, destroyers, sub marines and auxiliaries will be worked out from this figure. John Kipling, of the Irish Guards, only son of Rudyard Kipling, is re ported In the latest casualty list as "missing and believed to have been killed." John Kipling was 18 years old. Un account of bis delicate health his parents were reluctant to allow him to enter the army, but the boy insisted he should assume his share of the war and his father eventually yielded. Speaker Clark and hia son were in a posse that met and dispersed a mob of 20 men that attempted to lynch Har rison Rose, a negro, at Bowling breen, Mo. The mob attacked the Jail, broke the outer doors and was pounding with sledge hammers on the inner door when the sheriff appeared with the posse. The mob was quickly dispersed. Rose is under Indictment for the murder of a farmer. Germany accedes to every demand of the United States and promises pay. ment of indemnity for the sinking of the Arabic in which Americans lost their lives. The Earl of Derby, at the request of Lord Kitchener, secretary for war, London, has undertaken the direction of recruiting for the army. The Earl of Derby served in South Africa as chief press censor and later as private secretary of Field Marshal Lord Rob erts during the Boer war. He has also held offices aa financial secretary to the war office and as postmaster gen eral Mayor Thompson of Chicago, has caused the "lid" to be clamped on the city on Sundays. The "wets" claim that the mayor has broken his pre election pledges. In response to a message from Gov ernor Hall, of Louisiana, asking for assistance In taking care of the home less, Acting Secretary Newton, of the treasury, authorised public health service o.Tlelale to lend tents and other e-'pnent to Golf Coast hurricane suf fJLrs. Governor Hall telegraphed tst 8W or flOOO persons were home ly and i-titut. GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO M The Austrian government has placed a price of $4,000 on the head of Gabriele d'AnnunzIo, the poet who so strongly urged Italy to go to war with Austria and who now Is serving as a lieutenant In a regiment of Italian lancers. PRESIDENT URGES AMERICA FIRST IN MATTERS OF NATIONAL CONCERN Washington, D. C A demand on all Americans, on penalty of ostra cism, to be more than neutral in re gard to the European war, to take their stand for America first, last and all the time, was voiced by President Wilson in a speech In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Daughters of the American Rev olution. The United States, the presi dent said, was not merely trying to keep out of trouble, but was trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace could be rebuilt. "Peace can be rebuilt," he added, "only upon the ancient and accepted principles of international law; only upon these things which remind na tions of their duties to each other, and deeper than that, of their duties to mankind and humanity. America has a great cause which is not confined to the American continent. It is the cause of humanity Itself." Declaring his faith in the loyalty of the great body of naturalized citizens of foreign birth, the president said he believed tho Impression wbb too gen eral that a large number of these citi zens were without a sufficient affec tion for the American Ideal, "But I am in a hurry to have a line up," he explained, "and let the men who are thinking first of other coun tries stand on one side and those who are for America first, last and all the time, on the other side." Every political action and every so cial action in America at this time, said Mr. Wilson, should have for Its object to challenge the spirit of Americanism. Bulgarian Army Attacks Serbians. London. A dispatch to the Times from Athens says that the Bulgarians began an attack on Serbia at Barlbo ghax near Knlashevatz on Monday. Paris. Although Belgrade had been evacuated, the Matin's correspondent at Nlsh said, in a dispatch filed Sun day, the fighting continued stubbornly on the bills surrounding the city, some of which had been tuken and re taken several times. "Artillery on both sides," the dis patch says, "has been firing without respite for three days. The Serbs gained the advantage when they cap tured exoellent positions near Topol der and drove the Germans back on a suburb of Bolgrade called Great Vrat char, where a fiorce struggle la going on. "The Invaders threw more than 50,- 000 shells on Bolgrade, sparing neither hospitals nor churches. Synagogues were destroyed and Jewish families who had taken refuge there were bur ied In the ruins. French artillery took part in the dorense of the city. The British, with heavy guns, inflicted great losses on the Germans and sunk two monitors in the Danube. "Near Rain, on the Danubo, the Serbians were driven back with the loss of four howitzers and soveral ma chine guns." War Supply Cargo Lost. Toklo. One life, that of a third offi cer, was lost in the wreck of the Brit ish steamer Ruftord Hall In a typhoon In the Tsuruga straits, while on her way from New York to Vladivostok, The steamer Itself, which had a car go of war supplies for Russia on board was a total loss. The wrecking of the Rufford Hall was reported in a Toklo dispatch on October 9. At that time it was said that a lifeboat containing the officers and one passenger was missing. Invasion to Be Explained. Washington, D. C Why the Atlan- tio fleet failed to dotend the Delaware coast and permitted invaders to land an army on the shores of Delaware Bay In the recent war game, will be developed at conferences between the fleet officers and the navy war college staff and later the publio will be taken into the navy's conference by a public statement. Details of the maneuvers will be made known to all American naval of ficers so that lessons may be drawn from them. Roumania to Aid Allies. Paris. Premier Bratiano, of Rou mania, has given the Italian govern ment to understand that Roumanian operations on the side of the entente may be considered certain, says a spe cial dispatch from Rome. The Rou manian government, however, will choose its own time for taking the field against the Austro-Germans. 21,000' More British Fall. London. British casualties report ed since October 1 amount to more than 21,000. The week-end casualty list published Saturday gives 200 offi cers and 4300 men. This brings up the total casualties published In the London papers Rtnce the first of the mouth to 981 officers and 20,351 men. RECOGNITION TO BE GIVEN CARRANZA Embargo on Arms to Opposing Factions Sure to Follow. DECISION OF CONFERENCE UNANIMOUS Mexican Capital Receives News With Great Rejoicing Amnesto for All Who Submit Is Plan. Washington, D. C Recognition of tbe party led by Oeneral Carranza as the defacto government in Mexico has been unanimously agreed on by the fan-American conference as tbe step to be recommended to tbelr respective governments, Secretary Lansing, on behalf of the United States government, expressed its Intention to recognize General Car ranza, and the ambassadors of Brazil, Chile and Argentina and tbe ministers of Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala transmitted tbe decision of tbe Wash ington government, as well as their own opinions In agreement with it Full Agreement Reached. Mr. Lansing has obtained the ap proval of President Wilson to the plan, and before the conference began all the ministers In the Latin-American corps also had given their adher ence to it. Tbe attitude of the conference was regarded generally as the most Im portant diplomatic step In the Mexi can situation since the United States decided to withhold recognition from the Huerta government, more than two years ago. It means that tbe Car ranza government will receive tbe moral support of the United States and that an embargo on shipments of arms to opposing factions will be -laid as soon as recognition actually Is ex tended, which probably will be within a fortnight News Pleasing to Carranza. Vera Cruz. General Carranza re ceived with great pleasure tbe news that the Pan-American conference at Washington bad decided to reeognlze him as the defacto government in Mexico, although he pointed out that he bad received no official notice to this effect. He will not alter bis plans for a trip through the northern states. In response to questions General Carranza said: "When peace absolutely Is restored and tranquillity really established throughout the country, amnesty will be granted to all these persons, but not now. To permit them to return at this time would be to endure their ma chinations within the republic. "Tbe immediate effect of this news will be a great moral strengthening of the cause of constitutionalism and a corresponding disheartening of oppos ing factions. There will be no more formal battles. Fighting of that sort already has ended, but naturally the struggle to put down minor outbreaks and lawlessness must be continued for a greater or less time in a country such as this, where there are exten sive open areas." Mexico City. News of the decision to recognize the Carranza government was received with great joy by the military element here. All the news papers issued special editions. Gen eral Pablo Gonzales, commander of the Carranza forces In Mexico City, will hold a reception In celebration of the event SUFFRAGE CHAMPION IS DEAD Portland. Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunl way, 81 years old, sister of the late Harvey W. Scott and known as the "mother of woman suffrage In Ore gon," died at Good Samaritan hospital at 12:50 o'clock Monday morning, fol lowing an Illness of several weeks. Mrs. Dunlway underwent an operation recently for an infection in her foot and for some time there had been vir tually no hope of her recovery. At the bedside at the time of her death were Ralph R. Dunlway and Dr. C. A. Dunlway, sons, Dr. J. C. Zan and the nurse, Mrs. Dunlway's death came while she was sleeping peacefully. London Prohibits Treating. London. The anti-treattng regula tion In connection with the use and sale of alcoholio drinks has gone Into effect in London and the surrounding district. It is the most radical and far-reaching effort for the curtailment of drinking yet tried, for it affects nearly 10,000,000 persons, and viola tion of the regulations Is punishable by a fine of $500 and six months in prison. The authorities have given notice that the penalties will be en forced without mercy. The law Is ex pected to curtail the consumption of alcoholio liquors by 60 per cent Oriental Sailors Battle. Seattle. Two hundred Chinese and Japanese sailors of the Great North ern liner Minnesota engaged In a free-for-all fight aboard the big vessel Sun day and before police reserves restor ed order several of the combatants were severely cut and bruised and one Chinese was suffering from burns caused by scalding water. The trou ble began when 60 Chinese made a rush to break up a Japanese birthday party. Within a few minutes every Oriental aboard ship was fighting with fists, feet, bottles, chairs, belaying pins or any bandy weapon. Prince Dies of Wound. London. Prince Frederio of Thurn and Taxis died In a Russian base hos pital, according to a Petrograd dis patch to tbe Post after being severely wounded In an encounter with Rus sian raiders In the Vilna salient A dispatch from Amsterdam Sep tember 24 said the Berlin Lokal An selger had announced that Prince Frederio had been killed while fight ing in the Dniester. Kaiser to Expert Spuds. London. The Oerman potato crop. estimated at (0,000,000 tons, is the largest in the history of tbe country, says a Berne dispatch to the Post The supply is so abundant that Germany has withdrawn the prohibition against exporting potatoes to Switzerland. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS Whet96c bushel; forty-fold, 94c; club, 93c. Mlilfeed Spot prices: Bran, $25 ton; shorts, $26; rolled barley, f28C(j 29. Corn Whole,' $37. 60 ton; cracked, $38.60. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $16 16; valley timothy, $12(?413; alfal fa, $12.5013.60; cheat, $910; wit's and vetch, f 11(7512. Vegetables Cucumbers, Oregon,. 15 (pOcd'.'sen; artichokes, 76c; toma toes, 8640c box; cabbage, le pound; green corn, 1015e dozen; garlic, 15c per pound; peppers, 46c; eggplant, 46c; sprouts, 10c; horseradish, 12Jc; cauliflower, 60c$l. Potatoes New 70 86c sack; sweets, $2.402.60 cwt. Onions Oregon, $11.10 ssck. Eggs Oregon ranch, buying prices: No. 1, 84c dozen; No. 2, 27c; No. 8, 20c. Jobbing prices, No. 1, 86c. Poultry Hens, ll13,c; springs, 18 14c; turkeys, nominal; ducks, white, 13 16c; colored, 10 11c; geese, 810c. Butter City creamery cubes, ex tras, selling at 311c; firsts, 29c; prints and cartons, extra. Prices paid to producers: Country creamery, 2229c; butterfat, premium quality, 83c; No. 1, average quality, 81c; No. 2, 29c. Cheese Oregon triplets, jobbers' buying price, 14c pound f. o. b. dock, Portland; Young Americas, 16 Jc. Veal Fancy, 10c pound. Pork Block, 7J8c pound. Hops 1915 crop, 9llc pound. Hides Salted hides, 16c; salted kip, 15c; salted calf, 18c; green hides, 139c; green kip, 16c; green calf, 18c; dry hides, 25c; dry calf, 27c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1828c pound; valley, 27 28c; fall lambs' wool, 2425c; mohair, Oregon, 27 80c. Cascara bark Old and new, 3J4c pound. East Again Buying Wheat. Portland A stronger wheat market in the East has increased the demand in the Northwest for grain for Eastern shipment, and buyers from that quar ter who had been talking of reselling their purchases accordingly elevated their views. The cash market in Chi cago was from 7 to 12 cents above the December option. It is figured that 400 carloads of wheat have been bought to date to go East, and the local trade looks for a continuance of the movement. Country business has again decreased, as the Chicago ad vance has made farmers firmer. Bids at the Merhcants' Exchange were generally on a higher basis. Offers for club were raised 1 to li cents and red wheat bids were 1 to 2 cents higher. There was a 4-cent ad vance in offers for November forty- fold and 2J cents for the October de livery. Spot bluestem was unchanged, but November was raised 3 cents. For the first time in weeks there were bids for brewing barley at the Exchange. Offers were made to buy 500-ton lots at $27, but sellers would not consider this price. Feed barley was 60 cents higher at $26.60. The oats market was also firmer, with bids raised 60 cents, the strength being due to the advance in barley. Bradstreets reports the visible wheat increase this week at 14,000,000 bush els, the corn increase at 1,406,000 bushels, and the oats increase at 1, 453,000 bushels. Hop Buying in Yakima Section. Portland The only active point in the hop market this week is the Yaki ma section, where over 600 bales changed hands. The principal buying was done by McNefl? Bros. The lots purchased were those of Frank Elgin, 154 bales, George Elgin, 125 bales; Charles Elgin, 145 bales, and P. N. Campbell, 120 bales. There was a re port of a deal involving about a car load at Rickreall, but otherwise busi ness in this state was quiet. Prices remain unchanged at 9 to 10 cents for the qualities now being offered. Shippers were disturbed by the an nouncement that the transcontinental lines would not issue through bills of lading on hops intended for England, owing to the freight congestion on the trans-Atlantic Bteamship lines. The Canadian roads, however, are tak ing hops for through shipment. Cotton Exports Show Increase. Washington, D. C. Enormous in creases in the cotton export trade during August are shown in the monthly statement of foodstuffs, cot ton and oil exports, made public by the bureau of foreign and domestic com merce. Cotton exports for the month were 162,059 bales, valued at $7,625, 631, aa compared with exports of 21, 210 bales, valued at $1,806,117, in August 1914. For the eight months ended with August shipments were 6, 099,420 bales, as against 8,734,444 in the same period last year. Cantaloupe Season Nearly Over. Portland The last car of California cantaloupes of the season is now being cleaned up. Southern Oregon and local stock will be used during the remain der of the season and will sell higher. Salway peaches were received from Merlin and sold at 60(i 55 cents. Levi clings are moving at 6066 cents. A car of Lady finger grapes, the last of the season, arrived and were quoted at $1.60 for lug boxes. Southern Oregon grapes were in fair supply, Malagas selling at 85 cents and Tokay at $1. Local Concords were 121c per basket Northwest Stock Barred. North Yakima An unconfirmed re port here says that all live stock taken from the State Fair here and from points in Idaho and Oregon to the Ore gon Fair at Salem, which, it was planned, would be taken to the live stock exhibition at San Francisco, has been denied admission into California. The reported reason is that Tamworth hogs of the J. W. McKoy herd from Farragut, Iowa, and stock associated with Iowa stock had been refused. ljywfMaHSlllllllin'imniiW iiiiiirnsniiiniiBsrin(MiriinTrn-Ti--i 'ii iiuiiiinMMiiiMi mm "V"1"1 mni i 1 ?JfJ . t ,.,,, ix ntf-M- -N.i '. ..ZZZ7rT.,.,ma.ZZ,..m,.....Aj unwise iiwv- Scene showing the dally lifeboat part Just before tbe Lapland sailed discovered In the cargo. SUBMARINE I ill l ' 7711 p 'Sir tJtt:T TP1 BftP j - These slim, white, high-powered motor boats, so light that they rest like bubbles on the water yet capable of making a speed of more than thirty-five miles an hour, are part of a large order being executed at Greenport, L. I., for the allies. Tbe vessels have been nicknamed "mosquitoes," because of their size and fleetness. They are to be used to overhaul the German submarines and put them out of commission, being equipped with rapid-firing guns for this purpose. The boats are 60 feet long with a beam of 10 feet, and float in 2 feet of water. The three big engines which drive the three propellers and the four gasoline tanks occupy the center section and leave no room for passage forward and aft beneath the deck. They are to be taken to Archangel, Russia, aboard vessels of the Caribbean and Southern line. SHARING WITH HIS HORSES An Italian soldier photographed as he was sharing his lunch with his be loved horses. Edison Conquers Chlorine Gas. United States submarine crews need no longer fear the chlorine gas hith erto automatically generated among the metals of their precarious craft. Mr. Edison has found the secret of prevention submerged boats may pro ceed to greater distances sate from the dangers created by the contact of salt water with lead batteries In the electrlo installation. It cost him 65, 000 different experiments to determine the cause and provide the remedy, and $3,000,000 In money. His new nickel battery, Impervious, tried out by a year In sea water, was installed In K-6 and has been recommended for tbe other undersea boats. Deaths, ailments and incapacities have been due to chlorine gas; Mr. Edison's service, therefore, is no less on behalf of life-saving than on behalf of alert effectiveness In this arm of defense. Their Use. "What do they use bitts on a vessel fort" "I suppose they use them when a vessel Is driving In the teeth of a gale." Dally Thought Nature has presented us with a large faculty of entertaining ourselves alone, and often calls us to It to teach us that wa owe ourselves In part to society, but chiefly and mostly to our selves. Montaigne. Surely Includes This. According to a mycologlcal expert, the colorings ot mushrooms are ex ceedingly varied. Including possibly the subsequent beautiful blue of the victim wbo gets a toadstool by mistake. af-KTj l-4 LIFEBOAT DRILL ON IMPERILED drill on board the W hite Star liner Lapland, crew and passengers an taking from Now York recently two glass bombs filled with high explosives were CHASERS BUILT FOR THE RUSSIANS . KILLED BY AN These two Italians made a heroic attempt to cut the wire entanglements In front of an Austrian trench, but were hit and killed by a shell. BEDSTEADS MADE Ex"8- So many wounded allies have been taken from the Dardanelles to Egypt that the erection of numerous temporary hospitals has been necessary. To equip these quickly, bedsteads were made of date palm trees. They re semble bird cages, and the material Is so supple that they are as comfortable as It they had tbe best ot modern springs. The photograph stiowa wagon loads ot these beds on the way to a hospital. Work Laid Out for Students. Students In the college of arts and pure science of New York university no longer will be obliged to confine their endeavors to purely academic and nonprofessional studies. Accord ing to plans contemplated for the col legiate year beginning this month, a four-year course In commercial train ing will be offered as a distinct de partment of the university college, which Is at the University Heights division of the university. While the rosniar sUdr of prescribed subjects of LINER AUSTRIAN SHELL OF DATE PALMS general educational value will be ad hered to during the first year, the.' work of the sophomore term will in elude studies of corporation finance), . banking, bookkeeping and economics. The final two years are to be devoted almost exclusively to work along strictly technical lines, with supple mentary study in research problems In the laboratory. Nothing makes a man feel so Impor tant as his ability to answer the ques tions of a small boy. r