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WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS INANUTSHELl Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. A Greek collier was sunk Thursday by an Austrian submarine. Twenty seven members of the crew were picked up by a French torpedo boat. The resignation of Charles Ware as general manager of the Union Pacific was announced Tuesday at the com pany's headquarters. No reason is given. The Swedish steamer Rosalinn, 877 tons, from Copenhagen for Stugsund, in ballast, has been sunk by a mine off the Stockholm Skerries. The crew was saved. By a vote of 80 to 37, the house in committee of the whole has adopted an amendment to grant suffrage to the women of Porto Rico. It was proposed by Republican Leader Mann. . Notices of contests from the Sixth, Seventh and Fourteenth districts of Texas, involving four delegates to the Repubican National convention are re ceived by Secretary Reynolds. The battleship Nebraska left the navy yard at Boston Tuesday under orders to proceed to Mexico. She will take on a complement of apprentice seamen at Newport, R. I., en route. Victor Carlstrom, in a 160-horse-, power biplane, flew from Newport News, Va., to the Sheepahead Bay speedway, in New York City, Tues day, a distance of 416 miles, in four hours and one minute. More than 1300 French, including 31 officers, 16 machine guns and eight cannon, were- captured in a German BBsault on the Verdun front in the re gion of Deadman's hill, the German war office announced Tuesday. President Poincare has conferred the war cross on Queen Elizabeth of Bel gium as an expression of "the admira tion of the people for the magnificent courage and untiring devotion to the wounded which she has never ceased to show under the enemy's fire." London underwriters , charge 50 per cent to insure against a declaration of peace between Great Britain and Ger many before January 1. The rate in dicates that in the underwriters' opin ion the prospects for an early peace are better than two months ago, when the rate for the same risk was only 30 per cent. It is officially announced from Dub lin that in addition to the sentence of death imposed on Jeremiah C. Lynch, American, a similar sentence was im posed upon Peter Gallighan, but that this sentence was commuted to five years' penal servitude. A number of other persons also were sentenced to various termB of imprisonment. Nine residents of Pacific county, Wash,, were arraigned Wednesday be fore Judge Cushman in the United States District court at Tacoma, on in dictments returned by the Federal grand jury last Saturday, charging conspiracy against Mrs. Margaret Ross and sons. The defendants are the al leged nightriders who are accused of having forcibly restrained Mrs. Ross and her sons from exercising their rights as settlers on the public domain. The'administration's five-year navy program was rejected by a house com mittee. The Northwestern railroad at Omaha has announced an increase of 5 per cent in wages of some classes of em ployes. A San Francisco judge has decided that it is as much a crime for a woman to desert her dependent children as for a man to desert his family. Four mice, whose ancestors had been inoculated with tumor germs for 15 years, took up their residence in the Crocker cancer research laboratory at Columbia University, New York, where they have been brought from London to be safe from war's ravages. Estimates of the government's re ceipts and expenditures for the re mainder of the current fiscal year and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, tend to show that much less new reve nue will have to be raised to meet the bill for preparedness and other large contemplated expenditures than had been supposed, An earthquake of particular violence has occurred along the Adriatic coast of Italy. At Cezena a dozen persons were injured. Interior districts were also badly shaken. A handbag containing six $10 bills was found in a bundle of clothing by Salvation Army workers in Portland. Upon returning the money to its owner they received a $10 bill as reward. Sergeant Furman, a member of the machine gun company of the Twenty third Infantry, was shot and killed on Mexican soil a mile and a half east of Juaret by Mexican customs guards. FOOD DICTATORSHIP WITH SWEEP ING POWER CREATED IN GERMANY Berlin, via London "The adequate nourishment of our population is fully assured and will be rendered doubtful by any blockade regulations of enemy states, no matter how unscrupulous they may be and no matter how long the war may last," says the semi official North German Gazette, in an announcement of the creation of a food dictatorship with sweeping powers. "However, the short' harvest of 1915, together with reduced imports, have resulted in a food scarcity in some directions which makes itself felt, and efforts to better conditions have been hindered by the fact that each federated state has been able to make independent regulations. This will now be corrected by a centraliza tion of power." Probably never before have such sweeping powers been concentrated as now granted Ilerr von Battocki, the new food dictator. Various counselors will be assigned to him, representing agriculture, industry, trade, the mili tary and the consumers, and the repre sentatives of the federal states and as sociations connected with the war will aid him. Final decision on all ques tions, however, rests solely in Herr von Battacki's hands. The regulations of the federal coun cil will not be affected by the appoint ment of the dictator, but in case of pressing necessity the dictator is em powered even to issue contrary regula tions, but these must be laid before the federated council for approval. 30,000 Carranza Troops Hunt Bandits Along Northern Border Washington, D. C Reports to both the State and War departments Wed nesday further indicated .plans of the Carranza government to prosecute vig orously pursiut of Chihuahua outlaw bands while the American forces re main comparatively quiescent. CloBely following news of with drawal from Mexico of the second American punitive expedition sent from Boquillas, Texas, under Colonel Sibley and Major Langhorne, informa tion reached the State department that General Obregon had ordered 30,000 troops to engaged in the bandit hunt in Chihuahua and along the Big Bend border. Delay in opening diplomatic discus sions over the question of American troops remaining in Mexico also was indicated in official dispatches. State department officials said that receipt of the new note being prepared by General Carranza was not expected be fore next week. It was thought probable that retire ment of the Big Bend expedition to American soil had presented a new sit uation in connection with representa tions contemplated in General Car ranza'B new note. Battle at Verdun Grows Bloodier; French Withstand Titanic Assaults London Tuesday witnessed the bloodiest fighting in the whole battle of Verdun. The struggle of the first dayB of the German assualt, or of the second mighty effort'to overwhelm the fortress, fade into nothing compared with the titanic force of Tuesday's blows. And their net result, so far as the Germans are concerned, was to leave the battle lines where the French had left them after the successful counter attacks of Monday. Only about the Thiaumont farm, east of the Meuse, does Paris admit the loss of a single foot of ground. Berlin herself claims only the capture of a small blockhouse west of the river and of a sap mine near Vaux. For the rest it contents itself with re porting the repulse of the French at tacks. Every available man and every avail able gun except those actually nec essary for the reserves the Germans have mustered into the battle. They made a supreme effort to recapture Fort Douaumont, which in their ab sorption at Hill 304 and Le Mort Hom me, they had neglected to prepare against the contingency of French sur prise, but the French grip on their old fortifications was too strong. Assault after assault, so many of them that they literablly flowed into each other until even the French could not distinguish them, was delivered within the old ramparts. It was a repetition of the hand-to-hand struggle in the streets of Vaux. Prohis May Name Bryan, Chicago If he will consent to make the race, William Jennings Bryan may be selected as the candidate for Presi dent of the Prohibition party. Recent statements of Mr. Bryan before the conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Saratoga Springs, in which he was quoted as declaring that he had about reached the point where he could no longer follow a political party which refused to indorse national prohibition, was discussed by Prohibition party leaders here, who thought Bryan might consent to run. Beer and Egg Condemned. Birmingham, Ala. The general as sembly of the Cumberland Presbyter ian church ended its 80th annual meet ing Wednesday night after adopting a resolution favoring a constitutional amendment for National prohibition and approving a committee report which deplored that a large number of women had formed the habit of using alcoholic drinks. It condemned specifically the use of beer and egg as a spring tonic. RUSSIANS SUCCOR BRITISH ON TIGRIS Cavalry Mysteriously Comes to forces in Distress. BOLD, ADVENTUROUS RIDE REPORTED First News Since Surrender of Gen. Townshend and Fall of Kut-el-Amara Is Joyful Surprise. London A force of Russian cavalry has joined the British army on the Tigris, in Mesopotamia. An official communication, issued Monday night concerning the situation along the Tigris, follows: "General Lake reports that on the 19th the enemy vacated Betahalessi, and advanced position on the right bank of the Tigris. General Gorringe, following up the enemy, attacked and carried the Dujailam redoubt. The enemy is still holding the Sannayyat position on the left bank of the river. "A force of Russian cavalry has joined General Gorringe after a bold and adventurous ride. "The first news of the operations on 'the TigriB Bince the fall of Kut-el-Amara, sent by Lieutenant General Sir Percy Lake, commander of the British forces in Mesopotamia, al though it shows that the Turks are still holding the Sannayyat position, on the left bank of the Tigris, where the British check made it impossible to carry out the relief of General Townshend, brings the welcome but astonishing intelligence that a body of Russian cavalry, after an adventurous ride, has succeeded in joining General Gorringe's forces on the south bank of the Tigris." How this important junction was effected is still unknown, and the story will be awaited with intense interest. Their sudden appearance with Gen eral Gorringe also has raised the ques tion whether the Russians have al ready cut the Bagdad railroad at Mo sul. In any case, the unexpected ap pearance of this body of cavalry is as great a surprise as was the first land ing of the Russian troops at Marseil les, and is another instance of the swift and stealthy movement of the Russian forces in Asia Minor. Two Men Marooned 58 Days On Barren Alaskan Island, Rescued Seward, Alaska After having been marooned 58 days on one of the barren islands at the mouth of Cook Inlet, Captain Charles Hansen and E. H. Mitchell, formerly of San Francisco, survivors of the wreck of the launch Success, arrived here Monday from Seldovia on the steamer Admiral Far ragut. Thomas Campbell, formerly of Brem erton, Wash., and John Larson, the other two men who were on the launch, were drowned. Captain Hansen and the other three men, who were propectors, left Sew ard February 15 to investigate re ports of a rich gold Btrike near Kat mai volcano on the Alaskan Penin sula, 250 miles west of Seward. They encountered head winds and zero weather soon after leaving Seward and when they reached the barren islands, 100 miles from here, March 8, they anchored to weather the storm. On March 13 all but Mitchell went ashore in a small boat, and when returning to the launch were capsized. Camp bell and Larsen were drowned, but Captain Hansen managed to reach shore, where he found himslef in imme diate danger of freezing to death. After trying to float matches ashore in packing cases so Captain Hansen could build a fire, Mitchell cut loose the anchor and permitted the Success to go on the beach, so as to aid Han sen. The launch was wrecked, but Mitchell got ashore and built a fire. Supplies and a tent were saved from the wreck and the two survivors, by eating mussels and occasionally sea gulls managed to subsist. On May 9 they left the island is a small boat and rowed 25 miles to Dogfish Bay and then to Seldovia where they were take board the Farragut. Palestine May Be Sold. Cincinnati Henry Morgenthau, who recently resigned as ambassador to Turkey, spoke before the Wise Center Forum here Sunday and told his listen ers that the sale of Palestihe after the war, so that the Ottoman Empire might secure money, had been pro posed by him. He told of how he broached the matter to the Turkish ministry and how eagerly it was dis cussed. "We've not got down to fig ures," said he. "They argued as to whether it should be an international state or a republic" Irish and Teutons Join. San Francisco Irish and German societies joined in a parade here Sun day to advertise a German bazaar be ing held in the exposition auditorium for the relief of German war sufferers. Armed and uniformed, the societies represented in the parade included the Hanover Verein, the Independent Rifles, San Francisco Turner Schuetz en, Pacific Turnbezirk, Irish Volun teers, Hibernia Rifles and Austrian Military and Benevolent association. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Winners of Industrial Prizes to Attend 0. A. C. Summer School Arrangements have just been com pleted by J. A. Churchill, Superinten dent of Public Instruction, for sending the boys and girls who won the capital prizes in the industrial club work at the State fair last fall to the Oregon Agricultural college for the Boys' and Girls' Summer school. Twenty-one children were successful in winning these prizes at the State fair last Sep tember. The capital prizes consist of membership in the short course at the Agricultural college with all ex penses paid. It represents the highest award in each project -offered in the Industrial department at the State fair last year. The prizes are made possi ble through contributions made to Superintendent Churchill for the fur therance of this work by public-spirited men and women of the state. Those who received these awards are : Leland Charley, Brownsboro; Gertrude Court ney, La Grande; Earl Stewart, Cot tage Grove j Homer Bursell, Mon mouth; Hazel BurBell, Monmouth; Clifford Cook, Yoncalla; Carmen Jones, Pendleton; EBther Miller, Medford; Warren McGowan, Independence ; Har old Reynolds, Independence; Earl Cooley, Salem; L. M. Bowles, Dallas; Rudolph Mullinhoff, Boring; Teddy Fones, Carlton; Exie Morgan, The Dalles; Florence Wharton, Roseburg; Marion Lowe, Nyssa; Mae McDonald, Dallas; Muriel Blume, Albany; Paul Jaeger, Sherwood; Claus Charley, Brownsboro. The Boys' and Girls' club work which is carried on co-operatively by the State department of Education, the Extension service of the Oregon Agricultural college and the U. S. Bureau of Agriculture, is increasing in interest to such an extent that clubs are being formed in every section of Oregon. Since the first of the year Superintendent Churchill has had two field workers, N. C. Maris and L. P. Harrington, continually engaged in forming clubs throughout the state. The work of the Agricultural college in sending to the members of these clubs, bulletins on how to select seed care for the growing crops and also bulletins on canning and sowing, has made a wonderful advancement in the standard of the work done by the school children of Oregon. The ex ample of Claus Charley of Jackson county shows what a wholesome in fluence one boy may have in this work. At the State fair in 1914 he won the state prize on his corn. The next, through the efforts of the county school superintendent and one of the Medford banks, fifty boys of Jackson county were supplied with seed corn selected from Claus Charley's prize winning corn. Each of the fifty boys raised from one-eighth to one-fourth of an acre of corn, the amount which each boy planted being determined by the age of the boy. The exhibits of corn coming from these boys to the State fair in 1915 were said by judges to exceed in quality fully 100 per cent the corn exhibit of 1913. "As a result of this work, " says Superintendent Churchill, "we can feel certain that in the next genera tion there will be a group, of expert farmers, and home-keepers in every rural community of Oregon." Coos County Voters Favor $362,000 Road Building Bonds Marshfield Complete returns from the 58 precincts in Coos county give a majority in favor of good roads bonds of 618. As soon as the count was completed the County court issued an order of the election being carried. The county precincts, with a few ex ceptions, those in the northern portion of the county,' including Lakeside, Templeton, Kentuck and Haynes Inlet, and a few others, voted heavily against the bonds, and the success was due en tirely to the heavy votes in the cities. Coquille had a handsome majority, and Bandon gave the bonds a great boost, being nearly a three-to-one majority. The issue calls for the expenditure of $362,000 for lining and grading, and it is not expected the fund will pro vide for any hard surfacing. The money will be expended be tween Marshfield and Coquille, Co quille and Myrtle Point, Bandon and Coquille, North Bend and North Inlet, Bandon to the Curry county line. The argument in favor of bonding was that money spent from the bond issue would release the usual road levies to be expended upon branch roads. i Whiskey Is Confiscated. Pendleton Holding that the barrel of whiskey was in very bad company and, except upon clear proof to the contrary, should be disposed of, Circuit Judge Phelps' handed down a decision reversing the decision of Justice of the Peace Joe Parkes, and confiscating a 52-gallon barrel of whiskey in a lodg ing house, in company with some beer, which was found to be used for illegal purposes and confiscated. A claim for the whiskey was won in the Justice's court. District Attorney Frederick Steiwer appealed the case. Roseburg Votes Municipal Railroad. Roseburg By a vote of nearly seven to one, the taxpayers of Roseburg went to the polls Tuesday and author ized an amendment to the city charter making it possible for Roseburg, as s municipality, to construct and operate a standard-gauge railroad from this city to Rock Creek. "northwest market reportsT general crop conditions Wheat Bluestem, $1.04 per bushel; fortyfold, 94c; club, 93c; red Fife, 93c; red Russian, 93c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $26.50 ton. Barley No. 1 feed, $27.60 per ton. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $24 24.50 per ton; valley timothy, $21 22; alfalfa, old crop, $1819. Milfleed Spot priceB: Bran, $25.50 26 perton; shorts, $28. 5029; roll ed barley, $31.60?i32.50. Corn Whole $36 per ton; cracked, $37. Vegetables Artichokes, $1 per doz en; tomatoes, $4.25 per crate; cab bage, $2.503 per hundred; garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, 17J20c; eggplant, 2025; horseradish, , 8Jc; cauliflower, 75c$l. 10; lettuce, $1.85 2. 25 crate; cucumbers, $11.25 per box; spinach, 46c per pound; aspar agus, $11.25 dozen; rhubarb, lie per pound; peas, 7Jc; beans, 812Jc; celery, $3.50 per crate. Potatoes Jobbing prices: Oregon, $1.60 per sack; California, 3i4c per pound. Onions Oregon, $1.35 (ft) 1.50 per sack; Texas Bermudas, $1.251.75. Green Fruit Strawberries, Oregon, $2.503 per crate; California, $1.60 2.10; apples, $1 1.75 per box; gooseberries, 2(n?5c per pound; cher ries, $1.251.60 per box. EggB Jobbing prices: Oregon ranch candled, 2324c per dozen; uncandled, 21J22c per dozen. Poultry Hens, 17c; stags, 13c; broilers, 2830c; turkeys, live, 18 20c; dressed, choice, 2325c; ducks, 1618c; geese, 10c. Butter Extras, prints, 2729c; firsts, 26c; cubes, 2425c; butterfat, No. 1, 27c delivered Portland; No. 2, 25c; store butter, 1820c. Veal Fancy, 10c per pound. Pork Fancy, lllljc per pound. Hops 1915 crop, 10llc; contracts, 11 12c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 20 30c; valley, 3336c; mohair, new clip, 40 50c. Cascara bark Old and new, 4c per pound. Cattle Steers, choice grain and pulp, $8.909.15; choice hay, $8.50 8.85 Choice grass, $88.60; good, $8.158.50; medium, $7.608; cows, choice, $7.50 7.80; good, $6.75 7.25; medium, $6.25 7.25; heifers, $5.508; bulls, $36; stags, $4.507. Hogs Prime light, $99.15; good to prime, $8.508.85; rough heavy, $8 8.50; pigs and Bkips, $7.508. Sheep Yearlings, $8.259; weth ers, $89.05; ewes, $78.25; Iambs, $910. More Apples Are in Storage. The United States department of Agriculture, through its Office of Mar kets and Rural Organization, has is sued a detailed report of col storage apple holdings on May 1, 1916, as fol lows : The information received indi cates that there were 92 per cent more apples in cold storage on May 1 this year than were held on May 1, 1915. The barreled apple holdings show an excess of 127.7 per cent and the boxed holdings an excess of 31.1 per cent over those of a year ago. During April 16.7 per cent of the December 1 holdings moved from storage, as com pared with 20 per cent during March. Strawberry Prices Jump. Tacoma Strawberry prices jumped to high points this week on account of the scarcity of the fruit and the high priced Kennewick berries were snap ped up by dealers who had placed only light orders. California berries jumped from $1.75 a crate to $2.15 and $2.25. This is due to the fact that the California berries are nearly all gone, say dealers. The Caifornia ship pers are turning down orders because the demand is greater than the supply. Clark seedling strawberries from Kennewick were snapped up at $3. 75 a crate, and the jobbers and their buyers are asking for more. Cherry Men Defer Action. Wenatchee, Wash. Cherry growers who met at the Commercial club to unite in a cash selling plan will hold their plans in abeyance until the season develops and a more definite estimate can be obtained on the local and for eign crops and on the possible market value. At present there is a decidedly bullish feeling, not only on the part of growers, but also of shippers and sel lers, who believe that the entire crop can be disposed of at good cash prices. Under these circumstances it appeared that it would be advisable to wait. Gold Imports From Canada. New York Additional imports of gold from Canada were received by J. P. Morgan & Co. Saturday, making a total thus far this week of more than $3,000,000. The gold, which is more or less equally divided into sovereigns and bars, came from Ottawa in con nection, it is believed, with recent purchases of supplies by the Dominion of Canada. Clarke County Prune Buyers Out. Vancouver Prune buyers are active in this county and it is reported that as high as 6 J cents a pound has been offered for prunes of this year's. Some buyers, however, it is known, are at tempting to close contracts for 5 cents for prunes that run 30-35 a pound. Big Sugar Crop in Porto Rico, San Juan, Porto Rico The revised estimate of the sugar production of the island for the season now ending shows that the production will exceed all previous estimates and is expected to be in excess of 463,000 tons, as compared with 345,000 tons last year. JUSTICE HUGHES WINS IN OREGON Presidential Aspirant Has Clear Majority Over Opponents. McARTHUR HOLDS BIG LEAD AT START Olcott Leads Moores for Secretary of State Cummins Second, Bur ton Third Few for I R. Nearly every county of Oregon from Multnomah county to the remotest cor ners of the Btate has given Charles Evans Hughes a substantial majority over all other candidates for the Re publican nomination for the Presi 'dency. . Returns from Oregon's state-wide primary election Friday show conclu sively that Justice Hughes is decidedly the-choice of Oregon Republicans for the Chicago nomination next month. He has a large majority over all other candidates put together. Senator Al bert B. Cummins, of Iowa, is running second, and ex-Senator Burton, of Ohio, third. Colonel Roosevelt has received only a light vote. His name was written in on the ballot by supporters in near ly every county represented in the early returns'. Ben W. Olcott maintained a strong lead over Charles B. Moores for the Republican nomination for sectertary of state. Mr. Olcott is the incum bent. For delegate-at-large to the National convention there are seven leading candidates, as follows: Cameron, 3924; Boyd, 3530; Carey, 3488; Ful ton, 3326; Hawkins, 2913; Spencer, 2912; Ackerson, 2108; Case, 1979; Peterson, 1876; Buland, 1793; Warren, 1440; Morsley, 1362. The situation is therefore left in doubt ex cept apparently as to Cameron and Fulton. In the Second district, with two to elect, the vote seems to favor Brooke, with 493. In the First district the incomplete vote on delegates is as follows: Bis hop 1307; Calkins 1142; Abraham 1133; Steeves 594. W. C. Hawley and N. J. Sinnott, Representatives in congress from the First and Second districts, respective ly, have been nominated to succeed themselves without opposition. It is probable that they have received the Democratic and Progressive nomina tions as well. In the Third district, comprised of Multnomah county, a three-cornered fight was waged for congressional honors. Complete returns from a few pre cincts and incomplete returns from virtually all the 375 precincts in Mult nomah county at 3 :30 o'clock Saturday morning indicate that the Republicans of the have renominated C. N. Mc Arthur for representative in congress. A. W. Lafferty is running second; E. V. Littlefied is far to the rear. At that hour the returns gave Mr. McArthur a lead of 877 votes over Lafferty, who in turn was 703 ahead, of Littlefield. McArthur's lead has been steadily increasing since the first returns were received. George H. Burnett and Frank A . Moore have been nominated to succeed: themselves on the Supreme bench, as has John D. Micke for food and dairy commissioner. They had no opposi tion. Hughes-Herrick Is Cry. Chicago "Hughes and Herrick." "HandH!" Catchy, isn't it, and easy to remember. v Word of this combination comes to Republican headquarters in Chicago just after ex-President Taft had visit ed Justice Hughes in Washington and discussed with him his willingness to accept the Republican nomination for President. Mr. Taft and Myron T. Herrick, of Ohio, are close political friends. As President, Mr. Taft sent Mr. Merrick to France as ambassador. Bill to Aid Fishing Men. Wahingtson, D. C A bill prepared at the department of Commerce and to be introduced in the house by Majority Leader Kicthin is designed to make possible the recapture from Canada of a great part of the North Pacific fish ing industry, lost by American fisher men on account of the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway extension to Prince Rupert and through a subsidy granted by Canada. The bill would re quire that all fish shipments reaching the United States through foreign ter ritory be shipped in bond. $700,000 Left to Music. Chicago A trust fund of $700,000 to provide for the estabishment in Chi cago of a great school of music, "for the benefit not only of said city, but of all America," was left to the Chi cago Orchestral association by Bryan Lathrop, wealthy real estate broker. The will was filed for probate and un der its terms the income from the fund would be used in establishing and maintaining such a school in connec tion with the orchestra association.