NEWS ITEMS
Of General Interest
About Oregon
Buyers' Week Dates Are
August 7 to 12 Inclusive
The fourth annual Buyers' Week to
be held in Portland has been fixed for
August 7 to 12, for the convenience of
Northwest merchants. Invitations are
ready to be sent to all the merchandis
ing trade territery, where Portland
jobbers and manufacturers maintain
affiliations.
Plans for the event are being worked
out by the arrangements committee of
that city and it is intended to mix bus
iness and pleasure in most alluring
proportions.
Following the outline of the highly
successful Buyers' Week of 1915, the
work of preparing for the 1916 Buy
ers' Week visitors will be in the hands
of the trade and commerce bureau of
the Chamber of Commerce, of which
Nathan Strauss is chairman. '
It is believed that the forthcoming
Buyers' Week will attract a much
larger attendance than any of its three
predecessors.
The number of buyers has grown
each year, and the territory they rep
resente has spread, so that the annual
Buyers' Week has become one of the
fixed institutions of the city. Portland
jobbers and manufacturers get to
gether with their retail friends from
upstate, downBtate, across the river
and east of the Cascades for a week of
profitable conferences.
Neither the out-of-town merchant or
the representatives of the big mer
chandising establishments of the city
would permit Buyers' Week to be
thrown overboard.
OREGON TO FORESTALL POSSIBLE
INFANTILE PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC
Portland The entire state of Ore
gon will be protected by strict pre
ventative measures against the possi
ble introduction of infantile paralysis
infection, through orders issued Sun
day by the State Board of Health, and
forwarded by State Health Ulticer
David N. Roberg to all local health
officers, and county judges, throughout
the state.
To further insure the observance of
these precautions against the plague
that is terrorizing New York, Gover
nor Withycombe has been requested by
the State Board of Health to issue a
proclamation to the county judges of
Oregon, instructing them to establish
the quarantine at every railroad sta
tion within their jurisdiction.
The plan is simple, though necessar
ily involving a great deal of close ob
servation and employment of a regi
ment of medical inspectors and assist
ants. Incoming passengers, under IB years
of age, from all Eastern points, will
be met at each station by authorized
inspectors. Their temperatures will
be taken. If the temperature be above
normal, or if any other indication of
the dread malady is observed, the child
will be placed under strict quarantine,
Epidemic is Subsiding.'
New York Nineteen more deaths
from infantile paralysis in New York
City for the 24 hours ended at 10
o'clock Sunday morning were reported
by the department of health, making
the total fatalities 224 since the epi
demic started. There was a drop in
the number of new cases, 88 being re
ported Sunday against 95 Saturday.
The total number of cases now has
reached 980. The mortality rate is
still about 23 per cent. Brooklyn con
tinued to lead with new cases.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GETTING LESSONS IN CARE AND USE OF RIFLES
County Courts Decide to Push
Work on Dixie Mountain Road
Baker Meeting at the dividing line
of Grant and Baker counties at Austin,
57 miles west of here, Tuesday after
noon, members of the County courts of
the two counties decided to push the
work on the Dixie Mountain that will
give a thoroughfare connecting the
counties. The road on the Grant
county side was found in worse shape
than that on this side of the line, but
this the Grant County court consented
to remedy at once, with the ultimate
idea of building a road along the John
Day river from Susanville, touching at
the Dixie Meadows mine, which will
make a much safer grade than that on
the road now in use.
In regard to the state highway, fol
lowing the John Day river and con
necting Baker. Grant and Malheur
counties, the Grant county commis-
sioners announced that they will puBh
preliminary survey. It was ascer
tained that the United States Forestry
department would pay the greater part
of the survey in Baker county. No
arrangements were made as to how the
balance of the expense could be met,
x Mills To Pay Families.
Oregon City Families of guards
men who were employed in the local
mills of the .Crown-Willamette Paper
company will be cared for by the mill
as long as the Oregon soldiers are
awav from home. Mill officials have
found 11 families which were left by
guardsmen employed in the local plant.
the money will be paid to the wives of
the men, the mill giving 26 days' pay
a month, less $15 paid by the govern
ment to the soldiers. The Crown-Wil-
lamette mills and the Hawley Pulp &
Paper company are holding jobs open
for men now at the border.
Bond Issue Carries.
Medford By a vote of nearly 3 tol
1009 for and 366 against the people
of Medford Monday approved the con
tract with Mr. Bullis for the construe
tionof a railroad to the Blue Ledge
mine, just over the California line,
about 36 miles from Medford. The
Blue Ledge boosters celebrated their
victory by a parade of automobiles
with tooting horns through the streets,
bright with red lights, led by the Med'
, for band. Leaders of the movement
were serenaded and speeches were
made on the street by enthusiastic cit
izens.
ifc of President of Argentine
- Republic Sought by Anarchist
Forces To Be Combined.
Buenos Aires An attempt to assas
sinate President de la Plaza was made
Sunday by a self-styled anarchist. The
President was standing on a balcony of
a government building reviewing some
troops when a man in the crowd of
spectators suddenly drew a revolver
and fired at him. The shot went wua
and the would-be assassin was arrested.
The treat crowd of spectators
surged forward in an effort to take the
assassin from his guards and lynch
him, but this was prevented by the
soldiers. The man gave his name as
Jean Mandrini. He said he was born
in Argentina and was 24 years old.
United States Has 21,000,000
Men Eligible to Military Service
Washington, D. C The census bu
reau, while unable to answer spceincai
ly the question how many able-bodied
citizens of military age there are in tne
United States, estimates that the total
number of male citizens and and those
who have declared their intention to
become citizens, who are 18 to 45
years old inclusive, is not far from
000,000.
This estimate is based on the as
sumption that there has been an in
crease of aproximately 10 per cent in
the population of the country since the
census ot 1910. When that census
was taken the total number of male
citizens and prospective citizens 18
years old and over but under 46 was
19,183,000. Of this number, l4,8t'(,
000 were foreign-born whites who had
become naturalized or had declared
their intention of doing so, 2,052,000
were negroes and 50,000 were Indians.
Socialists Insist Food Supply is Short.
The Hague During a debate on the
food situation at the Thursday evening
session of the Berlin city council, the
Socialists complained of the inequality
and inadeauacv of the distribution of
food under the mass-feeding scheme,
Councillor Mommsen declared that no
resident of Berlin was yet starving.
This elicited a sharp contradiction.
Municipal Physician Weber main
tained there was no question of under
feeding yet, whereupon cries of strong
dissent arose from the Socialists.
The Socialist councillor, Hoffman,
said that he himself had been a patient
at the Rudolph Virchow hospital for
months, and knew how seriously the
dietary had been reduced.
Portland Hay Eastern Oregon
timothy, $2324 per ton; valley tim
othy, $1819; alfalfa, $1415.
Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $26
26.50 per ton; shorts, $2929.50;
rolled barley, $31.5032.50.
Corn Whole, $37 per ton; crack
ed, $38.
Vegetables Artichokes, 75c$l per
dozen; tomatoes, $1.501.65 per
crate; cabbage, $22.26 per hundred;
garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, 26c
per pound; eggplant, 10c; horseradish,
8Jc; lettuce, $11.25 per crate; cu
cumbers, 75$1.16 per dozen; spinach,
45c per pound; asparagus, 75c$l
per dozen; rhubarb, 12c per pound,
peas, 84c; cauliflower, $1.25 crate;
celery, $1.101.25 per dozen; corn,
6675c per dozen.
Potatoes Old, $1.601.65 per sack;
new, 22Jc per pound.
Onions California red and yellow,
$33.26 per sack.
Green Fruits Strawberries, $1.25
1.75 per crate; apples, new, $1.6.0 per
box; cherries, 410c per pound; can
taloupes, 90c$3 per crate; apricots,
$1.351.75 per box; peaches, 76c
$1.10 per box; figs, $11.60 per box;
raspberries, $1.501.75; plumB, $1.10
1.25; prunes, $1.251.60; loganber
ries, $1.251.50i blackcaps, $1.25
1.50; currants, $1.251.60.
Eggs Oregon ranch, current re
ceipts, 22c; extras, 23Jc. Jobbing
prices: Oregon ranch, candled, 24
25c; selects, 26c.
Poultry Hens, 14c; broilers, 16
171c per pound; turkeys, live, 20
21c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 2325c;
ducks, 1215c; geese, 9llc.
Butter Cubes, extras, 24e bid;
prime firsts, 24c; firsts, 23c; seconds,
22c. Jobbing prices : Prints, extras,
2729c; butterfat, No. 1, 27c; No. 2,
25c, Portland.
Veal Fancy, 10c per pound.
Pork Fancy, 1010Jc per pound.
Hops 1915 crop, 8llc, 1916 con
tracts, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, fine, 23
26c; coarse, 3032c; valley, 3033c.
Cascara bark Old and new, 4c
pound.
Cattle Steers, choice, $7.5Us.zu;
good, $6.757.25; cows, choice, $6.25
26.50; good, $5.506.26; heifers,
$46.50; bulls, $35; stags, $4.o0b.
Hogs Prime light, $8.208.60;
good to prime, $7.758.10; rough
heavy, $7.507.75; pigs and skips,
$6.6007.10.
Sheep Yearlings. $66.50; weth
ers, $5.506.50; lambs, $68.25.
Bandon Roderick L. Macleay, man
ager of the Wedderburn Trading com
pany, which a few months ago pur
chased the Fishermen's Co-operative
Cannery, on the Lower Coquille river,
announces that forces of the local plant
at Wedderburn, on Rogue River are to
be combined. This is made possible
by the fact that the salmon do not
commence to run here until after the
season is over on the Rogue.
Improvements and additions to the
local plant are being made in prepara
tion for the fall season.
Corporations Are Formed.
Salem The Peninsula Lumber com
pany, of Portland, which in the past
has been operating in Oregon as a Wis
consin corporation, organized as an
Oregon corporation with a capital of
$1,000,000. The old corporation will
withdraw from business in the state.
Officers of the new company are:
Charles A. Hart, G. C. Frisbie and F.
C. Knapp, of Portland.
The North Pacific Shipbuilding com
pany, capitalized at $100,000, was in
corporated here, with headquarters in
Portland.
Explosion Follows Raid.
Seattle A few minutes after the
police had wrecked the stock and fix
tures of the Puget Drug company at
1525 First avenue during a liquor raid
Sunday night, fire caused by an explo
sion, completed the destruction of the
interior of the store. No one was in
the store at the time of the explosion,
but it is believed that acid leaking
from a bottle came into contact vfith
the contents of a barrel of alcohol
which the police had broken open. One
hundred bottles and several demijohns
of whisky also were destroyed.
British Statesmen Shifted.
London Following the appointment
last week of David Lloyd-George as
secretary for war, official announce
ment was made of several other chang
es in the government. Edwin Samuel
Montagu, financial secretary to the
treasury, takes Lloyd-George's place
as minister of munitions, Thomas Mc
Kinnon Wood, secretary of state for
Scotland, becomes chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster and financial sec
retary to the treasury.
As Wheat Season Advances
More Grain Bags Are Needed
Portland There is more inquiry for
grain bags now than at any time this
season. Sales are not much larger but
buyers are showing decidedly more
interest in bags, and sellers believe an
active market is not far off. It is the
improvement in crop conditions in the
Northwest that is causing the inquir
ies to increase. The rains of. the past
fortnight have led all grain men to
raise their estimate of the wheat crop
and they are now figuring on a yield
of 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 bushels
larger than they expected early in
June. This condition naturally has
produced a firmer bag market. Local
quotations are still around the' 12-cent
mark, but there is not the probability
of a decline that dealers faced a short
time ago.
The entire coast crop is growing in
size and there are no more bags in
sight than there were. As a California
authority expresses it, for every bag
in sight two will be needed. In Cali
fornia, as hefe. there has not been
much buying by farmres in anticipa
tion of crop needs, but this is a con
dition that cannot last much longer.
Much was heard earlier in the season
of bulk handling of grain, but it is
evident now that there will be but
little relief for the situation on this
score.
Road Increases Capitol to a Million
Chehalis. Wash. The Cowlitz, Che-
halis & Cascade railway company
supplemental articles of incorporation
has increased its capital stock from
$100,000 to $1,000,000. The name of
the company has been changed to read
as above, instead of the Chehalis,
Cowlitz & Cascade. The company has
a large crew at work all along its 22
miles of projected line rushing itB
work and expects to have the road
completed to four miles southeast of
Onalaska, near Salkum, by fall. The
Chehalis Mill company has its plans
all completed now to sush work on its
new 75,000 sawmill in South Chehalii
at once.
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TROOPS READY TO EMBARK ON A TRAIN
NATIONAL GUARD AUTO WIRELESS STATION
Sales Plan is Success.
Kennewick, Wash. Encouraged
the success of the Kennewick-Richland
Marketing union, which shipped and
sold this year 95 per cent of the straw
berries grown in this region at an av
erage price to the grower of nearly $3
per crate of 24 pints, the growers at a
public meeting here last Saturday per
fected plans for a similar permanent
organization to handle the raspberry
crop, asparagus, gooseberries, cher
ries, early potatoes, and, possibly, tne
peach, pear and apple crops. New by
laws and constitution were approved.
Some Grant Crops Damaged.
Canyon City, Ore. Unsettled weath
er conditions have prevailed through
out Grant county foj the past two
weeks. Considerable rain has fallen
and has caused damage to some crops
and much inconvenience to sheepmen,
who are in the midst of shearing oper
ations. The first crop of alfalfa is
ready, but owing to the weather con
ditions, the farmers are delaying the
cutting until good curing weather.
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