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. I , ff it). w BUsiNESSWE to& Mia mSb- . i , 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. 1 W' 4V f f)M fjJ 1 MS I'll fV ' ft i ttlvs Ztf 't f.5ib 'wft&rA fer TEXAS RANGER