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OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from Ml Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU Live News Items of All Nations and - Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. A cherry tree at White Salmon, Wash., yields 1071 pounds of fruit. The sudden onrush of Russians on the EaBt front amazes the Germans. The French take Hill 97, which dom inates the Somme, a point of vantage. The winter wheat crop of for the Northwest !b estimated at 23,000,000 bushels less than in 1915. The funeral of Lieutenant Adair, kilted in the Carrizal battle in Mexico, was held in Portland Wednesday with military honors. Major U. G. McAlexander, of 0. A. C., has been promoted by President Wilson to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Oregon troops on the border. The Union Pacific decides to cut the lumber freight to Eastern points 6 cents, making the tariff 45 cents per hundred pounds, instead of 50 cents. The change is due September 1. General Smuts, in command of the British forces in German East Africa, has occupied Tanga, according to a statement issued by the war office. The Germans offered only slight resist ance. No trace of J. F. Gillies, the em bezzler of Washington state funds, who escaped from the Thurston county jail Sunday, has been found. He is thought to be eluding the law in femi nine apparel. Captain Koenig, of the submarine which successfully ran the British blockade and landed in Baltimore Sun day, declares many more such craft are being built and will be put into the service of carrying commerce. An Amsterdam dispatch says that Dr. Frederick W. K. von Ilberg died in Berlin Sunday. Dr. von Ilberg had the special case of the throat affection from which the German emperor has suffered for many years and was one of the emperor's most intimate friends. The Dagens Nyheder, at Copenha gen, announces that a Bea battle is believed to have occurred in the Baltic outside of Haefringe on Sunday night. Violent cannonading was heard from several points on the const and it is presumed that the German and Russian patrolling squadrons clashed. According to the London morning papers it probably will be well into the year 1917 before the new IriBh parlia ment is ' set up. Little can be done other than the introduction of the bill before Parliament rises early in Au gust for a recess of some six to eight weeks, so that the passage of the bill is not likely before late in October. German casualties from the begin ning of the war to the end of June, as computed from official German lists, are given as 3,012,637. These figures include all German nationalities. They do not include naval casualties or cas ualties of colonial troops. They are not an estimate made by the British authorities, but merely casualties an nounced in German official lists. Russsian army in Turkey retires 80 miles in Bagdad region to await cooler weather. The new Swiss war loan of 100,000, 000 francs at 4 per cent, issued at 97, has been oversubscribed by 61,000,000 francs. Admiral Jellicoe, of the British navy, reporting on the North Sea naval battle, estimates the Germans lost 21 ships. A new project for saving life at the time of naval engagements is reported from Copenhagen. It is said several prominent Danes intend to organize a fleet of several hundred motor boats along the west coast of Jutland. These boats, flying tho Red Cross flag, will be sent out to pick up the wounded after each Bea battle. Petitions carrying 75,000 names In support of initiative No. 24, which au thorizes the operation of breweries and sale of beer direct to consumers, were filed with the secretary of Btate of Washington. It is estimated that 50, 000 of the petitioners will be found qualified to sign, while the law needs only 82,000 signatures to place on the ballot. Vienna admits defeat of the Aus trians, when they were driven back nearly five miles from their positions. Theodore Tobiason, owner of a mil linery store in Spokane, was Bhot and killed in his store by Alphonse Pan siera. Pansiera, according to the po lice, said Tobiason owed him $5000. It is understood that the report that Sir Edward Grey, the English foreign secretary, is to be raised to the peer age, is correct, and that in fact he al ready has accepted such an offer. A baronetcy of the United Kirlgdom probably will be conferred upon him. New Supreme Court 5 - ''Mi -"" 1 I A ' , A -i f , , ', , ' ' t 's f t ' '''.' ' y f " ' p I ' ' ' J " X , ' , -v , if " , , V h. , A ' ' , A' V -J 4 it ' V J! 1 it ' t t it V f v I ' if , ' ; 7 h IP "it '- ,f ' 11 Thli photograph shows Associate Justice robes of office. IS ENTERED ASMERCHANTMAN Batlimore The daring German sea men who'brought the submarine mer chantman Deutschland across the At lantic slept quietly aboard their vessel which lay moored to a carefully screen-f ed pier guarded by a strong Bquad of Baltimore police. Captain Paul Koe nig, the Bkipper, had delivered his pa pers to the North German Lloyd office, entered his vessel at the custom-house as a commerce carrier, and had pre sented to a German embassy official a packet of correspondence for von BernstorfT. Now the submarine is ready to dis charge her million-dollar cargo of dye stuffs and take on board for the return trip to Germany metal and rubber needed by the emperor'B armies and navy. The return merchandise is waiting on the dock, and the time for leaving port will depend largely on plans for eluding vigilant enemy cruisers expect ed to be waiting outside the entrance of Chesapeake Bay for the reappear ance of the vessel. OMNIBUS REVENUE BILL PASSES HOUSE, INCREASING INCOME TAX Washintgon, D. C. The administra tion omnibus revenue bill, creating a tariff commission, imposing a protec tive tariff on dyestuffs, repealing pres ent stamp taxes and providing for new taxes on incomes, inheritances and war munitions profits, passed the house late Monday by a vote of 240 to 140. During the closing hours of debate several amendments, providing for elimination of the bankers' tax and modifying the tariff commission sec tion, were adopted over the opposition of Democratic leaders. The amendments cut the salaries of members of the tariff commission from $10,000 to $7500 annually; struck out the provision under which no member or former member of congress could serve on the commission, and provided a single appropriation of $300,000 to pay expenses of the commission the first year, instead of the bill's stipula tion of a continuing annual appropria tion of that amount. The entire sec tion levying a tax of $1 for each $1000 of capital, surplus and undivided profits held by bankers was stricken out. Many amendments proposed by the ways and means committee also were adopted, including one under which cigarette manufacturers must pay a special tax of 3 cents for every 10,000 cigarettes. Growers Steal Berry Pickers. Tacoma, Wash. Wholesale brigand age exists in the Puyallup valley. Berry pickers worth their weight in gold are the booty; respectable citi zens and fellow-members of co-operative associations are the brigands. The human spoil, with all its goods and chattels, children and dogs, sport shirts and scalloped Bkirts, is carried away in highpowered automobiles to berry patches, where the pickers are watched like prisoners of war. H. Shepherd, of Alderton, was one of the heaviest sufferers Tuesday, for Banks' Opinions Differ. New York A wide divergence of opinion among the banks of the coun try as to whether the Federal reserve act has been successful after a year's operation is shown in a report issued Tuesday by a New York trust com pany, which has completed a nation wide survey of the attitude of banks toward the act. More than 5000 re plies were received to the queries sent out, 1760 of them being favorable, 1773 unfavorable, and 1811 noncommittal. Member and Wife. Louis D. Brandeis for the first time in his One of Captain Koenig's first acts after he moved his ship up the harbor from quarantine early Monday was to announce that the Deutschland was only one of a fleet of mammoth sub mersibles built or building for a regu lar trans-Atlantic freight and mail service. He said the next to come would be the Bremen, and. that she might be looked for at some port along the coast within eight weeks. The German catpain submitted his craft to a thorough inspection by the surveyor of the port and an agent of the department of Justice. These officers agreed that there was on sign of armament, of any description on board, and that there was no doubt in their minds about the boat's being en titled to the status of an ordinary mer chantman.' The captain asserted that his voyage had established the fact that a subma rine of the type of the Deutschland could travel anywhere that the ordi nary vessel could go, 13000 miles, if necessary. He had no fears, he said, of his ability to elude enemies that might be waiting for him off the Vir ginia Capes when he starts his return trip. "I will be able to submerge within the three-mile limit, and they cannot catch me after that," he said. Newest Photo of Republican Chairman This is the latest photograph of Wil liam R. Wilcox, new chairman of the Republican National committee, who will manage the campaign for the election of Charles E. Hughes. while he ate his dinner neighboring growers inveigled his employes away by offering the bait of higher pay. The larger growers have suffered ir reparable loss, and their fruit is spoil ing on the plants because of the labor shortage. That is the reason they are resorting to outlawry to harvest their crops. Fishermen Lost in Gulf. Mobile, Ala. The wreck of the fish ing smack Philip Keyes probably has added eight to the death list of the Gulf hurricane. Two survivors of the crew were picked up at Dauphin Island. King of Annam Deposed. Paris Duy-Tan, the 16-year-old king of the French protectorate of An nam, on the China sea, has been de throned as a result of a revolt of An namites at Quang-Ngai, which he has been accused of having fomented. The governor general of French Indo-China reports that the outbreak was sup pressed quickly and the king arrested near Hue. He is succeeded by Prince Bun-Dao, who has just been crowned king in hia stead. mmmmmmmmzt 1 v V - I : IN AMERICAN PORT U-Lincr Crosses Atlantic With Cargo of Valuable Dyestuffs. KAISER WRITES TO PRESIDENT Vessel Successfully Breaks Blockade of British Warships Will Take Home Needed Supplies. Baltimore The world's first subma rine merchant veBBel, the German un derwater liner Deutschland, anchored below Baltimore Sunday night, after voyaging safely across the Atlantic, passing the allied blockading squad rons and eluding enemy cruisers watching for her off the American coast. She carried a message from Emperor William to President Wilson, a quan tity of mail estimated at 150 tons and a cargo of 750 tons of costly chemicals and dyestuffs, and is to carry back home a similar amount of nickel and crude rubber sorely needed by the Ger man army. Sixteen days out from Bremerhaven to Baltimore, the submarine reached safety between the Virginia capes at 1 :45 o'clock Sunday morning, by a heavy pall of darkness which Bettled over the entrance of the bay, with the setting of a tell-tale half moon. Once inside, the visitor threw cau tion aside and began shrieking his si ren signalling a pilot and at the same time attracting the attention of the tug Thomas F. TimmonB, which had been waiting in the lower bay for nearly two weeks to greet the Deutsch land and convoy her into port. Little was known here about what happened during the epoch-making cruise across the ocean, which in a small measure at least breaks the blockade on German trade with the rest of the world. None of the sub marine's crew had landed and the agents of her owners had received only meager reports. . Such information as was available came directly from the pilot and from Captain Hans F. Hinsch, of the North German Lloyd Liner Neckar, laid up here since the beginning of the war. J. F. Gillies, Washington State Fund Looter, Escapes From Jail Olympia, Wash. J. F Gillies, twice convicted of embezzling $20,000 from state industrial insurance funds while employed as claim agent for the Btate, Sunday night pried off two flimsy locks with a bolt as a jimmy and escaped from the Thurston county jail. With him went Henry Roberts, awaiting transfer to the reformatory for a stat utory offense. Prosecuting Attorney Yantis ordered the arrest of Mrs. Gillies on a warrant charging her with aiding the escape of the prisoners. Mrs. Gillies was not locked up, but was taken to the home of a policeman and placed in the care of the officer's wife. It is believed the prisoners boarded a train bound for Portland. An automobile is known to have left town about midnight, and it is be lieved to have taken the two men to ward Canada. At a late hour no trace had been reported of either. Shortly after dark Gillies and Rob erts locked an old man held on a minor charge in his cell and pried their way out. Sheriff McCorkle was at Centralia and James Fennell, County game war den, who occasionally slept at the jail, was out of town. By sawing off the riveted end of the bolt by which their cell would have been locked, had that precaution been taken, Gillies and Roberts slipped out the bolt and then sawed the end of it off on the bias to make a chisel point, by which they pried their way out. Gillies evidently let Jiimself from the window to the ground 15 feet below with a blanket. Yellow Press is Target. Washington, D. C. A bill intro duced Monday by Representative Campbell, of Kansas, would make it unlawful for any person, company, corporation, press association or news paper publication to publish or trans mit any false report or rumor bear ing on the international relations of the United States and tending to in juriously affect peaceful relations with the government or people of any other country. It was referred to the judiciary com mittee. Alaska Sends in Bullion. ' Seattle, Wash. Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold bullion, the largest shipment received from Alaska this year, was brought here Sunday by the steamer Humboldt, which arrived from Skagway. The gold, the first of the Spring cleanup in interior Alaska, was shipped from Fairbanks by the first steamer up the Yukon and transported to Skagway over White Pass from White Horse, the head of river navigation. FRENCH AND BRITISH TAKE EIGHT MILES OF GERMAN TRENCHES London The capture of the whole of the Germans' first system of defense on a front of 14,000 yards (nearly eight miles) after 10 days and nights of continuous fighting, was announced Wednesday in the official report from British headquarters in France. The number of prisoners taken exceeds 7500. "After 10 days and nights of contin uous fighting our troops have complet ed methodical capture of the whole of the enemy's first system of defense on a front of 14,000 yards," says there port. "The system of defense consist ed of numerous and continuous lines of fire trenches, support trenches and re serve trenches, extending for various depths from 2000 to 4000 yards. It included five strongly fortified villages, numerous heavily wired and entrench ed woods and a large number of im mensely strong redoubts. "The capture of each of these trenches represented an operation of some importance, and the whole of them are now in our hands. "The German succes in the recap ture of Trones Wood, after costly cas ualties, was of short duration. Tues day we recaptured nearly the whole of this wood. All but the northern most end is again in our hands. "Apart from the number of guns hidden in houses and buried in the de bris, etc., we have in the course of these operations brought in 26 field guns, one naval gun, one anti-aircraft gun, and one heavy howitzer, while the number of German prisoners cap tured exceeds 7500." Railroad Company Takes Land Grant Issue Into Courts Washington, D. C The Oregon & California Railway company Wednes day served notice on the legislative and executive branches of the govern ment that it intends to go into court and question the constitutionality of the land-grant law recently passed by congress. Incidentally, the railroad company asserst that the law, proposing to re vest title to grant lands in the govern ment, is unconstitutional. If the government under that law undertakes to pay back taxes to the Oregon countieB the railroad serves notice that it must do so at its own risk and subject to future court decis ions. How the railroad company is going to proceed in the courts to test the constitutionality of the law is not known by the railroad attorneys here. They merely had instructions to serve the company's notice on the President, on congress, Secretaries Lane and Houston, the attorney general and Treasurer Burk. German U-Lincr To Be Classed As Peaceful Merchant Ship Washington, D. C. Final decision by the State department that the Ger man submarine Deutschland is a merchant ship entitled to all privileges accorded under International law to a belligerent-owned freighter was fore cast Wednesday night on receipt of preliminary reports on an inspection of the underwater liner at Baltimore by naval officers and treasury officials. Collector Ryan, of Baltimore, tele graphed the Treasury department that a thorough examination of the boat by himself and Captain C. F. Hughes, ap pointed by the Navy deparmtent to as sist, he adhered to his previous opinion that the vessel is an unarmed merchant man, incapable of conversion for war like purposes, "without extensive structural changes." Impeachment Proceedings Tabled. Washington, D. C. Impeachment proceedings againBt H. Snowden Mar shall, United States attorney at New York, were tabled Wednesday by the house judiciary committee, which by a divided vote adpoted a resolution rec ommending to the house that no fur ther proceedings be taken against him. The action of the committee in such cases usually is sustianed by the house, and the vote, therefore is expected to close the whole proceeding, which or iginated with Representative Buchan an, of Illinois, who was indicted in connection with an investigation of Labor's Peace Council at New York at the instance of Mr. Marshall. Depositors Back Lorimer. Chicago Wm. Lorimer, ex-United States senator, Wednesday found him self with a full-fledged organization of more than 4000 depositors of the de funct La Salle-street Trust & Savings Bank, who had lost their money in the crash of that institution, pledged to aid him in his plans to reimburse them for "every dollar they had lost." At a mass meeting the depositors, some of them women, whose entire savings had gone in the bank failure, organized themselves into a club to aid in the re habilitation of his various enterprises. Two Colonels Dropped. Camp Whitman, Green Haven, N. Y. Colonel Louis D. Conley and Lieu tenant Colonel John D. Phelan, of the 69th New York regiment, were order ed mustered out of the Federal service Wednesday just as the regiment was entraining here for Texas. The order came from Major General Leonard Wood. The cause was given as "phys ical disability." The news caused con sternation iri camp. A report was prev alent that the regiment would mutiny. RED CROSS TO AID IN N. Y. EPIDEMIC Health Authorities Send Out Appeal for More Trained Nurses. CAUSE Of DISEASE MYSTERIOUS Frantic Mothers Interne Children in Tenement Homes 45 Cases Found Outside Gotham. New York An appeal to the Amer ican Red Cross for nurses to aid in stamping out the scourge of infantile paralysis here, which, since June 1, has caused the 196 deaths among children, was made Saturday by Health Commissioner Emerson, There are not enough trained nurses avail able in New York to handle the work, he said, and it had been found neces sary to ask aid of the chief of the Red Cross bureau of nursing at Washing ton. It was intimated that several hundred workers were needed. The call for help was sent out after a day devoted by health authorities and the most prominent physicians of the Greater City to a discussion of means by which the spread of the dis ease can be checked. Some encourage ment was found in the fact that fewer new cases were reported Friday than on Thursday or Wednesday. All the medical men agreed, how ever, that only by unremitting vigil ance and the strict enforcement of ev ery known sanitary precaution could the epidemeic be kept within bounds. Another serious phase of the situa tion was reported by the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, which has found that in the con gested districts of the city frightened mothers have interned their children in their tenement homes, in many in stances with windows closed. Such action, it was pointed out, is likely to have serious effects, not only on the children, but on adults as well. Children's reading rooms in the pub lic libraries have been ordered closed as a precautionary measure, and the order barring children from moving picture theaters will not be modified until conditions improve. Playgrounds' in various parts of the city were or dered closed earlier in the day. Japan and Russia Agree on China; Open Door Policy Not Endangered Tokio The Japanese foreign office Saturday announced as the substance of the Russo-Japanese convention signed at Petrograd on July 3, the fol lowing: First Japan will take part in no ar rangement or political combination di rected against Russia. Russia will take part in no arrangement or politi cal combination directed against Jap an. Second In case the territorial rights or special interests in the Far East of one of the contracting parties which are recognized by the other con tracting party are menaced, Japan and Russia will consult each other on meas ures to adopt with a view to support ing or extending assistance for the safeguarding and defense of these rights and interests. To a question from the Associated Press representative as to what effect the alliance would have upon the open door and the integrity of China, the foreign office replied: "The convention is effectually an emphasis upon and an extension of the Anglo-Japanese alliance based upon the territorial integrity of China, whose open door and integrity are not endangered. Ameircan trade and in terests are in no wise affected." Road Appeals to Its Men, San Francisco The Southern Pacific company ordered posted in depots and engine houses throughout its Bystem an appeal to its 62,500 employes to use their influence to avert a threat ened strike of enginemen, firemen, conductors, trainmen and switchmen. The poster says that strike ballots have been sent out to the members of the unions threatening to strike, who constitute 13J per cent of its em ployes. The company asks the men who receive the ballots to vote against the strike. King Congratulates Men. London The following message was sent by King George to General Sir Douglas Haig, commanding the British troops on the Franco-Belgian front: "Please convey to the army under your command my sincere congratulations on the results achieved in the recent fight ing. I am proud of my troops. None could have fought more bravely." Gen. eral Haig, in reply, said: "All rankB will do their utmost to deserve Your Majesty's confidence and praise." Carranza Troops Pursuing Bandits. Chihuahua City Large Carranza forces, better organized and more com pletely equipped than any other units of the de facto government troops, Saturday were closing in on the band its of Southern Chihuahua and North ern Durango, intent on wiping them out. Jiminez, which the Villistas cap tured after defeating an inferior force and killing General Ignacio Ramos, has been occupied again by government troops.