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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1917)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government and Pacific Northweit and Other Thlngi Worth Knowing. The Canadian casualtiy list issued Tuesday night contains the following names of Americans killed in action: W. H. Bland, Black Bear, Idaho. Nineteen Portuguese fishermen of Provincetown were drowned when the dories in which they were fishing off Cape Cod were swamped by a gale that came up suddenly Friday afternoon. The first three bales of Georgia's new cotton crop to arrive in New York were auctioned from the steps of the Cotton Exchange Wednesday for $700, Nearly 50 cents a pound. The money was given to the Red Cross war fund, Liberty bonds for the first time since the second or third day's trading in them on the New York Stock Ex change, sold at par Tuesday. Last week they sold as low as 99.52, which represented a depreciation of $4.80 per $1000. The medical corps of the United States Army in France announced Fri day that the French had turned over to it two large military hospitals and also a large medical depot. American base hospital units are manning these insti tutions. Sinking of the American steamer Campana, a Standad Oil tanker, with the probable capture of her captain and four members of the naval guard by the attacking German submarine, was announced Tuesday by the Navy department. After visiting practically every sec- tion of Oregon of any consequence agriculturally, Governor Withycombe made the statement that Oregon is facing the nearest approach to a crop failure of anything he has seen in his 46 years' experience in watching crop conations. Sunburned Western ranges, with the price of Imported hay and feed almost prohibitive, are likely to cause a de cided drop in the price of beef before December 1, in the opinion of St. Paul live stock men. Shortage of feed already has resulted in an Influx of cattle from the West at the South St. Paul market. Nine hundred and thirty-three Scan dinavian ships have been destroyed by torpedoes or mines since the beginning of the war, according to the Copen hagen Aftenbladet. Of this number Norway lost 600, Denmark 187 and Sweden 146. The number of Scandi navian seamen lost in these disasters was about 500. Placed so that it would have de stroyed a 86-inch water supply main to the Ogden city reservoir and the embankment of the reservoir, thus al lowing the impounded water to rush down upon the city, a dynamite bomb with two feet of its four-foot fuse burned, was found early Tuesday night by the police. In a statement Tuesday, Secretary McAdoo said prompt passage of the Army and Navy insurance bill would "immeasurably increase America's chance of winning the war," and ex pressed the hope that the bill would be enacted "before the first soldier of the new National Army begins active mil itary duty," about September 1. The Butte streetcar men's strike was settled Friday afternoon, the com' pany agreeing to pay the men a flat scale. Operation of cars has been re sumed. Seven Norwegian sailing vessels and 90 men were loBt in a heavy gale near Greenland, according to a dispatch to the London Central News from Chris tiana Thursday. The first one-third of the quote of 687,000 men drafted for army service under the selection bill will be called to the colors September 1 and sent to training camps between September 1 and September 5. TMb information has been communicated to the govern ors of all states by Provost Marshal General Crowder. Wool contracts calling for more than $18,000,000 worth of wool have been let at Washington, according to an nouncements. The Red Cross has pur chased 1,000,000 pounds for knitting purposes and the Navy has let con tracts for 4,500,000 yards of uniform cloth at an aggregate cost of more than $16,000,000. That a special session of the Utah legislature will be called to act on the high prices of coal was Indicated Fri day by Governor Bamberger, when he declared that, if necessary, he would urge the enactment of a measure to make coal a public utility. Damage which may mount into hun dreds of thousands of dollars was caused to property and crops by a se vere hail and wind storm which swept a path four to ten miles wide and more than 100 miles long over nine counties of Eastern Central Nebraska Thursday afternoon. CURRENT WEEK OREGON IN FIRST CALL Plans for Sending National Guard to France Announced by War De partment 26 States Share. Washington, D. C Plans for send ing the first National Guard troops to France have been perfected by the War department with the organization of a division which will include troops from 26 states and the District of Col umbia. Word to this effect was sent ou Tuesday. The states from which the National Guard troops are to be assembled are: Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Maryland, South Carolina, California, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, Kansas, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colo rado and Oregon. The others come from the District of Columba. JAPANESE MISSION ARRIVES "We Are With You, Heart and Soul," Says Ambassador Extraordinary. A Pacific Port A Japanese mission to the United States arrived here Tuesday, and proclaimed, almost at the moment of landing, that its mem bers came officially "aB comrades in a gigantic struggle, which involves the liberties and the sacred rights of man kind." "We are here," declared Viscount K. Ishii, ambassador extraordinary, and plenipotentiary, responding to an address of welcome from the mayor, "as the representatives of Japan on a mission of friendship and good will. "We come as allies in a common cause. We are with you, heart and soul." He referred to the Nation's war panoply, and its meaning to Japan. " We are particularly glad to be here just at this time," he said, "when all America is showing courage, patriot ism, energy and whole-hearted zeal. "Naturally, Japan is interested in your preparations. We are glad to see them. Not a single sensible per son in Japan sees anything in your preparations but great benefit to both countries in the future. "We have always had confidence in the fundamental justice, sound sense and broad vision of Americans. We are glad of your preparations on land and sea, because we believe they mean an earlier peace." SUMPTER, OR., IS IN RUINS Fire Completely Sweeps Town Oft the Map Loss Said to be $200,000. Baker, Ore. Sumpter, once the Babylon of Eastern Oregon, is now a smoking mass of ruins. The flames Monday night were eat ing their way to the woods at the edge of the city and the hundreds of fire fighters were trying desperately to subdue them before the blaze could get such a start in the dry timber that a forest fire might result. The Iobs is estimated as high as $200,000 and it is known that the in surance carried is comparatively small, so that the once mighty metropolis, of this part of the country never may be rebuilt, at least it is certain that only a small part ever will rise from the flames. Every business house and nearly every residence, church and hall have been leveled by the flames. More than 300 persons are without homes and every effort to relieve the suffering is being made. National 8-Hour Bill Drafted. Washington, D. C As a Bolution in part of the labor trouble in Western Oregon and Washington, Senator Poin dexter has proposed the enactment by congress of a law providing that eight hours shall constitute a standard day's work for all lumber mills, logging camps or other wood-working estab lishments whose products enter into interstate or foreign trade. His bill imposes a penalty of $1000 for each violation. Senator Poindexter drafted and in troducted this bill at the suggestion of mill men and mill laborers, both sides to the controversy, according to his advices, being favorable to the legal eight-hour day in the lumber bus iness if it can be made National. Agitator is Deported.' Reno, Nev. Fifty armed business men of Lovelock went to Rochester mining camp at midnight Tuesday. seized C. W. McKinnon, brother-in-law of W. D. Haywood and an I. W. W. organizer, took him to Lovelock and shipped him away to Ogden on an early train. Residents of Lovelock and Rochester are forming a Citizens' League. John Gilbert, resident of Rochester, also was deported. McKinnon, ten days ago, was driven out of the Yerington copper district by citizens. Railroada Save Mileage. Chicago Extensive reductions in passenger train service in addition to those already made are soon to go into effect in the Middle West. Between March 1 and July 15, the railroada in this territory effected a saving at the rate of almost seven million passenger miles a year in passenger train serv ice. The total reductions already made and those soon to be put into effect in this territory amount to over 12,000,000 passenger miles. E Pope Benedict Asks Nations to Return to Status Quo. ALLIES' REFUSAL SEEN Diplomats Believe Move Has German Origin, but Faith of Vatican is Not Doubted To Consider. Washintgon, D. C. Pope Benedict made peace proposals Tuesday which were not unexpected to the United States, nor to any of the entente al lies. The possibilities of a peace move was discussed with British Foreign Minister Balfour and Vice Premier Viviani, when the British and French official missions were in Washington, and it was agreed that all the allies, including the United States, should re fuse to discuss peace terms while Ger many occupied the territories she had taken by force, and thereby avoid what the allied statesment considered a German trap. Now the Pontiff's proposal presents the question in a somewhat different light, difficult to meet, perhaps, but it offers a war-weary world a hope for peace. Germany and her allies are expected to promptly accept the Pope's pro posals. American officials acknowledge that the Vatican's proffer is of a nature calling for a reply. Diplomats of the entente circle express nothing but unanimous opinion that it would be re jected. American officials realize that a convincing reply is required for the world's page of history. That the proposals .cannot be accepted as they stand is certain. That they will not be accepted at all is probable. The Pope Buggests restoration of Belgium, Serbia and Roumania and peaceful solution of the problems of Alsace-Lorraine, Trent, Trietse and Poland, according to reports received from Vatican sources. The Pope's peace appeal proposes that there be no annexation and nqjn demnities, except in special cases, such as Belgium and Serbia, the re turn of Germany of her colonies in ex change for the occupied departments of France, freedom of the seas, dis armament and the formation of a su preme court of arbitration for the set tlement of future international dis putes. An official outline of the Pope's com munication was received here Tuesday morning. Members of the President's cabinet said it had not been discussed at the afternoon meeting, but some of the President's official family gave signs of the difficulty which it has presented. The first appraisal of the proposal by officials and diplomats was that it was another attempt by Germany, this time working through Austria, because of the latter's close relation to the Vatican, to accomplish what she failed in her first offer of peace the assem bling of peace delegates at a round table conference, where the interests of one ally could be played off against the other with the disruption of the grand alliance as the stake. In no quarter is there any disposi tion to question in any way the good faith of the Vatican, although the peace activities of the Roman Catholic elements in Germany and Austria have been prominent for several months. RUSSIA CALLS BIG MEETING 1000 Persons Invited to Help Formu late Plans for New Government. Petrograd More than 1000 persons have been invited by the government to attend the conference which is to be held at Moscow August 25 to 27 to consider in their broadest aspects the situation of the nation and the plans for the new national t government. Those who have been asked to attend include all members of the four dumas, other persons prominent in public life and repesentatives of all important or ganizations, whether political, eco nomic, commercial or scientific. Pope's Plan Hits Market. New York The announcement of the Pope's peace proposals, coming af ter the strong opening Tuesday, gave the stock market a severe setback. Early gains of one to two points in steels, equipments and other war is sues and as much as one to five points in motors, shippings, oils and miscel laneous shares were largely surren dered before midday. The only issues to retain their gains in part were the active stocks in tobacco. In the after noon the market became dull with small net reactions in the active shares. Railway Clerks in Union. Spokane, Wash. The railway clerks of Spokane are organizing a union, and are ready to apply to the Central La bor Council for affiliation. Represent atives of the new organization ap peared before the council Tuesday night and reported that a membership of more than 100 had been enrolled. The union will include employes of the railroad companies engaged in clerical work in both freight and pass enger departments. NEW PEA OFFER IE RI W fftffTf STATE NEWS ,IN BRIEF. I R. B. Godin, secretary of the Board of Control, is at the The Dalles to re ceive bids on the equipment of the Portage railway, owned by the state. Cull apples have taken an advance of $2 per ton over the former Beasons. The Hood River Apple Vinegar com pany, operating one of the largest plants in the state, has announced that it will pay $8 per ton for orchard-run sound culls. Wood procured from stumpage will be used as fuel at the State Hospital for the Insane at least for the next two years, and at the State Peniten tiary for the next three years. This arrangement has been made by the State Board of Control. J. M. Johnson is to be the new su perintendent of Klamath Indian reser vation, with headquarters at Klamath Agency. Mr. Johnson came from the Colville Indian reservation, Washing ton. C. H. Asbury, special agent in charge, has left for Reno, Nev. Bears are inflicting heavy losses on the Bheep herds in the Eagle Moun tains in Eastern Oregon, according to Senator and Mrs. W. H. Strayer, of Baker. George Jones, of Richland, is said to have lost 23 head from his herd and others have suffered severe dam age. Advertising for bids on the first three units of the Pacific Highway improvement to be undertaken in Douglas county began at Roseburg Wednesday. The units are located in the northern part of Douglas county and will eliminate the Pass Creek canyon. County Agent S. B. Hall has estab lished the fact that many deaths among cattle in the Gresham section is due to a disease called hemorrhagic septice mia, and measures are being taken to put an end to its ravages. Farmers in Multnomah and Clackamas counties have lost more than 100 animals. The Balderree logging camp near Black Rock, in Polk county, belonging to the Willamette Valley Lumber com pany, is a total loss, and losses of the company since the fires started Satur day are estimated at more than $200,- 000. The fire is the worst since 1910, when a million feet of timber burned in the Siletz basin. A peddler, said to be German, and selling courtplaster and medicine and saying he has the sanction of B. F. Elgin, a Sherwood druggist, is going through that community. Mr. Elgin denies any knowledge of the man. He is insistent on selling to everyone. One of the plasters is now in the hands of the chemists of the State board of health. W. M. Round, president of the Washington Cranberry Growers asso ciation, with headquarters at Long Beach, Wash., has issued an invitation to all cranberry growers'of Oregon and Washington to attend a meeting to be held at Long Beach, Saturday, August 25. An invitation has been extended Governor Lister, of Washington, to attend the meeting. The Marine Guard at the Englewood radio station at Marshfield has been increased by the arrival of 13 men from Mare Island, under Sergeant W. S. Hamilton. Within the past two weeks another contingent of six men who had served at Cape Blanco also was sent there. The force, including the original guard, now numbers 25 marines, besides the five operators. The skin of a gray wolf was turned in at the county clerk's office at Al bany Monday for bounty. Charles E. Clark, of Lacomb, related a story of its capture showing that Clyde Rucker, of Lacomb, had a narrow escape from a deer which was pursued by the predatory beast. The State Highway commission has opened bids and awarded contracts for road and bridge construction projects and accepted the bid of the Lumber- mens Trust company, of Portland, on the $500,000 bond issue, the first sale of bonds under the $6,000,000 bonding enactment. The bid was $471,300 with accrued interest, the bonds dated August 1. The Springfield Planing Mill com pany has called for bids for a large amount of hardwood lumber. The company has accepted a contract for the manufacture of 1,000,000 tent stakes for the United States govern ment, according to an announcement made by H. E. Pitts, manager of the company. The work of making the stakes will begin August 16. The body of Mrs. Katherine Osgood, age 83 years, was found floating in the Walluski river near Astoria Friday night, bhe had been missing for sev eral day and is supposed to have fal len while crossing the bridge. One hundred Curry county hogs, de livered for J. E. Ford, at Bandon, brought 13 cents a pound, live weight. The consignment was bought for the Ford market in Marshfield and it was said the price was the hightest record ed in the county for such a large herd. As one of the direct results of the United States becoming involved in the world war. the Astoria board of school directors haa vntpH tn kAi French to the course of Btudy in the high school. Car shortage on the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon Thursday was 751. While the number is small compared with the more than 8000 shortage some months ago, the Public Service com mission considers the shortage ex tremely serious because of the early season and the demand for cars due to causes created by the war. BIG HARVEST OF PEAS Ten Thousand Acres Near Moscow, Idaho, Expected to Give Average Yield of 10 to 12 Bushels. Moscow, Idaho Farmers in the vi cinity of Moscow are busy harvesting their peas. It is estimated that there are 10,000 acres in peas in the imme diate vicinity of Moscow this year, and despite the abnormal season cold and wet in the spring and a record breaker for lack of rain and heat in the summer it is felt that it is clearly demonstrated that this is a field pea country, that in ordinary years they will do well. The best estimates obtainable on the present crop here this year is 10 to 12 bushels to the acre. Some fields will double that. Elmer A. Nichols just south of the city has 230 acres that is expected to average 20 bushels. The price expected is $3.50 as the mini mum, bo that even at 10 bushels it will mean $35 an acre for the crop. Farmers who planted peas this year are encouraged to go in for a much larger acreage next year. Strawberry Money is Divided. Hood River The Apple Growers' association has completed its most suc cessful strawberry season in the mat ter of dollars and cents. Following is the list of the 14 pools, showing the dates and the average price realized from a crate of 24 boxes. It is the actual net money received which is being distributed to the grow ers. The list: June 1 and 2, $4.80; June 3 and 4, $3.33; June 6 to 11, in clusive, $3,45"; June 12 to 15th, in clusive, $3.61; June 16th, $3.64; June 17 to 19, inclusive, $3.30; June 20, $3.18; June 21 to 24, inclusve, $2.80; June 25 to 26, inclusive, $2.63; June 27 to 30, inclusive, $2.09; July 1 to 5, inclusive, $1.81; July 6 to 11, inclu sive, $1.87; July 12 to 18, inclusive, $2; July 19 to 27, inclusive, $2.25. Tiny New Spuds Sprout. Pendleton, Or. Umatilla county war garden growers are discovering that their potatoes are not maturing, but are already sprouting in the ground. None here has been able to explain the condition and apparently all locations and all boub in the immediate vicinity are affected in this manner. Some of the early varieties have grown suffi ciently to be served on the tables, but the late planting will be hardly worth digging so far as the war gardens are concerned. The potatoes which are sprouting are sometimes as Bmall as a pea, frequently as small as a walnut, The Beed potatoes remain in the ground in much the same condition as when planted. Butterfat Prices Soar. Marshfield, Or. Butter fat is bring ing an average of 66 cents in Coos county and creamery butter is selling at higher prices than ever before in the summer season. Two-pound rolls are bringing from $1.05 to $1.15 each. The creamery operators report a heavy falling off in milk receipts, due to the drouth conditions. Many pastures have dried up entirely and some cattle are actually on short feed. July milk deliveries were much lighter than those for the month of June. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT Portland Wheat Bluestem, new, $2.852.40; fortyfold, $2.34 2.36 club, $2.322.35; red Russian, $2.30 2.32. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $35 per ton; shorts, $38; middlings, $45; rolled barley, $51; rolled oats, $55. Hay Producers' prices: Timothy, old crop, nominal; alfalfa, new, $18 19; wheat, new crop, $1516; oat and vetch, new crop, $1617. Vegetables Tomatoes, $1.252 per crate; cabbage, 2jc per pound; let tuce, $1.601.75 per crate; cucum bers, 4060c per dozen; peppers, 8(S 10c per pound; beans, 68c per pound; corn, 3035c per dozen. Potatoes New, 2J3Jc per pound, Green Fruits Apricots, $1.251.50; cantaloupes, 95 $2.85 per crate; peaches, 65c$1.25 per box; water melons, $1.752 per hundred; apples, $1.352.50; raspberries, $1.75 2; pears, $2; grapes, $2; blackberries, $2.15. Butter Cubes, extras, 40J41c; prirne; "firsts, 89 jc,,- Jobbnig. prices: Prints, extras, 44c;' cartons, lc e'xtta; butterfat, No. 1, best bid, 46c; No. 2, 42c. Eggs Ranch, current receipts, 36c per dozen; candled, 87$S8c per doz en; selects, 39c. Poultry Hens, 1516Jc per pound; broilers, 18 20c; turkeys, 1821c; ducks, old, 13(ffl5c; young, 1718Jc; geese, old, 89c. Hops 1916 crop, 1214c per pound; 1917 contracts, 1820c;917 fuggles, 25c. V Cattle- Best beef steers $ 8.25 8.75 Good beef steers 7.25 8.25 Best beef cowb 6.00 7.00 Ordinary to good 4.00 6.00 Best heifers 6.25 7.25 Bulls 4.50 6.00 Calves 8.50 9.50 Stackers and feeders. . . . 4.50 6.75 Hogs- Prime light hogs $16.15(3:16.25 Prime heavy hogs 16.0016.15 Pigs 14.5015.00 Bulk 16.00 Sheep Western lambs $12.0012.75 Valley lambs 11.6012.00 Yearlings 8.75 9.60 Wethers 8.10 8.50 Ewes 8.50 7.00 WILSON APPOINTS HOOVER DICTATOR President Signs Food Control Bill at Same Time. BIG STICK LOOMS UP Food and Agriculture Departments Long Ready for Work Federal Trade Commission Busy. " Washington, D. C. The American government Saturday assumed control of the country's food supply with the signing by President Wilson of the ad ministration's food survey and regula tory bills. Formal . announcement of Herbert Hoover's appointment as' food admin istrator was made at the White House soon after the measures were ap proved, and Mr. Hoover set forth the aims of the food administration in a statement, declaring its purpose will be to stabilize and not to disturb con ditions. Every effort will be made to correct price abuses, made possible by abnor mal times, Mr. Hoover said, but dras tic measures will not be attempted until it is seen the purposes of the ad ministration cannot be accomplished through constructive co-operation with food producing and distributing indus tries. The very existence of corrective powers, Mr. Hoover declared, will tend to check speculation and price infla tion. "The business men of the country, I am convinced," Bays Mr. Hoover's statement, "as a result of many hun dreds of conferences with representa tives of the great sources of food sup ply, realize their own patriotic obliga tion, and the solemnity of the situa tion, and will fairly and generously co operate in meeting the national emer gencies." The two measures as signed give to the government sweeping war-time powers. The regulatory bill is de signed to put food distribution under direct government supervision, and a provision added as an amendment ex tends an even more drastic government control over coal and other fuels, in cluding the power to fix prices, and au thorizing government operation of . mines. The Burvey bill is intended to en courage production, and gives the gov ernment authority to keep up a contin uous census of the amount of food stuffs in the United States. It will be administered by the department of Agriculture. Both the Food Administration and Agriculture departments have been ready since long before the bills were passed to go ahead with the work. The Food Administration has as sembled a Btaff and already is enlisting the country's women in a household saving campaign. Meanwhile the Federal Trade com mission, authorized some time ago to conduct an investigation into food prices with special reference to anti trust law violations, is gathering in formation which it will turn over to the two agences and to the department of Justice. The first move of the Food Adminis tration will be to bring about changes in the system of distributing wheat and in the manufacture and sale of flour and bread. It will take up next the production of meat and dairy foods. The Trade commission has in vestigators now in the flour mills and in the meat-packing houses. In his statement Mr. Hoover em phasizes the' obligation the United States owes to its allies in supplying an abundance of food and urges re duced consumption by the American people. "We have in our abundance and in our waste," he says, "an ample supply to carry them as well as ourselves over this next winter without suffering. If we fail, it is because in dividual American citizens have failed to see and do this loyal National duty. We Bhall invite all classes and all trades to sign a volunteer . pledge to coronerate with us in the undertaking, and so become" members of the food administration aB we ourselves are." Regular Army Filled. Washington, D. C With the war volunteers of Saturday the regular army was raised to its full strength of 300,000. Since April 1 more than 183,898 volunteers have been enlisted. Twenty-three states filled their quotas and 25 did not. The states in the roll of honor are: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kanass, Mas sachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Mon tana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. National Holiday Likely. Washington, D. C A National hol iday may be declared September 3 in celebration of the entrainment of the draft levies for the training canton ments. No step to this end has been made as yet, but officials at the Pro vost Marshal General's office regard it as probable. Conferences were had with rialway officials on mobilization details. Transportation lines face the problem of collecting the first 230,000 men from 4570 districts.