T1 SET THIS SILO UP In a day. No hoops; no nnlls; no Bteel; no steal. Write for particulura Stay Round Silo Co. 705 Rothchild Bklg. Portliind, Or. When In the Market for a Piano, Player Piano, Player Music, or In short, anything In the music line, write to Shcrman.ay&Co. Sixth and Morrison SU.. PORTLAND, ORB 200 Room 100 Blh. Near Both Depot Absolutely Fireproof Hotel Hoyt Corner Sixth end Hoyt St., Portland, Ore. LOU HIMUS, Manager. RATES:-75c to 12. SPECIAL Week or Month WANTED, TURKEYS for THANKSGIVING and CHRISTMAS trade. Write for prices. Ship us your Veal, Hokb, roultry, Eigga, Hides and Caacara bark. Top prices and fair treatment. CLEASBY-HANSON CO. 115 FRONT ST. PORTLAND, ORE DON'T BURN GASOLINE Save 100 per cent of fuel cost', by equipping your Car with a DISTILLATE GASIFIER Thousands of Satisfied Users. Price for Fords, $8.00. Other Make, $1 1.00 DISTILLATE GASIFIER SALES CO., 711 Clinton St., Portland, Oregon LET US INCREASE YOUR PROFITS Clear Stores, Pool Halls and Candy Dealers, ask for Proposition C. Specialty Sales Co., 423 MORRUON ST., PORTLAND, OREGON Dealers In Sales Stimulators, HIDES, PELTS, CASCARA BARK, WOOL AND MOHAIR. We want all you have. Write lor prices and shipping lags THE H. F. NORTON CO. Portland, Ore.; Seattle, We. Of ffn Veal, Pork, Beef, Hf' Poultry, Butter, Eggs and Farm Produce. to the Old Reliable Everding house with a record of 46 yearB of Square Dealings, and be assured of TOP MARKET PRICES. F. M. CRONKHITE 43-47 Front Street Portland, Oregon Young men and women with businesB training find positions everywhere. Go to Northwest's largest Business College. BEHNKE-WALKER, Portland, Ore. Alt courses. Positions guaranteed. Write for free illustrated catalog. URINE Granulated Eyelids, - .1 sore eyes, eyes innamea Dy 5 Sun, Dust and Wind quickly relieved by Murine. 1 ry it in V Ti-ilr C vour Eyes and in Baby's Eyes. IUUKL.LJ Murine Eye Remedy mLiT?,M.rtS Eye Salvo, in Tubes 25e. For Book of the Kys Fraa. Ask Murine Eye Kemedy Co.. Chicago d Some Hope Left. "Henry, the flour is all out." "So is my money." "The potatoes are all gone." "So is my credit." "Well, we can't starve!" "Can't we? That's good; I was afraid we might." Boston Transcript. Not So New. "I see you have a new regime in your club, Mrs. Comeup. "Yes, everybody takes it for a new outfit, but it's really only the old things done up. "Exchange. Regulating Night street Traffic. Experiments ure being made by the police of Glasgow with a new method for the regulation of street vehicular traffic at night. At two of the most crowded crossings in the central dis trict of the city the constables are provided with helmets to which are attached small electric lamps, con trolled by a battery carried In the 'coat pocket. The lamps show the po sition of the constable and indicate to which lines of traffic the crossing la clear. Silk-Producing Countries. China still leads In silk production, although the actual amount Is un known, with Japan second. France Is the greatest silk producing center of Europe. In America the Industry la largely centered In Patterson, N. J, where silk mills give employment to a large proportion of the city's Inhab itants. New York World. IDo Your Own Plumbing By baring direct from as at wholesale price, and save the plumber', profit.. Write us to day your needs. We will give you oar rock bottom "dlrect-to-yoo" prices, f. o. b. rail or boat We actually saw yon from 10 to U per cent AU goods guaranteed. Northwest headquarter fot Leader Water Systems and Fuller 4V Johnson Engines. STARK-DAVIS CO. 212 Third S treat. Portland. Orea eft - P. N. U. No. 39, 1917. STEEL PRICES PJ T Industries Board and Producers Reach Agreement. PROFIT IS POSSIBLE Reduction Are 70.5 Per Cent in Some Cases-Allies and Public Alike to Share Reduced Schedule. Washington, D. C Steel prices In the United States were cut in half Monday when President Wilson ap proved a scale of quotations fixed In a voluntary agreement made by produc ers with the War Industries Board. The general public, as well as the American and allied governments, will share in the reductions, which go into immediate effect, and the agreement provides that producers shall not re duce wages. The prices will obtain until January 1, 1918, to be revised then if investi gation shows they are inequitable. The entire output of American steel plants will be distributed under super vision of the war board. Typical new prices and the reduction they represent in present quotations follow: Steel bars at Pittsburg and Chicago, $2.90 per hundredweight. The recent price was $5.50. Iron ore basis, lower lake ports, price agreed upon $5.05 gross ton. No change. Steel plates, basis Chicago and Pittsburg, price agreed upon $3.25 per hundredweight; recent price $11 per hundredweight, a reduction of 70.5 per cent. Pig iron, price agreed $33 gross ton; recent price $58 gross ton, a reduction of 43.1 per cent. The price agreement was reached after months of negotiations between steel producers and government offi cials. The prices were based on cost of production estimates made by the Federal Trade commission after an in- vestigation conducted at the Presi dent's direction. The chief point of difference that developed in the prolonged conferences was over the question of whether the public and the allied governments should share in the prices to be fixed. President Wilson has insisted that they should and the administration has supported the Pomerene bill now pending in congress giving the govern ment power to fix iron and steel prices generally. Officials in close touch with the sit' uation said the prices approved by the President were liberal and would allow fair profits to all steel plants. Some of the larger concerns, they said, would make handsome profits at the prices named. WILL PROBE SHIPYARD PAY Prompt Efforts Will be Made to End Pacific Coast Troubles. Washington, D. C. Given a free hand by President Wilson, assured by him that there would be no further outside interference with its functions and instructed to do everything poBsi- ble to bring about a settlement of the labor disputes in Pacific Coast ship yards, the recently created Labor Ad justment board reassembled Tuesday morning for the first time since its powers were taken over by Lhairman Hurley, of the Shipping board, and an nounced that it would proceed with all expedition to determine a reasonable wage scale applicable to Portland and Seattle steel shipyards. Consideration of the wood shipyard troubles and of hours of labor will be postponed until the Bteel wage ached ule has been determined. The board explained that in the ship building industry at this time the in terests of the United States are para- mount to all other interests; that these ships are being built for the government and the shipbuilders and the workmen alike are really in the employ of the government and they are expected loyally to promote tne building program so vital to the con duct of the war. Bone-Dry Act Has Leak. Huntington, W. Va. The West Vir ginia quart-a-month law, which per mits the bringing into the state of one mmrt nf linuor each month, does not violate the Federal bone-dry act, ac cording to a decision nanoeo down Dy JiiHirn Reniamin F. Keller in the Fed eral court here. The court held that thA Federal statute prohibits inter state commerce in liquor, but does not apply to interstate transportation as constituted by the bringing in of liquor for personal use. An appeal hi me u, S. Supreme court win De maae. Timber Production High. Vancouver, B. C. Production of logs i th Vancouver district of British Columbia in August was 12,000,000 feet greater than in the corresponding mnnth nf last vear. There have been marked increases all through 1917, and for the first eight months there was an increase of 86,815,809 feet The in crease is the result of the demand for shipbuilding purposes on the Coast and construction all over Canada, particu larly on the prairie and in tne ,sst. IF Weekly War Information Brief Stories Prepared Under the Direction of the C'ommltte on Public Information and the State Council of Defense, and Published With out Charge by This Paper to Impart Knowledge Essential for the Common Good. Warning Against Irresponsible Opera- tori Given by Markets Bureau. Farmers or others shipping grain, hay or feed are advised by the bureau of markets to deal with no person of unknown responsibility. Some buyers ill order products under a transac tion known as the "shippers order bill of lading." Some of these buyers or der products shipped in the hope that the price will go up in the meantime and enable them to sell at a profit to a local dealer. Some of these operators have insufficient capital and the goods may fall back on the shipper. In one case a man without financial tanding succeeded in purchasing large' shipments of hay and mill feed. As there was no advance in price and as he had no cash to meet the drafts, he held the goods several weeks in the cars. Some were on the track 20 days before unloading. The day the de partment investigator was on the ground this man had 22 cars on the track, papers for 17 more to be shipped. Plans for Economical Meals Suggested by Food Bureau. For housewives who wish accurate information on the relative costs in planning economical and at the Bame time nutritious meals, the food admin istration has issued a statement show ing the comparative costs and values of 60 foods. Bread is taken as the standard of comparison, and the cost per pound and the relative cost per hundred cal ories of the other material is shown. The table shows 12 articles are cheap er than bread on the basis of calories obtained for the money, two are of equal value, and 36 higher. Corn meal, notwithstanding its present high price, continues to give the moBt food value for the money. Second Liberty Loan Campaign to Last One Month. It is contemplated that the second liberty loan campaign will close on the first of November, and the active cam paign will begin not later than Octob er 1. No subscriptions can be received un til the bill now pending before con gress has been acted upon. William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, urges all liberty loan organi zations already existing to get them selves in readiness for the coming campaign. As in the previous cam paign, the general direction in each federal reserve district will be under the direction of the federal reserve bank of that district. The use of canned vegetable is pro hibited in Canada. ARGENTINE TO BREAK Severance With Germany Indicated by Vote of 23 to 1 in Senate Wash ington Agreeably Surprised. Buenos Aires - - The Argentine Ben- ate, by a vote of 23 to 1, Thursday de clared for the breaking off of relations with Germany. The resolution now goes to the Chamber of Deputies. There is Btrong public feeling in favor of its final pas sage. Washington, D. C News that the Argentine senate had voted over whelmingly to sever diplomatic rela tions with Germany was received in Washington Thursday night with Grat ification and no little surprise. Officials had recognized that recent disclosures concerning cablegrams sent to Berlin by the German minister at Buenos Aires through the Swedish for eign office had aggravated the situa tion caused by Germany's sinking of Argentine ships, but it had been as sumed that, with the German minister handed his passports, no further offi cial action would be taken pending re ceipt of Berlin's explanation of the message. Although it is understood the State department's purpose in making public copies of the cablegrams was only to Arbitration is Refused. Phoenix, Ariz. Managers of the mines in the Clifton-Morenci district have filed with the governor their answer to the citizens' committee of Clifton, which requested the mine managers to arbitrate the differences, looking to a termination of the strike, which has kept 5800 men out of work for several months. In their reply the mine managers say it is impossible for them to accept arbitration which, in view of the paBt experience, would be binding on the mining companies only. Diver Designer a Suicide. , Baltimre Gotthold Prusse, one of the designers of the German merchant submarine Deutschland, who came to Baltimore on the first voyage, of that craft, committed suicide in the city jail Wednesday by hanging. Prusse had been imprisoned as an alien enemy. He was arrested by the United States authorities on August 20 for leaving a restricted zone without permission. He was 41 years old and born in Germany. Potatoes on American Table Save Wheat for Men in France. The more potatoes you eat the less bread you need at the same meal. On an average, one medium-sized potato will supply about as much Btarch as two medium-sized slices of bread. Therefore those who make potatoes an important dish can safely cut down on the amount of light or hot bread, wheat mushes or macaroni. Wherever potatoes are plentiful lo cally, especially in the case of the early summer varieties which do not store well, housewives are urged to use them plentifully as a substitute for bread and thereby funrish wheat for the men in khaki in France. New Law Will Make Aliens Subject to American Draft. British recruiting offices in the United States are authority for the following: British and Canadian subjects in the United States will be unable to evade the conscription acts of their native lands and this country. Reciprocal legislation will make such aliens sub ject to the American draft. If a Canadian or Briton declines to serve in the American army, he may be deported to his native land where he automatically becomes available for service. The British recruiting sta"" rtons in the United States are now asking enlistment of men who become available under this legislation. Chautauqua entertainers and even complete light opera companies will be Bent to cantonment camps for the en tertainment of troops. The fuel administratoin will make public through a local committee in each community, data to enable every consumer of coal to ascertain for him self its established price. A second forest regiment of ten bat talions to go to France has been au thorized. Two battalions will be raised at once, by volunteer enlist ment. Information may be obtanied from recruiting officers. Women farmers of the country are making plans already for the 1918 har vest. To the woman's committee of the council of national defense have come several letters asking the names of women willing to take the places of men in orchards, running tractors, and on threshing machines. Young men who are regarding en listment as a death sentence are mak ing a mistake, according to reports from France. During two years where the fighting was the most disastrous, only one man out of 12 engaged was killed, wounded, misBing or taken prisoner. expose the German government's world-wide system of duplicity and in trigue, it iB no secret that Argentine's participation in the war would be wel come. Even the breaking off of relations, it is pointed out, would have a power ful effect on public opinion in all South American countries where Ger man influences are known to be strong, That action also probably would re suit in considerable material benefit to the allies by restricting Argentine grain and meat exported to neutral countries through which they might find their way to Germany. Argentina is now the only great neutral food pro ducing country. CHICAGO MAYOR PATRIOTIC Much-Criticized Executive Appeals to Citizens in Soldiers' Behalf. Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson, whose opposition to sending troops abroad aroused comment all ov er the country, apparently climbed in to the patriotic band wagon Thursday with a proclamation occasioned by the departure of selected men from Chi cago to the Rockford cantonment. In the course of the preamble he says : "Whereas, it is the duty of all pa triotic citizens to stand by our country in times of controversy with any other country and to Bhow in an unmistaka ble way that the American peopli stand behind the Army and the Navy, which represent the majesty of our government. Rich Man's Son Evades. , Bisbee, Ariz. Warner A. Shattuck, son of L. C. Shattuck, millionaire cop per mine owner and banker of Bisbee, has been reported to department of Justice officials as one of 49 men who failed to appear for transportation to Camp Funston to enter training for the National army. The crime is punish able by death. According to the boy's father, he is somewhere in the state of Sonora, presumably at Guaymas where he was last heard from. C. L. Shattuck is reputed one of the Southwest's richest men. Dewey's Collier Sold. Seattle, Wash. The sale of Admiral Dewey's former collier, the Zafiro, now the British auxiliaried power ship Bowler, was confirmed here Thursday by the receipt of a telegram from New York announcing that the French in terests purchasing the craft had rati fied the deal and paid over the pur chase price. The Bowler is now be ing reconstructed into a twin screw motorship at a British Columbia yard and will be ready for commission soon. SUGAR MEN WILL AID Refiners and Brokers Arc Working Out in Conference Details of Distrib uting Agency and Prices, Washington, D. C Beet sugar re finers and brokers opened conferences here Wednesday to work out details of plan for a central distributing agency, planned to cooperate with the food administration and to agree on standard prices. About 10 per cent of the refiners protested against prices proposed, say ing they had made contracts with beet growers at unusually high rates. The food administration announced, how ever, that many of the growers affect ed by those contracts had agreed to ac cept a lower price as a patriotic duty. A solution will be sought at other con ferences. Food Administrator Hoover, in an address to the sugar men, said that voluntary service of all industries is the only democratic means of meeting the war emergency. , In a contest be tween methods of autocracy and democ racy, he said, economic problems In the democracy should be regulated by business men in cooperation with the government rather than by arbitrary acts of the government. Cold storage men conferred with the food administration on enlarging stor age facilities to help conserve perish able feed and to propose regulations for warehouse licensing. Fruit Shipment Records Broken. North Yakma All records for weekly shipments of fruit in Yakima county were broken in the last week, when a total of 1380 cars were sent out. The previous week the shipment was 816 cars, and the week before that 827 cars. Data compiled from reliable sources show that in every va riety of fruit shipped to date the act ual total !b exceeding all early est! mates. The State Department of Ag riculture estimated the pear crop here at 900 cars, but the railroads say they have handled 1550 to date. Would "Hooverize" Straw. Spokane County Farm Expert J. R. Shinn, who is conferring with farm ers to aid them in conserving feed, has a new Blogan, "Hooverize the pea straw by baling it. I wish every man who has pea straw would get it baled, as it is al most the equal of clover for cows," said Mr. Shinn recently. "We need every ton to tide us over this winter, and I want to see every bit of it go through the balers. It is selling at from $10 to $15 a ton baled." NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT Portland Wheat Bluestem, $2 fortyfold, $1.98; club, $1.96; red Rus- san, $1.93. Flour Patents, $10,60. Millfeed Z?ot prices: Bran, $37, per ton; shorts, $40; middlings, $47 rolled barley, $55 57: rolled oats, $57. Corn Whole, $82, cracked, $83. Hay Buying prices f. o. b. Port land, Eastern Oregon timothy, $27 per ton; valley timothy, $2326; alfalfa, $22.50 0 24; valley grain hay, $20 clover, $20; straw, $6.50. Butter Cubes, extras, 46c; prime firsts, 44c. Jobbing prices: Prints, extras, 48c; cartons, lc extra; butter- fat, No. 49c. Eggs Oregon ranch, current re ceipts, 4142c; candled, 45c; selects, 48(3;50c. Poultry Hens, 17i18Jc; broilers, 19 20c; ducks, 1220c; geese, 8(3) 10c; turkeys, live, 20(5)22c; dressed, 28(3j30c. Veal Fancy, 16J16c per pound. Pork Fancy, 211(aj22c per pound. Vegetables Tomatoes, 6685c per crate; cabbage, 22tc per pound; let tuce, 5075c per dozen; cucumbers. 4050c per dozen; peppers, 6c pound cauliflower, JZ.Zo; beans, 67c per pound; corn, 30c per dozen. Sack Vegetables Carrots, $1.752 per sack; beets, $1.502; turnips, $2, Potatoes New Oregon, lj2c sweet potatoes, 3j4c. Onions Walla Walla, $1.75; Cali fornia brown, $22.10. Green Fruits Cantaloupes, stand ard, 75c $1.75; peaches, 4575c; watermelons, $l(8jl.60 per hundred; apples, $12; pears, 75c (3) $1.50; grapes, $11.50; casabas, lj2c per pound. Hops 1916 crop, 2526e per pound; 1917 contracts, 3536c per pound; fuggles, 50c per pound. Wool Extra Oregon, fine, 6060c per pound; coarse, 65(f60e; valley, 65 (3;60c; mohair, long staple, 65c. Cascara Bark New, 7Jc; old, 8c per pound. Cattle Best beef steers $ 9.00(3) 9.75 Good beef steers........ 7.60(3) 8.75 Best beef cows 6.75(9)7.50 Ordinary to good 4.00(3) 6.76 Best heifers 7.000$ 8.00 Bulls 4.00(3) 6.75 Calves 7.00(H) 9.50 Stackers and feeders. . . , 4.00(3) 7.25 Hogs- Prime light hogs $17.85(3318.00 Prime heavy hogs 17.65fdjl7.85 Pigs 15.0016.50 Bulk 17.75 Sheep Western lambs $13.00(3(13.50 Valley lambs 11.75(r? 12.76 Yearlings 10.76O;11.00 Wethers 10.60a;10.75 Ewes 8.00(3 9.00 It Works! Try It Telle how to loosen a sore, tender eorn so It lifts out without pain. No humbug! Any corn, whether hard, soft or between the toes, will loosen right up and lift out, without a particle of pain or soreness. This drug is called freezone and is a compound of ether discovered by a Cincinnati man. Ask at any drug store for si mall bottle of freezone, which will cost but a trifle, but Is sufficient to rid one's feet of every corn or callous. Put a few drops directly upon any tender, aching corn or callous. In stantly the soreness disappears and shortly the corn or callous will loosen and can be lifted oft with the fingers. This drug freezone doesn't eat out the corns or callouses but shrivels them without even irritating the sur rounding skin. JuBt think I No pain at all; no sore ness or smarting when applying it or afterwards. If your druggist don't have freezone have him order It for you. tpuapn or Romance. Romnnco may be alive under the Kin re of the bright lights of the great cities, but In thlB quaint old mountain town Its swan song hns been sung. Witness the following: A young womnn employee of a New York publishing house wrote her name on an Inside pnge of a magazine pub lished by the company. The magazine fell Into the hands of A. B. Watson, twenty-one yenrs old, of this place, who Is considered matrimonial timber. Watson wrote the young woman. Did he propose mnrrluge? Not on your life. lie told her she should be ashamed of herself for seeking ac quaintance In this manner. 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