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Thomas' B. Love, of Dallas, Tex.,
has been nominated to be assistant sec
retary of the Treasury to fill one of
the new offices created for the war.
Petrograd newspapers report that
Chinese troops have arrived at Harbin,
Manchuria, to protect Chinese inter
ests, according to the Berlingske
Tidende.
Interruption of interstate railway
service by labor disputes has been al
most negligible since the Federal
Board of Mediation and Conciliation
was organized four years ago, says a
report of the board presented to the
President.
By unanimous consent the house
agreed to consider on Monday the con
stitutional amendment for nation-wide
prohibition, 'which already has been
passed by the senate. The judiciary
committee favorably reported the
amendment.
The"marriage in Berlin Monday of
Count '.Christian Gunther von Bern
storff, son of the former ambassador to
the United States, and Mrs. Margarite
Vivian Burton Thomason, of Burl
ington, N. J., is reported by the Ber
lin newspapers.
Regulations regulating display ad
vertising have failed to conserve the
amount of fuel hoped for by the fuel
administration and a plan is under con
sideration to stop all outdoor lighting,
save street lights, at least three
nights a week.
The Rev. Dr. E. P. Ryland, a dis
trict superintendent of the Methodist
Episcopaljchurch at Los Angeles, will
be removed from his post next Monday
and assigned to some other duty be
cause of his unwillingness to support
the church s patriotic attitude.
Rome dispatches Tuesday, confirm
ing earlier reports of a lull after the
fierce fighting in which the Teutons
failed to break through the Italian
lines, says the AuBtro-German com
mander sacrificed hundreds of thou
sands of his best men without improv
ing his position.
With below zero weather prevailing.
the coal shortage was so acute in Ohio
Tuesday that Governor JameB M. Cox
telegraphed Dr. Harry Garfield, fed'
eral fuel administrator, at Washing'
ton, that unless Ohio people get imme'
diate relief, they will "lose confidence
in the government.
A general innuirv into the onera-
tions of the war department in arming
and equipping the American torces
was decided upon Tuesday by the sen
ate militarv affairs committee. Sec
retary Baker and other department
neads will De called to explain various
features of war activities.
J. A. Mcllugh a rancher of Auburn,
WaBh., and his son, John E. McIIugh,
convicted in the federal court of con
spiracy to violate the selective draft
law by making false affidavits sup
porting the son's claim for exemption,
were sentenced late Tuesday. The
father was given six months in the
county jail and fined $500. The son,
now at Camp Lewis cantonment, waB
fined $50.
"East Africa has been completely
cleared of the enemy. This announce
ment was made by England Wednes
day.
To prevent bootleggers from operat-
ing among the soldiers stationed at
HouBton, Texas, the city council has
passed an ordinance putting out of
business about 225 beer saloons and
between 50 and 60 saloons where whis
key and other liquors wore sold. The
new ordinance becomes effective Janu
ary 1 and applies to all places where
intoxicating liquors are sold, except in
the business district.
Nearly 9,500,000 acres of winter
wheat was sown in Kansas this fall ac
cording to an estimate made public
Wednesday by the State Board of Ag
riculture. Vladimir Schneur, one of the repre
sentatives of the Bolshevik! in the
peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk,
was arrested at Petrograd a fortnight
before the revolution of last March, as
a German spy, according to informa
tion obtained by the Associated Press
from a well-informed source.
The working balance in the U. S,
treasury was raised Wednesday to a
new high record of $2,515,000,000 by
receipts of $685,000,000 from the la
test issue of certificates of indebted
ness due next June, and $42,000,000
from Liberty Loan payments.
German has been dropped from the
course ot study in 30 hign Behoofs oi
the state of California, since the open
ing of the present school year because
pupils have discontinued studying the
language, Will C. Wood, State Com
missioner of Secondary Schools, announced.
TO OUST BOLSHEVIKI
General Kaledines and Other Leaders
to Make Short Shrift of Radicals
London Russian officials in London,
who are establishing direct communi
cation with General Kaledines and
other leaders of Democratic organiza
tions in Russia, declared to the Asso
ciated Press Wednesday that the move
ment to overthrow the Bolsheviki was
suppported not only by the Cossacks,
but by almost all the leaders of the
other parties. These leaders, it was
said, are confident they will be able to
make short shift of the Bolsheviki.
Stockholm, Tuesday A ' proclama
tion of General Kaledines, the Cossack
leader, declaring that the Cossack gov
ernment has taken over power in the
Donetz region of Southern Russia, is
published in the Yuzhny Krai, a news
paper of Kharkov, a copy of which has
reached Stockholm, having escaped the
Bolsheviki censorship.
General Kaledines declares that the
Cossacks have the means of maintain
ing order and intend to use their whole
power to oppose the Bolsheviki.
The newspaper publishes sharply
worded protests against the Bolsheviki
from seven different army corps. Tur
kestan is reported to be mobilizing all
men between the ages of 16 and 45,
who will be sent to Tashkent, capital
of that government, to fight the Bol
sheviki, who now control the city,
HEAVIER BURDENS TO COME
Congress is Urged to Concentrate on
War Problems.
Washington, D. C. Warning that
the United States must prepare to as
sume further burdens to win the war
was given Wednesday in the senate by
Senator Reed vigorously opposing as
a trust scheme the Webb export com
bination bill which President Wilson
in his recent address urged congress to
enact.
Declaring that conrgess should con
centrate upon great war problems and
defer consideration of such legislation
as the export trade measures the Mis
souri senator said that with Russia out
of the war and Roumania also "gone,"
the enemy, numerically, is now super
ior in manpower.
Although an opponent of army con
scription, Senator Reed predicted that
new draft levies probably would be
necessary and urged military training
for youths between 18 and 21 for coast
defense work. Invasion of America,
he asserted, was not beyond the realm
of possibilities should other allied
powers fall beside Russia, Roumania
and Serbia.
The Webb bill was denounced by
Senator Reed as destructive of the
Sherman anti-trust law at behest of
trusts and monopolies and a proposed
legalizing of illegal combinations
which would encroach on consumers
abroad and increase domestic prices.
"It repeals," he said, "every vestige
of that system of anti-trust statutes
built up during 28 years by the Federal
government so far as the same apply
to commerce with foreign powers. It
is intended directly to legalize the
creation of combinations and trusts to
control every foreign market in which
the American citizen may seek to sell
his goods. Indirectly it will enable
these same combinations to control the
domestic markets, because a control of
the priecB of the surplus that goes
abroad to find a market controlB the
price of the home product.
"This measure has the enthusiastic
support of the allied trusts of the
United States, together with their ser
vants, agents, employes and sympath
izers. It will be supported by every
newspaper that believes in the control
of big business which regards every
effort to limit or circumscribe the pow
er of capital as undesirable and dan
gerous." Beet Sugar Price Lifted.
Washington, D. C. An increase of
10 cents a hundred pounds in the
wholesale price on beet sugar was au
thorized Wednesday by the food ad
ministration. The advance is to put
beet sugar prices on a level with those
now paid for Cuban cane sugar. It
should not advance retail prices, the
food administration declares. The new
price is $7.35 at the basic sugar cen
ters of New York, San Francisco and
New Orleans. A further slight in
crease may be granted, it was said,
when Cuban freights are readjusted.
La Follette Quiz Put Off.
Washington, D. C. Another hitch
developed Wednesday to further post
pone the senate elections committee's
inquiry into Senator La Follette's St.
Paul speech. The committee discussed
whether further investigation would be
made by the sub-committee, which will
meet next week to decide the question
of procedure, and deferred for the
present the proposed examination of
ex-Secretary Bryan.
Socialist Regime in Russia.
Washington, D. C- Candidates for
Reserve Corps commissions who failed
through physicial disability or lack of
military knowledge to be recommend
ed by commanders at training camps
are to be called into the military serv
ice of the Nation to officer the new
National Militia soon to be organited
for guarding ports and government
property.
13 NEGRO SOLDIERS
HANGED FOR RIOT
Troopers Pay Penalty at Fort
Sam Houston, Texas.
AFFAIR KEPT SECRET
Sixty-Three Men Tried by Courtmar-
Z. tial, 41 of Whom Are Sentenced
for Life Others Get Less.
San Antonio, Tex. Thirteen ne
groes were hanged at Fort Sam Hous
ton at 7:17 a. m. Tuesday for com
plicity in the riot at Houston August
23. The announcement of action on
the court martial's verdict was made
at Southern department headquarters
at 9 o'clock by the chief of staff, who
also gave out a formal statement in
which the names of the men sentenced
to death were given.
Only army officers and Sheriff John
Tobin, of Baxter county, were present
when the sentence was carried out by
soldiers from the post. No newspaper
men or civilian spectators were al
lowed, the time and place of execution
having been kept a secret.
Of the 63 men , tried, by the same
courtmartial, 41 were sentenced to
dishonorable discharge from the army,
forfeiture of all pay and allowances
and to be confined at hard labor for 2
years. Three were sentenced to be
dishonorably discharged from the
army, forfeit all pay and allowances
and be confined at hard labor for two
years. Five were acquitted.
Following the hanging of the 13 men
the chief of staff of the Southern de
partment gave out a written state
ment, at the same time refusing to
answer any question.
The rioting in Houston occurred
while the third battalion of the 1 24th
infantry was guarding new buildings
being erected at Camp Logan. Dur
ing the afternoon of August 23 a re
port was circulated in the negro camp
that Corporal Baltimore, of the bat
talion, had been shot and killed by a
Houston police officer. This was said
to have been directly responsible for
the trouble.
According' to the testimony of one of
the participants the negroes obtained
their rifles and a quantity .of ammuni
tion after retreat the same evening,
and after dark started toward Hous
ton. There were about 125 of these
negroes, according to the statement,
and they opened fire on an automobile
in which an American was riding. He
was said to have been the first one
killed.
'OPEN SHOP" IS HELD LEGAL
United States Supreme Court Issues
Important Labor Ruling.
Washington, D. C. Decisions defin
ing in general terms the rights of
both organized labor and the employer
were rendered Tuesday by the Su
preme court. While the right of work
men to organize for lawful purposes
was re-affirmed, the court held that
employers legally may operate their
plants as "open shops" and prevent
conspiracies to bring their non-union
employes into labor organizations.
The opinions were rendered in the
cases of the Hitchman Coal & Coke
company and the Eagle Glass Manufac
turing company of West Virginia, the
court deciding that both were entitled
to operate their plants as "open
shops" and upholdng injunctions issued
by Judge A. G. Dayton, restraining
union officials from attempting to or
ganize their employes. Lower court
decrees holding that the United Mine
Workers of America, and the Ameri
can Flint Glass Workers' Union, were
illegal organizations and that under
the Sherman law they were secret con
spiracies in restraint of trade were ig
nored by the Supreme court opinion.
In the Hitchman case the majority
of the court held that the officails of
the miners' union "deliberately and
advisedly selected that method of en
larging the union membership, which
would mnnict injury upon the com
pany and its loyal employes, and de
clared that the "conduct in so doing
was unlawful and malicious.
Lakeside Inn is Raided.
Tacoma, Wash. Swooping down on
the Lakeside Inn, a resort on the moun
tain road famous for its chicken dinners
and open "all night" policy, police cap
tains' Falconer and Strickland, Deputy
Sheriff sears and Lieutenant Folston,
of the military police, early Monday
morning broke in upon a mixed crowd
of some 150 civilian men, women, army
officers and soldiers in the main dining-
room, while upstairs, stretched out on
a bed they found Florence Webb, a do
mestic, half unconscious from drugged
liquor and in a delirium.
Phone Workers Get Lift.
New York General salary increases
to meet the increased cost of living
will be granted to its employes by the
New York Telephone company, instead
of the yearly bonus which the company
has heretofore given, it was announced
Tuesday. , The increase in the aggre
gate will amount virtually to double
the bonus granted last year, it was
stated, and will in no way affect ad
vances awarded "from time to time in
recognition of efficiency."
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STATE NEWS:
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One hundred and eighty-seven acres
of wheat land bought in August have
just netted A. L. Douglas of Pendle
ton a profit of $16,000.
Residents of Milwaukie have filed a
petition with the Public Service com
mission complaining as to the car serv
ice given by the Portland & Oregon
City road and asking for a hearing.
Albany high school may Boon have
to close its manual training depart
ment for lack of instructors. Some of
the instructors have enlisted and other
teachers in the school are expected to
do so later.
Competing with several private pav
ing and contracting firms, Clackamas
county won the contract for the com
pletion of the roadbed from Coalco to
Canemah by the State Highway com
mission Monday.
Hannes Fritz, of Huttulla, appeared
before Deputy Collector of Customs
Haddix at Astoria Wednesday, and
asked to have his Russian passport
vised so that he could return to Fin
land. The request was denied.
H. A. Johnson, said to have been
the oldest white child born in Oregon,
died at his home in Salem Monday. He
was born in Marion county, March 3,
1849. He lived in Salem for about
28 years and for many years was Jus
tice of the Peace.
Chairmen and campaign managers
for the Red Cross drive in every town
of Umatilla county were announced at
a meeting held in Pendleton Wednes
day. Plans were laid for a Christmas
drive that will start next Monday and
continue for a week. Umatilla county's
quota of members is 7500.
That the Hammond Lumber com
pany is to continue the construction of
its logging railroad from Seaside, a
distance of six miles, almost directly
south, was the announcement made at
the hearing before the Public Service
commission and the county court on
petitions to cross the road.
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Railroad, the Oregon Electric, the
United Railways and the Oregon Trunk
have petitioned the Oregon Public
Service commission for an order to
amend their demurrage traffic to pro
vide for elimination of the average
agreement as to coal and to change
the free time allowance on all com
modities from 48 to 24 hours.
No price fiixng on wool is being con
sidered or will be considered by the
National Council of Defense, according
to a wire received in Pendleton by a
prominent Umatilla county sheepman.
It is understood that this meets with
their approval, though there seem
ingly was a move, especially on the
part of middlemen, to have a price
fixed that they might handle the prod
uct on commission.
Hiram L. Harned, of Baker, charged
with uttering seditious statements,
was fined $100 and sentenced to 60
days in jail in Police court Wednesday,
sentence being suspended. Harned
testified he meant no disloyalty, but
referred to President Wilson as a
traitor in order to start an argument.
Witnesses testified that two of his sons
had enlisted and he promised to refrain
from future talk that might get.him
into trouble.
Sheriff Geer of Lincoln county has
received word of the finding of the
body of Fred Hill, aged 14, on the high
way near Devils Lake. A trail of blood
led to the brush about 60 feet away,
where a gun was found. It Is thought
the boy shot himself accidentally. The
death is being investigated.
C. Manska, 45, was arrested on the
waterfront at North Bend Friday and
taken before Deputy United States At
torney McKnlght on a charge of hav
ing contravened the federal law con
cerning enemy aliens. He claims that
he is fully naturalized, but could not
produce his papers. An Investigation
Is proceeding.
Parole Officer Keller was designated
by Governor Withycombe Friday to
have charge of the squad of special
agents stationed at Oreton City to pre
vent trouble between strikers and
strike breakers in the paper mills
there. The parole officer Is instructed
to work In co-operatlon with the sher
iff and chief of police.
Two boys, giving their names as
George Davis, aged 11, and Wayne Fra
zier, who claims to be a year older
than his companion, were taken in
charge by Chief of Police Williams of
Roseburg Thursday near the local rail
road yards. The youngsters stated
they were enroute from Tacoma to
Grants Pass.
Farmers of the northwest 'will be
forced to handle grain in bulk because
of shortage and high cost of sacks, de
clared G. B. Hegardt, engineer of the
Port of Portland, in addressing the
state convention of the Farmers' Un
ion at Pendleton. He said Portland's
$3,000,000 grain elevator will be ready
to take care of the emergency for the
next harvest. Mr. Hegardt says the
government commandeered 50,000,000
sacks to make trench fortifications.
The farmers closed their three-day ses
sion with a banquet.
Governor Withycombe Friday re
ceived notification from Provost Mar
shal Crowder that the nominees se
lected by him to serve both as mem
bers of the legal and medical advisory
boards In the coming draft have been
appointed for Oregon by President Wil
son. Max Haake, of Marshfield, German
engineer on the gasoline schooner
Roamer, was arrested Friday when on
board the vessel by Deputy United
States Marshal Frank Berry. Haake
had been warned away from the water
front several times, but returned and
stayed aboard the Roamer.
U.S.WILL LEASE LAND
Government Plans Dry Farming on Big
Scale to Supplement Next Year's
Campaign for Food Supply.
North Yakima In planning for next
year's food campaign the government
will lease thousands of acres of land
in the Yakima valley withdrawn from
public entry because of reclamation
needs but still not covered by any can
als yet constructed. The land will be
leased for dry farming and grazing
purposes, according to an announce
ment just made by Project Manager R.
K. Tiffany.
Sealed proposals will be received at
the office of the reclamation service
here until 9 a. m. December 28, 1917.
The land to be leased lies in the , Pa-
louse, Kittitas and Yakima projects.
The successful bidders must enter into
contract with the government for a
lease of the lands to extend till the end
of the calendar year 1921, and no bid
of less than 7 cents an acre will be
accepted. The rental payment each
year will be based on the amount of
land taken and the purpose for which
it issued.
Farmers to Make Cheese.
Carlton, Ore. At a meeting of the
stock holders of the Farmers' Cream
ery company it was decided by unani
mous vote to put in the necessary ma
chinery for the manufacture of cottage
cheese.
The high prices being paid for milk
by the condensors have made the sup
ply of cream for the creamery.
In taking up the manufacture of cot
tage cheese the company will buy the
whole milk and separate it, using the
cream for butter and the skim milk
for cheese. In this way they will be
able to compete with the condensors in
price and assure a good supply of but
terfat for the making of butter. It is
expected to have the plant in operation
by December 15.
Farmers Form New Council.
Kelso The Cowlitz county argicul
tural council was organized at a meet
ing here Saturday. Leander Mar
tin, of Sandy Bend, was chosen presi
dent; George Smith, of Castle Rock,
vice president, and Charles Marsh of
Kelso, secretary. This council will
assist the county agent in solving the
farm problems. Five committees were
appointed at the meeting to take up
various problems. R. B. Coglon,
leader of county agent work for the
state, and- Asher Hobson, director of
farm markets, attended the sessions.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
Wheat Bulk basis for No. 1 grade :
Hard white Bluestem, Early Bart,
Allen, Galgalus, Martin Amber, $2.05.
Soft white Palouse Bluestem, forty
fold, White valley, Gold Coin, White
Russian, $2.03. White Club Little
club, Jenkins club, white hybrids, So-
nora, $2.01. Red Walla Walla Red
Russian, red hybrids, Jones fife, Cop
pei, $1.98. No. 2 grades, 3c less. No,
3 grade, 6c less. Other grades handled
by sample.
Flour Patents, $10.
Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $33
per ton; shorts, $36; middlings, $44;
rolled barley, $5759; rolled oats, $59.
Corn Whole, $84 ton; cracked, $85.
Hay Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land: Eastern Oregon timothy, $27
per ton; valley timothy, $2526; al
falfa, $24; valley grain hay, $24;
clover, $22; straw, $8.
Butter Cubes, extras, 4444Jc per
pound; prime firsts, 42 Jc. Jobbing
prices: Prints extras, 4548c; car
tons, lc extra; butterfat, No. 1, 52
53c delivered.
Eggs Fresh ranch, current receipts,
4850c per dozen; candled, 5253c;
selects, 5556c.
Poultry Hens, large, 1819c per
pound; small, 17c; springs, 1718c;
ducks, 1720c; geese, 1214c; tur
keys, live, 2022c; dressed, choice,
2728c.
Veal Fancy, 1515cJ per pound.
Pork Fancy, 18J19c per pound.
Vegetables Tomatoes, $12.10 per
crate; cabbage, 221c per pound; let
tuce, $1.752.50 per crate; cucum
bers, $1.351.75 per dozen; peppers,
1517Jc per pound; cauliflower, $2.25
2.50 per crate; sprouts, 10llc per
pound; artichokes, $11.10; garlic, 7
8Jc; squash, ljc; pumpkins, Uc;
celery, $4.25 per crate; carrots, $1.25
per sack; beets, $1.50 1.75; turnips,
$1.50; parsnips, $1.75.
Potatoes Oregon, $1.401.75 per
hundred; Yakima, J1.751.85; sweets,
3J32c.
Green Fruits Apples, $12.25 per
box; pears, $1.502.25; grapes, 67c
per pound; casabas, 21c; cranberries,
$14.5015.50 per barrel.
Wool Extra fine, 5060c pound;
coarse, 55 60c; valley, 5560c; mo
hair, long staple, 65c.
December 11, 1917.
Cattle
Med. to choice steers. . . .$ 9.00 9.65
Good to med. Bteers 8.25 9.15
Com. to good steers 6.75 7.90
Choica cows and heifers. 6.65 7.50
Com. to good cows and hf 5.15 7.00
Canners 3.00 5.25
Bulls. 4.50 6.75
Calves 7.00 9.50
Stackers and feeders 4.25 7.85
Hogs
Prime light hogs $15.8516.00
Prime heavy hogs 15.8516.00
Pigs 13.7515.00
Bulk 16.00
Sheep
Western lambs $13.0013.50
Valley lambs 12.5013.00
Yearlings 12.00 12. 50
Wethers 11.7512.25
Ewes 8. 00 10. 00
U. S. DESTROYER IS
SUBMARINE VICTIM
Jacob Jones Torpedoed in War
Zone Last Thursday.
76 LIVES ARE LOST
First American Warship Sunk by Diver
Commanded by Brother-in-Law
of Secretary Daniels.
Washington, D. C. Three officers
and 73 men were believed Saturday
night to have gone down with th
American destroyer Jacob Jones, tor
pedoed and sunk in the war zone by a
German submarine at 8 o'clock Thurs
day night.
Vice Admiral Sims up to a late hour
had been able to supply only meager
details in reply to urgent messages
from Secretary Danels, whose brother-in-law,
Lieutenant-Cosmmander David
W. Bagley, commanded the lost vessel
and was reported among the missing.
Commander Bagley was a brother of
Ensign Bagley, the first man killed in
the Spanish-American war.
Three officers and 34 men were
picked up by other vessels from life
rafts to which they clung, but the
names of only 10 of these had been
transmitted to Washington.
The Jacob Jones, one of the largest
and newest American submarine chas
ers of the type operating in the At
lantic, was the first American warship
to fall a victim to a German subma
rine, but was the second American de
stroyer to be lost in foreign waters.
The Chauncey sunk with her com
mander, Lieutenant Walter E. Reno,
two other officers and 18 enlisted men,
after being cut in two by the trans
port Rose early on the morning of No
vember 20.
The namo of Boyd Martell Hamp, of
Cashmere, Wash., appears in the list
of enlisted men on the destroyer.
Hamp enlisted as an electrician.
Sims' terse message reporting the
loss of the Jacob Jones did not state
how the attack was made. It is
known, however, that the Jones was
on patrol duty between 400 and 600
miles off shore. What vessels accom
panied her was not revealed, but Ad
miral Sims' report showed that one
vessel rescued 30 men and another
seven. They sent this information by
radio and it was immediately trans
mitted to Washington.
RELIEF OF 20,000 UNDER WAY
Halifax Survivors Set to Work Aiding
Destitute Inhabitants.
Halifax, N. S. Halifax has ceased
to number its dead and is directing its
energies to the aid of the living.
The total lives lost as a consequence
of the explosion on the French ammu
nition ship Mont Blanc Thursday may
never be known, but for the moment
the number is of secondary importance.
Four thousand persons were killed
according to estimates by officials.
This estimate, higher than any here
tofore, was made after a survey of the
devasted district of Richmond, where
acres of debris probably will not be ,
cleared for a month.
But the outstanding fact that has
been faced by the local authorities,
with a courage that challenges the ad
miration of their kinsmen from the
south of the border, is that 20,000 per
sons are destitute and of the number
perhaps one out of seven is suffering
from injuries which in many cases are
bound to prove fatal.
The work of organizing the various
relief units into a workable whole,
with a fgeneral direction that would
avoid duplication of effort and tend to
greatest efficiency was well under way.
Federal, provincial and Red Cross
aid, supplemented by volunteer units
from other cities and the United
States, were being utilized to the best
advantage.
The Massachusetts relief train,
which had been stalled in snow drifts
near the Nova Scotian border, arrived
Sunday, bringing the first contingent
of physicians, nurses and supplies. It
was the first of several trains en route
from the American side.
Mormon Temple Damaged.
Salt Lake City A mysterious fire
which broke out Friday morning in
the Logan, Utah, temple of the Mor
mon church, caused a loss of more
than $250,000, according to a report
received at the headquarters of the
church here. Full information as to
the origin and complete extent of the
fire was unavailable.
The entire interior of the temple
was destroyed. The structure, which
was one of the largest and best-built
temples of the Mormons, was com
pleted in 1884 at a costjof $700,000.
Packing Plant Men Quit.
Tacoma, Wash. All union employes
except the engineers walked out at the
Carstens Packing company plant Sat
urday in sympathy with the striking
meat-cutters.
The engineers remained on duty as
a patriotic service, so that freshly
killed meat in the cooling rooms would
not spoil. They will also walk out
when the meat supply on hand is ex
hausted or if nonunion meat-cutters
are employed, it is said.