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WORLD'S DOINGS Of CURRLNT WEEK GERMAN RAIDER MAKES HOME PORE WITH BOOTY AND PRISONERS DRASTIC MILITARY Bill INTRODUCED PRESIDENT CARS EOR SHOWDOWN ON GERMAN SUBMARINE ISSUE 3130 UVES I® ON FRENCH 0 Washintgon, D. C .-President Wil- j Berlin—The German cruiser Moewe son decided Wednesday that he cannot proceed with the German submarine arrived Monday in a German port negotiations while dissention in con- j (said to be Wilhelmshaven), according gress weakens his position before the to an official announcement made here. world, so he called for a showdown on She had on board 199 prisoners and the pending proposals to warn Amen- j 1,000,000 marks in gold bars. The cans off merchant ships of the Euro- j pean belligerents armed for defense. statement follows: Making clear that he considers the | “ The naval general staff says that President, and not congress, is charged , H. M. S. Moewe, Commander Captain with the conduct of the foreign rela- j Burgrave Count von Dohna-Scholdien, tions of the United States, he wrote a after a successful cruise lasting sev letter to Representative Pou, acting! chairman of the house rules commit - 1 eral months, arrived at some home port |tee, asking him to provide parliamen-: Ordinary Capacity of Vessel with four British officers, 29 British marines and sailors, 166 men of crews Army and National Guard Virtually tary means for bringing the agitation I out into the open on the floor of the Live News Items of All Nations and of enemy steamers, among them 103 Exceeded on Account of I Doubled in Strength— New In house, for full discussion and vote. Indians, as prisoners, and 1,000,000 Pacific Northwest Condensed The President’s letter to Mr. Pou, Voyage— Mostly Soldiers. marks in gold bars. ducements for Recruits. the signal that the administration was “ The vessel captured the following for Our Busy Readers. ready to give Germany a demonstra enemy vessels, the greater part of tion of unity, follows; which were sunk, and a small part of Paris — It was announced “ My Dear Mr. Pou ¡—Inasmuch as I which were sent as prizes to neutral Washington, D. C.—The first of the French ministry of marine national preparedness measures to learn that Mr. Henry, the chairman of Aberdeen, Wash., is about to begin ports. that there were nearly 4000 r “ The British steamers Corbridge, reach either house of congress for con work on a $400,000 water system. board the French auxiliary 3647 tons; Author, 3496 tons; Trader, sideration was introduced in the senate W IL L IA M T H A W The government of India has im 3608 tons; Ariadne, 3035 tons; P r°- Saturday by Senator Chamberlain, ; Provence when she was sunk posed an export duty on grain bags. monby, 3627 tons; Farringford, 3146 chairman of the military committee, Mediterranean on February 26. General Argumedo, a Mexican rebel tons; Clan Mactavish, 5816 tons; Ap- which perfected it after weeks of It was said that on board tin leader, has been executed by Carranza. pam, 7781 tons; Westburn, 3300 tons; hearings and conferences. It proposes j vence were the staff of the Third - 4629 ; Horace, 3335 tons; Flamenco, an even more sweeping change in mili The United States National bank ( 1 nial Infantry regiment, the Third; tary policy than that outlined by Pres- I will build a $250,000 bank building in j tons; Saxon Prince, 3471 tons. talion, the Second company <( British sailing vessel Edinburgh, ident Wilson in his annual message, Portland. First battalion, the Second] and w-as described by Mr. Chamberlain ¡1473 tons. Gun company, and one extra Portland’s new city directory, which “ French steamer Maroni, 3109 tons. as the most comprehensive piece of As the ministry of marine, i will be issued next week, will report a “ Belgian steamer Luxembourg, military legislation ever offered in ruary 29, announced that the population for the city of approxi 4322 tons. congress. of survivors of the Provence ( mately 281,000. * “ At several points on enemy coast All of the elementary administration was estimated at 870, it is in The secretary of the California state the Moewe also laid mines, to which, army plans prepared by ex-Secretary that upwards of 3130 lives board of health declares spring fever among others, the battleship King Ed- Garrison are retained, although in al- j This great number of cn j tered form, and additional proposals is not a disease, but a perfectly nor ward VII fell victim. makes the disaster the greatest o Count von Dohna-Scholdien, com-! for organization of industrial reserves mal and natural feeling. sea in modern times. Up to the mander of the Moewe, has received in peace times go even further than Secretary Daniels predicts full vin-, the iron cross of the first class, and the administration had suggested. ent time the largest number of dication of the Navy department in the members of the crew have receiv ever lost in one wreck was whet The house committee’s bill was buying armor plants, etc., when the ed the iron cross of the second class. introduced Monday. There is no vital White Star liner Titanic struck u true facts become known. Count von Dohna has been ordered to difference between the two measures berg off the Newfoundland April 14, 1912, and sank with Six homeless boys less than 6 years report to headquarters for a personal and members of both committees be loss of 1595. The rescued nun of age and of varying nationalities are interview with the emperor. lieve that when the final bill, which 743. to be adopted by Mrs. Bessie Fuller, will be agreed on in joint conference The vessel, however, when of South Porcupine, Ontario, Canada, committee, has passed both houses, as a sociological experiment. trans-Atlantic service, could the President will be able to afix his 1960 persons, including the ere«, signature to a measure that will do The discovery of a small comet by more than he has asked toward build it has been presumed that as she Neujmin was announced in a cable transporting troops between ing up an adequate National defense. gram to the Harvard observatory from Washington, D. C. — If the Cham Aside from its plan virtually to far apart, she was carrying a ic Professor Backlund, of the Imperial berlain bill is made the the basis of double the Army and National guard, of men larger than her normal observatory at Pulkowa, Russia. congressional legislation, looking to the senate bill has four striking fea city. _______________ A Bucharest dispatch receiveed in the disposal of the unsold portion of tures. One of these authorizes Feder London by Reuter’s Telegram company the Oregon & California land grant, al volunteer forces in peace times, the by way of Amsterdam says that the one important provision, that prescrib- object sought by Secretary Garrison William Thaw, an American aviator Queen Mother, Elizabeth, of Rou- j ing the manner of disposing of the with his continental army plan. An mania, (Carmen Sylva), died Friday net revenues from the sale of timE>er other mobilizes all whose callings fit in the service of France, whc lias beon lands, will be radically amended, if not them for special duty. morning. The third promoted for -ood work. altogether eliminated. Federalizes the National guard and, A Stockholm dispatch to the London As the bill now stands, the receipts the fourth contemplates training offi-! the committee on rules, is absent in Morning Post says that, according to a message from Karlskrona, Sweden, a from the sale of timber lands, after cers from among graduates of military ! Texas, I take the liberty of calling your attention, as ranking member of whole mine Held of several hundred | paying the railroad company what schools and colleges. Washington, D. C.—By a vote For the regular Army the bill pro the committee, to a matter of grave to 14 the senate Friday carried mines is drifting from the North, hav further amounts may be found due, will go into a special fund, of which vides a peace strength within five concern to the country, which can, I ing presumably been set adrift by the 40 per cent will go to the state of Ore years of 178,000 men of all arms, or believe, be handled, under the rules of President Wilson’s wish and ice and wind. Senator Gore’s resolution to gon for school purposes, 40 per cent the United States congress, only by Americans off armed bellig Fred G. Buskuhl, of Friend, Oregon, will go to the land grant counties, and approximately 165,000 fighting troops. i that committee. percentage of men in each com ships. has just received the bronze medal the remaining 20 per cent to the Fed The pany, battery or troop at peace “ The report that there are divided In a turbulent scene, such as ii awarded to him by the Carnegie hero eral government. strength would be increased in the in counsels in congress in regard to the | fund commission for attempting to While the public land committees of terests of efficiency, and the full war foreign policy of the government is \ dom witnessed in the senate, save the life of Joseph I. Tarke at the senate and house have not yet proceeded, with senators shouting The being made industrious use of in for-1 jections, futilely demanding Friend, August 3, 1912. The commis formulated their reports, it has be strength would be 225,000 men. sion also awarded $1000 to Mr. Bus come quite evident that there will be Amy would consist of 65 infantry, 25 eign capitals. I believe th at report to tion to explain their positions cavalry and 21 field artillery regiments be false, but so long as it is anywhere kuhl. strong opposition to turning over 80 in addition to the staff and other spe credited it cannot fail to do the great- making hot retorts to each other, Five million bushels of May wheat l>er cent of the net receipts to Oregon cial corps and coast artillery. ! est harm and expose the country to of which were out of order. At one time so many senators have been bought by milling interests and the counties, and this provision | i the most serious risks. I therefore shouting for the vice president’s? in the last week as prices tumbled, will be less favorably received by the feel justified in asking th at your com nition that the sergeant-at-arms senate and house than by the commit according to estimates of Minnea|M>lis mittee will permit me to urge an early chamber of commerce traders. This, tees which have the subject in hand. vote upon the resolutions with regard called to restore quiet. After having maneuvered for they say. would represent sales of one And especially will this provision be to travel on armed merchantmen, million barrels of flour. Most of this assailed when it is generally known which have recently been so much days to get the resolution in such product is said to he for Eastern that the government estimates the j New York—Colonel E. M. House, talked about, in order that there may liamentary position th at it was timber to be worth upwards of $50,- who sailed for Europe December 28 be afforded an immediate opportunity posed of without debate, the bakers. 000 , 000 . on a confidential mission for President for full public discussion and action j then proceeded to a general dis. Two men with a large "ro ll” of Regardless of the reasons back of Wilson, arrived here Sunday on the upon them, and that all doubts and of the subject, which continued counterfeit Federal Reserve bank bills it, the idea is strong among Eastern ternoon, to the dismay of admin are operating in Portland, and a third and Southern men in congress that the steamship Rotterdam from Falmouth. conjectures may be swept away and tion supporters. There were free Colonel House declined to comment our foreign relations once more member of the gang is supposed to be lands of the West belong to the entire pressions of opinion that the working in conjunction with the others country, and there is a decided oppo on his mission or what he had seen or cleared of damaging misunderstand action, because the vote actually done while abroad, reiterating the ings. disguised as a plainclothes officer. The sition to any legislation which con “ The matter is of so grave impor taken on a motion to table the duty of the thin! man appears to E h ? to cedes that the Western states have a statement he had made prior to leav ing here in December, that his mis tance and lies so clearly within the resolution, with a correction by disarm the suspicion of the victims by greater interest in lands within their sion was to convey to some of the field of executive initiative th at I ven author and a substittue by SenIM vouching for his accomplices. borders than do states 3000 miles American ambassadors information ture to hope that your committee will Cumber, was in effect a “ Scotch Crowded galleries that gathered to away. having to do with international ques not think that I am taking unwarrant diet,” and had not actually ac hear the international situation dis- tions that could not be supplied them ed liberty in making this suggestion as ed the purpose of the President cuased saw the house take its annual by cable or letter. Such statements aroused the to the business of the house, and I vote, this time 150 to 46, not to reduce Asked if he had noticed any marked very earnestly commend it to their im dent’s friends, who feared they members' mileage from 20 to 5 centa a change in the attitude of Europe to mediate consideration. Cordially and produce an effect exactly oppoa» mile. The defeat of the motion was that intended. It was intend ward the United States since his prev sincerely yours, preceded by a lively debate, in which give notice to the world that the ious trip. Colonel House said: “ WOODROW W’lLSON.” Washington, D. C. — The United the 20-cent mileage was denounced as ate stands behind the President i> “ Reports of an unfavorable attitude State« ia preparing to make formal graft and defended as a just allowance. demands on Germany for the demands upon Austria-Hungary as a toward the United States by the peo Americans traveling the seas. Secretary Daniels ia opposed to lo result of the attack by an Austrian ple of Europe are exaggerated. At In the house, however, the cating a naval base at the mouth of submarine upon the American tank least, I heard no criticism in any of affairs committee, by a vote of $ the Columbia river. steamer Petrol it e. A note on the sub the countries I visited. I will say al so that we should remember that the 2, took a longer step toward The momentous battle between the ject will be dispatched within the next people of the belligerent nations are fully the President’s wishes. It - few days. New York—An estimate that ap French and Germans before Verdun It is said authoritatively that the living with their nerves on edge and proximately 30,000 corporations will to report the McLemore warning < continues with practically no gain for United States would stand by its orig we should make allowances according pay income taxes this year in the Sec lution, with the recomemndation either side. _______________ inal contentions and ask an apology ly.” ond internal revenue district of this it be tabled. In the report the The Russian steamship Petshenga for the attack, punishment of the sub city, was made by Collector Lowe. mittee asserts that the constitution has been sunk. Fifteen of those on marine commander and reparation for Collector Lowe’s district takes in posed the conduct of diplomatic latard were saved. She was of 1647 damage done to the vessel and injuries the lower part of Manhattan, in which tiations on the President, and gross tons. Seven of the Petshenga's inflicted on a member of the crew. are situated the main officers of many this practice the committee do*8 crew were lost. In reply to the first American com of the country’s greatest corporations, feel it proper for the house of P aria- Fighting of great violence bankers and financiers. The total col senattivea to in terfere.” Great Britain will permit shipment munication Austria informed the State to the United States of a cargo of dye department that its version of the continues at Douaumont, in the Ver lections this year in this district from $ 5 0 0 0 Worth o f L i q u o r T a W - affair was that the submarine com dun region, the war office announced all forms of Federal taxes, Mr. Lowe stuffs valued at $5,000,000. mander thought the Petrolite an Sunday. The Germans made a heavy predicted, will exceed $35,000,000. Seattle—Deputy sheriffs raided Only three co-eds out of 23 at the enemy ship, disguised with the Amer last year amounted to $’6 - home of P. E. Sullivan, who University of Oregon have good feet. ican flag; that he fired on the vessel attack against the French front along Collections ’ a large cafe at Fourth avenue and i the line from the Haudremont wood to 000 , 000 . None have a perfect toe-line. because he believed it was about to Douaumont fort. street before the prohibition la* - This assault, the General Felix Dial, who has been ram his ship, and that the commander statement says, was repulsed. Chicago- The Federal income tax into effect January 1, and seized in the United States for several of the Petrolite voluntarily furnished It is announced semi-officially that wdl be paid by 4000 more Chicagoans cases of intoxicating liquors ot her ■ months, and under surveillance of the provisions when asked to do so. the battle at Verdun continued Sunday this year than last, according to the beer, and said to be worth $5000.^ department of Justice, has succeeded The Slate department since has se throughout the day with the same in-1 prediction of Collector Smietanka. liquor, it was said, had been in leaving for Cuba, where, it ia re cured information from the captain tenaity and without causing any th7 » * nd citizens of Chicago to Mr. Sullivan’s home from the ported, he will form plana for another and crew of the Petrolite directly con paid the tax last year. They contrih- when the prohibition law ***".', change in the respective positions of revolution in Mexico. tradictory to the Austrian version. the opposing armies. g ^ d3j*;-407-591 corporations $2,- effect. Under the law it is ¡11*$* 1 possess over two quarts of liq®*’ Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. Senate Measure Stronger Than Administration Had Asked. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHB1 GARRISON PLAN PRACTICALLY RETAINED Mediterranean Lead in Fatalities at 4000 ON BOARD; ONLY 87) S tM East Wants Slice of Oregon & California Land Grant Profits SENATE PRESIDENT’S ST/ Colonel House Is Bock from European War Zone U. S. Will Mdke Demands On Austria in PetroEite Case Total Tax from Incomes Show Marked Increase Germans Renew Attack on Verdun With No Gains