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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1916)
GREAT INFLUX OF GOLD PROMOIES ON 2 5 0 0 CLASH NOT FEARED WORLD’S DOINGS BIDS CARS ARE BV CAUED ONION FOR PAQFK RAILROAD IXIRAVAGANCI BY AMERICAN PiOPlf BREAK IN BUYING STOPS WHEAT RISE OF CURRENT WEEK OVER FRENCH ACT Chicago —There is a marked cent rant Portland—The Union Pacific system between the tendency of the American Tuesday called for bids on 1000 auto l>eople and those of the Old World at mobile cars and 1500 box cars, requir this time in the m atter of thrift. In ing nearly 15.000.0tH) feet of lumber. America business has been active specifications require that all Seizure of Chinese Territory Does Not and profits in many instances so Urge Chdflge in British Plans Relieves Panic Brief Resume of General News the The lumber that the American people appear to be be purchased from mills in Among American Bakers. Alarm Washington. s|>ending money in a reckless manner Union Pacific territory — Oregon, From All Around the Earth. Washington and Idaho. and to be indulging in extravagances, which, a few years ago, would have It is probable that Twohy Brothers, 8|>elled ruin. of Portland, will bid on this contract The whole world is sen d in g money as they are equipped to build cars in LOCALITY IS MOST ROMANTIC recklessly, but across the Atlantic the COMMANDEER CANADIAN CROP UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NIITSHEU their East Side plant and have been ex|MMuiitures are confined chiefly to eager to enter this field of activity for governmental agencies, while the |>eo- several months. ple are paying the bills. It is this Tien-Tsin, With Practically no Trade, supply of money that has forced in Corn Becomes Big Sensation Cash Judge R. S. Lovett, chairman of the Uve News Items of Ail Nations and Union Pacific, will be in Portland this vestors to dig deep into their strong week and is expected to give some at Develops Tremendously Under boxes and bring forth certificates of Bids Reach $1 Per Bushel— Pacific Northwest Condensed tention to the prospects of successful American investment-bearing dates of Argentine Drouth Cause. Influence of Foreigners. car building here. When questioned for Our Busy Readers. a quarter century or more ago. about it at his office in New York a The tremendous influx of gold into few weeks ago Judge Lovett declared this country, following the enormous Chicago.—While Decent bo r wheat other things being equal, he W ashington, D. C. — Seizure by in ju rin g of foreign trade, together was surging up to $1.71'A Saturday on The wholesale price of flour is now that, would prefer French troops of an additional square with the inability of the American the Chicago Hoard of Trail« and the quoted in Portland at $7.80 a barrel. the Coast. to have the cars built on > mile of territory contiguous to the bakers woro considering “sevencent Twenty-four Indians of the Coeur The advantages of building cars French concessions in Tien-tsin, in de bread or failure,’’ the British govern Three New Generals. d ’Alene district have qualified to be convenient to the place where the lum ment took action which. It Is believed, fiance of the Chinese foreign office, ber is produced are obvious. The come U. S. citizens. will have a bearish effect. Eastern builders must pay freight on just reported in cable dispatches from It notified the Raymond Pynchon Roumanians lose Constanza, an mi the raw lumber that goes into the cars Pekin, brings to the front one of the company, stock brokers, with offices portant port on the Black Sea, to the even when it is carried by the railroad In London and Chicago, to accept no most complicated and most romantic Germans and Austrians. more buying orders of grain or wheat that buys them. In the United States, and It comman points of conflict between old China Seattle proposes to take over the deered all tho wheat now stored In and the W estern world. power plants of the Puget Sound Trac Canada ami In transit from Canada Trap Set by Villa; Vanguard of tion company, at an estim ated cost of Officials here indicated Monday that which 1s owned by British grain men. $ 10 , 000 , 000 . Only about 25 per cent of the Canadi Pursuing Carranza force Ambushed as an international affair little import an crop of last year Is In tho hands ance was attached to France’s action. William G. Sharp, American am of the farmers, It Is said. Tien-stin, back in the dayH when bassador to France, sailed on the Paso, Tex. — Francisco Villa led foreign ambassadors sought admission W heat for the second time threat American line steam ship St. Paul, ac the El Carranza ened to reach the merit <>f $i IS set in under General to China in vain, merely was a small, companied by his family, to return to Carlos Ozuna vanguard '»8 when "Joe” le tte r cornered tho into an ambush between town, with practically no trade. his post. m arket With the exception of that Santa Ysabel and San Andres, on the dirty In 1860, after the British and figure. It Is said to bo tho highest Viscount Grey, secretary of Eng- western division of the Mexican North French had forced their way over the price since tho Civil War. December land’s foreign affairs, says allies won’t western railway Friday, a report re Taku forts and humbled the Manchus wheat ranged from $1.69% to $171V4. talk peace, but declares objects of this ; ceived by Mexican government agents at Pekin, the right of residence was and reached tho high price tnsldo flvo w ar must be realized, as a guarantee here said. minutes, though later It fell to $1.70%. granted to the subjects of the two of international peace of the future. According to this report, which was countries. May wheat opened around $1.69% and sold up to »1.71% and th'*u dropped Spontaneous combustion caused the obtained by secret service agents for The United States, an interested on to $1.70%. If the bull movement does the Federal government, Villa retreat- looker, won the same right soon after explosion of a 20,000-gallon tank of ed not stop, the bread m akers say. It from a position outside of San gasoline at the plant of the California Andres, 40 miles on the railroad west ward, and Germany entered into the means "Seven cents a leaf or fall.’’ Food Products company at San Pedro, of Chihuahua City toward San Andres. arrangem ent in 1861. Separate sec The big sensation on tho board, which was partially destroyed by the This led the Carranza vanguard into tions for the four nationalities were however, was In corn, which advanced fire which followed. set aside and small local centers of from 2% to 5 cents a bushel. W eather | the trap which Villa is said to have j residence conditions were blamed for tho corn trade grew up. In a The U. S. Supreme Court refused to get for them, the government report few years, and however, advance. The Storm that fell upon the American review the conviction of the three said. The bandits, who were hidden government abandoned its Chicago extended generally over the settlem ent, officials of the W estern Fuel company, ¡n the rocky defiles along the railroad, first, because it had no use for it, and corn belt, delaying harvesting and of San Francisco, who were convicted j poured a heavy fire into the Carranza - no money to pay for it, and, second, damaging the grain. Cash corn sold at $1 a bushel for of defrauding the government by false troops from behind rocks. The same because, under the conditions it had No. 2 yellow, equaling the high price weighing of dutiable coal. The men source of information claims to have become known as the “ middle king reached In 1892. will now have tc serve their respective I confirmation of the report th at the dom” between the German and British A world of wheat was sold on the prison term s. j Carranza troops then retired to Santa concessions, where all sorts of lawless advance by longs, who had profits, but Ysabel, thence to Palomas, and are in A w reath of flowers entwined with the buying was even greater. The prevailed. the first station west of Chi ness seriousness of tho world shortage In an American flag was dropped from a Fresno, Tien-tsin grew fast, and construction City. wheat is daily becoming more potent height of 1400 feet by Johnny Green, huahua of the railroad in 1897 made Tien-tsin Carranza officials here admit that the prem ier city of that whole vast and tho situation more aggravated by an aviator, on the cemetery at Rome. there the unfavorable weather In Argentina. has been heavy fighting between section. In 1900 came the boxer re Ga., in which Mrs. Ellen Wilson, wife Crop advices from the latter couutry of the President, is buried. The Santa Ysabe! and Chihuahua City, but bellion, when Tientsin became the base were more alarm ing as drought con Gonzales, in Juarez, insists for, the march of the nation on the wreath was placed on Mrs. Wilson’s 1 General tinues. Wet weather and freezing that he has received no details of the grave as Rome’s tribute to her mem fighting. The report that General capital. tem peratures have combined to delay ory. • Japan secured a settlem ent the threshing and movement of wheat Ozuna had been killed is receiving in In the 1894 In the spring wheat country. city, and after 1900, Russia, Private Charles Callahan, of the credence here in official circles With this prospect ahead of them, Belgium, Italy and Austria obtained headquarters company of the Fifth Chicago bakers, having failed to get concessions on the left bank of the riv Ohio Infantry, stationed at El Paso, an audience with President Wilson er, m aking nine foreign nations hold Baseball Training Wins War Honors. Tex., received a leave of absence in when ho wns in Chicago, prepared to ing and adm inistering small sliceB of which to journey to D etroit to take appeal to their congressmen for ac possession of a fortune estim ated at Boston—“ Bill” O’Hara, once a star territory. tion. An embargo, or at least regula tion of export of wheat to tho warring $350,000, willed by his aunt, Mrs. left fielder of the Toronto International nations of Europe, according to B. H. Mary Callahan, who died in Detroit league team and a form er scout for German Airman Shot Down in Dahlheltnor, president of the Master recently. ; the New York National league club, Bakers’ association. Is tho most effec Sunday Raid on British Coast The Austrian premier, Count has been recommended for the m ilitary tive solution of the bread situation. Stuergkh, who was assassinated while cross in recognition of his bravery and at dinner Sunday in Vienna, by Lud skill in hurling bombs for the British London — A hostile aeroplane aj>- British Seize Neutral Steamer in w ig Adler, publisher, was shot three army on the Somme battle front, ac- Sunday over the fortified sea tim es. Count Stuergkh was dining at | cording to advices received here from l>eared port of Sheerness, at the mouth of the Neutral Waters and Remove Mail a hotel when the publisher attacked h '8 home in Toronto, Four bombs were dropped. him. Three shots were fired, all of When O’Hara played in the Inter Thames. No casualties have been rejx>rted offi which took effect, the prem ier dying national league he was noted ior his cially. W ashington, 1). C. — The Dutch i accurate throwing and strength, An official communication issued steam er /.rakan, bound from a Dutch instantly. a lieutenant in a Canadian here says: port In Borneo to Manila, wan hold up Samuel Hill declares before a San ^ i O’Hara, on high seas August 30 by a Brit regim ent at the front, is now hurling “ A hostile seaplane was shot down Generals Francis H. French, Chas. ish the Francisco audience, th at Washington, deadly bombs instead of baseballs. war vessel and all her mail was and destroyed Sunday afternoon by one Oregon and California should petition taken off, according to advices reach G. Treat, Kben Swift. of our naval aircraft. The machine ing Washington. No official explana the government to build a highway The American army, which has the Coffee Thefts Extensive, tion has reached tho stato departm ent, fell into the sea. Judging by the time, along the oceanfront in these states, San Salvador, Republic of Salvador it probably was the seaplane which best educated officers in the world and an Inquiry may bo mado as to why which could be used in tim e of w ar to —Two arrests have (with the possible ecxeption of the been made in con visited Sheerness Sunday.” a neutral vessel, bound from one neu carry m aterials necessary to the pro nection with the theft of coffee ship- The following official accouut of the German arm y), now has three new tral port to another and far removed tection of the coast, or in peace tim es tied from San Salvador, generals. Colonel Francis 1!. French from the war zone, was subm itted to disclosed attack was given out: for the benefit of pleasure seekers, or through complaints made by American of the Twenty-first infantry, has been such treatm ent. “ A hostile aeroplane approached promoted for other legitim ate purposes. and will succeed General Great Britain some tim e ago ex m erchants that 10 pounds of coffee Sheerness about 1:45 p. m. Sunday, Granger Adams as chairman of the tended her censorship to vessels ply A fter killing Sheriff Stier, of Queens were m issing from each of many bags flying very at high. Four bombs were ing In the Far East, but so far as Is board to investigate rapid-fire guns, of known county, New York, with a shotgun, consigned to them. dropped, three of which fell into the before has seized mall and keeping at bay a posse of police The value of the coffee stolen ap- ¡ harbor. The fourth fell in the vicin which the United States will purchase outside never British waters or on such a Colonel Elicn short local and deputy sheriffs who had surround proxi mates 300,000 pesos, The inves- ity of a railway station and damaged $12,000,000 worth. Several Instances Swift, stationed at the army service of seizures voyage. ed his home, Frank Taft, 65 years of tigation, which began a month ago, several railway carriages. In Far Eastern waters, In school at Fort Leavenworth, will suc age, was shot and instantly killed by has not yet concluded. cluding the Chinese Prlnco and tho “ British aeroplanes went up and the ceed General John J. Pershing, who Kafue cases, provoked such opposition one of the besiegers. T aft shot Stier, raider made off in a northeasterly di becomes major general in succession to here that the British foreign office who served him with a w arrant after Zeppelin S tirs Dutch Ire. No casualties have been re the late Major Albret L. Mills. Col finally made informal expressions of he had been adjudged in contempt of Amsterdam—Dutch newspapers are rection. onel Charles G. Treat, of the field ar regret and agreed to change the policy. court for failing to appear as a w it indignant over the report by the Han- ported.” tillery, will become a brigadier to suc ness. delsblad th at on Sunday a Zeppelin Sheriff Sent to Jail. General F. W. Sibley, retired. 300 Cara to Be Built. Chief of Police W hite of San F ran dropped a bomb near Gorkum (Gorini- Columbus, O. — Sheriff Alonzo T. ceed He is now of the general staff and vice Tacoma, cisco has abolished the police detinue chem), 22 miles southeast of R otter Swepston, Wash.—Milwaukee railroad of Ross county, vice presi system, under which persons are ar dam. The Nieuws Van den Dag says: dent of the American Sheriffs’ associa president of the war college. officials here are awaiting tho order rested and held incommunicado with “ If German airship commanders had tion and president of the Ohio Sheriffs’ for building 300 freight cars at the banking and currency system to adjust out any charge being placed against not displayed supreme contempt for Tacoma shops. The order, It Is said, association, was sentenced to 40 days itself to these abnormal conditions, them. the protests of the Dutch government in the Delaware county jail by United has tended to make money cheap. already has been given In Chicago and S. A. Appold, a student aviator, who this deplorable incident, which only by States work Is expected to start hero within Judge John E. Sater here for Henry Baker, the special commer fell in a biplane near Los Angeles, lacked serious results, would perm itting federal prisoners in his cial attache of the American legation two weeks. died later in a hospital. His young accident much of tho material an possible custody to take long automobile rides at Petrograd, gives the information will As be wife saw him fall and helped take not have occurred.” purchased here. When tho and have other liberties. He * was^ re that little or no gold or silver is circu work Is well him from the tangled wreckage of his started t h . output from 225 New U-Boats Built. aeroplane. leased on $500 bond pending a hearing lating in Russia. the shops will be approximately ten Geneva, Switzerland — Prince von of the case on error. There is a tendency abroad, how cars dally. The German Order Pour Le Merite BuAlow, form er German imperial chan ever, to conserve resources, while the has been awarded Lieutenant Com cellor, recently World Crop Falls Short. informed a neutral Halifax to Hide In Dark. tendency in America is to be more m ander Arnauld De La Perriere, com m ander of the submarine U 35, for his newspaper th at since the beginning of Rome, via Paris—The total wheat lavish in expenditures. Halifax, N. 8.—All lights, except a achievem ents in sinking 126 vessels, the war Germany had constructed 225 harvest of the world is estim ated by There is an element of th rift among few shaded ones In the west and the totalling 370,000 tons. submarines, says a dispatch from the International Agricultural Insti the more conservative business men. north ends, have again been ordered off In the streets of this city tute as 7 per cent below the average Many large corporations have been turned The House of Commons has passed Constance. night and all blinds must be drawn, The German naval authorities, the and 26 per cent below that of last buying bonds as the means of employ at the second reading of the Rhodes es Prince to orders Just sent out from is reported to have added, are year. The institute’s report includes, ing their accumulations of profit rather according tate bill, which would exclude Ger m ilitary headquarters. paying more attention to submarines for the first time, the crop of Euro than allow these funds to remain in m ans henceforth from enjoying schol hether a visit from a trans-Atlan- arships at Oxford University under than to battleships, and Auatria- pean Russia, which it estim ates to be banks drawing the interest of the daily tlo W Zeppelin or an attack from the sea Hungary is doing likewise. th e Cecil Rhodes trust fund. 20 per cent less than th at of leet year. balance. Is feared la aot known. ho