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