GERMANY DENIES CZAR’S HIDDEN GUNS FOUND
DESIRE FOR WAR
Illegal Acts of Old Regime Investi
gated by New Government.
Kaiser Said to Have
to Attack United
London
A R e u te r’s Petrograd dis-
|>atch aaya th at a Hpeeial commission
I ihm begun an investigation of illegal
No Intent artM
com m itted by ex-m inisters, heads
of departm ents and other official* of
States.
the old regim e.
About 600 machine
gun* have been found hidden in differ
ent parts of Petrograd.
According to the Hourae G azette
I R asputin's body haa been buried near
Petrograd.
HOllWEG DELIVERS SET SPEECH
STATE NEW S 1
Financing and Feeding of Allies Two
IN BRIEF.
Most Important Problems.
WE MUST GROW MORE FOOD
,0|>erating revenues of the Portland
Gas & Coke company for a year were
$1,832,792.64, w ith op«'rating e x p o s e s
of $695,619.02, according to a report
filed w ith the Public Service commis
sion.
As a result of the great patriotic
celebration held in Dallas last Sunday,
Company L, Third Infantry, Oregon
National Guard, then only of a strength
of 30 enlisted men, went to Vancouver
112 strong.
Petrograd, via Iamdon The grand
W ith applications on hand for loans
Chanci-llor Maya If Claah Com«* Re dukea ami tiie royal princes, in a joint am ounting to $52,500 out of the rural
telegram addressed to the provisional
credits fund, the S tate Land board has
sponsibility Will Rest With Amer
governm ent Wednesday, not only for decided to advertise at once for the
mally
associate
them
selves
w
ith
the
ica I -Hoot W arfare Defended.
sale of $250,000 worth of 4 per cent
abdication of Grand Duke Michael, but rural credit bonds.
also turn over to the new governm ent
The first Oregon wool of the 1917
their official wealth, namely, th eir
Merlin ( Hy wireless to Sayville) holdings of crown lands and other clip to be shipped E ast went from
state g ran ts heretofore attaching to Echo Monday. It was purchased and
“ Germany never had the alighteat
sent by Thomas Koss, Echo wool
their station.
intention of attacking the United Statea
buyer, to the Crim mins & Pierce com
W ashington, D. C. • Conditions in pany, of Boston.
The price was not
of America and doea not fiave auch in
tention now.
It never deaired w ar Kuaaia were reported by Ambassador made public.
Francis Wednesday to be steadily im
Spence W ortm an, deputy sealer of
againat the United StateH of America
proving.
A pparently the acceptance
and doea not deaire it today,” waa the of the new governm ent by the grand weights and m easures, was informed
] by A ttorney General Brown recently
declaration made by the German Im- dukes announced in preaa dispatches
th at the enactm ent of the recent legis
|M-rial Chancellor, Dr. von Hcthmann- haa been accompanied by a more fa -1 lature requiring all gasoline containers
llollweg, in a apeech in the Keichatag vorable a ttitu d e on the part of the to be plainly marked with the word
radical elem ent, which for a tim e it “ gasoline” and the specific g rav ity of
Friday.
waa feared m ight s ta rt a counter-revo-!
The chancellor made imfrortant d e c -; lution against the m oderates in con- i the product so contained, applies to all
dealers, as well as to wholesalers.
larationa concerning G erm any's |adicy ! trol.
At a fu rth er conference in W ashing
Kejiorts to the departm ent are
toward the United Statea and Kuaaia.
steadily becoming fnore optim istic ton, I). C., w ith members of the Helm
“ How did theae thinga develop?” I about the future in Russia.
Naval commission Mayor Harley, of
asked fhe chancellor in speaking of
A storia, learned th a t the initial appro
priation of $300,000 to be recommend
the rclationa with the United Statea.
Old Regime Plots Begin
ed in the forthcom ing report is merely
He then proceeded to anawer the ques-
to Harass New Russia a forerunner of other appropriations to
tion by review ing the caae which led
be recommended later, fully to estab
up to th e German uae of subm arines in
Petrograd, via London—The work of lish and equip a subm arine and av ia
unreatricted w arfare.
Declaring th at agitators, whose efforts are designed tion base a t the mouth of the Columbia
Germany had undertaken unreatricted to hinder the successful accomplish River.
m ent of the revolution, is becoming
aubmarine w arfare for ita defense, Dr. ’ apparent with the subsidence of ac
Total deposits in the banks of the
von Itethm ann-iloliw cg said:
tiv ity on the p art of the m ilitary, state of Oregon on March 5, 1917,
“ If the American nation considers which forced the supporters of the old were $162,201,549.49, or an increase
of $35,561,469.51 over the am ount
this a cause for which to declare war regim e to keep in hiding during the shown in the report of March 7, 1916,
early days of the upheave).
against the German nation, with which
The indications of such work in P e t according to a statem en t issued by S.
it has lived in peace for more than 100 rograd, which are indefinite in form, G. Sargent, superintendent of banks.
years, if this action w arrants an in- ( are confused with the |>ossible designs The tim e and savings deposits during
crease of bloodshed, we shall not have
a horde of crim inal prisoners who this (>eriod increased $6,342,693.06 and
$552,-
, .
, i » *
,
_ ...... .
were released from the jails w ith po- the postal savings deposits
to bear the burden of responsibility for .... , _ ,
*
^
046.44.
r
litical offenders. One definite instance
It.'
has been recorded, however. Wednes
The sheriff of Baker county is hunt
day a m otorcar speeding along the ing for the slayer of Thomas Cavan
Tongs to lie Held for M urder.
stre e ts scattered proclam ations calling augh, a prom inent young rancher of
San Francisco—The county grand on the people to undertake wholesale the Brownlee d istrict, who was last
seen on March 12. W hile th ere is no
ju ry announced Friday night th a t it m assacre of the intelligent class.
The m ilitia is thoroughly alive to proof th a t he was murdered, a bloody
would take steps a t once to indict for
the danger of such counter m anifesta ! cabin and the fact th a t the rpissing
conspiracy or m urder the leaders of the tions and the commandant has issued man failed to keep an appointm ent
w arring Chinese tongs whose recent stric t orders for vigilance.
-- 1 w ith his cousin in W eiser, Idaho, has
activ ities have resulted in a numtier of
j convinced the au th o rities th a t he m et
deaths in different Pacific ('.oast cities.
Kaiser Offers Peace to Russia.
| w ith foul play.
As the result of an investigation it has
London- A dispatch to the Exchange
The Damascus Cream ery company
been decided th a t the killings were Telegraph from A m sterdam says:
and the Portland Pure Milk & Cream
carefully planned and carried out as
“ According to a Berlin telegram re company, of Portland, have combined
the result of a specific order.
ceived by the Am sterdam bourse, B er and have opened a cream ery at S heri
lin is filled w ith rum ors th at Germany dan.
They will commence m aking
ASTRONOM ICAL N O T ES , A P R IL, 1917 has offered a separate peace to Rusisa. b u tter a t once. Machinery has been
The term s offered are said to be com- ! ordered, C. H. Houser, who haa con
Compiled hy Prof. K. II McAlister. University of plete autonomy to Poland, the in te r ducted the Damascus station there, is
Ore «on
nationalization of Constantinople, the retained as m anager. If th is venture
The planet Mercury, always near evacuation by Russia of A ustrian te r proves successful a cheese factory will
the sun, will be in alaiut as g o o d |tnsi- ritory and a Russian protectorate over no doubt be established also soon.
tion for observation during April as Armenia. ”
Plans for a big co-operative cannery
it ever is. It will reach its g re a te st
in Albany were launched recently a t an
Villa
Again
A
ttacks
C
hihuahua
City.
angular distance east of the sun on the
Juarez, Mexioc— F igthing w'as re in stitu te attended by more than 300
24th, and it will then set about an
sumed
at Mapula, 20 m iles south of farm ers and fru itg ro w ers of th a t vi
hour and a half a fte r the sun. During
cinity. W. H. Paulham us, of Puyal
all the la tte r half of the month it may Chihuahua City Tuesday a t 4 o ’clock, lup, W ash., spoke. If the farm ers will
according
to
an
unofficial
m
essage
re
be found in the early evening tw ilig h t
plant 1000 acres of W’ilson straw b er
a few degrees alatve the horizon, not ceived here from a reliable source. ries, 500 acres of phneomenal berries
The
fighting
betw
een
Villa
and
Car-
j
far from the |a>int where the sun sets.
and 500 acres of black raspberries, the
From the 15th to the 20th, Mercury ranza forces was general south and !
added
[
Oregon Electric Railroad company
will be near the b right planet Ju p iter, southw est of the city, it was
but slightly north of Ju p ite r, and this ! an(T a general assault upon the capital promises to build a big cannery and
over t° a co-operative company
fact will help in locating Mercury, I is expected from the south, southw est | ^urn
C h ih u a-!to operate, and Mr. Paulham us will
which is much fa in te r than Ju p iter. and west, the m essage from
handle the product of the plant.
The g re a t m ajority of people have hua City stated.
The S tate Board of Education has
never seen Mercury, and even one em
Bible to Test Literacy.
recommended th at the high schools of
inent astronom er of the «>arly days la
W ashington, D. C.- Reading m a tte r \ the sta te give to any pupil who wishes
mented the fact th at he had never
been able to catch a glim pse of the for a literacy te st for aliens under the to join the National guard, full credit
new im m igration law will be taken in all those subjects in which he has
planet.
Venus will be nearly opposite the from the Bible, the departm ent of made a passing grade.
Passages will be
sun from the earth during April, and Labor announces.
W ith eight men a p arty to one in
cannot be found with the unaided eye. selected in more than 100 languages dictm ent and four others indicted on
Mars will rise shortly before the and dialects.
other counts, the March term of C ir
“ This is not because the Bible is cuit court for Benton county will not
sun, but will be invisible in the com
considered a sacred book by many peo be required to try a single case. All
ing dawn w ithout telescopic aid.
J u p ite r will be visible in the w est p le ,” said the d ep a rtm en t’s announce those indicted have confessed and re
ern sky in the early evening during m ent, “ bu t because it is now the only ceived th eir sentences.
most of the month, but by the end of book in virtually every tongue.”
The Klam ath county lum ber mills
April will se t so soon a fte r the sun
Eleven Killed by Storm.
are preparing for a record run this
th a t it will be hard to discern. As
Montgomery, A la— At least 11 lives season as soon as the w eather perm its.
noted above, J u p ite r will be close to
were lost in a storm which destroyed The logging operations of the Pelican
iM ercury on the 17th.
Saturn will be visible during the many houses in C entral Alabama early Ray Lumber company, the K lam ath
fore p art of the night, crossing the W ednesday. Six of the known dead M anufacturing company, and the Al-
m eridian about dark in the early p art were negroes. The storm centered in goma Lumber company, which have
of the month, and before sunset in the the vicinity of P etrey, a small town in the three largest m ills, are in such
la tte r part. The rings of Saturn are Crenshaw county. Every building in conditiont th at th ere will be no sh o rt
well placed for observation with the the town was demolished and four p er age of logs early in th e season a t least.
sons w ere killed, among them R obert
telescope.
“ Total deposit in th e 26 banks and
The crescent moon will appear very J. Je te r, a w ealthy planter.
tru st companies of Portland equaled
close to the planet Mercury in the
$87,326,383.61 on M arch 5, 1917,”
Defense M illions Asked.
evening tw ilig h t on the 22nd, Mercury
said Superintendent of Banks S. G.
Portland, Me. — An im m ediate ap
being a little to the south of the moon.
Sargent, of Salem, in issuing the com
In the early evening of the 27th the propriation by the legislature of $1,- parative statem en t of Portland banks.
moon will appear about a degree and 000,000 for defense was recommended
by the sta te com m ittee on public
A represen tativ e o f four surety com
a half south of Saturn.
Resolutions also panies which furnish the bonds held by
Moon’s PhaseR, Pacific Standard safety Wednesday.
w ere adopted, urging Maine senators S ta te T reasurer Kay and his employes
Time.
Full moon, April 7, 5:48 a. m .; and representatives in congress to completed an exhasutive exam ination
last q u arter, April 14, 12:12 p. m .; vote for the adoption of a resolution of the tre a su re r’s books for the com
new moon, April 21, 6:01 a. m .; first declaring th a t a sta te of war exists pany and report ev erything to be s a t
w ith Germany.
isfactory.
q u arter, A pril 28, 9:20 p. m.
CHANGE IN HANDLING
GRAIN IN OREGON
Washington, D. C.—Government offi
cials look upon the speeding up of the
Wheat in Bulk Instead of Sacks
foodstuffs production in the United
S tates as one of the most im portant
Gives Fine Opportunity for
means of assisting in the w ar against
Growers to Sample.
Germany, should the U nited S tates
take an active p art in it.
“ Of the most im portant tw o things
O. A. C., Corvallis, Ore. — (Special
th at th is country could do for its allies
in case of w ar—namely, to finance and to th is p ap e r.)— P reparations for the
to feed them —perhaps the more im change from sack handling to bulking
p o rtan t is to m anitain a steady flow of grain in the Pacific N orthw est is
of foodstuffs to th eir shores,” says an
authorized statem en t by A ssistant laying a new demand upon large wheat
S ecretary Vrooman of the departm ent farm ers, country buyers and others
of A griculture.
who are vitally interested in the mar-
“ I t looks,” the statem en t adds, " a s k eting of grain in bulk. I t is now
though it would be a good business : possible for them to sample th eir own
stroke for the farm er this spring to ; or th eir purchased wheat, according to
sow his normal oats acreage to spring the new classifications and grades in
w heat and it is certan th a t would be a i process of establishm ent by the U. S.
valuable step tow ard national agricul- Office of M arkets and the S tate of
tu ral preparedness.”
Oregon.
Since the policy of stim ulating food
H eretofore grow ers merely took
production would have to be supple- th eir wheat to m arket, and had it
mented by a policy guaranteeing the classed and m arketed for them . They
farm er ag ain st loss due to possible were unable to check on the classifica-
overproduction, the departm ent holds tion applied by the grain sam plers, be-
th a t congress alone can deal with this cause there w ere no standards estab
question effectively, although the de lished. If they were dissatisfied with
p artm ent can do som ething toward results in one m arket, they had re
speeding up production within certain course to sw itching to another d istrib
lim its.
u tin g point next tim e. If they felt
th a t they were being flimflammed by
agents of one company, they could
Plan Acreage of 30,000
change companies for the next crop—
in Field Peas This Year and tak e chances. Growers not only
Spokane — Pea contracts closed re had the prices set for them , but they
cently by S. B. Coon, industrial H p p r p . i likewise came to m arket powerless to
tary of the Spokane cham ber of com 1 have a say in th e classification and
merce, with farm ers on Peone prairie, gradations of th e crop.
ith the
tate
will bring the Spokane county pea j . W
vvun
ine new-
new F
re ederal-S
o e ra i-s ia
ie system
sysi
acreage this year up to 10,000 acres, ln °E>eral*on» th is may be changed, It
exclusive of nearly 20,000 acres in the ‘8 ^rue th at grain will E>e sampled and
Fairfield section. In the extension of j <;la“ «d by official sam p le« , but it will
pea culture in the county the chamber
^one by men w ith no direct personal
has worked in conjunction with J. R. m e r e s t ¡n the results. More than
Shinn, county ag ricu ltu rist
th at, farm ers can learn to sam ple th eir
Mr. Coon closed the contracts for the 8Ta>ns f° r them selves and determ ine
B arteldes Seed company, of Lawrence,
c^a88es an(i grades for a check
Kan., which agrees to pay the growers uP°n tbe reports of the sam plers.
2J cents per pound for peas delivered
Those who do not know how to do
before December 1, 1917. Peone prai- tb *8’ an(T th ere may be many among
rie in the past has raised some peas, SP"ower9 an<T buyers, can tak e a special
but for the first tim e this year it will cour8e ° f Kra *n sam pling at th e S tate
Prof. G. R.
produce peas for seed.
A gricultural College.
The seed company furnishes the Hyslop, who conferred w ith th e Feder-
seed, which is paid back when the peas
rep resen tativ es in establishing the
are delivered, and it also provides the ^r a ' n da®8®8 and grades, has an-
sacks. It sent its order and 100 bush- npunced special courses to begin any
els of seed peas d irect to the chamber
al>d run till th e farm ers or deal-
of commerce. These are the Alaska ere u k i n * th e m are fully able to tak e
variety, and the company expects to aamples, classify, grade, m ake w eight
g et 1000 bushels for seed purposes an<^ m oisture tests, and if, they so de-
from the Peone P ra irie growers.
! sire ’ the * luten tests.
Equipped with
________
| th is power they will be able to d e te r
mine ju s t how th e ir crop ranks, how it
is classed and graded, and w hat it is
w orth at current m arket prices.
I t is expected th a t this system and
its opreation will be a factor in selec-
P ortland—W heat— Bluestem, $1.75; tion of w heat classes th a t are most
fortyfold, $1.71; club, $1.71; red Rus- profitable for seed in each o f the g re a t
sian, $1.65.
| grain grow ing b elts of the s t a t e / The
Oats— No. 1 w hite feed, $39 per ton; advantages of good seed selection of
barley, No. feed, $40.50.
th e m ost profitable sorts will be very
C attle—Steers, prim e, $9.25<ii 9.65; evident to grow ers, who will thus be
good, $8.90 @ 9.25; medium, $8.25® enabled to g e t a line on the v arieties
8.75; cows, choice, $7.75@8.00; me- and types b est suited to th e ir needs,
dium to good, $7.00(9 7.50; ordinary to The classes, w ith five grades in each,
fair, $6.50(9 7.00; heifers, $6.50(9 9.00; as now in course of adoption as stand-
bulls, $5.00 @ 8.00; calves, $8.00 @ ards in this state, are as follows:
10 . 00 .
Class 1. Hard red spring w heat in
Hogs — L ight and heavy packing, cludes all v arieties of head red spring
$14.00(914.50; Rough heavies, $13.00 w heat. Grain which, a fte r th e d e te r
<913.50; pigs and skips, $ 12.75@13.00; m ination of dockage, consists of hard
red spring w heat and more than ten
stock hogs, $11.50(912.75.
Sheep — W ethers $11.25(9 11.75; per centum of o th er w heat or wheats
ewes, $8.75(910.00; lambs, $12.75® | shall not be classified as hard red
13.50.
i spring w heat.
These subclasses in
M illfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $35 clude dark hard red spring w heat of
per ton; shorts, $35; rolled barley,$43 which seventy-five per centum or
(944.
more of th e w heat kernels are dark,
Corn—-W’hole, $52 per ton; cracked, hard, and vitreous and hard red spring
$53.
w heat of which less than seventy-five
H ay—Producers’ prices: Timothy, per centum of th e w heat krenels are
E astern Oregon, $20(921 per ton; al dark, hard, and vitreous.
falfa. $16 @ 1 7 ; valley grain hay,
Class 2. Durum w heat includes all
$12.50(914.
v arieties of durum wheat.
Grain
B u tte r — Cubes, extras, 38J@39c; which, a fte r determ ination of doek-
prim e firsts, 37|@ 38c. Jobbing priées: age, consists of durum w heat and more
P rints, extras, 42c; cartons lc etx ra ; than ten per centum of other w heat or
w heats shall not be classified as du
b u tte rfa t, No. 1, 43c; No. 2, 41c.
E ggs — Oregon ranch current re rum wheat. These subclasses include
ceipts, 27 (9 27Jc per dozen; selects, am ber durum w heat of which ninety
29c.
per centum or more of the w heat k er
P oultry—Hens, 19(9 20c per pound; nels are am ber or light colored; red
springs, 18®20c; turkeys, live, 21® durum w heat of which ninety per
centum or more of the w heat kernels
22c; ducks, 22(<;23; geese, 12®13c.
are red ; m ixed durum includes all
V eal— Fancy, 14J@15c per pound.
m ixtures of durum w heat not included
Pork— Fancy, 18(9 18Jc per pound.
V egetables— Artichokes, $1.10(91.25 in subclass (a) or (b) of this class.
per dozen; tom atoes, $4 @ 4.25 per
Class 3. H ard red w inter w heat in
c rate; cabbage, $5(96 per hundred; cludes all v arieties of hard red win
eggplant, 25c per pound; lettuce, te r wheat.
G rain which, a fte r the
$3.75; cucumbers, $1(91.50 per dozen; determ ination of dockage consists of
cauliflower, $2.75(9 3 per crate; pep hard red w inter w heat and more than
pers, 50c; sprouts, 12Jc; rhubarb, $2 ten per centum of other w heat shall
@2.25 per box; peas, 12J@15c per not be classified as hard red w inter
pound; asparagus, 15®20c per pound; wheat. These subclasses include dark
spinach, 9@10c.
hard red w inter w heat of which ninety
Potatoes—Buying prices: $2.75@3 per centum or more of the w heat k er
nels are dark, hard and v itreous; yel
per hundred.
Onions — Jobbing prices:
No. 1, low hard red w in ter w heat of which
seventy-five per centum or more of the
$9(99.50; No. 2, $6 per sack.
Green fru its— Apples, 90c@$2 per w heat kernels are yellow or m ottled
and starchy and hard red w in ter w heat
box; cranberries, $8 per barrel.
Hops— 1916 crop, 4@7c per pound; not included in e ith e r subclass (a) or
(b) of this class.
1917 contracts, nominal.
Class 4. Soft red w in ter w heat in
Wool— E astern Oregon, fine, 30®35c
per pound; coarse, 40c; valley, 40c; cludes all v arieties of soft red w inter
m ohair, nominal, 60c per pound.
w heat and also red club w heat of the
Pacific N orthw est.
G rain bags—C ar lots, 10i@ 10|c.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT