•<nke. But the # » r was coming, mid
to Alsatian* It moana a* nil observers
ii ere«, u reunion with France.
lint, queer enough, the world he-
« I im to nee thnt the treaty of Frank
fort wnn the germ o f the present holo
caust, and that It lead* to the utter
dent ruction of Prussian autocracy and
world autocracy— that Alsace-Lorraine
had been picked to t>ear the cross— to
suffer that the world might he re
lieved from the harden on the should*
ers of all humans, from Ilerod down
to Wilhelm.
w ill win the wa
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ÿ BROTHERS KNIT FOR
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BROTHER IN FRANCE g
H e w h o wastes
a c ru s t o f brea d
prolongs the w ar
• it
STIRS HATRED IN ALSACE-LORRAINE
German Misrule on Conquered
Provinces Fosters Pro-
French Spirit.
DRASTIC MEASURES ADOPTED
N e w s p a p e r s H e ld to M o st S e v e rs C o d e
‘ o f L a w s — C a r to o n is ts A ro u se F u r y
o f B e rlin O ffic ials and A re
T K ow n In to P riso n .
.
WnnhlUKton.—Observers are study
ing with Increased Interest the politi
cal history of Alsace-Lorraine. The
course of this Ilelchlund's history Is
recognized as one of the most signifi
cant In the story of the world. Through
a multitude of other causes of the hol
ocaust In Europe, the case of Alsace-
Lorraine presents Itself with a grow
ing significance. It Is here that Prus
sia Initiated her grand mistake uud.
through the forcible cession o f this
state, engineered the hatreds and
“ Welt I'olltlk” for which she Is pay
tng now with all that humankind hold
most dear and precious.
•
In 1872, when the (Jerinnn confeder
ation was formed, this booty land was
considered ns a prize o f the confeder
ation ns a whole, with the regulative
powers vested In the king of Prussia.
The stnte was permitted to send dele
gates to the relchstag. but could not
he represented In the bundrsrnt, the
real power In governmental Germany.
With the usual aslnlnlty of German
officialdom, the assimilation of the peo
ple was hurried, and hurried by
most unwise ntld Impossible meas
ures.
The Idea seems to have been
that an nsslmllntlon could take place
In one, or. at the most, two genera
tions, and that It could be effected
while the people paid Prussian taxes
and were not granted representation
In the laying of suld taxes.
As n
necessary vent to human nature, the
result was the failure o f Prussian po
lice methods all during the first thirty
years o f the occupation. What hap
pened after that In Metz, Colmer,
Strassboiirg and Mulhousc we shall
see.
P r u s s ia n M isru le .
I
The year 1K10 marks the new pe
riod o f Prussian misrule. The use of
French was stringently forbidden on
tombstones. In courts o f Justice, In the
schools and In public gatherings. In
deed, severe punishment hns been
meted out for the use of the French
GROW
FAT ON WAR
BREAD
M en, W o m e n an d C h ild re n Seen on
S tre e ts Seem to Be B e tte r N o u r-
Ish e d T h a n Eve r.
London.— The English nppear to be
growing fat on war bread. An English
newspaper publishes the following:
“ Although I hate It,” writes a cor
respondent In Surrey, “ war bread
seems to fatten me, and my weight has
Increased by several pounds. Yet 1 nm
entlng not much more than half the
bread I used to eat before the war, and
also less o f other foods.
A doctor explained thnt this may he
quite true. "Anyone who keeps Ids
eyes open In the streets will notlee
that men, women and children are
elenrly better nourished than ever. No
doubt," he said, “ there Is n good ileal
of Indigestion from hnd hrend, but
even people who digest It badly, and
dislike It, too, grow fatter and phys
ically stronger. This Is especially no
ticeable In spare men o f middle age.
Possibly the explanation Is thnt we
were eating more hrend before than we
could digest. Perhnps, too, the mlx-
langunge In certain private and semi-
private gatherings.
German Immigrants shipped Into the
Itelchslund bred children, only to have
them take sides with the Indigenous
population In their clamor for nnnexn-
tIon to Germany on an equal basis
with the other German states. This
latter |s)1nt. contrary to general belief,
was actually Just what the Alsatians
ngltat«sl for.
French culture and
Ideals began to have I heir effect when
nil Importunities and pleadings for a
relaxation of Prussian
oppressive
methods and a representation In the
government failed.
Prussian rule remained Inflexible.
Guarantees
and
alterations
were
promised and seemingly compiled with,
only to have the people discover, when
the smoke of Prussian bland duplicity
cleared away, thnt they were bound
more helplessly than ever.
In the spring of 1012 the Prussians
further showed their disapproval of
the agitation engendered by attempt
ing to ruin the Alsatian factories at
Grnfcnstaden, near Strassbourg. by
withdrawing all orders for locomo
tives for the Prussian railways.
In the month of May, In this same
year, the popular Imllgnntlon, already
Inflamed, was fanned to fever heat by
the remarks of the Germnn emperor
I to the mayor of Strassbourg, during an
| Imperial visit to the city. He Is re
ported to have said:
“ Listen. Up to here you have only
known the gogcl able of me. Things
cannot continue ns they are. I f this
situation lasts, we will suppress your
‘constitution’ and uiinex you to Prus
sia.”
Alsatian newspapers were held to a
narrow course by u most severe code
of laws, but suspensions were taking
plnce every day. To be profitable, a
journal muld do nnught else but sup-
j port the Berlin policies. A school of
I cartoonists cnine to the fore, and, by
I n series of cnustlc nml meaning car-
1 toons. Indicted Berlin till the officials
In their fury, hegnn placing prison
sentences Indiscriminately among enr-
I toonlsts nnd Journalists.
And so. France, who had represent
ed to the heroes of 1793 the beau-ideal
of democracy, came gradually to the
fore ns the Influence In Alsace-Lor
raine. Her culture, her Ideals nnd tier
citizenship became valued dreams of
loyal Alsatians. But fnr off dreams
they seemed; nnd the Alsatians, In
their growing love for the republic,
could not harbor the thought that
France should suffer the throes o f a
war with remorseless Prussia for their
turo of grains In bread Is proving more
nourishing than the pure whenten loa f;
the stomach likes variety, nnd the
people who do the best Intellectual
work are those who feed on all avail
able foodstuffs.
BEAT
HIGH
FOOD
PRICES
A d C lu b at P o rtla n d , Ore., I s C o n d u c t
in g F re sh F is h M a rk e t, S e ll
in g at Cost.
Portland, Ore.— Cutting the high cost
of living In n practical manner Is the
task essayed by the Portland Ad club,
which Is conducting n fresh fish mar-
ket here and selling sen food nt cost.
So popular Is the market that the first
day It opened three tons o f fish were
sold.
Sable fish, groupers, ling, cod nnd
smelt are sold for live to seven cents
a pound, while other fish mnrkets are
asking twelve to twenty cents for the
same kinds of fish.
On the opening day n crowd o f wom
en. with mnrket baskets, stood before
the doors watting for the first fish to
be placed on sale. From thnt time
on sales continued brisk, nnd the Ad
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Columbus. O. — Lieut. Col.
Chari«* Ontes Dawes, the Chi
cago hanker who Is serving with
the United --States engineers
somewhere In Frnnee, Is going
to hnve a sweater and also a
scarf provided Ids brothers do
not drop to many stitches.
For several weeks tales have
been drifting around of n man
seen knitting Industriously. In
Pullmnn smoking compartments,
on Atlnntlc City hotel verandas.
In taxicabs, etc. In a train go
ing out o f Columbus one night
recently he was Identified as
former
Congressman
Reman
Gatea Dawes o f Ohio, a brother
of the Chicago banker.
Beman knits and knits the
while he discusses oil and elec
tric railways, In which he Is In
terested, with his fellow passen-
gers In the smoking compnrt-
ment.
“ Darn It, there I’ve dropped
another
stitch,"
Beman
ex- A
claimed, ns he pointed nn argu- |*J
meat on oil prices. “ Well, broth i j
er ( ’barley won’t mind nnother X
hole In this sweater. If I can i '
keep out or arguments on the
state of the union I reckon I £
ought to finish my knitting In ,J
about nine months.”
Beman also contributed the A
Information that Rufus Dawes
,,f Chicago Is knitting u scarf for >$
brother Chnrley.
M
“ Mother taught all of us boys *$
to knit," Beman said, "and
this X
Is certainly the time for nil good v
knitters to coine to the ntd of
their country.”
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400-YEAR-0LD CLOCK STOPS
F a m o u s T im e p ie c e In H a m p to n C o u rt
Palace, Lo n d o n . L a s t R e p a ire d
In 1880.
London.—The celebrated clock of
Hampton court palace that was pro
vided with n dial to give astronomical
I changes but never did so, has stopped
once more. It Is believed to have been
constructed by a German way back
In 1540. but as a matter of fact his
tory falls to record the name of Its
maker.
The celebrated elockmaker Vulllnmy
reconstructed It In 1799, but he gnve
up the astronomical dial portion on the
ground thnt It never could have work
ed with the machinery provided, rele
gating thnt portion of the works to the
store cupboard.
A Croydon firm o f clockmakers set
the whole thing golna ngnln In 1880,
nnd It him run satisfactorily until now.
Workmen are busy getting up the scaf
folding necessary to reach the dial,
nnd nfter a thorough cleaning nnd cer
tain repnlrs to the dial It ts expected
to run for nnother quarter of a cen
tury with little attentions from time
to time.
F iv e
Sons
in A rm y.
Pittsburgh.— Testimony before the
Stnte Workmen's Compensation board
brought out the fact thnt Mrs. Cather
ine Conlln, a widow, of Homestead,
hns five sons In the new Nntlonnl
army. Two other sons are under the
draft age.
club, co-operating with the city admin
istration lias under way n plan for a
permanent fish market where all kinds
of sen food will be sold nt actual cost.
The Ad club points out thnt If
people eat fish the fishing Industry will
tie promoted and other foods capable
o f being shipped long distances will
be released to help win the war.
ENGLAND MAY USE
WHALE MEAT FOR BEEF
Portland, Ore.— Maitland F.
Klndersley of London, England,
Is In the Pacific Northwest In
vestigating the possibilities of
substituting North Pacific whale
meat In Inrge quantities for beef
In England and for her armies.
Klndersley said he will sub
ject whale meat to cold storage
and chemical tests to determine
whether or not large supplies of
the chilled or frozen meat can
he transported to England and
remain In good condition.
MUCH SUGAR STORED
Quantity Discovered, labeled as "T op
('runt F lou r," Estimated at 150
Cars
STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF.
1
Scarce in New York.
Buffalo, N. Y .— Federal secret serv
ice agents Tuesday reported to Wash
ington the discovery in a Buffalo ware
house of millions o f pounds o f sugar in
bags and barrels, labeled " to p crust
Hour. ”
Notations on the packages, it was
said, indicated that the sugar had been
coming into the warehouse over a
period of several months.
A federal
agent who made a survey o f the con
tents o f the building estimated the
amount o f sugar at 150 carloads, or
about 10,000,000 pounds.
Around immense piles c f sacks con
taining the sugar the Federal agent
said he found a screen o f other arti
cles, while some of the containers
marked “ top crust flour" actually had
flour sprinkled over the outside.
New York— Refinery, wholesale and
retail prices o f sugar for Greater
New York were standardized in an
agreement entered into Tuesday by re
presentatives o f the three branches o f
the industry at a conference called by
Henry Markowitz,
commissioner o f
public markets. The prices follow :
Refinery, $8.35 basis for bulk granu
lated; wholesale, $8.60' per hundred
pounds for bulk granulated in the ori
ginal packages to the retail trade; re
tail 10 to 11 cents a pound fo r granu
lated sugar, the price to the consumer
not to exceed 11 cents.
The conference issued a statement
saying that the co-operation o f the
consumer was necessary in working out
the plan and that the sugar shortage is
temporary.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT i
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 — L ittle
club, Jenkins club, white hybrids, So
nora, $2.01. Red Walla W alla— Red
Russian, red hybrids, Jones fife, cop-
pei, $1.98.
No. 2 grade, 3c less; No.
23 grade, 6c less; other grades handled
by sample.
Flour— Patents, $10.20.
M illfe e d — Spot prices: Bran, $30
per ton; shorts, $33; middlings, $41;
rolled barley, $55®57; rollled oats,
$54.
Corn— Whole, $83; cracked, $84 ton.
Hay— Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land: Eastern Oregon timothy, $27
per ton; valley timothy, $23@25; al
falfa, $22.50®24; valley grain hay,
$20; clover, $20; straw, $8.
Butter — Cubes,
extras, 46c per
pound; prime firsts, 44c.
Jobbing
prices: Prints, extras, 48c; cartons,
lc extra; butterfat, No. 1, 51@52c.
Eggs— Ranch, current receipts, 52@
53c; candled 55® 56c; selects, 58®60c
per dozen.
Poultry — Hens, large, 18 @ 19c;
small, 16® 17c; broilers, 19c; ducks,
18f<: 20c; dressed, 28® 30c.
V eal— Fancy, 15®16c per pound.
Pork— Fancy, 20@21c per pound.
V egeatbles— Tomatoes, 85c®$1.60
per crate;
cabbage,
lj@ lfc
per
pound; lettuce, 50c per dozen; cucum-
bres, 40@60c per dozen; peppers, 7®
10c per pound; cauliflower, $1® 1.35;
sprouts, 10c per pound; artichokes, $1
dozen; horseradish, 9Je per pound;
garlic, 7c per pound.; squash, 1 f c per
pound, pumpkins, 1 jc per pound.
Sack Vegetables— Carrots, $1.25 per
sack; beets, $1.50; turnips, $1.50®
1.75.
Potatoes— $1.50® 1.75 per hundred;
sweet potatoes, 3J®3jc.
Onions— Buying price: $2.35, coun
try points.
Green Fruits— Peaches, 75®85c; ap
ples, $1@2.25; pears, $1.50 ® 1.85;
grapes,
$1@1.60; casabas, 2c per
pound; cranberries, $13.50 per barrel.
Hops— 1917 crop, 35c per pound;
1916 crop, 20® 24c.
Wool — Extra fine, 50 ®, 60c per
pound; valley, 55®60c; mohair, long
staple, 55c.
October 30, 1917.
Cattle—
Best beef steers............. $ 9.75®10.00
Good beef steers.............
7.50® 9.00
Best beef cows...............
6.75® 7.25
Ordinary to g o o d ...........
4.00® 6.00
Best h e ife r s ................... 7.00® 7.75
C a lv e s ............................
7.00® 9.50
Bulls...............................
4.00® 6.75
Stockers and fe e d e r s ..,.
4.00® 7.25
Hogs -
Prime light h o g s ............ $15.75®15.85
Prime heavy h o g s ......... 15.65(u 15.75
Bulk .............................. 15.60® 15.75
P i g s ................................ 13.50foT4.00
Sheep—
Yearlings......................... $12.50(«iT3.00
Wethers.......................... 12.00(0,13.00
E w e s .............................. 8.50® 10.50
Western lambs............... 14.00® 14.50
Valley lambs................... 13.50®14.00
/
Engineer R. E. Klein, who has just
finished the survey o f the Cloumbia
River Highway between Hood River
and Mosier, is now engaged in making
a survey for the proposed new concrete
bridge to span Hood River in place of
the old steel bridge.
Frank Eugene] Davis and William
Harvey Beeman, who were examined
by the Astoria exemption board several
weeks ago and exempted until October
15 on account o f physical disability,
were re-examined this week and certi
fied as eligible for m ilitary duty.
Rex T u ft and a boy named Smith,
both o f Grants Pass, Or., were killed
near Central Point Tuesday night on
the Pacific Highway.
Their automo
bile lost a nm off a front wheel,
plunged to the ditch, turned a somer
sault over the fence and threw the
occupants to their death.
J. H. Chambers, whose sawmill was
destroyed by fire at Cottage Grove,
w ill resume operations within a few
days at his Wildwood plant, which has
been idle fo r several years. A ll the
machinery is in the mill and it is
thought operations can be resumed be
fore the end o f the next week.
A few more days o f dry weather and
ail farm work w ill be suspended at
Carlton. Quite a number o f farmers
began plowing after the September
rains and have a large acreage already
sown. The frost o f last week killed
the potato vines and farmers are now
busy harvesting the crop, which w ill
not exceed 50 per cent o f the normal.
Judge W ill R. King, chief counsel o f
the United States Reclamation service
at Washington, is in Klamath Falls on
business, accompanied by President J.
T. Hinkel, o f the Oregon Irrigation
congress. This is Judge King's first
visit to the Klamath country and he
expressed himself as being greatly
impressed with the future in store for
this country.
The Public Service commission has
decided to hold a hearing on the appli
cation o f the Portland Railway, Light
& Power company for abolition o f com
mutation tickets and transfer p rivil
eges and also for a 15 per cent in
crease in freigh t rates on its interur-
ban lines. The proposed tariffs, which
were to have become effective October
30, w ill be suspended pending the
hearing.
Shipment of Hood R iver apples is
; increasing daily.
W hile sales agen-
j cies had difficulty in securing refrig er
ator cars 10 days ago, {freezers are
now available.
Shipments o f local
fruit, however, are 16 cars short o f
last year, when on October 30 a total
I o f 339 carloads had been shipped. Up
to Wednesday the Apple Growers’ as
sociation had shipped 174 carloads of
fruit, while the Fruit Growers’ E x
change had shipped four cars.
The Lincoln Trust ¡company, o f Spo
kane, has deposited with Superinten
dent o f Banks Sargent in Salem, $50,-
000 worth o f securities as the first
trust company outside o f the state to
comply with the provisions o f the new
trust company act. The company con
templated selling securities in this
state and have no branch office, but
w ill have an agent in Portland.
Un-
| der the act the company is to be ex
amined by the state superintendent
and comply generally with all the
terms o f the law.
Mrs. Sarah Anne McKinney Cald
well, o f Yoncalla, celebrated her 90th
birthday anniversary Wednesday. She
was born in Booneville, Mo., in 1827.
D. F. Everett, the druggist at Rid
dle, while out hunting last week with
George W. Murphy, the School super
visor in that district, killed a 300-
pound black bear.
The bear was
killed in the Elk creek district.
Tagged like an express package, lit
tle Christy Stigmaier, grandson of
Postmaster Malone, o f Langell Valley
postoffice, in Eastern Klamath county,
started Friday on a long journey to
New York City, where his father re
sides. The little fellow was here with
his mother until her death a short time
ago.
James O'Brien, who escaped from
the State penitentiary during Warden
Minto's administration by scaling a
wall, is under arrest in Pueblo, Colo.,
on a burglarly charge, acccording to
word received by the prison authori
ties. O'Brien was serving a term on
a similar charge in Oregon, being sen
tenced from Coos county.
The evergreen berry harvest ended
at Toledo Saturday. Sixty-eight tons
were received and shipped to Portland
during the season. About $5000 was
paid to pickers.
The $100 cash prize offered for the
best five-bushels o f potatoes exhibited
at the Seventh Annual Potato Show at
Redmond was awarded to S. D. Mus
tard, o f Powell Butte, Or.
Mr. Mus
tard took the sweepstakes prize at the
Portland Land Products Exhibit held
in Portland two years ago.