ARSENAL FIRE LOSS LARGE
Two Warehouses at St. I<ouitt Horn
Knemy Alien in Custody.
WORLO H ffllG S
OF CURRENT WEEK
MILLS FACING CRISIS
Must (¿rind Stock Feed or Shut Down,
NEW REVOLT PLOT
IN RUSSIN FOUND
Ultimntum Presented to Heads
St. Louis Warehouses Nos. 23 and
o f Agricultural Bureau.
| 24 at the United States arsenal here
were destroyed by tire shortly before
Either Northwestern mills must la«
midnight Saturday with a loss o f nrmy
permitted to grind wheat and supply
equipment stored there estimated by
Brief Resume Most Important stock feed for Northwestern farmers Huge Conspiracy Extends to All
the police at more than 13 , 000 , 000 .
or the latter w ill 1 m forced to sell
Numerous other warehouses were
their cattle and hogs and go out «if
Parts of Country.
Daily
News
Items.
American Coasting Ships At threatened by the tire, and the flames
that industry.
That ultimatum was
threatened more than >6,000,000 worth
presented at the agricultural bureau at
o f army supplies within the large de
tacked Off Jersey Coast.
its meeting in Sp«>kaiie Winlnemlay by
pot.
John H. Roberta, chairman o f the sjie-
A report was current that the origin
cial committee that is investigating
o f the tire was incendiary and sub
the situation.
stance was given to this belief by the
The bureau w ill busy itself at once
j taking into custody by the police o f an
bringing pressure to tiear on the grain
Austrian enemy alien, who was cap- Events o f Noted People, Governments and milling division authorities at Csecho-Hlovak Troop« Mutiny
Cap
I tured within the stockade shortly after
Washiugon, D. C., for relief.
It is
ture
Railway«
M«•««**«•
Tell«
o
f
and Pacific Northwest and Other
an explosion was heart), which is be
declannl that Northwestern wheat is
lieved to have started the tire.
Things Worth Knowing.
Scheme« o f Kevolutlunlat«.
being ship|ie«l into the Middle West
An explosion is said to have par
for grinding, depriving the Northwest
o f the stock feed. It is further con
Destroyers, Airplanes and Dirigibles tially wrecked one o f the warehouses.
Details o f the conflagration’s extent
tended that the Miildle West has corn
or cause are meager, as military au
Flock to Scene From Maine to
More than 140 indictments, charging f«>r stoi'k feed and does not require
London — Tim «llocovery in Moscow
thorities immediately took charge and, violations o f the espionage law, have Western millfeed, which is vitally anti Potrograd o f u large counter revo-
Florida— Convoyed Ves
throwing a heavy guard o f soldiers been returned by the Federal grand needed here.
Many Northwestern
around the enclosure, refused to admit jury at Milwaukee, Wis., involving mills are already shutting down lie- luti«>nary plot which Htrotches through
sels Are Avoided.
the whole o f Uussiu 1« announced in a
! only the fire fighting units.
prominent men.
cause they have ground the maximum
Officers o f the quartermaster’s de
Russian wiroles« message receive«! hero
Captain Archie Roosevelt, who was allowed them.
partment said that more than 15,000,-
R.
R.
Rogers,
chairman
o
f
the
farm
Suntlny.
000 yards o f khaki-cloth for army uni wounded in action in March, is making
To this plot is attributable in part
Washington, D. C. — Ten American forms, valued at more than $3,000,000 excellent progress. His arm has been lalnir committee, announced that a
special session would bo held at Daven
removed
from
the
sling
and
he
walks
the
mutiny o f the
Cwscho-SIovak
vessels were known Tuesday to have was destroyed.
port’s hotel to investigate the plan to
several miles duily.
troops,
which
have
capturo«!
im|>ortzint
Fifteen
thousand
soldiers’
service
been sunk by German submarines off
use boys o f the United States working
hats
were
also
lost.
'fhe
Lord
Lieutenant
o
f
Ireland
is
railway
junctions
and
lines.
boys’ reserve.
the North Atlantic Coast since May 25.
sued a proclamation Tuesday night
R. Insinger, chairman of the bureau,
The s«>viet executive d«cid«*d on May
The largest to fall prey to the raid-
asking for 60,000 voluntary recruits read a letter from Max II. Houser,
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29
to undertake the partial culling to
ers, which are seeking to prevent the
and thereafter 2000 to 3000 monthly to government grain buyer, Portland, in
arms
o f several classes o f workmen
sailing o f transports with troops for
maintain the Irish divisions.
which he announce«! that the govern
the battlefields o f France, was the
und
the
|HM>rer peasants in Pctrograd
Naval officers at Norfolk, Va., said ment was shipping 4,000,000 grain
N ew York and Porto Rico liner Caro
sacks
from
Calcutta,
India,
to
a
Pacific
and
Moscow
and the Kuban and Don
Tuesday their reports indicated five
lina, o f 8000 tons, which was attacked
p«irt
to
relieve
the
situation
in
the
German
submarines
had
been
«>|>ernt-
regions.
Sunday night about 125 miles south Liberty o f Country is Lost and Sub
ing along the Atlantic coast and that West. It is estimated that 5,000,000
A t the same time Moscow has been
east o f Sandy Hook.
jugation o f Dual Monarchy Made
two had been sighted off the Virginia sacks w ill lie needed in the Northwest. «ledared in a state o f sedge.
Counter
The fate o f her 220 passengers and
Complete by Kaiser.
capes.
revolutionaries have been arresUnl in
crew o f 130, who took to the boats
_____
Forest’ s Wealth Vast.
considerable numbers and energetic
Loss o f the naval mo(or launch
when shells began to fall about the
R.
L.
Fromme,
forest supervisor o f measures have lieen taken against the
Washington, D. C. — Complete sub Ozark, with one member o f her crew,
vessel, was unknown late Tuesday
night, but there was hope they had jugation o f Austria-Hungary to Ger Charles E. Richards, fireman, o f Chip- the Olympic National Forest, which press. These measures nre necessary,
contains more marketable spruce tim it is announced, owing to the situation
been picked up by some passing ship man domination and the elimination o f ley, Fla., in a heavy sea off the coast
or would reach shore safely in the any hope for even semi-independence May 12, is announced l»y the Navy de ber than an, other national forest in in which the Russian revolution has
the country, arrived in the Portland been placed.
that may have been entertained by the partment.
small boats.
district he/ulquarters Wednesday to re
The «picstion dominating all others
Not a life was lost in the sinkings, Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and other anti-
Federal courts have no jurisdiction port on conditions there. In the Olym is that o f supplying the pe«»ple with
German elements in the dual monarchy
according to the late reports.
over the selective draft boards, the pic Forest, which covers 1,500,000 bread, now that RuMsiu has been de
Besides the Carolina, the known vic ; is seen here as the certain result o f Supreme court in effect decided Mon
acres o f territory, is more than 33,- prive«! o f the Ukraine granary.
The
tims o f the U-boats are the Alantic the new military treaty between Ger day, in denying mandamus proceedings
000,000,000 feet o f timber.
Kuban and Don regions are, according
Refining company’s tanker Herbert L. many and Austria-Hungary.
to have an order o f a local board in
In the Lake Quinault region five to the Russian scheme, menaced by a
The State department has just re-
Pratt, the steamship Winneconne, o f
Milwaukee, W'is., reviewed.
sawmills are already cutting spruce counter revolutionary
band, which
1800 tons, and six schooners, the larg J ceived through its own sources what is
W’ar risk rates took an abrupt jump for government use and more mills are hopes by means o f complications to
est o f which is the Hauppaugue, a new : believed to be the text o f this remark
expected to locate there. The sales to provoke intervention by foreign (low
ship o f 1000 tons, and the Edward H. able document, and it is said to con upon receipt o f the news o f submarine
these mills are made on condition that ers and thus drive the Russian masses
warfare
on
this
side
o
f
the
Atlantic.
Cole. The crews o f these eight ves firm the general statements o f its pro
the lumber lie cut on the ground. So toward famine.
sels have been landed at Atlantic ports. visions already announced in the press. Marine underwriters advanced insur*
far the sales o f timber have average«!
ance
from
one
to
two
per
cent
to
all
In most regions the large owners /ire
Among other things it shows that i f
The steamer Texel was sunk by a
from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 feet.
mobilizing
the well-to-do (x-asants
German submarine Sunday afternoon there ever was a common ground upon ports, coastwise as well as trans-At
with the object o f resisting the efforts
60 miles off the coast. The crew o f 36 which the United States might have lantic.
o f the government to commandeer the
discussed peace with Austria, it has
Woman suffrage for Hawaii is au
men landed at an Atlantic port.
flour depots, and are trying to conceal
Reports brought ashore by the sur disappeared along with what liberty o f thorized in a senate bill passed Tues
their stocks for purposes o f future
vivors indicated that the Winneconne action had been le ft to the dual mon day by the house and sent to President
speculation and Anally agents o f the
Wilson for approval. I t empowers the
and nearly all the schooners were sunk archy by her ally.
counter revolution in the various cities
In this treaty, as officials here in Hawaiian legislature to provide that
by the same U-boat which had been
Wheat— Bulk basis for No. 1 grade:
lurking in the path o f shipping off the terpret it, Austria-Hungary surrenders women may vote in all territorial and Hard white, $2.05. Soft white, $2.03. throughout the country, says the state
ment, “ are seeking to excite
the
New Jersey coast and the Delaware ' to Germany not only for the present, municipal elections.
White club, $2.01. Red Walla, $1.98.
starving
masses
against
the
soviet
! but for the future as well, the com
capes since last month.
The Austrian Social Democrats, ac No. 2 grade, 3c less; No. 8 grade, 6c
The stories told by the skippers o f plete control o f her m ilitary establish cording to the Socialist Arbeiter Zei- less. Other grades handled by sample. government.”
the schooners indicated that the com ment, in time o f peace as well as in tung, o f Vienna, have decided that the
F lo u r— Patents, $10 per barrel;
T«>kio- - I t is umlerstoo«! that the
mander o f the submersibles was unus j war.
time is inopportune for strikes.
The whole wheat, $9.60; graham, $9.20; United States government is studying
This carries with it the right to or conference warned against rash acts barley flour, $14.50(r/15.00; rye flour,
ually humane for a German submarine
the feasibility o f extending economic
officer.
ganize the Austrian army even to its which would lead to disaster and “ de $10.75(b12.75; corn meal, white, $6.50;
assistance to Russia.
The pnqtosal
In no instance, so far as is known, personnel, which means that the Ger prive labor o f power in the future.”
yellow, $6.25 per barrel.
to assist the Russians in an economic
was a lifeboat shelled, and in all cases mans w ill hold to military service, un
M illfeed— N et mill prices, car lots: way was made as a jiossiblc solution
Tw elve o f a fleet o f 30 or more fish
reported the crews were given oppor der her own commanders, i f necessary, ing vessels were sunk by a German Bran, $30.00 per ton; shorts, $32;
o f the problems now confronting that
tunity to escape or were taken aboard every fit Slav, Czech, Italian, Pole and
submarine, says a Belfast dispatch to middlings, $39; mixed cars and less country.
Asstisance from the Uni
the submarine, where some o f them Roumanian comprising the population the London Daily Telegraph.
The than carloads, 50c more; rolled barley, ted States would take the form o f pur
were kept prisoners for eight days be ! o f the Austro-Hungarian empire. It
submarine ordered the fishermen to $75(«,76; rolled oats, $73.
chasing and assembling them in Eu
fore they were turned adrift to be follows that there can be no political take to the boats and row ashore. It
Com — Whole, $77 per ton; cracked, ropean Russia.
j independence o f the people.
picked up by a passing vessel.
then sank the vessels by shelling them. $78.
It also is proposed to purchase f<io«l
Secretary Lansing recently formally
Germany at last has brought her
Hay — Buying prices, delivered: in Japan for distribution in Russia.
Validity
o
f
Federal
statutes
prohib
submarine warfare to the shores o f the declared that the nationalistic aspira-
Eastern Oregon timothy, $29(o30 jier
United States, apparently in a forlorn ; tions o f the Czecho-Slovaks and the iting sale o f alcoholic liquors to sol ton; valley timothy, $25*/26; alfalfa,
Stockholm G«Tmany is so well sat
hope o f striking telling blows on this Jugo-Slavs for freedom have the ear diers was in effect sustained by the $240/ 24.50; valley grain hay, $22; isfied with the progress o f events in
Supreme
court,
which
Tuesday
de
side o f the Atlantic and o f drawing nest sympathy o f the American gov
clover, $190/20.00; straw, $9.000/10,
the Ukraine that she has decided to
home some o f the American naval ernment. This message has gone to clined to review proceedings convict
Butter— Cubes, extras, 37Jc; prime withdraw two-thirds o f the German
ing
Cornelius
O
’Sullivan,
a
hotel
pro
forces from the war zones, where the the ambitious, oppressed races as a
firsts, 37c; prints, extras, 42c; car troops now in the east.
The troops
U-boat menace is being slowly but further assurance o f the purpose o f the prietor, o f Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., o f tons, lc extra; butterfat, No. 1, 41c
withdrawn w ill lie used on the wpstern
violating
the
law.
; United States to enter into no peace
surely strangled to death.
delivered.
front and they w ill lie replaced in the
Representatives o f 500,000 railway
treaty with their oppressors that does
Eggs Ranch, current receipts, 34c: east with Austrians.
N ew York— Scores o f United States not concede their right to separate na shopmen have asked the railroad ad candled, 35c; selects, 36c per dozen.
ministration not to put into effect the
warships are ranging the waters off tional existence.
Poultry — Hens, 27c; broilers, 40c;
Stockholm—How little power re
new wage scale without an upward re ducks, 32c; geese, 20c; turkeys, live,
the North Atlantic coast in search o f
mains to Finland and how completely
vision for their crafts, saying great 260/27c; dressed, 37c per pound.
U-Boat in Mid-Atlantic.
the German submarines which made
the Germanization o f Finland has been
their long-expected attack on Amer-1
An Atlantic Port — Officers o f a dissatisfaction would be created and
Veal— Fancy, 18jO/19c.
effected, is indicated by announcement
ican shipping in home waters late steamer arriving here Monday from a intimating that it might be impossible
Pork— Fancy, 230/ 23Je per pound.
Sunday that all licenses for import in
Monday afternoon.
foreign port report that the vessel was to avoid many strikes.
Sack Vegetables— Carrots, $1.15 ¡air to Finland must be approved by Ger
One hundred men enlisted in the sack; turnips, $1.50; parsnips, $1.25; man officials. The Deutache bank has
While the details o f naval opera fired on by a German submarine in
tions were withheld, it is known th a t' mid-ocean and that a torpedo missed Naval M ilitia between the hour when beets, $2.
established a branch office at Helsing
destroyers, fleets o f submarine chasers the boat by only two feet. As a warn news o f the U-boat campaign off the
Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks, 75c0/ fors for the control «if affairs.
and other vessels are flashing their j ing was shouted by the lookout, the New Jersey coast first became known $1 per hundred; new California, 10c
searchlights over the waters along the | steamer swung about and took a zigzag on the street and the closing o f the re per pound; sweet potatoes, 10c (>cr
coast and far out at sea from Maine to | course. The next moment a torpedo cruiting office in New York Monday pound.
Florida.
was seen heading toward the ship, night, according to an announcement
Onions— Jobbing prices, 10/lJo (>er
Hydro-aeroplanes
and
airplanes barely missing it. Before a shot could made by the enrollment officer for this pound.
branch o f the service.
arose like flocks o f huge birds from be fired the submarine dived.
Cattle—
June 4, 1918.
every naval station along the Atlantic
Tobacco has been classed by the gov Prime steers....................$14.00/15.000
New York The Unite«! States now
coast when the warning was flashed to
German Towns in Terror.
ernment as a necessity and producers Good to choice stee rs., . . 12.500/13.50
has
a lurge numlier o f first-class bat
them, and soon were scouting over the
will
be
given
preferential
fuel
sup
Washington, D. C.— Allied air raids
Medium to good steers.. 11.000/ 12.00
waters where it was believed subma on German towns are demoralizing the plies. Senator Swanson, o f Virginia,
tleships “ preparing side by Bide with
Fair to medium steers .. 10.500/11.50
rines would be most likely to be lurk German people. Advices to the State was informed by the War Industries
Common to fa ir steers .. 9.000/10.00 the best ships o f the Rritish navy for
ing. Foreign aviators and American department Monday said that the effect board in response to an inquiry that
seas,
Choice cows and heifers. 11.000/12.00 nn engagement on the high
students as well as the regular A m eri upon the populations o f cities bombed the board was working out with the
Com. to good cows and h f 6.500/) 8.50 which is expected to occur at any
can flyers eagerly volunteered for serv was far greater than heretofore re Fuel administration a plan for supply
Canners..........................
4.00(?/ 6.00
ice.
time, with the German fleet,” accord
ing the industry with coal.
ported.
Bulls................................ 6.500^10.00
ing to a statement made in nn nddress
Two hundred thousand men o f draft Calves.............................. 8.500/12.00
Comfort to Cross Alone.
Paris— Paris was again under fire
here
Sunday by Rear Admiral A lbert
Stockera
and
feed
ers..
.
.
8.000/10.00
Washington, D. C.— The naval hos Sunday. The bombardment by long- age, who, because o f minor defects,
Hogs—
Cleaves.
have
been
held
by
examining
surgeons
pital ship Comfort, formerly the War range guns wasjresumed Sunday mom-
” 1 am going boy«md the Imrder line
over the country for limited service, Prime m ixed....................$17.000/17.25
Line steamer Saratoga, has been se I ing.
are to be employed in producing or Medium m ixed............... 16.500/16.85 o f secrecy,” declared Admirul Cleaves,
lected for service as an ambulance ship
Rough h e a v ie s ............... 16.000/16.25 "when I say that a few days ago there
handling equipment fo r the army.
Ship Employes Get Raise.
between this country and the American
P ig s ................................. 15.500/15.75 came an alarm to the heads o f the
naval base abroad. She has been spe
Washington, D. C.— Flat increases
German airmen Wednesday night Bulk.................................
17.25 Rritish anvy that the German battle
cia lly refitted to bring home sick and o f $20 a month to all chief stewards deliberately dropped bombs on hospi
Sheep—
ships were about to come out for the
wounded sailors and marines.
The and chief cooks and $15 a month to all tals in which there were scores o f Prime spring lambs........$17.000/ 17.50
expected engagement on the high seas.
present plans are to send the Comfort other members o f the steward’s de American and hundreds o f French sick Heavy lambs................... 16.500/17.00
“ I know that the British navy heads
across without convoy, notifying the partment on Atlantic and Gulf vessels and wounded. The hospital is in a Yearlings........................ 11.500/12.00
gave the first-class American battle
German government o f her intended were announced Monday by the ship town many miles in the rear o f the Wethers.......................... 10.500/11.50
ships a post o f honor in preparation
voyage and its purpose.
ping board.
front.
Ewes................................ 10.000/10.50 for the attack.”
COMPILED
FOR
YOU
MOSCOW UNDER SIEGE
AMERICANS START
SUBMARINE CHASE
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
GE R MA N PROVINCE
BIG NAVAL BATTLE
EXPECTED A NY TIME