WOHLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
REPORT HINDENBURG
DEAD
Aged Field Marshal Said to Have Suc
cumbed to Stroke of Apoplexy,
TANKS CRUSH HUNS
AS DRIVE M S
H A R V E S T AT W A L L A W A L L A
Hot Weather and Winds Kapldly
en Field* o f Grain.
Hip
PEACE SMASH OE
GERMANE FUTILE
AValla Walla.— Tomperaturo of clo*o
to 100 degree* lu the field, with a
north wind blowing, bus rapidly ripen
ed the wheat this week and many out
fit* will take the field to commence Washington Ignores Speech of
harvest. The lack o f rain In the last
Chancellor von Hertling.
few weeks ha* prevented the grain
from filling out. This I* especially
truo of spring grain.
Estimates made by farmers are that
the yield will be about the same us
last year for spring wheat or possibly
a little les*.
Fall sown wheat will yield fairly
well, however. There will be lot* of President Believes Germany W illing to
wheat harvested In the valley, but the
Give Up on West Front If She
grain w ill not be a* well divided
among the farmer* a* last year, when
Can Get Control o f «usala.
nearly all obtained a good percentage
of their crop. This year spring sown
grain was badly pinched.
In the last six months there have
By the last o f this week the harvest
been
several
rumors
of
the
death
of
With the American Army on the will be well started, it I* believed.
Washington, D. C — Germany's latest
Hugh Cameron, a Scotch painter of
figure subjects and portraits, died in Field Marshal von Hlndenburg and Marne.— The German prisoner* cap
peace offensive, the crest of which has
Edinburgh Monday. He was born in there have been many report* that he tured In the counterattack by the
Plow Beet Field* In Fall.
apparently been reached In the speech
has been in poor health. German news
1835.
Yakima.— As It has been demon of Von Hertllng before the main Belch-
papers were not permitted to mention Americans at the bend of the Marne
Ten thousand persons in San Juan, the rumor.
number between 1000 and 1500. They strated this year that fall plowing 1* stag committee has apparently caused
Porto Rico, have been ill of a three-
of distinct advantage to farmers who
Keeping step with reports of the Include a complete brigade staff.
only a slight ripple of interest in the
day fever within two weeks, according field marshal's health have been dis
expect to grow sugar bent* success
to the sanitary service.
fully, and Is of benefit to the prepara official world here.
patches indicating that the flelu mar
Paris (Monday).— The first big day
Team work on the part o f Austria
The bombardment of Paris with Ger shal and the emperor had had disagree of the offensive was a big defeat for tion of the ground for any crop, the
officials o f the reclamation and Indian is Indicated In an official dispatch
man long-range guns began again Mon ments concerning the German offen
the enemy, says the Havas correspond services have decided to change their Sunday from Hwltxerland, which says
day afternoon, according to a London sive in the west.
At the outbreak o f the war Field ent on the French front. On the entire regulations regarding the shutting off
Exchange Telegraph dispatch.
of Irrigation water and have assured reports of tho repulse by allied lega
Marshal von Hlndenburg was a gen
A generally favorable national situa eral in retirement. He was credited attacking front the enemy was not the farmers they can make their ar tions in Berne of an alleged Austrian
tion In Italy with unusually good har with evolving and carrying out the able to break through the allied posi rangements this fall not only for fall peace emissary have been confirmed
vest prospects was reported to the campaign against the Russians in east tions. The slight advance made, he plowing, but for fall seeding as well.
State department Tuesday in dis Prussia which resulted in the serious adds, may be considered as nothing, Indian Agent Don M. Carr is also by the Journal of Geneva.
on account of the efforts displayed and
According to the reports, an Aus
patches from Rome.
Russian defeat at Tannenburg, for the losses sustained. A general im working to have the torms of Indian
trian from the puelftst party of Pro
The Austro-Hungarian war minister, which he was promoted to field mar pression of confidence reigns within lenses lengthened from three to eight fessor l.ammasrh presented himself at
years that farmers may plan their
says a Vienna dispatch to the Vos- shal.
the French lines.
work to better advantage. It is shown several legations of the allied powers
sische Zeitung. announces that more
French aviators were very active in conclusively in the valley this year at Berne, but In no case was he re
than 500,000 Austrian war prisoners
harassing the enemy and destroyed that beets sown early on fall plowed ceived.
already have returned from Russia.
two bridges loaded with German ground have not blighted and will
Professor Lunuuaacli on several for
troops.
mer occasions Is said to have made
Three hundred enlisted men were
make a very heavy tonnage.
For once the Germans are not fa
peace overtures to representatives of
commissioned as second lieutenants in ;
vored by the elements. The sky is
the allied countries.
the Marine corps Wednesday upon
overcast, the weather is unsettled and.
No official cognizance Is being given
completion of a three months' course
Portland. — Through the arrival in most important, the wind is southwest.
here to the latest pence speech of Ger
of training at the Marine corps' train
Portland Saturday of the Emergency This is a vital gain for the defense, for
man Chancellor von Hertllng.
ing camp at Quantico, Va.
Fleet corporation officials, led by it makes it difficult, if not impossible,
The chancellor's statement that his
Major E. A. Rich, orthopedic inspec Charles M. Schwab, director-general, it for the Germans to make extensive use
willingness to dlsruss peace was shar
Portland—
Wheat—
Bulk
basis.
Port
tor, is at Camp Lewis inspecting the was decided that the Oregon district of gas.
ed by the chief of the army adminis
camp for foot trouble. He reports 37 should produce during the next year
When troops are muzzled for long land for No. 1 grade: Hard wheat— tration was regarded as the first p e a c e
per cent of men in the entire draft for a fleet of steel and wooden steamers hours with masks, officers cannot com niueatem. Early Bart, Allen Galgulus, expression attributed to the m ilitary
the national army reported affected with a contract valuation of $200,000,- municate orders and each man is Martin Amber, $2.06. Soft white — leaders. More definite peace proposals
with foot trouble are now available | 000
thrown on his own resources. As a Palouse Bluestem, Fortyfold, White from the German government would
for the army.
result,
weight of numbers, which is Valley, Gold Coin, White Russian, not be unexpected.
The enlargement of some plants and
$2.03. White Club— Little Club, Jen
President Wilson Is known to be
The summer vacation of congress the duplication of at least one steel always on the side of the attacking kins' Club, White Hybrids. Sonora.
army
at
the
beginning,
becomes
the
yard
is
depended
on
to
produce
much
lieve that Germany Is bent on gaining
began Monday. Both houses met for
$2.01.
Red
Walla—
Red
Russian,
Red
control of Russia and would w illingly
routine business.
The senate ad of the extra tonnage, while established deciding factor.
Another advantage the allies have Hybrids, Jones Fife, Coppel. $1.98. No. give up everything on the western
journed until Thursday under the yards are to be given all contracts they
2
grade,
3c
I
csb ; No. 3 grade, 6c less.
front to accomplish that purpose.
agreement for Monday and Thursday can complete through maximum pro had is that the attack was expected Other grains handled by samples.
sessions only until August 24. House duction. Besides making such head Just where it developed. It was con
Flour—
Patents.
$10;
valley,
$9.60;
way in a survey of the construction sidered logical, even unavoidable, that whole wheat. $9.60; graham, $9.20;
Amsterdam. — A sem iofficial tele
leaders had a similar plan.
possibilities here, Mr. Schwab made a Von .Gallwitz’ army, the only one not barley flour, $11 per barrel; rye flour, gram received here Sunday from Vien
Having established working rela most favorable impression among yet used in this year's offensive,
na says:
tions with the California State Rail those he met personally at shipyards should be chosen to carry out these $11.50; cornmeal, $10.60011.40; corn
“ There have been many rumors late
flour
$11.70.
road commission earlier in the day, and at luncheon.
operations.
ly that Austro-Hungarian agents In
Mtllfeed—
Net
mlllfeed
prices,
car-
W illiam G. McAdoo, federal director-
They both went on record for keep
lots; Bran, $30 per ton; shorts, $32; Spain and Switzerland have been
general of railroads, began a series of ing both steel and wooden plants
middlings, $32; mixed cars and less seeking to establish contact with en
conferences late Tuesday with chiefs crammed with orders.
They also
than carloads 50c more; rolled barley, t e nt e emissaries with a view to mak
of the national railroad administration. pointed out any laggards in the plants
ing overtures for peace. A ll such ru
$74075; rolled oats, $69.
mors
are unfounded."
J. H. Kirby, of Houston, Tex., has would find themselves without bus.
Corn— Whole, $73; cracked, $74 per
been appointed lumber administrator ness or means of assisting in the war.
ton.
of the Emergency Fleet corporation to It is a business trip.
Hay— Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
But they are not on the Pacific coast
administer all activities of the ship
Washington, D. C.— News of the dis land: Eastern Oregon timothy, $320 V E T O $2.40 B U S H E L W H E A T
to
scatter
cheer
alone.
They
are
opti
building programme connected with
patch of British reinforcements to Si 33 per ton; valley timothy, $27 0 28;
the production and storage of lumber. mistic about the final outcome of the beria to support the Czecho-Slovaks alfalfa, $24024.50; valley grain hay, President Wilson Declares Farmers'
Mr. Kirby will also assume control war as regards the ability of the Amer and Russians controlling Vladivostok $24026; clover, $21; straw. $9010.
I-oyalty Is Above Price.
ican shipbuilders to meet the 100 per and a long stretch of the trans-Siber
over all logging operations.
Butter— Cubes, extra, 45c; prime
cent demands placed on them for ton ian railroad, was received here Sunday firsts, 44c; prints, extras, 47048c;
A petition for a w rit of probable nage, also they tell that every ounce
cartons, 102c extra; butterfat. No. 1,
Washington, D. C.— In vetoing the
cause, designed to keep Thomas J. of muscle and energy now devoted to through official channels.
Apparently whatever may come of 47051c per pound delivered Portland;
Mooney out of the penitehlfary until the cause must be doubled if possible.
$28,000,000 annual agricultural appro
his case could be acted on by Governor j With them it is an open season on plans for allied and American m ilitary 203c less at stations.
priation bill because of its amendment
Eggs— Oregon ranch, current re
Stephens was denied by the supreme ships as well as Germans, only they intervention in Russia on a great
fixing the government guaranteed min
Beale,
the
hard-fighting
Czecho
slovaks
ceipts, 37c; candled, 41c; selects, 42Vfcc
court at San Francisco Monday. Moon are scoring every ship floated as win
imum wheat price at $2.40 a bushel,
ey is under sentence to hang for mur ning a percentage of the war just as are to be given by the allies the aid per dozen.
the president Informed congress that
necessary
to
prevent
them
from
being
Poultry—
Hens,
26027c;
broilers,
der in connection with a bomb explo every German put out o f combat is
he
did not believe the farmers of
crushed
by
Bolshevik!
forces
operating
30032c; ducks, young, 30c; geese and
sion.
credited as a loss to the Kaiser.
America
"depend upon a stimulation
with released German prisoners.
turkeys, nominal.
“ The general situation Tuesday
of price to do their utmost to serve
Just what British forces have been
Veal—
Fancy,
19c
per
pound.
morning is regarded as satisfactory,”
the nation and the world at this time
dispatched is not known, nor Is it clear
Pork— Fancy, 23c per pound.
says a war department statement
of crisis.”
whether the movement Is part of a
Fruits— Cherries, 6012o per lb.;
based on dispatches from General
The president said the patriotic
general plan of action determined upon peaches, 650$1.4O; new apples, $2.25
Pershing and General Bliss, confirm
in the absence of American approval ©2.50 per box; loganberries, $1.75 per spirit of the farmers has been "worthy
ing press accounts of the fighting Mon
and co-operation in an intervention crate; raspberries, $3 per crate; plums of all praise and has shown them play
day. Warning is given, however, that
program.
$2.2502.50 per box; apricots, $1.7502 ing a most admirable and gratifying
great pressure of reserves is still
part In the full mobilization of the re
British, American and Japanese ma per box.
looked for.
New York.— The Busch family, of rines and bluejackets are already
Vegetables— Tomatoes. $203.00 per sources of the country.”
He added that the bumper crops
German aviators at 11 o’clock Mon St. Louis, bought $1,000,000 worth of ashore at Vladivostok guarding war crate; cabbage, 2V603%c per pound;
day night dropped bombs on the Amer the German war bonds which the gov stores.
lettuce, $2.50 per crate; cucumbers, they have raised this year have re
ican Red Cross hospital at Jouy, ernment believes were sold in this
There is nothing to indicate that $1.2502 per dozen; garlic, 7c; pep lieved “ tho anxiety of the nations ar
France. Tw o enlisted men were killed country for propaganda and for the President Wilson had changed his view pers, 25 0 40c per lb.; peas, 8©10c per rayed against Germany with regard to
and among the personnel nine persons purchase of the New York Evening that a m ilitary expedition to Siberia pound; beans, 12012c per pound; cel their food supplies."
were wounded. Miss Jane Jeffery, an Mail and other newspapers, according could not be undertaken without weak ery, $1.2501.50 per dozen.
Congress was Informed that the
American Red Cross nurse, was among to a statement issued by Alfred L. ening the front In Europe. Until he
Sack Vegetables— Carrots, $2 per president did not believe that such
those wounded, though her injuries Becker, deputy state attorney-general. is satisfied on this point, he Is expect sack;
turnips, $202.25;
parsnips, Inelastic price provisions as contained
Mr. Becker added that probably ed to commit the United States to $1.25; beets, $2.25.
In the bill could be administered in a
are not serious.
more than $100,000,000 worth of the nothing beyond the extensive plan for
Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks, $1.50© way that would be advantageous to
The period for subscribing to the
bonds had been sold in the United economic aid.,
the producer and consumer, because
2 per hundred; new, 3V4c per pound.
eighth Hungarian war loan, which was
States.
Final decision to put this scheme In
Onions— Yellow, $2.50 per sack; red, they established arbitrary levels which
to close on July 12, has been extended
Mr. Becker emphasized the point
are quite Independent of the normal
until July 24, according to advices that while the United States was still to operation is said to have been what $2 per sack.
officials meant last week when they
Hops— 1917 crop, 13014c per pound; market conditions.
from Basel.
neutral the imperial German govern said the period of waiting was over.
The administrative method In fixing
contracts,
16017c.
Eugene V. Debs Thursday notified ment established a fund "to seduce
prices, he said, has been entirely satis
W
o
o
l—
Eastern
Oregon,
35
056c;
the socialist county committee at part of the American press with good
mohair, Oregon, new clip, 55c per lb. factory and should he continued.
Diplomat Leaves Service.
Terre Haute, Ind., that he would de American gold, exchanged for mere
A fixed minimum price of $2.40 a
Washington, D. C.— Edward I. W il
cline the nomination for congress of scraps of paper.”
bushel, the president said, would In
C a ttle—
July 13, 1918.
liams,
chief
of
the.
division
of
far
east
fered him a week ago.
Many Americans, he said, invested
ern affairs, has resigned, effective Prim e steers....................$12.00(0513.00 crease the price of flour from $10.60
Prevention of the threatened short in the German bonds before this coun next September 1, to accept a profes Good to choice s te e r s .. . . 11.000512.00 to $12.50 a barrel and would put an
age of harvest labor in the western try went to war in the same manner sorship at the University of California. Medium to good s te e rs .. 9.00(0)10.00 additional burden of $387,000,000 this
year on the consumers.
wheat belt and the probable saving of that they are now buying liberty The name of his successor has not F air to medium steers ..
8.00(0! 9.00
Such an increase in price, he said,
every acre of the crop is announced bonds, thinking that the money was been made known. As charge d’af
Common to fa ir steers . ,
5.00(0 8.00 would force a similar Increase In Can
to be used legitim ately for the pur
by the federal employment service.
8.50(0) 9.00 ada, thus enlarging the whole scale of
chase of munitions and war supplies, faires In Pekin when the Manchu dy Choice cows and h eifers.
The air superiority of the entente and not suspecting that their dollars nasty was overthrown, Mr. Williams Med. to good cows and h f 6.00(0) 7.50 financial operations In this country by
allies on the Austro-Italian front is in were to be used against their own recognized for the United States the C a n n ers............................- 3.00(0) 4.50 the allied governments and affecting
new Chinese republic. He has spent
dicated by the figures made public country.
22 years in the service of the State B ulls.................................. 6.00(0) 8.00 practically the entire world.
Thursday dealing with the ten days’
C a lves...............................
8.50(0)11.00
department
offensive of the Austro-Hungarians
Stockers and fe e d e r s ...,
7-00(7/ 9.00
Woman
Soldier
Is
Dead.
last June.
Yukon May Get Food Controller.
Hogs—
Douglas, Arlz.— Mrs. Hazel Carter,
War Declared By Haiti.
Dawson, Y. T.— Representations are
A British submarine was slightly who last fall went with an infantry
Port au Prince, Haiti.— The council Prim e m ix e d .................... $17.250/17.50 being made by officials to Ottawa that
damaged and one officer and five men regiment from Douglas to France, dis
of state, acting in accordance with the Medium m ix e d ................ 16.75(0)17.25 a food controller should be appointed
killed when the craft was attacked by guised as a soldier, died at Lordsburg,
legislative powers given it under the Rough h e a v ie s ................ 16.250/16.50 for the Yukon Territory, or that spe
German seaplanes off the east coast N. M„ Friday.
new Haïtien constitution, has unani
P ig s ................................... 15.760/16.25 cial provisions should be made for
o f England July 6, according to an
Mrs. Carter’s husband was a corpor mously voted the declaration of war
17.25 this country as has been done for
admiralty statement.
al in the regiment with which his wife on Germany demanded by the presi B ulk...................................
Alaska by tho United States. It Is
Sheep—
M ajor James B. McCudden, British went to Europe and still is in France. dent of the republic.
Lam bs............................... $ 13.500/14.00 said that many regulations applicable
star airman, wrho is credited with Her identity and sex were not discov
to the rest of Canada are Impractica
Haiti is the twenty-second nation to V a lley lam bs........ 1......... 13.000/13.50 ble here and distance from Ottawa
bringing down 54 German machines, ered until shortly before the ship bear
was accidentally killed while flying ing the troops reached its destination, declare war on Germany. Seven other Y e a rlin g s .......................... 9.OO0/:1O.OO causes confusion In efforts to conform
8.000/) 9.00 local conditions to general food regu
from England to France Tuesday. He and she was sent back to the United countries have broken diplomatic re W eth ers............................
States on a returning transport.
lations.
fe ll on the French coast.
E w es..................................
5.5005 8.00 lations.
Amsterdam.— The death of Field
Marshal von Hlndenburg Is announced
in I.es Nouvelles, a French language
newspaper published at The Hague.
Brief Resume Most Important Von Hlndeuburg's death, which re Counter Attack Hurls Teutons
sulted fnyn congestion of the brain, is
said to have occurred after a stormy
Back Across Marne.
Daily News Items.
interview with the German emperor
at great headquarters at Spa. The em
peror and the field marshal are de
clared to have had serious differences
of opinion concerning the German o f
fensive toward Paris.
The violent interview between von
Hlndenburg and Emperor W illiam took
place on May 16 Les Nouvelles says.
Events o f Noted People, Government* It was followed by an apoplectic New Onslaught Begun Where Allie*
stroke.
Expected Weather Unfavorable
snd Pacific Northwest and Other
The newspaper says its information
was
obtained
“
from
good
sources
in
to Germans Situation Good.
Thing* Worth Knowing.
the occupied district of Belgium.*'
COMPILED
FOR
YOU
CAPTURE
PRISONERS
HUN MOTIVE IS SEEN
PORTLAND TO TURN
OUT MORE VES S ELS
j NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
.
BRITISH TROOPS
SENT TO SIBERIA
HUN PROPAGANDA
FINANCED IN U. S.