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SCtAa4SveA .fAnlfO tJN!jhtCalhlr in Lake Michigan Save Many. KEIV3- ITLIl About Oregon IIM llalfcl ii I) " w.aM pm::if-in-mr W''9R'f- Cf Clir.7 VfHK TAX IS F lav ,f i fef Ci'f al .Ran MaaaM Maii'i. IBS i HUTMaJI ItV jfti n ' ' j tSftt&Ns Items of All Nations and k JWfic HHthmst Condmstd ; P torOur Busy Readers. ' .Offers of 1 per buebel for North- weitern wheat an refused. One child In every five dies of Infan. tile paralysis In new lork. The BUta department decline! stud behind AeMri can -bankers who ware negotiating a mm to uuna. Sir Roger Caeement, tha instigator of tha Iriih revolution, was hanged In London Thursday for - high 'traaaon. The Dautaehland aubmarlne haa eue- eeesfully passed the allies' warships off Cheeapeake Bay and la far out to sea. A hoUl dark In Spokane la een tsncod to 0 dajra in Jail and $760 fine for permitting Illegal aale of liquors in the hostelry. : f , Should the great railroad atrlke now pending be declared, all traffic would bo stopped on 1ZB6 roeou, wits tne ex- eeption of mail and troop trains. Tha Serbian goremmont haa decided to convoke the Serbian parlianiant. King Peter of Serbia and the Greek goTernment ban been advised of thia intention. The garment atrlke which virtually haa paralysed the women'! auit ana cloak industry In New York for nearly four monthi, m declared settled at a general meeting of the atrlke com mittee.' Frank Weet, two-year-old eon of P. A. Weet, of Proassr, Wain., waa drowned in the Snnnyaide canal. The body waa recovered after having been learned through two miloa oiwoou- etave pipe. The supreme lodge of Knights of .Pythiae in aeaalon at Portland laat week, elected John 1. Brown, ol van dalla, III, eupreme chancellor and Charlaa S. Davie, of Denver, vice chancellor. National Guardsmen, relieved from duty on the border for diaability, re turned to Oakland, Cel., to And their armory had been looted of 11600 In clothing by burglara, who had cleaned out every locker. An attempt by Bulgarian aoldlara to oelse an ialand in the Roumanian watera of the Danube river ctoee to tha town of Giurgevo haa earned a eenaation then, according to reports received by Bucbareat newspapers. The ahipbuilding plant, backed by Louie Swift, of Chicago, viee nresi- dent of Swift & Co. and purchaiing agent for the union Heat company tentatively located at Flavel, Or., haa been moved to Portland through effort of Herbert Brown. '' A Zurich diapatch aaya that aeveral : young men paraded the etreeta of that city Tuesday night bearing banner! in- acribed: "We demand compute -mobilization.'' 4 The- police were - obliged to charge the crowd with drawn iworde boron it would disperse. Several persona were wounded. It wae officially announced at the Mexican foreign office that Luie Cab rera, Ygnacio Bonillaa and Alberto Pan! have been selected ae the com- mfeiionen to negotiate with the United States commissioner! regard- ing the questions at issue between Mexico and the United States. Tha supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias is in session at Portland. The heat wave that haa enveloped Chicago and the Diddle Welt, was broken Monday by a stiff breeze from the North. England positively refuses to permit medicines for American Ked Cross so cieties to pass the allies' lines into Germany or Austria. Winston Churchill, former first lord of the British admiralty, declares Eng land waa saved by her navy. During a quarrel between two em ployee of the Union Meat company at Portland, one man was knocked into a vat of boiling water and cooked alive. Striking employes of the three large packing houses in East St. Louis have voted to accept the coneeesions made by the employers and to return to work Tueeday. About 4500 men an involved. The U. S. court at Norfolk, Vs., has rendered a decision which gives back to Bngllah owners the prise ship Ap peal, captured by the Germans. The failure of the Pope'a appeals to tha warring nations for peace was ad mitted by the Pontiff in addressing a delegation of the youth of Rome. Henry Edward Duke, a berister and Unionist member of Parliament for Exeter, waa appointed to be the new chief secretary of Inland in succession to Augustine Birrelt. The new chief secretary will have a seat In the Brit ish cabinet ... ' ' A """ i - L M V- '. I f 1 'fV I V ' ' - -a hi vr -Mi C m W ' , ' . f. V - j; l.,', ( awes. Nitt-ht bathinR in Lake Hichiffan uvea thouianda of penons during the hot spell in Chicago. Farts of the lake front swarms with women bathers till late hours of the night. It is the RAILROAD STRIKE miMABLE Cngress is Urged to Take Immediate Actkw to Fwestafl Trouble. National Chamber of Commerce I lieves Arbitration is Futile Wilson Much Concerned. Weshington, DC Officials of the Federal government, including Presi dent Wilson, an closely watching de velopments in the controversy between 225 railway systems and their 400,000 employes, and an preparing to offer every . possible vaid in effecting an agreement and avoiding a strike. Thursday the Pnsident forwarded to the Labor department an appeal he had nceived from the Chamber of Com merce of the United States declaring a strike inevitable "unless some strong ires of intervention an speedily introduced" and urging an inquiry. Acting Secretary of Labor Post said he was in close touch with the situa tion, but had not decided whether ac tion by the department would be nec essary. The Federal board of mediation and conciliation, which Is authorised by law to attempt 'to avert strikes on railroads, also is keeping watch of de velopments, and its officials expect to be called on as soon as the strike vote, now being counted, has been complete ly canvassed. They said that nothing could be done at present Copies of the chamber's appeal to Pnsident Wilson wen forwarded to chairmen of the congressional com merce committees and the npresenta- tives of the railroads and employes, Harry Wheeler, chairman of the chamber's committee on railroads, said he had rocently attended a meeting of representatives of the employers and employee in New York, and that as a result his conviction was deepened that an amicable settlement was remote. I am assured," he added, "then will be no modification of the attitude of the roads. Neither is it expected that the npresentatives of the men, with the new powerful strike vote in their hands, will ncede from the position which they have taken heretofore." Shark Startles Newport. Newport, Or. Beach bathers were atarteld Thursday when they heard of the capture of a shark at the Devil's Punchbowl, 10 miles north of Newport. Their fears were dispelled later, how ever, when it was learned that It was sand shark and not one of the man- eating species. The shark was washed ashore while Carl Shoemaker, state game warden, was visiting the bowl. He killed it and brought it to Newport, where it is now on display. Two years ago a man-eating shark, 26 feet long, waa killed off Yaquina Bay. Fruit Basket Bill Passed. Waablngton, D. C. "The honest grape, fruit and berry basket bill," by Representative Reavle, of Nebraska, prescribing dimensions for standard baskets for interstate shipment of grapes, small fruits and berries, was passed Thursday by the house. Grape growers of New York and Southern and Western small fruit and berry raisers advocated its passage for pro tection against competitors using un deniaed containers. 4 Wta - a. only way they have to cool off from the great heat of the day. The cus tom may now be so well established that night bathing will become a reg ular feature of the summer. : . , ACTIVITY Of AIICGED SPIES AT PANAMA CANAL IS INVCSnfiAlCD Washington, J C. Activities of persons suspected of being spies em ployed by foreign governments to ac quire information regarding the nature and extent of the defenses of the Pan ama canal have made the administra tion decide to request congress to sup plant the existing laws against im-; proper acquistion of knowledge of mil itary and naval plans and fortifica tions. I Representatives of the department of Justice and the War and Navy de partments have been in conference on the subject, and it is expected that they will agree on some drastic legislation to be submitted to congress. It is possible that the scope of the conference may be extended beyond the original ideas of a mere protection of the secrets of ..the American coast defenses to cover generally such at tempts as have been common since, the beginning of the present war to de stroy powder and ammunition plants, on which the United States govern ment must rely in time of trouble. Several of the military powers of the world are believed to have under taken to obtain information as to the character of the defenses of the Pana ma canal. The latest incident to ex cite suspicion is the operations of a little Japanese power vessel, ostensi bly a fishing launch, which sought to obtain a permit for pearl fishing in the waters of Panama bay and vicinity. The canal authorities have been warned that this craft appeared to have been making surveyB and that these were not confined to the water but extended to the isthmus proper. While these operatious may have been perfectly innocent in intent and only such soundings were made and bearings taken as might be incident to the pursuit of pearl fisheries, the canal zone authorities have regarded the matter as of sufficient importance to warrant investigation and report to Washington. Meanwhile, licenses have been withheld until some general line of policy can be formulated to govern all such cases. Bottle Telle Zeppelin's Fate. Berlin Extracts from lettera found last February in a bottle picked up in the Skageraak, containing laat mes sages from the commsnder and crew of the Zeppelin L-19, wrecked in the North Sea, have been given out. The writings included the final report of the Zeppelin's commander, written an hour before the airship went down. The greater part of the extracts consist of personal meaaages to members of the victims' families. One. of them says "an English trawler came along thia morning, but nfused to save us." British Save Suez Canal. ' London The Turkish army of 13,- 000 soldiers which attacked British positions on Auguat 4 at Roman!, 22 miles east of the Suez canal, baa been thoroughly defeated, according to the latest official statement. The Turks an now in full retreat and were hotly pursued for 18 miles by British troops. The number of unwounded Turks captured wos 3145. Among the prle oners were 70 Germans, including SO officers. A complete battery of Ger man guns waa also tsksn. - ' Hughes' Auto Searched. ' Niargra Falls. Charles E. Hushes. en route to Detroit, apent Sunday here. At his request there waa no public re ception. - . During the automobile ride in Can ada, at a lonely spot a Canadian sol dier, with fixed bayonet, ordered the driver to halt and eearched the ear for expleaives, The soldier, when told of Mr. Hughes' identity, replied with a grin that he waa sorry, but Canadian military rules made no exception. DcmcnSc Seciwis Cd fcr $1830 Ikiactiai n heStds. Surtax on Earnings of More Than Two Millions To Be Increased From 10 to 13 Per Cent Washington, D. C. Reduction of the income tax exemption from 18000 to f20O0 for single persona and from 14000 to $3000 for those with f ami Hi was ordered recommended to the sen ate Saturday by Democratic members of the finance committee who an re vising the house revenue bill. The change ie proposed in an amend ment which would put tha additional $1000 taxes in aeparate claaalflcatlon and impose on it a normal tax of 1 per cent Instead of the I per cent as sessed against incomes of mon than 13000 for single persons and of mon than (4000 far married persons, The amendment after an all-day dis cussion prevailed by a majority' of only one vote, opposition persisting to tne last. After announcement of the result Chairman Simmons, some of the Dem ocratic senators said that the decision waa tentative and might be overturned when the amendment was submitted to the full membership of the committee. The rolleall on the amendment was not disclosed. Thoes who favored it emphalesed the erave naeeaaltv for ad ditional revenue, and bad estimates before them showing that the proposed exemption reductions would add about 6,000,000 to the treasury. It prob ably would increase several fold the total number of taxable incomes. The amendment ia the second change in tne Income tax proposed by the sen ate Democrats, wno voted to ti the surtax on incomes in excess of 82,000,000 from 10 to 18 per cent It is estimated that the surtax will bring In 810,000,000 additional revenue, Hot Wave s Qucag Worse Thai hvk RdM Sgkt Chicago After a brief respite which aouotleees saved bundreds of lives In that it gave the public an opportunity to take a fresh grip on life, the deadly heat wave again aettled down over all the Middle Weat Sunday and promises to stay for several days. - Up to 8 o'clock tha coroner had re ports of two deaths from aunatroke,and four drownings in Chicago and then wen many prostrations. The official temperature waa 97, but on the streets it was 100 and in the suburbs 101, with scarcely a .breath of air. The percentage of humidity waa also high and the lake water at the bathing beaches showed temperatun of 78. i Dispatches from surrounding terri tory told of numreuos prostntionsiand much sickness, the result of the con tinued heat. The few cool days In Chicago wen not felt in the surround ing country, but wen confined to the district within a few miles of Lake , Michigan, i Consequently the country districts have been scorching and smothering for practically 80 days with no nlief. ' Weather if oreeaaten ear then ie no hope of cooler weather in eight. 1 -i . ; Thirty-Three Infants Die In Day. New Yosk Thirty-three deaths wen caused by infantile naralvsis ban during the 24-hour period ending at 10 a. m. Sunday, Then jwas a decrease of eight from the record of the pre vious day. New cases of the disease reported numbered 219, an increase of 24 over the previous 24-hour period. According to the health authorities. the epidemic appeared to be apreading faster in Brooklyn than in any of the other four boreugha of the greater city. Since tne, Inception of the em. demic there have been 8098 cases, of wnicn ivini nave neon ratal. ; Soldl.rs Oct Flea Bags. New York Eighteen hundred "in sect bags," designed to protect the troops from flees which Infest many of uie camps aiong me Mexican inorder, wen forwarded Monday to the soldiers of the Twelfth Infantry, New York National Guard, at McAUen, Tex., by the women of the army and navy sup ply committee of the American De fense society. Tha bags an filled with naphthalene, and an made to fit over a man's shoulders, one end suspended down bis chest and the other down hjs African Bullion Araa. ; Baltimore Between 81000,000 and 13,000,000 worth of gold Ibullion wss the principal part of theargo of the Brltleh steamer 8usquebanna, which arrived ben Saturday front the weet coast of Africa. The bullion waa soon removed from the ship to fear big ex nreaa wagons, which took it to a rail road station. Presumably it is now on Its, way to uanaoa under guard of prtvi uvea. Oresm Will Rle far Share In Government Good Roads Fund Salem 'Oregon'a loll skew of tha, Federal good roada appropriation, asBountlng to 171,000, for 1916, under the Shaeklaford Mil paaaad recently by con, i see, will be claimed at memben of the State Highway mlaaion and advisory board decided Mondav. Governor Wlthyeombe, ia behalf of the State Highway eommiaaton, within the next few days will make a formal nquoet of the secretary of Agrleoltun for the money which It Ie deelred to una thia year, If possible. He will re quest Attorney General Brown for an opinion ngarding certain features of the 'Federal law authorising the appro priation, and then will tender hie for mal request to the government for tha money. Decision to aak for Ongon's 1916 share of the Federsl allotment provid ed under the Shaeklaford moaaun was made aa a result of a conference of the Highway commission with members of the advisory board and a delegation from Portland, Tha Portland npro aentativsa wan urgent that action to gat the money be immediate, fearing that to delay until the leglilature meet! might result in the state's los ing its allotment from the government for thia year. 'Under the provisions -of the govern-'! ment measure Oregon must match the Federal appropriation with an equal1 amount of money, which la to be ex pended as .may be decided upon by! state highway officials and the Been-: tary of agncultun. ' In matching the government1 appro priation, assurances wen given by the Multnomath county delegation that the county was already prepared to expand lao.oov on road work on the Columbia River highway. S. Benson said that he would give' 816,000 for road improvement, and the highway commission decided to allot 118,000 remaining in the highway fund for work on KUthton Hill on the Columbia highway, in Hood River county. That leaves only 810,000 to complete the 178,000 needed to match tha government allotment Mine Makes Big Clean-up. Grants Pass Tha largest Individual cleanup ever reported In Josephine county la that of the Sammons-Cameron-Logan mine at Waldo, in this county, and brought to this city for shipment Wedoeeday. Four hundred and eighty-four ounces of pun gold) molded Into three hand some pale-yellow bricks, wen brought to the banks of thia city, the came be ing vaiuea at wuuu. it lamwrted that the balance of the cleanup, dis bursed in other channels, will bring tne grand total up to upward of 114, 000 Thirty-four days of actual labor an represented in the making of this handsome return. This reliable old hydraulic deep-gravel mine has been a steady producer for over 60 yean and never falls of a handsome return to ita ownere. Grant Crops in Danger. ' Baker Grasshoppers and gophers are causing serious damage to hay, grain and gardens In Grant county. In the Long creek district the grass hoppers have Invaded hay fields. W. H. Hiatt report! that his timothy is becoming seriously damaged and he feam that they will attack his grain fields. They an known .to have caused considerable lose to other fields. The ranchers are preparing to fight the pest which, it is feared, may become general. Gophers have been invading gardens in that district and the losa ia very heavy, although it ia not thought It will be as general throughout the county aa that caused by the grasshop pers. . ' 1 - 1 Bend to Join in Exhibit Bend The Bend Commercial club will join the other commercial . organ isations of Crook county in making an exhibit at the State Fair at Salem this fall. At a recent luncheon and meet ing of the club support of the move ment to tne extent of 8100 waa tdedsod and It waa voted to send a rapreeenta- nve to no next meeting of the County court to aak for an appropriation In aid to tha plan. The club alao voted to campaign for the Homsal to extami the city limits, which will be voted m at a special dty election Auguat 16. " Florence Mill to Start! ' '' Eugene According to- word reach ing Eugene from Florence, the Porter Brothers' sawmill will aeon begin cut ting 16,000,000 feet of lumber. It ia said that then an '10,000,000 feet of loga in tha inlU food;, to which 6,000, 000 feet men will be added for the run. It ia aatlmaeed teat ,tha men tions will centime six months and that 100 man will bfrecnoloved. The Porter Brothers' mlll haa not bean in opera tion for mon than two years. Big 8heep Shipment Mad. Baker Robert Btafsseld. oMMui. field, began Wedneodav the ehinmant of9000 wetbars and swes from Baker to a meat company In San Faneioto. Tto first shlpmmt of 4800 eUTUd in special train. The remainder will be sent at'vnee, w-- The sheep are from tha snneabw lands In the Summer vallav and ,an part of an order for 100,000, practi cally all of which haa bean shipped. Spm w" mil f' f" lu.,0 Uwr trwll L.vUj Most Damage In Not fckS, Ok rnsota and Manitoba 0:L.i Cancelled by ISertfinSa. 4 l-'-a i. Ctuaafo-rHall, black rott and blight damage to the' spring "wheat crop of tha Northwest caused an ad vanes of 4 cants a bushel on the Chicago board of trade Saturday. ' Accent advance) waa scored Thursday. At tha 'high record prises were 8 cents higher-than tha low paint In June. September closed at 61.84J. December at $1.88,, and May at $1.48. i . Reporta reached the trade that in some section! of .North Dakota and Southern Manitoba the crop bad bean rained by hail Wednesday night and Thursday. Several hug Insurance companies with hbadqoarten in Chi cago received messages saying that the crop waa a total loss. Most of the ball damage was In the northern part of North Dakota. Tha crop in Bottineau county la ruined. Mercantile companies In that section have cancelled all order! for futon de livery. Even orders for such necessi ties aa shoes and etovoa have been can celled. Ordinarily a tS-aant advance,,, in tha price of wheat in a little mora, than a month brings fortunes tomany iof tha big operators on the board of trade. That has not been true during the present rise. Nearly all of the big lo cal tradan have been fighting the mar ket, or rather fighting the damage re porta, and prieee have gone up without their aid. - Even tha Northwest, when ' the daman was taking place, waa a seller of wheat' in thia market .until'' a few days ago. That caused the belief that the damage reporta wen 'exaggerated i i i . i n uy N. mane uuii. - v , , !ti Some of the board's exporters have made large winnings, and a coterie of Wall-atreet grain man, who an aaid to have large -holding! of wheat under $1.20 a bushel, an credited with prof its of around $2,000,000. . r - Tha disaster in the Northwest haa proved a blessing to the winter wheat growers. Thirty days ago they ware able to get only $1 a bushel for their grain. Now the price is a third higher. ...':.,'" ' ... .-v ... :,): .),.'. IV, " MHa fais b) fesctt His Kafroafrftatblari London Sir Ernest Shackleton haa again failed to rescue the main 'body of his Antarctic expedition left on Ele phant island. Bays the Daily Chronicle, and has ,ntumed to the Falkland is- Sir Emeet returned on board the steamer Emma, aaya a Reuter diapatch from Port Stanley. "The ihip waa forced back by heavy galea and ice and It was found Impossl ble to get near aiiephant Island througn the pack lee, The chip waa badly damaged, the en gines wen damaged, and the Emma was obliged to proceed under sail. Bit rJrnest, the correspondent adda, recognises that it is useless to force a with a light ihip and he is waiting for the steamer Discovery to coma from England. 1 fori i&k Tvtt-D Strip , , . Itct ute it Vtrfat London Joffre's men an masters now of a bloodstained strip of 'ground ithrea mllea long and about a mfla deep just north of Verdun, which they have won from the Germans In on of the most hotly-fought and bloody battles of tlw long'Struggle on the Mouse, At the close of three days of their offen sive they have" conquered ground which It took tha Crown Prince's army more than four weeks to wrest from them. jt Fishing Pact May Pais. ''Washington, D. C. ; Senator Lena, ' win haa been stoutly opposing the bill heretofore paseed by the house ratify ing thrcompact between the states of Oregon and Washington, under which they propose to exercise joint jurisdic tion!' over fisheries In tha Columbia river, Is showing sign) of relenting. If Im dees thia the bill will osss. aa Senator Lena alone hat prevented ita paaaaga so several occasions. The fall ore of the opposing fishermen to Ala initiative) ', petition robbed: Senator Lane of his chief ground of opposition. " . Pive-Oent Loaf Decried. i Chicago. The K-cent loaf of bread mat re. 'Tola ia the cry with which 400 Cnleago baken dcparted Saturday fee SaifcLeke Chy, tjbslvto attend tha annual convention of the. National Aa- snd to at tempt to persuade that body that 19 cents is the lowest price at which a WMl"d (pat .(tfjtnjrt, cap be sold ljn nrpAt, m., , In the party wen scores sf bakers from Eeatern citlee.