I: Brief fcsra of fiesad bfs FmniAllAnjrifebl Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed -for Our Busy Readers. The total registration (or the city of Loe Angeles indicate that in popula tion now ii 628.425. The new Trolpastta eanil in Sweden M been opened by Kim; uustar. Toe canal connect! Wener Lake and the North Sea. A greater Canada, industrially and politically, when peace ie declared, ie predicted by Baron Shaughneaey, nrea- ident of the Canadian Pacific railway. Detectivea In St. Louie have recov ered 113,000 of the 32,000 stolen from paymaster of the Burroughs Adding Machine company in Detroit August 4. Ten persona,, mostly school children, remained for an hour and a half In the municipal hydraulic elevator at Oregon City, Or., when the cage stuck mid way in Its 90-foot shaft An Invitation from the Japanese to hold the next convention of the World's Sunday School association in Tokio has been accepted. The eonven- - tion will be held after the war. Nine aviators from the army train ing achool in San Diego, five of whom were flying for their junior military aviators' licenses, made the round trip to Los Angeles without mishap. The British mine-sweeping vessel Genista has been torpedoed and sank, according to the British admiralty. Alt the officers and 73 members of the crew were lost, only 12 escaping. Even the price of stale bread has been Increased in San Francisco, "Yesterday's bread" used to aell two loavea for a nickel. Now the price ie three loaves for a dime or four for 16 eenta. ' '-.'.' ' - Everything in the port of Constania that would have been useful to Field Marshal von Mackensen's force was destroyed by Russian Bailors before the fort was evacuated, says a Reuter dispatch from retrograd. The adoption of a resolution forbid ding its members from engaging in the practice of the division of fees under any guise whatever, was a feature of the -Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America in Philadelphia. Some utterances of the feeling that the activity of American warships in rescuing passengers from the vessels sank by the German submarine U-58 off the American coast amounted to a breach of neutrality were made In the House of Lords by Baron Beresford and Baron Sydenham. Ex-President Taft, in a speech at St. Louie, attacked Samuel Compere, president of the American Federation of Labor, for misleading labor with reference to the Dan bury hatters' ease and for shifting to the shoulders of others the responsibility resulting from his bad counsel. Cognisance of the allied blockade was taken by the Foatofflce depart ment in recommending to postmasters at offices where international money orders are sold, to post notice advising patrons to purchase such .orders in tended for Christmas presents by De cember 1, or as soon after that time ae convenient Roumanians lose Constant, an Im portant port on the Black Sea, to the Germans and Austrian. After killing Sheriff Stier. of Queens county, New York, with a shotgun, and keeping at bay a posse of police and deputy sheriffs who had surround ed his home, Frank Taft, 66 years of age, was shot and instantly killed by one: of the besiegers. Taft shot Stier, who served him with a wan ant after he had been adjudged in contempt of court for failing to appear as a wit- The wholesale price of flour is now quoted in Portland at 17.80 a barrel. Twenty-four Indians of the Coeur d'Alene district have qualified to be come U. S. citizens, The U. S. Supreme Court refused to review the conviction of. the three officials of the Western Fuel company, of San Francisco, who were convicted of defrauding the government by f alee weighing of dutiable coal. The men . will now have to serve their respective prison terms. Seattle proposes to take over the power plants of the Fuget Sound Trac tion company, at an estimated cost of 110,000,000. Viscount Grey, secretary of Eng land's foreign affairs, Bay allies won't talk peace, but declare objects of this war must be realized, as a guarantee pof international peace of the future. I - Spontaneous combustion caused the explosion of a 20,000-gallon tank of gasoline at the plant of the California Food Products company at San Pedro, which was partially destroyed by the fir which followed. f uvulj Kw3 hi vnn 1mI London A private telegram received at the American consulate Monday af ternoon from Crook Haven says that a number of American were drowned when the British steamship Mai was torpedoed by German submarine. London The American embassy Monday received a report from Wesley Frost, American consul atuueenstown, that the British steamship Marina had been torpedoed without warning. It Is believed a number of Americans ware on board. Lloyd'a report says only S4 members of the crew of 104 have been landed at Crook haven. American Consul Is now procuring Bfiidavita from survivors. A report on the sinking on October 26 of tne British steamship Kowan- more also was made to the American embassy by Mr. Frost, who states that the vessel was torpedoed. Seven Americans, Including five Filipinos, were on board the Rowanmore. Sev eral of them have given Mr. Frost affi davits stating that a submarine shelled lifeboate while they were being low ered and after they were clear of the ship, without causing loss of life. Newport News, Vs. There were 60 Americans on the Britain steamship Marina, reported torpedoed and sunk without warning In dispatches from London, when she Bailed from Newport NewB. The Americans were signed here aa horsemen. Washington, D. C. Dispatches to the state department aay the Marina, when aunk, had a mixed crew of Brit ish and Americana and that she was sunk by gun fire without warning. Consul Frost at Queenstown speci fied that the information he tranamit tod was "provisional." Investigation will be made at once to determine the status of the Marina and the nature of the attack to determine whether any of Germany pledges to the United States had been violated. Aflitrkai CentoitHH on Blacklist is Refused by Great Britain Washington, D. C The next move of the United States in the controversy over the biackliet of American firma will not be determined until offlcialB have had ample time-to examine Great Britain's reply to the American: note of July 28, protesting against it The reply reached the SUt ospartnent Monday from the London -.embassy.. Secretary Lansing said he had net de cided when it would be mad public. L The note refuse the American con tention, which termed the blacklist "an arbitrary interference with neu tral trade," but ia understood to offer methods of relief which may lie avail able in some instances 'to leases litaarj rigors of interference. . . An Amertcanireply M amort rtln to be made, based on the contention that the blacklist violate the . criminal treaty of 1816; that ..in singling out certain American firma, aiameVdUerim ination 1b shows and that an Illegal action 1b taken,' designed taprerent trade with Germany aid to knl which should be accomplished throullvblocl ade and contraband BSBtrictjbin. It may be argued that, the bUcklk is as signed to cripple firms trading with Germany to destroy- German trade more than for the .immediate; pnpoae of war. ' '!' ' SUM tmUUafs'flat, fcr Lob Anprele A coantoffBitlar ttiant which was raftl to have produced the notorious ipurioUs 10 Federal lUierve Jackion silver -'eertificMe, was.foand Sunday in the ttudfo of H. BummI WU ken. when aeoret larvice operatives from San Francisco brought Wilken here to leise the eutflt alter his arrest in Santa Cruz and hie alleged confes sion that he had made and passed more than $50,000 of spurious paper in sev en years. The plant a copper etching outfit was found concealed in a covered sink in a room on the second story of 311 South Hill street, three blocks from police headquarters and in the heart of the city. Wilken 's quarters were fit ted up as a studio, and he pretended to carry on a business of commercial art, according to the authorities. There were easels, unfinished pictures, a painting jacket and brushes about, although Wilken apparently worked at his profession only enough to make it a blind for counterfeiting. Three Die In Two Auto Wrecks. Palouse, Wash, -Koscoe Davis, age 22, and Alvin Slier, age 21, were found dead under a new automobile Sunday, two miles from here. There were no witnesses to the accident. The tracks indicate that the machine swerved and was jerked back so sud denly that it overturned. The ma chine was the first in the Davis family. Kellogg, Idaho Mike Bogonovich, 80, was found dead underneath his au tomobile on the highway between Kel logg and Wallace early Sunday night. Nicaragua Revenue Taken. Managua, Nicaragua Americans are taking over the management of all the internal revenues of Nicaragua. A dispatch from Managua, October 1, says it was reported American bankers to whom the Nicaraguan gov ernment was indebted, had notified Nicaragua that It must liquidate the indebtedness by October 15 or that otherwise tbey would take -over suffi cient of the country's revenues -to re imburse them. GGr;i A(MA Berlia Says 11 Ottpst Vessels nd Several Iwpedi Craft SCENE IS IN ENGLISH OIO London Declares Two Attackers Were Destroyed Germans Claim All Returned Safely to Base. Berlin, via London At least 11 out post steamers and two or three torpedo boat destroyers or torpedo boats were sunk or damaged by a German torpedo boat squadron Thursday night in the English Channel between Folkestone and Boulogne, according to an official communication issued here. The German torpedo flotilla returned safely to its base without any loss. The communication says : 1 "Part tf our torpedo forces moved from a German base Thursday night through the Straits of Dover and Ca lais to the line of Folkestone-Boulogne, in the English Channel. "According to the report of Com mander Mi chelae n at least 11 outpost steamers and two or three destroyers or torpedo boats were sunk, partially or totally, near hostile ports. Some members of the crews who were saved were captured. Several other guarding vessels and at least two destroyers were heavily damaged by torpedo and artillery Are. Also the English outpost steamer Queen was sunk south of Folkestone, the crew having time to leave the ship. In the channel near the Farnene lightship there was a strikingly active traffic by hospital ihips. "Our torpedo boats safely returned to German waters without any loss." 'London Ten German torpedo boat destroyers attempted to raid the Brit ish cross-channel transport service Thursday night, but the attempt railed, says an official statement is- bythe British admiralty. Two of, the German destroyers were sunk and the others were driven off. fine British torpedo boat destroyer, tne flirt, Lieutenant Richard r. Kel- lett in command, 1b missing, the Brit ish statement adds, and another de stroyer, the Nubian, Commander Mon tague-Bernard was disabled by a tor pedo and ran . aground. Nine members of the crew of the Flirt were saved. The German destroyers succeeded in sinking one empty transport, the Queen. The crew was saved. Kaiser Asks New War loan; Total Credits 52 Billion Marks Berlin A new war credit bill for 12,000,000,000 marks, was submitted to the reichstag Saturday by Count Von rloedern, secretary of the imper ial treasury, who also reviewed - the successes of the German war finance and compared them-with the practices followed by the countries opposed to Germany. Count Von Roedem said that the total German war credits up to now amounted to 52,000,000,000 marks. Explaining the practice of the German treasury,, the. imperial treasurer said: "On the basis of the war credit granted by Parliament in all cases short-term treasury bonds which were regularly consolidated with long-term loans in the months of March and Sep tember were issued. The amount of more than 47,000,000,000 marks sub scribed to these loans, of which 45,. 000,000,000 marks already had been paid, proves the success of this finan cing policy. The German nation In 1914 produced from its own resource 4,500,000,000 marks in such loans; in 1815 more than 21,000,000,000 marks, and in 1916, 21,000,000,000 marks also. " 'J You will remember that the first four loans were essentially of the same type, carrying 6 per cent interest and having approximately the same price of issue. There having been raised in thiB fashion 86,000,000 marks in round figures the question seemed just ified as to whether the fifth loan could be placed under the same conditions," Mexicans Run to U. 8. for Protection. El Paso, Tex. Three unarmed Mex icans, chased by bullets from their Bide of the border, splashed through the Rio Grande' Thursday to protection of an outpost of Company G, Fifth Ohio infantry, stationed several miles north of El Paso. The fugitives informed the guardsmen that they were political' prisoners freed from the Chihuahua penitentiary by Villa on September 16. Being in sympathy with Villa, they aaid they had .escaped and worked northward, being chased by Carrania scouts as they approached the river. Poa's Workshop Must Go. Richmond. Va Edgar Allen Foe's old workshop, now the Southern Liter-' ary Messenger building, must be torn down within five days, under a court order entered on complaint that the building was unsafe. A citizens' com mittee trying to preserve the building as a memorial to the poet, who pro duced many of hia earlier writings in it, will have the structure rased in such a way that it can be reconstructed on the grounds of Richmond College. CSS SCv7CCr."JI OILS. Santo Domingo In an engagement between American troops and rebel forces Tuesday, General lUmon Ba tista was killed. Several Americans also are reported killed, inoludlnf two officers, and' one American officer wounded, The names of the American officers killed are given a Captains William Low and Atwood. Lieutenant Morri son was wounded. . The American commander attempt ing d to irreetGanenu Batista, and the latter ordered an attack on the American force. Fighting continued for a considerable time, but the rebels were eventually defeated. The engagement took place opposite Santo Domingo City and caused a panic in the capital. Reinforcements were Bent there to aid American troops in maintaining order. The number of rebels killed and wounded In the fight are at present unknown. Washington, D. C. No -report on the fight In Santo Domingo had reached the Navy department Tuesday night, but offlcialB assumed that the latest outbreak was the work of a small band of rebels who recently revolted from the Doimnican army, and that It dia not presage any general attempt at disorder. Last report from the Island told of comparative auiet throughout the re public, where the American marine forces are busy organising the native constabulary, which ia to place the country under the direction of Ameri can officers. Carrara Ihoaght Prepariig to Hee; ramiiy Already ia U. S. Washington, D. C. Charges that General Carrania le preparing to leave Mexico were being freely mode Dy ms political opponents in Mexico Wednes day. They are baaed on hia decision to leave his capital for Queretaro, and the fact that Mrs. Carrania already has crossed the border Into the United Itbtee. accompanied by the wife of her huaband'B war minister and chief sup porter. General Obregon. Information to this effect is reach ing officials here from various reliable m. So far nothing tangible tend ing to support the story ha come through official channels. It is known, however, that many officials here be lieve General Carrania has committed a political blunder, at least, if he is not in fact preparing for flight, by permitting his family to leave Mexico lust at this time. The purpose of the visit of Mrs. Carrania and Mrs. Obregon, aa ex plained at the Mexican embassy, Ib for a tour of the United States. Word of the arrival at the border also of Mrs, Jacinto Trevino, wife of the military commander of Chihuahua state, had not been received. It was pointed out, however, that Trevino has been among Carransa'B Btauneheat support ers and If the first chief believed his hold on the political situation was weakening, Trevino probably would be warned, in order that he might also place his family in safety. The Stat department had not re ceived word that Generals Carrania and Obregon had left Mexico City for Queretaro. Previous advises, wow- ever, said that the first chief could go to that place in connection with the meeting of the constitutional conven tion, for which delegates were elected last week- This la the only explana tion obtainable here for Carransa'B de parture. frendi Regain GroitRd at Verdui. Paris In a powerful series of at tacks on the Verdun front, the French have captured the village and. fort of Douaumont," advanced beyond the Thlaumont work farm and also occu pied the Haudremont quarries, north of Verdun, according to the bulletin is sued by the war office Wednesday night. The prisoners captured and counted thue far number 8560. Nearly two miles was gained on a front of four and a third miles. The official communication saya '10n,the Verdun front, after intense artillery preparation, an attack the right bank of the Meuae was launched at 11:40 a. m. Wednesday. The enemy line, attacked on a front of seven kilometers, waa broken through everywhere to a depth which, at the center, attained a distance of three kilometers, nearly two miles," . Bidder Want Navy Craft. Washington, D. C. The extraordi nary demand for ships on the Pacific Coast was demonstrated Wednesday when bids were opened at the Navy department for the sale of the torpedo boat Fox, now lying at the Puget Sound navy yard and condemned. She built at Portland in 1897. and the board of survey recently appraised her at iduu. John Kothachlld 4 Co., San Francisco, bid 11800: Chicago Machin ery A Equipment Co., Seattle, 11038; rtwaer a Marcus, Beanie, 13111, and Phillips Morrison, of Seattle, 11605. : . Quake Renewa Oil Flow, Bakerefield, Cal Advices received Wednesday from the Maricopa oil dis trict, v mile southwest of here, re late that the earth tremblor of laat Sunday have caused the resumption of the now or on from a well that had been latent for more than two years. xne wen ie in the loothllla mar Maricopa, and it ia aaid that in the past when earthquakes were felt the varfoue wells in that vicinity ban in creased their production. NEWS ITEMS (XCcmtiI loterat About Oregon Car Shortage Reaches 2186 in State of Oregon Salem The car shortage on the Portland division of the Southern Pa cific Wednesday reached 2186, a new record, and indications that It will continue to mount are given In! re porta which have been received by the Ore gon Public service commission. The company reported that it had orders on file for 25(7 freight cars and only 871 empty can available for loading. Residents In Tillamook county who own stock art threatened with serious consequences because of their Inability to obtain hay. Large amounts of hay are shipped annually to Tillamook. Thia year only a few cars are available and a shortage in hay has resulted. The Public Service commission re ceived a vigorous complaint from Rosenberg Borthers. of Tillamook, asking for relief . They assert that they annually ship In from 100 to 160 cars of hay from the Willamette valley and store it in their warehouses. ThiB season they declare they have been setting only one car every 10 days, where they need from one to three a day. With no hay stored, the Tilla mook people foresee a serious situa tion next winter, when it will be im Dosalble to ship in because of the un certain railway connections at that time of the year; Hood River School Board to Use Fuel Oil This Winter Hood River Hood River's high school building and the 130,000 annex to the structure, now roaring compli tion. will be heated with oil. With few necessary change made the old wood furnace will be used. From 12,000-gallon tank the fuel will be pumped to the furnace by the electri cally driven pump. By using oil instead of wood the school board estimates a saving of more than 1276 will result this year. The oil delivered at the big new tank, costs 1.20 par barrel. Body fir cord wood la sellnig for $5.60 per cord. By the time the wood is sawed and put basements the cost 1b increased about II per cord. A barrel of oil, it is said, is more than equal to half a cord of wood. . Coos Tract May Be Cut. Harshfleld A company of Harsh. field men of whom W. J, Conrad is an interested member, 1b negotiating for the timber from a tract of i Southern Pacific land lying west of Boulevard Park, an addition located between Harshfleld and North Bend. The tract eontaiha about 700 acres and had some of the only remaining old growth tim ber adjacent to the city of Marshneld, In the event the deal ia consummat ed, the timber will be logged into Pony inlet and sold to the various mills on Coos Bay,. The timber in question lies In the Pony Inlet water shed,' hut Its cutting would not affect the Cooe Bay Water company's supply, since the reservoir Is above the place where it is proposed to cut. Mail Service Improved. ' ' Harahfleld Smith River residents, who live on a tributary of the Ump qua river, and have a stream navigable for 26 miles, are to have an Improved mail service. Instead of receiving semi-weekly malls, they will hereafter be supplied three times a week. Cap tain William Dewar has obtained the contract, will leave Sulphur Springs, at the head of tidewater, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The mail route is between Sulphur Springs and Beedsport, but arrangements have been made for a private extension to Gardiner, three miles from Reedsport. Smith river is one of the most fertile and productive sections of Oregon. ' 70 Cars of Apples to Go. Roseburg, That approximately 70 carloads of apples will be shipped from Douglas county to the Eastern markets during the present season is the esti mate of local buyers. The Umpqua Valley Fruit Union will handle about 80 carloads of apples, while the Pro ducers' Fruit company will ship about the same amount. In addition to the consignments handled by these firms not less than 10 carloads of apples will be assembled and shipped from distant parts of the county. Thus far this season 11 carloads of apples have been shipped from Doug la county. Economy Proves Costly. Portland Saving of waste paper and other combustible material by business houses of the city will necessitate the city incinerator once more to use fuel in the furnaces at the city incinerator. The heavy supply of paper and other inflammable stuff haa made the pur chase of fuel at the plant unnecessary for several years. It ia reported that an insufficient amount of combustible material la being received now to keep tne nres going, a request is made for a 62000 appropriation for purchase of fuel for the plant next year. Chin Pheasants Liberated. Gaston J. H. Wnamtt nt 1.1. place, haa just recevied a crate of young China pheasants from the State Game commission, to be liberated in this locality. They were turned out on the Benjamin Ward farm near a patch of kale and wilt be earefullv protaetad. , ( iH.Jil W s ,L Rallfcateis&aiiratJCJ . IfcSaslitil ISSUE IS a O American Importers and .Kaiuiac- turers Depend on Great Britain for Fourteen Base Items. Washintgon, D. C Domination by the allied nations of the world' raw materials which are essential to Amer ican manufacturers have -been pnrnd conclusively to officials her by the' completion Thursday of a eomprenen siv summary of British trad polldee aa to Imports Into this country. As a result the recent Paris economic con ference of the entente powrs Is -regarded here with far greater disquiat than before. The proposed commercial war after the war, at first viewed skeptically as outlining policies which could not sur vive the heat of war or the operation of perennial economic forces, Is looked upon as a mora practical proposition in the light of the investigation. Consequently an earnest study of the facts available is being made, and every effort extended to supplant ib information now at hand. Every fndl cation since the conference baa tended to decrease the feeling that It provla ions could not be carried through. Since then, it Is pointed out, the black Hat, which had been enforced by Eng- i land for some time, ha ham accepted in principle by all the allies. . What is more, the agreement mad then f or the closer economic unity he-' ) tween the governments is shown by reports now coming in to be working out through mutual concessions, ex cluding other countries from their benefits. In the compilation of the various agreements which England haa instituted in this country to prevent allied resources from going to Ger many's aid Ib seen a -strong indication of what the alilea might do through different methods after the war. This domination of the supply of certain- raw materials demonstrated after a year of war, considered In con nection with article 8 of the Paris agreement, ia believed to constitute a diBtinct 'menace :to tola country. Ar-. tide 8 aaya: "The allies declare themselves agreed to conserve for the allied coun tries, before all others, their natural resources during the whole of the per iod of commecrial, industrial, agri cultural and maritime reconstruction, and for this purpose they undertak to establish special arrangements to fa cilitate the interchange of these re sources." There are no leu than 14 different forms for various kinds of materials which American importers muflt fil with their consuls before certain good can be released to them from the Brit lsh dominions. These materials, according to the complete list, include tin, chloride of tin and tin ore; wool, jute, shellac, tanning materials, antimony, rubber, diamonds, mica, raw leather, plum bago, all the alloys of Iron, - including ferro-manganese, cobalt, chrome, tung- . sten, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel and several kinds of ore. i Where possible the restriction ia effected through the chief American associations of maunf acturen Interest ed, such as the New York Metal Ex change for metal, the National Asso ciation of Tanners Tor tanning mater- - ibis, tne united States Shellac Import ers' association for shellac, and the Textile Alliance for wool and jut. In cases where the importer cannot ap ply through and be vouched for by such an organisation he sign a per sonal agreement with the British con- ' suL Land Applications Ar Up. San Francisco Thursday's session of the United States district court, in which the so-called Oregon-California land-fraud trial is being held, was oc cupied by Identifying some 800 appli cations for land, filed by Attorney MIL ton Cook, on of the six defendnets, in behalf of applicants. W. 8. Boyer, a special agent of the Department of Justice, was on the stand and testified that in many instance the applica tions for certain described quarter sec tions of timber land under dispute were duplicated. Bryan to Teach Japanese. San Franeiaco Nisamori Kano iar- ' rived Thursday from Japan by the Si beria Mara to studv under William Jennings Bryan at Lincoln, Neb. He lea son of Viscount Kano and Is graduate of Imperial university at Tokio. Young Kano Is a friend of a former protege of Bryan', and it wu- ' through him thai' he made arrange menta to come here and atudv under the ex-Democratic leader. He expects to be in this eoairlry several year. New Loan Made to Britain. ' ' New. York Offininl umiummI waa made Thtinriav . In J D Ummh &Co., that a new British loan by oanaera, aggregating fow,- 000.000. hail bean .1 rill I bear interest at 6a per cut and 1 pay. able in two Installments, one of three years and ons of flv years,