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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1918)
V J GOOD ROADS, GOOD HOMES, BEST CHEESE VO L. X III. The Nestucca Valley First, Last and all the Time. (L O V E R D A L E . T IL L A M O O K ARSENAL FIRE LOSS LARGE Two Warehouses at St. Louis Burn — Enemy Alien in Custody. 03345473 American Coasting Ships At tacked Off Jersey Coast. AMERICANS START SUBMARINE CHASE Destroyers, Airplanes and Dirigibles Flock to Scene From Maine to Florida— Convoyed Ves sels Are Avoided. St. Louis— Warehouses Nos. 23 and 24 at the United States prsenal here were destroyed by tire saortly before midnight Saturday with a 'oss o f army equipment stored there estimated by the police at more than $3,000,000. Numerous other warehouses wet« threatened by the tire, and the riames threatened more than $6,000,000 worth o f army supplies within the large de pot. A report was current that the origin o f the tire was incendiary anil sub stance was given to this belief by the taking into custody by the police o f an Austrian enemy alien, who was cap tured within the stockade shortly after an explosion was heard, which is be lieved to have started the fire. An explosion is said to have par tially wrecked one o f the warehouses. Details o f the conflagration's extent or cause are meager, as military au thorities immediately took charge and, throwing a heavy guard o f soldiers around the enclosure, refused to admit only the fire fighting units. Officers o f the quartermaster's de partment said that more than 15,000,- 000 yards o f khaki-cloth for army uni forms, valued at more than $3,000,000 was destroyed. Fifteen thousand soldiers’ service hats were also lost. Washington, D. C. — Ten American vessels were known Tuesday to have been sunk by German submarines off the North Atlantic Coast since May 25. The largest to fall prey to the raid- ! ers, which are seeking to prevent the sailing o f transports with troops for the battlefields o f France, was the New York and Porto Rico liner Caro- I lina, o f 8000 tons, which was attacked Sunday night about 125 miles south Liberty o f Country is Lost and Sub' east o f Sandy Hook. jugation o f Dual Monarchy Made The fate o f ner 220 passengers and Complete by Kaiser. . crew o f 130, who took to the boats when shells began to fall about the Washington, D. C. — Complete sub vessel, was unknown late Tuesday night, but there was hope they had jugation o f Austria-Hungary to Ger been picked up by some passing ship man domination and the elimination o f or would reach shore safely in th e ' any hope for even semi-independence that may have been entertained by the small boats. N ot a life was lost in the sinkings, Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and other anti- German elements in the dual monarchy according to the late reports. Besides the Carolina, the known vic is seen here as the certain result o f tims o f the U-boats are the A lan tic the new military treaty between Ger Refining company’s tanker Herbert L. many and Austria-Hungary. The State department has just re Pratt, the steamship Winneconne, of 1800 tons, and six schooners, the larg ceived through its own sources what is est o f which is the Hauppaugue, a new believed to be the text o f this remark ship o f 1000 tons, and the Edward H. able document, and it is sait! to con Cole. The crews o f these eight ves firm the general statements o f its pro sels have been landed at Atlantic ports. visions already announced in the press. Among other things it shows that i f The steamer Texel was sunk by a German submarine Sunday afternoon there ever was a common ground upon 60 miles off the coast. The crew o f 36 which the United States might have discussed peace with Austria, it has men landed at an Atlantic port. Reports brought ashore by the sur disappeared along with what liberty of vivors indicated that the Winneconne action had been left to the dual mon and nearly all the schooners were sunk archy by her ally. In this treaty, as officials here in by the same U-boat which had been lurking in the path o f shipping off the terpret it, Austria-Hungary surrenders New Jersey coast and the Delaware to Germany not only for the present, but for the future as well, the com capes since last month. The stories told by the skippers o f plete control o f her military establish the schooners indicated that the com ment, in time o f peace as well as in mander o f the submersibles was unus war. This carries with it the right to or ually humane for a German submarine ganize the Austrian army even to its officer. In no instance, so far as is known, personnel, which means that the Ger was a lifeboat shelled, and in all cases mans w ill hold to military service, un reported the crews were given oppor der her own commanders, i f necessary, tunity to escape or were taken aboard every fit Slav, Czech, Italian, Pole and the submarine, where some o f them Roumanian comprising the population were kept prisoners for eight days be o f the Austro-Hungarian empire. It fore they were turned adrift to be follows that there can be no political independence o f the people. picked up by a passing vessel. Secretary Lansing recently formally Germany at last has brought her submarine warfare to the shores o f the declared that the nationalistic aspira United States, apparently in a forlorn tions o f the Czecho-Slovaks and the hope o f striking telling blows on this Jugo-Slavs for freedom have the ear side o f the Atlantic and o f drawing nest sympathy o f the American gov home some o f the American naval ernment. This message has gone to forces from the war zones, where the the ambitious, oppressed races as a U-boat menace is being slowly but further assurance o f the purpose o f the United States to enter into no peace surely strangled to death. treaty with their oppressors that does New York— Scores o f United States not concede their right to separate na warships are ranging the waters off tional existence. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY GERMAN PROVINCE » the North Atlantic coast in search o f German Towns in Terror. the German submarines which made Washington, D. C .- Allied air raids their long-expected attack on Am er ican shipping in home waters late on German towns are demoralizing the German people. Advices to the State Monday afternoon. y W hile the details o f naval opera department Monday said that the effect tions were withheld, it is known that upon the populations o f cities bombed destroyers, fleets o f submarine chasers was far greater than heretofore re and other vessels are flashing their j ported. searchlights over the waters along the Paris— Paris was again unuer fire coast and far out at sea from Maine to Sunday. The bombardment by long- Florida. Hydro-aeroplanes and airplanes range guns was’ resumed Sunday morn arose like flocks o f huge birds from ing. every naval station along the Atlantic Ship Employes Get Raise. coast when the warning was flashed to Washington, D. C.— Flat increases them, and soon were scouting over the waters where it was believed subma o f $20 a month to all chief stewards rines would be most likely to be lurk and chief cooks and $15 a month to all ing. Foreign aviators and American other members o f the steward’s de students as well ai the regular Am eri partment on Atlantic and Gulf vesjels can flyers eagerly volunteered for serv- ■ were announced Monday by the ship ice. I ping board. | ( COU25TY, OREGON, M ID HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK JUNE <>, 1918. NO. 4J. BANK STRENGTH AND GOOD SERVICE Our management makes the security for deposits a matter o f first consideration, and to this end the resources o f the Bank are carefully guarded by piudence and conservatism. This fact makes a strong Bank. Coupled with strength, our Officers and Boaril o f Directors make Gtxxi Service the backbone o f our banking policy. With ample equipment and organization, this Bank is in a position to serve all individuals and firms requiring safe banking and good service. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. Banking Strength for Safety and Service for Convenience. COMPILED FOR 4 Per Cent Paid on Savings and Time Certificates. YOU TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK Events o f Noted People, Governments Established in 1902. Tillamook, Oregon and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. * PROFESSIONAL CARDS Office Ground Floor National Bid, ___________________________________ __ A plea that Major General Leonard Wood be permitted to go to France was made in the house Thursday by Representative McKenzie, o f Illinois, Republican. T.H. G0YNE, Bell Phone 53»J P. O. Box 147 W ith Rollie Watson Abstracts on Short Notice by the PACIFIC ABSTRACT CO. ATTORNEY AT LAW Conveyancing, Etc. Four persons are known to be killed Opp. Court House. Tillamook, Ore. and at least 20 injured when Illinois Central passenger train No. 11, west L. V. EB E RH ARD , Manager. bound, was wrecked near Aplington. C. W. TALM AG E, Ia, Thursday. Complete Set of Abstracts of the Records of Tillamook Countv, Oregon. Two hundred thousand men o f draft age, who, because o f minor defects, T IL L A M O O K . - - OREGON have been held by examining surgeons over the country for limited service, A. C. EVERSON are to be employed in producing or TILLAM O O K. ORE. handling equipment for the army. Attorney and Counsellor at Law NATIONAL B L D „ - TILLAMOOK, ORE. ROBERT H. McGRATH Money to Loan Real Estate Agency German airmen Wednesday night deliberately dropped bombs on hospi COUNSELOR AT LAW tals in which there were scores o f 106 Oddfellows’ Building, American and hundreds o f French sick Tillamook Oregon. and wounded. The hospital is in a j Special Equipment for Making Income town many miles in the rear of the Returns and Reports. front. Sir Gilbert Parker, the author, has ! resigned his seat in parliament. It is understood that Sir W illiam W eir, ! secretary of state foi the air forces, w ill be the government candidate at a by-election in the Gravesend district to fill the vacancy. B. A. Felver, organizer for the Non partisan League, was nearly hanged at Clarks, Neb., by a mob, but saved himself by giving up his list o f mem- bers, all his literature, and promising to give his automobile to the Red Cross and to enlist in the army. J. N. PEARCY Tillamook Undertaking Co. R. N. H E N K E L , Proprietor. Night and Day calls oromptly attended. Sixth Street at Second Avenue East E.J. MENDENHALL ATTORNEYS AT LAW 928 Chamber of Commerce, PORTLAND, - - OREGON TIL L A M O O K . - - OREGON Tillamook Abstracting Co. T hos . C oates . P resident . COMPLETE HKT OK ABSTRACT BOOKS OF TILLAMOOK COUNTY. OREGON. The grip-like epidemic in Spain con- 1 tinues to spread. There are 120,000 TIL L A M O O K C IT Y . victims in Madrid. King Alfonso is still in bed with the malady, but his condition is not dangerous. The popu lation believes the disease was brought to Spain by German submarines. OREGON. F. R. BEALS REAL ESTATE Francis S. Nash, a medical director o f the navy, and his w ife were indict- i Write for Literature. ed by a grand jury in Washington, D. - - OREGON C. , Thursday on a charge o f hoarding TILLA M O O K . foodstuffs. Investigators found among other foodstuffs more than a ton and a half o f sugar stored in the Nash home. Twenty-two thousand men o f the army, engaged in the spruce forests o f Oregon and Washington, have been transferred from the control o f the chief signal officer at Washington, D. C., to the Western department o f the army according to orders received at headquarters at San Francisco. See me for realty deals. The Todd Hotel Tillamook, Ore. L. S. HUSHBECK, Proprietor. \ THE COURIER keeps you posted on all important happenings of the Nestucca Valley. W e also do PR IN TING of all kinds at moderate prices. Four hundred and fifty young en Dining Room run on Family .Style signs o f the reserve force received Meals 35c. their certificates after having com pleted a course o f 15 weeks o f inten sive training at the naval academy at Annapolis. A new class o f reserve officers consisting o f 700 members w i l l 1 be formed at Annapolis on June 11. Rooms 50 and 79 Cents, Special Rates by the W eek. Grace Lusk was found guilty at Waukesha, Wis., Thursday, o f second degree murder for the killing o f Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts. When the verdict was delivered Miss Lusk at tempted to choke D. S. Tullar, acting district attorney, but was overpowered and led screaming from the courtroom. Provost Marshal General Crowder has notified draft subjects away from home that they must register with the local board in whose jurisdiction they are sufficiently in advance o f June 5 to enable the boards to send their certifi cates to their home boards. Registra tion is completed at the office o f the home boards. The Mexican govemmen has notified American mining companies operating in Mexico o f its intention to double the amount o f bullion they are re quired to reimport against the ore ex ported. Under the present arrange ment the companies send back into Mexico in bullion 2o per cent o f the value o f gold and silver contained in the ores they ship. LIST YOUR FARM WITH Taylor Real Estate Agency IF YOU WANT TO SELL IT. SEE TAYLOR FOR your FIRE INSURANCE If you are in the market for a good Dairy Ranch we can show you something that will interest you. We have some excellent bargains. Money is made dairying in Tillamook County. Why not get a chunk o f this money. T A Y L O R R E A L ESTATE A G E N C Y Cloverdale, Oregon