NEWS NOTES OE
CURRENT WEEK
Resumo of World's Important
Events Told in Brief.
NuBlncBB In Paris In oald to bo bettor
now than at any time since tho war
began.
norlln- goes wild ovor victory of
finny Bgalnst Russia In Poland, find
onthUBlasm runs riot.
RopnlrB of tho damago dono to the
English coHot town by tho Gorman
fleet are rapidly being made.
Hoar Admiral Fisko admltB thoro In
ono forolgn navy that loads In gun
nory, but rofUBcn to namo tho country.
A British nhlpbutldlrtK concorn built
a modern battleship in ton andono-half
months, said to be tho shortest tlmo
on record.
Deputy Gamo Warden Hubbard, of
ABhland, Ore, ! flhot by alleged gamo
poachers, whon ho attomptB to Hoarch
their cablnn.
It la reported from Amsterdam that
two British ships wore sunk Friday oft
the coast of England, but tho rumor
is not conflrmod.
Mexican troops on tho border show
no signs of hooding the warning of
President Wilson, that firing Into
American territory should bo stopped.
Report comes from South Shlolda,
England, that thrco ships wore sunk
by mines; ono Is bollevcd to bo a pas
senger vessel, and tho other two aro
unknown.
Food exports from the United States
during November showed an Increase
of 800 per cent over samo month last
.year. The great Incrcaso Is attributed
to tbo European war.
E. Henry Wcmmo, prominent Port
land citizen and good roado enthusiast,
dies suddenly in Los Angolcs. Ho is
reputed to havo purchased tho first
automobile over brought to Portland,
likewlso an arooplano.
A Gorman diplomat In Now York
upholds the attack on tho English
oast towns on tho grounds that they
wcro olthor fortified or defended,
which does not conflict with tho de
cision of Tho Haguo convention of Oct.
10, 1907.
A letter from Robert Fulton to
Goncral William Duano, March 1,
1813, tolling him of torpedoes invent
ed by him capablo of destroying any
foreign invaders of New York harbor,
was sold for yD2.60 at tho auction sale
of tho library of tho late Adrian H.
Jollne. "I am happy to find you con
tlnuo tho firm friend to torpedoes,"
Fulton wrote, "an Infant art which
requires only support and practice to
produce a chango In maritime affairs
of Immonso Importance to this country.
Expecting tho enemy hero, I havo not
been Idle. I havo prepared nino tor
pedoes, with locks that striko flro by
concussion, and four with clockwork
locks."
Vienna officials admit of tho rotak
ing of Bolgrado by tho Sorvians.
President Wilson expresses deep
Intorcat In tho uplift of tho negro.
Pendleton, Oregon, is Bonding 100
barrels of flour to aid tho Belgians.
RuBslanB wore forced to rotrcat bo
fore tho AuBtrians in West Gallcia.
It is reported in Toklo that tho Gor
man armed merchantman Oxford has
boon captured by tho British In tho In
dian Ocean. The German converted
cruiser Cormorant has entered tho har
bor of Guam, In tho Ladrone Archipol-
ago.
Tho postofllco department has ad
vised that hereafter all Oregon postal
savings funds at offices without a local
depositary bank, will be remitted to
tha Portland office, which will servo as
a clearing house for tho payment of
withdrawals.
Presldont Wilson waa asked by a del
egation roprcBonting tho Masters' and
Pilots' association to support an
amendment to the administration ahlp
purchase bill to restrict employment
of officers of government-owned ves
sels to America.
All the street lamps In Paris aro
being oxtinguiscd at midnight. Tho
reason for this precaution is Bald to be
the receipt of a report that two Zep
pelin dirigible balloonB had been sight
ed at Amiens, proceeding in the direc
tion of Paris.
The mikado's budget for 1015,
which showB an estimated expenditure
of 550,000,000 yen ($278,000,000), and
a decrease or the revenues or $4U,ouu,
000. 1b now before the house of repre
sentatlves for consideration. Consid
erable opposition to It has developed.
There is good reason to believe that
unlemt tha house passes the budget It
will be dissolved. The right or tils
solving the house of representative Is
among the pwogatlvlee of the em
peror,
Servians Again Occupy
Capital, City of Belgrade
London .Tho Sorvians. after a fierce
hutlln Tuesday, have rcoccunlcd Bel
grade, according to a NIsh dlflpatch to
Router's Telegram company,
Tha Aiiatrlnna nmint1 Ttfllvradfi
Docompebr 2, aftor having boslcged it
since Jiny zv, uornuaruing irom uaucr
los near Scmlln and from monitors on
tho Danube.
A largo portion of the city was said
to have boon destroyed by the fire of
tho Auntrlans,
When war was declared the Servian
government moved from Belgrade to
Kraguyevats and later went further
south to NlBh, whore It remains.
London Routor's Amsterdam cor
respondent says tho Austrlans admit
dofcat at the hands of the Sorvians, in
an official communication Issued at
Vienna. Thin communication follows:
"Our offensive movement, directed
In a southerly direction from tho River
Drina, encountered southeast of Val-
jovo a greatly superior force of tho
enemy.
"Our advance was not merely stop
ped, but wo were compelled to mako
more extended retirement ox our
troops, which for many weeks have
fought obstinately and brilliantly, but
with many losses.
"Against this wo may place tho oc
cupation of Belgrade A new decision
and measures consequently will bo
taken which will servo to repel tho
enemy.
"Durlnir tho days of December 10,
11 and 12 tho enemy contlnuod to re
tiro along tho ontlro front Tho Serv-
an advance miards have nrojrrcBBCd as
far aa Veliki and Bosnlak."
Real Winter Strikes East;
Death follows in Wake
Chicago Winter, nearly two months
overdue, got down to business Tuesday
when tho temperature here dropped to
2 degrees below zero, accompanied by
howling blasts. Tho only redeeming
fcaturo of tho day waa the bright sun
ehino after two weeks of darkncsB and
fitful snow and rain storms.
Two men wero so badly frozen that
amputation of their legs waa neces
sary. A watchman was found nearly
dead whore ho had fallen during tbo
night. His hands and feet must bo
amputated and ho probably will dio.
Tho other victim was found frozen in
a ditch, where ho had fallen from ex
haustion. Navigation on tho Great Lakes was
brought to a sudden stop by stiff gales
and blizzards and blinding snow. Somo
big boats aro still out.
As showing tho scopo and naturo of
tho cold wave, following aro somo rep
resentative high and low temperatures
for tho day:
Boston, 42-28 above; Buffalo, 20-10
above; Pittsburg, 22 to 8 above; Chi
cago, 4 abovo to 8 below; Madison,
WIb.. 2 to 0 below; Forth Worth, 4
abovo to 2 below; Charles City, la., 2
to 14 below; Devil's Lake, N. D., 2 to
18 below; Dulutb, Minn., 0 to 19 be
low: Sioux City, la., 4 to 14 below;
Kansas City, 4 below; Texas points
reported a maximum of SG and a mint
mum of 12; Montgomery, Ala., had a
maximum of 36 and minimum of 30;
Jacksonville, Fla., got down to 44 and
Now Orleans, to 40; Los Angeles had
a maximum of 60 and minimum of
40.
Thousands of Penniless
Jews Are in Flight
Now York Ono hundred and seven
ty thousand Jews havo fled for refugo
from Galicia to Vienna, according to
a letter rocolved hero from tho Aub
trian Israelite Alliance in Vienna by
tho American Jewish reliof committco.
"Gallcia. as tho field of military
operations, has been cleared of almost
tho entire civil population," reads tbo
letter. "At the present time thoro
aro 170,000 Jewish fugitives from Ga
licia hero, of whom 70,000 aro abso
lutely penniless. Furthermore, 25,
000 destltuto JowiBh fugitives have
boon placed in barracks in Moravia
and 70,000 in Bohemia, where bar
racks aro also being built. These
165,000 poor Jows are in pressing
need."
America Austria's Hope.
Berlin The official press bureau
hare crave out the following: "Aus
trian newspapers say that when nego
tiations for peace begin Amorica will
havo earned the right to act aa inter
mediary. TheBO papers print sym
pathetic articles in connection with
the opening of the American congress.
Tliav nolnt out that the sendincr of
Drifts bv American children to the chil
dren of dead soldiers is proof of the
high motives in wmcn the nation is
guided."
President to Act at 3 A. SI.
Washington, D. C. To dubIi an
electrical button to give a signal for
opening the San Diego, Cel., exposl
tion on the beginning of the new year,
President Wilson will be awakened be
fore 8 o'clock New Year's .morning,
lie will push the button at midnight,
Pacific Const time, which Is 8 a, m,
here,
NORTHWEST MARKET
REPORTS.
Portland An Important meeting of
the grain trade of Pprtland was held
at tho Merchants' Exchange the early
part of this week to consider the mat
ter of state grain inspection. it was
the unanimous opinion of those at the
meeting that a state grain inspection
law should be In forco In Oregon,
which would put this state on the same
basis as every other grain state In the
Union.
This step Is regarded as a moat im
portant one by the members of the
grain trade. It is declared that Port
land has lost much grain business be
cause of the lack of state grain in
spection, and that thousands of car
loads of grain have gono to the Sound
markets that would otherwise have
come to this city.
Two years ago a state grain inspec
tion bill was drawn up and sent to the
legislature, but it did not pass. Not
only do grain merchants want such a
law, but the farmers are said to be a
unit in favor of It.
The demand for hope, both for ex
portation and for domestic account,
continues strong and prices are being
maintained without difficulty.
The most Important development In
the market waa the news received
from Grants Pass that tho bulk of the
supply remaining In that section had
been bought by Durbln & Connoyer at
12 cents. The purchases by this firm
were estimated at 700 bales, including
the Flannagan & Cornell crop.
The Washington market continues
strong and active, with 12 cents bid
for tho best Yakimas. McNeff Bros,
purchased the Lasigne crop of 275
bales and another lot of 860 bales in
that section.
Tho frost of the last week has
nipped most of the email vegetables
in this section and larger supplies of
radishes, onions and such lines will be
brought up from California for tho
local trade.
Tho egg market was easy at the be
ginning of the week. Oregons were
not plentiful, but the efforts to work
off storage stock affected tho entire
market. Local candled ranch were
sold at 40 and 41 cents and tbero were
reports of somo being offered at 38
cents.
Wheat Bid; Bluestem, $1.20 bush
el; Torty-fold, $1.19; club, $1.18; Red
Russian, $1.11; red Fife, $1,131.
Oats Bid: No. 1 white feed, $28.
Barley Bid: No. 1 feed, $25 ton;
browing, $25.50; bran, $23.60; shorts,
$24.50.
MUlfeod Bran, $2424.60 ton;
short!, $2626.60; rolled barley,
$27.6028.60.
Corn Whole, $26 ton; cracked, $37.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $14
16 ton; grain hay, $1011; alfalfa,
$1213; valley timothy, $1112.
Vegetables Cucumbers, 60c dozen;
eggplant, 7c pound; peppers, 78c;
artichokes, 90c dozen; tomatoes, 60c
$1 crate; cabbage, 2lc pound;
bcanB, 12c; celery, 6076c dozen;
cauliflower, 60c $1; sprouts, 8c
pound; head lettuce, $2 crate; pump
kins, le pound; squash, lc.
Green Fruits Apples, 65c$1.60
box; caBabas, lie pound; pears, $1
1.50 box; grapes, $11.36 crato;
cranberries, $89 barrel.
Potatoes Oregon, 7585c Back;
Idaho, 90c$1.10; Yakima, 85c$l;
sweet potatoes, 22Jc pound.
Onions Oregon, buying price, $1.26
f. o. b. shipping point.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, case
count, 36c; candled, 3841c.
Cattle Prima steers, $77.25;
cholco, $6.607; medium, $6.26
6.50; cholco cows, $6.756.25; me
dium, $5 5. 60; heifers, $5 6.75;
calves, $68; bulls, $3.60 4.76;
stags, $4.606.
Hogs Light, $6.257.10; heavy,
$5.76(36.25.
Shoop Wethers, $5.266; owes,
$4.265; lambs, $6.267.60.
Seattlo Aside from the Christmas
movement, which la slated by tho
street for this week, interest centers
in tho immediate futures for apples,
spuds and onions, tho throe leading
local staples for tho midwinter season.
Eggs Select ranch, 40c dozen.
Poultry Llvo hens, 10l4c pound;
old roosters, 10c; 1914 broilers, 11c;
ducklings, 1213c; geese, 10c; Gui
nea fowl, $6 dozen; turkeys, live, 20c
pound; do. dresBed, 21c.
Apples Cooking, 5060c box;
Black Twigs, 75c$l; Baldwins, 60
75c; Delicious, $1(3)1.50; Spltzen
bergs, 75c(ffi$1.25; Yellow Newtown
Pippins, 76c$1.25; Stamen Wine
SfipB, 75c$l.
Pears Beurro Easter, $1.261.60
box; BeurreAnjou, $22.26; Winter
Nellis, $1(3)1.25.
Dressed Beef Prime beef Bteers,
1212Jc pound; cows, 11 J12c; heif
ers, 12c.
Dressed Veal 14Jc pound.
Dressed Hogs Whole, packing
house, 8g10e txund.
Dreesed Spring Lamb 130131c
pound.
Dressed Mutton 10101e pound.
Petatoee White Rivers, ear lets,
$1818 ten; Gems, ear lots, 114017;
Murbanks, store )rUe,,l8
im k&JIUIrmI; sweets, $3C.M ewt.
State Land Board Leases
Salt Deposits in Lakes
Salem With the leasing by the
State Land Board of Summer and Al
bert lakes, which contain rich deposits
of salts, to Jason C. Moore, head of a
New York syndicate, the development
of Hnother of Oregon's remarkable re
sources seems near.
What the value of the output of tho
lakes annually will be is problematic,
but Mr. Moore declared that ho and his
associates would expend at least $0,
nnn nnn In oniilmnent and develonment
within the next two years. He thought
that from 3500 to 0000 men wouia oe
employed.
Kntrfneer will be nut to WOrk at
once, but because of a reservation of
the board that the legislature must
pass upon the proposition, the work of
tmlMincr ft nlant and lavlnc Dinelines
will not be started until that Is done.
The board awarded the contract to
Mr. Moore and will recommend to tho
legislature its ratification. The lease
is for 45 years.
TTnrlnr tha contract Mr. Mooro must
trlvn r bond of S25.000 and Day to the
state annually, beginning January 1,
1917, royalliee or not less man $zo,-
000. He deposited with his bid a
check for $10,000 as a guarantee of
good faith. He agrees to give the
state CO cents a ton for potassium
salts, 10 cents a ton for sodium chlor
ides and 25 cents a ton for all other
salts. C. A. Sheppard, Mr. Moore's
lawyer, said it is tho plan to pipo the
raw product along the Deschutes river
to tho Columbia river, where a plant
for extracting the salts will bo erect
ed. It will be transported from there by
Injured Give
Industrial Accident Board
Salem Numerous unique replies
have been received by the State In
dustrial Accident commission from
beneficiaries of the compensation act
to the ucstion asked by the board :
"How In your opinloncould such acci
dents bo avoided?"
E. A. Dahl, employed by the Pacific
Brick company, loBt 14 days from
work bccauBo of an injury to an eye
caused by a fellow workman striking
him with a mud ball. "Such accidents
may bo avoided," ho writes, "by
workmen attending to buaineaa and
not playing when they should be at
work."
"Don't follow a dump-cart over the
dump," is the suggestion ox John
Kelly, employed by tho J. w. Sweeney
Contraction company, who with his
cart tumbled down hill and was inca
pacitated for work for several days.
C. C. White, an employe of the
Gambrinus Brewery, suffered injury to
four digits on his right hand, causing
permanent stiffness, by allownig ms
hand to be caught between two beer
ketrs which ho was rolling. He
thought such injuries could be avoided
Jackson County Spends
$500,000 On Roads
Ashland Jackson county has spent
nearly $600,000 on roads in 1914. The
Siskiyou unit of tho Pacific highway
has cost to date $160,000, or $12,000 a
mile. From Ashland's western out
skirts to the Poor farm, about five
miles, tho expense has been nearly
$12,000 a mile, or a total of $52,000.
This stretch has an asphalt wearing
eurfaco five inches thick, and was con
tract work. From the Poor farm to
Medford, leBS than Beven miles, the
cost was $74,000, divided between
county and Btate, averaging $11,000 a
milo.
The Central Point unit was the most
expensive, costing $16,000 a mile.
This, however, includes the cost of
machinery and material, tho entire ex
pense over this particular area amount
ing to nearly $65,000. About $25,000
waa applied on new construction and
grading, while the maintenance of the
roads throughout the county in general
cost nearly $90,000. Tho foregoing
figures aro Beml-officlal as given out
by the county court. Moro than half
of the paved surface completed on the
Pacific highway to date has a concrete
base.
Ashland Re-elects Four.
Ashland O. H. Johnson, mayor; C.
H. Gillette., recorder; Georgo Eu
banks, treaaurer, and R. A. Minkler,
water commissioner, were re-elected
at the city eloction Tuesday. S. Pen
nlston was elected park commissioner.
For councllmen, R. P. Cornelius was
elected In the First ward; P. L. Ash
craft in the Second and A. J. Biegel
In the Third.
The biggest fight was for recorder,
there having been six candidates In
the field. The town went dry by more
than 700 majority. Two measure,
one enlarging the city boundaries and
the other levying a half mill tax for
publicity purposes, carried. The total
vote was 1488. The maximum polling
etreftgtti Is 8000.
river to Portland and from there ship
ped to various markets by rail and
steamships.
But two tide were recolved by the
board, tho other being by the Oregon
Sodium Potash association, through H.
S. Wallace, of Portland. The latter
one waa declared to bo irregular be
cause it wu not accompanied by a
check for $10,000, as stipulated in the
advertisement, and did not conform to
other requirements.
The association represented by Mr.
Wallace bid 5 cents a ton for Bodium
chlorides and 50 cents a ton for sodium
carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. It
bid $3 a ton for potassium salts, It be
ing $2.50 higher than that of Mr.
Moore. However, it was declared that
there was only s trace of this salt in
the lakes, and the bid might as well
havo been $20 a ton, because there
will be little obtained.
It made no bid under tho heading
"other salts," whereas tho advertise
ment stipulated that prices should be
named for potassium salts, sodium
chloride and "other salts."
More than two years ago C. M. Sain
obtained a lease from the state to de
velop the lakes, but was compelled to
forfeit his lease because of lack of
money to complete the work. Imme
diately after that Mr. Moore bid moro
than $1,500,000 for the property out
right and later a syndicate, represent
ed by Portland men, offered about $2,
000,000 for it. Reports that actual
value waa from $15,000,000 to $30,
000,000 caused the rejection of both
offers and the determination of tbo
board to lease the property on the royr
alty plan.
Advice to
by persons keeping their hands away
from beer kegs.
C. P. Mason, employed by the Coos
Bay Times Publishing company, sat on
an oil can, puncturing the sciatic
nerve. "Be careful where you sit,"
was his answer to the question.
"Wear wooden shoes like the Bel
gians," was the reply of an employe
of the Nicolai Neppach company, who
crushed his feet by droppnig heavy
timbers on them, and was unable to
work for several days.
J. A Allen, an employe of the Union
Meat company, while attempting to kill
a hog, was kicked in the stomach by
the animal. "Kill 'em first," writes
Alien to the commission. i
"Keep away from the business end
of a mule," is the suggestion of L. I.
Griffith, employed onthe Tumalo Irri
gation project, who was seriously in
jured because ho did not heedis own
injunction.
A man injured while working in a
sawmill blamed a co-worker, who was
of foreign birth. He said Buch acci
dents could bo avoided by "keeping
the foreigners out of the country."
Siletz Road Unit Near.
Dallas It is practically certain now
that the much-talkcd-of permanent
road between Falls City and the Siletz
will be started within the year. Road
District No. 21, of this county, in
which most of the Siletz road is lo
cated, has voted a special tax of 5
mills for thia purpose. The county
court has signified its intention to give
the district, in addition to this special
levy, all of the money raised on tho
general road levy in that district, to
gether with other money from the gen
eral road fund. When improved the
distance between Portland and New
port will be cut down about 13 miles
and a highway given to tourists that
will equal anything in the West .from
the standpoint of scienic beauty. The
Lincoln county court has commenced
work on the Lincoln county end of the
road.
Board Releases Notes.
Salem Upon promise of the com
pany that it would make no additional
Bales of land in the Central Oregon
canal unit, tho State Desert Land
Board returned to the Central Oregon
Irrigation company $29,321 settlers'
notes, deposited as a guaranty of good
faith. Roscoe P. Howard, manager
of the company, reported the capacity
of tho canal to be sufficient for irrigat
ing 30,800 acres. The unit, therefore,
was cut to that acreage. The board
announced that hereafter under a rul
ing of tho Federal authorities proof of
a contract for land would have to be
made only by the original settler.
Gov. West Will Practice Law.
Salem Oswald West, governor of
Oregon, has announced that after his
term of office expiree early in January
he will engage in the practice 'of law
in Portland. He and Claude C. He
Coltoch, ex-state senator from Baker
county, and Governor West's lieuten
ant on the floor of the senate atthe
1918 seeslon of the legislature, have
formed a partnership to be known M
West & MeCelleeti.