THE
WORLD'S DOINGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
J. PUTNAM STEVENS
HERMISTON
HERALD,
OREGON.
HERMISTON,
EUROPE’S WAR LOSS RUSSIA DECIDES TO
TOTAL 14,398,000 EVACUATE WARSAW
Brief Resume of Generai News
from All Around the Earth.
France Estimates Dead Alone at Minister of War Outlines Plans
About 5,290,000.
of Retreat From Capital.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHFI
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IS WORSE SUFFERER TEUTONS ARE DRIVING DOUBLE WEDGE
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Number of Killed Almost Equal to Abandonment of City Declared Will
Insure Final Victory to Russian
That of Wounded—Losses of
Army, as in War of 1812.
Serbia Are Not Included.
Hawaiian pearl divers are having a
hard time as a result of the war. The
entire absence of a European market
is given as the main cause.
The bursting of a big dam at Erie,
Pa., causes the loss of 25 lives, sub
merges a great portion of the city
and causes property loss estimated in
the millions.
Fruitgrowers of Palestine stand to
lose $30,000,000 because of the Euro
pean war, according to a letter re
ceived in Philadelphia from George
Kiat, general comissionmer of com
merce, with headquarters at Jaffa.
Members of the executive council of
tho B’nai B’rith in session at Atlantic
City, N. J., declared the condition of
the Jews in Russia has not been im
proved, and that Jews were being used
as shields by Russian soldiers in the
trenches.
Great Britain in answering Amer
ica’s notes on the subject of blockad
ing neutral ports advises that her
course in this respect will not be
altered, and recites that during the
war of the rebellion the United States
exercised similar rights.
Juvenile Judge Lindsey, of Denver,
Col., has been adjudged in contempt
of court for refusing on the witness
stand to impart evidence given him in
confidence by a youth of 12, a witness
against his mother, who was being
tried for the murder of her husband.
Nipping a projected Chinatown tong
war in the bud, Chief of Police
Snively, of Los Angeles, summoned to
his office Wang Kong and Wang Wing,
and in the presence of the mayor
forced the chiefs of the warring clans
to shake hands and agree to perpetual
’ peace.
Nine hundred and eighty-one persons
lost their lives in the steamer Eastland
disaster, according to final figures
given out by the Western Electric
company, after completing the check
ing of its employes and friends who
boarded the vessel.
The identified
dead number 838, unidentified dead
two, and the final list of misisng 141.
In a 40-mile gale which raged on
Lake Ontario Wednesday, the worst in
several years, according to the weather
bureau, the freight steamer Alexan
dria, of the Canada Steamship lines,
ran ashore. The surf was too heavy
to permit the launching of a boat, but
Captain Bloomfield and his crew, 22
men all told, leaped into the breakers
wearing life preservers and were
dragged ashore by an amateur life-
saving brigade.
J. Putnam Stevens of Portland, Me.,
elected to the office of Imperial poten
tate at the meeting of the Imperial
council, Ancient Arabic Order of No
bles of the Mystic Shrine In Seattle.
This places Mr. Stevens at the head
of all Shriners In the United States,
Canada, Mexico and the Hawaiian
■ •lands.
UNITED STATES INVOKES AID OF
LATIN AMERICA IN MEXICAN AFFAIR
Washington, D. C. — The United
States has decided to ask the co-opera
tion of South and Central America in
the next step to restore peace to Mex
ico. The ambassadors from Argen
tina, Brazil and Chile and the minis
ters from Bolivia, Uruguay and Guate
mala, have been asked to confer with
Secrteary Lansing.
This announcement was made at the
State department:
“On Thursday afternoon there will
be an informal conference at the State
department to consider the Mexican
situation. Those taking part in the
conference will be the ambassadors
from Brazil, Argentina and Chile, and
the three ranking ministers {of the
American republics, namely, those of
Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala. As
to the details which will be considered,
nothing can be said at the present
time, as the conference will be en
tirely confidential.”
While the State department charac
terized the coming conference as an
informal one, the sentiment has been
growing among American officials that
the next step in the Mexican situation
should be one which would meet the
approval of the world and should be
taken in concert with the nations of
Central and South America, even if in
the last event the trend should be to-
ward military action.
The three ambassadors were media
tors in the Niagara conference in the
summer of 1914. The three ministers
are, in point of seniority, at the head
of the Central American legation
corps. Action in concert with the
Central and South Americas would be
in line with President Wilson’s plan
for a closer relationship between the
United States and those countries, and
is planned to show that the United
States considers the Mexican question
the common cause of the Pan-Amer
ican group, and that this government
entertains no idea of territorial ag-
gression but is acting solely as Mex-
ico’s nearest powerful friend
and
neighbor.
The establishment of a department
of journalism and printing at the high
school in San Diego, Cal., as a regular
part of the curriculum has been an
nounced by the board of education. A
newspaper man of many years’ exper
ience, has been chosen as head of the
department. A small newspaper and
commercial printing plant will be in
stalled and everything connected with
the publication of a modern newspaper
will be taught.
More than 100 applications have
been received for the position of
“member of the family” of James W.
Pankhurst, a wealthy farmer near Chi
cago. Pankhurst, who is 75 years old, Austro-Germans lake Russia’s
wrote to the Federal employment bu
Largest Seaport On Baltic Coast
reau here offering $3 a week to “an
unmarried girl not less than 17 nor
London — The Germans have cap-
more than 40,” who would take care
of him and his wife for the remainder tured Mitau, the capita) of Courland,
of their lives, his will to contain a and are now within striking distance
$10,000 bequest to the “right person.'' of Riga, the seat of the governor gen
eral of the Baltic provinces and Rus
London has reports of a decided vic sia’s greatest port on the Baltic.
tory over the Turks in Asia.
Warsaw is ready for the evacuation
Two Federal inquiries have begun in which was intimated by the Russian
the steamer Eastland case in Chicago. war minister in his address in the
Duma. For days there has been an
A Belgian steamer and a Swedish exodus of the population.
Factories,
brig were torpedoed by submarines government institutions and hospitals
Friday.
have been moved and the city has been
stripped of everything that might be
The French chamber of deputies has of military value to the Teutons.
increased the limit of the French de
That the German empress will not
fense bonds to $1,400,000,000
accompany Emperor William should he
American imports from Germany make entry into Warsaw, if the Po
have decreased within the past year lish capital is occupied by the Austro-
Germans, is indicateti by a report
from $14,994,585 to $1,158,257*
from Berlin that the empress has re-
A spot six times as large as the turned to Berlin from East Prussia,
earth has appeared on the sun, and where she has been visiting the battle-
will be visible until August 10.
fields.
English soldiers have uncovered an-
tique Greek relics of great value while
digging trenches at the Dardanelles.
Michael Damphoffer, Jr., aged, 70,
of Vancouver, Wash., is dead, and is
survived by his father, aged 100 last
January.
Both were Grand Army
veterans and fought shoulder to shoul
der in the First Oregon Volunteers.
Charles F. Becker, former police
lieutenant of New York City, was
electrocuted Friday morning for the
murder of Herman Rosenthal, a gam
bler, on July 16, 1912.
He protested
and declared his innocence to the last. •
Powerhouse Sinks; 3 Die.
Hudson, N. Y. — Three laborers were
London—The Russian war minister,
Paris — The losses of Europe in the
present war up to May 31, as com speaking at the opening session of the
piled by the French ministry of war, Duma at Petrograd Monday, made
what will probably be looked upon as
are as follows :
an official announcement that Warsaw
Killed. Wounded. Prisoners Total.
He admitted that
France... . 460,000
180.000
1,300,000 will be given up.
600,000
90,000
200.000
371,000 the Austro-Germans were enveloping
England . . 181,000
49,000
15,000
Belgium .
48,000
113,000
3,780,000 the territory and military districts of
Russia ... . 1.250,000 1,680,000
850,000
490,000
4,000,000 the Polish capital, and declared :
Germany 1,630,000 1,880,000
910.000
4,385.000
Austria.. .1,610,000 1,865,000
“We shall perhaps yield to the en
Turkey ..
110 000
1 11 oqo _ 95,000
349,000
emy a portion of this regoin, falling
6,478,000 2 630,000
Totals..
This table originally was prepared back on positions where our army will
for publication, but finally was with prepare for a resumption of the offen
held because authorities feared the sive. We shall perhaps give up War
enormity of the figures might have had saw, as in 1812 we gave up Moscow,
a bad moral effect upon the population. in order to insure a final victory.”
The Germans and Austrians continue
The computations, while probably not
exact, may be taken as the most com to make progress in their campaign
plete record of losses which has been for the possession of Warsaw, but the
put together.
The losses of Serbia Russians are still offering strong coun-
are not available, but as that country
MISS JANE ADDAMS
has suffered from plague in addition
to the war,’these must be considerable.
The largest total loss is charged to
Austria-Hungary; the largest propor
tionate loss to Belgium. The number
of killed in Europe up to May 31 was
5,290,000, or enough individuals to
populate a country like Sweden.
The French offensive north of Arras,
where 15,000 are said to have been
slain; the Austro-Italian
engage
ments; the great battle in Galicia and
the German offensive in the Argonne,
all go to swell the totals, and the war
is not over. The most astounding fea
ture of this table is the ratio of killed
to wounded. In previous modern wars
the number of wounded has been to the
number of dead as four or five to one.
Here the two categories are approxi
mately equal.
Many of the wounded have rejoined
their regiments, but many are crippled
for life. The sick, who have been
numerous in all armies, are not listed
here.
Germany Is Firm in Frye Case;
Will Pay but Not Admit Guilt
Washington, D. C.—Germany is un
yielding in her refusal to concede that
the sinking of the American sailing
ship William P. Frye by the auxiliary
cruiser Prinz Eitel Fierdrich in the
South Atlantic last January was a vio
lation of American rights under the
Prussian-American treaty or of inter
national law.
In reply to the last representations
of the United States, the German fore-
ign office, in a note made public here
by the State department, reiterates a
previous justification of Germany’s
course, declares again her willingness
to pay for the ship, and accepts a pro
posal first advanced by the United
States—that the amount of damages
be fixed by two experts, one to be se
lected by each country.
Such a sum the German government
pledges itself to pay prompity, with
the stipulation, however, that the pay
ment shall not be viewed as a satisfac
tion for violation of American rights.
Should that method be unsatisfactory,
Germany invites the United States to
arbitration at The Hague.
The unofficial view here is that rep
aration through a commission of ex
perts probably will be saitsfactory to
the United States, with the express
provision, however, that it is not a
waiver of treaty rights for which the
American government contends, but
applies only to the matter of damages.
Dominions to Have Voice.
London—Andrew Bonar Law, secre
tary for the colonies, speaking at
Folkestone said it was his belief that
as the result of the war the time would
come, and come soon, when the whole
self-governing dominions in proportion
to their population and resources would
take their part in the duties of govern
ing the British empire.
It was already understood, he added.
that when the time came for
peace negotions the dominions would
have their say in those negotia-
tions.
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•Ion to the various capitala of Eu-
ter-offensive movements against the
attacks from the Vistula, near Ivan
gorod, between the upper Vistula and
the Bug, and in the Narew sector near
Rozan.
In the eastern sector of the Lublin
region, where for days the fighting has
been extremely violent, several addi
tional points have been evacuated by
the Russians, according to Berlin, and
they are declared to be in retreat on
both banks of the Bug and on the front
between the Bug and south of Leczna.
The Teutons have passed through
Chelm on the heels of the Rusaians.
The Russians have been ejected
from the heights near Podzamcze, on
east bank of the Vistula, in the region
of Ivangorod, and to the south, near
Kurow, which lies eastward of Nowo
Alexandria.
“Thus the Teutonic allies are driv
ing their wedges both eastward from
the Vistula and northward between the
Bug and the Vistula in their mighty
effort to capture the capital, and, if
possible, to envelop these forces of the
Russian Grand Duke who are endeav
oring by rear-guard actions to hold
them back in order that the main Rus
sian army may gain the positions as
signed to it on the new line along the
eastern border of Poland.”
New Warships Approved.
Business on Up-grade.
Washington, D. C. — General busi
ness conditions throughout the country
continue to show improvement, but
until crops are harvested the full
measure of this improvement cannot
be judged, according to the monthly
bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board
just issued.
Crop prospects are unusually bright |
killed and eight injured when the and in several reserve districts war
power plant of the Knickerbocker Ce
ment company, at Greenport, half a
mile east of here, was submerged in
quicksand. The disaster occurred as
the night gang employed in the power
plant was about to be relieved. With
out warning the plant, together with
land about it to the extent of three
acres, caved in to a depth of 30 feet.
Officials of the company declared it
would be several months before the
plant could resume.
, ",
orders have brought a boom to many
industries.
Villa Loses 7000 Men.
San Antnioo, Tex. -Seven thousand
Villa soldiers were killed, wounded or
captured and “immense spoils of war’’
taken at the fall of Aguas Calientes,
Mexico, according to a report of Jesus
Acuna, Carranza's minister of foreign
affairs, received from Vera Crux by
the Carranza consulate here.
Washington, D. C. — Plans for six
big cruiser destroyers authorized by
the last congress have been approved.
They will be the first vessels the de
sign of which will have been influenced
by the war in Europe. The vessels will
have a maximum sustained sea speed of
30 knots, displace 1125 tons, measure
310 feet over all, have a width of 301
feet and a mean draft of 8 feet. Each
destroyer will carry four triple torpedo
tubes, a main battery of four 4-inch
guns and two 1-pounders and anti-
aircraft guns.
Movies to Tell Weather.
Washington, D. C. Fifteen cities
now get daily weather forecasts
through moving
picture
shows.
Wherever desired the Weather bureau
will co-operate with moving picture
shows by furnishing the forecasts for
presentation.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS
Portland — Wheat —; Bluestem, 96c
bushel; fortyfold, 94c; club, 93c; red
Fife, 92c; red Russian, 90c.
Oats—No. 1 white feed, $25.50 ton.
Barley--No. 1 feed, $24.50 ton;
bran, $24.25; shorts, $24.25.
Millfeed — Spot prices, : Bran, $27
ton; shorts, $28; rolled barley, $27.50
@$28.50.
Corn—Whole, $38 ton; cracked, $39.
Hay—Eastern Oregon timothy, $16
@17 ton; valley timothy, $15; alfalfa,
$12.50@13.50.
Vegetables—Cucumbers, Oregon, 15
@20c dozen; artichokes, 90c; toma
toes, 50@75c box; cabbage, 1@1}c
pound; head lettuce, $1 crate; beans,
22@4c pound; green corn, 20c dozen;
garlic, 7@7Jc pound.
Green Fruits—Cantaloupes, $1.50 @
2.25 crate; apricots, 90c @ $1 box;
peaches, 50 @ 60c; watermelons, 11@
IJc pound; plums, 75c@$i box; new
apples, Astrachan, 75c@$l box; Grav-
enstein, $1.50@1.75; peaches, $1.50;
grapes, $1.50@2 crate.
Potatoes—New, 75@85c sack.
Onions—75c sack.
Eggs—Oregon ranch, buying prices :
No. 1, 24c dozen; No. 2, 19c; No. 3,
15c. Jobbing price: No. 1, 26c dozen.
Poultry — Hens, 13J @ 14c pound;
springs, 17c; turkeys, 18@19c; ducks,
8@12c; geese, 8@10c.
Butter—City creamery cubes, ex
tras, 27c; firsts, 25c; seconds, 24c;
prints and cartons, extra; butterfat,
No. 1, 28c; second grade, 2c less;
country creamery cubes, 20@25c.
Veal—Fancy, 12@122c pound.
Pork—Block, 93c pound.
Hops — 1915 contracts, 13c; 1914
crop, 14c; olds, 12@13c.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, medium, 25
@28he; Eastern Oregon, fine, 18@21c;
valley, 26@30c; mohair, new clip, 30
@31c.
Cascara bark — Old [and new, 4c
pound.
Cattle—Best steers, $6.50@7; good,
$6.2506.50; medium, $6@6.2 5; choice
cows, $5.3505.50; heifers, $4.7 5@
6.50; bulls, $3.50@5; stags, $5@6.25.
Hogs — Light, $7 @ 7:15; heavy,
FINAL STEP TOWARD
PEACE TO BE TAKEN
Army and Navy Is Prepared to
Aid in Mexican Move.
INTERVENTION REGARDED IMPROBABLE
Last Chance Will Be Given Warring
Factions to Adjust Differences
Within War-torn Republic.
Washington, D. C.—Definite steps
toward restoration of peace in Mexico
will be taken immediately on President
Wilson’s return to Washington. What
specific action the President may have
decided on has not been disclosed, but
it was authoritatively announced that
the executive departments of the gov
ernment were preparing to carry out
the program determined on.
Only an unexpected movement in
Mexico itself to end the strife, it is
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$5.5006.10.
Sheep-—Wethers, $4.75@5.05; ewes,
$3@4.25; lambs, $5@6.
Chicago — Black rust reports are
coming in thick and fast.Yand so also
news of wet weather damage to wheat
in the shock.
After] an all-day ad
vance the market closed’steady. Corn
gained 1@1gc to 12@1gc,[and oats 2@
23[to3]c. In provisions, the outcome
was 10c to 271030c decline.
Black rust reports becoming more
numerous gave the wheat market a de-
cided upturn at the opening. Accord
ing to one expert, 50 per cent of the
crop in Southern North Dakota was in
danger. There were also advices in
dicating that all the winter wheat still
uncut in the fields south of the Nebras
ka region would virtually be a com
plete loss.
Corn, stimulated by cold that sug
gested late autumn rather than mid
summer, kept pace with the rise in the
value of wheat.
Shipping demand
from the east was of a lively sort, but
could not be taken advantage of, as
supplies here were too limited in vol
ume.
Independent strength developed in
the oats market.
A huge short in
terest was said to exist, mainly be
cause of big sales for export and be
cause of lack of corresponding con
tracta for deliveries from first hands.
Owing to wet weather, the country
was said to be offering virtually noth-
ing.
Stop-loss selling formed the rule in
provisions. There seemed to be no
demand except from shorts.
Peaches Plentiful and Cheap.
Portland—Peaches ’are abundant on
Front street and sell fairly well. Ore
gon Hales brought'25 to 50 cents, ac
cording to size. . The, larger part of
the offerings were small size. The
best California peaches were held at
60 cents.
Local apples were more
plentiful. Astrachans were quoted at
75 cents to $1 and Gravensteins at
$1.25, with an occasional sale at $1.50.
Huckleberries are coming in in a more
liberal way.
The general price is 8
cents a pound, but fancy large berries
from the coast are quoted at 10 cents.
Portland—Wool buying in this state
is now almost at an end and the atten
tion of the trade is centered on the
selling movement in the Eastern mar
kets.
About 500,000 pounds of wool
is still left scattered throughout the
state in small lots.
Buyers are con
tinually after these lots, but the hold
ers are indifferent as to letting go. A
considerable quantity of consigned
wool remains to be disposed of here.
Oats Bought at Higher Level.
Simeon E. Baldwin, former governor
of Connecticut, has been mentioned for
the place of counselor of the state de
partment, left vacant by the appoint*
ment of Robert Lansing as secretary
of state. He is now seventy-six years
old.
said, would further delay affirmative
action by the United States to restore
constitutional government in the war-
torn republic.
Armed intervention is not believed
to be contemplated in the President’s
program. Many officials believe no
forcible measures will be required.
Persistent reports have reached here
that the faction leaders are inclined to
yield to the demands of this govern
ment for a peace conference.
Reports are generally credited that
a message will be sent to the opposing
leaders giving them a final chance to
cease hostilities within a limited time
and assemble a conference to settle
their differences.
Possibility of an
other failure to do so, in view of the
last refusal of General Carranza to join
in a conference with his adversaries,
is being considered by the President,
it is declared, in formulating a plan of
action.
Whether in that event a general em
bargo on arms exportations will be
imposed or American troops employed
to assure the transportation of food to
the starving people can not be predict
ed. It is known, however, that the
army and navy have been preparing
and now are ready for any eventuality.
Secretary Lansing said that the rep
resentations sent to Generals Car
ranza, Villa and Zapata urging that
routes to Mexico City be opened to
provision trains, were forceful. The
message to Carranza, who controls the
railroads from Vera Cruz, was partic
ularly emphatic. While not couched
as a “demand” that the railroad to
Mexico City be opened and kept open,
its purport was to that effect.
No answer from any of the Mexican
generals had been received. It was
believed,
however,
that provision
trains would be moving to Mexico City
within a few days under guard of Car
ranza troops.
Officials were led to this belief by
reports that General Gonzales had
driven off a Villa column under Gen
eral Fierro and returned to Villa
Guadeloupe, just outside of Mexico
City, practically occupying the capital.
Roving bands of Zapata soldiers, which
have been harrassing the raliroad, are
being driven off, it was said, and gar
risons stationed along the railroad.
Portland — The feature of a recent
session at the Merchants Exchange
was the firmness of the oats market.
Five hundred tons'were sold at $26.50
for prompt delivery. The demand for
oats, however, is not large.
Wheat was steady to firm, and bids
were raised 1 to 2 cents for the varions
Recruit Standard Lower.
sorts. Asked prices were in no case
Ottawa,
Ontario—A new policy re
less than 3 cents above offers.
A lit
tle business is being done in the coun specting recruits has been adopted by
try in club at 82 to 84 cents.
the Canadian military authorities.
Hereafter men with poor teeth and
Poultry in Moderate Supply.
other minor physical defects will not
Conditions were not changed on the be rejected, but will be accepted and
Portland market in the line of country sent to dental and surgical depots for
produce this week.
Poultry was in treatment, after which they will be
moderate supply and sold well, hens at trained and sent to Europe.
Two
13@0133c and springs at 17 cents. inches have been taken off the size
Dressed veal continues weak.
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standard, and men below size in chest
Eggs were firm for the beet grade measurement will be taken if the sur-
and other kinds were weak. The but geons are of the opinion that training
ter market was steady and unchanged. will give them the proper ehest size.