THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
WORLD’S DOINGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
MRS. CHARLES REID RILEY
TORNADO DEATH STANDARD WAGES
LIST EXCEEDS 100 THOUGHT TOO LOW
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
Property Loss In Texas Starai
Estimated at $30,000,000.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHFI
500 HOUSES GO DOWN IN GALVESTON PAY LESS THAN COMFORTABLE LIVING
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Waves Break Causeway and Destroy Settled Policy Toward Employes Is
Criticised—Laws Against Child-
Water Supply Mains—Fires Are
Labor Strongly Opposed.
Started—Troops Called. - :
any Blamed for Strike by
Federal Investigators.
Chicago.—The report of George P.
Carranza is said to be preparing a
West and C. T. Chenery, who investi-
Deaths
by
Flood
on
Southeast
reply refusing peace proposals.
gated the July, 1915, strike of the
Texas Coast.
Standard Oil Company employes at
Yuan Shi Kai is considering the ad
With large sections of the flood-
Bayonne, N, J„ for the United States
swept area in Texas not yet heard
visability of proclaiming himself em
Commission on Industrial Relations,
from, the estimate of dead tai
peror of China.
was made public by Frank P. Walsh,
Virginia Point. 141 Seabrook .... .... 3
Texas City
32 Houston
.... 3
chairman of the commission. The re-
Application has been made for the
Galveston
14[ 1 iekinson .
.... 11
port'said, in part, after stating that
Morgans Point. 7 Port Arthur .... 5 I
appointment of a receiver for the Mis
the strike was against the Standard
Hitchcock ...... 7 Patton ....... . .10
souri Pacific railroad.
La Porte ........ 7 Hay Ridge _ ... 3
Oil
Company of New Jersey:
Lynchburg
3 Sabine .......... .... 3
“The company is the most import
A Georgia mob took Leo M. Frank,
Sylvan
Beach..
3[
Miss Minnie Conrad, daughter of the
ant of the Standard Oil group and this
serving a life sentence for the murder late William Q. farad, a Montana
is the principal contributor to
of Mary Phagan, from jail and hanged copper magnate, was married recently VWWWWWWWWW group
the wealth, prestige and power of the
Dallas,
Tex.
—
Direct
word
from
the
him.
largest estate in the country, if not
to Charlea Raid Riley, who owns a
A terrific Gulf storm wrecked many large farm in Clark county, Virginia, storm-swept communities of the south- in the world, that of John D. Rocke
vessels and did much other damage near the Conrad home. Mrs. Riley and east Texas coast brought details of the feller, Sr., and his immediate family.
tropical hurricane which put Galves- The facts regarding the company’s
along the Gulf coast, and particularly her sister Inherited $3,000,000.
ton, Houston, Texas City and scores labor policies must, therefore, be re
at Galveston.
garded as of special significance be
of other cities and towns in dire peril. cause of the tremendous power wield-
A German submarine torpedoed the MEXICAN FORCES CROSS RIVER
With large sections of the district ye, ed
ea by
vy the
ie group
givup of
uL men
ieu who
wav control
cunlUl
British transport Royal Edward in the
this industry and because of their an-
AND ATTACK AMERICAN TROOPS unheard from, the death list was more mounced
Aegean sea, off the Turkish coast, and
to enter the field of
about 1000 lives were lost.
than 100, the heaviest reported loss industrial intention
relations with a view to
Brownsville, Tex.—About 100 Mexi being from Texas City, opposite Gal widening their influence and activity,
British agents in San Francisco
cans, under cover of darkness, Tues veston.
/ propagating what they deem to be the
charged with recruiting in violation of day
night forded the Rio Grande near
The property damage may exceed proper theories and principles that
neutrality laws, raised technical points Mercedes,
about 30 miles up the river $30,000,000, with Galveston contribut should govern the relations between
and gained much time by the delay.
from here, and partly surrounded 21 ing half that amount.
wo 1 employer and employe.”
The following findings of fact are
The executive committee of the Ger men of the 21st United States cavalry.
Property loss estimates were vaghe
man National Uberai party declares They killed one trooper and wounded except in a few instances. Houston, to be considered In the light of the
For a time it was reported that Texas City and Port Arthur advices foregoing:
permanent peace can only be had by a two.
“Tho Standard Oil oompany, vF New
the Mexicans were advancing on Mer
wide extension of German frontier in cedes, but at midnight all had disap gave fairly definite figures for those Jersey, although conducting an enor
places, but most of the other towns
all directions.
peared.
Soldiers and posses are reported in such phrases as "consider mously profitable enterprise, pays
able,” "very heavy” and "not yet esti wages too low to maintain a family
French find on German prisoners searching the brush for them.
on a comfortable, healthful basis.
Tho battle at the crossings was mated.”
copies of a military order saying “we
short but sharp. The troopers are un Some of the estimates were as fol “It fixes wages, not with relation
shall take, we must take, Verdun. able
to the earnings of the company, but
to say whether the main body
Then the war will be finished by De of Mexicans crossed to attack them lows:
by taking into consideration wages
Galveston
$15,000,000
Seabrook
—
$100,000
cember at the latest.”
or whether the crossing was a cloak Houston
2,000,000 Sabine......
100,000 paid by other companies in the same
Texas City
400,000 Sabine Pass 100,000 locality and then fixing the wage as
A German submarine shelled three to cover crossings at other nearby Port Arthur 200,000 Kemah .....
60,000 low or lower than the prevailing wage
points.
towns on the Cumberland coast of Eng river
In addition to darkness, the Mexi The comparatively small loss of life in that locality. In Bayonne it paid
land. Several fires were started by cans had the cover of thick brush and is attributed by residents to the les common laborers less than those of
shells from the under-water boat and bends of the river. During the height sons of 1900. The Galveston popula two companies whose plants adjoin
the railroad was damaged, but there I of tho fighting the soldiers said many tion sought refuge in the strongest its refineries. This is in direct con
were no casualties.
I shots were fired from the Mexican buildings of the city, whereas in the tradiction to the claims of the com
bank opposite their camp. This camp disastrous storm of 15 years ago they pany in a statement issued at 26
Nancy Hanks, 2:04, champion trot was
near Progreso, an excellent ford, remained in their homes, feeling se- Broadway that it has always paid the
ter from 1892 to 1894, died at Ham where man and horse could cross with cure against the gale which took the prevailing wage or better. The state
burg Place, the estate of J. E. Mad ease at a gallop, and where for two lives of 8000.
ment of the general manager of the
Railroads running into the city an company that the interests of other
den, who purchased the horse several days cavalrymen and rangers have
years ago to pension her until her been watching the gatherings of Mexi- nounced they had begun moving all companies in the same locality are
death. Nanev U-’- -
f“** e" cans in considera me numbers. A Mex available men and machinery into the considered in the fixing of wages con
ican at this point fired on the soldiers storm zone, from north Texas to re stitutes in effect an admission that
1886.
pair tracks and water mains, but this the company combines with the poor
but hit no one.
A Spokane woman, while down town
Ranger Lieutenant Reynan in an progress is slow.
est and least generous employers to
with her 10-months-old babe in her early report said he understood 270
In bearing the brunt of the storm, fix the wage rate.
arms, recognized a man who had burg Mexicans had crossed and that they Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsu "The company has instituted no ma
la served as barriers to break the chinery by which real or fancied
larized her homo a few days before were coming to attack Mercedes.
The report from Ranger Reynan force of the hurricane against the lit grievances may be peacefully and
and chased him seven blocks, finally
stopping him and holding him until he said that the Mexicans had crossed tle bay shore towns which skirt the promptly adjusted. The officials say
the river in three bands. Mercedes, large body of water lying to the north that any man has access to the gen
was taken by an officer.
according to details of troops in that of the island. The bay towns have eral superintendent, but the employes
A cablegram from Paris announces region, should have available 70 Unit suffered heavily, but probably have allege that they would be discharged
the death of Jacques Neyvatte, a mem ed States cavalrymen and half a doz been saved from utter devastation.
before reaching the office.
ber of the French aviation corps. Ney- en rangers for protection, besides vig Dependable accounts of the losses
“General Manager Gifford is not a
in
these
lesser
towns
have
not
been
believer in child-labor legislation, and
vatta was formerly a newspaper man ilantes who have been organized in
thus
far
obtainable,
but
the
loss
of
on the other hand, thinks the children
of Phoenix, Ariz. He was licensed by force there.
Reynan said it was reported that in lives is proportionately greater in each should be allowed to go to work
the Aero Club of France in 1908, and
of
the
bay
towns
than
in
Galveston.
addition to the Mexicans who had
earlier. He and Mr. Hennessy appar
appeared in aerial exhibitions in this crossed
In Virginia Point, the north end of
the river, a large number of
have little respect for the for
country. He served in the Boer war others were lined up on the Mexican the causeway, 14 are dead; at Texas ently
eign-born men whose labor produces
as a balloonist.
City 32, 10 of whom were soldiers, are the company’s earnings and are pro
side.
Reinforcements of rangers and sol reported drowned, seven at La Porte ponents of the extremely individual
Representatives of the Italian gov
from Harlingen were hurriedly and three at Lynchburg.
istic and reactionary industrial theor
ernment have begun the purchase of diers
At Houston three were killed during
ordered to Mercedes by automobile.
12,000 more horses for war purposes Harlingen is about 15 miles from Mer the storm, one, W. E. Evans, a car- ies discarded by enlightened employ
in East St. Louis.
These are to be cedes. Mexicans who crossed the river penter, killed by a falling barn, and ers and by economists many years
”
selected within 90 days.
Thus far would have seven or eight miles to another, an unidentified negro, killed ago.
The report then recited that the
by
a
live
wire.
The
property
loss
has
more than 160,000 horses have been cover before they reached Mercedes.
company employed a detective agency
Reinforcements to Mercedes should been estimated at $2,000,000.
sold to the belligerent nations through
of New York City to furnish guards
dealers at that place.
A dealer said reach there ahead of the Mexicans, ac The hurricane struck Houston, ac and strikebreakers. It quoted the at
cording to reports reaching here, torney for the agency as referring to
the Allies had spent $27,000,000 for cording to officers at Brownsville.
shortly after every wire to Galveston these men as “a lot of thugs.” The in
horses in East St. Louis.
had been put out of commission by the vestigators added:
“Their appear
Russians Resist Bitterly.
storm. The hurricane was declared ance amply justified his use of the
Russians report inflicting heavy loss
Rotterdam, via London.—No point to be the worst in the history of the term.”
on Turks in Caucasus campaign.
city. Damage was wrought chiefly to
British minister of war munitions is yielded by the Russians to the ad buildings by the wind and to merchan “The strike was broken by Sheriff
Eugene Kinkhead,” the report stated,
declares he has control of 345 plants. vancing Germans until the railroad dise by water.
"who first overawed and disorganized
bridges and everything else of mili
the strikers by assaulting and arrest-
A recent German military decree is tary value has been destroyed, accord
ing one of their leaders and then
Tree Yields $3000 Crop.
said to have declared that peace is cer ing to German reports received here.
The Cologne Gazette admits the diffi-
tain by October.
Washington. D. C.—What appears strengthened his control over them by
culties confronting the invaders and •o be the most valuable fruit tree In premising to use his influence to ob-
Petrograd joyfully announces the re- aays: "The great area west of the the world stands at Whittier, in Los tom an increase in wages and by ar-
pulse of a German naval force from Vistula is covered by ceaseless pro Angeles county, Cal. It is an avacado resting 30 of the armed guards.”
the Gulf of Riga.
cessions of wagons bringing up sup- (alligator pear) and is insured against
plies.
incredible amount of work wind and fire by Lloyds, of London, to
After extensive inspection, the Ore has to An
Cancer Foe Discovered.
be done. Only by herculean
amount of $30,000.
gon hop crop for 1915 is estimated at exertions have we been able to carry the The
New York.—The Rockefeller insti-
value of this tree arises from
less than 100,000 bales.
supplies over the Vistula."
the great value of its product. This tution announced through the Acad-
tree last year yielded 3000 pears emy of Science at Washington a dis-
Baron Kikujio Ishii, new Japanese
which averaged to the owner 50 cents
Russia Courts America.
minister of foreign affairs, is said to be
each. It also produced $1500 worth of covery by two of its investigators
Milan,
Italy,
via
Paris.
—
A
long
dis
a firm friend of United States.
whereby immunity from cancer, it Is
patch from Petrograd outlining the bud wood, making a total production hoped, may be obtained. The Investi
Mail order liquor houses of Horn situation tn Russia, which gives the for the year of $3000.
gation was conducted over a period of
brook, Cal., just across the Oregon Impression of being inspired by Ser
two years. The doctors discovered
line, are said to be preparing for a big gius Sazanoff, Russian foreign minis
Fear Felt For Islanders.
that in the white lymph cells of the
business, in anticipation of the going ter, is published by the Corriere Della
New Orleans.—Efforts are, being blood there are the necessary factors
Sera.
The
article
says
in
conclusion:
into effect of the prohibition law in
made to reach Marsh Island, about in making animals immune from can-
Oregon and Washington Jan. 1, 1916. “The proposal for a Russian-Japanese
alliance finds no opposition on condi 150 miles southwest of here, to learn cer. A decided increase of the cells
gives absolute immunity, the physi-
Sweeping reductions In the anthra tion that It be not aggressive against the fate of 100 island residents, who, clans declare
they ascertained.
cite freight rates of railroads handling China and even less so against Ameri it is feared, may have been lost in the
ca,
whose
friendship
is
necessary
to
80 per cent of the country's anthracite Russia.”
storm. Persons on the island mostly
Soil Studied In Prison.
production were ordered by the Inter-
are fishermen, but several parties of
Martinez.
Cal.—Henry Kuckel re-
state Commerce commission in a decis
Wilson Studies Union Pay.
campers were known to have been
Washington, D. C.— Demands of ma there when the hurricane struck.
ion which held the carriers guilty of
turned to his home here Monday on
The sea was still too rough to be parole from San Quentin penitentiary,
giving illegal preferential treatment chinists at the Washington navy yard
for Increased pay were taken up by | navigable, and an appeal was sent to where he served one and a half years
to allied coal companies.
President Wilson in a conference with Governor Hall, who ordered the state of a seven-year sentence for forgery,
William Barnes, Jr., speaking be a committee representing the work conservation commission to direct one to accept a position aa soil expert in
of its large boats to go to the rescue. California for an agricultural imple
fore the New York state constitutional men.
The president promised to discuss
ment concern. Kuckel occupied his
convention, likened Roosevelt to Bis
their demands as soon as possible
time In prison by taking a correspond
marck.
Schedule Change Curbed.
with Secretary Daniels. N. P. Alifas,
ence course in agriculture from the
Olympia. Wash.—The time-worn de University of California, in which he
General economy and thrift is being president of the local branch of the
machinists'
union,
said
the
delegation
urged aa a regular study in the public
vice on railroad timetables announc won three degrees.
was much encouraged by the presi
schools by the National Educational dent's
ing that the railroad "reserves the
attitude.
St. Louis Strike Ended.
association.
right to change this schedule at pleas
St Louis.—The strike of 1500 trans-
ure" or without notice, is doomed in
Foodstuffs Price Treble.
Forest fires in Lyttle Creek canyon,
Paris.—A dispatch from Bucharest the state of Washington, unless the fer company teamsters and chauffeurs
near San Bernardino, Cal., have leaped
says
that Austrian and German agents railroads can offer a convincing ex which began here laat Friday has been
the fire brakes and are on their way at points
along the Roumanian fron cuse. The public service commission settled. A general wage increase of
into the spruce timber. The flames tier are paying three times the normal has issued an order forbidding chang 50 cents a week, a reduction of about
have already destroyed timber and price for wheat, corn. hay. flax, peas ing of timetables without 10 days’ no one hour In the working day and bet
watershed brush covering 2000 acres. and beans exported from that country. tice. posted beforehand in the sta- ter working conditions are granted the
men.
Forty additional men have been sent. This is the result of heavy export tax. tiens.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS
Portland—Wheat: Bluestem, $1.01
bushel; forty fold, 95c; club, 93c; red
Fife, 92c; red Russian, 90c.
Oats—No. 1 white feed, $25.50.
Barley — No. 1 feed, $25; brewing,
$26.
Millfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $27
ton; shorts,.$28; rolled barley, $29@
30.
Corn—Whole, $38 ton; cracked, $39.
Hay—Eastern Oregon timothy, $16
@17 ton; valley timothy, $15; alfalfa,
$12.50@13.50; cheat, $10.50@ll; oat
and vetch, $11@12.
Vegetables—Cucumbers, Oregon, 15
20c dozen; artichokes, 90c; tomatoes,
25@ 50c box; cabbage, 1c pound; head
lettuce, $1 crate; beans, 2¿@4c pound;
green corn, 15@20c dozen; garlic, 10
@12}c pound; peppers, 4@5c; egg-
plant, 6@7c; pumpkins, IJc.
Green Fruits — Cantaloupes, 65@
$1.75 crate; peaches, 30@50c box;
watermelons, l@lic pound; plums, 50c
@$1.25 box; new apples, Astrachans,
75c@$1; Gravenstein, $1@1.25; pears,
$1 @ 1.25; grapes, $1 @ 1.75 crate;
huckleberries, 6 @ 7c pound; casabas,
$1.75@2 dozen.
Potatoes — New, 570 @ 80c sack;
sweets, 32@4c pound.
Onions—60@75c sack.
Eggs—Oregon ranch, buying prices:
No. 1, 25c dozen; No. 2, 20c; No. 3,
17c. Jobbing price: No. 1, 27c.
Poultry —-Hens, 13 @ 14c pound;
springs, 16^*17c; turkeys, 18@19c;
ducks, 8@12c; geese, 221@26c.
Butter—City creamery, cubes, ex
tras, 27c pound; firsts, 25c; seconds,
24c; prints and cartons, extra; butter
fat, Ño. 1, 28c; second grade, 2c less;
country creamery cubes, 221@26c.
Veal—Fancy, 12@12Jc per pound.
Pork—Block, 9J@10c pound.
Hops—1915 contracts, nominal, 13@
14c pound; 1914 crop, 14c; olds, 12@
13c.
Hides — Salted hides, 15}c pound;
salted kip, 16c; salted calf, 18c; green
hides, 14c; green kip, 16c; green calf,
18c; dry hides, 25c: dry calf, 27c.
Wool —Eastern Oregon, medium, 26
@2810: pound; Eastern Oregon, fine,
18@21Jc; valley, 26@30c; mohair, new
clip, 30@31c.
Cascara bark—Old and new, 4c.
Pelts—Dry long wooled pelts, 52c;
dry short-wcoled pelts, lljc; dry
shearlings, each, 10 @ 15c; salted
shearlings, 15@25c; dry goat, long
hair, 17c; dry goat, shearlings, 10@
20c; salted long-wooled pelts, May, $1
@2.
Grain bags—In car lots, 72c; small
lots, }c more.
Cattle — Best steers, $6.50 @ 6.75;
good, $6 @ 6.25; medium, $5.75 @ 6;
choice cows, $5.25@5.35; heifers, $5
@5.85; bulls, $4.50@5; stags, $5.50
@6.
Hogs — Light, $7.50@7.60; heavy,
$7.25@7.40.
Sheep—Wethers, $4.75@5; ewes,
$3@4.50; lambs, $4.75@6.25.
ILLS OF BUSINESS
HEARD BY BOARD
Federal Commission s Asked to
Give Remedial Advce.
LUMBER INDUSTRY IS INJURED MOST
Existing Depression Laid at Doo of
European War and Removal of
Protection of High Tariff.
Busines in the Pacific Northwest is
bad—that was freely and frankly and
almost unanimously admitted before
the Federal Trade commissioners hear
ing held in Portland. But what caused
it to be bad, and how to improve it,
were elements in the situation that
brought forth many conflicting the
ories.
All witnesses were agreed, how
ever, that the commission can be and
should be of material assistance in
bringing about the improvement.
There was universal agreement, too,
on the proposition that the lumber in
dustry is the backbone of business in
ORVILLE WRIGHT
wer
—
str
Pr cone"
"o
fiel
New photograph of Orville Wright,
who, as a member of the new board
of experts, will place at the command
of the navy department his great
knowledge of aeroplanes and aero-
local situation is apt to nautlcs.
A complex
make the Portland wheat market un
usually dull.
The farmers are showing themselves
totally unwilling to meet in any way
the prices offered by exporters. In
fact, following telegraph reports that
sterling had declined to $4.58, one
leading firm of exporters announced
that they were not in the market, and,
moreover, did not expect to be in the
near future.
The grower, generally, is not in
clined to take below $1.06, the price
current a week ago, prior to the recent
slump.
"And, if he holds for that price, he
is apt never to sell his grain,” re
marked one leading shipper.
"The farmer is confident that grain
will go up,” said another. “But then
the farmer fails to consider such little
questions as exchange.”
The opinion seemed general that
wheat trading locally would be at a
standstill for some little time, the
water rate of 50 cents by the canal
making it practically impossible for
local mills to buy wheat here and com
pete with flour on Eastern markets.
Exporters asserted that unless he
had ships which he was compelled to
fill, a buyer would be unlikely to buy
at all, because he might have to face
a heavy deficit by the time his 60-day
payment bill became due.
With the farmers firm for wheat at
$1.06 and over, and buyers coy until
the money market is more settled,
there does not appear much chance of
heavy sales of Northwest grain.
the Pacific Northwest, and that the
lumber industry, more than any other,
is experiencing distressing demoraliz
ation.
Most attention was given to the
lumber situation in the hearing that
occupied the attention of the commis
sion for four hours, but the grain situ
ation, the fruit situation and various
other industries that represent the
Pacific Northwest received ample at
tention.
The commission’s hearings were in
formal, although all the testimony was
transcribed for future reference by the
commission. The session was opened
by Joseph E. Davies, the chairman,
who subsequently asked C. C. Colt,
of Portland, to preside.
The various elements that have con
tributed to the present stagnation of
the lumber industry were presented for
the commission’s review.
Foremost in the list of causes was
placed the diminishing demand due to
the European war, but next in order
and closely behind it were placed care
less financing and speculation. Diffi
culty in obtaining charters also was
named as a contributing factor, and
this condition, it was pointed out, was
due entirely to the war.
The commission also received some
written testimony in addition to the
oral evidence, and some of these doc
uments emphasized the tariff as the
probable cause of depression in some
branches of the lumber industry, par
ticularly the shingle industry.
Re
moval of the shingle tariff has permit
ted shingles manufactured in British
Columbia to enter into unnatural com
Few Apples Yet Unsigned.
Wenatchee, Wash.—The apple crop petition with the shingle manufac
turers of Oregon and Washington.
of the Wenatchee district is now al
most entirely lined up for market—85
Navy Swindle Charged.
per cent is the estimate of one fruit
Washington,
D. C.—George D. Will,
man. The greater part of the unsigned
tonnage is in the hail-affected districts. a clerk in the bureau of navigation of
The tonnage in other sections has been the Navy department, was arrested
sold for cash or placed as a whole Saturday on a warrant charging con
through a unit of the Growers’ League. spiracy in that he was concerned in a
Prospects are that almost one-fourth of scheme to obtain sums of money
the entire tonnage will be sold for from enlisted men of the navy for
cash. Estimates say the tonnage will transfers.
Government investigators say they
vary from 4000 to 5000 cars. Approx
have found evidence of a conspiracy to
imately 850 cars are under contract.
collect payments ranging from $25 to
Hop Prospects Favorable.
$50 from enlisted men for transfers
‘ Portland — A cable received by a and promotions to which they were
leading firm of hop exporters indicated rightfully entitled.
that the English crop would be 270,000
Young Turks Scorn Chief.
cwt., in place of 250,000 cwt., the es
timate given a week ago. At the same
Rome — Reports have been received
time the lice conditions in Oregon are from Constantinople that the Young
improving, and cables indicate that Turks held a meeting at which Enver
weather conditions abroad are favor Pasha, Turkish minister of war, argued
able to a big crop. Hop buyers report the necessity for breaking relations
that 137,000 cwt. of last year's Eng with Italy and thus freeing Turkey
lish crop remain unsold, and this from the "leading spy,” namely, the
is a factor in the market.
Italian ambassador, and simultaneously
adopting severe measures against the
The Portland stockyards market con- Italians. After a long discussion, it
tinued firm, although arrivals were is reported, the meeting decided to
postpone a defintie deeiaion.
light. Sheep receipts were heavy.