THE HERMISTON
HERALD,
HERMISTON, OR’ON.
Report
GERMANS SINK U. S. Government for Crop
Washington and Oregon NEWS ITEMS
SHIP; NO WARNING
About Oregon
Steamer Algonquin Sent to Bot
tom By Submarine.
VESSEL’S SEAMEN ARE LANDED
One of the First American Steamers to
Sail After Submarine War Was
Declared Is Victim of Diver.
London — The American steamship
Algonquin has been sunk without
warning by a German submarine. The
crew was saved.
J. G. Stephens, American consul at
Plymouth, first reported that the Al
gonquin had been torpedoed, but in a
later report he said the captain of the
Algonquin had stated that his ship was
sunk by shell fire without warning.
The Algonquin was sunk at 6 o’clock
on the morning of March 12. The sub
marine refused assistance, according
to the report of the consul at Ply
mouth. Twenty-seven men have been
landed.
According to later advices from Ply
mouth, the German submarine opened
fire upon the Algonquin from a dis
tance of 4000 yards, firing about 20
shells. These were not sufficient to
sink the steamer, so she was boarded
by men from the submarine, who
placed bombs, and the Algonquin was
then blown up. The crew was given
plenty of time to leave the vessel.
New York — The Algonquin, a
freighter, 1086 tons gross, was one of
the first American vessels to sail from
the United States after Germany an
nounced her submarine campaign of
unrestricted warfare.
There were 10 Americans, including
the captain, on the Algonquin, the
owners announced.
She carried about 2000 tons of cargo
and commanded by Captain A. Nord
berg, a naturalized American of Nor
wegian birth.
Wa With United States
Depends on Acts of U-Boats
London—In an interview granted to
the Copenhagen correspondent of the
Berlin Tageblatt, says an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch, Count von Bern-
storff, interrogated as to whether he
thought there would be war between
Germany and the United States, re
plied:
“That depends on our U-boat war
fare. If we sink an American ship we
shall get war.
If not, I suppose we
can avoid it.”
“And if,” asked the correspondent,
“Germany sinks British ships with
American citizens aboard?”
To this von Bernstorff replied :
“That is not the same.”
Raider is in Indian Ocean.
Vancouver, B. C. — Cable advices
from Japan received here by the Cana-
ian News, a Japanese newspaper,
aid that a Japanese steamship of
about 3115 tons had been sunk in the
Indian Ocean by a German commerce
raider. No details were given.
Tokio—It is officially announced that
a converted German cruiser has been
sighted in the Indian ocean and is being
chased by Japanese and British war
ships. The German has sunk a Japan
ese freighter.
Colombian Treaty Modified.
Washintgon, D. C.— Modifications
in the Colombian treaty were agreed
upon by the senate foreign relations
committee in an effort to meet Repub
lican objections, and Chairman Stone
will lay the new draft before the sen
ate with a view to pressing for ratifi
cation before the end of the present
extra session.
Republican leaders,
still hostile in spite of the changes,
said there would be no filibuster to
prevent action, but more than 30 sen
ators were pledged to vote against the
treaty.
England Asks for More Credit.
London—It is understood that the
supplementary vote of credit which
will be moved Thursday will be for
£50,000,000 (1250,000,000). The an
nouncement created a mild sensation in
the house of commons, in view of the
granting of the huge sum of £550,000,-
000 as recently as February 12. An
explanation unofficially offered is that
the new government departments have
been spending more largely than was
anticipated in connection with the war.
New Malady Besets City.
Galesville, Wis.—Four persons have
died here and scores are ill, some crit
ically, from a disease which has baffled
physicians. The city officials have ap
pealed to physicians in other cities for
assistance.
Little difficulty is exper
ienced in detecting the symptoms,
swollen glands and high temperature,
but the proper treatment has not been
developed.
Mine Explosion Kills 8.
Canonsburg. Pa. — Eight miners are
known to have been killed their bodies
having be recovered, and five others
are missing as a result of two explos
ions which early Thursday wrecked the
interior of Hendersonville mine No. 1,
of the Henderson Coal company throe
miles north of here.
A summary of the March crop re
port for the state of Washintgon as
copmlied by the bureau of crop esti
mates, U. S. department of Agricul
ture, is as follows :
Wheat on farms—Estimated stock
on farms March 1, this year, 4,520,-
000 bushels, compared with 7,713,000
a year ago.
Price on March 1 to
producers, $1.44 per bushel.
Corn on farms—Estimated stock on
farms March 1, this year 183,000
bushels, compared with 158,000 year
ago. Price March 1 to producers, 102
cents a bushel, compared with 90 cents
a year ago.
Corn of merchantable quality—The
percentage of the 1916 crop which was
merchantable of quality is estimated
at 75 per cent, compared with 82 per
cent of the 1915 crop.
Oats on farms—Estmiated stocks
on farms March 1, this year 3,430,000
bushels, compared with 3,850,000 a
year ago. Price March 1 to producers,
53 cents per bushel, compared with 42
cents a year ago.
Barley on farms—Estimated stocks
on farms March 1 this year 1,020,000
bushels, compared with 1,453,000 a
year ago.
Price March 1 to pro
ducers, 87 cents per bushel, compared
with 64 cents a year ago.
A summary of the March crop report
for the state of Oregon, as compiled
by the bureau of crop estimates, U. S.
department of Agriculture, is as fol
lows:
Wheat on farms—Estimated stock
on farms March 1 this year, 2,740,000
bushels, compared with 3,004,000
bushels a year ago. Price on March 1
to producers, $1.50 per bushel, com
pared with $0.93 a year ago.
Corn on farms—Estimated stock on
farms March 1 this year, 134,000
bushels, compared with 116,000 bush
els a year ago.
Price March 1 to
producers, 95 cents per bushel, com
pared with 92 cents a year ago.
Corn of merchantable quality—The
percentage of the 1916 crop which was
of merchantable quality is estmiated
at 69 per cent, compared with 80 per
cent of the 1915 crop.
Oats on farms—Estimated stocks on
farms March 1 this year, 4,670,000
bushels,
compared with 4,336,000
bushels a year ago. Price March 1 to
producers, 48 cents per bushel, com
pared with 50 cents per bushel a year
ago.
Barley on farms—Estimated stocks
on farms March 1 this year, 1,078,000
bushels, compared with 936,000 bush
els a year ago. Price March 1 to pro
ducers, 88 cents per bushel, compared
with 68 cents per bushel a year ago.
CHILE ACQUIRES TEN NEW SUBMARINES
Of General Interest
Cattle and Sheep Being
Starved by Deep Snow
Baker—Stock and sheepmen in this
section face a loss that will run close
to $1,000,000 unless there is an imme
diate modification in the weather and 5
an unexpected feed supply develops,
stockmen declare. Already the cattle
and sheep losses, it is said on good au
thority, have totaled several hundred
thousand dollars, with little hope in
sight for an abatement of the losses.
Daily there are appeals for feed
from various sections.
Those stock
men who have enough to meet the
present demand do not know where
they will get more when their present
supply gives out
Opportunity for
sending stock out to graze ha's been
1
cut off by the continued snow and cold
weather. The grazing lands now are
covered with a thick coating of snow,
and the cold is such that no hope is
held for a thaw in time to put the cat
tle and sheep out before all feed is
gone.
Sheep owners are the heaviest suf
ferers. The lambing season is on and
the lambs are becoming stunted, be
cause their mothers are poorly fed. In
A Chilean naval commission headed by Rear Admiral Luiz Carreno has arrived in America to take possession
certain sections they are dying for of these ten submarines which were built at Quincy, Mass., for Great Britain. The British government turned
want of nutrition.
them over to Chile as part compensation for two superdreadnaughts being built in England.
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Sawmill is to Operate.
GERMAN DESTROYER BATTERED IN SEA FIGHT
Corvallis — The Rosecrans sawmill,
seven miles west of Corvallis and
which has been closed for several
montiis, will begin work this week,
running full time. Recently the com
pany built a flume to the Southern Pa
cific’s Newport line at a point about
two miles west of Corvallis and lum
ber will be flumed to this point for
shipment. Until the flume was built
the mill could not operate in winter on
account of the roads. The logging
operations will be conducted by Stud
baker & Monanhan, of Castle Rock,
Wash. The mill has lumber contracts
that will keep it busy for a year.
It
employs about 25 men.
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Big Log Contract Made.
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North Bend—The management of
the Bay Park sawmill has contracted
for a log supply of over 15,000,000
feet to be cut by Jack Bester on the
Siuslaw river and forwarded to this
The German destroyer V-69 at anchor in the harbor of Ymuideu, Holland, where it took refuge after the recent
city by rail. The cut will be strictly battle between German and British light sea forces. It was very badly damaged by British shell Are and the deck
fir, although there is about the same was covered with debris.
amonut of red cedar on the tracts. The
cedar will be sold to the various shin
LIVING STATUE IN FRANCE
gle mills on the Siuslaw river, one of
which, the Buck mill, is about ready
to operate with six machines. The
Bay Park mill recently contracted with
new sales agents in San Farncisco and
the arrangement calls for a continuous
supply of mill run lumber and special
orders.
Business Men to Pay License.
La Crosse, Wash. — At a recent
meeting of the council an ordinance
providing for a general method of
passing ordinances and one providing
for the collection of a poll tax were
passed.
An ordinance was ordered
drawn providing for a dog tax and one
prohibiting stock to run at large; this
ordinance will cover all live stock, in
cluding poultry, and will prohibit the
Senate Journal is Done.
keeping of hogs within the town
Salem—John Cochran, chief clerk,
limits. It was also decided, in addi and his force of senate desk clerks,
tion to the usual tax on peddlers and
traveling shows, to impose a license who have been employed revising the
senate journal, completed their labors
tax on every business firm in town.
Tuesday. Chief Clerk Drager and his
force in the house will finish their
Damages Are Awarded.
work Monday.
The law allows 20
Baker, Or.—A jury in the Circuit days after the completion of the ses
court here returned a verdict awarding sion to do their work and the 20 days
$5450 to Alonzo Robinson and the are up. One result of the work which,
Weygandt estate for the injury of the as far as is known, has never been ac
former and the death of Henry Wey complished before, will be completed
gandt last summer at the O.-W. R. & calendars for both houses showing a
N. Co. ’s crossing at Weatherby. Al history of the progress of every bill.
though the cases were tried jointly,
Views on Road Code Vary.
two separate verdicts were given.
Fifteen hundred dollars was Mr. Rob
Salem — The new county road code
inson’s portion, $3000 was allowed for apparently makes the appointment of
the death of Mr. Weygandt and $950 roadmasters discretionary with the
for the destruction of the automobile county courts.
Some lawyers who
in which they were riding.
have examined other highway legisla
tion of the last session, however, con
Embargo Is Put on Rice.
sider it possible that such companion
Galveston. — An embargo on rice legislation makes it mandatory. These
shipments through the port of Galves laws do not become effective until May
ton, destined to New York and points 21 and it is probable that before that
beyond, was announced by the Mal
lory steamship line. A similar em time the question will be put up to the
bargo by the Morgan line already is attorney general’s office for an opinion.
A snapshot from the English front, showing "Tommie" enjoying a brief
in force. The embargo was placed, it
is said, to give opportunity to clear
Man in Poor Farm Heir.
breathing spell after heavy artillery firing.
stocks already booked for passage.
Hillsboro—Christain Good, for the
past year an inmate of the Washington
county farm, is the sole heir of the es
tate of his brother, Joseph Good, who
recently died in Livingston county, Ill.
The estate includes an 80-acre farm
Portland—Wheat—Bluestem, $1.64; and $7000 in cash and at the expira
fortyfold, $1.61; club, $1.60; red Rus tion of the time which contests may
be filed Good will return to Illinois and
sian, $1.56.
claim it. Good has been a laborer
Oats—No. 1 white feed, $36.75.
about here for many years.
Barley—No. 1 feed, $38.00.
Butter — Cubes, extras, 35@353c.
6000 Acres Go to Government.
Jobbing prices: Prints, extras, 38c;
cartons, 1c extras; butterfat, No. 1,
Salem—The State land board has au
39c; No. 2, 37c, Portland.
thorized the turning over to the Fed
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re eral government of approximately
ceipts, 25@253c per dozen. ; Oregon 6000 acres of base lands in lieu of in
ranch, selects, 27c.
demnity lands, it being discovered that
Poultry—Hens, 19020c per pound; mistakes have been made in past
springs, 19@20c; turkeys, live, 22@ transactions which leave the state in
24c; ducks, 22023c; geese, 12@13c. debt to the government to that extent.
Veal—Fancy, 131@14c per pound.
Pork—Fancy, 17@17}c per pound.
Sandy Mills Are Operating.
Potatoes — Oregon buying prices,
Sandy — Ed Burns has completed
$2.50@3 per hundred; new Floridas, work and begun operations in his new
10c.
mill near town, employing about 25
Onions — Oregon, jobbing prices : men. Three more mills will open up
No. 1, $9 ; No. 2, $6 per sack.
near Brightwood, on the Mount Hood
Cattle—Steers, prime, $9.2509.65; road, soon. Nelson & Mickelsen, Jons-
good, $8.9009.25; medium, $8.250 rod & Meinig and Jari & Nelson. They
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8.7 5; cows, choice, $7.7508.00; med
will
employ
from
125
to
150
men.
ium to good, $7.0007.50; ordinary to
When the German submarine activities became a menace to the British
fair, $6.5007.00;
heifers,
$6.50@
isles, the last shipments from this country were being made of 550 "sea
McMinnville Makes Application.
9.00; bulls, $5.0008.00; calves, $8.00
McMinnville—Application has been wasps” designed and completed in 000 days by the Submarine Boat corpora-
@10.00.
Hogs— Light and heavy packing, made for a charter for the McMinn tlon. and that they have proved to be the backbone of the English admiralty's
$14.000.14.35; rough heavies, $13.00 ville National Farm Loan association, antisubmarine defense is attested by the fact that nearly 300 enemy subma
@13.50; pigs and skips,
$12.75@ having 11 charter members with ap rines have been destroyed or captured. These remarkable "submarine chasers"
plications for loans totaling $36,000. are 80 feet long. 12 feet beam and draw bnt 4% feet of water, thereby making
18.00; stock hogs, $11.50@12.75.
Sheep — Wethen 11$.50@ 12.00; Thia is the second National Farm Loan torpedo attack ineffective. With 500 horse power tn their motors, they attain
ewes, $8.50010.00; lambs, $10.75@ association to be organized in Yamhill a speed of 22 miles an hour and can turn in their own length.
county.
18.10.
RESTING AFTER HEAVY ARTILLERY WORK
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NORTHWEST MARKET REPORI
“SEA WASP’’ OF THE BRITISH NAVY
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-ess frAtes)
In the wonderful park of Tilolloy cas-
tie, In France, there are many ped-
estais minus their statues, the carvings
having been shot to pieces by enemy
shell fire. A merry "poilu” mounted a
base and took the place of the missing
sculpture, posing so statuelike that
companions some distance away did
not discover the deception until the
"statue” relaxed his forced pose and
jumped to the ground.
It’s a Gift
"I never knew such a persistent bor
rower as that man Jinks. I don't be
lieve he has ever earned a dollar in his
whole life.”
“He doesn't need to. He has such
a persuasive tongue that nobody can
refuse him. They even say that once,
on a bet, he borrowed a nickel from a
Scotchman.”
With These Few Remarks.
* Mrs. Peale—My husband always says
I look ten years younger tn this dress.
Friend— He’s quite right That fash
Ion was new ten years ago.