THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
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Entire Supply of Wool in
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Boston Held for Government : STATE NEWS ;
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Boston — The entire supply of raw
wool owned or controlled in this city,
the largest wool market in the world,
was ordered reserved for government
use by vote of the Boston Wool Trade
association at a special meeting Thurs
day. The stock will be offered to the
government at the prices quoted Thurs
day, and each member of the associa
tion will furnish an inventory of stock
to a committee that will co-operate
with the government.
The effect of the vote, as stated in
resolutions which the association
adopted, will be that the members of
the wool trade here will neither buy
nor sell wool until further notice is
Several Americans Among Survivors received from the committee.
Vessel Passes British Blockade
and Operates Off Brazil.
CRAFT AS DARING AS NOME
at Rio Janeiro—Raider Displays
Norwegian Flag as Decoy.
Rio Janeiro—A new German raider,
slipping past the British warships on
guard in the North Sea, has reached
the South Atlantic and sent 11 mer
chantmen to the bottom.
According
to survivors from the sunken vessels,
the raider is the Seeadler (Sea Eagle),
a formidably armed craft operating
with the same success and daring as
its predecessor, the Moewe, which re
cently returned to a German port after
playing havoc with shipping in the
same waters.
News of the activities of the raider
was brought to Rio Janeiro by the
French bark Cambronne, which arrived
here Sunday. She had on board 285
men, several of them Americans, from
the crews of vessels sunk by the See
adler.
The Cambronne encountered the
raider March 7 at latitude 32 south,
longitude 7 west, a point in the At
lantic almost on a line with Rio Ja
neiro and about two-thi rds of the way
to the African coast.
After the survivors had been put on
the Cambronne, she was allowed to
proceed to the coast of Brazil, a voy
age of 22 days.
According to the Journal Du Brazil,
the raider was loaded with mines,
which explains the destruction of ves
sels off the coast of Brazil.
The commerce destroyer is reported
to be armed with two guns of 105 mil
limeters and 16 machine guns.
The
vessel has three masts and is equipped
with wireless. Its crew consists of 64
men under the command of Count U k-
ner.
According to the refugees, the raid
er left Germany December 22, escorted
by a submarine. On sighting a mer
chantman, the raider hoisted a Norwe
gian flag, which was replaced by the
German ensign when her prey was
within reach of her guns.
Among the refugees are wo women,
the wives of two of the captains of the
sunken vessels.
Many Islanders Weep When
Danish Rule Comes to an End
St. Thomas, Virgin Island — The
transfer of the Virgin Islands from
Danish rule to the United States took
place at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon.
Commander Pollock, the ranking
American officer at the islands, offici
ated at St. Thomas, while the com
mander of the cruiser Olympia acted
at St. Croix.
After the transfer protocol was
signed the Danish governor proclaimed
the transfer and the Danish flag was
lowered amid salutes and the singing
of the Danish anthem.
Commander Pollock then proclaimed
the cession and the American flag was
hoisted, accompanied by salutes and
the singing of the American anthem.
There were no demonstrations, but
many wept during the profound and
impressive silence that followed the
hoisting of the American flag.
Ambassador Penfield Will
Return at Once to America
London — Frederick Penfield, the
American ambassador to Austria-Hun-
gary, and Mrs. Penfield, are about to
depart for Washington, according to
the Neue Freie Presse, of Vienna, as
reported by Reuter’s Amsterdam cor
respondent.
Ambassador Penfield, it is added, is
going home at the request of Secretary
of State Lansing, as the American
government urgently desires his pres
ence and advice regarding matters con
nected with the war. Joseph C. Grew,
the counsellor of the embassy, will be
in charge during the ambassador’s ab
sence.
Jitney Seating Limited.
Portland—It is now unlawful for jit-
neys to carry more than two passen
gers more than the ordinary seating
capacity of their cars. The city coun
cil has passed an ordinance to this
effect. The measure prohibits more
than one passenger from riding in the
seat with the driver. The measure is
aimed to prevent overcrowding, and
particularly in the seat with the
driver. The cause of the ordinance
was the recent arrest of a driver with
15 passengers in an ordinary jitney.
There was no ordinance against it.
Raider Victims Landed.
Rio de Janeiro — The French bark
Cambronne has arrived here with 200
men of the crews of various steamers
and sailing ships sunk by a German
raider off the island of Trinidad. They
reported that many sailors from the
sunken vessels were drowned.
MeAdoo’s Sons Volunteer.
Washington, D. C. — Secretary Mc
Adoo’s three sons have volunteered for
the Naval Reserve in case of war.
Industrial Clubs Liked.
Salem, Or.—“The high cost of living
and the universal patriotic demand
that every one grow a garden, raise
some poultry, grow a pig, or in some
way produce some food product, and
the local country-wide activity in the
‘grow a garden’ movement is proving
to be a great stimulus to the Industrial
club work of Clatsop county,” said N.
C. Maris, Industrial club field worker,
who has returned from a tour of that
county in the interest of the Industrial
club movement.
Mr. Maris, in company with Super
intendent O. H. Byland, visited schools
in the vicinity of Blind Slough, Sven-
sen and the Nehalem valley and, re
ports that a number of enthusiastic
clubs were organized.
Local school
fairs will be held in various parts of
Clatsop county this year, he stated, as
well as the County Fair at Astoria.
PLANNING FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD?
Portland Saturday floated the first
vessel for the world-renowned Cunard
line that was ever built on American
soil.
A tiny baby boy, evidently newly-
born, was found one morning recently
on the steps of St. Anthony’s hospital
by the Sisters of St. Francis at Pen
dleton.
During the month of March 31 ves
sels loaded at the mills in the Lower
Columbia River district and their com
bined cargoes amounted to 22,881,000
feet of lumber.
Wasco county’s road bond issue of
$260,000 has been sold to the Lumber
men’s Trust company, of Portland, on
its bid of par and accrued interest and
the money will be on hand in a week.
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A net loss for last year of $55,426.05
in the income account of the Portland
Railway, Light & Power company is
shown in the annual report of that
company filed with the Public Service
commission.
A special session of the legislature
to provide means of caring for those
Von Hindenburg, the eiuperor of Germany and Von Ludendorff studying maps of the world and planning future
dependent upon men called into the
service of the army and navy is con operations.
templated by members of both houses
in Portland.
SPANISH WINE FOR THE FRENCH SOLDIERS
C. J. Green, of the force of the Pub
lic Service commission, who is artil
lery engineer for the Oregon Coast Ar
tillery, is sending to public utilities
of the state information relative to op
portunities that are open to enlisted
Steel Workers Get Rise.
specialists. At present there are 34
New York—The United States Steel such positions unfilled.
Corporation, through Chairman Elbert
Review of the work of Boys’ and
H. Gary, has announced an increase of
“about 10 per cent in wage rates and Girls’ Industrial clubs as accomplished
salaries up to $2500” of the employes last year is contained in a bulletin just
of the corporation’s various subsidiar issued by J. A. Churchill, state super
ies, to take effect May 1, subject to intendent of public ' instruction, in
equitable adjustment. There are now which it is shown that thousands of
on the payroll of the steel corporation boys and girls throughout Oregon are
about 250,000 employes, fully 90 per developing into expert agriculturists.
cent of whom will benefit by the higher
According to information received at
wage.
The increase will add about Klamath Falls, Tule Lake land draw
$25,000,000 to the corporation’s pay- ing date has been set for April 25, and
roll, it was said.
the land will be open to registration on
April 16. Nine days are allowed, com
Germany Protests America’s Move.
mencing April 16, to view the land,
London — An Exchange Telegraph make water-right applications and send
dispatch from Amsterdam says it is re in filings to the Lakeview and Sacra
ported there from Berlin that the Ger mento land offices.
man government contemplates sending
Miss Catherine Nodine, of Northern
to all neutrals a protest against the ex
pected American declaration that a Curry county, credited with being the
state of war with Germany exists. It champion woman bobcat huntress of
This picture, taken on the quays ut Cette-Port, France, shows huge consignments of wine from Spain for the
is hoped in Germany, the dispatch says, the state, has filed application with French troops. The poilu must have his daily ration of red wine, and it is delivered to the front In casks. Bottles
that the protest will influence South United States Commissioner H. T. are not permitted.
American republics as it will denounce Stuart, at Port Orford, for one of
President Wilson’s policy as perilous Uncle Sam’s homesteads in the timber
reserve. Miss Nodine and her shep
to the neutrality of those republics.
MAKE BOLIVAR STATUE
herd dog have accounted for more than
100 wildcats and lynx.
Holsteins Bring High Prices.
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TRAINING WOMEN FOR ARMY COOKS
North Yakima—Stockmen from Ore
gon, Idaho, California and Wisconsin,
as well as many from this state, at
tended the dispersal sale of registered
Holsteins at the H. C. Davis ranch
Wednesday, paying $29,260 for 86
head, 50 oí which were less than 15
months old and 40 born last summer.
The average was $340 per head.
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Von Herberg, of Seattle, topped the
sale, paying $1000 for May Lilu Hy-
laard Segis, a 3-year-old heifer.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
Portland — Cattle — Prime steers,
$9.35@9.90; good, $8.9009.25; me-
dium, $8.2508.75; cows, choice, $8.00
@8.25; medium to good, $7.0007.75;
ordinary to fair, $6.2506.75; heifers,
$6.5008.50; bulls, $5.00@7.25; calves,
$8.00010.00.
Hogs — Light and heavy packing,
$14.30@14.50; rough heavies, $13.00
@13.50; pigs and skips, $12.75@13.00;
stock hogs, $11.50@12.75.
Sheep — Wethers, $9.75 @ 12.00;
ewes, $9010.75; lambs, 10.25013.50.
Wheat—Bluestem, $1.79; fortyfold,
$1.73; club, $1.71; red Russian, $1.70.
Oats—No. 1 white feed, $41.25.
Barley—No. 1 feed, $41.00.
Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $31
per ton ; shorts, $35 ; rolled barley $43
@44.
Corn—Whole, $54 per ton; cracked,
$55.
Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy,
Eastern Oregon, $20022 per ton; al
falfa, $17@20; valley grain hay, $13
@15.
Butter — Cubes, extras, 40@9402c
per pound; prime firsts, 392c. Job
bing prices : Prints, extras, 43c ; car
tons, 1c extra; butterfat, No. 1, 44c;
No. 2, 42c.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re
ceipts, 28c per doten; Oregon ranch,
selects, 29030c per dozen.
Poultry — Hens, 20@21c per pound;
broilers, 35c; turkeys 20@4c; ducks,
@3c; geese, 12@14c.
Veal—Fancy, 141@15c per pound.
Pork—Fancy, 180183c per pound.
Vegetables—Artichokes, 85c@$1.00
per dozen; tomatoes, $3.7504.25 per
crate; cabbage, $406 per hundred;
eggplant, 5c per pound; lettuce, $2.75
@3.75; cucumbers, $1.25@1.75 per
dozen; celery, $1.50; $606.50 per
crate; cauliflower, $203; peppers, 45c
per pound; rhubarb, $1.7502.25 per
box; peas, 121@14c per pound; aspar-
agua, 10016c per pound; spinach, 9@
10c.
Potatoes—Oregon buying prices, $3
@3.10 per hundred.
Onions—Oregon jobbing prices : No.
1, $10; No. 2, $508 per sack.
Green Fruits—Apples, 90c@$2 per
box; cranberries, $8 per barrel.
Hope — 1916 crop, 40 7 per pound;
1917 contracts, nominal.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, fine, 30035c
per pound; coarse, 40c; valley, 40c;
mohair, nominal, 60c.
Practically all of the lands on the
Klamath Indian reservation now being
offered for sale are “inherited lands,”
allotments of deceased Indians, to be
sold for the benefit of heirs. The ag
gregate acreage now being offered for
sale is 11,087.33 acres, for 3975.25
acres of which bids will be opened by
the superintendent at Klamath agency
on April 14. Bids for the remainder
will be opened on May 14.
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As a result of the great patriotic
celebration held in Dallas last Sunday,
Company L, Third Infantry, Oregon
National Guard, then only of a strength
of 30 enlisted men, went to Vancouver
112 strong.
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The sheriff of Baker county is hunt
ing for the slayer of Thomas Cavan
augh, a prominent young rancher of
the Brownlee district, who was last
seen on March 12. While there is no
proof that he was murdered, a bloody
cabin and the fact that the missing
man failed to keep an appointment
with his cousin in Weiser, Idaho, has
convinced the authorities that he met
with foul play.
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The recent announcement of the British government that women would
be accepted for military service as cooks and waitresses for the army has
met with ready and willing response. Already a large number of girls are In
training at the special center at Dartford, and when they have completed
their general course of military cooking and waiting, they will he drafted to
different camps. Photograph shows a view of one of the spacious rooms at
the Dartford school.
WITH THE RUSSIANS WEST OF RIGA
Rlecognition of an American woman
' sculptor hus come from the govern
ment of Venezuela. Mrs. Sally James
I Farnham of New York has received a
commission from tlie South American
| government to make a statue of Simon
I Bolivar, the liberator, In equestrian
| form, that Is to be presented to the
city of New York by the Venezuelan
government as a token of friendship
and admiration. Twenty-five thousand
dollars Is to be spent for the work.
Mrs. Farnham Is, responsible for the
beautiful frieze on the Pan-American
building In Washington, D. C., com
memorating the discovery of America.
It was her first big success.
Why a Weather Bureau?
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Operating revenues of the Portland
Gas & Coke company for a year were
$1,332,792.54, with operating expenses
of $595,519.02, according to a report
filed with the Public Service commis
sion.
Spence Wortman, deputy sealer of
weights and measures, was informed
by Attorney General Brown recently
that the enactment of the recent legis
lature requiring all gasoline containers
to be plainly marked with the word
“gasoline” and the specific gravity of
the product so contained, applies to all
dealers, as well as to wholesalers.
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With applications on hand for loans
amounting to $52,500 out of the rural
credits fund, the State Land board has
decided to advertise at once for the
sale of $250,000 worth of 4 per cent
rural credit bonds.
The Damascus Creamery company
and the Portland Pure Milk & Cream
company, of Portland, have combined
and have opened a creamery at Sheri -
dan.
They will commence making
butter at once. Machinery has been
ordered. C. H. Houser, who has con
ducted the Damascus station there, is
retained as manager. If this venture
proves successful a cheese factory, will
no doubt be established also soon.
Plans for a big co-operative cannery
in Albany were launched recently at an
institute attended by more than 300
farmers and fruitgrowers of that vi
cinity. W. H. Paulhamus, of Puyal
lup, Wash., spoke. If the farmers will
plant 1000 acres of Wilson strawber
ries, 500 acres of phneomenal berries
and 500 acres of black raspberries, the
Oregon Electric Railroad company
promises to build a big cannery and
turn it over to a co-operative company
to operate, and Mr. Paulhamus will
handle the product of the plant..
WILL
"Fair and colder” is not the only
prediction that the United States
weather bureau makes. The "why"
of Its existence Is founded upon the
collection of many statistics for farm
ers and the issuance of warnings
when the weather promises to be dan-
gerous on land and sen. Every year
the much abused weather man fore
tells cyclones, floods and severely cold
or hot weather. His predictions are
particularly helpful to mariners.
A Conservative Estimate.
Russian troops west of
the road.
edge of
Riga
The following story is told by Bish
op Welldon In his recently published
Recollections and Reflections ; a gov.
erness once tried to give her pupils
some idea of the relative size of cer
tain distant countries by saying, “Cam-
botila is about as large as Siam.” But
when one of the little girls attempted
to repeat the information in a written
exercise, she put It thus : “My gov-
righting a sleigh that had slipped off the erness says that Cambodia is about as
large as she is.”