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HERMISTON
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ON U. S. SHIP
Submersible Launches Torpedo
at Destroyer Near N. Y.
MISSED 30 YARDS
Warning of Submarine Menace Sent
Broadcast to All Ships—Some
Officials Think Destroyer’s
Lookout Is Mistaken.
Boston—The war was brought to the
shores of this country Tuesday when
the United States destroyer Smith re
ported by radio that an enemy sub
marine had tried unsuccessfully to tor
pedo her 100 miles south of New York.
Nothing of an official nature regard
ing additional reports was made pub
lic here.
A suggestion in shipping circles that
the lookout on the Smith had perhaps
mistaken a large fish for a torpedo in
the uncertain light of the early morn
ing, met with the reply that the
Smith’s officers “stood by their orig
inal statement.”
It was learned, however, that an
other destroyer passed near the posi
tion mentioned in the Smith’s report
without sighting anything unusual.
Warning of the probable presence of
a German submarine off the Atlantic
coast was sent broadcast to all ships
upon receipt at the Navy department
of the report from the destroyer
Smith.
This announcement was made at the
Navy department:
“Reported from Fire Island light
ship to the naval stations at Boston
and New York at 3:30 a. m., on the
17th, an enemy submarine was sighted
by the United States ship Smith, run
ning apparently submerged.
“Submarine fired a torpedo at the
U. S. S. Smith, which missed her by
30 yards. The wake of the torpedo
was plainly seen crossing the bow.
Submarine disappeared.”
I STATE NEWS ; FRUIT DAMAGE HEAVY
Grape Crop is Cut 40 Per
I IN BRIEF. f Sacramento
Cent and Apricots Probably 70
oocccccc c cccccc0000000040%
Per Cent by Severe Frost.
A Pendleton Home Guard will be
formed this week to train Pendleton-
ians in case they are called to the col
ors. A meeting has been called and
Dan P. Smythe, former captain in the
National Guard, will preside.
Snow has seriously interfered with
La Grande gardeners. For three days
snow has been falling.
In harmony
with the balance of the winter the
weather is the most unusual this week
of any mid-April month of which there
is any record.
An impressive patriotic ceremony
was held Tuesday at the logging camp
of the Oregon Lumber company in the
depths of Cascade forests on the west
fork of Hood river, where 200 loggers,
nearly all of foreign birth, partici
pated in a flag-raising.
At the instigation of the local Hu
mane Society, the ministers of Hood
River have designated the last Sunday
in April as “Humane Sunday,” and
special sermons on the work of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals will be preached.
On orders received from Adjutant
General White, of Portland, Captain
J. A. Buchanan discharged eight mar
ried men from the Roseburg Coast Ar
tillery company.
Captain Buchanan
says their places will be filled with
single men within the next two or
three days.
In line with the recent recommenda
tions in a letter from Governor Withy-
combe, the Public Service commission
has addressed a letter to all water util
ities of the state, asking that they
publish especially attractive rates for
water furnished for irrigation of va
cant city lots by school children.
Two thousand gallons of wine be
longing to Fred Stetler, was destroyed
at the Stetler ranch, 14 miles from
Hillsboro by Sheriff Applegate, acting
on a Circuit Court decree. Some of
the liquor was 17 years old. Stetler,
who was allowed to keep 350 gallons
for personal use, will have to pay a
fine of $1184 and costs.
The Siuslaw harbor will be investi
gated as a shipbuilding site, according
to Earl Stanley Smith, of Eugene, who
says he was so informed by Theodore
Brent, vice chairman of the United
States Shipping bureau.
Mr. Brent
while at Marshfield gave instructions
to lay out 12 ways for the building of
ships in that harbor, according to Mr.
Smith.
The guards on the Oregon Short
Line bridge near Ontario, where an
Germans Lose 100,000 in
encounter took place between guards
Battle and 40-Mile Front and prowlers Tuesday night, have been
Paris—Casualties estimated at 100,-
000, including more than 13,500 taken
captive, and loss of 40 miles of the
strongest part of her line were sus
tained by Germany Monday and Tues
day in the new French offensive.
Continuing their terrific attack
against the German positions between
Soissons and Rheims and east of the
latter place, the French carried Ger
man first-line positions over many
miles of front, captured powerfully-
organized heights, occupied the im
portant village of Auberive and on
this part of the front, about two miles
in extent, took more than 2500 pris
oners.
The invaders had manned naturally
formidable positions with effectives
amounting to at least 20 divisions and
an enormous number of guns, well sup
plied with ammunition.
The battle opened on. the left of the
line, where, shortly after 8 o’clock in
the morning, the French infantry
swept forward in an irresistable wave.
In spite of a stiff resistance, the
Germans were driven back, and inside
of half an hour prisoners began
streaming toward the French rear.
Seven Billions War Loan
Unanimously Passes Senate
Washington, D. C.—The war finance
bill providing for issuance of $7,000,-
000,000 in securities—the largest sin
gle war budget in any nation’s history
_ was passed unanimously by the Sen
ate Tuesday night.
After seven hours of discussion the
administration measure, which was
passed by the house last Saturday and
which provides for a loan to the allies
of $3,000,000,000, was approved by
the senate with a few changes in rec
ord time. The amendments may ne
cessitate a conference or the senate
changes may be accepted by the house.
OREGON.
PISTOL THREAT HOLDS MAID
She
Decides She Will Not Leave
Evanston Mistress for Place
Offering More Money. ,
Evanston, Ill.—The practice of old
feudal Kentucky of shooting those who
Invade your home in search of some
thing you own will be staged in staid
old Evanston unless other women
cease enticing away the maids of one
society leader, late from "down South.”
Annie, maid extraordinary, is the
bone of contention.
"I am leaving Saturday night,” said
Annie, after a talk with one of her
mistress’ friends. “Mrs. Jones will
pay me higher wages.”
“Down where I come from,” drawled
the mistress, “they shoot people for
taking things of a whole lot less value
than servants. You can go with Mrs.
Jones If you wnnt to. But some day
I am going to call on Mrs. Jones.
Either she or you is going to answer
the door. I am going to shoot the first
one of you I see. That’s all.”
Annie is holding down the old job
and Mrs. Jones is not nearly so anx
ious to hire her as she believed she
was.
Marysville, Cal. — Five million dol
lars’ worth of damage was done in
Yuba and Summer counties early Mon
day by the heaviest frost that has vis
ited the Sacramento valley in 25 years.
Estimates made by grape men, wine
and raisin growers, indicate that 40
per cent of the 1917 crop was dam
aged. Apiricot growers declare more
than 50 per cent, and perhaps 70 per
cent, of the crop was destroyed.
Prunes are, in some sections, a total
loss, while in other sections they es
caped all damage.
Peaches, which would have made
hundreds of growers rich in Sutter
county this year, except for the frost,
are in some orchards a total loss. In
all the large orchards the frost did
great damage. Less than 40 per cent
will be harvested. Peaches in Sutter
county were contracted for at $35 to
$45 a ton. The peach loss will per
haps be $2,000,000.
Tomatoes and all truck gardens were CHEW CORDITE TO GET TIPSY
badly damaged. In various parts of
the county smudge pots were kept Women and Girls, Munition Workers
burning all night. In this way thou
In Great Britain, Use Explosive
sands of dollars’ worth of almonds
for Exhilaration.
were saved.
Thosuands of dollars’
worth of almonds were destroyed, how
London.—Officials of the ministry of
ever, in Yuba and Sutter counties.
munitions have discovered that a
good deal of the “drunkenness” at
Raspberry Crop Hurt.
tributed to women and comparatively
Puyallup, Wash. — Valley growers young girls is due to another and hith
are greatly troubled by the prospects erto unsuspected cause—the chew
of this year’s berry crop, according to ing of cordite, the smokeless ex
H. S. Palmer, head of the Puyallup plosive used in the shell of cannon and
Valley Fruit Groewrs’ union.
the ammunition of small arms. The
“The Cuthbert red raspberry is explosive is being used as a sort of
hurt,” said Mr. Palmer, “and I fear “pick-me-up” by the tired munition
seriously so, from the reports that workers, but Its effect on their health
growers are bringing in to me daily. is very injurious and remedial meas
This is the result of the early frost ures are being taken by the authori
last fall which is beginning to show in ties.
the new shoots.
Cordite, when chewed, has all the ex
“This damage to the berry crop ex
tends also to the loganberry, which is hilarating effects of a highly stim
hurt to an even greater extent. In ulating drug and cannot be tampered
deed, if anything can be told from the with except at great risk. Its effect
early indications it is very doubtful if on the nervous system is Immediate
the loganberry crop will be much more and ultimately deadly.
Cordite consists roughly of about
than 25 per cent of normal this season.
58 parts of nitroglycerin, 37 parts gun-
cotton and 5 parts of mineral jelly.
Cannery is Enlarging.
Each cartridge contains 60 cylindrical
Vancouver, Wash—Two large build stands of cordite.
ings of concrete are being erected¿by
the Oregon Packing company near the
SPECIALIST WINS SUCCESS
Union depot. These, when completed,
will be permanent and will have a lar
ger space than the original cannery,
but a few years ago and taken over
last year by the Oregon Packing com
pany and then enlarged. C. J. Clear,
manager of the local plant, is trying
to get Clarke county farmers signed
up for from one to five years to raise
corn and beans and offers $13 a ton for
corn.
doubled. It is believed one of the
strangers who attempted to place a
bomb was badly wounded and his body
whirled away in the swift stream.
Lind, Wash. — Spring seeding is
The prowlers and guards fought a bat nearing completion.
Several good
tle, due to the guards kicking a bomb rains have fallen recently, and condi
off the rails.
tions so farfare favorable for a good
B. Blaser, who represents a chemi crop this year. The Woodard Broth
cal wood by-products concern, has been ers, who own several thousand acres
on Coos Bay for several weeks for the south of Lind, are seeding six sections.
purpose of establishing a manufactur
ing plant that would handle 100 tons
or more daily of charcoal and other NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
lumber by-products, which a chemical
process would save.
Mr. Blaser has
been negotiating for a suitable site
Portland — Cattle — Steers, prime,
and has discussed the matter with the $9.75 @10.25; good, $9.50 @9.75;
North Bend chamber of commerce and medium, $9.00 @ 9.50; cows, choice,
property owners at Eastside. • . tom $8.50@9.00; medium to good, $7.950
8.25; ordinary to fair, $7.00@7.50;
As far as the state of Oregon is con heifers, $6.50 @ 9.00; bulls, $5.50 @
cerned, the crime of treason does not 8.00; calves, $8.00@10.00.
exist, regardless of war.
At least
Hogs — Light and heavy packing,
there is no penalty for such crime, ac $14.30@14.65; rough heavies, $14.00
cording to lawyers who have examined @14.50; pigs and skips, $13.50@14.00;
the law.
stock hogs, $12.00@13.25.
Sheep — Wethers, $9.75 @ 12.00;
Protection of animal stock as a fac
tor in the conservation of the country’s ewes, $9.00@10.75; lambs, $10.25@
food supply is strongly urged in an ap 13.50.
Wheat—Bluestem, $2.18; forty fold,
peal made by letter to President Wil
$2.13;
club, $2.13;
red Russian,
son by Governor Withycombe.
$2.12.
Secretary of State Olcott has ad
Oats—No. 1 white feed, $48.25.
vised the heads of various charitable
Barley—No. 1 white feed, $48.50.
institutions, which receive support or
Flour—Patents, $10.60; straights,
financial aid from the state, that the $9.40@9.80; valley, $9.60;
whole
claims for the last quarter cannot be wheat, $10.80; graham, $10.60.
audited and paid until such time as an
Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $37
agent of the State Board of Control per ton; shorts, $41 per ton; rolled
makes an investigation.
barley, $53.00.
Corn—Whole, $62 per ton ; cracked,
The Public Service commission has $63.
issued an order vacating its suspension
Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy,
order of February 17 as to an increase Eastern Oregon, $24026 per ton ; al
in class and commodity rates on the falfa, $18@20; grain hay, $16@18.
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad
Butter — Cubes, extras, 41c; prime
for transportation of merchandise be firsts, 40c.
Jobbing prices: Prints,
tween Astoria, Seaside, Fort Stevens extras, 44c; cartons, 1c extra; butter
and points between.
fat, No. 1, 44c; No. 2, 42c.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re
The State Water Board heard testi
mony in the matter of the adjudication ceipts, 32 @ 33c per dozen ; Oregon
of water rights on Trout creek, in ranch, selects, 34c.
Poultry—Hens, 21@23e per pound;
Harney county Monday, but will make
no decision immediately.
Three broilers, 30@40c; turkeys, 25@26c;
groups claim water rights on the creek ducks, 22@23c; geese, 12014c.
Veal—Fancy, 14@15c per pound.
—one a number of homesteaders, an
Pork—Fancy, 180183c per pound.
other Thomas & Walter, and a third
Vegetables — Tomatoes, $3.75 per
E. B. Hill, who has a filing on a reser
voir site and has an interest in certain crate; cabbage, 41 @ 63c per pound;
lands which he wishes to irrigate. The eggplant, 25c; lettuce, $2.7503.50 per
group of homesteaders are opposed to box; cucumbers, $1.25 @1.75 per
the Hill project, saying it is not feasi dozen; celery, $101.28 per dozen, $6
@7 per crate; cauliflower, $2; peppers,
ble and never can be completed.
45050c per pound; rhubarb, 4@5c;
More Planting Urged.
Washington, D. C.—Wednesday Sec
retary Lane appealed to holders of land
made valuable by government reclama
tion work to put all their available
soil in food crops. He said land in ex
cess of 700,000 acres, made useful by
the government and not under tillage,
if planted, would produce >15,000,000
worth of food this year.
“Loyalty and patriotism as well as
economic necessity,” said the Secre
tary, “demand that you get busy and
put this land into food crops thia year
A report filed by Sheriff Burns, of
and next.”
Clatsop county, shows that $432,351.58
has been collected on the 1916 tax,
Evidence ef Bombs Found.
leaving $431,172.88 to be collected.
Des Moines — Five explosions, fol More than 50 per cent of the latter
lowed by fire, Wednesday destroyed amount is composed of second half of
the grain elevator operated here by taxes, delinquent next October.
the A. B. Fogarty Company, resulting
Armond Patreau, who has been in
in destruction of property valued at
approximately $50,000.
One fireman Hood River for the past two weeks
and half dozen members of the Na with his parents in the Mount Hood
tional guard, who had been on duty at district on furlough from the French
the plant, were slightly injured. The trenches, has gone to Portland, where
police said evidence had been obtained he will eall on the French consul and
which indicated that a number of try to arrange for extension of the
bombs had been placed in the building. leave, which will expire next Friday.
HERMISTON,
Miss Helen Hammond improves each
fleeting moment, and when she is not
entertaining or participating in vari
ons works in which she Is interested,
she is busy devising new designs and
decorations, for she Is one of New
York’s most gifted and exclusive deco
rators, her prize exhibition and glory
being the Incomparably beautiful tea
garden on the roof of one of the lead
ing New York hotels.
The talented lady touches with her
magic mind everything—grand halls,
reception rooms, galleries, rooms and
most of all most distinctive furniture.
FATIGUE OF WAR IS NOW
BEING FELT IN GERMANY
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“It is hard to describe life under
these conditions. The best I can do
Is to say that it was suffocating.
When not going to and fro about their
work, the less well-to-do hid their un
happiness in their rooms. As it was,
one was forever meeting on the street
hollow-cheeked, emaciated, dry-eyed
sufferers. I felt as though I had es
caped from a dark prison when I got
back to this country and saw happy,
healthy, well-fed people again.
“The strain is beginning to tell. I
have heard the emperor soundly be
rated by his famished subjects In the
shops that the poor frequent. I have
often during the last months of my
stay listened to strangely seditious-
talk among the workers, men and
women, which grew in violence after
the check at Verdun. The working
women have threatened a number of
times to get out of hand and rough
things. In Saxony, at least, war is
successfully throttling, one by one, all
the people’s impulses for living.
“The Saxon casualty list has been
very heavy. The Plauen regiment has
been wiped out six times. All the
young, dashing, professional officers
who led the first onslaught have been
wiped out. The troops are now offi
cered by men of all classes, who have
made good in the field, and In some
cases that I know of the derivation of
the officer testifies to the startling
democratizing effects of war. The call
for more men Is always insistent. The
high school boys go out once a week
for drill. Boy Scouts drill from twelve
to sixteen. The land has been denud
ed of Its physically fit men.
Wage-Earning Class Becomes
Sullen and Almost Rebel
lious, Says Consul.
WANT PEACE AT ANY PRICE
Russian Revolution Finds Echoes in
Riots in German Industrial Cen
ters—Standard of Living
Lowered Fearfully.
New York.—Rumors from various
sources that the Russian revolution
has found echoes in riots in German
industrial centers had an Interesting
sidelight here when A. Curtis Roth,
American vice consul at Plauen, Sax
ony, described the awful conditions
existing among the working classes of
the central powers. Mr. Roth has just
spent seven years In the Saxon Indus
trial district. He said :
“Wage-earning Germany’s nerves
have been worn raw by the Increasing
weight of suffering that the war has
brought it. This class of Germans has
become sullen, dissatisfied with the
government, almost rebellious. While
the middle class remains intensely
patriotic, parading before the casual
observer a unified and determined
Germany, fatigue of war is making
alarming strides among the working
people. A great many of these humble
people want peace at any price—at the
price of their colonies, of Alsace-Lor
raine, even of their country’s prestige
and position.
“The working people, at least, In
Saxony, are becoming restive. They
have hungered and grieved and over
worked for many months, with condi
tions steadily growing worse and with
each promise of peace fading into an
indefinite prospect of endurance. All
foods but the very coarsest are beyond
their means. The ration of these
coarse foods is Insufficient. The poor
have been subsisting throughout the
last year upon bread, potatoes, turnips
and salt.
Saxony Hit Hard.
“Saxony has borne an overlarge
share of the war suffering. It is pri
marily a manufacturing country and,
so, has suffered most keenly from the
effects of food shortage. At one time
last year the Saxons were eating a
bread eked out with chopped straw.
Then Saxony did an enormous export
business. The war swept this busi
ness away and closed hundreds of fac
tories. I knew many men in my dis
trict who, wealthy in 1914, their all
wiped out by war, saw themselves
paupers In 1915.
“A revolution, an economic revolu
tion, has already been worked in Sax
ony, a revolution of destruction whose
effects will outlive this generation.
The Saxon poor realize this better
than their more fortunate countrymen,
and they are bitterly, very bitterly,
war-weary.”
Second Peasants’ War Possible.
“Pushed much further by the gall
ing stress of starvation, overwork and
loss of dear ones, a second peasants’
war may well be added to the miseries
of central Europe.
“The standard of living among the
working people has been lowered
fearfully. It is now on a par with the
coolie standard of overcrowded Asia.
Their work has increased; their share
In comforts has diminished, and their
amusements have entirely fallen away.
The urban poor have become desper
ately poor, and they are beginning to
realize that each added month of the
war means that their plight must be
come more and more hopeless.
“In the beginning all was wild en
thusiasm for the war. The people
crowded around the railway stations
to see the troop trains hurling past
every 25 minutes. Then came the
floods of wounded, the difficult read
justments made necessary by the ab
sence of the wage earners, and then
the numbing pinch of hunger. Worst
of all was the atmosphere that settled
down upon the land, an atmosphere of
want, of fear, of suffering, of black
depression, which seemed to seep
through and through one and chill the
consciousness.
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“An eternal New England Sunday
gripped the formerly bustling manu
facturing towns in my district. The
streets were bare of traffic. People
passed about their errands silently.
There was no laughing, whistling,
loud talking or jovial greeting. The
business streets were dotted every
where by stores closed up by war.
Grass grew between the cobbles In
the roadway. Now and again oxen
dragging primitive carts of farm pro
duce lumbered through the streets.
Restaurants und cafes were deserted.
It cost money to frequent them, and,
moreover, they had nothing to sell.
SAYS U-BOATS ARE QUITTING
Hint Comes From London That New
Method of Warfare Brings
in Many
London.—Under the title “A London
er’s Diary” the Evening Standard
prints the following, which there is
reason to believe Is not lacking In sub
stantial truth :
“Some time ago I referred to the
rumors concerning ‘docks full’ of cap-
tured submarines, and warned my read
ers against taking them too literally.
I am now in position to say that there
is more substance than usual behind
the present gossip of successes against
submarines.
“Whether anything has gone wrong
with the supply ships, or whether the
Hun crews dislike the task, the fact re
mains that there have been surrenders.
I understand too that the men of our
destroyers are elated at the results of
a certain new method of fighting sub
marines. It would be indiscreet to
give particulars, but no harm is done
by stating that the great difficulty of
detecting the presence of a submarine
has been met with considerable suc
cess. It Is, us Admiral Jellicoe hinted,
only a matter of time.”
KIPLING QUITS IN
Leaves Society of Authors Because of
Charity Books Published in
Aid of War.
ADEPT AT CROCHET WORK
London.—The Times re-prints from
the British Weekly the following ex
tract :
PROFIT BY CHANCE REMARK
Two Poor Families In Ireland Will
Get $6,000 as Result of Hint
Dropped by Woman.
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San Francisco.—For twenty years
Mary Dougherty worked in the stew
ard’s department of a big hotel here
and In all that time she mentioned her
personal affairs only once. That was
to tell a close friend that she had nev
er married because she couldn’t find a
man as fine as either of her two broth
ers in Donegal.
As a result of that chance remark
two poor families in Ireland will get
$6,000.
When Mary was killed In an acci
dent two years ago her locker In the
hotel was found to contain $1,500 In
cash nnd a bank book showing $4,000
deposits.
The woman’s friend told the public
administrator about the two brothers
In Donegal and, working through the
British consulate, he learned that the
brothers were Patrick and David
Dougherty. David is dead, hut his five
children will divide the $6,000 with
Patrick.
peas, 11 @ 12e; asparagus, 10 @ 17c;
spinach, 8109c; sprouts, 123c.
Potatoes — Oregon buying prices,
$3.7504.00 per hundred.
Onions—Oregon jobbing prices: No.
1, $12.50 per sack.
Green Fruits — Strawberries, $2.35
per crate; apples, 85c@$2.35 per box;
cranberries, $8 per barrel.
Hope—1916 crop, 406c per pound ;
Expensive Car Ride.
1917 contracts, nominal.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—A street car ride
Wool-Eastern Oregon, fine, 30@35c
per pound; coarse, 40c; valley, 40c; cost Harry Sokolow $900.06. He got
into aa argument with the conductor
mobair, nominal, 60c.
Caceara Bark—OH and new, 708c over the jitney and the jury tacked
on |W0 to the fare.
per pound.
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"Rudynrd Kipling, inclosing his
check for $500 toward the pension
fund, has sent his resignation from the
Society of Authors, on the ground that
the action of the committee and Its ac
ceptance by his fellow members prove
that he Is altogether out of sympathy
with the present views of the society.
“Mr. Kipling's resignation, which np-
parently is caused by n difference of
opinion as to the charity books pub-
llshed In aid of the war. Is greatly re-
gretted by the committee.
He has
been a member of the society for 23
years.”
WOULD HAVE NO TOWN CLOCK
Hotel Keeper Seeks Injunction Against
City Timepiece, Saying It Will
Wake Hie Guests.
Mr. C. Herald of Brooklyn Is an
adept with the crochet needles. He
recently completed a table cloth which
experts who know the value of laces
made by hand say is easily worth
$1,500.
Wichita, Kan.—8. J. Smalley, pro
prietor of the Coronado hotel, across
the street from the city hall, employed
a lawyer to obtain an injunction to pre
vent Mayor Bentley and the commis
sioners from installing a clock in the
city hall tower.
For years citizens
have petitioned administrations to
beautify the unsightly boarded-up tow
er with a clock, and the Bentley admin
istration let a contract for a $1,500
clock. Smalley alleges that the strik
ing of the clock will wake up his guests
every hour at night.