THE
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
COMPILED
FOR YOU
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
A $1,000,000,000 government plant
to manufacture aircraft is being plan
ned, Secretary Daniels has announced.
King George has called a special
meeting of the privy council for the
purpose of proclaiming a change in the
title of the royal house.
Bo Sweeney, assistant secretary of
the Interior, died suddenly at his home
in Washington Monday from angina
pectoris. He had suffered from the
disease for some time.
Quentin Roosevelt, a son of the for
mer president, was among 40 aviators
who received commissions as lieuten
ants in the aviation section of the
Army Signal Reserve corps.
King George has conferred the mili
tary medal for bravery on three mem
bers of the American Legion of the
Canadian forces. The men are Lance
Corporal Dick, Sergeant Harlan and
Private Porter.
The textile shortage now deprives
Germany of napkins and tablecloths,
the use of which in hotels and restau
rants in that country has been forbid
den. Hotels are prohibited changing
bed linens more often than once a
week for guests.
It is reported in a London Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Lausanne
that no more Zeppelins are being con
structed. Thousands of workmen who
hitherto have been employed in build
ing dirigible airships are now said to
be engaged in the construction of a
large number of airplanes.
Argentina has instructed her minis
ter in Berlin to demand of the German
government an answer to the Argen
tine note calling for satisfaction for
the torpedoing of the Argentine
steamer Toro and the promise to cease
attacks on Argentine ships. A rupture
in relations is considered imminent.
A speedy passage by the senate of
the >640,000,000 aviation bill, passed
by the house Saturday, was predicted
by Senator Chamberlain, ehairman of
the military committee. He had little
doubt, he said, that the measure, pro
viding for a fleet of 22,000 airplanes,
would become a law before August 1.
Mrs. Esther Birdsall Darling, of
Nome, Alaska, who sold many racing
dogs to the French government, has
received the Cross of War won by
Alaska dogs for service at the front in
transporting 90 tons of shells to an
isolated post under fire through a bliz
zard that raged four days and nights.
Four of the largest and most modern
German submarines were destroyed by
American warships which were con
voying the first installment of Ameri
can troops to France, according to a
report from German sources. A Berne
dispatch to a Rome news agency and
forwarded from Rome by the Central
News carried the information.
The Swedish government has in
structed its minister at Berlin to pro
test sgainat the torpedoing of Swedish
fishing boats by German submarines.
A Danish inventor, it is announced,
has discovered a process for making
news print paper from seaweed. The
new process is said to entail half the
coat of making paper from wood pulp.
Bar silver went to 80 cents an ounce
in New York Thursday a new high rec
ord since the war and for many years
before.
Heavy coinage demand by
European countries is believed the
cause.
With 1600 street railway employes
on strike for higher wages and shorter
hours, traffic in Toronto, Canada, is al
most paralyzed. Trucks and automo
biles had much trouble in moving the
crowds.
GRAIN CROP IS SHORT
Northwest Wheat Cut Almost Half by
Drouth—Spring Cereal Hit Hard
est—Oats and Barlev Suffer.
Portland — The wheat crop of the
Pacific Northwest is passing through a
critical period this week.
The pro
longed dry spell has caused much loss
and hot winds in the Inland Empire
are increasing the damage.
Portland grain men, who are keep
ing in daily touch with the situation in
the interior, fear that the Northwest
will not have more than half a crop
this year.
One of the leading authorities esti
mates a yield of 35,000,000 to 40,000,-
000 bushels in the three states as
against 65,000,000 bushels produced
last year. Another dealer here makes
an estimate of 10,000,000 bushels for
Oregon, 17,000,000 bushels for Wash
ington and 3,000,000 bushels for
Northern Idaho, a total of only 30,-
000,000 bushels for this territory.
It is the early spring sown grain
that is being hurt in the dry sections
of Washington, but in the dry sections
of Oregon the late spring-sown wheat
is suffering most.
Winter wheat is
generally in good condition, but the
winter-sown acreage is not heavy.
Rains throughout the wheat belt this
week would, of course, be of benefit,
but the greater part of the damage al
ready done cannot be repaired, in the
opinion of crop experts.
The oats and barley crops are also
needing moisture, but they have not
been affected as seriously as wheat.
The acreage of both these cereals is
larger than usual this year, and in
spite of the drouth a crop above the
normal is expected.
FIRE AND POISON FLOURISH
Klamath County Livestock Killed by
Hundreds — Attempt Incendiarism.
Klamath Falls, Ore. — Attempts to
start fires in Klamath Falls and on a
stock ranch in the vicinity as well as
the poisoning of large numbers of live
stock led to more active steps Tuesday
to round up the I. W. W. element in
this county. Some of those arrested
Monday were released upon examina
tion, while several new arrests were
made.
The number of armed deputies is
being increased by Sheriff Humphrey
and guards at all manufacturing plants
are being strengthened.
The local fire department answered
an alarm Monday night at 11 o’clock
at the home of C. A. Bunting, for
merly president of the Klamath Falls
Water Users’ association here, where
a fire was set with kindlings under the
north side of the barn near the house.
A north wind was blowing, and if the
fire had not been discovered before it
had gained headway the barn and resi
dence undoubtedly would have been
destroyed. Mr. Bunting lives in one
of the most exclusive residence dis
tricts about a mile from the center of
the city, and it is thought that the ob
ject was to get the department far
away so that fires could be set else
where and be destructive.
Great numbers of livestock have
been poisoned in the lava bed country
on the Oregon-California line south of
here.
J. Frank Adams, one of the most
prominent and extensive ranchers in
Klamath county, last Saturday discov
ered 25 head of his horses and 200 cat
tle dead. Fifty head of cattle from
the "P” and “Pitchfork” ranches, and
belonging to various farmers in South
ern Klamath county, were also found
dead, besides about 40 sheep belonging
to Cox Bros., of this county.
No clew has been obtained as to how
the poison came to be placed.
Mr. Adams also reports that about
11 o'clock Monday morning he discov
ered an attempt to brun his big barns
and other outbuildings on his home
ranch near Merrill, south of here.
Two small sticks had been set at the
south side of the barn, and to them
was attached a powerful magnifying
glass so placed as to have produced fire
and a blaze when the sun arrived at a
certain position in the sky. The glass
later was proved to have been of suffi
cient strength alone for the purpose.
Mr. Adams says he has no reason to
suspect any of the many laborers he
employs for these actions.
Mr. Adams has furnished great
numbers of horses for the aliles since
the war began, and raises great herds
of beef cattle every year.
Representative Rankin, of Montana,
Calumet Is Against I. W. W.
announces she would ask the house la
Calumet,
Mich. — Several thousand
bor committee for a general investiga
tion of the hours of labor for all wo copper country citisens participated in
men in government employ throughout a demonstration against the I. W. W.
the country.
here Tuesday. Following a massmeet
ing at which the alleged attempts of
Sergeant Major Antoine Paillard, the I. W. W. to cause dissension among
one of the French aviators who partic the miners were denounced as "acts
ipated in the bombardment last Friday of treason.”
The people marched
of the Krupp factory at Essen, Ger through the streets of Calumet and
many, and who failed to return, has, Redjacket carrying banners inscribed
it is now learned, landed safely in Hol with patriotic slogans. Citizens' Al
land.
liance pledges, the signers of which
March earnings of express compan- agree to rid the copper country of
ies, which were $1,202,848 in 1916, strike agitators, were signed by many.
dropped to $995,044 in March, 1917, re
Plan for Making Nitrate Changed.
ports to the Interstate Commerce com-
Washington, D. C.- Secretary Baker
mission show.
announced Tuesday that plants for the
Free lunch and large glass of beer production of intrate from atmospheric
have been abolished in New York City nitrogen would be constructed immedi-
by the Retail Liquor Dealers’ associa ately at a cost of about 34,000,000, and
tion. Present high prices were given that water power would not be used.
as the reason.
Sites have not been selected
Further
A proclamation summoning the leg discussion by localities desiring to be
islature in extra session on July 31 to considered as possible sites is closed
enact food-control legislation for the temporarily, the announcement says,
state was issued Thursday by Gover while the site committee of cabinet
officers is making further studies.
nor Whitman, of New York.
HERMISTON
HERALD,
HERMISTON,
OREGON.
PROMISES TO PROBE SUFFRAGISTS DRAW FEW
FREE IN NORTHWEST SIXTY DAYS IK JAIL
NEED BE CALLED
Only 717 Men to Be Drafted to Colors
in Oregon; 7296 in Washington
and 2287 from Idaho.
Oregon and Washington Must Option of $25 Fine Declined by
Assist Government.
Washington Women.
EXPERTS MAY COME GIVEN PRISON GARB
Senator McNary,
After Conference, Prisoners Assigned to Sewing Room
Requests Governors to Co-operate
for Several Hours’ Work Daily—
in Official Investigations.
In Quandary Over Appeal.
Washington, D. C.—If the state of
Oregon will co-operate with the Feder
al Trade commission, and if like co-
operation can be obtained from the
state of Washington, a prompt and
thorough Federal investigation will be
made of the fuel situation in the
Northwest to ascertain the causes for
prevailing high prices and for existing
or threatened shortages.
Information
will be gathered at the same time to
enable congress or the Federal govern
ment to deal with the situation.
This assurance was received by Sen
ator McNary Thursday from the Trade
commission in reply to his recent rec
ommendation that the commission ex-
tend its coal and oil investigation into
the Northwest, where the fuel situa
tion is critical and growing worse.
Because of the President’s orders to
investigate food prices, and on account
of the other investigations already or
dered into the cost of government sup
plies, the commission says it is over
burdened with work and short of men,
but it is ready and willing to send
three of its fuel specialists to the
Northwest to work with and direct the
activities of state experts if the gov
ernors of Oregon and Washington Will
detail a sufficient number of competent
men to conduct this inquiry.
This plan recently was followed in
Indiana with good results. That state
detailed 18 accountants from the state
board, paying their salaries, while
they received a status as Federal
agents by being carried on the Trade
Commission roll at 31 per year.
In their temporary capacity as Fed
eral investigators they had the same
right to examine books, etc., as do the
regular experts of the Trade commis
sion in the gathering of such informa
tion. They gathered complete data on
the cost of production and distribution
of coal form the mine to the consumer.
Senator McNary telegraphed Gover
nor Withycombe inquiring if he can
detail state accountants or other ex
perts to co-operate with the represen
tatives of the Trade commission in
making a thorough investigation of
the Oregon fuel situation, and has
asked Senators Jones and Poindexter
to make a similar request of the gov
ernor of Washington.
Washington, D. C.—Sixteen woman
suffragists, arrested while participat
ing in the woman’s party bastile day
demonstration in front of the White
House, were sentenced in police court
Wednesday to serve 60 days in the
District of Columbia workhouse for
obstructing the sidewalks.
The women were allowed the alter
native of paying 325 fines, but they
promptly refused the offer and were
taken to the workhouse at Occoquan,
Va., and turned over to a matron, who
saw that each got a shower bath and
exchanged her clothes for a heavy one-
piece prison dress. They were assigned
to the sewing room of the prison,
where they will work several hours
daily.
At the party’s headquarters there
was a flurry of uncertainty over the
question whether the women should be
permitted to serve their sentences
without protest or whether their cases
should be appealed.
Although no one at the headquarters
would confirm it, there were indica
tions that the course of the women’s
friends might be determined finally by
the attitude of Dudley Field Malone,
collector of customs at New York, who
came here to testify for the women,
and later asked the court to be per
mitted to act as their counsel. The
request was granted, but instead of
taking any legal steps on behalf of the
women, Mr. Malone went to the White
house for a long conference with Pres
ident Wilson.
What happened at the conference
was not revealed, but Mr. Malone
came away visibly perturbed and there
were many rumors that he had re-
signed his collectorship and would take
up actively the fight of the suffragists,
who repeatedly have been in Police
Court during recent weeks for their
demonstrations at President Wilson's
doorstep. These rumors Mr. Malone
himself would neither deny nor affirm.
The collector spent nearly an hour
with Mr. Wilson. When he departed
from the executive offices his face and
manner showed evidence of great emo
tion, and he walked rapidly away.
ONE CENT CARRIES MAGAZINE
PLANS ARE AGAIN DELAYED
Goethals-Denman Breach Over Ship-
building Program Widens.
Washington, D. C.—Differences be
Easy and Cheap Plan Offered to Send tween Chairman Denman, of the ship
ping board, and Major General Goeth-
Reading Matter to Front.
sis, manager of the board’s fleet cor
Washington, D. C.—Magazines and poration, which have halted the gov
newspapers bearing 1-cent stamps ernment’s ship building program, ap
hereafter may be posted, unwrapped parently were far from a settlement
and unaddressed, by persons other than Wednesday night.
publisher, and will be forwarded by
General Goethals, who Monday post
postal authorities to American soldiers poned his plans for constructing two
and Bailors in Europe.
great government shipbuilding plants
In announcing plans for gathering and for requisitioning ships now build
reading matter conveying home news ing, has made no move toward going
and fiction to the boys abroad, Post ahead with his program.
master General Burleson suggests that
Nor would he add anyhing to his
magazines print the following in the statement that Mr. Denman had asked
upper right-hand corner of their front for delay to give the shipping board
covers:
time to go over his plans.
“Notice to the reader:
When you
Chairman Denman put the whole re
have finished reading this magazine sponsibility for the delay on General
place a one-cent stamp on this notice, Goethals, who, be charged, was slow
hand same to any postal employe and in furnishing information asked of him
it will be placed in the hands of our concerning his plans.
At the same
soldiers and sailors at the front.
No time he made it clear that the ship
wrapping—no address.”
ping board, as holder of the stock in
the fleet corporation, will study the
Liquor Drawn From Bond.
general’s program carefully before
Washington, D. C.—Liquor dealers, giving it approval.
As soon as complete information is
alarmed at the prospect of the govern
at hand a meeting of the board mem
ment seizing, under the terms of the bers and General Goethals will be
food bill, the vast quanities of distilled called to go over the situation.
Re
spirits in bond, are withdrawing whis ports that General Goethals had been
ky from bonded warehouses at a rate refused an immediate conference he re
never before equaled, approximately quested with Mr. Denman to go over
1,000,000 gallona a day. The whisky all questions involved were not con
thus withdrawn is placed largely, reve firmed by the board.
nue officials state, in retail establish-
menta. Internal revenue receipts have
Russians Capture 37,000.
risen this month higher than ever be
Petrograd — The Russians Tuesday
fore. the total for the first 17 days be
ing 37,500,000 more than in last July. captured 16 officers and 900 Austro-
Germana in the battle in Eastern Ga
licia, the War department announces.
Man Blown Through Roof.
Moscow, Idaho — Joe Blalock, of The Russians also took a number of
Cornwall, east of Moscow, is in a Mos machine guns. From July 1 to July
cow hospital at the point of death. He 13, the statement says, 834 officers
was blown through the roof of his and 35,809 men were captured by the
store Wednesday night by the explo Russians. General Brussiloff’s forces
sion of a charge of powder or dyna also captured 93 heavy and light guns,
mite. and officers are hot on the trail 28 trench mortars, 43 machine guns,
of the perpetrators of the crime. The 43 mine throwers, 45 bomb mortars,
store building was completely demol three fire throwers, two airplanes and
ished. The officers are silent, but sen much equipment.
sational developments are expected.
I. W. W. Held as Slackers.
Blalock can make no statement.
Hoquiam, Wash. — Three men were
Tesla's Tower Dynamited.
arrested in Hoquiam Tuesday and
River Head, N. Y.—Destruction of lodged in the county jail at Montesano
a wireless tower erected here several on charges of interfering with con-
years ago by Nicola Tesla, the inven scription. They are John and Victor
tor, for experimental purposes, has Suhonen, brothers, and Eli Hill. All
been completed by government order three are Finns. They are said to be
to prevent it being used by German Industrial Workers of the World strik
spies to transmit information, it be ers, and had been doing a good deal of
came known Thursday.
Charges of talking in the logging camp against
Officers found neither of
dynamite were placed under the foun the draft.
dations and the tower was blown over. the three men had a registration card.
Washington, D. C. — Because Ore
gon, in proportion to population, fur
nished more volunteers for the Na
tional guard and regular army than
any other state in the Union, its quota,
under the selective draft, is the small
est assigned any of the 48 states.
The fact only 717 out of the 62,618
young men of Oregon who registered
June 5 will be drafted for the Ameri-
can army is, on its face, the highest
official testimonial that can be paid
the manhood and patriotism of the
sons of Webfoot state
On the basis of her population, Ore
gon was required, under the law, to
contribute .64 of 1 per cent of the
total army of more than a million men.
The gross quota of the state was com
puted to be 7387 men, but on -April 1
Oregon had in her National guard 2423
men. between April 1 and June 30 she
recruited 2259 more for her National
guard and in that same time 1974 Ore
gon men enlisted in the regular army.
The total number of men Oregon con
tributed to the army since April 1,
therefore, is 6657, and this number is
deducted from the gross quota of the
state in determining the number of
men to be drafted.
In the adjustment, however, Oregon
is credited with 13 additional men and
this number, added to the total number
of volunteers deducted from the gross
quota, leaves but 717 men subject to
draft.
The state of Washington, with a
larger population, was asked to raise
1.1 per cent of the total army, or a
gross quota of 12,768.
Washington had in her National
guard, April 1, 2240, and from April 1
to June 30, recruited 1764 additional,
and also recruited 1446 men for the
regular army, a total of 5450. Wash
ington got, on adjustment, 22 more,
leaving 7296 to be drafted out of 108,-
330 who registered June 5.
Out of 41,150 men who registered in
Idaho, 2287 will be drafted. Idaho had
a National guard of 962, recruited 865
more, and recruited 711 men for the
regular army, a total of 2538 to be de
ducted from her quota, along with an
adjustment of eight.
Idaho’s gross
quota was 4833.
Following are the net and gross to
tals for the Western states :
State—
Alaska..............
California......
Idaho................
Montana..........
Nevada............
North Dakota.
Oregon.............
South Dakota
Utah...........
Washington..
Wyoming........
Net. Gross
696 710
23.060 34,846
, 2.287 4.833
, 7,872 10,423
1.061
1.435
5.606 7.737
717
7.387
2.717
6,854
. 2.370 4.945
. 7.296 12,763
. 810 2.683
I. W. W. ARE JAILED
AFTER MILL BURNS
Large Grain Elevator Destroyed
at Klamath Falls, Oregon.
GUARD PATROLS CITY
Headquarters of Disturbers Raided and
Members of Organization Placed
in Jail—Damages $150,000.
Klamath Falls, Ore.—Klamath Falls
is practically under matial law.
Armed guards patrol the streets, in
dustries of the city are protected by
special deputy sheriffs and I. W. W.
are being rounded up like cattle as the
result of a fire Sunday morning which
destroyed the grain elevator and mill
of Martin Brothers and 25,000 bushels
of grain. The loss is placed at $150,-
000. Incendiarism is suspected.
High wind fanned the flames toward
the factories and cars of the Ewauna
Box company, the Big Lakes Box com
pany, the Standard Oil company and
the Klamath Iron Works, but heroic
efforts of the fire department saved
these properties.
Immediately alter the fire Sheriff
Humphrey communicated with Gover
nor Withycombe, swore in 200 depu
ties and raided the headquarters of the
I. W. W., seizing papers and books
and arresting 39, some of whom are
thought to be local leaders of the or
ganization. Every industry in the city
is under guard and armed guards are
patrolling every road leading out of
the city. The sheriff intends to arrest
every I. W. W. found in the county.
Henry J. Weeks, of the Weeks Ab
stract company, was one of the most
prominent of those arrested by the
sheriff. He is accused of treasonable
remarks before a large crowd asem-
bled at the city hall.
Carloads of provisions, farm ma
chinery and canned goods, destined for
the Martin Brothers’ store at Merrill,
23 miles south of here, were burned.
The firm suffered a disastrous fire sev
eral years ago. The fire Sunday was
discovered at the north corner of the
building, on the windy side and at a
point farthest removed from the office.
It was under great headway when
first seen.
GREECE ENTERS WAR DEPORTED MEN ASK DAMAGE
OK SIDE OF ALLIES
Arizona I. W. W. Refugees to Demand
Reparation for Exile.
Washington, D. C.—Uncertainty as
to Greece’s status in the world war
was cleared away Tuesday with the re
ceipt of official information that the
Greek government not only has severed
relations with all four of the central
powers, but is actually in a state of
war with them.
Information has reached the State
department that the Greek minister in
Paris has notified the French govern
ment Greece considers herself a full
belligerent and will act accordingly.
He said it was not only necessary to
issue a formal declaration of war, as
the government feels itself bound by
the declarations previously issued at
Saloniki by Premier Venzelos, who
took with him to Athens all the re-
sponsibilities and commitments of the
temporary Saloniki government.
As a belligerent Greece is expected
to lose no time mobilizing her war re
sources and joining effectively in the
allies’ operations in the Balkans.
The strength of the Venizelos army
is placed at about 60,000 men, and the
remnants of the former regular army,
while not over 30,000 now, has at
times been mobilized to a total of
200,000 men, and is capable of reach
ing 300,000 if munitions are provided.
The regulars practically were demo
bilized by the allies when former King
Constantine held the organization as a
threat to the allies’ rear, but can
quickly be called to the colors again.
Commissioner Jonnart, whom the al
lies entrusted with enforcing Constan
tine’s abdication, has reported that a
Greek army of 250,000 will be raised
to add to the 700,000 allied soldiers al
ready in the Balkans.
Columbus, N. M — Mining compan
ies, officials and business men in the
Warren copper district of Arizona may
be sued for damages by the men who
were deported from Bisbee July 12.
At the camp of the Arizona exiles
here Sunday the men discussed plans
for filing a blanket suit against the
operators, officials and others who,
the men assert, were responsible for
the wholesale deportation from Ari
zona of those alleged to be members of
or sympathizers with the I. W. W.
A blanket prayer for their release
through writ of habeas corpus was also
discussed, but the leaders disapproved
of such an action on the ground that
it would embarrass the federal govern
ment, which is trying to find a solution
of the problem involved in the deporta
tion of the men. The exiles are anx
ious to know what Washington will do
in their cases, and messages urging
immediate action have been sent to
adimnistration officials.
The belief is becoming general
among the exiles that they will be
sent back to Bisbee under heavy mili
tary guard and will be protected in
what they claim as their rights, even
if it becomes necessary to declare mar
tial law in the Warren district to at
tain this end.
The men say they will not be sent
elsewhere, will not consent to remain
here in a sweltering hot camp, and as
they have not been charged with
breaking any laws, they say they will
stand on their rights and are pinning
their hopes of returning to Bisbee
upon the federal government.
Sunday passed quietly in “Camp
Wobbley, ” as the men have named the
refugee camp.
Bride in Khaki Sent Horne.
An Atlantic Port — Somewhere in
France is a sergeant in the American
army who was married just before he
left the United States and ventured to
take his bride with him on the trans
port which carried his regiment over
seas. She went with him as a soldier
dressed in regulation khaki and with
her hair cut short. Tuesday the young
woman returned from France, her
effort to pose as a "Sammy” having
failed.
Her husband, it was said
aboard the ship, was a member of a
regiment stationed in Arizona.
Potatoes and Onions Rot in Ground.
Sacramento, Cal.—Several carloads
of California surplus potatoes and on
ions, large quantities of which are re
ported to be rotting in the ground in
many parts of the state because of the
inability of the growers to dispose of
them at a price equal to the cost of
production, may be sold to Arizona
consumers through Governor Campbell,
of that state. The state council of de
fense has received inquiry from Gover
nor Campbell asking the price at which
a large supply of both potatoes and
onions could be secured in California.
Police Chiefs Suspended.
East St. Louis, Ill. — The board of
fire and police commissioners, after a
meeting Sunday night, announced that
Chief of Police Ranson Payne and
Night Chief Con Hickey Lad been sus
pended pending investigation of the
police department. According to W.
G. Watkins, chairman of the board, the
suspension of the two officials is due to
the recent race riots, and is the first
step in an investigation that is expect
ed to shake up the entire department.
War to Rule Hotel Menu.
Philadelphia — Philadelphia hotels
and restaurants will follow New
York’s lead in omitting beef from
their menus on at least one day a week
in the near future. In addition, there
will be no wheat rolls for breakfast
and wheat bread will be baked from
flour containing 10 per cent of rye, po
tato, banana or rice flour. Calves’
liver, brains or sweetbreads, young
chickens, spring lambe and suckling
piga ateo will be barred.