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VOLUME XIV. _•_ .
LARGE FORCE
FIGHTJSW
EIGHTY-EIGHT DIVISIONS
IN GALICIAN CAMPAIGN
Members of Russian Mission Report
Germany has a Force of 88 Divi
sions in the Galician Campaign
Against Russians and Rumanians.
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PARIS, Aug. 10.—The members
of the Russian mission, who have re
turned here, report that the German
fosces in Galicia comprise eighty
eight divisions in the campaign
against the Russians and Rumanians
on the Galician front.
The allied forces are being steadily
forced back with great losses of men
and supplies. Since taking Kaluscz
the Russian troops have been forced
back a distance of nearly 200 miles.
AUTHORITIES ASK
FEDERAL HELP
I. W. W.’S BURN CARS
AND DYNAMITE BRIDGES
County Attorney of Ottawa, Okla
homa, States That Band of I. W.
W.’s Are Operating in that Dis
trict.
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Aug. 10.—An
appeal for aid has been received at
the office of the United States mar
shal here today, from the County At
torney of Ottawa county in the ex
treme northeastern portion of the
state, in the lead and zinc distrct.
He reported that a large body of In
dustrial Workers were operating In
that section, dynamiting freight cars
and bridges. A posse was ordered to
proceed to Ottawa county immediate
ly, and check the trouble.
Dynamiters Are Routed
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Aug. 10.—
The authorities of Miami county, this
state, report today that they had
routed a score of I. W. W.’s who
were dynamiting freight cars in the
lead and zinc mines.
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BE_LARGE ONE
HUNDRED MILLION BUSHELS
OVER LAST YEAR’S CROP
Department of Agriculture Estimates
that Spud Crop Will Reach Enor
mous Total of 467,000,000 Bush
els— Prices Drop Slightly.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 10.—
The Department of Agriculture to
day estimated that the potato crop
of the United States would reach a
total, of 467,000 000 bushels, about
100,000,000 bushels above the aver
age crop of the past five years. Food
prices have evinced a downward ten
dency since the passage of the food
control bill.
dark days literally
COMING FOR BERLIN
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 10.—Dark
days literally are coming for Berlin.
An order has been issued restricting
the lighting of stores, hotels, res
taurants and cafes. The order is due
to the admittedly inevitable coal
shortage and transportation difficul
ties of the coming winter. The news
papers complain nothing is being
done to relieve the situation.
WANTED—Men to ship on barge
■ Gen. Fairchild to work vessel to Seat
tle. Apply to Captain on board. tf
PRESENT STRIKE AS
DEADLY AS GERMAN BOMBS
SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—President H.
Suzzallo, head of the University of
Washington, one of the board of me
diators .appointed to arbitrate the
strike among the lumbermtll employ
es In this state today urged the strik
ing employes and the employers to
get together. Dr. Suzzallo stated that
a continuation of the present dead
lock would be as effective as German
bombs In the aid of the enemy. The
employers and employes are stand
ing pat, the men asking the right to
organize, and the employers denying
it and refusing to recognize the re
cently formed unions.
DEMAND CONGRESS REPEAL
PRESENT CONSCRIPTION BILL
At Meeting Today Under Dome of
Capital Building Pacifists Demand
ed Congress Stay in Session Until
Draft is Repealed.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 10—
A body of pacifists held a meeting
here today under the dome of the
capitol building. Resolutions were
passed demanding that the present
session of congress stay in operation
until it repeal the present draft law,
and threats were voiced that impeach
ment procedings would be Instituted
against President Wilson unless this
was done.
RUSSIA liOSKS TRACK
OK A PEACE SPY
PETROGRAD, Aug. 10.—Nikolai
Lenine, peace agitator and alleged
German spy, has disappeared from
his usual haunts in Petrograd and his
whereabouts is not known to the gov
ernment' authorities. The stories
published in the United, States that
Lenine has been seized by the police
at Ozarki, Finland, on July 24, and
that later he had escaper during a
battle between government agents
and anarchists at Tornea, Finland,
are said by the officials to be un
true.
A vague story is current in Petro
frad that the suspected Teuton agent
had fled from the capital to Kron
stadt, that he had been smuggled thru
Finland to Stockholm and already
had reached Germany. No official con
firmation of this report could be ob
tained. Another rumor current yes
terday was that Lenine was operat
ing in Stockholm.
FOOTBALL STAR AVIATOR.
Howard Murry of Har
vard Now In Army.
Photo hr American Press Association.
Harvard university Is now on a war
footing. More than half the students
are enrolled for army work of some
tort. Howatil Murry, the football star,.
Is one of the newest recruits to the
aviation service and la at Newport
News undergoing Instruction by regu
lar army air men.
United States Battleship New Jersey
Photo by American Press Association.
The New Jersey Is of the “B” type of battleship and displaces 14.948 tont.
being 441 feet long. In her main battery she carries four twelve-inch and
eight eight-inch guns. Her complement is 812 offlcers and men.
SEATTLE GERMANS
TO BE INTERNED
HAVE BEEN SPYING AT
BREMERTON NAVY YARD
Prominent Kish Broker and Lumber
man Arrested by Federal Authori
ties on ('barge of Being Accom
plices of Von Alvensleben.
SEATTLE. Aug. 10.—George F.
Schoetenberg, a German fish broker,
and Hans Cron, a prominent mer
chant and lumberman, were arrest
ed here today and will be interned
until the close of the war! United
States District Attorney Clay Allen
charges the imprisoned men with be
ing accomplices of Herr Von Alvens
leben, arrested here yesterday by Fed
eral officers on the charge of being a
spy. The three men are also charg
ed with endeavoring to obtain sec
rets concerning the Bremerton navy
yard, operating from Long Lake, 3
miles distant, and the district attor
ney.says they have been almost daily
communication with the German gov
ernment and German espionage lead
ers throughout the United States.
GERMANS DRIVING
BACK M FORCES
BOTH SIDES FIGHTING
FOR CONTROL TERRITORY
Swiss Dispatch Says That Gen. Mack
ensen's Forces are Fighting Des
perately to Drive Slav Army Out
of Rumania.
GENEVA, Aug. 10.—Gen. Mack
ensen’s forces In Rumania are fight
ing desperately to drive the Russians
and Rumanians out of Moldavia, In
Northern Rumania. The Slav forces
t
have been forced to retire beyond the
River Sereth, said a Vienna dispatch
today.
Russians Use Stones
PETROGRAD, Aug. 10.—With
their ammunition exhausted, the Rus
sian forces on the Rumanina front
yesterday continued the battle with
sticks, stones and bayonets.
GRANBY EMPLOYES SHOW
PATRIOTISM BY REGISTERING
The registration officer at the
Granby Consolidated Mine, reports
that the following men have register
ed for conscription:
1. Charles Edward Naud
2. John Ridy
3. Oscar C. Brink
4. Conrad Grahn
5. Herman Monsen
6. Ralph Joseph McMillan
7. Norman McLeod
8. Carl Alfred Larson.
Besides the above a number of the
Granby employes have registered in
Valde; making an excellent showing
for the Granby Company.
ADMITS BEING
MAN SPY
HAS LONG EXPECTED
TO BE INTERNED
Iteeerve Lieutenant in Germany Army
Said to be Reponsible for Failure
of Northern Bank and Trust Com
pany in Seattle.
SEATTLE. Aug. 10.—Herr Von
Alversleben, arrested here yesterday
after a nation-wide search by secret
service officials, is a reserve lieuten
ant In the German army. Herr Von
Alversleben is said to be responisble
fot* the recent failure of the Northern
Bank and Trust Company in this city,
by unloading worthless coal proper
ty on the corporation, Many Alaskans
lost money deposited in this hank
Herr Von Alversleben will be in
terned at Portland until the close of
the war. He is said to have admitted
bring in the employ of the German
government, and said that he had
long expected internment.
POTATOES DROP
TO THIRTY CENTS
FARMERS CONTRACT FOR
DELIVERY AT THIS PLACE
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Many Farmers Believe That Enor
mous Crops of Tubers Will Force
Price Way Down and Agree to Sell
In October at Tlilrty Cents. ,
DULUTH, Minn., Aug 10.—Believ
ing there will be a great surplus,
many farmers in the middle and
northwestern counties of this state
are contracting to sell potatoes for
October delivery at thirty cents per
bushel. The Department of Agricul
ture yesterday issued a statement
that the potato crop this year would
exceed that of any previous year in
history by several million bushels.
KATES CANNOT BE RAISED
LUMBER OR CANNED GOODS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 10.—
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion today issued orders forbidding
the railways to raise their rates on
lumber or canned goods.
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
MEN CALLED TO COLORS
WASHINGTON, D. 0., Aug. I't —
Two hundred thousand conscripts
will be called to the colors by the
first of September and will proceed
to the divisional encampment.
Judge Brown has informed the
Valdes Band that he will have the
court house yard fixed up for them
at any time they desire to give an
open air concert. This band la now
dispensing excellent muilc, and ought
to take advantage of the fine even
ings.
taft Talks until
HE GETS SORE THROAT
CLAY CENTER, Kan., Aug. 10.—
Ex-President William Howard Taft,
who has been indisposed for the past
two > days is slightly worse, and has
been forced to cancel his speaking
dates on account of sore throat. Phy
sicians advise him to cease speaking
until the thirteenth Inst.
SUBS TAKE HOLD OK
MANY BRITISH VFISSELS
LONDON, Aug. 10.—Twenty-three
British vessels were torpedoed or
sunk durinv the week ending last
night.
CARPENTERS WANT
CLOSED SHOP
FIFTY THOUSAND WILL
STRIKE IN F'EDERAL EMPLOY
Car|>enter*’ Union Makes Demand on
Government for Closed Shop in All
Federal Contracts, and Threaten
to Walk Out.
NEW YORK. Aug. 10.—Union
leaders served notice on firms having
government contracts for ship build
ing today that unless the closed shop
was adopted on government jobs fif
ty thousand men would walk out o-i
federal work.
AIM ME '
SURPASSES RECORD
LAST YEAR’S SHIPMENTS
EXCEEDED BY $10,000,000
$13,500,000 in Gold Ship|>ed to Stales
Total of $01,000,000 In Ores and
Fisli Leave Territory for States—
$30,000,000 Ship|>ed In.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 10.—
The Department of Commerce and
Labor today state that Alaska's ship
ments to the States the past fiscal
year had beaten the records by $10,
000,000. The total shipments from
Alaska to the States totaled $61,000,
000, including $15,500,000 in gold.
Alaska's imports totaled $39,000,000.
Harry Warren passed Tonsina this
| morning with forty head of cattle he
is driving to Fairbanks from Valdez.
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BELGIAN COMMISSIONER.
Baron Monohour Was Formor
Minister to tho United State*.
Baron Moncheur, former minister
here, heads the official mission to the
United States from Belgium. Belgium
regards the United States as her great
benefactor and Is eager to express her
appreciation.
Baron Moncheur has been chief of
the political bureau of the Belgian for
Mgn office at Havre. His wife la an
imwiMii, daughter of General Powell
Clayton, once United' States minister
to Mssloo. At (ha beginning of tbs
war Barca Mmshsnr was Belgian min
ister to Tnataf.
MANY CONSCRIPTS
FAUJO APPEAR
ONE HUNDRED ABSENT
OUT OK FOUR TWENTY-FIVE
Chairman of Exemption Board in Se
attle States That One-Fourth of
Men Drafted Fail to /Appear for
Examination.
SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—Over one
hundred out of four hundred and
twenty-five men. or twenty-five per
cent, failed to'appear before the ex
amining board at this place, to be
passed on for military service, ac
cording to a statement made by the
chairman of the board. Those failing
to appear before the board will be
certified as fit for duty and rounded
up by the provost guard.
CROWDER CHANGES
WILL GIVE GREATER LATITUDE
TO OBTAINING RECRUITS
—
1 Smaller Men Will be Taken if of Ath
letir Build and Heavier Men Al
lowed to Serve than Formerly—Al
low 12 Lbs., Increase Weight.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 10.—
Radical changes in the national ar
J my requirements were made here to
day by Provost General Crowder. The
main reduction is in the standard of
weights. Applicants from five feet
four to five feet seven will now be ac
cepted, even though they are from
five to seven pounds below the weight
formerly required. Other reductions
in minimum weights required in res
pect to height are five feet seven to
five feet nine inches tall, seven to
eight pounds; five feet nine to six feet
two, nine to ten pounds, and above
six feet two, twelve pounds under or
over weight will be allowed.
With the present high price of gas
oline. why not use whiskey for mo
tive power? A Seattle man placed a
quart of moonshine in his Ford and
it behaved so scandalously that he
was forced to lock it up in his gar
age until it had worked its jag off.
MOIH EDITOR
ADVOCATED CONSCRIPTION
FOR THE CANADIANS
Publisher Montreal Star, Who Has
Been Ardent Advocate of Draft in
Canada Has Home Destroyed by
Dynamite Last Night.
MONTREAL, Canada, Aug. 10.—
The home of Lord Athelstane, editor
and proprietor of the Montreal S*ar,
was destroyed by dynamite last niglu.
The Star has been a warm advocate of
compulsory service for Canada, which
is exceedingly unpopular among the
French-Canadian citizens of Canada.
U. S. HAS STRANGLE
HOLD l'PON SWEDEN
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—A Stock
holm special says persistent reports
are in Swedish papers that Amer
ica is preparing to exert all possible
economic pressure on Sweden to force
her to break off commercial relations
with Germany and causing consider
able concern. A Swedish statesman
declares that for a long time now not
a pound of cereals has been exported
from Sweden to Germany, nor any
batter, margarine or meat. The con
dition ia almost certain to continue
indefinitely. Sweden, howerer, re
quires 600,000 tons of coal monthly
and is now entirely dependent upon.
Germany for its supply.
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