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CHICAC.O. Auk. S- Twenty east
ern and one western road today dis
continued many trains on account of
the shopmen’s strike.
It is believed that many of the lartr**
roads will soon curtail the passengci
service.
It is officially announced by the
New York Central* Nickle Plate Route
and the Chicago & Hock Island* that
after today- conditions of locomotives
will determine future passenger train
schedules.
CHICAC.O. Aue. S— Railroads this
afternoon cancelled forty addition'll
trains on account of the strike. I he
Railroad administration announced no
nation wide curtailment in the passen
ger service was contenipleated as a re
sult of the shopmen’s strike.
MANY HOMES OF
PORTLAND ARE
ON A RIVER
PORTLAND- Ore. Aug. 8— Hun
dreds of white-painted bungalows
built on floating logs or pontoons and
moored to piling driven in the bed of
the Willamette river some distar
from the shore- furnish all-the-ym
round homes for perhaps five hundre ,
Portlanders and make an attractiv'
sight along the Willamette* within
three or four miles from the c« nter o
Portland. The houseboat - moored in
gioupfcof from 10 to 100. are reached
bv floating sidewalks also bui’t o-t
logs, leading from the shore and along
the rear of the houses- gangplank *
connect the individual homes with
this float.
Telephone and electric lighting
wires- gas pipes and citv water ma,M
extend along the float and are conn ♦
ed with each houseboat- giving thes*
river dwellers “all the comfort' of
home”, including running wat**’ fnv '
mountain streams «vo that river wate*
need not be used for drinking and
cooking. Gas meters- furnishing go"
for cooking and heating- are placed
for each house and gas and citv wate
are led into the homes by rubber ru' -
den hose connected with the mains
along the float.
Gay blossoms in window boxes and
hanging baskets adorn the broad front
toward* the middle of the river and
their back doors toward the nearest
shore. The decks are furnished with
porch screens- hammocks- swings and
artistic furniture. The interiors of the
bungalow are luxuriant and often in
!»y Associated Prean
LOS ANGELES. Aug. S Oharles
McGuire- assistant chief engineer of
ike l.o- Angeles I’eurt! of Public 1 til*
it it's, leaped through a window of Ois*
tlift Attorney Woo! wine’s office this
morning a J nlunged to hi. death ju
the yhlewalk* eleven stories down .
District Attorney NVoolwine was {
uuestioning McOuirc regarding the
bombing 1a~t Sunday of former assist*
ant attorney Lawler’s home. Wool
wine told McGu»>e that he intended to
•\-k the C.'and Jti’*y to indict him for j
th° bomhiiig. McfiiiirC' tor a minu?A j
said nothing- then jumping from his !
chair- fought detectives ;n the room
reached the window and plunged out.
Lawler recently blocked McGuire’s
move to break a certain capitalist’s
will .
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MEXICANS \RE LEARNING
MCMGO ( 1TY. Aug.- K— TndV;
tive of an apparent expansive educa
tional policy by the government is the
fact that M’thin the past few weeks
arrangements have he»-n made for nr
interchange of students between the
National University of Mexico am!
well known educational institutions >r
some other countries. Such an arrange
ment was recent!v made with the Uni
versity nr V'7°MM 'n the United Stat
es ard it is said that plans have beep
made for a mutual interchange with
the government or San Salvador- Uhile
Nicaragua and Cuba .
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MONEY FROM HOME
IS KEEPING Wltf.I.l W
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TV. Aug. v - Wdliam IT-'h
is a “remittance man” now.
“Tim league for the root<MUon of Wi!r
inn IT ’* founded six months ago bar
been sending him money rogulavlv. An
intercepted Tott *r from the lcaguoV
secretary <avs: “T sent to Holland 1*
i.no pounds through an Essen clergy
man who is in with the right peon!*'
♦ Sere. But 1 riOO noimds in these days
?< not much. Wrt shall have to din
deeper into the lucky-bag.”
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<-!u<tc a large living and dinning room
npe or two bedrooms* a bathroom and
kitnben. F’*om the three to five rooms
is the average interior arrangement.
In some cases one half of the float
:ng hoii'C is fashioned into a boat* ;
house in which the owner parks his :
motorboat. There are one or two story i
houseboats, in which the motoj; boat
occupies rhe lower floor. Canoes are
customary adjuncts to the hemes.
canoeing, swimming and surf-board
manipulating are among the popular
pastimes in summer.
A constant downstream current of
two mJTes per hour in summer and
four or five in winter* carries off gar
bo«ro n"d impurities. Waste matter
is thrown overboard from the rear of
tbf houses and is not carried to mid
stream but sinks or Is carried away
toward the bank. The Willamette is
from a cr\rtor to a half mile wide
above Portland.
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da> \otv'tl almost unanimously to
join the I eague ot Nations.
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P VMS. Vug. S— The Allies are
considering the dates for the lirst
general assembly of the League ol
Nations at Washington. The Echo
Me Paris urges Premier Piemen'
* ceau to attend the assembly.
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By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—
At four o’clock this after*
noon President Wilson ad
dressed a joint session of
Congress on the high cost
of living.
President Wilson proposed
several remedies by which
the cost of living could he
checked. ,
“The existing laws are in
adequate,” said the Presi
dent. “and the high prices
are not justified by the
shortage of supplies, present
or prospective.
“In many cases the pre'r
of food stuffs have been art
ificallv and deliberately in
creased by vicious practices.
“I recommend that the
food control act he extended
to peace time operation.
“I recommend that Congress
exclude from interstate
shipment goods which do not
comply with the acts ol the
provision.
“I recommend tnat a ioou
law bo provided with a sub
stantial penalty for profi
£001*] nGf.*
President Wilson suggest
ed that the cold stora}/ law
placing a time limit on.coM
storage he again placed in
vogue and that the goods
stored lie released now at the
prices ))revailing at the time
stored.
The President recommend
ed a federal licensing system
for corporations engaged M
interstate commerce which
would embody regulations to
insure competitive selling.
The Presdeot urged the ra
tification of the treaty to re
store the country to a peace
.time basis and said that
peace prices would prove':
while the nation was on a
Hy Associated i rets
SE ATTLE* Aug. 8— Skinner & Ed- (
dy Corporation today reduced the
Hagcs of twelve hundred skilled em
ployees. The Metal Trades Council is
advising the workers to accept the cut
without striking pending an appeal to
the heads of the International Unions
who, are now attempting the negotiate
a coastwise shipyard wage agreement.
TO REDUCE
PRICE OE
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NKW YORK- Aug. 8— Tho United
States Grain Corporation is going to
sell flour at ten dollars a barrel ac- |
cording to announcement today. This ;
is greatly reducing one high commo
dity in the cost of living.
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Halifax* Aug. 8— Schooner Gallia
collided with the British steamer War
Witch near St. Pierre* this morning
in a fog. The Callia sunk almost im
mediately and it is believed twenty
of the crew of fifteen and twelve pass
engers, were lost.
STEAMER IS VGROUNI)
BOSTON* Aug. S— Steamship
North Star* havi? \ aboard 285 passen
gers for Yarmouth* is aground near
tjie outer harbor. Steamers are stand
ing by in case aid is needed.
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war basis.
The President stated that
Congress must act as one to,
adjust the price markets and
profiteering must end and
would end if sev-ere penal
ties wei'e established.
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WASHINGTON, Aug., 8—
Late this afternoon advices
were received here that
striking shopmen through
out the nation were return
ing to work rapidly in re
snonse to President Wilson’s
statement that the strike
must end before relief is
granted.
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, At Nenana on July 4th all Joi**
were barred off the streets so that
they would not interfere with the cele
bration.
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* FLIKS OVKR ROCKIKS
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CAI.OARY. Aug. 8— Captain
* 10. (. Hoy flew here from Vancou
* ver* II. C.» in sixteen hours and
* forty five minutes. 'Phis is the
* J'irst flight across the Canadian
* Rockies. *
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ARCHDUKE JOSEPH TO
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HE PRESIDENT OF THE
HUNGARIAN REPUBLIC;
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VIIONXA, Aug. 8— There is no in* j
tent ion of making Archduke Joseph |
king of Hungary. Joseph is to he presi* |
dent but says he is a true Democrat !
mil surrendered his estates recently, j
Joseph says he will handle the govern
ment affairs until the election.
ROBBERY
SAX FRANCISCO, Aug. 8— Three
bandits held up two clerks in Morgen’s
jewelry store, in the heart of the busi
ness section* this forenoon and escaped
with $50*000 worth of gems.
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WHITES STRIKE WHEN
NEGROES GO TO WORK
CHICAGO, Aug. 8— Thirty three
thousand packing plant employees
struck this forenoon wher. 5000 neg
roes returned to work in the yards.
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PROPOSE INVESTIGATION
OF MEXICAN SITUATION
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8— The Sen
ate Foreign Relations committee has
unanimously reported the resolution to
Congress proposing an investigation
of the Mexican situation and authoriz
ing the committee to take testimony
any place and any time.
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON. Aug., 8— The
government's case against the five big
meat packers in going before the Fed
eral grand jury in Chicago within the
next three weeks. Federal District At"
torney Charles F. Clyne, of Chicago*
said today he intended to proceed un
der the criminal sections of the Sher
man law and will also bring civil suits
under the Sherman law. The packers
will consequently be brought to trial
under the food control act on a charge
of hoarding.
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RIOTING IN BROOKLYN
NEW YORK. Aug. 8— Rioting an t
shooting has marked the second day
of the Brooklyn Rapid transity strike.
The strikers claim ninety five per cent
of the entire system is paralyzed.
Shots have been exchanged between
strikers and wrecking crews.
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B. B. Boling and Joe Vin Hagen of
Juneau were bound over to th$ grand
jury recently on a charge of having
a mash and still' in their possession
for the manufacture of whiskey.
By Associated Pres4
SEATTLE* Aug.* 8— Officials of
the Alaskan Engineering Commission
here learn officially that the Congress
men have cancelled their proposed trip
to Alaska. Purchasing Agent Dole has
been directed to cancel all hotel and
steamer reservations for the congress
men. It is believed that Frederick
Mears and VV. A. Ryan are going
yjj-th on the Alameda sailing August
14th.
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NO REASON GIVEN
SEATTLE* Aug. 8— J. L. MlPher
son* manager of the Alaska Bureau of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce*
wires that the Alaska trip of Con
gressmen has been cancelled. Mr. Mc
Pherson gave no reasons but it is be
lieved that the trip was cancelled bo
cause Congress has decided to lemum
in session considering the high cost of
living instead of taking a recess.