Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-04-29
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Germans In Poland offer 10 roubles
each 10 Russians who will desert.

Germans in Poland offer 10 roubl
each TO Russians who will desert.
Europe's purchase Of leather goot
Ia stimulating the hide industry.
The French government has decide
to adopt all children made orphans
the war.
General Villa Is reported to be gath
ering oil available forces for fini
crucial struggle against the Carranz
forces.
When Russians evacuate towns /
Poland they break all windows, 30 tina
the Germans will find poor shelte
from the cold.
A celebration was held at the Sal
Francisco exposition in commemora
tion Of the recovery from the earth
quake and fire.
Belgian prisoners in Prussia hav,
opened regular university, many pro
fessors being among them, who give
lectures regularly.
Both Russians and Austrians make
desperate attacks upon each others
positions in the Carpathians, all of
which are repulsed.
Two men were drowned in the Nc
Kenzie river near Eugene, Or, while
trying TO lead some cattle across the
riVpr from "a rf,Wbnat
French airmen drop bombs in many
towns in the Black Forest country of
Germany, and many women and child
rem are reported killed or injured.
Germany has amended her sea prize
rules and hereafter all goods consigned
TO neutrals from whom any of the al
lies obtain supplies will be seized.
A call has been received by the New
York war relief clearing house from
France for Artificial Hn,hs rvr SvruIers
wounded during the early stages OF the
war.
A Jewish philanthropist associated
with many relief organizations in Lon
don, declares that seven million Poles,
Of whom two millions are Jews, are in
dire need of food.
Mario Lambardi. impressairo Of the
Lambardi Grand Opera company, died
in Portland from an apoplectic stroke.
He was well known in operatic circles
in this country, Italy and in South
American cities.
The blockade of Germany by the al
lies is preventing the latter from OBJ
tanning many necessary drugs, which
are sent to the United States from
Germany and then purchased here by
the warning nations.
Governor Lister, of Washington,
won his fight against the emergency
clause in the recent appropriation bills
passed by the Legislature of that state,
and thereby So, $50, 600 is made imme-
diately available for road building.
The Tout Paris, society journal of |
that city, publishes the names of 1900
Parisians killed on the battlefelds up
to February 25, including 20 generals,
667 other officers, ID priests and 1913
titled members of the aristocracy. The
names of 200 Germans, Austrians and
Turks are also published as "undesir-
able"
Two Turkish destroyers are reported
lost by coming in contact with Russian
mines.
British destroy own submarine in
Dardanelles to prevent capture by
Turks.
Germany announces that advances of
her lines in the west war zone have
been made.
Placer gold deposits of more than
$1,000 pan is claimed to have been
found in Alaska.
Berlin has closed its free war soup
house because of the splendid econom-
ical improvement.
Japan is said to be hard hit by the
war, as the French demand for silks
has materially declined.
San Francisco refuses to bond itself
for $34, 500, 900 to purchase the prop
critics of the Spring Valley Water
A Eugene, Or, man who became
about the war, buried $500 in
his garden, but has dug it up and de-
posted it in the bank.
Many women in Portland sign petit
tions to the city council to allow men
the privilege to smoke in the three
rear seats of the street cars.
Twenty thousand fly traps will be
part of the apparatus employed this
year in the anti-fy campaign in Port
land. The traps are to be made in the
manual training departments of the
public schools and will be distributed
the city. |