Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS N A NUTSHB'
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Russians report inaicting heavy loss
on Turks in Caucasus campaign.
British minister OF war munitions
declares he has control Of 345 plants.
A recent German military decree Ia
said TO have declared that peace Is cer-
tain by October.
Petrograd joyfully announces the re-
pulse Of German naval force from
the Gulf Of Riga.
After extensive inspection, the Ore
gon hop crop for 1916 Is estimated at
less than 100. 900 bales.
Baron Kikujio Ishii, new Japanese
minister Of foreign affairs, Is said to be
firm friend Of United States.
President Leonard, Of the Chicago
Stock Yards, declares the foot and
mouth" disease to be under control.
William Barnes, Jr., speaking be-
fore the New York state constitutional
convention. likened Roosevelt to Bis
marck.
General economy and thrift is being
urged as a regular study In the public
schools by the National Educational
association.
A Chicago packing house has been
asked to name a spot cash price for
1000, 900 head Of American beef cattle
delivered at Liverpool.
United States consul at Sandakan,
Borneo, says Turkish authorities are
trying to incite Mohammedan resi-
dents Of the Philippines to religious
Under direction of the French, Ger
man prisoners are Transforming the
antiquated towns Of Morocco into
strictly up-to-date cities, with all the
very best modern buildings and inn
provements.
Mail order liquor houses of Horn
brook, CAL, just across the Oregon
line, are said to be preparing for big
business, In anticipation Of the going
into effect Of the prohibition law in
Oregon and Washington Jan. /, 1916.
Forest fires in Lyttle Creek canyon,
near San Bernardino, CAL, have leaped
the fire brakes and are on their way
into the spruce timber. The flames
have already destroyed timber and
watershed brush covering 1000 acres.
Forty additional men have been sent. |
Sweeping reductions in the anthra-
cite freight rates of railroads handling |
80 per cent of the country's anthracite |
production were ordered by the Inter
state Commerce commission in decis-
ion which held the carriers guilty of
giving illegal preferential treatment
to allied coal companies.
Scarcity of men is common COM
plant in the farming district about
Antelope, Mont. With one of the big
gest harvests in the history of the
country approaching, practically all the
farmers are without sufficient help,
and in many cases, it is said, women
will have to take to the fields.
The "song of hate" against England
and written by German, is deplored
by newspapers of Berlin.
The remains of Mrs. John D. Rookie
feller have been inferred and the place
of burial is being guarded.
The steamship Seward sailed from
Seattle for Anchorage, Cook Inlet,
with 500 tons of heavy steel rails and
l, 500, 900 feet of lumber for the gov
ernment railroad. The rails will be
used for construction of four miles Of
yard tracks at Anchorage. The lum-
ber will construct bridges along the
Matanuska river. 20
Hiram Maxim is credited by the :
London correspondent Of the Petit
Parisien with having invented simple
and inexpensive contrivance to protect
soldiers from the effects of deadly
gases employed in battle. This device {
is designed to cause the gases to rise ]
and pass over the heads of the men I
against, whom they are directed.
Pope Benedict has determined to !
make new appeal for peace, accord I
ing to the newspaper Roma, which de-
clares the pontiff is resolved to use
every means within his power to bring /.
about the desired result. He will ask =
the help of the Episcopate and, the 5
newspaper asserts, is even considering h
the convocation of universal council t
Of the church at Rome. /