Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-09-02
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSH7'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

premier VIVIAN says FRANCE uOes
not want premature peace.
Germans capture Brest- -Litovsk, Rus
sia's strongest foothold in Poland.
IL Is now believed that the main
Russian army will succeed In escaping
from the onrushing German forces.
Imperial Valley, Cal, Is swept by u
terrific wind, rain and electric storm.
which destroyed many houses and cleo
tric lines.
Secretary Of War Garrison rebukes
Gen. Wood for inviting Col. Roosevelt
to speak at the instruction camp at
Plattsburg.
Another food swept the White River
valley in Arkansas, doing much dam
age and rendering between 1000 and
5000 people homeless.
Earl Shelbourne, president Of the
English board Of agriculture. declares
certain classes Of men will soon be
practically drafted into the army.
BY vote Of II to 81, the constitu-
tional convention OF New York state
reversed its previous action and re-
jected the literacy test for voters.
II is reported that "a pounds OF ra-
dunn bearing ore has been taken from
a mine on Boulder creek, II miles
from Port Oxford, Or. 1t Is said that
In the form In which the radium Is
found II is worth $50 an ounce.
A huge timber was shipped from the
Ostrander Railway & Timber COM
pany's plant at Centralia, Wash,
which measured 20 by 20 inches and
was l40 feet in length. 1t was sent
to st. Helens, Or, to be used in the
construction Of new ship there.
The German admiralty admits the
loss Of submarine which was destroy
ed by bomb from an aeroplane, and
says It has not heretofore acknow-
lodged such losses, which is taken to
mean that many previous rumors of
the destruction Of submarines were
true.
Clinton w. South, his 3a-year-old
son, and his mother, aged 10, all Of
Ripon, Cal, were killed and Mrs. Wal
den, of Newman, was seriosuly injured
when the automobile in which they
were riding overturned, as the result
Of a bursting tire, on the highway four
miles north Of Modesto.
A first payment of $5o4, 1913 for the
securities of the Alaska Northern rail-
road was made by the Interior depart
ment. The road runs from Seward
into the interior of Alaska and will be
utilized in the construction of the new
government road. The total cost of the
securities to the United States will be
81, $50, 600.
Washington has agreed to give
Haiti's parliament until September IL
to act upon the proposed treaty by
which the United States would extend
financial protectorate over the unstable
little republic for 10 years. In the
meantime the American marines will
continue to occupy the principal cities
of the island to prevent recurrence
of anarchy.
The Eastman Kodak concern has
been declared trust by the Federal
courts.
The Joint session of the Oregon and
Washington Bar assertions, which
was held in Portland, has come to a
close.
The British estimate the German
loss in men at 1880, 900, with one
third killed.
Carranza officials have put absolute
prohibition into effect in the larger
towns of Sonora now under their con-
troll, according to travellers from inte-
rior points.
Six children in Idaho, who were
locked in their home by their parents,
while they were attending party,
were burned to death. Evidence OF
their efforts to escape were found by
the location of the bodies in the ruins.
According to the Cologne Gazette
the railways of Roumania have re-
ceived orders to place all rolling stock
at the disposition of the minister OF
war on September Ia. This move is
regarded as deeply significant Of Rou-
mania's possible course in the future,