Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-13
Brief Resume Of General News
from All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

Fakers exact SITS. 900 from six st
Louis men.
A jewish relief day has been auhor
lied by the senate.
A Portland hotel has been leased fol
period Of years ut 20 per cent In
crease over five years ago.
Opponents Of Oregon's blue law,
which was upheld by the Federal court,
will appeal TO the United States Su.
prcme court.
The house Of commons voted 403 Ia
l06 In favor Of the Asquith bill which
requires single men Of certain ages "a
enter the war.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria will be
crowned emperor Of Macedonia at
Monastir after brief visit to several
leading cities In Bulgaria.
Mount Rainier National Park 10
dry" along with the rest of the state
Of Washington. according to a ruling
made by Secretary Of the Interior
Lane.
The United States government has
ordered constructed 10 aeroplanes,
three Of which will have n speed of 30
miles an hour and carrying capacity
Of 1900 pounds.
A New York Federal Judge invites
''hyphenated citizens" who put the
interests Of their native country be-
fore those Of America to "get of the
face Of the earth"
Secretary Garrison presents to the
house military committee his program
for spending six hundred millions In
the next four years to build up and
maintain a standing army Of 500, 900
men.
Announcement that Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt will start February l5 on a
trip to the West Indies, from which he
will not return until April /, has been
made. He will be accompanied by
Mrs. Roosevelt.
Colonel +. M. House, personal ad-
visor OF President Wilson, who was
sent to Europe to visit the ambassadors
from the United States. has landed in
London. The purpose Of his trip Is
said not to be a mission Of peace.
The right of hard cider to place In
dry Oregon is now questioned. Sam
pies OF some cider that was finding an
unusually brisk market were taken by
the Portland police and turned over to
the city laboratories for analysis to de- |
termine the amount Of alcohol.
When the Ford peace expedition left |
on a special train bound
through Germany for Holland each
member Of the party was known only
by number. Each man or woman of
the party throughout the trip in Ger
many had to occupy the seat In the
train bearing the number given him or
her. Each number corresponded with
one placed on each passport by the
German consul at Copenhagen and one
in the hands of the authorities of the
General Ian Hamilton's report on the
British operations on the Gallipoli PEN
insula was published in the London
Official Gazette. 1t tells the story of
the fighting on the peninsula from the
beginning Of May to the middle Of Oc-
tober. The Suvla Bay landing failed to
accomplish its object, the report
shows, partly because the force con-
sisted largely Of untried troops under
inexperienced in the new war
fare, and partly through the failure Of
the water supply. The sufferings of
the troops for lack of water made
painful reading.
The Pacific Coast Baseball league
'ears that il Sunday games are pro-
libited by the Sunday law, baseball
will be practically put out of business.
Representative Macarthur has intro
luced a bill proposing reduction in
he rate of postage on local delivery
etters from 2 cents to cent an ounce.
Under this bill any letter would be de-
ivered anywhere in the city where /,
nailed, or on any rural route leading !
for cent, and in the same
ield patrons of rural routes would send (
etters for the 1-cent rate. Mr.. Nc
Arthur said that he had found that it '
,osts the government on an average {
quarter of a cent to deliver local {
etter. II