Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-09
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.

Aberdeen, Wash, 10 about TO begin
work on u $400. 900 water system.
Tho government Of India has i'm
posed an export duty on grain bags.
General Argumcdo. n Mexican rebel
leader. has been executed by Carranza.
The United States National bank
will build a $3.50. 900 bank building In
Portland.
Portland's new city directory. which
will be Issued next week, will report
population for the city Of approx
mately 2sl, 900.
The secretary Of the California state
board Of health declares spring fever
10 not disease, but perfectly nor
NAL and natural feeling.
Secretary Daniels predicts full vim
dication Of the Navy department In
buying armor plants, ETC.. when the
true facts become known.
Six homeless boys less than O years
OF age and of varying nationalities are
TO be adopted by Mrs. Bessie Fuller.
Of South Porcupine, Ontario, Canada,
as sociological experiment.
The discovery Of small comet by
Ncujmin was announced In cable
gram TO the Harvard observatory from
Professor Backlund, Of the Imperial
observatory at Pulkowa. Russia.
A Bucharest dispatch received in
London by Reuters Telegram company
by way Of Amsterdam says that the
Queen Mother, Elizabeth, Of Rou-
mania, Carmen SYLVIA, died Friday
morning.
A Stockholm dispatch to the London
Morning Post says that, according to n
message from Karlskrona, Sweden, a
whole mine field of several hundred
mines is drifting from the North, hav-
ing presumably been set adrift by the
ice and wind.
Fred G. Buskuhl, of Friend, Oregon,
has just received the bronze medal
awarded to him by the Carnegie hero
fund commission for attempting to
save the life of Joseph !. Tarke at
Friend, August 8, 1912. The commits
sion also awarded $1,000 to Mr.. Bus
kuhl.
Five million bushels of May wheat
have been bought by milling interests
in the last week as prices tumbled,
according to estimates Of Minneapolis
chamber Of commerce traders. This,
they say, would represent sales Of one
million barrels of flour. Most OF this
product Is said to be for Eastern
bakers.
Two men with large "roll" Of
counterfeit Federal Reserve bank bills
are operating in Portland, and third
member of the gang Is supposed to be
working in conjunction with the others
disguised as plainclothes officer. The
duty of the third man appears to be to
disarm the suspicion of the victims by
vouching for his accomplices.
Crowded galleries that gathered to
hear the international situation dis
cussed saw the house take its annual
vote, this time $50 to 46, not to reduce
members mileage from 20 to s cents a
mile. The defeat Of the motion was
preceded by lively debate, In which
the 20-cent mileage was denounced as
graft and defended as just allowance.
Secretary Daniels is opposed to To-
eating a naval base at the mouth of
the Columbia river.
The momentsus battle between the
French and Germans before Verdun
continues with practically no gain for
either side.
The Russian steamship sPetshenga
has been sunk. Fifteen of those on
board were saved. She was of 1647
gross tons. Seven of the Petshenga's g
crew were lost.
Great Britain will permit shipment
to the United States of cargo of dye
stuffs valued at $5, 600, 900.
Only three co-eds out Of % at the
University of Oregon have good feet.
None have perfect toe-line.
General Felix Diaz, who has been
in the United States for several
months, and under surveillance Of the
department oil Justice, has succeeded
in leaving for Cuba, where, it is re-
ported, he will form plans for another
revolution in Mexico.