Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-24
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.

The steamer Pavlof In Alaskan
waters, sends 8. o. >.
Fashion has decrccd that the barrel
skirt IL correct apparel for this spring.
Fire caused $3.50, 900 damages to the
Inman-P Poulsen lumber yards and mill
in Portland.
Sweden asks Uncle Sam TO aid In
their protest TO England against the
Britons' intcrcepting mail 10 that coun-
try.
President Wilson has presented
list Of Americans killed In Mexico In
the last three years, to the senate. The
total IL IL.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels Ia
reported favoring the establishment OF
naval base at the mouth Of the Co
lumbia river.
Earl Kitchener announces that de-
fense against Zeppelin raids cannot be
made perfect. but England'B methods
are improving.
Federal detectives are making a
nation-wid search for the gang Of an
archists who, II 10 alleged, 10 instiga-
tors Of the poison plot.
The Vienna city council has voted to
remove the copper roof Of the historic
Rathhaus and give the metal 70 the
military authorities. Tho roof will be
replaced by one OF iron.
The Umatilla Indians object to the
building Of bridge across the UNA
tilla river at their expense. declaring
the bridge is for the benefit OF the
white man, and not them.
Sawmil and logging companies do
clare that by the middle Of March
there will be shortage Of unskilled
labor In these lines. Day labor has
advanced from 50 to $2.25 and will go
to $3.50 per day.
Trial Of the separation action which
the Princess Aimee Crocker Gouraud-
Miskinoff has brought against the
youthful Prince Alexander Miskinof
Ia up for hearing in the Supreme
court in New York.
A bachelor school teacher at Ever
EFT, WASH, has educated at his own
expense, seventeen boys and one girl.
He is an author of some note and from
this fund pays for the schooling, living
on his salary as teacher.
Paper mills in the United States are
operating to capacity and many OF
them are turning away orders, but the
increase in the price of raw materials
and the high price Of labor have re-
duced the profits of the business.
Breaking all records for silk ship
ments in the trans-Pacific trade, the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Sado Maru
has reached Seattle, bringing 6539
bales and cases of raw and manufac-
tured silk goods, having value of ap-
proximately $5, 900.
The case of woman spy recently
sentenced to death, but whose sentence
was commuted to penal servitude for
life, was announced i'm the house of
commons by Herbert l.. Samuel, the
secretary of state for home affairs.
She was not British subject.
The government of Greece has been
transferring millions of dollars Of it's
funds from London to New York
within few months, according to
New York bankers, who estimate that
$75, 600, 900 of Greek funds is now on
deposit in large number of banks in
New York.
Two Portland Chinese tongmen. one
Hop Sing and the other Hoi Yin
Quon Shaw, were shot and seriously
wounded on crowded sidewalk at
Third and Couch streets by on e Of
their countrymen, said TO be member
of the Bow Leong Tong. Hop decl,res
one of the victims stole his wife.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen, EXPIRE ,sident Of
China, is reported re-marri ed to his
private secretary at Toxic, Japan.
Richard L. Metcalfe, ex- governor Of
the Panama Canal zone, has invited
w. ]. Bryan to debate the question Of
preparedness before the " oters of Ne
braska.
The Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage sent President w ilson val
entine on which was inscribed
"Won't you be our val entine? We
will be your valentines"