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3 AILROAD Ship News | | yr UP GRADE =: The Star's Weekly Review) Weather Bureau Report}: hanied. Condon “GRAIN TRADING IS IRREGULAR BY ALBERT APPLE Railroad freight traffic, which re. {CIUCAGO, Anry 4 pril 4.—Stooles hei ent today of th heoming cut United & ool Wa | Raile x onaliy highe Mexican aup « f 4 | NEW yort erve bank at tatement y Wink! 6AM 4 in, 7 » | Pameed three-masted, 9 | flects general business Has touched bottom, and will not fall off further, says Thomas De Witt Cuyler, chairman of the Association of Railway Executives. Freight Movement has improved decidedly in the last two weeks, he says, New “York Central's office have fone on full time. Number of cars loaded with freight WR Week ended March 12, latest re Ported, was 702,068. This was a Benth less than a year ago, but larger same week in 1919 conditions, Arrivals and Departures |. soaay pas marks Arrived April ¢—#tr Adm + r lary Ww forces: Provisions were May wheat opened off 4 and clowed up 14 ¢ jed unchanged at 9% |ped The at th May corn « Taku Bar| an er Daven: | port from Han Francisco via Bverett, & am , and drop Se at 60 gain in la So at OT %e pe at the ¢ which opened ‘advanced to 65 Ralied StF Prince @ Rupert via ports, hatka for # wir Ly Stewart for Port San Luts, 246 am. | ARY | | Very important is the wave of} Dullishness creeping over the country. | eeerert's reports “leas pessi. ” Some authorities, noted for not be surprised | ‘ P | ik up." ‘This spirit Vessels in Other F ., 1 ei sap ae | Retail trade, nationally, is the beat |and shangbal Met aac months. Good weather helped. ih Manning & Co.'s Pri- Big sale: France and Germany | j. oe the dead American copper mar- | Cr pe ii ty stare They buy 10 900,000 pounds at S Y a i Lie A2% cents a pound. Back of this is Blow but steady improvement of World banking situation, bound to “help our export trede. ~ Detroit reports 33,000 more em than on January 1. Gradual ile industry, with Studebaker) ning 75 per cent, nearest capacity ived auto sales are stimulating FE canmeren wage steel buying is now the beaviest in months. Means buliding ty. Steel industry as whole is Yat 28 per cent capacity. U. 5. Steet tion last week operated 43 per cent. Trade belief is that Judge wants to make good showing | nti end of present quarter, then) “will cut prices early {A April. May De false alarm, but steé| stagnation is largely due to high prices. U. 8.}p. ‘Bteel's new orders averaging enqugh | P “to keep it going on one-third time. [7 Pig tron has fallen to $23 a ton _. Pre-war was $10.25; highest war ended time was $42 Bank 26 were 29 per cent less than Alaskan Ves els April 3—Halled, atr Alameda, southbound, T & m. Juneaw . then sha¢ Furnished by 1 vate Wire, I Wheat Baliding. April & Bebley from Seat Francisco—April S—Arrived, str atr Admire otr str Rosalie Ma for Beattle 1s 1080 Reported by Wireless Canadian Government Str Makura, 150 miles south of Cape Flattery, 1145 a m ee 1002 1.10 1039 10.70 one 100 May... TUY seve Cash Wheat CRICAQO, April 4—Canh wheat red, SL MGT ANY red, 3 ie spring No | Her@aas Net aime, worth ce do, off Mary 4, Chicago Live Stock Terminal—Tatsuno Maru. Str Phytlia 1 Scr Jecene, ote Jetferwse. Pier Orleans, ate Joho A. Pier Pier © Pier D 254.25, cows, Hartiand, str Admiral Market the Union Pacific Deck—#tr West Camak. a Trunk Dock—tr Adntiral Watson. clearings in week _ and Pacific Coast Coal Hunkere—atr HB. ge, country over. Chicago Lovejoy, ship Abeer Cobura, str Bast. | Francisco made the biggest ero Glen. Showing, New Orieans and Kansas| Pacific Coast Engineering Worke—U 6 6) Algonquin. City the worst, Chicago clearings | ..i,5 sates Shipping oard Yarts—str cheer, that district having Westward Ho, str Icontum, str West hardest hit. Himrod, str Jalape, atr Yosemite | Mooring—#tr Victorta, Foreign Exchange NEW TORK, April 4 —The foreten en enuage market was slightly lower at the opening today ba 09%: trance, 10 About 1,700 ships idie. | Wheat exports Inst week 4,654,566 ons Street Terminay—Motorship Lib- against 10,110,262 bushels ae pare w. 2. week 1915. Corn exports 2,958,-|"""rnee et Termine bushels, against 1,998,711 bushels ex Waterway Dock & Warenouse—etr | week 1915. May wheat during |nut7 "Dry Docks—atr Forest King, schr oa ‘week touched lowest price since} Admiral Mayo, ship St. Paul, bark Guy BERRY CROP ~ TO BE TAKEN” gy mga canning “facilities this 20,000 berry growers in and Oregon are prom- in the ‘formation of the $10,000, canning and preserving corpora- launched last week. Stabilization of markets by the distributing alliance, which Teach most of the 6,500 whole Sterling was off 1% 40.6084) lire, 80.403; presen 00. Cane San Francisco Produce BAN FRANCIACO, Aprftl ¢ itter— Patras, 9% prime firete, 16 %¢ th Cheese fornia flats, fancy, 12% ¢ Ib. Feee-Patras, 1840 dow; No. 1 dirt te dos. extra pallet, S740 don; dersised pulleta, ta C. Goss, str Brookline. Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co—str| Patterson, bull Katnbow Drummond Lighterage—Dark Belfast. Yard—Str Roosevelt. un. Mar - Lake Union—Hulle Abitia, Abnode, Aby- dos, Addison, Allenhurst, thou, Bayden, Bertrand. Biscay, Ble Portland Market Status ORTLAND, April 4—Cattle—tte- 5 Market steady. Beat steers, mmon to fair aseere, ere, 86.508 bulls, $3.50@8; calves, 050. Market stag: S11.26@12; heavier, 12 Shimmitorium Doors grocers of the country, will Closed by Coppers SYRACUSE, April 4—Syracuse| hex increased it it berry crowers, thruout, the| Shouldershakers are now being 9 more or leas gently asnisted to the “The annual value of the berry in.|**reets by policemen. Under a new | ston and ordinance, the shimmiers are eject- — Oregon | <4 and the doors of the shimmitori-| tion; banquet for Mr. and Mra. Ew. locked, with a patrol-| gene Henigson, of New York, Blane’s, today, Prime 428 [patter German-Austrian Relief nanoclay um are then man on guard. SHOWS LAND CLEARING METHODS land clearing methods will be ted on an elaborate scale! Dr. 8. B. Nelson of Pullman, di- | of the extenston service of Washington State college. A spe train will be used and 11 coun in the West will be visited. Dr. is here this week conferring the committee which is ar- the exhibition. : ‘4 . WANT MARKET THOROFARE , ol Pock operators and water f; Merchants petitioned the council Saturday to open the thorofare thru Pike piace, and declared that the ‘Market farmers.are blocking the yall Karo syrup, 680; 49-1 flour, $1.76; 16¢ ‘pkg. Quaker SANITARY Sian 199, whipping cream. 180 bottie 8 Campbell's Federal or Co-operative milk, ans Co-operative milk, 19¢; Abc Th; Finke White, 18, fig bars, Ibe Th. | Stalls 47-25, 4 Olympic pr ean Royal baking powd she; bth toa, can cartons large rolled fancy head @ sold pack 2% ean Del Monte WESTLAKE Stal) 62, 49-1 wack F stem mtent' looking for a dog named Laddie Boy. ie: Sim, oan Onuactat eke, t0 him when in Toledo some time ago. 1,0 Det roast, 1240! Lo Washington and presented him to Harding after the in- white beans, 2be. Siall| Guguration, Laddie Boy promptly wearied of White House Hye bee: roll" life and up an’ beat it. For the time in history the 140, Del Monte | oun erator, te pe ob secret service is helping the pdiioe of the country hunt dog. Harding took a fancy totlet paper. asparagus, phe. Stall 104, Me phe. None-Such mincemeat, . itl point Mexioan Pe 1 % | awe" Warren G. Harding, White House, Washington, D. C,, is| So the owner took him, Higher Openings Are Made on N.Y. Market ON THE MARKET PACT EXPLAINED doral re rable fe ov but & on and re S04, Cr er opened at Chandler wan up and ed wt TH United ooklyn Hapt speka & hte Axphalt, 60, un ‘POMONA VOTING ON BLUE LAWS -: POMONA April 4 from uth Rock umed heir « ona today as Jents of this town §$trud fivvered to the polls to decide whether they want] ‘bi law" Sundays | nona in looked an the! testing tube of th The out | come of the initiative election being held today might be considered riterion of what the United Buttes thinks of proposed padlocked Sab bathe. SHAKING FISTS AT EACH OTHER From a quic mona in the transformed of hostile leaguers,” |havé been ly div General 0, Cal Reform to the n or upon nation etul town, week into a seething biue jaya” and the opposing forces ubbed. They are quit 4 and number reve and monans, onee brsenenaes are shaking clenched fists under each other's noses and shout | ing namen—not nicknames. ‘The jue jaye.” under ner the Civic MBetterment are led by Rev. Charles Scoville, revival evangelist. They | hope whut all theatres Sunday, as well all other in Pomona paid ad minsion is charged for any form of arguement, entertainment or recre: ation, They want the Sabbath r jailent save for the subdued |tences of pastors and the resonant umble of chimes in the towers of }29 loeal churches. | The “antia.” who have a number of ministers on their side, are or ganized as the Personal Liberty league, and are headed by Harry C Arthur atre enterp pant has Mberty | of League, cinema on s places where manager of several the Many mass meet ings of protest were held and im ported orators, incigding Gouverneur Morris, the author urging residents to reformers the initial ballot the scare that is claiming atten |tion thruout the land |BIG MEETINGS AND MOVIE STARS Two great mare meetings held yesterday afternoon and jast! night. Between six and eight thou sand persona attended. Speakers | included Wallace Reid, WU! Rogers and Anita Stewart of the movies. ‘Incidentally, a municipal ¢ im scheduled for today, But no one seems to know who the deuce the| mayordity candidates are or the fel-| lows running for council and con: | stable on “blue were Charged with the alleged enbeasta-| ment of $930,-John W. Wilson, 3%, , auditor, was held in city jail Mon day. He was returned from San Franciaco Sunday night by Detective D. J. McClellan. Wilson was a de partment manager for the Addison Miller Co., contractors, at 255 Cen- tral building, on December 20, the ~_ Of the alleged theft, | . J. MeMahon, manager for the camgeery, *wore to the complaint in Justice John FB. Gordon's court. Wil | son's ball in $1,500. . ¢|War Dept. Worried Over German Wives) WASHINGTON, April 4 Three | soldiers of the army of occupation | are worrying the war department. | | Most of them are without funds, and there seema to be no provision for bringing them home, “Mynterious” Jack Barrett, charged |with booze running, scheduled for | |trial in, federal court April 12 The Chinese and Japanese in their [fables regard the milky way as a |etream of silver fishes. BANK CLEARING: ii Seattle | Clearings .... . $5,862,003.75 Balances ..... ..... 2,550,021.51 Portland Clearings .... ses Balances ..... Spokane Clearings .... + 1,674,206.00 | Balances .. 640,670.00 | 6,178.750,00 1,379,053.00 Tacoma Clearings . 1,178,236.88 74,961.00 « camp the ban-| fe | wae NEW DECLINES —'BRITISH-SOVIET. «| Peppers,-Peas and Rhubarb Trade Treaty “to Protect Register Drop Investments WASTIINGTO ‘Ampara.|'nd's trade treaty tia wan not negotiated with the idea a pound, with ©%/ inate it would immediately benefit welling at 18 to 20) Hritinn commerce | peppers and "The opportunities for trade were! nta a pound on the | cabinet official here cots a pound on the) “iengiand knows that Rusia has Local rhubarb wan sold at aauadition to teetee tor Seeliiens| A pout jo erican products, But England, car of Imperial Valley lettuce} to dn extent far greater than this Kly wold at $5.60 a erate, untry, hag financial, industrig! and reported that they were | mining interests in Russia whfch she weet potatoen, which | suit) hopes to aave at $2.60 a hamper. |" “Phe trade treaty gives opportunt Loca} radixhes will arrive regular |ty to penetrate interior Russia and ly on the avenue by next week, It 18} find out just the condition of Eny expected + [ish investments there.” A shipment of Callfornia straw: herries in also expected néxt week Dairy products were steady Mon \Crleving for Wife, a All surplu M ¢ being : wei an ehh Pioneer, 103, Dies! DENVER, Colo, April 4.—Grief| lover the lons of hix 97-year-old wife | 209! caused the death yesterday of Camil- | ate, 103, Denver's oldext resident. | Tate's wife died last Thursday, They eon married 67 years, and the! Italian, alone and unattended, | found dead in his hom the reeult of @ broken relatives, Tate and his wife came to the United States from Italy in 1868 Noisy Merchants | Silenced by Court Raucous hawking of thetr wares “Ke in Pike place market brought three merchants into police court Monday. } TMB | Prank Petscne was accused of shout- | Ing the juiciness of bis pork chops | to the Saturday throngs; KR. ‘Alkama | was alleged to have pointed out the! lusciounnems of his oranges in loud tones, and =F. was charged | with exploiting rbu! vocal gusto. Police Judge warned them; sentences suspen April 4.—Ting with soviet Rus Further declines were noted on! the local market Monday s was 16 cents press shipments cents, Green penn which arrived by was 4 ar) loning ms on they were selling ent to storage. VEGETABLES Prices Paid Woowsale Dealers Artichokes per don Aepare Herts ot Cocambers Ti hot } Carlie} one al yen, per dow. ™ perial valley, at Valley, Ver per erat -, per © in, dow bunches 4 ereen. dx buch . per ber don 4e bunches ore per hamper ore Mexican, tue Local, per mach . anh, peomres riseete Leer Lbe@res | “Cousin Everett” Is Behind the Bars CITICAGO, April 4.—Gecret service men today said they were following the Jong, long trail of worthless | checks and I. O. U.'s that winds to the cell of Everett Harding, who posed as the president's cousin. n Everett.” who was arrest ed for obtaining money while tmper nonating 4 Kovernment official, was Swill being held today because he lacked $5,000 for bond, ‘Cousin Everett,” authorities eaid, |duped many politicians and others by promising them government jobs he maid he would secure for them be onuse gf his influence and relation- ibip “Cousin Warren.” «iN. Y. Banker Dies Py in Pasadena Hotel PASADENA, Cal, April 4.—B. C. Converse, wealthy New York bank {i | er, aged 71, was found dead tn bed s2|Qere at the Hotel Huntington this 2.45 | morning. He was formerly president of the 4, | Bankers’ Trust company of New “43 | York. | He played 18 holes of golf yee + 240 38) terday, s1| Heart a cause. aT Loca! coking. Nenanse rer Prete Impertal valley “Coun ta per erate 3 | Pineapple Per crate | Tamgerines Per care NUTS Prices Peié Waetemte Seems Almonds Ver re: a Piterte— Per ™. Perens rer DAIRY rropucts raid Vere wt, by iseai Anirten. DAIKY PMODUCTS | cuesse Or. triplets Wisconsin cream brick . falure ie given as the MINES CONVENTION, PORTLAND Coal—how it is mined and how much is deposited in the West from Alaska to California—will be dis zs |Cunmed by the third annual interna 2¢\Gonal mining convention in Port- 3% land, Ore, Tuesday to Saturday, U 2 eee RESUME RIMROCK DAM WORK With 125 men on the job, work on $f | the $2,500,000 Rimrock impounding gi }dam has been resumed. The project is located near the head of the Tie ton river, in Eastern Washington, and is designed for a storage basin for Irrigation of Yakima valley land. BU vs APARTMENT HOUSE For $40,000 Capt. W. H. Bergman the Moana apartment {2 | building, northeast corner of Malden fre | ave, and Harrison st, from Mary E. Shorey. He bought the La Crosse ~artmenta, Maiden ave. and Thom- at. for $30,000 in January. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—Bandit, 10-year-old Ducke—Live . ae} Hene--Live, onder 4 the ™ Geese lave « pio Live” te Dest ateore Medium to choice. ws and heifers . HAY, GRAIN A’ Wholersle Price Per bess “ arr Barer Whole Corn Whole Cracked hick Feed hick Mash Chick Developer Crystal +-65.00 | Limestone Grits 41.00 | Granite Grite inseed Mi | Shell —-Hastern 0} Western... Beach . 00 | 42.00 | Special Price Basement VALUES WHICH TELL OF BIG SAVINGS A New Shipment Just Received Patent Milan Hats Prices Ranging From $2.50 to $4.95 Smart styles in poke and rolled rim effects trimmed with grosgrain ribbon bands and long streamers. Black, navy and brown. 400 Smart Spring Blouses Greatly Underpriced Georgettes Tricolettes THE PRICE MARKS THE VERY™ LOWEST LEVEL FOR SUCH BLOUSES A variety of clever new overblouse models—_ 80 different styles—the newest colors.” Colors: Honey Dew, Tomato, Copenhagen, | Neptune green, bisque and navy. — 4 EXHIBIT SPACE TAKEN Only a little more space is avall- able for exhibitors at the woman's educational exhibit for Washington manufacturers In the Arena April 19 to 33, the Seattle Federation of ‘Women's Clubs has announced. Res- ervations have been made by 83 ex- hibitors, VICTORY PAVING DELAYED Paving of Senttle's $250,000 Vic tory way from the city limits north to Lake Forest park will not be be- gun until next year, the state high- way authorities have announced. ‘The road bed must be allowed to set- tle, it is stated. Money for the 28- foot pavement was voted by the last legislature. For a juicy steak, let's go to Boldt's.—Advertisement.