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3 WARSAW SOON BE IN GERMAN HANDS KAISER'S GENERALS SURROUND THE POLAND CITY WITH BIG ARMIES. MAIN RUSSIAN ARMY ESCAPES German Loss Reported at 35.000 Men and They Have 100 Trainload of Ammunition Sent Them— Italians Drive Austrians. London, Aug. 1.—The anniversary of the outbreak of the war passed with- out the Germans occupying Warsaw, which was understood to be part of their program. However, news of this climax to the Austro-German offensive in the east, which was begun in the early days of May, is hourly expected, for what little information is allowed to leak through is to the effect that the Russians for several days have been withdrawing to the Brest line, leaving small forces to fight rear- guard actions, so the main armies might make good their retreat. In the southeast Field Marshal von Mackensen continues his victorious advance. He has swept aside the re- sistance of the Russians and forced them to retreat along both banks of the Bug. The Germans have already passed through Chelm in pursuit. Thus, on this front, the retirement of the War- saw armies is seriously threatened. During July, Berlin says, the Ger- mans captured more than 95,000 Rus- sians between the Pilicaliver and the Baltic alone. The Russians, according to petro- grad, have stopped General von Bue- low's advance in Kovno province to- ward the Vilna -Petrograd railway. Successful Retreat Doubtful. It is not yet certain whether the Russian armies can make good their retirement from Warsaw. Certainly the Austro-Germans are doing their best to prevent it and have moved up very strong reenforcements to hasten their encircling movement. Meanwhile, the Germans, who appear to have an inexhaustible supply of munitions, are fighting desperately to _retain every,positioa which. they hold along the western front. They have recaptured part of the trenches which they lost to the British near Hooge and are making an effort to regain what they lost to the French in the Muenster ¶ region of Alsace. A report comes from Rome tonight that tfi AnstllanS are preparttrg the evacuation of Triest and have al- ready removed the machinery of the munitions factories. The Geneva Tribune's -Laibach cor- respondent says: \A general Italian offensive was be- gun yesterday on the Tyrol, Trentino and Carnia front forcing the Austrians to evacuate some of their strongest positions. Dalmatian regiments which attacked Preikopf lost 50 per cent of their effectives. The Italians have pierced the second Austrian line on the Carso plateau, taking several miles of trenches.\ Cost of Seige. Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 1.—The Tribune prints the following dispatch from its Innsbruck correspondent: \The capture qf Lublin cost General Woyisch 70,000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners. The Russians are fight- ing fiercely, disputing every foot of ground. \In an advance of seven miles with seven army corps Field Marshal von Mackensen lost 25,000. \The Germans have dispatched more than 100 trainloads of ammunition from Radom and Lodz to Warsaw since July 23. \The Russians who attacked south of Przasnysz killed 5000, wounded 8000 and took prisoners 1300 of the Eighth German ar.pay corps.\ MARKET REPORT Chicago. Hogs—Slow, 5c to 10c under yester- day's average. Bulk, $6.3566.90; light, $7.0567.60; mixed, $6.3067.50; heavy, $6.1066.95; rough, $6.1066.25; pigs, $6.3067.50. Cattle—Steady; native beef cattle, $6:20610.25; western steers, $6.856 8.15; cows -and heifers, $3.4069.25; calves, $7.50611. Sheep—Strong; sheep, $ 6 @ 6 .8 0 ; lambs, $6.2568.65. Wheat—No. 2 red, new, $1.11%6 1.14%; No. 2 hard, new, $1.11%0 1.13%. Corr—No. 2 yellow, 81 1 ,4c; others, nominab Rye No. 2, nominal; No. 3, $1.006 Barley -71477c. Timothy—$4.5065.50. CloVer—$8.50013.25. Butter lower; creamery, 21 1 / 2 e25c. Eggs—Lower; at mark, cases in- cluded, 14617c; ordinary firsts, 15 1 / 4 16c; firsts, 16 1 / 4 617c. New York. - • Raw sugar nominal. Centrifugal, 4.83c; molasses sugar, 4.06c. Refined weak. Spot cotton steady; middling up- lands, 9.35c. Spot coffee quiet; Rio No. 7, 7%c: Santos No. 4, 9%c. San Francisco. Barley steady. Feed, $1.1541.20: choice, $1.21 1 461.22%. Eggs—Extras, 26c. Tacoma. Wheat—Bluestem, September, 96c; fortyfold, 92c; club, 'Plc; red fife, 88c. Car receipts—Wheat 35, barley 1, corn 3, hay 7. THE SPOKANE MARKET. The advancing weeks bring renewed assurance of prosperity for the agri- cultural community all over the- coun- try. The crop is not., being secured, and shows up well with the advance of harvest. For the state of Wash- ington the estimate has been placed at a yield of 45,000.000 bushels of wheat which is about 10,000,000 bushels in excess of the estimate a year ago at this time. Butter—The market is without no- ticeable changes and ruling upon about the same basis as a year ago at this time. Creamery stocks are quot- ing at 276:30c with a firm, steady un- dertone. Cheese—Movement has - been fair, but there are good supplies, and the market still holds unchanged at 19c for triplets and 20c for brick. Eggs—There is the usual firmness .levelopeL through the decrease production with the advancing season and a continuation of hot weather should cause an advance in price. At the moment figures are $6.5067.50. Fresh Meats—Demands have been a little more active, particularly in the city trade, but the market is still easy, with pork quoting at- - 1 - 2%11:yrt lw@i1c, mutton 12613c and lamb 16 617c. Livestock is holding firm at previous figures. Poultry—The market on hens is a little easier this week with quotations at 11c live weight and 115c dressed. Receipts have been fairly good while the demand still holds fairly quiet. aiv Lard and Cured Meats—Bacon con- tinues to hold steady while hams are a little weaker, and lard has shown further decline, going to 10c. Fruits and Vegetables. Apple's—there is a gradual increase in the supply of apples in the local market and as to quality the range is rather wide. Prices are holding up well, the figures being 75c per half box and $1.50 per box. Berries—There has been no change in the quotation during the week of raspberries, dew, black and logan ber- ries, the range being $1.2561.50 Per crate. Blackcaps and currants are out qf the market in a jobbing way. Other Fruits—Oranges are a little firmer in price at $4.5064.60, while lemons still hold at $5.50 for fancy with choice quoting down to $4.50. Sweet cherries are off the market, but sours are quoting at 75c6$1 per box. Apricots are a Little firmer at 85c6 $1 as is also cantaloupes at $2.25@3. Pears are now on the market and quoting at $1e1.50. Potatoes—Increased receipts and the adsvocing season have shown a slight weakening in the spud market, the quotation for the week being $1.25 per cwt. Other Vegetables—Dry onions are a little easier at $101.10 as is also cab- bage at $1.25. Lettuce is a little firm- er at 50660c per dozen, while cu- cumbers are firmer at 50c6$1. Beans have dropped to 365c from 467c and tomatoes are easier at 75c@$1.25 per box. Grain, Flour and Feed. Wheat—The wheat market is weak at the moment with slack demands, the mills absorbing about all the sup- plies coming to hand, which consist of old crop. No new wheat had been re- ceived locally up to the middle of the week, although samples are at hand and generally show up well. Prices have declined from a week ago, blue - stem now quoting at 94c with club at 83c and red Russian at 78c, reflecting the lack of export call and 'the high prices of tonnage. Warm sunny weather has produced favorable con- ditions for securing the Inland Empire wheat crop. Business will hold quiet until the wheat has been secured, al- though movement will probably ex- pand from now on. Flour—The position of the flour market is a tentative one. Should moderate prices prevail for wheat milling activity will be expanded. Trade generally continues to hold rather quiet, with demands confined to the supplying of nearby require- ments, while jobbing prices show no further change. Feed—The advent of new crop hay Crop Report Booms Prices, Chicago, August 2.—Prospects of a bumper crop in the spring states proved more than an offset today for wet weather over the greater part of the winter wheat belt. In consequence the wheat market, although unsettled at the close, was 4 2 6%c to 2%c under last night. Other net changes were: Corn, %c off to %c up, and oats, %c down to 1 7 4 1 c advance. The outcome In provisions was the same as last night, to 7 1 / 2 c higher. Negro Burned at Stake. Temple, Texas.—Will Stanley, the negro arrested on a charge of being the man who murdered the three Grimes children recently was taken from the justice courtroom at midnight July 30 and was burned on the public square in the presence of thousands of men and women. He confessed. Aid Ship Returns. New York.—The cruiser Tennessee returned Saturday from nearly a year's cruise in European waters, relieving American refugees in the war zone. She left New York August 7. 1914. with $5,867,000 in ,gold and returned *IN $169,000. The balance was distributed to the needy Turks and Asia Minor. A concrete viaduct has been built in Kansas City, Mo., spanning 32 railroad tracks. Gingham is so called because it was originally manufactured at Guingamp, in Brittany. • has caused a elump in prices, timothy quoting at $15, with alfalfa and wheat hay at $14. The milfeed market shows some improvement with a good de- mand for anything that can be deliv- ered promptly. Oats show only a fair demand and quotations are off to $2.. with steam rolled at $20. Corn has firmed up a couple of points and is quoting at $39640. • STOCK AND CROP NOTES. Reports received at Portland from growers throughout the state indi- cated, according to dealers, that the Oregon hop pick this season would at least equal the record made in 1906, when 160,000 bales were harvested. Unusually hot weather was the favor- able factor. Prune picking and packing has com- menced at Milton, Ore. The Lamb Fruit Co. employs about 200. The new orchards bearing this year for the first time are expected to increase the output 100 cars. The Lamb com- pany leased the Old association build- ing in order to take care of the prune crop, Mr. Lamb figuring that from - 100 to 150 carloads will pass through the warehouse. A marked improvement in the tone of the apple market compared with a year ago is reflected in the fact that eastern buyers are in the market, and the North Pacific Fruit Distributors have on file already two requests for quotations on orders of 150 cars each, in addition to many inquiries for quo- tations on sn1aller carlot shipments, according to J. H. Robbins, general manager. During the entire season of 1914, he states, no buyer asked quota- tions on even a 20 -car lot and few over 10 cars. McGregor Land & Livestock Co. of Hooper, 'Wash., who owns a large number of sheep, sold their clip of 10b,000 pounds last week for 18%c a pound, which brought them approxi- . mately $20,000. Hans Harder of Kah- lotus, Wash., who has a heavier wool, sold his clip for 17 cents. Leon Jana - sand, who sold earlier in the season, received 16%c, Gildersleeve Bros. of Washtucna sold for 16c and Davin & Ganguet received 15 1 ,4c. All of the above wool was sold to the Pendleton Scouring Mills and shipments were completed last week. Advices from Sydney state that the exports of wool from Australia and New Zealand from July 1, 1914, to June 30, 1915, totaled 2,317,702 bales, or a -decrease of 389,761 bales. The total sales of wool in the colonial mar- kets for the season amounted to 1,- 544,799 -bales, against 3,938,500 last 'yeav, the average weight per hale be- ing :129 pounds, again8t - 327 pounds; the average value 12 pounds 151, 7d or 9%d per pound, compared with 13 pounds 45 11d, or 9%cl per pound last year. The Australian wool production fa\ the coming season is expected to show a decrease between 100,000 and 500,001) bales. GRAIN AND MILLING NEWS. The Interior Warehouse at Grange - • Idaho, and the Kerr -Gifford OUR FOODSTUFFS SHIPPED LAST YEAR VALUED AT $724,000,000 FOR THE PERIOD ENDING JUNE 1, THIS YEAR. U. S. DEPARTMENT REPOliTS Movement Abroad Nearly Doubles in Value Over Year Ago—Wheat Is Highest—Meat and Dairy Prod- ucts Will Reach $200,000,000. Washington.—The share of the Uni- ted States in feeding the world, a task vastly increased by the European war, is disclosed in statistics of the depart- ment of commerce. Foodstuffs valued at $724,000,000 were evported doring the 11 months ended June 1. This was the principal factor in the nation's billion dollar foreign trade balance. Exports for the same ll months a year ago totaled $443,000,000. Wheat formed the biggest item in foodstuffs sent abroad. ,In all 249,576,000 bush- els wehe exported, an increase of 164,- 000,000 bushels. It ','as valued at $319,- 961,000, showing an increase over the previous year of $239,138,000. Oats valued at $51,669,000 were shipped, an increase of $51,028,000. There were 86,428,000 bushels, an in- crease of almost f15,000,000 bushels. Flour Exports $87,650,000. Flour showed the next largest in- crease, with a value of $87,650,000, or $37,638,000 more than the previous pe- riod. - Almost 5,000,000 , more barrels were sent this year, the total being 15,077,000. Corn exports were valued at $34,- 542,000, an increase of $24,551,000. There were 43,718,000 bushelsiEdport- ed, an increase of 35,000,000. Almost 305,000,000 pounds of bacon were shipped, an increase of 122,000,- 000 pounds. It was valued at $41,- 294,000, or an increase of $17,028,000. Domestic Maat-BrIngs Mare. The trade report also says: \It is apparent the United States pays less for the meats it buys than it receives for thoatoit sells. In April we imported 8,500,000 pounds of fresh beef valued at 9% cents per pound . o. n. countrres of origin. In the same month we exported 25,500,000 pounds valued at 14 cents per pound at the domestic ports of shipment. For the 10 months ended with April, 1915, the imports arid exports were 165,- 000,600 and 102,000,000 pounds, re - by J. W. Robinson, the Nez Perce miller. The Farmers Union Warehouse Co. at Pullman, Wash., has purchased the Interior company's warehouse of 50,- 000 bushels capacity, on the 0.-W. It. & N. tracks, and will install an up-to- date sack piler in time to handle this season's crop. It was reported last week on au- thoritative advice that plans are prac- tically completed for moving the Old Do flour, mill to Vollmer, Idaho.' The Bank of Vollmer, which owns the mill has asked a number of contractors for bidb on moving the mill. Contractor elk of Pullman is known to have sub- mitted a bid for the work, and a num- ber of other contractors are figuring on the job. BREV ITI ES. American cotton mills are now us- ing more than 5,000,000 bales of cot- ton a year, as compared with 1,000,000 bales 45 years ago. For shingles alone, 750,000,000 feet of timber is cut annually in that part of the state of Washington which lies west of the Cascades. Capital for a new state bank at Sprague, Wash., has been subscribed to the amount of $25,000. The institu- tion will be known as the Farmers State bank of Sprague. A writ of error was granted last week by Chief -Justice G. E. Morris of the supreme court, whereby the case of the state against Walter Bowen, testing the constitutionality of the commission merchant law requiring the licensing of all commission mer- chants, will be taken to the United States supreme court. Bowen was convicted in the King county superior court and the decision was affirmed by the state supreme court. Help Ohio Coal Miners. Columbus, Ohio.—Efforts of slate officials to find work for thousands of coal miners in southern Ohio who are idle and destitute because of the shufting down of many mines, resulted here in arrangements being made to transport 30u -miners to Cleveland, where jobs have been promised them. Mirror Warning On Curve. Pittsburg, Pa.—Flashing a clear re- flection of one of the most dangerous curves in western Pennsylvania, a plate glass mirror, 30 by 48 inches, has been placed at the top of the Logan's ferry hill by the New Kensington Au- tomobile club near here. The mirror is mounted so that automobile drivers • a \ thccurvc ing for a distance of fully 400 feet. Battleship Nebraska Collides. Boston.—The battleship Nebraska was in collision with a bark off Cape Cod Saturday during a fog. Egyptians in the third century used to burn butter in their lamps instead of oil. • ' country people together and stimulate interest in better farming, better mar- keting and better rural conditions. The tOerage . country fain attempts too much. When prizes are, offered for almost every kind of crop and ani- mal, there is likely t obe a lack -of real competitlou., Premiums should be re- - stricted to a, few well chosen lines,, those which seem of greatest impor- tance to the country and which should be encouraged most. Some lines should be featured by special premiums. Fairs should feature such classes it seems desirable to encourage in. the county, especially live stock. But in the live stock classes, emphasis should be placed upon type and real Worth, and not merely upon breeds. Such lines of agricultural production as corn, seed production, better grades - of market fruit, grain and hay, mar- ket lots of live stock and poultry should be featured. A fair should be educational. Ex- hibits Of convenienees for the farm hone, exhibits that _ will show how rural -health may he improved;' how better bread should be made; methods o ome canning of meat, fruit and . , vegetiblett; all should be encouraged. . Exhibits of rural school work in ag- riculture and - hoine economics, in boys and girls club work -always re- ceive a great deal of attention and a county fair cannot do better than to encourage this sort of work. ldlany county fairs have been most successful in featuring some product which the county is getting known for, on one, or several days of the fair. Thus in some counties \Potato day,\ \Biscuit day,\ \Appie day,\ \Pork day,\ etc. have served to stimulate great interest in the fair and adver- tise the -county. Other fairs have made a success of \farmers'• picnics,\ where people from the same part ,of the coun- ty gather and have a jollification. All such efforts stimulate interest in the farming and country life of that 'county, make the' fair a real country. fair. MINING NEWS I* • An important Mining deal is now under way and probably will be put through in a few days, involving the bonding of the Gloucester group in Franklin camp to the Granby Consoli- dated Mining and Smelting Co •-f v The American Nitrate Co., an &et gon corporation capitalized for $20,- 000,000, has closed a deal for 40 ni- trate of potash Aims on Succor creek, in eastern Oregon, for $100,000, according to reports received from While the domestic demands for copper is far below normal, the need of the metal for war munitions for the belligerent European nations is so great that American production' is greater than at any previous time In Will Investigate Smut Explosions W ASH IN GTO N, The United 'States department oZ agriculture, in connection with tilt, investigations it has been conducting; relative to grain dust explosions ini cereal mills, elevators and industria-i plants, throughout the various partm of the country, has planned to ex- tend the scope of its investigationF; and will study fbe-• smut explosions problem in the Palouse region during-, this threshing season. This work. will be carried on in co -operations with the staff of the experiment sta-- tion of the Washington state college, at Pullman, and the University of Ida.. hoat Moscow. Plans are being made; to conduct extensive investigatione: concerning the cause of smut explo sions in threshing machines with as view to suggesting remedies for thr, prevention of same. The main office for the directioo, of the federal investigations has been; opened in meal 404 Federal builadg , Spokane, Wash., and the engineers; working in connection witff the prob-- lem have been assigned to various; points in the field for the purpose or making careful investigations of any explosions that may occur in an . ef- - fort to ascertain the direct cause oil the same. The work - Will be directed; by D. J. Price, engineer of the bureau' of chemistry, who will have charge of the Spokane office, and E. B. McCor.- miek, mechanical engineer of the of -- flee of public roads and, rtrral engi- neering. Both engineers will be work- ing 'under the direction of the Unttedt States department of agricultire„ Washington, D. C. The Sell engi-- neering investigations will be con- ducted by J. E. Young and J. C.. Woodson, assistant agricultural,,engi- seers, and they will devote their - time to a study of the causes andi preventative measures that may bEi adopted. The federal investigators will work: in connection with Dr. Ira D. Cardiff: and the experiment staff of the stater college at Pullman during any ipves-:- tigatiops that will be conducted in the state of Washington, and witha Prof. N. S. Robb of the staff of thet University of Idaho at Moscow, ir.4 -connection with investigations that are carried I'm in that state. , , Last year it was reported that 300 separators were wholly, or partially, destroyed in this section by smut ex- it -Van te-ex-periment -- staff at Pullman, under the direction. of. Dr. Cardiff, conducted an extensivet series of investigations last season.. The results' of their work were pub- lished in bulletin 117, which in- cludes many valuable recommenda- tions rela ire pound for the imports and 12% cents shipments. Fresh beef exports were per pound for the exports.\ 5 1'here was a big increase in 'heed 121,487,000 pounds, an increase of al- , Most 116,000,000 pounds; canned beef, 65,359,000 pounds, an increase of 61,- 000,000; pickled beef, 28,622,000 lbs., an increase of 7,000,000. Increase in Meat Exports. Value of beef exported was: Fresh beef, $15,363,000, an increase of $14,- 652,000; canned beef, $10,708,000 an increase of $10,284,000, and pickled eef, $3,004,000, an increase of 0883,- 000. Hams and shoulders exported weighed 162,233,000 pounds; valued at $23,435,000 an increase of $1,734,000. .Lard exports amounted to 441,702,000 pounds, valued at $48,917,000. The net increase was small. Import Meat and Dairy Imports. \Imports of mutts and dairyprod- ucts into the United States in the 10 months preceding May 1 last were three times the value of those for a like period two years ago and seven times those of the entire fiscal year 1905. T ehmovement first assumed large proportions in the fiscal year 1914, following the transfer of meats to the free list. Very recent monthF, however, .have reversed the upward trend. March and April show much smaller imports than in those month of last year or when compared with earlier months of the current fiscal year. \In the 10 months ended with April imports of meat and dairy products aggregated $38,000,000 in'value,_meats representing two-thirds of the total. In 1913-14 the same months gave a total of $28,000,000, and in 1912-13 $12,000,000. Prior to 1910 the total increase reached $10,000,000, vaving been $5,250,000 in 1905. \Our imports of meats are mainly supplied by Argentina. Ten months of the fiscal year just closed brought 112,000,000 pounds of fresh beef and veal from Argentina and from 10,000,- 000 to 15,000,000 pounds each from Sanada, Uruguay, Australia and the United Kingdom. \The United States .still exports far more meats than it •imPorts, for al- though there hive been record -break- ing arrivals in the last two years, ex- ports have been even larger. Returns for 10 months indicate that the value of meat and dairy products exported this year will once more attain the $200,000,000 level that marked the dec- ade prior to 1909:: MAKE THE COUNTY FAIR A COUNTY FAIR All too often a county fair shows only a collection of agricultural prod- ucts /of mediocre quality' and of little educational value. A county fair should be a county affair, should bring _ credited to John D. Ryan of New York, president of the Amalgamated Copper company. Announcement of plans for con- struction at the Tacoma smelter run- ning into several million dollars, which will about double the smelting capacity of the plant and more than double the refining capacity, with the erection of four large steel buildings, large ore'tunkers, an immense refin- ery and nine additional furnaces, has been made by officials of 14 Tacoma I Smelting and Refining Co., a\Guggen- helm concern. At the same time I smelter officials announced an in-i creased scale of wages to the 450 em- ployes at present in the plant which; will add $50,000 a year to the payrol. Alaska produced -gold in 1914 to e value of $15,764,259, an increase of about $140,000 over the previo year. In 1914 21,450,628 Winds copper were produced in Alaska compared with 21,659,958 pounds 1913. The value of Alaska's total mineral -pro- duction for 1914 WW1 $19,118,080; that of 1913 was $l9,4J11,356. This decrease was due to the ow price of copper in 1913. It is fttimated that up to the close of 14 Alaska produced min- erals to total value of $268,150,000, otwlth- $244,156,000 represents the val of the gold output. These sta- fred H. Brooks of the United States :r te : re geological survey, is now in a taken from a report by Al- , -- - N OW -Yo r k Metal Market ---- The metal exchange quotes lead of- fered $5.50. Spelter not quoted. Copper, steady; el4trolytic, $19. , Metal exchange quotes tin quiet, $35.50636. ' General Trade Conditions. Dun's Review says: Apart from the development of further labor, contro- versies, the general situation main- tains its favorable aspects. Recent settlement of the troubles in the build- ing trades in the west has been fol- lowed by the adjustment of the local clothing strike, but fresh• disturbances have arisen here and elsewhere, nota- bly at oil plants in New Jersey. Differences between emplivers and wage earners, however, are not yet sufficiently widespread to seriously interfere with the progress of manu- facture and distribution, althtfligh the unsettled conditions make, for in- creased conservation in some direc- tions. It is notAlie season for the tide of business to rise, but there are indica- tions of a well sustained volume of transactions in various commercial and industrial lines. Not the least significant of these is the steady up- ward trend nf enmmnolity Most products are gaining in value because of the -urgent foreign demand, but in some instances domestic consumption is also broadening. Bank clearings at outside cities this week were _again slightly larger than last year's, while with New York in- cluded the gain was 8.5 per cent. Re- turns of railroad earnings do not make the same favorable comparison but these are gradually , increasing. plosions of this nature. In connection with the study of ex , - plosions in grain mills and elevato which the United States department of agricultuo, has been condtorting„ it has been definitely establisbdd that when the air is filled witb'fine par- ticles of vegetable dust, is dust cam much as a mixture • gasoline and much as a mixtur of gasoine and air is exploded i the cylinder of am automobile. I s planned to conduct the . study r tive to smut explosione; in order at the entire problem may be car Ily studied and. Certain rec- _ cmm dations made, if possible, to pr'ant the frequency of these oc- rrences. The department of agri- culture has reports of explosions or this nature occurring in some of the middle west states, and it is planned to 4irect the engineering investiga- tions in connection with this entire problem from the Spokane office. It will be desirable for the engi- &leers engaged in this work to re- ceive prompt reports of any fires, or ex - rdnalcilis occurring in threshing machines in this section. Settle Mexican Mixup. Washington.—Definite steps toward restoration of peace in Mexico was taken immediately upon President Wil- son's return to Washington this week- Ouly an unexpected move in Mico to end - the strife, it is - said, would further delay affirmative action by the United States to restore constitutional government in the war -torn republic. Armed intervention is not believed to be contemplated 14\ the president's program. Pointed Advertising Briefs. (From the Advertising World.) Baskets—An Odd Basket at a High Price. Well made, stands wear, looks right, commodious and reasonable. A basket that gives delight to owner and user. \ Bank—The Best of All. You want convenience and reliability in your bank. We provide all you could desire and every bit of our thought is given to your needs. Automobiles—A Standard Car at a Standard Price. No experiment, no extravagance. A car with real merit every bit of material. Built for the satisfaction of particular users. Books — Getting Your Money's Worth. Books are the best values for which you spend cash. The best works published, in substantial makes, printed in highest style and enjoyable to read. Olnthin Rs?o_l Vpirog . /11 . 1wp . ra watch any price and give you a little the best of the bargain. It's a real question of service with us; we give you the best possible for the money and stand back of the suit. Bacon—A Little Bit Adds Much. Bacon is that delightful taste that makes the meal so enjoyable. No waste about it—all excellent. Whole- some, satisfying, delightful. Wall. cured and 'price right. -ro
