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CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL PAGE 8 FRENCH AT VERDUN AREVIGTORIOUS In Sudden Offensive Germans Are Forced Back Two Miles on a Six-Mile Front. Paris. At hit last act before as suming the chief command of the French armlet oa the western front. General Nlvelle smashed the German line eatt of the Meuse along, a frout t six mtlet. The victory advanced the French position! two mllet, aud thry are now within a short distance f where the Germans stood at the cutset of the great Verdun drive. The nllitary authorities describe the vic tory as complete and crushing, and carried out without a hitch. Although the Germans offered a desperate defense, the attack was so powerful there was no withstanding it. with the result that the Germans were pushed back along the line by the French, who only ceased on or ders when the objectives had been gained. The number of German prisoners taken, according to the latest count ing. Is 11.387. including 2S4 officers. The war material captured or destroy ed includes 115 cannon, 44 bomb throwers and 700 machine guns. . The French losses during the attack were unbelievably slight. The Ger man artillery seemed to fire at ran dom, probably disorganized by the ab sence of German airmen, who were kept in complete subjection by the French aviators. ROUMANIAN ARMY IS PEPORTED SAFE Paris. The Roumanian army is sow safe, according to news received in Paris, says the Petit Parisien. The paper says that the Burvivors are now beyond the Sereth river at Jassy and in Bessarabia, where they are being regrouped and refitted for further op erations. The entire Roumanian front is now stated to be held by the Rus sians alone. After the Bucharest Ploechti line was lost, the story says, the Russians sent divisions and forces of cavalry to support the retreat of the Rouma nian army. King Ferdinand fell back as rapidly as possible, assured of the possibility of reforming behind the shelter of the Russians and continued the withdrawal without halting until the Sereth was crossed. The Russians offered strong resist ance to the Germans in the region of Buzeu, so as to permit engineers to j construct a defensive front between I Rimnik Sarat and the Danube marshes on which front, it is said, the Russians Intend to stop the advance of the invaders. WALLACHIA IS WON Berlin Regards Military Operations in Roumania at Terminated. Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, N. T. The following comment on the military situation In Roumania and the Verdun sector of France is given out for publication by the Overseas News Agency: "Operations in Wallachia can now be considered as terminated. Buzeu, which has now fallen into the hands of the central powers, is the last im portant railroad point in Wallachia. The allies (Teutonic) now control two thirds of the Roumanian railroad lines. The Buzeu and Jalomitza rivers form the second and third strategical lines, in which were secured corn and oil stores. "The most recent German successes finally have provoked a greater activ ity on the western front, but the great new attack on the Meuse, launched by the French after strong artillery prep aration, cannot modify the general sit uation. Such offensive thrusts, car ried out with all available means are alway uccessful at the beginning." Greeks Give in to the Allies. Athens. The Greek government's reply, accepting demands of the en tente allies, Is complete compliance with their ultimatum and an expres sion of the hope for resumption of "traditional relations with the entente nations, based on reciprocal confi dence." Russia Wants War to Go On. London. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram oompany from Petrograd says : "The duma has unanimously passed a resolution against the acceptance of the German peace proposals, after a spirited speech by the minister of foreign affairs." Will Not Now Attempt to End War. Rome, via Paris. Pope Benedict has no Intention of attempting to me diate among the belligerents at pres ent, according to a statement Issued by the Vatican. RECESS OF CONGRESS BEG I KSS ATU RD A Y Trouble Encountered Finding Sources of Funds to Fi nance Government Washington. With a holiday recess planned to begin neat Saturday and extend until January I. congressional leader do not hope to accomplish any-th'-'g before adjournment except tht pk.age of a few appropriation bills in the house, and possibly the disposi tion of the Sheppard prohibition bill for the District of Columbia in the senate. . The judiciary comraittee'a favorable report on the Webb nation-wide prohi bition measure probably will be sub mitted at the end of this w eek. A rule for consideration of the resolution will not be asked until after the recess. The federal suffrage amendment resolution has been received by the house, and a rule probably will be asked on It early In January also. The house ways and means commit- j tee is working hard in an endeavor to find funds to finance the government next year, and it has its hands full, i Chairman Kitrhin says he is at his j wits' end to discover new sources of I revenue1. ! Would Spank Railroad and Men. I Reports that railroad and brother ( hood heads In peace conferences have j planned to propose the repeal of the i Adamson act and the substitution of a working agreement of their own making for it, aroused Representative Adamson, author of the law, to de clare that congresa would "spank" j both sides to the controversy if ne- cessary. , I Neither labor nor congressional j leaders here hare official reports as to just what phases of the railway situation the conferees have taken up. Belief is current, however. In congres sional circles that the foremost fea ture of the final agreement will be an Interpretation of the Adamson law so satisfactory to both sides that the suit to test the act's constitutionality now before the supreme court may be with drawn. Wilson Not to Offer -Mediation. President Wilson decided to for ward the central power' peace notes td the entente allies without any me diation offer by the American govern ment The president's determination to have the United States act only as a medium for exchange of the notes be tween the hostile belligerents was made after a prolonged cabinet meet ing. Connt von Bernstorff, the German ! ambassador, said after a 10-minute visit with Secretary Lansing: "We did not discuss peace terms in any way. I have not received any formal terms and the American gov ernment knows officially that no for mal terms have been proposed. All Germany has suggested is that the belligerents get together and talk." 640-Acre Bill I Passed. All the disputed points in the Ferris bill to provide 640 acre homesteads, principally for grazing purposes, were smoothed out in conferences between house and senate and the measure goes to the president now for his sig nature. The bill has been supported by the Interior department and western con gressmen as a measure of further opening the public domain. EMBARGO IS NOT IRONCLAD Northern Pacific Will Accept Needed Shipments to Eastern Pointt. St Paul. Although declaring that shipments of grain and lumber from far western points are now under re striction by the Northern Pacific rail road, President Hannaford denied that an ironclad embargo bad been placed on such shipments. "The Northern Pacific is ready to receive shipments from any point on its line so long as It has assurance that there is an actual demand for the freight, and that It will be unloaded promptly on reaching its destination," he said. Mr. Hannaford said that owing to the congestion of cars in the east, shipments from the far west to points beyond the Twin Cities cannot be ac cepted indiscriminately. He said the Northern Pacific must see that the rolling stock remain on its own lines. Radium Fills in Cancer. New York. After exhaustive tests the use of radium as a cure for cancer and tumors has been found to be a failure, according to the annual report of Dr. Francis Carter Wood, head of the Crocker Cancer Research Fund of Columbia University made public. For cases on which operation is not possi ble, radium is successful as a pallia tive only, the report says. Hughe Named for Bar Presidency. Albany, N. Y. Charles E. Hughes has been named for the presidency of the New York State Bar association by the nominating committee of that organization. HUGO MUNSTERBER3 Hugo Munsterberg, noted Gsrman psychologist of Harvard University, who dropped dead while lecturing to students. FARM CROP VALUES SET NEW RECORDS Washington. All records for the value of the country's Important farm props were exceeded this year, de spite the smaller size of the crops. Their value was placed at $7,641,609. 000 by the department of agriculture In its final estimates of the year. That is $1,750,000,000 more than the same crops were worth last year. HlRher prices, due partly to reduced produc tion and partly to the demands for American food from the warring na tions of Europe were responsible for the vast increase in value. Four crops each were worth more than $1,000,000,000. Corn, wih a total value of $2,295,78.1,000. showed the greatest increase, being worth $573 103.000 more than last year's output. Cotton, the second moHt valuable, with a total of $1,079,598,000, Increas ed $475,378,000 over last year. Wheat, the third, was worth $1,025, 765.000, or $83,462,000 over the year before, when the production was at most 400,000.000 bushels more. CROPS TO GET OLD RATES New Eastbound Tariff Suspended Un til Western Product Are Marketed. Washington. The Pacific coast's entire season's output of dried fruits', canned goods, wine, beans, barley and other foods will move east under pre vailing freight rates, notwithstanding authority given to the railroads to ad vance them 10 cents per 100 pounds. Such a decision has been reached vol untarily by the transcontinental rail roads and communicated to the Inter state commerce commission. The new freight rates, which were to go into effect December 30, will be suspended by the railroads' own ac Hon till March 1 next. By that time, it Is thought, the entire product of the orchards, vineyards and truck farm of California, Oregon and Washington for 1916 will have been delivered In eattern markets. Railways and Men 8ek Settlement. Evansvllle, Ind. W. O. Lee, of Cleveland, president of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen, publicly announced here that negotiations are under way between the leaders of the brotherhoods and those higher up in the chambers of the operating depart ments of the railroads, looking to a settlement of their entire controversy out of court before January 1, when the Adamson law is scheduled to go into effect. Woolmen Oppose High Grazing Fee. Heppner, Or. Strong opposition to the proposed 100 per cent increase in th grazing tf.ea on national forests was one of the principal actions of the Oregon Wool Growers' association at its 19th annual convention. Pershing to Be Promoted. Washington. Brigadier-General J. J. Pershing, commanding the Ameri can expeditionary force in Mexico, has been nominated to be a major-general. THE MARKETS. Portland. Wheat Club $1.36; bluestem $1.40; red Russian, $1.32; forty-fold, $1.36. Barley No. 1 feed, $36 per ton. Hay Timothy, $21 per ton; alfalfa, $1$. Butter Creamery, 34c. Eggs Ranch, 35c. , ' Wool Eastern Oregon, 36c; Valley 36c.-', ' ,' '..";' Hops 1916 crop, 610. ' Seattle ,., , K' ; . -. Wheat Bluestem $1.42; club $1.31; forty-fold, $1.38; red Russian, $1.85; fife, $1.38; turkey red, $1.42. Barley $36 per ton. Butter Creamery, 39e. Eggs 38e. A New Year's Allegory ACROSS the snowbound ewrth- the New Year steiod buoyantly. i A splendid youth he was, wltb radiant eyes, full red fts aud the star uf hope net above hla brew. Ufe railed to bh, railed with t thousand eager vetoes, am) be Mulled a he listened, rtiuotnberlug thai fur whole year the world ami tbt men thereon were hi. Far away urn I or the frrwea sky a blaxu of light shone like a Jewel, and he iuickened hla ttepa as B turned towurd the city. And. though the light shone boldly whou lie entered It. most of the streets were empty Only a few men were about, and as the wind swirled at cor uci tlu-y ran for shelter. In one of Hie streets the New Year met a noiimu. A durk veil fluttered around her, so that he eon Id not dis tinguish her form, but her face was very kivcet s she bent and clasped a child to her heart. Th New Year gave her giecllng. "You are Charity, I know," he snld. Charity In HI her lis ml In his and milled And. tor all his youth, her smile set him dreaming of green woods nnd ;:oldcu sunshine, of vague, sweet things thul were still unkuowu to blm. Indeed, so diiply did he dream that km lie w Hiked bo collided with another woinii n Another woman! A glittering gus moth this, with cert. Hidered fuee. enrml'ied lips and uird lirlghi eyes "All hull!" she cried mockingly. "1 shall be your constant companion, for I am Sin. mid where men lire there you will nlwny find me." The New Year shrunk bark, and bl faee darkened. But Sin pressed dune to blm, laughed loiid.y and. tear ing a rose from those at her breast, tossed It to u in. as with a rustle uf silk she passed on- The rose fell on the snow powdered wiilk. and when the New Year would have pick ed It up, lo. It was reinless, and t Us crimson petals fell asunder be saw that a worm was hid In Ita heart Another form came In sight-In the garb of a monk wlthadnrk "All hail!" she cried hood about bis mockingly. tranquil face Ills eyes were upon the ground, and hla lips moved In prayer for all miiuklnd. So tender mid pitiful wits his fare that even before lie cried. "Miserere Doinlne!" the New Year guessed that his nsme was Mercy. Very cold It grew ss the New Year turned Into a mean street, so cold that he sought refuge In the porch of a darkened house. Yet there prevailed siteh a grateful warmth that be press ed bark to learn Its cause slid so brushed a pi I nst a boy a boy with a wan. beautiful face, tangled hair and rapt eyes. Shabby, desolate and tired he looked, yet the New Year was won derfully attracted to him "Why are you here alone?" he asked. "I am never alone." corrected the boy, and be stepped aside so that the New Year caught the fragrance o hla breatb a -id saw that two great wings were furled be hind him, and in the shadow of his wings an old man and an old woman crouched together. How tired, bow poor, they looked! But an expression of Ineffable tender ness shoue on their pinched acea as they lay, white bead against white bead, chilled breast against chilled breast. "I am all they have." whisper ed F.ove as tears ailed his wonder ful eyes. "They bave never fail ed me. and t shall stay with them un til the end." "I am the End!'' called another voice, and a grim figure mounted the step. "Not yet." begged Lore, and ho tried to bar the stranger's way. But at sight of the scythe the other bore Love's great wings drooped. "Mine is the best gift of all," wills uercd the newcomer as be bent over ihe forlorn couple. Silently the New Year walked alone with the night find the stars and the scurryUig snow. And as he hurried on the darkness faded Into the eerie pallor uf dnwn ill stretched out his arms mid welcomed bis first day.- "Charity. Sin. Mercy. Love and Death," be cried "all mine! How shall 1 choose from among you?" A shadow fell across him; tlifere wa iv: sound as of wings beating the air and Love, rosy, trlutiiphniit and eter nal. caught his hands. "Let me go with you all your day," he pleaded 'for mine Is the gift which sweeleni Charity, vanquishes Sin, glorifies Mer cy and fears not Death." P Wm Ttndsrnaas Shone on Their Facss. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week. Briefly Sketched' for Infor mation of Our Readers. F. C. MarUy ha bee leU4 Mayor of A a) or I. The new concrete bridge at Inde pendence has been opened tor traffic. It cost O. A.. C. $2a par football man to maintain a team in the season Just passed. Ths Oregon, Woolgrowers' assoolr atlon met at Heppner tor the nine teenth annual aeaaion. Dice game, punctt boards, raffle and card games tor trade checks are under tire In Pendleton. Indications are that there will be but little mad building In Polk county during the coming season. The report of county superintendent W. I Jackson show that I. Inn county hat 80X2 children ot school ag. Wild dogs, or tame dog running wild, have killed 50 sheep belonging to V. A. Stewart, near Roschurg. The Northern Pacific Brewing plant, at Astoria, has been purchased and will be converted Into a milk con densory. The first ot the Willamette Valley Intersrholastlc debutes will be held on Friday evening, December I! at .elm nnn. Twohy Urns., ot Portland, have re ceived an Initial contract to build 200 freight cars for the Union Pacific railway system. The National Mohair Grower escal ation, in sixth annual convention at Galveston elected U. 8. Grant, Dallas, Or., president. .Rev. O. II. Holmes, of Forest Grove, hss tendered hi resignation to Governor Wlthycombe as a mem ber ot the state parole board. In a duel In which at least eight shots were fired, Salvatore Amato waa killed by hla brother, Prank, In the latter' horn In Portland. Total resources of all the banks In the state of Oregon on November 17 last were $204,366,342.61, an Increase as compared with November 10, 1915. of $39.884. 115.37. Farmers ot southern Klamath coun ty are beginning a strenuous campaign towards the extermination of Jack rabbits, which are becoming a seri ous pest In that section. The contract was let last week for the erection of the government coast guard building at the mouth of the Sluslaw river near Florence, to II. R. Klbler of Portland. Hit bid waa $8389. W. O. Barnes of Tumalo, A. U Mackintosh of Tend and L. E. Smith of Redmond have been appointed as members of the county court of Des chutes county, created at the Novem ber election. Ho great has been the demand for flour In Grant county that the Prairie City mill has been running 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Is so far behind orders that a aecond mill will be opened at John Day. The Klamath Irrigation project ttands second In the list of 23 govern ment projects now In operation tor It rash value returns In crops this year, according to the annual report of Secretary Franklin K. Lane. The total assessed valuation of the state for thit year, including property assessed by county assessors and that assessed by the state tax com mission is $878,763,944.71, as com pared to $934,496,032.26 for last year. One fatal accident waa reported lo the industrial accident commission during the past week, this being Prod Coombs, a box factory worker, of Kla math Falls. A total of 307 accidents were reported for the week. Steps to organize a Willamette Val ley Corn association with eight coun ties represented, was a feature of the closing of the Marlon county corn show and the exhibit of the Marlon County Potato Growers' association at Salem. The Eugene chamber of commerce has sent F. Small, a San Francisco manufacturer, samples of flax grown In Lane county for the purpose 'of testing It in the manufacture of fish ermen's twine. This twin 1 now telling for $2.28 a pound. The state tax levy for 1917 will be $2,699,260. These figures were arriv ed at by the State Tax commission by taking the last years tax levy, arbit rarily adding 6 per cent to it, and leav ing it up to the legislature to keep within the amount designated. The famed MacRae ranch of 1000 acres in Grant county, known at one of the most efficiently conducted cat tle ranches In the west, has been sold by its owner, Mr. Lillian MacRae, to C. P. Ragsdale ot Joseph. The prloe waa $200,000 and the deal was cash. Percy Cupper, assistant state en gineer, hat sent letters to the secre taries of the 17 Irrigation district of the state suggesting that the districts form an association In connection with th Oregon Irrigation congress to promote the Interests of Irrigation generally and of the districts In par ticular Figure furnished from tk tmrti Hidtaat that the taxpayer of Oia of a number of countlss over lb stat different counties have beea require to psy an average of more than $:i0 a year per county, " beginning wit 1911, for th publication ot the d4la- qneut tax lists. Member of th Hood ' Rlvr mi msrolat club unanimously Indor a -proposed tax ot $1 a hortspower e utemoUls. Th club further r omtuead that th fund raised b used toward matching federal appro priation tor ttat road work under tb 8rbkelford road bill. In a report issued by Stat Labor Commissioner O. P. Hofl, he stales that rapltal of IM.619.903 l Invested In plant and equipment In th Um ber Industry of th state, this feeing xctnslva of timber holding and work ing capital, Including only building, machinery and other equipment. Senator Chamberlain ha been for mally notified by the secretary of war that, after referring the matter to the local - military authorities, It baa been decided to be highly Inadvis able, to return for muster nut bsttsry A, artillery, and troop A, cavalry, of the Oregon national guard, at there am no troops available to replac them. In Ita closing sessions at Hood Ri ver the 31st aiinuiil convention of th Oregon Hlate Horticultural society went tin record as decidedly opposed to proposals Hint have been advanced tt different northwestern fruit rertters to lower the standard of grading rule. A resolution adopted rerom munded that the strict rules that have heretofore prevailed be maintained. Although the army engineers have not yet sent to Congress the report called for last session on th advisa bility of further Improving the en trance to Yaipilna bay. Representative llawley has received unofficial noti fication that the bsral engineer have recommended an appropriation of $186,000, half to- be appropriated by congress and halt by tb local commu nity. For a consideration r ported In th neighborhood of 125,000, th en tire sheep, plant of the J. K. Smith Livestock company, at lUrnhsrt has been sold to A. K. Smythe, of Port land, and Dan P. Smythe, of Pendle ton, member of the firm of Smyth Bros., who already own planta at Ar lington. By this deal th Smythe become- th largeat breeders In th northwest. Three thousand acre of raw land In th west end ot Umatilla county will be brought under Irrigation and cultivation next aeison according to L. A. Rlnninan. county wateromater, The land consists of 1000 acre un der Ihe Furnish ' project, lfloft acres under the Western Ijtnd and Irriga tion project, 600 acres under the Uma tilla project jitd 6i0 acres under th west extensUm. A larger and more complete nor mal school Is the programme of the Oregon normal at Monmouth, which Is planning on a big expansion In training school activities, the begin ning of regular extension work, larger ijormltory space, an addition to th main building, and minor campus Im provements, to be embodied In a bill for an appropriation for $86,000 when the legislature meet. Although Secretary of Stat Olcott urged cancellation of a contract, whereby Jason Moor la to be allowed to remove jsRs from Summer and Abert lakes, In Lake county, the state land board has refused to lake that action and tht matter remains In statu quo. The question of the less and contract on th lakes has beon hanging fir since 1914 and six ex tensions of time have been granted. Announcement of plan for the rn ttmctlon of a three-story, 80 by 25 feet, reinforced concrete addition te the plant of the Oregon City Maunfac Hiring company at Oregon City, and the complete re-arrangement ot th plant improvements which will In crease the capacity of the mill 60 par cent and make It th largest woolen mill west of the Mississippi river was made by Adolph Jacobs, presi dent of the company. With th money In the state school fund piling up and loam being paid up practically twlct at fast at th money It loaned out, the state land board hat decided to Increase the amount allowed to ba loaned from the school fund to any Individual from $2500 to $6000. At the same time It wa tentatively decided that the board will atk the next legislature to reduc the Interest on school ' fund loan from tlx per cent to flv per cent The board of director of the Port land schools will ask th legislature through a bill already drafted and ready for submission, to untie It hands In the management and ad ministration of th publlo tchool of th elty by giving th board authority to transfer teachers from place t place as occasion requires; l t6 ' dis continue the service" of -women teachers marrying whil In the serv ice; to dismiss teachers, without the right of appeal after a hearing ' at which neither the board nor the teach er shall be represented by eounsel. The bill also lengthens the probation ary period prior to definite tenure of office from two to four years.