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VOL. XIII.
Sl'ItAiT, WHEELEU COUNTY, OBEGON, TJIUltSDAY, APItIL 8, 1915.
NO. 8.
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of World's Important
Events Told in Brief.
has
hit
Lord Kitchener, of England,
prohibited the una of liquor In
household during the war.
Secretary liryan has ordered a cane
of Oregon loganberry juice for table
use Instead of grape juice.
Villi and Zapata have agreed to
the neutrality of Mexico City, but the
consent of Carranza Is lacking.
A rate expert declares some of the
railroads asking for rate Increases are
already accumulating a surplus.
The United States begins an Investi
gation into tho death of an American
' on a torpedoed British liner.
Ton thousand men returned to work
In the steel mills and factories of Chi
cago Heights, a suburb of Chicago.
An anarchist on trial for placing
bombs in a Now York church declared
that a detective forced him to do the
work and directed it.
A man arrested for vagrancy in San
Francisco had $5000 in bills In his
pocket and proved himself to be the
owner of buildings worth $200,000.
Coaitt artillery companies at Fort
Winflold Scott, San Francisco, made
from 90 to 100 per cent at ranges of
7000 yards, approximately four miles.
A writer in the London Daily Mall
declares that dogs of the German dasc
hund variety are being treated shame
fully in England, out of pure prejudice.
The British steamship Seven Seas
ana toe trench steamship Emma were
torpedoed by German submarines off
Beachy Head, in the English Channel,
Thursday.
A commander of a German subma
rine says the service is improving rap
idly with experience and practice, and
the ring around England la becoming
tighter every day.
Warships of the allies keep up an
incessant bombardment of the Dar
danelles, to prevent the Turks from
repairing their damaged forts and to
protect minesweopera.
The Russky Slovoe, of Petrograd,
print a note intimating that the Rus
sian government haa been approached
through neutral channels with over
tures from Austria for a separate
peace without Germany's knowledge.
An Austrian steamer, loaded with
arms and ammunition, on its way from
Semi in to Panosova, both ports on the
Danube river, struck a mine In the
river and was blown up. Serbian ar
tiilery completed the destruction of the
ship and cargo.
German prisoners of war in French
camps receive the same rations as
their French guards, with the excep
tion of a little less meat, and are in
good spirits and well satisfied with
their treatment. They all believe
Germany is bound to win.
The French government ia still buy
ing horses in Eastern Oregon.
All efforts to raise the submarine
F-4, in the Honolulu harbor have
failed.
Salem, Ore., haa a $40,000 fire
which destroys a large fruit plant and
its contents.
Seattle Car Men Strike;
Riots and Disorder Ensue
Seattle, Wash. A strike of street
railway employes working on the Se
attle lines of the Puget Sound Trac
lion, liignt ana rower company was
called by a mass meeting of all labor
unions held by the Central labor coun
ell Wednesday. The vote to call out
the carmen was taken at 9 o'clock,
and within a few minute committees
were out appealing to the motormen
and conductors to leave their post and
join the union. The strike was called
to compel recognition of the union.
Service on lines operated by the
company was seriously interrupted,
and during the first two hours was
completely disorganized. On several
downtown streets deserted cars block
ed traffic until inspectors and shop em
ployea appeared to remove them to the
barns.
Except for these delays no line was
completely tied up, although blockades
occurred frequently when crowds which
filled the streets at the principal June
tion points cut trolley ropes, broke
windows and endeavored to take off
crews who refused to strike. In a few
intsances trolley wires were broken
and fell sputtering to the street but no
one was injured, and the company
quickly repaired the damage.
cam Atkinson, international organ
izer of the Amalgamated association
of Street & Electric Railway Em
ployes of America, and W. B. Fitz
gerald, chairman of the executive
board of that organization, directed
the movement. They said that 100
carmen had left their posts In response
to the call and that they bad 800 mem
oers wno nave applications on file as
a result of their campaign. They aaid
this demonstration was only the be
ginning of the strike and that within
a few days the tie-up would be com
plete. They said the only question at
issue was the right to organize.
a. u Kempster, general manager
of the company, disputed the union
officials concerning the result of the
strike call.
uurmg the night the police were
kept busy preventing attacks on the
cars, which soon were without passen
gers. Many arrests were made on
charges of disorderly conduct. None
were streetcar men. Although several
men were bruised or slightly cut dur
ing ngnts around me cars, no one was
reported seriously Injured.
Supporter of the strike movement
advanced the argument that with jit
neya available to handle traffic the
public would not be inconvenienced.
Test Cooking Qualities of
Various Kinds of Apples
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-
vallls Knowledge of the cooking val
ue of standard varieties of apples on
the part of housewives and other per
sons that prepare this fruit for table
use has long been considered by Pro
fessor C. I. Lewis, chief of the divis
ion of horticulture at the college, as
one of the steps to a more satisfactory
market system. "Buyers of apples for
home use should learn the qualities of
thelleading Oregon varieties and then
call by name for the variety they
want," Professor Lewis said several
years ago. And be haa kept on saying
it until the truth of the proposition
haa been generally recognized and is
now beginning to be acted upon in a
systematic attempt to cultivate a more
intelligent and stable demand for good
apples.
In carrying out this policy of learn
ing the fruit and Its qualities, a series
of experiments to determine the cook
ing qualities of 71 varieties of apples
grown in Oregon the Home economics
department of the college haa made
and reported an exhaustive test. The
test includes the cooking qualities of
these varieties used aa sauce, pies,
dumplings, marmalade and jelly. The
fruit was judged on the basis of color.
flavor and texture of sauce, flavor.
way cooked, and tenderness of pies and
dumplings, and flavor, texture, color,
clearness and surface of jells. In sauce
and marmalade 60 points were allowed
for flavor and 26 each for texture and
color. For pies and dumplings, 65
points were given for perfect flavor,
20 for way cooked and 15 for tender
ness. In jells texture and flavor were
given 35 points each for perfect score
with 15 for color, 10 for clearness and
6 for surface.
Judging was done by a number of
college experts who were unaware of
the varieties aa they judged them, so
that no prejudice entered into their
verdict. .
By this means satisfactory knowl
edge of the qualities of all varieties
tested was reached, and tbia informa
tion ia now offered the people of Ore
gon who are interested in this subject
in a bulletin just prepared. The bul
letin should not only prove to be a reli
able guide in the purchase of applea
for home cooking, but it will also have
considerable value for the dealers and
growers. Copies may be had on appli
cation to the college.
In addition to the score awarded to
each variety in the uses heretofore
mentioned, the bulletin furnishes in
formation on the seasonal value of the
varieties, on the relative value of
some of the varieties for each of the
purposes named, and the correlation of
values for sauce and for jelly pur
poses. Much other useful information
is also contained in the bulletin, such
as giving .recipes for crusts, cooking
direction, amount of sweetening and
suitable utensils.
ALLOTS BIG SUM
FOR NORTHWEST
Oregon and Washington.
J wo Ships Torpedoed;
150 Lives Are Lost
London About 160 lives were lost
in the sinking by German submarines
of the African liner Falaba and the
British steamer Aguila, bound from
Llvemnol for I.Uhnn.
The Faiaba wa. torpedoed in st. $2,926,175 for Improvement of
I .CkStrrro'ai rhannol RunHan artatnnAn I - .
The vessel carried a crew of 90 and
about 160 passengers, and of this total
only 140 were rescued. Of those res
cued eight died later from exposure.
The Aguila had a crew of 42 and
three passengers, and of these 23 of
the crew and all the passengers were
lost.
In both cases, on sighting the sub
marine, the captain tried to escape by
putting on all speed possible, but the
under-water craft overtook the steam
ers, showing that Germany now has
some of ber most modern submarines
engaged in the blockade operations
against England.
The captain of the Falaba, who was
one of those lost, was given five min
utes to get bis passengers and crew in
to the boats, but, according to the sur-
Other Project Are Designated,
but Finishing Touehe on
Celilo Canal Deferred.
Washington, D. C One million five
hundred thousand dollars has been al
lotted by the secretary of war to con
tinue work on the north jetty at the
mouth of the Columbia river during
the lS.months'ending June 80, 1916.
This Is within $250,000 of the
amount that would have been appro
priated had the rivers and harbors bill
been passed as it was repuorted to the
vivors, before this was possible a tor- amoont proposed to be appropriated by
pedo was fired, striking the engine- the hoUi Furthermore, thi. lln
Flax-Growing Industry to
Be Aided by State Boara
four Prominent Pioneers
of Seattle Die in River
Four persons drown at Seattle when
an automobile skids and runs into the
Duwamish river.
It is rumored that the Germans en
trenched near Brussels will abandon
their lines on account of the fall of
Przemysl.
Part of the U. S. fleet that will pass
through the Panama canal at its form
ai dedication, will visit Portland as
well as other Pacific Coast harbors.
Governor Hunt, of Arizona, has de
cided that he was becoming too stout
and forthwith decided on outdoor exer
cise mowing the lawns of the capitol
grounds every day. The chosen hour
is noon, indicating that luncheon has
been taken off the governor's schedule
of meals. 1
A. L. Flynn, of Cottage Grove. Ore.,
is a puzzle to medical science. He has
lived for months with a pulse beat of
80 a minute, that would mean certain
death to normal persons. During Mr.
Flynn's illness his pulse beat was as
low as 13 a minute, remaining that
way for several days and missing
often.
At a British cabinet meeting re
cently there was every reason to be
lieve that it considered the liquor ques
tion, and the stampnig out of the evil,
which is now one of the greatest prob
lems of the nation. There still is
much talk of prohibition, but it is not
generally believed that this course will
be adopted, although it is conceded
that some step of a drastic and uni
versal character will soon be taken.
Salem Definite action was taken by
the State board of control in starting
the flax industry in Oregon in com pi l
ance with an act passed at the recent
session of the legislature by a decision
to offer growers in this county $15 a
ton for straw delivered at the State
penitentiary.
This is from $3 to $4 a ton more
than the market price in other states,
and was offered as an inducement to
farmers to grow flax.
Governor Withycombe said he was
confident that three tons could be
grown to the acre and he believed the
price offered would make it one of the
state's most profitable crops. The
board will furnish the seed to the
farmers for $3"a bushel, the money to
be paid to the state when the straw is
deilvered.
It was virtually decided to employ
an expert in the manufacture of flax to
install the retting machinery at the
prison and superintend the construc
tion of the buildings necessary. Gov
ernor Withycombe said he believed
John C. Cady, of Albany, would be a
good man for the place. Mr. Cady
recently came to Oregon from Minne
sota, where be was engaged in the flax
business. It was decided to defer the
appointment until all the members of
the board could confer with him. It
was decided virtually to employ Emit
Seattle, Wash. Four persons, mem
bers of prominent Seattle familes,
were drowned in the Duwamish river
late Tuesday when an automobile be
longing to Mrs. Morgan J. Carkeek
ran off the bridge at Allentown, on
the Tacoma road, 10 miles south of
Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Prosch,
Miss Margaret Lenora Denny and Mrs.
Harriet roster Beecher, an artist,
were killed. All were members of
prominent pioneer families.
o ,m Pf.rt(y'.a.dele.Kftion fromthe Selling Oregon Made
UCniVre AilBLUllUai ducioi., was guiug
to Tacoma to inspect the exhibit of the
State Historical society there.
The chauffeur jumped clear as the
automobile fell and swam safely to
shore. Mrs. Carkeek also succeeded
in getting clear of the wreckage and
took refuge on top of the car, where
she stood waist deep in the water until
rescued.
Thomas W. Prosch was 65 years old,
son or Charles Prosch, who founded
the Puget Sound Herald at Steilacoom
in 1868. He bought the Seattle In
telligencer in 1879, the paper being
merged two years later with the Se
attle Post. Mr. Prosch was editor of
the PoBt-Intelligencer for some years
and was the principal authority on
Washington pioneer. He was poBt
master of Seattle under President
Grant.
Mrs. Virginia McCarver Prosch was
a daughter of General Morton M. Me
Carver, founder of the city of Tacoma.
She was 64 years old.
Margaret Lenora Denny was the
daughter of Arthur A. Denny, who
founded Seattle in 1851. Miss Denny
was one or the last survivors of the
schoonerload of people that landed at
Seattle in November of that year. She
inherited a great fortune from her Hard-surf acinn of Countu
M-A.I M 1 1 I "
iaiuer. one was u years uiu.
Mrs. Harriet Foster Beecher was
the wife of Captain Herbert R.
Beecher, son of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, the famous Brooklyn clergy
man. Mrs. Beecher was well known
as a portriat painter and musician. She
was 55 years old.
Hansett, who bas had experience in
flaxgrowing in Ireland, to give the
farmers certain instructions. He will
be paid only when actually at work or
during the flax season and his salary
probably will be $160 a month.
The bill authorizing the state to en
courage the growing of flax, carrying
an appropriation of $50, 000 and speci
fies that the money may be used only
for giving employment to the convicts.
Governor withycombe said be was
anxious that farms near the prison
planted to flax, so the convicts could
work them and be returned to the in
stitution at night. It is planned that
they do all the work, even to the har
vesting of the crop, but the growers
must deliver the straw at the prison.
Because of the fact that it was a
new industry Governor Withycombe
thought expert men should be employed
to assist in planting, cultivating and
retting and and he believed the board
room and causing a terrible explosion.
Many persons were killed and the
steamer sank in ten minutes.
Trawlers which happened to be in
the vicinity rescued most of those who
were saved; others got away in the
boats, which were ready for launching
and which were quickly lowered when
the order was given to abandon the
ship.
Those who were still on board the
steamer when the explosion occurred
were thrown into the sea and it took
the fishermen an hour or more to pick
up the persons in the water who man
aged to keep themselves afloat.
The Aguila as attacked off the Pem
brokeshire coast. The sumbarine,
which in this case was the U-28,
opened fire with her guns, shells from
which killed a woman passenger, the
chief engineer and two of the crew.
Even after the crew had commenced to
ment is the largest made out of the
$30,000,000 lump appropriation, ex
cept the allotments for the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers.
The total amount allotted by Secre
tary Garrison for Oregon and Wash
ington is $2,926,175. or within $645.-
600 of the amount carried by the rivers
and harbors bill when it failed. Some
Oregon projects will receive the same
amount provided by the bill, and in all
instances the amount allotted to these
projects is higher proportionately than
the average for the entire country.
lhe only important project for which
no allotment was made and for which
an appropriation was proposed is the
Celilo canal, and this was left out be
cause the $80,000 first recommended
was for finsihing touches, which can
be put on later.
Other allotments for Northwest wa
terways are as follows: Columbia and
lower the boats, according to the story Willamette, below Portland, $450,000;
of the survivors, the Germans kept up
their fire, and some of the boats were
riddled with bullets.
The captain of the trawler Otillie,
whom the commander of the submarine
told of the sinking of the Aguila, went
to the rescue and picked up the three
boats containing 19 of the erew. The
fourth boat, which contained the other
members of the crew, could not be
found, and it is believed that it had
foundered. On their arrival at Fish
guard, several of the crew wore band
ages, having been wounded by the fire
from the submarine.
Another Dutch steamer, the Amstel,
of 495 tons, has been blown up by a
mine off Flam borough Head, but her
crew was rescued.
should obtain such help as soon aa dob
sible. He said he had been informed Special 1 rain Carries
the machinery and ouuaings necessary
would not be expensive. It has nev
er been the intention of the board to
use all the appropriation in the flax in
dustry and if it does not rurnisn em
ployment for all convicts other means
for doing so will be devised. The
board plans growing flax on several of
the state farms.
Coquille river, $76,000; Coos bay,
$70,000; Coos river, $3000; Siuslaw
river, $117,500; Yaquina river, $3000;
Nehalem bay, $116,175; Snake river,
$20,000; Upper Columbia river, Celilo
Falls to mouth of Snaka river, $37,
000; Willamette and Yamhill rivers.
above Portland, $25,000; Cowlitz and
Lewis rivers, $15,000; Clatskanie
river, $1000; Gray's harbor and bar,
$460,000; waterway connecting Port
Townsend Bay and Oak bay, $15,000;
waterway connecting Puget Sound and
Lakes Union and Washington, $17,-000.
For other work on the Pacific Coast,
allotments were made as follows:
Los Angeles, $75,000; San Francisco,
$12,000; Oakland, Cal., $80,000; San
Pablo bay, $15,000; Humboldt bar and
bay, $300,000; Petaluma creek and
U. S. Troops to Border? river $150,000.
1UO 1UIBBIHIUU1 IIVC aim its triuu-
Clay Wares Advised
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-
vallis There are thirty manufacturers
of brick and other clay wares in Ore
gon at the present time, according to
Dean J. A. Bexell, of the Oregon Ag
ricultural College School of Commerce,
who advocates an organization of the
manufacturers for the purpose of get-
ing their Oregon-made wares more
prominently before the public and into
the markets by means of advertising
and co-operative effort. The combined
output of the industries is about $730,
000 annually, and the expenditures
average about $1500 for each $50,000
of output. A part of this sum will be
expended in promoting a demand for
the clay goods, especially drainage
tiles.
In the clay industries as in most oth
ers the attention given to production
is disproportionate to that given to
creating and enlarging the demand.
Right quality of prodcut that will
maintain a permanent demand together
with due advertising and publicity,
will, thinks Mr. Jiexell, bring success
in this business.
trench Buy Union Hones.
Union, Or. A buyer for the French
army has been here for several days
contracting for all available heavy
horses. The prices ranged from $125
to $175 a head. Some farmers are
selling their older work teams and
breaking in colts to finish seeding and
do their summer's work. The suply
of available animals is diminishing
notably.
Highway Is Planned
Forest Grove The Forest Grove
commercial club held another luncheon
Thursday, at which there were present
100 business men of the community
and farmers living in the vicinity. The
subject for discussion was "Better
Roads for Washington County." D.
B. Reasoner, judge of the county
court, and Rodell Matteson, county
commissioner, were guests.
The project which is being pushed
by the Commercial club of Forest
Grove and the farmers of Gales Creek
and Thatcher vicinity is hard-surfacing
of the main thoroughfare leading from
Gales Creek and Thatcher neighbor
hoods into Forest Grove, and the
county court is co-operating to obtain
some state aid. A committee of five
was appointed to co-operate with the
Commercial club and the county court
in an effort to procure assistance from
the State highway commission, and
subscriptions to the funds available
for the improvement.
Incidentally the membership of the
Commercial club was increased 100.
Snow In Cascades Is Low.
Albany That there is little danger
of floods in the Willamette valley this
year is indicated by the fact that there
is less snow in the Cascade mountains
now than at this season for many
years. What snow leu last winter has
been going out early and also gradual
ly. UnlesB there should come an un
usually cold period before summer, in
which snow should fall in the moun
tains, there is no likelihood whatever
of high water in the Willamette and
its tributaries this spring. A heavy
warm ram this time of the year usual
ly makes a flood probable, but there is
said to be no danger this year.
Need Not Take Husband's Name.
Salem Miss Marian Sheldon of The
Dalles need not take her husband's
name if she decides to marry, is- the
opionin of the attorney general given
in response to the question of the per
plexed woman, asking if there was
any law against a woman retaining
her maiden name after marriage. The
attorney general has notified Miss
Sheldon that there is nothing to hinder
her from retaining her name instead
of taking that of her husband in case
of her marriage if she so desires.
Grain Fields In Good Condition.
Union Heavy rains in the valley
and snow in the nearby mountains
have brought the moisture to about the
usual condition for this season of the
year. Cloudy skies and south winds
promise more rain. The ground has
been too wet for cultivating and seed
ing is delayed. Most of the spring
seeding is in and grain is in good condition.
San Antonio, Texas Three batteries
of the Third Field Artillery, including
450 men and 12 guns, in command of
Colonel George W. Vandeusen, at Fort
Sam Houston, were entrained Tuesday
for Brownsville and were ordered
rushed to the border by a special train.
Major General Frederick Funston
departed also upon receipt of advices
from Brownsville after ordering out
the artillery. He Baid that the in
fantry at Texas City would not be sent
to the border for the present, but
would be held in readiness.
General Funston, commanding the
department of the South, will take
charge of the situation at Brownsville
and he has discretionary powers to act
in the event firing into Brownsville by
either Mexican force continues. He
served formal notice on the command
ers of the two forces that they would
be held personally responsible for shots
fired into the Texas town, and that
American troops would be prepared to
enforce the order.
An attempt is being made to but
round and attack the Villa forces un
der General Jose Rodriguez, in camp
at Las Ruias, by Carranza troops ap
proaching in two columns from differ
ent directions, according to a message
from Matamoros, Mexico.
One body of about 800 troops with
15 cannon was said to be moving from
the south and another column under
General Ildefonso Castro, with 1700
men, was reported approaching from
Nuevo Laredo and expecting to reach
Las Rnsias before daybreak Wednes
day.
Shot "Stray," Says Britain.
Washington, D. C. American Con-
buI Green at Hamilton, Bermuda,
cabled the State department that the
British authorities had informed him.
"it was a stray shot," that hit George
B. Montgomery, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
who recently was shot in the foot and
seriously woulded while sailing near a
camp of German prisoners of war in
the Bermudas. The consul said a full
report was being forwarded by mail.
Italy and Germany Trade.
London A dispatch to the Morning
Post from Berne says Germany has
agreed to send coal to Italy. Food
stuffs and certain other products are
to be received in return, says the dispatch.
taries receive the largest allotment of
all. The Hudson receives $1,500,000
in all. General allotments for the
country at large include:
Hudson river. $877,780, in addition
to which there was appropriated by
separate acts $622,220, making the
total for the Hudson $1,500,000; Del
aware river from Philadelphia to the
sea, $1,000,000; Savannah, Ga., $233,
000; Jacksonville, Fla., to the ocean,
$350,000; Southwest Pass, Mississippi
river, $400,000; channel work at Gal
veston, Port Bolivar and Texas City,
$190,000; Houston ship channel,
$200,000; inland waterway on coast of
Texas, $626,000; Mississippi river be
tween mouths of Ohio and Missouri
rivers, $300,000; mouth of Missouri to
Minneapolis, $1,065,000; Missouri
river, Kansas City to mouth, $1,000,-
000; Ohio river, open channel work,
$310,000; locks and dams, $3,000,000;
Chicago harbor and rivers, $560,000;
St. Mary's river, Mich., $1,006,000.
Threat Stirs British.
London In an editorial on Ger
many's threat of reprisal against Bri
tish officers held prisoners in Germany
if the prisoners of submarine boats
held in England receive treatment
different from other war prisoners, the
Daily Chronicle says: It is time to
realize the pass to which things are
leading. At the end of the war, the
allies will have two alternatives:
They can allow the practice of sub
marines sinking merchantmen to be
come usage recognized by internation
al law, or they can, after trial, hang
the German officers responsible for in
itiating it, including, if his responsi
bility is shown. Admiral von Tirpitz
(the German minister of Marine).
We do not at present see any third al
ternative."
Vessel Dives 200 Feet
Quincy, Mass. The new submarine
L-l, built here for the United States
navy, returned Monday after a success
ful trial trip to Cape Cod bay. The
boat, one of a group of four required
by contract to submerge to a depth of
200 feet, and remain under water at
rest for 48 hours, settled to the re
quired depth, and, according to those
aboard, showed no effects from the
strain of water pressure. The 48
hours' test will be made later.