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VOL. XIV.
SPltAr. WHEELER COUNTY, OREQCjlSr, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1916.
NO. 23.
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WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEB
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Eartli.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUISHfli
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
A boy of 10 wu killed and two girl
playmates Injured at Portland when
their coseter wagon ran Into a motor
truck.
British authorltlea say they have
proof that two additional German
dreadnaughta were aunk In the Jutland
battle.
The captain of the German subma
rlna freighter laye German freight
carrying Zeppelins will aoon visit
America.
War'a Increase of food prices in Eu
rope, as shown by the bureau of labor
statistics, has touched neutrals almost
as heavily as it has the belligerents.
Russian troops have captured the
town of Mamakhatum, 60 miles west
of Erxerum, on the Tuxulu river, by
assault The retreating Turks set fire
to the town.
By the overturning of an automobile
on Prospect road, a few miles from
San Joae, Cal., Dorothy Parker, 18,
daughter of '.'Painless" Parker, a don
tist, waa killed.
A corporation will be organised by a
group of American bankers, headed by
J. p. Morgan & Co., and Brown Broth'
ers ft Co.. to lend f 100.000,000 to the
French government. , v , , w
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to adopt a speclsl rule for considera
tion of a suffrage amendment The
result is expected to end the fight for
suffrage at this session of the legisla
ture.
Four men were killed, one missing
and more than a score of others were
more or leu injured by an explosion of
600 pounds of nitroglycerine in the
mixing house of the Du Pont powder
plant in Naskell, N. J.
William Zimmer, aged 12 years, wss
arrested in New Orleans, charged with
killing his mother. The boy. accord
ing to the police, said he shot his
mother because she threatened to beat
him when he returned home after an
unsuccessful search for work.
The engagement is announced of
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow of
the late British statesman, and the
Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, rector
of St Margaret and canon of West
minster. Before her marriage, Mra.
Chamberlain . was Miss Mary Endlcott,
of Massachusetts.
Lester Still well,- 12 years old, waa
killed by a man-eating shark while
bathing in an arm of Raritan bay near
Matawan, N. J. Stanley Fisher, 24
years old, who went to his aid, was so
badly injured in a struggle with the
sea monster that he died while being
taken to a Long Branch hospital.
The Bethlehem Steel company plans
to spend $70,000,000 in improvements
and extensions to its plants, according
to E. G. Grace, president in addition
to $40,000,000 which it was said would
be spent at the plants of the Pennsyl
vania and Maryland Steel companies,
recently acquired by the Bethlehem.
The Socialist newspaper, Tribune,
of Amsterdam, asserts that 55,000
workmen employed in the munition
factories and electrical works in Ber
lin and in an aerodrome at Johanisthal
have gone on strike as a protest
against the prison sentence imposed on
Dr. Karl Liebknecht, Socialist leader,
for participation in the May Day dem
onstration at Berlin.
The Dagens Nyheder, at Copenha
gen, announces that a sea battle is
believed to have occurred in the Baltic
outside of Haefringe on Sunday night.
Violent cannonading was heard from
several points on the coast and it is
presumed that the German and Russian
patrolling squadrons clashed.
A cherry tree at White Salmon,
Wash., yields 1071 pounds of fruit
The Union Pacific decides to cut the
lumber freight to Eastern points 5
cents, making the tariff 45 cents per
hundred pounds, instead of 60 cents.
The change is due September 1.
General Smuts, in command of the
British forces in German East Africa,
has occupied Tanga, according to a
statement issued by the war office.
The Germans offered only slight resistance.
NEW PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION
URGEDJVJOHN M. PARKEI
New Orleans A statement and call
to "the patriotic men and women of
America," to hold a new National con
ventionof the Progressive party in
Chicago on August 6 and nominate
candidates for President and Vice Pres
ident and continue the party's exist
ence as a distinct political organisa
tion, was Issued Monday by John M
Parker, Vice Presidential nominee of
the Progressive convention held in Chi
cago last June. He urges the Progres
sives "eternally to bury" the "bull
moose," which, he asserts, "led his
loyal followers Into the wilderness.
and to adopt in Its place the American
eagle as the emblem of the party.
Mr. Parker does not mention Col
onel Roosevelt or any other Progres
sive loaders or any candidates by
name. He declares, however, that the
Progressives had supposed its leaders
to be "red-blooded Americans, who
Represents Carranza.
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Eliseo Arrodondo, ambassador desig
nate from General Carranza's Mexican
government to the United States, is
very busy right now in the negotia
tions which Secretary Lansing has
opened up with the Mexicans to settle
the border trouble. This snapshot
shows him oh one of his rare visits to
the secretary of state,
promised with their 'life blood' to stay
with the party had been deserted by a
large part of its officers, who could not
stand the acid test He charges that
the leaders, for "steam roller reasons,
have elected to be steam rolled," and
that the time has come when every
party working for human welfare and
the future of America should unite
against both dominant parties. In
connection with the Republican party
the statement indirectly refers to
Charles E. Hughes. Republican c&ndi
date for President as "a splendid
man" selected by the Republicans "as
the man behind which they' hope again
to secure control of state and nation.
ncreased Northwest Lumber Rates
Refused by Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C. Increases rang
ing from 1 to 8 cents a hundred pounds
on lumber from the Pacific Northwest
to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas
were disapproved by the Interstate
Commerce commission Monday on the
ground that they were not justified on
he ground of uniformity. The in
creased rates held unreasonable are
those filed to become effective January
1918, and suspended by the commis
sion.
The commission also cites the con
tention of shippers that were these in
creases to become operative California
lumber and particularly California
shingles would be able largely to ab
sorb the New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Texas markets to the exclusion of lum
ber products from the Northwest
Berlin Beer-Drinking Hit.
Amsterdam, via London A protest
against the consumption of barley for
the making of beer is made in a - letter
to Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg,
signed by 80,000 members of Good
Templar Lodges in Germany.
The letter points out the "gigantic
waste of bread material, " in the use
of large quantities of barley for the
production of beer. It urges that here
after beer be only supplied on bread
tickets.
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This photograph show Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis for the first time in his
robes of office.
GERMAN SUBMARINE IS
ENTERED MERCHANTMAN
Batlimore The daring German sea
men who brought the submarine mer-
One of Captain Koenig's first acts
after he moved his ship up the harbor
from quarantine early Monday waa to
announce that the Deutschland waa
only one of a fleet of mammoth sub
mersibles built or building for a regu
lar trans-Atlantic freight and mail
service, tie saia tne next to come
chantman Deutschland across the AW weuld be the Bremen, and ; that she
lantic slept quietly aboard their vessel
which lay moored to a carefully screen
ed pier guarded by a strong squad of
Baltimore police. Captain Paul Koe-
nig, the skipper, had delivered his pa
pers to the North German Lloyd office,
entered his vessel at the custom-house
as a commerce carrier, and had pre
sented to a German embassy official a
packet of correspondence for von
Bernstorff.
Now the submarine is ready to dis
charge her million-dollar cargo of dye
stuffs and take on board for the return
trip to Germany metal and rubber
needed by the emperor's armies and
navy.
The return merchandise is waiting
on-the dock, and the time for leaving
port will depend largely on plans for
eluding vigilant enemy cruisers expect
ed to be waiting outside the entrance
of Chesapeake Bay for the reappear-1
ance of the' vessel.
might be looked for at some port along
the coast within eight weeks.
The German catpain submitted his
craft to a thorough inspection by the
surveyor of the port and an agent of
the department of Justice. These
officers agreed that there was on sign
of armament of any description on
board, and that there was no doubt in
their minds about the boat's being en
titled to the status of an ordinary merchantman.
The captain asserted that his voyage
had established the fact that a subma
rine of the type of the Deutschland
could travel anywhere that the ordi
nary vessel could go, 13000 miles, if
necessary. . He had no fears, he said,
of his ability to elude enemies that
might be waiting for him off the Vir
ginia Capes when he starts his return
trip.
I will be able to submerge within
the three-mile limit and they cannot
catch me after that " he said.
OMNIBUS REVENUE BILL PASSES
HOUSE, INCREASING INCOME TAX
Washintgon, D. C. The administra
tion omnibus revenue bill, creating a
tariff commission, imposing a protec
tive tariff on dyestuffs, repealing pres
ent Btamp taxes and providing for new
taxes on incomes, inheritances and war
munitions profits, passed the house
late Monday by a vote of 240 to 140.
During the closing hours of debate
several amendments, providing for
elimination of the bankers' tax and
modifying the tariff commission sec
tion, were adopted over the opposition
of Democratic leaders.
The amendments cut the salaries of
members of the tariff commission from
$10,000 to $7500 annually; struck out
the provision under which no member
or former member of congress could
serve on the commission, and provided
single appropriation of $300,000 to
pay expenses or the commission the
first year, instead of the bill's stipula
tion of a continuing annual appropria
tion of that amount. The entire sec
tion levying a tax of $1 for each $1000
of capital, surplus and 'undivided
profits held by bankers was stricken
out.
Many amendments proposed by the
ways and means committee also were
adopted, including one under which
cigarette manufacturers must pay a
special tax of 3 cents for every 10,000
cigarettes.
Newest Photo of Republican Chairman
WJLLHZ&
This is the latest photograph of Wil
liam R. Wilcox, new chairman of the
Republican National committee, who
will manage the campaign for the
election of Charles E. Hughes.
: Banks' Opinions Differ.
New York A wide divergence of
pinion among the banks of the coun
try as to whether the Federal reserve
act has been successful after a year's
operation is Bhown in a report issued
Tuesday by a New York trust com
pany, which has completed a nation
wide survey of the attitude of banks
toward the act More than 6000 re
plies were received to the queries sent
out 1760 of them being favorable, 1773
unfavorable, and 1811 noncommittal.
King of Annam Deposed.
Paris Duy-Tan, the 16-year-old
king of the French protectorate of An
nam, on the China sea, has been de
throned as a result of a revolt of An
namites at Quang-Ngai, which he has
been accused of having fomented. The
governor general of French Indo-China
reports that the outbreak was sup
pressed quickly and the king arrested
near Hue. He is succeeded by Prince
Bun-Dao, who has just been crowned
king in his stead.
NEWS ITEMS
Of General Interest
About Oregon
Buyers' Week Dates Are
. August 7 to 12 Inclusive
The fourth annual Buyers' Week to
be held in Portland has been fixed for
August 7 to 12, for the convenience of
Northwest merchants. Invitations are
ready to be sent to all the merchandis
ing trade territory, where Portland
jobbers and manufacturers maintain
affiliations.
Plans for the event are being worked
out by the arrangements committee of
that city and it is intended to mix bus
iness and pleasure in most alluring
proportions. '
Following the outline of the highly
successful Buyers' Week of 1915, the
work of preparing for the 1916 Buy
ers' Week visitors will be in the hands
of the trade and commerce bureau of
the Chamber of Commerce, of which
Nathan Strauss is chairman.
It is believed that the forthcoming
Buyers' Week will attract a much
larger attendance than any of its three
predecessors.
I he number or buyers bas grown
each year, and the territory they rep
resent has spread, so that the annual
Buyers' Week has become one of the
fixed institutions of the city. Portland
jobbers and manufacturers get to
gether with their retail friends from
upstate, downstate, across the river
and east of the Cascades for a week of
profitable conferences.
Neither the out-of-town merchant or
the representatives of the big mer
chandising: establishments of the city
would permit Buyers' Week to be
thrown overboard.
FLOOD DAMAGE IN
CAROUNAS LARGE
Hundreds Homeless asd Kaay Persons
Believed Drowsed.
STREAMS ARE RISING RAPIDLY
County Courts Decide to Push
Work on Dixie Mountain Road
Baker Meeting at the dividing line
of Grant and Baker counties at Austin,
57 miles west of here, Tuesday after
noon, members of the County courts of
the two ' counties decided to push the
work on the Dixie Mountain that will
give a thoroughfare connecting the
counties. The road on the Grant
county side was found in worse shape
than that on this side of the line, but
this the Grant County court consented
to remedy at once, with the ultimate
idea of building a road along the John
Day river from Susanville, touching at
the Dixie Meadows mine, which will
make a much safer grade than that on
the road now in use.
In regard to the state highway, fol
lowing the John Day river and con
necting Baker, Grant and. Malheur
counties, the Grant county commis
sioners announced that they will push
preliminary survey. It was ascer
tained that the United States Forestry
department would pay the greater part
of the survey in Baker county. No
arrangements were made as to how the
balance of the expense could be met
Property Loss IsllO.OOO.OOO Rail
ways and Telegraph Lines De
moralizedFive Perish.
To Pay Families.
Oregon City Families of guards
men who were employed in the local
mills of the Crown-Willamette Paper
company will be cared for by the mill
as long as the Oregon soldiers are
away from home. Mill officials have
found 11 families which were left by
guardsmen employed in the local plant
The money will be paid to the wives of
the men, the mill giving 26 days' pay
a month, less $15 paid by the govern
ment to the soldiers. The Crown-Willamette
mills and the Hawley Pulp &
Paper company are holding jobs open
for men now at the border.
Bond issue Carries. '
Medford By a vote of nearly 3 tol
1009 for and 366 against the people
of Medford Monday approved the con
tract with Mr. Bullis for the construc
tion of a railroad to the Blue Ledge
mine, just over the California line,
about 36 miles from Medford. The
Blue Ledge boosters celebrated their
victory by a parade of automobiles
with tooting horns through the streets,
bright with red lights, led by the Med-
for band. Leaders of the movement
were serenaded and speeches were
made on the street by enthusiastic citizens.
Forces To Be Combined.
Bandon Roderick L. Macleay, man
ager of the Wedderburn Trading com
pany, which a few months ago pur
chased the Fishermen's Co-operative
Cannery, on the Lower Coquille river,
announces that forces of the local plant
at Wedderburn. on Rogue River are to
be combined. This is made possible
by the fact that the salmon do not
commence to run here until after the
season is over on the Rogue.
Improvements and additions to the
local plant are being made in prepara
tion for the fall season.
Atlanta, Ga. Serious floods in North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia
Sunday caused five known deaths, rend
ered hundreds homeless and damaged
property andcrops to the extent of
$10,000,000, according to early esti
mate, and demoralized railway, tele
graph and telephone communication.
Following the hurricane that struck
the South Atlantic coast Thursday, un
precedented rains have fallen, driving
rivers and smaller streams from their
banks and imperilling many lives.
The French Broad river has broken
from its course near Asheville, ' flood
ing factories and homes in the lower
part of the city. At Biltmore three
persons Captain G. C. Lipe, Miss
Nellie Lipe and Mrs. Leo Mulholland
were drowned when the Lipe house
was flooded. The Vanderbiit estate
at Biltmore was not damaged.
Two persons were drowned at Ashe
ville while trying to get food to flood
refugees in the second story of the
Glenn Rock hotel. '
Throughout Western Carolina the
situation is reported serious. -Two
dams at Hendersonville collapsed, re
leasing great volumes of water, and
fears are felt for the big dam at Lake
Toxaway.
The Southern Railway bridge over
the Catawba river at Belmont N. C,
has been washed away, carrying 10 or
12 workmen into the river. Whether
they were drowned ha not been
learned.
Charlotte, ?N. C Eighteen men, 14
of whom are construction officials and
employes of the Southern Railway, and
four linemen of the Western Union
Telegraph company, were missing Sun
day night and are believed to be either
drowned or marooned in trees on the'
Catawba river about 12 miles from
Charlotte. The river is rising rapidly.
One Slain, One Wounded ia Tacoma
Strike Battle; Two Sbt in Seattle
Tacoma, Wash. Rangval Leinann,
a strikebreaker, was shot and killed
and Sam Jones, a union longhsoreman,
sustained a probably fatal gunshot
wound in a pitched battle Sunday,
when union men attacked an automo
bile; carrying nonunion workers to the
Milwaukee docks.
Four men were in the automobile re
turning from the city to the docks
when they were ambushed near the
Eleventh-street bridge by about 16
strikers. The latter began hurling
bricks at the occupants of the auto
mobile and when the drivers put on
more speed a shot rang out
Leinann, who had a revolver but
who had not been able to use it ac
cording to the others in the car, fell
over dead. One of the other occu
pants, which one the police have not
been able to learn, picked up the dead
man's gun and returned the fire,
wounding James.
The automobile turned and sped for
the central police station with the body
of the strikebreaker, while the strik
ers, who had a car standing near the
scene of the shooting, rushed James to
a hospital.
Seattle, Wash. Two men were shot
but not dangerously wounded, and a
third was severely beaten, during a
fight between 16 non-union longshore
men and strike sympathizers at the
Pike Place Public Market Saturday
night Several other men received
less serious injuries.
F. A. Webb, a butter and egg deal
er, in the'market was struck in the leg
by a stray bullet , William Clarke, a
unoin longshoreman, was shot in . the
leg. O. W. Bridgefarmer, a special
policeman employed as a guard at Pier
6, was seriously beaten and kicked.
Flames Threaten Athens.
Paris The fire which destroyed the
summer residence of KingitConstantine
of Greece, situated at Tatoi, on the
outskirts of Athens, is still raging in
the forest in which the royal chateau
stood. A Havas dispatch from Athens
says it is feared the flames will reach 1
the city. Among those who lost their
lives in the fire were Colonel de la
Parts, of the engineers; M. Chryssos
pathiB, the bead of the royal secret
service and 20 soldiers.