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Famine and Disease Ravage Bolshevik
Population Centersl
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IN BRIEF.
TEELS OF ITS DIET
London.-Starvation prevails) through-
One hundred and forty-six bills of
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out bolshevik Russia and is killing off
the recent legislative session, which
the population by thousands.
Dis-
were left in the bands of Governor
Brief Resume most important eases due tc under nourishment are Adjournment Sees Half of Ap- Field Marshal Plans to Use Withycombe undisposed of when he Nitrates, Sugar and Starch
| rampant and ¿ood is so scarce in Pe-
died last week, w’ere filed in the of­
Needs Revealed.
propriation Unmade.
Volunteer Units.
Daily News Items.
fice of the secretary of state by Ches­
j trograd and Moscow that cats sell
ter A. Moore, private secretary to the
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| readily for $3 each. The undertakers
late Governor Withycombe.
i i-annot cope with conditions, as there
Open \yar was declared on the loyal
I is not enough wood for coffins.
The
legion of loggers and lumbermen at
I British government received these re-
Bend last week, when the loyal tim-
ports within the last week from Brit-
Relative Supply of Most Important
berworkers’ union passed a resolution
Thirty-Nine
Senators
Sign
Resolution
Woman
Delegate
at
Weimar
Assembly
Events of Noted People, Government* i^U subjects recently returned from
Elements Regulated by Methods
declaring that membership In the four
Opposing League of Nations
Goes Home to Organize Wo-
Russia.
and Pacific Northwest and Other
L’s would constitute an effective bar
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of Pruning and.Culture.
TheTr evidence is unanimous that if
Charter as It Now Stands.
men to Fight Foes.
to admission into the union, and that
Things Worth Knowing.
any union man joining the loyal legion
means are not found to alleviate the
would automatically cancel his union
food situation the inhabitants of bol­
(By the Orespn Agricultural College)
card.
Coblenz.—Field
Marshal
von
Hin-
. The growth and fruiting conditions
Washington, D. C.—A bitter contro-
As a result of representations of shevik Russia may starve to death.
American officials, the British govern­ The Britishers Bay that the plight,of versy between President Wilson and denburg is planning to use volunteer
Twelve days were spent In covering of every orchard tree may be inter­
ment has consented to the removal of Russia is a direct result of the reign the senate over the league of nations units in a drive against the Bolshevik! a distance of 33 miles by state em­ preted by the relationship of moisture
and nitrates on the one hand to carbo­
all censorship on business, commercial
of anarchy and terror instituted by and a filibuster by a few republican with Libau as the base of his opera ployes who arrived Wednesday in hydrates on the other, explains Prof.
and all other messages.
Bend
from
Elk
lake,
bringing
with
I.enlne and Trotzky. They declare senators, seeking to force an imme- tions, it is indicated by information
them 640,000 freshly gathered brook C. I. Lewis, chief of the division of
At least three towns in southern
diate extra session, marked the pass- which has reached American intelll
trout eggs which were Immediately horticulture. Some conditions favor
Alabama were swept late Wednesday that the Russian problem has become
ing
at
noon
Tuesday
of
the
65th
or
gence
offices,
taken to the new hatchery as the first neither vigor nor fruit, some favor
by a tornado. Great property damage a question of common humanity.
war congress.
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According to the American experts, to be placed in the troughs at the new vigor without fruit, and some favor
and some loss of life have been re­
Thousands are dying daily in Petro-
Called in April, 1917, to throw Amer- who in the line of their duty are keep
both vigor and fruit.
plant.
ported. The towns struck were Eufala, grad, Moscow, Kiev and Odessa. In
ica’8 weight into the conflict overseas, ing in touch with the progress of the
Abundance of moisture and mineral
Pollard and Flomaton.
Petrograd alone the deaths from fam­ the congress held three momentous readjustment of the enemy's forces,
Pendleton carpenters who have been nutrients including nitrates, with
At the request of the postoffice de­ ine three weeks ago numbered 200 and historic sessions.
German great headquarters seems to idle since Saturday morning, when shortage of available carbohydrates,
partment the geographic board has
Partisanship
lay
dormant
during
the
be following a policy of secrecy as re they refused to work for less than 80 Indicates weakened vegetation and
daily. Typhoid, or "hunger typhus,”
changed the official abbreviation for
war, but it broke forth in the last ses- gards the eastern front troop question cents an hour, went back to their jobs lack of fruitfulness.
California from “ Cal.” to "Calif.” The is carrying off young and old every­ sion to culminate in a final filibuster,
This is believed to be due to the fact Wednesday morning under a tentative
Abundance of moisture and mineral
change was made because of confusion where, and in Moscow glanders is epi­ which successfully blocked passage of that the Bolshevik! now have a normal agreement with their employers, pend­
nutrients including nitrates, coupled
with the abbreviation for Colorado.
half of the 14 regular appropriation military organization and so will be ing a final settlement of the question with an available carbohydrate supply,
demic.
There is no fuel for lighting and mil­ bills, including the $750,000,000 rail- able to utilize any information they this week. In the meantime they are indicates Increased vegetative growth,
The arrival of the British prime
minister, David Lloyd George, in Paris lions live in darkness after nightfall. road revolving fund and the huge might obtain concerning their enemy. to receive the 80-cent wage.
but barrenness and sterility.
Wednesday night is the prelude to the The troubles of the Russians are fur­ army, navy and merchant marine bud­ Apparently the German headquarters
A decrease In the ratio of nitrates
While health authority reports in­
in Kolberg is directing its energies
discussion of the main question of the ther aggravated by lack of coal and gets.
to carbohydrates makes for an ac­
Although unsuccessful In their ef­ again toward organization on the Bai dicate an end of its attack on humans', cumulation of carbohydrates and for
peace treaty by the council of the great wood, which can be obtained only by
powers, which will begin tomorrow the very rich or by the favorites and forts to record the senate in favor of tic front in the confidence that there influenza Is fatally affecting horses of fruitfulness and fertility.
and continue during President Wil­ parasites of the bolsh,evlk government, an amendment of thef constitution of is no longer any immediate occasion the Hood River valley. C. D. Hoyt,
A further decrease in nitrates with­
There is a great lack of medicines and the league of nations, as now drawn, for concern over the Polish front, East Side orchardist, lost a valuable out prevention of increase of carbo­
son’s stay.
the republican senators left in the Field Marshal von Hindenburg is in horse last week. The animal's team­ hydrates makes for suppression of
The International Harvester com­ doctors.
record a resolution approved by 39 of Kolberg.
The
bolshevik
paper
money
has
no
mate is thought to be fatally 111. The both vegetation and fruitfulness.
pany’s branch establishment at Arta-
them opposing acceptance of the char­
The total number of volunteers on horses display all symptoms by which
Moisture and mineral nutrients
vir, Russia, has been looted and dam­ value In the country districts, and the
ter in its present form. Republican the eastern front or about to proceed the disease is Identified in humans. come up from the ground, while carbo­
aged by bolshevik troops with the ex­ peasants refuse to exchange it for
Leader Lodge and other spokesmen there is estimated at nearly 100,000
hydrates—sugars and starches—are
press approval of the bolshevik so­ food.
As a result of the suspension of work
said this was notice to the president Some of the old arpny troops are now
manufactured in the leaves from at­
viets, according to advices from Russia
and the peace conference that the nec­ on the eastern front,
on two hulls at the McEachern and two mospheric gases and materials ob­
Warning Sent to Italy.
received by the state department. The
f
essary two-thirds majority in the new
at the Rodgers yard at Astoria, 150 tained through the roots. Orchardists
damage was said to amount to about
Washington, D. C.—Italy has been senate for ratification of the present
Weimar, Saturday.—Frau Broenner, men were laid off at each plant Wed­ may learn from the condition of the
$400,000.
warned by the American government plan could not be obtained. Demo- an authoress and publisher and a dele- nesday morning. The former has 350
three just which of these plant foods
The government has determined to that unless she puts an end to delays cratic leaders privately expressed the gate of the German democratic party
men working on three hulls and the is needed t6 balance up the diet, some
retain control of the railroads despite
in movements of relief supplies to the belief that amendments would be in the national assembly, has left for latter about 200 men employed on two of the most common conditions being
failure of congress to provide funds
newly-established
Jugo-SIavic and Cze- made soon after the president reached home in Koenigsburg to organize the hulls. Work* at the Wilson yard has outlined by Professor Lewis as fol­
for the railroad administration and
Paris.
women of East Prussia into a border not been interfered with. That plant lows:
to have the roads finance themselves eho-Slavic states, steps will be taken
President Wilson spent an hour at militia against the Bolsheviki.
has 450 men working on three hulls.
The first group, too low a ratio of
for the next few months through pri­ to cut off the flow of American food­ the capitol before adjournment. Later
Frau Broenner declares her action
carbohydrates
to moisture and min­
stuffs
to
Italy.
vate loans on open market or through
Ninety per cent of the votes cast at
he formally announced that despite was prompted by reports that a Bol
eral nutrients including nitrates, is
It was stated in an authoritative the death In the filibuster of the raili
advances by the war finance corpora­
shevik force a million strong was ad­ Wednesday’s special election in Uma­
quarter) that the Italian government road and other bills he would adhere vancing toward the German frontier tilla county favored the issuance by Illustrated by a tree that has been
tion.
entirely dehorned, leaving only a stub.
Selection of a Jury in the manslaugh­ had caused intolerable conditions by to his refusal to call the new congress and her fear that the men alone would the county of $1,050,000 in road bonds.
The tree cannot utilize the nutrients
the
blockade
she
has
imposed
against
ter case of Thomas F. Blewitt, first of
before his return from France and be unable to withjtand the Bolshevik Less than 5000 votes were cast against
from the ground because the sugars
the
Jugo-SIavic
countries
and
which
four officials of the Brooklyn Rapid
the proposal and only four of the 64
criticized “ a group of men” for their hordes.
and starches have been removed and
Transit company to be tried as the operates also against the Czecho- obstruction. As a result of the fili­
precincts, all small ones, returned un­
the tree has not enough stored food
Slavs.
result of a wreck on one of the com­
Several pre­
buster, which held the senate in con­
London. — One thousand persons favorable majorities.
in the wood nor the foliage for making
The blockade has not been wholly tinuous session for 26 hours, the presi­
pany's lines last year which cost the
cincts
cast
a
unanimous
vote
for
the
were killed and wounded in the fight­
and
utilizing it. The tree is likely to
effective,
but
many
delays
have
been
lives of more than 86 persons, is com­
dent had little to do at the capitol ex­ ing in Berlin last week, according to bonds.
die or make but feeble growth at best.
pleted in the state supreme court at caused, resulting often in holding up cept sign the $1,000,000,000 wheat an estimate of the casualties made by
Lincoln county's patriotic postmast­ A less pronounced form of the same
supplies, the need of which was des­ guarantee bill and exchange leave-
Mineola, N. Y.
the Wolff bureau, the leading news
perate. No reply has yet been made takings with members and friends.
er,
J. J. Gaither, at Toledo, Oregon, condition is illustrated in a tree ex­
Six women, members of the national
agency of Germany.
Large
by the Italian government.
last year sold War Savings Stamps to cessively summer pruned.
The long list of measures that failed
woman’s party, were arrested on
amounts of wood and leaves have been
twenty-five
people
who
proudly
dis­
included all reconstruction legislation,
charges of disorderly conduct after a
Editor Guilty of Libel.
play the limit button. Newport made removed, taking away carbohydrates
including the general railroad legis­
battle Wednesday night with police­
one of the greatest over-subscriptions and also the leaves for manufacturing
Eugene—James
Fullerton
was
found
lation and bills defining a shipping
men in front of the Metropolitan Opera
in the Liberty Bond campaign, popu­ more insufficient amounts. The tree
house, New York, where they had in­ guilty in circuit court of the charge of policy and dealing with unemploy­
lation
considered, of any town in the becomes dwarfed and devitalized.
libel
against
the
University
of
Ore­
ment, labor and illiteracy problems;
tended to stage a demonstration
The condition in group two, trees
state. Mr. Gajther is director of the
against President Wilson. Soon after gon, its president, P. L. Campbell, and the oil, gas and coal land leasing and
Washington, D. C.—For the first thrift campaign in Lincoln county this with an abundance of moisture and
the
students.
Mr.
Fullerton
had
been
water power development bills; the
they had been locked up at the West
time since the days’ of the famous
nitrates and also carbohydrates, is
Thirtieth street station all of them indicted by the grand jury on the compromise woman suffrage resolu­ “clipper” ships, American merchant year and his ambition is to make
seen in a young tree from one to five
Lincoln
county
the
first
division
to
charge
of
libel
for
utterances
in
the
tion; legislation to enforce wartime
were ¿pleased without explanation.
craft are now plying the seven seas, complete the raising of its share of years old, growing in rich soil and
A strike of 9000 telephone operators Oregon Hornet, a monthly'publication prohibition; meat industry legislation; carrying products of the United States
investment in the government securi­ pruned rather heavily in the dormant
printed
.by
him,
in
which
he
charged
immigration exclusion and alien de­
and 3000 linemen in California, Wash­
to the farthest corners of the earth ties for payment of war bills.
season. The orchard practices have
that
immorality
was
rampant
on
the
portation
bills;
resolutions
to
termin­
ington, Oregon and Nevada lias been
and
bringing
home
both
essentials
and
encouraged
strong and
vigorous
ordered by Jhe executive committee of campus of the university and that ate government control of telegraph, | luxuries.
The now celebrated Alleghany dog growth with very little fruit.
President
Campbell
condoned
it.
telephone
and
other
wire
utilities
De­
the International Brootherhood of
The shipping board announced Mon case at Marshfield bids fair to rival
Conditions in group three, with a
cember 31; the sedition bill, aimed at
Electrical Workers in the event that |
day that the American merchant other similar contested lawsuits that well-balanced supply of moisture and
Few
Shell
Shocks
Fatal.
unlawful acts and propaganda; the
Postmaster-General Burleson does not
l marine fleet, built up under the spur
New York.—Ninety-nine per cent of resolution to_ repeal the 10 per cent | of war.g nece88ity) now represented have been brought to notice in cer­ mineral nutrients, and carbohydrates,
speedily grant wage demands of the
tain sections of the country. Mrs. W. are frequently seen in well cared for
all
shell
shock
cases
in
the
American
tax on semi-luxuries in the war rev
brotherhood, it was announced In San
nearly one-fifth of the entire sea-going H. Stull obtained a verdict of $250 trees from nine to fifteen years old
Francisco Wednesday by T. C. Rob­ army in Franca completely recovered, enufi bill, and Secretary Lane’s bill tonnage of the world and comprised in ftstice court for killing of her two Both wood and fruit are produced
bins, personal representative of L. according to Dr. Thomas Salmon of appropriating $100,000,000 for reclam­ 46 per cent of all ships clearing from dogs by Rosooe Bunch and T. F. Por­ This result was brought about by de
C. Orasser, vice president of the or­ New York, chief medical officer in ation of waste lands to be allotted to United States ports, as compared with ter, and when the defendents appealed creasing the relative supply of ni
charge of such soldiers, who returned soldiers and sailors.
ganization.
9.7 per cent before the war.
to the county district court the judg­ trates in trees from group two, bring­
on the Leviathan.
Francis P. Garvan of New York city
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Trade routes not traversed by Amer- ment was affirmed. The men now de­ ing vigorous young trees into vigorous
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i "There was less insanity in the
Washlngton, D. C.—Director-General , lean craft
. . . for more than 50 years once
is appointed />y President Wilson as .
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clare they will qualify for a hearing fruiting without unduly blocking vege­
,
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American army than in any of the
alien property custodian to succeed ... „
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. Hines, commenting on the failure of more are invaded, with new routes es- in the state supreme court and from tative growth. The bearing trees are
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other allied armies,
said Colonel
eongress to pass the $750,000,000 ap- tabllshed to China, Australia, New there it may go on to the higher healthy and continue to grow.
A. Mitchel Palmer, who became ut-
I Salmon.
propriation for the railroad adminis Zealand, India, the Dutch East Indies, tribunal.
torney-general. *
Group four Is illustrated by tr^es
tration, said he had not come to any the west coast of Africa and ports on
In many of the older orchards of the
Dr. Haroutyoum Tiryakian, known
Poles Seek For Peace.
It has definitely been decided by northwest, situated on light soils. The
conclusion concerning the govern the Mediterranean. Ships flying the
as the "grand old man of the Arme­
Posen.—Several members of the in­ ment s future course in regard to the stars and stripes also are running reg- the Graves Canning company to erect
trees are loaded with fruit spurs but
nians,” leaders of many Armenian
terallied mission are to proceed to railroads. Other officials, however, qiarly to Sonth America, Great Britaip a $16,000 cannery at Woodburn. A
make but little growth and produce
movements in this country, died in l ar78 to inform the' peace c'o”nfVren^e
were studying the war finance cor- an(j continental Europe as well as to rousing meeting of the berry growers but scant fruit, and that of inferior
tw or
uni ay.
I as to the exact situation existing be- poratlon act with a view to determin Canada and Mexico,
in that city last Saturday added im­ quality.
The same process that
I he high license law which went j tween the Poles and Ukrainians in ing whether that corporation has au The fleet now engaged In overseas
petus to the project. The site has been brought the tree so successfully from
into effect March 1st reduced the nuni - 1 eastern Galicia. It is thought probable thority to make advances to the rail commerce aggregates 1,961,239 gross
purchased and building will begin next the second into the third or bearing
ber of saloons in Panama from 680 (that the mission will propose extreme-
roa<*B-
tons. Of this total 315,925 tons are em­ month. Many growers have, contracted group has gone too far and unless
to 100. Under the new law, licenses j iy severe steps in order to compel the
acreage. It is proposed eventually to remedied the tree has reached the
ployed in trans-Pacific trade.
cost $150 a month.
| Ukrainians to cease hostilities.
German U-Boats Divided.
When the army and navy return to have one of the largest canneries in end of its usefulness. It is here that
At a meeting of the ultra-iiftionalist1
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Loudon.—A number of German sub the shipping board the 353 ships which the state. This will be In addition to application of nitrate of soda or use
Irish society in London Monday a
Postal Grants Increase,
marines, lying in a British port, are they are operating, the commercial the juice factory now established at j of other means of restoring the mois-
letter from Edward de \ nlura, the
San Francisco.—The headquarters to be handed over to the allied gov fleet under the American flag will be that point. Both plants will consume 1 ture and nitrate supply, works won-
Sinn I ein leader, who recently escaped ' for the Postal Telegraph company in ernments, some being sent to Italy, increased bjç 1.783.581 gross tons with the products of a large number of ders. The old tree begins to put forth
from Lincoln prison, written in cipher. California. Montana. Idaho. Washlng- Japan and other countries. Forty many hundreds of thousands of tons acres and renewed life has been given new life, new growth, and to set fruit
was read.
ton, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, New Mexi- seven submarines, of all sizes, have building or under contract. .
to that section.
land bear.
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Carloa Mendez and Alfonso Quinones co *nd Nevuda' whl<* are I« * * «» he™. been sold under the condition that
The question of prices for raw sal­
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received word Saturday of a 10 per they be broken up. Their engines will
Fire Loss Is $5.000.000.
Oregon, Seed Growing State.
Molena were Inaugurated president
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mon
to prevail in the Bering sea dis­
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. cent increase of employes’ wages, r% be removed.
Rio Janeiro.—The damage resulting
and vice-president of the republic of ,
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Oregon
is excelled by no sthte in
trict is now being discussed by the
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. troactive to January 1. About 100 are
from the fire which started early last
Salvador Sunday in the presence of
a
,
the Union for seed-growing, declares
members
of
the
fishermen’s
unions,
. . . . .
, . .
affected In San Francisco,
82.539 Sick and Injured.
week on the Santos docks and which
the national congress with the usual
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with headquarters at San Francisco. R. 33. Gill, of the Gill Brothers Seed
Washington. D. C. — February 13. is supposed to have been of incendiary
coromonles.
Co., Portland. Yet thousands and thou­
Want Blockade Raised.
statistics made public Wednesday by origin, is estimated at $3.00(1 Oeo The
8e*en and one-quarter per cent few- sands of dollars are sent out of the
After ten years of experiments the Basle.—The German national assem- the War department showed, there damage was pricc'< a!'v to r f '
¡i- 1
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rm~|oyed In the*industri- country annually for seed. England.
state of Idaho Monday gave up the bly at Weimar Monday unanimously were 82.53$ sick and injured soldiers jute. Several da « r -o - mu t •
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« ’ -oo *iout Astoria during I ranee and Denmark, where most of
direct primary system Of nominations adopted as resolution Introduced by remaining overseas. Of these 19.966 Santos dock fire •»»•> ¡nt" fo
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February 26 than dur- the imported seed was produced before
and returned to the convention plan.! 37 women members demanding the were listed as suffering from Injury Sao Paulo was desfoyed. together
" *h ' «mi > '»"’■tod a month previous, the war. have climates quite similar to
Governor Davis signed the amended immediate raising of the hunger block- and 63.55$ from disease. This was a with two Japanese sh :p* loa le I with aecordins to figures compiled by the
Oregon's—cool throughout the sum­
new election law wblch repeals the sde and repatriation of prisoners of reduction of about 60 per cent as com- Jute. The damage Is estimated a: linltd S'»*c* '-'overnment employment
mer, with slow maturity and good de­
direct primary.
| war.
pared with the figures of November 14 $2.500,000.
k
agent. J. M. Waggener.
velopment of seed.
COMPILED
FOR
FILIB U S TER ’ CHARGED A L L
YOU
MOVES
SECRET
j
U. 8. CRAFT NOW
PLYING SEVEN SEAS
MUST BE
BALANCED