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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK BOMB RUINS LA W LE R HOM E Ex-U. S. A ttorney and Family Ser-] iously Injured. EXTENDS TO «EST I I STATE NEW S IN BRIEF. PROFITS BE SPLIT \Sm Los Angeles.—Revenge for the p art Bend.—Fire, believed to have been he played in the prosecution of a group started by lightning a little more than of dynam iters in the middle w est 20 miles from h ere W ednesday, ex Brief Resume Most Important several years ago was assigned by the |Great Northern Terminals Are tended through 600 acres . of yellow Retirement of Private Capital pine tim ber belonging to the Brooks DO NOT N E G LEC T H ERO BOAR police here as the probable motive Daily News Items. Hit By Walkout. Held Necessary. Scanlon L um ber company. for an attem pt on the life of O scar Management la Important Part In Salem. — Mrs. Charles Kugel, 67 Lawler, form er assistan t attorney-gen Raising Strong, Healthy Pigs— eral of the United States. Mr. L aw ler’s years of age, celebrated h er 50th wed — Deserves Best Care. ding an n iversary Sunday by taking an home was practically destroyed by a (Prepared by the U n ited S ta te s D e p a r t bomb and subsequent fire here early airplane flight, piloted by A viator m e n t o f A g ric u ltu re .) Sunday, and he and Mrs. Law ler both Cook. It is believed th a t Mrs. Kugel T he m anagem ent of the boar is a were seriously burned and otherw ise has the distinction of being the oldest very Im portant p a rt in the raising of Events of Noted People, Governments injured. Railroads in Ail P arts o f N ation Af- woman In Oregon, if not on the entire W orkers, M anagement and Public to strong, healthy pigs, and one which Is Pacific coast, to fly. Mr. Law ler and his wife escaped sometimes neglected. He should be and Pacific N orthw est, and^Other fected by Action o f Employes Control Lines A fter Investors the most valuable animal in the whole with difficulty from th eir blazing Salem.—The Oregon national guard Things W orth Knowing. Who Seek Rise. Are Protected. herd, and ns such'deserves the best of home when he carried the fainting has been officially recognized by the attention. The boar should be pur woman to a front second-story window, w ar departm ent, to take effect June chased from a breeder of pure-bred dropped her on an aw ning and thence hogs when between eight m onths and Budapest was accupied Tuesday by to the ground and leaped after her. Chicago. — F u rth e r spread of the 30, according to a telegram received W ashington, D. C.—Organized labor one year of age. Mifny breeders, how here by the adjutant-general. This Roum anian troops who advanced from Before making th eir escape the strik e of railw ay shopmen, especially means th a t the guard is now a feder came out Monday with the unequivo ever, purchase a boar when a w ean the River Theiss, in spite of represen Lawlers had attem pted to rescue th eir in the middle west and tow ards the alized organization instead of a sta te cal, formal demand th at private capi ling pig, but to be successful in this fattens made by Lieutenant-Colonel 5-year-old son Oscar and his nurse, | choice requires a wide experience and tal be retired from the railroads. A Romanelll, the Italian representative who were on another sleeping porch, Pacific coast, w here about 15,000 w ork body, as in the p a s t sound judgm ent. Aged boars which ers w ent out Tuesday, according to of the allies a t Vienna. A storia. — Thirty-tw o sacks or ap tr ip a r tite control, composed of the hnve proved their worth can some but had been prevented by the flames. In the 8th congressional district of The boy and his nurse were later sav union reports, with a strik e of 10,000 proxim ately 35 cases of contraband public, the operating m anagem ent and tim es be purchased a t u reasonable price. It is much safer for an inex men on the Norfolk & W estern line liquor were seized here by Sheriff th e employes, is dem anded instead. K entucky, King Swope, a returned ed by neighbors. perienced breeder to buy an old, ac Mr. Law ler received burns covering set for th is week, m arked the fifth Nelson and D eputy Bakotich on board soldier running on the republican tick Addressed to the American public tive boar than a young untried boar. half his body and his phy^jcians said the steam schooner K lam ath, which et, was elected over Judge Charles A. day of the walkout. and undersigned by the engineers, the If possible, the farm er should visit was loading lum ber at W estport. The Hardin, dem ocrat, in S aturday's sta te his recovery was possible, but w hether j The strike has been declared illegal K lam ath had recently shifted from firem en, the conductors and the Ameri the hqrd where the boar was raised he would live could not be determ ined wide ifrimaries. It was the first tim e and note the conditions under, which by railw ay executives, who have made Portland, w here she had been search can Federation of Labor, a formal he was bred. At any rate, it is always a republican candidate ever was vic a t once. Mrs. Lawler will recover although | th a t charge to the local bureau of the ed. torious in th a t district. statem en t was issued announcing this possible to obtain from the breeder severely burned and suffering from a departm ent of justice. proposal, which will be carried before notes on the health and kind and Salam.—A pproxim ately 2945 scales The new Pacific fleet will become broken collarbone, according to her The b arrier was let down Tuesday am ount of feeds used, so ns to serve p art of the w est a t dawn Wednesday, physicians. for boilerm akers to join the other in Oregon were sealed by the state congress W ednesday. as an index to his subsequent tre a t when it will anchor off the Coronado “It m arks,” says the statem ent, ment. M. P. Snyder, mayor of Los Angeles, strik ers, according to L. M. Hawver, sealer of w eights and m easures during islands, ju st outside San Diego harbor. with his chief of parlice, George Home, president of the Chicago d istric t coun the three m onths ending Ju n e 30, 1919, Upon arriving a t th e fnrm the boar “the step by which organized labor Admiral Rodman notified naval au were in conference with rep resen ta cil of the F ederated Railw ay Shop according to his rep o rt filed w ith the should be unloaded ns soon as pos thorities a t San Diego, Cal., of the tives of the county and sta te govern-1 m en's union, which called the strike sta te tre a su re r here. Ninety-two scales passes from dem ands for wage in sible and placed in quarantine to arrival tim e, which is 24 hours ahead m ent and with federal authorities, lay last Friday. He announced a telegram were condemned for repairs, 80 were creases to dem ands th a t the system guard against the introduction of dis of any schedule previously announced. ing plans for a thorough and system a from E. C. Chase, the boilerm akers condemned perm anently and 97 were of profits in industry he overhauled.” ease into the herd. If he is lousy it is well to tre a t this condition a t onct*. T his sentence sum s up in a few His feed should be n continuation of Two fatal accidents occurred in tic effort to apprehend the perpetra-1 represen tativ e on the national agree passed for fu rth e r inspection. m ent com m ittee now negotiating with Aberdeen, Wash., Monday afternoon. tors of the explosion and fire. Pendleton.—If the best ta len t in the words the proposal of which there th a t to which he lias been accustomed, A reward of $5000 for the a rre st and the railroad adm inistration in W ash country is not on hand for the 1919 have been hints and indications, but feeding rn th er lightly the first few Jam es G rant, a brakem an on the days until he recovers front the strain N orthern Pacific freight train, was conviction of perp etrato rs of the out ington, th a t conditions “do not w arrant Round-Up, it will not be because the in which is now laid before the country of shipping and becomes accustomed drowned a t the Bay City mill, and a rage was offered by the M erchants’ holding men ar.y longer.” ducem ents in the way of prize money 5-year-old daughter of H arry H. Stout and M anufacturers’ association. Mayor I W hile railroad yards in th e Chicago are not sufficient. Recom m endations for th e first time. Everyw here in of to his new surroundings. If it is not a 'shipyard worker, was alm ost in M. P. Snyder announced he would d istrict have become congested with have been m ade to the board of di ficial W ashington it is recognized as feasible to continue feeding as pre viously indicated, th e change to a stantiy killed when she was struck by ask the city council to offer an addi broken-down cars as a resu lt of the rectors th a t prize money be increased the m ost serious and far-reaching pro more convenient ratio n should be tional rew ard of $1000. strike, union officials declare all rail for several events this year. In some an automobile on W ashington street. position the country will be called on made very gradually in order not to T hree explosions, believed to be road service will be m ore seriously af cases the increase suggested is 300 disturb the nppetite or health of the Riotous crowds were driven from to face. those of a bomb and two 5-gallon cans fected in a few days. m per cent. the streets of Liverpool Monday morn C haracterizing the proposal as “la of gasoline or some other inflam m able They adm it the strik e was called in ing by troops charging with fixed bay St. H elens.—A t a special m eeting of bor’s bill,” it is put forth as a rem edy liquid, were heard by those nearby, and ¡defiance of the grand lodge officers of onets. The rioters filled the streets in an Instant, according to eye-w it-¡the unions involved, but say th a t it the county co u rt here, H. E. L&Bare for the high cost of living, because during the night and it was not until was named sheriff to succeed E. C. the railroads are the key industry of daybreak th a t the soldiers were or nesses, a column of flam e shot above I Was in compliance with the w ishes of Stanwood, resigned. The newly ap the nation. the roof of th e Law ler home. The the rank and file of the federation. dered to charge. The cruiser V aliant They also refuse to take a strike pointed sheriff h as been deputy for building was alm ost destroyed and its It dem ands the “genuine co-opera and two destroyers have moved into contents were eith er entirely destroyed j vote A ugust 24, as ordered by the the past two years and is regarded as tion and partnership based on a real the Mersey riv er to protect the docks com petent officer. H e served as com m unity of in terest and particip a or made w orthless. grand lodge officers, and a s se rt that Before the w inter sets In there will thè rail adm inistration m ust tre a t with county clerk for two term s and deputy tion in control” of which P resident be "a terrible spasm of rage and de them and g ran t th eir dem ands for 85 clerk for two term s before going to W ilson spoke to congress, and which spair among the peoples of Europe in Strike Threatens Serious cen ts an hour for m echanics and 60 the sheriff's office. the statem en t says has been ignored which the final rem ains of civiliza Champion Duroc-Jersey Boar. Tie-Up of Big Railroads cen ts for helpers. Cove.—Twenty-five carloads of cher by labor and the private ow ners of tion may be totally annihilated," It Chicago.—A com plete tie-up of the animal. As a rule, a pig 8 to 12 ries, 14 blacks an(f 11 whites, have the railroads. was predicted by A rthur Henderson, railroads of th e country is very prob "W e ask,” it says, “ that the rail months old will be in proper breed beep shipped to date from Cove by British labor leader, a t the opening able, in th e opinion of H. Hawver, roads of the United S tates be vested ing condition when received unless he the three packing plants, the K arl J. session of the international socialist president of the Chicago d istric t coun in the public; th a t those actually en has been very heavily overfed. In Stackland, John F. Dean and Mt. conference a t Lucerne, Switzerland, cil of the F ederated Shopm en's union, gaged in conducting th a t industry, not purchasing an older boar, particularly Fannie. The packing crews united in Sunday. one which has been In the show cir* which called a strik e of shop crafts from W all stre e t but from the rail cult, it is often neeessury to reduce W ashington, D. C.—Income tax re a m ountain climbing expedition T h u rs Friday. H e retu rn ed from W ashing road offices and yards and out on the The Omaha city commission author ton Sunday and declared the strik e tu rn s were filed by 3,472,890 persons day to the top of Mount Fannie, which railroad lines, shall take charge of his condition before attem pting to ized Tuesday the expenditure of $10,- breed. W ith some anim als the breed is spreading rapidly, and th a t the un about 3 per ceht of the population, for forms the background of the Cove. this service for the public.” ing power Is perm anently Impaired 000 In buying food supplies to be sold Evening found them at the foot of the the calendar year of 1917, according to rest am ong railw ay w orkers is so Briefly, labor's plan dem ands: by too high condition a t some time in to the public a t cost. th r e e , peaks, w here they spent the final reports just completed by the general th a t the m ovem ent has over T h at private capital be elim inated their life. The boar should be well They night. W ar departm ent recommendation whelmed the in tern atio n al officers of bureau of internal revenue. fed but not fat, as a too high condi from the railroads. showed total n et incomes of $13,652 for a system of universal m ilitary the various unions involved. Hood River.—E stim ates on’the 1919 T hat the private owners receive for tion makes him inactive, a slow breed training of three m onths for all eligi Advices from Cleveland w ere th at 383,207. The increase over 1916, be apple crop for the Hood River valley them governm ent bonds, “w ith a fixed er, and a rath e r uncertain sire. ble youths in their 19th year was pre the executive board of the American fore the law was expanded to meet war continue to dwindle. Many growers in te rest retu rn for every honest dol A fter the breeding season the boar should not be fed so heavily, and sented by S ecretary Baker Tuesday Federation of Railway W orkers, with expenses, was 3,035,854 retu rn s and are expressing the opinion th a t the lar th a t they have invested.” should have a wider ration, thnt is, to the senate and house m ilitary com m em bership of 26,000, had decided $7,353,805,587 In n et income. yield will not be far in excess of 1 T h at the tri-p artite control be es one containing less of the protein T axes paid totaled $675,249,450, an m ittees for their guidance in deter to strike, according to Mr. Hawver. 500,000 boxes. “I have talked with tablished in corporations which shall concentrates and relatively more corn. mining the perm anent m ilitary policy With more th an 250,000 shopm en on average of $368.56 per individual, or grow ers of nearly all districts,” says lease the roads, and in which th e pub The ration a t this tim e is practically of the nation. strike and th e num ber increasing, both 6.03 per cent of the income. F. A. M assee of the Willow F lat com lic, th e operating m anagem ents, and the sam e as th a t fed th e brood sow A notable feature of the report was m unlty, "and from w hat they tell me, labor shall be represented equally. P resident H aw ver and S ecretary John when she is not producing a litte r of It is known th a t upon many of the D. Saunders declared railroad sched the showing th a t while there were 1296 th e crop is not going to be as large T h at the public, the operators and pigs. H e should have the run of a sum m its of the high mountain ridges ules and in d u stry would be seriously incomes over $300,000 in 1916, the num estim ated ea rlier in th e season. the w age-earners share equally all pasture a q u arter of an acre in area of the H aw aiian Islands, in the re crippled w ithin a day o r two. Already ber was reduced to 1015 in 1917. The But it is going to be the best crop revenue in excess of the guarantee to In connection with his paddock. H ere gions of heavy rainfall, are open bogs steel mills and o th er industries at $1,000,000 incomes decreased from 206 we have ever had.” he can exercise and obtain much of private capital, by granting to the op his feed from tho forage, or in th e which support a peculiar and in terest Gary and o th e r n o rth ern Indiana points to 141 and the decrease In the am ount Salem. — H earings to adjudicate erato rs and the employes one-half the w inter when the fornge Is consumed ing flora. Many species form more and in Chicago have begun to feel the reported by persons in th at class was savings which are expected to be made he may be fed on alfalfa or clover hay or less hem ispherical tussocks which effects of th e strike, according to the $157,427,730. The $1,000,000 men, how w ater rig h ts on Fifteen Mile creek and by such a perfected organization, and rise above the general level of the union leaders. ever, paid more taxes than any other W hite riv er In W asco county; Snow to the public the oth er half as con in connection with the grain ration. Keep the boar healthy, give him ex bog. A showy lobelia w ith numerous class, contributing $109,424,999 to the creek in D eschutes county, and sum ers, eith er by increasing service ercise, plenty of rough feeds, and large cream-colored flowers as much Thom as creek, Drews creek and Cot w ithout adding aosts or by reducing keep him in condition by varying his Germany to Begin Freeing Russians. governm ent out of a total of $306,835,- as three and a half inches long, pe tonwood creek in L ake county, have costs. supply of grain. U nder such condi Paris—M arshal Foch appeared before 914 in income reports. culiar violets and a sundew are found the supreme council Saturday In con been se t for early in Septem ber, ac “This role originates with labor," tions little trouble will be experi there. cording to an agreem ent reached by Europe Faces Coal Crisis. nection with th e discussion of the Rus says the statem en t, “because labor enced in getting n normal boar to pro duce large litters of strong, healthy m em bers of th e sta te w ^ter board sian prisoners' problem. The condition P arts.—Shipping and fuel represen-, happens to have firm organizations P ig s. George T. Cochran of La Valuable Tree. of the Bulgarian arm y also was taken tativ es of France. Belgium and Italy here. through which it m ay become articu The beech, which Is found in the up. M arshal Foch m aking a report on conferred with H erbert C. Hoover, G rande was present a t the meeting. late.” tem perate zone In Europe, America he num ber of effective troops Bulgaria head of the international relief organ He reported conditions very dry The trainm en are not represented in PIG CLUB M EM BERS PROSPER throughout eastern Oregon. and Asia, is valuable in medicine for still has under arm s. ization, Tuesday and decided to urge statem en t, because W. G. Lee, presi Some Have Been at Work Long the creosote distilled from its tar. The council has decided to Inform the suprem e council of the peace con Eugene.—S. A. Sanford,- federal land d en t of th e brotherhood, was out of Enough to Have Porkers for Creosote, creosote carbonate and Germany th a t all restrictio n s on the ference to appoint an European coal ap p raiser, will be here in a few days the city, but it was said th at they Sale and Make Money. guaiacol are medicines used to supple movement of Russian prisoners held in com mission to co-ordinate distribution to s ta rt appraising 40 farm s in Lane join in it. ment the hygienic m easures which Germany have been lifted. Germany of European coal in an effort to avert county for federal farm loans. The (Prepared by the United States Depart have done so much to reduce the death may now release such prisoners and w hat threatens to be a disaster. Mr. work was sta rted several w eeks ago ment of Agriculture.) Huns Get Fats in Mail. Pig club members in Florida are rate in sufferers from pulm onary tu h ereafter will be responsible for their Hoover has said th a t Europe's coal by an o th er appraiser, but he was as San Francisco.—P arcel post ship working up an industry among them berculosis. production was 35 .per cent below nor signed to o th er territory. It will take m ents of ham. bacon, lard, dried fruits, maintenance. selves. Some of th e members who T here are betw een 200,000 and 250,- mal and the United States could not probably 12 days to finish the work. tea, sugar and oth er foodstuffs to in hnve been In clnb work long enough W hite Chocolate. 000 Russian prisoners in Germany. offer relief because of the shortage of From Eugene Mr. Sanford will go to dividuals I d G erm any and A ustria by to have some pigs fo r sale are dispos A Swiss product which Is said to T his has been a g reat problem for shipping. T h u rsto n to work on farm s owned by relatives here have increased so rapid ing of th eir stock to oth er club mem have greater food value than the the allies, as m any of the R ussians are Mr. Hoover declined to accept the m em bers of the McKenzie valley farm ly in th e five days since mail service bers. One club boy has sold $100 brown sw eet chocolate of America Is bolshevikl. Poland heretofore has been | perm anent direction of the proposed loan association and will be assisted to th ese countries was resum ed th a t worth of pigs to club members this w hite chocolate. It is made of cocoa unwilling to allow Russians to cross European coal comm'ission, saying he by th e local appraising board of th at railw ay mail officials found it nec- year. Another, who Joined th e pig club two y ears ago, is now furnishing butter, and either sugar or dried tellsh territo ry on th eir way to Rus believed the problem to be strictly association. ssary to send three carloads east Mon- pigs to other members, and says he cream. It is smooth, glossy, and ra th sia. European. P ortland.—Accused of conspiring to day. N early all of th e packages con Is glad he w ent into the club work. e r attractiv e in appearance. re stra in trade, R. P. Butchart, presi tain fats, such as ham , bacon or lard, and believes th a t every boy and girl 156,270 Men Yet Over Sea. NC-4 Not to Come West. who can do so should Join. dent of th e Oswego Cement company, postoffice officials say. W hile In the act of playing coalman W ashington, D. C. — The Pacific and Clarke Moore, general m anager, W ashington, T>. C.—F igures made R obert dumped some building blocks | coast need not expect a visit from the will be tried In the federal court, Oc New Plane Record Made. ATTEN TIO N TO BROOD SOWS out of his sister's doll buggy. His public by the w ar d ep artm en t show NC-4, which made the recent success tober 31. Although th e plant is lo Villacoublay.—A djutant Casale, the . th a t 3,113,120 officers and m en had siste r being asleep a t tho time. I told ful trip across the ocean, the navy de cated in a sm all town n ear Portland, French aviator, who established a new 1 A fter W eaning H er Pigs She Should him to m ake less noise, i s he might been discharged from the arm y up partm ent said Tuesday after consider Be Kept on P astu re snd Fed Mr. B u tch art is a resident of Todd /-orld altitu d e record of 31,168 feet w ake her up. His answ er w as: 'TU to July 29 and th a t the num ber brought ing many requests from the west that Gaining Grain Ration. Inlet, British Columbia, and Mr. Moore last week, broke his own record Sun- get so ft coal next time, daddy, and she bark from Europe on th at d ate was the famous seaplane make a transcon is a resid en t of Denver, w here he is day by ascending to a height of 10,100 w on't w ake up." The sow having weaned her pigs, 1.798.275. T he stren g th of the army tin en tal trip. The departm ent said said to be sales m anager of several m eters (approxim ately 33,136 feet), ou th at date was 612,708. Of th e 612,- th a t the NC-4, being a seaplane, cannot cem ent com panies, the stock of which | The flight was made in 55 minutes, should be kept on p astu re and fed a A fter a season of sport the mind is 100 men. 156.270 were In Europe on venture far from w ater routes and that is held by the Sm ith Cement S ecqfities T he tem p eratu re a t the height of 10,- gaining grain ratio n to build up her ... , system and flesh fo r re-breeding, and prepared to resum e Its studies with July 29. 67.680 a t sea and the rem ain it is im practicable to try to convert company, a $10,000,000 holding com- ( MO m eters was eight degrees below provide nourishm ent for the oncoming increased vigor. der at home or on oth er stations. | its use to that of a prairie schooner. pany. fall litter. COMPILED FOR YOU MANY MEN GO OUT DEMAND IS LARGE INCOMES SHOW D ECREASE i 1 FORMAL