WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
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STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF.
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JOHNSON VICTOR
PRICES ARE ON TOBOGGAN
Food. Clothing and Other Necessaries
Quoted Lower.
Chicago.—A wave of price-cutting in
retail clothing costs reaching from the
Mississippi valley to the Pacific coast
Brief Resume Most Important
Vote Creeps Up as Count was reported Wednesday. Dispatches
from 24 cities told of promised reduc
Daily News Items.
Progresses.
tions in certain necessities ranging
Salem.— Each of the 100 Salem ]
from 15 per cent to minus profit.
Cherrians has pledged himself to ob
Financial authorities here said that
tain 10 automobiles to transport Shrin-1
the indications were that the price de
ers in attendance at the annual con
cline would be limited to ready-to-wear
clave of the order in Portlaud next I
clothing, principally women's gar
June to this city. The excursion to
ments and silks. Shoes were in the
Eventi o f Noted People. Government! the capital city will be made on June | Stanfield Heads Ticket for U. S. Sena- list affected.
23.
Tight money and Inadequate trans
end Pacific Northwrat, and Other
torship — Capital Punishment
portation facilities were cited among
Albany.—Taxes
in
the
total
sum
of
Ihinga Worth Knowing.
Is Favored Again.
the prime reasons. Delays In delivery
$453,914.55 have been collected by |
of goods In which much money had
Sheriff Kendall on the 1919 assess
been tied up, together with inability
ment roll In Linn county. This repre-1
The First National bank at Finley-
sents 58.87 per cent of the total of the
With all but one small precinct in of farmers to get grain and livestock
vilie l'a.. was held up and robbed of
roll. Last year the “ first half” pay- Multnomah county accounted for in to market were said in many instances
01 15,000 in cash and bonds Monday.
rnunta represented 59.79 per cent of tj,e returns and with numerous other to have worked a hardship on mer
A reward of 100,000 pesos for the
chants.
'counties Incomplete, Hiram Johnson
death or capture of Francisco Villa t,le ro,l‘
An officer of one of the leading
Eugene.—Business men and college | i8 holding his lead over Leonard Wood department stores of Chicago de
has been offered by the government
students are urged in a letter received
of the state of Chihuahua.
for the Oregon presidential preference clared that the price reduction now
here by Will O. Steel, secretary of the
being reported meant also that mer
Mrs. Kleanor Hodgman Porter, au
by
the narrow margin of 510 votes.
Eugene chamber of commerce, from
chants were trying to satisfy what he
thoress, known especially for her
Johnson's
lead
as
shown
on
the
first
the secretary of agriculture, to spend
called “ a hysterical demand from the
“ Pollyanna” stories, died at her home
their summer vacations working on returns that had been received Sun
public for lower prices.” These cur
in Cambridge, Mass., Friday night.
farms in order to increase the food day was cut down materially in the ail
rent reductions, he said, might be only
Brigadier-General C. M. Bailey, U. production of the country this year.
but complete count in Multnomah temporary.
8. A., retired, died in Chicago Satur
A financial authority here said that
Salem.—Hal Hibbard Camp, Span county. One basis on which he had
day. General Bailey was born in New
York in 1841. Me was retired in 1899. ish War Veterans, at a meeting here a lead of more than 1700 in the state if reports of price cutting were de
pendable, they indicated a tendency
A 7-cent fare on the Seattle munici last week, went on record opposing I at large was a lead of more than 1500
toward a reduction in inventories.
the
pardon
of
Henry
Albers
of
Port-
in
Multnomah.
But
the
missing
pre
pal street railway is provided in the
Though
this might be temporary, he
ordinance which was presented to the land, who is under sentence for utter- clncta in Multnomah as they came in
said, it was undoubtedly good, in that
ing
seditious
statements
during
the
gradually
ate
into
this
lead
until
the
city council as an emergency measure
war. Copies of the protest will be count closed with Johnson leading in it suggested that merchants were go
Scrubwomen, elevator men, janitors sent to President Wilson and Oregon’s the county by only 1122.
ing ahead more cautiously. Sales are
and window washers in the Chicago representatives in congress.
The count now stands, including being held under various names.
federal building will resign July 1 tin
In Topeka, Kan., a men's clothing
Multnomah county:
Salem.—An engineer employed by
less they are granted an Increase In
firm
announced a “ no profit” sale.
Presidential preference— Wood, 40,
the Portland & Southeastern railroad,
pay.
109; Johnson, 40,619; Hoover, 13,036; Department stores in St. Louis adver
tised “ under selling campaigns.” Twen
An increase of 112,745,000 In the in a statement given out here, Indi Lowden, 14,487—Johnson’s lead 510.
ty
per cent cuts were the most popu
appropriation of the army air service cated that as soon as litigation involv
United States Senator George E.
is tentatively agreed to by the senate ing rights of way for the line extend Chamberlain continues to lead Stark lar. On the Pacific coast, Tacoma
The house fixed the air service fund Ing from Mount Angel to Stayton, Me- weather for the Democratic nomina dealers announced cuts from 20 per
liama and through Minto Pass to east
at $27,255,000.
tion.
Throughout the state, with in cent flat to "profitless sales.” Three
ern Oregon was settled in the courts,
complete returns from 26 counties, in Seattle retailers cut clothing 20 per is not enough to be ready to go where
Flour made a furl iter decline in price
work on the road would be resumed
eluding complete returns from 225 Mult- cent. In San Francisco one retailer duty calls; a man should stand around
at the largest Minneapolis mills Mon
day, family patent flour being quoted
The Dalles.—Upon receipt of new s]nomal* Precincts, Chamberlain is vir announced a 20 per cent cut in all where he can hear the call.”
Be There.
at $14.75 to $15 a barrel In 98 pound of tils wife's illness, Thomas Fargher ,ul*Hy two to one ahead of Stark lines, another 20 to 50 per cent in
certain commodities.
A few years ago at a great Ameri
cotton sacks in carload lots.
Jr. of Dufur section hurriedly hoarded weather.
Several Omaha stores said their silk can political convention, one of tlioSe
Stanfield is 11,857 votes ahead of
The Walker bill was Higned by Gov an airplane Wednesday morning In
euts were 50 per cent. In Wichita, mysterious moments arrived, in which
ernor Smith of New York Monday Portland, and with Walter Lees as Abraham for the Bepublican senatorial
Kan., silk shirts had been reduced. a great outburst broke In enthusiasm
pilot
made
the
fastest
time
ever
flown
I
nomination,
with
the
lead
increasing
The law legalizes the manufacture and
Coffeyville,
Kan., reported many cut for one man. But the man was Not
returns continue to come in.
sale of beer containing not mure than from Portland to The Dalles, covering aH
There; at that moment he was enter
the distance in 70 minutes. The plane I Senator Chamberlain has, according price sales.
2.76 per cent of alcohol by weight.
taining friends in one of the city’s
In Minneapolis a large department hotels. Before lie could lie reached,
then flew on to Mr. Farglier’s farm at to the latest returns tabulated, a total
One person dead and more titan 10
vote of 6332 in the state at large, in store has announced a cut of 20 per a comparatively unknown man was
Dufur.
Injured was the toll of two tornadoes
eluding Multnomah county, while cent. At Knoxville, Tenn., one of the called upon and. through ttie magnet
that Saturday swept Castle Bock
Astoria.—"W e shall erect and oper Starkweather has received 3563 votes city’s largest department stores made ism of tlie moment, he was inspired
Minn., a town of 200 population, and ate three or four lumber manufactur a Chamberlain lead of 2769. The Mult a discount of 20 per cent on its entire into one of the greatest efforts of his
a strip of cuuntrysldo near Bed Wing ing plants in the northwest in the im
nomali count gives Chamberlain 3134 stock, except a few contract priced life— and It swept him Into the United
Minn.
mediate future and one of these un
States senate, where he lias proved
votes to 1705 for Starkweather, a Mult articles. Shoe reductions also were
himself one of tlie great leaders of
Governor Ben Oleott of Oregon, witli doubtedly will be located on the Co iiomah lead of 1429,
announced.
the country.
lumbia
river,
not
far
from
Astoria,”
Lieutenant B. M. Kelley as pilot
At Oklahoma City sales offers of 20
All measures on the state ballot
Be There.
reached Stockton, Cal., at 2:40 P. M. said B. A. Long of Kansas City, presi were approved, tho only close contest to 30 per cent reductions were re
When you make an appointment.
Monday by airplane after a flight dent of the Long-Bell Lumber com being over tho proposal to restore ported.
Be There. When you agree to do a
pany,
who
left
Friday
afternoon
with
which extended from the Canadian
At San Antonio, Tex., two depart certain task, Be There. I f you are
capital punishment. Opinion of voters
his party for Seattle.
boundary.
was fairly well divided on this mat' ment stores and one at Waco an looking toward an Opportunity, Be
Salem.— Ten thousund letters con ter. but the measure has carried bring nounced sales with reductions of 20 There when the Opportunity comes
From $60 (o $120 a gallon is the
per cent; another a 25 per cent re your way. The Leaders in the busi
ing back the death penalty.
ruling price for whisky in Illicit trade, taining report blanks and notices re
ness world, and In every other sphere
duction
sale.
according to Secretary Houston. Mr. garding the payment of annual license
of activity, are constantly alert for
At
Fort
Smith,
Ark.,
special
sales
Houston wrote congress requesting fees were mailed out Wednesday by Service Men Fail to Receive
said reduction was 20 per cent. At men and women who can measure up
to Chances that they hold in the hol
$1,500,000 for 1000 watchmen to guard I. M. Hchuldcrinan, slate corporation
$127.150 In Liberty Bonds Pine Bluff one men's store and one low of their hands. You, whoever you
'ommlssionor. Mr. Schuldorman es-
bonded warehouses next year.
women’s
store
are
making
the
same
Imates that between $250,000 and
are, and wherever you work, if you
The three shoe factories in Marl $300,000 will be collected by the cor
Liberty Bonds to the value of $127, cut. Slight reductions in shoes and are conforming constantly to your
boro, Mass., of Bice & Hutchins. Inc., poration
department
during
the 150 belonging to 2,543 ex-service men wearing apparel were noted at Texar Ideals of the best, you need have no
will be shut down for a week begin months of Juno, July and August.
have been returned to Washington by kana, Springfield, and at Little Rock fear but that nt the proper moment
ning Wednesday, it is announced.
(lie Post Office Department because of retailers last week made cuts from you will be the one who Is—There.
Be There.
Salem.— Tho decision of Judge Skip- incorrect address, according to Lieu a fifth to a quarter. Atchison, Kan.,
“ General business conditions” were
worth
of
Lane
county,
who
recently
given as the reason. The plants em
tenant Colonel Mathew C. Smith, head announced 20 per cent reductions.
(■Joined tho state highway commis of the Service Information Branch of
ploy 2500 persons.
U. S. Oil Depletion Is Feared.
An unconfirmed report wus received sion from proceeding with the con tlte War Department, in a statement
Washington, D. C.— Interest of the
In El Paso, Tex., Sunday thul General struction of tho so-called Canyonville issued today. Veterans who have not
Francisco Villa hud ordered American ut-off section of tho Pacific highway received their bonds at this late date United States in the race for the oil
and other foreign owned mining com In Douglas county, is to be appealed are advised to write to the Zone Fin- supply of the world as embodied in
By EDGAR A. GUEST
panies in Chthuahuu to pay him $500, o the Oregon supreme court for final | »nee Officer, Washington, 1). C., giv the report of the state department
000 and that he had cut the power line elermination, according to announce in g their naino, army serial number, submitted by President Wilson to the
ment made here by J. M. Devers, at- organization, and address.
AT THE END OF THE WEEK.
senate Tuesday has arisen from the
between Boquillus and Parral.
orney for the highway department.
alarming
depletion
of
oil
reserves
in
There
are
also
ou
file
with
the
Zone
A detachment of cavalry from Fort 1
When I have paid for what I owe.
Myer was called out Sunday night tot
Mood B lvit. Because purchasers, Finance Officer 7,059 discharge certi tho United States.
The grocer nrid the coni man, too,
While this country contributed 69
disperse a mob of more than a thou | for whom the fruit has been held in ficates which cannot be delivered to
The boy who shovels off tlie snow
sand persons which surrounded the storage here, have been unable to re their owners because they were mailed per cent of tho oil supply of the world,
And given the milkman what is due.
Jail «t Xlcxandriu courthouse, 12 miles ceive It, apple shipments have been in without return address, or mailed 40 per cent of its producing fields When I have paid tlie monthly rent,
And squared the plumber for his
from the limits of the District of t'o- held up and tho Apple Growers' usso- out and returned undelivered. Alpha have been exhausted and, according
pains,
luinhiu
1 lie iiio I i was attempting to j elation announces that the last of the betical lists by states of these unde- to official estimates, oil reserves re
I
find
that all I have Is spent,
maining
In
the
United
States
are
not
ltverable
discharge
certificates
have
obtain possession of William Turner, 1919 crop will not he shipped before
I can’t go wrong on what remains.
allegro.
the middle of tho week. Nine cars of been furnished to all senators and con expected to last 20 years.
Of the reserve in this country for-
Atuerhans have evinced no great apples remained In refrigeration at the gressmen, with the request that they
ign
interests control but 4 per cent, Let Folly beckon ns she will,
he
given
the
widest
publicity
possible.
determination to become possessors of I »«elation plants. All fruit had been
I trend the horizontal line.
In April, 7,384 Liberty Bonds to the despite tlie fact that the United States When 1 have paid my tailor's hill,
articles once belougiiig to ex Kaiser dipped two months earlier last year
value of $369,200 were mailed, making is the only oil producing country in
Wilhelm. Seven lots of gold emtirold
I am not apt to purchase wine.
Pendleton A dozen Mocks of the a total of 1,077,978 bonds of various which citizens and foreigners are per When I have paid for lints and shoes.
ered velvet hangings from the throne-
residence section of Pendleton, in the I issues to the par value of $53,898,900 mitted to participate in oil production
The tempter has to hike along;
room of the imperial palace at Berlin
east end of the city, were flooded Wed now delivered to ex service men.
on even terms.
I aiu no customer for booze,
wer knocked down under the auction
Ines'iay morning, when tho Byers mill-1 During the same month the $60 bonus
On what is left I enn’t go wrong.
eer'i
linier in Nt
<rk Saturday'
I race which skirts that section of the I wus puld to 3,960 ex soldiers who did
Armed Men Rule Court.
for
1305.
towi . broke through its banks. The ) not receive it at the time of their dig-
Jonesboro, Ark. — Armed men de I never get my fingers burned
to accept for tlie United
By mining stocks thnt quickly fall,
nt* Washington rallr<>ad tracks | charge,
manded Immediate resignation of the
dilatory over Armenia was
Job with which I’m most con
I
The
undermined for several feet and
Lx service men who still have | commissioners and attorneys of the
ingress Monday by Presl-
cerned
c delayed for five hours. No claims to be adjusted with the various Black Oak Hancock road improvement
Wl
Is buying clothes fur children sniuil.
i. Tho executive satd lie serious losses were reported, but mini
Government agencies should address district when court was convened to I henr men talk of surplus dough
us he was “ urging a very e roua chickens were drowned and
Lieutenant Colonel Mathew 0. Smith, ¡hear the application for an injunction
But none of it I've ever had.
critl ‘al i
co,” but that he did so “ (u many lawns covered with mud and
When
1 have paid up what I owe
ODmieil
of
National
Defense
Build
brought
by
the
taxpayers
against
the
the ♦ *aru
belief U will be the wish debris.
lug. Washington. D. C
If I break even I am glad.
district.
The resignations were al
of til o pe
e ot the United States that
(C opyright by E dgar A. Guest.:
ready written and were presented to
this
be done”
Salem. Bonds in the sum of $100,-
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Moxico City, Mexico.—V Carranza, tho two commissioners present and to 1
What Saving Means.
Indianapolis.— Katun .teg baaed on 000. voted by the Ochooo irrigation who fled from this city
on May 6. their attorneys. They signed the res-
Conservation and thrift extended to
incomplete reports from ail parts of district, were certified Tuesday by the and who took flight into the mountains ! ¡citations and withdrew
the little things makes nmnzlng totals
the country received here indicated Irrigation securities commission. This of Puebla following a battle near Rin
In big undertakings. In 1010 the Bal
that the American Legion had added makes a tola! of $1.350,000 In bonds conada, was killed at 1 o'clock Thurs
Seattle Population is 315,652.
timore A Ohio railroad used one scoop
between 400,000 and half a million now certified for the development of this day morning nt Tiaxcalaltongo. accord
Washington. D. C.— The population ful of coal less for one and a half bil
members to Its rolls in the nation wide project. The Ochooo district contains ing to official announcement here.
of Seattle, Wash., as shown by the lion times, and the result was thnt (lie
membership campaign of last week. approximately 22.000 acres in Crook
Carranza's companions, the names 1920 census is 315,652, it was announ great road's coal hill was 81.176.204
New York, Texas, California Virginia. county, and Hie bonds certified will of whom are not as yet known, are
ced here. This Is an Increase of 78.484. less than for the same work In 1018.
Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania all complete development of the project. declared to have shared hit. fate. The
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r 33.1 per cent. Other population
appear as contestants tor first place A dam 125 feet In height already has
Ingenious Women in New York.
attack which resulted In the death of '• statistics announced were: Centralia.
In the race ou the basis of early re been completed and water is being the president was led by General R© Wash.. 7549; increase. 238, or 3.3 per
New York women have patented
turns.
placed ou the land.
more Inventions {Jian the women of
dolfo Serrera, it is said.
cent
any other state.
COMPILED
FOR
Salem.— E. P. Bansom of Freewater
has filed application with the state j
engineer to appropriate water from
the east branch of Crockett creek for J Wood
the irrigation of 10 acres in Umatilla
county.
YOU
CHAMBERLAIN W I N S
Juái Folks
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LEONIDAS
EONIDAS was a Spartan hero who
L
earned a large bronze monument
by lidding the puss of Thermopylae
with 300 men and a shoestring.
Sparta was a small, irritable coun
try about the size of a Florida town
site, but it was never stepped on with
any success. The inhabitants lived
on cayenne pepper and red beefsteak
and practiced shooting nt a mark eight
hours a day. One time Xerxes, king
of Persia, decided to annex Sparta,
and after rounding up a neat little
army of 2,000,000 men lie headed for
the Grecian archipelago, which was
about In the same place it is now.
Xerxes did not get far before he
ran into the pass of Thermopylae,
which was a short cut between the
mountains wide eougli to allow two
Defying the Persian Army in Some of
the Rudest Greek Adjectives Ever
Used.
thin men to pass without being tele
scoped. Mere Xerxes found Leonidas
drawn up in battle array, defying
the whole Persian army in some of
the rudest Greek adjectives ever used.
Xerxes took the affair ns n joke un
til Leonidas had spitted a few thou
sand Fersian husbands on Ills trusty
sword, when lie decided to surround
Leonidas.
When the Spartan hero
discovered this, he delivered an elo
quent address to Ills men and chnrged
the entire Persian army, which filled
him so full of arrows that he had to
be pln-fenthered before being removed
to the family residence.
Leonidas’ name nt once became a
household word, nnd autographs and
kodak pictures of the deceased were
eagerly sought after.
His death
aroused so much Indignation that the
Spartans rose up nnd threw Xerxes
across the Hellespont with chagrin
written all over his profile. Leonidas
did not die in vain, as he had fur
nished the Impassioned high school
graduate with some of the most livid
eloquence and weird rhetoric ever un
corked from an opera house stage.
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