N E W S U. S. TO ACT SOON
WOBLO HAPPENINGS p STATE
IN B R IE F .
OF CURRENT WEEK
10 MOVE FREIGHT
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
Roseburg.—With the close of busi
ness on Saturday. May 8. approximate
ly 500 applications had been filed in
the Roseburg land office for Oregvu
and California grant lands, which
were opened for filing on April 12.
Nation-Wide Congestion Grows
More Menacing.
MEXICANS PROMISE SAFETY
Assurance« Given by Revolutionists
Recognition Is Desired.
Washington, D. C.--Official reports
telling of the overthrow of President
Carranza of Mexico were before Pres
ancle, the wtsard slept. Adele went
Ident Wilson anti his cabinet Tuesday C ANARIES A R E YELLOW buck to her mint's hut, but behind her
but the new turn of events was under
NCK upon a time there lived a llcw the wren.
Thut afternoon a li e n A d e le was spin»
very small witch In u very »mall
stood to have been gtveu only passing
lillig III a shed, the wren told Ilia witch
hut right on (he edge of a wide, sandy,
attention.
of the plot to run nuny.
hut, glaring desert.
Dispatches from navy officers and
“You see what klial af it child you
Now, Just opposite across the end
state department representatives all of the dgaert was u tiny wlaard. He have eun*d for so kllidly," said tbs
have Indicated thus far that assur was about 1,000 years older than the wren. "Here she Is getting ready to
witch, hut thut tiiad» no unit ter In the leave you forever."
ances of protection to Americans and way that such people count time. The
"1 will follow them," replied the
other foreigners had been given by witch had a pretty niece, and the wlz witch. "They will both die III the
victorious leaders of the revolutionary aril a handsome nephew. Of course, desert, tiut I do not care. My broth
the boy mid girl knew each other, but Is cooking und will tulA* a long time,
forces, and there was nothing of an of this the uncle and aunt did not ap but I ckn catch ui> Io them. You
emergency nature In the situation, of prove.
know I can change myself Into a wren
“I f I hear of your fticetlng tlint girl Just like you."
ficials Indicated, that called for action
About nine that evening the girl,
by the Washington government.
with a bundle In her baud stole out
The question of recognition of the
to the hush mid there she found th e
new government apparently in process
bid watting. She mounted the donkey,
of formation in Mexico may arise soon.
! and they set off across the sand It
i was emil. The moon rose and turned
It was reported that plans for asking M M M
the desert Into gold.
recognition were being pressed by revo W e o w t
"We will go off in this direction."
lutionary leaders. The super-dread
ja
X
said Don. "We will have to cross the
nought Oklahoma was enroute from
yellow wntflV before we get Into safety.
New York to Key West, but reports
As It Is magical In Its power, we mast
from Captain Long, commanding the
not let It touch us, for If It does, we
destroyer force now distributed along
- will remain forever yellow."
the east coast of Mexico, told of no
Now lifter they laid gone about
disorder.
three hoars, the witch. In the shape
of a wren, started* after them. She
Roseburg.—At a meeting Monday
night railroad crafts appointed a com
tnittee to investigate co-operative
store systems, with the view of estab
lishing such an institution here.
Albany.—Auto tourist travel through Interstate Commerce Commission Ex
Eventa of Noted People, Govern menta
the Willamette valley is unde* way
and Pncifie^Northweat, and Other
perts Aiding C»r Service Com
already. Several automobile parties
have camped in Bryaut park, where
Thinge Worth Knowing
mittee in Gathering Data.
the city maintains a free camping
ground, and the number of tourists is
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of increasing. In former years auto tra
Washington, D. C.—There were indi
Belgium went to England by airplane vel began later in the season.
cations Monday that the government
The Dalles.—A controlling share In
Sunday. They landed at Farnborough
would act at once to break the nation
in Kent, flying from Brussels in 3 the stock of the Norman Cream com
pany of this city has been purchased wide freight jam which for nearly a
hours and 57 minutes.
by
the White Clover Ice Cream com month has been slowly clenching its
Five robbers Monday held up the
pany
of Portland. The new manage grip on the throat of industry.
store rooms of a former Kansas City
ment
proposes to make the local
Sweeping orders by the interstate
saloon keeper and drove away with
two truckloads of whisky. The liquor creamery one of the largest in eastern commerce commission granting pri
Oregon.
was valued at $20,000.
ority of shipment for food, fuel and
Corvallis.—Peter Whitaker of Pine perishables were confidently awaited
Milwaukee bread prices were raised
Monday by 180 bakers, members of Lake ranch reports a turkey that has by railroad officials.
the Master Bakers’ association. Small laid an egg every day for 62 days and
They expected the commission also
loaves cost 11 cents, large loaves 16 the agricultural eollege hen record of to bar temporarily the transportation
shows
no
signs
of
quitting.
This
beats
cents and rolls 18 cents.
55 eggs in 55 days and the record of of all “dead" freight, so that neces
Two constables of the Timoleamue the G. B. Coon white leghorn hen saries of life could be rushed to com
(Cork, Ireland) police station were which laid 57 eggs in 57 days.
munities where shortage will soon
shot dead on patrol duty Monday by
exist
Roseburg. — The Drager company
men in ambush. At Bandon Sergeant
The commission was expected to be New York.—Men prominent In the
Flynn was shot dead and another con has begun erecting what they declare prepared to direct its whole effort at
Business and literary life of New York
to be one of the biggest fruit packing ending the traffic congestion.
stable wounded.
plants in the state. The present build Its experts have been instructed to gathered at 11:30 o’clock Thursday
Captain Lowell H. Smith broke the
ing. a frame structure 130x45 feet and work in conjunction with the Ameri morulng in the Church of the Ascen
world s altitude record for an airplane
part of it three stories high, is being can Railroad association car service slon to pay last tribute to William
carrying a pilot and three passengers
wrecked and a modern packing plant committee in assembling all available Dean Howells, novelist and man of
Monday when he ascended 17,100 feet
160x50 feet, with an annex, will be data on the car situation with view
at El Centro, Cal. The plane was in
built
to apportioning the supply where it letters, who died in hts sleep at hla
the air two hours and 40 minutes.
home here early Tuesday. He was in
would do the most good.
The
Dalles.—Due
to
increased
pro
his 84th year. Rev. Percy Stickney
Despite absence of American repre
duction of the five-mile sawmill, lum Appeals of the railroads for help
have
brought
to
light
new
dangers.
Grant, an old friend, will officiate.
sentatives on the inter allied control ber prices, effective last Thursday,
commissions to supervise fulfillment have been cut 5 per cent by a local Developments in the last 24 hours
While at Savannah, Ga , three weeks
by Germany of the disarmament yard. It is hoped here that the re showed that a decidedly menacing con ago, Mr. Howells caught a severe cold
clauses of the treaty, the United States duction in the price of lumber may dition confronted the commercial world
is watching the situation unofficially. tend to relieve the serious housing through the tie-up of the financial re which developed Into Influenza. He
sources of business houses. Delay in was brought home and his son, John
The shipping board, under a decree shortage which has gripped this city movement of products was declared to
Meade Howells, and his daughter, Mil
signed Monday by Justice Bailey in for the last year and a half.
have brought many plants face to face dred, were with him when he died.
the district supreme court, is perpet
Baker.—The 12th annual show of with an immediate shutdown.
In accordance with the novelist's
ually enjoined from seling the 29 ex-
Interest rates at this time are so
the Union Livestock Show association
wishes the body will be cremated and
German liners seized when the United
at Union will be held Wednesday high as to make it out of the ques the ashe, taken to Cambridge, Mass.
States entered the war. An appeal
Thursday and Friday, June 2, 3 and 4 tion for most of the manufacturing
At a dinner given In New York In
was noted.
There will be racing, wild west car concerns that borrow to finance fur
1912
to do honor to William Dean
Governor Marcus Holcomb, of Con nivals, dancing and other amusements. ther production, according to treas
Howells
upon bis 75th blrtbday, Will
necticut, replying to the request made The automobile highway to Union has ury officials. It was said the con
by the “flying squadron” of suffragists been improved. Many Baker people gestion was costing the nation "mill iam Howard Taft, then president of
the United States, lauded the guest as
representing the 48 states, again has plan to go to Union for the show.
ions a day” through under-production.
"the
greatest living American wrltor
declined to call a special session of
Wholesalers and retailers alike are
and
novelist."
the Connecticut legislature to act on Bend.—That black volcanic cinders, suffering through inability to obtain
inexhaustible deposits of which are delivery of goods, railroad men said,
the woman suffrage amendment.
Royalty Marries In London.
found in the immediate vicinity of and the resulting shortage threatens
A vote by Thursday or Friday on
Bend, may solve the problem of find to become serious unless the govern London. — Two kings, with their
the resolution to end the status of
ing a light aggregate to take the place ment can break the blockade.
queens, the sovereigns of Belgium and
war with Germany and Austria is the
of gravel in bridge concrete, which
The volume of freight of all kinds Great Britain, were among the distin
aim of senate leaders in arranging to
has been confronting the state high offered for transportation was said
call up the resolution. Republicans
way commission for some time, is the to be larger than the roads ever had guished personages who attended
plan to keep it continually before the
Tuesday the wedding of Lady Cynthia
belief of District Highway Engineer been called upon to handle.
senate until the vote is reached.
Stebbins.
Curzon,daughter of Earl Curzon, for
President Wilson reviewed the sea
eign
secretary, and Lieutenant Oswald
son's opening circus parade Monday Hood River.—Workmen are now en
Ernald Mosley, M. I’., in the chapel
gaged
in
completing
new
garage,
ware
from the east portico of the white
royal. The affair out-rivaled anything
house. Seated in a chair, he laughed house and residence structures here,
cf a similar nature in Ixtndon in re
the
total
cost
of
which
will
exceed
at the antics of the clowns and several
cent years. A host of diplomats and
times removed his cap in acknowledg $75,000. One of the garages will cost
San Francisco.—Mrs. Edward F. other prominent people were present,
ment of the greetings by the circus in excess of $25,000, and another $20 Scanlon, president of the State House including John W. Davis,the Ameri
000. Both will be equipped with every
folks.
metropolitan convenience. A new coal wives’ league, following an investiga can ambassador, and Mrs. Davis. The
Net income of the Chicago, Milwau bunkers and warehouse will cost tion into the high coat of shoes, an king and queen of the Belgians had
kee & St. Paul railroad in 1919 to about $15,000. The remainder of the nounced Monday that evidence of profi come by airplane Saturday from Brus
taled $7,643,045, equivalent to $6.57 a total sum represents residence build teering by retailers, manufacturers and sels for the purpose of attending the
jobbers bad been found.
wedding. They were week-end guests
share on the preferred stock, accord ings.
"Hides this year are selling at a of Lord Curzon.
ing to the annual report, made public
Salem.—An unassigned surplus of price 50 per cent lower than 1919,”
Monday. This compared with income
Trucks to Cross U. 8.
of $6,241,509, or $5.36 on preferred $841,618.51 is shown in the report pre Mrs. Scanlon said. “Members of the
pared by the state industrial accident league delegated to make tbis investi Washington, D. C.—Another motor
stock in 1918.
commission here Friday and filed with gation have made personal canvass of
Fred H. Derfus, assistant chief pro
Governor Olcott Assets set out in the leather industries of the bay dis convoy is to be dispatched across the
bation officer of the juvenile court,
continent by the motor transport corps.
the report include bonds in the hands trict and the findings are startling.
Cincinnati. Saturday sent back to his
It will leave Washington about June
of the state treasurer amounting to
"The
finest
grade
of
hides,
that
parents in Bay City, Mich., a 15-year-
$3,691,261.65; cash, $316,978.14; cash brought 70 cents a pound in 1919, are 14 for Los Angeles, over the Bank-
old boy who was taken into custody
in bank, $98,477.67; premiums in selling today at 50 cents. Sole hides head national highway through Vir
on a charge of attempting to steal an
course of collection, $40,093.69, and that brought 48 cents a pound in 1919 ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
elephant The boy’s parents are prom
accrued interest estimated at $60,- are seljing at 30 cents. We have made Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas,
inent Bay City citizens and the offi
385.83.
a careful study of the different ele New Mexico and Arizona. The trip
cers refused tc divulge his name.
ments that make up the retail price will end about September 17. The con
Salem.—Bonds issued by the Grants of shoes. We find that the labor cost voy will cover a total distance of about
Madge Anna Sawyer, 21, Seattle,
Pass, Medford and Ochoco irrigation on a pair of shoes never exceeds $1.80. 3600 miles and will operate at a dally
Wash., a bride of two months, Mon
district will be certified by state irri "There is no shortage of leather. average of 44.5 miles a day. The Bank-
day shot and killed her husband,
gation securities commission as soon Hides by the thousands are stored in head National Highway association
Howard I. Sawyer, a mechanical en
as the records of each project are com warehouses of the state. Incidentally, will provide for receptions at various
gineer, on their cruising motorboat
moored in Lake Union, here. Mrs. pleted and filed with the state en we found that there is no shortage of night controls and for welfare work
Sawyer told the police sho and her gineer, according to a decision reached tallow, and the price of soap is beyond In connection with entertainment of
the troops at the control’s stations.
husband had been quarreling. She at a conference held here recently. reason.
The Grants Pass district, in Josephine “Retailers were interviewed who ad
shot merely to frighten him, she said.
county, has voted bonds In the sum of mitted that they sold shoes at 100
Religion Costa More.
Federal investigators have deter $184,000, the Medford district $1,250,- per cent in excess of their wholesale Los Angeles.—The higher cost of re
mined that the Utah-Idaho Sugar com 000, and the Ochoco district $100,000. price. Sixty per cent of this was held ligion received attention in the annual
pany with headquarters in Salt Lake The three projects are now under de to be overhead expense and the other report made here by the Southern
City, by selling sugar at 22.75 cents a velopment..
40 per cent to be legitimate profit. A California Congregational conference
pound wholesale, to which price it was
dealer with 60 per cent overhead cost by Dr. George F. Kenngott, superin
The
Dalles.—The
Dalles
will
build
a
raised May 1 from 13 cents, are realiz
should not exist.
tendent. “The dollar will no longer
ing a net profit of $14.15 a hundred- civic auditorium at a cost of $125,000.
buy a dollar’s worth of religion any
This
was
decided
Thursday,
when
citi
pound sack, United States District At
Sugar Buying "Futile.”
more than it will anything else,” de
zens
went
to
the
polls
and
gave
the
torney Isaac Blair Evans announced.
project a majority of 164 votes. Six Washington, D. C.—Action by the clared Dr. Kenngott, In urging In
Winter wheat production this year I hundred and twenty-four votes were United States government to acquire creased giving to make up deficits
was forecast Saturday at 484,647,000 cast. General obligation bonds to the the remaining portion of the Cuban faced by the national societies of the
bushels by the department of agricul extent of $50,000 also were voted. The sugar crop would only stimulate prices, denomination.
ture, which based its estimates on con bonds carried by a majority of 285. President Menocal of Cuba declared
ditions prevailing May 1. The crop While considerable opposition to the in a cablegram to Senator McNary of
To Clean Marble.
showed a slight improvement from auditorium bond issue, developed, the Oregon. The present crop, the presi Kerosene will clean marble. If there
April 1, the forecast of production be valiant work of the American Legion, dent said, Is 20 per cent less than are obstinate stains apply a m’xture
ing 1,030,000 bushels larger than es which is strongly behind the proposi estimated in December, due to drouth. of equal parts of common soda, pumice
timated a month ago. Compared with tion to give music, literature and art An unusual demand, coupled with stone and fine salt. It should be a
last year’s crop, the prospective wheat a home in this city, carried the project speculation, has helped to increase creamy consistency. Wash off with
crop has been reduced 33.8 per cent over by a safe margin.
prices, be said.
salt and water.
COMPILED FOR YOU
EXPECT WIDE ORDERS
WM. DEAN HOWELL S
CAREER IS FINISHED
O
I will turn you Into a wolf," said ttie
wlaard to Don, Ills nephew,
“I f you ever speuk to that boy again
I will lock you In the deepest, dark
est cavern In the world," the witch
told Adele, her niece.
One bright moonlight night the boy
and girl met at a bush In the desert
hnlf-wny between the hut of the witch
and that of the wizard.
"Meet me here tomorrow nt this
(tine and we will tlee from our homes,"
said the boy. I will bring our donkey
and In two days we will be beyond
the rench of our uncle and aunt."
Now, the lad did not know that n
tiny bird hud been listening all the
while. It was a wren which disliked
the girl, for It was Jealous of thu a t
tention given her.
Don nm away to the spot where his
caught sight of them Just as they were
nenring the yellow water. Don leaped
across, then threw over It a log, on
which the donkey Imurlng Adele came
sufely.
The wltrh, who was later
than sho thought. Hew fast mol laird.
As she skimmed low near the earth
she fluttered Just above the log wheel
Don cast It down Into the water. One
eml flew up mid lilt her. Down »he
tumbled Into the magical water. In
to It she went ns a bird and out of It
she came a* a bird, only she was a
bright lemon yellow.
She fluttered
about In n wild rage. She could not
ta lk ; only sang. Never again would
she become a woman; never again be
anything but a bird.
But Don mal Adele got safely out
of the desert mid found a happy home
among friends In the North.
(C o p y rig h t.)
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Beauty Chats
By EDNA KENT FORBES
(Copyright.)
EXERCISE FOR BEAUTY
T H E 4-FLUSHER.
OST W OM EN prefer c o ffe e In bed I l s th ou ght (lis t lab o r should be paid tha
and a hot bath to u aeries of
v e ry htshesl price.
(H e sought (he w o rk m e n ’s suffrag e and
exercises and a cold shower. Women
ho kn ew th a t listened nice.)
are like cats In tills respect, that they
H e sobbed about th e ir p o verty and wept
hate cold uud avoid anything strenu
o’e r “ m eager w a g e "—
M
ous.
The result Is thnt few of them get
enough of the sort of exercise tlipy
need. One woman Io whom I wrote
advising fifteen minutes of exercise
every inoniing, replied Indignantly
that keeping u six-room house and run
ning two children was all the exercise
SHOE PRICES STAY
UP; HIDESCUT HALF
You would have wondered m uch I f au g h t
hla Borrow could assuage.
But
when he bought the stu ff produced
by la b ’rerg “ u n d e rp aid ,”
H e kicked hie trousers n e arly off beeauae
I l w asn’t m ade
A whole lot cheaper th a n It w a ^ - lt pained
him to (he bone
T o aee iv w o rk m a n prosper w hen (1*0
m oney w aa hie own
TH E M AN KNOW S
Evan
th e m an w ho w o n ’ t
a g re e th a t it p ays to a d v e rtis e
know «
m ig h ty
w e ll
th a t
it
d o e s n 't pay not to .
e
e
*
Pucke- Brush Eloquence.
A grent singer pours forth melody
nnd Is generally made happy by nn
encore nnd sometimes gets two or
three nnd I think by the Incidents
of the past week I ’ucker Brush (should
have un encore of praise. . . . Mr.
Hignett's sermon was certnlnly Inspir
ing nnd the facts of tlie Chrlstlun life
were laid down so forcibly to the con
gregation thnt It caused, with the help
of the gospel workers, ten to come
forwnrd and take the minister by tlie
hand mid confess.— Pucker Brush
Items In Dallas County (In .) Record.
s e e
IT WAS EVER THU8.
T h e re was a m an In ou r tow n
W h o w ould not ad vertise,
A nd w hen hla business ship went down
I t caused no g reu t surprise.
•
•
«
F in n ig ln F ilo s o fy
A
little dally exercise will Iricreate
one’s beauty and health.
A m a n ro m im b a r t a k in d ly
deed ha don e f ’ r som ebody ilso
lo n g a ft h o r th ’ o ne u t was dono
f o r ra m im b e rs u t.
B y th is w e
k n o w u t is m o ro blissid t ’ g iv e
th a n t ’ re s a v a .
she neededl But It never occurred
o a a
to her that doing household tasks af
Confirmed.
ter a set rule made It nil the more
“Dearie,
It
Is
being
rumored
neeessnry for her to do some sort of
gymnastics bringing other motions In around that you are my boss. W hat’ll
I say?”
to play.
“Tell ’em I'm not."
The housewife ought to study out
"All right, lovey."
the sort of motions she does most fre
S
s e e
quently In her work, mid take exer
F R A G M E N T A R Y C O N V E R S A T IO N
cises that will benefit other sets of
" S c a tte r in g re m a rk s ,” said th a
muscles. Stenographers mid office
s te n o g ra p h e r as she b le w th a
workers need exercises for develop
p a rin g s a w a y f r o m th a d ic ta
ing the chest, overcoming rounded
g ra p h .
shoulders mid developing the legs,
------- O-------
since their work Is sitting and bend
ing. Girls who work nt machines go
What the Sphinx Says
ing through one set of motions over
and over, should pick exercises to use
By Newton Newkirk
other parts of their body, lest they,
loo. g ro w i ne-sbled In development.
"We Improve
Worl ers and Idlers nllko need
physical e: erclstiig. based on scientific
our fore-sight
»tud.v. Fifteen minutes a day Is am
by exercising
ple. and Includes the time for the hath.
our
h 1n d-
The result will be greater efficiency,
slghL”
longer youth, better looks and greater
vitality,
(Copyright)