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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY (tilted Slates lent - . .Woodrow Wilson. It President Thos. It. Marshal Secretary of Stale,. . Robert Lansing Secretary of Ti .,.,. . W 0, McAdoo Secretary o War, . . L. M Garrison ' Attorney-Co .i Thos W. Gregory Postmaster-! Bi ,.!.... A. Burleson ! Secretary of n J. Danlela ' Bec'y of Interim .Franklin K.Lano ,8ec'y of Agrlc iltut,, D. F. Houston Sec'y of Comm-tre Win. C, Redfleld - "lary of Ln u i . . .W. B. Wilson Sec'yto the Pros J. P. Tumulty l'. s. Hupren i Coon Chief Justice. . . . F.dmurd il tVhl'.n Associate Justices, Joseph Mceotinn Oliver Wnndeb f'-dmaa LINDLEY M. GARRISON fir A . sjdL - tot. '.'aPAl br Amsrtrsn PrfS Association. Llndlsy M. Garr'ion, sscretsry of wsr, who resinned because President Wilton would not Insist upon ths Con tlnantal Army plan. BRIEF WAR NEWS Ml ilny fur the last mnnth 1000 mm have enlisted in Canada fpr aerv-, Ice overseas. On the llrltlah front there have ' hecn snpplnii operations ntul bombard ment hy both stl a On the lllnck Hea Russian torpedo ' boat dcstrnycra have aunk nildltlonal Turkish sailing vessels ami have do- HtriiMil bridges and depots ashore. The heavy nuns are being artheh employed on both aldea In the north ern aeetlon of the Itusslan front, but no Important changes In positions i have occurred. A Geneva dispatch Indlratea that the Turklah expedition against Egypt baa been poatponed pending the com plitlon of railroad which will con nect with the Kgyptlan frontier. Auatrlan seaplanes have attacked the town of Ravenna, In northeaatcrn Italy, and several other places In that vieaitty. Fifteen persons aro aald to have been killed and a number In Jured. In the Isonto region the Auatrlana have taken from the Italians entrench ments In the H linn inne, while tho Italian artillery has bombarded Aua trlan positions at varloua points, as pcclally In the (iorlila aector. The Kronen cruiser Admiral Char ner. It Is feared by the inn. h minis try of marine, has been loat while pa trolltiiK the Syrian coaat. The crulaer has not been heard from alnce Febru ary I, when a Oerman dispatch re ported that a aulnnarlne had aunk a l "i-'-m-It i arshlp. The OsHHUM nre fiercely attackliiK the Vt 'ii li positions In the Artola aee tlon, a. . ill us In Champugne. In tin latter district lierlln reports tha cap ture of a front of about Too yards, while the French admit that tha Oar mans have gained a footing In aome of their advanced trenehea near tha Tuhttre Solium- I'y road. SHORT NEWS NUGGETS Uelvldere lirooka, vice president and general manager of tha Western Un ion Telegraph compiny, la dead. iiilnnel Theodore Kooaevelt and Mrs Itooauvelt huvo sailed tor a pleas ure trip through the Weat Indies. Thirty dead and property loaa run ning Into (he millions waa tha eatl muted loll of the Hood watera of the White, Arkanaaa and Mississippi rh ars. A lone highwayman held up and robbed the eastbouud Pacific Oregon Washington limited train No. Is, boarding the truiu at Oreen Klver, Wyo. Marvin B Koseuberry, republican, has been appointed to Mte Wisconsin supreme court to fill the vacancy cauaed by the resignation of Justice Barnes, who becomes general counsel for a life Insurance company. Announcement Is niude In Boston of the candidacies of Uruftou I), rush ing, Charles Sumner liiid, A. P. Gard ner and Kobert M Washburn for dele gates at large to the republican na tional convention, pledged to support Theodore Roosevelt for the party nom ination for president. Congressman Slemp, chairman of the Virginia republican state central loiiinttuci-, made public a letter from Justice Hughes, declurlng: "1 am to tally opposed to the use of my name In connection with the nomination and the selection or instruction of any del egates In my Interest directly or re motely." Joseph M. Iiimi. former I'liiled States senator from Montana and un til rtc.'iitly chairman of the progres sive imtlonal commitlee, announced bis ci, publican national convention to ba a CblOsfO in June. He declared for Hoobevdt, but Mated that he. was not acting with the knowledge or con sent Ol f.OOSi. lit. r' Win niW .v. V, j .4. A News Snapshots 'Of the Week Scutari and oilier .Montenegrin cities, ilriving the Montenegrins Into Alhanln, where tag mfrentlm; army was Joined by Esmul Pasha, leader of the Albntilaus. I. T. T. Lincoln, confessed (iermnn spy wnltlnir extradition to r.nglnml for fin ml. sMsfsSj causing the department of Justice considerable nnxlety. Being ra fuseil permlsalon by the llrltlah to climb Everest, the highest mountain In the world. Iir. Cook, of north pole notoriety, returned from India. NEWS NOTES OF IDAHO John Bode, aged 61, died at Band point from pncumVnla, followed by a complication of diseases. Tim University of Idaho basketball team waa defeated by the Dallas Ore., team at Dallas by tho score of 15. The Pacific Idaho Northern, which has been Interrupted for three weeks by water and snow blockades, Is now clear. The Oregon Agricultural college basketball team defeated tho Univer sity of Idaho five at Corvallls, Ore., by tho score of 36 to 14. Tho Washington state college bas ketball team took a fast and close game from tho Coeur d'Alene faculty team at Coeur d'Alene by a score of 17 to 4. Tha annual mooting of the State Horticultural society held In Twin Falls was fairly well attended con sidering the blockaded condition of tha railroad service. Tho state game warden's office re aembles a miniature museum, tha mounted bird-: and animals of Idaho shown at the Panama-Pacific exposi tion having been returned. Over eleven hundred notices were sent out from the office of the state land register to delinquent lessees of state lands. According to the ruling of the board. If the delinquents do not pay up within 80 days from the data of the notice their contracts will ba cancelled. At a meeting of the board of direct ors of the Gem State Fair association the report of tho committee on pre mium lists was accepted, which au thorises an increase of $3000 in live ' ek and farm products' premiums i r the 1916 fair. This makes 911,000 In premiums. In order to replenish the stock of quail which la reported as sadly de pleted by tha severe winter, the Lew Istou gun club has started a movement for raising funds for restocklug the Clearwater valley. If possible quail will be secured through the game de partment from south Idaho. The offices of the state laud depart ment moved from the annex to the main capltol building Mouday. Tha work of remodeling the offlcea of the state treasurer Is about completed, and the corridor, which will be used as a part of the laud department, has been partitioned off from the rotunda. In the debate tryuut at Idaho Tech nical Institute at Pocatello the follow ing debaters were selected to meet the College of Idahe: Cleveland My ers, Harold Dodge and William Leek. To debate Albion, J. K Liggett, Wal ter Leaf and Guy Stalker. Alternates, Hon Kennedy, and Daniel Beam. The debate of both schools was held February It. On account of bad weather the meeting of forest rangers, to have been held lu Boise on February IS, has been postponed until March 9. It is anticipated that fully 40 to 6u rangers will assemble at the capital and, as many have to come from Iso lated sections, It would not have been possible for some of ibem to get o"' by February lti Governor Wlihycombe of Oregon has granted the requisition of Govern or Alexander for the return to Sho shone county, Idaho, of Alfred K. Kder. Kder la wanted on a charge of stealing 815 last March from John Hokanssou. He was arrested but broke out of the Shoshone county jail and fled to Portland, where be was analn taken into custody Dr. I.aubaugh, state bacteriologist, bus completed examination of a dog's head sent by .. W. Wright of I'aruia a coyote load received in. in Kay Daw son of Gooding and aiiotlu i coyoti bsaa turned lu by Dr. liarllett of Bruucau, all of which proved to be I. The Gooding coyote attack ed a man in a corral and bit ihi dogs before it was killed. -s issssssssiv i v a & up wlili hi- Irnir over ill.' ml Idle west. Oerman n emplane raiders lUtteaded In dropping botnbf on Dover, England, killing nnd Injuring ma ncttliu: IWaJf safely. Capture of Vital, on afsOM bend Cnrranz.u Bsa phMsd I Price, ni reported, but denied In tbn ('mi. inns the Husslnns under Grand Dike. Mlrhnel gnlneil further victories OVW Hie Turks. Tha Teutonic fones captureil A statement requesting payment by the city of Harrison of back water rentals to the amount of 97936 was filed with city clerk M W. Frost by Attorney Fred Crane, represrntlng the First bank of Harrison. Several years ago the First bank of Harrison took over the Harrison Water company anil the chnrgrs as set forth In the statement Include also moneys orig inally due the water company The circuit court of appeals In San Francisco has, it la reported, decided against W. D. Simpson and 8. O. Simpson, former president and cash ier of tho American National Bank of Caldwell, Idaho, who were sentenced for violation of the federal banking laws. They were tried before a Jury In Judge Dietrich's court last March for 'moling certificates of deposit for which no funds had been deposltod. State Senator Jerome J. Day of Moscow, chairman of the North and South Railroad commission, appointed I by Governor M. Alexander, baa left for Chicago to meet the engineer and capitalist who are Interested In the proposed construction of the railroad. Mr. Day took with him blue prints and data. It is reported also that A. F Parker of Orangevllle will go to Chi cago and other eastern points in con nection with the project The Bulldog. The bulldog, unlike the majority of 'dogs, very seldom barka. In fact, ow ! lug to the construction of bis throat i his attempts nt barking nre more like a burlesque of the real thing. lie inli-s Into a dght without any vm-al warning, and tho only sound he emits Is bis heavy breathing. His couruge I Is astonishing, and tho Inrgouoes of his i opponent never acts as a deterrent when hostilities tire Imminent. Still, as he Is not a quarrelsome dog, bo very rarely Indulges lu strci" brawls, and. as he U exceedingly good uatured. It takes a lot to rouae him. The modern bulldog la undoubtedly u dllferent looking animal from his bullfight lug ancestors. The most con spicuous "Improvements" Introduced by the present day "fancy" are lame ness of beud, width of chest, heaviness of bone and more typical tali Whst the Peruvians Believed. A unique Idea of the future state waa that of the ancient Peruvians. As the disembodied soul winged its way to eternity It encountered two rocks. hi oue of which It must needs rest. The choice wus determined by the morality of the life in the tlosU. If It rested upon the left bund rock It was lustautly translated to 'To," or ob livion, a state analogous to the Nir vana of the orient If through early misdeeds, however, the unhappy spirit waa guided to the right baud rock It entered into a purgatorial bell where dends grated sway the Mesh from all the bones lu succession, after which tha skeleton waa reclothed and sent back to earth for another try. There was no haste about this grating proc ess. It took something over 10,000 years. FISHING RIGHTS RESTRICTED Court Ssys Trssty Doss Not Exempt Indian From Law's Opsrstion. Olympla, Wash Through an Inter esting 1 qulry into the history of civ IlliaU .'a dominance over savagery, the state supreme court has denied the Indian's right to fish when and where he wished to because his fath era had done so from time luiuieuior ial The decision reverses the lower court and supports Commissioner L. II Darwin's enforcement of restric tions u'-alnst Indians taking spawn lug salmon with gaffs at a dam in the Yakima river llu premise of Indian sovereignty In this renpect is rejected entirely. Not All For Lovs. Little I'lonle Ob nunty, deal, dosl you go yet, pieuse. .iuut But 1 inn t. darling. 1 should like to stuy longer, and It Is svicct of you to love your lu, 1 loitle Oh, please, aunl.i. don't go yet Muiunia suid she d whip tue uj boou us you weut lu iici die before 1,800 minister In New "i TERRIFIC FIGHTING ON BATTLE LINE IN WEST Germans Repeatedly Attempt to m-i diinif Positions Taken by French. -M London Violent artillery cannon ading In the Champagne, punctuated by sharp Infantry attacks and coun ter attacks, have resulted In alternate gslns for both forces, with no vital change In the military situation. All reports Indicate terrific fighting along the whole front. Five successive infantry attacks wore delivered by the Oermsns In the Champagne In an effort to recapture the positions recently taken by the French. The French war office state ment saya these assaults were re pulsed. Near Solssons the Oermans penetrated a French trench but sub sequently were ejected. German counter attacks to retrieve their losses northeast of Mesnll hill were repulsed. Here, according to Berlin's admission, the French cut through on a front of about 200 yards. In Belgium, the Germans broke through the British line near I'll. I em, but were driven out by bombing parties. North of the Ypres-Com mines canal an underground fight oc curred In which the British "moles'' routed the hostile burrowing party and exploded their charge. Laundry Marks In Europe. Laundry marks vary greatly In Eu rope. Tboaa used lu Britain consist if certain einsjl letters or figures stltcb i'd lu red thread Not nil continental laundries are so considerate. In some parts of France linen is defaced by having the whole name and address f tin- laundry stamped upon It ami au sddltloual geometrical design to indi cate the owuer. I u Bavaria orery place baa a number stouiiied on In large characters. In other parts of licrinuny a small cotton label la attached by means of a wa terproof (hot) udheslve. In Bulgurla each laundry hue a large number of lamps eugruved with deslgus, sud lu Russia the laundries murk linen with threads worked lu arrow shuiies. lu some ltusalun towns the ikiIIco pe riodically laaue regulations for laun dries, while lu Odessa books of marks aro furnished auuually to (he laundry proprietors, and these marks and no others may be used. By this system criminal, and i 'Volutluuury ugitulors are of leu timid. Loudou Mall. Wasted Apology. "One day," aays a Loudon Journalist, "the lute Walter Kmiiiiuel called m me aud chatted delightfully. After half su hour the humorist said he must go sud spologlxed for having wasted so inch valuable time. " 'Don't mention It,' I rushed to re ply. 'It has been a pleasure.' "Oh, It's not your valuable time I'm thinking of!' said Mr. Emanuel aa he picked np bis hat. 'It's mine."" Ex change. Caffeine. Caffeine, the active principle of cof fee, was discovered by ltuuge lu 1KW. In a pure state it takes the form of luug silky needles lu ordluury cof fee It Is present to the extent of about 1 per cent, but Java coffee contains 4.4 uud Murtlnlque bus us much as 0.4. Sotting Her Right. Aunt Rut bel I sea you've patched It up with Archie uud he's coming tieru uguln ofteuer tbuu ever. He's asked you to mair.v him fifty times, hasn't he? Miss Mandy-Oh. deur. uo, aunty, but 1 loppusf be has uskod me llfty times to many hlui. Where Afe Thsy? Where are (hues musical cblklisa el i) hoae musical education was complete whan Ibej bad laartted to play "lb. Maiden's Piayur'' and Monastery lulls V" -Life. ru band in, elf to that which, once bstal linht, "ill not le le-s rbjsl when 1 sUnuk from it. Kingsley. k . in. following this ins Inns of Chsnesry. Most of the old Inns of chnncery aro no more. Cleinent's Inn. where Fsl stuff nnd Shallow "heard the chimes at midnight." New Inn. of which Sir TsOssM More wns u member. Lyon's Inn. where Cube once taught the stu dents: 1'urnlvnl's Inn. where buries 1 Dtckena lived; TtiiTlaj inn. wtttti wns I one of the enrllest of nil the legnl aet I tletnetits In Londen: llamard'l Inn. I where Lord Chief Justice Holt wns i ug the "prlt'clpals"-all these his toric pluces have "lu the chnnge and chnnce of time" ill ippeurcd from view, staple Inn remains In Its an cient stnte by the good will of the In surance eotnpnti.v Hint purchased It n number of years ngo. I-oinlon Lnw Journal. Good Reason. In his book about his dlstluguisbed father the sou of Louis Agsssls tells a story Hint relates to the life of the great scientist In America. A few yenrs before hl death ho came Into his house In Cambridge delighted with nn occurrence ho had Just aeon In Bos ton. A carriage pushing through the crowd had knocked down s woman. Her escort proceeded to pummel the driver. "Hut why." asked the listener, "didn't the ownor come to bis driver's ssslstanceT" "Ob," exclaimed Agas sis. "I was holding bltn." Cutting Up Old Furs. There U a knack or cutting up old furs with which all women are not familiar. The pelt should be turned wrong side up and the skin slowly aud I carefully cut with a sharp penknife. tho blndu iM'iictrntlng the skin only and let touching tho long hairs. Cut Uug fur with scissors destroys tho lieu my of the hair and wastes much of the i'lt that might bo snvod by tho (H-nkulfo process. Greek Fire. "Greek Ore" la s mixture of naph tha, niter and sulphur, highly Inflam mable nnd very destructive. In the Grecian ware It was tied to an arrow or discharged through a tube. The Rhinoceros. rhinoceros rolls In the mud tie cause little Insects get between the folds of Its skin ami worry It. If It ets Us IsMly covered with mud they are unable to reach the sklu For Sale 30 good thrifty Shouts. These can be finished to top market in short time. J. J. DILLARD Four miles west of Ontario Ontario Laundry Down Town Office Everhart's $100 Reward, $100 T i readers of Ibis paper will be i . i. .o u Hut Hai. is ut least onu that sclsnos has been .n .01 Its stage, and that Is .- only now known I ' I onstltutlonal .a .1 ii taken I'l- 1 ' .in by I. i I II II) lli'S A 1sk . u I'lii ("' constipation. William It Day James C. McRa nobis Charles E. Hilglii" Willis .III I ev a a . Joseph R Lamar Mnhlnn Pitney Vale F. H. Irfind-trfflrers. Register ThoK J. new Receiver M. N. Fa, l Hlnte Officers. Governor James W Ithycom Sec'y of State Ben Olco Treasurer 1 Ka? Attorney-Oeneral, . .Geo. t town Supt. of Public Instruction , A. I nut. id II Dairy and Food Commisslonei J. D. Mir Hie State Printer A. W. LawTncs U. B. Senators, Hary K. Lane O. E. Chamberlain Congressmen, W. C. Hawley N. J. Stnnot C. N. McArthur Htnte Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank A. Moors Associate. Justices, Thomas A. McBrlde Henry J Bean George II. Burnett Robert Eakln Henry L. Benson Lawrence T Harris Ninth Judicial Dlslrlit District Judge Dalton Rlgga District Attorney W. II. Brook Senator StMth legislative Assembly Joint Senator, for Grant, Malheur, aud Harney Counties, . . Lorlng V. Stewart County officers County Judge O. W. McKnlght County Clark John P. Houston Sheriff Ben J. Brown County Commissioners, John F. Weaver Melville Kelley County Treasurer, J. Ralph Weaver Assessor Lewis E. Hill School Supt Fay Clark county Survayor B. F.Farmer 'County Coronor R. O. Payne Truant Officer A. It Mcintosh Justice of the Peace (Ontario Dis trict O. L. King Circuit Court Circuit Court for Malheur county m.&a... In l'.la it,. ilnt ! Al uinrifl IK , niDi ,w ..wwu.; -.,, ww , the second Monday In January; on the fourth Mouday In April; and on the first Tuesday in September for regular aaaslons. Hon. Dalton Blgga, Circuit Judge; W. H. Brooke, Dist rict Attorney; John P. Houston, Clerk. n 1 1 Court. The County Court of Malheur County maeta In regular session at Vale on the first Wednesday of Jan uary. March, Muy, July, September aud November. County Judge, Geo. W. McKnlght; M. D. Kelley and John F. Weaver, Commisalonera; John P. Houston, Clerk You Are Invited As a result of the growth of our business lu every .Ine, i ion, together with our modern uud up-to-ihtte equipment, we are I., ii.i prepared tbuu evei to bain lb- your bunking buslliess, anil we will be i--l.nl to have you avail i -i Ii of our laelllile-., wliiili we believe to lie us modem anil a. nearly perfect us Is to be loiiiul In this county. (lor various depart ments are so adjusted a to lender prompt uud ef ficient service, uuil it is Hie aim of the olllcers of the bunk to keep 111 i lose pcrsouul touch with Us patrons FIRST NATIONAL BANK OKI who A l.iatil Hunk iii a l. !,..' I'uuutn "Cirl.s iiial.i I. Wt i efTOn t loin a bcu tlioy ale pick ing out boys.