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“Woman’« Independence FRESH TROOPS Day” Aaked of Wilson SENT TO ULSTER British Government Prepares to Forestall Uprising. Leader« Counsel Calmnea« Danger of Hudden Collision With Vol unteer« 1« Recognized. London—“War in Ulster” la th« startling headline which U m sensatlon- al Ixindon nawapapara are displaying in tha blackest type. The government began to place Ita regular troop« in Ireland Saturday, so they might be in a position to deal wltn any aituation that may arlae. The cooler men among the loyaliata and the U later (Jnlonlata, however, be lieve nothing resembling war la In eight. Tha army council aome time ago considered the possibilities of home rule atrtfe and Instructed Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Henry Fitaroy Padget, who command« the Iriah gar rison«, to take necessary precautions to maintain order and safeguard prop erty. A general radlatribution of the force« in Ireland therefore waa begun. Two regimenta ware aent from the South to reinforce the Ulater gar- rlaona, while the troop« In Ulater were removed to new atationa in conformity with the custom that In the event of hostilities or rioting soldiers should not be compelled to encounter people with whom they had formed friend- ahlpe. The poaaibllitiea of a collision be tween the British aoldlera and the Ul- •ter volunteers resulting from the superheated political feeling are rec ognized, but the leaders on both sides are trying to exert a pacific influence. Sender of Poisoned Candy Faces Penitentiary Portland--Under *6000 eash bail, which «he was unable to furnish, Mrs. Edith Edna Hawley, by her own con fession at-oder of sis packages of pois oned candy through the mails to three etep-children, her own baby, and a woman of whom she wa* jealous, was bound over to the Federal grand jury at a preliminary hearing before A. M. Cannon, United States commissioner. The charge againat her was «ending poison through the mails with intent to kill. Four counts may be preened the United States district attorney. The penalty on any one of them, un der the Federal statute, is up to *5000 fine and 10 yean in the penitentiary. The extreme penalty on the four counts would be *20,000 fine and 40 yean in the penitentiary. Troops Will Attack San Francisco and Washington Washington, I). C.—Plane for joint maneuven by the United States reg ular army and the National Guard, to include attacka on Washington and San Francisco by invading armies to gether with the eatabliahment of sev eral training camps throughout the country, were announced by the War department. It waa tentatively de cided to begin the maneuvers late in July. The attack againat Washington will be participated in by troops of the Seventh and Eighth divisions of the Eastern department, which will con centrate at Baltimore. The maneuven of the regular army and the militia of the Western depart ment, it is aald, will include a man euver campaign in the vicinity of San Franciaco, to be participated in by the Californian troopa. New York — The National Woman Suffrage association has appealed to President Wilson to establish the flrat Saturday In May of each year as “Woman’s Independence day.” On behalf of the executive board of the association, Dr. Anna Shaw has ad dressed to President Wilson the fol lowing letter: “The agitation for the political en franchisement of women has been car ried forward without faltering for nearly three score and 10 years, along dignified and constitutional lines. “Year after year one nation after another has recognised the justice of this democratic demand for self-gov ernment and has granted to women citizens equal political rights with men and, in our own country, at the next general election, women will vote In 10 states and one territory. “Amendments to state constitutions granting suffrage to women in at least Ave states will be voted on at the same eletcion, and In aix or more additional states in 1915, while in every atate demands are being made on the national congress so to amend the national constitution as to forbid the states from disfanchising United States citizen« on account of sex. “Recognising that the cause of woman suffrage is no longer an academic problem, but that it has entered the field of practical polities, and that ita speedy solution ia of vital importance to country, the National Woman Suffrage association baa aet apart the first Saturday of May for a great public demonstration throughout the Nation, for the purpose of setting forth the justification of women to po litical freedom,'to arouse such a spirit of patriotic devotion in the hearts of all mothers that It may burn with a quenchleaa flame in the lives of their children. “In thia spirit of loyalty to a true democracy, Mr. President, the execu tive board of the National Woman Suffrage association appeals to you in official capacity, as President of the United States, to Bet apart the first Saturday in May, to be known as Woman's Independence Day, in recog nition of the loyalty of American women to the spirit and claims of 1770, that the foundation of all just governments rests on the consent of the governod.” Government Sues Alleged Breakfast Food Trust Chicago—Hearings in the govern ment’« anti-trust suit against the Quaker Oats company and the Great Western Cereal company began here Saturday. Evidence waa taken before Miss Kate S. Holmes, special examin er. “The government charges,“ said James H. Wilkerson, United States district attorney, “that the defendants are in conspiracy to monopolize the oatmeal busineas of the country. it seeks the dissolution of the company and asks that it be enjoined from in terstate commerce until the dissolution is complete. “Prior to 1891,“ aaid Mr. Wilker son, “there were 11 principal oatmeal plants in the country, situated in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. They were members of a pool known as the Con solidated Oatmeal company. After the passage of the trust aet they were merged into the American Cereal com pany, which in 1902 waa taken over by the ‘Quaker Oats company*. “The independents organized into the Great Western Cereal company in 1901. A price-fixing agreement was made between the two companies. The government charges that in 1911, Joy Morton wrecked the Great West ern company and sold all its plants that were making money to the ‘Quak er Oats company.* ” Theosophista Would Native Eskimo Orders . Latest Style Typewriter Have Universal Peace Loe Angeles—A. P. Warrington, general secretary of the American sec tion of the Theoaophieal society, insti tuted a movement to aet aside a day on which newspapers, churches and fraternal orders throughout the world would join together in one great effort for universal peace and the brother hood of man. In a letter sent out from K roton a, the Theosophical colony at Hollywood, Mr. Warrington says: “If a certain day could be chosen and that day widely horalded as a time for the celebration of the ideals of peace and brotherhood throughout the world, that particular day a great ware of aspiration and strength by thought would be turned loose in the world.” Edmonton, Alta.—J. Cornwall Fras er, a member of the tribe of blonde Eskimos living at the mouth of the MacKinsie river in the 69th parallel of latitude, has commissioned a local trading company to ship a typewriting machine, with the latest approved at tachments, to hia hut on the roof Of the earth, 2200 miles north of Edmon ton. Fraser, who is a trapper, hunter and pathfinder, was educated in an Eng lish mission school at Point Barrow, one of the northern outposts. He has never been south of the 65th parallel. Inside the Arctic Circle. Officers of the trading companies operating in the district, report he is one of the beet posted men in the far north country. Forest Fire Reported. Miners' Tents Torn Down. Salem, Or.—The flrat forest Are of the «««Son waa reported to State For ester Elliott Saturday by Charles Uni- cume, chief fire warden for the James D. Lacey company. The fire waa near Grande Ronde and started in an old bum. Mr. Unicume waa instruct ed to make every effort to subdue the blaze, the state Are wardens not hav ing been assigned to duty as yet. “It is the earliest forest Are in this state on record,” said Mr. Elliott, “and is due to the dry weather and the lack of enow on the mountains.” Trinidad, Colo.—State troops pre vented a party of striking coal miners from restoring the tents in the lower Forbes colony, recently demolished by militia. The strikers, who were under command of William Diamond, an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America, had erected four tents, when the troops arrived on the acene, tore down the tents and told the union men that they would not be per mitted to re-occupy the lower colony. The strikers thereupon left the acene without resistance. California Forests Barn. Mackerel Trust Feared. Grass Valley, Cal.—Fighting forest Area on snowshoes waa the peculiar experience of rangers employed on the Tahoe National forest Saturday. Ow ing to hot, dry weather, Ares have broken out In half a dozen different places, and in order to reach them ih many inatancea it 1« necessary to use anowshoea. Snow In the mountains still rangea from six to ten feet in depth. New York—Fish handlers expressed concern over advieea from Norway and Sweden that a mackerel trust ia in process of formation there. Two large mackerel Arma have agreed to merge into one corporation and have made an offer to the combined fisher men to handle the entire output on a commission basis. America ia a heavy buyer of Swedish and Norway mackerel. FARM îx ORCHARD Naim and ifutructlofu from Agrjpdtural CoUogt» and Exptrtmml Station» 9Ì Otogon and Washington* Spsctallg Suttahis to ç^otf ContHttons Cat Oat Gammo«!« Cankers. Swat the Hen Louse. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis—“The cherry gummosis fight 1s now on,“ says Professor H. P. Barra, of the Oregon Agricultural college de partment of plant pathology, “and many new Infections can be prevented by cutting out the old cankers. The canker disease that causes moat of the gummosis west of the Cascades, la due to an organism that Ilves over winter in the edges of the old cankers, es pecially in the larger ones that were formed the previous season. From these hold-over cankers the disease begins to spread in late winter, en larging the old injuries and infecting many trees growing near by. These old cankers should be cleaned up at once and new infections should be watched for and treated upon their first appearance. With a draw-knife or similar tool cut away all bark that io affected, being careful to remove all discolored tissue. If the disease shows signs of spreading up or down the tree, the bark should be cut away considerably beyond the discolored area. Al) infected substance should be removed. The wound should then be washed with a 1 to 100 solution of corrosive sublimate, which can be bought from the druggist, who will give directions for preparing and us ing the wash. It Is a deadly poison, and should be labeled Poison, and kept in glass, not metal, containers. After washing out the wound, which is absolutely essential to success, it should be allowed to dry, and then covered with a good tree or pruning paint to protect it from fungi and heart rots. Do not depend upon exuding gum to indicate cankers. Bad ones sometimes form with very little external gum. Watch should be kept all spring for the faintest signs of canker and for blighted fruit spurs and buds. No other successful treatment for thia disease has come to the attention of the experiment station here. But if extreme watchfulness is maintained and the above treatment thoroughly applied, the damage done annually by the disease will be materially reduced. If bens ere not mighty busy rustling feed and laying eggs it would be well to see whether they are not «bothered with common ben lice. This parasite is a pale straw color, which helps to distinguish it from the larger biting poultry louse. It is only about one- twentieth of an inch long, has an oval body with small thorax and large ab domen, and ita legs are somewhat stubby. It annoys and injures the hen by it« tickling movements over the skin and among the feathers. In email numbers it is merely disturbing, but In large numbers it is a serious pest. It is especially damaging to young chicks and sometimes causes their death. They seldom leave their hosts, feeding on barbules of feathers and laying their eggs. The eggs hatch in a day or two, and the young become fully grown in about a month. They may be controlled, says Dr. Ewing, O. A. C. parasite specialist, by applying krsrosene or slaked lime and sulphur to the poultry. The fol lowing mixture is good; Crude car bolic acid * pint; gasoline 1* pinta; plaster parts, 5 pounds. Some Harmful External Parasites of Poultry Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis—External parasites frequently eause heavy poultry losses, and poul trymen should quarantine their flocks against them. Special methode are required for the control of the various kinds of pests, but certain genera! mesHuree are often advisable. One of the best general methods is fumigation. While not very effective against many of the external para sites, it should he employed for its great sanitary value. It is conven iently applied by slipping a tent that baa been treated with linseed oil or carbol ineum over the colony chicken bouse and weighting down the sides with a little dirt. The fumes are then applied, after which the tent is re moved to the next house, and so on. An account of the special methods for most of the common poultry, para sites is given in College Bulletin “Some External Parasites of Poul Farm Assistant Policy try,” written by Dr. H. E. Ewing, re Making Healthy Growth search assistant at the Oregon. Agri cultural college. Free copies may be Oregon Agricultural College, Cor bad by sending for them to R. D. Het vallis—Thst fear of the farm assist zel, Extension director, Corvallis, Ore. ant idea growing too fast is unwar ranted is the belief of Professor H. T. Many Fruits on Few Tree«. French, state leader of farm assist All the fresh fruit you want during ants for the College Extension divis ion. He calls attention to the recent most of the year, grown on a few statement that the growth is healthy trees in small back lota and similar and has only just begun, made by areas, is the latest offer of science President Waters, of the Kansas Ag toward a lower cost of living. Ac ricultural college, who continues as cording to plans worked out by Pro fessor C. I. Lewis, O. A. CM horticul follows: # “Of six or seven hundred counties turist, two or more varieties of ap in the United States that have tried ples, pears, cherries 'and plums, may the farm assistant idea, not one has be grown on a single stock tree for discontinued the plan. The farm as each species. Mr. Lewis has worked out schemes of varieties that may be sistant has not only proven himself in grafted onto the stock tree, so that dispensable, but he has shown the pos they will pollinate and grow in perfect sibility of carrying the demonstration concord, each variety supplying a par idea still further. I am confident that in the course of a few years the more ticular need at the proper season. The trees are trained to fit their surround progressive counties will hsve assist ings and occupy the space allotted and ants for each of the more important not more. Shade-loving bush and vine branches of fanning followed in those fruits are planted under the trees, counties.“ while vegetables that flourish in shade are planted between the rows. Pare Bred Scrubs. In the present enormous demand for pure bred stock there is said to be a market for every animal, good, bad, and indifferent, that can show a pedi gree. There are evidently pure bred scrubs, and if one of them is placed at the head of a dairy herd production will grow less rather than more. A herd cannot be graded up by an infer ior sire, according to Professor Graves, head of the Agricultural col lege dairy department, no matter how imposing his pedigree. Pedigree and good conformation are to be sought, but not at the expense of bred-for- production qualities. A milk-produc tive ancestry is evidence that the sire will transmit these qualities to his daughters; a heavy milking progeny is proof that he will. Buyers may well look at the conformation, exam ine the pedigree, but they should study the milk records of hie kin be fore purchasing a head for the herd. Drainage Best Remedy for Alkali In Soils Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis—“Since drainage prevents al kali in soils from coming to the sur face, drainage is the most successful method of reclaiming alkali soils,** said M. A. McCall, farm assistant of Klamath county in addressing the O. A. C. Extension course at Klamath Falla. “Indeed it is coming to be generally recognized that land that is badly alkaline cannot be wholly re claimed by any other means. If the water that bolds alkali in solution is allowed to stand and evaporate on the field, the alkali is bound to be deposit ed. “There are 'other things, however, that will help. Manure properly add ed to the soil will tend to neutralize the alkali, and land plaster will change black alkali to white, a less harmful form.” A Bird Under Sn«pk!f>n. Moss-Ridden Lawns. Mrs. Melvil Dewey, the social work er, thinks that we are too prone to hasty judgment We really ought to get all the facta before the jury is asked to decide upon a verdict “Last summer,” said she, “I got acquainted with a robin in Central Park. He was a frightfully busy robin. Every time I saw him he was flying as hard as his wings could carry him, Taiways with a nice, juicy, re freshing worm dangling fnun his beak. I watched my feathered friend with great interest. At last I dis covered that he waa the provider for two neats. Now this is the question: “Was be a philanthropist or a biga mist?” The serious inroads made by moss on lawns is beat controlled by sowing special shady-lawn mixtures in those nooks and corners of the lawn that are densely -shaded. The ordinary lawn grasses lose their vigor under these conditions and are crowded out by winter mosses that flourish there. . The moss dries up later and can be raked off and burned. Light applications of air-slacked lime are recommended by Professor A. L. Peck, landscape gar den specialist at the Oregon Agricul tural college. This treatment is not expected to kill the moss, but it in vigorates the grass which is thus en abled to struggle successfully against its enemy. Taste Extremely Delicate. Dead Yet Alive. The recent death of Lord Wolseley has brought out many anecodotes. On one occasion, as the soldiers were din ing and the orderlies were hastening back and forth with pails of steaming soup, Wolseley stopped one and order ed him to remove the lid of his pail. “Let me taste it,” «aid the general. “But;” began the orderly. “Let me taste it, I say” and he tasted it “Disgraceful 1” be exclaimed. “It’s for all ths world like dishwater.” The orderly saluted. “That's what it Is, sir!” be said.—Christian Register. Dan Daly once essayed the legiti mate. It was in his early days. All he had to do was to come to the center of the stage at a critical moment and shout: “The king is dead; long live the king!” When the time came Mr. Daly promptly assumed the correct dramatic pose, but for a moment waa so agitat ed that words failed him. Then be bellowed at the top of Ms voice: “Long live the king—he's dead!” —New York Globe. Making Preparation« for National Apple Show Spokane, Wash —At ah a!¡ day ses sion of the board of trustee« of the National Apple show the time for the seventh annual exhibition was fixed for the week beginning November 16, 1914. James S. Ramage, of Spokane, chairman of the board, probably will be elected president of the »bow. A machinery exhibit and industrial de partment will be one of the main feat ures of the show this fall and Charles R. Griesen, of Portland, will be se cured to take charge of this self- sustaining department. The board de cided to make the following changes in this year’s show. The addition of Ortleys in the 25 and 10 box contests. The addition of Ortleys and Rainlers in the five and one box contests. The addition under the bead of artistic group displays, of a class for firms, partnership« and institutions. A pub lic box-making contest, in addition to packing. A contest for the best sys tem of accounts kept by any fanner for 12 months, «bowing cost of opera tion and net profits. All these were approved by the general committee. Orris Dorman and J. A. Geliatly were appointed to work out written sugges tions for two additional contests, ao follows: A contest for the largest production and percentage of the best grade« grown on a specified number of trees. A contest for the largest pro duction and highest percentage of the best grades grown on a definite acre age. with figures on the actual cost of production and the income. The com mittee voted unanimously to extend the conference idea at the next apple show, and among the phases of the industry to come up for discussion were mentioned pruning, spraying, thinning and cover crop«. Others will be added. Immense Fields of Oil and Asphalt in Canada Edmonton, Alta.—Dr. Elliott, an oil expert of California, who has just re turned from an exploration trip through the Athabasca district, north of Edmonton, reports that the asphalt area is at least 175 miles square and contains from one hundred and seventy to two hundred billion tons of paving material. The deposits are from 50 to 300 feet in depth. Analyse« made at British, American and Canadian laboratories give these average consti tuents: Heavy asphaltic oils, 20 per cent; asphaltum, containing 98.4 per cent of bitumen. 30 per cent; highly silicious sand, 50 per cent A physical value of >1 a ton is placed on the de posits. Dr. Elliott also reports that there is much oil in the district T. R. Backs Expedition to Continue Explorations HUERTA’S CASH RUNNING SHORT Mexican Dictator Alleged to Be Seeking American Envoy. Report 1« That He Would Reopen Negotiation« With U. 8.-Rich Bankers Are Called On. Mexico City—Forced by the increas ing seriousness of the situation in Mexico, from a financial rather than a military standpoint, however, Presi dent Huerta at last appears to be ready to resume negotiations with John Lind, President Wilson's person al representative, which were broken off last August, if report« current in the capital are true. The minister of foreign affairs, Jose Lopez Portillo y Rojas, has been di rected to reopen the unofficial diplo matic exchanges with Mr. Lind, ac cording to the report here, and for that purpose went to Vera Cruz Wed nesday. Whether be will meet Mr. Lind at Vera Cruz or at some point further removed from the general pub lic is not known. Every effort has been made to keep the meeting a secret and should it for any reason fail to take place the gov ernment would be in a position to fall back on the explanation already given, that the minister is taking the trip to celebrate his saint's day, and color is given to this by the fact that be was accompanied by his wife and other members of his family. President Huerta summoned to the national palace 60 of the wealthiest Mexicans residing in the capital and intimated that indirect financial sup port would be highly agreeable, in view of the vigorous campaign he pro poses to inaugurate against the rebels. He reminded them that a decree is sued several months ago calling own ers of haciendas to equip and maintain ten men for purposes of defense had never been complied with and be urged them now to do this. Such compliance would mean, ac cording to the official figures, the maintenance of about 500,000 men, as it is estimated that there are 52,000 haciendas and smaller ranches within the federal jurisdiction. GOVERNOR AND OTHERS MAN PICKS AND SHOVELS Caldwell', Idaho—The governor of the state, two ex-governors, the mayor of Caldwell, the bankers, pro fessional men, merchants and citizens generally Wednesday afternoon donned overalls and shouldered shovels and other implements and went out to mend the roads leading into Caldwell. By proclamation of the mayor, the day waa made a holiday and about 300 amateur road builders, 60 teams and a couple of big tractors, to say nothing of dozens of drags assembled on the main highway leading into town from the east, and in a few hours put two and a half miles of bad road into per fectly gcod condition. Governor Haines, ex-Governor Haw ley and ex-Governor Morrison did yeo mens’ service with the shovel and then had their pictures taken. New York—Theodore Roosevelt up on his return to this country will finance in part an expedition to enter South America to complete the ex ploration work that be is carrying on there now, according to correspond ence from him made public by the American Museum of Natural history. The colonel offered to give the insti tution *24,000 and to assist in raising *4000 more for the purpose stated. It was said at the museum that the offer had been accepted. Colonel Roosevelt wrote that the region entered by hie party was productive of wonderful sci entific results. He told of one river having been discovered and of many mammals and birds obtained. A giant tapir, white lipped peccaries and sev eral deer, are some of the game which the colonel said his rifle brought down. Writing of the health of the mem- ers of his party the colonel said that Salem, Or.—Although he favors the hia son, Kermit, Anthony Fiala and several others had suffered slight at Wilson policy of “watchful waiting.” tacks of fever, but otherwise all were Governor West, who has returned from a trip East, declared that in his well. ________________ opinion, war with Mexico could not be Idle Men Plot Rebellion. averted. On his way horn« the gov Sacramento—That the overthrow of ernor crossed the line into Juarez aad the United States government was the made a cursory examination of the aim of the leaders of the “army” of conditions there and at other point« on unemployed was the report made to the border. “The American troops, while in Adjutant General Forbes by Lieuten ant Grimes, of the California National sympathy with the policy of the ad guard. Disguised as a laborer Lieu ministration. are ready for action, and tenant Grimes joined the “army” as a I believe they think it ultimately will be necessary, ” continued the gover spy for the adjutant general. nor. “It would be no trouble to win Washington, D. C.—“Preposterous the fight, as the Mexicans seem to be and absurd” was the way army officers an inefficient people, but the policing here characterized the reported plan of the country and the establishment of “General” Kelly’s army of unem of government would be a hard propo sition. ployed. “Believing that war with Mexico is Score Hurt In Lima Riot. inevitable, I shall advocate placing the Lima, Peru — Twenty persons were National Guard of our state on the seriously injured in the streets of best possible basis to be ready for the emergency. Oregon probably would Lima in a demonstration in front of be called upon to furnish troops and the residence of Robert F. Leguia, we should be ready to do so.” first vice-president of the republic, who returned here on March 6 to suc Poverty Denied Plumber. ceed the exiled President Billinghurst. Kansas City—Judge Bird virtually The people shouted denunciations of I>eguia and several shots were fired. ruled that no plumber may righteously The mounted police charged the crowd, plead poverty in hie court. He com wounding a considerable number. pelled James A. McCauley, a plumber Guards of police were on duty through who is suing Kansas City, to put up out the city, and Vice President Le- *25 as a guarantee of the eosts in the guia’s residence had strong protection. suit. McCauley had contested the city’s move to secure costs on the Heir Born to Brunswick. ground that he is too poor. He earns Berlin—A son was bom Thursday to only *5 or *6 a day. “In 15 years of the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick. practice I have known of only one The Duchess of Brunswick was Prin bankrupt plumber,” Judge Bird said, cess Victoria Luise, of Hohenzollem, “but there were hundreds of bankrupt only daughter of the German emperor. lawyers in that time.” The marriage of the princess to Prince Snow Falla In Kansas. Ernest August of Cumberland took place on May 24, 1913. The prince as Kansas City — Kansas as far south sumed 'the throne of the Duchy of as Wichita, and the western part of Brunswick last November. Missouri, was covered with from two to four inches cf snow Wednesday Health Notes Win Laugh. night and the local bureau predicted a Washington, D. C.—Senator Till further precipitation. The snow followed a fall in tem man had read to the senate a magazine article he had written on the restora perature of 52 degrees since Sunday. tion of his health. “I see some of the It is believed the fall will not eause senators laughed when the clerk was great damage to fruit trees, as moat reading,” aaid the South Carolina sen of the trees were not far enough de ator. “I’ll bury you fellows yet.” veloped to bo injured. Governor of Oregon Says Mexican War Inevitable