WORLD’S DOINGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
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VILLA SEEKS TRUCE TO CONSIDER
WARNING Of PRESIDENT WILSON
El Pas«x Tex.—General Francisco
Villa has decided to ask General Ven-
ustiano Carranza to agree to a neutral
territory for a conference to consider
the suggestions contained in President
Wilson's note, according to a telegram
received here from Colonel Enrique
Perez Rul, private secretary to Villa.
The.telegram was dated Aguas Cal-
ientea.
"General Villa ordered his secre
taries to come from Chihuahua to
Aguas Caliente* to draft the note to
Carranza.” says Colonel Rul, "anti
also the reply he will send to President
Wilson.
Villa's
ministers have
reached Aguas Caliente«."
The Rul statement relates that Villa
decided to invite Carranza to agree to
a truce “to prevent further sacrifice in
the republic which might produce in
tervention,” that when Villa, in keep
ing with this suggestion, ordered his
troops to retire General Obregon start
ed in pursuit, "bringing on a battle in
the station of Leon.
"This obliged our forces which came
from Silao, commanded by General
Villa, to attack the enemy vigorously,
dispersing them after inflicting heavy
losses.’ ’
The Villa forces have retired to
Lagos, state of Guanajuato, 38 miles
north of Leon, according to Rul's
statement, "without the loss of many
men or any war materials." It also
says that Villa retains quantities of
military equipment captured in the
battle of Silao last week and has or
dered some brigades south to recapture
Leon and continue the campaign.
Rul declares that in the fighting at
Silao the Villa forces captured a train
containing powder and apparatus for
manutacturing ammunition; that this
train was burned to prevent its recap
ture by Obregon.
declaring that "the issue involved is
of such moment that to remain a mam-
bar of the Cabinet would bo as unfair
I to you as it would be to the cause
! which is nearest my heart, namely, the
1 prevention of war."
The President accepted the raaigna-
1 tion in a letter of regret, tinged with
' deep personal faaling of affection.
Dramatically the official relation of
Mr. Bryan with the administration of
the man whose nomination he assisted
so materially in bringing about at tho
Baltimore convention of 1912 came to
attend. It caused a sensation in the
National capital scarcely |>arallelod in
' recent years.
COMMONER’S PEACE VIEW DISCORDANT Ambassadors, ministers ami diplo
mats from foreign lands, officials of
every rank and nation heard the news
as it was flashed by news|>a|>er extras,
Other Members Are Claimed to Have i They interpreted variously its effect
on the delicate situation that had risen
Threatened Retirement Unless
1 between Germany and the United
j States.
The resigantion of the
Foreign Policy Was Firm.
! staunchest advocate of peace in the
■ President’s official family spread
broadcast the belief that the policy of
Washington, D. C.- William Jen the I'nit.-d States as delinitvlv «1« t«-r
nings Bryan, three times Democratic mined on would assert and defend the
candidate for the presidency of the rights of the United States in any
eventuality that might arise.
United States ami author of nearly 30
Originally, it was the intention of
peace treaties with the principal na the President and Mr. Bryan to have
tions of the world, resigned Tuesday the announcement of the resignation
as secretary of state as a dramatic se made simultaneously with the dispatch
quel to his disagreement with Presi of the note to Germany, but when Mr.
Bryan did not attend the Cabinet meet
dent Wilson over the government's ing unitl President Wilson sent for
policy toward Germany.
him, rumors that the President had
The resignation was accepted by the been unable to bring the Secretary of
President. The Cabinet then approved State to his point of view tilled the air.
the response which hail been prepared Finally, the news became known and
to the German reply to the Lusitania was confirm emi.
note. Acting Secretary Robert Lan
Just when the subject was first
sing signed the document and it was broaches! between the President ami
cabled to Berlin.
Mr. Bryan is not definitely known but
Secretary Bryan will return to pri the fact that Mr. Bryan would resign
vate life.
It was learned that he in was known to a small circle of officials
tends to continue his political support as early as last Sunday. When the
of the President.
principles on which the note to Ger
Rather than sign the document many should be baaed were discussed
which he believed might possibly draw Mr. Bryan found that he could not rec
the United States into war. Mr. Bryan oncile his own position with that of the
submitted his resignation in a letter administration.
Vi. J. BRYAN QUITS
POST IN CABINET
President Wilson and Secretary
Disagree Over Germany.
The Italian premier declares that
Austria in 1913 decided to provoke a
war.
German submarines sink two Welsh
trawlers in English channel, but first
rescue the crews.
More than 400 men will compete in
the civil service examinations for the
position of policemen in Portland.
David Lloyd George tells Englaml a
better supply of war munitions must
be maintained, or defeat may result.
The Austro-German army has re
taken Przemysl from the Russians in
one of the bloodiest battles of history.
Rear Admiral Fiske, of the U. S.
navy, draws a gloomy picture of the
efficiency of the institution in case of
war.
United States government injunction
suit against the Steel corporation is
lost and the court deciares the corpora
tion is not a monopoly.
Dr. David Starr Jordan, the noted
educator, speaking before the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs, scouts
the war idea which it prevalent in this Canadidn Aviator Blows Up Huge
country.
Zeppelin. Killing Entire Crew of 28
According to a Berlin telegram the
lft-year-old Countess Helene Dardey
London—For the first time on record
has been sentenced to three months’ a Zeppelin in the air has been destroy
imprisonment for publicly insulting a ed by an aviator in an aeroplane.
German officer.
Reginald J. Warneford, a young Cana
The headquarters of the German dian sub-lieutenant in the royal navy,
Crown Prince were bombarded early who mastered aeroplaning only this
Friday by French aviators. Twenty- summer, has performed the feat, and
nine machines dropped 178 shells and is somewhere within the British lines,
several thousand darts. Many of the while a Zeppelin lies in ruins, sprawled
shells are said to have reached the on the roof and ground of an orphan
age near Ghent.
mark.
Falling a blazirg mass after being
President Wilson drafts a note, brief
struck by the young aviator's bombs,
and pointed, to be sent to Germany,
its crew of 28 men were killed, as
asking a definite question — whether
were also several occupants of the or
the imperial government intends to be
phanage buildings.
guided in the future by the humane
The theory is advanced that this
principles embodied in international
Zeppelin
was the craft which raided
law for the conduct of maritime war
the
east
coast of England Tuesday
fare.
night, for the fact that it was in the
A British submarine operating in air over Belgium, between Ghent and
the Sea of Marmora torpedoed and Brussels, at 3 o’clock in the morning,
sunk a large German transport in Pan leads to the belief that it was return
derma Bay Friday.
This announce ing from an expedition,not starting.
ment was given out officially in Lon
Dawn breaks early these days and
don as having been received from the the huge Zeppelin could be sighted far
vice admiral in command at the Dar off, and it is presumed that the craft
danelles. It is said also this submarine was headed for her home hangar when
was one of several operating in these Warneford came winging swiftly un
waters.
der the gray skies.
The Zeppelin, which was flying com
Iliamna volcano, on the west shore
of Cook Inlet, Alaska, continues in paratively low, began to mount at
eruption.
Its activities are plainly orc«, but the British wasp was speed
visible to passengers of the steamships ier and climbed into the air in long
50 miles distant from the troubled spirals, reaching a position at length
From
mountain. The snow has been melted over the German’s vast bulk.
from the upper portion of the peak. this point of vantage Warneford burst
Smoke and flames burst from the the Zeppelin’s shell repeadedly with
crater at two-minute intervals, but his incendiary bombs.
no explosions are heard.
An Oregon couple were marrieo in Portland, Or., Youth Escapes from
the dome of the state capitol.
Mexicans After Awful Experience
The General Federation of Women’s
Robert Lansing. Counsellor of State Department and Now Acting Secretary of
clubs is in session at Portland.
El Paso, Texas — Forced to act as
State, Whose Bignature Is Affixed to Note to Germany.
Lone robber holds up Spokane bank gravedigger for Vaill’s execution
at noon and gets away with $500 in squad in Juarez for a month, James
Bernstorff had before him the oppor
cash.
Ellsworth, whose home is in Portland, German Ambassador fries to Avoid
tunity of pacifying another and power
Early entry into the war of Rou- Or., where he left two years ago, es
Breach of Peace With United Slates ful incipient antagonist a>f his native
mania and Bulgaria is counted on by caped Sunday night and came to the
.........
American side, hatless, his clothes
country. He took the one open chance,
Italy.
covered with blood stains and slashed
Washington, D. C.—Count von Bern- just as other noteworthy figures of his
A Portland traffic survey shows 445 where the Mexican officers had beaten storff, the German ambassador, Thurs tory have done.
jitneys in use and a material increase him over the back with their swords to day called at the White House of his
The ambassador told the President
from March 1 to June 1.
make him work.
own volition and without instruction that he had been unable to communi
Ellsworth, who is 22 years old and of any nature from his government. I cate with his government in a satis
Newport, Ore., lifesaving crew res
cues 5-year-old boy who was drifting of good appearance, says he went to It is known that he had no authority to I factory manner recently because of the
Juraez on a sightseeing trip when he declare that there has been, or will be, ' conditions surrounding lines of trans
in a boat two miles from shore.
was arrested. He was forced to dig a change in Germany’s attitude toward mission. He explained that for this
Two women and two men were the graves and witness the execution submarine warfare.
reason it had been impossible for him
drowned in the Willamette river at of nine men during his imprisonment,
He was actuated by a desire to put to tell the Kaiser plainly and frankly
Portland by the overturning of a hauling each of them to the grave aside the formalities of diplomacy ami how anti-German feeling in this coun
launch at 3 a. m. Tuesday.
A fifth from the adobe wall after they were take direct steps that might lead to a try had grown and of the apparent de
person, a woman, clinging to a plank, executed.
continuation of peace between the termination of the United States gov
was saved by a fisherman.
He left for his home in Portland im United States and Germany.
ernment to take extreme measures in
mediately.
In taking this position, Count von support of the President’s demands.
The Atlantic fleet, as originally
scheduled, will not pass through the
Berlin Hebrew Protests.
Noted Banker Dies.
Election Workers Riot.
Panama canal at the formal opening,
London — The Exchange Telegraph
Berkeley, Cal.—Charles R. Bishop,
Los Anlgeles, Cal. — Clamoring for
owing to the probability of land slides
occurring while in Pacific waters, there company has received a dispatch from vice president of the Bank of Califor their pay as election workers at the
by hindering a prompt return to the Berlin by way of Amsterdm saying nia, San Francisco, died here, aged 93. polls Thursday, a mob of more than
Eastern seaboard in case of necessity. that the Berliner Tageblatt declares Bishop’s career was an adventurous 1000 men and women stormed the
that the German anti-Semitic organs and romantic one and included his mar
The little republic of San Marino, 22 are starting a new campaign to pre riage to Bernice Pauahi Paki, a Ha headquarters of the Business Men’s
After waiting several
miles in area, and surrounded by Ital vent Hebrews from becoming officres waiian princess of royal blood, who, committee.
hours in front of the cloned offices
ian territory, is considered a war in the army after the war. The Tage
upon her, death, left him custodian of
power because of its elevated location blatt, which is owned by a Hebrew, is a great fortune. For many years prior they paraded to police headquarters,
where their statements wsre taken.
and an ideal base for aeroplanes. Its urging the government to put an end
to annexation, Bishop was a command
The workers say they were em
government is debating the advisabil to these attacks on Hebrews, inasmuch
ing figure in the financial affairs of the ployed in the interests of Frederick J.
ity of entering the cause of the allies. as German Hebrews are dying glori
Hawaiian nation. After the death of Whiffen, who was defeated by Charles
President Wilson will send Germany ously by the thousand on the field of his royal wife, he came to California, E. Sebastian for mayor in the recent
more than 20 years ago.
city election.
a note demanding absolute and clear battle.”
answer to the original note on the
Roumania Thought Bound.
sinking of the Lusitania.
Zeppelin Wires Words to Aviators.
Gypsies Hold Weird Rites.
London
—The following wireless dis
Berlin — Count Ferdinand Zeppelin
Denver—Gypsies from all over the
According to the statistics for Paris
there were 1850 births in May, the patch was received here Tuesday from has sent the following telegram to the West participated in weird rites here
German Aviation league, which is Thursday at the burial of Marie Adams,
10th month of the war, as compared Berlin:
holding its seventh convention here: 93, "Queen” of one of the wealthiest
with 3890 in the same month last year.
"Political discussions in Bucharest,
"Sincerest thanks for the greetings of nomadic tribes in the United States.
The Wilson cabinet has ratified the Roumania, brought to light the fact the Aviation league, which has caused Mrs. Adams died May 27 at San Ber
government’s policy as regards Mex that there exists a formal treaty be a deep impression on the day on which nardino, Cal., after delegating her
ico, which has changed from "watchful tween Austria-Germany and Roumania. the new creation brought into existence power to Alex Adams, the eldest of
waiting" to a stern demand for an This treaty, which runs until 1920, by me in the field of aerial science has her two sons. The gypsy queen was
early settlement between the warring regulates the relations among these brilliantly proved its worth.”
reputed to be worth $1,000,000. She
factions, and notice of which has been countries and binds Roumania in case
Emperor William has also tele had $80,000 on deposit in banks of
•ent to the several leaders.
of war, not to attack her allie«.”
graphed his thanks.
Denver and suburban towns.
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OREGON NEWS Of GENERAI INTERESE
$776,911 Insurance Paid.
750 Cows to Be Tested.
Salem With $1,282,701.06 received
in net premiums by 61 casualty ami
other accident insurance companies in
Oregon, the com|>aniea pan! in hxmsa
$770,911.00 last year, according ton
ro|>ort of State Insurance Commission
er Wells. The Ions on liability insur
ance was $403,848.03 and the net pre
miums were $066,912.63.
Figures for the last year show that
the total net profits of tho domestic
mutual fire insurance
com|>anies
amounted to $44,231.02.
The aggre
gate income was $421,018.94, while
the expenditures wore $370,218.70.
The net amount of risk* carried by 11
com|>aniea December 31, 1914, was
$70,603,968.30.
The
aggregate
amount of cash on hand and other ad
mitted MMii I* given as $41'.! I.'l 7S
I'npanl losses totaled $49,71
while all other liabilities were $3L*
047.21. The total unearned premiums
were $180,033.62.
Statements filed by life insurance
conqianies show that the three domes
tic concerns at the close of 1914 had a
total of $13,024,042 insurant j in force,
distributed among 0353 policies. Do
mestic com;>auies, according to the re-
port, made substantial gains during
th«- year, issuing a total of $3,623,164
in new insurance, while $1,785,003 in
insurance was terminated.
Claims
l>aid, less reinsurance in admitted
companies, totaled $08,595.23.
Pre
miums collected, less reinsurance in
authorized companies, amounted to
»415.862.70.
Soon more than half the cows su|>-
plying milk to the important cities of
the Willamette valley and Southwest
ern Oregon will have been tuberculin
tested, according to information given
out by State Dairy ami Food Commis
sioner Mickle.
Mr. Mickle saul that
a total of 760 cows hail iieen signed up
ami would lie tested by a man to lie
put Into tho field immediately by State
Veterinarian Lytle.
The cities whore cows are to bo
texted are: Ashlaml, Medford, Granta
Pass, Cottage Grove, Roseburg, Eu
gene, Salem, Oregon City, Corvallis,
Independence, Dallas, McMinnville,
Forest Grove ami llilislxiro. It is
probable that some testing work will
be done also al Tho Dalles, Hood River
and Ashlaml.
Mr. Lytle plans to visit the different
cities with an exhibit showing tho
benefits of the tuberculin leal ami also
the results of tuberculosis on cows.
Project Opening Asked.
Baker Thirty-six thousand acres
that have lies» tied up by a Carey land
project in Pine valley, Baker county,
arc expected to be thrown open within
a few months, if tho United States
laml department acta upon tho request
of those in that vicinity.
H. A. Clements, laml commissioner,
is in Baker awaiting the land in-
s|>eetor from Washington to take him
to the tract, which is within a nine-
tnile radius of Halfway. Upon tho re
port of tho inspector will I«« decided
whether the state will I m « aided in re
claiming the land or whether it shall
I jc thrown open at once for settlement.
Tho larger part of the tract, 34,000
acres, was filed on six years ago by
an Eastern irrigation company, utsler
the Carey act. After expetsiing about
$7 ihio on the project the com|>any de
cided last year that it could not carry
the project to completion ami the mat
ter was put up to the state officials,
who in turn appealed to tho United
States Reclamation service.
In addition to the 23,000 acres filed
on by the Eastern concern, there are
13,000 acres which would bo taken up
if the larger tract was thrown open.
Mr. Clements asserts that many fami
lies are waiting for government land.
Coos Bay Channel Dries Up.
Marshfield The Port of Coos Bay
recently expended several thousand
dollars in opening the canal Iwtween
Coos Bay and North Inlet landing and
the job was contracted to lie done so
that three feet of water would bo as
sured at mean low water.
From the
inlet proper to North Inlet landing is a
distance of four miles, and this water
way ha<i been the avenue over which
all the railroad material used in the
Beale Lake and Tenmile region was
routed. The Port Commission ordered
a straightening of the channel between
the bay anti the inlet, a mile in dis
tance.
The job had been finished but two
weeks and at low water the newly-dug
channel is dry for a distance of 500
feet in the middle of the cutoff. There
is heavy traffic over the route and the
port will order a new amountof dredg-
ing to maintain the desired three feet
at low water, which would give serv
ice at any stage of time.
Malheur Storm Freakish.
Baker — The champion freak storm
of Malheur county was reported here
Friday. A h«;avy rainfall and wind
di<l heavy damage throughout the
county, but the edge skirted the town
of Malheur.
With a heavy roar a
hailstorm broke there ami hailstones
as big ax bantam eggs raised welts
all over the txxlies of horses and
cattle. The ground was soon covered
with hail three inches deep.
In some spots the sun shone through
out the pelting storm. Trees were
also badly damaged.
Roseburg to Fix Road.
Roseburg — At a mass meeting of
citizens held here action was taken to
bring about an improvement of the
road through Paas Creek canyon. Re
ports have reached this city that many
automobile parties have been unable to
pass through the canyon ami were
obliged to ship their machines south
from Cottage Grove.
The County
court has promised to co-operate with
the citizens and have the road improv
ed at once; it probably will be pass
able within a week.
Alcohol Label Is Needed.
Candy which contains bramly ami
rum as a flavoring must lie I s I h «I< m I,
says J. D. Mickle, state fond ami dairy
commissioner, in his answer to tho
complaint for Injunction fll<«d by il. R.
Hocfllvr, an Astoria candy manufac
turer.
Mr. Mickle two weeks ago
seize«I 47 boxes of Centennial choco
lates, one of the lloefllrr proudeta. Ire-
cause they contained alcohol.
l.aat week Mr. Iloefller was granted
a tem|x>rary injunction by Circuit
Judge Davia, reatraining Mr. Mickle
from seising any more of the choco
lates. He «leclared the chocolates con
tained only 1.05 |>er cent alcohol. Mr.
Mickle, in the answer which he filc«l in
County Clerk Coffey's office, says a
chemical analysis of the candy showed
it contained a greater percentage than
thia.
Governor Finds Waste.
Salem Governor Withyc«>ml»e, who
has just returned from Eastern Oregon,
put his knowledge of agriculture to a
practical use, when he discovered that
the silos at the Eastern Oregon Insane
Asylum were pot managed properly.
Ilia discovery will save the alate many
times the coat of his trip.
"The asylum has two large silos,"
said the governor, "with capacities
double that necessary for tho present
herd of 17 cows. Ax a result the man
agement is not able to feed the en
silage fast enough, ami a large part of
it spoils. The spoiled ensilage should
not lie feti. I suggested that the herd
either be doubled or that the amount of
enailage be greatly reduced."
Tillamook Cheese Industry Prospers.
Tillamook Tillamook county pro
duced 38,593,183 |x>unds of milk last
year ami manufactured 4,290,510
pounds of cheese, valued at $854,374.-
30.
This, in n few word«, is the rec
ord of the banner cheese section of
Oregon ami the Northwest.
Notwith-
stsmling fluctuations in the markets
ami uncertainties of free trade,
Tillamook cheese held its own in price,
the average being but a trifle below
191.1. wh«n it was 15.45 cents fxT
|x>und, and last year it wax 15.38 cents
per pound.
Tlie average price for butter fat wax
38.32 cents for tho year, and the aver
age price for cheese for tho past six
years wax 15.37 cents.
Horticultural Post Gone.
Salem — That an amendment passe«)
by the recent legislature to the law
creating the State Horticultural com
mission alxilixhes the office of commis-
MioniT at large mill that the live dis
tricts will continue to be representeil
by a commissioner, way an opinion
given recently by Attorney General
Brown.
The terms of C. A. Park, Saelm, and
H. H. Withersp«win, Elgin, have ex
pired ami the State Ixiard will np|x>int
their successors at the next meeting.
J. W. Pomeroy, Scap|xxisc, will bo re
appointed, ami the terms of Dr. C. A.
Macrum, Mosier, an<l A. C. Allen,
Medford, have not expired.
Albany to Get New Plant.
Albany — A large fruit evaporator
will be constructed in Albany this sum
mer by Charles M. Miller, of Portland.
Mr. Miller has leas«*d a tract of ground
in this city for that purpose, and it is
probable that a large warehouse will
lie erected on the tract adjoining the
freight tracks of the Oregon Electric.
Mr. Miller expects to install special
equipment for the manufacture of lo
ganberry juice. He will establish a
lalxirstory in connection with his evap
orator for experimenting in the utiliza
tion of fruit and berries in by-prtxiucts.
(Railroad Is Incorporated.
Salem — The Roseburg & Eastern
Railroad company, with a capital stock
of $1,000,000, filed articles of incor
poration with Corporation Commis
sioner Schulderman.
The company
plans building a railroad from Rose
Forest Service Trail Work On.
burg eastward to the western Ixiundary
Albany—Work has been begun on of Umpqua national forest and the
the government forest service trail ami Umpqua river.
telephone line from Cascadia, on the
Fair Representative Chosen.
South Santiam river, 45 miles south
east of Albany, over the divide to
Klamath Falls — Phillip P. Sinnott
Quartzville. Twenty-three miles of has been appointed to represent Kla
this trail was constructed last summer math county at the San Francisco
and the remaining 12 miles will be Fair.
Th«« representative who has
built this year. The trail and tele been there thus far is not able to serve
phone are being constructed at the longer. The salary of the representa
same time, it having been found more tive is paid from sums subscribed by
practicable to do the work in that local merchants, together with an ap
manner.
propriation made by the County court.