COUNTY RECORDS ARE TAKEN CARRANZA R EFU S ES TO SIGN They Hold Balance o f Power in House Mexican-American Conference Fails; Stalwarts forcibly o f Representatives in Coming Congress G ra b /Documents in County Seat Fight. Pershing Likely to Retire. " GERMANS GERARD AT culver. O r ^ -B e v e n tr flv e residknt. of Madras, hssdwi by W illia m 8. l!-Ren. of Portland, attorney for the u«op|* of M s d r e T T T T K r ™ » « t y Washington, D. C, — When the American members o f the Mexican- American join t commission had finish­ Brief Resume Most Important ed consideration Tuesday o f General Carransa’s reply fa ilin g to comply Daily News Items. with their demand that the protocol providing fo r withdrawal o f the A m er­ ican troops from M exico be ratified, there w ere indications that efforts to enter into an agreement w ith the de facto government through the commis­ sion would be abandoned. For the first tim e an official admis­ I • sion was made that Carranaa had re­ Events o f Noted People, Governments fused to sign the protocol. The com­ missioners said they expected to d ra ff and Pacific Northwest and Other their response to Carranaa imm ediate­ Things W orth Knowing. ly- Failure o f the commission to g iv e to Mexican-American relations a bright aspect was offset somewhat by official Many Belgians who were deported intimations that H enry P. Fletcher, to Germany for manual labor purposes, confirmed as ambassador to Mexico al­ are returning to their native country most a year ages was about to start in pitifu l conditions. for his post, where American Interests One young lady was killed and her now are represented by a clerk. The sister seriously injured when a Port­ report that General Pershing’s expedi­ land interurban train struck their au­ tion soon would be withdrawn, regard­ tomobile at a crossing on the Estacada less o f Cafranaa’ s attitude, also gained line Thursday. freah impetus, and it was understood EL L. McClure, o f Portland, one o f the administration had this move un­ the promoters o f the “ Forty-five Effi­ der serious consideration. Mr. Fletcher conferred w ith Presi­ ciency Club, ” became frantic at the organisation meeting at the Library, dent W ilson a fte r Wednesday’ s cabi­ and threatened violence with a pocket net meeting, and later referred in­ quiries as to whether he would go to knife. Mexico to President Wilson and Secre­ January 10 has been ten tatively tary Lansing. N o statement was agreed upon by the Federal Farm Loan forthcom ing from the W hite -House or Board as the day fo r opening stock the State department. subscription books to the 12 farm loan banks. The books w ill be opened in each city where there is a farm loan "Le a k s" at Washington Admitted bank. But Investigation Withheld Postal clerks and carriers, both ur­ ban and rural, would receive increases o f from 5 to 10 per cent in their sal­ aries by a bill agreed on by the house postal committee Friday. The in­ crease would affect about 200,000 car­ riers and cost f 10,000,000 a year. b « The assassination o f M. Jollos, an influential member o f the Russian Duma, i s reported by the Overseas N ew s agency. According to this re­ port, M. Jollos disappeared m ysteri­ ously a short tim e ago, and it is be­ lieved he was the victim o f a political murder. t Bent, whitehaired, although only 50 years old, Herman B illik le ft Chicago Friday fo r Cleveland to begin life anew. B illik was freed a fter serving eig h t years in the state prison at Jo­ lie t follow in g his conviction fo r mur­ der on testimony which now is admit­ ted to have been perjured. Washington, D. C .— As a result Of the sensation stirred up by Thomas W . Lawson, who offered to prove that m il­ lions had been made in W all street as the resu lt o f “ leaks” at Washington, it was admitted on the floor o f the sen­ ate Tuesday that inform ation concern­ ing the “ honor o f the nation,” had been betrayed by someone in the de­ partment. A s to information o f value in rig g in g the stock market, Senator Stone, who made the first disclosure, said he did not know. Meanwhile Mr. Lawson, who wss here, prepared, he said, to te s titfy be­ fore s congress committee, wss in con­ sultation with Chairman Henry, o f the house rules committee, but noth­ ing came o f it. Mr. Henry announced afterw ard that the Boston financier had been unable to furnish any names or other definite information about the alleged “ leak” in advance o f President W ilson’s peace note, and that so fa r as be wss con­ cerned the m atter would be dropped. “ Certainly on sensible person,” said Mr. H en ry’ s statement, would ask me to trouble the committee w ith a meet­ ing to chase a m irage. And I must say that so fa r as this matter between Mr. Lawson and m yself is concerned It is ended. " I n a thorough conference the al­ leged leak has been discussed by Mr. Lawson and m yself. *1 have asked him fo r the names o f those thought to be responsible fo r ‘the so-called leak between the State department and W all Street. H e cannot g iv e me a single name. H e cannot even g iv e me the names o f those charged by him with cleaning up $60,000,000 in con­ nection w ith the ieak and is not able to furnish me the name o f even one o f the suspects.” Muskogee, Okla. — Eleven school children were killed, four probably fa ta lly hurt, and eigh t seriously ^.in­ jured when a tornado wrecked^" the Vireton rural schoolhouse, 13 miles northwest o f M cAlester, shortly before noon Thursday. Thu, one-room fram e schoolhouse in which were 28 children shattered by the tornado, every Railroad Brotherhoods Accuse except tw o being killed or in- Managers of Permitting Delays aeeording to reports received by Runners dispatched from Cleveland— W. G. Lee, ch ief o f the scene o f the disaster in Southeast­ Brotherhood o f Railroad Trainmen, is­ ern Oklahoma to Blocker, Okla., «even sued a statement here Tuesday charg­ miles away, reported the disaster. ing that the railroads o f the country In reply to the proffer o f Germany are perm itting delays to trains and and her allies fo r a peace conference, overtim e which would not ordinarily the entente allies, in a collective note, be permitted, in order to prove the declare that they ‘ ‘refuse to consider a enormous expense that would follow The proposal which is enSpty and insin­ obedience to the Adamson law. cere.’ ’ The note was handed to the statement asked whether i f the Su- Am erican ambassador, W illiam Graves perme court declares that law either Sharp, Sunday, by Prem ier Briand, constitutional or invalid the brother­ and was made public simultaneously in hoods should continue to a w ait the eight-hour day. London and Paris. Mr. L ee denied a report published London — The cutter Protector has Tuesday that a sealed statement put­ been blown up. The number o f men ting the Adamson law situation up to lost is not known. Vessels reported the men had been sent out by the sunk include the British steamer Ape- chiefs o f the four brotherhoods. I t was learned from an authoritive ley Hall, 8882 tons; Danish steamer Danmark, 2060 tons; Russian steamer source that the general chairman o f Tuskar, 3043 tons, and the Norwegian the four brotherhoods w ill hold a meet­ steamer Edda, 137 tons. Three o f the ing in Chicago January 11 to consider the situation. crew o f the Tuskar were drowned. Acquitted o f the charge o f murder 1. W . W . A rrive on Freight. on December 18, Thomas Green has re­ Bemidji, Minn.— Suffering intensely fused to leave the Camden, N. J., county ja il until be succeeds in beating from the cold, 150 members o f the In­ his cellmate a game o f checkers. Both dustrial W orkers o f the W orld arrived checker players are w ell on in years. here Wednesday night on a freigh t train from International Falla, bound, In spite o f the high cost o f living, they said, fo r the Tw in C ities in search more m arriage licenses were issued at o f work. M o s fo f the men are strik­ the m arriage license bureau in N ew ing lumberjacks from the fa r northern Y o rk C ity in 1916 than ever before, it woods. Reports indicated that quiet was announced. The total fo r the year prevails -in all the camp*. Sheriff Rit- was 67,138 as compared with 69,646 tle and 60 deputies met the men when in 1916. they le ft the train. They walked A t midnight Sunday the whole island peacefully to the I. W . W . headquar­ o f New Foundland went “ dry,” a pro­ ter«. hibition act becoming effective. A Liquor Men Make Plant. long list of proprietary medicines has been placed under the ban. Louisville—At the annual meeting Forty-six women were burned to death in a fire that destroyed S t Fer­ dinand de Halifax asylum, at 8t. Fer­ dinand da Halifax, Megantie county, Quebec, late Saturday night. Three billion dollars is the value put on the 1916 output of American mines In estimates made to Secretary Lane by tike geological survey, romper alone * ■ $« 00 , 000,0001 here of the National Model License League, it waa announced that the lea­ gue had made plane to curtail «nd mod­ ify the retail liquor business in og^er to make it conform readily to public sentiment throughout the country. Tbe plan, it waa said, has been in­ dorsed by the National Wholesale Li­ quor Dealers’ Association o f America and by a majority o f tho brewers of the United States. at Noteworthy Banquet" ig h t with Culver, came to Culver Mon- day. pilsd the county records |n auto- mobiles and s ta * .« d 0W to Madras. . ,. , The action followed the decision o f COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS A ll clocks in N ew South W ales were set ahead one hour January 1 to save daylight, according to a cablegram re­ ceived b y tfep. Australian Trade com­ mission in San Francisco. A daylight saving act has also been passed in the state o f Victoria. ' 7 - — ■ t. 3 . i t An'festimate that 60,000 persons in Massachusetts are addicted to the drug habit was included in a report o f a commission appointed by Governor Mc­ Call to investigate the drug evil. The habit, it was said, is not confined to any particular class o f people. American Ambassador ¡$ i “ OLIVE BRANCH IS the Circiut court In favor o f Madras in s esse on Which notice of ' P l ~ * the Supreme court has been filed by Culver. Every county office except the Superintendent of . that of schools, Germany’e Hig Financial j latere and ex-MlaUtsn, Commerce and Trnds fm . the Sheriff and District Attorney , wee raided. Sheriff Black preventsd Mr. , Berlin — The dinner ging U'Ren and his party from taking the night by tbe American •afe and ths current eaeeeement rolls Commerea and Trade, of Berllaj from the office, but other record *nd or o f Jamea W. Gérard, furniture were loaded into the waiting ambaaaador to Germany, «fe «M A & T IN . L A .' K A N P A L lI É1VF.R LONDON,, N,Y. soctAusr rx w m m H ere are five o f the six independents in the House o f Representatives, who w ill have the balance o f power there when the President calls the new con­ gress into session a fte r March 4. N ot only does the decision o f the speaker­ ship depend on them, but the whole policy o f the house in relation to the Democratic administration. Mr. Ran­ dall, o f Los Angleles. is s Prohibition­ is t; Mr. Copley, o f Illinois, is s Pro­ gressive, ss are Thomas l). Schall, of Minnesota, and W. P. Martin, o f l-ou- i siane. Meysr London, o f Neyr York, is a Socialist. A lvin T ^ F u lle r , of Massachusetts, sets himself down as an Independent. PAPER TRU ST TO BE PR O B ED the evidence warrant such action, and it is believed the criminal proceedings, i f Undertaken, would be pressed ahead o f the civil proceedings. Publishers charged at the hearing that the manufacturers had combined both to control pricee and to restrict production. Some manufacturers had refused to sell to them because o f their a ctivity in exposing the manufactur­ ers’ methods. Others declared they had been threatened with such refusal by manufacturers. Manufacturers to Face Prosecution, Evidence Proves Combir Washington, D. C .^-A ttorn ey Gen­ eral Gregory has taken over the field o f the federal trade commission’ s in­ quiry into the print paper market, with a view to determining whether there is s paper trust and instituting oivil and criminal proceedings against manufacturers or others who may have violated the anti-trust laws. President W ilson is understood to be follow in g the inquiry closely. A mass o f complaints and testimony and a large number o f secret reports from the commission’ s field force o f inves­ tigators have been placed in the attorney general's bands. For several weeks past department officials have been in frequent consul­ tation with the trade commission on the situation, and are understood to have under serious consideration the early institution o f grand ju ry pro-, ceedings at which indictments charg­ ing violation o f the commercial section o f the law w ill be asked. The form al taking over o f the in­ quiry by the department was in re­ sponse to s letter sent the attorney general by Secretary Bracken o f the commission. Beyond asserting that the investiga­ tion and any action the department m ight take would be hastened as much as possible, Mr. Gregory declined to comment on the situation. I t is understood, however, that de­ partment officials are prepared to in­ stitute speedily a dissolution suit against any manufacturers within federal jurisdiction who are believed to have conspired in restraint o f trade or to effect a monopoly. A t the same tim e it was made clear the evidence adduced by tbe commission would be thoroughly digested so that no injus­ tice m ight be done manufacturers in­ nocent o f illegal practicesv ' In addition department officials are understood to be preparing to ask for criminal indictmenta should analysis o f Tran sport Loss Denied. Berlin— “ One o f our submarines, says an official sU tem ent issued Sun­ day by the German admiralty, “ tor­ pedoed and sank, December 28, in the Mediterranean an enemy transport o f m ore than 6000 tons. Tbe vessel was accompanied by warships.” * ...- -------- London — Commenting on the Ger­ man report o f the sinking o f an en­ tente transport, the London Press Bu­ reau says: “ N o transport, British or French, waa sunk in the Mediterranean December 28.” vehicles and taken ew*y. James Wood, Sheriff-elect; county Clerk Johnson; Ruecoe Card, county commissioner; O. A. Pierce, banker; R. T. Olson, merchant; H. L. Itoylen. county attorney-elect, end Mr. Roush, a merchant, were among the delega­ tion from Madras. , • Excitement ran high in Culver for a time while the record, were being transferred. The vieltors paid little attention to spectators, hurrying through the officea and taking ell o f the county property that could be re­ _ _ ____________ moved. TKe record« were hurriedly dumped into the waiting jfaW«-** the drivers hurried sway before the surprised residents of Culver could In- tsresds. — -------L------------ -- The presence o f mind of the son of Mrs. Lillian Watts, county superin­ tendent, sfved the office o f his mother from the visitors who abandoned an attempt to take her filre when the boy refused to deliver over the keys o f the office. Sheriff Black wss outwitted by the visitors after be had placed the current assessment roll in the safe and locked the doors of his office. Receipt books and ths tax collection register were taken. > As there are only three keys to the office, and as each has been accounted for. the method by which tbe delega­ tion from Madras gained entrance is s here. Sheriff-elect Wood effort to assume the duties o f but retired when he dlscov- ered that the bond o f the sheriff had first to be approved by the county court. District Attorney Myers stopped the raiders ip his office after severs! threats of personal violence had been made. He warned them not to touch any of the county property and a fight between the prosecutor and several of the raiders was averted by cooler heads in the crowd. The crowd gained entrance to the prosecutor’s office also Tangled Railroad Brotherhood 1 Controversy ’ Before Congress . .u , ° j The raid prevents the . checking out Washington, D. C.— A ctivity in the of the retiring county officers by the tangled controversy between the rail- firm of Crandall A Roberts, account- roads and their employes was resumed ants, as all of the papers on which Monday in two different parts of the ! they were working were Uken. capitol, where, six months ago, the Adamson bill, designed to blaze the way tt> peace, was enacted into law. University of Oregon Wins W liile attorneys in the Supreme From U. of Pennsylvania Eleven court are making their opening argu­ 7 ments on the consitutionslity o f the Pasadena, Cal. — Pennsylvania's Adamson set, RepresenUtive Adam­ vaunted football eleven waa crushed son, father o f the law, has begun a fight in the house for prompt passage apd humiliated by ths University of o f his new blanket railway bill, in­ 0 „ r , „ I M U h . - - in their In U ,. tended to cover every phase of the sit­ sectional battle in Tournament Park uation, apd w ill resume his efforts in New Year’s dty. The score was 14 to behalf o f continuing the life o f the 0. Oddly, this is in duplication of Newlands railw ay investigation com­ Washington State's win- over Brown mittee. University in this same city one year Tbe new Adamaon bill introduced re­ ago. cently would provide an eight-hour Monday’s game wss witnessed by day, make strikes illegal and permit the greatest crowd that ever saw a the U k in g over o f railw ay lines by football game on the Pacific Coast the m ilitary on the orders o f ths Pres­ Approximately 27,000 were in the ident when public service demands stands, say tournament officials. such action. While the engagement began rather Drastic though the bill is admitted listlessly, it developed into a thrilling to be, Mr. Adamson expresses confi­ spectacular battle well worthy o f the dence that it w ill be enacted into law. day and the throng. Save fo r the eight-hour-day provision, It wss a battle that reflected the the measure is undertsood to have tbe highest credit upon Pacific Coast foot­ approval o f the President. ball. Penn came west with proud boosts of a diversified open field and The m ilitary commander o f Moscow serial stuck that would startle the na- has closed that city to refugees, says tives. Oregon was supposed to have the Overseas News Agency, which nothing but soma old stuff that was adds that the city is crowded with peo­ M le d when Pudge Heffelflnger and ple from Roumania, Odessa and all parts o f Southern Russia. Roumanian Walter Csmp were singing their bools instead Oregon refugees, the agency says, will in the “ “ '“ V ^2)tb.*1' ° l • »upHor brand and future be sent to Siberia. walked off with the game. j retumed to the German i vielt to the United Huts^ Int» a demonatration of Ing eotertalnod in the kj^ ment drelee and banking Sphäre toward the United ! The gueots Indoded ihn« , at lenat two «x-mlnistara preaident o f tho Reichstag, tfc | of Germany'• big financial ' and othar leaders In Ger Ufa. In .all L7fi .i vided between America« ad mana, were present Ths Usual toaaU to __ Ham and President Wttaoa i s t j «Unding. President Wolf the speakers o f the svm I m , t Vice Chaneellor llelfferi«* Von G winner end Mr. Genii The ambassador mmtlnaM I contributions now being America for the relief of owe and orphans and for partisan works of merry. Ambassador Gerard, whs sa | cned by Arthur Von Gwianw, j of the Deutsche Bank, to tfes dove of Noah’a ark,” is < Overseas New* Agency i “ never since the beglaalagM I have relations betweoi the United Stales bee and that he had “ broasM I oliv» branch” from Proaiwal 1 Explosion ill G *f*£6 Kids Prom in en t Lumber I Portland— Elihu K. Js old, 1306 Macadam street, aw I and a son, Harvajr W. H. Wroth, a visitor at the J«snt w ere badly burned in aa an acetylene tank la the Jonee home at 8 o’clock 8 The cause of the ace known. The three went Mr I age to work on an a few momenta there was a I plosion that waa beard I part of the city. Tho north and garage were blown out hy ths I the explosion, and ths thfltI hurUd 50 [“¡ L .T T w In * ,« Tb* two automobiles, sns Isa condition. The expieei« end pieces of iron and i Jon-* W 1 Elihu K. Jonas wssthil ] tue Jones, venerable losdwri ator In Oregon, one of bertnen and logging . ■tats, and a brother o iJ d tl of the Jonee Lumbar eom»m*.J enterprises Of the pion Outlaws Fight to Nowata, Okla.—C pulsed an attack by a | numbers near here Sui ing two and wounding aj exported to bo taken >1 who directed a new peradoee said thsre wooMlf ta r" when ths outlaws sr»M Posses Monday found tw J the robber gang in a wiM « ^ many hiding places hsd but the men hsd fled. he Id responelble for sei beriet and numerous the laet three montha. In the vicinlty seid et men wert ln the gang « J Drive Costs 620,017 Men. Londdh— The total casualties report­ ed In the published lists from Decem­ Three Men 8wept to Death, Gold Reachss Seattle, Wash.— One giant sea that New York—Gold thundered down upon the schooner 000,000, on o'of tbe ber 1 to December 23 wss: Officers 816, men 36,350. The effect o f cessa­ ™ r r “ ,,h# WM Battling with a received in a elngle da*] great westerly gale, swept Ivan Jo- ent movement from i tion o f the Somme offensive with the rivod Monday fron advent o f unfavorable weather condi­ Seattle’ flab! AtW-1 ° ° 0 d tnd Hsrum, Sesttie f l s b e r m ^ th, lr 0,6 deBth o(f Scotia. Twanty tio n a l« shown In these figures, which g iv e s daily average o f 1648 casualties 2 5 ! 0,mT * y' on M em ber 8, sc- «ach wlth armod i to transport the fo r the 24 days covered by the report " ■ » ; * «"• - packed in 800 boxe* In November the daily average was The Sumner arrived in Seattle Wed- Station to the sub-t 2488, and in October 3462. The losses reported hi December bring up the to­ « " f t r ‘ * h* from ‘ he North, b r llg ! ot 86 clerka Wu 1 t i l eeiva tha ahlpment tal British casualties since the start­ " * the first deUlis ° f the los. o f the three men in a ■ ten Urriflc storm on the waa oboorvod, it wH ing' o f the Somme offensive to 620,017. Alaska halibut banks. tha route o f tbe goM. Explosion Rocks Butte. Butte, Mont. — For the second time within six weeks, a charge o f dyna­ mite was exploded in the local restrict­ ed district about midnight Sunday, when a Greak restaurant catering to the inmates o f the district wss ths scene of a sharp explosion, which shook the center of the city. Glass was broken for a distance o f "a block from tho explosion, but nobody was injured and the property damage was confined to shattered glass. W reckage o f 8hip 1« Seen. Washington, D. C ._C o *a t Guard headquarters here received a wireless iM 0 M g * Saturday from the cutter Acuahnet that she had passed through wreckage covering the sea for about five miles wall «set o f Nantucket lieht- shlp in ths vicinity where w l X calls fo r help were sent out Christmas night from the stoamer Maryland Tho wreckage could not be identified fo r which ths Acush­ net hsd been searching several days. Legislator, Lose Ps.see, Naahville, Tenn. — The Louisville A Ï Ï Â i ^ f t ,bf Ä s '« « « « íZ w c í Ä l « Wlleon Favort I Washington, P. Saturdajr approved tlon of Secretary L pr lat Ion o f $400,000 I grase thts eeeeion to< Springs dam on tha projeet Ha also r“ tary’s : priatton of $100, projsct in Idabo- soiit fsrmalljr to « the secretary of tbe I