OREGON NEWS NOTES OF 6ENM INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State Curing the Past Week. Union County Prosperous. La Grande. Five hundred rarioadi of apples, 1200 tons of cherries, four trainloads of potatoes, 80,000 feet of lumber, great numbers of cars of horses, cattle and hogs, and 1.500,004 bushels of wheat form an Industrial procession which Is moving to the market from Union county. This count; has been In extremely fortun ate circumstances this year for fair prices have been realized on ever product of the soil. Records have been set this year for wheat, cherries, hogs and cattle. Jail Is Boarding House. Salem. Declaring that It was ne cessary for the man to hate plenty to eat for a few days to build up his health. Police Judge Elgin sentenced J. E. Adkins, charged with obtaining a meal at a restaurant and not paying for it, to serve a sentence of five days in Jail. The prisoner was thankful for the sentence, and announced that he was almost starved when, in his desperation, he ordered the meal at the restaurant Tragedy of Fighting Deer, Ashland. Trappers on Lick creek, in this county, recently came across a strange find In the way of two deer with horns interlocked, one of them a six-point buck and the other a five pointer. The six-point animal was dead, and its carcass was being drag ged about by the other' one, appear ances indicating that the larger deer of the two had been dead several days. Will Seek Gold Dust Phoenix. The Forbes company has secured lessee from the owners of the flats along Bear crook, from Phoenix to Talent, for the purpose of washing the sand for gold. Work will begin in a few days, and will be watched with Interest, as it was in this vicinity that rich gold deposits were found in 1849. The developing company is said to be well financed. FAIRS TO BE INSTRUCTIVE State Superintendent of Public li etruction Calls Conference. Salem. With the object of making the educational features of the county fairs more prominent State Superin tendent of Public Instruction Church ill, general director of the industrial school fairs of the state, called a meeting of secretaries of county fairs, school supervisors and all persons in terested in the proposition Friday at the capitoL The action was taken by Mr. Churchill because of many re quests that he take the lead In calling the conference. Inasmuch as his de partment had charge of one of the most important features of the fairs. A movement has been on foot for some time to enlarge the scope of the exhibitions and make the educational features more important than racing and carnival attractions. Merchant Gets "Black Hand" Card, Copperfield. A postcard picture of a "black hand" and a bomb, inscribed "will soon get you," was received by Samuel Aklln, merchant of this place. Aklin was one of those who refused to sign the petition asking Governor West to close the saloons here. Peace officers are inclined to the belief that the card was sent entirely as a Jest Douglas Has Good Corn Crop. Myrtle Creek. The excellent corn crop grown In southern Douglas coun ty during the past year, together with the showing made by Douglas county at the state fair and the Chicago land show has awakened Interest anew In corn growing among our farmers. Justice Joins Wife Beater. Oregon City. In the same cell with 8. W. Moore, the man he sentenced to jail for six months for being drunk and beating his wife, George Blgham, justice of the peace at Oak Grove, faced a charge Identical with the one for which Moore Is completing the fifth month of a six months' sentence. Indian Falls In Barrel and Drowns. Pendleton. While drunk and numb ed with cold, Julius Williams, a well known member of Walla Walla tribe of Indians, slipped and fell headlong into a barrel of water near the 0.-W. R. N. track. Grave of Aeahel Bush Guarded. Salem. Fearing that ghouls would attempt to steal the body of the late Asahel Bush, a millionaire banker, and hold it for ransom, relatives have caused a watch by day and night to be placed at the vault. I Dozen Beeta Weigh ,147 Pounds. Cottage Grove, A ' dosen mangel beets that tip the scales at 147 pounds have been raised by J, M. MoDole as an indication ef the possibilities of Cottage Grove soli. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Baker has been swept by cold wave. Temperature reached 10 de grees and drifting snow threatened to blackade the railroads. B. L. Sieoves. mayor of Salem, it Mid to be groomed as a candidate to' succeed Representative Haw ley In congress. figures show that about 35.0(H) white cedar ties are shipped from the tie camps in Coos and Curry counties in the course of a month. The great est number are shipped from liunjon. Sergeant Paul Hathaway, Company M. stationed at Vancouver, Wash., hut been ordered to Portland to report to General Flnxer as Instructor of the Oregon National Guard. E. a Tongue, District Attorney ol Washington county, has filed suit I against the state fair board for $193,1 alleged to be due as stakes in a horse race. Breach of contract is charged. The hide of a silver gray fox valued at (500 and the hide of a cross breed valued at (100 were brought into Can yon City by John and Arthur Colbs, trappers. The pelts were secured In bogan valley. The eight hour law in Oregon ap plies to ail the state Institutions, ac cording to a decision of the supreme court Shortening of hours will cause a deficiency in the appropriations, it Is said. State Game Warden Finley aiding, in an advisory capacity. Max Muller, of Portland, will purchase a numbet of song birds abroad for use In propa gating the wild species in the Oregon woods. I Baker was the scene of a unique Christmas celebration when 800 school children stood in nine inches of snow I in the open streets and participated In Yuletlde ceremonies before a great Christmas tree. A course of lectures on infant sci ence dealing with problems of chil dren up to the age of six will be given at the Parents Education Bureau, Portland, beginning Friday, January 2, and continuing each week thereat- ter, until June 7. Being -iesirous of seeing AlaBka properly represented, Senator Cham- berlain will introduce a bill providing for the appropriation of 1250.000 to enable suitable exhibits of Alaska products to be made at the San Fran cisco and San Diego expositions. Just four hours after she appeared In her sketch at the Majestic Theatet at Roseburg, Mrs. Al Overton gave birth to a son. Mr. Overton Is of In dian blood and says the new arrival Is entitled to a ISO-acre tract of land in the Rose'ourg reservation. The problem of the unemployed in eastern Oregon, which Is acute at present will be relieved by the com mencement of actual construction work on the first 10,000 acre unit of the west Umatilla extension irrigation project For leading five hungry and unem ployed men Into a Portland restaurant where they obtained food without pay ing for same, Municipal Judge Stev enson sentenced Wayne R. Jones to five days on the rockpile. J. Thorburn Ross, president of the Title Guarantee and Trust company; which failed in Portland In 1907, who was convicted of misappropriating state funds and sentenced to the pen itentiary, has been given a full pardon by Governor West Ross never serv ed a day of his sentence. Looking the nervous wreck that he has become since ha was found guilty of polygamy, E. El C. Von Klein ap peared In circuit court at Portland and received a sentence of Imprison ment from one to four years in the penitentiary, the severest penalty pro vided. The Eugene charter commission has rejected the whole report of the re search commission, which recom mended that the present charter be entirely superseded by a new docu ment and that the new charter be based upon the managerial system of government Appeal In the Salem brewery case, herein Judge Galloway of the Mar ion county circuit court held that the prohibition charter amendment voted at the city election December 1 was illegal, has been filed in the supreme court by attorneys for the city of Sa lem. 'Strawberry" was the name given to a new voting precinct created by the county court of Linn county. The precinct adjoins the city limits of Leb anon on the south, east and west sides and in deference to the prominence of Lebanon as a strawberry center this name was assigned. In view of the early completion of the Panama canal and prospective greater activity in naval matters on the Pacific coast, Senator Chamber lain will Introduce a bill on the re assembling of congress for a $2,500, 000 appropriation to build a drydock on the Columbia river. People at Pendleton are urging that congress icrease the appropriation for their public building from (70,000 to $130,090. Of the original sum, $8000 was spent for a site. They says the building should accommodate the courts as well as the postoffice. . MRS. JOHN P.MITCHELL It it.J Mm. John P. Mitchell, wife of the man who defeated Tammany and la now Mayor of Greater New York. SURRENDER IS EDICT Villa Says Mexican President Must Fall to End Conflict Chihuahua. "Nothing less than the tall of Huerta and his banishment from the country will ever be consid ered as a preliminary toward peace In Mexico," said General Francisco Villa. "Any overtures for a compro mise would be treated with contempt by the revolutionists." General Villa was prompted to d la cuss the subject because of the repeti- I tion of a report from Mexico City that General Huerta might resign in favor of a member of his cabinet As the report also said that General Huerta was thinking of taking the field ! against the rebels, it wss not consider- ed In any way as a possible peace move. ! Opinions of General Villa's sdvlsers were ,nal General Huerta would not reg8n. 'ha' the rebels must ad here to their original plan of fighting their way to Mexico City. President Wilson 57 Years Old. Pass Christian, MIbs. President Wilson was 57 years old Sunday, and letters and telegrams of congratula tion poured In from all parts of the country. Some of them -were from personal friends, but the great ma jority were from persons hitherto un known to the president PHONES TO REPLACE TELEGRAPHY ON ROAD Springfield, Mo. In anticipation of the strike of 1100 telegraphers em ployed on its lines, the St Louis ft San Francisco railroad laid off Indefi nitely 400 telegraphers and began to transform its telegraph lines into s telephone system of railroad commu nication. Twenty-four special trains, consist ing of an engine and caboose, went out on the Frisco lines with right of way over all trains except passengers. The crew of each train removed the Instruments from every station it passed and joined the telegraph wires at every mile. Thus 12,000 miles of railroad telegraph lines were convert ed Into a telephone circuit This action disclosed the company's plans for resisting the strike, to the amazement of the telegraphers, ship pers and railroad circles In general. Removal of all telegraphic Instru ments from the company's offices has begun. It Is said this is the first time such a transposition of the use of the wires has been made by a railroad to avert a strike. Spreckels Wouldn't Accept. San Francisco. His attention call ed to reports that he might be among President Wilson's selections for a place on the federal reserve board under the new currency law, Rudolph Spreckels said he would not accept appointment to the federal reserve board. Beachey Does 8lx Loops. San Francisco. Looping the loop ft consecutive times at a height of 2500 feet over San Francisco Bay, Lincoln Beachey established another world's aviation record. THE MARKET8. Portland. Wheat Club, 85c; bluestem, 96c; led Russian, 84c. Hay Timothy, $17; alfalfa, $14. Butter Creamery, 35c. Eggs Candled, 40c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 95c; club, 84c; red Russian, 83c. Hay Timothy, $17 per ton $14 per ton. Eg?s 41c. ' . Butter Creamery, 36c. alfalfa, NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL Secretaries cf Treasury and Agriculture Arc Perfecting Bank Plans. Washington. Secretaries McAdoo and Houston of the organisation com mittee have tukeu the first official steps to start the machinery of the Glass Owen act. In a resolution adopted by the or ganisation committee, II was provided that every national bank which a cepts or rejects the provisions of the federal reserve act shall file a report of such action withlu sixty day. In tention to subscribe to the cnpltal stock of federal reserve banks must at the same time be declared. Vmler the law these reports must be filed on or before February S3. From January 1 to March 1, Secre taries McAdoo and Houston will de vote much of their time with hearings and Investigations relative to the des ignation of federal reserve cities and districts. Cities to be visited are New York, Chicago, Denver, St. Louis, Portland, San Francisco, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Cleveland, By April 1 the work of organliatlon will be completed and the federal re serve board will be ready to take up the work where the orgaulxation com mltlee leaves off. It Is planned to have all essentials completed so that the system may be started aa soon as the reserve cities and districts are announced. Trust Revision to Be 8hort Work Congressmen prospectively viewing the new year declared that the addi tional legislation to make the 8hor man law more effective will not ab sorb as much of congress' time as an ticipated. President Wilson's atti tude, as they have gathered from talks with him. Is that business, needing ad justment from the tariff and currency measures. Is not now In a position to withstand a slashing attack. It Is not period of depression, they say, It li merely one of transition. The president's program Is for pas sage 'of a law making guilt personal in trust cases possibly prison sen tences, Instead of the wide latitude of i fines now discretionary with judges -a4er the Sherman law and prohibi tion against Interlocking directorates, There will also be a law exactly de fining a trust and serving notice on big business Just bow far It can go. Beef Inquiry Planned. Secretary of Agriculture Houston has announced the appointment of a special committee of experts to con duct an inquiry Into the present un satisfactory meat production condi tions in the. United States. The an nouncement by the secretary pre scribes that the committee will inves tigate "especially In reference to beef, with a view to suggesting possible methods tor improvement" The work of the committee. It Is said, will center largely on the study of economic questions Involved In the production, transportation, slaughter and marketing of meat Railroads Asked for Information A series of Interrogatories was ad dressed by the Interstate commerce commission to the railroads of eastern classification territory in relation to a petition of the roads for an advance of 6 per cent in their freight rates. The Inquiries are designed to develop such facts concerning the physical and financial operations of the roads aa heretofore have not been submitted to the commission. "Among other things it Is desired to determine to what extent conflict ing and intertwining interests com monly described a Interlocking dl rectorates prevail," the announcement said, "and what Influence, if any, this practice has had in increased railroad costs." National Capital Brevities. The quarantine on potatoes has been continued by Secretary Houston. The ban affects Canada, the British Isles and all continental Europe. Third Assistant Postmaster General Dockery says that the people should manifest more interest In postal sav ings banks. One thousand democratic . women representing every state In the Union, will gather In Washington from Janu ary 5 to 8, to attend the annual meet ing of the Women's democratic league. When congress reconvenes after the holidays, Senator Chamberlain, of Ore gon, will endeavor to call together all the senators and representatives from the public land states in the hope of agreeing on a bill to amend the three year homestead law. Owing to the abBence of the presi dent a New Year without a public re ception at the White House was the novel experience for Waehlngtonlans. The oldest member of the Oldest In habitants' association cannot remem ber a time when the year was ushered in without observance of the time honored custom which has now been liquet by decision of President Wilson. . JOE TINKER . v U-, I A' J Joe Tinker, the ball player recently sold by Cincinnati to Brooklyn for $25,000, who Jumped from the National League to the new outlaw Federal League and will manage the Chicago Club. Brief News of the Week San Francisco la said to be having Its share of the unemployed. Twenty thousand men are Idle. Earnings of the express companies show a decline, principally due to competition of parcel post It la re ported from Hartford, Conn. A complete tie-up of Mexico's rail way transportation facilities threat ens, unless the rebels can be Induced to allow the railroads to get oil Suits to recover profits said to have been made by the officials of the St. Louis ft Ban Francisco road In .pro moting "feeder" lines were authorlied by United States Judge Sanborn of St. Louis. A silver dollar of the date of 1804 has been discovered at New Haven. Conn. The coin Is said to be valued by collectors at $3500. The coin was found buried In an old Jar by a work man. Acting on Instructions from his gov ernment the Italian consul opened a lodging for destitute workers from his country In Chicago. Drunkenness Is responsible for 46 per cent of the caaes of domestlo un happlness that have been tried In the Court of Domestic Relations during the last year, according to the annual report As usual, the first of year will see a number of Important measures of legislation come Into operation. A number of news laws in the various states will be of more than ordinary Interest and Importance. The Barnes amandment to Nevada's divorce law will come Into effect on January 1. It requires an applicant for divorce to he a resident of the state one year Instead of six months as heretofore. A stringent law tor the curtailment of the liquor traffic will become effec tive in Arkansas. In Wisconsin the much discussed "eugenic marriage law" will become effective. Working men's compensation law will come Into force in Connecticut, California and Ohio. People In the News Brigadier General George H. Tor ney, surgeon general of the army, Is dead. George Dewey, Admiral of.the navy and hero of Manila Bay, recently celebrated his 76th birthday. Captain William P. Roberts, aide to General TJ. S. Grant and General Meade In the Civil war, dlod In the National Soldiers' home at Dayton, Ohio. J. C. Root, sovereign commander of the Woodmen of the World and foun der of that organisation, died at Hen derBonvilleN. C. John William White, a confection er, probably the smallest man In the world, died at South End In London, aged 53 years. He was only $5 Inches In height Mrs. Adlal E. Stevenson, wife of ex- Vice President Stevenson, died at Bloomlngton, 111. She had been ill several months. Mrs. Stevenson was 70 years old. The world's aviation record tor al titude was broken by nearly 1000 feet when Georges Legageux rose tu a height of 20,668 feet Vincenxo Laurdwas with six stitches In bis heart tissues, Is said to be in a fair way of recovery in a New York hospital. The operation was neces sary because of a stab wound. The operation was accomplished only by local anaesthetics. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, re-elected superintendent of schools, resumed of fice in Chicago after a two weeks' ab sence, during which Mayor Harrison dropped from the school board four members who had opposed her as su perintendent . V"- .1. 1 its! Mf4-VhJ Vtlc ul Miurlfl'a Nito In the circuit court nt the slwte of Orriioii. for ( rook county. T. M IIiiIiImIii nml M. It Itliriti), Kvivniurn of tl"' I'. -I'll e ol An tlimi.v 11. Wi ImIi ll.h iTiiM'il, ilnlii. Ml." v. Henry I.. 1'nrrv, l.lllle I'niry tnl J. II. (illl.V, ill li llillllllM. Notice i licrel'V ulveil llinl, UlliliT nml hy virtue ol nil xeculloii Mini tinier of utile of inorf itnut'il f'"' line, ilnly liwiictl tuitol the circuit court ol the mule ol Orvgoii tor Crook colintv, mul iN-itrltiu tlitle Hie lTth ilny ol JvhiIht, UM-'I, upon it Jinlumciit nml ilifiw wherein the itliove limncil ilMllltlffa reeovereil jinliiiiii'iit ngnltiPt the ftlmve iimiu'il iltft'iiiliintit, Henry I.. I'nrrv nml l.lllle I'urry, In sitUl court ami cmiim lor the miin of heveiih-eii lluiiilml liliiet.v-iiue nml 111 litimlreilth tlol Ima, with liilin-Ht tht-reoii nl nitrot M per rent M-r minimi Irom the xml ilnv of Itetvmlier, I'.i:l, ami tor the further sum ol One litiuilrvil llfly ilol hint n attorney's let-n, nml tor the lurther sum of Seventeen ami 75 liiiinln-tltha itolliir n rout, mul wlien-ln the above iiniiieil id ffiiiliilit J, II. (irny, recovered jmltfiueiit nunliiat the nliove nniueil ill ti liiliillln, Henry I. Carry nml l.lllle I'nrry, III nlil court nml chiimi for the sum of One liiiiidn-il m-vcniy nml 40 turn ilntllli" tlollnnt, with Intercut there on nt rate of i ier rent x-r nullum from the 2ml day nt iMfinlx-r, H'13. nml the lurther sum of twenty Ave ilollnni na attorney's fees, nml the lurther sum nf I'lve tlollnnt na eoala, nml which aalil iiliiiii iits mul ih cree were nml wna reuilcnd In anhl court nml mum on the UihI tiny nl l.veiiilM-r, llii:l, mid eurolliM mul iliH'ketel on the Mil tiny ol I leer in -lier, WIS, nml where It wna lurther onleretl, a Itttltfetl ami ternetl by the rourt timt the hciYlnnfler tie-at-rllieil mortKiiired renl eatnte Iw sold In two tmrrrls nml the procvrile ol snlil sale lie iplliHl to the pny. meiit. Drat, ol the Drat above men tioned liiilgineiit, tiitereat, attorney's fees ami coata, nml aet-oliil, to the pay incut ol the m-coml nliove in-n-tinned Jtlilgmelita, Interval, attor ney's teea mid coata, I Imve levied upon, mid will, on Satwssv, um 241s lay el Juawry, Ills, at the hour ol 10 o'clock In the fore, noon ol that ilnv, lb front ol.tlie (rout dour ol the cotirtliotiae In Prltievllle, Crook county, Hate nl Oreuoti, aell nt public miction to the hlg heat bidder for cauli, nil the lol low Inn dcacrllM-d IlinrtK'iired preni. Ica Itflnnirliiif to anld Henry l I'nrry mid Llllle I'nrry, to-wit: the enat hull ol the northweat tUrter and the cant hall ol the aouthweat Hiiiirter nl en-iton twenty six In itnviiahlp sixteen south of rnngn fluhtecn enat, nml the northwest tpuirter nf ace Hon fourteen In town ship seventeen south nl range elh teen east ol the Willamette Merldlnu In Crook county, Oni5tn, separately nml III one parcel, and the soiithena't quarter of the southenal quarter of section ten, nml the aouthweat quarter ol the northwest quarter mid the west hull ol the southwest quarter ol section eleven, In town, ship seventeen imith, ol ran ire eluh. teen enat ol the Willamette Meridian III Crook county. On-uoli. aenaratj.lv mid In one panel, and npply the prorceda til such anle to the payment nt aiich Indumenta In nrrordiinre with the terms ol snld dit-n-e nml order ol anle, toirether with lutcn-at and nrc ruliiK coata Dnted and published drat time le-cemla-rWth, 1913. Fmank Ki.kins, Sheriff ol Crook county, statu ol Orenoti. Mullen lor I'uhliciitioq Isolated Tract Public Und Kale Department ol the Interior, U. 8. Land Olttce at The llallee. Oregon ( December Hth, 1U13. Notice Is hereby given that, as dl reeled by the Ci.mmiiuiioiier ol the lien ersl Land Ollire, tinder provisions t Act ol Congress approved June 2", UKW (31 Huts . M7i ,,,...., ......'. ,. .. t...,,anal, W MIV llllf cation of William I. Dlahmsn. Herlal do. 0llbH7, we will ofler at public sal), to the highest bidder, hut at not less than fl2 ner ai-m 11 lo a..!!. - on the 28th day til January, 11114, at una omce, me loiinwiiig trai t of land: Lota 3 anil 4 ami n-.i i -..i .i . .. ' Bl III aeq. iiD ?:J,p-15 UU '"' 17 . w. M. This tract is o.dered into market on a showing that the greater portion thereof is mountainous or loj round fur cultivation." Any persons claiming adversely the shove-described land are advised to Hie their claims or objections, on or before the time designated (or sale. , ii. Riig Wooncorx, 1218P Register. Notice lor I'ubllcution l)nartn,n l .1.. l. ...... U. 8. Land Otllce at The Dalles, Ore., v, . , . "watnuer 17tlt, 11(13. notice is hereby given that niiuav II A. I one ol the heirs ol Silas K. Adams, ol Prlneville, Oregon, who, on May 16th. "i """ iiomesiean r.ntry No. 044211 i , ' V 'i section win tl..'lip.. .foulh' rn17 east, nil ainettn M. i,.. i..i : , , . ::- M men nonce of intention to mako final five-year ... i-nm,Minii UIHIIII K) me land Ti Tr lLre Tlmoty K. J. ... ' i w- D ummiHHioner. at Prine- Vllle. Ornirnn nn tl. 9.IH. .).... r. l "mry, IHM. ' ' Claimant namis as witnemtes; Wil liam Marks, llnnh Uee, jHuiea C. Ui. "1st, John R. Breese. all nl Prineville "' Kbank Woo.xx.cr-, Ua Reenter Notices of Dissolution of Partner, hip ,N'",CB.,1B J""y Klven that the partnership lately existing between m,dVw "",u;r"'''- l. s. uZl and ). I. DavlHon, currying on busl fZHLT""k co"n,y' "'K. "lr Logan & Co., whs on the tlrat day of December. 1913, dissolved by miir.iiiil f.fttiu.. -ni. .. . . h' V.T - "'"" i nut ail cuimm due the partneritlilp wm be received mid rece pted for by either partner i t ,ll,11;l,,llni OK'Unst the partner bhlp will he paid by either partner on preSl niation. 12-2,. (Signed) o. I. Davihon. Subscribe for the Journal, 1.50 yr