OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Alleged Thieve Held. The Dalles. One of the worst bonds of boxcar thieves the northwest rail roads have had to deal with in years was rounded up, it is said, when E. B. Wood, chief special agent of the O-W. R, & N. company, brought about the arrest of five men in this city and in Arlington. The prisoners are all al leged -ex-convicts. They are said to have been operating for several months. Two of the five are in the county jail here and three, who were arrested at Arlington, are in custody there. Polk Fair Plant Set Monmouth. At a meeting of the Polk County Fair association, com mitteemen and committeewomen were named for the fair this year, and Rev. Edgar W. Miles, a retired Presbyter ian minister, was re-elected secretary and genual manager. A bond issue of $4800 to purchase a tract of 16 acres, west of Dallas, was voted by the directors. The dates of the annual exhibit have not been fixed, owing to uncertainty as to the time set for fairs in neighboring counties. Tax For July 4 It Plan. . Baker. A levy of half a mill on all taxable property in Baker City for a fund for an annual Fourth of July celebration here was indorsed at a meeting of the merchant's committee of tfce commercial club. It was proposed and decided to ttart Initiative petition to call a vote at the next regular election to deter mine whether the city should make such a levy. The total on half a mill levy would be $3000 on present valuation. Lost Of $600,000 In Portland Fire. Portland. Twd great docks were burned, half a million dollars' worth of grain was ruined, a steamship badly damaged, a steam schooner destroyed, almost totally, and a dozen buildings were injured by fire on the east side water front The loss, at first estimat ed at $1,000,000, is cut to $600,000, and of this amount insurance covers more than half. MISS ELEANOR WILSON BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON 400,000 ACRES THROWN OPEN Land In Deschutes And Paulina Reserves To Be Settled Portland. More than 400,000 acres of land in the Deschutes and Paulina National forests in Cook, Lake and Klamath counties will be thrown open for settlement within 60 days through an order just signed by President Wilson withdrawing this land from the forest reservations. It is reported that the land will be opened for actual settlement May 9 and that filings will be permitted on and after June 8. Officials of the Forestry Bureau in Portland estimate that of the aggre gate of 410,763 acres thrown open, approximately 120,000 acres are oc cupied by settlers. These settlers will be permitted to remain. Settlers on the remaining 290,000 acres will be permitted to take up homesteads of 160 acres each in accordance with the Federal land laws. The formalities of transferring this land from the Agricultural Department of the Federal Government to the In terior Department now are in progress at Washington, D. C. The entire area will be placed unde jurisdiction of the local land offices at Lakeview and The Dalles. Intending settlers are instructed to make in quiries concerning the lands at those offices. Newport Has Herring Run. Newport. An unuBua run of her ring has brought a bonanza to Newport residents, for the flan were so plenti ful that it was possible to pick them out of the bay, where they swarmed around piling, with one's hands. One rowboat caught five tons in a net and small dip-nets were responsible for hundreds of pounds being caught. The fish are near the surface of the water only at low tide. Social Centers Planned. Ashland. "A social and intellectual center" is planned as the outgrowth of a movement now under way by residents of Evans valley, in this coun ty, for the institution of a central farm or country life school. Several districts would be consolidated in the merger In a territory of which Rogue River station is the hub. Roads In that section are of the best and other conditions are favorable. Sand Spit to Be Sown. Marshfield. Roy Rozelle, United States engineer in Coos Bay, started the planting of 35 acres of sea grass Monday on the north sand spit. Mr. Rozelle is also expecting to plant bull niua and willows in the sand country. Mt- rev- I - vC -k If 5 . ' L A ? "I Miss Eleanor Wilson, youngest daughter of President Wilson, whose engagement to Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo hat been announced. Brief News of the Week Smallpox conditions in South Texas due to the influx of thousands of Mexicans who have crossed the border to escape the revolution, it is declared, have assumed serious proportions. To the tune of vehement protests from Premier Yamamoto, the upper house of the Japanese parliament re duced the naval estimates from $S0, 000,000 to $45,000,000. The skeleton of a man believed to be many thousands of years old has been found In the northern part of German East Africa. Indications point to a high state of development. A Judge in Chicago dismissed the case against a man who had been ac cused of removing a long feather from a young woman's hat The feather brushed his face and when he remon strated the girl called him an "old fool." An agreement has been reached be tween the socialists, radicals and mod erates in Copenhagen, for the exten sive reforms in Denmark. Suffrage it granted to women and all electorate qualifications have been abolished. The Kentucky house of representa tives by a vote of 60 to 32 passed a bill providing for the submission to the voters at the election in 1915 of a constitutional amendment providing for a state-wide prohibition. Twenty-five bodies have been recov ered from the ruins of the Missouri Athletic club building. Of these, 21 have been identified. Five bodies are believed to be in the ruins. The dissolution of the United States Express company was authorized at a meeting of the directors. This ac tion was taken aa a result of the re cent reduction ordered in express rates by the Interstate commerce com mission. An important change in the parcels post regulations was made Monday, on and after which day books will be accepted for transmission aa parcel post matter. The rates will be the same as on other articles, except that books weighing eight ounces or lest will cost one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. People in the News Vlce-Pretident Marshall accepted an invitation to speak Tuesday night at the annual banquet of the Sons of St Patrick in Hartford, Conn. The postal vote plan, which enablet voters to cast their ballots by mall, Is recommended by Secretary of State Bryan. Professor Delbet of Paris announces that he has discovered a way In which India rubber can be successfully graft ed into the tissues of a living person. The will of George H. Vanderbilt, as filed for probate, leaves his entire estate, estimated at $20,000,000, to his widow and only daughter, Cornelia. The Right Rev. John Scarborough, D. D., Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, died at his home in Tren ton after a short illness. He was In bis 83rd year. Former President Taft began a series of lectures before the law school of the university of Minnesota on Monday. Tuesday evening he was the principal speaker at the annual ban quet of the Minnesota Bar association held in St. Paul. , Declaring that he can no longer give his services to the government for the money which the position pays, B. D. Townsend, special assistant to the United States attorney general, has resigned. He has been connected with the department since 1904 and has handled a number of Important cases for the government A bounty on fltes is going to be of fered by the Salem commercial club to the school children In Salem. Senator Chamberlain has boon re quested to use his Influence to have the Dead Ox project Included In the Owyhee project. Bids will be opened April 1 at St. Helens for the $360,000 bond Issue re cently voted by Columbia county for permanent highway construction. Dairy covs in Coos comity this year are selling for a much higher price than ever before, due to the Increase lu the dairy business and the efforts to better the grade of the dairy stock. The county lu which a schoolliouso is located has jurisdiction lu trying eases of crime in or near the building, according to an opinion of Attorney General Crawford. Tho Corvallis commercial club has started a campaign to increase Its membership to 500 and to become more effective in developing Corvallis and Benton county commercially. Counties which have collected In terest on delinquent taxes without di viding It with its taxpaylng districts may be sued by the districts for their share of the money, so Attorney-Gen eral Crawford decides. A false reading of a Babcock butter fat test is a violation of the weights and measures law, according to an opinion written by Attorney-General Crawford for Deputy State Sealer of Weights and Measures Buchtel. Citizens of Gleudale have organized the Glendale-Cow Creek Good Roads association, of which Mayor Coo of Glendale is president The associa tion starts off with a membership of 35. The Portland chamber of commerce has filed a protest with the Oregon delegation against the proposed re moval from Portlaud of the pure-food laboratory of the department of agri culture. The delegation will try to have the order of removal rescinded. That there are thousands of acres of fine land In Oregon from five to 25 miles from railroads that may be pur chased for from $20 to $50 an acres, Is the assertion of Mark Woodruff, publicity agent of the Portland, Eu gene & Eastern railway. An attendance average of 96.07 per cent 2877 pupils on record in Polk county, 1855 pupils neither absent nor late, are some of the items In a report Issued by H. C. Seymour, county su perintendent, for the month of Janu ary. The forest service is spending $22.10 for roads during the coming summer in Baker and Grant counties, within the Whitman national forest The service plans to open a new and short er road across the mountains between Sumpter and lower John Day valleys, a distance of approximately 60 miles. Miss Mollio Towne of Fhoenlx, for merly deputy county clerk, has an nounced her candidacy for the legisla ture on the democratic ticket, the first woman in Oregon to seek legislative honors. Miss Towne has studied law and has been admitted to practice. It is reported that the O-W. R. & N. company will build a cutoff on its Umatilla-Spokane line from Cold Springs siding, on the Columbia river, across the irrigated section, through the town of Hermlston, connecting with the Ecbo-Coyote cutoff about miles west of Hermlston. George Stewart, Jr., representing McMlnnvllle college, won the annual intercollegiate oratorical contest of Oregon at Albany. Lisle Hubbard, of Pacific college, took second place, and Eric Bolt of Willamette university, was third. Stewart spoke on "The American Press and World Peace." Plans for a federated college and religious training school will be con sidered this spring at the annual Ore gon conferences of the United Evan-! gelical, United Brethren and Evan- j gfciical Association denominations, j The conference of the United Evan gelical churches will be held at Dal las, beginning April 4. The Anti-Saloon league of America, whose headquarters and general pub lishing house is in Westervllie, Ohio, has determined to throw the whole power of its organization to the as sistance of the Anti-Saloon league of Oregon and the other organizations co-operating with it for a dry Oregon this year. Believing that an eight-hour law having application to farms, dairies and other agricultural pursuits would be an injustice, the Linn county Po mona grange has passed a resolution protesting against such a regulation. It Is recited that such a law would be wholly impracticable to the conditions peculiar to farm industries. To retain the services of L. J. Cha pin, the agricultural expert employed during the last two yoirs to give ex pert assistance to the farmers of Ma rion county, the promotion department of the Salem commercial club has ap propriated funds for the payment of half of his annual salary. In the past this had been paid by the counfy court, tho other half being paid by the gov ernment, but this year the county court refused to give any funds for the purpose. BUICK The Car that Sella by the Train Load The Buick Car Sets Mark in a Run Twenty and One-Tenth Mile Made on One Gallon of "Gas" Twenty and one-tenth miles on one gallon nf gasoline by a six-cylnder Huick earl That'i the mark that the ltuiek Motor Company may advertise to the world ax an ollicial performance. Not only did the 15iek "Sis" set thin remarkable economy mark on January H, but the Model B-25, under similar running conditions, made 22 7 mile per gallon, while a third ma chine, a Model 11-37, with no gravity feed tank (or the measured gallon of gUHoline, made 17.97 miles. The later two models are (ours. With F. E. Edwards, former American Automohilo Association technical t-xpert and one of the most conscientious officials in the industry, in charge of the technical committee and with Darwin Hatch, St. Clair Councils,,, Reed Parker and 10. (!, Westlake to furnish (he affidavit as passengers in the Buick cars, the machines were taken to Thirty-third street and Houth 1'ark avenue, Chicago, where the attested Warner speedometers were set and officially recorded by Messrs. Edwards and Hutch, engines were run until they bad sucked the gAsoline leads dry and the technical committed carefully supplied each car with one gallon of gasoline that rated 02 In a temperature 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Soon after the machines reached Jackson Park, where a two-mile circuit at and near the lake shore was utilized (or a testing ground, the wind set in off the lake, the roadways became sheeted in ice and the temperature fell to 32 degrees, The southwest wind, that blew l',3 miles an hour at the start, shifted off the lake and became raw and cold, offering great rebalance to the machine. The l?uic "six" weighed 45f0 pounds, with four passengers and equipment, the "25" weighed 3300 pounds and the "37" 3780 pounds, inclu ling four passengers and equipment. The "six" has an engine 3 3 4i5, the "25" has a bore and stroke of 3 3 4 each, while the "37" is 3 3-4x5, The gear ratio of the "six" is 3 3 4 to 1, while the others have a 4-to-l gear ratio. HUFF-NOBLE AUTO QO. O. L Huff PRINEV1LLE, OREGON AGENTS FOR CHALMERS AND BUICKS Fred W. Noble J Statement of Resource and Liabilities of The First National Bank OfUTrineville, Oregon KKHOl'!i('KH Loana and ntaoounla... t-Kl.ftiS 03 I' illicit HtaUw Honda 00 Hunk r.remlaa,ete l'J.Vlo li Cub Due from becks 210,-'4 M B. F. Allan. Prwid.nl Will Wnw.U.,, Vice Pr..W.l I.lAlllMTlKI capital HUick, paid In M.000 00 Murpliia limit, enrn-il &.OH) 00 Undivided profit, earned S7.TJ4 M Circulation .U) 00 Uepoalla SKfi.OW S3 fto.H 1 T. M. Baldwla, Caller H. Baldwla, AWl Chief STALLIONS We have 25 imported I'ercherons, Belgians and Shire Stallions, two to five years old, weighing 1800 to a ton. These are a grand lot with plenty of bone and action tho kind that will do you lots of good. If you are in the market (or a stallion or if you have an aged stallion or geldings you wish to trade, write us vour wants, or, berter still, come and see us. S. Metz & Sons PENDLETON, OREGON 1-15 "PRINORE" AND . "STANDARD" Prineville Flour Notice lor 1'iihllratton Department of tie Interior, C. S. Land Ullioe at The Dallee. Ore. February 11th, lull. Notice Is hereby given that John F. 1 lny inn of rrineville, Oregon, who, on March miih, 1D11, nni'lo llouicalead Fntry No. ONlllI, for lots 1 ami 2, section fl. town hip 15 aoiitli, rani!" 17 caul, Willum ctte Meridian, lisa tiled notice of inten tion to niako Anal tlirie year proof to eatshliali claim to thn land above da scrihml ImforB Timothy K. J. Duffy, tl. 8. C'oiiitnifaloner, at I'rlnevillii, Ureoe, on the lUll, day of April, llll l. Cluiinatit names as witneaaes: Jamna F. lilanchsrd, Hkymond Calavun, I uve Klliott, Charles II. Crnln. all ol 1'rliiB ville, Oregon. II. Fkank VVoiukimk, 3 6 Keitiater. Notice lor Publication Department ol thn Interior, tJ. S. Land Oltice at The Dalloa, Ore. February l ttli, 1U. Notice is linrehy ifiven that Alpha (). Myers of Redmond, Oreiton, who, on March 'list, 1U0H, made Ilomeatead F.ntry No. 1511)1 Serial No. 0I3IIH, for ne section .'1.1, towiifhlp 17 south, rani(H id east, Willamette Meridian, has tiled notice of intention to make Final Five Year I'roof, to eatahlish cliiiin to the Inne! bIkivb deHcribed, before Timothy K. J. DniTy, U. H. Coniirdxaioner, at Prine ville, Oregon, on tho 27tU day of March, 11(11. Cluiniiint names rs witneaaes: Abhio Wilaon, lllanchi! Wilum, l.illio Curtis, Leo Hettinger, all of I'rinevilln, Oregon. 2 11) II. Fkank Woo neurit, HegiatHr. Notice of I'liuil Settlement Notice Is hereby K von by the on (lerslirned, the udinlnlHtriKor, with the will annexed of the estate of Ida, Wright, tleccaaed, to all persons In tcrcHtcd In said emote that he hae iniiiln and llled with the clerk of the county court his llnnl accounting of his ailinliilHtratloii of Hold eMtateiind that tile court hae set Monday, the (Itli day of April, at 10 oYlork'ln the forenoon, nt the county court room In Prineville, Oregon, as the time and place for hearing and cltlliif sulil final account Intf. At which said time and place any pcrnon Inter cHted In said CHtate may appear and object to said final nccoiliiMiitr. Dated this 5th day of Feb., 1914. p M. D. 1'owici.t,, Administrator with the will an nexed of the estate of Ida Wright, deceased. You . would . enjoy . the . Journal Only $1.50 per Year To the Teachers of Crook Co. The Htate Hoard of Ivlncntn February lOlli cliiumcd Hulo 27 of the ItlllcH and Itciriilntlimu Imp tn.. KOiierul Kovernineiit of public schools in wreiron to read nx r iiwm "Teachers Shall everctuM wnl.M,.! care and oversight over the conduct and habile of the puplle, not only diirlnji school hours, but also at recesses and Intermissions, and shall have tho power to punish the pupil for any misconduct on tho way to or from t he school." Teachers please note this change. Respectfully. .1. 10 Mvkuh, Superintendent Crook Co. Hchools. Prineville Merc Co. gives it away