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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 6 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL ROUMANIAN ARMIES REPORTEDDESTROYED Transylvania, With Some Ex ceptions, Declared Clear of Invaders. Berlin, by wireless to Sayville. "The Roumanian second army in Its retreat In Transylvania lost approxi mately two divisions." says the Over seas News agency. "The Roumanian first army and the larger part of the econd army have been virtually anni hilated. "When the successful attack was made on the first army at Hermann tadt by the Austro-German troops the Roumanians planned to send the sec ond army to its assistance. This plan was learned from reports of aviators. The second army advanced too far to the west and was forced to retreat in haste. Its retreat became a panicky flight. Captured officers say the army was completely disorganized. H would have been annihilated if Rou manian forces had not been hurried In through the Torsburger and Fredeal passes. "The Roumanian leaders lost their surety of direction. Brigades and reg iments In desperation were moved hastily forward and back on railroads and even on carts. Only pitiful frag ments of the army could be rescued from Transylvania. "Transylvania today is clear of the Roumanians, except for small sections near the border." ALLIES CONTINUE DRIVE ON SOMME London. On the Somme front in northern France the entente forces are keeping up their unrelenting drive. The French, after having checked ' the German counter attacks on the po sitions won in their "pocketing" at tempts around Chaulnes, south of the Somme, resumed the offensive north of the river. According to Paris they succeeded in penetrating German po sitions at Sailly-Saillisel, pushing up to the edge of the Bapaume road. The British recently have been ad rancing in the vicinity of the Stuff redoubt and the Schwaben redoubt in the Thiepval region on their northerly flank. U-BOAT OPERATIONS UPHELD News Bureau Statement Says No "Blockade of Ports" is Constituted. Berlin, by wireless to Sayville. The right of German submarines to oper ate off the American coast so long as American territorial rights are re spected and 'pledges to the United States kept, was upheld in an authori tative statement Issued through the semi-official news agency. It was denied that such operations constituted a "blockade," and it was further stated that no sensible Ameri can citizen will believe that a secret ftepot for supplying German subma rines could be established on the American coast. It was pointed out that English cruisers "approach the coast of New Tork so closely that they can be seen from the roofs of tall buildings with the naked eye." Loan Promoters Curbed. Washington. Attempts of promot ers in the west to make personal prof it out of the organization of joint stock 'land banks under the federal farm loan bank system, resulted in a sug gestion to the department ol iuetice j the farm loan board that federal prosecutions be brought. Members of the board explained that attempts to promote organization of banks for commissions has become a scandal in the west. Husband Kills Man Who Annoys Wife Klamath Falls, Or. Charles Hobbs, a homesteader living near the Algoma Lumber company's plant, 12 miles north of here, shot and killed Ed Ways with a shotgun. Hobbs gave himself up to the sheriff here. The shooting took place in Hobbs' dooryard, and re sulted from Ways' attempting to force his attentions upon Mrs. Hobbs and threatening her if she told her hus band, it is said. Mine Sells for $50,000. Baker, Or. One of the big mine deals of the year was announced in the sale of the Tempest mine, In the Greenhorn district, formerly the prop erty of Millard Bennett and E. E. Ben nett, of this city, and of others in the east, to Florence Naylor Doty, of Den ver. The price agreed on is $50,000. No Change In Chinese Railroad Plans. St. Paul. No change In the plans of Sietns-Carey company is expected to follow news of the Japanese-Russian protest against the concessions of the company for railroad construc tion In China, It was said at its offices here. GEN. VON FALKENHAYN (4 -. - .' mi. Hum WLdSST ' General Von Falkenhayn, former German Chief of Staff, who forced back the Roumanians in Transylvania. BRIEF WAR NEWS Norman Prince, the American avla tor who was wounded recently in France, has died of his injuries. On the Carso the Italians have ad vanced slightly and gained some add I tional ground from the Austrians. After a fortnight of reverses In Transylvania, the Roumanian army has suddenly resumed the offensive, throwing back the Teutons at several places along the frontier. Berlin admits that the British north of Thiepval gained a firm hold on the German trenches and that the French south of the Somme have won a foot ing in the sugar refinery at Geuer mont. Vice-Admlral Dartige Du Fournet, commander of the Anglo-French fleet in the Mediterranean, has presented an ultimatum to Greece demanding that Greece hand over the entire Greek fleet to the allies. Russian and German forces engaged In a violent battle on the Stockhod river in Volhynia, 'Says the German official statement Russian infantry attacks, according to the announce ment, were checked and repulsed. An air raid carried out by 40 French and British machines on the Mauser works at Oberndorf, Germany, during which four tons of explosives were dropped and six German machines shot down as they attempted to de fend the works, is announced by Paris. SHORT NEWS NUGGETS Thomas Mott Osborne has resigned as warden of Sing Sing. Ex-King Otto, of Bavaria, who has been Insane for many years, died sud denly, according to a Copenhagen dis patch. There Is no immediate prospect for state troops on border duty to return home, other than organizations al ready under orders, General Funston states. Henry Miller, one of California's notable men, who rose from butcher's boy to be known as the cattle king of the west, and founder of the famous Miller & Lux properties, died in San Francisco ill his 90th year. Rev. Irl R. Hicks, astronomer and "long-distance" weather forecaster and publisher, died In St. Louis from pneumonia. He was 71 years old. He is said to have amassed a fortune through the publication of Hicks' Al manac. The special session of the Wiscon sin legislature adjourned after Gover nor Phillip had signed bills giving sol diers on the border the right to vote by mall. Citizens away from home election day also have the right to vote by mall. More general use of potatoes In mak ing bread is recommended by the bak ing specialists of the department ot agriculture. Bread containing boiled and mashed potatoes was found, dur ing experiments just concluded, to be just at nutritious as wheat bread and to have the quality of remaining fresh longer. Wholesale Prices on Shoes Jump. Pittsburg. f Wholesale prices on men's and women's footwear have been advanced 60 to 75 cents a pair within the last few days and certain lines have been withdrawn entirely from the market owing 'to a shortage in leather. Canadian Wheat Shortage Is Marked. Ottawa, Ont The wheat crop of Canada for the present year will be only 159,123,000 bushels, as compared with 376,303,600 bushels in 1915, an official estimate states. Chinese Railroad Grants Protested. PeUin. Japan and Russia entered protests against concessions for rail way and canal construction in China, which have been granted to Ameri cans. ALLIES REJECT U. S. MAIL SEIZURE CLAIMS Reply in Effect Admits Immun ity in Principle But Denies in Practice. Washington. -The reply of France and Great Britain to the American de mands respecting Anglo-French inter ference with American, mails on the high seaa and the unlawful diversion of mall ships into British ports. Is an undisguised rejection ot all the state department's contentions. The note in effect admits In princi ple, but denies in practice, the immun ity of mail, which is recognized in in ternational law. Great Britain aud France assert they have the right tq inspect American mulls while seeking both contraband and enemy corres pondence. The two allied governments claim the right to divert neutral mall ships from their courses and take them Into allied ports for the purpose of Inspect ing, censoring or confiscating mall matter. The American position Is that Great Britain has no right forcibly to take neutral vessels Into British porta ex cept with the permission of the gov ernment whose flag the ships fly. The only concessions the British and French governments make are contained in the following passage from their notty "As regards shipping documents and correspondence found on neutral ves sels, even in an allied port, and of fering no Interest of consequence af fecting the war, the allied govern ments have instructed their authori ties not to stop them but to see that they are forwarded with as little delay as possible." Promise of financial compensation for Injuries suffered by Americans by reason of the unlawful operation ot the censorship is contained in the con cluding paragraph of the note. CASE IS NOT YET SETTLED Washington Not Satisfied With Note Concerning Mail Interference. Washington Examination of the allies' note on the censorship of mails has brought a feeling among officials that it does not satisfactorily meet the protests set forth In the Amerl-1 can note of May 24, which said that onlv a radical chanee. remortn to the United States iu full rights as a!of San Francisco are soon to be neutral power, will satisfy this gov-j built- by this process. Farther ernmenL" i n01"th we come to the Big Meadows All the information reaching the' de-1 partment is understood to indicate I that the allies have determined to I maintain their firmest attitude on the j subject, feeling that absolute vital in- i terests are involved. Officials are said to feel therefore, that any further step by the United States might bring the controversy to a much more criti cal stage. ARMY ON BORDER IS STILL NEEDED i had been wasted in an effort to t u xt r , . ... ; build thcSmasonry dam." The ge Long Branch, N. J. President Wll-1 , , , . ' ... , : 6 son, In reply to a letter from Governor I , . xt v , . j . v w ... . ,J , i thai Mots Vnrlr militia nn tha irAa ' declared that the emergency which i caused the sending ot the militia to 1 the Mexican border "unhappily still i exists." He added, however, that he believed conditions in northern Mexi co are improving and that "In the near future" It probably will be possible to do more than has been done to re lieve the embarrassments under which organized militia regiments have ne cessarily suffered." The president In his letter declared he had been advised by the war depart ment that a withdrawal of the militia at any time since they were sent to the border "would In all human likeli hood have been followed by fresh ag- gressions from Mexico upon the lives ; nuu yiwyciiy ui two ycuyitj ui lut) United States." In bis letter the president paid a high tribute to the character of the militiamen on the border and denied that any organizations were being kept there to perfect their military train ing. American Greeks Asked to Join. New York. More than 300,000 Greeks in the United States have been Invited to Join the Venlzelos party In America, which was organized at a meeting of 3000 natives of Greece here. This Is the first of a series of meetings to be held in the principal cities of the United States. The pres ent Greek government was condemned and pledges of allegiance to Venlzelos were given. 10 Killed, 11 Hurt, In Train Collision. Elwood, Neb. Ten men were killed, fatally crushed, and 11 others serious ly injured when a train on the Bur lington railroad crashed into the freight caboose in which these were riding, 12 mileii e;ist of here, OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Important Occurrences of Past Week Briefly Compiled for Our Readers. Eleven cases of Infantile paralysis are now reported In Portland. Infantile paralysis has appeared at Beavcrton, one case being reported. A school Industrial rulr la to be hvld in Ilarrlsburg October 20 ami 21. The Sllverton lumber mill has clos ed indefinitely, due to the car short- Mrs. Victoria C. Schroder has been appointed postmaster- at Rolytit, Crook county. Tho name of the postofflce at Oceanvlew has been changed to Yachuts. Continued from page 1. Hydraulic fill dams have now i i .. Become standard una their con struction is morc widely applied to day than during- any time since their first inception. A notable ex ample of this type is the (Treat Gatun dam built in connection with it., n . rt i mi me ranama uinai. lnia dam was built upon an acknowledged bad foundation, and it has been stated upon good authority -that no other type of dam could have been built on this. situ. Nearer at home are the great dams constructed and still in the process of construction for the Los Angeles Aquaduct. Farther north we come across ti e dam now being constructed for the South San Juaquin Irrigation Dis trict. Farther north we comes to the great Calaveras dam which has been building for the Dast three years and will ultimately have a height of 240 feet and contain within its mass over three million cubic yards. Certainly here is an instance where the confidence in i hydraulic fill dams has been fullv j exemplified. This dam is the pro- , perty of the hprmg V alley Water ! Company, an old and conservative company which has supplied San rrancisco witn water tor many years. Other dams in the vicinity dam of the Great Western Power tympany. This dam as recently completed forms a lake of 16,000 acres water surface. I may say lnal nere 18 Boomer instance wnere it is acknowledged that no other type of dam could have been built. Prior to the building of this dam some $840,000.00 had been expend ed in an attempt to build a mason- ! ry dam at the same location, but abandoned. After this a site was selected . immediately up-stream from the partially built masonry dam and a hydraulic dam entirely built for half of the money which .. j , " tioned dam site was somewhat sim- to that for the proposed Ochoco r r northern California, Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho, some 200,000 square miles covered with lava. Most of this area is arid and must have reservoirs for its development. The experience at the Big Meadows dam site proves, because of its lava formation, the peculiar appli cability of the hydraulic fill process over this great area of territory. The hydraulic fill dam may be best understood as being composed of three damp, one in the center, j one above and one below the center, reclining upon the center struc- ture. The office of the center dam is water tightness. The two outer reclining against it, are for stability In selecting materials for the dam we seek for 'an earth, sand, gravel and rock mixture. This material is placed on the up-stream and downstream faces of the dam, either by water carriage or me chanical means. Once deposited on these faces, it is washed by a (low of' water in such a way that the . coarse material, such as rock and gravel, remain on the upper and lower faces of the dam and the fine material, such as sand and clay, are washed and floated toward the center and deposited in a pool of water. During the entire time of construction the top of the dam is in the form of a pond with water in the center reaching from end to end and with gravel and lock forming the up and down stream edges. While building, these up and down stream thirds of the dam, so to speak, are rigid but porous. The center part is in "he form of a thin mud, but as drainage goes on this center gradually wettles and the water it contains is squeezed out by the weight of the entire structure until i passes ft om almost n fluid state to a tough, elastic condition, after which the 'entire structure is dressed off and retuly for use. The elastic 0ndi tion of the center or puddle core, is one of its essential features and prepares the dam for violent earth quake shocks without injury, The Spring Valley Water Com pany, of Sun Francisco, has two great earth dams, one of which was actually broken in two by the great earthquake of 190(5 and although the reservoir above it was prac tically full of water at the time, tho elasticity of the puddle core sealed the break before water could pass through the dam and thus, these earth dams, although prac tically on a line with the great earthquake fault, escaped without injury. Probably it is the, record made by these dams during that great disaster which has lend to their general adoption since. The Spring Valley darns thus tested, were not strictly hydraulic (ill dam, but were their crude pre-; decessors and without many of the ! refinements in construction which guarantee the safety of the newer typo known as the hydraulic (111 dam. It seems fortunate that an inexpensive, safe type of dam con struction has come into existence, for no community can prospc, un less peculiarly situated, if it has the interest to pay on a masonry dam. One other Rood feature of the hydraulic fill dam is its improve ment with Hire. Nature seems to want to assist the engineer who has such a dam to build. If the country is more or less porous about the dam site, nature in a short time seals these pores. This finds its commonst illustra tion in the filter bed for filtering water eupplies of cities. These are especially arranged to be porous yet without constant cleaning they become water tight in a short time. Another instance of nature's efforts -..-l ;.. k ii i i iu wai, id ill uir wen nnown gravel pit. When gravel is excavafd and a depression is left the bottom of this depression is usually porous, and will drain, but if one returns; to it a few months later he finds! th-re a pond. In this case the rain ooi-rrooi uonsirucuun -from the adjoining hillside carries' Gun Barrel Cylinder Bore enough silt to make the depression watir tight. As for the needs of the Ochoco ! Irrigation District, the hydraulic fill dam is, in my opinion, the only thing feasible. On the slopes about the dam site is an ample sup ply of ideal material with which to build the dam, ranging from the finest earth and clay through various grades of sand, gravel, and fragments of rock all of which when segregated and placed in their proper position in the dam, will make a water tight, stable i structure. The dam site itself presents no serious difficulties. It is underlaid by a bed of gravel through which a puddle trench will I be cut ioininif tho water tiirht ! center of the dam, with a layer of clay some thirty feet in thickness urh!K iirtflok1 !ia f lii IniMoiln nml i tv iiitii uina i i ii d hkt aiuni t,u aim ' & apparently the entire reservoir.011 "P- reservoir , site. If any porosity exists it is i t l t ,i t mi to De iouna along tne margin or the reservoir site and this is over laid by material having a degree of fineness which will, in my opinion, soon become absolutely water tight. Similar conditions to what we find here, we found at the Big Meadows reservoir, above described, but dur ing its three years of use we have experienced no trouble from this source, and both rescroir and dam are entirely water tight. While writing I have before me detailed drawings of your Ochoco Dam dated. September 21, 1916, and signed by R. W. Rea, Project Engi neer. I can thoroughly recommend these plans as having been carefully drawn and designed with consider able ingenuity to meet the condi tions you have at the dam site. Some further excavation of test pits might indicate a condition' which would enable a spillway to be: cut in a Eomewhat different man-; ner in the hope of effecting certain ' savings. In fact, not only in the design, but in the ultimate manage-, ment of the work there is always an opportunity for saving which the wide range in the cost of such structures, as have been completed, j illustrates. The lay of the various, beds of material for use in the con struction of the dam suggests that) additional profitable study could bo made with the hope of securing on i a larger scale a combination of ex cavation for spillway and use of the same, material in the dam. 1 But whether or not such a possi-: bility works any great economies, ! the design of the dam structure as it stands today, commends itself as entirely suitable for its purpose. After securing a good deign it is only a matter of wpplying methods of handling material by which safe and economical results are fully ob tained. Yours truly, J. M. Howells. I ANNOUNCEMENT The Latest In fall Millinery may now he trrn at my Milllnary Parlor, corner Sucond and Main. Call and them. Pric right MRS. ESTES' MILLINERY PARLORS Prineville, Oregon tfs Hsrel Come In and See It! PAHM r l I I ll r 1 Ffl KM fc N G I i fc Economical Simole Lj M Weight -Substantial , ti . Leak-proof Compression. $TO 50 Vi H. 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