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CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL PAGE 5 FINAL HEtTlNG Or OLD COUNCIL JAN. 1 The lunt meeting of the old city, council, was held at the ci.y hall on January 1. The .only -elective office to be token. up by a new mun wait that of the' recorder, and eo. V, Huston wan duly aworn in and qualified. At the meeting Tuesday evening, the butul of the treasurer was fixed at 1 10,000 for the coming year, and the city authorised Mr. Peoples to have a surety bond drawn, and the council will pnv irmium on same. J 11 Cray and Uke M. Hechtell were a)x)inted marshal and city at-1 torney respectively, by the unani mous vote of the council. , Parent-Teachers' Meeting The fourth tnoeting of the Par ent Towhera' Atwociation will he hi-ld at the high Mchool building Momlay evoning, January .K at 7:110. The nu'et'-ng will be infwmul and the following program will be .given: Vocal nolo Wallace ('annon Vocul duct. . . Mrs. Lakin mti Kelly Instrumental aolo Miss L'lliott Vocul solo Mrs. Ulkinit Quartette Mesdatnoa Lakin, DuiTy, Hownberg, fmith leading Mis lWknap Girls' quartette, from P. P. School Instrumental nolo Mrs. Tirrill Vocul Solo Mi Conway Quartette Kei Powell Harry Stearins, dea. Stearn. Jfirnest F-aU. MK?. J. B. SHI PP. Pres. It. H. .POWELL. Kec. TEUTONS PUSH BACK ROUMANIAN LINES Bertie by wireless to Bayvllle, N. T.) The KiiHslaiis defeated In eastern YYallacbla are being driven toward the Beretb by their pursuers, who are pressing oo .closely at their rear. In vain dU the Russians .attempt to bold the slroiiK prepared positlou east f Hlinnlk.Sar.al and between the Rim uik and lluseu rivers. The country hi tilted excellently fur detente, be ing covered a lib swamps, winding rivulets, ponds unci extensive lakes. But attain they were defeated, and very where the battlefield was cover ed wllb heaps of dead Russians. Klmnlk Sarat. la aplte or a tena cious defense, was taken with auch speed that the Russians succeeded only In destroying one bridge south of tbe town, while the moat Important bridges across tbe Rimnlk fell un damaged into the bauds of tbe con querors. In the Dobrudja the Russians are DiskliiK desperate efforts to protect the Malchln bridgehead and the Dan ube swamps toward Galatz. However, ibey were attain driven back by the Bulgarian and Turkish troops. Will NAME LOAN OFFICERS Man From Each Stats in District to Oet Farm Bank Position. Washington. The farm loan board bas Informed Representative Dill that within two weeks four salaried offi cials of the Spokane farm loan bank probably will be named, a president at $6000, a registrar at $4000 and sec retary and treasurer at $3500 each. It is planned to Belect one of these officials earn from Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho and Montana, the states embraced in the northwest district. Numerous applications are on tile, but selections have not yet been made. At the time these appointments are announced the board expects also to name tbe preliminary board of direct ors. Rsllroad Strike Not Imminent Cleveland, Ohio. Warren S. Stone and W. Q. Lee, heads of the railway englneera' and railway trainmen's brotherhoods, declared that it la high ly improbable that' there will be an Immediate strike ag a result of tbe rejection by the managers' committee of their demands that the Adamson Jaw be placed in operation January 1. THE MARKETS. Portland. Vheat Club $1.42; bluestem $1.(3; red Russian, $1.40; forty-fold, $1.46. Barley No. 1 feed, $37 per ton. Hay Timothy, $21 per ton; alfalfa, $18. Butter Creamery, 34o. Eggs Ranch, 40c, Wool Eastern Oregon, 86c; valley, 86c. - Hops 1916 crop; 69c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem $1.61; club $1.47; forty-fold, $1.47; red Russian, $1.26; fife, $1.47; turkey red, $1.53. Barley $37 per ton. Butter Creamery, 38c. Eggs 42c. PRESIDENT WAHTS RAILWAY LEGISLATION Visits Capitol Unannounced to Discuss Bills to Prevent Strikes. .Washington. President Wilson at a conference with Henator Newlands In the senate office building urged the Immediate enactment of a compulsory arbitration bill as a protection .to in terstate commerce against railroad strike. It is. understood ito have been ewreed at Hie conference Jlml such an answer should be made ly congress to the latest disagreement between ithe brolberlioods and Hie railway man agers. The president did not even permit Secretary Tiimulty to know of bis plun to visit the capitol, lie tele phoned (to Senator JMewlunds and made the appointment himself. Tbe chief exm-utlve is said to have ap proved the bill which ha been drafted and desired to urge that it be pusited with the (least possible delay after X'ony '.' . t - ; i 1) J) Taritt Duties on 3 Items Probable The advisability of restoring tariff duties on wool, rubber and coffee and of increasing the present tariff on sugar is under consideration by treas ury department officials and in con gress as a weans of averting the threatened deficit at the end of the next fiscal year. The tariffs under consideration are understood to be nominal and design ed to provide menus only. Rates that would amount to a protective tar iff are understood to be opposed by department officials and administra tion leaders in congress alike. No return to the recent stamp taxes Is contemplated in the administration programme, officials assert The un popularity of this form of taxation was fully demonstrated, It ia felt. In the operation of the emergency rev enue legislation adopted soon after the war. New Reclamation Bill Is Introduced. Tbe Irrigation of countless acres of arid lands, and the drainage of still greater areas of swamp lands, will be made possible If congreas passes the bill recently Introduced In the senate by Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, and in the house by Representative Smith, of Iduho, Whether the bill can receive final consideration this ses sion is problematical, for it Is a rad ical departure from existing methods of reclamation, and will probably lead to much discussion. The probabilities are that the bill will have to go over, but Its presentation to congress will give the plan new publicity, and senti ment In support of It may be develop ed during the coming year. If the plan is generally approved. 8-HOUR CONFERENCE ENDS Railroads and Brotherhoods Abandon Effort to Reach Agreement. New York. Conferences between representatives of the railroads and the four brotherhoods of railway em ployes, at which were discussed the possibilities of a settlement of the eight-hour controversy, were discon tinued abruptly when It became ap parent an agreement could not be reached. It was announced by both sides, that there would be noiiore meetings until after the United States supreme court handed down its decision on the con stitutionality of the Adamson act. The break came when the railroad representatives refused to concede the demands of the brotherhood chiefs for an agreement looking toward the en forcement of the new wage schedule, fixed by the Adamson law, which goes into effect January 1. Two Take Oath as Governor. Phoenix, Arts. The gubernatorial contest in Arizona became more com plicated when both Governor George W. P. Hunt, democrat, and Tob Camp bell, republican, claimant of the otfioe through the recent election, took the oath of office. ' A recount of the bal lots, which gave Campbell a alight lead, is incomplete. Ferrla Bill 8lgned By Wilson. Washington. President Wilson has signed the Ferris bill opening up 640 acre homesteads tor stockralsing and grazing purposes. It Is. accounted of great importance to the western Btates. Huge Inflow of Gold. New York. The Inflow of gold last week carried the total of . the year's Imports to $684,700,000. This Is by far the greatest amount of gold to enter the United States in a single year. Filipino Can't Be American Citizen. I Honolulu. United States District Judge Vaughan in a decision handed down here holds that Filipinos are in eligible foiy naturalization, inasmuch as they are neither white, of African descent nor native-born. I ALLIES REJECT THE PROFFER OF PEACE . f Declaru Central Powers' Pro posal Insincere and Merely "JAar Maneuver." Parle. dn reply to the prottur of Germany .and ber allies for a peace conference, the entente alllea, lu a collective note, declare that tbe "re fuse to consider a proposal which is empty aud insincere." Tbe nole was handed te the American ambassador, Wllllaro Graves Sharp, by Premier Brland. The note declares that the proposal of the central .powers Is not an offer of peace, but a "war maneuver." It is declared to be founded on "calcu lated misinterpretation of the charac ter of the struggle In the past, the present aud the future." Appended was a special Belgian pro test against the crimes committed by Germany against that country. In .this statement Belgium declared the iking and people of the country desired no peace that does not Include legiti mate reparation and guarantee of se curity for the future. The note declares thnt the present strife was desired, provoked and de clared by Germany and Austria-Hungary, and that Germany made no ef fort to bring about a pacific solution of the trouble between Serbia and Austria-Hungary, as did Great Britain. France and Russia. The German overtures are described as a calculated attempt to Influence the future course of the war and to end It by imposing a German peace. Tbe overtures also are said to have tbe effect of intimidating neutral pub lic opinion, as well as to stiffen opin ion In the central powers, "worn out by economic pressure and crushed by the supreme effort which has been Imposed upon their Inhabitants."; "Finally," It Is asserted, "these over lures attempt to justify In advance In the eye of the world a new series of crimes submarine warfare, deporta tions, forced labor and forced enlist ment of the inhabitants against their own countries and violations of neu trality." STILL HOPE TO DISCUSS PEACE Washington There were no official expressions here of the views of Pres ident Wilson and the administration on tbe eutenteeply to the German peace proposals tor the dual reason that the United States is acting only aa an intermediary between the bel ligerents, and because a policy of si lence has been adopted during this stage of the peace negotiations. Tbe unofficial opinion, which prob ably was a reflection of the official hope for progress toward peace, was that some means for a further ex change between the warring powers would be found, and that even if the present negotiations fail a basis bas been laid, which, it was hoped, would make for progress in the final analy sis. After reading the unofficial text of the note, Count von Bernstortf, the German ambassador, authorised tbe following statement: "President Wilson having suggested the finding of a method of stating terms, I do not think that this note will be answered by my government until after the entente allies have re plied to tbe president's suggestion, stating, if they so desire, the modus they propose." CLAIM VICTORY ON S0MME Haig Says Allies Can Defeat Germans on Western Front. London. Tbe battle, of tbe Somme is pictured as a sweeping triumph for entente allied arms in a detailed re port by General Sir Douglas Haig, which covers operations from July 1 to November 18. General Haig terms the battle a triumph in which the Ger man western armies were only saved from complete collapse and a decisive defeat by a protracted period of un favorable weather that prevented the Anglo-French forcea from taking full advantage of their successful advance. He declares that ' nevertheless ,. it was a triumph which proved beyond doubt the abiltty of the allies to over throw Germany "when the time comes." The British commander shows himself a firm believer in tbe doctrine that the entente allies can win the war on the western front. Carranza Wants Pershing Recalled. Washington. Continuation of th'i. conferences of the Mexican-American Joint commission, without regard to the question of withdrawing American troops from Mexico,- is proposed by General Carranza In his message re fusing to ratify the Atlantic City pro tocol. Coupled with this suggestion, however, is a new appeal for recall ol the Pershing expedition. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUIiTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. An np-Uvdate hospital has been Opened at Iebanon. A meeting of the Northwest Tour ists' association will be held In Port land January 26. A proposal to move the I.lnn county fair from Sclo to Albany la now re ceiving consideration. Louis H. I'lymale, aged about 40, committed suicide at Me!ford by slashing his threat with a razor. Dr. Dewltt A. Paine, physician, banker and capitalist, one of Eugene's most prominent citizens, is dead. R. N. Morris, president of the Ore gon Thresher Men's association, died at bis home In Looking Glass valley. Bids have been received by the state land board on approximately 2000 acres of state lands In Malheur coun ty. An appropriation of $60,000 for an addition to the Salem federal building will be incorporated in tbe omnibus appropriation bill. i The Coos and Curry county cheese makers have formed an organization for The purpose of standardizing the Coos county product. Apple trees between four and five years old, on the farm of S. D. Barney, at Echodale, near Oregon City, are bursting Into leaves. Bandon has started a new Industry. W. E. Cralne and G. R. Shanks are Installing machinery for the manu facture of white cedar chests. About $25,000 is tbe estimated cost for the coming biennium to pay ex penses and salaries of field men for the bureau of mines and geology. D. W. George, a prosperous farmer living a few miles south of Klamath Falls. Is a second cousin of David Lloyd George, premier of England. An appropriation totaling $103, 606.50 an Increase of $5,106.50 over the current biennium Is asked for by the supreme court in the state budget An inter-city basketball league, com prising teams from Baker, La Grande, Union and North Powder, was formed at a meeting held January 1 at La Grande. A plan for creation of a retirement and pension fund for teachers was adopted by tbe Oregon State Teach ers' association at Its annual conven tion at Portland. , Hop growers of Polk county are pes simistic concerning the 1917 season. Mauy are preparing to plow up tbeir yards and have made plans on what they will plant instead. Wallace McCamant, of Portland, bas been appointed by Governor Wlthycombe to the state supreme court, to succeed Justice Eakin, who resigned on account of continued ill health. Tonl Cerbonl, awaiting action by the grand jury at Oregon City on a charge of second-degree murder, brought his troubles to an end by hanging him self with a pair of suspenders ia tbe county jail. , The Prineville city council has awarded to Keeler Bros., of Denver, the $100,000 municipal bond issue au thorized by the voters for tbe con struction of a railway connecting Una to the Oregon Trunk. The duck-shooting season la Mult nomah, Clatsop, Columbia and Tilla mook counties closed at sundown Sun day. In every other county of the state the season will remain opea un til sundown January 15. Total receipts for the motor vehi cle department of Secretary of State Olcott'a office for the year 1916 were $146,232.' The total number of auto mobile registrations was 33,917, while motorcycles aggregated 8368. Agitation Is under way la Hood River county with a view to having the legislature change the laws of the state so as to make possible the amal gamation of the governments of the oity and county of Hood River. At the last meeting of the Vale oity council, the office of city marsbsl was abolished, there having been but two arrests made in the last year, one for drunkenness and the other waa far violation of the peace ordinaace. Judge T. B. Duff at Culver decided ia favor of Madras and against Culver pon the county seat question, and the eaaa will be immediately appealed te the supreme court. The matter haa been in the court for several weeks. By the olose vote of 181 for sad 148 against the effort to obtaia aa irriga tion district In the territory eontlgu os to Medford failed laat week by 10 votea. An affirmative vote of 60 pe. sent waa neoessary to carry the elee tlon. In the budget adopted by the Ben ton county oourt $3000 was appropri ated for a building for military pur poses for the Corvallis company of na tional (uara, with the proviso that the oity appropriate a like sum and the state appropriate a sum equal to the oombtned appropriations, plus the val ue of the land on whloh It ia to b located. Authority has been given the exec utive committee of the Oregon Butter t Cheese Makers association to co operate with the secretary of the state fair, A. II. Lea, in Interesting more Oregon dairymen to exhibit at the state fair. Because his wife had started suit for divorce, W J. Horton, a logger, walked into the store at Rainier whore ahe was employed, shot and killed her and turned tbe weapon on himself. Horton died instantly; his wife lin gered four hours. The state highway commission, un der the direction of John H. Lewis, state highway engineer, has prepsred two manuals in pocket book form in an effort to standardize state and county practice in construction and maintenance of bridges. Reports sre that the annual con vention of the Oregon state federation of labor will be the most interesting and best attended in the history of the organization. Tbe federation meets in Salem January 22, and will be in session for a meek. State Treasurer s Kay's biennial re port shows that the inheritance tax fund has accumulated during the past two years for the treasury general fund in excess of $175,000, and that of this amount none has been expended for the cost of administration. RepreuenUtive Hawley has asked the chief of army engineers that a recommendation be sent to congress favoring the appropriation of $80,000 to deepen the water In the locks at Oregon City, in order that boats draw ing up to six feet may pass at all seasons. Milton A. Morgan, a convict paroled from the Oregon state penitentiary December 14, and a waiter by occu pation, was arrested by United States marshala at Portland on a charge of having sent an infernal machine through tbe mall to James R. Misner, of Albany. Lane county corn has won a first prize at the St. Paul corn show held under the au?plcea of the First Na tional bank of that city. The prize waa for the western division of Ore gon. The award is a silver loving cup. The corn was grown by C. J. Sluyter, of Irving. - On the ground that Instructions to the jury had been erroneous, the state supreme court set aside the verdicta against William Branson and Mrs. Anna Booth, convicted In Yamhill county on charges of having slain the woman's husband, William Booth, Oc tober 8. 1915. Members of the Yamhill county tax payers' league and others In confer ence with the county court at Mc Minnville to discuss the budget for 1917, recommended the elimination of the county roadmaster and county ag ricultural agent from the appropria tion, saving $4500. A law which will require the brand ing of all cold storage food products so as to show the date they were placed in storage and the date taken out, will be recommended by the reso lutions committee of the seventh an nual convention of the Oregon Butter and Cheese Makers' association, in session at Salem last week. Secretary of State Olcott says he believes that the 6 per cent tax limi tation amendment passed at the last general election was enacted especial ly to limit the expenditures of public moneys, and that, In his opinion, no serious obstacle will be met by the incoming legislature in providing for every necessary state requirement within the limitation. Judge Galloway, in circuit court at Salem, signed the final decree In the first of the seven Hyde-Bensoa cases to be adjudicated. The decree Is posi tive that the state land board must repay out of the school fund $1.25 an acre tor the 600 acres involved in the suit, but does not compel the board to repay the interest accrued from school laud loaas since about 1898. ' Railroad representatives at Salem urged the committee on grade cross ing elimination and protection to rec ommend a law which will require all automobiles to come to a full stop within ten feet of each railroad grade crossing before passing over. This committee was appointed at the re cent conference on grade crossings, called by the atate public service com mission. Absorption ef the weights and meas ures department by the state dairy and food department ia one of the rec ommendations contained in resolu tions adopted at the aeventh annual convention of butter and cheese 'mak ers of the state In aeesloa at Salem. Legislation also waa asked for em powering the dairy sad food commis sioner to make unfit for use all oraam that has been condemned. After examining the atate budget of estimates snd expenditures, Governor Wlthycombe said he believed he had evolved a plan whereby curtailments could be nude and additional reveni-- obtained to do away with the $716,000 or more which it ia estimated ia re quired to run the state government over the -aaount which might co raised under the per cent limitation amendment. The governor will make reoommendations to that effect to the next legislature, but he will not an nounce the details until tbe message ia read. OW GOOD SEED. There Is no greater folly than that of planting seed that la In ferior, fur It will not grow. It ia In total disregard of tbe Drat principle of successful farming. Do not do It It Is better to pay cheerfully twice the price of the same kind of seed used last spring than to use seed l bat will not grow or that will not yield well after It does grow. Good plowing, good soli, good season, good care all these avail nothing nnlesa the seed Is right If the home grown seed Is of no account on account of a poor ma turlng season, get some thnt is. And it Is a strong bint that the quicker you decide what you want and hny It the better be cause seed Is going up. With ev ery one clamoring for seed and little high testing seed to be had. this is sure to be the case. Bet ter Fsrmlng. TREATING POULTRY DISEASE. Potassium Permanganate In Drinking Water Remedy For Colds. (Prepared by Pennsylvania station. During late autumn and early win- ' ter diseases, and especially colds, are apt to appear In the poultry Bock. Dii.ru 04 tbe bouses should be pre vented. Birds affected with colds should be closely watched and giveu prompt treatment Tbe practice at tlio Pennsylvania agricultural experiment station Is to isolate a sick bird and wash its head In some mild disinfect ant Simple colds may be doctored, but contagious diseases like roup, when severe, leave no alternative but tbe destruction of afflicted hens, indica tions of colds are sneezing, a watery discbarge from tbe nostrils and a swell tog nnder the eyes. Tbe discharge d Jea not have a disagreeable odor as in tbe case of roup. Potassium permanganate used It tha drinking water In a proportion to turn tbe water to a deep wine color will prevent. In a measure, the spread of colds. Before pullets on the Pennsylvania State college farm are placed In tbe winter laying bouses these houses are thoroughly scrubbed with hot water and sprayed with some good coal tr solution. Exercise should be provided by scattering grain feed in tbe litter, which should be clean. Clean, sanitary quarters, sunshine, fresh air, freedom from drafts, exer cise and good, wholesome feed mean a minimum of disease and a happier, healthier, more contented flock, all of which contribute to uniform produc tion of winter eggs. Convenient Wagon Step. The top section of this step ia fas tened permanently to the wagon box. The lower sections each fold into tbe one above and are held in this posi tion by the flexible flanges of the side rails, writes Edgar Taylor In the Agri cultural Digest It is claimed that the step is much more convenient than a portable ladder. - Don't Feed at Milking Time. Cows will stand more quietly and the milking can be done more comfort ably if the cows are not trying to eat while they are being milked. Feeding at milking time may also add dust aud other Impurities to the milk. J ALFALFA FOR POULTRY l"I"t-l"M"I"H"ll"I"I"I"I-I"H"I"I"I-l"I-I'l- Alfalfa ia one of the best sources of green food for poultry growing chick ens and laying hena alike. Many farmers practice feeding ground or short cut alfalfa to tbeir poultry in a dry form in combination with other ground feeds. A dry mash ration of 100 pounds cornmeal, 100 pounds middlings, 60 pounds bran, 60 pounds beef scrap and 20 pounds alfal fa has, according to H. C. Enandel, in charge of poultry extension at the Pennsylvania State college, proved very satisfactory. - ( Some farmers feed alfalfa through the entire year for succulence or green I food. In winter bundles of alfalfa are steamed or soaked in hot water until it compares very favorably with fresh cut alfalfa. Others have found It advisa ble to feed alfalfa In winter by throw ing it Into the runs and allowing tbe birds to eat the leaves. ' According to the United States de partment of agriculture, the nitroge nous material In alfalfa is just what is needed by growing birds and Is a good aid to egg production. The chemical analysis of alfalfa is practically the same as that of bran, except that it haa a higher per cent of protein than bran. It is a little harder to digest, but it is important in the poultry ration for the purpose of furnishing protein and giving variety and bulk to the ration. ,