Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921, February 21, 1918, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 6 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL FEBRUARY 21, 1918 FERSHING INSPECTS ! AMERICAN SECTOR i ' 'Dares German Shells to Make Sure His Men Are Being ! Well Cared For. With the American Army In Franc -General Perilling haa completed two daya' inspection of the America! sector northwest of Toul. In a "tin' hat with a gas mask swung over hit chest at the alert position, the Amer lean commander-in-chief walked at through the first line trenches, splash leg through the mud and slipping 01 the Ice. He dropped down into the dugouts and visited batteriea bus; hurling "iron rations" at (he enemy. In all places, the general asked In aumerable questions, especially of the 'Men with regard to food, how they were and how they liked conditions . From a well situated point through Classes, General Pershing inspected Mont Sec and the German observation ' poets on top of it, from which the ea j my has the American lines under oh i serration tor 20 miles when the visl hility is good. Because of the base the general was unable to see th spires of MeU, which are visible od clear days from a certain place. j As the time for more active military ; operations on the western front ap i Broaches, the American expeditionary; force Is widening its sphere of activity I Jong the front lines. Not only dc American soldiers hold a sector of the ' 'front east of St Mihlel, but American, artillery Is helping the French in ; Champagne and infantrymen in com ! pany with French units are holding the j front lines in one of the most famous battlefronts In the world. j On the American sector, the Ger- atans have tried various ruses In ani endeavor to outwit the newcomers in! the battle line. The enemy has tapped aad destroyed telephone lines, be hat I sent np false signals, snd has charged his wire entanglements with electric tty, by which an American patrol party was cnt off for several hours. GERMANS MASSING TO ATTACK BOLSHEVIK! Amsterdam. German forces are al ready being concentrated in Ukraine to attack the Bolsheviki, according to Berlin dispatch. The German authorities are anxious regarding the fate of German prison ers In north Russia, whom the Bolshe vik! are holding as hostages and who, Berlin dispatches say, may be killed If the Bolsheviki are driven to desper ation. Germany has already served notice on the Bolsheviki authorities that she will enforce reprisals if the German prisoners are harmed. Count Czernin, the Austro-Hunga-rian foreign minister, has notified Ber lin that Austrian troops must not be used against Russia to support any policy which Austria has not approved, but only for purposes of self-defense against marauding bands. j A Vienna telegram ascribes to "a well-informed source," the statement that if Germany resumes military oper ations against Russia, the attitude of! Austria-Hungarr will not be influenced thereby. LAND FOR FIGHTERS PLAN Appropriation of $100,000,000 to Pre pare Public Domain. Idaho Falls, Idaho. The returning American soldier who finds his former occupation gone should be given a part of the public domain, properly cleared or otherwise outfitted, for immediate Use at the government's expense, said F. H. Newell, head of the University of Illinois, in an address before the joint conference of agricultural live stock, engineering and irrigation so cieties of Idaho. Mr. Newell urged the immediate ap propriation of $100,000,000 or more by the government to put through irriga tion and reclamation schemes and otherwise put the remaining public lands in such shape that the returned fighting man may go on them with hope of securing a living return at once. Austrians Against War on Bolsheviki. London. Germany's declaration sgainst the Bolsheviki has caused the most serious schism between Germany and Austria-Hungary, the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Tele graph wires. The Austrian press Is protesting against a reopening of hos tilities, in which Austria has no desire to participate, the correspondent says. The newspaper Die Zeitung hopes "the Czernln-Wilson rapprochement contin ues," and that Germany won't inter fere with it 27 Killed In London Air Raid. London Eleven persons were killed and four injured in the aerial attack on London on Saturday, it is announc ed officially. The casualties In Sun day's night's air raid were 16 killed and 37 injured, it was officially announced. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL! INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Fossil Is to have public library and reading-room. James C. Parker, sheriff of Lane county has resigned. Henry Clay Perkins, pioneer of 1S52, died at Grants Pass aged 73 years. The 27th annual state Christian Endeavor convention was held at Baker. The total taxsble vslue of all prop erty in Multnomah county amounts to $305,981,645. It Is practically assured that Joseph will have a new concrete grain eleva tor this spring. Linn county postofftces sold $18, 2S2.17 worth of thrift and war savings stamps in January. The first irrigation school ever held in Oregon opened st Redmond Monday and will continue all week. Contractor A. U. C. Berry is assembl ing a part of his outfit at Toledo for work on the south jetty of the Yaqutna bar. The Clatsop County Agricultural council was organized at Astoria at a meeting of farmers from various sec-' tlons of the county. There are now 90,067 registered vot ers in Multnomah county eligible to vote at the primary election May 17, ' according to latest tabulations. I Umatilla county farmers are expect-' ing to profit to a considerable extent from the crop and farm labor survey which is being taken by County Agent Shrock. Judge T. F. Ryan, assistant state treasurer, said that during last year the state treasury department collect ed $32,283.84 in interests upon stste deposits. A party of four soldiers, under com mand of Lieutenant A. Gagnon, are in Coos county obtaining data on the spruce sreas and the best means of logging the timber. Manganese, valuable as a war essen tial to temper steel for big guns, prom ises to be one of the leading products of Jackson county, for the largest and putest deposits are known to exist there. , Miss Lillian Rosheim, aged 16, ( daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ros-1 helm, of Silverton lies in a sanitarium I in a serious condition as the result 1 of an attack by an unknown masked i man who tried to steal her hair. Governor Wlthycombe has accepted I the resignation of Mrs. Bertha Wil- j liams Griffith, of La Grande, as a member of the state board of examin- ation of graduate nuraes. Miss Eliza-1 beth Darling was appointed In her j stead. Jesse Myrl Jones, 22 years old, of Mulino, had his wife chop part of his index finger off in order that he would ' be exempted from military service, but j Mrs. Jones did not cleave close j enough, so her husband was not ex- em p ted. With the statement that if the goods are satisfactory he can place an im mediate contract. General Goethals, quartermaster general of the United States army, has wired the Salem com mercial club for details concerning de hydrating plants in Oregon. Filing of a deed by the Southern Pacific Railway company for a -large acreage of tldelands in the vicinity of the Glasgow townsite, In Coos county, gives rise to the belief the company has intentions tt opening more coal lands in the Coos bay country. County courts have no authority to increase salaries of deputy county clerks and deputy sheriffs when such salaries are fixed by law, according to an opinion given by Attorney Gen eral Brown to Edward C. Jurld, dis trict attorney for Clatsop county. Beginning February 20, all office buildings in Oregon are to be heatless at night. Irrespective of the source from which heat is derived, it must be turned off in office buildings at 5:30 o'clock each evening and not turned on again until 7 o'clock in the morning. Notwithstanding the fact that As toria has recently completed the erec tion of a new 20-room grade school building, the number of pupils Is In creasing so rapidly that the district must build three more structures be fore the opening of the coming school year. The boarding school at the Umatilla Indian agency, which has been a fix ture there almost as long as the agen cy has been established, is to be dis continued June 30, according to word received by Superintendent Swartz lander from Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs. The state highway commission has under contemplation now road work, the construction of which will be done at an estimated cost of $7,930,150, ac cording to the report for the fiscal year ending November 30, Just com pleted by State Highway Engineer Nunn, and approved by the commis sion. Of ' this amount $541,973.33 has been expended for construction and $143,638.91 for engineering, or a total of $685,613.24. The public service commission has rouudly condemned the practice on railroads of making flying switches, la a report on the accident at Goble December 12, 1917, when William K. Macklnster snd his son were killed by J freight train on the Spokane, Port land Seattle roaa. The state department of public In struction haa requested copies of the rules and program on Lane county's patriotic and educational rally, which will be held at Eugene May 17 and It, to send to every county superintendent In the state, that a similar project may be taken up In each county. Representative Ilawley has asked the house committee on public lands to report favorably on the bill recently passed by the senate authorizing the city of Mc.Mlnnvllle to purchase cer tain lands, formerly a part of the Ore gon California railroad grant, tor the protection of the city water supply. On March 1, cigar stores, pool halls, candy Stores and bowling alleys In Pendleton will open at ( A. M. and close at 11 P. M. The order was Is sued on the passage of an ordinance by the city council as a war measure to conserve li;ht and heat and for the further regulation of pool halls by the city. James Manary, representing the Warren Spruce company of Portland, begau the erection of a large ware house at Toledo as preliminary to getting out the huge body of fine spruce in the Slleti Indian reservation. The warehouse Is 24 by 100 feet and is the first of a number of buildings to be erected. Four fatal accidents and 484 non fatal accidents were reported to the Industrial accident commission last week. The fatal accidents were" as follows: Carl Druhat. Portland, steel works; Frank Webster, Enterprise, sawmill; M. S Rosa. Portland, steel works, snd Vernon M. Thatcher, Port land, conductor. Information which haa been receiv ed Is to the effect that the great Horst Brothers' hop ranch near Inde pendence, said to be one of the largest in the world, will be converted largely into a vegetable ranch and that the dryers will be used for evaporation of vegetables. It is stated that 400 acres of the ranch are to be leased for vege table growing. Queries are being received by? the public service commission from the railroad companies of the state as to what demurrage charges were in ef fect from January 21 to February 10 of this year, which was the Interim between the effective date of the first demurrage order issued by Director General McAdoo and the corrected or der, which was the only one that went into effect. Any resident of Oregon wishing to visit Switzerland must first secure passport or equivalent paper of identi fication bearing the vise of the Swiss consulate in Portland according to In structions received by A. Strelff, Swiss consul, from the Swiss legation in Washington, D. C. Mr. Strelff says that no persons Except Swiss citizens will be permitted to enter Swiss terri tory without such a passport. Standing timber valued at $96,527 was destroyed by fires last year, ac cording to the annual report of Forest er Elliott. This Is the greatest loss in timber by fire since 1910, when the loss totaled $1,640,997. The fire sea son last year was the most hazardous since weather records have bees estab lished In Oregon, says the forester In the report, and he declares that, had it not been for effective fire fighting , work, the loss would have been much greater. I The Incomplete list of Oregon victims of the Tuscanla sinking Is as follows: Tuttle, Terry, Elgin; Mor ln, William P., Portland; Lewton, Theodore E., Forest Grove, bugler; Btevens, Percy A., Bend; Bjork, Oeorge .Nelson, St. Helens; Wilson, Curtis W., Salem; Gurney, James B., Glide; Pierce, James L., Creswell; Agren, Peter A Jewell; Laako, John A., As toria; Houston, Elmer A., Held; Mur ray, Riley F., Eugene; Bates, Henry G. , Baker. , j The problem of marketing a huge supply of potatoes now on hand In, Klamath county has become so serious ! that a meeting was held recently at 'the office of County Agricultural Agent H. Roland Olaisyer, of Klamath Falls, to discuss the matter. It Is declared that there are betwees 30 and 50 car loads of spuds In the hands of farmers for which there is no market, and an organization to be known as the' Klamath County Potato Growers as sociation will probably be formed to work cut this and other problems that may arise in this important industry. The St. Helens Lumber company must continue furnishing heating serv ice In a certain area In St. Helens whether it wishes to or not. This Is the gist of an order handed down by the public service commission and Is unique as a precedent among the orders of the commission. The Iprober : company secured permission from the city in 1910 to lay steam pipes and, up to July 30, 1917, furnished a steam ,heat service for the public at s fixed jrate. The company gave notice that ; it would discontinue furnishing the j service, but upon the filing of the com j plaint before the commission the serv ice was restored temporarily within a certain area. . RECORD DEFICiENCY BILL Largest Msasure of Its Mind Favorably , R.port.d by Committee. Washington. A billion-dollar urgent deficiency appropriation bill, the larg-' est of Its kind In the history of con gress, although cut half billion from original estimates, was fnrorably re-: ported to the house by Chairman Slier , ley, of the appropriations committee. The bill provides for the fhimodlate needs of the war, navy and other de partments. The principal Items for the srmy In the bill Include $277,732,000 for bombs and airplanes, $100,000,000 for quarter ; master storage plants on the seaconst and Interior points, and $81,000,000 fori mountain, field, siege and other artll : lery In addition to the billion dollars i already spent for ordnance and con-! tract authorisations for $579,000,000 ddttional. British Chief of 8taff Rtslgns. London. Sir William Robertson, chief of staff of the British army, has resigned. He will be succeeded by Sir Henry Wilson. The Inference to be drawn from the official statement regarding General Robertson's resigna tion seems clearly to be that the su preme war council has been given the powers which Its name Implies and that It will be In fact the directing head of all the allied military opera tlons. Aviator Verncn Castle Killed. Fort Worth, Tex. Captain Vernon Castle, famous dancer and member of the royal flying corps, fell to his death at Benbrook flying field. Captain Cas tle, who has been acting as sn aviator Instructor here, met death In an at tempt to avert a collision with another plane. Last Pacific Sea Raider Gone. ' A Pacific Port The south Pacific ocean has been swept clean of German .raiders, according to an announcement ade here by the commander of a British suxiliary cruiser, which en tered port after a long term of patrol duty along the west coast of South America. ' NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Department of th Interior, U. 8. Land Otli. at The bailee, Oregon. February 11th. 1018. Notic to hereby given that COKT H1K8CH. of Bend, Oregon, who, on Marrh Slit, IBIS. marie Homeatead Entry. No. 01U3H7, fur Lot I 9 r,4 nw. r.M n, a &. section 2. Town.hip l-8outh, Kanga l-ast, Wll. lamett Meridian, haa filed notice of Intention to make nnal three year proof, to establish claim to the land abova described, before H. C. Ellia, U. 8. Commissioner, at Bend, Ore gun, on the 22nd day of Marrh, IVIS. Claimant naraea as witnesses i Herbert E. Moore, Mllliean, Oregon, Arthur M. Moore. MUllean, Oregon. Lee M. Dealy, Alfalfa, Oregon, Charlea H. Dealy, Alfalfa. Oregon. H. FRANK WOODCOCK, Regular. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Department of the Interior, U. 8. Land Offlc. at The bailee, Oregon. February llth. 1918. Nntic Is hereby given that CORT H1RSCH. ONE OK THE HEIRS AND FOR THE MAX G. HIR8CH, DKCKASKl), of Bend. Oregon, who, on May I2tih, lttlo, made Homestead Entry, No. 011664. for Lou) 1-2 SE4 NKii, Sec. 3, T. 19 8., R. 16 E., S'4 84. NKV, SKV4. Section 9(. Township Itt-South, Range, 16-Ka.t, Willamette Merid ian, haa filed notice of intention to make final three year ptijof. to establish claim to the land abova dncribed. before H. C. Ellis, I U. 8. Commissioner, at Bend, Oregon, on tht 22nd day of March, 1018. Claimant names as witnesses : Herbert E. Moore, Millican, Oregon, Arthur M. Moore, Mllliean, Oregon, Lee M. bealy, Alfalfa, Oregon, Charles H. Dealy, Alfalfa, Oregon. H. FRANK WOODCOCK, Mtlp Register. Idaho National Harvester M Wm. ENDICOTT, Agent, Madras, Oregon Idaho National Harvester Company Limited, Moscow, Idaho. Ill We are now caught up with our orders and can deliver you a Foird Touring Car promptly! We also have a large stock of good second hand cars to choose from! Inland Auto Co. - - - . . , Home Hospital Under New Management Thoroughly sanitary in every respect; Modern operating room and modern equipment. Visiting hours. 2 to 4; Visitors Sundays. 2 to 4. MRS. K. E. WARNER, Prop. 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