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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.
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M
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Idaho National Harvester Company Limited, Moscow, Idaho.
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Modern operating room and modern
equipment. Visiting hours. 2 to 4;
Visitors Sundays. 2 to 4.
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