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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1916
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dolls with beautiful hair. Pink I shaped handles at, $1.50 $1.25 $1.00 (
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Cheaper ones at
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Underwear, Shifts and Collars
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j Wool and cotton mixed, Red or Gray,
$3 $2.25 $2 $1.75 $1.50 $1 85c
j Toques and Caps
Red, White, Gray, Blue and Green,
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Passing in Review
News of the Week from War
Zones of Europe and
Mexico
tain Blaikie, was made prisoner."
The German commercial submar
ine, Deutachland, returning from the
United States, arrived at noon Sun
day off the mouth of the Weser. The
return of the Deutschland marks the
successful completion of the second
round trip of the undersea boat to the
United States. On her voyage just
nmshed she made the passage in 19
days, having left New London No
vember 21. Her previous eastward
trip from Baltimore took her 23 days.
Her two westward voyages took, re
spectively, 16 and 21 days. ' The
Deutschland, on both of her. tflps,
brought valuable cargoes, chiofly of
dyes and chemicals. On her present
voyage she took a cargo estimated at
$2,000,000 , in value and official mail
for Germany.
The German government issued a
statement late last week in explana
tion and justification of the transfer
of Belgian laborers to Germany. It
says the measure is by no means a
hardship for the laborers, but a social
necessity. Owing chiefly to the Brit
ish embargo against Belgium's over
seas trade, which before the war em
ployed a large part of the industrial
population, large numbers of Belgian
workers are idle, the statement says,
and conditions are growing worse.
Many families have become objects of
public charity, his state of things is
not due, as asserted in Belgium, to
German requisitions of raw material,
it is explained, for these requisitions
occurred, as a rule, only where fac
tories were unable to continue operations.
Ambassador Francis, at Petrograd,
has been instructed to make further
representations to the Russian gov
ernment regarding the delivery of
the supplies bought for German pris
oners in Russia and held at Tientsin,
China, for several months. The sup
plies were bought from a fund of
about $1,000,000, of which $400,000
was contributed by the Austrian and
German governments and the remain
der raised by private charity. They
consist mostly of shoes and clothing
to protect the prisoners against the
severe Russian winters. About $G0,
000 worth of food also is included,
Detention of the shipment has been
credited to the fact that the Siberian
railroad is working to capacity trans
porting munitions from Japan.
A dispatch from Switzerland, as
forwarded from Rome to the Wireless
Press, says Germany and Austria
have offered their services to Greece
in opening land communications if
Greece declares war on the entente.
A Reuter dispatch from Athens dated
Monday, December 4, says: "The
Venizelist prisoners today were
transferred from the Parliament
House, where they had been detained.
to the Averoff prison. They were led
through the starium street tied in
fours and followed by a jeering
crowd."
port, in connection with the supposed
purpose of the central powers to turn
important sections of Field Mashal
von Mackensen's huge army in Ru
mania upon the entente's Saloniki
army. Correspondents in Greece re
port a persistently hostile attitude by
King Constantine and the Greek roy
alists toward the entente and declare
efforts are being made to gather a
strong army in the Larissa region for
an attack upon the entente forces
from the rear simultaneously with at
tacks by the Teutonic allies from the
north. British military writers call
attention to these contingencies and
decisive action with regard to Greece
is urged in the interest of sound
strategy and the safety of the entente
forces in Macedonia.
Authority to establish a govern
ment monopoly of radio communica
tion between ship and shore stations
through the purchase of all private
radio stations in the United States is
to be sought from congress, accord
ing to Commander D. W. Todd, di
rector of naval communications.
Violent artillery fighting occurred
on the Somme front Friday, it is an
nounced officially. A night advance
against German positions near Le
Transloy was repulsed.
The present phase of the fighting
along the British front may be
classed as essentially impcrsonnl by
day but intensely personal by night.
During the short, gray winter day
light big guns back of the fighting
lines hurl tons of high explosives
against the Germun positions. The
targets are far away and on thick,
misty days the results of this contin
uous harassing fire are conjectured
rather than seen. This is the imper
sonal side of war. With the coming
of night, however, all is changed.
Then men meet face to face and hand
to hand, and primitive methods of
mortal combat come again into play
in the midst of all the genius of war.
The long, dark nights are ideal for
trench raids.
The-British steamer Caledonia was
sunk by a German submarine Decem
ber 4, it was officially announced Sun
day. Her captain was taken prisoner.
The official statement reads: "The
British passenger ship Caledonia at
tempted on December 4 to ram a Ger
man submarine. The submarine fired
a torpedo which sank the steamer.
The commander of the steamer, Cap-
The popular demand that the reor
ganization of the conduct of the war
promised by the Thursday vote in the
chamber of deputies be both rapid
and radical, has received further stim
ulus by the events in England and is
becoming more outspoken and more
insistent. Stephen Pichon, writing in
the 1'etit Journal, says:
"By the result of Thursday's divi
sion in the chamber the government
escapes responsibility for facts which
are a consequence of its policy and
undertakes to carry out measures
which it had more or less promised
five months ago. The fulfillment of
these obligations will not be avoided
by speeches, half measures and con
tradictory acts, in which the intention
to spare one or another is perceptible
or which, under the cover of novelty,
will perpetuate and increase the mud
dle."
Latest reports from the Rumanian
campaign reflect the continued retire
ment of the Russo-Rumanian forces
in eastern Wallachia, with the figures
of captures of men and materials by
the invaders constantly growing. Lit
tle of interest is occurring on the
Franco-Belgian front. The only hap
pening mentioned by either London or
Paris is an artillery action in the re
gion of Hill 304, on the Verlun front,
where the French and Germans have
again been disputing possession of
this height.
The situation in Greece is not only
again of decided political interest but
potentially of marked military im-
A German warship has succeeded
in running the British cordon in the
North sea, according to the report of
a ship captain, who says his vessel
was held up and examined in the At
lantic. The vessel is not a converted
merchantman, the captain said on his
arrival in London, but is a regular
cruiser. The repor from the log of
this captain has become widely known
in London shipping circles and has
caused wide-spread agitation for the
convoying of merchantmen.
"Captain Lange returned before
the expiration of the limit, the com
mander-in-chief of the Russian Dan
ube army having refused to accept
Field Marshal von Mackensen's letter
on the ground that Bucharest was"not
a fortress but an open town. He de
clared that there existed neither
armed forts nor troops destined for
its defense and their was neither a
governor nor a commandant. Cap
tain Lange pointed out the character
of Bucharest as a fortress and said
that such an evasion would not hin
der the German operations.
"From the south portions the Dan
ube army pressed into the city
through the girdle of forts, meeting
with no resistance.
"The troops entering the town
were received enthusiastically and
decorated with flowers. Field Mar
shal von Mackensen drove in a motor
PRICE IS A RECORD
the entire world. His dam, Finderne
car to the royal castle, where he was Mutual Fayne, was the world's record
Yearling at International Show, Port
land, Brings $21,500
Finderne Mutual Fayne Valdessa,
a junior yearling Holstein bull, con
signed by Bernhard Meyer of Lin
derne, K. J., sold in the ring at the
sixth Pacific International Livestock
show for $21,500, the highest price
ever paid on the coast for a single
animal. He was bought by John von
Herberg of Seattle, owner of 90 head
of pure-bred Holsteins at Kent,
Wash.,
The yearling was bid on by at least
six breeders of high-grade dairy cat
tle, all of them passing the $10,000
mark in their effort to get what is
considered the best animal of the Hol
stein breed in this country, if not in
remedies accordingly, it was said.
I The whole sorry picture of fruits
and vegetables rotting in tne neias
while residents of the cities paid ex
orbitant prices for the proportion
which, by manipulation or otherwise,
reaches the urban markets, was presented.
greeted with bouquets of flowers."
junior 2-year-old, giving 200 pounds
more butter than any other cow in
her class. His sire is a son of the
first 40-pound cow of the breed and
his grandsire was the famous Spring
Notwithstanding that it is general
ly believed that the entente blockade
will go into effect immediately and
without notice, Greek officials were Farm Pontiac Cornucopia, best known
optimistic after a conference between as the $15,000 bull.
King Constantine arid the Italian min-1
ister last week. It was asserted in
government circles that Greece can
withstand a siege for 20 days, al
though districts that can be reached
by water will suffer more quickly.
FARMERS MAY BENEFIT
National Market and Credits Confer
ence is Held at Chicago
Cattle raisers, economists of the
David Llovd Georcra at Rurkinc-' colleges and the government, plain
ham Palace Thursday formally kissed farmers and marketing experts to the
In the province of Wallachia, says
the Russian official statement issued
Saturday, the Rumanian troops l
uer unceasing noswie pressure con
tinue to retire to the eastward. In
consequence of this, it is added, the
Russian troops which are on the left
flank of the Rumanians also are re
tiring.
Russian troops on the northern Ru
manian front attacked the Teutonic
forces in the Putna valley region late
last week and dislodged them from
two heights, the war office announces,
They took 500 prisoners, including ten
officers; six machine guns, two bomb
mortars and one cannon."
Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent
sends the following official Berlin
dispatch which describes the fall of
Bucharest: "At 10:30 Tuesday morn
ing Captain Lange of the general
staff was sent as a parlementaire to
the commandant at Bucharest, bear
ing a letter from Field Marshal von
Mackensen, demanding the surrender
of the fortress. A second letter noti
fied the commandant that fire would
be opened unless the parlementaire
returned within 24 hours. I
the king's hands on his acceptance of
the offices of Prime Minister and First
Lord of the Treasury. This indicates
that the new premier sees his way to
the formation of an administration
and he probably was able to submit
to the king a preliminary list of
some of the proposed ministers.
Doubtless much remains to be done
in the way of the allocation of new
posts, and so far as the public is con
cerned, the personnel of the ministry
is a matter of pure speculation. But
the premier still has plenty of time
before he has to meet Parliament
Tuesday, to complete details, and he
will doubtless be in a position to pre
sent to the house of commons his new
national ministry, representing all
parties, with the possible exception of
the nationalists, and, if common re
port is to be trusted, comprising a
strong business element,
Three more names were added last
week to the list of foreigners who
have been killed in Mexico by bandits,
according to reports received at El
Paso. Guillermo Snyman, son of the
late General W. D. Snyman of Boer
war fame; Howard Weeks, or Howard
Gray, as he was known in Mexico, and
an American named Foster were the
names added to the death scroll of
Villa's banditry. Although they were
believed to have been killed many
days ago, the news of their fate
reached the border only last Thurs
day, when messages and refugees told
of their fate.
The Courier $1.00 per year.
number of 800, who have been hold
ing the fourth national conference in
marketing and farm credits, complet
ed their labors Friday at Chicago.
They took up problems involving
farm finance, putting the landless
man on the manless land, efficient
marketing, conservation and rural
development and suggested remedial
procedure in resolutions adopted Fri
day afternoon.
Resolutions and speeches showed
that the actual growers of grain, cat
tle, fruit and vegetables believe they
are not obtaining proper returns for
the labor and investment because they
are not organized and do not work co
operatively. Waste by present meth
ods, or the lack of them, is of appall
ing magnitude and makes it easy for
the legion of middlemen to inflate the
cost of living. Europe has much to
teach us about co-operative agricul
ture, and that it is up to congress to
study the whole situation and apply
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DISMISSAL NOT ALLOWED
Timmerman Case Will be Tried in
Circuit Court Here Tomorrow
The case of the aged Fritz Tim
merman against his son, Carl Tim
merman, and Carl's wife, Harriet,
will be tried in Judge J. U. Camp
bell's court here tomorrow as a re
sult of the loss of a motion filed by
attorneys for Mr. Timmerman, asking
a dismissal of the action. C. Schue
bel, Oregon City attorney, named as
a defendant in the complaint of the
old man some time ago, fought the
motion for dismissal because of the
fact that it was asked that it be with
the inclusion of debts aggregating
$617.50. Mr. Schuebel asked that the
case be brought to trial if it could
not be dismissed unconditionally.
Timmerman is the old man who ac
cuses his son of defrauding him of 70
acres of land in the nothern part of
the county while he was infirm and
physically unfit to attend to business.
He deeded the property to his son
with the understanding that he was
signing a lease, being unable either
to read or write English. Shortly
after the complaint was filed, the son,
through Mr. Schuebel as his attorney,
succeeded in having the most vital
clauses struck out.
interested guest, the entertainment
provided on Friday evening by the
Oregon City high school pupils and
faculty was a decided success and
Prof. John F. Mason, through his able
interpretation of character parts won
a place in the hearts of his audience.
Miss Marie Churchill, a student
quartet and the high school orchestra
carried heavy parts on the program
and each number Was popularly re
ceived. Miss Churchill, an instruc
tor at the school, has a beautiful
voice and her selections Friday even
ing displayed its range and power to
fine advantage.
Mr. Mason's repertoire consisted of
a variety of readings and impersona
tions and he proved equally capable
as a loving Italian father and as the
doll in his humorous and popular
reading, "I've Got a Pain in My Sawdust."
Suit on Note
To collect on a promissory note for
$310, dated October 1, 1916, with $100
attorneys' fees, F. L. Davis yeterday
brought suit against O. P. Edwards,
Carl Wesolowski and H. DeNike.
The Courier $1.00 per year.
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