TAYLOR 3T L A E(50N QTY NTERPRIS Th mierprl li lh 4 only Clactamae County 4 Newspaper that print III of th n of Ihif growing County, T Weekly InU'pnee I worth th price. Compare It with ether nd hci ute (crib. 4, ) FORTY NINTH YEAR-No. ?0. OHWJON (MTV KNTIMM'iM.Si:, FIMI. V, M.W 1 1, I'M'.. f STASLIIHEO IMS OK OREGON CITY AI ORIENT WINK IN COUNTY MEET HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION OF AN NUAL CONTiST IS WON BY COUNTY BEAT. EDDIE THOMPSON BREAKS 100 YARD RECORD IN THIS COUNTY Mim Mart of Barclay Wlm ririt In Two Oirla' -ent Green, of Local School, Show up Wall In Sprint. Oregon City won tlir IiIkIi chi'l division of tlin trac k n field meet al Gladstone ark Saturday with tntul of IH point. LalurtiiU tilKb aclnxil a aecond In Hip niri't with 24 iHilnl and tin- Oiletit IiIkIi third with II. Canby. Mllwaukln and Molalla fob lowered with all. five anil four Mutt each. Tho nicvt waa conducted by Cla kamaa County School icaguo. Green, of the Oregon -City high achool, mi I tin highest Inillvlilual Ixilut winner with a total of !l. win nltig first In the abut put. louyard daah ami high Jump. Farr, another Oregon City man. followed rioacly with II poltite. winning first In the 60 yard and tho !:0 yard danhea. and second In tli lOo yard dash. Cros of lhi lixnl IiIkIi. ecured a gencroii iiuiiilirr, finishing flrnt In the half mile run and making the highest polo vault. Tim Orient grammar achool finished the timet with SI point, a lend of 18 over Candy grammar, and 23 point over Eataraila. Eddie Thompson, a pupil of tlin Canliy grnmmnr achool, broke the county record In crntnmnr chool. Ilo took first place In the r.n, I no and JJOyird dashc. He waa the lilKlienl Individual w Inner of tho itrainniar achool division. Harris of tho Orient grammar achool followed Thompson closely with 14 point. Ho finished first In tho polo vault of tho grade and aoeond In tho 50 yard dash, tho mile run and tho broad Jump. Tho girl had a part In th track and field meet but It did not count In tho credit for tho arhmd. Mix Hart, of Barclay, finished first In both tho 100 and B0 yard dashc. Tho day waa Ideal for a track and field meet. Tho aun waa not ntrong, tho sky being covered with rluda part of tho day, although tho track and ground were In Rood condition. A largo and enthusiastic crowd wa pres ent to wntch tho event and cncoiir- ago tho athlote from their fuvorlto achool. Th rpRtilla of tho meet follow: Broad Jump, hitch achool, first Bowc, Oregon City. 17 feet. 10 Incite Brown. Cnnhy, second; Strohmoyer, Oregon City, third. Grammar achool hrond Jump, first, IlnRliy, Barclay achool. 10 feet 7 Inches; ocond, liar- rln, Orient; third, Gngo. Maple Lnno. High achool high Jump, first, Green Oregon City, C feet 11 Inches; second Sarvor, Hiitacadn, proteated, third, Ei or, Orient. High achool. 50 yard (limit, first Farr, Oregon City, BVi aecond; see ond, Armlno, Oregon Cltyj third. Green. Oregon City. Grnmmnr achool flrt, Thompson, Cnnhy, Gty aoeond aecond, ilnrrli, Orient; third, 1'holps. Tonlo Creek. High achool rolny rnco, flral, Schmidt, Entacada; decotid, Elliott, Orient; third, FnttHt, Molnlla. Oram mar schools, half nillo relay, first An durson, of Orient; aecond, Gngo, Ma pie I.nno. Grammnr school high Jump, first Sarver, Entaradn, B feet; second, An derson, Orient; third, Shrlver, Orient, High school 100 yard dnnh first Green, Oregon City, 10 15 aoeond Becond, Farr, Oregon City; third. El llott, Orient. Grninnmr schools, flrnt, Thompson, Canhyj aecond, Andoraon Orient; third, Ilngliy, Tlnrclay achool. High achool pole vault, first, Cross of Oregon City, 9 foot 1 Inch ; aoeond, Sloop, Orient; third, Klmlinll, Etaca da. GrAtnmar achool, first, Mnrrl, Orient, 8 foot 2 Inches; second, Hulo, Orlijnt; third, Andoraon Orient High school half inllo, first, Cross, Oregon City, 2 minutes 25 second; second, Juhnko, Oregon City; third, Reed, Estncaila. Grammnr achool, half mllo, first, rholps, Tensle Creek, 2 minutes 27 seconds; second, Ken, doll, Cnnhy; third, Andoraon, Orient, High achool, Javolln throw, first Faust, Molalla, 120 font; second, Mer rlott, Mllwnukle; third, Howott, Can by. High school 220-yard dash, flrnt, Forr, Oregon City, 20 soconds; aec ond, Elliott, Orient; third, Cro, Ore gon City. Grammar school, 220 yard dnsh, flrnt, Thompson, Canby, aecond, riagby, nnrclny school; third, Spldell, Oak Grovo. High school shot-put Green, Oregon City, 38 feet, 7 Inches; second Wagner, EBtarada; third, Howes, Oregon City. Grammar Bchool, shot-put. Hnghoa, riarclay, 29 feet; aecpnd, Shrlnor, Or ient; third, Sarver Estacada. High achool, mllo run, Juhnko, Ore Ron City, 6 minute. 14 seconda; sec ond, Ewalt, Entacada; third, Diet, Canby. Grammar school, mile run, Commcr, Entacada, 6 minutes 20 sec onds ; aecond, Harris, Orient; third, Phelps, Teanle Creek. Girls' 60 and 100 yard dashes were both won by Miss Hart, Ttarcloy school; aecond. Miss Wood, Oak Grove; third, Miss Ahlberg, Maple Lane. The officials of the meet were: rrraldi'tit, II. F. I'fliianlcti; utitnry 1. V. Flke, who waa In fern-rul ihaife J. K. Calatau. liiarnlial; (rack alarte J. V. Kike; field alarter. H ipervl Wilder, of Gladstone; Iraik n-relnr) U t.eiihardl. link finite; field fre lary. It. II. I(m, Molalla; aniiontn er f(olert Goelt, Mllwaiikle; gatrkeenr, Ionia lleeae, Oak (irnvn; lima kee fcaur WMidward, of Mnlalla; J'ld.ea John llaleaton and !! n llanklna Oregon City and I'rofeawir Howard, oi Wrat Mini. MILLION DOLLAR RAIN SAVES THE VALLEY'S CROPS FARMERS WEAR SMILES WHEN MUCH NEEOCO MOISTURE INSURES GOOD YIELDS. CROWDS SAY WESTERN ORECON CROPS WILL INCREASE TENTH Chtrrla and Strawbtrrlts Crtatly Btntfltad by Showars Rain Began lo Fall Last Satur day In Valley. It ha been raining silver dollnrs In tho Willamette valley, say tho farm era In every ono of tho eight rountlea Fifty or a hundred thousand dollar will not eipreas the valuo of the mois ture at llil time, they aay. but tho es timates vary from I.OOu.OCO to $2.- OOO.noo. Crop, on an average, will bo In creased 10 per rent aay the grower. A week ago, farmer were praying for rain. Coles tho inolaturo came, thu cherry and atrawherry crop In the valley would nvn been greatly In jured. Tho Btrawborrle were drying up and rain wa absolutely necessary lo aavo tho crop, but rain a week from now would hare been too late. Tho wheat crop alona will bo Increased thousand of bushel. The forecast of tho department of agriculture on the production of wheat In Oregon Is l.V JoO.OOO bushel. Iast year tho crop totaled only 13.6S4.000. While tho crops In general had uf ferod comparatively llttlo damage as fnr from tho continued drnugh. It wa Rioted by many Hint tho danger point had been reached and If tho ruin had not fullen tho later fruit crops would havo been practically a fulluro. Some of tho strawberries Just ripening wero slightly Injured by the heavy down pour but those fnmlllnr with tho fruit declare that for every crate of bcr rlea hurt by the rain, a hundred crates of Into berries havo been saved. In ninny case It I reported that plants thought to hnve been destroyed by the recent frost havo been revived by tho rain and glvo promlso of a fulr crop. The rnln began Saturday and allow era were falling up to late Tuesday night. At several times tho rain has been heavy but the Bhowers wore never stendy. The rain Sunday and Monday was wolcomed bs a godsend but thu additional showers Tuesday and Tuesday night added to tho value of tho rain to tho farmers. PROGRAM L III AHA COMPLETED SOON BEST TLENT ON ASSEMBLY ClR CUITS StCUREO FOR GLAD STONE PARK. BAIN, BORKETT, DR. NICHOLS AND W. H. HILLER TO BE HERE Prof. J, H. Con, of Portland, Will Havo CHargt of Vocal Muale Plana Art Mad For "Forum Hours." UNITED STATES NAVY NOW HAS NEW CHIEF WASHINGTON, May l'l.-CaptuIn William Shepherd llcnson today slop ped from tho office of commandant of the 1'hllndelphla navy yard to the of fice of chief of nnvnl operations, the virtual head of the navy. Ho Is pro moted to tho rank of roar admiral on taking up Ills now work. Ho aiicceodB Rear Admiral Bradley A. Flake, aid of operations, whoso res ignation recently stirred naval circles. Tho offlco of aid of operations Is ab sorbed In the new offlco of chief of na val operations, and Admiral Fluke will Join the staff of tho Naval War col lego at Newport. The accession of Reor Admiral Den son to the directing office of the navy enda satisfactorily to both sides a con troversy as to tho fighting efficiency of tho United States navy. While the participation of the naval officers In the argument pro and con was sup pressed, It Is known that there Is a difference of opinion among them. According to a report not yet do led, there was a break between Rear Admiral Flske and the secretary of tho navy, canned, it Is assumed, by the outBpoken views of the aid of opera tions given before the committee on naval affairs of the bouse of repre sentatives last December. This testi mony was In disagreement with the statements of Secretary Daniels. Flske Is one of the blggent men In the naval service, had contributed many Inven tions and Improvements to naval equipment, and the great service he had rendered during critical Incidents In foreign waters marked him aa a man whose opinions were valuable. Chautaii'iua plan are now Writ un der way. and It I rpc ted th.it the complete program fur 1915 will be made public by tho first of nut we. k Tho big 13-day ached'ilo of lecture, ttiualc, amusement, summer achix rlaases I now receiving It flnlshlli oui hc at tho of (be of Heeretary foa The ISIS aaaemiily omii July 6 at Glndatotie park and will operat up to and Including tho 1Mb. While there will be great wealt of ni'ialo and entertainment on tbl ear'a program, the lecture field ha not been alighted and tho bamea Newell pwlvht lllllls, Colonel Haln Senator K. J. Ilurkrtt. Dr. itotao Nlchol and Colonel W. II. Miller land out In bold relief agnlnat th field of good mimic and entertainment 'Irlclllu't Italian band, ono nf the finest organization In tho Vnlte titatc headline tho nitisle program Other attraction are the Adelphlao Male Quartet; Marlon Hallou Flak rartoonlat; Charlotte llergh and A. A Oramko. lecturer; Wltepaklo's Hoya Hungarian orcheitra; Marietta I -a pellc; Ituckner'a Jubilee Sextet; The Magical Floyd; the Schumsn Quln tutte; Hon. Net Darling, "town ox pert;" The Saxony Opera Singer: F Kugen Ilaker. lecturer; The flullotta Trio; Cans' 8wl Yodlera; Father J MacCorry; Daly M. Forrest, play Xpert; Delia Crowder Miller, lectur er, and Evelyn Ttargelt, rartoonlat and Mr a. A. C. Zehner, lecturer. I'rof. J. If. Cowen of Tortland will ave general charge of the Chautau ua vocal music. Complete arrange ment havo not been made a yet con corning the inmnmr achool clnise, but I'rof. Grllley of the Fortland T. M C. A. will In all probability direct tho athletic work again this year. Mont of the leading college of th Rtate havo chosen "forum hour," and as In yeara past each of these Inst tutlona will havo Its own morning pro- gram on certain day. Tho Oregon Congress of Mothers will have an ac tive part In tho program, having gen' ernl chargo of the kindergarten work, maintaining its own headquarters and furnlBhlng a Inrge number of interest ing program under tho able direction of Mrs. John Rlsley and other well known women of this county and Port land. Tho Consumers' league will al so have Its morning at tho assembly, the complete programs of which will all be published In full at a later date Other clubs and organizations are now completing their arrangements and a big program la promised. The baseball schedule la now com plete at this time, however. The Moose team of Oregon City has filed Its application to participate In the Chautuuqua scries, hut to date no oth er toams have signified their Intention of participating. Other county teams which deslro to take part in tho se ries should file their applications with Soerctary Cross at onco, so that tho competing teams may be chosen at once. PARCELS Ifl 15 DAYS Three llioiiund and ten panel pt ia ' ! d tbf'i'l.'l, ,e (If, i, City poatoftlco from A j. rit to April li of (Ma )rar, a or l.i a t., r-1- rt prepared by l'u!liiter Cook. T!iU I an lucre oer tdo sunn y tUA laat Jiar. Two Ihmiaatid tittitrfl.fi pa- lu were ft rld at lha Iv al i,!fp e fi,r d llrery In Oregon City of Oregon City rural r'Hiir and only li (.aikaxe wero mailed at tho office This fount of tho pipe p,t ,a,k at"- I Hilda every qulrter by the pt office and tbo total ant to Walilng ton a aiallatli . Tb1 dura not In elude newspaper I'B'ka.. VIRES MAY SEND FOR EXPERT TO COURT CMS TWO Mil LADDER FISHERIES COMMITTEE DE NOUNCE CONDITION OF PASSAGEWAY. ORGANIZATION OF FISH AND CAKE ASSOCIATION IS RECOMMENDED HUNDREDS LOST WHEN SUBMARINE II SHIP CERMANY CALLED TO IF II 111 FULL BY WILSON AMERICANS ARE INCLUDED IN PASSENGER LIST OF TRANS ATLANTIC LINER. VESSEL GOES DOWN QUICKLY FOLLOWING SODDEN ATTACK Svrl Dtad Art Baing Takan Ashor To(thr With Many Survivor Call for Hlp Heard by Mary Ship. LUSITANIA 'II DEAD IS ESTIMATED AT UNITED STATES TO LEAVE NOTH ING1 UNDONE TO ENFORCE COMPLIANCE. O. D. Eby and H. Lig-on Ktlly Cross Sword at Wkl)-Mtting Attorney AtUmpt to Dfnd Ladder. NEW HIGHWAY WILL BE BUILT AT BEAVER CREEK TO AVOID CROSSINGS. Two petitions for roads have been granted by the county court, one do nlod and one taken under advisement. The Daniels road In the Heaver Creek district, which will be about quarter of a mile long, will be built at once. The new route will avoid two crossings of the Willnmete Valley Southern. The Henry J. Hoffmolster road at Damascus was approved. The court has not reached a decision on the Wottlauftor petition which asks for a new road between Colton and Clarks. When the court learned that the Helen M. Elliott petition called for a road through a swamp, It was dis missed. A second route has been found which will avoid the swamp and may be accepted by the court. LOST HOR8ES FOUND. The horse and colt of Otla Rich of the Boring district were returned to him Friday through the efforts of Chief of Police Shaw. The two ani mals were found in Oregon City April 30 by Chief Shaw who emnounded them. Friday Rich learned that thev were held In the county aeat and came to town to get them. The horses would have been sold today. King salmon again furnished food for discussion at the weekly luncheon of tho Live Wire Tuesday and com prehensive report waa made by II. llghton Kelly and C. G. Huntley, member of the fisheries committee. In which It was recommended that a flab and game association I organ ized, with a view of handling the vari olic problem In eonnr tion with the fishing Industry mor j.itlllitently and thoroughly than wo)ild ft possible by tho Live Wires or the Commercial club. . Tho report embraced the atatement that more lively Interest In the im portance of the fishing to Oregon City and Clackamaa county Is necessary to Insure a demand for the restocking of the streams by the state and federal government year after year, and the committee argued thnt an application for trout fry from a local association would receive more consideration than an application from a Commercial club. The committee recommend that a Live Wire committee of three on fish eries bo maintained, the members of the committee to be affiliated with the proposed fish and game associa tion, and Mr. Kelly said It would be good advertising to send at Easter and Thanksgiving salmon and trout from Clackamas county streams to the pres ident of the United States and to the governor of Oregon. The much abused fish ladder at Wil lamette falls came In for Its usual share of attention, the committee mak ing the following report: In aa much as the fish ladder at tho falls has been visited, and In our opinion found to be too small; many of the Jumps are too high; the resting pools too few and shallow, and that there are several places where salmon can kill themselves by either Jumping out on the bare rocks or by getting in to pools where they are bound to in Jure themselves in trying to get out, and knowing the state fish commission Is likely to try to argue our case out of court by stating that the thousands of snlmon annually reaching the Bpawn lng grounds of the upper tributaries Is an all convincing and sufficient proof thnt the ladder meets evory re quirement, we recommend that Mr. John P. Hancock, commissioner of fish eries of Canada, a man with an inter national reputation of being one ot the most practicnl fiahculturallsts in the world, be Invited by the Live Wires to come down for the purpose of inspect ing and passing his opinion on the adequacy of the ladder. lour committee stands ready to prosecute the case and the state fish board can be invited to defend their ladder If they wish and if Mr. Babcock rules that the ladder needs no further Improving In any way, we, the commit tee are willing to stand all the expense of bringing Mr. Babcock down from ll8 headquarters In Victoria, B. C." O. D. Eby crossed swords with Mr. Kelly over the meiiis of the fish lad der, with the statement that he had been up to the ladder and had failed to find any ot the several hundred salmon that were reported trapped in a pool, with the exception of three. Mr. Kelly rejoined that the salmon bad mysteriously disappeared from the pool between sunset and sunrise, al though he said It waa a well known fact that fish do not jump over a lad der between'those hours. The intima tion of Mr. Kelly was that the fish had been removed from the pool by an agency other than their own. U)MH)N, May 7, Tbo Cunard liner l.ualtanla waa torpetoed by a German submarine today off Old llad. Kina dalo, Ireland, by a German luhma rlne. Several hundred live are be lieved to have been loot. The Lusltanla carried 12SI passen ger, of whom las wero American. and a rrew of 818. Numerous vessel hastened to her rescue a soon a ber rails tor help were heard, and It I known that tome hundred were saved. Many rescued are being taken to Queenstown by steamer. Others are reported a having been landed at the 1194 IN LONDON LITTLE HOPE REMAINS THAT OTHERS ON CUNARD HAVE ESCAPEO. VANDERBILT, FRHOHAN KLINE AND HUBBARD ARE STILL MISSING FINAL DRAFT IS FRIENDLY W TERMS BUT IS FIRM Smalng of Loaitania and Gulfllght by German I Contldtrtd nd fnlbl by th Administration. Tumulty Say That President I Not to b Hurried Administration I No Considering Legal Aspect of Sinking. LONDON. My J. The latest esti mate of live lost a a result of the torpedoing of tho Cunard liner Lual- tanla by a German submarine off the Irish roast resterdav la 1199. It I port of Clonakllty and Klnale. Some believed that almot all. If not all. tho dead and Injured are being taken ashore with the aurvlvor. Several Several have died in hospital. Tho admiralty avi that between 500 and 600 aurvlvor from the Lusl tanla have now been landed, many of them hospital case. Some also have been landed at Klnsale, tho number not having yet been reported. It la said that the British admiralty la not withholding any verified facts regarding tho Lusitonla. but decline to pas dlspatche based merely on rumors. It Is expected that the admiralty will Irsue a statement as soon as au thentic tacts are available. A dlspatrh from Queenstown says that the tug Storm Cork haa returned thero bringing about 160 survivor ot the Lusltanla, principally passengers, among whom were many women, er- eral of tho crew and one steward. Describing the experience of the Lu sltanla, the steward aald: 'The passengers were at lunch when a submarine came up and fired two torpedoes, which struck the Lusltanla on the starboard side, one forward and the other In the engine-room. They caused terrific explosions. "Captain Turner Immediately or dered the boats out. The ship began to list badly Immediately, , "Ten boats were put into the water and between 400 and S00 passengers entered them. The boat in which I was approached the laud with three other boats and we were picked up shortly before 4 o'clock by the Storm Cock. '1 fear that few of the officers were saved; they acted bravely. 'There was only 15 minutes front the time the ship was struck until she foundered, going down bow foremost, tt was a dreadful sight." T FEDERAL ACT TO REDUCE INTER EST SOUGHT WOULD LOAN POSTAL DEPOSITS. survivors havo been brought wshore and there Is little hope of recovering any other p?sgers alive. Of the dead, many are women. Tbo stories from Queenstown describe tho bringing In of the bodies of great number of women, many of them atlll unidentified. The Queenstown docks are the temporary resting place also of the bodies of several children. One dead mother still Is clasping In her rig Id arms the body ot her three months' old baby. Among the Americans whose bodies have not been recovered and who con sequently are believed to have per ished are Alfred Gwynne Vanderbllt. Charles Klein, the playwright. Justus M. Ferman and Elbert Hubbard and his wile... The body of Charles Frohuun, of New York, the thearical producer, al ready has been recovered and brought ashore at Queenstown. Many of the passengers did not be lieve the Lusltanla would sink as quickly as she did. Consequently they did not Join in the rush for the lifeboats, but evidently preferred to trust in their belief that the water tight compartments of the vessel would keep her afloat until such time as help came out from the Irish shore, less than 10 miles away. It Is estimated that there were about 190 Americans on board the Cunard liner. So far as could be as certained at this time fewer than 70 Americana were saved. Consequent ly the death list of Americans is 120. WASHINGTON. May 8. The first formal comment from the White House on the sinking of the Lusltanla was issued tonight in tho following statement: "After a conference with the presi dent at the White House tonight. Sec retary Tumulty said: " 'Of course, the president feels the distress and the gravity of the situa tion to the utmost and Is considering very earnestly but calmly the right course of action to pursue. He knows that the people of the country wish and expect him to act with delibera tion as well as with firmness. "' TILLAMOOK, Ore., May 12. De mands for a rural credit or federal long-time loan law were made in a committee report to the state grange In session here today. After an hour ot discussion, the grange decided to take no action on the report until the committee in charge of the Bathrick bill has announced its findings. Increase in the limit placed on post al asvlngs accounts to $5000 with the privilege of diverting these funds to the farmers at a low rate of Interest was favored by the committee in reso lution which was adopted. Ae resolution also was adopted by the grange declaring tax exemptions on certain classes of property. The grange also declared in favor of a federal law that would require man ufacturers of woolen goods to mark their products to indicate whetrer they are made of long wool or recard cd or of old woolen garments. E MOLALLA MERCHANT SUES. Robbins Brothers of Molalla, have filed a suit in the circuit court against R. H. Larroman on a note for $140.03. O. D. Eby la representing the plaintiff. IS MEMORIAL DAY SPEAKER Judge J. U. Campbell will be the ora tor of the day at the Memorial day pro gram here. The program has been completed and will be made public within a few days. Misses Nellie Coo per and Nora Webster and Mrs. L. H. Olmsted will furnish the music Veterans representing Meade post will visit Eastham school this morning and will appear at Barclay this after noon. They will go to the high school 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. DEATH ON LUSITANIA IS CALLED MURDER JURY FIXES BLAME FOR LOSS OF SHIP KAISER CONSIDERED MURDERER. KINSALE, Ireland, May 10. The verdict rendered by the coroner's Jury which investigated the deaths result ing from the torpedoing of the Lusl tanla follows: "We find that the deceased met death from prolonged Immersion and exhaustion In the sea eight miles southwest of Old Head, off Klnsale, Friday, May 7, 1915, owing to the sink ing of the Lusltanla by torpedoes fired by a German submarine. "We find that this appalling crime was committed contrary to Interna tional law and the conventions of all civilized nations. "We also charge the officers of said submarine and the emperor and gov ernment of Germany, under whose or ders they acted with the crime of wholesale murder before the trtaolao of the civilized world. "We desire to express sclncere con dolences and sympathy with the rela tives of the deceased, the Cunard com pany and the United States, many of whose citizens perished in this mur derous attack on an unarmed liner." WASHINGTON. May l'.-Th t'nlt ed State. In a note to be sent to Ger many tomorrow, demand a guarantee that thero will be no further attack by submarine on merchant ship car rying BOD-combatanta. It serves notice also that full rep aration will bo sought for th loa of more than 100 American live In tho (Inking of the Lnsllanl and for other violations of American right In tho ea tone of war. The document wa to havo been cabled tonight, but the president aft er conference with Counsellor Rob ert Lansing, of tho state department, made several change In legal detail and then revised It alon In hi study tonight. It will be dlipatched tomor row, and It i expected to be tnado public soon after. While no Indication la given of the itep to be taken by the United States In the event of an unfavorable reply, tho note Inform the German govern ment that the American government will leave nothing undone, either in diplomatic representations or other action, to obtain a compliance with lta requests. No charge were made In the es sential of the communication oa form ulated Sunday by the president and approved by the cabinet yesterday. The principal points In the note r substantially as follows: 1. The United States government call attention to the various Incidents in the war tone proclaimed by Ger many around the British Isle and the sinking of the British liner Falaba, with the losa of Leon C. Thresher, an American; the attack by German air men on the American steamer Cush lng: the torpedoing without warning of the American ateamer GulfllghU fly ing the Stars and Stripes, and finally the torpedoing without warning of the Lusltanla, with its losa of more than 1000 lives of non-combatants, among them more than 100 Americans. 2. These acts are declared to be Indefensible under International lnw. 3. The usual financial reparation will be sought, although Germany Is, In effect, reminded that no reparation can resore the lives of those sacri ficed In the sinking of the Lusltanla and other ships. 4. Expressions of regret may com ply with the legal precedents, but they are valulesa unless accompanied by a cessation of the practices endan gering lives of non-combatants. 5. The right of neutrals to travel any point ot the high seas on neutral or belligerent merchantmen is assert ed. 6. In the name ot humanity and In ternational law, the United States de mands a guarantee that these rights will be respected and" that there be no repetition ot the attacks on mer chantmen carrying non-combatants. 7. The giving of warnings to tho American public without officially communicating them to the United States government Is commented on in connection with the German em bassy's printed advertisement before the Bailing of the Lusltanla, but irre spective of the failure to advise thi American government of Germany's purpose, the point is made that notice of an intention to do an unlawful act neither Justified or legalized it 8. The suggestion is conveyed that the German government, of course, could not have Intended to destroy in nocent lives, and that consequently the German submarine commanders must have misunderstood their in structions. The American government Indicates its hope that this will be found to be truo, and a cessation ot the unlawful practices thereby will re sult. 9. In conclusion, Germany's atten tion is called to the earnestness of the government and people of the United States in this situation. It is made plain that the United States will leave nothing undone either In diplo matic representations or other action to obtain a compliance by Germany to the request made. EVERHART FILES SUIT. W. W. Everhart, receiver for Ho mer Trulllnger of Molalla, has tiled a suit for $100 against Belle Wilhelm In the circuit court wm ROAD IW Oregon City Wednesday received a warrant for $9,238.69 as a part of the county seat's share of the road tax collected within the city boundaries. A second and final installment will be paid by the county In the fall. ' ' The amount sent the other Incor porated towns In the county was: Canby, $1099.88; Willamette, $507.98; Mllwaukle, $1803.52; Oswego, $781.53; Molalla, $386.80; Eatacada, $553.46; Gladstone, $1093.38; Sandy, $181.49, and West Linn, $7010.64.