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FIFTY-FIRST YEAR No. 33
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Graft' Charge
WASHINGTON, Auk. II. Member
of tha Now York local selective board
who were relieved yesterday after an
Inquiry Into the niannnr In which dis
charge from draft had been granted
havo bm arrested and will ba prose
cuted, offtclnl of tha provost marshal
general's office laid toiluy.
Iotil I. Cherry and Dr, 8. J. Bern
fold, members of the local draft exttmp
tlon board ordered removed yesterday
by President WHaon, were Unlay
1 I ii cod under arroBt by agent of the
department of Justice.
Federal Assistant District Attorney
Knox aald Unit Involved In the Investi
gation In the case by tha federal
sgnnt wm evidence that bribe from
$200 to $500 had enabled drafted men
to obtain exemption. There were In
dk'Ntlona, be declared, that a go be
tween had acted for the men seeking
exemption.
Bo far, tha New York Incident la the
only ono where any question aa to tha
good faith of a local board haa been
raised. Official aald, however, that
prompt atepa to bring offender to
book would be taken on the allghlrat
auaplclon of Irregularities.
Whatever action the New York board
may have taken Improperly In caaea
before It will be rectified before the
district board. It It la ahown that fraud
or bribery waa employed to obtain a
discharge from the old board, both the
board membera and tha Individual
would be liable to prosecution and It
E WILL BE
USED THROUGHOUT
CATTLE DIST
SALEM, Or., Aug. 9. To prevent the
spread of calf cholera throughout Ore
gon the State Livestock Sanitary
board, which met here Wednesday, or
dered that calves in all coast couutlea
be vaccinated for tbo disease bofore
being shipped to eastern Oregon point.
The disease I prevalent tn Tillamook
and Cooa countlea.
The board wllj Investigate the re
port that scabby Bheep are running on
the A. Q. Young company' range In
Douglas county at a special meeting
at Oakland, Auguat 20. An owner al
lowing scabby sheep to run on hla
range can be kept out of the sheep
business for a year.
Hereafter ownora of small dairy
herds, as soon aa they have requested
tuberculin tests, may be exempt from
further application of the law until the
tests are made.
Most of the cattle louse In Klam
ath county, believed caused by pokon,
nre attributed by C. H. Schulti, a Se
attle chemist, to contaminated water.
Schulti reports that he found saltpe
ter mixed with salt on the rango,. in
dicating that tn the one Instance a de
liberate attempt had been made to
poison cattlo. State Veterinarian Ly
tlo does not believe I. W. W. are re
sponsible. Former Czar of
With Family,
Siberian
PETROGRAD, Aug. 15. Nicholas
Rnmanqff, tho deposed Russian Em
peror, and the mombea of hla family,
were spirited awny under circum
stances of extreme mystery early yes
terday from Tsarskoo-Solo to an un
known destination, which the provin
cial government firmly refusoa to re
veal. The semi-official Russian news
agoncy announced that it was reported
the ex-Emperor and his family wore
boing transported to TobolBk, Siberia.
Tobolsk is an out-of-the-way town of
western Siberia, far from tho railroad
and vlBited only by steamers which ply
the Irtysh river. In former times It
was an administrative center for ex
iles banished to Siberia by the Rus
sian rulors. It is a city of something
more than 20,000 inhabitants. The cli
mate la extremely severe la winter.
No one except the local military and
officials specially aont from Petrograd
witnessed the ex-emperor's departure,
waa Indicated today that the govern
ment would aeck to mako such canon
an example agulnst future attempt to
evade the draft law.
Official have in preparation a sup
plementary ruling aa to dlachurge for
registered mon, mostly naturalized
nlU'tia supporting, relatives in Europe.
The difficulty In that the offlduvlta
required caunot be obtalnod from any
foreign country In the time allowed.
Thla bad made necessary a ruling to
establish a policy.
Indlcatlona are that discharges will
not be granted In many canon of thla
kind. For ono thing, officials any, the
soldier will have $25 a month at leant
to contribute to hla family during bl
army service. That la more than the
average foreigner atmda home. It can
bo argued also that becauia of the war
altuation, the American dollar haa al
most doubled Ita old purchasing power
abroad.
Ilehlnd thla, however, la the fact that
the interests of the United State are
paramount. The authority to grant
discharge for dependent waa incor
porated in the act to prevent auch de
pendent from becoming public charge
of the United Statea If the bread win
ner were taken away. No family in
Europe can become a public- charge of
tbo United State and It waa thought
likely official would not go behind the
fact, aa tha Interest of the Individual
la not Involved, but only the Interest
of tha government.
NORTHWEST
FACES BIG
LABOR ROW
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 15. Clrcu
lura calling for a general atrlke of the
Industrial Workers of the World Aug
ust 20, unless "all union men now held
aa class war prisoners are released
from Julia before that date" have been
mailed to each local union of the or
ganization in Montana, Washington,
Oregon and Idaho, according to a state
ment made today by James Rowan,
district secretary of the Industrial
Workers of the World.
Rowan also said that the governors
of tho four statea have been notified
that the. strike, will begin unless the
men are released.
Two circulars .were mailed, one to
construction and the other to agricul
tural workers. The construction work
era were advised in the circular to
"lay down their tools In protest against
the systematic persecuting that has
been carried on against our members."
Tho agricultural workera were instruc
ted to let the harvest go to waste and
the fruit rot on tho ground.
Rowan In his circulars says that
Industrial Workers of the .World have
been arrested, thrown into jail and
Russia
Is Taken To
Prison Secretly
and according to a statement by N. V.
Nokrasoff, vice-president of the coun
cil of ministers, the account published
In the only newspaper which reported
tho departure waa imaginary.
It appears that the plnn was to re
move Nicholas before dnwn, but the
train arrived at TssrBkoe-Solo several
hours late. Instead of the gorgeous
Imperial train ln which Nicholas was
taken to Tsarskoe-Solo from Mohllev
In March, an ordinary train, composed
of three sleeping cars, a dining car and
several thlrd-claBS coaches, was sent.
A second train was assigned to take
the baggage and servants, 60 of whom
accompanied tho ex-emperor and his
family into exile.
Nicholas waa very depressed in. ap
pearance, but ex-Empress Alexandria,
who was seen walking for the first
time In months, seemed lively and
pleased at the prospect of a change
in surroundings.
OREGON CITY
EIGHT OF 25 PASSED
SEEK EXE
FAIL 10
Eight of the 25 men passed by the
local examining board for conscription
Thursday filed claims for exemption
bofore the office cloned that afternoon.
Only four were turned down today by
the board. Clulma for exemption were
filed by four other besides those ex
amined Thursday.
Those passed by the board of medi
cal examiner were German A. Ktone,
Clackamas; William Maple, Canby;
Maynurd Colo, Mllwaukle; Orrla De
Vaul, Mllwaukle; Albert Karl Green,
Sherwood; lltlbert Hanson, Clacka
mas; Arthur Farr, Molalla; Anton Ol
son. Mt. Angel; Edward Bowen, Mll
waukle; Loul Klellng, Aurora; Ward
Hurnes, Woodburn; Otto Hogg. Oregon
City; Robert Ureen, Oregon City; Jake
Albert Mitts, Canby; Joseph Glean,
Milwauklo; William Dale; Edward
Hoffman, Sandy; Roy Funk, Boring;
Adolph Franzel, Sherwood; Abraham
Ameele; Ralph Mandevllla, Canby;
Crank Llnhart, Bandy; Jacob Jackie,
Mllwaukle; Sherman Carlston, Ore
gon City; Charles Llndqulst, West
Linn.
Those turned down by tha board
wore Elmer Hasselbriuk, Wllsonvllle;
Paul Kruger, Oregon City; Clifford
Ouynup, Oregon City and Alexander D.
Castle.
Those claiming exemption and their
reasons follow: William Maple, mar
ried; Orrla DeVaul, widowed mother
dependent; Edward Bowen, married;
Loula Klellng, married; Robert Green,
dependent sister; Adolph Franzel, aged
parent, religion and an alien; Ralph
Mandevllle, aged parents; Jacob Jac
kie, German; David Thomaa, aged par
ent; Herbert Huxley, married with de
pendents; Clarence Conner, married
with dependent.
Toledo: I-ocal creamery did big
businesa past month.
held without charges being preferred
against them. He charged that the
men are practically starved and are
beaten.
The circulars also state that in addi
tion to the release of the men a atrlke
will be called unless the I. W. W. re
ceive an eight-hour day on construction
work and a 10-hour day In the harvest
fields, better sanitary conditions, no
discrimination against union men for
being such and that union halls must
bo allowed to conduct legitimate busi
ness or organlxlng the workers with
out interference.
According to Rowan's estimate 65,
000 men are members of the Industrial
Workers of the World in the four
states.
Portland and Klamath Falls, Oregon;
North Yakima, Wenatchee and Ellens
burg, Washington, and Moscow, Ida
ho, are among the cities where I. W.
W. are being mistreated, according to
the statement.
Copies of two different sets of the
notices were furnished, one addressed
to "No. 400," the I. W. W. section cov
ering harvesters and agricultural
workers, and the other to "No. 673,"
covorlng all classes of construction
work. Both are headed aa follows:
"A general strike August 20, unless
all union men now held as class war
prisoners are released from Jails be
fore that date." It closes with an in
junction: "Remember, August 20."
"We mean the release of the, pris
oners held at North Yakima," Rowan
explained, "and especially in Washing
ton state."
All bulletins are identical in lan
guage, except in one paragraph, where
the action of the workera Is particular
ized. "Let our answer be a general strike
of all men employed in the harvest
fields and the fruit orchards in these
states," Bays the "400" order bulletin.
"Let the harvest go to waste and let
the fruit rot on the ground. If the laws
of the country are Bet aside and the
constitution overruled in the interests
of a gang of profit-hungry pirates, then
we will have recourse to the court of
the working class."
In the general text the notices say
that a "systematic persecution has
been carried on against our members,"
and cites the closing of halls and the
arrest of member in Pasco, Moscow,
Cle Elum, Klamath Falls and other
places.
ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 7, 1917.
CHARLES I Ml
PROMINENT
OF COUNTY. IS
Charle W. Rlsley, one of Clackamas
county's most prominent citizens, died
at hla home at Rlalcy station Monday
evening at T o'clock,, aged 59, after
a long atruggle agalnijt the power of
cancer. Mr. Rlsley only recently re
turned from a trip to the tast where
skilled physlolana exerted every effort
to effect a cure, but only succeeded in
extending his life until this time.
Besides bis wife, Mr. Rlsley is sur
vived by two sons, Jacob S. and Ralph
W., of Rlsley station, two daughters,
Mrs. Ethelyn Bradahaw of The Dalles,
and Miss Olive, of Risle- station; a
brother, John Rlsley, and a sister, Mrs.
Harvey Starkweather, both of Rlsley
station.
Mr. Rlsley waa a member of Mult
nomah Lodge No. 1, A. F. and A. M.,
Oregon City Lodge of Elks, and was
a Mystic Shriner. He was prominent
in every worthy activity in the coun
ty and was the only Democrat elected
from Clackamas connty to the 1915
session of the state legislature, at
which time he was a member of the
state House of Representatives.
Mr. Rlsley waa bora on the donation
land claim of his f&jhe,, pear what is
now Rlsley station, August 1, 1858.
LOCAL BOARD W
5 OK FOR MORE
POSITIVE IMF
The local exemption board Monday
night considered the claims of 20 appli
cants for exemption, of which nine
were allowed, six were denied and
five were held for further considera
tion. The claims allowed were those of
Wallace Caufleld, 1763, military ser
vice; Heppell Shipley, 2148, wife and
child dependent; Dorcy Smith, 696,
wife and tour children; Fred Black-
man, 1436, wife and six children; Gus-
tuv Landeen, 784, father and mother
dependent; Philip Young, 11S5; wld
owed mother; Lester Huggett, 1986,
dependent wife; Alva Hughes, 1676,
wife and two children; Edwin Whit
ten, wife and two children.
The claims denied were those of
Robert Green, 1779, dependent sister;
David Thomas, 1495, father and moth
er dependent; William Thompson,
1266, wife dependent; Albert Green,
1045, wife and one child; Richard Bell,
664, dependent parents; Ferdinand
Scott, 2099, wife dependent.
The application of Jacob Kraft, who
dolayed filing his claim, was not con
sidered. The following claims are being held
for further investigation: William
Kuhnke, 1539, Needy, dependent fath
er; Orris E. Do Vaul, 1323, Mllwaukle,
dependent mother; Steven Feather,
1095, Estacada, married with two de
pendent step-children; Ralph Mande
vllle, 433, Canby, aged parents depend
ent; Louis Kieling, 1536, Aurora, mar
ried, dependents,
IS IN A
ITAL
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 15. Dr. Ern
est A. Sommer, who received a broken
shoulder blade and several fractured
ribs when a horse he was riding fell
on him at Belllngham, Wash., three
weeks ago, arrived in Portland Monday
night and was taken to St Vincent's
hospital.
Dr. Sommer, who had been in a hos
pital in Bolllngham, had just recov
ered sufficiently to make the trip to
Portland.
With Mr. and Mrs. Franklin T. Grif
fith and Mrs. Sommer, Dr. Sommer had
gone to Belllngham on a pleasure trip.
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Wallace B. Caufleld ahd Ren L.
Holsclaw, of Oregon City; Walter V.
Monger, of Parkplace, and Langdon H.
8pooner, of Jennings Lodga are the
Clackamas county men ordered to re
port at the second Officers' Reserve
Training camp to open at the Presidio,
August 27.
PORTLAND, Or, Aug. 10,-Out of
approximately JOOnJ who made applica
tion from this state 131 were chosen,
Including 48 Portland men. Among
the well known men who were notified
to report are: Wallace G. Benson,
attorney; James O. Convlll, city su
perintendent of parks; James W. Craw
ford, attorney and son of Former At
torney General A. M. Crawford; Ro-
coe Fawcett, sporting editor of the Or
egonlan; Chester A. Fee, the noted ath-
l:)e, and bis brother, James A. Fee,
of Pendleton; John M. Grelf, formerly
of troop A; George A. Gore, attorney
and former member of troop A; Carl
u. Oabrieison, of the secretary of
state'a department; Arthur M. Geary,
attorney and former graduate manager
of the University of Oregon; David J.
Jordan, former captain of the Multno
mah club football team; Franklin L,
Korell, attorney; Barge E. Leonard, at
torney; Francis L. Michelbook, Mc
MInnvllle, former captain company A,
3d Oregon; Lionel C. Mackey, former
non-commissioned officer with battery
A and representative from Multno
mah county; Karl Stelwer, Jefferson,
former football star of Willamette uni
versity and later of the Philippines
constabulary; Frederick Stelwer, Pen
dleton, state senator from Umatilla
county; MacCormac Snow, attorney;
Francis J. Toomey, formerly of the
city engineer's force; Gordon Voor
hies. West Point graduate and former
regular army captain; Frederick A.
Woelflen, Bend, editor of the Bend
Press; C. R. Peck, Marsh'UV repre
sentative from Coos an" irry. and,
many others.
8UE8 TO COLLECT ON NOTE, .
Suit to collect on a promissory note
for $4000 has been filed by Sarah
James versus Charles and Myrtle
Fischer. The plaintiff asks $4262.82
and $400 attorney's fees.
CLAIMS FOUR PLAC
POWERFUL
DAY ATTACK .
GAINS HILL
BRITISH FRONT IN BELGIUM,
Aug. 15. Hill 70, the famous German
stronghold, northwest of the French
mining city of Lens, which dominates
the city and the Loos salient, was cap
tured this morning by the Canadian
forces.
The British also pushed their lines
into the northwestern environs of
Lens, in a semi-circle around the east
cr nside of Hill 70.
The British attack was made on a
4000-yard front, which had an extreme
depth of 1500 yards.
Beginning at a point Just above Hugo
Wood, the new British positions now
run southeast and beyond Hill 70 tow
ard Lens. The line then bends south-
I west and encircles the suburbs of St.
j Laurent and St. Emllte.
I The British guns had been pounding
for days at Hill 70 which the Germans
I considered impregnable. The infantry
attack began at 4:25 o'clock this morn
I lg.
I The capture of Hill 70 ranks in im
portance with the biggest military op
erations of this year. It was the last
dominating position in this section
which remained in the hands of the
Germans, and from it a wide territory
can be controlled.
Hill 70 is to Lens and the Loos sal
ient what Messines ia to Ypres, and
in some ways it is even a more envia
ble position than the Messines ridge,
because even after the fall of Messines
the Germans still retained Pilkam
Ridge from which they could sweep the
country surrounding Ypres.
Hill 70 was bombarded with guns of
all calibres which worked havoc among
the German defenses on the rest of
this eminence. The Germans undoubt
edly prepared for the attack as fully
as possible, for there ia no question
that they were aware it was impend
ing. It waa just 25 minutes past 4 o'clock
when the British guns dropped a pro
tecting barrage before the Canadian
trenches and the troops leaped over
the parapet for the charge. Details
of the fighting are not yet available,
but the troops swept forward with the
invincible precision which hag charac
JolleCrdwd
At
A genuine spirit of good will and
fun reigned supreme on the steamers
Grahamona and Pomona Thursday aft
ernoon among the 600 or more mer
chants from all over the Pacific Coast.
From the moment that the over-fed
store-keepers and their wives and
babes that is, some of them had their
families along arose from the long
tables that had been set on the East
Side Municipal dock in Portland, un
til the swirling waters of the Willam
ette were reached where it is dla
charged below the mills, not one un
toward incident served to mar the aft
ernoon. Threatening clouds rolled back at
one o'clock Thursday and the sun.
wanm?d the soula of those who, during
the rest of the year are plain Sid
Jones, or Hank Foster or Judge Gib
bons or some other notable of greater
or less degree. This day though, they
were buyers. That was all that waa
necessary. The magic touchstone waa
the little red and blue ribbon or tht
huge white disc, about the size of a
phonograph record, which said bore the
legend, "I am John Jones, a furniture
man of Centralia, Wash." Flash the
badge and, Selah! The boat was
yours.
About 285 persons crowded past the
government inspector who kept a
watchful eye at the gangplank of the
Pomona while in the neighborhood of
215 sat on the life-preserver cabinets,
the capstans and even the refrigera
tor of the Grahamona.
After about half an hour's ride the
music of the band created a sensation
in the feet of some of the merchants,
it grew to a shuffling and finally de
veloped to a society crawL The ta
bles in the dining room were grabbed
by the furniture men who made short
terized the latest work of the British
fighting machine.
Considerable numbers of German
prisoners are beginning to arrive in
the collection depots.
The new British front has been es
tablished on a triangular line like a
pair of shears whose points are to
the north and south of Lens.
In the first stages of the fighting
the Canadians met with comparatively
small opposition, but as they pushed
into the Lens environs the defense
stiffened.
Whatevetr the outcome the battle al
ready has taken a place in the list of
the important conflicts of the war.
Late today the British and Germans
were in close grips in the western part
of the city of Lens itself, following the
brilliant morning advance whereby the
Canadians captured Hill 70 and then
swept on northwest of Lens.
Northwest's Wheat Crop Is To
Be Made Subject Of A Spok
ane Conference Soon
CORVALLIS, Or., Aug. 13. A con
ference of the northwest states has
been called to meet at Spokane Aug
ust 27 and 28, to consider the best
means of Increasing the fall-sown acre
age of wheat and rye. The conference
was called by Secretary of Agriculture
Houston, who notified President W. J.
Kerr, chairman of the committee on
food preparedness in Oregon, and also
requested President Kerr to appoint
two representative farmers to join the
college representatives as delegates
for Oregon.
Acting on the request, President
Kerr has named W. W. Harrah, of Pen
dleton, and A. 8. Roberts, of The
Dalles.' The purpose of the conference
Is to consider the best means of in
creasing to the greatest possible point
ESTABLISHED 1666
.Busy Mis
work of them, and the dance was on.
Suddenly there was a shriek. The
crowd dashed to the east side of the
boat and there were two fair mer
maids struggling in the water beside
an overturned canoe. The Grahamona
put about immediately and stood by
to give assistance, but the buyers who
hoped for a chance to display their
aquatic kill were doomed U
polntmenL
With the utmost eaae the girls right
ed the canoe and struck out for the
shore without assistance and the
guests are still wondering if that was
part of the entertainment scheduled
for the trip.
The comments of some of the in
land merchants were perfect Jewels of
humor for the valley men in the party.
Passing a group of house boats mount
ed on log skids, one man whose home
is in the sagebrush country, "some
where east of 8uex," explained to his
wife that they had mounted the house
boat thus so that it could be moved
back onto the bank as the water rose."
At Oregon City the delegation was
divided the Pomona party landed on
the west side of the river at the Crown
Willamette Pulp ft Paper company's
mill and the Grahamona on the east
side. After being shown through the
mill, the party then went on board the
Bteamer and was taken across the riv
er to the Oregon City Woolen mills,
which were viated.
At McLoughlln Park the rest of the
500 or more were met, with the excep
tion of a contingent of furniture peo
ple who had to leave at 4:68 p. m.,
for Portland where they were to be I
guests at a banquet
At McLoughlln Park addresses were
made by Judge Grant Dimick, .Mrs.
Eva Emery Dye, and O. D. Eby. Lunch
eon was served to about 700.
IS SERVING JAIL TERM
SALEM, Or., Aug. 9. Because he
failed to stop his automobile and ren
der whatever assistance he could,
when he collided with a car driven by
R. P. Boise near Woodburn Sunday
night John Ulmer, of Corvallis, is do
ing a 12 days' Jail sentence.
This is the first conviction under
the provisions of the new motor law.
which provides that when a collision
occurs the driver that runs into anoth
er car must stop and render whatever
aslstanco he can, must give his name
and the number of his car to the other
person, and take the name of the party
run into, the number of his car and tha
names of all witnesses. All thesa
things Ulmer failed to do.
When Ulmer struck the Boise car.
it swung the latter around. The turn
ing movement cleared Ulmer's car ant
he dashed on down the road.
Ulmer was arrested before he ha l
reached Portland. His first trial was
held Monday at Woodburn and the Jury
disagreed. The second trial was hel I
Tuesday and the Jury rendered a ver
dict of guilty.
the fall-sown area of wheat and rye in
the north westorn states.
President Kerr expects to receive
notice soon of Oregon's portion of the
national appropriation for carrying out
the food control law recently enacted
by congress. He is now conferring
with representatives of the different
agencies concerned In the Oregon food
campaign with a view to perfecting
the organization work ready for be
ginning whenever the word to proceed
comes from Washington.
The college forces that have been
carrying on the food products exten
sion work are being appointed in the
agricultural counties, and trained home
economics workera in a number of
counties. "