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WASHINGTON, Sopt. 6. The gov
ernment todoy took drastlo measures
to ond th antiwar propaganda con
ducted In tho name of the Industrial
Workers of tho World, tho Socialist
party and organisations throughout
the Uulted States.
On orders from Attorney-General
Gregory, United States Marshals In
many towns and cities descended at
S p. m., central tlma, upon local head
quarters of tho Induittrlal Worker of
the World, seined books, check, cor
respondence and other documcnta, and
In iomo instances arrested officials of
the organisation. The arrest at Chica
go of William D. Haywood, national
secretary of tha Industrial Worker of
tho World, waa a conspicuous example.
In Chicago federal agent took pos
session of the national headquarter of
the Socialist party, and a wurrnnt au
thorising the lure of Ita document
warn aorved upon it counsel.
A ttatement Issued by the depart
ment of Justice announced that the
snUure of the paper ws made In con
nection with a federal grand Jury In
vestigation of the I. W. W., now pro
ceeding at Chicago.
The department' action waa taken
on, the eve of a report to President
Wilson by Chief Justice Covington, of
the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, who was designated recent
ly by the president to Investigate the
labor situation In the west.
Judge Covington has completed his
Investigation which lusted several
weeks and took him to the Taclflc
coast, and probably will report person
ally to President Wilson tomorrow.
Whether the concerted action of
marshal throughout the country was
In any way related to Judge Coving
tan's Investigation was not disclosed.
It Is known, however, that Judge Cov
ington made a special study of the ac
tivities of the I. W. W. It was shortly
after be reached the northwest that
27 leaders of the organization were
arrested In Spokane by Idaho National
Guardsmen, the day before tho time
set for a general strike in Washington,
Oregon, Montana and Idaho.
The charges against leaders of the
organization under arrest or whose ar
rest Is contemplated were not made
publlo here.
It was said at the department of
juatlce that these would have to be
determined by the grand jury Investi
gating the organization. .
Officials alHO declined to state if
Indictments had been found by grand
Juries in Chicago or elsewhere against
I. W. W. leaders. It was intimated,
however, that the Investigation had
only begun. Indications are that fed
eral grand juries In other cities will
be called upon also to investigate the
activities of the organization.
For many weeks past the activities
of I. W, W. leaders have been under
close scrutiny of the department's bu
nuu ot Investigation. Scores of field
workers, chiefly In the west and mid
dle west, have devoted their undivided
attention to alleged attempts on the
irt ot tha leaden to embarrns the
government In the conduct of the war
by strikes and other disturbances
called In tho name of labor.
These activities have never been re
garded hore as a labor movement. They
have been held to be political and in
some instances, conducted solely with
a view to hamper and hinder the gov
ernment In exercising its full strength
in carrying on the war, '
SALEM, Or., Sept. 4. Protests
against the Portland Railway, Light &
Power company's application for per
mission to Increase Its passenger fare
to 6 cents were received today by the
publlo service commission from E. M.
Gross and Oak Nolan, Portland.
Gross declares that the company,
with a view to obtaining the permit
to make the increase has been reduc
ing its revenuoBt by doubling its ser
vice, and Nolan objects to the commis
sion assuming Jurisdiction over the
matter. Grosa asserts the service to
Portland Heights has been increased
from 10 minutes to 3, and believes It
has been increased on other streets.
He further declares that the company
is pressing every available car Into
service,
OFFICES OF
AR BODIES
ELL PLANNED
PERSHING IS IN THE
AT
THE FRENCH FRONT
AMERICAN TRAINING! CAMP IN
FRANCK, Sept. S.-General Pershing
ha arrived at his field headquarters,
where hi taff had preceded hlin sev
eral days, and where the French gov
ernment had turned over quarters for
the Americans' occupancy. The trans
formation in the picturesque French
town has been most remarkable. Up
to three weeks ago American uniforms
had been seen but once or twice and
the passing ot an American automo
bile through the place was the signal
for great excitement among the peo
ple. Today khaki was the predominant
color on the streets, with here and
there a touch of white and blue cos
tumes of American nurses who have
taken over a French hospital and are
caring for French patients pending the
activity of tha American force.
French and American sentries guard
all approaches to the town and no one
Is allowed to enter without proper
passes. American flags mingle with
the French trl-color from scores of
flagstaffs on both public and private
buildings.
Various divisional and corps schools
for the Instruction ot officers are being
organized and class work will begin
within a short time. These schools
are patterned after both the French
and British instruction camps and spe-
t Mill f not rtiftwa will ftM hhnivkf finm
both these fronts to lecture upon the
modern phases of warfare. The In
struction will include artillery, aviation
and Infantry tactics, machine gun,
trench mortar, rifle and grenade fire
and trench fighting, including night
patrol work between the lines. Amor
lean officers also will be Instructed in
the latest methods of fighting from
shell holes and on new theories of
counter attacks.
IS
OF
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Oold and
silver to the valuo of $141,543,300 were
produced during the calendar year 1916
In the United States, Including Alaska.
Figures ot the bureau ot the mint and
the goologlcal sur.vey, show a gold pro
duction of 4,479.057 fine ounces, valued
at f02.590.300, and a silver output ot
74,414,802 ounces of a value ot $48,
953,000. '
California led In the production of
gold, with 1,063,302 tines ounces ot a
value of $21,980,400. Colorado ranked
second with $19,185,000; Alaska, third
with $16,124,800; and Nevada, fourth,
with $9,064,700. Other states near the
top of the gold list were South Dakota,
$7,471,700; Montana, $4.328,400j Ari
zona, $4,092,800; Utah, $3,859,000; Or
egon, $1,901,600; New Mexico, $1,350,
000, and Idaho, $1,058,300. The Phil
ippine iHlnnd produced gold to the
value of $1,514,200.
Montana led in silver production
with $9,210,100. Nevada produced $9,
000,600; Utah, $8,911,000; Idaho, $7,
611,500; Colorado, $4,967,900; Arizona,
$4,394,600; California, $1,274,200; New
Mexico, $1,138,000. Gold was produced
In 21 states and silver in 24.
A6BA-DABBA-DA6BA
HE EATS 'EM ALIVE
-BUT NOT LATELY
NEW YORK, Sept. S.Amok, re
formed head-hunter ot the Philippines
has filed an exemption appeal claim
here on the ground that he is a peace
ful man who should not be made to
fight for the United States, not being
a citizen thereof. ,
Amok is described by the Coney Is
land sideshow barker as "a ferocious
cannibal, with an inveterate appetite
for gore." But he says he has changed
and now his savage nature is gone,
except during business hours.
OREGON" CITY ENTERPRISE, FmDAYSejEMBRR 19 17
Big Balloons
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IJIg balloons have been placed over several parts of Venice to protect the city and its wonderful art works
from airplanes of the Austrians. This photograph show one of the balloon being towed to place on the Grand canal.
STATE COMMISSION
LETS CONTRACT FOR
The state highway commission at a
meeting in Portland Tuesday, awarded
tho contract for the construction and
paving of a road on a new grade from
Oregon City to Conby In Clackamas
county, to the Oregon Hassam Paving
company.
The new road will be eight miles
long, and will have no grade exceeding
I per cent. The contract price was
$145,731.
The paving company submitted a
figure of $2.37 a cubic yard for rock
to be used on the road, but offered to
reduce this to $2.18 It the state or
Cluckamas county will deliver rock
to it at New Era at $1 a yard. This
will probably be done.
The commission heard arguments
by delegations from Hood River, Was
co and Sherman counties relative to
road work In their counties.
The Hood River delegation desired
the Columbia River highway In that
county to be routed above the town of
Hood River, and through the orchard
district, Instead ot along the river. The
upper route Is about 10 miles long and
the lower route about five, but the
Hood River dolegates declared the cost
would be about the same.
The Sherman county delegation
made an earnest appeal that the high
way through their county be not lo
cated along the river, but back through
the wheat country. They declared that
the river route would not benefit the
county and that It It were selected the
county would lose all advertising bene-
tits because tourists then would n
see the real wheat-growing districts of,
the county, but only the forbidding
rocky canyon.
The commission did not decide on
any of the problems rnlsed, but prom
ised, after having time for thorough
consideration, to make known its de-'
cislon at once. The commission will)
meet In Roseburg Wednesday.
MORO AIDS SUMPTER
NEW ROAD TO CANSY
! Sept. 18. They will probably face
MORO, Or.. Sept. B.-The Sherman ' trial on a number of charges, vis: In
county court, In session today, voted toxlc'atlon and speeding.
iuv tor tne sumpter tire relief funds.
The resignation of W. D. Wallan as
county treasurer was accepted, and
ueorge U. Bourhlii, ex-county Judge,
appointed. Wallan has .also resigned j county fair board held Tuesday, Judge
as cashier ot the Bank of Moro. He j Grant Dimlck was elected to succeed
bought land near Lewiston' and will ' the late George M. Lazelle, as presl
go back to farming. , " :VV. Jdent of the County Fair association.
TO WORK
OREGON
The chief ot the United States engi
neers has ordered that the deepening
of Willamette river locks proceed at
once. A telegram received Tuesday
morning by the Portland United States
engineer office settles the question as
to whether the locks Bhould be kept
open or closed to permit the improve
ment, ,
Accordingly, E. Burslem Thompson,
engineer in charge of the work, an
nounced that the locks will be closed
September 19, and will be kept closed
for a period of approximately six
weeks, while the channel in the locks
and over the sills is being deepened.
The low water depth will be increased
at the sills from two to bIx feet.
It was felt desirable to proceed with
tho completion of the big government
project while funds, men and equip
Protect Venice From Hostile
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THE CONFINED
FEEBLE MINDED
WILL GO FIRST
SALEM, Or., Sept. S. No more com
mitments to the stale school for feeble
minded will be received from the state
at large until all fceble-mlnde'd wards
ot the state now in other Institutions
are cared for, the state board ot con
trol ruled today.
Superintendent Sulner, of the state
hospital, told the board that there are
a large number of patients In his In
stltutlon that are feeble minded and
mot insane, and should be transferred !
to the school for feeble minded under J
a new law which oilows such trans-
fers. Superintendent Smith, of the,cllanKe-
school for feeble-minded, stated thatj
he now has a waiting list of more than
50 and the school is crowded. '
The last legislature provided for In-
creasing the capacity of the school for
women, but not for men, and he stated
he did not see how be could accept in-
mate from the hc"itaL -
Enactment of the rule followed. As
a result It may be many months before
any other than state wards will be ac -
cepted at the school for feeble-minded.
MOTORISTS TANGLE
OF
When Paul Londesheuen, J. F. 01
herd and William Cain, much the worse
for liquor, Jumped on County Motorcy
cle Officer Meads Sunday afternoon
near Aurora' they reckoni with
tha PU8'tic ! ot the officer. Not
only dld Mead8 overPOwer -the three
; men' Dut ne Kept lony lnnamon n
j Sherman Miller sufficiently awe-in
spired to cause them to remain in the
machine and refrain from joining In
the contest.
Wednesday warrants were served on
vthe five men by Sheriff Wilson, Con-
staable Frost and Deputy Sheriffs
Meads and Joy nor. All ot the members
ot the party live at Dayton and each
gave $50 cash bail to guarantee his
appearance in court in Oregon City,
JUDGE DIMICK IS PRESIDENT
At a meeting ot the Clackamas
MEADS AND DRUNKEN
ON LOCKS SEPT. 19
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CITY WINS OUT
ment are available,
The beginning of the work on the
locks will murk the success of several
years' efforts on the part of the Live
Wires of the Oregon City Commercial
club, who have been instrumental in
bringing about the improvement.
Through the efforts of the club an ap
propriation of $80,000 was secured
which was intended to be applied im
mediately while workmen and sup
plies were easily available .
An upper river transportation com
pany threatened for a time to block
the progress on the work by tiling an
objection with the Portland engineers'
office, but the efforts of the Oregon
City club were successful in overrul
ing this objection. The Portland engi
neers in charge of the work on the re
taining wall just completed by the gov
Airplanes
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OF
For the purpose of estimating the
cost of changing the route ot the Or
egon City and Portland road from the
north end of the Clackamas river
, bridge near Gladstone, Paul Dunn, Bud
Thompson and County Surveyor John-
BOn have been authorized by the coun-
tT court t0 appraise the value of land
wbIch would be damaged by the
According to the proposal, it is
planned to have the road turn to the
east where the present road leaves
the Southern Pacific tracks, which
would bring It parallel to the tracks for
a considerable distance,
The new road would run parallel to
the tracks until It reaches the Hansen
' property where it would crosa through
j the Smith property to the present Or-
'egon City-Portland road.
DEMAND 8-HOUR DAY
EUREKA, Cal.. Sept 3. Loggers
and lumber mill workers today will
domand an eight-hour day at 50 cents
an hour, through their union, which
was organized yesterday. Leaders an
nounced 5000 men joined the union.
The wage scale now ranges from
$1.75 to J2.50 a day.
IS
OF
T
CRYSTALLINE SILICA
With the discovery recently of addi
tional deposits of silica sand on the
property of the Chas. F. Terrill mine
at Twelfth and Division streets, over
50,000 tons of the saud is now avail
able for the immediate use of the
company.
The company has several heavy or
ders for the newly discovered sand
which it will be unable to fill within
the contracted time unless some trans
portation problems are solved imme
diately. About 400,000 tons of the crystalline
silica are in the mine awaiting devel
opment, say the mine owners, but the
newly found sand is of so much more
value that they have a second gold
fever in the streets oj Oregon City,
except that the gold is clay.
ernment were powerless to give a final
answer and so appealed to the chief
ot United States Engineers.
The telegram received Tuesday
morning sustained the opinion of the
Oregon City club, that the economical
and practical thing to 'do was to con
tinue with the improvement while the
men and supplies were available. Ac
cordingly the United States engineers
in charge of the the work will pro
ceed with the deepening ot the chan
nel, working 24 hours a day in order
that the least possible Inconvenience
will result to shipping.
The yellow stack line of steamers
will leave one steamer above the locks
and transfer around the locks while the
work is in progress.
It is estimated that 18,000 yards of
material wilt have to be removed.
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COUNTRY GRAIN MEN
ARE BREAKING LAW
IT
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept
5. It
has been brought to the attention of
the United States department of ag-'
riculture from several sources that, in ;
certain parts ot the country where
thl year' crop ot wheat is now be-, the national army cantonments were
ing moved, the country grain dealers reporting today to local boards In all
are assessing the farmers a discount districts to receive Instructions and
against all wheat purchased, contend-; railroad and meal tickets. Most of
Ing that such assessment is mandatory them will be given permission to spend
by reason ot the official grain stand- the night at home under orders to re
ards of the United States for wheat port again to the board shortly before
under the United States grain stand- train time tomorrow,
ards act. Apparently the contention About 30 000 men, most of whom
on the party of the country grain deal-! have been geiected because of previous
ers is based upon the item "dockage" J miiUary training or experience as
contained in the official standards. ! cooks,F are Jncluded ,n th6 Hrst quoU.
From Information received by the de- ; By tomorrow night they win be In the
partment It appears, however, that the n cantonments. except those at Yap
dlscount is actually an arbitrary as- hanki u , and Admlraii Md.t where
sessment in the interest of the buyers. ; construction is not completed,
and is neither on the basis of the offl-: A ,etter rom p, Wll80n
cial atandards nor required or content- made be t0(lay by the White Houge
plated by the act or the regulations , addreased tQ ThomM l; Cradbounie
thereunder. , . ...
I Jr., of the mayor s committee on na
me primary purpose in lue esiao-.
lishment ot the official grain standards f
of the United States was to provide aj
basis whereby parties to transactions
involving the ourchase and sale of
grain shipped or delivered for 8hIp. them and how my thoughts will follow
ment in Interstate or foreign commerce thera acr08S the 8ea with confl(lence
might, through being able to obtain a!and al8 wi,h gennlne envy ,or 1
comet application ot such standards,
arrive at the actual value and "ftiake
settlement accordingly. The standards
for wheat do not provide for any ar
bitrary assessment for dockage. They
do provide for the determination of the
amount of sand, dirt, weed seeds, weed
stems and certain other matter, called
dockage, which actually may be pres
ent in a lot of wheat, the amount of
which, if in excess of one-half of one
per cent by weight is to be stated in I
terms of the actual percentage as a
part of the grade designation of the
wheat. This is called the dockage sys
tem of grading and has been in use tor
many years ni the northwestern states
prior to the adoption of the official
standards.
The transactions in question appear
to be purely local, not involving in
terstate commerce, and are perhaps
conducted in a way not within the pro
hibitions of the act. Nevertheless, the
department of agriculture is investigat
ing the matter and will be glad to have
any facts which may be. of value It
will do everything in its power to bring
about the discontinuance based on the
act or the standards thereunder.
A. W. METZGEr"
NEW MAYOR OF
CITY OF GRESIIAM
GRESHAM, Or., Sept. 5. Mayor
George W. Stapleton, recently appoint
ed one of the circuit judges for Mult
nomah county by Governor Withy
combe, tendered his resignation as
mayor to the city council at last
night's session, and the same was ac
cepted. A. W. Metzger, a member of
the city council for several years, was
elected by the council to fill the va
cancy until the regular city election
next winter when the voters of the
city will elect a successor. The retir
ing mayor. Judge Stapleton, will con
tinue to reside in Gresham.
RftYl PAHF MR DIA7
UV 1 1 XlUL 111V. 1irlLi
MEXICO IS NEUTRAL
CARRANZA SAYS SO
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 3. Renewed
assurance that Mexico would remain
completely neutral in the world war
was the outstanding point in President
Carranza's message to the Mexican
congress accorded discussion here to
day. The message was read at last
night's opening session. "
In it the Mexican executive reviewed
in considerable detail the efforts which
he, as first chief, had made to restore
peace through the note sent all neu
trals from Queretaro. He added that
he had made 'unceasing efforts to
'lend a helping hand to peace moves."
ESTABLISHED 1866
w ill lb II
is
Clackamas County's quota of
thres men, Phillip .Hammond, Will
H. Foster and Charles Moulton,
will leave Oregon City at eight
o'clock this morning for Portland,
with Phillip Hammond In charge
of the party.
They will take the 10 o'clock
Great Northern train from Port
land for Seattle, reaching Amer
ican Lake at 2:45 p. m.
,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. Drafted
men of th s npr rtmt mwt -ni,,o-
tlonal defense, New York, reads as
j folio wb:
"Please say to the men on Septem-
i ber 4 how entirely my heart is with
i snl um "KHV 'ne
tliabJl;"and;-'!n''itheArenchea whera the
reai ana iinai name lor ine lnaepena
ence of the United States Is to be
fought, alongside the other peoples of
the world,' struggling, like ourselves,
to make an end of those thnigs which
have threatened the Integrity of their
territory, the lives of their people and
the very character and independence
of their governments. Bid them God
speed for me from a v.ery full heart."
! Tvnifvinff the snirit of the nation
sending forth its sons to battle tor de
mocracy, the capital gave Itself over
to a great public demonstration, in
which President Wilson, congress and
all the heads of the government were
leaders.
The place of honor in a procession
between Peace Monument, at. the foot
of the capitol, to the White House,
was reserved for the 1400 drafted men
comprising the District of Columbia's
first contribution to the national army.
Led by President Wilson and escort
ed by senators and representatives,
sailors, soldiers and marines, men of
the officers' training camp at Fort My-
! er and thousands of their fellow citi
! Sens, the national army men marched
i between lines of cheering thousands
bidding them Godspeed on the first
steps of their Journey to France,
j Exemplifying the united Nation, the
! Civil War veterans of the senate had
j a place ot honor. Senators Warren
! and Nelson of the Union army, and
I Senators Bankhead and Martin, of the
Confederate army, marched together,
but there was only one flag fluttering
above them there was only one flag
fluttering everywhere over the wind
ing, tramping column of thousands
it was the Stars and Stripes.
All government offices, closed for
the occasion, poured out their thou
sands to join the procession. Business
houses were closed for the time, the
entire capital turned aside from its
daily tasks to do honor to the drafted
men, as many other cities were doing
j at the Banie moment.
I At the White House reviewing stand
a large pnrty of 'oreign diPlomats and
j n,hor nfftnlnU noaornhlort in watt tnr
other officials assembled to wait for
the president's coming at the head of
the procession and to join him in re
viewing it.
THAT CARVER ML
TAKE LINE TO VIOLA
SALEM, Oj Sept, 4. Advices have
been received by the public service
commission that the Portland & Ore
gon City railway contemplates extend
ing its line from Baker bridge to Vi
ola, in Clackamas county. The com
pany asks that the commission pass
on a number of crossings, necessary
in the extension of the road.