Morning Oregonian., September 11, 1917, Page 5, Image 5

THE MORNING- OBEGONIAN. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1917.
GERMAN TRADE DUE
WORLD-WAR AIM
Exports and Imports as Seen
by Gerard .Surprise by
Great Variety and Amount.
DELBRUCK MAKES MISTAKE
If Exports Had Not Been Prohib
ited, United States Might Have
Raised Outcry Against British
Blockade, Changing Statns.
BY JAMES W. GERARD.
American Ambassador to the German Im
perial Court. July 28. 1913. to February J,
191T. (Copyright, 191T, by the Public Lea
ser Company.)
Nothing1 surprised me more as the
war developed tfcan the discovery of
th i great variety and amount of goods
exported froxi Germany to the United
States.
Goods sert fron the United States to
Germany are mainly rime materials
ap roxlmatcly 1'0,000,000 a year f
cotton. C7r OwO 000 of copper, $15,0i J, 000
of wheat. J20 000.00J of animal fat.
$10,000,000 of mineral oil and a large
amount of vegetable oil. Of course,
the amount of wheat is especially vari
able. Some manufactured goods from
America also find their way to oer
many to the extent, perhaps, of $70.
000,000 a year, comprising machinery,
cnrh n tvnewriters. and a miscellane
ous line of machinery and manufac
tures.
Potash Great Export.
The principal exports from Germany
to America consist or ayesiuns ana
chemical dyes, toys, underwear, sur
gical instruments, cutlery, stockings.
knit goods, etc., and a raw material
called potash, also known as Kau. une
last is a mineral found nowhere in
the world except in Germany and in a
few places in Austria. potasn is es
sential to the manufacture of many
fertilizers, fertilizer being composed.
as a rule, of potash, phosphates and
nitrates. The nitrates in past years
have been exported to all countries
from Chile. Phosphate rock is mined
in South Carolina and Florida and sev
eral other Dlaces in the world.
Curiously enough, both nitrates and
potash are essential ingredients also
of explosives used in war. Since the
war the German supply from Chile
was cut off. but the Germans, follow
ing a system used in Norway for
many years before the war. estab
lished great electrical plants for the
extraction of nitrate from the atmos
phere. Since the war American agri
culture has suffered for want of potash
and German agriculture has suffered
for want of phosphates; possibly of
nitrates also, because I doubt whether
sufficient nitrogen is extracted from
the air in Germany to provide for
more than the needs of the explosive
industry.
The dyestuff industry had been de
veloped to such a point in Germany
that Germany supplied the whole
world. In the first months of the war
some enterprising Americans, headed
by Herman Metz, chartered a boat
called the Matanzas and sent it to Rot
terdam, where it was loaded with a
cargo of German dyestuffs. The boat
sailed under the, American flag, and
was not interfered with by the Eng
lish. Later on the German Department
of the Interior, at whose head was
Delbruck, refused to allow dyestuffs
to leave Germany except in exchange
for cotton, and. finally, the export of
dyestuffs from Germany ceased and
other countries were compelled to take
up the question of manufacture.
This state of affairs may lead to
the establishment of the industry per
manently in the United States, although
that industry will require protection
for some years, as undoubtedly Ger
many, in her desperate effort to regain
a monopoly of this trade, will be ready
to spend enormous ' sums in order to
undersell the American manufacturers
and drive them out of business.
The commercial submarines Deutsch
land and Bremen were to a great ex
tent built with money furnished by the
dyestuff manufacturers, who hoped by
sending dyestuffs in this way to
America that they could prevent the
development of the industry there. I
had many negotiations with the For
eign Office with reference to this ques
tion of dyestuffs.
War Cat Off German Toys.
The export of toys from Germany to
the United States forms a large item
in the bill which we pay annually to
Germany. Many of these toys are
manufactured by the people in their
own homes in the picturesque district
known as the Black Forest. Of
course, the war cut off, after a time,
the export of toys from Germany, and
the American child, having in the
meantime learned to be satisfied with
some other articles, bis little brother
will demand this very article next
Christmas, and thus, after the war,
Germany will find that much of this
trade has been permanently lost.
Just as the textile trade of the
United States was dependent upon the
German dyestuffs for colors, eo the
sugar-beet growers of America were
dependent upon Germany for their seed.
I succeeded, with the able assistance
of the Consul at Magdeburg and Mr.
Wlnslow, of my staff, in getting ship
ments of beet seed out of Germany. I
nave heard since that these industries,
too, are being' developed in America.
and seed is obtained from other coun
tries, such as Russia.
Export of Cyanide Prohibited.
Another commodity upon which a
greai industry in me united States and
Mexico depends is cyanide. The discov
ery of the cyanide process of treating
gold and silver ores permitted the ex
ploitation of many mines which could
not be worked under the older methods.
At the beginning of the wtr there was
a small mannfartnrw rf ; i
J V. - ,7
by Germans at Perth Amboy and
iimsara rau -,.oui most or the cyanide
used was imported from Germany. The
American - German rnmnnnv . t
companies manufacturing In Germany
iinsiana an operated under the
same patents, the English and German
comnanieH havinir nmb-ina- - .
c - - - . , agiccinenia
as to the distribution of business
wrougnoui me world.
The German Vice-Chancellor and
head of the DpnnrtmpTit rf u i ,
Delbruck, put an export prohibition on
cyamae eany in me war, and most pig
headedly and obstinately claimed that
-cyanide was manufactured nowhere but
In Of rm a n v- Thprpfnm uA . i i m i
- uu oc&iu, XI. lie
allowed cyanide to leave Germany for
mo united states or juexlco the Eng
lish would capture it and would use It
t n work n 1 1 f h Afrlfnn mlno &.
adding to the stock of gold and power
ju wiu ui wie .ornisn empire.
Delbruck Made Mistake.
It was a long time before the Ger
man manufacturers and I could con
vince this gentleman that cyanide suf
ficient to Bupply all the British mines
was manufactured near Glasgow, Scot
land. He then reluctantly gave a per
mit for the export of 1000 tons of
cyanide, and its arrival in the United
States permitted many mines there
aad in Mexico to continue operations
and saved many persons from being
thrown out of employment. When Del
bruck finally gave a permit for the ex
port of 4000 tons more of cyanide the
psychological moment had passed, and
we could not obtain through our State
Department a pass from the British.
I am convinced that Delbruck made
a great tactical mistake on behalf of
the German government when he im
posed ' this prohibition against export
of goods1 to America. Many manufac
turers of textiles, the users of dye
stuffs, medicines, seeds and chemicalB
in all forms were clamoring for cer
tain goods and' chemicals from Ger
many. But it was the prohibition
against export of the Germans which
prevented their receiving these goods.
If it had been the British blockade
alone a cry might have arisen in the
United States against this blockade,
which might have materially changed
the international situation.
Fotask Supply Discussed.
The Germans also refused permission
for the export of potash from Ger
many. They hoped thereby to induce
the United States to break the British
blockade and offered cargoes of potash
in exchange for cargoes of cotton or
cargoes of foodstuffs. The Germans
claimed that potash was used in the
manufacture of munitions and that,
therefore, in no event would they per
mit the export unless the potash was
consigned to the American Govern
ment, with guarantees against its use
except in the manufacture of fertilizer,
this to be checked up by Germans ap
pointed as inspectors.
All these negotiations, however, fell
through; no potash has been exported
from Germany to the United States
since the commencement of the war.
Enough potash, however, is obtained in
the United States for munition purposes
from the burning of seaweed on the
Pacific Coast, from the brines in a
lake in Southern California and from a
rock called alunlte in Utah. Potash is
also obtainable- from feldspar, but I
do not know whether any plant has
been established for its production
from this rock. I recently heard of the
arrival of some potash from a newly
discovered field in Brazil and there
have been rumors of its discovery in
Spain. I do not know how good this
Spanish and Brazilian potash is and I
suppose the German potash syndicate
will Immediately endeavor to control
these fields in order to hold the potash
trade of the world in its grip.
It was a long time after the com
mencement of the war before England
declared cotton a contraband. I think
this was because of the fear of irritat
ing the United States, but in the mean
time Germany secured a great quantity
of cotton, which, of course, was used
or stored for the manufacture of pow
der. Since the cotton imports have
been cat off the Germans assert that
they are manufacturing a powder
equally good by using wood pulp, or
course I have not been able to verify
this absolutely.
American Goods Kept Oat of Germany.
Germany had endeavored before the
war in every way to keep American
goods out of the German markets, and
even the Prussian state railways are
used, as I have shown in the article
where I speak of the attempt to es
tablish an oil monopoly in Germany, in
order to discriminate against American
mineral oils. This same method has
been applied to other articles, such as
wood, which otherwise might be im
ported from America, and in some
cases regulations 'as to the inspection
of meat, etc., have proved more ef
fective in keeping American goods out
or the market than a prohibitive tariff.
The meat regulation is that each in
dividual package of meat must be
opened and inspected, and, of course.
when a sausage had been individually
made to sit up and bark, no one de
sires it as an article of food there
after. American apples were also dls
criminated against in the customs reg
ulations of Germany. Nor could I In
duce the German government to change
the tariff on canned salmon, an article
which would prove a welcome addi
tion to the German diet.
The German work in groan, undoubt
dly the most exploited and fooled
workingman in the world, is compelled
not . only to work for low wages and
long hours, but to purchase his food at
rates fixed by the German tariff made
for the benefit of the Prussian Junk
ers and landholders.
(Continued tomorrow.)
NOTED OFFICER PASSES
JAMES H. ROSS SUCCUMBS AT TO
LEDO, AGED 67 YEARS.
Sheriffship of Lincoln County la Held
for Six Successive Terms and
Other Service Given.
TOLEDO, Or., Sept. 10. (Special.)
James H. Ross, ex-heriff of Lincoln
County, Oregon, long time officer and
member of the Masonic and Elks
lodges, passed away at his home in To
ledo last night after an illness of sev
eral weeks. Mr. Ross was well known
throughout the state because of his
long official career, an exceptionally
melodious singing voice and his un
usually happy faculty of making
friends.
He was born In Lee County, Iowa,
September 17, 1850. His boyhood was
spent in Humboldt County, California,
whither his parents had moved, and
as a young man Mr. Ross wae Deputy
sheriff of Humboldt County in the
early mining days of the voiden State.
In 1881 he came to Salem, Or., where
he served four years on the police
force and four years as City Marshal.
He represented the Oregon commission
in secret service work at the Chicago
World's Fair in 1893, becoming a mem
ber of picked detectives, known as the
Columbian Guard. After the fair he
toured the Southern states and Mexico.
Mr. Ross came to Toledo In 1895.
served two years as Deputy Sheriff and
was elected Sheriff first in 1898. He
retired from office in 1910 after six
consecutive terms without being de
feated for re-election.
He is survived by a widow, formerly
Miss Ethel Cooper, of California, five
daughters and three sons.
APPLE PACK SCHOOL SET
Large Attendance Expected at Hood
River Sessions Next Week.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Sept. 10. (Spe
cial.) With the corps of the sales
agency's inspectors in charge, daily lec
tures, to be given between the hours
of 1:30 and 3 o'clock, will be features
of the annual packing school to be con
ducted by the Apple Growers' Associa
tion for the week of September 17-22,
The Bales agency officials are deter
mined to conserve all of the Valley's
big apple crop, and growers and their
families are urged to be present at the
lectures.
Because many of the young men who
formerly prepared the fruit for dis
tribution have enlisted, the attend
ance at the approaching school is ex
pected to be the largest in the Valley's
history.
Mill Costs More Than Expected. "
BAKER. Or., Sept. 10. (Special.) In
order that its flour mill now in the
process of construction may be com
pleted, the Farmers'-Milling Company
here has been reorganized with capital
stock of S10.000, instead of S5000, the
original capitalization. The increased
capital is said to be occasioned by in
creased cost of materials.
Phone your want ads to The Orego
soman, juain .7070, A 6035.
GUIHT RAIDS
TEUTON NEWSPAPER
Heads of Philadelphia Tage
blatt Arrested Under
Espionage Act.
OFFICE RECORDS SEIZED
Late Issue Advises Germans How to
Evade Censorship of Letters.
Charges of Aiding Enemies of
Country Are Preferred.
PHTLADELPIA. Pa.. Sept 10 In a
raid on the Philadelphia Tageblatt, a
long established German language
morning newspaper, which is charged
with having been attacking Govern
ment war policies for several months
past. Federal agents tonight arrested
the editor and business manager and
confiscated large quantities of corre
spondence, files and documents. The
prisoners, who are charged with vio
lating the espionage act, are Dr. Mar
tin Darkow, editor, and Herman Lemke,
business manager. Warrants also have
been issued for the president, treas
urer, editor-in-chief and an editorial
writer.
The Government agents in one war
rant charge certain members of the
staff with "willfully making and con
veying false reports and statements
with the Intent to promote the suc
cess of the enemies of the United
States while the United States is at
war."
Correspondence te Be Examined.
A second warrant charges the staff
with using the mails for the same pur
pose. According to Government officers
under Special Agent Frank Garbarino.
who conducted the raid, the Tageblatt
on Saturday published statements in
structing Germans in this country how
to evade the postal laws and forward
letters to Germany. In these state
ments. Government officers say, a man
.described as H. Isselhurst, care of
the German Aid Society, Stockholm,
Sweden, was given as the official who
would see that communications ad
dressed to German destinations would
arrive uninspected by American or al
lied censors.
The newspaper and business files,
correspondence and other matter seized
in the raid were taken to the Fed
eral building for examination.
The men for whom warrants were is
sued, including the prisoners, accord
ing to Government agents, are all
members of the Philadelphia Tageblatt
Publishing Association. This company
publishes in addition to the daily pa
per the Philadelphia Sontagsblatt,
which is the Sunday edition.
Employes Are Snbpenaed.
All of the employes of the plant,
about 20, have been served with
subpenas to appear before the Federal
grand Jury.
Joseph Schlentz, president of several
German societies, who came to the
Federal building, said he intended to
enter bail for Dr. Darkow.
Lemke, the business manager. Is a
member of the defense committee ap
pointed by Mayor Smith.
The raid today follows an announce
ment from Washington that the Gov
ernment intended to take drastic action
against all foreign language newspa
pers circulating anti-war propaganda.
ALIEN PAPERS MAY BE BARRED
Government Considers Curtailment
of Mailing Privileges.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. Exclusion
from the mails of certain influential
German-language newspapers printed
In various sections of the United States
is under consideration by the Post
office Department, as a part of the
Government's determination to prevent
circulation of anti-war propaganda.
In three or four instances, it is un
derstood, officials have virtually de
cided that the utterances of the Ger-
man-langoage newspapers in question
fully warrant their exclusion from the
mails.
There is no Intention to treat the
German-language dailies as a class,
and each newspaper will be considered
on the basis of the tone, character and
nature of its articles and editorials.
A number of publications printed in
English also are under consideration
in connection with the department's
programme of tightening the restric
tions heretofore placed upon dissemi
nation through the mails of anti-war
propaganda. This programme has re
ceived a marked impetus since the re
cent decisions of Federal Judges Hough
and Speer upholding the Postmaster
General in excluding from the mails
The Masses and The Jeffersonlan.
MORE DOCTORS ON LIST
MEDICAL JIE.V IX SERVICE OF
COUNTRY NUMEROUS.
Supplementary Roll Issued by Dr. C. J.
McCusker to 121 Reported aa
Attached to Army.
Still more Oregon doctors must be
edded to the list given out Sunday by
Dr. C. J. McCusker. secretary of the
Oregon State Medical Association, of
Oregon physicians and surgeons who
have entered some branch of the mili
tary service.
Dr. McCusker's list, which contained
the names of 121 doctors, came from
the office of the Surgeon-General of
the Army, at Washington. Curiously
enough, it did not have the names of
any of the medical officers in the Third
Oregon Infantry, Oregon Coast Artil
lery, or other National Guard units.
Neither did It contain the names of
Oregon doctors who have joined the
Naval medical service, as Dr. McCusker
was informed yesterday by many tele
phone calls.
The Surgeon-General's list even
omitted at least two Oregon doctors in
the Medical Reserve Corps: Dr. George
E. Darrow, of. Eugene, who holds a
commission as Major, and Dr. E. A.
Simmer, of Portland, who has been
commissioned a Captain.
Medical officers of the Oregon Na
tional Guard not included in the 121
doctors listed by Dr. McCusker and
published in The,Oregonian yesterday
are as follows:
Major M. B. Marcellus. of Portland,
chief medical officer. Third Oregon
Infantry; Major' George E. Houck, of
Roseburg, sanitary Inspector for the
new Forty-first Army Division, which
includes Oregon and Washington Na
tional Guard troops; Major James P.
Graham, of La Grande, commanding the
Oregon Field Hospital unit, now at an
Eastern port to embark for France;
Major Waldo L, Cheshire, of Eugene,
chief medical officer of the Oregon
Coast Artillery. -
Captain F. H. Vlncil, of Roseburg,
Oregon Coast Artillery; Captain W. E.
Stewart; of Portland. Third Oregon In
fantry; Captain V. C. Birney, of Port
lsr d. Third Oregon Infantry.
First LUlltAnant AmnM O AV 11 nf
tugene, Oregon Coast Artillery; First
Lieutenant Edmund Myers, of Portland.
Oregon Coast Artillery; First Lieuten
ant W. W. Kettle, of Woodburn, Third
Oregon Infantry; First Lieutenant H.
E. Carruth, of Yamhill. Third Oregon
Infantry; First Lieutenant Carl S.
Moore, of La Grande. Oregon Field Hos
pital unit; First Lieutenant James D.
Plamondon. of Pendleton. Oregon Field
Hospital unit; First Lieutenant E. B.
Waffle, of Astoria. Oregon Field Hos
pital unit; First Lieutenant Charles E.
Frost, o Cottage Grove. Oregon Field
Hospital unit; First Lieutenant C. M.
Rosin, Oregon Cavalry Squadron.
Dr. McCusker plans to issue a re
vised and complete list In the next day
or so, which will also contain the
names of Oregon doctors serving in
the Navy.
DEATH GREATS OFFICER
FITZSLMMONS RECOMMENDED FOR
PROMOTION DAY ME DIED.
Victim of German Raid on Hospital,
First American Officer to Die. May
Be Listed as Captain.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. First Lieu
tenant Fitzslmmons, of Kansas City,
killed when German airmen bombed an
American hospital in France last Thurs
day, was recommended for promotion
to a Captaincy on the day he died.
Representative Borland,- of Missouri,
today introduced a bill empowering the
President to enter Fitzslmmons' name
on the military records with the pro
motion he would have received had he
lived. He was the first American of
ficer to give his life in the war.
Major-General Pershing's first report
to the War Department on the bombing
of the hospital reached the department
late today. An earlier dispatch from
the American military attache at Lon
don announced the death of Lieutenant
Fitzslmmons, but made no mention of
three privates mortally wounded at the
same time.
General Pershing's message follows
"Report following deaths September
5 at base hospital No. 6, France, from
wounds caused by bombs during air
raid 11 p. M. September 4:
"First Lieutenant William T. Fits
Simmons, Medical Reserve Corps, and
Privates (first-class) Leslie G. Woods
and Rudolph Rubino, Jr., Medical De
partment, and Oscar C. Tugo, Medical
Enlisted Reserve Corps." -
ELEPHANT JS EXECUTED
Locomotive Used to Relieve Animal
Suffering From Lockjaw.
EAST ST. LOUIS. 111.. Sept. 10. A
9600-pound elephant, named Judy and
attached to a large circus for many
years, was executed in the railroad
yards here, today in order to relieve
its sufferings from lockjaw.
The elephant was put in a car and
a rope was fastened around its head.
the other end of the rope being at
tached to a locomotive. The engine
pulled and the rope broke. A chain
then was substituted. Again the en
gine pulled, and in 30 minutes the ele
phant was pronounced dead by stran
gulation.
Judy was 50 years old.
WASCO TEACHERS TO MEET
Annual Institute Will Open at The
Dalles Today.
THE DALLES. Or., Sept. 10. (Spe
cial.) The Wasco County teachers'
institute will open its four-day session
tomorrow morning. Many prominent
educators will attend, among them J.
A. Churchill, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction; Dr. B. W. De Busk,
of the University of Oregon; Dr. J. F.
Brumbaugh, of Oregon Agricultural
College; H. C. Seymour, state leader of
the Boys' and Girls' Club work, and M
S. Fittman, of the Oregon State Nor
mal. The first day will be taken up In the
Instruction of the rural teachers, and
the rest of the session will be con
fix. ed to the programme prepared.
MINNIE BLODGETT NO WIFE
22 Years of Life With Man Does
Not Constitute Wedlock.
TACOMA. Wash., Sept. 10. (Special.)
Minnie Blodgett, who lived with the
late Alfred Blodgett, of Puyallup, for
22 years as his wife, was removed as
administratrix of his $40,000 estate by
Probate Judge Card today, and J. H.
Gordon appointed in her place. The
will and her appointment as adminis
tratrix was contested by Mary Blod
gett. his mother.
The court finds In Its decision that
Blodgett had never been divorced from
Elsie Conahan, and could not, there
fore, be legally married to Minnie
Blodgett. and that, though she knew
this, she had continued to live with
him.
SUBTERFUGE IS UNAVAILING
17-Boat, After Hiding Behind Schoon
er, Sunk by American Tanker.
AN ATLANTIC PORT. Sept. 10.
How a German submarine hid behind
his schooner until it got within range
to attack an American tank steamer
and later was sunk by the tanker's
gun crew, was told by the captain of
a sailing vessel here today.
When about 1500 miles from Gibral
tar, he said, the U-boat ordered him
to stop. The submarine then kept be
hind the schooner until the approach
ing tanker was within range. The
eighth shot from the tank struck the
German boat. Both steamer and
schooner escaped Injury.
Soldiers Form Food Societies.
PARIS. Sept. 10. The Minister of
War authorized the soldiers to form and
administer co-operative societies for
the purpose of purchasing food supplies
for themselves and families in order to
combat the increased cost of living.
Membership in the societies will be
limited strictly to soldiers.
Rogue River Flow Measured.
GRANTS PASS, Sept. 10. (Special.)
Fred F. Henshaw, of the United States
Geological Survey, spent yesterday
measuring the low water flow of
Rogue River just below the Gold Ray
dam. He is on his annual "low water"
tour through Southern and Eastern
Oregon.
Riddle Without Pastor.
RIDDLE, Or.. Sept. 10. (Special.)
The Riddle Baptist Church Is still with
out a pastor. The congregation ex
tended a call to Rev. S. A. Douglas,
of Grants Pass, but Mr. Douglas de
cided to remain at Grants Pass. At
present there are no church services
at Riddle,
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SECOND GALL MADE
22 Oregon Counties Are Noti
fied to Send Men.
40 PER CENT TO MOBILIZE
Select Service Soldiers Must Assem
ble at Headquarters of Local
Boards September 19, Going
Thence to American Lake.
Adjutant-General George A. White
yesterday notified local exemption
boards of 22 Oregon counties that are
not exempt on the first draft to be
ready to send 40 per cent of the men
in their respective draft quotas to the
mobilization camp at American Lake
on September 19.
September 19 is the date named by
the War Department for calling to the
colors 40 per cent of the drafted men
who will be required in the first draft.
Five per cent of the men were mobilized
September 6.
"This installment is to be made up
exclusively of white men. and men
who are to go should be notified at
once to hold themselves in readiness,"
said General White in his telegram to
local boards. "They should be told
to take very little baggage, as civilian
clothes will have to be discarded at
camp.
"It is advisable that they take only
necessary toilet articles and changes
of underwear."
The men making up the 40 per cent
of the quota from each county will be
required to assemble at the headquar
ters of their local boards September
19. from there proceeding to the
mobilization camp within four days.
A third installment of 40 per cent
of the quota is to be called out Octo
ber 3. unless the War Department
changes the date, and the remaining
15 per cent will be called out as soon
thereafter as practicable.
The quotas required from each of
the 22 counties September 19 are:
Baker, 15; Clackamas. 21; Clatsop, 22;
Columbia, 20; Curry, 8; Deschutes, 15;
Gilliam, 12: Grant. 4; Harney, 15; Jef
ferson. 8: Klamath, 16; Lake, 18; Lin
coln, 9; Malheur. 24; Morrow. 16; Sher
man, 12; Umatilla, 17; Union, 4; Wal
lowa, C; Wasco. 9; Washington, 15;
Wheeler, 1.
METHODISTS MEET TODAY
Oregon and Washington Delegates
to Flock to Tacoma.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 10. (Special.)
Two hundred and fifty ministers and
500 laymen are expected to attend the
Puget Sound Methodist Episcopal con
ference that opens its 34th annual ses
sion here tomorrow night at 8 o'clock.
The conference covers the territory of
Western Washington and Oregon.
Major Spencer S. Sulliger, D. D.. will
preside tomorrow night. The address
on the "Mission of Methodism" will be
given by Dr. Joshua Stansfield, pastor
of the First Methodist Church, Port
land. School Bids Called.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. Sept. 10. (Spe
cial.) Bids were called by the local
School Board today for the erection of
the new $45,000 school to be built on
the Edison grounds. The bids will be
opened October 6. Bids for the sale of
-Our $15.00 Raincoats are equal in style;
quality, comfort, fit and durability to any
that you can buy on ground level for $25.00.
Hundreds to choose from.
"Our Upstairs Selling Plan Does It."
...
bonds, recently authorized at a special
election, will be opened September 29.
The new school will be on the Califor
nia bungalow type, one story in height,
and will contain all modern educational
appliances. There will be 12 rooms,
but the building will be so constructed
that more rooms can be added as
needed.
MRS. MARY WILCOX PASSES
Resident of Baker for 43 Years Dies
After Long Illness.
BAKER. Or.. Sept. 10. (Special.)
In the eighth month of her 91st year,
Mrs. Mary Wilcox, a Baker resident
since 1875, died at her home here today
after a prolonged illness.
Mrs. Wilcox was born In New York
in 1827 and lived there 40 years, rear
ing a family of four. After the death
of her husband she and her children
started West, coming as far as Kilton.
Utah, by train. The remaining 400
miles of their trip they made by mule
team.
Two sons. Charles and Virgil, sur
vive Mrs. Wilcox.
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT LESS
Falling Off at Baker Not So Great
as Was Expected.
BAKER, Or.. Sept. 10. (Special.)
Baker schools opened today with a total
enrollment of 1256. a decrease of 47
from the first day's registration of last
year. City Superintendent A. C Strange
says that the falling off was not as
great as was expected. In the grades
the decrease was only 12. but there
were 35 fewer students in the High
School, where the enrollment today was
255.
$10,000 Worth of Hops Bnrned.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 10.
Fire destroyed the kiln and warehouse
and 20 tons of hops at the A. A. Cyre
hop ranch near Moxee City today,
causing a loss of $10,000. The build
ings were insured, but not the hops.
Mrs. Oehme Known In Centralia.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. Sept. 10. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. F. G. Oehme, who died Sat
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d'hote
breakfast
lunch
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and has something to en
joy when he wants to take
a rest.
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