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4 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAV TORTXAIS'D, AUGUST 19, 1917. EXPLOSIVES PLANT TOTILLY WRECKED Fatalities Estimated at 17 to 25 and Damage to Prop erty Is in Millions. 15 HEAVY BLASTS OCCUR fierce Heat of Burning Plant Pre vents Rescue 'Work. Buildings Two Miles Away Are Blown Down by Explosions. RIGAUD, Quecec, Aug-. 18. The great plant here of Curtis & Harvey, Limited, explosive manufacturers, was wrecked today by a series of terrific explosions and buried beneath the ruins of a dozen or so. structures that comprised the factory are dead estimated- at from 17. to 25 persons. Search of the ruins for bodies had not been possible, as the shattered remnants of the buildings were still blazing. A rollcall of the employes at the plant will be made to ascertain if pos sible the exact number of dead. This work has been made difficult because the first explosion occurred when the workers were changing shifts. Several thousand men and women workers employed a the plant were in the danger zone for hours. An early estimate based on first reports placed the number of killed at about 250. I.oks Is in Millions, The loss In the value of buildings and stock will reac'n. well up Into mil lions. The firet explosion was caused by the overheating of the machinery In the nitric acid building. The flames leaped along through the building and another explosion occurred. Most of the workers, however, are believed to have had ample time to escape. Other explosions occurred every five minutes or so, shaking the surround ing country - like a series of earth quakes. Altogether 15 detonations were counted. One of the explosions blew down a number of 'houeea in Dragon, where most of the workers lived, and farm houses in the vicinity also caught fire. Two farmhouses, two miles away, were lilown down. Provision was made by the people of Higaud for accommodating the home less workers. Warnings Are Ignored. Officials of the company stated that it had been established two foremen are among the missing, and as they had not been heard from. It is felt cer tain they were killed. About 50 per sons were injured. The difficulty in rounding up the thousands of men and women workers at the plant' in order to determine the number of the missing was Increased by the fact that hundreds of the em ployes, terrified by their experiences, had scattered, through the adjacent countryside in their flight for safety. Doubt was expressed that a complete rollcall could be had tomorrow. It was reported tonight that the company's officials had been warned tfcat the plant would be blown up, but as several threats of that character had been received before, the most re cent warning, it was said, had also been Ignored. The officials stated to night, however, they are satisfied that the explosions were caused by a fire started by overheated machinery and had been entirely accidental. WHITE PINE THREATENED Pire Near Leniston May Spread to Great Weyerljaeuser Stand. LEWISTON, Idaho, Aug. 18. (Spe cial.) Fire in the second-growth tim ber in the mountains east of Lewiston is sweeping toward a large body of white pine timber In North Central Idaho. Hundreds of men have been sent from Spokane, Lewiston and points on the Camas Prairie to combat the flames. The fires are burning in five separate areas, the most serious one being IS miles In width and fanned by a gentle breeze. There is much ap prehension that western breezes will carry the flames to the larger "Weyer haeuser holdings. Superintendent Fisher, of the Clear water Forest District, has increased the patrol throughout Clearwater and Idaho counties. I. W. W. HAVE BIG FUND (fontimjed Prom First Page.) States. In order that the leaders of the I. V. W. may be curbed In their unlawful activities, and that bloodshed may not shortly occur and production cease, we deem it advisable that action be taken by the Governor or Federal authorities having power to handle the situation." Prosecutor Taken Hand. Prosecutor John B. White, In a state ment given for publication, said: "I regard the situation aa critical. The strike order covering the harvest fields is not one directed primarily to better the conditions of the laboring men, but is one directed at the Gov ernment in its prosecution of the war. A demand Is made that certain individ uals held in custody be released with out adjudication of their rights. Such a demand is not only unpatriotic, but i challenge to the authority of the Gov eminent." AtTSTRIAX DOES NOT REGISTER Investigation to Be Made of Re straining Fire Fighters. LEWISTON. Idaho, Aug. 18. (Sne fiat) Rea Platick. an Austrian, has oeen arrested Dy Bherlff George W, Welker on the charge-of failing to reg later lor the selective draft. Platich has been active throughout this district In the Interests of the I. W. W. He will be held at the county Jail for Investigation as a slacker, but in the meantime an investigation will be made as to his activities with the restraining of fire fighters from per forming their duty In the Selway coun try. Should the disclosures identify him with acts detrimental to the Govern Tnent and the interests of the country, lie will be turned over to the United fctates Immigration Department for ae portation. YAKIMA WILD I,IST I. W. W Employers to Report Xarats of Men Obeying Strike Call. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 18. L. W. Fluharty, county agricultural agent, as chairman of the employment committee of the Taktma Council of Defense, has arranged to receive on Monday from members of his commit tee and from large employers reports of all cases where men quit work In obedience to the L ,W. W, strike call. Estimates of the number of I. W. W. in the valley range from 1000 to 1500. VILSOX SCANS LABOR HORIZON Strike Situation in Pacific Northwest Causes Concern. WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. President Wilson is making a personal study of the labor situation in the Northwest, especially in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho, where a general strike of the Industrial Workers of the World is threatened next Monday. The President is keeping in touch with the situation through Chief Jus tice Covington, of the Bupreme Court of the District of Columbia, his per sonal investigator, now in the West. The Department of Labor Concilia tors, on the ground, reported overnight that the situation seemed to have charged slightly for the better, al though it was still grave. Offers of mediation have been made in some in stances and probably will be made in others today. Department of Justice officials, scanning overnight reports, saw little change in the situation. A recom mendation, said to have been reached at a conference yesterday between Governor - Lister of Washington, the State Attorney-General and represent atives of the Department of Justice, had not been received here today. The recommendation, it was reported, was to the effect that all strike leaders should be summarily arrested when the strike becomes effective. In the absence of official confirma tion of the report. Department officials declined to comment on the situation. GENERALS AREASSIGNED REGULAR ARM! DEPARTMENT CHIEFS ARE DETAILED. Western Department, With Headquar ters In San Francisco, Under Major-General Murray. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. General of ficers to command he departments of the Regular Army, relieving the Major-Generals detailed to service with troops, were announced today as fol lows: Major-General Arthur Murray, Western Department; Major-General W. P. Duvall, Southeastern Depart ment; Brigadier-General John Ruck man, Southern Department; Brigadier General E. D. Hoyle, Eastern Depart ment; Brigadier-General John A. Johnson, Northeastern Department; Major-General William H. Carter, Cen tral Department, and Brigadier-General J. P. Wisser, Hawaiian Department. Major-General Clarence P. Townsley has been appointed to command in Panama. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. Major General Arthur Murray, assigned by the War Department today to command the Western Department of the Army with headquarters at San Francisco, relieving Major-General Hunter Lig gett, transferred to command of Camp Fremont, at Palo Alto, Cal., was to have been retired in April, 1915. iHe commanded, the department dur ing the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Congress passed a special act to defer his retirement until the exposition closed, in December of 1915, Army officers said today. Since retiring General Murray has been in Washington as a vice-president of the American Red Cross, in charge of the Army work of the organization. Milk Coudensery Ordered. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash, Aug. 18. (Special.) Announcement was made yesterday by Manager S. J. Bimonson. of the Cascade Creamery Company, that it has purchased machinery for a milk condensery plant which is to be in operation in this city next Spring. Exemption Granted 00 of 150. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Aug. 18. Out of 150 claims for discharge from the draft on account of dependents, the Yakima local board has rejected 60 and allowed 90. n sgy-yrrr?" J . . -'- - , a :j 7ezribt!i-ofiheZ.ec?jon of 'ZZeerift in .Uniform t AMAZONS ARE BRAVE Women of "Legion of Death" Demonstrate Heroism. FURIOUS COMBATS FOUGHT Maids of Russia Take Up Arms Xot Only to Create Havoc With Ene mies, but to Shame. Men Into Courageous Action. Unequaled for dramatic surprise and sheer gallantry of soul was the en trance of Russia's "Legion of Death," comprised of women volunteers, on the field of war with Germany. For at time, when the first garbled accounts of their heroism in action were received in America, the story of Russia's de voted daughters was doubted. Then came complete confirmation, with au thenticated Instances of bravery In ac tion, and America bowed to the finest chivalry In all history. These maids of Russia, from families of high and low degree, seem very much the ordinary "troopers" when in the uniform of the Russian regular. Their hair is cropped close, they are stalwart and Amazon in figure, and they plunge into battle with that fine spiritual and physical courage that marks the best male troops. The "Legion of Death" is composed of women who took up the arms of the men when several divisions were dis organized, and gave the Germans a ter rific fight. According to the confes sions of German prisoners, they would much rather engage the mfcn in battle, as the women fought with a fury that their enemy could not combat. Each member of the battalion carries a phial of cyanide ot potassium to use in the event of capture, for they pre fer death, to the inhumanities that the Prussians are likely to wreak upoq them. Mme. Botchkalev, leader of the "Le gion of Death," who was wounded in battle, wears several medals which were awarded her for conspicuous val or. Her command, driven to fury by the memory of wrongs, fought in like manner under her leadership. The admitted purpose of the "Legion of Death," aside from creating havoc with the enemies of Russia, was to take up the burden of arms relinquished by the demoralized soldiery, and to shame the men Into courageous action. ONE RIOTER GIVES UP Five Years' Imprisonment Penalty Imposed at East St. Louis. BELLEVUE, I1L, Aug. 18. 3. L. Schulz. who was one. of the 105 per sons indicted here in connection with the East St. Louis race riots, was brought into the Circuit Court from Mount Carmel, 111., today and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on a charge of conspiracy, and to an indeterminate sentenced, to be served concurrently, on a charge of assault to kill. It is the impression here that he is to be used at the trial of other indict ed men as a witness for the prosecu tion. Schuls was arrested at Mount Carmel Thursday. Edison to Vote Again for School. CENTRALIA. Wash., Aug. 18. ((Spe cial.) August 28 is set by the School Board as the date for a special election to again vote on the proposition of Is suing bonds to the amount of 145,000 for the erection of a new school on the Edison grounds, the first election hav ing been held invalid by the Attorney General on the grounds that ballots were cast at two places. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FAMOUS RUSSIAN WOMEN'S LEGION OF DEATH. .1 JMif 'Tj, Hi- Jt-JT - --: -v. -it.a 111 -JESrfe!EE mmmmm ( I Hm : f - I I Fan. I B l j . m Id wm return. WILL YOU HELP US IN THESE TRYING DAYS? TOMORROW WE BEGIN MAKING ONE DELIVERY. EACH DAY TO OUR PATRONS. 'Tis asked us by the Council of National Defense. 'Tis a war measure which will release men, money and material, vital to the life of our Nation. DELIVERY OF PRESCRIPTIONS, MEDICINES, URGENT NEEDS FOR THE SICKROOM, AND TO HOSPITALS, HOTELS AND DEPOTS WILL BE MADE AS USUAL. SHOP FORENOONS IF POSSIBLE. PHONE YOUR ORDERS IF MORE CONVENIENT we've double ex changes reaching every department. CARRY YOUR PURCHASES IF POSSIBLE. Woodard. Clarke & Co. ALDER STREET AT WEST PARK MARSHALL 4700 HOME, A 6171 Always "S. & H." Stamps First Three Floors NAVAL GRAFT CLASH London Reports Damage to Enemy Destroyer. BERLIN CLAIMS NO LOSS German Craft Escapes In Fog Lying: Low Over Mine Field Two At tacks by Submarines Fail to Injure Warships. " LONDON', Aug. 18. The Admiralty announces that a hostile destroyer and two mine sweepers were damaged se verely by British naval forces on Thursday. The British warships were not damaged. The announcement follows: "Some of our light naval forces, scouting a German bight on August 16, sighted an enemy destroyer at 1:45 A. M. Fire was opened and the enemy destroyer was chased. She was seen . - 1 ear 'ffrne' Boish7aIer, , c:a y sS --v .I, - . . fr ZTx For Over 50 Years We've served the people of this Northwest have builded by toil, patience, skill and service a business fabric of which we and our 230 associates are justly proud. THE WAR HAS CALLED is calling our boys. Over twenty per cent have volunteered others are entering war industrial plants more will go. We do not hold them back. There is one supreme duty before us all Win This War QUICK. WE MUST conduct our calling to the satisfaction of you, our patrons, or you will leave us. WE MUST release our boys or be counted as slack ers. Their positions are open to them when they to be repeatedly hit and to be on fire, but she escaped through the mist over the mine field. "Enemy mine .sweepers were sighted shortly after the sighting of the de stroyer and a. heavy fire was opened on them. At least two of the mine sweep ers were seen to be very severely dam aged, but, similarly with the destroyer, our ' -eepcrs were unable to follow them owing to the proximity of the mine fields. "During the engagement our vessels were attacked by a submarine, and after the action, a second submarine attacked, in both cases without result. Our vessels suffered no damage what ever." BERLIN', via London. Aug. 18. (Brit ish Admiralty, per Wireless Press.) An official statement issued at the Ger man Admiralty today regarding the naval clash between British and Ger man light forces on August 16 says: "On Thursday a German guard patrol in the North Sea encountered enemy cruisers and destroyers on the fringe of the Knglish barred zone and at tacked them. The enemy, who had a large superiority, turned away under the well-placed German fire and with drew from the engagement with all possible haste. We suffered no losses." Hungarian FremJcr to Resign. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 18. Budapest newspapers say that Count Julius An drassy Is slated to succeed Count Morlts Esterhazy as Premier of Hungary. The Prime Minister is expected shortly to leave his post on account of 111 health. DEAD FIN'S VOTES CAST SOLDIERS OVERSEAS IPSET 5000 PROHIBITION MAJORITY. Deception Belns Discovered. Brllah Columbia Legislature Makes Prov ince Dry on October 1. VICTORIA. B. C, Aug. 18. The province of British Columbia will be come prohibition territory on October 1, under a law passed by the Provin cial Legislature last night and signed by the Lieutenant-Governor. The bill passed last night was a re-enactment of a measure introduced a year ago. This .was submitted to a referendum and passed in British Co lumbia by a majority of 5000. A vote of British Columbia soldiers overseas was taken, however, and the verdict was upset, the final majority being 800 in favor of the wets. The prohi bitionists then contended that frauds had occurred in the taking of the vote among the soldiers. A government commission sent , to England and France to investigate found that many soldiers had voted two or three times and that dead and missing men were also entered as having cast ballots. The Legislature decided that the charges of fraud had been sufficiently substantiated to cause the bringing of the measure Into effect. Australia to Tax War Profits.' MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 18. The House of Representatives has passed on second reading the war time profits tax assessment bill,-which provides for a tax of 60 per cent, for the year ended with June of 1916 and 75 per cent thereafter. Marriage Licenses Issued. OREGON CITY, Or.. Aug. 18. (Spe cial.) a marriage license was issued today to Ole H. Sather. age 35, Aurora, Route No. 2, and Mabel Fahy, age 32, Hubbard. Route No. 2. the water isy drink. Ask for " '. .water It isthes'amc oil over th? world. 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FREE booklet mailed in plain sealed envelope on request. Write for it to day and read it before you make an other application of any depilatory. De Miracle Chemical Co., Dept. 63H, Park ave, and, 12Ui St.. New. Xork. Adv. slratud etc carensi ox WHEN DARKNESS COVERED THE EARTH THE LONG NIGHT OF APOSTASY By DR. JAMES IS. TAUIAGK, Of the Connrll of the Twelve, Church of Jesus Christ of I.alter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Kan. Wo accept as fact the belief common to Christendom that the Church of Christ was established under our. Lord's personal direction and that during the early period of apostolic administra tion the church was blessed with rapid growth aud marvelous development. A, question of profound importance ron-i fronts us: linn te Church of Jesus Christ maintained an organized exlut ence upon the earth from the apostolic age to the preMentf We affirm that with the passing of the apostolic period the church drifted into a condition of apostasy, whereby succession In the holy priesthood waa broken, and that the church as an earthly organization operating under divine direction and having authority to officiate in spiritual ordinances ceased to exist among men. We affirm that this great apostasy, whereby the world was enshrouded in spiritual darkness, was foretold by the Savior himself while he lived as a Man among men, and by his prophets both before and after the period of his life in mortality. The apostolic ministry continued in the primitive church for about 60 yearn after the death of Christ, or nearly to the end of the first century of the Christian era. For some time there after the church existed as a unified body, officered by men duly invested, by ordination In the holy priesthood, though even during the lifetime of some of the apostles, the leaven of apostasy and disintegration had been working. Indeed, hardly had the gos pel seed been sown before the enemy of all righteousness had started assid uously to sow tares in the field; and sn Intimate was the growth of the two that any forcible attempt to extirpate the tares would have imperiled tha wheat. The evidences of spiritual de cline were observed with anguish by the apostles, -who, however, recognized the fulfillment of earlier prophecy in the declension, and added their own In spired testimony to the effect that even a greater falling away waa imminent. Christ specifically warned the aisci-. pies against the impending departure from the truth. "Take heed that no man aeceive you,' saia ne, iwr uau nu,i rorae In my name, sarins, I m Chrtwt. nul Hhall deceive many" (Matt. xxiv:4-6 And further: "Then If any man ahall Bay unto you, Lo, here la Christ, or there, believe It not. For there whall arlite false Cbrlsts and false prophets, and Dhall shew great nlgrnn and won ders; Insomuch that. If It were possible, they ahall deceive the very elect. Be hold. I have told you before. Wherefore, If they shall ny unto you. Behold, he Is In the desert, go not forth; behold, he la In the secret chambers, believe It not" (verses 23-26). The apostles bore warning testimony to the same awful certainty. Paul ad monished the elders at Ephesus to be on their guard against the wolves that would Invade the fold, and against false teachers who would assert them selves, "speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them" (see Acts xx:28-30). The same apostle thus wrote to Timothy: "Now the Spirit speuketh eaprenaly, thnt In the latter times some nhnll depart from the faitb. glvins heed to aedacing Mplritn. and doctrines of devil; apeaklng Ilea in hyporriayl having their conscience seared with a hot Iron" (I Tim. iv:l-2; see also II Tim. iv:l-4 and II Thess. 11:3-4). ' Peter phophesied in language so plain that all may comprehend of the here sies that would be preached as doctrine: "But there were falae propnels alao unions the people, even aa there xball be false teacher among you, who privily khall bring In damnable here mIcb. even denylns the Lord that bought them, and brlnK upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious way; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken or' (II Teter 11:1-2). John, whom we call the revelator, foretold the apostate condition of the world. Likening the spirit oi ungodli ness to a hideaus beast, he thus makes solemn record of the condition of men in the last days: "And It was atlven unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power wa given him over ail kindreds and tongues and nations. .And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him. whose names are not written In the boolc of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any mnn have an ear, let him hear" (Rev. xiii:7-9). Furthermore, the revelator expressly predicted the restoration of the goRpel (Rev. xiv:6-7), and such restoration would be impossible had not the gospel been taken from the earth. Book of Mormon scriptures foretold in plainness the great falling away and the subsequent restoration of the gos pel of Christ (.see I Nephl xlll:5-9; ll Nephl xvl:7). The Apostasy Affirmed. The apostate condition of Christen dom has been recognized and affirmed bv high ecclesiastical authority. Let a single citation suffice: The Church of England thus proclaims the fact of degeneracy, as set forth in her "Hom ily Against Peril of Idolatry." published about the middle of the 16th century and retained to this day as an officii declaration: So that the Iallj aid elergy, learned and unlearned, all ages, sects and de crees of men. women and children of vthole Christendom an horrible and most dreadful thing to thick have been at once drowned In abominable idolatry; of all other vlees most de tested of Uod and most damnable to man; and that by the space of SOO years and more." By revelation through Joseph Smith, the prophet, the Lord thus affirmed the predictions of his ancient servants with respect to the apostasy of mankind: "For they have strayed from mine or dinances, and have broken mine ever lasting covenant. They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh In his own wny, and after the image of his own god, whose Image Is In the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an Idol" (Doctrine and Covenants 1:15-16). The universal apostasy has been suc ceeded by the restoration of the gospel, of which blessed truth the Church of Jesus Christ of letter-Day Saints bears testimony to the world. For the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants. "The Great Apostasy" and other literature of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, much of which is distributed without cost, apply to the missions of the church, among which are: Northwestern States Mission. 810 East Madison street, Port land, Or., and Bureau of Information, Salt Lake City, Utah. Adv. STOPS THE ACHE CLEANSES THE CAVITY PREVENTS DECAY Sold everywhere - 1 5c C 8. Dent & Co. Detroit, Mich. pl