THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTXATO. OCTOBER G, 1918.
AUTOCRACY SCARED
-BUT NOT REFORMED
Attempt at Political Swindle
Detected in Recent Cabi
net Changes.
AT
12:30
TODAY
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SOLF FOREIGN SECRETARY
Appointee . Will Continue to Sold
Office of Foreign. Secretary De
spite Fact That Kaiser Xo
Longer Has Colonies. .
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. In the reor
ganization of tne German Cabinet. In
volving the retirement of Pan-German
and extreme Conservative elements and
the introduction of a large admixture
of Social Democrats, Liberals and Cler
icals, officials here today found no in
dication of a real change of heart on
the part of the thoroughly frightened
imperial party.
The cabinet changes are believed to
be nothing more than part of a plan
to save the principle of autocratic con
trol of the cabinet, while striving to
make it appear that the demand for
the creation of a responsible cabinet,
-whose existence shall be dependent en
tirely upon the will of the Reichstag,
has been granted.
Game Interests Washington.
The condition is peculiarly interest
ing to Washington officials, owing to
the often expressed determination of
President Wilson to deal hereafter only
with a government that is actually rep
resentative of the will of the German
people and not with one of the present
autocratic form.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 5. Dr. W. S.
Solf, German Colonial Secretary, has
been appointed to the German imperial
foreign secretaryship, it was officially
announced in Berlin today.
Errterger Gets Office.
Mathias Erzberger, the Centrist
leader, has been appointed secretary of
. etate without portfolio. Herr Bauer,
foclalist member of the Reichstag, has
been named as secretary of state for
the imperial .labor office.
Dr. Solf will continue during the war
to act also as colonial secretary, with
Dr. Cleim as under secretary.
LONDON. Oct. 5. Dr. Eduard David.
Socialist leader of the Reichstag, has
been appointed Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, according: to advices
received by Dutch oaoers from Berlin.
BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 5. General
Groener has been appointed to succeed
General von Stein, resigned as Prus
sian Minister of War, the Strassburg
Post says. General Groener has been
chief of staff in the Ukraine.
The Reichstag peace resolution of
July, 1917, will be reaffirmed by Prince
Maximilian of Baden, the new German
Imperial Chancellor, in his declaration
of policy before the Reichstag today,
according to information here.
Speedy Peace Talked.
The new Chancellor is expected to
develop the scope of this resolution in
his statement and indicate desire for a
speedy peace.
PARIS, Oct. 5. Prince Maximilian of
Baden, the new German Imperial Chan
cellor, will declare against annexations
in the West by Germany and in favor of
the full restoration of Belgium, accord
ing to a dispatch to Le Journal from
Zurich. The restoration would, how
ever, be carried out by means of an in
ternational fund.
There is indication also that the
Chancellor will make known a disposi
tion to confide the revision of the
Brest-Litovsk. and Bucharest treaties to
a congress of all the belligerents.
Payment to France Not Favored.
He will declare against payment of
the damage done to France, it is de
clared, and will demand the freedom of
the seas, in the German sense of that
phrase and the return of the German
colonies.
It is further forecast that the Chan
cellor will favor partial an-1 progressive
disarmament, -but that he will not en
tertain any idea of an arrangement
with France concerning Alsace-Lorraine.
FLAX MACHINES WANTED
MEXICAN PLANTER WOULD BUY
SOME OF STATE'S SURPLUS.
Assertion Blade That Nearly Twice as
Much. Machinery Bought as Hu
Been Since Used.
SALEM, Or., Oct. S (Special.' A
visit today by Alfonso M. del Campo, of
Guadalajara, Mexico, divulges the fact
that the Penitentiary flax plant is
overstocked with machinery purchased
by Superintendent Cady. Mr. del Campo
is seeking to purchase flax seed and
machinery for his 10,000-acre Mexican
ranch, a portion of which is in flax,
which he states is growing very suc
cessfully there. He hopes to buy some
machinery Irom the state.
The state has 10 breakers at the Peni
tentiary flax plant and has only been
using six of these, and has 12 thresh
ers, using about half of them. None
of this excess machinery has been used,
since its purchase under Superintendent
Lady, and as there seems to be no im
mediate prospect of its being used it
will De sold, in ail probability.
air. aei tampo says he needs a
thresher and two breakers. He may
aiso purcnase some of the state's seed,
although that now on hand is not con
sidered of the best quality, being some
what shriveled.
GERMAN FARMER IN TOILS
Failure to Report More to Portland
Results In Arrest.
Because Andy Ramlau. a German,
failed to report to the Portland Chief
of Police when he moved from Seaside
to this city, he is in the Multnomah
County Jail, and soon will be in the
alien enemy internment camp at Van
couver.
Under instructions received from
Washington yesterday. Federal officials
announce that all German aliens who
aisregara regulations requiring regis
tration and report of movements will
be placed under arrest and interned for
the duration of the war. The arrest of
vamiau is tne first that has been made
cere lor that offense.
Plea Made for Telegraphers.
SEATTLE. C-t. 5. Governor Ernest
Lister of Washington sent a telegram
to President Wilson asking that steps
ue ahtti 10 reinstate Seattle Western
Union Telegraph operators with back
pay. The men were locked out some
time ago because, they calimed, of their
H
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eating o t o ves
If you intend to install a heating stove, do
not delay, as the evenings and mornings are
damp and chilly.
A cold and cheerless room endangers the
health of yourself and family. It's far better
to pay for a good heating stove than to pay
doctor bills. We are showing a large and
varied stock of combination coal and wood
burning patterns in heaters at prices within
the means of the most conservative buyer.
Call and look them over.
Wedgewood and Toledo Steel Ranges
Clark-Jewell and Wedgewood Gas Ranges
Basket Grates for the Fireplace
Andirons Spark Guards
Fire Sets .and Fire Screens
Perfection Oil Heaters
Honeyman Hardware Company
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BEATING REDS IS RISKY
PLAYING POKER WITH KLAMATH
INDIANS DOESN'T PAt
Introduction of Whinky to Blunt "Poker
Seme" of Redskins Adds
to Hazard.
MEDFORD, Or, Oct. 5. (Special.)
One great moral evolved at the United
States Court session i riday was that it
doesn't pay to beat Klamath Indians
in a poker game, especially by in
troducing whisky witn a view to blunt
ing the- Indians' "poker sense."
J. F. Miller and E. L. Paddock, of
Klamath Falls, well-known Southern
Pacific Railroad men running between
Klamath Falls and Weed, tried it and
not only lost their money but were
sentenced by Judge Wolverton in court
today.
Paddock was given a sentence of 60
days in the Multnomah County Jail and
fined J100 for giving liquor to the In
dians. Miller was fined $1000 for com
mitting perjury before the Federal
grand jury in Portland in testifying
in the Paddock case. A jury found
Miller guilty yesterday and Paddock
pleaded guilty today.
F. E. Miller, of JDorris. Cal.. who was
Indicted some time ago for taking
whisky to Klamath Falls for himself
and friends, pleaded guilty and was
fined $100.
Woman Donates Warehouse.
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Mrs.
Elizabeth Robinson, of this city, who
has a husband and two sons in the
Government service, necessitating the
closing of a business here, has now
offered the Army authorities at Fort
Douglas, near here, the free use of a
large warehouse. The warehouse is
ideally located, adjacent to the yards
of the transcontinental railroads and
it is said that the Government will
probably accept the offer.
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