FIGHT ON SHIP BILL IMPORTANT EVENTS RESUME OF WORK OF GERMAN NOTE TO STATE LEGISLATURE AMERICA RECEIVED SHIFTS TO HOUSE OU AGRICULIÜRIl COLLEGE Last Week of Session Begins Compromise Measure Seems IQ I4 -IA E x c u rs io n F a r e s A T WINTER SHORT COURSE— JAN. 4-30 Agriculture, including Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Horti­ culture, Poultry Husbandry, Insect»» Plant anJ Animal Diseases, Cream­ ery Management, Marketing, etc. Hume Economics, Including Cook­ ing, Home Nursing, Sanitation, Sew­ ing. Dressmaking and Millinery. Commerce, including Business Man­ agement, Rural Economics, Business Law, Office Training. Farm Account­ ing, etc. Engineering, Including Shopwork and Roadbuilding. With Large Amount of Work Remaining to Be Done. Recession From Plan Offered if Allies Will Allow Food to Reach Civilians. Unlikely to Win— Conces­ sions Are Insufficient. to the C ALIFORNIA EXPOSITIONS Round trip ticket», permitting stop-over« at all points In either direction, to tlie Panama Paultlc International Ex­ position, San Francisco, Feb. 20 to Dec. 4th, and to Ute Panama California Exposition, San Diego, open all year, will lx« placed on sale t Salem.—The legislature started Washington.—Tha fight over tho Washington.—Count von Bernatorft, the last week of the 2ttk session with the German ambassador, delivered a government ship purchase bill was the usual congestion of business and note to the United States, In which shifted from the senate to the house as In past sessions confusion promises Germany offered to recede from her Iu the senate the measure, blocked to mark the closing hours. All the plan of destroying enemy merchant by determined republican opposition, really Important measures remain to ships. If rat rlct ions placed by the ai waa displaced as the unfinished bust FARMERS M E E R — FEBRUARY I-« Me passed, few of them having gone lias on shipments of conditional contra neas, and a cloture rule, designed to A general clearing house session of through both houses. No measures of band and foodstuffs destined- to the terminate the filibuster forcibly, was via the six days for the exchange of dynamic statewide Interest have reached the clviltnn population of Germany ware taken up. Ideas on the most pressing problems giwernor's desk. The cloture rule presented In the ef the times. Lectures by leading removed. authorities. State conferences. Prohibition legislation remained un­ Otherwise, the note announced, senate met the same republican fili­ EXTENSION SERVICE settled. Tax measures are Incomplete, Germany proposes to put Into effect buster that had blocked the shipping Three Fine Trains Daily Offers lectures, movable schools. In­ Irrigation codes are not yet revised, the original proclamation, adding also bill. stitutes and numerous correspondence The democratic caucus of the house fish and game legislation Is In n tan­ the strewing of mines in waters sur­ courses on request. MUSIC: Piano, String, Band, Voice. committed Itself to the ^administration SHASTA lIMITfD: Extra Fore, First Class equipment only. Ixtavrw gle. and complications are threatened rounding Great Britain and Ireland. Portland 8:M p. in. A High Chut» Train Alleged arming of British merchant compromise ship purchase bill by a No tuition. Reduced rates on all rail­ on consolidation. roads. For further information address. The legislature has approved the vessels la given by the German gov­ vote of 164 to 29. SAN TRANCISGO fXPRtSS: Otsairvslion Car, Standard and Tour­ The Oregon Agricultural College. Seventeen democrats in the caucus lease of Summer and Abert lakes by ernment as ground for attacking en­ ist Sleeping Gant, Choir Car and Diner ( t v c o m A L U S , O ttB dO N the state land board to an eastern syn­ emy merchant ships without search or announced their Intention of votlug against the bill despite the caucus ac­ dicate. headed by Jason Moore. The previous vlalL UALIfOMNIA tX PRESS: Standard am* Tourist Sleeping Oars, Chair large appropriation bills are la but It waa said that the note received tion. taking advantage of exceptions Cara and Diner have not been passed. by the ambassador from his foreign granted under the caucus rules. Full particulars, fare*, literature on the Expositions, train achcdaloa, etc., For that classy Charges and counter-chargea from Although the Joint ways and means office was not a reply to the recent troin ui*nrest Agent of the democratic and republican sources committee has consigned to the legis­ American note to Germany in regard Hair Cut lative cemetery bills appropriating a to the war sone decree. A more com­ concerning influences for and against total of $1.545.190 and cut requests for prehensive and detailed reply to the the government ship purchase bill, appropriations to the bone, there were communication Is expected soon. • which have smouldered about the cap­ still pending In the legislature meas­ The British reply to the American ital for two weeks, were made the sub­ John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon ures appropriating the huge sum of note of protest on neutral shipping, ject of a special Investigation by the >5,653,307, to be disposed of during the dated December 26, was also received. senate. With the decision departed the last closing week of the session. Besides entering a general denial that hope of some of the most earnest A remedial enactment was the pass­ there had been any unwarranted in­ age of Representative Olson's bill pro­ terference with legitimate ahlpmenta. champions of the shipping measure viding certain changes in the primary the new note contalna a statement that the bill could be passed In the election laws to eliminate petition­ from Great Britain that the recent senate by March 4. The administration compromise peddling and enable aspirants for pri­ government decree taking over the mary nominations to become candi­ flour and grain supply In Germany re­ measure, as it was being framed would dates by paying flat fees instead of ob­ quired added precautions ou the part organize a shipping board with an ap­ propriation of >40.000.000 to engage in taining the signatures of voters. of the allies. Baths in Connection shipping for a period ending two years Representative Allen's bill to enable after the termination of the war. Then rural communities to form organiza­ F a s t D r iv in g T e a m s F e e d S ta b le s Swiss Demand Apology. the ships would be turned over to the tions to obtain a low rate of interest Bern, via Earls.—An official inquiry secretary of the navy, to be leased or i n C o n n e c t i o n was passed by the houwe and Is herald­ has established that the aeroplane operated In the merchant service In R ic h a r d A n d e r s o n ed by the up-state members as the which recently flew over Swiss terri­ E HAVE added to our general livery business first step in the establishment of a tory and on which the Swiss troops bis discretion. Thia plap to place the “ T h e C ity S h o p ” government permanently In the ship­ rural credit system for the state. two completely equipped 5-passenger touring fired was a German machine and the ping business was the point insisted The Hinkle bill passed by the house Swiss minister at Berlin hits been in­ cars—to meet increased demand for service. Com­ upon by the administration. It is also is a departure in the way of state aid structed to demand an apology from mercial travelers, outers, hunters,' anglers, tourists the provision against which tlic senate O V E R SS Y E A R S ' in industrial development'. The meas the German government. E X P E R IE N C E rt-puMcan filibuster la chiefly aimed. lxnind for marvelous Crater I-ake—will find that we ure proposes a system i One trial and our Livery Service makesjfriends—try it! ure passes the senate. the neutral shipping in the sea war Otherwise her cargo must be submit­ A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest c ir­ The first test in the state senate on culation o f any scientific Journal. Term s. 13 a year: f u r months, | L Bold by all newsdealers. ted to the decision of the court. the prohibition bill was a victory for zone recently created by Germany. Asked by the interviewer concern­ the advocates of a strict law. The Branch Office. 625 F S t , W ashington. D . C. Washington. — Evidence .nihmitteif minority report of Senator Dominick ing the attitude of German-Amertcans, G O L D H IL L . O R E G O N of the committee on alcoholic traffic, Ambassador Gerard la reported hi the by the owners rut the steamship Wil which was favorable to the bill ¡is National Zeitung as having answered: belmina to prove that the ship Is load "People In Germany are lo o readily ed« with foodstuffs for non-coinbatuuts passed by the house with no important amendments, was adopted by a vote! disposed to believe that German-Amer- and not subject to seizure wc.s for icans would be first German* and then warded by the state department to of 15 to 13. The senate passed a bill providing ¡Americans in case o t war. Exactly Ambassador Page for presentation to that persons away from home election the opposite would be the caae-. Amer­ the London fore gn office, with the day may vote wherever they may be ican citizenj of German birth are first suggestion that unless Great Britain A Specialist in this work, for presidential electors, state officers and foremost Americans and fhesaine has sufficient grounds not yet ad­ as well as any detail of Is now on. Hot Coffee always on vanced for doing otherwise the ship and constitutional amendments by spirit is true of Irtsh-A-meriouis." General Blacksmithing, etc. at once he permitted to proceed, with identifying themselves and producing tap. . . You can get something Russians D riven O ut 50,000 for erect­ than 1200 yards of trenches held by easketB, etc. my above the Maztirian lakes, com­ Claim designated aa ‘‘The Mocking ed according to law and the regulations ing a building for training work at the the French north of Masslges, to the posed for the most part of fresh re­ Bird Piacer Claim” , situate on Miners FUNERAL CAR Oregon state normal school in Mon­ northwest of St. Menebeuld. A French thereunder, within tho time prescribed cruits. Office Phone: Home, 9—M; Residence Gulchun the Miasouri Flat Mining Dis­ attack on Seidel kof, on the Vosges, is by law, with the register of the United mouth. Phone, Home 2— K ; Pacific 4b-Main Twenty-six thousand Russian troops, trict, In Jackson County, Oregon, ami The house passed the measure pro­ reported to have been easily repulsed. States Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon, 20 big cannon, 30 machine guns and a embraced within and covering every viding for an appropriation of >49,200 they will be barred by the provision of large quantity of war material wer. part of the HW>^ of the NWJ4 ef Sec­ Some bargains in small tracts of land a ... ; n tke expepses A for the Industrial school for girls. This the law iu such eases made and pro­ suitable for garden, chicken or dairy of state and ' . ai : 'e, < yyJU be pos­ captured by the Germans In «'ast Prim tion 30, Township 37 South, of Range 4 vided. includes >15,000 for a new cottage. purposes, ranging in size from tw o to n tf Repre­ sia in the sudden offense which has Weat of the Willamette Meridian, and Road work for the coming biennium sible through .he op Notice posted on the grouml January fifty acre“, close in and conveniently lo­ sentative Childs' bill which the house sent the Czar’s force of invaders hu: the same embracing the two certain 15, 1915. is to be continued on the one fourth of riedly back In the direction of theli placer mining olaitna, described aa fol­ cated for m arket and schools. If you are 1 mill tax levy of 1913, according to has passed. It provides fox only two own border. The kaiser waa in th j low»; v iz; looking for small place for any purpose 2 13 M. U pto n , election Judges instead of -turee, aa decision of the house. call upon or address, —C. S. Redftehl, vicinity of the operation In person. The certain placer mlniug claim cov- Register. under the present law. ( February 15 to November 30 SCENIC SHASTA ROUTE SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRY DICK The b e st and la test "kilts” G o ld H illf A u t o D iv e r y W P atents Scientific Jlmcrican. MUNN & Co.3048'’“ «3' New York D a r l i n g Q. H o d g e s AUTOMOBILE Q. GAS ENGINE REPAIRING TAM ALE and CHILI Season CHARLES KELL Professional Cards A T BATTLE IN BLIZZARD IS WON BY GERMANS RUSSIANS DEFEATED BY QUIET STRATEGY Gold Hill, Oregon. T U R N E R ’S