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VOL 18
AVALANCHE STRIKES
TRAIN; 8 KILLED
Two Cars Swept Eighty Feet
Down Mountain Side in-
Cascades.
Sea I tie.—Two c a n o f westbound
O r e s t Northern Cascade l.lnillud train
were swupl from (be track by an ava­
lanche noar Cora* station Saturday
morning and were burled 80 feet down
tba muuntalu alda. causing death to
a t leant eight passengers. Fifteen pas­
sengers wara Injured, none seriously
except Karl Smith. of Spokane, a
a «all boy.
The train was standing on the track
near Corea, on the west slope of the
Cascade mountains. » lied the ava­
lanche a truck It near the middle, a
day coach and the diner going over
the hank, while a sleeper behind them
waa toppled over on U h aide, where
It hung In Ita perilous position over
the bauk, but waa not taken down.
The dining car stepped when about
half way down the slops and caught
fire, being destroyed there. Two hod
las were recovered from the diner and
three Injured passengers were also
removed. No trainmen or dining car
employes ware kUled
Persistent reports that Mrs Kern
Wallace and baby, of Lyons. Wash.,
were among the missing In the wreck
of the Ureat Northern a Cascade LI in
Itod train In the Cascade mountains
were confirmed by survivors. This
brought the number of missing to four
and. with four known dead, the total
number of lives lost In the avalanche
which swept away the chair car and
the dining car waa brought to eight.
BATTLE-RESUMED
IN MONTENEGRO
prepare tho retreat Into Albania, in
the effort to effect a Junction with the
Serbiana and defend Scutari.
FRANCISCO VILLA
AIRCRAFT RAID BRITAIN
Kentleh Coast Is Visited by Two Oer
man Asroplansa.
London.— Two hostile aeroplane at
tacks were made ou the Kent coast.
In the first, made early In the morn
Ir.g by a single aeroplane, nine bom be
were dropped, killing one persou and
Injuring six. The second attack was
made by twn aeroplanes
No casual­
ties ware reported In this attack.
Tile raiders escaped. The official
account says
’•Tho war office announces that,
taking advantage of the- bright moon­
light, a hostile aeroplane visited the
east coast of Kent. After dropping
nine bombs In rapid succession It
made nit eastward.
"No naval or m ilitary damage waa
done, but there was some damage to
private property.
Incendiary bombs
caused fires, which were extinguish
ed "
TARIFF BOARD FAVORED
Administration Bill May Be Laid
Before Congress In Special Mtssags
Washington.— President Wilson soon
wilt recommend the euactmeut of leg­
islation providing for a permanent tar­
iff commission.
An administration bill for tly> cre­
ation of such a commission virtually
is ready now and may he laid before
congress In a special message by the
president. The objects of the com­
mission would be to gather data on
(he ta riff and to co-ordinate similar
powers now believed to be held by
existing governmental agencies.
The legislation Is designed particu­
larly to meet conditions which are ex­
pected to arlsu when the war ends.
Five Negroes Are Hanged.
8ylvester, (Ja.—The death of five
negroes, whoso bullet-riddled bodies
were found hanging from a tree near
Starkville, Oa.. was held In a coroner's
verdict to bavo bean due to "atrengu-
L o n d o n .— A aasnl o ltiu la l cunt m un i
cation Issued at lladupnst, Hungary, latloa and gunshot wounds at the
as forwarded frtun Zurich, contains hands of unknown parties.”
The negroes, accused of Implication
the first adnilsaloo^reculvcd here from
Teutonlo source* to tho effect that In the killing of Sheriff Moreland at
fighting has been resumed In Monte­ Starkville, wero taken from the jail
negro.
here.
According to this report a consider­
Portland.
able portion of the Moutonegrtn army
Whoat—
Club
$1.05; btuestein *1.14;
refused to surrender, and fierce fight­
red Russian, *1.02; forty-fold, *1.08;
ing was resumed In the mountains
red fife, *1.03.
Hay— Lantern
Oregon
timothy.
Home.— Premier Mlouchkovltch. of
(18.50;
alfalfa.
*19.
Montenegro, Is quoted In a dispatch
Rutter—Creamery, 29c.
from Brindisi to the Stefan I Nows
Eggs—Ranch, 33c.
Agency as saying that Montenegro a r­
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 25c; valley,
ranged a truce with Austria on a ruse,
to eushle hnr to gain time
Much a 25c.
Hops— 1915 crop. 10®12>^c per lb.
step was necessary alter the rapture
of Mount Ixjvcen by tho Austrians, tho
Seattle.
premier Is reported to huvn said, and
W heat— Bluestem *1.13; club *1.07;
It gave tho Montenegrins a weak to
rod Russian, *1.02; forty-fold, *1.10,
Little Headway on Prepared­
ness and Revenue Legis­
lation Yet Made.
Washington.— Although in session
nearly two months congress has made
little progress In solving the problems
of preparedness and revenue. H ear­
ings and committee conferences on
the m ilitary and naval program seems
to have accomplished little toward
shaping proposed legislation.
The Philippine government bill has
slowly made its way through house
and senate, holding the first place in
general legislation. Debate upon it
was of a languid sort. Providing for
a larger measure of self-government
for the people of the Islands, the chief
controversy lay in the declaration of
the preamble promising independence
at some Indefinite date In the future.
The only other general legislation
advanced in either house has been the
e Harris A Kwtng.
Fhov> b r Am erinsa Fraas » ssniSeHoe.
leasing bills dealing with water power
James Hay, the Virginia Congress­
General Villa, the Mexican rebe'. sites and the mineral bearing lands of
man who Is chairman of the House chief who was erroneously reported to
the public domain. The house has
Committee on M ilitary Affairs. •
have been captured last week.
plodded away on these bills day after
day. finally sending them over to the
Austria has fixed the ago lim it for
senate, where the real struggle is to
the war at 55 years.
take place.
Through the good offices o f , the
Supreme Court Upholds Income Tax.
United States, the German and other
The income tax was declared con­
consuls arrested by the allies a t 8a-
stitutional by the supreme court in an
lonlki are to be released.
El Paso, T e x .— Bernardo and Feder­ unanimous decision which swept aside
In none of the major fronts of the
every objection raised against it, and
field of war In Europe are notable m il­ ico Duran, the Mexican cattle thieves in the opinion of congressional leaders
condemned
to
die
by
the
Carranxa
au­
itary operations In progress so far as
thorities for the killing of Bert Akers opened the way for Increasing the tax
the official reports show.
rate on great fortunes to help pay for
Tho Montenegrin consul In Paris at San Lorenxo, a few miles below the
national defense.
International
boundary,
were
executed
makes the official announcement that
Proposals are pending In congress
all negotiations between Montenegro in the cemetery at Juarez.
to tax incomes of more than *1,000.000
The
bodies
of
both
Mexlchns
were
and Austria have been broken off and
as high as 60 per cent. Leaders on all
that Montenegro has decided to fight buried immediately, but that of Ber­
nardo. who confessed to having fired sides agree that out of the Impetus
to the bitter end.
which the decision w ill give such pro
From the northern front In Russia the shots that killed Akers, was ex­
posals is likely to oome a definite
to Bessarabia there are no changes In humed to satisfy a doubt concerning
movement to levy on the revenues
positions of the various forces, accord­ the identity of the slayer.
Do .glas Downs, another American from great private fortunes for some
ing to official reports. Indications are
of the millions the government must
that the Russians have again coased. who was with Akers seeking stolen
raise to carry out the sonny and navy
cows
and
who
escaped
the
bulleta
of
for a time at least, their uttacks on
the Austrians near the southern end the Mexicans, declared after seeing increases.
of the line, while Berlin mentions Bernardo Duran that the prisoner was New Lusitania Offer Made by Germany
Germany has submitted to the Unit
only artillery activity In sectors where the man.
The execution was attended by ed States, through Ambassador vor
German troops are holding the front.
The Eranco-Belglan front Is under­ about 50 Americans, among whom Bernstorff, another written proposal
designed to bring about a settlement
going a period of comparative calm, were several women.
CARRANZA AVENGES
DEATH OF AMERICAN
which probably is to be explained by
the seasonable conditions. Thero are
frequent outbreaks by the artillery on
both sides, however, several such be­
ing mentioned In the current official
statements, Berlin mentioning the
shelling of German positions and v il­
lages behind the lines between the Mo
sidle and the Vosges, while Paris ap­
parently describes the same series of
artillery operations as being directed
against provision trnlng and groups of
hostile troops.
STANDING GUARD
OVER THE
WHOLE FAMILY
The laxative tablet
with the pleasant taste
Protects every member of the
family from Constipation-
the enem y of good health
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We have the exclusive selling righty for thia great laxative.
T rial size, 10 cents.
M. D. BOWERS
THE
R E X A L L STO R E
CHIEF ISSUES IN
CONGRESS UNSOLVED
of the controversy over the sinking oi
the steamship Lusitania.
There were Indications that the doc
Says Responslbilly for Santa Ysabsl ument might bring to a sntlsfartor'
Massacre Unjustly Charged.
termination negotiations which havi
El Paso. Tex.—General Erancisco been in progress for eight months.
Villa sent a message to the American
Immigration Bill Lim its Orientals.
people, saying he was not responsible
Drastic restrictions would be throwi
for the murder of 18 Americans at
about the immigration of Japanes - in
Santa Ysabel. It came through Major
to the United States and both Hindi;
Theodore Prleta, a staff officer.
and Chinese virtually would bo barred
Through Prleta he said;
from the country by a provision tha:
“1 took no part In the massacre, and
has been written into the immigration
did not know of It until afterward. It
bill to be reported to the bouse this
was merely an act of the Carranxlstas
week by the Immigration committee
to bring me into disfavor with the
The new features relating to immi
United States and It was similar to
grants from Japan would have their
their previous methods to defeat me.”
most far-reaching effect. In the oxpec
Prleta said that V illa gave him the
tation of committee members, in shut­
message at E l Ruclo. Chihuahua,
ting off effectually the influx of Jap­
where he left V illa as the latter was
anese laborers whose competition with
departing with his troops for Durango
American labor on the Pacific coast
state.
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has aroused a pronounced anti-Asiatic
Oregon Governor's Son Wed.
sentiment.
Union, Or.—Governor Janies W lthy- Taxation Under F trrla Bill Uncertain.
eombo, with Mrs. Wlthycombe and
Whether the public land states or
their son. Karl, visited here to attend their counties san tax improvements
the wedding of their son, Robert mads on publio lands leased under the
Wlthyoombe. superintendent of the Ferris waterpower bill or under the
Eastern Oregon State experimental coal, oil, gas and phosphate leasing
station at this place, to Miss Mabel bill, probably w ill have to be d eter
Hutchinson.
mlued finally by the supreme court of
VILLA DENIES KILLING
NO. 3^
I The house pension committee re-
1 ported favorably a bill granting pen-
alona of *12 a month to - lows of
Spanish war and China ex; tltlon vet­
erans and *2 a month to their children
until 16 years of age.
The board which examined the sub­
marine E-2, which was damaged by
on explosion which killed five and in­
jured nine, reported that hydrogen gas
from the batteries mixing with a ir
caused the accident.
Indorsement of the adm'uistratlon's
continental army plan was given by
Henry L. Sttmson, former secretary
of war under President Taft, at the
i final session of the National Security
> League’s congress here.
___...,io n .—The problem of secur­
ing protection for American life and
property in Mexico, revived by the
( Santa Ysabel murders, is fc X [lOClti d by
' congressional leaders to be a domin­
ant subject in the proceedings of both
houses. Issues arising from the Eu-
I ropean war have been completely over
shadowed by It and conservation biila
1 and other important legislative meas-
i ures under consideration are not draw­
ing the attention that would ordinarily
be given them.
There Is sure to be more cf the fer-
| vid discussion of the Mexican prob­
lem that enlivened sessions of the
past week. Members of the house and
: senate are unanimous in their insist­
ence that the bandits be punished, but
the majority oppose any step that
would result in Intervention, which
might mean destruction of the de fac­
to government the United States and
the Pan-American nations led in ea-
i tablishing.
Discussion of the Mexican problem
| on the floor of the senate and house
Is expected to arise from considera­
tion of various intervention resolu­
tions.
Senator Gore, of Oklahoma,
democrat, is considering submitting a
resolution to direct the use of Am eri­
can armed forces as aids to the Car­
ranza forces in protecting American
citizens in a neutral zone in Mexico.
Legislation is congress is progressing
slowly, none of the supply bills being
anywhere near ready for discussion.
Carranxa Renews Assurances.
General Carranza renewed his as­
surances to the United States that he
would make every effort to punish
those responsible for the murders of
American mining men near Santa Ysa­
bel.
A dispatch from Consul Silliman to
the state department dated at Quere-
taro said Carranza had personally as­
sured Mr. Silliman, in reply to the de­
partment's demand that the murder­
ers be run down, that he “had issued
orders for the immediate pursuit, cap­
ture and punishment of those respon­
sible for the atrocity,”
Simultaneously, in a dispatch to
Eliseo Arredondo, his ambassador des­
ignate here. General Carranza an­
nounced that he was about to issue a
decree permitting any citizen of Mexi­
can nationality to shoot the bandits
“without any form ality.”
Mineral Bill Passed by House.
The mineral and leasing bill, affect­
ing all of the 700,000,000 acres of pub­
lic land in continental United States
and Alaska, has passed the house.
Protection for California oil promoters
whose claims were affected by the
withdrawal of public lands under the
T aft administration is one of the
prominent features. It now goes to
the senate.
The measure would lease public
mineral lands on a royalty basis. Prop­
er safeguards, its sponsors Insist, have
been established to prevent corpora­
tions from acquiring any vast quanti­
ties.
the United States. The house refused
Control of the leases would rest
Turks Sank Persia is Late Version. to Incorporate any provision specifi­ with the secretary of the Interior and
London.— An Amsterdam dispatch cally recogulxing the right of the th(t proceeds would be equally divided
to the Exchange Telegraph company stales to tax such improvements. It between the federei government and
says;
incorporated in the general leasing states in which the lands lie. Federal
“According to a Berlin report the bill an Innocuous provision relative to moneys would be used for reclamation
Turkish ministry of m arine Is about state taxation.
j purposes.
to publish a statement, to the effect
It Is the judgment of some western Locate Academies in Washington State
that a Turkish submarine sank the
senators and representatives that con­
Senator Jones and Representative
steamer Persia."
gress should Incorporate a specific Humphrey, of Washington, Introduced
provision recognizing the right of the blfls appropriating *15,000,000 for the
French Airmen In Daring Raid.
states and counties to tax improve­ establishment and equipment of a m il­
Paris.—The Serbian towns of Mon-
ments on government lands leased un­ itary academy, similar to West Point,
astlr and Glevgeli have again been at
at some place In the state of Wash­
der these bills.
tacked by a squadron of French aero­
ington to be designated by the secre­
National
Capital
Brevities.
planes, 16 In number, the Athens cor­
The German government informed tary of war. They also Introduced
respondent of the Havas ageney tele­
bills appropriating *5,000,000 for es­
graphs. It 1 b estimated 100 persons the United States that German sub­
tablishing In Washington a naval acad­
marines
were
not
responsible
for
the
were killed or wounded at Glevgeli.
emy patterned after the academy at
sinking of the liner Persia.
Annapolis.
Floods were fatal to 13 persons In
General Leonard Wood advocated
In addition. Senator Jonen intro­
southern California and did great before the senate m ilitary committee
duced a bill appropriating *3.000,000
property damage.
a standing army of 210,000 men and
for the construction of a«drydoyk at
Northern Illinois faced flwod condi­
ridiculed the continental army plan or
the Puget Sound navy yard.
tions such as have not been experi
Secretary of W ar Garrison.
•need for a decade.