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CAIRO NOT OUT OF DANGER Water Likely to Remain at Critical Htage for More Than Week. STATE ENGINEER CRITICIZED WILL LEARN NEW THINGS Governor Hays Land Hoard Cannot Pedagogues Not Only Onen In Invite Co-operation. structed in Summer Session. HIS PROOF WAS CONVINCING German Prlntsr Who Had Spalled Greek Walter'e Name Correctly Caally Wine Casa. A email unkempt man rushed Into a Greek restaurant and soon became a-nauKed In a heated altercation with one of the waiters. Wildly waving two email books of carde, printed like pressing club tlcketa, he began to about, with a strong German accent: "You ordert des« carts an' now you don’t take dem!" Attracted by the disturbance. the head waiter asked the cause of the He stated his small man's wrath grievance, ahowed the card a and short ly after wan paid "What proof waa there that the waiter had really ordered those cards?" asked a thoughtless specta tor. "Ample proof," replied a man sitting near by. "Kveryone of those cards bore the waiter’s name correctly spelled Ife a Greek name and prob ably contains at least sixteen letters Do you suppose that ‘Dutchman* could have gotten such a name Into type If It had not been spelled for him by the man who bears tt?" Muffled Knocker. “I<et mo see your handkerchief a moment, dear, what a lovely one It must have been whan It waa nice and clean!” "One of your old friends wan asking me about you the other day, Milt- Says he. ’In that blamed old What’s- hls-name alive yet?“* "Isn't It curious, old chap, how spite ful some people are? Mias Bigham asked me the other day If you weren’t a bit bow legged. I said no-on the contrary, you were quite probably knockkneed” “Doctor. l"ve always thought you would look really handsome If you wore a full beard " “Why. Squlnchley. you don’t look a day older than you did IS years ago, when you borrowed tha» last $5 bill of me " The Relentless Fray. "What la the latent news from the scene of battle?” asked the war cor respondent. "Two opposing parties have met In the same town.” replied the breath less courier “The generals are now playing a game of California Jack to decide which shall go Into the news reports as the ono whose troops met with great loss." TRYING. Clara—George said he could never reconcllo himself to anyone but tn*. Maud—Why, he’s been reconciled to at least four other girls all the time he has been engaged to you. And Than the Deluge. A young Canadian went to London last winter and was making a call upon a very pretty young woman whom he bad met there for the first time. “Do you have reindeer In Canada?" asked the young lady. "No, darling, he answered, "at this season It always snows."—Answers. Tlppsd Off by Arson Trust. Townsman- Yes, sir, we’re aiming to have the best fire department in these parts, 1 reckon. Stranger—What’s the latest? Townsman—We’re goln' to make ’em practice two days before each fire, by heck.—Judge. Baseball Lingo. "Several young men have tried to entertain that heiress for me this evening, but still she seems bored.” "Well, what of It, auntie? Do you want t* put pie in aa a pinch hit ter?" Cairo, III. The flood conditions at Cairo remain practically unchanged, although the river shows a slight ris ing tendency. The weather forecaster predicts that the river will mark a lit tle over 55 feet before the crest is reached, snd that for a week or more the rise in the Mississippi will help hold the river at above the dangerous ly high stage of more than 54 feet. There has been no relaxation of ef forts to protect the Cairo levees. The pastors of most of the churches in which services were held Sunday took flood conditions for their subjects. Water covers the country in every direction from Cairo for miles. More than 2700 refugees are camping at Wickliffe, Ky. The levees at Mound City are in good shape and the ¡>eople there be lieve that they will be able to keep water out of the town. Salem That the desert land board, Oregon Agricultural College, Cor under the mandates of the act passed vallis The women of the household by thq recent legislature providing an who have their hearts set on some day owning a piece of land, and the young appropriation for the Columbia South people just out of school who are look ern project, has no right and is given ing for opportunities, will find as no power to develop that project to a much of real interest to them in the greater extent than reclamation of O. A. C. summer session, which opens June 10 and lasts six weeks, ax will lands included in desert land selection the school teachers who are anxious to No. 13 for this state and private lands prepare themselves for advanced posi included in the act, is the declaration tions and bigger salaries. The beautification and sanitation of made by Governor West following the the home premises, the kitchen gar return of State Epgineor I^wis from den, the economical and hygienic prep Washington, D, C. Among other aration of food, the solution of all REBELS GATHER STRENGTH things the state engineer took up the sorts of home problems, these are in question of development of an en- cluded in the plan of instruction out- Five Thousand Said to Re Mobiliz larged Columbia Southern project ! lints! by Prof. E. D. Ressler, director. ing to Attack Guaymas. The teachers will also be given spe through federal co-operation. cial wfirk besides the regular courses Nogales, Ariz.—Officials of (the in The governor plainly asserted that for elementary and high schools, such the state engineer in desiring federal as the beginnings of agricultural work surgent state government have de co-operation is doing it merely to shift for those in districts where such in cided to press the campaign against responsibility from himself to the gov struction may be included in the schools Ojeda’s federal soldiers holding Naco, ernment, that the engineer is afraid next year, domestic science and art, the only remaining ¡border port'under of the estimates that he has proposed, manual training, business courses, the control of the federals, and at the and that in event the project is a fail music and drawing, physical training, same time to move against Guaymaa, ure under those estimates it is the j school Isw, supervision and manage the Gulf of California port. The tank of wresting Guaymas from the Huerta plan of the state engineer to hide be ment, especially in the country government is expected to prove the hind the government and accuse it of schools. most difficult, and 3000 state troops being responsible for his own failure. For the convenience of those who "The State of Orgeon cannot under cannot remain the whole six weeks, will leave Hermosillo to take the field. Already the insurgent forces are the act of the legislature enter into some of the courses are arranged to stretched from the state capital, be co-operation on this project,” contin give a complete lecture schedule in ues the governor. "The act itself I two weeks. This work includes also low Nogales, Ariz., to a point only 15 provides that ’the desert land board two week courses in manual training miles north of Empalme, the Ameri can settlement across the bay from is hereby authorised and directed on and domestic economy for boys and behalf tit the State of Oregon to com I girls of the high school and upper Guaymaa. Refugees returning from plete as far aa can be done with the grades. The idea is to give them, at Empalme report that desertions are occurring daily from the federal gar appropriation made by thia act. the the formative period of their lives, reclamation of lands included iu the some comprehension of the value and rison of about 1000. Many of the de serters are joining the insurgents. Oregon desert land selection list No. I true dignity of the professions of No reinforcements have arrived at 1.1 ” farming and home-making. It is felt Guaymas from Pacific Coast points to in the past the emphasis in the the south, as reported officially. GOOD ROADS ARE INDORSED that public schools has been too much on The state officials expect to mobilize the professions more commercial, too an army of more than 5000 men in the I-ane County Pomona Grange In little on those of the farm home, and southwestern part of the state and to that this may be in some degree re assault the gulf port before assistance Guest of Springfield. sponsible for the present necessity for can be secured. Springfield —Springfield entertained the "back to {the farm” movement— the Lane County Pomona Grange Sat- or, more properly, the "stick to the UTAH HAS MAMMOTH CAVE urda in Woodmen hall. There was an I farm” movement. attendance from all the granges in the Wonder 15 Miles From Odgen Just county. The various topics discussed were salient and much interest was GRANGE MAKES BIG SAVING Discovered by Rancher. manifested in the meeting. Ogden. Utah—With what appear to The later session was turned into a Members Get $250 Worth of Grocer be prehistoric hieroglyphics engraved good roads meeting. M. Svarvsrud, ies on Co-operative Plan. on its walls, a mammoth cave, rival of Eugene, made an appeal for better ing the famous caves of Kentucky, Portland- The hall of Evening Star roads. this vicinity. M. J. Duryea, manager of the Eu grange. Secton Line road, might have was discovered in gene Commercial club, spoke on the been taken for a grocery store Satur Thomas Whitaker, a rancher, made subject of "Transportation Necessary day, as the front rooms on the lower the discovery. The cave is in the mountains near to Development of the Farm,” and floor were filled with articles which Profeasor McAllister, of the Univer had been purchased by Andrew Holm, ! Promontory Point, 18 miles from Og sity of Oregon, told of the possibili the manager of the new plan of co den, and probably never before has ties of concrete construction for coun operative buying for grange members. been visited by white men, as the sur try roads and explained the new meth It waa delivery day for the past month. rounding country is a bleak desert. About $250 worth of articles, feed for The front c ham l>er of the series is 75 od that he has developed. Good roads from the County Court’s stock and groceries, covering every by 150 yards, 41 feet high, and the standpoint were discussed by County thing used in the family, were stored walls bear pictures of Indians crudely Judge Thompson. He urged the in the hall, and later taken to the drawn. There is an Indian legend current in grange to study the question of expen homes of the members. They saved ditures. "The roads belong to the an average of 10 and 15 per centjunder this locality to the effect that a great battle was fought years ago between people,” said the judge, "and not to this method of co-operative buying. On the amount delivered Saturday two tribes near the point, the van the County Court. The good roads question is one that will "be solved the saving, under the co-operative quished having disappeared in a mam largely by the people. If they want buying plan, was between $25 and $30. moth cave. good roads, they must say so, for they Manager Holm explained that this was just a starter, and that it is hoped to Will Send Soldiers After Reds. will have to pay for them.” develop an extensive plan of co-oper Cortez, Colo.—Indian Agent Spear ative buying throughout the county, issued an ultimatum to the outlaw HomeHcekers Are Arriving. when it has been demonstrated that a band of Ute Indians, who for several Klamath Falla—The trains on the saving can be made. main line of the Southern Pacific are The greatest saving on the goods weeks have defied the county and fed now crowded with homeseekers. Some bought and delivered Saturday was on eral authorities and persisted in hiding arc stopping here. feed for stock, which was 15 per cent- Chief Big Rabbit, wanted on the charge of having murdered a sheep The opportunities to buy good land over the regular prices paid. here are better now than for several There is space in the grange ground, herder, to the effect that federal sold years, aa speculative holders are being at the corner of East Eightieth and iers would be sent into the mountains compelled to sell. Good farms which Division streets, on which a general to capture him and the band unless he is surrendered. The band is led by a will come under the irrigation system delivery store may be built. noted Ute warrior, Meriana, who took of the government next year, can be his followers into recesses of the Big bought for |20 to $25 per acre. One Rural Sidewalks Urged. Ute mountains. tract of several hundred acres, offered Orenco- At a special meeting of the at $21 an acre, is said to have no poor Orenco Civic Improvement league land, all being good soil of good depth steps were taken to build sidewalks to Morgan's Church Holds Memorial. and irrigable. These lands are from Quatama and towards Reedville and in New York—Memorial services fbr 10 to 15 miles from Klamath Falls, several other directions to connect the the late J. Pierpont Morgan were held and in one of the prettiest valleys of outlying districts with the town. The Sunday in St. George’s Protestant the state. ; farmers living along these lines have Episcopal Church, of which he was a ! agreed to assist in the building. vestryman for 45 years, and in which Cattle Values Shown. Each ! Those living near Quatama have his funeral is to take place. Klamath Falla One year ago a herd agreed, if the town buys the lumber, worshipper found in the rack before of 240 young steers was sold by H. to haul it from the mill, furnish the him a church bulletin recording the H. Van Valkenburg at an advance cross pieces and build the walk. M. death of Mr. Morgan, who was a reg over the purchase price, which aver McDonald. W. J. Head, Thomas Good- ular attendant and took an active part aged about $20. i in, Mr. Green and Mr. Dunsmoore in the services, one of his duties being The cattle have been wintered near were appointed a committee to report the passing of the collection plate. Merrill by J. L. Beckly and have just the best means of raising the funds. All Classes Work on Levees. been resold to Mr. Valkenburg for $55 At the last meeting of the city coun a head. Hickman, Ky. — Business and pro cil ordinances were passed fixing the They will be run on the range this width of sidewalks, prohibiting hogs fessional men work in gangs with gov summer and fattened for market in inside the fire limita, warning owners ernment laborers and farm hands the fall, when, if prices are equal to to keep poultry on their own premises, along the Reel foot levee, to the west those of last fall, they should bring licensing moving-picture shows and of Hickman, in a supreme effort to $80 each. hold back the flood waters of the Mis prohibiting them on Sunday. sissippi. The water now is about nine inches above the highest stage of last Farmers to Test Game Law. State Funds Decreasing. year’s flood. Hillsboro—Hundreds of farmers in Salem—The quarterly report of his — Washington county are in arms office, just prepared by State Treas Not to Aid Public Works. against section 41, amendment to the urer Kay, shows that the balance in Washington, D. C. — The Ohio Red game laws of the state, giving anglers the general fund March 31 was $555,- Cross relief commission has decided the right to use as a highway for an 309. while the balance January 1 was that not a dollar of its funds shall be gling purposes all territory between $1,072,613. With the large appropri expended for public works of any the streams and the high water lines. ations made by the last legislature the character, but shall be devoted exclu Thia would mean, in many instances, balance in the general fund will be sively to restoring stricken families to that a fisherman could walk over half rapidly eaten up, according to the pre normal conditions of life. of an owner’s place, as the Tualatin diction of Mr. Kay. The report also river and Dairy creek ofttimes flood shows that practically all of the $6,- Would Pay Prisoners' Board. acres of territory. 321,358 in the common school fund London—A Constantinople dispatch A number have signified their inten principal is loaned out at 6 per cent to the Times says that the council of tion to test the . interest, there being only $1479 left ministers has decided, while refusing to pay indemnity to the allies, to State Butter Contract Awarded. Lane Protest« Siuslaw Policy. agree to pay for the maintenance of Monmouth—The Monmouth Cream Washington, D. C. — Senator Lane the prisoners of .war on a general ery company has been awarded the filed a written appeal with the board scale. contract of supplying the state insti of engineers of rivers and ¡harbors, tutions at Salem with butter for April. protesting against thewdecision of that, German Cruisers Made Ready. This will amount approximately to body against dredging the Siuslaw Keil—The German cruisers Dresden 3000 or 4000 pounds of butter. The from Florence to Acme and requested and Strassburg have been ordered to creamery is now under the manage an opportunity to make oral presenta make ready to leave for the Adriatic ment of Frank E. Murdock. tion in the Nedds case. MONTENEGRINS NEW TARIFF BILL DEFY POWERS President Wilson and Hoose Declare Nations Are Violating Committee Agree. Neutrality Agreement. Position of Senate Leaders Doubt Will Take and Hold Scutari aa Ne ful Will Cause Loss of $20,- cessity ¡Demands — Warship« 000,000 in Revenue. Blockade Port. Washington, D. C.—Removal of all tariff from raw w<xd has been agreed upon between President Wilson and members of the houae committee on ways and means as the result of con ferences that ended Thursday. The present plan, which will have the unanimous indorsement of the Democratic mem tiers of the commit tee, provides that wool shall be placed on the free list, an end for which the free wool Democrats of the house have fought for two years. The concession to President Wilson and the free wool advocates takes the place of the 15 per cent duty which the committee had agreed upon. This, in turn, was a reduction from the 20 per cent duty of the Democratic wool en revision bill which passed the house last summer, but failed to become a law. The free wool agreement, it is asserted by Democrats, is expected to bring Secretary of State Bryan into full accord with the tariff revision program. The free wool members have ex pressed their attitude before President Wilson in conferences in which Rep resentatives Harrison, of New York, and Rainey, of Illinois, both members of the ways and means committee, have been the leading figures. Rep resentative Harrison, backed by Mr. Bryan, made an ardent fight in the last congress to secure indorsement of the free wool policy. The reception that may be given the free wool plan by the senate leaders still is a matter of conjecture. Presi dent Wilson is to meet Senator Sim mons, chairman of the finance commit tee, and Senators Hoke Smith and Stone soon, and it is expected that the attitude of the senate then will be made clear. Under the existing law, wool carries a duty of approximately 11 cents a pound, or about 60 per cent when fig ured on the ad valorem basis. It is estimated that the abolition of the duty will cause a loss of approximate ly $20,000,000 to the present govern ment revenues. MONTENEGRINS TAKE FORT 200 Picked Men Sacrificed In .Des perate Assault. Cettinje — Great Tarabosch fort, .which for months has held the allies off from Scutari, now practically is in the hands of the Montenegrins, thanks to the sacrifice of 200 bomb throwers, every one of whom lost his life in a last desperate effort to clear the way to the town, for the posses sion of which Montenegro is ready to give up everything. These bombthrowers were all picked men, chosen from several battalions. Clambering up the mountainside un der a murderous fire from the Turkish guns, they cut the wire entangle ments, and getting to close quarters, threw bombs among the Turks, thus opening the way for the storming party. Not one of the bomb throwera re turned, but they had accomplished their object, and the Montenegrin in fantry, following close upon them, charged the trenches. The Turks held their ground and a desperate and bloody hand-to-hand fight ensued, lasting an hour and end ing in victory for the Montenegrins, who lost 300 men killed and wounded. Tier after tier of entrenchments had to be taken, but the troops of the ' Southern division, under General Mar- tinovitch, to whom the task had been assigned, overcame all obstacles. Mrs. Wilson Interested. Washington, D. C.—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson’s interest in the welfare of empoyes in the government depart ments, especially the girl workers, was evinced when she visited recently the bureau of engraving and printing, which employs many young women. Mrs. Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, president of the Women’s Welfare department. Na tional Civic Federation, inspected all the various departments of the bureau and was much interested in the making of paper money and postage stamps. Insurance Men Indicted. New York—Two more insurance men were indicted in connection with the “arson trust” operations. The indict ment against them also was found on the testimony of "Izzy the Painter,” and charges presentations of fraudu lent insurance claims. The defend ants were released on $2500 bail after pleading not guilty. Forty other in dictments charging arson were said to have been voted by the grand jurors. The inquiry will be continued. Three Die In Prairie Fire. Fairview, Okla.—Grant Leslie, hie wife and their 9-year-old son perished in a prairie fire that swept part of Major county Thursday. Their bodies were found later. Leslie and hie fam ily started from their home in a wagon to visit near Granton, Okla., but the fire overtook them before they reached | their destination. Cettinje — The little kingdom of Montenegro has thrown down the gauntlet to the six great powers. She declines to yield to the demand of the powers to abandon her attempts to gain possession of Scutari, and has officially announced that "there will be no departure from an attitude which conforms to the necessities of the state of war existing between the allies and Turkey.” An international fleet, comprising warships of Austria-Hungary, Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain is now blockading the Montenegrin port of Antivari. The fleet includes four Austrian warships, the British cruisers Yarmouth, Inflexible and Gloucester; the German cruiser Breslau, the Ital ian cruiser Pisa and the French cruiser Edgar Quinet. Russia is not represented by a war ship, but has acquiesced in the naval demonstration. The British admiral sent the follow ing message to the Montenegrin pre mier, Dr. L. Tomanovica: "I have the honor to inform you that the international fleet is assem bled in Montenegrin waters as a pro test against non-fulfillment of the wishes of the great powers. I desire to call your excellency’s attention to the presence of the fleet aa a proof that the great powers are acting in concert, and request that their wishes be fulfilled without further delay. Please inform me immediatey that your government is ready to carry out the wishes of the great powers.” To this the Montenegrin premier re plied in a note expressing regret at the presence of the fleet, which he considered a violation of the neutrality proclaimed by the powers at the be ginning of the war. The premier con tinued: "Despite the pressure which the presence of the fleet implies, there will be no departure from an attitude which conforms to the necessities of the state of war existing between the allies and Turkey.” A brigade of Austrian troops from Cattaro has been maneuvering near the Montenegrin boundary. The customary note has not been given the Montenegrin government, and Aus tria’s action is considered unfriendly and menacing. UPRISING IN JOLO IS SERIOUS Army Officials Alarmed By Activ ity of Moros. Washington, D. C.—Officials of the bureau of insular affairs of the War department are alarmed at reports from Manila concerning an insurrec tion of the Moros which centers around Jolo. Private letters received here from Manila say that for more than a year the Moros have been smuggling rifles into the province through the Chinese traders in Borneo, and that more than 16,000 of the tribesmen are armed. Jolo, say the letters, is in a state of siege, and is surrounded by thousands of Moros. Fighting has been going on in the province for two months, and many wounded American soldiers have been sent to Manila. A strict censorship concerning what is happening near Jolo is said to have been established by Governor General Forbes, so that the real situation is unknown in the United States. Brigadier General Pershing com- mands the American troops at Jolo, and some of the letters bitterly de nounce him for what is denominated his inefficiency in meeting the upris ing, which is said to have reached for midable proportions. Unions to Support Girls. Boston—The Central Labor Union has voted to support the telephone operators' union in case of a strike of the 2,200 girl employes of the New England Telephone & Telegraph com pany in Boston and vicinity. Labor leaders declare that if a strike occurs, a campaign will be started for state ownership of telephone companies. Operators in Boston and suburban ex changes will ballot on the question of striking. Principal among the de mands are an eight-hour day, and re adjustment of wages. Schiff Gift Announced. Philadelphia — Announcement that Jacob H. Schiff, of New York, had offered to donate $50,000 to aid in completing and publishing a revised translation of the Bible by the Jewish Publication society of America was made here Sunday at a banquet which concluded the celebration of the so ciety’s 25th anniversary. The gift, it was said, was made on-Certain per sonal conditions, not involving the raising of an additional fund. Mrs. Pankhurst la IU. London—Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst, who is on a hunger strike in Holloway Jail, has been forcibly fed, according to the Express, and is in a state of collapse. Her condition is considered serious. She refused food and re- sisted all efforts to feed her.