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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1915)
- i T ! - Weston EADER I ' i TOL. XXXIV. W15STON, OIU2GON, FMDAY, APIIIL ltf, 1915. NO. 43. NEWS OF THE WEEK General Resume of Important Events . IkODdbont ttc Writ Gar- ml ix In Josephine ha been told for ' An attack by tba Ilia on the mane, li declared to be near. London glvot out the loot Hit on tho Neuve Chapelle battlo aa nearly 8000. Tba UnlUd Slate la building a cub marina that will withstand a 100-day dive, A big copper county, Oregon, 1260,000. Condolence for tho loaa of F-4 tub marina ar aant tha United 8tatoa by Oormany. Tba Portland Ilea vara wera defeated Jte I by tha Venlea team In tha open ing gams of tha Pacific Coaat baaeball league. Spokane policemen are (topping jit ney driver wbo have not filed 12600 bonds, required by a recently-passed ord Inane. A Pelrograd dispatch report that tha Kalaer personally dirarta defense of Hungary and that tho Ruaalan ad vance la broken. 81s Instructor of Wlllametla uni versity, Salem, Oregon, have resigned. Tha move on tho part of tba leather la aald to be voluntary. Governor Lister, of Washington, la eonmptalned to by Canadian authorities that airman are violating International law by crossing tha border. U. 8. detective are watching Hu erta, who landed In New York re- oontly, thinking be will attampt to tart another revolution In Mexico. Ei-prealdenta Taft and Roosevelt act aa honorary pallbearer to tha lata Profeaaor Thoma Lounsburg of Yale college. Tha two ex-preeldenl ahook band formally. An aipraaaman on tha Oregon Else- trie railroad aavea Ufa of a amall child wbo waa standing on the track at Eu gone, Tha trainman dashed ahead of tho train and Jerked tha tot to aafety. Tha Chlnoaa government ttanda Arm agalnat tha demand of tha Japan wbo demand supervision of China" political, financial and military, alao tha manufacture or purchase of Chlna'a war munition and to right to railway and mining operation. Bacauaa Aricona I dry state, water will be need to christen tho bat- ttaahlp Arlsona at tha Naw York navy yard Juna 19. Tba water to be used by tha sponsor, who I yat to be named, will be the firat to flow over tha aplllwaya of tha Kooaavoit reser voir dam. Central Huerta to Stay In United State$ Naw York General Vlctorlano Hu arta, former provlilonal preeldentof Mexico, who for nearly year baa bean an axtla In Spain, arrived here Tueaday on tha 8pantb ataamablp An tonlo'Lope from Cadia. General Huerta waa pawed by Unl tod Bute Immigration official a tranalt alien, after ba had declared un der oath that ha would do nothing that would Involve tha neutrality of tba United State. The ex-preslileut aald that b had eoma to tha United Btatee partly for pleaaur and partly to attend to eome persona! business connected with fam lly matter. II awor that ba bad do Intention of going to Mexico or to Cuba. Tha length of hla atay bar, h aid, waa Indefinite, but ha would re turn to Spain, possibly Bailing from Naw York early In May. General Huerta waa met at quaran tine by representative of tha preea and by an array of photographer. While aubmitting to being photo graphed la every desired pose, ba de clined to aay anything aa to bla m lo tion agreeing to meet newspapermen at bla hotel bora at a later date Regarding thi appointment ho aald : "1 understand that my presence In thl country create la you the do Ire to know my via1 Mexico and I wish to the beat of my ability. beg you, gentlemen, to remember that no Interview with me should be con sidered as authentle onloee it c arris mv personal ilgnatur. General Huerta waa accompanied by General Jose U Uelgardo, wbo been bla private secretary for 10 year, and by Abraham Katner, a personal friend of the general, who declared himself aa an American elllaen, giving bia realdenc a New York. Indiana Mayor Get Six Year tor Election Fraud Grants Pass Farmers Form Own Water Co. MEAL TIME IN A GERMAN CAMP IN POLAND Grant Paaa The farmer in that portion of Rogue River Valley Just west of Grant Paaa bav organised a co-operative Irrigation corporation. Owner of approximately 1000 acre of land have elgned up, and nearly two mile of Irrigation d I tehee have been built. Tbe ditchee are Ave feet wide at the bottom and all feet at the top, and are capable of carrying 10,000 gallon of water minute. Tbe water la to ba pumped from tbe Rogu River by a centrifugal pump driven by an electric motor. It will be forced first to a knoll, and then piped acroa tbe valley to a high line ditch, and from tha ditch diverted oa the 1000 or mor acre of land. Tba coat of Installing tba plant will ba IS an acre. A 100-boree power electric motor and a 12-incb centrifu gal pump bava been purchased and will be installed prior to Jon I In order to give water to these land on and after that date. A reservoir 100 feet wide by 800 feet long will be dug all feet deep on tbe top of tbe knolL From there it will be Ukan by gravity through a 14- Inch pipe and carried acroaa tba valley! to tbe foothill on tbe north. Tbe farmer are preparing their I land by leveling and mora than 600 1 acree of alfalfa will be planted thia fall. Tb moat of the land will be I planted to corn thia season, and after I tha harvesting of this crop will be sown to alfalfa. The ditch digging I being carried on under tba direction of Joe Russell, and tbe ditching la being dona at a I few cent lea than f 1 a rod. Ditch digging of thia kind usually cost not I lea than 1.60 a rod. II U said. Ales Hood, owner of one of tbe largest parcels of land to be Irrigated by tbe system, la directing work on I the project. Ill ranch comprise 1781 acree. H. C Newell, owner of the Lace House laundry, of Portland, baa a ranch of mor than 600 acree, a por tion of which will eome under thia I ditch. Ha la improving hla ranch, and i one of tbe show places la the I Rogue River valley. Tbe Lathrop and I Muller propertiee are among I wbleb alao will eome under the project. BnaipMMemiiwiwsiBsS I - FT Xtf Ate r "X,.,. ' f L" -r 1 11 i I , 4ti .1 W:: v mi "TiTTn ' r - - b )'- r - " .. ...T-,.., .v-sijf ' . . ... . - " rvaies in yvu me uwn SXi'Sffvi State Highway Fund Is Divided by Oregon Board RUSSIANS REMOVING THE GERMAN DEAD Apportionment State Road Fond. Douglas county f 20.000 Hood River county . 60,000 Columbia county 60,000 Clatsop county 85,000 Jackson county 60,000 Josephine county 6,000 Miscellaneous zu.uuu Kex-Tigardville road 7.231 Total... 1237,231 In the West tba French force ap parently ar aatlafled with their recent auecaaae between the Mouse and tha Lorraine frontier and aay Only that they hava coma In contact with tha German entanglement in thU region. Official German report aaaert that de termined attack by tha French bave been ro pulsed along thia vector. Both French and Belgian report I Jelegrapken Art Declared gain againai ine norm ana. , ; Indian poll. Ind. Four man con victed In the Terr Haute election fraud trial were sentenced by Judge Anderson to the Federal penitentiary at Fort leavenworth, Kan. Tbe other 16. Including Dona M. Roberta, mayor, wbo received prison sentence and appealed, and the 87 who were given sentence ranging from one day to ais month In the local jail, are In jail here. It waa aaid tbe 16 will bave two or three daya In which to obtain their appeal bonda. which were fixed by Judge Anderson at $10,000 for each year tha man were sentenced. Edward Holler, the former chief of police, wbo pleaded guilty, also received prison sentence. Tbe four wbo withdrew from tha appeal are: John M. Meaaelink, city coaler of welghta and measure and former member of the state legiala ture; Arthur Gillie, Progressive elec tion official; Joseph Straus, liquor aleeman, and Georg govern, gam bier. Each bad been sentenced to a year and a day in prison and to pay a fine of 1100. To obtain liberty pending hla ap peal. Mayor Roberta, wbo waa sen tenced to tlx year and to. pay a fine of 12000, the severest sentence given. will bava to furnith a bond of 160.000. If all secure bonda it will mean a total of 8420,000. Salem At a meetloglof.the State Highway commiaaloo, apportionment of tbe atat highway fund for the year, which. It la believed, with receipts from delinquent Usee, will approxi mate $237,281, waa made, seven coun ties receiving substantial funds. Tba largest amount, $60,000 each. go to Columbia, Jackson and Hood River counties, the board adhering to It original policy of aiding counties that bava bonded themselves to build roads. Of tbe $60,000 awarded to Jackson county, $10,000 waa owed from laat year and tbe balance waa provided for in a law paaaed at the re cent aeaaion of the legislature. The commission act aalde $20,000 for office expense. John H. Albert, or saiem, and a. Benton, of Portland, member of tbe advisory committee recently appoint ed, met with the board and partici pated In making tbe apportionment. It alao waa announced that the com mittee would ad viae with State High way Engineer Cantin frequently re garding road work. The other mem ber la Leslie Butler. Italy baa prevented the German from penetrating into Abyssinia. Russia continue to report eucceaeea In the Carpathian mountain passes. Special report of bank examiner ahow a nation-wide buaineaa revival. Tba British collier Lena la anchored outaide the three-mile limit off San Diego harbor, Cat, Both the Villa and Carransa factlona tn Mexico are preparing to use aero plane In their warfare agalnat each other. American aviator will man the machine, and ateel dart aa wall aa bomb will be uaed. It la estimated that It will coat $200,000 to repair the turbine engine of the Coaat liner Great Northern, and It will ba at least 80 daya before aha can resume her run between San Francisco and Portland. An diplomatic report from Rome de clare that Austria la tacking a separ ate peace from Germany, and the ru mor itira Italy greatly, aa uch a move would preclude any poaalbllity of her gaining territorial accession from Austria. Under a treaty between the United State and Prussia, made in 1828, Germany has announced that ahe will pay in full for tba sinking of the American ablp William P. Frye by the German auxiliary cruiser Frins fcitel Frledrlch. Railroad of the Middle West hava called upon employment agenta for 10,000 laborers, to be put to work by tbe and of April. The roada ar pre paring to put their roadbed in the beat of condition to care for the heavy tourlat travel which is expected to the Coast during tha summer. French troops from Africa are rest ing at Alexandria, Egypt, ready to proceed to help the British expedition ary force against Turkey. Persistent rumors that Germany la about to invade Holland ar current in London. It ia well known that Hol land la ready to repel any auch In vasion to tha beat of bar ability. Two men and a woman hava been arretted near Baker Or., charged with the holdup of a stage recently la which $7000 worth of gold bullion waa stolen. The bullion waa found concealed in a badger bote. Central Potato Depot Suggetted by Bulletin How co-operation might be worked out by tbe potato grower of a given diatrictaoaa to eliminate what the comniler terms "tha financial disaster Underpaid by Employer in the marketing of their potatoes met oy tne vast majority oi uregon larm Chicago Frealdent Newcomb Carl ton, of the Western Union Telegraph company, and S. J. Konenkamp, pros! dent of the Commercial Telegrapher' Union of America, testified from their repectiv viewpoint before the United State commission on Indus trial relatione Tueaday aa to wagea and working condition of the commer cial telegrapher. Mr. Carlton caused a mild sensation when, replying to a question from Frank P. Walsh, chairman of th com mission, aa to whether telegrapher were adequately compensated, replied: "I believe that tha telegrapher are underpaid." "Overpaid I" exclaimed Mr. Walth. "No, underpaid. I think they ought to make more money than they do. So far as I can ascertain, wagea hava In creased 80 per cent in the laat ten year. Ten year ago a Morse tele grapher received $18: it la now $28. It waa $18.60 for women and now it is $18. My own view is that a first class telegrapher should be able to earn at least $6 a day of nine houra. Soma of our employes, under the o. called premium plan, are making cloae to that." The witneia aaid hi company has one of the best pension and relief or ganization in the country, and it coat the men nothing. Half a million dol lan was expended on it last year, he aald. Airman Killed by Fall. Washington, D. C Cecil Malcolm Peoli, an aviator, waa killed at College Park, Md., near here, while making a teat flight in an aeroplane of his own invention and In which be had planned flight from Washington to New York and from New York to StL ouia. The machine fell 800 feet and Peoli' akull was fractured. The cause of the acci dent haa not been determined. Pool) waa tha first man to fly acroaa th Andea mountains in South America. The wrecked machine ia aaid to bava been th largest in this country. ers for the peat three year," la ex plained In the concluding paragraph or a 40-page potato bulletin just issued by the University of Oregon. The bulletin is called "Market for Pota toes," make a general survey of the potato situation, and may be had on application to tha extension division at Eugene. The paragraph in queation ia "It might be advisable to eatablian a central depot at a convenient shipping plant readily accessible to the growers of the district in which the association ia formed. To thia depot all tha grow era would entp ail tneir potatoes, where they would be inspected and tor tod. Only those of the very highest quslity In every respect would be mar keted for aeed and tor table use, and these carefully packed and sold under a name or brand that would establish their reputation. If thia high quality waa rigidly maintained and tha reputa tion fully earned and justified (aa cas been done similarly for applea from certain districts) a premium price above the prevailing market could demanded and depended upon.". Crowd Out Oregon Spud. University ' of Oregon, Eugene "The rise of potato growing aa an in dustry in Idaho and Colorado la one great cause'oi the potato depression In Oregon, because tbe crops of these two states have taken the southern mar ket." aaya H. B. Miller, director of the department of commercial and In dustrlal survey of the university of Oregon school of commerce. Formerly perhaps 40 per cent of Oregon's potato exports 1 went below the Mason and Dixon line. Mr. Miller thinks German competi tion will ultimately be a big factor in Belgium to Bear Concert. Berlin - Tbe famous Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin ia preparing to make a concert tour of Belgium early In May, according to announcement by the Oversea News Agency. Felix Welngarten will conduct and tha musi cian will play twice in Brussels. Suit Over Water Argued. Oregon City The injunction suit of tha Milwaukie Water company against the city of Milwaukie waa argued be fore Circuit Judge Campbell and was taken under advisement by the court However, Judge Campbell decided that tbe temporary Injunction granted by County Judge Anderson no longer could prevent the laying of pipe from tbe Bull Run mains of tba city of Portland to the Clackamas county town. Tha city haa signed a contract with Port land for a aupply of Bull Run water and I preparing to Install mains. County Judge Clark, of Columbia county, and J. H. Johnson, represent ing tbe Consolidated Contract com pany, requested th board to have the engineer make estimates of the work done by tbe company In that county, bo the County court could make certain payments. Under the law the pay ment cannot be made until the esti mates are furnished. State Treasurer Kay called attention to tbe fact that H. L. Bowlby, ex-state highway en gineer, had made tbe estimates, but bad not furnished a copy to the county judge. Mr. Cant ine waa instructed to do this. Mr. Johnson said after the meeting that the estimate of Major Bowlby war not satisfactory to the company and would not be accepted. He declared that under them tbe com pany would , loaa about $60,000, and that, if satisfactory arrangement could not be made with th county, litigation would result. A delegation from Yamhill county, which asked for ate aid, waa in formed by the board that it probably would be helped next year, but not thia one. because of a lack of funds. The spokesman aaid Tillamook and Yamhill counties each had raised $16,- 000 for use on the Grand Rondo road and suggested that th state provide a aimilar sum. Tbe apportinment of tbe atate fund suggested by Major Bowlby was follows: Clatsop county, $40,000; Douglas county, $27,000; Columbia county, $60,000; Hood Rivet county, $60,000; Jackson county, $40,000; miscellane ous, $20,000. southern markets II the duty remain off potatoes aa at present. The Ger man with hia cheap labor, cheap fer tilisers and water transportation can in normal time meet the Idaho grow er on even terms in tbe south or ex treme east. White Pine Hill Returnee, Baker Because of large orders, the Baker White Pine company started Its mill at White Pine with about 160 men. The resumption was due to lumber orders which Manager Frank Gardiner believe will keep tbe plant running all aummer at least. The South Baker mill alao ia running full capacity and will continue to do so in definitely. The company recently purchased more than 1.000.000 feet of timber, and with the large number of orders from the East it expects to be able to keen its 260 men busy all aummer, and nrobably longer. The outlook is good," said Mr. Gardiner. "We bave all the orders we can handle and expect to keep every man busy for some time. Sheep Shearing It Begun, Arlington Tbe annual sheep shear ing at this point is now in full swing, with about 16,000 sheep in town and 40.000 at the large Smyth Bros.' plant near here. There will probably be 600.000 pounds of wool marketed through Arlington during the month. The first shipment left upon the Inland Empire for the Portland wool bouse Wednesday. The quality in all cases ia better than last year, with much cleaner fleeces and better staple. There haa been a strong tendency toward improving the grade ewes. Iwo Mills Begin Work. , La Pine The J. N. Matsen Lumber company started work at its Dig mini Wednesday. The Fringl r ails mill started work last week. Both are working at full capacity on big eon- tracts. The Pringle Falls mill ia turn ing- out stuff for the power company, and the Hasten mill ia working on I flume material, presumably . for the Moore syndicate. The La Pine Lum ber company expects to start it mill in few daya. Klamath Land to Open Klamath Fslls Several lota of land in townships 37 and 88 south, range 8 east, Klamath county, have just been released from withdrawal under the first form In connection with the Kla math irrigation project, and wjU be come subject to homestead settlement under tha public land laws of the United States. The aggregate acre age released by this order is abowt 100 Ar-7; ijJL. - J ' lx A r 5 ' ( , IHt-" .-a-r:- -1 "V& If d ' M f "T"" JT' f ?M -x VM't . ' I -44ss,, a'TsssBaV k. - f , t Russian Red Cross workers gathering up the German dead after a battle tn Poland. GETTING "NEWS OF THE WAR IN THE WEST - ;j. ur : 4 MA 111 1 'f? " 1 I Jei )c - "&4 r (-"-iBr?-. . t - i i " '1 SaaaaTiiwKii'r - - For the information of the German troops fighting in the eastern war nnn hulletina teliinr of the nroeress of the struggle in the western tone are posted In Polish villages. SMASHED BY THE AUSTRIAN SHELLS lirr1-' a N asiaawfa''ji w"nIMw -yrS1 . J View of the army museum in Belgrade, Serbia, after Its destruction by Austrian sheila. . ADMIRAL. T. B. HOWARD Admiral T. B. Howard, recently ap pointed admiral of the Pacific fleet, is in the harbor of San Francisco and the" four-star flag of an American admiral is flying at the Golden Gate for the first time. ., - , One Good Reason for Being a Woman. By nature man belongs to the bunt In the open, and woman to uie nre in doors, and Just here Ilea one of the best reasons for being a woman rainar than a man, because a woman can get alonx without a man a out-of-doors . much better than a man can get along without a woman's Indoors, which proves woman of the two tbe better bachelor, aa being more seir-containeo and self-contented. Every real man when abroad on the hunt la alwars dreaming of a hearth and a hob and a wife, whereas no real woman, u sne haa the hearth and tbe bob. la longiog for man's bunting spear or quarry, if . she la Indeed a real woman sbe Is very likely longing to give a man tbe com fort of the nre, proviaea no wuj bu stay too long at a stretch, but get out long enough to give her time to brush uo his hearth and rinse bis teapot satisfactorily to herself. Atlantic 4 m a