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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1915)
.... . tonILeader WES 4 t J C " mTTT mmmmmmmm .... i " .ii .ii . j&a a. a aa a t am fan atfiavn WORLD'S DOINGS Of CURRENT WEEK Brief tonic cf General News frcni All Arcund Ihe CzrtlL i Live News Items of AH Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed : for Our Busy Readers. Th Pro-German element In New York Jt Mid will be Invited to ub- crib to tb billion dollar loan sought by th all lea. Threatening letter hav boon re ceived by too Anglo-French financial commission which I In this country Making large loan. - Washington will Inalat on th sbso lut retail of Dr. Dumb, th Hun- garla-Austrla mlllury attach, wbo attempted to InclU atrikM in uii country. Two bottle. bllvd to contain high explosive, war found on tb steamship Lapland, of tha WhlU Star Una, at bar plar In tha North rlvar, Nw York, Tba Lapland wu to Mil for Liverpool. - In a dlapatch from Amsterdam Red tor' correspondent Mya: "A tele- tram from Amaland, Holland, eays that only three of flv Zeppelins which Wednesday night wiled waatward re turnad Thuraday, flying In an aMtarly direction." .,-''. Tha British taamahtp Laonarda, tha flvwt vessel to clear from thl port for Vladivostok by way of tha Panama canal, Mllad Wadnaaday for tha Siber ian port Fifteen locotnotlvee and 6000 tona of ataal rails oomprlaad tba cargo, valued at about 1675,000. Following complaint by members of tba Civic Improvamant association, spooning In tha lobby of tha city ball at Aberdeen, Wash., haa boon declared nuisane by tha pollca. llaraaftar It will ba prohlbltad. Tha lobby ia used for t froa reading and magaatna room. , " -. Delegatee to tha convention of tha (faster Horsoshoers National Prot ac tive Association, at Cleveland. O., de clared, that the hard pavement used on automobile roads wsa helping their business. Thay My horse's shoos now are wearing only one-fourth as long as formerly. Effort of United State official to move the Mojave Indiana from Noad- lea, Cal., to a new reservation located serosa tha Colorado river at Parker, Art., met with such opposition from thai Indiana that the authorities had to threaten to call United States troops. Tha Indians are reported to be rest las. , . ' Blnee the beginning of tha war 84 persona have been arrested by the Swiss authorities on the charge of be ing spies. Th arrests, made ft vsrl ou, towna, were mostly of Austriana and Germane. At LauMnne recently three apiea, their leader a German, were sentenced to a year's Imprison ment and to pay heavy flnea. "'- Wong Doo King, a Chinese famous lo San - Franciaco M a highbinder, whom the immigration authorities for year have tried to expel from this country, must go at Nat. The order for his deportstoln wm algned after the eas bad bung undecided for many months, with tha Chine ualng every legal device to stsy off tha decision. ' More British gold, nerl" five and one-half millions of dollars Inaova reigna, has arrived hero aboard the Oceania liner Sonoma from Australian bankers. ' Including this; shipment the total of British money received here from Australia and New Zoaland sine June 80 approximate $20,000,000. Karly next month 18,000,000 more ia expected. J Lloyd-George says British workmen are not yet doing their best. . i Raiding Zeppelin reached the hotel district In the heart of London, killing SO and doing much damage with bomb. A prise Berkshire hog raised by the ' Delaware College experimental farm, Newark, Del., known officially a Duke Of Sussex Sixth, wu sold for f 1000 in esjih the world's record price for a registered porker to C. II. Carter, of Westchester, Pa. t An Amaterdam dispatch to the Ex thing Telegraph company My: "A Zeppelin which left Brussels In the direction of Antwerp lost a propeller over Stockem, and later fell and wu entirely destroyed by an explosion. The members of the crew were killed." ' The bodies of thirteen men taken from the hull of tha wrecked sub marine F-4 are on their way to San Franciaco on theateamer Supply. t .' Official circle in Washington be lieve that diplomatic relation with Germany will be severed without no tice opon any further invasion of the right of American cltlaena. On enlisted man wa killed and two Injured in an explosion on the do atroyer Decatur at the Cavite navy yard, Philippine .Island, according to a csbled report to the Navy depart ment. I fPIKCH AND tHGUSH WOULD - bom mm m America New York The prMnt plan of the joint . Anglo-French financial eommle Ion, It wu reported Tuesdsy night, I to borrow $1,000,000,000 In the United Htate on strslght British and French government bonis without any col lateral whatever. If this vast aum of money la ob tained. It wu Mid, it la to be apent to the last cent in the United Biatea in payment for cotton, wheat and meat and many com moony snipmsnia, in cluding munition of war. It will, therefore, in the opinion of financial authorities, be classed u commercial loan. Whether the neutrality of the Unit ed Bute would be questioned In com the banker financing the mammoth loan should accept etraight British and French government note u their se curity has been given aerlou consider ation. It wu Mid that ms Financier familiar With tha plan had vrjj- son to believe that the Washington ad ministration would not Interfere. The foregoing wu th unanimous opinion of many of tha aoorea or prom inent banker from ' New York and tha chief eltlee of the country, who have visited th commission at IU headquarter bar during the three day of It atay In thl city. A to it correctness, th members of the com mission declined positively to com ment. All that th commission cared to publish as authoritative wu voiced by Lord Reading, it chairman, wbo received newspapermen ror toe nrst time. "We are not In a position to make a statement at tha present time," Lord Reading uid, "because we are study ing the condition in New York and elsewhere In relation to American ex change on London and Paris. We have received a considerable number of per sons, prominent banker and other gentlemen wbo era Interwted In the stability of exchange. "The one thing that la striking about it ia that everybody la agreed, as one would expect, in the great Import ance to be attributed to regulating tne exchange so u to provide more stable condition than baa been the eaae re cently. "The eudden and considerable drop in th exchange naturally disturb and must disturb commercial relations be tween the countries the Unltad Stats and Great Britain and France inasmuch a it makM It so difficult to see ahead what the rate of exchange will be. and moreover, because natur ally It makM such a material differ ence in the mice to be received by th American and the price to be paid by th Englishman and Frenchman." Canada t Mt Bigfa ;- Ottawa. Ont Canada I to take up the manufacture of (laid guna and howitzer for th British government, it wu announced here. Thl wu de cided oh at a meeting of prominent statesmen and bankers with General Sir Samuel Hughes, minister of mili tia, and GanaratMahan, of th British war office. No artillery ever bu been made In Canada, bnt a committee wu appointed to organise factories to handle the business. The manner in which Canada has filled orders for shells led to the proposal that artillery be fabricated here. . Belgian Relief Ship Sunk. London A dispatch to Router's Tel egram company from Mulden, Holland, says; "The steamer Pomona reports that at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning it witnessed th linking of a British t.innr whfoh wsa flvinar the sis-nals of the Belgian relief committee. Ten of the crew of the steamer were res cued by (turn trawler." Tha at afT f Harhort C Hoover. chairman of the American Belgian re lief commission, l Investigating tne report, but bu not been able u yet to confirm it. , - . , . Roumanla Is Mobilizing. Athens It is renorted in dtolomatic circle here that there bu been a heavy mobilisation of Roumanian troops, Including several regiment of cavalry, to face an unexpected concen tration of Auatrlana, which ia directed presumably against Roumanla. Rail road traffic In Northwestern Roumanla ia declared to bava been upndd in favor of troop movement. All horses have bean requisitioned. The second series of reserves are now with the color.': ' Turkish Town I Aflame. r London Th town of Phocaea, Asia Minor, 25 mile northwest of Smyrna, ia reported to be in flamea. A . Reuter dispatch from Athena says it is in ferred that the Turk are destroying cout town and retiring into the in terior In expectation of the fall of the Dardanelles. Dr. Dumba Packing Good. Lenox. Mm. Th smbssasdor of Austria-Hungary, Dr. Constantin Theo- dor Dumba, whose recall waa request ed by President Wilson, la preparing to leave hia summer home here within o short time. Snow Falls In Montana. Trenton. N. D. Snow from two to six inches In depth hu fallen in North Dakota and Eastern Montana, much or it melting u it fell through the night Most of the grain in this region Mill i unthreshsd. Hest KMIs Six in Ohio. Cleveland. O. Four person were prostrated and th death of six chil dren wu attributed to heat Tuesday. The temperature wu at 87 degrees, the hottest day of th year. - WESTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, 8EPTl.MIJ.EIt 17, 1915. PLEA fOR APPENDIX MADE BY DOCTORS Patient teld Hesitate Before Operation, They Say. SOMETIMES COOD OHES ATI REKOYED State Medical Association of Oregon Ends Enthusiastic Session With Reading of Good Advice. The old practice of diving Into a man' abdomen after bis appendix and slicing It off In triumph u soon u be exhibited symptoms of the "belly ache" got roughly handled at the coo eluding session of th Oregon SUU Medical association at the Multnomah Uotel, Portland, Saturday. Th modern theory appeared to be qui t different. The general advice, u brought out In spirited discussion of two weil-preaented papers on ap pendicitis, wu to bang on to your ap pendix Just u long u you can. , The difference wu caphasised, bow- a t ever, between acute ana cnronio np- nendiclti. If rou have the scut type. It wu generally agreed, it la of ten better to get the appendix out and have dona with It, though, even then, It wu declared. It ie by no mean always necessary to operate. But If you should be troubled with the so-called chroni appendicitis, pro tect th appendix, stand guard over it, refuse to -five it up until the most careful aludy of th csae Mem to in dicate beyond a doubt that it can't be made to behav In any other way ana deeervM to be taken out. In case of doubt, it seemed to be the concensus of opinion, keep your ap pendix. At least be reasonable witn it and give its chance. Don't eon-. damn it on whim, or just because soms on is willnlg to cut it out for you, In fact, the ooor. lambasted appen dix of other days, th once cause of many of the ilia of mankind, wouia bav been astounded at th warm de fense It got. . . Th reason for the extreme caution to be observed in removing the ap pendix In cue of chronic appendicitis, it wu brought out by Dr. CbarlM E. Sears in a paper on "Th Study of the Condition Commonly Called Chronic Appendicitis," la that In s great num ber of cases appendicitis isn't th troubl at all, but only a symptom. Uccprocal "No" is Reply of ; mm urraszi ia irestaca Vera Crax General Venostiano Car- Mmi'i mnlv tn tha anneal for DOSCe conference Is a polit but unequivocal "No." In a note Issued by Foreign Minister Acuns and delivered to Mr. Silliman Saturday, be declare that he can pwmit no Interference what ua, hv forairin ffovarnmenta. ' He as serts that h I in control now of all Mexico except Chihuahua and Moreloa and a part of Sonora. ; Th signer of iwrfa tn Carranita are invited to eom or to send representatives to some point along toe kio urame iot a conference, "solely from an interna tional mint of view." with the idea that Carranxa's government be recog nised U the ae xacto government m Mexico. ' " v'i'-'. Tha diniomat are told that Carran- sa commands an army of 160,000 men, that the functiona or .dudiic service have been restored, the railways re nalred and railwav traffie resumed. Th note adds that In th field and th cities there have boon re-born the activitlM of normal life. Th reply explain that a conference with any "conquered faction" would mean the sacrifice by urransa oi tne ftrat cMitftAlncv of the constitutional army and his executive power, end a betrayal of confidence now repoeea in htm hv tha nannia of tha armv. That Carrsnss represents the army in mak ing such reply is indicated in a para graph of the note in which the diplo mat are told that they will be able to ivhurvt from tha answers thev receive from the military chiefa and tha civil subordinate of Carransa tnsi tn nrai .hlaf "ta tha nnl authority that . could decide, and, In fact, doe decide" mat ters submitted to them. , :. President I Applauded. Chicago A telegram expressing the belief that more than half the popula tion of Austria-Hungary condemns the Austro-Hungarian ambassador's at tempts to Interfere with American in dustries wu sent to President Wilson Ratnrdav hv Emil Tehlftr. nroaident of the Slovak Guard, an organisation - of representatives from various American societies of Austrian. Tha message annlanHa President Wilson's COUrSS in demanding hia recall and expresses confidence that th rrwiaenc win safeguard American Interests." Pacific Una Is Promlted. TTnnnluln. T. H. Paul S. Reinsch. United Statu minister to China, paw ing: throuih here on hia way to Pekin, said that American capital in New York wu planning a new trans-Pacific steamship line which would take the place of the Pacioe Mail company. IT. a,.a nnt at llhertv. ha Mid. tO give names, but be added that be ex pected the line to be In operation wiw in s year. OREGON STATE NEWS Sunday Closinz Law Held Valid by State Supreme Court Bslero Constitutionality of the Sun day closing law ww upheld by Josle Burnett, of the Supreme court, when he reversed tba decision of Circuit Judge Morrow in the eass of the State against Leigh E. Nichols, appealed from Lane county. Nichols wu charged with keeping his cigar ctor ops Sunday. , , That the decision may result in a mors stringent enforcement of the tat law prohibiting tU keeping open on Sunday of any "store, shop, gro cery, bowling alley, billiard room, or tippling house ... or any place of m.mant" la haliawad Drobable bv attorney and other bar who bav studied IU Th law exempts from It . ,i.ina thaatare. drur store, doe- tors' offices, undertakers, livery stable keepers, butcher snd Daxers. In tha aiiark nnon th constitution- atlta r4 tha atatntaV attATMV for Nlch- ol contended that it wu violating aeo- tioa 20 of artcle of tne state eonsinu tion, wbicb declares that "no Is ahall be passed granting to any citixan or .laaa f eiticana. nrlrileirsi or immuni ties which, upon the same terms, ahall not equally belong to all citizens." That th measure also wu contrary to the 14th amendment to the Federal constitution wu alleged. Oregon State to Display at Show. For the second time Oregon counties and communities are Invited to par ticipate in the Manufacturers' & Land Product show at Portland. The gnat fall exposition win open in thelArmory and special buildings on October Zo and eloM November IS. Already tnor than a dosen coonitee bav asked for apace. The exposition comes st s time of the year when all eonntv fairs and the State Fair at Salem are over, and the agricultural and horticultural displays will show the greatness of th state along these lines. ' 1 " Th exposition will be presented by tha chamber of commerce and the man agement hu decided to give space free to all counties or eommunftie in in state desirinar to make a displsy. Low fares will prevail on steam, electric and boat line and many Oregon ciuee and towna will hav special daya at the exhibition. This year the exhibits will De so sr- .ml Hlanlaved as to ffive the consumer a correct Idea of what" Ore gon grows and has lor ssie. none will Um ajuvw se as e meet producer and the discriminating buyer will oe in a position u warn th. iv.tinn Aualitv and variety of oil products in which they are inter- ttflvAUa .. ' " ' ' Th exposition will both direct mean of creating a demand for cer tain article in which counties of the state specialise, beeide creating many ma.bata. The aat arrsv of ex hibits will also be of great help to prospective homosee iters ana wiu pre sent to them a truthful lesson in Ore gon geography. . . Thousands or visitor win w Dn,,i.rw4 an mits ta or returning from the California exposition at the time the land scow ia in progress, .kihita nf tha anil will be viewed by people from almost every state in the Union. Severrai nunorea . nnmn from Eastern and Middle Western etatea will visit th exposition en route to San Francisco to ae what Oregon land produces. Roseburg Work to Start. ; DuAnra That actual construction work on the proposed railroad from Roseburg to the line of the Umpqus National forest reserve and the saw mill which is to be erected east of this city will begin within the next few week wu the assertion oi u. - 1 . Waahinirtnn. D. C who arrived her u th official represen tative of Kendall Bros., of Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Setecman Will establish office here soon and will direct Kendall Broe. investmenta In thla vicinity. c.....ln9 An tha railroad will be resumed Wednesday. S. A. Kendall, J. L. Snyder and Mr. McKelvey, who are associuted in the enterprise, are expected to arrive here In a few days. Aged Tree Yielda Exhibit. Ouinabv From tree 65 years old, William H. Eagn, of Mountain View Farm, will send a box of applea to the Panama-Pacific exposition, i lanuu m mid h Jnhn Tjtmen. tha tinv tree bu grown to a height of 60 feet, with a 50-foot spread to its branches, and from which more than B0 bushels of lll ha harvested. The tree is halo and hearty and has missed only a few years with a neavy crop sinew u. cv-n haa taken note of it. Pears Hit. ' " " - from a 60-year-old tree will form a part of the interesting exhibit. , Exhlblta Being Gathered. State Fair Grounds, Salem O. E. z ,navlntanriant of th DSr rrvytag, ""K' ' . A vilion, arrived Wednesday fromSan Francisco, and weni as w i " -.. a v.t.in MiintiM to secure inrwn hiiu a wii...... - exhibit r4 the forthcoming State . . l - L... at tha H- positkfh at San Francisco ever since the opening, having charge of the ag ricultural exhibits for the state u well u being the representative Willamette valley counties there. f atl S "Ci . .-.y ... , j w if I, n - n "m- h 1 n - S This photograph Uken at an aero base in northern France, shows s number of celebrttiu in the French sport, fait world who ere serving their country ss army avlatora. The second man from the left ia Georges Carpentler. the famoue boxer, and the third la Somes, French champion cyclist, who had brought down a German aviator Just before the ylctw waa taken. nnnrvuxj.uxnnruuuvinrn ..1-.-L1Uuuumnni ji-vAinivuuuwrwtw. IHOHAHIMEDAN TROOPS AT PRAYER IN. ENGLAND i. .sirs' s, "s" . . - ;-.:'."-. :i. A DicturesQue scene which wu Mohammedans, principally British each worshiper with his fsce to the PROTECTED AGAINST i t-"7 4 v, i i-' r S Jt - v. V- y. Group of French infantrymen in and gogglM u protection against the r DEAD AT THEIR POSTS IN A TRENCH " 1 . .r . . 0 v 'X.-' vi " " yj .' la, t V " ' ' '"' ... ' .. an unbroken Una of dead soldier aho . - ? ' . . &awi wltnesed at the mosque at Woking, near London, when a large number of Indian troops, assembled for prayer. The picture ahowe the "prostration, ust . . ,r j.-.r- jvjjTuvvinww.. r-.ri-j-.r - n POISONOUS GASES is J J ' tha trenches equipped with respirators poisonous gases used by the Gorman. a.L 4. ; -r-.' - v. 1 . ..nnt.tii n,rTiiii trejifh in which la were killed u they fought NO. ia. ;u; Lt -vsw - .,-v .f . w ' THEY INFRINGED DISCIPLINE Discipline in the British military camps at Alexandria, Egypt, la very strict and those soldiers who have committed petty Infringements are confined In a compound surrounded by barbed wire. Some of these of fenders are here shown leaving " the compound for their dally tasks. SNAKECHARM Circus Employee Breathes by Mean of Tuba as Result of Swollen Tongue. : ' i ' .; ' ."' ' Pocatello, Idaho. George Horner, who la employed by the Campbell Carnival company as a snake charmer, went out into the hilla near here with a companion and captttredelBht ret-v tlesnakea, Horner wanted to extract tie -fangs, of the reptiles, and had succeeded by using hi teeth on to first few, when; a particularly aquirmy one bit bim on th lip and tongue. A a consequence ha is considering himself lucky to be breathing, even by mean of a tube put through a bole In his windpipe. As soon as he was bitten. Horner wa taken to Dr. A. F. Newton. The , doctor administered antidotes and la bored with the man for three hours. Horner' tongue hecasa so swollen that b could not breath and Doctor Newton found it necessary to cut hoi in th man' windpipe. ; Indian $pear found. Eagene, Ore. An Indian spear, es timated to be froa fifty to on hun dred year old. was found recently by forest service gawds en tt H Kenjf river, 60 mile t of tore. The shaft is of cedar an1 to a r-wd state of proaervation. Tbo -: " ' about twelve fevt Umg, and t,,3 fj of flint. Mm 1 imsasamaiiwtii tmiriitiiwt"lr