4 . iEADER TOL. XXXV. WESTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1915. NO. 19. Weston VORID'S DOINGS JHBV YORK POUCC I 1 1 rCrl K fill I Al 1 1 In I Ilhfl Or CM ra : z : take german spv Erfcf Reside of General News Frcni All Arcnd the CstUl x Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Pittsburg. Thirteen persons ware I killed and eight Injured by fire In a four-etory building, U upper floor. I e( which wr occupy by U Union Ppr Soi ompoy, on th aorta Ida kera. Wednesday afternoon. Of (ba dead all war yoang woman am- ployed by U company sopt on. Mayor Joeeph 0. Armstrong at one ordered thai tha police, city council and Ika coroner Osaka thorough Inves tigation of tha fir. Tfc riamj al.Haa' la a nlla nf air Uvi News Items of AO Nations and ia tt nu or u fd store of jam Draw a A Co, oa th Aral floor of tka building. William 0. Klmbet, general managar of tka bos factory, at ooca want to tka third and fourth floor, and warned tka glrta anployad tkara. Tka flaiaaa gained kaadvay ao rapid ly, however, tbat aacapa by maena M Ulrwaya and flra aacapa waa aooa eat oft Soma of tka girl attamptad to go to tha draaalni-room for thatr kata and tkara, buddlad on tka floor, rtramaa found a majority of tha bod lee. Joeeph L. fUah and Z. 3. Soeglc, em ployed oa tha aaeond floor of tka building, were about to Jump, whe Uey vara attractad by tha scream of glrla in tha window a bora. Tka man told tka glrla to lump. Ona by ona, aa lha glrla laapad, Baak and Sea gia caught Uem, lowered tham aa far aa lhay aould and lat tham drop to tka atduwalk. O. R. Carlisle, driver of a tranarar wagon. drove kla wagon Into aa allay la tka raar of tka building and lb raw up a rap to glrla la a window a bora. Making ona and fast, tkay alld down tka rone to aafaty. Margaret BUIgerwald, agad 17, wbo waa tnjurad by jumping from a third floor window, aald aba and five othar glrla war trapped la tha build log wkaa aomabody closed a door at ua haad Of tka atalrway oa tha aacond floor. Ona of tha haroa of tha fir waa Tatar Vallon. wbo la among tba dead. Whan tha fir waa discovered ha waa working la tba building. 11a groped hla way to tba traet, wbara ba beard tba glrta calling for balp from tha up per atory. Tying a handkerchief about hla mouth, ha ruahed Into tha build ing. 81 tltnee Vallon auggarad to tba atraat with tha unconscious form of a girl la hla arma. When ha failed to appear tha aeraoth time, however. firemen began a eearcb and round nia body oa tha aacond floor. Near him lay tba body or a young gin. wnom no evidently bad tried to, overcome by amok. B . . a a. . linrna la Hi win it.h iMfWffff Hica Ccnfessci STcaoftmosntsrocim Brlbe.Offcred to Arresting Officer- Chart of New York Harbor and Official Papers Are Taken. Rural credit plan waa beatea ia California by over 14,000 majority, The wholeeala price of gaeollne kaa rtaea la Portland from N to 1154 veata witnia a saonib. . Flra of unknown origin deetroyed a garage and eight autua and eeveral Motorcycle at Wood burn, Or. Ureek frontier guard war attacked by Aaatrlana and Bulgarians, but re pulsed tha enemy with heavy laeaee. A Rrltlah aubmarlna on Sunday aank tka Turklab tranaport Carman, ladea with munition, la tha aa of Mar mora. Tha propoeed plan to make all Cali fornia atata officer atrtclly non parti aaa waa beatea la a atata alectlua by Jl.ooo majority. Robert Kay, Oermaa apy arreatad la New York, aaya tha dlveraloa of car go of copper from Ruisian to Ur- maa porta by bribing aaa captain waa a part of hla plan. According to tha Tyd, of Amster dam, II additional death sentence against persona ebarged with espion age aad treason have beaa pronounced by court martial at Liege. , Four saw hydroaeroplanes bav been received at tba navy aeronautic tatloa at Pensacola. PI a., and tha first aavy dirigible will be delivered at the atauoa within tha next three week. A a official announcement made In laMdoa aaya: "Tha British transport Marquette baa bean torpedoed la tba Aegean Sea. II Is understood tbat only of tha personnel of tba vassal are unaccounted for. StMpeoaloa of postal money order atcbangea between tba United State aad ureee baa been ordered by poat- maater-tieneral Burleson, pending the negotiation of a new poatal conven tion between tba two countries A report ba reached London that Prince voa iiuelow, former oermaa chancellor, will shortly submit to Free 1 Idaat WUaoa and King Alphonoao, of pain, aa outline of the condition on which Germany might be disposed to diacuaa tarma of peace. Winter ba set In In tha Russian Big Lumbar Order, Due. A herd sen. Wash. Oraya Harbor mUlmea are preparing bid oa th gov ernment order, soon to be let, for 7,- 70.000 feat of Douglas fir to be used la th Panama Canal son. .. Th specifications, which hav been received her, Include everything from fancy celling to heavy timber. Th ranuaat tar nmrvnaala alee lha aradin war theater, according to tha London rut ot the WeatCoaat Lumber sso- wer automobile and a speedy mo- torboat. bo in or. wnicn are in wee- New York. In U arrest of Albert Pay, lieutenant la th Oermaa army, and Walter gcbola. kla brouer-ia-taw, police aad federal secret service agent believe they have detained leader ia a plot to wrack America muaitloa plant and ahlp carrying munltlona. According to Captain Taaney, of the New York anarch lata squad. Pay eonfeaeeoT that ha came bar to work out a plaa for slopping tba shipment of munitions. II said. Tenner avers, that ba waa eupplled with 200 for carrying out kla operation. Paper found la hla room ahowed ha waa Oermaa aecrat service agent. A vaat quantity of high exploelvee war found la tba prisoners' room la Weenswken, N. J. iloth men era held oa technical eharcee of disorderly conduct Aa ad' dltlonal charge of attempted bribery mar ba made against Fay. lie la aai to bav offered SlOuO to a police offi cer for his release. Ua la aald to have offered aa advance payment of 10 when th officer agreed to hla pro posi tion. Polio wbo hare beaa watching out going veeeel for exploelvee caused tha arrests. Explosives and survey chart of New Tork harbor are aau to aav found la their noeeeealon. Tba men are declared to hav beaa testing a bomb la a smell gror when anorehended. live steel mine, aald by th police to belong to th prisoner, later wore found In a Weat Hobokea storehouse. Each waa packed la a separate wood case, and fitted with an -attachment which mlaht ba fastened to tha stern of a ship by a wire. Contact with the propeller ot a ahlp. It la aald. wonld ex Diode tba mine. Two caaea found la th men's room la Weebawken war filled with plosive, letter written la Oermaa and official-looking document. Among th eiploalvea war small stick of dynamite and vartoua hind of add used la Ut manufacture of explosive. Ona of th paper. It 1 asserted by th polio, showed Fay to be a lieuten ant In U Oermaa army and connect ed with tha Oermaa foreign office oa th Wlthelmstraae. Tba police assert that th prisoner had admitted tba ownership or a aign- Tim' Petrograd correspondent, who aaya anow baa beaa falling for three days and lb road are rrosen so bard that there la no foothold for horses. Th condition, tha correspondent adds, are thus worse than la the rainy Twenty four of th 41 big SC-lnch pro lectors that hav formed an tm- oortant element of tha Panama-Pacific eipoeltloa Illumination system have been sold to th Ruaslan government and are to ba shipped at once to Euro pean battlefields, It waa announced In Saa Francisco. Th pric paid Is placd at Ss.OM. . , , ; Drastic action by officials of Kan sas City, Kaa., to prohibit Illegal aala of bear by brawerios waa taken wea- aeeday when threat drivers were ar rested and aentenoed to jail and tha bear troche confiscated. Th driver were fined 1500 each and sent to Jail for all months. More than 100 caaes of beer war destroyed. Wall street heard oa apparently tood authority that preparations bad bean almost completed for tha estab lishment of a French credit in New York of from 110,000,000 to $16,000,000. According to report current la the financial section, th sura waa to be used solely for th payment of muni tion shipped from this country for th account of Franc. Th London newspapers publish an appeal from M. Pachltch, tha Serbian premier, for apeedy aid from Kngland in Serbia's superhuman effort to da- fend her existence against tha Auatro- Oermana and Bulgarians, who have, ha aays, condemned her to death. "For M days," tha premier aays, "our 'common anemia bar tried to anni hilate us, and despite th herotam of our soldiers. our resistance cannot ba expected to be maintained indefinite- ly." .. A dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph company of London from Co penhagen aaya: "Premier Zahie de clared Wednesday that the govern ment Intended to put In force June S, IMS. th new eonatitutlonal law con ferring suffrage oa women, waiving tha right to propose a prolongation of tha old eonatitutlonal law, owing to tba war. It ia expected that a general election will occur In July, when the Danish women will rot for th first tlm.M All railways entering New Tork City territory report buelneas booming. Every eligible Englishman Is to re ceive a personal letter urging aim to nllat. Three American trooper and at least five Mexican war killed la a border fight Tha Portland Chamber of Commerce ia endeavoring to get It big steamer lines to make that city a regular port Governor Major, of Mlasonrt, made aa ascension in tha balloon fit Louis, which won tha recent race at Wichita, Kan, olatlon prominence. Bids will ba open ed November ft. Th material la to be I delivered at Colon or Ancoa botween January 1 and March L Farmer Flask ta exposition. San Francisco It ha been eetlmat- ed that mere farmnr hav entered the gates of th San Francisco Expo sition during th last tnree we as than during tha eutlr period line th great fair opened. October, spe cially dealsnated aa "Farmers' Month haa had a great drawing cam in tne liv stock exhibits and show which hav bean well attended. November bromlae to keen up with th October attendant! average aa moat of the big llva atock convention will ba held la i November. 48,000 Cattle Received. Kansas City. Mo. Forty-five thou sand cattl war unloaded at th local I stockyard her Wednesday, 8000 more, it was said, than ever arrived her before In one day. About S00 carloada came from Iowa and Minne sota. The advances in prices laat week waa th magnet that attracted tha large offerings, stockmen aald. Th big supply cauaod aomo depres sion In prices, except for good corn- fed cattle. bawken. Austrisns Clsar Way to Bulgaria. London. Tba Bucharest Roumanla, correspondent ot tha Time sends th following: Serbian troop bar withdrawn from th neighborhood of th Danube, and th Austrian hav crossed th river, traversing th laland of Odakale. Th Austrian force will now obtain free nsag through Bulgaria from Oraova, near tha Roumanian frontier, where 60 ateamer and lighter laden with munition hav assembled. British Losses I no rs ass. 1 London. British casualties publish ed since October 1 total 2285 officers and 60,07 non-commissioned officers and man. These figure show an av erage loss to the British army of nearly 2600 men a day. Thla la considerably In excess of th casualties earlier In th war, and reflects th heavy loasea of th British in the recent sevei fighting In Belgium. During the sum mer th losses averaged about. 160 dally. . Masaacr I Reported. London, A dispatch to th Dally Mall from Odessa aaya: "Th Turk have massacred tha en tire Armenian population of Kerasunt, on th Black Sea," Kerasunt la a aeaport with a popula tion of 10,000, large part ot which ar Armenians. Briton Sentenced aa Spy. London. It la officially announced that a British subject haa been tried In th Old Bailey Court oa three counts of an indictment charging es pionage, and waa aentenced to life Imprisonment 1000 Ec?gars KSd ia Ix&ifaaL London. Th bombardment ot Da deagach caused th death of ten civil ian and xnor than a thousand sol diers, and a lance number ot aoldler war wounded, aaya a dispatch to th Exchange Telegraph company from Athana. . A large proportion of th military caaualUea. th correspondent ad da. war In th barrack which housed th Fortieth Bulgarian regiment Tha barracks were crowded with aoldlera, who war preparing for their meal, when th bombardment waa openea at 1 o'olock with accurately aimed shell, which demolished th barrack, burying th occupant la th ruins. Troops engaged la digging tranche around th town also sustained heavy losses. Fire censed by th exploding shells destroyed th railway elation and aur- roundlng building, doing enormous damage. It la said that th entire loss from th bombardment, which, lasted four boura. will b several million Bounds. : , The correspondent say th bom bardment was directed by aeroplanes. Patriotic Appeal I Mad. Los Angelea.'-Gotna; further than merely serving notloe that aa embargo has been declared. E. M. Blanford. a special agent ot the federal govern ment, directed aa appeal to arms and munitions dealers la the west to help President Wilson stop further blood shed In Mexico. The Mexicans can shoot away la a day all the ammuni tion Mexican manufacturer can make In a month," said Mr. Blanford, "and with th aaaUtanc ot American deal era, further fighting In Mexico can be promptly stopped.1 s Seven of Family Killed. Detroit Seven member ot ' on family were instantly killed aad an eighth waa probably fatally Injured by a Grand Trunk paaaanger train, which struck their automobile, near Detroit The dead are Mrs. Radtael Stoldt her five daughters. Pearl, Ha ael. Mabel, Esther and Martha, and Miss Minnie Engel, a slstar of Mrs, Btoldt William Stoldt ot Troy. Mich., the husband and father, was badly mangled. 1 Germans Ouat Belgians London. A telegram from Amster dam to tha Exchange Telegraph com pany ears: "Meaaagee from tha; Bel gian frontier aay that Belgian sub jects between the age ot 17 add 36. liable tor military service, had been notified by the Oerman authorities at Brusaela to report themselves to th Oerman commander, with the weault that 7600 ao far hav been deplirted to Germany. jg OREGON STATE M Railroad Business -en Increase. La O rands Thar r fewer "dead engine" oa the 0.-W. R. A N. dlvlaioa of Ua Ulo Pactft Uia week Ua In any time for mors tbaa a year. Daily for th peat lw weeks th Una of Idle engine baa beaa diminished, antl) the local aupply la nearly eoliraly ta th eervlce. New engine crews and trala craws have bees put on to meet the apart la business. Railroad man aad ship pers generally attribute tha major por tion of Ua la laat revival la freight to the Panama canal elide, which bin ders steauahlp traffic, while tranaeom- Unaalal bualnea t wrtak, local crop ar scarcely moving at all, farmers hold Ina thetr wheat taaacKmaiy. With ua praeant aaarp increase in business coming oa before a concerted movement of wheat from Inland point railroad officiate for a good win ter. Twenty machlnlau have been added to Ue ahop fore her during Ue fall, aad from time to time. Trala crew scratched a year or mora aa-o ar com In back to seme. two each crew being re-employed out of bar wlthla tba peat day or two. Boy Makes JS30 on Acre of Spuds. Portland. Th chamber of com merce haa received many letters from different sections of Ue stats, attest- in the effectlveneee of th campaign of th "Flying Squadron" laat week to arouse latereat la ue Manufacturer and Land Product Bbow. On of th moat striking letters re ceived came from Alfred Gugglsberg, a bov farmer Bear Drain. Tha letter, whlca reaultaa rrom tne vlait of C. W. Roblaoa of Ue "Flying Bauadnm" to Drain, follows: C. W. Roblaoa waa at ue vrain Hlch School today and Invited oa all to come to Portland end see Ue Port land Land and Manufacturing Bnow. '1 am anebie to come, hot I am very Interested la It last Ue same. -I pleated one acre of potato laat year. I am a boy or ue age ot 1 ana I waa vary successful la raising po- Utoea. It coat ma Just I no tor plant ing and harvesting, etc, I rataea yuat 1200 bushels from th on acre. Th potato bringing ma 19(0, making a dtoIU Of SS3V oa in on acre in una. The potatoes were called Ue Netted Oem variety." Oregon Kens Cinch First Prize. t- nHrrn a rrti-nllnral Pallet. CotT ti lt. With but six weeks of Ue Panama-Pacific exposition erg laying eon- teat to be run, th u. a. v. wnne ueg tumi bava flrmlr established Uem- elve la first place. Even If they am n lav off altoareUer for Ue re mainder of Ue term Uelr position would atlll be secure. Tne uctouer i Mitnrt ahnara that thsv are Z4S CKK ahead of the nearest competitor, not counting Ue other O. A. C pen a lead that cannot now be overcome. Tha thru Oreroa college Den con iii that Uail. Iiahorna ft rat Ore gon second and Barred Rocka third. The Oregon ar ex eaeaa ana m Rock It ahead or ue closest pen. . j o,n,. tx'klta Wvandntlita. The college Rocka suffered an acci dent laat month when one of Uem waa accidentally killed, that may affect Uelr lead. Loop Road Survey Made. xinnA ri at aovernment engineers baa completed Ue aurvey tor the proposed loop aignway aom ih. m Mnmt PIvap valley to Ue Barlow road, Ue route emerging from Ue forest reserve on Ue eaat tork ot Hood river a few mllea aouth of Park j.ia A mw will ras another line this week, cutting out Ue eaat fork canyon and paaatng around ue case of Ue mountain through Elk Meadow.- . " " Tk main road will pas down tt eaat aide gorge, but It la proposed to mm ,iuttk.p iirSaw with the .view eventually ot building a road Urough Elk Meadow, - Saw Dsstroy Orchard. Albany. Whan a light wind Satur day blew down 71 peach trees on the farm ot A. W. Martin, seven miles eaat nf Albanv. he discovered Uat all had been sawed more than half through near Ue baa ot U trunk. Only four tree in Ue whole 4-year-old orchard were not aawed. The trees were Just coming Into bearing, many had yielded a light crop Uia year, ana mn yw ...... 1.1 h Hun in rull hearinsv Mar tin had depended upon Ueae trees to yield money to pay on a mortgage on his place. Toledo Hear W. t- Finlay. Tnlarfn atata Ttlnlnaiat W. IV Fin- ley left here after a aeriee of lectures oa Ue habits snd propagation ot Ue fish and game of Oregon. Mr. Finley used moving ptcturea ot Ue capture and transportation ot Ue herd ot elk h. wa XiYins-ht from Ua Jackson Hole country In Montane to Wallowa county. . . Mr. Finley was greeted with packed houses at Waldport, Newport and at Toledo. He reprimanded Ue cttiaens of the county for allowing the sUte to discontinue Ue Big Elk fish hatchery. 60-Pound Chinook la Caught t n. Smith, an Alsea nawyvih . Bar fisherman, caught a Chinook sal mon on hla regular drift Saturday night Uat tipped tne ecaie si pound. This ia to record fish for thla season. The record fish on that bay laat Season, for chlnook. weighed 73 pounds. 850 Teacher at I nail lute. Salem. With S60 teachers present Ue annual Marlon County Teacbera Institute convened here tor a aeealon thraa itavi w. M. SmlUk county euperintendent la la charge. Well- known educators oi in auai "- aMMaaaa Tba Schoola Ot US county are closed during Ue Institute. nn.n.t.i haiulfearcfclefa formerly were worn la the hat by men aa to kens, . - TROPICAL HURRICANE DEVASTATES THE SOUTH " n ,G7T v mj- "7':-V:"t, -xr: 7AX 'j - k. ' w - ; ', Z. ' ' tl-e- iill r-.? I " -rT -'-1 ,- - f r," , . till1' . 2 rcV 'i 1 " ' .ear-' . Five hundred pcraon are believed to have lost Uelr lives la Ue tfoplcal hurricane Uat raged over the lower Mississippi valley. Tha extent of tha tremendous damage wrought haa not yet been fully calculated, but probably tha Cgure will be well over llz.0O0.000 The upper photograph abowa Ua wreckage of Ue railway depot and 8t John s Rowing club buildings at Wast End. on Lake Pontchartraln near New Orleans. The lower photograph abowa Ua wreck of a ferry boat barge and gasoline boat at Ua Tugger landing oa Ue Mississippi river. JOINING THE ENDS OF HELL GATE BRIDGE L-1 I . rSST K H IS il I .-r c ;"L'b.S aV v'lmi.. 1. ITS i .'i IV-' . 4 :" A r - ill ------ fjfH When tba last slrder of the 19.000-ton brides over Hall Gate. New Tork city, wa put Into .place recently, the largest, heaviest and moat expensive structure or IU kind in the world waa nearly completed. Th bridge, built for the New York Connecting railroad. Is 1.017 feet long and IU cost Is 12.000.000. VON H1NDENSURG IN WOOD - m A3 ? . ? V II III! ) '! r jj "" -,Jw t' . I - afks 's i ii .- aaaTpW-iiliiaf CT , r t -1 Thla huaa wooden statue Of Field Marehal von Htndenburg was un veiled recently In Berlin In tbe pres ence ot many notables, its maaios rannirad E1.000 pounds of alderwood. Gold, silver and Iron nails ar being drlvtn Into It by U oonor to wr k.nitai fun da The ploture, taken during Ua unveiling ceremonlea. Shews a Zeppelin hovering overueau. Must Be. 'Smokeless powder has done away the smoke or name ana patent aUencera have aUlled the can noo'a roar. - Juat ao. An n m preny - ., tm , Bra. i.u, aaauav U8 neiuiyi"- - - - -on,- LoulsvtU CourleisloumaL EXPLOSION SHATTERS OKLAHOMA TOWN X 1 ft .At -f I ! kf f i f r il- f j if - w .-v h J .1 vera ktiiad or in lured and crest dausazs done to croperty in Ardmore. Okla, by the explosion of a tank car of gasoline and tba r - log explosion of a quantity of aynamite in tne ranroaa yaxus. graph ot the east waU of the WbitUngton hotel shows how numerous bwilJ- ings ware shattered.