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EADER J. TOL. XXXV. WESTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBEIl 3, 1015. NO. 21. . WESTON!f WORLD'S DOINGS m OF CURRtNT WEEK sozid mm skips hay mpwq itfmq I fc rimm v itntnru iter A TJV r 1 J Jl JiKJ bl IUiUIAIV IV WUIINI Wl Waehlngton. D. C.-Tb State de partment Wednesday mad formal rep- reeentatlon to tba foreign offlc of London eonoernlng report that veesela I . I I . . - . A i - . t a ft a .1 Dtimiini w i nnnnn iiinrar cKnPT VmS!. fif IiPRpn?! KPWS lnU company war about to b la diplomatic parlanc Uia communi cation la known aa request for In formation concerning tb facta, ba r an all of tba data In tba possession of tba department war presented by tba owner of tba veeecl. Whlla tba statemsnt art aeepted aa true, tba dapartmant daalraa to hav tba British plan verified by tba Foreign offloa. Of General Interest About Oregon Froni AI! Arcuni the Ctirth. t irIESAl KATPDCiCS HI A KUTSIELl Live News Items of All Nations and ' : Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. c . t - fUnator Work a, of California, will hot seek ro-alaetion la J917. Tba relchetag la eonaidarlng a bill to ' tax war profit and Income. Tba Franc h government ia reported Making a large loan la England. Klnataan tnlnara aro kltlad by an x- plosion In a mlna at Boomer, W. Va A polio canaua of Graatar Kaw York glvaa that ally 1.261.888 Inhab itant. . Win ton Churchill, who baa gona to tba front for England, will aooa ba mad a general. Two bundrad and twanty acraa of ' wheat land near La Grand, Or., old for 116,000 taah. A Talon, on Santa Catallna Island, Off tba coast of California, la destroyed by Or. Th loaa I a million dollar. " Tb allla ar planning to bold a eoncll In Farla to receive tb report of Lord KlUbanar'a vlalt to tb far East - Italy I making flare onalaugbt on tb Austrian front In tbra place and tb naar rtlrmant of tb latter la at peeled. Jan Addaroa, eettleroent workar and notad pea advocate, baa ban nt to a Chicago hospital, liar llinaaa la porUd aa not eerloua. - Shipbuilder at Iloqulatn. Weah., ar constructing on of tb largaat acboonart on tb Coaat. which will tranaport lumbar when finished. Henry Ford, who baa chartered a ahtp la convoy paciflcUU of , tbla eoun tr to Europe, danlaa tending a cable gram to tb Fop on peace matter. A colli, locked out of tb bouae at Blnrhanipton. N. Y.. loap through a window and alarm tb occupant In time to tav themeelve from death by fir. ; ' .;., Tb order calling th youth of Franc to arm to being bitterly op mead In the chamber of deputla on the rround that ablrkera (till avoid war duty. Ex-Pratdent KoomvoH rcqueaU bli withdrawn from tb Nebraska Certificates to Be Granted to Successful State Teachers Salem Tba public recognition may be given to toaebar of Oregoa wbo have proved tbtmeelve progreaalv and successful In their work, J. A. Churcblll, auparlnUndent of public I structlon, annoanc that all Instroe tor wbo meet tb fir requirement Tb communication in effect amount u specified b him will be given pro- to a protest and notice that the United tmlmti teacher' certificate. The StaU will not tolerate euch high- , ,.... Vn VI ! vejaj wv vw w mwww- handed method. In th event that Great DrIUtn adroit that aba purpoae to take atep to requisition tba eh I pa. tb comruunlctalon wUI be followed Immediately by a harp protest against lb ntlr procedure. CAPT. WILLIAM S. SIMS vN ltr f rrj f i - " ' . i ; I V Si," nam Cspt William a. time. U. . will emmand th great battleship Nevada, which recently underwent her trial teat off Rockland. Me. la th event that th unofficial ad vice should be verified or any attempt mad on the part of Great Britain to us an American vessel It la believed tb action would preclplUt a situa tion much more grav than any that ha confronted thl government In its dealing with Downing street Tb law axperts of th -department r unacquainted with any precedent. or an theory of law or reason that would support such a course. They aoDear to believe that Great Britain ia pressed for ship just at present and that ah would be assisted greatly by era have not only taught successfully during th preceding year, but that they ar progressive and bsva ebown a proper professions! spirit in their work. The certificate will be issued by Superintendent Churchill upon th recommendation of tb county superin tendent. Wbll th certificate will not n- till th bolder to teach. It to expected to b of assistance to school board In helping them to cbooa efficient teach er. Tb Ore requirements necee for obtaining a professional teachers certificate follow: First Having taught successfully for at least eight month during 1916- Second Having met all tb require ments for a teacher In a standard school and having complied strictly Ith tb laws relating to fir dangers and lira drill. Third Baring sent promptly to th County superintendent all report re quested br blm or required by law. Fourth Having attended th annual teachers' Inatltut or teacher train ing echool and at least on local InaU tuu. Fifth Having read during th year, under supervision of University of Oregoa or Oregon Agricultural college, t least two book on th teachers' reading eircl Hat. Cut-over Land Opened to Settlers. St. Helens Tba solution of tb fogged -off land question has been sat- isfsctorily solved by th St. Helena Lumber company. Th first unit of it land, embracing 1600 acree. been opened to settlement and will be old only to actual farmer and home- build?. r . .... . Tb tract Ia a choic sect too of till able land and four main roads traverse the entire property. . Yankton Cantor, leaa than a mile from tb center of th first unit, ba a good school, church, tor and postofflce. Tb company ia the first large tim ber concern In tb Northwest to at tempt to dispose of it cut-over land in tbto manner. Tbla unit of land has been urveyed and aubdivided Into tract to cult tb small farmer. Art Work Soon Released. Ashland G. S. Butler and D. Perot' .t. MlkU Park In this UU primary ballot as a eanoiuaia ior w American vessels, pending the city, have contracted for a Frilll mas- adjudication of their caeee before pr ixe 1 terplece from the exposition grounds president befor tb National Republl can convention. Publication of tba new charter of Warsaw University chow that under German control th official language of th university will b Polish, In which all lecture must b delivered. ' According- to witness In th con spiracy case at New York, It I shown that Germany was behind th plan to aid In supplying her chip at lea from vessela leaving American porta. Th famoua ttu of "SraU Rhlm" In Prl, which wa shattered court. Itafy Kow Peshisg Agasssl Adrea Front at farce Points London With th retreat of th greater part of th Serbian army across th Albanian frontier, th slow- na of th operation against Monte negro and In Southern Serbia, owing to th wintry weather, and the ab- ope rations on tne sent of any major a . 7 ikii k?i?JrZ of .RhrM western and extern fronts, interest in i"'',9 iTH?, th. military aide of th war to now transferred to th Austro-Italian fron tier. Thar King Victor Emanuel's Cathedral, ha been mendod. Th frag ment broken from tb flgura bv been collected and replaced. Thirl v workmen wcr killed and una fatallv iniured in a terrtfle x Dloaion of about four ton of black nowdor at the Uoner tiagtay yard of th Du Pont Powder company at Wii mingtoa, Delaware. It wa th worst accident that ha occurred In any of th company' plant in a quarter of a century. London trad unionist refuse to - work without their . cuatomary allot- , ment of beer. Detective in Tacoma frustrated a scheme to defraud a firm of grain brokar of 17000, Fir horses of Portland, retired by auto apparatus, will be purchased by th 8tate National Guard. ' It la nredlcted that the admlntotra tlon'a hln purcha bill will b d- f sated In tb next congr. - A mlsckleviou lad liberated several mlc In a Portland moving plctur bouse. A near-panic followed. General Villa and hla troop ar Bearing th border and more troubl to xpected for th United bmio. , Ranreaentatlv Withempoon, of Mississippi, known a th "little navy leader, die suddenly at hi bom. ; Thre gold mdaia will b bestowed on a many American women by rranea. because of their great devo tion to th work of aiding th needy. Ex-Preaident Taft declared In a spciech befor th New York Teachers' association, that he believed th Fed eral government could and should giv aid to education m th several aiaiea. Franc ha given order calling youth of claaas of 1917 to arm. These boy ar from 17 to 19 years of age, and the order requires a minimum training of five months befor entering active dutle. ' troop ar carrying on an energetic offenaiv against th Austrian. Th fighting on this front ha been th most sustained and fiercest of th whol war. For wetka th Italian have been . attacking th Austrian brldgeheada and mountain position, long tb Won so river, and ar slowly but surely drawing their net around Tolmlno. Gorilla and Doberdo. Their attack have been repetd time after tlm against positions which had been moat carefully pro- pared, and, while tb Austrian report that moat of these assaults have been repulsed, their accounts ar considered her to hav been so worded a to pre par the public for their retirement from Gorisla at least. Tbla. for th tlm being, 1 Italy') contribution to th Balkan operation of th allies, vfor it keeps a large fore of Auatrlan busy and it compels them continually to bring up reinforcement which could be successfully employed against the Montenegrins and Serbiana. Tb Serbian, unlets followed into Albania, In tlm will probably reap pear aa a rejuvenated army, for It Is said that 280.000 of them, including soldier and civilian, have taken ref uge there and that they hav saved all their mountain batteries and a portion of their field gun. Governor Declines Invitation. Honolulu In declining an invitation received from Henry Ford to become a member of th party soon to leave New York on a peace mlaaion to Eu rope, Governor u v. nnKnam aeni tba following cablegram to Mr. rord : 'It would be quite unlawful for me to absent myself from thle mid-Pacific outpost of th United States. We in Hawaii are Isolated and we are first for a complete preparedness which would enable u to plac our trust In our own nation and not . fore us to rely upon tb good will of others." In San Francisco with which to adorn park aurrounding. Tb cost will be $3000, and th work of art will be re leased from the Italian exhibit in De cember. G. 8. Butler, In behalf of hi stepfather, Jacob Thompson, a pioneer of Southern Oregon or 1817. ha also purchased a statue of Abraham Lincoln at a coat of xzdOO, at present in in Italian exhibit which will b released In order to b placed In th old set tler' , cabin. Southern .Oregon pio neer, befor th next annual reunion ofth old-tlm clement in 1916 in Aahland park aurroundinge. ; Swinging Dial Scale Best Salem To avoid miaunderatandlrlg concerning tb kind of scale It to per missible to us in weighing commodi- tie for the sal at public markets es tablished in different town of th state. Fred G. Buchtel, deputy Sealer of weight and measures, announce that scales with th ordinary swinging dial, would be allowed. He said: Do not buy acale commonly known as family scales' or of a similar type; aa th nam implies, they are not nor never were intended for us in trade, are generally inaccurate and will not pas inspection. Furthermore, scale should be purchased subject to the ap proval of th ofllc of weight and measures, with th privilege of re turn If inaccurate," Grant Cattle Starving. Baker Because of th lack of feed, caused by th early winter, many cat tle ar reported to have died in the Hamilton country in Grant county and ranchers expect that many more will be lost before relief is found. The hay crop in that vicinity wa short this season and when th bad weather made feeding impossible. Th condition has so affected th caitl market that the price ar dropping, milch cows being offered for a low aa f0 a bead. Cat tlemen In other part of thla district also ar having troubl in feeding. - Railroad Builder Coming. Roaeburg S. A. Kendall of tb firm of Kendall Brothers, of Pittsburg, Pa., and on of th principal stockholders in th proposed Roaeburg & Eastern railroad arrived her this week. About 78 per cent of th right of way has been . procured, and assurances hav been received that the remaining righta of way will be obtained without trouble. Tbe lavestment of Mr. Ken dall and bis associates here will total approximately $1,125,000. rCOD O WAS CCIX! ATI m I0PICS Cf MSUG Berlin, vl London Th Reichstag assembled for It sli'b war eaelof aeaaoia which take plac under the In fluence of two absorbing topic of tb present moment, namely,' th regula tion of th food supply arid tb aim and tb conduct of tb war. Tb session will, it I understood, b marked by tb Introduction of a I vote of credit for the war, presumably for th accustomed amount of IZ.6O0, 000,000. although b definite announce ment In this rasped ha been mad. Tb actual items already announced for th working program of tb esse loo Include a bill for tb modification punishments for minor offence under martial law. dlecoeeiow of tb gov mental report against tb radocition of th are limit for old-ag penal one from 70 to 65 yean, and minor legialetlve protect. - It to generally expected, on the other band, that tb members of pull ment will tak Ihl oecaasio) to WALTER SCHOLZ ; ' waes Walter ftcholx la one of the held In New York n charge of on aplrlng to blow- up munition and atsamshlps and damage American mu nition factorlee. Ha I a brother-in-law of Robert Fay, th alleged chief plotter. , launch a general criticism of tb ere for tb regulation of tb food sup ply, on which th government ha promised to aubmlt a memorandum to tb reichstag. and that certain la ment, notably th radical wing or th Socialist, will Insist on bringing into th dtocueaion th ultimate alma of th war and th term oa which Germany could profitably make peace. Whether Chancellor von Bewmann- Hollweg will be drawn by this discus sion into a statement mor or ieea defi nite on tb subject to uncertain. A newspaper statement coming rrom Major Ernest Baaaermann, on of tb parliamentary leader, wbo baa been in preliminary conference with tb chancellor, assert that th chancellor ill deliver an Important speech on tb foreign and internal policiea and food supply Question. It to anticipated that tb chancellor probably will make a speech pro bahiy two but it seems uncertain whether be will touch at all on tb delicate aub- ject of tb German peace program. bigfisli SoidicfS Use 6as Co loa Peace Heetssf London Canadian ' and Australian soldier, with a sprinkling of British territorial. Tuesday took charge of Memorial ball, where th "Union of Democratic Control," an organisation which to opposed to conscription and favor peace, wa advertised to bold a meeting, and unceremoniously threw th sneakers from th platform and turned th gathering into a recruiting meeting. Tb aoldiers succeeded in gaining admittance with tickets other than those circulated to th member of tb union, and forming themselves at the top of th staircase leading to the great hall and galleries, forcibly took possession of th building. Bomb that contained "asphyxiating gases were launched ana then tne sol dier took th platform by storm. Several of tb speakers, including tbe leader of tb union, sought refuge in an anteroom, a did the women who wor distributing leaflet. - ' Suit to Regain Bet Lost , Little Rock, Ark. John H. Romp ing, of Helena, Mont., wa denied a county judgment of $3788 against th Arkanasa National bank , of Hot Springs, which he charged b lost In the fake horse-racing schemes operat ed three years ago. Bumping put up draft for $3783 on a bora entered in on of tb fake race, mad payable to Edward Spear. Spear collected th draft through tb bank. Th Supreme court affirmed a verdict of recovery aganist Spear, but held th bank wa not cognisant of the fraud. . Aeroplane Sink U-Boat. London A German submarine, at tacked by a British aeroplane off Mld delkerke on Sunday, wa sent to th bottom according to th official report to Field Marshal French wblcA wa given out by the Proa bureau. The submarine, says Field Marshal French, wa aeen to break in half. Th Kritlso commander further reports much activ ity on th part of th artillery and tne air craft, no leaa than IS encounters in tb air taking place on th 28th. SUFFRAGISTS TAKE "LITTLE WHITE HOUSE" . " ..I, It,"-" y 1- - .VI : ' ' ',' 1 I. n t 1 ' ! ! A : 'T-ti--.TT;f : ; r I f 1 i liii-mii iiiiiim nir.it. hnnuL in WuhiDfim. aometlmea called th "little White Houae," because so many famoua people v occupied it, which ba been rented by th Congressional Union for Equal Suffrage a It headquarter for th treat suffrage rally to be held to Washington beginning th day eongree convene and lasting for a week or xtor. Thl house la just across Lafayette square from the White House. Th "little White Houae" will be the scene of many conferences, mass meeting ana social ranciioas annua v. Belmont of New Torky who portrait to inserted, has already arranged to hold a big reception tber on th v. nlng of th day that congrea convene. LANDING BRITISH TROOPS AT SALONIKI ' ! . ..n. i;; ; " v - . . . . . . i i v nt tha I1ImI MTrMtdttlnnarv force at B- Thl I In nrl pnotograpn no rosea America ' . . - . . " " " . . . . . .. j-j ii-i,i.w ui BM .hint tn hi tnwnd aahore. loniU for th relief or wo tseroian. in ooaia wauou wu - . . . . . FOR ANOTHER WINTER CAMPAIGN ami . i r X - ... i- .. . -cNu. i V i i'? tr-.Yr-T-i-i- rlrt7hTiVftr.-ii-viTfr'tfftirl AM :N J( il . . . . l ika ntf, .lMnln. havn nf aheenskin wilt be a . . .u . .iiiu tmnna Thn Inwnr nhntosranh ahowa (real own lu me bu.-.iji vi .,.-. . on of the men comfortably Incased. Th upper photograph shows how the bag are examined and folded before shipment. Urgent calls for more and more of uch bag are made in England. : BEING INOCULATED AGAINST TYPHUS ill k : yi -Ml MRS A H . . Try i vs-f - " ., LIl22 : .... tv. m.w.n irm, la an to date In metheda adopted to prevent disease. Surgeon ar her seen inoculating soldier against typhus, which ha beea epidemic In Serbia and part" Austria. i Aristide Brland, who bus succeeded Vivian! as French premier, has held various cabinet positions and was pre mier tor two month early In 1913. He Is known ss an exceptionally strong man lit national and intern a- tivflal affaire. Valuable Chinee Coins.. An American, who recently arrived In Peking from the far Interior of Chi na, had with him when he reached Pe king a string of copper coin with hole through the center such as be bad beea using oa bis Journey. Tbe whole string, two feet in length, wo deemed td be worth about ten or fif teen cents, for the coins were only the ordinary "cash" In current us In the province of Shenal, from which tne traveler came; but upon examination by a member of the American lezatlon wbo knowa tbe Chinese language it was found that some bore the mark of emperors a tar back a tbe year 284 a C On th trlng wer "caso repreintlng every reign since th be ginning of the Cbing dynattv. many of the Ming dynasty, and even the dynasties that precede tb latter.