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TfZSTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEMIlUAltV 4,
NO. 33.
WORLD'S DOINGS
;0F CURRENT Wffll
Brief Eesrra cf General Kews
Uvd News Items of All Nations and
t Pacific Northwest Condensed
" for Our Busy Readers.
Canada will tond tO, OOO bom mm
to the front la Europe.
Many looter are caught by U. 8.
marince In Ibo flood-strtckso dUtlcts
f California.
The missing K-S ubmarlne to re
ported In her regular course off tbo
ooMt of needle,
Many sections of tbo Middle Wort
ere sxper tensing floats and much dan-
go to proporty u reported.
President Wilson declares too U. &
navy to prepared for immediate war,
lut it la inadequate1 In mm.
General Oroeles, Villa follower, to
take from train near Chihuahua and
not. II waa a federal turncoat,
PboaaanU driven by hunger aro
warming Portland Heights and aro
boinf fad by streetcar an and rati
. dents.
A float of Garoaa Zeppelin attack
London and Paria, killing and wound
ing tO or mora In Parla and eleven In
London...-,. . V-H
Compulsory military training of
klfh school students of Waablngton
tat to proposed by the state school
ossmlseloa,
' A negro attacks an auto party noar
Buffalo, N. Y., killing motto and m
and seriously wounding tho daughter,
Bofcbery was tha motive.
Carman forcoa deliver two attacks
with band gronadoa "ear Hill No. ltd.
Both attack raoattod in failure, ao
cording to tbo French official an-
wrancomont. ;
Director Sturgis, of tbo Aoatrallan
Bank, London, aald that reports sbow.
od the Aoatrallan wbaat crop would pa
a record one. Ka animated tbo yield
would bo 1(0.000.000 bushels, of
which J 00.000,009 would bo available
for export.
Nlnotoon thousand acre of (and In
Pino Valley. Bakor county, Oregon,
ehioflv suited for dry farming and for
overa! yean Intended to eomo under a
tote Irrigation scheme, will do openea
to entry In the La Grande land office
February 14.
A meeting In Waablngton, D, C, to
dlaetuM the exchange conspiracy to do
preM the price of cotton and meaaareo
farther to regulate the cotton ex
change of the United State, waa
called for February 14 by Repreeeota-
tlvoa Ileffln, Chandler ana Jeeowa.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, attacks
Roosevelt in the senate by declaring
"It to a bappy thing for ' this country
that there has been Inalateoce on
American rights, 'and equally fortunate
that there baa not been soma not
beaded, Importunate demagogue In the
White House,"
Every employe of the Bunker ' II 111
A Sullivan Mining Co., of Kellogg,
Idaho, above and below the surface,
will receive an' Increase of wages of
approximately (0 cents a day if the
price of lead keeps up. It Is known
that the company for some time has
been contemplating this advance. '
The President would be " authorised
to negotiate with the Carranxa govern
ment for purchase of Lower California
by a resolution introduced by Repre
sentative Britten, of Illinois, Be de
clared socb purchase would pot into
the hands of the do facto officials of
Mexico millions of dollars for rehabil
itating the government and the conn
try's industries, v
Whlls the President was standing on
the rear platform shortly before the
departure of bis train from Chicago, a
sharp explosion wss beard. Secret
service men crowded to the platform
and the President, apparently some
what startled, entered the car. A
cloud of escaping steam showed that
the connecting boas between the resr
coach and the one next forward bad
burst.'
' ' General Wood opposes plan for con
tinental army and proposes that the
regular army be brought to full
strength "first. , ;f V
The Swiss government will apolo
gise to Germany for the trampling un
der foot of the empire's emblem by an
infuriated mob.
President Wilson delivers his first
address on preparedness In New York,
He will visit the Middle West for ten
days, delivering speeches on this sub
ject. .'.
Spokane WMherwomen are now said
to patronise the laundries, and have
other luxuries, not furnished by their
Inebriate husbands before Washington
went dry.
' It Is reported In Vstlcsn circles that
the condition of Emperor Francis
Joseph, of Austria, who bas been seri
ously ill for several days, Is rspldly
growing worse.
Daily Record
of Congress
Saturday, Jan. 80.
ftanata Hanatnr fi barman. RsDUbll
nan. Intrtviuaad a raaulutlon of Droteet
sgainst reported renewed demands by
Japan on China.
Senator Tillman praised Beeretary
Denials In s speech on the navy and
attacked former Beeretary Stayer.
Military committee continued work on
the army bllL
Uooee Military and naval commit
tee continued bearings. .
Knrlal worker and labor leaders
ssked for revision of the workmen
compensation law.
Friday. ian. 98.
Senate Petitions bearing million
imaa nrotaatlna- eralnst war muni
tlona shipment presented, resulting In
Vigorous asoaie. t
Debate on Philippine Independence
bill returned.
Military committee continued bear.
log on army bill.
Ilouaa Admiral Grlffln. chief
navy engineering bureau, testified be-
for naval aammittee.
Gen. Wood told military committee
armv should be recruited to xuu
strength before a reserve to enrolled.
Postal committee favorably reported
postofflce appropriation bill providing
that railroads be paid for mall trans
portation by space.
Thursday, Jan. 87.
Senate Public tonda committee re
torted water power bill recognising
urledletlon of both state and federal
rovernmenta over water power sites.
Postoffice committee reeommeooea
doDoslts of coat! Mvinga fund In
federal reserve banks.
Military and naval committees con
tinued bearins. '
House Military and naval commit
tees continued bearinn.
Rivera and harbors committee) bear
RepresenUlve Sumner on Trinity
River project.
Republican Leader Mann
naech advocatlna- DreDarodnes.
iUnresentative Dennett, ox new
York, daf ended German- Ameri cans In
a sneech.
Passed toe Bhaekiaiora fze,vw,vw
good roads bill.
Wsdnesdsy, Jsn. 98.
(UnataPailen Mistlona committee
discussed Colombian. Niearaguan and
Haitian treaties. ,
Senator Hitchcock DroDosed amend
ment to Philippine bill granting lode-
nanrfanea In from two to four VOara.
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debated entia laoor pin wiutoui dihu
action. ":,
UtllLarv committee continued bear
Inn an arm reoreanlxation.
House Military and naval commit
tees heard witnesses on Uc state oi
national defenaa.
RaMatar Rarrlaon areed the bOUM
Interstate commerce committee to re
vise the general dam act in the inter
act of wster power development, -
sicFJTo cf was umk
(CmAl m FACES flGHT
Waahlnoton. D. C While President
Wilson is carrying to the country his
anneal for adequate national defenaa.
one of the vital elements of the pro
gram be bas recommended to congress
ik mntiiwntaL arm faces serious
opposition In both the senate and houae
military committees. ,
Riii.lt an arm, dnaerlhad be Secre
tary Garrison as embodying the most
attractive scheme that could be de-
mtmmA a .lu a tin! tat of the Brob-
lem of training an adequate number of
f ederal voiunioera in . peace iu,
would be expected to provide 400,000
men of the total of approximately
1,000,000 which the entire plan is cal
culated to make available. '
Present Indications are that the con
tinental proposal In some form will be
Inta th. arm liuvaaae bill b-
Ing prepared by the sonata military
committee, although that measure will
tu AmtA matniv a a enmnlste re
organisation of the regular army on a
basis or, approximately xao.uuu men
with the colore. Increasing Secretary
Garrison's proposal In that respect by
nearly 100,000 men. -
Senator Chamberlain, chairman of
the senate military committee, aaid he
waa confident hi committee would
turn out without arcat delay a well
rounded bill providing for all the ele
ment of a national army of 1,000,000
or more men.
Negress to Cast Ballot.
Hood River. Or. At the coming
May primaries Daisy Moody, a domes
tic in a local family, if her plans ma
terialise, will be the first colored cltl
sen to cast a vote In Hood River coun
ty. According to her registration, the
girl is a native of Tennessee. She
registers as a Republican. Of the
Hood River county voters who hsve
registered. Republicans 'are over
whelmingly In the majority, tne ngures
being m follows : Of 166 men 113 sre
RonnKiioana. ami la mmin are Re
publicans out of a total 18 registered.
British Stssmer Founders at, Sea.
Naw York Ths British steamer
Chase Hill, which sailed front New
York for Havre on January is, xoun
dered at sea, according to officers of
steamer Indrslema, which arrived
here Friday. The captain of We In
drslema said that on January si se
sighted the Spanish steamer Mary
Adrlstico, which signalled that ahe
on board the shipwreexea crew oi
rh.a mil. No details were riven
concerning the loss of the vessel.
ASKS QUICK ACTIO!!
ON DEfBiSE PLANS
President Wilsca Urges Pec?!e
to Prepsre&ess.
Wm CCfSiJMS AS LW.S
Cleveland Speech Unusually Grave
and Warning of Nation's Im
pending Danger is Given.
nt.rw4 O Naw circumstances
have arisen. President Wilson declared
R.tnnl. mMrh make It absolutely
necessary that this country should pre-
pare roc adequate national owonae
"We are In the midst of a world
thai ara did not make and cannot al
ter," the President aald. "it whole
atmospheric and physical conditions
m Ik antuMtlma nf our own life, al
a: and therefore as your reeponsbile
servant I must teu too was ue oa
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cars are Infinite and constant.
'I ahoold feel that 1 were guilty of
an unpardonable omission If I did not
go oot and tell my fellow countrymen
that new circumstances havs arisen
which make it absolutely necessary
that this country prepare herself for
mmr nni far anvthlns' that amacks In
the least of aggression but for ade
quate national defense."
"Whenever the ordinary rules of
commerce at sea and of international
relaUonehlD are apt to be thrust aside
or Ignored," be continued, "thereto
danger of the more critical kind of
controversy.
"America la not afraid of anybody.
t fciuM, I MAt vrvir fcallne when I
say that the only thing I am afraid of
1 not being ready to penorm my
duty. I am afraid of the danger of
theme. I am afraid of the danger of
Inadeauacy: I am afraid of the danger
of not being able to express the cor
rect character of this country with
tremendous might and effectiveness
whenever we are called upon to act la
the field of the world's affaire.
He waa applauded frequently and
k. ka amka nf dafandin? the na
tion's honor the cheering waa tremen
dous.
"1 do not wish to leave you with the
Imnreaslon that I am thinking of some
nartfalar danrar. I merely wish tO
tell yon that we aro daily treading
amidst Intricate dangers, ine oao
gera that we are treading amoungare
not of our own making and not under
our control. I think no man in the
United 8tates knows what a single
week, a elngle day. single hour may
bring forth"
The President socks of the navy and
the coast defenses, saying:
"Take for example the matter of
our coast def ensea. It to obvious to
every man that they are of the most
vital importance to the country. Such
coast defenses as we bave are strong
and admirable, but we bave not got
a d.fanaaa In anmiffh nlaeea. Their
quality to admirable but their qunatity
la tnsumeiens. -
And the navy of the United States 1
Yoa have been told that it ia the sec
ond In strength in the world. I am
eorry to aay that experts do not agree
.hi. ihna wkn tall von that. ' Reck
oning by It actual strength I believe
It to be one or the most esftctent naviee
In the world: but Its strenght ranks
fourth, not second. You must reckon
with the fact that It to necessary that
that should be our first arm of defence,
and you ought to insist that everything
should be done that It Is possible for
us to do to bring the navy up to an
adequate standard of strength and effi
ciency. - ' .
"Where we are lacking moreper
harw is on land and In the number of
men who are ready to fight. The
characteristic desire of America Is not
that ahe should have a great body of
men whose chief business to to fight,
but a great body of men who know
how to fight and are ready , to fight
when anvthinft-that is dear to the na
tion to threatened. ' You might have
what we have, -millions or men wno
have never handled arms of war, who
are mere material for shot snd powder
if you put them in the field, and Amer
ica would be ashamed of the Ineffi
ciency of calling such men to defend
the Nation."
Captives Charge Torture.
Petroirrad. via London The Russian
army headquarters has Issued a state
ment concerning the sttituda of Aus
trian toward Russian prisoners. ..
The statement tells the experience
of six soldiers who esesped from cap
tivity in Austria. It declares mat
they and 600 of their comrades refused
ta dlv trenches and were tortured.
four being shot on June 14 at a vil
lage near InnsbrucK. toe execu
tioners, ths statement ears, were
cadets who volunteered for the
Drunkerd List Stirs City,
n.tuwav fh Conaternstion bss
been csused among several cltisens of
this place by the appearance of their
names on "Habitual urunxara iw
that have been given the railway
agenta In Jefferson county by tae
prosecuting attorney.
r.n.t rfiaaatiafaeilon. too. ha been
expressed by msny of the persons af
fected, who contend that It ia a ques
tion as to what constitutes an habtuial
drunkard.
NEWS ITEMS
Of Central Interest -
About Oregon
Membership of Eugene Cannery
Association Makes Rapid Growth
Eur ana The volume of the canned
goods business of the Eugene Fruit
Growers' association, an organlxatlon
In which 641 Lane county fanners are
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MMIMUUM I III XD DBT EHII
ilnrln th naat vaar. eeeardine to an
announcement made la the anneal ra
mwt at Uta nimnr. 4. O. Holt, read
at a meeting held in the Eugene cham
ber of commerce.
More extensive operations or ue
cannerv are owned bv the eseocistloo
sre planned for 1018, when deport
ments for the manufacture u jama ana
preserves. In both glees ana tin, wiu
be added. -Mr.
Holt renorted that there bad
been some decrease in the volume of
green fruit shipments on account of a
short sddIs eroD during the psst year.
and that the dried fruit output had
been about the same as for the 1914
In detail the report show that the
total amount of fruit and vegetables
bsndlsd In all departments wss t,U0,
000 sounds, an increase of 10 per cent.
The varieties of products canned num
bered 17.
The cannery this year bas bandied a
number of orders foe the War depart
ment, some of the Lane county prod
ucts being shipped to the Mexican
border.' . -
Rabies Is Investigate!
Klamath Falls FieU Agent E. T.
Averblll, of the United States Biolog
ical 8urvev. who was sent Into Kamath
county to investigate, the rabies epi
demic situation here, bss returned
from the Bly country.'. He declared
the two bead of cattle that died of
rabies on the Given ranch on Spragoe
river were brought ia from Harney
county last fall, but that some of the
number had grown on the ranch, and
bad therefore been bitten there.
Mr. Averhillssid: "While I waa
at Bly, Clarence Taylor, living near
by, killed a coyote which showed
ymptoma of rabies strongly. I sent
the brain to Dr. Robert for examina
tion. I also sent in the brain of a
cow which bad been allowed to die of
peculiar symptoms resembling rabies.
.Pay No Delegate Expense.
Salem No provision now exists in
the election laws for the payment of
expenses of delegates to the National
conventions, according to an opinion
riven by Attorney General Brown.
This opinion was in reply to sn inquiry
by I. S. Smith, senator from Coos
county, and sponsor for the repealing
measure paased by the last legislature.
Under this opinion Secretary of State
Olcott announced that he would not
audit any claims for delegates' axpen-
s which might be made.
While the new law does not specifi
cally repeal the section of the 1911
laws relating to the payment of dele
gates' expenses, it obliterates it from
consideration by Implication, the attor
ney general holds.
Cold Kills Range Cattle.
R.k. rttl In the Interior are
suffering from the cold, and several
faiha kava haan remted. W. H.
Officer, Isee, Grant county, lost sev
eral calves and others were oaaiy iros-
n In tka .irf and noaea. . Itt the Tl-
cinity of Ironsides, Malheur county,
several cattle also are reported lost,
white the ranges near,Durkee bave
suffered..
In other parts of Grant and Malheur
counties the snow is so deep that roads
k kaan ahandnnad end travelers arC
compelled to go through the fields.
Several cattle are reported snowoouna
In KWIa Valla. Baker MMintV. and
hope of ssving them has been given
up. . ; ' :
Malheur Cornf Trect Big.
Ontario Malheur county is doing
its share In togging the corn belt into
the Northwest and stretching it across
Oregon. Estimates by County : Agri
culturist W. W, Howard and the corn
committee of the county grange place
lest year's acreage planted to corn In
the Malheur and Willow Creek valleys
st 8000 acres, with an . average yield
40 bushels. Exhibits from this crop
were displayed at the State fair,, the
Manufacturers' and. Land f Products
show, the .Panama-Pacific exposition
and the com show at Walla Walla.
' Blind Slough Camp Busy. , ,
Astoria After a shutdown of ap
proximately one and half years the
Larkin Green lagging company's
ramn at Blind Slouch to DreDaring to
resume . operations thie spring. .Six
sets ox timber tellers ana aoout su
bucket already are at work.
. As soon as the weather conditions
are favorable, the company will begin
dumping about 800,000 feet of logs in
to the wster daily. A short time ago
the company's railroad was extended
into a tract of about 100,000,000 feet
of timber.
Tax Adnata Put Up to Counties.
s.iamIt la the dutv of the various
county courts to fix ths rate to be paid
newspapers for puoiisning oennqsni
tax lists. Attorney General Brown
ruled in response to an inquiry from
B. Tongue, district aworney i
Wahfnstnn eountv. The attorney
nl alan bald that nawDaDers that
bave been designated by County courts
official organs cannot oe compenoa
to publish the lists, unless a specine
agreement to do ao hsa been made by
them. '
llUil WHOSE
Can era! view of CoelhnirUchie miae. II of the emploreee of which were murdered by Mexican bandits because
ssoat of thess were aaaortrena At the left la C. R. Watson, raanager of the mine, who waa killed.
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The great all dee which have blocked the Panama canal have become a matter of such cancers to the UnMsd
Statee that President Wilson appotated a commission to study the causea of the eUdea. The photograph shows
General Ooethala and the commiaslcct viewing the slides and watching boats go through the canal
SHOES FOR SUFFERERS FROM THE WAR
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Mra Priea PoaL Dromlnent In the
vfr ia nna tt tha man aooietv women ensased la the work of obtaining
shoes for the war sufferers of Belgium. She Is aeen In this picture with
two little Belgian-Americans who t bar come with their mite to help the
unfortunates in the country from which their parents came.
BUSINESS FORECAST
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The Cnlted Statee chamber of commerce has sent out from Its Washing
ton headquarters this msp giving a
United States during the nrst tour montns oi xib. im uy
a . m a 1 1 a ah Jt S m- Iamm 4 k A sfeereAeat 1 AfF
en exhaustive study oi industrial ana commercial wmuu, " -
ths chamber. Aa will be aeea. the localities baring "good" prospecta (those
unmarked! are the Atlantic and a large part of the southeastern states, those
between the Mississippi aad the Rockies and a part of California. Those
where the prospects are -nor" are in iray, aau ma muj
ouUook U declared "poor" to a part of Waablngton and Oregon, marked black.
HEfl WERE KURDERED
STUDYING THE PAHALTA CANAL
social life of Tuxedo Park and New
FOR FOUR MONTHS
forecast of business conditions in tne
BY MEXICANS
Ny psm a
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SLIDES
FLEW FOR PAN-AMERICANS
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Juan Domenjos, aviator, recently
made one of the most daring air voy
agee ever seen In Waablngton. The
flight waa made over the White House
snd "Whitu Lot," and was for the en
tertainment of the hundreds of Pan
Americans In Washington for the Pan-,,
American Bdentlfto congress. The
feats of jJomenJos were watched by
his wife, a noted beauty in Brazil,
where the couple now live. She Is
shown in the picture talking with htm
Just before he took to the air. Domen-.
Joe, While now engaged In aeronautic
work In Br&xll. makea his homo at
Biarrlts, France. " 1
Strength of Pennies. , .
The penny fund tor sick and wound
ed haa forwarded the eighth million
pennies (worth two Cents each) to the -headquarters
of the British Red Cross
society and St. John Ambulance asso
ciation, making a grand total of nearly t
$167,000.
Tola haa been raised by meana of a
systematic house-to-house collection,, ,
asking for a penny from every man,
woman and child. The money goes
towards the Red Cross work at ths
various fighting fronts. Already many
districts have finished most success- '
ful collections, but there still remain
qthere where the work haa not begun.
London Observer. , '
Popular Advice.
1 understand you hava a centena
rian heref
-Tea. A hale and hearty old gentle- "
man who is a great comfort to all who
know him.'
"How is thatr r
TTa K nn aat rulrlL Ka ilv'u'r
everyone who wants to live lor.g to 5(
fast as se pieases.