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VOL. XXXV.
1 WESTON, OHEGON, FRIDAY, FEimUAIlY 18, 1910.
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WORLD'S DOINGS
OF C1IW W
Uva News Items of Ait Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
, A noted Hungarian actreee has been
f shot M Brtliah py
Tl.lrty-U.re gsmblers war arreetsd
la mlU at Aberdeen, Wun.
Th county auditor at Tacoma issued
91 permit to buy liquor In on day,
Rmt Admiral Charles Eben Foi, U
8. N.. retired, dlta at Dm eg of 65
year. ' .
Th plot to poiaon many prominent
ritlMtia at a banquet In Chicago la laid
to anarchists.
Grahame-Whlt, th noUd British
aviator, baa ben gravely Injurad by
rail In hit aeroplane.
Brigadier General Baijamln C Card,
' retired.' die at tha age of 91, at hia
boma In, Washington, D. C.
Philadelphia' street
Sunday with a heavy coating of lea
caused by a bad sleet storm.
Sis par cant of tha Ash fry In tha
- hauherie at Bonneville war loat ba
re um of tha mant heavy storm.
Caaolln In Portland la aelling for
I8 cent a gallon and may go blghar,
In New York It eella for 14 cent.
Dr. Bun Yat Son, -prldent of
China, la report ad ra-marriad to bia
private aacratary at Toklo, Japan.
Tha valua of raai aatat in Naw
" York City la piarad at IH, 205, 000, 000,
an lyre of 197,000,000 over a year
4 Tr wealthy A mart can hav aqulp-
4, , . p4 4 boapltal train of IS eara and
bar, presented s It to tha lrneh gov-
ernment.
" Tha Aim plcturaa of tha Columbia
River Highway ar tob ahown In
Syracuse, N. Y., , upon request from
' that city. - :.;
President Wllaon la now declared a
candidat for rnoml nation, ragardleaa
of tha one-term plsnk of tha Demo-
rratlc platform.
Two young man in an automobile
war killed at Sumner. Wash., when
their machine waa atruck by a North
ern Pacific train, ,
Rear Admiral Grant, tha submarine
commander of tha U. S. nary, declare
that undersea boat ahould be at leaat
800 tone aurfac displacement."
Richard L, Metcalfe, ax-governor of
tha Panama Canal son, ha Invited
W. 1, Bryan to debate tha question of
. preparedness before th votera or Ne-
break a. ,, "
Tha Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage sent President Wilson a vai-
antln on which waa Inscribed :
"Won't you b our valantinat Wa
will be your valentine."
Dr. Carlos Mendosa, ex-president of
Panama, died auddenly Tueaday night
from heart trouble, waa burled tha fol
lowing day. after tha body had laid In
at ate all day In tha government build
ing. Dr. Mendoaa waa tha leader of
" tha opposition faction of tha Liberal
party and waa widely regarded aa ona
of tha moat able men In Panaman pol
v , Itica.
German capture Urge taction of
French tranche In Artoia. ;:
Portland eitliena hav ralaed a fund
of over $13,000 for tha relief of suffer
Ing Jewa in Europe, .v.
Th customs officlali at San Fran
w' eiaco hav aelsad a totem pol that
' baara nuda picture and la otherwise
Indecent. ,
According to the decision of the Ne
''. tional Aaaociation of Merchant Tailor,
tha ideal American' maaaurament
ahould ba, height, 6 feet t inch;
cheat, 88 Inchea; waiet, 88) inchea;
, hips, 89 inchea; thigh, 811 inchoa;
calf, 14 i inchea; head measura, on?
aighth of tha full length of tha body;
lega atralght and feet arched. V
Germany and Austria, through their
embaaslea in Waahlngton, have notified
the United 8tata of their intention
to treat armed merchantmen aa war
ah I pa after March 1. That data waa
Axed to give tha entente all Sea time to
aignify their Intention toward tha re
. cent note . of tha United State pro
posing tha disarmament of all mer
chantman.,' The Willamette river at Portland
A reache a 19-foot atag and flood all
. waterfront basement.
A liquid which burst into flame
when poured on paper ia believed to
have been used - by Ineandiariee who
act Ar to tha Ottawa, Can., parlia
ment building. ,
The Navajo Indiana ar dancing
their war dance and threatening to at
tack white eettlera in Northeastern
Arizona,' In retaliation for tha slaying
of ona of their number recently by po
licemen, according to two cowboy
fro.a Utah.
mm km ro ora
Washington, D. C Germany la un
deratood to have agreed to the auggea
tlon of the United State the aha sub
atltut the worda "recognlsee liabil
ity" fur the words "aseumee liability"
In the tentative draft of tha communi
cation designed to settle the Lueltania
case.
Tha revised draft waa received here
lata Wednesday night from Berlin.
It waa aubmllted to Secretary Lenelng
by Count von Herns tor IT, tha German
ambaaaador.
Several other change deelred by
tha United H tales and eWribed aa be
ing of minor importance also ar eaid
to have been made. In ona Instance,
however. Germany la nderatood to
hav proposed change In the lan
guage suggested by tha American gov
ernment.
Prom blah Teutonic authority came
the statement that It waa expected the
Luaiunla case would be Anally settled
to th satisfaction of tha United
CHARLES C CROWLEY
Chartee C. Crawley, a privata data-
tlv ef tan Francisco, snd recently In
tha employ ef tha. Oerman consulate
la tha western elty, haa been arrests
by agents af th daoarOnenl of Jua
Use an a eharee of eeneplrin ta de-
at rev ah Ids aarrylna war munition
and supplies ta tha allies. ,
State and Germany at a conference
between Secretary. Lansing and Count
von Bernatorff. . it also waa said that
th on modiflcation ' made in Berlin
waa not material and that German offi
cial her did not consider that th
Slate department would object to tha
Chang. . ,v,--'
Teutonic offlciaJa aeetned moat eon-
Adent that in asTeeing to th Ameri
can request to auoauuit ue wora
a . . . . k. I
'recoffniaea" for the word "assume
nreoeding th mention of liability of
Germany to make reparation for injury
tohautrala tha Borlin foreign me
had removed all causa of poeabli diffV-
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AaAspeci$f war waBe;;;;
taMerfi by Cenfcrcsce ef AHa
London A genaral oonfsranc of
th allies in Parle to consider all polit
ical and strategical aspect of the war
la to ba held. Announcement to this
effect waa made in tha house of ,coi
mona by Premier Aaquith. . ,
Premier, Aaquith 'a statement -waa
made In tha course of an address in
connection with the opening of parlia
ment. Th premier said large vote
r i-raitit anuiM ha Baked next week.
; lis announced that tha government
waa now taking flock of all it muni
tions, men. Anancea and industrial re
serves, so as to be in a position to . put
forth it maximum atrength. ,
.The forecast made aeveral week
ago of a dally expenditure for tha war
of 5,000,000 had proved, tha premier
aaid, to be nearly accurate.
Obligations incurred by the war, ha
added, would impose a aerioua strain
on tha country for a generation to
coma. This burden, he believes, could
ba met only by large addition to tax
ation and by maintenance of England'
credit b.V keeping' up tha volume of
exports, holding down unnecessary im
ports and reducing expenditures.
Two Ship Burning at Dock.
New York The British steamers
Pacific and Bolton Castle, lying at the
pier of Barbor & Co., at the foot of
Pioneer street, Brooklyn, caught Are
early Wednesday and it waa believed
that both would be destroyed. Some
of tha members of the crewa were
thrown or jumped into tha water, and
loaa of life waa reared. The nre
started on tha pier of the Now York
Dock company, the longest in the East
River, and apread to the two steamers
and two lighten loaded with gasoline
which were lying at tha pier.
Fir Found on Steamship.
New York Fire waa discovered in
the cargo on board the steamship
Veendyk of tha Holland-American line
aa the vessel waa passing out to aea
Wednesday, Captain Lleuweh quickly
put back to tha pier at Hoboken. It
was said after 80 firemen had fought
the flames for more than six houra,
that the Are waa under control. Effort
will be made to determine it cause.
The Veendyk . carried $300,000 worth
qf oil cake consigned to Rotterdam.
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SUSPECT AliARCIiiST
OFBIGPOISONPLOT
Two Kindred Bcterc
Sid Whoa Scl? Is Semd.
lives Saved by Custom of Serving
Meager Portions Only Ounw
of Arsenic Used in Food.
Chicago "I do not wish to create a
panic In Chicago," waa the cryptic
reply of First Deputy Superintendent
of Police Schuettler, when asked Mon
day to live bia viewa of th plot to
poiaon several hundred prominent Chi
caroan.
Schuettler spoke testily and In the
too of a man who ia harboring th
secret of a arrest calamity. At tha
earn time he refused to admit that he
believed Jean Crone, missing assist-
ant chef at th University Club, who
eerved th banquet, wa th only man
who figured In th plot.
Two hundred of th dlaunguiaaaa
list of 400 banqueter who attended a
dinner given to Chicago new lawoue
archbishop. Moat Keverend beorg
William Munderlein, were taken III or
poisoning after th aoup coarse. Th
archbishop did not partak of th aoup,
nor did Governor Dunn, who waa
among those present.
Indications ar that ScttiMtuar t
hot on Crone' trail and ia gathering
evidence of a plot io which Crone waa
only wilt among a gang of anarchists
who planned to kill th distinguished
group of men. This waa born out by
the activities of bia atsuT of detec
tive.
Two hours before Health Commis
sioner Robertson gave out th report
of F. O. Tonney. city chemist, that
8.7 arraina of white oxida of ananie
had bean found In an analysis of
pint of th poisoned aoup aerved at tn
banouet, two anarchist were taken
Into Scboettler'a office.
Both of th anarchists were quea-
tioned for more than an hour. .When
they had gone Schuettler, in an inter
view, adrrrkted ha bad report on
Crone for several month. Ha knows
th aaawtinn Cronee ha attended,
what h aaid at those gatherings. He
admitted Crone waa a red hot "dyed-
in-the-wool" anarchist, that n knew
Cronee' aaalociatea, that hia detective
hav questioned thee men.
Schuettler made known in ran mat
Crone at meetnig of anarchists last
May asked tha speaker if hi study of
chemistry he is an amateur chemist
would injur hi standing in tha an
archist movement. Th speaker' re
ply throws soms light on th motive
of th poiaon plot It waa this:
"No, a chemist, could do great
deal In the anarchist movement."
Tw8 MMes Drewsd to
Portland. Ore. Two war drowned
and six other narrowly escaped drown
ing when s Salem-to-Portland canoeing
oartvof the Portland Rowing club
UtrucIT th whirling rapida and eddiea
off. Rock Island in th Willamette
river fly mile south of Oregon City
Saturday afternoon at 2:S0 o'clock.
Th drowned were Charle Kirk
patrick, 660 Eaat Madison street, 22
years of ago, a clerk' In th clearing
house at th First National bank, and
Harry Gammie, S3 year of ag, pay-
Ina- teller in Ladd & Titton bank, and
athlete of Considerable repute.
whose residence waa 848 East Six
teenth North. Both were athlete of
tha Multnomah Amateur Athletic club
and expert ' canoeista of the Portland
Kowfnjr club.
The accident cams at a sudden turn-
Ins point In a heretofore uneventful
trio down the Willamette from Salem.
About midway throueh ' the eddiea
the canoe In which Gammie and Kirk
Patrick wer ' struggling suddenly
turned 6vor and Humped them into th
river. Both began a desperate strug
gle agalnat th water, but their effort
teemed to be of little avail, tha water
being ' awift and tha undercurrent
tremendous.
: Treasure Hunt Renewed.'
Los Angeles, Cel. Having obtained
an extended furlough to enable him to
undertake a second treasure hunt on
Cocoa Island, Walter Bunker, a police
patrolman, left Sunday for the little
dot in th Pacific Ocean off the coast
of Peru, , where ha hope to unearth a
vast store of gold aaid to hav been
buried on the island 200 yeara ago.
Bunker haa obtained th uae of a yacht
belonging to J. Bt' Mexican cap
italist, who accompaniea tha expedi
tion. Bunker'a last expedition failed
on account of trouble with hia crew.
. 298,000 Belgians Shod.
New York Tha Commission for
Relief tn Belgium announced Sunday
that since tha beginning of ita winter
campaign it had aent 296,000 paira of
shoes to the destitute of Belgium and
Northern France. Of these 100,000
were for women, 60,000 for children,
48,000 for boys, 48,000 for girl and
40,000 for men. The commission
bought 825,000 worth of leather to be
cut up and tacked onto wooden soles
and to repair old shoes.
NEWS ITEMS
Of Central Interest
About Oregon
Railroad In Douglas County
Is Held Liable for Taxes
Rom burg In a decree handed down
in the Circuit eur here Judge Hamil
ton held that tha taxes due from the
land of the.Southem Oregon company
In Douiriaa county 1 tne rear ivw
wer collectible, aid that th holdings
of th company way subject to sale to
satisfy tha delinqoent eertiAcatee the
earn aa other lands which th Use
wer not paid. (The unpaid t
amount to about IJO.000.
Suit waa brought against th Soutn
n Oregon company aeveral month
ago to compel Jheni to pay th taxe
due on their Ussis in this county for
th year 1909. AM anawer waa filed
by th Southern Oregon company in
which it waa denied that tha Usee
wer a lien against the land, or that
they remained due and unpaid on the
date of reaching delinquency. It waa
also alleged by th def enae that th
certificates of deMnnuency war not
filed recularlv with the clerk.
Another contention offered br in
defenae waa that th Federal courts
had decreed that their Interest in the
land did not exceed f 2.60 an acre,
whii in some , Instance they wer
ised as hlito: as S20 an sere. Th
defense contended this waa aufflcient
to nullify th entire assessment.
Th county attorney offered in v
denccthe origniat certificates of delin
quency, which Judg Hsmilton held
wen regular and aumcieni to warrant
disposal of tha lands for taxe. At
torney John af. uuertn. or counsel jor
th Southern Oregon company, an
nounced that he would appeal th esse
to th Supreme court. The question
Involved in th ess ar identical with
those of th Oregon k California grant
lands, according to local attorneys.
State Land Board Stands'
Firm on Irrigation Project
Salem The? Desert Land Board
Wednesday stood by its recent action
in recommending to th government
further extension of the state' eon-
tract with th government on th Ben
ham Fall unit of th Central Oregon
Irrigation company's project in Crook
county. At this meeting a copy of a
resolution adopted by the Bend Com
mercial club protesting against any
further extension of the contract waa
read.
Embraced in tha Benham Falls tract
are about 74.000 acre.
The board decided to aend the addi-
tonal data furnished by J. E. Moraon
regarding th M arson Land company's
project at La Fine, to tne Oiparaneni
or th Interior. The Doara is iavor
abla to BTantins Moraon three yeara'
extension on hi contract with th
state, aa he desires, but the Federal
land department ao far haa refused to
give th state an extension on its con
tract until Moraon supplies more in
formation.
County Assessors of State
Hold Convention at Salem
Salem Through th paaaaga' of th
county high school tuition fund law,
thousands of children in Oregon ar
now able to attend high school where
before this waa not possible because
of the parents' inability to bear the
expense, J. A. Churchill, superinten
dent of public instruction, told th
county assessors of tha state. The as
sessors began a three-day aession and
conference with the Slate Tax com
mission her Wednesday at th state
house. Tax Commissioner Eaton is
chairman of the conference. "
Superintendent Churchill praised the
new high school tuition fund law in
hi address, declaring that official of
the United State Bureau of Education
at Washington, D. C considered Ore
gon's law the best ever passed in the
interest of aecondary education.
Following an address by B. F. Keen
ey, of Lane county, ' on "Assessment
of Motor Vehicles," Commissioner
Galloway declared that automobilea
ought to be taxed according to their
respective horsepower.
Timber Saving Is Great;
Salem In the protection of pri
vately owned timber in Oregon statis
tics given in tha report of State For
ester Elliott . indicate - that great
progress haa been made in the last aix
year.
When the new forestry cods was en
acted, in 1911, and th compulsory Ar
patrol law, In 1918, a reduction in Are
losses throughout . in umoerea sec
tion at once waa effected, in lyiu
81,640,997 worth of timber waa de
stroyed in Oregon. Last year it to
taled only 19333.
The total loss in th five yeara eno-
ing with the close of last year was
896,620. This is lesa than ons-aix-teenth
of the loss sustained from Are
in 1910, the last yeara under th old
system. -
' Drinker Defies Court.
Baker Facing a sentence of 50 day
and a fin of $65, imposed by Justice
of the Peace Hubbard, because he re
fused to tell where he got the liquor
that made him drunk in Baker last
month. Charle Blackwell will demand
that he be released. His attorney, an
nounced that be will Ale a writ of
habeas corpus. The state and national
constitutional right of refusal to tes
tify except under a guarantee of com
plete immunity wm no maoe me dssis
for th writ. If necessary the ease
may be carried to the Supreme court.
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Tola remarkable and historical picture show Peter, king of Serbia, seated on aa ox-draw cart, oa his way out
f th coos try for which be fought ao bravely. Tha vehicle used aa a royal coach had bees an ammunition wagon.
SNOWSTORMS
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Thee Oerman troop on the eastern front evidently do not mind a
hot rations at a field kitchen, la tha
RESCUERS OF MANY ARMENIANS
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United State Consul and Mrs.
Amrirn Mnsulate st AleoDo. Syria.
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owing to th energetic action of Mr. Jackson, who adopted a strong atti
tude with th Turkish military authorities, that thousands ot Armenian
Uvea In Aleppo and In the surrounding regions were aaved. Mrs. Jackson
Is a great favorite in th highest social circle In Aleppo. During the mas
tacre of th Armenian, th room at th American consulate wer packed
with Christiana. Mr. Jackson's home
BRITISH DESTROYER
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whlck was destroyed by th Turk
abandoned by It crew.
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KING PETER OF SERBIA GOINQ
DO HOT WORRY THE
background are transport wagona.
Jesse B. Jackson tn the parlor of tha
The Armenians say that it waa solely
la In Paulding. O. - .
SUNK BY TURKS
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Rr4) rrnln-lnat destrover Louii
afUr at had atranded and had been
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snowstorm, for they ar enjoying their
LEADER CF I'GNTENEGHiXS
This ia General Martlnovtcb, th a
tut military leader of the Montana
grin who opposed the plan of sur
rendering to the Austrlans and took.,
command of tha troops that sought to :
make their way to safety through A r
ban la. :
' SMOKE FROM HIS CAPTOR
Tbla six-year-old Sorblaa younrs'.ei.
a orfanner lb a Gemin dtetl!-
camp, la happy resarJlss of the f4
that the whereabouts ef his j&re!;'-
are enknown. Hi costume I a son
dnacrint tine, belna msdS BP of Mfts4
off trousers and eaat oS afp&rst.
Th sardine cstch ra E.:re;a I I
been a great failure.
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