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r MSBBSlslBi -kgamakaaaw, di hHaasBBSkw. IT? A TPlslTD VOL. XXXV. WESTON, OBEOON, FBIDAY, ilAHCU 17. 191C. NO. oO. Weston WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT VI Brief Reside ef Gcncrd Kcws Trcni AH Arcr:d t&e EstUl Lh' News Items of All Nations and ' Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Vic ' President Marshall celebrated bis 62nd birthday Tueeday, March U. The German aft la attack the fort ivoVr Verdun with th hop of gaining thclty. MlrhMl Daraphoffer, and 101 ysars. die In th Horn for th Aged at Van couver, Wssh. Th report that Carman baa offered to buy th Danlah Waat Indlaa for 120,000,000, la denied. Villa and hie follower have taken uddaa twlat eaatward and are declared to be Making new goal. Hie Aero Club of America haa of fered service of men and machine to aid the U. & capture Villa. General Carransa'a army la gather ing In Northern Mexico to aid the United State in capturing Villi. Two Mexican editor at Loa Angela arf held to trial accused of using the U. 8. mail to incite revolt and mur der. Seven women prisoner In the jail at Ban Francisco make their eecape through a vacant room and deacend ladder. A New Jersey grand Jury refused to Indict a woman who killed her huaband becauae be waa beating her with a raxor strop. , Germany baa requested Bulgaria to end two division to the French front. but owing to the altitude of Rou mania Hi refused. The revemmmt laboratory at Mad- leon, Wis., And grain alcohol cheaper than gasoline, and th director pre dict it general two a a substitute. Manitoba, Canada, vote I to 1 for prohibition. When th law goe into effect May 81. ZOO bar. 42 whoteaal howaea and seven licensed club will go out of business. - Senator Borah and Chamberlain urg congreea to act quickly on th national defense program, declaring earn to be necessary, now that the punitive expedition In Mexico may de velop Into eeriou proportion. Keith . Dalrymple, mlating for eight year and heir to $400,000, was found ill in Missouri hospital and taken to hla home in Pennsylvania to claim hi fortune. Proceeding to de clare him legally dead have been drop ped. . General Alvaro Obregon ha been appointed minister of war of Mexico, and General Candldo Agullar minister of foreign affaire. Many foreigner are leaving the city and there I an onderourrent of excitement among ail classes. ; Chew Chong, a 25-year-old Oriental was shot and killed in a Chinese room ing house in Oakland, Cat. Th po lice think th murder waa another move in the tong war now being waged In Pacific Coast cities. (mm renczs now vm SOT EffCKT 10 CAPTUKf VB1A Washington, D. C. r- While there were indication in official dispatches from Mexico Wednesday that the de facto government '.wa making su preme effort to capture Villa and hi bandit with It own force, there wsa no sign that Ceneral Funs ton's orders to proceed on the same errsnd had been modified In any way. Word that American trout had crossed the border wa still lacking. th War department Itself not having been advised a to when th movement would begin. Congress took active notice of the border situation for the first time. Th house adopted a resolution 1st In the day authorising the recruiting of th mobile regulsr army to full strength. This means the addition of approxl mately 80,000 lighting men to the In- ORDERS U.S.A1IY TO DISPATCH VILLA WasMsgtca Ddercisd (o M Border Raids at Any Cost wAicmi waijTig mm m Whether General Occupation Follows WiQ Diiend Upon Attitude of Carranza's Government. GEN. PABLO GONZALES J General Goniale Is a Carranxa lead er who I scllvs In capturing Villa. fantry. cavalry and field artillery. The senate is expected to concur, and the necessary orders will be Issued Imme diately to nil up regiments on border duty. The step was suggested by the army general etaff. It is urgently desired now, because of the weakening of the border force by the expedition after Villa, but ever sines the patrol of the border began the army has been great ly handicapped by the skeleton organ isation of regiments, companies, troop and batteries, The force that occupied Vera Cms had similar diffi culties, some of the companies there being less thsn 40 men strong. . S. Troops M Karri Into ITcxico ia Light Crier ' The names of all persons arrested for intoxication In Aberdeen, Wssh, and th places where they obtained their liquor hereafter will be published by Chief of Folic Schmidt, according to an announcement mad by him. Dr. J. B. Lloyd, of the government health service at Tacoma, Wash., who Is supervising the campaign of rat catching In that city on an extensive scale, says tests are now being made -from rats caught during the past week as to evidence of bubonic plague. While crossing Birch lake, 18 mile east of Mesaba, Minn.,William C Taft waa attacked by seven timber wolves. With a pocket knife a hi only weapon Mr. Taft killed two of the animal and waa himself severely scratched before two companions with r I floe came to his assistancs and drove off th wolves, , Fsilurs of the machln runs to work at th crucial tlms when most needed t the beginning of th fighting be tween the Villa bandits and the Thir teenth Cavalry at Columbus, N. M., is ths reason given for the escape of the Villa band and also for th relatively small loss smong them, according to Private Thomas Barton, of ths Hos pital corps, A (30,000 contribution to ths na tional treasury's conscience fund, the largest ever received, came by mall in a registered package from New York. With the temperature 15 degrees below sero and a heavy wind blowing, th Western Mesaba range in Minne sota is In the grip of the second sever blUxard within s week. The National Housewives' League has declared a "boycott" on sugar and sent out communications to sil brsncb leagues, as well as to other women's societies, urging co-operation in ths movement. Columbus, N. M. The commanding officers of th expeditionary fore rave order Wednesday that the men should take with them only such equip ment as they could carry on their backs or saddles. Extrs clothing and th equipment known in the army a th "surplus kit" will be left behind. : These order were Intended to limit carrying facilities to th essential of th expedition food and drink for th men and horse and ammunition for the guns. Large quantities of ammunition for ths mountain ho wi tiers and Aeld guns haa been distributed. Cabmat wa gons, which carry ammunition for the soldiers' rifle, were losded and ths en gineers, signal and hospital corps were supplied with th final details of their equipment. Villa Suspect Arrested. Columbus, N. M. Alfredo A re go n, who for several weeks has been a waiter In the Columbus Hotel, waa ar rested charged with hsving in his pos session goods looted from stores during ths Villa raid. He Is suspected of be ing on of the men who guided the Mexican bandits Into the town. Are- gon wss taken to uemmg oy reaerai officers.' Aregonhada United States army uniform. The suspicion that he waa on of Villa' guides rested mainly on the fact that he was not at the hotel for several hours before th raid. New Hand Like Claws. Paris Two new types of artificial arms with hands are shown at tne Academy of Sciences. One is for hesvy work, with fingers like claws of s lobster. The other has artificial fin gers, enabling th hand to reproduce, closely the action of natural lingers. Successful experiments were made in the presence of members of the acad emy by two men, each of whom lost an arm. One sawed through a beam of wood and the other played it violin. Army of 120,000 Proposed, Washington. D. C Chairman Hay, of ths house military committee, Wed nesday prepared for immediate intro duction of the resolution to permit the President to raise the fighting strength of the standing army to 120, 000 men at once. Republicans snd Democrats worked In perfect harmony for the adoption of the resolution, depsite that- fact that their leardera on the military, commit tee disagreed as to th meaning of it. Waehlntgon, D. C American troop were ordered across the Mexi can border Friday by President Wil son to take Francisco Villa and hi bandits dead or alive. Under th direction, if not the lead ership, of Major General Funston, who ended the rhlllppln insurrection by taking Agulnaldo, American col umns art expected to move into Mex loo at once. They go to meet 000 guerrilla troop in mountainous region, from which Carrara troops have fled. Whether this long-deferred armed action, which begins purely as s punl- tiv measure, to clear Northern Me I co of menacing bandit band over which General Carransa has no con trol., shall grow into a general armed Intervention or occupation in Mexico depends, in Urge measure, on Gen eral Carransa and th Mexican people. An adequate fores will be sent st one In pursuit of Villa with the single object of capturing him and putting a stop to bis foray. This can be don and will be don In entirely friendly aid of th consti tuted authorities In Mexico and with scrupulous respect for th sovereignty of that republic" That statement wa prepared by th President himself. President Wilson's intention to do- part from th policy of watchful wait ing, ended by th Columbus tnsssacr of Friday, was announced after it had been unanimously approved by th cab inet and administration leaders In con- i. Th president's position wa explained fully to th latter, who agreed that he should not be embar rassed at this time by discussion of a minority which might arouse trouble In Mexico. After a brief cabinet meeting, at which the President wa described ai being as determined to eliminate Villa ss he was to elimlrtst Huerta, Secre tary Baker hurried to th War depart ment and sent order to th border troop. ' A2cs fcfcse to D&a Yessds; KsSce k fepectd Seas Washington, D. C Th entente al lies have agreed to inform th United State that they cannot accept th pro- In Secretary Lansing s recent circular memorandum that a modus vivendl be entered into for the disarm ament of belligerent-owned merchant ships. Conferences between th allies on this subject have ended and formal replie are expected in the near future. Advice to th Stat department from the embassies at London, Paris and Roms soms time sgo made it ap parent that the disarmament plan had met with no favor, and th department haa been proceeding on th assumption that it would be rejected. Th United States doe not question the right and international law of mer chantmen to arm for defense. Dis armament by sgreement wss proposed purely a a humanitarian expedient on account of ths development of subma rine warfar. Packing Cases Settled, Washington, D. C From unofficial but reliabl source it waa learned here that the long-standing case of th American packers have been set tled. Th case involved tha detention by the British government of large quantitea of meat products shipped from th United State to th neutral countries of North Europe. While details of the settlement are lacking, it ia known the- British government hss undertaken to secure th exporters against loss by a system of long-time contracts. Hslr Curling Is Fstal, Seattle, Wash. Miss Stella CsstleL 20 years old, a domestic servant, was 1 fatally burned at her apartments, 1101 Fifth avenue, about 4 :30 Sunday titer noon. An alcohol lamp which ah, waa using to heat a curling iron, over turned and set her clothing on Ore). The woman had placed th burning lamp in her lap while she sat before th mirror and curled her hair. When th lamp upset the alcohol spread over her clothing. Th burning wick ig nited her co thing and aha was soon n veloped in flame. , Gn, Carranxa "Sorry." . . . : Douglas, Aril. "I am sorry that conditions are such that th United State deem It necessary to take th sctlon of which you hav advised me." This answer was made by General Car ranxa to a telegram sent to mm cy General P. Eliaa Callea, military gov re nor of Sonora, asking the first chief of the d facto' Mexican government for an expression of his opinion on the set of President Wilson in ordering a punitive expedition into Mexico. IRRIGATION AND CREDITS CONFERENCE ENDS AT SALEM State Capitol, Salem Another ses sion of the state credit conference doubtless will be called within th next few month to adopt th form in which th proposed constitutions amendments Indorsed by the conven tion, which closed here Saturday, shall be submitted to th people. Meanwhile two committee will work in conjunction with th sttomey general on th drafts of th proposed measures thst are to place th pro posed amendment in operation. If a majority of th committeemen determine that their work should be reviewed by th wbol conference be fore it goes before the people, the con ference will be called together again. When the meeting adjourned jority of th delegate seemed to ex pert a future meeting. Sine th convention now hss deter mined thst it wants two separate measures . one providing a system of rural credits and th other providing stat aid for irrigation and drainage th committees hav their work defi nitely outlined for them, and th rest of the delegate are hopeful that har mony at a future meeting will replace the friction that, waa so apparent in the session of th last few days, car rying both Issue to a successful con clusion at the polls. ' Th convention, so far a carrying out th purpose for which It wss called together, virtually concluded its work Friday night. By remaining In ion until 1 o clock In th morning the resolution expressing th policy of th conference finally were adopted. Th session wss devoted to th tail of creating two committees that shall hav charge of th preliminary legislative work. It also waa intended aa sort of a harmony meeting, but there wss harmony only in the s ing attempt of both factions to drift farther apart. So th belief is pretty general that. after an interim of a few months, th delegate will hav had Um to forget their minor difference and that they ill b ready to unit in their deter mination to conduct an aggressiv snd eo-operstivs effort to enact th pro- nosed amendments into lsw. Summarised, the work or in con vention Is about as follows; An amendment to th constitution enabinr the stat to lend It credit to a rural credits system wss proposed. An amendment to the constitution enabling th state to use It credit for irrigation and drainage waa proposed. Th bond to be eojd under either or both of thee plana are not to exceed in , th aggregate t per cent of the assessed valuation of ths state. A committee consisting of J. D. Brown, president of the Farmer' Union: C E. S pence, master of th Stat Grange, and T. H. Burchard, president of the State Federation of Labor, waa appointed to work with th attorney general in drafting th pro posed constitutional amendment for the rural credit plan. A. L. Mills, chairman of th conven tion, wa authorised to appoint a com mittee of three members on drain age man and two irrigation men to work with tne attorney general in drafting the proposed constitutional amendment for atot aid to irrigation and drainage. Th committee also will hav pow ' to draft th proposed initiative measures that will carry the proposed amendment into effect; and to call another convention if necessary. "So far aa possible" the committees are authorised to co-operate. The convention closed ss it had pro ceeded from the start divided de cisively on one issue, thst of linking rural credits with stats aid. The delegate from the State Grange, the Farmers' Union, the Ag ricultural College, the State Univer sity and many from Western Oregon were firmly united in their determina tion not to permit th state aid plan to be linked with the rural credits plan. They were proponent of rural credits but did not want to "swallow" irrigation in order to get it. They were championed on th floor of th convention by Thomas B. Kay, state treasurer, and at some stages of the voting hsd the delegates from the State Federation of Labor with them. They had an abundance of oratorical talent besides the state treasurer, not ably Judge W. M. Colvig, pre resent ing the Southern Pacific; Senator S. M. Garland, of Lebanon; W. H. H. Dufur, of the Grange; A. R.Shumway, of the Farmers' Union; E. J. Stock, of the Labor Federation, and others. Governor Withycombe voted with them when he waa in th house. On the other hand, the Irrigationista and most of th drainage people, to gether with a large proportion of the Portland delegation, stuck together in support of the plan to combine the three issues. ' This division wss plain throughout the meetings. One break cam when Mr. Stack, of the Labor Federation, joined with Asa B. Thomson, Oswald West and W. Lair Thompson in sign ing the original majority report of the resolutions committee providing for s combination of the three measures. Mr. Stack explained that he did this to permit this plan to come before the convention on it merits. On subse quent ballots he voted with th fsction supporting the separation or isaues. , When the morning's meeting tried to organise a committee to draft the proposed legislation. Senator I. N. Day, C C Chapman and others of those who had supported the omnibus plan proposed a single committee "in the interests of harmony." But the other side objected even to this. They even went farther and in sisted n naming their own committee to draw the rural credits bilL PASSENGERS WARNED TO AVOID THIS VESSEL , T-r. ' ' i M yjv-: CrMV f ,.". t - jedf, - ' ' ' - - ' I The French liner Espsgne, which may be one of th first victim of Germany' new announced policy of sinking all enemy armed merchantmen. American booked to sU on the Espagn from New York received anonymous latter warning them not to smbsrk. . -V- BERGEN, NORWAY, AFTER ITS GREAT FIRE . I . I'M: VU. ": -.a '-t' ,' !!'( ... tt . !'!-, i f. i This view of Bergen, Norway's great fishing center and seaport, waa taken after the recent conflagration whlcA-, destroyed a large part of th city. Thousands of persons war mads homeless and tne damage was esumaieu at more than 120,000,000. WITNESSED MASSACRES IN PERSIA ARCHIE ROOSEVELT IN KHAKI ' ftpi v ;J Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sklmmon, after a harrowing experience in Urumlah. Persia, finally reach od America by devloua ways and are now co-operating with the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief. Mr. Shimmon Is an American cltlxen and a graduate of Columbia university. During the massacres of th Christians In Urumlah by .th Kurds and Turks, Mr. Shim mon. by advice of the American missionaries, fled to Ttflis, leaving Mrs. Shimmon under the protection of the American Bag. She was an eyewitness to the atrocities In Urumlah and the surrounding district Her aunt and uncle were abot and their bodies were burned. Her cousin, a young girl, refusing to marry a Moslem, was made the victim of horrible abuse by the Kurds and then her body waa burned. Mr. SUmmon returned with th Russians. REVIEWING TROOPS AT ZATUN, EGYPT - Archie Roosevelt, son of the former president. Is one of the leaders of th organization of Harvard students for , military training. He Is here seen In his uniform. This photograph, taken during a review of the British Mounted Riflee at Jaten, Egypt, shows, left to right. Gen. Sir Alexander uoaiey, sir nemr iiscHahon and Sir John Maxwell, commander of the British forces in Egypt BENEFIT IN "BROWN STUDY" Concentration of Mental Energy Makes for ths Production of One's . Best Work. , "If the brown study' were mor often cultivated many people would b happier, and more clear thinking would t be done, says the London Lancet, it . Is in such a state that truths dawn I suddenly and clearly upon the uncloud- ' ed Intelligence. It is In such a stat ; that mighty ctlons sre conceived; poems born at a strok and rrxi'jkind . enlightened through the enllghtmeut ; of the Individual "In this state ct mind there la such a concentration of mental energy thst the body Is ignored. Ths mind, on th ' other hand. Is so working upon . the subject which concerns It Is so intent upon its own sCTalrs, that the external world Is obliterated, and any bodily discomfort that may have 1 pre existiug is now negligible and vimo-j tlced." The Lancet says the relationship be tween mental activity and the bodily state la not realised with sufficient fre quency or with sufficient thoroughness by the European cf today. .T, av erage man is too engrossed' w"t!i t'. bodily pabulum end la carir.; t -t t.' e needs of the body fca Direct tiif needs of tha mind." .