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Weston Lead er VOLUME 39 WESTON, OKEtJON. FRIDAY, HJiHUAKY 2. 1017 NUMBER 31 OREGON NEWS NOTES CF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of tht Wnk Briefly Sketched for Infir mttlen ef Our RiiiVt. Purebred tlveetork aim of Oregon, held their conventloa at Salsa last i k. Tha Oregon Btata Oroeere' hmcIi Hun held lit anat-el couveoUoa at Halem laat week. I'ralrl City has ft diphtheria atara hecsuse of lha Illness of several pupils of the public erhoola, Tli Paelfle 1'nlverslly basketball teem holds tha lra.4 for lha aoacea fereara championship of Oregoa. With lha rloee of lha flrat eemeeter at lh Oregon normal arhool at Moa tnnuih, II students ar graduated. Hie eighth annual automobile show of lha Portland fvslers' Motor Car aneuristlon bcgsa at Portland Balar dar. Tha and of lha rar abortaia aader hkh lha fouthera Paelfle baa labor ad for months paat la daclarad to ba almost la eight A rrew of II man la engaged Id sur veying lha proposed fadaralald high way arroea I'matltla county between Pendleton and Crho, Tba alll of tba lata A. E. Katoa of I .a Oranda remembers Willamette) I'ntverslty, already endowed by him, to tha eaten! of $33,000. Work on lha eurvey of tha proposed t'.ugene to Cooa llay hl(hey haa ! tun under lha direction of lcpuiy Hiat Knglnrer Cantlne. Parmera of Vamltlll wnty have un dertaken to ralaa money by prlvata subscription to retsln their sgrlcul tural agent for another year. Kit thousand rose clippings, from Ih hedgee that beautify lb campus. are ready for distribution by lha Uni versity of Oregon over lha aiata. the 4ih annual contention of the Oregon federation of l.ahnr closed Its scaelnna at Rslem. Astoria waa rhoaca aa Ih place of the next nicellng. Work of enrolling members of tha Oregon naval mllltla In the national natal volunteer, a provided by a recent art of congress, wse taken up thla week. Tba aecretary of agriculture announ ced tba second allotment or funda un- der tha good roada law of laat session. Vudvr thla allotment Oregon will re reive 1167.874. Two rarloada of flat aeed boll. In which there la a amall percentage of flai ed, bava been fold by tha Ku gen flat commute to tba Portland Llnaaed Oil work. Angler and commercial flabermen . from all sections of Douglaa county met at Roeeburg In an effort to aire upon leglalatlon regulating flahlng io tha Vmpqua rlvar. Tha aeorelary of war baa decided definitely to purchaaa a tract of land In tb vicinity of Llnnton, for a rlfla ranga for tha uae of troop stationed at Vancouver barracka. Foreat Supervisor Crydr. of tha Umatilla national forest, announce that commencing February t apectal weather forecast will ba aent out for tha benefit of stockmen. Tba Salera Hoaplta! association he commissioned a Salem architect to draw plans for a propoaad f 50,000 hoe pltal truotur which may be erected during the preaent year, That all kind or livestock are com ing through the unueually aevera , winter In aplendld condition la the re port from stock men of all rta of tlr, Grant end adjoining counties. I'nlon county's Jail, from which several prisoners bar mad their es cape (n recent years, was declared by lha grand jury to be unsafe, tad tensive repairs and Improvement! are urged. With only five votea registered against It, the project for the forma tion of the South Side Irrigation dis trict for the Irrigation of tWO teres of land on the south side of Rogue river wss carried. The directors of tha Mount Angel bank hsve offered f 5000 to the farm er of the sift-round log country with ahlrh to build silos. Tha board haa announced that this sura will ba loan ed for thla purpose at I per cent. ' plan's for draining French prairie, com prising a district embracing 11,000 teres, were discussed fet a meeting held tt Oervalt Saturday afternoon. Government surveys have been 'made and the officials ssy tbe land It easily dralnable. The report of tb laying contest at Pullman. Wash (or the first two of elide Irihorn owned ir J Hanson, of the College View I'mill farm, Orvalll. Is In lha lead alia total of IM egg. Any girl la Oregon, between ! egea of and It vara, who ran sew well enough to win flrat place, will be gtvea a trip to the Oregon Atrlrul lural college thla summer, with all as penae paid, to receive leaaons la sew ing. The rente! Is being carried on under the direction of II. V. fteymour, stste leader of ho)s' and glrla' club Work. Telegram Sent By Private Wire Three Hours Before Note Was Made Public. i MAWS0H PICTURES-WESTOH CHAUTAUQUA I'ince Hie- ytr Ifclo no mil Imd linlf fiiJi -in a mVt mnusir-jr er.l Ixi n Vtitliin Hit' Mtit.tt rlii riffle at t lie Mine tin 1 1 (i I i.ilufivi over tin lit) tlt-Kfcra i'f lon'ituilc manner. iliiWi.K iuttl trt x f i- untll the Mi w n fkKIitlun arrived cue-- v.ith nmn th y tuu fout.d i in 1911, and Ufoie U c yinr 1H10 I rtir.erkiibly tiinu, and -x- p- lii rvid n e had Uh-ii fuiine! that t.-nnlty Ititin.uto view we c m- nny hunmn iM-iriK had at any time cuttd. xn In that ,rt of Ihv world rnd Th,w f.hm are' ani 1 t. U-jhc U-Ki.tci.f .f lnd lh. r-. I.a al. t , ,(f ,h, jf kifl( cver n:U( waya U-n d.Kib.rd hy lars. JViflJ ..j ut fc, t xp(.na Whilu no human life rxlxU in this of more- thai I :ti'),0O(J. , n-ly dU-ovm-d part of the world, lhmpnfX M-WN.n ..j,.,,,, tr. animal hf abounds t trr, and in ,i. i.l...i 17. lit I fie NImlarly aupiNMcd t contain more (lf ; ,iiff..r,.t i ...,; may b had for only fl.Mn-a'hat DR. ZIMMERMAN m mm rn lintb Wlllbbl I lkaW .1... -.-...re flJ. liiu in trr. ul.r I .m "K -"".' viiwii iiiiiv iiiii.u auatic life than colder waters, Th traii-nt of ail the ant Are tic Inhabitant is the H-nKuin, and tin' motion pictuiea aecured by tx llorT MawMin thow this bird the sU'ie of tl e mutton Mt riant .e Co. and Watts & liojjeri. Ket rved st-ats, f'O cents in su di ion, uie on sale at Ft ank I' ico's clKce. WESTON NORMAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE WESTON. OREGON JANUARY 27. 1917 i TO THE MEMHERS OF THE OREGON LEGISLATURE: We take thid means of exprvfitiinjr our ow-osition to any meas ure uroposinif to appropriate $125,(KX) for a new t.ormal Kciiotd briet but remsrketily ace pjant j Ktom Oregon, lea inif the location unnamed. ard pro- viditur for the maintenance of such school an annual tax of one-twcnly-fifth of a mill. Any intimation that we now favor or have ever favored tuch a measure in without authority. The State already owns in Eastern Oregon a ?75,000 school plant, the nature of which we have set forth in a prior eommuri cation. We believe this plant to lie adequate to the needs of tl ia ih message nee! ion of the State for years to come. When clotied by the Mate rard P. Hut- C. .nolo in l!kl!l (th Ifuiisa then favtred its print inui'il mainteriance by a vote of two to one) it housed the largest normal school in Oregon, succctwfully maintained on only trl2,5o0 per year. We further believe that an annual tax of one fortieth of a mill would be ample to restore it to usefulness. Moreover. Weston and con tiguous school districts are able to furnish for its practice school all the srade pupils that would ever be required, while from the New York. rrom the fllea of Wall etreet brokerage bouae congres sional Inquisitors brought to light pri vate and confidential telegrams re garded la some quarter as definitely Indicating that there wae a "leak" ou President Wllaon's recent peace note. Tbe most aenaatlonal telegram, con taining rale fnrecaat of the eoniente of the note, was sent by K. F. Ilulton A Co, one of the Isrgeat brokerage houat-e In the etreet, over Its piivste wires on tha afternoon of flecember 20, more than three hours before tbe first Information on which the message newspapermen by Secretary Uanalng. Information on which to brokers was based, Ed ton, bead of the firm, testified, came In another message, from P. A. Con nelly, of T. A. Connelly A Co.. a vVaah Ingtnn brokerage house. In which U. W. Boiling, a brother In lew of Presi dent Wllann, l a partner. Ilulton teattfted that his understand ing was 'that Connelly's Information regarding, the oote as bsaed on gen eral rumor. Indicative that other bro kerage concerns were In pnssesalon of similar Information, Mutton aald. was snolher mesesge he produced which Clement. Curtis A Co., of Chi cago, aent his house prior to found ly'a flrat messsge. I " . A x. J Or. Alfred Zimmerman, German Minister of Foreign Affairs, who saya Alllea leave no channel open for peace proposals. BRIEF WAR NEWS On the northern portion ot the French front Drltish troops have car ried out several successful raids. In Mesopotamia the British and Ot toman troops continue their fight for the possession of Kut-el-Amara. In northwest Russia oo tbe Riga acctor considerable figtfting continues. Here both Berlin and Pctrograd ree ord the repulse of attacks. MAYOR HIRAM GILL INDICTED AT SEATTLE S-atile. Msyor lllram Charles GUI, Chief of Polite Charles U Rockingham and eg Sheriff Robert T. Hodge, with a number of others, were Indicted by the federal grand jury on three eounte charging conspiracy with the Hillings ley bootlegging ring undoubtedly the largeet Illegal wblakey gang la Ameri ca a largest dry city. The Indictments were returned after tha Btlllngsleys charged that tbey had paid Mayor GUI 14000 oa August 19, 11. to dismiss a number ot city cases against them, return documentary evi dence of their violations of federal laws, and agreed to protect them In plying the bootlegging bualness. The Ollllngsleya also charged that they paid substantial sums of money to Chluf Uecklngbam and ea-BUerlff Hodge. "I have been "expecting thla for a month," ssld Mayor GUI, when be ap peared at the federal building to give bond. "I knew theso bootleggers bad threatened to get ma because of my unrelenting efforts to put them out of bualnesa by amashlng their Joints." Paris reported that most of the po- atandpoint of healQi, climate, environment and tec-edibility the eitions captured near Verdun by the location here is admirable. The State's property here has been cared for by the city and school district and is in geod condition. New equipment only is needed, the former equipment having been taken away and sold by order of the State lioard of Regents in VJ00. We would suggest that if any normal school legation is con templated at this session, justice, wisdom and economy require that it take the shape of a millage tax bill to be submitted to the people, levying an annual tax of one-fortieth of a mill for the re opening and maintenance of the Lastern Oregon State Normal School at Weston. Respectfully submitted, F. D. WATTS. S. A. BARNES, E. O. DeMOSS, E. M. SMITH, CLARK WOOD, Committee. Germans were recaptured, adding' that tbe German lossea were enormous. The Dresden arsenal bas been blown up and 1000 women and young girls killed, according to a letter taken from a German aoldier by the French, dated December 30. Artillery activity prevails in the Austro-Itallan theater, and duels with the big guns and operations by email raiding parties are tn progress on tbe trout in Macedonia. Emperor William, of Germany, re peated on his 58th birthday anniver sary Saturday his promise previously made to tbe German army tbat Ger many would enforce peace with the aword. On the Bukowina Roumanla front between tbe towns of JacobenI and Kimpolung the Russians have deliver ed a vicious attack which resulted tn the piercing of the line of the Teutonic allies over a front of nearly two miles. SENATE TO HOLD LONGER SESSIONS Democrat Bring in Ueasurt to Meet Preparedness Expenditures. Washington. With leaa tbaa to working daya remaining la tba life of tha ttlh congress, the democratic steering committee of the senate de cided to bold dally eeseloag of the aenate from 11 o'clock la tbe mora ing until 10 o'clock at Bight, begla aing Tburaday, February 1. Aa obstruction to business which democratic leadere fear la the argent desire of republican aeeatora to force discussion of President WUson's peace 'addreea. aa provided for la Senator Cummins' resolution to reaffirm the faith of tbe aenate la the Monroe doctrine and the piinciplea of Wash ington and Jefferson, advising against entangling foreign alliances. In the house this week the revenue fight will begin. Tbe entire mem bership of the waya and means com mittee considered the measure fram ed by Chairman Kltchln and bis dem ocratic colleagues. Tbe measure la designed to raise about f24t.OO0.O0O to meet extraordi nary military and naval expenditures by excess profits tax and an Increas ed inheritance tax and to provide $100,000,000 more to cover tbe pur chase of the Danish West Indies, ex penditures on tha Alaskan railroad, the proposed government nitrate plant and other enterprisea. Democrats Check Debata Over Peace. Debate on President Wilson's world peace address enlivened tbe senate for several hours before It was halted by concerted action of administration leaders. Then Senator Cummins mo tion to take up hie resolution to aet aside time for a general discussion of the subject was tabled by a vote of St to 30. Senators Hitchcock and Williams, of tbe foreign relations committee, en gineered tbe movement to kill the Cummins resolution, Senstor Martlne, of New Jersey, being the only demo crat refusing to support them In their contention that the clogged legisla tive calendar made tbe action neces sary. Republicans Voted aolidly against tbe motion to table. t A Simple Lcssoni 1 In Arithmetic ! SHORT NEWS NU3QETS FISX NOT IN "LEAK" RING MEXICAN N BANDITS leek BEATEN Long Safety In Plight After a Plant with Amerleans. Tucson, Arls. Nona of the United Btatea cavalrymen engaged la the battle on the border with Mexicans at Stone House from Friday morning until 10:80 o'clock Saturday morning waa kilted or wounded. The Mexicans fled at 10, 80 o'clock Saturday morning and tha Americans ' crossed the border but found no wounded or dead Mexlcana. The fighting waa caused by soma I If yon SPEND Y0U2, JI01IEY mm i . v i m . l I. ... 1 1 . . - . a . . SO irrcapunaiuiv mcftii'nn ubhuii wi lls rustlers, according to a statement made by Brigadier General Plummer, The bandits, he aald, were resisting cowboys' a ho were trying to recover stolen cattle Cssy Beliefs. - It la easy for a roan to believe be Is henpecked, and that tbe mnn who bas a different political view la an an- BABtft! Ul k ftlU lU'l tUU W BlcWlW-AttAUott JIw out of town, And your neighbor spends HIS MONEY out of town, And EVERYBODY ipcndi his money out of, town, What will become, of this town! THINK IT OVER. TRADE AT HOME Fire which swept through a section ot the retail business district of Pitts burgh caused a loss of J 2. 000.000. The rivers, and harbors bill, carry ing an appropriation of $39,000,000, waa passed by tbe house by a vote of $21 to 133. Directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee tt Si Paul railway authorised the electrification ot some 100 miles of the Puget sound division of the road from Othello, in Washinston, to tte Pacific coast. William J. Burns, the famous de tective, was found guilty of surrepti tiously entering tbe law offices ot Sey mour A Seymour, In New York, mak ing copies ot private papers and ther publishing them. . F, C. Oxman, of Dnrkee, Or., testi fied in the murder trial of Thomas J. Mooney at Ban Francisco tbat be ac tually saw planted the bomb that cost ten Uvea and Injured 10 persons dur ing a preparedness paiade July 22, 1916. Withdrawal ot the American mill-' tary expedition In Mexico was ordered by the war department, and by the end of the work the entire command, after ten months on Mexican soil, probably will have recrossed Into the United States. North Pakots is going to take csre of her soldior boys. Both houses of the legislature passed a bill appropri ating $10,000 to be uaod tn aiding the militiamen, mustered; out-of the fel eral service, who may have 'difficulty In finding work. Banker Cenlea He Gambled. With Sen ator or Secretary of Treaaury. ' New York. Pliny Flsk, a New York banker, named by Thomas W. Lawson aa the banker tn the mys terious "cabinet member - senator banker" investment trio, denied at the "leak" Inquiry that he ever bad been interested with Secretary Mc Adoo or a "senator" in any Joint stock account Archibald S, White, the financier, who was declared by Lawson to have told him Flsk had boasted to blm tbat be controlled Secretary McAdoo and bad offered to call the secretary from his bed by telephone at 1:30 o'clock in the morning to prove his assertion, insisted that Lawson was "romano-Ing." Alt Oregon Troops Are Ordered Home. Portland. "AH Oregon troops on the border ordered home," was the statement made in a telegram receiv ed Sunday from Senator George EL Chamberlain, by Major W. W. Wilson, actlns adjutant general. There are at present oa the border the troops in Battery A and the cavalry ot Troop "A. In the battery there are about 165 men and In the troop about 104, 4 CHILDREN SLAIN; FATHER ARRESTED Tacoma. Wash. Four small, chil dren were brutally murdered at Au burn early Sunday as they lay to their beds. It is alleged tbe room aad beds had been saturated with kerosene and then the bouse aet on fire. Their father, S. A. Hewett, a North ern Pacific brakeman in the railroad yards at Auburn, was placed under ar rest by the King cotyity sheriff and taken to Seattle. Hewett'a story la that the four chil dren retired as usual to their beds but during tbe night one waa taken ill. He went to attend the little one, tak ing a kerosene lamp, which he left burning on a chair between their two beds. Being restless, be said be took a walk, returned later and fell into a sound sleep, from which he waa awak ened by flames crackling all about him. Unable to reach the children, be said he rushed to a neighbor's to give a fire alarm and then returned, and with a garden hose tried to quench the flames. " Examination of the children's char red bodlea, tha coroner aald, revealed the tact that their skulls had been crushed in, while the mattresses on which they lay were saturated with, blood. Mrs. Hewett, tbe mother, left the family home last week and waa In Everett President Vetoes Immigration Bill.. Washington. President Wilson ve toed the immigration bill, passed re cently by congress, because of the literacy test provision.- The bill which the president vetoed passtj the house laat March by a vote of 308 to 87, and the senate In DccemVer 64 to T. $300,000 for Work In Belgium. New York. More than $500,000 has been pledged to the commission tor relief In Belgium, by members of the Rocky Mountain dub, ot New York. The money was originally subscribed toward the new $1,000,000 home in this city. Mast Necessary. A brli! lo for the tiiue la a oeces- turi gigai of. twuvi . . , w . Germany haa announced unrestricted. tuUiuariuing policy of Win Fortifications In Roumanla. Petrograd, via London. Russian troops bsve captured Austro-Germaa fortifications ast of JacobenI, south west of Kimpolung, near the northern end ot the Roumanian front, the war office announced. Weathar ReyQrtgom windy.