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WES1 X)N! L SABER I VOLUME 39 WESTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1917 NUMBER 46 OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAMNTEREST Principal Events of the Wnk Briefly Sketched for Infer mttlon of Our lUi.eri. Governor Withyesmhe deslgnstsd Sunday, May I, "Oregon V. M. C A. day." Astoria elbrled lb ennlersry of the battle of Lexington with, appro priate exercise. ' A ban In been placed on the al of 'stomach bitter'" In Lebanon b tb city official. I.uuibernien In Klamath county ere predicting s big season In their par ticular tin thl r. The nomination of Grorg II. Fo ter potmtr at liaker waa con firmed by the Penal. The flood Koardi soclllo of Harney county la advocating to main highways In thai county. The people of Juutura bae formed a good road association to promote a tatn highway from flurna to Vale. Circulation of petition to call ipeclal cloctlnn June 4 to bond Uraol County for $U.noo ha been begun. Mr. Thorn llrogtn of The Dalle baa recently bought alx aectlona ol land from the Eastern Oregon Lend company. A patriotic day parade, whlrh took tor than two and half hour to paaa given point, was held In Portland laat wsek. Brownsville Presbytrrlsns celebrat ad their 0th anniversary laat week, the Brownsville church having been organised In 107. Th 1'nlted Slates foreal aervic will replant 420 acre In the Mount Hobo dlatrlcf. Blualaw national fort, lh coming aummer. The Unn county Sunday gchooli held their annual convention In lA bsnon tail week with nearly 100 dele galea In attendance. .TIi Radiators. Cugene'a marching organisation. In which 1(0 of the city bnalness men ar enrolled, baa or ganliad horn guard. Howard L. Aumack. employed aa lineman by the Portland Hallway Light Power company, waa elec trocuted at Mount Angel. Orgsnliatlon of an Oregon branch of the League to Knforeo Peace, of which F.xl'reeldent Taft I the head, waa perfected at Portland. The twelfth annual conference of the Woman's Horn MlMlonary aoclely, Salem district, or the Methodlat Kpls copal ch'f-h. waa held at Sslem. The river and harbor board of en glneera haa reported adversely on the propoaed Improvement of the Villain etta river between Corvallla and Eugene. The fifth annual atala ahoot of ths Oregon State Sportsmen's association will be held under the auspices ol the Capitol City Ilod and Gun club at Salem on .May , 7 and S. The net rink written by fire Insur ance companle In Oregon during the year 1916 totaled i:3,fMf 004, accord Ing to a atatement Issued by Inaur anca Commlealoner Well. The foreit aervlce haa recomrasnd ad to 8enator Chamberlain that an p proprlatlon be made in the sundry civil bill of 15000 for fire protection Ofc-ttWcooa bay wagon road lande. Car ahortaga In the acute form that haa prevailed during the laat alx month aoon will be a thing of tn paat, aaya J. H. Dyer, assistant gem ral manager of the Southern Pacific. Under the administration army bill, reported to the 8euate by Senator Chamberlain. Oregon probably will be tiked to contribute from 4600 to 6000 men under lb first call of the preel dent. Frank C. Oxman. a Durkea stock man, waa arrested on a felony charge of attempting to Induce F. E. Rlgall, of Oreyvllle. III., to awear falsely In the murder trial of Thomas J. Mooney. at San Francisco. The atato land board, by unanlnioua vote, deoided to call a meeting of the emergency board, to conliler Attorney General Brown1 request for $3000 fot continuing the Pacific Livestock com pany land fraud caee. Owing to the dlBCOiiraglng outlook for a reonablo price for hop. omt of the hopgrower of Forest Grove: are preparing to Join the prepared nei propaganda and turn their hop yarda Into bean field. A drastic resolution against the sale " of Hip essence of Jamaica, blttera, and other ao-cnllcd reniedle which con tain a high percentage of alcohol, waa adopted by the tate board of pharma data at a meeting in Portland. Qe Uuadrtd io'4 forty-two iU4at cadet of the junior and senior ciae of Oregon Agricultural college har filed applications for adiiilln to the training ramp, which U to be opened at the Prealdlo, at Han Prenolaoo, My s. During the week ending April 111, V accident wer" reported to the kiduairlal ari-iint commission, (if these, three were fatal, the falalltlee being Jim l.lapo, Pendleton, railroad operator; George Webb, unknown resilience, and Hoy Karne. Kali Creek, both alleged to be trepaer. The gathtrlag of oasrer bark la getting to be an Industry of Importance In Wlllamlna. A. H. Ford, merchant of Wlltamlua and Butler, (hipped out 40,000 pound of It last week and received 13600 for It. In accordance with the government plan to lucre the production of foodstuff, the Klamath commercial club ha appealed to the legtilator at Washington for the completion of the Klamath reclamation project. Nea that Them It. Sheridan, at president of the first National bank, of Roeeburg. bad been pardoned by President Wilson wa received with approval by Ih great majority of residents Of Roeburg and vicinity. Portland la contributing more men to the navy than any other city aava New York, according to figure given out by Secretary Daniel for the week ending April II. There were J65 navy enlistments Id New York and 523 In Portland. Tillamook beach retorts, Including Garibaldi. Barvlew. Hockaway, Saltan and a far north aa Manhattan will be equipped with electric light and power (or the aummer season, the electrifying to be permanent la con etructlon. The Umpqua Baptist association, which will be held at Riddle this year, baa changed ita date from Juu I, 7. It to June SO. XI, 22. About 60 delegatea are expected to attend and Hie datea were changed to accommo date the visiting delegatea. !lecaue all the bid received were below par. the atato land board re- Jected all bids lor the I2SO.OO0 rural credits bouds and Instructed the clerk of the board to lumedlatoly wire the board's attorney In each county to ceaaa taking application for loans. Thure. A. Lindstrom, teacher at tb Oregon arhool for th deaf, at Salem, la engaged in eeeurlng a cenaus of all th deaf In that vicinity to ascertain who among them will help to mak up a regiment of "silent fighters" to offer their services to Colonel Roose velt. A signs) achievement In navy rt crultlng, unequaled by any other aUts In the union, has been attained by Oregon. The 600 men to be recruited from April 1 to 20 have been secured by the navy recruiting office at Port land under Lieutenant Coinmandei Blackburn. Hpeuco Wormian, deputy state aeal r of weight and measures, ha sent notice to hi district ealera to prose cute all berry dealers who do not give their customers full measure of ber rlea. Tbla notice Is being given In connection with the arrival of th strawberry eeacon. W. J. Kerr, president of ths Oregon Agricultural college, was authorised to take complete charge of Oregon's food production and conservation campaign at meeting of represcn tatlvsa of most of the state'a Indus trial, commercial, civic and aoclal In terests at Portland. Convinced, after a preliminary ex amination that sufficient grounds ex 1st for a thorough probe of the farm products ratea of the Oregon-Wash Ington Railroad ft Navigation com pany and the Oregon Short Lin Rail road company, the public service com mission ordered a hearing on both. The director of the United Statet Geological survey has obtained from Secretary of Stats Olcott a Hat or all automobile owners In Oregon, to pro vlds them with data relative, to th tonoaraohlo maps of the atate. Thes are mapa. the director asya, In which every automobile owner I Interested, and he desires to get them Into ths Sand, of all auch car owner. A mass meeting of fully 400 fisher .. .Hn,i4 a reanlutlnn protesting against the law enacted al the recent ass.lon of the leglslaturt . .,. ..i i n,n n loroiuuius --- mon caught by trollers outside the At the head of tho mission is lteue tnreo gcm-o... - -three-mile limit during the Columbls Vlvianl. minister of Justice and vice what German methods mean not. as eln.n- seasons. The meetlnl president of the council of ministers, with the early atrocities in the heat aio decided to bring an action to test the constitutionality ot the law. The Crown-Wlllamotte Paper com- pany has purchased from M. J. Kinney, a Portland timber dealer, a tract ol about J000 acres In Clatsop county In The Crown-Willamette Paper com- :r a5. Vr Z IS, ri ; . Th property, with the timber upon It submarine problems; Marquis Pierre wept in its execution ana so mon wss valued at about $175,000. Stand- do Chambrun, member of the chamber strous that even German officer are Fill In Picture Puzzle No. 3 I 71 Jo "f y 4' IS 5l 5- M 03 'MA 15' l I b THIS camel, the laat picture jou drew, children. I the pack horse of the dson. As you noticed when drawing the camel. It Is of queer shuoo In traveling ovr th desert, where wstvr Is very scarce, the camel bat twen known to go days without a drink. Where does It gel wnter? you will ask. It carries It In a little pouch or reservoir. Get busy agnln. children. Burt your pencil at No. t, push It along to 1, 1. 4. 6, etc. and see what you will gL 000.000 feet, mostly tir, spruce aud hemlock, was Included in the sale. Spring farm work waa very much delayed In tho Rogue river valley by reason of the continued rain. The planting of the beet crop Is now In progress and as beet plantings can continue till June, there will be no reduction In the acreage which has been contracted for. The product of between 3800 and 4000 acre will hj0 Mulb the country for men to till brought to tho Grants Pass sagaY", aoll. a preliminary census baa factory this season. Members of th stste highway com mission and offlclsl of the govern ment forestry ervlce, during s con ference In Portland, agreed upon a network of foret roada which aro to be graded and Improved during the next three year with money derived from both federal and state fuuds. Each year a sum of 6127.600 forest aervlce money will be available, and a this la to be matched by a like sum from the state, It means that about 6760,000 will be available for expendi ture on forest road within the three year period. TROOPS GUARD U. S. EMBASSYJN RUSSIA Petrograd, via London. An effort by a small group of ultra-radicals to mako an unfriendly demonstration be fore the American embassy was frus- tratc(j by militiamen as the radicals marched down the Nevsky Prospect on their way to the embassy. Tho demonstration was headed by Nikolai Lenlne, tho radical soclnliBt leader, who recently arrived here through Germany from Swltxerlund with a safe conduct from the German authorities. Tho demonstration Is aald to have been due to the alleged killing lu America of an anarchist named Mooney, who waa under sen tence In San Francisco. A guard was sent by the authorities to protect the embassy. Tho Mooney leferrcd to In the fore- gdlng Is Thomas J. Mooney,. who is under sentence of death for connec- tion with the bomb explosion In San Francisco lit July, 1916, In which sev- eral persons were killed. , ...... .DC e.Ci: FRENCH LtAUtKb Ant OArt Comm.s.lon Headed by Vlvl.nl and Joffrs Arrivs. . WaahiiiKton. "The department of state is advised of the safe arrivnl of the French commission," it waa of- n Mall v announced here. - . - . . .. . Other members of the party are: Marshal Joseph Jacque. Cesalre Jof- fre, commander-in cniei wine rrencn fre, commander-in cniei oi ine rrencn armies until last December, now mill- tary adviser of the government: Vlco Admiral P. U A. Chocheprat. dean of M admirals Md expert on -60 M 40 -., ( 1 tioiuil afiairs; M. simon, inspector oi finances; M. llovclacquc. Inspector general of public Instruction. 2.000.000 Men Needed on Fsrm, Washington Plans for supplying 2.000,000 workers for tho country' furm were announced by berretary of Labor Wilson. The department' employment service has been ordered disclosed that some 2.000.000 will bo needed. War 8peech la Going to German. Paris. Upward of 300,000 copies of Prt1Uont Wilson's war address to congress arc to be dropped over tho German Hue by French and Americau aviators. Women Work In North Dakota Field. nismarck. N. D. Women arc work ing In tho fields of North Dakota be cause of au acute labor sbortago which bus developed. THE MARKETS. Portland. Wheat Club $2.25; bluestem $i.3 1; red Russian. 62-21: forty-fold. 62.28. Barley No. 1 Feed. 651 per ton. Hay Timothy. 626 per tou; alfuUu, $20. Itutter Creamery, 42c. Esrs Rnnch, 33c. Wool Eastern Oregon. 44c; valley. 45c. Hops 1916 crop. 56c; 1917 con- tracts, uomliml. Seattle. ' Wheat llluestem $2.36; club 32.27; forty-fold. r227; red Russian, $2.24; fifa, $2.27; turkey rod, $2.S3. Barley 550.50 per ton. Butter Orenmery, 43c Eggs 36:. WHITL0CK REPORT PUBLIC Believe People of Belgium Will Never b Satiafied With German Rule. Washington. A bitter indictment ot Corman brutullty in tho deportation of conquered ueigtaus for forced la- bori wrlUen frora behind the German b iiramI w'hltlock, American minister to Belgium, was made public by the state department. In concluding his report Mr. Whit lock says: "They have dealt a mortal blow to nny prospect they may ever have had of being tolerated by the population ot Flanders, they have brought home to every heart In the land. In a way thnt will impress Its horror Inaeitniy on tne memory of ., , ,.,nm., ot passion and the first lust or war. but by one of hose 'K-eds hat make ... ' race; a deed col. ly matured and temattcally exect n UVCU ....... ..v., - dtliberU'ly aud sys- executed, a deed so cruel that German soldiers are said to have BRIEF WAR NEWS Holh In i'lili'stlue and Mesopotamia north of Daic'lad, Krltlsh forces have added to their recent successes. German destroyer on Sunday threw I'd) Mil-lit an h ore In the region of (' lu Is, killing some civilian and wound inn 12 other person. Twenty thousand munitions work er In Herlln and Hpandau went out on a general strike In protest against reduction of the bread ration, accord ing to latest Information from Ger many. On the eastern front In Russia, Ga llcia and Koumanla, there Is little fighting. In the Austro Italian theater the bombardments have again become Intense. Considerable fighting baa taken place lu Macedonia lu the Cerna river bend and southwest of Lake Doiran, but no Important changes are reported. The failure of the Germans to resist the pressure of the French is the out standing feature of the operation in the great offensive on the Aisne and In the Champagne, It is clear that General Nlvelle'a armies are in no danger of losing the Initiative and that gradually but surely all tho salient along the Solssons-Auberive front are being crushed. The fact that an entire German am bulance BCctlon, together with It doc tors, was taken in one haul of prison ers demonstrated the rapidity of the action of the French troops, aa these sections always operate behind the first fighting Hue. - . r- nr. LAND GRANT DECREE UPHELD Oecialon of 8upreme Court Goea Against Southern Pacific. Washington. In deciding the Oregon-California land case, the supreme court afflrmffd the Oregon federal court's decree enjoining the Southern PaMf 4e xsjjroad from disposing of tim ber and mineral on Its landa received by congressional grant' - ' Iiy tho same decision the govern ment won in ita suit against the Southern Pacific railroad to regain nearly 2.300.000 acre of Oregon and Washington land, worth 130,000.000. Seed Potatoea Are Short. Chicago. Mayor Thompson said on authority of an expert of Armour & Co., that If every seed potato now in this country were planted the crop would be 25 per cent under normal. Will H. Parry Dies. Washington. Will II. Parry, of Se attle, vice-chairman of the. federal trade commission, died at a hospital here from the pffecis of an operation. PRESENT BATTLE IS FIERCEST OF WAR Loudon. Keuter's correspondent tel egraph lug from the British headquar ters in France says: "The fighting now proceeding is the fiercest seen In this war. The Ger mans have thrown in large reserve aud have brought up a great number of fresh guns." The correspondent contrasts the reckless prodigality with which the Germans are now throwing reserves of men and guns into the firing line with their previous prudence and says that they clearly realize the full extent of tho Anglo-French menace to their whole system of communications aud are desperately trying to counter the danger. "They are throwing in their stra tegic reserves wholesale and aro rush ing up guns and ammunition 'which must be weakening some other point in their long-drawn armor. Since the Germans began tholr retreat In tho middle of February they have shown every desire to conserve man-power, but the past few days they have shown a complete recklessness in repeating couuter attacks In mas formation without regard to the cost, which must be appalling." ' Cave-In Floods Treadwell Mine. Juneau, Alaska. A surface cave-In, which let the waters ot Gastlneau channel into lower workings, forced the abandonment of three of the larg est units of the famous Treadwell group of mines. $3 a Bushel Paid for Wheat Fort Worth. Texas. A new record for wheat was set here when a carload of Texas No. 2 hard wheat sold tor $3 a bushel to a Texas mill. A German submarine was funk by navy gunners on the American steam r Mongolia, IU periswpw waa hit. CONGRESS CONSIOERS NEW ARMYMEASURE Wilson to Wage Strong Fight to Create Big Force By Selective Draft. Washington. President Wilson's fight to organize n war-time army In accordance with th plana of the war department and the army general ataff began in earnest Monday In both bouses of congress. In the senate the administration rmy bill, supported by Senator Cham berlain, chairman of the military com mittee, and a majority of his commit tee aa it was, started on Ita way to a fotc. The house bill, aa reported by a majority of the committee, provided for volunteer enlistment, with con scription only as a laat resort, and the fight for this measure waa led by Chairman. Dent, of the military com mittee, whose supporter felt sure that they would make a good showing. A strong element In the house, how ever, backed the selective conscrip tion plan advocated by the army gen eral ataff and recommended by the military committee minority, led by Representative Kahn, of California, republican. The espionage bill has been laid aside In the senate to permit consid eration of the conscription army meas ure. The senate declared for press censorship during the war by retain ing that clause by a vote of 43 to 33. AUTHORITY TO LIMIT FOOD PRICES ASKED Washington. The government's pro gramme for food control during the war was put before congress by Secre tary Houston in a communication to the senate asking: power for, the. de partment of agriculture to take direct supervision of food production and distribution in the United States and requesting a $25,000,000 appropriation for putting the plan Into operation. Authority waa asked for the Council ot National Defense, in an emergency, to buy and sell foodstuffs and to fix maximum or minimum prices. As outlined to the senate the gov ernment's plan Is first to make a com plete aurvey of the country's food supply to determine Its ownership and distribution. If necessary to license and control the operations ot all con cerns engaged In the manufacture of food or feeds, agricultural implements and all materials required for agri cultural purposes. Authority is sought for the agricul tural department to take over and op erate the concerns if that course is demanded by the public interest BRITAIN TO GET FIRST LOAN Initial Bond Issue to Depend on Imme diate ' Needs of Allies. Washington. The first American loan to the allied nations will go to Great Britain. In reaching the decision to make the first loan to Great Britain, offi cials have been influenced by the fact that Great Britain as banker for the allies prior to America's entrance into the war, has met the heaviest finan cial strain imposed upon any of the entente governments. In making the loan, the United Statea will accept British ponds bear ing 314 per cent Interest as security. The interest payments upon them at a rate considerably lower than that which Great Britain has had to pay for recent borrowings will balance the paymenta to holders of the Amer ican bonds. Billinflsley Saws Way to Freedom. Seattle. Logau Btlllngsley, under sentence ot 13 months'. Imprisonment in a federal penitentiary for conspir acy to violate the federal lawa by im porting alcoholic liquor into the atate of Washington, and the principal wit ness for the state In the recent whisky graft trial here, sawed his way to freedom from the Immigration deten tion station where he had been held since his sentence. Spain Gives Germsny Warning. " Amsterdam, via London. Spain's note to Germany, aa given In a Berlin dispatch, while conveying a grave warning that the end of Spanish pa tience is in eight, also contains a sug gestion that a crista may be averted through QegoUtUon.