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-.-1' If t- EADER -t-v t VOLUME 3!) Wi;STON. ORKUON. FRIDAY. MAY 25, 1917 NUMBER 50 WESTON OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST of A!bny. N. V.. Iim purchiumd 10,000 .VAVV.V.VVtVAVAVVV.VVVVAVAV.ViVAy. head ii f Vdhi'IIiik traua of Dum I' i) 8intlie, iinimlni'iil iVinllutnn sheep. J tllMII. . J Order to recruit U unit of I ho I , - Oregon imiliitml guard lo full war J Principal Events of th Week tr"""' """""':. direction of : EUROPEAN WAIi NEWS ill Annual Briefly Sketched for Infor mttlon of Our Readers.' the Secretary of Win, were received by George A. While, Hiljulnl-sfiifrnl of I he Oregon national guard, froin Ilrlgadler-Oeneral Ma mi, rh)rf of tho bureau of mllltli. affuir at Washing-Ion. Major Elliott J. O-nt. United Stale nglncr corps, at ! ( to nt. la trana ferred (o Heutle anl will be succeeded by Colonel George A. Zlnn, now oom mantling llio second reglm'-nt of PIlBtllKTH. Father K V, O'llara, rlialntiHii f the state Industrial welfare romnihv alnn, which administer tho women' minimum watte law, baa tendered bin resignation la Governor Wlthycotubo. effective, June 1. Out of 325 accident rcpurtud 10 the. Industrial orldcnt rommUnlon for lha week from May 11 to 17, Inclusive, but onn waa fatal, the fatally Injured workman being Joseph Cordon, a log ging employ, of Gravel Ford. K 11. MarNnughton, au architect of Portland. waa named by Governor Wiihycom.be aa member of the In duairlal welfare commission to sue iwd Father K. V. 01 Urn of Portland, who haa submitted hta resignation. Illda for contract for pavlug lha Siskiyou highway from the auuitnlt of the mountain to the California lino arc being adverted for. Work 1 to be started Immediately and finished thla summer If tb money hold out. Una Of I lie moat Important mining deal In the history of southern Ore son waa closed with tba giving of bond on Ihn 10 rlalma comprising Ihn Creybark copper mint on Greybsrk mountain, about 13 tnlle cost of Sl Dia. With tb businc strcnta of tho city ally decorated with carnival color A bumper fruit crop all over l-ane county ! looked for thla year. I'nrtland la to contribute tut ainhu Unee company for service In Trance, , Th biggest bean acreage In lha hla lory of polk county la being planted thla year. R. K. Hhull, a young rancher living wr Myrtle Point, w killed by a falling tree. The Llsoolo county fair board haa net ib da tea for tba county fair for September 11, Iff and 20. Dopoalta In Portland'a !5 banka and truat rompanlra bava Inrreaaed Hi 00 000 alnc a year ao, Raatern Oregon farmera are work- Ing every day and part of every night to get their aprlng planting dona. Th paat week baa seen aeveral ma4 dng In Ukavlew. and It la feared that an epldemlo la about to break out. t'onatructlon of the lt wing of the receiving ward of tbe Oregon alato hoepltal at riatem la wil under ay. t'Uty Durna, an Indian bny aced U, waa found dead In the wooda near Kruplre, wttb a bullet bole In tbe body. 'The ninth annual commonwealth conferenr rloaed a three-day anealon at tbe I'nlveralty of Oregon at Eugene. Troop I), aarond aquadron. Oregon national guard, alitecnth dlvtalonal cavalry, 111 be argantied In Pendleton. United Ktatea Senator Harry Lane, of Portland, la III at San Kranrlaro boapltal,' and la reported to bo very low. Marlon County grade and high .... I. .1. L.I I . I. - 1 - I w iirm hi-hi iiinir miiiuwi ii pmmi bui - z track and Held meet In Baleia fiatur- nA Patriotic cmblmtba cltlxena of ar Itoeetiurg enterialner aercral thouaand J Tb Grown grand lodge of the In- PP1 t ' fonuvitien auenanuf on y iwenp DIVISION IS ORDERED TO FRONT IN FRANCE a' m ioneers o I I i Oregon Omafilla Oouoty V 1 North of Gorlzla tba Ilaliaiia bava captured tba height of Jill! K1, tbt key to the Vodlce poaltlon. ' That aeven million men bava been . T" kined in the war thua far and tha General Pershing to Command ' the eitlmate made by Artb'ur Hendt-r-aon, member of the llritiah war coun cil. . . .w . ; K f Ilrlllah heavy artillery, wboa do alrurtlve effoctlvcneaa made poaalble auccenaful Bum me and Arraa offen- Force of 40,000 Regulars fo 60 Abroad. - Waahlntfon. President V-'Uian haa ordered that dlvlalon of regular : alvca, la co-operatlug with llallana In troopa. rommandinl by Major-Oeneral their latest attempt to drive the A us- John J. Pershing, be aent to Franc at trlani from tha line of tbe fsonzo. the earliest practicable date. tfpaln la awaiting reply to her Announcement of tbe order followed pruli Bt over tbe sinking of the Span- alKoIng of tbe selective draft war army lb atiamer Patricio, also destroyed bill by tbe president and the iseulnf whilo sailins tinder Uerman guar- of a atatenwnt that under advice of aiiu-c, and the tone of the Rpanish military txperta on both side of the press Is Increasingly peremptory' in water, tbe presldeift said be could not its demand that Germany be com- employ volunteers nor avail himself' pelled lo respect Spanish right. of the- "fine rigor, and enthusiasm" of The second phase of the great bat- ex President Kooeeveit for the expedl- Jeston, ilea of Arras, tbe Alsne and Cham pagne baa ended In the failure ot the costly Gorman efforts to stem the tido of victory now aettlng against them. Tbe net result of Field Mar shal yon ilimlenburg's supreme ef fort to regain the Initiative haa been tion. ' 1 . All three arm of America's fighting forces the army, nary and marine corps soon will be represented In the war zone. . With American destroyers already In European waters and army regit- ' ' " 'fins lhal the , British and French have lars concentrating to carry the fla to tightened their grip on the German the battle lines in Bejglum and line and have placed In peril the key France, a regiment of marines was positions held by northern France. tbe Germans In Usual attractions.. COME GEO. D. PEEBLER, President S. A. BAR7IES, Secretary County Ordered to Hold Election. Salem, Or. The Bean Oregon California laud grant bill will not be on the ballot at the special election June 4, and Curry county must hold the election along with the rest ot the counties of the state, tbe supreme sail for Europe ahe4d of the troopa designated to join the expeditionary force and round oat tbe nation's repre sentation fn the field. Although details are not feeing made public. It was calculated tbat with tbe marine regiment the total American force now designated fosJand service la Europe Is close to 40,000. General Pershing; and his staff will court decide 1. deBendeatOrdeJofOddfellowabeldlU iouratmn " annual meeting la Eugene, beginning wherry festival. Scores of Blocks Burn in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga. Fire tbat started in n obscure negro section swept a broad path through the residential aectlon of Atlanta, devastating scores of blocks and destroying many ot the city's finest homes and hundreds ot negro boose. ,r--.. ,..., w to pave the way for final training ot tbe huge army the United States la preparing to pour across the seas aa rapidly aa men can be trained and ' equipped. Monday. A three-day convention of tbe East ern Oregon division of the State Sun day School association waa held at Pendleton. Hundred of delegate from all part Ho great la the demand this year for rsnned Jrulia and vegetables tbat tho Eugene Fruit Growers' association ha leased the cannery at Creawclt and will operate It as an auxiliary to the large plant In Kugeua and the amallor imm hnipuuiKims ce.isMw,.. i - fo END LAEOFt TROUBLES Innd. ami to by the C. A 6mll.aL.uui- , , bi r cniiipiiny, of North lien J. Commisslen to Fix Wages, Hour of William RiKsin.. HKvd 57 year, con employes In Interstate Commerce, vlct at Salem, serving tliu for larceny WushlnKlou. Creation of a United of the stats gathered at lloseburg to ono at Juufilon City this year. attend the Oregon State Sunday School The entire extension dlvlnlon of the convention. 1 ' ' University of Oregon has been turned Ctiarlea V. Galloway waa appointed over to the Red Crosa and will be Lai commissioner by tbe state tax coin- used by tho government relief agency mission, under th law passed by thn" aa organ Ixat Ion and Information cen- went legislature. ter for all war nrtivlib In the state Tho fourteenth anpiml convention of of Oregon for tbe duration of the war; the Kugene District F.pwortb. league of the Methodist church held a three daya' session at Albany. Krastua Jones, fit year old, com mitted aulrlde at his homo In Eugene The food survey campaign being conducted lu Hood River, Sherman, Glllium and Morrow counties by the extension department of the Oregon Agricultural college, under the dlree- of agriculture. Is prosremlnR rapidly. The government, In an endeavor to get aa much limd as pnwlbio under cultivation within the Klamuth and t'mstllla Irrigation project. ha coma by hanging himself with strap in tho Hon of the United Slates department co barn back of hi house. "Registration day" In Oregon, under the ermy bill, will be declared a legal holiday, according to an announcement made by Governor Wlthyeombe. D. M. Mclnnore, a California stock man, bas Just shipped In 1300 head of cattle from southern California poluta to feed on the Klamath ranges. 9 Tbo first loan to be made by the land bank of Spokane In tho state of Oregon will be outdo to tbe association organised by farmer near Mnlatla. Delegate from Oregon and Washing' ton towns met In Monmouth at attend the 34th annual session of the Oregon conference of tbo Kvaiigcllual sasocla tlon. , Approximately 1302,010,31 of tbe p In Yamhill county, and how In tli? Couuty Jnll at IlilUtroro for investiga tion of another en, made a voluntary confession, claiming that be killed Wlltlnin lltMHb ur Wlllamiua, Oclo-b-r , 1S15. Mr. Ilooth. wife of the murdered man, and Wllllum Umnnou are now serving time In tho suite pris on for the Booth murder. , Three member of the state land board, crented by chapter laws of 1917, have been appointed by Uio gov ermtr, as follows:, .'Ronton Rowsrs, Ashlnnd, recommended by tho taxpay ers league; R. O. I-edy, Corvallli, rec oi.iiiieiul.'d by Iho State grange; oho Shlmati'ik, Crnbiree, recommend ed by the Farmer union. The warden of the state penitentiary is an ex- Status commission of Industrial ad justment wltli sweeping power to fix wages and hours ot labor ot employes In Interstate transportation and de signed to eliminate strikes and lock outs is provided In a bill presented to cougrojis by the labor department Tbo commission, to bo composed ot nine members appointed by (he presi dent with the consent of tho senate, would be given drastic powers to In tervene In labor wars and establish equitable rlRhta which would be main tallied in force for three year. Enginssrs to Form at American Lake. San Francisco. The Eighth . Re serve Engineer regiment, now organ iting on the Pacific coast, will mo bilise at American Lake, neat Ta coma. Wash., about June 1, It was announced here. JUKE 5 NAKED AS '"1MB CENSUS DATE ' Brazil May Join U. S. In War. Rio do J.vielro. President Bra haa sent a m io to congress recom tnend'T " wation of tho decree of p. ' '. ; :e war between the r ' ' Germany. MARINES TO GO TO FRANCE at actual cost under a three-year lease. Speelul premium will be offered In the sheep depart ttient of the state fnlr by the. American Shropshire ReglHtry association, the American llumpohlre Bheep association, the American Ox ford Down Record association and the American CotawolU Reglstty assoela tlon. ' f . . ' , " The referendum petition directed against the Gill bill of tho last legis lative session waa filed with Secretary proprlatlous of 101514, It is estimated of State Olvott by the Clnckumas Fish by Secretary of Stat Olcott, remain ermen' union. The petition contain officio memltftr nf thA tinuril nuri thettn forward with an offer to landowner f.wr wl ,he mb mettl()cr within these project to supply water . . .. , . , Senator Lane Give:) Up Oy Physician San FrntiClsso. Physiclnns atteud Iiir United States Senator Harry Lnno of Portland, Or.," statciV'hu .could not recover. Senator Lane suffered a nor vou breakdown In Washington and arrived hero lat week.. A blood clot on tho brnlti Is :ld by physicians to have cuod uorvoua deterioration. unexpended, and will revert to the treasury. Tho central Oregon Hack meet and field day wu held at Dond Saturday, at which high school athlete from Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes coun ties competed. More thsu S000 people ot Med ford and Jackson county Joined at Med ford In the largest and most enthusiasts patriotic demonstration ever seen in southern Oregou. The fifth anuual Ruyer' Week date bas been set. The event marking the 16,160 name. Tho Gill bill would close the Willamette river between Oregon City and Oswego to commercial fishing. . - ' J. M. Brlstow, probably Luno coun ty's oldest uatlve son and one ot the first white children born In Oregon, died at hi home on the farm near Eugcno where he was born 68 ycara ago. He won a son pf A. K. Urlstow, who bended ono of the early Immi grant trains and who settled on thla farm In 1848. , t j Irish Frame Constitution. t London, It was announced by Pre mier Lloyd George In tho .house of commons that the Jfovernment pro , posed to summon Immediately a con vention of representative Irishmen lu Ireland to submit to tho Iirltish parlia ment a constitution for the future gov ernment of Ireland..,' 4 Unci Sam Ha No Seed. " Washington. No seed for free dis tribution nor for sale Is at tho dispos al of tho United States department of agriculture. ' THE MARKETS. NATIONAL BOARD WILL BE DRAFTED Washington. The war department has announced that the full strength of tho iKuloiml guard would be drafted Into the United States army beginning July 15 and concluding August S. A minimum of 3JP.00O fighting men will bo brought to tho colors under those orders, supplementing the S93, 000 regulars, who will be under arms by Juno 15. ti It la from these force that the first armies to Jolu General Pershing at tho front 'Will bo drawn. t bo followed within a few months by recurring waves from tho selective draft armies, tho first uOO.ooo of whom will be mo bilised September 1. Oregon will be ashed to raise not less than 2400 national guardsmen for federal service. Washington 4000, and Idaho 1600. The national guard of Ortrtn, WenhttiKton, Idaho,-Montana nd Wyoming nuke up the Twentieth national guard division ot the army oiid will probably be trained at Amer ican Lake. Men Who Have Seen Service th West Indie to Be Sens Washington. A regiment av ma rines, about 2600 men, under coi-and of Colonel Charles A. Doyen oi tho Washington barracks, will accompany the first American army expedition to France.' Tho regiment? will bo composed principally of organizations which have recently Been active service 15 Haiti, Santo Domingo and Cuba, ac cording to official announcement from the navy department They will be armed, equipped and organixed similar to the army with which they will eerve. Colonel Doyen will be under com mand of Major-Ccneral Pershing and tho marines with him will serve a soldiers In the trenches of France. American Nurses Killed by Gunner. New York. Two American nurses, members of an ambulance unit on its way for service In France, were killed on board an American steanief when pieces of a selt fired by a naval gun crew in practice ricochetted from tho water' surface and scattered among a group of nurses Jd surgeons. A third nurse waa ses fiBly wounded. The two nurses kll'od were Edith Avers and Helen Bulk t Woods, both of Chicago. Washington. When President Wil son signed the war army bill a proc lamation was Issued which call upon all men between -the age or 21 and 30, Inclusive, to register for military service on June 5. Registration will be followed by tbo process, of selection which will deter mine the first 600,000 men to be called to the color about September L , The regulations make absolutely no exceptions for any male resident of the United States between the age ot 21 and 30. Inclusive. This Includes alien aa well aa Amer icans. Every Japanese, Chinaman, Mexican, Italian, Spaniard. English man, German, and men ot every other nationality who are of the designated ages must register. Allen will not be drafted tor war duty, of course, hut a complete record of them will be required. Those exempt from military service will be determined after the enroll ment I taken, but first of all every one of the specified ages must register. In case ot temporary absence from his legal residence, a man must regis ter by mail. , Hours of registration will be be tween 7 a. m. and 9 p. m., June 5, 1917, -t the registration place in their home precincts. ; . . Thoso who are too 111 to register are required to apply for Instructions be fore June aa to how they may register hy agents. . '-'.'i Every Unmarried man between the fifth anniversary of the merchants" age of 81 and 30, Inclusive, who Ilvos conclave will be held during the week In Port Ortord, Curry county, the west of August 61 1 at Portland. ' orumoat town of the United Slates, Midnight Sunday night all leglsla- already has volunteered for service, in tlos named by the recent legislature, cither the army or the navy branch. save bill carrying an emergency The volunteers from the little town of t0, clause, or referred to a vote of th 250 peoplo number one-third of the . BuUerrcmory, 38e, electorate, necaroe vrrecuve. ' adult mate population. , Tbe first strawberries In Douglas Contracts have been virtually closed county, and perhaps the first native by the United State shipping board grown In Oregon, were brought, to for the construction f U wooden rurgo Roseburg by J. J. Betta, who waa steamers In Oregon yards at a cost awarded a prise of 11 for th box. ; of approximately $6,0t)ti,ot0. . Six will For thn purpose of stocking small be built by the Peninsula Shipbullu Portland. ' I Wheat Club a.C6; bluestem $2.72; red Russian, 82.63; forty-fold, 12.67. Barley No. 1 Feed, 349.60 per ton. Huy Timothy. $32 per ton; alfalfa. Eggs Ranch, 32c. . ,L , " Wool Eastern Oregon, 50c; valloy. Moliair iDfotilc per lb. To Train Negroes For Commissions. Washington. A training camp for negro officers will be established at Fort Dos Moines, Iowa, where 1200 caudidatcs for commissions In nec.ro regiments ot the new army will be trained. U-Boat Problem Solved, Saya Maxim. . New Tork. Hudson. Maxim an nounced that he had invented and perfected a device which will make ships immune from the dangers ot the submarine. He said that torpe does, even when tired at close range and striking their targets, would ex plode harmlessly against the bulla of their Intended victims. Army-navy bill is passed Appropriate $3,342,000,000 Including $750,000,000 for Ship Construction. Washington. The r senate 1 passed the $3,343,000,000 army and navy war budget without a rollcall and without a disseuttng vote. The bUl carries appropriation to taling $515,000,000 more than those contained In the house bill." Tbe chief new Item 1b an appropriation of $400. 000,000 made immediately available to the president for ship building, with an additional authorised expend iture of $350,000,000 tor the same pur-, pose a total of $750,000,000 for ship ping. - . The meascre la th largest appro priation bill ever passed by any legia- lative body in ' the history of th world. It carries more money than tho entire cost ot the Civil war. ' Seattle. ; 4 , Wheat Bluestem $172: club S2.66: tuat ia Nuw York. irtH F. ThQ&ui i& imjimt ForUand; bur ty Ui (orty-fold, UMi. rsd &uiixa. U-&3- Liberal Loan for Farmer Are Urged. . Washington. Secretary McAdoo, in a letter sent Ho' every banker In. the country, haa urged that tho bauks do their share toward Increasing food production by seeing to It that the farmers am given liberal loans. 117 Wheat Harvest Begun. Chicago. ! In Texas, near Fort Worth Tuesday, au American reaper began to hum the first notes ot tbe world's greatest agricultural sju Llnes to Be Remembered. . ' ' As good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; he ' phony tho harvest ot the 1317 Amer- who destroy a good book kills reason, icaa wheat crop. . lefcaf, ilil&sj. -