West EADER VOLUME 40 WKSTON. OREGON. FIUDAY, FEB. 1. 11)18 NUMBER 34 on COUNTRY PUT UNDER STRICTER FOOD RULE Dealers in Wheat Flour and Bakers Limited to Percent ' age of 1917 Reqnlrements. c,;:33;i tiavs notes OF GEfiERAUNTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. WAR SECRETARY SAYS WOULD SERVE 0REG0!l MISTAKES MAGNIFIED AS U. S. SENATOR Washington. Prreldant Wllo haa placed ihr rountjy on itrlrti-r food ra tion. In prorlamallou hn limited whole saler. Jobber mid retalli-r to 7 per cent uf ihnlr HIT wheat flour require ment and baker to 10 ir rent. Me railed fr nbarrvance of two whrath-aa day. Monday anil Wrdne day, on aheadc and aim meat lew Diral dally, inratlre Tuoaday and put k Ira Halurday. Hlmultauroualy lb fod ailmlnlatra flag announced lla now "Victory bread," to contain 20 prr rent of rn ala other than wheat, after February 24. It alxi announced Tueaday would be a pnrklt'M ly In addition to rtuturday. Thrw draatlc atnM am nrrraiary to provide wheal for Kurnpe, the food a-lmlnUiratlon atatrd. Thirty prrcnt Of America normal ahrat emmuinp tlon uiual ha ewtil to our alltr Only radlral ruta In the American bill of far IU provide )h li.ooo,0u buahrla monlhly which tho alllc require. Only part of the if food rcgula tlona will h roiupulaory under tho power piaaiard by th food adtnlnl t ration. ralcia ran be rhr. krd through llc nalna. but th food admin latraflon frevly admitted that It would depend on the patriot inn of the Amr Iran houaawlfo to force observance of Ida new war ratlona. "Victory" war bread, tho national loaf, la esprtted to provide the big taring in wheal consumption. Graham and whole wheat brcada will be rlaaaed aa victory bread, but tha real war loaf will be that mixed by auhatltutlna 30 per cent of rice flour, rornmaal, potato flour, oatmeal, buck wheat flour, potato flour, aoya bean flour and other auhatltutca. Re taller are ordered to sell wheat flour only with an equal amount of one of tbea eubatllutea. Housewives need not mix these la their baking, though thla la urged. War demanda are putting new UN Into tha lumber and longing Industrie In lli-ntnn county. C. K. Will la ma, uf flalrm, ha bear tln-ted prraldent of the Oregon HlaU I'oultry aaaprtatlon. Oregon' Thrift campaign la galnlni ground. Kalea of war aarlnaa atauipt bare reached $613,734. Tha total payroll dlabursttrncnla U tha two big aawmlll at lind for lot year 1917 vara IUI7.0M. Aaalated by Ilaker acbnol trecbera 10 of Ilaker" prominent bulnes mat have formed a knitting claaa. Two boraa guard coatpanlaa wen organised In Manhfleld, one by ttu Moom lodge and the el her by tha Eli lodge. Hoy Campbell. It, ru abot and killed by hi companion. Hoy Norrl near Mount Soott, U miles aaal ol Roarburg. ftnrrrlary of Htate Olcotl ha laaued a formal announcement of bin rand I dary for the republican nomination (oi the governorship. ftpeelal Inveallgallon of rapacity ol all ablpyarda In tha Portland dlatrtrl will bo iitado at onra upon ordvrs from Vice Chairman lie. The ahlp knee Indudry la rapidly a umlng big proportion In Clackamas county. The Mulalla country alao baa become a big ahlp-knee center. Th Sun Dial ranch, north ol Troutdale. I ahtpplng turnip by the carload to the Wittenberg-King company at Tho Dalle, to f evap orated. Kffort to locate Mia Mlgnon Swan ton. a young woman who waa teaching i-wSte&w! . use. more corn aft more fish 6. beans use just enough Cr use syrups ? and serve the cause of freedom U.S. FOODA DM I N I SIR ATI ON than htraui. Within two year from now. high way rommlitdon officials predict, It will be possible for a man to ride between Haleiu aud Walla Walla. Waahlngton. without getting off of a paved road. Leading up to thla the commission will probtiMy award con acliool ,ar llalany. and who dlaap- tract at lla next meeting for Jtrad-pnarr-d myaterloualy few day ago. tng and macadamising a road between DISTURDANGES IN GERMANY REPORTED London. What new haa been' per mitted to paa the German renaor In dicate that a political hurmi' nit baa again Im-n atirrrd up In tl. rinany. lteiorta of diaturhnuei-a In (lermnny again arv current In llollund. and ' ere nutbreaka are aald to hnve occurred lit the liheuUli Indualrlnl dxtrirta A diapatch from Zurich to the Kx change Telegraph company quote the Ilerlln correepondent of the Frankfur ter Zeitung aa raying that the l'an German are "kicking up tremendotia row," mid declaring that Field Marahul von llliulonhurg and (Icni rnl von I.u dendorff, dltntatlafled with rhancellor Ilertllng' pcerh before the main com tnlttee of the RelchXag, am agnln talk ing of retiring, Kmperor William, hlmaelf, ha not been apared. aay the Deulache Tnge Keltung. which tyl him "the present representative" of the llouae of Hohi-n-xollcrn. probably drdrlng to ahow by a parallel between the emperor and the crown prince that the annexationist cherish the latter aa the savior or Ger many at tho last moment "from sink ing In tho abyee dug by four men Dr, von Kuehlntann, German foreign secretary; Count von Ilertllng, Im perial chancellor; Count Cgernln, Aus-tro-Hungarlan foreign minister, and Count von Roedem, German aecrctary of the treasury." Senator Borah Defends Wilson. lUltlmore, Md. Senator William B. Borah, of Idaho, In an address to an Immense Patriotic Dnfeme League meeting In the academy of music vig orously defended President Wilson's administration and congress against what he termed "tho wild criticism" of some men who, ha said, could not forget partisanship, but whose real In tention was to get at tha bottom of gome of the mistakes that have been made In the preparations for war. Russians Battle With Roumanian. - I'atrograd. Sorlous fighting has taken place hotwecn Russians and Roumanians In the neighborhood of Gslati, near the border, according to a report received from Austrian head quarters at Brest Lltovsk. have been unsuccessful. Cattle tblevea bave been operating In Lane county on wholesale ecale, ac cording to Sheriff Parker, who will offer a reward of 1300 for Information leading to the arreat and conviction of the ruMllera. Attorney-General Drown baa pre pared ballot title for an Initiative peti tion filed by K. U Walton, of Oregon City, which propose to prohibit all trap, aelne or fish whoel fishing In all the rlvera of the tate. Alfalfa produced 1105 per acre on the Umatilla project In 1917, according to figures collected by the United State reclamation service officials. The maximum yield was seven tons and the average price waa J15 per ton. The term of the district attorneys Sf Iccbitte. Wheeler and Clatsop counties expire at the end of this year and their successors are to be elected In November, according to an opinion given Herrelary Olcott by Attorney General Hrown. in a special effort to combat tha spread of blight, Jackson , County Pathologist C. C. Cate has established a class for Instructing glrla and women In the Rogue river valley in the art of cutting out thla dread fruit-tree disease. Tho SprltiKfield flouring mill, owned by the Eugene Mill & Klnvator com puny, atartcd Ita machinery last week having been shut down several months, during which It waa thorough ly overhauled and put in thorough up-to-dato shape Inside. A chronology of election dates as applying to the primary and general elections coming up in the stale this year, has just been compiled by Secre tary of State Olcott aud will be pub lished for distribution within a short time to those Interested. In a written opinion given to Adju tant General Williams. Attorney Gen eral Drown sdvlses that the city of MarshMdd's title to the block offered aa a site, for a new armory la not clear. I If suggests that a suit should be Instituted to clear the title. Migratory birds bave Increased SO, per cent aa a result of the new fednrwV lawa which now cover not only the United States, but Canada, according to a statement made by District In spector Cattron, who has charge of the state of Oregon, Washington and' Idaho. Organisation for Oregon's part In tha third Liberty Loan campaign Is under way with a state executive committee composed of Edward Cook Ingham, chairman; J. C. Alnsworth, George U Raker, Franklin T. Grif- flth, William A. MaeKae, A. L. Mills, the Morrow-Umatilla county line and Kcio. and for grading and macad amizing a continuation of the road from Echo to Pcndlaton. f o,.cr Tros., the i.tr.roal coumriio tlnn c,4it:utor:i. arc making prepara t'nns to open six tamps In the spruce bc!t in the western rrt of Clatsop county to (ret out acrcplaur timber for the government. Tho first step toward the bulk hand ling of wheal In Union county was made last week, when the farmers of Imbler organised the Imbler Union Elevator company and Instructed the board of directors to proceed at onco with Uia erection of a 100,000 bushel elevator. RepreaentaU Haw ley b urging the reservation by the goveracent of a small tract of laud, now embraced in a Northern Pacific selection, which embraces the intake for the water supply of Oregon City. In order that the water supply nay be permanently protected. TUreo of the 489 accidents reported to the elate Industrial accident com mission during the week ending Jan uary 24 were fatal. They were: Al Ifaggnlund, of 8venson. aud L. Bloslch, Knappa, killed in logging operations, and It. A. Baslch. Dee. killed In lum bering operations. Plana are being developed at the headquarters of the Sontlani national, forest to restock a burned-over area on Battleax mountain thla year. This tract la located about 10 miles north of Detroit It is expected that 226.000 young Douglas fir trees will be re quired for the work. With five counties alill missing, and no apparent indication of their being received, the school census for 1917 ahows a total or 184,196. Tho total tor 1916 waa 206,417. Giving to tha five missing counties the same census as the last one available, the total for this year would be 203,419. That drainage development in Ore gon Is well under way and is to make Croat stride the coming year la evi dent from tha representative gather ing and lively interest shown aa well aa the constructive program outlined at the annual meeting of the Stat Drainage association at Corvallls. Negotiations were closed Saturday for the aale of approximately 7000 acres of timber In Columbia county by the Fir Tree Timber company to tho Clark ft Wilson Lumber company. The tract la aald to cruise approximately 400,000,000 board measure, largely ship timber, and the money consideration Is upward of $1,000,000. After a little more than an hour of deliberation tho jury In the circuit .court at Pendleton brought in a verdict rence Colwell. Jointly charged wltu the murder last May of James K. Short,, aa aged rancher of northern Umatilla county. The boy admitted the shooting, but pleaded self-defense. Secretary Lane baa formally notified members of the Oregon delegation that he easnot approve the Malheur Irriga tion projects In eastern Oregon, aaying there are no funda available. If con gress will make available a further lump sum for, building new projects, tbe secretary promised that the Mal heur project will be among the first adopted. Lumber orders placed In Oregon with mills at Portland, Rainier, Tilla mook, Sllverton and Dallaa approxi mating 10,000,000 feet and which is said to be only "a starter," will play a leading role In the construction of the Hog Island shipbuilding project at Philadelphia, which la to be the largest plant of the kind In the world and will employ 40.000 men. Anticipating, apparently, that legis lation will ho enacted by congress perml'.ltng the utilizing of water sites that have been withdrawn by the gov ernment, H. S. McGowan, of the state of Washington, has filed two applica tions for the appropriation of water from tho Deschutes river. One calls for the appropriation of the stream In Wasco and Sherman counties and the other in Jefferson county. The esti mated cost for the works of the first Is $2,000,000 and for the last named $4,000,000. That hundreds of thousands of dol lars' worth of the best land in tho McKenzie river valley from Thurston to Cogswell's hill a menaced by the McKenzlo river, and that unless imme diate action is taken it will be swept away, la the statement made by C. R. Seiti, forest supervisor of the Cas cade forest, who made au examina tion of the situation at the request of a number of the farmers. Already the river has washed away a number of good buildings, and is within 10 feet ol one ol the best barns in the valley. "Oregon farmers must turn to tha bulk method of handling grain," said J. C. Hawkins, of the United States department of agriculture, co-operat ing with the Oregon Agricultural col lege, who in company with a co-worker, W. B. Oldham, is spending two weeks in and near Heppner. "The United States government has com- Answers Senator Chamber lain's Accusations and Ex plains Circumstances. Well Known Legislator Seeks Nomination on Construc tive Platform. Basing bis appeal to tha voters erf Oregon on a comprabanslva and con structive platform, 8. B. Huston, of Portland, baa announced his candidacy for tha United Stales Seaata. sobjaot to tha result of the Republican prima ( , . . , T T . L . k A Me conceded freely that In ao great ' T .T " ' ,1 . . J, "rrL ,. , Waahlngton, Secretary Raker Mon nay replied to Senator Chamberlain's charges of inefficiency In the war de partment at a public hearing before the senate military committee. an enterprise it was impossible that there should not bw "delays and short coming." America. Secretary Baker stated, will have an army of 600,000 in France early thla year, with 1,000.000 more trained and equipped ready to follow as quickly aa ships ran be provided to carry them and the outlook for ships Is not unpromising. ton County, where he labored auece aw fully, and 11 year ago removed to Portland to occupy a wider IW1 Bloc taking up bla residence In Portland Mr. Huston has been active la clvte affaire, and haa baea honored by hi fallow citizens in bis political Uader ahlp. His record In the Oregon Stale Legislature ahows Mr. Huston to be a man of the people, and hla vote on all measures affecting the development ot the state and the welfare of the work- While many things disclosed were ers haa been recorded aa favoring teg- imprewive, the committee waa frankly amavd when told that tbe men of 32 national guard and national army div isional camp are ready to go at call. He spoke extemporaneously, begin ning tbe details of the mammoth task of building an army of 1.500.000, an swering such compiahits of Inefficien cy as were cited by Senator Chamber lain in hla recent speech and declaring that such Instances were Isolated aad not general. Number of Complaints Small. The secretary said when be heard of the two letter read by Senator Chamberlain concerning bad treatment of alck soldiers he Immediately asked Mr. Chamberlain for all the details. "I want to follow those through to the very end," ssid he. "and find out who is responsible, in order that I can punish the guilty." Although more than 1,000,000 are under arms In this country, Mr. Baker said, the number of complalnta re ceived have been relatively small, probably not more than 18. In each Instance, he ssid. Investigations have been made Immediately. Major General Wood, Mr. Baker said, recommended calling out a large army although the men could not be provided at once with rifles and cloth ing. Kvery soldier who needs a rifle has one, Secretary Baker aald, and of a better type than if the British Enfield ride had been adopted. Pershing Against Lewis Guna. - Defending the lack of Lewis ma chine guns. Secretary Baker Illation expressing the best aoctal con science and broad vision of tbe future. In bi platform Mr. Huaton stands for: Vigorous prosecution ot tbe war un til peace shall come with honor to tbe latlon and an open way for democracy. Laying tbe coat of the war upon the Interest beat able to pay. When men give their lives, wealth should be re quired to give th one thing It caa give, dollars. . , . - - : s. m. HPBTOW Making ample provision for the re construction period which must follow the close of the war; For tariff schedules baaed on the reiter- difference In cost of labor at home ated that General Pershing does not na aoroaa. want Lew is suns for the ground forces. . Making provision for free ports on but only for aviation. the Panama Canal and at Honolulu and Manila. Some reports, the secretary said. Development of Alaska, both agricul have not proved serious upon inquiry, turally and Industrially. Congress while others had In which case cor- should safeguard tbe mineral wealth of the Territory, but the country ahould be opened to early development. Development of latent water power In Oregon. The needs of tha times call for constructive work along this line, under the leadership of Congress. Making the basic eight-hour work day in mills, factoriea and mines com pulsory by national legislation. This would give western lumber mills a fair man s chance to compete with the system of rcctions followed. Im the case ot the body of an of ficer who died at an aviation training school being shipped home in a sheet. Secretary Baker said, inquiry devel oped that the camp was in charge of a British aviation officer who fol lowed the British method ot sending bodies home unclothed, the clothes being shipped in a separate long hours and low wragea In the South, parcel. An American officer was then Development of waterways to sup put in charge plement the reorganised railway ays Generala Decided Adoption of Rifl. tern of the country ... , r-i.,KD,i.i-. Broadening the federal rural credits Takms up Senator Chamberlains Uw 8ufflclent t0 make ,u tits attack on the ordnance bureau, Mr. applicable to conditions In Oregon. In Baker said that men's minds differed an effort to aid in land development, about the types of guns to be used Federal aid for the construction of and about the ouantity. He then dis- oo. roaas. particularly as a measure closed that the decision to adopt the so-called rechambered Enfield rifle was reached late one night in his office at a conference attended by General Pershing, who was preparing to go to France; General Scott, chief of staff: General Bliss, assistant chief: General Crosier, chief of ord nance, and General Kuhn, then head of the war college, and several other staff officers, "experts In rifles." It was late In May or early In June. "That decision made that night." Mr. Baker added, referring to the con ference hold at which it was decided of relief for labor conditions following the war. Support for the shipbuilding indus try of the Columbia river district. The Industry must be made permanent. Stop Federal discrimination against Oregon. 1 Support of work along the Columbia river to maintain a 40-foot channel to the aea and improvement of harbors and rlvera Amendment of the federal constitu tion to provide for universal suffrage. Support of national prohibition. CHARLES W. FULTON DEAD mandeered 60,000.000 sacks for army purposes," continued Mr. Hawkins, to change the American rifle, "had the Oregon Stateeman Paasea Away at His "and last year there were shipped Into unanimous consent or every man at thla country from Calcutta only 39,- the conference." 000.000 sacks. I predict that grain bags will be selling for 25 eents a piece and I doubt if they can be bad at that price on account ot the short age." Mr. Hawkins advises every farm er to hold on to all sacks he haa whether first or second hand, and shia out ail his grain in bulk. Washington. An urgent appeal was msde to the United States by Great Britain for more wheat Without It. Lord Rhondda cabled to the food ad ministration, tbe alliea may not have food enough to win the war. . Social dauct tomorrow evening-. - JC7 OlmsUad, E. 0. Flptr U4 Nag it:notguUUiforpj3clw.eU.a.ad LJt The kaiser waa 69 years old Sunday. A new contingent of Portuguese troops has just been landed In France. Both France and Eugland havo re cently cut down the bread ration by almost bait. Dry Act Ratified by North Dakota. Bismarck. N. D. The senate with only two dissenting votes has con curred In the house resolution ratify ing the federal prohibition amend ment negatived by but 12 members of tb two houses. Portland Home. Portland. Charles W. Fulton, ex United Statea senator from Oregon, prominent lawyer, and for many years an active figure in the politics ot th state, died Sunday afternoon at bis home, 686 Weidler street, in the 65th year ot his age. Mr. Fulton died as the result of ill ness covering a period of several months. He waa a distinguished law. yer and practiced his profession here for several years, after serving bi term In the United States senate. He was tor many years a leading figure In the politics of the state and served foul term la tie Ixltlatiura.