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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1918)
Weston 1 Lea DER r I VOLUME 40 WESTON.iOKEGON. KftlDAY, MARCH 22, l'J18 NUMBER 44 OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST l t'w Tt'rn nmrh less than 11m imriii.il niniMinl of mow In lb tuouu Ulna Hi Ihli lliito. Or-gon rumuiUiilnii men and grow er may dispose of large atcx ha of po tatoes and onlona to lis used In find- - . f Principal Events of the Week lu ,h" " r"""n v f r ... cantonments, according to advice Brieliy Sketcnea lor inior-- rcived by r. u . . t. mitlon of Our Readers, Illntnr. of th United Htate bureau of markets. Rationing needs of ramps In Hie west and snuth- " went for lha month of April alimo Company P. of tha Wasco rounly call fur 4,6oo,OO0 pounds of potatoes noma guards, waa organised ,at Dufur and about 275.000 pound of onion, with 10 members. - , lltda of coant boldora are now sought Columbia rnunty haa Just Irt eon- Four percent read bond to Ilia trscts for 3ii,noo worth of Improve- amount of half a million dollars wur muts on county roada. auld lunl week tjr the state highway fonland'a Liberty Tmpt. built to commission lor HlS.bio, a discount of be uad at beaduuartere for the tblrd nearly nine percent. Liberty Loan, waa dedicated Tuwlay. I'nrdand'a ffurta.to overthrow tha Frank M. Radovan, of Kan Fram-lsco, rwcol cmil streetcar faro .ruling of haa boon In Koeeburg soliciting sup- In state public service romnlMlnu pore for a frull vaporatlng and can- received a Mietbsrk hin six circuit nlng plant. . Judges of Multnmnsh county after ' Mra. r. M. Wllklni of Eugene wss bearing (ho cltys al docldod that unanimously elected regent of ih Ore- ruUnn of th public service com gon Blato Chapter Daughter of lb mission waa legal. American Iteolutlon. at tht annual Two fatalltiva out of Mai of 497 conference held In rortland Saturday, accident jer reported to the -slate Lumbermen from all part of waet- Industrial accident commission for the am Oregon and weetern Waahlnglort week andlng March 14. Tha men who will gather In Portland rrlday, March loat Ihelr Uvea were George Merchant. 28. lo attend tha monthly meeting of aawmlll worker of 6hrldan, and 3. th West Coot Lumbermen ateocla- Uurgtudl. an employ In a sulpbulld Hon. . log yard at Portland. Th Central Oregon Woolgrowers Farmer of Oregon' are urged to aanrlatlon waa organlied at Tend Bat-, mark any atocka of wheat they hold urday at a meotbtg atmndod by ahp- In excesa of aedlng reijulrementa. men from th range bounded by Waa- Tb appeal of Herbert Hoover, nation co on th nortli, Klamath on th aouth al food administrator, a.klng thta. waa and Malheur on th eat. Ii to 'Orwgon wheat grower An hourly wag of II H renta, on through a lata food admloUtraUon an hourly baala, wal doptd by th headquarter Baturdwy. publle conference aa th minimum Aecordhig to Forrtt Supervlaor Eph wag for women worker throughout ratm Barnes, th largest number of ' th state In all amploymenta except rattle and sheep that hav rer grated mercantll occupation and office poal- In the Minim forest reserve will be tlon. pastured iber tht aummor. ' Mr. Oregon mill mad a aubstantlaJ gain Da rota says permlta hav already been In lb lumber cut In 1917 over MIS. granted for grating "privilege for iir Blxty flv mill In Oregon with too,. 000 cattl and tO.QOO aheep. 000 feat dally capacity or mor pro- la tb belief thJl the country needs duced 1.011,6(1.000 feet of lumber In men In the army and In th fields ,1917. compared with 1.T4I.04J.OOO feet more than In jail. Justice of Peac "in Glenn Taylor at Medford Is allowing ': RL Rev. Bishop Cbarlca J. O'Reilly, convicted bootlegger In Jackaon coun hesd of tb Catholic dtocea of Ilaker ty their liberty whenever ho la con line 190S, haa accepted the appoint- vlnced .that the publlo welfare la not meot a bishop of th Lincoln. Neb., endangered by their freedom, dtoceee to succeed Bishop-J. Henry Tb crop and farm labor survey Tlehn. named as bishop of Denver, which waa taken throughout the atate Col., dlocoae. . . under the cooperation of tb govern- Farmers along the new Btrshnrti rail- meut and Labor Commissioner Ho'ff, way are preparing to ablp tbia year haa boon completed and Uia sum grain erop in bulk to Taclfic porta, msrlrs will bo ready for publication Plana are being drawn for a co-op- by the last of thla week, according to raUve grain elevator, of 60,000 buhi't J. w. Brewer, farm help apectallat, capacity, to b erected about alx mllea who bad direct charge of th work, aat of Klamath Falls. W. K. Newell, assistant food ad- Th Miami Quarry company has mlnlstrstor for Oregon, haa Informed commenced work on Ha contract with Representative Hawlpy that arrange the government to construct a jetty menu hav been made whereby lira- Ited qtmntltica of condensed milk will be allowed cargo spac on ships for Europe. This Is expected to give re lief to th Industry in Oregon, where 15.000 case , are reported to b la at Taquina bay. Tb work fbcludes th construction of 10,000 feet of tramway and tb hauling and placing of 838.000 torn of rock, Th Paclflo Coast Starch company' plant at Ceaverton waa opened Satur- storage. day and will bogln Immediately th the picturesque wilds of Dixie manufacture or potato starch, potato mountain. In th Whitman national ; flour, potato farina and other products forest, th foundatlona hav been laid which formerly were Imported in great for what may ultimately become an quantities from Germany. Important Industry In the Blue motin- On a bid of $620.32 th J. A. Mo-'uin of eastern Oregon. On a five- To The American People i There it no foundation for the alleged violations of law attributed to our Com pany by ogenta of the Federal 'Trade Commission and I want to say emphatic ally that Swift & Company is not a party to any conspiracy to defraud the Govern ment Nor has Swift & Company been guilty of improperly storing foods or of making false entries or reports. Conferences of pacherg, where prices havebeen discussed, have been held at "the urgent request and in the presence, of representatives of either the Food Administration or the Council of National Defense. And yet (he packers have been accused of committing a felony by acting in collusion on Government bids! We have done our belt, with other packers, large and small, to comply with the directions of the United States Food Administration in all particulars, including the furnishing of food supplies for the U. S. Army and Navy and the Allies, now be ing handled through the Food Adminis- V tration. We will continue to do our uhnost,unf der Government direction, to increase out production and assist the Food Adminis tration. We consider that the opportunity to co-operate whole-heartedly and to our fullest powers with this ' branch of the Government is our plain and most press ing duty. . , . - r -.: The Trade Commission Attorney has, by false inference and misplaced empha sis, given to disconnected portions of the correspondence taken from our private files and read into the Record, a false and sinister meaning with the plain purpose . of creating antagonistic public opinion. The cervices of the packers of the United States are most urgently needed, and I regret exceedingly that we should at this time have to spend our efforts In defending ourselves against unfounded, unproved, and unfair assertions such as are being daily made public. ' ofuKjfc'. President Swift & Company, U.S. A. Eaobarn company, of Seattle, will con- . struct th first plar of Portland' new municipal terminal at SL Johna, where work II alto under way .on the exca vation and foundation piling for the 1,000,000-bushsI grain elevator. - - Less than three weeks remain In which candidate for atate or district offices may file with tha aecretary of tat their declaration or candidacy or nominating peUtlon. The time for acre atate, leased from Uncle Sam for a term of year, P. A. Snyder, for merly of John Day, has established and equipped a silver gray fox farm. The largest wood shipbuilding yard on th Paclflo qpaat will be established In th environment of Portland In tbe very near future, to build ships for trans-Paclflc and coaatwlse trade, if the shipping board will formally agree to permit tbla yard to build on private filings expire April IS, yet but very , ,ocount, and turn over Its output to few candidates hate filed tor office. private owners upon completion. Dels- With s new of opening as many or tre capital Is backing th tnterpris. th main highways of thq stats at la possible to traffic, the slst highway commission will Institute a tuit toon In the supreme court to determine whether It la permissible under tb $5,000,000 paving act to lay macadam. - Th holdup man who had been ter rorising Portland streetcar operative According to data compiled, th dairy Industry of Tillamook county broke all records during 1817 tor the amount of milk produced, cheese man ufactured and amount of money re ceived from th sale of cheoae, cream and whey, butter fat Jbs output ot chees was 4.974,328 pounds to tha tine February 28 was killed at tha mklng ot which 44.S01.S03 ga'.fona of Bd of th Fulton streetoar line by milk contributed. Tha receipt wer Motorman - P. O. Heath, formerly a $1,188,053.13. guard t th stst psnltsntisry. Th purchss by Henry MrOsll, atock quiring th removal of. slashings and debris, according to Information re ceived by the atate board of forestry. As a result the fire hatard. In Ore gon forests, particularly In' aom lo calities, has been Increased. In order to reduce the hazard to a minimum, State Forester Elliott was asked by the board to co-operate WtD colonel Dlsque, ot the apruce production divi sion ot the signal corps, and to work out some plan of fire protection. Th extraordinary demand for man-: ganese in the manufacture ot open hearth steel, and the curtailment of available foreign resources, led the al loy committee of the council ot na tional defense to send experts to south ern Oregon to Investigate the deposits and Instruct the prospector In develop ing his mine. . These experts hoped to relieve the shortage by converting the Immense deposits ot valuable iron ores In thla eglon, which contain some GOAL IS JUT UNDER RIGID REGULATIONS Washington. The cosl Industry will pass under rigid 'government control April 1. In a proclamation President Wilson ordered the licensing without exceptions of all" producers. Jobbers and dealers in coal and coke. . At the same time the fuel adminis tration . issued drastic regulations, slashing to a fixed limit the profits ot middlemen, jobbers, selling and pur chasing agents. ' The move was aimed almost wholly at the middleman, the jobber extort ing excessive profits and the hoarder, since those miners of coal 'and manu facturers of coke distributing their own product are exempt, under tha proclamation. Retailers, too, tor the - tit . BRIEF WAR NEWS ' Cbarlra 8. Ccrdon, of Iowa., (he first msn wounded In th Luoeville sector, has been awarded the crosa of war by Franc. ' ' ' American aerial Observer In the rear of the lines have been formed Into a squadron under command of a , French captain. v Doth Austria and Hungary are ex periencing a recurrence of labor trou bles. Large strike are In progress at IJudapest and Vienna. It la admitted that offer of peac have been made to Serbia by Austria Hungary and l!ulgar!a. but it la slated I that Serbia baa absolutely refused to ' consider them. With the ratification of the treaty of peace with Germany the Soviet con gress in Moscow baa dissolved. ' ' Up to (be last, some of the chief member 'of the Soviet con cross opposed the tbard terms ot the Germans, but to no avail. . On their front near Toul the Amert . cana frequently shell Cermsn positions and compel the enemy to evacuate the sectors under fire. The Germans themselves are at times putting the " Americans under an extraordinarily heavy artillery fire in which expioalve shells of large caliber and gaa missiles are nsed. The Toul sector apparently baa been picked by the German as a favorite spot upon which to expend their noxious gases. AMERICANS HOLD - i GERMAN TRENCH '-v, . Is First Permanent Advinco Yet Mads By Army In France. Wisconsin Republican Primarle Close , Milwaukee, Wis. Return from th primarle to nominal a United State aenator give- Lenroot. S6.9(. Thomp son 54,763. and the final result will be close. The nomination by the demo crats of Joaeph E. Davlea, formerly member of the federal trade commis sion, over Dr. Charlea McCarthy, by a large majority, was indicated. .- Hide Prices Slump. Omaha. Omaha packers have loat large auma of money through the ateady fall In the price of bide in recent months. Branded cowhides which brought 28 and 30 cents a pound a few months ago now aell at It to 18 cent.. . With th American Army la Franc. Americana have occupied and are holding enemy tranche northeast of Dadopvillers In th Lonevtll sector, which they forced tb Germans to abandon through recent raid aad con centrated artillery fir. x . The trenches hav been consolidated with our. This, though a small fop ward movement, marks th first per manent advance, by the Americaa army In France. The consolidation of the trenches enable th American and French to operate frost higher ground than heretofore. The German made only feeble at tempts to retake the position, but each time were repulsed. - In th intermittent bombardment at various parts ot th Americaa sec tor considerable number of mustard, phosgene and chlorine shells were used. ; . . ''V The German positions have been e uncomfortable-at several place that they now are trying to regain a foot . hold by connecting shell hole. Oar troops have been subjected to an ex traordinary heavy artillery fir. Mora than 240 shells, which made crater 20 feet deep and 80 feet la diameter, ' fen in on aectlon of th Una: la another section batteries have beea shelled heavily. More gaa shell hav fallen In both tha Toul and Lunerill sectors, but th larger number la th former. American raiding activity la Increas ingly marked along tha various sec tors of th Lorraine front now held by General Pershing. America's army la no longer a neg ligible quanUty in Franc. Its trengtn henceforth must be increasingly reek, oned by th German general staff, and : must adversely affect German plana for a western offensive. Taft Advocate Large Army. Washington. Amendment of the draft law to authorize the president to increase the army to 5,000,000 men or more waa advocated by former Presi dent Taft in a speech here before tha National Geographic society. SECRETARY OF WAR VISITS BIG DEPOTS Chinese Hold Americana For Ransom. Peking. The two American engin eer recently captured by brigands in northern Honan are "being held tor a ransom of 70 rifles. They are E. J. Pursell, of SL Paul, and G. A. Kyle. " of Portland, Ore. : . Will Prosecute' Income Tax Slscksrs Washington. Tax slackers who' fall to file their Income tax report by April 1, will be prosecuted a vigorously and relentlessly under the war revenue act as draft slackers were under the se lective service set, according to a statement made by Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal revenue. West Hss Farm Hand Surplua. Washington. More farm hands are available in the west than are needed immediately and there 1 only a alight scarcity In th east and south, accord ing to reports to th department of labor. ' Miss Wilson Going to Franc. Cape May, K. J. Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the, president, an nounced to the Wlssahlckon barracks naval reserve force her that she la going to France. On Board Secretary Baker'a Special Train In France. Newton D. Baker, the American aecretary of war, visited J the gigantic works begun by the Amer lean in Franc which are keeping well in advance of the requirements of the expanding army. The aecre tary now haa left the series of debark Ing ports and Is examining the Interior establishment where reserve ot ev ery sort are assembled and from whlck line of supply radiate toward tha ttrlking force at tha fronL ' In hit trip ot inspection of Ameri can military establishments Secretary Baker stopped frequently to talk with private soldier. HI impressions, and that ot all the civilian member of th party, was vthat th men are well housed, fed and waat to get on with their work. " Near tha harbor , development which the secretary Inspected, la an amazing system of warehouse. When completed there will be rows of one- story warehouses covering about 2004 acre, stretching out for three and one-halt mile, to a depth ot a mil. Construction haa been begun ot a hospital which will have 20,000 beds. It will be the largest In the world.' The British have tha next largest one, with 18,000 bed. THE MARKETS dead man was A. W. Blue, formerly BMt f Crooked river, ot the 860-acr mn8n' low-carbon manga-j prcgenL are not to be affected. - of Denref. At tht flrtt movt In the campaign to secure greater production ot poul try, the department of agriculture an nounce th appointment of V. L. Up son of Grants Pass, at extension poul try husbtndmsn, to cooperate with the Oregon Agricultural college, and with Shonqulst ranch In the north end ot the La Pine basin marks the passing of one ot the most popular roadhouset of early daya In central Oregon. The Shonqulst ranch wal the stopping place for many a weary traveler and freighter at the time when all trafflo was with horses and 15 or 20 miles wat a day'a travel tor the heavily-laden carried neae -iron alloy to supply the coast tteel planta, but ttnoe their investiga tion large, deposits of manganese have been uncovered adjoining the Iron d petit. ! , office it Corvallli. . That there will be a scarcity ef water tMm outfits that former'y ,fof Irrigation during tha coming tea- freight to the Interior, ton In tome sections of Baker county in the rush to get out spruce for and etitern Oregon, It th belief ex- airplanes, somt operator hav been pressed by.ihoi familiar with con- derelict in obiarrUig a itat law re All Can Do a Little. We alt live In a world which Is Ml ot iRiiornnce and misery, and the plain.' duty of wich and atl of us 1 to try to make the little corner he con in-' fhienro somewhat less Ignorant, some what less miserable than It wat befor ht uitared. it-BaUax, The control to be set up 1 almost Identical with that exercised over food. . ' ' With warm weather coming on and ample coal supplies on hand for the present, the move was regarded here as on ot preparedness rather than Immediate necessity. ' . . r Just Human Nature. . ' Another rotisou why n tnnn Is a man la because he would rather lose $50 in a speculation than SO cvnts through n tola la hlg pocket. DaU&g Kswa. Portland. " , Barley Standard teed, $74 per ton. Oats No. 2 white teed, 868 per ton. ? Corn Whole, 877; cracked, 578. Hay Timothy, $27 per ton; alfalfa, $24.50. . Butter Creamery, 50o per lb, Eggs Ranch, 35c per doien. Potatoes 90cJl.15 per hundred; Yakima, $1.251.35. V- Poultry Roosters, old, 2022c;' stags. 24 26c; springs. 27 028c; broil era, 35c; ducks. 8235c; geese,: 20 21c; turkeys, live 2627o, dreesed 3537c per pound. " Seattle.:: " '. ;. Butter Creamery, 63e per lb. Eggs Ranch, 42c per dosen. . Poultry Fryers, fresh dressed, 33c: fosters, fresh dressed, !3c; froxen ' -is, light 30c, medium 32c; ducks, i 30c, dressed 32c; geese, live 25c, seed SOct turkeys, live 2S30c; cased. 36 6 40c t Tar and Feather for Yakima t. W. W. Yakima, Wash. Secretary H. B. Myers, secretary ot the Yakima local ot the Industrial Worker of th World and active In the organisation's pre paganda her for th last year, waa seised by a crowd of 80 unmasked citizens her at midnight Monday night, who threatened to kill htm, then escorted him a mile out of town, and after tarring and feathering him or dered him to leave at onca and not to return. i . An Atlantic Port At the end of aa hour's battle between a German tub marine and an American tank steam er, th Paulsboro, ot th Vacuum Oil company, which arrived here, the ob marin apparently waa sunk, accord ing to officer ot th Americaa vessel. Restriction of Sheep Constitutional.. Washington. Th Idaho law probib iting the driving of sheep upon a eatttt range was declared constitutional k ' tht toprtma court.