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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-
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Principal Events of the Week lu ,h" " r"""n v f
r ... cantonments, according to advice
Brieliy Sketcnea lor inior-- rcived by r. u
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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
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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.