TQN-LEABER
WES
VOLUME 40
WESTON.JOREGON, FRIDAY", MARCH 20. 1018
NUHl&Bttt
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAUNTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
. Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Reader.
The State encampment of III (I. A.
It. will be held at Albany Mar 13 &
The Ormaa Ungual haa Wn
barred from Iba Albany public schools.
The annual mewling ef the Orrgou
Retail Jeweler' aaaoclatlou will be
brlil at Salrm In June.
The farmer of Warren have derided
lo build warehouse for Ibe standard
lialinn and handling of all (arm pro
duct. Tha ftouihern Pacific company will
cooperate wlib Benton county In l(a
campaign for a general poisoning of
gophers and ground equlrrela.
Th gam department of lit la(
of Ohio baa ordered 1000 ( blna pheae
nt egts from Chsrle D. Alexander,
of Albany, who eondurta a pheasant
farm.
Tha Employed IWys' Brotherhood of
Aaiorla was organ lied at a maaa meet
Ing of boy between (b agee of 16 and
21 years, mployd In (h Industries of
A it or la.
rrw hav begun work preparatory
to sinking ralsaons (or th pier of tha
pw concrete brldga to b built acroaa
Hood river jointly by th aiai and
lined River county.
Dakar county farmera at a largely
attended meeting uodr tha auspice of
th county agrlruttural council, derid
ed on $40 a month aa th farm wag
seals during tha planting aeaeon.
Oregon patron of life Insurance
companies ar a healthy risk. A state
ment Issued by Insurance Commission
r Well ahowt that loeeee were only
about 1 par rent of th inauranc la
1W.
Th emergency board euthorlsed th
creation of a deficiency In th aunt of
1150,000 for tba purpose of carrying
en th work of protection of sblpyarda
and othr Industrie engaged In war
work. .
According to Ira lluteblns. vice
president of th Oregon Cannera' aa
aoclatlon and manager of tha Browns
till cannery, th Corvallla cannery
plant haa been purchased by tho
Brownsville Institution.
Revised report of thrift atari) p sales
In Oregon show that Union county,
" with a population of 11,000, haa a total
of 1(1 In tba Junior rainbow division,
compared with a total of 131 In Mult
nomah and 120 In Marlon.
Pacific college at New berg la giving
ft abort coura for minister this week,
March IS to it. Thl la being held In
connection with the' annual confer-.
enre of the Ministerial association ef
, Oregon Yearly Meeting of Prlenda,
Porter A Connolly have again put a
gang of men on th grade of the Gale
Creek A Wilson rlrr railroad, south of
Bank. It will take soma time to re
pair the damage done to the grade
by the heavy ralna of last winter.
Two out of tOO accident reported
to tha atata Industrial accident com
mlaalon for the week ending March
II were fatal. Tha men fatally Injur
ed were John Miller, Mill City, logger,
and Berton Bbsrpe, Wsndllng, lumber
man. A third battalion of tha Oregon
naval militia haa been authorlied by
Governor Wlthyeonibe and inimedlato
recruiting of 1000 enlisted men and
all offleera required on ft regulation
V United State battleship will begin at
once. - .
Una county farmer are not dis
couraged by the short bean crop last
year, the reault of the unusually dry
weather, and will seed more than 1000
acres to that crop this spring, accord
ing to County Agricultural Agent N. S.
ftobb.
A military organisation was created
for the Umpqua country at Reedsport
The organisation la to be called the
Port of Umpqua Home Guards, and ie '
composed of member from Gardiner,
Reedsport, Scottsburg and Smith
River.
Establishing new world'a speed
record In ateel shipbuilding, tha Co
lumbia River Shipbuilding corporation
ef Portland launched the fabricated
hull eff an 1800-ton government iblp
Wednesday, Just ti days after the keel
Wis, laid. .
Wider the direction of the agricul
tural council, the farmera of Linn '
county are holding campaign to raiso ,
money to secure the services of a coun
ty agricultural agent. The campaign
will close April 1. Tha farmera eipect
to raise $1600.
The secretary of agriculture haa ad
vised .BsoAisr MoNtrr that be will
f--tm- fnnrnve a ImIm-I to be uard
mi O. igi.n i ni' i r-'I milk, This will
Mi-ash a Urn quaintly im unsalable
Itersuse It ran not carry the slamlsid
goviriiuient label.
To produre fund fr the mainten
ance of military turns (or slate us,
particularly (or the protcvtloo of pro
perty and the guarding of Indumrlnl
plants, the state council of defns
propose to Initiate a bill providing
fur a mlllag tag, probably ' three
fourths at a will. ' It la estimated that
such a measure would create a fund
ef about $700,000 a year.
Oovernor Wllbyromb haa requested
State I'amte Officer Joseph Kallar to
kmp within the slat all men on pa
role from the atat penitentiary, (or
tho reason (bat they may be needed
to help out In the labor ahnriag at
the coming harvest season.
The yearly report of General Man
ager 8tou of the Hood Klver Apple
(.rowers' association shows that de
aplte unfavorable rondltlona growing
out of the war, shortage of cars and
lose of an esnort market, price receiv
ed for apple this year by lb associa
tion hav reached th hlgheet mark
slnre isii.
That Colonel U. O. McAleiauder for
several year military Instructor at
Oregon Agricultural college, was In
command of th first regiment of
American troop to "go over th top
In France, and that he carried tbe first
American flag Into action, alongside
the French tricolor, wss Information
received by Dr. Harry F. McKay, ef
Portland.
Application to the federal capital Is
aue committee will be made Immedi
ately by the state highway commlaalon
for authority to sell th balance of the
M.000,000 read bonds authorised for
1911, amounting to 11,600,000, for
building sections of the Pacific and
' Columbia river highway originally In
cluded In thla year'a road construction
programme.
Senator Chamberlain la advised by
Acting District Forester Potter that a
eerie of grating meetings will be held
In the vicinity of the Malheur forest .
to afford atorkmen an opportunity to
be heard on the question of the date of
the opening of 'the Malheur national
foreet rangea for atock. A number of
complaints of the action of offleera la
establishing the date have been re
ceived. Secretary Lane haa signed an order
opening 300,000 acres of the Oregon A
California grant lands to settlement
Under the Chamberlain Ferris act. Fil
ings will be received at the Roscburg
land office April 29 to May 25, Inclu
sive, with the final drawing May 28.
The land opened la nearly all In
Jackson and Josephine countle with a
narrow atrip In the southern part of
Douglas county.
Hundreds of acres of Oregon land.
, Idle because of the lack of labor to
cultivate It, will be act to producing
by students In the Oregon Agricultural
college's farm tractor classes. The
department of farm mechanics report a
general desire on the part of the farm
chanlca can be eecured." Many who al
ready have tractor cannot use them
era to uae tractor thla year It me
for want of help.
Due to the remarkeable record Port
land haa made In reducing the aggre
gate of It fire losses, the Oregon
committee, composed of the manager
of Insurance companlea operating la
thla atate, ha recommended, through
the state Inaurance department that
ithe Oregon Insurance rating bureau
make a resurvey of the city, prelim
inary to the announcement bf a down
ward revision of Insurance rates.
; Mrs. Emma Fewer, of Chicago, waa
arrested In Portland and lodged in the
batl, pending her removal to the United
Statea court of Illtnloa to anawer
county jail In default of f 10,000 cash
charge of participating In ft plot to
aubatitute some man, supposedly above
draft age, for a Chicago conscript, re
cently drafted Into tho army. Mrs,
Fewer waa arrested on t telegraphlo
warrant from the United Statea attor
ney at Chicago. ; .'': - ..
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It Cost the- Average Family
Less Than 10c 'Per Week
for Packer's Profit in 1917.
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The Meat Bill is one of the
largc'items in the family
budget
but '
consumption of wheat to 1', ounces.
Public eating bouses are restricted
lo purchase of sis pound of wjieat
product for each to meal served.
The per cent of substitute la victory'
bread I raised from 20 to 25.
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less than 10 cents per week of it Jj
goes to the packer in pronts.
In converting live stock into
meat and getting it into the hands of
the retail dealer, the packer performs
a complex and essential service with
the maximum of efficiency.
Montana Senate Impeaches Judge.
Helena, Mont. By unaolmou vote,
the Montana senate paaaed sentence
of Impeachment on Charles L. Cram,
formerly of Forsyth and until recently ' ' 1
judge of the fifteenth judicial district London. The long heralded Oerasaa
The article of impeachment charged' effenalve oa the westers, (root tu
GERMAN THRUST
CUTS BRITISH UHE
English Withdraw to Prepared
Positions When Pressure
Becomes Too Strong. ,
disloyalty and sedition.
South Dakota to Draft Farm Labor.
Pierre, S. D. A bill authorising
county council of defenaa, under the
direction of the slate council, to reg
ister and conscript men for labor on
(anna, was pasaed by the lower house
of the South Dakota legislature.
THE MARKETS
The above statement is based on
Swift 4 Company's 1917 figures
and Federal Census data:
Swift & Company's total output
(Meat and byproduct.) . 5,570,000,000 Pounds
Swift & Company's total Profit
- - - . $34,650,000.00
Profit per pound
U. S. Meat Consumption
... ... 1 Wr-wands per person per year
170 pounds at $.0062 $1.0$ per person per year
Tha avenge family 4ft persona
$4.72 per Camay per year
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1918 year book of Interesting and
instructive facts sent on request
Address Swift: & Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois
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Portland.
Barley Standard feed, $74 per ton.
Oats No. 2 white feed, $68 per ton.
Cora Whole. $77; cracked, $7$.
Hay Timothy, $27 per ton; alfalfa,
$24.50.
Butter Creamery, 9c per lb.
Eggs Ranch, 25c per dozen
Potatoes 90c 0 $1.15 per hundred;
Takimaa, $1.251J5.
Poultry Roosters, old. 10922c;
stags. 24326c; springs. 272c; broil
ers, SSc; duck. S2035c; geese, 209
21c; turkey, live 26627c, dressed
SS837o per pound.
Seattle. ' "
Butter Creamery, 49c per lb.
Eggs Ranch. 42c per onsen.
Poultry Fryers, fresh dressed, 32c;
roosters, fresh dressed, 33c; frozen
bens, light 30c, medium 32c; ducka,
live 30c, dressed 32c;' geese, lire 25c,
dressed 30c; turkeys, lire 2S(230e;
dressed, 86 0 40c.
THIRD LOAN GALLS
FOR THREE BILLION
Washington. The third liberty loan,
to open April 6, will be for $3,000,000,
000, and all oversubscriptions at i
per cent Interest.
Bonds of tha first loan, bearing IH
per cent Interest, and of the second
loan at 4 per cent, may be converted
Into the new bond, but those of the
third loan will not be convertible into
any future Issue,
This announcement waa made by
Secretary MoAdoo with the comment
that "the great events now happening:
In France must fire the soul of every
American with a new determination
to furnish all the dollars and all the
material resources of America that
are needed to put an end to the exe
crable atrocities of German mili
tarism." In connection with the loan, the
secretary plana to establish a ainklng
fund with which to purchase back any
bonds of the third loan thrown upon
the market, In order to aid in keeping
the price up to par.
M'ADOO TAKES OVER
ALL RAIL FINANCES
Washington. Director General Mo
Adoo Issued a sweeping order taking
possession of all the finances and pa
per standing on the books of th rail
roads of the country at the close of
business December 31 last '
He says It la to be assumed that all
money available tor each railroad may
properly be turned to the unification
and mobilisation of the various aye
tema under government operation.
Director General McAdoo haa an
nounced the creation of a permanent
wage-adjustment board, to consist of
eight members, four representing the there WM no (lgn of integration In
roada and four the big brotherhooda. th, British forces. The lareest ealna
BRIEF NEWS OF THE WAR
American forces In training In Lor
raine are still holding onto the
trenches northeast of Badenviller
which were recaptured last week. In
thla region our artillery Is continuing
to batter the German lines and a num
ber of scouting parties, which have
penetrated the German poaitions, re
port that enemy works have been con
siderably damaged. '
The assault launched by the Ger
mans against the British front baa re-,
opened the fighting season tn the west.
The German attack began with a brief
but overwhelming .artillery bombard
ment with high explosive and gas
shells, at dawn on March 21 in the
roiling country north of the Olae, 94
mile northeast of Paris. From Croi
aillea, south of Vendeuil, a distance of
47 miles, the Germans concentrated
this preliminary barrage la which a'
number of Austrian batteries partici
pated. The Gennaq. infantry divisions
thereupon advanced to the attack
along the flanks of the salient in front
of Cambrel. Furtoua fighting continues
on the northern flank between Crol
alllea, Bullecourt and Lagnlcort; on
the southern, along the line Gouieau
court -Hargicourt-Levergiiler and ex
tending across the Crosat canal to be
yond La Fere.
Battling for every point of vantage,
giving ground only when overwhelmed
by numbers and exacting a frightful
toll of Uvea for every foot of ground
abandoned, the British line la still
intact While the German onslaught
gained ground at a number of points
launched la a tiwmendoos attack ea
the British lines on a front of sheet
10 mile.
Th mala threat on the British right
flank by the Germans was south ef
St Qaentia and the enemy awed a
division for every 2000 yards ef the
front, there being approximately oa
German division against every Brislsk
battalion.
There was an admitted break la the
British line in the 8t Qaentia regtoa
the Germans forcing their way through
the defensive system and compelling a
British retreat to prepared positions.
Fighting of a most desperate mater
has been continuous since the Initial
attack.
Although they have gained most of
the territory they had lost sine 116.
the Germans are three or four days
behind their Urns table. "
All authorities agree that the Brit- -'
Uk retirement Is , perfectly -orderly.
There is no flight, no panic They
are maintaining their alignment '
throughout It is stated authorita
tively that most of the losses in men'
and material have already seen re
placed. Th British are' holding th gates
to Albert determinedly against tha
Hlndenbnrgian masses. -
Hlndenbnrg is striving desperately
to break through now here, note
there unmindful of th huge gap
torn In bis massed ranks by the Brit
ish runs. The German stormtroopa
are so thick the gap close automati
cally like holes la soft dough.
" Simultaneously with'faages a tha
direction of Albert, the moat furiovs
attacks are being flung sonthwestward
s gainst a line through Poxieree and
the St Gobian forest, earring outward
along the road to Rove and Noyon.
Between the last named, assault fol
lowed asaanlt tn rapid aocceasion.
The French and Brftlah are forcing
the enemy to pay dearly for every "
Inch of ground. Nesle waa taken only
after furious com beta, the French re
sorting to bayonets, grenades and
knivea, fighting body to body In a
death lock. ; .
FRENCH TROOPS
RELIEVE BRITISH
The hoard, which will ait monthly at
Washington, will have final decision
on all "controversies growing out of
'the interpretation or application' of
wage or other agreements between
roada and employes.
made by the Germana have been west
of St Quentin, where they have cap
tured Nesle. These points, which ars
at the tip of the teutonic attack, are
more than 10 mile from the front aa
it stood March 21. The British losses
-"""" jjav been heavy, but It ia officially
TO REDUCE WHEAT RATION announced that considering the mag
nitude of th struggle, they are not
Paris. The French on Saturday
went to the assistance of the British
and took over av sector of the battle
front, the war office announces. In
the region of Noyon and on the right
bank of the Oi so, heavy fighting with
the Germans la in progress.
Entire confidence reigns that tha
Germana' last trump ia th world bat
tle will be overtrumped when tha
proper moment comes. The allied
military authoritlea were fully cogni
sant that tha enemy's supremo effort
would cause a retreat until measures
could be taken to check the Irruption
Into the allied position.
There la every sign that tha terrific
attack, In which apparently. aom
where in the neighborhood of 1,000,
000 Germana of all arms ar engaged,
la being alackened. Tha resistance of
ot the allies seems firmer and the ar
rival on th scene ot French reserves,
sent up to tha southern flank, brought
welcome aupport to th British who
sustained the first powerful rush.
The Southern Pacific company must . ....mrrBii m n ' e
build a highway for the use of the u. 5. ENGINEERS IN BATTLE
residents ef the territory bordering the
north bank cf the Siuslaw river, be
tween Mapleton and Cushman, within
the next four months, according to a
ruling handed down by Circuit Judge
Percy It. Kelly sustaining the Oregon
public service commission. The com
mission, several months ago, ordered
the railroad to butld a highway replac
ing a county road appropriated aa
right-of-way In the building of the Wll-lamette-Paclfle
railroad.
Before er After tha Pact?
There must be a mob of unprincipled
persona in the motorcar gnme, else
how explain all the accessories T
Philadelphia Public Ledger,
Three Companlea Known to Be an
Fighting Areas In France,
Washington. General Pershing ca
bled the war, department that two
reglmenta of American railroad en
gineers ,are attached to the British
forces on the front attacked by the
Germane. -
Three companies ot the engineers,
he said, were working in the areas in
which the German official statement
mentioned the presence-ot Amerlcsn
troops and no report has been re
ceived concerning them.
, This message definitely disposed ot
reports that American reserves had
beta iiat lata tAt UUIs, . ,
Food Administrator Saya 80 Per Cent
Cut In Conaumption la Neceaeary. ,
Washington. A new conservation
message and program was given out
by the United Statea food administra
tion. "If we are to furnish the allies with
the necessary proportion ot wheat to
maintain their war bread from now
until, the next harvest, and thla la a
military necessity, we must reduce our
monthly consumption to 21,000,000
bushela a month, aa against our nor
mal consumption ot about 42,000,000
bushels, or 60 per cent of our normal
consumption."
undue. On the other hand, the Ger
mans have suffered terribly, even Ber
lin admitting that the teutonic cas
ualties before Peronne were "compar
atively heavy."
Huns Capture 30,000.
London. The number ot prisoners
captured by the Germana now num
bers over 80,000 end th number ot
guns too, the German official atate
ment saya. ' ,
Small German Raider Caught.
Paciflo Port German's first at
tempt tc. outfit a raider at a weet
coast Mexican port with which to cre
ate havoc among Pacific coast ship
ping, has been frustrated. The aux
iliary schooner Alexander Agassis, 13f
tone net, formerly owned and oper
ated by the University of California in.
research work at aea, waa captured
IS mllea off Masatlan by an American
gunboat I
200 Americana Are. German Prisoners.
Washington. An official statement
Sweeping reductions In per capita ennouuees there are 200 Americana
wheat conaumption throughout the now prisoners In German camps.
United Ststea are to be inaugurated
by tha federal food admlnietratlon. Rome-The Auetro-Germans have
toiiTJOttaJs VS asMd to cut daily muivl forty divisions sgainst Italy,
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Big Army Urged By Weed.
: Washington. Bark, from a vlait to s
the western battle front Major-Genet'
al Leonard Wood, in a confidential
statement before the senate military
committee, declared that allied mill
tary opinion ia uoanimoua that th
German offensive will fail, and urged
a great Increase lo 4,000,00 or I,
000,000 menin America's amy.