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Weston EADER 1 NUMBER 3 WESTON, OREGON,! FRIDAY, JUNE 21. 1918 VOLUME 41 OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Principal Events ol the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mttlon of Our Reader. Th Prlnevlll Chautauqua eeeston will be from July i to 10, Inclusive The first western convention of fiiunitrlu held In Portland June 18, Total fire Iom In the slate outld of Portland for May Is rallinatrd (I 2I1. OOO by Hist" Fire Msrhl Well. Assisted by friend ami relatives. "Grandfather" tluraoo, of Brownsville. relehald Mi 103d birthday annlver tary laat weak. Under the direction or the Hah and ! itm rommlaatnn, 10 tarlnada of young aaluion were planted In Oewego lak, nmr Portland. Tha flrat Chautauqua over held In North Bend li ecbeduled (or sla day, July 11 to 11. Korty six clUsens of tha roinmunlty pled"d tha 11360 oec lary. Umatilla county. which elalroa lo pro dura 1 per cent of all lb wheat In tha Unllad Statee. xprt to bav a re cord crop thla year of 1,000.000 or 000.000 busbels, Tha atate highway comtnlaaton will mct In Portland on June IS to open blda for tba paving of II miles of tha Pacific highway, north of Salem, In Marlon county. Tba city of I'rlnevlllo now hat frea mall delivery. There are two carrtera, both ilrla. Prtnevllle la tba flrat and only town In central Oregon to bare tha delivery ayatem. Klgbty three women and 31 men, 11 In all. received tbelr diploma at tha final eierclaee of tba 4 2d annual com mencement of tha University of Ore gon Monday morning. Louie Oroahema. a prominent farm er and atockman of lleppner, commit ted aulclde by shooting blmaelf In tba head on tha county road, about It mllea eaat of lleppner. Portland la to have another flouring mill. Tha Globe Grain Milling com pany will begin Immediately the con etructlon of a ISOObarrel flour mill. The coat will be net ra than 1160.000. ICiamlnatloni for atate teachera' cer tificate will be held In tha county aeat of every county In tba atata from Juna 2 to 39. Inclualve, according to an announcement made by State Su perintendent Churchill. Electric atorma of the paat week aet fire In four different ptacea In the big Sbevlln Hlxon white pine belt aat of La Pine. The heavy ralne whlrh accompanied tbcae atorma wera not able to quench tha f Irea. Tha Ilalnlcr Mercury company, which recently acquired tha Utah and tlartleaon group of olnnabar mlnaa In tha Maadowa district, 11 mllea north of Gold Mill, hai made lta Initial ehlp ment of 10 flasks of qulckallver. In looking for a copper ledge which ha carefully covered up 80 yeara ago, a Mr. Downy of Grave Creek, near Oranta rasa, la reported to hava found v a vein of gold-bearing ora that prom ises to make him a wealthy man. - A. S. Outre, of eaatern Oregon, who baa Juat crossed the McKcnsle paaa with a team, the flrat to croaa with any kind of vehicle thla year, report! that In few daya' time automobiles will be able to croaa by their own power. Tba flax crop at Salem thla year will be practically a couplet failure be cause of tba long dry spoil, according to Robert Crawford, former superin tendent of tha state flax plant and who thla year haa 100 acrea planted to flax. Organltatlon of eight battalions of state militia has been perfected by th general stsff, Oregon national guard, and with officers commissioned th work of training is laid to b going forward rapidly in all sactioni of tha tat. There ia likelihood tbit Oregomani 1 will ha put on limited fusl rations thla winter as part of the govern ment's plan to make tip a deficiency of 80,000,000 tons of bituminous coal, according to Fuel Administrator Holmes. Under a recommendation of tha wool section of tha war Industries board, it waa announced that wool clips of three eights and lower produced In Oregon, Washington and In Idaho, west of Focatello, will be shipped to Portland, tor manufacture. Four grade of onlona are established by the public service commission In - an order placing onion handling, weigh- in, insoectlni and grading under con- ' txnl of til commliilosi 1Ui bud quarters In Portland. Tha order la to be rrf HIv July 1. A sweeping reduction In fir Insur ance ratea on all commercial risks In Portland which will effect an approxi mate saving of about 1100,000 a year lo Portland property owners waa an nounced following a conference be tween Insurance Commissioner Harvey Wells and J. M. McCune, manager of tha Oregon Insursnce rating bureau. With a total of premium Income on thla claaa of bualneaa amounting to ap proilmately 11,400,000 aggrrgate, tha reduction will be In the neighborhood f 10 per cent According lo a message to officer of th Columbia Itlver Loggers' aasoela tlon, the prices which prevailed on fir logs prior to April 1 have been restored by the government price fixing com mittee at Washington. Thla meana In creaaea of 60 cents. II and II on st inting prices. During the past week 674 accldenta wera reported to the atata Industrial accident commission. Of that number four were fatal, aa follow: C. R. Mason. Portland, ahlpbul'dlng; A.' Ly beck. Kerry, railroading: E. Blrnebon er. Portland, eblpbulldlng; J- E- Can non. Ilsker. light and power company. County agents and representative farmera of Umatilla, Sherman. Mor row, Gilliam and Wasco counties met at Pendleton Tueaday to visit farma whara different expertmenla hsva been successful Tbey will spend a day each In Morrow, Ollllam and Sher man countlea and at tba Mora experi ment station, following tba visit A eounty-wld "get together picnic" to which everybody In th county 1 Invited and la expected to get acquaint ed with everybody else, will be a fea ture that will be pulled off Sunday, Juna 11, under th auspices of tba fiaker County Farmera' union. Tha event will take place at Pocobontaa, In tha foothills of the Blue mountains. Th general land office announced that plana for opening 110.000 acrea of public lauds In tha vicinity of Portland will not be abandoned, deeplt rec emmendatlons of Governor Withy combe of Oregon and others. Tha gov ernor auggeated that the landa be held "until peace cornea, when they could be opened for tha benefit of returning soldiers." B. K. Kellogg, a retired farmer living at Mount Pleaaant, near Oregon City, waa given a eoat of tar and feather by a crowd of IS men. Alleged remarka by Kellogg to the effect that Red Croe funds were being squandered and that It waa foolish to buy Liberty bonds, brought about the punishment, ha waa told by members of th party. Kellogg la an American cltlxen. The possible construction of a rail road by th federal government from Yaqulna bay, through the Waldport country and Into Lane county for th purpose of reaching valuable apruca tracts. Is Indicated by tba presence of surveyor who are working on th weat coast of Ln county near Heceta Head Itghtbouae. The engineer have been working between Yaqulna bay and Waldport for aeveral weeka. A special bulletin, devoted almoat ex clusively to the subject of Fourth of July lemonade, waa Issued from th Oregon food admtnlatratlon headquar tera by Asalatant Food Administrator W. K. Newell. Tha privilege of run ning lemonade stands will be withheld sver th stat on tha "glorious Fourth," In tha interests of augar conservation, th bulletin explains, Orangeade and other sweetened drinks ar alao to be under th ban. Th state highway commission will meet in Portland Tuesday, Juna 16. at which tlm plan will ba outlined for th coming year. Approval of th 1690,000 worth of bonda from th !, 000,000 lssu as given by the capital issue commute contemplates com pletion of contracts awarded last year only, and a result th commission li practically In a poattlon of starting In anew and preparing to arrang for 'an entirely nsw programme on a new basis. ' - Th sundry civil bill reported t th house of representative carriea th following northweatern appropriations: Umatilla Irrigation project 180,000, Klamath project 1428.000. Crater lake national park, 160,000 for construction and maintenance of roads and 118.825 for admtnlatratlon. Out of these ap propriations will be taken enough to purehaae one automobile and two horse-drawn vehicles for tha accom modation of visitors. Protection ol O. It C. and Coos Bay grant lands agalnat tire, $25,000. Care of Alaaka Insane" at Portland, $99,000, or $420 per capita. General Green haa lost his command at Camp Lowli, Wish. STOP Y & A THIS J r r'r f c $ I B & KEEP HIM. OUT of AME RICA National "a This space) WESTON GRAFT RAIDS MADE IN MAMY CITIES Wsshington. A nation-wide con aplracy between manufacturer and contractors' agenta In Washington to solicit government war orders under an agreement to pay commissions il legally to tha agenta waa disclosed by the department ot Justice. Simultaneously with the announce ment, raids war mad on hundreds ot manufacturers' business offices throughout the United Btatea In search of papera ahowlng th scope ot the illegal practice. Offlciala said th manufacturer war led to enter Into the agreements by assurances of the agent that they had apeclal Influence with army of ficer or other In charge ot lotting contracts, and under threat to osa that Influence against th manufacturer. Eleven office In Washington were raided and a great mass of papera of contract agenta waa carried away. Other cities in which raids were mad include New York. Boston, Chi cago, Brooklyn. San Franolsco, Jeraey city. Philadelphia, rttteburg. St. Louis, Cincinnati. Cleveland, Toledo, Colum ella. 0.; Batifitt MJ&UAeQ, War Savings Committoo contributed for the Winning of-the War by AUTO CO., C. H. Nelson te" c'""' """. big sawmill to be bu.lt Cutting Capacity Will Be a Million Feet Dally. Portland. Or. A sawmill with a ca pacity ot 1,000,000 feet a day, and in other respects equipped to make it th largest mill on the Pacific coast, and probably second largest In the country, haa been designed In Port land for the United States govern ment, as part of Its spruce production programme. The mill will be erected on the Olympio peninsula on the shore of Lake Pleasant near Beaver, in Clallam county, Wash, and about 60 miles west ot Port Angeles. U. 8. Sslaee All Buach Breweries. Washington. Th entire estate in thla country of Mra. Lily Busch, widow of Adolphus Busch, late millionaire brewer, ot St. Louis, has been taken over by the government under the alien property law. The property con sists largely ot breweries In St Louis and other cities.- This fact became known In connection with the return to America of Mrs. Busch. who has been living In Germany for aeveral years, practically since the death ot Wto$3tiu... r- TOTAL OF AMERICAN CASUALTIES IS 8035 Washington. Seven hundred and seventy casualties reported among the American expeditionary forces during the past week brought the total since American troops first landed In France nearly a year ago to 8085. The second weekly summary Issued by the war department shows the total deaths are S193, while 4547 men have been wounded In action and 846 are missing in action, including all men held prisoners tn Germany. With more than 800,000 soldiers Bent overseas, officials pointed to the small number. 291. lost through operations of Gorman submarines aa showing the effectiveness of the convoy system. The comparatively email number of men dying from wounds ia pointed to as indicating tho efficiency of the am bulance and hospital systems, while the fact that only 1234 men have died of disease ia accepted aa proof of the excellent physical condition of Amer ica's fighting men. . Another satisfying consideration la that ot tha wounded men a very high percentage return to duty at the front ia ln than six week, ' AUSTRIA LAUNCHES , violent or re;;iTc Urge Masses of Infantry VsM in Attempt to Break tho Italian Une. . Jj Rom. A battle of great violence along th whole front la which large maaae of l&Xaatry ar being used by th Austrian Is aa attempt to broak through the Italia lie. partlaelarT la th eastern sector of the Aslage plateau, lo the BrenU valley aod oe Mont Orappe, fa tfeeoribed tn. the of ficial report from Italian headquarter. Th enemy's attack were aset la th advanced defensive area. , Italian troops. In conjunction with their rreneb and Brltlah allies, begae a counter offensive against the Anatre HungarUa force, which bad launched an attack oa the Italian saoaatats trout : Th Italian and allied troop, ac cording to an announcement made by the war office, were able to gain par tial successes end to rectify their liaea. The statement sajre the Austria aa, disregarding their loase. continued their endeavors to croaa the Plave river, bet that th Italian are bravely holding their positions. More than 4600 Anatrlana hav be)' made prisoner by the Italians. Brttlah and French. The Italian troop and their elliee are holding the enemy strongly, tena ciously resisting hire la the new of fensive and making repeated count attacks, aald Premier Orlando la m statement to the chamber of deputies. AMERICANS DEFEAT . GERMAN RAIDERS With th American Army In Frame. About COO German shock troops raid ed th American first-line position st tha village ot Xivray. In the Tout nee tor. Some ot the enemy got Into Xi vray, but ware soon driven oat. . . . The attack began at 8 o'clock in the morning after an extremely violent bombardment The Germane advance' swiftly to the attack, but were met by a heavy fir. Tho who peoe-f trated Xivray were forced speedily to withdraw and elsewhere the enemy waa completely repulsed-In hard fight ing lac ting more than two hours. ' According to prisoners, the object of the enemy was to take Americas pris oners. Thla failed, aa no American is reported missing. The American troop engaged at close quarters the small German force that entered Xivray. There was sev ere fighting! with bayonets sad clubbed rifle. The Germans left nine dead ia th streets and elx prisoners were era 1 taken, two ot them officers, one whom was wounded. ARMY TO REACH 3,000,003 Crewder Explains Military Expanalsn ' Plana to Senate Committee. Washington. Three million Ameri- ' cans will be under arm by next Au gust, th aenat military committee, was told by Provost Marshal-General Crowder. ' Extension of th age limit in the army draft will be necessary, General Crowder aald, If the present rate ef draft calls ia continued. He estimated that all the men in clasa one would be exhausted soon attar next January L . General Crowder eaid that 1.347,004 ot the 3.428,000 men placed tn claaaj one already have been called to the color. He estimated that aome 400, 000 additional men tor the first class will be secured from the men who. registered last June 6 and that another 200,000 will be added by the reclassi fication ot men In th re-examlnattoBj ot the questionnaires now being made? O'Leary Captured Near Portland. Portland, Or, Charged with being a spy, an Anglophile and a rabid pre German agitator, Jeremiah O'Leary. a New Tork lawyer, waa picked up oa. little farm near Sara. Wash., about It mllea north of Portland, aa a fugitive from Justice. Secret , service dub, with the aid of tanner and locel authorities, made the arrest O'Learx 1 best known aa the president of th American Truth society, an organisa tion which is supposed to have been financed by Germany to prevent the entrance ot th United States Into b,a r,