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Weston eader i NUMBER 11 VOLUME 41 WESTON, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUG. 10. 1918 OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST D-lnelnal Puanta nf fhM Wick Principal Events 01 we Briefly Sketched tor imor mttion of Our Render. Tho Oregon Interstate fair will bo held In Prlnevllln thla year, October 1 to 6, Inclusive. The Hltka Spruce company, of Co ijiillle, la establishing a now ehlngla mill In tli" r'Ulitrap district. I'reparai Ion am being made by tho lulior rounrll of t'nna hay for a mam iiiuili rrMnatlnu hi Nrtli llnd and Marahtlrld on l-abor day. rllityone mriiibei of the Oregon Agricultural college faculty have with drawn to enlrr government service allira 111 declarsllon of war. A aawmlll ownod hy John M. Robins at Hwan l.ake vallry In Klamath coun ty was destroyed by fir with loss of between 110,000 and f 11.000. The prune growers or I'olk county bsve formed a from prun pool. Tho minimum prlre paid for tbn green fruit will bo ! rents pound delivered at th Dallas warehouse. The Iowa aaaoclatlon of Oregon will hold Ha annual picnic at the atate fair ground at Hulrui Auuat IT and It la ezpected that former lowana from all over tho atala will bo prraent. Tho George Terry aheep ranch on Dock crock waa purrbaaed laat week by John J. Kelly of llcppner. consid eration named being $45,000. Tho ranch embrace 3500 acres of land la Morrow and Gilliam countlra. Oregon baa been dlatrlctad Into IS dlvlalona with community tabor board given jurisdiction over each dis trict to prepare for mobllliatlon and dlatrlbutlon of labor, chiefly of the un killed claa. In war Industries. A new magazine for Sunday school workers In Oregon, to b known aa the Oregon Sunday School Outlook, will ba published In Cortland under tbe ausplcea of the Oregon Sunday School Aaaoclatlon. beginning In September. An Immense run of Chinook salmon In th Columbia river, which began aeveral days ago and Is still continu ing, has made It probsble that this season's pack will exceed that of laat year. Cannerlea are all working at capacity. Work haa begun on the construction ef a fill to replace much of tho treatle work adjacent to lh big Oregon Klec trie railroad brldg over the Santlam river between Dever and Talbot, where the railroad croaaea from Linn Into Marlon county. In the mountain district about 20 miles south of Camas valley, a double tragedy accurred when two men were caught by a falling tree. They were Melvln Murphy and Robert Denham. Murphy waa killed outright, and Ben ham aerlously Injured. Only one fatal accident, out of a total of 691 Induitrlal casualties, was reported to tbe state accident commls- Inn for the week ending August I This wss the case of John M. Person, who wss accidentally killed In Port land while engaged In tbe shipyards. Through Intervention of Senator Mo Nary a modification bas been secured of tbe order of the railroad adminis tration prohibiting reduced rates on shipments of exhibits to the state fair. All exhibits sent to tbe next state fair may be transported In one direction free. Oregon's fourth liberty loan quota probably will be double that of the third loan, according to Information conveyed In a lotter to Governor Wlthycombe from James K. Lynch, of Ban Francisco, governor of the federal reserve bank there. The quota of tbe laat campaign was $18,495,000. The Oregon Historical society estim ates Its expenses for the next two years at $24,800 and the department of public Instruction at $41,068, In reports filed with the state tax commission Re- celpts for tbe historical society are estimated at $1600 and for the depart ment of publlo instruction at $20,000. Shipyards of the state expended 113, S18.S16.2t In salaries and wagea during tbe first six months of 1918, tor 2,266, 727 working days, or an average wage for all classes of employment of $5.44 per day, according to figures which have Just been completed for State Labor Commissioner Hoffs biennial report. Wherever practicable women will be used on stats highway work In the future, according to State Highway Engineer Nunn. They will be assigned to positions of Inspecting, checking rock and similar lines of employment. Orders have gone forth to engage as Iran wwaaM J4tflhl.w4 to- ra, I' n mm for other service. Unrmnr Wlthyriimbe believes the rial"- military iiollr ran be rut down to (o llilrdu III r will size on th flml of III year, and Dial by 1120. regardless of whether or not the war continues, It ran Iw rut to half lta t M ArrordllIII hfl d.lttM that no. leas than 1313.000 ran be. lopped off the $651,000 which Major IMrb haa estimated will be necessary for the organisation during the next bietinlum. Thla would leavs $274,000 for the use of the police. At a conference with the capitalisa tion committee of the war Induatrlea board. IN preventative Slnnotl was In formed that ths agricultural experte have reported favorably on the Warm Springe Irrigation project and that tho outlook la good for favorable art Ion on the lioiul issue, though no definite action ran be taken now. George F. Hodgers, shipbuilder of Astoria, and former mayor of Salem, wanta to use convicts to build ehlpa. In a leltrr rrrelved by the atat board of control Roditera atatea that be la satisfied that free labor would not object to convlrta working In the yarda. and be atatea be la willing to give full pay for their aervlces. The body of Walter 8. Drockmen. the largest owner of cattle In .Vallowa county, was found near a trail on the Snake river, where apparently be bad fallen over the cliffs. Lying near blm waa hla park mule, also dead, and some of his horses were nearby. He waa at work on the trail and la be loved to have met bla death acciden tally. ' Tbe Industrial Accident commission will have an estimated deficiency of f 110.000 for the present biennlum. ac cording to a supplemental report filed with the auto tax commission. Ex penditure for the first six months against tbe aula's ahar of expense make an expense of f 3(0,000 likely for the biennlum, aa against an appropria tion of 1550.000. Various timber owners and lumber operators asked Governor Wlthycombe to auapend tbe bunting seaaon, which opened Thursday, that tbe danger from disastrous forest flrea might be minimised. Lumbermen believed that the bunting seaaon should bo deferred until changed climatic conditions re duce tbe liability of forest flrea. Tbe governor, however, decided to allow the bunting season to open August IS regardless of the proteata. The Initiative and referendum pam phlet for tbe genrrnl election contains 14 pages, the smallest issued In tbe history of tbe Oregon system. Six measures are covered, Including estab lishment of normal schools In eastern and southern Oregon, a boms for de fective and delinquent children, prohib iting commercial fishing In the Willamette- and seine and set-net fishing In the Rogue river and repealing bills covering advertising delinquent tax lists and cost of legal publications. In event tbe legislature listens to a recommendation of tbs Industrial Ac cident commission to make workmen's compensation compulsory, it will coat tQC aute but $286,974.14 to conduct that commission during the next bien nlum. On tbe other hand, if the rec ommendation' Is not abided by, tbs state's share of the accident fund for the two years will be $1,200,000. These facts are brought out In the special report of the Accident commission Just tiled with the State Tax commission. Henry L. Corbett, of Portland, sub mitted his resignation as chairman and member of the state council of defense to Governor Wlthycombe, to become effective Immediately. William F. Woodward, of Portland, was named to succeed Mr. Corbett. Mr. Corbett said his selection In connection with the Military Training Camps' association made It necessary for him to reslpn. His new position will take him on In spection work through the camps of Oregon, California and Washington, and will consume much of his time. More than 100 pounds of surplus honey per colony Is the record of some ore(on Agricultural college bees in tests carried on this summer. The result Is attributed almost entirely to winter care by A. L. "Lovett, entomolo gist, who made the tests. Other. col onies, similar In every way but win tered In the usual manner, made no such record. Plenty of stores, plenty of room and plenty of protection make up tbe formula. The successful col onies were wintered In a double hive, tbe upper part tilled with stores, the whole protected from cold and mois ture. Submarine Sinks Nina Fishing Boats. Nantucket, Maaa. Nine fishing schooners were sunk off Georges bank by a German submarine, a naval icout bwt hlcii put In here reported, COLONEL CHURCHILL WW' HI I ka Col. Marlborough Churchill, head ef ths military Intslligsncs section ef the Unltsd Ststes Army gsnsral staff. . GAS ATTACK OFF ; CAROLINA COAST - n Washington The nary department baa announced a gaa attack agald'iit the North Carolina coast, presumstily by a German submarine, temporarily putting out of business the roast guard atatlon and lighthouse at Peronnel, on Smith Island. Forty minutes after the attack three large oil spots, each about an acre In extent, were observed passing by Smith Island to tbs north. It is con jectured thst the gss must have been generated In thla oil, which warre brssed by the submarine in the vicin ity of the entrance to the channel. In the hope that It would come In with the tide. Smith ialand is off the mouth of Fcsr river. Had the Gertnana had bet ter tuck with wind and tide, the clouda of gas would have swept Into the city or Wilmington. Six men at the coaat guard station and lighthouse were gassed, but there bsve been no deatbs. CASUALTIES TOTAL 20,112 Casusltles Reported by Genersl Persh ing Aggregate 4916. Washington Casualties in tbe srmy and marine corps overseas made pub lic Sunday aggregated 432, bringing the total for the week to 4916 and the total since Americsn troops landed In France to 20,112. Most of tbe casual ties for the week represented losses In the fighting on the Marne-Aisne front Of the total casualties-announced Sunday 345 were soldiers and 87 ma rines, while of tbe week's total, which Included Sunday's lists, 4198 were sol diers and 718 marlnoa. The week's aggregate of 4916 compared with 1430 the week before. In the 20,112 casualties, total deatbs, Including 291 lost at sea, men killed In action, died of wounds, disease, ac cidents and othor causes, numbered 7716; soldiers. 6883; msrlnes, 833. The wounded sggregated 10,874; soldiers. 9048; marines. 1826; and the missing, Including prisoners, 1522; soldiers, 1431; marines, 91. Lsnlne and Trotzky Flee Moscow. London. Premier Lenlne and his chief assistant, Leon Trotzky, bave fled to Kronstadt, the naval base near Petrograd, according to a dispatch sent out by the semi-official Wolff Bureau of Berlin and printed in Zurich news- papers. Parts. ssys a Havas report from Finns Rsjtct King Bill. Amsterdam. The bill providing for the election of a king of Finland waa rejected on the third reading in the Finnish Diet because It failed to re ceive the necessary five-sixths ma jority vote. There has been little fighting of great mement on the Vesle river, ex cept in the nature of reciprocal artil lery duels. The Americans have msde another crossing of the Vesle and cap tured the village ot Flsmette, north wast of niajfc GENERAL GRAVES 1 ' V Wt sm Major General W. 8. Graves, Mho haa been stlectsd to command tho American troops to bs sent to Siberia. YANKEES REPULSE GERMAN ATTACKS With tbe American Army on the Vesle Front In attempting to dis lodge tbe French and Americans from positions north of the Vcitlo river on both sides of Flsmos. tbe Germans launched repeated counter-atlacka, without auccess. There waa desperate fighting In the region of Flsm.ile, where the German attacks were re pulsed by the Americans, who were clinging to tbe outskirts of tbe village. in tbe region of Baxocbea tbe Ger- mans msde several vicious attache, but tbe allies successfully fought them off. The Amerlrsns took t tew prisoners at Kistnette ss a result ef hand-to-hand encounters. After a second German night attack the Americans retaliated and penetrated tbe German lines a short distance. They reached one of the enemy's rirst-aid field stations and took prisoner seversl wounded Ger mans. The Americans then returned to their scml-rircular positions at FIs mette and resisted all attempts of tbe enemy to dislodge them. BRIEF NEJVS OF THE WAR Marshal Koch followed up bis suc cessful counter attack on the Soissons Rheims salient by an offensive on the Picardy front, where the Germans made their great gain last March. The bulge in the allied lines In Pi cardy molted away before tbe com bined onslaught of the British, French, Australians, Canadians and Americans and the Indications are that the Ger mans will not only lose all they gain ed In their offensive In March but may be forced back to the old Hinden burg line. The allied forces forged ahead so rapidly in Tlcardy that the German retreat almost reached the proportions of a rout In places. The whole bot tom of the salient flattened out In two days' fighting. The French captured the important town of Montdidier Important German lines of com- muntcatlon have been cut. Oothers ern under bombardment by artillery and airplanes. The enemy retirement within the salient is reported to be greatly congested and great numbers of men and huge quantities of material are being cut off. The number of prisoners captured during the first three days of the of fensive is very large. It Is hinted at Paris that It exceeds by far the figure given out in the official statements. Two divisional headquarters, with their staffs, are said to have been taken. The guns and war materials lost by the enemy constitute a very heavy loss. The tanks, armored cars and caval ry worked throughout the entire re gion, while airplanes soared far be hind the lines, bombing transport and troop movements and also paying par ticular attention to the bridges over the Somme, by which the enemy Is endeavoring to escape. All behind the line the Germans are destroying am munition depots as they quit their positions. U. 8. Orders 1,000.000 watcnes. Geneva. American expeditionary forces In France have ordered 1,000, ,000 watcfcis troa Swiss firms, AMIENS 0UT0F GUN RANGE Great Transportation Center Safe, Thanks to Allied Triumphs. London. Speaking at a luncheon at Newport, Monmouthshire. Premier Lloyd Reorg emphasised the Import ance of the pushing back of the Oer mans from within gun rsnge of tbe Amiens rsilway. "Hundreds of trslns used to psss through Amiens daily," the Premier said, "but we were temporarily de prived of Its use until recently, when wa were able to employ 20 trains dally. Amiens Is now safe, through the recent allied triumphs on tbe Msrne and the Sornme, which were due to the unity of command." Halg Advancing on Flanders Front London. Increased activity In Danders with slight advancement of the Ilritlsh lines at two points In the center of tbe salient, was announced by Field Marshall Halg. Wilson Absndons His Trip to Coast Wsabington. President Wilson has abandoned tbe alight prospect had ol vialting the Pacific coast at least fof many months, probably until tbe cloae of tbe war. Ship Torpedoed Off New York. New York. A German submarine approaching the very gatea of New Tork barbor, aank the oil tanker Fred erlck R. Kellogg off tbe Ambrose channel. Thirty-five members of tbe crew brought here reported that seven are missing. Germans Want Finna to Fight. Washington. A report from Stock holm reaching tbe state department from sources considered reliable sayt tbe German government baa addressed an ultimatum to the Finnish govern ment requiring that the Finnish army prepare to march against the entente forces on the Murmansk coast within two weeks. ' THE MARKET Portland. Oats No. 2 white feed. $59 per ton. Barley Standard feed. $54.50 ton.' Corn Whole. $75; cracked. $76. Hay Timothy, $34 per toa; alfalfa. $27. Butter Creamery, 49c per lb. Eggs Ranch. 48c per dozen. Potatoes New, $3.253.75 per cwt Poultry Hens, 23 25c; broilers, 26 a 27c. Sesttls. Butter Creamery. 53c per lb. Eggs Ranch, 53c per dozen. Poultry Hens, heavy, dressed, 36c; light, 36c; broilers, dressed, 42; roost ers, dressed, 27c; ducks, live, 30c; dressed, 36c; geese, live, 27c, dressed, 35c. U. S. FIELD ARMY FORMED First Step Taken Toward Co-ordination of American Forces in France. With the Amerncan Army In France. The first American field army has been organized. It is under the direct commend of General John J. Pershing, commandeiMn-chief of the American. forces. The corps commanders thus far announced are Major-Generals Lig gett, Bullard, Bundy. Reed and Wright The creation ot the first field army is the first step toward the co-ordination ot all the American forces la France. This does not mean the immediate withdrawal from the British and French commands ot all American units, and it is probably that divisions will be used on the French and British fronts for weeks yet. Long. Range Gun Silent Paris. The long range cannon with which the Germans have intermittent ly bombarded Paris, has been silent for several days. This may be ex plained by the allied advance toward Noyon and Guiscard, whence the re cent firing Ia said to have been proceeding. i&f OREGON ia IHteALVATIOHS GERMANS FLEEIHG IN WILD DISORDER Old Line Held By Enemy Be fore Retreat to Hindenburg Line Crossed By Allies. With the British Army la Francs. The allied forces continue their vic torious advance, poshing la the gen eral direction of tbs upper reaches of tbe Somme. Tbey were smashing the stiff re sistance Interposed by tbe rear guards of tbe. retreating Germans, the bulk of whom, according to reports con sidered reliable, are fleeing la dis order. The Germans are retiring gradually everywhere. The Americana a ad British north of the Somme after hard fighting, with fine spirit pushed oat toward Bray. Tbey have traversed the northern spur east of Chlpllly. and Etinebem is as well aa la their ,tt)(j(. British, French and Americas troopa have reached, roughly, the old line held by tbe Germans before their retirement to the Hindenburg lioe. Tbey bsve now poshed beyond ' la many places. Large groups of prisoners, hungry, thirsty and grimy and appesring thor oughly disheartened, continue to ar- rive at the collecting cages. Amttng tbn captured were Ave regimental commanders and ten battalion coat minders. So far 33 German divisions bar been Identified la the fighting. Tbe Indications are that tbe enemy's re serves are gradually being exhausted and be la drawing troopa eat ef the line to extend bin flanks and cover any gape. This la aa operation, bow ever, which can be carried oat oaly to a limited degree. . PEOPLE WARNED TO SPEED UP Washington. Chief of Staff March's declaration that America must speed up Instesd of let up, la Its war effort as a result of allied successes la France, ia counted on la official circles to spur congress to quick actios ea tbe man power bill, broadening the draft ages. The thing to do now, March force fully declared, ia to put tbe maximum punch Into American effort Officials regarded his statement aa Indicating plainly that the allied war chiefs, from Marshal Foch down, have put it up to tbe United States to throw such a force into the field as will complete the disillusionment of the Germane, already well begun by the achieve ments of American fighters who have gone against the kaiser's crack le gions. - March's statement of the magnifi cent work of the Rainbow division, composed of men from 26 states, also wss construed as evidencing the fact that Foch knows that Amertcaa troops, be they "green' or seasoned. are , match for the best the kaiser has. March told how the Rainbow di vision In eight days bad forced the passage of the Ourcq river, taken pris oners from six enemy divisions, deci mated and routed a crack division of Prussian guards, a Bavarian division and one other division, and smashed back the foe's line 16 kilometers. This division was In the center of the American-French counter offen sive. The Germane knew It had gone in and put their best troops against It, hoping to smash America'a unseasoned men and so prove to the German peo ple tbat the United States military aid counted for little. Had the plan, succeeded, the effect on the allied mor ale and on Foch's plans might have been disastrous. Fees of the staie treasurer's office. Including those on Inheritances and on interest on deposits, are expected to Increase over $100,000 in the next two years, bringing their aggregate up to $305,500, according to a statement filed by State Treasurer Ksy with the tea commission. Expenses for the office tor the two years are estimsted at $35, 900. The Public Service commission, exclusive ot the state grain inspection department estimates lta expenses at $97,100, with tees of $2000 from log boom companies. The state weather, board asks $30,080, minus fees of $13. 200. and the bureau of mines and geol ogy $50,000. The Florence Crlttendoe Home expects $7500 from the state as part of recelpta totaling $10,503.