VOLUME 41 , WESTON. OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 0. 1913 NUMBER 49 OHEGOH NEWS NOTES OF GEIiERAU'lTEREST Prlnilptl Evinti of thi Week Briefly Sketched tor Infor (Dillon ot Our Readers. . . A tl Pt 11.000 h will bt hr 4 la central Orgoa tkti jt. It I Mllmel4. Member f pig club throughout , Com cetiaty attended a convention at Ob t house d ami of alfalfa will - b added th crop of rate county thi yr aa result of farm bures flail demonstrations la that coaety. Rapid development la (aa cranberry ladustry la taking alaea la ClaUop county aad conldrbl quantity of nw crg la being aat out Ibia yer. . Dr. C i. Smith of Portland aad fbwrle A. Brand of Rote burg, wara , appolatad member of tba aUta board of blgbar curricula by OoTaraor 01 eott Coofldarabt grading work la al ready oadar way oo tba aeciioa or tba Petfla blgkwar batwaaa Albany and Jeffroa, wblcb will ba partd tbla rummer. Ma Waldea. deputy wardaa of La Grand, report to Rtata Cam Warda Shoemaker tbat dr .aad phsanta ara on tba lneraaa In Unloa aad Wllw count!. raa received by tb uu motor vehlel regtatraUos dapartinaat for April total 000 mora tbaa for April, mi Tb total received for laat moath waa Ml.tll. aa against IIT.I1I for April Ml. Labor condition verywber oa tb Paelflo coast except at Lo Ang1aa h Improved la tb lat wk. ac cording to tba raport of tb depart Bitot of labor. Portland onemploy- project near Brook, oo th Paelflo highway, baa been eterted.r Thi work will oat approximately 1400.000, of which tba tt and government will acb pay halt. Thi I poet road. U O. Herrold. who waa awarded th eaatract by tba tat highway eommla , atoa for tha clearing and grading of tha 11 mile of blgbwey between Rcap jjooe and Dr leland. ht mbld a crw and la making good progre on th contract C. V. Johnvon, former meyor of ConralUa. I to b t tba heed of th aw Ut real tt department, ao-, . ' cording to annouBcomant mad by Harvey Wells, Insurance eommllo r. Th new rl tt law be-some ffecUv ob May II.' A consignment Sbortbora aat and show which, a an Initial effort la aster Oregon, brought higher avr price than tba Ant Shorthorn aal In Portland, waa conducted at La Grand by th Pacific Northweat Shorthorn Breeder' association. ' : Jay Bteveni, former fir marshal for Portland, now with tha fir prevention bureau of lb Pacific coast, with head quarter at San Francisco, la to ba la Oregon la a ihort tim to conduct an educational campaign for fir preven tion.'' " Establishing a new record at It own plant, and making what la claimed to b th best tlm ver achieved In th conatructloa of steel hull la th Uni ted Statee, tha Northwest Steel com pany of Portlaad launched th Weat Chatala ST 14 day after tba ablp'a keel kd ba laid. Oradlot work coetlcg approximately 1500,000 will b itartad In Grant and Wbeelar eountiea thla aummar, accord log to announcement by tha state highway commission. Contract for tbla etenlTB work will ba award d when tba commlislon meeta la Portland oa May 10. A rarlow to to ha mad ef all oil Indication la Oregon, according to a latter from . Oeorga Otl Smith, director of th United Stat geolo gical urvy, to Senator MoNary. Thla InrestlgaUon la to be made In co operation with tha Oregon , tata bureau ot mint and geology. Theodora Roosevelt Jr. will ba un able to attend tha Ut meeting of th Spanish war veteran In 0ln during June, H ha ao notified Har vey Wells, stat commander. It waa tint believed Roosevelt would visit Oregon, but a sudden change of plan eliminates . thi ttat from hi turn war Itinerary.. -Twoty-nln visla loaded at tha mill on tha lower Columbia river district during April and their com bined eago amounted to 10,113,791 feet of lumber. In th same period fir vessel loaded 1,875,000 feet at tha tip rlmr will, making a grand total ' f? IM.7M (Rut of lumber that loft ,' ilia Columbia rim la cargo during April. ' Nino wooden atamr launched dur ing April In tha Oregon district repr senUd a total of 15,000 too, dead weight Per tba flrit four month of lb year tber bava been 71,000 ton of wooden ae1 floated. The tonne of tb atlr fleet launched sine Feb ruary IT. 1I. wbea tha ftrtt govern mnt arrir left Iba waya, la 34I.S0 ton. -,:,,"' Assignment of lb hlstori bttt fblp Oregon to tb Oregon naval mili tia a a training hlp In Portland her nnr will b ntrongly urged by Mayor . Biker upon Acting Secretary rtooea relt of tha navy. Mayor Bker eot a telegram aching tba condition under wblcb tha navy department would plc tb femou bUIehlp la Port land harbor. Whether the coyot mnc In t!ma tllla county I decrelog or not. the bounty fund for the eitermloatlon of tb animate b uffred becaue of tb work of hunter during the pot month. Tb record of th county clerk bow tbat 7St pld In f bound. Pymata wr made to 41 , trappara. Tba largett catch turned lo w II akin. A number of beep aalt fcav been cloeed at Coadoa during lb pt week and at price tbat were highly att factory, allied eoaraa yaarllpga bava brought fl.10; fine wool wether, 11.10 i year-old ewe. II. and March lamba, ft. The price ara only about II per cent la tbaa tba record Price paid for almUar atock at tbla Una lt yar. Place for laborra far outnumber tb men applying for them la th Eugen Motion, according to Praek 1a Armltaga, ttprintndnt of the federal labor bureau la Eugene, There ara Tl poaltlooa open at tha preecnt time and tha mployer ara having difficulty la obtaining anough men lo carry on their enterprleee, Th greet- Ing and logging campa and tha fame Johann Maler Bareeth, a native of Norway; wa forartr berred from be coming an American cltlten by n order elgned at Aetorla by Circuit Judg klD upon tb recommenda tion of V. W. Tomllnoo, federal paturalUatioB xmlnr for thi dis trict According to tb record. Bar eth, who had been a Columbia river fihrmB had claimed eiemptlon from th draft oa th ground of being an alien. Calling on Portland houwlve to roll up their alvea and don their B-le-t -H1.AH Ik.. Ike ZZZFZi n,odera equipment peadar. it-poaaiwa declaring tha 1-caat rala decreed hf to give the publio the benefit Of "the OOSt tba whoiewi bkr aa -arbitrary and advanced and .modern methods, brought out by rrrh:. .ZZ the profession in the last few years. Sani reoiution amounting to an appai for tary conditions 'are assured by careful ster- a cltywlda boycott on tha "ataff of illza i on 0f Instruments . i life-aa manofacturd , by th city us""-"! .ftkorI'!i ' v A 110,000 fund which th recent legislature appropriated for th Ore gon naval militia can be used toward defraying tha general xpnsei of keeping th battleship Oregoa In Ore gon water If tha navy department will eonsent to loan tha vessel to th stste for an Indefinite period. Thi offer ws mad by Governor Olcott In a telegram which ha Bent to Franklin O. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of th navy. .., .r ;v. That Mrs, Ote Btreed of Portland, who ao mysteriously disappeared from Arlington, April 11, drowned herself and her two llttla daughters, age I and I years, In tha Columbia river, now aeama stabllshed. The body of the youngaat child, Vivian, waa found In tha river about three miles below Ar lington and tha body, of the other child, Virginia, waa found near Bla Jock. Tha mother' body has also been reovrd. $. , -. ,. "K. Sororities ind fraterhitie It tha University ot Oregon "must pay a 10 per cent penalty because they have not paid their war revenue tax, as- aetaed against all social organisations, atya Dr. George Hewitt of the Inter- ni revenue collector' ; office, Port- land. From November 1, 1917, to April 1, 1911, all persona Initiated Into a fraternity or sorority ara auppoaed to bava paid to the government 10 per cent of their Initiation due : and monthly duea not later than one month after Initiation. 11 Million Subscribed by Audience. New York. Breaking all records for subscriptions received at liberty loan rallies, an audience at tha Hippodrome subscribed for $11,250,000 worth ot, victory notes. " . , "YQU ' ' . . '. fi ...... ; I 1 ..... . : veHmMvmMMaeMM ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. N. P.; Bennet wishes to announoe the a dental office in the Weston Mer- Opening Of oantile Building, Wdston, Oregon. Strictly, - ' " ... Telephone 83. Hours, 0 to 12 and 1 to 5, BOLSHEVIK! MILITARY SITUATION MENACED Paris. Specialists on Russian aub Jects, attached to various allied dele gations at the peace conference, ex pect decided changea In tha Russian situation within tha next tew weeks. 1 Th Finnish military .movement which baa been threatening Petrograd and which has been shrouded with mystery I now well defined. General .Udenttch and 4000 Russians operatinft with him have tba support of the Fin nish government and troops, and have recruited larpa numbers of Russian peasant. . v' - , ;;: -' Admiral Kolchtk'a Siberian army Continues Ita movement westward to ward tha Volga and It la expected that tha cities of Vtatka and Samara wilt fall Into their hands soon.: with Kol- chak threatening the valley of - the Volga and Cdenltch menacing Petro- vltii Kiev m th hand of antl Bolshevik troops and with Kolchak'a northern army moving rapidly toward tha Una of communication ' between Moscow and Archangel, the Bolshevik military situation seems extremely precarlou. CHINA PROTESTS DECISION Statement Saye Conference Virtually Substitutes Japan for Germany. '" Parte. The Chinese delegation to tha peace conference Issued a state ment with regard to the decision of tha council of three concerning Klao- ARE MY KIND OF AN AMERICAN" f smM 1 1 ' J 1 1 U; Qr Iff , . . - ' ' ' . , -i ; . 1 Chau. : v , - t ' The statement ears the decision ot the conference virtually substitutes Japan for Germany In Shantung and adds to tba Japanese rallwaya right In southern Manchuria and glvea Ja pan practical control ot northern Chi nt. " '- ' ' ': "-' .'. "Tha Chinese delegation cannot but view the decision with disappointment and, dl88atlsff!ction,".the communica tion concludes. , U. 8. Averts Serbian Famine., Washington. The food famine and typhus epidemlo which threatened Ser bia have been averted through- the work of the United State food admin istration and tha American Red Cross force, th headquarter of th latter agency waa notified in a message from Red Cross headquarters at SalontkL . Deficit of Raltrc-ada Large. ' Washington. The government loss In operating the railroads for the first threa month of thi year was $130,- 000,000 acoonllng to earning figure of tn eo-canea cias one. or me larger roads, reported to tha Interstate com merce commission and compiled by the bureau of railway economica. " Aviator Leaps 1000 Feet Atlsntle City." TJ. J. Joan Orfs, a French aviator, won a $500 prise by leaping from an . airplane 1000 feet above the Chelsea flying field while hts plane was speeding at 60 miles an hour. He made a perfect descent, clinging to a tiny white silk parachute. TERMS CASH At Uader shop. KIIK6ARIAII SOVIET RULE HEARJNG EJID Allied Troops Reported to Be Overrunning Hungar'an . Territory. Vienna. The Hungarian communlsl government' denies that it has acceded to the demand ot the Ctech, Rouma nian and Serbo-French troop. Involv ing the surrender of Hungarian ter- rltory. . The Budapest soviet government li making a last effort to build a red army which It la roughly estimated will number 100,000 officers aad men. Many ot these soldiers are hungry and It is said that probably one-third are willing to fight It 1 (tated in allied circle that the commander of tha Caech. Serbian and Roumanian troops have decided not to occupy Budapeat, confining their oper ations to an encirclement of the Hun garian capital. . Geneva. Roumanian troop have entered tha c,lty ot Arad, 145 miles southeast of Budapest, and have oc cupied the Crap bridgehead on the Thclsa river north ot Arad, according to advices received her from Buchar est and Hermannstadt Everywhere the Roumanian and allied torcea are being welcomed a liberators, it Is said. The Roumanlana ar advancing along the whole Hungarian front and have captured 2000 prisoner, includ ing many Austrian1 and German Mi dlers. One hundred and fifty carloads of war material have been taken. portanj Leads Big Citiealn District s, Francisco. Oregon la th first gtaU tn tn8 i2tn federal reserve bank autrict to subscribe it quota in the victory loan, and Portland la tn first big city In th district to go over the top, it waa officially announced her at loan campaign headquarters. , Ruth Garrison on Trtal for Murder. Seattle. MIbs Ruth Garrison. 18-year-old Seattle girl, went on trial here Monday, charged with the murder of Mrs. Grace Glatx Storra. s Postponement of the rece for a rear may give Sir Thomas Llpton tlm to figure out some points ou a brand-new 1 Shamrock. ITALIAN DELEGATES : TO EETUEHTO PO Efforts Hade to ConcilUli Italy Are Attended VViJh Success. J- Prtelden t Wlleon, Premier Oemenca and Pjemier Lloyd George, composing tb coancll of three, eeot a eommunlcatioa to tb Italian gov , crnment Inviting It t reeume Ita piece at the pec conference. , Vittorio OrUado, tb Iullaa 'pref ler, and Baroa Sonnlno. the foretgm minlater, are to return to Paria, It la officially anDOQBced. The policy of Jpn la to return th Ebaatung penlncol la full eorerelsn ty to China, retaining only tba co nomlc privilege granted Germany and th right to eiUblUB a aettlemant un der th naual condition at Taing Tao, It was declared In a atatemeat Issued by Baron liaklno, bead of th JPa ee delegation at tb paca conference. Th tatu of Italy as on of th five great power ha been brought Into question by her withdrawal frrra - tb peace conference, aad it 1a th! atatua which proved a powerful lever in Inducing; Italy to accept tha Invita tion to mum her plac at th pc Ubla. President Wilson, David Lloyd George and Premier Clemeneeatt bava settled the question of th German an deraeaa cable. Tha deciatoa waa reached that tha cable were spoil ef war and belong to Britain, Japan aad Prance, th powara which took poctea don of them. "; Th council of three alao aettled th tatu of the Kiel canal. Germany probably will retain proprietorship ef (he waterway, but tolls for passag through it will ba levied under Inter national control The preliminaries of tha Pc treaty war communicated to th al lied delegatea Tuesday afternoon an! to th German plenipotentiaries Wed- nomlc iaolation of Germany 1 being .considered by tha council ot foreign ministers ot th peace conference aa a measure to be adopted In tba event that Germany refuses to algn tba peace treaty. The plan for tha measure waa sub mitted to the minister by th to preme economic council. .. PRESIDENT MAY GALL GOIiGEESS JUME 1 Washington. Intimation that a spe cial aesslon ot congress will be callett by President Wilson to meet about June 1 Is contained In confidential dlspatcbea received In Washington from Paris. It waa said In authoritative adminis tration quarters that It waa quit pos sible that if th situation in ParU should develop rapidly tha special ces sion might meet even before Jon 1. In that case tha call would ba made by cabla. 1 . v--. Tha dispatches made it cleat that tha president waa confident ha could return to th United 8tates be for th tnd of thla month. CREDIT PUN IS REJECTED United State Not Interested In Ra teratlon of Hun Buelness. " Paris. Disapproval ot a plan tor rehabilitation of European financial credit waa expressed by finsnclal members ot th American delegation. It wis mad known that tha United States would not be a party to any joint action for restoration ot German business. ., ... " " " It had been proposed by th British that a German bond Issue of $5,000, 006,000 be arranged with Great Britain, France, the United States and other associate! powers lis guarantors, Th American delegatea oppoa thi. Labor Conditions Show lmprvmat Washington. Unemployment condi tions showed an improvement in th week ending- April 26, on the basis ot reports from 68 cities, the federal em ployment aervica reports. Thlrty-flv cities reported a total surplus ot 83, COO, a decresss of several thousand from the total of th previous week, while six reported a shortage totaling !450 and 20 showed an equality of sup ply and demand. f Tha surplus showed a decrease tor th first tlm In Paelft coast states. .