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. , i, I. Weston i 1 ? A-ni?.D. WESTON, OKEGON. FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1919 NUMBER 62 VOLUME 41 r OREGON HEWS NOTES OF GENEMUIITEBEST Prfnoloil Evmtt of thi Wtik Brltfly Sketched for Intor nation el Our Readers. Pendleton's Chtuttutua week haa been eat for July to 11. Revere! new eases of Influense have made their appearance In Belem. Tbe state grange, In session it Hills boro. voted to bold Hi 1J0 mount teealoa nt Bend. Rancbera of northern Curry county rtport that eoyotea ara en the In creeee In that section. The Christian Endeavor societies of Linn and Benton counties bald their fourth annual convention In Corvallle Saturday nnd Sunday. Oeorge T. Oerllngar of Pellse was appointed n member of the slsta board or forestry by Ooveronr Oleott ir eueceede L. R. Mill of Cottage Orove, In fit of deepondeocy resulting from prolong tllBM. Robert Bplck erman. II yeert old. thot himself through Ibt heed with a ehotgun nt Tht Delist. Of a tout of UK prtventtblt flret during 111. 41 were inspected of In eeodlary origin, according lo the an nual report of Hirwf Wells, etatt fir marshal Ttitbookt for im In the publlo echoed of Oregoa during tht next nil yeara will be aeleeted by Urn Oregon atate textbook oommletlon nt moot Inc to be btld In Salem June I. Unemployment l eompletely wiped, out In Oregon, both tbn Industrial contort and throughout tbn arming mid lumbering dlatrlcta. according to a report of the department of labor. Efforts to procuro a materlst reduc tion fa tbn coat of traniportlng flab which tbn nutn distributee to tbn vsrlout tlreemi of Oregon will bn ainda by tbn publlo etrvlce Wnmle. tie. Flab, propagation la tbn tartrnl tat hatcheries la ahowlng aplandld reeulta thin spring, according to tbn " report of R. It Claotoa, atato flah war dan, received by tba flab and gam commission. Deuglaa county's ninth annual ttraw harry carnival nnd aportaman'a tour aamant waa bald In Roaeburg undar 5 moat fevorabtt auspices. Tbouaanda of paopta warn present to enjoy tba opantng day't festlvltlee. Complete xonaration of tha lUta tnduatrlal accident commission la glr a by Governor Qlcott In connection with tha cbargea of Lee Roy & Ken lay, a Portland attorney. over tha A. O. Dlbbern compensation eaaa. Moat Oregon men who tra In service orereeaa will hare returned by Auguat and practically all of them will bo home by September, according to In formation that haa reached tha Oregon welcome committee in New Tork. Thf proposal to maintain a repre senlatlve In Washington to further tba project for tha eetabllshment of a ftrat-claaa naval baao near tha mouth of tha Columbia ritar ta being die euaaad by tba Aatorta chamber of commarca. Three fatalltiea art Included In tha ttt accldentl reported to the itata Induatrtal accident eommlaalon for tha paat weak. Theaa wart Martin Paul of Reliance, logger; Joseph flwarti, Knappa, logger; Louie Lambert, Never tUII, logger. Tha aeml annual purchaaa of aup pllei for the vtrlout atate Inatltutlbnt will be made June , when bide cor. erlng tha need! of tha InatltuUona will be opened by tht sUto hoard of con trol. Theaa blda will cover auppllea op to December II. 4 Mra. Lola 0. Baldwin of Portland. Mra. Chariot H. Caatnar of Hood River ' and Mra. W. H. Dancy of Salem warn dtatgnated membera of tha advlaory board for tha atate industrial tchool for glrla, In appolnUaentt announced by Governor Oleott . F. C. Knapp. P. H. Murphy, and V. H. Haybarker, all of Portland, cob ", atituto tha eommlnlon created by tha recant legislator to regulate lighting la mllla. factorlea and work ihopa, according to announcement of C. K. Oram, atate labor comrateiloner, i According to advloea received from Senator Charlet McNary at Washing ton, tht United States government In considering sending out experts to Polk county and other plaeea In tht state to explore tht oil fields which ara auppoaed to be located there. J, T. Buchanan, superintendent of tha Homestead Iron Dyke mine, situ near Homestead, reports that tht labor situation It vary discouraging In hla section. With a capacity of ehoi't 1?0 men not mora than to ara at pn miiI i-inployml by tha company hM-auae of Iba ersrrlty. A resolution condemning Orrgon aa one of tha worst atatea In the union with regard to tha divorce evil and providing for tba appointment of a committee to Investigate conditions and Instigate legislation to mitigate tha growing tendency of divorce, was adopted at Portland by the list dio cesan convention of the rplauopal church. Another vt a erlee of marcheiidiao abools, which have ln etirm-ll'ig epnrtiimen from many aartlona of Jhe Willamette veil, aas.hild by the Albany Oun club rrlday. Sportsnn-n from Amity on Ihe rmrtli to Kugina on the enuth aere In attendance, and with a large crowd present competi tion was ken. Crook County Superintendent J. E. Myers la luulng augar beet aeed for esorlmntal purposes. Twoyear teats show a quality of l per cent If this year e teat holds out the Ogden refinery will build a factory at i'rine rltle. The Ochoco Irritation project la expected to produce greet quanti ties of blgb grsda beets. Twenty-one cargoes or ll.500.0P0 feet of railroad Ilea are to be shipped out of Portland. Colombia river and Puget sound points to England. Of this total a third will be handled by Portland ahlppere. It la aald tha ship meote will be completed by Auguat 16. Tha worth of theaa ties to mlllaen will be approximately $161,000. Tba summer aaaston at Oregon Agri cultural college la expected to bavt a Urge enrollment, according to tba number of tnqulrlee already received. The btg demand for Uacbert ot agri culture, home economics and voca tional courses will probably Increase the number who will take these sub jects during the summer months. Harvey Welle, atate commander of the Spanish war veterans, bat receiv ed word that a rate of a fart and a third baa been granted by the railroad administration for the atate encamp ment of Spanish war tetereae which will be held In Salem on July f and 1. The special rate will be given to all membera of tht organisation and al lied auxiliaries. , Btepe have been taken to form a gi gantic organlxatton of all the prune growers of Oregon and of Clarke coun ty. Washington, according to J. O. Holt, manager of the Eugene rrult Growers' association. Thla la the first move toward organising all fruit growera of Oregon along tinea of the several fruit growers' association of California which have boon In exist ence for a numher of yeara. Notice waa received by the state highway commission from the United States department of agriculture that IS army trucka. used during the war, will be allotted to Oregon for use In road work, the only atlpnlatlon being that they be used tn building state aided roads, including forest and post roads. The trucka have a total value of about 1120,000. They are now tn Chicago awaiting delivery to Oregon. Thirty-seven daya from the tlmt her keel waa" laid and 10 days from the time ahe waa launched the at eel steam er City of Eureka, built at Portland by the Columbia River Shipbuilding corporation, left on her builders' trial trip. The bulldera olatm world's rec ords both for the elapsed time be tween tha laying of tht keel and the launching and between the launching and the completion ot the vessel's equipment. Appointment ot the members of the newly-crested state vocational educa tional" board hat been announced by Oovtrnor Oleott. Tht membera in otudt F. B. Ingalls of Dufur, David M. Dunne ot Portland, E. J. Btack of Port land and Mra. Oeorge MoMath of Port land. The board la designed to co operate with tbe federal government In procuring vocational - educational facilities" tor publlo tchool children of the atate. , Dean O. A. Covell, of the Oregon Agricultural college wilt repreaent the engineering Interests ot the sorthwtst In a national conference in Washing ton, D. C, June II and 14, the main purpose ot which It , to discuss tha quaatlon of turning out from such technical InatltuUona aa the college men trained In both , commerce and engineering, 'who can take charge of big industries and thus make it pos sible to extend foreign trade. Washington. 'Representative Uallt van, democrat ot Massachusetts. re Introduced In the house his bill which failed at the last session, providing for a bonus equal to six months' psy. for honorably dtacharged soldiers, sail ors and 'marinee. STANDARD THEATRE, ATHENA k M SW.. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 7 BIG APPROPRIATION ' FOR RAILWAYS ASKED Washington. To finance the rati roads for the rest ot thla year and to pay tbe governments operating lose for U months up to thla month, an appropriation ot 11 ,200.000.000 waa ask ed ot congress by Director-General Htnea. More may be sought later M the government continues to lose heav ily. The 11.200,000,000 is In addition to the 1500,000.000 . appropriated by the Isat congress, and Includpe the 1750, 000.000 which failed of appropriation. Of the total of $1,700,000,000 appro priated and requested. Mr. Hlnee said that $1,214,000,000 eventually would be returned to he government. Thla In cludea money tied up In working capi tal and advanced on account to the railroad corporation Mr. Hlnee said that tn hla Judgment the operating deficits for 1918 and for the four montha In 1911 were clearly due to the war and to abnormal after-the-war conditions. , WAR RISK MEASURE PASSED Bill Provides $45,000,000 for Soldiers' and Sallora' Families. Washington. Passage by the house of a deficiency bill providing urgent appropriations ot 145,044,500 for war risk allowances to soldiers' and sail ors' families and civil war ponslonera made another speed record for tbe new house, which adopted the woman suffrage resolution. The first sharp partlaan clashaa ot the aeaston be tween republicans and democrats oc curred during discussion ot the de ficiency bill. , The measure authorises appropria tion! of $39,615,000 for allowances due May 1 and Juno 1 to about 700,000 families of soldiers, sailors and ma rine!. $3,000,000 for delayed Civil war pensions and $2,149,500 for admlnls tratlon ot the war risk insurance bur eau. It wat passed without a dissent ing vote after considerable partisan discussion, republicans and democrats making counter-charges' ot responsi bility for payment delay a. Much Work on Treaties Still Pending. Paris. The 'American delegation his prepared a memorandum ahowlng the status ot affairs before the peace conference on the conclusion ot the Austrian treaty. This discloses that a formidable amount ot business Is still to bt transacted besides the Turk ish and Bulgarian treaties, covering the whole range ot tntor-allled aub ;Jecta. The memorandum leavea no doubt that the couference will con tinue for a considerable time after the trestles have been algued and Presi dent Wilson hat left. . Tut! Tutl A recent Invention ia a pnlr of horse blinders for golf players to help them concentrate their attention. Why not add a bit that they can champ Instead ot bursting Into profanity t ESTKONIANS REACH GATES OF PETROGRAD London. A dispatch from Copenha gen aaye It Is reported on good authori ty that the Eaihoulans have captured Pcterhof. 19 mllre west of Petrograd. A Hclalngfora newspaper prints a Moscow dispatch aaylng that Nikolai Lcnlne. the bolshevik leader, haa of fered an armistice to Admiral Kolchak, commanding the antt-bolshevlk forcee tn order to consider peace terms. By a surprise attack. Esthonlan forces broke through the bolshevik po sitions along tbe whole PskOv front, captured Itborsk and advanced to with in alx milrs of Pskov, capturing 10,000 prisoners and many cannon and ma chine guns, according to an official statement issued at Esthonlan ataft headquarters. . HARRY HAWKER SAVED London. Missing for alx days and virtually given up tor lost, Harry O. Hawker and hla navigator, Lieutenant Commander Mackenxle Grieve, British airmen, who essayed a flight across the Atlantic ocean, without protection against disaster, save what their frail airplane afforded, were picked up at aea. Some 1100 miles out from Newfound land and 800 mllea from the Irish coast on Monday, jtfay 19. the avlatora, mak ing the best of an engine which wat fulling to function properly, were forced to alight on tho water. The lit tle Danish steamer 'Mary, bound from Now Orleans and Norfolk for Aarhuua, Denmark, picked the wayfarers up. Lacking a wlreleas outfit, the cap tain of the steamer waa obliged to withhold tidings of the rescue uatll he was opposite Butt of Lewis, where the Information was-slgnalled by meana of flaga that Hawker and Grieve were aboard hie ahlp. Hawker aent a message that hit ma chine had etopped owing to the block ing of the water circulation system. Hawker and Grieve wore In the wa ter an hour and a halt before being Uken aboard the ateamer Mary. - By a vote of 13 to one, the largest ever given in a special election, tht voteraot Klamath Falls have affirmed their "faith tn the Strahorn railroad project by accepting the offer of the railroad builder to transfer the mu nicipal railroad now' being completed to Dairy, 20 mllea east, tor $30,000 ta bonda in the Oregon, California A Eastern Railway company, with which Mr. Strahorn proposes eventually to connect the terminals ot five differ ent reads entering the state and to develop the Oregon inland empire. The builder haa submitted a proposi tion to the city whereby in return for this transfer and completion ot the terminal fund, ho would start tmme dlatelytoward the Sprague river val ley, 20 mllea north of Dairy, and Up the rich timber belt there thla year. WHAT TO DO WITH SALOON. Why not turn the corner anlx.i Ihlo t community plnyhouse when Ihe lew e.T--te the cloning of tbee gathering Iiky, ek Mis Hau-I MarKaye. rTtir of the I-jarinwnt of Pageantry ami Trama of the rational Young Wo liifii'ii rlirlxtlnn Aownlnl'mi? "I went over on the Wt Side of New York one nlelit recently to attend community drama meeting," Mia Jlm-Knye my In npliilnltig h-r theo ry, -nml aa 1 wn ri'tlne along I eollccil Imw ninny HiiliMin-" tl.eie en-re -one on -i-ry i-onier nii'l noilier In tli ni'il tw of the l4ork. It weniel, all Jut l!in'nK Willi llKit. Tho llclitaoituht not in go nut with prtihll.it Ion. Tliey inirlii to hlne for MunWblng worth while to ell of t!ii ix-op'e. l wlmt l-iirr I bun community liui:ia ami :i?" Mix MiuKaye feels t!at the war hn jrlren a irr'n' Imjietlu tn fmotilnr Inn-nut In !:iii.- art) ti nt ttmniMi imciiintry ami ilrnii'a a ermt ilt-nl Id tlw wny of Anici-!-.iiil7.ntloti ran l-v cf f T ihI, Tliroiivh the community renter. If It tx; In n di!rl1 Mniliiie I Inrgrty of 'tun- forHmi nntlotmllty. lh people . ronl-l pn-srnt u-.;iiita of the life In t!io!r mother r:untrl-. Irnna'a'lng thero Into KiiKllxh. so thnl Amer'rin nml nlw) the yo'inr.-er Encl!h iqwifc'ns menilH-ra of their household rochl un deraiand anil npfireelale' their tradi tions. Amerirnn nrt would tie greatly enriched- thus through the drama of all of the nations whose top!ea have settled In this country. On the other Imml Amerlmn hieala. American h'a tory and Amerirnn festival, even laws aurh aa child labor and minimum wace, could be Interpreted to these people by meana of pageantry. "People have been learning not only to work together, bot to play togeth er," Miss MacKaye says, "particularly alnee the war, when the people Blood together tn drlvee and large patriotic community entertalnmenta. The op portunity to build up a great commu nity organization Is now at hand, and the time la ripe for It Why not utilize the corner saloon?" Harvey Wells, slate fire marshal, hat completed hla annual report to tbe governor tor the year ending March $1, and ahowa that the total fire losses paid during the year amounted to $1,829,817.70. Thla amount represented 1958 claims and insurance at risk ot $11,055,144.71. During the year 18 Jersons lost their lives aa a result of tires outside the city ot Fort land. Five were men, two women and 11 children. In amount ot losses paid Columbia county leads all others with $412,314.22, Multnomah being next with nald losses ot $278,694.25. Liberty Bonds An absolutely safe Invest ment. If you have money to in vest, buy Liberty Bonds from us. If you sell Liberty Bonds, sell to us. We buy and sell Liberty Bonds. Any denomination $50 $100 $500-$1000. James L. Elam Walla Walla - - Washington Alberta Lands Improved and Un-' , improved. Also wheat lands and acre age tracts anywhere in the Inland Empire. W. R. TOMPKINS MM First St., Walla Walla. Dr. S. L KBIHAED -j Veterinary Sugeon j Hospital at corner of Main and Broad streets. Phone - Main 253 X Expert Blacksmithing and Horseshoeing. j SMILEY & PEAK l t WESTON, OREGON I feeders! I AND WHEAT RACKS f i ONE SUGGESTION OF GERMANS ACCEPTED Minor Concession Regarding Saar Easin Granted, O.her ' Proposals Rejected. Parte With the exception of a mi nor conclusion, all suggestions and rount- r proposals by Gwmany for the disposition of the Saar twain have beta r')ected by the reply ot the allied and aicoclated powers. r Count Von Brockdorff RaoUau's epr ' pal for an oral dlacuraton of the points at issue on this subject was Ignored The concession agreed to Is that Ger many ml. fit errate a prior charge upon b'.r asaeis or n venues for tbe payment of the mitt In the Bear region. If th plebiscite goes againat France. If, however, the sum arreed open Is Dot prld ulthin year from the date It la doe, tbe reparation commission shall effect payment under instruc tions from the league of natlooa. Thla alteration was made la view of Germany 'a declaration that it waa Ira poeaible for her to accumulate a suf ficient sum of gold with which to j sy tor the mines In the 15 yeara before the plebiscite It taken since other rep arations would constitute a constant drain. President Wilson baa informed the council of four, It waa reported la peace conference circles, that the other membera of the council should be pre pared for the United States not to take a mandate for ConataaUnople or any other part of Turkey. The council of four ot the peace con ference haa decided conditionally to recognise the anti bolshevik govern ments of Admiral Kolchak and Gen- , eral Deneklne, according to Btuter't Agency here. The conditions for the recognition are that, regarding the future of Rus sia, these governments agree to con voke and accept the verdict of a gen uine constituent - assembly; likewise that the league of nations covenant and its consequences aa affecting the boundaries of the former empire are accepted. The constituent assembly is to de termine the future form ot govern ment for Russia. The allies wtll not furnish Admiral Kolchak and General Deneklne with troops but will supply them with arms, munitions, money and food on a larger scale than hitherto. LAX SOLDIERS PROTECTED Discharged Men Who Let Insurance Lapae May Get Benefits. Washington. Soldiers who fall to pay their premiums on government In surance after discharge will have a nine-months' period in which the pol icy msy be reinstated, under a war risk buceau ruling announced by Sec retary Glass. . Insurance on which premulma are not paid will be classed aa lapsed af ter 90 daya. but at any time during tho six montha following the lapae may be reinstated by the insured if he turnlshee a physician's certificate to the effect that he It in good health and paya up back premiums. Washington Chief Justice Resigns. Olympla, Wash. Stephen J. Chad wick, chief Justice of tho Washington supreme court, Monday aent hia for mal resignation to Acting Governor, Hart, to become effective June 1. Having been previously apprised of Judge Cbadwtck'a determination to re tire, Governor Hart had selected Jesse B. Bridget ot Aberdeen to till the va cancy. British and Americana Land at Danxlg Paris. British and American ma rlnea have been landed at the Baltlo port of Danxlg, according to a dispatch ' received here from Warsaw. A pow erful fleet, it Is added, will be anchor ed off the harbor there. State of Ohio ta Dry. Columbua, O. Ohio haa Joined the prohibition ring. Constitutional pro-, hibltion became effective Tuesday. Canada's Unrest Spreads. Calgary, Alberta. Canada. Union workers of Calgary called a general strike In sympathy with the Winnipeg walkout. Edmonton, Alberta. Edmonton nn tone voted three to one for a atrike, In support of the general walkou in Winnipeg. 0