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Things Worth Knowing.
Judge J. D, Harvey in district court
in Houston, Texas, Saturday granted
212 divorces in 245 minutes.
C. Lee French, formerly auditor and
recorder of Power county, Idaho, was
sentenced to serve from one to ten
years in the Idaho penitentiary Satur
day in the district court at American
Kalis, on a charge of embezzlement.
The French army of occupation in
the Ruhr is to be reinforced by an
other fifteen or twenty thousand men,
says lit Matin. It has been decided,
the newspaper asserts, to proceed to
a still more complete exploitation of
the occupied territory.
A tornado struck llio south part of
McLean, Texas, Monday afternoon,
and destroyed eight homes. No lives
were lost and no injuries were report
ed. Several farm houses and barns
were destroyed. A heavy hail storm
followed. Considerable livestock was
killed.
The army transport Merrltt sailed
for San Frn ncisoo Wednesday with 540
Itussian refugees who came to Manila
four months ago from Vladivostok.
Admiral Stark, their leader, and 50
others will remain in the islands to
try to Hell the 11 ships that brought
the Russians.
A legal battle is in prospect In the
Kansas courts and possibly In the
United States courts to test the Kan
sas criminal syndicalism law and to
set aside an injunction granted by
.ludgo AyerH of Duller county, Kan
sas, enjoining the I. V. W. from con
spiring to stop work In the wheat and
oil fields.
An apparent euro for cancer, con
sisting of a solution of colloidal lead,
w hich Is an enemy of diseased tissues,
lias been discovered by Professor Dlair
Hell of Liverpool University. Dr. L.
B. Houghey of Concord, Kan., who re
turned Tuesday after studying surgery
abroad for several years, made this
announcement.
Medford. Water was turned in Fri
day to the new concrete 2,000,000-gal-lon
capacity new reservoir of the Med
ford city water works department,
which cost $3000 and is situated be
side the old reservoir.
liillsboro. Steps to organize a
union high school in Hillsboro, result
ing from action taken by the chamber
of commerce several months ago, when
a committee was appointed to investi
gate the matter, give promise of suc
cess. Salem. Five special trains will
carry the Oregon National Guard to
camps of field instruction the last half
of June, according to detailed sched
ules for the movement issued recently
by George A. White, adjutant-general
of the state.
RAIL VALUATIONS
UNDER SCRUTINY
Conference Is Formed to Pro
tect Public Interest.
Belize at Last
Has Rev
300 PERSONS GATHER
"Progressive Bloc" and Labor Take
Part Advocates of Government
Ownership Also Join.
William J. Dryan was defeated and
the evolutionists scored a victory
Tuesday when the general assembly
of tho Presbyterian church of the Uni
ted Stati's of America In Indianapolis
defeated the commoner's resolution to
bar schools permitting the teaching of
the evolutionary hypothesis from uso
of church funds.
President Harding of the United
States anil President Obregon of Mex
ico may signify the resumption of cor
dial relations between the two na
tions by clasping hands across the
border at Douglas and Agua Prleta. A
campaign to that end was launched
recently by the chambers of com
merce of the two towns.
Firmer Premier Clemenceau has
refused a senatorshlp which would
have been his for the asking. Repre
sentatives of tho different parties of
fered to make him their common
choice as successor to tho late Sena
tor LerOUX in the "Tiger's" birthplace,
tho region of La Vendee, where he
still retains a seaside residence.
A gift of $200,000 to the College of
I'ligct Sound horn M is, i harle I 1 1
Jones was announced Tuesday after
noon at the ground breaking exercises
on the site of the new college campus.
Mis Jones announced that the money
will bo used for a college building in
memory of her husband, a prominent
lumberman, who died a few mouths
ugo.
Some statisticians assert that either
the steel ludustry or the automobile
Indusry Is the largest enterprise in
Salem. Fake advertisers and
inooehers will find hard sledding in
putting over their schemes in this
city. This was announced last Fri
day night after the members league
had voted to affiliate witli the Port
land Ad club.
Newberg, The local cannery, oper
ated by the Oregon Canning company,
commenced last week putting up
gooseberries and will start on straw
berries next week. Officials of the
company state that they will put up
0 per cent more fruit this year than
last.
Salem President Harding probably
v, ill embark from Portland on his trip
lo Alaska as originally announced, and
will return by way of Seattle. This
was Indicated in a telegram received
here Saturday by Senator C. L. Mc
Xaiy, who is spending the summer in
Salem.
Pendleton. Luke Minthorn, aged 70,
a Cayuso Indian of the Umatilla reser
vation, who has been an active leader
in Indian affairs for many years, died
suddenly Friday at his home. He is
survived by his widow, Mary, and his
sou Albert, who is the sole heir to the
large aetata,
Salem. Whether ('. K. Spence, re
cently appointed state, market agent
under a new law enacted at the last
Session of the legislature, will retire as
master of the Oregon state grange,
will be determined at the annual meet
ing of the grange to be held in New
port next, month.
ITinevlllo. - A picnic for Oddfellows
of all central Oregon and to which the
general public will be invited is the
plan of Oehoco lodge No. 40, Oddfel
lows. This picnic will be held at the
picnic mounds on the Ochoco highway
at the mouth of Canyon creek on June
17. The Mitchell band lias been en-
gaged for the occasion.
Salem Tho attorney-general Satur
day tiled a demurrer to the complaint
in the ease brought by S. R. Dtefen
dorf of Portland to restrain the secre
tary of state and the state treasurer
from Issuing a certificate remitting to
the idly of Astoria taxes assessed
against the municipality for 1023 un
der a law enacted at the last session
of the legislature.
Salem.- -Following the appointment
of Wade Mnlone of Corvallls as a
member of tho state highway com
mission to succeed Robert A. Dooth
of Eugene, speculation has been rife
here as to who will be elected state
highway engineer. This office car
ries a salary of $0000 a year and the
appointment of tho engineer Is In the
hands of the highway commission.
The Dalles Indictment were re
turned by the grand Jury In session
here Saturday against 26 men, most
of whom are believed to be residents
of WaaOO and Sherman counties, on
charges of rioting and fishing unlaw
fully. '1 he riot charges resulted from
an alleged altercation between the 26
mimed and Deputy District Game
Warden lladle at a fishway on the
Deschutes river May 11.
Itend. V new lake lias made Its ap
pearance. The lake lias no name, but
it is the largest In the Deschutes na
tional Ion st. Damming the Deschutes
'her at Crane Prairie to accumulate
storage waters tor reclamation of the
north canal lands and the Powell
Hutte project has brought the lake In
to existence, and in the last few days
the I tilted States, but other inve tt Us area ! is spread to mere than that
gators declare that the greatest single of (Wall lake, according to H. L.
business in this country today, legltl- Plumb, forest supervisor.
mate and otherwise, is liquor. In the i
number of men engaged and the dally
amount of turnover In cash, It stands !
at the top of all American Industries.!
Approximately 1,250.000 pounds
wool was sold Saturday to George
Salem. Through the uso of a form
letter in which corporations operating
iu Oregon have been urged to remit
promptly their llconse fees for next
of year, the receipts of the state cor
poration department have increased
i olhy, representing the American j rapidly during the past few weeks.
Woolen Mills, by J. K. Clinton, wool and are far In excess of tho receipts
grower of Boise, Idaho. The sale during u similar period in 1922. On
represents tho largest Individual sale Ma :'!. 1922, the receipts of the state
ever made In the state of Idaho. The
price paid for this wool Is understood
to have been 43 cents a pound, at
which figure tho price would be iOJT.-000.
corporation department aggregated
ItSt, while on May 23, of this your,
the receipts were $2356.50. Friday the
receipts of the office totaled $2900, as
against t 100 a j ear ago.
Chicago. Railroad labor leaders,
representatives of the "progressive
bloc" in congress, members of various
agricultural organizations and propon
ents of government ownership of the
railroads, meeting here Friday, organ
ized the "conference on railroad valu
ation" for the announced purpose of
promoting and protecting "public in
terests in the valuation o railroad
property."
Approximately 300 invited delegates
from all parts of the country, meeting
in executive session following a two-
hour public gathering in the morning,
named Robert M. La Follette, senator,
of Wisconsin (republican), permanent
chairman of the conference, and W. T.
Logan, democratic representative of
South Carolina, secretary.
The meeting was the outgrowth,
Senator La Follette said, at the pub
lic session, of a conference "of the
progressive leaders in the halls of con
gress. I lie purpose of the confer
ence, ho said, was:
'1 To promote and protect public
interest in the valuation of railroad
property now being made by the in
terstate commerce commission, par
ticularly for tho purpose of prevent
ing excessive appraisal of tho prop
erties which will result in unreason-
ible charges for transportation.
"2 To take steps, through the In
terstate commerce commission and
the courts and elsewhere to require
the commission to act in strict ac
cordance with the provisions of the
interstate commerce act In determin
ing tho valuation of the railroads.
'3 To organise, maintain and sup
port such proceedings as may be nec
essary to accomplish the foregoing
aims.
Among the delegates are three Uni
ted States senators, three governors,
1 1 congressmen, representatives of
railroads or utility commissions of
tour states, personal representatives
of tho governors of four additional
states, leaders of virtually all railroad
labor organizations affiliated with the
'big four" brotherhoods and the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, sponsors
of the Plumb Plan league, and spokes
men of various associations interest
ed in transportation.
Set Down Amidst Warring Re
publics of Central America It
Has Remained Peaceful.
Turkey Now Haremless.
t'hlcago Turkey is now haremless.
Neither are there any sheiks, because
It Is all Turkish men can do to get
along with one wife. So says Dr.
l'uad Bey, member of the Turkish na
tionalist assembly and former minister
of health and public works of Turkey,
who arrived here Saturday.
Dr. Hey denied news dispatches that
Sultan Mohammed VI abandoned his
harem of 67 beauties when ho abdicat
ed some months ago.
"The only girls the suttain left be
hind," he said, with a smile, "were
sonants, housemaids and cooks. There
were 15 or 20 of these, not 67."
Washington, D. C. Belize, which of
ficially is British Honduras, has a rev
olution, according to press dispatches.
To those who know Belize this is like
the report of a volcanic eruption In
New York or a blizzard in Deatli Val
ley. A bulletin from the Washington,
D. C, headquarters of the National
Geographic society tells why.
"Set down in the midst of a group
of republics in which revolutions have
been at least not infrequent for the
century of their existence," says the
bulletin, "Belize's bid to fame has
been that it was 100 per cent revolu
tionless. Although it is one of the
least known and most neglected patches
of the British empire, still British law
and order hovered over it, and it lias
been to a certain extent, like the Dutch
West Indian colony of Curacao, an asy
lum for alien leaders who were more
revolutionary than successful.
"The country's 4o,000 inhabitants in
clude probably less than 1,000 whites.
The remainder of the population is
made up of negroes and mulattos and
Spanish Indians, the latter living chief
ly In the back country. But in the
capital, Belizo, throughout the whole
coast country, and wherever, govern
mental machinery has been set up, the
atmosphere, whether it be made up of
business, government, or sport, is un
mistakably British.
"Few concessions have been made to
the climate. The two and three-story
houses that line the main residence
street of Belize are of accepted British
architecture.
Geographic Names Tell Story.
"Geographic names tell of the sud
den transition from t lie lands of Span
ish culture to this little patch of the
Spanish Mnin that has been Anglicized.
One leaves Puerto Cortez, Honduras,
or Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, to sail
a few miles farther on past the Cox
comb mountains, All Pines, and Stnm
creek. Inlnnd are Middlesex and
Orange Walk. Belize is one of the
few exceptions, and even that is said
to be a corruption of the surname of
an early Scotch settler, Wnllis.
"British Honduras, a trifle larger
than Massachusetts or New Jersey, is
wedged in between the Mexican states
of the Yucatan peninsula on the north
and Guatemala on the west and south,
while Honduras, Nicaragua, Salvador,
and Costa Rica are nearby.
"The mahogany industry Is Justly
commemorated on the flag of British
Honduras by the representation there
of the tools of the trade. Mahogany
lured early settlers to Belize; put
money in their purses; furnished some
thing for them and their backer, Great
Britain, to fight the Spaniards about;
and has ben chiefly responsible for the
land's main Industry, lumbering.
"British Honduras came under the
British flag largely through the well
known 'squatters' rights,' grown to in
ternational stature. Spain claimed the
entire 'Main,' or mainland, from the
time of the earliest explorers. But
she was Interested Chiefly in gold nnd
silver; mere trees seemed beneath no
tice. So British and other adventur
ers who cut timber on the eastern
const of Yucatan, the present British
Honduras, and the mosquito country,
farther south, were not molested at
first.
"When the settlers were seen to be
making a good thing of their mnhog
nny trade, the Spanish changed their
policy nnd began harassing them. A
series of wars and treaties between
Spain and (Jreat Britain followed. In
1708 the Spanish made a supreme ef
fort to drive what they r nsl dored the
'squatters' out of Belize. But t lie set
tlers, with a cannon mounted on
rafts nnd flat-boats, had the best of
the Strategic situation and won a sig-
Husband Never Took
Bath in 12 Years
Kansas City. Because, she
avers in her petition, her hus
band did not take a bath in their
twelve years of married life,
slept until 4 o'clock every after
noon, then arose, bought a
nickel's worth of candy and a
six-cent novel, and went hack to
bed, Mrs. Louisa Van Kanegom,
is suing her husband, Carl Van
Kanegom, for divorce. She said
she gathered sticks in the park
to keep the home tires burning.
WILL WED AN EARL
0-
The youthful carl of Northesk and
Miss Jessica Brown (above), formerly
of the Zlegfeld FollleS, have admitted
(hey are practically engaged and that
the wedding may take place soon.
Miss Brown, who bus just returned
from London to America, is a native
of Buffalo. Qer dance, who is only
twenty-one years old, Is an Officer In
the Coldstream Guards and he suc
ceeded in 1021 to his title and the
$7jO,000 estate his father left
oration, going to America for their
higher education, tend on their return
to look to America for their Intellec
tual leadership.
nal victory. From that time the Brit
ish claim to the territory rested on
conquest as well as settlement.
Keeps American Jaws Busy.
"Belize, like the other countries
along the east side of Central Amer
ica, has a low-lying region along the
coast with highlands fan her inland.
Its dense tropical forests have discour
aged agriculture. Growth Is so rapid
that It Is a task of the utmost dlfli
culty to keep trails open. Most travel
Is along rivers, nnd little Is known of
the Interior away from the streams.
The one important exception Is the
southern region tapped by the only
railroad, along which thousands of
acres of banana plantations have been
established to supply a part of the
market in the United Slates. Down
the rivers millions of dollars' worth Builds Oft WrOnET Lot.
of mahogany and logwood have been
floated during the life of the colony.
In late years tens of thousands of
bales of chicle, the raw material of
chewing-gum, have joined the stream,
to he shipped north to keep busy the
restless jaws of America.
"For this outflow to America there
is an inflow not wholly confined to
money and goods. Some British lead
ers complain that the colony Is be
coming 'Americanized.' Newspapers
and magazines from the United Slates
far outnumber those from England.
American Agents gain much business
in competition with the more leisurely
methods of the British; and a number
of representatives of the younger gen-
Owners Exchange Land
Osslning, N. Y. A blunder by work
men who built her house on the wrong
lot resulted in an exchange of real
estate between Mrs. A. E. Kling and
Adrian Yanderbilt, it was learned
here.
Mrs. Kling engaged 11 contractor to
build a house on a lot she had bought.
Instead they started to build it on
the Vanderbilt lot which adjoins it.
Work on the Kling home was well
under way before the error was dis
covered. Mr. Vanderbilt volunteered
in exchange lois and the work on Mrs.
Kling's new home was ullowed to proceed.
Tourists Keep
Out f Germany
Passport, Police and Housing
Regulations Are Source
of Much Complaint.
Berlin. Foreign tourists, especially
those from North and South America,
are so wearied and annoyed by the
passport, police and housing regula
tions In Germany that only the most
resolute are remaining in the German
cities.
The Influx of outsiders is so slight
that the German press, backed by
complaining hotelkeepers. merchants,
restaurantkeepcrs and theater man
agers, is criticizing the central gov
ernment for the difficulties it has
placed in the way of obtaining pass
port vises, nnd the municipal govern
ment for its heavy tax on foreigners
and the exacting police regulations.
Costs $4 a Day.
The simplest sort of single room In
a Berlin hotel of the second class now
costs the equivalent of $4 a day. This
comes about through the SO per cent
tax which the city of Berlin imposes
on the room charges to foreigners.
The result of this Is hotels are
Genuine Americans, All of Them
Chicago Debt Five Million.
Chicago. Mayor William 10. Dover
shocked and astounded 200 of the
city's leading business men Saturday
night with tho frank statement that
the municipal government might cease
to function because of lack of money.
"Instead of the $1,000,000 general
ly reported to have been In the city
treasury when I took office, a care
ful investigation has revealed an ac
tual deficit of 15.000.000," the nuyor
told them. "Unless you men come to
my assistance the city administration
will slacken
gether."
and
stop alto-
em-im-
Stage Drivers Strike.
Kedding, Cal. Stage drivers
ployed by tho Southern Pacific
puny to transfer train passeugcrs be
tween Kedding and Pollock as the re
sult of a tunnel fire recently went M
strike here Saturday. The company
called for volunteer drivers and ob
tained a sufficient force to continue
the work of transferring passengers.
The drivers were said to have asked
for increased wages and better work
ing conditions.
practically empty and hotel r en are
facing bankruptcy. Tourist agencies
tin longer refer visitors to hotels, but
send them to boarding-houses.
In Hamburg and Bremen there Is as
much complaint about overcharges in
hotels as then, is in Berlin. During
the recent I.lepzig fair American buy
ers were charged such extortionate
rales that ninny of them left In dis
gust without making any purchnses.
The troubles, of foreigners begin
when they attempt to get vises to en
ter Germany. For time only per
sons with documents proving they are
turning tor business reasons were
granted permission. Students and
tourists who desired to visit Germany
were curtly refused.
Complaints Pour In.
Complaints poured in from Ameri
cans in London, Paris, Home nnd
ienna w ho bad come to Europe with
the intention of visiting Germany, but
who had failed to got vises In New
XOrtt before leaving.
There apparently has been some re
laxation in the vise policy. Business
men now realize that by requiring for
eigners to limit their stay In German
cities, and by preventing others from
entering, the financial sltuuthm has
1 n worse than ever.
Prices on practically nit .
i tared articles in Germany were up to
I the world level, so there was no rea
son to keep visitors out on the ground
that they would protireer If admitted.
Hie uncertainty about the status of
foreigners in Germany, coupled with
! the difficulties of crossing ihe Rhlne
land because of the train service in
terruptions incidental to the French
I Occupation, has been widely heralded
in western Europe,
rrance and Italy have used it to
advantage in their efforts to attract
and retain Visitors as long as possible.
Nevertheless the cities still collect
their high taxes on foreigners, nnd
hotels and shops continue to charge
foreigners more than they do Ger
man one hotelkaeper defended the
practice on the ground that the Ger
mans must Increase rates because
their hotels are nearly empty.
Game Warden Kills 118
Rattlesnakes in Den
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las son, recently killed 118 rattlesnakes
m a den on Cowiohe creek, about
twenty miles from here. The killings
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