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POISONOUS FOOD KILLS 7
Albany, Ore., Family Wiped Out By
Eating Home-Canned Beans.
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Approval of the McNary bill, desig
nating the Old Oregon Trail as a na
tional highway, was given Wednesday
by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
Bert K. ifaney Is confirmed by the
senate as a member of the shipping
board, along with Frederick Thomp
son of Alabama and W. S. Hill of
South Dakota.
Edith Kelly Gould, ex-wife of Frank
J. Gould, has asked the French courts
to grant her tho right to half of Mr.
Gould's property in France, or about
800,000,000 francs.
Tho mayor of Roxheim, Bavarian
palatinate, an adherent of the autono
mous movement in that province, was
assassinated Wednesday. He was
slain while entering the town from
tho railway station.
Corliss H. Griff is, the American
who attempted to kidnap Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll in Germany, has
been released from prison by the Ger
man government. The state depart
ment is so advised.
Governor Fierce lias the distinction
of being the first person in Oregon to
pay state Income tax under tho law
enacted at tho 11)23 session of the
legislature and later approved by the
voters of tho state ut special election.
Bos Angeles, Cal., has been selected
by tho army air service as the start
ing point for tho attempted arouiid-the-world
flight. Original plans to be
gin tho flight from Seattle, Wash., or
Washington, 1). C, have been modified
accordingly.
Positive assurance was given Repre
sentative Summers of Washington
Wednesday by Secretary of Agricul
ture Wallace that, representatives of
the department of agriculture will be
sent Into Oregon, Washington and
Idaho to investigate wheat grading.
Fifteen persons were Injured when
Canadian National railway passenger
train No. 9, en route to Calgary from
Saskatoon, was derailed near Axden
ode, 30 miles northeast of Calgary,
Tuesday nl'ternoon. A split rail was
Bald to be tho cause of the accident.
White forces in Siberia have seized
upon the occasion of the (bath of
Nlcolal Lonlne to proclaim a free statu
In Amur province and have Interrupt
ed railway service to Vladivostok ami
eastward. Advices to this effect have
boon received by tho Japanese govern
ment from Mukden.
Jakey, a goose that took bis whisky
straight anil washed it down with a
swig of beer in pre prohibit Ion days,
is dead, lie was IS years old and was
owned by John Keller, former St.
l.ouls saloon proprietor. In the Old
days a round of drinks was not com
plete unless Jakey was In on the
set-up.
Full diplomatic recognition of soviet
Russia by tho British government is
expected within ten days, according to
political observers conversant with
the labor government's intentions.
These observers suy Premier Mac
doiiald Is eager to have recognition an
accomplished fact beforo parliament
meets on February 12.
Government efforts to restore agri
culture to a sound economic footing
took more definite shape last week us
the administration pressed Its relief
plans and legislation designed to aid
the Industry received committee up
proval In congress. President Cool
Idgo fixed February 4 as the date for
a conference of representatives of
commercial lines Interested In agri
cultural welfare and Issued 40-odd Invi
tations to spokesmen for the several
Interests to confer on the situation
with Secretaries Hoover and Wallace.
Income tax payers would receive a
reduction In their 11123 taxes payable
this year under a provision voted !
nesday by republican members of the
house ways and means committee
The amount of reduction has not been
determined, but Chairman Green, au-,
tlur of tho proposal, said It might be
us high as 25 per cent. It would apply
to the taxes after they have been
computed and to all personal Income
taxpayers. Treasury experts estim
ated that a 25 per cent cut would
mean a saving to taxpayers of 238,
000,000.
Albany, Or. Seven persons were
dead and three others were dying here
Monday night as the result of eating
home-canned beans, which were be
lieved to have spoiled and thus pro
duced the deadly poison known as
botulinus.
The dead: Mrs. Paul Gerbig, 31;
Hilda Gerbig, 10: Marie Gerbig, 7;
Goli'ried Buohling; Mrs Gotfried Itueh
ling; Werner Yunker, 10-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Yunker of
Thomas stalion, near Scio; Reinhold
Gerber.
The dying: Paul Gerbig; Esther
Gerbig, 13 months old; two-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ruehling.
Two other persons were stricken ill
by the strange malady but were re
ported to have fully recovered. Mrs.
Keinhold Gerber, at whose home the
fatal dinner was served, apparently
was none the worse for her experience
and two-year-old Margaret Cerbig was
believed to have escaped the poison
ous food. Tho child is still fed by
bottle and it was not known whether
or not she had any of the vegetable
dish at dinner.
Tho death of 13-months-old Esther
Gerbig was declared by attending phy
sicians to be only a matter of hours
and they held out no hope for the
recovery of any of the other three
victims.
The case of Gotfried Ruehling was
probably the strangest of all. lie was
reported dead earlier in the day but
revived from the state of coma Which
usually precedes death from the
strange malady and for a time was
believed to be on the road to recovery.
Suddenly, however, his condition be
came worse and he died.
None of the deaths occurred untjl
more than 24 hours after the fatal
meal.
Mrs. Gerber declared that she sus
pected that tho beans were spoiled
when she opened them but did not
pay any attention to their queer ap
pearance. Young Yunkers, a friend
of thi! families, spoke of the peculiar
odor and tasto of the beans at the
lime. As all of the people present
were similarly affected tho poisoning
is regarded as an accident.
Botttlinuii the poison which is pre
sumed to have caused the deaths,
thrives and propagates at a tempera
ture of 120 degrees above zero, at
which temperature other germs die.
The bacteria comes from a spore that
originate in the ground and is de
stroyed only when the temperature
reaches 240 degrees or more, It Is
said. Commercial vegetables are cook
ed at a degree or so more than 240
degrees above zero and are said to
be free from the bacteria, although
all home canned goods are subject to
it.
WILSON PASSES ON:
SCHOOL DA1JS
COUNTRY MOURNS
Ex-President Succumbs at 11:15
A. M. Sunday.
FAMILY AT BEDSIDE
Digestive Trouble of Past Week Proves
Fatal to Great War President
Physician Faithful to End.
Ex-Professor Wins $100,000 Bok Prize.
Philadelphia. Charles Herbert Lev
ermore of New York, student of inter
national relations, writer and ex cel
lege professor, Monday night was an
nounced as the winner of the J100.000
prize offered by Edward W. Ilok,
Philadelphia publisher, for the best
plan to preserve peace among the na
tions of the world.
Hr. I. evermore was announced ns
I he winner by John W. Davis of the
policy committee of the American
peace award, at a meeting at the Acad
emy of Music. Mr. Uavis also present
ed him with $50,000, half of Mr. Holt's
prize, and the remainder will be given
only If the phUl Is accepted by the
congress of the (Tatted states. Lever-
more's plan was numbered 110'J in a
total of IS.1V received.
Oregon Trail Approved.
Montcsano, Wash. The Montesano
chamber of commerce announced Mon
day Ihut It was opposed to changing
the name of the Oregon Trail to
Pioneer Way. as suggested by I'nlted
States Senator Jones recently.
The reasons assigned were the an
tiquity of the present name, its use
by pioneers and in history and liter
ature, and that u change would In
considered an unfriendly act to the
people of Oregon.
Alleged Outlaw Slain.
Cleveland. -Charles Sanders was
shot and killed and llrynn Keenan was
shot twice nnd captured in a gun
battle late Monday at their rendez
vous In a suburb, where police located
them, for alleged participation In sev
eral holdups and burglaries. They
had also been huutcd for several
weeks as suspects in the recent mur
der of John Katl. bakery wagon driver.
More than 75 shots Were fired in the
guu battle.
Washington, D. C Ex-President
Woodrow Wilson died at 11:15 o'clock
Sunday morning.
The end was peaceful; life ebbed
away while he slept.
A tired man, he closed his eyes,
and, "sustained and soothed by an un
faltering trust," passed on to the great
hereafter, "like one who wraps the
drapery of his couch about him and
lies down to pleasant dreams."
Dr. Grayson, his friend and physi
cian, announced the end of the great
war president in this bulletin:
"Mr. Wilson died at 11:15 o'clock.
His heart's action became feebler and
feebler, and the heart muscle was so
fatigued that it refused to act any
longer. The end came peacefully.
"The remote causes of death lie in
his ill health, which began more than
four years ago, namely, general ar
teriosclerosis with haemopligia. The
immediate cause of death was exhaus
tion following a digestive disturbance
which began in the early part of last
week but did not reach an acute stage
until the early morning hours of Feb
ruary 1."
Last Friday the grim reaper had
forced his way Into the house after
waiting on the doorstep more than
four years. Saturday he had advanced
to tho landing on the staircase and
stood counting off the ticks on the
great clock. Saturday night he knock
ed on the chamber door. A faithful
physician and a loyal wife stood with
their backs against it. At 9 o'clock
ho rattled the knob and called to the
peaceful but prostrate figure on the
bed a great bed, long and wide, re
plica of the bed in which Abraham
Lincoln slept in the White House, with
a golden American eagle and a tiny
silk American flag just over the held
board.
Tho watchers knew tho battle was
lost. At the portal of the door, now
open, the faithful negro servant hov
ered. On the bed, sitting beside her
husband, sustained with all the forti
time and composure of a woman
facing a crisis, was Mrs. Wilson, hold
ing bid ween her hands the wan, with
ered, right hand that had proved the
pen mightier than the sword. Near
the foot of the bed was his eldest
daughter. Margaret, resigned to the
inevitable. Close by, tears welling
from his eyes and coursing down his
cheeks, was Dr. Grayson, taking the
measure of the fluttering pulse, weak
er and fainter with each effort.
Death advanced and beckoned for
the last time. The tired, worn out
man drew a long breath, there was a
slight flutter of the eyelids, an almost
imperceptible twitch of the nostrils
Woodrow Wilson's soul had drifted
out on the great dark tide that runs
around the world.
FIGHT FOR LEAGUE
COSTS WILSON S LIFE
Washington. 1). C Woodrow Wil
son's speech-making trip for the league
of nations, which snapped his nervoe
and culminated in his long illness,
was undertaken after his personal
physician had warned it might seri
ously and permanently Impair Ids
health.
"I do not like to disobey you," he
said to Dr. Grayson, "and I have neyor
done so before. But I feel I must go
out and make this fight, even if it
costs my life."
As if tho approach of illness had
fostered a premonition that the woret
fears of bis medical adviser would be
fulfilled, he expressed to several aud
iences during t no swing across the
country his willingness to make the
great sacrifice for the treaty.
"If 1 felt that I personally stood in
the way of this settlement." he said
at Omaha, "l would be glad to die
that It might be consummated."
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. ALEXANDER REID
Physician and Surgeon
UMATILLA
OREGON
G. L. McLELLAN, M. D.
Physician anil Surgeon
Fraternal Building
Stanfield, Oregon
DR. F. V. PRIME
1) E N TIS T R Y
Dental X-ray and Diagnosis
HERMISTON, ORE.
Bank Building
'Phones: Office 93. Residence 751.
Newton Painless Dentists
Dr. H. A. Newton, Mgr.
Cor. Main and Webb Sts. Pendleton
BUSINESS CARDS
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HAND
How to read your char
acteristics and tenden
cies the capabilities or
weaknesses that make
(or snccess or failure
as shown in your palm.
Tacoma. Capacity of the Tacoma
smelter, recently increased, soon may
be still further enlarged, according to
Frank II. Brownell, vice-president of
the American Smelting & Keflning
company, the owner. Mr. Ilrownell Is
making an inspection tour of the com
pany's western smelters.
Coolidge Is Indorsed.
Chicago. - - Announcement that i he
republican state central committee of
New Mexico had indorsed President
Coolidge for the party presidential
nomination was made here Saturday
item the national headquarters of the
foolidge pre-convention campaign.
The resolution of endorsement read:
"The president has given positive and
undeniable proof of tho fact that he
is committed solely and exclusively to
serve the best interests of the natiou."
CARRIAGE AND MOTIONS OF
THE HANDS
WHEN a person carries the hands
at the side, with the lingers
learly open, and the hands dangling
n a listless manner, It is safe to set
llm down as lacking in decision of
haracter and In lixedness of pur
aose. Re careful in entrusting such a
person with a secret, and also wjth
intrusting him with the execution of
my purpose upori which much de
fends, or on which you have set your
ueurt.
Often the person who carries his
lands as described in the foregoing
paragraph is easily led, for good or
evil purpose, and either cannot or
will not take the trouble to wrestle
nl4k the problems of life. In money
natteis he will, of course, be "gener
ous to a fault," parting easily with
lis substance, just as the man or
.voman who holds the hand closed
tightly, or nearly so, will hold to
what he or she has, often to the point
of niggardliness. In this respect and
in mental matters also, the more open
the hand is, the more liberal will be
the possessor. But there is such a
thing as tOO much liberality, us shown
by the band that Is held too wide open.
(l) by Wheeler Svmlicate. Inc.)
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THE PEAKS OF
LIFE
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
i: i:
WHO has not seen some crimson
flow'r
Whose heart was red as embers?
Who has not known some mighty hour
One evermore rememliers?
Among the trees upon the crest
One tree stands higher than the rest.
One note in all night's madrigals
The heart especially recalls.
We live in moments such as these.
Our hours of Joy or sorrow;
For bis yesterdays of ease
Will recollect tomorrow ?
Borne love w e won, some love we lost,
Some mountain, not some plain we
crossed.
We shall remember, Joy and strife
We live upon the peaks of life.
In hours of pain we learn to cling
To something worth believing,
And Joj perhaps we lenrn to sing
The better after grieving.
A heart that never knew a pain
Is like a land without a rain.
Is like a land that never knows
A springtime flood, or hummer rose.
So let us thank our Cod for this,
Our Maytime, our December,
The first embrace, the parting kiss,
The things that we remember,
Tbe day with neither rain nor sun
Brought never flow'rs to anyone
Thank (!od for joy, and grief, and
strife ;
We live upon the peaks of life.
(. 1524. by MoClure Nrwpapr Syndicate..)
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A POINTER.
Tou may be a
wise lad.
And a long way
from bad;
But remem
ber my son.
As your Jour
n e y you
run,
Tou can learn a
whole lot
from your
dad.
r
Help! Help!
Jack Lately I have fallen Into the
habit of talking to myself.
Myrtle 1 wondered why you looked
so bored.
Men's souls are pitched in different
keys,
Some like a lark rise strong of wing
Above the clouds of suffering
And cheerily mount and sing
Till gloom grows glad and suffering
men
Smile, listening, and take heart again.
GOOD THINGS TO EAT
"CHIIl a company dish try the follow
ing :
Filet of Beef.
Trim the filet neatly and lay into a
deep dish wdth an onion cut into slices,
two bay leaves, a sprig of parsley, i
whole pepper and salt and olive oil to
baste it well. Let the filet lie in this
marinade for six hojirs, turning occa
sionally, then roast In a hot oven ; let
It be rather underdone. Serve sur
rounded by macaroni cooked as fol
lows: Put Into a saucepan one-half
cupful of tomato puree, three table
spoonfuls of butter and two or three
tahlespoonf ids of meat gravy; season
with pepper and salt to taste. Bring
to the boiling point and simmer for a
few minutes, then add a little at a
time some previously cooked macaroni.
Toss all lightly anil add three table
spoonfuls of grated cheese Just at the
last.
Creme de Marrons.
Take one-half pound of large chest
nuts, rut a cross on each and boll
them In plenty of water until tbe outer
skin can be easily removed. Then
pound them In a mortar and pass
through n flue sieve into a dish ; add
a few drops of milk to soften the mix
ture. Beat the yolks of three eggs
with one-half cupful of cream and the
same of milk, add one-fourth cupful
of sugar, a few drops of vanilla, and
strain the mixture into a double boiler.
Stir the mixture over the fire until it
thickens, then add a little less than
half an ounce of gelatin, which has
been soaked in cold water and dis
solved over heat. Pour this custard
gradually over the chestnut puree, mix
well, then pour into a hollow mold.
When ready to serve, unmold and fill
the center wdth whipped cream, sweet
ened and tinted with pink sugar.
Breakfast Mackerel.
Soak a salt fish skin side up, change
the water until most of the salt is
removed. Place in a dripping pan skin
side down ami pour over a cupful of
thin cream. Bake in a moderate oven
until the fish is tender. Season and
serve hot with baked potatoes.
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Men You May Marry
By E. R. PEYSER J
Has a Man Like This Proposed t
to You? ;
Symptoms: He has just lately
come to your burg, to take a Job '
be has come from a larger
place. Wants to know all about J
your town. Yet never stops talk- t
ing of how they did things in J
Xville, what great fellers they '
have there, what good lookers
the girls are. what rusldnz buat '
ness they do and what swell par- ',
ties they give. lie dresses usu- '
ally in brown from head to heels
and his shoulders have well built- J
In scaffolding to train 'em up. I '
Ue Is jovial. Likes you because J ; ',
you look like the good lookers in t
Xville. Likes change and varl- ' j ',
ety. J i
IN FACT J
Change has kept him from t i J
changing much. ' !
Prescription to Bride:
Never appear unless
all dressed up.
Change your hair dress often
keep all fashion books about.
Be his household "movie".
Absorb This:
TO HAVE IS NOT ALWAYS TO
SCOLD.
( T McClure Ntwspaptr Syadlcatt )
II. X. Stanfield, President.
Frank Sloan, 1st Yice-Pres.
M. 11. Ling, 2nd Vicc-Pres.
Ralph A. Holte, Cashier
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