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Of CURRENT WEEK
Irish Countess Sentenced to Jail for Life.
About Oregon
Oregon and California Land
Grant Title Is Not Clear
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O r r iC IA L DIRECTORY OF FAXX1 C IT Y
H . J. Grim n. M ayor.
R. M. W'onderly, Councilm an-at-Large
G. W. Brentner,
George C. March,
f* J B n V 7 '
I . G. S ingleton.
Councllm en
C. L. H opkins,
N. Sells,
C. E. M cPherren, A u d itor and P o lice Judge
W a lter L. T e o tc Jr.. C ity A ttorney.
Pat M urphy. Marshal and W ater Supt.
M. L. Thom pson, Treasurer
Dr. T. M. H ellw a rth . H ealth Officer.
T h e C ou ncil meets in regu lar seasion on the first
M onday nigh t of each m onth, at 7 SO o'clock, in
the office o f the F a lU C ity News.
professional CarOs
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Office one door east of P. O.
nfsiden« Phone 363
F alls C ity ,
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C H IR O P R A C T IC
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CHIROPRACTIC
W ill be at F alls C ity H otel
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Each W eek.
Business daros
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S a m p le R o o m s
Best A cco m m o d a tio n s
F . O r o e g e , P r o p r ie t o r
B A R K E R SHOPS
Bohle’s Barber Shops
Falla City, O regon
When yea
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Aient for Dallas Steam Laundry
Bu ndles forw arded Tuesday ev en in g
M ONUM ENTS
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H A W K IN S
M A R B LE A N D G R A N IT E
MONUMENTS
D a lla s , O regon
F U N E R A L D IR E C T O R
Gompers has endorsed the strike o f
60,000 garment workers in N ew York.
More than half a million acres o f
land have been opened to entry in A r i­
zona.
A new paper mill under construction
at Oregon C ity may be doubled in ca­
pacity over the original plans.
The governor o f N ew York signed
bills providing for compulsory m ilitary
training in summer camps and compul­
sory physical training in public and
private schools.
President Wilson spoke intim ately
fo r half an hour to the members o f the
National Press club at Washington, D.
C. He took supper with the club after
his address. The speech was confiden­
tial.
Three students o f W illam ette Uni­
versity, Salem, Or., were ducked in a
nearby creek by fellow members o f the
D. D. club, a university organization,
for using intozicating liquor, and were
afterward dismissed from the school.
The Shanghai and Hankow branches
o f the Bank o f China and the Bank o f
Communications have ignored the re­
cent government mandate forbidding
the paying out o f silver, and stopped
runs upon their institutions by redeem­
ing bank notes.
Free Methodist Church
Sunday School 10:00 A. M.
Preaching 11:00 A. M.
Class meeting 12:00 P. M.
Evening service 7:30.
H . A. W
alter ,
Pastor.
M. L Church
Sunday School
10:00 A. M.
Morning Service
11:00 A. M.
Junior League
8:80 P. M.
Epworth League
6:30 P. M.
Evening Service
7:30 P. M.
Teacher Training claps. Friday
7:00 P. M.
Prayer Meeting, Friday 8 P.M.
W. J. W a r r e n , Pastor.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
Sabbath School
10 A. M.
Preachingor bible study 11 A. M.
Young peoples meeting 3:30 P. M.
Saw Countess at Head o f Irish Rebels.
New York— Dr. Cecil C. McAdam, o f Melbourne, Australia, who was at­
tached to the Royal medical corpe o f the British army during the Gallipoli
campaign and who was besieged in the Shelbounre hotel in Dublin, Ireland,
during the recent rebellion there, arrived here Monday on the steamship
Philadelphia from Liverpool.
Dr. McAdam said he saw the Countess Markiewiex attired in men’s cloth­
ing and wearing a brace o f revolvers, leading the Irish rebels. He was in­
formed, he added, that she had shot six o f her followers because they re­
fused to obey her orders.
Countess Markiewiez has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for
her part in the uprising in Dublin.
EOES OE ADEQUATE NATIONAL
DEFENSE LOSE; CONFEREES AGREE
Because H. R. Saunders, clerk o f
Yolo county, Cal., failed to advertise
the notice o f election the number o f
Washington, D. C. — A standing
times required by law the $200,000
courthouse bonds which were voted last army o f 206,000 men, capable o f being
week cannot be sold, and another elec­ expanded in emergency to 254,000 and
tion must be held.
backed up by a Federalized National
Tw o prisoners are dead and another guard o f 425,000 as a reserve, finally
injured as a result o f a one-man mu­ was agreed on Monday by the house
tiny in the state prison at Nashville,
and senate conferees on the army bill.
Tenn. Jady Harris, who caused the
trouble, was shot and killed a fter he The agreement w ill be reported to
had wounded tw o other prisoners, one congress at once and the measure, the
fatally, with a rifle snatched from a first o f the administration prepared­
guard.
ness bills, is expected to be before
According to the Dagens Nyheter, o f President Wilson fo r his signature
Stockholm, the
International
Red
soon.
Cross conference resulted in a com­
Advocates o f adequate National de­
plete rupture between the German and
Russian Red Cross, owing to the re­ fense regard this conference agree­
fusal o f Germany to express regret for ment as a triumph.
the sinking o f the Russian hospital
The minimum
enlisted strength
ship Portugal.
would be attained under the conference
The Internationa! Banking Corpora­ agreement within the next five years
tion has signed a contract with the and it is stipulated that at no time
Chinese government fo r the improve­ shall the total be less than 160,000.
The conference report also prpvides
ment o f the Grand Canal for a distance
o f 200 miles between the Yang-tse- for government nitrate manufacturing
Kiang and the northern boundary of planta to cost not to exceed $20,000,-
Kians-su province.
The corporation 000, fo r vocational education in the
lends the government $3,000,000 for regular army and for establishment o f
the purpose, to be secured by canal m ilitary training camps fo r volunteer
citizens, whose transportation, cloth­
tolls.
ing and subsistence expenses while in
There w ill be but one graduate from training would be paid by the Federal
the Wheatland, Cal., high school F ri­ government.
day. The state commissioner o f ele­
Other salient features o f the meas­
mentary schools w ill make the com- ure provide for a board to investigate
emencement address to him. He w ill the advisability o f establishing govern­
be the guest o f honor at the alumni ment munition plants and s board to
dinner and party, the hero in the an­ recommend mobilization o f industries.
nual class play, and the board o f edu­ Authority is given to the government
cation w ill travel more than 75 miles to seize and operate private munition
to present him with a dilpoma.
plants in time of war.
Senator Cummins, o f Iowa, presi­
dential candidate, is touring the North­
west.
NEWS ITEMS GREATER ARMY BILL
O f G e n e ra l Interest
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
France Wants Central Powers to
Ask, Not to Offer, Peace
A Minneapolis mother o f six com­
mits suicide, that her life insurance of
Nancy — President Poincare, in an
$1000 may revert to the benefit o f her
address here Monday, responded to
children.
Germany’s suggestion regarding peace,
Colonel Goethala has announced that contained in the German reply to the
he would resign July 1. It is reported American note.
that he w ill not resign i f there is
“ France does not want Germany to
trouble with Germany.
tender peace,” said the president,
“ but wants her adversary to ask for
Colonel Roosevelt has form ally en­
peace.”
tered the race for the presidential
France,” he continued, " w i l l not
nomination in the Chicago conventions.
expose her sons to the dangers o f new
He expresses desire to run on a “ unit­
aggressions.
The central empires,
ed tick et.”
haunted by remorse for having brought
Seventy-five thousand dollars’ worth
Rate Rise Is Suspended.
o f liquor was seized by the Seattle po­
lice Friday in the most sweeping raid
Washintgon, D. C.— Tariffs propos­
made since the state-wide prohibition ing increases o f from $5 to $20 a car
law went into effect January 1. Tw o
in refrigeration charges on fruits and
large warehouses and nine drugstores
vegetables from points in Oregon and
were searched, but no arrests were
Idaho to points in Colorado, Arizona,
made, and none o f the liquor was de­
Illinois and other states were suspend­
stroyed.
The police obtained war­
ed by the Interstate Commerce com­
rants fo r the search o f 12 places o f
mission until September 12, pending
business where liquor was suspected to
investigation. The present refrigera­
be stored, .and in the first five places
tion charge to points in Colorado is $40
searched seized $25,000 worth
of
a car and the proposed charges, $45.
liquor.
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To Arizona the charge is $50 and the
A four-day dust storm, the worst proposed charge $70. To Illinois the
ever experienced in Northwestern Min­ rate is $50 and the proposed rate $60.
nesota, has abated with a clear sky
Girl Accepts 812,600.
and a chilly w ave from the Northwest.
Seattle— Tw elve thousand five hun­
Survivors o f the steamer Roanoke,
which sunk off the Southern California dred dollars in real money is better
coast, declare the vessel was over­ than a gamble that might win $25,000
loaded, which caused the disaster in or nothing. Mrs. Carola B. Jones, the
19-year-old w ife o f Thomas C. Jones,
which some 30 persons were lost.
who obtained a verdict for $25,000
Announcement o f a 10 per cent in­ against her father-in-law, Thomas E.
crease in wages for its factory em­ Jones, for alienation o f her husband’s
ployes, effective May 8, was announced afffections, so decided in the Superior
by the Victor Talking Machine com­ court here. Judge Frater offered to
pany, o f Philadelphia. Several thou­ give her a judgment fo r $12,600, or
sand workmen are affected.
grant a new trial.
on the war and terrified by the indig­
nities and hatred they have stirred up
in mankind, are trying today to make
the world believe that the entente al­
lies alone are responsible for the pro­
longation o f hostilities— a dull irony
which w ill deceive no one.
"N e ith e r directly nor indirectly have
our enemies offered us peace. But we
do not want them to offer it to us; we
want them to ask it o f us. W e do not
want to submit to their conditions;
we want to impose ours on them. We
do not want a peace which would leave
imperial Germany with the power to
recommence the war and keep Europe
eternally menaced.
“ So long as that peace is not assured
to us; so long as our enemies w ill not
recognize themselves as vanquished,
we w ill not cease to fight.”
Income Tax to Remain.
Washington, D. C.— Taxes on in­
comes, inheritances and war munitions
w ill be depended on to pay for the
preparedness
program.
Chairman
Kitchin, o f the house ways and mea
committee, said Monday after a con­
ference with Secretary McAdoo.
The
plan has the support, Mr. Kitchin said,
o f President Wilson.
What amount w ill have to be*raised
cannot be determined until the navy
and army bills are completed.
Mem­
bers o f the ways and means committee
w ill begin work on this problem as
quickly as possible, however.
Other
than a decision not to lower the pres­
ent exemption lim it for incomes, $3000
for unmarried and $4000 for married
men, none o f the details o f the tax
plan have been worked out.
Waahlntgun, D. C.— As the Oregon
& California land grant bill stands on
the house calendar, it will not enable
the government o f the United States
to pass a clear title to any settler or
purchaser, in the opinion o f Repre­
sentative Hawley, and he has the sup­
porting opinion o f several o f the good
lawyers o f the public lands committee
in this opinion.
“ The b ill,”
said
Mr. Hawley,
“ makes provision for the |>ayment o f
back taxes- that Is, for taxes that
have accrued for the past three years,
but 1 believe it ikies not provide for
the payment o f taxes which are now
becoming collectable.
Moreover, the
bill fails to make provision for the
payment o f interest on back taxes and
fails also to provide for the payment
o f penalties on those accrued taxes.
These omissions, in my opinion, render
it impossible for the United States to
give an absolutely clear title and 1 will
call attention to this shortcoming when
the bill is before the house.
“ The prime reason for providing in
the bill for the payment o f back taxes
was to enable the government to give
a clear title.
Unless that section is
enlarged and made complete it will
fail o f its purpose and those who ac­
quire these lands from the government
w ill be liable for interest and for the
unpaid penalties and for the taxes that
are not paid by the government under
the Ferris b ill.”
Smudging Need Shown in
Southern Oregon Fruit District
Medford — In the opinion o f local
fruit men the year 1916 w ill mark the
final demonstration o f the necessity o f
crude oil smudging in the growing o f
fine fruit and apples in Southern Ore­
gon.
A t the beginning o f the season there
was a distinct movement against
smudging, chiefly because o f the an­
noyance involved and damage to trees
from overflowing pots. In fact an in­
junction against smudging was ob­
tained by one group o f orchards shortly
before the May freeze.
A ll this anti-smudge agitation is
ended now in the opinion o f local grow ­
ers, for from May 8 to May 14 smudg­
ing in Rogue R iver valley orchards
was worth at least $600,000.
Those orchardists who smudged, and
fortunately a large proportion o f them
did, lost practically nothing from the
low temperature, while except on the
high hillsides those who did not
smudge were wiped out.
W hile the
loss has been serious, it is certain ac­
cording to experts who examined the
orchards that the first reports were
greatly exaggerated.
100,000 Acres in Willamette
Valley Can Be Watered
PASSO) Bf SENATE
Conference Report Debated and
Adopted Without Rollcall.
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NATIONAL GUARD StVERflY CRIIlQStD
Great Britain Arraigned for Execution
of Irish, and Also for Meddling
With Mexican Situation.
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Washington, D. C.— The senate a f­
ter an all-day debate, agreed Thursday
night to the conference report on the
army reorgnaization bill without a roll
call. The house is expected to approve
the report within a day or two, and
send the first o f the big National de­
fense measures to the 1’resident.
The bill provides for s regular srmy
o f 211,000 officers snd men, at peace
strength, and approximately 200,000
at war strength, snd for a federalized
National guard o f 467,000 officers gnd
man at maximum strength.
Discussion o f the conference report
embraced a denunciation o f Great
Britain for the execution o f the Irish
revolutionist«, attacka upon the admin­
istration’ s Mexican policy, renewed
aaaaults on the National Guard as a
political force, and vigorous criticiain
o f the Provision for a government
nitrate manufacturing plant.
Senator Fall asserted that General
Pershing, with the 14,000 troops at
hia command, could march onto Mexico
City, taking every town with little
trouble, if he were unhampered by or­
ders from Washington, and that 90
per cent o f the Mexican |ieople would
welcome such action.
lie declared
also that representatives o f General
Carranza were negotiating with for­
eign governments againat the United
States and that thia government would
be forced to fight foreign forces on
Mexican soil if it did not aoon do its
full duty to the people o f Mexico and
the United States.
Senator Borah, o f Idaho, renewing
hia attack on the National guard aa a
political force, declared that it would
prove to be more detrimental to the
United States than an invading army.
He arraigned Great Britain for the
Irish executions, declaring there had
been no greater blow to free institu­
tions since the European war begun.
Senator Lodge and Chairman Stone,
o f the Foreign relations committee,
also criticised the army bill, the for­
mer blaming the house for not accept­
ing a larger regular army proposed
by the senate, and the latter maintain­
ing that the propoaed army was too
great. Senator Stone said he desired
so strongly to see the nitrate provision
enacted that he would almost be w il­
ling to agree to any size army.
Marathon, T ex .— Another raid into
American territory by Mexican bandits
was made Friday night at McKinney
Springs ranch, 67 miles soutn o f Mara­
thon and 23 miles north o f Boquillas,
along the Marathon-Boquillas road, ac­
cording to H. E. Stafford, an attorney
o f El Paso. Mr. Stafford arrived here
Tuesday from BoquillBS,
to which
place he had accompanied Major Lang-
home last Saturday as a guide.
He secured his information from
ranchmen in the McKinney Springs
district as he was passing through
there en route to Marathon. There was
no shooting, he said.
Salem— Approxim ately 100,000 acres
o f land can be feasibly irriagted in the
W ilalm ette vlaley at the present time,
results o f an investigation just com­
pleted by the United States Reclama­
tion Service in co-operation with the
state engineer’s office show. A joint
report o f the inquiry into irrigation
and power deveoplment possibilities o f
the W illam ette valley was issued this
week.
The survey extended from Canby at
the mouth o f the Molalla river to the
head o f the W illam ette river above
Cottage Grove and included the area in
the immediate vicinity o f Portland.
It is pointed out that the water sup­
ply fo r the proposed irrigation o f the
valley lands in many cases may be ob­
tained from wells by pumping.
The
report declares that the average econ­
omic duty o f water which seems to be
indicated for the valley as a whole is
eight inches delivered to the land,
varying with local conditions o f soil
and crops.
Those employed in the survey inves­
tigated the water power development
possibilities on the north fork o f the
Santiam river with storage at Marion
lake; the upper reaches o f the Mc-
Kinzie river and the middle fork o f
the W illam ette river.
On the M cKinzie river there are
two existing plants and at least two
new developments proposed, one at
Vida and the other between the nutlet
o f Clear lake and the mouth o f Smith
river, involving the use o f Clear lake
fo r regulation o f flow.
New Y ork — The Authors' League o f
America, o f which Winston Churchill
is president and Theodore Roosevelt
vice president, is considering the ad­
visability o f affiliating with the Am er­
ican Federation o f Labor, it was an­
nounced here Thursday.
Members o f the league who already
have approved the plan, according to
Eric Schuler, the secretary, are: Rex
Beach,
George
Barr McCutcbeon,
George Barr Baker, Samuel Hopkins
Adams, W atler Prichard Eaton, Leroy
Scott, Jesse Lynch Williams, E llis
Parker Butler, Mary E. Wilkins Free­
man and Thompson Buchanan.
It was said that Mr. Buchanan con­
ceived the idea and that officials o f the
Federation o f I.abor welcomed it with
enthusiasm.
” W e fe e l,” said Secretary Schuler,
“ that with the backing o f the 2,500,-
000 members o f the American Federa­
tion o f Labor our efforts to Improve
conditions in the literary world w ill
obtain a more respectful hearing. A l­
ready we have accomplished many re­
form », but there are still important
corrections to be made. Broadly speak­
ing, the relations o f authors and pub­
lishers, theatrical and motion picture
managers hitherto have been one-sided,
and what we aim to do is to make
them two-sided.”
170 Indians Are Citizens.
Greenwood Indian Agency, S. D.—
Franklin K. Lane, secretary o f the In­
terior, has granted full citizenship
rights to 170 residents o f the Yankton
Sioux reservation. Mr. Lane made an
address in which he urged upon the
redmen the full measure o f responsi­
b ility which has been impossed on
them. T itle to 30,000 acres o f land,
which has been held in trust fo r In­
dians, was transferred to them.
The ceremony was full o f color,
many o f the Indians appearing in the
traditional dress o f the tribe.
Mill Will Reopen.
Hood R iver — The Stanley-Smith
Lumber company, which has been de­
layed in the commencement o f opera­
tions at its plant at Green Point, in
the southwestern part o f this county,
because o f weather conditions, will
start work in its lumber camp and
open the mill next Monday,
During
the past week, according to Manager
J. E. Robertson, who visited the plant,
a snow o f eight inches prevailed in the
Green Point hills. The Green Point
m ill w ill employ about 175 men. It
cuts between 80,000 and 90,000 feet.
American Fliers Raid Germany.
Paris— The American aviatiors who
have been in the service o i the French
army for the past year and who re­
cently were brought together to form
a flotilla under the name o f the Franco-
American flying corps took part In the
expedition
over the German lines
Thursday fo r the first time aa a sep­
arate unit. They sustained particu­
larly heavy shelling as they recrossed
the front.
The machine piloted by
Lieutenant W illiam K. Thaw, o f P itts­
burg, lost part o f its tailpiece and the
propeller was damaged by a shell.
Islands to Sell Silver,
Manila — Jeremiah L. Manning, in­
sular treasurer, has gone to China to
investigate the silver market with a
view to selling a portion o f the 20,-
000,000 pesos silver which the govern­
ment has at Corregidor.
O wing to the demand for silver in
China, which has caused the Chinese
government to declare a partial mora­
torium, the silver held by the govern­
ment is salable at a profit o f 36 per
cent.
O regon Grange Elects.
Grants Pass — The Oregon State
Grange elected officers at its annual
convention in progress here, as fo l­
lows: Master, C. E. Spencer, Oregon
C ity; overseer, C. D. Huffman, La
Grande; lecturer, Mrs. H. E. Bond,
Eugene; treasurer, H. H. Hirshberg,
Independence;
secretary, Mary S.
Howard; legislative committee, M. M.
Burtner, Dufur; James Stewart, Fos­
sil; executive committeeman, B. G.
I.eedy, Corvallis.
Canned Goods Going Up.
Chicago — Delegates to the conven­
tion o f the National Cannera’ associa­
tion in session here Thursday predicted
that the price o f canned goods through­
out the country would have to be in­
creased as the result o f the European
war.
It was said that owing to the scar­
city o f dyes and paper, labels fo r can­
ned goods were almost unobtainable
and that sufficient labor in the trade
was hard to obtain at high wages.
Bandits Make Another Raid.
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