WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
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Brent« o f Noted People, Government*
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Thins* W orth Knowins.
Rear-Admiral
W alter
Cleveland
Cowles died at his home in Redlands,
Cal.. Monday, a fter an illness o f
week.
Abesence o f senators on the sub
committee appointed to investigate
Senator La Follete's St. Paul speech
last September caused a postponment
Tuesday o f the inquiry until a fter con
gress convenes.
According to an Amsterdam dis
patch. Maximilian Harden has been
permitted to republish his newspaper.
Die Zukunft Herr Harden also w ill
be allowed to continue his lectures,
forbidden a month ago.
A t a meeting in Lancaster, Pa., o f
the board o f trustees o f Franklin and
Marshall College, Count Bem storff’s
name was stricken from the rolls. The
degree o f doctors o f laws was con
ferred upon him in 1912.
A. L. Carpenter, I. W. W. agent,
was arraigned in the Moscow, Idaho,
probate court Tuesady charged with
felony, attempting to corrupt and in
timidate jurors called in the I. W. W.
cases. He was held under $5000 bonds.
Employment o f special watchmen to
guard every warehouse, pumping plant,
mill or other place in Spokane, where
foodstuffs o f the value o f $50,000 or
more are stored is required in an ordi
nance passed Tuesday by the city
council.
Miss Margaret
Fotheringham, a
teacher in the Buffalo, N. Y ., public
schools, was dismissed by the school
board fo r being absent without leave.
She had picketed the W hite House and
had been imprisoned in Occoquan
workhouse.
Canada may soon be invited to be
come a member o f the Pan-American
Union, the official organization main
tained in Washington by the 21 Am er
ican republics for the development o f
commerce
and friendship and the
preservation o f peace among them.
F ifty Italians were arrested in M il
waukee, and are held for investigation
in connection with the bomb outrage
Saturday in which nine members o f
the police force were killed and two
were injured. It is understood the
action followed a confession by a man
arrested earlier in the day.
Orders for placing m ilitary guards
at the Chelsea and Southern Pacific
piers in N ew York harbor went to the
commander o f the Eastern department
Monday from Secretary Baker. This
is in line with the plan fo r using
troops to enforce the alien enemy proc
lamation along important waterfronts.
HUNGER GETS TROOPS
Russian
Commanders at
Front Con
tinue to Send Ominous Reports
on Conditions
STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF.
Many Die.
Car shortage on the lines of the
Southern Pacific company in Oregon
London— A belated dispatch to Reu has been showing a steady decrease for
ter's, Ltd., from Petrograd, dated No the last week.
The total shortage
Wednesday was 1903.
The shortage
vember 21, say*:
"T h e commandery at the front con o f closed oarsVas 785 and open cars
1118.
tinue to send in most ominous dis
Sparks from the engine in the plant
patches concerning the exhaustion o f
supplies and reports o f forthcoming o f the E. H. Pruett sawmill near Bend,
are believed to have caused the fire
hungry hordes o f soldiers invading the
which Tuesday completely destroyed
center o f population.”
the property. The m ill had a daily
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele- output o f 150,000 feet and was one of
grah from Copenhagen gives similar the oldest o f the sawmill plants ini
Central Oregon.
reports. It says advices received from
A chance pressure on the trigger of
Russia describe the situation as more
desperate than ever and assert that a 22-caliber rifle which he was clean
ing caused 16-yead-old Robert lnge-
the country is on the verge o f a bloody
mann o f Bend, to fire a bullet point
civil war.
blank at his
11-y ear-okl brother,
According to this dispatch, the] Rus George, Tuesday afternoon while the
sian newspaper Volka Narudna asserts two were shooting rabbits a short dis
that the Russian armies on the north tance from Bend. The leaden pellet
lodged in the boy’s spine, completely
ern front have for several days been paralysing both legs.
without food and that soldeirs daily
Entertaining the driver o f the Cres
are leaving the front in hundreds or
cent City stage with the strongest
are dying in the trenches from cold kind o f condemnation o f the govern
and hunger.
ment proved the undoing o f Archie
The newspaper adds that mutinies Gerrells, who is in the Josephine
due to hunger have broken out on sev county ja il on a charge o f treasonable
utterances.
He promptly destroyed
eral parts o f the line.
his I. W. W. membership card. Ger
General Kaledines, hetman o f the rells w ill be held pending receipt of
Don Cassocks, according to the Petro advices from United States Attorney
grad correspondent o f the Morning Reames.
Poet, is the master o f the Russian sit
The State Lime board, at a meeting
uation. W ith a trustworthy and disci
plined army he is reported to control in Salem Wednesday, decided to pur
the bulk o f the grain-growing terri chase an aerial tram from the Green
tory, and is rapidly capturing the re back Mining company, of Grants Pass,
mainder. The Russian gold reserve, to transport lime products from the
which the correspondent says was re Beeman lime quarry, by the state, to
The tram w ill cost
moved to the interior o f Russia in the railroad.
1913, is now held by General K ale $3000. New trams would cost between
$15,000 and $20,000. About 4000 feet
dines.
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o f rough gully land lies between the
London— Grand Duke Michael Alex- quarry and the railroad and the coun
androvitch, brother o f the former em try to be traversed is in such condition
peror, according to a Petrograd dis that the construction o f a road would
patch has been imprisoned in Smolny be impractical.
Institute, the headquarters o f the Bol-
John Shinanek, member o f the State
sheviki.
Lim e board, and also a member o f the
Farmers’ Union at Scio, reported to
State Labor Commissioner Hoff Wed
nesday a plan for cheap flour and high-
Daughter o f Ex-Czar Escapes and W ill priced wheat for farmers, which farm
ers in the section o f Scio plan to se
Land at Pacific Port.
cure. The scheme w ill be placed by
Denver— Mrs. Margaret Barry Car Mr. Shimanek before the state meet
ver, w ife o f an American banker with ing o f the Farmers’ Unior, to be held
at Pendleton next month.
Mr. Shim
Petrograd interests, was here Tuesday
anek states that farmers are arranging
on her way to a Pacific port, where, with a miller at Scio to grind their
she admitted, she is to meet Miss Ta wheat for 20 cents a bushel flat. By
tiana Romanoff, daughter o f the de this means the farmers get the flour,
bran and shorts and they estimate they
posed emperor o f Russia.
w ill get $2.13 for their flour, 17 cents
Tatiana Nicolaevna Romanoff es for the bran and 18 cents for the
caped from Siberia and w ill arrive at shorts, or a total o f $2.28, after the
a Pacific port in a few days to make 20 cents for the miller is deducted.
her home in America, according to an On this basis they will sell the flour at
announcement made here by the Rus cost, or at $2.13 for a $2.65 sack and
sian Civilian R e lie f society, o f New still receive $2.28 for their wheat, as
York, with whom the form er grand compared to $1.90, the base price. At
duchess w ill become connected.
the same time the consumer w ill re
The story o f the young woman’s es ceive a $2.65 sack o f flour for $2.13.
cape reads like a fa iry tale. She ex The m iller at Scio is satisfied with this
ecuted her plan by first going through profit and efforts w ill be made to make
with a mock marriage, after which she similar arrangements throughout the
made her way from Tobolsk, where the state.
exiled form er imperial fam ily is held,
A t a meeting o f the Oregon State
to Harbin, Manchuria and thence to
Japan, whence she sailed fo r America fair board in Portland this week, Sec
under the chaperonage o f an English retary Lea filed his annual report and
woman. Her guardian in this country turned over to the board $19,297.44,
as cash on hand after payng all ex
w ill be Mrs. Carver.
penses o f the 1917 fair.
This repre
sents twice the amount o f cash turned
over after the 1916 fair, and the turn
over at that time exceeded any in the
Juarez M ilitary Authorities Uneasy previous history o f the institution.
MISS ROMANOFF IS FLEEING
W ith the assent of the government
the News Print Manufacturers’ associ
ation, which represented about 85 per
cent o f the print paper production of
Over Move o f Bandit.
the United States and Canada, was
dissolved in N ew York Tuesday as an
Juarez— A train le ft here late Tues
unlawful combination in restraint of
trade in violation o f the Sherman anti day carrying the 500 troops from the
Ojinaga garrison who w ill be incor
trust act.
British cavalry have captured B ittir porated into General Eduardo Hernan
station, about six miles southwest, and dez’ forces as "shock troops,” in the
Ain Karim , 3J miles west o f Jerusa campaign against V illa in the north
lem, according to a British official eastern
zone o f Chihuahua state.
communication issued Tuesday even
These troops were brought here Satur
ing. Strong bodies o f Turks are hold
day from Marfa, Tex., having been in
ing the high ground west o f Jerusalem
terned there a fter escaping across the
and covering the Jerusalem-Schechem
Rio Grande from Ojinaga when Villa
road to the north.
captured the town November 14. They
Reports to the Postoffice department were equipped with new uniforms and
o f the amount o f parcel post matter were reissued their rifles, ammunition
going to th * American army in France and field equipment, which were taken
indicate that Americans there will en from them by American soldiers when
jo y a bountiful Christmas. The de they were interned and sent here in
partment announced that it is practi bond.
cally certain that
every
package
No reports were received regarding
mailed before November 13 w ill reach the persent whereabouts o f V illa ’s
its destination by Christmas morning main column and this is causing the
and possibly some mailed later w ill local military authorities much uneasi
g e t there in time.
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ness.
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VILLA MAIN FORCE IN HIDING
Governor Withycombe, o f Oregon, 3 U. S. Airmen Lost at Sea 60 Hours.
announces that each prisoner paroled
A French Port— Suffering with cold,
from the state penitentiary who has
enlisted fo r service in the war w ill be exhaustion and hunger, three American
naval airmen were picked up by a
granted restoration o f citizenship.
French patrol-boat Monday night after
Constitutional prohibition was de having been lost at sea for 60 hours.
feated in the October 15 election in The men, in a huge hydroairplane, left
Iow a by a m ajority o f 932 votes, ac a French base Friday in search o f four
cording to the official canvass made by enemy submarines which were report
the state executive council. The can ed operating off the coast. When the
vass, made on the initial count o f the men failed to return within the usual
ballots, showed 214,693 for the amend time other machines were sent out to
ment and 215,625 against it.
search for them. They returned after
several hours and reported that they
German is still the most widely
had seen no trace o f the missing men.
taught foreign language in New York
C ity high schools, with Latin
and
Seattle Clean-Up Likely.
French dividing honor* for second
Seattle, Wash.— A fte r a prolonged
place, according to a report compiled conference between the executive com
from the records o f the board o f edu m ittee o f the Seattle Minute Men, a
cation.
patriotic organization, and Mayor Gill,
Sinking o f the American destroyer Sunday, It was announced by the Min
Chauncey in collision in the war zone ute Men that a plan had been agreed
early Wednesday morning,
with a upon for a clean-up o f Seattle that
probable loss o f 21 lives, w a, an would undoubtedly remove the ban
nounced by the N a vy department. No placed on this city by Major-General
further details were given in a brief Greene, commander o f Camp Lewis,
report to the department from Vice who has forbidden soldiers to visit here
because o f alleged vice conditions.
A dm iral Sim*.
Actual construction o f the state ma
chinery for the second draft got under
way Wednesday when Governor W ithy
combe appointed the members o f the
central advisory board to handle the
legal phases o f the conscription act.
The personnel of the board includes
George M. Brown, attorney general,
chairman; J. N. Teal, Portland; Colo
nel Sam White, Portland, and Richard
W. Montague, Portland.
An oil excitement is reported at
Powers, in Coos county. In some o f
the wells there oil has been ¡found, and
it is believed it may mean a big dis
covery. There w ill be an investiga
tion to ascertain whether there is oil
in commercial quantities.
Powers is
the headquarters o f the Smith-Powers
Logging company, and is located in
the southern part o f the county on the
South Fork of the Coquille river.
Blackleg and rabies among cattle
are still making their appearance on
the ranges o f Crook and Deschutes
counties. The past week 20 head of
range cattle died from blackleg and
rabies.
The latter disease is being
disseminated among livestock by dogs
and coyotes. Practically all stockmen
having stock on the range where black
leg is prevalent are vaccinating young
cattle against the disease. In co-oper
ation with the United States biological
survey, federal predatory-animal hunt
ers are being placed in sections where
coyotes are most numerous in order to
destroy rabies carriers.
The first shipment o f lime from the
Portland Beaver Cement company’s
Gold H ill] plantj'was made recently,
which consisted o f a 40-ton shipment
consigned to Medford.
Large ship
ments will be made to other point* as
soon as cars are available.
W ith this year's business building
just coming to an end at Bend, an
nouncement is made o f new construc
tion to be started in the spring.
W.
P. Downing has just purchased a
50x140 business site and will erect a
pressed brick building at an estimated
cots o f $10,000.
Hoosier Sends the First
“K flir U-BOAT
U. S. Shot Into Germany
CHIEF IS I0KER
South Bend Man Is Hero of
Initial Action by the
Americans.
GEORGIAN GIVES THE ORDER
Indiana Sergeant Pulls the Lanyard
Which 8tart* Perehlng’s Attack
on th* Kaiser's Arm lee—
Americans All Eager
for Action.
American Field Headquarter* In
France.— Indlanu und Georgia divide
the honor o f huvlng Inaugurated Amer
ica’s land w arfare agulust the Ger
mans.
A sergeant from South Bend., Ind.,
pulled the lanyard to send the first
shell tearing ucross the valley In the
direction o f the German positions.
A Georgia lieutenant gave the order
“fire !“
The facts were established during
th* first visit paid by a correspond
ent to the first American battle front.
The
correspondent
reached
the
American position after a loug motor
ride through shell-battered towns.
Leaving the motor In one o f the towns,
he walked the rest of the way.
The first American battery was al
most walked upon before It was dis
covered. It was so well hidden under
the tree* and with foliage about It on
a low-hung wire netting.
Gun o f .75 Caliber Used.
Through the folluge In every direc
tion the ground was undulating.
At
that moment there wus a flush of flame
hrough the mist. It wus the crack
>f a .75 gun, and following it closely
came the noise o f the shell rushing
through the air, becoming fulnter und
fainter as the projectile went on its
way to the German position over the
crest o f a hill farther away. The tuud-
dlgglng artillerists continued their
work without even looking up.
A lieutenant from Georgia emerged.
He was the officer who directed the
first shot. H e led the way down the
slippery, muddy hill to a dugout cov
ered over with sandbags and logs.
There was met a lieutenant from Indi
ana o f the same battery who directed
the first 18 shots o f the war agnlnst
Germany from an observation point
On the other side of the hill was
found the first gun fired. The tnndd.v
gunners were hard at work cleaning
their gun.
‘T h is was the first gun fired In the
wnr,” the Jaunty lieutenant said. "The
sergeant inside the pit there fired It.”
Looking into the p it the lieutenant
said: “ Sergeant where are you from?”
He’s From South Bend.
A husky voice replied: “ I’m from
South Bend. Ind.”
"A re you Irish7” asked the lieuten
ant.
"No. sir." the sergeant laughingly
replied.
A t this time orders came fo r this
gun and others o f the battery placed
In nearby hills In sight and soand of
each other to commence firing. The
gun on the farthest hill went off with
a roar and a faint stream o f smoke
was blown backward from the p it
Inside the pit In which the corre
spondent stood a voice shouted ont
the range figures and the lieutenant
repeated them. A voice inside the pit
a moment later yelled that the gunner
was ready to fire. The lieutenant gave
the command to the gunners; “ Watch
your bubble.”
The lieutenant, who was standing
on a pile o f mud which had been re
moved from the pit, cautioned those
about him to place their fingers in
their ears. This was done and the
lieutenant shouted the word " F lr e l”
The gun barked quickly, the noise
being followed by a metallic clank and
the shell ense was ejected and the gun
made ready fo r the next load. The
lieutenant told the correspondent the
story o f the first shot o f the wnr, punc
tuating the narrative throughout with
the orders “ ready to fire,” and “ fire,”
which each time was followed by the
report o f the gun und the whizz of
the shell.
"W e came up the night before,” the
lieutenant said, “ and got Into poaltlon
In a driving rain. No horaes had ar
rived. I was anxious to get off the
first gun and so were my men. I
asked them If they were willing to
haul the gun by hand to this place so
that we could get the first crack at the
Germana. They agreed unanimously,
so we set out across the fields until we
got over there at the bnse o f that hill
you can Jnst see In the haze.
Hour* to Prepare Gun.
"W e had a hard time getting the
gun, which we have not named yet,
over those shell crater*. But we la
bored fo r many boura and finally
reached the spot. Then I got permis
sion to fire.
Strictly speaking, the first shot,
which was in the nature o f a tryout
for the gun, simply went Into Ger
many. The sergeant put a high explo
sive shell there at 6:16 o’clock In the
morning.”
Another officer here took up the nar
rative.
" I was In an observation point,” be
said. “There was a fog as the first
shot went singing over. Suddenly the
fog lifted and I saw a group o f Ger
mans. I directed my gun at them. The
shrapnel burst overhead and they took
a dive into the ground like so many
rabbits.”
The
lieutenant grinned broadly,
shook the water off bis shrnpnel hel
met, and using both clinched flat* to
punct'iute hi* remarks, said expres
sively; “ It was great.”
From the artillery llnea to the In
fantry trenches waa u considerable
dlstauce over more muddy hills. The
correspondent found the Infantry In
side the trenches. There also were
many wires which ran Into switch-
hoards, and American uud French op
erators were alttlug side by side di
recting operations.
Bell for Gas Attack.
A guide la necessary to reach the
first line, especially when some o f the
tronchea re-amble Irrigation ditches.
The trenches the Americans are occu
pying begin from a screened position.
On the way there ahuvola and tool*
were plied high below a hill on which
there was a great bell for giving the
alarm In case of a gas attack. There
under cover were the company cook*
busy warming up food that had been
brought up in wagona.
Following the guide, the wny wind*
In and out from left to right for many
yurda between Interwoven branches
that have been placed on the sides of
the trenches.
The American privates In the front
splashed through without hesitating,
sometimes getting a footing on step
ping stones In the muddy water und
sometimes not. The trench turns
sharply to the right amt a voice warns,
"Keep your head down," and the rest
o f the way the walking la difficult
Hailing near a machine gun. the Ger
man positions directly opposite on a
hill could be seen across the barbed
wire o f No Man's land. Lights a|>-
pen rod In a little town to the left.
There ts a sort o f a gentleman's
agreement In this sector that towns
over the line are not to he shelled. If
one side violates the agreement the
other aide promptly fires shell for shell
Into a hostile town.
General Hlbert, who has Just com
pleted a tour o f the trenches, was
asked how the morale o f the Ameri
cans In the trenches was. He replied:
“ Morale? How could the morale of
Americans be anything hut good?”
PARENTS SHOULD HAVE
TWO NAMES FOR BABIES
Indianapolis, Ind. — Because
parents haven't always got a
name for their hnhy when It la
born, the state o f Indlnnn Is
spending $150 n month more
than necessary, according to Dr.
J. N. Ilurty of the state board
o f health.
"Th e state Is spending shout
$150 a month In writing to
homes, from which physicians
have sent In report* o f births
without the numes o f the babies
attached.
“ Parents ought to have two
names ready, one for a boy and
one for a girl. Sometimes both
can be used.”
Commander of German Subma
rine Shows Vein of Un-
German Humor.
IS HERO OF MANY STORIES
When Not Laying Mine* He Pull*
Pranks That Amu** American tea
men— Pay* Two-Daye* Visit
at Dublin Hotel.
Base of American Flotilla In British
Water*.—There Is a German submarine
commander who Is knowu throughout
the American flotilla a* "K elly ." Ill»
real name Is something quite differ
ent, but the American sailor* promptly
dubbed him "K elly o f the Emerald
Isle," and the name will slick lu the
songs and stories of the navy as loug
us the great wur Is talked about.
"K e lly ” earned hi* name by hi* dis
play on various ocenslona of a rich
vein o f quite un-German humor. He
has become the hero of numberless sto
ries told In forecastle and on quarter
deck, Not all of these storlea are true,
and probably most of them have grown
In the telllug.
“ K elly" Pranks Tantalizing.
“ K elly” commands n mine-laying U<
boat which pay* frequent visit* to the
district patrolled by the American de
stroyers.
When he has finished hi*
apiMiluted task o f distributing bis
mines where they will do the moat
harm lie generally devote* a few min
utes to a prank o f some kind. Home
time* he contents himself with leaving
u note flying from u buoy scribbled In
schoolboy English und addressed to hi*
Amerlcuti enemy. On other occasion*
he pleks out a deserted hit of roast
line at night and goes ashore with a
squad o f his men for a suunter on the
bench, leaving behind u placard or a
bit o f German bunting na a reminder
o f his presence.
III* most audacious exploit, how
ever— If the legends o f the forecr*
are to he believed— was a trip w
{ lie made several months ago to Du'
i where he stayed two days ut a leer
| hotel, afterward Joining his U
somewhere up the west coust.
said to have Informed the Itrltlii
Ills exploit by leaving his receipt*«
attached to one o f their buoy*. *
Still another o f "K e lly 's " more re
cent stunts was to plant the German
flag on an eminence on the coast line,
li * U th* flm time that th* British
nnd American* knew Just where ti*
and his men had set foot nnd they
shared the excitement o f the village
folk, who awoke one morning to find
a new kind of flag flying from their aa-
five soli.
Fishermen Burn German Flag.
But when they mude sure that It was
the German colors they were furious,
for It so happened, *<> the story goes,
that the flsberiimn along this partic
ular strip of coust had suffered much
from submarine raids.
U-boata bad
shelled tliclr boats, Gorninns had sto
len their flsh -their only means o f llvo-
llhood— and left them empty handed
after u week’s hard catch o f inackcreL
These poor fisher folk were In no mood
for this latest display o f German hu
mor, so they, uccordlng to report.,
promptly burned the flag und set a
watch for “ Kelly."
Robber Takes Only Potatoes.
Hunbury, I ’a.— A highwayman, mask
ed nnd carrying n big revolver, held
up J. C. House o f Low er Augusta town
ship, Northumberland county, here re
cently and demanded that he throw
up his hnnds. “ I don't want your mon
ey, but give me a bushel o f potatoes,”
commanded the thief.
House com
plied, dumping them on the roadside,
Snake Fell From Belfry.
and was allowed to go without being
Laurel, Del.— A six-foot blaeksnnke
further molested. Ho had more than
$1(X> on his person, he said nfterwurd. fell from the belfry o f the Rlvc-tou
(M il.) Methodist church onto the shoul
ders o f Sexton Benjamin F. Keunerly,
England Need* Road*.
London.— It will require approxi j while the latter was ringing the bell.
mately $150,000,000 to reconstruct or After a lively clinse the snake was
strengthen 15,000 miles of roads In cornered In the church auditorium nnd
Great Britain niter the war In order killed. It evidently had made Ita home
to enable them to carry the growing In the belfry und fed on birds which
motor traffic, says an otnrlal estimate. roost there.
DEMONSTRATING USE OF NEW “STORAGE VAULT”
Mrs. Schuyler F. Herron o f Boston showing how to bank away potatoes
In the food conservation bureau's new “ cold storage va u lt” The vault Is
built o f layers o f straw or rubbish and earth nnd covers the tubers a a fe lj
from the fro s t