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JAMfS J. HILTdIlT WORLD'S DOINGS lYesiJent's Physician and Bride. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Winners of Industrial Prizes to OF CURRENT WEEK 5 ' Brief Resume of General hW From All Around the Earth. : 11NIYERSAI HAPPENINGS H A KLTSBl Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Methodists retain ban on dancing, ! cards and theaters. j With tremendous losses the Germans make large gainB at Verdun. Women's clubs are planning an in ternational congress for 1920. Vigorous notes have been sent both France and England on the subject of interference with mails. The Paris Temps in an editoriaf again goes on record as not favoring i any idea of peace negotiations. One hundred and sixteen Texas mili tiamen who failed to respond to the call for service on the border will be courtmartialed. Eggs shipped from Eugene, Ore., to England, retailed there at 96 cents a dozen. The shipper received a net re turn of $3.32 per case. The deepest May snow in the re membrance of pioneers of the Hood River Valley now lies in the forests around Lost Lake, Oregon. Mayor Joseph McCaskey, of Wilke Bon, a coal mining town near Tacoma, Wash., has resigned following his con viction of having violated the dry law by selling liquor in his drugstore. lhe German and Austrian consuls at Canea, Island of Crete, left that city with their families and the consulate staffs on May 24 for Athens, according to a Havas dispatch from Athens. A new company has been organized to establish large shipyards at Van couver, Wash., contracts have been made for four large motor schooners, and options given for three others. Victor Carlstrom, bearing a message from the Aero Club of America to msulent Wilson and carrying Alan R. Hawley, president of the club, as a passenger, flew from New York to Washington, 220 miles, in three hours and seven minutes. v 'Si 4-:: l&''X ;o4; OR. AND MUS. GRAY50N (Copyright Eclmonston) Dr. Cary T. Grayson, physician to President Wilson whs married tn M;oa Alice Gertrude Gordon, of Washington, at St. George's Episcopal church, New York, May 24. The President and Mrs. Wilson, as well as Senretarv 1 H If 1 . . I 1 ' uriu mra. mcaqoo aiienuea. sSiatpassesriv harbor bill by 35-32 vote Exports of merchandise from the port of New York during April amounted to $184,751,946, compared with $135,125,623 in April a year ago. Imports for that month increased also, amounting to $115,290,462, compared wun z,zoa,oz in April, 1915. An unconfirmed report received at Fargo, N. D., said 10 persons had been killed at Rogers, N. D in the storm which swept Southeastern North Da kota. Rogers was cut off completely from the outside world, all telephone and telegraph wires being down. The German authorities have offered to allow General Leman, the defender of Liege, to go to Switzerland, accord ing to a news dispatch. Because the permission was granted on the ground of his ill health and age, the General rejected the offer, saying that he did not wish to admit that he was unfit to fight for his country. The resignation of Charles Ware as general manager of the Union Pacific was announced Tuesday at the com pany's headquarters. No reason is given. London underwriters charge 50 per cent to insure against a declaration of peace between Great Britain and Ger many before January 1. The rate in dicates that In the underwriters' opin ion the prospects for an early peace are better than two months ago, when the rate for the same risk was only 80 per cent. It is officially announced from Dub lin that in addition to the sentence of death imposed on Jeremiah C. Lynch, American, a similar sentence was im posed upon Peter Gallighan, but that this sentence was commuted to five years penal servitude. A number of other persons also were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. More than 1300 French, including 31 officers, 16 machine guns and eight cannon, were captured in a German assault on the Verdun front in the re gion of Deadman'i hill, the German war office announced Tuesday. Washington, D. C The senate pass ed Tuesday the rivers and harbors ap propriation bill, carrying approxi mately $43,000,000, by a vote of 35 to 32 after adding many amendments. On the final passage Senators Cham berlain and Lane, of Oregon, and Sen ator Poindexter, of Washington, vot ed for the bill, while Senator Jones, of Washington, and Senators Borah and Brady, of Idaho, voted against the bill. The bill as Passed rnrrien nil Ore gon, Washington and Columbia river items as agreed to in the house, and they are now assured at the original James J. Hill's Wealth Esti mated in Hundred Millions President Poincare has conferred the war cros on Queen Elizabeth of Bel gium as an expression of "the admira tion of the people for the magnificent courage and untiring devotion to the wounded which she has never ceased to how under the enemy's fire." St. Paul The wealth of the late James J. Hill, who died Monday, is estimated all the way from $100,000, 000 to $500,000,000. He was worth probably between $200,000,000 and $250,000,000. An estimate of Mr. Hill's wealth was furnished when, at the opening of me tiuropean war, he called his bank ers together and displayed a mass of nis securities. More than $100,000, 000 was said to have been in the boxes he laid before his bankers. "There should be no trouble, " said Mr. Hill, "but if there is, this amount is at your disposal." The First National bank then W. rowed from Mr. Hill Sin flnn nnn worth of Great Northern railroad bonds. These were nlared with tKe Treasury department in Washington, ami to.uuu.litiu worth of emereencv currency, aiiowea under the Aldrich act, was shipped at once to the First National bank. It was found ne,... sary to place only $125,000 worth of this in circulation. In a few a-eet. the entire amount was returned to Washington. Air. Ji ill had the absolute control of tne rirst National bank and the North western Trust company, which gave a combined capital and surplus of $6 -500,000. ' He was a large owner of stock in the Chase National bank of New York, First National bank Chicago, and the Northwestern Natoinal bank in Minne apolis. He Was a iHttm nuner nf ft, n- ......v. wiv breat Northern Steamship company. The greatest portion nf Mr mil-. . tun o wealth, however, was in stocks n,1 bonds of the Great Northern v..k til- em i acinc and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads. figures, including $1,200,000 for the mouth of the Columbia. The only new Northwest item is $140,000 for Wil lapa harbor. Its ultimate adoption is doubtful, in view of Senator Jones' vote against the bill, the amendment having been offered by him. The bill will now go to a conference of the two houses. The fight against it, begun by Senator Kenyon, of Iowa and, Senator Sherman of Illinois, gained strength until a final effnrr tn displace it with a substitute appropri ating a lump sum of $30,000,000 was aeieated by only one vote. Big Force of Bolears Occupy Important forts in Neutral Greece Villa Pursuit Doubted. Columbus, N. M.-Little credence is placed by military authorities herein reports from Chihuahua that Carranza iroop nave discovered Villa London At the French headquar ters in the Balkans it was announced Monday that Bulgarians had oramied the Greek forts of Rupel, Dragotin and Spatovo, and were advancing from Demir-Hissar toward Kavalla. This information was received here in a dispatch from Athens to the Exchange Telegraph company. The Greek forts Rupel and Dragotin are, respectively, six and nine miles north of the town nf Demii.H;0. while Spatovo fort lies four miles east of that town. Kavalla. on whir tKe Bulgarians are said to be murehinr, a seaport on the Aetean . .1. ") w 1IUICB in an air line southeast of Demir-His. sar After crossing the Aegean Sea wimuui loss, the Serh an nrm ! ..n . .. III XUII strength has been landed at Saloniki, onuiuiiig io a uispatch. Serbia's new armv Vina hom :.,. . .... "i-vii vanuus- iy estimated numbering between 80, vuu " iuu.uuu officers and men. It was reorganized on the island of Cor fu, which is approximately 700 miles uismni Dy water from Saloniki. o Jhe Serl?i8n armv staled about ouu.uuu at tne nilthruat v i,,,. , . , 'v ul me war, but this force was greatly depleted as . " Ul Hn epidemic of typhus and bitter engagements fought in an en deavor to check the Austro-German and Bulgarian invasion of Serbia and Montenegro. The remnant of the orie inal armies SHverl lunif v. ...... through the A.banla'n munta un reacning the seaeoast, the Ser bians Were trsnannrt u. t, , . -"--"" mo isianu 01 t-ortu, oft the southern bania, where they were supplied with new rifles and clothing J,Lm,-.J. . qPPd I for further vTce o th Balkan battlefield. Attend 0. A. C. Summer School Arrangements have just been com nl..tl hv T A f'lnirriill Sunerinten- piVbVU J W . . ... ( dent of Public Instruction, for sending the boys and girls who won the capital prizes in the industrial club work at the State fair last fall to the Oregon Agricultural college for the Boys and Girls' Summer school. Twenty-one rhilrlren were successful in winning these prizes at the State fair last Sep tember, lhe capital prizes consist of membership in the 6hort course at the Agricultural college with all ex penses paid. It represents the highest award in each project offered in the Industrial department at the State fair last year. The prizes are made possi ble through contributions made to Superintendent Churchill for the fur therance of this work by public-spirit ed men and women of the state. 1 hose who received these awards are: Leland Charley, Brownsboro; Gertrude Court ney, La Grande; Earl Stewart, Cot tage Grove; Homer Bursell, Mon mouth: Hazel Bursell. Monmouth: Clifford Cook, Yoncalla; Carmen Jones, Pendleton; Esther Miller, Medford; Warren McGowan, Independence; Har old Reynolds, Independence; Earl Cooley, Salem; L. M. Bowles, Dallas; Rudolph Mullinhoff, Boring; Teddy Fones, Carlton: Exie Morean. The Dalles; Florence Wharton, Roseburg; Marion Lowe, Nyssa; Mae McDonald, Dallas; Muriel Blume. Albany: Paul Jaeger, Sherwood; Claus Charley, Brownsboro. The Boys' and Girls club work which is carried on co-operativelv bv the State department of Education, the Extension service of the Oregon Agricultural college and the U. S. Bureau of Agriculture, is increasing in interest to such an extent that clubs are being formed in every section of Oregon. Since the first of the year Superintendent Churchill has had two field workers, N. C. Maris and L. P. Harrington, continually engaged in forming clubs throughout the state. The work of the Agricultural college in sending to the members of these clubs, bulletins on how to select seed care for the growing crops and also bulletins on canninc and nnwinr has made a wonderful advancement in' the standard of the work Anna hu the school children of Oregon. The ex ample of Claus Charley of Jackson county shows what a wholesome in fluence one boy may have in this work. At the State fair in 1914 he won the state prize on his corn. The next, through the efforts of the county school superintendent and one of the Medford banks, fifty boys of Jackson WUI"J supplied with seed corn selected from Claus Charley's prize winning corn. Each of the fifty boys raised from one-eighth to one-fourth of an acre of corn, the amount which each boy planted heinw Heter:j u.. the age of the boy. The exhihir f corn coming from these boys to the State fair in 1915 Were nniH Ko I'nia to exceed m quality fully 100 per cent cum exniDll 01 1S13. "As a result of this work," says superintendent Chnrni - - ...... no CBn feel certain that in the next genera tion there will be a group of expert iarmers and home-keener!. rural community of Oregon." Railroad Magnate Passes at St hi Aiier moh mness. GREAT AGE AGAINST RfCOYQn Northwest to Pay Tribute to t ory of Great Empire Builder. Life Was Momentous. St. PauL Minn. James J n;n of the last of the American em'ni builders, died at his home here at9 a. m. Monday. May 29. f.ili,,M. operauon ior me removal of acar buncle. On account of his age, 75 years, he was unable to resist succe fully the shockof the operation. "The end came quickly," Baid the official bulletin. "Mr. Hill became unconscious a few hours before. There were no death agonies." Mr. Hill's death followed two open, tions upon his thigh to relieve inflam' mation caused by a carbuncle. The fact that an operation had been $er. formed Friday was kept secret until James J. Hill, "Empire Builder." Assassin's Plot Fails. Berlin, (By wireless to Sayville, N. Y.)-An unsuccessful attempt to as sassinate the Aot. ti .' . in "."-""nungarian minis- near Jiminez. Several nffi,e 1. T. V1. relrted " Constan- expressed their conviction that VilU ! Vereeas News , r j uvouov, Coos County Voters favor $362,000 Road Building Bonds Marshfield - Complete returns from the 68 precincts in Coos county jrive a majority in favor of good roads bonds of 618. As soon as the count was completed the County court issued an order of the election being carried? lhe county precincts, with . ... ceptions, those in the northern portion Tpmi'f 0Uv y' induding Lakeside, lempleton. Kentuck nH m , ' t"dK f7 ther9' Voted heavily aga Lt he bonds, and the success was due en tirely o the heavy votes in the cities Coquille had a hands ' 1 . Bandon gave the bond7al 'oost lhe 1SSUP m f ii,. . J,. of iifi! nnn v exPenaiture of 1362 000 for lining and grading, and it 1H tint avnentl U . ,u vide for any hard surfacing. P The money will ho , tu-een M. "un-.j . """ueu Pe- lummmeio. ana Coqu le Cn. quille and Myrtle Point, fiZd n and Coqmlle, North Bend and Nor Tlnff Bandon to the Curry county line " was thuTntin f8Vor of bondi"fr llnWhm the bond expended upon branch Monday. There was a second opera tion Saturday. Dr. Herman Biggs, New York state health commissioner, had been in attendance since Friday. Mr. Hill's final collapse came with startling suddenness. It was late last week before a word of his serious con dition was allowed to leak out. Then it was stated he was suffering from a cold. The Mayo brothers, surgical specialists, were brought from Roches ter, Minn., for a consultation, and it then developed that Mr. Hill was afflicted with an intestinal carbuncle. Special trains began bringing friends and relatives to the bedside. The best surgeons were summoned. Louis W. Hill, president nf t.h firear. Nnrthem. opened his residence next door for the accommodation of doctors and nurses. Early Sunday afternoon Mr. Hill ex perienced a sinkincr anelt Rev Father Thomas J. Gibbons, pastor of the St raui catnearal and vicar general of at. Paul archdiocese, hastened to the bed side. Four hnnru later Mr Hill WSS said to have rallied. At. fi n. m. his pulse was reported improved. But at 9:30, 12 hours before his death was to come, Doctors Biggs and Gilfillan sn- noucea that "the outlook was ex tremely serious." St. Paul is preparing to honor Mr. Hill's memory. Every division point of the northwest is ready to pay trib ute in memorial ceremonies. levies roads, to be agency Tuesday. me attempt, according to the dig- patch, was made by Djemel Bey several years ago was involved '. Z. chieftain, ilT? -oud SchefkTt that of General Trevi : . grana vizier and isier or war." still alive, but asserted th.t r 1 - uuinji 1 ersnmg, expeditionary commander, is in possession of informat inn to a U probable whereabouts of the bandit uino urn that of General Trevino. min- Roseburg Votes Municipal R.i.m.H Koseburg-By a vote of nearly seven to one, the taxpayers of r1!k ent to the polls Kayt an amendment to the city Sart mumapdrty, to construct an7operate Facts in Life of James Jerome Hill. 1838 Born near Guelph, Ont. 1856 Left father's farm for busi ness life in Minnesota. 1856-1865 In steamboat office in St. Paul. 1867 Married Marv Theresa Mehfr gan, of St. Paul.' 1869-75 Head nf ill firiffM. A Co., fuel and transportation. 1870 Established Red River Trans portation company, first to open com munication between St. Paul and Win nipeg. 1878 Organized syndicate that se cured control of the St. Paul & Pc'fi,c railway from Dvtrh nwnera of securi ties. 1879-Reorganized road as St. Pai Minneapolis & Manitoba and became its general manager. -lSR2-1RqnP.oM rnsi which became part of the Great North ern system. 1889-07 PrOoMer,f Ke eiltirt Great Northern, which he extended to ouunu irom Lake superior, w northern and southern branches and steamship line to the Orient 1907-12 President of Great Nor ern'g board of directors.