JAMfS J. HILTdIlT
WORLD'S
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OF CURRENT WEEK
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.