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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1915)
DR. WITHYCOMBE NOW GOVERNOR Inauguration in State Capitol Simple But Impressive. West First to Congratulate New Executive Chambers Thronged With Prominent Spectators. Satate Capitol, Salem People of Oregon : You have now a new gover nor. He is Dr. James Withy combe, of CorvalliB. He took the oath of office at precisely 2 :46 Tuesday after ' noon. Surrounded by members of his fam ily, state officials, including Justices of the Supreme court and legislators, prominent residents of Salem and oth er parts of the state, Dr. Withycombe was vested with the power of offico and immediately presented to the peo ple his first state document, which was an inaugural address and message to the legislature combined. His first official act waB to write a letter accepting the presidency of the Oregon State Board of the Red Cross. Less profuse, but even more impres sive, where the decorations inside the house chamber where the inauguration took place. The only dispaly of color was that produced by the nags hang ing in the doorway. But the portraits of nine ex-governors of the state looked down on the scene that transferred the authority over the state's affairs from the hands of Oswald West into those of James W ithycombe. Two ex-governors occu pied the rostrum with them. Afer the retiring governor and the incoming governor had been escorted into the room W. Lair Thompson, pres- Dr. James Withycombe, Oregon's New Governor. ident of the senate, presented Gov ernor West. The retiring governor was sharply applauded as he arose. i "The time has come," said Governor West, "when politics should be forgot ten, and I, for one, want to give the incoming governor all the help posBi ble. In retiring from office I think that, in my limited ability, I have done best I could, but as I expect to stay here I want to help all I can to make Oregon the greatest state in the Union." President Thompson then formally announced that the canvass of the vote showed Dr. Withycombe elected, and formally presented him for the inaug ural ceremony. , Chief Justice Moore administered the oath. Governor Withycombe began at once his formal message that he had pre pared in advance, and spoke briefly of his ideals and purposes. "It is my hope and intention," he said, "that my administration shall be both economical and constructive. Ore gon needs capital to develop its re sources. Capital must be encouraged, not hampered. We do not want cap ital that will override us, but we must make investments attractive and not by undue restrictions drive it away. The future of Oregon rests primarily in agricultural development. It must be given aid and encouragement. I shall surround myself so far as it is possible with men who are in sym pathy with my purposes. The changes that may be made in the appointive offices will not be on political grounds, but in the interest of efficiency and in that of carrying out the policies I have outlined." Pollowine is a svnoDsis of Governor Withycombe's first message to the Oregon legislature, delivered before that body immediately following his inauguration Tuesday afternoon: Recommends that the legislature set a record for brevity, especially in the number of laws rjassed. Urzes a short, sane session, with a few good IfiWfl Would have several elective offices made appointive; recommends the consolidation of various commissions and bureaus and suggests that a com mittee be appointed to make a survey Clatsop Backs Bounty BilL ' State Capitol, Salem Members of the Clatsop county delegation are be hind a bill introduced in the house pro viding a bounty of $1 each on seals caught in the Columbia river. The measure provides that one-half the bounty be paid by the county opposite which, in the river, the seals are caught, and the other half by the state. It will be necessary for persons claiming these proposed bounties to make affidavits that the seals are caught on the Oregon side of the river and not on the Washington side. . - (Jjj . y fj of the best way to centralize the state government and report in 1917. Would abolish continuing appropria tions, except for state educational In stitutions, and would place all state re ceipts in the general fund in charge of the Btate treasurer. Recommends that efforts to econo mize should not stop with the state, but extend to the counties. Of every $100 taxes, $12.50 goes to the state and $37.50 to the county, therefore the county administration costs the taxpayers three times as much as the state. The legislature should save at least $20,000 in its own expense of operation this session. Recommends anti-liquor regulations that can be enforced; wants the gov ernor to have the power to remove offi cers who do not enforce the prohibition laws; favors a substantial appropria tion for investigation by special agents. Recommends a one-half mill state tax for road purposes and the use of the automobile license fund for the same purpose. Would evolve a rational state mort gage credit system and memorialize congress to take action on the rural credit banking laws. Recommends that a non-salaried committee of seven business men see what can be done to establish new in dustries. Unreasonable restrictions on commercial activties should be frowned on. Would encourage the normal schools, Recommends that from the sale of lands in the Tumalo project set the money aside for future irrigation aid under state supervision. With one exceptoin, the state insti tutions are in good shape. The excep tion is the penitentiary. There is not enough work to keep the men in ph ical trim. They should work on roads or manufacture something not made by free labor. Because youths and hard ened criminals are not segregated, the state is conducting a school of crime, as the novice imbibes the spirit of the veteran crooks. The exaggerated leniency to prison ers in the past will not be repeated. A more sparing use of the pardoning power will have a salutary effects. Only in exceptional circumstances will the sentences be Bet aside or modified. Petition Peddlers to Lose. State Capitol, Salem Representa tive Olson of Portland, has introduced a bill in the house that will drive peti tion peddlers completely out of busi ness. Whenever a man or a woman wants to become a candidate for office, under operation of the proposed Olson law, all that will be necessary will be to file declaration of such intention with the county clerk if it be a county office or with the secretary of state if it be a district, state or a federal office. It will be necessary, also, to pay a small fee when, the declara tion is filed, the fee varying with the importance and the compensation at tached to the office. "It won't cost a prospective candi date any more under operations of the law that I propose than it does now under the old petition Bystem,"says Mr. Olson. "A candidate always has to pay the petition peddlers and it won't cost any more to pay a flat fee than to pay them, and the state or the counties will get some good from the money. "I can't see how anyone can object to this bill that is, anyone excepting the petition peddlers. Bill Aimed at Commission. State Capitol, Salem To abolish the state fish and game commission and to make the master fish warden and the Btate game warden directly appointive by the governor are the principal pro visions of a bill now in the course of construction by Representative Schue- bel, of Clackamas. "The game and fish commission has been the football of politics for years," says Schuebel, "and it will be to the best interests of the state and to the fish and game of the state as well to the sportsmen to get rid of it, "We need a master fish warden and a game warden as we have now, but let them be appointed by the governor and make them directly responsible to him. We certainly don't need any commission." Estimated Appropriations May Be Sustained State Capitol, Salem That the esti mates made by the State Board of Control for appropriations for the vari ous Btate institutions for 1915 and 1916 will not be materially changed, if changed at all, is the belief after the first week's session of the legis lature. Estimates were made first by the superintendents and considerable reductions made in several instances. The committee on way a and means of the senate is probing thoroughly the management of the institutions and has visited the blind school, the mute school and the state insane asylum. After spending a day at the latter in stitution and the cottage farm, an ad junct, committee members announced that they were well pleased with the management of all institutions visited and especially well pleased with the managementt of the insane asylum. Counties Are Held Liable. Salem That counties are legally lia ble for the expense incurred i audit ing their books under the supervision of the state auditing department is the substance of an opinion banded down by Attorney General Brown, replying to a communication from Gale S. Hill, of Albany. The attorney general did not pass on the reasonableness of the bills in question, stating that it was the duty of the County court to audit such bills. The opinion stated, bow ever, there waa a question whether the legislature could enact such laws. AMERICA RIGHT, ENGLAND'S REPLY Britain Points Out Difficulties, But Promises Redress. V Detention of Our Ships Will Not Stop. But International Law Will Not Be Exceeded. Washington, D. C. Great Britain's preliminary reply to the note from the United States government, requesting improvement in the treatment of American commerce by the British fleet, was made . public here and in London Sunday by mutual agreement between the State department and the British foreign office. The British communication concurs in the view of the United states that commerce between the neutral nations should be interfered with only when imperatively necessary and officials of the Washington government construed it as conceding that the principles ex- led by the American note were just and upheld by the previously ac cepted usages oi international law. The only formal comment made was contained in a brief statement issued by Secretary Bryan, who said : This answer, being preliminary, and not being intended as a complete reply, we will postpone comment until the full answer is received." Briefly, the British note, while con ceding the principles of the American government's contentions, points out difficulties in actual practice, refers to alleged fraudulent practices by ship pers and cites statistics shownig an increase, rather than decrease, in cer tain neutral commerce, in support of Great Britain's suspicions that Ger many and Austria have been indirectly obtaining contraband through neutral countries. The note promises, how ever, that Great Britain "will make redress whenever the action of the British fleet may unintentionally ex ceed" the limits of international law, The text of the British communica tion is as follows: "The British secretary of State for foreign affairs to the American am bassador, foreign office, Januray 7, 1915 Your Excellency : I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 28th of December. "It is being carefully examined and the points . raised in it are receiving consideration, as the result of which a reply shall be addressed to your excel lency, dealing in detail with the issues raised and the points to which the United States government has drawn attention. This consideration and the preparation of the reply will necessar ily require some time, and I therefore desire to send, without further delay, some preliminary observations which will, I trust, help to clear the ground and remove some misconceptions that seem to exist. "Let me say at once that we en tirely recognize the most friendly spirit referred to by your excellency and that we desire to reply in the same spirit ana in the beuei that, as your excellency states, frankness will best serve the continuance of cordial rela tions between the two countries. His majesty s government cor dially concurs in the principle enun ciated by the government of the United States, that a belligerent is dealing with trade between neutrals should not interfere, unless such inter ference is necessary to protect the belligerents's national safety, and then only to the extent to which this is necessary. We shall -endeavor to keep our action within the limits of this principle on the understanding that it admits our right to interfere when such interference is not with 'bona fide' trade between the United States and another neutral country, but with trade in contraband destined for the enemy's country, and we are ready, whenever our action nay unintention ally exceed this principle, to make re dress. "We think that much misconception exists as to the extent to which we have, in practice, interfered with trade, Your excellency s note seems to hold His majesty's government responsible for the present condition of trade with neutral countries, and it is , stated that, through the action of His maj esty's government, the products of the great industries of the United States have been denied long established mar kets in European markets, which, though neutral, are contiguous to the seat of war." Students Discover Gold. Berkeley, Cal. Three students of the mining department of the Univer sity of California have discovered new and pleasant method of financing a college education. They have been spending their Christmas holidays pros pecting in Placer county, and a letter received by the recorder of the univer sity sets forth that they had stumbled on a rich quartz vein and had begun to take out numerous semesters' worth of gold. They had employed a force of men to mine the claim and were pre paring to return to the university. Persia Sends Ultimatum. Rome The Giornale d'ltalia has published an inverview with the Per sian minister to Rome, in the course of which the diplomat said Persia desired to remain neutral throughout the war, but that its territory was being invad ed by Kurds and Turks. Persia had sent an ultimatum to Constantinople, the ministry said, the result of which was unknown as yet. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS. Portland There is some improve ment in the potato market this week. The shipping movement southward has started, but no great hopes are held out, as only a Bmall part of the stock is of shipping quality. A few cars of Burbanks are going to California and for these buyers are paying 8090c at East Side points, while ordinary stock is bringing 7585c in Portland. The San Francisco market is in better shape, as the Salinas are practically all gone, and this will leave an open ing for a limited quantity of Oregons. The American Wonder seed movement Beems to be about over. The local jobbing trade is not brisk and the market is sufficiently supplied. Front street prices are unchanged. There is no shipping outlet for eggs and with receipts enlarging the mar ket is slowly reaching a lower level. Sales were made at 2829c, case count. Poultry receipts were liberal and the market was weak, hens Belling at 13 14c. Dressed pork was very weak, with 9c as the top. Veal was barely steady. No changes were reported in the butter or cheese markets. White beans are steadily advancing in price. There was a good crop on the Coaat this season and the quality was fine, but the market is being strengthened by the upward movement of prices in the East, where large ex ports to Europe have caused advances. Wheat Bid: Bluestem, $1.42; forty-fold, $1.42; club, $1.41; red Russian, $1.34; red Fife, $1.37. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $28.50 29ton; shorts, $30.5031; rolled barley, $33. 50 34. 50. Corn White, $36 ton; cracked, $37, Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 15.50; valley timothy, $1313.50; grain hay, $10.5011; alfalfa, $13 13.50. Vegetables Cucumbers, hothouse, $1.75 2 dozen; eggplant, 8 10c pound; peppers, 1215c; artichokes, 85c90 dozen; tomatoes, $1.75 crate; cabbage, Jc pound; beans, 12Jc celery, $2.5Q crate; cauliflower, $2.25; sprouts, 8c pound; head lettuce, $1.85 2 crate; pumpkins, 11c pound; squash, ljc; carrots, $1.25 sack; beets, $1.25; parsnips, $1.25. Green Fruits Apples, 75c$1.60 box; casabas, $1.65 crate; pears, $1 1.50 box; cranberries, $911 barrel. Legs Fresh Oregon ranch, case count, 2930c dozen; candled, 31c; storage, 2529c. Potatoes Oregon, $1 sack; Idaho, $11.10; Yakima, 80cS1.10; Bweet potatoes, Zic pound. Onions Oregon, buying price, $1.25 f. o. b. shipping points. Poultry Hens, large, 13 14c; mixed, 13c; broilers, 1820c; tur keys, dressed, 21c; live, 18c; ducks, 12i15c; geese, ll12c. - Butter Creamery, prints, extras, 294c pound in case lotB; 4c more in less than case lots; cubes, 25c. Veal Fancy, 124c pound. Pork Block, 9c pound. Honey Choice, $3.25 case. Nuts Walnuts, 1524C pound. Beans Small white, $5.75; large white, $5.60; Lima, $6.25; pink, $4.60; Mexican, $6.25; bayou,' $6.35. Hops 1914 crop, 10 124t:; 1913 crop, nominal. Hides Salted hides, 14c; salted bulls, 10c; Baited calf, 18c; salted kip, 14c; green hides, 12Jc; green bulls, 84c; green calf, 18c; green kip, 14c; dry hides, 25c; dry calf, 27c. Wool Valley, 1718e pound; East ern Oregon, lbnzjZUc, nominal; mo hair, choice, 1914 clip, 271c Cascara bark Old and new, 444c pound. Cattle Prime steers, $7.607.75; choice, $7.257.50; medium,. $6.75 7; choice cows, $66.75; medium, $5.756; heifers, $5 6.50; bulls, $3.505; stags, $4.50(96. Hogs Light, $6.756.90; heavy, $5.806.30. Sheep Wethers, 5bt!.60; ewes, $55.60; lambs, $6.257.60. Tacoma Local commission men re port a splendid movement of apples and a firmness in prices. Prospects for a healthy business for the remainder of the season are bright. During the early part of the war, shipments of this fruit could not be made to foreign countries and to move the commodity it was necessary to set prices down nearly twice as low as they were last year. Potatoes are getting firm. Last season the spuds opened at high prices and went down toward the latter part, This year the tables are just reversed. the tubers opening at low prices and going up as the season advances. Merchants say, however, that quota- tions'will not rise much. Milling wheat in Tacoma made other advances, reaching the highest point yet known locally. Bluestem Is offered at $1.42; forty-fold, $1.41; club, $1.40; red Fife, $1.36; red Russian, $1.34. Fresh meats Steers, 12Jc pound cows, 12c; heifers, 12c12jc; weth ers, 121c; dressed hogs, 12c; trimmed sides, 164c; combinations, 15 Jc; lambs, 1314c; Diamond T. C, 14c; year lings, 13c; ewes, 11c. Poultry Ducks, live, 1012c; hens, dressed, 16 18c; live, 10 14c springs, dressed, 22c; live, 14 16c squabs, live, $2.50 dozen; dressed, $6 turkeys, live, 18c; dressed, 2830c geese, 20c. Butter Washington creamery, 28 29c pound; Oregon, 2627c. Seattle Wheat Bluestem, $1.43 Turkey red, $1.38; forty-fold, $1.42 club, $1.41; fife, $1.37; red Russian, $1.35; barley, $30 ton. NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Eveiits Told in Brief. It is reported that there is consider able dissention in the German cabinet. Portland Catholics are planning to aid the sufferers of the earthquake In Italy. A French senator advises parliament to be quiet while France is invaded by an enemy. Twenty thousand persons, including many notables, were killed in the earthquake in Italy. The American branch of the Red CrosB is asking help to aid the Italian earthquake sufferers. Five governments are in the Chi cago wheal pit buying heavily, to gether with many foreign individuals. Eighteen Russian srenerals have been discharged from imDortant nosi- tions, according to the Hamburg Frem demblatt. A resolution was'offered in congress asking the secretary of war for in formation as to the strength of coast defence guns. Gov. Blease, of South Carolina, who resigned near the end of his term, has pardoned and paroled 1460 convicts, besides disbanding the state militia. An aged pipe smoker in San Fran cisco was killed when he fell on hia face. The long stem punctured the roof of his mouth and entered the brain. The battleship Kansas sustained damage in the big storm off the Vir ginia coast, which it will require two weeks to repair, it was reported on the warship s arrival in Hampton Roads. British aviators early in the week dropped bombs on the German posi tions in Antwerp, according to a Neth erlands newspaper dispatch. The damage done by the bombs has not been ascertained. Geneva reports that numbers of the Austrian nobility and aristocracy and Viennese financiers are depositing large sums of money in Switzerland and are giving orders for the purchase of quantities of American securities. Representative Sinnott, of Oregon, in the house, severely criticised the Democratic leaders for resorting to legislative trickery to kill the Oregon apple box bill, which but for their activities probably would have been passed before adjournment. Secretary Daniels wrote to a little boy and girl of Corvallis, Or., telling them he was sorry he could not grant their request that the school children of Oregon be permitted to make the voyage through the Panama Canal on the famous battleship bearing their state's name. Through the solicitude of mothers and other relatives the British soldiers seem to be getting more marmalade and jam than they can consume; the consequence is that many a peasant woman behind the lines has had her larder supplied with a quantity of sweetmeats that will last her for years. General Carranza has added to his program ol reform the granting of ab solute divorce. Any judge in Mexico if he cares to take the chance of Car ranza's reseating himself at Chapulte pec may now annul a marriage con tract. The law became effective on New Year's day. Mexico has hereto fore never granted more than a legal separation. The new law not only pro vides for divorce with the right to re marry, but makes the dissolution of the union so simple that the mere agreement of man and wife to break their marital contract is sufficient. The German and French accounts of the fighting on the Western front agree in declaring there has been a desperate battle near Soissons. The issue is not wholly decided, but the Germans are believed to have gained ground northeast of the town, while the French wholly failed to make progress. The French are now de scribed as taking up new positions on the south bank of the Aisne. Em peror William in person directed the battle on the plain of Vregny. In spired by his presence, the German troops cleared this important elevated position of the enemy. " The state prohibition contest has al ready begun in the Washington legis lature. German authorities declare the re ports of atrocities by German soldiers are pure fabrications. Eighty citizens of Terre Haute, Ind., have pleaded guilty to corrupting the ballot in the last election. East St. Louis, 111., reports that Italian army officers are.in that vicin ity buying cavalry horses by the thou sands. Letters received in Montreal from the West Indies declare the German cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk in' battle. It is declared that Servia will not now be satisfied with anything less than complete possession of Herzego vina and Dalmatia. The house, by a vote of 204 to 174, refused to submit to the states a con stitutional amendment for the enfran chisement of women, A fierce snow, wind'and rain storm swept the Atlantic states, killing and injuring several people and doing great damage to property. MINUTED House Centipede Always an Un welcome Guest. That It Keeps Down Other Small Pest la Not Sufficient In the Eyes of the Housewife Creature of Damp. The house centipede, particularly within the last 20 years, has become altogether too common an object In Swelling houses for the peace of mind af many housewives. It is a very fragile creature, capable of rapid movements, and elevated considerably above the surface upon which it rum by very numerous long legs. It is a creature of the damp, and is particu larly abundant in bathrooms, moist House Centipede. closets and cellars, multiplying exces sively also In conservatories, especial ly about places where pots are stored, and near heating pipes. If it were not for Its uncanny ap pearance and the rather poisonous na ture of its bite, this centipede would not' necessarily be an unwelcome visi tor in houses, but might be looked upon rather as an aid in keeping In check various household pests. Its appearance in dwellings, however, is not often welcomed, notwithstanding Its useful role. It can be best controlled by keeping the moist places In houses free from any object behind whjch It can con ceal Itself, or at least subjecting such locations to frequent Inspection. In places near water pipes, or in store rooms where It may secrete itself and occur In some numbers, a free use of fresh pyrethrum powder is to be ad vised. The house centipede is a southern species, Its normal habitat being in the southern tier of states and south- westward through TexaB into Mexico.' It has slowly spread northward, hav ing been observed in Pennsylvania as early as 1849, and reaching New York and Massachusetts thirty or thirty-five years ago, but for many years after its first appearance in the latter two states it was of rare occurrence. It Is now very common throughout New York and New England states, and ex tends westward well beyond the Mis sissippi, probably to the mountains. The popular belief is that this centi pede is extremely poisonous, and, as It belongs with the poisonous group of centipedes, it cannot be questioned but that the bite of the creature is probably somewhat poisonous as well as painful, though the seriousness of the results will be dependent, as In all similar cases, on the susceptibil ity of the patient. The poison In jected In the act of biting is probably merely to assist in minting and quiet ing its victim, and In spite of its abundance in houses In the North, and for many years Its much greater abundance in the South, very few caBes are recorded of Its having bitten any human being, and It Is very ques tionable whether It would ever, un provoked, attack any large animal. If pressed with the bare foot or hand, or if caught between sheets in beds, this, like almost any other insect, will unquestionably bite In self-defenBe, and the few caseB on record Indicate that severe swelling and pain may result from the poison Injected. Prompt dressing of the wound with ammonia will greatly alleviate the disagreeable symptoms. Monte Carlo Still Open. Word comes from Monte Carlo that In spite of the war in Europe the little principality's neutrality is still un broken, and the Casino Is open for business as usual. Tbls announcement v.'as received by Borne of the New York hotel proprietors, in the form of let ters from the manager of one of the big hotelB, who seems apprehensive that Americans may be deterred by the thought that the Casino de Paris, the American bar and the Tlr aux Pigeons are not performing their usual functions. He neglects to point out how the American can reach Monte Carlo Just now In anything like the comfort he has been used to, without running Into some part of the war. The Explanation. George Cohan, at a luncheon at the Players' club in New York, was talk ing about a millionaire banker of sixty-two, whose wife threatened to divorce him on account of his "ward," a beautiful chorus girl of seventeen. "Home," said Mr. Cohan, in his quaint way, "home is where the heart la. Well, some of our grand old mul timillionaires are so big-hearted they naturally have to have several homes." A Get-Rlch-Qulck Scheme. "There must be some fine business ipportunlties in those permanent trenches of the allies." "For Instance?" "I'd like to be able to operate little tobacco store there for a tfW weeks."