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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1915)
WORLD'S DOINGS Of CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. The Italian premier declares that Austria in 1913 decided to provoke a war. German submarines sink two Welsh trawlers in English channel, but first rescue the crews. More than 400 men will compete in the civil service examinations for the position of policemen in Portland. David Lloyd George tells England a better supply of war munitions must be maintained, or defeat may result. The Auatro-German army has re taken Przemysl from the Russians in one of the bloodiest battles of history. Rear Admiral Fiske, of the U. S. navy, draws a gloomy picture of the efficiency of the institution in case of war. United States government injunction suit against the Steel corporation is lost and the court declares the corpora tion is not a monopoly. Dr. David Starr Jordan, the. noted educator, speaking before the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Bcouts the war idea which it prevalent in this country. According to a Berlin telegram the 16-year-old Countess Helene Dardey has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for publicly insulting a German officer. The headquarters of the German Crown Prince were bombarded early Friday by French aviators. Twenty- nine machines dropped 178 shells and several thousand darts. Many of the shells are said to have reached the mark. President Wilson drafts a note, brief and pointed, to be sent to Germany, asking a definite question whether the imperial government intends to be guided in the future by the humane principles embodied in international law for the conduct of maritime war fare. A British submarine operating in the Sea of Marmora torpedoed and sunk a large German transport in Pan derma Bay Friday. This announce ment was given out officially in Lon don as having been received from the vice admiral in command at the Dar- dandles. It is said also this submarine was one of several operating in these waters. Iliamna volcano, on the west shore of Cook Inlet, Alaska, continues in eruption. Its activities are plainly visible to passengers of the steamships 50 miles distant from the troubled mountain. The snow has been melted from the upper portion of the peak, Smoke and flames burst from the crater at two-minute intervals, but no explosions are heard. An Oregon couple were married in the dome of the state capitol. The General Federation of Women's clubs is in session at Portland. Lone robber holds up Spokane bank at noon and gets away with $500 in cash. Early entry into the war of Rou mania and Bulgaria is counted on by Italy. A Portland traffic survey shows 445 jitneys in use and a material increase from March 1 to June 1. Newport, Ore., lifesaving crew res cues 6-year-old boy who was drifting in a boat two miles from shore. lwo women ami two men were drowned in the Willamette river at Portland by the overturning of launch at 8 a. m. Tuesday. A fifth person, a woman, clinging to a plank, was saved by a fisherman. The Atlantic fleet, as originally scheduled, will not pass through the Panama canal at the formal opening, owing to the probability of land Blides occurring while in Pacific waters, there by hindering a prompt return to the Eastern seaboard in case of necessity. The little republic of San Marino, 22 miles in area, and surrounded by Ital ian territory, is considered a war power because of its elevated location and an ideal base for aeroplanes. Its government is debating the advisabil ity of entering the cause of the allies. President Wilson will send Germany note demanding absolute and clear answer to the original note on the inking of the Lusitania. According to the statistics for Paris there were 1850 births in May, the 10th month of the war, as compared with 8890 in the same month last year. The Wilson cabinet has ratified the government's policy as regards Mex ico, which baa changed from "watchful waiting" to a stern demand for an early settlement between the warring actions, and notice of which has been sent to the several leaden. VILLA SEEKS TRUCE TO CONSIDER WARNING OF PRESIDENT WILSON El Paso, Tex. General Francisco Villa has decided to ask General Ven ustiano Carranza to agree to a neutral territory for a conference to consider the suggestions contained in President Wilson's note, according to a telegram received here from Colonel Enrique Perez Rul, private secretary to Villa. Thetelegram was dated Aguas Cal- ientes. "General Villa ordered his secre taries to come from Chihuahua to Aguas Calientes to draft the note to Carranza," says Colonel Rul, "and also the reply he will send to President Wilson. Villa s ministers have reached Aguas Calientes." The Rul statement relates that Villa decided to invite Carranza to agree to a truce "to prevent further sacrifice in the republic which might produce in tervention," that when Villa, in keep ing with this suggestion, ordered his troops to retire General Obregon start ed in pursuit, "bringing on a battle in the station of Leon. "This obliged our forces which came from Silao, commanded by General Villa, to attack the enemy vigorously, dispersing them after inflicting heavy losses." The Villa forces have retired to Lagos, state of Guanajuato, 38 miles north of Leon, according to Ruls statement, "without the loss of many men or any war materials." It also says that Villa retains quantities of military equipment captured in the battle or DUao last week and has or dered some brigades south to recapture Leon and continue the campaign. Rul declares that in the fighting at Silao the Villa forces captured a train containing powder and apparatus for manufacturing ammunition: that this train was burned to prevent its recap ture by Obregon. Canadian Aviator Blows Up Huge Zeppelin, Killing Entire Crew of 28 London For the first time on record a Zeppelin in the air has been destroy ed by an aviator in an aeroplane. Reginald J. Warneford, a young Cana dian sub-lieutenant in the royal navy, who mastered aeroplaning only this summer, has performed the feat, and is somewhere within the British lines, while a Zeppelin lies in ruins, sprawled on the roof and ground of an orphan age near Ghent. Falling a blazing mass after being struck by the young aviator s bombs, its crew of 28 men were killed, as were also several occupants of the or phanage buildings. The theory is advanced that this Zeppelin was the craft which raided the east coast of England Tuesday night, for the fact that it was in the air over Belgium, between Ghent and Brussels, at 3 o clock in the morning, leads to the belief that it was return ing from an expedition, not starting, Dawn breaks early these days and the huge Zeppelin could be sighted far oft, and it is presumed that the craft was headed for her home hangar when Warneford came winging swiftly un der the gray skies. The Zeppelin, which was flying com paratively low, began to mount at once, but the British wasp was speed ier and climbed into the air in long spirals, reaching a position at length over the German's vast bulk. From this point of vantage Warneford burst the Zeppelin's shell repeadedly with his incendiary bombs. Portland, Or., Youth Escapes Erom Mexicans After Awful Experience ,1 Faso, lexas forced to act as gravedigger for Vaill's execution squad in Juarez for a month, James Ellsworth, whose home is in Portland, Or., where he left two years ago, es caped Sunday night and came to the American side, hatless, his clothes covered with blood stains and slashed where the Mexican officers had beaten him over the back with their swords to make him work. Ellsworth, who is 22 years old and of good appearance, says he went to Juraez on a Bightseeing trip when he was arrested. He was forced to dig the graves and witness the execution of nine men during his imprisonment, hauling each of them to the grave from the adobe wall after they were executed. He left for his home in Portland im mediately. Berlin Hebrew Protests. London The Exchange Telegraph company has received a dispatch from Berlin by way of Amsterdm saying that the Berliner Tageblatt declares that the German anti-Semitic organs are starting a new campaign to pre vent Hebrews from becoming oflicres in the army after the war. The Tage blatt, which is owned by a Hebrew, is urging the government to put an end to these attacks on Hebrews, inasmuch as German Hebrews are dying glori ously by the thousand on the field of battle." Roumania Thought Bound. London The following wireless dis patch was received here Tuesday from Berlin: "Political discussions in Bucharest, Roumania, brought to light the fact that there exists formal treaty be tween Austria-Germany and Roumania. This treaty, which runs until 1920, regulates the relations among these countries and binds Roumania in rase of war, not to attack her allies." W. J. BRYAN QUITS POST IN CABINET President Wilson and Secretary Disagree Over Germany. COMMONER'S PEACE VIEW DISCORDANT Other Members Are Claimed to Have Threatened Retirement Unless Foreign Policy Was Firm. Washington, D. C William Jen nings Bryan, three times Democratic candidate for the presidency of the United States and author of nearly 30 peace treaties with the principal na tions of the world, resigned Tuesday as secretary of state as a dramatic se quel to his disagreement with Presi dent Wilson over the government's policy toward Germany. The resignation was accepted by the President. The Cabinet then approved the response which had been prepared to the German reply to the Lusitania note. Acting Secretary Robert Lan sing signed the document and it was cabled to Berlin. Secretary Bryan will return to pri vate life. It was learned that he in tends to continue his political support of the President. Rather than sign the document which he believed might possibly draw the United States into war, Mr. Bryan submitted his resignation in a letter Robert Lansing, Counsellor of State Department and Now Acting Secretary of State, Whose Signature Is Affixed to Note to Germany. German Ambassador Tries to Avoid Breach of PeaceWith United States Washington, D. C. Count von Bern storff, the German ambassador, Thurs day called at the White House of his own volition and without instruction of any nature from his government. It is known that he had no authority to declare that there has been, or will be, a change in Germany's attitude toward submarine warfare. He was actuated by a desire to put aside the formalities of diplomacy and take direct steps that might lead to a continuation of peace between the United States and Germany. In taking this position, Count von Noted Banker Dies. Berkeley, Cal. Charles R. Bishop, vice president of the Bank of Califor nia, San Francisco, died here, aged 93. Bishop's career was an adventurous and romantic one and included his mar riage to Bernice Pauahi Paki, a Ha waiian princess of royal blood, who, upon her,' death, left him custodian of a great fortune. For many years prior to annexation, Bishop was a command ing figure in the financial affairs of the Hawaiian nation. After the death of his royal wife, he came to California, more than 20 years ago. Zeppelin'.Wires Words to Aviators. Berlin Count Ferdinand Zeppelin has sent the following telegram to the German Aviation league, which is holding its Beventh convention" here: "Sincerest thanks for the greetings of the Aviation League, which has caused a deep impression on the day on which the new creation brought into existence by me in the field of aerial science has brilliantly proved its worth." Emperor William has also tele graphed his thanks. declaring that "the issue involved is of such moment that to remain a mem ber of the Cabinet would be as unfair to you as it would be to the cause which is nearest my heart, namely, the prevention of war." The President accepted the resigna tion in a letter of regret, tinged with deep personal feeling of affection. Dramatically the official relation of Mr. Bryan with the administration of the man whose nomination he assisted so materially in bringing about at the Baltimore convention of 1912 came to an'end. It caused a sensation in the National capital scarcely paralleled in recent years. Ambassadors, ministers and diplo mats from foreign lands, officials of every rank and nation beard the news as it was flashed by newspaper extras. They interpreted variously its effect on the delicate situation that had risen between Germany and the United States. The resigantion of the staunchest advocate of peace in the President's official family spread broadcast the belief that the policy of the United States as definitely deter mined on would assert and defend the rights of the United States in any eventuality that might arise. Originally, it was the intention of the President and Mr. Bryan to have the announcement of the resignation made simultaneously with the dispatch of the note to Germany, but when Mr. Bryan did not attend the Cabinet meet ing unitl President Wilson sent for him, rumors that the President had been unable to bring the Secretary of State to his point of view filled the air. Finally, the news became known and was confirmend. Just when the subject was first broached between the President and Mr. Bryan is not definitely known but the fact that Mr. Bryan would resign was known to a small circle of officials as early as last Sunday. When the principles on which the note to Ger many should be based were discussed Mr. Bryan found that he could not rec oncile his own position with that of the administration. Bernstorff had before him the oppor tunity of pacifying another and power ful incipient antagonist of his native country. He took the one open chance, just as other noteworthy figures of his tory have done. The ambassador told the President that he had been unable to communi cate with his government in a satis factory manner recently because of the conditions surrounding lines of trans mission. He explained that for this reason it had been impossible for him to tell the Kaiser plainly and frankly how anti-German feeling in this coun try had grown and of the apparent de termination of the United StateB gov ernment to take extreme measures in support of the President's demands. Election Workers Riot. Los Anlgeles, Cal. Clamoring for their pay as election workers at the polls Thursday, a mob of more than 1000 men and women stormed the headquarters of the Business Men's committee. After waiting several hours in front of the closed offices they paraded to police headquarters, where their statements were taken. The workers Bay they were em ployed in the interests of Frederick J. Whiffen, who was defeated by Charles E. Sebastian for mayor in the recent city election. Gypsies Hold Weird Rites. Denver Gypsies from all over the West participated in weird rites here Thursday at the burial of Marie Adams, 93, "Queen" of one of the wealthiest nomadic tribes in the United States. Mrs. Adams died May 27 at San Ber nardino, Cal., after delegating her power to Alex Adams, the eldest of her two sons. The gypsy queen was reputed to be worth $1,000,000. She had $30,000 on deposit in banks of Denver and suburban towns. OREGON NEWS OF $776,911 Insurance Paid. Salem With $1,282,701.05 received in net premiums by 51 casualty and other accident insurance companies in Oregon, the companies paid in losses $776,911.60 last year, according to a report of State Insurance Commission er Wells. The loss on liability insur ance was $463,848.03 and the net pre miums were $655,912.63. Figures for the last year show tha tne total net prohts of the domestic mutual fire insurance companies amounted to $44,231.02. The aggre gate income was $421,018.94, while the expenditures were $376,218.70. The net amount of risks carried by 11 companies December 31, 1914, was $70,563,958.36. The aggregate amount of cash on hand and other ad mitted aBsets is given as $412,454.75. Unpaid losses totaled $49,702.89, while all other liabilities were $31, 647.21. The total unearned premiums were $180,033.52. Statements filed by life insurance companies show that the three domes tic concerns at the close of 1914 had a total of $13,624,642 insurance in force, distributed among 6353 policies. Do mestic companies, according to the re port, made substantial gains during the year, issuing a total of $3,523,164 in new insurance, while $1,785,063 in insurance was terminated. Claims paid, less reinsurance in admitted companies, totaled $68,595.23. Pre miums collected, less reinsurance in authorized companies, amounted to $415,862.76. Project Opening Asked. Baker lhirty-six thousand acres that have been tied up by a Carey land project in Pine valley, Baker county, are expected to be thrown open within a few months, if the United States Land department acts upon the request of those in that vicinity. H. A. Clements, land commissioner, is in Baker awaiting the land in spector from Washington to take him to the tract, which is within a nine mile radius of Halfway. Upon the re port of the inspector will be decided whether the state will be aided in re claiming the land or whether it Bhall be thrown open at once for settlement. The larger part of the tract, 34,000 acres, was filed on six years ago by an Eastern irrigation company, under the Carey act. After expending about $7000 on the project the company de cided last year that it could not carry the project to completion and the mat ter was put up to the state officials, who in turn appealed to the United States Reclamation service. In addition to the 23,000 acres filed on by the Eastern concern, there are 13,000 acres which would be taken up if the larger tract was thrown open. Mr. Clements asserts that many fami lies are waiting for government land. Coos Bay Channel Dries Up. Marehfield The Port of Coos Bay recently expended several thousand dollars in opening the canal between Coos Bay and North Inlet landing and the job was contracted to be done so that three feet of water would be as sured at mean low water. From the inlet proper to North Inlet landing is a distance of four miles, and this water way had been the avenue over which all the railroad material used in the Beale Lake and Tenmile region was routed. The Port Commission ordered a straightening of the channel between the bay and the inlet, a mile in dis tance. The job had been finished but two weeks and at low water the newly-dug channel is dry for a distance of 500 feet in the middle of the cutoff. There is heavy traffic over the route and the port will order a new amountof dredg ing to maintain the desired three feet at low water, which would give serv ice at any stage of time. Malheur Storm Freakish. Baker The champion freak storm of Malheur county was reported here Friday. A heavy rainfall and wind did heavy damage throughout the county, but the edge skirted the town of Malheur. With a heavy roar a hailstorm broke there and hailstones as big as bantam eggs raised welts all over the bodies of horses and cattle. The ground was soon covered with hail three inches deep. In some spots the sun shone through out the pelting storm. Trees were also badly damaged. Roseburg to Fix Road. Roaeburg At a mass meeting of citizens held here action was taken to bring about an improvement of the road through Pass Creek canyon. Re ports have reached this city that many automobile parties have been unable to pass through the canyon and were obliged to ship their machines south from Cottage Grove. The County court has promised to co-operate with the citizens and have the road improv ed at once; it probably will be pass able within a week. Forest Service Trail Work On. Albany Work has been begun on the government forest service trail and telephone line from Casoadia, on the South Santiam river, 45 miles south east of Albany, over the divide to Quartzville. Twenty-three miles of this trail was constructed last summer and the remaining 12 miles will be built this year. The trail and tele phone are being constructed at the same time, it having been found more practicable to do the work in that manner. GENERAL INTEREST 750 Cows to Be Tested. Soon more than half the cows sup plying milk to the important cities of the Willamette valley and Southwest ern Oregon will have been tuberculin tested, according to information given out by State Dairy and Food Commis sioner Mickle. Mr. Mickle said that a total of 750 cows had been signed up and would be tested by a man to be put into the field immediately by State Veterinarian Lyile. The cities where cows are to be tested are : Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass, Cottage Grove, Roseburg, Eu gene, Salem, Oregon City, Corvallis, Independence, Dallas, McMinnville, Forest Grove and Hillsboro. Jt is probable that some testing work will be done also at The Dalles, Hood River and Ashland. Mr. Lytle plans to visit the different cities with an exhibit showing the benefits of the tuberculin test and also the results of tuberculosis on cows. Alcohol Label Is Needed. Candy which contains brandy and rum as a flavoring must be labeled, says J. D. Mickle, state food and dairy commissioner, in his answer to the complaint for injunction filed by H. R. Hoeffler, an Astoria candy manufac turer. Mr. Mickle' two weeks ago seized 47 boxes of Centennial choco lates, one of the Hoeffler proudcts, be cause they contained alcohol. Last week Mr. Hoeffler was granted a temporary injunction by Circuit Judge Davis, restraining Mr. Mickle from seizing any more of the choco lates. He declared the chocolates con tained only 1.05 per cent alcohol. Mr. Mickle, in the answer which he filed in County Clerk Coffey's office, says a chemical analysis of the candy showed it contained a greater percentage than this. Governor Finds Waste. Salem Governor Withycombe, who has just returned from Eastern Oregon, put his knowledge of agriculture to a practical use, when he discovered that the silos at the Eastern Oregon Insane Asylum were not managed properly. His discovery will save the state many times the cost of his trip. "The asylum has two large silos," said the governor, "with capacities double that necessary for the present herd of 17 cows. As a result the man agement is not able to feed the en silage fast enough, and a large part of it spoils. The spoiled ensilage should not be fed. I suggested that the herd either be doubled or that the amount of ensilage be greatly reduced." Tillamook Cheese Industry Prospers.. Tillamook Tillamook county pro duced 38,593,183 pounds of milk last year and manufactured 4,290,610 pounds of cheese, valued at $654,374. 36. This, in a few words, is the rec ord of the banner cheese section of Oregon and the Northwest. Notwith standing fluctuations in the markets and uncertainties of free trade, Tillamook cheese held its own in price, the average being but a trifle below 1913, when it was 15.46 cents per pound, and last year it was 15.38 cents per pound. The average price for butter fat was 38.32 cents for the year, and the aver age price for cheese for the past six years was 15.37 cents. Horticultural Post Gone. Salem That an amendment passed by the recent legislature to the law creating the State Horticultural com mission abolishes the office of commis-sioner-at-large and that the five dis tricts will continue to be represented by a commissioner, was an opinion given recently by Attorney General Brown. The terms of C. A. Park, Saelm, and H. H. Witherspoon, Elgin, have ex pired and the State board Will appoint their successors at the next meeting. J. W. Pomeroy, Scappoose, will be re appointed, and the terms of Dr. C. A. Macrum, Mosier, and A. C. Allen, Medford, have not expired. Albany to Get New Plant. Albany A large fruit evaporator will be constructed in Albany this sum mer by Charles M. Miller, of Portland. Mr. Miller has leased a tract of ground in this city for that purpose, and it is probable that a large warehouse will be erected on the tract adjoining the freight tracks of the Oregon Electric. Mr. Miller expects to install special equipment for the manufacture of lo ganberry juice. He will establish a laboratory in connection with his evap orator for experimenting in the utiliza tion of fruit and berries in by-products. Railroad Is Incorporated. Salem The Roseburg & Eastern Railroad company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, filed articles of incor poration with Corporation Commis sioner Schulderman. The company plans building a railroad from Rose burg eastward to the western boundary of Umpqua national forest and the Umpqua river. Fair Representative Chosen. Klamath Falls Phillip P. Sinnott has been appointed to represent Kla math county at the San Francisco Fair. The representative who has been there thus far is not able to serve longer. The salary of the representa tive is paid from sums subscribed by local merchants, together with an ap propriation made by the County court.