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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1915)
WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK AUSTRIAN DIPLOMAT ADMITS PLANNING STRIKES IN l). S. Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSP Live News Iteis of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. The three-day regatta opens at As toria, Ore. Dogwood trees near Vancouver, Wash., are in bloom for the Becond time this year. Two Americans were killed by Mex ican bandits who have been attempt ing raids in Texas. Germany offers to submit the Lusi tania and Arabic claims to The Hague tribunal lor adjustment. The Portland Gas & Coke company pays 7 per cent on preferred and com mon stock for the year ending June 30. The secretaries of war and navy have been asked by the President to outline adequate defense plans for the nation. The work of completing the O.-W, R. & N. cutoff from Chambers Prairie to Olympia, about 7.5 miles, will be completed at once. A Portland, Or., druggist was ar rested and confessed to robbing the stand of a blind cigar dealer and sel ling the goods at his own store. The Georgia grand jury investigat ing the lynching of Leo M. Frank re ports that it can find no clue sufficient to warrant the indictment of any one. Germany is reported as ready to en tertain peace negotiations and will yield Belgium. It is reported also that the freedom of Poland and Finland will be asked. Illinois farmers ' who were driven from their fields by floods are finding recompense by gathering an abundance of fish which were left imprisoned in low places when the waters receded. Silvio Pettirossl, an Argentine avi ator, fell from a height of several hun dred feet into San Francisco Bay late Friday while giving an exhibition flight from the Panama-Pacific exposi tion. President Wilson went to a theater party Friday night for the first time for more than a year. He was per suaded to go as a relaxation from the work he has been doing recently on . foreign problems. An Amsterdam dispatch says It is reported that Admiral van Tirpitz, the German minister of marine, will resign and will be succeeded by Admiral von Pohl, now chief of the admiralty staff and commander of the German battle fleet. The Overseas Agency, of Berlin, says: "The municipal council elected by the citizens of Lodz (a city of Rus sian Poland now In the handB of the Germans) has banished the Russian language, and only PoliBh and German will be used. Eight Albanians were sentenced to long terms in prison for having com municated with Austria by carrier pigeons. The men involved are Cap tain Mustapha, of the Albanian bark Bella Scutari na, who was sentenced to 20 years, and seven members of hi crew, condemned to serve ten years each. A 16-year-old girl of Hood River, Ore., successfully lands a 29-inch fish Foreign exchange ia reported to have taken an alarming slump, and the American banks are "bursting with gold." A Portland beauty Is soon to become the bride of Luis C. Abeilli, Bolivian commissioner at the San FranciBco fair. The greatest favorable trade balance since March 13 was shown by the statement of weekly imports and ex ports for the week ending August Zb. The favorable balance for the week w I3a.2fi9.0a9. F.nnrtn war JfiO. 811,764, and Imports were $27,042,725. Sir Rodmon Roblin, J. II. Howdcn Dr. Montague and G. R. Coldwell, of Winnipeg, Man., charged by the Math ers Royal Commission with conspiracy to defraud the province, voluntarily appeared at the city police station After a conference with Deputy Chief Newton they were released on bail of $50,000 each, $26,000 consisting of personal bond and two sureties of $12, COO each being given. The German submarine which sunk the British steamer Arabic, on which two Americans were lost, is reported to be lost also. Antonio Flores, ex-President of Ecuador, la dead, benor f lores was elected to the presidency of Ecuador in 1888, and served the term of four years. German business men have trans mitted to the United States an offer to buy 1,000,000 bales of cotton. The price offered was 15 cents a pound, payable on delivery of the cotton in German harbor. Three mora U. S. regiments have been ordered to the Mexican border to reinforce the American troops in pa trolling tne Dounaary. General Orozco, one of the Mexican revolutionary leaders, was killed by Amprlmn citizens and customs official when he was making a raid on a Texas ranch. Four other raiders were slain The postmaster of St. Louis has re ceived many handbills purported to have been originated by German tym n.tM.ara railing for tha use of dvna- mite In destroying American munition plant. Washington, D. C. Secretary Lan sing has granted an interview at the State department to Dr. Constantin Theodor Dumba, the Autsro-Hungarian ambassador, who desires to discuss his admission to newspaper reporters that he has taken part in a movement to interfere with the production of war materials in the United States. Ambassador Dumba's request for a conference reached Mr. Lansing late Tuesday. It is understood here that he wishes to make an explanation re garding dispatches sent by him to the foreign office at Vienna and seized by British authorities from James F. J. Archibald, an American war corres pondent, who was acting as a messenger. These dispatches, which are said to reveal that the ambassador suggested plans for handicapping munitions plants and had undertaken to warn Austro-Hungarian subjects that they were violating the criminal code of their native land by accepting employ ment in American establishmments making war supplies for the allies, are declared to have raised a subject for which there iB no precedent in Ameri can diplomacy. The question of dual citizenship, long disputed between this govern ment and several European powerB, is involved, and because of this the mat ter will be approached when Ambas sador Dumba arrives, without prejudice. Officials doubt that there has been any violation of law. As to whether there has been a breach of diplomatic propriety or in ternational ethics, Secretary Lansing must decide after he has heard the Austrian ambassador's statement. Copies of papers taken from Archi bald in London have been forwarded to the State department by Ambassador Page. They had not reached here Monday night, but it was understood that Dr. Dumba would take copies with him when he called at the : State department. iver and Harbor Bill Likely to Eace Broadaxe in Next Congress Washington, D. C River and har bor legislation at the next session of congress will be compelled to take a place of secondary importance, in the opinion of Representative Sparkman, chairman of the river and harbor com mittee, who passed through Washing ton recently. "I presume," he said, "that our bill may have to make way for more pressing legislation at the coming ses sion. If President Wilson recom mends national defense legislation, with its necessary large appropria tions, we may be able only to provide for river and harbor projects already under way. Projects contemplated. but not yet authorized, undoubtedly will be undertaken some time, but I expect the river and harbor bill of next session will have to be held down because of more pressing legislation urged by the President. Mr. Sparkman was inclined to be lieve a bill of reasonable size could be passed to continue work on projects now under way, such as the Columbia river, Willamette and other authorized projects in the Northwest, but he thinks there is little chance whatever for adoption of new projects, of which the Pacific Northwest will have sev eral to propose. Restored Vision Improves. Pendleton After a little more than month's enjoyment of his Bight, which was suddenly restored while he was walking along the strreet with the aid of a staff, which had been his guide for 12 years, Karl Guiott, Pendleton i blind muBician, is more than ever con vinced that the return of his viBion is due to his mental concentration. 11 has now discarded the cane and has learned to write legibly. He spendi all of his time out doors, and says his sight is constantly improving, lie will continue giving music lessons. MEXICANS FIRE ON AMERICAN TROOPS Soldiers at Brownsville Reply to Attack of Bandits. Raiders' Dead Number Six Troops Pursue Band, Capturing Three Encinal Is Threatened. Brownsville, Tex. Mexicans on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande late Saturday fired nearly 100 shots at an American army aeroplane flying over Brownsville, and then turned their guns against a squad of American soldiers on guard at the Brownsville electric light plant. When the firing started the soldiers got behind shelter and returned the fire. There were no casualties. Lieuten ants Joseph G. Morrow and B. Q. Jones were in the aeroplane. This GEN. GEORGE W. GOETHALS Investigation Is Ordered. Honolulu, T. H. Lieutenant Com mander Mark St. C. Ellis, of the gun boat Princeton, was named chairman of a board of inquiry to investigate and fix the responsibility for the col lision between the United States steamer Supply and three submarines of the F type Monday. The F-l, F- and F-3 were damaged by the Supply when the latter attempted to doc here. Divers who examined the hulls of the submarines reported tha diving steering gears of the flotilla damaged, They will be dyrdocked later this week Prisoners Have Real Fun, Joliet, 111. Labor Day was a real holiday for the inmates in the Btate penitentiary here, r orgettmg the walls and bars which cut them off from the outside world the convicts Btood up and howled with glee while two pugilists pummeled each other in a regular ring in the prison yard. In Chicago, Gov ernor Dunne became incensed when he learned that the boxing bouts were in prospect He telegraphed the warden that the bouts must be eliminated The telegram arrived too late. Woman, 72, Is Stowaway. San Francisco A 72-year-old stow awayMrs. Dentins Angel said to be the oldest stowaway and the only wo man stowaway that ever came to San Francisco, arrived here Wednesday from Honolulu on the liner Korea, Her son, George Angel, had bought second-class ticket for himself from Honolulu and had sumggled his mother on board. Mrs. Anogel was sent to the immigration station. Jews to Strike for Day. New York A friendly strike of the members of the Jewish trade unions represented In the conveniton of the National Workmen's committee Jewishl rights, for one day following the opening of peace negotiations I Europe, was derided on at the closing session here. The workmen, nearly 250,000, will cease work for a day protest against the oppression of the Jewel In several European countries. S. AEROPLANE MADE EIRST TARGET ' t f V A tf.ththg 1 j II General Goethals has resigned as governor of the Panama canal zone, the resignation to take effect on No vember 1. He Is surrendering his of fice because he believes his work on the Isthmus Is done. is the second time within two days that a United States army aeroplane has been fired on. United States soldiers at Los Tu- litos ranch, 20 miles north of here, during the past 48 hours have captured 10 Mexicans, strangers in the neigh borhood, and supposed to be members of raiding fcangs. United States cav alry and infantry and posses of county officers and citizens continued the search through the Bection of country 11 mileB from here where two Amer icans were murdered Friday. The list of bandit dead stands at six, although others probably have been killed and not reported. A detachment of the Twelfth United States cavalry early Saturday night engaged in a short fight, 12 miles north of here, with four Mexican ban dits, one of whom waa killed and the other three captured. None of the cavalrymen were injured. A message from Laredo sayB a band of Mexicans are reporetd at Encinal, Tex., and have threatened to attack the town. OREGON STATE NEWS Many Donations Being Made to Aid Work of Oregon University University of Oregon, Eugene The University library has received as a gift from Mrs. Clara B. Colby, of Washington, D. C, a shipment of ninety-five books and a .number of pamphlets. The gift includes publica tions of the woman movement, tem perance and other reform movements, biography, history, travel, poetry and miscellaneous literature. One item of special importance is 16 volumes of the "Woman's Tribune," published in Washington, D. C. Another donation to the University has been received by the department of Journalism from Mrs. Davenport, mother of Homer Davenport, who was an Oregon boy and was raised at Sil verton. Mrs. Davenport desired to have preserved in the rooms of the de partment one of the few remaining originals she had of Homer's cartoons, and she secleted his "World-wide Struggle for Money." She had this framed and sent it to the department by express from her present home in Los Angeles. The department of journalism is also in receipt of several small donations of printing materials in addition to the complete old-fashioned newspaper plant entrusted to the department by Hon. H. R. Kincaid, for nearly forty years editor of the Oregon State Jour nal. In the last year small gifts of vari ous kinds have been made the Univer sity in considerable numbers. Study Course Changed. Salem Superintendent of Public In struction Churchill has announced a new course of Btudy for high schools. Mr. Churchill said that in country high schools it often was necessary for teachers to give instruction in subjects for which they had made no special preparation, and for them a definite outline of the work is of much value. Much freedom of the choice of sub jects is given in the larger high schools, so students may not be re quired to take subjects in which they are little interested, and for which they have no particular aptitude. The minimum requirement for grad uation is 15 units of high school work with recitation periods of 40 minutes in length, but pupils are urged to com plete the course by taking four sub jects each year for four years, thereby earning 16 units. The course of study permits pupils to earn from one to three units for graduation in either vocal or instru mental music taken outside of the school, provided the work is given by competent teacher and the pupil spends at least 80 minutes daily in practice or instruction. There iB also a new course required to be given in all high schools, upon the completion of which a student will be permitted to enter a teachers ex amination. This course is made necessary on account of a law which became opera tive on September 1, requiring all per sons who have not had at least six months of successful teaching exper ience to complete an elementary teach ers' training course before they are permitted to enter an examination for a teachers certificate. The elemen tary teachers' training course is in ad dition to the teachers training course which has heretofore been given in many of the larger high schools. Pilgrim Leaves $50,000. Roseburg In the death of George A. Smith at his camp near Los An geles a few days ago, Douglas county has lost probably its most eccentric character and one of its pioneer and prosperous farmers. He was on his way to visit a daughter when he died, The body of Mr. Smith was found be side his burro and goat, his two com panions for the last three years. He believed that by living like some of the Bible characters he would reach the age of 100 years. He is thought to have left an estate of $50,000, in cluding his Camas valley ranch. SCENES IN THE CITIZENS' MILITARY CAiyiP I MSffjTi hit' hk Vf''h'Ml That the United States military Instruction camp at Pittsburgh, N. Y win more than fulfill its expectations, was the general opinion of those in command when they saw with what enthusiasm the men, most of whom are prominent in business, politics and professions, "pitched in" to their assigned tasks and began the four weeks' military instruction, under the supervision of regular army officers. They all hope to become efficient soldiers to protect the country from a foreign foe. In the illustration, at the left, is Mayor Mitchel of New York, now just Private Mitchel, and at the right, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., walking briskly to his tent. AMERICA GETS $52,000,000 OF BRITISH GOLD Americans Go to War. Washington, D. C More than 600 American boys under 18 years old, have been discharged so far from the British army upon requests from the State department. Most of these boys went to Canada and misrepresented their ages to recruiting officers. Peter Dougal, of Lambert, Minn., after hav ing been discharged once on the appli cation of the State department, es caped from his parents and reenliBted He was released again only to take passage on the Arabic and escaped death when that liner was sunk. Attack on Roumania Near. Rome A dispatch from Bucharest declares that a declaration of war by Austria-Hungary against Roumania is hourly expected. Preparations for the impending conflict are being rushed in Roumania, and the war fever there is constantly increasing. Volunteers are flocking to the colors. King Ferdi nand, alluding to the alleged wholesale arrests and prosecutions of Rou manians in Transylvania, is said to have affirmed that he waa prepared to make every sacrifice in a war of re demption. Cashier Locked Up; $1360 Taken, North Yakima, Wash. Two masked men held up the Svlah State Bank at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, obtaining $1350 In currency and silver, locked Cashier Elmer Dunlin in the vault and made their escape, going north on the Ellensburg road in an automobile. Officers are scouring the country fol lowing clews, and telephone and tele graph were freely used, but nothing has beon discovered to identify tha robbers. Curacto It Without Food. Chicago Death by starvation through four years of crop failure faces the 75,000 inhabitants of Cura cao Island, In the Dutch West Indies, unless help it tent them, according to tha Right Rev. M. G. Vuylsteke, who it here seeking aid for tha islanders. $19,000 Spent on Streets. Dallas Spending more than $19,000 in the construction of macadam pave ment in the course of the summer, the Dallas City council has carried out the program outlined by Mayor fc. U Kirkpatrick in his inaugural message, Practically every street in Dallas is now either paved with hard surface or macadam. Mr. Kirkpatrick took the stand that the hard times the people were now facing in this section offered the city its best opportunity to con struct needed improvements, thus pro viding labor for unemployed men. Peart for South America. Hood River Wilmer Sieg, sales manager for the Apple Growers' asso ciation, announces the sale of five car loads of Anjou pears at $2.25 f. o. b Hood Rivtr. "TMb sate was made several davs ago." says Mr. Sieg, "but as yet we have made no deliveries, We prefer to ship the fruit after al lowing it to become well matured.' The pears, which will probably start rolling next week, will be shipped to South America. "The association, sayt Mr. Sieg, has booked itt first or der for a carload of Gravenstelns, Extension Officer Resignt. Paul M. Collins, secretary of Ex tension at the Oregon Agricultural college, has resigned to accept the su- perintendency of the city schools of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Mr. Collins labor for the advancement of agricul tural interests in Oregon has been highly efficient and his retirement from extension work will be regretted by the college and by the cititens of the state, many of whom have bene fitted by hit extension work. Clothesline Loot Found. Cottage Grove Much of the cloth ing taken by clothet Una thievet dur ing several months past hat been found in a clump of bushes two miles south of the city. Tha articles stolen last week from the Orville Spear home were found in an empty building on Sixth street. The clothing stolen from Mrs. Mary Smith was found on tha river bank near the home. To strengthen British financial prestige in New York markets, $52,000,000 in treasure, two-thirds in gold and one-third in securities, which had been Bhipped by tho Bank of England from London via Halifax, arrived at the terminal of the American Express company at Thirty-third street and Tenth avenue, New York, in seven steel cars garrisoned by forty armed men. The greatest treasure cargo ever trusted to one bottom crossed the Atlantic In a British battleship accompanied by a flotilla of torpedo-boat destroyers and a cruiser. The photograph shows twenty three wagon loads of the gold being transported through the streets of New York guarded by the armed men of the express company and a detail of mounted police. EDUARD0 ITURBIDE INDIAN PRINCES AIDING ENGLAND HiJiii-Sl? fftf Wit K vAV. I Eduardo Hurbide, now In Washing ton, has been mentioned frequently as a posible choice of the United States and the Latin-American coun tries for provisional president of Mexico. talk Nothing More to Say. Two Irish soldiers began to about home affairs. One of them ex plained that his wife's name was Mag gie Murphy. "A flue girl, too," remarked the other. "Do you know her?" asked the hus band. "Know her? Why, yes. One day she was out boating with me and we came to an island, where wt lauded. Maggie,' set 01, 'It's either ye kiss me or I drowns ye.'" "And and did ye kiss her?" gasped the Jealous husband. "Was the drowned?" the other asked slowly. AND THICK SHELLS This photograph taken at a British base In Flanders shows at the right two Indian princes who are serving with the British cavalry. AMERICAN MARTYR TO SERbIaTIItPHUs" ." Grave of Dr. Ernest Magruder of the American Red Croja, wan iu. cunibed to typhus In Serbia. Standing at the grave are Dr, Samuel Hodge, his comrade, and his Serbian orderly. THIN Two Vtrlstiet of Explosive Missile That Are Designed for Dif ferent Purposes. Thert are teveral klndt of high ex plottvt shells, which have been de signed for various purposes. For In stance, there ara the shells the case of which It very thin, to that their capacity for containing explotlva may ba Increated. These explode Instantly at tha slightest contact, and are uaed as mines; or, In other words, they cause damage not by the Impact oi their mass but by the fierceness of the explosion. Another kind of explosive shell It made by Increasing the thick ness of the steel case and reducing the charge of explosive. The explosion of this missile Is calculated to take place a little after contact. This type Is used for the destruction of solid de fenses, like walls, earthen works, etc., as the thickness of the case and tha slowness of explosion permit them to penetrate the fabric before exploding. Waste of Public Funds. One minor waste of the public fund Is called to mind by the way a man who once belonged to congress or the legislature uses official stationery for the rest of hit natural life. Ohio State JournaL Bird't Life of Value. Investigation In Germany hat shown that the partridge eats the teedt ot many noxlout weeds and intect de structive to plant life, therefore do terve protection.