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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1915)
'S OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSP Live News Items of All Nations and ' Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. STEfANSSON STILL EXPLORING NEW LAND IN FAR NORIU Ottawa, Ont. An official report from Vllhjulmur Stefansson, the ex plorer, that he had discovered new land in the northern waters of Canada, reached the mlniiiter of naval affairs here Wednesday in a message from Nome. The ofllcial report confirms the re port made at Nome three days ago that Stefansson had diacovered new land. Stefansson's report briefly describe! hia journey In the North, announces the discovery of new land and states that on August 23 he sailed for Herschel Island In the Polar Bear, which he chartered to establish a baf.e on Prince Patirck Island. Bromthis point, he announces, he will continue the work of exploring the newly dis- CHOICE OF OBREGON IS MADE BY WILSON Cam's Mainstay Thought on Verge of Deserting Chief. WASHINGTON EXPECTS COUNTER-REVOLT Villa and Zapata Expected to Join Forces Recognition by U. S. Would Probably Follow. .. CONSTANTIN DUMBA Three laborers are killed In a cave-In In a mine near Wallace, Idaho. 'The police and fire departments of Ansonia, Conn., disperse crowd of 6000 who started a run on a bank in that city. Attorney for the Southern Pacific de clares that the railroad owns the tim ber and mineral deposits on the land grant, as well as the $2.60 per acre equity. Woman suffragists of California have sent a petition on its way to con cress urging national suffrage. The document is 18,393 feet long and con tains 600,000 names. It is revealed by excavations in Mefla Verde national park, Southwestern Colorado, that the Cliff Dwellers had built many fortifications for their pro tection against possible enemies. The admiralty at London announced that in all probability the British sub marine E-7 had been sunk off the Dar- danelles. Three officers and the crew of 26 are presumed to be prisoners. The county auditor at Spokane at a recent meeting of the commissioners, offered a resolution to reduce the elective officials' salaries, as well as those appointive, in order to reduce the county budget. An imperial ukase was issued at Petrograd calling to the colors reserves of the territorial army. The senate is Instructed to determine the ages and number of the reserves and the dis tricts from which they shall be called, The land grant conference Is being held in Salem, Ore., but no definite ac tion is taken as to the disposal of the tracts, which, however, is a matter to be acted upon by congress, according to the decision of the U. S. Supreme court. It Is claimed that word from Ste f ansson, the Arctic explorer, who was lost in the North, has been received. Stefansson and party left the United States early in 1914 and when his ship was found floating in an ice floe, a derelict, all hope of his safety was . abandoned... til.- j 1 . i. B if .1 t Liikb ini com ui living, uiu cubi. ui hunting and fishing ha soared. Be cause of the war, there has been a general advance In the price of rifles and shotguns of from 6 to 10 per cent and cartridges now cost 11 per cent more than last year. Fish creels, which are made In France, have gone up 60 per cent. An unofficial but trustworthy report says electricians making a preliminary examination of the submarine F-4, lost outside Honolulu. harbor March 26, but now in drydock, discovered that the fuses on all four batteries had been blown out, Indicating that this was the cause of the disaster which resulted in the death of her crew of 22 men. In a dispatch from Amsterdam Reu- ter's correspondent says: "A tele gram from Ameland, Holland, BBys that only three of five Zeppelins which Wednesday night sailed westward re turned Thursday, flying in an easterly direction." Since the beginning of the war 84 persons have been arrested by the Swiss authorities on the charge of be ing spies. The arrests, made In vari- ous towns, were mostly of Austrians and Germans. At Lausanne recently three spies, their leader a German, were sentenced to a year's imprison ment and to pay heavy fines. Wonsr Doo King, a Chinese famous in San Francisco as a highbinder, whom the immigration authorities for vearB have tried to expel from this country, must go at last. The order for his deportatoin was signed after the case had hung undecided for many months, with the Chinese using every legal device to stay off the decision, More British gold, nearly five and one-half millions of dollars in sove reigns, has arrived here aboard the Oceanic liner Sonoma from Australian bankers. Including this shipment the total of British money received here from Australia and New Zealand since June 30 approximates $20,000,000 Early next month $8,000,000 more is expected. Threatening letters have been re ceived by the Anglo-French financial commission which is in this country , seeking a large loan. Washington will insist on the abso lute recall of Dr. Dumba, the Hun garia-Austria military attache, who attempted to incite strikes in this country. Two bottles, believed to contain a high explosive, were found on the . steamship Lapland, of the White Star line, at her pier In the Worth river, New York. The Lapland was to sail V for Liverpool. The British steamship Leonardo, the first vessel to clear from this port for ' Vladivostok bv way of the Panama canal, sailed Wednesday for the Siber- Ian port. Fifteen locomotives and 8000 tons of steel rails comprised the cargo, valued at about $676,000. Following complaint by members of the Civic Improvement association, in the lobbv of the city hall at Aberdeen, Wash., has been declared a nuisance by the police. Hereafter ft will be prohibited. The lobby is used for a free reading and magazine room. ' Constantln Dumba, whose recall as Austro-Hungarlan ambassador was asked by President Wilson because he fomented, strike In American fac tories. covered land. Regarding the discovery and his plans, Stefansson telegraphed the Canadian government: . Landed south end Prince Patrick Island June 1, 1915. Proceeded north, finishing mapping west coast Patrick Island. 'June 18 discovered new land of considerable but unknown size near 78 degrees north, 117 degrees west. Fol lowed coast south-southeast by east three days. Total demonstrable extent coast over 100 miles, nearly straight line. Land in parts rugged. Game abundant. Started south June 22, reached Chronometers Bay of Mercy July 14 to 20, crossed BankB' Island diagonally with door packs. Reached home (schooner Mary Sachs ten mileB south east of Killett) August 8. No accident or hardship on trip." Washington, D. C. General Alva- rado Obregon for President of Mexico. This is the object of the Wilson ad ministration's latest Mexican policy, according to the admission Monday of a member of the cabinet, who has been chiefly responsible for the President's plan to pacify Mexico since the resig nation of W. J. Bryan. Obregon, now the most conspicuous general of the Carranzita forces, is bursting with ambition to attain the presidency of the Mexican republic and recognition by the United States and other powers. He is on the verge of a break with First Chief Carranza and the inauguration of a counter rev olution In which he would probably be joined by Villa and Zapata. Obregon Is looked on with high fay- or by the Wilson administration, which hopes to avoid the necessity of recognizing Carranza as head of the de facto government. The adminis tration believes that Obregon is the only leader strong enough to set up a government and maintain it. Confidential reports that Obregon probably will desert Carranza and carry the greater part of the first chief's army with him reached Wash' ington a few day ago. The adminis tration was also informed that Car- ranza's apparent success in extending his military authority is almost entire ly to the work of Obregon. As a result of this intelligence, the administration decided to proceed slowly and await developments. Sec retary of State Lansing has transmit ted the reports of Obregon's plans to the Pan-American conference in New York. The envoys of the Latin- American republics agreed with Mr, Lansing that it would be wise to post pone action pending the disclosure of Obregon's intentions. For that reason the conference an nounced the meeting three weeks hence, at which it will endeavour to decide which faction is worthy of rec ognition. If Obregon deBerts Car ranza and develops a strong following he will be recognized by the adminis tration as the de facto president of Mexico, according to the present plans. After the adjournment of the con ference, Obregon was informed by his friends in New York that the situation favored his contemplated move. OREGON MATE NEWS Sunday Closing Law Held Valid by State Supreme Court Salem Constitutionality of the Sun day closing law was upheld by Jusice Burnett, of the Supreme court, when he reversed the decision of Circuit Judge Morrow In the case of the State gainst Leigh E. Nichols, appealed from Lane county. Nichols was charged with keeping his cigar store open Sunday. That the decision may result in a more stringent enforcement oi tne state law prohibiting the keeping open Sunday of any "store, shop, gro cery, bowling alloy, billiard room, or tippling house ... or any place of amusement" is believed probable by attorneys and others here who have studied it. The law exempts from Its provisions theaters, drug stores, doc tors' offices, undertakers, livery stable keeperB, butchers and bakers. In the attack upon the constitution ality of the statute, attorney for Nich- oIb contended that it was violating sec tion 20 of article of the state constitu tion, which declares that "no law Bhall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens, privileges or immuni ties which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens That the measure also was contrary to the 14th amendment to the Federal constitution was alleged. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Visits Colorado Coal Mines Trinidad, Coolo. John D. Rocke feller, Jr., visited the mining camps at Berwind and Tabasco on his first day's inspection tour of the Colorado properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company Wednesday. He talked freely with the miners and went into their homes, questioning the men and their wives about working and living conditions and making suggestions to individuals for improvements. Mr, Rockefeller apparently was greatly interested in the work being done in the public school at Tabasco. "They don t sing very well, sir," apologized the pretty school ma am. You see they have just sarted to school and haven't had time to learn much. And then they are so little. "They're doing fine fine," replied John D. Rockefeller Jr., smiling broadly. And 60 sons and daughters of Berwind an Tabasco minera of an BIG SYNDICATE WILL FLOAT ALLIES' 0AN, IS REPOR New York The proposed mammoth credit loan to Great Britain and France, it was reported, is to be un derwritten by a large syndicate of American financiers and bankers who to receive a commission for their services. The securities otrerea, it was said, will be British and French per cent government bonds, and the price to the investor is to be par. The amount of the loan, it was re ported, is as yet undetermined, but will be between $6000,000,000 and $800,000,000. The underwriting syndicate, it was reported, will be the largest of its kind ever established in the United States, and probably will be open to nearly all national banks, trust com panies and state banks that may care to parpticipate. New Canal Record Made. Washington, D. C New traffic rec ords were set in the Panama canal average age of 6 years, and perhaps of d . j , m ocean.going vessel8 T'r 5 & the passage of the waterway. good United States, the song in which they had been so carefully drilled by Misss Edna Campbell, teacher of the first grade in the Tabasco-Berwind school. Rowboat Trip 400 Miles Wenatchee, Wash. Robert L. Tal bot and Earl D. Freeman, two Port land youths, arrived in Wenatchee Sat urday from Portland, making the 400- mile trip in a rowboat. They met dis aster in Priest Rapids, when their 17-foot boat overturned, and they lost their baggage. They had planned on going to Canada by water, but they That wsb 66 per cent geater than the average traffic of preceding months, Reports that much of the trade orig inated in inland cities was interpreted by officials as showing that the cost of transportation by ocean and though the waterway was so low as to enable steamships to absorb in their rates all or part of the rail charges to and from the seaboard, Turkish Abuse Confirmed. New York The American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions has announced that it "has at hand abundant and undeniable evidence find it necessary to stop here and go to confirmatory of news of persecution of work until they can re-outfit. Several Christians in Turkey. This evidence boats have made the trip from Wenat- comes not from missionaries, but from chee to Portland, but so far as known other sources. Conditions are appall- Oregon State to Display at Show. For the second time Oregon counties and communities are invited to par ticipate in the Manufacturers' & Land Products show at Portland. The great fall exposition will open in the Armory and special buildings on October 25 and close November 13. Already more than a dozen counites have asked for space. The exposition comes at a time of the year when all county fairs and the State Fair at Salem are over, and the agricultural and horticultural displays will show the greatness of the state along these lines. The exposition will be presented by the chamber of commerce and the man agement has decided to give space free to all counties or communities in the Btate deBiring to make a display. Low fares will prevail on steam, electric and boat lines and many Oregon cities and towns will have special days at the exhibition. This year the exhibits will be so ar ranged and displayed as to give the consumer a correct idea of what Ore- eon grows and has for sale. While the show is in progress consumer will meet producer and the discriminating buyer will be in a position to learn the location, quality and variety of soil products in which they are inter ested. The exposition will be the direct means of creating a demand for cer tain articles in which counties of the state specialize, besides creating many new markets. The vast array ot hibits will also be of great help to prospective homeseekers and will pre sent to them a truthful leBSon in Ore gon geography. Thousands of visitors will be Portland en route to or returning from the California exposition at the time the land show is in progress, and the exhibits of the soil will be viewed by Deonle from almost every Btate in the Union. Severral hundred farmers from Eastern and Middle Western states will visit the exposition mSr(i I 1 T lAk! t& tlhTY' 4r Will W''J$ la"" " '" ' jffi ' 1 m I . a? m WS f ' m route to San Francisco Oregon land produces. en to see what this is the first trip up the Columbia. Submarines Held Beaten London The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting upon the recent statement of Gottlieb von Jagow, German foreign minister, regarding Germany s subma rine policy, in which he suggested that it might be well for Great Britain to revoke orders instructing shipmasters to attack submarines whenever possi ble, has this to say: "The British an swer to such diplomacy is quite plain, We have beaten the submarine cam paign and would be, indeed, simple- minded to give it fresh facilities by laying down our weapons." Bankers for National Defense, Denver Hearty support of the na tional administration was pledged in a resolution adopted by the convention of the Investment Bankers' association of America here Wednesday. The resolution urged "a complete program for national defense and urges em ployers to give "employes sufficient time for participation in annual mili tary or naval maneuvers without loss of pay or prejudice of position," in addition to their regular vacations. ing and indicate a "systematic and desperate effort on the part of the rulers of Turkey to wipe out the Ar menians." The uprising in Van, prior to the occupation of that city by the Russians, has given the pretext British General Killed. New York News of the death of Brigadier General P. A. Kenna, of the British army, in an assault on the Turkish defenses at the Dardanelles was received here in a cable message from Lord Decies in London to the sec retary of the National Horse Show association. General Kenna was one of the best known officers of the army, owing to his Interest In sports and hia prominence in horse-racing, horse shows, polo and fox hunting. Fair Seen by 13,000,000. San Francisoc The attendance at the Fanama-Pacific exposition reached the 13.000.000 mark at 12:15 p. m. Sunday. The average daily attendance since the exposition opened has been 61,811. The last million have visited the exposition within the last two weeks. Seventy-seven days remain before the gttee finally close. Roseburg Work to Start. Roseburg That actual construction work on the proposed railroad from Roseburg to the line of the Umpqua National forest reserve and the saw mill which iB to be erected east of this citv will begin within the next few weeks was the assertion of C. L. So- lecman. of Washington, D. C, who arrived here as the official represen tative of Kendall Bros., of Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Solecman will establish offices here soon and will direct Kendall Bros.' investments in this vicinity, Surveying on the railroad will be resumed Wednesday. S. A. Kendall J. L. Snyder and Mr. McKelvey, who are associaated in the enterprise, are expected to arrive here in a few days Aged Tree Yields Exhibit. Quinaby From a tree 65 years old, William H. Eagn, of Mountain View Farm, will send a box of apples to the Panama-Pacific exposition. Planted in 1849 by John Lemen, the tiny tree haB grown to a height of 60 feet, with 60-foot Boread to its branches, and from which more than 60 bushels of apples will be harvested. The tree hale and hearty and has missed only few years with a heavy crop since Mr. Egan has taken note of it. Pears from a 60-year-old tree will form part of the interesting exhibit. RUINED RUSSIAN DEFENSES AT JAROSLAU 3T - - ' - -Am ...MMMim,, i In an fiffort to check the Germans, the Russian forces Intrenched themselves in what they believed was un Impregnable position Just behind Jaroslau, a fortified city In Gallcia. The Germans forced their positions, however, and compelled the Russians to flee before them. In the upper photograph a group of German soldiers are seen ap proaching the scene of death wrought by their guns in driving out the Russians, while on the lower photograph two German officers are seen contemplating the havoc wrought by the lorces in ineir successiui iorwaru uiuvbuioiu. GAL'ICIAN JEWS RETURNING TO THEIR HOMES In the rear of the German army which triumphantly made its entry Into Gallcia and Russia were thousands of Jewish refugees who had fled from their homes before the soldiers of the czar. Believing that they would bo permitted to enjoy privileges under the Germans which were denied them under the rule oi the czar, the Jews, looked upon the triumph of the German forces as another of the blessings heaped upon the "Children of Israel." NAVAL HONORS FOR TWO KILLED IN HAITI I heavy Italian artillery Boston aocorded naval honors to William Gompers of Brooklyn, N. Y., a nephew of Samuel Gompers, the president of the American Federation of Labor, and Carson Whitehurst ot Norfolk, Vs., both members of the crew of the U. S. S. Washington who were killed July 89, when some Haitian rebels resisted the landing of the American sailors at Port-au-Prince. The picture shows sailors firing a volley over the flag-draped coffins on the pier at Oharleetown navy yard, Boston. Lack of Guard Blamed. Salem Failure of those arranging the excursion over the Columbia River Highway September 6 to Btation flagman at the Rockwood road O.-W R. & N. company's crossing or to no tifv the railroad of the unusual traffic to paBS that way, is held by the State Public Service commission as a con tributing cause of the accident in which Charles R. Ray, of Freewater, Or., and Louise Williams, of Portland, were killed, when they were struck by a train., A crossing bell is to be installed at once. Exhibits Being Gathered. State Fair Grounds, Salem O. E. Freytag, superintendent of the pa vilion, arrived Wednesday from San Francisco, and went at once to Wash ington and Yamhill counties to secure exhibits for the forthcoming State fair. Mr. Freytag has been at the ex position at San Francisco ever since the opening, having charge of the ag ricultural exhibits for the state as well as being the representative of the Willamette valley counties there. WHISTLING BURGLAR CAUGHT Bandit Who Quite Went About His Work Merrily Now In Jail. Redding, Cal. John Hooper was ar rested at The Dalles, Ore., charged with being the "whistling burglar" who compelled Gordon Jacobs, mana ger ot the Jones company store at Hornbrook, Cal., near here, to inarch WAS MAN OF PECULIAR MIND O Qulncey Had Good and Bad Quali ties Mingled In a Really Mar velous Manner, De Qulncey, who wrote 'The Con fession of an Opium eater, and other works now considered English class ics, was a strange, ill-balanced per son Vernon Lea says ot him that he had an Incapacity for holding his tongue on Irrelevant matters, which la a sign from his home to the store, open the safe and permit the robber to take with him cash and gold dust to the amount of $700. While taking Jacobs to the store and on his way out of town with the loot the robber whistled merrily and aroused no suspicion. The robbery was committed on June 23. Hooper, according to the police at The Dalles, was paroled from Folsom penitentiary last year. of intellectual weakness. He had also a marked Incapacity for keeping his Irrelevant emotions (espe cially the vituperative ones) to him self, which Is a mark of moral vulgar ity. He had a manifest tendency to talk big, and at the same time to mix slang with grandiloquence In situa tions where no humorous effect can be obtained by this proceeding. Yet, withal, these traits are re deemed by bis great subtlety of thought, his tragic depth of feeling The Italians, having found the Aus trian frontier well fortified, are now making use there of thir heaviest ar tillery. One of the big guns Is here, shown. "DEAD" MAN WALKS TO COURT Identification In Chicago May Be Only Trick of the "Heathen Chinee." Chicago. As the Jury was completed to try Harry Eng Hong, charged with the murder of Mock Chung In a Chi nese gambling house In 1913, an Ori ental walked into Judge Barrett's room In the criminal court building and announced that he was Mock Chung. His announcement caused a sensation. The attorney for the defendant told the court that the man who was killed was Jung Long and a marriage li cense also would be Introduced In evi dence to prove that the supposed mur dered man Is among the living. According to Assistant State's At torney John O'Brien the state hopes to prove that Mock Chung was really murdered and that the man who ap peared In court possesses the same name as the dead man. and occasionally his marvelous pow er of seeing and saying. Many Gates In Norway. A curious feature to travelers on the highroads ot Norway Is the great number of gates upward of 10,000 In the whole country. These gates, which either mark the boundaries ot the farms or separate the home fields from the waste lands, constitute a consid erable Inconvenience and delay to the traveler, who has to stop bis vehicle and get down to open them.