WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
from Ail Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSP
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Lassen peak is "spouting" again.
Pendleton, Ore., Round-Up starts off
with deeds of daring before an audi
ence of 9000.
The Bank of London is to put on a
line of freight-carrying steamers be
tween San Francisco and Hongkong.
A noted physician of Denver de
clares that within ten years science
will practically, eliminate death from
tuberculosis.
Great Britain is seeking hundreds of
physicians in this country, writes Sir
James Barr, who declares "conscrip
tion is coming. "
It is declared that 800,000 German
Boldiers are ready to attempt a passage
through Serbia. . A Nish dispatch
stateB that the Teutons will undertake
this move soon.
By a vote of 28 to 7 the Western
Water Power conference passed a reso
lution memorializing congress to pass
laws giving state rights in matters of
the disposition of water powers.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who 1b
visiting the mines in Colorado, danced
with a pretty woman at a school house
at Cameron, to the tune of "Tippe
rary." All damsels present had their
"turn."
Movements to have all Austro-Hun-garians
quit the plants where they are
employed in making munitions of war
for the enemies of Austria have begun
at Wheeling, W. Va. A speaker
representing a Cleveland society ad
dressed such workmen at Bridgeport,
0 Saturday night.
A Swiss, who has just returned to
Geneva from Constantinople, writes to
the Gazette de Lausanne that there is
no gas, electricity or 'candles in the
Turkish capital and that conditions of
life there are almost intolerable for
foreigners. He says that 2000 work
men from the Krupp plant in Germany
are idle, owing to lack of raw ma
terials. Although department of Justice
officials have not completed their ex
amination. of papers in possession of
the government relating to the activi
ties of James F. J. Archibald the
Artierlran who acted as mosse-.er for
Dr. Constantin T. Dumb, the Aus
trian Ambassador, it 1b believed here
that no attempt will be made to pro
ceed against Archibald.
Lynn Fuller, of Washington, D. C,
attending Bchool at Stanford Univer
sity, is declared to have died from an
injury received in a class rush Septem
ber 3. He died at the home of Repre
sentative Hayes, near San Jose, where
he was taken. An autopsy performed
showed that his appendix burst. This
is the second death that has resulted
from inter-class fights in the history of
Stanford, it was said.
October 9 haB been designated by
Gov. Withycombe, of Oregon, as "fire
prevention day."
A . resolution approving the exten
sion of foreign credit, wholly as a
matter of business and indorsing the
neutrality policy of the national ad
ministration was adopted unanimously
by the Investment Bankers' associa
tion of America in convention in
Denver.
Two Americans are reported to
have been kidnaped by Mexican ban
dits at Santo Domingo, near Villa
Ahumada, 80 miles south of Juarez.
The names of the men are given in
messages to El Paso, Tex., as Fuller
and McCabe. The meager information
indicates they were taken from Ful
ler's home.
Of the 84 Austrian and German pa
pers found in the possession of James
F. J. Archibald, the American news
paper correspondent, when he was ap
prehended August 30 at Falmouth
while proceeding from New York on
board the Bteamer Rotterdam for Rot
terdam, 17 are described as having
been made public and the other 17 as
being "insufficient to warrant publi
cation, ine documents Include a
letter from Dr. Constantin T. Dumba,
the Austro-Hungarian minister of for
eign affairs, which criticised Secretary
of State Lansing's reply to Baron von
Burian's protest against the large de
liveries of weapons to the allies.
Anthony Comstock, secretary of the
New York Society for the Suppression
of Vice, died at his home in Summit,
N. J., after a brief illness.
After more than 76 years of wedded
life, Mrs. Thomas Slifer, aged 96
years, is dead at her home in Lanark,
111. Her husband, at the age of 97
years, survives her.
Committees in the Western States
Water Power conference in session in
Portland have been named. Many
speeches against the Ferris bill were
made. States as far East as North
Dakota are represented in the session.
Full military honors crowned the
burial of two victims of the F-4, which
was lost in Honolulu harbor March 25,
at the naval cemetery at Mare Island,
California.
Two more spies have been convicted
by court martial in London. Official
announcement was made here that a
man and a woman of German origin,
whose names were not given, were
found guilty of attempting to commun
icate information concerning the fleet.
The man waa sentenced to be shot.
The woman was sentenced to ten years
in jail.
FLEEING CONVICT SHOOTS TO DEATH
SUPERINTENDENT OF PENITENTIARY
Salem, Or. Harry Minto, superin
tendent of the Oregon penitentiary,
was shot and killed at 11 :30 Tuesday
night a few miles north of Albany, by
Otto Hooker, an escaped convict.
A few hours earlier, Hooker had
shot and perhaps fatally wounded J, J.
Benson, city marshal of Jefferson.
After Hooker had shot Marshal Ben
son, Superintendent Minto started di
rectly for Albany to head off the fugi
tive convict. Returning north from
Albany in company with Guard John
son, he came upon Hooker.
Minto and the convict opened fire at
about the same time, Minto using a
shotgun and the convict a revolver.
A bullet hit Minto in the head, kill
ing him instantly. Hooker escaped
amid a hail of shots fired by Guard
Johnson. Hooker evidently was not
hit. He was seen an hour later near
MillerBville station, some distance
south of Jefferson.
The gun with which Hooker killed
Minto had been taken from Marshal
Benson at Jefferson, the convict hav
ing shot the officer while they were
scuffling.
Hooker escaped from a gang of 25
convicts grubbing brush a mile south
of the penitentiary.
When Hooker slipped into the brush
from the field where the gang of pris
oners was at work, he was not missed
immediately. Later when the alarm
was sounded, Superintendent Minto
rushed to the scene in an automobile.
Gasoline Causes Death of 35
and Sets Fire to Entire Town
Ardmore, Okla. A spark from a
workman's hammer ignited a tank of
gasoline here late Tuesday, and from
the ruins of two city ; blocks razed by
the resulting explosion and the fires
which followed, 31 bodies had been re
covered.
Fifty persons were believed to have
been crushed to death under falling
walls or burned to death while pinned
in the debris. Search among the
ruins is proceeding, the workerB cen
tering their efforts on the tangled
mass of lumber and bricks which had
been the department store of Maddin
& Co., where it was feared the bodies
of many girl and woman shoppers and
employes would be found.
The property damage was estimated
at $500,000. A score of fires caused
by the flaming gasoline, which was
thrown for blocks when the car ex
ploded with a terrific detonation, were
got under control after two hours' des
perate work by the small local fire
department, aided by every able-bodied
man in the city not assisting the in
jured. The city immediately was
placed under martial law.
The explosion wrecked an entire
block of buildings in the heart of town
and precipitated a scene of panic.
Along Main street from the station to
tte Whittington Hotel, every building
was demolished, and on the opposite
side of the street the plant of Swift
& Co., a two-story rooming house and
cafe and other business buildings were
razed.
Allies Still Push Against Germany's
Strongholds on Western Front
London The great offensive of the
second British forces against both
sides of the elbow joint on the German
positions on the western front had not
slackened Tuesday, but General
Joffre's bulletin reported no new out
standing success.
The British official statement told
briefly of heavy losses inflicted on the
Germans northwest of Hulluch, where
heavy German counter attacks were
carried out during the course of the
day.
Berlin maintains that by means of
counter attacks the allies' drives have
been checked, with heavy losses, but
as the Germans make no claim of hav
ing recovered the ground taken from
them, the indications are the allied
gains of Saturday and Sunday general
ly have been maintained and at some
points improved, and that the fighting
has reached the shite of viciouB at
tacks and counter attacks, which may
persist for weeks.
Berlin reports insist that any stor-
iea that the German line haB been
pierced are untrue, and it is pointed
out that those who have seen Bervice
in the west know it to be impossible
for the allies to break through.
Man, 01, Seeks Office.
Elizabeth, N. J. Milton C. Loudon,
aged 91, of Linden, decided Tuesday
morning to seek his first political
office at the fall election. He has
been nominated for justice of th
peace by Linden Democrats, and his
candidacy was returned by the Repub
lican organization of the borough.
Although he has never before been a
candidate for any political office,
Mr. Louden declares that if his ser
vices as justice of the peace prove
pleasing he will seek higher honors at
the polls.
Harriman Estate Loses.
Rochester, N. Y. A verdict of $60,
000 against Mrs. Mary W. Harriman
and the estate of her husband, the late
Edward H. Harriman, railroad mag
nate, was rendered by a sheriff's jury
1 uesday.
Mrs. Anna N. Laner, of Penfield,
brought the action to recover dam
ages, alleging that false representa
tions were made to her regarding i
tract of land which she purchased
from agents of Mr. Harriman in 11)0-1.
No defense was entered by Mrs.
Harriman.
Air Bombs Hit Gat Works.
Amsterdam, via London Airmen
of the entente allies have again bom
barded Bruges, Belgium. The sudden
cessation of the flow of gas at Sluis,
on the Belgian frontier, which is sup
plied from Bruges, led to the suspicion
here that bombs from the air craft
struck the gas works, and a message
received later from Bruges confirmed
this belief.
The whole city has been thrown in
to darkness, the dispatch said.
ROCKEFELLER GETS
"TIP" FROM PUPIL
How to Make 40 Per Cent Told
by Colorado Child.
CHILDREN MASTERS OF HIGH FINANCE
School Store and Bank Maintained
by Boys and Girls in Remote
Mining Town Big Success.
Trinidad, Colo. A 12-year-old girl
Thursday told John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., how to deal in stocks and bonds,
how to run a bank, and how to finance
a corporation that would pay a 40-cent
annual dividend on a 10-cent block of
common stock. It was at Sopris,
where Mr. Rockefeller, in the course
of his examination of Colorado Fuel &
Iron company properties, Etopped long
enough to visit the public school. In
the highest grade of the school the
teacher told the Standard Oil magnate
that the pupils had established a bank
and a store in which school supplies
were sold.
"Really," said Mr. Rockefeller, with
the delight of a boy at a country fair,
I should like to know something more
about this system of high finance."
Blanche, said the teacher, will
you explain it to Mr. Rockefeller?"
Then Blanche McArthur, daughter
of a coal digger, walked to the front
LIEUT. H. A. WADA
Lieut. H. A. Wada, an aviator of
the Japanese army who became a na
tlonal hero at the storming of Ttlng
tau, has recently passed through the
United States on his way to France
to study army aeronautic In the Eu
ropean war.
of the room, shook hands calmly with
Mr. Rockefeller, and gravely began
her financial lesson.
"You see," Bhe began, "I am cash
ier of the bank. We already have $5
on deposit, all brought by the chil
dren.
"Five dollars!" exclaimed Mr.
Rockefeller. "Wonderful!"
"We have part of this lent out to
pupils on good security, of course,
We are looking around for a perma
nent investment for the rest of the
money."
Blanche then branched off into a dis
cussion of stocks and bonds. Mr.
Rockefeller listened gravely as the
child detailed the elements which
make bond issues safe or unsafe.
"We have a store, too, Mr. Rocke-
teller, sne continued. It waa
formed by some of us boys and girls,
who each subscribed 10 cents to the
capital stock. We buy school supplies
pencils and tablets at wholesale
and sell them to the pupils. Last year
the store paid between 80 and 40 cents
dividend on each 10 cents in stock.'
Drink Curbed in London.
London King George has signed an
order, which will be issued next week,
applying the clauses of the control of
liquor act to the London area. The
order will prevent "treating" in Lon
don. A similar order, which has been
applied to other areas under the pow
ers conferred by the defense of the
realm, has decreased the number of
cases of drunkenness, dealt with by
the police 40 per cent. It is expected
that the hours during which drink may
be sold will be shortened and that di
lution of spirits will be insisted on.
10,000 to Get Apples.
Walla Walla, Wash. Ten thousand
Jonathan apples, the finest to be found
in the valley, have been shipped to
San Francisco for free distribution
Walla Walla day, September 29, at
the exposition.
The 100 boxes are the gift of the
Baker Langdon orchard. They will be
distributed by five girls. Literature
describing the orchard and the valley
will also be distributed.
With this shipment was one of equal
size for exhibit in the Washington
display.
$140,000 Mill Is Burned.
Tacoma, Wash. Fire of unknown
origin Thursday night wiped out the
plant of the Lindstrom Handforth
Lumber company at Rainier, 20 miles
south of Tacoma, destroying the saw
mill, shingle mill and lumber shed and
5,000,000 feet of lumber. The loss is
estimated at more than $140,000,
partly insured.
OREGON SfflE NEWS
Supreme Court Refuses to
Check Naming Boundaries
Salem Evils of gerrymandering
school districtg by county boundary
boards that the taxable area may be
increased, are not within the province
of the Supreme court to correct, but
are administrative questions, accord
ing to an opinion by Justice Burnett.
A suit was brought by School District
No. 35, in Tillamook county, to re
strain the board from annexing part of
its territory to aid the school district
in which lies the town of Tillamook.
The opinion sustains the decision of
Circuit Judge Holmes and the suit is
ordered dismissed.
Efforts of the town of Tillamook to
add to its taxable area for school pur
poses led to the boundary board ex
tending the lines of the district em
bracing the town about 30 miles out,
so as to include valuable timber land.
The taxable wealth of the district
was thus increased more than $1,000,
000. Alleging that a school district
is a municipality, School DiBtrict No.
35, from which territory was taken,
attempted to restrain the board. The
complainants contended that only by
vote of the electors could the district
boundaries be altered. The changing
of the limits, it was asserted, was
tantamount to the amendment of the
charter of a municipality.
Suggestions for Handling Bees.
Corvailis Beginners of bee-keeping
should use hives of the Langstroth type
because of thfe simplicity of both con
struction and handling, is the recom
mendation made by Professor H. F.
Wilson, entomologist of the Oregon
Agricultural College. The hives hold
ing eight or ten frames are generally
used, and the beginner Bhould first try
the eight-frame hive. These can be
made at home more cheaply than they
can be purchased, but the factory-built
ones are more satisfactory.
All hives and parts should be of the
same size and well painted, preferably
white. This will protect the parts
from decay, which will be further pre
vented by raising them slightly above
the surface of the ground. In Oregon
where it is not necessary to put the
hives in cellars during the winter, or
to protect the bees by putting them in
cases, the hives Bhould be put under
shelter. A stand for housing six or
eight hives may be made for from six
to eight dollars. Tops and sides are
detachable so that they may be re
moved in summer without disturbing
the bees.
If a smoker is needed, the larger
size is recommended, since it does not
have to be replenished with fuel often.
Bee veils may be bought ready-made
or made at home. A piece of black
netting in the shape of a sack open at
both ends serves well. A better one
is made of wire screen, rolled into a
cylinder that will go over the head,
covered on top by a piece of canvas,
and finished by attaching two pieces
of canvas to the lower end so that they
will fall about the shoulderB and pre
vent bees from crawling under the
screen.
A small tool for prying open the
hive covers is needed; a screw driver
will do.
Queen excluders are placed between
the body of the hive and the supers to
prevent the queen from entering the
extraction frames and depositing eggs.
They are zinc sheets containing per
forations large enough to permit the
passage of the workers, but too small
to allow the queen to pass through.
They may be plain, or fastened to
wooden frames to Btand about a fourth
of an inch above the frames of the
main body.
Wire embedders are used to press
the wire of the frames into the wax
They are toothed rollers,
A small brush, similar to a dining
table scrap brush, will also be needed
A pound spool of Mo. 30 tinned wire
and a pair of gloves without fingers
should also be provided. Professor
Wilson thinks that a certain amount
of equipment is essential to success in
handling bees.
College Head Resigns.
Albany Harry Means Crooks has
resigned as president of Albany Col
lege to accept the presidency of Alma
College, Michigan. He will leave
about November 1. His successor has
not been chosen. The executive com
mittee of the board of trustees met to
consider the resignation, but no an
nouncement as to men under considera
tion for the presidency has been made,
President Crooks has been president of
Albany College 10 years. During this
time the endowment raised from $3300
to $213,000.
Kendall Plans in Scale.
Roseburg Upon the outcome of a
meeting of the stockholders of the
Douglas County Park & Fair associa
tion, to be held here soon, probably
will depend to a great extent the fu
ture investments of Kendall Brothers,
of Pittsburg, in this vicinity. The
meeting was called to formulate plans
whereby the local fair grounds could
be surrendered to Kendall Brothers for
a Bite for their proposed sawmill,
Persons opposed to the railroad and
sawmill have refused to surrender
their stock in the grounds.
Polk County Prunes Disanooint.
Dallas Polk county prune growers
are much disappointed over this year's
crop. Prior to the picking season it
was generally believed that an ordin
ary yield would be harvested, but with
the picking practically completed in
dications point to the fact that hardly
more than half a crop has been real
ized.
Many growers contracted their prunes
at prices ranging from 4 cents to 5)
cents a pound.
Oregon Normal School Starts Well
Monmouth The Oregon Normal
School closed its first week of the year
1916-16 with a total enrollment of
three hundred and ten, being an in
crease of 60 per cent over a like period
last year. The outlook is very favor
able for total enrollment of at least
four hundred during the year.
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Army cooks preparing food In the
tmusement place that has been taken
VETERAN OF
The Portsmouth, seventy - elght - year
song and story, as Bhe was burning oft
ment to a Junk dealer. Having been
ADMIRAL TOMOSABURO KAT0
Vice-Admtral Tomosaburo Kato,
minister of the navy in the new cabi
net formed by Premier Okuma. He
was chief of staff of one of the Japa
nese squadrons during the Russian
war, and commanded- the first squad
ron in the siege of Tsingtau. He is
not a politician, Japanese law requir
ing that the navy and army heads
shall always be officers on the active
list.
Tomato as a Fruit.
After an argument In the Brooklyn
courts lasting more than two months,
a police court judge has ruled that a
tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable.
Two months ago Miss Eva Schecter
was arrosted for selling tomatoes ou
Sunday, iu violation of a law which for
bids the selling of vegetables on that
day. The woman raised the point
that a tomato was not a vegetable,
but a fruit, and the judge, after delv
ing deep into the authorities, discov
ered that the article in question was a
first cousin to the persimmon, the
grape and the currant The woman
was discharged.
Well, Rather.
Uncle Jackson (showing city boy
the farm) With all your city eddlra
tion, sonny, I'll warrant you don t
know which Bide you milk a cow
from?
The Boy Sure, I do! It's the un
der Bide! Hamburg Patriot
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES
There are no words of more than
Mx syllables In the Bible.
The British empire possesses more
than 11,000 merchant ships.
There are more than 400,000,000
people In the British empire.
If the sun were made of solid coal
It would burn out in less than 5,000
years.
Norway's annual per capita con
sumption of oats for food averages
about 113 pounds.
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British hospital at Luna Park, Hellopolls, near Cairo. Luna Park is an
over for the uso of wounded soldiers,
AMERICAN NAVY PUT
- old wooden frigate of war of the United States navy, famous In history,
Governor's Island, near Boston, after having been sold ly the govern
stripped or everything valuable, the hulk
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Detachment of Bersaglieri, the crack infantry of the Italian army, bat
tling at the outskirts of a forest in the Carso region. They had been hidden
in the thickets seen at the back of the picture and, upon the approach of the
Austrians, came out to meet them.
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First picture received of the German occupation of Warsaw, showing
Prince Leopold of Bavaria riding at the head of his staff along one of the
principal streets of the old Polish capital which his army had captured.
The Himalaya was the last of the
high mountain ranges to be climbed.
From deep water to deep water the
Panama canal is 60 miles in length.
Tacks have been scattered in the
streets of Jitney bus-infested Savan
nah, Ga. They were pushed through
sheets of cardboards and arranged
business end rampant
Col. Sherman Slarvlll, who was
sworn in recently as mayor of Laurel,
Del., is only twenty-four years old, and
is the only Republican ever elected
mayor there.
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most of whom are Australians.
TO TORCH
was set afire and soon sank.
THE CARSO REGION
OCCUPYING WARSAW
England, France and Russia possess
about six times as many submarines
as Germany.
Over 5,000 Belgian residents In Can:
ada have enlisted as recruits for their
country's forces at the front
Owing to the enormous number of
guns lost by Austria, the artillery
were recently provided with guns dis
carded as obsolete.
Diamonds exposed to radium be
come highly radioactive and remain
so for several years, according to a
British scientist-