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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1915)
WORLD'S DOINGS OF CIHT WEEK Brief Reso of General News fa All Arcd the Earth. qqsal kappeogs in a nutshqi Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Germany ia considering ft plan of bonuses and national aid tor babies. Twenty-one children were killed In a Cathollo school fire at Peabody, Mass. By the death ol an uncle, Glfford Finchot, of V. S. forestry fame, be comes heir to $260,000. Spokane women will make war In every way possible against "tin sol diers" and military toys of all kinds. Mrs. John Azevedo, wife of a San Rafael, Cat., dairyman, gave birth to her 13th child in 13 years Friday. The newest Azevedo is a husky 10-pound boy. It la reported In New York that the six German officers who escaped from the Interned cruiser Kronprins Wll helm have been captured by a British warship. Germans deny that death sentences have been passed on any Belgians or others In Belgium recently, and de clare that no one is on trial for espion age or treason. Fire, believed to have been of In cendiary origin, destroyed a pier and caused $600,000 loss at Seattle. The pier was owned by British agents and contained war stores. R. B. Hatley, prominent farmer of the Ewartsville district near Pullman, Wash., Is the proud father of a 10- pound eon, making 20 children of whom Mr. Hatley, who has pasaed his 76th milestone, Is the father. Fresh air can, wlndowlesa and un heated, are to be operated on Chica go's elevated railway system for the benefit or. passengers who are out-of- doors devotees. The cars probably will be rnn on half-hour schedules, only one coach to a train to be un healed. It will be marked "fresh air car." The Los Angeles police force has set the pace for other police bodies of the country by the addition of a balloon-shaped aircraft that will be used to cbase criminals. The police tried out the craft in a flight from Monrovia and over the city and easily followed a speeding automoblllst through the streets. The United States bonded ware house on piers 34 and 36 of the Balti more ft Ohio railroad at Locust Point, Baltimore, Md., was destroyed by fire. Records were destroyed and estimates of the value of the contents of the warehouse varied between $300,000 and $400,000. The building and piers were valued at $160,000. Abandonment of little-used street car lines, so that the copper might be obtained for war purposes had been- ordered by the municipality of Kiel, Germany, according to a Reuter dis patch from Copenhagen, which de clares that the work of tearing up three streets for this purpose has be gun and 3000 metres of cable weighing approximately 4000 kilos (nearly sev en tons) will thus be available. flraalt frnntlnr minrila war. AHaMrAH by Austrian! and Bulgarians, but re pulsed uie enemy with heavy losses, The proposed plan to make all Cali fornia state officers strictly non-parti san was beaten In a state election by 19,000 majority. A report has reached London that Prince von Buelow, former German chancellor, will shortly submit to Pres ident Wilson and King Alphonoao, of Spain, an outline of the conditions on which Germany might be disposed to discuss terms of peace. Winter has set In in the Russian war theater, according to the London Times' Petrograd correspondent, who says snow has been falling for three days and the roads are frosen so bard that there is no foothold (or horses The conditions, the correspondent adds, are thus worse than in the rainy season. Twenty-fonr of the 48 big 36-Inch projectors that have formed an Ira portant element of the Panama-Pacific exposition illumination system have been sold to the Russian government and are to be shipped at once to Euro pean battlefields, it was announced in San Franclsoo. The price paid la placed at $Z4,ooo. Drastic action by officials of Kan sas City, Kan., to prohibit illegal sale of beer by breweries was taken Wed nesday when three drivers were ar rested and sentenced to Jail and the beer trucks confiscated. The drivers were fined $1 00 each and aent to Jail for six months. More than 100 cases of beer were destroyed. Rural credits plan was beaten In California by over 14,000 majority. Lord Lansdowne plainly tells the house of lords that Serbia's plight ia serious. The wholesale prtoe of gasoline has risen in Portland from 9 to 12ft cents wiuin a month. lire of unknown origin destroyed a garage and eight autoa and several motorcyclea at Woodburn, Or. A British submarine on Sunday sank the Turkish transport Carmen, laden with munitions, In the aea of Mar ore. Robert ray, German apy arrested In New York, aaya the diversion of car goea of copper from Ruaalan to Ger man porta by bribing aea captaina waa a part of bla plan. According to the Tyd, of Amster dam, 14 additional death aentence. against persons charged with espion age and treason have been pronounced by court-martial at Liege. Aa official announcement made In London aaya: "The British transport Marquette baa been torpedoed In the Aegean Sua, It ia understood that only II of the personnel of the veaael are anaeeoanUd for." . KING FERDINAND Ferdinand, king or ciar of Bulgaria, whose entry Into the war on the side of the central powers mads ths task of the entente allies so mush harder. AMERICANS SHOT BY MEXICAN TROOPS NEAR U. S. BORDER LINE Douglas, Ariz. Corporal Jones, of Company G, Seventh Infantry, late Monday night was shot through both thighs by a Carranza soldier, who leaped from his trench at Agua Prieta, shouting "Viva Carranza," and fired six shots at Jones, who was on patrol near the boundary line in the rear of the custom house. The American soldier is not seriously wounded. Heavy firing on all sides of Agua Prieta was renewed at 1 o'clock in the morning. The Carranza garrison has exploded mines along the front over which they expected the Villa charge to take place. Firing Is violent on the west side of Agua Prieta, indicating Yaqui Indians from Naco are attempting to storm the town from that side. All the Villa artillery was in action, pounding the Calles defenses south and went of the town at 1 :30 o'clock, and Calles re plied with guns, rifles and mines. Many bullets began falling In Doug las, Ariz. H. K. Jones, a lettercarrler, was shot by Mexican bullets, as he stood in front of his home. Apparently Villa forces are making a big dash to storm and capture the town. A Calles officer said : "We have killed half those Yaquis." The Yaquis under Generals Urbalejo and Mendes are said to number more than 2000. Only 45 Out of 2000 Seamen Pass Test Ad Imperils Shipping San Francisco Only 46 out of a total of more than 2000 American sea men in this port who come under the strict requirements of the La Follette seaman's act had qualified before the local Federal steamship inspectors up to the closing of office hours Tuesday, Unless an order comes from Wash ington setting aside the letter of the law and making It flexible In many respects, San Francisco shipping in terests fear that vessels scheduled to depart on the day the law goes into effect will be held In port for want of clearance at the custom house. Collector of Customs J. O. Davis said that no vessel which did not have 40 per cent of its crew list qualified under the new law would receive clear ance papers. San Francisco shipping men mani fested a pertinent Interest In the new law in that it possibly meant the hold ing up of vessels at a large pecuniary loss because seamen could not qualify lor service. While more than 360 able seamen had qualified before the local inspec tors as to profession examinations, the stickler came in passing the physical examination before the medical exam iners in the United States Marine Hos pital. Launch Wrecked; Two Die. Port Townsend, Wash. The 60-foot powerboat Seeam was wrecked on the north end of Whidby Island in a strong gale Tuesday, and George Bridges, master and owner of the vessel, and a man named Wickersham were drowned, Their bodies and the wrecked launch were found on the beach. A large hole was stove in the Seeam when she struck and she filled with water. The seas carried away the pilot house and stripped the deck of all gear. The Seeam waa carrying a cargo of flsh from Hood Canal. "Peace Plans" Denied. Madrid, via Paris Premier Dato said Tuesday that he had no official information concerning the report that Prince von Buelow, ex-German chancellor, would come to Madrid to present to King Alfonso an outline of conditions on which Germany might be willing to consider peace ne gotiations. The Overseas News Agency of Ber lin made denial Tuesday of the report that Prince von Buelow had been en trusted with preparations of peace ne gotiations. Divorce Cases Held Up. London Divorce eases against offi cers and men aervlng at the front will have to stand over until they return to Great Britain. Such was the decision of Justice Sir Henry Bargrave Dean when aaked for leave to serve a di vorce petition upon an officer on the fighting line. "It Is not in the InteresU of the nation," said the court, "for men to have tbetr minds diverted from their duties by such matters." More British Gold Arrives. New York British sovereigns to the amount of $2,225,000 gold, which were shipped on the stesmer New York from London to the Guaranty Trust company, were deposited at the assay office Tuesday. Another ship ment totalling $1,000,000 is expected to be deposited later. The grand total of more than $321,000,000 gold baa been received here from all sources In the present movement since January 1, ACTION OF JAPAN ALARMS CHINESE Tokio's Warning Gives to Rebels Much Encouragement. SERIOUS OUTCOME SEEMS INEVITABLE Movement to Restore Monarchy Now Beyond Stopping Vote Must Be Continued as Planned. Pekin, China While outward calm prevails in Pekin, Japan's communica tion has caused excitement in official circles, as it is feared this ia only a prelude to further action. It ia in comprehensible to the Chinese why Japan chose the present moment to hand in the communication, as the secret service must have informed the Tokio government two months ago that a monarchy was surely coming. The communication is more likely to cause trouble than to prevent it, by encouraging the revolutionists with the idea that foreign powers are against the restoration of the mon archy, and thus strengthening the op position to it. Foreigners and Chinese realize that the restoration movement has gone so far that it is impossible to stop it. Japan's action is all the more strange, considering that Premier Okuma a fortnight ago said that the restoration of the monarchy was China's domestic affair, (hat it had been decided on and that he was convinced it would be brought about peacefully. The Chinese government, he said, was fully able to control any situation which might arise and Japan had no right to interfere. In some quarters Japan s communi cation is considered an impertinence. It Is said here that the Russian min ister had not received any intimations from his home government, but accom panied the Japanese Charge d' Affaires, Obata, with the object of fully under standing the situation should compli cations arise. The French minister did not attend, because he was not invited and had no Instructions from his home govern ment. Whether the British minister was advised by his government is not known, but It ia moat significant that before Obata presented the communi cation he waited for the British min ister to speak. Both the British and Russian min isters remained silent, forcing Obata to read the communication. The elections are still going on, and as no attempt is being made to alter the voting schedule, the monarchy un doubtedly will be decided on. late December Fixed for Nuptials of President Wilson Washington, D. C It was formally announced at the White House Monday that the marriage of President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait will take place "near the close of December," and that It will be private, at Mrs. Gait's home here. This statement was issued by Secre tary Tumulty : , "In order to quiet speculation, Pres ident Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait have authorized the announcement that their marriage will take place near the close of December. Their plans sre for a very simple ceremony. It will be quietly performed at Mrs. Gait's residence. No invitations will be issued and it ia expected that the only geusts will be the members of the two families." General Staff Favored. London Simultaneously with the newspaper demands for a smaller cab inet, which apparently resulted In Pre mier Asquith adopting as a compro mise the constitution In definite form of an inner war council, there has arisen in various influential quarters an advocacy of creation of a general stair on the German plan. The Week ly Nation, In an article on this subject, says it believes the lack of auch a body has been responsible for all the graver errors of the war. It points out the advantages attained by the Germans, Rich Perfumer Punished. Montpelier, France Henry Racine, a millionaire perfume distiller, has been sentenced by a courtmartial here to five years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of 20,000 francs ($4,000) for having supplied essence of neroli to a firm of perfume manufacturers at Co logne. The court also ordered goods belonging to the perfumer to the value of 270,000 francs confiscated. Racine orginally waa sentenced by a courtmar tial to perpetual deportation. He ob tained a reversal of judgment and was sent here for trial by courtmartial. Teutons to Attack Canal. Paris, via Rome The Austo-Ger- mans are preparing a new offensive against the Sues csnal, according to an Athens dispatch to the Tribune, which adda that the British have made gigantic preparations to meet such an eventuality. Among other things, they have flooded the land along the canal, leav ing the fortifications just standing out of the water, the defenders being amply supplied with provisions by gun- boat. Germans Restrict Meat. London German newspapers publish the schedule prepared by the German Federal Council In pursuance of the decision to reetrict consumption of meat. The schedule as forwarded by Reuter'a Amsterdam correspondent la as follows: Mondays and Thursdays Restaurants shall offer no meat, flsh or fowl, or dishes cooked In lard or drippings. Tuesdays and Fridays Butchers shall sell no meats. Satur days Fork ahall not be sold. OREGON STATE NEWS Railroad Business on Increase. La Grande. There are fewer "dead engines" on the O.-W. R. & N. division of the Union Pacific this week than In any time for more than a year. Dally for the past two weeks the line of idle engines has been diminished, until the local supply is nearly entirely in the service. New engine crews and train crews have been put on to meet the spurt in business. Railroad men and ship pers generally attribute the major por-. tion of the latest revival In freight to the Panama canal slide, which hin ders steamship traffic, while transcon tinental business is brisk, local crops are scarcely moving at all, farmers holding their wheat tenaciously. With the present sharp increase In business coming on before a concerted movement of wheat from inland points railroad officials foresee a good win ter. Twenty machinists have been added to the shop force here during the fall, and .from time to time. Train crews scratched a year or more ago are coming back to service, two such crews being re-employed out of here within the past day or two. Boy Makes $830 on Acre of Spuds. Portland. The chamber of com merce has received many letters from different sections of the state, attest ing the effectiveness of the campaign of the "Flying Squadron" last week to arouse interest In the Manufacturers' and Land Products Show. One of the most striking letters re ceived came from Alfred Guggisberg, a boy farmer near Drain. The letter, which resulted from the visit of C. W. Robison of the "Flying Squadron" to Drain, follows: C. W. Robison was at the Drain High School today and Invited us all to come to Portland and see the Port land Land and Manufacturing Show. I am unable to come, but I am very interested in it just the same. "I planted one acre of potatoes last year. I am a boy of the age of 17 and I was very successful in raising po tatoes. It cost me just $130 for plant ing and harvesting, etc. I raised just 1200 bushels from the one acre. The potatoes bringing me $960, making a profit of $830 on the one acre of land. The potatoes were called the Netted Gem variety." Oregon Mens Cinch First Prize. Oregon Agricultural College, Corval- 11s. With but six weeks of the Panama-Pacific exposition egg-laying con test to be run, the O. A. C. White Leg horns have firmly established them selves in first place. Even if they were to lay off altogether for the re mainder of the term their position would still be secure. The October 1 report shows that they are 246 eggs ahead of the nearest competitor, not counting the other O. A. C. pens a lead that cannot now be overcome. The three Oregon college pens con tinue their lead, Leghorns first, Ore- gons second and Barred Rocks third, The Oregons are 62 ahead and the Rocks 16 ahead of the closest pen, Adams' Sanada White Wyandottes. The college Rooks suffered an acci dent last month when one of them was accidentally killed, that may affect their lead. - Loop Road Survey Made. Hood River. A crew of government engineers has completed the survey for the proposed loop highway from the upper Hood River valley to the Barlow road, the route emerging from the forest reserve on the east fork of Hood river a few miles south of Park dale. A crew will run another line this week, cutting out the east fork canyon and passing around the base of the mountain through Elk Mead ows. The main road will pass down the east side gorge, but It is proposed to run another survey with the view eventually of building a road through Elk Meadows. 8aw Destroys Orchard. Albany. When a light wind Satur day blew down 72 peach trees on the farm of A. W. Martin, seven miles east of Albany, he discovered that all bad been sawed more than half through near the base of the trunk. Only four trees In the whole 4-year-old orchard were not sawed. The trees were just coming into bearing, many had yielded a light crop this year, and next year would have been In full bearing. Mar tin had depended upon these trees to yield money to pay off a mortgage on bis place. Toledo Hears W. L. Flnley. Toledo. State Biologist W. L. Fin ley left here after a series of lectures on the habits and propagation of the flsh and game of Oregon. Mr. Flnley used moving pictures of the capture and transportation of the herd of elk that was brought from the Jackson Hole country In Montana to Wallowa county. Mr. Flnley was greeted with packed houses at Waldport, Newport and at Toledo. He reprimanded the citizens of the county for allowing the state to discontinue the Big Elk flsh batch ery. 60-Pound Chinook la Caught Newport Corey Smith, an Alsea Bay fisherman, caught a Chinook sal mon on his regular drift Saturday night that tipped the acalea at 60 pounds. This is the record flsh for this season. The record flsh on thst bay last season, for Chinook, weighed 73 pounds. 350 Teachers at Institute. Salem. With 360 teachers present the annual Marion County Teachers' Institute convened here for a session of three days. W. M. Smith, county superintendent Is In charge, well- known educators of the atate will de liver addresses. The schools of the county are closed during the institute. Hew He Get Them. Btx That's a fine lot of books you have. Why dont you get a case for them. Dlx I would If I could got one the same way I got the books, Hava you one to lend! At the first of the year, according to a government estimate, there were 103,677.000 farm animals In the Unit ed States, a gain In a year of about T.Jil.OOO. Loulshkln, the giant Russian drum major of the Imperial Guards, was eight feet five Inches high. Ornamental handkerchiefs formerly were worn In the hat by men as ta ken, FUNERAL i ' fe"3 v- J hi it j nr Wr ! 'a. j ) K wsdLdBnT '!fi Funeral procession of the members of the crew of the American submarine F-4 who perished when the vea ael sank in Honolulu harbor, on Its way to Arlington National cemetery at Washington. BRIDGE AT This photograph shows the railroad SftLI ifitfegG the Germans from rushing re-enforcements to the battle lines at Lens, allied bombarded this bridge and held up all the lighting between the French and PRESIDENT WILSON'S BRIDE-ELECT This Is Mrs. Norman Gait, who is to become the wife of President Wil son, probably In December. She Is an attractive and wealthy widow, of southern birth, who has lived most of her life In Washington. ON A FLOODED iii nam srmaTTTTrniWB Mrlllsb transport wagou dashing the "Tommies" lying down to avoid ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN Only one university In Japan Is open to women Dayun. Ohio, has a woman aa offi cial chiropodist for the policemen. Women compose 71 per cent of ail those employed In the factories. Mrs, Russsll Snga celebrated her eighty seventh birthday recently by elvlng $60,000 to Institutions. ik Kulgarlan wife never goes Into pvww plica unless she la accompa ' hor huibae fr:..-'; vva V M OF SUBMARINE F-4 LILLE IS TARGET FOR ALLIES bridge at Lille which trains use in railroad traffic. Notice the ruined houses which still stand a monument to the Germans in this section. ROAD IN FRANCE K-1 , ,,1, along a flooded road in northern France, getting drenched. Mrs. a H. Vandercook of Philadel phia, eastern golf champion, now holds the national golf crown tor women by defeating Mrs. W. A. Garvin of England, 8 to t The Oregon publlo service commis sion bas ruled thst women hnnM nt be compelled to step higher than 1$ incnes in Hoarding trolley cars. Mrs. E. H. Uarrlman h.. the discontinuation of the change be ing made of the Omaha tnlon Paclflo railroad Into a warma- nuion rectory. VICTIMS communication with Lens. To prevent aviators have several times severely SETS NEW WALKING RECORD Anxious to see his relatives In Rsi Kdge, Brooklyn, Robert Burns of Et i eka, Cal., bas Just completed a 3,640 mile walk from the Parffln n tha At lantlc In 80 days, Incidentally loppini on: Si aaya from the record for tbli leat, which was set up by Edward Payson Weston, the famous septuage narlan walker. Not Cause of Cancer. Explaining why such subatancAi ai soot, arsenic tobacco. Defroleum and some aniline dyes produce cancer, Dr. n. J. kobs or the Lister Institute, Loo don, writes to Nature "that tha larma 'industrial cancer,' 'smoker's cancer; arsenic cancer,- etc., namely tha dla eases caused by the commodities men tioned, refer In realitv onlv in a n disposition to the disease. The com moaiiies inemselves do not actuall cause cancer: ther merelv rnrir tissues prone to It which seems U occur in a specino manner. Tha con moaiuea always in the first Instance produce cell-proliferation. muii i. the nature of a warty growth, and U ia not until an open ulcer haa ap peered, generally at thu base of th wart that malignancy supervenes. Pstrlotle Sacrifice. "Why don't you marry soma resili good manr "1 wouldn't hava tha heart" replies Miss Cayenne. "If I were to dlscovet really good man, I'd conalder It mj duty to vote for him and dismiss al thoughts of domeatle happiness an4 so let blm devote himself to tha serv Ice of bis country." , Ha Nature. "Don't you think It la dreadful M try to corner tha chicken mejketr "It does seem Ilka a fowl aebeaW jiiiiisiiiiiiiiriimn Cw M