The Maupin times., December 03, 1915, Image 3

PEACE ADVOCATES
GET NO PLEDGES
Women Pacificists Received at
White House by President.
WILSON BELIEVES TIME INOPPORTUNE
Executive Is Urged to Initiate Con
ference of Neutral Nations and
Appoint Peace Delegate.
Washington, D. C Efforts to win
President Wilson's support for a con
ference of neutrals to initiate peace
proposals in Europe reached a climax
Saturday when Mme. Bosika Schwim
mer, of Hungary, and Mrs. Ethel Snow
den, wife of a member of the British
parliament, called at the White House
with a personal appeal and word that
they had definite information that the
majority of the belligerent nations
would not turn deaf ears to sugges
tions from a neutral gathering.
They talked with the President for
more than half an hour and went away
much pleased over their reception,
though the President had made no
promises.
About 400 peace advocates, from
a mass meeting held at a Washington
theater, accompanied the President's
callers to the White House, applauding
them as they entered and left the ex
ecutive offices.
The President was urged to initiate
a peace conference or at least to signi
fy that he would appoint a delegate
from the United States if another neu
tral nation called one. He was told
that women peace advocates wh6have
visited every belligerent and neutral
nation in Europe believe from talks
with officials abroad that practical re
sults would follow. He was also in
formed that Henry Foxd, the Detroit
automobile manufacturer, here to co
operate with the women, had in his
possession statements, some of them
signed, from officials in some of the
principal countries on both sides of the
European conflict, to the general effect
that they would interpose no objection
to the calling of a conference of neu
trals to make peace proposals.
Mme. Schwimmer, who saw the
President several months ago on the
same subject and who was not opti
mistic then, said that she now believed
the President was deeply impressed
with the information laid before him,
"The President made no definite
promise," she added, "but I think you
will hear something from the White
House before long."
At the White House it was said that
there would be no statement regarding
the call. Up to this time the position
of the president has been that he haB
heard nothing from Europe which
leads him to believe that the time is
opportune for him to take any step.
Tornado Claims Ten Victims at
Hot Springs, Ark.; Loss $500,000
Hot Springs, Ark. Ten dead, 20 in
jured and 30 homes demolished was the
toll of the tornado which shortly after
3 p. m. Saturday swept a path of des
olation two miles southeast of Hot
Springs, and cut off wire communica
tion with the outside world. The
property loss is estimated variously at
$250,000 to $500,000.
This is the second calamity in this
vicinity in two years. Two years ago
damage of $5,000,000 was caused in
the city by fire.
At the home of William G. Maurice,
bathhouse owner, the table in the ban
quet room was set for 50 guests, theat
rical ana circus people wintering in
Hot bprings, who planned to give an
entertainment for charity. A tree 16
inches in diameter and 40 feet long
was driven through the roof and the
banquet table demolished. The guests
had not yet assembled.
George Tanner, whose wife and two
chidren were killed, loaded the head
less body of Mrs. Tanner and the body
of another woman in an express wagon
and brought them to Hot Springs hos
pitals, a distance of two miles, before
he fainted from the pain of a broken
leg and internal injuries. Tanner's
condition is considered serious.
Washington, D. C. The German
embassy, according to information
Monday from authoritative sources, re
sents the accusations which are under
stood to have been made against Cap
tain Carl Boy-Ed, German naval at
tache here, in the trial in Federal
court at New York of officials of the
Hamburg-American line. It was said
Ambassador von Bernstorff was pre
paring to file a vigorous complaint
with the State department at the con
clusion of the trial, asking at least for
something in the nature of a retraction
and possibly for an apology.
The German embassy, it is under
stood, has not yet decided just what
form the protest will take. A copy of
the stenographic report of the remarks
of counsel for the government and the
testimony given at the trial is under
stood to have been ordered from New
York, so that officials of the embassy
may know exactly what has been said
in the courtroom.
ELDER A. G. DANIELS
Soldiers Want Fur Muffs.
Berlin Fur muffs for soldiers are
the latest recommendation of the ver
satile General von Buelow. The rec
ommendation is in reply to an inquiry
the Tageblatt addressed to German
commanders asking suggestions as to
the most appropriate Christmas gifts
for soldiers at the front. Von Buelow
replied that muffs would be useful on
the Eastern front, to be used by men
on duty in the trenches. Old and worn-
out mutts would be lust as useful as
brand new ones. "There must be
neck cord attached," he adds.
60 Millions Lent Britain.
New York The committee of bank
ers which recently was organized to
perfect an at additional British com
mercial credit has announced that a six
months' loan for $50,000,000, bearing
4 per cent interest and secured by
11,000,000 British government bonds
had been arranged. The bonds are to
be deposited in the Bank of England
by the borrowers, who represent eight
of London a most prominent institu
tions. Other similar loans will be un
dertaken by American bankers as ex
igencies dictate.
Babe Not To Be Deported.
Washington, D. C. Jeanne, a 14-months-old
Belgian baby girl, recently
brought to New York by way of Eng
land, will be permitted to remain in
the United States, under a decision by
the Immigration Bureau Saturday over
ruling a deportation order by its offi
cer at New York.
The case was brought to the bureau
by counsel for Mrs, Percy Proctor,
formerly Baroness von BlaefuM, who
hat agreed to adopt the child.
ERMAN EMBASSY WILL RESENT
CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY IN U. S.
IS
TRACED TO BOY-ED
Large Sums Placed to Credit of
Attache of Embassy.
CLAIM CONSPIRACY OF HIGH OFFICIALS
United States Declares Defendants
Contemptuously Rode Roughly
Over Laws and Treaties.
Elder A. G. Daniels, head of the
Seventh-day Adventists, says this war
will be soon followed by one still
greater, after which will come the
second coming of Christ and the resur
rection.
The embassy particularly desires to
determine whether Captain Boy-Ed was
included, by inference or otherwise, in
the reference made by Assistant
United States District Attorney Wood
to the defendants in the case as "rid
ing roughshod over the laws of the
United States, treating them as if
they were scraps of paper"
It was said by a person in close
touch with officials of the embassy
that it was felt Captain Boy-Ed had
been harshly treated in the circum
stances and that too much had been
made out of bis connection with the
case. The embassy was further
described as feeling that Captain Boy-
TiA had done nothing that, under the
law, he did not have a perfect right to
do.
As to the form of the embassy's
protest, it was said much depended on
the outcome of the trial. Should an
acquittal result, the embassy might
feel that, in making complaint, it
would stand on much firmer ground, as
it could point out, incidentally, that
the defendants had themselves been
freed of the charges made by the government.
Neutral Countries Declared to
Be Moving for Puce in Europe
Washington, D C. Two neutral
European countries already are consid
ering calling a formal convention of
neutrals to discuss means of ending the
European war and three others have
given assurances that they will partici
pate in such a convention, according to
Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, of Hungary,
one of the women who called at the
White House to urge President Wilson
to take the initiative for peace.
It had been indicated, Bhe said, that
various previous peace plans had been
rejece)d because of the fear that par
tisan influences might be suspected.
She thought the present movement,
urged by the women of the world,
would be free of that suspicion, and
indicated that the European neutrals
believed the United States should take
the initiative both as the most import
ant of the neutral powers and because
ltB great distance from the scene of
the struggle made for impartial ac
tion. '
Goethals Needs No Men.
Washington, D. C. Blocking of the
Panama canal by slides has not created
new work in the canal zone and the
canal office here has issued a statement
in an effort to counteract published re
ports. "General Goethals indicates,"
the statement says, "that the number
of men continually being laid off on ac
count of reduction of force is in excess
of the vacancies which were tempor
arily created by the work of the slides
and the influx of men looking for em
ployment on the isthmus is entirely
unwarranted."
Czar Is Reported Grieved.
Berlin, (By wireless to Sayville, N.
Y.) The Overseas News Agency
says: "An order issued to the 11th
Russian army says that Emperor Nich
olas is deeply grieved at the horrible
deeds committed by the Russian troops
in their own country. This order says:
" 'The emperor has heard numerous
complaints concerning military persons
who ill-treat the civil population, steal
and destroy properties by fire. The
emperor recommends that commanders
give heed to these customs, general In
the army."
Watch Is Kept on China.
Washington, D. C The situation
in China is considered of enough im
portance by the American government
to keep Brigadier General John F,
Morrison, who now commands the
American troops at Tien Tain, at his
station until spring. General Morrison,
following bis promotion, ordinarily
would give way to a Colonel. Until
General Morrison is transferred to
command the Philippines department
next spring, he will remain in China.
New York In an alleged conspiracy
of several Hamburg-American steam
ship line officials to deceive and de
fraud the United States by sending
neutral relief Bhips with coal and other
supplies to German men-of-war in the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at the be
ginning of the European war, Captain
K. Boy-Ed, German naval attache with
headquarters at the German embassy
in Washington, played a leading role,
according to witnesses who testified in
the Federal court here.
One of these witnesses swore that
Captain Boy-Ed personally directed
the expenditure of approximately
$760,000, which, unsolicited and unex
pected, had been deposited to the wit
ness' credit in a New York bank early
in September, 1914;
Of this money, the witness testified,
$350,000 w&s telegraphed to the Ne
vada National bank at San Francisco
in one sum; $213,000 was paid, in sev
eral amounts, to the North German
Lloyd steamship line here; about $76,
000 to the Hamburg-American line
here, and by cable money order in
Hamburg, and some of the remainder
was still on hand. All of these dis
bursements, the witness asserted, were
made by order of Captain Boy-Ed.
This witness, Gustave B. Kulen-
kampff, a German importer and ex
porter with offices here, and others
testified in the trial of Dr. Karl
Buenz, Adolph Hachmeister, George
Kotter and Joseph Poppinghaus, all
officials of the Hamburg-American
line, who are charged with conspiracy.
The testimony, which opened the
government's case, followed a ehort
address to the jury by Roger B. Wood,
assistant United States district attor
ney, in which Mr. Wood said that the
government would Bhow that "the de
fendants rode roughshod over the laws
and treaties of the United States
contemptuously as if those laws and
treaties had been mere scraps of pa
per." William Rand, counsel for the de
fendants, offered to concede certain
charges of the government involving
12 steamers, and in. his concession ad
mittted Dr. Buenz and Mb assistants
had sent out the vessels, as charged,
to meet German warships in the At
lantic and deliver their supplies. Mr.
Rand said that in Bending these vessels
his clients were acting on legitimate
orders, which came to them by cabling
the home office of the company in
Hamburg.
National Defense Will Be Key
note of President's Message
Washington, D. C. President Wil
son's next annual address to congress,
it was learned definitely Thursday,
will be devoted primarily to a discus
sion of National defense and subject of
revenues, though it will refer to other
legislative questions which the Presi
dent expects congress to act on during
the coming season.
The President has not completed the
message, to which he has devoted
practically all of his time for the past
week. He discussed subjects to be
dealt with at the cabinet meeting, and
unanimity Of opinion was reached by
the official family aa to what should be
the general character of the document
Reasons for the strengthening the
army and navy at this time will be
emphasized at length by the President.
"For defense" will be the keynote of
his argument, and declaring that the
United States has a humanitarian mis
sion of peace in the world, he will in
sist that under the present conditions.
when all Europe is at war, the United
States must be ready to defend its
rights to independent and unmolested
action.
Wife of Boise Man Shot.
Boise, Idaho Mystery surrounds the
shooting here Thursday of Mrs. Ellen
Dempsey, wife of the stenographer
the prosecuting attorney's office. She
is in a local hospital in a serious condi
tion from a bullet wound in her chest,
No one else was at her home at the
time of the shooting except her 9-year-
old son, who was in the yard. He
heard his mother cry and, rushing into
the house found her wounded. Neigh
bors were notified and she was rushed
to the hospital. The wound was made
by a .22 caliber bullet
Road to Build Feeders.
San Francisco C. M. Levy, general
manager of the Western Pacific rail
road, announced here Monday that the
road would emerge from its receiver
ship with means provided for the con
struction of branch linea at a cost ag
gregating approximately $20,000,000.
Although he did not indicate where the
proposed feeders would extend, he said
that the branches would be constructed
primarily for the development of the
freight business. "The present earn
ings of the road are the best in its his
tory," said Mr. Levy.
OREGON BEACH RESORTS DESTROYED I
BY WAVES AND SWEPT INTO SEA
Bar View, Or. The storm which
for several days past has raged off the
west coast of Oregon broke into vio
lence Wednesday at Bar View, in Til
lamook county, and Seaside, in Clatsop
county.
At Bar View, the Bar View hotel,
an all-year resort, the Southern Pacific
depot and six or eight cottages were
wrecked and partially swept out to
sea. The damage is estimated at
$100,000 at this resort.
At Seaside, one of the larger sum
mer resorts on the Oregon coast, huge
breakers submerged the pier in front
of the Hotel Moore, swept Julia Mad
den, a woman aged 80, off her feet
and almost into the ocean, and tore
railings and lawns away from the Dan
Malarkey and Edgar B. Piper cot
tages. Broadway was flooded for sev
eral blocks and the Necanicum river,
which enters the ocean at Seaside, is
out of its banks.
At Bar View, which is on the ocean
FINLEY J. SHEPARD, JR.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS
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John Doe No. 104, alias Austin Mo-
Cleary, as he was called when he
was a homeless waif, Is now romping
around Lyndhurst, at Irvlnoton-on-
Hudson, the estate of Mr. and Mrs,
Flnley J. Shepard, now known aa Fin-
ley Jay Shepard, Jr., heir to the Gould
millions. Mr. Shepard and hit wife,
who was Mis Helen Gould, formally
adopted the four-year-old boy who was
found on the steps of 8t. Patrick's
Cathedral by a policeman,
front just north of Tillamook bay, the
shoreline for 50 feet back has been
washed away. The government jetty
is feeling the the strain and Beveral
sections have been damaged. The Bar
View hotel has been in danger for sev
eral days and had been raised prepara
tory to being moved. A huge wave
picked it from its moorings. The ho
tel is a wreck. The Southern Pacific
depot, including the Wells Fargo ex
press office and Western Union tele
graph office, was washed away.
Much of the Southern Pacific track
is washed out. A crew of 60 men and
three trains have begun hauling rock to
make a sea wall. The county highway
is also impaired.
Belgian Orphan Baby Is Ordered
Deported From United States
New York A 13-months-old Bel
gian girl baby, known as Jeanne, who
came here by the way of England, was
Wednesday ordered deported by Im
migration officials. The deportation
order was made notwithstanding an
offer by Mrs. Percy Proctor, formerly
Baroness Nodinevon Klaefuss, to adopt
the baby.
Wben Jeanne arrived on the St. Paul
in custody of a woman passenger not
her mother, Bhe was stopped at Ellis
Island. Mrs. Proctor's plea that she
would adopt the child was declared by
the board to be insufficient,
Portland Wheat Bluestem, 95o;
fortyfold, 95c; club, 92&c; red fife,
89c; red Russian, 89c.
Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $24
per ton; shorts, $25; rolled barley,
Corn White. $36 per ton: cracked.
$37 per ton.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15
16; valley timothy, 112013: alfalfa.
$13.50 14.50; cheat, $9 10; oats and
vetch, $1112.
Vegetables Artichokes, 75c$1.00
per dozen; tomatoes, California, $1.00
1.50; cabbage, 90c $1 hundred:
garlic, 15c pound; peppers, 45c
pound; eggplant, 610c per pound;
sprouts, 9o per pound; horseradish,
8o per pound; cauliflower, 75c,
$1.25; celery, 6075c per dozen;
beans, 1012c; lettuce, $22.25 per
crate; peas, 10 11c.
Green Fruits Apples, 75c $1.75
per box; pears, $1.0001.50 per box;
grapes, $11.50 per crate; casabas,
W per pound; cranberries, $9 10
per barrel.
Potatoes Oregon, 90c$1.00: Yak-
Imas, $1.50 per sack; sweets, $2.25 per
hundred.
Eggs Oregon ranch, buying prices
No. 1, 40c; No. 2, 30c; No. S, 20o par
dozen. Jobbing prices: No. 1, 42c;
Oregon storage, 2628c.
Poultry Hens, ll13c; springs, 11
13c; turkeys, 1718c; turkeys,
dressed, 2023c; ducks, white, 14c;
colored, 12c; geese, 10 11c.
Butter city creamery, cubes, ex
tras, selling at 31c; f'rsts, 29c;
prints and cartons, extra. Prices paid
to producers: Country creamery, 24
28c, according to quality; butterfat,
premium quality, 33c; No. 1, average
quality, 31c; No. Z, Z9c.
Veal Fancy, 9c per pound.
Pork Block, 7o per pound.
Hops 1915 crop, 912c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 18225o:
Valley, 2526c; fall lambs wool, 25c.
Mohair Oregon, 28c per pound.
Cascara Bark Old and new, 3
4c per pound.
Cattle Choice steers, $6.507;
good, $66.25; medium, $5.25 5.75
choice cows, $55.50; good, $4.50
4.75; medium, $3.754.26; heifers,
$3.506; bulls, $34.50; stags, $4.50
5.25.
Hogs Light, $6 6.15; heavy, $5
5.15.
Sheep wethers, $4.756.60: ewes.
$46; lambs, $67.50.
Large Decrease In Onion Crops,
The production this year in the 12
important onion-growing states is es
timated by the agricultural depart
ment at 13,801,789 bushels, as com
pared with 21,901,014 bushels in 1914,
a decrease of about 37 per cent. The
states included in this estimate are
Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indi
ana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Colorado, Washington, Oregon
and California. These states included
about 69 per cent of the total onion
acreage in the census year 1909.
From the returns of special truck-
crop reporters it is estimated that the
per cent of acreage abandoned In 1915
m certain states because of blow-outs,
floods, thrlps, blight, etc., was as fol
lows: Massachusetts, 6.6 per cent
New York, 9.1 per cent; Ohio, 64.8 per
cent; Indiana, 69.2 per cent; Michi
gan, 8.6 per cent; Wisconsin, 6.6 per
cent; Minnesota, 0.7 per cent; Iowa,
1,8 per cent; Colorado, 4.4 per cent
and California, .09 per cent. Total
for states considered, 23 per cent.
From the same returns it is estim
ated that the per cent of the onion
crop that is of storage quality Is as
follows: Massachusetts, 61 per cent
New York, 44 per cent; Ohio, 17 per
cent; Indiana, 30 per cent; Michigan,
46 per cent; Wisconsin, 75 per cent
Minnesota, 81 per cent; Colorado, 67
per cent; and California, 60 per cent
Total lor states considered, 46 per
cent
"Wettest City" Now Dry.
East Grand Forks, Minn. Scenes
of revelry marked the passing Wednes
day night of the 33 saloons of East
Grand Forks, known for year at the
"wettest" city in Minnesota.
The liquor establishments were voted
out in a recent county option election
after being in existence since the
city's foundation, in 1889, when North
Dakota went "dry."
At one time there was one saloon to
very 46 inhabitant.
Chinese Reply Friendly.
London Replying in the house
commons Wednesday to a question re
garding China's response to the joint
representations of the entente powers
in the contemplated change in the
Chinese form of government, and
to the possibility of taking further
steps, Lord Robert Cecil, parliamen
tary undersecretary for foreign affairs,
said that China had received the ad
vice in the friendly spirit in which it
was offered.
He said there was no necessity for
further action.
Wheat Buying Is Lighter,
The country wheat market remains
very firm, but buying has slowed
down. No further export flour busi
ness has developed beyond that pre
viously reported, which stimulated
more or less speculative buying
wheat. Now the desire to take on
supplies has subsided and operations
by exporters have also been checked
Holders in the country, however, have
not abated their strong views.
At the Portland merchants' ex
change, the tendency was toward
lower level all around. November
club bids were reduced 1 cent and
fortyfold offers were cent lower
than the week before, and there was
the same decline In other deliveries
of white wheat, while red wheat was
1 to 2 cents lower on bid.
Bradstreets estimates wheat and
flour exports from the United St
this week at 10,238,000 bushels. Ar
gentine wheat shipments this week
were 84,000 bushels, against 96,000
bushels last week and 80,000 bushels
a year ago.
Word of Honor Is Broken.
Olympia, Wash. "My love for my
wife and babies was too great; I was
not able to resit. I have broken my
word of honor to the governor and to
you. I am going to report at Walla
Walla for the punishment I de
serve." Thus reads a letter received by Su
perintendent Valter L. Bowen of the
state honor camp on Sunset Highway,
near Waterville, from Robert E.
Moore, who deserted . from the camp
November 13. The letter was dated
at Portland, November 15.
Suspect Utters Threats.
Baltimore Otto Buelow, or Unger,
the suspected deserter from the con
verted German cruiser Prinz Eitel
Friedrich, now interned at Norfolk,
declared that "in six months' time
there will not be a war munitions
plant In operation in the United
States," according to City Detective
Robert Porter.
According to Porter, Buelow teemed
to know the location of all munition
plants In the country.
New Records In Forelon Trade.
Washington. New high records in
the foreign trade of the United States
continue to pile up the greatest fav
orable trade balance this country has
ever known, according to figures made
public by the department of commerce,
During the 12 months ended with
October foreign trade exceeded $5
000,000,000. Imports were $1,691,748,
013 and exports $3,318,634,636, as com
pared with Imports of $1,880,414,501
and exports of $2,140,847,829 during
the same 12 months previous.
Exports of October established
new high record, rising to $334,638,
578, which was $33,961,756 more than
the former record made in September.
October imports were $148,529,620.
Heavy Trade In Green Produce.
Portland. Trade is rushing In the
fruit and vegetable district this week,
There is not only a heavy shipping
demand in all lines, but local buying
was largely Increased. The demand
Is particularly good for apples, which
are now selling better than at any
time this season. Cranberries were
also free tollers, and the trade in
storage grapes was likewise good. A
car of head lettuce arrived from the
south, and the steamer brought a mix
ed assortment of California vegetables.
Industrial and Trad Activity,
New York. Bradstreet't weekly re
port says: "Further progress in trade
accompanies greater Industrial acti
vity, higher prices, better collections,
Increased demand for money, record
bank deposits, sharp reduction In un
employment, heavier payrolls, a big
movement of grain and lower temper
atures over a wide area, which latter
hat given snap to retail trade in sea
nrmhlw wcnrlnp apparrl. Pain has
helped winter wheat, and cold weath
er hat put a period to cotton growth."
SHEEP VALUABLE LIVESTOCK
FOR SMALL FARMER
By R. E. Reynolds, Extension Livestock Specialist
Oregon Agricultural College.
A small flock of good sheep for the
ordinary farm is a valuable form of
livestock, since sheep make very eco
nomical gains for the feed used, and
where the fields are well fenced re
quire very little care and attention.
They utilize a great deal of feed that
other farm animals will not eat at all.
Where a small flock is kept under farm
conditions, the wool will just about
care for the keep of the flock, leaving
the increase as net profit, and with the
increase of the high prices of meat,
more and more mutton will no doubt
be used. With a flock of pure bred
sheep there will be a good market for
the ram lambs to the range men.
Some of the advantages to be gained
by sheep husbandry are that if proper
ly managed they are among the most
profitable animals on the farm, and fit
well with most kinds of farming,
They require very little work during
the greater part of the season.
They are the best of our animals as
destroyers of troublesome and noxious
weedB, there being less than 10 per
cent of the ordinary weeds that sheep
will not eat. They will help keep the
fence "corners clean, and prevent from
going to seed many plants that are a
big nuisance to farmers, and in this
way convert into money what would
otherwise be waste, and also save the
farmers the expense of fighting the
weeds. In this manner they kill two
birds with one stone. (However, this
is no argument in favor of letting our
farms grow up to weeds in order to be
able to raise more sheep).
Sheep maintain and increase the fer
tility of the land as no other class of
animals do, their manure being of
higher value than that of any other of
our domestic animals with the excep
tion of chickens. They can also be al
lowed on land when it would be highly
unprofitable to allow any other class of
animals to be on it, for they are not so
heavy and do not tramp the ground so
badly. They scatter the manure much
better and more evenly than man has
yet been able to devise a scheme for
scattering it.
They are the moBt satisfactory for
pasturing off green crops, and in this
way they help solve the labor problem,
for they not only do the harvesting and
putting up of the crops, but also re
quire the least amount of attention
during the time of the year when the
farmers are the busiest.
Sheep are the most nearly dual pur
pose of any of our farm animals, since
they at producers of both mutton and
wool, returning a very good revenue
from both. It does not require any
expensive buildings to house them,
In fact, too close and warm buildings
are not deBirable, for Bheep are well
protected from the cold and as long as
they are protected from the cold rains
and wind, and kept dry under foot,
they will thrive well. The more near
ly the natural conditions are carried
out the better the sheep will do.
The revenue from the .wool, the
lambs and mutton . comes at different
times of the year, which is much un
like our single crop system. It sel
dom hapens that wool and mutton are
at bottom prices at the same time,
and if this is so, the wool clip is easily
stored and held for better prices.
Returns in the sheep business come
quickly. Lambs can be marketed in
nine to ten months after the ewes are
bred.
The fleece usually pays for the ewe's
keep, and the Increase is higher than
in either cattle or horeeB, often run
ning up to 130 or 140 per cent.
Some of the mistakes made in the
sheep industry are that of not dipping,
not docking and castrating at the prop
er time, and using ram lambB for
breeding. Rams give beat results from
breeding at to 2 years of age.
Sheep can be bred as fast as any other
farm animals.
Do not let the ram run with the
flock during the Bummer and fall, and
do not breed over three ewes per day
to each ram.
Narrow doors and gates are often
the cause of broken heads, loss of
lambs by abortion, and young lambs
are often trampled under foot from
this cause.
With a very little care and attention
a small flock of sheep on the ordinary
farm can be made to return very hand
some profits for the investment and
time involved.
OLD BATTLEGROUND
Since Earliest History Men Have
Fought in the Alps.
Two Thousand Yeart Ago Armies
Traversed the Region That It
Now the Scene of Austrian
Italian Struggle.
If the rugged peaks of the Alps
could tell their story, there would be
many a thrilling and warlike Incident
to relate; but none so strange at the
scenes which are being enacted today
between the Austrians and the Ital
ians in these mountainous regions.
The Italians are absolutely at home
in the mountains, and the Austrians
are using every invention of science
to counteract this advantage. All the
parapets on the Bteep roads, where
summer tourists were wont to motor,
have been demolished, and beautiful
pine forests have been swept away so
that nothing shall obstruct the artil
lery. Large areas have been mined.
and, by pressing a button, the Aus
trians can hurl an avalanche of rocka
and bowlders on to the heads of the
advancing Italians or blow up the
roads beneath their feet.
From the Cottlan chain, marking
the boundary of France in the west,
to the Carnic and Julian Alps, north
and east of the Adriatic in Austria,
there are literally a thousand passes
and routes of more or less note, near
ly all traversed by practicable roads,
and some shortened by railway tun
nels. Over these roads armies
marched to battle over 2,000 years
ago.
Mont Cents pass may have been
Hannibal's route when, in the year
218 B. C, the Carthaginian conqueror
invaded Italy with a large army, half
of which he lost amidst the Alnlne
snows.
The conquest of some Alpine tribes
by Augustus; the desultory warfare of
Teutonic and Frankish hordes in the
lifth and sixth centuries; and the un
ceasing, sanguinary strife of Swiss
"confederates" and Austrians, which
lasted from the breaking up of the
Carolinian empire in the tenth and
eleventh centuries until the crystalli
zation of the Helvetic republic by Na
poleon Bonaparte's act of mediation in
1803 all these fill the chronicles and
make nearly every practicable foot of
Swiss territory heroio ground.
When Napoleon entered Italy, he
crossed the Alps with an army of
30,000 by the Great St. Bernard pass,
May 16-21, 1800. Later, he construct
ed the great military road over the
Simplon pass, from Brleg, in Switzer
land, to OomodoBsola, in Italy, and
thence to Milan.
MEANT TO FOIL PICKPOCKET
Novel Device Gives an Alarm When
One't Purse or Pocketbook It
Tampered With.
This device Is designed to sound au
alarm when the purse or pocketbook
Is withdrawn from the pocket. When
New Cutoff Ready.
Olympia It will not be long before
travelers between Tacoma and Olym
pia will not be called upon to risk
their lives by driving up the narrow,
precipitous, curving and crooked Nis-
qually hill, which has caused from 15
to 20 accidents yearly. Work on the
new loop which eliminates this hill and
utilizes portion of the old Northern
Pacific right of way, abandoned with
the building of the new cutoff, it be
ing rushed to completion. L. H. Goe
rig, Seattle contracor, who was award
ed the construction work on the eight
miles of new road, has been given his
final payment on the $20,466.32 con
tract.
Plant Pig Club Work.
Plant for pig club work for the com
ing year are well under way and the
leader hat received many applications
for membership. Sow and litter, and
pig raising contests will be held. The
use of pure bred towt for the former
will be encouraged, and those entering
the pig raising contest will be urged
to select tow pigs for breeding pur
poses. Home butchering will be an
other feature of the work this year.
Those seeking membership should
write L. J. Allen, O. A. C., Corvallit,
Ore.
Hogging Off Field Peat.
While field pess make an excellent
feed for fattening hogt they are not
popular In Eastern Oregon, largely be
cause the yield is lest and the expense
of harvesting more than with other
crops. But the peat are laid by the
Eaatern Oregon Branch Experiment
ttation to be among the moat promis
ing of leguminous crops for rotation
systems, to that the plan of hogging
off the crop to tve the expense
of harvwitlng Is being tried oflt. In
this way the hogt do their own har
vesting.
the purse Is In position In the pocket
It bears agaliiBt a tongue spring.
When the purse Is removed the result
ing movement of the spring actuates
mechanism that causes a sort of
hammer to strike a sounding plate.
Scientific American.
Scientists Offer 8ervlcet to Country.
The Royal society is compiling a
register of scientific and technical
men In Great Britain and Ireland, who
are willing to give their services in
connection with the war. The regis
ter will be classified Into subjects, and
will ultimately constitute, says Na
ture, a large panel of men of standing.
whose services will be available when
ever any government department or
similar authority requires special as
sistance. The register Is being co
ordinated with those Independently
compiled by other societies and insti
tutions, but the Royal society would
be glad to have applications for forms
from such members of the staffs of
colleges and technical Institutions as
have not yet been registered by any
society. The Royal society Is also
drawing up, with the co-operation ot
the principal societies and Institu
tions, a list ot tclontlflo and technical
men actually on active service In th
army and navy.
May Be Valuable Discovery.
It hat been ascertained that remov
ing the spleen from mice maket them
much lest susceptible to tuberculosis.
Though the explanation It not yet
clear, theory hat been put forward
that thlt It due to a tubstance called
tuberculo-splenatln, which possibly
has tome affinity for the tuberculosis
germ. Such It tht tubstance of a pa
per In the Journal ot Experimental
Medicine, Issued by the Rockefeller
Institute for medical research, and the
Implication in the findings of Dr. t'aul
A. Lewis and Dr. Arthur Georges
Margot of the Henry Phlppt Institute
of the University ot Pennsylvania.
The two Investigators suggest the
name tuberculo-splenatln for the sew
tubstance as "suggesting merely Its
origin and itt apparent relationship
to tuberculosis." Hardly anything It
yet known ot the prupuulu o( iw
berculo plenatln.