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WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRtNT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU Live News Items of Al) Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. A Seattle policeman attempting to capture two burglars shot one and cap tured the other. Congressional military committees are confronted with four army plans radically differing. Two men in a fishing launch off South Bend, Wash., were rescued after being tossed about for 12 hours. Burns, Or., offers the Strahorn peo ple $125,000 to run the main line of their proposed railroad through that city. President Wilson makes a speech before the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, in session at Columbus, Ohio. France will limit herself in the Balkan states by furnishing 60,000 soldiers and no more. She assumes that England should supply the rest. Mrs. Ethel McKenzie, of California, who married an Englishman and there by was disfranchised, has regained her vote by her husband applying for naturalization papers. The Democratic state central com mittee of Arkanxas at a meeting at Little Rock, adopted a resolution in dorsing consideration of President Wil son and expressing belief that he shoald be renominated. The German imperial chancellor, in a speech before the reichstag, invites proposals for peace from her enemies, and avows that she has no desire to continue fighting and will not be re sponsible for the war's prolongation. A Zurich, Switzerland, dispatch states that violent demonstrations in favor of peace have taken place in Berlin. The police were obliged to charge the crowds. The windows of stores and cafes were smashed during the rioting. Soldiers in the crowd took an active part in the disturbances. November exports through the New York port broke all records by exceed ing $180,000,000 in value. Foodstuffs, led by wheat, and explosives, mostly smokeless powder, tri-nitro-tuluol, cordite and gun cotton, formed a large proportion of the exports. The pur chases were about equally divided be tween England and France. The custom of marriage by proxy which has come into vogue during thr war has placed a young Parisian wo man in a curious situation. She whs married by proxy on November 17 to Sergeant Joseph Condurhe. On De cember 1 she was informed officially thSt he had been killed on September 28, several weeks before the marriage. Although the .marriage is invalid in law, the authorities, taking account of Sergeant Conduche's intentions, will give a widow's pension to the woman. The governor of Oregon pardons two convicts and paroles nine others. Fourteen women in Mexico are shot as Carranza spies, by the Villaistas. The British press considers Presi dent Wilson's address as "by force of events, a war message from beginning to end." The Democratic National oommlttee has selected St. Louis as the city in which to hold the National convention, June 14, 1916. Members of the reichstag are de bating the food situation in that coun try. Producers, consumers, dealers, and ministers are blamed. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintend ent of the Chicago schools, has re signed. She has been active in edu cational work for 53 years. The Ford peace ship has anked, by wireless to Secretary Lansing, that passports be Issued so that the party may enter belligerent countries. The German government concedes the Socialist wing in the reichstag the right to advocate terms upon which the Germans might accept peace. Senator Dillingham, of Vermont, chairman of the former Immigration commission, introduces a bill in the senate providing that male aliens over 16 years old who cannot read should be excluded from the United States. A Manitou, Colorado, bank robber locks the cashier in the vault and es capes with $1500. Wilson's address to congress elec trifies the country and the dominant note is National preparedness. An agreement for a conference of Greek military authorities and mili tary representatives of the entente powers to examine into the report on the necessities of the situation respect ing the allied demands upon Greece, has been reached, and the preliminary steps toward holding the conference have been taken. Austrian cruisers sink one French submarine and several small steamers and sailing vessels in the Adriatic sea which were carrying war material. A Scotland manufacturer of linen, who inspected Oregon's flax crop, grown by the Inmates of the state pen itentiary, declares it is surpassed by none in the world. Rev. Frank Sewall, writer, educa tor, teacher, for 16 years professor at Urbana university in Ohio, author of the Christian hymnal, dies at hit home in Washington, D. C, in his 79th year. - GERMAN CONSULATE ATTACHE AT TRISCO INDICTED ON 2 COUNTS ' San Francisco Baron George Wll helm von Brlncken, an attache of the German consulate here; C. C. Crowley, a detective employed by the consulate, and Mrs. Margaret W. Cornell, a se cret agont In Crowloy' employ, were Indicted late Tuesday by the United States grand jury on two counts each. The first count charged conspiracy to interfere with and destroy commerce between the several states of the Union and foreign countries; the sec ond alleged use of the mails to incite arson, assassination and murder. Bail was fixed at $5000 for each count In the three Indictments. Coun sel for the defenndantB, all of whom had been arrested previously on com missioner's warrants, promised their appesrance in court. Baron von Brincken and Crowely were previously charged in the com missioner's warrants with the first GEORGE C. CAR0THERS George C. Carothers, special agent of the state department with the VII lista forces, bids fair to add one more difficulty to the puzzle facing the United States in Mexico. Gen Alvaro Obregon has protested to General Car ranza, saying that Mr. Carothers "Is dangerous to the tranquillity of the d 'acto ncvemment." count and have been at liberty on $10, 000 bail, while Mrs. Cornell, arrested as a detained witneBB, gave $1000 bail. The overt acts set out in the indict ments purporting to substantiate the charges against the indicted persons were not made known, but it was said that the government is in possession of all the necessary documentary evi dence to support the charges. Oregon and Washington Men Pay Large Taxes on Incomes Washington, D. C. The richest per son in Oregon has an annual income of from $300,000 to $400,000, one other individual has an income of from $150,000 to $200,000, five have in comes between $76,000 and $100,000, 10 with incomes from $60,000 to $75, 000, and 10 between $40,000 and $50, 000. Washington has one citizen of a big ger income than that of Oregon's rich est, for the largest income tax paid in Washington is on an income that ex ceeds $600,000 per year. Washington also has two citizens with incomes from $250,000 to $300,000, one from $150,000 to $200,000, and 10 drawing $75,000 to $100,000. These figures are found in the an nual report of the commissioner of in ternal revenue. Arabs Beaten by British. London The defeat of an Arab band in an engagement with a British re connoitering party on the Sinai Penin sula is announced in an official state ment Issued in Cairo, Egypt, says a Reuter dispatch. The dispatch fol lows: "A band of 300 hostile Arabs was routed Saturday by a British re connoitering force in the vicinity of Matrah, on the Sinai Peninsula. The Arabs, 35 of whom were killed and seven captured, were driven eastward. British casualties were 16 killed and three officers and 15 men wounded."' Eden Musee Figures Sold. New York The wax figures of the world-famous persons in the Eeden Musee in Twenty-third street, which for 24 years has been one of the points of interest in New York, have been sold at auction. The uptown move ment of retail business men took much patronage from the Eden Musee and when it became necessary to make way for an office building, the management decided to close the museum. The Eden Musee contained the largest cot lection of war figures and historical groups in the United States. Sober New Year Asked. New York No all-night permits for the sale of liquor for New Year's eve will be granted in the metropolis this year, if Mayor Mitchell complies with a request made Tuesday by the board of directors of the Anti-Saloon League. The league says the practice ought to be discontinued "when the dis tresses incident to the war hang like a pall over so large a proportion of the civilized world." Meteor Kills Three Dogs. Dawson, Y. T. Three dogs driven by Andrew Johnson, a telegraph line man, were killed by a giant meteorite which fell on the Yukon telephone line near Nahlin, south of Atlin, according to word reaching here. Johnson, who was traveling 50 feet behind the ani mals, was stunned for several hour as a result of the impact The meteorite made a hole almost 60 feet in diameter. 11 4 V S e -J BITTERLY OPPOSED Coast Aliens Raise Large fund for New Revolution. EMPEROR YUAN IS OPENLY DENOUNCED Throngs Attend San Francisco Mass Meeting Head of Government Is Openly Called Traitor. San Francisco The Chinese quarter here has gone on record as being not only opposed to the change of China's form of government from a republic to a monarchy, but determined to fight the proposed change in the affairs of the Flowery Kingdom. A mass meeting to protest against Yuan Shi Kai's decision to accept the crown was called by Tong King Chong, president of the Chinese Republic as sociation and a former member of the Chinese senate. The time for the meeting found the Chinese quarter ablaze, the meeting place thronged and hundreds outside chattering excit edly and pressing in a vain effort to enter the overflowing hall. The overflowing audience broke up into a series of mass meetings and at every corner orators sang of the glory of republican governments and hurled verbal bombs at the head of Yuan Shi Kal, who was variously denounced as a traitor to China and the tool of Japan. "We will fight and die for our coun try," declared Tong King Chong, ad dressing the mass meeting. "Yuan Shi Kai has violated his oath and proved a traitor to the constitution. The Chinese republic must continue. We are prepared to back our words with war. We may not win even in this generation, but we will win final ly." It was decided at the mass meeting to solict subscriptions from Chinese in all parts of the world to finance a revolution which would have as its ob ject the permanent establishment of the Chinese republic. Before the meeting was over a large sum was subscribed, not only by those present but by Chinese who had been unable to get in, and who announced their sub scriptions by telephone. It was also decided to petition Presi dent Wilson that inasmuch as the Uni ted States had been among the first to recognize the Chinese republic, its recognition should be withheld from the restored monarchy. Eon-Old Mystery Solved by Fossil found in Bad Lands of Dakotas Ann Arbor, Mich. Dr. E. L. Trox el, assistant curator of the museum of the University of Michigan, has just returned from the Bad Lands of the Dakotas, where he discovered a per fect mountable skeleton of a mesohip pus, a three-toed horse, which roamed that country 2,000,000 years ago, and a partial skeleton . of a pliohippus, a one-toed horse which lived 1,000,000 years after the mesohippuB was ex tinct. The pliohippus is the connecting link between the mesohippus and the mod ern horse. Dr. Troxel's discovery of the pliohippus is the only one on rec ord. Speaking of the pliohippus fos sil Dr. Troxel said: "It's the biggest fossil find in years. Its discovery will be extremely valua ble to science, for its discovery will clear up a long disputed question as to whether the pliohippus had one or three toes on each hind foot." Delays Vex Kitchener. Paris Earl Kitchener, the British secretary for war, the Temps says, was unfavorably impressed in the course of his Mediterranean visit by the serious delays and diplomatic diffi culties which interfered with the expe dition to Saloniki The attempts to rescue the Serbians, it seemed to him, might have been tried elsewhere with more chance of success. These ideas were discussed at the Calais confer ence and then examined by the war council of the allies held under the presidency of General Joffre. Oregon Building Is Taken. San Francisco Out of a triangular tangle of ownership involving the Ore gon commission, the United States government and a local contractor, came the announcement that the Ore gon building at the Panama-Pacific ex position had been presented to the United States army as a clubhouse for officers at the San Francisco Presidio. Representatives of the commission an nounced the building had been sold to a contractor for $1520. Then came news from Oregon that the building had been presented to the U. S. army. Christmas Paroles Up. Olympia, Wash. The Btate prison board will hold its special "Christmas meeting" at Walla Walla next week to enable prisoners eligible for parole to obtain releases before the Christ mas holidays. Mrs. Linda Burfield Hazzard, fasting practitioner, sen tenced to two to 20 years for man slaughter, following conviction for be ing responsible for the death of one of her patients, is the most noted prison er before the board. Her minimum sentence expires December 26. American Ship Is "Enemy." Hamburg The prize court which has before it the case of the American ship Pass of Balmaha has decided to treat her as "an enemy vessel." It is annouced that the evidence has estab lished that the ship was under the British flag until the end of 1914 and was sold to an American company after the outbreak of the war. The Pass of Balmaha waa captured while on her way to Archangel, Russia, with cargo of cotton. NEWS ITEMS Oi General Interest About Oregon Stock Show Rated as One of Best Seen in Northwest Portland Judges, visitors and ex hibitors unite in assertion that the stock that is now on exhibition at the yards at Kenton is the best that has ever been gathered in the Northwest. There are prize pens and individual an imals that must compel attention; prize herds, and cattle, sheep and swine by the carload lots. One of the individual animals that has created unusual attention is a registered Duroc Jersey barrow, named Woodrow Wilson. It is but 15 months of age and already has attained a weight of 700 pounds. The students' judging contest was concluded with the result that Wash ington State college won with a score of 2122 points. Oregon Agricultural college was second, Idaho third and California fourth. The judging was made and the men given 80 points for perfect judgment and 20 for a perfect reason. Judging at the Fifth Annual Pacific International Livestock exhibition was concluded in Holstejns, Jerseys, Ayr shires and Guernseys, in the cattle ex hibits. Cotswolds and Lincolns were the only two classes of sheep that were judged in which there was competition and two breeds of swine, Berkshires and Poland Chinas, received their awards. A few classes of the Short horns remain to be judged. The biggest thing on the program was the auction of the fat stock. The chief attraction in the collection of fat cattle and the animal that will first fall under the auctioneer's hammer is the grand champion Shorthorn steer from the University of Idaho. This animal has never lost in any of the classes in which he has been entered and has invaded classes in which ap peared steers of greater age and has competed with many prize steers dur ing his short life. His weight is now 1535 pounds. His mother is a thoroughbred Shorthorn, May Daisy, and she was Bired by the grandson of Gold Crown, reared by J. H. McCroBskey, Fishtrap, Wash.", one of the best known breeders in the Northwest. F. W. Harding, secretary of the American Shorthorn Breeders' associa tion and a man who has judged that breed of cattle for years, declared the champion to be the best specimen he had ever seen. Land Grants May Be In Courts for Many Years Further litigation that may keep both the Coos Bay and Oregon & Cali fornia grant lands in the courts for years is threatened as a result of the decree handed down in the United States court at Portland by Judge Wolverton in the case of the govern ment against the Southern Oregon company. The court held, in this decree, that the grantees of the land are entitled to a value of $2.50 an acre and no more. Attorney for the defendants gave notice of appeal. A similar de cree, with substantially the same pro visions, has been prepared by Constan tino J. Smyth, special assistant to the attorney general of the United States, in the Oregon & California case, which decree will be submitted to Judge Wolverton. Attorneys for the Southern Pacific company, who contend that they, as present holders of the Oregon & Cali fornia lands, own the timber, coal, minerals and other natural resources, as well as their value of $2.50 an acre, will contest this view of the case. If the court accepts the contentions of the United States attorney, as it did in the Southern Oregon case, it is probable that the Southern Pacific at torneys will prepare an appeal. Both these appeals must go to the United States Circuit court of Ap peals, from which it will be possible to appeal to the United States Su preme court Thus it is possible that the lands will be held in litigation for a long period. The decree signed by Judge Wolver ton enjoins the Southern Oregon com pany from selling any of the timber on the Coos Bay wagon road lands; "or any minerals or other deposits thereon, except as part of or in conjunction with the land on which the timber stands or in which the mineral or other deposits are found, and from cutting or removal of any of the timber there on, or from removing or authorizing the removal of mineral or other depos its therein, excepting in conjunction with the Bale of the land bearing the timber or containing the mineral." The defendants are further enjoined from the sale of the land and its re sources until congress shall have had "reasonable opportunity" to make provision for its disposition by legisla tion. Man Born In "West" Is 77. Albany Cyrus Hamlin Walker, old est living white man born west of the Rocky Mountains, celebrated his 77th birthday at his home near Albany Tuesday. He was born December 7, 1838, at Marcus Whitman mission, near Walla Walla, Wash., the scene of the Whitman massacre. Mr. Walker has resided in Oregon all his life. He is an Indian war veteran and iB past commander of the Indian War Vete rans of the North Pacific Coast Mr. Walker has been writing "Memoirs of Old Oregon," which is almost finished. Woman, 88, Casts Ballot. Newport Mrs. Sarah A. Jeffries, of this city, celebrated her 88th birthday Tuesday by walking to the polls and voting in the city election. Mrs. Jef fries is an Oregon pioneer of '62, and is the oldest pioneer resident of the Yaquina country. She was married to Oliver Jeffries and they moved to Yon ealla valley, near Drain, where they lived for 18 years. The husband, both sons and one daughter have since died, but Grandma Jeffries ii still hale and hearty. Every nice day she may be seen walking out to the old home. CZAR AND 1 t 1 L ' H 1 , ""TtW ' A splendid review of Cossack troops marked the czar's assuming of supreme command over his armies. Dressed In ttu uniform of the regiment, the "Little Father" of all the Russlas and his son and heir reviewed the Caucasian troops In the area of the fighting lines. They aro seen here accompanied by one of the com manding officers. Ration party of the King's Liverpool regiment about to take to the men In the trenches In France a hot meal prepared by the traveling kitchens. WAR IN THE DOLOMITE ALPS i This photograph taken along the line of the Italian advance into Aus tria, is Interesting as showing the nature of the country and the reason for the slow progress made by the invaders. Austrian soldiers are here seen scaling a height in order to ambush Italians. YOUNG VICTIMS OF 1 xterJM a; If i A young boy and girl are here seen being m'ntstered to by Red Cross nurses In France after being wounded by (iernian Bhells. Such scenes are trequent. for many refugees are hit before they can get out ot the tone of lire. Winter In Trenches Already. It does not seem long ago since peo ple were asking anxiety mingling with hope In their voices "Shall we have another winter campaign' No body asks the question now. Here along the British front nature Itself gives the answer. Winter Is close up on us. It Is here, at least before midday, ben a white fog fills all the trenches, steals down the dugouts, and drifts densely over all the fields. The pale sun gleams for a (ew hours, giviug. a CZAREVITCH REVIEWING ear IIWMIIil I THE GREAT WAR fictitious sense ot summer, and then when the darkness comes the mist creeps up again from marshes and woods and Lo! it Is cold for any poor beggar staring towards the Ger man lines through a loophole In the parapet. General Headquarters Let ter to the Loadon Chronicle. Her Notion of Art "True art lies In concealing art "Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't give much for a new hat that everybody couldn't tell at a glance was new." COSSACKS "it UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD ' SUGGESTS NEW PEACE PLAN Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford, Jr., university, called at the White House as a representa tive of the American Peace society to suggest to President. Wilson that a conference of neutral nations be called to act as a voluntary court of arbitration to receive and consider any plans that may be advanced looking toward peace in Em ope. This is a part of the program agreed on at the International convention of the society held in San Francisco. . Drug Alone Stops Laughter. Betsy Green, a "stout" woman, stood beside a big fat man at River view station here, when down the street flitted a puff of wind and neatly removed the fat man's hat and sent it sailing up Central avenue. Everyone smiled as the fat man gave chase as best his avoirdupois would permit Betsy laughed. When Betsy had laughed for one hour and 45 minutes without being able to stop an ambulance surgeon stopped it with a dose of morphine.-? Kansas City Post Important Medical Discovery. Dr. Richard Bull, a director of the bacteriological laboratory of the Uni versity of- Melbourne, Australia, re cently announced the discovery that eucalyptus Is a valuable agent tor de stroying the germs ot cerebrospinal meningitis, sometimes called "spotted fever," or "black death," which has long baffled medical science. Diplomacy. "And are you quite sure, Mr. Pul tross, you could stand me as a mother-in-law?" "Madam, It was in order to acquire you as a mother-in-law that I fell tn love with your daughter." London Mail. A Nlghthawk. "Why does the professor stay up all night these nights?" "He's Investigating that theory that It ts always darkest Jnst before the dawn." Pittsburgh Post ' "s