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.
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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.
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' 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
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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
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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
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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."
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UNDERWOOD
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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
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