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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1916)
WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from Ail Around the Earth. BIG INCOMES MAY BE TAXED 10 PAY FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE Washington. D. C The income tax was declared constitutional Tuesday by the Supreme court in an unanimous de cision which swept aside every objec tion raised against it, and in the opin ion of congressional leaders opened tne way for increasing me tax rate on great fortunes to help pay for National defense. Proposals are pending in congress to tax incomes of more than 11,000,000 as high as 50 per cent. Leaders on all sides agree that out of the impetus which the decision will give such pro posals is likely to come a definite movement to levy on the revenues Live NeWS ItemS Of All NatiOnS and Uni great private fortunes for some I OI tne muuuns me Kwyoiimreirt iwv raise to carry out the army and navy increases. ' 'The Supreme court s decision has absolutely unfettered the income tax an a source of revenue," said Repre sentative Hull, of Tennessee, author of thi Uw. "All doubt is removed and PORTLAND RECTOR CALLS FOR DEFENSE UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NLTSHQ1 Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Slides in the Siskiyou mountains are delaying traffic. The illness of Emperor Franz Joseph is reported grave. The new fad in ladies' hosiery is the "lampshade" stocking. Mexican bandit is executed in the . Juarez cemetery for killing an Ameri can. MISS KATHERINE SEFT0N degrees in two at Great Falls, Mercury drops 70 hours and 20 minutes Mont. : Shooting of a Mexican civilian by an American is charged by that gov ernment and his punishment is asked. Mrs. Mean Bear, an Indian aged 106 years, dies at Ponca City, Okla., leav ing 700 kinfolks in her Immediate family. Two hostile aeroplanes visit Kent, England, dropping nine bombs result ing in a casualty list of one killed and six injured. EftBt St. Louis, 111., stock yards are under quarantine because of the dis covery of several cases of foot and mouth disease. A. L. Mohler, president of the Union Pacific railroad, who fell on the ice at Omaha Sunday and suffered con cussion of the brain, Is improving, President Wilson urges congress to clear its docket of appropriation bills as soon as possible, so that the prepar edness program will have full swing, At a meeting in Chicago of the Re publican National committee, four prominent persons were mentioned for chairman of the convention, Including Borah, Root, McCall and Osborne. Senator Newlands, in a speech in the senate, opposed government own ership of railroads, declaring that un der the regulation plan, America has secured the most perfect railroad sys tem in the world, A stenographer in a fit of despond ency jumps from the 16th story of a building in Chicago. She alighted on a truckload of pasteboard boxes, breaking both arms and several ribs. She probably will live. T? nnnlil J to n T.aalaw Mann tnrAr f Via floor of the house against the Shackle- AHienCail Demand OH WW) 111 iora tzo.uuv.uuu gooa roaas dui on the ground that the money would have to come from special taxes, most of which are paid by cities, A package of currency containing $2200 disappeared somewhere between the Burlington depot and the Adams Express company office at Mount Pleasant, la. Another package con tainlng $500 In silver was undisturbed. ( rx 1 Dr. Morrison, Episcopalian, Has No Use for Pacificist CHRIST'S NON-RESISTANCE IS DENIED Mother Who Would Keep Her Sons From Enlisting Declared to Be "Disgrace to Nation." Mist Katharine Sefton, daughter of Or. and Mrs. Frederick Sefton of Au burn, N. Y., Is to become the bride of Frank C. Page, son of the ambassador to Great Britain, according to an an nouncement made In London. congress is lett mucn ireer to act. i believe congress will, take advantage of the opportunity to amend the law materially. Without any unusual or unjust charges it can be made to yield $186,000,000 to $195,000,000 a year as against $85,000,000 or $95,000,000 at present." Lusttania Case Granted by Berlin The finger of shame was pointed from the pupit of the Portland Trinity Episcopal church Sunday morning at the mother whose love for her son rises above that for her nation Ths mothers and "peace at any price" advocates were denounced as a "disgrace to the nation," and an ap peal, based on the teachings of Christ, for proper national armaments, was sent forth by Dr. A. A. Morrison, rec tor of that church, in what was con sidered perhaps the strongest sermon in defense of preparedness ever deliv ered from any pulpit in Portland. After the sermon members of the congregation ruBhed forward to con gratulate the pastor. "I cannot understand these individ uals who cry even from the pulpits 'peace at any price,' " he told them. "I wonder what they would do, if some one in the night should by force steal away their wife and daughter. Would they run after them with their theory of love? Of course not." The teaching of Christ, he declared in answer to those peace advocates who base their theories on the Bible, is not against preparedness. And he cited Christ s scourging of the money changers in the temple, his chastise ment of the Scribes and Pharisees and his advice to sacrifice one's life for a friend. "A misapprehension exists," he de clared, "over the phrase called 'Christian teaching.' There are those advocating peace under any and all circumstances who assert that Jesus taught a doctrine of non-resistance; a doctrine which would utterly abrogate the use of force in education or as a defense against evil-doers. . Many per' sons believe Christ advocated this, but I say he did no such thing." Avalanche of Snow and Earth Hits Great Northern Train; 8 Dead NEWS ITEMSl Of General Interest About Oregon All-Oregon Historical Pageant Commencement Week Feature University of Oregon, Eugene An all-Oregon historical pageant, in which each of the 35 counties will be repre sented bya "Dauhgter of Oregon," will be presented at the State univer sity during commencement week, early in June. The pageant has just been approved by the board of regents and will be presented before final examinations so that the participation of a great por tion of the student body may be possi ble. The pageant will depict the pro gress of Oregon. The first represen tation will Bhow the state as it was in its original primeval condition, prior to the coming even of the Indian. Then the epoch of Indian domination will be depicted, then the coming of the white man, then the days of the immigration, then the gold days, and finally the realization of the present with a glimpse into the future, I be pageant will be in five scenes, presided over by "Mother Oregon." In the last scene the 35 "Daughters of Oregon" will bring gifts symbolic of the indus tries of each county. The pageant is to be not merely a University affair. Contribution of lyrics for the various choruses is invit ed from the state at large, and any suggestion for the five scenes will be appreciated. A large state attendance is looked for. Persons desiring to make suggestions for the pageant should communicate with Dr. E. S. Bates, professor of English and author of the scenario, University of Oregon, Eugene. BRITISH CYCLE CORPS AT SALONIKI Members of the British cycle corps are here shown leaving Salonlki in the midst of a snowstorm to make a reconnoissance. Elaborate preparations for the defense ot tne lireelt city nave oeen maae ay uie union, uu to their forces there are being made constantly by both the British and tne DTencn. SURVIVORS OF THEIR RACE'S TRAGEDY Colonel Goethals, governor of the Panama Canal zone, and General Clar ence R. Edwards, commander of the U. S. troops there, are to report at Washington to settle differences be tween them arising from criticism made by General Edwards. A new Oregon Republican club is organized In Portland with 500 mem bers. A total of eleven lives were lost during recent severe storms in South ern California. Berlin announces that superior Rus sian forces were repulsed in hand-to- band fighting In the Bessarablan fron tier trenches. Promises that the English conscrip tlon measure will be enforced without severity, brings loud applause in the house of commons. War Issues cause hot debate in the senate, Hoke Smith leading in a severe arraignment of England's attitude toward neutral shipping. Washington, D. C Germany haB submitted to the United States, through Ambassador Von Bernstorff, another written proposal designed to bring about a settlement of the con troversy over the sinking of the steam ship Lusitama. with a Iobs of more than 100 American lives. There were indications here that the document might bring a satisfac tory termination of negotiations. Although the greatest secrecy sur rounds the negotiations, it is said on excellent authority that Germany final ly had argeed to eliminate from the text of the agreement any mention of the warning issued by the German embassy the day the Lusitania sailed on her laBt trip from New York. Mention of thiB warning is understod to have been contained in the last pro- lal, which was rejected after Pres ident Wilson had considered it. It is understood alBO that Germany had left out of her proposal general reservation of admission of wrong' doing on the part of the submarine commander, to which United states objected. Mention of the warning is believed to have been most objectionable to the administration. In effect, it was re garded as conveynig the idea that no American lives would have been loBt had the warning been heeded. Seattle Two cars of westbound Great Northern Cascade Limited train were swept from the track by an aval anche near Corea station Saturday morning, and were hurled 80 feet down the mountain side, causing death to four passengers, and four missing. Fifteen passengers were injured, none seriously except Earl Smith, of Spo kane, a small boy. The train was standing on the track near Corea, on the west slope of the Cascade mountains, when the aval anche struck it near the middle, a day coach and the diner going over the bank, while a sleeper behind them was toppled over on its side, where it hung in its perilous position over the bank, but was not taken down. The dining car stopped when about half way down the Blope and caught fire, being destroyed there. The scene of the accident is but f few miles east of the scene of a sinv ilar disaster of February 28, 1910, when two Great Northern trains were struck by snowslides and nearly all the persona on the trains perished. Villa Sends Messenger to Deny Implication in Killing of Americans German Fleet to Battle. New York President MacMechen, of the Aeronautical Society of Amer ica, issued a stateftnent Wednesday in which he said that a German fleet with 17-lnch guns, far outranging British naval guns, and escorted by aeroplanes and Zeppelins armed with a new pneu matic gun. will soon appear in the North Sea and give battle to the British. The time of the raid will be fixed mainly by the results of teats of a new Roosevelt wants Immediate action engine of destruction from the air and in construction of half a dozen "for- of the pneumatic gun, he said midable fighting ships. " adeoate army and universal military service. New Mail Rate Opposed. TK filr un I. Mtte t..rH llJ Washington, D. C.-Pres.dent Pet mront. nnwor fnr attmntlnir to force eon, Of the Long Island Kailroad and his country Into the war. He declares president of the committee of railway A British submarine has gone ashore off Holland, according to an announce ment made by the official press bureau. There was no loss of life. An attack by the British with the use of smoke bombs on the German positions north of Frelinghein, in Northern France, is announced in an official statement by the German army headquarters. It is declared the at tack was beaten off with heavy loss to the British. the neutrality of his country was vio lated like that of Belgium. General Luis Herrera, in supreme command of the Carranza forces at Chihuahua City, Mexico, late Friday night flatly denied the truth of the re port of the capture of General Villa at the San Geronimo ranch. A wealthy Spokane realty dealer was found guilty of selling intoxicants in violation of the liquor law and was fined $250 and ten days in jail. The house committee favorably re ports the Spanish-American war pen sion bill which grants, if passed, $12 per month to every widow of a soldier either a volunteer or a regular. Seattle millionaires whose resi dences were raided by the sheriff for violations of the Prohibition law, will turn against him by attacking his legal status as regards searching pri vate residences. presidents opposing the proposal to have the government pay for trans portation of mails on the so-called space basis, laid the railroads' objec tions before the house postofllce com' mittee, He said the railroads had begun to feel the effects of improved business conditions and that it would be a blow to the entire country to have their In comes cut at this time, Officials Like Torpedo. Washington, D. C. Adoption of the aerial-controlled torpedo invented John Hays Hammond, Jr., was urged Wednesday by Secretary Garrison, Ma jor General Scott and Brigadier Gen eral Weaver at an executive session of the house fortifications sub-committee, Mr. Hammond also was present and explained the workings' of the torpedo. The War department estimates contain a proposed appropriation of $945,000 for putting the torpedo into use. El Paso, Tex. Tedeore Prieto, who says he is a major in the Villa army, appeared Monday and declared that he had been sent in disguise to the border by Gen. Villa to say that Villa had nohting to do with the massacre of 18 foreigners at Santa Isabel January 10. 'Villa did not know of the tragedy for days afterward," said Prieto. 'He instructed me to say that he will execute the men responsible, even if they prove to be his own men, if they are caught." Steamer Founders at Sea. Halifax, N. S. The British freight steamer Pollentia, which has been re ported in distress about 700 miles off Cape Race, foundered Monday, accord ing to a wireless message received here. All on board were rescued. An earlier radiogram said that the Italian steamer Giuseppe Verdi and two other steamers were standing Jy the Pollen tia, waiting for the seas to moderate. The Pollentia is understood to have been in the service of the British ad miralty. The Giuseppe Verdi left New York January 13 for Genoa. Painting Brings 8140,000. New York Hans Memling's "The Archer," declared to have been the last work of the great Flemish painter left in the art markets of the world, has been bought for $140,000 by Fifth Avenue jeweler. "The Archer" is a portrait of a young man painted on a wooden panel 10 by 12 inches. Only the head and part of the chest are shown. The portrait, considered one of Memling's finest, was painted in 1473, when the artist was at the height of his power. It was acquired in 1912 by Paris art dealers. Wages 27 Per Cent Higher, New York One thousand and three hundred representative manufacturers in New York state, employing approx imately 600,000 persons, are paying an average of 27 per cent more In wages than a year ago, according to a report made public here by the bureau of statistics and information of the State Industrial commission. About 17 per cent more workers are employed now than last year, the statistics show. State Joins Fight on Federal Control of Vacant Public Lands Salem With other Western states, Oregon will join with Utah in the bat tle to determine whether the Federal government has exclusive control over vacant public lands in the Western states. Believing that the Case now on ap peal from Utah to the United States Supreme court, in which the Beaver River Power company is enjoined from operating a hydro-electric plant on lands in the Federal forest reserve, iB of vital interest to Oregon, Governor Withycombe has requested Attorney General Brown to appear in Washing ton, D. C, as a friend of the court, and give Oregon's attitude in the ques tion of government control of water power resources on Federal lands. Utah was the first to intervene, and since then Idaho, Colorado and a num ber of other Western states have de cided to be represented. The question involved in the case, according to officials here, is whether the laws of.a state regulating the ap propriation and use of water within its boundaries are controlling and exclu sive of any other control. ill Drain 60,000 Acres in Fertile Long Tom District Eugene A meeting of business men and landowners has launched plans for the drainage of bewteen 60,000 and 70,000 acres in the Long Tom district at an estimated expense of $280,000. About 20,000 acres of this land is in Lane county, the rest being in Linn and Benton counties. The commercial club at a recent meeting pledged its support to the project and will, it has been an nounced, give $1000 toward getting the work under way, provided the ma jority of the landowners vote to create a drainage district as authorized by the Oregon law, within which assess ments may be levied. The district will be authorized to issue bonds. This project has been proposed a number of times by individuals, but the action of the club, co-operating with landowners, is the first organized movement to accomplish the drainage of this land, which is almost worthless because it is covered with water a great part of the time, but which would be among the most valuable farm land in the state if the water was eliminated. Group of Armenian girls and women who escaped death or worse at the hands of the Turks, the fate ot tens ol thousands of their sisters. OUTPOST OF THE ALBANIAN REBELS A This is a view of an outpost of the Albanian rebels on a hilltop near Durazzo. Tnese AiDanians, it is beneved, are ready to join forces with the allies against the Teutonic armies, while Prince William of Wied, who was king ot Albania for a short time, Is said to be organizing tribesmen to aid the leutons. MRS. A. J. DREXEL, JR. Red Boy Mine Is Sold. Baker H. A. Sonne, cashier of the Baker Loan & Trust company has an nounced upon his' return from Canyon Citv that he bid in for $34,500 the property of the Red Boy Mines com pany at a sheriff's sale for the bank, bolder of a trust mortgage securing a $137,900 bond issue. The sale was effected bv canceling a large part of the bond Issue, at considerable below par. Judgment given by the urant county Circuit court, on which the sale was based, was $171,835.98, together with $5000 attorney's fees, to be divided between Clifford & Correll. of Baker, and William Jackson of Chicago, $23 costs and $500 for trustees fees. Africa Gets Oregon Hops. Salem What is said to be the first shipment of Oregon hops to South Africa left Independence recently for Portland, where it will be Bent by steamer to its destination. The shipment was made by Durbin & Cornoyer, buyers of this city, and consisted of 178 bales. Of the total number of bales in the order, 58 are destined for Johannesburg; 23 for Al goa; 58 for Natal; 14 for Cape Town; 12 for Bloomfontein and 13 for Pre toria. The hops were grown by Mad ison Bros., of Benton county. More Hops Are Sold. Salem Reports this week were that the Oregon Hopgrowers' association had sold 8000 bales of its holdings to Louis Lachmund for an average price of 12 cents, but association officers re fused to confirm the amount They admitted, however, the sale of a large block. M. L. Jones, president, said another large deal was pending. Pre diction that the hop market would see a slump before long was made by Mr. Horst, who declared that the large stock on the Pacific Coast yet unsold did not justify high values. " Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., ot Pbtl- adelphla, formerly Miss Marjory Gould of New York, as she appeared aboard the steamer on which Bhe re cently arrived at New York from Eu- rone. Mr. Drexel accompanied her and they went to their home" in Phil adelphia. Mrs. Drexel is sein carry ing her favorite dog Bella. KING OF SPAIN GREETS ARMY AVIATORS- fry w-ir" f - I & Wy J 17 . K4 .." V U NO RfOO w Where 8h Shone. "How about your new stenographer! Is Tme quick and accurate?" "Yes. sir; she can powder her face, arrange her bracelets and fix her hair quicker than any stenographer I ever had. And do It accurately, too." Napoleon Wasted No Words. An interesting Napoleonic rello is the reply to a long and verbose letter from the duke of Gaeta asking the em peror's decision In a confiscation case. Napoleon's reply was as follows: "Yea Napoleon." , Next to his polo ponies and his speedy motor cars, there is nothing which holds the interest ot King Alfonso so much as flying machines of every de scription. He himself iB a capable aviator, with a reputation In the aeronautic world. The photograph shows Alfonso greeting some of the army air pilots on their return from a flight during his visit to the aviation school at Jetafe. He has been quick to recognize the Importance of aviation in warfare. BITS OF NEWS European armies normally use up 71,000,000 pairs of shoes yearly. Dr. D. V. K. Wellington Koo, the new Chinese minister to the United States, Is the youngest man who ever came as a minister to this country. Slgnor Marconi has still In his pos session the apparatus with which he made his first experiments in wireless telegraphy In the garden ot his fa ther's house In Italy. He was then fifteen years old. It the wind Is In the right direction, a sort of cold smell gives sailors warn ing ot the proximity of an Iceberg. The last harness racing season Is notable because Peter Scott won more money than any horse ever before ac cumulated on the Grand Circuit, $38, 400, from Cleveland to Lexington, and an additional $11,000 at the Panama Pacific exposition. The foreign-born population in the United States equals the combined population of Norway, Denmark and Sweden,