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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1916)
EUROPE ASKS BIDS ON TRENCH STAKES Allies Want 8,000,000 reel fir - from Portland Mills. SEEK SPRUCE TO BUILD AEROPLANES Railroads Buy Material for Thousand Freight Cars Order Must Be Filled in Three Months. Portland Lumber mills have been asked to bid on an order for 8,000,000 feet of trench posts and pickets for use by the allied powers in the war zone. The posts are to be 2x4 inches and four feet long, sharpened at one end, and will be used for stringing barbed wire along the trenches. They are to be used on the fighting front in France, and delivery will have to be made from Portland within 90 days. This will insure them reaching Europe, barring marine accidents, by Septem ber. The order may be for all or part of the 8,000,000 feet. A large domestic order for lumber for railroad cars has been placed with the Douglas Fir Lumber company, of Portland. The order calls for -2,000,-000 feet of fir. The European governments are also in the Portland market for as much high-grade spruce as can be obtained, it was learned on good authority here. This spruce brings $30 to $100 a thou sand, and is for building areoplanes. The allies' agents for trench posts have been authorized to ask for bids in Portland and British Columbia. It is presumed by local lumbermen, ship owners and agents in Portland that about 4,000,000 feet will be taken from Portland. The posts would be cut from Douglas fir and tied in bun dles of 10 to 20. The cost would be around $15 to $16 a thousand feet, bringing to Portland, if the order is placed here, between $50,000 and $76, 000 for the 4,000,000 feet. ' The local river mills could turn out the order within less time than the specifications now in Portland hands require. The lumber posts could be handled easily by two of the large Bteamers, and the canal route could be taken. The domestic order which has been placed with the Douglas Fir Lumber company of Portland calls for 2,000, -000 feet of Douglas fir to be used in the construction of 1000 automobile cars and 500 stock car for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. The order was placed by the Western Steel Car & Foundry company, of Chicago. It will take 80 cars to carry it East. E. B. Hazen, vice president of the Douglas Fir Lumber company, said that the order has been put in the hands of local and Bridal Veil mills and would be finished in about a "week. The order represents about $50,000. The European powers, it was estab lished beyond reasonable doubt, are ac tually seeking large spruce orders in the Pacific Northwest, principally Ore gon. Local lumbermen admit that they were unable to fill the orders as fast as they were being received. The spruce required is of a fine grade and brings from $30 to $100 a thousand feet. In the last two years about 10, 000, 000 feet has been taken out of the Northwest for the construction of aeroplanes for the European powers. This confirmation lends considerable credence to the report from Marshfiled that the Russian government was seek ing 50,000,000 of spruce in the Coob Bay country. Blame Denied by Berlin. Berlin No German submarine could have been in the vicinity of the spot where the Dutch liner Tubantia was sunk, and no German mines had been laid in this region, the German ad miralty announces. The official state ment says: "A German submarine is out of the question in connection with the sinking of the Tubantia, as the place where the accident took place is less than 30 miles from the Dutch coast, which means that this place is within the territory declared to be not dangerous for shipping by the mam festo of. February 4, 1915." Hospital Ship Is Sunk. Berlin The Austro-Hungarian hos pital ship Elektra was torpedoed Sat urday in the Adriatic sea by an entente allied submarine, according to the Overseas News agency. One sailor was drowned and two Red Cross nurses were seriously wounded. "Vienna re ports that the hospital ship Elektra, of the Austro-Hungarian Red Cross, was torpedoed in the North Adriatic by an enemy submarine. The steamer stranded. The Elektra was not unkown to the enemy as a hospital ship, and was provided with visible marks." : Two in Counterfeiting Net. Seattle John Ryan, alias J. E. Mur phy, and a man giving his name as Jim Ryan were arrested by the police Monday and held for investigation by Federal officers in connection with the circulation of counterfeit Federal re serve bank notes in Pacific Coast cities. Captain Foster, of the United States Secret Service, said John Ryan had served a sentence at Walla Walla. The local Secret Service office received word that the plates with which the counterfeit notes had been printed had been found in San Francisco. Auto Kills Bridal Pair. Dubuque, Iowa. T. J. Fitzpatrick, an attorney, and his bride of two months, were killed, and Mrs. Marga ret Morrison, mother of the young wo man, and Mrs. David Hack, daughter of President Gorman, of the Rock Island railroad, were injured when their automobile left the road and fell down a 10-foot embankment near here. The occupants were pined under the ear. Mr. Fitzpatrick is believed to have lost control of the machine. SEAPLANE LOST IN RAID OVER ENGLAND NINEKILLED IN ATTACK London Nine persons were killed and 31 wounded in a raid of four Ger man aeroplanes over the East coast of Kent Sunday, it was announced offi cially here. A British airman brought down one raider over the sea, the Ger man observer being killed. The official statement on the raid reads : "Four German seaplanes flew over Kent Sunday. The first pair appeared over Dover at a height of 6000 to 6000 feet, one at 1 :57 p. m. the second at 2:02 p. m. "The first dropped six bombs in the harbor; then went northward, drop ping bombs on the town. The other raider, after passing over Dover, ap peared over Deal. "The second pair appeared over Ramegate at 2:10. They dropped bombs on the town. One of this pair went west, the other north, pursued by a British aeroplane. One bomb is . REAR ADMIRAL FISKE Rear Admiral Bradley A. Flake, U. 8. N., now retired and attached to the staff of the naval war college at New port, is the inventor of a flying torpedo boat on which patents have been grant ed. It is equipped with apparatus to carry and launch from the air the reg ulation Whitehead torpedo, the pro pelling mechanism of which ll started by the Impact with the water. reported to have been dropped on Mar gate. "The second machine appeared over Westgate at 2 :20. Here several of our aeroplanes went up in pursuit. No bombs were dropped on Westgate. The total casualties so far as report ed: Killed, three men, one woman and five children. Injured, 15 men, five women, nine children. As far as ascertained 18 bombs were dropped al together. "One bomb fell on the Canadian hos pital at Ramsgate, causing damage but no casualties. Several houses, the homes of artisans and cottagers, were wrecked. French Destroyer Sunk by Torpedo in Adriatic Sea Paris The French torpedo boat de stroyer Renaudin has been sunk in the Adriatic by a submarine. Three offi cers and 44 of the crew were lost Two omcers and 34 of the crew were saved. The ministry of marine made the following official announcement regard ing the loss of the destroyer: "The squadron torpedo boat Renau din was sunk in the Adriatic by an en emy submarine on the morning of March 18. Three officers, among whom were the commandant and sec ond officer, and 44 seamen were lost Two omcers and 34 seamen were res cued by a French torpedo boat which accompanied the Renaudin. " British Repulse Turks. London News of an engagement be tween British and Turkish forces near Aden, in which the British were suc cessful, was given out in an official statement, as follows : "A Turkish force, accompanied by three German officers, attacked a Brit ish outpost at Imad, about 10 miles from Aden, on the 16th, suffered a severe repulse and was pursued four miles. The next day 17 Turkish dead were found on the field. Our losses were one Indian soldier killed and one British officer and 16 men wounded." Tongs Sign 15-Day Truce. San Francisco Special details of policemen and detectives were removed from San Francisco's Chinatown Sun day when announcement was made from a Chinese peace conference that a truce had been signed between the Hop Sing and Suey Ong tongs to ex tend 15 days. During the truce an at tempt will be made, it was said, to settle by indemnity claims of the Bow On tong and the Lee family for mem bers slain by mistake during the recent outbreak in the course of which 10 tong men were shot, three of whom died. Raiders Put Outside Law. Mexico City General Obregon is sued a decree Sunday declaring all par ticipants in the Columbus raid outside the law. The decree gives the right to any citizen to apprehend and kill, if necessary, the followers of Villa who crossed the American frontier. The first victim of this decree was summarily executed Monday in the city of Hermosillo, near which place he was captured by men who denounced 1 e ) him as one of the raiding party. ENGLAND PUTS BAN ON MANY LUXURIES Strict Council Order Due Soon to Relieve Shipping. IMPORTS FROM U.S.T0 BE CURTAILED All Space in Vessels Now Needed for Necessities Autos, Musical Instruments, Cutlery, Hit. London A far-reaching order in council, which will totally prohibit im portation into the United Kingdom of a large number of articles which come under the general heading of luxuries, will be issued by the British govern ment at an early date. ' Among the things which will be placed under the ban will be automo biles for private use, musical instru ments, cutlery of all kinds, hardware, yarns, chinaware, fancy goods and soaps. The order will apply equally to all countries, including the British dominions and colonies. This forecast of the coming order in council was given to the Associated Press Saturday by Walter Runciman, president of the board of trade. Mr. Runciman admitted that articles in ad dition to those named would be placed on the list of prohibited imports. He declared it was absolutely necessary to limit the shipment of bulky luxuries to provide room on ships for necessar ies. "But please remember," said Mr. Runciman, "that the issuance of this order is forced on the country not as a matter of policy, but entirely be cause of shortage in tonnage. We want exports from the United States; we want your wheat, cotton and meat, and we need other things which we cannot get if the space aboard vessels is taken up with luxuries. "Everything possible is being done to relieve the shortage in Bhips. Every ship flying the British flag is now con trolled by the government. Immense numbers of them have been requisi tioned. Others are subject to direc tion by way of license. Whether it will be necessary to requisition more vessels I cannot say, but for my part I hope that this will not be done." Mr. Runciman said the importation of some fresh fruits probably would be prohibited later, but he pointed out that this would affect the United States only slightly. Turning from the matter of imports to the general industrial situation in the British Isles, Mr. Runciman said there never had been greater activity in the larger industries, that wages were higher than ever before, and that the percent age of unemployment never had been so small in the history of the country. $40,000 a Day Is Cost of Pursuit of Mexican Bandit Villa El Paso, Tex. The United States' pursuit of Villa, under present ar rangements, is costing the government $40,000 a day, according to estimates made here Saturday by army officers. Carranza officials, it was learned, have been discussing with some con cern whether American troops during the Villa pursuit would have to occupy any Mexican cities and the effect of such occupation on Mexican public sen timent. The Carranza officers have frankly expressed the hope that the garrisoning of the cities can be left to their own troops. The American army s choice of the Chihuahua desert as its place of entry precludes for the present such a prob lem as city garrison duty. Water Purifiers Ordered. New York Orders were received by the United States depot quartermaster here for 125 water purifiers to equip the American troops in their campaign against Villa in Mexico. The purifi ers are intended to prevent the spread of disease which might follow the drinking of unsterilized water from poolB or rivers. They are canvas-cov ered rubber bags, each with a capacity of 20 gallons. . When the water is dipped from pools and placed in the bags, purifying chemicals are added, and the water can be safely used. Child Labor Bill Disliked. Washington, D. C Mrs. A. A. Bir ney, secretary of the National Moth ers' Congress, and Miss Mary A. Gar rett, of the Pennsylvania Juvenile Court and Probation association, op posed the Keating-Owen child labor bill before the senate Interstate Com merce commission. The Mothers' con gress, the committee was told, was composed of 100,000 mothers who were convinced that any cast iron rule ap plied to child labor was a mistake, and that a moderate vocational training was a good thing for the children. Stolen Bill Used in Spain. New York A United States govern ment $10,000 gold note, one of 20 of the same denomination stolen from the mail in September 1912, on the way to New York from Havana, Cuba, was received Saturday by bank in this city, from the American Bank of Mad rid, Spain. It was the ninth of the stolen notes to reappear since the theft. As the notes appear they are given to the insurance company which paid insurance covering the amount of the theft. Hen Lays IOOO Eggs. Corvallis, Ore. "Oregona," a White Leghorn hen at the Agricultural Col lege, has laid her thousandth egg. "This," said Professor Dryden, "is the greatest long-distance trap-nest record ever known to the world." At the end of her fifth year the hen had laid 987 eggs. She has now laid, at the beginning of her sixth year, the 13 necessary to make her a 1000-egg hen, Formerly it was believed the domestic hen could not lay over 600 eggs. CARRANZA FORCES NOW MAKING SUPREME EFFORT TO CAPTURE VILLA Washington, D. C. While there were indications in official dispatches from Mexico Wednesday that the de facto government was making a su preme effort to capture Villa and his bandits with its own forces, there was no sign that General Funston's orders to proceed on the same errand had been modified in any way. Word that American troops had crossed the border was still lacking, the War department itself not having been advised as to when the movement would begin. Congress took active notice of the border situation for the first time. The house adopted a resolution late in the day authorizing the recruiting of the mobile regular army to full strength. This means the addition of approxi mately 20,000 fighting men to the in- GEN. PABLO GONZALES lb:- wjwfli Jj General Gonzales is a Carranza lead er who is active in capturing Villa. f antry, cavalry and field artillery. The senate is expected to concur, and the necessary orders will be issued imme diately to fill up regiments on border duty. The step was suggested by the army general staff. It is urgently desired now, because of the weakening of the border force by the expedition after Villa, but ever since the patrol of the border began the army has been great ly handicapped by the skeleton organ ization of regiments, companies, troops and batteries. The force that occupied Vera Cruz had similar diffi culties, some of the companies there being less than 40 men strong. U. S. Troops Will March Into Mexico in Light Order Columbus, N. M. The commanding officers of the expeditionary force gave orders Wednesday that the men should take with them only such equip ment as they could carry on their backs or saddles. Extra clothing and the equipment known in the army as the "surplus kit" will be left behind. These orders were intended to limit carrying facilities to the essentials of the expedition food and drink for the men and horses and ammunition for the guns. Large quantities of ' ammunition for the mountain howitzers and field guns has been distributed. Cabmat wa gons, which carry ammunition for the soldiers rifles, were loaded and the en gineers, Bignal and hospital corps were supplied with the final details of their equipment. Villa Suspect Arrested. Columbus, N. M. Alfredo Aregon, who for several weeks - has been a waiter in the Columbus Hotel, was ar rested charged with having in his pos session goods looted from stores during the Villa raid. He is suspected of be ing one of the men who guided the Mexican bandits into the town. Are gon was taken to Deming by Federal officers. Aregon had a United States army uniform. The suspicion that he was one of Villa's guides rested mainly on the fact that he was not at the hotel for several hours before the raid, French and Greeks Clash. Berlin (By wireless to Sayville, N, Y.) Reports have been received here from Athens of fighting on the Greek island of Mytilene between Greek and French soldiers. It is said one French soldier was killed and another severely wounded. French reinforcements were bought up and imprisoned the Greeks, The commander of the French forces. the reports say, has prohibited further mingling of French and Greek sol diers. The Greek government is re ported to have protested against the arrest of the soldiers. New Hands Like Claws. Paris Two new types of artificial arms with hands are shown at the Academy of Sciences. One is for heavy work, with fingers like claws of a lobster. The other has artificial fin gers, enabling the hand to reproduce closely the action of natural fingers, Successful experiments were made in the presence of members of the acad emy by two men, each of whom lost an arm. One sawed through a beam of wood and the other played a violin. Army of 120,000 Proposed. Washington, D. C. Chairman Hay, of the house military committee, Wed nesday prepared for immediate intro duction of the resolution to permit the President to raise the fighting strength of the standing army to 120, 000 men at once. Republicans and Democrats worked in perfect harmony for the adoption of the resolution, depsite that fact that their learders on the military commit tee disagreed as to the meaning of it, VILLA CHASE BEGUN; MEN CROSS BORDER Gen. Pershing and Army Start South After Bandits. CARRANZA MEN JOIN AMERICAN FORCE Orders Are to "Wipe Out Villa and His Organization" Other En gagements Are Expected. San Antonio, Tex. General John J. Pershing, with more than 4000 troops, began the pursuit into Mexico Thurs day of Francisco Villa. General Pershing s report that he and his com mand had crossed the international boundary line just south of Columbus reached General Funston here. Re ports of progress in the country where the search has been begun will be made by General Pershing to General Funston, but it is not expected these will be frequent or deal with any but the more important developments. Colonel George A. Dodd, heading a smaller column that entered Mexico some distance west of Columbus, also is moving in a southerly direction and these two forces should be within touch of each other before many days. By that time it is expected an infantry support will hold the line of commun cation along which motor trucks for the transportation of ammunition and supplies will be operated. General Pershing's report of his en trance into Mexico served to dispel to great extent fears that had been en tertained in some quarters that resist ance would be offered by the troops of the de facto government. Colonel Ber tani, the commanding officer of the Carranza garrison at Palomas, on the gouth side of the line, joined General Persihng. His force was only some 400 men, but they were reported to have dis played willingness and even eagerness to join in the chase. As a body the Mexican troops will remain under their own commander, but several of them are being employ ed as scouts by General Pershing. General Pershing has gone into Mex ico with orders to wipe out Villa and his organization. Unless orders to the contrary are received from those high er in authority than General Funston, the campaign that has now begun will continue until Villa is captured or killed. No limits have been placed on the field of operations. Douglas, Ariz. Numerous reports reached the United States mili tary authorities here Thursday that open rebellion has broken out among the Carranza troops at Cabullona, 18 miles south of here. Americans here are seriously disturbed. Submarines and Aeroplanes Within 15 Days, Says Edison Washington, D. C Thomas A. Edi son told the house naval committee Thursday that with a fully equipped Federal research laboratory with facil ities for standardization, machine parts of submarines and aeroplanes should be built in 15 days. He said the United States should appropriate liberally for such a laboratory as rec ommended by the naval advisory board of civilian expert. The government could distribute standardized parts to manufacturers, the inventor said. The Federal lab oratory, he said, could be put in full working operation for $1,500,000. When Mr. Edison concluded, the committee formally expressed its thanks, rose and remained standing as he left. Howard E. Coffin, of Detroit, a member of the naval advisory board, who followed Mr. EdiBon, said that mobilization of industries to help in time of war was of greater impor tance than buiding ships or recruiting men. Mr. Coffin opposed secrecy in work ing out preparedness plans. "Let us get this secrecy bunk out of our heads," he said. "There proba bly isn't a foreign country which does not know all about our resources." Ship Purchase Planned. Detroit Eward N. Breitung, a wealthy mining man, of Marquette, Mich., and New York, said here that he is one of several persons who are attempting to promote a gigantic cor poration to purchased interned German and Austrian vessels. Mr. Breitung said estimates showed there were 4800 German and Austrian ships in terned throughout the world. Mr. Breitung said the promoters were dis cussing the advisability of incorporat ing in Brazil, so as not to be affected by the American seamen's act. Ten Thousand Honor Carranza. Mexico City Ten thousand civilians, including government employes and school teachers, paraded the principal avenues Thursday, carrying the nation-1 al colors and banners bearing the in-1 scription: "Homage to Venustiano' Carranza, the'Savior of His Country's Honor. Speeches were delivered in front of the Cuauhtemotzin and Juarez monuments, military headquarters and the National palace. The parade dis persed at the palace, where half a dozen military bands played patriotic airs. Shops and stores were closed. Priest. Settles Strike. Souix City, la. Accepting the ad vice of Rev. George J. Jonaitis, pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic church, of Omaha, and Strike Leader Edward Payne, strikers of the Cudahy packing plant are to return to work at once. The decision marked the settlement of the third strike within three weeks. The four discharged employes of the Cudahy plant, who caused the last walkout, will be taken back by the company. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS Portland Wheat BlueBtem, 98c j fortyfold, 90e; club, 90c; red fife, 90c; red Russian, 90c. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $20 21perton; valley timothy, $16; al falfa, $20. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $23 23.50 per ton; shorts, $25.6026; rolled barley, $31.6032.60. Corn Whole, $37 per ton; cracked, $38. Vegetables Artichokes, 7690c per dozen; tomatoes, $44.25 per crate; cabbage, $1.25 2.25 per hundred; garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, 17J 20c; eggplant, 22Jc; sprouts, 89c; horseradish, 8Jc; cauliflower, $1.15 2.25; celery, $4.50 per crate; lettuce, $2.25; cucumbers, $1.251.50; spin ach, $11.15 per box; asparagus, 16 171c per pound; rhubarb, $2.252.75 per box; peas, 12Jc per pound. Potatoes Oregon, $1.401.50 per sack; Yakimas, $1.601.75; sweets, $3.253.60 per hundred. Onions Oregon, buying prices, $1.50 f. o. b. shipping point. Apples Spitzenbergs, extra fancy, $2.25 per box; fancy, $2; choice, $1.261.50; Yellow Newtowns, extra fancy, $2; fancy, $1.75; choice, $1.85 1.60; Rome Beauty, fancy, $1.50 1.60; Winesaps, choice, $1.151.85; Stayman, choice, $1.251.35. Eggs Jobbing prices; Oregon ranch, candled, 19J20c per dozen; uncandled, 18c per dozen. Poultry Hens, 1617c per pound; springs, 17c; stags, 1213c; broilers, 25c; turkeys, live, 1820c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 2425c; ducks, 13 16c; geese, 10c. Butter Prices from wholesaler to retailer: Portland city creamery prints, 60-pound case lots, standard grades, 35c: lower grades, 32c; Ore gon country creamery, prints, 60-pound lots, standard makes, 8234c; lower grades, 3131Jc; packed in cubes, 2c less. Prices paid by jobbers to pro ducers: Cubes, extras, 3031c; firsts, 2828Jc; dairy butter, 1519Jc; but terfat, No. 1, 34c; No. 2, 31c. Veal Fancy, 9 J 10c per pound. Pork Fancy, 10Jc per pound. Hops 1915 crop, 1013cper pound; 1916 contracts, ll12c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 2030c per pound; valley, 2728c; mohair, Ore gon, 2829c. Cascara bark Old and new, 4c per pound. Cattle Prime steers, $7.B08.10; choice, $6.507.60; good, $6.757; medium, $6.60(8)6.75. ; choice cows, $6.506.76; medium, $5.256; heif ers, $47; bulls, $2.505; stags, $3 5.25. Hogs Light, $8.50 9; heavy, $7.508. Sheep Yearlings, $78; ewes, $6 7; lambs, $89.25. Wool Season Opens. The new wool season is getting un der way in the Yakima country, where shearing has started. The few sales already made, which range in price up to 27 cents, are in line with quotations elsewhere for this class of wool. Shearing will not begin in Eastern Oregon until about the, middle of next month, and in the meantime it is not thought that much business can be put through, as buyers and sellers are apart in most sections. Isidor Kosh land, of Portland, has contracted for 50,000 fleeces in Baker county at 20 to 21 cents, and also secured 10,000 fleeces at Condon. This and the Stan field sale already reported is the ex tent of the business done in Oregon to date. There has not been as much contracting to date in Western Idaho, The London market continues irreg ular, and for this reason the feeling in the trade is still rather nervous. Fine reports are received from the first lambings east of the mountains, there being practically no loss. More than 80 per cent of the wool clip of Utah has been contracted by buyers from eastern houses and prices paid for 11,200,000 pounds under con tract range from 21 to 28 cents, ac cording to Dr. S. W. McClure, secre tary of the National Woolgrowera' association, says the Salt Lake Herald- Republican. Apple Storage Stocks Declining. Portland The office of markets has issued its report of apple holdings on March 1, showing that on that date there were 2529,238 barrels in 411 storage houses in the country. The same storages reported 1,767,214 boxes of apples on the first of this month, On February 1, 407 storages reported 3,457,999 barrels and 2,651,908 boxes, or a reduction of 928,761 barrels and 883,994 boxes during the past month, The holdings of barrel and box stock are about 750,000 barrels more than this time a year ago. Present hold ings of actual barrels are more than last year, while the stock of boxes is some less. Total exports of apples to March 4 were 223,958 barrels, against 97,924 barrels the same week last year. To tal exports for the season up to Satur day of last week were 1,196,838 bar rels, against 2,431,902 barrels the same period a year ago. Grain Bags May Be Cotton. Pendleton, Or. If a satisfactory quality can be furnished and the price is agreeable, it is probable that many of the Umatilla farmers will use cot ton sacks this year instead of the' jute bags which have been exclusively used. The situation was discussed thoroughly at a recent meeting of the Inland Grain Growers' association. The farmers' grain agency had about decided to con struct elevators to take care of the crop, but many are loathe to go into the proposition because of the ex pense. 15,000 Sheep Contracted for, Baker, Ore. Not only is wool being contracted well in advance of the clip this year, but wool-bearers are also being spoken for in large quantities, as was evidenced here when George Densley, of this city, reported having contracted for 15,000 head, June deliv ery. Of the total 5000 are wethers from the A. H. Hampton flocks, 3000 are lambs owned by M. F. Cundiff and 7000 are lambs from various flocks in the John Day country. Mr. Densley was reticent as to the price paid, but intimated the lambs brought $4.60 to $5 L IS A PUZZLE Carving at Copan, Honduras. Mystery to Scientists. Evidently Intended to Represent Ele phant, But 8tranga Thing Is Where the Sculptor Could Have Got His Model. Where did the prehistoric Inhabit ants of Central America get their Idea of an elephant as modeled In an elab orately-carved idol at Copan? For there never were any elephants In America. Dr. O. Elliott Bmith of the University of Manchester, England, writes to Nature that this Is certainly a picture of an Indian elephant. "It Is equally clear," writes Pro fessor Smith, "that the sculptor of the monument was not familiar with the actual animal, for, according to Doc tors Maudslay and Seler, he has mis taken the eye for the nostril, and the auditory meatus for the eye, and rep resented the tusk (note its relation to the lower Up) and the ventral surface of the trunk in a conventionalized manner, without any adequate realiza tion of the true nature of the features he was modeling. "Having converted the auditory meatus Into an eye the sculptor had to deal with the auditory pinna, the meaning of which no doubt was a puz zle to him. He solved these diffi culties by converting it into a geo metrical pattern, which, however, he was careful to restrict to the area oc cupied by the relatively small pinna that is distinctive of the Indian spe cies of elephant. "The designer also lost his bearings when he came to deal with the tur baned rider of the elephant. No doubt in the original model the rider's log was obscured by the pinna; but in the Copan sculpture he has lost his trunk also. "All these features go to prove quite conclusively that the sculpture repre sents an elephant's head, and that It was not modeled from the real crea ture. In other words, the craftsman was copying an earlier model (presum ably made by some immigrant from Asia) without understanding the "points' of the elephant." . Professor Smith calls attention to several other representations of tlio elephant In America that possess many strange details In common with the earlier sculptured representations of that animal in India. Also that the pre-Columbian Mexicans played tha complicated Indian game called pa chlsl, that some of the Aztec picture writings are a series of scenes taken from the Japanese Buddhist temple scrolls. He calls ludicrous the attempt to Identify these elephants with bluo macaws, and he cites many remark able coincidences between the attri butes of Tlaloc, the Mexican elephant headed god of rain, thunder and light ning, and ..hose of the Hindu Indra, also god of rain, thunder and light ning. His conclusion Is that the Hindu god Indra was adopted in Central The Elephant Carving at Copan, Hon durasThe Ancient Aztecs Evident ly Copied It From an Asiatic Picture, Mistaking the Eye for a Ncetrll and the Meatus of the Ear for an Eye. America with practically all the at tributes assigned to him in hln Asiatic home, and that the ancient Mexicans got their ldoa of elephants from na tures of them brought from Asia long before Columbus came from Europe. By what channel those ancient Americans received these things from the old world remains one of the deop est of the mysteries of history. Chancellor of England. . Sir Stanley Buckmaster will be bet ter paid for his services than his predecessors under the Plantagenots, when, according to Mr. J. B. Carter's "History of English Legal Institu tions," the chancellor "ranked aa a humble peiBouage. He apparently re sided in the palace and had a daily allowance of five shillings, a slmnel, two seasoned slmnels, one sextary of clear wine, one sextary of household wine, one large wax candle, and 40 pieces of candle. The money allow ance was made only if he dined out; If he dined at home he got three-and-sixpence, with a slight variation In the other commodities. ... He kept the king's soul and the king's seal." London Chronicle. Once a Month. Bill This paper says an average of seventy-two letters are received by poBt every year by every person in the United Kingdom. JH1 Well, the fellows who have the same identical bills sent to 'em fifty two times a year bring up the average, Ambiguous. Mrs. Hecktor I thought when I mar ried you that you were an entirely dif ferent man. Hecktor I wish, Marlai that you bad married the man you took me for, Artificial Coffee. It Is said that an artificial coffee has been invented by a Japanese, which has a large percentage of nour. Ishnient, the right flavor and low cost.