The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930, August 31, 1917, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextIll REJECTS PEACE OFFER German Empire Not Now to Be Trusted, Says Wilson. AMERICA DECLARES FOR A REAL PEACE Object of War Is to Deliver World From Power Now Balked But Not Beaten Permanent Peace Only Is Desire. Washington, D. C. President Wil son has rejected the Pope's peace pro posals. In a note dispatched Monday night and made public here Tuesday night the President says that, while every heart not blinded and hardened by the terrible war must be touched by the moving appeal of his holiness, it would be folly to take the path of peace he points out if it does not in fact lead to the goal he proposes. To deal with such a power as the present rulers of Germany upon Pope Benedict s plan, declares the Presi dent, would involve a recuperation of the strength and renewal of the world dominition of that power, now balked, but not defeated, after sweeping a continent with the blood of innocent women and children and the helpless poor, as well as of soldiers. Permanent peace must be based upon the faith of all the peoples and upon justice and fairness and the com mon rights of mankind, he adds, and we cannot take the word of the pres ent rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that Is to endure, unless explicity supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting. The text of the President's note to the Pope follows: To Hi' HollnoM, Benedlctiu XV., Pope: In acknowledgment of the communl cation of Your Holiness to the belllger ent peoples, dated August 1, 1917, the President of the United State requests me to transmit the following reply: "Every heart that has not been blind ed and hardened by this terrible war muBt be touched by this moving appeal of His Holiness the Pope, must feel the dignity and force of the humane and generous motives which promoted It and must ferverently wish that we might take the path of peace he so per suasively points out. But it would be folly to take it If it does not In fact lead to the goal he proposes. Stern Facts Govern. "Our response must be based upon the stern facts and unon nothlna- elan. It is not a more cessation of arms he desires; It is a stable and enduring peace. This agony must not be gone through with again and It must be a matter of very sober Judgment what win insure us against it. "His Holiness. In substance, nronna that we return to the status quo ante bellum and that then there be a gen eral condonation, disarmament and a concert of nations, based upon an ac ceptance of the principle of arbitra tion; that by a similar concert freedom of the sens be established; and that the territorial claims of France and Italy, the perplexing problems of the Bal kan States and the restitution of Po land be loft to such conciliatory adjust ments as may be possible in the new temper of such a peace, due regard be ing paid to the aspirations of the peo ples whose political fortunes and affil- uiions win do involved. Autocracy la Condemned. It Is nmnifost that no part of this programme can be successfully car ried unless the restitution of the status quo ante furnishes a firm and satis factory basis for It. The objoct of this war Is to deliver the free peoples of the world from tho menace and the ciuai power or a vast military es talillBhment controlled bv an IrreMiton slble government which, having secret ly planned to dominate the world, nro- ceeiled to carry the plan out without regnra euner to the sacred obliga tions of treaty or the long-established practices and long-cherished nrinrlnl,.. of International honor; which chose us own time for the war; delivered lis blow fiercely and suddenly; atoppod at no barrier either of law or of mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of blood not the blood of Swisa to Limit Dread Berne, Switzerland The Federal Council has chosen October 1 as the definite date when the hr..u,l tern will be intnxlnrtM 1 The daily consumption will be limited xor ine lime Deing to ZSU gramme person. plus BOO trammel of f monthly. The council also took meas ure to reduce the coal consumption, especially through the conservation electrical energy. Each canton is i dered to save coal bv the parlv rlnai of moving picture and public establish menu. "Command" is I'sed Again. Petrograd Lieutenant General Kor nilutf, commander-in-chief of the Rus sian army, has issued orders for a re sumption of strict training for all the military forces, the free time of the soldiers to be devoted to gymnastics, drills and game, and for a cessation of II discussions. "Henceforth the only language in the army is command." This is significant, in view of abolition of the use of the word "command" since the revolution. soldiers only but the blood of innocent women and children also, and of the helpless poor, and now stands balked but not defeated, the enemy of four fifths of the world. "This power is not the German peo ple. It is no business of ours how that great people came under its con trol, or submitted with temporary zest to the domination of its purpose, but it is our business to see to it that the history of the rest of the world is no longer left to its handling. German'a Word Doubted. To deal with such a power by way of peace upon the plan proposed by His Holiness the Pope would, so far as we can see, involve a recuperation of its strength and a renewal of its policy; would make It necessary to create a hostile combination of nations against the derman people, who are its instru ments, and would result In abandoning the new-born Russia to the Intrigue, the manifold subtle interference and the certain counter-revolution which would be attempted by all the malign Influences to which the German gov ernment has of late accustomed the world. Can peace be based upon a restitution of its power or upon any word of honor it could pledge in a treaty of settlement and accommoda tion? "Responsible statesmen must now everywhere see. If they never saw be fore, that no peace can rest securely upon political or economic restric tions meant to benefit some nations and cripple or embarrass others; upon vin dictive action of any sort, or any kind of revenge or deliberate injury. America Suffer Wrongs. "The American people have suffered Intolerable wrongs at the hands of the imperial German government, but they desire no reprisal upon the German people, who have themselves suffered all things in this war, which they did not choose. They believe that peace should rest upon the rights of peoples, not the rights of governments the rights of peoples great or small, weak or powerful; their equal right to free dom and security and self-government and to a participation upon fair terms In the economic opportunities of the world the German people, of course, included, if they will accept equality and not seek domination. The test, therefore, of every plan of peace Is this: Testa ot Peace Mated. "Is it based upon the faith of all the peoplo involved or merely upon the word of an ambitious and intriguing government on the one hand and of a group of free peoples on the other? This la a test which goes to the root of the matter, and it is the test which must be applied. "The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world to every people to whom the trutn has been permitted to come. They do not need to be stated again. We seek no material advantage of any Kind, we believe that the Intolerable wrongs done by this war by furious and brutal power of the Imperial Ger man government ought to be repaired, but not at the expense of the sover eignty of any people rather a vlndi cation of the sovereignty both of those that are weak and those that are strong. Damasea Not Demanded. "Punitive damages, the dismember ment ot empires, the establishment of selfish and exclusive economio leagues, we deem Inexpedient and in the end worse than futile and no proper basis for a peace of any kind, least of all for an enduring peace. That must be based upon Justice and fairness and the common rights of mankind. "We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guaran tee of anything that is to endure un less explicitly supported by such con clusive evidence of the will and pur pose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be Justified In accepting. "Without such guarantees, treaties of settlement, agreements for disarma ment, covenants to set up arbitration in the place of force, territorial adjust ments, restitutions of small nations, If made with the German government, no man, no nation could now depend upon. We must await some new evidence of the purposes of the great peoples of the central powers. God grant It may be given soon and In a way to restore the confidence of all peoples every where In the faith of nations and the possibility of a covenanted peace. "ROBERT LANSING, "Secretary of State of the United States of America." ADD MILLIONS TO INCOME TAX Washington, D. C After protract ed debate in which many senators urged heavier levies on incomes and war profits in the war tax bill, the senate Thursday tentatively adpoted Senator Gerry's amendment which would add $40,375,C?O by greatly in creasing surtaxes on incomes exceed ing $500,000. On a test vote for elimination of the so-called Lenroot amendment made in the house providing 25 per cent in crease in surtax rates on incomes ex ceeding $60,000 and raising about $06,000,000 in revenue, the senate voted 35 to 32 against their elimina tion by the finance committee. Under the Gerry amendment the to tal tax levy on all millionaires' in comes, including the present law, would be 67 per cent. With the Gerry amendment the bill would aggregate $2,035,000,000, with several amend ments by Senator La Follette pending for further increases in the income tax rates. The Gerry amendment was adopted without a dissenting vote. Michaclls May Go Soon. Copenhagen The possibility of an other change in imperial chancellors in Germany is discussed by Georg Hernhard in the Vossische Zeitung. He says that it is plainly evident that the appointment of minor officials like Dr. Michaelis, without general political experience, was a great mistake. Theodore Wolff, of the Tagoblatt, dismisses the new Bundearath-Reicha-tag committee as "a nostrum designed to soothe the cry of the German people for popular control of the govern ment" Army Gains 1900 Men. Paris The American field service, with 1100 men in the ambulance branch and 800 in the transport branch, is to be taken over by the American army, the ambulance branch going under control of the medical service and the transport under that of the Quartermaster General. Colonel Jefferson Kean, who is in general charge of the ambulance serv ice, will continue to serve the French army a before. WORLD HAPPENINGS I Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. The Dutch minister of agriculture has decided that the bread ration of 2800 grams per head must suffice for 11 days after September 2. Eight slackers from Tacoma and other Southwest Washington towns were sentenced to jail by Federal Judge Cushman, and one was re manded for trial. An order for 1,000,000 khaki pocket testaments for American soldiers and sailors has been placed by the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. with the American Bible society. Choice beeves sold in Chicago at the Union Stockyards Tuesday at $16.30, a new high-price record for cattle on the hoof. The new figure was 80 cents higher than the record price es tablished last week. Sheriff Boone Gosney, of Campbell county, and Mayor A. J. Livingston, of Newport, Ky., were indicted Wed nesday, charged with non-feasance in office. The indictments followed a cru sade against gambling. The Argentine minister to Germany, in a cablegram received at the foreign office, says he expects within a short time to receive Germany's reply to Argentina's demands regarding attacks on Argentine vessels by submarines. Results of the heavy fighting on the Canadian front are reflected at Ot tawa, Ont., in the casualty lists, total ing over 1000 for the week-end. The noon list Tuesday numbered 327, of whom 19 were killed in action and 33 died of wounds. Trial of Frank C. Oxman, of Dur kee, Or., accused of attempted subor nation of perjury in connection with the bomb murder trial of Thomas J. Mooney, was set by Superior Judge Frank H. Dunne, of San Francisco, for September 5. Ten American regiments will carry in France flags nresented bv descend ants of French officers who fought in the American war of independence. Ambassador Jusserand has transmitted this offer to the secretary of war, who said it would be accepted gladly. One hundred and fifty-two cadets of the class of 1918 will be graduated at the West Point military academy Thursday morning. This is the second time within five months that West Point has sent out a class of newly made officers for the army. The class of 1917 was graduated in April last. Seventeen Mexicans, captured by General Pershing's punitive expedition in Mexico and accused of participation in the Villa raid on Columbus, N. M., pleaded guilty to second degree murder before District Judge R. R. Ryan, at Deming, JJ. M., Wednesday and were sentenced to serve from 17 to 80 years in the New Mexico penitentiary. Word from Paris says Walter Lovell, of the Lafayette flying squadron, has shot down a German airplane. He probably will receive the war cross. Bohemian papers announce that Aus trian churches have been notified that all organ pipes in all churches of the monarchy will soon be requisitioned to nil the needs of war industries. The relief sailing steamer Neptune, commanded by Captain Robert Bart lett, bringing some of the members of the McMillan Arctic exploring party from Greenland, is off the coast of Labrador. The San Francisco Iron TraJi conn. oil, representing 25,000 men, voted to can a Btrike Labor day in sympathy with striking car men of the United Railroads unless the differences be tween men and the company are settled before that date. According to Die Morgen Post, of Berlin, the police in Germany intend to prohibit smoking in the streets, in view or the decline of tobacco stocks. The prohibition will be extended to the whole of Germany. Instructions to intern Karl Arnv gaard Graves, self-styled international spy, were received at Kansas City Sat' unlay from Washington. Graves was arrested last week as an enemy alien whose freedom threatened the security or me country. George J. Gould. Jr.. of Lakewond. N. J., appeared before the draft ex emption board atuniay and was re jected as being physically unfit. The number of British merchantmen sunk by submarines or mines in the last week was only slightly larger than the previous week, when a consider able falling off was noted. The imperial munitions board at Ot tawa has announced that tha nmlnis. tion of munitions in Canada would be discontinued, as no longer necessary, except in some lines, which In part will be produced in lessened quantities. WEEK aaaii444illaiAAiSaiia4ii llfff.t. . : STATE NEWS t ! IN BRIEF. i wWWWWWWWWWWW WWW Marshfield cranberry raisers on North Inlet and in other sections re port a probable average crop this year, although the berries will be small. All bushes are loaded and, owing to the dry weather, the quality will be of the highest grade. Coroner Bartness, of Hood River, has received word that Robert Amos, a fishwheel operator at Cascade Locks, was drowned when he fell from a scow Tuesday. He was swept away by the swift current of the cascades. The body has not been recovered. Coos Bay- notes the change in ad vanced wage scales and although the mills and camps have been paying the greater remuneration but three months the resurrection of better times and confidence in affairs is marked and business men and capitalists alike are feeing the difference. Two or three hundred women in Eugene meet in the Red Cross head quarters on Wednesdays and Saturdays each week to knit and do similar work. Wednesday a little Chinese woman came to the headquarters and an nounced that Bhe wanted to do her bit for the soldier boys at the front. The proportion of boys who have signified their intention of re-entering the University of Oregon this fall is almost as large as the number of girls, Karl W. Onthank, secretary to Presi dent P. L. Campbell, stated recently. The falling off in the number of men will be largely in the upper classes. Secretary C. N. Ravlin, of the Hood River Chapter of the Red Cross, has sent to the San Francisco headquarters of the humanitarian organization an order for $660 worth of woollen yarns, the material to be used by women of the local chapter in knitting outfits for the comfort of American soldiers the coming winter. Continued search has failed to reveal any traces of Horace W. Marshall, en gineer of Klamath Agency, who has been lost for more than a week in the Red Blanket country of Western Kla math county. A number of the best Indian scouts on the Klamath Indian reservation have been combing the forests for several days. The Oregon Normal School at Mon mouth will be opened on September 24th, instead of September 10th, as previously announced. Please pass this word on to all prospective students. This decision was made for the purpose of allowing students to assist in the season's work and to give longer per iod for the completion of buildings, re ports J. H. Ackerman, president of the schooh As a part of the food preservation and conservation campaign, a demon stration in scientific canning and dry ing of fruits and vegetables will be given in Albany this week. It will be conducted in the basement of the First Methodist church and will be in charge of Miss Laura Cheney, of the Oregon Agricultural College. Local women are taking considerable interest in the movement. William Duerst complains to the Public Service commission that he has placed orders for three double-deck stock cars at Amity, one at Independ ence and two at Corvallis and cannot secure them. Investigation by the commission shows that such equipment is not available in the state, but efforts will be made to secure enough single- deck cars to handle the shipments, which are destined to South Omaha. Out of an allotment of $220,100 of rural credits moneys divided among the counties of the state a few months ago, $99,150 remains unloaned. Loans aggregating $120,905 in the 36 coun ties have been made. Each of the counties received $6000, with the ex ception of Marion, which received $9000, and Yamhill, which received $7100. Yamhill, Wheeler, Lincoln and Harney have loaned out their ap portionment, while Columbia, Gilliam, Malheur, Morrow and Washington counties have obtained no loans from the $6000 placed to their credit Brook trout planted several years ago in Wahtum Lake, originally with' out fish of any species, have grown to a Bize of eight and 10 inches, accord ing to O. H. Rhodes and Harry Kemp, Odell men who have just returned to Hood River, from a trip to the inland body of water in the Southwestern part of this county. The returned anglers declare that the trout take to a fly readily and that the sport of fishing lor them is excellent Shortage of cars on the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon nets 893. The shortage of open cars is 1077 and the surplus of closed cars 184. The first carload of pears to be shipped from Roseburg this season left Thursday for the East. They were from the barden Valley orchards and were of excellent quality. They were snipped by the Umpqua Valley Fruit union. fifteen cars of pears will be shipped from Douglas county this season. Quick action on the part of stock men has effectually checked the epi demic of blackleg among cattle near Bend, the vaccination of more than 900 head of young stock being com pleted. No further danger from the disease is expected this season. Despite the greatest difficulties ex perienced in obtaining cara for either contractor or material men, State Highway Engineer Nunn ha an nounced that there i now under way, including! bridg construction, practi cally $1,600,000 worth of state high way work. FIXED PRICE ASKED Wheat Farmers of Northwest Ask $2.50 Per Bushel be Named by Gov ernment Wheat Committee. Spokane A telegram urging that $2.50 be fixed as the minimum price for the 1917 wheat crop to the farmer at primary markets was sent to C. S. Barrett, national president of the Farmers' Union and a member of the government wheat committee, Wed nesday, by 125 representatives of farmers' unions of Washington, Idaho and Oregon, meeting here. It was urged that low yields, increased cost of production and the cost of reseeding justified that price, which it was de clared would entail no increase in the price of flour, as this now is figured on the basis of $2.50 wheat. The yield generally over the three states will be 40 to 50 per cent of normal, it was re ported. About 75 per cent of the wheat crop and 100 co-operative warehouses were represented by those in attendance, it was said. A. V. Swift, of Baker, Ore., national vice president of the Farmers Union, presided. Prepare for Fall Fishing. Kelso Cowlitz county fishermen have about given up hopes of any heavy run of salmon during the Bpring fishing season which closes August 25th, and many of them have ceased fishing and are getting their gear in shape for the fall season starting Sep' tember 10. The big run of fish, which is now at the mouth of the Columbia river, has held off so late that there should be an abundance of fish in the streams after the opening of the fall season. Catches have been light for the past few months, although some of the fishermen have had an average season. - Grasshoppers Attack Farm. Kelso County Agent Lynn C. Keyes was called to the W. A. Burdick place on Mount Crawford one day this week by reports of a large number of grass hoppers which were devastating the fields there. Residents of that district say that there is always an abundance of grasshoppers on the logged-over lands there, but this is the first time they have invaded the cultivated fields. Mr. Keyes advised them of methods to combat the pests. He ascribes the at tacks of the grasshoppers in such num bers this year to the unusually dry season. Potatoes for American Lake. Seattle The first big food contract for the American Lake cantonment was awarded in Seattle when the gov ernment placed an order for 3,000,000 pounds of potatoes with commission merchants. It is understood that the early deliveries are to be made at the rate of $40 a ton, later deliveries at $36 a ton, and so on, dropping down to $25 a ton for late deliveries. The fig ures are considered of the highest im portance to the farmers of the state, giving the first hint on potato quota tions for the coming winter. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT Portland Wheat Spot prices: Bluestem, $2.18 per bushel; fortyfold, $2.12; club, $2.13; red Russian, $2.13. Flour Patents, $11.60. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $37 per ton; shorts, $40; middlings, $47; rolled barley, $55; rolled oats, $57. Hav Buvinsr Drices: Timothv. Kant- em Oregon, $26 per ton; valley tim- otny, w, alialta, $Zii; valley grain hav. $18.50. Butter Cubes, extras, 4040Je per pound; prime firsts, 381c Jobbing prices: Prints, extras, 44c; cartons, lc extra; butterfat No. 1, 48c; No. 2, 44tfi46c. Eggs Oregon ranch, current re ceipts, not ( abc per dozen ; uregon ranch, candled. 37fi38c: selects. 4 fir- Poultry Hens, 14 16Jc per pouna; Drouers, lijiiBc; aucks, live, 12(g 13c; large young white, 1718c; large young white springs, 20(ff22c; geese, live. 7rff8c: snrinirs. l.tfiflRa- turkeys, live, 20(cJ22c; dressed, 28 (J,JUC. Veal Fancy, 1515Jc per pound. Pork Fancv. 20ftT21c tier nnund I I Vegetables Tomatoes, 7685c per crate; caoDage, ZKijzje per pound lettuce, 43Jfa50e per dozen; peppers 8c per pound; beans, 7c; corn, 30(tf35c Potatoes New Oregon, 2JftJ3Jc sweet potatoes, 6c per pound. Onions Walla Walla. 11 fid Green Fruits Cantalotinea. HI 2.60 per crate; peaches, 95cfii.$1.10 per box; watermelons, $1.60 per hun dred; apples, $1.75I2.25 per box rears. 12.25: CTanea. 11.75 Hi) 9. IK plums, l$1.65gi.75; casabas, 2c per pouna. Hop 1916 crop, 20c per pound 1917 contracts, 30c Wool Eastern Oregon, fine. K2iv7fil per pound; coarse, 60c; valley, 68(3 owe; monair, owiiouc Cattle- Best beef steer $ 8.25ft 8.75 Good beef steers 7.00fi 8.00 Best beef cow 6.5(V(J 7. Ordinary to good 8.5XS 5. Beat heifer fi.7.Wnt 7. 25 50 25 Bull 4.50f.i 6. 60 Calve t.SOaii 9. 4.50r$ 6. 25 Stocker and feeder. Hogs Prime tight hog .... Prime heavy hog . . . Pig Bolk Sheep Western lamb Valley lamb Yearlings. .' Wether Ewe 75 60 25 .$17.251:17 . 17.0OU7. . 15.5CH.1 16 ,00 17. 60 .I13.00rtn3.50 . U.7S.112.60 . 10.00al0.60 . 9.7Vji 10.60 S.OOyi 8.50 EXEMP T T President Wilson Favors Relief of Married Men. FEW MEN GO SEPT. 5 FivelPer Cent of Quota Instead of 20 Will Make First Increment of Army Camps to be Ready. Washingtn, D. C. At the direct suggestion of President Wilson, Pro vost Marshal General Crowder tele graphed to all governors Saturday night a supplemental explanation of regulations governing the status of married men under the selective ser vice law. No change in regulations is made and the purpose of the new state ment is to clear up misunderstandings which have arisen in what General Crowder described as "a few in stances." In a letter to Secretary Baker, quoted by General Crowder, President Wilson states his opinion that the reg ulations directing local boards "to es tablish the fact of dependents in addi tion to the fact of marriage ought not to be abrogated." This leaves the regulatoins as they are and the supple mental statement is designed merely to make the application of the rule un iform among all boards. While the statement regarding mar ried men was in preparation new or ders were issued changing entirely the mobilization arrangements previously made. Under the new orders 5 per cent of the drafted men, preferably those with military experience, from each local area will be started forward to the camps September 5, instead of RULES SLIGH LI CHANGED 30 per cent. They will go in five daily r detachments of equal size and form skeleton company organizations and set up a going concern into which the remainder of the total quota can be absorbed without confusion as they reach the cantonments. The next 40 per cent of the quota will go forward September 19, when the second 30 per cent originally was scheduled to go; a second 40 per cent will go forward October 3 instead of the third 30 per cent, and the remain ing 15 per cent will will be called up f as soon thereafter as practicable. Local boards are directed to dis regard order of liability numbers to some extent in selecting the first 5 per cent, as men of experience, such as cooks and former soldiers are desired at that time. Warning is given, however, against getting into this levy by reason of his experience any man who might not otherwise have been included in the first increment of the district at all. WATCH FORMER SECRETARY Isaac McBride ia Being Shadowed by Department of Justice. Washineton. D. C. Iaaan MrRridn son-in-law of the late Senator Lane and for several years his private sec retary, is being shadowed by agents of the department of Jusitce Whhha nf hi activity as an agent of the the reopie s reace Louncil, scheduled to hold a. peace convention at Minneapolis September 2 to 5. Mc Bride has been actively working . for this association in Washington for several weeks, and it was for this so ciety that he arranged the recent meeting of senators in Senator Cham- oeriain s room at the Capitol, during which the administration and its war policy were severely denounced. McBride is planning to leave for Minneapolis Wednesday, unless the de partment of Justice interferes, and at the convention exDecta to take an ac tive part. He says the people will in sist mat me administration set forth fully and convincingly why the United States is in the European war and that his society will not desist in its de- t manas until its question are an swered. McBride in the past hag had I. W. W. and Socialistic sflilintinna and before entering Senator Lane's employ, was a public speaker in the cause to which he ia committed. Disease Attack Berlin. Amsterdam The proposed prohibi tion of bathing at home in Germany to save fuel and soap ia called rank folly by the Vossische Zeitung, of Berlin. The paper says many public baths al ready are closed owing to lack of coal, and attributes notable increase in kin disease, dysentery and other riianr- dcrs to enforced uncleanlines. The Nord Deutsche also points out the in crease in cases of dysentery in Berlin, a high percentage of which i fatal, while typhoid, which ia spreading, also it causing uneasiness. Corvallis Ha Firebug. Corvallis, Ore Corvallis i con vinced that the city i infested with a firebug, and want the city official to offer a reward for hia capture. In the past year there hav been 15 fires which the fire chief i convinced were of incendiary origin. Nearly all of them have been in va cant house, and the mell of coal oil ' ha been a prominent feature. The 15th one occurred Saturday night, making the second in on week.