Ill 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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S.OOyi 8.50
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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.