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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1917)
E I Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Erenti of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northweit ind Other Thing! Worth Knowing. Robert Eakin, associate justice of the Oregon Supreme court from Janu ary 1, 1907, to January 1, 1917, died at his home in Salem, Monday, after an extended illness. The marriage of Adele Pankhurst, daughter of Mrs. Emmeline Pank- hurst, the English suffragette leader, to a seaman named Walsh is reported in a Iceuter dispatch from Melbourne, The battleship of the United States Navy which went aground in home waters on September 28, was floated Monday. The sea was smooth and a large fleet of vessels pulled the war ship on: at high tide. Russian troops have made another advance in the Riga region, according to Tuesday s war office announcement. German posts were pressed back south of the railway in the Spitals farm sec tor, the Russians advancing between 800 and 1000 yards. Two hundred and twenty alleged draft resisters and conspirators were indicted by the grand jury which ad- journed Saturday night at McAleBter, Oka., instead of 120 as at first re- ported. Practically all of them are under arrest, it was announced. All expectations that Argentina might follow the lead of her nieghbor and break with Germany have been dispelled at Washington, with the news that President Irigoyen is deter mined not to heed the action of the Argentine congress and popular de mand for action and will continue a neutral course. The Coos Bay Barbers' union has ad vanced the price of a haircut from 85 cents to 50 cents, assigning as the cause, the increased cost of living and boosting of barber supplies by the wholesale houses. Some other items of tonsorial service have also been ad' vanced. Shaving, however, remains as before, at 25 cents. Officials of the Swiss legation at Washington, which is caring for Ger man diplomatic interests in the Unit ed States, arrived at Atlanta, Ga., to inspect the German prison camp at fort McPherson, where are Interned the crews of the former German com merce raiders Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm. More than 100 Mexicans have been illegally drafted for service in the Na- tionBl Army by boards in New York, and many subjects of Mexico are being secreted there to prevent their arrest by military authorities, according to Juan T. Burns, Mexican consul gen eral, who declares he would "go to any extreme to protect the rights of Mexi cans residing here. The great Liberty loan drive started Monday throughout the country with a niBh. lelegraphic reports to the Treasury from every section indicate tremendous enthusiasm on the part of tens of thousands of workers and fair first day volume of subscriptions toward the $3, 000,000,000 minimum, which has been Bet as the goal of the four weeks campaign. Secretary of War Baker reiterates that there is no serious shortage of rifleB for any of the troops. For the expeditionary force in France five Springfield rifles per man have been provided, and the ammunition store being assembled is so great that the secretary believes there is no ground lor fear that Interrupiton of the trans port lines for a time would create em, barrassment Much of the country's great corn crop is now safely past danger from an ordinary killing frost, weekly weather Bureau reports Indicate. A further credit of $40,000,000 was extended Thursday by the government to France. This brings the total ad vanced the allies up to $2,466,400,000, The board of naval officers under Rear Admiral Helm, charged with rec- ommending locations for additional navy yards, soon will resume its in, vestigations, interrupted by the war, Part of the fleet of the Great Lakes Transit Corporation has been taken over by the government and the cor poration will cease accepting freight at Milwaukee on October 2, according to announcement. General Soukhomlinoff, former min ister of war of Russia, was sentenced to hard labor for life after conviction of the charge of high treason in the court. Madame Soukhomlinoff, his wife and alleged accomplice, was ac quitted. Two important reforms have been enacted by the Russian government. The first provides for the liberation of convicts before the expiration of their terms, upon' promise of good conduct. Such convicts may be returned to pris on only after conviction for a new offense. WORLD IS IN WEEK 9 DIE IN FOREST FIRE Fillmore, Cal., ii Menaced by Flames Which Destroy Derrick! of Union Oil Co. Enemlei Blamed. Fillmore, Cal. Two forest fires in the hills back of this town are believed to have caused the loss of nine lives and have destroyed oil derricks, pipe lines, buildings and other property to a value estimated Tuesday at $500,000. The flames were sweeping toward Fillmore, although a slight change in the wind gave hope that the fighters, directed by forest rangers, may be able to check their spread. A dozen persons suffering from se vere burns have been brought here, treated by local physicians and are being cared for In local homes. Forest rangers freely expressed the opinion that the fires were set by ene mies of the government, saying they started in Inaccessible regions, where neither hunters nor prospectors ever penetrate. The list of the missing Includes Ruth Sansler, young woman; a Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Webb and three of their children; George Riley and Wal ter Matthews, all of whom were em ployed on or living at the Anaconda lease of the Union Oil company. R. A. Prindle, of the Leonard gasoline plant, also is among the missing. Per sons returning from the scene of the fires expressed the belief that none of the missing could have escaped. Miss Sansler, it was reported, was fleeing from the fire with her brother when she stumbled and fell ; her broth er retraced his steps and attempted to assist her, but his clothing caught fire and he was severely burned and was unable to rescue her. A 3-year-old child of the Webbs was reBcued by the fire fighters and brought to Fillmore. The child was severely burned and was treated here. Shortly before midnight forest rang ers and other firefighters found the bodies of all those listed as dead with the exception of O. E. Webb, two of his children and George Riley. In ad dition to the known dead, the body of an unidentified woman. SENATORS ARE "UNDESIRED" Expulsion From Senate is Wanted for Stone, Gronna and La Follette. Washington, D. C Petitions from New York organizations asking expul sion from the senate of Senators La Follette, of Wisconsin; Gronna, of North Dakota, and Stone, of Missouri, were presented in the senate Tuesday by Senator Wadsworth, of New York, and referred without action to the sen ate privileges and elections committee. The first step toward official consid eration of the petitions was taken, when Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, chairman of the privileges and elec tions committee, called a meeting for next Wednesday. It was decided to have the commit tee discuss a course of action. The present attitude of the senate leaders was said to be in favor of tabling the petitions in the committee. Vice President Marshall also pre. sented another lot of petitions, letters and telegrams from various organiza tions and individuals on the same gen eral subject, . In reply to one correspondent, Vice President Marshall pointed out that while the senate may expel a member, the initiative must come from a sena tor and cannot be forced by an individ ual or oragnization. WILL TRY FIR FOR AIRPLANES Difficulty in Getting Out Spruce Re sults in Further Experiments. Washintgon, D. C. The Aircraft Production board having found difficul ty in getting out enough spruce from the Oregon and Washintgon forests to meet present demands of the United States and the allied countries, Wed nesday closed a contract for a million feet of Douglas fir to be used in lieu of spruce. Preliminary experiments conducted by the Aircraft board have indicated that fir is suitable for airplane con struction and the quantity covered by this contract will be used expen mentally. If it meets requirements, the board indicates that further purchases of fir will be made as the demand continues. The price at which the government is to buy fir for airplane construction is not announced, but it is stated that this order is to be distributed among Northwestern mills. Only the best grades of fir will be purchased. Embargo is Laid on Coal. Washington, D. C. All shipments of coal into Canada from American lake ports were ordered stopped by Fuel Administrator Garfield to divert coal from these ports to meet fuel shortage in the Northwest Central competitive field coal operators, dis cussing with miners' representatives here a readjustment of wage scales, agreed to meet in part the miners' de mands on condition that the govern ment increase prices fixed for coal at the mines. Their counter proposal will bs submitted to the miners. Pan-German Plea Urged. Conenhairen The rthr,lie mania, of Berlin, nrints new nviilnnro of official support of the Pan-German agitation against the reichstag major ity and a peace without annexation. It reproduce a circular sent with the appeal of the head of the state rail ways in the Breslau district to all rail way officials and emnlnvea. railing ' ' - a upon them to sign a monster petition circulated in Breslau and headed. "An appeal against the reichstag majority. " Weekly War Information Brief Stories Prepared Under the Direction of the Committe on Public Information and the State Council of Defense, and Published With out Charge by This Paper to Impart Knowledge Essential for the Common Good. Red Cross Tells How to Prepare Sol dier! Christmas Package!. Nothing should go In the Christmas package for soldiers, that will not keep fresh from the time of packing until Christmas, according to the in structions given by the Red Cross. By Christmas time the United States will have more than 1,000,000 men under arms and everyone will be eager to help them, it if pointed out. Dried fruits and other food products should be packed in small tin or wooden boxes, one-quarter to one-half pound size. Hard candy, including chocolate, will probably be safe in tin foil or heavy cardboard, but no soft chocolate nor anything that could possibly be crushed should be used, as the other contents of the package might be spoiled thereby. Several dainties packed in oblong tin boxes, each holding a quarter of a pound, will provide a better variety for a packet than a larger quantity of a single confection. No liquids nor articles packed in glass should be placed in the package. For wrapping the gifts use a khaki colored handerchief, 27 inches square, and form the base of the packet by placing on the center of the handker chief a pad of writing paper about seven by 10 inches. Select a variety of articles either from a suggested list or according to individual wishes to an amount not ex ceeding $1.50, and arrange them on the pad of paper so that the entire package shall be the width of the pad, and approximately five or six inches high. Wrap and tie with one-inch red rib bon and place a Christmas card under the bow of ribbon. Wrap the parcel again in heavy, lightbrown manila paper and tie se curely with red, green or gilt cord, and use Chrsitmas labels or American flags as desired. Amount of Fruit and Vegetables Re quired for Winter Use Shown. The department of agriculture au thorizes the following: A family of five, Including two adults and three children under 12 years of age, under ordinary living conditions should have stored for each month of the winter season the follow ing supplies: One bushel of Irish potatoes; one half bushel of other root vegetables, such as carrots, turnips and parsnips; 25 quarts of canned fruits and pre serves. Most of this should come BRITISH MAKE GAIN Advance Two-Thirds of Mile on Ypres Front and Take Many Important Positions on High Ground. Berlin, via London The British forces in their new offensive in Flan ders have penetrated German positions to the depths of about two-thirds of a mile at Beveral plraces, according to the German official communication iB Bued Thursday night. Desperate fight ing is continuing. London In an attack along a six mile front Thursday the British troops captured an important position around Tower Hamlets and strong German field works, according to the official report from Field Marshal Haig. Powerful resistance was offered by the Germans throughout the day and they delivered many strong attacks. "But," say the British commander, "our operations were entirely success ful." British Front in Farnce Hnrl Reliriiim Another heavy attack was delivered Dy tne tiritsn at daybreak Thursday against the German positions east of Ypres. and earlv reoorts showed that the assaulting troops had pushed the enemy out of many important posi tions. The offensive was started along the greater part of the line that the British reached in last Thursday's bat tle, extending from east of St. Julien to southwest of Gheluvelt. Along the northwestern half of the line of attack the Britain success was Unions Ratify Agreement San Francisco Thirteen of the 14 unions which voted Wednesday on the temporary wage ae-reement reached Sunday by conciliators in the iron- worxers' strike here, which has tied up government shipbuilding contracts totaling $120,000,000, ratified the agreement according to reports at Union Labor Temple. Members of others of the 25 llninna affiliated with the Iron Trades Council are balloting on the ratification of the agreeement Ballots will be canvass ed at once. Condemned Dog is Mascot Albany. Ore. Linn cnuntv t. pempt in the present draft but the city will be represented in the new National army as a local dog joined a California contingent en mtn Ihrraink here Sunday. Because the dog snapped at a little girl that afternoon the owner desired it killed and telenhnneri to the police with the request that it oe aespatcnea A troop train came in soon after and thn drur wm fiimorl over to the soldiers for mascot from the perishable products of the many home gardens of this year. With these figures as a basis, it is thought that almost any family may calculate its requirements, taking into consideration the length of the winter season in any given ocallity. Thus in the south where food crops may be grown in the fall, the winter allowance may be less than for the far north, where one must count on supplies for several months longer. In using dried vegetables, it may be assumed that a given quantity of dried vegetables is equal to four times its bulk of canned vegetables; that is, one-fourth of a quart of dry string beans when soaked over night is ap proximately equal to one quart canned. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Praises Patri otic Spirit of American Boys. The department of labor authorizes the following: Theodore Roosevelt praises the pa triotic spirit which is being shown by American boys and young men who are stepping in to fill the gaps caused by shortage of labor on the farms and in industry. The former president de clares the boy's patriotism can be counted on to make him stick where needed in this time of emergency, even if higher wages at times tempt him to go eleswhere. Speaking of the value of the boy's working reserve he said: "One of the great benefits you con fere is that of making the boy realize that he is part of Uncle Sam's team: that he is doing his share in this great world war; that he holds his services in trust for the nation; that though it is proper to consider the material ques tion of his own desires, yet that what he must most strongly consider at thiB time is where his services will do the most good to our people as whole." Civil Service Calls for Performance of Patriotic Duty. Persons qualified are being urged as a patroitic duty to take the exam inations for civil service positions. Many vacancies are to be filled, The government offers attractive salaries, When necessary transportation to the point of examination will be advanced. Male and female stenographers and typewriters are wanted; also mechan ical engineers and draftsmen; inspec tors of field artillery ammunition, am munition steel and ammunition boxes. of powder and explosives; inspectors of ordnance, clothing equipment, hard ware; leather, business clerks and in dex and catalog clerks. marked, but meager details have been received from the sector of Polygon Wood and south of that place. On the north, an advance of from 1000 to 1200 yards was made quickly at nu merous places, and it was reported that strong British troops were en gaged in fierce fighting only a few hundred yards west of Zonnebeke, The most important points invovled in the new offensive, as was the case six days ago, lay directly east of the city of Ypres, between the Ypres-Rou-lers railway and the Ypres-Menin highway. Here are situated those strongly held elevations that still re main to the Germans out of the numer ous ridges and forests which formed a vital part of their defense in this sec tion of Belgium. Distillate or Coal Oil for Autos. There has been considerable talk lately that the government would be compelled to limit the use of gasoline for autos, on account of the enormous amount required for war puproses. This will cause people to change to the lower grades of fuel, such as distillate and coal oil. It has been the opinion of the major ity of people operating cars that these lower grades of fuel could not be used, but at the present time there is being placed on the market an attachment which makes it possible to burn distil late or coal oil with better results than was formrely obtained with gasoline. A combination of heat and vapor is the principle of this attachment and it can be installed by any one in thirty minutes, without changing any part of the motor. This invention is being manufactured and distributed by the Distillate Gasifier Sales Co., of 711 Clinton St., Porltand, Oregon. Senator Has Appendicitis. Washington, D. C Senator Cham berlain Wednesday suffered an attack of appendicitis. Whether he will un dergo an operation will depend upon developments of the case within the next 12 hours. The Senator's physician has been hopeful that an operation may be avoided, and through the day has been resorting to external applications. The Senator telegraphed his son at Portland assuring him there was no cause for alarm and promising to ad vise if an operation is decided on. Pacifism to be Attacked. Washington, D. C. The Nation's war task is to be presented to the peo ple in a Nation-wide speaking cam paign, in which many organizations will be enlisted to attack pacifism and arouse the country to the importance of the work it has undertaken. Arthur E. Bestor, president of the Chautauqua Institution, has been chosen director of the campaign and will co-ordinate the efforts of all organ izations which participate. TT?f TTTTf ? W WWW WWW WW W WWVWV l STATE NEWS I I IN BRIEF. The Public Service commission has issued orders relieving the towns of Baker, Union, Pendleton, Cove and Elgin, all in Eastern Oregon, from the operation of the warning sign statute. The new "chlorinator" to be in stalled by the Roseburg Water & Light company has arrived and is being put in place at the plant at Winchester. All water used by the city hereafter will be sterilized. An offer to put in a milk condensing plant at Bandon providing Bandon fur nishes a suitable site has been accept ed from Giebisch & Joplin, of Port land, and arrangements are being made to start construction work. Estimates are made that the twin cities, Marshfleld and North Bend, have had an increase of population be tween 25 and 33 per cent within the past 18 months. All residences are occupied for the first time since 1908. Bend hunters who took advantage of the opening of the duck season Monday to hunt on the Upper Deschutes and neighboring ponds and marshes report shooting to be the best in years. Mal lards are unusually abundant Few geese have yet come in. Joseph Kosydor, of Canoe Landing, near Toledo, on the Siletz, has sold 2, 600,000 feet of spruce to the Wil lamette Stock & Land company of Cor vallis, at $1 a thousand. The land is not included in the deal, as much of it iB highly productive bottom land. Twelve members of the government physical valuation crew arrived in Roseburg Tuesday and will spend the next few days in that vicinity. Their purpose is to estimate the cost of building and material used in the con struction of the Southern Pacific rail road in this section of the state. An estimate made by Secretary A. H. Lea, of the State Fair board, placed the total admissions for the week of the fair at 121,000, or 11,000 more than last year, with total receipts ap proximating $60,400. This year's to tal receipts exceed last year's by about $3000, and it is estimated that the fair will show a surplus of between $12,000 and $15,000. The new $300,000 plant of the Wit tenberg-King company, of Portland, which has been under construction in Salem for several months, probably will be open for operation the first of next week. Tons of fruits and vege tables already are accumulating, ready for the opening of the plant. Jack Walker, the new general manager, will arrive soon to take charge. Linn county has property of an as sessed valuation of $26,353,595, ac cording to the 1917 assessment roll, just completed by County Assessor Fisher. This is exclusive of the prop erty of public service corporations, which is assessed by the State Tax commission and on which the assess ment has not been made yet. The to tal is a gain of $260,465 over last year s roll. District Attorney George Neuner has returned to Roseburg from Salem, where he had a conference with Mr. Williams, special representative of the department of Justice, the United States attorney general, Attorney Gen eral George M. Brown and L. A. Lilje quist, of Coos county, in reference to the continuance of the land grant tax case of Douglas county vs. the South ern Oregon Co., which involves the Oregon & Califronia railroad company. William E. Wood, alias several other names, and M. P. Jackson, charged with cashing forged checks, were Saturday bound over to the Baker grand jury, each under $1000 bond. The Estacada Co-operative Cheese association's factory this week paid its patrons for the month of August, be ing the third month of its operation, a total of over $2400, being paid to 70 patrons. This payment was based on butterfat at 47 cents per pound, the plant having handled during August over 94,000 pounds. The Commonwealth Lumber com pany of Portland has purchased be tween 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 feet of timber in the vicinity of Nekoma, a station on the Coos Bay line of the Southern Pacific railroad system, and his started work on the erection of a sawmill which will have a capacity of from 40,000 to 60,000 feet of lumber daily. Options on other timber in that section have beenobtained by the company. Fruit is being thrown away because there is no market for it according to reports reaching Baker from the John Day valley. The arrival in Hood River of a Port land detective Friday to get the bag gage of C. W. Hilliard. a young man who registered there last week from Chicago, caused no end of surprise. The detective said that Hilliard is in jail and is Buspected of being one of the cleverest bad check and draft oper ators abroad. J. F. Griffith, representing the Pa cific Potato Starch company, met with a number of the business men and farmers of Gresham at the city hall on Monday evening, and plans were laid and discussed for the establishing of a potato starch factory at that place. The Public Service commission Sat urday received word from the Inter state Commerce commission that that Commission refused to suspend the supplemental train's providing for a new minimums on shipments of lum ber and lumber products and the new traiffs are effective September 24. BIGGEST Of RAIDS MADE 1 LONDON Four Distinct Groups of Enemy Airplanes Over City. MEET HEAVY BARRAGE Theaters Continue Evening Perform ances in Spite of Repeated Visits From Hostile Aircraft. London The strongest air attack yet attempted on London and the coast towns by the Germans was carried out Monday night by four groups of hos tile airplanes. Some of the machines got through to London and bombarded the southwestern district A terrific barrage was sent up from the defense guns and the roar of battle lasted intermittently for two hours and a half. The Germans bombed coast towns as they passed over and proceeded toward London. Two of the groups succeeded in getting a number of machines through the sky barrage. Numerous bombs were dropped on the southwest ern district, which is thickly populated with the homes of the upper and mid dle classes. The fire from the defend ing guns was longer and louder than ever before. A rain of shrapnel fell in all sections of the town and the streets were virtually deserted. The weather was perfect for air operations, as there was a bright full moon with no clouds or wind. The people of London expected a raid and were waiting for signals. Soon after 7 o'clock motors of the volunteer corps sped through the streets blowing their sirens and displaying an illuminated notice "take cover" and other meas ures were put into execution to inform the populace. Many of the theaters were contniu ing their performances notwithstand ing the raids. At the conclusion of the performance in one of the leading London theaters the manager came to the stage and invited the audience and stage-hands to vote on the question of continuing the night performances. All voted in favor of carrying them on as usual. While a terrific barrage was kept up with the bursting shrapnel furnishing one of the greatest pyrotechnical dis plays London ever saw, a thrilling bat tle in the air took place between, en emy aircraft and British aviators in the northern district, according to special constables who said they wit nessed it by means of powerful binocu lars. Although the machines were thousands of feet in the air, the fire of the machine guns could be heard dis tinctly below. MAYOR MITCHEL WILL RUN New York's Executive Decides in Fav or of Citizens' Wishes. New York John Purroy Mitchel, Democrat, defeated in the Republican primaries for renomination, announced publicly from the steps of the City hall Monday that he would run as the fusion candidate on an issue of straight Americanism. The large gathering of citizens who came before him to demand that he re main in the mayoralty race heard words of support expressed in Mr. Mitchel's behalf by Theodore Roose velt, Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Morganthau, ex-ambassador to Turkey, and many others. Mayor Mitchel, in replying to the demands of citizens who requested that he run again, said: "My answer is I will run. I will make the fight one against Hearst, Hylan and Hohenzollern. I will make the fight against Murphy, Cohalan and O'Leary." Troopers to Get Mail. Washington, D. C. To make sure that American troopers abroad get their lettern from hnmn 1 KO nnotnl clerks will be dispatched' to France. I iL. nr. j ,i una me vv ar department Das given or ders that all transports bound toward the battle front rVihII rarrv oil tVia ac cumulated mail available and thus keep the service up to the last minute. Ap peals ior letters, magazines and news oarjers have hppn rvuirino- in .n wn. gressmen. Investigationdisclosed that me mans were tar behind because transports were Bailing without them. Japan to Hold Vessels. Tokio An imnerial nrHinnnco nm. mulgated Tuesd&y prohibits, without permission of the government, the sell ing, chartering or mortgaging of Jap anese ships to foreigners. The edict, which contains 13 article annl to vessels building or contracted for. The minister of communications is given control over steamship routes, passengers and carco and ratea. and i also given authority to commandeer snipping yams and material. City Makes Roll of Honor. Chicago The n fl m PH fit tn mamhan of the 586 exemDtion hoard in thf. city will constitute a roll of honor in me cuy arcnives, according to action taken by the CitV fnurtfil in nwiainn that their names be engrossed on a roll of honor as part of the city's Derrna nent records.