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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1917)
MD HAPP til CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Brents of Noted People, Government! nd Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. General Haig began another drive on the Germans' west front Monday and captured many strong positions, including some fortified farms. The city of Rawlins, Wyo., is facing a coal famine and unable to secure any relief, according to a telegraphic ap- peal from Mayor E. W. Emler, of Rawlins. The French cabinet resigned Mon day. President Poincaire, however, refused to accept the resignations on the ground that the chamber on Friday had voted confidence in the ministry. One case of pneumonia and scores of tonsilitis developed among the stu dents of the officers' reserve camp and the soldiers at Fort Snelling, Minne Bota, as a result of continued cold weather. Negotiations under which the United States had agreed to purchase 6,000, 000 Mexican silver pesos from the Mexican government, to be melted and coined into subsidiary silver, were de clared off Tuesday. Ed Drowns, an employe of a cattle company at Dubois, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, was instantly killed by Bob Bogus, foreman of the company, in gun battle on the company's ranch Monday, and Bogus died as a result of wounds inflicted by Drowns. Sixty-seven lives were lost when the army transport Antilles went down last Wednesday by the torpedo of a German submarine. The official list of casualties, cabled by General Persh' Ing, shows 67 lost, total survivors 170, and one unaccounted for. The Interstate Commerce commis sion has responded to the plea of East ern roads for financial assistance by reopening the 15 per cent rate advance cases so far as these carriers are con' cerned. The first hearing was set for November 5, in Washington, Bread priceB in Portland took their first tumble Tuesday since the cost of living began striving for an altitude record simultaneously with the declar ation of war. The announcement came from one of the largest com panies ttiHt the present standard loaf of 13 ounces will go on sale at 8 cents, Ten cents has been the charge up to this time. This applies to unwrapped bread only. Threats to poison or dynamite the 600 guests at the banquet to be ten- dered Representative Julius Kahn at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Wed' nesday night, were received by scores of the speakers and guests, which caused secret service operatives and city detectives to begin a thorough search for the plotters, who represent ed themselves on the anonymous cards sent out us being members of the I W. W. The first train Thursday crossed the recently completed Quebec bridge. It was a special containing guests of the builders. Major Stone, constructing quarter master at Camp Lewis, has received word from Washington to build a $27, 000 theater at the camp. Snow fell for 40 minutes at Salt Lake City Thursday. This is the first iuw of the season in the city, but there was a fall about three weeks ago on the mountains. Two arrests were made Thursday in Kansas City by detectives and govern' ment agents following Intimations that the (750,000 fire which partially de stroyed the Kansas City stockyards Wednesday morning was of incendiary origin, A discharged employe of the yards was taken into custody by detec- tives in the city and a second man was arrested by government agent in Ok' lahoma City. Eight thousand tobacco workers and cigar makers returned to work in San Juan, Porto Rico, Friday, after four weeks of idleness. There has been general increase in the wages of these workers. The police courts swung back to the workhouse sentence policy Friday i dealing with militants of the Woman Party picketing the White House. Four arrested were given Bix months. the heaviest sentence yet imposed on any. Eleven million dollars' worth of Lib erty Bonds were subscribed for Thurs day in Chirago, and reports from other pointa in the Seventh Federal Reserve district were equally encouraging. The German Press Club, of Chicago, decid- ed to invest all its surplus in bonds. "Have you bought your Liberty Loan bond?" asked a robber who ap proached Tony Obad, of Salt Lake City. Tuny admitted that he had not. "Well, you ought to have money, aaid the robber as he searched him with one hand while the other hand held revolver. Tony lost $18. RENCH SMASH LINES Attack Made Before Dawn, Preceded by Terrific Barrage 7500 Prison ers and 25 Big Guns Taken. Paris In one of the swiftest and most dashing blows of the war, the French troops Wednesday smashed throught the German lines north of the Aisne to a depth of more than two miles at one point, inflicted heavy los ses on the enemy and captured more than 7500 prisoners and 25 heavy guns and field guns. Several important villages also fell into the hands of the French, according to the French War office announce ment. The advantage is along a front of from eight to ten kilometers. The text reads: "North of the Aisne the attack which we lanuched Wednesday morn ing at 5:15 developed under extremely brilliant conditions. Notwithstanding mist and rain, our troops attacked with admirable enthusiasm formidable ganizations of the enemy which were defended by the best troops of Ger many, supported by heavy artillery, "In their first daBh our soldiers cap tured the line indicated by the quarries of Fruty and Doherey. A little later Malmaison fort, in the center, fell into our hands. "Pushing their advance still further, our troops, alter a desperate engage ment, In which they gave proof of their irrestible snap, drove the enemy from the quarries of Montparnesse, which had been partly crushed by our big shells. 4 On the left our progress was con- tinued with the same success, the vil lages of Alternant and Vaudesson re maining in our power, while on the right our troops carried the line onto the heights dominating Fargny-Filain, "Finally, in the center, our troops drove fresh enemy reserves helter- skelter and captured in a violent strug gle the village of Chavignon. At this point our advance reached a depth of three and one-half kilometers (about two and one-fifth miles). The enemy losses in the course of the day were large, in addition to those inflicted on him by our artillery prep aration. The number oi prisoners counted up to the present exceeds 7500. In the enormous amount of ma terial captured we have counted 25 heavy field cannon. "Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, our aviators carried out with audacity the missions imposed upon them, their machines flying 50 meters above the lines. The attack was made in the morning at 6:15 o'clock. After artillery prep arations for several hours our troops assaulted the powerful German post tions in the region of Alternant and La Malmaison, northeast of Soissons. NO WOODEN SHIPS WANTED French and British Serve Notice On Builders in United States. Washington,!). C The French and British governments, through their high commissions now in Washington Wednesday sent word to represents tives of various Pacific Coast shipyard to the effect that they are no longer in the market for wooden ships. The British announcement conveyed no ex planation. The French mission ex plained that it would contract for no more wooden ships because of the gov ernment policy of commandeering, and because the Shipping board has forbid den wooden Bhips to navigate through the war zone. At the Shipping board rooms the explanation was offered that the French mission has misinterpreted a re cent ruling, which bars sailing vessels from the war zone. There has been no order barring wooden steamers from the war zone. It is true, how ever, that the Shipping board declines to waive its right to commandeer any and all ships built in the United States for foreign order, and this policy of the board seems to have put an end to the awarding of contracts by foreign buyers, and especially by the allied governments. Representatives of Pacific Coast yards are hopeful of Inducing the Ship ping board to modify its ruling so that yards having no government contracts may take contracts from foreign gov ernments, provided such work will not interfere with work on United States government contracts. Former Senator Indicted. New York An indictment was turned Wednesday against Former State Senator W. H. Reynolds by the extraordinary grand jury investigating real estate sales to the city, which have been made an issue in the present mayoralty campaign. The indictment charges Reynolds with conspiring to obtain from the city an excessive prio for the Seaside Park site by procuring the presentation of alleged false testi- mony before condemnation commis sioners. The city paid $1,250,000 and interest for the property. Child Thrown Into Fire. East St Louis, III. Testimony that during the race riots here on the night of July 2, a mob threw a negro child into a burning house, was given at the congressional inquiry into the riots by Edwin Popkess, reporter for a St Louis newspaper. He said he also saw four or five National Guardsmen shoot and kill two negroes who ran from a burning house. Inquiry into political conditions in East St Louis wai continued. GERMANS LOSE VARSHIPS AT RIGA wo Dreadnoughts Are Victims of Russian Navy. OTHER BOATS SUNK Ultimate Fate of Kaiser's Naval Force Unknown, but at Least Six Tor pedo Boats Sink in View. Petrograd Two German dread noughts, one cruiser, 12 torpedo boats and one transport were put out of ac ton by the Russians in the fighting around the islands in the Gulf of Riga laBt week, but their ultimate fate is unknown, says an' official statement issued Tuesday by the Russian ad miralty. It has been established that at least six German torpedo boats were sunk in the fighting. The Russians lost the battleship Slava and a torpedo boat. The admiralty staff, in its review of the fighting, says that the Russian units fought excellently against the superiority of the Germans. The statement reads : "During October 21 important en emy naval forces, together with trans ports, were sighted by our outposts in the Gulf of Riga. In Moon Sound the enemy seemed to be clearing the wa ter of obstructions which we laid down. There was no naval action dur ing the day, but enemy submarines were discovered in the Gulf of Finland. "As the naval operations in the Bal tic isles have now ended, it is possible to review them. The task of our fleet in this region was, with the organized position of Moon Sound as a base, to prevent enemy attempts to seize the Gulf of Riga and Moon Sound. So long as the German fleet only em ployed in Buch an operation elements of minor importance, as in 1915, name ly, two dreadnoughts, our naval forces could cope with them. In 1915, although our position in Moon Sound was organized incomplete ly, we repulsed successfully all attacks and the enemy during three days pos session of the Gulf of Riga suffered losses so grave that he was obliged to depart. A similar attempt in 1916 with unimportant Torces failed com pletely. In the recent operations the enemy employed the major part of his fleet and his overwhelming superiority en abled him to carry out debarkation rapidly and successfully. Our fleet only was able to do its best to hinder these efforts and to inflict maximum losses. With this object we delivered a series of attacks, using all the naval resources in our possession. TIME FOR SELF-DENIAL HERE Sugar Famine Reported in East While West is Scantily Supplied. Chicago Formal warning was is sued here Monday on instructions from the office of Food Administrator Hoo ver that a sugar famine is upon the country and that the moment of Amer ica's first self-denial in the matter of food has arrived. Announcement that this "condition is Berious enough in the West and Mid dle West, but in the East it has de veloped into a famine" was made by Henry H. Rolapp, president of the United States Sugar Manufacturers' association and treasurer of the sugar distributing committee of the food ad ministration, on receipt of a telegram from George Rolapp, chief of the sugar division of the food administra tion at Washington. The telegram re quests that the situation be made clear to all citizens of the United States and that the need for rigid economy for several weeks be explained. Four Indicted as Smugglers. San Francisco Four men indicted Monday in connection with the activi ties of an alleged international smug gling ring, declared to have effected the illegal entrance into this country of hundreds of Chinese, surrendered to Federal authorities. The men were Attorneys H. E. Kennah and Robert J. Riley and Julius S. McClymont, for mer interpreter at the Angel Island immigration station, where activities of the Alleged ring were said to have been centered, and Clarence E. Ebey, former immigration nispector. Guard Officers Warned. Washington, D. C A sharp order has gone out to all National Guard officers, forbidding them to communi cate to state authorities any informa tion ai to movements of their own or other units of the Federal armies. Two recent instances where messages of this character have come from Europe, revealing facts which the government wished to be withheld from publica tion, prompted the action of the War department. $100,000,000 Not Enough. St Louis Henry P. Davison of New York, chairman of the war council of the American Red Cross, said here Tuesday that the $100,000,000 raised for the Red Cross last summer would not last longer than the early spring of 1918. The people, he said, should be prepared to make another large contri bution within few months. STATE NEWS J IN BRIEF. ! Mrs. Sarah Anne McKinney Cald well, of Yoncalla, celebrated her 90th birthday anniversary Wednesday. She was born in Booneville, Mo., in 1827. The Port of Toledo elected Wiley Parrish as port commissioner to fill a vacancy due to the resignation of C. E. Hawkins, now cashier of the bank at Newport. The evergreen berry harvest ended at Toledo Saturday. Sixty-eight tons were received and shipped to Portland during the season. About $5000 was paid to pickers. The $50 reward which Deputy Sher iff Joseph R. Frum, of Albany, re ceived for capturing Jeff Baldwin, no torious escaped convict from the Ore gon penitentiary, has gone into a Lib erty Bond. D. F. Everett the druggist at Rid dle, while out hunting last week with George W. Murphy, the School super visor in that district, killed a 300- pound black bear. The bear was killed in the Elk creek district. The duck hunting season is now in full swing in Klamath county, which is known as a mecca for this popular sport, is keeping up its reputation this year is indicated by the number of birds that are being brought in by sportsmen. George H. Brainard and F. L. Evans of Cottage Grove, have purchased the Joslyn-Griswold sawmill at Drain and will take immediate possession. Mr. Evans will take charge of the opera tion of the mill, which has a capacity of 15,000 to 20,000 feet a day. It is understood that Governor Withycombe will further delay sound ing the sentiment of legislators on the Bubject of compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in connection with a possible special session of the legisla ture until he has time for further in vestigation. The Gardiner school district will hold a special election soon for the purpose of considering the proposed budget for the school year, electing one director, and deciding upon the policy of furnishing transportation for scholars who live outside the city and along the Umpqua. The $100 cash prize offered for the best five-bushels of potatoes exhibited at the Seventh Annual Potato Show at Redmond was awarded to S. D. Mus tard, of Powell Butte, Or. Mr. Mus tard took the sweepstakes prize at the Portland Land Products Exhibit held in Portland two years ago. Tagged like an express package, lit tle Christy Stigmaier, grandson of Postmaster Malone, of Langell Valley postoffice, in Eastern Klamath county, started Friday on a long journey to New York City, where his father re sides. The little fellow was here with his mother until her death a short time ago. James O'Brien, who escaped from the State penitentiary during Warden Minto's administration by Bcaling wall, is under arrest in Pueblo, Colo., on a burglarly charge, acccording to word received by the prison authori ties. O'Brien was serving a term on a similar charge in Oregon, being sen tenced from Coos county. The district exemption board, sitting at Eugene, for the Second District of Oregon, has ruled that a rich man's son who had taken up farming since the passage of the selective conscrip tion act is not entitled to exemption on individual grounds. The ruling was on individual grounds. The ruling was in the case of L. L. Knapp, of Port Orford, Curry county, who had been exempted, but whose case was reopened. Chester A. Moores of Portland is in Salem to familiarize himself with his new duties as private secretary to Gov ernor Withycombe, which will start November 1. Mrs. Harriet Callison, pioneer resi dent of Lane county, died Friday morn ing at the family residence near Pleas ant Hill, where Bhe had made her home for more than half a century. Mrs. Leslie Bailey, of Bend, charged with kidnaping and robbing L. A. Rawlings, an aged rancher living near her homestead, went on trial Fri day in the Circuit court Mr. Rawl ings testified that Mrs. Bailey and her 14-year-old son had tied him, searched him for valuable papers and threatened him with death before releasing him. Over 350 men are said to be at work in the McEachem shipyards on Youngs Bay, an addition of 53 employes who went to Astoria, Saturday to fill posi tions in various parts of the industry. Several Prairie City school children narrowly escaped death when a bridge under which they had taken refuge from a herd of passing cattle broke with the weight of the animals and plunged some of the stock into the John Day river. All the children es caped serious injury. The Multnomah Circuit court, Judge Kavanaugh lifting, waa affirmed by the Supreme court Thursday in the case of the State vs. Dr. A. A. Aus plund, convicted of manslaughter in connection with a criminal operation. Justice Burnett wrote the opinion. v ork was resumed on the ship in the Sommarstrom yard at Columbia City, Friday, about 120 men being em ployed. Work is progressing rapidly on the ways and buildings for the In ternational Shipbuilding company and they will soon be ablejto lay down a it eel Weekly War Information Brief Stories Prepared Under the Direction of the Committee on Public Information and the State Council of Defense. German Food Experts Equal Their Diplomats in Mistakes. It is to avoid a condition such as has beep experienced by Germany that the department of Agriculture has sug gested "save the sow" as both a slo gan and a working plan for those who wish to prevent the threatened meat shortage. When the lack of meats and fats be came felt by the central powers, Ger man food economy experts advised that the hogs be killed, assuming the feed and labor required to raise swine could profitably be diverted to other uses. Only a short time elapsed be fore the meat and fat situation became worse than before, and the food ex perts were forced to make a complete switch of policy and lay down Btrin- gent rules for the protection of what hoes remained. Hogs furnish meat more quickly and more cheaply than any other stock ; a shortage can therefore be met most readily by intensive swine production, As breeding stocks are now being depleted throughout the United States and the situation will become very ser ious if the country continues to be drained of its meats, the department of Agriculture is suggesting that swine production be increased. Food Administration Plans Canvass of 22,000,000 Homes. A house-to-house canvass of the 22,- 000,000 families in the United States and the enrollment of every man and woman in the nation in a mighty food conservation army, will be conducted by the food administration from Oc tober 21 to 28. On the success of this canvass, " says Herbert Hoover, tood adminis trator, "will largely depend the issue of the war. 'Food will win the war,' is the battle cry. "Nearly 2,000,000 women have taken the pledge to furnish the food our allies and armies require. The small amount each individual is asked to save through substitution and avoid ance of waste, when multiplied by mil lions, becomes an effective total. The foods that must be saved are wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar; those that should be used gen erously are fish, poultry, fruit, vege tables, and all cereals except wheat. Place for Small Investor in Second Liberty Loan. The man of limited. means has been considered in plans for the second Lib erty Loan, subscriptions to which are now being received. The allotment is for $3,000,000,000, and may be in creased by one-half that amount in case of over-subscription. Both coupon and registered bonds as low as $50 will be issued. Payment may be made in full or in installments. Bankers and employes throughout the country have arranged plans whereby bonds may be purchased on easy pay ment terms. Particulars may be se cured by applying to banks. Bonds of $5000 and under are sub ject to no taxes so long as the owners live. They may be sold or placed as security on short notice. They bear interest at 4 per cent, and the owners have the privilege of exchanging these bonds for those of the succeeding issue if the latter should allow a higher rate. War Information Booklets Printed in German Language. Two of the booklets bearing on the war issued by the committee on public information have been reprinted in the German language: "How the War Came to America," and "German Loy alty." Booklets in English now being dis tributed are " How the War Came to America," "The War Message and Facts Behind It," "The Nation in Arms," "The Government of Ger many," "The Great War" and "Amer ican Loyalty." Any of these publications may be secured free of charge by application to Committee on Public Information, 10 Jackson Place, Washington, D. C. Successful Candidates In Reserve Campa Exceed Expectations. Of the 44,000 candidates attencWg the first series of officers' reserve camps, 27,000, or 70 per cent won commissions. ' The first estimates placed the successful proportion at 25 per cent The French government has desig nated a sufficient number of experi enced omeers to supply at least one for each of the 16 cantonments camps and has already furnished specialists in aviation and artillery who are now doing instruction work at Washington, u. c. Han Bankers Interned. New York Frits Kuhn, prior to the outbreak of the war London represent ative of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin, and George von Seebeck, also formerly connected with a German bank in Lon don, were taken into custody here Wednesday by the intelligence bureau of the Navy department and sent to Ellis Island for internment as danger ous enemy aliens. Von Seebeck is believed to be the son of General Baron von Seebeck, commander of the German Tenth army corps at Liege. E AND SULPHUR mmmm It's Grandmother's Recipe Restore Color, Gloss and Attractiveness. to Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly compound ed, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streak ed or gray. Years ago the only way to get this mixture was to make It at home, which is mussy and trouble some. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sul phur Compound," you will get a large bottle of this famous old recipe, im proved by the addition of other In gredients, for about 50 cents. Don't stay gray! Try it! wo one can possibly tell that you aarsenea your hair, as it does it so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, -taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair disappears, and after another ap plication or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark, glossy and attractive. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com pound is a delightful toilet requisite for those who desire dark hair and a youthful appearance. It Is not Intend ed for the cure, mitigation or preven tion of disease. An Adamless Eden. The Seated Lady The great charm of this place is its absolute loneliness. Day after day one has these lovely sands and sea and rocks and sky all to oneself. The Other Really. And have you been here long? 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