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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1917)
HI OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. Rear-Admiral Walter Cleveland Cowles died at his home in Redlands, Cal., Monday, after an Illness of a week. Abesence of senators on the Bub committee appointed to investigate Senator La Follete's St. Paul speech last September caused a pogtponment Tuesday of the inquiry until after con gress convenes. According to an Amsterdam dis patch, Maximilian Harden has been permitted to republish his newspaper, Die Zukunft. II err Harden also will be allowed to continue his lectures, forbidden a month ago. At a meeting in Lancaster, Pa., of the board of trustees of Franklin and Marshall College, Count BemstorfT'i name was stricken from the rolls. The degree of doctors of laws was con ferred upon him in 1912. A. L. Carpenter, I. W. W. agent, was arraigned in the Moscow, Idaho, probate court Tuesady charged with felony, attempting to corrupt and in timidate jurors called in the I. W. W. cases. He was held under $5000 bonds. Employment of special watchmen to guard every warehouse, pumping plant, mill or other place in Spokane, where foodstuffs of the value of $50,000 or more are stored is required in an ordi nance passed Tuesday by the city council. Miss Margaret Fotheringham, a teacher in the Buffalo, N. Y., public schools, was dismissed by the school board for being absent without leave, She had picketed the White House and had been imprisoned in Occoquan workhouse. Canada may soon be invited to be come a member of the PBn-American Union, the official organization main tained in Washington by the 21 Amer ican republics for the development of commerce and friendship and the preservation of peace among them. Fifty Italians were arrested in Mil waukee, and are held for investigation in connection with the bomb outrage Saturday in which nine members of the police force were killed and two were injured. It is understood the action followed a confession by a man arrested earlier in the day. Orders for placing military guards at the Chelsea and Southern Pacific piers in New York harbor went to the commander nf the Eastern department Monday from Secretary Baker. This is in line with the plan for using troops to enforce the alien enemy proc lamation along important waterfronts. With the asBent of the government the News Print Manufacturers associ ation, which represented about 85 per cent of the print paper production of the United States and Canada, was dissolved in New York Tuesday as an unlawful combination in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman anti trust act. British cavalry have captured Bittir station, about six miles southwest, and Ain Karim, SJ miles west of Jerusa lem, according to a British official communication issued Tuesday even ing. Strong bodies of Turks are hold ing the high ground west of Jerusalem and covering the Jerusalem-Senechem road to the north. Reports to the Postoffice department of the amount of parcel post matter going to the American army in France indicate that Americans there will en joy a bountiful Christmas. The de partment announced that it is practi cally certain that every package mailed before November 13 will reach its destination by Christmas morning and possibly some mailed later will get there in time. Governor Withycombe, of Oregon, announces that each prisoner paroled from the stiito penitentiary who has enlisted for service in the war will be granted restoration of citizenship. Constitutional prohibition was de feated in the October 15 election in Iowa by a majority of 932 votes, ac cording to the olllcial canvass made by the state executive council. The can rasa, made on the initial count of the ballots, showed 214,693 for the amend ment and 215,625 against It German is still the most widely taught foreign language in New York City high schools, with Latin and French dividing honors for second place, according to a report compiled from the Tecords of the board of edu cation. Sinking of the American destroyer Chauncey in collision in the war zone early Wednesday morning, with a probable loss of 21 lives, was an nounced by the Navy department No further details were given in a brief report to the department from Vice Admiral Sims. I AP CURRENT WEEK HUNGER GETS TROOPS Russian Commanders at Front Con tinue to Send Ominous Report on Conditions-Many Die. London A belated dispatch to Reu tor's, Ltd., from Potrograd, dated No vember 21, says: " Ihe commanders at the front con tinue to send in most ominous die patches concerning the exhaustion of supplies and reports of forthcoming hungry hordes of soldiers invading the center of population." A dispatch to the Exchange Tele grah from Copenhagen gives similar reports. It says advices received from Russia describe the situation as more desperate than ever and assert that the country is on the verge of a bloody civil war. According to this dispatch, the Rus sian newspaper Volka Narodna asserts that the Russian armies on the north ern front have for several days been without food and that soldeirs daily are leavingjthe front in hundreds or are dying in the trenches from cold and hunger. The newspaper adds that mutinies due to hunger have broken out on sev eral parts of the line. General Kaledines, hetman of the Don Cassocks, according to the Petro- grad correspondent of the Morning Post, is the master of the Russian sit uation. With a trustworthy and disci' plined army he is reported to control the bulk of the grain-growing tern lory, and is rapidly capturing the re mainder. The Russian gold reserve, which the correspondent says was re moved to the interior of Russia in 1913, is now held by General Kale- dines. London Grand Duke Michael Alex- androvitch, brother of the former em peror, according to a Petrograd dis patch has been imprisoned in Smolny Institute, the headquarters of the Bol- sheviki. MISS ROMANOFF IS FLEEING Daughter of Ex-Czar Escapee and Will Land at Pacific Port. Denver Mrs. Margaret Barry Car ver, wife of an American banker with Petrograd interests, was here Tuesday on her way to a' Pacific port, where, she admitted, she is to meet Miss Ta- tiana Romanoff, daughter of the de posed emperor of Russia. Tatiana Nicolaevna Romanoff es caped from Siberia and will arrive at a Pacific port in a few days to make her home in America, according to an announcement made here by the Rus sian Civilian Relief society, of New York, with whom the former grand duchess will become connected. The story of the young woman'B eS' cape reads like a fairy tale. She ex ecuted her plan by first going through with a mock marriage, after which she made her way from Tobolsk, where theJ exiled former imperial family is held. to Harbin, Manchuria and thence to Japan, whence she sailed for America under the chaperonage of an English woman. Her guardian in this country will be Mrs. Carver. VILLA MAIN FORCE IN HIDING Juarez Military Authorities Uneasy Over Move of Bandit. Juarez A train left here late Tues day carrying the 500 troops from the Ojinaga garrison who will be incor porated into General Eduardo Hernan dez' forces as "shock troops," in the campaign against Villa in the north eastern zone of Chihuahua state. These troops were brought here Satur day from Marfa, Tex., having been in terned there after escaping across the Rio Grande from Ojinaga when Villa captured the town November 14. They were equipped with new uniforms and were reissued their rifles, ammunition and field equipment, which were taken from them by American soldiers when they were interned and sent here in bond. No reports were received regarding the persent whereabouts of Villa's main column and this is causing the local military authorities much uneasi ness. 3 U. S. Airmen Lost at Sea 60 Hours. A French Port Suffering with cold, exhaustion and hunger, three American naval airmen were picked up by a French patrol-boat Monday night after having been lost at sea for 60 hours. The men, in a huge hydroairplane, left a French base Friday in search of four enemy submarines which were report ed operating off the coast When the men failed to return within the usual time other machines were sent out to search for them. They returned after several hours and reported that they had seen no trace of the missing men. Seattle Clean-Up Likely. Seattle, Wash. After a prolonged conference between the executive com mittee of the Seattle Minute Men, a patriotic organization, and Mayor Gill, Sunday, it was announced by the Min ute Men that a plan had been agreed upon for a clean-up of Seattle that would undoubtedly remove the ban placed on this city by Major-General Greene, commander of Camp Lewis, who has forbidden soldiers to visit here because of alleged vice conditions. t Of A IT? MTTTT Td IN BRIEF. I f TT f Car shortage on the lines of the Southern Pacific company In Oregon has been showing a steady decrease for the last week. The total shortage Wednesday was 1903, The shortage of closed cars was 785 and open cars 1118. Sparks from the engine in the plant of the E. H. Pruett sawmill near Bend, are believed to have caused the fire which Tuesday completely destroyed the property. The mill had a daily output of 150,000 feet and was one of the oldest of the sawmill plants in Central Oregon, A chance pressure on the trigger of a 22-caliber 'rifle which he was clean ing caused 15-yead-old Robert Inge mann of Bend, to fire a bullet point blank at hiB 11-v ear-old brother, George, Tuesday afternoon while the two were shooting rabbits a short dis tance from Bend. The leaden pellet lodged In the boy's spine, completely paralyzing both legs. Entertaining the driver of the Cres cent City Btage with the strongest kind of condemnation of the govern ment proved the undoing of Archie Gerrells, who is in the Josephine county jail on a charge of treasonable utterances. He promptly destroyed his I. W. W. membership card, Ger rells will be held pending receipt of advices from United States Attorney Keames. The State Lime board, at a meeting in Salem Wednesday, decided to pur chase an Aerial tram from the Green back Mining company, of Grants Pass, to transport lime products from the Beeman lime quarry, by the state, to the railroad. . The tram will cost $3000. New trams would cost between $15,000 and $20,000. About 4000 feet of rough gully land lies between the quarry and the railroad and the coun try to be traversed is in such condition that the construction of a road would be impractical. John Shinanek, member of the State Lime board, and also a member of the Farmers' Union at Scio, reported to State Labor Commissioner Hoff Wed nesday a plan for cheap flour and high priced wheat for farmers, which farm ers in the section of Scio plan to se cure. The scheme will be placed by Mr. Shimanek before the state meet ing of the Farmers' Unior , to be held at Pendleton next month. Mr. Shim anek states that farmers are arranging with a miller at Scio to grind their wheat for 20 cents a bushel flat. By this means the farmers get the flour, bran and shorts and they estimate they will get $2.13 for their flour, 17 cents for the bran and 18 cents for the shorts, or a total of $2.28, , after the 20 cents for the miller is deducted, On this basis they will sell the flour at cost, or at $2.13 for a $2.65 sack and still receive $2.28 for1 their wheat, as compared to $1.90, the base price. At the same time the consumer will re ceive a $2.65 sack of flour for $2.13, The miller at Scio is satisfied with this profit and efforts will be made to make similar arrangements throughout the state. At a meeting of the Oregon State fair board in Portland this week, Sec retary Lea filed his annual report and turned over to the board $19,297.44, as cash on hand after payng all ex penses of the 1917 fair. This repre sents twice the amount of cash turned over after the 1916 fair, and the turn over at that time exceeded any in the previous history of the institution. Actual construction of the state ma chinery for the second draft got under way Wednesday when Governor Withy combe appointed the members of the central advisory board to handle the legal phases of the conscription act. The personnel of the board includes George M. Brown, attorney general, chairman; J. N. Teal, Portland; Colo nel Sam White, Portland, and Richard W. Montague, Portland. An oil excitement is reported at Powers, in Coos county. In some of the wells there oil has been found, and it is believed it may mean a big dis covery. Ihere will be an investiga tion to ascertain whether there is oil in commercial quantities. Powers is the headquarters of the Smith-Powers Logging company, and is located in the southern part of the county on the South Fork of the Coquille river. Blackleg and rabies among cattle are still making their appearance on the ranges of Crook and Deschutes counties. The past week 20 head of range cattle died from blackleg and rabies. The latter disease is being disseminated among livestock by dogs and coyotes. Practically all Btockmen having stock on the range where black leg is prevalent are vaccinating young cattle against the disease. In co-operation with the United States biological survey, federal predatory-animal hunt ers are being placed in sections where coyotes are most numerous in order to destroy rabies carriers. The first shipment of lime from the Portland Beaver Cement company's Gold Hill plantwas made recently, which consisted of a 40-ton shipment consigned to Medford. Large ship ments will be made to other points as soon as cars are available. With this year's business building just coming to an end at Bend, an nouncement is made of new construc tion to be started in the spring. W. Downing has just purchased a 50x140 business site and will erect a pressed brick building at an estimated cots of $10,000. j Hoosier Sends the First U. S. Shot Into Germany South Bend Man Is Hero Initial Action by the Americans. of GEORGIAN GIVES THE ORDER Indiana Sergeant Pulls the Lanyard Which Starts Pershing's Attack on the Kilter's Armies Americans All Eager for Action. American Field Headquarters In France. Indlaua and Georgia divide the honor of having Inaugurated Amer ica's land warfare against the Ger mans. A sergeant from South Bend., Ind pulled the lanyard to send the llrst shell tearing across the valley In the direction of the German positions. A Georgia lieutenant gave the order "Are I" The facts were established during the first visit paid by a correspond ent to the first American battle front The correspondent reached the American position after a long motor ride through shell-battered towns. Leaving the motor In one of the towns, he walked the rest of the way. The first American battery was al most walked upon before It was dis covered. It was so well hidden under the trees and with foliage about It on a low-hung wire netting. Gun of .75 Caliber Used. Through the foliage In every direc tion the ground was undulating. At that moment there was a flash of flame :hrough the mist. It was the crack Df a .75 gun, and following it closely came the noise of the shell rushing through the air, becoming fainter and fulnter as the projectile went on Its way to the German position over the crest of a hill farther away. The mud dlgglng artillerists continued their work without even looking up. A lieutenant from Georgia emerged. He was the officer who directed the first shot He led the way down the slippery, muddy hill to a dugout cov ered over with sandbags and logs. There was met a lieutenant from Indi ana of the same battery who directed the first 18 shots of the war against Germany from an observation point. On the other side of the hill was found the first gun fired. The muddy gunners were hard at work cleaning their gun. "This was the first gun fired In the war," the Jaunty lieutenant said. "The sergeant Inside the pit there fired It." Looking Into the pit, the lieutenant said: "Sergeant, where pre you from?" He's From South Bend. A husky voice replied: "I'm from South Bend, Ind." 'Are you Irish?" asked the lieuten ant. 'No, sir," the sergeant laughingly replied. At this time orders came for this gun and others of the battery placed In nearby hills In sight and sound of each other to commence firing. The gun on the farthest hill went off with a roar and a faint stream of smoke was blown backward from the pit. Inside the pit In which the corre spondent stood a voice shouted out the range figures and the lieutenant repeated them. A voice Inside the pit' a moment later yelled that the gunner was ready to fire. The lieutenant gave the command to the gunners: "Watch your bubble." The lieutenant, who was standing on a pile of mud which had been re moved from the pit, cautioned those about him to place their fingers in their ears. This was done and the lieutenant shouted the word "Fire I" The gun barked quickly, the noise being followed by a metallic clank and the shell case was ejected and the gun made ready for the next load. The lieutenant told the correspondent the story of the first shot of the war, punc tuating the narrative throughout with the orders "ready to fire," and "fire," which each time was followed by the report of the gun and the whizz of the shell. "We came up the night before," the lieutenant said, "and got Into position In a driving rain. No horses had ar rived. I was anxious to get off the first gun and so were my men. I asked them If they were willing to haul the gun by hand to this place so that we could get the first crack at the Germans. They agreed unanimously, so we set out across the fields until we got over there at the base of that hill you can just see In the haze. Hour to Prepare Gun. "We had a hard time getting the gun, which we have not named yet over those shell craters. But we- la bored for many hours and finally reached the spot Then I got permis sion to fire. Strictly speaking, the first shot, which was In the nature of a tryout for the gun, simply went Into Ger many. The sergeant put a high explo sive shell there at 6:15 o'clock In the morning." Another officer here took up the nar rative. I was In an observation point" he said. "There was a fog as the first shot went singing over. Suddenly the mans. I directed my gua at them. The shrapnel burst overhead and they took a dive Into the ground like so many j rabbits." The lieutenant grinned broadly. shook the water off his shrapnel hel met nd using both clinched fists to punctuate his remarks, en Id expres sively: "It was greut," From the artillery lines to tho In fantry trenches was a considerable distance over more muddy hills. The correspondent found the Infantry In side the trenches. There also were rnuuy wires which ran Into switch bourds, and American and French op erators were sitting side by side di recting operations, Bell for Gat Attack. A guide is necessary to reach the first line, especially when some of the trenches resemble Irrigation ditches. The trenches the Americans are occu pying begin from a screened position, On the way there shovels and tools were piled high below a hill on which there was a great bell for giving the alarm In case of a gas attuck. There under cover were the company cooks busy, warming up food thut hud been brought up In wagons. Following the guide, the way winds In and out from left to right for mnny yards between Interwoven brnnches thut have been placed on the sides of the trenches. The American privates In the front splashed through without hesitating, sometimes getting a footing on step ping stones In the muddy water and sometimes not. The trench turns sharply to the right and a voice warns, "Keep your head down," and the rest of the way the walking Is difficult. Halting near a machine gun, the Ger man positions directly opposite on a hill could be seen across the barbed wire of No Man's lund. Lights ap peared in a little town to the left. There Is a sort of a gentleman's agreement In this sector that towns over the line are not to be shelled. If one side violates the agreement the other side promptly fires shell for shell Into a hostile town. General Slbert, who has Just com pleted a tour of the trenches, was asked how the morale of the Ameri cans In the trenches was. He replied : "Morale? How could the morale of Americans be anything but good?" 1 PARENTS SHOULD HAVE X TWO NAMES FOR BABIES Indianapolis, Ind. Because parents haven't always got a name .for their baby when It Is born, the state of Indiana Is spending $150 a month more than necessary, according to Dr. J. N. Hurty of the state board of health. "The state Is spending about J $150 a month In writing to homes, from which physicians have sent In reports of births without the names of the babies attached. "Parents ought to have two names ready, one for a boy and one for a girl. Sometimes both can be used." Robber Takes Only Potatoes. Sunbury, Pa. A highwayman, mask ed and carrying a big revolver, held up J. C. House of Lower Augusta town ship, Northumberland county, here re cently and demanded that he throw up his hands. "I don't want your mon ey, but give me a bushel of potatoes," commanded the thief. House com piled, dumping them on the roadside, and was allowed to go without being further molested. He had more than $100 on his person, he said afterward. England Needs Roads. London. It will require approxi mately $150,000,000 to reconstruct or strengthen 15,000 miles of roads In Great Britain after the war In order to enable them to carry the growing motor traffic, says an official estimate. DEMONSTRATING USE OF Mrs. Schuyler F. Herron of Boston In the food conservation bureau's new built of layers of straw or rubbish and from the frost "KELLY" U-BOAT CHIfFJS JOKER Commander of German Subma rine Shows Vein of Un German Humor. IS HERO OF MANY STORIES When Not Laying Mine He Pulls Pranks That Amuse American Sea menPays Two-Days' Visit t Dublin Hotel. Base of American Flotilla In British Waters. There Is a German submarine commander who Is known throughout the American flotilla as "Kelly." His real name is something quite differ ent, but the American sailors promptly dubbed him "Kelly of the Emerald Isle," and the nuine will stick In the songs and stories of the navy as long as the great war Is talked about "Kelly" earned his name by his dis play on various occasions of a rich vein of quite un-German humor. He has become the hero of numberless sto ries told In forecastle and on quarter deck. Not all of these stories are true, and probably most of them have grown In the telling. "Kelly" Pranks Jintallzlng. "Kelly" commands a mine-laying U boat which pays frequent visits to the district patrolled by the American de stroyers. When he has finished his appointed task of distributing his mines where they will do the most harm he generally devotes a few min utes to a prunk of some kind. Some times he contents himself with leaving a note flying from a buoy scribbled in schoolboy English and addressed to his American enemy. On other occasions he picks out a deserted bit of coast line nt night and goes ashore with a sqund of his men for a saunter on the bench, leaving behind a placard or a bit of German bunting as a reminder of his presence. His most audacious exploit, how ever If the legends of the forecastle are to be believed was a trip which he made several months ago to Dublin, where he stuyed two days at a leading hotel, nfterward joining his U-boat somewhere up the west coast. He Is said to have Informed the British of his exploit by leaving his receipted bill uttnehed to one of their buoys. Still another of "Kelly's" more re cent stunts was to plant the German flag on an eminence on the coast line. It was the first time that the British and Americans knew just where he and his men had set foot and they shared the excitement of the village folk, who awoke one morning to find a new kind of flag flying from their sa tlve soil. Fishermen Burn German Flag. But when they made sure that It was the German colors they were furious, for it so happened, so the story goes, that the fisherman along this partic ular strip of coast had suffered much from submarine raids. D-boats had shelled their boats, Germans had sto len their fish their only means of live lihood and left them empty handed after a week's hard catch of mackerel. These poor fisher folk were In no mood for this latest display of German hu mor, so they, according to report,, promptly burned the flag and set a watch for "Kelly." Snake Fell From Belfry. Laurel, Del A six-foot blacksnake fell from the belfry of the Elverton (Md.) Methodist church onto the shoul ders of Sexton Benjamin F. Kennedy, while the latter was ringing the bell. After a lively chase the snake was cornered In the church auditorium and killed. It evidently had made Its home In the belfry and fed on birds which, roost there. NEW "STORAGE VAULT" showing how to bank away potatoes? "cold storage vault." The vault Is. earth and covers the tubers safely