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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1917)
"NS WORLD HAPPENINGS Of CURRENT WEEK V ILLIS TA S RAID ACROSS L IN E i Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. Events o f Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest^and Other Things Worth Knowing. The Oregon legislature adjourned Monday night at 2:30, after being in session two days over the alotted 40. I American residents in Germany are refused permission to leave. How ever, there is a great percentage who wish to stay, even though war should come between Germany and the U nit ed States. Reports o f progress by President Menocal’s forces against insurgent bands in Cuba increased the hopes o f administration officials Tuesday that peace may be re-established in the is land without American intervention. There were strong indications Tues day that unless some sensational devel opment precipitates immediate action. President Wilson's next step in the crisis with Germarty w ill be postponed until a few days before congress ad journs for the session, a week from next Sunday. vW y - •fi G? O MAJOR G EN E RAL FREDERICK FUNSTON. FUNSTON EXPIRES SUDDENLY I to repel "«f attacks. ^ th.ever> The LthhinK u n’a>, navy yards Fatal Stroke of Acute Indigestion Comes at San Antonio. are receiving supplies and being placet! in condition to repair any ship9 that may be damaged and to push to completion the vessels under construction. San Antonio, T ex.— Major General Grain Inquiry Ordered. Frederick Funston, commander o f the Boston— United States District A t Southern department. United States torney George W. Anderson, who is in army, since February, 1915, died sud charge o f a Nation-wide inquiry into denly at a hotel here Monday night, a the high prices o f food and other nec j few minutes a fter he had finished din essaries, announced Tuesday that he ner. He collapsed while seated in the would order a special investigation in lobby o f the hotel talking with friends, to the grain situation at Chicago and and was playing with little Inez Sil- other middle Western cities to deter The French, British and Russian le verberg, o f Des Moines, la., a guest, mine whether conspiracies existed to gations at Athens have published a with her parents, at the hotel, when j raise the price and delay shipments to statement explaining the reasons for he fell unconscious. Death was almost Eastern markets. He also said the General Funston was high prices o f potatoes, beans and the continuation o f the blockade. The instantaneous. chief reason is that the requirements 51 years old. onions are being investigated. Ever since March, 1916, when he o f the entente ultimatum to the Greek government, especially with reference was placed in command o f all United Norway to Get Its Coal. to the delivery o f arms, have not been States forces on the Mexican border, London— A dispatch to Reuter’s General Funston had worked at an un fulfilled completely. usual pace. A t critical times in bor Telegram company from Christiania Contracts for navy projectiles which der developments he frequently re says the special restrictions imposed had been let to Hadfields, Limited, an mained on duty 24 hours o f the day. by Great Britian on the export o f coal English concern, havfe been given to The handling o f regulars disposed at to Norway have been withdrawn, the Midvale Steel company, the Wash various stations on the border, the Per while Norway has stopped licenses for ington Steel & Ordnance company and shing expedition, and o f late, re-ar the export o f pyrites to Germany. the Crucible Steel company. The Brit rangement o f regular troops, while The latter question, which is the main ish government forbid the manufacture providing for the return o f National point o f difference between the two in England o f shells for the United | Guardsmen, have entailed an enor governments, w ill be referred to two States while the war is in progress. mous amount o f detail work, probably eminent lawyers, and should N orway’s American Mormons who attended exceeding that which has fallen to any contention be upheld licenses w ill be the funeral o f the three Mormon vic commanding general o f the United aPain granted. tims o f the Comer Ranch raid last States army since the Civil war. Only Nets Placed at New York Monday returned to El Paso, Tex., Monday General Funston completed New York— A steel net designed to with additional details o f the murder. orders for the return o f the guards protect the Port o f New York from They asserted the bodies had been men. The picturesque and dashing capture hostile submarines and other craft in badly mutilated. Physicians in the party declared the men had been se o f Aguinaldo, the rebel chief, was the the event o f war was put in place at verely tortured before being put to achievement which brought Funston the entrance o f the harbor Monday. prominently to the attention o f the For the present it w ill be kept in po death. American people, but he performed sition only between sunset and sunrise Agents o f the department o f Justice many services for his country besides ! and w ill bar all ships from leaving or arrested in New York Tuesday two that which were probably more diffi- i entering the harbor during the night, men, givin g their names as A lbert S. cult. i In case o f war its construction pro Sander and Charles Wunnenburg, His administration o f affairs in vides for placing it as a permanent charged with violating the Federal law Vera Cruz, where he carried out the barrier. against carrying on a m ilitary en ter-1 President’s orders with a firm hand, prise against a foreign country. They ' simply holding the city when every in 1917 Wool Clip Sells High. are accused o f conspiring to obtain j fluence about him was centered upon Salt Lake City— Contracts fo r nearly m ilitary information in England to be forcing the American army into actual 80 per cent o f the A pril clip o f Utah sent to this country and then forward fighting with the Mexicans, probably wool, which, it is estimated, w ill ed to Germany. was the most notable service o f his amount to 15,000,000 pounds, have been signed and show prices rangng The second daughter o f Senator and career. Two weeks ago General Funston from 30 to 38 cents a pound. The Mrs. Harry Lane, o f Oregon, was mar ried to Dr. S. D. Hicks, o f Norfolk, suffered an attack o f indigestion. To lowest prices were paid for southern use use his own expression, “ I fought wool and the higher prices for north Va., Monday. it"out alone.” Later he placed him ern wool, but, as an average, they A bone-dry prohibition bill was self under the care o f Lieutenant Col represent the highest market ever passed by the South Dakota house late onel M. W. Ireland, o f the medical offered for wool in Utah. Friday by a vote o f 88 to 10. The corps, Southern department, and re gained normal health and spirits. measure now goes to the senate. Family Perishes in Fire. “ For three days,” Colonel Ireland The first party o f children from the said, “ General Funston had been en Lethbridge, Albreta — Six persons occupied portion o f France, numbering tirely w ell.” are believed to have perished in a fire 250, arrived at Roozendall, Holland, which destroyed the home o f Fred Thursday. Their ages ranged from 6 Dase in a lonely district five miles Navy Ready to Strike. to 14 years. They presented a most south o f Taber Saturday. Coroner distressing spectacle, bearing evident Washington, D. C.— Preparedness is Humphries, o f Lethbridge, said that suggestions o f having endured hard the order o f the day and even o f the the bodies o f Dase, his w ife and his ships, and all told stories o f scarcity night in Washington. w ife ’s sister, Mrs. John Tankrantz, o f food. The Navy department is equipping had been recovered from the ruins and ........... * that search was being made for the One hundred and sixty-six Demo bodies o f three children. Big Oil Melon Indicated. crats and Republicans in Indianapolis Sacramento, Cal. — Making an affi have been indicted by the Federal Salvationists' Aid Shown. grand jury charged with conspiracy to davit that their net assets are in ex cess o f their capital by $25,000,000, Chicago — Statistics made public corrupt the 1914 election. the Stadard Oil company o f California here Tuesady by the Salvation Army Principal railroads o f the country has made application to the State covering the entire country for the have taken summary action to relieve Corporation commission to issue $24,- last ten years, show that the army the shortage o f freigh t cars and the 843,300 worth o f stock as a stock divi furnished approximately 34,000,000 traffic congestion at Eastern seaports, dend to the stockholders o f the com beds for indigents, nearly 44,000,000 again approaching the acute stage be pany. A similar stock dividend was meals were provided and 343,418 per cause o f the curtailment o f trans-At declared a year ago. The company sons sent on Summer outings. lantic sailings by Germany’s new sub has 745,300 shares o f stock, worth $7,- More than 30,000 tons o f coal were marine policy. 453,000, now outstanding. given for emergency purposes. Washington E. Lindsey, Republican, o f Portales, Roosevelt county, is now governor o f New Mexico, having been sworn in by Justice Roberts. He succeeds E. C. DeBaca, Democrat, whose death occurred Monday. Mr. Lindsey was elected lieutenant gover nor last November. El Paso, Tex. — Private advices re ceived late Tuesday from Columbus. N. M., said three Mormons were killed Teutons Said to Be With Both by a band of Mexicans which crossed the international boundary 60 mites Carranza and Villa. southwest of Hachita, N. M., and raided the “ Corner Ranch.” Andrew Peterson, another Mormon, was held a prisoner, it was said. 11. S. Stephenson, general manager of the Palomas Land & Cattle com pany, said he had received a re|s>rt from his wagon boss at Hachita that three Americans and seven Mexicans Oil Firlda at Tampico Protected by were captured and 109 American Four Thousand Men In Pay of horses and mules and $1500 worth of supplies taken away. His re|M>rt made Foreigners Railways Cut. no reference to any loss o f life. Two Mexican fam ilies were said to have been forced to accompany the bandits in addition to the Mexican Washington, P. C. German officers ranch hands, according to the tele are serving with the armies o f General gram. Carranza and General Villa in Mexico. Information to this effect has reached Germany Foreign Secretary, the State department. As Carranza W ho Was So “ Astonished” and Villa are enemies, it would seem that the Germans would offset each other. If, however, the anti-Am eri can sentiment should force co-operw- tion by Carranza and Villa the situa : tion German agents desire the Ger man officers would art together in o|M‘rations against the United States. The State department also has been informed that a new revolution ia making headway in Mexico. The Tampico oil fields are "p ro te c te d " by 4000 men, whose chief is well paid by the foreigners owning and prtsluring the oil. This is in addition to the ex- |s>rt tax paid to Carranza. Were the Tampico chief supplied with ammunition, it would lie a com paratively easy matter for him to caji- ture Vera Cruz. He needs cartridges, hut the embargo applied by the United States prevents him from getting than There is another revolutionary force in the state o f Oaxaca which is ar ranging to co-operate with that in the ALFRED Z1M M Ç R M A N Tampico district. I f the junction Alfred Zimmerman, foreign secre takes place Carranza w ill be fared by tary in the German government, who a large liody o f men in addition to sent the note to President Wilson, in V illa's army and the troo|>s under Gen forming him of the fact that Germany eral Zapata. Railroad connection be had broken her submarine pledges of tween Vera Cruz and Mexico City ia last year, was “ astonished” when he frequently cut by the Zapatistas, ami learned that the United States govern it ia no longer safe to go from one ment had taken offense. point to the other. The administration strongly desires A raid on the Nogales ranch, which to avoid being drawn again into Mex is located 40 miles from the border in ico, but it is realized that there ia a Mexico and 100 miles from Hachita, grave danger point which may become N. M., occurred on February 10, ac- i menacing as a result o f activities o f cording to the messenge received here. German agents. The Mormons living in the section were said by a leader o f the Mormon Villa's Voyage it Doubted. church here to be John Pierce, Miles El Paso, Tex. — A report that Villa Pierce, Andrew Peterson," Jr., two had gone in disguise» to the West coast brothers named Jensen and a young and taken a ship for Japan on a |s>li- man named Adams. tical mission has been known to Car ranza officers and officials here and in Juarez for several days, Eduardo Sor Dedication of Interstate Bridge iano Bravo, the Mexican conaul here, Opens Huge Span to Traffic said Sunday night. " V illa has not been accounted for Portland — Hands were stretched since he fled to Parrel after his defeat acrosB the Columbia Wednesday and at Jiminez about six weeks ago,” said “ We have had many re- Oregon and Washington exchanged the consul. congratulations over the completion of |>orts that he was in different places, hut no evidence. However, we are in the interstate bridge. The dedication clined to doubt the story that ho has and opening o f that structure to traffic gone to Japan. It may have been in was the m otif for the celebration in vented to account for his absence. which Governors o f both states, legis His friendliness to the Japanese gov lators, prominent officials and citi ernment gives it plausibility. It is zens joined. believed more likely that he is in hid The new bridge was opened officially ing in the mounatina, either to try to at 12.30. Two little girls pulled a reorganize his hands there, or because bow o f ribbon attached to a rope he is sick or wounded. across the midchannel o f the Columbia “ Salazar is in command in the river. The rope crossed the line be North, but there is a rejsirt that he tween Oregon and Washington. The split with Villa and is acting indpen- pull parted the rope, removing the dently. They were old-time enemies last barrier between the two states until reconciled during the Chihuahua and flags flew from the bridge tow City attack September 16 last.” ers. A cannon from the Washington Mr. Soriano Bravo said he heard the shore boomed out a loud salute and the raid on the Corner Ranch was used by structure opened for the use of every Salazar as a diversion in order to one. amuggle ammunition over the border. NEW REVOLUTION IS GAINING COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS A severe snowstorm which was gen eral in Utah Monday, coupled with a shortage o f hay, caused a damage of approximately $50,000 to the sheep and cattle industry, according to re ports. Bandits Kill 3 Mormons and Drive Away Horses and Mules. GERMANS SERVE IN MEXICAN ARMIES Treasury Deficit $333,400,000. 000 , 000 . Eight-Hour Bills Introduced. Washington, D. C. Senator Robin son, o f Arkansas, and Representative Keating, o f Colorado, Monday intro duced identical hills to prohibit inter state shipment o f goods made in whole or in part by women employed more than eight hours a day or moro than six days a week. The bills, drawn on the lines o f the Federal child labor law, would nation alize conditiona for American working women. Work o f Relief to Continue. New York — More than 10,000,000 persons who have been fed through the efforts o f the American commission for relief in Belgium will suffer no im mediate hardship from the withdrawal o f the American commission from par ticipation in this work in Belgium and Northern France, caused by the Ger man authorities. Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the commission has plans under way for transfering this relief to another neutral organisation. New Ruler is Demanded. London The speaker in the house o f commons, the Right Honorable James William Is>wther, declared here Monday night it wbh impossible for British statesmen to make any agree ment with the German government as now constituted. It would tie neces sary before signing pears or any agreement, he said, to insist that it must he with a government different In essence and constitution from the present one. Washington, D. C. — A treasury deficit of $333,400,000 at the end of the next fiscal year is forecast in a report submitted Wednesday by the senate finance committee, recommend ing that the administration revenue bill be amended to authorize a bond is sue o f $195,256,000 instead o f $100,- 000,000, and that the authoritization fo r certificates of indebtedness be made $500,000,000 instead of $300,-