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MEXICAN BANDITS Doings of State Legislators
CROSS BOUNDARY
Big Shipyard Started.
Petition Fraud Measure
High Schools Military Training
Tacoma.— Actual constructloa on
is Passed by Senate what
Bill Passes Lower House
will be Tacoma’s biggest ship
Salem Military training in th* high
•choola o f the state in authorized In
Villista Raiders are Immediately Representative Crandall’s bill which
wss passed by the house Saturday with
Pursued by U. S. Troopers.
a big affirmative vote.
Th* m ilitary course is not to be
compulsory, however, or part either of
schools or o f students.
It is to lie
subject, though, o f suitable credit on
the same basis as other studies and in
an amount to be determined by the
board o f education.
The governor is made head o f the
r r w t u t lo n ir ; Mraaurca Taken A p i i u t
m ilitary training department.
All
Salazar'« Threat to Repeat Bor
schools that establish it must apply to
him for authority.
No company of
der Umida Chine*«- Killed.
cadets ran lie organized with fewer
than 20 members or without s suitable
instructor.
A t leant three hours a
Washington, D. C. — The War de week are to be set aside for the work.
The state is authorized, too, to fur
partment made public Saturday tho
following rt*|M>rt from Colonel T a g nish the several companies with rifles
ind other equipment.
gart, commanding Fort Ringgold:
“ Lieutenant Ayre«, Florida trop« at
Iai|tenH, reports that Friday night
$181,300 Cut From Fair.
«tight ImnditH creased into the United
Salem — The joint ways and means
StatoM at Sob-dad ranch, 15 miles north
o f El Tigre Arroya.
One man and committee operated on the requests of
aoven horse« wi-ro capture«!.
Seven the State Fair board has cut out $183,-
ImnditH on foot in the brush are being 500, but added $2500 on two items.
Estimates o f $125,000 for a coli
chaaed by troop«. ”
seum and $40,000 for a woman’s build
llachita, N. M. I lieutenant (Colonel ing were eliminated entirely. A total
J, C. Waterman, commamiing the o f $35,000 waa granted for premiums
ilarh ita district, aent orders to hia aaked. The committee at first tenta
trtaipe Friday to maintain day ami tively decided to allow $30,000 for
night patrola along the border instead that purjioae, but on the plea o f Repre
sentative W. Al Jones, ex-secretary o f
o f day patrola aa heretofore.
At the name time unofficial reporta the fair, it was increased to $35,000.
were received here that all o f tho cav A request o f $2500 for a fire barn ap
alry regimenta on the border from El paratus was disallowed, and $1000 was
I’aao to I)ouglaa, A riz., had been in- cut from $800 asked for fencing.
atructcd to Kolii thenuo-lvea in readi-
To a $2000 request for water supply,
neaa to move immeiliately on inatruc- $2000 was added to connect with city
tiona from General Funaton.
Theae water mains and $500 waa added to a
preparationa were believed to be pre $2000 request for more toilet fa cil
cautionary againat Salazar’« threat of ities.
The committee also reconsidered its
another raid.
Two troop* o f regular cavalry have action o f early in the session, doing
reinforced the border patrol and two away with agricultural assistants to
more were to leave for the bonier im the Superintendent o f Public instruc
mediately. Theae troop«, according to tion, who handle children's industrial
Lieutenant Colonel Waterman, are for club work, and granted $8000 out of
patrol duty only and have no order« to the $12,000.
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goMnto Mexico.
BORDER PATROL IS DOUBLED
Juarez- Five more Chinese were
murdered at Madera, Chihuahua, when
Julio Acosta, a Villa
commander,
raided that town on February 8, ac-
eordirig to a meaaago received here
by a relative o f the Chinese. The
Villa
followers raided the Madera
«tore« and carried off much loot, the
rneaaage added.
England Broadens Danger Zone;
Warnings Given All Neutrals
Washington, I). C. — Notice o f a
dangerous area in the North Sea be
cause o f operations against Germany
has been given by the British admiral
ty. A copy o f tho notice, dated Feb
ruary 13, was received at the State de
partment Friday.
It warns shipping that after Febru
ary 7 a prescribed area, including all
waters off Germany and parts o f Hol
land and Denmark, w ill be dangerous
and should be avoided.
The new notice says:
“ In view o f the unrestricted warfare
carried on by Germany at sea by
means o f mines and submarines, not
only against the allied powers, but al
so against neutral shipping, and the
fact that merchant ships are constant
ly sunk without regard to the ultimate
safety o f their crews, His M ajesty’s
government gives notice that on and
after February 7, 1917, the mentioned
area in the North Sea w ill be rendered
dangerous to all shipping by operations
against the enemy and it should there
fore be avoided. ”
Germans Smash French Lines.
Berlin Troops o f the German Crown
Prince, in an attack against French
positions south o f Ripont,
in the
Champagne, Friday, the War office an
nounced, on a front o f about a mile and
a half, captured ground to a depth o f a
half a mile.
The Germans took 858
prisoners, including 21 officers.
The attack, which was peceded by
intense artillery fire, was made main
ly against French jaisitions at Maisons
de Champagne and hill 185, about one-
third o f a mile south o f the farm.
Four lines o f French positions were
stormed in the attack.
The French made counter attacks in
the night and morning, but were re
pulsed with losses. The German loss
es are said to have been small.
Y outh H o ld s U p Banker,
Lincoln, Neb. — A stranger strolled
leisurely into the First National Bank
at University Place, a Lincoln suburb,
Saturday at noon. There was no one
^n the bank but the president. The
young man, about 23 years old, flashed
a revolver in the officer’s face and
o rd er«! him to retreat to the vault.
A fte r locking him in the vault, the
robber picked up $2500 in currency,
Bcorning a large amount o f silver and
gold, and made his escape.
' Salem— Important safeguards o f the
honesty o f initiative petitions are con
ta in «! in a measure by Representative
Herbert Gordon, that passed the senate
by unanimous vote Friday. It had pre-
vioualy passed the house.
It w ill virtually restrict the signa
ture on initiative petitions to those o f
registered voters, thus doing away
with wholesale signature« by “ float-
era that have been so prolific a source
o f fraud in the past.
A t the same time the bill does not
take away the right o f legal voters
who are not registered to sign peti
tions. Before they can sign the peti
tions, however, they must make oath
to their qualifications before a notary
public. A ll signature« must be checked
up by the county clerk.
Still another important provision of
the bill w ill tend to prevent the plac
ing o f misleading or deceptive ballot
titles on initiative measures.
A ll
measures proposed under the initia
tive, the measure provides, must be
sent to the attorney general before
they can be circulated. He is directed
by the law to prepare the title.
Should the attorney general’s title
not please the framers o f the measure
they have the recourse o f appealing
within 20 days to the Circuit court.
Amendments to Go On Ballot.
WILSON PREPARING
10 TAKE ACTION
building industry began Tuaaday,
when about 50 men ware put to work
by the Tacoma Dredging company at Wilful Hostilities by Submarine
the diking for the proposed 1,<00 foot
fill along tho Hyleboe creek waterway,
May Not Be Awaited.
upon which the Todd Shipbuilding
company will ultimately build the
most modern and complete yard In
the northwest. A construction office
has been erected at the site.
Many carloads of brush are being
brought to the sit* o f the dike, and
two great plledrlver* are at work plac
ing the piles which will form the re
taining walls. Brush and rock will be Accumulation o f Minor Violations o f
dumped behind the piling, and behind
American Rights by Germany
this foundation the silt from the bot
tom of Hylsbos creak will be placed
May Be Basis for Start.
by a big suction dredge, which will be
placed at work aa soon as sufficient
diking has been constructed, probably
In about 10 days.
Washington, D. C.—Th e steady ac
cumulation of violations o f American
rights by Germany made It appear pos
Jap Warshlps^Visit,
sible Wednesday that President W il
Tacoma.— Mystery surroundlag the ton would go before congress to ask
reported arrival o f two Japanese cruis authority for further protecting lives
er« In the Straits of Juan de Fuca Feb and property without waiting for a
ruary 5 was cleared up Thursday with serious disaster which might shock
the arrival in Tacoma o f a party of the country.
There were no Indications .however,
nine officers of the Japanese cruiser
Iwate, which, with the cruisers Idzuma that he believed the time for such a
and Nlahin o f Admiral Y. Takashlta’s step had come, and it again was said
squadron are at Esquimalt, and said authoritatively that he would move de
to be coaling at that port News of liberately and with full appreciation
the arrival of the mem Tiers of the Im of all the consequences involved.
Official reports of the sinking of the
perial Japanese navy was closely
American schooner Lyman M. Law in
guarded by th» Canadian censor.
It is reported that the cruisers the Mediterranean by an Austrian sub
brought $10,000,000 in gold to the Ca marine added only slightly to the ten
nadian government aa a loan, but no sion, for while the act Is believed to
confirmation of this statement could have been illegal, no lives were lost
be gotten from the Japanese officers. and the vessel apparently was warned.
The Incident was not looked upon as
one itself sufficient to hurry the de
American Vessel 8unk.
Rome.— The American schooner L y velopment of the situation.
Preliminary reports began coming
man M. Law was sunk February 12 off
the coast of Sardanla by a hostile sub to government departments showing
marine, says a Stefan! dispatch from the piling up about the Atlantic sea
Cagliari, Sardinia.
The vessel was board of goods destined for export to
loaded with agricultural machinery, European ports. No serious effect
the dispatch adds. The crew of 10, of from this condition w ill be felt, how
which eight were Americans, says the ever, until lapse of sufficient time for
message, have been landed at Cagliari. ships to have gone to Europe and re
turn.
W hile only approximately 10 per
Motorshlp Leaves SL Helena
SL Helens, Or.— The motorshlp S. I. cent of American commerce with Eu
Allard, launched at the SL Helenr rope Is carried on American ships, the
Shipbuilding company's yards last sailings of vessels of other nationali
month, left Thursday for Astoria, be ties in many instances have either
ing towed by a tug. A t Astoria there been cancelled or postponed, and there
will be about 10 days' work before the fore the result of the ruthles subma
vessel w ill be ready to be towed to rine campaign in time w ill result In
San Francisco, where engine* w ill be far-reaching disturbance o f the Indus
trial life of the United State*.
Installed,
Salem— A t least two and possibly
four or five constitutional amendments
and other proposals will be submitted
by this legislature to the people at an
election in November, 1918.
Representative Sheldon’s joint reso
lution proposing the establishment o f
a normal school at Ashland and an
other somewhere in Eastern Oregon
has been adopted in both houses and
w ill go on the ballot. It carries a spe
cial tax levy o f 1-25 o f a mill fo r the
support o f each school.
The location o f the Eastern Oregon
school is to be le ft in the hands o f the
board o f normal school regents, but if
the institution is not established at
Weston, where the state owns prop
erty, it must be established on a site
donated to the state. It is understood
May Tax for^Rose Festival.
that many Eastern Oregon communi
Salem— Future Rose Festivals in ties are ready to give the necessary
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Portland may be financed by direct sites.
taxation on the people o f Multnomah
Steamship Goes Aground.
Teachers’ Bill Passes.
county.
Bellingham, Wash.— The steamship
This method is made possible by the
Salem— Senator Orton’s bill amend Wlndber o f the Pacific American Fish
provisions o f Senator Moser's bill al ing the teachers’ tenure o f office law, eries, went on Starr Rock here W ed
ready passtal by the senate, which applying to the schools o f Portland, nesday at 11 o ’clock, while backing
went through the house Wednesday was passed by the house Friday with into position at a lumber mill dock.
afternoon.
45 affirmative votes.
It already had The steamship Norwood and tugs at
tempted to pull the vessel o ff but
The bill empowers the commission passed the senate.
failed.
ers o f Multnoinath county, “ at their
The bill is one over which the teach
discretion,’ ’ to levy a tax o f 16-100 of ers in the Portland schools themselves
mill, the proceeds to be placed in a have been divided. Some o f them fa
separate fund and extended only for vored it. Others wanted the law left
Rose Festival purposes.
the way it is. The school board, ap
Representative Mann, who handled parently, is opposed to it.
Portland— Wheat— Bluestem, $1.55
the bill on the floor o f the house, ex
The prcincipal provision in the bill per bushel; fortyfold, $1.52; club,
plained that at this rate o f taxation places the cases o f teachers subject for j $1.51; red Russian, $1.48.
approximately $40,000 would be avail- dismissal from the service in the hands | M illfeed— Spot prices: Bran, $26.50
abie annually.
o f an independent board appointed at | per ton; shorts, $30.50; rolled barley,
The law prescribes that evey Festi the beginning o f each year by the | $42@43.
val must be “ free for the use o f all presiding judge o f the Circuit court.
H a y — Producers’ prices: Timothy,
inhabitants o f the county where it is This board is empowered to conduct Eastern Oregon, $19@20 per ton; val
held.”
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investigations and make decisions. ley, $15@16; alfalfa, $14@16; valley
The votes o f two commissioners will grain hay, $12.50@14.
Modified Cigarette Bill Passes.
be final in every case.
Butter — Cubes, extras, 87c per
pound; prime firsts, 37c; firsts, S6c;
Salem — A “ safe and sane’ ’ anti
dairy, 30c. Jobbing prices:
Prints,
New Tax Law Notice.
cigarette bill was passed by the house
extras,
39c;
cartons,
le extra;
late Monday and probably w ill go
Salem — Representative Forbes, o f
through the senate and become the law Deschutes county, won a decisive vic butterfat, No. 1, 43c; No. 2, 41c,
Portland.
of the state.
tory in the house Friday when he ob
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re
The bill is sort o f a compromise be tained adoption o f his amendments to
ceipts, 32c per doxen;
candled, 33
tween the Sweeney bone-dry bill and the delinquent tax list bill.
@32c;
selects,
34c.
the conservative Stott bill, both of
The Forbes plan provides for a for
Poultry— Hens, heavy, 18@20c per
which were passed by the house last mal notice by mail 90 days a fter the
pound;
light, 18@20c; springs, 17
week, later recalled and tabled.
taxes become delinquent, and news
The bill passed is a redraft o f the paper publication o f those who remain 19c; turkeys, live, 20@21c; dressed,
Sweeney bill. It strictly prohibits the delinquent 30 days after the notices 25@28c; ducks, 20@22c; geese, 12
@13c.
sale of cigarettes to youths under 21 are sent out.
V eal— Fancy, 14i@15c per pound.
years o f age and makes it a misde
In Multnomah county notices are to
Pork— Fancy, 15@15$c per pound.
meanor for a minor to smoke ciga be published in only two newspapers
Vegetables— Artichokes, $1.00@1.20
rettes and provides heavy penalties for with a circulation o f at least 10,000
per dozen; tomatoes, $6.00@7.50 per
violation.
copies each, while in the outside coun
crate; cabbage, $5 per
hundred;
ties publication is to be made in pa
eggplant, 25c per pound; lettuce, $2.35
Auto Tax Doubled.
pers selected by the commissioners.
@3.60 per box; cucumbers, $1.50@
Salem— Licenses on automobiles and The bill went back to the senate for 1.75 per dozen; celery, $5.50 per crate;
automobile trucks are to be doubled concurrence, and in this form probably cauliflower,
$2.50@2.60;
peppers,
under provisions o f a bill passed by w ill become a law.
30c per pound;
sack vegetables,
the house Tuesday and the proceeds
$1.26 per sack; sprouts, 12Jc per
Tax Bill is Passed.
w ill be applied to the state highway
pound; rhubarb, 1 0 @ llc.
fund for distribution in counties out
Potatoes — Oregon buying prices,
Salem— Assessors o f Western Ore
side Multnomath.
gon counties in which the lands o f the $8.00 per hundred; sweets, $4.
This bill is a part o f the legislative Oregon & California land grant are
Onions— Oregon buying prices, $7.50
road program; was prepared by the situated are instructed, under terms o f per sack, country points.
joint house and senate committee on a bill passed by the house this week,
Green Fruits — Apples, 75e@$2.25
roads and highways, and is a compan to restore the property to the assess per box; pears, $1.75@2.50; cranber
ion to the general road code put ment rolls, regardless o f the effects, ries, $10@11 per barrel.
through the house last week.
Hops— 1916 crop, 5@9c per pound;
pending legislation on the subject.
It is expected to raise approximately
The bill was introduced by Repre 1917 contracts, 1 0 @ llc.
$280,000 in cash next year and to in sentative Bean, who presented its pro
W ool— Eastern Oregon, fine, 28@33c
crease from year to year.
per pound; coarse,’ 33@36e; valley, 33
visions on the floor.
The object o f the bill, as explained @41c; mohair, nominal.
Cattle— Steers, prime, $8.50@9.25;
by
Mr. Bean, is to declare forever the
Tax Board's Budget is Cut.
sovereign right o f the state to tax fa ir to good, $7.00@8.00; medium,
Salem — The joint ways and means these lands.
$6.50 @ 6.75; cows, choice, $7.35@
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committee has granted the State Labor
7.76; medium to good, $6.50@7.00; or
commissioner $10,000 o f his $11,000 T o Reduce C o s t o f Printing.
dinary to fair, $6.75@6.26; heifers,
request; gave the Industrial W elfare
Salem — Representative Burdick’s $5.00 @ 8 .0 0 ;
bulls,
$3.76 @ 6.00;
commisaion and Board o f Child Labor bill designed to reduce the cost o f calves, $3.00@9.00.
inspectors $6000 between them, with printing the Oregon Supreme court
Hogs — Ligh t and heavy packing,
the understanding that i f the commis reports was passed by the house. It $U.60@12.36; rough heavy, $9.85@
sions are merged the total o f the two places the printing in the hands o f the 10.00; pigs and skips, $9.36@10.00;
appropriations w ill go to the one com Supreme court itself and prohibits any stock hogs, $8.6009.00.
mission. The State Tax commission member or employe from having any
Sheep— Yearling wethera, $10.250
personal interest in th* work.
was cut from $30,000 to $16,000.
10.71; lambs, $10. 00011.70.
NEW MOVE WILL BE DELIBERATE
Warning Against Fast Spreading
Revolt in Cuba Sent by Lansing
Washington, D. C.— Report* telling
o f the spread of the Liberal revolt in
Cuba aroused such apprehension here
Wednesday that Secretary Lansing
cabled a second warning to the people
of the republic that the United States
would not regard as legal any govern
ment set up by violence. The mee-
sage went to Minister Gonzales at Ha
vana and to every American consul to
be circulated all over the island.
Mr. Lansing pointed out the respon
sibility of the United States in con
nection with Cuba and intimated clear-
ly that revolution was not to be toler
ated.
Minister Gonzales' report* of the
growth of the revolt were submitted
by the state department to the secre
taries of war and navy as promptly as
they were received. In neither of the
m ilitary departments was there Indi
cation that any warlike move was be
ing prepared in connection with the
situation, but because of the experi
ence gained in two previous interven
tions, military operations could be in
augurated in brief time without much
renewed study of plans.
Secretary Baker announced that
with the approval of the president a
deal had been closed for the sale of
10,000 army rifles and 2,000,000 rounds
of ammunition to the Cuban govern
ment. Negotiations for the purchase
had been in progress fo r several
months. __________________
China May Join Entente.
Toklo.— In connection with the Jap
anese approval, now confirmed, of
China's action in supporting the atti
tude of the United States towafd Ger
many on the submarine question, it Is
further stated that Japan has promised
China all possible support. Including
the maintenance of order In China,
where German Influence is consider
able.
China's protest to Germany,
says the Japan Times, may be taken
as a prelude to China’s eventual parti
cipation in the war on the side o f the
entente. Japan’s special rights and
interests in the Far East have been
affirmed by the entente.
Count Bernstorff Sails.
Hoboken, N. J.— Count J. H. von
Bernstorff, ex-German ambassador to
the United States, sailed for home
Wednesday aboard the Scandinavlan-
Amerlcan liner Frederick VIII. With
him was the Countess von Bernstorff,
besides nearly 200 German diplomatic
and consular officials. The departure,
which completes the severance o f dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Germany, was marred by
no untoward Incident.
Farm Loan Warning Out.
Washington, D. C.—The federal farm
loan board has Issued a warning to
farmers against persons reported to
be organizing farm loan associations
for the sake o f private profits.