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DAILY EDITION ;n rr; Vol VIII., Km ni. QfUlfTI PAM, JO0EPHINB COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DM KMlJfcU 2. 1017 UHOU: Nl'MltEH 241. EARTHQUAKE GENERAL IN GUATEMALA PART OK (U'ATKMALA CITY IM DKMTIUIYKD AND TIKM HAMiH MADE HOMKLRHM ALL wfERICAREPORTED SAFE Xum of life I KatimMwl Ml From 10 to 40 In Ui till Mm ITin party Ihunag Washington, Dec. 28. At 6 o'clock last night tbe ' earthquake which destroyed a pari of Ouauma la City waa continuing. Thousands of uaoul art without shelter. It U tatad that all Americana art safe . Waahington. Dec. 2H,An earth quake, general throuihout Ouate Biala yesterday rained a lose of from 10 to 40 Uvea and xtenlv property daman In Uuatimsla City, the state department waa advised late today In rable dispatch from the Ameri can chars there. , No mention waa made aa to dam tie In th Interior. 1 OF SITUATION FOR DAY Oenaany'a twma .for a . . general peac and tb suggestion that th entente allies Join In the Ruitao-Ger-man peac conference, have brought no Immediate response, the attitude of the fulled State remaining un changed. It la felt that the present German promise of no annexations and Indemnities are Inslniere, .. A reces In the peace negotiations lias been taken until January 4, whan thev will be resumed . at Is said to b preparing a new appeal to the entente allies to Join the con terence. Amsterdam dispatches say that King Ferdinand of nulgarla holds different views on annexatlona from those expressed by Count Cxernln, who apparently la the German mouthpiece. The king say that nul garla will hold what she has won, which will be forcible annexation, i Being repulsed northeast ot Ver dun the Germans have ceased their tlllery Is intenseshnll cmfw vbgkqj Infantry effort In this section for the present. On the Italian Tront, especially In th Aslago plateau region, the Teu ton artillery fire Is Intense, and Is believed to be the beginning . of other attempts to break the Italian line In this section. German bombs and shells have brought death to three more Ameri can soldiers In France. Ill SECOND PLACE Portland. Dec. 28. By a bare .margin ot one per cent Morrow coun ty Jostled Umatilla county out of tlrst plan In the Hed Cross drive. This morning Morrow county has .a is memberships, exceeding Its -quota by 518, with a percentage of 133,'aithough Umatilla county 1ms 10.000 members, ' ' Klamath,. Grant and Baker comi ties now nave over 100 per cent. The Elks lodge takes chnrg.e of the Portland campaign on New "Years eve,1 promising 25.000 mem bers. : The Elks' committees are now ttieetlns continuously and promise three bands and R thousand worker ort tho streets, restaurants, cafes erllla and theatres. ; Portlnnd now stands 67,968; the atate outside of Portland, 124,149; total for th state, 192,115. U.S. m SUIT HIST ES PEE (kivr-nimwit Horka to tjulrt Till l Tlir Million Ariv of California Orriton lii(l (irttnt Portland, Dec. 28. Bull to quiet title to I,73,l acra of Oregon- California grant land waa filed ye Urday In the federal court by the government against th Southern Pacific compnr. Tb government, through th suit, aeeka to quiet title to all landa the company held prior to the forfeiture ault and to compel It to account for mony cured by alleged Illegal aalea where purchaser bought more than 10 acrea or paid more than 11.50 per acre. Under th rerrla-Cbamberlaln re ratmnt bill, pawed laat year by con re. tb government agred to pay th railroad company 81.50 for ach r-vestd crea In th govern ment. Tbla would amount to almost IS.000,000. It waa provided, how ver. (hat th money received In ex cess of I I.JO an arr by th railroad arr In ha deducted ' from thai amount, with taiea and other ex uiiim Thru bav brought th amount du th railroad company down to 11,451,850, according to th complaint. VIHHT FEMALE JVRY FREEH WOMAN OH AS8AILT CHAROH Poplar, Mont.,; Dec. 28 What la believed to hav been th first Jury composed entfrely of women ever empaneled In tbla - state recently trld a woman on a charge of assault ing a man, and found her not guilty Mr. Georg Craig 'waa alleged hav met C T.. Dickey In a bank here and bloodied his nos In an alter ration following aa unsuccessful ault she bad brought to recover rompen satlon for nursing. Ill CABIN OF SPY I.os Angeles, Dec 2N. A cabin declared by sheriff's deputies to have been a hiding place of Fran Schu lenberg, alleged master German spy, under arrest In 8s u Francisco, was found by them last night In the San Gabriel canyon, GO mllea northeast of this city. Fifty pounds of dyna mite with fuse and caps, were dis covered within the cabin. ,l i., KILLING COMPETITION Boston, Dec. 28. John Glennie a witness In the packing business hearing charged the packers with establishing big meat stores In var Ions cities In order to drive the re tailer from the business. AMRAMHADOK TO Tl'ItKKY WILL AlHMtKHS SEATTLE , Seattle. Dec. 28. Abraham El kus, . United States ambassador Turkey, will visit Seattle, January to under the auspices ot the American Jewish war relief fund and will de liver an address on "Conditions the War Zone." OF DYNAMITE . FBilt'Cl Rockford, 111., Dec. 28. DIbcov- ery of a stick of dynamite In a car of conl .billed from a southern Jndl i nn mine to the Rockford City hos 1 Ital, combined with a furnace ex plosion that' wrecked the bungalow of Wlllam A. Ogden, resulted Jn an 'nvestlgntlon being launched tonight tiy federal ofilclnls and precautions to protect Camp Grant from any pos sible plot. , 'ILL FIGHT REGARDLESS OE KANC K CANNOT Att'Klf TERMS IIA8KR OX CO.VDITiONM UB- FORE THE WAIt DEMANDS ALSACE AMD LOFtAIHE (juration of Frcwh IYuvlnc Rot Territorial, llut Moral ProW, Declare Foreign Minister ' Paris, Deo. J8. Expressions by responsible member, of tbe entente government are beginning to Indi cate the trend of offlilal opinion on German terma for general peace Stephen Ptchon, foreign minister of Franc, waa explicit In bl state meat to tb chamber of deputies. declaring that Franc could 'not ac cept a peace based on conditions be fore tb war and would go on fight ing regardlesa of Russia. The ques tion of Alsace and Lorraine, th res toration of which Franc demand, a a world quest toe and la not a ter? rltorlal but moral problem, he de clared. . t ACHiEVEr.'EfJT OF AIM NECESSARY TO PEACE London, Dec. 28. Lloyd , Georg today declared that th achievement ot the purpose for which the allies are fighting la essential to future freedom and peace of mankind. This he remarked is the British reply to the German peace offer. PRKSIDKXT WH.SOV CKIKHR VTKS UlltTHDAY Washington, Dec. 28. Coincident with the taking over of the railroads President Wilson is celebrating his 61st birthday today. TO French Front. Dec. 28. German soldiers from some of the towns ot Prussia are sent to the front under armed guards "as criminals are led to the executioner," says a letter found on a dead German soldier, who was killed In a recent battle on the French front. The writer had given a vivid description o fthe scene at the departure of a detachment of reinforcements from Saarlouts, town In Rhenish, Prussia. The re cruits were Intended to fill the gaps in a battalion which had suffered heavy losses. The writer says: "The first battalion la ordered to furnish a reinforcement detachment of 99 men. To escort them to the Saarlouts station 300 men have been ordered out, some of them with arms to march alongside the men going off and other to act as pickets on the way to the station. .The men were all ready In the afternoon and had to wait some time for another squad of comrades from the first company of. convalescents, who eventually arrived. ,'What a scene! - Ahead marched a squad of guards and to right and left of each file two armed guards, while: another , squad of guards brought up the rear to guard, these German soldiersour brave soldiers in field-gray . who, according to the mngniricently phrased stories of the newspapers, dash forward full ot Joy and sustained by love of Fatherland to destroy our enemies. . "The detachment moved off with band playing a march. The guards were so numerous that there wait (Continued on pag I.) RUSSIA RAILROADS IN SERVICE Of. GOVERNMENT GOVERNOR tiENEKAL DRAFTING RAILROAD WAR HOARD TO ASSIST IX DIRECTION INCREASING OF FREIGHT RATES Knilway Official and Employe to Receive Rank a Though Serving In Regular Army Waahington, Dec. 28. A a first step In the government' operation of the railroad which began at noon today. Director General McAdoo drafted a railroad war board Into th government servlc to work out plans of unified operation and to submit them to him for approval Tb war board will probably eon tlau a an operating body In charge of th railroads assisted try It no merous committee throughout tb country. Portland, Dec. 28 Here are some of th effect to be felt Immediately from federal government possession and operation of the railway In Ore gon and Waahington, In common with those of all other slates for the period of the war: Suspension of established rules and regulations of the Interstate commerce commission and of th stat commissions governing demur rage charge on car held in deten tton and substitution ot military or ders requiring Immediate loading of cars by shippers and unloading by receivers of freight Pooling of car of all transporta tion linea and routing shipments by most direct routes, tending spaedlly to terminate shortage of equipment Operation of all lines as Integral parts of one system. Elimination of conflicts over prl orlty of shipments for war purposes and standardising of regulations pertaining to such movements. , Complete embargo of freight movements not essential to the suc cessful prosecution of the war. Reduction ot passenger train ser vice between Portland and Puet sound by requiring three trains to perform the service now using nine trains, cutting out duplication 1 or Portland-Spokane trains and other servlc for passengers where power, fuel and men can be conserved. Termination ot competitive solicit ing ot traffic, closing offices of gen eral agents and turning the services of men so released to general traf fic offices and at Junctions and ter mlnals where there is a shortage of men called away by war duty. ; Increased freight rates as a means toward making effective government guarantees for profitable return on railroad Investments. Ultimately subjecting all railway officials and employes to military regulations and preventing any strike by trainmen who are demand ing 40 per cent increase in wage scales. , "!- i investing ail railway omciais wnn military titles and employes' with the rank of non-commissioned offi cers as In the regular army. ( 4 r w D Petrograd, Dec. 28. Soldiers act ing under orders of the finance com missioner MenBhlnsky today sur rounded and seized all the- private banks In Petrograd.) Including a branch of the National City bank of New York. The manager, R. R. Stevens, was arrested and detained for a short time when he refused to surrender the keys of th3 Institution. RDSEBURG HAS SPY SUSPECT Ux-al fainter and VUltlag ItnHher Arretted for Taking PMure In Cow Creek Canyon Roseborg, Dec. 28. Karl tub man, a local painter, and bis broth er, Fred, of San Francisco, ar held s spy suspect on account of their taking picture in Cow Creek can yon, it la alleged. Karl Lunman is property owner her and ha a family, , , FORK8T FIRE BURNS TWO ' ' MONTHS BKFORE DISCOVERT !!. 1 - i ,. .. "1 Spoken. Dec 28. That a forest Br burned for two month laat summer la northern Idaho, starting July 8 from lightning, was tb dec laration ot Chief Fire Warden Cha. Flacher ot Oroflno, In bis report to tb Clearwater Timber Protective association. It was located la a deep canyon, he said, and th heavy vege tation and foliage held It In check for that period before a lookout sighted It IIKLIKYE KKRKN8KY IS TORMING KKW GOVERNMENT Seattle. Deo. . 28. Nicholas Bog lokaveasky, Russian consul at. Seat tle, announced here that he ha re ceived a cable sent by way of India telling of the. establishment of a new Russian government at Xoronege, the capital of a province of the same name, between Moscow and Rostov, on the Axov sea. . The cable did not say who led in the formation ot th government; the consul asserted. He said be be lieved the leaders in the movement ar member ot.th Kernsky provin cial government who have fled from Petrograd. DV IIIUIUJLHLU Ul RETREATING TURKS Sew York. Dec. 28. Thirty Jew Ish men and women were executed by the Turkish army that surren dered Jerusalem to General Allenby December 10, according to an an nouncement made here today by the provisional executive committee for general Zionist affairs. Included In the number massacred were aome ot the leading residents of the holy City. v , : -,...,.),.:-', ' The father and a sister ot Aaron Aaronsohn, head of the Palestine ag ricultural experiment station, which is subsidised by the United States department of Agriculture, were among the victims, according to the announcement. - Mr. Aaronsohn is now In Washington. The retreat of the Turks through Galilee drove 12,000 Jewish surviv ors northward, where they are In dire need. Th committee has un dertaken to furnish a minimum of 130,000 monthly for their relief, It was said. E Los Angeles. Dec. 28. Joan Knox, arrested in connection with the killing of Herman Jakopalch in a remote part or San Gabriel canyon gave the authorities the identity of the mysterious "H," the alleged German woman agent, According to the sheriff the woman is a German whose husband lives at a mountain camp. The prisoner gave her name and the officers are now making a thorough search for her. . Knox was arrested In the moun tains near a cabin believed to be long to Schunlberg, the alleged mas ter spy. who Is now held at Sun Francisco. The quarrel resulting In Jakopalch's death Is said to have resulted from trouble with Knox over the "H" woman who frequent ly visited them. OREGON HAS ran ARK PLOT MILLS AS It WARKHOISKS ARB MARKKD FOB DF.STRIXTIOJI BY rLOTTERi CJLITON FIRE IS lEB Fir Marshal Deputies Discover Ex plosive and Evkfeace of Whol sU Plot Salem, Dec. 28. Upon conclusion ioday of a preliminary Investigation of an explosion and Br which des troyed a grata tlevator at Carlton early last 8nnday, Harvey Well state fire marshal, declared h waa convinced tb destruction was th , result of a concerted plot to burs grain warehouses and mill In a number of Willamette valley town. Federal authorities have been noti fied. Mr. Wells said. , Two letter in tb pocket, of a man's coat apparently an oy onw of th firebugs, hav particulars of th plot to set this and other fir. Th damage by th Carlton nn waa upward of $20,000. 8alem, Dec. 28. State Fir Mar shal Wells and hi deputies, follow- Ing last Sunday morning of th Johnson grain elevator at Carlton, have obtained evidence which Indi cates a concerted plot to destroy mills and warehouse from Gaston to Sheridan and from there to Salem. In another warehouse at Carlton discovery was mad of a man's coat, practically new, in . which were . 50 feet of fuse , and in tbe Immediate vicinity discovery was made of dyna mite and nitroglycerin. Two letter found in a wallet in the coat which have been turned over to authoritle disclose the skeletonised details ot a plan for leaving a trail ot smoke and ruin through the central section of the Willamette valley. These let ters are addressed to a man in Port land, for whom Immediate search will be made. They mention th fact that numerous warehouses ar located in the valley and intimate that they offer easy prey. State Fire Marshal Wells has a theory that an effort waa planned to burn all of the mill In that vicinity at one time and bewilder the resi dents of the llttl town by starting all the biases posslhle. 4 CLAIMS .WOODEN SHIP.. PROGRAM NEAR FADjt'RE- Washington, Dec. 28. The wood en ship building program has been pictured as almost complete failure by Rear: Admiral F A. Bowles, as slsunt general ..manager, of the em ergency fleet corporation, testifying at the senate investigation commit tee. He was also somewhat Inclin ed to criticise the government's terms for tbe building ot steel ves sels, claiming the allowing of too high profits. . ' (.i e.,.. 1 i:. ' : . ' Spokane,-Wash., Dec. 28 It costs the city of . Spokane 28 cents each for Jobs furnished free to men and women of the vicinity, according to the monthly report of the municipal agent tor November, recently sub mitted to the city council, a total of 1,795 places were filled during the month, the report shows. HOOVER IN N Y. WHEN CALLED BY COMMITTEE. Washington, Dec. 28. When the I senate committee called Hoover to testify in the sugar investigation he was in New York. A letter says he was called there though notified "through the press" that he was to testify.