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DAILY EDITION VOU VIII., No. 107. 0 RANTS fAM, JOSEPHIM OOCRTT. ORBOON, HINDU', KKIIIU AHY f. 1IM. WHOLK NUMBER 2M. RUSSIA STILL FLIRTS WITH GERMAN PEACE MKIULLA WAHFAItK WIIA I'ltOllAHLY UK IXHTITITKD IIY TIIK IUil.HIIF.VIKI TROTZKY CONFERS WITH HUHS I tirl(tn KearHiiry von Kunlilmaiin IIn hHMt lo llui Iwrret Ifas No Time to Tnlk About IVore Amsterdam, Feb. 23. Peace ne rtotlatluna with Russia will not bt resumed Immediately by Germany. Guerilla warfare will probably be Instituted by Ilia lloUhevlkl, lo Im ped the advance of the enemy. Austrian and Ukranlan troop are approaching Kiev, Foreign flerre ' Ury von Kuehlmann haa ione lo Bucharest, lo discus ire term with the Rumanian emlesary, and therefor, a resumption of Defolia tion! with tb Bolshevlkl will have to be postponed, announce Berlin. It la reported that Trotsky ha left Petrocrad for Ovlnsk, to arek an early conference with the Cer- mana. Bolshevlkl resistance srenv Ingly depend on whether the Qer mana accept readily a capitulation nf the government. It la apparent that the fierman will push campaign Into the iRaltle province before an werlng the Runslsn. With their army and navy demoralised, the Ilol.hevlkl are placing faith In th Red Ouarda end guerilla warfare German are advancing In detach ment nf 1 00 or inn men. Washington. Keli, 23. Amhasss dr Francl ha advised the stnte department of the Intention of the diplomatic corp In I'otrngrad to leave the city with the Bolshevlkl government, If It I menaced by the Oermans. He nya the Soviet gov eminent I planning to defend the city If noressary. Amsterdam, Feb, 23. A Russian courier, with the peace proposals nf the Russian government, ha arrived In llerlln, according to advice re ceived here. The Nord Deutsche 1 Igeinelne Zeltung, the (iermnn nci.il offlulal organ, aaya the reopening uf the negotiation with the Russiani cannnt he expected for aome time. Dr. von Kuehlmnnn, German for eign secretary, says the newspaper, will employ the Interval In conduct ing negotiation with Rumnnla, for which purpose he left for Bucharest on Thursday. The Rumanian dele gation already hna arrived there. According to the l.okal Ansolger of Rerlln, Dr. von Kuehlmann, the German foreign minister, haa gone to Vienna, where he will he Joined by Count Crornln, lAustrlun foreign minister. They will travel together to Rucharoat. where they will open discussions of peace term with Gen eral Fofota Averosco, the Rumanian premier and commander of the' Ru manian force In Dobrudja. If the conference at Bticharet la ended In time. Dr. von Kuehlmann will proceed direct to Brest-IJtovsk to continue negotiation with Rub ala. E' 10 BE COMPULSORY Washington, Feb. 23. Compul Bory food conservation ( neressary In the opinion of member of the house agricultural committee, which submitted a report on the bill giving the president power to regulate pub lic eating houae and food; stuffs. The bill does not directly affect hotiseholdors. Washington, Feb. 23. -Indications . nre that the price of the 19J 8," wheat crop will soon be Increased by presi dential proclamation, . , ,, j HIT EVI American (aim itrplliHl to ICncmy TiMley With Three Klirll for Oil and Were More Acriirele With the American Army In Franca. Feb. 23 Today the artil lery bombardment wa mill mora In tent on the American sector north wet of Tout. Night and day enemy projectile are fulling In town and have born directed at a number of strategical point. The damage 'done ha been unim portant. Three .American artillerymen have been wounded. Our gun replied to the enemy with three ihell for one, firing accnratly on road and enemy work. Shell were dropped on a party of aeven German repairing wire entanglement. Rome were wounded and lha rent acattered. Early today a amall enemy party attempted to raid our line and waa driven off by rifle and machine gun fire, after which artillery fir chated them bark to .their line. A trench mortar projectile fell on nneof our trenchea today killing three and wounding four. Rain haa prevented aerial activity and the trenche and dugout are flooded. SLAV MESSENGERS ARE MET BY HUNS Pitrograd, Feb. 23. An official latement Issued today aay: "The Russian parliamentary mes senger started In a motor car from RlnthllUa for tvlUH) but. near the atatlun at Antonopol were met by a German automobile armed with ma chine guns. The Russian motor car wa allowed to pass, but the parlia mentary repi tentative and the com missioner of the Fifth army, were de tained and brought back to Relshlt lia In the Oerman automobile. Rleahltlsa J, about one hundred mile southeast of Riga and about R0 miles from Dvlnsk. Antonopid la a village about SO miles from Rlesh lltxa. It Is presumed that the parlia mentary messengnra were carrying the formal acceptance of the German peace terms to General Hoffman, who I somewhere along the Russian front. AUSIAN TOWN IS BY lluchs, Swluorlarid, Feb. 23 Five entente allied airmen flying over the Julian Alps on Wednesday after noon found that the town of Inns bruck, Austrian Tyrol, was not pro tected- by nntl-alrcraft guns. The airmen thereupon swooped down to within 300 yards of the ground, picked out tnrRot and copiously bombed them. Including the railroad station, barrack and two new mu nition factories. Soldiers and civil ians were surprised and, being unac customed to air attacks, rushed Into the streets and' many were killed. The German consulate was hit and trains loaded with soldlors on their way to the -Trentlno front were attacked by mnrhlno guns from a low altitude. ' HOW GKRMAXS DKAL , WITH HOY RVRULAItH Amsterdam, Jan. 31. Karl Wilke, a 17-year old schoolboy who bur glarized the 'German emperor's castle at Wilholinqhohe last November, has been sentenced to nine months' Im prisonment by the German courts. At the trial .lie stated that he needed money to pay a $50 restnurant bill incurred Jn Celobrntlng his birthday. Ho thereupon committed even site, connive burglaries at the Imperial cnstle, obtaining art objectives and other valuables worth $25,000. that he took from the private apartments of the emperor and' empress1. 'J The whole lot wa sold to nn antique dealer for $65,, , ,' . r BQL1BAR0 r SENATE PASSES RAILROAD BILL IN RECORD TIME I'llOYIOKM Ft (It GOVERNMENT Ol.MTIlOli UNTIL IN MONTHS A FT Kit KSO OK WAR $500,000,000 REVOLVING FUHD Monday HmuUe Will Take Up Met. ore Creating War Financial Cor poration o A 14 Industry Washington, Feb. 23. The ad ministration bill, providing for gov ernment control of railroad until 18 month after the war,. Including many abort line, and appropriating a revolving fund of $300,000,000 for federal operation, waa paised today by the senate without roll call. . The bill now awaits action In the house, where It la under debate. The senile, after passing the ad ministration railroad bill, adjourn ed until Monday, with leadera plan ning then fo begin work on another Important war' measure, the bill pro posing creation of a war financial corporation to aid Industry. MONTANA I.HGIMLATURB VOTKH FOR HI FKKAGP. Helena. Mont., Feb. 23. The Montana .legislature . signalized Washington' birthday by pass.ng a resolution asking congress to g-nnt nationwide "suffrage for ' wonie'n. The Kemml resolution, put through the house yesterday, passed the tet ate today. With amendment Mel son's act to appropriate 1500,000 for the use of the atate council of defense, the un derstanding being that the monty would largely be used In assisting needly farmers was rerommeii led for passage In the senate, with In dications that It will pas. VIKXNA HAS OKKF.XHF.D THK OKR.M.W liKiMTY London, Feb. 23. Publication by the official news agency of Vienna of the Polish manifesto reflecting on Germany, has given great offense, according to Renter's Zeurich corre spondent and the German ambassa dor at Vienna has been asked to de mand an explanation. Tl KKISII ARMY HMilXH .. OKFKXSIVK IX ' CAlVASct't'H London, Feb. 23. The Turkish army In the Causcascn has begun an offensive. According to the corre spondent, the attack waa started before the expiration or the armis tice. Turks have occupied Platan and parallted the evacuation of the Causcasclan corps, which Is now grouped, along the coast. The Income BEATING 1 II 7M),(HH) ARMY UIFIJCH MADK IS AMMtH'A HIXCK KNTKUIXG THK WAR ' TOTAL WEEKLY 0IJWM2 Twine a large as ftrrat Britain's Output After Two anil One Half Year of War Washington, Feb. 23. Seven hundred thousand army rlflea have been produced In the United States since this country entered the war. according to statement made pub lic today by the ordnance depart ment of the war department. During the week ending Febru ary 3, the dally production was 7,805 Enfield and 1.442 Spring fields, or a total of .24T. In addi tion the government received 12,155 Ruaslan army rlflea during the week making a to(l weekly output of 72.162. The output I twice aa large as the British output after two and a half year of war and four times greater than the British production for the first ten months of the world war. Rifle cartridge production la on a similar arale, the atatement showing a total of 7.300.000 wa the dally average output In January. Summarising the work of rifles, it Is shown that $4,400,000 la being lent for that arm alone and that 80,000 men and 10,000 women are employed In the manufacture of rlflea and cartridges. ' There are two government and three private plants making rifles and one government and nine private plants making cart ridges. I Seattle, Feb. 23. Professor Geo. V. Lomonosoff, head of the Russian mission of ways and communication, now In this country, today in ad dressing a i::kss meeting held under the auspices of 8eattle chamber of commerce at commercial club and Seattle Central Ubor council, de- lured that It was hunger which bad put the Bolshevlkl Into power. , "Hunger overthrew' the govern ment of Nicholas II," declared Pro fessor I-onionosoff, "and It was hun ger that overthrew the government or Kerensky. When the Bolshevlkl "ame, with the comprehensive words "Bread and Peace,' they were accent ed with the desperation or despair." Resolutions urging that everything possible be done to reopen Russian railroads and send supplies to Rus sia were adopted. Tax Problem WORLD MAKING GUNS FOR WAR IAS. I GERARD OPERATED VOI It Wa Feared for Time It Would Coot. His l.lfe, llul I .Now Pro. nounrrd) Out of Danger New York, Feb. 22. James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Ger many, waa pronounced out of dan ger by his physician after an opera tion, which It was feared for a time, might cost blm bla life. It waa the first Intimation to the public that Mr. Oervd was III. Mr. Gerard had been suffering for some time from nose and throat trouble, according to his physician, and his work In the prison camp In Germany Intensified the disease. Last Wednesday It wss decided that an operation could no longer b de lated. Today Dr. L. M. Hurd an nounced the crista had been paased. FHKXCH TROOPS RAII . " KXKMY FRONT MXKH Parle, Feb. ,21. French troops raided Oerman positions north of Allette river today and In Cham palgne and brought hack prisoner and war material. still nn Washington, Feb. 23. "Senator Chamberlain la doing very well to day, I do not think we need look for any trouble," said Dr. Gannen, his physician, tonight. Today wa the day on which the doctor believed unfavorable sympton would develop. If they were likely : to 'result from the operstlon, and having passed this critical period and shown the required Improvement, the doctors now believe the senator will recover. The aenator has passed through the pslnful period or his illness and Is resting In comparative comfort. YKItXOX BOOTH OF CHICAGO . v BRINGS DOWN AIRI'LAXK Paris, Feb. 23. Vernon Booth, of Chicago, a member of the Lafayette flying corps, brought down a Ger man airplane In flight, several miles inside the German lines, the war office announced today. EIS TO BE IMPEACHED Helena, Feb. vote the house 23. By -unanimous, of representatives today decided to file articles of lm - peachment against District Judge Charles L. Crum, of Forsyth. !of the Oregon Christian Endeavor Helena, Mont., Feb. 23. ResinUm. which will end Sunday ni;;hti dents or Rosebud county, the home! Among the prominent workers of or District Judge C. L. Crum, testl-,, coagt who are here ror the con ned before the state house of repre-; rentlrAi is Paul. Brown of Los An- sentatives in the matter of proposed Impeachment -of -the. jurist. . W. H. Lyndes declared that Judsre Crum had told him that he Was "a fool to let his boys go to war to be tne position of international super mnrdered for the benefit of Wall ntendent of the World. Street." .Rev. H. P.Klemme. pastor of a eeistic superintendent of the Cnli Presbyiterlatf church at Forsythe. ! fornla state union,, now enlisted In Judge Crum's iome. In reply to athe ordnance department at Amerl questlon, declared that he feared. the, csn lake, is here for the session. reeling against Judge Crum in Rose-j bud county Is such that "until he is; dealt with by the courts some more! unfortunate and desperate course j might be selected by the citizens of Rosebud county . in dealing wlthi him.! .; "That Is the program" he declared. i George A. Yorkan, an attorney of Forsythe, and mayor -there, declar ed Judge Crum, wrb bitterly opposed to Great Britain, but he did not he-dlnte abandonment In all public lleve him to be antl-Amerlcan. " jschools and universities in South pa- After the close of the hearing last kQta of the teaching of German was night Yorkan and State Senator Ed-.' ordered by the state council of de wards came to blows in the lobby of fense, In a resolution adopted today, a hotel here, Edwards was declared So far" as Is known this Is the first to have accused Yorkan of prejudl-s'actidn of the' kind taken by a state ed testimony. , linn PACT WITH U. S. SIGHED CURAT RRITAIX AXD OTHER ALLIED XATIOXS ARB ALSO 131 ACCORD TERMS HOT YET MADE PU1IC Norwegian Steamer Kim, Xow Lying In aa Ames-tram port. Will He Per mitted to Pinreed to Norway Washington, Feb. 21. A com plete economic agreement,. lo which Great Britain and the other allied countries are In accord, has . been reached between the United States and Norway. The terms have sot yet been mads public. ' Announcement of the successful conclusion of negotiation between. th war trad board and Dr. Frledt Jof Nansen, the Norwegian commis sioner, which have extended over several months, was contained In this statement 'issued by the bosrd last night, through the committee on public Information: ' "The war trade board, acting In harmony with a similar decision of the British government, la regard to the Norway steamer Alfred Noble, has decided to release the , Norwe gian steamer Kim, now lying la as American port, and permit It to pro ceed to Norway with. Its cargo of oil cake for fodder purposes. Dr. Nsa sen, Norwegian commissioner la the United 8tates. has been Informed of the decision, which was taken In view of the fact that general nego tiations with Norway hare reached a point where nothing remain ex cept the drafting of an agreement. CLE M II SESSION AT EINEE Eugene, Feb. 23. The Oregon Christian Endeavor Union, now In session here, has re-elected Miss Edna Whipple, or Eugene, presi dent. Miss Millie Fettlng, or Port land, treasurer, first vice president, Miss Gertrude Eakln, of . Salem, second vice president. Mrs. Howard Zinier, of Salem, third vice ' presi dent, Miss Irene Oulmette, of I Marshfleld, and fourth vice presi dent, Miss Hilda Rice, of Milton. Eugene,' Feb. 23. Christian En- deavor workers from all parts of the 'gtate arrived In Eugene last night to attend the 27th annual convention geles. Mr. Brown has held the office 0f field secretary for the California n0n8 for the past 11 years, and - he nast three veara has held Phantee ftuHerien. formprlv nvn- . . , . . r , .. j Sioux Palls, S. D., Feb. 23 Imme- council of defense.