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VOTERS MUST
PASS ON NINE
NEW MEASURES
ELECTION DAV IS JI'XH S. WHEN
PEOPLE CAN At X 'KIT OH RE
JWT new, I.AWH
BILLS IIP
$'J,5()(),(MM Ankitl for Vw... Iloml,
WIiIUi Amendment to CuiiMltmlon
Would Call for 3,MK).MK)
Sulum, Orr., Mar. iil. Nliio mean
Uru. rolorrod lu tho people by lliu
liuil ItiKlntikliirv, have been placed up
on ilio bullol tor a spodul uluclluu lo
be bold Julio 3, lu Oivgou. These
moimiiron ri-flont tho work of the
luwmukura during Dm til-Uiiy session
mid ombraco niodt of the subjects
upou which nriiuuniB waxed warm
in both legislative Iioiimih. "Highway
work and the ousting of uu alleged
patout paving trust," from control of
such construction, iitatu aid of var
ious kind for returned soldiers and
Million, reconstruction work and
bulldliiK of MlruoUirs for state needs,
as a iiicmis or eiuplo) lug discharged
soldiers and war workoin, ami Irriga
tion and reclamation legislation
these were tho imuiu upou which
forensic fights wore waged In legls
lullve hulls. Thine subjects arc In
cluded lu ilia nluo roforondum meas
ures, which are uu follow.
A proposed appropriation of $2.
DUO, 000, contingent uiKin the aipro
lrlatlon by the federal government
of a like amount, to assist the Unit
ed ttt government In construct
lns a -military highway from tbo city
of Astoria, tliroimh Clatsop, Tilla
mook. Lincoln, l-ino. Douglas. Coos
and Curry counties, of' Oregon and
to tho California lino.
A constitutional amendment to
permit tho bonding of Oregon for
15,01)0,000 for the promotion of re
count ruction, reclamation and land
settlement project.
A .proponed law providing that
honorably discharged soldiers, sail
ors and marine from Oregon may
attend any .private or public Instltu
tlon of lenrnlnR 1n tho Htnto and
have their necessary expense not to
exceed $25 per montli pnld by the
Into for four years.
A constitutional amendment for
the construction of slate market
roads under supervision of the coun
ty court.
A bill , to bond tho rtato for $5,.
000.000 for reconstruction work, In
cluding construction or hospitals at
Portland and Salem, and other state
buildings at CorvalllB. Eugene, Mon
mouth, Pendleton. Astorln, Marsh
. field, Ilakor, Bond, La Grande and
Modford: to dovelop reclamation
projects on arid, swamp and logged
off lands, building a now peniten
tiary and to iprovldo settlement of
land by discharged soldior.
A constitutional amendment pro
posing payment by tho state of Irri
gation and dralnnge district bond In
terest for the first five years by is
suing state bonds, on condition that
euch district are found to comply
with required conditions.
A constitutional amendment to
raise the iprosent 2 per cent, limita
tion placed upon counties for creat
ing debts for permanent roads.
A constitutional amendment to
iprovldo for a nontenant governor,
which office does not now exist In
Oregon.
A constitutional amendment to
(permit tho erection of a reconstruc
tion hospital In Portland.
Tl'ItK ECONOMIC SITUATION
IS REPORTED AS IMPROVING
Constantonoplo, Mar. 25 Trial or
1he lenders of the committee of
union and 'progress has begun and
several of the former Turkish states
men have been summoned to appear
1n court. Arrests of young Turk
leaders still continue. The economic
situation here Is improving gradu
TWO I BONDING
,v'4 , fi"JNZi-l'yH' J(K'''"XK ; OOUXTV.
RnMlRKIN
HI GREAT PLAN
Are Flooding Congressmen Willi I'e
1 It lull Aklll for GoVrtt'lllllcllt
Ownership of All Lines
WiuihlDRlon, Mur. 25. A systema
tic attempt by organized lubor to put
through government ownursblp and
operation of rullronda has begun
with petitions being received by
mombers of the home and sonate.
Tbe petitions, all similar, uro being
received from all over the country,
and when the xHal session of con
grona Is called by President Wiltton
noiiKroHBini'ii oxpunt to bo deliiRed by
the memorials.
The wordlnR of the statement fol
lows: "We, the undcrslRtied cltl.ens. re
spertfully urwed upon you, and
throtiRh tho conureHs f the t'nlled
KUttcs, lo have enacted Into law a
hill simitar or identical with II. It.
lOfiflO, providing for the national
ownership and government opera
tion or nil railroads within the terri
tory of the I'nltod Stales and Its pos
siSKlons, necessary for tho furnish
ing of transportation to the people
of the 1'nlted States, Including all
lands, terminals and equipment re
quired or desirable for successful
oHratlon, and that you will cause
this petition to he noted In the Con
gressional llecord and referred to an
appropriate committee."
JDF GREAT WOOL CLIP
Ixindon, Mur. 25. The wool trade
of C.reat Ilrltatn. which has been
controlled by the government since
tho. middle of 1916, Is gradually be
ing freed from restrictions and soon
will bo practically on a pre-war ba
sis. Tbe only remaining restriction
will be thnt the government, which
has bought the forthcoming Austral-
Ian clip, will nt as merchants and
put this on the marmot at auctions
at 'fixed minimum prices, which,
however, will lie somewhat elastic as
tho sales proceed.
Tho first auctions will be held In
tho first week of April and about
SO. 000 bales are expected to he cat
alogued during that month. Belgian
Kronch and Italian buyers will be
allowed to compete with the British
trade for supplies but there will be
no American competition.
SPAIN PLACED UNDER-
T
Madrid, Mnr. 25. Martial law-
was proclaimed here today. It Is un
derstood that the constitutional
guarantee may be suspended
throughout Spain.
There is a general strike at Barce
lona. Premier Ilomanones, who In
tended toeslgn, bus announced that
ho considers it his duty to remain In
office.
BEST COW IN TEST GAVE
1512 POUNDS OF MILK
Corvnllls, Mar. 25. The 000 cows
tovtod In Oregon In November aver
aged 55C pounds 'of milk carrying
27.15 (Miunds Tat. Tho best herd
avorngod 779 -pounds of milk with
45.88 .pounds fat. Tho' best cow
gnvo 1512 ipounds of milk carrying
75.00 pounds fat. Her record In
milk 'was 2 Vt tlnies and In Tat al
most three times that of the average
000 cows. Yet the 600 were bettor
than the avorage untested cow, six
of the poorest havjng been sent to
the butcher for being no better. E.
U Wstover oTvthe agricultural col
lege 'has choge of the testing.
DEATH TO ALL
WHO RESISTTHE
B HI
Hltll IS TIIK OltUKIt ISHI KI) AT
III DAI'KHT WIIKIiH KHKVt II
MAY HR DISAIIMKI)
ALLIED MISSIONS MM LEAVE;
llrltlsh Monitors I ndcr Fire, Hut It
Is Doubtful If Hungary Has De ,
clan-d War on Itoumanla
Paris, Mar. 25. L'noffiiial report
from Budapest state that the allied
missions there are debating on the
advisability of leaving, and the dis
armament of French troops In that
city la being considered.
Order iirevalls and as yet no In-
Jury has been done foreigners. Mar
tial law- has been declared and the
death ponalty has been prescribed
for armed resistance to the Bolshe
vik!, and for robbery and looting.
Two British monitors are report
ed to have arrived at Budapest, hav
ing been under fire on their way up
tho Danube. Other British and
French vessels were near. A British
patrol boat was seized by the author
ities but returned with apologies by
the government.
Rumors that Hungary has declar
ed war on Roumanla, Czacho-Slo-
vnkla and Jugo-Slavla are said to be
extremely doubtful.
Vienna, Mar. 25. All members of
the allied missions In Budapest have
been Interned, including Colonel
Vlx, chief of tho French mission, ac
cording to travelers arriving here
from Budapest.
L BE
Uhea Luper, assistant supervisor
of water masters of the state water
board arrived In this city this morn
ing. He. with M. L. Qpdyke, will
leave for the Sucker creek country
In the morning where they will re
arrange the distribution of the water
of that stream used for irrigation
purposes in accordance with the re
commendations of the district water
master.
Matiy ditches will be consolidated.
and some abandoned and other
changes made which will be the
means of conserving the water sup
ply and benefitting the farmers of
that district.
A survey of this district was made
last fall by the state relative to the
Inchoat rights on Sucker creek, and
beginning April 3. Mr. Luier will
hold hearings pertaining to these
rights.
The adjudication of Sucker creek
is completed and .water right certif
icates are being Issued by the state
water board, and as soon as the henr
lngs on the Inchont rights are com
pleted certificates wilj be Issued for
these rights' which will finish the
adjudication of that stream.
Mr. Opdyke states that certifi
cates are Also being Issued on the
adjudicated rights of . Althouse.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BAYS
OLOOTT SERVES 4 YEARS
Salem. Ore.. Mar. 25. Governor
Olcott is entitled to serve the full
four years of the unexpired term or
the late Governor Withycombe. He
likewise has authority to resl mi as
secretary of state and appoint his
successor to that office without jeop
ardising his right to remain as gov
ernor of Oregon.
These re tbe salient features of a
sweeiping opinion handed down by
Attorney-General Brown. The opin
ion was given at the request of Gov
ernor Olcott.
ORKOOX, TUESDAY, MARCH
HUNGARIAN
K GAIN
MANY ALLIES
PROPAGANDA. APPEALS TO GEK-MAN-Al'HTHIA
AND NON-SO.
t'l. LISTS WHO FAVOR RKI8
BOLSHEVIK ARMY KEABS HUNGARY
Jugo-Hlnv Delegates at Peace Confer,
cure Fi-ur Their Country Will Be
come Involved In Outbreak
Paris, Mar. 25. Conditions in
Hungary seem to have affected Ger
man-Austria. Advices to the Amer
ican peace conference- delegates from
private agents in Vienna Indicate the
existence of a threatening state of
affairs there.
Vienna. Mar. 25 A dispatch from
Hungary declares that all the non
socialist parties there will support
the new government for the reason
that it has decided to act against the
entente rural population which Is re
ported to have gone over to tbe com
munists. Copenhagen, Mar. 25. Claims of
the Hungarian soviet government to
power, as set forth "In its wireless
communications, are largely untrue,
according to a Vienna dispatch. A
panic prevails in Budapest but the
country Is not yet resolved upon a
soviet republic.
Paris, Mat., 25. The Jugo-Slav
delegates took a pessimistic view of
tho situation of their country and
Poland and Roumanla. They said
those countries are likely to be af
fected by the Bolehevlkl revolution
in Hungary.
Berne, Mar. 25. A Bolshevik
army which is on Its way to Hun
gary has reached Brody. 50 miles
east of Lemberg, it Is reported.
I. W. W. TRY THE "FAST"
METHOD OF EVADING LAW
Topeka, an.. Mar. 25. Although
growing pal? and thin as the result
of their five days' fast, 12 alleged
T. W. W. members held In the coun
ty jail here continue today to refuse
all food offered them. . .
WAY TO CIVIC PEACE
Omsk, Siberia, Mar. 25. Russia's
best diplomat is its army, in the
opinion of G. K. Ginns, vice-minis
ter for foreign affairs of the All-Rus-.
stan government discussing the po
litical situation with tbe correspon
dent of the Associated Press. Mr.
Gins is one of the group of young
men who have thrown in their lot
with the new ministry and who are
determined that this experiment of
founding a successful government
shall jrove a success.
Mr. Gins was formerly a profes
sor of International law In the Uni
versity of Petrograd. With his wife
and two children he was one of that
numerous band of Russians who
were obliged to flee easterly to es
cape tho scourage of bolshevlsm and
terrorism.
' Tho young diplomat thought that
the powers would see in Russia's re
generated army, as shown by the
taking of Perm, the symptoms of
the rebirth or the state and evidence
that the state Is fully able to pro
tect Itself. -. There was- no doubt In
his mind about the friendly dispo
sition of the allies.
Mr. Gins sold: "Foreign powers
are looking for a steady government
supported by the public opinion of
the whole nation and now, I believe,
they have found it. We are on the
way to civic peace."
28, lttl.
SENATOR'S POIR
E
Pcac Confcreees Consider Lodge.
Txmdon Papyrs Ilhimo Delicate
for Spread of IloIkhevUin
Paris, Mar. 25. The league of na
tions commission considering the
proposed amendments to the cove
nant last night disposed tentatively
of the first 18 seotlops, and agreed
on the number of changes In form
which members of tho commission
believe will meet over half, the ob
jections offered by Senator Lodge
and other American senators. Presi
dent Wilson attended the meeting.
The Monroe Doctrine amendments
will be made Wednesday.
London. Mar. 25. The morn In r
newspapers unanimously charge the
Paris peace conference with respon
sibility for Hungary's embracing
Doishevism and general dissatisfac
tion over the delay of peace. The
newspapers accuse the conferees of
delaying peace while idealists are
"following a will-o'the-wlsp called
the league of nations."
Paris. Mar. 25. Reports have
reached the conference that inter
allied troopi will be landed at Spa
lato, on the Dalmatian coast, be
cause of disorders there and for
fear of graver troubles. The Hun
sartans are reported to be trying t.
spread bolshevlsm to that part of the
Adriatic coast, which they formerly
controlled.
IRK FOR OLD WAGES
Washington, Mar. 25. No waee
increases will be provided in the new
working agreement to become effec
tive next month between the Pacific
-oast eht"bullders and union metal
trades union. It is announced by Sec
retary Berres of the metal trades de
partment of the federation of labor.
Coblenz, ' Mar. 25. German pho
tographers in Ooblenz recently have
been doing the largest business in
their careers, their principal custo
mers being American soldiers. From
two to five thousand. Americans of
units In districts beyond the Rhine
and other parts of the occupied area
Visit Coblenz daily, the soldiers be
ing allowed one day in the city every
few weeks: Hundreds of these men
have their photographs taken .
In their display windows the pho
tographers have arranged the pic
tures of Americans on one sWe and
likenesses of German civilians and
soldiers on the other, always with
a dividing line of some kind in be
tween. SOF
Coblenz, Mar. 25. There is -no
longer any set standard for the
strength of the , German army, say
American experts. This Is regarded
as important In view of the fact that
delogaites at the peace conference
not long ago suggested that the Ger
man army be limited to six divisions.
At the beginning of the war a Ger
man division comprised about 16,000
men. In the latter part of the war
the divisions consisted of three in
fantry and one artillery regiments,
with pioneers, signalmen and var
ious other technical troops number-
lug approximately 9,000 men. At
present, it Is declared, no division
In the German army has 5.000 men
and there are probably divisions
FEARED BY LEAGU
wijn less than 1,000 men.
WHOLE XrMBEH 261.
OLD CHANNEL
IS SUCK IN
WALDO MINE
MUCH COARSE GOLD IS FOCXD
IN THE ORIGINAL CHANNEL
GRAVEL
ELEVATED 89 FEET
George M. Esterly, Purchaser of Pro
perty, Plan Installation of Much
More Equipment
The original "old channel" or bed
of the ancient river, tbe dream of
which has caused many .a weary
prospector to renew the search, has
been discovered in the Eeterly mine'
at Waldo, and one giant is now
operating in gravel carrying a -plen
tiful supply of course gold. ,
. Last week a pit ' was piped to a ,
depth of 22 feet below the level of
former workings, at a point between
two benches of bed rock which had
previously been uncovered. This
pit opened up a bed of gravel entire- '
ly different in character from - that
clay banks which have proved Im
mensely , profitable during the past
50 years of active operation of the
mine. The depth of -this gravel has
not yet been determined as no' test
ing nag been done in this particular
spot, although a hundred prospect
shafts had been sunk during the pre
liminary investigation of the proper
ty. -No cleanup has yet been made
to base an estimate of the values car
ried but enough panning lias -been
done to show high values. '
Heretofore the gold secured at this
mine baa been fine and flour gold
and was evenly distributed through
the clay banks which ranged from
15 to 35 feet.
This property, formerly known as
the Logan mine, and the Simmons
mine, lias been a profitable producer
tor more than 60 years. : It - now
consists of 4,200 acres, practically
all of which Is pay dirt. With It
is a water right of 14,000 inches.
Water for mining is supplied by a
system of ditches totaling 25 miles
In length. , '
This property was purchased in
September, 1916, at a cost of $140,
000 from James Logan, who had
successfully operated It for many
years.
The lack of sufficient grade for
the dumping of tailings led to the
installation of a hydraulic elevator
system, the tailings being carried up
73 feet by two elevators. The in
stallation of a third elevator last
week carries the tailings a total dis
tance of 89 feet above the pit Just
opened.
All the standard placer gold sav
ings devices are in use, yet owing to
the fineness of the gold much of it
is carried over In the tailings. Mr.
Esterly proposes to install during
the coming season an invention of
his own called a water classifier, and
which he Is confident will recover 90
per cent of the values. It Is pro
posed to do away with the elevator
system by opening a race to the west
fork of the Illinois river. This race
will require 700-foot tunnel through
serpentine.- The elimination of the
hydraulic elevator system will re
lease for actual mining a volume of
water several times that now used.
The expense of these improvements
is estimated at from $40,O0Q to $50,
000. The dally capacity of the mine Is
1,000 cubic yards, at an average cost
of less than 6 cents, but when the
contemplated improvements are
made the capacity will be much
greater with a reduction .of opera
tion cost to about cent per yard.
The mine is In onernHnn rt.iv and
j night for eight months In the year,
a battery of nine 2,000-candle power
search lights, and many 1,000-candIe
lrnvi IVHQi: llguut lUUHUIg. UlgUt
work possible. , . . ,