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f - --v VOL. IX., No. I IS. MM MILES OF ROAD II LET BY COMMISSI tXNTIl.UT8 TOTALIXU U,IMtt,870 AMI ("OVKKINU 1UJ MII.KM AUK NKiNKD VI 1 1 CO. GETS CIS JOB To Ita'Wve $13,!W8 fur Wm lu Jtr Mlilue (Vuu -1'copio tk-rainlilo For I'nvors " Portland, Ore,, Apr. 16 Contracts for highway construction, totaling $i,9(r,576 have burn awarded by the tnie highway commission. Thin contract call for 71 tulles of bllliu lltlc, H miles of lom-rulu, and 3S miles of grading. The hlKhway award Include four and nine-tenths miles of blthulltle In Josuphlno county, butween Wolf Crwik and Grave Crook, which the Warren Count ruction company la to build for inr,,52S. The' highway commission also awarded a contract for grading four and five-tenths mile front state road pass to Wolf Crct-k, to Joplln & El den .for $38,000. Yesterday neoplo from nil parts of (he Mato began -pouring Into Port land In tho IntercNt of highway work and all of them could not put into tho1 place of meeting, 70 men bolng on hand from Sherman county alone. Malheur, Uhkor and other far-away count leu poured out a big crowd. There was scarcely county In Ore gon that illd not have at least one representative ' wanting road help. One county delegation after another proudly informed the commission thut It was preparing to vote $10u,. 000,' $200,000 or $300,000 of road bonds, and calmly asked whn tho .Commission would promise In the way of cooperation. There has novr boon such a session hold fey the com mission since Its organization. ARE TEACHING YANKS PRACTICAL MINING Moscow, Ida., Apr. 10. A school room 1400 feet underground In the Morning mine at Mullun, Idaho, in which returned seldlors are bolng taught the art and practice of min ing lead-xlnc ore. Is one of the latest educational Innovations of the Uni versity of Idaho. This work, which has been inaugurated iby the school of mines at the university, Is, so far as is known, the first' attempt to apply to actual, underground mining work the new system of vocational education provided for fey the Smlth Hnghes act '.and the experiment is being watched with Interest by min ers and mine operators alike through I out the western state.' ' YANKS ARE POURING INTO NEW YORK CITY New York, Apr. 16. Ninety offi cers and 2,037 men of the 91st divi sion, headed by Major General Wil liam Johnston, division commander, have arrived from St. Nasutlre on the transport Calamares. This. Included the 316th engineers field and staff headquarters, veterinary, ordnance and medical detachments, engineer train and companies iA to F Inclusive, Tartly, for Camp Lewis. Sixteen hundred troops of the 40th division California, ' Nevada, Utah and Colorado formerly - the national guard also arrived. Thirty nine officers and 1,600 men of the 364th infantry of the 91st division left today from Camp fttftlt for Camp Lewis and other western cam pa for demobHttaUoa. .. .. . .. . - PEACE OF ILEHCE WILL BE REJECTED (iernuin I'rliire Dw-Iiu-cn "Mulled Vint Policy Can Only lie Maintained by tlte Mulled lif ; Berlin, Apr. 16.- Announcements from France of tho pome conditions aru denounced by the Ciurm.in pnns. Prince Llchnowtky declares "France forgets that Instead of leading to disarmament, an unjustly extorted peace will bring forth only fresh armaments, because a mailed fist policy can be maintained only by a mailed fist," and dunlares a peace of violence must be absolutely rejected. f- NEW ItOAl) IULINU ' : ; 4 v Kotoburg. Apr.' 16. The fot- flowing new traffic ruling per- Ulnlug to that section or the 4 Pacific highway undor con- 'strutton In the Canyon Creek .canyon will be In effect until further notice: Road will be 4 4 closed from 8 a. m. until 6 p. 4 4 m but open for travel after 5 4 4 p. in. until 8 a. m. This Is Ira- 4 4 portant to travelers, as there is 4 4 no "detour for this road " " 4 444444 444 4444444444 MONTANA Wl.VDfcTOlEM ItOKH" ' CONHIDEIUI1LK DAMAGE Oreot Falls, Mont., Apr. 16. Re ports coming from all sections of Northern 'Montana regarding the heavy wlndsorm of Thursday night and Friday are to the effect that the damage will run into an unestlmatcd amount 'through .winter wheat being swept out of the ground,' as well as spring wheat where sown. The wind was almost a hurricane and the dry condition of the cultivated soil aided In making the destruction possible. It Is declared. , ' ' In many sections' the dust lies In drifts three and foor feet deep, can als are filled, fences ' covered and some Molds badly stripped of soil. ' Wood'.iurn, Ore., Apr. 15. Dan Hurt, dr'.ver of a trai tor on a farm near her, was killed when the trac tor fell over on Mm when lie ran Into a ditch. BOLSHEVIKI, LIKE S, HAVE SPIES Archangel, 'Feb. 10. (Correspon dence of the tAsoulated Press.) While American and other allied troops are waging war against the bolshevik! on the northern front, another war is continually igolng on in Archangel the war against bol shevik spies and agents. Nearly all the trouble that has oc curred in Archangel, in the way of strikes and hesitating morale on the part of some of the new Russian con script troops, can lie traced to these agents. In the first place, when the allies occupied Archangel, it was ab solutely impracticable to search out, among the civilian population, all the Bolshevlkl who remained behind. Many of the bolshevik soldiers whom our forces captured at the front, Including many who satd they wore forced to serve with the bol shevik despite their objections, vol unteered and were accepted In Arch angel, into the now .Russian battal ions formed here to fight "wltlf the allies. Some of these men wore Bin cere volunteers and are doing splon dld work at the front. T A few others; however, became ringleaders of bol shevik propaganda iplots ajmed to destroy the fighting morale of 'their comrades. " Also, In the territory near the front, which consists for the most part of forests, bolshevlkl have been able to come through our lines dis guised as peasants. - It is a tribute to the allied and Russia intelligence service that the work of these agent has been, for the moat part,' nipped in the, hud; GRANTS PA88. JOBBPHIOTI COVXTT, LLOYD GEORGE ANSWERS. HIS CRITICS IN HOUSE Says Peace Delegates Are Doing Best and Asks to Be Let Alone Would Rather See Russia Bolshevik Than Bankrupt England Bolshevism Waning London. Apr. 16. Lloyd George, replying In tho house of commons to criticisms of the peace conference, said the "situation is still full of perils for all the countries," and pleaded that those who are trying to do their best fee lot alone. He said the time spent In framing the league saved time Instead of wast ing it, as the league would provide the means of adjustment for possible errors. "I would rather leave Russia bol shevik until they see their own way out of it than to see England landed In bankruptcy," said Lloyd George, and added that he believed that mili tary intervention In "Russia would be the ' greatest act of stupidity. He aid that while the bolshevik forces were apparently growing, bolshevism itself Is gradually waning and break ED TO AID THE JAPANESE Washington, Apr. 16. It is learn ed authoritatively that no American troops were in the vicinity when the Japanese unit in Siberia was recent ly wiped out by the Russian. It was reported that the Americans refused to aid the Japanese. As a matter of fact, the Amerioan com mander declined to join in an attack against the Russians not regarded as bolshevlkl, or enemies. The second annual conference of chapters of the Northwestern divi sion of the American Red Cross, held in Seattle -on April 110, 11, 12, was attended iby over 350 delegates, rep resenting practically every chapter In the division'' which Includes Idaho, Washington, Alaska and Oregon. The spirit of the conference Was ideally Red Cross each delegate waa there for work and information. The especial features 'were home ser vice, nursing activities ' and Junior membership the work' of the Red Cross to ibe most actively developed. The keynote of the 1 conference was SERVICE, both at borne - and abroad. The necessity tor continu ing the work of military relief and relief of suffering in foreign coun tries until such time as the coun tries could themselves take over the work, was emphasized. We have undertaken a great work and must carry dt through to the end, until the lost soldier and sailor is again restored to health and is placed in a position of Independence, and there are no longer hungry and cold people in the world. It la expected that the rushed work of the chapters will practically cease about July 1st and that there will be no more large allotments In the fall, nut chapters are asked to keep Intact to be ready for any emer gency calls. The foreign relief must continue, and while it is hoped that there will foe nd further calls on the people a whole for money, the need has been- so much greater than anticipated that the time may come when more will be needed to com plete the work begun.- The number of' Red Cross- commissions abroad now Is 15 a compared with six dur ing the time of the war.- That the American people are faithful to their trust is shown by the tact that of RED CROSS TO CARRY ON UNTIL LAST YANK HAS RETURNED FROM OVERSEAS OREGON, WEDNKHDAY, APRIL ing down before the relentless force of economic facts. Paris, Apr. 16. It is Improbable that the world will know the exact demands 'of the associated govern ments until after the Teutons are formally apprised, tout the secret plenary session will be held In ad vance so all the allied governments will know. The soviet troops seem to have won at least temporary victory at Munich, but the government troops are being reinforced. Paris, Apr. 16. It is understood that the policy concerning the man ner of dealing with conditions ' In Russia hare been formulated by the allies and the associated govern ment.. . EPIDEMIC SWEEPS AUSTRALIA Melbourne, Australia, Apr. 16. The commonwealth government' has decided to prohfblt the movement of all jthlpplng from Australian ports as result of the severity of the influ enza epidemic In Australia and New Zealand. London, Apr. 16. The vote of New Zealand soldiers has wiped out the majority tor prohibition at the recent election. all the money pledged In all drives, 97 per cent has ibeen collected and the remainder is still coming in. The amount collected in this division was $4,000,000, and the, number of paid up members, exclusive of the Juniors 750,868. The records in Washing ton showed last November more members per 1,000 In the Northwest ern division than In any other divi sion in the United States. When the armistice was signed the women' of the division had made articles valued at 8.18 for every hundred' popula tion of the whole division, and this was the 'highest value of finished ar ticlesper 1,000 people of any divi sion. During 1918 the supplies ship ped . through port warehouses to Prance, Italy and Siberia consisted of more than 27,000,000 articles valued at ( $4,000,000,- contained in 26,000 Red Cross standard packing boxes. This is exclusive of the large quan tities shipped by rail to the east or through the part of San Francisco. This Immense quantity of work was shipped overseas without' cost throught the courtesy of the U. S. shipping board. A tribute was paid to the loyalty and faithfulness of the 'Workers of the chapters. -J The future work of -the Red Cross was outlined iby Dr. 'Guy B. Snavely, assistant general manager at Wash ington, D. C. An international Red Cross is being planned for and 30 days after the' signing of the peace treat, a conference of workers rep resenting Great Britain, Prance, Italy, Japan and America 'Will meet at Geneva, with Henry iP. Davison of the American Red Cross as chair man, to consider problems of "child welfare, the health of the citizens of the nations and kindred subjects. Service rather than money will be emphasized. ' TCoaUnus on nag I.) 16, 1810. REOS SURPRISED AT PROGRESS Komi-thing Always Happens to Im- - prove Thoir Clumces Invitation to Princes Island Helped Stockholm, - Apr.- 16. 'Passenger traffic on ' Russian - railroads has ceased ostensibly- 'because of the spread of spotted typhus but really because there are no locomotives to spare and because, there Is great shortage of fuel, according to, I. Hes- sen, the former editor of the Petro- grad RJetsch. Thanks to heavy brib ing he has Just managed to leave Petrograd which he said was In des perate straits. "At the PuUloff works, where for merly 15,000 men were employed only very tew are how to be seen,' said -Mr. Hessen to the Associated Press. "Sabotage Drevails. Locomo- cannot be repaired nor con structed.' The only one the bolshe vik! have is valued at tout million rubles.' ' ' "In Petrograd a piece of firewood costs four rubles, bread 20 rubies a pound, meat 30, sugar 120 and but ter the same. 'Maxim Gorky, ' the novelist, ' has at his disposition 10,- 000,000 rubles for printing- books and' supporting author and tutors, but no books can ne printed as long as paper Is five rubles a pound. "Why the 'bolshevlkl regime has not' fallen puziles' everyone, partic ularly the bolshevlkl themselves. Time after time they have expected their fall and prepared to quit, but each time something happened that Improved their chances. : Last au tumn .when Penh" was taken by the Czechs, when armed forces threaten ed from the Ukraine and the Narva and British warships approached the Baltic every one was sure U was the beginning' of the end.' And then, Instead; came the ' Invitation to Princes Islands." ' '.' "Not even one per cent of the pop ulation Is In favor of bolshevism Bolshevik troops fight without know- In? why, nut continue for fear of be ing shot if they disobey If ' given an opportunity ' they desert at' once. An example of this was the action of what was considered a model regi ment in Petrograd. The men, 3,000 of them, were sent trbtri their bar racks to the railway station to en train for the Narva. . Wnen the train arrived there were Just eight men who had obeyed instructions to en train. "It there Is no Intervention soon pure anarchy will rule (Russia. Trot sky and Lenine are gradually 'being pushed aside and real criminals will succeed to the places of power." serg; bauew: ... Last evening- a crowd , of . some four hundred people gathered at the Church of Christ to do honor to our boys who had teen under fhe'colorsT' Not all the soldiers and sailors who are here were able to attend, but there""was'''a'good representation. Sergeant Paul BaUer, local recruit ing officer, gave an excellent talk on Christianity In the Philippines." He also demonstrated the sending of a message In semaphore code. . The message was read by J. 'Manuel. Fred Carpenter,' cornetist In the orchestra and a veteran of the Span ish-American war, gave a number of bugle calls. These were enthusias tically received'' "i The orchestra played several selec tions that were made popular In war time. Mr. Roberts led the boys and the audience In the singing of a num ber of camp songs and martial airs. 'MIbs Pattlllo sang a beautiful hymn which stirred he hearts of all. The sermon subject was, "Christ the Way." It iwas .pointed out that no way to iOod la sufficient .unless that way makes man know God In a personal, vital way. Only through Christ, who becomes a man, Is .this vital 'requirement 'met ' The meetings will continue this week. Th subject tonight Is, "The Question of th Ages." nmifi WHOLE KT'MBER 2fll3. PRESIDENT TO I REMAIN UNTIL 1 GERMANS SIGN ONX1T PROUtiEI ' DELAY" Bf' BOCHE DELEGATES WILL PRE TEXT SUCH PROCEDURE CUT' AND DBIED FOR GERMANS They will Be ToM What Is Exported Of Them and Win Re shown the ' ' Dotted lino ' . ' . iParis, Apr. 16. Now that the Ger mans have been invited to Versailles on April 25, the indications are that the proceedings may move wlthsuch dispatch that President Wilson can remain for the signing of the treaty and thus be able to take .back th completed document. This was the view of the presi dent's intimates today when their at tention was called to the reports In French papers that his departure had been fixed tor April 28. It was de clared that no such intention had been formed and that the' progress on the maiil questions now' gave ' promise that the president would not only attend the opening of the con gress at Versailles, out would re main long enouxh to see its work ' carried through. Prolonged delay" by enemy delegates would, of course. prevent such action. . - . .u v . -uab u M, , uv - done on the "arrival of the German ,venvi?o mc uwufi wor&ea out. rre limlnary to their arrival; a 'pienary ' be held at the foreign office' for do-' termination of the final course to be pursued iby the allies before en tering into relations with the Ger man plenipotentiaries.' '"" Whether the treaty'and1 covenant win .both he presented has' not' yet1 been decided, Ibut it is probable that . the treaty portion, of the document will not he made public until after Its delivery to the Germans." ' ' The procedure .with the '"'enemy ' plenipotentiaries also is receiving at- ' tenttbn. One plaA'nnder consider Hon is for the council of four' to ' hold the first meeting with the Ger mans and deliver the document. This would hot be a public session and Its main purpose would be to ar-" ' range effective disposal of the bus iness without prolonged discussion. : An alternative plan is for the en tire membership of the ' peace con- ' ference to proceed to "Versailles for ' a forhial'sesslon, at which the treaty would ibe delivered. President Wil-v fs'on, . E. M. House, , th members of the council and officers of the pro tocol" are working out these details." Premier Clemenceau1 on ' Sunday and President Wilson 'las nlghr gave" out statements showing the progress realized . and . voicing their first of ficial assurance that the end was in " sight. It is noted that the Clemen- '1 ceau and Wilson statements were very general, lacking specific details. I WILL OPERATE IF IT TAKES WHOLE ARMY Washington, Apr. 16. Transports will be operated dn and out of New' York harbor "even if it requires the whole United States army to enforce the order,"' it la officially stated in connection with plans of the harbor workers to start, a strike tomorrow with the announced intention of ty ing up traffio completely. SVLZER OF ALASKA DIES Seattle, Washl, Apr.' 16. Alaska dispatches state that Chas. A.'Sulzer, Alaskan congressional delegate-elect, died suddenly Saturday en route from the town of Sulzer to Ketchi- V.n - ' : - S-. iBf.WI