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V4 aw, ut'ul ' Tr,l ill 11008 wmm ... . . ... i ........ t f. i - " ---- ' " . . .. I NPIUN'O Jlt.l NOT HO GOOD AM) GENERAL YIELD Ol'T 7H,0OO,0O0 ltt'HIIKI vrniiHtl KonH-al Mo Tlmo "rp Record Breaker; Good News for Vaeni of the Weed Wellington, July 10 -Wheat pro duction prospscta were cut Into hvlly m a result of plant diseaaes nd other condition during June and a loaa of 75,000,000 buahela from the June 1 estimate waa Indicated lo 1ar In the department of agricul ture' July forecast, which placed the output at 1,161.000,000 buahela. Winter wheat ah owed loaa or 64. 000.000 buahela and spring wheat at. 000.000 bushels. The winter wheat crap, never the lent, will be the largeat erer grown. Corn production wa forecast at 1.815.000,000 buahela. 1S.000.000 bushel larger than laat year's crop. The acreage la 4.2 er rent lo than laM year'. Tobacco, with a production fore cast or 1.453.000.000 pounds, will be record crop. White potatoes pro duction iwlll be emaller than laat ynar. piii xne aweet potato crop promises to be a record one. The oat crop la slightly entailer than laat year, but larger than the five year average. GREAT EXCITEMENT AT THE OLD WATER TANK (Mat Saturday while making some reiialra at the Southern Pacific water tank iwo carpenter made a rich wold Htrllm. After removing the dirt from abound the allla they noticed wometlilng out of the ordinary In the eoll and upon clamlnatjon found two .WW pipooh, h ten and twenty. Nowi of the, "strike" quickly wprcad and other began the hunt, anion i? thoiu 'A it Kim t Ooettsche, a Southern iPnciric engineer, who the next day found two ten dollar pieces JHiid a twenty dollar piece. The gold fever ran high and the ground around Hie old water tank waa fairly well atlrred. Jimt where the gold ptoces cunte rrom la h mystery, but Chief of Po lice Mol-ano stales that about tour years oo he arrested a young man from Merlin who arrived In this city clad only In hla underwear. The Chief nublied the wandorer a the latter came along the railroad track near the wa,tertank. The mun was "out of hla head" and would give but t little doflnlte Information concern ing hltriHolf. He stated, however, that (he .had a brother In Indiana and Chief MoIune held him here until he could hear something defi nite by wire. In about ten days the demented man's brother arrived. die stated that 'the wandered had left Indiana with $800 In gold In .hla pockets, but when arrestod the man from Morlln had no cash; all he possesed wait TiIb undorwear. We told the Chief that he threw his money away and It Is 'believed that the recent find at the watertank la 'part of hla money, tout this is only supposition. The young man wall taken east by his brother and that is the last that has ever 'been heard from him. Meantime, kids and men are try lug their luck In the vicinity of the watertank. Salom, Ore., July 10. Governor "Olcott has named Doputy Commis sioner A. C. Barber as Insurance commissioner to succeed Harry "Wells, resigned. WINTER WHEA LARGEST 1 YET PRODUCED S Too NuiunrouK for ('ai'rttna to Koi 111 Eye On Thi'ni; Hlrlke at Very Door of ttopltul Laredo, Tex., Juiy 10. With drawal of troops from bandlt-lnfated region In central and southern Mex ico to campaign against Villa In the north baa led to a new war of train wrecking and railway destruc tion In that republic according to atorles printed by Mexico City papers received In thla city. The moat striking feat or the reb els was the capture of a train rrom Mexico City to ll'uebla at . point only a few milea from the Hatter ctly by the forces of the former federal general, Otrllo Arenas, who revolted about a year ago. One hundred or me several hundred passengers were seized a hostages, among them an American, Charlos Chapman They were driven for hours on foot over rocky trails to the headquar ters of the rebel chieftain. Ijter they were released without being held for ranaom and made their way aafely to iPuebla. The bandits' loot la estimated at 100,000 pesos. This followed olose on the heels of the capture of six well known real dents or Mexico Olty at a picnto re sort Known aa the Desert or the Mona. not more than a dozen miles from the capital. The captors, for mer followers of Zapata, sent the women or the party back to Mexico CHy for a ransom of 2,400 pesos and released their captives when the money waa delivered. Mora than 100 followers or Pedro r.abay are reported to bave been killed when federal forces recaptur ed the town or Choooman, atate or vera Crux. The Excelsior tells of the murder by bandits of the millionaire. En. rlque Langenscheln, son of the Or mail consul at Ouanajuato. Iianren. soheln met death at the hands of rebels rleelng from Mlchoacan Into Jalisco, who cautfit him on his ranch near lke Chapala. El Suwtelle, Cal.. July 10. J. M. lA'nketon. Civil war veteran, who Is ibed-rldden at his home bere will algn the pension checks he receives from the government with his thumb print, he him announced,' to prevent anyone from defrauding him. A copy of hla thumb print has been filed with Sergeant A IMcUIn, In chnrge of the branch of the 1os Angeles police department here. Unkston signs htfi checks md on. dorses his ipenalon check with his thumb and Sergt. McLaln compares It with the original on file In his of fice before the bunk here will honor the (paper. i (UlCli 1MKS ntO.M MOSQUTO 1HTK London, July lO.-riMosqultoes. or midges s they are called here, are proving a pest this summer In var- ious parts or TCnglaiid. As a rule! ' "" " raw H..IIOB ,uaiy lABHiejr or Seven Kings, aged 21 was so severe ly ipotBoned after being stung on the nose by a mosquito that she died four days later. ATTACK RUMANIANS Bucharest, July 10. It is report ed that the 'Hungarian bolshevlst troops have 'withdrawn from the Cze?ho-Slovak front on orders from the pea'ce conference,- and have at tacked the (Rumanian forces on the Thelss river. Fighting continues. BANDIT PLUNDER AT WILL IN HEXICO ORAXn PASS, JOHEPHICT COUWTY, OREQOW, THUtSDAY, JULY 10, WILSON PLEASED WITH EBERT'S QUICK ACTION Pleads For Resumption of Warns Against Boche Military Power- -Cheered in Sen ate With "Rebel YeDsw Would Protect France Merlin, July 10. President Ubert of Germany has signed the bill rati fylng the .peace treaty. The docu ment was forwarded to Versailles. Washington, July 10. Prealdent Wilson, conferring with newspaper men, Indicated that he was extreme ly gratified with Germany's early ratification or the treaty. He feels that trade relations with Germany should be resumed ju soon as pos sible, as without trade Germany could not meet reparations. President Wilson 'believes that troops should be kept In Germany until the Germans have complied with all the military terms or the treaty, lie pointed out that there are several .million, veteran soldiers In -Germany and munitions sufficient for them to operate. The Germans must deliver their war material within four months. The president declared that the league covenant would be In every treaty negotiated at Versailles, In cluding the treaty with Bulgaria, with which the United States was never at war. lie submitted to the senate today only the treaty con talnlng the covenant of the league of nations, and proposed that the sup plementary treaty ty w!hlch the Unit ed States would go to the aid of Trance, If Germany assaulted, be presented separately In another ad dress later. 1 Washington, July 10. President Wilson In presenting the treaty to the senate declared that a "league of free nations tiad become practical ly a necessity to which franiers of the treaty felt obliged to turn aa an Indlapensable Instrumentality ror the maintenance or a hew order it has been their purpose to set up in the world." He said the most skep tical or .peace conferees had turned more ajirt more to the league In seeking a solution of the treaty problems. " a fact that the covenant or the league was the first substan tiate part or treaty to ibe agreed upon while all else was In eolutlon helped to make the formulation of the jest easier." The president said the most prac tical of the conferees "were at last the most ready to refer to the TO CARRY FRUIT CROP San Juan, July 10. Fruit grow ers of IPorto iHtco have asked the Emergency Fleet Corporation to equip '100 steamers as refrigerator ships to carry fruit not only between Porto IRIco and the mainland but be tween the United States, South Am erica and European countries. The fruit growers have submitted i. - .1 a memorandum saying that each ship should have from 100,000 to 200,000 cubic feet of refrigerator apace. They assert that last year they lost more than $500,000 on their products because of insufficient tonnage and because! none of it was equipped with even j partial refrigeration facilities. The statement declares that aside from the lines engaged In the banana-carrying trade, the United States has not more Mjan a dozen partly equip ped Insulated refrigerator ships. These proposed refrigerator ships, it 1 urged by the fruit growers, should have a speed or from 12 to 14 knots. It is pointed out that few freighters of such speed now are afloat. Trade Relations With Hons. league the superintendency of all In terests which did not admit of Im mediate determination of all admin istrative problems which were to re quire continuing oversight; what had seemed a council of perfection had come to seem a plain counsel or necessity. The league Is the prac tical statesman' bop or success In many or the most difficult things he was attempting." The president told the senate of the conferees' difficulties and said "old entanglement of every kind stood In the way of promises which the government made to one an other when might and right were confused and the power of the victor was without restraint. It was not easy to graft the new order of Ideal on the old, and some fruit of the crafting may, I fear, for some time, toe bitter. The atmosphere In Which the conference worked seem ed created "by the hopes and asplra Hons or small nations poples hith erto under bondage." Disregarding the senate rules, the crowded galleries cheered for a mln- ute when the president entered, the cheering being punctuated by "rebel yells." President Wilson Informed v the correspondents that the treaty with France waa designed for the protec tion or Prance until such time aa this special guarantee be no longer needed. Due protection is to be af forded an nations of the league. He has the Impression that the French people will be cut to the (heart If the United States shoujd ifall to ap prove the special treaty. Paris, July 10. 'Austria' will be admitted to membership In the league of nations aa soon as the al lies consider she 'possesses a re sponsible government, with both will and .power to fulfill International obligations. Washington, July 10. Senator Borah of Idaho has Introduced a resolution asking the president to send the senate a copy or a letter declared to have been written by General iBliss on behalf of himself. Secretary Lansing and Henry White, protesting against the peace confer ence decision regarding Shantung. E TIMES FOUND DEAD 'Portland, Ore., July 10. Judge David Cook Sanderson, of Freewater, Oregon, editor of the Times, wasi found dead In bed at a local hotel, of ' heart failure. -He was .born in Hull, England, 63 years ago and was a Methodist minister in Canada' for 25 years. He later traveled over the United States, lecturing on journalism'. Al-STRIA AXD HUNGARY , ARE AT .SWORDS POINTS Paris. July 10. Dispatches indl ca;te that there is a high tension be tween the Austrian nnit Wnnni-lor governments. The Austrian foreign minister demanded the recall from Vienna of the Hungarian minister. HURLEY RESIGNS Washington, July 10. iPrealdent August 2, Colonel iPierce A. Murphy, Wilson has accepted the resignation who is in command, and the other of Edward N. Hurley, chairman of officers who are aiding him in to. the shipping board, to take effect struotlng the youngsters are proud August 1. It Is understood that the of the physical record shown by president will appoint John. Barton them. Only six of those who ao Payne. of Chicago. -r Mr. Hurley's peared failed to come W to the re successor. . V. I quired standard., I AT of; SHOWS SKEPTICS Allied IMoJomaU Given Glimpse of 651.12,117 Ruble Stacked Cell. Ing High La Vault Omsk, July 10. The Omsk gov ernment has turned out Its pockets, peaking figuratively, to convince any skeptic there mibi to among allied representatives present In the capital that it Is not without gold reserve to back its currency Issues. Fifty members of allied diplomatic and military missions filed through the vaults of the state bank, on in vitation by the ministry of foreign relations, and viewed the precious metal stacked ceiling high In boxes and sacks. There was represented In coin and bullion a total of 651.532.117 rubles computed at standard rate before the ruble became the uncertain measure it is today, according to fig ure furnished by the treasury comp troller. An Interesting feature of the ex hibition was hundreds of gold and silver plate, trophies, dinner sets, lauiBiies, canaeiaDra; ikons, run ning Into hundreds of thousands of dollars In value, representing loot which the bolshevikl had assembled In Kazan and Samara and ' which waa removed for safekeeping when the Czech captured those dole a year ago. A large ipart of this col lection represents personal property of the bourgeoisie which can easily be identified by rightful owners when peace Is restored. iapjkbH ; ' Toklo. July 10. Labor troubles are taking place in Japan. At a gold mine in fibisuoka prefecture, 100 miner went on strike recently and. armed with pick-axes and shovels. raided the residences of the mine of ficials and destroyed or damaged the buildings and furniture. The local police force suppressed the' rioter. The cause of the trouble Is dissatis faction over wages. , Over 1,000 women and girls em ployed In a big silk factory at Uyeda nave gone on strike for higher wages. Similar occurrences are re ported from various parts of the em pire. One cause of the unrest la the souring of rtce, which is now higher than last summer when the country was involved In serious rice disturb ances. ITALY FORCED TO RESORT TO ELECTRICAL POWER 'Rome. July 10. 'Italy's lack of coal has forced her to depend more and m-re upon electrical power. During the period of 1914 to 1918 more than one hundred million dol , . . lure 'waa expenaea. on water power electric plants by electric companies in Turin and 'Milan. v TS TO San iFrancisco. July 10. .Five hundred young men from 42 onrver sitiee and high schools of the nine far western states are learning the rudiments of soldiering In a six weeks' Intensive course of instruc tion at the reserve officers' training corps camp at the Presidio, the gov ernment military reservation iere. They begun their work on June 21. : The course wild come to a close on V ISK WHOLE XTMBEK ma. DIRIGIBLE. WITH CREW OF 30 SAILS HOME ' . LEFT BEFORE MIDNIGHT AVT BV 10:3O TODAY HAD HADE 490 MILKS , WILL ME SOUTHERN BUTE 1,000 Men Hold Monster in Leaihi at 200 Feet up Begla Jooney; Return Will Take 70 Horn -Washington, July 10. The Mi, which left before-midnight, -waa 450 mile nertheajrt of New York at It o'clock today, making 58 knot oa her return trip to Scotland. Mineoli N. T., July 10. The British dirigible 3t-34 left Roosevelt field shortly before midnight on her return cruise to Scotland. The great airship, held to leash by 1,000 American balloon men, waa re leased at 11:55 o'clock and floated leisurely up to a height of 200 feet with her motors silent. ' The motors then began to whirr and the craft' nosing upward headed for New Tork. Three great aarcbJlghts playing oa . the ship made her clearly discern ible to the thousands wrho had gath ered to bid her bon voyage. ' With three engines port- starboaM and' forward rannJag and two others to reserve the R-34 glided off toward, the south, then swinging In a west erly course, she pointed her nose la the direction of New York. ' ' It took the R-34 about three min ute to rise to a height at which sha began to cruise. At 11:59 she was , about 500 feet up, barely discern ible and with no rights visible, and - wa)i skimming along at a speed of about 35 to 40 miles an hour. With favorable conditions illajor G. H. Scott, her commander, hope to make the voyage in 70 hours, sail ing over London before proceeding to Bast Fortune, Scotland, If weath er conditions permit. AT GIVES PEOPLE SCARE Sheriff George Lewis and Deputy Sheriff Lister were called to Merlin yesterday evening to investigate the actions of a certain young stranger whom the (Merltnltes said was prow ling around residences. The stranger was harmless, bnt it was feared that he was bent on rob bery. He was seen to enter vacant houses at night, where he would light matches and search about the premises. - Upon arriving at Merlin the offi cers were shown- a vacant house into which the stranger was seen to en ter a short time before thetr arrival. It was a small house with an attic or small upstairs. Not a sign of life was found on the lower floor and Deputy Lister ascended to the upper apartment. He saw nothing at first and was about to descend when he glanced in a far corner and saw a Ismail man standing upright, his face overspread with a grin thatVas al most a loud laugh. . He was taken to the lower floor where an old ra zor and two pocket knives were found on his person. He gave his nanfe as Frank. jLansenderfer and his home as San Francisco. 'When asked what he was doing in the house he laughingly Replied that 'he was "looking for a place to sleep.' The officers could plainly see that the man was "off his balance" and brought him to rants Pass where he is resting In the county Jail. He Is to have an examination as to hi sanity and will, in all probability, be taken to the state home at Salem-