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'VOL. It., No. SMI.
O RANTS PA8A, JOfMCTHIXB COCNTT, OREGON, gATTRDAV, AUGUST 23, 10l.
WHOLB NIMBEK 2759.
'Us The Climate
mmln
BANDIT TRAIL
GROWS DIM IN
MOUNTAINS
riMiivK expedition track
MEXICAN KIDN'AITKIM UNTIIj
THAI I, MtOWH COLD
Mexhwn I'l-ualdnut Nut tu He gum
Uoncd Alum l 111m Altitude Toward
V. H. Anotlk-r Expedition
Marls, Tex., Auk. iS3. -Pursuit ot
the Jloxtoua bun dl U continues, but
lb .trull it not considered "tiot," a
lb bandits bave rune ho J the moun
tain futu and have probably es
caped. .
Washington, Aug. 23. Tbe Mexi
can chamber of deputies today de
feated thn resolution lor a coinmlt-
loo to cooperate with Carranxa, the
senate and thu supreme court, in
forming a policy ou international
questions, particularly petroleum, It
. la reported. Tbe cbumbcr also de
. foiled a resolution for the interrotta
tlon of Preslduul Cur ran la on ri'la
i tlona with tbe Pulled Stutoa.
San Diego. Auk. 23. Waiting alr
tlanua are atandliiK at vantage polnta
along the border, unable to work due
to fog, but are ready to atari Ibe
. search for Miitoniit Waterhoiue
and Connelly, last seen Wednesday
evening flying toward Jacumha, In
Dellavllsd planes. Crave fears for
the two aviator re entertained.
Washington, Aug. 23. It was re
ported here today that the (Mexican
government had withdrawn Ita order
compelling William Cum mime, llrlt
leh charge d' archive, to leave Mex
ico. Austin. Tex., Aug. 23. Texas
Rangers accompanying t'nited States
soldiers as scouts, crossed ovor Into
Mexico at -Fabon today. Tbo na
ture and purpose of the exiiedltlon
' is unknown.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 23. A 7th
cavalry troop has crossed the bor
der, following a raid by Mexican at
Fort Hancock Friday night and the
theft of 12 horBos. Reports that the
American force have overtaken the
Mexicans and fighting I In progress
has not been confirmed.
:'25M Will Hl'HYKV OF JtO.VD
TO TIIK JOSEPHINE OAVES
Portland, lAug. ?3. Authorization
"has been eont to the district forester
at (Portland, to use $2500 from the
forest service funds In a prelimin
ary survey of tho Oregon oaves road
Teports from Washington, D. C, tq
day announced. . While neither the
state nor the forest service has ade
quate funds to take up the Improve
ment at this time, the survey la or
dered so that the project may re
ceive consideration just as soon as
money I available.
HUMAN LIFE CHEAPEST
lLaredo, Texas, Aug. 23. Killing
ot 90 men of the government garri
son at Tanhuijo, state ot Vera Crux,
Mexico, by followers ot LVUnuel tPel
aez, the rebel chief of the oil reglon j
is reported In copies ot El lloraldo
de Mexico whloh have been received
here. Sixty were killed in defending
the town. 1
According to the published ac
count, the rebel chief forced the
commander of the garrison, iLleuten
ant Colonel Murquez,' to execute the
30 prisoners with a machine gun,
later hanging the unfortunate offlcor
-up iby 'his iheela and shooting him.
mm WITHDRAWS ORDER
RECORD F0RHSPEED
Hallway TrMi TraiiNforiii IM-vaM-
uu-u ixniniry no riwirtiy 'Hint
Work Mystifies the JUsd
Horoka, Russian Lapland, Aug. 23.
'Pushing forward dully Into terri
tory of the bolshevlkl and often un
der fire, the American railway
troops on the -Murman front In two
montha transformed 71 miles of
dynanUte and burned ibrldgea aud
railway, wrecked and destroyed by
retreatluK bolshnvlkl, into a work
able railway which they manned,
operated and maintained.
To tbrm troope tbe dtrlllah com
mand give much of the credit of
the 7 J -in I lit ad unco toward Petro
tavodak. In the contingent were 30
otfloure and 675 men, comprising the
1 67th and ISSih companlea of rail
way troop as a' special battalion un
der Major K. K. MucVlorland, Kan
sas City, and every kind of railroad
er from a superintendent to a sec
tion hand.
The Yanks worked so fast In fact
that the bolahcviki according to
prisoner taken, 'believed that they
bad miraculous machines for track
laying aud adjustable bridge which
they dropped In as they went along.
It was all done by a gang under
Cuptain C J. Jones, ot Paterson, N.
J., who In Alaskan and I-atln-Ameri-enn
Job was nicknamed "Hurry-up
Jones." The men worked 17 hours
dally with the enemy right ahead
and the iDrltish artillery right ., be
hind awaiting construction. There
were iWi battle and sklnnlnb.ee In
many small aiding where on several
occasions the constructors aud also
the train's crew were -under fire.
OWEN SEES FOREIGN
TRADE SLIPPING AWAY
Washington, lAug. 23. President
Wilson has Iheon urged In a letter
from Senator Owen, Oklahoma,
ranking democratic member of tbe
senate banking committee, to take
stciw to protect the foreign com
merce of the United States and bring
about an extension of credits to cover
European purchases. The letter as
inserted In the record also proposed
that means be provided to pass upon
the validity of European securities
offered for sale in the t'nited States.
"Unless Immediate ste are
taken," Senator Owen ttald, "to ac
complish ihAse results, I fear a ser
ious business reaction will take place
in the United States by cutting off a
large part of our foreign market for
our surplus products. I agree that
prices should come down but the re
duction should be by the elimination
of excess profits artificially placed
upon good and -they should not
come down by cutting, down the
wage paid to labor."
AUSTRALIANS TO ATTEND
university of California
JCew York, lAug. . 23. One hun
dred Australian soldiers will arrive
here from England August 29 on
tholr way to the University of Call
torn la where they will take a course
In agriculture, the Australian com
mission announces.- They will work
a year on the farm at Davis attached
to the university and then return to
Australia.
AFTER CITY BAKERS
Portland, Ore., 'Aug. 23. -Mayor
Daker hag ordered the olty attorney's
office to proceed against the local
bakers tor prlcetflxlng and combi
nations, under tlie city ordinance,' tf
the evidence gathered Justifies such
act. He has ordered Federal Attor
ney Hancy to turn over his informa
tion, as he cannot proceed under the
foderal law because the bakers are
not engaged in interstate commerce.
S. P. TRAINS
Al l AT
LOS ANGELES
('Alt INSPECTORS JOIN STRIKERS
WHO MAIM If SIX AHKKAST TO
STALL ALL TRAFFIC
SE
'250, (MM! HU'4-l Workers May Walk
Out; Would lie Country-Wide and
Paralyze Industry
I oh Angeles, Aug. 23. five hun
dred Southern Puotfic cur Inspectors
have Joined the rank of the strik
ers and are parading down town,
stopping street oar traffic during the
rush hours by walking six abreast.
wedged together.
All Southern Pacific train from
the city have been cancelled.
San Francisco, Aug. 23. &. E.
Swain, president of the Pacific dis
trict council ot the International
llrotherhood of Electrical Workers,
today declared that the referendum
vote ot the telephone workers of
Washington, Oregon, California', Ida
ho and Nevada, on the proposal of
tbe telephone company whloh ended
the recent strike, will be canvassed
next Monday. All union thu tar
announced have rejected tbe propo
sition. If there la a general rejec
tion the worker will strike again
on October lat, be said. . . .
Chicago, Aug. 23. dC. J. Evans,
one of the six steel union leaders up
on whom may rest the responsibil
ity for calling a nation-wide strike of
250.000 steel workers, ha left for
New York.
' There he will meet other members
of the tub-committee to confer with
officials of tbe United States Steel
corporation.
"We 'hope It won't be necessary to
call a strike," 'Evans said. "But it
the steel corporation head don't
grant our demand and we are forced
to Issue the strike order, every union
steel workers in the United States
will quit work. (Many of the unor
ganized -workers will strike 'with us.
"Steel production will not be en
tirely stopped becaiwe of the many
unorganized workers," 'Evans said.
I-aredo, Tex., Aug. 23. Albert
von Hoffman of St. Louis who has
Just arrived here says that he was
robbed of $10,000 cash 'coming out
of Mexico by Carrunza soldiers.
ALIEN SLACKERS-
The action of Portland, Oregon, 1
Post No. 1, the American Legion in
ferreting out the alien slackers who
cancelled their first papers to avoid
service In the military forces ot the
country of their adoption, and In giv
ing their names to the public press,
probably was the first to be taken
In the United Stales by a poet of the
ex-service men's organisation, la the
statement given out from American
Legion headquarters at Portland.
But it will not be the last. Witness
the latest news bulletin from the na
tional headquarters of the legion at
Now York City:
"Men who were In the, service
during the -war will not forget the
alien slackers. Through every post
of the lAmerloan Legion, the national
organization ot American veterans ot
the European war, a determined sys
tematic campaign will be waged to
make their life here uncomfortable
and to bring about their deportation
The legion promises this aotlon in
an editorial announcement In the
current number of the (American Le
gion Weekly, the official spokesman
of the war veterans.
"The discreet and provident alien
AMERICAN LEGION WOULD D
FIRST CHANGE
IN TREATY WILL
FAVOR CHINA
FOREIGN , RELATIONS COMMIT
TEE IXSKKT8 NAME "CHINA"
INSTEAD OF "JAPAN"
DEMOCRATS II VOTE "NO"
Peace Conference Will Hand Term
to Austria Monday; Given Seven
Itoy in Which to Answer
Washington, Aug. 23. By a vote
of nine to eiht the senate foreign
relation committee adopted the
amendment to the peace treaty, by
which German rights In Shantung
would go to China Instead ot Japan.
All the democratic members and
Senator .MoCumber, of North Dakota,
republican, roted against the amend
ment, under which the word "Japan"
would 'be struck from the Shantung
section and the word "China" sub
stituted. Paris, 'Aug. 23. The peace treaty
with Austria will be handed to the
Austrian delegation Monday. The al
lies will give the Austrian seven
day in which to submit an answer
to the term.
Or. Karl Renner, Austrian chan
cellor, baa notified the peace confer
i noe that the treaty will be taken to
Vienna before it Is signed.
3,
Albany. Ore., Aug. 23. Report
today Indicate that the Crabtree tire
burned over 3,000 acres. Two hun
dred men who bave been fighting
the blaze now eeera to have It con
trolled.
There Is also a; fire on Dry Creek,
and one on Canal Creek Is etill burn
Ing.
RKJ VIKt DUKTltOYEU
Stockholm. Aug. 23. The bolshe
vlkl fleet in the Gulf of Finland, de
tending iPetrograd. has 'been com
pletely disabled, It is reported. The
defenses at Kronsradt were destroy
ed by British warships.
EPORT ALL
COfilPILIIIG A LIST
slacker." says the Legion's announce
ment, "will make his 'steamer reser
vations early."
It continues:
"The state organiaztlon of , the
American ILeglon n Oregon ' has
compiled a list of all alien slackers,
giving thetr names to the press for
publication and is making their ex
istence uncomfortable generally.
Foreigners who cancelled their first
papers at the outbreak of the war
are Included in the list of alien
slacker.
"The attention of men who em
ploy alien slackers and who deal with
them Is toeing ibrought by the le
gion's local members to these unde
sirables. Similar action "throughout
the country may be looked for
shortly.
"Americans ttre credited with the
characteristic of forgetting quickly
but the men who were in service
are not going to forget the alien
slacker now or later. , They are very
much In earnest in their opposition
to entertaining these Individuals
longer In America. The Issue will
not be neglected or laid aside."
COMPARES ENGLISH PROFITEERS
POLICY WITH HUNS BIG AND LITTLE
England I'ned Might but Gave Jus
tice; Ilorlie Defended I'ntonable
Positions With Sophistry
Berlin, Aug. 22. -"The reason
why the whole world rose' up against
Prussia and Germany and not
against England Is plain to everyone
who had observed the Prussian pol
icy in Poland and the Prussian ad
ministration in Alsace," asserts Pro
fessor P. W. Foerster, of the Univer
sity of Munich, writing In tbe Tage
blatt. England practiced much might to
be sure, but it has also Riven the
world much freedom and Justice,"
he added. "She succeeded In recon
ciling the Boers whereas we wece un
able in 40 years to regain tbe sym
pathies of the Alsatians who are
German to the core. That speaks
volumes.
"The isolation of Germany from
Hague conferences is Irrefutable
proof in dominating circles that Ger
many Is possessed of different men
tality ehan the rest of the world."
he Charges Germany with having
erred in the exchange of the Versail
les notes on the questions of guilt
ntnd states that many one-elded ac
cusations might have taen combated
more effectively if Germany (had not
again endeavored to defend . unten
able positions with rank sophistries.
TOVItlSTS FLEEING
FROM FOREST FIRE
Devil Like. x. Aug. 23, It
is reported that Montana' forest fires
bave reached Glacier National -park
and that tourists are Seeing for their
live.
PALACES OF PACIFIC
JILL HAVE NEW ROUTE
New York. Aug. 23. The trans
port Great Northern has sailed for
San IFrancisco. It is announced here
that the Great Northern and North'
era Pacific will oolh ibe used per
manently in the transport service on
the Pacific and both are to go
through the canal. Later they will
bring the American forces from Si
beria.
The two famous ships, formerly
known as "Palaces ot the Pacific,
will fcave a regular route from San
Francisco to Honolulu, Manila. Vla
divostok, Negasak'l, Guam, Honolulu
and San Francisco.
HIGHER SHOE PRICES
IS LATE PREDICTION
Milwaukee, Aug. -23. Shoe man
ufacturers forecast . still higher
prices for shoes and quote the fol
lowing from the trade magazine
MHldes and Leather" as their au
thority: (Hides and skins have ad
vanced to the highest rates ever
known. Leather which two weeks
a'go could be 'purchased at 82c per
foot is now selling at $1.1 4, and tan
ners are asking 31.60 per foot. It
takes from 3 to four feet of up
per leather alone to make a pair of
men's shoes. Shoes which cost the
retailer SS.50 a' month back, -now
cost $S to $9.50. -
IN ELGIN AUTO RACE
.1
Elgin, 111., Aug. 23. The seventh
Elgin automobile road race of 301
miles flies started. Ralph Mulfora
Is the favorite. Cliff Durant, ot San
Francisco, turned over three times
while speeding around a - sharp,
treacherous turn, but escaped ser
ious Injury, aside from a cut over
his eye. The car was damaged and
withdrawn from the race.
Elgim 111., Aug. 23. 3:24 p. m.
Tom Mllton won the road race in
a Deusenberg car. ' '
JEffiTED
FOOD CONTROL MEAStRK WII-
EXBI) TO rXCLCDE MAST
XWES8ITIES
SOUTH FIGHTS FOB THE SOOTH-
HlAntoo, Texas Democrat, Sees to It
That Raw Cotton Escapes; Pro
fiteer Face Big Fine
Washington, Aug. , 23. Without
amendment and with practically no
opposition, the house late yesterday .
voted to amend the- Lever food-control
act to extend Its provisions to
Include clothing, containers of food,
feed and fertilizers, fuel oil and im
plements used In production of ne
cessities and to penalize profiteering
by a $5000 fine or two years' im- .
prisonment. ' '
Proposals to make the act apply
to profiteering in house and room
rents, adopted by the house in com
mittee ot the whole, were stricken
out in the final vote.
The senate agriculture sab-com -
m,ittee named to consider amend
ments to ' the food control act dis
cussed with Attorney General Pal
ter today a proposed amendment to
define "reasonable prices and Just
profits." Mr. Palmer urged adop
tion of amendments recommended '
by him to stop profiteering, but no
agreement "wa reached. ' '
Efforts were made by both repub
licans and democrats to bave the
amendment's 'provisions cover neces
sities other than those included in
the amendment as reported by the
agriculture -committee. Inclusion ot
kerosene and gasoline was proposed
by Representative Strong, republican
of Kansas, who said the prices ot
these, products had increased 300'
per cent in the last two years, but his
amendment was rejected by a close'
vote, while that ot Representative
Newton; republican, Minnesota, to
include raw Cotton, was eliminated
on a' point of order by Represents- .
tive Blanton, democrat. Texas.
Attempts to bring farmers and
farm organizations within the Juris
diction of the amendment also were
blocked., . .
Recommendations ot Attorney
General Palmer to include retailers
doing business of less than $100,000
under the profiteering section so
that the department of Justice might
go after the "little ones" were in
cluded in the measure as passed.
Five hours ot general debate pre
ceded passage of the measure.
Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 23.
Germans, Austrians, Turks and
Chinese are asslting the bolshevik!
In the war against . the American
and allied troops on the northern
Russian front, according to Thomas
Jiarcharlk, Colorado Springs soldier
recently returned from ten months
service with the 339th infantry on
the Archangel front.
"Moat ot the fighting was done in
dense woods," said iHarcharik, "and
we would proceed from village to
village with machine gun nests on
both sides. or our route. '
"On one occasion we were on one
side of the Vaga river and the bol
sheviks were on the other. We
crossed on the ice about 200 strong
.when a force ot some 2,000 of the
'Uolos' surrounded us. We held
them off for 48 hours with a rapid
ly diminishing supply of ammuni
tion. A command ot friendly Rus
sians heard of our plight and broke
through the lines and rescued us.N
"Afterwards we learned from cap
tured officers that the orders were to
take no prisoners but to wipe our
force out entirely." ' , . v