( b AMERICAN MARINE KILLED IN BATTLE COOLIDGE LISTENS TO TARIFF BATTLE Nicaraguan Bandits Suffer More Than 200 Casualties in Spirited Fight. South Dakota Governor and Senator in Old-Fashioned Debate. W ashington, D. C.—One American m arine was killed, two were badly wounded and the attack in g N icaraguan forces suffered 200 casualties in a spirited 16-hour fight last Saturday betw een m arines and a native band n ear Ocotal, N icaragua, C harles B. E b erh ard t, American m inister, rep o rt­ ed to the sta te departm ent. The attack in g N icaraguans, under G eneral Sandlno, whom the state de­ p art in‘-nt describes us a "bandit,” were com pletely routed by m arine corps avlutors who cam e to th e a s­ sistan ce of the ground force of m a­ rines and native N icaraguan national guardsm en, E b erh ard t declared. T he b attle reports show th a t the m arines lived up to the best trad i­ tion of th eir famous corps. H ardly had a company of m arine, under Cap­ tain H atfield, beivi stationed at Oco­ tal, aw aiting reinforcem ents, when the rebels under Oenerul Sandlno a t­ tacked. A fter a brisk fight th e rebels se n t out a truce party and suggested th a t H atfield and his men su rren d er unconditionally. H atfield's reply was versed in seagoing m arine language negative, and th e battle was resum ed. The m arines w ere hard pressed, but still fighting when the airplane squad­ ron hove In sight and turned the tide of b attle In favor of the Americans. MANY CASUALTIES IN VIENNA RIOTS V ienna. — C ontrary to all ex pecta­ tions Sunday found the Seipel gov­ ernm ent stro n g er than ever, w ithout the least Intention of resigning, but concentrating all its effo rts on resto r­ ing order as quickly as possible and, if necessary, with the sev erest m eas­ ures. For m any hours F riday and S atu r­ day the police and mobs had struggled in various p arts of the capital. T here w ere some desperate encounters, and although the au th o rities m ade public casualties num bering 12 dead and 100 wounded, the general belief is th at they exceeded 120 deud, with more than 1000 wounded. The governm ent, with the support of the police and troops, is absolute m aster of the situation. E veryw here it is em phasized th at the riot was In no way directed ag ain st foreigners, who have not been m olested In a single Instance. The central section of Vienna Is quiet, though presenting the picture of a state of selge, with all public build­ ings guarded by troops and police and m achine guns at points of vantage. MT. HOOD CLIMB FATAL Dr. Stanton W. S tryker, Portalnd Den­ tist, Killed in Tragedy Near Summ it. Cloud Cap Inn. — I)r S tanton W. S tryker, prom inent P ortland d en tist and Mazama, w as fatally injured Sun­ day morning, about 11 o'clock, when one of a party of 10 climbing Mount Hood slipped and all 10 were carried •w ny down the m ountain side. An alpenstock, on which he fell, went com pletely through his chest. He died while being tran sp o rted down the side of th e m ountain to the American Legion cam p at the 6000 foot level. All th e o th er nine m em bers of the group probably will live, though sev­ eral were severely injured. Cause of the accident was the slip­ ping of one of the ten clim bers about the center of th e party, the m em bers of which were roped together. The m ass of hum anity sw ept down the soft snow betw een 500 and 600 feet to n snow cliff th a t overhung a crevasse and shot across th is g reat crack In Coe glacier, dropping about 6o feet Inio the soft snow the other aide of th e crevasse. Old Testam ent Put In Modern Words. Chicago.—The story of the serpent that enticed Eve Into com m itting the first sin is cast in m odern langunge in the first American tran slatio n of the olii testam en t, com pleted a fte r three years' work by four noted Amer­ h a n and C anadian stu d en ts of ancient H ebrew The work Is to be published by th e I'n lv e rslty of Chicago. Am erican Consul Shot by Mexican. W ashington. D. C W illiam Chap­ man, American consul at Puerto. Mex 1(0, was shot while In his home by an arm ed In tru d er early Sunday morning, according to a m essage received by th e s ta te dep artm en t from th e British vice consul there. Hoover W ill V isit Pacific Northwest. W ashington. D C S ecretary H er­ bert Hoover of the dep artm en t of com­ merce, who leaves S aturday for an ex tended w estern trip, expects to visit Oregon and W ashington before his retu rn . HENRY N. MILLER OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. 1 k Of 2300 head of grade and pure bred dairy and beef cattle tested during the past th ree w eeks in K lam ath county, by F. H. Thom pson, inspector for th e U nited S tates bureau of anim al Indus- I try, only eight w ere found to be suf­ fering w ith tuberculosis. The Lion’s Lilac, a yearling Je rse y cow, owned by H arry D. Iliff of Inde­ pendence, has established a new w orld's record for cows under 2 y ears old by producing 742.44 pounds of but­ te rfa t and 10,752 pounds of milk la 305 days, th e A m erican Je rse y C attle club announces. Only .46 per cen t of all traffic over Ardmore, S. D.—P resid en t Coolidge th e highw ays of O regon is horsedraw n, bumped into a flurry of old-fashioned according to a survey conducted by oratorical political firew orks when he the s ta te highw ay departm ent. cam e here to p articip ate In a farm ­ The road to th e C ra te r lake rim e rs ’ picnic and h eard G overnor Bulow L um ber m ills In and ad jac en t to from Anna springs th a t has been sub­ of South Dakota, a dem ocrat, dem and K lam ath F alls are now em ploying a p ­ ject to one-way traffic owing to snow proxim ately 3000 m en and a re cutting tariff revision as an aid to ag ricu ltu re since th e opening of the park July 1, and listened to S enator N orbeck, re­ more th an 1,500,000 feet of lum ber w as opened la s t F riday w ithout any publican of th is state, reply “th ere Is each day. traffic restrictio n s. A w arm sun h as only one th in g worse than a republican F inal check of the sum m er qu arter m elted the snow rapidly and a force ta riff and th a t is a dem ocratic tariff,” enrollm ent a t th e O regon norm al of men has com pleted the work. C aught unaw ares in the political school a t M onm outh showed an in­ C ontinued cool w eath er and exces­ row, the presid en t sat silent am id th e crease of 114 over th e re g istra tio n ol sive m oisture in the soil is keeping throngs of farm ers as he w itnessed a t last sum m er. th e w heat straw in several section of close range a heart-to-heart b attle on G overnor P a tte rso n has appointed U m atilla county too green and tough Henry N. M ille r of Greensburg, Ind., th e tariff. It was the first tim e in years th a t a p resident had been a spec­ elghty-five years old, who has been Mrs. H enry L, C orbett, Rev, J. G. T ate for h arv est operations and th e w heat ta to r a t a two-sided discussion of do­ advised by the Federal pension bureau and Mrs. F rederick Strong, all of P o rt­ h a rv e st will not generally be u n d er m estic issues. The d irt farm ers of th a t he is the last of the scouts who land, m em bers of the sta te child wel­ way until July 25, according to word the arm y. H er duties deal w ith the this state, N ebraska and Wyoming, captured Jefferson Davis at the close fare com m ission. received from g rain grow ers n ear P en­ part women w ill have in future m ili­ w arm ed up to the situation in m atter of the Civil w ar. W h at a re said to be th e firs t C olp dleton. ta ry activities. rado potato beetles in e astern Oregon of fact style and the plain hereabouts Special lighting d istric t and p u r­ h av e been found on the E d Jones chase of D elbert K elly a th letic field ran g with cheers as each sp eak er hit place in Baker. T hey resem ble the w ent over by a tw o to one vote in an home. e a ste rn potato bug. Coolidge looked on w ithout a p p aren t­ ap ath e tic special city election held In ly taking notice of the political b attle T he annual C lackam as county pip C ottage Grove la s t week. T he coun­ a t his side. He and Mrs. Coolidge had n eers' picnic will be held a t the Jons- cil w as given au th o rity to create light­ traveled here to Join in the fa rm ers’ rud grove, one-half mile no rth of the ing d istric ts by a vote of 138 to 67 picnic and they had eaten at luncheon Chicago, 111.—A aron S apiro’s $1,000,- E staca d a high school on the Bluff and to purchase the ath letic field by a K ansas City. — S trik in g at varied tim e a picnic d inner prepared by the 000 suit ag ain st H enry Ford was set­ road, Sunday, July 31. voted of 133 to 73. spots over an area covering nearly 200 officials of the experim ent station. tled, Mr. Sapiro announced here. New traffic law s for the city of T em porary organization of th e Coos Between speeches the president m iles long and 100 m iles wide, high Sapiro sued Ford for libel as a P endleton were adopted by th e city C ounty E gg P ro d u cers’ asso ciatio n w inds left d estruction In a half dozen aw arded prizes for cattle judging. resu lt of articles in the D earborn In­ council last week. P arking tim e lim ­ was form ed a t Coquille, w ith S. B. comm unities. dependent, a Ford publication, alleg­ its and o th er tra ffic problem s are Leeper, p resident, resolved to m ark et The winds were felt here, In south ing Sapiro w as engaged in co-operative Ironed out in th e new code. 24,000 eggs produced daily in Coos ern Missouri, eastern K ansas and cen­ m arketing as p a rt of a Jew ish con­ F isherm en who use M arshfield as county. The organization plans to in­ tral Kansas, with a death toll reported spiracy to obtain control of A m erican h ead q u arters while trolling offshore crease egg production and engage in a t from 7 to 10. Conflicting rep o rts agriculture. claim th a t sh ark s a re causing much export trad e. T he county now im ­ poured In as m eager com m unication The suit w as settled on the basis of trouble and dam age to n ets and tackle ports 300 cases m onthly. was established with affected areas, a new statem en t which Mr. Sapiro an­ off the m outh of th e U m pqua river. E llsw orth K elley and Jam es W illos Geneva.—The B ritish and Jap an ese but no accurate check of dead and In­ nounced had been issued by Mr. Ford, delegates to th e tri p artite naval con­ In addition to his recent apoligy for Com plete official re tu rn s of the re ­ for a th ird Time heard sentence of jured was possible. E stim ates of Injured ran to 150. ference handed the A m erican dele­ anti-Jew lsh sta tem en ts appearing in cen t special election, as canvassed by death pronounced ag ain st them when the se c retary of sta te , show th a t the C ircuit Judge K elly fixed August 19 T hree were reported n ear Shawnee, gates copies of a provisional agree­ the Independent. Kan., and th ree m ore a t Lebo, near m ent arrived at Sunday. T he ag ree­ No money se ttlem en t was Involved, sta te incom e tax m easure was defeat­ as the tim e for th e two men to die on ed by a m ajority of 19,294 of th e votes th e gallows in the Oregon s ta te pris­ Emporia. One death occurred in Kan­ m ent, it is reported, is based on a com­ Mr. Sapiro said. on, from w hich they fccaped on Aug­ sas City and several m ore were re­ prom ise which ap p ears to isolate the “The D earborn Independent w ishes cast. ported from outlying d istricts. Fifty U nited S tates delegation, and again to announce th a t th e suit com m enc­ A pproxim ately 400 stu d e n ts will u st 12, tw o y ears ago, leaving behind were Injured in Shaw nee, a score in tu rn s th e a tten tio n to the position of ed by Aaron Sapiro for libel against have g raduated from th e Monmouth them a tra il of tragedy and blood. A lthough severely handicapped by Lebo and a dozen o r more here. O ther the U nited S tates. the D earborn Independent and H enry N orm al school betw een the d ates of In general, the ag reem ent is said to Ford has been term in ated satisfa c to r­ Ja n u a ry 1, 1927, an d S eptem ber 2, at th e unseasonable rains, grading con­ Injuries w ere reported from several be based on a com pact for a cru iser ily to all p arties," said a statem en t which tim e th e sum m er session will tra c to rs w orking on th e Roosevedt sm all tow ns near here. Damage will run into many thou­ tonnage of 500,000 tons for the U nited given out as authorized by Mr, Ford close. highw ay betw eenu M ohler and G ari­ sands of dollars. Homes h ere w ere StateB and G reat B ritain and the lim ­ and the publication. T he to tal tonnage th a t passed baldi in Tillam ook county a re m aking damaged In several resid en tial sec­ itation of 8-inch guns on c ru isers un­ through the governm ent locks a t Ore­ fair progress on the last links needed d er 7500 tons. tions. gon City during the fiscal y ear end­ to com plete the coast road from Ya- SMITH PLANE FORCED DOWN The A m ericans Indicated th eir will­ Shaw nee suffered heavily with a ing June 30 am ounted to 265,399, an quina bay to A storia, according to A. ■core of buildings reported dem olish­ ingness to accept th e first point and C ivilian F lie rs Forced Down 60 M iles average of 847 to n s for every day ex­ J. Olsen, resid en t highw ay engineer Intim ated th a t arran g em en ts m ight be ed. In charge of the work. cept Sundays. From Goal. made for the acceptance of th e second Crooked riv er highw ay bridge— one Calvin J. H urd, 62, ex-state repre­ Honolulu.—The proposed round-trip point, but defintle opposition was of th e h ighest and g reatest spans of SHORT NEWS NUGGETS sen tativ e from Lane county and sine» flight from O akland to H onolulu and voiced to th ree o th er proposals. One retu rn of E rn est L. Sm ith and Em ory 1923 extension specialist in agricul its kind in th e w orld—was dedicated H enry W hite, form er am bassador to on these proposals Is reported to be B. B ronte ended on the leper island tu ral econom ics, died In C orvallis last by G overnor P atterso n last week. Co­ F rance and Italy and A m erican dele­ an ag reem ent for a p a ri’y In under­ of M olokai—60 m iles by a ir line from week of h e a rt d isease a fte r but » incidental with the bridge dedication g ate to th e P aris P eace conference, surface craft. was the joint dedication of th e P e te r O bservers here declare th e Anglo- H onolulu—w ith a forced crash that w eek’s illness. died In Lenox, Mass. Skene Ogden park, a tra c t w hich bor­ w recked the m onoplane “City of Oak­ The m ineralized skull of a mam mal Bobby Jones won th e B ritish open Jap an ese com prom ise has placed the land” in a klawe, o r breadfruit, tree. d ers the two ends of the bridge, and Interm ediate betw een a pig and a deer golf cham pionship for th e second suc­ U nited S tates deleg ates In an em bar­ w hich looks down Into the d ark and Sm ith declared th a t he caused the w hich ranged prim eval Oregon some cessive year with the low est 72-hole rassing position, since Hugh Gibson plane to crash into the tre e purposely, aw esom e chasm of th e C rooked river. 2,000,000 years ago, h as been found score ever set In a m ajor tournam ent. in the plenary session last week had fearing th a t if he landed in th e mud D uring Ju n e a total of 190 coyotes, in the John Day sedim ents of southern asserted the U nited S tates probably Roy W. Clark, who has been a ss ist­ 20 bobcats, one bear, one wolf, 72 could ad ju st Itself to any compromise th e plane would overturn, pinning Crook county. an t to President C harles Donnelly of badgers, 116 porcupines and four G reat B ritain and Jap an could make. B ronte beneath the w reckage. F arm ers a re g e ttin g excellent re ­ th e N orthern Pacific railw ay, has been skunks w ere killed by 27 h u n te rs di­ su lts from th e use of lim e in raising mnde general traffic m anager of that rected by the U nited S tates biological GOOD IDAHO WHEAT CROP Ex-Chief Convicted of K illin g Editor. clover and alfalfa. T he re su lt is or­ survey, according to th e June rep o rt road. C anton, O.—Seram us A. Lengel, ex­ d ers are being received at the state Colonel C harles A. L indbergh Is ex of S tanley G. Jew ett, leader of preda­ pected to reach the Pacific northw est L ittle More Sunehine Needed for Best chief of the Canton police departm ent, lim e p lan t for fu tu re delivery a t the tory anim al .control In O regon. M any was found guilty of th e m urder of Don ra te of 100 tons a day. of Q uality, on his nation-wide flight in the Inter­ additional coyotes w ere poisoned by Moscow, Idaho. — P rospects for R. M ellett, C anton editor, one y ear to The O regon S tate P harm aceutical th ree h u n ters w orking in e a stern Ore­ est of com m ercial aviation about Sep­ w heat h ere th is year a re good, and the day from the tim e M ellett was shot association, closing its three-day con­ tem b er 15. gon. Miami, Fla., was selected as the 1928 w ith a little m ore hot w eather the down by a hired gunm an In the drive­ vention in Bend la s t week, selected S tatistics compiled by Roy A. K lein, way of his home. Lengel was convict­ Salem as the 1928 convention city and m eeting place for th e E lks' national grain should ripen and m atu re well. sta te highw ay engineer, and based ed chiefly on evidence of Floyd M. T here is little trouble expected from nam ed Lynn B, F erguson, Newberg, convention, d efeating Los Angeles. upon a survey conducted on Ju n e 15, S treiten b erg er, form er detective and president for th e com ing year. John F ran k Malley of Springfield, sm ut o r blight. show th a t of th e traffic passing over Speculation places yields in the favorite policem an of Lengel when the Mass., was elected grand exalted ruler. H enry Noble M cKinney, 91, for 60 highw ays In O regon 66.51 p er cen t John N. G arner, T exas, seem s cer­ upper regions at Trom 15 to 39 bushels la tte r was chief. S treiten b erg er, sen­ years a resid en t of B aker county, and w ere p assenger cars bearing O regon tenced to life, confessed a fte r his con­ tain to be th e next leader of th e demo­ an acre, and those in the valleys esti­ for 75 years a resid en t of Oregon, died license plates, 21.45 per cen t w ere crats In the house of rep resen tativ es. m ate from 20 to as high as 50 bushels. viction and im plicated L engelas one a t the hom e of his daughter, Miss passen g er cars from o th er sta te s, 1.34 of th e conspirators. Finis J. G arrett, T ennessee, having de­ T hese figures are b e tte r than those of B erth a McKinney, in Baker, from com­ p er cent w ere stages and busses, 9.75 last year, when th e h arvest ran from cided to run for the sen ato rsh lp from plications caused by advanced age. per cent w ere tru ck s and .48 p er cen t th a t stale. T hat puts G arn er In line, 10 to 15 bushels an acre in many N. P. W ill Care fo r Crop Demands. The Oregon Audubon society has were m otorcycles. St. Paul, Minn. — N orthern Pacific and he is so universally well liked places. requested G overnor P atterso n to issue C ottage Grove lodge No. 61, A. F. T here Is an abundance of m oisture railw ay executives announced au th o r­ th at hts selection may be by acclam a­ a proclam ation proclaim ing the w est­ and A. M„ has a m em ber who will be in no rth ern counties. F arm ers gener­ ization of an additional expenditure of tion. ern m eadow lark th e sta te bird of Ore­ 100 years of age in O ctober and is yet ally are hoping for sunshine th a t will $500.000 to Insure efficient handling of gon. T he selection w as m ade by a active. The m em ber is “U ncle Jim ” pinch the grain and m ake it of high th e 1927 farm crops in the northw est. Navy to Get Back Oil Land Control. vote of th e school children of Oregon. W hitford, who as a guest a t th e Ma­ m illing quality. W ashington, D. C.—V irtually com­ The city of Coquille has placed an sonic home a t F orest Grove, w here T H E M ARKETS. plete control of naval oil reserves and order for 4600 feet of new eight-inch he has been a ss ista n t to the superin­ Portland. Lowden Urged to Be Candidate. all leases will re tu rn officially to the W h eat—Big Bend bluestem , H ard w ater m ain, w hich will be used in re ­ tendent. and continues active In show­ Oregon, 111.- F orm er G overnor Frank navy dep artm en t August 1. under an 0 . Lowden, at his country estate. Sln- w hite, Bs B aart, $1 32 federation, soft pairing broken-down conduits in some ing visitors over the place. C ottage agreem ent reached betw een S ecretary Isippi farm , was asked to be candidate white, w estern white, $1 31; hard win­ p a rts of th e city, and laying a new Grtfve has an o th er resident, Mrs. Mel­ of the Navy W ilbur and S ecretary of for president of th e U nited S tates by ter, $1.28; northern spring, $1.33; w est­ line of 1600 feet from a well recently vina W illis, w ho soon will be 101. In terio r Work. sunk. a group of N ebraska citizens headed ern red. $1.28. P ortland last m onth equaled Its rec­ Tills agreem ent provides th a t local by G overnor Adam McMullen, repub- I H ay—Alfalfa, $17.50; valley tim othy, The vacationist settin g out on his ord of last S eptem ber by establishing control of the reserv es shall bo vested ltcan, who recen tly declared him self , $17018; eastern Oregon tim othy, $22 sum m er outing will find the finest a death roll of only 9.4 to the 1000 of In navy Inspectors, th u s resto rin g the O regon roads In th e history of the j population of the city and set a new- in favor of Lowden and deserted the 022.50. statu s th at existed prior to the execu­ cam p of P resid en t Coolidge. state. In the opinion of Oregon S tate low m ark for in fan t d eath s when th e B u tte rfa t—39Hc. tive order of P resident H arding, which M otor association officials who have ra te last m onth w as 22.5 to every 1000 E ggs—Ranch, 21024c. tran sferred control to the in terio r de­ Rainbow Division Plans Paris Meet. ju s t com pleted an extensive logging births. P o rtlan d had the low est death C attle—S teers, good, $950010.25. partm ent. P resident Coolidge, follow­ Des Moines, la .—P lans for a pil­ H ogs — Medium to choice. $9.500 to u r of the state. The delayed sum ­ ra te am ong babies shown by a survey ing th e suprem e court a decision a t­ grim age to Prance In 1928 to celebrate m er, which held up traffic on many of 48 cities of 100.000 population o r 11 25. tacking the validity of P resident H ard­ th e 10th an n iv ersary of Champagne. Lam bs — Medium to choice, $100 m ountain roads, has repaid for Its ta r­ more, made by the dep artm en t of com­ ing's act, revoked th e executive order. St. Mlhiel and Argonne were launched i diness by placing practically all of m erce, which credited th a t city w ith 12.50. Seattle. by the v eteran s of the Rainbow Givi- ' the state roads in excellent condition. a ra te of 38.7. Mexico Chief Frees Catholic Leader*. slon at th e ir ann u al reunion here. An ' W h eat—Soft w hite, w estern white. W ith more than 150 delegates from Linn county farm ers, according to Mexico City. P resident Callee has Invitation to P aris or Nancy. France, $1 43; hard w inter, n orthern spring. all over Oregon, W ashington and Ida- j all present indications, are assured of ordered the release of all Catholic lay h as been received from th e French $141; w estern red. $140; Big Bend ho in attendance, the fifth annual sum ­ a bum per crop in all fall sown grains, leaders in prison on th e ch arg e of governm ent. bluestem . $1.52; dark northern spring, m er training conference of the United ' which a re far above the average, grain sedition They num ber 28 officers and dark hard w inter. $1 55. P resbyterian church synod of the j men report, who have beea studying leaders of th e League for th e Defense President Coolidge's Callie Diet. H ay—Alfalfa, 925; tim othy, P. g , j Colum bia opened In C orvallis last : the situation. S pring sown o ats will of Religious Liberty. Rapid City. S. D. Prudence Prim, $22. I week. be much b e tte r than usual, but spring one of th e W hite H ouse collies. It B u tterfat—43c. The annual field day and picnic of ! w heat will be dam aged about one-third W oman's Flogger to Join Chain Gang. dead. She succum bed to distem per Eggs —Ranch; 19022>ic. the farm ers of M ultnom ah county will by rust. Fall w heat will m ake an av­ Toccoa. Ga. — W O. Acre», high at Fort Meade, 8. D.. m ilitary station, C attle— Steers, choice, $9 09.75. be held on the grounds of the Multno- I erage yield of 30 bushels to th e acre w here a corps of v eterin arian s had school principal, waa sentenced to one Hogs Prim e $11 40011 50. mah C ounty F air association Satur- J and th ere a re 'm a n y fields which wilt year on th e Georgia chain gang for worked over her ceaselessly since her : Spokane. day. July 23. T his picnic is under the ■ produce 40 bushels. T he average in hta part In th e flogging of Mra. Ansley Illness began nearly a m onth ago. Pru­ C attle Steers, good. $8 2 5 0 8 75, auspices of th e Pom ona grange of 1 recent y ears has n u t been above 20 Bowers, Toccoa ateaiu stress. dence Prim was a m ate to Rob Roy. 1 H g s - Good. $1" 50 fi 11.00. 1 M ultnomah county. bushels. FORD SETTLES THE SAPIRO LIBEL SUIT KANSAS SUFFERS FROM SEVERE STORM JAPAN AND BRITAIN OFFER ANOTHER PLAN I