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WHAT YOU NEED The other fellow may have; what you have the other fellow may want. Come together by advertising in the Press. mm AKS mt ,: i - Buy Your Groceries From Youi "VOLUME XXVI. ATHE2TA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FI ENGLISH MARINES TAKE CARE OF OSTEND . iapaza'"" , jlj -t .jj f General Carrama Resigns, But Is Requested to Si Mexico City Shortly before n night Monday the delegates to the g eral conference of southern delegu rejected by an almost unanimous v the resignation of General Venusti Carranza as first chief of the Const tionalists. The resignation was 1 before the convention early and vote followed a heated debate. A committee was sent to the 1 tional Palace to ask General Carra to accept once more supreme power.' The entrance of General Carranza into the conference chamber in the early evening for the purpose of ten dering his resignation was dramatic. After the packed galleries and floors had waited nearly an hour the first chief entered, accompanied by his staff. All those present arose and applauded. Without .introduction General Car ranza besran reading the test of his Resignation in a low voice, often stop ping because overcome by emotion. When he concluded he immediately .'Ostend, the Belgian seaport and fashionable resort, has been protected by a large force of British marines, tier shown marching through the street. Above Is seen the British airs his Beta hovering over Ostend on the Nrmtoh for the enemy. JAPANESE STOP ATTAfK IN WlfiHT niiavu mi muni German Loss Is 48 Men, While fU Japs Lose Only Five. Invaders Proceed Without Further Diplomatic Controversy; Con- -" ul Instructed to Leave. Toklc It is officially announced that German infantry at Tsing Tau deliver ed a night attack Monday against the Japanese, but were- repulsed. The Germans had 48 killed and the Japan ese five killed and eight wounded. , The cannonading on land and sea in the vicinity of Tsing Tau continues. Four Japanese shells hit the German boat litis, which retired into the inner harbor after an exchange of shots. Pekin Without further diplomatic controversy, the Japanese are proceed ing along the railway to Tsi Nan. Their troops at Kei Hsien, who occu pied the station there, have been rein forced. The Chinese have not with drawn from the line, but are not op posing the Japanese march. One Chinese was killed by the Jap anese when they , took over the Kei Hsien station. to Japan that China assume control of 'the railway line which is owned by flarmmna Avnal nil ftermfin AtinnlnvAfl from the district and guarantee that there will be no further transfer of the road until the war is ended. The Jap anese have contended that it was nec essary for them to occupy the railroad, as otherwise it would be used by the Germans for the transportation of war supplies for Tsing Tau. The American State department, up on the advice of the American minister to China, Dr. Paul Samuel Reinsach, who arrived in Pekin Wednesday, has instructed Willys R. Peck, the Ameri can consul at Tsing Tau, to withdraw from the Kiau Chau district. The le gation Bent the message by wireless. fifty Thousand Irishmen . Enlist in English Army Dublin The number of new recruits for the British army obtained in Ire land amounts to about 28,000. More than 8000 of these are the Dublin dis trict, 4000 from Cork district and the remainder from Belfast. ' Many of the southern recruits be long to football and athletic club join the colors from the agricultural districts as was expected, as there is Ui.lr nf man of available aire. Emi gration has left Ireland! with a much greater population of the old and real young men than there is in England, arhilA aha Already has a much lareer proportion of men in the army than .. has England. ' j JrtKn RAHmnni" and his eolleflenes are addressing recruiting meetings in var ious parts of Ireland, and their appeals are expected to be Iruiuui. Man Is Killed by Slap. Dixon, IiJ. James Sinn, a druggist, of Morrison, and manager of the Mor rison baseball team, was held to the Whiteside county grand jury a few days ago for murder. During the ball game between the Morrision and Charlotte, la.; teams, Dorsey Palmer, who was intoxicated, mistreated a young son of Sinn's and Sinn slapped him with his open hand, fracturing his windpipe. Palmer fell from the seats to the ground and lay there during the 13 inning game. His death was discov ered at the dose of the game. European War Hurts Re public of Panama, loo Panama Like nearly all the Central and West Coast South American coun tries, Panama is suffering from the effects of the European conflict. The situation here is aggravated, It is de clared, by a lack of financial surplus, and it has been found necessary to pro pose the discharge of many govern ment employes and the stoppage of practically all of the public work. There is no immediate possibility of securing additional revenue from im port duties. Under treaty agreements with the United States the republic cannot increase duties beyond the 16 per cent which is already imposed. Ever since the outbreak of the Euro pean war imports have steadily de clined, those from Europe having al most disappeared, while imports from the United States and other neutral countries have not increased sufficient ly to make up the deficit. Recently Ernesto T. Lefevre, secre tary of foreign affairs and one of the president's trusted advisers, stated that a general reduction of govern ment salaries was in contemplation. This, however, he said, cannot be done without the sanction of the national assembly. A measure is said to be in preparation for this purpose. Considerable dissatisfaction is mani fest in commercial circles over the de termination of the administration to carry to completion the proposed Na tional exposition. It is pointed out that the immediate abandonment of this project would materially aid in straightening out the country's finances and probably would make unnecessary the borrowing of a considerable sum at high interest. English Aid Belgians in Defending City of Antwerp London The Morning Post's Eng lish correspondent in Antwerp makes the following statement: "The Belgian field artillery is co operating effectually with our heavy artillery. Our infantry is entrenched on the narrow bank of the Nethe, op posite the main German forces. , Two German attempts to cross the river have been smothered by our artillery." The dispatch is the first intimation that English forces have gone to Ant werp and are co-operating with the Belgians in the defense of that city. A dispatch to the Central News from Antwerp says: "The Germans have been repulsed. They asked for a two-hour armistice to bury their dead but Belgians refused to comply. "The Belgians have destroyed all the bridges over the river Nethe. The Germans unsuccessfully attempted to rebuild the bridges." A dispatch to ' the Exchange Tele graph from the Hague says : "Refugees arriving here from Ant werp say that the position of the Bel gian forces is excellent and that the German advance has been steadily checked. The forts are admirably re sisting the heavy German artillery fire." . GERMAN WINGS TURNING BACK Entrenched Center Firm Long Battle Still Undecided. French Military Men Expect Im portant Move by Foe Soon , Invaders Pushing North. Paris Thursday was the 19th day of continued hard fighting along the 150-mile front from the Somme to the Moselle and yet there is no definite in dication that the historic battle is nearing a finish. - There are, however, evidences that the Germans are receding before forcible and sustained pushing from the allied armies, especially on their western and eastern wings, while the center, where the Germans are more strongly entrenched than at any other point with heavy artillery, remains al most stationary. It is generally concluded by French military men that some important move must soon be made by the Ger mans, who have found it impossible to stem the advance of the allies, though they offered the sternest and most des perate resistance, sacrificing tfle-usands of men daily. The German wings appear to be folding back on the center, leaving them some loophole for a backward movement by way of Rethel. The Germans main supply base at Juniville, which is protected by heavy masses of troops, as it is absolutely essential that this place shall be held for the revictualmg of the German armies in "Northeastern France, ap pears to be placed in a somewhat pre carious situation with its single line of railroad. . Mine Is Thought Wine. Rome Details of the destruction of a fishing boat off Rimini by a floating mine show that the fishermen mistook the mine for a wine cask, which they sought to recover. Throwing out a line, they drew the supposed cask to ward them and when it . touched their craft an explosion occurred. The boat was blown to pieces and all the nine men were killed. Members of other fishing crews in the vicinity were wounded by flying splinters. Experts say that hundreds of mines from Austria are floating towards Italy. LiptoH Hospital Ship at Havre. Havre Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Erin, which has been transformed into a hospital ship, has arrived here. On board the Erin were the Duchess of Westminster and several nurses. "Crush English," Says Kaiser. London The Times Thursday says that it is able to give from a thorough ly trustworthy source the text of an order issued by Emperor William to his army on August 19. It follows: "It is my royal and imperial com mand that you concentrate your ener gies for the immediate present upon the single purpose, and that is that yon address all your -skill and all the valor of jny soldiers to exterminate first the treacherous English and walk over General French's contemptible little army." Prince Adalbert lives. Berlin Stories appearing in the for eign press asserting that Prince Adal bert, the third son of Emperor W1I- lism, had died in Brussels, are declared to be untrue. Prince Adalbert is in the naval service, and when last heard of was acting as navigation officer aboard the dreadnaught , Prussia, Prince Joachim has been wounded and Prince Oscar suffered an attack of heart trouble, but, beyond that, it said that all members of the imperial family are well. $2,000,000 Left Suffrage. New York The residue of the tate of the late Baroness De Bazus, formerly Mrs. Frank Leslie, has been bequeathed to the cause of woman suffrage, it was learned here. The etsate has been estimated at 12,000, 000. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, pres ident of the Internationl Woman Suf frage Alliance, said that she had been ! informed that she had been named as i recipient of the residue, but had not j been informed yet u to the amount of the sum. BARGAIN DAY Is every day with the Merchant who advertises In the Press he has some thing to sell and says so. 4. NUMBER 42. Ms Voted or Coast Road AMMUNITION FOR RUSSIANS .mhIWM WlUUliBAlU composed of 10 prominent business men of the city to handle the improvement. The bonds are in reality a bonus and the $500,000 will be paid to any com pany or any individual who will guar anteed under sufficient bonds to con struct the railroad and operate the same for a term of years. The voters also voted to repeal the occupation tax and rejected issuance of bonds for park purposes. The councilmen elected were: Wil liam Hargreaves, ward one; D. R. Shambrook, ward two; A. J. Geddes, ward three; W. S. Hamilton, ward four. The election was one of the most spirited events held here in years and notwithstanding that only taxpayers were allowed to vote on the bond is sues, more than900 votes. were polled. NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in Brief. Prize-Winning Boys Study State Fair Exhibits Free Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallis Agricultural exhibits at the state fair were the basis of agricultural instruction in the boys' .State Fair camp and school at Salem. The students were two boys from each county in the state, who won scholarships in this school with all expenses paid, by superior work in one or more of the industrial club projects. The instructors were specialists from the Agricultural col lege who . were elected ' for this work because of their interests in the work of young people as well as for their high degree of proficiency in their subjects. In the. forenoons lessons were given in subjects relating to the domestic an imals of the farm. The lesson covered the subjects of horses, beef. cattle, hogs, sheep -and goats, and poultry. How to judge the value of the different classes of livestock for buying and selling purposes, how to feed and manage the different herds, and the fundamentals of breeding for improvement was part of the work. -In the afternoons the lessons will dealt with the subjects of soils and crop production. This group of young boys frorew practically every section of the state were taught methods of culti vation of standard crops and the treat ment of soil best calculated to retain fertility and moisture. The lessons dealt with the subjects of selection of seeds and plants, the classes and types best suited to local conditions and local markets, and the most suc cessful cultural methods of growing them. The classes of crops in cluded the common field crops, special nitrogen gathering plants, and fruit and garden plants. In all this work the exhibits at the state fair together with the methods of production that secure the best results, ' were made an integral part of the instruction. Cart load of ammunition for the Rus sian troops, guarded-by a squad of sol- Hers. left the chamber amidst applause. As he passed out he was embraced by many generals. When the delegates once more had seated themselves the chairman of the conference was besieged with appeals for recognition. Luis Cabrera took the floor and in an eloquent address cautioned the delegates not to accept the resignation unless they were ready to designate a successor. Cabrera was followed by General Obregon and many others. The debate became so violent that it . was neces sary for the chief of police to caution the orators against the expression of personalities. General Eduardo Hay, General Car. ranza's chief of staff, informed the press that whether the resignation was accepted or not, he, with General Obregon and other delegates, would meet at Agues Calientes with a peace commission named by General Villa. France Pays War loll of $420,000,000 in 60 Days Paris The war is costing France $7,000,000 a day. Minister of Fi nance Alexandre Ribot announced that the outlay for the first 60 days of the conflict had been $420,000,000. M. Ribot gives an interview to the Temps on the situation in the Bank of France. He says that on October 1 the bank had $812,400,000 in cash, which was $63,800,000 more than it had on the eve of the war. "Loans and discounts," the minister of fi nance said, "are $895,200,000, an in crease during the last week of $17,- 500,000. "The advances made to the govern ment on October 1, after two months of the war, reached $420,000,000. The credit balance on the same date in the treasury was $59,200,000, and therefore we are far from having ex hausted the amount provided by our convention with the bank. "The total bank bills in circulation October 1 was $1,846,800,000, this be ing $37,400,000 less than the preced ing week. This is explained by an in crease in the deposits which on Octo ber 1 reached $436,400,000, an in crease of $41,800,000 over the preced ing week, and it can be seen that France is far from having exbasuted her reserves and that when the hour comes she will find the money for a new loan, rhich at present is unneces sary," Duke Spares French Art. Paris Duke Ernst Gunther, of Schleswig-Holstein, brother-in-law of the German emperor, with other Ger mans recently visited Pierrefonds, I French town where Clement Bayard, a Paris manufacturer, has a home. En tering M. Bayard's house, the Duke left for the manufacturer an autograph note reading: - "I restore your home with its beautiful objects of art in the same state as I found them, without breaking or damaging, as the servants can testify. You see the Germans are not barbarians, as has been charged." Girl Bomb Victim Knits. Paris A visitor who went to see Denise Cartier, the 13-year-old girl who was injured by a bomb dropped by a German aeroplane two ' weeks ago. found her knitting jerseys for the sold iers. Surgeons had amputated one leg above the knee. She said with un affected courage: "If I have been courageous, I am sure any French child would have been the same. I am content to lose my leg for France. Mapleton Soon to Have Modern Electric Plant Mapleton That the natural re sources of Oregon can be efficiently brought under control to the better ment of mankind is being demonstrat ed successfully by R. H. Clow, the Mapleton capitalist, in the near-completion of his electric light and power plant that will serve the people of Mapleton and the near vicinity. Some months ago Mr. Clow con ceived the idea of a water plant for M ape ton and summarily put in a small dam in a canyon on his land about one- half mile west of the town. From there he piped the water to the consumers. The water from the canyon will now serve two purposes, but to conserve every drop of available water Mr. Clow has erected an immense concrete dam, the largest in Western Lane county. From the dam Mr. Clow has laid 15- inch prepared wooden pipe to carry the water down the canyon to his power house, which is located .in the business section of the town. Practically the entire town has been wired but light will not be available for several days, as Mr. Clow has been forced to wait for the Southern Pacific to put in a culvert before he can cross their right-of-way on the new Eugene- Marshfield - road with his last few lengths of pipe. Mapleton can boast of being the only unincorporated town that has a water and light plant within itself and not owned by a corporation. Mi. Clow has set a flat rate of 26 cents a lamp for residence purposes, The entire cost of the project will ag gregate about $6000. . Charter Flaws Caught Salem Allegations that a charter provision to give Salem a business form of government prepared by a committee of citizens provided for the election of two mayors and that it took away from the city the right to con tract for light and water were made at a meeting of the city council. It was freely admitted that the in strument contained technical flaws, and as a result it was referred to a committee composed of three council- men and three members of the citizens committee to make the necessary cor rections. It was declared that be cause of the necessity for making cor rections the charter probably would not be ready for submission to the people at the November election and that it would have to go over ta a special election or the next general election. Burns Buildings Rising. Burns The work of rebuilding the district destroyed by the August fire has begun. Judge H. C. Levens has let the contract for the erection of a one-story stone building, 60x100 feet, so constructed that it can be later ex tended one or two stories more. He expects to have It completed for occu pancy by January 1. All its floor space is already leased. George Fry and C. A. Bedill will also proceed at once to reconstruct their stone buildings north of the postoffice. , All business houses damaged by the fire are being repaired. Baker May Try Auto Street Cars. Baker A movement is under way in Baker for the establishment of an auto-truck streetcar service to serve West Baker and South Baker, connect ing these points with the business dis trict and giving S-cent fare In the city. The proposal is indorsed by the Com mercial club, and it probably will be carried out by coterie of business men, who are also considering pro posal to establish a motor-truck freight I line to Eagle Valley. Jack Grant, of Dallas, Is State's Finest Baby , Salem With an almost perfect score, Jack Grant, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Grant, of Dallas, was awarded a gold medal for being the finest baby entered in the eugenics contest at the state fair. Doris Lee Gordon, daugh ter of I. J. Gordon, of Portland, won the girl baby first prize, scoring a fraction of a point less than the Grant child. There was no perfect child as last year, when Jane Kanzler, of Portland, was so credited, but the judging this year was far more accurate and the scoring closer. More than 175 babies were entered as against 80 last year, indicating the interest that is being taken in this feature of the state fair, which was Inauguarted three years ago. School Land Point Won. Eugene Judge Harris, of the Cir cuit court, overruled the demurrer of the defendants to the amended com plaint in the case of the State of Ore gon against F. A. Hyde, in which the state seeks to recover school lands al leged to have been fraudulently ob tained. The case affects thousands of acres of school lands in Oregon and may come to trial in the circuit court in Eugene within the next few months. Judge Harris recognized the de murrer to the original complaint hold ing that the state in waiting for more than 10 years after the filing upon the lands had procrastinated unduly. The state in its amended complaint blamed the Federal government for the delay. Grand Jury Action Asked. Salem Governor West announced that the evidence obtained by Miss Fern Hobbs, his private secretary, in her investigation of the charges against M. J. Gersoni, district attor ney of Tillamook county, had .been turned over to the grand jury. The charges against Gersoni are incompe tency, failure to attend to his duties and gambling. Governor West said he had asked for the official's resignataion, but that he had declined to give it. Gersoni was appointed by Governor West when the county attorney bill passed at the last session of the legisalture became operative. - Charts of Cities Ready. Salem John H. Lewis, state engi neer, announces that topographic maps prepared bf the state, in co-operation with the United States geological sur vey, of Portland, Oregon City, Boring, Mount Hood, Halsey, Eugene, Blalock Island, Umatilla, Telocasset, Sumpter, Ironside Mountain, Baker City, Mitch ell Butte, Klamath, Ashland, Crater Lake, Grants Pass, Riddle, Roseburg, Coos Bay and Port Orford are ready, Copies may be obtained from the di rector of the United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. Astoria Building Started. Astoriia The corner stone of Astor ia's new Young Men's Christian elation building was laid this week with appropriate ceremonies, and the presence of a large crowd of spec tators. The stone was laid by Mrs. u, K. Warren, who donated the site for the structure. Addresses were made by a number of men who have been ac tively identified with the association work in this city and vicinity. Ontario Has Tax Fight Ontario Proprietors of the two newspapers and the two leading mer cantile companies of Ortario were sum moned before the board of equalization at Vale to show cause why their tax assessments should not be raised. This action was taken at the Instance of the Vale Enterprise, and is accepted as an Incident of the county seat fight just opened. The plight of Americns in Turkey Is said to be serious. Two feet of snow is reported in Macleod, Alberta. . The czar of Russia has joined his army on the German frontier. The outer forts of Antwerp are said to have been pierced by the Germans' heavy guns. Harry Thaw has leased an estate in Manchester, N. H., where he will spend the winter. :. Two unidentified victims of the wrecked steamer Leggett were or dered buried at Newport, Oregon. Twenty Eastern Star delegates and members were injured when a plat form in Kansas City collapsed, precip itating 400 persons. Lieutenant Tassoni, Under-Secretary of state for war of Italy, has resigned, owing to a disagreement with General Grandi, the war minister. Italy is ready to make a protest to Turkey agalnBt the abolition of the capitulations at Constantinople, ac cording to a Rome dispatch to the Havas agency. An official message from Constanti nople transmitted from Amsterdam to the Central News says that the vic tims of an earthquake in the province of Konia, Asia Minor, Saturday night, are estimated at 2500. It is officially announced by Austria- Hungary, says a dispatch from Rome to the Havas agency, that General Von Auffenburg, commanding the first Austrian army, is ill. It is said the general has contracted cholera. The historic annual banquet held by the New York chamber of commerce, has been postponed on account of the war, and the president of the chamber suggests the members give the price -of each plate ($20) to the Red Cross. An Antwerp dispatch to the London Daily Mail says: "King Albert is to be seen constantly in the danger zone. He is reported to have ascended in a -balloon to survey operations. The enemy shelled the balloon out the shells fell short." Eighteen steamers of an aggregate tonnage of 29,681 have been sunk by German warships during September, according to a London board of trade report, while nine steamers were de stroyed by mines in the North Sea in the same period, 76 lives being lost. A Petrograd dispatch states that a member of the Russian duma, who has just returned from Galicia, declares that the Russians captured the heights between four and five miles from Przemysl and that the Austrians have several times vainly attempted to retake-them. 'General" Charles T. Kelley, who started to lead an army of 1500 unem ployed men to Washington last spring, and whose followers were dispersed in Sacramento, Cel., by police officials and a fire hose, waa released from the county jail after completing a six months' sentence for vagrancy. '. Letters received in London by com mercial firms with interests in the Belgian Congo report that French and German traders have clashed at a num ber of places, with some fatalities. The Belgian government, the letters add, has placed guns on the boats on the Congo in order to attacks. resist German A Petrograd dispatch to the Tele graph, dated Saturday night, says that nothing la ascertainable there of the reported battle at Cracow, News has been received at Petrograd, says the diBpatch, that Archduke Frederick has been replaced as commander-in-chiei of the Austrian forces by the heir pre sumptive to the Austrian throne, Prince Charles Francis,; Telegraphing from Ostend, a corres pondent says: "The steamer Ard- -mount, loaded with grain, which left Dover for Zebruge, Holland, struck a mine. Her crew of 85 were saved." The steamer, a vessel of 3510 tons, commanded by Captain Ronald, sailed from Galveston September 9. The Ardmount was owned by the Ashmount Steamship company, Glasgow. A $55,000 bond given by Jack John son, the colored prizefighter, was for feited in Chicago when Johnson failed to appear in the United States court for retrial on charges of violation of the Mann white slave act in transport ing Bella Schreiber from Pittsburg to Chicago. He was convicted on the first trial, but was 'given a new trial because of error. Johnson was last heard from In Paris before the out break of the war. , r The 88th" German casualty list made public, contains about 8000 names. It includes three major generals, one killed and two wounded. News from Petrograd indicates that within a week a new Russian army 1,000,000 strong will join the present armies in Poland and Galicia for "Rus sia's principal attack on Germany." The London war information bureau has made it known that Indian troops were landed in France last Friday. The point of landing was not revealed, but It is presumed that the troops dis embarked at Marseilles,