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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, i BARGAIN DAY la every day with the Merchant who advertises in the Press he has some thing to sell and says so. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer "VOLUME XXVII. ATIIEXA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1915.' NUMBER 7. NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in Brief. United States exports increase 86 per cent in January. Seven deaths were caused by heavy snow storm in New York. The price of bread in Chicago has risen one cent to 6 cents a loaf. Two hundred of the 670 members of the English parliament are serving at the front. Reports have it that Serbia is to be invaded again by a large army of Aus-tro-Germans. A German dynamites a Canadian railroad bridge and escapes to the United States. . - . A London dispatch announces that the Germans lost 6000 killed on a Polish front less than a mile long. General Villa en route to Tampico, captures San Luis Potosi and is in full possession of the city and vicinity. The steamer Northland loses rudder in storm off Califorania coast, but was taken in tow by the steamer Nann Smith. - . . . W. H. Homibrook, editor of the Al bany, Ore., Daily Democrat, has been appointed by President Wilson as minister to Siam. Victoria, B. C, film censors in the last 12 months barred 60 per cent of the pictures because there was used too much Stars and Stripes. An indication of possible action by Italy is to be found in a notification is sued to Italian reservists in England to prepare to join the colors. A German statistician denies that Germany can be "starved out" in the present war and declares the country's granaries are stocked with abundance of cereals. Reports reaching Holland say that the new bread regulations in Germany have caused so much unrest that 12, 000 special constables have been ap pointed to guard the bakeries in Berlin. England notifies U. S. that ship ments of foodstuffs for Germany and Austria will be considered as contra-, band and will confiscate all cargoes captured without conpensation to the shippers. According to reports in circulation at theVatican, Great Britain, Ger many and Austria have answered favorably Pope Benedict's "proposal for an exchange of civil prisoners wo men and children and men above the age of 66. With the opening of the British par liament the political truce ; was re newed. The government, while as suming all responsibility for the war, welcomed the opposition's support and the ministers announced that they would reply readily to all criticism and endeavor to avoid controversial mat ters. . Jitney-bus bandits, operating for the first time in Seattle, Wash., kidnaped two passengers from the down-town - districts, took them to a lonely spot on the boulevard near Lake Washington, beat them, and, after stealing $8.60 in cash and two watches, left them to find their way back to the city after they recovered consciousness. A conscience-stricken person sent $16 to the Seattle office of the Union Pacific railroad, and the fund has been forwarded to the Portland headquar ters. Bills amounting to $16 were pinned to the following note: "U. P. R. R. Co. I have been in your debt this amount since 1882." No explan ation whatever is given as to how the company was defrauded, and the iden tity of the remitter remains hidden. A Portland highwayman said to be sixty years old, secured 40 cents from . a victim. , Carranza troops enter Mexico City and with little resistance take charge ' of the government. Germans are reported to be using a ' new shell containing a higher ex plosive than heretofore known. A Babylonian tablet, believed to have been buried in the earth more than 4000 years ago and containing the earliest law code, recently has been unearthed and is now in possession of Yale University. The laws are writ ten in the Sumerian language, the lan guage of Southern Babylonia prior to its conquest by the Semites or Ac eadians in the time of Hammarabi. Owing, to imperfect knowledge of the language the work of deciphering Is extremely difficult. The laws that have been translated refer to legisla tion concerning injury to women, the repudiation of children who have been adopted, elopement, the hire of boats and cattle, and provision for the kil ling of a hired ox by a lion. Daring the year ended June 30 last a total of 10,302 persons. Including 266 passengers, lost their lives in acci dents on railroads and in railroad shops reporting to the Interstate Commerce commission. In addition, 192,662 per sons were injured, of whom 16,121 were passengers. A dispatch from Lima, Peru, says that. Dr. Gazzani, Peruvian ex-minister of foreign affairs, was seriously wounded in a duel with Juan Durand. Durand is a brother of Dr. Angus to Durand, the Peruvian revolutionary leader, who was compelled to leave Chilean territory last August. Two British Vessels Sunk Off West Coast of England London A German submarine, the 21, made a raid off the west coast of England Monday. At least two Brit ish vessels were sunk. r The Ben Cruachen, a small ' steamer on her way from Cardiff to Liverpool, was hailed off Liverpool, and sent to the bottom after her crew had been warned they would have only 10 min utes to escape. The other vessel was the Linda Blanche, a steam trawler on her way.from Manchester to Belfast. The crews of both vessels reached land safely, that of the Ben Cruachen at Fleetwood and that of the Linda Blanche at Liverpool. ' .". The captain of , the Ben Cruachen says he was overtaken by the sub marine and ordered to leave his ship within ten minutes. Hardly had the crew got into the boats when a tor pedo was fired, and the steamer went down. - The Ben Cruachen, which was of 1978 tons register and belonged to the Morrison Shipping company, was on a voyage from Cardiff to Liverpool with a cargo of 6000 tons of coal. Fleetwood is one of the principal fishing and shipping ports and water ing places on the west coast. The steamer Graphic, with passen gers, Belfast to Liverpool, the paper says, passed wreckage, and soon after wards saw the Ben Crauchen sunk. The Graphic was chased, but eluded pursuit and reached the Mersey safely. The Linda Blanche was on its way from Manchester to Belfast when the submarine suddenly appeared along side. Officers came aboard, and, in perfect English, ordered the crew to leave the steamer. As soon as the men of the Linda Blanche were in their boats the Germans attached a mine to the bridge and another to the forecastle. The mines were, then ex ploded, destroying the vessel. lurks Are Beaten in Battle in Snoic Storm Petrograd The following report from the general staff of the Russian army of the Caucasus was given out here: . "On the Sari-Katysh front, on the evening of January 27, one of our columns, profiting by the snow storm, crossed the crest of the mountains and seized, after a violent battle, the vil lage of Garness, making prisoners there the chief of the Thirteenth Turk ish division, with his staff, 16 officers, seven surgeons and 460 others, and capturing three cannon, more than 200 rifles, a convoy train and a large quantity of war munitions and provis ions. "The Turks attacked this column, but were repulsed by a counter attack with great losses, abandoning to us a rapid-fire gun." Pastor Uses Doll in Talk. Baltimore Dr. Weston Bruner sur prised worshippers at St. Fuller Bap tist church Sunday when in the course of his sermon against fashionable dress ing he produced a doll. He then pro ceeded, the while using the doll to illustrate his subject, to condemn the irregularities of modern feminine ap parel. The doll was dressed and un dressed several times, was adorned with jewelry and then stripped and clad again in modest clothing which took place of the slit skirt, etc. In emphatic terms the speaker denounced many forms of modern dress, remark ing on the beauty of modesty and that while clothes do not make the man, without exception they depict the character of a woman. - D01GS OF OREGON'S LEGISLATURE A Brief Resume of Proceedings of the People's Representatives at the State Capital, Bills Introduced, Passed, Rejected, Etc. Portland Electric Light Co. . Says It's Worth $60,000,000 State Capitol, Salem A valuation of approximately $60,000,000 is made for the property of the Portland Rail way, Light & Power company, accord ing to figures produced before the State Railroad commission in the gen eral investigation hearing into the rates and service of the company. The valuation figures were brought out .through the testimony of W. J. Hagenah, utility expert, testifying in behalf of the company. It was' under his direction that the company made an inventory of its property to be sub mitted to the commission in the pres ent investigation. What valuation has been placed by the commission's engineering experts has not been developed in the testi mony, but the line of questions shot at Hagenah indicated that the commis sion has figures that will range consid erably under those of the company. Franklin T. Griffith, president of the company, was present at the hear ing, but the examination for the com pany was conducted by R. A. Leiter. Mr. Hagenah was the only witness. He narrated the manner in which the appraisal had been made, the commis sion - inquiring at length into the methods he had used in arriving at the value of various items. Among the largest items are $8, 694,000 for roadway and tracks; $9, 076,826 for land; $4,987,000 for equip ment, $44,867,000 for buildings, fix tures and grounds, $4,667,000 for rol ling stock and floating equipment, $6046 for hydraulic power works, $4, 767,000 for water powers, and $9,962, 000 for cost of development. President's Niece in Movies. New York Impersonations of girl- characters by a niece of President Wil son is in store for patrons of the mov ies, Miss Margaret Vale having just entered into contract with William Fox to play important ingenue roles. Miss Vale, who is a Southern girl, also is an authoress of some note, a painter and athletic enthusiast, and she recently played a round on the golf links with her uncle, the President of the United States, while visiting the White House. Her home is in South Carolina. Being an ardent suffragist, Miss Vale recently led the suffragists' parade of protest against war, the demonstration being given in New York. Red Cross Helps Serbs. Washington, D. C Advices to the Red Cross .here Monday said the second and third American Red Cross units sent to Serbia a few weeks ago had turned, a tobacco factory at Gevgalia into a hospital to care for 1300 wound ed Serbians and several Austrian pris oners. . Measures bad been adopted, the report said, to make sanitary the insanitary surroundings. On account of the difficulty of obtaining hospital supplies from Serbian sources, it was said large shipments from America would be necessary. Honored Negro Is Dead. New Albany, Ind. Lucy Nichols, said to be the only negro woman hon ored with membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, and pensioned by the government for her service in the Civil war as a nurse, is dead here. She joined the Twenty-third Indiana regiment in Tennessee in 1861. San derson Post of the Grand Army, com' posed chiefly of members of that regi ment, elected her an honorary mem ber several years ago and helped ob tain by special act of congress a pen sion for her. New Workmen's Compensa tion Act Is Filed in Senate State Capitol, Salem A bill provid ing for workmen's compensation sim ilar to the Michigan law was intro duced in the senate by Bingham. It is different in many phases from the present compensation law, and its au thor says it will solve the perplexing question of aiding injured workmen in this state. , An important feature of the new act is that employes will make no contri butions. Those sustaining minor in juries will receive no benefits until the 16th day after the injuries were sus tained. Persons incapacitated from work for four weeks or longer will re ceive compensation from the time of the accident. The law provides for the appoint ment by the governor of one industrial accident commissioner, who shall re ceive $3000 a year. In case of dis pute as to the amount of compensation he and two other persons, selected by thoBe interested, shall fix the amount. Employers may provide compensation through casualty companies, mutual insurance, pay it themselves or come under a provision for state compensation. Under the present law the payment of compensation is according to the size of the families of the injured per sons, but the new act makes the earn ing capacity the basis of compensa tion. Senator Bingham said one of the Important features of his bill is that it would Induce employers to pro vide all safety appliances, that acci dents should be reduced to a minimum. "Under practically this same law operating in Michigan 90 to 96 per cent of the employers have come under its provisions," said Senator Bingham, "and out of 600,000 employes less than 16 have rejected it since the law went into effect about two and one-half years ago. " ' ' -, ' House Passes Bill to Re peal Many Appropriations State Capitol, Salem Friends of the Oregon National guard made an effort in the house to save the $70,000 con tinuing appropriation provided for that organization before the Schuebel bill, providing for a general repeal of all continuing appropriations, was passed and sent over to the senate. Although it was plain from the start that the National guard fund, as a continuing appropriation, would be wiped out if the Schuebel bill carried, members of the guard made no protest against the measure until just before it was placed on its final reading. Then Representative Allen, of Marion county, who is a member of the guard, appealed to the house to save the item out of the bill. His pleas fell on deaf ears. He pointed out that the National guard fund had been placed on a con tinuing basis for the purpose of taking the guard out of politics and urged that by passing the measure in its present form it would be necessary for the officers of the guard to come be fore the legislature every two years and ask for money to carry on their work. Voting Machine Law Stands. State Capitol, Salem Multnomah county will continue to have the option of purchasing and operating voting machines if it so elects. The house committee on revision of laws reported adversely on the Michelbrook bill, pro viding for the repeal of the law au thorizing any county in the state that chooses to use voting machines. The 1913 act never has been taken advantage of. However, the commit tee took the attitude that some county may at some future time desire to use them. Prominent Women Plead for School for Girls State Capitol, Salem Declaring that there was real need for the insti tution and that it was the duty of the state, which it should not attempt to shirk, to take care of and educate its wayward girls, 12 women, represent ing various clubs, appeared before the joint ways and means committee this week and protested against the pro posed recommendation to the legisla ture that the Industrial School for Girls be abolished. Representatives of the women's clubs spoke frankly, as did members of the committee, and it is believed a plan will be agreed upon that will be satisfactory to all concerned. Mrs. S. M. Blumauer, representing the Coun cil of Jewish Women, said it would be unjust and unwise at this time to dis continue the school. It was not a mer cenary question, she urged, but an economical one, and a duty that should be performed. The fact that only a comparatively few girls had . been taken care of was no reason for doing away with the school, she said. Permanent Registration for Voters Approved by House State Capitol, tjalem Permanent registration of voters and compulsory voting are provided for in a bill passed in the house. The measure was intro duced by the joint committee on judi ciary and revision of laws and com bined the essential features of bills previously' submitted by Represent ative Kuehn, of Portland, and the Marion county delegation. Under its provisions the clerks are required to keep a card index system for the reg istered voters. When a person regis ters the record becomes permanent and can be used indefinitely at future elec tions. If a voter moves from one precinct to another within the same county or desires to change his or her political affiliation it will be necessary only to advise the county clerk. To accommodate voters who move from one county to another, the county clerks are authorized to send the cards from one to another upon request. Naturalized citizens will not be re quired to show their naturalization pa pers at the time they register. They will be required only to swear that they are naturalized and give the dates in connection therewith. ' Labor Loses Three Bills.. State Capitol, Salem Three more of the bills introduced by Represent ative Oscar W. Home, of Portland, and indorsed by the State Federation of Labor failed to get past the house. One was postponed indefinitely, mean ing that it was put to sleep beyond possible reawakening, another was amended and another was referred. Mr. Home made a determined effort to save one of his measures the one compelling contractors on public workB to enforce the eight-hour law more scrupulously. The bill is aimed par ticularly at "station work" or contract labor through which groups of work ingmen are enabled to work more than eight hours a day on the ground that they are working for themselves. 60-Day Session Plan Lost. State Capitol, Salem Representa tive Lewis' plan to change the limit on legislative sessions from 40 to 60 days was defeated in the house. His resolution made the pay of the legis lators $6 a day instead of $3 and pro vided a recess of 14 days after the for tieth day, to reconsider bills, but with out pay. After the house turned down the resolution Lewis offered another providing that sessions in the house begin at 9 o clock in the morning. The speaker ruled him out of order. Mr. Lewis himself is at bis desk every morning at 7:80 o'clock and brings his lunch to the house chamber. . Governor Signs Six Bills. State Capitol, Salem Governor Withycombe has signed the following house bills : Creating district courts, defining their jurisdiction and providing system of procedure. Exempting chickens and other do mestic animals from execution of at tachment. .., Abolishing justice courts and creat ing districts. Further defining juris diction of district courts. Giving laborers in logging camps lien upon their products. Limiting catch of crabs In waters of Coos bay. Anaesthetic Law Whacked. State Capitol, Salem Senator Dim ick'l bill repealing a law providing that only graduate nurses with licenses be allowed to administer anaesthetics was passed by the senate. The Clack amas legislator contended that the present law was class legislation; "a nice little game put over by the nurses two years ago so they would have all this work." In the interest of human ity, he said, country physicians were forced to violate the law daily. Sen ators J. C Smith and Wood, physi cians, opposed the present law. House Passes First Belief Bill State Capitol, Salem The house has passed its first relief bill. It provides $2000 for Ada E. Lundborg, of Bend, whose husband, a laborer, was killed on the Tumalo irrigation canal, in Central Oregon. , The Desert Land board already has set aside $2000 from the Tumalo fund to pay Mrs. Lund borg. The action of the legislature is a mere formality. FEAR OF DEFEAT, ASKS FOR PEACE Austria Suggests to Germany That Proposal Be Made. Suggestion Made That Each Give Up Some Territory Fear of Britain Is Obstacle. London The Copenhagen corres ¬ pondent of the Daily Mail asserts that Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, at his recent meeting with the German Emperor drew a dole ful picture of the plight of the dual monarchy and urged that the time had arrived for the Germanic powers to consider most seriously the possibil ities for a tolerable peace. . The Daily Mail attaches great im portance to the dispatch, which was delayed in transmission. i The dispatch in part says: "From a most trustworthy and well- informed source in Berlin I received the following statement regarding the negotiations between the German statesmen and Baron Burian, who re cently visited the German chancellor in Berlin and Emperor William at the iimj tieadqvnrtprs in France. Baron founan, whose tula object is to save what can be saved of the dual monarchy, reported to. the Germans that the situation in Austria was most precarious and that if the Russian ad vance on Budapest is not stopped the effect may probably be the downfall of Austria and the complete collapse of Hungary, which must later entail a logical sequence, also the downfall of Germany. "Baron Burian urged that the Rus sians must, at all costs, be repulsed and that Germany must send large re inforcements to Hungary to prevent a catastrophe. In any case, he said, it was doubtful if it could be possible for them to resist the Russians and Serbians, and perhaps also the Rou manians. Therefore, it was necessary seriously to examine into the question of peace. A definite defeat would mean a de bacle for Austria-Hungary and the partionlng of the empire. His visit to Germany was to consider most seriouB- ly the possibilities of a tolerable peace. He advised Germany not to re ject fundamentally the thought of peace on the grounds of a probable dis armament of Europe. If Germnay were disposed to treat on such terms he believed the other conditions .would be tolerable. "Perhaps it would be necessary to leave the French part of Alsace to France and to give up some Polish provinces to a new Poland, but if Rus sia would relinquish a provence and Austria a part of Galicia to Poland, no real sacrifice for Germany would be entailed." . Rich New York Man Kills Jhree, Ihen Self New York Armed with a magazine rifle, equipped with an automatic si lencer, Herman Auesbach, a wealthy real estate operator who had become despondent because of finanical re verses, Sunday shot and killed his wife and two daughters as they slept and then, returning to his own bed, killed himself. His son, Lester, a high school stu dent, was the only member of the family left alive. So completely did the device muffle the reports of the weapon that the tragedy was not discovered until several hours later, when the son found a note from his father. The quadruple killing took place in an apartment house on "Central Park West. Coroner Felnbery said that Auerbach evidently had been planning the trag edy for several days. The dead man's son informed the coroner that his father had taken the rifle home nine days ago. The coroner expressed the belief that the man s despon dency was due to recent depreciation in value of mortgages and securities which he held. The boy found under his door a note in his father s writing which read: "When you wake up telephone Uncles Leopold and Joe Levy and grandpa. The boy went to his father's room, where he found his father and mother dead in their beds, between which lay the rifle. Dashing into the room of his sister he found Beatrice, aged 18, and Daisy, 2 years old, dead also, with the bedclothing tucked about them and drawn over their heads Hindus Offer British Aid. Victoria, B. C. A large number of Hindus who have seen service with the British army in India and China and who, since their discharge, have found their way to Victoria, are organizing a company. Already they have asked to join the third Canadian contingent. The same request has been made of General Hughes, minister of militia, by East Indians of Vancouver. 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