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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. BARGAIN DAY Is 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. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915. NUMBER 10. NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in BrieL A $100,000,000 issue of treasury bills offered in London was over-sub- scribed.' .-. The Idaho senate votes 24 to 6 to make the state dry after January 1, 1916. Thousands of boy scouts of Berlin are practicing war tactics in the for ests of the German empire. Villa is reported to be victorious over Carranza in a battle at Zayula, where the latter lost 1600 men. It is reported from London that a second American vessel strikes a mine off the coast of Germany and is sunk. The 'condition of Sarah Bernhardt, after the amputation of her right leg, is considered excellent by her physi cians. Panama-Pacific exposlition is seen by 442,957 persons on the first three days,. which breaks all records, of for mer expositions. Dispatches from ' Poland state that the RusBian army is practically power less and many thousands are surround ed by the Germans. Carter H. Harrison, Democratic mayor of Chicago, who is finishing his fifth term, is defeated for the nomina tion by Robert M. Sweitzer, the pres ent clerk of Cook county. The Oregon legislature appropriates at total of $6,477,031 for running ex penses of the state for the next two yean. This is $1,258,890 less than the preceding session appropriated for the same purposes. Proposals have been made inform ally by the United States government to both Great Britain and Germany suggesting a basis for an understand ing on the subjects of foodstuffs for the civilian population of the belliger ents and submarine warfare against merchant ships. Effective Sunday, the Great North ern will-, restore its night train be tween Seattle and Portland, which was taken off several weeks ago because of light travel. Increasing traffic as a result of the opening of the San Fran cisco exposition !b given as the reason for restoring the train. A Havas dispatch from Toulon says the commissioners sent out by the American embassy in Paris to inquire into conditions at French concentration camps have concluded their investiga tions in the department of Bassee Alps and Var and report having found in ternational regulations strictly ob served. Secretary Bryan appeared at the cabinet meeting Wednesday wearing on his coat lapel' an enamel white dove of peace with an olive branch in its mouth. The secretary said it was a gift of a friend and pointed to it when questioned concerning possible compli cations for the United States in the foreign situation. A letter, received by the London Morning Post from its Budapest cor 'respondent says that Austria-Hungary made a loan of considerable size to Roumania a short time before Rou . mania arranged her $25,000,000 loan with the Bank of England. Mo news regarding this latter loan was permit ted to be published in Austria-Hungary. ' Hotels and restaurants In New York give daily lunches to thousands of un employed. Government records show that 129 ships have been transferred to the American flag under the new registry . law. . Solons of West Virginia have been vaccinated for prevention of smallpox. The governor, who is a physician, , helped do the job. Germany loses two war balloons in North Sea; one by an explosion and the other was sunk by weight of snow on the envelope. . A hundred and fifty prosperous Chi cagoans, who were once newsboys, sold papers one day to raise funds for the id of the destitute. Seven million dollars for the devel opment of the two salt lakes in South eastern Oregon, is ready. The state leased the lakes to an Eastern firm, ; who will immediately employ 6000 men and lay a $2,000,000 pipe line to the Columbia river. The Swiss authorities are studying the organization of the male citizens over 48 years old for military pur poses. The army counts 800,000 men of the landwehr and landsturm, but there are numerous old soldiers still fit for territorial and convoy service and patrolling, who in case of an invasion would be ready to defend their mother land. The funds of Sarah Bernhardt are said to be low, and on the eve of an operation upon an injured knee, her friends are flocking to her assistance. The "bank" of Monte Carlo is said to be in "full bloom" again after four and a half months' inactivity. Ivory checks, however, have taken the place of shining gold and silver. The U. S. War department asks eon- cress for bigger coast defense guns, claiming the present artillery - is out ranged. Sixteen-inch calibre is ad vised and the expense is estimated at $40,000,000. Modern War Machines Find fancy in Senate Washington, D. C Appropriations for national defense occupied the at tention of both houses of congress Monday in the general rush to clear up the supply bills for the government before the adjournment. ; The senate discussed until late into the night the army appropriation bill, carrying ap proximately $103,000,000, while the house continued debate on the fortifi cations bill. While progress was being made on both these measures, the senate com mittee practically completed consider ation of thr naval appropriations measure, and, the Benate paused for four minutes to pass without debate the pension bill, carrying $164,000,000. Increases for submarines and avia tion over provisions of the house bill are proposed by the senate naval com mittee, its amendments, including $1,000,000 for aviation instead of $300,000, as authorized in the house bill; provision for five seagoing, sub marines instead of one, and 16 instead of 11 of the smaller type submarines. Senator Smoot sought unsuccessfully to provide 60-fbagoing and 25 of the smaller coast defense submarines. At the night session the senate navalVommittee submitted Its report on the appropriation bill carrying a total of $152,961,981.88, an increase over the house bill of $8,313,080. Provision also is made for the appro priation of $400,000 for the marine barracks at Norfolk and Mare Island. The naval building program of the senate bill would provide in addition to the five seagoing submarines and 16 smaller submarines six more destroy ers, one oil fuel ship, one gunboat,' one hospital ship at $500,000 and two first class battleships. Among the in creases recommended are $600,000 for a projectile plant; $130,000 for naval reserve; $400,000 for a high-power radio station and $1,000,000 to be; ap plied on construction of an armor plate factory costing not to exceed $8,000, 000 if the secretary of the navy cannot purchase armor in the market at a reasonable price. Debate on the army bill resumed after the naval bill was reported. Items of the army bill were passed over quickly with little debate, and when the senate recessed the only section remaining for consideration was that providing for the establish ment of a system of scientific manage ment in government navy yards and shops. The Indian appropriation bill was reported by the senate committee, carrying $11,265,865,' an increase of ,635,741 over the house bill. Russians Admit Com- plete Rout by Germans Berlin What appears to have been the bitterest defeat yet administered to the Russian army in East Prussia became known Tuesday with details of the fighting which has been going on in the vicinity of the Mazurian lakes district. Even Petrograd admits utter rout, declaring that retreat was the only thing left to do. Grand Duke Nicho las in his report confesses frankly that there was large loss in lives, and goes further and tells why. He gives to the German army great credit for its superiority in numbers as well as in planned attacks, which, coming'as sep arate blows, wrought havoc to his men, making retreat absolutely necessary. The German official report an nounces that the captures have been increased to seven generals and more than 100,000 men. The pieces of can non taken numbered 150. The report in part says : "In the Eastern theater, the pursuit after the winter battle in the Mazurian district has come to an end. During the clearing-up operations northwest of Grodno and In the battles reported during the last few days In the Bobr and Navew districts, one commanding general and four other generals and approximately 40,000 men have been taken prisoners up to the present seventy-live cannon and some machine guns, the actual number of which has not yet been ascertained, and much other war material, have been cap tured. "The total booty taken in the win ter battle in the Mazurian district as a result of these conditions has been increased to date to seven generals, more than 100,000 men, upwards of 160 cannon and quantities of other war material of all descriptions." Raw Rubber Confiscated. Venice, via London Advices re ceived here from Vienna say the mili tary authorities there have confiscated the entire supply or raw rubber, pneu matic tubes and rubber hose. Con tracting teamsters say that unless this action is revoked it will be impossible to supply Vienna with food and that factories will suspend operations. A boycott instituted by Viennese house wives against the use of pork is spreading. Retail prices of pork have dropped about 4 cents a pound, but the boycott will be continued. America U "War Risk." London The Times declares that during the last few days a large amount of insurance has been placed in the London market on property in the United States against risks of damage by war. Many factories and business premises, according to the Times, have been insured for six months at a rate of one-half of 1 per cent. Some Canneries, Loosely Organized, Do Not Pay Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis "Some of the canneries in the Northwest are making great success. Others are just about existing and still others are bankrupt." said Professor C. I. Lewis, when addressing the farmers who were attending the Farm ers' Week at the Oregon Agricultural college. Professor Lewis attributes many of these failures to the fact that the canneries are run by private cap ital, whereas most of those now in existence in the Northwest are either co-operative or associative canneries. "One of the greatest troubles with our co-operative canneries is '" " many of them are so loosely orgc that they cannot do any legal bus 14 Appropriation Bills Provide $778,706.40 1 State Capitol, Salem Appro tions for sundry and miscellanea partments of the state governmen gregating $778,706.40 are provide in a series of 14 appropriation bil traduced in the house by the house and senate ways and means mittee. - These bills carry the items for tenance of the executive of the government, including the salari the governor, secretary of state, treasurer and their office assis The governor is given his ubusI r ance of $500 a year for travelii penBes. The only big state institution vided for in these bills are the iers' Home at Roseburg, with 658.75 for the biennium, and thi berculosis hospital, with $53,175. An aggregate of $110,000 i quired for bounties on wild animt the next two years. Of this sum 000 is to meet a deficiency in tht of the last two years. The pi legislature voted to increasi bounty on coyotes and to pli bounty on seals, and addition! penditures will be required for purposes. ' ' House Passes Bill Against Use of Irading Stamps State Capitol, Salem An anti-trading stamp bill, introduced to drive the popular trade magnet completely out of the state, was passed by the house. The measure was introduced by Repre sentative Thomas Brown, of Marion. Senator Lafollette, of Marion, was the author of a similar bill in the senate. The measure levies a 5 per cent ex cise tax on the gross receipts not only of all concerns conducting a trading stamp system in the state, but on all merchants who use them. It was ad mitted by those who sponsored the bill that the measure probably will put an end to the trading Btamp business. Ostensibly, however, the measure is intended to raise funds for the state, as the receipts from the proposed tax are to go into the state treasury. Representative Brown painted a dreary picture of the misfortune of the small merchant who is made to com pete with the concern that gives away trading Btamps as an inducement to attract custom. He declared that the trading stamp is an unnatural trade condition, that it is an economic waste and that it really proves an expensive attachment to the business of the merchant who uses it. Amendment -Asks Change in Lease of Salt Lakes State Capitol, Salem The Forbes house bill approving the lease of Sum mer and Abert Lakes to Jason C. Moore has finally emerged from the senate committee on public landB. Attached to the report of the com mittee is a recommendation signed by three of the members that the bill be so amended that the lessees will be re quired to execute a bond guaranteeing payment for all labor and materials contracted for. The amendment also makes the lease conditional upon sub mission by the lessees or their assigns to regulation by the State Land board in the sale of shares of stock. There is strong opposing sentiment in the committee, as well as in the body of the senate, against imposing any new conditions on the lease. The reason for advancing the amendment are that certain laborers and material men have not received payment for work and materials furnished a former lessee of the lakes, whose enterprise was abandoned, and that the state should take precaution against turning its property over to a possible stock jobbing corporation to exploit. College Regent Confirmed. State Capitol, Salem The senate confirmed the appointment by Gover nor Withycombe of Clara H. Waldo, N. R. Moore and Jefferson Meyers as members of the board of regents of Oregon Agricultural College. Senator Garland asked if the membership of the board complied with the law pro viding that five be composed of one po litical party and four of another. He was assured that five members were Republicans and four Democrats. "I congratulate the governor upon chang ing his mind to comply with the law." Students Win In Strike. Eugene Three hundred high school students, who "struck" several weeks ago and refused to attend certain, classes to which the school board bad fixed a tuition fee, were sustained by an opinion of George M. Brown, attor ney general. He holds that the school board has no right to charge tuition to any classes. The legal authorities of association work in this country say that all asso ciations must be purely mutual. How ever, many of our associations are not of this type and the most successful cannery in the state today is not a pure co-operative association. . I do not believe that it is possible to run an association successfully without paying dividends. A second great difficulty which is made by the can neries in the Northwest is their lack of capital. If your farmers do not feel that they are willing to put in $26 each to start a cannery they had better "(!" "1Q,000 n a kbe best the thy j at- tion ery '.does well bood arpd io be ome iork. Itian pons, Ury" fears, r those ns of 'here ; was amp (ance the He went to a small waiting depot at Bunker Hill the morning after the fire, waited there for daylight and then started for the Wagner camps on foot. W. C. Laird, deputy sheriff, went to Wagner, 66 miles from Marshfield, for the prisoner and placed him in jail at Myrtle Point. He will be returned here and the coroner's jury will re sume the inquest. Mr. Booker will be asked to explain why he was awake and dressed while others in the build ing 1 were escaping in their night clothes. ' Polk Exhibit Planned. Monmouth -"- Plans for exhibits at the 1915 Polk County fair have been made by pupils in the schools of this city. Gardens will be planted at the earliest clearing of the weather and drying off of the ground. In addition to having instructions as to the proper cultivation of vegetables on the plots, pupils are to have gardens at home. High school students, however, will hare only home gardenB, as the school garden plan has been abandoned. Great interest has been centered upon garden work by the grammar school boys for the past two years. They do not wait for the season to arrive be fore plans take . form. The earliest vegetable raised command high prices at market. Reclamation Is Planned. Marshfield A definite movement 1b on at Coquille looking to clearing a tract of the rich Coquille Valley bot tom lands to be utilized for experi mental purposes. It is proposed to clear 40 acres of a 2500-acre tract for the owners and turn them over to per sons who are willing to farm this sedi mentary deposit. The owner has been offering ,$18 an acre for clearing, slashing and burning, but laborers be lieve the work cannot ,be done for that amount. The Coquille Commercial club expects to offer an increase over the $18 offer Sufficient to get the work done. Polk Nearly Rid of Pest. Monmouth The war on gophers, which has been conducted in Polk county for two years has at last se cured a grip on the common field pests' work and destruction has abated par tially, according to the statements of extensive land owners in this sec tion. The farmers say the clover crop has attracted the gophers. In the summer and fall months the gophers undermine the clover plants and Btop seed development. The animals also fatten In potato fields and sap plant life in gardens in the early summer. New Office Is Created. Salem An additional deputyship, making the total number'three, for the attorney general's department, was created by an act passed by the recent legislature. The salary of the chief deputy was increased from $2000 to $2600; the second deputy will receive $2000 and the third $1200. The new deputy will devote most of his time to industrial accident commission eases. I. H. Van Winkle, of Salem, is chief deputy. The legislature also appro priated $10,000 for the prosecution of the Hyde-Benson land eases. Office Made Appointive. State Capitol, Salem The senate passed senate bill 256, which provides that at the expiration of the term of the present official the state engineer shall be appointed by the governor. A U. S. SHIP SUNK IN NORTH SEA Mine Encountered Off German Coast Thought Cause. Captain and Crew Saved; Cotton Cargo Goes DownInvestiga tionlStarts Immediately. Washington, D. C. The United States government was sdvised official ly Monday night of the first instance of the destruction of an American ves sel on the high seas since the outbreak of the European war. American Con sul Fee, at Bremen, cabled that the steamer Evelyn and her cargo of cot ton, bound for Bremen, had been "blown up at Borkum," just off the coast of Germany, but that the crew had been saved. The caUBe submarine or mine was not given in the dispatch. After a conference with President Wilson, Secretary Bryan cabled Am bassador Page, at London, and Ambas sador Gerard, at Berlin, to make an exhaustive inquiry as to the facts, and, if the crew was landed in either of their respective jurisdictions, to fur nish pvprv care and convenience to Captain Smith and his men. so that they might return home safely. While the extent of sea zones of war proclaimed by Germany was never defined exactly, Borkum Island is con sidered far distant from the danger areas of submarines, although the waters of that vicinity are filled with mines for defensive purposes, through which Germany always has piloted in coming ships. Early press dispatches from Berlin announcing the loss of the vesBel by a mine caused somewhat of a sensation in this capital, where the tension has been more or less pronounced over the situation in the war zones since the dispatch of warning notes by the United States to both Great Britain and Germany. Allies' Artillery forces Said Gaining Ascendancy Paris An official eyewitness ac count of the recent fighting in France and Belgium was given out by the French War department. The writer says: "During the past ten days detest able weather, continuous rains in some parts and violent snow squalls in others and thick fog have hindered the operations nearly everywhere on the western battle front. In spite of the conditions this period has been favor able to us. ' "Our artillery obtained brilliantjre sults and the enemy evidently was un able to equal our fire. The French superiority in ammunition and sup plies is being more and more con firmed. "Our infantry showed an aggressive spirit in the Arters, Champagne, Ar gonne and Alsace regions, and their operations were crowned with success. We thus obtained appreciable results. That the German official communica tions after having flatly denied, have now partially admitted that priaoners and materials have fallen into our hands, moreover, are the best proofs of our success." Wounded Dieon field. Geneva ThejGerman counter-attack on the village of Aspach-le-Bas devel oped a formidable clash of the two forces at the point of the bayonet. It was impossible to pick up the dead or succor the wounded, as the artillery continued to sweep the position. Among the dead lying about 400 yards from the French trenches were 27 wounded French soldiers who were unable to get back and whom it was impossible to reach. During the con flict seven of these men were seen to huddle together to keep from freezing and share their last rations. A heavy fall of snow came on and covered not only the dead but the wounded. . Man Saved With Lingerie. Caldwell, N. J. Nine young women rescued Harry Reiter, of New York, from a perilous position on the side of the Hook Mountain Monday by tearing up their petticoats and making a rope by which he was hauled back to safety. Reiter had fallen some 80 feet down the Bide of the mountain and was cling ing there. " Below him the cliff fell away nearly 800 feet. Without hesi tating, the women removed their pet ticoats and tore them Into strips, tying and twisting them together until they formed a rope. Blacks lorture Germans. Berlin, (By wireless to Sayville, N. Y.) The Overseas News Agency gives out" the following: "Herr Schwarz and Herr Gehr, missionaries of the Basle mission, on the Sanga river, in Kamerun, West Africa, report that British troops are promising rewards to the natives to deliver Germans as prisoners or to kill them. For the reason several Germans have been drowned or cut to pieces by the na tives. Others have been trotured and delivered to the British." Date of Amputation Set. Bordeaux, via Paris It was decided definitely Sunday by the surgeons at the hospital of St. Augustin of Area- (ion to amputate the right leg of Sarah Bernhardt. - Mine. Bernhardt main tains her courage, being described as apparently cheerful. She is receiving a large number of telegrams express ing sympathy. 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