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VOLUME XXVII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OBEGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1915.
NUMBER 12.
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of World's Important
Events Told in Brief.
Russians report capture of many
German supplies in North Poland.
The United States has dispatched
two additional battleships to Vera
Cruz.
A British cruiser captures an Amer
ican bark and takes the cargo of 6000
bales of cotton Into a prize court.
French troops advancing on Germans
in Belgium And the foes in strong po
sitions, and both floods and deep snows
are encountered.
The University of Toronto is figur
ing on closing several weeks earlier
than usual to allow its students to en
list in the army.
Greece has formed a new cabinet,
but King Constantine declares that
unless it stands neutral, he will cause
it to be dissolved.
It is reported that France has 22
troop ships enroute to the Dardanelles
apparently to aid in land operations
should Constantinople fall.
Forty hours after dreaming that her
brother had committed suicide, the
deed was actually committed by J. C.
Jahn, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Three San Francisco bakers were
found guilty of selling short-weight
loaves. Their plea of the high price of
Spur did not save them from fines.
The Gould family has been entirely
eliminated from the railway director
ships of railroads by the reorganiza
tion of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Moun
tain railroad.
During the early hours of Tuesday
morning German submarines made
their presence known at three widely
separated points on the British coast
and sunk three merchant steamers.
The London Daily Telegraph's Paris
correspondent says he learns that Dr.
Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German
i i .I in i i
imperial cnanceuur, win uia&e a BbntB-
r . tH tkn la..l.ata(v annn aatttna.
U1BUI. Ill bun iwivunwig aw..,
forth the terms on which Germany is
willing to make peace.
Countess Laszlo Szeckenyi, formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, of New York,
is recovering from smallpox, which
she contracted while nurBing wounded
in an Austrian hospital three weeks
ago, according to a Budapest dispatch
to the Post dated March 2.
John K. Gaitber, who has been post
master of La Center, Wash., for 41
years, will retire from the service as
soon as Patrick M. Ka'nes, recently ap
pointed, can file his bond and receives
his commission. Mr. Gaither, who is
76 years old, came from Indiana in
1873, and the following year became
postmaster. He has missed only one
term of office.
Mrs. E. A. Pierce, aged 72, of
Welches, Or., killed a big black bear
with a garden hoe when the bear at
tacked her Saturday at her little cabin
on the south slope of Mount Hope,
The bear had chafed E. A. Hutchinson
from a neighboring cabin and ad
vanced on Mrs. Pierce where Bhe was
hoeing her garden. While Mr. Hutch
inson ran for aid, Mrs. Pierce slew
Brum with the only weapon at hand,
the hoe.
The Middle West Is having a severe
now storm.
Austria is said to have refused aid
n TiifItav In hnr nranant enflraroment
witn tne antes neet.
M. F. Berry, originator of the pres
ent syBtem of express and postal
money orders, is dead.
The Minnesota legislature has re
fused to submit a woman suffrage
amendment to the people.
Having "abstained" during all of
February, the moon will be full twice
during March. This is the first occur
ence since 1846.
. "Unless neutral nations are pre
pared to assist in throwing the Ger
mans out of Belgium, no suggestions
from them in the matter of preventing
the further devastation of that country
are wanted," said Sir Edward Urey,
the foreign secretary, in the British
house of commons.
William Willett's daylight saving
bill, which was discussed in the British
parliament in the spring of 1909, pro
vided for the earlier use of daylight
by putting forward the clock 20 min
utes on four successive Sundays in
April and reversing the process on four
Sundays in September. This proced
ure, it was argued, would .bring more
time at the end of the day for recrea
tion while the sun was still up. The
measure never became law in England.
The author of the bill has just died.
The British now claim that the war
will be snort, and that their artillery,
once weak, now dominates.
Bombardment of Turkey by the al
lied fleets continues and the probabli
results are that Constantinople will
falL
After two years of almost continu
ous session the 63d congress, which re
vised the tariff and the currency sys
tem of the nation, supplemented the
trust laws, created an income tax and
experienced the first popular election
of United States senators, ended at
soon March 4.
Crisis in Mexico Causes
Washington Much Alarm
Washington, D. C President Wil
son was conirontea wun one oi me
most serious and perplexing develop
ments that has ever arisen in the Mex
ican situation. Mexico City is on the
verge of starvation. General Obre
gon, the Carranza commander, refuses
to permit an international relief com
mittee composed of wealthy members
of the foreign colony to succor the
needy.
Mexico needs no foreign aid, the
general is reported to have said.
All the merchants who closed their
stores have been ordered to reopen un
der threat of punishment Three hun
dred of them, all Mexicans, have been
imprisoned. The people of the city
are living in terror of another evacua
tion, since Obregon has announced that
he will not prevent looting or pillaging
for food or money.
The Brazilian, British, Spanish and
Italian ambassadors called separately
at the State department, bringing pes
simistic reports of the situation, which
corresponded to reports already receiv
ed by the American government. The
foreign diplomats suggested no solu
tion.
Secretary Bryan announced that he
had sent an urgent telegram to Amer
ican Consul Silliman with instructions
to lay the situation earnestly before
General Carransa, so that General
Obregon might be directed to accept
the proffered aid of the foreign resi
dents. , Freight service is suspended
between Mexico City and Vera Cruz.
Transportation facilities for relief
purposes are withheld by General
Obregon on the ground of military
necessity.
President Wilson was advised of an
the facts as revealed in official mes
sages and reports from the foreign am
bassadors. The President was report
ed to be studying the various phases
of the question closely. Should Gen
eral Obregon continue to refuse out
side aid, drastic measures might be
necessary, in the view of foreigin dip
lomats. The situation is described by
them as more nearly intolerable than
it ever has ' been since revolutionary
troubles began in the Southern repub
lic.
Real Winter Is Raging
Ihrough Middle States
Chicago Old Winter played a fur
ious return engagement all over the
Middle West Saturday and is rapidly
extending the performance to the East
and Southeast.
Dispatches tell of heavy snow in
Iowa, Nebraska and other states.
Trains are delayed in many directions
and stalled dead on small branch lines.
In the cities transportation was badly
crippled, but the storm had its silver
lining, for it provided work for thous
ands of unemployed.
The storm swept up from the South
west, heralded by a gale of great fury,
Then came the snow, preceded by a
blast of small bail. There had been
no warning of the storm, which struck
Chicago shortly after midnight and in
creased in intensity as morning ap
proached. The city awoke to find an
inch of snow over everything and the
wind blowing a mad gale. Two hours
later the snowfall had increased to two
and one-half inches and was turning to
rain.
The fury of the storm was most vis
ible on Lake Michigan, which had been
whipped into a violent rage. Roaring
seas swept over the breakwaters and
choked the mouth of the river. Lake
mariners said it was the worst storm
of the season.
England Continues to
Delay U. S. food Ship
London Little light was thrown on
the steps that Great Britain will take
to enforce her declared intention to
stop trade to and from Germany. De
velopments on the declaration hinge on
an order-in-council which, it has been
promised, will be Issued soon, but no
definite date for the issuance of which
has been announced.
Officials make it clear at every op
portunity that the mode of making re
prisals will be outlined In such a man
ner that further negotiations will not
be precluded, insofar as the declara
tion affects neutrals. Meanwhile food
stuffs from the United States destined
to neutral countries continue to be de
layed without explanations which sat
isfy shippers.
Chicago packers are mucn annoyed
over the delay at Falmouth since Feb
ruary 20 of the Norwegian steamer
Vitalia. There are no prospects tor
the release of the steamer, although it
is said everything possible has been
done to comply with the British re-
auirements.
Owners or tne cargo gave specinc
guarantees that the food was for Hol
land consumption, yet the ship is still
being held.
Highway May Open to
Astoria by July Fourth
Rainier Work on the Columbia
Highway through Columbia county
will be resumed before the end of the
month. Major Bowlby, state highway
engineer, and a party of his associ
ates, together with a number of
Rainier citizens, walked over that por
tion of the incompleted highway be
tween Rainier and Goble and came to
the conclusion that by beginning work
as soon as the men and material can
be asembled it will be possible to have
the road open for traffic all the way
from Portland to Astoria before July
The state highway engineer will
have available this spring about $50,-
000 of the Columbia county road fund
for use on the highway that was grad
ed last year and that is unfinished.
This he believes will go far toward
completing the road through this coun
ty. ... .
The party that hiked over tne uai-
nier-Goble link found that the graded
roadway had stood the winter well.
At a few points the hillside had slid
down perceptibly and covered a por
tion of the graded Burface. The en
gineers, figured that these obstacles
can be removed with little difficulty or
expense. They had expected such be
havior by nature.
One important piece of work that
remains to be done between Rainier
and Goble is at Prospect Point, where
the highway must be carried through
a solid body of rock about 1600 feet
long. Part of the necessary blasting
has been done. Major Bowlby esti
mates that it will require less than
$5000 to do the rest of the work on the
strip of highway.
The roadway for the entire distance
covered by the party 1b fully 24 feet
wide, in accordance with contract
specifications. All the fills and all the
culverts in the Rainier-Goble link have
been put in place. As the highway
commission 1 never was flush with
money on the Columbia county job, the
work is not finished with the same
nicety as in Multnomah county, but it
is every bit as Busbstantial and ser
viceable. The scenic advantages are
equal to those of the highway through
Multnomah county, with the exception
that there are not so many picturesque
waterfalls.
GAIN IN WHEAT
WILL BE LARGE
940,000,000 Bushels Is Total
In Prospect Now.
Coos County Leads All
Counties of United States
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-
vallis With six cow testing associa
tions carrying slightly more than 3000
dairy cowb on official test, dairymen
of Coos county lead all counties of the
United States in this progressive plan
of building up the dairy herds. What
makes the fact still more remarkable
the comparatively short time in
which the work of testing has been in
operation in this new Western Oregon
county that has put Oregon on the
map. Just about one year ago the
County court of Coob county, in co
operation with the Agricultural col
lege, completed arrangements to se
cure the services of a county agricul
tural agent. J. L. Smith, the present
incumbent, was selected by the Col
lege Dairy department and Extension
division and sent into the field, known
to be highly favorable to dairying.
His work has resulted in many things
county and to Oregon, but at the pres
ent time nothing else looks so big to
those who are following the move
ments as the wonderful dairy organi
zation. Cow testing in Coos county has been
made to mean precisely what the term
implies. Each cow under test has her
milk weighed and tested for its butter
fat content for each month in the year
by a competent, enthusiastic and dis
interested official tester working under
the supervision of the college dairy
officers. The records are accepted by
dairymen everywhere as being correct
and authentic, and if any cow falls to
measure un to standard dairy require
ments she 1b put out of the class of
profitable dairy cows and her place in
the herd will be supplied by another
and better cow. In this way good
cows are secured for the present pro
duction, and still better cows will be
of great importance and value to Coos bred for future producers.
Miners Hold "lill Death."
Wheeling, W. Vs The convention
of the fifth Ohio sub-district, United
Mineworkers of America, which repre
sents directly the 16,000 striking East
ern Ohio miners, voted unanimously to
hold out for a 47-cent mining rate "till
death." The operators have offered
44.61 cents. The action of the conven
tion is expected to have an important
bearing on the efforts of Secretary of
Labor Wilson to settle the strike. The
efforts being made by Secretary Wil
son, however, did not enter into the
deliberations of the convention.
Socialist! Want Honor.
Berlin The Overseas News Agency
gave out the f ollownig : "The Social
ist deputy, Haeniscb, speaking in the
Prussian diet, expressed the feelings
of the Social Democrats and said that
the party desired to secure honorable
Tablet Sent to Oregon.
Salem R. A. Booth, Governor
Withvcombe's personal representative
at the opening of the Oregon building
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition,
Thursday telegraphed the executive
that the commemorative bronze tablet
presented to Oregon by the Exposition
officials had been sent to this state.
Mr. Booth's telegram is as follows :
"For the official opening of the Ore
gon building the weather was all that
could be desired. We were attended
by a splendid crowd, who manifested a
snirit of genuine friendliness. Presi
dent Wilson wsa represented by M. B.
Lamar, the governor by Arthur Arlatt.
Mayor Rolph spoke for the city and
Vice President Hale for the exposi
tion. At the close of his address he
presented to our state a beautiful
commemorative bronze tablet, which I
am forwarding to you by express. The
Califomians have fairly won the ad
miration of all the people and the Ex
position commission has made the
whole world their oeDtors. r or you i
have expressed a genuine interest and
pledged the loyal help of all Oregon-
lans.
Mine Commission Named.
Salem Governor Withycombe has
announced the personnel of the new
Oregon bureau of mines and geology
as follows: H. N. Lawrie, Portland;
W. C. Fellows, Sumpter; J. F. Reddy,
Grants Pass; R. M. Betts, Cornu
copia, and J. L. Wood, Albany.
Messrs. Lawrie, ellows and Keaay
were reappointed. The term of office
of all members expired January 1.
In writing to members, notifying
them of their appointment, the gov
ernor urged the desirability of the
commission meeting at once, so that
steps could be taken to insure a proper
representation of Oregon at the Ban
Francisco Exposition in the form of a
mineral exhibit.
More Berries Planted.
Hood River Indications point to an
increased strawberry crop in the Hood
River valley. Strawberries have been
profitable in the past few years, and
fruit has been planted on many addi
tional tracts. Last year the Apple-
growers' association shipped 100 car
loads of strawberries. "I think that
the Underwood strawberry crop will be
of about the same quantity of last
year's," says S. C. Clark, who has one
of the largest tracts in the Underwood
district of Skamania county, Washing
ton, just across the Columbia.
Reclamation Work Begun.
Klamath Falls The Reclamation
service, finding little opposition to the
proposed enlargement of the Griffiths
lateral, have begun work with a force
of men and teams. A cook camp has
been arranged and supplies will be
shipped. It is intended to bave the
work completed by April 26, so that
the irrigation season may open May l,
as usual.
Governor Aids Coast Defense.
Salem Governor Withycombe was
notified of his appointment as second
vice president of the Pacific Coast De
fense League. . He sent the league the
following telegram :
"I desire to co-operate in all things
which will tend to the ultimate better
ment and safeguarding of our coast."
Seed Sought tor Contest.
Klamath Falls The Klamath Water
Users' association, with President
Abel Ady and County Agriculturist
H.R. Glaisyer have begun securing the
best seed possible for distribution
among the children of the water users
on the Klamath project who wish to
enter the contests announced by the
association recently.
The seed grain will be all of the
same variety and the best obtainable.
The contest is in the way of growing
the best vegetables and grains. To
the boy or girl growing the best potato
crop on a sixteenth of an acre will be
given the choice of three colts. The
second best grower will have second
choice of the colts and the other colt
will go to the third best grower.
Girls Best Spellers.
Oregon City The third spelling bee
in the all-county schedule arranged by
County School Superintendent Calavan
and Supervisors Vedder and McCor
mack, was held at the Brown school
house, near New Era, this week, and
spelling teams representing Browns,
Leland, Union Hall, Twilight and New
Era districts were present. The
schools are divided into two divisions,
one composed of the fourth and fifth
grades and the other of the sixth, sev
enth and eighth. Miss Ruth Floyd, of
the Leland school, won in the lower
division, and Miss Easter Noble, of
Union Hall, was second.
Lawrence Is Reappointed.
Salem Arthur Lawrence, of Port
land, was reappointed state printer by
the board of control Thursday. His
salary is $1800 a year, which is fixed
by statute.
R. A. Harris, under the old law, re
ceived $4000 a year. William Plimp
ton, secretary of the department, re
ceived $2000 a year under the old law,
and Mr. Lawrence has suggested to
the board that he should continue to
receive that salary, or more, if the
board sees fit to allow it.
Shelter Shed and Spur Asked.
Salem L. R. Gamble, in a com
plaint filed with the State Railroad
commission has asked that the South
ern Pacific Company be compelled to
provide a shelter shed and spur track
at Linn station on the Woodburn
Springfield branch.
Telephone Appeal Made.
Salem Declaring that its long dis
tance service is made available to all
Portland patrons of the Home Tele
phone company by a decree of the
United States court, the Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph company has asked
the railroad commission for a modifica
tion of its order compelling an inter
change of telephone service in the Ho
tel Benson, in Portland. The order was
made when the building occupied by
the Benson hotel was part of the
Hotel Oregon. The Home company
object to a reopening of the case.
Legislator lakes New Job.
Salem Governor Withycombe has
accepted the resignation of Frank
Davey as representative in the legis
lature from Harney county. Mr. Davey
has been appointed bookkeeper at the
penitentiary.
iVeu? Record Is Expected tor Third
Consecutive Year Acreage
Increase Is Big. '
Chicago Indications point to a
wheat crop of more than 900,000,000
bushels this year, against 891,000,000
bushels harvested last year. This, if
realized, will make the third consecu
tive record-breaking crop.
The United States last year raised
684,990,000 bushels of winter wheat
and set a new record. It was one of
the best things that ever happened to
this country to have a bumper crop, as
it enabled the United States to feed
all Europe and obtain the highest
prices in years.
This year it is possible to raise TUU,-
000,000 bushels bushels or more of
winter wheat with favorable conditions
to harvest. This, with a spring wheat
crop estimated at 240,000,000 bushels,
which is not a high figure, will make
the wheat crop reach 940,000,000 bush
els. The wheat crop last spring was a
poor one only 206,000,000 bushels.
A winter wheat acreage of 41,263,-
000, an increase of 4,136,000 acres, or
11.1 per cent more than was needed
for the harvest of 1914 is the largest
ever known. The plant has come
through the winter in unusually good
condition and indications are that
there will be little less in acreage
from various causes up to harvest. The
estimate of 700,000,000 .bushels of
winter wheat is based on a Iosb of only
263,000 acres up to harvest and yield
per acre of slightly more than 17 bush
els, or about two bushels an acre less
than last year. For spring wheat,
which is yet to be seeded, the estimate
is based on an acreage of 18,000,000
acres and a yield of 13 bushels an
acre, or the same as harvested in 1913,
when the crop was 240,000,000 bush
els. As prices are high It is expected
that with an early spring farmers in
the Northwest will put in the largest
in years and possibly it may exceed
19,000,000 acres, against 17,533,000
harvested last year.
47 Rescued After 96
Hours Underground
Hinton, W. Va. Forty-seven miners
were rescued alive Sunday from the
workings of the Layland mines of the
New River & Pocahontas Consolidated
Coal company, wrecked by an ex
plosion Tuesday. As from a tomb the
men, who had been four days and four
nights without food or drink, came
again into the light of day to be greet
ed by joyous relatives and friends.
Rescuers, headed by J. W. Paul, of
the bureau of mines; Early Henry,
chief of the State department of
mines, and H. M. Bertelot, general
manager of the company, entered mine
No. 3. Tearing down a brattice work
to let in freBh air, they found five men
who seized and kissed them. The men
were able to walk to the mine en
trance unaided. They had barricaded
themselves under the direction of one
of their number, Sam Morici.
Continuing the search, the rescuers
encountered another brattice about 600
yards beyond. Here, in entry No. 10,
they found 42 men alive. The miners
were so weak the rescuers had to carry
them to the entrance. As Sam Morici
was the hero who compelled his little
party to barricade themselves, so did
Hugh McMillan and John Whalen prac
tically force the larger party to build
a rude barricade to shut out the nox
ious afterdamp.
Realizing that their only hope for
rescue lay in keeping out the gas and
afterdamp, McMillan and Whalen
made their companions, mostly foreign
birth, collect planks for a barricade.
Behind this barricade the 42 waited in
the darkness 96 hours until the res
cuers came.
The rescued men suffered severely
from lack of food and drink. Medical
aid was given them promptly and they
were taken to their homes. All, it is
believed, will recover.
Fifty-three men, including those
found Sunday, had been rescued alive
86 bodies had been recovered and 80
or more were unaccounted for. All
but 11 of the dead bave been brought
out.
The rescue parties worked feverishly
following the rescue of the 47, but
found no more alive.
Submarine Scare Abates.
London A dispatch to Reuter' Tele
gram company from Flushing, Hol
land, says an easier feeling with re
gard to the German submarine block
ade is indicated by the announcement
that beginning March 9 passenger
service to England by the liners of the
Zeeland company will be considerably
extended. At present the British au
thorities permit only 200 passengers to
leave England daily.
The rush of passengers In Flushing
bound for England is enormous. Thou
sands are awaiting accommodations.
trench Sent to Africa. '
Paris The ministry of war an
nounces that on account of the situa
tion In the Dardanelles and in order to
meet every eventuality the government
has decided to concentrate in North
Africa an expeditionary force. This
will be ready to put to sea at the first
sign that It is needed and be directed
to the point where its presence is re
quired. '
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