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WHAT YOU NEED The other fellow may have; what yon have the other fellow may want Come together by advertising In the Press; A ft- . . 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, FKIDAY, APRIL 9, 1915. NUMBER 16. NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in Brief: German submrianes sink two British ships in the English channel. "Drys" succeed in voting out 100 saloons in Illinois at the recent elec tion. Butte, Mont, ousts its entire So cialist set of officers and electa Demo crats. ; Twenty-seven Terre Haute, Ind., officials are convicted of election frauds. Chicago elects an entire Republican ticket, including mayor, the first in many years. The steam schooner Speedwell is stranded on the spit off the Oregon coast near Bandon. An Italian senator declares that un less all naitona disarm anarchy will prevail universally. An Austro-German force capture 7500 Russians of a mountain line on the Hungarian border. Dr. Jordan, president of Stanford University, predicts that the European war will end this summer in a "draw.-" Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first provisional president of China, is accused of plot ting another revolution in that country. Carranza troops are reported to have expelled six nuns from a convent near Vera Cruz, compelling them to leave in the garb of, peasants, French government declares that the "ammunition crisis" is past and the allies, including Serbia and Belgium, will have all the shells they need. The Willard-Johnson fight films are barred from the United States by a Federal statute, which expressly for bids interstate transportation of fight films. , . -- A motorcyclist in Portland, losing control of bis machine, jumps the street curbing, runs 20 feet over a lawn and lands through the window into a parlor. At the government Investigation of Pullman porters' salaries, it is shown that they receive $27.60 per month, but the "tips" exacted from the trav eling public amount to an average of ' $75 per month. t a J n tt i c.t. navy, retired, celebrated the sixth an niversary of his attainment of the North Pole by giving an "Alaska din ner" in honor of Secretary Redfield, of the department of Commerce. A Zeppelin balloon appeared over Dunkirk Wednesday night, coming from the direction of the sea. The dirigible apparently intended to bom bard the shipping in the harbor, but being sighted by the torpedo boats retreated to the German lines. Jeremiah W. Robinson was elected Mayor of Boise, Idaho, in oppositoin to Mayor Arthur Hodges. There was a light vote. Mr. Robinson is a Dem ocrat, but the election was - non-partisan. He was a candidate for the position of director of the mint. The arrival at San ' Remo of the American ambassador, Thomas Nelson Page, occasioned the rumor that be had gone to Italy to meet foreign diplomats for the discussion of peace negotiations. The ambassador, how ever, denied that his presence was in any way . connected with the interna tional situation. . He explained that he was seeking a few days' rest' Villi and Zapata have agreed to the neutrality of Mexico City, but the consent of Carranza Is lacking. A rate expert declares some of the railroads asking for rate increases are already accumulating a surplus. The United States begins an Investi gation into the death of an American on torpedoed British liner. Ten thousand men returned to work In the steel mills and factories of Chi sago Heights, a suburb of Chicago. An anarchist on trial for placing bombs in New York church declared that a detective forced him to do the work and directed it A man arrested for vagrancy in San liV.tiMiMi hail f KflOA in hills In his pocket and proved himself to be the owner of buildings worm zzuu.uuu. The Rossky Slovoe, of Petrograd, nrint natfl intimatine that the Rus sian government has been approached through neutral channels - with over- tares from Austria for a separate peace without Germany's knowledge. German prisoners of war in French camps receive the same rations as thai Fram-h muds, with the excen- tion of little less meat and are in good spirits and well satisfied with their treatment They all believe Germany is bound to win. Coast artillery companies at Fort Winfleld Scott San Francisco, made from 90 to 100 per cent at ranges of 7000 yards, approximately xour miies. A writer in the London Daily Mail i.fM that ilnn of the German dase- hund variety are being treated shame fully in England, out 01 pure prejuaic. An Austrian steamer loaded with and ammnnitlnn. OB its WtT frOtn Semlin to Panoaova, both ports on the n.nnk rlmr. atruek a min. in the river and was blown up. Serbian ar- tiliery completed ine ueevucuun w we ship and cargo. Right of Embargo Not Admitted by United States Washington, D. C The United States government has made public its note to Great Britain announcing that it could not "admit" either the right of the alljes or their assertion for justification in placing an embargo on all . commercial intercourse between Germany and neutral countries. "To admit it," says the communica tion, "would be to assume an attitude of unneutrality toward the present enemies of Great Britain, which would be obviously inconsistent with the solemn obligations of this government in the present circumstances, and for Great Britain to make such a claim would be for her to abandon and set at naught the principles for which she has consistently and earnestly con tended in other times and circumstances." The note reviews at length the legal phases of a blockade of belligerent ter ritory and virtual blockade of neutral coasts. ' In conclusion the United States as serts its expectation that Great Brit ain "after having considered" the pos sibilities of "serious interruption of American trade under the Order-in-Council, "will take steps to avoid them and in the event that they should unhappily occur, which under the rules of international law constitutes a vio lation of neutral rights. The American communication inter prets the circumstances under which Great Britain pretends to be justified in adopting retaliatory measures to ward her enemies as "merely a reason for certain extraordinary activities" by her naval force "and not an excuse for or a prelude to any unlawful ac tion." WILLARD WINS WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP FROM BLACK New Line From Grants Pass to Ocean Assurea Completion of the California & Ore gon Coast railroad from Grants Pass to Crescent City, Cal., at a cost approxi mating $5,000,000, waa assured this week when Twohy Bros., railroad con tractors of Portland, arranged with the city officials V'of Grants Pass to finance the project and perform the work. The people of Grants Pass already have bonded themselves for $200,000 to pay for the first 10 miles of the work. This portion Of the road, from Grants Pass to Wilderville, has been built The remaining portion, from Wilderville to Crescent City, is ap proximately 81 miles long. It is esti mated that the work can be completed this summer. Twohy Bros, are pre pared to put a large force of men to work there within the next few weeks. The road is bonded for $5,000,000, and it is understood that Twohy Bros, have made adequate arrangement for disposing of the bonds, as a means of financing the project It is reported that Canadian and European capital ists have agreed to take some of the securities, which, on account of the glowing reports regarding the terri tory to be served by the new road, are expected to sell at a high figure. "We hope to .complete arrangements and carry the work to a successful con clusion within a very, short time," said James F. Twoby, a member of the firm. The new road will be an Important factor in the future development of Grants Pass and all the territory in the southwestern corner of the state. It will open up a rich section hereto fore undeveloped and will give Grants Pass and the southern part of the state an easy outlet to the sea. More significant than these facts, however, is the possibility that the new road will become a future link in through traffic between Portland and San Francisco. For this reason, it is believed that the road eventually will pass into the hands of the Southern Pacific company. Twohy Bros., it Is understood, are acting for the South ern Pacific They have done much work for the Southern Pacific in the past and are not apt to engage in rail road operation themselves. When the road is completed to Grants Pass a link of only 75 miles be tween Crescent City, and Trinidad, Cal., will remain to be built to give the Southern Pacific a new through line between GrantB Pass and San Francisco. Test Cooking Qualities of Various Kinds of Apples Havana Jack Johnson, exiled from his own country, Monday lost his claim to fistic fame as the heavyweight champion of the world, the title being wrested from him by Jess Willard, the Kansas cowboy, the biggest man who ever entered the prize ring. Monday s fight probably has no par allel in the history of ring battles. For 20 rounds Johnson punched and pounded Willard at will, but his blows grew perceptibly less powerful as the fight progressed, until at last he seemed unable or unwilling to go on. Johnson stopped leading, and for three or four rounds the battle be tween the two huge men was little more than a series of plastic poses of white and black gladiator. So it was until the 25th round, when Willard got one of his widely swinging windmill right-hand smashes to John eon's heart This waa the beginning of the end. When the round closed Johnson sent word to his wife that he was all in, and told her to start for home. She was on the way out and was passing the ring in the 26th round when a stinging left to the body and a cy clonic right to the jaw caused Johnson to crumple on the floor of the ring, where he lay partly outside the ropes until the referee counted -10 and held up Willard's hand in token of his newly-won laurels. Pullman Car Porters' Pay Only $27.50 Month Chicago The first government in quiry into wages and conditions and employment of sleeping car porters and conductors waa made here Tuesday by the United States commission on industrial relations. L. S. Hunger ford, general manager of the Pullman company, was on the stand most of the day and was questioned by Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the commission. In the first 15 years of the sleeping porter's service, Hungerford said, he is paid $27.60 a month. At the end of 15 years be, like other service em ployes, automatically received an ad vance of 6 per cent which makes his pay $28.87 a month. In the first 10 years of service be buys his own uni- froms, but thereafter the company takes on this burden. A bonus system gives men with good records an extra month s pay for the year. Mr. Walsh then brought up the sub ject of tips. Do you expect the public to pay the difference between these wages and a living wage?" he asked the wit- i. 'No sir, I don't think that waa con sidered," the latter replied. "You thought them satisfied with these salaries? "No. I wouldn't say that; we re ceived no expressions of dissatisfaction regrading them," replied Mr. Hunger- ford. . German Sink Italian Ship. Genoa, Italy A German submarine has sunk the Italian steamer Lulgi Parodl, which left Baltimore January 22 with a cargo of coal for Genoa, ac cording to word received here Tuesday. The report has caused a profound im pression here, and there are many ex pressions of resentment Great excite ment prevails and the authorities have taken strong measures to protect the German colony and German ships from reprisals. Nothing ia known as to the fate of the crew of the Luigl rarodi, which was entirely of Genoese. Suit Agahut 7. it Set Syracuse, N. Y. By agreement of counsel for both sides, the trial of the $60,000 libel suit brought by William Barnes, of Albany, against ex-Fresi dent Roosevelt baa been set down for April 19. The action will have pref erence over all other eases on the cal endar. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallis Knowledge of the cooking val ue of standard varieties of apples on the part of housewives and other per sons that prepare this fruit for table use has long been considered by Pro fessor C. I. Lewis, chief of the divis ion of horticulture at the college, as one of the steps to a more satisfactory market system. "Buyers of apples for home use should learn the qualities of the leading Oregon varieties and then call by name for the variety they want," Professor Lewis said several years ago. And he has kept on saying it until the truth of the proposition has been generally recognized and is now beginning to be acted upon in a systematic attempt to cultivate a more intelligent and stable demand for good apples. In carrying out this policy of learn ing the fruit and its qualities, a series of experiments to determine the cook ing qualities of 71 varieties of apples grown in Oregon the Home economics department of the college has made and reported an exhaustive test The test includes the cooking qualities of these varieties used as sauce; pies, dumplings, marmalade and jelly. The fruit was judged on the basis of color, flavor and texture of sauce, flavor, way cooked, and tenderness of pies and dumplings, and flavor, texture, color, clearness and surface of jells. In sauce and marmalade 60 points were allowed for flavor and 26 each for texture and color. For pies and dumplings, 65 points were given for perfect flavor, 20 for way cooked and 15 for tender ness. In jells texture and flavor were given 86 points each for perfect score with 15 for color, 10 for clearness and 5 for surface. Judging was done by a number of college experts who were unaware of the varieties as they judged them, so that no prejudice entered into their verdict By this means satisfactory knowl edge of the qualities of all varieties tested was reached, and this informa tion is now offered the people of Ore gon who are interested in this subject in a bulletin just prepared. The bul letin should not only prove to be a reli able guide in the purchase of apples for home cooking, but it will also have considerable value for the dealers and growers. Copies may be had on appli cation to the college. 'In addition to the score awarded to each variety in the uses heretofore mentioned, the bulletin furnishes in formation on the seasonal value of the varieties, on the relative value of some of the varieties for each of the purposes named, and the correlation of values for sauce and for jelly pur poses. Much other useful information is also contained in the bulletin, such as giving recipes for crusts, cooking directions, amount of sweetening and suitable utensils: WOMEN'S MEETING ENDS IN RIOTING Theater's Steel Curtain Drops On Turbulent Scene. Hard-surfacing of County Highway Is Planned Forest Grove The Forest Grove commercial club held another luncheon Thursday, at which there were present 100 business men of the community and farmers living in the vicinity. The subject for discussion was "Better Roads for Washington County." 1). B. Reasoner, judge of the county court, and Rodell . Matteson, county commissioner, were guests. - The project which is being pushed by the Commercial club of Forest Grove and the farmers of Gales Creek and Thatcher vicinity is hard-surfacing of the main thoroughfare leading from Gales Creek and Thatcher neighbor hoods into Forest Grove, and the county court is co-operating to obtain some state aid. A committee of five was appointed to co-operate with the Commercial club and the county court in an effort to procure assistance from the State highway commission, and subscriptions to the funds available for the improvement Incidentally the membership of the Commercial club was increased 100. Cow Supplant Babie. Eugene, Or. Babies must give way to cows at the 1916 Lane County Fair. The fair board has abolished the eu genics department of the county fair and substituted additional prizes for the dairy department. 'Lane county la dairy county, and will become more so within the next few years," said member of the fair board. "The board aims to do all pos sible to encourage the production of better cattle. We thought it better to put the money into stock than into babies." Cleanup Day for Dog. Baker Baker will have a cleanup day for dogs, April 12, following the civic beauty cleanup two days earlier. Mayor Palmer aaya that there are at least 200 worthless canines on the streets and that the danger of rabies is great because of them. The plan Is to have the official dog catcher capture every animal that baa not a license tag or muzzle. Grain field In Good Condition. Union Heavy rains in the valley and snow in the nearby mountains have brought the moisture to about the usual condition for this season of the year. Cloudy akies and south winds promise more rain. - The ground has been too wet for cultivating and seed ing is delayed. . Moat of the spring seeding is in and grain is in good con dition. $1 Wheat bp Fall ft Hope. Baker With two large contracts for wheat in Umatilla county at a dol lar a bushel reported, farmers in this vicinity are holding their grain at this price and expect to get it at harvest time. Some think it will go as high as last winter, while some are even more optimistic. Reports from all parte of Baker and Grant counties show that there is a larger acreage than ever and with the rains of the last week the yield an acre promises to be greater than any yet known. Many of the farmers are plowing up hay fields and planting grain, the prin cipal crop of which is wheat There were only a few cases of damage by frost during the winter, because of light snows. The early rains cause belief that despite the small amount of snow in the hills there will be enough rain to make grain and hay raisers in dependent of irrigation. The outlook for rye and barley, at war prices, is bright. Hay raisers also expect big crops with prices better than last year. Columbia FUh Price Set Astoria The Columbia River sal mon packers, both canners and cold storage men, have set the prices to be paid for raw fish during the season which opens on May 1 at the following rates: Small or cannery Cbinooks, 6 cents pound: large or cold storage Cbinooks, weighing 28 pounds or more, 7 cents a pound; marketable steelheads, 8 cents pound; blue- backs, 4 cents a pound; shad, 1 cent a pound; sturgeon, 6 cents a pound. The principal changes from last sea son's figures are a reduction of one half cent in the price of large Chi- nooks and an advance in the dividing point between what are known as small and large Cbinooks from 26 to 28 pounds. The reason assigned for these changes is that on account of the war the shipment of cold storage or pickled fish to Germany has been cur tailed, and the market for that variety of the cured product is not encourag ing. A similar reason is assigned for cutting the price for steelheads 2 cents a pound. Applegrowtr la Build. Hood River Having been unable to conclude arrangements with the Apple Growers' association for the lease of a portion of its warehouse space, the Fruit JGrowers' exchange, which has contracted with the Northwestern Fruit exchange to handle its fruit for another year, will erect a storage house in this city and will build a warehouse in the Odell community on the Mount Hood railway line. While members of the board of directors have considered the matter, plans aa yet have not been acted on by the growers. Bute and Jeer End Convention - of feminine Politician in Chicago Plaghoute. Chicago A demonstration approach ing a riot in its uproar and disorder marked a woman's political meeting Saturday and was brought to an end only when managers of the theater in which the meeting was held dropped the steel curtain and some spectators Bent a riot call for the police. The meeting was called by Miss Marion Drake, who a year ago was the Progressive candidate for Alderman of the First ward and decisively beaten by John ("Bathhouse") Coghlan. Miss Drake had organized the "Can't Stand for Thompson" club, and until she declared herself for Seymour Sted man, the Socialist candidate for may or, was believed to have favored Rob ert Sweitzer, the Democratic candi date, as against William Hale Thomp- son,.the Kepublican. As a Sweitzer supporter. Miss Drake would have been aligned with Coghlan, his colleague Michael ("Hinky Dink") Kenna and other pol iticians, whom she had attacked in her campaign a year ago. Woman supporters of Thompson In timated Miss Drake had formed such an alliance and the meeting, either by chance or design, was well filled with those antagonistic to Miss Drake. When Miss Drake rose to introduce Sweitzer, the outbreak began. "Where s Thompson? Get a man. We want to hear the men," were the calls as men and women throughout the theater rose to their feet and these were followed by less polite exclama tions, including a prolonged request for some one to "get the hook." The curtain dropped as a score of volunteer speakers began harranguing for their particular candidate from a score of locations In the big hall. Fist fights were narrowly averted and the police ejected several persons from the theater. Extra police were called to quell the disturbance, which extended to the street, where several hundred persons gathered, attracted by the disturbances Inside. The disturbance began when ' Miss Drake, who was chairman of the meet ing, appeared. As she attempted to speak her voice was drowned by hisses and jeers. Great Britain Prepares tor Absolute Prohibition London If prohibition of the sale of liquor in Great Britain eomes, as it is believed it may in a few days, it will be the biggest shock ever felt In this country there can' be no two opinions about that. The Norman con quest end York-Lancaster civil war and the drastic dictatorship of Crom well will bear no comparison to It, and this statement is made seriously. Bri tons place much stress on their per sonal rights, even in war time. The sudden shutting off of the sale of drink is certain to be dramatic. It ia likely that It will be done at night by the police and the inland revenue officers, aa happened in Russia at the beginning of the war. The general opinion among the Bri tons is that such a method might do for the simple Slavs, but would not "go" here In England. It Is not likely, however, that the saloonkeepers of Britain will be caught napping. The rolling of dis tant thunder presaging a storm has been heard, and like the wily Bedouins worrying the Suez canal, the massed formation of bottles ia being rapidly split Into smaller contnigenta and these are again divided into single units fleeing from the wrath to come. Morgan Art To Go. New York The great art collection of J. P. Morgan, the value of which had been estimated at upward of 145,- 000,000, except that portion of It now In the Morgan library, will be sold, It waa reported here. The Morgan II brary, in East Thirty-sixth street erected by the late financier to shelter his collection of literature treaaures, it is said, will be retained by his son aa a memorial to his father. Under these conditions, an Inheirtance tax will be collected by the state on both the art collection and the library. Labor Seek End of War. New York A conference of Inter national labor leaders will be held in this eity on April 15 to choose dele gate to an International congress of labor to devise ways and means of bringing the European war to an end. The congress will be held in a Euro pean city. If the congress comes to the conclusion that peaceable and dip lomatic methods would not be avail able for ending the war, the advisa bility of an international strike of trade unionists of the world, espe cially those of Europe, will be acted on. Educator lo Go To War. Moscow, Idaho Dr. James Maclean, ex-president of the University of Ida- bo, now of the University of Winni peg, has been called to the colors, and will leave with the next regiment of volunteers. He enlisted at the out break of the war and had been drilling at Winnipeg, He resigned a year ago, His wife was Moscow girl. FISHING TACKLE! The Trout Season is here, and we are prepared to give you anything in the Tackle line you may de sire. 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