y 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 jv "VOLUME XXVII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915. NUMBER 18. MISSIONARIES ASK FOB INTERVENTION Long Cablegram Sent to Wilson by Americans in China. - TROUBLE FOR UNCLE SARI PREDICTED President Is Urged to Tell Japan to Withdraw Her Excessive Forces. Tolls Amounting to $6000, Paid by Pekin Officials. Pekin. Intervention by the United States in the negotiations now pro ceeding between China and Japan Is recommended to President Wilson In the appeal recently sent to him by American missionaries in this coun try. The message of 5000 words was cabled to Washington Monday. It characterizes the Japanese demands on China as acts of aggression such as eventually will present a menace to the United States. Recalling the fact that Japan has at present in this country doubled her usual quota of troops (amounting to 60,000 men), the missionaries urge that Japan be notified that the excess of trooDB should be removed. The understanding here iB that .a Chinese official or several officials paid the cable charges, amounting to nearly $6000, on the message to Presi dent Wilson. This communication was signed by missionaries all connected with the American Presbyterian mis sion at Pekin: Rev. Chauncey Good rich, of the American board of com missioners for foreign missions, who is stationed at Tien Tsin: Rev. H. H. Lowry, of the Methodist Episcopal mission at Pekin, and Rev. C. F. Hub bard. The petition asks President Wilson to demand of China and not of Japan American participation In the confer ences now under way. It is suggested that Great Britain and other nations be invited to participate. There are in China several hundred American missionaries, of whom the great majority have not seen the mes sage. Some of them who were re quested to aim It. declined. The Amer ican board recently requested its mis sionaries to avoid publio expression of opinion on political affairs ana al though it is said the missionaries gen erally side with China in the present controversy, few of them have been active Dolitically. , The missionaries ask "that the gov ernments of both China and Japan be notified that the presence of unusual bodies of Japanese troops on Chinese nil not only embarrasses the freedom of negotiations, but constitutes an out rage to the rights of China and a seri ous menace to the peace and safety of Americans and foreigners, generally: and recommends that "pending the re moval of excessive contingents of Jap anese troops all negotiations should be suspended. Ex-Governor West Wins Verdict In Copperfield, Or., Saloon Case Baker, Or. Ex-Governor West won in the suit brought in circuit court here against him by William Wlegan, Rnnnerfield saloonkeeper, for damages alleged to have been caused by the re moval of liquor and saioon nxcures from his saloon, when Governor West declared martial law in uoppenieia, after Fern Hobbs' visit on January 2, 1DH. The Jury returned the verdict after beinc out seven hours. Nine were for the ex-covernor and three dissenting, The first several ballots the Jurors stood eight for the defendant and four The verdict was a surprise here, be- rjtnsa It was thoueht that the lengm , of time occupied by the Jury in its de liberations indicated an anti-West ver- illr.L and when the verdict was read by Circuit Judge Anderson the few pres ent seemed dazed. Ex-Governor West also was not pres- . ont although he was notified in time, ki tha Oeiser-Grand hotel, while pack ing to leave for Portland, he clearly ahnwed elation. "I came here convinced I would get a square deal, even should I lose," he said. "I was naturally anxious that the verdict should be in my favor, for the case has been one which attracted statewide attention involving the great question of human rights. The ques tion, I believe, is now settled for good and all, and the rights of the human being are acknowledged to be superior . to those Involving mere property." IAPAN UNJUSTLY SUSPECTED BY AMERICANS, DELEGATES DECLARE New York At a dinner here Tues day welcoming them home from their recent mission to Japan as represent atives of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Dr. Shaller Mathews, dean of the Univer sity of Chicago,, and Dr. Sidney L. Gulick expressed the necessity in this country of a better understanding of the Japanese in order to allay . what they describe as the unjust suspicions entertained for the motives of Japan, Both speakers brought messages of peace and friendship for the United States from Count Okuma, the Japan ese prjme minister, and other Japanese statesmen. The dinner was attended by mem bers of the council, of the Japan so ciety, -of the New York Peace society and the Church Peace union. The present situation as regards China furnishes a supreme opportunity for the United States and Japan to show the meaning not only of their friendship for each other, but for China as well, declared Dr. Mathews. It was difficult at present, he said, to hold an unqualified conviction that Japan's plans toward China were mag nanimous in the interests of China, and herein "the United States and Japan have an opportunity to demon strate the power of diplomacy Dasea on the frivine of iustice." Dr. Mathews, discussing the' de mands made on China by Japan, said that if Japan's only purpose was to build up an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine the American people can hardly fan to sympathize with her, particularly as we recall her need for territory in which to expand. 64,000 Acres in Thief ' Valley May Be Opened NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Baker Sepa have been taken which, if carried through, will compel the Powder Land & Irrigation company to give up its proposed plan of carry ing the Thief Valley project, in the Powder Valley northeast of Baker, to completion. It will mean that if suc cessful the 64,000 acres now tied up by the company will be thrown open by the proceedings to entry and there is a possibility that if the Powder Val ley company's contract iB cancelled a co-operative irrigation district will be organized. Acting upon the request of several families in the Lower Powder and North Powder districts and in Baker, ex-Governor West and Claude C. Mc Culloch, attorneys of Portland, have begun the preliminary work toward drafting a petition to the State Desert Land board at Salem to ' cancel the Powder Valley company's contract and to the Interior Department at Wash ington, D. C, to restore the lands to entry. It is expected that by the time the petitions are ready to be pre' sented there will be at least 50 sub scribers. It is thought they will be ready within 60 days. The reasons given for the request for cancellation are that Carey act projects have proved unsuccessful, that the Powder Valley company has not done any work on the land, that it has shown itself unable to finance the project, and these lands having been idle , and of no use to anyone tor six years, should be thrown open to those who seek farming land. According to Mr. McCulloch, the assertion that Carey act porjects have not proved a success is based on in vestigation in all parts of the United States and he says that Secretary of the Interior Lane has committed him self as '. being against the Carey act idea and is for the co-operative dis trict plan Mr. McCulloch declares that at the last irrigation congress at Den ver, which was attended by Mr. West and other governors, it was shown that there are $12,000,000 of Carey act securities in default. He says that there is only one successful Carey act project in the country and that is in Idaho, and its success is declared due to unusual circumstances. Mr. Mc Culloch added that only one Carey act project has been completed in Oregon, that of the Central Oregon Irrigation company in Crook county, and he said this has not been a financial success. State Places Quarantine On 11 Oregon Counties Many Squatters Rush to Take Up Government Land in Alaskan Port Seward, Alaska Rumors that the Alaska Engineering commission had decided to throw open to settlement the 60-acre terminal tract here ac quired by the government with the purchase of the Alaska Northern rail road caused a stampede of squatters who have occupied almoBt all of the tract. Many prominent business men and several women are among thesquat ters, who have armed themselves with rifles to prevent claim jumping. There have been several minor quarrels, Dut as vet no one has been hurt. United States Uistnct juage rTeo M. Brown had planned to obtain use of this tract as a temporary camp for the hundreds of men who are hurrying to Seward from all parts of Alaska and from the United States as a result of the announcement that Seward would be the tidewater terminus of the gov ernment railroad to Fairbanks. DesDite a snow storm, which blank eted Seward, the stampede continued and squatters were busy setting up tents and clearing their lots. Italy to Fight, Is Report. Rome The Giomale d 'Italia pub lishes an interview with an unnamed neutral diplomat, who is quoted as having said: "That Italy will partic ipate in the war has been decided on. What now is necessary is to agree on the delimitation and distribution of the Eastern coast of the Adriatic be tween Italy and the Slavs. Italy an not risk a war to drive out Austria from the Adriatic and have Austria re placed, v in a military sense, by the Russian advance guards. Italy must have her strategic points completed. Road Buying Equipment. Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Railroad company has entered the market for approximately $20,000,000 worth of new equipment and for new material for cars and locomotives Mnh It will build in its own shops. The equipment program includes 144 new locomotives, 146 all-steel passen rr ra and about 10.000 freight cars. All the locomotives, 66 of the passen ger cars and 2102 of the freight cars will be built at the company's shops at Altoona, while the remainder will ho nlaeed with outside companies. The new equipment Is to be used for re placements and will not be additions to the present equipment - Allies' Campaign Is On. Paris. The allied offensive on the western front is developing. Accord ing to the military authorities here, the offensive movement has Tieen In nrocress for several weeks at strategic points from the sea to the Alps, with successes In Champagne, at lm upar- get, Neuve Chapelle, Notre Dame de Lorette, La Bolsselle, Dlxmude and .nth nf Ufltx and In Alsace. Hard fighting was in progress Monday in urikuifani Prance and in this way the pressure is gradually being In creased. Attack on Kiel Forecast. Vancouver, B. C That 300 scow shaped, self-propelled lighters, capable of carrying 800,000 troops, are being constructed in Great Britain, is the in formation received by A. E. Short, of this city, who is a member of an Eng lish shipbuilding firm. These lighters are to be completed by June 1. Mr. Short gave it as his opinion that the scows would be used to land troops on the German coast line of Schleswig Holstein and that the Kiel canal would be the objective point. Britain Charges Murder. London The admiralty issued the followine statement: "Sunday a tier- man submarine torpedoed and sank the trawler Vanilla. The trawler Fermo endeavored to rescue the crew, but was fired at and driven off. All the crew of the Vanilla were lost. This killing of fisherfolk for no military purpose should not escape attention. It is the second murder of this charac ter committed within week. A care ful record is kept of these events." Troops Move on Straits. Berlin A cablegram received here from Athens says that unusual activity prevails at the Port of Mudro, on Lem noss island, in the Aegean sea off the entrance to the Dardanelles straits. Almost all the French troops on the island have been sent away on trans sports." A total of 35,000 British and French soldiers were landed at muotos last week. It ia reported that the operations against the Dardanelles are about to be resumed. Two Who MulctJBarsIFreed, - Chicago Two men who were arrest ed after they refused to pay for drinks which they ordered in a saloon Sunday were discharged bv Judge Gemmill in the municinal court here. "You don't have to pay for drinks you get in Chi cago on Sunday," declared the judge. "If the saloons are opeathey are open in violation of the law." Salem. To prevent the spreading of rabies, the State Livestock Sanitary Board, at a meeting held here recent ly, issued an order placing 11 counties under quarantine. ' It was announced that the disease had been communi cated by coyotes to horses, dogs, cats and other animals in eight counties in the eastern part of the state. The counties included in the quarantine are Lake, Harney, Crook, Baker, Uma tilla, Malheur, Wheeler and Union, where rabies prevails, and Multnomah, Clackamas and Jackson, to which It is feared the disease may spread. The order requires that all dogs, un less used in herding livestock, be muz zled. State Veterinarian Lytle, who attended the meeting, said that all violators of the quarantine would be punished to the fullest extent of the law. the nenalties being: fines from 150 to J100 for each offense, Mr. L,yue announced that all peace officers would be called upon tor assistance In enforcing the order. The veterin arian declared that conditions were esDeclally alarming In Lake county, rabid coyotes and dogs running the range in large numbers. He said that All-Day Community Meet ' at Scio Well Attended Albany. More than 600 people at tended the all-day community meeting held at Sclo Saturday and it was one of the largest and best gatherings of the kind ever held In Linn county. People went from a distance of 15 miles to hear school questions, good roads and dairying discussed by ex perts. The meeting was held in the assembly-room of the Scio High School, but, with a good many unable to gain ad mission at the morning session, an overflow meeting was held later in an other schoolroom. -M. S. Pittman, of the extension de partment of the Oregon State Normal School, was the principal speaker at the morning session. He discussed school problems and said it was the mission of a school to find out what a person is fitted for, inspire him to fol low that line of work and then pre pare him for it The remainder of the session waB devoted to contests among the schools of that section of the coun ty in school songs, solos, declamations and dramatizations. Songs by the Scio Hieh School Glee Club were a feature. s In the overflow meeting Professor G. V. Shelton gave a practical talk on the construction of good roads with the material available. Professor Schrant substituted for State Dairy Commissioner Mlckle, who was unable to attend. E. M. Reagan and others, renresentine the Albany Commercial Club, explained tne proposed uoumy Fruit Growers' association. A basket dinner was served at 12 o'clock. many cattle and a number of persons had been bitten there. We shall try to get the city authori ties of Portland to enforce the order there," continued Dr. Lytle. "it will require that dogs be muzzled, nd when on the street, in leasn. board will see that it Is enforcei Multnomah county outside the 1 Stock owners have suffered sei ly in eastern counties. The situf is especially hard for tne poor o steaders, where some of them lost their only cow through beini tenby a hydrophobic coyote or Even cats are becoming afflicted the disease and they are being I by fear-stricken owners." - Everett Goodman was appointed clal agent to investigate sheep reported in Douglas county. Mr. j said that he has no fear that the ease Is of serious proportions. The board made arrangement, payment to the owners for horse? mules it may be found necessai kill because of glanders. Animal, der 1000 pounds will be paid for a rate of $25 a head, and animals wt, lng more than 1000 $35 a heed." Improper Packing Hurts Price of Good Applet Hood , River. Northwestern apple market men declare that Indifference of growers in maintaining a good sys tem of grading and packing resulted in more harm the past year than any other detrimental influence. H. F. Davidson believes the change In system of packing apples has been responsible for much of the deteriora tion of erade and pack. Formerly tne growers paid a dally wage to tneir nackers. who gave the fruit close In spection. Sorting and sizing for the most part was done by hand. Now the fruit is sized and graded by ma chines. Payment Is made on a piece basis. Sam G. Campbell, who for the past two years has been chief Inspector for the North Pacific Fruit Distributors, declares that low prices to a great ex tent have been, caused by poor pack, and that the remedy lies in the control of the growers themselves, rather wan with the marketing agencies. Albany Janitor 1$ Thrifty. Albany. What a man can accom plish who attends strictly to business and works steadily, on a small salary, is illustrated by M. E. Bllyeu, Janitor at the Linn county courthouse, who has attained a record of ten years' continuous service. Ten years ago Bllyeu, a widower with five small chil dren to support, began work at the r-oiirthnim Hla salary was 140 a month, and during all of this time it has not averaged more than $50 a month. Besides his other duties, he takes pride In the courthouse lawn. Bayocean To Have Water-grade - Highway From City of Tillamook Tillamook The matter of the con struction of the Bayocean road was amicably decided upon here at a meet ing of the county court and represent atives of a realty company. It was agreed that the county court expend $10,250 which is now available on the road and in addition to this the Bay ocean people are to build two miles and a half of the road. About four miles and a half remain to complete the road, which will be on the south side of Tillamook Bay and on a water grade from Tillamook City. It will have deep water for vessels by the side of it nearly the entire distance. The county court will call for bids for work on this end of the road and the Bayocean people will take hold of the other end, commencing work at once with their dredge. It will be open for travel probably early next year. The progress of Bayocean has been kept back for years for want of a road, but now that this is assured a large number of lot owners are ex pected to erect substantial cottages. Apart from this the Bayocean people will expend $500,000 in improvements. Last year a large natatorium was erected costing $75,000. Newberg Lays Plans for Great Agricultural and Horticultural Fair Newberg A recent meeting of the governors of the Commercial club to discuss the feasibility of having an acrricultural and horticultural fair held here this fall was enthusiastic. To enlist the co-operation of farmers and fruit growers, meetings will be held at the schoolhouses in the vicin ity. Prizes will be offered to boys and girlB on various lines of industry, Newberg is the center of one of tne most productive sections of the Wil lamette valley. Immediately alter tne club adjourned a conference was held bv the governors and an advisory com mittee in regard to arousing the inter est of fanners boys, who will be ex pected to make displays. Boy Earns $6; Fined $4.15. Ashland Verl Baruthouse, local Southern Pacific call boy, motorcycled to Medford with a, passenger who missed his train and overtook it at that station. The distance, 12 miles, was covered in 14 minutes. He re ceived $5 for this service, the regular fare being 40 cents. For speeding on the Pacific Highway he was arrested and fined $4.15. Later on he received a check from the stranger for $5 to square the fine. The passenger whom BarutbouBe accommodated turned out to be a British army officer. Six Astoria Dealers Fined. Astoria In the Circuit court here six Astoria wholesale liquor dealers pleaded guilty to indictments charging them with selling liquor for delivery in dry districts. Each was fined ou, but the penalty was suspended, provid ed the defendants refrained hereafter from violating the law. - Resume of World's important Events Told in Brief Two Turkish destroyers are-reported lost by coming in contact with Russian mines. British destroy own submarine in Dardanelles to prevent capture by Turks. Germany announces that advances of her lines in the west war zone have been made. Placer gold deposits of more than $1600 a pan is claimed to have -been found in Alaska. - . . .... ' - 4 ' 1 Berlin has closed its free war soup house because of the splendid econom ical improvement. Japan is said to be hard hit by the war, as the French demand for silks has materially declined. The United States District court of Chicago has granted a receivership to the Rock Island railroad system. San Francisco refuses to bond itself for $34,600,000 to purchase the prop erties of the Spring Valley Water company. A Eugene, Or., man who became alarmed about the war, buried $500 in his garden, but has dug it up and de posited it in the bank. Many women in Portland sign peti tions to the city council to allow men the privilege to smoke i ' ee at et, lso ert no hat Sot Id- yuu,uou for alleged libei. A Reuter dispatch from Sofia says that the government of Adrianople and towns in that region have ordered the inhabitants not to go outside the limits of the towns without authorization Work on the raising of the sunken submarine F-4 has been halted by bad weather. The hulk is now closer to the shore than when first located, hav ing been raised 12 feet and towed in until it touched again in shallower water. Twenty thousand fly traps will be part of the apparatus employed this year in the anti-fly campaign in Port land. The traps are to be made in the manual training departments of the public schools and will be distributed throughout the city. Sixteen thousand Chicago carpen ters go on strike. German submarine sinks Dutch freight ship while at anchor oft The Netherlands. John Bunny, the noted motion pic ture comedian, is near death at bis home in Brooklyn. Two Zeppelins raid English town on the eastern coast Friday and do con siderable damage to property. Ten Tacoma dairies are closed by health authorities, who claim milk from tubercular cows was freely sold. Twelve thousand men employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining company, Calumet, Mich., and subsidiary prop erties, received an Increase of 10 per cent in wages. The wage rate in ef fect prior to the outbreak of the Euro pean war Is thereby restored. The British aovernment has offored a "full and ample apology" to the Chtl- Kovernment for the sinking on March 14 in Chilean territorial waters of the German cruiser Dresden, the Internment of which had already been ordered by the maritime governor of Cumberland Bay when the Britisn squadron attacked and sank her. Select and common councils of Phil adelphia have decided to allow the his toric Liberty Bell to be sent to tne Panama-Pacific Exposition, uesoiu- tlons providing tor its trip across the continent were unanimously adopted by both branches. Mayor Blanken burg announced that he would sign the resolutions and only minor details now remain to complete the arrangements. Vehemently asserting that he had nothing to do with the death of Fran Cisco Madero, General Vlctoriano Hu- erta. ex-nrovlslonal president of Mexi co, Issued a long signed statement in New York setting forth what he term- ed his side of the Mexican question. General Huerta declared that he knew who was responsible for Madero's death, but that he was keeping it as a "professional secret. Germany declares Russian invasion of Hungary was a failure, and that the Czar's army has been brought to halt. - Fast melting snow in Arizona wash ont two dams near St Johns and drown eight persons, besides doing half million dollars' damage to prop erty. P. C. Jenkins, a prominent resident of Butler county, Kentucky, was found guilty in circuit court and sentenced to four years and one day in tne peni tentiary on the charge of being con nected with night raiding operations in western Kentucky. FISHING TACKLE! - - The Trout Season is here, and we are prepared . to give you anything in the Tackle line you may de sire. We are carrying a dandy line of Split Bamboo Rods, Reels Leaders, Flies, Fly Books, Baskets, Etc. Call here for your Fishing and Hunting Licenses. LOOK OUR BIG STOCK OVER. 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