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 XXVILY 'ATHESfA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OEEGOtf, FKIDAY, JUNE i ll, 1915. NUMBER 25. WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From AH Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed ' for Our Busy Readers. Colonel Alden J. Blethen, owner of the Seattle Times, is dangerously ill. Degrees are beBtowed on 254 stu dents at Oregon Agricultural college. The Seventh Annual Rose Festival was formally opened at Portland Wed nesday. German submarines have sunk six more merchant ships, among them be ing a Norwegian steamer. A delegation of Chinese merchants, touring this country, will visit import ant cities in the Northwest. Canadian miners at Fernie, B. C, refuse to work with alien labor, which includes Germans and Austrians. Secretary Bryan, who has resigned his post in the cabinet, is said will take the stump for the furtherance of his peace ideas. Many cattle in the vicinity of Baker, Ore., have died mysteriously recently, and the commissioners of that county are investigating the cause. , , . , v' Portland has $400,000 fire which sweeps clean five blocks, including box factory, lumber yard, feight house, box cars and many other buildings. . Counsellor: Robert Lansing, of the State department, is now acting secre tary of state, and it is said no new cabinet membjr will be appointed for WeralflBOTths.' '- ;v .-4 ' ' Nip miles off the coast of Newport, Ore., has become a Gretna Green, two couples having been married on a launch that far from shore. The last couple, a man 60 takes bride of 64. Premier Asquith announces in the house of commons that the British gov ernment is considering the initiation of a national insurance scheme to cover the tosseB inflicted by German aircraft. ! OfficfTB' of tha ,. Washington, -State Ref ere:iuum league say that .the cam paign to obtain voters' signatures to referendum petitions against seven bills passed by the state legislature has been successful. . ' ' W. J. Taylor and R. J. Lewis, of Vancouver, B. C, who were accused of selling Oregon lands which did not be long to them, were convicted of fraud and sentenced to two years and 18 months' imprisonment respectively, . Extension of the German empire be yond the old frontiers, to "secure it against future attack," was predicted by King Ludwig, of Bavaria, in an ad dress before the Canal League, ac cording to a telegram from Munich. The recent attempt of two militant suffragists to force an interview with President Wilson was condemned at the concluding session of the mid-year conference of the American Woman Suffrage association in Chicago Wed nesday.;: i Mrs. Minna Mollman, of St. Louis, has three sons. One, Fred W., has taken his seat as mayor of East St. Louis. Another, Julius, has been elected mayor of Mascoutah, 111. 1 The third was defeated by a slight margin In a mayoralty, election in St. Clair county, Mo. . German submarines sink two Welsh trawlers in English channel, but first rescue the crews. ; More than 400 men will compete in the civil service examinations for the position of policemen in Portland. David Lloyd George tells England a better supply of war munitions must be maintained, or defeat may result. The Austro-German army has re taken Prsemysl from the Russians in one of the bloodiest battles of history. Dr. David Starr Jordan, the noted educator, speaking before the General Federation of Women's Clubs, scouts the war idea which it prevalent in this country. A British submarine operating in the Sea of Marmora torpedoed and unk a large German transport in Pan derma Bay Friday. This announce ment was given out officially in Lon don as having been received from the vice admiral in command at the Dar danelles. It is said also this submarine was one of several operating in these waters. The Italian premier declares that Austria in 1913 decided to provoke a war. According to a Berlin telegram the 18-year-old Countess Belene Dardey has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for publicly insulting a German officer. President Wilson drafts a note, brief and pointed, to be sent to Germany, asking a definite question whether tha imperial government intends to be guided in the future by the humane principles embodied in international law for the conduct of maritime war- ' fare. - OREGON NEWS Of GENERAL INTEREST - $776 W. J. BRYAN QUITS ' POST IN CABINET ,911 Insurance Paid. , Salem With $1,282,701.05 received in net premiums by 61 casualty and other accident insurance companies in Oregon, the companies paid in losses $776,911.60 last year, according to a report of State Insurance Commission er Wells. The loss on liability insur ance was $463,848.08 and the .net pre miums were $655,912.53. v Figures for the last year show that the total net profits of the domestic mutual fire insurance ' companies amounted to $44,231.02. The aggre gate income was $421,018.94, while the expenditures were $376,218.70. The net amount of risks carried by 11 companies December 81, 1914, was $70,563,968.36; , The aggregate amount of cash on hand and other ad mitted assets is given as $412,454.75. Unpaid losses totaled $49,702.89, while all other liabilities were $31, 647.21. The total unearned premiums were $180,033.62. Statements filed by life insurance companies show that the three domes tic concerns at the close of 1914 had a total of $18,624,642 insurance in force, distributed among 6353 policies. Do mestic companies, according to the re port, made substantial gains during the year, issuing a total of $3,523,164 in new insurance, while $1,785,063 in insurance was terminated. Claims paid, less reinsurance in admitted companies, totaled $68,595.23. Pre miums collected, less reinsurance in authorized companies, amounted to $415,862.76. Project Opening Asked. Baker Thirty-six thousand acres that have been tied up by a Carey land project in Pine valley, Baker county, are expected to be thrown open within a few months, if the United States Land department acts upon the request of those in that vicinity. H. A. Clements, land commissioner, is in ' Baker awaiting the land in spector from Washington to take him to the tract, which is within a nine- mile radius of Halfway. Upon the re port of the inspector will be decided whether the state will be aided in re claiming the land or whether it shall be thrown open at once for settlement. ... The larger part of the tract, 84,000 acres, was filed on six years ago by' an Eastern irrigation company, under the Carey act. After expending about $7000 on the project the company de cided last year that it could not carry the project to completion and the mat ter was put up to the state officials, who in turn appealed to the United States Reclamation service. In addition to the 23,000 acres filed on by the Eastern concern, there are 13,000 acres which would be taken up if the larger tract was thrown open. Mr, Clements asserts that many fami lies are waiting for government land. Coos Bay Channel Dries Up. Marshfield The Port of Coos Bay recently expended several thousand dollars in opening the canal between Coos Bay and North Inlet landing and the job was contracted to be done so that three feet of water would be as sured at mean low water. From the inlet proper to North Inlet landing is a distance of four miles, and this water way had been the avenue over which all the railroad material used in the Beale Lake and Tenmile region was routed. The Port Commission ordered a straightening of the channel between the bay and the inlet, a mile in , dis tance.' .I'! '"' ' The job had been finished but two weeks and at low water the newly-dug channel is dry for a distance of 500 feet in the middle of the cutoff. There is heavy traffic over the route and the port will order a new amountof dredg ing to maintain the desired three feet at low water, which would give serv ice at any stage of time. Malheur Storm Freakish. Baker The champion freak storm of Malheur county was reported here Friday. A heavy rainfall and wind did heavy damage throughout the county, but the edge skirted the town of Malheur. With a heavy roar a hailstorm broke there and hailstones as big as bantam eggs raised welts all over the bodies of horses and cattle. The ground was soon covered with hail three inches deep. In some spots the sun shone through out the pelting storm. Trees were also badly damaged. Roseburg to Fix Road. . Roseburg At a mass meeting of citizens held here action was taken to bring about an improvement of the road through Pass Creek canyon. Re ports have reached this city that many automobile parties have been unable to pass through the canyon and were obliged to ship their machines south from Cottage Grove. The County court has promised to co-operate with the citizens and have the road improv ed at once; it probably will be pass able within a week. Forest Service Trail Work On. Albany Work has been begun on the government forest service trail and telephone line from Cascadia, on the South Santiam river, 45 miles south east of Albany, over the divide to Quartrrille. Twenty-three miles of this trail was constructed last summer and the remaining 12 miles will be built this year. The trail and tele phone are being constructed at the same time, it having been found more practicable to do the work in that manner. 750 Cows to Be Tested. , . Soon more than half the cows sup plying milk to the important cities of the Willamette) valley and Southwest em Oregon will have been tuberculin tested, , according to information- given out by State Dairy and Food Commis sioner Mickle. . Mr. Mickle Baid that a total of .750 cows had been signed up and would be tested by a man to be put into the field immediately by State Veterinarian Lytla. The cities where cows are to be tested are: Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass, Cottage Grove, Roseburg, Eu gene, Salem,; Oregon City, Corvallis, Independence, Dallas, McMinnville, Forest Grove and Hillsboro. It is probable that some testing work will be done also at The Dalles, Hood River and Ashland. v Mr. Lytle plans to visit the different cities with an exhibit showing the benefits of the tuberculin test and also the results of tuberculosis on cows. COMMONER'S PEACE VIEW DISCORDANT Alcohol Label Is Needed. ' Candy which contains brandy and rum as a flavoring must be labeled, says J. D. Mickle, state food and dairy commissioner, in his answer to the complaint for injunction filed by H. R. Hoeffler, an Astoria candy manufac turer. Mr. Mickle two weeks ago seized 47 boxes of Centennial choco lates, one of the Hoeffler proudcts, be cause they contained alcohol. Last week Mr. Hoeffler was granted temporary injunction by Circuit Judge Davis, restraining Mr. Mickle from seizing any more of the choco lates. He declared the chocolates con tained only 1.05 per cent alcohol. Mr. Mickle, in the answer which he filed in County Clerk Coffey's office, Bays a chemical analysis of the candy showed it contained a greater percentage than this. . ..... . i Governor Finds Waste. Salem Governor Withycombe, who has just returned from Eastern Oregon, put his knowledge of; agriculture to a practical use, when he discovered tnat the Bilos at the Eastern Oregon Insane ABylum were not managed properly. His discovery will save the state many times the cost of bis trip. "The asylum has two large silos," said the governor, "with capacities double that necessary for the present herd of 17 cows. As a result the man agement is hot able to feed the en silage fast enough, and a large part of it spoils. The spoiled ensilage should not be fed. I suggested that the herd either be doubled or that the amount of ensilage be greatly reduced." Tillamook Cheese Industry Prospers. Tillamook Tillamook county pro duced 38,593,183 pounds of milk last year and manufactured 4,zi)v,bH pounds of cheese, valued at $654,874.- 36. .: ' This, in a few words, is the rec ord of the banner cheese Bection of Oregon and the Northwest. Notwith standing fluctuations in the markets and uncertainties of free trade, Tillamook cheese held its own in price, the average being but a trifle below 1913. when it was 15.45 cents per pound, and last year it was 15.38 cents per pound. The average price for butter fat was 38.82 cents for the year, and the aver age price for cheese for the past six years was 15.87 cents. Horticultural Post Gone. Salem That an amendment pasBed by the recent legislature to the law creating the State Horticultural com mission abolisheB the office of commis-sioner-at-large and that the five dis tricts will continue to be represented by a commissioner, was an opinion given recently by Attorney General Brown. The terms of C. A. Park, Saelm, and H. H.'Witherspoon, Elgin, have ex pired and the State board will appoint their successors at the next meeting. J. W. Pomeroy, Scappoose, will be re appointed, and the terms of Dr. C. A. Macrum, Mosier, and A. C. Allen, Medford, have not expired. Albany to Get New Plant. Albany A large fruit evaporator will be constructed in Albany this sum mer by Charles M. Miller, of Portland. Mr. Miller has leased a tract of ground in this city for that purpose, and it is probable that a large warehouse will be erected on the tract adjoining the freight tracks of the Oregon Electric. Mr. Miller expects to install special equipment for the manufacture of lo ganberry juice. He will establish a laboratory in connection with his evap orator for experimenting in the utiliza tion of fruit and berries in by-products. Railroad Is Incorporated. Salem The Roseburg & Eastern Railroad company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, filed articles of incor poration with ' Corporation Commis sioner Schulderman. The , company plans building a railroad from Rose burg eastward, to the western boundary of Umpqua national forest and the Umpqua river. Fair Representative Chosen. Klamath Falls Phillip P. Sinnott has been appointed to represent Kla math county at the San Francisco Fair. The representative who has been there thu far is not able to serve longer. The salary of the representa tive is paid from sums subscribed by local merchants, together with an ap propriation made by the County court. Other Members Are Claimed to Have Threatened Retirement Unless , Foreign Policy Was Firm. Washington, D. C.V-William Jen nings Bryan, three times Democratic candidate for the presidency of the United States and author of nearly 80 peace treaties with the principal na tions of the world, resigned Tuesday as secretary of state as a dramatic se quel to his disagreement with Presi dent Wilson over the government's policy toward Germany. " .. The resignation was accepted by the President. The Cabinet then approved the response which had been prepared to the German reply to the ' Lusitania note. Acting Secretary Robert Lan sing signed the document and. it was cabled to Berlin. ; Secretary Bryan V'U return to pri vate life. It was learned thai he in tends to continue his political Support of the President, v. 4f - Rather than sign the document which he believed might pgssibqr draw the United States into wajj, Mr; Bryan submitted his resignation in letter President Wilson and Secretary Disagree Over, faermany. declaring that "the issue involved is of such moment that to remain a mem ber of the Cabinet would be as unfair to you as it would be to the cause which is nearest my heart, namely, the prevention of war. " The President accepted, the resif na tion in a letter of regret, tinged with deep personal .feeling of affection. ' Dramatically the official relation of Mr. Bryan with the administration of the man whose nomination he assisted so materially in bringing about at the Baltimore convention of 1912 came to an end. It caused a sensation in the National capital scarcely paralleled in recent years. Ambassadors, ministers and diplo mats from foreign lands, officials of every rank and nation heard the news as it was flashed by newspaper extras. They interpreted variously its effect on the delicate situation that had risen between Germany and the United States. The resigantion ' of the staunchest advocate of. peace in the President's official family spread broadcast the belief that the policy of the United States as definitely deter mined on would assert and defend the rights of the United States in any eventuality that might arise. Originally, it was the intention of the President and Mr. Bryan to have the announcement of the resignation made simultaneously with, the dispatch of the note to Germany," but when Mr. Bryan did not attend the Cabinet meet ing unitl President,, Witscta s4nt for him, rumors that the President liad been unable to bring the Secretary of otui3 lu ins puint ui view iiieu U1V HM Finally, the news became '' known and was confirmend. .'t s Just when the subject ,,wak,t first' broached between the President and Mr, Bryan is not definitely known but the fact that Mr. Bryan would resign was known'to a small circle of officials as early as last Sunday. When the principles on which the note to Ger many should be based were discussed Mr. Bryan found that he could not rec oncile his own position with that of the administration. FISHING TACKLE! $4 ' 4' ; ; ' : m'';i''s : '-; ---":'"."''..;'-?: : ft; . 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German Ambassador Tries to Avoid ' Breach of Peace With United States Washington, D. C. Count von Bern- storff, the German ambassador, Thurs day called at the White House of his own volition and without, instruction of any nature from his government. It is known that he had no authority to declare that there has been, or will be, a change in Germany's attitude toward submarine warfare. He was actuated by a desire to put aside the formalities of diplomacy and take direct steps that might lead to a continuation of peace between the United States and Germany. In taking this position, Count vbn ' Noted Banker Dies. . Berkeley, Cel. Charles R. Bishop, vice president of the Bank of Califor nia, San Francisco, died here, aged 93. Bishop's career was an adventurous and romantic one and included his mar riage to Bemice Pauahl Paki, a Ha waiian princess of royal blood, who, upon her death, left him custodian of a great fortune. For many years prior to annexation, Bishop was a command ing figure in the financial affairs of the Hawaiian nation. After the death of his royal wife, he came to California, more than 20 years ago. Zeppelin' Wires Words to Aviators. Berlin Count Ferdinand Zeppelin has sent the following telegram to the German Aviation league, which is holding its seventh convention here : "Sincerest thanks for the greetings of the Aviation League, which has caused a deep impression on the day on which the new creation brought into existence by me in the field of aerial science has brilliantly proved its worth." Emperor William has also tele graphed his thanks. Bernstorff had before him the oppor tunity of pacifying another and power'' ful .incipient antagonist of his native: country. He took the one open chance, just as other noteworthy figures of his tory have done. . , The ambassador told the President that he had been unable to ' communi cate with his government ,o a satis factory manner rece-.try because of the conditions surrounding lines, of trans mission. He explained that ' for this reason it had been impossible for him to tell the Kaiser plainly and 'frankly how anti-German feeling in this coun try had grown and of the apparent de termination of the United States gov ernment to take extreme measure1, in support of the President's demands. " . t , Election Workers Riot. ', Los Anlgeles, Cal. Clamoring for their pay as election workers at the polls Thursday, a mob of more than 1000 men. and women stormed the headquarters of the Business Men's committee. After waiting several hours in front of the closed offices they paraded to police headquarters, where their statements were taken. ; "The workers say they were em ployed in the interests of Frederick J. 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