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Newspaper Page TextWHAT 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, v - Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXiVIL ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE . 25, 1915. NUMBER 27. EARTHQUAKE HITS CITIES ON BORDER Twelve Dead and Many Injured Along Mexican Line. MARTIAL LAW QUICKLY STOPS LOOTING Heber, Mexicali and Calexico Ruined Yuma and San Diego Shake ; Imperial Valley Suffers. RESULT OF EARTHQUAKE Twelve killed, many Injured at Mex ican; buildings destroyed. Calexico buildings destroyed; others damaged by tire. - Heber destroyed by fire. Imperial damaged. Shock felt from San Diego, on coast, to Yuma, Ariz. ' High school at Brawley wrecked. Lob Angeles. Reports of three se vere earthquake shocks, which result ed in the death and injury of at least 15 persons and considerable property loss by fire in several cities in the Imperial Valley covering several hun dred square miles, were received here Wednesday. Telephone and telegraphic commun ication was interrupted, and informa tion from the stricken district is meager.. The greatest damage was at Calex ico on the Mexican border line, where the loss of life occurred. Early re ports from there said that the town had been destroyed by fire, but tele phone employes at El Centra, who talked over a wire to a lineman later, reported that fires were confined to three buildings, which the fire depart ment succeeded in getting under control. Many buildings in Calexico were shaken down. The operators In the telephone building fled after the first shock The first shock occurred at 7:20 P. M., and was followed by two others at. 8:40 P. M. and 9:20 P. M. These were felt in the district surrounding El Centro and Calexico. Two shocks were reported from Yuma at the same time. Two Blight Ehocks were felt at San Bernardino, several miles north of the Mexican line, at 9 o'clock. San Diego also was vtaited bv two silent shocks. Heber. a railroad town five miles west of El Centro, was reported en tirely destroyed by fire. At Imperial several buildings were cracked and the wall of one fell in, but no injuries resulted. The telephone operators there also fled from their building. A repair crew of the Pacifio Tele phone company was sent at midnight to El Centro.- Martial law was declared In Calexi co, Cal., and in Mexicali,.' just across the border, following a reign1 of terror in both towns. Three severe eartn ouakes' were-felt which caused thou sands of dollars of damage to property and resulted t the loss of at least 12 lives ana many injured. United States cavalry troops are patrolling the streets of Calexico to prevent looting. Villa troops are guarding Mexicali. One man caught looting in Mexicali Is reported to have been shot Information from the Mexican town Is meager, but the first of the refu gees to arrive at Calexico, across the border, says that at least 12 persons were killed and many Injured. All brick buildings in Calexico were deserted and most of them are badly cracked or in ruins. Two houses were destroyed by fire. One business build ing was gutted. The electric lights failed after the first shock. The rumbling of the earthquake could be plainly heard In Calexico, in dicating that the center of the disturb ance was nearby. The shocks, which were accompanied by tremendous out bursts of dust, did not follow any par ticular direction, but came from every angle. It was difficult at times for pedestrians to keep their footing. Later reports from the Imperial Val ley are that two distinct shocks were felt at Brawley and as far east as Vnmi Ariz., on the Mexican border. The first shock occurred at 8 P. M. and continued about a minute. The sec mil shock, which occurred an hour l.lor laatprl 4R seconds. The wrecking of the high school at Brawley, which was the nnest duuq lng in the valley, Is reported. Wind Blows Away Diamonds. Muskogee, Okla. A rain and wind storm here late Wednesday afternoon blew the front out of a Jewelry store, sending 200 diamond ' rings rolling down a business street Although the storm was at Its height, a large crowd collected and began searching for the rings. The proprietor of the store and his clerks managed to recover many of thA rlnes before the crowd arrived, but 30 stones, valued at $2500, are still missing, and it is certain that many of them were gathered in by the In dustrious spectators. Ureas Fleet of 2000 Aeroplanes, London. H. G. Wells to an article In the Dailv Exm-ess argues that method for ending the war would be for the allies to build and send a tre mendous fleet of aeroplanes to the rear of the German lines and destroy all the German ammunition lactones. He contends that it would be cheaper to launch 2000 aeroplanes against Es sen than to risk one batuesmp. Aeroplane Inverted; Engine Stop, Run Francisco. While "Art" Smith, the Panama-Pacific Exposition avia tor wu looDine the loop at an alti tude of 2500 feet the engine of his aeroplane stopped dead. He was at that time upside down. Smith vol planed down the entire distance and ianded on we eiiwmuu grcuuua. OREGON & CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT SALKARE STOPPED Washington, D. C By a unanimous decision rendered by Justice McKenna the United States Supreme court Tues day rejected the contention of the gov ernment and of cross-complaints and of interveners in the Oregon & California land grant suit; declined to decree for feiture; held the actual settlers' clause to be an enforceable "covenant" and not a "condition subsequent," and in reversing the decree of Judge Wolver ton enjoined the railroad -company against further violation of the cove nants. . Going further, however, the court says: ,J'' ',.: ;,'-;;.; 'In view of such disregard of the covenant! to gain illegal emolument, and in view of the government's in terest in exact observance of them, it might seem that restriction upon the future conduct of the railroad company and its various agencies is an imper fect relief; but the government has not asked for more. We think, therefore, that the rail road company should not only be en joined from sales in violation of the covenants, but enjoined from any dis position of the lands whatever or of the timber thereon and from cutting or authorizing the cutting or removal of any of the timber thereon nntil con gress shall have a reasonable opportun ity to provide by legislation lor their disposition In accordance with such policy as it may deem htting under the circumstances and at the same time se cure to the defendants v all the value the granting acts conferred upon the railroads. If congress does not make such provision the defendants may apply to the District Court within a reasonable time, not less than six months, from the entry of the decree herein, for a modification of so much of the injunc tion herein ordered as enjoins any dis position of the lands and timber until congress shall act, and the court in its discretion may modify the decree ac cordingly." This last and unexpected feature ot the decision, again tin-owing the land grant case into congress, simply means that the court did not feel the railroad company should go unpunished for its deliberate and repeated violations of the granting act. While the court holds the railroad company is still en titled to receive $2.50 for each unsold acre of its grant, congresB, having dis played its concern over violations of the granting act, is given opportunity to say how unsold landB shall be dis posed of. ' There iB no restraint on congress. other than it muBt guarantee the rail road company $2.60 an acre for every acre sold hereafter. Congress can make appropriation to pay the railroad this amount and assume full title to and do with the lands as it pleases; it can order the sale of the lands under any terms and conditions it deems proper, or it can authorize the railroad company to dispose of them in any way it may prescribe, just so long as the railroad company gets its $2.60 an acre. , ;? English House of Commons Makes ' Another Big War Appropriation London The house of commons Ad journed Wednesday after unanimously giving a first reading to the bill pro viding the new Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Reginald McKenna, with a blank check which may amount, at a maximum, to 1,000,000,000 ($6,000, 000,000.) ' . . The vote of credit for 250,000,000 ($1,250,000,000), passsed last week by the house, simply authorized the government to spend that much for war purposes, but did not provide lor the manner in which this sum should be raised. Wednesday's enactment was in the form of a resolution which empowers the government to raise not only the 250,000,000 deemed neccv sarv to pay the cost of the war, at the rate of 3,000,000 sterling daily, for a limited period, but as much more as mav be needed. The chancellor of exchequer made a Ions explanation of the proposed loan, and in closing said that on the tech nical question as to the limit of the new loan it would be dangerous to dis close the necessity for not fixing any definite sum, and he added that the only figures he could put in the bill would be a maximum which would cover all requirements of the new loan. Solving Western Mysteries. Can any of your older readers, or descendants of the early pioneers, tell me about the mysterious savior of the Merrill train? It was a long train of ox teams on the Santa Fe trail in the sixties, crowded with the women and children of hardy pioneers. ; Attacked by an overwhelming force of Indians, the train was miraculously preserved. For years I have been trying to col lect the evidence of the survivors of what otherwise would have been a tragedy outrivaling the Mountain Meadow massacre, lhese people went on West ' Some of them must still be living, or told the story to their de scendants. If any such read these lines, will they kindly write me? Any other sidelights upon pioneer days will be welcome from participants therein. The secret and unrecorded side of life when the West was new its traj. s dies, heroisms, crimes, events thrills with human interest, and should be noted down by the actors therein be fore they pass on. Collecting such original data is my recreation in the interludes of a busy life, which some time may prove useful in working up the unwritten history of the West. Herbrt Myrick, Editor Farm and Home, Chicago, III. OREGON NEWS Of GENERAL INTEREST ' Franca Seeks Money Here. j . New York Negotiations now are in progress and may pe orougnt to favorable conclusion soon for an import ant loan in this country to assist the French government in the purchase of war munitions here, according to the Evening Post The loan is being ne gotiated, it is stated, by influential private bankers in Paris and will be secured by a block of American rail- way bonds which are now owned in France, The loan may exceed $50, 000,000 and possibly run to $76,000,- 000, it is said. . i Benton Factory Pays. Corvallis The Benton County Co operative association, in annual meet ing here, declared a 6 per cent dividend on all business transacted since January 1. . This is the first dividend ever de clared by the organization. Although the association has been in existence for more than two years, it has been engaged in actual business but 16 months. The profits of the association up to January 1 ; were only enough to pay the losses incurred during the first year of its existence. The net profits since January 1 amounted to $1880, and the business transacted during tne five months of this year aggregated .28.000. ' January 1 amount to $1830, and tne business transacted during the five months of this year aggregated $28, 000. The dividend will be on the gross sales and apply to all customers, whether stockholders or not, except that stockholders receive double divi dends. ; ' . .: ' West Case Not Appealed. , Baker No appleal will be asked in the damage case of William wiegand, CoDuerfield saloonkeeper, 'Bgamst ex- Governor West, James H. Nichols, at torney for Wiegand. has just an nounced. The 60 days allowed for an appeal from the verdict of the jury, for Mr. West, given April 17, which has expired. Two similar cases against the ex- ffovernor. those of H. A. Stewart and Antone Warner, both of Copperfleld, are pending, but Mr. Nichols has not decided whether be will bring tnem in to court. All three cases Bre for dam acres caused by taking of liquor from Connerfield saloons by the state mili tia, following Miss Fern Hobbs' visit in January, 1914. Canned Salmon Prices Reduced. Astoria The Columbia river pack ers have announced selling prices for the spring Chinook canned salmon pack for the season of 1915 at the following rates Der dozen, f. o. b. Astoria: Pound tails. $1.90: pound flats,- $2; half- pound ovals, $1.65; nominais, , sz.'fo; kev cans. 6 cents per dozen. Com pared with last year's prices, these figures are a reduction of 5 cents a dozen on talis and 10 cents a dozen or 40 cents a case on pound flats, while the price for half-pounds remains the same. , . La Grande Chinese Freed. La Grande Billle Eng and Charles Fong, Chinese, were acquitted, of the charge of assault with intent to mur der upon Wong Won Duck, ah aged Chinese resident of La Grande. 'The jury was out three hours, and there was jollification In the branch oi Chinatown related or firiendly to the released defendants. The accused Chinese had been in jail three months, and after their release the boys, for they are under . 26, fairly ran down town followed by a dozen gesticulating friends. ' Seaside Orders Lights. Seaside Seaside's mayor was au thorized by the city council to enter into a contract with the light company here for a system of streamer lights for the entire length of Broadway, the principal street leading to the beach, and also for several blocks of the cross streets in the business portion of the city. The lights will be immediately installed and Willi be burned tnrougn- out the summer. The idea was con ceived by the Commercial club. The street is Improved by hard-surface pavement and concrete sidewalks. 8 Boys Go To College. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis For the third time a number of boys of the grade schools of Oregon are taking the short course in agri culture at the State college. As in previous years the boys enjoy the work as well as profit by it. The preceding sessions were successful from the standpoint of all concerned. Regular hours were observed and the customary boys' rules enforced. The big brother idea was worked out by assigning each group of ten boys to a student in structor who became responsible for their conduct and general welfare. The boys show great interest in their work and while there are as usual a few cases of homesickness among the smaller boys, they are in variably glad they came and are sorry to leave at the end of the term. Aside from the value of the work in the reg ular courses there are many advan tages in the trip to the college town, the experience of being away from home and living on a college campus. "While any boy In the state is elig ible," says Director E. u. Kessler, "care should be exercised In approval. Boys of good habits, trustworthy and eager to learn are especially desired. There is no room for the cigarette smoker or the loafer, but a wide awake up-to-date American boy is a lively animal and is not expected to be as dignified as a college professor. There are plenty of good lively sports and ample opportunity is given f orwwork ing off excess animal spirits. ' - "The object of the course is to fur nish the boys interesting information that will be of practical use to them immediately, and give them apprecia tion of the vast extent of their sub jects and encourage them to pursue their investigations further." ALLIES URGE BRITAIN TO ENFORCE SERVICt Pressure from Russia for Con scription Is Strong. FAILURE TO AID IN WEST IS NOT LIKED . Sunspota Presage Storm. St. Louis Remarkable suns pot ac tivity was witnessed by astronomers at Christian Brothers' college Sunday. One hundred and fifty spots were seen by Brother Hubert, 33 mora than were visible on Friday and Saturday. Records kept at the college show that unusual : weather disturbances have been followed by great snnspot activity and that a waning of aunspots has been followed by dear weath- Milk Medal for Portland. San Francisco Portland was award ed the arold medal for the largest num ber of milk exhibits at the Panama Pacific International exposition. The other awards were not announced but things look well for a general Portland victory in this department. Six Quit Albany Faculty. Albany Six mebmers of the Albany College faculty will retire at the end of the nresent school year. All have resigned their positions voluntarily, some to take positions elsewhere and some to retire from teaching. , 1 Coos Bay Mills Open. Marshfield There is a general im provement in business conditions in the Coos Bay district, and although it has not been marked it is of such nature that it is readily recognized. . Within the past live weeks three logging camps have resumed work, iriving employment to about 200 men a fourth camp opened ana employs zu men: a fifth camp is to open immedi ately after the Fourth of July and will employ 50 men; . the Coos Bay Mill company will start operations the next week after the Fourth of July and wiU need about 40 employes; the Warren Construction company is laying nine blocks 'of paving in the city of North Bend and is working a large crew; laying of steel on the Willamette-Pa cific started June 18, and a crew of 80 men will be busy for several months working the tracks towards Lakeside and tunnel No. 7; several piling camps are busy filling orders for the Willam ette-Pacific bridge on Coos Bay, and in general lumbering is much alive. Sawmills operating on Coos Bay in clude the large C. A. Smith plant, the Bay City mill, belonging to the same company, the Simpson mill at Porter, the Swayne & Hoyt mill at North Bend, all the planing mills and shingle mills of the Smith company, and the Allen shingle mill at North Bend. . There is a probability that the Mac- eav mill on Kogue Klver win be opened on full time this fall and in that event there, would be a demand for at least 100 men. ' The coal industry is expected to gain added impetus within a few weeks, as many contracts are being secured. Four Are Trapped in Fire. Baker Four persons had narrow es capes from a fire that destroyed the residence ,. of Mrs. Eliza Carroll, of North Union, Monday. . John Donovan rushed into a room of the blazing house to save some house hold articles. The door slammed shut and there being no knob he was unable to get out. After vainly groping in the smoke to escape he cried for help and was rescued when nearly suffo cated. He was severely burned about the face and hands. ' Mrs. Carroll and ber two sons were asleep when the blaze started from an unknown cause in the kitchen. The fire had a good headway before the smoke awakened them and they were barely able to escape. . AH are ill from the effects, and Donovan's con dition is serious. $12,600 Bond Issue Voted. Oregon City The towns of Glad stone, Parkplace, Jennings Lodge and Clackamas will have a union high school sooner or later, as a result of the favorable action of the Voters of these places in favoring the $12,600 bond issue, with many votes to spare, the vote cast being 164 for and only 67 against. Harvey Cross has donated three acres in Gladstone Park for the building, construction on which will start as soon as the Circuit Court passes on a contest started by some residents of Jennings Lodge, who op posed the proposition. Beaverton Votes Bonds. Beaverton Beaverton Wednesday voted a bond issue of $23,600 to build a high school, the vote for the measure carrying two to one. and by a three- to-one vote the citizens declared them selves in favor of establishing a high school course in the school system here. F. H. Davis was elected school director by a three-to-one vote, Mr. Davis favoring the new high school plans as opposed to two other candi dates. Clerk C. E. Hedge was re elected. One hundred and twenty four votes were cast. Labor Men at Front Ask Compulsion -Demands Are Made From Many Church Pulpits. . London Conscription propaganda is making great headway in Great Brit ain. Depsite the cautious assurances of' Premier Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George that compulsion is not. contem plated, it is well known in Fleet street that a new factor has recently been introduced into this, the most serious of the controversies raised by the war, Britain's allies are pressing her to adopt forthwith a sweeping measure of national military service. The de mand is particularly strong from Rus sia. Emperor Nicholas and his minis ters feel that Engalnd's failure to bring more men to the firing line on the west during the period of Russian sensational advance in Galicia has proved to be a more demoralizing in fluence on the fortunes of war than Winston Spencer Churchill's fiasco in the first Dardanelles assault Pressure from her allies, according to Mr. Asquith, led England to change her party cabinet Into a national gov ernment, and the Saturday Review declares that "just as the Radical Pre mier gave up his lifelong convictions on coalition ministries at the behest of Paris and Rome, so he is being stead ily driven by Petrograd to abandon an other Radical prejudice, the unpatri otic and dangerous theory that con scription would establish militlarism in these islands" Now domestic forces are working in the same direction. In the labor world the conscription yeast is fast leavening the whole lump, except pos sibly the section led by the Indepen dent Labor party.-- - . . So rapidly is objection to the prin ciple breaking down that pastoral letter letter advocating "national service enforced by law," is boing read In the pulpits of all the free churches as well as those of the Church of England. Ggfet Atlantic Gty Surf Bathers Drown in Suddeo Wild Waves Atlantic City, N. J. Lashed and beaten into helplessness by merciless waves, held powerless in the grip of an undertow against which human might was puny and futile, eight per sons met heroic deaths on the beach Sunday, while other heroes, red-shlrted beach guards and bathers who uok their lives into their own hands, bat tled desperately against tremendous odds to save them. Thousands lined the board walk and beach, women wringing their hands and weeping bitterly, as a tragedy heartbreaking in its intensity was en acted before their eyes. For the space of more than SO min utes more than 200 lives were placed in direct peril by the pounding surf, herding them into a deep "slue" run ning seaward from the Strand at Chel sea avenue. Three other persons, one of them a young woman, are missing and may have met the same fate. The victims are: Miss Marian Rhoades Creamer, 20, student of Beechwood College, daughter '.of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Creamer, Jenkin- town, Pa. '-..: ', Charles Mattlack, Philadelphia, who died in heroic attempt to save Miss Creamer. ' ', John Lisle, 80 years old, lawyer, Philadelphia, who sacrificed bis life in attepmt to save woman. ' Charles Green, fisherman of this city. William Francis Crow, Philadelphia. Frank Brlgham, student of the Epis copal academy, Philadelphia, son of M. E. Brigham, wealthy sportsman, Philip Arnold, Jr., 24, Philadelphia. William McKay, of Philadelphia. Taft Takes a Bath. ! Cape May, N. J. Ex-President Taft came here as the guest of the Pennsyl vania Bankers' association, and among other things took a bath in his apart ments in the Hotel Cape May. He failed to consider the slxe of the tub, however, with the result that when he hopped into the tub the water over flowed and trickled down on the heads of the guests in the dining room. Wa ter began to rain on the banqueters' heads, and a hurry call to the manage ment revealed that Mr. Taft'a bath room was the source of the deluge. - Shot Brings Briton To. New York The British steamer Mottisfont while passing out quaran tine late Sunday did not show ber sig nal letters. The torpedo boat destroyer Parker, on neutrality duty at quaran tine, ordered the steamer to heave to, but she kept going. The Parker then fired one blank shot and the steamer stopped. The navy tug Powhattan went alongside and found the vessel's clearance proper, and allowed her to proceed. FISH ING 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. FOSS WINSHIP HARDWARE COMPANY Barrett Building, Alain Street, Athena, Oregon. ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR Is nAde in Athena, by Athena Labor, In one of the very best equipped Mills in the Northwest of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells the famous American Beauty Flour. The Flour Your Mother Uses B'u iii" TV v II .jYiiT7vi'X'"'arffffBaggia:ri7ff Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Washington. J3L I Home of QUALITY jjljjil Groceries Good Groceries go to the Right Spot Every Time This is the Right Spot To go to Every Time for Groceries. Try These They'll Please! 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