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VOLUME XXVII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1915.
NUMBER 36.
WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSP
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy' Readers:
The Eastman Kodak concern has
been declared a trust by the Federal
courts.
Official Washington declares to have
no favorites in Mexico a internal
troubles.
The British estimate the German
loss in men at 1,600,000, with one-
third killed.
The joint session of the Oregon and
Washington Bar associtions, which
was held in Portland, has come to a
close. " .
In a fistic encounter a young man at
White Salmon, Wash., was - almost in
stantly killed by a blow 1 under the
heart. '.'v ' . .,' ' v',,
A resolution before the American
Bar association in session at San Fran
cisco, to admit women attorneys,; was
adopted. , ' s
CarranZa officials have put absolute
prohibition into effect in the larger
towns of Sonora now under their con
trol, according to travelers from inte
rior points.
A dispatch from Rome . says the
, Balkan league" is to be reconstructed.
' A combined Balkan army of 1,000,000
men is provided to be in the field, says
the dispatch.
The governor of Oregon has asked
the Navy department for the largest
battleship in the Pacific fleet to attend
the Astoria Regatta, which will be
held September 2-8-4. f
Germany officially announces her re
grets to the United States for the
sinking of the liner Arabic, in whch
two Americans lost their lives.:. A
suspension of judgment by this country
is asked.
Classical music was hooted by
crowd of South Portland students when
a public concert was being given by a
municipal band. Classics was sup
planted by ragtime and the wailings of
the youngsters were appeased.
Six children in Idaho, who were
locked in their home by their parents,
while they were attending a party,
were burned to death. Evidence of
their efforts to escape were found by
the location of the bodies in the ruins.
According to the Cologne' Gazette
the railways of Roumania have re
ceived orders to place all rolling stock
at the disposition of the minister of
war on September 14. This move is
regarded as deeply significant of Rou
manian possible course in the future.
The Tokio premier and minister of
war have paid a visit to Nikko to re
port to the emperor their plans for in
creasing the supply of munitions in ac
cordance with the decision recently
reached to employ all available re
sources, both governmental and pri
vate, for swelling the nation's output
to aid Japan's allies in the war. Or
ders have been dispatched to the foun
dries and factories of the empire that
are engaged in the production of mu
nitions to rush their work.
Italy, according ts reports ' from
Rome, is making slow but steady prog
ress against Austrians on all fronts.
Edward Brown, ex-convict, sen
tenced to four years in San Quentin for
burglary, explained on the witness
stand that a certain kind of whisky is
made regularly within the walls of
Folsom and San Quentin prisons. The
juice of potatoes and fruits is used in
preparing the concoction, he said.
- Compilations just completed by the
auditing department of the O.-W. R.
& N. company show that during the
calendar year 1914 the company spent
for wages, taxes, construction and
other purposes incident to the conduct
of its business in Oregon, Washington
and Idaho, an aggregate of $16,673,
866.92, the equivalent of $60,892.80
for each working day of the year.
Because of the delay in shipping,
caused by the war, Baker county, Ore
gon, ranchers barely escaped a disas
trous grain sack shortage just as the
threshing season was on. Nearly 80,
000 sacks had been ordered early from
Calcutta. Farmers were preparing to
construct temporary bins and wheat
was filling every available receptacle
when 6000 sacks arrived. Nearly 25,
000 are expected within a few days.
Dead and missing in the recent Gulf
storm are new said to number 269.
The chief signal officer at the island
of Stremboli, off the Italian coast, re
ports the eruption ef a large quantity
of lava frem Stromboli volcano. The
lava is forming a lake of fire between
the craters and the sea.
An evangelist speaking in Portland
declares the prophesies in the 24th
chapter of Matthew have been accur
ately fulfilled up to the present time,
and that the present generation will
witness its complete fulfillment and
the return of the Lord to the world.
REAR ADMIRAL CAPERT0N
Rear Admiral Caperton la In com
mand of the United States naval
forces that have occupied Port au
Prince and Cape Haltien, Haiti.
$30,000,000 FEDERAL CASH TO
BE SENT TO PROTECT COTTON
Washington, D. C. Treasury offi
cials have made public an announce
ment by Secretary McAdoo, that in
view of the action of the allies in put
ting cotton on the contraband list, he
would, if it became necessary, deposit
?3U,uuu,uou or more in 'gold in the
Federal Reserve, banks ; at Atlanta,
Dallas and Richmond for the purpose
of enabling the-, reserve banks to re
discount loans on cotton-; secured by
warehouse receipts, made tj national
and state banks belonging to the Fed
eral reserve system. ' p ,
The gold would be deposited tempo
rarily, at least) without interest
charge. - , .
It was explained that if it appeared
that the object could be accomplished
with greater efficiency tnereDy, the
deposits woud be made directly with
National banks agreeing to lend the
money . on cotton at a rate not to ex
ceed six per cent;
. Secretary McAdoo authorized the
announcement from his summer home
at North Haven, Maine. It came at
the close of a day's speculation in offi
cial circles as to the nature of the
steps which the entente powers have
indicated they will take to uphold the
cotton market in the face of their con
traband order. .
OREGON STATE NEWS
Oregon Cadets Praised.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallls A letterjfrom Brigadier Gen
eral Tasker H; Bliss, chief of staff,
United States Army, at Washington,
D. C, to the Oregon Agricultural col
lege, saysthat the attention of Secre
tary Garrison has, been drawn to the
Satisfactory improvement and steady
progress of the work of the military
department here. The reports were
based on the latest annual inspection
of the cadet regiment by Captain W.
T. Merry, who has been the inspecting
officer for the lRftt thraa venin. 1
The cadet regiment is ranked in' the
second highest'class attainable by ca
dets of institutions pother than solely
military. '
Oregon Permit Refused. , ;
Salem Corporation Commissioner
Schulderman has denied the American
Banking Credit company, with head
quarters in Chicago and Incorporated
in Delaware, a permit to do buisness
in this state. The company has an
investment and loan scheme which Mr.
Schulderman has decided is not feas
ible. He does not believe it can make
the loans promised with its means of
investment. ' l .'" '1
To do business in Oregon, . according
to Mr. Schulderman, the company
would have to comply j'withf the builds
ing and loan laws and he banking
laws, which it has not intimated It
would do. I tj
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Thousands Are Cut Off by Floods; i
Rescue Steamers Forced to Quit
Little Rock, Ark. Five thousand
people in the town of Newport, Ark.,
are marooned by the flood waters of
White Kiver.
According to a telephone message
received here, the populace is in des
perate straits. Eight persons are re
ported to have lost their lives.
The town is inundated to a depth
ranging from 6 to 12 feet and moBt of
the population has sought refuge in
the upper floors of the hotels Sad the
courthouse, y? s, j.
Becausev of , recent heavy rains, the
river rose to such an extent that all
the levees protecting the town gave
way, letting loose one of the most dis
astrous1' floods 'in - the history of the
community. i ;
Two steamboats continued making
trips up and down the river in the Vi
cinity of Newport and succeeded Jn
rescuing a number of families frem
the roofs of houses, whither they had
gone to escape the flood. Finally the
flood became too great, and the boats
had to withdraw.
All means of communication with
the town, save the telephone wires,
has been destroyed, and it was feared
that even the telephone wire would be
destroyed.
Several passenger trains are stalled
at Newport.
With food and water supplies almost
exhausted and with many refugees in
the town from other points along the
river, the situation was one which au
thorities here considered grave.
Wheat Crop Estimated.
Washington, D. C. The Canadian
West is expected to produce some
where between 200,000,000 and 260,
000,000 bushels of wheat this season
probably around about 240,000,000
bushels, so it is reported to the depart
ment of commerce.
The total grain crop is expected to
aggregate 826,000,000 bUBhels. Of this
total it is expected that 260,000,000
bushels will be available for lake ship
ment, and that from 130,000,000 to
160,000,000 bushels will be available
for export.
Stefansson Not Sighted.
Nome, Alaska The United States
coast guard cutter Bear, which carried
the mails to Point Barrow, the most
northerly point of Alaska, returned to
Nome Tuesday and reports that no
word of Viljalmur Stefansson, the ex
plorer, and his two companions had
been received. The Bear reported that
nothing further has been heard of the
gasoline schooner New Jersey, hereto
fore reported missing. The New Jer
sey left Nome last fall.
Ninety Take Military Course.
Tacoma. Wash. Ninety business
and professional men, including one
minister and a half dozen capitalists,
reported for the camp of instruction
for business men in command of Colo
nel R. H. Wilson, Fourteenth Infan
try, United States Army, at Cosgrove,
American Lake. They will spend three
weeks receiving military instruction
from regular army officers.
Oregon Foliage pleases
Portland .A thoroughly" successful,
convention was that of the' American
Association Of Park Superintendents,
held in San Francisco '.last week, ac
cording toJE, T. Mische, of Portland,
Who was elected the association's pres
ident. : : V . VJT'.1
Many members present were highly
eased with tthat thev raw when
passing through Oregon.; Some of the
greatest men In their line in the coun
try did not realize the variety of foil'
age we have in Oregon.', . They were
very much surprised and impressed.
Sandy Crops Are 'Large.'
Sandy Farmers near this place and
at George, Dover and Firwood are har
vesting, and the crops of oats, wheat
and barley will be larger than ever be
fore and the yield to the acre greater,
according to the reports received here,
The yield of hay also is large. E. C.
Read, near Cherryville, has a field of
beardless barley that is exciting com'
ment. He will save seed for future
crops of the same sort.
Much road work is in progress, and
crushed rock is being used . extensively
on all the roads near this place.
Eccles Mill to Start Short Run
Banks The big $200,000 Eccles
lumber mill, completed more than a
year ago here, is preparing for a brief
run. The company plans to run the
planer and finish up the lumber now on
hand for shipment, which will require
about a month.: Thereafter the mill
and logging camp may be operated
about a month, or long enough to re
stock the yards. After being com
pleted the mill ran about 80 days and
then was compelled to close on account
of the poor -market.
'. Log Air Line Record Made.
Klamath Falls A record run of
165,000 feet ofj timber was made
Wednesday over the Algoma Lumber
company's lift recently constructed
over the mountain north of its plant a
few miles, , according to Manage
Grant. The lift is double-tracked
2800 feet in length and extends over a
mountain 800 feet high. The mill la
now cutting 8,600,000 feet of lumbal
each month and is employing nearljj
zuu men. , -:.
5 va';n
Pests Boom Egg Output. .' V
Baker Grasshoppers, a peat in the
John Day country for years, this sea
son have become a blessing.
Ira u. Boyce, an oldtime merchant
at John Day, says eggs are more pled'
tiful than in years because of the
abundance of this delicacy for the
chickens to feed on, and that the Au
gust record of production will beat any
in its history. The grasshoppers are
more numerous than ever at this time
of year.
Chinook to Dredge Channel Shoal.
Astoria To work on the shoal be
tween the channel in which she has
been digging and what is known as the
south channel, off the end of the jetty,
the dredge Chinook is now in the
mouth of the river. The removal of
this shoal, which is expected to be ac
complished before fall, will provide
one main channel 3500 feet wide and
carrying a depth of approximately 36
feet at low tide.
LINER TORPEDOED:
fourteen of ShipV Passengers
Remain Unaccounted for.
WASHINGTON ANXIOUS OVER REPORTS
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Seriousness of Affair Depends Upon
Whether Ship Tried to Ram or
I Sharply Changed Course.
New, York, A revised list 'of the
surviving passengers and, those un
accounted for, corrected according to
the only dispatch' received by the
White Star line Saturday, was given
out here. It showed 14 passengers
still missing, after careful checking.
The list Included two Atnerioans
Mrs. Josephine L. Bruguiere and Ed-
pmind E., Woods. " V "
yvmte. star lists cabled previously
contained the names of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Burgess as among the survivors.
Officials were unable 'to explain the
error it. according to consular reports,
IwiLliam etuttle, jr.
Ranch Is Sold for 831,000.
Klamath Falls The well-known Bill
Sm;th ranch, comprising 720 acres,
near Bly, 60 miles northeast of here,
was purchased by L. A. Brittan. for
merly a prominent rancher of Boze
man, Mont., for $31,000 cash. Mr.
Brittan will stock the ranch with 250
dairy cows and 1000 sheep, as it is
ideally located at the junction of the
north and south forks of the Sprague
river.
William E. Tuttle, Jr., for two terms
Democratio congressman from New
Jersey, and a prominent banker and
buslnesa man, has been appointed
United Statea commissioner to the
Panama exposition which opens No
vember 3. The last congress appro
priated $25,000 for this country's par
ticipation In the exposition, and Mr.
Tuttle Is arranging for the exhibit.
-ui-,.r.,-,.,v iwuwvaa -irnjL,-L
they are missing. Burgess, a chauf
feur, and Mrs. Burgess, a maid, were
in Mrs. Bruguiere 8 employ.
The company's message from Liver
pool mentioned five survivors who
had sailed at the last moment and
whose names were not on the list
cabled here Thursday night,
WD en the White Star offices Closed
late Saturday night, It was announced
that the list then stood at 14 passen
gers missing, two of whom were
Americans.
Washington, D. C.Tenslon , In
creased in official quarters Saturday
vnen consular messages forwarding
it fkiarlt: of America survivors of
Be BrltM liner -Arabia Irought def
nlte information that the-: vesselt waa
trpedoe4 without warning and that
proDaoiy some Americans had been
lost , i k . (; . ,
It teemed that but one ' point re
mained to be cleared, up whether the
Arabic atte aisled to? ram the subma.
. . J 3. . . 3. ......
nne-er wnemer a change oi the liner s
course, to teslst the already sinking
British sjteamer uunsley nearby was
misinterpreted by the German subma
rine commander as a hostile approach.
The attitude or the American gov
ernment lor the moment is receptive.
anxiously - awaiting accurate details
and reserving judgment as to whether
the action was "deliberately unfriend
ly.
The final decision rests with Presi
dent Wilson.
Fear Felt For Islanders. .
New Orleans. Efforts are being
made to reach Marsh Island, about
150 miles southwest of here, to learn
the fate of 100 island residents, who,
It Is feared, may have been lost in the
storm. Persons on the island mostly
are fishermen, but several parties of
campers were known to have been
there when the hurricane struck.
The sea Was still too rough to be
navigable, and an appeal was sent to
Governor Hall, who ordered the state
conservation commission to direct one
of its large boats to go to the rescue.
Climber Killed on Rainier.
Tacoma. While climbing to Gibral
tar Rock on Mount Rainier, with a
party of eastern tourists, O. F. Ord
way, of Boston, plunged to death down
a canyon. Mrs. Ordway saw her hus
band s body go orasblnz down the
cliff. Ordway's body was recovered
by members of the party. Although
23,000 tourists have registered at the
national park this season, this Is the
first accident of the kind since 1912.
when a young woman fell from a peak.
- . V. -rt
Doctor Greeley Claims to Have
Isolated Microbe. .
'Mm o JMw1
Believes They Multiply In Mucous
Membrane of fiota Beginning of
Disease and Thence Penetrate
Blood Vessels.
;
Dr. Horace Greeley of Brooklyn' re
ports to the Medical Record that he
has discovered the lbn&ought mi
crobe of smallpox. He found "an ap
parently identical organism" from the
"vesicles of twenty-five cases of suc
cessful vaccination, from a Ilk a( num
ber of cases of undoubted jcWkenpox,
and from five oases of coguliei and
undoubted smallpox."" . '
From Doctor Greeley's technical de
scription of this new microbe it may
be gathered that 4t is 'spherical and
from 0.3 to 0 microns ((of 0.000117 to
0.000234 Inch) lit diameter, it li in
the form, of multiplying spores,
which just before division assume the
shape of a figure 8, with-a nucleus in
each half. These develop Into branch
ing masses with eporer st the end of
the branches; ', ';'
Doctor Greeley -has; grown , them In
cultures. He believes, they multiply
on the mucous membranes Of the nose
at the beginning of tin .disease, and
the spores when shed penetrate the
blood vessels and are wafted to all
parts of the body, "landing in the skin
capillaries, where conditions of lower
temperature and more light, perhaps,
favor further proliferation. la this
connection we should remember how
the eruption favors the face and
hands."
, Doctor Greeley concludes that vac
cinia and variola are Identical, the dif
ference being that "vaccination pro
duces a local and at most a lymphat
ic infection, usually stopped at the
earest chain of glands, and repre
sents the Inoculation of an organism
directly derived from a different spe
cies of animal, and therefor trobably
of low relative virulence, while small
pox Is undoubtedly contracted
through the respiratory tract and is
due to one derived directly from an
animal of like apecles which, as
shows, through spore formation.
passes Into the blood and Is thrown to
all corners."
ARE LOADED WITH THERMIT
Incendiary Bombs Differ From the
Ordinary Missile In Character ef
Their Destructive Power.
Incendiary bombs differ from ordi
nary explosive bombs in that they are
intended not to scatter fragments
over a wide area, but to produce sud
den and Intense hoat at a given point,
tnus starting a fierce conflagration.
W. A. Tllden describes in Nature
one of these bombs, a picture of which
Is reproduced hers. His description
is as follows:
The bomb, as a rule, Is conical, of
ten-inch diameter at the base, corded
round, and has a metal handle at the
Section of Bomb,
apex (see cut). The base Is a flat
'cup onto wlhch a pierced metal fun
nel is fitted, having the Ignition de
vice and handle fitted at the top.
The funnel' is generally filled with
tnermit, which upon ignition gener
ates intense heat, and by the time of
the concussion has taken the form of
molten metal of the extraordinary
high temperature of over five thou
sand degrees Fahrenheit. The molten
metal is spread by the concussion.
Outside the funnel Is a padding of a
highly Inflammable or resinous mate
rial bound on with an Inflammable
form of rope. The resinous material
creates a pungent smoke.
There is generally some melted
white phosphorous in the bottom of
the cap, which develops nauseous
fumes. In some cases celluloid clip
pings are added and occasionally a
small quantity of petrol
Peculiar Effect of War.
Capt. Eugene liourassa, a military
officer in Montreal, who in private life
controls a clothing store, states that
the war has caused among his patrons
an average expansion of chest meas
ure from 36 to 40 Inches. This Is
true not only of those in active serv
ice, but of all the citizens. He ex
plains It on the ground that all the
men are mentally and physically pre
paring for service now or in the f
ture.
Unsentimental.
"Do you understand the language of
flowers?" said the sentimental youth.
"No," replied Miss Cayenne. "I
don't know that I should care to have
my conversation regulated by the kind
of vegetation that happened to be In
season."
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