WHAT YOU NEED
The other fellow may have; what you
have the other fellow may want Come
together by advertising in the Press.
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BARGAIN DAY
Is every day with the Merchant who
advertises in the Press ho has some
thing to sell and says so. - .
"VOLUME XXVII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1915.
NUMBER 37.
WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHfl'
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
A'16-year-oId girl of Hood River,
Ore., successfully lands a 29-inch fish,
Pendleton, Ore., will send its Round,
up show to the San Francisco fair for
a four-day exhibition.
A Portland beauty is soon to become
the bride of Luis C. Abeilli, Bolivian
commissioner., at the San Francisco
fair.
Foreign exchange is reported to
. have taken an alarming slump, and
the American banks are "bursting
with gold.
The German submarine which sunk
the British steamer Arabic, on which
two Americans were loBt, is reported
to be lost also.
Three more U. S. regiments have
been ordered to the Mexican border to
reinforce the American troops in pa
trolling the boundary.
Antonio Flores, ' ex-President of
Ecuador, is dead. Senor Flores was
elected to the presidency of Ecuador
in 1888, and served the term of four
years.
General Orozco, one of the Mexican
revolutionary leaders, was killed by
American citizens and customs officials
when he was making a raid on a Texas
ranch. Four other raiders were slain.
The postmaster of St. Louis has re
ceived many handbills purported to
have been originated by German sym
pathizers, calling for the use of dyna
mite in destroying American munition
plants.
German business men have trans
mitted to the United States an offer to
buy 1,000,000 bales of cotton. The
price offered was 15 cents a pound,
payable on delivery of the cotton in a
German harbor.
Submarine F-4, which sunk in Hono
lulu harbor March 25, has been sue
cessfully drydocked and an investiga
tion of the cause of the mishap is be
ing made. Only one of the 21 victims
has thus far been Indentified.
The greatest favorable trade balance
since March 13 was shown by the
statement of weekly imports and ex
ports for the week ending August 28.
The favorable balance for the week
was $33,269,039. Exports were $60,
311,764, and imports were $27,042,725.
Sir Rodmon Roblin, J. H. Howden,
Dr. Montague and G. R. Coldwell, of
Winnipeg, Man., charged by the Math
ers Royal Commission with conspiracy
to defraud the province, voluntarily
appeared at the city police station.
After a conference with Deputy Chief
Newton they were released on bail of
$50,000 each, $25,000 consisting of a
personal bond and two sureties of $12,
600 each being given.
Premier Viviani says France does
not want premature peace.
Germans capture Brest-Litovsk, Rus
sia's strongest foothold in Poland.
Secretary of War Garrison rebukes
Gen. Wood for inviting Col. Roosevelt
to speak at the instruction camp at
Plattsburg.
Another flood swept the White River
valley in Arkansas, doing much dam
age and rendering between 4000 and
6000 people homeless.
It is reported that 24 pounds of radium-bearing
ore has been taken from
a mine on Boulder creek, 27 miles
from Port Orford, Or. It is said that
in the form in which the radium is
found it is worth $80 an ounce.
A first payment of $504,198 for the
securities of the Alaska Northern rail
road was made by the Interior depart
ment. The road runs from Seward
into the interior of Alaska and will be
utilized in the construction of the new
government road. The total cost of the
securities to the United States will be
$1,160,000.
Washington has agreed to give
Haiti's parliament until September 17
to act upon the proposed treaty by
which the United States would extend
financial protectorate over the unstable
little republic for 10 years. In the
meantime the American marines will
continue to occupy the principal cities
of the island to prevent a recurrence
of anarchy.
It is now believed that the main
Russian army will succeed in escaping
from the onrushing German forces.
Imperial Valley, CaL, is swept by a
terrific wind, rain and electric storm,
which destroyed many houses and elec
tric lines.
The German admiralty admits the
loss of a submarine which was destroy
ed by a bomb from an aeroplane, and
says it has not heretofore acknow
ledged such losses, which ia taken to
mean that many previous rumors of
the destruction of submarines were
true.
MEXICAN UPRISING IN TEXAS IS
J FRUSTRATED BY ARREST OF 26
" San Antonio, Tex. -With the arrest
here of 26 Mexicans, 23 of whom were
detained, Chief of Police Lancaster
and Federal authorities announced that
a plan to incite the Mexican popula
tion of San Antonio to deeds of vio
lence had been frustrated.
The prisoners, according to Chief of
Police Lancaster, are followers of the
so-called plan of San Diego, the ex
travagant manifesto promulgated by a
party of Mexican agitators which pro
claims the "Republic of Texas" to be
governed by Mexicans. Recent upris
ing in the Lower Rio Grande valley
caused the program for the establish
mentof the new government to go
amiss and at the same time Federal
officials were put on their guard.
Three of the leaders were arrested
while addressing a crowd of 1000 Mex
icans on the market plaza. The ad'
dresses were of an inflammatory na
ture and calculated to arouse the
poorer classes of Mexicans to deeds of
violence.
"One speaker," Chief " Lancaster
said, "after abusing the President of
the United States, the government of
this country and the white race gen
erally, openly declared: 'It is no harm
to kill a Gringo and an Allemane.'
(Meaning Americans and Germans.)"
It was right at this point the police
charged the crowd and arrested the
leaders, but not without a fight. As
the officers were withdrawing, one of
the Mexicans shouted: "Now is the
time to rise. Let us kill the Grin-
goes."
The arrival of the police for the
time being quieted all martial spirit.
Following the arrest of the leaders,
23 others were arrested. They will be
placed in the custody of Federal offi
cials, who said that charges of treason
probably would be filed against them.
Many Northwest Millr Start Work;
Trade Brisk and Prospects Good
Eugene, Or The Booth-Kelly Lum
ber company announced that its Wend
ling mill will resume operations imme-
diatley, employing a crew of 125 men
and 75 in the timber.
A. C. Dixon, manager of the Booth-
Kelly company, announced: "Since
we closed down a force of 60 men has
been at - work making repairs. We
have built a new dam and installed
new saw huBks, a new carriage, new
trusses over the boilers, and concrete
foundations.
The Springfield mill is at present
working one 10-hour shift a day.
Aberdeen, Wash. After a shutdown
of eight months the Wilson Bros, mill
has resumed operations, with a crew
of 150 men. John Wilson, the man
ager, intimated that the mill would be
kept in steady operation throughout.
the winter. . - r
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
DECRIES U.S. POLICY
Ex-President Declares America
Is Playing Ignoble Part. .
MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS UPHELD
Oregon City The Milwaukie and
University Park plants of the Menefee
Lumber company began operations
Wednesday after a shutdown of several
months. The plant at Milwaukie is
employing 60 men and the one at Uni
versity Park 75.
Arabic Incident Closed.
London The German government
considers the Arabic incident closed
and has declared its willingness to
punish the commander of the subma
rine which . sank the steamer, accord
ing to a dispatch which the Exchange
Telegraph company's Amsterdam cor
respondent says has been . received
there from Berlin.
There is reported to be considerable
feeling in German military circles be
cause of Chancellor von Bethmann-
Hollweg's so-called "weakness" to
wards the United States. .
U. S. Buys 100,000 Shells.
Chicago George M. Getschow, sec
retary of Phillips, Getschow & Co., is
quoted in the Daily News as saying
that he is a stockholder in a firm which
is making 100,000 six-inch shells for
the United States army, and that the
German government, like the allies, is
purchasing munitions of war in the
American market. "As to the Amer
ican order. I am not at liberty to dis
close the name of the firm, further
than to say that the contract is worth
about $640,000," Mr. Getschow is
quoted as saiyng.
Brazil Dry; Cattle Dying.
New York Prolonged drouth in the
northern states of Brazil this summer,
particularly in the states of Piuhy,
Oeara, Rio Grande do Norte and Para
hyba, has resulted in serious loss to
cattle-raisers, according to George
Holdemess, of Oeara, Brazil, who ar
rived here on the steamship Denis
from Para. the loss in some of
these districts has been as high as 80
per cent of the herds," said Mr. Hol
dernera. "Crops also suffered."
2,600,000 Live in Chicago.
Chicago The 1915 edition of the
Chicago city directory will indicate a
population of 2,500,000. The Johnsons
10,000 of them lead numerically,
as they have for the last two years,
and are closely followed by the Ander
sons and the Smiths.
Rich and Unarmed Nation Certain to
Invite Disaster Preparedness I
Is Most Urgently Advised.
Plattsburg, N. Y. More than 3000
persons, inluding 1200 members of
the military -interaction camp, burt
into wild and prolonged applause here
Thursday when, in the course of an
address on military preparedness,
Theodore Roosevelt, former president
of the United States, snapped at them
these words:
"Don't applaud unless you feel a
burning sense of shame because the
United States has not stood, up for Bel
gium." - In his address Colonel Roosevelt
censured- the administration for its
attitude in the European situation and
strongly urged preparedness for war.;
"The surest way for a nation to in
vite disaster is to be rich, aggressive
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
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Pigeon Flies 2200 Miles.
Los Angeles "Ben Bolt," a carrier
pigeon, established a new long distance
flight when it arrived here Wednesday
from Norwalk, O. The distance ap
proximates 2200 miles and was trav
eled in five days, nine hours, 31 min
utes and 10 seconds. . .
Colonel Roosevelt, caught by the
camera in the midst of one of his en
ergetlo denunolations of the peace-at-any-prlee
advocates during his west
ern trip. . ... .
and unarmed," the ex-president said.
In a statement made at the railway
station shorlty before leaving for New
York, Colonel Roosevelt defended his
criticism of the administration's course
in the present situation.
I wish to make one comment on
the statement so frequently, made that
we must stand by the President, " he
said. "I heartily subscribe to this on
condition, and only on condition that it
is followed by the statement 'so long
as the President stands by the coun
try.' "
Several times be digressed from bis
written address.
'No man is fitted," he said once,
looking away from the printed page,
to be the citizen of a free country
unless he is willing to defend that
country." -
KGermany is condemned as "utterly
brutal and ruthless in its disregard of
international morality," and declared
that it would "be a base abandonment
of morality" for American manufac
turers of munitions to refuse to make
shipments "for the use of the armies
that are striving to restore Belgium to
its own people."
. Munition makers who refused to
make such shipments should be put, he
said, on a "roll of dishonor." He
addd that they should" be encouraged
so that we may be able to hold our
own when "the hour of peril comes to
us in our turn." -
Germans Accuse French.
Berlin "A captured French offi
cer," says the Overseas News Agen
cy, "carried in his pocket an order
from Minister of War Miilerand,
showing clearly that the French gov
ernment had pressed into army ser
vice German citizens, inhabitants of
Alsace-Lorrain.
"The order divided these into two
classes, and provided that those wil
ling to fight against Germany should
be protected against the death sen
tence for high treason in ease of their
capture."
French Money Declines.
New York French money was
worth less than Thursday in foreign
exchange markets, notwithstanding
the establishment here of a $20,000,
000 credit loan to the French govern
ment. The establishment of the loan
already had been discounted, and the
sum lent was too small a fraction of
the total amount due for American
supplies to bring about equilibrium.
The rate on franca was quoted at 5.88.
Previously a dollar bought 6.82 franca.
OREGON STATE NEWS
Many Donations Being Made to
. Aid Work of Oregon University
University of Oregon, Eugene The
University library has- received as a
gift from Mrs. Clara B. Colby, of
Washington, D. C, a shipment of
ninety-five books and a number of
pamphlets. The gift includes publica
tions of the woman movement, tem
perance and other reform movements,
biography, history, travel, poetry and
miscellaneous literature. One item of
special importance is 16 volumes of
the "Woman's Tribune," published in
Washington, D, C.
Another donation to the University
has been received by the department
of Journalism from Mrs. Davenport,
mother of Homer Davenport, who was
an Oregon boy and was raised at Sil
verton. - Mrs. Davenport desired to
have preserved in the rooms of the de
partment one of the few remaining
originals she had of Homer's cartoons,
and she secleted ' his "World-wide
Struggle for Money." She had this
framed and sent it to the department
by express from her present home in
Los Angeles.
The department of journalism is also
in receipt of several small donations of
printing materials in,, addition, to the
complete old-fashioned newspaper
plant entrusted to the department by
Hon. H. R. Kincaid, for nearly forty
years editor of the Oregon State Jour
nal. .
In the last year small gifts of vari
ous kinds have been made the Univer
sity in considerable numbers. '
Study Course Changed.
. Salem Superintendent of Public In
struction Churchill has announced a
new course of study for high schools.
Mr. Churchill said that in country high
schools it often was necessary for
teachers to give instruction in subjects
for which they had made no special
preparation, and for them a definite
outline of the work is of much value.
Much freedom of the choice of sub
jects is given in the larger high
schools, so students may not be re
quired to take subjects in which they
sre little interested, and for which
they have no particular aptitude.
The minimum requirement for grad
uation is 15 units of high school work
with recitation periods of 40 minutes
in length, but pupils are urged to com
plete the course by taking four sub
jects each year for four years, thereby
earning 16 units.
The course of study permits pupils
to earn from one to three units for
graduation in either vocal or instru
mental music taken outside of the
school, provided the work is given by
a competent teacher and the pupil
spends at least 80 minutes daily in
practice or instruction.
There is also a new course required
to be given in all high schools, upon
the completion of' which a student will
be permitted to enter a teachers ex
amination. "!::
This course is made necessary on
account of a law which became opera
tive on September 1, requiring all per
sons who have not had at least six
months of successful teaching exper
ience to complete an elementary teach
ers training course beore they are
permitted to enter an examination for
a teachers' certificate. The elemen
tary teachers' training course is in ad
dition to the teachers' training course
which has heretofore been given in
many of the larger high schools.
Pilgrim Leaves $50,000.
Roaeburg In the death of George
A. Smith at his camp near Los An
geles a few days ago, Douglas county
has lost probably its most eccentric
character and one of its pioneer and
prosperous farmers. , He was on his
way to visit a daughter when he died.
The body of Mr. Smith was found be
side his burro and goat, his two com
panions for the last three years. He
believed that by living like some of
the Bible characters he would reach
the age of 100 years. He is thought
to have left an estate of $50,000, in
cluding bis Camas valley ranch.
$10,000 Spent on Streets.
Dallas Spending more than $19,000
in the construction of macadam pave
ment in the course of the summer, the
Dallas City council has carried out the
program outlined by Mayor E. C.
Kirkpatrick in his inaugural message.
Practically every street in Dallas is
now either paved with hard surface or
macadam. Mr. Kirkpatrick took the
stand that the hard times the people
were now facing in this section offered
the city its best opportunity to con
struct needed improvements, thus pro
viding labor for unemployed men.
Extension Officer Resigns.
Paul M. Collins, secretary of Ex
tension at the Oregon Agricultural
college, has resigned to accept the su
perintendency of the city schools of
Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Mr. Collins
labor for the advancement of agricul
tural interests in Oregon has been
highly efficient and his retirement
from extension work will be regretted
by the college and by the citizens of
the state, many of whom have bene
fitted by his extension work. ..
Clothesline Loot Found.
Cottage Grove Much of the cloth
ing taken by clothes line thieves dur
ing several months past has'been found
in a clump of bushes two miles south
of the city. The articles stolen last
week from the Orville Spear home
were found in an empty building on
Sixth street. The clothing stolen
from Mrs. Mary Smith was found on
the river bank near the home.
Savoy Architect Had It Over 300
r - Years Ago.
Sill
mm
Planned Building 361 Feet in Heljht,
But It Remained for America
to Realize His
.v,.' Vision.
For many years foreigners have re
garded the "skyscraper" as something
typical and es
sentially Ameri
can. Now a con
tributor to L'll
lustration shat
ters the illusion;
he points out that
as far back as
its origin goes,
anyway the sky
scraper is not
American at all.
The first one was
planned over
three centuries
ago In a small
town of Savoy.
In- the year
1601, Jacques Perret, an architect liv
ing In Chambroy, designed a build
ing that, although It was never erect
ed, may properly claim to be the an.
cestor of the modern skyscraper.
What a visionary dreamer must have
been the architect who 300 years ago
planned an 11-story building 361 feet
in height almost half as tall as the
Woolworth building in New York.
According to Ferret's measurements,
the building was to have beon 166
feet long and 140 feet broad. And
the walls were to have been over 12
feet thick! But In 1601 the meth
ods of building construction were by
no means so modern as Perret's plans;
twelve-foot walls were none too thick
to support It stories. Here, again,
however, the ingenuity of the archi
tect showed itself, tor he found a way
of making use of the walls without
weakening their strength. "In the
thickness of the walls,'.' he wrote,
"are little stairways, cabinets and cup
boards, from the bottom floor to the
top floor; thus there is no space
wasted."
Evidently the building was designed
for a dwelling perhaps an apartment
house, for in describing his project
Perret wrote; "This great and excel
lent edifice can accommodate comfort
able 600 people."
Considering the date of the design,
the project of Jacques Perret was
In many ways a remarkably prophetic
vision. In ornateness of detail and In
fanolful exaggeration the building sug
gests the sixteenth century, but In Its
general lines It represents a much
later period In architecture. Like the
most modern skyscrapers of New
York, It has a tower above the main
building. And when he designed the
terraced roof, did Jacques Perret
dream of a roof garden T
Strength of Cast Iron.
In a paper reoently read before the
Society of Chemical Industry the state
ment was made that the strength of
cast Iron was affected by the addition
of wrought iron In the following pro
portions: With 100 parts of cast iron
10 parts of wrought iron Increases the
strength 2 per cent; 20 parts of
wrought Iron Increases the strength
per cent; 30 parts of wrought iron
Increases the strength 60 per cent; 40
parts of wrought Iron increases the
strength but 33 per cent. The maxi
mum result Is therefore produced with
30 per cent wrought scrap.
Stainless Steel.
A Sheffeld steel Arm has recently
evolved a new and novel product
which Is called stainless steel, which,
when brought to a bright polished fin
ish, Is proof against rust, stain or tar
nish. The first articles which have
beon made from this steel aro cutlery,
and after a prolonged use this has re
tained Its original finish. Although
specimens were subjected to a par
ticularly severe test on fruits of vari
ous kinds known quickly to stain ordi
nary steel, there were no marks of any
kind upon the surface of the cutlery.
The Difference.
'The man they threw out of the
place was not like a, burning bouse."
How so?" .
'He was full of fire after he was
put out." l
Quite Another Matter.
Is Mrs. Oldboy In mourning tor her
husband?" -
"No." ""
"Then who's she In black for?" ;
"She's in black for him ", . "
The Handicap.
The police will soon catch the ab
sconding defaulter."
"How do you know?" '
"Because he has no money for run
ning expenses."
Their Use.
"Don't you think they ought to pass
blanket bills for paving?"
What makes you think that?"
They would come in bandy for lln
bed of the streets."
His Role.
"I suppose since the baby came,
your husband Is no longer the hero
of your domestic drama?"
'Oh, no; he Is merely the walking
gentleman."
Valuable Farm Land.
It is said that In some localities in
Japan form land sells for $10,000 an
aero.
The Hunting Season
IS OPEN.
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