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Buy Your Groceries From - Your . Home Grocer VOLUME XXVII. ATHENA, UMATIIIiA COTJOTT, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1915. ,NUMBER 44. WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News , From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUI5P Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. ' Lord Derby makes a final plea to the English people to enlist voluntar ily. A Rock Island passenger and freight train collided in Oklahoma, killing SiX. ' ..V. .. .. , Colonel T. E. Vlckers, a pioneer In the British armament industry, is dead. . " " -i - Poisonous weeds along the Klamath river in Northern California are kill ing hundreds of cattle, i . . .tvw: ' Fifteen miners were blown to pieces In Butte, Mont, by the accidental ex plosion of 600 pounds of dynamite. The allies on the Oallipoli peninsula are In a grave position, and London admits the campaign may be- aban doned. . , . Formal recognition of Carranza by the United States and eight South American republics was forwarded Oct 19. It now develops that the vflve-ear naval program outlined by Secretary Daniels contemplates the expenditure of $502,482,214. . ' Two unmasked robbers -forced the cashier of the Renton, Wash;, bank to hand over $1416 in cash and then es caped in an automobile. ' A posse of Texans killed ten Mexi can bandits believed to have. been im plicated in the recent train "robbery and killing of two Americans. . . At a banquet given in honor of Thomas A. Edison in San Francisco, the guest of honor, at his own urgent request, was served only a glass of milk and a piece of hot apple pie. Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford, the noted automobile maker, inspected exhibits at the Panama-Pacific expo sition together and became so intent upon their work that they forgot to keep a lunch appointment with their wives. - 1 V -, . A new order In council haB , been gazetted in London prohibiting -the exportation of any cotton product whatever, with the exception of cotton lace and cotton waste. Allied coun tries in Europe, Spain and Portugal are made exceptions. . A. The Nordlandsposten of Gefle, Swe den, says that the Swedish legation at Petrograa has informed the foreign office at Stockholm that the Swedish ore steamer Nike has been captured by a British submarine and taken to the Russian poj$ of ReyaU , . The sale of a seat on the New York .stock exchange for $72,000. was an nounced JFfidajtJ-ffBe- price" is $2000 nigner man we'iast saie, a lew mja ago, and is Several thousand dollars higher than a numbe of sale's between four and six" months" ago. ; t-.x..: . t' . Two prisoners charged with espion age and tried by courtmartlal in Lon don were found guilty and one was sentenced to death and the other to five years' penal servitude, the press bureau of the war office announced. The prisoner sentenced to-death was executed, the announcement stated. According to the London Morning Post's Athens correspondent, the di plomatic corps left Nlsh Tuesday for Monastir, in the extreme south of Ser bia, to Which city the national archives and the Serbian national bank also are going immediately. -The central Serbian government, the correspond ent adds, remains in Nlsh. New Jersey registered at the polls an emphatic "no" to woman's appeal for the ballot. Indications ahortly af ter midnight were that the white and yellow banners of "votes for Women' had fluttered down to defeat In each of the state's 21 counties and that the majorities against adoption of the con stitutional amendment to enfranchise women was between 60,000 and 60,000. The mind of Emperor Franz Joseph, of Austria, is said to be failing rap- English people cry loudly for repris als aeainst the Germans for recent Zeppelin raids. Anthrax has been cured by San Francisco physicians by the local ap plication of antiseptics. ' The trial of the directors and former directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, which will test the ability of the government to obtain the conviction of the directors of an alleged monopolistic corporation trader the so-called criminal clause of the Sherman anti-trust law, was begun in the Federal court. Primta advieea received in Paris are to the effect that Bulgarian division was almost annihilated in a tierce bat tle near Kragnyvata, Serbia. . Zeppelin airships raided London on ' two successive nights, the first time killing; eight and wounding about 85. The second raid resulted in the killing of 65 persons and starting many fires. It is believed the United States will soon supplant Roasia in supplying erode oil and its products to the Scan dinavian countries, and - steamers are , being chartered in this country for the trade. "' - - MRS. MARY LOGAN TUCKER ;k' Act Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker of Wash ington, daughter of the late Gen. John Logan, and a member of the nation al committee of the Navy league, urges that military training oamps for women be conducted, to train them In first aid, signaling, telegraphy and the use of small arms. - MEXICAN BANDITS WRECK TRAIN, ; . BURN TRESTLE AND KIUJWO Brownavllfe, Tex.-o-Mexlcan bandits early Wednesday held up and robbed St. Louis & San Francisco passen ger traiD, killing two persons and wounding three others, near Olmite, seven miles north of here. , The dead: H. H. Kendall, engineer. . United States cavalryman, name un known. v The injured: ' Dr. E. S. McCain, Cameron county physician, probably fatally shot. , Harry Warns, seriously wounded in abdomen. .- - Conductor P. E. Morgan, slightly wounded. 1 - Trestle la Burned. . J A lone trestle half a mile south of the wreck was set afire half an hour after the train was held up and almost destroyed. ' - . This hindered the progress ot the first detachment of troops which was sent in pursuit so that the bandits had ample time to flee into the brush. Passengers who reached here on a relief train said that the train was de railed, that Mexicans poured into the coaches shouting MViva Pizana" and commeneedsihDriolthe passen-J gers.. -;;-v;:itai.;.. win." Pizana. the man the bandits were cheering, Is supposed to be the leader of the so-called "Texas revolution" nurtured under the "plan of San Die go." which last .year,contemplated the seizure of border states and returning them to Mexican rule. A negro reached his home four miles from Brownsville and gave the first report of the wreck and killings. Four companies of United states in fantry were rushed to the scene by special trains, followed by two troops of cavalry. - i(. '-.', f - The bandits were passengers and set fire to the train. .The Mexicans severed the telephone line between Brownsville and Villa Nueva, five miles from here, which resulted not only in delaying Information reaching Brownsville, but also interfered with Communication with troop B, of the Thirtieth- Cavalry, . on duty .near the scene of the holdup. , ',." v." , Sbange Trashy Comes to tight Canyonville, .On How an old trap per, with lug leg caught in a big bear trap, perished alone and miserably In the forest 17 years ago, was revealed. by the finding of a skeleton with bone held in the rusted trap, on the Fortune Branch Creek, and reported here Wednesday. v. - The skeleton is believed to be that of a once well-known character named Blynn, who had a cabin at the head of the creek, . about a mile from where the skeleton was found. The place is about half way between here and Glen- dale. . OREGON jjATE NEWS Declares Oregon Loganberries Are the Genuine Logans . Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallls. That the famous loganberry Juice as produced in Oregon is made from the loganberry and not from the phenomenal berry, is the declaration ot Professor C. I. Lewis, chief of the agricultural college department of horticulture. Thla'declaration is sub stantiated by the men chiefly Instru mental In propagating the loganberry and the phenomenal berry in this state. ; ' It has been widely reported that Luther Burbank, the originator of the phenomenal berry, has said that the Oregon berry grown and marketed as the loganberry is not the loganberry at all, but is the phenomenal. He is further reported to have said that the real loganberry is a greatly Interior berry, being small and ot little ac count, and that in some manner the phenomenal . became known as the loganberry. . "-. ;',-.' -,; According to- Profepaor Lewis and other authorities the difference be tween the berries is not very great, but there is enough difference, espec ially in the vines, to make the two readily distinguishable. $400,000,000 FOR ARMY AND NAVY GAIN MUCH TIME IN CONSTRUCTION Would Increase Army" to 120,000(7,, 400,000 Reserve Increased Navy Included in Plarj J College Bred Beef Cattle Bring Highest Market Prices Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallis. Kansas Clty market reports mention the unusually fine quality of three carloads of . Shorthorn steers, finished for market on the Oregon Agricultural branoh station farm at Union, marketed this fall. "The three carloads of steers received in the local markets averaged. 1397- pounds and sold at a lump rate ot $8.80' Consid ering the length of time they were on the road - and the distance traveled they were in remarkably 'fine condi tion. Robert witnycomoe was in charge of the shipment, which num bered sixty animals. . For 115, ,4ays one carload was fed on alfalfa hay straight through, the second carload on alfalfa and , five Dounds a day to the head ot rolled barley, and the third alfalfa, the first half of the feeding period and an' ad ditlon ot 10 pounds of rolled .barley a day to the head the last half,. The second lot showed the best gain in weight, slightly more than two pounds a day, while the others gained just two pounds a day. " Churchman Bars Hatrtd. London. "The wall of a church is noan appropriate place to perpetuate hatred," was the reason given by Sir Philip Wilbraham, chancellor of the diocese of Chester, when refusing to permit a memorial tablet to a victim of the Lusltanla in a Holyoke church to bear the Inscription, who was mur dered on the Lusitania by the Ger mans." The chancellor then suggest ed that the inscription should road, Who lost his life when the Lusltanla was torpedoed by the Germans." This was agreed to. ' Within Last Few Years Industry Has Assumed Prominence. resident to Asl Congress for Immediate Action. ' Washingtb'ny D. C.-FoO?hundred million dollars for. national defense, an increase ot approximately $140;00o 000 over last" year, constitutes the amount which President Wilson and his advisers say' should be appropriat ed by the next oongress for the army wnd navy. v As the time for the completion of annual estimates draws near, the Pres ident is giving preliminary considera tion to the national'-detense budget, out ot which it is hoped to lay down a stronger naval' program than the united estates nas ever - amiuuufivu, and similarly a larger prevision for the military establishment than has been customary in time of peace. The president has had before him for several weeks the outlines of a mil itary policy of a continuing character Animals are Useful for Several Pur poses Skins Used for Leather Fins Hair of the Angora la :. Known as Mohair. . .. . Angora goats were introduced into this country from Turkey about 1850, and . have been bred ever since in different parts of the '(Country in small numbers. - It is only Within the last tew years, however, that the goat Industry has assumed especial prom inence. According to recent census statistics on this subject, there are $16,000 goats in the United States, About 500,000 of these are Angoras, kha jjemainder being common goats., uoatg . are. useiui lor .uuveriu iui poffes. Their skins arij usod.in .the manufacture of leatherK'or tor rugs; the fine hair ot the Angora is known as mohair, and is used in the manu facture of the various dress goods and plushes. The demand for mohair In.' manufacture in. the United States Is much In excess of the sunnlv whicf' can be obtained fro itf "goats in tins country, and 'a good market for this product may be expected for a long time to come. The meat of goats, especially ah- gores, is eaten to a large extent, be ing commonly sold under the name of mutton, and more recentlybearlnc the name of Angora eiHBcKV'opiAn gora mutton. If the goats are well dressed it has perhaps a more de licious flavor than mutton, ana seldom has as much fat. In certain localities Women Raise Cash for Girls' Hall. University ot Oregon, ' Eugene.- "Progressive dinner" at 60 cents a per son, served by state university stu dents lo campus, oik and townspeople rBf Eufeae, has uatetted about 200, which makes about $1,700 that univer sity women have already collected for the memorial building that is to rise at the University of Oregon as soon as $125,000 has been accumulated. "Progressive dinners" are not ex pected of course, to provide a building fund that would require BOO such af fairs netting $200 each. A "progress ive dinner" Is served in courses, with one course to a house. The diners eat soup at one table, then Journey to a second perhaps a quarter of a mile distant for the salad, then to a third for the entree; and so on down to nuts. Nearly 1000 persons tried the novelty at the university. State May Aid Road Work. v ' Salem. That the" state highway commission probably will allot $10,000 for repairing the Bix miles of road be tween HlllsborO and Forest; Grove in Washington county seems probable, following a conference with a, delega tion from Washington county. It was decided , to have Engineer Cantlne make an inspection of the road soon; Members wl the Washington ,ounty court advised the board that if the state would contribute ; $10,000, the county would, make- levy and obtain additional funds tor the road. It is estimated ' that the cost of the im provement will be about $30,0(10.. The road is considered to -be a part of the system of state highways map ped out during ex-Highway Commis sioner Bowlby's administration.' -. . 900 Tins of Opium Seized. Seattle, Wash. Eight hundred pounds ot smoking opium, valued at $75,000, was seized here by customs officers on board the blue funnel liner Catenas. The opium was contained in 900 hermetically sealed tins which were secreted in an atrshaft. The Cat enas, bound from Vancouver to Seat tle, went aground 10 days ago at Point Wilson. After being pulled off she was towed to Seattle and placed in drydock for extensive repairs. Thugs Wire Man to Track. Rochester, N. T. Highwaymen sand bagged Newton Hoffman, 22 years old as he stepped from a southbound Erie train at South Haven Wednesday and wired him, head and foot, to the track. He was run over by a train which came along an hour later and his foot taken off. His head bad been planed between the tracks and was unhurt. It Is thought he will recover. - Milk Bulletin Is Coming A bulletin that will show the econ omic features of milk and milk by products throughout the world will soon be Issued by the state university at Eugene. Comparative costs between Oregon and other great milk produc ing regions will be shown. The pur pose will be to indicate whether an outside market exists that would Just ify great expansion of the dairy in dustry in this state. The bulletin Is expected to perform the service for dairymen that last year's bulletin entitled "Markets for potatoes did Tor potato growers. Orchards Traded for Wheat Land. Medford. Buckeye Orchards,- bwn ed by Houston Brothers, 'which won Yellow Newtown sweepstakes at the Spokane Apple Show in 1911, was traded to C. H. Owen, of Stockton, Cal. for 790 acres ot wheat and alfalfa land. Buckeye Orchards consist ot 35 acres of pears and apples and 48 acres of dairy land and is one of the best fruit properties in this section of the state. Houston Brothers will raise cattle and hogs on a larger scale than is possible in the Rogue river valley. v. Lata ' Election Law Rules. Salem. Although chapter 226 of the 1915 session laws provides for a vot ers' list for election boards. Attorney General Brown has held that chapter 209 of the lasr session laws, which also defines thelvotajy' list, should govern. The op!i!u.wi ;Klven in response to a eqtie,st by X 'rict At torney Evans, of rfB.sltnoaif.county. Chapter 226. the Homey1, neral points out, primarlljhjntends Jlo pro vide for permanent registration of voter. Frank L. Polk; corporation counsel of New Vork City, has bean appointed counselor of the stats department He It a graduate of Yale and of Co lumbia law school and a veteran of the Spanish-American war. framed by Secretary Garrison aftei more than a year's study with officers of the general staff. With it the pres ident is in hearty accord, regarding It as a conservative, well-balanced pro gram.. ' While the details have not been re vealed a substantial Increase in the regular army, probably from 80,000 to at least 120,000 men, and the creation of a reserve of perhaps 400,000 men through short-term enlistment service of citizens in military training, are said to be parts of the plan.; . Wlvsa for Heroe Sought.. ."London-The Rev.j Ernest Hough ton, a Bristol rector, has started an appeal to patrlotio women of the na tion to give their lives to ameliorate the condition of maimed heroes of the war by marrying them. He baa launch ed a "League for the Marrying of Bro ken Heroes. i The rector contends that the ex ample of France shows that unions thus arranged promise a greater per centage of happiness than is custo mary from the methods in England, because they are based on a high de gree of unselfishness. 1 Watch Is Bullet Stop. , Roseburg, Or. Jamie W. Pickett, of Glendale, while deer hunting in the forest' was struck over the heart by bullet, bis life being saved by his watch, .fhlch was smashed. A hunt ing license carried in the pocket was torn to shreds. - Mr. Pickett had been in the timber only a short time when the incident occurred. He believes he was either mistaken for a deer and fired at, or was struck by a bullet fired from a distance. He saw no one. Embargo on Powder Enforced. El Paso. Customs officials refused to permit a shipment of powder cross the border Thursday. This was the first indication that an embargo on the exportation of arms and ammu nition Is in effect -It It understood the shipment was stopped by order of General J. J. Pershing, commanding at Fort Bliss, cooperating with the customs authorities. More British Gold Arrives. Bangor, Me. -Another shipment of British gold from London to New York, by way ot Halifax, passed througli here in a special armed bag gage car attached to regular train The value of the shipment was esti mated at from $,000,00 to $10,000,000, OATS GAIN IN FAVOR Buy your Heater HOW Cold . weather will be here - before you realize it. We are prepared for it with the' best line of Heatingr Stoves on the . market. v' There is nothing to equal them. Fine Heaters, easy on coal, and very clean and r 'very handsome in design.- Come and see them NOW; n L F0SS-WINSH1P : HARDWARE CO. Barrett Building. Athena, Oregon if ::i::v$S;:: l Km ' . Champion Angora Buck. the meat is at present sold under the name of Angora mutton, for prices slightly higher than those paid for cheap mutton. The meat of- the An gora is preferable to that of the com mon goat. A venison-like flavor Is given to goat meat when the animals browse, upon various wild shrubs. This gamy flavor, however, is not-so noticeable when, the animals are fed upon cultivated plants. - Very little use is made of the milk of goats In Wills country, but analyses show it to III ot high nutritive value, and it can lie used in the manufacture of cheese. The" presence of Angoras or other goats in bands of sheep is said to be a Bource ot protection to the sheep, since goats will defend themselves and the entire herd against attacks of dogs or coyotes. POISONS OF JOHNSON GRASS Ml Fodder Plants Rotated to. Sor- Chum Must Be Used With Dlscre ,. Hon -as Fsed for Stock. V CBy G.- H. GLOVER, Colored IlKperl ment Station.) . .. Johnson grass Is closely related to sorghum. . Poisoning of cattle from sorghum and kaflr corn is well known. After chemical - analysis of many plants Brunnlch gave the following advice: "All fodder plants related to sorghum must be used with discretion-' in either the green or dry state and should not be given in large amounts to animals which have fasted for some time.'1 The poison in these plants is hydrocyanic add. Poisoning usually occurs when the plants have made a stunted growth from drought and are eaten . In large quantities, when the animals are. very hungry. , ' . Animals polsonod in this way usu ally die within half an hour and some times Jive only a few minutes. Hydro cyanic acid Is the most deadly of poi sons and in large doses kills almost instantly. ' Animals usually die sud denly from paralysis of, respiration and .before-medical measures .can be thought or w prepared tor use. ; LOOSE COLLARS ON HORSES Cause ol Mors 8ore Shoulders Thaw -Tight Ones Wash 8ore Spots '. JfVMhWater at Night ' Loose collars ' make more sore shoulderRthan tight ones. Use rather long bam!,; and squeeze the collar snug- against the sides ot tne neck. Lift the collar up once In a while and let the breeze cool the shoulders off, ust as you lift your hat to lot the wind blow on your brow. Unharness at noon, and wash the shoulders with cold water at night. Get along with out a sweat pad. Don't let the mane get under collar, and see that it isn't wadded unde the pad at the top of the collar. Bull la an Index, The kind of a bull a man keeps Is a pretty fair index to the kind ot dairyman its owner is - . ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. amerMnbeauty FLOUR v . Is made in Athena, by Athena Labor; in one of the . very best equipped Mills in the Northwest, of the , 'best selected Bluestem wheat "grdwn . anywhere.' ' tv ; Patronize home' industry.-- Yours grocer sells jtke . famous American Beauty Flour. . ' - r . v '. t . s The Flour Your Mother Uses Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. ; Waitsburg, Washington. ; Home of QUALITY pliill Groceries'; m j Good Groceries go to the Right Spot ' Every Time This is the Right Spot To go to Every Time for Groceries. Try These-They'fl Please! f ONE BEST THE MONOPOLE Monopole Vegetables Monopole Fruits Monopole Salmon Monopole Oysters DELL BROS., Athena, Or. . Caterers to the Public in Good Things to Eat