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WHAT YOU NEED The other fellow may have; what you have the other fellow may want Come together by advertising in the Press. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer Km BARGAL-i DAY Is every day with the Merchant who advertise fa the Presshe hus j0me thing to eell and says to. ' i . YOLUME XXYIL ATHENA, UMATILLA COUSTY, OBEGrOSV FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1915. t ' 111 ' WORLD'S DOINGS Of CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News Frosi All Around the Earth. Pittsburg. Thirteen persons were killed and eight injured by a fire in a four-story building, the upper floors of which were occupied by the Union Paper Box company, on the north I side here, Wednesday afternoon. Of the dead all were young women em- J ployed by the company except one. Mayor Joseph 0. Armstrong at ones UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NIIKHHi ordered " ". city council I mo bm wuvr luiuia uiuruuga inves tigation of the tire. Ifcm Mauw ltm mi M,.i ..j ".amessiarteainapueotstraw wu nena iicma ui nil nnuuiis aliu I in the THIRTEEN DEAD, EIGHT HURT llUFU YORK PHI IfF IN PAPFD RAY FAfTADV FIDF IVI.Il IULIU. in i ru ui iuA inijiuiii Mini I AH GERMAN SPY Scheme to Hamper Shipment 01 Ammunition Confessed. rear of the feed store of James Brown Co., on the first floor of the building. William -0. Klmbel, general manager of the box factory, at once went to the third and fourth floors and warned the girls employed there. The flames gained headway so ranM. in I nowever, mat escape by means of sum-ways ana lire escapes was soon a... " n - -. . . The wholesale nrice of 0ii,i... IT ""l- I" ,rls ""emptea risen in Portland from W n i u k..!".1: arS""?:rom r Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Rural credits plan was beaten laiuornia By over 14,000 majority. cents within a month. Fire of unknown origin destroyed a garage and eight autos and several uiuiurcycies at woodburn, Ore. , Greek frontier euarilR by Austrlans and Bulgarians, but re- iiuweu ine enemy wito beavy losses. to 12 Vi hats and there, huddled on the floor. Inremen found a majority of the bodies. '.. . Joseph L. Bash and Z. J. Saairle. em. Iviuyea on ine second floor of the building, were about to Jump, when they were attracted bv the snrenmR of girls in the window above. - The men told the girls to Junro. One bv A British submarine nn Snndov nnt one, as the Kirls leaned. Rush and Dan. iuo xuraiBn iransnort l irmnn idm l cauKm mem. lowered tnem an far with munitions, in the sea of Mar- as 1067 coull and let them drop to mora. .. . . the sidewalk. - The nrnnnaoH r,i- .t '.' c- R- Carlisle, driver of a transfer fornla state officers JZZ1V!& san was beaten In . ,t, 7CL " "r. m . ."uuaing ano inrew m nn . ; up a rope to gins in a window ahovn. vvv uiajumy. Mak,ng md they m Robert Fay. Oerman unv arrantoi in I the rope to safety. New York, says the diversion of car- Margaret Bteigerwald, aged 17, who goes of copper from Russian in nr. I was injured by Jumnina from a third- man ports by bribing sea captains I floor window, said she and five other waa a part of his plan. . Kir's were trapped In the building Accordine in tha ... ."" """"Juuuy cuwea a ooor at tne .togulSwJX lese" 01 stairway on the second afe'and "L1 One of .the heroes of the fire was by court-martial at LieFeT " Z rrML: -. "v ms nno UiSWTDlOU lit WOS our -.new hvdronprnnlanpa ti ova I working in the buildinfir. Ha prnnod been received at the navy aeronautic nls way to m street, where he heard station at Pensacola. Pla.. and the the girls calling for helD from the nn. navy dirigible will be deltverad at thJper story. Tying a handkerchief ahnnt aiauon witnin the next three weeks 018 moutn, be rushed into the build- - j . .- miuflu ILUBUUl-L l M a o-lrl In H n Hfl t. ,. Marnuotto h .j J;t " B1" la m" arms, wnen ne failed ,be.n torpedoed in the to appear the seventh time, however J. nTS;. " CZ. ." "earch and found hie are nnan.r;;; pody on the second floor. Near him lay the body of a young girl, whom he are unaccounted for. Suspension of postal monev order evidently had tried to rescue when excnanges oetween the United States overcome oy smoae. ana ureece has been ordered by Post- negotiations of a new postal conven- Blfl Lumber 0rd,r Due- tion between the two countries. . . I Aberdeen, Wash. Grays Harbor A report has reached London that mlllmen ar Preparing bids on the gov- Prince von Buelow, former German ernment order, soon to be let, for 7,- cnancenor, will shortly submit to Pres- 780,000 feet of Douglas fir to be used " " ,u A'P"ono80- 01 to the Panama Canal zone. which Germany might be disposed to I ine PcincaUoM. which have been discuss terms of peace. . . received here, include everything from wint.. ... ... ': . ' rancy celling to heavy timbers. The Time, una hi in m rnn nussian I . . -, .. war theater, accordhur to th i,, prupoa.B g.ve me gracing Time.' Petroarad nn.. Zv. 'e? 01 me west ooast Lumber asso- savs snow haa herni fnllin. foi. thI prominence. Bias Will OS Open- dtv. tZ thedT. ? "L'0LthShd November B. The material I. to be that than. i. .;.Vj ... iT . aellTere at Colon or Ancon between that there is no foothold for horses. ine conditions, the correspondent aaas, are thus worse than in the rainy eaBuu. Twenty-four of the 48 big 36-inch January 1 and March ,1. Farmers Flock to Exposition. San Francisco. It has been estimat ed that mora farmom ti.va mImui) projectors that have formed an im- the gates of the San Francisco Expo- portant element of the Panama-Pacific sition during the last three weeks exposition illumination system have than during the entire period since been sold to the Russian government the treat fair nnonod rww. and are to be shipped at once to Euro- clally designated as "Farmers' Montb" iuciioiub, ii was announced in has bad a great drawing card in the San Francisco. The price paid is live stock exhibits and shows which placed at $24,000. , have been well attended. November Drastta action hv oftii.i. t promises to keep up with the October sas City, Kan., to prohibit Illeeal sale attendance average as.most of the big or Deer dv breweries Was taken Wed. - uuuiji wiu oe ama in STOCK Of EXPIOSIVK fOUND IN ROOM Bribe'Offered to Arresting Officer 1 Chart of New York Harbor and Official Papers Are Taken. New York. In the arrest of Albert ray; a lieutenant in the German armv. and Walter Scholz, his brother-in-law, police and federal : secret service agents believe they have detained leaders in a plot to wreck American munition plants and ships carrying munitions. According to Captain Tunnev. of the New York anarchists squad, Fay confessed that he came here to work out a plan for stopping the shipment oi munitions. He said, Tenney avers, that he was supplied with 12000 for carrying out his operations. - Papers round in bis roonv snowed he was a German secret service agent - A vast Quantity of high explosives were round in the prisoners room In weenawken, N. J. Both men are held on technical charges of disorderly conduct An ad ditional charge of attempted bribery may oe made against Fay. He is said to have offered $1000 to a police Offi cer tor ms release. He is said to have offered an advance payment of $60 when the officer agreed to his proposi tion. Police who have been watching out going vessels for explosives caused tne arrests. .. Explosives and survey charts of New York harbor are said to have been found in their possession. ' Tne men are declared to have been testing a bomb in a small grove when apprehended. rive steel mines, said by the notice to belong to the prisoners, later were round in a West Hoboken storehouse. Each was paoked in a separate wood ease, and fitted with an attachment which might be fastened to the stern of a ship by a wire. Contact with the propeller of a ship, it is said, would explode tne mine. Two cases found in the men's room in Weenawken were filled with ex plosives, letters written in German and official-looking documents. Among tne explosives were small sticks of dynamite and various kinds of acid used in the manufacture of explosives. One of the papers, it is asserted by the police, showed Fay to be a lieuten ant in the German army and connect ed with the German foreign office on tne wuneimstrasse. The police assert that the orlsoner nao admitted the ownership of a high- powered automobile and a speedy mo- torooat. ootn oi Which are In Wee- bawken. mCM miF WRVC WIROfSS TllEPilONE CARRIES VIILUVI1 UiniL I1LITJ Vflirf AfPflCC ATUHTir fWT.N Railroad Business on Increase. La Grande. There are fewer "dead engines" on the O.-W. R. & N. division of the Union Pacific this week than In any time for more than a year. Dally for the past two weeks the line of idle engines has been diminished, until the local supply is nearly entirely in the aervice. ... . New engine crews and train erewa have been put on to meet the sourt in business. Railroad men and ship pers generally attribute the major por tion oi tne latest revival in freight to the Panama canal slide, which hin ders steamship traffic, while transcon tinental business is brisk, local crops are scarcely moving at all, farmers noiamg tneir wheat tenaciously. " With the present sharp Increase in business coming on before a concerted movement of wheat from inland points rauroao oinciais foresee a good win ter. ' Twenty machinists khave - been added to the shop force here during me inn, ana irom time to time. i ram crews scratched a year or more ago are -coming back to service. two such crews being re-employed. Out ot nere witnin tne past day or two. Boy Makes $830 on Acre of Spuds. Portland. The ' chamber - of com merce haa received -many letters from different sections of the state, attest ing tne. enectiveness oi the campaign of the "Flying Squadron" last week to arouse interest in the Manufacturers1 and Land Products Show. One of the most striking letters re ceived; came from Alfred Guggisberg, Doy iarmer near Drain. , The letter, which resulted from the visit of C. W. Robison of the "Flying squadron- to Drain, follows: "C. W. Robison was at the Drain High School today and invited us all to come to Portland and see the Port land Land and Manufacturing Show. "I am unable to come, but I am verv interested in it just the same. it planted one acre of potatoes last year. I am a boy of the age of 17 and was very successful in raising po tatoes. It cost me just $130 for plant ing and harvesting, etc. I raised just 1200 bushels from the one acre. The potatoes bringing me $960, making a profit of $830 on the one acre of land. The potatoes were called the Netted Gem variety." neaday when three drivers were ar- rested and sentenced to jail and the oeer trucks confiscated. The drivers were fined $500 each and sent to jail for six months. More than 100 cases or oeer were destroyed. Wall street heard on aonarentlv November. 45,000 Cattle Received. Kansas City. Mo-Forty-five thou sand cattle were unloaded at the local stockyards here Wednesday, 5000 more, it was said, than ever arrived .... 1 I . . . .nA K Iowya andTlnZ n.hm.nt i T ifn;r.irT xI sota. The advances in prices last vr:Vv." " " week was the magnet that attracted Accord.n7.Vr VSg SJfi5?t ,. ..;" v . '.v. "" red cattle. 0ui.n?u nuiu mis cuuuiry lor we wwuitk ui Trance. . . - i Aa-... n... u.u . n i t The London newspaners Duhllsh an I London. The IW.haraat Tinnm.nia appeal from M. Pachitch, the Serbian correspondent of the Times sends the' premier, ior speeoy aid front England following: in Serbia's superhuman efforts to de- "Serbian troops have withdrawn fend her existence against the Austro- from the neighborhood nt tha nannha Germans and Bulgarians, who have, and the Austrlans have crossed the he says, condemned her to death. I river, traverslna the island of ndatraia For 20 days," the premier says, "our The Austrian forces will now ohtain common enemies have tried to annl- free passage through Bulgaria from hilate us, and despite the heroism of Oreova, near the Roumanian frontier, "ul "uiumia our rogisiance cannot oe wnere ou steamers and ugnters laden "ww to oe maintained indefinite- witn munitions have aaaamhied 1 y. British Losses Increase. London. British casualties nnbllah- penhagen savs: "Premier 7.hi d. "u .? ynuow 1 total 2285 officers r that th. I "' A dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph company of London from Co- ciarea weanesoay that the eovern ment intended to put in force June t, 1916, the new constitutional law con ferring suffrage on women, waiving the right to propose a prolongation of the old constitutional law, owing to ine war. it is expected that a general election will occur in July, when the Danish women will vote for the first time." Ail railways entering New York uity territory report business boom ing. " Every eligible Englishman is to re- ,072 non-commissioned officers and men.' These figures show an av- erage loss to the British army of nearly zow men a nay. This Is considerably in excess of the casualties earlier in the war, and reflects the heavv losses of the British in ihe recent severe fighting in Belgium. During the sum mer the losses averaged about im daily. Massacre la Reported, London. A disnatch to the nallv Mall from Odessa says: "Tne Turks have massacred the en- celve a personal tetter nraina him to J"".?". population of Kerasunt, anllst. on uio uiacs Bea.' - American troosera and at I Kerasunt is a saanort with nnnni.. me atuioui were ameo in a uuu oi iv.vtnj. a iara-A nart nt .hiAh Doruer ligni. I are Armenians. The Portland Chamber of Commerce la endeavoring to get 14 big steamer line to make that city a regular port Briton Sentenced aa Spy. London. It is offlclallv tnnmm that . nrlfrt.h ...K . I i . ... . Governor Major, of Missouri, made In the Old nailav rvu.. .... an ascension in the balloon St Louis, counts of an indictment charging e whtch won tha recent race at Wichita, plonage. and was sentenced to life im- Kan. I prlsonment 000 Hulgars Killed in Bombardment London. The bombardment af De. deagach caused the death of ten civil ians and more than a thousand sol- diers, and a large number of soldiers were wounded, says a dispatch to the exchange Telegraph company from Atnena. A large proportion of the military casualties, the correspondent adds, were in the barracks which housed the Fortieth Bulgarian regiment The barracks were crowded with soldiers, who were preparing for their meal, when the bombardment was opened at 1 o'olock with accurately aimed snens, wnicn demolished the barracks. burying the occupants in the ruins, Troops engaged in digging trenches around the town also sustained beavy losses. v Fires caused by the exploding shells destroyed the railway station and sur rounding buildings, doing enormous damage. It is said that the entire loss from the bombardment, whloh lasted four hours, will be several million pounds. The correspondent says the bom bardment was directed by aeroplanes, Pstrlotlo Appeal la Made. Los Angeles. Going further than merely serving notice that an embargo has been declared, H. M. Blanford, a special agent of the federal govern ment directed an appeal to arms and munitions dealers in the west to help President Wilson stop further blood shed in Mexico. "The Mexicans can shoot away In a day all the ammuni tion Mexican manufacturers can make in a month." said Mr. Blanford. "and with the assistance of American deal- further fighting in Mexico can be promptly stopped." . - - Savsn of family Killed. -Detroit Seven members of one family were instantly killed and. an eighth was probably fatally injured oy a urand Trunk passenger train. which struck their automobile, near Detroit. The dead are Mrs. Rachael Stoldt her five daughters. Pearl, Ha xel, Mabel, Esther and Martha, and Miss Minnie Engel, a sister of Mrs. Stoldt- William Stoldt of Troy, Mich., the husband and father, was badly mangled. - Germans Oust Belgians. London. A telegram from Amster dam to the Exchange Telegraph com pany says: "Messages from the Bel gian frontier say that Belgian sub jects between the ages of 17 and 15, liable for military service, had been notified by the German authorities at Brussels to report themselves to the German commander, with the result that 7500 so far hare been deported to Germany." Oregon Hens Cinch First Prize. Oregon Agricultural College. Corval- lis. With but six weeks of the Panama-Pacific exposition egg-laying con test to be run, the O. A. C. White Leg horns have firmly established them selves in first place. Even if they were to lay oft altogether for the re mainder of the term their position would still be secure. The October report shows that they are 245 eggs ahead of the nearest competitor, not counting the other O. A. c. pens lead that cannot now be overcome. The three Oregon college pens con tinue their lead, Leghorns firBt, Ore- gons second and Barred Rocks third, The Oregons are 62 ahead and the Rocks 16 ahead of the closest pen, Adams' Sanada ' White Wyandottes. The college Rocks suffered an acci dent last month when one of them was accidentally killed, that may affect their lead. - New York. Arlington, Va., talked by .wireless telephone with Paris, France, ' Saturday. Honolulu also heard the operator talking from lington. ' ' Announcement that the human voice had been successfully projected across the Atlantic was made on behalf of John J. Carty. chief engineer of the American Telephone & TelegraDbr1 company, at tne company's offices nere. Later Mr. Carty telephoned trom tjhicago, confirming the an nouncement. . To B. B. Webb, a telenhone engineer fell the honor of being the first man to span with his voice the apace be tween tne old world and the new. Sit ting in the powerful wireless nlant of tne navy at Arlington, va., Mr. Wsbb, shortly after midnight, asked the wire less telegraph operator to signal Eif fel tower in Paris. The wireless snapped out the alenal and soon there came back a response. Awaiting word from Mr. Webb at the Paris end of the wireless radiation were H. E. Shreeve and A. M. Curtis, other engineers, and a group of French officers, listening with esne- cially designed apparatus. in Honolulu, 4800 miles from Arling ton, Mr. Espencbled, another tele phone engineer at - the Pearl Httrbor navy yard, also was waiting. Webb, at Arlington, had a transmit ting instrument but no receiving ao- paratus. He knew, therefore-, that he would have to wait tor the cable to confirm the success or failure of the experiments. , "Hello! Shreeve.". he shouted into the mouthpiece. "Helldl Shreeve.". He then began to count: "One. two. three, four: one. two. three: four. Goodbye." ., 'When the expected message eama it was addressed to the comoanv here. ana saia mat Webb's "Helios" and Goodbyes" had been distinctly heard by the engineers and French army of ficers in Paris, and that nortions of nis test llgures had also been plcktd up. At about the same time there came a message from Honolulu, say ing that Webb's talk had been under stood in full by the receiving engineer there, and that even the .voice had been recognized as Webb's. ' Loop Road 8urvsy Made. Hood River. A crew of government engineers has completed the survey tor tne proposed loop highway from the upper Hood River valley to the uanow road, the route emerging from the forest reserve on the east fork of Hood river a few miles south of Park- dale. A crew will run another line this week, cutting out the east fork canyon and passing around the base of the mountain through Elk Mead ows. The main road will pass down the east side gorge, but it is proposed to run another survey with the view eventually of building a road through cik Meadows. Saw Destroys Orchard. Albany. When a light wind Satur day blew down 72 peach trees on the farm of A. W. Martin, seven miles east of Albany, he discovered that all had been; sawed more than half through near the base of the trunk. Only four trees in the whole 4-year-old orchard were not sawed. The trees were Just coming into bearing, many had yielded a light crop this year, and next year would have been in full bearing. Mar tin had depended upon these trees to yield money to pay off a mortgage on ms place. Toledo Heart W. L. Flnley. Toledo. State Biologist W. U Fln ley left here after a series of lectures on the habits and propagation of the fish and game of Oregon. Mr. Finley used moving pictures of the capture and transportation of the herd of elk that was brought from the Jackson Hole country in Montana to Wallowa county. - . Mr. Flnley was greeted with packed houses at Waldport Newport and at Toledo. He reprimanded the citizens of the county for allowing the state to discontinue the Big Elk fish hatch ery. . CO-Pound Chinook Is Caught Newport Corey 8mith, an Alsea Bay fisherman, caught a Chinook sal mon on his regular drift Saturday night that tipped the scales at 60 pounds. This is the record fish for this season. . The record fish on that bay last season, ior Chinook, weighed 73 pounds. 350 Teachers at Institute, f. Salem. With 350 teachers present the annual Marion County Teachers' Institute convened here for a session of three days. W. M. Smith, county superintendent is in charge. Well known educators of the state will de liver addresses. The schools of the county are closed during the Institute. Ornamental handkerchiefs formerly were worn In the hat by men as tokens. Northwest Manufactures and land Products Show Is Scoring Success Portland. The Second Annual Man ufacturers' & Land Products Show opened Monday, October 26, and the great industrial and land exhibition will be in progress until midnight No- vemoer la. This Is the greatest exnositlon of the kind the Northwest has ever seen and twenty-three Oregon counties have attractive displays of fruits, grains, grasses and vegetables. The agricultural and horticultural display is equal to the Lewis ft Clarke Fair, of 1905. More than 200 exhibitors have part in the big exposition and 75,000 square feet of space la occupied by displays of Oregon manufacturers and jobbers and retailers from over the country. - The exposition was open to Oregon, Washington, Idaho and the Northwest in general. Clarke county, Washing ton, haa - an attractive display and there are many exhibits of apples, pears, potatoes, onions and nuts. Life and action prevail at the exnosltldn and working exhibits and Interesting uiuueis are many. AH steam and electric lines servlne ruruHnu are oiiering tares of one and a third for the round trip and sail aaies nave already been announced. While the exposition is in progress many cities, towns and communltl.-n win have special days at the show. Employers Endorse Military Training. Washington. D. C.-r-Indorsements of the administration's plan to create a great continental army for defense are beginning to reach Washington from large employing firms and corpora tions. It waa learned that annrovlna letters had been received from several such concernrs, and that at least one had expressed willingness to grant Its men leave on tun pay for services in tne proposed organization. One of the companies heard from wrote that it would gladly grant leave with pay to any of its men desiring to enlist, not only for reasons of patriot ism, but because it was regarded as a good business proposition to permit tne men to take advantage of an op portunity to spend two months In vig orous camp lire witn military training. Thousands Cheor Kaiser.' Berlin, by wireless to Bayville. All the churches of Berlin held services in commemoration of the 600th anni versary of the establishment of Ho- henzollern rule ' over Brandenburg. The service in the cathedral was at tended by Emperor William, Empress Augusta Victoria, Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. many aenerala and admirals and the diplomatic corps, including the American ambassador. The streets outside the cathedral were crowded by thousands. Emperor Wil liam waa cheered enthusiastically. Newspapers Adopt Simplified Spelling Chicago. The 12 words - nronosed by the Simplified Spelling Board, in Its efforts to. accustom the general publio to the use of simplified spell ing, were indorsed by the Illinois Dally Newspaper association in a com munication to its members throughout the state. The words aDDroved are: Thn. al. tho, thru, thruout, thoro, thoroly, thor ofare, program, prolog, catalog, deca log and pedagog. Holds Breath 10 Minutes. Berkeley, Cal. What is said to be new record for voluntary susoenslon of respiration has been made by War ren u. Horner, a graduate student of the University of California, in an ex periment conducted by Dr. Barton Temple Pope, Instructor in snrgery. Dr. Pope caused Horner to hold his breath 10 minutes and 10 seconds. 1 Buy your Heater NOW If .Cold weather will be here before you realize it We are prepared for it with the best line of Heating Stoves on the market. There is nothing to equal them. Fine Heaters, easy on coal, and very clean and very handsome in design. 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