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ATHEN"A, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1916.
NUMBER 5.
WORLD'S DOINGS
Of CURRtNT M
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
TOEM HAPPENINGS IN A NUTS1E1
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed . '
for Our Busy Readers.
Ford peace board is reported near
complete disruption.
The steamer Tahoma is ice-bound in
the Lower Columbia river. ;
An aged Indian at Oregon City, dies
from want of his daily drinks.
A 60 per cent dividend is declared
by the Standard Oil company of Cali
fornia. s
Lord Derby of England declares
the British army is sufficient to win
the war. . .
Floods in Southern California are
continuing to do considerable damage
to property.
Montenegro makes complete sur
render to Austria who will have full
supervision of that country.
A Polander was refused his natural
ization papers when he declared he
would not take up arms in defense of
the United states.
The allies have landed troops 48
miles west of Athens and it is asserted
that it is the intention of the entente
powers to force Greece into the war.
Arrest of 67 members of a secret
band in Southeast Missouri, is believed
to have frustrated plot to burn sev
eral towns and kill many leading citi
Senator Jones, of Washington, intro
duces a bill authorizing a survey of
Baker's bay, near the mouth of the
Columbia, with a view to its improve
ment.
A Chinaman, and common laborer,
in the United States for 26 years has
been ordered . deported. He was
brought to this to thiB country when 7
years old. jr
A Maastricht newspaper reports that
the gunfire of the French has destroyed
two Zeppelins north of Rhiems. The
aircraft are said to have fallen within
the German lines. -
One hundred and twenty-five post
packages containing sheet rubber,
weighing an aggregate of 1876 pounds,
consigned to Gothenburg, are taken
from the Danish liner Frederick VIII
at Kirkwall.
Katherine Kelly, aged 10, and
Gladys Edgerly, aged 9, of Seattle,
were probably fatally injured when
they were thrown from their sled after
coasting down a steep hill and crashed
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llJUf wnucw wail.
Restoration of the Manchu dynasty,
which ruled China before the establish
ment of the republic, has been pro
claimed by the leaders of an uprising
in Eastern Mongolia. A brigade of
Chinese troops is marching on Huihua
chen to attack the Mongolians.
Ensign Lawrence K. Ford, of Wy
oming, was dismissed from the navy
by President Wilson's approval of a
court martial which held bim guilty of
conduct unbecoming an officer and
gentleman. He is charged, among
other things, with failing to support
his wife.
The Ferris bill to create a system of
640-acre stock-raising homesteads on
arid, semi-arid and mountainous lands
In 17 states passes the house. All
three of the administration consevra
tion measures providing for water-
power development, mineral leasing
and larger stockraising homesteads
now await the action of the senate. ,
' Five hundred negro troops loot ten
derloin districts of Honolulu.
The cruiser Marblehead is to be lo
cated at Portland for use by the naval
militia.
Another consignment of 60,000 shoes
has been sent to the war sufferers of
' Belgium.
Later reports show the number of
Americans massacred by Mexican ban
dits is 19.
Snow in the streets of Portland Is
being dumped into the sewers by many
unemployed. -
Serious rioting against Mexicans at
El Paso has caused the city to be put
under martial law.
An Italian liner is torpedoed near
where the Lusitania went down, but is
taken into nearby port.
The thermometer registers all the
way from 78 above at Tampa, Fla., to
48 below at Prince Albert, Bask.
Montenegro army is held in the grip
of the Austrian, and it is believed the
little nation's last struggle has been
PRESIDENT WILSON TO CAMPAIGN
fOR HIS PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM
Washington, D. C President Wil
son is planning to assume personal
leadership in the fight for a stronger
army and navy. So many reports
have reached him of confusion over the
issue before congress and of the uncer
tainty of the outcome, that he has de
termined not only to go before the
country in public address, but to con
fer further on the subject with leaders
of the senate and house.
Representative Hay and Represent
ative Padgett, chairmen of the house
military and naval committees, re
spectively, have informed Mr. Wilson
that it will be from two weeks to a
month before the committees will be
ready to report any army and navy
appropriation bills. While this work
is going on he proposes to do his ut
most to solidify sentiment among the
people and members of congress in
favor of the plans drawn up by the
war and navy departments. : :
Friends of the President represent
Count Oktrma, Japanese premier,
barely misses being hit by a bomb
thrown by a woold-be assassin in
Tokiou ' . v
Queen Sophie, of Greece, sister of
the kaiser, has been called to the lat
ter's bedside, because of the serious
ness of his illness.
OIL AND STEEL TO
FORM BIG MERGER
DEEINITE PLANS SEEM FULLY REACHED
WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH
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William Aider, Smith, United States
senator from Michigan, has opened In
earnest his campaign for the Republi
can presidential nomination. Petitions
have been sent out to nave his name
placed on the ballot for the Michigan
presidential primary In Aorll.
him as being undeterred by the open
oppoeitin of former Secretary Bryan
and other pacificists, and by differ
ences among advocates of national de
fense over the plans adopted. He is
said to be firmly of the opinion that
the program prepared by Secretaries
Daniels and Garrison is the best which
can be offered at this time.
Plans for the speaking trips will be
prepared as quickly as possible. If
necessary the President may change
the White House social program map
ped out before Christmas.
Socialist Representative Is Loyal
; But Speaks Against Preparedness
, Washington, D. C -Every Socialist
in the United States would defend this
country if attacked by a foreign foe,
Representative London, the. only So
cialist in congress, told the house
Wednesday in an address against pre
paredness.
The house shouted down attempts to
limit London's time and spurred him
on with question. His declaration
that the Socialists would fight was
greeted with thunderous applaues.
Representative O'Shaughnessy, of
Rhode Island, demanded of London
what would be the attitude of the So
cialists in case the American flag was
attacked.
"I desire to say that if the people of
the United States were attacked every
Socialist would fight," London said.
"What is the distinction between
the flag and the people?" a dozen Rep
resentatives immediately asked, in as
many different ' ways, while London
smiled and fenced the question.
"The people throb with life." he
said, "while a flag is an emblem only,
Any lunatic from an insane asylum can
attack the flag and trample on it, but
it is a vastly different thing for an at
tack to be made on the people."
Airmen Kill Bulgars.
London t- Hundreds of Bulgarian
soldiers were killed and a large number
wounded in a bombardment of Petritsi
by squadron of 26 French aeroplanes,
according to a dispatch received in
Athens and forwarded by the corre
spondent there of the Evening Stand
ard. Great damage was caused by the
bombardment, the advices say. The
provisioning of the Bulgarian forces
on the Greco-Serbian frontier is being
conducted with the greatest difficulty,
owing to the condition of the roads, the
correspondent adds. - .
Rescuers at Ice Prison.
Roseburg, Or. After a two days'
trip through snow and ranging from
three to eight feet deep the rescue
party which left here Monday arrived
at the tent cabin of A. J. McCallister
and family on the Coast mountains late
Wednesday. Although practically iso
lated on account of the recent storm.
the McCallister family had sufficient
fuel and food to last them for several
days. The rescue party wss obliged to
make most of the trip on snowshoee.
NEWS ITEMSMMlf WEST HAS
Of General Interest
iiant Industries With Capital of
$350,000,000 in Combine.
'acific Coast Interests Are Involved
in Deal and Mexican Oil Prop
' erties Also Are Included.
About Oregon
Chicago Announcement of the
formation of two great corporations
one a steel merger, with $200,000,000
capital, and the other an oil combine,
capitalized at about $160,000,000 are
expected this week. Negotiations,
which have now reached the stsge ln
both projects where the transactions
are In definite shape.
In the steel deal the consolidation of
the Youngstown Sheet & Steel Tube
company and the Cambria and Lacka
wanna Steel companies, the Repogle
syndicate and tbe Drexel firm, of Phil
adelphia, are back of the new enter
prise, and National City Bank of New
York interests are associatedwith the
negotiations. .i
In the oil deal bankers are working
with Pacific Coast oil men inbringing
about the merger.
The best information obtainable so
far regarding the steel merger is that
the capital will consist of only one
class of stock.
The capital stock of the Youngstown
Sheet & Tube company is $20,000,000
common and $10,000,000 7 per cent
cumulative preferred, of which ' $34,-,
760,000 common and a Bmall lot of the
preferred are in the hands of the pub
lie. ' The company also has about $41,
000,000 bonds outstanding.' including
those of certain of its subsidiaries.
Cambria Steel has outstanding cap
ital stock of $46,000,000, and has no
bonded debt.
The total of the outstanding stock
and bonds of the three companies men
tioned as being parties to the merger
is approximately $160,000,000. Be
sides this, several other companies,
among them the Inland Steel company,
have been mentioned as possible par
ties to the consolidation.
In the proposed combination of Mex
ican and California oil properties by
banking interests, the names of the
Associated Oil company and Union
Oil company have figured conspicu
ously. The Associated Oil company
is controlled by the Southern Pacific
railroad, through ownership of $20,-
069,000 of its $40,000,000 capital
stock. The Associated company has a
stock interest In 13 companies, 11 of
which it controls by a 60 per cent hold
ing or more of stock. It owns 12
steamers and operates two pipe lines,
and also owns interests in two other
pipe lines. It also owns Its own roll
ing stock.
Peace Pilgrims Appeal to Berlin
for Permission to Cross Germany
The Hague, via London Dr. Charles
F. Aked, Mme. Rosika Schwimmer
and other members of the Ford peace
board, after having vainly appealed to
the German minister at The Hague for
permission for tbe Scandinavian peace
delegates to return home through tier-
many, telegraphed Monday to Berlin
for the desired permits. Recent efforts
of members of the Ford party to cross
Germany have been blocked by tbe
German military authorities, with the
explanation that the delegates are undesirables.
Twenty-five subjects of Denmark,
Sweden and Norway, who came here
with the peace expedition, are desirous
of returning to their homes, which
they are unable to do unless by way of
the North sea. This route is regarded
unsafe. Included in those marooned
here is Paul Lyndhagen, mayor of
Stockholm, who says he may lose his
office unless be returns soon.
Mme. Schwimmer, who is a Hun
garian, telegraphed authorities at
Berlin that the blockade against the
returning delegates is proving a great
inconvenience to the expedition and
urged the lifting of the embargo.
Blackmail Profit Big.
New York Blackmailing operations
carried on at the summer resorts,
which are said to have netted more
than $260,000, were revealed by two
arrests here. Men who posed as gov
ernment agents, aided by women con
federates, are declared to lave extort
ed money from many persons, by
threatening them with exposure under
the Mann act. On complaint of the
Philadelphia office of the department
of Justice, Robert A. Tourbillion wss
held in $60,000 bail on a charge of
conspiracy to extort money.
Big Naval Corps Asked.
Washington, D. C Immediate ac
tion by congress to authorize an In
crease in the corps of midshpmen at
Annapolis is urged by Secretary Dan
iels in a letter to Chairman Padgett,
of the bouse naval committee.
The letter says that if a full number
of vacancies be made available for ap
pointments by members of congress
before March, the academy will be
able to handle a much larger class
next year.
Road Bonds Urged to
Build Permanent Highways
Salem A state bond issue for mak
ing permanent road improvements and
an Increased tax levy to provide for
maintaining state highways and for
redemption of the bond issue, are rec
ommended by E. I. Cantine, chief dep
uty engineer, in his annual report sub
mitted to the State Highway commis-
l. Construction of a coastal beach
highway from Astoria to Crescent City
is also urged.
When the locating parties have com
pleted their work in Douglas, Wasco
and Sherman counties, Engineer Can-
tine announces that the Columbia
Highway will be located from Seaside,
in Clatsop county, as far as Wasco, in
Sherman county, and the Pacific High
way will have been surveyed from
Portland to the California line, with
the exception of a section in Josephine
county.
"It is believed that the date is rap
idly approaching when the state will
have to undertake the maintenance of
the main trunk highway, such as the
Columbia and Pacific highways,"
writes Mr. Cantine. At the present
time the State Highway commission
does not hold itself responsible for the
upkeep of roads constructed from state
funds, leaving this duty to county
officials.
The report urges upon the commis
sion the advisabitliy of working for
enactment of legislation authorizing it
to lay out highways and procure rights
of way for them, and empowering tbe
commission to arrange with the coun
ties for the maintenance of such state
laid-out roads until a state main
tenance program is adopted. ....
Expenditure of the highway depart
ment from January 1 to December 1,
1916, totaled $223,128.81, according to
the report. Of this amount $68,443.48
was expended on the Columbia High
way in Columbia county, and $16,
702.97 on the Rainier Hill section of
the highway. The sum of $34,106.70
was expended on the Columbia High
way in Clatsop county. The Mitchell's
Point construction of the Columbia
Highway coBt $41,896.86.
Railroad Work Moves For
ward in Harney County
Ontario In spite of the severe
weather, work continues on the O.-W.
R. & N. extension west from River
side, Or., to pointB in Harney county.
Nearly all the grading has been com'
pleted as far as Oakley and the rock
cuts and bridges are now progressing
rapidly. Mail service to Riverside has
been begun, the mail run on the
thrice-a-week train being from On
tario to Riverside.
Between Bend and Burns the Stra-
horn surveying party ia in the field,
running the newly-projected line be
tween those Interior points. H. N.
Bogue,' chief engineer for the Stra-
horn party, was in Burns last week
and hired a saddle horse for the pur
pose of a closer investigation of the
Sage Hen pass. Leaving the horse,
he proceeded by auto to Bend, so it is
not known whether this pass will be
used by the new line, but probabilities
are that it will.
Everything indicates that within a
few months work will actually be un
der way to connect Burns finally with
the outer world, and to do away with
Interior" Oregon forever.
Klamath Ships Livestock.
Klamath Falls One of the largest
shipments of livestock from Klamath
county this year left on the Livestock
Special this week. . This comprised 26
carloads for California and Portland
markets. The biggest shipment was
of lambs sent to San Francisco by O.
T. McKendree, of this city. There
were over 2000 head, filling 20 cars.
Two cars of cattle and one car of hogs
were shipped by Fred Stukel to Sacra
mento. Charles Horton consigned two
cars of cattle to the Union Stockyards
at Portland.
ZERO COLD WAVE
Sudden Drop of Temperature
Felt Over Wide Area.
SEVERE BLIZZARD SWEEPS OVER KANSAS
Extreme Range in Cold Belt Is 128
Degrees Montana Has 28 Be
lowSuffering Is Great.
Kansas City The Middle West and
Southwest got is first real blast of
winter weather Thursday and nature's
offerings lived up to in advance notices
of the weather bureau. The mercury
dropped from 66 to 60 degrees in 24
hours in the affected district and tem
peratures ranging from zero downward
prevail throughout Kansas, Iowa, Ne
braska and this Bection of Missouri,
Oklahoma and Texas, too, felt the
drop. Snow is falling in much of the
territory.
"We look for temperatures ranging
from 10 to 20 degrees below zero in
KanBas and this section of Missouri,"
said an announcement of the local
weather bureau.
Train service into Kansas City is
delayed, streetcar service in all of tbe
cities affected has been seriously inter
fered with, telegraph and telephone
companies are fighting vainly to main
tain communication on sleet-covered
wires and farmers and producers have
been warned that it is too cold to ship
perishable products.
In KanBas City the death list from
accidents as a result of the storm re
mained at two, while more than a
score of persons are in hospitals recov
ering from injuries.
North Platte, Neb., reported the
lowest temperature in the new storm
area 18 degrees below zero.
A bizzard prevailed all over Kansas.
Snow measuring from two to four
inches fell in that state.
The weather man issued bv the local
bureau shows a range of 128 degrees
in the United States and Canada, dur
ing this storm. Little Rock had the
highest reading 70 above while
Prince Albert, Canada, had the loweBt
68 below. The map shows the
Northwest still is firmly held by an un
precedented cold wave that has pre
vailed in that section for a week.
Temperatures of 48 degrees below zero
in Montana, 40 below in North Dakota
and 82 below at Rapid City, S. D
prevailed.
. On the 28th anniversary of the moBt
terrible blizzard of which there is any
record in this section, during which
many persons and thousands of head of
stock perished from cold, the mercury
registered 9 degrees below zero in
Omaha. This temperature was accom
panied by a heavy fall of snow and a
strong north wind.
Sioux Falls reported temperatures
ranging from 16 to 24 degrees below
zero, with a snow and wind storm rag
ing. Norfolk, Neb., reported 20 be
low and Winner, S. D., 40 below.
At Sioux City 28 degrees below was
recorded.
Warmest Spot 26 Below,
Great Falls, Mont. Northern Mon
tana experienced the coldest weather
in years Thursday night. The weather
bureau thermometer in Great Falls
showed 36 degrees below zero, this be
ing the warmest spot in this region.
Malta was the lowest, with the ther
mometer at 68 below and Glasgow was
a close second with 66 below.
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Klamath Indians Logging.
Klamath Falls Logging operations
on the Klamath Indian reservation for
the winter are well under way, accord
ing to Supervisor of Reservation For
ests J. M. Bedford, under whose direc
tion the work is being done. The gov
ernment camp is on Wood river, north
of Klsmatb agency. About 1,000,000
feet of timber already has been decked
ready for hauling to Wood river. It
will be driven down Wood river and
towed across Upper Klamath lake for
use by the Klamath Manufacturing
company, large box factory.
. Heavy Timber Felled by Storm.
Molalla One of the severest storms
known in this section for years has
done heavy damage to standing timber.
A tract known as the Schusted claim,
which cruised 12,000,000 feet, Is re
ported by Fred Schafer, a sawmill man
who was hunting eougara in that vicin
ity, to have lost at least 6,000,000 feet
of timber, which was blown down. In
many places the trees are piled 20 feet
high.
. Power Plant Destroyed.
La Grande When fire Wednesday
burned tbe Mill Creek power plant.
which assists in generating electricity
for the Eastern Oregon Light 4 Pow
er - company, the city became hard
pressed for power juice. All big con
sumers were promptly shut off until
temporary repairs can be made.
Cyclone Wrecks Town.
Nashville, Tenn. Four persons were
injured by a cyclone which swept Mad
ison Station, nine miles from Nash
ville, late Thursday. Several houses
were destroyed.
Buchanan's Chargs Fails.
Washington, D. C Representative
Buchanan's impeachment charges
against U. S. Attorney Marshall, of
New York, again were referred to the
house judiciary committee over the op
position of Chairman Webb, who said
the committee had made two futile at
tempts to find evidence upon which the
charges are based. Mr. Buchanan
brought his charges just before Mr.
Marshall secured bis indictment, with
some others connected with the Labor
National peace council, on charges of
conspiracy to interfere with munitions.
Lynching Intent Hinted.
El Paso, Tex. General Jose Ynez
Salazar, ex-Mexican army officer, fled
El Paso Thursday night, fearing re
prisal by enraged American mining
men. It was reported that a party of
20 Americans called at Salazars hotel
early in the evening. The object of
their visit waa not explained. Shortly
after the arrival of the Americans the
chief of police and the county sheriff
appeared at the hotel with a posse of
policemen.
Denver Arrests Fewer.
Denver A tabulation of police ar
rests in Denver for the first ten days
of 1916, when state-wide prohibition
became effective, ahows a total of. 149
for various offenses as compared with
a total of 401 for the same period of
last year. Twenty-three arrested for
drunkenness as compared with 76 for
the first ten days of 1916.
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