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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. BAH Ib every day wi advertises in the thing to sell and Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXVIII. ATHENA, ; UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1916. -IS WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHQ1 Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. ' Secretary Daniels is opposed to lo cating a naval base at the mouth of the Columbia river. A German editor advocates sinking all ships of whatever nationality, bound for Great Britain. Great' Britain will permit shipment to the United States of a cargo of dye stuffs valued at $5,000,000. Only three co-eds out of 23 at the University of Oregon have good feet. None have a perfect toe-line. , The momentous battle between the French and Germans before Verdun continues with practically no gain for either side. - ' ' Mrs. Carrie Hall, 76 years old, a cousin of Abraham Lincoln, dies at the home of her sister. Hiss Isabel Hanks, near Louisiana, Mo. Germany delivers note to United States setting forth her submarine warfare on armed - merchantmen to which this government has objected. A negro enters the Mechanics' State Bank at St. Joseph, Mo., and after forcing the cashier and two clerks into the vault, obtainB $1600 and escapes. The Russian steamship Fetshenga has been sunk. Fifteen of those on board were saved. She was of 1647 gross tons. Seven of the Petehenga's crew were lost. ' Thieves in New York steal $200,000 from a U. S. mail truck while it was on a ferry bound from the Central New Jersey station. The auto truck contained $1,000,000 in all. According to Lloyd's, the British steamer Southford, formerly the Sind bad, has been sunk. Eleven of the vessel's crew were saved. Two were killed. The Southford was a vessel of 897 tons. Another shipment of gold to Holland from New York under an agreement with the British government against seizure will go forward on the Holland American liner Nieuw Amsterdam for Rotterdam. The shipment, amounts to $1,600,000. . - General Felix Diaz, who has been in the United States for several months, and under surveillance of the department of Justice, has succeeded in leaving for Cuba, where, it is re ported, he will form plans for another revolution in Mexico. . Bake ovens filled with the bodies of roasted babies was one of the verbal pictures of alleged Turkish atrocities drawn by Rev. E. A. Yarrow, an American missionary at Van, Turkey, in the course of an appeal for financial aid for Armenians and Syrians in Chi cago. More than 40 guests, all Methodist ministers and their wives, were ren dered seriously ill after they had par taken of food which is alleged to have been poisoned, served at a banquet given by Methodist ministers in the Howard-street Methodist church, San Franiaco, February 22. Ex-Senator Root, of New York, 1b expected to announce his support to Roosevelt for the presidency. .. During a friendly sparring bout be tween William Hildebrandt and Au gust Naisel, both 14 years of age, at the Thirteenth District school, Cin cinnati, Hildebrandt was struck on the jaw. He died a few minutes later. In response to agitation by the news papers urging England's ministers to set the country an example of - econ omy, preferably by accepting reduc tion in their salaries, it is announced the ministers have agreed for the fu ture to accept one-quarter of their sal aries in the form of five per cent ex chequer bonds. President" Wilson, at the end of two days of agitation in congress for action warning Americana off armed mer chantmen, wrote a letter to Senator Stone, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, saying that he could not consent to the abridgement of the rights of American citizens in any respect "The honor and self respect of the Nation are involved," he said. "We covet peace and shall preserve it at any cost but the loss of honor." - ., -- .. ,r--.:. ;.- A crazy Montenegrin runs amuck in Seattle and stabs six persons before he is overpowered. One of his victims is seriously wounded. A Portland school girl, aged 14, was knocked down and killed by large auto truck, as she was on her way to rehearsal of a school play. John F. Gillies, deposed claim agent of the Washington State Industrial In surance commission, was found guilty of grand larceny in connection with the looting of the industrial insurance fund of several thousand dollars by means of false accident claims. HOUSE TO REMAKE CREGON & CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT Bill Washington, D. C. The house pub lic lands committee has decided to frame its own bill for the disposal of the unsold portions of the Oregon & California land grant, and decided fur ther to use' the Chamberlain bill, with the attorney general's amendments, as the basiB on which to construct the committee substitute. In doing this the committee rejected the Hawley, Raker and Wilson bills. The committee also voted to accept the attorney general's construction of the Supreme court decision, and will proceed on the theory that congress can do as it pleases with the land grant so long as it guarantees to the railroad $2.60 an acre. There has been no agreement, how ever, on the details of the bill which the committee intends to report, and no agreement will be reached until af ter the committee has heard represent atives of the Forest service and Inter ior department, the land commissioner MISS OLWEN LLOYD-GEORGE Miss Olwen Lloyd-George, the daughter of the British minister o munitions, la her father's "right-hand man," assisting him In publlo dirtier nd ministering to his comfort an health at home. of the Southern Pacific and those mem bers of the Oregon delegation who dis cuss questions of policy and discuss also the recommendations of the sec retary of Agriculture and the secretary of the Interior. The report of Secre tary Lane has not yet been sent to congress. Amendments to Shields Water Power Bill Debated in Senate Washington, D. C. Senators inter ested in legislation for the . develop ment of waterpower plan to shorten debate on the subject of attaching as an amendment to the Shields dam bill, now up for passage, the Myers water power bill, which has been favorably reported by the public lands commit tee. The Shields bill, which would per mit construction of dams on navigable rivers for the development of hydro-electric power by private cap ital, has been before the senate more than two weeks. Provision is made in the Myers bill for leasing of public lands as water- power sites, regulation and control be ing left to the Interstate commerce commission when the power is devel oped in two or more states. Protectorate for Haiti Ratified - by Unanimous Vote of Senate Washington, D. C. The senate unanimously ratified the treaty with Haiti under which the United States assumes a protectorate over the turbu lent island republic, taking over con trol of its finances and police, guaran teeing its territorial integrity and un dertaking to develop its resources. Ihe treaty already has been approved by the Haitien congress and its terms virtually are in operation under the eye of a strong American marine ex pedition. This treaty was negotiated last year with the d'Artiguenave government, setup after marines and bluejackets under Rear Admiral Caperton had put down the revolution which overthrew President Vilbrun Guillaume. During the preceding few years Haiti had seen eight presidents deposed and most of them murdered or exiled. Monks Isolated by Snow, Geneva, Switzerland (Delayed) Monks and travelers are imprisoned on Mount Saint Bernard by 12 feet of snow, which is banked up to the lower windows of the monastery. The fam ous Saint Bernard dogs are not able to make their way through the snow. Huge avalanches have interrupted wire communication with the monastery. Snow has fallen steadily for eight days and nights and the monks will be isolated for a month. . They are plentifully supplied with food. . - Man Defrauds Hundred. Chicago Six hundred men have complained to the police that they had been defrauded by a man named W. W. Perry, who advertised for persons to bang posters, but who, after mak ing each of them deposit $1 for a tack hammer, failed to appear at appointed places to deliver the posters. A war rant was issued for Perry, and the po lice learned that recently 100 women were duped, each being required to de posit $3 for a uniform aa saleswoman. BERLIN GIVES ORDER TO DESTROY LINERS Armed Traders to Be Treated as Warships by Submarines. 0. S. TOLD: "TOO LATE TO POSTPONE" Washington Is Advised That Great Britain Is Not Trusted Many Broken Pledges Cited. Washington, D. C. Germany has intruded Count von Bernsstorff to in form the United States government that the assurances regarding the fu ture continuance of submarine war fare, given in the Lusitania and Ara bia cases, still are binding, but that they apply only to merchantmen of a peaceful character. The Government is understood to contend that armed merchantmen, without regard to the nature of their armament, have shown themselves not to be peaceful, and therefore subject to destruction without warning. The instructions direct the German ambassador particularly to tell Secre tary Lansing that British merchant men! armed ostensibly only for de fense, have not assumed the character of peaceful traders, but on the con trary, they carry guns for the especial purpose of attacking German subma rines. To support this contention, the Berlin foreign office has sent the am bassador, for presentation to the State department, a list of at least 20 inci dents where it is asserted British mer chant ships have attacked submarines. Confidential advices received from Berlin say that German and Austrian submarine commanders already have received their new order and that from midnight Tuesday they were author ized to sink without warning all armed merchant ships of the enemies of Germany. It was said also that many of the submarine commanders probably had left their bases on voyages and that even should the United States request the postponement of the opening of the campaign, it would; be impossible to get word to many of the subma rines. It was said, however, that so far neither the United States nor any other nation had asked for a postpone ment. Count von Bernstorff and other officials of the German embassy de clined to discuss the instructions from Berlin in any way Monday. Count von Bemstorff received his in structions in reply to a request from the United States for assurances re garding the conduct of submarine warfare in the future, occasioned by the memorandum announcing the in tention of Germany to sink armed ships without warning, which the administration-considered to be inconsist ent with the assurances previously given. Regardless of the form in which the matter is presented' to Secretary Lansing, the German ambassador will lay much stress on the assurances re garding the arming of merchant ships which were given to the United States by Great Britain in a memorandum signed by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, August 25, 1914. Southern Oregon Couple On Way To Sunday School Shot From Ambush Grants Pass, Ore. Luther B. Akers, and his wife, and their team of two horses were all killed near Wildersvil le, 12 mile from here Sunday morning about 10 o'clock by a neighbor farmer, Marshall D. Bousman, 63 years old. The slayer was lodged in jail here and confessed to the shooting. Bousman lay in ambush by the roadside as the Akers couple were driving to Sunday school. Without warning he fired 7 shots from a carbine. The shooting is the culmination of a neighbors' quarrel over boundary fences, hogs at large and similar mat ters, of several years' duration. Although the shooting took place in the morning, the bodies were not dis covered until evening, as the Akers, an elderly couple, lived on a road that is not much traveled. Packing Strike Still On. Sioux City, la. The breach in ne gotiations between officials of the Ar mour and Cudahy packing companies and the 2300 strikers at the Sioux City plants was widened Sunday when at a mass meeting of strikers it was decid ed to demand the original scale of 221 cents an hour for all common laborers, instead of accepting 21 cents an hour, which Saturday was practically decided on. Unless the packers grant a writ ten agreement setting forth that there shall be no deviation from wage scales for one year there will be no settlement. British Lines Extended. Ottawa, Ont British lines in Bel gium and France are being extended to replace French soldiers who are being rushed to the Verdun region to take part in the fighting, "which has settled down to a terrific slaughter," accord ing to advices received here from the battle front. Approximately 20 army divisions have been thrown into the battle by the Germans, while the trench troops number 16 divisions, cable messages said. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Manner of Protecting Oregon Timber Greatly Improved Salem Oregon's forest protection agencies since 1912 have waged a cam paign of "preparedness," according to data compiled by State Forester El liott During the period from 1912 to 1916 inclusive the State forester said that more than 3000 miles of aband oned and obstructed trails were made passable; 729 miles of strategic new trails built; 442 miles of telephone line were constructed and 25 cabins erected for the use of lookout men in the forest service. This work called for an expediture of $50,000, prac tically all of which was borne by the timber owners. "The importance of such work is unquestioned," said Mr. Elliott. "Lookout men are of little value un less they can immediately report the fires discovered to their county warden and to the patrolmen in whose district they occur. It is thus necessary that lookout stations be equipped with tele phones and the patrolmen must have access to them at several points along their 'beats.' 'Patrolmen finding a fire they can not handle must be able to telephone to their chief for a fire-fighting crew to be sent to the scene of the fire with out delay. To mobilize a crew, to gether with tools and rations on the fire line in any part of a district in time to control it before it reaches dangerous proportions necessitates a carefully planned system of passable roads and trails. " "Use Own Judgment" Advice to Woolmen Pendleton The National Woolgrow- ers' association refuses to advise Ore gon woolmen whether or not to sell their 1915 clip at the present time. In a letter received here by Senator J. N. Burgess, of Pilot Rock, who is the Oregon .member of the executive com mittee of the association, from Secre tary S. W. McClure, he says : "My advice is that around 6,000,000 pounds of inter-mountain wool has now been contracted. Fine wool is selling at from two to three cents above last year's, with cross breeds at from two to five cents above last year. "On Monday several crossbred clips sold at Dillon, Mont., at 31 cents, and it is reported that the Wood Livestock company's clip has sold at 80 cents, and also that 30 cents has been offered for some quater-blood clips in Western Wyoming. . I hope you will give this information to your sheepmen, but this association refuses to advise whether to sell or not to sell. He must use his own judgment entirely in this matter." Road Change Permissible. Salem "The plans of the State Highway commission are not like the laws of the Medes and Persians, not subject to change, " declared Attorney General Brown in advising the mem bers of the commission that they could change the state road map prepared by ex-State Highway Engineer Bowlby. The question was put to the attorney general by the commission, which de sires to change the route of a state road in Washington county, it being found that another route is more suitable. John H. Albert, of the ad visory board of the commission, con tended that the commission had no au thority to revise the general system of trunk roads to be improved by the state. Lumber Outlook Bright. Kalamath Falls Lumbermen have reason to expect the most prosperous season in years, according to Robert A. Johnson, bead of the Klamath Man ufacturing company, of this city, who has just returned from San Fancisco where he passed the winter. "There is a material increase in the demand for the upper grades of lum ber, and the prices offered are from $5 to $6 per 1000 feet better than they were in the fall," said Mr. Johnson. "In the past few days I have received telegraphic inquiries for five carloads of lumber at $5 to $6 more than was offered a few months ago." Hood River Men Pleased. Hood River News that the Rogue River Fruit & Produce association, which decided to withdraw from the Northwest Fruit exchange, probably would accept an otter of the Apple growers' association of this city to co operate, in the distribution of its ap ples ana pears was received with grat ification by local market men. Wilmer Sieg, sales manager of the Applegrowers' association, says: "During the past we have cut under each other on prices of our fruit, each trying to reach the buyer, and as a result the growers of both districts have suffered. Farm Bonds Proposed. Salem Issurance of 4 per cent state bonds, and the lending of the proceeds direct to the farmer at the same rate of interest and in the same manner as the irreducible school fund Is now lent. are advocated by Percy A. Cupper, as sistant state engineer. As a means of presenting his proposal for a system of rural credits lor consideration of the people before the irrigation, drainage and rural credits conference meets in Salem March 9, Mr. Cupper has pre pared a bill, which contains the essen tial requirement for rural credits. 7 GERMAN CORPS IN VERDUN DRIVE Army of 280,000 Engaged in Attack on 25-Mile Front FIRST LARGE BATTLE OF PRESENT YEAR May Be Forerunner of More Decisive Events Battle Only Begun Gain Small; Loss Heavy. Paris The battle of Verdun contin ues with growing intensity. It ex tends over a front of 400 kilometers (25 miles), and seven German army corps (280,000 men), are engaged. This announcement was made officially by the war office. The official statement issued earlier in the day made reference to the ener getic bombardment being conducted in that region, but referred to the in fantry activity as extending over a front of only 15 kilometers (10 miles). There was violent fighting at other points on the French front as well. "Ihe struggle," says the War office communication, "is continued with violence against the right bank of the Meuse toward the southeast. East of this point a counter attack enabled us to retake the greater part of the forest of Causes, situated in the salient oc cupied by the enemy north of .Beau mont. "A strong German attack on Herbe forest was stopped by our curtain fire. According to statements of prisoners, whole units were completely destroyed in the course of theBe actions. i "A desultory artillery duel contin ues in the region of Haute Charriere and of Fromerey in Torraine. In the region of Nomeny, our artillery has been active. An enemy reconnaissance north of Letricourt failed to reach our lines. "In the Herbe forest we have evac uated the village of Haumont We Btill hold the envirous after a bitter fight, in which our troops inflicted heavy losses on the enemy." The great battle raging along the 25-mile front from Etain to Malan court is being followed with intense interest by the public. It disposes effectively of the question whether the Germans would make an early, offen sive. The battle is the first on a large scale since the offensive in the Cham pagne in September and is believed to be the forerunner of stirring and pos sibly decisive events. The principal fighting centers in the rough and thickly wooded country be tween Etain and Damvillers. Here some 300,000 of the German Crown Prince s best infantry are engaged. The battle as yet is only beginning, but it is said already . to have cost the assailants of the French heavy casual ties and without any appreciable ad vantage. President and Congress at Outs Over Germany's Proposed Sea Rule Washington, D. C Agitation in congress for action warning Americans off armed ships of the European bel ligerents suddenly grew to such pro portions Thursday that Democrats of the foreign affairs committee voted to canvass the sentiment of the house on several pending resolutions of that na ture. Sentiment in the senate in favor of some such action also was expressed openly, but at the end of a day of sur prises, tension and agitation such as has not been seen in congress in some time, the word came that President Wilson still was unalterably opposed to any such action by congress, and that be would only be embarrassed thereby in the negotiations with Germany. Suggestions were widely circulated that the situation had reached a point where the President soon would lay it before congress, that Secretary Lans ing might in some way define the at titude of the government in a commu nication to Senator Stone, and that a time had been fixed within which the United States would expect Germany to signify her intention to abandon the announced intention to sink armed merchant ships without warning. Blackmailers' Head Arrested. Seattle JLouis P. Sichler, 47 years old and married, alleged ringleader of the blackmailing syndicate which preyed upon wealthy Seattle business men, was arrested on a charge of at tempting blackmail. He was released on $5,000 bond signed by his wife. The specific charge upon which Sichler was arreBted was that he attempted to ex tort $2,000 from a prominent mining promoter of Seattle. Photographs taken in the house used by the blackmailers as their headquarters are said to be in the hands of the prosecuting attorney. 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