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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. BARGAIN DAY Ib every, day with the Merchant who advertises in the Press-he has some thing to sell and says so. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OEEGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1916. NUMBER 18. WORLD'S DOINGS Of CURRENT WOK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NllMl Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. . Vice : President Marshall celebrated ms oznd birthday Tuesday, March 14. The Germans arain nttnolr tha fnrta near Verdun with the hope of gaining tne city. Michael Damnhoffer. nowl mi dies in the Home for the Aged at Van couver, wasn. The report that Germany has offered to brfy the Danish West Indies for 120,000,000, is denied. Villa and his followers have taken a sudden twist eastward and are declared to be seeking a new goal The " Aero Club of America has of fered services of men and machines to aid the U. S. capture Villa, General Carranza's army is gather ing in Northern Mexico to aid the united States in capturing Villa. Two Mexican editors at Los Angeles are neia to trial accused of using the u. a. mans to incite revolt and mur- Seven women prisoners in the jail at San Francisco make their escape through a vacant room and descend a ladder. ., . - , A New Jery grand jury refused to indict a woman who killed her husband because he was beating her with a razor strop. Germany has .requested Bulgaria to send two divisions to the French front. but owing to the attitude of Roumania it is refused. The government laboratory at Mad ison, Wis., finds grain alcohol cheaper than gasoline, and the director pre dicts its general use as a substitute. Manitoba, Canada, votes 2 to 1 for prohibition. When the law goes into ettect May 31. ZOO bars. 42 wholesale houses and seven licensed clubs will go out oi business. Senators Borah and Chamberlain national defense program, declaring same to De necessary, now that the punitive expedition in Mexico may de velop into seriouB proportions. Keith E. Dalrymple, missing for eignt years and heir to $400,000, was found ill in a Miflflnnri hnanitjil and taken to. his home in Pennsylvania to claim nis tortune. Proceedings to de clare him legally dead have been drop- pea. General Alvaro Obregon has been annotated miniator nf wit nt Uavinn and General Candido Aguilar minister oi loreign affairs. Many foreigners are leaving the city and there is an undercurrent of excitement among all classes. ., Chew Chong, a 25-year-old Oriental was shot and killed in a Chinese room ing house in Oakland, Cal. The po lice think the murder was another move in the tong war now being waged in racinc uoast cities. The names of all persons arrested for intoxication in Aberdeen, Wash., and the places where they obtained their liquor hereafter will be published by Chief of Police Schmidts, according to an announcement made by him. Dr. J. B. TJnvd. nf fliA nwDpnnwnt health service at Tacoma, Wash., who is supervising tne campaign of rat catching In that city on an extensive scale, sayB tests are now being made from rats caught during the past week as to evidence of bubonic plague. While crossing Birch lake, 18 miles east of Mesaba, Minn., William C. Taft was attacked by seven timber wolves. With a pocket knife aa his only weapon Mr. Taft killed two of the animals and was himself severely scratched before two companions with rifles came to his assistance and drove off the wolves. Failure of the machine guns to work at the crucial time when most needed at the beginning of the fighting be tween the Villa bandits and the Thir teenth Cavalry at Columbus, N. M., is the reason given for the escape of the Villa band and also for the relatively small loss among them, according to Private Thomas Barton, of the Hos pital corps. A 130,000 contribution to the na tional treasury's conscience fund, the largest ever received, came by mail in With the temperature 15 decree below zero and a heavy wind blowing, the Western Mesaba range in Minne sota is in the grip of the second severe blizzard within a week. The National Housewives' League has declared a "boycott" on sugar and sent out communications to all branch leagues, as well as to other women's societies, urging co-operation in the movement. CAM FORCES NOW MAKING SUPREME EEfORT TO CAPTURE VHIA .Washington, D. C. While there were indications in official dispatches from Mexico Wednesday that the de facto government was making a su preme effort to capture Villa and his bandits with its own forces, there was no sign that General Funston's orders to proceed on the same errand had been modified in any way. Word that American troops had crossed the border was still lacking, the War department itself not having been advised as to when the movement would begin. Congress took active notice of the border situation for the first time. The house adopted a resolution late in the day authorizing the recruiting of the mobile regular army to full strength. IMS means the addition of approxi mately 20,000 fighting men to the in- GEN. PABLO GONZALES General Gonzales is a Carranza lead' er who is active in capturing Villa. fantry, cavalry and field artillery. The senate is expected to concur, and the necessary orders will be issued imme. diately to fill up regiments on border duty. ' The step was suggested by the army general Btaff. It is urgently desired now, because of the weakening of the border force by the expedition after villa, but ever since the patrol of' the border began the army has been great ly handicapped by the skeleton organ ization of regiments, companies. troops and batteries. The force that occupied Vera Cruz had similar diffi culties, some of the companies there being less than 40 men strong. . II. S. Troops Will March Into Mexico in Light Order Columbus, N. M. The commanding omcers 01 tne expeditionary force gave orders Wednesday that the men should take with them only such equip ment as they could carry on their backs or saddles. Extra clothing and the equipment known in the army as the "surplUB kit" will be left behind. These orders were intended to limit carrying facilities to the essentials of the expedition food and drink for the men and horses and ammunition for the guns. Large quantities of ammunition for the mountain howitzers and field irons nas oeen distributed. Cabmat wa gons, which carry ammunition for the soldiers' rifles, were loaded and the en gineers, signal and hospital corps were supplied with the final details of their equipment, s Villa Suspect Arrested. -Columbus, N. M. Alfredo Aregon, who for several weeks has been a waiter in the Columbus Hotel, was ar rested charged with having in his pos session goods looted from stores during the Villa raid. He is suspected of be ing one of the men who guided the Mexican bandits into the town. Are gon was taken to Deming by Federal officers. Aregon had a United States army uniform. The suspicion that he was one of Villa's amides rented on the fact that he was not at the hotel for several hours before the raid. New Hands Like Claws. . Paris Two new types of artificial arms with hands are shown at the Academy of Sciences. One is for heavy work, with fingers like claws of lobster. The other has artificial fin gers, enabling the hand to reproduce closely the action of natural fingers. Successful experiments were made in the presence of members of the acad emy by two men, each of whom lost an arm. One sawed through a beam of wood and the other played a violin. Army of 120,000 Proposed. Washington. D. C Chairman R.v of the house military committee, Wed nesday prepared for immediate intro duction of the resolution tn nam.; President to raise - the nirhtina- strength of the standing army to 120, 000 men at once. " Republicans and Demnrnta m,nr,-A in perfect harmony for the adoption of the resolution, depsite that fact that their learders on the military commit tee disagreed as to the meaning of it ORDERS U. S. ARMY TO DISPATCH VILLA Washington Determined to En Border Raids at Any Cost WATCHFUL WAITING PROGRAM ENDS Whether General Occupation Follows Will Depend Upon Attitude of -Carranza's Government. Washintgon, D. C. American troops were ordered across the Mexi can border Friday by President Wil son to take Francisco Villa and his bandits dead or alive. Under the direction, if not the lead ership, of Major General Funstoa who ended the Philippine insurrection by taking Agutnaldo, American col umns are expected to move into Mex ico at once. They go to meet 8000 guerrilla troops in a mountainous region, from which Carranza troops have fled. Whether this long-deferred armed action, which begins purely as a Duni tive measure, to clear Northern Mex ico of menacing bandit bands over which General Carranza has no con trol, shall grow into a general armed intervention or occupation in Mexico depends, in a large measure, on Gen eral Uarranza and the Mexican people, An adequate force will be sent at once in pursuit of Villa with the single object of capturing him and putting a stop to his forays. "This can be done and will be done in entirely friendly aid of the consti' tuted authorities in Mexico and with scrupulous respect for the sovereimtv 01 mat republic. That statement was prenared bv the rresident himself. President Wilson's intention to de part from the policy of watchful wait ing, ended by the Columbus massacre of Friday, was announced after it had been unanimously approved by the cab inet and administration leaders in con gress. The president'! position was explained fully to the latter, who agreed that he should not be embar rassed at this time by discussion of a minority which might arouse trouble in Mexico. After a brief cabinet meeting, at which the President was described as being as determined to eliminate Villa as he was to eliminate Huerta, Secre tary Baker hurried to the War depart ment and sent orders to the border troops. Allies Refuse to Disarm Vessels; Notice Is Expected Soon Washington, D. C The entente al lies have agreed to inform the United States that they cannot accept the pro posal in Secretary Lansing's recent circular memorandum that a modus Vivendi be entered into for the disarm ament of belligerent-owned merchant ships. Conferences between the allies on this subject have ended and formal replies are expected in the near future. Advices to the State department from the embassies at London, Paris and Rome some time ago made it ap parent mat tne disarmament plan had met with no favor, and the department has been proceeding on the assumption that it would be rejected. Ihe United States does not Question the right and international law of mer chantmen to arm for defense. Dis armament by agreement was proposed purely as a humanitarian expedient on account of the development of subma rine warfare. Packing Cases Settled. Washington, D. C From unofficial but reliable sources it was learned here that the long-standing cases of the American packers have been set tled. The cases involved the detention by the British government of large quantitee of meat products shipped from the United States to the neutral countries of North Europe. While details of the settlement are lacking, it is known tbe British government has undertaken to secure the exporters against loss by a system of long-time contracts. Hair Curling Is Fatal. Seattle, Wash. Miss Stella Castiel, 20 years old, a domestic servant, was fatally burned at her apartments, 1101 Fifth avenue, about 4:30 Sunday after noon. An alcohol lamp which she was using to heat a curling iron, over turned and set her clothing on fire. The woman bad placed the burning lamp in her lap while she sat before the mirror and curled her hair. When the lamp upset the alcohol spread over her clothing. The burning wick ig nited her eothing and she was soon en veloped in flames. Gen, Carranza "Sorry." Douglas, Ariz. "I am sorry that conditions are such that the United States deems it necessary to take the action of which you have advised me." This answer was made by General Car ranza to a telegram sent to him by General P. Elias Callee, military gov renor of Sonora, asking the first chief of the de facto Mexican government for an expression of his opinion on the act of President Wilson in ordering a punitive expedition into Mexico. IRRIGATION AND CREDITS CONFERENCE ENDS AT SALEM State Capitol, Salem Another ses sion of the state credits conference doubtless will be called within the next few months to adopt the form in which the proposed constitutional amendments indorsed by the conven tion, which closed here Saturday, shall be submitted to the people. Meanwhile two committees will work in conjunction with the attorney general on the drafts of the proposed measures that are to place the pro posed amendments in operation. If a majority of the committeemen determines that their work should be reviewed by the whole conference be fore it goes before the people, the con ference will be called together again. When the meeting adjourned a ma jority of the delegates seemed to ex pect a future meeting. Since the convention now has deter mined that it wants two separate measures one providing a system of rural credits and the other providing state aid for irrigation and drainage the committees have their work defi nitely outlined for them, and the rest of the delegates are hopeful that har mony at a future meeting will replace the friction that was so apparent in the sessions of the last few days, car rying both issues to a successful con clusion at the polls. The convention, so far as carrying out the purposes for which it was called together, virtually concluded its work Friday night. By remaining in session until 1 o'clock in the morning tne resolutions expressing the nolicv 01 tne conference Anally were adorned. ihe session was devoted to the de tail of creating two committees that shall have charge of the preliminary legislative work. It also was intended as sort of a harmony meeting, but there was harmony only in the seem ing attempt of both factions to drift farther apart. So the belief is pretty general that after an interim of a few months, the delegates will have had time to forget their minor differences and that they will be ready to unite in their deter mination to conduct an aggressive and co-operative effort to enact the pro posed amendments into law. Summarized, the work of the con vention is about as follows : An amendment to the constitution enabing the state to lend its credit to a rural credits system was proposed. An amendment to the constitution enabling the state to use its credit for irrigation and drainage was nroDosed. Ihe bonds to be sold under either or both of these plans are not to exceed in the aggregate 2 per cent of the assessed valuation of the state. A committee consisting of J. D. Brown, president of the Farmers' Union; C. E. Spence, master of the State Grange, and T. H. Burchard, president of, the State Federation of Labor, was appointed to work with the attorney general in drafting the pro posed constitutional amendment for the rural credits plan. A. L. Mills, chairman of the conven tion, was authorized to appoint a com mittee of three members one drain age man and two irrigation men to work with the attorney general in drafting the proposed constitutional amendment for state aid to irrigation and drainage. The committees also will have pow er to draft the proposed initiative measures that will carry the proposed amendments into effect, and to call another convention if necessary. Bo far as possible" the committees are authorized to co-operate. Ihe convention closed as it had nro- ceeded from the start divided de cisively on one issue, that of linking rural credits with state aid. The delegates from the State Grange, the Farmers' Union, the Ag ricultural College, the State Univer sity and many from Western Oregon were firmly united in their determina tion not to permit the state aid dan to be linked with the rural credits plan. They were proponents of rural credits but did not want to "swallow" irrigation in order to get it. They were championed on the floor of the convention by Thomas B. Kay, state treasurer, and at some stages of the voting had the delegates from the State Federation of Labor with them. They had an abundance of oratorical talent besides the state treasurer, not ably Judge W. M. Colvig, preresent ingthe Southern Pacific; Senator S. Garland, of Lebanon: W. H. H. Dufur, of the Grange: A. R.Shumwav. of the Farmers' Union; E. J. Stack, of the Labor Federation, and others. Governor Wjthycombe voted with them when he was in the house. On the other hand, the irrieationists and most of the drainage people, to gether with a large proportion of the rortland delegation, stuck together in support of the plan to combine the three issues. This division was plain throughout the meetings. One break came when Mr. Stack, of the Labor Federation. joined with Asa B. Thomson, Oswald West and W. Lair Thompson in sign ing the original majority report of the resolutions committee providing for a combination of the three measures. Mr. Stack explained that he did this to permit this plan to come before the convention on its merits. On subse quent ballots he voted with the faction supporting the separation of issues. When the morning's meeting tried to organize a committee to draft the proposed legislation, Senator I. N. Day, C. C. Chapman and others of those who had supported the omnibus plan proposed a single committee "in tbe interests of harmony." Hut the other side objected even to this. They even went farther and in sisted on naming their own committee to draw the rural credits bill. VILLA IN U. S. Columbus, N. M., Attacked by 1500 Mexican Bandits. 16 PERSONS KILLED United. States Troopers Have Brisk Engagement Few Miles South of Border. Villa's Losses Big and Capture Imminent. Columbus, N. M. Francisco Villa, outlawed Mexican badnit, raided Unit ed States territory Thursday. With 1600 men he attacked Columbus, killed at least 16 Americans and fired many buildings before he was driven back across the international border. At least 250 troopers of the Thir teenth United States cavalry followed the Villa band into Mexico. Reports to Colonel H. J. Slocum late in the day said that Villa had made a stand five miles south of the border, where spir ited fighting ensued. In this engage ment an unnamed private was killed and Captain-Adjutant George Williams was wounded. . The small detachment of troopers under MajorB Tompkins and Lindsley, fighting dismounted, made a deter mined stand against the renewed Villa attack and at last reports were holding their ground. The raid to American territory proved costly to the bandit chieftain. The bodies of 18 Mexican bandits, in cluding Pablo Lopez, second in com mand, had been gathered and buried before noon and troopers reported an undetermined number of dead still ly ing in the brush. - It is estimated that Villa has lost 100 in killed and more than twice as many wounded, including his losses in the pursuit by the American troopers. Led to the attack under the Blogan, "Death to the Americans!" Villa's fol lowers fought with desperation. Just before dawn they crept along ditches skirting the United States cavalry camp and rushed the sleeping town. firing heavily. The first volley brought American troopers into almost instant action. While a portion of the raiders engaged the cavalrymen, others, detailed by the bandit chieftain, began applying the torch and shooting American civilians who ventured from the buildings. Lights in homes and public buildings immediately became targets for snip ers posted at Villa's direction. Other bandits, creeping close to American homes, enticed several civilians into the open with English-spoken invita tions. Several fatalities are attributed to this ruse. Washington, D. C. Washington stands squarely behind Colonel Slocum in sending his cavalrymen into Mexico in pursuit of Francisco Villa and his band of outlaws who raided Columbus, N. M., murdering American soldiers and citizens and firing the town. becretary Lansing informed the de facto government of Mexico through Eliseo Arredondo, its ambassador des ignate here, that he trusted no objec tion would be made to the action of the Amer.can troops, they having fol lowed what is known in military cir cles as a "hot trail." No orders have been issued for the return of the sold iers, and it is not probable any will be issued for the present. Reports that the American troopers were in action probably 15 miles south of the border against a much larger force of bandits were heard with anx ious interest in official circles. Five troops of cavalry crossed the boundary early in the day. At a late hour it was not known officially just where they were or just what account they had given of themselves. While no formal word of the policy of the administration was given out, it was reliably stated that free rein would be given the army to catch the bandits if possible. It was not consid ered in administration circles that Colonel Slocum's act in any sense con stituted an invasion of Mexico, a pol icy which the administration has op posed in the past and will continue to oppose. The State department at first had planned to ask permission of the Car ranza government to send troops across the border in pursuit of the outlaw bandit. Then came official word that the cavalry already had crossed. Later Mr. Arredondo called on Secretary Lansing, expressed regret for the Villa raid, and was informed of the attitude of the United States. SPORTING GOODS Our stock of Baseball Equipment is superior to any we have carried heretofore. . . FISHING TACKLE The Fishing Season is here and we are pre- . pared to please you in any of the best makes of Rods, Creels, Flies, Lines, Etc. . Foss-Winship Hardware Co. Barrett Building, Athena. Villa Men Execute Thirty. Laredo, Tex. Thirty or more Car ranza soldiers, Including several offi cers, were executed by bandits three days ago near Torreon, according to authentic information received here Friday. The bandits were reported to be adherents of General Villa and were commanded by Colonel Chacon. 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