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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. The
men executed a lieutenant colonel,
two majors, several minor officers and
24 privates were taken from a train
en route from Torreon to Monterey, it
was said, and were shot by the side of
the ears. - i
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