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KdRiugel July'!.1 ftiTPl WHAT YOU NEED . The other fellow nay have; what you have the other fellow may want. Coma together by advertising in the Presa. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer BARGAIN DAY Ib every day with the Merchant who advertises in the Press-he has some thing to sell and says so. VOLUME XXVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OBEGON, FRIDAY, APKIL 14, 1916. NUMBER 17. WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NU1SHQ1 NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. ' All Florida cold-weather records for this late in April are broken by low temperatures over the state. The , minimum was 42, with light frost in the country districts. , . The house of representatives agreed to all Oregon and Washington appro priations in the river and harbor bill, in the amounts reported by the river and harbor committee. ' "The senate ' rejected, 41 to 26, an amendment by Senator Lodge to in clude a tariff on coal tar dyes in the bill providing for retention of the present tariff of a cent a pound on sugar until 1920. A civilian military encampment on lines similar to the Plattsburg camp will be held in Fort Terry, N. Y., dur ing July. It is expected that between 600 and 1600 men will be in quarters ' during that period. The result either of a murder and suicide or a double suicide, the bodies of Mary Hawn, 18, and C. M. Frazier, 60, were found on a bed in a room in the Grand Hotel at Walla Walla. Both were fully dresaed. Contracts for two steamships, under construction in American yards, were sold in New York at public auction on the floor of the Maritime Exchange, instituting the first ship auction held In the United States. . An attempt was made to assassinate the chief of the military police at Amoy, China. A bomb thrown through ' a window of his residence damaged the building badly, but no one wag injured. The assassins escaped. ' Three men were fatally shot and an other dangerously wounded in a riot which started at a dance conducted by a carnival company at Buffalo, Okla., one of the latest oil towns to spring up in the Stone Bluff field. Nine more steamers have been de stroyed by German submarines, ac cording to announcements from various British sources. Seven of the vessels were under the British flag, one was Norwegian and the other Spanish. Official denial Is made by J. W. White, inspector of immigration agen cies of the Canadian government, that William and Louis Schroeder, of Iowa, had been executed or condemned as spies at Clavet, Saskatchewan, on March 24. - , . Professor Charles A. Davis, accred ited one of the foremost authorities on peat, dies in Washington at the age of ' 66 years. He had been connected with the United States Bureau of Mines for some years and had written numerous scientific articles. , The monthly statement of unfilled orders of the United States Steel cor poration breaks all records. The or ders stood on March 31 at 9,331,001 tons, an increase of 762,036 tons over February 29, when they were 8,668, 966 tons, the previous high record. At a meeting of the relief commit tee for indigent Jews held in Berlin the president said that 700,000 Jews in the occupied districts of Poland re quired assistance. Thus far nearly $2,000,000 has been spent in relief work, which has been made possible largely by help of Jews in America. Governor Spry, of Utah, . issued a call for a conference on control and eradication of the alfalfa weevil, to be held in Salt Lake April 20 and 21. The states of California, Washington, Ore gon, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Col orado, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona and Utah are expected to participate inthe meeting. Mrs. Joseph E. Howard, daughter of Michael Kilgallon, - millionaire steel magnate of Chicago, and wife of Jos eph E. Howard, actor and writer of popular songs, committed suicide by shooting at a hotel in Omaha. An actress acquaintance, who was with her at the time, said Mrs. Howard was temporarily demented. . Washington denies any intention of abandoning the pursuit of Villa. Many families have been driven from their homes by floods in the Mis sissippi in Wisconsin. ' A Spanish cabinet council has been called to consider the question of the torpedoing of Spanish vessels. Five cattlegrowers who said they were prosperous and contented protest ed to the house judiciary sub-committee against the Borland resolution for investigation of the packing industry. Grant county, Oregon, is preparing to fight spotted fever, one case having been reported in Prairie City. The pa tient is said to be critically ilL Be cause of the disease appearing so early it is feared there will be many eases this season. Gain Shown in Office of Commissioner of Corporations Salem With a decrease in expenses of the department amounting to $3737.39, and an increase in receipts totaling $7364.38 for the nine months of the current fiscal year ending March 31, as compared with the correspond ing period of the preceding year, an" exceptional showing from the stand point of economy is made by Corpora tion Commissioner Schulderman. Mr. Schulderman filed a comparative report of the work of his office with Governor Withycombe. The report shows that the gross re ceipts of the corporation department for July, 1915, to March, 1916, inclu sive, were $116,302.20, while for the corresponding period of the year be fore the receipts totaled $108,938.82. "This increase," Commissioner Schulderman advises the governor, "is in spite of the fact that the collection of annual fees from banks was trans ferred in the interim from the corpora tion department to the banking de partment. These bank fees amounted to nearly $6000 a year." The department's disbursements for expenses for the July, 1916, to March, 1916, period were $12,287.44, as com pared with $16,024.83 for the corre sponding period of the year before. : Josephine County Gold Mine V ; Property. Sold for $175,000 : Grants Pass The announcement has just been made public that the Black Eagle group of mining claims on Fid dlers creek, tn the Kerby district in Josephine county, has been sold to a group of mining men from the state of Washington who will immediately de velop and operate the property on an extensive scale. ; -The purchase price of $176,000, upon which an initial cash payment of $30,000 has been made, easily ranks the sale of the Black Eagle as one of the largest mining deals made in this county. . ' A concentrator of 60 tons capacity will be erected at once, an electric plant for supplying light and power will also be installed, water power being used to generate the current. The new owners are confident the property will become one of the great est producers in the Pacific Northwest. The mine iB to be known "as the Neil ' State Ships Flax Seed. Salem In response to a request from the Eugene Chamber of Com merce, 368 bushels, or 20,000 pounds, of flaxseed owned by the state was shipped to Eugene. Under the arrangement made by the Eugene Chamber of Commerce and ac cepted by the State board of control, the chamber has agreed to pay the state for this seed October 1, 1916. The price is $720. r Checking over the flaxseed on band at the penitentiary, it is found that the total amount in the bins is 2235 bushels, or 126,160 pounds. This now has a market value of not less than $2.50 a bushel, although it is being sold to Oregon farmers for $2 a bushel. On the basis of $2 a bushel, the seed owned by the state represents an asset of about $4500. Water Scale Announced. Klamath Falls Notice has been is sued by the reclamation service con cerning the due dates, etc., of opera tion and maintenance charges on the Klamath project covering lands in Oregon and California. It provides that until further notice all lands on the project will, be subject to the operation and maintenance charge as becoming due March 1 of the following calendar year, and that each acre of irrigable land, whether irrigated or not, shall be charged with a minimum operation and maintenance charge of $1, which will entitle the owner to not more than two acre feet of water for each acre. For the first acre foot additional, 20 cents will be charged, and additional acre feet will be furnished at 40 cents each. Old Guard Officers to Head Republican Convention UARD1NGJ - ft f i . K S - . v. ! x """" ) J - v SHf ... J - BANDITS ON WAY TO JOIN PANCliO VILLA General Salazar, fluerta Leader, Plans Campaign on U. S. PERSHING'S TROOPS EQUIPPED ANEW LAFAYETTlt GCGASOA WILLIAM E STONEl Tillamook Has Boom. . Tillamook Tillamook is undergoing a commercial boom. - No less than 20 changes have been made for the bet ter, including new enterprises locating, remodeling store rooms and changes of location. The First National bank is erecting a two-story concrete building at the corner of Second avenue and Second street. . C. I. Clough is making plans for a concrete business building on his property, now occupied by the Sanitary Market. Rumor has it that a four-story fireproof building will be erected on Second avenue, also. ' State Save 61576 on Paper. Salem By contracting last Decem ber for a carload of paper upon which to print election supplies, the state of Oregon has saved $1675 over what it would have paid had the purchase been made at present, according to State Printer Lawrence. The carload of pa per cost the state $2350, but, had the purchase been delayed until now the nriee would have been $3926, owing to the rapid rise in paper price since the first of the year. Old guard Republicans who were in command in the last Republican Na tional convention have been chosen temporary officers of the coming convention.- The sub-committee, on ar rangements of the National Commit- Sugar on free List May 1, Unless Houses Reach Agreement Washintgon, D. C The senate late Wednesday adopted its substitute for the house free sugar repeal resolution, extending the present duty of 1 cent a pound on sugar until May 1, 1920. The vote was 40 to 32. Four. Democrats joined the Republi cans in voting against the substitute. They favor the flat repeal adopted by the house. -A sharp controversy in conference between the two houses is predicted. Anticipating that the house would insist upon its resolution, Sen ators Lodge", Simmons and Stone were named as the senate conferees. Unless a conference agreement is reached and approved before May 1 sugar will go on the free list until such time as the repeal or extension of the duty can be made effective. Most of the tariff discussion did not touch on the sugar issue, which had been discussed previously, but was de voted to an amendment by Senator Works of California, to increase the tariff on lemons and other citrus fruits to 1 cent a pound. This was defeated by a vote of 44 to 29, Senator Phelan, of California, being the only Demo crat to support it. . Senator Phelan declared seven coun ties in California comprised the whole lemon producing region in the United States and that the reduction of the duty on lemons had caused a loss of $800,000 in revenue. Senator Vardeman opposed the Works amendment and said, while he would vote for the senate substitute sugar resolution, he would not give his assent to the house measure. "I would not. vote to tax any of the necessities of life for battleships that Textile Mills Raise Pay. Boston Wage advances, which will put the pay of textile operatives in many of the mills in New England and New York state on the highest basis in the history of the industry, were announced Wednesday. The American Woolen company, employing 25,000 operatives, issued notice of an advance of 10 per cent The Arlington mills, of Lawrence, - and the affiliated Merrimac mills, announced an advance to approximately 6500 operatives. Similar action will be taken this week by other manufacturing interests. Canada Opens U. S. Mail. Washington, D. C Several protests have been made to the PostofTice de partment recently by postal authorities at offices along the Canadian border, that American letters have been open ed in the Dominion and passed on by a censor. No action has been taken, and it was understood Wednesday to be the feeling of authorities here that mail in Canada is subject to such regula tion as the Canadian officials desire. tee, has selected Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, as temporary chair man, Lafayette B. , Gleason, of the old guard in New York, as temporary sec retary, and William F. Stone, of Bal timore, as sergeant at arms. are not needed," he said. "I have very little sympathy for the prepared ness program that seems to be agreed upon, but if I had, I would not. not be willing to pay for it with a tax on sugar, but would raise the money with a greater income tax, an inheritance tax and a much greater tax on the lux uries of life. " Senator Underwood defined the com petitive tariff as a tax allowing rea sonable competition and raising a rea sonable amount of revenue. "I be lieve it is wrong to tax a dollar out of the pockets of one citizens into the pockets of another." he said. "Our tariff has succeeded in producing rev enue and in reducing the tariff wall. If there have been mistakes made on some points, they have been mistakes of the head, and not of the heart." Senator Weeks attacked the Demo cratic tariff, declaring it was not a good revenue producer. He argued at length against the contention that the European war was responsible for the great falling off in customs receipts. Villa Leaves His Command; . Death Report Believed Ruse Mexico City Francisco Villa has left the main body of his command and is hiding, almost unattended, in the Sierra mountains of Chihuahua, ac cording to information given 'out by the War dpeartment Wednesday. The latest of his retreating forces passed through the town of Cusihuiria chic. Chihuahua, in their flight toward the mountains. They were closely pursued by forces of the de facto gov ernment, who hope to capture the bands and locate their leader. Rumors from several sources that Villa had died of blood poisoning and press dispatches from Queretaro tell ing of an announcement by the ' de facto government's war department that it had reason to believe the bandit chief had been killed in action were the occasion of much discussion here. In some quarters there was a disposi tion to credit the reports, but they were without official confirmation and both army officials and State depart ment officials suggested that they had probably been put out by Villa's friends as a ruse. Clothing Worth $100,000 Now On Way to Front, Also Mexican I Gold to Pay Off Soldiers. El Paso General Ynez Salazar, one of the best known of the former K'.i etra generals, who has been living here, was reported Sunday night to have crossed the border with the an nounced intention of taking up arms against the United States. The information was given to the police by a man who was colsely . as sociated with Salazar and was ac cepted by them as true, after investi gation. Torreon, Mex. Canuto Reyes, at the head of a considerable number of bandits, passed the Durango railroad Sunday near Pedricena, going north. It is supposed that his object is to join Villa, who, according to latest reports, is somewhere midway between Tor reon and Parral. : A large number of bandits are re ported by arrivals from ' the north to be operating in the Sierra Mojada. The Sierra Mojada is 120 miles north of Torreon and an equal distance west of Parral. It is one of the wildest and most desolate spots in Mexico. There is a good deal of speculation here as to the possibility that Villa and Canuto Reyes are planning to concentrate their forces in this' sierra. ' If they do, any troops coming from the direction of Parral would have to cross the terrible Mapini desert, a burning waste stretching 100 miles north and south and from 50 to 60 miles broad. It iB a spot that is dread ed by Mexicans and shunned by fore igners. Columbus, N. M. American troops in the field will soon be equipped with new clothing to replace that torn into shreds in the strain of the campaign. A consignment of shoes, hats, uni forms, sweaters and other wearing ap parel, valued at $100,000, was for warded south along the American line of communication Sunday. With the clothing went a shipment of approxi mately a quarter of a million dollars in Mexican gold and silver coin to be used in paying the wages of the sol diers. Newly-Discovered Serum Is Used Successfully in Drowning Cases Baltimore, Md. Physicians at the Johns Hopkins hospital invented some time ago a device to restore to life those apparently dead from drowning. It proved successful on animals th.it could be put under treatment immedi ately after the accident. With the idea of restoring life some time after the accident, physi cians began to search for a desired serum. However, in most of the cases there have been after effects, such as high blood pressure or hardening of the arteries. According to the physicians, if the serum can be injected into the person even several hours after the accident, it will restore life. In one case on an animal the serum was injected four hours after "drowning," and the ant mal was brought back to life, although it died later from high blood pressure. Peace Advocate Mobbed. London An attempt to hold a non- conBcription and peace meeting in Tra falgar Square Sunday was broken up by thousands of persons, who charged the procession and tore up the banners and flags. Various peace societies had organized Jhe demonstration. Sylvia Pankhurst was prominent among them. After the procession had dispersed the leaders mounted the plinth of the Nel son column and endeavored to make speeches, but the crowd pelted them with flour. The speakers faced the ordeal for five minutes and retreated. Streetcar Knocked Off Trestle, Seattle, Wash. Twenty-five per sons on an outbound Alki Point street car were thrown headlong through windows or buried in mud and debris Wednesday night when the car was struck by an O.-W. R. & N. Co, freight train at Spokane and Whatcom avenues. One passenger was killed and all the others more or less injured. The ' mo- torman says that the freight train, backing up without a rear light, struck the car amidships. It rolled over'once and then slid off the edge of the -tres tle into the tideflats. Three Killed in Auto Race. Corona, Cal. Eddie O'Donell won the third Corona boulevard race Satur day in a "Roman holiday." Bob Burman, of Detroit, the race driver, his mechanician, Eric Schroed er, of Chicago, and a guard, W. H. Speer, of Corona, all were killed or died soon after the race and five others were injured when Burman's car lurched off the track. : The list of dead and injured was greater than the number of drivers who crossed the finish line. 92 Saved From Steamer. Malta, via London One engineer and eight Lascars of the crew of the steamer Chantala, were killed when the vessel was sunk by a submarine. Ninety-two survivors were rescued and landed here. They declare they bad no warning of the impending attack, London Lloyds Monday announced the sinking of the British steamers Ovona, 6507 tons, and Adamton, 2204 tons. 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. ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. 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