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VOLUME XXYIII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTYr fVPEGON, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1916.
NUMBER 22. ,
WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
v
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items of All -Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Gompers has endorsed the strike of
60,000 garment workers in New York.
More than half a million acres of
land have been opened to entry in Ari
zona. ,
A new paper mill under construction
at Oregon City may be doubled in ca
pacity over the original plans.
The governor of New York signed
bills providing for compulsory military
training in summer camps and compul
sory physical training in public and
private schools. . ,
President Wilson spoke intimately
for half an hour to the members of the
National Press club at Washington, D.
C. He took supper with the club after
his address. The speech was confiden
tial. ,
Three students of Willamette Uni
versity, Salem, Or., were ducked in a
nearby creek by fellow members of the
D. D. club, a university organization,
for using intoxicating liquor, and were
afterward dismissed from the school.
The Shanghai and Hankow branches
of the Bank of China and the Bank of
Communications have ignored the re
cent government mandate forbidding
the paying out of silver,, and stopped
- runB upon their institutions by redeem
ing bank notes.
Because H. R. Saunders, clerk of
Yolo county, Cal., failed to advertise
the notice of election the number of
times required by law the $200,000
courthouse bonds which were voted last
week cannot be sold, and another elec
tion must be held.
Two prisoners are dead and another
injured as a result of a one-man mu
tiny in the state prison at Nashville,
Tenn. Jady Harris, who - caused the
trouble, was shot and killed after he
had wounded two other prisoners, one
fatally, with a rifle snatched from a
guard.
According to the Dagens Nyheter, of
Stockholm, the International Red
Cross conference resulted in a com
plete rupture between the German and
Russian Red Cross, owing to the re
fusal of Germany to express regret for
the sinking of the Russian hospital
ship Portugal. '.j : l
The International Banking Corpora
tion has signed a contract with the
Chinese government for the improve
ment of the Grand Canal for a distance
of 200 miles between the Yang-tse-Kiang
and the northern boundary of
Kians-su province. The corporation
lends the government $3,000,000 for
the purpose, , to be secured by canal
tolls.
There will be but one graduate from
the Wheatland, Cal., high school Fri
day. The state commissioner of ele
mentary schools will make the com
emencement address to him. He will
be the guest of honor at the alumni
dinner and party, the hero in the an
nual class play, and the board of edu
cation will travel more than 75 miles
to present him with a dilpoma.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, presi
dential candidate, is touring the North-
. west. " ' - ,- .
A Minneapolis mother of si : com
mits suicide, that her life insurance of
$1000 may revert to the benefit of her
children.
Colonel Goethals has announced that
he would resign July 1. It is reported
that he will not resign if there is
trouble with Germany.
Colonel Roosevelt has formally en
tered the race for the presidential
nomination in the Chicago conventions.
He expresses desire to run on a "unit
ed ticket"
Seventy-five thousand dollars' worth
of liquor was seized by the Seattle po
lice Friday in the most sweeping raid
made since the state-wide prohibition
law went into effect January 1. Two
large warehouses and nine drugstores
were searched, but no arrests were
. made, and none of the liquor was de
stroyed. - The police obtained war
rants for the search of, 12 places of
business where liquor was suspected to
be stored, and in the first five places
searched seized $25,000 worth of
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A four-day dust storm, the worst
ever experienced in Northwestern Min
nesota, has abated with clear sky
and a chilly wave from toe Northwest
Survivors of the steamer Roanoke,
which sunk off the Southern California
coast declare the vessel waa over
loaded, which caused the disaster in
which some 30 persons were lost
- Announcement of a 10 per cent in
crease in wages for its factory em
ployea, effective May 8, was announced
by the Victor Talking Machine com
pany, of Philadelphia. Several thou
- aand workmen are affected.
Irish Countess Sentenced to Jail for Life.
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Saw Countess at-Head of Irish Rebels.
New York Dr. Cecil C. McAdam, of Melbourne, Australia, who was at
tached to the Royal medical corps of the British army during the Gallipoli
campaign and who was besieged in the Shelbounre hotel in Dublin, Ireland,
during the recent rebellion there, arrived here Monday on the steamship
Philadelphia from Liverpool. -
Dr. McAdam said he saw the Countess Markiewiez attired in men s cloth
ing and wearing a brace of revolvers, leading the Irish rebels. He was in
formed, he added, that she had shot six of her followers because they re
fused to obey her orders. -
Countess Markiewiez has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for
her part in the uprising in Dublin. r ; -
EOES OF ADEQUATE NATIONAL .
DEFENSE LOSE; CONFEREES AGREE
Washington, D. C. A standing
army of 206,000 men, capable of being
expanded in emergency to 254,000 and
backed up by a Federalized National
guard of 425,000 as a reserve, finally
was agreed on Monday by the house
and senate conferees on the army bill.
The agreement will be reported to
congress at once and the measure, the
first of the administration prepared
ness bills, is expected to be before
President Wilson for his signature
soon.
Advocates of adequate National de
fense regard this conference agree
ment as a triumph.
The minimum - enlisted strength
would be attained under the conference
agreement within the next five years
and it is stipulated that at no time
shall the total be less than 160,000.
The conference report also provides
for government nitrate manufacturing
plants to cost not to exceed $20,000,
000, for vocational education in the
regular army and for establishment of
military training camps for volunteer
citizens, whose transportation, cloth
ing and subsistence expenses while in
training would be paid by the Federal
government.
Other salient features of the meas
ure provide for a board to investigate
the advisability of establishing govern
ment munition plants and a board to
recommend mobilization of industries.
Authority is given to the government'
to seize and operate private munition
plants in time of war.
France Wants Central Powers to
Ask, Not to Offer, Peace
Nancy President Poincare, in an
address here Monday, responded to
Germany's suggestion regarding peace,
contained in the German reply to the
American note.
"France does not want Germany to
tender peace," said the president,
"but wants her adversary to ask for
peace." , -
"France," he continued, "will not
expose her sons to the dangers of new
aggressions. ' The central empires,
haunted by remorse for having brought
on the war and terrified by the indig
nities and hatred they have stirred up
in mankind, are trying today to make
the world believe that the entente al
lies alone are responsible for the pro
longation of hostilities a dull irony
which will deceive no one.
"Neither directly nor indirectly have
our enemies offered us peace. But we
do not want them to offer it to us; we
want them to ask it of us. We do not
want to submit to their conditions;
we want to impose ours on them. We
do not want a peace which would leave
imperial Germany with the power to
recommence the war and keep Europe
eternally menaced.
"So long as that peace is not assured
to us; so long as our enemies will not
recognize themselves as vanquished,
we will not cease to fight."
Income Tax to Remain.
Washington, D. C Taxes on in
comes, inheritances and war munitions
will be depended on to pay for the
preparedness program, Chairman
Kitchin, of the house ways and means
committee, said Monday after a con
ference with Secretary McAdoo. The
plan has the support, Mr. Kitchin said,
of President Wilson.
What amount will have to be raised
cannot be determined until the navy
and army bills are completed. Mem
bers of the ways and means committee
will begin work on this problem as
quickly as possible, however. Other
than a decision not to lower the pres
ent exemption limit for incomes, $3000
for unmarried and $4000 for married
men, none of the details of the tax
plan have been worked out.
Bandits Make Another Raid.
Marathon, Tex. Another raid into
American territory by Mexican bandits
was made Friday night at McKinney
Springs ranch, 67 miles south of Mara
thon and 23 miles north of Boquillas,
along the Marathon-Boquillas road, ac
cording to H. E. Stafford, an attorney
of El Paso. Mr. Stafford arrived here
Tuesday from Boquillas, to which
place be had accompanied Major Lang
home last Saturday as a guide.
He secured his information from
ranchmen in the McKinney Springs
district as he was passing through
there en route to Marathon. There was
no shooting, he said.
BIG PARADE VOICES
U.S. PREPAREDNESS
New York Demonstration Has
150,000 in Line of March.
ALL CLASSES IN PATRIOTIC PAGEANT
Twelve Hours of Mankind Pass Re
viewing Stand -Great Awaken
ing Is Shown by People.
... Rate Rise Is Suspended.
Washintgon, D. C. Tariffs propos
ing increases of from $5 to $20 a car
in refrigeration charges on fruits and
vegetables from points in Oregon and
Idaho to points in Colorado, Arizona,
Illinois and other states were suspend
ed by the Interstate Commerce com
mission until September 12, pending
investigation. The present refrigera
tion charge to points in Colorado is $40
a car and the proposed charges, $45.
To Arizona the charge is $50 and the
proposed charge $70. To Illinois the
rate is $50 and the proposed rate $60.
Girt Accepts 612,500.
Seattle Twelve thousand five hun
dred dollars in real money la better
than a gamble that might win $25,000
or nothing. Mrs. Carola B. Jones, the
19-year-old wife of Thomas C. Jones,
who obtained a verdict for $25,000
against her father-in-law, Thomas E.
Jones, for alienation of her husband's
afffectiona, so decided in the Superior
court here. Judge Prater offered to
give her a judgment for $12,600, or
grant a new trial.
170 Indians Are Citizens.
Greenwood Indian Agency, S. D.
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the In
terior, has granted full citizenship
rights to 170 residents of the Yankton
Sioux reservation. Mr. Lane made an
address in which he urged upon the
redmen the full measure of responsi
bility which has been impossed on
them. Title to 30,000 acres, of land,
which has been held in trust for In
dians, was transferred to them.
The ceremony was full of color,
many of the Indians appearing in the
traditional dress of the tribe.
NEWS ITEMS
Of General Interest
About Oregon
New York New York expressed its
attitude on the question of national
preparedness Saturday by holding the
greatest civil parade in the history of
the country. An almost countless host
of men and women, estimated at more
than 150,000, representing all walks
of life in the nation's metropolis,
marched for 12 hours, 20 abreast, be
hind bands playing patriotic airs,
through flag-bedecked streets lined
with hundreds of thousands of cheer
ing spectators.
All the professions and trades which
make up the complex life of the city
were represented. ..
In one division were ; the street
sweepers in their uniforms of white,
while in another were the dignified
justices of the Supreme court of New
York. : . . .
There also were the clergy nearly
200, representing every denomination
in the nation's greatest city. Law
yers, physicians, trained nurses, vet
erans of the Spanish-American war,
were in line. But the : most popular
division was made up of the city's 10,
000 National Guardsmen infantry,
cavalry and artillery who brought up
the rear. - "
"This," declared Major General
Leonard Wood, in command of the de
partment of the East, who reviewed
the parade, "is the greatest argument
America has ever known in favor of
preparedness against elements that are
at Dresent unknown. It shows an In
terest in preparedness that amounts to
a National awakening. This is what
we need. It shows that the time has
come to do something in the matter of
National preparation.
The mammoth pageant began au
spiciously. Just as Mayor Mitchell
and a party of municipal officers left
the city hall at the head of the first
division an aeroplane appeared above
lower Broadway and hovered around
the great skyscrapers.
The paraders marched rapidly, more
than 10,000 passing a given point
within an hour.
With few exceptions, the marchers
carried small American flags. Most of
them also wore buttonhole emblems.
At frequent intervals came one of the
200 bands and musicians were the only
persons in the civic divisions who wore
uniforms.
Plan to Form Woman's Party
Attacked by Illinois Suffrage Society
Chicago An attack on the plan to
form a woman's party was issued
Monday by the Illinois Equal Suffrage
association, while officials of the Con
gressional Union, promoters of the
idea, were opening registration head
quarters at 73 East Washintgon street.
At the same time a campaign was
launched by the Union with posters,
banners and various advertising de
vices to boom the woman's party con
vention, which will be held June 6, 6
and 7 at the Blackstone theater during
the time the Republican convention is
in progress at the Coliseum. Twevle
woman speakers will begin holding
brief meetings at once under the au
spices of the Congressional Union, on
street corners, in factories or shops,
offices, college dormitories and at la
bor union gatherings.
"Confusion and duplication of
work" will be the effect of the Con
gressional Union's activities in Chi
cago, it is declared in the statement
issued by the Illinois Equal Suffrage
association. The proposal to form a
party "on sex lines" is also assailed,
and the union is defined as "a detached
group of Eastern suffragists."
All Other Flags Taboo.
Tacoma, Wash. None but the Amer
ican flag will be allowed in the Me
morial Day parade in Tacoma. This
action was taken -Monday by joint
committees from patriotic bodies in
which they decided that at this time
individual banners of fraternal socie
ties and the like were not in keeping
with the spirit of the day.
The veterans believe that the whole
observance should be for the soldier
dead, and as a consequence only the
Stars and Stripes should be carried in
the lines of March.
Oregon and California Land
Grant Title Is Not Clear
Washintgon, D. C. As the Oregon
& California land grant bill stands on
the house calendar, it will not enable
the government of the United States
to pass a clear title to any settler or
purchaser, in the opinion of Repre
sentative Hawley, and he has the sup
porting opinion of several of the good
iawyers of the public lands committee
in this opinion.
"The bill," said Mr. Hawley,
"makes provision for the payment of
back taxes that is, for taxes that
have accrued for the past three years,
but I believe it does not provide for
the payment of taxes which are now
becoming collectable. Moreover, the
bill fails to make provision for the
payment of interest on back taxes and
fails also to provide for the payment
of penalties on those accrued taxes,
These omissions, in my opinion, render
it impossible for the United Stales to
give an absolutely clear title and I will
call attention to this shortcoming when
the bill is before the house.
"The prime reason for providing in
the bill for the payment of back taxes
was to enable the government to give
a clear title. Unless that section is
enlarged and made complete it will
fail of its purpose and those who ac
quire these lands from the government
will be liable for interest and for the
unpaid penalties and for the taxes that
are not paid by the government under
the Ferris bill."
Island to Sell Silver,
Manila Jeremiah L. Manning, in
sular treasurer, has gone to China to
investigate the silver market with a
view to selling a portion of the 20,
000,000 pesos silver which the govern
ment has at Corregidor. '
Owing to the demand for silver in
China, which has caused the Chinese
government to declare a partial mora
torium, the silver held by the govern
ment is salable at a profit of 36 per
cent
Panama Police to Disarm.
Panama William K. Price, the
American minister, , Monday delivered
to the Panama government the final de
mand for the surrender of 1200 rifles
used by the Panama National Police.
The disarmament of the police force
has been sought on account of riots
which resulted in the deaths of Amer
icans. : It is understood the adminis
tration is opposed to the surrender of
the rifles, but delivered up the arms
under protest.
Smudging Need Shown in
Southern Oregon Fruit District
Medford In the opinion of local
fruit men the year 1916 will mark the
final demonstration of the necessity of
crude oil smudging in the growing of
fine fruit and apples in Southern Ore
gon. ';":(.:
At the beginning of the season there
was a distinct movement against
smudging) chiefly because of the an
noyance involved and damage to trees
from overflowing pots. In fact an in
junction against smudging was ob
tained by one group of orchards shortly
before the May freeze.
All this anti-smudge agitation is
ended now in the opinion of local grow
ers, for from May 8 to May 14 smudg
ing in Rogue River valley orchards
was worth at least $500,000.
Those orchardists who smudged, and
fortunately a large proportion of them
did, lost practically nothing from the
low temperature, while except on the
high hillsides those who did not
smudge were wiped out. While the
loss has been serious, it is certain ac
cording to experts who examined the
orchards that the first reports were
greatly exaggerated.
100.000 Acres in Willamette
Valley Can Be Watered
Salem Approximately 100,000 acres
of land can be feasibly irriagted in the
Wilalmette vlaley at the present time,
results of an investigation just com
pleted by the United States Reclama
tion Service in co-operation with the
state engineer's office show. A joint
report of the .inquiry into irrigation
and power deveoplment possibilities of
the Willamette valley was issued this
week.
The survey extended from Canby at
the mouth of the Molalla river to the
head of the Willamette river above
Cottage Grove and included the area in
the immediate vicinity of Portland.
It is pointed out that the water sup
ply for the proposed irrigation of the
valley lands in many cases may be ob
tained from wells by pumping. The
report declares that the average econ
omic duty of water which seems to be
indicated for the valley as a whole is
eight inches delivered to the land,
varying with local conditions of sou
and crops.
Those employed in the survey inves
tigated the water power development
possibilities on the north fork of the
Santiam river with storage at Marion
lake; the upper reaches of the Mc-
Kinzie river and the middle fork of
the Willamette river.
'On the McKinzie river there are
two existing plants and at least two
new developments proposed, one at
Vida and the other between the outlet
of Clear lake and the mouth of Smith
river, involving the use of Clear lake
for regulation of flow.
Mill Will Reopen.
Hood River The Stanley-Smith
Lumber company, which has been de
layed in the commencement of opera
tions at its plant at Green Point In
the southwestern part of this county,
because of weather conditions, will
start work in its lumber camp and
open the mill next Monday. During
the past week, according to Manager
J. E. Robertson, who visited the plant,
a snow of eight inches prevailed in the
Green Point hills. : The Green Point
mill will employ about 175 men. It
cuts between 80,000 and 90,000 feet.
Oregon Orange Elects.
Grants Pass The Oregon State
Grange elected officers at its annual
convention in progress here, as fol
lows: Master, C. E. Spencer, Oregon
City; overBger, C. D. Huffman, La
Grande; lecturer, Mrs. H. E. Bond,
Eugene; treasurer, H. H. Hirshberg,
Independence; secretary, Mary S.
Howard; legislative committee, M. M.
Burtner, Dufur; James Stewart, Fos
sil; executive committeeman, B. G.
Leedy, Corvallis.
SPORTING GOODS
Our stock of Baseball Equipment is superior
to any we have carried heretofore. . . .
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makes of Rods, Creels, Flies, Lines, Etc. . .
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