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VOLUME XXVIII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OKEQON, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1916.
NUMBER 29.
WORLD'S
OF
CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of Genera! News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHQJ
I've News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
inree aeatns irom neat were report
ed to the police in St. Louis Tuesday.
The victims were elderly men. The
highest temperature was 94 degrees.
Herbert Munter, a Seattle aviator,
flying at South Bend, Wash., while
3000 feet in the air had to descend
when the crank shaft of his engine
. broke. He landed safely on the tide
flats.
The London war office announced
that the necessary passenger traffic be
tween Great Britain and the Continent
would be regulated closely and reduced
as far as possible. Only those having
good reason will be permitted to
travel.
While Rev. C. E. Helman was in the
midst of a sermon on "Our Country, "
in the Baker, Ore., Methodist church,
u i i u knnnAHn 1- i ....
- and his congregation was startled by a
flash of lightning that passed just over
their heads. .
A bill to establish a National park
service, with a compensation system
of supervision, and a bill to accept
from the state of Oregon exclusive
jurisdiction over the Crater Lake Na
tional park, were among measures
passed by the house of representatives.
Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the
. United States Steel corporation, in a
statement just issued, asserts that the
steel business of the United States for
domestic use and for export is better
than ever in its history. Production
is larger, profits, greater and workmen
are receiving higher wages. -
No soldier along the border is to be
without a Bible, if efforts now being
made to provide each fighting man
with a pocket-size khaki-bound volume
at a cost of 5 cents are successful.
The army chaplains who have been in
terested in the movement are lending
their assistance to it. The Bibles are
provided at cost.
General Trevino reported Wednesday
night to the Mexican war department
that several wounded American sol-
uiern, who ueiungeu ui uuutciiiuenus en
gaged in the fight at Carrizal, have
been found in different parts of the
state of Chihuahua. He said they
were being returned to the American
side as soon as encountered. ;.
The customs bureau of the Treasury
department begins an examination to
learn the total amount of arms and am
munition that has been exported to
Mexico within .the last year. The
work was undertaken at the request of
the War department. Orders were
sent to all customs inspectors to tabu
late the information and send it to
Washington as soon as possible.
The epidemic of infantile paralysis,
which has claimed 82 lives in and near
New York City within the last eight
days, continues to gain. From Satur
day noon until noon Wednesday, 87
cases developed and 23 persons died of
the disease. A total of 456 cases and
94 deaths have been reported since
January 1. It was announced that the
Rockefeller Institute is planning to in
augurate a Sold campaign against the
disease. ,
As a result of a family quarrel near
Pearl, Wash., 14 miles southeast of
Bridgeport, Claude Tinker killed his
mother and his brother, Frank. He
also attempted to kill his father, who
is a well-known rancher in that vicin-
ifv hut AiA nstt aiiAMiWl
It was announced at army headquar
ters in San Francisco that orders had
been received from Washington for
bidding the giving out of any informa
tion regarding troop movements, Fed
eral or National Guard, in the Western
department.
' The name of the Pacific Reserve
Fleet, with headquarters at the Puget
Sound navy yard, has been changed to
"Reserve Force, U. S. Pacific Fleet."
Six vessels of the reserve force are in
Mexican and California waters under
command of Rear Admiral Fullam,
U. atii'Ajl tti Attn ttwn tVia Miiu,
Pittsburg to the cruiser Colorado. His
title henceforth will be commander of
the Reserve Force, Pacific Fleet, in
stead of commander-in-chief of the Pa
cific Reserve Fleet
Thomas Eelley, millionaire con
tractor, accused of defrauding the pro
vince of Manitoba in the erection of
Parliament buildings at Winnipeg,
was found guilty by a jury in Assise
court.
Bandits attacked the bridge over the
Medina river at MacDona, Tex., about
20 miles southwest of San Antonio,
Friday night, according to a report
The bridge guard of United States
soldiers routed their assailants, who
fled in the darkness. Two Americans
were wounded. One of the bandits
was taken prisoner.
CARRANZA'S NOTE OFFERS PROMISE
Of PEACE WITH UNITED STATES
, Washnigton, D. C. Here are the
salient features of the note from Gen
eral Carranza to be handed to Secre
tary of State Lansing, which' promises
to lead to an eventual diplomatic ad
justment of the Mexican situation: '
1 Assurances that Mexican troops
will establish peace and order in
Northern Mexico.
2 Assurances that adequate meas
ures will be taken to prevent a repeti
tion of raids into American territory.
3 Charge that the presence of
American troops is responsible for un
settled conditions, with a statement of
events to date.
4 Reiteration of the view that the
troops should be withdrawn.
5 Announcement that the de. facto
government has accepted in principle
the suggestion of pan-American medi
ation, and request that the United
States declare its attitude thereon.
6 Preference for a settlement of
the questions at issue by direct negoti
ation rather than by mediation.
The note is couched in vigorous lan
guage, but in spite of some of the
sharp comments made, it is said by the
Mexican embassy to be conciliatory in
tone. It is said that it cannot possibly
be interpreted as insulting or as iusti
fying hostile action by the American
forces assembling on the frontier.
The President will not seek to read
into the note what it does not contain.
He proposes to take it at its face
value.
The recent retirement of American
troops toward the Rio Grande was di
rected by the President in spite of the
irritation caused by the Carrizal inci
dent, for the purpose of proving to the
Carranza government that the Wash
ington administration had no intention
of permanently occupying Mexican
territory.
The same motive was behind the an
nouncement that General Pershing
would be assigned to command the de
partment of New Mexico and is re
sponsible for the talk now emanating
from official circles that this officer is
to proceed shortly to El Paso, leaving
a colonel in command of the troops re
maining in Mexico.
What the President desires to do is
to convince General Carranza and his
chiefs that this government has no
lust for Mexican territory and that he
will gladly order all soldiers to with
draw once he is satisfied the Carranza
forces are able to maintain peace . and
order.
Independence Day Accidents
Decrease in Past Eight Years
Chicago Reports received by the
Tribune from all over the entire coun
try up to a late hour Tuesday night
show eight deaths and 191 persons in
jured as the toll of the Fourth of July
celebration, as compared with 19 killed
and 903 injured in 1915.
For 17 years the Tribune has col
lected reports of the casualties
throughout the country on Independ
ence day for the purpose of directing
public attention to what was in the be
ginning of this period no less than a
National shame.
In the last half dozen years reports
have shown these casualties on the de
cline, and this year has seen them re
duce to a minimum. The year 1916
showed a setback in the steady decline
in CBsulaties, due probably to the fact
that there was practically a two-day
celebration, the Fourth falling on Sun
day and the legal holiday on Monday.
Deaths for the last eight years have
been: 1916, 8 deaths; 1915, 19;
1914, 9; 1913, 32; 1912, 41; 1911, 57;
1910, 141; 1909, 215.
Portland Man Killed.
Portland V. D. Bumell, coxswain
in the regular navy and one of the
crew of the training ship Boston, was
fatally injured Tuesday morning at 6
o'clock by the premature explosion of
a six-pound charge during the firing of
the Independence day salute aboard the
Boston. He died three hours later at
a local hospital. .
Eight shots has been discharged
from the six-pound gun in firing the
salute when the accident occurred.
The ninth charge had been thrust into
the chamber and C. F. Trullinger,
member of the crew, was standing be
side the gun closing the breech when
the powder exploded. The brass shell
was thrown back against the deflector
of the gun and, tearing through that a
portion of it struck Burnell, who was
standing directly in its path pointing
the gun.
Prince of 10 In Army.
Berlin According to a traditional
custom of the Hohenzollern house,
Prince William, eldest son of Crown
Prince Frederick William and heir pre
sumptive, was enrolled in the army
Tuesday, his 10th birthday. He was
appointed a lieutenant of the First
Guard Infantry. The prince, like his
great-great-grandfather, Emperor Wil
liam I, who became a lieutenant in
1807, begins his military career in the
midst of a great war. Prince William
also has an honorary command with
the Second Guard Landwehr regiment
Twenty-five Infants Die.
New York Twenty-five children
died from the epidemic of infantile
paralysis here during the 24 hours end
ed at 6 o'clock Tuesday night accord
ing to an announcement by the health
department Twenty-four deaths oc
curred in Brooklyn and one in Manhat
tan. Fifty-nine new cases and 81 sus
pected eases of the disease were re
ported from four boroughs. Of these,
48 eases and 15 suspected cases are
in Brooklyn.
CARRANZA'S REPLY
WILL BE DEFIANT
Washington Grows Impatient at Delay
of Mexico Gty.
BREAK APPEARS UNAVOIDABLE
No Change in Policy Toward Mexico
Contemplated by Wilson-Offer
to Protect Border Likely. c
Washington, D. C. While adminis
tration officials manifested Impatience
Saturday over the delay of the Car
ranza government in replying to the
American demand for an explanation
of its purposes, private advices from
Mexico City indicated that a defiant
answer was being prepared there.
The State department has had no di
rect information as to when the Mexi
can response would be sent or how it
would be transmitted. Secretary Lan
sing called this fact to the attention
of Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambas
sador designate, during the day and in
dicated that he did not understand the
delay, in view of the statement in the
American note of last Saturday that
an early answer was expected.
Mr. Arredondo, who had called to
announce formally the release of the
Carrizal prisoners, said he had not
heard from hiB government on the subject.
The private messages, sent by per
sons in a position to speak with some
authority as to General Carranza's at
titude, expressed the conviction that a
break between the two governments
was unavoidable. There appeared to
be complete agreement among mem
bers of the Mexican cabinet it was in
dicated, that orders to General Trevino
to attack American troops moving in
any direction except toward the bor
der be reaffirmed. Some de facto offi
cials wished to go further and couple
with this statement in the Mexican
reply a defiant demand that - American
troops be withdrawn immediately from
Mexican soil.
Intimation have reached officials
here that the de facto govenment may
give strong assurances in its note that
border raids will be prevented by a
strong patrol of Mexican troops, if the
United States will withdraw its forces.
It was said at the ' Mexican embassy
that 50,000 Carranza troops are now
available for border patrol duty.
The cabinet had no official advices
in any way changing the situation
when it assembled at a regular meet
ing. The crisis was discussed and
later it was stated that no change in
policy was contemplated.
Fire Destroys U. S. Munitions,
Dock and Warehouse at Seattle
Seattle, Wash. Fire that was dis
covered at 11 o'clock Friday night on
Pier 11, known generally as the Orien
tal dock, at the foot of Virginia street,
destroyed the pier and its warehouse,
which was occupied by the United
States army quartermaster's depart
ment and W. F. Jahn & Co., .dealers in
building material, hay and grain.
Large quantities of army supplies in
the warehouse were destroyed. The
burning of cartridges and shells caused
a succession of rattling explosions.
An unidentified boy about 11 years
old, standing in front of the state arm
ory on top of a bluff a block distant
watching the fire, was struck by a
fragment of a bursting shell and in
stantly killed.
The financial loss of the fire is esti
mated at $500,000.
The United States cable repair
steamer Burnside was at the pier when
the fire broke out but was taken out
into the stream by her crew before
much damage was done. Her upper
works were slightly scorched.
The fire burned with extraordinary
fury and the firemen were able only to
save the adjoining piers and the ware
houses to the rear of the burning
structure.
Sir Roger Casement Sentenced to Die.
London Sir Roger Casement was
convicted of treason for leading the re
cent Irish revolt and sentence of death
was at once imposed. After Sir Roger
had been sentenced, Daniel J. Bailey,
the private soldier, who had been held
as his accomplice, was placed in the
dock. The chief justice directed the
jury to return a verdict of not gulity
and Bailey was discharged. Sir Roger
received his sentence with the utmost
composure, smiling at friends in the
court room. His statement was a plea
for the right to be tried by Irishmen.
Battle In Baltic Sea.
Berlin An official statement issued
by the German admiralty says;
".Thursday night German torpedo
boats attacked Russian forces consist
ing of an armored cruiser, a protected
cruiser and five destroyers, between
Havringe and Landsort (islands in the
Baltic Sea off Soderman Land, Swe
den). After a short engagement the
Russians witdrew. , Despite a heavy
bombardment we sustained no casual
ties nor damage."
NEWS ITEMS
Of General Interest
About Oregon
Crop Shortage Will Be Offset
by Higher Prices This Year
Washington, D. C. The monthly
bulletin of the Federal Reserve board,
issued thiB week, disscussing business
conditions of the Pacific Coast says:
"While the crops of this section will
be less than the average, due to dam
age by late frostB and drouth; the
farmera and fruit growers will be pro
tected from loss through the greater
pric.es which they will receive for their
products. Peach growers who last
year permitted their crops to rot on
the trees because of the unprofitable
prices prevailing are this year con
tracting to sell their product which
will be 40 to 60 per cent of the aver
age, at more than double the prices
prevailing at the same time last year.
The damage from the frost to ap
ples and pears in the Northwest has
been quite serious and general but the
prediction is made that notwithstand
ing this the year's crop will exceed
that of 1915.
This year's grain crop of the twelfth
district will be from 20 to 30 per cent
less than that of last year. This short
age is due to the unusual drouth which
has prevailed during the spring in cer
tain parts of California. A material
decrease in acreage is reported from
the Northwest. It is asserted that the
carry over from last year's wheat crop
in Oregon and Washington equals 20
to 40 per cent of last year'B crop.
"Mining during the past year has
been the most profitable industry
within this district. The next most
profitable one has been livestock.
"Recent rains in Idaho have greatly
benefitted the grazing lands. Sheep,
wool and cattle are all bringing high
prices in all of the states of this dis
trict. Dairying is also prosperous."
Representative Sinnott Now
Wears Oregon Jackrabbit Fedora
Washington, D. C High-grade felt
hats can be manufactured from the fur
of Oregon jackrabbits. This is no
longer a theory,- but a demonstrated
fact, and Representative N. J. Sinnott
of Oregon, is today proudly wearing
the first and only felt fedora ever man
ufactured in the country from jackrab
bit fur.
Last winter Mr. Sinnot discovered
that felt hat manufacturers were em
barrassed because their supply of Ger
man rabbit fur was cut off with the
war. It occurred to him that jackrab
bit fur might be substituted and he
sent to Oregon for a consignment of
jackrabbit skins. . These he turned
over to the largest and best-known hat
manufacturers in the East, with the
request that they experiment with the
rabbit fur and determine its suitabili
ties for hat manufacture.
The jackrabbit hat seems to be the
equal of any $5 felt hat on the market.
It IB of fine, soft texture, smooth to
the touch and clear in color and grain.
Members who examined it pronounced
it a first-claBS headpiece and one that
ought to command a good price in the
market.
Mr. Sinnott was told by manufactur
ers, who entered upon the experiment
with some doubts, that the Oregon
jackrabbit fur made a much better hat
than they had anticipated. He also
learned from them that jackrabbits to
be valuable for hat manufacture must
be killed in the winter months, when
the fur is heaviest, and must come
from the colder portions of the West.
New Route Proposed.
Klamath Falls A new road' to
shorten the distance from Eugene to
Klamath county points and to make a
new route for tourists from that sec
tion bound for California, is being con
sidered in this city. Arrangements
have been completed for taking the
question up with the County court next
week at its regular July term. The
present route from Eugene to Crescent
is via McKenzie Pass and Bend, a dis
tance of 170 miles. The proposed
route, in connection with the old mili
tary road, would make the distance
from Eugene to Crescent 109 miles and
would have the effect of routing the
southern-bound tourist through Cres
cent via Crater Lake and Klamath
Falls and on into California via Tule
Lake road, through the Modoc lava
beds.
CRISIS IS STAYED BY
TROOPERS' RELEASE
Immediate Break With Mexico Averted
by Action of Carranza.
ANSWER TO NOTE IS AWAITED
Preparations at Border to Go Stead
ily Forward Diplomatic Nego
tiations Thought Possible.
New Coast Line Hinted.
Cottage Grove The fact that sever
al routes from here towards the coast
have been tentatively surveyed and
that it is known that owners of large
bodies of timber in the vicinity of Lo
rane wiBh to find a cheap way of get
ting it to market leads to the belief
that a railroad from here in a westerly
direction is a possibility of the next
few years. The extension of the Ore
gon Pacific & Eastern in this direction
was announced about three years ago,
but was abandoned on account of the
stringency of the money market
Record Mortgage Filed.
Astoria One of the largest mort
gages filed in Clatsop county for many
years was recorded thia week. It was
given by the Crown Willamette Paper
company to the Continental & Com
mercial Trust & Savings bank and
Frank H. Jones, of Chicago. It covers
all the paper company's extensive tim-
berland holdings in Oregon and Cali
fornia and was given as security for
$6,000,000 in 6 per cent bonds, issued
by the company.
Washington, D. C. An immediate
break between the United States and
the de facto government has been
averted by compliance with the Amer
ican demand for release of the
troopers captured at Carrizal.
Whether a state of war has been
prevented or merely postponed no one
here would attempt to say. Official
information as to the attitude of Gen
eral Carranza was lacking. Until his
response to Secretary Lansing's note,
dispatched Sunday, making two per
emptory and distinct demands, is re
ceived, there will be no decision on
whether President Wilson shall lay the
crisis before congress.
The news of the release of the pris
oners, received late Wednesday in
press dispatches, brought undisguised
relief to high officials. It was ac
cepted as correct although no an
nouncement has come through official
sources. Moreover, it was assumed
that Carranza, impressed with the
urgency of the situation, had ordered
the captured cavalrymen started for
the border without waiting for his an
nouncement of the action to reach
Washington.
While it is generally conceded that
this move lessens tension and makes
the crisis less imminent, no one con
versant with the grave problem is los
ing sight of the fact that the all-important
question of Carranza's attitude
toward the American expedition across
the border to protect theJerritory and
citziens of the United States from
bandit outrages remains unsettled. If
the de facto government stands upon
the orders of General Trevino to at
tack Pershing's men when they move
otherwise than toward the border, the
situation actually is just what is was
before, except that there now is a pos
sibility of diplomatic negotiations that
did not exist while the Americans
were held prisoner in Chihuahua.
The preparations of the United
States War department will go stead
ily forward. There will be no inter
ruption of the rush of National guards
men to the border, and General Fun
ston will continue disposition of the
forces under his command as though
he expects an immediate attack from
the Mexicans.
Congress Drops Provision to Aid
Dependent families of Guardsmen
Washington, D. C. An agreement
under which the army draft resoultion
will be put through, without any pro
vision for relief of dependent families
of National guardsmen drafted into
the Federal service, was reached late
Wednesday by the house and senate
leaders. A conference report elimi
nating entirely the relief proposal on
which the conferees had split was ap
proved by the house without opposition
just before adjournment and is expect
ed to be accepted by the senate.
In submitting the conference report
to the house, Chairman Hay, of the
military committee said the house con
ferees had consented to sacrifice their
$1,000,000 relief proposal only after
Secretary Barker had telephoned to the
capitol that immediate passage of the
resolution in some form was impera
tive. Mr. Hay announced he would intro
duce the appropriation section as a
separate bill and Speaker Clarke said
he would entertain a motion Monday
for passage of the measure under a
suspension of rules.
As finally agreed to, the resolution
authorizes the President to use as Fed
eral soldiers all members of the Na
tional guard willing to take the re
quired oath for Fedreal service and
permits consolidation of scattered and
incomplete guard units.
Marines Battle Dominicans.
Washington, D. C. One American
soldier was killed and another wounded
in an engagement reported Thursday
by Rear Admiral Caperton between
the United States marines and Santo
Domingo rebels, in which the latter
were routed. The rebel losses were
not given. The name of the marine
killed was given as Private John Acri
ment of the 27th company. His name
does not appear in Navy department
records. Albert Vieldaum, of Aber
deen, Wash., a private of the 27th,
was wounded.
Uncle Joe Would Invade.
Washington, D. C. Republican
criticism of President Wilson's Mexi
can policy marked debate in the house
Wednesday on an urgent deficiency ap
propriation bill, carrying approximate
ly $28,000,000 asked for by the War
department to cover pay, equipment
and transportation of National Guards.
Ex-Speaker Cannon attacked what he
called a "wishy-washy" course and ad'
vocated going into Mexico with large
forces to set up a military government.
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The Fishing Season is here and we are pre
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makes of Rods, Creels, Flies, Lines, Etc. .
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