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WHAT YOU NEED The other fellow may have; what yon have the other fellow may want. Come together by advertising in the Press. BARGAIN DAY Is 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, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1916. NUMBER 30. WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from Ail Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHOi I've News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. A cherry tree at White Salmon, Wash., yields 1071 pounds of fruit - The sudden onrush of Russians on the East front amazes the Germans. The French take Hill 97, which dom inates the Somme, a point of vantage. . The winter wheat crop of for the Northwest is estimated at 23,000,000 bushels less than in 1915.- The funeral of Lieutenant Adair, killed in the Carrizal battle in Mexico, was held in Portland Wednesday with military honors. . Maior U. G. McAlexander. of O. A. ' C; haB been promoted by President Wilson to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Oregon troops on the border. The Union Pacific decides to cut the lumber freight to Eastern points 5 cents, making the tariff 45 cents per hundred pounds, : instead of 60 cents. The change is due September 1. General Smuts, in command of the British forces in German East Africa, has occupied Tanga, according to a statement issued by the war office. The Germans offered only slight resistance. No trace of J. F. Gillies, the em bezzler of Washington state funds, who escaped from the Thurston county jail Sunday, has been found. He is thought to be eluding the law in femi nine apparels Captain Koenig, of the submarine which successfully ran the British blockade and landed in Baltimore Sun day, declares many more such craft are being built and will be put into the service of carrying commerce. 'An Amsterdam dispatch says that Dr. Frederick W. E. von Ilberg died in Berlin Sunday. Dr. von Ilberg had the special case of the throat affection from which the German emperor has suffered for many years and was one of the emperor's most intimate friends. The Dagens Nyheder, at Copenha gen, announces that a sea battle is believed to have occurred in the Baltic outside of Haefringe on Sunday night. Violent cannonading' was heard from several points on the coast and it is presumed that the German and Russian patrolling squadrons clashed. - r 7 According to the London morning papers it probably will be well into the year 1917 before the new Irish parlia ment is set up. Little can be done other than the introduction of the bill before Parliament rises early in Au gust for a recess of some six to eight weeks, so that the passage of the bill is not likely before late in October. German casualties from the begin ning of the war to the end of June, as computed from official German lists, are given as 3,012,637. These figures include all German nationalities. They ualties of colonial troops. They are not an estimate made by the British authorities, but merely casualties an nounced in German official lists. Russsian armv in Turkey retires 80 miles in Bagdad region to await cooler weather, The new Swiss war loan of 100,000, 000 francs at 4 per cent, issued at 97, has been oversubscribed by 61,000,000 francs. Admiral Jellicoe, of the British navy, reporting on the North Sea naval battle, estimates the Germans lost 21 ships. A new project for saving life at the time of naval engagements is reported from Copenhagen. It is said several prominent Danes intend to organize a fleet of several hundred motor boats along the west coast of Jutland. These boats, flying the Red Cross flag, will td Ant Ant fi niMr tin tha trnllnHltff after each sea battle. Petitions carrying 76,000 names in support of initiative No. 24, which au thorizes the operation of breweries and sale of beer direct to consumers, were filed with the secretary of state of Washington. It is estimated that 60, 000 of the petitioners will be found qualified to sign, while the law needs only 82,000 signatures to place on the ballot Vienna admits defeat of the Aus trians, when they were driven back nearly five milea from their positions. Theodore Tobiason, owner of a mil linery store in Spokane, was shot and eiera. Pansiera, according to the po lice, said Tobiason owed him $5000. ' It it understood that the report that Sir Edward Grey, the English foreign age, is correct, and that in fact he al ready haa accepted such an offer. A baronetcy of the United Kingdom probably will be conferred upon him. New Supreme Court Member and Wife. 3 V Sr V F 1 If & 1 4 , This photograph shows Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis for the first time in his robes of office. GERMAN SUBMARINE IS ENTERED ASJERCHANTMAN Batlimore The daring German sea men who brought the submarine mer chantman Deutschiand across the At lantic slept quietly aboard their vessel which lay moored to a carefully screen ed pier guarded by a strong squad of Baltimore police. Captain Paul Koe nig, the skipper, had delivered his pa pers to the North German Lloyd office, entered his vessel at the custom-house as a commerce carrier, and had pre sented to a German embassy official a packet of correspondence for von Bernstorff. Now the submarine is ready to dis charge her million-dollar cargo of dye stuffs and take on board for the return trip to Germany metal and rubber needed by the emperor s armies and navy. The return merchandise is waiting on the dock, and the time for leaving port will depend largely on plans for eluding vigilant enemy cruisers expect ed to be waiting outside the entrance of Chesapeake Bay for the reappear ance of the vessel. One of Captain Koenig's first acts after he moved his ship up the harbor from quarantine early Monday was to announce that the Deutschiand was only one of a fleet of mammoth Bub mersibles built or building for a regu lar trans-Atlantic freight and mail service. He said the next to come would be the Bremen, and that she might be looked for at some port along the coast within eight weeks. XThe German catpain submitted Mb craft to a thorough inspection by the surveyor of the port and an agent of the department of Justice. These officers agreed that there was on sign of armament of any description on board, and that there was no doubt in their minds about the boat's being en titled to the ststus of an ordinary mer chantman. The captain asserted that his voyage had established the fact that a subma rine of the type of the Deutschiand could travel anywhere that the ordi nary vessel could go, 13000 miles, if necessary. He had no fears, he said, of his ability to elude enemies that might be waiting for him off the Vir ginia Capes when he starts his return trip. "I will be able to submerge within the three-mile limit, and they cannot catch me after that, " he said. - OMNIBUS REVENUE BILL PASSES HOUSE, INCREASING INCOME TAX Washintgon, D. C. The administra tion omnibus revenue bill, creating a tariff commission, imposing a protec tive tariff on dyestuffs, repealing pres ent stamp taxes and providing for new taxes on incomes, inheritances and war munitions profits, passed the house late Monday by a vote of 240 to 140. During the closing hours of debate several amendments, providing for elimination of the bankers' tax and modifying the tariff commission sec tion, were adopted over the opposition of Democratic leaders. The amendments cut the salaries of members of the tariff commission from $10,000 to $7500 annually; struck out the provision under which no member or former member of congress could serve on the commission, and provided a single appropriation of $300,000 to pay expenses of the commission the first year, instead of the bill's stipula tion of a continuing annual appropria tion of that amount. The entire sec tion levying a tax of $1 for each $1000 of - capital, surplus and undivided profits held by bankers was stricken out. . , Many amendments proposed by the ways and means committee also were adopted, including one under which cigarette manufacturers must pay a special tax of 3 cents for every 10,000 cigarettes. Growers Steal Berry Pickers. Tacoma, Wash. Wholesale brigand age exists in the Puyallup valley. Berry pickers worth their weight in gold are the booty: respectable citi zens and fellow-members of co-operative associations are the brigands. The human spoil, with all its goods and chattels, children and dogs, sport shirts and scalloped skirts, is carried away in highpowered automobiles to berry patches, where the pickers are watched like prisoners of war. , H. Shepherd, of Alderton, was one of the heaviest sufferers Tuesday, for Newest Photo of Republican Chairman rasjaaaMSMsansavsaasa Banks' Opinions Differ. New York A wide divergence of opinion among the banks of the coun try as to whether the Federal reserve act haa been successful after a year's operation is shown in a report issued Tuesday by a New York trust com pany, which has completed a nation wide survey of the attitude of banks toward the act More than 6000 re plies were received to the queries sent out, 1760 of them being favorable, 1773 unfavorable, and 1811 noncommittal. WLU(3Kt & WLLCQA This is the latest photograph of Wil liam R. Wilcox, new chairman of the Republican National committee, who will manage . the campaign for the election of Charles E. Hughes. while he ate his dinner neighboring growers inveigled his employes away by offering the bait of higher pay. - The larger growers have suffered ir reparable loss, and their fruit is spoil ing on the plants because of the labor shortage. That is the reason they are resorting to outlawry to harvest their crops. Fishermen Lost in Gulf. ' Mobile, Ala. The wreck of the fish ing smack Philip Keyes probably has added eight to the death list of the Gulf hurricane. Two survivors of the crew were picked up at Dauphin Island. King of Annam Deposed. Paris Duy-Tan, the 16-year-old king of the French protectorate of An nam, on the China sea, has been de throned as a result of a revolt of An n smites at Quang-Ngai, which he has been accused of having fomented. The governor general of French Indo-China reports that the outbreak was sup pressed quickly and the king arrested near Hue. He is succeeded by Prince Bun-Dso, who has just been crowned king in his stead. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Buyers' Week Dates Are . k , August 7 to 12 Inclusive The fourth annual Buyers' Week to be held in Portland has been fixed for AugUBt 7 to 12, for the convenience of Northwest merchants. Invitations are ready to be Bent to all the merchandis ing trade territory, where Portland jobbers and manufacturers maintain affiliations. ( Plans for the event are being worked out by the arrangements committee of that city and it is intended to mix bus iness and pleasure in most alluring proportions. . Following the outline of the highly successful Buyers' Week of 1915, the work of preparing for the 1916 Buy ers' Week visitors will be in the hands of the trade and commerce bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, of which Nathan Strauss is chairman. It is believed that the forthcoming Buyers' Week will . attract a much larger attendance than any of its three predecessors. . The number of buyers has grown each year, and the territory they rep resente has spread, so that the annual Buyers' Week has become one of the fixed institutions of the city. Portland jobbers and manufacturers get to gether with their retail friends from upstate, downstate, across the river and east of the Cascades for a week of profitable conferences. Neither the out-of-town merchant or the representatives of the big mer chandising establishments of the city would permit Buyers' Week to be thrown overboard. County Courts Decide to Push Work on Dixie Mountain Road Baker Meeting at the dividing line of Grant and Baker counties at Austin, 67 miles west of here, Tuesday after noon, members of the County courts of the two counties decided to puBh the work on the Dixie Mountain that will give a thoroughfare connecting the counties. The road on the Grant county side was found in worse shape than that on this side of the line, but this the Grant County court consented to remedy at once, with the ultimate idea of building a road along the John Day river from SuBanville, touching at the Dixie Meadows mine, which will make a much safer grade than that on the road now in use. In regard to the state highway, fol lowing the John Day river and con necting Baker, Grant and Malheur counties, the Grant county commis sioners announced that they will push preliminary survey. It was ascer tained that the United States Forestry department would pay the greater part of the survey in Baker county.- No arrangements were made as to how the balance of the expense could be met. Mills To Pay Families. Oregon City Families of guards men who were employed in the local mills of the Crown-Willamette Paper company will be cared for by the mill as long as the Oregon Boldiers are away from home. Mill officials have found 11 families which were left by guardsmen employed in the local plant The money will be paid to the wives of the men, the mill giving 26 days' pay a month, less $15 paid by the govern ment to the soldiers. The Crown-Willamette mills and the Hawley Pulp & Paper company are holding jobs open for men now at the border. Bond Issue Carries. , Medford By a vote of nearly 8 tol 1009 for and 366 against the people of Medford Monday approved the con tract with Mr. Bums for the construc tion of a railroad to the Blue Ledge mine, just over the California line, about 36 miles from Medford. The Blue Ledge boosters celebrated their victory by a parade of automobiles with tooting horns through the streets, bright with red lights, led by the Med for band. Leaders of the movement were serenaded and speeches were made on the street by enthusiastic citizens. Forces To Be Combined. Bandon Roderick L. Macleay, man ager of the Wedderburn Trading com pany, which a few months ago pur chased the Fishermen's Co-operative Cannery, on the Lower Coquille river, announces that forces of the local plant at Wedderburn. on Rogue River are to be combined. This is made possible by the fact that the salmon do not commence to run here until after the season is over on the Rogue. Improvements and additions to the local plant are being made In prepara tion for the fall season. Corporations Are Formed. . Salem The Peninsula Lumber com pany, of Portland, which In the past has been operating in Oregon as a Wis consin corporation, organized as an Oregon corporation with capital of $1,000,000. The old corporation will withdraw from business in the state. Officers of the new company are: Charles A. Hart, G. C. Frisbie and F. C. Knapp, of Portland. The North Pacific Shipbuilding com pany, capitalized at $100,000, was in corporated here, with headquarters in Portland. RED CROSS TO AID IN N. Y. EPIDEMIC Health Authorities Send Out Appeal for More Trained Nurses. : CAUSE OE DISEASE MYSTERIOUS Frantic Mothers Interne Children in Tenement Homes 45 Cases Found Outside Gotham. New York An appeal to the Amer ican Red Cross for nurses to aid in stamping out the scourge of infantile paralysis here, which, since June 1, has caused the 196 deaths among children, was made Saturday by Health Commissioner Emerson. There are not enough trained nurses avail able in New York to handle the work, he said, and it had been found neces sary to ask aid of the chief of the Red CrosB bureau of nursing at Washing ton. It was intimated that several hundred workers were needed. The call for help was sent out after a day devoted by health authorities and the moBt prominent physicians of the Greater City to a discussion of means by which the spread of the dis ease can be checked. Some encourage ment was found in the fact that fewer new cases were reported Friday than on Thursday or Wednesday. All the medical men agreed, how ever, that only by unremitting vigil ance and the strict enforcement of ev ery known sanitary precaution could the epidemeic be kept within bounds. Another serious phase of the situa tion was reported by the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, which has found that in the con gested districts of the city frightened mothers have interned their children in their tenement homes, in many in stances with windows closed. Such action, it was pointed out, is likely to have serious effects, not only on the children, but on adults as well. . Children's reading rooms in the pub lic libraries have been ordered closed as a-precautionary measure, and the order barring children from moving picture theaters will not be modified until conditions improve. Playgrounds in various parts of the city were or dered closed earlier in the day. Japan and Russia Agree on China; Open Door Policy Not Endangered Tokio The Japanese foreign office Saturday announced as the substance of the Russo-Japanese convention signed at Petrograd on July 8, the fol lowing : . First Japan will take part in no ar rangement or political combination di rected against Russia. Russia will take part in no arrangement or politi cal combination directed against Japan. Second In case the territorial rights or special interests in the Far East of one of the contracting parties which are recognized by the other con tracting party are menaced, Japan and Russia will consult each other on meas ures to adopt with a view to support ing or extending assistance for the safeguarding and defense of these rights and interests. rrA - . i : t M u A :... 0 .u a ifuoBbimi Alum iiw noDutinuw Press representative as to what effect the alliance would have upon the open door and the integrity of China, the foreign office replied: The convention is effectually an emphasis upon and an extension of the Anglo-Japanese alliance based upon the territorial integrity of China, whose open door and integrity are not endangered. Ameircan trade and in terests are in no wise affected." Road Appeals to Its Men. San Francisco The Southern Pacific company ordered posted in depots and engine houses throughout its system an appeal to its 62,500 employes to. use their influence to avert a threat ened strike of enginemen, firemen, conductors, trainmen and switchmen. The poster says that strike ballots have been sent out to the members of the unions threatening to strike, who constitute 131 per cent of its em ployes. The company asks the men who receive the ballots to vote against the strike. King Congratulates Ken. London The following message was sent by King George to General Sir Douglas Haig, commanding the British troops on the Franco-Belgian front: "Please convey to the army under your command my sincere congratulations on the results achieved in the recent fight ing. I am proud of my troops. None could have fought more bravely." Gen. eral Haig, in reply, said: "All ranks will do their utmost to deserve Your Majesty's confidence and praise." Carranza Troops Pursuing Bandits, Chihuahua City Large Carranza forces, better organized and more com pletely equipped than any other units of the de facto government troops, Saturday were closing in on the band its of Southern Chihuahua and North ern Durango, intent on wiping them out Jiminez, which the VilliBtas cap tured after defeating an inferior force and killing General Ignacio Ramos, has been occupied again by government troops. 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. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR Is made in Athena, by Athena Labor, in one of the very best equipped Mills in the Northwest, of the . best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. 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