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WHAT YOU NEED- The other fellow may have; what you have the other fellow may want. Come together by advertising in the Press. 0 BARGAIN DAY Is every day with the Merchant who advertises In the Press-he has some thing to sell and says bo. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer 'VOLUME XXVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OBEGON, FRIDAY, ( AUGUST 4, 1916. NUMBER 33. WAR MOTIONS BLOW IF $25,000,000 Loss In New York , Explosion and Fire. WAREHOUSES BURN Three Dead and Many Injured By Shock That Shakes Five States - Washington Gets Tip of Impending Danger. . New York Property loss estimated at $26,000,000 was caused early Sun day by a series of terrific explosions of ammunition awaiting shipment to the entente allies and stored on Black Tom Island, a small strip of land jutting in to New York Bay off Jersey City. The loss of life cannot be deter mined definitely until there has been opportunity to check up the workmen employed on the island and on boats moored nearby. Three are known to be dead and at least five more are missing. Scores of persons were injured, some of them probably mortally. ' The detonations, which were" felt in five states, began with a continuous rapid fire of small shells, the blowing up of great quantities of dynamite, trinitrotoluene and other high explo sives, followed by the bursting of thousands of shrapnel shells, which literally showered the surrounding country and waters for many miles around. Fire started soon after the first great crash, which spread death and desolation in its wake, destroyed 13 of the huge warehouses of the National Storage company on Black Tom Island and six other warehouses in which were stored merchandise valued at be tween $12,000,000 and $15,000,000. The flames, shooting into the clouds, were reflected against New York's "skyline" of towering office buildings, which only a few minutes before were shaken to their foundations as by an earthquake. : Miles of streets in Man hattan alone were strewn with broken glass and shattered signs. The cause of the disaster has not been determined. Officials of the Na tional Storage company and the Lehigh Valley railroad, which also suffered heavily through loss of property, de clared, however, that reports to them showed a fire started shortly after 1 o'clock Sunday morning on a barge belonging to an independent towing company that had been moored along side a dock used by the railroad com pany to transfer ammunition ship ments from trains to vessels in the harbor. ' ' The barge, it was said was there without authority of either the rail road or the storage company. The officials refused to disclose the name of the independent towing company, saying they were investigating "to ascertain whether the barge purposely had been set on fire as the result of a plot." Advance Tip Given, Washington, D. C. The government Secret Service was notified three days ago that several enemies of England had been employed by German agents to preciptate just such an explosion of ammunition as took place in New York harbor. The informant said that the men were Irishmen, probably members of the Sinn Fein. What Bteps were taken to guard against the catastrophe is not known. In any event, they were futile. The Secret Service now is running down its clews in the hope that it will enable the apprehension of the criminals if it should turn out the treagedy was caused by human agency. The information came from a source which in the past has proved absolute ly reliable. It failed to disclose the names of the men in the plot and it Is not certain they can be obtained. However, it is understood the source is to be "tipped" again, in the hope that some-further 'details may be se cured which will aid in the arrest of the men involved. Not Liable to Foreign Duty. . Washington, D. C. Mooted ques tions about the status of state troops called for the Mexican emergency are decided in an opinion given Secretary Baker by Brigadier General Crowder. General Crowder holds that the state soldiers are not subject to duty outside of the United States unless and until they are formally drafted by order of the President; that they are under con trol of the Federal government and not of their respective state governors, and that they are entitled to the same pen sions and privileges as regulars. : Petrograd Fire Reported. Berlin Reports of great . confla gration at Petrograd, in which a bridge across the river Neva, 12 large steamers, - including several trans Atlantie linen, and the Putiloff gun works and other establishments were destroyed, are printed in the Lokar An aeiger. The newspaper adds : "The police suspect that the conflagration was the work of anarchists, who planned to' burn all public buildings being used for military purposes. " URGENT NEED FOR NAVAL BASE , ON COLUMBIA IS ESTABLISHED Washington, D. C. The Lane amendment to the naval bill, appro priating $500,000 to establish a Bub marine and torpedo boat base on the Columbia river, will be accepted by the house conferees if Secretary Dan iels will inform them that he favors the appropriation at this time. ' This was learned by Representatives Haw- ley, Sinnott and McArthur Saturday. They immediately arranged a confer ence with Secretary Daniels and later in the day presented to him the reas ons why, in their judgment, this base should be authorized without further delay. . .: Before calling on Secretary Daniels the house members conferred with Captain J. S. McKean, aide for mater ial and chief adviser of the secretary. on matters of this character. Captain McKean heartily approved the Lane amendment and Baid the Navy department was in favor of es tablishing two submarine bases on the Pacific Coast at this time, one on the Columbia and the other at San Diego. Captain McKean then went with the Oregon members to call on Secretary Daniels. ' The three representatives urged Sec retary Daniels to write Chairman Pad gett, of the house naval committee, recommending concurrence of the house in the senate amendment. Sec retary Daniels said he would talk with Mr. Padgett about the amendment. The Oregon members tried to exact from him a promise that be would "talk favorably," but he would not commit himself. Injunction Order Against Longshore men Strikers Reasonably Modified Portland At the conclusion of a two-day preliminary hearing on the merits of. the temporary restraining order issued July 19 against striking longshoremen, on petition- of the San Francisco & Portland Steamship com pany, Federal Judge Wolverton Satur day ordered that the injunction be con tinued pending further the final hear ing to determine whether it shall be made permanent.' In granting the preliminary injunc tion, however, he modified considera bly the terms of the previous tempor ary restraining order. In general terms, this order re strained the men from interfering un lawfully with the business or property of the company, or with non-union men employed by the company. - Judge Wolverton said he would per mit picketing on condition that it be carried on peacefully. He defined peacefully" to be without threats, violence, vile language or any form of intimidation against strikebreakers. Explosion Wrecks Grants Pass Irrigation PlantPlot Suspected Grants Pass, Or. What is believed to have been an attempt to blow up the pumping plant which supplies the South Side and Fruitdale ditches with irrigation water at the dam of the Rogue River Public Service corpora tion, three miles east of this city, was made at the pumping station early Sat urday morning. - The night watchman at the pump ing station had just stepped behind some heavy timbers when a terrific ex plosion occurred. The turbines were damaged and tim bers ripped off the dam. The damage to the plant will amount to approxi mately $3000 although the most ser ious aspect at the present time is the loss of the irrigation water to several hundreds of acres of sugar beets. ; - - , Americans See Bullfight. ! El Paso, Tex. Hundreds of Ameri cans crossed the Rio Grande Sunday to attend the first bullfight and broncho busting contest held in Juarez since the Villa regime. General Francisco Gonzales, commandant, and Andres Garcia, Mexican consul, expressed gratification over the number attend ing. The bull ring was thronged with Mexican soldiers, rifles across their knees and cartridge belts swung about their bodies. .Interspersed between them sat American men and women and hundreds of gaily-dressed Mexicans. Check Order Rescinded. Washington, : D. C. Postmaster General Burleson has suspended until further notice his recent orders au thorizing postmasters to collect checks on banks in small communities where there are no members of the Federal Reserve system. The suspension was ordered at the suggestion of the Fed eral Reserve board. Members of the board said -the recommendation was made because more time is necessary to perfect the check collection plan. Garment Worker Accept Agreement, ' New York At a spirited meeting, which lasted until after midnight, the general committee of the Garment Workers' union decided Thursday fay a dose vote to accept the three years' agreement signed by officials of the un ion and representatives of the manu facturers, thus ending the lockout and strike which for three months has par alyzed the women's clothing industry of this city. The vote was 43 in favor in the settlement to 40 against it. WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NU1SI1EU Live News Items of All Nations and " Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. During July 28 and 29, the Russians captured 32,000 Germans. :- ; The supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias is in Bession at Portland, One hundredjind eighty-four persons lose their lives in the forest fire in On tario. " v German aircraft make a raid on the English coast, dropping bombs at sev eral points. :. .' i . Winston Churchill, former first lord of the British admiralty, declares Eng land was saved by her navy. The German submarine Deutschland, preparing to leave American waters, fears an "accident" in Chesapeake bay. Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, contracted a severe cold while in specting troops and is confined to his bed. ' MrB. Sarah ' Barr, one of the oldest white women in California died Tues day at Monrovia, near Los Angeles, aged 102. . , The heat wave that has enveloped Chicago and the Middle West, was broken Monday by a stiff breeze, from the North. " ' ' England positively refuses to permit medicines for American Red Cross so cieties to pass the allies' lines into Germany or Austria. : The committee on industrial pre paredness of the naval consulting board has completed a survey of the resources in case of war. The U. S. court at Norfolk, Va., has rendered a decision which gives back to English owners the prize ship Ap pam, captured by the Germans. The failure of the Pope's appeals to the warring nations for peace was ad mitted by the Pontiff in addressing a delegation of the youth of Rome. During a quarrel between two em ployes of the Union Meat company at Portland, one man was knocked into a vat of boiling water and cooked alive. Striking employes of the three large packing houses in East St. Louis have voted to accept the concessions made by the employers and to return to work Tuesday. About 4500 men are involved. ' Henry Edward Duke, a barister and Unionist member of Parliament for Exeter, was appointed to be the new chief secretary of Ireland in succession to Augustine Birrell. The new chief secretary will have a seat in the Brit ish cabinet. Nineteen days with the thermometer averaging 93 degrees was the record of the hot spell in Chicago. The high est temperature was 102; the lowest 61. ' A total of 325 deaths occurred, including 176 babies; 2600 prostra tions were reported, and 890 horses dropped dead in the streets. An aviator at San Diego, Cal., sends wireless messages at ten-minute inter vals during a flight. Mathematicians at Aberdeen, Wash., have figured out that by shaving your self three times a week for 60 years, providing you take the money saved from barbers and place it at compound interest, a fortune of $11,100 will have been accumulated. B. F. Finn, 93 years old, of the Mc Kenzie River region, Lane county, Oregon, claiming to have been the original of Mark Twain's character, "Huckleberry" Finn, has lost his case in court for the cancellation of a deed conveying the old Finn place. The severity of the fighting since the beginning of the present offensive on the Western front is indicated by the list of casualties . among officers, issued by the London, war office, show ing for the first three weeks of July 1108 killed, 2834 wounded and 491 missing. . Nearly $700, 000, 000 for national de fense in the fiscal year 1917 is the ag gregate of proposed appropriations in the senate with passage of the army appropriation bill carrying in round numbers $314,000,000. This grand total for preparedness still is subject to revision, however. Senator Borah, of Idaho, has been selected as Western manage! of the Republican campaign. Eight persons are arrested in San Francisco, as parties to the placing of the bomb on the street which exploded during the preparedness parade, kill ing eight people and Injuring 40. Evangelist "Billy" Sunday will make the opening speech for the anti saloon league in Portland, which plans to make Oregon "absolutely" dry. Sunday is reported to have refused an offer of $160,000 to appear in the movies. GERMAN SUBMARINE MERCHANTMAN MAKES JDASH FOR OPEN SEA Baltimore, Md. On the second an niversary of Germany's declaration of war against Russia, the German sub marine merchantman Deutschland set out from Baltimore on a return voyage to Germany with a declaration of con fidence from her commander, Captain Paul Koenig, that he would take her home in spite of the heavy odds she would face when the three-mile limit in the Atlantic ocean is reached. The submersible was towed out of the slip where she was berthed 23 days ago, at 6:40 o'clock Tuesday after noon. After getting into midstream the tow line of the tug Timmins was cast off and the Deutschland proceeded down the river under her own power. The Timmins went to one side, the coast guard cutter Wissahickon to the other and the harbor police boat Lan nan brought up the rear to prevent un due crowding by the small fleet of launches that followed. i r, Capatin Koenig and his crew of 27 men embarked with the knowledge that a man hurried to a telephone with a message to agents for the entente al lies that the Deutschland had started. They knew how long he had watched at the end of a nearby pier, day and night, but the little captain went out of Baltimore harbor smiling and wav ing his cap. His last words In the harbor were of praise for Ameirca and for his treat ment here by Baltimore customs ' au thorities. To Guy Steele, surveyor of customs, he said: "We came here du bious about our reception. We go back certain that the friendliest of feeling exists in America for Ger many. You have been more than courteous and the fatherland will not forget it." Captain Koenig knows that eight warships of the entente allies are waiting for him at the edge of the three-mile limit, spread out in a radius of five miles. "We shall have to pass unseen with in that radius in order to escape, " he said. "We shall have to make that passage under conditions not entirely advantageous. Were the water at that point 160 feet deep it would be easier. We could submerge deeply enough to pass underneath the warships. But the water there is not 150 feet deep. We shall, therefore, have to pass be tween the warships." There was a determined look on the captain's face as he expressed . confi dence that he would get through. Austrian Army Cut Off From German Aid by Russian Forces London The second anniversary of Germany '8 declaration of war on Rus sia finds the relative positions of the belligerents very different from those of the first anniversary. The entente allies are now pursuing a succeessful offensive on all fronts, and the central powers are virtually everywhere on the defensive. Emperor William celebrated the oc casion by the issue of proclamations to his army and navy and people which breathed a spirit of ' continued confi dence in ultimate victory for Ger many. " 1 The operations on the Eastern front continue to surpass those in the West in dramatic interest. The military critics express great admiration for the Russian tactics, one of the import ant objectives of which, in their opin ion, has been to isolate the Austrians from the German armies on the Rus sian front. This, it now is contended, has been virtually accomplished by the Russians' driving a wedge into the Austro-German positions along the front of Kovel-Vladimir-Volynsk. The view here is ,that if the Ger mans have thus accepted severance from the Austrians, the most decisive result of the whole of the Russian General Russiloff 'a strategy will have been obtained, it being argued by the military observers that without Ger man support the Austrian armies will become demoralized and collapse. Army Writers Curbed. San Antonio, Tex. General Funston sent to the War department at Wash ington a telegram announcing his in tention to rid the various guardsmen camps of newspaper correspondents who send out false accounts of condi tions in the camps. He referred to such correspondents as "pests," and said he had endured them as long as he purposed to. An order has been sent to all district commanders along the border covering future action against newspaper men sending out dispatches which may be classed as untruthful Cotton Market Advances. New York A sensationally rapid advance of about $1.75 per bale fol lowed the publication of the govern ment cotton report in the market here Tuesday morning. Just before the offi cial condition of 72.8 per cent, against 81.1 last month and the 10-year aver age of 78.5, was published, a canvass of local exchange indicated an average expectation of 76.6 per cent, and the government report was far below the most bullish of recent private figures. Papers Cut Down Pages. New York Publishers of daily newspapers in Greater New York, at a meeting Wednesday, took action which will result in a decrease of the number of pages in their morning, evening and Sunday issues of 121 pages week, to relieve the newsprint paper situation. which is regarded by the publishers as serious. Action also was taken to eliminate returns of unsold copies. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest , About Oregon Oregon Will File for Share in Government Good Roads Fund Salem Oregon's full share of the Federal good roads appropriation, amounting to $78,000, for 1916, under the Shackleford bill passed recently by congress, will be claimed at once. members of the State Highway com mission and advisory board decided Monday. Governor Withycombe, in behalf of the State Highway commission, within the next few days will make a formal request of the secretary of Agriculture for the money which it is desired to use this year, if possible. He will re quest Attorney General Brown for an opinion regarding certain features of the Federal law authorizing the appro priation, and then will tender his for mal request to the government for the money. ' Decision to ask for Oregon's 1916 share of the Federal allotment provid ed under the Shackleford measure was made as a result of a conference of the Highway commission with members of the advisory board and a delegation from Portland. The Portland repre sentatives were urgent that action to get the money be immediate, fearing that to delay until the legislature meets might result in the state's los ing its allotment from the government for this year, i Under the provisions of the govern ment measure Oregon must match the Federal appropriation with an equal amount of money, which is to be ex pended as may be decided upon by state highway officials and the Secre tary of agriculture. ' In matching the government appro priation, assurances were given by the Multnomath county delegation that the county was already prepared to expend $35,000 on road work on the Columbia River highway. S. Benson said that he would give $16,000 for road improvement, and the highway commission decided to allot $18,000 remaining in the highway fund for work on Ruthton Hill on the Columbia highway, in Hood River county. That leaves only $10,000 to complete the $78,000 needed to match the government allotment. Mine Makes Big Clean-up. Grants Pass The largest individual cleanup ever reported in Josephine county is that of the Sammons-Cam-eron-Logan mine at Waldo, in this county, and brought to this city for shipment Wednesday. Four hundred and eighty-four ounces of pure gold, molded into three hand some pale-yellow bricks, were brought to the banks of this city, the same be ing valued at $9000. It is reported that the balance of the cleanup, dis bursed in other channels, will bring the grand total up to upward of $14, 000 Thirty-four days of actual labor are represented in the making of this handsome return. This reliable old hydraulic deep-gravel mine has been a steady producer for over 50 years and never failB of a handsome return to its Grant Crops in Danger. Baker Grasshoppers and gophers are causing serious damage to huy, grain and gardens in Grant county. In the Long creek district the grass hoppers have invaded hay fields. W. H. Hiatt reports that his timothy is becoming seriously damaged and he fears that they will' attack his grain fields. They are known to have caused considerable loss to other fields, The ranchers are preparing to fight the pest which, it is feared, may become general. Gophers have been invading gardens in that district and the loss is very heavy, although it is not thought it will be as general throughout the county as that caused by the grasshop Bend to Join in Exhibit, Bend The Bend Commercial club will join the other commercial organ izations of Crook county in making an exhibit at the State Fair at Salem this fall. At a recent luncheon and meet ing of the club support of the move ment to the extent of $100 was pledged and it was voted to send a representa tive to the next meeting of the County court to ask for an appropriation in aid to the plan. The club also voted to campaign for the proposal to extend the city limits, which will be voted on at a special city election August 15. Florence Mill to Start. Eugene According to word reach ing Eugene from Florence, the Porter Brothers sawmill will soon begin cut ting 16,000,000 feet of lumber. It is said that there, are 10,000,000 feet of logs in the mill pond, to which 6,000,- 000 feet more will be added for the run. It is estimated that the opera tions will consume six months and that 100 men will be employed. The Porter Brothers' mill has not been in opera tion lor more than two years. Big Sheep Shipment Made. Baker Robert Stanfield, of Stan field, began Wednesday the shipment 01 vuuu wethers and ewes from Baker to a meat company in San Fancisco. The first shipment of 4600 started in a special train. The remainder will be sent at once. The sheep are from the grazing lands in the Sumpter valley and are part of an order for 100,000, precti cally all of which has been shipped. . 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-Wmship 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. Your grocer sells the famous American Beauty Fiour. The Hour Your Mother Uses Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitaburg, Washington. 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