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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. BARGAIN DAY la every day with the Merchant who advertises in the PressMie has some thing to sell and says so; Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FEIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1916. NUMBER 38. WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT VEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVmSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NU1SHQ1 Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed - for Our Busy Readers. About 8000 men marched in Port land's Labor Day parade, Monday. The Third infantry of the Oregon national guard, arrived at camp Withycombe Tuesday from duty on the border. It is announced offically that Dar-es- Salaam, the chief town of German East Africa, has surrendered to the British. - " From Klamath Falls, Oregon, it is reported that labor is so scarce that one of the lumber mills was obliged to discontinue its night shift. Less than fifty per cent of the school children of Portland were in attend ance on the first day of school, owing to the fact that it was Labor Day. The Argentine government has reached no final decision as to its reply to the representations of the entente. allies that merchant submarieB of a belligerent nation should be treated as warships. With more than 2000 people from all sections of Douglas county, Oregon, in attendance, the Rod and Gun Club of Riddle held its fourth annual venl- son barbecue under the most favorable conditions Monday. The collapse of a portion of ' the bleacher seats at thu Welsh-White lightweight championship fight at uuorauo springs, Monday precipitated 200 spectators to the ground and in jured at least 100, several seriously. . Another clash between Chinese and Japanese troops is officially reported from Cbaoyanwpo, Mongolia, and has led to the dispatch of heavy Japanese reinforcements. It is contended that the Chinese attacked the Japanese while the Japanese were advancing to mediate between the Chinese and Mongolians. Athens Seizing the " opportunity offered by the presence at Piraeus, within gunshot of Athens, of a large fleet of the entente nations, Premier Zaimis has asumed unobtrusively what amounts virtually to dictatorial pow ers. All is now in readiness for the -final act to end the neutrality of Greece. Officers and men of the German air ship destroyed Saturday night while raiding England, will be buried with full military honors in London. De tails of the funeral have not been set tled but the bodies probably will be put in separate graves in a churchyard near the spot where they were found after the ainhip fell Rioting, an outgrowth of a strike of street railway trainmen in progress in El Paso, Texas, followed a Labor Day parade Monday. The rioters at tacked several streetcars being oper ated by strikebreakers in the down town' streets, wrecked the cars and beat the trainmen. - A dozen persons werearrested on charges of inciting riot and and it is estimated that at least SO persons were injured in the street fighting. John P. St. John, a candidate for the Presidency on the Prohibition ticket in 1884, twice governor of Kan sas, and one of the most widely known temperance advocates in the United States, died at Olathe,' Kan., aged 83. At a secret session of the Chinese parliament, Premier Tuan Chi Jui, re plying to inquiries about the recent clash between Chinese and Japanese troops in Eastern Mongolia, said the Japanese were the aggressors and fired the first shots. The price of platinum jumped $20 an ounce in two days, the quotations now running from $80 to $86 an ounce. Scarcity of the metal because of the war embargo set two years ago on platinum from Russia, together with the beginning of the Christmas holiday demand from jewelers, was attributed aa reasons. ..; ' ' A profit of more than (1,000,000 a week was made by the Ford Motor company during the year which ended July 81, according to a financial state ment The year's business totaled 1206,867,847; the year's profit was $59,994,118. Henry Ford announced that most of the profit will be used in expanding the company's business. . An all-day battle was fought be tween government forces and Villa men, led by Villa himself. No victory was obtained by either. It is officially announced that the British casualties, killed, wounded and missing, on all fighting fronts in the month of August totaled 4711 officers and 123,234 men. The value of the ruble has recently advanced in London, where Petrograd exchange had fallen from 155 to 135 in the course of a week. The rise is at tributed to Rou mania's entrance into the war. PRESIDENT WILSON DECLARES FOR "BIG AMERICA" IN ACCEPTANCE Long Branch, N. J. President Wil son Saturday formally opened his cam paign for re-election with a speech ac cepting the Democratic nomination, in which he characterized the Republican party as a "practical and moral fail ure, " defended his Mexican and Euro pean policies, recited the legislative achievements of his administration, and declared (or a "big America." In his speech President Wilson was unsparing in his criticism of the Re publican party as a party of "masterly inactivity and cunning resourcefulness in standing pat to resist change, " and said that the old leaders still select its candidates, but he did not mention Charles E. Hughes, the Republican candidate by name. The President spoke from the ver anda of his summer home to a crowd which filled 8000 chairs and over flowed to the lawn. . Speaking in the open, his voice could be heard by only a small part of the crowd, but those who did hear him constantly interrupted with applause. Once when he said, "I neither seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of that small alien element amoungst us which puts loyalty to any foreign pow er before loyalty to the United States, " the crowd stood and - cheered The notification ceremonies were brought to a cloee when more than a score of American flags attached to parachutes were fired into the air by mortars and unfolded over .the Presi dent's head as a band played "America." Afterward Mr. Wilson stood more than an hour on the veranda and shook hands with several thousand men, wo men and children. Senator James, of Kentucky, chair man of the notification committee, in troduced the President. When he de clared that Mr. Wilson had kept Amer ica at peace the crowd responded in stantly and applauded several minutes. He concluded by handing the Presi dent a copy of the St. Louis platform. Reading from a printed copy of his speech and frequently looking up to emphasize particular points, Mr. Wil son spoke of the Democratic platform as "a definite pledge." Reviewing the achievements of the administration he said: "Alike in the' Democratic field and in the wide field of commerce of the world, American business and life and industry have been set free to move as they never moved before." "We have provided for national de fense , upon a scale never before seri ously proposed upon the responsibility of an entire political party. Concluding his list of measures passed by congress in the last three years, the President said: "This extraordinary recital must sound like a platform, a list of san guine promises, but it is not. It is a record of promises made four years ago and now actually redeemed In con structive legislation." The President made a bid for the Progressive vote by saying that "we have in four years come very near to carrying out the platform of the Pro gressive party, as well as our own, for we are also progressives." Further along, rebuking foreign- born Amreicans who are not loyal to the United States, he said: "I am the candidate of a party, I am above all things else an American citizen." When Mr. Wilson declared that the revolution in Mexico is right and that so long as its leaders represent, however imperfectly, a struggle for freedom, he is ready to serve their ends, the crowd applauded. Applause also greeted his declaration that Amer ica must do its part in Iayng the found ation for world peace. The policy of the United States in dealing with violations of the rights of Americans as a result of the European war, the Presdent outlined thus: "The property rights can be vindi cated by claims for damage when the war is over, and no modern nation can decline to arbitrate such claims, but the freedom rights of humanity can not be." The audience which listened to the President's address of acceptance was made up largely of residents of New Jersey coast towns, but included Democratic leaders from every section of the country and delegations from New York, Pennsylvania and other nearby states. When President Wilson was told that the eight-hour biU was ready for his signature, he said: "It is the climax of a very happy day." Officials said it would be legal for the President to sign on Sunday. Crazed Serbian Runs Amuck, Seattle, Wash. George Takich, a Serbian, is declared by the police to have run amuck with a gas pipe in the heart of the business district, inflict ing dangerous injuries on one man, and serious injuries on two others be fore he waa eaptured by the police. Four hours previously Yakich had been released from jail after serving a six months' sentence for stabbing aix men, as a result of a war argument at the same place. H. L. Peters, printer, was hit on the head, and is dangerously hurt. : Interned Vessels Seized. Athens The French flag Saturday was hoisted on four German and three Austrian merchant ships in the har bor of Piraeus. London Four German Levant liners have been seised in the harbor of Pi raeus by boarding parties from the en tente allied fleet, according to a dis patch from Athens to the Evening News. The steamers were the Tinos, Anatolia, Serippos and Boigalos. RAILROAD STRIKE ORDER CANCELED Senate Quickly Passes Adamson Eight- Hour Day Measure. DANGER OF TIE-UP IS AVERTED Bill Embraces Virtually All of Presi dent's Proposals Measure to r Take Effect Jan. 1, 1917. Washington, D. C The. threat of a general railroad strike, which has been hanging like a pall over the country for a month, waa lifted Saturday night. , Three hours after the senate had passed without amendment the Adam son eight-hour-day bill, passed by the house Friday, the heads of the four great railroad employes' brotherhoods telegraphed 600-odd code messages to their general chairmen in all parts of the country cancelling the strike order issued a week ago, to take effect Sep tember 4. The legislative expedient to avert the strike was passed in the senate by a vote of 43 to 28 almost a strict party vote amid stirring scenes, after many senators, Demorcats and Repub licans, had fought desperately to amend the measure by provisions de signed to prevent industrial disasters in the future. Some senators, thor oughly aroused, declared congress was being coerced into enactment of legis lation that it did not desire and that it knew would return to plague it in the future. In both houses the measure was signed within a few minutes after the final vote in the senate and it was sent at once to the White House, where the President signed it Sunday. The bill that stopped the strike pro vides that after January 1, 1917, eight hours shall be regarded as a basis of reckoning for a day'B pay of men en gaged in the operation of railroad trains in interstate commerce, except ing roads less than 100 miles long and electric lines, that they shall receive pro-rata pay for work in excess of eight hours, and that the rate of com pensation shall not be changed, pend ing an investigation for six to nine months of the effect of the eight-hour day upon the railroads by a commis sion to be appointed by the President. Efforts to amend the bill in the Ben- ate were futile, the supreme effort to alter it having been led by Senator Underwood, who sought to provide that the Interstate Commerce commis sion should have power to fix railroad wages and hours of service in the fu ture. This amendment was defeated. Railroad officials have declared that the action of congress will cost them $60,000,000 a year in increasesd wages to the trainmen. Brotherhood officials say the enactment will mean not more than an annual increase of $20,000, 000. In congress and among the rail road officials there existed doubt as to the constitutionality of the law, but what steps, if any, may be taken to test this have not been indicated. Quick action - by the brotherhood heads followed the action in the senate. The measure embraces virtually all of the President's original proposals to the employes and the railroad heads, although it is only a part of the legis lative program he took to congress last Tuesday when his negotiations had failed. Shackletoo Rescues 22 Cast aways From Elephant Island Puntas Arenas, Chile Lieutenant Shackleton returned here Sunday with the members of his Antarctic expedi tion whom he resuced and who had been marooned on Elephant Island. The men are all in good condition. It was April 24 that Shackleton set out from Elephant Island in a 22-foot boat, fitted with sledge runners, leav ing 22 men of his expedition behind him. The men he left behind had five weeks provisions, their only shelter was an ice cave: night and day gales swept the bleak shores, so that any one leaving the shelter had to crawl on hand and knees. Insurance Agents Strike. Boise, Idaho An insurance war has broken out in Boise. The Pacific Board of Underwriters has notified local fire insurance company representatives that the proposed advance in fire insur ance rates for Boise will go into effect, the matter having been carefully con sidered and the increase believed to be justified. The company agents here do not take the same view as to the jus tice of the increase and have decided not to sell insurance under the new rates but to insist on the old schedule. They expect to secure concessions. Greek Civilians Are Arming. Paris A dispatch to the Petit Par isian from Salonikl dated Friday says that a committee of national defense, composed of prominent military men and civilians, has been proclaimed as the Drovisional government of Mace donia. All the gendarmes and cavalry, says the dispatch, have joined this movement. A parade of revolutionary troops under Lieutenant Colonel Zim brakakis took place, after which there was a parade of armed civilians and volunteers wearing the bins and white. PRESIDENT WILSON ACCEPIS LINCOLN MEMORIAL AS GlfT TO NATION Hodgenville, Ky. President Wilson came to Kentucky Monday to pay hom age to the memory of Lincoln. The President accepted for the Federal government the log cabin in which Lincoln was born in a speech devoted to an eulogy of the Civil war Presi dent. Standing on a hill topped by a magnificent granite memorial building housing the Lincoln cabin, he praised Lincoln as the embodiment of demo cracy. "We are not worthy- to stand here unless we ourselveB be indeed and in truth real Democrats and servants of mankind, ready to give our very lives for the freedom and justice and spirit ual exaltation of the great nation which shelters and nurtures us," he said. The non-political character of the program was emphasized by the men tion of the name of Charles E. Hughes, the Republican nominee, by one of the speakers in giving the list of directors of the Lincoln Farm as sociation. What was said to be one of the larg est crowds ever gathered in this part of Kentucky came to Lincoln farm in special trains and automobiles and on foot. The President and his party were taken from the station to the farm in automobiles, accompanied by a troop of Louisville police. On the way the President stopped and laid a wreath on a statue of Lincoln. At the farm he walked up a long flight of broad granite stairs lined with thousands of cheering persons to the Lincoln memorial building at the top. Inside he examined silently the one room cabin made of rough logs and mud and then wrote his name in the register. Ex-Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, president of the Lincoln Farm association, presided at the for mal ceremonies. Robert J. Collier, vice president of the association, gave the gift of the deed to the farm to Secretary Baker, representing the War department American Rights Is Issue Before ' American-Mexican Commission New York The personal rights and their economic interests of Americans in Mexico must be considered in reach ing a permanent settlement of the difficulties between the United States and Mexico, Secretary Lansing said here Monday in an address at a lunch eon attended by members of the Amer ican-Mexican joint commission. Con ferences looking toward a solution of the international problems which con front the two countries are to begin shortly at New London, Conn. i Secretary Lansing declared that if "suspicion, doubt and aloofness marked the coming deliberations, the commission might expect to accom plish little and would leave the two nations "in the same tangle of mis understandings and false judgments which, I feel, have been the chief rea son for our controversies in the past." Luis Cabrera, chairman of the Mexi can commission, in reply, said the re sult his commission seeks is the same sought by the American delegates and that the mutual spirit of harmony might be inferred from the notes ex changed. Secretary Lansing pointed out that (he assembling of the commission "manifests to the world the spirit of good will and mutual regard which an imates the republics of America in the settlement of their controversies." "I need not assure you," Secretary Lansing continued, "that my govern ment has been inspired throughout the past three years with a sincere desire to arrange in an amicable way the nu merous questions which have arisen as a result of the civil strife which has shaken the Mexican republic to its very foundations and has caused so much loss of life and property, so much suffering and privation." Word "Obey" Eliminated. Chicago The commission of seven bishops, seven pastors and seven lay men of the Protestant Episcopal church, appointed to revise the ritual of the church, has determined to elim inate the word "obey" from the mar riage ceremony, it was learned here. The commission will report to the gen eral convention of the church at St. Louis, October 11. Radical changes were proposed in the ten command ments, the burial and baptismal serv ices and in arrangements of various prayers. Revolt Spreading in Greece. Rome Information reached here Tuesday that the revolution in Greece is spreading and that martial law has been proclaimed in Athens, Piraeus and several other cities. The uprising is extending in Thessally and Epirus, which, together with Greek Mace donia, in which the movement was started, constitute the northern half of Greece. King Constantino has been in ill health for several months, never having recovered from an operation for pleurisy. There have been no pre vious serious indications. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Food Gamblers Hard Hit. New York Food dealers who gam bled on the expected isolation of New York from outside supplies as a result of the threatened railroad strike and held back shipments to unload at fam ine prices, found themselves over whelmed by their own plot. Prices suddenly collapsed with the averting of the strike and the food gamblers were caught with vast quantities of supplies on their hands. One specula tor is reported to have lost heavily. Oregon Victims Alleged to Have Lost $30,000 to Promoter Eugene Officers of the United States government, are investigating the record of F. G. Mathison, . San Francisco real estate dealer, arrested in Oakland, Cal., Monday, according to a statement made here by District At torney J. M. Devers. Attorney Devers also stated that the authorities believe that Mathison, who is charged with having obtained title to real estate in Lane and Linn counties worth from $30,000 to $40,000 in exchange for bogus abstracts of title to Texas land, did not operate alone and that other arrests revealing a conspiracy to de fraud on an extensive scale are prob able. District Attorney Devers prepared reqiustion papers for Mathison, to be signed by the governor. In the event a Federal charge is perferred the Btate will likely turn the prisoner over to the Federal authorities for trial, he said. In one of the letters in the posses sion of the officers Mathison is said to have written that he had "unloaded the Oregon stuff" and had done very well. The "Oregon-stuff" referred to is alleged to have been land to wihch he had obtained title in exchange for alleged worthless abstracts of title to Texas land. Attorney Devers stated that in the cases he had investigated, the ab stracts of title which on their face were genuine and Bet up a clear chain of title purported to have been made by an abstract company which did not exist. The records in the county in which the Texas land is located con tain no record of such abstracts. The land Mathison purported to con vey to the Lane county farmers alleged to have been swindled of their farms, belongs to Mrs. H. M. King, reputed to be a multi-millionaire, of Corpus Christi, Tex. It is part of her ranch, which consists of a Mexican grant that has never been subdivided. Her agent, Attorney Robert Kleberg, in a letter to District Attorney J. M. Devers stated that Mathison was unknown to him. From Andrew Bossen, who swore to the complaint against Mathison, title to Lane county land worth $10,000 and $600 in personal property was obtained in exchange for an abstract of title calling for 820 acres of the Texas land. Bossen announced some time ago that he had sold his farm and that he was going to Texas to develop his newly acquired land. From Pierce & Dehel, of Pleasant Hill, Utile to a 820-acre tract of Lane county land was obtained by Mathison. Marvin Martin, of Brownsville, Linn county, gave a deed for 378 acres of Oregon land and a note for $2800 for an abstract of title to 480 acres of Texas land. S. J. Johns, of Myrtle Creek, Doug las county, was about to complete an exchange of his property for Texas land offered by Mathison. He took Mathison's abstract of title to an at torney. There was some question as to Texas law and letters of inquiry written to attorneys in Texas revealed that the abstracts of title were not genuine, it is stated. Baker Mill is Burned. Baker Fire destroyed the sawmill of the Oregon Lumber company at South Baker Monday afternoon, caus ing a loss of $40,000, with no insurance. The blaze is believed to have started by Powder-like sawdust in the engine room, igniting from the fire under the boilers. In an Instant the entire mill was ablaze and burned rapidly. For a while the entire $100,000 plant and many other buildings were threatened, but the Baker fire department and 160 men worked heroically and kept the names from spreading. Several cars of lumber were pulled to safety just in time. Klamath Realty 1 raded. Klamath Falls Several important real estate deals were made in this city last week. The Rocky Point Summer Resort, conducted for the past few years by Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Wilson was sold to W. W. Smith, of this city. The property is on govern ment land and Mr. Wilson held a 25 year lease on it. Mr. Smith said that he would build a large hotel at Rocky Point, which is at the extreme north ern end of Upper Klamath lake, and will have the hotel ready for use when the tourist season opens next summer. Man IOO Years Old Dies. Salem George W. 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