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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. Bennett, aged
100 years and 6 months, died Monday
at the State Insane hospital. He had
been a patient of the hospital since
1910 and previous to that time was an
inmate of the Soldier's Home at Rose-
burg. Mr. Bennett was born In New
York and served through the Civil war.
He had no known relativies and the
body ia being held pending instructions
from Bennett's guardian, Captain J.
A. Duchanan, of Roseburg.
Heavy Rain Causes Loss to Growers.
Sheridan The showers of Saturday
settled down into a steady drizzle,
threatening wholesale damage to grain
and bops. Hoppicking commenced
with the growers anxious to get the
crops in. Tbey estimate a 20 per cent
loss already 100 bales of the 600 that
was estimated as the season output
from this section.
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