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VOLUME XXVIII.
WOP'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OBEGOX, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1916.
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSilQJ
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Seven hundred thousand workers in
New York are said to be ready to
Btrike in sympathy with the streetcar
men. .
More than 700 vessals have been
added to the fleets flying the American
' flag in foreign trade in the two years
enuea June 3U, lio.
The British steamers Llammrs E.
Buttown and Swedish Prince have been
sunk by submarines. The crews of
the vessels were saved.
A purchase of 300,000,000 feet of
timber has been made by the Oregon
uimner company, near Baker, Ore.,
ana a new mm will be built. :
Armenians in Asia Minor who took
refuge in Aleppo when exiled recently
by the Turks, now have been ordered
to leave the new locality, according to
uispmcnes to .tne state department.
Two buildings, including the stock
house of the International Cement
company's plant at Irvine, Wash.,
were destroyed by fire Monday. The
loss was S 100,000, covered by insur
ance.
Surprise raids on two alleged gam
bling houses in San Francisco, main
tained, according to the police, in two
noteis m the so-called downtown ten
derloin district, resulted in the arreBt
of 230 men.
The Cooks and Waiters' union has
filed a suit for $300,000 damages
against the Law and Order committee
of the San Francisco chamber of com
merce, alleging it has formed a con
spiracy in violation of the penal code,
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ux tug uugeob nines ux im year
was consummated in Pendleton, Or.,
; wnen Henry Bam, of Havana Station.
disposed of his fine 600-acre Umatilla
county farm to Elmer McCormmach, i
. prominent young farmer, for $60,000.
The employes of all the big German
banks hold special meeting to discuss
the cost of living. They adopted unan
imously a resolution asking directors
ol all Berlin banks for an appreciable
Increase in salaries, that the employes
may be able to make both ends meet.
: Frost fell over the Great Lakes re
gion Sundy night, according to reports
to the Weather bureau. The frost
extended as far south as Northern
Tennessee. A heavy "snowfall, with
temperatures ranging from 24 to 2E
degrees, was reported from Hibbing,
Minn.
. Fiorina, an important town in North
western Macedonia, is carried by as
sault by French troops, according to
: an official statement. The Bulgarians
are retiring in disorder in the direc-
tion of Monastir, the statement adds.
Serbian troops also have gained sue
a cess in the region of Lake Ostrovo.
A general strike of longshoremen on
the Atlantic. Coast in sympathy with
the striking longshoremen on the Pa
cific Coast will be urged upon the in
ternational officers of the union, it was
announced by J. A. Madsen, of Port
land, secretary-treasurer of the Pacific
Coast district, International Long
shoremen's association of America.
British railway trainmen hold out
for 10 shillings advance in pay. ,
To the high cost of living is now
added the high cost of being bartered.
On and after an early date it will cost
half a dollar for a haircut in San Fran
cisco. The Barber Shop Proprietors'
association, at a meetine held recently
decided to raise from 85 cents to the
higher figure the price of haircutting.
A number of young society men of
Chihuahua City have been sentenced
by Acting Governor Trevino to serve
as street sweepers for 20 days. They
were found guilty of disturbing the
night's rest of the household of the
father of Governor -Ignacio Enriquei
while serenading the" town after a
dance. . - ":- . -, .
"Mary," the big circus elephant
which killed her trainer at Kingsport,
Tenn., recently, was hanged at Erwln.
A railroad derrick car was used in the
execution. The animal was forced to
the tracks by other elephants, heavy
chains were tied around her neck and
she was hoisted in the air. She was
valued at $20,000 by her owners.
The mining town, You Bet, Cal., is
swept by fire.
Returns from Thursday's elections
in British Columbia, indicated that
women have been given the right to
vote and that prohibition has been
adopted.
The Turkish government consents to
shipment of relief supplies from the
United States to famine sufferers in
Syria.' The action reverses the pre-!
vious attitude of Turkish officials who!
had refused two urgent pleas by the
department for the privilege to make
shipments. - ; i
STREETCAR STRIKERS IN RIOT
OVERPOWER NEW YORK POL!
New York The"moat serious rioting
since the transit Btrike in this city be
gan two weeks ago occurred Tuesday
night in various sections of Manhattan
when'attempts' were made to run cars
on the Forty-second and Fifty-ninth
street crosstown surface lines. Mobs
of strikers and their sympathizers
stormed two carbarns, overpowered
the police and put to flight all railway
employes in the vicinity.
Several motormen and conductors
who had not joined the strike were
beaten. Much property damage was
done before police reserves arrived.
The police assert that the strikers
took advantage of the fact that many
policemen were detailed to polling
Booths in the primary election. . The
strikers apparently planned their at
tacks, it was said, as disorders oc
curred in many places at the
time. :- .
At Forty-second street and Broad
way, one of the busiest Boots in the
city, a large crowd bombarded a
with stones they had gathered from
subway excavation. .
The police reported late in the day
that all surface cars had been ordered
to the barns.
Numerous arrests were made and
many of tne rioters were clubbed.
Several paBBengers were hurt by
missiles.
Later, the strikers attacked the ele
vated trains from housetops with bot
tles and bricks. Policemen then were
stationed on the roofs alpne elevated
routes. -
After ; a citizens' committee had
failed to effect a basis of settlement
between the striking union car men
and their employers, it was announced
that apparently the only hope of avert
ing a threatened sympathetic walkout
of 700,000 workers, set for Friday.
lies in a final appeal to be made to the
labor leaders. The citizens' commit
tee probably will confer with Mayor
Mitchell and Oscar S. Straus, chair
man of the public service commission
in an effort to find some solution of the
problem.
Fewer Irish Go Insane.
Dublin Insanity in Ireland has
lately shown a decrease, chiefly among
women.' This is something new, as
Ireland's statistics for insanity have
always been unusually high." The su
perintendent of the asylum at Belfast
declares the reason is due entirely to
the improved standard of living and
to the restrictions on the liquor traffic.
Many who lived in poverty are now in
comparative luxury. There are solid
grounds for hope that, especially
among women, Ireland will witness a
great diminution of neurotic disorders.
Rebel Drum is Returned. '
Richmond, Va. North and South
shook hands Wednesday in the White
House of the Confederacy, now a mu
seum of the Confederate Memorial Lit
erary society, when the Worcester
Continentals returned a Confederate
arum captured on -a battlefield near
Winchester, Va. Crowds lined the
streets and cheered as the Continen
tals, escorted by the two battalions of
militia remaining in the mobilization
camp here, marched up with the drum.
Train Burned by Bandits.
EI Paso, Tex. An American arriv
ing from the interior of Mexico said
that on September 9, bandits captured
southbound passenger tram on the
Mexican National line about 35 miles
south of Torreon. After robbing the
passengers and taking such clothing as
they had, he said they burned the
train.
The passengers were picked up by a
northbound tram and taken to Torreon,
Famous Diplomat Is Dead.
unicago wiuiam j. uaihoun, ex-
minister to China, died late Tuesday at
his residence here. Mr. Calhoun was
68 years old. He had been in ill health
for some months, having been stricken
with paralysis, and thereafter a com
plication of ailments set in. Mr. Cal
houn gained fame as a diplomat
through his mission to Cuba just pend
ing the war with Spain and as special
commissioner to Venezula for Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Rifle Plant to Resume.
bock island, ill. The small arms
plant at Rock Island is to be opened
September 25 and ' the government
wants workers. Congress at its re
cent session passed an appropriation
which will enable the plant, which has
been discontinued since 1912, to re
sume operations. Rifles are to be
manufactured. It is expected that at
least 800 men will have work in this
department alone.
Polar Party Heard From.
New York News of the relief party
neaaea oy in, Jbdmund utis Hovey,
which was dispatched by the American
Museum of Natural history to help the
McMillan Crocker Land expedition,
was received here Tuesday. Dr.
Hovey wrote July 10 from Parker
Snow Bay, Greenland, that he was
starting for North Star Bay and that
the entire expedition was in good
health. From North Star Bay be
planned to go to Battle Harbor.
Tidal' Wave Wrecks Ship.
San Joan, Porto Rico The four-
masted schooner J. Holmes Birdsall,
of Philadelphia, laden with eoal, was
washed on the rocks at the entrance to
the harbor here Tuesday by a ground
swell and was abandoned by her crew.
The loss will reach $200,000 and is
covered by insurance.
PROPOSES NEWS ITEMS
Of General Interest
About Oregon
rnihC AC Tl niCCO UI wjnerai interest
MUM ur lAitirra
Whnlo WnrM Wniilri Ro niviritri Intn ManV Paroled Men
IIIIVIU II VI IH BIVMHa iV rifltlVH IIIW I . 11 I f I ftl
mane booa snowing
Men paroled from the Ore-
Groups for Commerce.
British Chamber of Commerce Urges
New Plan "Most-Favored-Na
tion" Clause Eliminated.
guu pemtennary unuer tne plan pur-
FREE TRADE RULE ABANDONED have more than j' the confidence
placed in them by making good, ac
cording to Joseph Keller, state parole
officer.
With the new system now followed
in the release of convicts on parole,
they are first provided with employ
ment, and reports made by them to
the parole officer show that during the
last year paroled men earned a total of
Washington, D. C Division of the $56,614.86. At the present time there
world into economic strata separated are 826 men on parole. Thirty-one
by tariff walls and classified as allies werf recominended by the parole board
of the British empire, friendly neu- clemency this month. Of this number
teals, unfriendly nuetrals and enemy 26 were recommended for parole. Offl
countries, is urged by the London cer Keller said that he had found work
nhmhr nt Pommel-no T .loo. w. ior nearly all of these prisoners.
ground for this world reconstruct the AZA ft
chamber concludes in a special report, prisoners have been paroled. The per
a copy of which has just been received centage of parole violations during
here, that abrogation of all "most- tnls. t,me has been 29, and 25 per cent
fnvnreH.ti.tinn" trontio. inioi during tne present administration,
tw -!. rr j c ! i . Of the 711 paroled men in the last
that with the United States, is inev- six years, 173 have been discharged
itable. ; ' . - after having demonstrated that thev
Free trade would be abandoned and had made good outside the prison. In
a series of graded tariffs Dronoaed in ?ne s.ame Period 76 parole violators
line with the nrenr. r .nni,, nf been returned to the penitentiary,
r r " ana lio violators were not returned,
tne nations.
All imports would be divided as fol
lows: Wholly manufactured goods,
semi-manfactured goods and articles
solely used as raw material in indus-
Start Building Logging
Road to Timber Tract
Sutherlin Two carloads of railroad
tries, manufactured foodstuffs and raw grading machinery arrived in Sutherlin
foodstuffs. All parts of the British from Portland Tuesday, and grading
empire and its allies would pay mini- on tne butherun line to the Koach com-
mum duties; friendly neutrals which Pany 8 timber, 15 miles east of here,
allow the United Kingdom most favor- wll commence at once. The grade
ed treatment would pay twice as much; stakes were set during the past week
other neutrals, giving preference to by a CTew of Roseburg engineers,
other powers and including neutrals Workmen are busy establishing a camp
which might swing into the Teutonic six miles east of tows,
commercial system would pay a still ' The work on the grade to the upper
greater tax; and all "enemy" coun- sawmill site, a distance of eight miles,
tries would pay the maximum duties, wil1 De completed within the next six
running up as hieh as 80 oer cent. weeks. From 25 to 80 ttcus will
Roughly it is estimated in the report employed at the outset, and the wc
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Mini, mis ciiunge i rum iree traue to uuuei u uiiovi DuiwrviBiur
protection would net a yearly revenue the timber company. The engir
of about 875,000,000.. will be sent to the boundary of
Every precaution is ureed in the re- Koach company's 50,000-acre tract
port to assuage neutral nations to pre- mediately. From that point the
vent them from' making commercial logging branch of the road wil
alliances with enemy countries after staked into the heart of the best
the war. The difficulties are spoken ' an additional six . miles, mal
of as follows: . the distance from Sutherlin to the
"It must also be remembered that logging camp to be established a t
our allies have tariff arrangements 01 miles.
still in force with other foreien coun
tries which it is assumed must be I Canneries Need Workers,
abrogated befora anv nrAfnrAntjftl
trade arrangements can be made with The Dalles The fruit and vegetc
the British empire as a whole. preserving industries of this city
In addition, the Un ted Kincrdom DB(W hampered oy tne lac of is
ENGLAND TIGHTENS
ON NEUTRAL TRADE
Acceptance of American Shipments by
Overseas Trust Not to Be Allowed.
ASSURANCE OF DELIVERY DENIED
United States Exports to Holland and
Scandinavian Countries Are Af
fected by Latest Order.
London The plan of rationing the
neutral countries of Norway, Sweden.
Denmark and Holland, under which no
further licenses will be granted for the
present to British exporters, has been
extended to apply to the United States
by the expedient of refusing to allow
i tie Netherlands' Overseas Trust to ac
cept further American consignments
and by declining to grant letters of as
surance for American shipments des
tined for these countries.
In consequence American shipments
for Holland will be stopped absolutely,
wnue tne regular transportation com
panies trading between the United
States and Scandinavia will not take
cargoes without assurance of tfcs'r in
nocent destination by the British authorities.
Furthermore, tramp steamers are
hardly likely to risk the inevitable
landing in the prize court of any cargo
they might accept.
Neutral diplomats here believe two
reasons induced the British govern
ment to take this action. The first is
the simplicity of the plan, which en
ables the government to control sup
plies at the source. The second is the
growing bill with which Great Britain
is now pressed by neutral governments
for demurrage and other expenses in
curred by taking suBpected ships into
Kirkwall and other ports for examination.
Another blockade measure is the re
cent arrangement under which bureaus
WA,rA Rot In Wno-lonH unH F-- dfor
Of
has 'most-favored-nation' cImimm with The companies are not in positic
certain foreign countries, includine handle all the output of this vicinity
the United States. There, it is as- 88 result The Libby-McNeill-Bumed,
would have to be terminated, Libby Plgnt is working with only half
with or without compensatory advant- a crew, which is all they can muster.
ages."
xney are busy on iJartlett pear, car
rots and peaches. The Dri-Fresh com
pany also is working short, suffering
from a labor famine. They are evap
orating peaches, pears and prunes, but
will be unable to handle all that they
wisn to.
The commission-houses
Villa Attacks Chihuahua City;
Meets Defeat and Heavy Losses
Mexico City General Obregon. min
ister of war, announces that a thousand packed and they are busy shipping to
iouowers of f rancisco Villa, who at- tne outside,
tacked Chihuahua Friday night were
ttA' ""y of Oregon Enters
many captured. After the battle Gen- Class of Large Universities
era! 1 re vino s troops participated in tti .-.::.- u mU.
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mormncr. Tn t.hA-fiarht-.ino- f!onoi-al .. r . .J .. ...s
T. ' ; j j, 7. the turn between the medium-sized and
shoulder "uu"ucu ", lUD the large state university. The resi-
a 1 . , , . ucutw euruiiiueuk in uuerai arcs ana
Aided by some of the townspeople. u
v.ia "ZZ . J . I? I- "ease and will reach one thousand for
h,?nZi. .n J m rP, r f PfC ment8. will give a total registration of
buildings and completely defeated the about nineteen hundred. he univer.
ZtZTX will thus be in the upper half of
;..7i.r ' the forty-eight state universities in
point of attendance.
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ueuorni uureiron hub seni a message rpu ... . . .
nf Pnnoi-.tl,l.t!nn rn 1Vol . '""T"."1 "ut,"K
a u. o.v.iiiv. hnrrf limn, ia rina in tha miiMvn
Several of the captured men alreadv j. -.u.-.i. i : A
JrJrJS by Urtmarti81 sU"at"home andT'new work
Normal conditions prevailed at Chi
huahua Sunday.
The details of the defeat of Villa
forces aroused enthusiasm here.
offered in commerce, journalism, and
other departments.
Idaho Gets S 147,6 14 Check.
Boise, Idaho The last chapter in are
the treasury steal was written this constructed across the head of the riv-
Power Plant Proposed. : '. '
Klamath Falls The waters of Link
river within the city of Klamath Falls
to be used and a mammoth dam
week when the state depository board
accepted from the National Surety
company a check for $147,614.91, rep
resenting the state's loss. The Na
tional Surety company was surety on
tne zoo,ooo bond of O. V. Allen, de
er, according to plans of the United
States reclamation service. This is to
be accomplished by leasing the right
on the river.
The reclamation service has been
planning for the development of the
fsnlfinr, .f.f. ..,.,, i'ffo- .L ... vast water power now going to waste,
aminatinn nf h t.. h,v. h on account of lack of appropria-
total nhnrij.ro im-lnrtin t.h. mnn a i. "on. the government is unable to do
len and bis deptuy, Fred M. Coleman, the work itBeit
Stole, and Interest, warn mmntlan1 anA
suit brought against the eomoanv. Tveh Valley Fair Success
The Dalles The Tygh Valley Fair
came to a close Friday, ending in a
Fully 1000 patrons were
The racing
Guiteau's Attacker Dies.
Washington. D. C William Jnnen. ornnH hall
65, widely known aa "Bill Jones, the on the srrounds each dav.
Avenger," because he shot at Charles program was excellent and included
Guiteau, assassin of President Gar- leveral rood aiza minimi Thnu
field, in 188L died here Sunday. Gui- was The Dalles dav and about SO anta.
ieau was being taaen irom the court- from The Dalles were there.
house to the district jail in carriage The stock show drew an immense
when Jones rode up on a horse and crowd and the fact .that the section can
fired at him. raise fine blooded stock was m-nvH h.
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-wvin, wiiu iiu ,1 ones was tne numoer or tnnrntifrhhrAria vhih-
arrested. He was held for some time, ited. The School Fair was a special
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lumbia, according to incomplete re
turns received late Thursday from the
general election.
The conservative government head
ed by Premier W. J. Bowser, appar
ently has been decisively defeated.
The returns indicate that the liberals
will control the next legislature, 88 to
14.
Suffrage apparently was carried by
an overwhelming majority and the re
turns thus far received indicate that
the prohibition bill has been endorsed
by a safe margin. The defeat of the
government is the most Btriking in the
history of the province.
The returns thus far are generally
decisive and it is not considered likely
that the soldiers' vote will materially
affect the result although Premier
Bowser may retain his seat in the pro
vincial parliament, as he is not far be
hind the liberal ticket, which appar
ently was elected in its entirety in
Vancouver.
In Victoria, A. Stewart, the recent
ly apponited minister of finance, was
defeated, polling 600 votes less than
the lowest liberal in the capital city,
where the complete liberal ticket was
elected. In Rossland, Lome Camp
bell, minister of mines, is 100 votes
behind his opponent with only two
small precincts to be reported.
In Kevelstoke, Thomas Taylor, min
ister of public works since a conserva
tive government came into power, was
decisively defeated. In Grand Forks.
E. E. Miller, one of Premier Bowser's
new ministers, lost by a substantial
majority.
Relief Depends on Hoover.
Stanford University, Cal. "The
situation in Belgium Is so extraordi
nary that if Herbert C. Hoover lost
heart today or died, in a few days the
Belgians would be without food and
starving," was the declaration made
here by Dr. David P. Barrows, who
addressed Stanford students on his
eight months' experience with relief
work in Belgium. Dr. Barrows aald
that Hoover's task of feeding 10,000,
000 Belgians dally was equal to feed
ing the western armies of both the
allies and the Germans.
Women Raid Food Shops.
London An Amsterdam disnateh to
tne exenange telegraph company says
serious rood riots occurred at
Hamburg Saturday evening. Accord
ing to Berlin reports a mob of angry
wunwi nuoeu snops that had been
closed owing to a shortage of meat and
vegetables, while another crowd dem
onstrated before the town hall, shout
ing 'Down with the junkers; down
with the people's torturers.' Thirty
seven women were badly injured."
SELBY LOADS
GROUSE
Aug. IS to
Oct 31.
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with horn
Aug. 15 to
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Get Your License and Ammunition Here
Foss-Winship Hardware Go.
NEW STOCK, AND NO ADVANCE
OVER LAST SEASON
ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Shaffer Milling Co.
AMERICAN BEAUTY
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best equipped Mills in the Northwest, of the
best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere.
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The Flour Yoiir Mother Uses
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