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VOLUME XXVIII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1916.
- NUMBER 44.
WORLD'S DOINGS
OF fllRRFNT VM
VI VVIIIIUII HUM
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSI1QJ
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
The keel of the superdreadnought
Callfonna. building at the Mare Island
navy-yard, will be laid October 25, the
navy department Has announced.
The Labor Temple, the largest log
building in Alaska, built last winter
by the Alaska labor union, was de
stroyed Tuesday night by tire caused
by a detective tlue. The loss is i2,oou,
The heaviest snowstorm of any au
tumn in the past ten years prevailed
In the Michigan copper country Tues
day. All shipping was forced to seek
shelter, and Lake Superior was de
serted by boats.
Wholesale prices on men's and. wo
men s footwear have been advanced
to to 76 cents a pair within the last
three days and certain lines have been
withdrawn entirely from the market,
owing to a shortage in leather.
John S. O'Connor, pioneer cut-glass
manufacturer and inventor, died at
his home at Hawley, Pa., as the result
of a fall. Mr. O Connor cut the glass
that took first prize at the Paris expo
sition. He was born in Londonderry,
Ireland, June 6, 1831. ,
Seventy-tour hostile aeroplanes, of
which 21 were French and 63 were
British, were shot down by the Ger
mans during September, according to
an exact list compiled by the German
military authorities, says an Overseas
News Agency statement
Ernest Oils, a sentenced burglar,
scaled the 30-foot east wall of the pen
itentiary at Joliet, 111., with a braided
twine rope and escaped. Twenty feet
from where he went over the wall a
guard was on watch with a rifle, but
he failed to see the convict. ..
President Wilson and Secretary of
War Baker cabled Governor Harrison,
of the Philippines, asking him to con
vey their greetings to the Filipino peo
ple on the occasion of the convening
of the first Philippine legislature com
posed entirely of natives. ' -
The United States supreme court re
fused to review the convictions of four
labor leaders in the 1913 West Vir
ginia coal strike who were sentenced
to six months' Imprisonment for con
tempt of court in failing to obey an
Injunction by a federal district Judge.
The Culebra Island naval station off
the Porto Rican coast was almost com
pletely destroyed last week by a hurri
cane which "Swept that vicinity. The
station has been practically abandon
ed by the navy, and only a few houses
and supplies, used by the marines who
practice advance base maneuvers, are
left -
Plans for a campaign to make Chi
cago "dry" in 1918 were formally an
nounced at a luncheon of the Dry Chi
cago Federation. Fifty thousand dol
lars was pledged to carry on the cam
paign. It is planned to submit the
question to a referendum vote in the
spring of 1918. Ex-Representative
Hobson, of Alabama, spoke at the
meeting at which the campaign was
launched.
After Beveral hours' struggle with
the heaviest sea In months, the coast
guard crew from Manistee, Mich., suc
ceeded in rescuing P. T. Daily, a con
tractor, and eight workmen, who were
carried out into Lake Michigan on a
derrick scow which earlier in the day
broke from its moorings here during
a fierce storm. The nine men were
nearly eight miles out in Lake Michi
gan when the coastguard reached
them.
Although the registration of 738,710
voters in New York City exceeded last
year's record by 70,899, the predic
tions of political leaders were not ful
filled. The complete registration ng
ures now available show a gain of 33,-
424 over the registration for the last
presidential election in 1912. Politi
cians have prophesied that a total of
760.000 to 800,000 would be attained.
' One reason given for the failure to
reach these figures Is the return to
Europe of many men of foreign birth.
Reports from the Portland office of
the bureau of labor statistics ot Ore
gon, show that during July and August
16G3 applications for help and 6139 ap
plications for employment were re
ceived. The bureau furnished employ
ment for 4661 persons in the two
months.
Ten army machine guns of the most
up-to-date design, which will consti
tute the government's principal evi
dence in the baring of an alleged plot
to violate the neutrality laws of the
United States by shipping the arms to
Mexico, arrived In Los Angeles Fri
day and were immediately seized by
federal autnorltlea.
A delegation of six men from the
Danish West Indies, who were chosen
br the colonial councils of the islands,
left San Juan lor Denmark to report
to the committee with regard to the
sale ot the islands to the United
States. The delegation has been In
structed to recommend the sale.
Late reports concerning the cyclone
which struck the Danish .West Indies
Islands early in the week show that
the country districts in the island of
St Croix suffered heavy damage. En
tire villages and numerous mills were
destroyed. The damage done in 8t
Thomas Is estimated to exceed $1,000,-
000. -
VILLA RAID MARKED BY HORRORS;
TERRIFIED POPULATION STARVING
El Paso, Tex. Villa's attack on Cus
ihulrlachic Is described by survivors
in an article printed by El Democrata
ot Chihuahua, as accompanied by hor
rors without parallel in the history of
the recent revolution. ":
Women and children as well as men
tell in the massacre, and the survivors
told of the case ot a woman, who, be
cause she had nursed the wounds of
General Garza, was said to have been
shot, wounded, and with her newborn
child, was soaked with petroleum and
burned to death. Villa is represented
as turning a deaf ear to all supplica
tions for mercy.
"We are informed," says the paper,
"that the people in the section are
frightened to such an extent that they
do not sleep in their houses, but seek
refuge In the woods or in the interior
of mines."
Copies also reached El Paso ot a
printed appeal for aid from the char
ity society of Zacatecas. Verifying the
stories of disease and starvation there
the appeal said typhus and inanition
caused 2000 deaths in the past four
months. It declared that owing to
typhus the fields were not cultivated
and there would be no crops, while
corn is beyond the means of the poor
classes $260 in paper money for a
hectolitre, or less than three bushels
of corn and there Is absolutely no
work. The population, the appeal con
cluded, with winter coming on, was
threatened wltn extinction.
Carranza Makes New Promises.
Atlantic City. N. J. Maior-General
TaBker H. Bliss, assistant chief of
staff of the United States army, ap
peared again Tuesday before the
American members of the Mexican-
American joint commission. Later it
was intimated that the discussion by
the joint commission of the various
schemes for border control would not
be forced by the Americans until a
sufficient time had elapsed for Gener
al Carranza to show the efficiency ot
his latest punitive expedition, relative
to which new assurances were given
the commissioners by Ambassador-
Designate Arredondo. through Louis
Cabrera, chairman of the Mexican
commission.
Mr. Cabrera said his government
would begin at once an "intensive"
campaign against Villa.
The Americans were told that "tnou-
sands of the best troops in the coun
try were being taken into Chihuahua
and Durango for an extensive cam
paign, which it is expected win De-
come evident shortly in a series of
movements that will lead either to
Villa's isolation in the mountains with
out a force ot any size or to his destruction."
El Paso, Tex. Passengers arriving
at Juarez from Chihuahua City said
report was current there that a
force of 1000 Carranza soldiers left
their base at Santa Ysabel Saturday
to operate against Villa, only to meet
a serious reverse at the hands of the
bandits on the road to San Andres.
Arrivals here over the Mexican
Northwestern railway say that Villa's
men are in possession of Namiquipa.
U. S. Warship Rushes Out.
Bar Harbor. Me.. Oct 16. The ab
rupt recall of a liberty party from the
destroyer McDougall and the ship's
subsequent departure at full speed to
day, suggested important develop
ments in connection wltn the war
ship's neutrality patrol. Early this
afternoon the vessel put in here from
Eastport and gave shore leave to a
party of her sailors. Four blasts of
the shlp'B whistle soon recalled them,
and the last boatload had hardly
reached the destroyer's side when
she steamed out of the harbor.
The wild coast line in this region,
with its innumerable coves, has long
been one of the favorite regions pick
ed out by rumor for hidden wireless
Btatlons and secret submarine oases.
Commander of the German Submarine U-53.
Si
Captain Hans
Rose, commander
of the U-63 of the
German navy, sank
at least six per
haps seven steam
ers off Nantucket
lightship within
twenty-four hours
after he left New
port, Saturday. His
action has brought
about strained re
lations with Ger
many, relations
more strained than
at any time since
the sinking ot the
Lusltania.
CRUSHED TO DEATH
IN FREIGHT WRECK
Ten Dead and Eleven Injured in Rear
End Stock Train Smash-up.
Tragedy Bared In Ashes.
Flasher, N. D. That P. B. Wilkison,
a farmer, shot and killed his daughter,
Gladys, and then set fire to the fam
ily home near here and killed himself
was the conclusion reached by au
thorities Tuesday with the finding of
the two bullet-riddled 'bodies in the
ruins of the house. A shotgun was the
weapon used.
Domestic difficulties, It was said by
neighbors, prompted Mrs. Wilkison
and another child to quit the home two
hours before the fire was discovered.
CABOOSE GROUND INTO BITS
Five Escape by Jumping Hot Box
Halts Section of Train Crew
Fail to Put Out Signals.
2200 MEN VOTE TO END STRIKE;
RESUME WORK IN SAN FRANCISCO
NEWS ITEMS
Of General Interest
About Oregon
Retrial la Begun.
San Francisco. The second trial of
six men under indictment in the so
called Oregon land fraud case began
Wednesday morning In Federal Judge
Doollng's court
Nat C. Cogblan, chief attorney lor
Norman D. Cook, one of the defend
ants, cannot be present on account of
an engagement at Los Angeles, but
his absence is not expected to delay
the hearing. The jury disagreed at
the first trial four months ago.
Exploslv Cache Bared.
East Machlas, Me. An explosion
which shook this village early Satur
day has revealed that a building at
the head of navigation on the East
Machlas river has been used secretly
as a storehouse for some powerful ex
plosive. Efforts to ascertain the own
ership of the explosive were unsuc
cessful. Reports that boat had been
heard passing up the river during a
heavy storm Friday night and Satur
day morning could not be confirmed.
Elwood, Neb. Ten men were killed,
fatally crushed, and 11 others ser
iously injured when a train on the
Burlington railroad crashed into the
freight caboose in which these were
riding, 12 miles east of here Sunday
morning. Five other men, standing
on the rear platform of the caboose,
saw the approaching train soon
enough to jump to safety. One other
man In the caboose cupola was thrown
clear of the wreck and escaped injury.
The trains in collision were the sec
ond and third sections ot a regular
stock train. Lack of lights and warn
ing signals Is given by survivors of
the collision as the cause of the acci
dent All the victims are residents of Ne
braska towns ot western and central
parts of the state, most of them farm
ers or stockmen.
The second section train had stop
ped at a point about half way between
Smlthfield and Bertrand because ot
hot boxes.
Members of the crew were at work
on the hot boxes when the third sec
tion, running 10 minutes behind the
first, crashed into a caboose. It is
declared that the crew ot the second
section had failed to put out torpedoes
or liehts to warn the train following,
and that the headlight on the engine
milllne the third section bad gone out.
No one was aware of the danger until
the third section was within a few
varda of the rear end of the second.
The engineer reversed his engine but
he could not stop.
The heavy stock train jammed into
the train ahead, driving the waycar
under a car of cattle ahead. The 21
men on the floor of the caboose were
jammed into a space ot less than four
feet In width and this was filled with
wreckage. The railroad ran a special
train from Holdredge with physicians
and the injured were taken to Hast
ings for hospital carre.
Prices On 8hoes 8oarlnfl.
Pittsburg. Wholesale prices on
men's and women's footwear have
been advanced 60 to 76 cents a pair
within the last 72 hour and certain
lines have been withdrawn entirely
from the market owing to a shortage
in leather, according to announcement
here by officers of the Pennsylvania
Shoe Travelers' association. Many
letters were read from firms manu
facturing shoes announcing an ad
vance of 27 to 60 cents a pair on up
per stock and eight to 10 cents
pound on sole leather.
Two-Cent Mall Extended.
Washington, D. C. Conclusion of a
convention providing for a 2-cent let
ter rate between the United States
and New Zealand Is announced by the
Dostoffice department New Zealand
is approximately 7000 miles from the
eastern coast of the United states.
San Francisco, Oct 15. The strike
of the boilermakers and allied crafts,
involving about 2200 men in the San
Francisco and Alameda plants ot the
Union Iron Works and the Moore &
Scott Shipyards at Oakland, was set
tled today at a mass meeting of the
unions concerned.
- The strike was called last Thursday
by the boilermakers on the refusal of
the employers to discharge members
of the Shlpfitters' Union, an organiza
tion which had withdrawn from the
American Federation of Labor. Un
der the terms of the settlement the
shlpfitters will join the International
Boilermakers' union and the Ship
wrights and Caulkers union, another
independent union, will become part
of the United Brotherhood of Carpen
ters and Joiners of America. No ques
tion of wages or hours had a place in
the controversy.
Mayor James Rolph, Jr., took an ac
tive part in the bringing about of a
settlement of the international dispute
which had been hanging fire two
years.
New Loan of $250,000,000
Puts Check on Rapid Imports
Chicago. Beyond question, the flo
tation of the British loan ot $250,000,-
000 in this market in the early part
of September has been Instrumental
in checking the flow of gold to this
country, and to that extent, has been
beneficial.
Up to the third week in September
the gold imports this year aggregated
$324,460,000, against exports of $93,-
500,000, so that the excess of imports
over exports this year has been $291,
445,000, which compares with an ex
cess in gold imports over exports for
the corresponding period of last year
of 2247,171,000.
Whether gold Imports can be long
held in check is a difficult question to
determine, as much depends upon the
British requirements and the attitude
of the American banks and the invest
ment public. But it is certain that
sooner or later gold will again flow
Into this country In considerable vol
ume, unless, of course, the war should
come to a sudden and unexpected ter
mination.
This enormous accumulation of gold
which has taken place since the begin
ning ot the war is resulting in a tre
mendous expansion in various forms
of credit This expansion is a form ot
Inflation, but being based upon gold,
is not dangerous
One of the unfortunate results of
the upward tendency of prices is the
effect that they have on corporations
having a fixed earning rate, for these
corporations can only increase their
revenue from an increase in volume,
and, naturally, there are limitations
even on that This applies especially
to the railroads.
Great Educational Revival
Strikes Oregon Institutions
University of Oregon, Eugene. An
intellectual stimulus that state uni
versity observers so far have not ac
counted for appears to have come to
Oregon this fall. Here are a few of
the manifestations of it:
Nearly 1,000 persons have appeared
for university extension classes in
Portland. Residence enrollment in
liberal arts at Eugene wjll be nearly
1,100 for the year. Registration in the
correspondence-study department is
628. Attendance at the summer school
was 314. Other departments show
similar growth. For example, 4,479
teachers of Oregon have this year
done their reading circle work with
the university.
The Portland increase is about 75
per cent; liberal arts residence in
crease is about 13 per cent; the correspondence-study
increase is 19 per
cent; the summer school increase was
70 per cent. This growth has come
in a period when increases were not
to be expected. .
When a member of the extension
faculty made a trip on institute work
to Harney county this month, a ma
jority of the teachers were found to
be Interested In correspondence-study.
The attendance totals for all Oregon
Institutions of higher education give
this state a hieh nlace in percentage
of population that goes beyond 'the
nigh school. r
State Engineers Tackle Water
Survey of Hood River Valley
Hood River. Rhea Luper, engineer
for the state water board, assisted by
Fred Coshow and Malcolm Button, has
begun the four months' task ot mak
ing a survey of the entire area of the
Hood River valley under the ditches
ot irrigation systems or that may be
Irrigated. During the next week H. K.
Donnelly, another engineer of the wa
ter board, accompanied by R. C. Ingar
ham, will arrive here to assist in the
task. George T. Cochran, of La
Grande, eastern Oregon water super
intendent, was here Saturday to in
spect the Initial work of the engineer.
The work of the water board has
been undertaken here for the purpose
of adjudicating the water rights of
the entire Hood River watershed. The
task was initiated recently, when the
supreme court, remanding a decision
of Circuit Judge Bradshaw in the case
of the Oregon Lumber company vs.
the East Fork Irrigation District, re
ferred the case to the water board.
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Shooting Stars Promised.
University of Oregon, Eugene Two
separate annual displays of shooting
stars will be visible throughout Ore
gon November 15 and 24, according to
E. H. McAUster, professor of astron
omy and mechanics in the state uni
versity. The display due on Novem
ber 15 may be seen in the early morn
ing hours; that of November 24 is due
In the early evening. The earth at
these times will be cutting through
the orbit of the swarm ot meteors
from which the stars come.
Display of the aurora borealis will
be visible in Oregon next winter, for
the first time in 11 years, Mr. McAUs
ter says. Northern lights are dim in
this latitude of the west, except when
the sun spots have reached their max
imum number, which occurs only once
in 11 years. A connection between
the sun spots and the aurora borealis
is believed by many scientists to exist.
ESTABLISHED 1865
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best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere.
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Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers
Athena, Oregon. WaiUburg, Washington.
Bridge Does Big Business.
Salem. Traffic figures compiled un
der the direction of the state highway
department show that In 80 days end
ing at 6:30 A. M. October 10, 21,008
automobiles, 13,858 motorcycles, bicy
cles and pedestrians, 10,307 horse
drawn vehicles, and 923 head of stock
crossed the bridge over the Willam
ette river at Salem. The dally aver
age of traffic over the bridge was:
700 automobiles, 4C2 motorcycles, bi
cycles and pedestrians, 343 horse
drawn vehicles, and 31 head of stock.
The maximum of traffic occurred on
Portland day during the recent state
fair, when 1579 automobiles crossed
the bridge.
Twelve Fly In Oreat Air Boat
Buffalo, N. Y. An enormous flying
boat built after the lines of the Amer
ica, with 11 passengers seated in the
cabin, and the pilot made s trial trip
at a height ot 600 feet over Lake Keu
ka Monday afternoon.
The new flying boat has a greater
spread of wing than the America, It
Is not of the tractor type. There are
two pusher propellors, each operated
by an - eight-cjilnder motor of 200-horsepower.
Idaho Man Buy Blooded Bull.
Lewlston, Idaho. Dean Iddlngs, of
the University ot Idaho, states that
Henry Thlessen, ot Sweetwater, Ida
bo, has purchased at Kansas City at
the American Hereford Association
sale the bull Prince Rupert 80th, pay
lng $2200 for the animal. Mr. Thles
sen came to Idaho from Germany as
a stowaway several years ago. He
Is now said to be the greatest produc-
er of pure-bred Hereford this side of
the Mississippi river, it Has been Mr.
Tbiessen's policy to always raise the
best cattle possible, regardless ot tne
price.
Light Show U. 8. Flag.
New York. When the American
line steamship St Paul which arrived
here from England, approached the
American coast Saturday night, she
was brilliantly illuminated so that no
German submarine might mistake her
for a vessel of the entente allies. Cap
tain A. R. Mills ordered also that a
cluster of lamps be swung out to port
and to starboard so passing craft
might distinguish the American flag
painted on each side.
Prunes $6.40 a Hundred.
Roseburg. The highest price paid
for prunes in Douglas county this sea
son, was recorded here Wednesday,
when Rush Clark, o Millwood rancher,
sold his entire crop at $6.40 per hun
dred pounds, orchard run. Mr. Clark
had about 30,000 pounds of prunes,
Practically all of the prunes grown
In Douglas county have been sold and
the local packing plants are working
to their full capacity. This year's
crop is said to be the heaviest in the
history ot the county.
Radio 8tation Under Way.
Marshfield. The United States ra
dio station being constructed at Engle
wood, a suburb of Marshfield, Is about
one-third finished. The piling for the
residences has been driven and the
grading at the site is one-half com
pleted. A hill is being cut away to
make the fill required for the grounds
surrounding the station, A large per
centage of the lumber has been de
livered and the buildings now are un
der way.
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Groceries
1900 Cars are Lacking.
Salem. All records for car shortage
on the Portland division of the South
ern Pacific company's lines were bro
ken when reports to the Oregon Pub
lic Service commission showed the
company 1900 cars short of its orders.
The company reported that it had re
ceived orders for 2225 cars, and that
325 cars were available. A total ot 73
empty freight cars were reported to
have arrived at Ashland in 24 hours.
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