: WHAT YOU NEED The othef fellow may have; what you have the other fellow may want. Come together by advertising in the Press. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer BARGAIN DAY Is every day with the Merchant who advertises In the Press he has some thing to sell and says so. VOLUME XXVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1916. NUMBER 46. WORLD'S DOINGS Of CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from Ail Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHQJ Live News Items of All Nations and w Pacific Northwest Condensed ' for Our Busy Readers. Spokane grocers and butchers are discussing the question of advancing prices on their goods. 1 " ; . - A Klamath Falls, Oregon, sheriff pours 200 gallons of seized liquor into the Main street sewer. ' ' Because of the car shortage, Port land fuel men are employing auto trucks to transport wood to the city from nearby forests. The British steamer Bornu has foun dered 25 miles west of'Ushantina heavy gale. All the passengers and crew were saved by the Norwegian steamer Rein. ' - Andrew Carnegie has bought from S. P. Shotter, of Savannah, Ga., the Shadow Brook estate in Lenox, Mass., and will occupy it as a summer home. The deal is said to involve more than $400,000. -.. -Miss Jessie Ashley, sister of Clar ence D. Ashley, former dean of the New York University Law School, is adjudged guilty of distributing birth control literature in court in New York and fined S50. The importation of goods for private use in Petrograd has been prohibited on account of traffic congestion. Spe cial permission of the miniBtry is re quired for shipments for other tnan government purposesr- Frank Moore, injured 16 months ago when a motor car he was driving was run down by a Southern Pacific train near Thurston, Ore., leaves the Eugene hospital almost fully recovered from his injuries, which included a broken back. v A $1,000,000 timber deal was con summated at Tillamook, Or., when Wallace McCamant, of Portland, as master in chancery, received from John P. Oleson, of Chicago, a $25,000 check to bind the sale of timber lands in Tillamook, Washington and Lane counties. G.C Burris, a Superior Court juror at Seattle, was taken from the juryboz and lodged in the county jail, charged with disobeying a court order directing him to pay $10 a week for support of his wife. Burris was arrested on lazy husband warrant last May and re- - leased on promise to make payments. Short skirts and military footwear are chiefly responsible for the high cost of shoes, according to U Bos- worth, special agent of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. "Three years ago," says Mr. Bosworth, "there was no market for glazed kid. Skirts then became shorter and shoes lengthened, which used up the supply of kid." Mrs. Mary Fairbanks, mother of ex-Vice-President Fairbanks, died sud denly at Indianapolis at his home Tues day night. Mr. Fairbanks was cam paigning in Illinois at the time. Mrs, Fairbanks, who was 87 years old, had been enjoying good health and took long motor ride just before she became suddenly ill. from has SIX AMERICANS LOSE LIVES ON MARINA; NO WARNING, REPORT Dublin, via London The British steamer Marina was torpedoed with out warning, according to a statement made by American survivors of the vessel, who arrived here Tuesday night from Bear Haveiu Six Americans were killed. The survivors declared that two tor pedoes were fired at the Marina and that the submarine watched the boats containing the survivors for half an hour without offering assistance. Ihe statement was made to the Associated Press. Twenty-eight American survivors of the steamer arrived at the seamen's home here from Bear Haven. In the statement to the Associated Press they said : - .- - ' We reached safety after more than 30 hours in a rough sea jn an open boat - Captain Brown was last seen lowering himself to a raft. - The Marina, with a cargo of whis from Glasgow to Baltimore, was struck by a torpedo without warning off Skelling's rock at 4:14 o'clock Saturday morning and sank in a few minutes. A second torpedo struck the embassv by Mr. Frost, who Btates that Berlin, via London At least 11 out- the vessel waB torpedoed. Seven post steamers and two or three torpedo Americans, including five Filipinos, boat destroyers or torpedo boats were were on board the Rowanmore. Sev sunk or damaged by a German torpedo eral of them have given Mr. Frost affi boat squadron Thursday night in the davits stating that a submarine shelled English Channel between Folkestone lifeboats while they were being low and Boulogne, according to an official ered and after they were clear of the communication issued here. ahio. without causing loss of life. wThe German torpedo flotilla returned ' safely to its base without any loss. Newport News, Va. There were 60 IThe communication says: Americans on the Britsih steamship I "Part nf our tornado forces moved Marina, renorted tornedoed and sunk burg, who was drowned, and two stol I from a German base Thursdav nisrht without warnine in disnatches from aways, who also were drowned. I f through the Straits of Dover and Ca- London, when she sailed from Newport ine suDmanne waicneu our uuu wn to the line of Folkestone-Bouloene. lor nair an Dour ana onerea no wswi- m he Enirlish Channel, "According to the report of Com mander Michelsen at least 11 outpost steamers and two or three destroyers port side of the vessel about 10 muM communication issued here. uusb tuber uhs mat. : ' Jr All Americans aboard were S bers of the crew except one, a past k ger named Middleton, of Frederic! I A wireless press dispatch f: Bucharest says an official decree has been issued committing for trial on a charge of conspiracy two men named Babosh and Thot, who are charged wltb having attempted last year to as sassinate Premier Bratiano, of Rou mania; M. CoBtinesco, Roumanian minister, and the late . M, Filipesco, fnrmflr war miniater. At'a sale conducted under the direc tion of the United States District court at Cleveland, the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad was sold to Blair & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of New York, for $12,000,000. The reorgan ization plan calls for the addition of $9,984,708 to the road's treasury. Stockholders are to be assessed $27a share to provide this amount and in return are to receive 6 per cent pre ferred stock of the road. The new Trolpastta canal in Sweden has been opened by King Gustav. The canal connects Wener Lake and the North Sea. Ten persona, mostly school children, - remained for an hour and a half in the municipal hydraulic elevator at Oregon Citv. Or., when the cage stuck mid way in its 90-foot shaft. Detectives in St. Louis have recov ered $13,000 of the $32, 000 stolen from a paymaster of the Burroughs Adding Machine company in Detroit August 4. The British mine-sweeping vessel naniat ha bmn tnrnedoed and sank according to the British admiralty. All the officers and 73 members of the crew were lost, only 12 escaping, Even the price of stale bread has hon . increased in San Francisco. "Yesterday's bread" used to sell two loaves for a nickel. Now the price three loaves for a dime or four for 15 cents. gemn FLOTILLA RAIDS TRANSPORTS Berlin Says 11 Outpost Vessels and Several Torpedo Craft Sunk. SCENE IS IN ENGLISH CHANNEL London Declares Two Attackers Were , Destroyed Germans Claim All Returned Safely to Base. BRITISH STEAMSHIP MARINA TOR PEDOED; AMERICANS REPORTED LOST London A private telegram received at the American consulate Monday af ternoon from Crook Haven says that a number of Americans were drowned when the British steamship Marina was torpedoed by a German submarine. London The American embassy Monday received a report from Wesley Frost. American consul at Queenstown, that the British steamship Marina had been torpedoed without warning. It is believed a number of Americans were on board." " Lloyd's report says only 34 members of the crew of 104 have been landed at Crook haven. American Consul is now procuring affidavits from survivors. A report on the sinking on October 26 of the British steamship Rowan- more also was made to the American Long Beach, N. J. After receiving unofficial information that six Ameri cans had lost their lives by the sinking of the British steamship Marina, President Wilson communicated with Secretary of State Lansing Tuesday night and directed that all possible haste, be taken in obtaining the facts concerning the sinking of the vessel. Secretary of State Lansing informed the President that, in addition to a re quest to the American embassy in London for information, intormai in quiries had been Bent to the German rovernment. While it was made clear here tnat on action would be taken pending the collection of all the facts, it was indi cated that the situation contained grave possibilities. . Deutschland Reaches American Port Safely for Second Time New London. Conn. The German merchant submarine Deutschland ar rived in the harbor here early Wednes day morning. Captain Koenlg said the ueutschlana left Bremen on October 10. The en tire crew comprises 25 men. The Deutschland appeared in the harbor shortly after midnight and proceeded to the dock of the Eastern Forwarding company. Captain F. Hlnscb, of the U'orwara- ine company, accompanied by Dr. R, E. Black, the health officer and other officials, met the submersible on a tug. The usual quarantine regulations were waived and the Deutschland tied up at the dock near the North German Lloyd steamer Willehad. The Deutschland was said to have a large cargo of chemicals and possibly dyes.- - The submerBible. under her own power, slid into a pocket that had been prepared for her at the wharf. The craft's entry into the harbor was so silent that only a few persons were aware that she was there. Captain Koenig said that the boat originally was supposed to leave on October 1, but she was injured in a collision and put back to port, delaying her sailing 10 days. The clearance papers were made out for "Baltimore or any Atlantic port. " . or tornedo boats were sunk, partially when sunk, had a mixed crew of Brit- or totally, near hostile ports. Some ish and Americans ana mat sne was members of the crews who were saved sunk by gun fire without warning.. were captured. Consul Frost at Queenstown speci- " Several other ffuardinff vessels and tied that the lniormation ne iransmit- at least two destroyers were heavily ted was "provisional." Investigation damaged by torpedo and artillery fire, will be made at once to determine the Also the English outpost steamer status of the Marina and tne nature oi Queen was sunk south of Folkestone, the attack to determine whether any the crew having time to leave the ahip. "In the channel near the Farnene lightship there was a strikingly active traffic by hospital ships. Our torpedo boats safely returned to German waters without any loss." I News. The Americans here as horsemen. were signed Washington, D. C. Dispatches to the State department say the Marina, of Germany's pledges to the United States had been violated. J American Contention on Blacklist is Refused by Great Britain London Ten German torpedo boat destroyers attempted to raid the Brit ish cross-channel ' transport service Thursday night, but the attempt 0T.er failed, says an official statement is- Washington, D. C The next move of the United States in the controversy the blacklist of American firms will not be determined until officials sued by the British admiralty. Two ?? mP f th German destroyers were sunk Britain's, reply to the American note j .u. . j": of July 28. protesting against it. p,;.k trr,Hn wt dtvr. reply reached the State department 1.1.- mi. t o:.k..j d v-i Monday from the London embassy. ltt in command, i. mi.sinr. the Brit, Secretary Lansing Said be had not de- iai, f.Kmnt .Hrt. .nH nnthr !. cided when it would be made public. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Crime Decreasing in Oregon Declares Warden of State Pen Salem "Statistics of this institu tion during the current calander year warrant the belief that crime in Ore gon is steadily decreasing, and that the number of commitments to the penitentiary may be materially re duced during the next few years,' sayB Warden John W. Minto in hiB bi ennial report to the state board of control. Speaking of the reformation of pris oners, the report says that 76 per cent of them can be reformed and the re maining 25 per cent "are criminals by nature, training and inclination," and that "their entire lives will be spent either in some penal institution or dodging one." The 75 per cent sus ceptible to reformation are "unfortun ate victims of passion, financial diffi culties, careless raising, unfavorable environment and weakness in the face of temptation," says the report The segregation of prisoners is recom mended. Car License Cards Issued. Salem To the 40,000 motor vehicle owners and chauffeurs of Oregon, Sec retary of State Olcott has mailed ap plication blanks for registration for the year 1917. A transmittal card with the horsepower of each machine, figured according to the -Oregon law, was inclosed with each application, and also a notice requesting owners not to ask for the assignment of any certain number. 'The attempt to accommodate those who have wished for the same number each year, as well as those asking for specified numbers, has proven unsatis factory and impracticable," said Sec retary Olcott, "and therefore requests of this nature will receive no atten tion this year." Btroyer. the Nubian, Commander Mon tague Bernard, was disabled by a tor pedo and ran aground. 'Nine members of the crew of the Flirt were saved. The German destroyers succeeded in sinking one empty transport, the Queen. The crew was saved. Kaiser Asks New War loan; Total Credits 52 Billion Marks The note refuses the American con tention, which termed the blacklist "an arbitrary interference with neu tral trade," but is understood to offer methods of relief which may be avail able in some instances to lessen the rijrors of Interference. An American reply is almost certain to be made, based on the contention that the blacklist violates the criminal treaty of 1816; that in singling out certain American firms, undue discrim ination is shown and that an illegal action is taken, designed -to prevent Berlin A new war credit bill f or waoe wwn uermany ana 10 ena wmcn 10 nnn nnn nnn .rv. iihmittl should De Bccompnsnea tnrougn oiock- to the reichstag Saturday by Count e ana comraoana reauictione. n Von Roedem, secretary of the imper- may be argued that the blacklist is de- ial treasury, who also reviewed the ig"eu w criW ui..B u successes of the German war finances Germany to destroy German trade and compared them with the practices more than for the immediate purpose followed by the countries opposed to war- Germany. Count Von Roedem said that the total German war credits up to now amounted to 52,000,000,000 marks. Explaining the practice of the German treasury, the imperial treasurer said : "On the basis of the war credit Navy Opens Bids. Washington, D. C. Bids were opened at the Navy department Wed nesday for four scout cruisers and 27 coast-type submarines, leaving only proposals for four battle cruisers to be received before construction of the 1917 building program can begin. Figures for four battleships and 20 destroyers are under consideration and awards may be made next week. The scout cruisers are a new type, designed to make a sustained speed of 35 knots an hour. Each will be equipped with a catapult device for launching aeroplanes at sea. Ihe ves sels will be large enough to cover long scouting distances and will depend up on their speed fot defense. Ocean Sweeps Newport. Newport, Or. Wednesday's storm caused the heaviest sea along the Coast here seen for years. A mam moth wave came in on Nye Beach, flooding the restroom floor and, dash ing up the plank incline on Beach street, caught Samuel Beaten, s citi zen of Newport, overthrew him and would have dragged him back into the surf had he not obtained finger holds in a crack in the walk. - This wave is the biggest ever known here, being one foot higher than the record high wave one year ago. Toll by Wind $10,000. Hood River, Or. The heavy wind storm that prevailed over the Hood River Valley Wednesday night left blanket of fallen apples under trees of East Side orchards. The loss is esti mated at tiu.uuo. Toe wind was ac companied by a steady downpour of rain. E. W. Birge, local weather ob server, reports a precipitation of .35 of an inch. The wet ground will make transportation of apples picked and in boxes, stacked in orchards, difficult. Skilful Counterfeiter's Plant for Making Bogus Bills is Found Les Angeles A counterfeiting plant which was said to have produced the granted by Parliament in all cases notorious spurious 110 Federal Keserve short-term treasury bonds which were Jackson silver certificate," was found remlarlv consolidated with long-term Sunday In the studio of H. Russel Wil- nana in the months of March and Sen- aen. wnen secret service operatives tember were issued. The amount of from San Francisco brought Wilken more than 47.000.000.000 marks sub- here to seize the outfit after his arrest arrihed to these loans, of which 46.- in Santa Cruz and his alleged confes- 000,000,000 marks already had been sion that he had made and passed more paid, proves the success of this Bnan- tnan ou,uuu ot spurious paper in sev- cing policy. The uerman nation m en years, 1914 produced from its own resources 4,500,000,000 marks in such loans; in 1915 more than Zl,00U,UOU,uuu mams, and in 1916. 21,000,000,000 marks also. The plant a copper etching outfit was found concealed in a covered sink in a room on the second story of 311 South Hill street, three blocks from police headquarters and in the heart of Yn will remember 'that the first the city. Wilken's quarters were fit- four loans were essentially of the same ted up as a studio, and he pretended to tvne. earrvinir 6 nor cent interest and carry on a business 01 commercial having approximately the tame price art, according to the ' authorities, nf iaaua. There having been raised in There were easels, unfinished pictures, this .fashion ' 38.000.000 marks in a painting jacket and brushes about, round figures the question seemed just- although WilKen apparently woraea at ifled as to whether the fifth loan tonld his profession only enough; to make it be placed under the same conditions." a blind for counterfeiting. Mexicans Bun to U. 8. for Protection. Three Die In Two Auto Wrecks, El Paso, Tex. Three unarmed Mex-l Palouse, Wash. Roscoe Davis, age icans, chased by bullets from their side 22, and Alvin Siler, age 21, were of the border, splashed through the found dead under a new automobile Rio Grande Thursday to protection of Sunday, two miles from here. There an outpost of Company G, Fifth Ohio were no witnesses to the accident The . . ... .1 -1 .u a l. I - .1 : .1... tl.a . na-.kinA nfantrv tntinnMi afvrai mnea 11an.11 irnc umuow wwi, uwuimv nf Fl Pan The fueitives informed swerved and was jerked back so sud- h oniarnamen that thev were political denly that it overturned. The ma- nrisoners freed from the Chihuahua chine was the first in the Davis family, un tnu.rv tiv Vil a on HeDiemDer 10. Beimr in svmoathy with Villa, they Kellogg, Idaho Mike Bogonovich, said they had escaped and worked 30, was found dead underneath his au nrthsarri hainir chased bv Carranza tomobile on the highway between Kel scouts aa they approached the river, logg and Wallace early Sunday night. Apples Wait for Cars. Hood River With immediate orders for 400 carloads of apples and without a single refrigerator, car available Wednesday, officials of the Apple growers' association declare that the apple market situation is being seri ously affected by the car shortage. The local storage terminals are fast filling up with apples, and unless cars are available Boon growers will prob ably be filling the basements of local business houses with boxed apples. "It has been reported that refriger ator cars have been used to transport wheat We are investigating to find whether or not this is true," said Wil mer Sieg, salesmanager of the apple growers. ' Entire Fruit Pack is Sold. Brownsville The canenry of the Linn and Benton Fruit Growers' asso ciation, located here, has Bold the en tire pack of this season and all the old stock except a few black cherries. The goods are commanding the best price since the establishment oi the plant in 1906. They are loading cars to the limit of their capacity, some times putting in 100,000 pounds, be cause of the scarcity of cars. The cannery has packed about 12,000 cases this season, and contemplates putting up 8000 or 4000 more. Clean Bill Given Camp. North Bend Dr. Ira B. Bartle, who was requested by the state health au thorities to examine the Buehner Lum ber Company's logging camp at Alle ghany and determine whether it was in an Insanitary condition as reported to the health authorities by a logger, he said in part: "The men employed at the camp had no complaint to make on the charges contained in the letter of criticism; the bunkhouses are large and well ventilated, bug proof, of steel, and the kitchen was clean, while the food was wholesome." , Polk Road Body Forms, Dallas The Polk County Road Builders' association was organized in Dallas recently. The association Is composed of three delegates from each of the road districts of the county. Every road district was represented, there being 67 accredited delegates In attendance. A permanent organiza tion was perfected with the object of recommending,? to the county court each year necessary road improvement and repairs in order that the court may be aided In making up its budget Phone Line Is Proposed. Bend A proposal that an effort be made to connect the towns of Bend and Burns by telephone was made at the meeting of the Commercial club here recently by J, E. Weston, man ager of the Inter-Mountain Telephone & Telegraph company, of Burns. Mr. Weston estimated that the cost of the work would be $13,000. The present lines of communication are by way of Baker and Portland. Tha matter has been taken up by the club's transportation committee. ' PoVs Workshop Must Go. Richmond, Va. Edgar Allen Poe's old workshop, now the Southern Liter ary Messenger building, must be torn down within five days, under a court order entered on complaint that the buildinir was unsafe; A citizens' com mittee trying to preserve the building as a memorial to the poet who pro duced many of his earlier writings in it will have the structure rased in such a way that it can ba reconstructed on the grounds of Richmond College. Nicaragua Revenue Taken, Managua, Nicaragua Americans are taking over the management of all the internal revenues of Nicaragua. A dispatch from Managua, October 1. says it was reported American bankers to whom the Nicaraguan gov ernment was indebted, had notified Nicaragua that it must liquidate the indebtedness by October 15 or that otherwise they would take over suffi cient of the country's revenues to ra isiburM them. Potato Yield Is Heavy, Aurora Potatoes and hops have come in so plentiful for storage that practically every storeroom in town is full, while tha difficulty in obtaining cars renders it almost impossible for buyers to make further purchases ex cept for future delivery. The yield and quality of the potatoes in this sec tion is better than for years and if the car shortage doe not interfere with that sale of them, there is every pros pect of a rich harvest Buy Your Heater WOW Cold weather will be here before you realize it We are prepared for it with the best line of Heating Stoves on the market There is nothing to equal them. Fine Heaterseasy on coal, and very clean and very handsome in design. Come and see them NOW FOSS-WINSHIP HARDWARE CO. Barrett Building. Athena, Oregon ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY f LOUR Is made in Athena, by Athena Labor, in one of the . very best equipped Mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. 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