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The mayor of Boise, Idaho baa been
ousted ly recall.
Aastrisn troop are aiding the Ger
man! in the Verdun battle.
Carrania'l not demanding with
drawal of American troopa la coneid-
ered oSanaiT at Waahington
Twenty persons were killed or
wounded in an outbreak at Maracalbo,
Venezuela, against General Garcia,
who baa been appointed president of
the state of Zulu.
The planting of 600 scree of land In
the Buthariln, On., district to sugar
beets has been completed and the
growing crop ia considered one of the
but prospects In the JNortnweet.
Mrs. Jnaish Evans Cowlae, of Los
Angela, has been elected president of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs by a large majority, defeating
Mrs. Samuel B. Snoath, of Tiffin, 0.
A resolution asking the President to
report on the restrictions imposed by
the belligerent nations on importations
of food supplies for suffering inhab
ltanta of Poland was adopted by the
Conbaeta totaling $160,000 and in
volving approximately 8000 ton of
cherries, gooseberries, - strawberries,
loganberries, apples, pears and prunes,
have been made by the Salem, Ore.,
Fruit Union.
A Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen
PoUtikan says that the court which
conducted the preliminary examination
of Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Socialist
leader, decided that ha should be pun
ished for treason.
The Cologne Volks Zeltung says It is
reported, although not confirmed, that
King Victor Emmanuel and hia apecial
staff have departed from the Italian
general headquarters at Udine on ac
count of the Austrian offensive and re
tired to Venies.
Priority of Invention of the hydro
aeroplane was awarded by the District
Bupreme Court of Washington, D. C,
to Albert 8. Janin against Glenn B.
Curtias, on the ground that Janin had
established a date of conception three
years ahead of Curtis.
Pierre Dreyfus, son of Commandant
Alfred Dreyfus, of the famous "Drey
fus Affair," who has been serving oh
the Verdun front as second lieutenant
in ths Artillery; ha just been cited in
the order of the day for having "par
ticularly distinguished himself during
the violent engagements of February
26, 27 and 28" in the battle of Verdun.
Representatives in congress from
woman suffrage states st a special
hearing before the house judiciary
committee insisted on a report on the
Susan B. Anthony amendment fori
woman suffrage, so that the issue may I
be squarely voted on. A number of
members opposing suffrage left the
room, and the committee was confront
ed with no quorum.
William Annett and W. C. Reddy,
who had been prospecting and trapping
on the Arctic Ocean for years, arrived
. at Dawson and enlisted in the Cana
dian army for service in Europe. Set
ting out months ago, the men tramped
for hundreds of miles serosa iee and
through snow from the Arctic shores
to Fort Yukon, and there awaited the
first steamer to Dawson.
Beginning June 1 snd henceforth
during the continuance of the war and
until peace is declsred all places li
cenced for the sale of liquor In the
province of British Columbis must
close at 10 o'clock p. m. and must not
open until 11 o'clock next morning,
except in the case of Saturday, when
they must close at 10 p. m. and remain
shut until 11 a. m. Monday. ,
The United States cruiser Tennessee
has arrived t Santo Domingo from
Norfolk with severs! hundred marines
to reinforce the American force now
engaged in policing the republic
Attended by members of the Yale
Corporation, the faculties of the vari
ous departments, members of the stu
dent body, end distinguished slumni,
the funeral of Rev. Timothy Dwight,
ex-preaident of Yale University, was
held Wednesday from Battle chapel on
the college campus. ;
Palmer H. EUengaen wss killed near
Taeotna, Sunday, when struck shove
the heart with a pitched ball during an
amateur baseball game. Be died al
most instantly.
The sessions of the 27th General
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, held at Saratoga Springs, N.
Y., during the last four weeks, were
concluded Wednesday. ;
Lad by Secretary Tumulty, employes
of .ths Whit House will inarch in the
preparedness parade on Flag Day,
June 14. President Wilson probably
will review the parade.
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London The British admiralty Mon
day Issued a statement saying there
was ths strongest ground for the be
lief that the British navy In the bat
tle with the Germane off Jutland last
week bad accounted for a total of 16
German men-of-war, and that there
nothing to add to or substract
from the original announcement of the
British losses.
The statement cava the German
loans as two bstttleshlps, two dread-
naught battle cruisers, four light
cruisers, nine torpedo post destroyers
and a submarine. -
The pessimism which prevailed a a
result of the admiraltiy'a original
statement of losses, which is consid
ered to have been needlessly candid
and conservative in underestimating
the extent of the German losses, a
compared with those of Great Britain,
haa been greatly lessened by the latest
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
rumors are current in Hamburg that
two additional German warships be
sides those announced in the German
communication the battleship West-
falen and the battle cruiser Lutiowd
were sunk In battle, A wireless dis
patch received hare Saturday from
Berlin aaid the German admiralty ad
mitted the loss of the Weatfalen.
The admiralty statement declare
that the German lossee in the fight
were not only relatively, but absolute
ly, greater than those of the BHtian.
Maintaining its practice of caution.
the admiralty still refrains from giv
ing the names of the lost German
shins. -
The official list of the casualties
among officers shows that hardly
single officer of the line escaped from
the British cruisers sunk in the battle.
An additional casualty list of petty
officers shows that 48 of them were
saved from the Queen Mary, Invinci
ble, Fortune, Ardent and Shark. None
was saved from the Indefatigible, De
fense, Black Prince, Tipperary, Turbu
lent, Nomad or Nestor.
Great Oriental Freigkt Cap
aidSai fofldsco Pier Bun
San Francisco Five thousand tons
of frieght from the Orient, which
wore unloaded Sunday from the ahin
yo Mara No. 2, a Japanese freighter,
and a concrete pier recently erected by
the itate at the mouth ox isiais ureek,
were destroyed in a spectacular blaze
of unknown origin here early Monday.
The Shinyo and the General Forbes,
another freighter, which were tied to
the pier, were slightly damaged before
they could be removed from the lire b
reach. Steamship men said the loss
would reach close to 1800,000.
The Shinyo arrived Wednesday, but
the cargo was not touched until Sun
day, when its owners granted the de
mands of the striking longshoremen.
The boat was emptied at 11 o'clock
Sunday night, three hours before the
fire started.
Two coal barges and several bojc
cars were also damaged. One of the
barges, the Melrose, the largest pn the
Day, wnicn was tiea to tne pier, arut-
ed out into the stream with her cargo
ablaze when her moorings burned. She
bumped another coal barge, which was
anchored off the pier. Both burned
freely until fire tugs flooded the coal.
Later the two broke loose and drifted
down the bay with their cargoes
luldering. Tugs caught up with
them off the Ferry building.
Several narrowly escaped being
burned. Customs Lieutenant Patrick
Barrett and a pier watchman were on
the pier when the fire started. The
flames spread rapidly and drove the
two men aboard the Forbes.
When the fire broke out, Japanese
swarmed from the Shinyo's forecastle
and spread over the ship, seeking ref
uge. One jumped overboard, but his
mates hauled him back on a life pre
server.
From nearby cities and from far out
at sea the sheets of fire and the glare
could be seen. The blaze was the
most spectacular and destructive that
visited the local waterfont in
years.
Shacklaton Relief Fixed.
London r Plans for the relief of
Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton,
who, with several of his men, is ma
rooned in the Antarctic, were com
pleted at a meeting of a committee of
the Royal Geographical society. A
relief ship will sail from London by
August 1 for Weddell Sea by way of
Buenos Aires and the Falkland Islands.
The ship probably will follow the plan
of the Aurora, the auxiliary bark of
the Shackleton expedition, which
drifted from her moorings, anil will be ;
fitted out in Buenos Aires. - -
Ice Sweeps Alaska Town.
Nome, Alaska Council City was al
most completely swept away by float
ing ice cakes from the Neukluk river
late Sunday. Many buildings in the
lower part of the town were demol
ished. The ice jammed in a canyon a
short distance below the settlement,
causing the water to backup, and, with
its burden of heavy ice, to flood the
streets. A blizzard raged here also,
and sluicing operations which began a
few days ago, were suspended.
Marines Are Reinforced.
San Diego, Cel. The Fourth regi
ment of Marines, stationed here, has
left for New Orleans, where it will
embark for Haiti and Santo Domingo
on the transport Hancock. It is un
derstood the Fourth regiment will sup
plement the marines already on duty
in the turbulent island republics.
Preset nekton and t l
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DR.ANDMRJ. GRAYSON
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Dr. CaryT. Grayson, physician to
Alice Gertrude Gordon, of Washington, at St. tieorge s Upiseopal church.
New York, May 24. The President
and Mrs. McAdoo attended. v
SENATE PASSES
HARBOR BILL BY 35-32 VOTE
Washington, D..C The senate pass
ed Tuesday the rivers and harbors ap
propriation bill, carrying approxi
mately $43,000,000, by a vote of 86 to
82 after adding many amendments.
On the final passage Senators Cham
berlain and Lane, of Oregon, and Sen
ator Poindexter, of Washington,- vot
ed for the bill, while Senator Jones, of
Washington, and Senators Borah and
Brady, of Idaho, voted against the bill
The bill as passed carries all Ore
gon, Washington and Columbia river
items as agreed to in the house, and
they are now assured at the original
lanes I. Hill's Wealth fsti-
mated in Harted Killkws
Bt. Paul The wealth of the late
James J. EUIL who died Monday, is
estimated all the way from $100,000,
000 to $600,000,000. He was worth
probably between $200,000,000 and
$260,000,000.
An estimate of Mr. Hill 'a wealth
was furnished when, at the opening of
the European war, he called his bank
ers together and displayed a mass of
hia securities. More than $400,000,
000 was said to have been in the boxes
he laid before his bankers.
"There Bhould be no trouble," said
Mr. Hill, "but if there is, this amount
is at your disposal."
The First National bank then bor
rowed from Mr. Hill $10,000,000
worth of Great Northern railroad
bonds. These wore placed with the
Treasury department in Washington,
and $6,000,000 worth of emergency
currency, allowed under the Aldrich
act, was shipped at once to the First
National bank. It was found neces
sary to place only $126,000 worth of
this in circulation. In a few weeks
the entire amount was returned to
Waahington.
Mr. Hill had the absolute control of
the First National bank and the North
western Trust company, which gave
a combined capital and surplus of It?,
600,000.
He was a large owner of stock in
the Chase National bank of New York,
First National bank Chicago, and the
Northwestern Natoinal bank In Minne
apolis. He was a large owner of the
Great Northern Steamship company.
The greatest portion of Mr. mil s
wealth, however, was in stocks and
bonds of the Great Northern, North
ern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroads. .
Wreck Thefts Up Again.
Marshfield, Ore. The wreck of the
steamship Santa Clara last November
was recalled Tuesday by the report
that a deputy U. S. marshal is finish
ing an investigation of the rifling of
mails at the time of the . wreck, and
that a large number have been sum
moned to appear before Arthur Peck, ;
U. S. commissioner. The secret serv
ice had an operator here the week fol
lowing the wreck who took photographs
of the scenes at the salving and se
cured other interesting photographs
taken before his arrival.
V Assassin's Plot Falls.
Berlin, (By wireless to Sayville. N.
Y.) An unsuccessful attempt to as
sassinate the Austro-Hungarian minis-
rter to Persia is reported in a Constan
tinople dispatch to the Overseas News
agency Tuesday.
The attempt, according to the dis
patch, was made by Djemel Bey, "who
several years ago was Involved in the
assassination of Mahmoud Schefket
Pasha, Turkish grand vizier and min
ister of war."
Edmoniton) '
President Wilson, was married to Miss
and Mrs. Wilson, as well as Secretary
RIVER AND
figures, including $1,200,000 for the
mouth of the Columbia. The only new
Northwest item is $140,000 for Wil-
lapa harbor. Its ultimate adoption ia
doubtful, in view of Senator Jones'
vote against the bill, the amendment
having been offered by him.
The bill will now go to a conference
of the two houses. The fight against
it, begun by Senator Kenyon, of Iowa
and, Senator Sherman of Illinois,
gained strength until a final effort to
displace it with a substitute appropri
ating a lump sum of $80,000,000 1
defeated by only one vote.
PRESDBiT KStSTS ON FULL Al-
afGLANCE LN KSsSSAL DAY TAU(
Waahington, D. C President Wilson
delivered a Memorial Day address here
Tuesday, in which he denned the spirit
of America, warned citisens of foreign
birth not to set themselves against the
purposes of the nation, called upon
young men to perform voluntary mili
tary service and defended hia recent
suggestion for an slliance of nations to
preserve pesos. He spoke at Arling
ton National Cemetery before an au
dience made up largely of Civil War
veterans, who applauded him vigorous
ly.
While he declared he had no harsh
ness in his heart for Americans of
foreign birth snd expected them still
to love the sonrce of their origin, the
President said "America must come
flrst in every purpose we entertain snd
every man muBt count upon being cast
out of our confidence, cast out even of
our tolerance, who does hot submit to
that great ruling principle."
Speaking of America, made up out
of all the peoples of the world, sa the
champion of the rights of mankind, he
said:
"We are not only ready to co-operate,
but we are ready to fight against
soy aggression, whether from within
or without. But we must guard our
selves against any sort of aggression
which would be unworthy of America.
We are ready to fight for our rights
when these rights are coincident with
the rights of man and humanity."
, The President reiterated his sugges
tion before the League to Enforce
r eace last week that the United States
was ready to become a partner in any
alliance of the nations "which would
guarantee public right against selfish
aggression. Of published criticisms
reminding him that George Washing
ton warned the nation against "en
tangling alliances, " he ssid: .
"1 shall never myself consent to an
entangling alliance, but would gladly
consent to a disentangling alliance, an
alliance which would disentangle the
people of the world from those com
binations in which they seek their own
separate and private interests snd
unite the people of the world to pre
serve the peace of the world upon ai
basis of common right and justice."
. President Visits Actors.
Baltimore President Wilson came
here Tuesday to attend a theatrical
performance of the Friars' Club, of
New York, and for three hours he snd
a group of some of the leading stars of
tne country were applauded by a crowd
wnicn taxed tne capacity of the thea
ter. The President's appearance was
the signal for enthusiasm which was
continued as the actors made jokes at
hi expense. Ths President want be
hind the scene and made a abort
speech to ths assembled actors and
shook hand with alU,
About Creech
Secretary Classifies Lands in
Whitman National Forest
Portland Announcement Is made by
the district forester, George H. tiseiL
Portland, Ore., of the classification,
by tbs secretary of Agriculture, of
practically all the lands within the
boundaries of the Whitman national
forest in north eastern Oregon, A net
of approximately 179,218 acre is
embraced in this classification, and a
small area of 2742 acre la left for ex
amination later.' ;
The Whitman national forest lie in
the Blue mountains, and, according to
the report, consists mainly of a largo
body of positive forest land. The re
port snow that there is a stand of
about four billion feet of valuable
mercial timber within the forest, fifty
per eent of which is western yellow
pine. Then Is also a considerable
stand of young timber and Inferior
species which has a high value for wa
tershed protection for the Streams
which are uesd for Irrigation outside
the national forest.
This forest, it is said, has little ag
ricultural value, and isolated, scattered
tracts only could be used for farm pur
poses. The soil, although fertile, ia
rocky and shallow, and although i
ords are meager, the rainfall is known
to vary from 10 to 40 inches, ths snow
fall from 20 inches to 80 feet in the
higher altitudes the snow comes as
late as mid-June or as early as the
last of August; the killing frosts oo
cur every month in the year. The
temperature la also known to vary
from 80 degrees below aero to 120
above. Practically the entire forest
is at elevations from 4000 to 10,000
feet. The topography ia rough, char
acterised by deep, precititoua canyons,
and jagged peaks. Although over 70,-
uuu acres of alienated land exist with
in the forest boundaries, taken up un
der the homestead and timber and
stone acts, it is claimed that most at
tempts at agriculture have proven fail
ures, and a large per cent of the pri
vate lands have elhter been abandoned
or are being held for their timber and
grazing value.
In view, therefore, of these circum
stances, and with the exception of
small isolated tracts, aggregating 2742
acres left for later examination, the
secretary has classified the entire area
of the Whitman national forest as
chiefly valuable for forest purposes
snd not suited to agriculture or list-
able under the act of June 11, 1908.
27-Year Wait Is Rewarded.
Marshfield George W. Suydam,
who has a secret preparation for pre
serving woods, waited 27 long years
before realizing on his knowledge of
chemicals. Nearly 80 years ago Mr.
Buydam, who ia a resident of Den
mark, Curry county, prepared with his
process a number of different woods
snd placed them away with woods of
the same variety to see what time
would do with each of hia keepsakes.
Mow that the wood have been
smined and passed upon by experts, it
is found that those which were treated
27 years ago are as well preserved aa
when they were put away, while the
wood which waa not treated haa rotted
sway and decayed.
L. E. Swan, of Detroit, Mich., hear
ing of the successful preservative, came
to Curry county and, after an invest!'
gation, purchased a half interest in
the secret process and will finance its
exploitation. .
Voters Order irrigation.
Vale Land owners in the Malheur
valley voted 84 to 11 Saturday to or
ganize an Irrigation district, which
contemplates construction of a dam at
Riverside, holding 200,000 acre-feet of
water. Government engineers have
reported it to be the most feasible snd
cheapest project in the West and 26,
000 acres of new land will be put un
der cultivation.
Ten thousand acres are owned by the
Oregon Western Colonization com
pany, of St Paul. Directors are
George McLaughlin, B. E. Weant,
James Harvey, C. W. Mallett, A. W.
Trow, and treasurer, T. W. Halliday.
8toekmen Plan Picnic,
Carlton At a meeting of the exe
cutive committee of the Carlton Board
of Trade, there were present a number
of breeders of fine stock and a tempor
ary organization of the Carlton Stock
men's Picnic association was made and
preliminary arrangements were made
to hold the first annual picnic in Carl
ton on Saturday, June 17. The stock
men and the board of trade are co-operating
in arranging for the picnic
There will be barbecued beef, mutton
and pork, and the usual picnic dinner
provided, . ,j
Bankers Organise Group. J
Ashland Organisation of .Gram 4.
Oregon State Bankers' association.
embracing Jackson, Klamath, Curry,
uute ana Josephine counties, was per
fected here this week snd adjourned
after electing J. W. McCoy, cashier
First National Bank of Ashland, chair
man; W. H. Gore, of Medford. vice
chairman; Marshall Hooper, Grants
rase, secretary and treasurer.
ings will be held aemi-aiumally.
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Ail-Night fogssenwrit in North Sat
Greatly Aided by Zeppelins
Casualties Reported High.
London Picking Its way from its
ban in the Kiel CanaL ths Geranaa
hlgb-eea Heat Wednesday afternoon -
merged into ths North Sea, and, off
the coast of Jutland, engaged a British
fleet throughout the afternoon ant
night in what probably was ths great
est naval battle In the world's history
so far as tonnage engaged and tonnage
destroyed was concerned. '
When the battle ended Great Britain
had lost ths battle cruisers Quean
Mary, Indefatigable and Invincible,
the cruisers Defence, Black Prince and
Warrior and eight torpedo boat de.
Th German battleship Pommern
wss sent to the bottom by s torpedo
and the cruiser Wiesbaden sunk by the
British gunfire. In addition several
German tornado craft are missing and
the small cruiser frauenlob was sewn
badly listing snd was believed to have i
gone to the bottom. ;
Those losses have all been admitted
by Great Britain and Germany.
Aaide from Great Britain's conceded
losses, Germany says that the British
battleship Wsrtprite, sister ship of
the Queen Elizabeth, and one of the
largest and most powerful ships afloat,
bad been sunk; that the battleship
Marlborough, a vessel of 26,000 tons,
had been hit by a torpedo, and a sub
marine had been destroyed.
Greet Britain also sdded to Ger
many's acknowledged lossee with the '
claim that one dreadnaught of the Ger
mns Kaiser class vessels of 24,700
tons and .carrying a complement of
1088 men had been attacked and de
stroyed by British torpedo craft; that
another battleship of the same class
waa believed to have been sunk by
gunfire; that one battle cruiser had
been blown up snd two others damaged '
and that alx destroyers and a subma
rine also had been sent to the bottom.
Great Britain's admitted lose in ton
nage was 114,810 for si battle erais- "
r snd cruisers, That of Germany,
excluding the tonnage of the Wiesba
den, of which vessel there is no rec
ord, wss 18,172.
That the casualties in the fighting
off Jutland were heavy ia indicated by
the fact that of ths craw of some 900
on board the Indefatigable only two
men are known to have been saved.
Six Zeppelins participated in the
naval engagement, according to a dis
patch from Copenhagen to the ' Daily
MalL One of the dirigibles, the L-24, ,
wss hit several times and badly dam
aged, the report says, but she was able)
to reach the Schleswig coast. Several
of her men were wounded, and all of
her supplies had to be thrown over
board. The scene of the battle waa in the
Eastern waters of tbs North Sea. It
is probable that the German fleet was
on one of the excursions into the North
Sea, which it hss taken from time to
time during toe war, and met, whether
or not by design, with the British
fleet.
Skager-Bak is an arm of the North 1
Sea between Norway and Denmark.
The point referred to in the official
German statement as Horn Biff prob
ably is the reef off the Horn, on the
southwestern extremity of Denmark
This would indicate that the battle
was fought off the coast of Denmark.
From the reef to Helgoland, the main '
German naval base in the North Sea, "
is about 100 miles.
A dispatch from Cooenhasen do- "
Clares it is generally stated in Berlin
that the activity of the German fleet '
was due to the energetic demands of
Emperor William to his brother, Ad
miral Prince Henry of Prussia, com-mander-inMihief
of the navy, and Ad
miral von Capelle, minister of the
navy, on the emperor's visit last weak :
to Wilhelmshaven.
Torpedo Boats First In Fight.
Copenhagen A Danish steamer re-'
porta that Wednesday afternoon, 120 '
miles off Hanstholm, it was stopped bv
two British torpedo-boats to have Ha
papers examined. At the same mo-
ment a large German fleet appeared,
and the British warships immediately
prepared for action. The German fleet
consisted of Ave large modem dread
naught, eight cruisers and 20 torpedo -boats
and destroyers. Suddenly they
began firing, and hundreds of shells '
splashed around the torpedo' boats.
witnout, nowever, tutting them.
Battle Aid to Peace. J
Washiiurton. D. C. Banorta. nf th
naval engagement in .the North gas.
emaaad the RaafcMt intjMHMt hM -
only in naval circle, but at the vari-
nemgereni emDssues ana among;
administration officials. , It was freely
predicted that If th. x
demonstrated a real superiority, ship
ior snip, toe enects on to prospects
for paaea would be considerable.
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inadequate aa a basis for jodgment,