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CCAXZA GHDQSCD ATTACK
President, Following Conference, In
dicates He Will Address Joint
' Session of Congress Soon.
Washington, O. CJk demand for
the Immediate nlaua of the American
troopers ?"w prisoners at Carrisal,
coupled witk a aten notification that
tht United Statea expect an early
alaleiiiem of the purposes of the Ctr
raua avenunent was telegraphed to
Mexico City Sunday by Secretary Lan
sing. The note diacloiee that the State de
partment received Saturday a oommu
njeation from the de facto government
stating that the Carriial fight waa the
direct resalt of orden to attack Amer
ican aoldiera moving otherwise than
toward the border, personally issued
by General Carransa to General Tre
vino and by the Utter commnnicatori
ta General Pershing.
In reply. Secretary Lansing requires
that the de facto govermnent transmit
a definite statement "aa to the coarse
of action it has determined npon"
throngh the usual diplomatic channels
and not through subordinate military
Has Mexican communication ii con
strued. Secretary Lansing states, "aa
a formal avowal of deliberately hostile
action against the forces of the United
Stales now in Mexico and of the pur-
poee of attack without provocation
whenever they move from their pres
ent position" despite the friendly mis
sion on which they are engaged and
which is reaffirmed in the American
Gnmi Camnza it reqnired to
place himself on record formally and
the plain intimation lies behind the re
strained language of Mr. Lannn
eommmication that farce will be i
with farce. Apparently, however, the
Waahinftan evvernment is Determined
that the de facto government shall not
evade responsibiiity before the world
if war i forced upon the United
The note and the military situation
of the United States were talked over
at the White House by the President,
with the senate foreign relations eom-
After the conference, which lasted
men than an hoar, Senator Stone said
the situation was "exceedingly acute. "
President Wilson has felt it necessary
to acquaint congress with the state of
affairs and the action taken, through
the foreign affairs committee. It was
jiidiiMt that he might desire to ad
dress joint session of the boose and
senate in a day or two, but would not
take this final step until the Mexican
government had been given an oppor
tunity to reply.
Inline MdMeslw
Field Headquartera, Mexico, via
wireless to Columbus, N. M. Twenty
three American soldiers are known to
have lost their lives on the battlefield
at Carrisal, according to a report to
General Pershing Sunday night from
Major Jenkins, commanding the Elev
enth Cavalry eolnmn ordered to scour
the country in that vicinity for surviv
ors. Major Jenkins said be baa evi
dence that nine American troopers, in
addition to those previously reported
dead, had been killed. Major Jenkins
reported that he had found Captain
Morey hidden in a house nine miles
from when he was abandoned, and
that his wounds were not dangerous.
Protest Seen in Reply to Note.
El Paso, Tex, Csxranza's reply to
the laat American note will deal main
ly with the old protest against the
presence of American troops in Mexi
can territory, according to a telegram
from Mexico City, published in the 1
Paso Del Norte, a local Carranxa or
gan. The dispatch says a number of
persons close to the government say
that the note will take for granted
Secretary of State Lansing's assertion
that the American government desires
neither war nor intervention. It will
devote itself to the punitive expedition,
" Two Allied Wsrships Sunk.
... Paris The minister of marine an
nounced that the Italian auxiliary
cruiser Citti di Messina and the French
desUuyet Fourche have been torpedoed
H the Strait of Otranto. The Citti di
Messiest, which was being escorted bv
-the Focrche, was the first victim of the
'submarine. The Fourche later attacked
the underwater boat, which submerged
and disappeared. Shortly afterwards
the Fourche herself waa torpedoed.
1 of her crew waa saved.
Panama Election Riotous.
Panama Serious rioting occurred in
the City of Panama Sunday on the oc
casion of the elections. Eighteen per-
. There were no
waver. No
towiasa occurred at Colon. One man
waa killed in the Province of ChirianL
- SHOT, EFCawS CnTTnlrl EvasY
Sao Antonio, Tex. Left to die of
loss of blood and thirst, two miles
from the scene of the encountf
twean American and Mexican troops
Carrisal, Captain Lewis Sydney
Moray, at the Tenth cavalry, baa made
his way hack safe to the American
lines.
Genres! Funaton received by tele
phone Sunday night from Mrs. Morey,
now at Austin, Tex., the following
message which reached hare by wire
less from the field:
'Somewhere in Mexico Am back
on the line with two men, safe. . Syd
ney."
That, according to Mrs. Morey, was
the manner in which Captain Morey
signed all commmticationa to her.
How Captain Morey managed to
make his way to the American main
column, a distance more than 80 miles.
is unknown here, but it is inferred he
In Charge of Militia.
BRIG. GEN. ALBERT L. MILLS.
Brigadier General Albert L. Mills is
chief of the division of militia affairs
in the War department at Waahington
and he is directly in charge of toe
mobilisation of state troops for Mexi
can border patrol duty.
waa picked op by a detachment of the
rescuing force sent out by General
Pershing.
Mexican troops fired the first shot
on the troopers of the Tenth United
States Cavalry at Carrisal, but not
until the American forces, fearing an
ambush, had advanced in battle form
ation, according to a letter written on
the day of the fight by Captain Morey,
forwarded to General Funston by Gen
eral Pershing.
6ril Sbie (team PtsslSty;
titer bud U iMtertBa
San Francisco Possibility of the
extension of the general Pacific Coast
longshoremen's strike to other trades
became more definite Sunday with the
adoption ' of resolutions tendering
moral and financial support to the;
strikers by the Building Trades coud- j
ciL Sinular action is to be taken by
the San Francisco Labor council,
which also announced that it would
call upon Governor Hiram Johnson to
force the strikebreakers and guards
hired by the employers to disarm.
The Waterfront Workers' Federa
tion, which includes the stevedores and
maritime unions, has withheld prom
ise of sympathetic strikes, however,
pending efforts at settlement of the
strike.
Hope of a settlement of the long
shoremen s strike was strong early
Sunday on the strength of a statement
of Michael Casey, vice president of
the teamsters' union, that the Water
front Workers' Federation will present
to the longshoremen a plan which, if
accepted, would end the strike imme
diately. Casey is a delegate to the
Waterfront Workers' Federation,
which met the executive board of the
Pacific Coast district of the longshore
men's union Sunday.
Hetty Green Is III.
New York Hetty Green of the
Great Gold Reserve has been ill for
more than a month. Reports are in i
circulation that she is dying and dy-1
ing aa Hetty Green might be expected
to die, happy in the thought that she
was passing away economically. As
the report bad it, the woman who can-
not forget with all her millions, that a
hundred pennines make a dollar, had
angered a stroke of paralysis, but de
spite her eritieal condition baa mili-
tantly suppressed a. project to bring
cwuT.rainea nurses into tne
Japanese Liner Unloaded.
Seattle, Wash. When the Japanese
liner Cande Mara arrived from the
Orient Sunday, two gangs of non-union
waterfront laborers, assisted by Japan
ese seamen, unloaded the steamer's
cargo. The Japanese, who were not
permitted on the wharf by the immi
gration authorities, handled the cargo
aboard ship, and the noo-onion r,
did the work on the wharf. The strike
breakers are housed at Pier 6 under
protection of special policemen.
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NEWS ITEMS
Of General interest '
About Oregon
Mine Quick), tor TK3,000
Albany That the Black Eagle Mist
ing company, of Galea, had been aoM
to L. S. Barnes, of Salem, Or., for
$160,000, became known ban this
week.
Mr. Barnes happened ta paaathe
Black Eagle mine while on his way
from an inspection of the Sou Ureex
mine in which' the owners were at
tempting to interest him. Passing the
ore damp he noticed aome formations
which indicated to him that tney nan
been fanned by fames from sine de
posits. He inspected the mine and
found a vein of this formation in the
side of the tunnel.
A bill of sale waa made out before
the reason far Mr. Barnes' desire to
purchase the mine became known.
Work baa been started on new shafts.
L, S. Barnes, the parchaaer, is the
president of the Capital Journal Pub
lishing company, of Salem, and was
formerly in charge of all the iron
mines held by the nam man interests.
He is recognised aa one of the fore
most mining men of the country.
a result of the sale the stock
holders in the Silver King Mining
company, the Gold Creek Mining com
pany, the Crown Mining company and
the Ogle Mountain Mining company
are much excited, aa all those mines
are in the same district and might be
affected if a real strike baa been made.
Prospectors are alao much excited and
are staking out claims close by.
10,000 Acres Embraced in
Warm Springs Irrigation District
Vale Malheur county presents a re
sumption of prosperity and a move
ment toward aane and united action
which speaks well for the coming
years.
On May 19 the Warm Springs irriga
tion district was organised and the di
rectors sre hastening toward the pre
sentation of a proposition and bond
to the land owners at an early
date.
June 14 the unanimous vote creating
the community improvement irrigation
district, emhracning 10,000 scree of
the best land and most improved
farms in Willow River valley, shows
further the awakening spirit of prog
ress and a desire for unity so necessary
lor community success.
The creation of this district on Wil
low River brings once more into the
limelight the great and wonderful ca
pacity of the Brogan and Jamieaon
country for production of land products
of any kind under climatic conditions
which have earned deatruetien to the
greater portion of Eastern Oregon and
Southern Idaho. -
Judge Daly, Banker, Will Finance
Rebuilding of Burned Lakeview
Lakeview Lakeview is to rebuild
the district destroyed by fire Friday
more Buostantiauy than ever. Re
vised estimates place the total lose in
residences, business blocks and per
sonal property at approximately $70,-
000, with $16,000 insurance.
Many of those whose property was
destroyed are not financially able to
rebuild with the brick or stone re
quired by the fire ordinances of the
town. .
A mass meeting of citisens wss held
in the courthouse, which culminated in
a pledge from Judge Bernard Daly
that the Bank of Lakeview, of which
be is president and chief stockholder,
will finance the rebuilding of the en
tire burned area. In 1900 Judge Daly
penormeu a like aerviee when the en
tire business portion of Lakeview was
destroyed by fire.
Governors May Not Meet
Salem Because of the Mexican sit
uation and the apparent necessity that
he should remain in Oregon, Governor
Witbyeombe announced Wednesday
that he would be unable to attend the
Western Governors' conference sched
uled for Salt Lake City on June 26.
Governor Witbyeombe is secretary of
the eomerence.
The governor said that in view of
the sudden seriousness of the Mexican
trouble it was not improbable that the
Western conference, as well as the
National Governors' conference, sched
uled immediately following the West
ern conference, would be indefinitely
postponed.
Old Barracks Destroyed,
Klamath Falls A historic landmark
was wiped away Tuesday when the old
cavalry barracks at Old Fort Klamath
was destroyed by' fire. The old build
ing waa occupied by an Indian family,
and waa about the last remaining build
ing at the old fort, which was four
miles south of the town of Fort Klam
ath. This post wss established in
1863, being built and garrisoned dur
ing the Civil war period by different
companies of the First Oregon cavalry.
After the Civil war Feat Klamath was
garrisoned by regular cavalry. ,
Sheep Yards Being Built. , ','
The Dalles Work haa been started
here on a winter feed yard and bams
to accommodate from 8000 to 10,000
sheep. The plant is to be located in
the east end af town on the fists oppo
site the new railroad roundhouse. The
owners are Klippal A Madden, former
ly of Portland. Contraeta were let by
them to J. W. Catbeart for 18.000
yards of 1U for sidetracks and for ma
terial for buildings.
GuskNwL CHOP CvmmwrS
Portland Wheat Braeotem. Me
par bushel; fortyfold, 86c; dub, He;
red Fife, gSc; red Russian, 8Sc
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, Z3
24 per ton; valley timothy, $1819;
alfalfa. SletaiS.
Millfaed Spot prices: Bran, szws
M.M par tea; shorts, $2s ix B.60;
taiisd barley, ttl.60eit.ta
Corn Whole, $17 ton; cracked, an.
Vsfasrtahsas Aritcbokss, 76e$l
per dosen: tomatoes, tl.ML7t pal
crate; cabbage, $22.75 par hundred;
garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, !6c;
eggplant, 16c; horseradish, 8ic; let
tuce, $11.50 per crate; cucumbers,
7setl.26 par dosen; spinach, 4tc
per pound; asparagus, VbcfcUl per
dosen; rhubarb, 1J 2c per pound;
pass, 8,(g6c; cauliflower, $L26 per
crate; beans, 812ie per pound.
Potatoes Old, $1.50; California,
new, 22Jc per pound.
Onions California red and yellow,
$3.26 per sack.
Green Fruit Strawberrwa, $l.ee
1.90 per crate; apples, new, $2 per
box; cherries, 610c per pound; ean-
ea, Oeta.76 per crate; aprt
$l.$6LoO per box: peaches.
$1.15; watermelon, 242ic per pound;
figs, $X1.60 per box. .
Eggs Oregon ranch, current re
ceipts, 2122e per dosen; rota and
cracks out, 2S24c; extras, 24ic
Poultry Hens, 14c per pound:
slags, 10c; broilers, 1618e turkeys.
live, 2021e; dressed, choice, 2S
26e; ducks, 1620e; geese, t10c.
Butter Cubes, extras, 26ic; prime
firsts, 25c; firsts, 24 tc; seconds, 22c
Jobbing prices: Prints, extras, 27
23c; butterfat. No, 1, 27c; No. 2, 26c,
Portland.
Veal Fancy, llllic per pound.
Pork Fancy, lie per pound.
Hops 1916 crops, i lie per
pound; 1916 contracts, nominal.
Wool .Eastern Oregon, fine.
25c per pound; coarse, 8032c; val
ley, S234c
Cascara Bark Old and new, 4c per
pound.
Cattle Steers, choice grass, $7:
8.25; good, $7.607.76; cows, choice,
$6.757.60; good, $6.266.60; heif
ers, $6.60 6.76; bulla, $3 6.76
stags, $.s07.
Hogs Prime light, $8.05(48.25
good to prime, $88.06; rough heavy,
$7.607.76; pigs and skips, $6.60
7.10.
Sheep Yearlings, $6.60 7.26
wethers, f6.506.7&; ewes, t4.76
6.60; lambs, $78.86.
I
Feed Grain Prices Remain Firm.
Portland The oats and barley mar
kets became stronger at all points on
the Coast as it is believed the govern
ment will require a considerable sup
ply of these feed eeresls on the border
and in Mexico. No army orders have
been issued for supplies other than
those already contracted for, so far
as known, but traders look for buying
for this account before long. For the
present it is likely the quartermsster'B
department will be amply supplied with
feed stuffs previously ordered sent to
the regular army posts, which will be
delivered to border points.
Although the oats market has gained
in strength, there has been no specula
tive trading in the country. Oats
holders are still willing to sell at
At the Merchants' exchange $26.60 to
26.76 waa bid, prices 26 to 76 cents
over the offers of Wednesday. No
barley is being offered for sale here,
at San Francisco futures were
higher. California barley can be laid
down in Portland at practically $
There was no trading in wheat.
Prices at the exchange averaged a cent
higher, in response to the Chicago ad
vance. The rain has improved the
Northwestern crop fully 5 per cent In
parts of Oregon the gain is esti
mated at 16 per cent.
'
Atlantic Freight Rates Decline.
Several commodity markets have
beau more or less influenced by the in
creased supply of freight room and a
consequent reduction in freight rates,
says a news bulletin issued by Reus-
korf, Lyon at. Co., of New York.
Coffee has declined and cotton has
had an advance in this country ss a re
sult of the improvement in the freight
situation, but so faraugar baa not re
sponded by any decline. The fact that
the stand taken by this country has
checked the activity of the German
submarines has improved the freight
situation and reduced insurance rates.
There has been a large fleet that was
tied up by ice in North Russian waters
released and the allies have turned
back Into commercial life many boats
that have been used as transports. It
looks as if during the summer freight
congestion at the ports will be, in s
great measure, relieved and this is
bound to benefit generally American
business.
Wheat Sellers Withdraw.
Portland Although wheat prices ad
vanced t cents at Chicago because of
the prospect of war with Mexico, local
grain men waia unable to see why the
market aaould have been affected at
alL Nevertheless, the traders at the
wise to be on the safe side and, there
fore, withylrew from the market aa sel
lers. There were the usual number of
bids, but except for August delivery,
they were the same as Saturday's and
aa wheat cannot bo bought anywhere
' the prices named, no risk was ran.
COR C7JIITRVJ .
An Indettrnctible Unioa
of Unquenchable Stan
A hallowed
Its fracfran
The memory of
i ne tajano
Hen- fuad
Blazons
tier valient
Ne'er can her
To every larfcj end t3e and sea.
From faitBM-liricI e er given.
Greetings tociay irfXttjertyreC
And beniaon of heov'en.'V
IN LIBERTY'S IL'n
Memorable Scene When Patriots
Signed the Declaration
of Independence.
By GEORGE LEWIt BAILEY.
a-V NB hundred and forty years
I 1 ago occurred the memorable
1 J event we celebrate at this
S season. There were gathered
In the old statehouse In Philadelphia
half s hundred men, determined upon
a course that was destined to affect
the history of the world. The Decla
ration had been written. A committee
had been out an night In Its prepara
tion. Finally the door of the commit
tee room swung open. Three men ap
peared. Thomas Jefferson held the
parchment in an unsteady hand. He
advanced and spread it upon the table.
There was one question the one ques
tion in the minds and upon the Hps
of those who waited: "Shall it be
signed or not?" Jefferson spoke a few
bold words and sat down. Adams was
on bis feet in an instant Ablate with
the inspiration of the hour, he poured
out his whole soul. Somebody whis
pered something about "gibbets.'' A
ripple of nneaslneaa moved through
the crowd. The speaker sensed it,
and instinctively knew that the psy
chological moment waa upon them.
Towering to his tiptoe height, he lin
ed his voice in a ringing crescendo:
'Sign that parchment! Sign, if the
next - moment the gibbet's rope la
about your necks! Sign, If the next
moment this hall rings with the clash
of falling axes! With the laat sound
of my voice, with the last gasp of my
breath, I would implore you, men, to
sign sign In the name of fathers,
brothers, wPres, children, in the
of our children's children . .
Already men were wastenhig to
grasp the pen. And now the parch
ment la signed. From yonder tower
the old bell peals forth the news.
And sow, MO years after, these tones
are echoed and re-echoed around the
world, and are knowis and anderataod
inter maa has learned the aajse
of liberty.
"effect and OHerism
Critics may come and go, but aa
one af them win be able ta improve
upon the cleareut eloqusoos or the
orderly arrangement of the Daclatsv
ly perfect and glorious frrpresfctna of
the aWvolataoL''-Cxausauje.
Her fTortous rncuntasria rUas.tts
Sonata avsel trorny las tiaejne i
For haw De"fMnraa his Ortaest
AndhUheanKswV
For her dure fcsmlatrui pour train
AdovroAthe) fragrant plsatv 7 I
Mnjmm man cleave tne haUs?
Rea
O'elbiir brcai5sScl no monarch
ggtth the ipssMg' lew.
love abotst her clings,
snsi'auran riua.
her assroia brmgt
avei v eveuL
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For her ten nifUtan sans would
The breast to every ft j, A
Would keaKthe npa wth pranW
said bray"- " I
And bki the Ufeblood lov '. )
ffiumes the rnbittty dajep,
the becK niruJ sAyv'
iarSlhtitJVlUi Keen,
BTonfcBerse
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aw. -Sled - ' v-
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CU Tm of r-; Cnf
Stirrir TJiMtlB Ka Cr ,
t af t! CwoLL-V r
a, HI visitor to the rTXhusa of
Westchester, N. T. which, h
. the way. Is the oMset m aa
gtaaea at the old vfOage stars. Just
'west of the csseeway. Across the
causeway la a kin ooeupled by the
Praebyteriae church, the aaase' spot
where the British set a a Breastwork
to defend themselves ta the Curat of "M,
. For old times' sake i stranger would
want to walk out the PeThaat road a
little way, to aee what rsmaias af the
famous "Spy Oak." It la a tragedy to
see this monarch usong trees decapi
tated bow; Ita wonderful height,
gamed proudly fet its life of oentariea,
has been hewn, so that Us oM friends
almost weep at the sight It Is said to
measure $0 feet In girth at the ground,
where tu roots spread.
A British apy, caught by vigilant
Americans, was hanged to its branches.
tradition; -
Old 8t Peters Church, Containing
Bell Made by Melting Chimes Given
In Queen Anne's Time.
strange wallinga of that British ghost
were said to be audible after dusk.
Walking west from the village
square s abort distance one cornea to
old 8t Peter s church, the fourth
house of worship erected on this site.
In its yard are headstones dating
back ss far as ml. Upon the tomb
stone of Philip Honeywell, who waa
active during the -Revolution, thia in
scription waa placed : l
Look oa this atone and you win find
Mr journey's o'er, and yours behind;
Think, then, before you turn sway.
That yours mar and before thia day.
This waa one of the early churches
upon which Queen Anne bestowed
gifts. In her day Its chime of bells
waa given it The old bells have sines
been melted and made into a new
one, which rings Sabbath-day pilgrims
to service as of old.
Across the street stands the parish
house. Thia building, says Doctor
Clendenin, the rector, was the one
used for two weeks ss the colonial
capital of the state of New York when
an epidemic of fever prompted a sud
den move.
A few blocks farther west is the
picturesque rectory, standing quite
alone on a green knofL Its surround'
ing land was part of the "ancient
glebe" given by the town In 170$,
Records state that it was found nec
essary to lay out parsonage lands,
and $0 acres was made up by taking
"four acres where Edward Collier's
old lott waa," "the eight-acre division
of land In the old lott fronting to the
sheep pasture," and so on.
From 1(8$ to 1760 Westchester wss
the shire town. The village was set
tled In 164$ by Throckmorton (for
whom Tbrog's Neck was named), who
arrived from Massachusetts with a
group driven thence along with Roger
Williams. They procured permission
to make their homes at Westchester,
settling St families there. The Dutch
had called the spot Vredeland, mean
ing Land of Peace, and perhaps the
no had something to do with at
tracting these weary worshipers.
Today the spot is one to which the
hearts of aU true Americana turn la
reverent love
MEAN TRICK
The Psp Be dls ts what day I
whew aey aaai I was ta to em 4
Fonrth of July rirs works fslisralsag
ana, ftirthermore.
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