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Things Worth Knowing.
Enlistments In the army since Feb
ruary 2S, when voluntary recruiting
was resumed to March 26, vrero 1533,
the wnr department announced.
Continuing decline during March of
deaths from influenza throughout the
country Is noted in the census bu
reau's weekly health report.
The Serbian legation in London has
heard nothing of the reported procla
mation of a republic in Belgrade. It
says that the report Is quite untrue.
Unless President Wilson Intervenes,
Kucene V. Debs -will bo sent to tho
Atlanta prison April 15, according to
advices received In Cleveland, O., from
Washington.
Swedish press reports received at
tim stnto doDartment said the suua
tiou In Petrogrnd is steadily growing
worse. Hospitals were reported still
short of medical supplies.
A bolshevlkl wireless official mes
sage admits the withdrawal of the bol
shevlk troops In the Plnega area un
der pressure of the allies for about
seven miles on March 20.
Philippine officials, following study
of independence plans, will instruct
the special mission now In America as
to what form of republic Is desired.
it, was announced In Manila Saturday
Field Marshal von Hindenburg, with
a large staff, has arrived at Gllwice,
northern Sliesla, and, contrary to the
"terms of the armistice, has ordered
a general mobilization in that region,
according to dispatches to the Journal
de Geneva.
Clarence II. Mackay, president of
the Postal Telegraph Cable company,
in a statement said that the 20 per
cent increase in telegraph rates order
ed by Postmaster-General Burleson
means a loss of $16,000,00 a year to
telegraph users.
A terrible epidemic of typhus Is
raging at Pforzheim, Baden, according
to the Tageblatt. Thousands of per
sons are stricken. The epidemic Is
attributed to bad water and is difficult
to combat, owing to the famished con
dition of the people.
Two hundred persons were injured,
including CO American soldiers, in an
explosion of gasoline at Echternach,
Belgium, Tuesday, Fifteen of the in
lured are In a serious condition. An
American automobile stopped in the
town to take on fuel. The machine
caught fire and spread to stored gaso
line.
Idaho went under a new system of
government Tuesday, the cabinet or
commission form.
Enrollment at the University of Ore
gon Monday reached tho highest mark
in its history when It went up to 1325
for the year.
Germany has surprised the Chilean
government by pretending to consider
valid negotiations that Chile entered
Into for the leasing of tho German
ships Interned In Chllo which are soon
to be handed over to tho United States
In keeping with an agreement reached
at the peace congress.
Private organizations offering to
continue during peace tho espionage
work undertaken during the war to
protect the public safety were Inform
ed recently by Attorney-General Palm
er that tho department of Justice
would not recognlzo them or have any
connection with them, official or semi
official.
The Bolshevlkl carried out an Inten
kIvo bombardment of tho American
and British positions on both banks
of tho Dvlna, In tho Tulgus district,
and at Kurifoinan Monday afternoon,
At midnight a largo number of tho
enemy Infantry attempted to attack
Kurj5oraaw, hut wero ruuuUcd by tho
allied artillery,
CURRENT
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PEACE COST MORETHAN WAR
l.-n..r ltl11fnn.nllnrM CnntrrrsR to
Come, Says Good, of lown.
Washington, D. C.Tho passing of
tho "billion dollar" congresses of pro-
war days and tho forthcoming peaco
period of a "four billion dollar" con
gress Is predicted In n statement by
Representative Good of Iowa, who will
bo chairman of tho appropriations
committee In the next houso.
Reviewing tho fluauclal probloms to
bo faced by tho next congress, Mr.
Good estimated that tho appropria
tions "necessary for tho various gov
ernment expenditures" in tho fiscal
year ending Juno 20, 121, would total
moro than $3,800,000,000. Strictest
economy, ho added, would bo neces
sary to hold expenditures down oven
to this totnl.
Tim iiov rnneross " said Mr. Good
In his statement, "will bo brought faco
to face with many now and Intricate
problems, and many of them will call
for largo expenditures of raonoy. It is
impossible to cstlmato what expenses
will be Involved In the futuro In tho
administration of tho railroad, opera
tion of our merchant marlno, tho war
risk Insurance payments and to prc-
vldo homosteadB for our soldiers.
"While difficult to mako a rellablo
forecast as to what tho expenses of
the gdvernment will bo for tho fiscal
year ending Juno 30, 1921, It la reas
onably safe to assumo that the execu
tive departments will most earnestly
urco appropriations at least as largo
as those appropriated for tho fiscal
year ending Juno 30, 1920, for such ap
propriations wero made to administer
theso departments on a peace basis.
If we presume, however, that both tho
military and naval programs will bo
crcatlv reduced and that our standing
army will bo limited to 250,000 men.
it will requlro rather strict economy
to bring tho regular supply bills un
der 12,150.000,000. To this must be
added the permanent and indefinite
appropriations of approximately $1,-
650,000,000, or a grand total of more
than $3,800,000,000 necessary for tho
various Government activities. It will
require tho exercise of strict economy
to hold the expenditures down to ap
proximately these figures."
Mr. Good estimated that tho appro
priations made by congress for tho
war period and for tho fiscal year
ending Juno 30, 1920. totaled moro
than ?47,110,000,000. Tho revenuo to
meet theso appropriations ho estimat
ed at $16,657,000,000 to bo derived
through customs receipts and income
and other taxes and $25,888,000,000 to
be raised from tho salo of bonds,
notes and war savings stamps.
New Mexican Revolt
i Starts to Simmer
Washington, D. C Notice of tho
safe arrival in Mexico of General Blan
quet, war minister under tho Huerta
regime and now avowedly second in
command In the Felix Diaz revolu
tionary movement, was received Sat
urday at tho state department. Offi
cials said no attention would be given
the matter, since It was ono to bo
dealt with by the government of Mex
ico recognized by the United States.
Ambassador Bonlllas said the gov
ernment of Mexico was fully capable
of dealing with the revolutionists.
Marfa, Tex. Five of the nine ban
dits belonging to tho famous "Chlco
Cano" band were killed by 8th cavalry
troops on the Mexican side of tho Rio
Grande last Friday after Cano's gang
crossed to tho American sldo Tuesday
night, raided a ranch and drove off
cattle, horses and mules.
Plans to Detect Whales.
Tacoma. Airplanes and submarines
aro to havo an Important part In tho
whale industry, Victor Street, former
manager of the Bay City, Wash., whal
ing station, declared recently. Ho de
clares aircraft will bo ablo to detect
tho leviathans under water and got
nearer to them than tho present steam
craft and submarines will also bo able
to locato them under water.
U, 8. Ideals to De Taught,
Washington, D, C Creation of tho
office of director or citizenship In tho
department of labor and tho appoint
ment of Raymond K. Crist, deputy na
turalization commissioner, to tho now
position, is announced. Expansion of
the bureau' work In teaching Amorl
can Ideals to alien resident la
planned,
SUCCES
OF VICTOR!
E
Nation's Credit Is Sufficient
for All Purposes.
FUTURE IS ASSURED
Already Commerce and Industry Be
gin to Show Renewed Life,
Declares Secretary.
Washington, D. C Confldenco In
tho financial condition of tho country
and Its ability to float tho forthcoming
victory liberty loan was expressed
Tuesday by Secretary GIbbs In reply
ing to tho suggestion of Senator Cnl
dor of Now York that a special session
of congress should bo called to stop
depreciation In tho market of liberty
bonds.
Fur from agreeing that tho decline
In outstanding bonds might Jeopardize
the popular campaign for flotation of
tho victory lssuo this month, thereby
ttolng up credits by forcing tho banks
to tako tho now bonds, Mr. Glass de
clared that ho was assured tho trcas
jury's efforts to solvo tho financial
problems of the country" would have
J tho support of "a united and victorious
I people" ' Depreciation In bonds, ho
said, has boon tho result of artificial
causos and ho knew of no one who did
not believe that all liberty bondB
would sell nbovo par boforo maturity.
"Thoro is today no Insufficiency of
credit for tho needs of any useful on
' tcrprise. nor insufficiency of gold to
support our credit structure," Secro
tary Glass declared.
Echoes of tho political fight whjch
occupied tho closing hours of con
gross wero contained In tho secro
tary's roply, which was In tho form
of a lottor to tho Now York senator.
Ho quoted from n speech by Senator
Cnldor on tho victory liberty bond bill,
In which tho senator declared that he
saw no reason "why wo should not
feel certain of tho future." Mr. Glass
said thero had been no adverse devel
opments Blnco tho bill was passed,
which would make nocessary a special
session, as Mr. Calder advocated.
"Already commorco and Industry bo
gin to show signs of tho renewed life
which must follow tho removal of tho
restraints and Interferences which
war mado necessary," tho secretary
said.
PACKERS NO LONGER
UNDER U.S. CONTROL
Washington, D. C.Tho meat pack
Ing Industry, which has been undor
federal license since October, 1917
was released April 1st from food ad
ministration control by a proclama
tlon signed by President WHson In
Paris.
Under the proclamation "all per
sons, firms, corporations, or assocla'
tions engaged In importing, manufac
turlng, including packing, storing or
distributing fresh, canned or cured
beef, pork, mutton or lard" aro re
leased from llcenso by tho food ad
ministration.
Stockyards which wero placed undor
Hconso under another proclamation
signed In September, 1918, and admin
Istered by tho agricultural department,
remain under tho control of that do
partment. Regulations undor those 11
conscs have no concorn with prices
and only havo to do with physical
phases of tho industry. Food admin
istratlon officials explained that tho
administration had never exorcised
any control ovor the yards.
Farmer Sleeps 16 Days.
Twin Falls, Idaho. Announcomont
of what Is bollovod to bo a case of
slooplng sIcknosB was made by a local
hospital Saturday, whoro physicians
said a malo patient had bcon asleep
for 16 days. Tho man, a farmer of
this section, was discovered by neigh
bors asleep In his chair, It was do
clared, after lack of customary acti
vity about his houso for thruo or four
duyx bad caused thorn to make an In
vestigation. Physicians of the hospi
tal stuff hulluvu io lias a clianco for
recovery,
LOAN CORNIER
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c?m a rrvrr" tvtttttt rc
Tho Coos Bay Shipbuilding com
pany has discharged a largo number
of employes, owing to lack of Instruc
tions regarding work of tho two ro-
mnlnlng hulls on Its ways. Details of
tho Kmorgoncy Fleet corporation's de
signs hnvo not bcon recolved.
With tho oponlug of spring work
and tho advent of the lambing bobboii,
n shortnga of holp Is being experi
enced at Tho Dalles and tho local
branch of tho federal employment
servlco Js unablo to supply tho de
mand of local ranchers for farm hands.
A well-defined movement for com
mission government for Salem Is now
under way nud mny result In n spuolal
city election In conjunction with tho
special stnto election on June 2 to
decide whether the capital city will
forsake tho nldarmanlc form for tho
commission plan.
Dr. Joan Cllno of Portland and Dr.
II. II. Olluger of Salom have been ap
pointed members of tho statu board
of dental oxamlners, according to an
nouncement by Governor Olcott. Thoy
succeed Dr. Walter J. Larson of Port
land and Dr. Alex McDotigal! of Ba
ker, whoso terms havo expired.
Lumber shipments from tho Colum
bia river during the month of March
weru unusually light. Figures com
plied by Deputy Collector Haddlx
show that 21 vessels loaded nt the
mills In tho lowor river district during
tho month and their combined cargoes
amounted to 15,663,000 feet of lumber.
Tho first public sale of shorthorn
cattle In tho Roguo river valloy was
held In Modford Saturday, 26 uMlmals
being sold for a totnl of $1415. Colonel
A. L. Stevenson of Corvnllls was auc
tioneer and Professor K. L. Patter of
tho animal husbandry department of
Orogon Agricultural collogu and secro'
tary of tho Northwest Shorthorn asso
ciation, assisted In tho salo.
Tho Bend council has authorized an
election at which tho floating of an
$18,000 bond lssuo will bo placed on
the ballot. Tho dnto of tho election
has not yet been announced. Tost
votes taken by local civic orgnnlza
tlons had favored n special tax as a
means of discharging tho city warrant
indebtedness.
That thero Is no surplus of skilled
farm labor In Morrow county is shown
by tho fact that Cloud Whlto, nn ex
teiiBlvo farmer In Uio eastern part of
tho county, Is alone operating two
elght-mulo thrco-bottom plowing out
fits, turning six 14-lnch furrows every
timo ho goes around his field. Ho Is
thus plowing 15 to. 20 acres a day.
Tho first payment of tho llcenso tax
on tho salo of gasollno nnd dlstlllato
reached tho offlco Of tho secretary of
state Monday In tho shapo of a check
from the Union Oil company for tho
sum of $236.44. This was the amount
duo tho stato of Oregon for tho sulo
of gasollno and dlstlllato by tills cor
porntlon on tho first three days tho
law became effective.
Contracts for road work costing ap
proximately $3,000,000 will bo award
ed by tho stato highway commission
at its forthcoming mooting in Portland
on April 15. Plans and specifications
for tho work havo Just bocn completed
by Stnto Highway Engineer Nunn
Tho contracts will 'represent moro
mllcago of paving than ovor boforo
roprosonted in awards by tho highway
commission at ono timo.
Tho big Job of charting tho unsur
voyed marsh lands of tho lower Kin
math lako, which has bcon going on
for tho past thrco months under tho
direction of Fred Monch, United States
cadastral onglnoor from Portland, has
boon completed so far ns can be done
at tho present timo. Land botwecn
tho railroad and tho Klamath river
and north of tho rivor, it is still Im
posslblo to work upon.
As a result of tho two-day dairy
school held at Toledo Friday and Sat
urday, local farmers working through
the Lincoln county farm bureau huvo
decldod to urruugo a co operative hull
UHNoclatlou and organization of u cow
toHtlng association, Thut tho silo and
sllugo crops will hu given much atten
tion by Mm dairymen was evident hy
the keen Interest and attention given
Professor Flits' locluro on llmt subject.
MEXICO
CONCEDES
JAPANESE
Lower California to See Agri
cultural Exploitation.
LEGALITY ASSERTED
Mexican Olllclal Says Monroe Doctrine
Not Violated and No Dllllcul
tlcs Can Arise.
Mexico City. That Japanese corpor
ations havo boon granted concessions
to exploit agricultural lands In lowor
California was tho statement mado
Monday by Gonoral Anmdo Agulrro,
under secretary of dovotopmeut and
agriculture
Tho affirmation was made, however.
that tho concessions wore fully au
thorized by tho provisions of tho Mex
ican constitution rcgnrdlng tho urea
and position of the territory In rela
tion to tho ocean shore nnd tho fron
tier line.
Thoro was nothing In tho conces
sions, it was asserted by tho under
secretary, that might possibly lead to
difficulties as far as tho Monroo doc
trine was concerned.
Reports that thoro Is a possibility
of International controversy ovor tho
granting of tho concessions to tho
Japanese wero said to bo absurd by
General Amado Agulrra In an Inter
view In which ho said tho action was
legal. At that time ho would not ad
mit tho concession had been granted.
Tho Japanese legation hero denied It
had any official knowledge of tho
action.
In tho Interview General Agulrru Is
quoted as follows:
"It Is absurd to give credit to, or
tnku seriously, tho news published that
thero Is Imminent nn International
conflict because of tho fact that Jap
anese subjects or companies aro ar
ranging to acqulro lands In lower Cal
ifornia, said to belong to tho Califor
nia & Mexican Land company of Los
Angeles.
"In tho first placo tho lauds, which
wero given by a concession In 1884 to
tho Mexican Land company, wero de
clared tho property of tho pro-constitutional
government on April 7, 1917,
whlhc action ronders void tho conces
sion granted to tho Mexican Land com
pany. Since then tho government has
appointed n commission to dlvldo tho
lands and sell them to Mexicans iu
small lots,
"Moroovor, oven though Jnpancso
companies do proposo to acqulro, nn
Is alleged, lingo tracts of land In lower
California, thoy cannot bo aided by
our government, slnco tho Mexican
constitution, In article 27, expressly
(Union that no forolgnor can acqulro
land In a zone 100 kilometers wldo
from n foreign frontier nor In a' belt
50 kilometers wldo along tho shores
of tho Pacific ocoan or tho gulf of
Moxlco. Kvon though tho -JnpanoHQ
subjects socuro Moxlcan citizenship,
thoy could not acqulro 800,000. acres
of land, as It Is declared thoy seek to
buy. This equals nearly 400,000 hoc
tares, which Is far abovo tho legal lim
it placed on tho purchaso of land,
which rostrlcts all persons nnd com.
panics to a maximum of 2800 hoc.
tares."
Scaffold Falls; Many Drowned.
Bristol, Pa. From 10 to 40 persons
wero klllod or drownod Into Monday
whon a tompornry scaffolding extend.
Ing around tho storn of a boat on the,
ways nt tho Merchant shipyard ntHar.
rlmnu, near hero, collapsod, while
noarly 1G0 persons woro standing on.
It to view tho launching of tho freight,
er Waukuu. At a lato hour only throo
bodlos had boon recovered, Twonty
two Injured persons woro takon to tint
Hurrlmun hospital. Thousands had
assembled to seo tho launching nnd.
witnesses of tho accident soy thut the
scaffolding seotnod to turn over, pro
dimthig occupants Into 20 foot of w
tor. Tho uccldoni hopponed four in In.
iilos before (ho IuiiiiuIiIiik wns ached,
tiled lo luko placo,