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SIR DAVID BEATTY
Recession From Plan Offered
If Allies Will Allow Food to
Reach Civilians.
Compromise Measure Seems
Unlikely to Win— Conces
sions Are Insufficient
Last Week of Session Begins
With Large Amount of Work
Remaining to Be Dpne. <
Washington.—Coant von Bernstorff,
the German ambassador, delivered a
Salem.—The legislature started on
note to the United States, In which
the last week of the 28th session with
Germany offered to recede from her
the usual congestion of business and
plan o f , destroying enemy merchant
as in past sessions confusion promisee
ships, If rstrlctlons placed by the al
to mark the closing hours. All the
lies on shipments of conditional contra
really Important measures remain to
band and foodstuffs destined to the
be passed, few of them having gone
civilian population of Germany were
through both houses. No is a - r s e of
removed.
statewide interest have reached the
Otherwise, the note announced.
governor's desk.
Germany proposes to put Into effect
Prohibition legislation remained un
the original proclamation, adding also
settled. Tax measures are Incomplete,
the strewing of mines In* waters sur
irrigation codes are not yet revised,
Tbe democratic caucus of the house
rounding Great Britain and Ireland.
fish and game legislation la In a tan
committed itself to the administration
Alleged arming of British merchant
gle, and complications are threatened
compromise ship purchase MU by a
vessels is given by the German gov
on consolidation.
vote of 154 to 29.
ernment as ground for attacking en
Seventeen
democrats
in
the
caucus
The legislature has approved the
Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, com
emy merchant ships without search or
lease of Summer and Abert lakes by
Photo by A m erican Pr<
mander of the British in the thrilling announced their intention of voting
previous ^«1L ■
the state land board to an eastern syn
battle with the Germans on Jan against the bill despite the caucus ac
It was said that the note received
dicate, headed by Jason Moore. The
uary 24.
•
. \ tion, taking advantage of exceptions
by the ambassador from bis foreign
gran ted. under the caucus rules.
4
large appropriation bills are in but
office was not a reply to the recent
have not been passed.
Charges and counter-charges froid
BRIEF WAR NEWS
American note to Germany in regard
democratic and republican sources
Although the joint ways and means
to the war zone decree. A more com
concerning influences for and against
committee has consigned to the legis
America’s objection to Germany’s
prehensive and detailed reply to the TIMES
DYNAMITER TAKEN lative cemetery bills appropriating a
the government ship purchase bill,
principle of submarine irresponsi
oommunlcation
Is
expected
soon.
which have smouldered about the cap
total of 81,545,190 and cut requests for
bility In British coast waters, Is
The British reply to the American M. A. 8chm idt Arrested In New York appropriations to the bone, there were
it a lf ç r two weeks, were made the sub
the most serious war development
A
fte
r
a
Search
of
Four
Years.
note of protest on neutral shipping,
still pending In the legislature meas
ject of a special lnvedtigatiou*by the
of the past week. Publication of the
New York.—M. A. Schmidt, object ures appropriating the huge rum of
dated December 26, was also received.
senate.
texts of tho notes sent to Great Bri
Besides entering a general denial that of a world wide search for more than 85,653,307, to be disposed of during the
The decision to Inquire Into alleged
tain and Germany, respectively, re
there had been any unwarranted In four years, in connection with the dy closing week of the session.
lobbying by agents of the * shipping
vealed that both countries had been
terference with legitimate shipments, namiting of the Los Angeles Timos,
trust” against the bill and into intima 1
A remedial enactment was the pass
warr ed In most emphatic terms from
the
new note contains a statement was arrested here. Detective William age of Representative Olson’s bill pro
tions of negotiations for options on
menacing the vessels or lives of Amer
belligerent ships to be sold to the gov
8 mont Americans of the present time visualise George Washington and from Great Britain that the recent J. Burns, who, with Detective Captain viding certain changes in the primary
ican citizens traversing the recently
ernment was unanimous.
ss nearly all future Americans will know his features they are eel government decree taking over the William 8. Devy, of the New York po election laws to eliminate petition
proclaimed sea zones of w a r/
forth In the GHbert Stuart portrait The best known of the origi flour and grain supply in Germany re lice department, made the arrest, as peddling and enable aspirants for pri
With the decision departed the last
Germany was advised that the
quired added precautions on the part sorted that Schmidt admitted his Iden mary nominations to become candi
nal Stuart portraits of Washington Is unfinished. It hangs In the Mo
bop£ of sOme of the most earnest
United States “would be constrained
tity a few minutes after he was taken dates by paying flat fees Instead of ob
of
the ailiea.
seum
of
Fine
Arts.
In
Boston.
In
ths
life
of
Gilbert
8tuart.
by
George
O.
Ma
champions of the shipping measure
to hold the- Imperial government to a
into custody.
taining the signatures of voters.
that the bill could be passed in the •on. Is to be found a reason for the unfinished state of the Washington portrait
strict accountability” for such acts of
The
book
says
that
“thia
portrait
gave
Stuart
more
satisfaction
than
any
other
Schmidt was taken on a fugitive
Swiss
Demand
Apology.
Representative Allen’s bill to enable
seuote by March 4.
Its naval authorities as might result
portrait of Washington that he had painted, and as he was not to deliver It
Bern, via Paris.—Au official inquiry warrant. According to Burns, he is rural communities to form organisa
The
administration
compromise
until
it
was
completed
he
took
care
never
to
put
In
the
background.
In
this
In the destruction of American vessels
measure; as ft was being framed would I way be managed to retain It.” It la said, however, that the real reason for the has established -that the aeroplane charged with being one of the three tions to obtain a low rate of Interest
or the loss of American lives, and that
organize a shipping board with an ap Incomplete state of the portrait differs from that glveu in the book. On the which recently flew over Swiss terri men who bought 1000 pounds of dyna was'passed by the house and is herald
“If such a deplorable situation should
propriatlon of 840,000,000 to engage In authority of William Lanier Washington, hereditary representative of George tory and on which the Swiss troops mite with which the newspaper plant ed by the upstate members as the
arise," the American government
shipping for a period ending two years Washington In the Society of the Cincinnati, It may be said that Ge<$rge fired was a German machine and the was rutued and 21 persons carried to first step in the establishment of a
would "take any steps it might be ne
rural credit system for the state. -
after the termination of the war. Then Washington did not like Gilbert Stuart and would not sit until the portrait Swiss minister at Berlin has been In their deaths.
cessary to take to safeguard American
was finished. He had agreed to pose for the painter only after the latter had structed to dema'rid an apology from
The Hinkle bill passed by the house
the
ships
would
be
turned
over
to
the
lives and property.”
,
Fanny Crosby Is Dead.
Is a departure In the way of state aid
secretary of the navy, to be leased or I promised to present the finished portrait to his sitter. But when Washington the German government.
To Great Britain the United States
Bridgeport, Conn.—Fanny Crosby, In Industrial development. The meae-
operated in the merchant service In would no longer grant him any sittings Stuart kept his word to deliver ths
pointed out "the measure of responsi h*3 iscretlon. This plan to place the I finished painting j>nly by neglecting to complete IL He made many finished
writer of 8000 sacred songs, died In ure proposes a system of annuities
bility” which would seem to be Up .
copies, which he wild. Other artists copied It also, and It was engraved fre GERARD CAUTIONS GERMANS her home here.' She was past S»4 years similar to those in effect by many
government permanently in the ship quently. Stuart offered it to the state of Massaéhusetts for >1/09 bat It was
posed on the British government "fob
‘ping business was the point Insisted I deeffUed. After his death his widow sold It, with the companion portrait of Countrym en in United States De old and had been blind since Infancy. countries of Europe and by some of
the loss of American vessels and lives
the Canadian provinces.
upon by thé administration. It is also Mrs Washington, for >1,500.
x
clared Am ericana F ir s t
in case of an attack by a German naval
H eney’e M anager is Now His W ife.
Sheriffs of the state won a victory
the "revision against Which the senate I
Berlin, via London.—The National
force," if England sanctioned the gen
Los Angeles.—Francis X Heney, when the house passed Representative
rcpubican filibuster Is chiefly aimed.
Zcltung publishes an interview with progressive candidate for the United
eral misuse of the American flag by
THE MAM WHO LAUGHS.
VASHINGTO.’l FOR EXPANSION
James W. Gerard, the United States States senate in California, at the last Kelly's biR, providing that hereafter
British vessels, and thereby cast doubt
all taxes shall be collected by the sher
oft, the valid character of the neutral MAY SEND FOOD TO BELGIUM I Jrged Acquisition of W estern T e rrito ry The Reason He Doss So From the ambassador to Germany, concerning election, and Mrs. Edna Van Winkle, iffs instead of the county treasurers,
the situation brought about by the his campaign manager, wore married
ensigns.
Physieal Point of View.
to Keep Foreigners From G e ttin g It.
and it means that all bills Increasing
The greatest number of aircraft ever Air.crtC2fl Steamship W ilh elm lna Not
Laughter Is an Involuntary response presentation of the American note to here.
Very In te re -tiu g to a ll students of
the salaries of the latter officials will
At ¡owed to Proceed to Germ any. I American history Is a letter from of certain muscle* to a communication the- German government" relative to
assembled during the war was tha*
be withdrawn, provided this last meas
London.—The
foreign
office
an
I George Washington to Jacob Read of from nerve* controlling tbelr action the neutral shipping in tbq. sea war Guadalajara F a ll* Before V illa ’s Men, ure passes the senate.
which, under the direction of Flight
Commander Grahame White, thirty- nounced definitely that If the cargo I South Carolina. who served ns a major We laugh because we receive an im zone recently created by Germany.
El Paso, Texas.—Guadalajara,
The first test la the state senate on
Asked by the interviewer concern second largest city in Mexico, was
four in number, raided the towns on of the American steamship Wilhelm I if volunteers during the Revolution, pres si on through our sensory nerves
the prohibition bill was a victory for
that
causes
a
demonstration
from
the
was
taken
prisoner
and
was
confined
iiia
should
be
diverted
for
the
reliel
ing
the
attitude
of
German-Amerlcans,
the Belgian coast, which the Germans
captured by the troops of General
the advocates of a strict law. The
are attempting to convert into a sub of the distressed in Belgium, the de fot four years at St. Augustine, Fla. muscles which express mirth. The Ambassador Gerard is reported in tho la, according to advice* reaching
minority report of Senator Dominick
I He was afterward a member of the vigor or henrtlne*« of laughter depends National Zeitung as having answered:
islon
to
send
her
cargo
to
a
British
marine and airship base against Great
Villa headquarters here.
of the committee on alcoholic traffic,
I Continental congress unit United States upon the susceptibility of the brain to
“People In Germany are too readily
Britain. The raiders are reported to prize court would be reconsidered. -«enator
which was favorable to the bill as
what Is received through the sensory
Otherwise
her
cargo
must
be
submit
disposed to believe that German-Amer-
haver gotten away without losing a ma
The letter Ls dated Mount Vernon, nerves.
passed
by the house with no Important
chine, although two were h it Gra- ted to the decision of the court.
\’ov 3. 1784. and deals' with various
They get the Impress Ion In three icans would be first Germans and then
amendments, was adopted by a vote
hame-White, well known a3 an airman
matters intimately connected with the ways—from something we see. feel or Americans In case of war. Exactly
of 15 to 13.
Washington. — Evidence submitted future prosperity of tills country bear—and send It along to the nerve the opposite would be the case. Amer
In this country, fell into the sea, |jut
The senate passed a bill providing
by the owner* of the steamship Wil Washington complains that specula center. From there I t Is sent along ican citizens of German birth are first
was pulled up by a British cruiser.
that persons away from home election
hclmina
to
prove
that
the
ship
is
load
tors are ' recklessly seizing lands on other uerves connected with certalo and foremost Americans and the same
In France, Flanders and Alsace
day may vote wherever they may he
there has been little or no fighting of ed with foodstuffs for non-combatants the northwest side of the Ohio and muscles or gland* nod excites them to spirit Is true of Irish-Amerlcans.”
Washington. — General Venusttano for presidential electors, state officers
activity.
thereby
making
war
with
the
Indians
Importance, so far as the official re and pot subject to seizure wan for
Carranza, as first chief of the constl and constitutional amendments by
The nerves are like *o muny electric
warded by the state department to He then pro|»oses a remedy:.
Russians Driven Out of Bukowina.
ports disclose.
tutlonalist army, notified the world identifying themselves and producing
Purchase, If possible, as much land of
wires, and the sensory nerves act as
Ambassador Page for presentation to
Washington.—Private dispatches to that all communications to his govern a certificate by the judges of election
them Im m ediately back of ua aa would a battery, by mean* of which the elec
the London foreign office, with the m ake one or tw o etatea. according to the
the Austro-Hungarian foreign office ment from outside sources must pass In their home precincts that they are
Dutch 8cnd Protests.
suggestion
that“ unless Great Britain extent congress would design or would trie currents of life are transmitted. forwarded to the embassy In Washing through him. ,
The Hague, via London.—The Neth
The muscles have the power to ex
qualified voters.
wish to have th em of and which m ay be
erlands ha? maintained the strictest has sufficient grounds not yet ad fu lly adequate to all our present purposes press the state of gladness, indicated ton, from Vienna, announced the com
Carranza’s decree reached Washing
A measure Intended <o prevent big
neutrality by presenting notes of pro vauccd for doing otherwise the ship F ix such a price upon the lands so pur- by laughter, according to the |>osltlve plete evacuation of Bukowina by Rus ton through Rafael Zubaran Capmany, dairy and creamery corporations from
chared
as
would
not
be
too
e
x
o
rb
ita
n
t
and
test at the same moment to Germany at ouce be permitted to proceed with nurthensoine fo r real occupiers, but high ness of the Impressions passed along sian forces.
his minister of the Interior, who tele freezing out the small cooperative
■nough to discourage monopolizers
D e the nerves which operate them.
Y’ou
and Great Britain, rcgaiding the acts her cargo to her destination.
graphed It to Elisea Arredondo, Car concerns of the farmers went through
clare all steps heretofore taken to pro
laugh less heartily the second time
of these governments I i respectively
ranza’s local representative. The or the houfee. All the representatives
cure lands on the N W side of the Ohio
Laborer K ills Seattle Claim Clerk.
contrary to th e prohibition of congress you hear a funny story because the
declaring a -war zone ! the waters
der apparently will make it impossible from the rural districts voted for it
Seattle, Wash. — Richard imento to be null and void, and th a t any person Impression Is less positive. — Rocky
around the British Isles and in using
for diplomatic representatives of for and most of the urban legislators also
a laborer, entered the office ol th e re a fte r who shall presum e to m ark , Mountain News.
neutral flags.
eign governments to deal with the Car were for It
survey or settle lands beyond the lim its
A. M. Lee, assistant general claim of the new states and purchased lands
ranza government except by going to
In the presence of s large delegation
Washington's Good Work.
agent of the Northern Pacific rail shall not only Ire considered an ou tlaw
W o r d G-’n 3 e c .rd Mqde.
Vera Cruz, which they have been un of school teachers from Portland, who
George
Washington’s
surveying
done
but
fit
subject
fo
r
In
d
ian
vengeance
road,
shot
and
killed
Charier
Beacre,
Yv—William Rai, a gur-
London. — Signal defeat of the willing to do lest such action be con are members of the Grade Teachers’
He then (Harasses with vigor the In 1751, when ns a Ind of nineteen be
Dryden, Mr. Lee’s chief clerk, and shot
pointer on /. t / ;/t.d States battle
French in the region of Soudain was strued as formal recognition.
vital
Importance
of
opening
up
the ran lines through the Virginia wilder
association, other educators, Senator
ship Texas, who 'is visiting his home and probably fatally wounded R. E. western territories to, American enter ness for Lord Fairfax, was checked op admitted by Paris. Following a fierce
Already most of ths diplomats at Moser and others. Governor Withy-
Patton, another cle rk In the office.
prise and colonization by mean* of wn recently by government surveyors, battle fought in a raging blizzard the Mexico City have asked their govern combe signed Senator Moser's hill,
here on furlough, wa3 notified that he
Imento was shot and probably fatal terways and ronda He add*:
who found the work perfect Washing
net a new world’s record In marks
ton, running his lines with prlmltlre French forces were driven from their ment* for permission to leave when which provides fhat there shall be no
ly
wounded
by
the
police.
It
Is
to
prevent
the
tra
d
e
of
the
west
manship with the big guns during re
instruments and beufires on hilltops, advantageous position In that vicinity. thtf^ltuation becomes intolerable and discrimination In the payment of sal
ern te rrito ry «from settlin g In the hands
cent target practice.
The official statement received froyi some of them have been advised to aries between male and female teach
either of the S paniards or B ritis h —If
left mouuments and boundaries to
either o f these happen th ere ia a line o f ' w’hlch technically educated surveyors
Ruf was credited with eight straight
Fiance explains the defeat by declar use their own discretion.
ers.
reparation a t once d ra w n between the
using accurate modern methods, have ing the French troops were hopelessly
hits with a 14^nch gun, shooting at a
Tho order may also affect the activ
The house passed the tax commit- .
“astern and western co un try, the conse
been able to find no vnrlatlou.
moving target 12 miles away.
quences o f which m ay be fa ta l. To tell
outnumbered and that the blizzard ity of American consular representa tee’s bill to remit all penalties on de
in y m an o f In fo rm a tio n hfew fast th e la t
From the top of Middle mountain. In made It impossible for the artillery to tives, who heretofore have dealt with linquent taxes under the 1913 tax law.
ter Is settlin g, how m uch m ore rap id ly It
the Massanutten rung®, the old Fnlr
Ita ly Protests to Germ any.
the de facto government, whatever it
w U I settle by means of fo reign em igrants,
Insanity shall not be made a cauae _
fax line may be distinguished without render them effective support.
Rome.—Italy made, virtually the
who can have no p a rtic u la r predilection
happened
to be.
Ah
official
statement
from
Berlin
for divorce In this state, according to
E
e.’ia,
via
London.—The
success
of
the
use
of
Instruments
and
can
be
fol
fo
r
ua.
o
f
th
e
vast
fe
r
tility
o
f
the
soil
and
same representations to Germany as
a decision of the senate.
Ipwed by boundary reueea dating from declares more than 200 of the allies
the population the co un try la competent
did the United States, concerning neu the C remans in east Prussia empha to, would be fu tile and eq ually nugatory the earliest dnys nnd by blocks of tlm were killed and that four officers and
TH E M ARKET8
By a unanimous vote the senate
sizes,
;.
-reeding
to
the
view
held
here,
to observe that It is by the cem ent of
tral shipping in the sea war zone cre
ber.
Washington
survey
blazes,
cut
478
men
were
taken
prisoners.
The
passed
a ,bill which provides a pre-
the
qut
.
strategy
of
Field
Marshal
interest only we can be held to gether If.
ated by the recent German proclama-
into the trunks of trees and long grown Ge^pnan losses, it is claimed, were but
ferential of 5 per cent for Oregon pro
von HlUv t lurg, which is designed to then, the tra d e o f th a t co u n try should over,
have* been rediscovered, and all
Wheat—Club, >1.49; bluestem >1.50; ducts lu letting contracts for publlo
flow th ro ug h thoa Mtsalsalppi or St. L a w
strike an e remy when and where the rence, If the In h ab itan ts th ereo f should are several feet higher from tbs ground 90 men.
red
Russian, >1.42; forty-fold, >1.50; work.
The
Germans
also
claim
taking
more
form oom m erctal connections which lead,
than those woodsmen of today make.
lowe Senate Vote* to Submit Suffrage. blow is leak. expected.
red fife. >1.46.
we know, to Intercourse o f oth er kinds,
than
1200
yards
of
trenches
held
by
By a vote of 11 to 8 the senate voted
Von Hlndeoburg veiled his plans by they would In a fe w y e a r* be aa uncon
Pes' Moines, Iowa.—The Iowa sen
, Hay—Eastern Oregon timothy, >16; an appropriation of $50,000 tor erect
the
French
north
of
Masslges,
to
the
reinforcing
the
Austrians
in
the
Car
nected
w
ith
us.
Indeed
m
ore
so,
th
an
we
ate, by a vote of 38 to 11, passed a res
z
Paradoxical.
ir e w ith South A m erica end would soon
northwest of St. Menehould. A French grain hay, >12; alfalfa, >18; valley tim ing a building for training work at the .
olution submitting to the voters a con pathians in order to make a strong be all« nhted from u a
He—You have had a week now to«-
attack
on Sudelkof, on the Vosges, is othy, $12.50.
Oregon state normal school la Mon
(irveTATon
ihd
Misled
the
Russians
Into
think over my proposal of mnrrlage.
stitutional amendmeht granting suf
Butter—Creamery, 32c.
mouth.
reported
to have been easily repulsed.
thinking that the real flanking mpve-
8
h
e-Y
es:
and
the
mure
I
think
of
It
frage to women.
The Model Cook.
Eggs—Candled, 25c; ranch, 24c.
The house passed the measure pro
the
lean
1
think
of
If.
—
Boston
Tran
ment Was to be carried out there.
"1 hear that you have a college
Hops—1914 crop, 12He; 1913 crop, viding for an appropriation of >49,290
Rome Menaced by Flood*.
Child Labor Bill Win*.
Meanwhile he assembled a strong ar graduate for a cook.* Isn’t that very script
for the industrial school for girls. Thin
Rome.—The flood waters in the nominal.
Washington.—The, Palmer bill to my above the Mazurian lakes, com expensiveT’ -
- .
Wool—Valley, 23c; eastern Oregon, Includes $15,000 for a new cottage.
Cynical
Wit.
streets around St. Peter’s have risen
“Not very. She works for her board
bar products of child labor from inter posed for the most part of fresh re
Leas brains are required to say brll to a height of 4 feet kfid 11 inches. 20c.
<-
Road work for the coming biennium
and clothes."
, ' .
n
state commerce was passed by the cruits.
”Wfty. how • does she corns to do Itont bitter words a bout people than to Several walls have collapsed, but with
Is to be continued on the one fourth of
Twenty ~«tx thousand Russian troops,
house by a vote of 232 to 44. The bill
say brilliant kind words. The cynic’s out serious consequences.
1 mill tax levy of 1918, according to
20 big cannon, 80 machine guns and a that?"
now goes to the senate.
wit la easiest and cheapest.
Wheat—Bluestem, $1.50; club >1.48; decision of the house.
“ftlie la my wife."
The lower parts of Rome are flood
large quantity of war material wer^
Plenty ef IL
red Russian, >1.43; turkey red. >1.44;
A substantial saving In the expenses
Dee Moines Ousts Liquor.
captured by the Germans In east Prus
“You can’t fool all the people ell of ed by the high waters of the River forty-fold, >1.49; fife, >1.45.
Tbs Ever Prezsnt Casus Belli.
of
stato and local elections will he pos
Tiber,
which
has
reached
a
maximum
Des Moines.—The city council here sia in the sudden offense which has
Judge-W hat’s the row bet ween this the time.”
Barley—>37 per ton.
height
of
57
feat.
Considerable
dam
sible
through the operation of Rhpre-
refused to grant tho saloonkeeper^ a sent the Czar's force of invaders hur man apd woman? Policeman-You see,
“No. ‘ Still, the folks who get up the
Hay—Timothy, >16 per ton; alfalfa. sentattve Childs’ bill w hich the house
renewal of their licenses. This means riedly back In the direction of their they’re married a n d - Judge—Was easy mark lists don’t seem to have any age has been done to homes in the
baa passed. It provide« for only twe
that the 80 saloon* of Des Molnee Will own border. ' The kaiser waa la the there auy other reason far the fight T— trouble about securing material.”—8e- rural districts and In the poorer sec >1< per ton.
Butter—Creamery, Mo.
election judges Instead ef tareek «9
tion of the city.
permanently oloee their doora.
ettle Poet-IntolUgencer.
Philadelphia Ledger.
rtolnlty of the Qpergtioa la MnMk
• - Washington.-—The fight over the
government ship purchase bill was
shiftqd from the senate to the house.
In tho senate the measure, blocked
by determined republican oppoelttou,
was displaced aa the unfinished busi
ness, and a cloture rule, designed to
terminate the filibuster forcibly, whs
taken-up.
~
The cloture rule presented In the
eenate met the same republican fili
buster that had blocked the shipping
A
S U f-lfe
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