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II ol O !'"' , ALBANY DAILY DEMOCRAT Established In 1115 Best Advertising Medium In Una County. THE WEATHER ' Tonight and Thursday fair. VOL. XXIX. ALBANY, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916. No. III. NLA. - 3 Discusses Credits, telephones ... and Roundup at Moinhjy Banquet. SENATOR CUSICK SPEAKS ON OREDITS Committee Appointed to Inves tigate Telephone Consolida tion; Roundup Considered. After resting fur several month. lie Albany Mcitli:iiiin' uMKOL-imiun met aguin Intl nighl. ai omul a well :.rcnil table nt lite Carlton, nlirre they en . joyed n nral leant nml llicn had Home talks on practical subjects, of concern In the "lnilnii of ihe merchant. Senator I''. U. Cntck wan Ihc first speaker, having fur his Mlhjccl cred its one nffccn every hnsiness, nnd oflen spells sm-ccM or failure, ac cording to Ihe manner in which it. Ihe credit system, is conducted. The Krr.lt need in hnsiness lo run the )ilcin more hanker do, nlonx safe lines.. Willi merchants credit is oflen a mailer of friendship. It slurtltd nev er he so. It should he made a pracli cat thing, anil given only after thor ough investiuaiiiiii. I. earn your cus tomer first and ascertain what his paying facilities are, and do not give credit lo Ihc man who is not entitled lo II hy hit past rnrd. I', A. You tin also spoke on Ihe suli jo t. A necessary part of business, it needs to he handled carefully and - continently. Will V. Merrill, of the Murphy Seed store, for many years a live wire in Ihc ttlcphorc business here, spoke on Ihc subject of telephones. He is In favor of a consolidation in the husiitesH here, climinning the annoy ance of two syHettu. He suggested that Corvalljs and Albany niiijht well work toKclhcr in the hnsiness. As il is now most of Ihe Corvallis phone arc those of the Home company, and hero Ihc Pacific Co. Is said lo have the most. He suggested that il would he a itood thing if the Pacific com pany would withdraw all Iheir phones from Corvallis and the Home Co. all theirs here, nnd then work togcth er in an interchange of holiness In the two cities, greatly facilitating the hnsiness. Geo. F.. Sanders, of the Pacific Telephone company also spoke along Ihc lines of service and nicciing the - requirements of the public. The talks created so much interest 'a motion was passed lo have a com mittee appointed to investiuate the matter of consolidation, and Messrs. Cusick, Merrill and Young were np .'poiulcd such committee. The coming round-up was discuss ed hy a number present, nnd it was decided lo nive the show Ihc hearty support of Ihe association if il is seen that it is being run-in a clean man- Her, free from objcPtiiuiable features "tluu sometimes creep inlo the busi- 'ties. There was a ijond deal of criticism of the way llilni's went ihe first day al Kuucife; hut this was said lo he due lo Ihe fact that Ihe manager was not there that day: thai after lie arrived the next morning nnd hail things or ganized it was conducted in a much heller manner. MRS, E. GLENN PASSED AWftY THIS Matilda Jane Glenn, wife of K. Glenn, of near Silver, died this morn Inn nt 'Ihc age of 4.1 yenrs. She had been suffering from poor health for ' some time. She was horn in Missouri June 7, 1873, but has lived hi Oregon most of her , life. . ' ' Besides her husband, she is sur vived by one son nnd four daughters. Five children born to Mrs. Glenn have preceded her to ihc Brave. The date for the funeral has not been set, but burial will, take place nt North Palestine cemetery. W. P. ELMORE FINDS COUNTRY PROSPEROUS EAST OF MTS. One Portland Bank Increases Deposits $5,000,000 in Past Three Weeks. Hon, W. P, F.lmnrc, of llrownsvillc, returned this morning from the Hill Bend country in eastern Washington and reports crop conditions fine. The country is a sea of wheal, he says. Illg yields are being harvested every place. When asked by a bystander if he did not think thai the country would sec pretty uood times this fall after the harvest he asked "what is the uinlelr with limes now?" He vis ited J. C. Ainaworth. president of one of the large banks in Portland, yes terday, and was informed ,y that of ficial that his Imuk't deposits had in creased $5.(XXMKI in Ihe past three weeks. He said his hank had paid out (HJ,(x;.ftX) fur wheat in that lime and yet their deposits are $5,0(I0,XK) grcat cr than they were three weeks nun, Mr. I.huorc slates that he found everything prosperous all the way up the Columbia, and thai money is plen tiful all through the wheat belt. He predicts the same condition lo ensue here with the tiuniper crops on all tides. '. t S ffl 4 S1 B 30 l) ?. ") CITY MEWS 9 i0Ct(B3 Returned from Independence Mr. and Mrs. A. 1.. Ramsey have returned from Independence where they spent several weeks pickiuit hops, their summer's outing. Harrisburg People Fred Mlumherg and family, of Har risburg, are mnkiiiK arraiiKCinenis to move lo Albany to reside. They for merly resided here for many years, IcavinK here for Mr. lllumhcrg to ac cept a position with May & Senders. Their many Albany friends will be dad lo have llieui hack here. Round-Up Started Several loads of lumber have been hauled to the Ronnd-Up grounds and is soon as the grain has been thresh ed which is now in the field, the con- I r in t ion of the bleachers, grand land, arena, corrals, sheds, etc., will commence Several cowboys and cow- lirls arc in Ihc city already, including Adams, who will manage the show; Jimmic Taylor and several others. Barn Burned Albany people who drove to Corval lis hist night report a fire at Ihc Joe lrown place a mile south of town on Ihe Monroe road. Fire started in the ham and completely destroyed it. The hhixe could be seen for miles around. Weather Report- Yesterday's temperature ranged be tween 76 and 41 degrees. The river stands al 1.3 feet. Parrot Can Whistle Stuart- Holmes' tri-hngual parrot during a winter in the tropics learned to whistle like a Jamaica harbormas ter. When be poked his beak out of Mic hotel window and whistled all the boatmen on the wnrtefront would row frantically out to Ihc yachts in the 'larbor in the expectation of discov ering a "fare" ready to come ashore. A whistle from a yacht's deck was the agreed sigunl by which Ihc natives were summoned out across the water for passengers. Holmes kept his par rot in the studio during the filming of "A Tortured Heart," in which he ap pears with Virginia Pearson, and the bird kept up its chatter of man lan guages, lo Ihe annoyance of Tiiroetor Will S. Davis. This' play will, be seen al Ihc Rolfc Friday. ' Railroad Man Here ' . R. K. Pretly, assistant G. F. A., and V. Kisler, contracting freight agent of iIm; Great Northern, were In the city today mixing up with our people in the interest ni the Hill Inics, pleas ant men to meet. Intended Mischief " Down on Fifth street some slabs with nails stickiu;' up thru the round surface far enough lo puncture a tire, were found, evidently placed on the street by some inischevlous person. Home from Eugene Raymond Archibald, who has been with llauser Bros, at F.ugcnc for sev eral months, is in the city, studying whether to go to Willamette or the O. A. C. Ihc coming year. Tax Paying Time The second tnx paying time Is here, and payments can be made for the second half until the fifth of October without peunlty. SERBIA CAPTURES FORTIFIED RILL After Desperate Fight Serbians Get Highest Peak of Kamachalan. BULGARIANS RESISTED UNTIL ANNIHILATED German Document Captured Shows Shortage of Supplies and Ammunition. ' (By United Press) Paris, Sept. 20. It is announced that the Germans reached the French trenches one at point north of Som me. Screen fire checked repeated counter attacks from Clery to the river. The Germans reached the al lies advanced posts in isolated spots in the southern end of the line. Lat er they were repulsed. The Serbians captured a well fortified hilt cast of Herat on the highest peak of the Kamakchalan range. In the most vio lent hand lo hand fighting, the Bul garians resisted until praiically an nihilated, only fifty-surrendering. The French seventy fives dispersed coun ter attacks near Garesuika. Bucharest reported that the Rou manians had defeated the main Bul garian, German, Turkish forces at Dobrudja. The fighting is continuing. Washington. Sept. 30. Consul General Skinner of London, reported two American seamen aboard the British steamer Strathgay, torpedoed September sixth. London, Sept. 20. Gen. Haig re ported minor British gains in Arras. Flscwhcrc the situation is unchanged. The British captured a document '"earing the signature of General Fal kenhayn, formerly chief of the Ger iian general staff. The document urg ed the conservation of supplies, and mformed the officers that wastage of 'funs is exceeding the "supply, and that ammunition is rapidly dwindling. POPE TO HOLD CONSISTORY ' FOR PEACE PURPOSES Cardinals to Be Summoned, and More Created, Perhaps Archbishop Hanna. (By United Press) Rome, Sept. 20. The United Press has learned reliably that the pope will hold a consistory in November, and make an important de.-hratlon re garding peace prospect., lie plans to create several foreign cadinals. Arch bishop Hanna. of San FrnncUco, is under consideration. Papal c..iirticrs arc euroitle to Bcli-i and Vienna to summon German and .'.nstriuii car dinals. The !i:ilii:i g .verii'iient docs not object lo '.heir -.-oence. DIDN'T WORK IN JAPAN. Alleged Trouble-Maker Between United States and Allies De ported from Japan. (By United Press) 'Tokio, Sept. 19. Herman Wohlers. a German resident of Yokohama for the last 3 years, has just been ". de ported from this country for trying to make trouble between Ihc United States, Japan, and Great Britain. He was given 8 days to get out nnd went quick. Among other charges against Woh lers arc these: That he wrote charges against Japan to the American govern nient.. That he induced nn intoxicated American marine to pull the British Union Jack from the wnll of a hall -room where (Americans were cele brating the 4th of July with Britishers as guests, for which the marine was courtmartinlcd. That he entered A oko- liama Park and loudly dendunced the Russ-Jnp pact. WOMEN'S EFFORTS AGAINST JILSON FAILED AT EUGENE Every Woman at Meeting of Hughes Organizer Refused to Join Organization. Some women have been in the val ley, professedly representing the wo men suffragists, but it is said in the interest of Hughes. At Eugene they attempted to organize a woman's par ty district committee. Hightecn Eu gene women attended ihe meeting and every one of them refused flatly, sayt the Guard, to have anything whatever to do with the women's par- Here is flic position the Eugene women took: "We do not believe that this pro posed women's parly is really in the interest of suffrage. We are opposed to the methods adopted by its pro moters in their campaign against the democratic party. We are of the opin ion the suffrage cause cannot be at tained by an alliance with either poli tical party, and that should the wo men of the United States incur the enmity of either parly by involving themselves in political disputes' they will greatly hamper the passage of legislation that Is proposed for their enfranchisement." "Suffrage should he a non-partisan issue, and its success will be has tened as long as it is so. As a party, we women should not be led to tan gle oursclvcs-lin party politics. We must not endanger stale legislation by an alliance with a national party." In refuting the anti-Wilson state-' mcnts made by Miss Whittcmore and Miss Fandall, the organizers, the fact was Drought out that the National Suffrage association Js not at all in sympathy with Ihc women's party. All of the three presidents of the or ganization Jiave made strong state ments regarding their opposition to the forming of a political party by the women. 'If we women as a party, endorse Mr. Hughes for president, we .will certainly incur the enmity of rjiany of our friends who are supporters of Mr. Wilson. Thus would we only un dermine our own cause and delay the passage of the amendment. We have friends in both parties and it would be suicide as an organization to take sTdes in the presidential race. 'We have no reason to believe that the republicans will do any more for us. than have the democrats, and so. why should we endorse one candidate more than another?" o UP AND DOWN. A Story of Two Tramps One of Them Jack London, the Author. (By United Press) Columbus, Or., Sept. 20. Fifteen years ago, two tramps became fast friends in a Memphis, Tennessee sa loon. One of them was Jack London, the uthor, and the other Jerry Hogan, Sandusky horscthicf and editorial writer for the Ohio penitentiary weekly newspaper. Jerry talked about it today : "We were pals Jack . and 1. For fifteen years jve hoboed together thru the south. But he had ambition and I didn't that's the whole story. "The tramp life we led didn't" kill his ambition. We both wrote articles and sold "cm fifty-fifty. Sometimes Jack signed bis name to my articles and sometimes I signed my name to his it didn't make any difference. "But ambition for an education car ried Jack to South America and wc parted as he was climbing on the boat at Pcnsacola, Fla. I haven't seen him from that day to this. "Wish you were goin' along Jer ry,' he waved good hy nt me, '1 feel I'm goin' to make good from now on "And his dreams have come true. He went up the ladder while I went down. Today his name is famous and he writes for thousands. The only name I've got now is a number and I write for a poor hundred or so con victs in the pen paper here." o Crazy Pittsburg Man. (By United Press) Pittsburg, Sept. 20. Morna Dia mond, aged 62, of Michigan, wns held fdir insanity examination. He wrote threatening letters to President Wil son. Diamond said that mysterious voices from the empty air told him to kill Wilson. He ndmittel writing the letters. F LOSS GtSOlE German Report Is That Allies Have Lost That Number Since Beginning Aggressive. GERMANS WON BATTLE NORTHWEST OF HALITZ Russians Have Been Success ful in Carpathians, Bulga ians Near Ooiran. Berlin, Sept. 20. A semi-official news agency estimated that the al lies loss is half a million men on th -Somme offensive I rum July first ! September 15. The British alone lost i0,000. It is airi' vr.cfd that the Russians alone have gained local successes in il.e Carpatbiiins. .hat the German won a battle northeast of Halitz. Sofia anu.nii'eed that the Bulgar ians drove ilc Iia''ans from two vil lages nor'heast of Lake. Doiran. The allied attacks on Fiorina we're repuls ed. The Russians and Roumanians are stubbornly defending their p sitioi's nt Dobrudja south cf the Constanza railway. The Austrians won a Tran sylvanian battle, chiving the Tviusiins back across Sz-.it duk pass. The office said the Germans suc cessfully grenaded the British near Fleurs. They repulsed isolated infan trymen. The' Germans " drove the French from Dcadman's Hill trench. Greece Sends Note. (By United Press) London, Sept. 20. A Renter Ath ens dispatch declared that Greece has sent, an urgent note to Berlin de manding immediate release of Greek troops removed from Xavall. Berlin recently announced that these troops had voluntarily laid down their arms, being will to remain in Germany un til the Teutons tvrove the allies from Greece. An Athens report asserted that the Germans captured the Greeks. o WILSON WILL CARRY NEBRASKA AND I A Com Husker Gets Pteeved . Whti He Hears Country Is ' Strong For President. While Earl Brandebury was in the middle-west on his recent trip in the interest of the Hammond Lumber Co. he had occasion to travel consider ably. He related to a friend the-othcr day a political conversation which in dicates pretty well how the middle west stands. He was riding on a train through Nebraska and happened to fall into conversation with a man. Says the man: ! "I have traveled all over Kansas and Nebraska, have talked with all kinds of people, have seen dozens of straw votes taken, and I cannot sec . anything but Wilson's reelection in November. The people seem to want him and it looks to me. from what 1 have seen, that he will win hands down." "Pardon me," said a man who was sitting near by and had heard the "Nebraska man's statements. "Prdon me, but I have traveled over Illinois .mil Indiana in the same way and 1 'found the same thing. I have taken 'straw votes on trains, have heard statements from hundreds of Repub licans. Democrat.V Progressives and 'independents, and the land seems to be sloping towards the' president. From the attitude of the people 1 have no doubt hut that Wilson will sweep Illinois and Indiana clean." "The situation is a peculiar one. Hundreds of Republicans and"-Progressives who would have voted for Roosevelt, Borah, or some other member of the party are flatly com ing out for Wilson and '; endorsing him. I, myself am a, republican and voted for Taft four years ago;, but I think it woul be a crime to remove Wilson from the White House at the DEATH OF ELMER DANNALS ; AFTER A LONG ILLNESS Former Popular Railroad Man, Conductor on the CAE. Elmer, Dannals died at at 6 o'clock this morning', at the home of his mother, Mrs. O. P. Dannals, on Washington street, after an -illness of several years. He was unconscious for several days. He was born near Albany June 3, 1877, and spent nearly all his life as a resident of this city. When he was a young man he went into the employment of the Corvallis & Eastern railroad, running first as a brakeman on the road, afterwards advanced to the position of conduc tor, first on a freight and mixed freight and passenger, and then on the regular passenger run to Detroit, which he made for a number of years. Popular, accommodating, genial, he was universally liked and many will mourn bis death. He was a mem ber of the Elks for a good many years, son of one of the exalted rul ers of the Albany lodge. He leaves a wife, now a resident of Salt Lake City, mother, brother. Clyde, and sisters, Mrs. Dennis W. Merrill, of this city, and Mrs. Chas. Kirk, of Portland. 5S( CITY NEWS I 9 Darling First Speaker The first number of ihe Y. M. C. A. lyceum course wl!l be on Oct. 3, when N'els Darling, ence a Chauuuu.ua at traction here, wi;i deliver a lecture on some subject to be named hereaf ter. Is Building Bungalow John Kirkland is starting construc tion of a bungalow on an acre of ground which he has purchased in sunr se addition. The house "viil co ! about $1200. The concrete work for the f.niunai on has been startu-l. Has a Good Head Harold, the four year 'old son -ofihiw. 4t alleged. thatthA-eon-.tiai.ys ilr. and Mrs. L. F. McClain, of 1167 West 1 1th street, was run over by an auto Monday, escaping with only a few bruises, Harold, with several other children, who were playing in the street near the McClain home rac out and climbed onto the running boards of the liulbert-Ohling delivery car, which Mac Doughton was driv ing. It is thought that Harold was crowded off and fell under the rear wheel of the car. The wheel passed ovei his head, but no serious injury resulted and the boy is playing around'today the same as ever. Returned from Independence W. A. Sharp and family -have re turned from .Independence, where they spent sevral weeks picking hops. Altogether the weather was good for the picking, and most hops have been saved, though a few fields are report ed partly lost by mold. Mason Among Masons ' D. P. Mason went to Portland this after to attend a reunion of old-time Masons, a good fellowship affair. One of the past grand masters, Mr. Mason rarely loses an opportunity to meet with his friends of thirty and forty years. . . Scio Couple Marry Judge D. B. McKnight today per formed a ceremony making Carl C. Follis, 21, and W. Mavell George, 17, husband and wife. Both are from Scio, near where the groom lives on a farm. present time." . "What's that?" snapped a voice from across the aisle. "You lust wait and see," said the third party to in terrupt. "There are a . lot of people who are not saying anything, but just wait until they vote.". "Pardon me," said the refined, quiet, unobtrusive man from Indiana, "but why the , irritation ?" "Aw, Wilson is no good and Hughe is going to be elected, you'll see that," snapped the Hughes man, and as he rose and stalked out of the car he shot back: "I wouldn't stay in any railroad car with any damned Wilson man." With him gone there was but one Hughes man left in the coach. Mr. Brandebury was not talking for publication. This story .reached the Democrat by chance today, sev eral days after the conversation took place. He has reported that all over the middle-west the country is strong for Wilson and predictions are freely made that his election will be a land slide. ' . , INVESTIGATING S. P. CAR SHORTAGE Oregon ' Public Service Com mission Today Began Con sideration of Matter. - W. R. SCOTT, GENERAL MANAGER1, HEARD FIRST Causes: Manufacturing Activity Inadequate Ship Tonnage, , ; Contract Failure, Etc. Portland, Sept. 20. The state pub lic service commission opened investi gation of the northwestern freight car shortage. Preliminary statements oc cupied the forenoon. W. R. Scott, general manager of the S. P. said that there is a similar California shortage, but the people there deem it evidence of prosperity and criti cised Oregon shippers for alleged lack of cooperation spirit. He gave the fol lowing causes for shortage: Unpre cedented eastern manufacturing ac tivity; inadequate t ship tonnage on both coasts; close of Panama canal; freight congestion terminals, and car builders failure to fulfill contracts. ' ' Mexican Affairs. (By United Press) New London, Sept. 20. It is pre dicted the Mexican-American confer ence will complete a definite with drawal plan before Saturday. Another Trust Case. (By United Press) Washington, Sept. 20. The depart ment of justice filed supreme court briefs charging tnat the Lehigh Val ley Coal Co. violates the anti trust not independent, but merely an instru-.. ment of the Lehigh valley railroad Tendered Regrets. (By United Press) Washington, Sept.- 20. British Counsellor Barclay told the state de partment that Britain formally ten dered regrets for a destroyers halt ing the Philippine steamer Cebu with in the three mile limit.' 1 Coram Catastrophe. (By United Press) -Berlin, Sept 20. The Bohemian flood casualties, as a rjsult of the White Desse dam collapse, may reach a thousand. Hundreds are missing. It is feared there are bodies inside the houses floating down stream. Three hundred corpses have been recovered. The survivors are foodlcss and un clothed. . , N. Y. Nominations. New York, Sept. 20. The. latest re turns showed that Whitman, Repub lican, had polled sixty per cent of the 20,000 progressive votes In yesterday's primaries. Whitman won the Repub lican gubernatorial nomination. Jus tice Samuel Seabury, democrat, poll ed forty per cent. He will oppose Whitman in the finals. - CENTRAL WILLftMETTE VALLEY EXPOSITION AND FAIR Premium list ready for distribution comprises all of the departments of jabor and production in the valley.. In this respect it is very comprehen sive. Conditions now favqr a splendid , show. Soil productions, both in qual ity and growth, excel so markedly as to suggest that the agricultural and horticultural exhibit will be superfine. Livestock are given a prominent place in the list and in the matter of liberal premiums. . Every dollar of the asso ciation money is to be used for prac tical purposes. Besides the exhibits of farm and factory products, school work and exhibits of the housewife's art, many special attractions will be staged. Band concerts, parades and carnival features. Watch for daily programs. Besides the regular prizes to be given for individual and collective exhibits, hundreds of dollars will be given in special prizes. ' . A. L. FISHER.