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44 frs)S as I'es'ea i THE C0UK1KH la ilavnM to the txwl lntrmU of HI'HAY and WIHSKXbH COUNTY, The lllwral patron M of th oltlMiu of thla mo tlon la rwpiHitfully aolldtad, Publlahatl ovary Thuraday by RUSSELL D. PRICE. Subscription Rataa For Yot urn ; Six Month , (0 : Thro Mont ha 26 VOL. XIII. 81'ltAr, WHEELER COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1915. NO. 2. NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Panama-Pacific fair Is formally Opened San Francisco Instead of a lone sunrise gun that brings In other days of the year, dawn Saturday in San Francleco was acclaimed by salvos of artillery from the batteries on both U. S. SHIP SUNK IN NORTH SEA Resume of World's Important ! of the Golden Gate and from the Mine Encountered Off German Events Told in Brief! Another Los Angeles Times dyna mite suspect has been taken In Seattle. Hotels and restaurants In New York jflve daily lunches to thousands of un employed. ihe trench government has suc ceeded In restoring train service which was materially impaired by the war. Government records show that 129 ships have been transferred to the American flag under the new registry law. Solons of West Virginia have been vaccinated for prevention of smallpox The governor, who is a physician, Helped do the job. Germany loses two war balloons in North Sea; one by an explosion and the other ws sunk by weight of snow on the envelope. A hundred and fifty prosperous Chi cagoans, who were once newsboys, sold papers one day to raise funds for the aid of the destitute. The funds of Sarah Bernhardt are said to be low, and on the eve of an operation upon an injured knee, her friends are nocking to her assistance. The "bank" of Monte Carlo is said to be In "full bloom" again after four and a half months' Inactivity. Ivory checks, however, have taken the place or shining gold and silver. The U. S. War department asks con grew for bigger coast defense guns, claiming the present artillery is out ranged. Slxteen-inch calibre is ad vised and the expense Is estimated at $40,000,000. Germany decides to run the British gauntlet in the established "war zone' and will Insist on a blockade of all neutral ships. Hunger, it is said, will be made an ally by both countries as far as possible. Asserting that polygamy still exists in soma narta of the Ilnitml Kfatpa a joint resolution memorialising the na- rreaiuent loucnea a ouon, a wireless warships at anchor In the bay. Five minutes later, 20 drum corps rolled and swaggered through the streets shrilling to all the town a call to rise and welcome the opening of the Pan ama-Pacific International exposition. President Wilson sent by wireless the vivifying spark that energized the ex position, but since he could not be here in person it was arranged that the people themselves enter on their own' ership In thoir own way. There was a parade, of course, but It was a parade like no other a par ado as nearly as possible without spec tators. All the city marched and none were left to watch. By tens of thousands, in societies and fraternities, in civic, neighbor hood and business organizations, the people enrolled. As they approached the entrance to the concourse fronting the Tower of Jewels, there assembling in the California building at 9 o clock the president and vice president of the exposition, the directors of the state exposition commission, the national exposition commission, the women's board, representatives of the army and navy, directors of divisions, chiefs of departments, heads of bureaus and others. These marched down the Avenue of Palms, escorted by exposition guards. United Status Marines and the exposi tion band, to the temporary grand' stand erected in front of the Tower of Jewels. As they took their places. Oovernor Johnson, of California, May or Kolph, of San Francisco, and other officers of the state and city entered the grounds at the head of the citi zens- procession. Ihe citizens as sembled in the concourse, while the governor, the mayor and their parties passed through a lane of soldiers and marines to the stand, where the presi dent and directors of the exposition received them. After the exercises were concluded. President Moore called President Wil son In Washington on a long distance telephone line previously set up and waiting, at noon Coast Thought Cause. Captain and Crew Saved; Cotton Cargo Goes Down Investiga tion Starts Immediately. Washington, D. C. The United States government was advised official ly Monday night of the first instance of the destruction of an American ves sel on the high seas since the outbreak of the European war. American Con' sul Fee, at Bremen, cabled that the steamer Evelyn and her cargo of cot ton, bound for Bremen, had been "blown up at Borkum, " just off the coast of Germany, but that the crew had been saved. The cause submarine or mine was not given in the dispatch. After a conference with President Wilson, Secretary Bryan cabled Am bassador Page, at London, and Ambas sador Gerard, at Berlin, to make an exhaustive inquiry as to the facts, and, If the crew was landed in either of their respective jurisdictions, to fur nish every care and convenience to Captain Smith and his men, so that they might return home safely. While the extent of sea zones of war proclaimed by Germany was never defined exactly, Borkum Island is con sidered far distant from the danger areas of submarines, although the waters of that vicinity are filled with mines for defensive purposes, through which Germany always has piloted in coming ships. Early press dispatches from Berlin announcing the loss of the vessel by a mine caused somewhat of a sensation in this capital, where the tension has been more or less pronounced over the j situation in the war zones since the dispatch of warning notes by the United States to both Great Britain and Germany. Paclfli. fViaof lima wwu i . . a . . . and notified him that the exposition AIMS' Artillery forces awaited Ms touch to be opened. The Said Gaining Ascendancy NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS. tionai congress to enact laws to pre vent polygamy was adopted by the In diana legislature. Seven million dollars for the devel opment of the two salt lakes in South atamt avn HMmn (a raoitu TIia at at a leased the lakes to an Eastern firm, England Justifies Using who will immediately employ 6000 men and lay a $2,000,000 pipe line to the Columbia river. The Swiss authorities are studying the organization of the male citizens over 48 years old for military pur poses. The army counts 800,000 men of the landwehr and landsturm, but there are numerous old soldiers still fit for territorial and convoy service and patrolling, who in case of an invasion would be ready to defend their mother land. Rheims continues to be bombarded daily by the Germans and hundreds of persons have taken refuge in the im mense cellars of the large champagne companies. The cellars also are being used as schools for the children. Night and day classes are being held. The authorities have notified parents that they cannot be responsible for acci dents to their children. fans An official eyewitness ae count of the recent fighting in France and Belgium was given out by the French War department. The writer says : During the past ten days detest able weather, continuous rains in some parts and violent snow squalls in American Emblem other8 nd thick fog have hindered the nearly everywhere on the sparic nasnea through tne air across the continent, and upon its receipt the National colors were raised, salutes fired, and the Fountain of Energy leaped upward. Nebraska legislature passes an anti tipping law. Forty airmen raid four towns in Belgium held by the Germans. Germany notifies United States that relations with that country are "strained." After six weeks deadlock the Illinois legislature has elected an avowed "wet" speaker. The embargo put on potash by Ger many is seriously effecting American fertilizer manufacturers. Pawn shops and loan sharks are to be regulated if a bill passed by the Ore gon legislature, becomes a law. German government increases prices of potatoes in order to conserve the food supply, which is admittedly grow ing short. British steamer is blown up and sunk off the coast of Cape Antifer, by two internal explosions. Large num ber of the crew lost their lives. The relations between Greece and 'Turkey apparently are becoming more strained. Although Turkey has offered reparation for the insult to the Greek military attache at Constantinople, it is reported that the Greek minister has left the legation in charge of a secre tary, being dissatisfied with Turkey's attitude. The Turkish minister has also left Athens. This is believed in some quarters to be the first step in the rupture of diplomatic relations be tween Greece and Turkey, which are said also to have been affected by the Albanian invasion of Serbia, London The British foreign office issued a note in reply to the repre sentations of the United States gov ernment concerning the use of the American flag by British vessels. The note says that the Cunard line steamer Lusitania on her recent voy age from New York to Liverpool raised the American flag "to save the lives of non-combatants, crew and pas sengers." It adds that in spite of the fact that American passengers embarking on the Lusitania on her outward voyage for New York asked that the Amen can nag be hoisted, "the British gov ernment did not give any advice to the company as to how to meet this re quest and it is understood the Lusi tania left Liverpool under the British flag." After discussing the Lusitania mci- dont, the memorandum makes this statement : Ihe British government have no intention of advising their merchant shipping to use foreign flags as a gen eral practice or to resort to them otherwise than for escaping capture or destruction." operations western battle front. In spite of the conditions this period has been favor able to us. Our artillery obtained brilliant re sults and the enemy evidently was un able to equal our fire. The French superiority in ammunition and sup plies is being more and more confirmed. "Our infantry showed an aggressive spirit in the Arters, Champagne, Ar gonne and Alsace regions, and their operations were crowned with success. We thus obtained appreciable results. That the German official communica tiona after having flatly denied, have now partially admitted that prisoners and materials have fallen into our hands, moreover, are the best proofs of our success. Two Norwegians, One Frenchman, Sunk London The Norwegian steamer Nordkyn has been sunk through strik ing a mine near Bornholm Island, in the Baltic sea, according to a dispatch. All of the crew were drowned. An official statement issued by the admiralty says the Norwegian tank steamship Belridge was struck by a torpedo fired by a German submarine near Folkestone. Pieces of the tor pedo, it is asserted, have been found on the ship. A dispatch from Dieppe says that a German submarine sank the French steamship Dinorah, bound from Havre to Dunkirk, off Dieppe. "Watchful Waiting" la Aim. Portland, Or. "What does the vice president of the United States do?" asked Circuit Judge Morrow during the examination of a citizenship appli cant The applicant stared blankly. This question was not given in the book. What are his duties?" continued the judge. "How does the vice presi dent occupy hi time?" The applicant beamed suddenly. "Oh, I know," he said. "He waits for the President to die." Wounded Die on Held. Geneva The German counter-attack on the village of Aspach-Ie-Bas devel oped a formidable clash of the two forces at the point of the bayonet. It was impossible to pick up the dead or succor the wounded, as the artillery continued to sweep the position. Among the dead lying about 400 yards from the French trenches were 27 wounded t rench soldiers who were unable to get back and whom it was impossible to reach. During the con flict seven of,these men were seen to huddle together to keep from freezing and share their last rations. A heavy fall of snow came on and covered not only the dead but the wounded. Black Torture Germans. Berlin, (By wireless to Sayville, N, Y.) The Overseas' News Agency gives out the following: "Herr Schwarz and Herr Gehr, missionaries of the Basle mission, on the Sanga river, in Kamerun, West Africa, report that British troops are promising rewards to the natives to deliver Germans as prisoners or to kill them. For the reason several Germans have been drowned or cut to pieces by the na tives. Others have been trotured and delivered to the British." Date of Amputation Set Bordeaux, via Paris It was decided definitely Sunday by the surgeons at the hospital of St. Augustin of Area hon to amputate the right leg of Sarah Bernhardt. Mme. Bernhardt main tains her courage, being described as apparently cheerful. She is receiving a large number of telegrams express ing sympathy. Portland The wool market In the East is in a most excited condition and stirring times are looked for in the Western states when the buying sea son opens. Everybody in the trade is bullish, the growers because they are P5?ctically certain to get very high prices, and the buyers because they cannot be otherwise. The contracting movement is begin ning to get a little headway in the West. It would be booming were there enough sellers. Buyers stand ready to contract for wool anywhere in Eastern Oregon, but they are not aoie to mane any impression yet on the growers, and may not be able to do much in this line before shearing time. unless they offer a good deal more than they are talking now. Dealers would be glad to contract for good medium clips at 22 cents, such clips as they bought last year at 17 to 18 cents, but sheepmen turn a deaf ear to such proposals. While values are go ing to be high this year it would be folly to predict any definite prices, The hop market is plainly moving in an upward direction, under the in fluence of a strong export demand and with stocks at a low ebb. Fourteen cents was paid this week for choice Oregons. This quotation has not been seen since the middle of last Septem ber. xnis top price, 14 cents, was pai by Louis Lachmund to Henry Eoff, of Independence, for 400 bales. Harry U Hart bought 177 bales from Robert Ankeny, of Rickreall, at 12g cents. Wheat Bid: Bluestem, $1,541 fortyfold, $1.63; club, $1,621; red Russian, $1.42; red Fife, $1.47. Millfeed Spot prices : Bran, $30.60 31.50 ton; shorts, $32.5033.50 rolled barley, $35(5,36. Corn White, $38 ton; cracked, $39, Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $14 16; valley timothy, $12.60; grain hay, $1012; alfalfa, $1213. Vegetables Cucumbers, hothouse. $1.25(1.60 dozen; eggplant, 810c poord r peppers, $4 crate; artichokes. 8590c. dozen; tomatoes, $1.75 crate cabbage, lil Jc pound; celery, $4 25 crate; cauliflower, $2; sprouts, 8 ,9c pound; bead lettuce, $1.752 crate; rhubarb, 10121c pound; car rots, $1.25 sack; beets, $1.25; pars nips, $1.25. Green Fruits Apples, 75c$1.50 box; casabas, $1.65 crate; cranber ries, $11 barrel. Potatoes Oregon, $1.101.15 sack; Yakima, 90c$1.15. Onions Selling price $1 per sack, country points. gfjs resh Oregon ranch, case count, 2223c; candled, 24c. Poultry Hens, 1313Jc pound; mixed, 1212Jc; broilers, 1820c; turkeys, dressed, 2021c; live, 16c; ducks, 1316c; geese, 810c. Butter Creamery, prints, extras, 32c pound in case lots ; Ic more in less that case lots ; cubes, 26c. Veal Fancy, 1212Jc pound. Pork Block, 9ic pound. Hops 1914 crop, 1214c; 1913 crop, 12c. Cattle Prime steers, $7.50(5)7.75; choice, $7.257.50; medium, $6.75(5) 25; choice cows, $66.60; medium, $56; heifers, $56.25; bulls, $3.60 6; stags, $4.606. Hogs Light, $6.26(5)6.90; heavy, $5.506.20. bheep wethers, ?6(S)7.15; ewes. $56.15; lambs, $78.20. DOINGS OF OREGON'S LEGISLATURE A Brief Resume of Proceedings of the People' Representatives at the State Capital, Bills Introduced, Passed, Rejected, Etc. Seattle Wheat Bluestem, $1.54; fortyfold, $1.53; club, $1.62; Fife, $1.47 J; red Russian, $1.44. Barley $30ton. Tacoma Apples Cooking, 7590c box; Spitzenbergs, Winesaps, Rome Beauties, Arkansas Blacks, Staymen Winesaps and Black Twigs, 85c $1.65; Delicious, $1.501.65. . Cider 30c gallon; Oregon, $3 keg; 25c gallon. Comb Honey Yakima, $3.25 crate; strained honey, $5.50; Idaho, $3.50; Nevada, $3.50. Pears Yakima, $1.50. Cranberries $8. 25. Cabbage Home-grown, lie pound; Winningstedt, 2c. Carrots Local, 75c$l. Beets Home-grown, $11.25. Turnips Per sack, $1.85. Potatoes Yakima, $2022 ton; White River, $1718; Burbanks, $22; sweets, $2.50 cwt. Onions Green, 20c dozen; Oregon brown, $1.50 sack; Yakima, $1.60; California, $1.50. Fresh Meats Steers, 121c; cows, 12c; heifers, 1212Jc; wethers, 12Jc; dressed hogs, 12c; trimmed sides. 16ic; combinations, 15Jc; lambs, 13 14c; Diamond T. C, 14Jc; yearlings, 13c; ewes, lie Poultry Ducks, live, 1012c; hens, dressed, 16 18c; live, 10 14c; springs, dressed, 22c; live, 1416c; squabs, live, $2.60 dozen; dressed, $6; turkeys, live, 18c; dressed, 2830c; geese, 20c. Butter Washington creamery, 30(5) 31c; Oregon, 2930c. Eggs Fresh ranch, 2425c; stor age, Z025c. Judiciary Committee Has Bill tor New Districts State Capitol, Salem Four new ju dicial districts are provided for in the plan reported to the house by the ju diciary committee by substitute house bill 308. This plan will give the state a total of 17 judicial districts and will supersede entirely the system proposed by President Thompson, of the senate, for 24 districts and an appellate court. It also disposes of the numerous inde pendent district division bills intro duced by various members of the house and the senate. The new plan, as worked out by Chairman Olson, and other members of the judiciary committee, moved up a notch when the bouse passed Senator Ihompson's bill creating the Four teenth judicial district by detaching Lake county from the present Thir teenth district. This leaves only Klamath county in the Thirteenth. Create the Fifteenth district to con sist of Lane, Lincoln and Benton coun ties, by detaching them from the Sec ond district. Create the Sixteenth district, com prising Coos county, by detaching it from the present Second district. Create the Seventeenth district by Jcta.-li.iiif Cunv county from the Second district and Juacyhh.t: county from the First district. Jackson county alone then will embrace the First district, with Judge Frank M. Calkins in charge. This plan will leave Douglas county alone as the Second judicial district and the bill provides that Judge J. W. Hamilton shall remain the circuit judge of that district. Voters to Register but Once. State Capitol, Salem House bill 191 providing for permanent registra tion was passed by the senate without argument. The law provides that as long as an elector resides in the pre cinct in which he registers and votes at one election held throughout the county within the biennial election period ending November 30 following the regular biennial general election, he shall not be required to register again. If the elector fails to vote as stipu lated he shall re-register or notify the county clerk in not less than 30 days nor more than bu days alter the regu lar November election that he resides in the district from which he regis tered and requests in writing that his name remain on the register of electors. This is the second permanent regis tration law that has been passed by the Oregon legislature, one passed at the session in 1913 having been de clared unconstitutional by the Supreme court The new law provides that the county clerk shall use the card index system in keeping his register of elec tors. Each elector shall sign a card giving his name, age, political affilia tion, etc., and shall take an oath that he is a citizen of the United States, The cards shall be public records and shall be kept in the office of the county clerks as other public records are kept, 14 Appropriation Bills Provide $778,706.40 fund State Ci.pitol, Satan Appropria tions for sundry and miscellaneous de partments of the state government ag gregating $778,706.40 are provided for in a series of 14 appropriation bills in troduced in the house by the joint house and senate ways and means com mittee. These bills carry the items for main tenance of the executive of tho state government, including the salaries of the governor, secretary of state, state treasurer and their office assistant. The governor is given his usual allow ance of $500 a year for traveling ex penses. The only big state institutions pro vided for in these bills are the Sold iers' Home at Roseburg, with $31, 658.75 for the biennium, and the Tu berculosis hospital, with $53,175. An aggregate of $110,000 is re quired for bounties on wild animals for the next two years. Of this sum $20, 000 is to meet a deficiency in the fund of the last two years. The Dresent legislature voted to increase the bounty on coyotes and to place a bounty on seals, and additional ex penditures will be required for those purposes. Dry Act Signed by Governor Withycombe Trading Stamp Bill Dies. btate Capitol, balem By agreeing to the indefinite postponement of Rep resentative Forbes bill to levy a heavy tax on trading stamps, those members who are opposed to the use of trading stamps in the state are centering their efforts on Representative Tom Brown s bill whjch probably be up for final passage soon. The mail of every member of the legislature has been flooded for the last few weeks with letters from constituents who repre sent either side of the question. The bill promises to arouse considerable debate. Road-Merger Act Passed. State Capitol, Salem By provisions of Senator Hawley's bill passed by the house the Southern Pacific company will be enabled to proceed . with the consolidation of its subsidiary com panies, plans for which already have been completed by the railroads affected. The bill amends the present law so that one road may own and operate a competing line. The South ern Pacific plans to consolidate the Portland, Eugene & Eastern, the Cor- vallis & Eastern, the Salem, Falls City & Western and several other minor roads it owns for the purpose of re ducing expenses and promoting effi ciency in operation. No-Party Bench Act Is Out. State Capitol, Salem Representa tive Tom Handley has consented to the indefinite postponement of his bill pro viding a non-partisan judiciary. The measure had been indorsed by the State Bar association. The attorneys the house generally favored the bill, but they were opposed to passing it at this session, for the reason that the people defeated a similar measure at the recent election. SUe Capitol, Salem "It is the best piece of constructive legislation in the world," declared Governor Withy combe Thursday afternoon as he at tached his signaure to the prohibition bilL "I heartily approve of its every provision. If the legislature does nothing else, this act alone is well worth the expense of the session." The governor was in a happy mood when he signed the bill. He declared that it .gave him a real plop-wre to be able to have a part in so wholesome and so beneficial a piece of work. Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and other' persons, who have been interested in the "dry" movement in Oregon for many years, stood about his desk. House Passes Bill Against Use ot Irading Stamps State Capitol, Salem An anti-trad ing stamp bill, introduced to drive the popular trade magnet completely out of the state, was passed by the house. The measure was introduced by Repre sentative 1 nomas Brown, of Marion. Senator Lafollette, of Marion, was the author of a similar bill in the senate. The measure levies a 5 per cent ex cise tax on the gross receipts not only of all concerns conducting a trading stamp system in the state, but on all merchants who use them. It was ad mitted by those who sponsored the bill that the measure probably will put an end to the trading stamp business. Ostensibly, however, the measure is intended to raise funds for the state, as the receipts .from the proposed tax are to go into the state treasury. Representative Brown painted a dreary picture of the misfortune of the small merchant who is made to com pete with the concern that gives away trading stamps as an inducement to attract custom. He declared that the trading stamp is an unnatural trade condition, that it is an economic waste and that it really proves an expensive attachment to the business of the merchant who uses it. Amendment Asks Change in Lease of Salt Lakes State Capitol, Salem The Forbes house bill approving the lease of Sum mer and Abert Lakes to Jason C. Moore has finally emerged from the senate committee on public lands. Attached to the report of the com mittee is a recommendation signed by three of the members that the bill be so amended that the lessees will be re quired to execute a bond guaranteeing payment for' ail labor and materials contracted for. The amendment also makes the lease conditional upon sub mission by the lessees or their assigns to regulation by the State Land board in the sale of shares of stock. There is strong opposing sentiment in the committee, as well as in the body of the senate, against imposing any new conditions on the lease. The reason for advancing the amendment are that certain laborers and material men have not received payment for work and materials furnished a former lessee of the lakes, whose enterprise was abandoned, and that the state should take precaution against turning its property over to a possible stock jobbing corporation to exploit. Office Made Appointive. State Capitol, Salem The senate passed senate bill 255, which provides that at the expiration of the term of the present official the state engineer shall Jte appointed by the governor. A