V r THIS COUMKK U dnvolml to th bml InUronta of HVHAY and WUKKLWt COUNTY. Th.HWral patron autof th.oHliona of Ihla km tlon la raiavtfully aullclud. PublUhad avary Thunday hj RUSSELL D. PRICE. SubacrlpUon Kataa ParYaar t $1.00 Six Month M TbraaMontha M VOL. XIII. Sl'ItAiT, WHEELEU COUNTY, OBEGON, TJIUltSDAY, APItIL 8, 1915. NO. 8. NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in Brief. has hit Lord Kitchener, of England, prohibited the una of liquor In household during the war. Secretary liryan has ordered a cane of Oregon loganberry juice for table use Instead of grape juice. Villi and Zapata have agreed to the neutrality of Mexico City, but the consent of Carranza Is lacking. A rate expert declares some of the railroads asking for rate Increases are already accumulating a surplus. The United States begins an Investi gation into tho death of an American ' on a torpedoed British liner. Ton thousand men returned to work In the steel mills and factories of Chi cago Heights, a suburb of Chicago. An anarchist on trial for placing bombs in a Now York church declared that a detective forced him to do the work and directed it. A man arrested for vagrancy in San Francisco had $5000 in bills In his pocket and proved himself to be the owner of buildings worth $200,000. Coaitt artillery companies at Fort Winflold Scott, San Francisco, made from 90 to 100 per cent at ranges of 7000 yards, approximately four miles. A writer in the London Daily Mall declares that dogs of the German dasc hund variety are being treated shame fully in England, out of pure prejudice. The British steamship Seven Seas ana toe trench steamship Emma were torpedoed by German submarines off Beachy Head, in the English Channel, Thursday. A commander of a German subma rine says the service is improving rap idly with experience and practice, and the ring around England la becoming tighter every day. Warships of the allies keep up an incessant bombardment of the Dar danelles, to prevent the Turks from repairing their damaged forts and to protect minesweopera. The Russky Slovoe, of Petrograd, print a note intimating that the Rus sian government haa been approached through neutral channels with over tures from Austria for a separate peace without Germany's knowledge. An Austrian steamer, loaded with arms and ammunition, on its way from Semi in to Panosova, both ports on the Danube river, struck a mine In the river and was blown up. Serbian ar tiilery completed the destruction of the ship and cargo. German prisoners of war in French camps receive the same rations as their French guards, with the excep tion of a little less meat, and are in good spirits and well satisfied with their treatment. They all believe Germany is bound to win. The French government ia still buy ing horses in Eastern Oregon. All efforts to raise the submarine F-4, in the Honolulu harbor have failed. Salem, Ore., haa a $40,000 fire which destroys a large fruit plant and its contents. Seattle Car Men Strike; Riots and Disorder Ensue Seattle, Wash. A strike of street railway employes working on the Se attle lines of the Puget Sound Trac lion, liignt ana rower company was called by a mass meeting of all labor unions held by the Central labor coun ell Wednesday. The vote to call out the carmen was taken at 9 o'clock, and within a few minute committees were out appealing to the motormen and conductors to leave their post and join the union. The strike was called to compel recognition of the union. Service on lines operated by the company was seriously interrupted, and during the first two hours was completely disorganized. On several downtown streets deserted cars block ed traffic until inspectors and shop em ployea appeared to remove them to the barns. Except for these delays no line was completely tied up, although blockades occurred frequently when crowds which filled the streets at the principal June tion points cut trolley ropes, broke windows and endeavored to take off crews who refused to strike. In a few intsances trolley wires were broken and fell sputtering to the street but no one was injured, and the company quickly repaired the damage. cam Atkinson, international organ izer of the Amalgamated association of Street & Electric Railway Em ployes of America, and W. B. Fitz gerald, chairman of the executive board of that organization, directed the movement. They said that 100 carmen had left their posts In response to the call and that they bad 800 mem oers wno nave applications on file as a result of their campaign. They aaid this demonstration was only the be ginning of the strike and that within a few days the tie-up would be com plete. They said the only question at issue was the right to organize. a. u Kempster, general manager of the company, disputed the union officials concerning the result of the strike call. uurmg the night the police were kept busy preventing attacks on the cars, which soon were without passen gers. Many arrests were made on charges of disorderly conduct. None were streetcar men. Although several men were bruised or slightly cut dur ing ngnts around me cars, no one was reported seriously Injured. Supporter of the strike movement advanced the argument that with jit neya available to handle traffic the public would not be inconvenienced. Test Cooking Qualities of Various Kinds of Apples Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallls Knowledge of the cooking val ue of standard varieties of apples on the part of housewives and other per sons that prepare this fruit for table use has long been considered by Pro fessor C. I. Lewis, chief of the divis ion of horticulture at the college, as one of the steps to a more satisfactory market system. "Buyers of apples for home use should learn the qualities of thelleading Oregon varieties and then call by name for the variety they want," Professor Lewis said several years ago. And be haa kept on saying it until the truth of the proposition haa been generally recognized and is now beginning to be acted upon in a systematic attempt to cultivate a more intelligent and stable demand for good apples. In carrying out this policy of learn ing the fruit and Its qualities, a series of experiments to determine the cook ing qualities of 71 varieties of apples grown in Oregon the Home economics department of the college haa made and reported an exhaustive test. The test includes the cooking qualities of these varieties used aa sauce, pies, dumplings, marmalade and jelly. The fruit was judged on the basis of color. flavor and texture of sauce, flavor. way cooked, and tenderness of pies and dumplings, and flavor, texture, color, clearness and surface of jells. In sauce and marmalade 60 points were allowed for flavor and 26 each for texture and color. For pies and dumplings, 65 points were given for perfect flavor, 20 for way cooked and 15 for tender ness. In jells texture and flavor were given 35 points each for perfect score with 15 for color, 10 for clearness and 6 for surface. Judging was done by a number of college experts who were unaware of the varieties aa they judged them, so that no prejudice entered into their verdict. . By this means satisfactory knowl edge of the qualities of all varieties tested was reached, and tbia informa tion ia now offered the people of Ore gon who are interested in this subject in a bulletin just prepared. The bul letin should not only prove to be a reli able guide in the purchase of applea for home cooking, but it will also have considerable value for the dealers and growers. Copies may be had on appli cation to the college. In addition to the score awarded to each variety in the uses heretofore mentioned, the bulletin furnishes in formation on the seasonal value of the varieties, on the relative value of some of the varieties for each of the purposes named, and the correlation of values for sauce and for jelly pur poses. Much other useful information is also contained in the bulletin, such as giving .recipes for crusts, cooking direction, amount of sweetening and suitable utensils. ALLOTS BIG SUM FOR NORTHWEST Oregon and Washington. J wo Ships Torpedoed; 150 Lives Are Lost London About 160 lives were lost in the sinking by German submarines of the African liner Falaba and the British steamer Aguila, bound from Llvemnol for I.Uhnn. The Faiaba wa. torpedoed in st. $2,926,175 for Improvement of I .CkStrrro'ai rhannol RunHan artatnnAn I - . The vessel carried a crew of 90 and about 160 passengers, and of this total only 140 were rescued. Of those res cued eight died later from exposure. The Aguila had a crew of 42 and three passengers, and of these 23 of the crew and all the passengers were lost. In both cases, on sighting the sub marine, the captain tried to escape by putting on all speed possible, but the under-water craft overtook the steam ers, showing that Germany now has some of ber most modern submarines engaged in the blockade operations against England. The captain of the Falaba, who was one of those lost, was given five min utes to get bis passengers and crew in to the boats, but, according to the sur- Other Project Are Designated, but Finishing Touehe on Celilo Canal Deferred. Washington, D. C One million five hundred thousand dollars has been al lotted by the secretary of war to con tinue work on the north jetty at the mouth of the Columbia river during the lS.months'ending June 80, 1916. This Is within $250,000 of the amount that would have been appro priated had the rivers and harbors bill been passed as it was repuorted to the vivors, before this was possible a tor- amoont proposed to be appropriated by pedo was fired, striking the engine- the hoUi Furthermore, thi. lln Flax-Growing Industry to Be Aided by State Boara four Prominent Pioneers of Seattle Die in River Four persons drown at Seattle when an automobile skids and runs into the Duwamish river. It is rumored that the Germans en trenched near Brussels will abandon their lines on account of the fall of Przemysl. Part of the U. S. fleet that will pass through the Panama canal at its form ai dedication, will visit Portland as well as other Pacific Coast harbors. Governor Hunt, of Arizona, has de cided that he was becoming too stout and forthwith decided on outdoor exer cise mowing the lawns of the capitol grounds every day. The chosen hour is noon, indicating that luncheon has been taken off the governor's schedule of meals. 1 A. L. Flynn, of Cottage Grove. Ore., is a puzzle to medical science. He has lived for months with a pulse beat of 80 a minute, that would mean certain death to normal persons. During Mr. Flynn's illness his pulse beat was as low as 13 a minute, remaining that way for several days and missing often. At a British cabinet meeting re cently there was every reason to be lieve that it considered the liquor ques tion, and the stampnig out of the evil, which is now one of the greatest prob lems of the nation. There still is much talk of prohibition, but it is not generally believed that this course will be adopted, although it is conceded that some step of a drastic and uni versal character will soon be taken. Salem Definite action was taken by the State board of control in starting the flax industry in Oregon in com pi l ance with an act passed at the recent session of the legislature by a decision to offer growers in this county $15 a ton for straw delivered at the State penitentiary. This is from $3 to $4 a ton more than the market price in other states, and was offered as an inducement to farmers to grow flax. Governor Withycombe said he was confident that three tons could be grown to the acre and he believed the price offered would make it one of the state's most profitable crops. The board will furnish the seed to the farmers for $3"a bushel, the money to be paid to the state when the straw is deilvered. It was virtually decided to employ an expert in the manufacture of flax to install the retting machinery at the prison and superintend the construc tion of the buildings necessary. Gov ernor Withycombe said he believed John C. Cady, of Albany, would be a good man for the place. Mr. Cady recently came to Oregon from Minne sota, where be was engaged in the flax business. It was decided to defer the appointment until all the members of the board could confer with him. It was decided virtually to employ Emit Seattle, Wash. Four persons, mem bers of prominent Seattle familes, were drowned in the Duwamish river late Tuesday when an automobile be longing to Mrs. Morgan J. Carkeek ran off the bridge at Allentown, on the Tacoma road, 10 miles south of Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Prosch, Miss Margaret Lenora Denny and Mrs. Harriet roster Beecher, an artist, were killed. All were members of prominent pioneer families. o ,m Pf.rt(y'.a.dele.Kftion fromthe Selling Oregon Made UCniVre AilBLUllUai ducioi., was guiug to Tacoma to inspect the exhibit of the State Historical society there. The chauffeur jumped clear as the automobile fell and swam safely to shore. Mrs. Carkeek also succeeded in getting clear of the wreckage and took refuge on top of the car, where she stood waist deep in the water until rescued. Thomas W. Prosch was 65 years old, son or Charles Prosch, who founded the Puget Sound Herald at Steilacoom in 1868. He bought the Seattle In telligencer in 1879, the paper being merged two years later with the Se attle Post. Mr. Prosch was editor of the PoBt-Intelligencer for some years and was the principal authority on Washington pioneer. He was poBt master of Seattle under President Grant. Mrs. Virginia McCarver Prosch was a daughter of General Morton M. Me Carver, founder of the city of Tacoma. She was 64 years old. Margaret Lenora Denny was the daughter of Arthur A. Denny, who founded Seattle in 1851. Miss Denny was one or the last survivors of the schoonerload of people that landed at Seattle in November of that year. She inherited a great fortune from her Hard-surf acinn of Countu M-A.I M 1 1 I " iaiuer. one was u years uiu. Mrs. Harriet Foster Beecher was the wife of Captain Herbert R. Beecher, son of the late Henry Ward Beecher, the famous Brooklyn clergy man. Mrs. Beecher was well known as a portriat painter and musician. She was 55 years old. Hansett, who bas had experience in flaxgrowing in Ireland, to give the farmers certain instructions. He will be paid only when actually at work or during the flax season and his salary probably will be $160 a month. The bill authorizing the state to en courage the growing of flax, carrying an appropriation of $50, 000 and speci fies that the money may be used only for giving employment to the convicts. Governor withycombe said be was anxious that farms near the prison planted to flax, so the convicts could work them and be returned to the in stitution at night. It is planned that they do all the work, even to the har vesting of the crop, but the growers must deliver the straw at the prison. Because of the fact that it was a new industry Governor Withycombe thought expert men should be employed to assist in planting, cultivating and retting and and he believed the board room and causing a terrible explosion. Many persons were killed and the steamer sank in ten minutes. Trawlers which happened to be in the vicinity rescued most of those who were saved; others got away in the boats, which were ready for launching and which were quickly lowered when the order was given to abandon the ship. Those who were still on board the steamer when the explosion occurred were thrown into the sea and it took the fishermen an hour or more to pick up the persons in the water who man aged to keep themselves afloat. The Aguila as attacked off the Pem brokeshire coast. The sumbarine, which in this case was the U-28, opened fire with her guns, shells from which killed a woman passenger, the chief engineer and two of the crew. Even after the crew had commenced to ment is the largest made out of the $30,000,000 lump appropriation, ex cept the allotments for the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The total amount allotted by Secre tary Garrison for Oregon and Wash ington is $2,926,175. or within $645.- 600 of the amount carried by the rivers and harbors bill when it failed. Some Oregon projects will receive the same amount provided by the bill, and in all instances the amount allotted to these projects is higher proportionately than the average for the entire country. lhe only important project for which no allotment was made and for which an appropriation was proposed is the Celilo canal, and this was left out be cause the $80,000 first recommended was for finsihing touches, which can be put on later. Other allotments for Northwest wa terways are as follows: Columbia and lower the boats, according to the story Willamette, below Portland, $450,000; of the survivors, the Germans kept up their fire, and some of the boats were riddled with bullets. The captain of the trawler Otillie, whom the commander of the submarine told of the sinking of the Aguila, went to the rescue and picked up the three boats containing 19 of the erew. The fourth boat, which contained the other members of the crew, could not be found, and it is believed that it had foundered. On their arrival at Fish guard, several of the crew wore band ages, having been wounded by the fire from the submarine. Another Dutch steamer, the Amstel, of 495 tons, has been blown up by a mine off Flam borough Head, but her crew was rescued. should obtain such help as soon aa dob sible. He said he had been informed Special 1 rain Carries the machinery and ouuaings necessary would not be expensive. It has nev er been the intention of the board to use all the appropriation in the flax in dustry and if it does not rurnisn em ployment for all convicts other means for doing so will be devised. The board plans growing flax on several of the state farms. Coquille river, $76,000; Coos bay, $70,000; Coos river, $3000; Siuslaw river, $117,500; Yaquina river, $3000; Nehalem bay, $116,175; Snake river, $20,000; Upper Columbia river, Celilo Falls to mouth of Snaka river, $37, 000; Willamette and Yamhill rivers. above Portland, $25,000; Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, $15,000; Clatskanie river, $1000; Gray's harbor and bar, $460,000; waterway connecting Port Townsend Bay and Oak bay, $15,000; waterway connecting Puget Sound and Lakes Union and Washington, $17,-000. For other work on the Pacific Coast, allotments were made as follows: Los Angeles, $75,000; San Francisco, $12,000; Oakland, Cal., $80,000; San Pablo bay, $15,000; Humboldt bar and bay, $300,000; Petaluma creek and U. S. Troops to Border? river $150,000. 1UO 1UIBBIHIUU1 IIVC aim its triuu- Clay Wares Advised Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallis There are thirty manufacturers of brick and other clay wares in Ore gon at the present time, according to Dean J. A. Bexell, of the Oregon Ag ricultural College School of Commerce, who advocates an organization of the manufacturers for the purpose of get- ing their Oregon-made wares more prominently before the public and into the markets by means of advertising and co-operative effort. The combined output of the industries is about $730, 000 annually, and the expenditures average about $1500 for each $50,000 of output. A part of this sum will be expended in promoting a demand for the clay goods, especially drainage tiles. In the clay industries as in most oth ers the attention given to production is disproportionate to that given to creating and enlarging the demand. Right quality of prodcut that will maintain a permanent demand together with due advertising and publicity, will, thinks Mr. Jiexell, bring success in this business. trench Buy Union Hones. Union, Or. A buyer for the French army has been here for several days contracting for all available heavy horses. The prices ranged from $125 to $175 a head. Some farmers are selling their older work teams and breaking in colts to finish seeding and do their summer's work. The suply of available animals is diminishing notably. Highway Is Planned Forest Grove The Forest Grove commercial club held another luncheon Thursday, at which there were present 100 business men of the community and farmers living in the vicinity. The subject for discussion was "Better Roads for Washington County." D. B. Reasoner, judge of the county court, and Rodell Matteson, county commissioner, were guests. The project which is being pushed by the Commercial club of Forest Grove and the farmers of Gales Creek and Thatcher vicinity is hard-surfacing of the main thoroughfare leading from Gales Creek and Thatcher neighbor hoods into Forest Grove, and the county court is co-operating to obtain some state aid. A committee of five was appointed to co-operate with the Commercial club and the county court in an effort to procure assistance from the State highway commission, and subscriptions to the funds available for the improvement. Incidentally the membership of the Commercial club was increased 100. Snow In Cascades Is Low. Albany That there is little danger of floods in the Willamette valley this year is indicated by the fact that there is less snow in the Cascade mountains now than at this season for many years. What snow leu last winter has been going out early and also gradual ly. UnlesB there should come an un usually cold period before summer, in which snow should fall in the moun tains, there is no likelihood whatever of high water in the Willamette and its tributaries this spring. A heavy warm ram this time of the year usual ly makes a flood probable, but there is said to be no danger this year. Need Not Take Husband's Name. Salem Miss Marian Sheldon of The Dalles need not take her husband's name if she decides to marry, is- the opionin of the attorney general given in response to the question of the per plexed woman, asking if there was any law against a woman retaining her maiden name after marriage. The attorney general has notified Miss Sheldon that there is nothing to hinder her from retaining her name instead of taking that of her husband in case of her marriage if she so desires. Grain Fields In Good Condition. Union Heavy rains in the valley and snow in the nearby mountains have brought the moisture to about the usual condition for this season of the year. Cloudy skies and south winds promise more rain. The ground has been too wet for cultivating and seed ing is delayed. Most of the spring seeding is in and grain is in good condition. San Antonio, Texas Three batteries of the Third Field Artillery, including 450 men and 12 guns, in command of Colonel George W. Vandeusen, at Fort Sam Houston, were entrained Tuesday for Brownsville and were ordered rushed to the border by a special train. Major General Frederick Funston departed also upon receipt of advices from Brownsville after ordering out the artillery. He Baid that the in fantry at Texas City would not be sent to the border for the present, but would be held in readiness. General Funston, commanding the department of the South, will take charge of the situation at Brownsville and he has discretionary powers to act in the event firing into Brownsville by either Mexican force continues. He served formal notice on the command ers of the two forces that they would be held personally responsible for shots fired into the Texas town, and that American troops would be prepared to enforce the order. An attempt is being made to but round and attack the Villa forces un der General Jose Rodriguez, in camp at Las Ruias, by Carranza troops ap proaching in two columns from differ ent directions, according to a message from Matamoros, Mexico. One body of about 800 troops with 15 cannon was said to be moving from the south and another column under General Ildefonso Castro, with 1700 men, was reported approaching from Nuevo Laredo and expecting to reach Las Rnsias before daybreak Wednes day. Shot "Stray," Says Britain. Washington, D. C. American Con- buI Green at Hamilton, Bermuda, cabled the State department that the British authorities had informed him. "it was a stray shot," that hit George B. Montgomery, of Buffalo, N. Y., who recently was shot in the foot and seriously woulded while sailing near a camp of German prisoners of war in the Bermudas. The consul said a full report was being forwarded by mail. Italy and Germany Trade. London A dispatch to the Morning Post from Berne says Germany has agreed to send coal to Italy. Food stuffs and certain other products are to be received in return, says the dispatch. taries receive the largest allotment of all. The Hudson receives $1,500,000 in all. General allotments for the country at large include: Hudson river. $877,780, in addition to which there was appropriated by separate acts $622,220, making the total for the Hudson $1,500,000; Del aware river from Philadelphia to the sea, $1,000,000; Savannah, Ga., $233, 000; Jacksonville, Fla., to the ocean, $350,000; Southwest Pass, Mississippi river, $400,000; channel work at Gal veston, Port Bolivar and Texas City, $190,000; Houston ship channel, $200,000; inland waterway on coast of Texas, $626,000; Mississippi river be tween mouths of Ohio and Missouri rivers, $300,000; mouth of Missouri to Minneapolis, $1,065,000; Missouri river, Kansas City to mouth, $1,000,- 000; Ohio river, open channel work, $310,000; locks and dams, $3,000,000; Chicago harbor and rivers, $560,000; St. Mary's river, Mich., $1,006,000. Threat Stirs British. London In an editorial on Ger many's threat of reprisal against Bri tish officers held prisoners in Germany if the prisoners of submarine boats held in England receive treatment different from other war prisoners, the Daily Chronicle says: It is time to realize the pass to which things are leading. At the end of the war, the allies will have two alternatives: They can allow the practice of sub marines sinking merchantmen to be come usage recognized by internation al law, or they can, after trial, hang the German officers responsible for in itiating it, including, if his responsi bility is shown. Admiral von Tirpitz (the German minister of Marine). We do not at present see any third al ternative." Vessel Dives 200 Feet Quincy, Mass. The new submarine L-l, built here for the United States navy, returned Monday after a success ful trial trip to Cape Cod bay. The boat, one of a group of four required by contract to submerge to a depth of 200 feet, and remain under water at rest for 48 hours, settled to the re quired depth, and, according to those aboard, showed no effects from the strain of water pressure. The 48 hours' test will be made later.