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VOL. XIII.
SPKAr. WIIEELEIt COUNTY, OBEGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1915.
NO. 10.
MISSIONARIES ASK
FOR INTERVENTION
Long Cablegram Sent to Wilson
by Americans in China.
TROUBLE FOR UNCLE SAM PREDICTED
President I Urged Jto Toll Japan to
Withdraw Hur Excessive Forces
Tolls Amounting to $6000,
Paid by Pekln Officials.
l'ekln.- -Intervention by the United
States In tho negotiations now pro
ceedlng between China and Japan In
recommended to President Wlliton In
tho appeal recently sent to him by
American missionaries In thin coun
try. Tho moHHiiHO of 6000 word was
cabled to Washington Monday. It
characterize tho Japaneuo demands
on China as acts of agression such as
eventually wilt present a monace to
tho United States.
Recalling tho fact that Japan has at
present In this country doubled her
usual quota of troops (amounting to
60,000 men), tho missionaries urgo
that Japan bo notified that the excess
of troops should bo removed.
Tho understanding hero Is that a
Chlncso official or several officials
paid tho cable charges, amounting to
nearly 16000, on tho message to Presl
dent Wilson. This communication was
signed by missionaries all connected
with tho American Presbyterian mis
sion at Pekln; ltov. Chauncey Good'
rich, of tho American board of com
iiilssloncrs for foreign missions, who
Is stationed at Tlon Tsin; Rev. II. II.
Lowry, of tho Methodist Episcopal
mission at Pokin, and Rev. C. F. Hub
bard.
Tho petition asks President Wilson
to demand of China and not of Japan
American participation in the confer
ences now under way. It la suggested
that Great Britain and other nations
be invited to participate,
There are In China several hundred
American missionaries, of whom the
great majority have not seen the mes
ease. Some of them who were re
quested to sign It, declined. The Amor
lean board recently requested lta ml a-
sionarlcs to avoid public expression
of opinion on political affairs and al
though it 1b said the missionaries gen
erally aide with China in the present
controversy, few of them have been
active politically.
The missionaries ask "that the gov-
ernmonts of both China and Japan bo
notified that the presence of unusual
bodies of Japanese troops on Chinese
soli not only embarrasses the freedom
of negotiations, but constitutes an out
rage to the rights of China and a sen-
ous menace to the peace and safety of
Americans and foreigners, generally,"
and recommends that "pending the re-
moval of excessive contingents of Jap
anese troops all negotiations Bhould
be suspended."
Ex-Governor West Wins Verdict
In Copperfield, Or., Saloon Case
Baker, Or. Ex-Governor West won
in tho eult brought In circuit court
hore against him by William Wlegan,
Copperfield saloonkeeper, for damages
alleged to have been caused by tho re
moval of liquor and saloon fixtures
from his saloon, when Governor West
declared martial law In Copperfield,
after Fern Hobba' visit on January 2,
1914. '
The Jury returned the verdict after
,lng out seven hours. Nine were for
bolng
the ex-governor and three dissenting,
The first soveral ballots the Jurors
stood eight for the defendant and four
against.
The verdict was a surprise here, be
cause it was thought that the length
of time occupied by the Jury In Its de
liberations Indicated an anti-West ver
dict, and when the verdict was read by
Circuit Judge Anderson the few pres
ent seemed dazed.
Ex-Governor West also was not pres
ent, although he waB notified in time.
At the Geiser-Grand hotel, while pack
ing to leave for Portland, he clearly
showed elation.
"I came here convinced 1 would get
a square deal, even should I lose," he
said. "I was naturally anxious that
the verdict should be in my favor, for
the case has been one which attracted
statewide attention Involving the great
question of human rights. The ques
tion. I believe. Is now settled for good
and all, and the rights of the human
being are acknowledged to be superior
to those involving mere property.
Road Buying Equipment.
Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania
Railroad company has entered the
market for approximately $20,000,000
worth of new equipment and for new
material for cars and locomotives
which It will build in Its own shops.
The equipment program Includes 144
new locomotives, 146 all-steel passen
ger cars and about 10,000 freight cars.
All the locomotives, 56 of the passen
ger cars and 2102 of the freight cars
will he built at the company's shops
at Altoona, while the remainder will
he placed with outside companies. The
new equipment is to be used for re-
placements and will not be additions
to the present equipment. ,
General Huerta to Stay
in United States
New York General Victorlano Hu
erta, former provisional president of
Mexico, who for nearly a year has
been an exile In Spain, arrived here
Tuesday on tho Spanish steamship An
tonlo Lopez from Cadis,
General Huerta was panned by Unl
ted States Immigration officials as a
transit alien, after he had declared un
der oath that he would do nothing that
would involve tho neutrality of the
united States.
The ex-president said that he had
come to the United States partly for
pleasure and partly to attend to some
personal business connected with fam
ily matters. He swore that he had no
intention of going to Mexico or to
Cuba. The length of his stay here, he
said, was indefinite, but he would re
turn to Spain, possibly sailing from
New York early in May.
General Huerta was met at quaran
tine by representatives of the press
and by an array of photographers.
While submitting to being photo
graphed in every desired pose, he de
clined to say anything as to his mis
sion agreeing to meet newspapermen
at his hotel here at a later date,
Regarding this appointment he said:
"I understand that my presence in
this country creates in you the desire
to know my views about the affairs of
Mexico and I promise to satisfy your
wishes to the best of my ability. I
beg you, gentlemen, to remember that
no interview with me should be con
sidered as authentic unless it carries
my personal signature,
Giner.1 Huerta was' .eeomnanled hv
General Joso C. Delgardo, who has
. - r
DelgardO. who has
been his private secretary for 10 years.
and by Abraham Katner, a personal
friend of the general, who declared
himself as an American citizen, giving
bis residence as New York.
Indiana Mayor Gets Six
Yeam tor Election Fraud
Indianapolis, Ind. rour men con
victed in the Torre Haute election
fraud trial were sentenced by Judge
Anderson to the federal penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The other 16, including Donn M
Roberts, mayor, who received prison
sentences and appealed, and the 8'
who were given sentences ranging
from one day to six months in the local
jail, are in jail here. It was said the
16 will have two or three days In
which to obtain their appeal bonds,
which were fixed by Judge Anderson
at f 10,000 for each year the men were
sentenced. Edward Holler, the former
chief of police, who pleaded guilty,
also received prison sentence,
The four who withdrew from the
appeal are: John M. Messelink, city
sealer of weights and measures and
former member of the state legisla
ture; Arthur Gillis, Progressive elec
tion official;'" Joseph Strauss, liquor
salesman, and George Sovern, gam
bler. Each had been sentenced to a
year and a day in prison and to pay a
line of (100.
To obtain liberty pending his ap
peal, Mayor Roberts, who was sen
tenced to six years and to pay a fine
of $2000, the severest sentence given,
will have to furnish a bond of $60,000.
If all secure bonds it will mean a total
of $420, 000.
Telegraphers Are Declared
Underpaid by Employer
Chicago President Newcomb Carl
ton, of the Western Union Telegraph
company, and S. J. Konenkamp, presi-
dent 0'the Commercial
01 ' 6 . f " C , J5I P?f
Union of America, testified from
their repective viewpoints before the
United States commission on Indus
trial relations Tuesday as to wages
and working conditions of the commer
cial telegraphers.
Mr. Carlton caused a mild sensation
when, replying to a question from
Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the com-
mission, as to whether telegraphers
were adequately compensated, replied
I believe that the telegraphers are
underpaid.
"Overpaid!" exclaimed Mr. Walsh.
"No, underpaid. I think they ought
to make more money than they do. So
far as I can ascertain, wages have in
creased 80 per cent in the last ten
years. Ten years ago a Morse tele
grapher received $18; it is now $23,
It was $13.60 for women and now it is
$18. My own view is that a first
class telegrapher should
be able to
earn at least $5 a day of
nine hours,
some oi our employes, under the so-
called premium plan, are making close
to that.
The witness said his company has
one of the best pension and relief or
ganizations in the country, and it costs
the men nothing. Half a million dol
lars was expended on it last year, he
said.
Belgium to Hear Concert.
Berlin The famous Philharmonic
Orchestra of Berlin is preparing to
make a concert tour of Belgium early
in May, according to announcement by
the Overseas News Agency. Felix
Weingarten will conduct and the musi-
cians will play twice in Brussels.
State Places
On 11 Oregon Counties
Salem. To prevent tho spreading of
rabies, the State Livestock Sanitary
Board, at a meeting held hore recent
ly, issued an order placing 11 counties
under quarantine. It was announced
that the disease had been communi
cated by coyotes to horses, dogs, cats
and other animals In eight counties in
the eastern part of the state. The
counties Included in the quarantine
are Lake, Harney, Crook, Baker, Uma
tilla, Malheur, Wheeler and Union,
where rabies prevails, and Multnomah,
Clackamas and Jackson, to which It Is
feared the disease may spread.
The order requires that all dogs, un
less used In hording livestock, be muz
zled. State Veterinarian Lytle, who
attended the meeting, said that all
violators of the quarantine would be
punished to tho fullest extent of the
law, the penalties being fines from
$00 to $100 for each offense. Mr. Lytle
announced that all peace officers
would be called upon for assistance
In enforcing the order. The veterin
arian declared that conditions were
especially alarming in Lake county.
rabid coyotes and dogs running the
range In large numbers. He said that
Grants Pass
Form Own Water Co.
Grants Pass The farmers in that
portion of Rogue River Valley just
west of Grants Pass have organized
CO-operative irrigation corporation.
I r 0 I i 1 Art A . M
vwners oi approximately iuuu acres oi
land have signed up, and nearly two
miles of irrigation ditches have been
built.
The ditches are five feet wide at the
bottom and six feet at the top, and are
capable of carrying 10,000 gallons of
water a minute. The water is to be
pumped from the Rogue River by a
centrifugal pump driven by an electric
motor. It will be forced first to a
knoll, and then piped across the valley
to a high line ditch, and from the ditch
diverted on the 1000 or more acres of
land.
The cost of installing the plant will
be $6 an acre. A 100-horse power
electric motor and a 12-inch centrifu-
lave been purchased and will
be installedprw to June 1 in order to
give water to these-Jands on and after
that date. ""v.
A reservoir 100 feet wide by 300
feet long will be dug six feet deep on
the top of the knoll. From there it
Crowd Out Oregon Spuds.
University of Oregon, Eugene
"The rise of potato growing as an in
dustry in Idaho and Colorado is one
great cause of the potato depression in
Oregon, because the crops of these two
states have taken the southern mar
ket," says H. B. Miller, director of
the department of commercial and in
dustrial survey of the university of
Oregon school of commerce. Formerly
perhaps 40 per cent of Oregon's potato
exports went below the Mason and
Dixon line.
Mr. Miller thinks German competi
tion will ultimately be a big factor in
southern markets if the duty remains
off potatoes as at present. The Ger
man with his cheap labor, cheap fer
tuizers and water transportation can
in normal times meet the Idaho grow
er on even terms in the soutn or ex
treme east.
White Pine Mill Resu'Aes.
01 '"Be TT3
the Baker Whlte P,ne comPany 8tarted
large orders,
its mill at White Pine with about 160
men. The resumption was aue to
lumber orders which Manager Frank
Gardiner believes will keep the plant
running all summer at least. The
South Baker mill also is running full
capacity and will continue to do so in
definitely. The company recently purchased
more than 1,000,000 feet of timber,
and with the large number of orders
from the East it expects to be able to
keep its 260 men busy all summer, and
probably longer.
'The outlook is good," said Mr.
Gardiner. "We have all the orders
we can handle and expect to keep
every man busy for some time."
Two MilU Begin Work.
La Pine The J. N. Matsen Lumber
company started work at its big mill
Wedneaday. The Pringle Falls mill
started work last week. Both are
working at full capacity on big con
tracts. The Pringle Falls mill is turn
ing out stuff for the power company,
and tha Masten mill is working on
flume material, presumably for the
Moore syndicate. The La Pine Lum
ber company expects to start its mill
in a few days.
Road Inspection Completed.
Flavel. C. O. Jenks, general man
ager; A. J. Davidson, superintendent;
I A. M. Supqu, chief engineer; Mr. Gar
rick. Mr. Twitchell and Professor
Koyl were in the party of officials who
have just completed an inspection trip
over the Spokane, Portland & Seattle
road between Portland and Flavel.
Quarantine
many cattle and a number of persons
bad been bitten there,
"We shall try to get the city author!
ties of Portland to enforce the order
there," continued Dr. Lytle. "It will
require that dogs be muzzled, and
when on the street, in leash. The
board will see that It is enforced in
Multnomah county outside the city,
"Slock owners have suffered severe
ly In eastern counties. The situation
Is especially hard for the poor home
steaders, where some of them have
lost their only cow through being blt-
tenby a hydrophobic coyote or dog,
Even cats are becoming afflicted with
the disease and they are being killed
by fear-stricken owners."
Everett Goodman was appointed spe
cial agent to Investigate sheep scab
reported in Douglas county. Mr. Lytle
said that he has no fear that the dis
ease Is of serious proportions,
The board made arrangements for
payment to the owners for horses and
mules It may be found necessary to
kill because of glanders. Animals un
der 1000 pounds will be paid for at the
rate of 125 a head, and animals weigh
ing more than 1000 $35 a head,
Farmers
will be taken by gravity through a 24
4nch pipe and carried across the valley
to the foothills on the north.
The farmers are preparing their
lands by leveling and more than 600
acres of alfalfa will be planted this
fall. The most of the land will be
planted to corn this season, and after
the harvesting of this crop will be
sown to alfalfa.
The ditch digging is being carried
on under the direction of Joe Russell,
and the ditching is being done at a
few cents less than $1 a rod. Ditch
digging of this kind usually costs not
less than 2.60 a rod, it is said.
Alex Hood, owner of one of the
largest parcels of land to be irrigated
by the system, is directing work on
the project. His ranch comprises 176
acres.
H. C. Newell, owner of the Lace
House laundry, of Portland, has
ranch of t more than 600 acres, a por
tion of which will come under this
ditch, He is improving his ranch, and
has one of the show places in the
Rogue River valley. The Lathrop and
Muller properties are among those
which also will come under the project.
All-Day Community Meet
at Scio Well Attended
Albany. More than 600 people at
tended the all-day community meeting
held at Sclo Saturday and it was one
of the largest and best gatherings of
the kind ever held in Linn county,
People went from a distance of 15
miles to hear school questions, good
roads and dairying discussed by ex
perts. The meeting was held in the assem
bly-room of the Scio High School, but,
with a good many unable to gain ad
mission at the morning session, an
overflow meeting was held later in an
other schoolroom.
M. S. Pittman, of the extension de
partment of the Oregon State Normal
School, was the principal speaker at
the morning session. He discussed
school problems and said it was the
mission of a school to find out what a
person is fitted for, inspire him to fol
low that line of work and then pre
pare him for it The remainder of the
session was devoted to contests among
the schools of that section of the coun
ty in school songs, solos, declamations
and dramatizations, songs by tne
Scio High School Glee Club were a
feature.
In the overflow meeting Professor
G. V. Shelton gave a practical talk on
the construction of good roads with
the material available. Professor
Schrant substituted for State Dairy
Commissioner Mickle, who was unable
to attend. E. M. Reagan and others,
representing the Albany Commercial
Club, explained the proposed County
Fruit Growers association. A basket
dinner was served at 12 o'clock.
Improper Packing Hurts
Price of Good Apples
Hood River. Northwestern apple
market men declare that indifference
of growers in maintaining a good sys
tem of grading and packing resulted
in more harm the past year than any
other detrimental influence.
H. F. Davidson believes the change
in system of packing apples has been
responsible for much of the deteriora
tion of grade and pack. Formerly the
growers paid a daily wage to their
packers, who gave the fruit close In
spection. Sorting and sizing for the
most part was done by hand. Now
the fruit is sized and graded by ma
chines. Payment is made on a piece
basis.
The lid will be put on in Hood River
the coming season and no lax packing
and grading will be allowed.
Sam G. Campbell, who for the past
two years has been chief inspector for
the North Pacific Fruit Distributors,
declares that low prices to a great ex
tent have been caused by poor pack,
and that the remedy lies in the control
of the growers themselves, rather than
with the marketing agencies.
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of World's Important
Events Told in Brief:
Sixteen thousand Chicago carpen
ters go on strike.
German submarine sinks Dutch
freight ship while at anchor off The
Netherlands.
John Bunny, the noted motion pic
ture comedian, is near death at his
home In Brooklyn.
Two Zeppelins raid English town on
the eastern coast Friday and do con
siderable damage to property.
Ten Tacoma dallies are closed by
health authorities, who claim milk
from tubercular cows was freely sold.
Germany declares Russian invasion
of Hungary was a failure, and that the
Czar's army has been brought to a
halt.
Fast melting snow In Arizona wash
out two dams near St Johns and
drown eight persons, besides doing
half million dollars' damage to prop
erty.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont announces
that 600 women of New York will
march to the office of United States
Senator O'Gorman here April 30 to ob
tain his views on Woman Suffrage.
The steamer Northern Pacific of the
Great Northern Pacific Steamship
company, sister ship of the Great
Northern, sails on her maiden trip be
tween San Francisco and Flavel, Or.
William L. Miller, 101 years, of Jop-
lln, Mo., announces his wedding to
Mrs. Nancy B. Pike, 60, and issued a
general invitation to the public to at
tend. Miller was married twice pre
viously. P. C. Jenkins, a prominent resident
of Butler county, Kentucky, was found
guilty In circuit court and sentenced
to four years and one day In the peni
tentiary on the charge of being con
nected with night raiding operations
in western Kentucky.
Twelve thousand men employed by
the Calumet & Hecla Mining company,
Calumet, Mich., and subsidiary prop
erties, received an Increase of 10 per
cent In wages. The wage rate in ef
fect prior to the outbreak of the Euro
pean war is thereby restored.
The British government has offered
a "full and ample apology" to the Chil
ean government for the sinking on
March 14 in Chilean territorial waters
of the German cruiser Dresden, the
internment of which had already been
ordered by the maritime governor of
Cumberland Bay when the British
squadron attacked and sank her.
Select and common councils of Phil
adelphia have decided to allow the his
toric Liberty Bell to be sent to the
Panama-Pacific Exposition. Resolu
tions providing for Its trip across the
continent were unanimously adopted
by both branches. Mayor Blanken-
burg announced that he would sign the
resolutions and only minor details now
remain to complete the arrangements.
Vehemently asserting that he had
nothing to do with the death of Fran
cisco Madero, General Victorlano Hu
erta, ex-provisional president of Mexi
co, Issued a long signed statement in
New York setting forth what he term
ed his side of the Mexican question.
General Huerta declared that he knew
who was responsible for Madero's
death, but that he was keeping it as a
professional secret
An attack by the allies on the Ger
mans, is declared to be near.
London gives out the lost list on the
Neuve Chapelle battle as nearly 8000.
The United States is building a sub
marine that will withstand a 100-day
dive.
A big copper
mine in Josephine
has been sold for
county, Oregon,
$250,000.
Spokane policemen are stopping jit
ney drivers who have not Hied $2500
bonds, required by a recently-passed
ordinance.
A Petrograd dispatch reports that
the Kaiser personally directs defense
of Hungary and that the Russian ad
vance is broken.
Six instructors of Willamette uni
versity, Salem, Oregon, have resigned.
The move on the part of the teachers
is said to be voluntary.
Ex-presidents Taft and Roosevelt act
as honorary pallbearers to the late
Professor Thomas Lounsburg of Yale
college. The two ex-presidents shook
hands formally. ,
An expressman on the Oregon Elec
tric railroad saves life of a small child
who was standing on the track at Eu
gene. The trainman dashed ahead of
the train and jerked the tot to safety.
In the West the French forces ap
parently are satisfied with their recent
successes between the Meuse and the
Lorraine frontier and say only that
they have come in contact with the
German entanglements in this region.
Official German reports assert that de
termined attacks by the French have
been repulsed along this sector.
PACKER WANTS
NO UNION HELP
Armour Says Working Classes
Have Other Remedies.
Industrial Relation Investigation
in Chicago Is Concluded
Less Unrest Predicted.
Chicago. The Chicago hearing of
the United States commission on in
dustrial relations, begun two weeks
ago, was concluded Saturday with a
flitting glance at working conditions
and wages In local packing houses.
The chief witnesses were J. Ogden
Armour, president of Armour & Co.,
and director on the boards of several
railroads and banks, and J. E. O'Hern,
his superintendent of plants. -
Most of the questions directed at
Mr. Armour had been submitted to
him in advance and he repeated the
questions and read the answers rapid
ly from a typewritten document.
The essential part of his testimony
bearing on repeated testimony of oth
ers that organization is the remedy
through which workingmen may attain
their rights, was to the effect that he
was opposed to the unionization of his
employes. He cited the strike of 1904,
when the offer of the packers to arbi
trate was declined, he said. The union,
he declared, was crushed, and since
then organizers had been discouraged.
Mr. Armour expressed the opinion
that Industrial unrest in the United
States Is slowly decreasing. His own
employes, he said, were adequately
protected through the privilege of ap
plying to the respective foremen.
The witness said he kept in touch
with employes in their homes through
foremen and the company's welfare
workers. Employes were privileged
to appeal to the president of the com
pany when they thought subordinate
officials dealt unjustly with them.
Do you believe a proper standard
of living can be maintained by a week
ly wage of $12.60?" Mr. Armour was
asked.
It is a broad and difficult question,''
he replied.
He denied that his company took
advantage of an oversupply of Immi
grant labor to pay less than living
wage.
Mr. Armour said that he did not be
lieve that unions were necessary to
the welfare of employes.
"The success of an employer de
pends on the employe," said he, "and
to get the best work of the employe
the best wages the market affords
must be paid."
Ex-Senator Aldrich Dies
Suddenly at Ripe Age
New York. Nelson W. Aldrich, 30
years united States senator from
Rhode Island, and intimately associ
ated with tariff and currency legisla
tion in that time, died Friday at his
home in Fifth avenue, following a
stroke of apoplexy. He was 73 years
old.
Until Thursday, when he was taken
111 with indigestion, Mr. Aldrich had
been in good health. His physician
left him an hour before he died, think
ing then that he was on the way to re
covery, when he became unconscious
members of his immediate family were
hurriedly summoned and were at the
bedside when he died. They Included
his wife. Miss Aldrich and Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., his daughters, and
Winthrop Aldrich, his son.
Nelson Wllmarth Aldrich held a seat
in the United States senate continu
ously from 1881 to 1911. The influence
exerted by him on governmental af
fairs was best Illustrated by the fact
that when he was satirically Intro
duced to an audience as "the general
manager of the United States," that
appellation lived through the adminis
trations of McKlnley, Roosevelt and
Taft He gave special attention to
tariff and financial legislation in com
mittee. Probably the greatest parliamentar
ian that ever served in the senate, Al
drich had no difficulty In maintaining
leadership of his party. Although
known among the veterans as a "com
mittee" senator, he was quite as much
at home on the floor and naturally was
more in evidence In the larger arena.
Plea Made for Apples.
London. An appeal was made
to
P.
in
the Procurator-General by Robert
Skinner, American consul-general
London, for special treatment for ships
detained in British ports which carry
American apples, because of the per
ishable nature of these cargoes. Mr.
Skinner said that thousands of Oregon
and Washington apple-growers would
suffer heavily unless these detained
cargoes were released promptly. Four
steamers with cargoes of apples are
among the detained ships.
Stolen Silver Is" Coined.
Portland. A gang of counterfeiters
Is stealing silverware from Portland
homes and melting it down for coin
age, according to city detectives. Spur
ious silver dollars have become com
mon along the Pacifio Coast It Is said
that many hundred dollars' worth of
sterling silver articles have been stol
en. The detectives maintain that their
failure to recover the silver Is due to
its being melted down and coined into
dollars.