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PublUhad vary Thursday by KUSSELL D. PRICK. SubaerlptloB Rata Par Yaw $1.00 Sis Month M Thraa Months JS TliH OOUttlKR Ii darvotad to lh. boot InUnat of ift'KAY and WHEtXKK COUNTY. Tha illwral patron. air of tha oUU.ru of this Rno tion la roapMtf ulljr olloltwl. VOL. XIII. Sl'ItAr. WHEELEIt COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1915. NO. 18. WILSON NOTE TO BERLIN ASSERTS - HUMAN RIGHTS Legality of Sinking of Steamer Lusitania flatly Denied by United States. ORIGINAL DEMANDS RENEWED Precautions Insisted Upon and Right of Americans to Travel Seas Lawfully, Declared, Notwith standing Warnings. WASHINGTON, June 10. The text of the American rejolndor to tha Ger man government'! reply to the note following the linking of- the Lusitania follows: "The Secretary of State ad Interim to the American Ambassador to Ber lin: Department of State, Washing ton, June 9, 1915. American Ambas ador, Berlin: You are instructed to deliver textually the following note to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: "In compliance with Your Excel lency's request, I did not fail to trans mit to my Government, immediately upon their receipt, your note of May 28 in reply to my note of May 15, and your supplementary note of June 1, setting forth the conclusions, so far as reached by the imperial German government, concerning the attacks on the American steamers Cusbing and Gulflight Principle of Freedom Recognized. "I am now instructed by my Gov ernment to communicate t&S follow ing in reply: "The Government of the United States. notes with gratification the full recognition by the imperial Ger man government, in discussing the cases of the Cushing and the Gul flight, of the principle of the freedom of all parts of the open sea to neutral ships and the frank willingness of the imperial government to acknowledge and meet its liability where the fact of attack upon neutral ships 'which have not been guilty of any hostile act' by German aircraft or vessels of war is satisfactorily established; and the Government of the United States will In due course lay before the im-' perial German government, as it re quests, full information concerning the attack on the steamer Cushing. "With regard to the sinking of the steamer Falaba, by which an Ameri can citizen lost his life, the Govern ment of the United States is surprised to find the imperial German govern ment contending that an effort on the part of a merchantman to escape capture and secure assistance alters the obligation of the officer seeking to make the capture in respect to the safety to the lives of those on board the merchantman, although the ves sel has ceased her attempt to escape when torpedoed. These are not new circumstances. They have been in the minds of statesmen and of interna tional Jurists throughout the develop ment of naval warfare, and the Gov ernment of the United States does not understand that they have ever been held to alter the principles of human ity upon which it has insisted. Noth ing but actual forcible resistance or continued efforts to escape by flight when ordered to stop for the purpose of visit on the part of the merchant man has ever been held to forfeit the lives of her passengers or crew. "The Government of the United States, however, does not understand that the imperial German government In BooL-inn" in thia phra to relieve itself of liability, but only intends to set forth the circumstances wmcn iea tne commander of the submarine to allow himself to be hurried into the course which he took. . , "Your Excellency's note, in discuss ion. fVia Inaa of American lives result ing from the sinking of the steamship Lusitania, adverts at some lengtn to narnin Information which the imperial rrnnin towwernment has received with regard to the character and outfit of that vessel, and your Excellency ex presses the fear that this information may not have been brought to the at tention of the Government of the ITnlad Kfjr.a. Tt la atated in tha note that the Lusitania was undoubtedly equipped with masked guns, supplied wim trained gunners and special ammuni tion, transporting troops from Can ada, carrying a cargo not permitted under the laws of the United States to a vessel also carrying passengers, and serving, in virtual effect, as an auxiliary to the naval forces of Great Britain. Fortunately these are mat ters concerning which the Government of the United States is in a position to give the imperial German govern ment official information. Of the facts alleged in Your Excellency's note, if true, the Government of the United States would have been bound to take official cognizance in per forming its recognized duty as a neu tral power and in enforcing its Na tional laws. "It was its duty to see to It that the Lusitania was not armed for of fensive action, that she was not serv ing as a transport, that she did not carry a cargo prohibited by the statutes of the United States, and that if, in fact, she was a naval ves sel of Great Britain she should not receive clearance as a merchantman, and it performed that duty and en forced its statutes with scrupulous vigilance through its regularly con stituted officials. It is able, there fore, to assure the imperial German government that it has been misin formed. "If the imperial German govern ment should deem itself to be in pos session of convincing evidence that the officials of the Government of the United States did not perform these duties with thoroughness, the Gov ernment of the United States sin cerely hopes that it will submit that evidence for consideration. Contentions Held Irrelevant "Whatever may be the contentions of the Imperial German government regarding the carriage of contraband of war on board the Lusitania, or re garding the explosion of that material by torpedo, it need only be said that, in the view of this Government, the contentions are irrelevant to the ques tion of the legality of the methods used bv the German naval authori ties in sinking that vessel. "But the sinking of passenger ships Involves principles of humanity which throw into the background any special circumstances of detail that may be thought to affect the cases principles which lift it, as the imperial govern ment will no doubt be quick to recog nize and acknowledge, out of the class of ordinary subjects of diplomatic dis cussion or international controversy. Whatever be the facta regarding the Lusitania, the principal fact is that a oreat steamer, primarily and chiefly a conveyance for passengers and car rying more than 1000 souls who nad no cart or lot in the conduct of the war, was torpedoed and sunk without so much as a challenge or a warning, and that men, women and children were sent to their death in circum stances unparalleled in modern war fare. Duty Owed to Humanity. "The fact that more than 100 Amer ican citizens were among those who perished made it the duty of the Gov ernment of the United States to speak of these things, and once more, with solemn emphasis, to call the atten tion of the imperial German govern ment to tho grave responsibility which the Government of the United States conceives that it has incurred in this tragic occurrence and to the indis putable principle upon which that re sponsibility rests. The Government of the United States is contending for something much greater than mere rights of property or privileges of commerce. It is contending for noth ing less high and sacred than the rights of humanity, which every gov ernment honors itself in respecting and which no government is justified in resigning on behalf of those under its care and authority. Only her actual resistance to capture or refusal to stop when ordered to do so for the purpose of visit could have af forded the commander of the sub marine any justification for so much as putting the lives of those on board the ship in jeopardy. This principle the Government of the United States understands the explicit instructions issued on August 3, 1914, by the im perial German Admiralty to its com manders at sea to have recognized and embodied, as do the naval codes of all other nations, and upon it every traveler and seaman had a right to depend. It is upon this principle of humanity, as well as upon the law founded upon this principle, that the United States must stand. "The Government of the United States is happy to observe that Your Excellency's note closes with the in timation that the imperial German government is willing, now as before, to accept the good offices of the United States in an attempt to come to an understanding with the govern ment of Great Britain, by which the character and conditions of the war upon the sea may be changed. The Government of the United States would consider it a privilege thus to serve its friends and the world. It stands ready at any time to convey to either government any intimation or sueeestion the other may be will ing to have it convey, and cordially invites the imperial German govern' ment to make use of its services in this way at its convenience. The whole world is concerned in anything that may bring about even a partial accommodation of interests or in any WORLD'S DOINGS OE CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. A r,rmin auhmarine Friday sank two British torpedo boats, one steamer and six trawlers. The schooner New Jersey is reported lost In the Arctic regions and four' of her crew have perished. The plant of the Butte Socialist, a weekly paper of Butte, Montana, was blown up by dynamite. Italian troops are reported as having occupied Monfalcone, and being within sight of Trieste, Austria. American friends of Germany be lieve the critical stage in the Lusi tania controversy is passed. A German admiral savs the Mediter ranean sea will be the next field for German submarine'operations. Official statements declare that there are yet 9000 Germans and 4000 Aus trians of military age at large in Lon don. Germany in the Frye case declares the right to sink any ship carrying contraband, but is willing to pay dam ages. German residents in America believe the retirement of Bryan from the cab inet will make negotiations with their country easier. Multnomah Typographical union, o Portland, has started a movement to have all text books for the public schools printed within the state. According to figures announced in the house of commons, 79,946 English women have registered for war work, of which 1916 have been utilized. Rowing crews from the steamer Rose City twice beat the crews of the naval reserve cruiser Boston in the Rose Festival races in Portland harbor. way mitigate the terrors of the pres ent distressing conflict. "In the meantime, whatever ar rangement may happily be made be tween the parties to the war, and whatever may in the opinion of the imperial German government have been the provocation or the circum stantial justification for the past acts of its commanders at sea, the Govern ment of the United States confidently looks to see the justice and humanity of the government of Germany vin dicated in all cases where Americans have been wronged or their rights as neutrals invaded. "The Government of the United States therefore very earnestly and very solemnly renews the representa tions of its note transmitted to the imperial German government on the 15th of May and relies in these repre sentations upon the principles of hu manity, the universally recognized understandings of international law and the ancient friendship of the Ger man nation. Rights of Americans Reasserted. "The Government of the United States cannot admit that the procla mation of a war zone from which neutral ships have been warned to keep away may be made to operate as in any degree an abbreviation of the riehts of either of American ship' masters or of American citizens bound on lawful errands as passengers on merchant ships of belligerent nation ality. It does not understand the im perial German government to ques tion those rights. It understands it also to accept as established beyond question the principle that the Uvea of non-combatants cannot lawfully or rightfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of an unresist ing merchantman and to recognize the obligation to take sufficient pre caution to ascertain whether a eus pected merchantman, is in fact of belligerent nationality or is in fact carrying contraband of war under a neutral flag. "The Government of the United States therefore deems it reasonable to expect that the imperial German government will adopt the measures necessary to put these principles into practice in respect to the safeguard' in of American lives and American ships and asks for assurances that this will be done. "ROBERT LANSING, I "Secretary of State ad Interim." OREGON NEWS OE 750 Cows to Be Tested. Soon more than half the cows sup plying milk to the important cities of the Willamette valley and Southwest ern Oregon will have been tuberculin tested, according to information given out by State Dairy and Food Commis sioner Mickie. Mr. Mickle said that a total of 760 cows had been signed up and would be tested by a man to be put into the field immediately by State Veterinarian Lytle. The cities where cows are to be tested are : Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass. Cottage Grove. Roseburg, bu- gene, Salem, Oregon City, Corvallis, Independence, Dallas. McMinnvme, Forest Grove and Hillsboro. It is probable that some testing work will be done also at The Dalles, Hood River and Ashland. Mr. Lytle plans to visit the different cities with an exhibit showing the benefits of the tuberculin test and also the results of tuberculosis on cows. Alcohol Label Is Needed. r.anHv which contains brandv and rum as a flavoring must be labeled, says J. D. Mickle, state food and dairy commissioner, in his answer to the complaint for injunction filed by H. R. Hoe flier, an Astoria candy manuiac turer. Mr. Mickle two weeks ago seized 47 boxes of Centennial choco lates, one of the Hoeffier proudcts, be cause they contained aiconoi. Last week Mr. Hoetner was granted a mmrrv lniunetion DV circuit Judge Davis, restraining Mr. Mickle from seizing any more ol the cnoco latea. He declared the chocolates con tained only 1.05 per cent alcohol. Mr. Mickle, in the answer which be niea in County Clerk Coffey's office, says a chemical analysis of the candy showed it contained a greater percentage than this. Governor Finds Waste. Salem Governor Withycombe. who has fust returned from Eastern Oregon, pa4 his knowledge of agriculture to a practical use, when he discovered that the ailoa at the Eastern Oretron Insane Asylum were not managed properly. His discovery will save the state many times the cost of his trip. "The asylum has two large suos, aaid the governor, "with capacities double that necessary for the present herd of 17 cows. As a result the man agement is ... not able to feed the en silage fast enough, and a large part oi it spoils. The spoiled ensilage should not be fed. I suggested that tne nera either be doubled or that the amount of ensilage be greatly reduced." Tillamook Cheese Industry Prospers. Tillamook Tillamook county pro duced 38,593,183 pounds of milk last near and manufactured 4.290.510 pounds of cheese, valued at $654,874.- 36. This, in a few words, is the rec ord of the banner cheese section of Oregon and the Northwest. Notwith standing fluctuations in the markets and uncertainties of free trade, Tillamook cheese held its own in price. the average being but a trifle below 1913, when it was 15.45 cents per pound, and last year it was 15.38 cents per pound. The average price for butter fat was 38.32 cents for the year, and the aver age price for cheese for the past six years was 15.37 cents. Horticultural Post Gone. Salem That an amendment passed by the recent legislature to the law irnatimr the State Horticultural com mission abolishes the office of commis- sioner-at-large and that the five dis tricts will continue to be represented by a commissioner, was an opinion r . . ... i given recently by Attorney uenerai Brown. The terms of C. A. Park, Saelm, and H. H. Witherspoon, Elgin, have ex pired and the State board will appoint their successors at the next meeting. J. W. Pomeroy, Scappoose, will be re appointed, and the terms of Dr. C. A. Macrum, Mosier, and A. C. Allen, Medford, have not expired. Railroad Is Incorporated. Salem The Roseburg & Eastern Railroad company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, filed articles of incor poration with Corporation Commis sioner Schulderman. The company plans building a railroad from Rose burg eastward to the western boundary of Umpqua national forest and the Umpqua river. Fair Representative Chosen. Klamath Falls Phillip P. Sinnott has been appointed to represent Kla math county at the San Francisco Fair. The representative who has been there thus far is not able to serve longer. The salary of the representa tive is paid from sums subscribed by local merchants, together with an ap propriation made by the County court. GENERAL INTEREST Highway Paving Tangle Settled. Kalem Informed that the Columbia County court and the Consolidated Con struction company has reached an agreement that the company be paid $65,000 for work on Columbia High way, the State Highway commission gave the county permission to reduce its aDorooriation for roads this year from $40,000 to $35,000. Henry L. Bowlby, when state hign- vi engineer, estimated the amount due the company at $54,500, so various statements that the prospective settle ment would be a vindication of that official are proved to have been ground less by the county allowing the com pany $10,500 more than he recommend ed be paid. The commission's reason ior permit ting the county to reduce its appropri ation SH000 was that it had reduced the state appropriation of $60,000 rec ommended by Major tsowioy to ou,- 000, the county appropriation having heen made on the belief that it would be allowed the amount recommended by the engineer from the state. While tha commission at numerous hearings declared that it was not with in its jurisdiction to settle the differ ences between the county and the com nanv. sufficient evidence was produced to show that the company' probably was entitled to more money man tne engineer recommended be paid. The enmnnnv. however, declined to state the amount it desired, contending that it was the duty or the highway depart ment to have the work rechecked and miitm the fi mires. This the commis sion said it could not authorize, al though there was a partial recheclcing by a private engineer,' who reported that the mmnanv was entitled to sev eral thousand more than Major Bowlby estimated. Commission Aides Named. Salem State Insurance Commis sioner Wells announces that James P. Moff ett, of Portland, chairman of the committee on fire insurance on the Code commission appointed by Gover nor Withveombe?aaBauiwd-the fol lowing to act with him in preparing"!' fire insurance Dill ior suomission w the next legislature. P. E. Beach, reorsentine the Ore gon domestic fire insurance companies; John H. Burgard, representing the general agencies in uregon; narvey O'Rrvan. reDresentine the Salem salesmen agencies; W. A. Williams, representing Eastern insurance com panies; Chester jjeenng, representing aniin1 agents, and J. C. Veazie. who will be the attorney for the commit tee. A meetincr of the committee Will be .oiled in a few davs to consider a standard policy form, rates and the suggestion for a state nre marsnai. Boat to Coquille Planned. Mnrnhfield John R. McGee. owner of the Riverton coal mine on the Co quille river, has asked merchants on the Coquille river to guarantee mm freight shipments coming out of Port land and nrnmisea to charter a 300-ton vessel to ply between Portland and the Coquille river. Mr. Mcuee recent ly returned from Portland, where he se cured contracts with coal dealers to handle 200 tons of coal weekly and re ceived assurances from tne roruano. rhomhur nf Commerce of 200 tons of freight for each return trip, providing merchants on the Coquille favored the new service. Tt is Mr. McGill's intention to eive TOPctlrlv service between Riverton and Portland and if a market can be se cured for 300 tons of coal each week, the northbound trips would be capacity cargoes. Two Counties to Build Road. Tillamook The County courts of Yamhill and Tillamook counties, at a session in this city, decided to form a joint road district to build the Sour Grass route, each county appropriating $10,000. It is the intention of the County courts to call for bids at once, and it is estimated that the road can be built and planked in 60 days for $20,000. Salmon Outlook Good. Astoria General Manager Barker, of the Columbia River Packers' asso ciation, received a wireless message from Chignik Bay, Alaska, stating that everyone connected with the asso ciation's cannery there is in the best of health. The message also stated that preparations are being made to begin packing fish and the outlook for the season is good. Boston Gets Wool Clip. Echo A laree sale 6f wool was made here recently, 125,000 pounds of 1915 clip going at a private sale. The price was not made public The wool was sold by Antone Vey and Joseph Monese, and was bought by Crimmins & Pierce, of Boston, Mass. It is now being baled for shipment. CHICAGO STREETCAR OPERATORS STRIKE Local Unions Take Matter Away from Higher Officials. WHOLEiOIY TO BE TIED IP BY ACT Mayor Promises Full Police Protec tion to Resuming Lines Entire System Is Affected. Chicago Chicago's business life, already running at low ebb because of the prolonged carpenters', painters'. lathers' and other building trades' strikes, is to suffer still further by a strike on all streetcars, surface and elevated. Negotiations which, have been pending for two weeks were sud denly terminated Sunday by the Chi cago officers of the streetcar onions and a peremptory strike order was is sued. Officials of the street railway com panies assert that this is in violation of a pledge that 24 hoars' warning would be driven. W. V. Mahon, the in ternational president; Mayor Thomp son and the company officials were working out a satiaafctory solution of the entire trouble when the local offi cials took the entire matter out of the hands of Mahon and called the strike. This is the result of a long-standing feud between the local and interna tional officials. The companies now pay 23 to 82' cents an hour, requiring five years' service to attain the maximum. There is also double pay for overtime. The men demanded 83 cents the first year and 36 cents thereafter and some radical changes in the number of work ing hours. They submitted as a basis for arbitration, a plan that would bind the companies to an extra expenditure of $1,100,000 before the latter could ame-WTBEbkrator. They--aTstf de manded, in advance, several pledges regarding working hours and other concessions. They also insisted on naming two of the three arbitrators. The companies submitted a counter proposition, offering to arbitrate every question, guaranteeing the men against loss in wages or conditions as a result of arbitration. The companies offered to let Mayor Thompson select five men , from whom a referee would be chosen. The men : refused to consider this proposition and ordered the strike forthwith. A final conference was held in .the mayor's office Sunday night. The mayor summoned the officers of the Chicago local unions and laid before them the tentative proposition made by the companies, which was to be in effect during arbitration. 1 he mayor told them bluntly that this was a fair proposition, supported by the press and public of the city, and they could take it or leave it, but he warned them that if they would not consider the proposi tion the entire police strength of the city would be used to maintain order. This means that the cars will be operated under police protection and that rioting and attacks on passengers and property of the companies will be severely dealt with. Twelve Persons Die in Fierce Storm Which Sweeps Middle West La Crosse, Wis. Twelve persons are reported dead in the storm- which swept over Western Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota and Iowa Sunday night. Seven are said to have lost their lives near Ferryville, Wis., and five near Lansing, la. The dead near Ferrwille are Mrs. Marie Finley, aged 70 years; John Finley, her ganrdson; Miss Kose uin lev. dauchter of Mrs. Finley: Mrs. John Daley, of Alantic, la., sister of Rose Finley; Charles McManus, an in fant, and a :farm laborer,' name un known. The wires are down to Lans ing and particulars of the casualties there have not been received. An eight-mile strip from a point two miles east of Ferryville to a point three miles east, near the vil lage of Eneca, was swept clear, and every farmhouse was wrecked or dam aged. ' ; Cotton Is Being Paid For. London The foreign office has au thorized the following statement con cerning the cargoes of cotton on Brit ish vessels stopped by the British mar itime authorities: "In all cases where claimants have been able to prove their ownership of this cotton an advance of 10 per cent has been paid on account. Fiftv-nine thousand pounds Sterling: al ready has been paid and it is hoped a further 100,000 will be paid soon. One claim has been paid in full."