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PablUhad arary Thonday by RUSSELL D. PRICE. SubacrlpUoo, RaUa ParYaar (LOO Six Month M Tbraa lloatha M THB COURIER Ii davotad to tha bant IntaraaUi f BI'IIAY and WHEELER COUNTY. Tha llbaral patron aa of tba UUna of thla mm Uoo la raapaatf ully aolteltad. VOL. XIII. SI'ItAV, WITEELEB COUNTY, OBEa ON, TnUKSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916. NO. 37. WORLD'S DOINGS Of CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUISH0 Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. The king of Bulgaria la In active aervloe with bla troops. All rallwaya entering New York City territory report bualneaa boom lug. Every eligible Englishman la to re ceive a peraoual letter urging blm to enlist Three American troopers and at leaat five Mexicans were killed In a border fight - The Portland Chamber of Commerce la endeavoring to get 14 big ateamer llnea to make that city a regular port, Oovernor Major, of Mlaaouri, made an aacenalon In the balloon St Louia which won the recent race at Wichita, Kan. European powers withhold recognl tlon of Carranxa until the atatua of their clalma agalnat Mexico la estab- Ilabed. Tbe French military authorities, aaya La Llberte, have dlacovered an organisation of phyalclana and othera for supplying fraudulent certlflcatea of phyalcal unfltneaa for active serv Ice. All prevloua recorda for prlcea brought by government fura were bro ken and the prlcea of the laat govern ment aalea were exceedod by from 68 to 171 per cent at a government auc tion held In St Louis. I Mra. Flnley X Shepard, formerly ! Mlaa Helen Gould, and her husband, have legally adopted a 6-year-old or phan boy. The penniless orphan thus becomes In a twinkling, Immensely rich and a legal heir to millions. Sir John A. Simon, the home aecre tary, replying to a question In the house of commons aa to whether It would not be possible to warn London era of Zeppelin ralda, asserted that nine tlmea out of ten the German air ahlpa were driven off before they even reached the coast Chauncey Redding, of Melrose, and Philip Bulman, of Maiden, Mass., were killed by the fall of a biplane in which they were making an experimental flight. Redding, who waa manager of the Baugua Aviation school, was the operator of the machine and Bulman waa bla mechanician. An amount estimated by attorneya at $700,000 haa been bequeathed to tbe Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra by the will of Mlaa Cora Dow, prominent re- tall druggist, who died here last Sun dar. Besides this Miss Dow remem bered every one of her hundreds of employes In ber will. According to a statement Issued by the Finance Department, Canada in addition to meeting the ordinary and capital expenditures haa advanced more than 120,000,000 during the past aix weeks to the imperial treasury to finance temporarily the heavy expen diture of the shell committee in the Dominion. Because the British fleet has been hunting German trawlers In the North Sea, especially on Dogger Bank, the Germans have withdrawn their fish ing fleet from the North Sea, accord ing to a dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange Telegraph company. Aa the result, the message adda, the price of fish in Germany is going up, and the price of fish in Sweden la rising In aympathy. The state of Washington in competi tion with all the world won 10-lltha of the blue ribbons given for Ayreshlre cattle at the San Francisco exposition. A Wlllowmoor herd, owned by J. W. Clise, made practically a clean sweep In this breed, taking every champion ship, every grand championship, every reserve championship and every herd prize, Including the highest awards for production and every first prise In Individuals .except two on this year'a calves. At a banquet given In honor of Thomaa A. Edison In San Francisco, the guest of honor, at hla own urgent request was served only a' glass of milk and a piece of hot apple pie. Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford, the noted automobile maker, inspected exhibits at tbe Panama-Paclfio expo sition together and became so intent upon their work that they forgot to keep a lunch appointment with their wives. A new order In council haa been gazetted In London prohibiting the exportation of any cotton product whatever, with the exception of cotton lace and cotton waste. Allied coun tries In Europe, Spain and Portugal are made exceptions. WIRELESS TELEPHONE CARRIES VOICE ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN New York. Arlington, Va., talked by wireless telephone with Paris, France, Saturday. Honolulu also heard the operator talking from Ar lington, ( Announcement that the human voice had boen successfully projected across the Atlantic was made on behalf of John J. Carty, chief engineer of the American Telephone at Telegraph company, at the company's offices here. Later Mr. Carty telephoned from Chicago, confirming tbe an nouncement. To B. B. Webb, a telephone engineer fell the honor of being the first man to span with his voice the apace be tween the old world and the new. Sit ting in the powerful wireless plant of tho navy at Arlington, va., Mr. Webb, shortly after midnight, asked tbe wire less telegraph operator to signal Eif fel tower In Paris. The wireless .snapped out the signal and aoon there came back a response, Awaiting word from Mr. Webb at the Paris end of tbe wireless radiation were 11. E. Shreeve and A. M. Curtis, other engineers, and a group of French officers, listening with espe cially designed apparatus. In Honolulu, 4800 miles from Arling ton, Mr. Kspenchled, another tele phone engineer at tbe Pearl Harbor navy yard, also was waiting. , Webb, at Arlington, had a transmit ting Instrument, but no receiving ap paratus. He knew, therefore, that he would have to wait for the cable to confirm tbe suocess or failure of the experiments. "Hollo! Shreeve," be shouted Into the mouthpiece. "Hello 1 Shreeve." He then began to count: "One, two, three, four: one, two, three, four, Goodbye." When the expected message came It was addressed to the company here, and said that Webb s "Helios" and Goodbyes" had been distinctly heard by the engineers and French army or flcera In Parla, and that portions of hla teat figurea had alao been picked up. At about the aame time there came a message from Honolulu, say Ing that Webb's talk bad been under stood In full by tbe receiving engineer there, and that even the voice bad been recognized aa Webb a. Northwest Manufactures and Land Products Show Is Scoring Success Portland. The Second Annual Man ufacturera' & Land Products Show opened Monday, October 25, and the great industrial and land exhibition will be in progress until midnight No vember 13. This la the greatest exposition of the kind the Northwest has ever seen and twenty-three Oregon counties have attractive displays or iruita, aralna. grasses and vegetables. The agricultural anu horticultural display is equal to the Lewis & Clarke fair, of 1905. More than 200 exhibitors have part In the big exposition and 75,000 square feet of space is occupied by displays of Oregon manufacturers and Jobbers and retailers from over the country. The exposition was open to Oregon, Washington, Idaho and the Northwest in general. Clarke county, washing' ton, has an attractive display and there are many exhibits of apples pears, potatoes, onions and nuts. Life and action prevail at the- exposition and working exhibits and Interesting modela are many. All steam and electric lines serving Portland are offering fares of one and a third for -the round trip and sale dates have already been announced While the exposition is in progress many cities, towns and communities will have special days at the show. Employers Endorse Military Training. Washington, D. C Indorsements of the administration's plan to create a great continental army for defense are beginning to reach Washington irom large employing firms and corpora tions. It was learned that approving letters had been received from several such concernrs, and that at least one had expressed willingness to grant its men leave on full pay for services In the proposed organization. One of the companies neara rrom wrote that it would gladly grant leave with pay to any of its men desiring to enlist not only for reasons of patriot ism, but because it was regarded as a good business proposition to permit the men to take advantage of an op portunity to spend two months in vig orous camp life with military training. Newspapera Adopt Simplified Spelling Chicago. The 12 words proposed by the ' Simplified Spelling Board, in Its efforts to accustom the general publlo to the use of simplified spell ing, were indorsed by the Illinois Dally Newspaper association In a com munication to Its members throughout the state. Tbe words approved are: Tho, al- tho, thru, thruout, thoro, thoroly, thor ofare, program, prolog, catalog, deca log and pedagog. Holds Breath 10 Mlnutea. Berkeley, Cal. What la said to be a new record for voluntary suspension of respiration has been made by War ren D. Horner, a graduate student of the University of California, In an ex periment conducted by Dr. Saxton Temple Pope, Instructor In surgery. Dr. Pope caused Horner to hold his breath 10 mlnutea and 10 seconds. CONDEMNED NURSE DIES LIKE HEROINE Loyal Woman Shot by Germans "Glad to Die for Country" "PATRIOTISM NOT ENOUGH" SHE SAYS Declares No Bitterness Held Toward Enemy British Minister Tells of Last Visit to Prisoner. London. The British foreign office made public Saturday the report of Rev. H. S. T. Gahan, the British chap lain in Brussels, who visited Mlsa Edith Cavell Just before her execu tlon, and a letter, from Brand Whit lock, tho American minister to Bel- glum to Walter Hlnes Page, the Amer ican ambassador In London, in nis letter, Mr. Whitlock says he requested that the bodr of Miss Cavell be deliv ered to the School for Nurses, of which she was the directress, bla re quest being referred to the ministry of war in Berlin. Rev. Mr. Gahan In his report says: "On Monday evening, October 11, I was admitted by a special passport from the German authorities to tbe prison of St Gllles, where Miss Cavell had been confined for 10 weeks. The final sentence bad been given early that afternoon. "To my astonishment and relief I found my friend perfectly calm and re- SIMON LAKE Capt. Simon take, Inventor and; builder of submarines, says If the war continues for two years England will have to use cargo-carrying submarines to Import food from the United States. signed, but this could not lessen the tenderness and Intensity of feeling on either part during that last interview of almost an hour. "She said that she wished all her friends to know that she willingly gave her life for her country and said : " 'I have no fear nor shrinking. I have seen death so often that it Is not strange or fearful to me.' 'She further said: 'I thank God for this ten weeks of quiet before the end. My life has always been hurried and full of difficulties; this time tbe rest has been a great mercy. They have all been very kind to me here. " 'But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity: I realize that patriotism is not enough. I have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.' "A German military chaplain was with her at the end and afterward gave her a Christian burial. He told me: " 'She was brave and bright to the last She professed her Christian faith and said she was glad to die for her country. She died like a heroine.' " California Jersey Wins. San Francisco. By Just three pounds of butterfat did Pearl of Ven dera, a Jersey cow owned by Guy C. Miller, of Modesto, Cal., win the championship in the Jersey class at the Panama-Pacific exposition cattle show. Pearl beat Mohican's 88, owned by E. L. Brewer, of Satsop, Wash., by two-tenths of one per cent Judgment was based on their verified milk rec ord for one year. Other prizewinners included Albien L. Gile, Chinook, Wash., for Junior and reserve junior champion cow classes. Cordoba Made New Coin. San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. The final conversion of the currency of Nicaragua will be concluded October 30, after which the cordoba will be the only legal tender of the republic. The cordoba, the new monetary unit of Nicaragua, Is of the same weight and fineness as the gold dollar of the Unit ed States. It was announced recently that the final rate of exchange agreed on waa 12 pesos of the old currency for one cordoba. S "MRS. LOGAN TUCKER Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker of Wash ington, daughter of the late Gen. John A. Logan, and a member of the nation al committee of the Navy 'league, urgea that military training camps for women bo conducted, to train them In first aid, algnallng, telegraphy and the uae of email arms. MEXICAN BANDITS WRECK TRAIN, BURN TRESTLE AND KILL .TWO Brownsville, Tex. Mexican bandits early Wednesday held up and robbed a St Louis & San Francisco passen ger train, killing two persons and wounding three others, near Olmlte, seven miles north of here. The dead: H. H. Kendall, engineer. United States cavalryman, name un known. The Injured: Dr. E. S. McCain, Cameron county physician, probably fatally shot Harry Wauls, seriously wounaea in abdomen. Conductor P. E. Morgan, slightly wounded. Trestle is Burned. A long trestle half a mile south of the wreck was set afire half an hour after the train was held up and almost destroyed, This hindered the progress of the first detachment of troops which was sent In pursuit so that the bandits had ample time to flee into the brush. Passengers who reached here on a relief train said that the train was de railed, that Mexicans poured into the coaches shouting "Viva Pizana" and commenced to shoot at the passen gers, Pizana. the man the bandits were cheering, is supposed to be the leader of the so-called "Texas revolution" nurtured under the "plan of San Die go," which last year contemplated the seizure of border states and returning them to Mexican rule. A negro reached hla. home four miles from Brownsville and gave the first report of the wreck and killings, Four companies of United States In fantry were rushed to the scene by special trains, followed by two troops of cavalry. The bandits were passengers and set fire to the train. The Mexicans severed the telephone line between Brownsville and Villa Nueva, five miles from here, which resulted not only in delaying Information reaching Brownsville, but also Interfered with communication with troop B, of the Thirtieth Cavalry, on duty near the scene of the holdup. Strange Tragedy Comes to Light Canyonville, Or. How an old trap per, with his leg caught in a big bear trap, perished alone and miserably in the forest 17 years ago, was revealed by the finding of a skeleton with a bone held In the rusted trap, on the Fortune Branch Creek, and reported here Wednesday. The skeleton is believed to be that of a once well-known character named Blynn, who had a cabin at the head of the creek, about a mile from where the skeleton was found. The place is about half way between here and Glen dale. , 900 Tina of Opium Seized. Seattle, Wash. Eight hundred pounds of smoking opium, valued at $75,000, was seized here' by customs officers on board the blue funnel liner Calchas. The opium was contained in 900 hermetically sealed tins which were secreted In an airshaft The Cal chas, bound from Vancouver to Seat tle, went aground 10 days ago at Point Wilson. After being pulled off she was towed to Seattle and placed in drydock for extensive repairs. Thugs Wire Man to Track. Rochester, N. Y. Highwaymen sand bagged Newton Hoffman, 22 years old, as he stepped from a southbound Erie train at South Haven Wednesday and wired him, head and foot, to the track. He was run over by a train which came along an hour later and his foot taken off. His head had been placed between the tracks and was unhurt It Is thought he will recover. I T 'tv w A LY , .v-V" U BRICK ROADS ARE '", " " ; ', ' ' ' , Laying Vitrified Brick for Vitrified brick roads, according to the road specialists of tbe department of agriculture, possess three distinct advantages. First they ars durable under all traffic conditions; second, they afford easy traction and mod erately good foothold for horses; and third, they are eaay to maintain and keep clean. On the other hand, they are unquestionably expensive to con struct and the effort to reduce the high first cost frequently results In Inferior construction and consequent defects. The cost of a brick pavement de pends so much upon so many variable factors such as the locality, freight rates and the distance from brick kiln that it la not possible to make any definite estimates. Tbe cost of the rough grading, however, should be considered entirely apart from the cost of the pavement for the grading would have to be done no matter what kind of a road was to be built Ex cluding thla Item, the bulletin already mentioned (No. 246) furnishes the fol lowing formula as a rough guide for the probable expense of a brick road with a six-Inch concrete foundation and suitable grades: Cost per square yard equals 1.90-L, plus .213-C, plus 138-8, plus .157-A, plus ,040-a , In this fomula C equals cost of cement per barrel, S equals cost of sand per cubic yard, A equals cost of coarse aggregate per cubio yard, B equals cost of paving brick per 1,000, and L equals cost of labor per hour. Thus, If labor costs 25 cents an hour, the labor cost per square yard of pavement will be 1.90 times 25 cents, or 47.50 cents. The cost of the cement per square yard will be .213 times the price of a barrel and so on with the other items. It is assumed In this formula that all materials are deliv ered on the work. About 10 per cent should be allowed for' wear on tools and machinery, and for every inch sub tracted or added to the thickness of the foundation there will be a corre sponding difference of 8 to 12 cents per square yard. A more important test Is known as the rattler or abrasion test In this tbe bricks are subjected to destructive Influences similar to those encoun tered in actual service, and the effects resemble those which traffic may be expected to produce upon the com pleted pavement Briefly the test con sists of inclosing 10 dried bricks in a steel barrel in which there are also placed a number of cast-iron spheres. Ten of these spheres weigh each 7H pounds. Enough smaller ones weigh ing a little less than a pound are added to make the total weight ap proximately 300 pounds. The barrel is then revolved at the rate of 30 revo lutions a minute for an hour. At the end of that time the bricks are taken out and weighed, and their loss In weight ascertained; In this test good paving brick will lose from 18 to 24 per cent of its weight Equally Important with the char-1 TEST FOR WHITE DIARRHEA Chicks Too Small for Market, of Slow Growth and Feathering Might Well Be Killed Off. If you have chicks now coming on old enough to' be on the market and yet too small for such purpose, runts Of slow growth and slow feathering, you might Just as well kill them off and not hope they will yet take a start for no doubt but they are carrying the germs of bacillary white diarrhea. Not all by any means that take this disease show the bowel looseness. Flocks suspected of having mem bers In it infected with this disease are now being tested for it by the Connecticut agricultural college. The testing Is done by a little blood being drawn from a vein In one wing of each fowl This blood Is mixed with a serum to be put by for a few days. The mixture is labeled, and the fowl Is given same label. In a tew days the eye, without need of a micro scope, telle whether thla serum and EASILY MAINTAINED Country Road Pavement acter of the brick la the character of . the roadbed on which it la to be laid. Tbe four essentials for the roadbed are thorough drainage, firmness, uni formity In grade and cross section, and adequate shoulders. Where the first can be obtained In no other way it may be necessary to lift the road considerably above the surrounding land. Firmness is secured, if the road haa been properly drained, by making certain that the roadbed la thoroughly compact The aubgrade must be re peatedly rolled and reshaped until the desired grade Is secured. Strong, desirable curbing la neces sary for all brick pavementa in order to prevent the marginal brick from be- coming displaced, which event would result In deterioration, finally spread ing over the entire pavement - One of the most essential factors of a brick pavement Is a firm foundation upon which to lay the brick. The im portance of this Is evident when one considers that the ability of pavement to resist wear depends upon the smoothness of the pavement and a firm foundation. If the foundation la poor one of the brlcVs may be easily forced down, causing unevenness In the surface. Where the traffic la com paratively light and the aubgrade composed of material that does not readily absorb water, broken : stone may make a satisfactory base. For heavier trafflo or where the material composing the subgrade Is at all un stable a concrete base la necessary. After the brick haa been laid upon thla cushion and tbe pavement gone over carefully to remedy all defects and remove all imperfect material. It should be rolled with a heavy power roller, gone over carefully once more, and the Jolnta then filled with soma material to prevent the brick edgea from chipping. Of the various mate rials used for this purpose a grout . made of equal portions of Portland ce ment and sand mixed with water la recommended. Sand alone la some- . times used because of its cheapness, but It Is open to several objections ' and Its use In the end Is probably not economical. Portland cement grout ' on the other hand, binds the Individ ual bricks together and converts the pavement Into what Is practlcs'ly a monolith. Before the grout is ap plied the pavement should be swept clean and be kept moist by gentle sprinkling during the application, of which there should be two. At the end of the second application the grout should completely fill the Jolnta flush with the tops of the Joints. The final step is to cover the completed pavements with a one-inch layer of fine earth. This is done to protect the pavement from the weather and to keep It in a moist condition while the grout is hardening. In addition to tbe description of the various problems the new bulletin contains in an appendix complete typi cal specifications for the construction of a brick road. blood mixture shows any trace of the disease. Line Breeding Defined. Professor Thomas Shaw, . In hla book.' "Animal Breeding," Bays line breeding may be defined aa the pro cess of breeding within the members of one family, or of a limited num ber of families, possessed of similar types. As usually conducted, no ani mals are lnter-bred which are not closely connected In the general llnea of their blood. Best Calvea for Dairy. As a general rule it la poor policy to raise a puny, undersized calf for dairy and breeding purposes. Only the best calves from the best milking families should be raised. Bull la an Index. The kind of a bull a man keepa b a pretty fair Index to the kind of a dairyman Its owner la. - Keep on Cultivating. ' Keep the cultivator go lax h tha com.