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run COUHIKR Is rfvUl to tha bmt InUrwU of HI'RAY and WIIBKMCK COUNTY. Th.IIUr.lmtr.rn. of lh (HUma of Oil kM Uon la nwpacUully tollulud. PublUhad vry Thursday br RUSSELL P. PRICK. Subscription RaUs PtrYmr .,11.00 Six Months , .60 Tbim Months M VOL. XIII. 8VHAY, WUISEUSB COUNTY, OltEGON, TIIUIISDAY, DECEMBEK 2, 1915. NO. 42. 1H 4 Ml I V II WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSKOLl Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Mayor Hi Gill, of Seattle, haa loarn- j M to dunce. wiuon finished writing bia meesage inankagivlng Day. London trade unionist refuse to work without their customary allot ment of beer. Detectlvea in Tacoma fniatrated a scheme to defraud a firm of grain broken of 17000. Fire boraea of Portland, retired by auto apparatua, will be purchased by the State National Guard, It la predicted that the adrolnistra. tlon'a ahlp purcbaae bill will be de feated in the next congress. A mischievious lad liberated aeveral mice In a Portland moving- picture houee. A near-panle followed. General Villa and hla troopa are nearing the border and more trouble la expected for the United State. Representative Wltherspoon, of Mississippi, known aa the "little nary" leader, diee auddenly at hla home. A tornado in a tbiokly aettled farm ing community near Hot 8prlnga, Ak killed ten and injured about thirty. Death aentence haa been paaaed upon 668 rebel in Formosa, and moat of them have already been carried out It ie reported from Derlln that R lu ll ia planning to move on Bulgaria, but the point of attack ia atill a mye- wry. Mexican bandit dynamited a train on the National Railway and it ia re ported about eighty person were killed. Moat of the Oregon exhibit at the San Franciaco fair, will be permanent ly planted in the Chamber of Com merce at Portland. Jacob S. Coxey, commander of the historic Idle army which stormed Washington, D. C, In 1894, will run for the senate from Ohio. The Democratic National committee ia planning to bold the presidential convention much earlier than usual, probably the first of June. A man in Seattle killa himself in a crowded atreet to attract publicity to a book be had written and expected it to be publishod in the newspaper. Rancher near Prairie City, Or., gives each of hla three amall daugh ter! cyanide pellets and takes one him self. All four died from the effects. Three gold medals will be bestowed on as many American women by France, because of their great devo tion to the work of aiding the needy. Ex-President Taft declared in a speech before the New York Teachers' association, that he bolieved the Fed eral government could and should give aid to education in. the several states. GERMAN EMBASSY Will RESENT CHARGES Of CONSPIRACY IN U. S, Washington, D. C. The German embassy, according to information Monday from authoritative source, re sents the accusations which are under stood to have been made against Cap tain Carl Boy-Ed, Gorman naval at tache here, in the trial in Federal court at New York of officials of the Hamburg-American line. It waa said Ambassador von Bernstorft waa pre paring to file a vigoroua complaint witn the Bute department at the con elusion of the trial, asking at least for something In the nature of a retraction and possibly for an apology. The German embassy, it Is under stood, haa not yet decided just what form the protest will take. A copy of the stenographic report of the remarks of counsel for the government and the testimony given at the trial is under stood to have been ordered from New York, so that ofllclala of the embassy may know exactly what haa been aaid in the courtroom. ELDER A. G. DANIELS Eldar A. Q. Danls's, head of the 8svsnthday AdvsntlsU, says this war will be eoon followed by one atill srsatsr, after which will come the aecond coming of Christ and he reeur- rection, The embaaay particularly desire to determine whether Captain Boy-Ed was Included, by inference or otherwise, in the reference made by Assistant United Statea District Attorney Wood to the defendants in the case aa "rid ing roughshod over the lawa of the United Statea, treating them as if tbey were scraps of paper" It was said by a person in close touch with officials of the embassy that it waa felt Captain Boy-Ed bad been harshly treated in the circum stances and that too much had been made out of his connection with the caae. The embaaay waa further described aa feeling that Captain Boy' Ed had done nothing that, under the law, he did not have a perfect right to do. Aa to the form of the embassy's protest, it waa said much depended on the outcome of the trial. Should an acquittal result, the embassy might feel that, in making complaint, it would stand on much firmer ground, as it could point out, incidentally, that the defendants had themselves been freed of the charges made by the gov ernment. WHEAT IN STORAGE IS COMMANDEERED I OREGON BEACH RESORTS DESTROYED PV UltFO lim ruFDT iuta rri wi "rtiu nnu oniil ill 11 out Bar View, Or. The storm which ror several daya past haa raged off the west coast of Oregon broke into vio lence Wednesday at Bar View, In Til lamook county, and Seaside, 'Jn Clatsop county. At Bar View, the Bar View hotel, an all-year resort, the Southern Pacific depot and aix or eight cottages were wrecked and partially swept out to sea. The damage is estimated at f 100,000 at this resort. . At Seaside, one of the larger sum mer resorts on the Oregon coast, huge breakers submerged the pier in front af th Hnt.l Mnm. .wan. T..11. U.J. Order Affects 20,000,000 Bushels In den, a woman aged 80, off her feet and almost into tne ocean, and tore Canadian Government Suddenly Seizes Cereal Crop. GRAIN REQUIRED BY GREAT BRITAIN OREGON STATE NEWSlPfllCE ADVOCATES GET NO PLEDGES Eastern Elevators Price Not Yet Fixed by Dominion. Neutral Countries Declared to Be Moving for Peace in Europe France haa given order calling youth of classs of 1917 to arms. These boys are from 17 to 19 years of age, and the order requirea a minimum training of five months before entering active duties. A prisoner in a Tacoma jail on a charge of smuggling offers to discose extensive operations of a gang of Ger man sympathizers, who he claima set fire to Pier 14 at Seattle recently and also exploded a scow-load of dynamite awaiting shipment to Russia. Another munitions plant is blown up at Parry Sound, Ont. The British empire capital wealth is estimated at (130,000,000,000. The world's corn crop is estimated at three and a half billion bushels. Assistant bank examiner of Califor nia Is arrested charged with embezzle ment. - Seattle experiences wind velocity of 44 miles an hour, besides a fierce thun der storm. Olympia officials are investigating an alleged theft of $15,000 from the atate industrial Insurance fund. The keynote of President Wilson's message to congress will be prepared ness for war and coast defense. Washington, DC. Two neutral European countries already are consid ering calling a formal convention of neutrals to discuss means of ending the European war and three others have given assurances that they will partici pate in such a convention, according to Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, of Hungary, one of the women who called at the White House to urge President Wilson to take the initiative for peace. It had been indicated, she said, that various previous peace plans had been rejeceid because of the fear that par tisan influences might be suspected. She thought the present movement, urged by the women of the world, would be free of that suspicion, and Indicated that the European neutrals believed the United States should take the initiative both as the most import' ant of the neutral powers and because its great distance from the scene of the struggle made for impartial ac Ottawa, Ont. The Canadian govern ment baa commihandeered all high- grade wheat in elevators from Fort William, on Lake Superior, to the At-. lantlc coast. The action waa taken under the spe cial war act by the Canadian Grain commission. The wheat seized waa of grade No. 1 hard and Noa. 1, 2 and 9 northern. It waa the property of train-, shippers and millers. That taken is all which on Saturday night waa in the public elevators at Fort William, Port Arthur, Midland, Tiffin, Port Me Nichol, Collingwood, Codericb, Kings ton, Fort Colborne, Prescott, Quebec St. John, Montreal and Halifax. A revised estimate places the amount at about 20,000,000 bushels. A considerable amount ia the property of American grain dealera. The grain waa taken Saturday night. ao that grain exchangee should be affected aa little as poaaible. It is officially announced that the price will be fairly adjusted and the graingrow- era paid promptly by the Canadian government. It ia estimated that there atill ia in Canada, in the hands of farmer and dealers west of Fort William. 160,000.000 bushels surplus of wheat available for export. " It1 la expected that moat of this will be taken in the future for the use of Great Britain, France and Italy. The domestic supply of Russia is more than sufficient to meet the needs of that country. Had the Dardanelles been forced, the surplus of Russian wheat would have made the present action unnecessary. While the wheat just taken was commandeered to fill an oder from the British government for a large quan tity of wheat, it is understood that most of it will be shipped to Italy. The Canadian government will look after the transportation of the grain to the Atlantic seaboard and from there its shipment across the Atlantic will be undertaken by the British gov ernment in the same way that ship ments of oata and hay have been band led for the past year. railinga and lawns away from the Dan J. Malarkey and Edgar B. Piper cot tages. Broadway waa flooded for sev eral blocks and the Necanicum river, which enters the ocean at Seaside, is out of its banks. At Bar View, which la on the ocean FINLEY J. SHEPARD, JR. If? J Flax Crop Failure Is Denied By State Board of Control Salem Members of the State Board of Control assert that an article in a daily paper last week saying that the flaxraising work being conducted by the state promised to be a failure and that they were dissatisfied with J. C. Cady, in charge of the flax plant at the penitentiary, waa untrue. Both Governor Withvcombe and State Treasurer Kay declared that the work so far had been satisfactory, and Secretary of State Olcott aaid that with the experiment uncompleted It was too early to predict the outcome. All three members of the board aaid they had not considered asking Cady to appear before them for an explanation of his conduct of the flax work. "Indications now seem to point to a success of the flaxraising industry," said Governor Withycombe. "Where we had only figured on obtaining 600 tons of straw, we have harvested 600 tons. We have threshed out nearly 9000 bushels oi seed and should realize $6000 from this source alone. Whether it is best to ret the flax in the winter or wait until spring ia a question yet to be determined." State Treasurer Kay pronounced the daily's story aa absolutely without foundation. "It may be that the flax can be retted best in the spring," said Kay, "ao as to permit the scotching process without the employment of artificial heat. That ia to be determined." Women Pacificists Received at White House by President WIISON BELIEVES TIME INOPPORTUNE Executive Is Urged to Initiate Con ference of Neutral Nations and Appoint Peace Delegate. Watch Is Kept on China. Washington, D. C The situation in China is considered of enough im portance by the American government to keep Brigadier General John F. Morrison, who now commands the American troops at Tien Tain, at his station until spring. General Morrison, following his promotion, ordinarily would give way to a Colonel. Until General Morrison is transferred to command the Philippines department next spring, he will remain in China. German Object in Serbia Gained and Operations Close Berlin, via London With there oc cupation of Rudnik, the capture of 2700 prisoners and the flight of the scanty remains of the Serbian army into the Albanian mountains, Ger many's operations against Serbia have been brought to a close, says the offi cial statement issued at the headquar ters of the general staff. - The object of these operations the opening of communications with Bul garia and the Turkish empire has been accomplished, it is asserted. London The greater portion of what remains of the Serbian northern army is believed to have crossed into the mountains of Albania and Monte negro, where the Serba are continuing;. with the aid of King Nicholas' troops and supplies, which are reaching them from the Adriatic, to offer stern resis tance to the Austro-German - and Bul garian invaders. Like the Belgains, however, the Ser bians hold only a fringe of their coun try, which widens as it reaches the southwestern corner, of which Monaa- tir is the center. . For some reason, variously rex- plained, the Bulgarians have halted their march on Monastir. It is said in some dispatches that, having reoccu- pled part of Macedonia, largely in habited by their fellow nationals, the Bulgarian people and government are disinclined to push any farther west. John Doe No. 104, alias Austin Mo Cleary, aa he .waa called when he waa a homeless waif, la now romping around Lyndhurat, at Irvlngton-on-Hudson, the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Flnley J. Shepard, now known aa Pin ly Jay 6hepard, Jr., heir to the Gould millions. Mr. Shepard and hla wife, who was Miaa Helen Gould, formally adopted the four-year-old boy who was found en the atepa of 8t. Patrick's Cathedral by a policeman. front just north of Tillamook bay, the shoreline for 60 feet back has been washed away. The government jetty ia feeling the the strain and several sections have been damaged. The Bar View hotel has been in danger for sev eral days and had been raised prepara tory to being moved. A huge wave picked it from its moorings. The ho tel is a wreck. The Southern Pacific depot, including the Wells Fargo ex press office and Western Union tele graph office, waa washed away. Much of the Southern Pacific track ia washed out. A crew of 60 men and three trains have begun hauling rock to make a sea wall. The county highway la also impaired. Belgian Orphan Baby Is Ordered Deported from United States New York A 13-months-old Bel gian girl baby, known as Jeanne, who came here by the way of England, waa Wednesday ordered deported by im migration officials. The deportation order was made notwithstanding an offer by Mrs. Percy Proctor, formerly Baroness Nodinevon Klaefuss, to adopt the baby. When Jeanne arrived on the St. Paul in custody of a woman passenger not her mother, she was stopped at Ellis Island. Mrs. Proctor's plea that she would adopt the child was declared by the board to be insufficient. Fruit Forces Differ In . Manner of Apple Publicity Hood River While a marked oppo sition waa apparent among the apple growers and market men of the Spo kane fruit district, opinion aa ex pressed by fruit growers from all parts of the Northwest presages an adoption next January of the proposed plana of tne u rowers Council aa recently out lined, according to E. H. Shepard, of this city, who returned from confer ences of apple men at the Spokane National Apple Show last week. It ia proposed to levy an assessment of one cent a box on all fruit to raise a fund to be used in opening up new ap ple markets, widening distribution and increasing consumption. It is esti mated that such a levy will collect a fund of more than $76,000 with which to wage an apple publicity campaign. No one district will be featured, but all Northwestern box apples will be given the benefit of the fund impartially. "The Spokane fruitmen," says Mr. Shepard, "are apparently opposed to the proposition, since they think it will be better for all districts to con duct their forward campaigns individ ually." No definite action was taken at the Spokane conference, which was in a measure informal. Tentative plans were discussed and it waa left with the exponents of the movement to work out more complete details, to be submitted at the second annual meet ing of the council in January. The codling moth caused damage ranging from 10 to 60 per cent, and even higher in cases, in Northwestern orchards. Dr. Melander declared that weather conditions were more favor able this year than ever on any former year for the breeding of moths, and that more than ever before the insects had survived the winter of last year. Waahington, D. C. Efforts to win President Wilson's support for a con ference of neutrals to initiate peace proposals in Europe reached a climax Saturday when Mme. Roaika Schwim mer, of Hungary, and Mrs. Ethel Snow den, wife of a member of the British parliament, called at the White House with a personal appeal and word that they had definite information that the majority of the belligerent nations would not turn deaf ears to sugges tions from a neutral gathering. They talked with the President for more than half an hour and went away much pleased over their reception, though the President had made no promises. About 400 peace advocates, from a mass meeting held at a Washington theater, 'accompanied the Preaident'a callers to the White House, applaudina- them aa they entered and left the ex ecutive offices. The President waa urged to initiate a peace conference or at least to signi fy that he would appoint a delegate from the United Statea if another neu tral nation called one. He waa told that women peace advocates who have visited every belligerent and neutral nation in Europe believe from talks with officials abroad that practical re sults would follow. He waa also in- iwuioi uiBi ceorj rora, me isetroic automobile manufacturer, here to co operate with the women, had in his possession statements, some of them signed, from officials in some of the principal countries on both sides of the European conflict, to the general effect that they would interpose no objection to the calling of a conference of neu trals to make peace proposals. Mme. Schwimmer, who saw the President aeveral months ago on the same subject and who was not opti mistic then, said that she now believed the President waa deeply impressed with the information laid before him. "The President made no definite promise," she added, "but I think you will hear something from the White House before long." At the White House it waa said that there would be no statement regarding the call. Up to this time the position of the president has been that he haa heard nothing from Europe which leada him to believe that the time ia opportune for him to take any step. Tornado Claims Ten Victims at Hot Springs, Ark.; Loss $500,000 Aid Is Pledged for New Central Oregon Railway Klamath Falls Bankers and back smiths, cattlemen and homesteaders, pledged support to Robert E. Strahorn, each in his kind, during an eventful four-days' trip through Central Ore gon, completed Wednesday. Cash, labor, terminal sites and rights of way were offered, and the railroad builder was assured that the terms he exacted would be complied with. The strongest men of every commu nity visited accepted the responsibility of undertaking the duties prescribed. "If the promises made to me in Cen tral Oregon are fulfilled, and I have confidence they will be," said Mr. Strahorn, "a good start will have been made towards getting a railroad across that big region. I am gratified by the spirit shown, not only by those who are important financially, but by the people of limited means, all of whom seem to want to have a part in helping to bring the railroad." Hot Springs, Ark. Ten dead, 20 in jured and 80 homes demolished was the toll of the tornado which shortly after 3 p. m. Saturday swept a path of des olation two miles southeast of Hot Springs, and cut off wire communica tion with the outside world. The property loss is estimated variously at $250,000 to $600,000. This is the second calamity in this vicinity in two years. Two years ago damage of $6,000,000 waa caused in the city by fire. At the home of William G. Maurice, bathhouse owner, the table in the ban quet room was set for 60 guests, theat rical and circus people wintering in Hot Springs, who planned to give an entertainment for charity. A tree 16 inches in diameter and 40 feet long waa driven through the roof and the banquet table demolished. The guests had not yet assembled. George Tanner, whose wife and two chidren were killed, loaded the head less body of Mrs. Tanner and the body of another woman in an express wagon and brought them to Hot Springs hos pitals, a distance of two miles, before he fainted from the pain of a broken leg and internal injuries. Tanner's condition is considered serious. T. R.'s Aid Held aa Spy. New Britain, Conn. The Rev. Fred erick Kreiger, of this city, who has been engaged in missionary work in East Africa for many years, ia being detained in a British prison camp in India on tne suspicion that he ia a Ger man spy, according to information re ceived by relatives here. During ex-President Roosevelt's hunting trip in Africa, the Rev. Mr. Kreiger accompanied him on several occasions. Suspect Utters Threats. ' Baltimore Otto Buelow, or Unger, the suspected deserter from the con verted German cruiser Prim Eitel Friedrich, now interned at Norfolk, declared that "in six months' time there will not be a war munitions plant in operation in the. United Statea," according to City Detective Robert Porter. According to Porter, Buelow seemed to know the location of all munition plants in the country. Month Road Bill $26,372. Salem Marion county expended $26,372 on its roads in October, ac cording to the report filed with the county clerk. Apportionment of the money waa aa follows: Graveling, $5600; bridges, $6170; general re pairs, $3507; new tools and machin ery, $138; supervisors' salaries, $1292; payments to cities, $6521, and paving, $264. During the month 4664 yards of gravel and 6210 yards of rock were hauled. Babe Not To Be Deported. Washington, D. C Jeanne, a 14-months-old Belgian baby girl, recently brought to New York by way of Eng land, will be permitted to remain in the United States, under a decision by the Immigration Bureau Saturday over ruling a deportation order by its offi cers at New York. The case waa brought to the bureau by counsel for Mrs. Percy Proctor, formerly Baroness von Blaefusa, who haa agreed to adopt the child.