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Miiroi Tilt COUKIEJt I darotad to thf bmt InlmU f Bl'RAY and WHEtXk.lt COUNTY. Tha UUrnl p.tnm- of th IIUna of thla mo tka U raplfullr tollalUd. fuUUlwd rmy ThuwUgr by Ruaatxt p. MUCH. Subaerlptloa RatM raTW L0O Six Month. , JO Thra Month Jf VOL. XIV. SPKAr, WHEELER COUNTY, OltEGON; THURSDAY, Ni X-W Mi I I I kWl 1 1 APItIL C, 191 C. NO. 8. I I i -i.. M I. . . , , , , , , , ., WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK TWENTY-EIGHT KILLED IN AIR- TLEET RAID OVER ENGLAND CARRANZA COLONEL REPORTED IN REVOL Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. American Officers Credit Rumo That Cano Has Joined Villa: UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSKQ1 Live News Items of AH Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. continue to ham- Big German guns mer at Verdun. The German relchstsg ha decided to continue Ita aoa warfare unrestricted. An Investigation into the enormous Increase in the price of gasoline baa been ordered by the senate. The municipal woodyard of Portland ia short one thousand cords of wood, and no one seems to know what be came of it. Operation of the prohibition law since January 1 has increased the water bflts of the various Seattle ho tels from 15 to 85 per cent, according to note! men. Flood conditions along the Red River in North Dakota have been made; worse by heavy fall of snow and it is reared toe floods of the spring of 1904 may be repeated. Discovery in the Greek island of Corfu of an elaborate organisation for providing information and supplies for submarines is reported in a Rome dis patch to the Paris Journal. After killing every one of the 172 men In the irarriaon at IJnarrarn Fran. cisco Villa ia said to have moved north ward, according to unofficial Informa tion secured by General Funston, All foot and mouth disease quaran tines and restrictions on the shipment of livestock are removed by an order iasued by the department of Agricul ture, and the announcement is made that the country is now entirely free of the scourge. Two masked robbers attempted to bold up a Seattle bank, but a young lady student of the University of Washington, who was the only cus tomer in the bank at the time, argued and protested with the men until they had to flee or be captured. Captain Hans Tauscher, husband of Johanna Gadski. the opera singer, and said to be an officer in the Germany navy, was arrested in New York on a warrant charging him with being con cerned in an alleged conspiracy to blow up the Welland canal In Canada. The Puget Sound navy yard has been informed that all large war vessels will carry aeroplanes and a place for launching them. Orders have been received to build launching ways on the deck of the cruiser West Virginia, Including storage room for Ave aero planes. The Chinese government has signed an agreement permitting Russia to construct a railroad in Manchuria. The railroad will give Russia control in Northern Manchuria, in compensation for the railway rights granted Japan in Southern Manchuria. Japan has concurred in this agreement. Outlining a general policy in com plete accord with the doctrine of mili tary training as the surest means of preparedness for national defense, offi cials of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company announce plans for the formation of a company of National Guardsmen and a division of Naval Militia made up exclusively of this corporation's employes. Miss Catherine Prehm, editor and publisher of the Merrill, Ore., Record, was arrested in Klamath t alis on a charge of disturbing the peace by at tempting to horsewhip George Brad- nack, editor and publisher of the Mer rill Times. Twelve men at Kelly's Butte, a workhouse for Portland prisoners, es caped by sawing the bars of a cell. The exft was only 7 inches square, therefore a large number of heavy weight prisoners were detained. The break was not discovered until day light London Two squadrons of Zonne- lins, flying over England Sunday night in the most extensive air raid of the war, killed 28 persons and wounded 84 others in the discharge of at least 90 bombs. One detached ship, making a raid over the northeast coast, was disabled by the Are of the anti-aircraft guns, which followed the searchlights play ing on the raider. The craft was hrmllrhfc trt aarth ami (ta .w nnmU.. Ing 17. was captured by a British pa- TRAIL OF BANDIT LEADER IS LOST iroi ooai in me estuary or me 1 names. The members of the captured crew re ported that they had drawn lots to de termine who should remain with the Pershing Now Thought Deceived As vunnujtnj .uti.n auu uenirty h alter the others had been safety landed. The task fell to the junior officer, to whom it meant practically certain, death. When the patrol boat approached the Zeppelin an explosion occurred, it Is thought, In the motor room. The air ship shortly afterward crumpled up. to Villa's Injury- Systematic Search to Be Continued. ARCHDUKE FREDERICK UiV.!"T, , f) This Is the most recent of the few photographs that hsvs reached Amer ica of Archduke Frederick, comman der In ehlsf of the armies of Austria. In addition to the 17 unwounded pris oners there were others captured who were suffering from injuries. . The Zeppelins remained at a great height in the raid, and their marks manship, consequently, was poor. In one town 11 bombs were dropped with out damage being done. Crowds on the streets watched the battle with the raiders and applaueded the land batteries. Berlin Without Submarine Data; Washington Waits Investigation Washington, D. C. The German government has informed Ambassador Gerard that it is without official con firmation concerning the explosions which damaged the British channel steamer Sussex and sunk the British horse ship Englishman, both of which were carrying American citizens. In a dispatch dated Thursday and reaching the State department Monday Mr. Gerard said the German govern ment had only newspaper reports on the two cases and was making an in vestigation which might be concluded within three or four days. The Berlin foreign office promised to inform Mr. Gerard when the inquiry is completed. It is realized here it may be a week before all the German submarine com manders who might have been con cerned have had opportunity to report, El Paso, Tex. The question of the loyaty of the Carranxa troops has again come very near to the fore here folllowing persistent reports that Col. Cano, the Carranxa commander at Namiquipa, has joined Villa. Andres Garcia, the Carranza consul here, has refused to credit these re ports on the ground that Cano is a bit ter personal enemy of Villa, but he admits that nothing has been heard from the Namiquipa commander for more than a week. The only direct information that has come from Namiquipa since then has been a paragraph in a dispatch from Gen. Pershing In which it was stated that half the garrison at the town had disappeared and it was suspeqted some or mem naa joined Vina. Americana who arrived here from Chihuahua City Sunday asserted that Col. Cano was with the Villistas de feated near Guerrero by Col. Dodd. San Antonio, Tex. Gen. Funston Sunday was in receipt of State depart ment information in regard to condi tions in Chihuahua and other parts of Mexico, but refused to make it public. It was stated at bis headquarters, how ever, that there appeared to be reason to oeueve mat ui. cano, who was leading one of the heavier forces against Villa, had revolted against Lerranza and bad joined Villa. San Antonio. Tex. Unless : Francis- coJVilla is definitely located within the next day or two it is believed here that Gen. Pershing will begin a dogged search for him in the mountains west and south of Guerrero. Since the defeat of Villa's forces March 29. in and near Guerrero, Gen. Pershing has had lightly equipped mobile detach ments of cavalry sweeping whirling fashion through the district about the headwaters of the Santa Maria river, in effortB to locate the elusive bandit reported to have gone in that direction after being desperately wounded. Gen. Pershing did not get a report through to Gen. Funston Sunday, but his chief of staff reported, indicating mac me line or communication was maintained and no mention of the news of Villa was made. There is in creasing belief that Gen. Pershing may have been deceived in regard to the direction taken by Gen. Villa and even concerning his 'injuries. Some reports indicated that he was not in jured at all and instead of going north east of Guerrero he had moved into the hills to the south and east, a direction American officers had expected him to take. Band Members and Coundmen Mix Over License; Three Stabbed VILIAISTAS PLAYED IN RUNNING BATTLE NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS ! II. S. Troopers, under Colonel Dodd, Attack 500 Bandits. THIRTY-ONE DEAD LI SURPRISE FIGHT Villa, With Hip Shattered, Escapes in Wagon End of Gang Seems Near-4 Americans Hit! 38 Ships Sunk In March. London The Board of Trade's sum mary of casualties to British shipping reported in March shows that 19 steamers aggregating 44,609 tons and eight sailing vessels of 1865 tons were sunk by enemy warships. Ten steam ers of 13,532 tons were sunk by mines. One steamer of 2131 tons was sunk either by an enemy warship or a mine. Forty-three lives were lost in the case of the steamers sunk by warships and 81 in steamers sunk by mines. Salem, Ore. In a pitched battle on the streets of Turner Saturday night between members of the Turner band and members of the city council assist ed by partisans of each faction, three men were stabbed, one probably fatal' Half a score other residents of Tur ner suffered from bruised heads as a result of being struck by clubs and rocks which were used freely in the melee. The trouble arose during a perform ance of a carnival company, which had been secured by the Turner band to give a benefit entertainment. The band assisted but was stopped by the city marshal on order of the council, because the carnival company had not paid the $3 license which is required fit traveling shows. The bandmen pro tested the council s action and the bitter feelings resulted in a clash in front of the show grounds. Columbus, Ohio, residents are fleeing the lowlands because of the high water In the Scioto. The senate bill designed to increase the number of cadets at West Point was ordered favorably reported by the house military committee, with a few minor changes. Turkey has informed the United i i . . i -i otaies ii was not a suomarine oi we Ottoman government which sank' the liner Persia in the Mediterranean last winter with loss of American life. Germans Repulse French Near Vaux. Berlin, via London The German official statement issued Monday an nounces that Teuton troops have cleared 1000 yards of French trenches northeast of Haucourt, in addition to the positions taken March SO. The only mention of fighting around Verdun Sunday tells of the repulse of a French counter attack after a ter rific artillery bombardment near Vaux. The Germans took 731 prisoners in this battle. Smyrna Forts Destroyed. London Forts St George and San Jak, as well as the other coastal de fenses of Smyrna, were destroyed Fri day in a three hours' bombardment by a British warship, says a dispatch to the Times from Saloniki. The Turks did not reply to the fire of the war ships. San Jak is the chief work command ing the entrance to Smyrna harbor. St Geroge is about three miles to the southeast LI Paso Four hundred American cavalrymen, under the command of Colonel George A. Dodd, whirling down from the granite slopes of the great continental divide, have fallen like a thunderbolt on the main body of Francisco Villa's bandits at the San Geronimo ranch, scattering them like chaff in the wind, and driving the bandit chief, wounded and crippled, to seek a hiding place in the mountains over which he has ruled for so many years. Villa was hurried from danger in a carriage. The battle opened at 9 o'clock in the morning of March 29. The news of the brilliant exploit of me American troopers was flashed over the Mexican wires into Juarez Saturday and sent a thrill along the border. For 17 hours the veteran Colonel Dodd and his picked riders of the Seventh and Tenth Cavalry drove down the valley of the Santa Maria river. At the end of a 55-mile ride they burst upon the unsuspecting camp where 600 bandits were celebrating me massacre or 172 Carranxa soldiers two days previously at Guerrero. Villa, shot through the leg and with one hip shattered, waa hurried from the scene barely in time to escape the onslaught of the soldiers of the North. The bandits made a brief but hope less stand before the fierce charge of Colonel Dodd and his troopers. Then they broke and fled, leaving 81 dead on the field, including their command er. General Eliseo Hernandez. Two machine guns, several horses, rifles, ammunition and equipment fell into the hands of the victors. Among the known wounded is Pablo Lopez, Villa lieutenant in the Colum bus raid. The American casualties were four privates wounded. The American soldiers did not linger on the field of victory. For five hours they drove the enemy before them into the wilderness of mountain peak, des ert and canyon, where roads, or even trails, are unknown and where a mis step means death to horse and rider. They halted only after the chase had led them ten miles from the battlefield and the fugitives were scattered far and wide in little bands of half a dozen men each. Villa's career has ended. His power has been broken. His death or cap ture is a question only of days, per haps only hours. Such is the inevit able conclusion reached here as little by little the details of "Dodd's ride' seep across me Doraer. it seems im possible that the crippled, defeated bandit can remain hidden long even in the mountainous wastes in which he has sought refuge. The scene of Colonel Dodd's victory is a broad valley lying at the head of the Rio Santa Mara. On the west were are Darren rootmus or the coin tinental divide nd to the east is a trail, made famous by Villa, which leads through the Laguna de Castilla district to the ill-famed Santa Ysabel, It was at the latter place that Villa killed 18 American mining men, crime which sent a thrill of horror throughout the United States and marked the beginning of what many believe to be the end of his blood stained career. It was toward Santa Ysabel that he was believed to have been heading when the troopers of the United States swept down from the North on his camp. From the meagre details which have reached here from Mexican and Amer ican military sources, it appears that Ulonel Dodd's men made their way unnoticed through the arroyos, or deep gulches, which split the foothills in all directions, and were almost in the camp before the alarm was given. Portend Wheat Bluestem, 98c per bushel; fortyfold, 91c; club, 90c; red Fife, 88c; red Russian, 88c Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $21 22 per ton; valley timothy, $16; al- raira, am Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $23 per ton; shorts, $25.60; rolled barley. S3 1.60&32.&0. Corn Whole. $37 per ton: cracked. $38. Vegetables Artichokes. 65(2S0c per dozen; tomatoes, $3.75 per crate; cab bage, xi.Z602.25 per hundred; garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, 17 20c: eggplant Z3ic; horseradish, 8Jc; cau liflower, $1.601.60 per crate; let tuce, $2.253.25; cucumbers, $1.25 l.&o; spinach, 0cii per box; aspar agus, 8lle per pound; rhubarb, $1.25 2 per box; peas,, B10c per pound. roiaioes uregon ai.owai.6o per sack; Yakima $1.701.80; new Flor ida, 10(gl2c per pound. Onions Oregon, buying prices. 9 1.60 I. o. b. shipping points. ureen f ruits Apples, ll(1.60 per dox; cranberries, $11 per barrel. Eggs Jobbing prices, Oregon ranch, candled, 21c per dozen; un- candied, 2020jc. Poultry Hens, 16 Jc per pound; springs, 1616ac; stags, 12c; broil ers, 2025c; turkeys, live. 180.20c: turkeys, dressed, choice. 24 6h 25c: ducks, I3ltc; geese, 10c Butter Prices from wholesaler to retailer; Portland city ' creamery, prints, 60-pound case lots, strand ard grades, 84c per pound; lower grades. 81c; Oregon country creamery prints. 60-pound case lots, standard makes, 81 33c; lower grades, 3030Jc; packed in cubes, 2c less. Prices paid by job bers to producer : Cubes, extras, 29 30c; firsts, 2727Jc; dairy butter. 1418,c; butterfat No. 1. 33c: No. 2, 30c. Veal Fancy, 11c per pound. Pork Fancy, lllUc per pound. Hops 1915 crop, 1013c per pound; 1910 contracts, lljl2c wool eastern uregon, zo30c per pound; valley, 2728c; mohair, Ore gon, 8031c Cascara bark Old and new, 4c per pound. - Cattle Steers, choice grain and pulp, $8.508.75; choice hay, $8.15(3 8.60; good, $7.75 8.16; medium, $7.507.75; cows, choice, $6.7507.50: good, $6.506.75; medium, $6.25 6.50; heifers, $57.75: bulls. $2.75 o; stags, i35.Z5. Hogs Prime light $9.20 9.35: good to prime, $8.259; rough heavy. S88.26; pigs and skips, $88.25. Sheep Yearlings. $88.75; weth ers,' $7.258.25; ewes, $6.257.25; tamos, sy.ooiio.60. . U.S. WON'T ACCEPT WORD OF GERMANY Kaiser Has Entered Upon Ruthless Campaign. PREPARE INDICTMENTS ON SUBMARINES Recent Attacks on Merchant Vessels Without Warning Causes Anx ietyCrisis Seems Near. Quake Shocks Victoria.' Victoria, B. C Two earthquake shocks which took place within a com paratively short distance of Victoria were recorded on the seismograph of the observatory at Gonzales Hill Sat urday morning. The first which F. Napier Denison, the superintendent estimates to have occurred about 800 miles away, took place at 3 :12, and appears to have been a well-defined quake, with a ' pronounced vertical movement j - East Seeks Wheat Portland The recent advances in the Eastern cash wheat markeU have resulted in putting more life into the wheat trade here than it has had for several weeks. Prices in the North west are now once more on a parity with Chicago, and a fair amount of business is being done in wheat mainly the red varieties, for shipment to me Eastern states. At the Merchants' Exchange, the feeling was more cheerful and bid MME. BRESHKOVSKAYA La2 VkS- V s, Mme. Catherine Breahkovakaya, seventy-one years eld, knewn ae the "grandmother of the Russian revolu tion," has been exiled te Bui una, last outpost on the icy frontier ef the North Pole region. prices were readjusted in line with existing values, -posted offers being 2 to 6 cents higher than that of the pre ceding week. Bulk Grain Handling Discussed. Dayton, Wash. At the tri-county meeting of the Farmers' Union of the counties of Walla Walla, Columbia and Garfield, the subject of handling the grain this year was discussed. The price of sacks is prcatically prohibi tive, so it is quite probable that many grain tanks will be erected prepara tory to handling the crop in bulk. Washington. D. C. - The accumula tion of circumstantial evidence indicat ing that Germany has engaged upon a campaign of submarine warfare which has no regard for the rights of Amer ican citizens traveling on merchant ' ships Of belligerent nationality, the administration considers, has created one of the most serious situations which has confronted the United States since the beginning of the war in Europe. Every agency open to the State de partment is being employed in an effort to gather an unimpeachable ar ray of facta regarding the explosion which damaged the British channel steamer Sussex, the sinking of the British .ships Manchester Engineer. Englishman, Eagle Point and the Dutch steamer Tubantia and the al leged firing of a torpedo at the French passenger ship Patria. ' All of these ships carried American citizens and all apparently were at tacked in violation of Germany's re cently assurances to the United States. The next step of the United States is said authoritatively to have been de termined upon. Unless Germany in reply to the inquiries through Ambas sador Gerard makes some statement to cause the State department to change its present intentions, it is understood that all the recent aggravatine: inci dents will be combined in one general formidable indictment which will bring the entire subject to a clear cut Issue. Should Germany admit responsibility for any of the' attacks and attempt to satisfy the United States by saying that a mistake had been made, offer to make reparation, and to punish the submraine commander, the issue would -not by any means be disposed of. It is regarded as certain that the United States will not accept such an explana tion as satisfactory, at least until time has shown what punishment actually was meted out to the offending sub marine commander and whether any value longer could be attached to Ger many's promises. . In the event of Germany disclaiming responsibility for the' disasters, the United States will proceed with its in vestigations to determine to its own satisfaction whether the evidence which now strongly indicates that the Sussex and other ships were torpedoed without warnnig can be regarded as conclusive proof. With such proof before it the gov ernment probably would act promptly. Officials refrain from discussing what , the nature of the action would be. Carrara Grants to United States Right to Use Mexican Northwestern Washington, D. C One of the army's most seroius problems in hunt ing Villa was solved Thursday when General Carranza granted the renewed request of the State department for permission to use the Mexican North western railroad. Secretary Baker issued this state ment at the War department : "We have directed Gen. Funston to tender for railroad shipment cargoes of supplies either directly to our mili tary men or to civilians. This does not involve any tender of munitions for such railroad transportation, nor does it involve the use of American military guards on any Mexican trains." General Carranza's answer was con tained in a brief message from James L. Rodgers, special agent of the Unit ed States at Queretaro, saynig the head of the de facto' government argeed to the commercial use of the line. Officials here assumed he would be equally prompt in notifying his offi cers on the border and that Gen. Fun ston might begin shipment at once. Ship Yard Is Assured. Seattle Plans for a shipyard, to build lumber carriers for overseas trade, have reached the stage where options on two semi-diesel engines have been taken, and a location for the yards is now sought in Seattle, accord ing to A. L. Flewelling, of Spokane, vice president of the Milwaukee Land company. The active head of the new concern will be Harry P. Spear, a Philadelphia naval architect and gov ernment inspector.