INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE
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LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST
SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 48, 1914
NO. 8.
VOL. 3.
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$1.25 THE YEAR
BALOON LANDS NEAR WALLST. ATTEMPTS LASSEN ERUPTION
MEDIATION IS ON
WILSON APPOINTS
FRIGHTEN COUNTRY GROWS IN VIOLENCE
VERGE OF FAILURE
CASCADIA, OREGON
NEW BANK BOARD
Clothes Torn to Tatters, the Pilot and Business Conditions Sound and Presi Fifth of Series Accompanied by Odor Rebel Representatives Firm in Declaring The Modern Currency System to Be in
Aide Find Mountaineer After
dent Wilson “Stands Pat”--
of Sulphur,. is Smelt for a
That Their Army Can Solve
Operation in Time to Aid
No Adjournment
Hard Travel
Long Distance
thé Problem
Crop Movement
Cascadia, Ore., June 13.—Stiff
and weary after 24 hours of aimless
wandering over precipices $nd down
ravines, the two missing balloonists
of the Kansas City III, Pilot John
Watts of Kansas City and Roscoe
Fawcett, sporting editor of The
Oregonian, stumbled into the Mc
Kinnon ranch, two miles east of
here, at 9:10 o’clock this morning.
They had a sad study in aeronau
tics, footsore, rain-soaked and shoes
and clothing torn to tatters. The
party left Portland Thursday after
noon in a National baloon race, and
the balloon alighted at 9:20 o’clock
Friday morning, making over 17
hours in the air. However, the
balloon covered only 75 or 80 miles
as the crow flies, due to Slack wind.
The balloon lies marooned on a
spur off Hurricane Deck, about 11
miles northeast of here, high up on
the side of a crag, the net ripped
and torn to shreds. The top is
caught over the pinnacle of a 50-fodt
burnt snag. The altitude, accord
ing to Captain Watts’ log book, is
2950 feet at this point. Cascadia
lies on the Santiam river in south
central Linn county and has an alti
tude of 1050 feet.
No trail of any description runs
near the balloon, so it is not to be
wondered that the men were 24
hours reaching human habitation.
For this reason it is extremely
doubtful if the balloon can be saved.
It weighs, including the basket 500,
and is valued at $1000.
(Mr. Fawcett passed through
Sweet Home on Sunday, June 14,
Captain Watts .on the following day.
The .balloon, cut in four pieces, was
carried out on the backs of moun
taineers.—Ed.)
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Card of Thanks
We, the undersigned, desire to
tender our sincere thanks to our
friends and neighbors for their kind
attention and sympathy during the
sickness of the mother and the death
and burial of our baby. May you,
if called to suffer a similar bereave
ment, meet with like sympathy and
attention.
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Reed.
We Pay Cash For
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Washington, June 15.—Declaring
that to delay the anti-trust legisla
tion for several jnonths, keeping the
country meantime in a state of un
certainty, would be the worst pos
sible thing for the national business
interests, President Wilson announc
ed emphatically he wouldn’t' adjourn
congress until after election and
permit the consideration of the anti
trust program then at a special con
gressional session.
As far as business is concerned,
the president told the newspaper
correspondents there is abundant
evidence that the present so-called
depression is wholly manufactured
in the hope of compelling delay.
He charged that there is plainly-
a combination of business interests
behind such efforts but assured the
bearers it is doomed to defeat.
Business, he added, is in a perfectly
healthy condition. There was much
unnecessary delay, the president
remarked, in disposing of the canal
tolls repeal bill and he is convinced
that at least a part of it was due to
a desire to tie up anti-trust legisla
tion which he intended to insist
should be put through as planned.
Ernest Malone was in the vicinity
of Sweet Home last week visiting
relatives.
Mrs. Bertha Coyles, of Eastern
Oregon; is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. N. Rice. She expects
to visit two or three weeks. •„
Jake Pugh and Mrs. John Fox
were married last, week, so it is
reported.
Prof. C. L. Malone attended the
teachers examination at Albany last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Clarance Sloan, who has
been seriously ill, is slowly improv
ing.
The Holley merchant has purchas
ed a new buggy. He don’t believe
in going with his best girl afoot all
the time on Sundays.
Quite a number of the Holley
people went over on the Santiam
for strawberries the last few days.
Miss Neva Malone is spending the
week with her sister, Mrs. F. O.
VanEpps.
A large crowd attended the school
meeting Monday. SuDt. Jackson
and Sunt, Baker were present.' T.
J-. Philpott and Marvin Murphy
were elected as directors and L. O.
Wright for clerk. They had a hot
time. They counted two votes as
one and the chairman cast two votes
for the same candidate.
The Grange had a nice program
Saturday consisting of speeches,
dialogues and songs.
Childrens Day will be observed at
the Christion church Sunday.
Mineral, Cal., June 13.—Sulphur
fumes and volcanic ash marked to
day the fifth and most violent erup
tion of Mount Las.sen since first the
snow-clad peak broke out on May
30. The scent of sulphur was strong
in the air and ashes fell here today
for the first time, at a distance of
16 miles from the crater. The suc
cessive eruptions have been», pro
gressively furious, but those of
yesterday and this morning were by
far the most serious.
Forest Ranger Abby and a party
of explorers, including a moving
picture man, arrived here today.
They saw both the eruption of last
night and that of this morning from
close range. Supervisor Rushing
of the United States forest service,
who has-their report, gave the fol
lowing account tonight of their ob
servations:
, “Mount Lassen erupted at 3:45
p. m. on June 12, throwing out
dense clouds of steam, mixed with
volcanic ash and boulders. Another
eruption took place at 6:30 a. m. on
June 13.
“Ranger Abbey was half a mile
south of the crater when it first
erupted. He saw a white-crested
Column of steam and ashes, with a
black core, shoot 2000 feet in the
air. The black core quickly de
scended and the ash-laden column
of steam bent, to the east and drift
ed in the direction of Chester.
“Huge volumes of steam continu
ed to roll out and rocks weighing
hundreds of pounds were thrown a
quarter of a mile and more, riddling
the roof of the forest service look
out-house on the peak.
“The outbreak was accompanied
by loud hissing and blowing, but
there were no detorations and no
lava or flames v^ereseen, although
dense fumes of sulphur were emit
ted. A strong wind carried the
fumes and ashes away from Abbey
and his party.
The second eruption today was
viewed by Abbey from a distance.of
a mile and a half. • It was heavier
than the first and continued for
half an hour.
“Rocks could be seen falling and
heard crashing to the ground. Ash
laden steam drifted 20 miles south
ward reeking with sulphur and pre
cipitating a film of ashes over the
entire countryside.
“The smell of sulphur was in the
air and ashes fell at Mineral, 16
miles distant, for aft hour and a
half.
“Last night the crater measured
100 by 400 feet. Tonight it is un
doubtedly larger.
“Little apprehension -is felt for
the safety of nearby residents. The
only damage todate is the destruc
tion of the forest service lookout
station. Moving pictures were ob
tained at last night’s eruption.”
Niagara Falls, June 15.—Justice
Lamar and F. W. Lehmann, Ameri
can delegates to the mediation con
ference, went to Buffalo today and
talked for four hours with Rafael
Zubaran and Louis Cabera, personal
representatives of General Carranza.
Their purpose was to find some way
to bring the constitutionalists in
harmony with the scope of media
tion. The mission was a failure.
The constitutionalist representa
tives who had come to Washington
to see the American delegates told
them, why they could not agree to
an armistice; why only a^man promi
nent in .the constitutionalist ranks
would be acceptable to-them for the
provisional presidency, and finally
they believed the constitutionalist
arifty would settle the Mexican
problem soon if left unhampered by
foreign complications.
The Americans returned to Nia
gara Falls feeling that so far as the
political pacification of Mexico is
concerned, mediation . had accom
plished nothing and probably the
end of the conferences was near.
The next full conference is set
for Friday. Until then little will
be done because of the absence of
Minister Naon, of Argentina. Most
of the principals here incline to . the
view that Friday’s session may be
the last.
Dispatches of the forcible seizure
by a Villa official of the telegraph
office at Juarez held previously by
Carranza officials served to confirm
suspicions which have been current
in many quarters here of a breach
between Villa and Carranza.
Washington, June 15.—Organiza
tion of the new National banking
and currency system entered its last
stages today when President Wilson
nominated the five men who, serving
with the secretary of the treasurer
and the controller of the currency
ex-officio, will constitute the Federal
Reserve Board.
Chas. S. Hamlin, of,Boston, was
nominated for the two years term;
Paul Warburg of New York, for
four years; Thomas D. Jones, of
Chicago, for six years; W. P. Hard
ing, of Birmingham, for eight years
and A. C. Miller of San Francisco,
ten years.
Thus, eventually all appintments
to the board will be for 10-year
terms, the term of one member ex
piring every two years. President
Wilson will select one of the men
flamed today to be governor of the
board. It is generally expected that
Mr. Jones or Mr. Hamlin will be
chosen.
Upon their confirmation by the
senate they will complete the orga
nization of the new currency system.
It is planned to have it in operation
in time to care for the needs of the
country during the crop-moving
season this fall.
Mr. Hamlin, now assistant secre
tary of the treasury, was chosen to
day after E. C. Simmons, of St.
Louis, declined a place. Mr. War
burg and Mr. Harding are bankers;
Mr. Jones is a lawyer and Mr. Miller
is an economist, now assistant secre
tary of the interior. 1
The nominations of the members
of the reserve board go to the bank
ing and currency committee. Al
though there may be some opposi
tion to the men proposed, there is
little doubt that they will be con
firmed. It was said tonight that
Assistant Secretary W. P*. Malburn,
Mrs. J. ^V. Nye and two children who now has charge of customs in
of Foster, made a business trip to the treasury department, probably
Pleasant Valley, also visited at the would be advanced to succeed Mr.
Hamlin.
home of her parents.
Mrs. S. W. Wood made a trip to
Sweet Home Thursday.
Miss Golda Burnett is staying at
the home of W. P. Galbraith, assist
ing with house work.
Geo. Miller visited with Merrett
Wood Saturday and Sunday.
The services and basket dinner
were well attended Sunday at the
Pleasant Valley school house, and
was well enjoyed by all.
J. R. Orchard and his son, J. P.,
attended the threshermen convention
in Portland Monday and Tuesday.
George Gabriel and Wes Cowitz
were in Lebanon Saturday on busi
ness.
Viola Pickens visited at the home
of Mrs. J. P. Orchard Saturday.
A Rancher.
Legal blanks for sale at the Tri
bune office.
Hotel
Sweet Home
MYERS & ROSE, Props.
Clean and Airy Rooms and Beds.
The tables are supplied
with the best the
market affords \
Special Orders-—Special Prices
Feed and Livery Barn in
connection with Hotel
Prices are Reasonable.
SWEET HOME
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