INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE
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LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST
VOL. 3.
NO. 20.
SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1914
$1.25 THE YEAR
VSLSON WILL RUN
FOREIGN WAR IS
PROVISIONAL PRES.
THE BRITISH AIR . WORST FOREST FIRES
FOR SECOND TERM
HELP TO CURA
FLEET IS BUSY
CARANZA ACCUSED
SINCE YEAR 1883
Doubt Seems Removed by Late Course Sugar Crop Expected to Yield $250,000,- Thè Calling of Election for October is The Royal Flying Corps Adds to Military Thousands of Acres Have Been Laid
000 to Inlands—-Tobacco
Declared to De in Violation
History-—The Channel is
Waste By Flames, Says Super­
of Events at the Nation’s
Industry Unhurt
of Secret Compact
Crossed Quickly
visor Brundage
Capital
Washington, Sept. 7.—That Presi­
dent Wilson will we a candidate to
succeed himself is no longer doubt­
ful in official and political Washing­
ton. Vice President Marshall’s re­
cent declaration that the president
would be the unanimous choice of
his- party for a second term is sup-
Dlemented by the pews that Mr.
Wilson himself has recently declared
that it is the duty of a chief execu­
tive to submit his record to the
electorate for endorsement or re­
jection.
The democratic platform of the
last national convention pledging
the party to the principle that the
president of the United States should
be ineligible for re-election seems
not to worry the president and his
advisors at all.
. It was before Mrs. Wilson’s death
'that the president expressed himself
to a friend upon the subject of a
second presidential term. Since
that time persons in touch with the
Administration have entertained the
opinion that he might be so dis­
heartened by the death of his wife
and by the drain upon his strength
made by the ever-increasing round
of official duties that he might pre-
' fer quieter scenes and a less strenu­
ous regime at the end. of the present
term.
Those who are familiar with the
president’s character, however, do
not believe, in the light of his ex­
pressed views with regard to a
second term, that he will fail to live!
up to what he conceives to be his
duty in the matter.
Political leaders, both within and
without the democratic party, be­
lieve that if Mr. Wilson is a candi­
date for the democratic nomination
he will not be seriously opposed.
From an authorative source it has
been learned that not long ago
Secretary of State Bryan expressed
the views that if the Wilson admin­
istration was a success Mr. Wjlson
could have the democratic nomina­
tion for the asking, and that if the
administration did not measure up
to the public expectations the nomi-
rrM^in would not be worth having.
Dr. Ivan E. Bellinger
Physician and Surgeon
Calls promptly attended
day or night
S weet H ome
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New York, Sept. 5.—One country
at least expects to make a lot of
money out of the war, not by sup­
plying war needs of belligerents,
but by selling raw sugar at the
prices to which the market has risen
and perhaps at higher figures. Dr.
Pablo Desvernine, the Cuban secre­
tary of state, says the price of rkw
sugar has jumped in Cuba to 5i and
6| cents, and that the next crop
is expected to realize $250,000,000.
“We expect that Cuba will be
very prosperous soon,” he said.
“The high price of sugar will be a
boom to our country. Our last,
crop is the biggest we have ever
made, amounting, I believe, to a
little over 2,300,000 tons.
“The effect of the war. has not
been felt in Cuba except that there
has been difficulty about exchange,
which is about settled now. It hag
been very high against Cuba. We
may feel some stringency for a little
time, but conditions will soon be
improved.
As for tobacco, our
cigar manufacture may have been
checked, but things will ultimately
come out all. right, and I believe
such factories as have closed will
reopen.
“Cuba is rapidly building high­
ways and importing automobiles,
The main source of our importations
is the United States, and these im­
ports will increase considerably, as
we may not be ableto get anything'
from Europe.”
The Drouth is Broken
Last Sunday night rain commenc­
ed falling in Sweet Home and came
in such quantities that all felt that
our dust period was at an end. The
rain continued through the night
and on Monday at ‘ intervals, when
the dust had been converted into
mud.
For 74 days there had not been
enough moisture to lay the dust,
nor stop the timber fires.
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On Monday the fire fighters were
brought out. It required four or
five teams to transport them to their
homes.
Now everybody has a cheerful
word to say, there is a surety of
good fall grass for the cattle and
our merchants are expecting busi­
ness to pick up.
Of course it will. Farmers are
feeling better and can make calcu­
lations for the future. They know
the dairy receipts will increase, their
beef animals will “pick up” and the
general fall pasture will be good.
The young man; McAllister, ar­
rested and held here for some hours
for larcepy of a horse, bridle, spurs
etc., was taken to Lebanon, on
Thursday of last week and turned
over to Sheriff Elkins, of Crook
county,
El Paso, Tex., Sept. 6.—The Car­
ranza and Villa elements of the con­
stitutionalist party differ as to the
eligibility of General Carranza as
provisional president of Mexico, ac­
cording to assertions made today by
men of prominence in both factions.
President Wilson’s recent explana­
tion that Carrahza was not consider­
ed as a provisional president, as far
as the Washington government was
concerned, revived the discussion on
the point, which was the cause of
heated arguments at the Torreon
conference.
The Villa men asserted that at
the Carranza-Villa conciliation con­
ference, a secret compact whs made
which would prevent Carranza from
serving as the chief executive even
until the time of election, but ac­
cording to the minutes of the meet­
ing, as made public, the congress of
military leaders merely was to set
a time for the election and make
arrangements for the polling of
votes.
The official statement of the con­
ference said that all amendments
had been defeated which would alter
the plan of Guadalupe. The Guada­
lupe plan clearly specified that the
first chief of the revolution should
act as president until elections could
be heldz"' Carranza’s recent setting
of elections for October 1, the Villa
people allege, has been a violation
of the Torreon pact.
General Villa remains in Chihu­
ahua City awaiting, it was said, the
«ailing of the convention of chiefs.
General Obregon, with whom Villa
recently visited Sonora oh a tour
along the Northern side of the
American border, has gone to the
national capital.
Early Morning Fire
For the fourth time during the
past year has Sweet Home been
visited by the fire fiend. Mr. Moore­
head’s residence was the first, Dr.
Wilson’s barn the second, J. M.
Cowdrey’s store the third and J. T.
States residence the fourth.
This last fire was noticed about
4 o’clock last Friday morning, when
the whole upper story was ablaze.
By the time help arrived, the lower
story was ablaze as well. Mrs.
States is at the hop fields and while
Mr. States had been at home in the
afternoon, he was * spending the
night up in the neighborhood of
Foster.
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The building and contents, prob­
ably valued at $1500, is a total loss.
We hear a small insurance was car­
ried.
Citizens present prevented
the fire from spreading to outbuild­
ings and other nearby residences.
No cause for the fire is given
other than spontaneous combustion.
We are having too many fires,
whatever may be the cause.
London, Sept. 5.—Few persons
know that the royal flying corps
have made aeronautical, as well as
military history by sending at short
notice aeroplanes across the channel
by the air route without mishap,
says a correspondent of the' Paul
Mall Gazette.
As a combined flight, he says,
this surpasses anything ever done in
aviation, but it was only part of a
big movement. Other machines had
flown across the previous day.
At the present moment these air­
ship squadrons,1 besides the reserves,
are with the extraordinary forces,
but apart from the news of two
fatal accidents and the appearance
of an airmans name among the
wounded, nothing authentic has
been published concerning the do­
ings of the royal flying corps.
The correspondent points o.ut that
numerically the French and British
fifth arm was inferior to the Ger­
mans on the allies' left wing until
the> arrival of reinforcements. The
evidence pointed to a general
superiority of the German aircraft
to a desire to create a vast number
of aeroplanes, wich are being acti­
vely employed.
As far as reconnaissance goes,
the writer adds, it is not necessary
to make such demonstrations and
the effect on the troops of the small
bombs that were thrown were
negligible. The British aeroplanes
have directed the ^artillery fire, as
have the Germans, and have been
constantly employed for scouting.
Albany, Ore., Sept. 7.^-The rain­
fall of last evening brings the long
looked for relief to the forestry
service according to F. H. Brun­
dage, the supervisor of the Santiam
National Forest who returned to
his headquarters here Saturday
evening after a long hard fight with
the different-fires. .
According to rough estimates
made this morning by Mr. Brun­
dage the 37 different fires we have
had this season have burned over
about 4,000, acres of old burns and
myrtle brush. About 400 acres of
mountain hemlock on higher slopes
has been burned over and something
over 160 acres of Douglas fir of
commercial value has been included
in the ground covered by the fires.
The fir has only been partially spoil­
ed fbr commercial purposes
The majority of the fires this'
season have been small, only five of
the fires extending over a greater
territory than five acres. The large
ones have been the Smith river fire,
the North Pyramid fire, fire above
■Foster that worked across the bor­
der into the national forest in the
Turtle creek country, the Tumble
Lake fire and the Devils Creek fire.
This has been the worst season
since Mr. Brundage has been in this
part of the county and according to
testimony of his predecessor he be­
lieves it to be the hardest one since
1883.
The season has revealed several
very important facts among them
that fire can be successfully stopped
no matter where it is or what pro­
Prize Law Changed
portions,it has assumed. Trench­
ing and back firing have proved
London, Sept. 5.—Although the very effective methods for checking
value of Drize ships captured in the their progress.
war probably will be greater than
in any war in history, naval officers
This office has quite a number of.
will not suddenly become million­ unused hunters license for sale.
aires, as was in the case in war time The stock of fishing licenses are
100' years ago.
about exhausted.
In the beginning of the 19th
century the capture of a rich haul
by a war ship meant an independent
fortune for the chief officer of the
lucky warship. The admirality has
changed the system of payment, on
the advice of a select committee
MYERS & ROSE, Prop,.
named to investigate plans for re­
warding the captors of merchant­ Clean and Airy Rooms and Beds.
The> tables are. supplied
men. A general bounty will be paid
/
with the best the
to the fleet, but by far the greatest
market affords
portion of the proceeds of the
sale of the ships will go to the
state.
In all, more than $10,000,000
worth of prizes have been reported
to the naval prize court in London.
Theoretically prize money has
always been the property of the
crown. Its gift to ’the crews has Special Orders—Special" Prices
been a matter of courtesy or gener­
Feed and Livery Barn in
osity. In the days when the whole
connection
with Hotel
of the English navy consisted of
Prices are Reasonable,
boats which would be described to­
day as “converted merchantmen”
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both ships and men were pressed SWEET HOME -
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