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Events of Noted People, Governments
nd Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Approval of tlio McNary bill, desig
nating the Old Oregon Trail us a na
tional highway, was given Wednesday
by Secretary of Agriculture Wullucu.
Kurt K. Ilaney In confirmed by the
Bcnuto as a meniljer of the shipping
board, along with Frederick Thomp
son of Alabama and V. H. Hill of
South Dakota.
Kdilh Kelly (luuld, cx-wlfo of Frunk
J. Gould, has usked the French courts
to grunt her tho right to hulf of Mr.
Gould's property in Franco, or about
800,000,000 fruncs.
The mayor of Itoxhelni, Ilavarlan
palatinate, un adherent of the autono
mous movement in that province, was
asuusxlnulcd Wednesday. Ho was
slain while entering tho town from
the railway station.
Corliss II. Cirlffls, the American
who attempted to kidnap Grover
Cleveland llergdoll in Germany, has
been released from prison by tho Ger
man government. Tho stale depurt
uient is so advised.
Governor I'ierco haa the distinction
of being tho first person In Oregon to
pay stato Incomo tax under the luw
enacted at tho 1923 session of the
legislature and later approved by the
voters of tho statu ut special election.
I.OH Angeles, Oil., lias been selected
by tho army air service us the start
ing point for tho attempted around-the-world
flight. Original plans to be
gin the flight from Seattle, Wash., or
Washington, I). ('., have been modified
accordingly.
Posit iva assurance was given Hepro-
tentative Summers ot Washington
Wednesday by Secretary of Agricul
ture Wallace that representatives of
the department ot agriculture will bo
sent Into Oregon, Washington and
Idaho to Investigate wheat grading.
Fifteen persons were Injured when
Canadian National railway passenger
train No. 9, on routo to Calgary from
Saskatoon, was derailed near Anion
ode, SO miles northeast of Calgary,
Tuesday afternoon. A split rail was
said to bo tho cause ot the uocldcnt.
While forces In Siberia have seized
upon the occasion of tho death of
Nlcelal I.ctihio to proclaim a free stale
in Amur province und bavo Interrupt
ed railway service to Vladivostok und
eastward. Advices to this effect have
been received by tho Japanese govern
incut from Mukden.
Jakey, a goose that took bis whisky
straight and washed It down with u
swig ot beer hi pre prohibition days,
is dead. He was IS years old und was
owned by John Keller, former St.
I.oiiIh saloon proprietor. In the old
days u round of drinks was not com
pleto unless Jakey was In on the
setup.
Full diplomatic recognition of soviet
Russia by the llrltlsh government Is
expected within ti'ti days, according to
political observer conversant with
tho labor government's Intentions
These observers say Premier Mac
donahl Is eager to have recognition an
accomplished fact before parliament
meets on February 12,
Government efforts to restore ngrl
culture to a sound economic footing
took more definite shape last week as
tho administration pressed Its relief
plans and legislation designed to aid
tho Industry received committee ap
proval In congress. President Cool
Id go fixed February 4 ns the dato for
a conference of representatives of
common lal lines Interested in agri
cultural welfare nnd Issued 40 odd lux I
tat Ions to spokesmen for the several
Interests to rotifer on the situation
with Seiretarles Hoover nnd Wallace.
Income tax payers would receive a
reduclloil In their i')23 taxes payable
this year under a provision voted Wed
nesday by republican members of the
bouse ways nnd means committee.
The amount ot reduction has not been
determined, but Chairman Green, au
thor of tho proposal, said It might be
ns high as 25 per cent. It would apply
to the taxes after they !inv been
rompuled und to nil personal Income
taxpayers. Treasury experts estim
ated that a 25 per celil cut would
mean a saving to taxpayer of 1-25.-000,000.
Albany, Ore., Family Wiped Out By
Eating Home-Canned Beans,
Albany, Or. Seven persons were
dead and three others were dying here
Monday night as the result of eating
home-canned beans, which were be
lieved to have spoiled and thus pro
duced the deadly poison known as
botullnus.
The dead: Mrs. Paul Gerblg, 34;
Hilda Gerblg, 10; Marie Cerblg, 7;
Gotfried Iluehllng; Mrs Cotfrled Rueh-
ling; Werner Yunker, 10-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs, Otto Yunker of
Thomas station, near Sclo; Iteinhold
Berber.
The dying: Taul Gerblg; Esther
Gerblg, 13 months old; two-yeur-old
son ot Mr. and Mrs. Iluuhllng.
Two other persons were stricken 111
by the strango malady hut were re
ported to have fully recovered. Mrs.
Iteinhold Gerher, ut whose homo the
fatal dinner was served, apparently
was none tho worse for her experience
and two-year-old Margaret Gerblg was
believed to have escaped the poison
ous food. The child is still fed by
bottle and it was not known whether
or not she had any of tho vegetable
dish at dinner.
The death of 13-months-old Esther
Gerblg was declared by attending phy
sicians to bo only a matter of hours
and they held out no hope for the
recovery of any of the other three
victims.
The case of Gotfried Ruehllng was
probably the strangest of all. He was
reported dead curlier in tho day but
revived from the state of coma which
usually precedes death from the
strange malady und for a timo was
believed to bo on tho road to recovery.
Suddenly, however, bis condition be
came worse und ho died.
None ot -the deaths occurred until
more than 21 hours after tho fatal
meal.
Mrs. Gerber declared that sho su
peeled that 1 1)0 beans were spoile
when sho opened them but did not
pay any uttentlon to their queer ap
pearance. Young Yunkers, a friend
of tho families, spoko of the peculiar
odor and tasto ot the beuns at the
time. As all of the peoplo present
were similarly affected the poisoning
Is regarded as un accident.
liotullnus, tho poison which is pre
sumed to bavo caused the deaths,
thrives und propagates at a tempera
ture ot 120 degrees above ten), at
which temperature other germs die.
Tho bacteria comes from a spore that
originates In the ground and is de
stroyed only when tho temperature
reaches 211) degrees or more, It Is
said. Commerclul vegetables are cook
ed at a degree or so more than 210
degrees above zero und lire said to
bo freo from the bacteria, ulthough
all home-canned goods tiro subject to
It.
WILSON PASSES ON
coy
MOURN
Ex-President Succumbs at 11:15
A. M. Sunday.
FAMILY AT BEDSIDE
Digestive Trouble of Past Week Proves
Fatal to Great War President
- Physician Faithful to End.
Ex Prefessor Wins $100,000 Bok Prize.
Philadelphia. Charles Herbert I.rv
ermoro of New York, student of inter
national relations, writer nnd ex-college
professor, Monday night was an
nounced us the winner of tho 100,(100
prize offered by Edward W. llok,
1'hiludclphlu publisher, for tho best
plan to preserve peace among tho na
tions of the world.
lr. I. evermore was announced ns
the winner by John W. Huvls of the
policy committee of tho American
peace award, at a meeting at the Acad
emy of Music. Mr. Huvis also present
ed him with f r.O.OUO. half of Mr. Iluk's
prize, und tho remainder w ill be given
only If the plan Is accepted by the
congress of tho I'nited Slates. Lever
more's plan was numbered M69 in a
total of 22,lii5 received.
Washington, D. C Ex-President
Woodrow Wilson died at 11:15 o'clock
Sunday morning.
The end was peaceful; life ebbed
away while he slept.
A tired man, he closed his eyes
and, "sustained and soothed by an un
faltering trust," passed on to the great,
hereafter, "liko one who wraps the
drapery of his couch about him and
lies down to pleasant dreams."
Dr. Grayson, hlg friend and physl
ciun, announced tho end of the great
war president In this bulletin:
"Mr. Wilson died at 11:15 o'clock
Ills heart's action became feebler and
feebler, and the heart muscle was so
futigued that it refused ,to act any
longer. The end came peacefully.
'The remote causes of death He In
his ill health, which began more than
tour years ago, namely, general ar
teriosclerosis with haemopllgla. Th
Immediate cause of death wus exhaus
Hon following a digestive disturbance
which began In the early part of last
week but did not reach an acute stage
until tho early morning hours of Feb
ruury 1."
Last Friday the grim reaper had
forced his way Into the house after
wultlng on tho doorstep more than
four years. Suturday he had advanced
to tho landing on tho staircase and
stood counting oft the ticks on the
great clock. Suturday night he knock
cd on the chamber door. A faithful
physician and a loyal wife stood wltl
their backs against It. At 9 o'clock
ho ruttled the knob and called to the
peaceful but prostrate figure on the
bed a great bed, long and wide, re
plica of tho bed In which Abraham
Lincoln slept in tho White House, with
a golden American eaglo and a tiny
silk American flag just over the head
board.
The watchers knew the battle was
lost. At the portal of the door, now
open, the faithful negro servant hov
ered. On the bed, sitting beside her
husband, sustained with ail the forti
tude and composure of a woman
facing a crisis, was Mrs. Wilson, hold
ing between her hands the wan, with
ered, right hand that had proved the
pen mightier than the sword. Near
the foot of the bed was his eldest
duughter, Margaret, resigned to the
inevitable. Close by, tears welling
from his eyes and coursing down his
cheeks, was Pr. Grayson, taking the
measure of the fluttering pulse, weak
er and fainter with each effort.
Heath advanced nnd beckoned for
tho last time. The tired, worn out
man drew a long breath, there was a
slight flutter of the eyelids, an almost
Imperceptible twitch of the nostrils
Woodrow Wilson's soul had drifted
out on the great dark tide that runs
around tho world.
Something to
Think About
bj F. A, WALKER
Oregon Trail Approved,
Moutcsuuo, Wash. Tho Montesano
chamber of commerce announced Mon
day that It was opposed to changing
the inline of the Oregon Trail to
loin er Way, as suggested by United
States Senator Jones recently.
'I be reasons assigned were the an
tiqutty of the present name, lis use
by pioneers nnd In history nnd liter
al un', nnd that a change would be
considered nn unfriendly net to the
people of Oregon.
Alleged Outlaw Slain.
Cleveland. Charles Sanders was
shot and killed and llryim Keenan was
shot twice and captured in a gun
battle late Monday lit their rendez
vous In a suburb, where police located
them, for alleged participation In sev
eral holdups nnd burglaries. They
bad also been hunted for several
weeks us suspects In tho recent mur
der of John Kuu, bakery wagon driver.
More than 75 shots were flrvd lu the
gun battle.
Tacomn. -Capacity of the Tacoina
smelter, recently increased, soon may
be still further enlarged, according to
Frank II. Drowned, vice president of
tho American Smelting A Refining
company, tho owner. Mr. llrownell Is
milking an inspection tour of the com
pany's western smelters.
FIGHT FOR LEAGUE
COSTS WILSON'S LIFE
Washington, 1). C Woodrow Wil
son's, speech-making trip for the league
ot nations, which snapped his nerves
und culminated in his long Illness,
was undertaken after his personal
physician had warned It might seri
ously and permanently impair his
health.
"I do not liko to disobey you," he
said to Pr. Grayson, "and I have never
done so before. Hut I feel I must go
out and make this fight, even it It
costs my life."
As if the approach ot Illness had
fostered a premonition that the worst
fears of his medical adviser would be
fulfilled, he expressed to jeveral aud
iences during the swing across the
country his willingness to make the
great suci!f'-e for the trenty.
"If I felt tin t I personally stood in
the way of this settlement," he said
at Omaha, "I would be glad to die
that it might be consummated."
Coolldge It Indorsed.
Chicago. Announcement that the
republican stute central committee of
New Mexico hud Indorsed President
Coolldge for the party presidential
nomination was made here Saturday
from the national headquarters of the
Coolidge preconventlon campaign.
The resolution of endorsement read:
"The president has given positive and
undenluble pro ( of the fact that he
Is committed solely and exclusively to
serve the best Interests of the nation."
TURXS IN THE ROAD
WHATEVER may be your afflu
ence or Influence, your station on
this sphere, your power of conquest or
good-fortune, there li In the natural
progression of thing a protfublllty
that you may some' day come to a
turn In the road.
At every swing of the pendulum
time is working wondrous changes.
Overnight the topography of a coun
try may be so scarred by an earth
quake or scoured by a flood that it li
unrecognizable.
An empire may crumble; wealth
may be swept away; pride subdued
and humility exalted. At the dawn
ing of the morning we are amazed at
the sudden transformatlop.
We are In a flash brought face to
face with a turn In the road over
which we have for yeari been travel
ing complacently In flue company and
fancied security.
We have given no thought to the
future, having been too deeply en
grossed in our worship of gold. In the
hasty pursuit of wealth we have
grown blind to the beautiful things
around us and unmindful of others.
We have forgotten that we are but
travelers on our way to an enduring
country beyond the limits of earth,
and where there are no turns In the
road.
Wt have seen others lose their way
and given them no attention.
We have seen them shudder, sink
and give up hope.
We have turned our backs, stopped
our ears and walked on confident of
our strength and sure of our step.
But when we ourselves come to the
turn In the road all Is different. We
fall than Into that state In which by
some subtle transformation we be
come other things.
We see with new eyea, speak In a
trembling voice, controlled by strange
and terrible emotions.
For the first time In our lives we
realize that we are but sojourners,
tossed about like chips upon the sea,
at the mercy of the tides and winds.
By gome miscalculation we have lost
our way. We are swept with tremen
dous force In a new direction, over
whelmed and awed, just as have been
millions of others who have gone be
fore us, and if we lack the faith, we
turn tick ai we face the vast nothing
ness and drop out of the running.
(IB br UcClara N.w.p.p.r Srndlcile.)
O
'he Young Lady
Across the Way
The young Indy serous the way eayi
some people seem to take a special
delight In mixing new drinks, now
they're not supposed to have any at
all, and she wonders what this 11,0
that she hears so much about li like.
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Has Anyone Laughed
At You i
Because
By ETHIL R.
PEYSER
You like stories with happy
endings?
Why notf People may rave
and say the unhappy ending Is
more artistic, yet most people
are so geared that the happy
ending Is the favorite. You only
show that you get to like the
characters sad you want them to
be happy. You want every one
to b happy. You know how hard
the easiest life Is, and when you
read you want the "folk" to
"end" In glorious Joy. Read and
be happy ; let those folk laugh
and read all the tragedy tbey
cere to devour.
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Ibsen er Macbeth, er Hamlet,
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