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Event of Noted People, Governments
nd Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Mrs. Kathryn Miracle, councilman
and tho first woman candidate to file
for mayor In Seattle, lias withdrawn
from tlie raco.
Ilear-Admlral Thomas O. Sclfridge,
retired, died at Ills homo In Washing
ton, D. C, Monday of heart disease.
IIu would havo paBsod his SSlh birth
day Wednesday.
Chief Justlco Tatt, by direction of
his physician, Dr. Thomas A. Claytor,
has cancelled all engagements for tho
Immedlalo future and entered upon a
period of complete rest.
Ilreaklng all previous records in
Clalaop county, Oregon, triplets, a hoy
and two girls, were born Sunday night
to Mr. and Mrs. Jlln Medley of the
Nehalem valley.
Howard Carter lias gono to Cairo
to purchaso tho necessary apparatus
such as differential pulleys and like
gear for raising tho Jmnieiisely heavy
lid from Tutankhamen's sarcophagus.
Word was received In Provider)
It. I., by wireless Wednesday of the
death of Dr. Henry Crosby Kmery, on
board the steamship President Lin
coln, whllo en route to San Francisco,
from Shanghai, China. Ho was ex
chairman of the United Slates tariff
board.
Actuated by a news story read years
ago stressing tho danger of persons
supposedly dead being, burled alive,
A. M. Ilartholoinew of llend, Oro., says
bo has Invented an alarm to give warn
ing from under tho sod that life still
exists within the casket.
General Pepeilayev, ex -commander
of the Siberian white army, and 20 of
his followers havo been sentenced to
death by tho mllllary tribunal at Chita
for their counter-revolutionary activi
ties in Siberia after Kolchnk's defeat.
Fifty-seven others were given various
prison terms.
Itev. Father Hubert of Dahm, pastor
of St. Joseph's Catholic church at
Itrldgeport, Conn., was shot and prob
ably mortally wounded by an uniden
tified man shortly after 7 o'clock Mon
day night. Tlie shooting took place
on Main street In the heart of the
theater district.
'llio central and middle western
lutes from Minnesota to Texas were
digging themselves out of snowdrifts
Tucsduy, after one of the worst bli.
tards In years had tied up railroad
traffic and wrought havoc with wlr
communication, wiin estimated losses
of several million dollars.
MARTIAL LAW PUT IN FORCE
Troops to Enforce Order at Herrin, 111,
Carrying of Firearms Forbidden.
Herrin, 111. "Bloody Williamson"
county, scene of the Herrin massacres,
domain of rule by the Ku Klux Klan
and community that has several times
set itself above the law, Wednesday
morning felt the first sting of military
authority when the proclamation is
sued late Tuesday night by Major
General Milton J. Foreman, supreme
law enforcement officer, was placard'
ed broadcast along its highways an
In Its towns and villages.
It reads In part:
"Hereafter, wearing or carrying of
firearms or other weapons by any but
duly authorized officers of the law
prohibited and troops are Instructed
to confiscate all firearms and weapons
so carried and to hold tho offenders
for appropriate action.
"The rights of all peaceful citizen
will bo safeguarded and protected an
no invasion thereof will be permitted
or suffered. They should, however,
refrain from participating In gathi
Ings on public streets, remomborin
that they will thereby be aiding and
abetting in acts of disorder.
"Tho solo aim of the military forces
Is to assert and vindicate the supra
macy of the law, which will be en
forced to the fullest extent.
"MILTON J. FOREMAN,
"Major-General, 111. Nat. Guard,
"Commanding 33d Division."
This order will bo backed up by two
regiments of Infantry, Including mu-
chine gun companies and four troops
of cavalry, unhorsed. The soldiers
have been Instructed to carry it out
"This Is tho end in Williamson
county of rule by the consent of an
Individual class," General Foreman
said.
Thi n ho added that tho state of gov
ernment in the county Is tantumoun
to martial law, inasmuch as the civil
authorities now In existence in WI1
Hum son Wednesday vested tho major-
general with full authority to restore
law und order hero by any means that
ho might conceive, and to enforce it
by any other means ho saw fit.
TUX BILL FIGHT
LOOMS
use
Debate on Measure Slated to
Start This Week.
President t oolidge, responding to
representations of agricultural mem
bora of the northwestern farm and
bank reference, declared he Imped Jus
tifloatlon for an Increase In tlie tariff
on wheat would result from the pros
elit Investigation of tho wheat duty
by the tariff commission.
The homo of Hev. Wallace fnrpen
ter, Presbyterian minister, was do
inollshed near llirniliighuni, Ala., Tues
day night by a tornado and his wife
anil eldest son killed Instantly. Six
other members of the family, including
Itev. Mr. Carpenter, were badly hurl
and are In a local hospital.
Kt. itev. George Cnelidge Hunting,
bishop of the Protestant Kplscopal
church in Nevada, died Wednesday
night at Ills homo In Iteno after an
Illness of but a few duvs. He was M
years of age. Pneumonia was given
as the cause of his death. Ulshop
Hunting Is a couMn of President
Coolldge.
The presbytery ef thol'irst l'reshy
terlan church of New York Monday
accepted by vote of III to a com
mlttee report vindicating the, tea. Ii
lugs of liev. Dr. Harry F.moraon Fes
dlek, a llaptlst minister who had been
charged with heretical utterances
whllo occupying tho First Presby
teriun pulpit.
Tho Jury in tho Do llouehel Candler
jr.oO.OOil breach of promise suit Tues
day returned a verdict in favor of
Asa (!. Cnndler Sr., the defendant.1
Decision of the suit was placed In the
hands of tho Jury after Judge Samuel
Sibley had charged tho Jury particu
larly on tho question of Mrs. IV
1 1
Dig Kill Is Iteported.
Washington, D. C Tho first of the
great annual supply measures for the
next fiscal year, that for tho interior
epartment, wus reported Saturday by
the senate appropriations committee,
It carries a total of Jli, is 1,75(1, an
Increase of $1,737,2!! over tho house
bill, but S, 58 1,575 below tho budget
bureau's estimate and (34,035,253 un
dor tho appropriation for the current
fiscal year.
The principal changes made by the
senate committee relate to reclama
tion projects.
For tho Yuma project In Arizona-
California the houso figure of $705,000
Is red need to 1515,000, while for the
Holso project in Idaho tho reduction
Is from J1.OSO.000 to $6,10,000.
The house proposal of J3.S0.0O0 for
the Minidoka project In Idaho is In
creased to $1,015,000. while tho $155,-
iioo total for the Newlands project In
Nevada Is udvanced from $155,000 to
$100.1101).
The senate conimitlee also Increas
ed from $1,000,000 to $1,250,000 the
proposed appropriations for nialnten
ance and operation of the Alaska rail
road.
Wheat Dill It Backed.
Washington, D. ('. Itopresontatlve
Slnnott of Oregon, member of the re
publican steering committee of the
house, told the committee that tho Me-
Nary llaiigcn export corporation bill
was the only hopo of the wheat farm
ers of the Pacific northwest.
He said that tho $50,000,000 live
stock loan bill, which has tho Indorse
ment of the president, Is practically
of no value In Oregon, Washington
and Idaho because diversification is
out of the quest (un In those areas of
low rainfall.
Diversification, ho said, was sound
doctrine only In such wheat states as
Minnesota and tho Dakotas, where
the rainfall Is normal.
St. Louis Has Red Day.
St. Louts. A new criminal record
was said to have been established In
St. Louis Sunday, when five murders
were reported to the police in six
hours. William It. Anderson, a police
man, was found on a sidewalk, his
body riddled with bullets. Simon
Uroekman was shot to death by high
waymen. Nathaniel Williams and
Charles Iterry. negroes, and James
Nick were stabbed to death in three
street tights.
Edison Quit Inadequate.
West Orange, N. J. Thomas A.
IMIson's famous questionnaire for de
termining the fitness of men for the
ebs they seek Is a failure, the wizard
admitted at his laboratory, where he
Monday celebrated his 77th birthday
by working. "The questionnaire sys
tem does eliminate the unfit to a cer
tain extent," ho said, "but something
Ilouchors divorce from her ox husband more It needed for the .eWH.m .,f
Adolph Koequet. g0O(1 ...
LONG BATTLE LIKELY
THE ROMANCE
OF WORDS
Surtax Rate of 32 to 40 Per Cent Re
ported Agreeable to Republi
can Majority.
Washington, D. C The revenue bill
providing for complete revision of the
federal taxes and for a 25 per cent
reduction in 1923 personal income
taxes payable this year will reach the
house from the ways and means com
mittee and on Thursday be taken up
for debate.
Leaders predict the measure will be
before the house at least two weeks
and possibly four. An indication of
the fight which will be made on the
bill, particularly its income tax rates,
which are the same as suggested by
Secretary Mellon, was given Sunday
in the announcement that four separ
ate reports would be made by the
committee members.
There will be three reports from
the republican members and one sign
ed by the 11 democrats of the com
mittee. Chairman Green will submit
tho republican report, but an addition
al one will be sent in by the 11 re
publicans of the committee who voted
for the Mellon rates, arguing more
vigorously than the chairman for the
maximum surtax rate of 25 per cent.
Representative Frear, Wisconsin, re
publican insurgent, already has made
public another report in which he
argues against any reduction in the
surtax rates and for a greater cut in
the nominal rates.
Tho democratic report will demand
lower tax rules and higher surtax
rates than carried by the bill, and ad
ditional exemptions.
Republicans, through Representa
tive Longworth, Ohio, the floor leader,
havo admitted the Mellon surtax rates
are doomed. Mr. Longworth conveyed
this message to President Coolldge af
ter Representative Begg, Ohio, had
completed a poll of the republican
membership. Mr. Degg announced a
maximum surtax rate between 32 and
40 per cent would be agreeable to
majority of the party and that about
35 or 37 per cent would bo sufficient
to prevent passage of the democratic
plan for a maximum rate of 44 per
ceut.
"DECIMATE"
r CRDJO the World war it was
a comparatively frequent
occurrence for some war corre
spondent to report that, during
an attack, tlie German forces
"were decimated by the wither
ing Are of the allied troops."
But, could he have gotten Into
spirit or ouija-board communica
tion with Julius Caesar, who
holds a prominent place among
the world's great war corre
spondents, tlie modern writer
would have found that his state
ment meant something far dif
ferent from what he imagined
it did.
The word as we use it today
is the outgrowth of the Roman
custom of punishment for revolt
ing cohorts. After the revolt
bad been crushed, every tenth
man declmus would be select
ed by lot and put to death. If a
cohort suffered In battle so that
about one man In every ten was
killed, It was said to have been
"decimated," but to use the word
as a general synonym for great
slaughter Is hardly In accord
ance with its Latin origin. One
might as well say that the at
tacking troops were "terribly
tithed."
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Farmers Promise Fight.
Walla Walla. If gasoline keeps go
ng up the Farmers' Oil & Fuel com
puny, organized three ,ears ago dur-
ng the gasoline famine, again will
function. "We havo sufficient stor
go facilities to care fur gasoline by
he carload," Charles linker, secre
tary, said. "For two years the agemy
has not handled gasoline, but the
county executive committee has au
thorized resumption of business when-
ver It is deemed necessary."
Europe Has Heavy Snow.
Paris. Heavy snow storms are re
ported throughout Europe. Warsaw
Ispatches say that tho town of Zako
pane, nt an nltitudo of 2745 feet, and
other centers in the Tatra mountains,
havo been rut oft after nn abnormal
nowfall. A mass of Ice, described as
two and one-halt miles long, is blink
ing the railroad, and famine is menac
ing the snowbound population.
Japanese Births Lead.
Honolulu. Approximately halt the
births recorded in the territory of
lawall in 192,1 were those of Japan
ess children, according to statistics of
the board of health made public Sat
urday. The figures follow:
Total. 11.094: Japanese, D509; Per-
uguese, 1015; Filipino, 8SS; Chinese,
7; Americans, SSI.
Tho remainder were mainly those
f children of mixed blood.
Big Swindles Charged.
St. Louis, Mo. Indictments charg
ing uso of the mails to defraud were
returned against 11 persons by tlie
deial grand Jury here Saturday.
The defendants are alleged to have
purchased approximately 1500,000
orth of goods from merchants
throughout the couutry and to have
ulled to pay tor It.
. Ui of Autos Growing.
New York. Vse of motor vehicles
increasing as rapidly in other coun-
ries as In the United States, accord-
g to a world census Just completed
by Automotive Industries. The total
now in operation Is 1S.!41.47, a gain
of S.49S.000 or nearly 24 per cent since
the beginning of 1923.
MAKING PROGRESS
VOT may often be filled with won
der at the apparent ease with
which some of your friends, of no pro
nounced ability, climb steadily and un
erringly to the heights.
To your mind they are deficient in
mentality and power of endurance,
yet, In spite of your doubts, they keep
mounting surely day by day, brushing
aside dltllcultles with no observable ef
fort and holding fast to their places,
Opposing forces do not daunt or dis
courage them.
Ihey plan and execute. They re
frain from boasting, yet wlthlij their
neans mere is on inmate resolution
to stuy in the tight until tbey meet
victory.
Often they are footsore, exhausted
In body and spirit, but never are they
in a mood to admit defeat. They know
quite as well as you that their talents
are limited and their faults many. It
Is this conscious knowledge of their
frailties that make them persist with
out pause In their commendable effort.
While you are having Jolly times at
night among the bright lights, they
are seeking In the solitude of their
room the precious nuggets of wisdom,
digging deep below the surface.
They have become students of
biography, following seriously the
blazed trails of the noble men and
women who only a few years ago
passed over the highway to fame aud
left their ilgn-boiirds at the fatal
cross-roads, where all later travelers
may stop, read and gather new cour
age. It must be a shallow sort of bumao
being Indeed who cannot see the value
of such observation and study.
Rut whatever It may be with regard
to the frivolous and fun-loving, this
Idea of following step by step the rug
ged paths of the great, striving to
comprehend their emotions and to
emulute their examples, Is not only
profitable to the earnest student but
extraordinarily Inspiring.
What dullard seeking Improvement
falls to find encouragement in reading
of such men as Washington and Lin
coln? Who does not glow with Inspiration
when he beholds blind Milton groping
his way to the heights sublime?
Those who cry "Impossible" are
those who need most to fumlllarlze
themselves with the trials of the Im
mortals who overcame and won Im
perishable crowns.
( kr UcClur. N.w.p.p.r SyBdlcatt.)
A Qt'ERT.
Street Lamp Hey, Mr. Mall Man,
got any Utters for m?
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Lyrie Poett of Germany
Minnesingers was the name given to
certain lyric poets of Germany that
flourished during the Twelfth and
Thirteenth centuries.
They were generally men of noble
birth, and sang of love, friendship, re
ligion, war and adventure at the court
of kings and feudal barons. Although
m io tne troubadours of Province,
the minnesingers treated love In a
more refiued spirit and manifested I
greater reverence for woman.
They wrote principally In the Swsh.
Ian dialect of middle hli:h German
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IONE, OREGON
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