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THE TON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Car Men Strike; NEWS NOTES OF Seattle Two Ships Zozedoedi. Lost MEXICO’S STRONG Riots and Disorder Ensue Test Cooking Qualities of BOX IS LOOTED CURRENT WEEK Various Kinds of Apples Resume of World’s Important " Events Told in Brief. The French government is still buy- ing horses in Eastern Oregon. All efforts to raise the submarine F-4, in the Honolulu harbor have /failed. ( Salem, Ore., has a $40,000 fire which destroys a large fruit plant and its contents. Four persons drown at Seattle when an automobile skids and runs into the Duwamish river. According to an opinion of Oregon’s attorney general any married woman may hold property in her maiden name. It is rumored that the Germans en trenched near Brussels will abandon their lines on account of the fall of Przemysl. Part of the U. S. fleet that will pass through the Panama canal at its form al dedication, will visit Portland as well as other Pacific Coast harbors. Portland Beavers win opening game at Los Angeles by a score of 3 to 1. All other games of the league were postponed on account of either rain or snow. A frightened horse runs into an automobile in Seattle and turns a com plete somersault over the hood of the machine without breaking the wind shield. Persistent rumors that Secretary of War Garrison is to resign to accept the chief justiceship of the New Jer sey Supreme court, are denied in Washington. Streetcar operators in Seattle have gone on strike and the city traffic is much impaired as the result The strikers declare the jitneys will care for the public until their terms are met by the car company. Unusually cold weather for this sea son of the year prevails throughout Pennsylvania. There was snow in some sections and in the mountain regions the thermometer registered as low as 6 degrees above zero. The Paris senate has adopted a bill, which already had passed the chamber of deputies, providing for the advanc ing to Serbia, Belgium, Greece and Montenegro as friends of the allies the sum of 1,350,000,000 francs ($270,- 000,000). Governor Hunt, of Arizona, has de cided that he was becoming too stout and forthwith decided on outdoor exer- else—mowing the lawns of the capitol grounds every day. The chosen hour is noon, indicating that luncheon has been taken off the governor’s schedule of meals. A. L. Flynn, of Cottage Grove. Ore., is a puzzle to medical science. He has lived for months with a pulse beat of 30 a minute, that would mean certain death to normal persons. During Mr. Flynn's illness his pulse beat was as low as 13 a minute, remaining that way for several days and missing often. At a British cabinet meeting re cently there was every reason to be lieve that it considered the liquor ques tion, and the stampnig out of the evil, which is now one of the greatest prob lems of the nation. There still is much talk of prohibition, but it is not generally believed that this course will be adopted, although it is conceded that some step of a drastic and uni versal character will soon be taken. The Belgian Relief commission is preparing to extend aid to 2,500,000 destitute French people. An American submarine with a crew of 25 men is missing in Honolulu har bor, and it is feared all are lost. A prominent Russian statesman says the world must, in the future, seek new methods of preserving peace. German and Austrian families are leaving Italy, and one “inspired" newspaper declares the time is ripe for a decisive blow. The Belgian towns of Malines, Ter monde, Louvain and Liege never will be rebuilt on their present sites, if the undercurrent of discussion among prominent Belgians results in action when peace is made. These Belgians propose that new cities be built on sites adjoining the ruins, which are to be left as “monuments to the suffer ings of Belgium." Raymond Biege and Mabel Pullen, of Medford, Ore., the 17-year old children who eloped more than a week ago. after a strenuous search were found at the home of the boy’s grand- mother in Central Point. The children had overlooked the formality of a mar riage license, however, so, after con sulting with County Judge Touville, they were married and left for Cali fornia. Seattle, Wash.—A strike of street railway employes working on the Se attle linea of the Puget Sound Trac tion, Light and Power company was called by a mass meeting of all labor unions held by the Central labor coun cil Wednesday. The vote to call out the carmen was taken at 9 o’clock, and within a few minutes committees were out appealing to the motormen and conductors to leave their posts and join the union. The strike was called to compel recognition of the union. Service on lines operated by the company was seriously interrupted, and during the first two hours was completely disorganized. On several downtown streets deserted cars block ed traffic until inspectors and shop em ployes appeared to remove them to the barns. • Except for these delays no line was completely tied up, although blockades occurred frequently when crowds which filled the streets at the principal junc tion points cut trolley ropes, broke windows and endeavored to take off crews who refused to strike. In a few intsances trolley wires were broken and fell sputtering to the street but no one was injured, and the company quickly repaired the damage. Sam Atkinson, international organ izer of the Amalgamated association of Street & Electric Railway Em ployes of America, and W. B. Fitz gerald, chairman of the executive board of that organization, directed the movement. They said that 100 carmen had left their posts in response to the call and that they had 800 mem bers who have applications on file as a result of their campaign. They sail this demonstration was only the be ginning of the strike and that within a few days the tie-up would be com plete. They said the only question at issue was the right to organize. A. L. Kempster, general manager of the company, disputed the union officiais concerning the result of the strike call. During the night the police were kept busy preventing attacks on the cars, which soon were without passen gers. Many arrests were made on charges of disorderly conduct. None were streetcar men. Although several men were bruised or slightly cut dur ing fights around the cars, no one was reported seriously injured. Supporters of the strike movement advanced the argument that with jit neys available to handle traffic the public would not be inconvenienced. four Prominent Pioneers ot Seattle Die in River Seattle, Wash.—Four persons, mem bers of prominent Seattle familes, were drowned in the Duwamish river late Tuesday when an automobile be longing to Mrs. Morgan J. Carkeek ran off the bridge at Allentown, on the Tacoma road, 10 miles south of Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Prosch, Miss Margaret Lenora Denny and Mrs. Harriet Foster Beecher, an artist, were killed. All were members of prominent pioneer families. The party, a delegation from the Seattle Historical society, was going to Tacoma to inspect the exhibit of the State Historical society there. The chauffeur jumped clear as the automobile fell and swam safely to shore. Mrs. Carkeek also succeeded in getting clear of the wreckage and took refuge on top of the car, where she stood waist deep in the water until rescued. Thomae W. Prosch was 65 years old, son of Charles Prosch, who founded the Puget Sound Herald at Steilacoom in 1858. He bought the Seattle In telligencer in 1879, the paper being merged two years later with the Se attle Post. Mr. Prosch was editor of the Post-Intelligencer for some years and was the principal authority on Washington pioneer. He was post- master of Seattle under President Grant. Mrs. Virginia McCarver Prosch was a daughter of General Morton M. Mc Carver, founder of the city of Tacoma. She was 64 years old. Margaret Lenora Denny was the daughter of Arthur A. Denny, who founded Seattle in 1851. Miss Denny was one of the last survivors of the schoonerload of people that landed at Seattle in November of that year. She inherited a great fortune from her father. She was 70 years old. Mrs. Harriet Foster Beecher was the wife of Captain Herbert R. Beecher, son of the late Henry Ward Beecher, the famous Brooklyn clergy man. Mrs. Beecher was well known as a portri at painter and musician. She was 55 years old. $1500 Educator Tutort One. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis—Knowledge of the cooking val ue of standard varieties of apples on the part of housewives and other per sons that prepare this fruit for table use has long been considered by Pro fessor C. I. Lewis, chief of the divis ion of horticulture at the college, as one of the steps to a more satisfactory market system. “Buyers of apples for home use should learn the qualities of the leading Oregon varieties and then call by name for the variety they want," Professor Lewis said several years ago. And.he has kept on saying it until the truth of the proposition has been generally recognized and is now beginning to be acted upon in a systematic attempt to cultivate a more intelligent and stable demand for good apples. In carrying out this policy of learn ing the fruit and its qualities, a series of experiments to determine the cook ing qualities of 71 varieties of apples grown in Oregon the Home economics department of the college has made and reported an exhaustive test. The test includes the cooking qualities of these varieties used as sauce, pies, dumplings, marmalade and jelly. The fruit was judged on the basis of color, flavor and texture of sauce, flavor, way cooked, and tenderness of pies and dumplings, and flavor, texture, color, clearness and surface of jells. In sauce and marmalade 50 points were allowed for flavor and 25 each for texture and color. For pies and dumplings, 65 points were given for perfect flavor, 20 for way cooked and 15 for tender ness. In jells texture and flavor were given 35 points each for perfect score with 15 for color, 10 for clearness and 5 for surface. Judging was done by a number of college experts who were unaware of the varieties as they judged them, so that no prejudice entered into their verdict. By this means satisfactory knowl edge of the qualities of all varieties tested was reached, and this informa tion is now offered the people of Ore gon who are interested in this subject in a bulletin just prepared. The bul letin should not only prove to be a reli able guide in the purchase of apples for home cooking, but it will also have considerable value for the dealers and growers. Copies may be had on appli cation to the college. In addition to the score awarded to each variety in the uses heretofore mentioned, the bulletin furnishes in formation on the seasonal value of the varieties, on the relative value of some of the varieties for each of the purposes named, and the correlation of values for sauce and for jelly pur poses. Much other useful information is also contained in the bulletin, such as giving recipes for crusts, cooking rections, amount of sweetening and ¡table utensils. Flax-Growing Industry to Be Aided by State Boara Salem—Definite action was taken by the State board of control in starting the flax industry in Oregon in compli ance with an act passed at the recent session of the legislature by a decision to offer growers in this county $15 a ton for straw delivered at the State penitentiary. This is from $3 to $4 a ton more than the market price in other states, and was offered as an inducement to farmers to grow flax. Governor Withy combo said he was confident that three tons could be grown to the acre and he believed the price offered would make it one of the state’s most profitable crops. The board will furnish the seed to the farmers for $3 a bushel, the money to be paid to the state when the straw is deilvered. It was virtually decided to employ an expert in the manufacture of flax to install the retting machinery at the prison and superintend the construc tion of the buildings necessary. Gov ernor Withycombe said he believed John C. Cady, of Albany, would be a good man for the place. Mr. Cady recently came to Oregon from Minne sota, where he was engaged in the flax business. It was decided to defer the appointment until all the members of the board could confer with him. It was decided virtually to employ Emil Hansett, who has had experience in flaxgrowing in Ireland, to give the farmers certain instructions. He will be paid only when actually at work or during the flax season and his salary probably will be $150 a month. The bill authorizing the state to en courage the growing of flax, carrying an appropriation of $50,000 and speci fies that the money may be used only for giving employment to the convicts. Governor Withycombe said he was anxious that farms near the prison be planted to flax, so the convicts could work them and be returned to the in stitution at night. It is planned that they do all the work, even to the har vesting of the crop, but the growers must deliver the straw at the prison. Because of the fact that it was a new industry Governor Withycombe thought expert men should be employed to assist in planting, cultivating and retting and and he believed the board should obtain such help as soon as pos sible. He said he had been informed the machinery and buildings necessary would not be expensive. It has nev er been the intention of the board to use all the appropriation in the flax in dustry and if it does not furnish em ployment for all convicts other means for doing so will be devised. The board plans growing flax on several of the state farms. Selling Oregon Made Clay Wares Advised some state aid. A committee of five was appointed to co-operate with the Commercial club and the çounty court in an effort to procure assistance from the State highway commission, and subscriptions to the funds available for the improvement. Incidentally the membership of the Commercial club was increased 100. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis—There are thirty manufacturers of brick and other clay wares in Ore gon at the present time, according to Dean J. A. Bexell, of the Oregon Ag ricultural College School of Commerce, who advocates an organization of the manufacturers for the purpose of get- ing their Oregon-made wares more prominently before the public and into the markets by means of advertising and co-operative effort. The combined output of the industries is about $730,- 000 annually, and the expenditures average about $1500 for each $50.000 of output. A part of this sum will be expended in promoting a demand for the clay goods, especially drainage tiles. In the clay industries as in most oth ers the attention given to production is disproportionate to that given to creating and enlarging the demand. Right quality of prodcut that will maintain a permanent demand together with due advertising and publicity, will, thinks Mr. Bexell, bring success in this business. Hard-surfacing of County Highway Is Planned Forest Grove — The Forest Grove commercial club held another luncheon Thursday, at which there were present 100 business men of the community and farmers living in the vicinity. The subject for discussion was “Better Roads for Washington County.” D. B. Reasoner, judge of the county court, and Kodell Matteson, county commissioner, were guests. The project which is being pushed by the Commercial club of Forest Grove and the farmers of Gales Creek and Thatcher vicinity is hard-surfacing of the main thoroughfare leading from Gales Creek and Thatcher neighbor hoods into Forest Grove, and the county court is co-operating to obtain Madison, Wis.—There is an average of one professor or instructor to each seven students in the University of Wisconsin, according to the report of the state university survey, compiled by Dr. William H. Allen, of New York. The report charges extrava gance and criticises the regents as un able to learn from the faculty the needs of the institution. In many Peace rumors are causing lower cases, the report asserts, there are Bandon Debaten Win. classes of less than 10 students. A wheat prices in Chicago markets. Eugene — The Bandon High School case is alleged of a class of one having Secretary Bryan has called on Zapata as its instructor a $1500 educator. debating team, taking the affirmative for reparation for an insult to the on the government ownership of rail American flag. french Buy Union Hones. roads, defeated Medford High School Union. Or.—A buyer for the French in Eugene, two to one. The Bandon Three hundred striking ‘longshore- men, strikebreakers and sympathizers army has been here for several days team now must debate Salem High engaged in a riot on the principal contracting for all available heavy School. The winner then will meet streets of Tacoma, Wash., about mid- homes. The prices ranged from $125 the Eastern Oregon champions for the Some farmers are state title. The affirmative contended night Thursday. Several shots were to $175 a head. tired, but no one was hit. Two men selling their older work teams and that government ownership is neces- were cut with razors. Many were breaking in colts to finish seeding and sary for economic development. The The suply negative declared it financially impos- badly beaten. The police used their do their summer’s work. night sticks freely and arrested a score of available animals is diminishing eible, since the valuation of American railroads is $18,000, 000,000. of men. notably. I Snow In Cascades Is Low. Albany—That there is little danger of floods in the Willamette valley this year is indicated by the fact that there is less snow in the Cascade mountains now than at this season for many years. What snow fell last winter has been going out early and also gradual ly. Unless there should come an un usually cold period before summer, in which snow should fall in the moun tains, there is no likelihood whatever of high water in the Willamette and its tributaries this spring. A heavy warm rain this time of the year usual ly makes a flood probable, but there is said to be no danger this year. Cows Supplant Babies. Eugene, Or.—Babies must give way to cows at the 1915 Lane County Fair. The fair board has abolished the eu genics department of the county fair and substituted additional prizes for the dairy department. “Lane county is a dairy county, and will become more so within the next few years," said a member of the fair board. "The board aims to do all pos sible to encourage the production of better cattle. We thought it better to put the money into stock than into babies.” London—About 150 lives were lost in the sinking by German submarines of the African liner Falaba and the British steamer Aguila, bound from Liverpool for Lisbon. The Falaba was torpedoed in St. George’s Channel Sunday afternoon. The vessel carried a crew of 90 and about 160 passengers, and of this total only 140 were rescued. Of those res cued eight died later from exposure. The Aguila had a crew of 42 and three passengers, and of these 23 of the crew and all the passengers were lost. In both cases, on sighting the sub- marine, the captain tried to escape by putting on all speed possible, but the under-water craft overtook the steam ers, showing that Germany now has some of her most modern submarines engaged in the blockade operations against England. The captain of tha Falaba, who was one of those lost, was given five min utes to get his passengers and crew in to the boats, but, according to the sur vivors, before this was possible a tor pedo was fired, striking the engine- room and causing a terrible explosion. Many persons were killed and the steamer sank in ten minutes. Trawlers which happened to be in the vicinity rescued most ot those who were saved; others got away in the boats, which were ready for launching and which were quickly lowered when the order war given to abandon the ship. Those who were still on board the steamer when the explosion occurred were thrown into the sea and it took the fishermen an hour or more to pick up the persons in the water who man aged to keep themselves afloat. The Aguila as attacked off the Pem brokeshire coast. The sumbarine, which in this case was the U-28, opened fire with her guns, shells from which killed a woman passenger, the chief engineer and two of the crew. Even after the crew had commenced to lower the boats, according to the story of the survivors, the Germans kept up their fire, and some of the boats were riddled with bullets. The captain of the trawler Otillie, whom the commander of the submarine told of the sinking of the Aguila, went to the rescue and picked up the three boats containing 19 of the crew. The fourth boat, which contained the other members of the crew, could not be found, and it is believed that it had foundered. On their arrival at Fish guard, several of the crew wore band ages, having been wounded by the fire from the submarine. Another Dutch steamer, the Amstel, of 495 tons, has been blown up by a mine off Flamborough Head, but her crew was rescued. Special Train Carries U. S. Troops to Border San Antonio, Texas—Three batteries of the Third Field Artillery, including 450 men and 12 guns, in command of Colonel George W. Vandeusen, at Fort Sam Houston, were entrained Tuesday for Brownsville and were ordered rushed to the border by a special train. Major General Frederick Funston departed also upon receipt of advices from Brownsville after ordering out the artillery. He said that the in fantry at Texas City would not be sent to the border for the present, but would be held in readiness. General Funston, commanding the department of the South, will take charge of the situation at Brownsville and he has discretionary powers to act in the event firing into Brownsville by either Mexican force continues. He served formal notice on the command ers of the two forces that they would be held personally responsible for shots fired into the Texas town, and that American troops would be prepared to enforce the order. An attempt is being made to sur round and attack the Villa forces un der General Jose Rodriguez, in camp at Las Ruias, by Carranza troops ap proaching in two columns from differ ent directions, according to a message from Matamoros, Mexico. One body of about 800 troops with 15 cannon was said to be moving from the south and another column under General Ildefonso Castro, with 1700 men, was reported approaching from Nuevo Laredo and expecting to reach Las Rnsias before daybreak Wednes day. ________________ Germans Active in Baltic. London—German naval activity has been resumed in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, with the inten tion of carrying out a blockade cam paign against the trade of Finland and Sweden, according to a Copen hagen dispatch to the Daily News. A German fleet has been observed north of the Aland islands. Several Danish and Swedish vessels are re Need Not Take Husband’s Name. ported to have been halted by German Salem—Miss Marian Sheldon of The submarines, but, so far as known, only Dalles need not take her husband’s one was fired on and she escaped un name if she decides to marry, is the harmed. opionin of the attorney general given in response to the question of the per Shot "Stray,” Says Britain. plexed woman, asking if there was Washington, D. C.—American Con any law against a woman retaining her maiden name after marriage. The sul Green at Hamilton, Bermuda, attorney general has notified Miss cabled the State department that the Sheldon that there is nothing to hinder British authorities had informed him, her from retaining her name instead “It was a stray shot," that hit George of taking that of her husband in case B. Montgomery, of Buffalo, N. Y., who recently was shot in the foot and of her marriage if she so desires. seriously woulded while sailing near a Grain fields In Good Condition. camp of German prisoners of war in Union—Heavy rains in the valley the Bermudas. The consul said a full and snow in the nearby mountains report was being forwarded by mail. have brought the moisture to about the Italy and Germany Trade. usual condition for this season of the year. Cloudy skies and south winds London—A dispatch to the Morning promise more rain. The ground has Post from Berne says Germany has been too wet for cultivating and seed agreed to send coal to Italy. Food- ing is delayed. Most of the spring stuffs and certain other products are seeding is in and grain is in good con to be received in return, says the dis dition. patch. Millions of Foreigners’ Bonds Taken by Carranzaistas. Railways Are Again Attacked in Vicinity ot Vera Cruz —Villa Provides food at Cost. Washington, D. C. — An official statement by the Villa-Zapata conven tion government in Mexico City, re ceived by the State department, charged that Carranza officials, durin their occupancy of the capitol, n moved from the national treasury gov ernment bonds and other securities valued at 16,000,000 pesos. Many of these securities, which had been deposited as guarantees by con cessionaries and contractors, are owned by foreigners. The public is warned in the statement that they cannot “be made the object of any legal transac tions, since they are the property of the nation or of the depositors, as the case may be.” The authorities 'at Mexico City have asked the depositors to furnish dupli cates of their receipts, so the securi ties may be recovered from any third party in whose hands they may be found. Major General Funston, now in per sonal command of the forces at Brownsville, Tex., reported that all was quiet across the border at Mata moras, where a Villa force is prepar ing to renew its attack on the Carran za garrison. It is expected that an other assault will be made as soon as the Villa artillery is in place. General Funston made a report on rumors that there was firing from the American side during the fighting Sat urday, which was summarized by the War department as follows: “General Funston has telegraphed that officers on duty at the border dur ing the recent fighting at Matamoras are convinced that there was no firing across the border from Brownsville. Colonel Blocksom reports that during the fighting he had officers watching the ground from which it is supposed the firing took place; that there was no shooting from the American side and that the firing came from a party of Villa followers stationed in a loop of the river, and who fired over the grounds from which the shooting from the American side was reported to have come.” State department advices from Vera Cruz reported trains and stations on the Inter-Oceanic railroad between that place and Jalapa were being at tacked and service virtually was sus pended. Trains were operating on the Mexican railroad, the dispatch added, but the situation was not much better. Between Ometusco and Mexico City the rails had been torn up and stalled trains were scattered along that part of the line. Service between Ometusco and Pachuaca was stopped by the des truction of a bridge. E60 Navy reports from t it reported quiet except > nora, where skirmishes t. It was said there wi e of famine conditions i )- nora, although food pri< A State departmen n Torreon said General V: d increased wages by al y a minimum of 11 pesos d opened stores where 1 a could be obtained by the people at cost prices. _________________ Lord Rothschild, Noted Banker, Dies Suddenly London—Nathan Mayer Rothschild, first Baron Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking firm, died at his London residence at 4:30 o’clock Thursday. Lord Roths child underwent an operation for the removal of the prostate gland on Sat urday, the first intimation of this be ing contained in a bulletin sent to the London newspapers late Saturday night, in which it was stated that he was progressing satisfactorily. On Sunday a bulletin conveyed the information that be had recovered from the first effects of the operation, and the impression was that, despite his age, there was no danger. Aliens to Stay in Mexico. Vera Cruz—By their refusal to leave Mexico City, in spite of the dangers and inconveniences incidental to a civil war, foreigners have removed what apparently was the only hope of a re sumption, even temporarily, of rail way communication between the aban doned capital and Vera Cruz. The Brazilian minister has reported to John R. Silliman, special consular agent of the United States in Mexico, that he has been unable to find enough Ameri cans and other foreigners wishing to leave to justify asking for trains. Docken May Be Enlisted. Liverpool — Lord Derby announced that the goevrnment was planning to organize the dock-workers of Liver pool under the name of First Dock Battalion of the Liverpool regiment. The men are to be dressed in khaki overalls. This plan is to be adopted to prevent further delavs in handling war supplies. L G the workers on t has caused serious
