The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984, April 03, 1915, Image 2

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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has caused serious