The Hermiston herald., April 03, 1915, Image 3

THE HERMISTON
F-4 IS LOCATED
IN NEW PLACE
Lost Anchor of Battleship Has
Deceived Rescuers.
fragment» of Superstructure Com­
ing to Surface Verify Latest
Discovery -Hope Gone.
HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
RENEGADE PIUTES CAPTURED
CAPPED THE PURSER’S STORY
War Correspondent’s Yarn About
Ponto Waa Close to the Limit In
Nature Faking.
One of the few American war corre­
spondents who really saw something
of the European war in its first stages
was coming home on the Lusitania not
many trips ago. He sat at the purser's
table, and the purser one evening
told a truthful nature tale of having
been on a ship that once passed
through a school of whales in mid­
ocean.
“All of them were sound asleep,"
said the purser with a wink to an ac­
complice, "and all of them were snor­
ing. The noise was deafening.”
“It must have been,” said the corre­
spondent; “but when I was a boy out
in Cincinnati, Ohio, there used to be a
whistling whale that lived in the ocean
The band was captured in Utah after a stiff fight with the just in front of my father's house. His
name was Ponto and he would answer
to it—answer by whistling. You see,
his blow hole was clogged with bar­
nacles and every time he spouted he
made a sound like a siren on a fire­
boat.
“Ponto was a great pet with all the
ships that traded in and out of Cincin­
nati. The pilots got to know him, and
when they were entering port and
Ponto cruising about in the channel
they would signal him and he would
signal back, always giving the correct
number of blasts. But he’s dead now
—poor old Ponto!
“One day a freighter was coming in
from Covington, Kentucky, and Ponto
tried to pass her, headed out. But he
got confused and gave the whistle for
going to the port side when he meant
the starboard, and the freighter ran
him down and stove in four of his com­
partments, and he sank in nine min­
utes, whistling for help to the very
last.”
After which a great silence befell at
the purser's table.—Saturday Evening
Post.
KURDS MAY KILL
ALL CHRISTIANS
Reports of Many Atrocities by
Fanatics Is Alarming.
Sixty-five Christians Are Ha
Including French and Am
cans—Turkey Will Aid.
I,
i-
Honolulu—After making the heart-
Washington, D. C.—Alarming he
rending discovery Sunday that rescuers
ports of atrocities, including the hang
had been working in the wrong spot,
ing of 60 men taken from the French
the United States submarine F-4 was
mission
and five from the American
definitely located outside the harbor.
Group of the renegade Piutes and their captors.
Pieces of the superstructure of the
mission compound at Gulpashan, Per­
vessel have been brought to the sur- posse.
sia, stirred the Stated department to
fuce.
further efforts to obtain protection for
W. C. Parks, civil engineer, has
American missionaries and refugees in
started construction of an immense
the vicinity of Urumiah, Persia, where
diving bell, a large cast iron pipe
seven feet in height, fitted with heavy
an uprising of Kurds threatens a gen­
plate glass ports.
eral Christian massacre.
A hydro-aeroplane has been made
Ambassador Morgenthau at Con­
ready for instant flight if required.
stantinople has been twice appealed to
The dredge California will shift its
by Secretary Bryan in the last few
moorings, and tugs will criss-cross in
days to urge the Turkish government
all directions.
Should their drags
to send protection to the imperiled
catch on the F-4, a chain net will be
section, and it was learned that the
woven around the submerged boat and
State department had received definite
the floating crane from Pearl Harbor
assurances from the Turkish govern­
will attempt a direct lift.
ment that protection would be rushed
Despair supplanted hope earlier in
to the scene.
the day when two divers discovered
It was learned through the British
that chains from the dredger Califor­
embassy that the British consul to
nia, which had been fould with some­
Tabriz, Persia, not far from the Uru­
thing on the floor of the ocean outside
miah district, acting in conjunction
Honolulu harbor since Friday, were
with the American consul, Gordon
not attached to the lost craft but to
Paddock, had appealed to Russian com­
an old anchor.
manders in the region near Tiflis to
All the resourses at the command of
send soldiers to the rescue of the help­
naval officers here had been employed
less Christian populace. The Russian
for two days and nights in an effort to
generals, it was said, had delayed ac­
raise this anchor which was supposed
tion awaiting orders from Petrograd.
to be the F-4.
In view of the present efforts of the
It is believed to have been lost by
American government to have Turkish
The Airship’s Wireless.
the battleship Oregon.
troops sent to the region it was re­
The newer German naval and mili­ garded here as probable that no fur­
Streams of bubbles seen rising to
tary
airships
of
the
Zeppelin
and
Par-
the surface of the water and floating
ther effort would be made to get aid
seval models are equipped with wire­ from the Russian soldiery.
patches of oil had given encouragement
t,. $466
less apparatus of much greater power
to the belief that the dredge’s chains
than ever before. The wireless im­
had become lodged on the submarine,
pulses are diffused and received by an
which disappeared Thursday when at
aerial made of a three-millimeter
target practice.
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phosphor bronze wire that as the air-
Efforts to raise the object that held
ship rises Is unwound from a spool to
the dredge’s chains falied and crews of
British armored car filled with home protection soldiers in the streets of Yarmouth, ready to defend that city its full length of 750 feet, and that
men worked untiringly to bring what
Honolulu, T. H.—United States sub­
when the airship is aloft floats freely marine F-4, which failed to come to
was confidently believed to be the un­ against attacks by the Germans.
in the air. The apparatus itself is very the surface Thursday, still lay on the
dersea craft into more shallow water.
compact; with its small dynamo it ocean floor disabled late Friday, while
Naval officers, expressing the hope
weighs 270 pounds. It has a minimum 300 feet above her a score of vessels
that life might remain in the bodies of
range of 120 miles and can produce combined in a strenuous effort to brnig
some, at least, of the 21 men impris­
wireless waves from one to four thou­ her to the surface.
oned in the F-4, sought to expedite
operations in every way possible.
When the cables of the naval tug
sand feet long. According to the
Wireless World, every large aero- Navajo first made fast to the heavy
•drome in Germany has its wireless sta­ mass which afterward proved to be
Electrified Wire fence
tion; those at Important centers like F-4, it was thought possible to tow
and Puddle Kill Ihree
Johannisthal, Cologne, Friedrichsha­ her to shoal water, where it would be
fen, Frankfort and Mannheim are very an easy matter to raise her.
Los Angeles—When Cornelius Valk-
Shortly before 5 p. m., however,
powerful. Taken together, they form
hoff went out to his rabbit hutch Sun­
a continuous ring round the borders this plan was discarded, owing to the
day to procure a hare for a birthday
of Germany, and keep German air- slowness of towing operations. An
dinner he stepped into a water puddle
ships in constant touch with a German aerogram was sent to the naval tender
as he touched the latch of the hutch
base. They also serve as a sort of Alert, which is equipped with heavy
gate and fell dead. An electric cable
wireless compass, for they enable the cranes and tackle adapted to the work
leading to a nearby crematory had
navigating officers when out of sight of rescue.
broken during the night and turned
The Alert arrived at the scene of
of land to fix their position with more
its 2200 volt current into the wire
than a fair degree of accuracy.— operations before dark and then began
fence surrounding the hutch. Mrs.
the final stage of the work which offi­
Youth’s Companion.
Valkhoff saw her husband writhe and
cials declared would result in the rais­
fall in a contorted heap, and rushed
ing of the disabled submarine.
out to aid him. She stepped into the
Not Encouraging.
At 8 p. m. the inter-island steamer
puddle as she touched his hand, and
Mr. Taft, ex-president of the United Claudine left Pearl Harbor naval sta­
fell across his body dead.
States, is a gifted writer, and at one tion towing the dredger California,
Harris Skinner, who occupied half
time he had a high reputation as a which was loaded with heavy chains
of the Valkhoff dwelling, was the next
poet, says London Tit-Bits. On one oc­ and other material, to be used in rais­
to invade the fatal short-circuit, bent
casion, however, when he was a very ing the submerged craft.
on giving aid, and he too, died.
young man, he received a nasty shock
Meanwhile the tugs were holding
The shrieks of the Valkhoff’s child­
from an esteemed relative of his.
fast to the submarine, whose position
ren, who were uncomprehending wit­
This was an aunt who lived in the had remained unchanged.
nesses of the tragedy, attracted A. T.
country, and the future president went
Slaten, a policeman.
Slaten entered
to dine with her one Sunday evening.
the back yard just as the girls sped
Proudly he carried with him some cut­ Germany Renews Efforts
toward the deadly water puddle, and
tings from a newspaper—nothing less,
to Satisfy Italy’s Demands
snatching their hair braids he jerked
In fact, than his own published verses.
Rome
— Efforts to effect an adjust­
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them back to safety.
In doing so,
After the meal he took them exultant­
ment
of
the
differences between Italy
however, be came into contact with
Thousands upon thousands of loaves of bread are turned out daily by the German army's numerous modernly ly from bls pocket and gave them to and Austria are being continued per­
the charged fence wire, and was
his
aunt
to
read.
equipped bakeries. Our picture shows a government inspector on the right supervising the work and an ap­
thrown 20 feet.
Adjusting her spectacles, she went tinaciously by Prince von Buelow, the
prentice marking the bread with the Initial "K.”
through them carefully, while her German ambassador, notwithstanding
poetical nephew watched her anxious­ the almost insurmountable obstacles he
Italy Awaiting More
ly.
Presently she put down the cut­ has encountered.
ROBERT W. WOOLLEY
favorable Opportunity
Authoritative information has been
tings and glanced over her spectacles
obtained that the prince is now en­
at the poet.
Rome—Italian intervention has been
"William,” she asked, innocently, deavoring to present the matter in a
postponed again. Despite the failure
“do they print those things ‘for noth- somewhat different and more compre­
of Prince von Buelow’s negotiations to
hensive way.
He seeks to convince
<ng’ If you send them in?”
conclude a permanent agreement be­
Italy and Austria that they should not
tween Austria and Italy, there is posi­
disregard the broader questions of poi*
tive evidence that this country will
Love Letters In Her Coffin.
icy and mutual self-interest on account
not enter the war until toward the end
The will of Miss Mary Ashton Wade
of possible misunderstandings of the
of April, and possibly not so early as
of Yonkers, who died on January 11 at
moment.
the age of seventy-four, was admitted
that.
Prince von Buelow has expressed
It must not be understood that there
to probate. Miss Louisa Bradford of the opinion that the matters now un­
has been any change in Italy’s atti­
956 West End avenue, Manhattan, a der discussion cannot be limited in
tude, except in putting off interven­
friend of Miss Wade, filed an affidavit, their application to the present, but
tion until a date when it is expected
stating she had carried out the testa­ will have a far-reaching effect on the
the Dardanelles will have been forced
tor’s dying wish that a certain sealed future of both nations.
and Constantinople occupied, possibly
package among her effects should be
with the co-operation of Bulgaria, and
buried with her.
Militia Drill Site Chosen.
when the Russians will have passed
y
Gerrit Smith, the executor’s counsel,
Klamath Falls, Or,—Announcement
the Carpathians and invaded Hungary.
said the mysterious package was sup­
s £7
posed to contain love letters. The has been made here that the Klamath
will disposed of an $11,000 estate to Indian reservation has been chosen as
Big Coast Liner Delayed.
relatives.—Yonkers (N. Y.) Dispatch the site for the maneuvers of the
San Francisco — Due to the serious
to New York Sun.
artillery of the organized militia of
trouble with the turbines of the liner
Oregon, Washington and Idaho next
Great Northern, she will not steam
summer. The six-mile artillery range
Length of Life Increases.
from this port for Flavel, Or., as
According to Dr. V. C. Vaughn of will be near Fort Klamath, where a
scheduled, next Wednesday, and it is
This
the University of Michigan, the aver- mountain will be the backstop.
possible that she will not resume her
age length of life In this country is year’s practice is thought to be a test
schedule until April 8, although there
now fifteen years greater than it was to ascertain the desirability of the
is hope of getting her away April 4.
15 years ago. The death rate from reservation as a permanent maenu-
The Great Northern, making remark-
tuberculosis, he says, has decreased ver ground for the entire United
able time, had to turn back to port at
54 per cent since 1880. Doctor Vaughn States army.
noon Saturday when she was off Point
regards crime as a disease and asserts
Reyes, and a thorough examination
New Butter Record Made.
that the only way to eradicate it is to
developed that it will take some time
treat it as such and “disinfect its
Delavan, Wis.—A new world’s rec­
to put the machinery in shape.
breeding places.”—Pathfinder.
ord for butterfat production has been
made by Finderne Hollingen Fayne, a
Three Cargoes Iron Ore Sunk.
Clear Conscience.
Holstein cow, which in one year gave
Stockholm—The loss in the Baltic of
“I never read a newspaper,” re­ 24,612.8 pounds of milk, containing
three German cruisers, the Bavaria,
marked the self-sufficient man.
1,116.05 pounds of butterfat, accord­
the Germania, and the Koenigsberg,
“
How
do
you
keep
informed
on
ing
to an announcement made here by
all laden with iron ore, is announced in
the Holstein-Friesian advanced reg­
what’s going on ?"
the Social Demokraten. The Bavaria
Since the German raid on the East coast of England many of the resi-
Robert W. Woolley is the successor
"I don’t. As a result, if anything istry office. The animal is owned in
went down March 15 with her entire dents have built bombproof dug-outs to which they can retire In case of a
of George E. Roberts as director of the goes wrong I won't feei that I am in Somerset, N. J. The test was under
crew. The cause of her sinking is not repetition of the bombardment.
The tort in the picture was erected by a mint
Mr. Wooley Is a well-known the slightest degree responsible.”
the supervision of the New Jersey
revealed. No details of the destruc­ man tn Scarborough
magazine writer.
State Agricultural college.
tion of the other vessels are given.
PREPARED TO DEFEND YARMOUTH AGAINST GERMANS
U. S. SUBMARINE F-4 IS
LOCATED 300 FEET DOWN
STAMPING GERMAN BREAD WITH “K” FOR KAISER
PRIVATE BOMBPROOF ON ENGLISH COAST
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