THE
WORLD HAPPENINGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
HERMISTON
HERALD,
HERMISTON, OREGON.
LAWSON NAMES McADOO BENCH SHAKE UP IS LIKELY
U. S. CRUISER GOES
RAIDER SINKS 15 OR TOM
“Leak" Investigation Again Before Federal Judges Past 70 Years May
of Manila Bay Loses Battle
Be Retired if Bill Passes.
With Grim Reaper.
MORE ALLIED SHIPS Committee in Earnest.
ADMIRAL DEWEY IS CALLED
Hero
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Washington, D. C.—Admiral Dew
ey, the Nation's Spanish war hero and
by priority of grade the ranking naval
officer of the world, died at his home
here Tuesday night in his 80th year.
He had not been conscious since Mon
day, when he lapsed into coms, still
believing that in a few days he would
be back at his desk in the Navy de
partment.
General breakdown, accompanied by
arterio sclerosis incident to old age,
was the cause of his death. The dis
Events of Noted People, Governments ease had been gradually spreading its German Warship in South Atlantic
hold upon the powerful body for a
Plays Havoc With Allied Vessels
and Pacific Northwest and Other
year and a half, but the Admiral,
During Past Few Weeks.
proud of his physical vigor, had fought
Things Worth Knowing.
it off and even kept its existence a
secret from most of his intimate
friends.
Rio Janeiro — Thirteen Americans
Tuesday was the coldest day of this
Mrs. Dewey and the Admiral’s only
are among the victims of the German
son, George, were at the bedside.
year in Oregon.
raider who have been landed at Per
Germany’s food supply this winter They had known that there was no nambuco. The remaining number is
is reported to be equal to that of the
made up of 170 Englishmen and 54
past two years.
Frenchmen.
The car shortage is reported from
Rio Janeiro—A German raider for
New York as 50 per cent better than
the
past month has been sinking ves
it was in November.
sels
of the entente allied powers in the
Germany is raising a “home army” I
South Atlantic. Latest reports fix the
which includes every person in that j
number at 15. Survivors of the de
country not in actual service.
stroyed
vessels to the number of 237
J. P. Morgan and other bankers are |
subpenaed before the rules committee ।
have been landed at Pernambuco and
handling the “leak” resolution.
the fate of nearly 450 men is still un-
Four army airplanes have crossed |
; known.
the border to search for the two lost |
A Pernambuco newspaper, the Jour-
aviators who have not been heard from
| nal Pequeño, prints a statement at
for over a week.
tributed to the purser of the British
Strikers and the Northwest ship
steamer Netherby Hall, that the raider
building plant at Portland have settled
| sank an English ship without warning
their differences and the men have
and that 400 persons are believed to
gone back to work.
have lost their lives.
The raider was equipped with three
Cody, Wyo.—Plans for erection here |
funnels, two of which may have been
of a life-size equestrian statue of Col.
false, and two tall masts, and was ap
William F. Cody, (Buffalo Bill), who
parently speedy.
The report stated
died a week ago in Denver, were
that the ship apparently was not try
launched by city officials.
ing to make port.
Tuesday was the 72d birthday of
British agents here said British
Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee,
warships had received such accurate
who has been ill. Ue celebrated it by i
information of the location of one of
sitting up for breakfast and luncheon
the German raiders as to warrant the
and reading congratulatory telegrams j
statement that a chase was in pro
and letters. It was said that his con
gress, and that the capture or destruc
dition was greatly improved.
tion of the vessel would be made
known in a few days.
Ways and means committee Demo
The first official statements given
crats met Wednesday and informally
out here regarding the raider were to
agreed on a revenue program embrac
the effect that seven vessels had been
ing a bond issue of $289,000,000, an
sunk and nine captured. In a commu
increase of the estate or inheritance
nication to the minister of marine the
tax to produce $22,000,000 and an 8
Admiral George Dewey.
captain of the port of Pernambuco de
per cent tax on excess profits above 8
clared that he had learned the raider
per cent on capital of corporations and
hope.
The Admiral died at 5:56 had also sunk eight of the vessels
partnerships.
o’clock. President Wilson and Secre which were at first reported merely
The condition of ex-Queen Liliuo- tary Daniels were notified at once and captured.
The crews, the fate of
kalani, of Havaii, is again critical, ac the news was flashed by wireless to whom is not known, numbered 441
cording to advices received at San American naval vessels and stations all
men.
Francisco Wednesday from Honolulu. over the world. The message carried
The ex-queen rallied from an indispo- orders that all flags be half masted.
aition some months ago, but is now
Title to Danish West Indies
Washington, 1). C.—Admiral George
suffering from a general breakdown
Passes to United States
due to advancing age, it is said.
She Dewey, “hero of Minila Bay,” fought
and won the first great American naval
Washington. D. C.—Soverignty over
was born in 1838.
battle against a foreign foe since the the Danish West Indies after half a
New York—Bouck White, pastor of war of 1812.
century of negotiations passed Thurs
the Church of Soci la Revolution, au
His whole life was full of honorable day to the United States with the ex
thor and college graduate, was indicted achievement from the days of the Civil change of ratification of the purchase
Wednesday, together with eight of his war down to the time when, as the treaty by Secretary Lansing and Dan
followers. They are charged with de head of the general board, he began ish Minister Brun. The actual physi
stroying an American flag last June in the last chapter of his work by laying cal transfer, with the raising of the
the yard of their church. Flags of plans for the defense of his country in American flag, will take place upon
many nations were burned. Mr. White time of war. His life was a striking payment of the $25,000,000 purchase
formerly held several prominent Brook examplification of the possibilities of price, which congress will provide in a
lyn pastorates.
a career based on the exact and intelli few weeks.
During the interim the government
Efforts to bring about harmony be gent performance of every routine
tween Republicans and Progressives in duty which molds a man on inflexible of the island has been administered by
the present Danish governor.
Under
New York produced a the first con- | lines of duty and honor.
One of the curious freaks of fortune the terms of the treaty a joint commis
spicuous result a stormy protest from
George W. Perkins and Everett Colby, in Dewey’s case was that for perhaps sion is to begin work immediately to
Progressive leaders, that Republican the first and only time in his naval arrange the details of the transfer.
The question of the permanent form
leaders were not acting in good faith. | career he was disposed to protest
Later a statement declaring the I against the edict of the Navy depart of government and of name must be
charges unfounded was issued by mem- I ment which carried him into the Far arranged by congress, probably on the
East, where he was destined to per lines of the Foraker act, under which
bers of the Republican committee.
form the greatest feat of his life and the territory of Porto Rico was ac
The German government, according to win imperishable renown.
That quired. As the new group was ac
to an A materdam dispatch to Reuter’s was in 1898, when the war clouds quired primarily at the instance of the
has confiscated all the organ pipes for were gathering and Dewey felt that he Navy department because of its strate
the use of the government.
was being “shelved”; that the war gic importance as a naval base, that
with Spain was to be fought out in department desires to be placed in ab-
Secretary of War Baker and Com the Gulf of Mexico and in the Carib
solute control under such a tenure as
mander Todd, head of the naval radio bean sea and that he would stand no
exists in the ease of the Island of
service, at a hearing before the house chance of winning glory, for at that
merchant marine committee on the moment no throught whatever had Guam.
The War department, however, be
Alexander bill to regulate radio com been given to the Philippines.
But ing already equipped with proper ma
munication, advocated
government he took his orders and, like a true sail
chinery for administering insular pos
monopoly of wireless telegraphy.
or, obeyed them. The result is a page sessions, through the insular bureau,
which controls the Philippines, is like
The Greek government has formally of history under date of May 1, 1898.
Contrary to Spanish expectations, ly to put in a claim for the administra
accepted the ultimatum of the entente
powers. In accordance with the agree- | Dewey sailed into Manila Bay on the tion.
It is probable that a joint board of
ment made with the allies on Decern- | night of April 30 and in the morning
ber 1, King Constantine has delivered of the next day he annihilated Mon- Army and Navy officers will be sent
to the entente naval authorities six tojo’s squadron, destroying 11 war to the islands soon to concert measures
batteries of mountain guns. He gave ships and capturing all other vessels for the military protection of the
orders to the troops to suppress all and all the land batteries without the group and for the immediate establish
loss of a man on the American side.
ment of a naval station.
hostile demonstrations.
Washington, D. C. — Thomas W.
Lawson, haled before the house rules
committee to tell what he knew or had
heard about a stock market leak on
President Wilson's peace note or be
punished, calmly declared Monday the
congressman who told him a cabinet
officer, a senator and a banker were
engaged in a stock-gambling pool was
none other than Representative Henry,
chairman of the committee.
Then, before his hearers had time to
recover from the shock, Lawson sprung
one sensation after another by de-
clarng that the cabinet officer referred
to was Secretary McAdoo; that the
banker was H. Pliny Fiske, of New
York, and that he knew the senator
only by the initial “O.”
To complete the sensation, Lawson
went on to charge that Paul M. War
burg, of the Federal Reserve board,
had knowledge of the leak machinery;
repeated a rumor that Count von
Bernstorff, the German ambassador,
had made two millions in the stock
market, and to mention a list of well
known men he thought should be ques
tioned.
The committee promptly is
sued subpenas for all of them.
Mr. Lawson said he had been told
that Malcolm McAdoo, the secretary’s
brother, knew of the leak, as did C. D.
Barney & Co. and Stewart G. Gib-
boney, of New York.
A Mrs. Ruth
Thomason Visconti, of this city, he
said, had declared to him in the pres
ence of her attorney that Secretary
Tumulty “received his bit,’’and that
W. W. Price, one of the White House
correspondents, was “the go-between
for Tumulty and others.”
H. Pliny Fiske, Lawson said, was
the banker he referred to previously as
dominating a Cabinet officer, and
Archibald S. White, he said, had given
him this information.
Representative Henry was said by
Lawson to have told him at the confer
ences that preceded the opening of the
leak investigation of reports connect
ing the Cabinet officer, banker and
senator and also had told him of re
ports that Secretary Lansing had been
seen conferring with Bernard Baruch,
the Wall street operator, said to have
made a clean up on the falling market
which accompanied the peace note.
Lawson declared Henry had asked
him on patriotic grounds not to press
his charges. At no time, the Boston
financier testified, did he ever say he
had direct information.
When Lawson had finished his re
cital, Chairman Henry took the stand
and swore that at no time had he men
tioned to Lawson the names the finan-
icer brought out on the witness stand;
that he had no information then and
had none now of his own knowledge
and denied generally and completely
all of Lawson’s testimony relating to
him.
When he had concluded Lawson rose
and solemnly declared that every word
he had uttered on the stand was the
“truth, so help me God, without vari
ation.”
The Berlin municipality, says Reu-
Hunt for Airmen Fruitless.
Valdez Suspect is Held.
tar’s correspondent, has announced.
Calexico, Cal. — Experienced army
Valdez,
Alaska
Otto
Kantz,
who
is
that, notwithstanding the unfavorable
conditions of production, it will be under five charges of arson in connec ! officers piloting three aeroplanes from
possible for every citizen to have one tion with the fire here Jaunary 2, when the North Island aviation base at San
most of the business section was de- Diego. Cal., failed Thursday to wrest
egg daily until January 31.
strayed, entailing a loss of $300,000, from the wilderness of Lower Califor
Miss Margareta Washington, a was ordered held, after a preliminary nia and Sonora the secret of the two
great-greatgrand-niece
of George hearing Wednesday, to await the ac | lost army officers in their first day’s
Washington, died at her home in Phil tion of the grand jury. His bonds search. Several hours were spent in
adelphia.
She had a wide reputation were fixed at $17,000, in default of fruitless search over the desert and
among physicians and medical schools which he is in jail.
mountain regions of Lower California,
for her skill in drawing anatomical
The fire is said to have started in and then the airplane pilots pointed
sketches.
several buildings at once, and for at their machines Eastward, soared over
The annual report of Armour & Co. | least one of these Kantz is declared to the Colorado river, searched the mesa
| country and finally landed.
shows net earnings of $20,100,000. or have been the agent.
20 per cent on capital stock and 14.7
Germans Building Ships.
Police Are Minute Men?
per cent on investment.
Washington,
D. C.—German ship
Chicago Chief of Police Schuettler
Gold amounting to $24,440,000 was
yards, since the war began, have built
Wednesday
organized
a
squad
of
four
received at the New York sub-treasury
expert riflemen, known as police “min tonnage totaling 750,000.
from Canada to the account of J. P.
Official dispatches to the United
ute
men” who will be used in running
Morgan & Co. Thia makes a total in
down criminals. The squad of “min States government say that not only
flow of $49,440,000 since January 1.
ute men” will be hastened to any sec are all German shipping companies
A measure providing for a constitu tion of the city in a racing auotmobile preparing for a resumption of business
tional amendment granting full suf- when an important crime haa been com- after the war, but the German canal
rage to women and another providing mited. The squad is in charge of system is being improved and struc-
for limited suffrage were passed by the Lieutenant James Mooney and each I turai improvements are being made in
North Dakota senate and now go to | member will be armed with a rifle. | the harbors of Bremen, Stettin and
I Hamburg.
“Shoot to kill," are the orders.
the house.
Three Captains Dropped.
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
Ten British and Two French
Merchantmen Sent Down.
COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS
13 AMERICANS AMONG VICTIMS
Mexican-American Commission
Adjourns; Problem Up to Wilson
New York—The Mexican-American
Joint commission, which failed to
effect an adjustment of the question at
issue between Mexico and the United
States after a series of conferences
that began four months ago, was for
mally dissolved late Tuesday.
Secretary of the Interior Lane and
the other members of the American
commission, Dr. J. R. Mott and Judge
George Gray, told the Mexicans that
they had recommended to President
Wilson the dispatch to Mexico of Am
bassador Fletcher and the withdrawal
of the American troops from Chihua
hua.
The Americans impressed on the
Mexicans that with the dissolution of
the commission the Mexican problem
reverted to President Wilson.
They
were careful not to leave in the minds
of the Mexicans the conviction Presi- |
dent Wilson would accept the recom
mendation that an accredited diplomat
be sent to Mexico and General Persh
ing's force be withdrawn, but the in
timation that he would do so was con
veyed.
Washington, D. C.—A wholesale
shake-up in the Federal judiciary on
the Pacific Coast will be in order if the
house passes the bill pushed through
the senate before Christmas, permit
ting the President to place on the re
tired list any Federal judges who
have passed the age of 70. In fact, a
shakeup throughout the country would
be possible.
The ranking Federal judges on the
Pacific Coast are the four members of
the United States Circuit court of Ap
peals at San Francisco. Two of these
judges, William W. Morrow, of San
Francisco, and Erskine M. Ross, of
Los Angeles, Cal., would be subject to
enforced retirement under the pending
bill, and Judge William B. Gilbert, of
Portland, will reach the retiring age
next July.
By the authority given him in the
bill recently passed by the senate, the
President could forcibly retire Judges
Ross and Morrow, and in the middle
of the summer could accord the same
treatment to Judge Gilbert, and after
creating the vacancies could fill them
as he might see fit.
Available for promotion to the Cir
cuit bench, with others, would be
Judge Charles E. Wolverton, of Ore
gon, Judge Frank H. Rudkin, Edward
E. Cushman and Jeremiah Neterer, on
the Federal district benches in Wash
ington, and Judge Frank S. Dietrich
in Idaho. There would also be avail
able the Federal judges in California,
Montana, Nevada, Arizona and Alaska.
It is the policy of the present attor
ney general to favor the appointment
of no men to the Federal bench who
have passed the age of 60 years, but
whether this limitation would be ap
plied in promoting judges from the
District to the Circuit bench is doubt
ful. The rule, however, is favored
when it comes to filling vacancies on
the Supreme court, and it is understood
in Washington that the President will
not appoint any man to the Supreme
bench who has passed 60. Justice
Brandeis was just under 60 at the
time of his nomination.
Uniform Bounty Urged by
Western State Wool Growers
Salt Lake City, Utah—All states
west of the Mississippi, and others
troubled with predatory animals will
have uniform bounty laws if the var
ious legislatures act favorably on a
proposed measure adopted Monday by
the National Wool Growers’ associa
tion, in convention here. The bill was
drafted by the committee of 10 West
ern states, appointed by President
Frank J. Hagenbarth, of the associa
tion.
It provides bounties of $2.50 a head
for coyotes and their young, wildcats
and kittens and the young of wolves;
$15 a head for wolves, $25 a head for
mountain lions and cougars and $25 a
head for bears in counties where such
protection is needed.
The commmittee reported that 250,-
000 wild animals have been killed in
the last year in the United States as
a result of the bounty.
Jeff Davis Obelisk Planned.
Durham, N. C.—A monument to
Jefferson Davis soon will be erected at
Fairview, Ky., birthplace of the Con
federate president, “by the women and
men of the Southern Confederacy,” at
a cost of $150,000, General Julian S.
Carr, millionaire manufacturer, has an
nounced here. The monument, an ob
elisk, will be 350 feet high.
Officers of the United Confederate
Veterans are co-operating with Gen
eral Carr in promoting plans for the
memorial.
Pope to Keep Hands Off.
Paris — “It is confirmed that Pope
Benedict has firmly decided not to par
ticipate now in any action tending
toward peace that might appear to
favor the central powers rather than
any other nation,” says a dispatch
from Rome to the Temps. It is point
ed out that there is a difference be
tween religious manifestations and
prayers for peace, and the purely dip
lomatic action of the United States,
Switzerland and other neutrals.
Potatoes Advance to $45.
Tacoma, Wash.—The expected ad
vance in potato prices was made Mon
day in the Tacoma produce market,
prices moving up $3 a ton.
Yakima
potatoes are now quoted at $45 a ton,
and locals at $40.
Dealers say that
thia advance is only the beginning and
that prices will break all records be
fore the end of the winter.
Cold
weather has cut down daily receipts of
fresh eggs and prices may advance
soon.
Leavenworth, Kan.—Three captains
of the United States army have been
dismissed from service, according to a
message received by the commanding
officer of Fort Leavenworth Tuesday
from the War department.
They are William H. Armstrong,
Fred H. Gallup and Harry Graham,
who were tried by court martial last
July on charges of tracing maps of the
Fort Leavenworth
reservation and
Petition Aimed at Berlin.
turning them in as their own draw
Washington, D. C.—A petition from
ings. The men were student officers Massachusetts, carrying 15,281 names,
at the post at the time.
demanding severance of relations with
Germany unless the Belgian deporta
Canada to Run Mines.
tions are stopped has been received by
The petition
Ottawa. Ont—Government operation the State department.
of the coal mines at Fernie, B. C., was was later forwarded to President Wil
foreshadowed in a statement given out son.
here.
The mines furnish coal for
Cigarette Bill is Passed.
Northwestern settlers. The miners de
manded increased wages to meet the
Oklahoma City, Okla.—By a vote of
higher cost of living, and the operators 79 to 1 the house of representatives of
have refused to make the advance. | Oklahoma Monday passed the McCol-
The government announces it will lister anti-cigarette bill, prohibiting
operate the mines and pay for their smoking, giving away or selling cigar
operation out of the money received ettes in Oklahoma. The bill now goes
from the coal sold.
to the senate.
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Milwaukee Will Be Total Loss
On California Coast.
WHOLE CREW SAFELY REMOVED
Tidal Current is Too Strong for Big
Vessel—Navy Tug Iroquois, Aid
ing, Gets Near Same Fate.
Eureka, Cal. — The United States
protected cruiser Milwaukee went
ashore on the Samoa beach near here
about 4 o’clock Saturday morning and
shortly after 8 o’clock that night the
crew had been transferred through a
roaring surf in safety to the beach by
means of a breeches buoy and two life
boats. On board the Milwaukee when
the current carried her into the surf
were 18 officers and 421 men.
Not a life was lost and but one man
was hurt in the difficult work of rescu
ing the hundreds aboard the stranded
vessel.
Navy officers here express the belief
that the cruiser will be a total loss.
The Milwaukee, which draws 22.6
feet, had been thrown by the breakers
into water but 12 feet deep at low tide
and the derelict has keeled over to an
angle of 20 degrees. Her double bot
tom was filled with water and her en
gineroom flooded.
It was generally
believed she had a hole in her hull.
When the Milwaukee was caught by
the current and carried into the break
ers she was pulling on a cable attached
to the stranded submarine H-3 which
went ashore December 14 about half
mile from where the Milwaukee now
lies. The monitor Cheyenne and the
navy tug Iroquois, farther offshore,
both had lines to the Milwaukee and
were endeavoring to hold the cruiser
from the clutches of the surf.
The tidal current and weight of the
heavy steel hawser fast to the sub-
marine proved stronger than the com
bined power of the three vessels and
all were being dragged shoreward
when the hawser leading to the Chey
enne snapped and left the little Iro
quois to battle alone with the tide that
was sweeping the Milwaukee into the
breakers.
All of the Milwaukee’s crew was
saved without mishap or injury.
Strong Opposition to Universal
Training Voiced Before Committee
Washington, D. C.—Vigorous oppo
sition to any form of universal service
or training was expressed before the
senate military committee Saturday by
several speakers for the American
Union against Militarism. Physicians
and physical educators, headed by Dr.
James Warbasse, of New York, as
sailed particularly the suggestion that
physical benefit would be derived from
military training in the schools. They
were followed by a delegation of col
lege men under the leadership of Max
Eastman, formerly of Columbia uni
versity.
The committee, which has under
consideration Senator Chamberlain’s
universal training bill and has heard a
number of army officers and others in
its support, set aside three days in
which to hear witnesses designed by
the Union against militarism. At the
outset represnteatives of the union
made it clear that they were not op
posed to building up an adequate army
and navy, but would direct their argu
ments specifically against any proposal
for universal service.
Japanese Cruiser Blown Up.
Tokio — The Japanese battle cruiser
Tsuksuba was destroyed by an explo
sion Sunday in the harbor of Yokosuka.
Fire on the Tsuksuba caused the maga
zine to blow up.
One hundred and fifty-three mem
bers of the crew of the Tsuksuba were
killed and 157 injured, many of them
seriously. Numerous members of the
ship's company were rescued from the
water. Most of the officers of the
cruiser were ashore.
The cause of the explosion is not
known.
Germans Destroy Mail.
London — A Reuter dispatch from
Stockholm says: “The captain of the
Swedish steamer Ingeborg, of the Thule
line, who has returned to Gothenburg
from England, states that his steamer
was stopped in the North Sea by a Ger
man submarine, and that he was com
pelled to throw into the sea all the
mail from entente countries, consisting
of 700 sacks.
“Otherwise,” he said,
“the German commander threatened to
take the ship to Germany.”
Admiral Dewey is III.
Washington, D. C.—Admiral George
Dewey has been absent from his desk
at the Navy department for several
days on account of illness, and al
though physicians attending him say
the indisposition is not serious, some
of his friends are much concerned.
The admiral is in his 80th year.
Funston Going to Mexico.
Columbus, N. M
General Funston,
who arrived here late Saturday, gave
an enigmatic answer when asked
whether he intended to visit the field
headquarters of the American punitive
expedition in Mexico. “I don’t know,
but will tell you better when I come
out,” he said.