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THE HEBMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. RELIEF WORK IS WITHDRAWN WILSON PREPARING Doings of State Legislators WORLD HAPPENINGS Bandits Kill 3 Mormons and Drive American Belgian Commission Stops at Request of Germany. House Favors Drastic Measure Training TO TAKE ACTION Of CURRENT WEEK Away Horses and Mules. High Schools Bill Military Against Cigarette Smoking Passes Lower House VILLISTAS RAID ACROSS LINE Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. El Paso, Tex. — Private advices re Salem—Military training in the high ceived late Tuesday from Columbus, N. M., said three Mormons were killed schools of the state in authorized in by a band of Mexicans which crossed Representative Crandall’s bill which the international boundary 60 miles was passed by the house Saturday with southwest of Hachita, N. M., and a big affirmative vote. The military course is not to be raided the “Corner Ranch.” Andrew Peterson, another Mormon, was held a compulsory, however, or part either of | schools or of students. It is to be prisoner, it was said. H. S. Stephenson, general manager subject, though, of suitable credit on of the Palomas Land & Cattle com the same basis as other studies and in pany, said he had received a report an amount to be determined by the from his wagon boss at Hachita that board of education. The governor is made head of the three Americans and seven Mexicans All were captured and 109 American military training department. horses and mules and $1500 worth of schools that establish it must apply to No company of supplies taken away. His report made him for authority. cadets can be organized with fewer no reference to any loss of life. Two Mexican families were said to than 20 members or without a suitable At least three hours a have been forced to accompany the instructor. bandits in addition to the Mexican week are to be set aside for the work. The state is authorized, too, to fur ranch hands, according to the tele nish the several companies with rifles gram. and other equipment. Salem—It was open season for the cigarette in the house Thursday. Cigarette users, cigarette merchants and cigarette manufacturers were hit hard—not only once, but twice, and both times in the same place. The second blow was a knockout. The house first passed Representa tive Stott’s bill to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to youths under 21 years of age and providing heavy penalties for violations, and then turned around and put through the Sweeney bill, which makes the state “bone dry” against the whole cigarettee business—manu facture, sale, use and all. The Stott bill itself was considered more or lees drastic, but it is mild and inoffensive alongside of the Sweeney bill. The Sweeney bill is backed by the W. C. T. U. and other women’s or ganizations. It is said to be one of the most drastic anti-cigarette meas ures ever passed by any legislature. The Stott bill was offered as a com promise on the Sweeney bill. It is not nearly so severe as the other, but proposes to make the law a whole lot tighter than it is now. It raises the penalties for the sale of cigarettes to minors from $50 to $250 and imposes heavy jail sentences. Stott spoke for his bill and declared that it would accomplish the professed objects of the anti-cigarette crusaders —that is, to prevent boys and young men from smoking them. The opponents of the Sweeney bill gained a strategical advantage when they substituted the Stott bill ahead of the other measure, with came up as a special order. It was thought that by passing the Stott bill first the other could be tabled or otherwise prevented from coming to a vote. Represent ative Eaton, in speaking for the Stott bill, proposed that the Sweeney bill be tabled if the other bill passed. The house agreed to follow that pro cedure, but after the Stott bill had passed Sweeney and his supporters in sisted that his bill come up anyway. Nearly everybody took a hand in the1 running debate on both questions. The members seemed in a humor to listen, for they twice denied the previous question. Representative Ritner fin ally insisted on a vote and the house almost solidly stood with him. Oregon legislature passes a law which doubles the tax on automobiles. The English government has agreed to set aside a day for discussion in the nouse of commons of the Irish admin Germany Foreign Secretary, $181,300 Cut From Fair. istration, as requested by the Nation Who Was So “Astonished” alists. Salem — The joint ways and means committee operated on the requests of An executive order to exclude spies the State Fair board has cut out $183,- and other undesirable persons from the 500, but added $2500 on two items. Panama Canal zone and give the gov Estimates of $125,000 for a coli ernor virtually unlimited authority to seum and $40,000 for a woman’s build regulate immigration there has been ing were eliminated entirely. A total signed by President Wilson. of $35,000 was granted for premiums Charles J. White, professor emeritus asked. The committee at first tenta of mathematics at Harvard University tively decided to allow $30,000 for and author of several books on as that purpose, but on the plea of Repre tronomy, was found dead in his chair sentative W. Al Jones, ex-secretary of in his room Monday. He had been the fair, it was increased to $35,000. ill for several days with grippe. A request of $2500 for a fire barn ap paratus was disallowed, and $1000 was The “gratitude and thanks of the na cut from $800 asked for fencing. tion” have been conveyed by the Brit To a $2000 request for water supply, ish government to James W. Gerard, $2000 was added to connect with city former American ambassador at Ber water mains and $500 was added to a lin, for his work on behalf of British $2000 request for more toilet facil civilians and prisoners of war in Ger ities. many. The committee also reconsidered its The authorities of Nictheroy, Brazil, action of early in the session, doing five miles east of Rio Janeiro, have ar away with agricultural assistants to rested two Germans who were photo the Superintendent of Public instruc graphing the fortress of Imbuhy. The tion, who handle children’s industrial prisoners are Fritz Meyer and Johan club work, and granted $8000 out of nes Karl, employes of commercial the $12,000. houses. Federal authorities at San Francis Alfred Zimmerman, foreign secre May Tax for Rose Festival. co, are detaining for investigation tary in the German government, who Salem—Future Rose Festivals in George Kieft, a German, who came sent the note to President Wilson, in from Manila on the U. S. transport forming him of the fact that Germany Portland may be financed by direct Sherdian, as a stowaway. Evidence had broken her submarine pledges of taxation on the people of Multnomah which points to him as a spy has been last year, was “astonished” when he county. This method is made possible by the found on his person. learned that the United States govern provisions of Senator Moser’s bill al Revolution-swept Mexico’s de faeto ment had taken offense. ready passed by the senate, which Teacher Bills Killed. government has entered the lists as an Salem—Undue domination of school went through the house Wednesday international peacemaker with an A raid on the Nogales ranch, which afternoon. legislation by the state department of identic note to all neutrals proposing a is located 40 miles from the border in The bill empowers the commission education was charged on the floor of joint effort to end the European war, Mexico and 100 miles from Hachita, ers of Multnomath county, “at their coupled with the cutting off of exports N. M., occurred on February 10, ac discretion,” to levy a tax of 15-100 of the house just before the close of the of supplies to belligerents. cording to the messenge received here. a mill, the proceeds to be placed in a afternoon session Thursday by two The Mormons living in the section separate fund and extended only for of the members whose bills came in The Italian lines in the district east with adverse reports. were said by a leader of the Mormon Rose Festival purposes. of Gorizia, Italy, which had been pen Representative Lunger engaged in church here to be John Pierce, Miles Representative Mann, who handled a good-natured tirade against the etrated in some places in Austrian at tacks late last week, have been re-es Pierce, Andrew Peterson, Jr., two the bill on the floor of the house, ex methods of the educational commit tablished completely, the war office an brothers named Jensen and a young plained that at this rate of taxation tees when his bill, which would permit approximately $40,000 would be avail graduates of standard colleges to teach nounces. In the operation more than man named Adams. able annually. 100 prisoners were taken. in the grade schools, was started down The law prescribes that evey Festi the skids. According to the Copenhagen Ham Dedication of Interstate Bridge val must be * ‘free for the use of all burger Nachrichten, two largo ammu inhabitants of the county where it is Opens Huge Span to Traffic nition factories at Thorn, East Prus LEGISLATIVE NOTES. held. ” sia, and at Glueckauf, in Quickborn, Portland — Hands were stretched near Hamburg, were destroyed by ex across the Columbia Wednesday and Representative Callan’s bill passed Modified Cigarefte Bill Passes. plosions last week. Sixty-three per- Oregon and Washington exchanged by the house will requre district school sons were killed and the same number Salem — A “safe and sane” anti boards in all parts of the state to ad congratulations over the completion of cigarette bill was passed by the house vertise for bids when bonds are to be wounded. The Farmers’ Warehouse association the interstate bridge. The dedication late Monday and probably will go sold. The present law permits such opening of that structure to traffic through the senate and become the law boards to sell bonds on private con of Asotin, Wash., has concluded a deal and the motif for the celebration in of the state. tract. with the Interior Warehouse company, was which of both states, legis The bill is sort of a compromise be of Lewiston, Idaho, for the purchase lators, Governors Speaker Stanfield threw a mild prominent officials and citi tween the Sweeney bone-dry bill and of 150,000 grain bags, to be delivered bombshell into the legislative consoli zens joined. the conservative Stott bill, both of before the 1917 harvest season. The new bridge was opened officially which were passed by the house last dation proceedings Friday when he in price paid is a trifle less than 12 cents at The troduced in the house a resolution au Two little girls pulled a week, later recalled and tabled. per bag. This is the first bag contract bow 12.30. thorizing the governor to appoint a of ribbon attached to a rope The bill passed is a redraft of the for the 1917 supply reported. across the midchannel of the Columbia Sweeney bill. It strictly prohibits the committee of seven to investigate the An appeal to the Cubans not to river. The rope crossed the line be sale of cigarettes to youths under 21 feasibility of consolidation and report plunge their country into another revo tween Oregon and Washington. The years of age and makes it a misde back to the session two years hence. lution has been sent to Havana by pull parted the rope, removing the meanor for a minor to smoke ciga The fight over the rural credits bill Secretary Lansing. Aroused to the last barrier between the two states rettes and provides heavy penalties for is ended, so far as the senate is con realization that the contested presi and flags flew from the bridge tow violation. cerned, and the State Land Board, the dential election in Cuba already had ers. A cannon from the Washington Farmers’ Union and the State Grange reached the incipient stage of rebel shore boomed out a loud salute and the are the victors. Without debate, the Auto Tax Doubled. lion, the State department decided to structure opened for the use of every merits of the State Land Board plan Salem—Licenses on automobiles and and of the opposing Shanks and Bar issue to the people an urgent injunc one. automobile trucks are to be doubled rett plans having been pretty thor tion to await the outcome of the vot under provisions of a bill passed by oughly threshed out a couple of days ing and to abide by the decision of Treasury Deficit $333,400,000. their courts. the house Tuesday and the proceeds ago, the senate passed senate bill 126. Washington, D. C. — A treasury Portland Chinese tong war broke deficit of $333,400,000 at the end of will be applied to the state highway With an average increase in enroll out Thursday night, when one China- the next fiscal year is forecast in a fund for distribution in counties out ment of 20 per cent a year and a de side Multnomath. man was killed and several others report submitted Wednesday by the This bill is a part of the legislative cided loss in estimated income from its were wounded in a battle in which senate finance committee, recommend road program; was prepared by the millage tax, the University of Oregon some 25 shots were fired. ing that the administration revenue joint house and senate committee on has laid a statement before the mem Resolutions urging that congress bill be amended to authorize a bond is roads and highways, and is a compan bers of the joint ways and means com resort to a national referendum before sue of $195,256,000 instead of $100,- ion to the general road code put mittee showing how the decrease in assessed valuation in the state has making a declaration of war against 000,000, and that the authoritization I through the house last week. any nation were adopted in Honolulu for certificates of indebtedness be It is expected to raise approximately caused a shrinkage in income which at a meeting of the German-American made $500,000,000 instead of $300,- $280,000 in cash next year and to in has worked a hardship on the institu alliance. tion. 000,000. crease from year to year. .... - Two bills intended to provide a uni Ten merchant vessels were listed French Coast is Shelled. form standard of grain inspection for Thursday by Lloyd's as having been Tax Board's Budget is Cut. Paris A submarine Wednesday at the farmers of Oregon now are pend sunk by German submarines. One Salem — The joint ways and means ing in the legislature and are receiv tacked the French coast at the mouth American life was lost. Six of the committee has granted the State Labor ing the earnest attention of members destroyed vessels were British, and of the Adour river, in the extreme | ! commissioner $10,000 of his $11,000 of both houses. One bill was intro one each French, Russian and Swedish. western section, but did no great dam request; gave Industrial Welfare duced in the house by Representative age. An official statement on this | commission and the Resolutions indorsing the action of operation Board of Child Labor Callan and the other in the senate by reads: inspectors $6000 between them, with Senator Pierce. President Wilson in severing diplo Both have the in- | "An enemy submarine emerged at 5 the matic relations with Germany and understanding that if the commis dorsement of the Public Dock commis o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the pledging its loyalty to the United mouth of the Adour river and fired six sions are merged the total of the two sion of Portland, the State Grange, the States were adopted by the German- 1 shots at the coast. At the first shot appropriations will go to the one com Farmers' Union, the State Federation The State Tax commission of Labor and many leading wheat American National alliance at a meet the submarine dived quickly. Five i mission. ing in Philadelphia. was cut from $30,000 to $16,000. growers, millers and exporters. persons were wounded, one seri ously. The material damage was in Representative Laurgaard’s bill to The Russian press warns small na Last Week of Session. significant.” regulate automobiles doing a passen tions to maintain neutrality. Salem There will be busy doings in ger or freight business on the public | Spain’s note, which it is understood, the legislature this week, which winds highways caused quite a flurry in the Work of Relief to Continue. formally declines to accept President | New York More than 10,000,000 I up the 29th session of the Oregon leg house when it came in with an ad Wilson’s suggestion that she break off | persons who have been fed through the islative assembly. Into the few re verse report from the roads commit diplomatic relations with Germany has efforts of the American commission maining days must be crammed and tee. Laurgaard tried to save it, and I been received at the State department, for relief in Belgium will suffer no im- jammed all the mass of unfinished bus insisted that it go onto the calendar but was not made public. mediate hardship from the withdrawal iness that has piled up in the past five for third reading. Various members A regiment of convicts recruited | of the American commission from par weeks. A vast deal of such business protested that it granted jitneys al- j from the 5000 inmates of New York's ' ticipation in this work in Belgium and is accumulated. It will be the unhap ready operating out of Portland an penal institutions will be offered to the | Northern France, caused by the Ger py task of the legislature to sort out. undue advantage. On motion to post- government should the President issue man authorities. Herbert C. Hoover, to differentiate between the good and pone indefinitely Laurgaard demanded . a call for a volunteer army. This plan chairman of the commission has plans the bad. the trivial and the unimport- rollcall, which resulted in a tie vote. Callan then changed his | is announced by Burdette G. Lewis, under way for transfering thia relief ant contained in a total of several hun- 28 to 28. commissioner of correction. I vote, and the bill went down the skids. | I dred bills, all in these last days. to another neutral organization. t 0 I I 8 London—The American commission for relief in Belgium has officially notified the German authorities that the Americans will withdraw from participation in the relief work in Bel gium and Northern France. This step was taken in reply to an order from the German authorities that Americans must withdraw from the provinces of Belgium and Northern France, leaving only a few of their representatives, headed by Brand Whitlock, American minister to Bel gium, in Brussels. The action of the Accumulation of Minor Violations of commission is explained in a formal American Rights by Germany statement which was given out Tues day by directors of the commission in May Be Basis for Start. London. Wilful Hostilities by Submarine May Not Be Awaited. NEW MOVE Will BE DELIBERATE Havre, France — The Belgian gov ernment says it has learned that la borers at Bruges are being arrested in the streets by Germans and immedi ately sent to the German front along tbe Yser, where they are forced to do military work, such as putting up wire fences and digging trenches. It is asserted that 75 per cent of the men who were compelled to present themselves to the military authorities have been taken for work. These men are between the ages 15 and 45. They leave their homes Monday and return Saturday. On their arrival home they are declared to be greatly depressed because of insufficient nourishment, which consists of a quarter of a loaf of war bread in the morning and fruit soup made of apples and prunes at noon. This is said to be all the men receive. Û. S. Flatly Refuses Germany's Proposal to Discuss Differences Washintgon, D. C. — The United States has flatly rejected Germany’s offer to discuss differences between the two nations while the ruthless sub- marine campaign is in progress. In a note Monday to the Swiss min ister, who on Saturday orally presented the German proposal Secretary Lan sing said the United States does not feel it can enter into any discussion of the German government concerning the policy of submarine warfare against neutrals which it is now pur suing unless the German government renews its assurances of May 4 (the Sussex note) and acts upon the assur ances. The State department made public the Secretary’s reply, together with a memorandum which at Mr. Lansing’s suggestion Dr. Ritter, the Swiss min ister, had prepared Sunday night set ting down in writing the suggestion originally transmitted orally. Germany to Hold Hostages. Washington, D. C.—Formal notifi cation of the retention in Germany of 72 American sailors brought in as prisoners in the prize ship Yarrowdale was given to the State department Tuesday by Dr. Paul Ritter, Swiss minister here, acting for the German government, together with an inquiry as to status of the crews of the Ger man war-bound ships in American wa ters. Germany, Dr. Ritter said, had de cided to hold the Yarrowdale prisoners until she had definite assurance that German crews in Amreican harbors would not be held or imprisoned. This development, wholly unexpect ed, was amasing to the American gov ernment. Officials here had come to the conclusion that the early reports which misled the German government as to the treatment of German crews here has been effectively dispelled by the forwarding of complete details. As this included the Presidential an nouncement that German ships would not be seized now or in the event of war and full information about the fair attitude of the government toward the German sailors, officials are wholly at a loss to know what kind of report could have so suddenly changed Ger many’s attitude. Submarine Base for Columbia. Washington, D. C—The steady ac cumulation of violations of American rights by Germany made it appear pos sible Wednesday that President Wil son would go before congress to ask authority for further protecting lives and property without waiting for a serious disaster which might shock the country. There were no indications .however, that he believed the time for such a step had come, and it again was said authoritatively that he would move de liberately and with full appreciation of all the consequences involved. Official reports of the sinking of the American schooner Lyman M. Law in the Mediterranean by an Austrian sub- marine added only slightly to the ten sion, for while the act is believed to have been illegal, no lives were lost and the vessel apparently was warned. The incident was not looked upon as one itself sufficient to hurry the de velopment of the situation. Preliminary reports began coming to government departments showing the piling up about the Atlantic sea- board of goods destined for export to European, ports. No serious effect from this condition will be felt, how ever, until lapse of sufficient time for ships to have gone to Europe and re turn. While only approximately 10 per cent of American commerce with Eu rope is carried on American ships, the sailings of vessels of other nationali ties in many instances have either been cancelled or postponed, and there fore the result of the ruthles subma rine campaign in time will result in far-reaching disturbance of the indus trial life of the United States. Warning Against Fast Spreading Revolt in Cuba Sent by Lansing Washington, D. C.—Reports telling of the spread of the Liberal revolt in Cuba aroused such apprehension here Wednesday that Secretary Lansing cabled a second warning to the people of the republic that the United States would not regard as legal any govern ment set up by violence. The mes sage went to Minister Gonzales at Ha vana and to every American consul to be circulated all over the island. Mr. Lansing pointed out the respon sibility of the United States in con nection with Cuba and intimated clear ly that revolution was not to be toler ated. Minister Gonzales’ reports of the growth of the revolt were submitted by the state department to the secre taries of war and navy as promptly as they were received. In neither of the military departments was there indi cation that any warlike move was be ing prepared in connection with the situation, but because of the experi ence gained in two previous interven tions, military operations could be in augurated in brief time without much renewed study of plans. Secretary Baker 'announced that with the approval of the president a deal had been closed for the sale of 10,000 army rifles and 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition to the Cuban govern ment. Negotiations for the purchase had been in progress for several months. China May Join Entente. Tokio.—In connection with the Jap anese approval, now confirmed, of China's action in supporting the atti tude of the United States toward Ger many on the submarine question, it is further stated that Japan has promised China all possible support, including the maintenance of order in China, where German influence is consider able. China's protest to Germany, says the Japan Times, may be taken as a prelude to China's eventual parti cipation in the war on the side of the entente. Japan's special rights and interests in the Far East have been affirmed by the entente. Washington, D. C.—The mouth of the Columbia river should be adequate ly protected, both by land and by sea, and is not so protected at the present time, is the conclusion of the Helm Naval board, which recently visited the Pacific Coast. But, in the opinion of the board, tne Naval defense at the Potato Boycott Begun. mouth of the Columbia should be con Monroe, Wis.—Women of this city fined, at this time, to a submarine and aviation base. The board is not in decided Wednesday that they will in favor of establishing a first-class stitute a potato fast unless the price Naval base on the Columbia. of tubers declined by the end of this week. It is proposed to abstain from Teuton Bluejackets Busy. potatoes until the price recedes. The London—In an address at Wilhelms women declare that in blockaded Ger haven regarding precautions taken by many 60 pounds of potatoes can be Germany in view of the possibilibty of bought, if any are available, for 72 war with the United States, Dr. Gus cents, while in Wisconsin, one of the tav Stresemann, a prominent national greatest potato-raising states in the Liberal member of the reichstag, made Union, consumers are paying four times that price. the following statement, according to | a Rotterdam dispatch to the Evening Count Bernstorff Sails. News: “Our German bluejackets in Hoboken, N. J.—Count J. H. von the United States will have seen to it that German steamers in American Bernstorff, ex-German ambassador to ports shall not be usable by any one the United States, sailed for home for some time.” Wednesday aboard the Scandinavian- American liner Frederick VIII. With Greek Steamer Arrives. him was the Countess von Bernstorff, New Y’ork—Seventy-six days after besides nearly 200 German diplomatic her departure from Piraeus, Greece, and consular officials. The departure, the Greek liner Patris arrived here which completes the severance of dip Tuesday, the first passenger steamer lomatic relations between the United States and Germany, was marred by from that country to reach this port no untoward incident. for a long time. The lengthy passage was due to her Farm Loan Warning Out. being held up at Gibraltar and the Washington. D. C.—The federal farm Azotes by order of the entente pending loan board has issued a warning to the settlement of the strained rela farmers against persons reported to tions with Greece, the agents here be organizing farm loan associations for the sake of private profits. said. She carried 564 passenger».
