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RELIEF WORK IS WITHDRAWN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
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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».