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MTCDFOTJT) JfATIi TT7TBUNK. MEDFORn. OTfEHOX. TUESDAY. JFXF, A, 101 FAfiF TTTRTCF ONLY- 250 YEARS TO NEXT ECLIPSE BAKER, Oro., June 4. Govern- iiiuui asironomerB nere lor me toiai eclipse of the sun June 8 are count ing on clear weather tor the success of their observations at the station here that has been constructed at the county fair grounds. The eclipse will begin at .1:47 p. m. and end at 4:15 . p. m. Pacific time, but the period of L totality will be but one minute and . 53 seconds. While cloudy weather prevailed during the first part of' the astrono- j mers' stay here, it has cleared up for the past week and conditions are al most perfect In that regard. However the extreme dry weather and wind has filled the air with dust to such an extent that the astronomers are afraid possibly this may Interfere with their work. Clouds May Spoil Day Cloudy weather on the day of the eclipse or other conditions producing almlllar effects will almost entirely nullify the five weeks' preparation. However,., meteorological records for the past 25 years indicate clear weather in this part of 4ne country on the day of the eclipse, and It was this record of eastern Oregon June weather that led the party to select this location for their observation, coupled with the fact that Baker lies W exactly In the center of the path of N the eclipse. . J. S. Hammond, who Is In charge of the government party, suggests that people desiring to make as much as ' possible out of the opportunity to see the sun in eclipse, prepare smoked glass by use of a candle or some other means, covering the smoked piece with another, fastened at the edges. This Is easily prepared and is the most practical Instrument. Ordinary smoked glasses such as Is used for . automobile goggles are not dark en ough and would be of no use. Ob servers are also warned against look ing at the sun with the naked eye 'before the eclipse begins to pass as this will so dazzle the eye that the effect ot the corona, the most beau- tlful spectacle of the eclipse, will 'be spoiled. . - " The two things to watch for In the t? eclipse are the corona and the prom inences and only with smoked glasses as described, can the ordinary observer meet with much success or : gain results in any way self-satisfac tory To View Corona ' "It Is a good thing," said Mr. Ham mond, "that nature's creation ot the solar system Is just as It Is. The corona, the 'most beautiful sight the human eye has ever beheld, Is visi ble only at the time of a total eclipse and even then it would be Im possible to view it It the moon were any nearer the earth or the sun any larger than It Is. The proportion of size and distance of the two luminar lea as compared to the earth are just right to make a total eclipse of the sun possible." All the stories that have boon re W luted of eclipses such as the chick ' ens going to roosc, owls anil bills appearing and the stars coming out at midday are true and these conui tions on- enrlli as well ns those in (.. lhe darkened sky of midday, will be interesting objects of observation, dnrinsr the eclipse. It will be 2."0 years' before an other total eclipse will be visible from tilis pnrt of the country nnd people living in its path in Hie United States, if uicy ever wish to sec the same sight again will have to visit some far distant corner of the ciuth. WASHIXGTOX, June 4. Appoint ' mcnt of directors for the 20 indus trial lones inlo which the country liiis been divided by the war indus tries board, was announced today. The directors will hnvo pencriil su jicrvision of the production of war materials in their jurisdictions. The directors nre as follows: Ocorge K. Crawford, Bridgeport, Conn.; William P. Morgan, New York City; Ernest Ii. Trigg, riiilndelphin; George S. Oliver, I'ittsburir; Harper pibley, Rochester! Myron T. Herrick, Cleveland; Allan A." Tcniplcton, De troit; Lucius Tcter, Chicago; A. Clifford Shinkle, Cincinnati; Frank A. Hoen, Hnltiinore; W. If. While, Jr., Atlanta; M. W. Hush, nirminir luun; Frank I). Crns, Kansas City; Juckson Jobn-on, St. Louis; August II. Vogcl, Milwaukee;. Louis Lip nitl, Dallas; Frederick J. Kostcr. Son Francisco: A. J. Khoiulos, Scnt . e; Henry I. Ilnrrininn, Boston nnd II. R. Cotton, St. Paul. GLIMPSE OF U. S. By Clinrles H. Xewwcll, Kdllor of the Dallas l)suit li. SAN AXTOIO, Tex., June 4. How the Mexican crisis of two months ago was passed Is a story I can tell you today. All the kaiser's 6000 agents In Mexico staked their campaign of anti-American intrigue on being able to trick Carranza Into a belief the United States was planning to make a second Belgium ef bis harassed country. - Their scheme called for the crea tion of as much disturbance along the border as possible. What border raids they! could instigate were to be exploited in the Uultd Stats and Mexico In such a way as to create the maximum of hatred In each country. Deceiving ftimiii7.il German gold made certain tl'a ex ploitation of these disturbances in Mexico with all the strength desired by Hun spies and propagandists. The object of this Intrigue was to mnke Carranza believe that he should send an insultlng'noto to President Wilson, protesting against the repeat ed "Invasions" of Mexico by Amer ican soldiers. That these "invasions" had never occurred, or had been un dertaken with the consent and co operation of Carranza's own generals, in pursuit of bandits, was kept from Carranza for many months. Someone tipped off Felix Diaz fol lowers in San Antonio, and they sent emissaries to Washington who made loud protestations of strong pro-ally sympathies. They used this pro-ally feeling as an excuse for asking for arms and ammunition with which to take the field against Carranza in case he submitted to German dicta tion. Mexico's Colonel House The apparent encouragement of fered these agents of one ot the strongest antl-Carranza factions in Mexico is reported In San Antonio and along the border to have had a fine effect on Carranza. Don Manuel Amaya, the Colonel House of Mexico, visited San Antonio early In April, wh(lo Carranza was getting reports daily of the activities of the Felix Diaz men In Washington. He was received with all honor by military authorities at San Antonio. Before he had been in this country two days he had seen more troops than the Germans in Mexico City bad credited the United States with being able to raise in the whole country. , He was put In touch with Germans in San Antonio who were able to con. vlnce him that promises of German agents in Mexico that 200,000 Ger mans in south Texas would revolt if this nation attacked Mexico were un true. Since Don Manuel returned to Mex ico City the stock or the allies has been rising steadily. RESCUED AI SEA NAXTITKKT, Mass., June 4 Two American nvialors, Knsign Un ion u nnd Mechanic Harrington, were brought to port today by the patrol boat Sadie, which bad rescued thcin from their disabled hydroplane nil rift 10 miles southeast of Saiikaly hcadv, nt the cast end of the island'. Tile machine sank soon lifter lhe two men were taken off. They hud been forced by engine trouble to alight on the water yesterday. 28 AIR VICTORIES I'AIilS, June 4. Twcnly-eWil neriul victories are now credited to Lieutenant Georges Madun, the French uvintor who early in lhe war landed bv mistake on Swiss territory and was interned, but made bis es cape. The lieutenant recently re covered from a long illness and re turning to the front began lo wreak havoc among the German airplanes Dangers of Cstlvne. Auto-Intoxication, headache, lassi tude Irritability, "blues," sallowness. blotches, are among the results of constipation. If long neglected It may cause piles, ulceration ot bowels, appcndiclts, nervous prostration, pa ralysis. Don't delay treatment. Best reined. Is Foley Cathartic Tablets, as many thousands know from experi ence. They not only do their work surely, easily, gently, but without In jury to stomach or Intestinal lining. Contain no habit-forming element. Sold everywhere. Adv. BOSS 'BULL' MAN TALKS ABOUT !3. -V T- XtEKl "It's a good IhiiK thfy had a $n nnn 000 neanut crup in Texas Ibis year," said the boss liu'l" man of Sells Kioto circus -winliti; to Medfoni, luno 8, "for those duin elephants will cat just about that amoifnt of goobers before the lonK haul l ai k to winter quarters. Every timo that ninth 'bull' over thero hears a whistle ho thinks it's a peai. -. stand. When the 5 o'clock whistles go 1 have to plead with lilin to keep from walkln' rleht awav with the menagerie top. and that after he's eaten all the pea nuts that several thousand people have fed him before and after the matinee." ''Doesn't It slow, up their perfor mance, eating all those peanuts?" tho bull man was asked. ' Kntln' never slowed any of these three herds, especially eatin' goobers. Tho young onos and the old ones are alike when It comes to tho peanuls. Sack after MP IMS CUT By WASHINGTON, June 4. The I'nited States has been put on a lean import diet. About 3,000 com modities, as important as paper, furs, tobacco leaf, cotton nnd woolen manufacturers, baskets, glass and glassware, fish, mats, furniture and stone, and as unessential us fans, perfumery, dice, t nifties, edible birds' nests and a few hundred other edible substances, which nobody 1ms had the hardihood to classify, are coming to the country less freely than in pre war days. Lists of restricted im ports, issued by the war trade board with the advice of the shipping1 hoard, are in force, and the "embargo" is on. One immediate result of the work ing of the lisls will he a few lo.-t mo tions in shipping. These lists make it weJcsvsary for, 'lihe business world, hern and elsewhere, to readjust it self to new conditions. That read justment will inevitably be reflected for n time in shipping. There will be a sort (tf "between hny'and grass" season, the same kind of period that many stores have been changing over from one season to another. There is no doubt, however, that whatever the disarrangement may be, it will be comparatively unimportant. Tu the end, the I'nHed States will he able to employ hundreds of lhou-nnds of dead weight tons more ernnnrnically tban at present and supply the sol diers and the allies in France with It ss trouble. The new plan of control isn't an embargo at nil in the scums '.hat the famous measure of Jefferson's time was. It isn't so sweeping and so ex asperating that, like the Americans of 10(1 years ago, people are spelling the word backwards and calling it derisively the O-Ornb-Me-Act. It hasn't .sealed our ports. It was not designed to put (he country on a ba sis of Keif-sufficiency, The restrict ed li-ts now in force jire not nearly o broad in scope im (he Kngli-b prohi bition lisN, which have cut down the imporiH more than 50 percent. "Kngland ha wtripped tt the waist," one of the shipping board of ficials has put it, "and we nre sim ply taking off our coat." sack as the crowds pour by and never a bull that has enough. There was once an elephant that lived in captiv ilV to Hie fairly ripe old ago of 1:10. They say the sickroom was stacked with gunny parks of peanuts during the hist illness und that lhe poor old pachyderm wrapped his Irunk around three sacks as ho died. "You take those 'cats' Iho lions, tigers, leopards, panlhers, jaguara tho gorillas, the baboons, the hippo, thoso freak beasts in that line of cages across the tent' and. even the camels, the bison, tho gnu and nil of 'em woll, cntin' makes 'em loggy, but the 'bulls' can eat their weights In goobers and . dance like l'nvlown. Watch aiona Thompson and the other women trainers give 'cm tho word to do 'the Death of the .s'wan' dance In the rings today. They'll be ohockftil o' thoso peanuts, liHt they will float to tho music simply float." BY 0 AC. EXPERTS COb'VALLlS, Ore.. June -1. Ihir bank's suiter wheal, recently brought into general notice by Assoicated Press dispatches, is in reality not considered u new production, but n new and unusually successful variety. Prof. (L 1(. Hyslop, of O. A. (, an tborizes the following statement: "Associated Press dispatches of recent date have indicated that there has been a wonderful new wheat known as llarhauk's Super-wheat or iginated by the well known plant breeder of California. Corres pondence with wheat special ly Is of the Vailed Slates department of agriculture has in dicated that Ibis is not claimed o be a. new production, but that it ha- lcen a success ful variety t hat ha- mil -yielded some oilier varieties un der certain conditions in California. Th'cM same :o eminent experts havj' reached the. conclusion Hint the so- called super wheat is the variety commonly f.'rown in Oregon as Jones.' winter file. "This .variety was tried oat on the Oregon experiment station at Corval- lis, ami it is not good a welder n while winter ami some others of lh commonly known varielie-t of (tie WM- Intnel te valley. "It is also grown lo some evlciil in I'malilla conn I y, and a few other places in Oict:ou au -onic places in Washington. llowcwr, it is not con sidered a high yichlcr in anv of Hie experiment staliun trials with wheat in eastern Oregon. "It is llierelorc, cheaper to buy lone., winler lile under (lre::on con ditions as such, I bail to send awny for it mid get it under a new name." 5 Whon you know S a that you should r dismiss cof fec.try Instant Postum !! The modern American Z Drink that so many i M now are using. E SOUTH AFRICAN BIGS WAR THREAT LONDON, June L -Movement for a republic iti Soulli Al'rien is spreiul iiiy; so rupultv the Cupe Town jriv triitnent has become almmcd, ami is now taking steps to overcome the propaganda. Dispatches printed obscurely in London daily papers for the past three, weeks iudieate the extent of thi notation. Minister of Railways mul Finance Itarton in a spoken ultimatum declar ed martini law would he declared un less tlie 'propaganda was kept within bounds. If necessary, lie added, he would ask parliament, lor powers to deal Willi the Munition, ami a civil war miuht result that would make South Africa 4in welter ol' blood. The following resume of the move- j ment is prepared from information ' published disconnectedly in the Lou don dailies: South Adieu First ''South Africa Fin-it" is the slogan of the nationalist (IWht) party in the union's parliament, under which Leader llerto and others are mak ing inflammatory speeches all over the union. 'I nui convinced that the flng ot freedom will aaiii be planted on the hillock of South Africa," Senator Mji mis said at a recent meeting. Hertzoi; denies he ndvetcates the building up of South Africa through force of u rnis. Addressing J,."i(HI per sons nt Oudtshoni, he said: I' ''The policy of the empire is 'The Kinpiie First,' no South Africa First' ''If the nationalists had not voted ! t- compter (leriuan Southwest Africa, 'how could the uoverumciil have done llierwise than have conscription in South Africa? We exoccted to have full self jov- "i urn ii , iiii Bridging the Gap From Steer to Steak i; .7 . T1 III m Live stock is raised ranches of the West. Meat is eaten in the large cities of the East, and by our boys in France thousands of miles away. The day of transporting live animals from ranch to seaboard and overseas has passed. There was too much waste. The modern packer locates his large and special ized plants in the producing regions. He ships the dressed beef in refrigerator cars, and holds it in his own reirigerated branch warehouses until delivered to the .retailer. For shipment to foreign ports, he transfers the meat to refrigerated ships. ' By means of his nation-wide organization the modern packer maintains a continuous flow of meats to all parts of the country, so that each retailer gets just the quantity and quality of meat his trade demands, and at the time he wants it. Swift & Company recently shipped 1,000 carloads of meat products in one week to our Armies and to the Allies. Bridging the gap from ranch to consumer can be done successfully and at low unit costs and profits only by large business organizations. Swift & Company's profit on meat, always so small as to have practically no effect on prices, is now limited by the Government to about 2 cents on each dollar of sales. Swift aisasarjasa eiuincnt, bat tho ministers say we are under the laws of the British par liament. What is the ttimnuiteo that tho Dritish parliament will not pass a law tomorrow calling on us to fight in Flanders, and so place us in the position of abject slaves f He urged the people to demand their right in a peaceful manner, say ing that when the war is over they would come to their senses. Addressing a meeting at Stellen bosh, near Cape . Town, Uertzoi; si, id: "The expressions of l'remier Lloyd ' George and President Wilson oblige us to make our voice herd soon ami clearly. The conviction is becoming stronger that a sound nothlnnl feeling and unity between the two "sections of our population can never be do pended on so long a: lite present state of subjection to Great Britain continues." In a speech nt Johannesburg Dr. Malan, editor of "Oe Iturger," the Cape Town Nationalist organ, declar ed no one could he a good South Af rican who was not a republican. 'Xu (Jo i m list Sentiment Minister Hurton has been the chief opponent of the republican factions, declaring their utterances treason able and comparing the nationalists to the Sinn Kern of Ireland. "Hands off our constitution und our flag. This is sacred g run nil," he said. The first signs of the nationalist unrest came iu the dramatic denoue ment to the house debate on General P.olha's resolution eulogizing Sir Otalgias llaig and w ishing success to the allies. When the ItritUh anthem was sung the nationalists remained seated. The nationalist newspapers then began openly taking up the subject, thus abandoning the nationalist dec laration of last year, adopted fit a meeting of the federal coum-il of tho parly at Hloeiafoateiii. The statement took the view that "public opinion is too agitated to discuss the mutter id! independence on its merits, and at present it is undesirable that steps should be tak en in the direction of active republi- ' can pronn'Minda," on the Yi-ar Hook of interesting and instructive facts sent on request. Address Swift & Company, Union Slock Yurds, Chicago, Illinois & Company, PARIS, June 4. Refugees from tho Aisno and Marne districts con tinue to pour into Paris, coming not only by every available traia, but even by eunal boats and all other means of transportation. " , The arrivals Monday Included the entire population of the village of , wniiy-Qur-wureq, wnicn uaa spent three days packed Into a boat-with hit .-ally g.ithored possessions. All the refugees were desolate and hungry. Thousands were met by Red Oroi-H trucks loaded with food.. As soon as the sufferers had -been fed it hoy were taken to temporary shel ter at St. Kulphk'O, where they yrero visited by the minister of tho Inter ior. Tho Red Cross also has establish ed roadside canteens where troeps on the road to the front can he refresh ed and refugees can bo fed. ' A most varied array of transport able property i being carried by tho refugees. Thero are alarm clocks, umbrellas, mattresses, family relics, live rabbits and goats, cases of cham pagne, kegs of HUgar, crates of chick ens, foldiiiK beds and fur coats. . Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by loil application, as tbejr can Dot ractt the dwvuarU pur lion of tha ear. Thera la on!y one way to cure catarrhal deafneaa, ari that la by a com tUu Clonal remedy. Catarrhal Dafneaa la cauaed by an In (lanutl condition of the mucous lining of the Uuatachlan Tube. When thla tuba la Inftanitid you have a rumbling- lound or Im purfKit hearing-, and wlu-n It ! entirely closed, Ii-nriieea la the result. Unless tha Inflammation cun bo reduced and thla tube restored to Its normal condition, hoartnf will be destroyed forever. Many cases of dearnens are caused by catarrh, which la an lntlamcd condition of the mucous sur faces. Hall's Catarrh M- Uolne acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Wo will Rive One Hundred Dollars for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. ; Cir culars free. All Druggists. 75c. F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O. I farms and U. S. A.
