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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
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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.
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