TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST GOVERNMENT MAKES RUSSIA A REPUBLIC A petition numerously signed was presented to'the Lincoln county court SENATOR SIMMONS asking that a special election be held for the purpose of voting on a propo sition to bond the county for $200,- 000 to build roads. Affairs of State Have Been Principal Events of the Woek The chief of engineers instructed the district engineer at Portland to Entrusted to Five Members Briefly Sketched for Infor proceed at once with the work of deepening the locks at Oregon City, . of the Cabinet. mation of Our Reader*. for which work congress recently ap propriated $80,000. Petrograd. — Russia has been pro The Jackson county fair opens Sep That the fire which has been just claimed a republic, according to a pro tember 18, at the natatorium in Med halted in the Fort Rock section after clamation issued by the provisional ford. burning over 20,000 acres of yellow government. Walter E. Keyes, mayor of Salem, pine, was undoubtedly of incendiary The provisional government an and Miss Ida Helse, were married at origin, is the decision of C. J. Buck, nounced that all the affairs of state Salem. assistant chief forester. had been entrusted to five members A return of $115 from an acre of At 9 o'clock Tuesday 7400 acres of of the cabinet. peppermint is reported by E. F. Martin land known as the Benham Falls Premier Kerensky’s attempt to form of Eugene. segregation and located in the Bend. a coalition government failed, but the Elevator operators in Portland, of Alfalfa and Powell Butte vicinities, In crisis has been solved temporarily in whom there are about 75. have organiz Crook and Deschutes counties, was the form of a cabinet reduced in size ed a labor union. opened for homestead filing. and of virtually non-party character. Construction work on the Douglas Admiral Capps has informed Sena After the surrender of General Kor county unit of the Paclfio highway tor Chamberlain that the shipping niloff and the completion of the new will begin shortly. board is considering the proposal of cabinet, Premier Kerensky in an inter The pioneers of Jackson county Robert A Miller, of Portland, to build view said: held their annual reunion in Llthia ships of concrete but is not yet ready "Announce that the Korniloff ad- park in Ashland Thursday. to enter into any contracts. venture now is completely at an end Beal Gaither, 20, was crushed to Dr. F. M. Brooks, of Portland, form and there is no prospect whatever of death between two large spruce logs erly of Silverton, was appointed by Senator Simmons, of North Caro- at the Bade mill at Toledo. Governor Wlthycombe to succeed Dr. ••ns, who had charge of the revenue his adherents or of other parties at tempting to revive it. Virtually all Miss Martha Bechen has been ap M B. Marcellus as a member of the bill in the Senate. the chief movers in the revolt are in pointed county agent for Hood River, state board of health. Dr. Marcellus our hands and the matter may be Wasco and Sherman counties. resigned to enter military service. considered settled. Captain Lenua G. Krook, acting quar Pendleton leads the cities of the "Our immediate problems are politi termaster at Fort Stevens, committed state in contributions of books to the cal and I hope they will be settled sat suicide by cutting his throat with a war library, according to a statement isfactorily and peaceably. We must razor. made by Miss Cornelia Marvin, state think of reorganization at home and Fire entirely destroyed the Glenada librarian. That city has given 462 the conduct of the war.’’ shingle mill and a large quantity of volumes and about 2000 magazine*. An extraordinary tribunal will be Washington.—The price of $2.20 a shingles that were on hand ready for No more commitments to the state shipment. sehool for feeble-minded will be receiv bushel for wheat fixed by President appointed to try the officers arrested The southern Pacific company re ed from the state at large until all Wilson will be maintained, it was in connection with the Korniloff revo ported to the public service commis feeble-minded wards of the state now made clear by the food administration, lution. The sessions will be open to sion a net shortage on its Oregon lines in other institutions are cared for, despite isolated protests from farming the public and the chief witnesses will of 1021 cars. the state board of control has ruled. Interests that the figure is too low. be Deputy Lvoff, who acted as Kor- During the month of August 4897 President Wilson has sent to the Virtually the only objection of any nlloff’s intermediary in demanding the warrants were issued by Secretary of senate the following nominations: consequence, it was said, has arisen resignation of Kerensky; Acting War State Olcott, the largest number in Collector of customs, Oregon district, in North Dakota, where the crop was Minister Savinkoff and Filonenko, commissioner of the provisional gov the history of the state. Portland, Will Moore of Pendleton, unusually poor. North Dakota farmers are demand- ernment at the headquarters. That the bean crop of DouglaB coun Or.; United States marshal, district ty this year will exceed $100,000 Is of Oregon, George F. Alexander of Ing $3 a bushel for their wheat and are asking for removal of the food the statement made by J. C. Hurd, Portland. county agricultural agent. W. E. Flnzer, for nearly 12 years administration’s regulations designed Oregon's greatest agricultural and adjutant general of the Oregon Na- to prevent speculation. They particu Industrial exposition—the 56th an- tlonal guard, has been appointed * larly object to restrictions against nual state falr—will open at Salem major in the United States army and elevators storing grain more than 30 September 24. for a week. ordered to report at once to Camp days. The result of the price fixed, food Washington.—General Alexieff's ap Secretary Olcott has issued a state- Lewis. American Lake, for service administration officials say, is that pointment to supreme command of the ment showing that on July 1 there with the new national army. were $11,929.63 in unclaimed bank This year's Pendleton Round-up, the farmer will receive about 33 per Russian armies will be followed by a deposit* tn the banks of the state. September 20, 21 and 22, is expected to cent more a bushel than last year. On general reorganization, in which old Between 6,000,000 and 6,000,000 break all records, both In attendance the other hand, through arrangements generals will give place to new ones. pounds of prunes is the estimate of I and in the quality of the contests and made for the elimination of specula First definite news of the reorgani Douglas county's present crop as made exhibition. The people of Pendleton tlon and to control distribution, the zation was received at the Russian I by the buyers who are In the field. are making arrangement* to entertain consumer should, they contend, obtain embassy in dispatches from Petrograd. a saving of at least $3 a barrel on Confidence of the troops is being re Governor Wlthycombe has lifted the 75,000 people for the three days. proclamation issued by him several Circuit Judge D. V. Kuykendall of flour, or 20 per cent under the average stored by the removal of the former weeks ago closing the hunting season Klamath Falls has decided in favor of the last four months. generals, the dispatches said, and the in the timbered area because of forest of the state in the last of seven cases situation is rapidly clearing. fires. The Korniloff uprising seems to against F. A. Hyde and his associates MAKING OF WHISKEY STOPS The ■tato highway commission haa to recover lands which the state have been quelled without bloodshed now under way 30 projects of con claimed, were acquired fraudulently. 600 Distilleries Are Closed and 8000 and Russian officials here say that • struction. the total estimated and con The seven cases involved approximate Men Lose Their Jobs. the government now is stronger than tract prices of which approximates ly 40,000 acres. All but one were decid Washington.—Manufacture of whis ever. *2,100.000. The military situation is said to be ed in favor of the state. key ceased throughout the nation at Soldiers who have been guarding Wheat that grows over five feet high 11 o'clock Saturday night, when the progressing satisfactorily and the the forests of Oregon with orders to and produces from 100 to 150 bushels prohibitive clause of the food control armies’ are fulfilling their task of "shoot to kill'' all persons detected to the acre Is on exhibition at the act became effective. Importation of keeping as many Germans as possible tn the aot of setting fires, hare been Medford commercial club. It is th whiskey also stopped. on the Russian front. This is indi withdrawn. I property of E. P. Hughes, of Josephine Millions of bushels of grain which cated by the report that the Germans So great is the scarcity of mon in county. According to Mr. Hughes, food officials say would otherwise be now have more troops than ever on the John Day valley that nearly all of this is a Russian wheat of unknown ground up for whiskey will thus be the Russian lines. During the last the women at Long Creek are now name, originally sent to a farmer at released for food. five days the Russian troops have re- working with their husbandH in the Holland, Josephine county, by Con From one end of the country to the gained seven miles. harvest fields. othar men are affected by the drastic gressman Hawley, four years ago The Oregon Field Trial club has Lane county is building twice the order. Over 6D0 distilleries and 8000 PRICE PUT ON AMERICANS completed arrangements for the ru n- amount of road this year expected men will be oat of business. There ning of its thirty-second annual trials when estimates were made this spring are 202 registered distilleries in Ken German Officer to Give 400 Marks for September 16-17, using grounds near but expenditures for roads have not tucky. 165 in California, 68 in Penn First Foe Taken. Orsnco station. increased. The cost of construction sylvania, 44 in Ohio, 28 in Maryland British Headquarters in France and There have been no fires other than has been reduoed by replacing teams and Missouri, and 20 in New York— Belgium.—German military authori 6bo*« started by lightning in the Cas and wagons with a great caterpillar the states hardest hlL ties on the western front have shown cade national forest this summer, is tractor and trains of cars. The 75- concern about the imminence of the the assertion of Clyde B. Seitz, super horsepowsr engine, in a single load, Smith Wants San Francisco Cleaned. American army’s entry into the fight visor of the forest. hauls 32 square yards of gravel, equal San Francisco.—An affidavit nam ing by offering rewards for the pro I^ena Haye*. 9-year-old daughter of to average loads for 20 teams of ing about 100 hotels In San Francisco duction of the first American prison Mr and Mrs Robert Hayns. of Walter- horsna, and travels over the road at alleged to be used for immoral pur ers. The general commanding the Ville. was drowned when she fell Into about the same speed. poses was sent to Governor Stephens eleventh reserve division recently put the Eugene municipal power plant The tan men selected for commis- by the Rev. Haul Smith, president of the price of 400 marks on the first «anal, near that place. aious ae second Lieutenants in the the State Law Enforcement and Pro American soldier brought dead 01 Nearly $40,000 is the amount appor I Ruled States army by President W. tective league. alive, into his lines. tioned to the state of Oregon by the J. Kerr, of the Oregon Agricultural This information has been disclosed federal government to be used In the eoMege are. Lloyd D. Yates. Milton; New Revolution is Launched In China. by the diary of a Prussian sergeant of construction of trail* and foreat roads Charles A For tig. Hood River; Fre- Pekin.—Dr. Sun Yat Sen has been the twenty-third reserve infantry reg during th* coming year. moat W Walton, Salem, William V. designated cominander-in-chief of the iment. He wrote at the end of July: A field geologist of the United Clarke. Portland; Cyril L. Myers. army and navy of a new military gov “We are supposed to have had Amer States geological survey will be sent Portland; Darrel D Johnson, Cor- ernment in China proclaimed by 70 icans opposite us for some time now, to Oregon to look over the prospects vallls; Norval C. Carote, Chicago; members of the disbanded Chinese and two divisions of Portuguese on for oil and natural gas, at the solici William J. O’Neil, Cloquet. Minn.; parliament meeting at Canton. our right. The man who brings in the tation of Representative McArthur. Vernon I. Basler. Grants Pass; Will first American, dead or alive, to head The biggest automobile show ever iam J. Averill, Corvallis Mails May Close to Disloyal Citizen*. quarters has been promised the iron held ia conjunction with the Oregon I Superintendent Churchill has re Washington.—('losing the mails to cross of the first class, 400 marks and state fair is to be staged on the state ceived reports from several school disloyal citizens is under considera 14 days’ leave.” fair grounds north of Salem from Sep boards that teachers are resigning tion by the postoffice department and tsmber 24 to 29, inclusive, this year. without giving the notice required by the department of justice as another Price on Kaiser’s Head. The Ashland city council haa pur law. This notice must be given prior step in the government's campaign to Minneapolis, Minn.—Labor's Loyal I chased 920 nerve of timber land in the to 30-day period before the opening of wipe out disloyalty and sedition. Legion, recently organized here, will Ashland creek canyon as a matter of school, and under a new law failure to pay 11000 to the American soldier who protection to the watershed of Ash give such notice is cause for revoking French Gain at Verdun. may succeed in capturing, dead or land creek, which ts the city water a teaching certificate. No certificates Paris.—The French troops made alive, the Kaiser or the Crown Prince. supply have so far been revoked, but Super gains on the right bank of the Meuse, This was decided at a meeting of the Baker county has petitioned the intendent Churchill Is writing to the Verdun sector, occupying important executive committee here. state highway commission for the sur teachore warning them to fulfil their positions and capturing more than 500 vey of tw* road* from Baker, one to contracts er such action will be taken. prisoners, according to the announce Submarine Rumors Discredited. Cornucopia and one to Unity. The Because *f the urgent need of com- ment of the war office. Washington.—The navy department, county will appropriate $1(1.000 to plettug rock work on the Siskiyou after as complete investigation as is ward the construction of the Cornu mountain grade of the Pacific highway THE MARKETS possible, is satisfied there is no foun copta road and $4.000 toward the oon and that part of the McMinnville-Tilla dation for reports of a hostile sub Portland. Structlon of the Unity road uiook road near Sheridan before the marine off the New England coast last Wheat—Club. $1.96; bluestem, U; week. The 80 correspondence course* of the fall rains set tn. the state highway University of Oregon In high school commission, at a special meeting in red Russian. $193; forty fold. $1.98. Barley—No. 1 feed. $45 per ton. and colleg* subjects have been opened Portland, decided to put Into effect Shell Just Misses Sayre. Hay—Timothy. $27 per ton; alfalfa. to soldier* who are citizen* of Oregon temporarily a ten-hour day on these Paris —Francis B. Sayre. President Stationed In any part of the world as two job* However, the basic day's I! 124. Wilson s son-in law, has just returned Rutter—Creamery, 43c. the result of a ruling by Attorney work I* to remain eight hours, as at from a trip to the Italian front with Egg» Ranch. 38c. General Brown that the extension present, and double time is to be paid other American and British official» Wool—Eastern Oregon. 60c; valley. of the Y. M C. A., after having es courses may be offered to citizens be the workmen Cor the additional two 60c. yond the borders of the stale. caped a six-inch shell by only 40 feet hours. RUSSIAN ARMY TO BE REORGANIZED Tillamook Oregon. Announces today the Fall Opening of the Millinery Department Under the Supervision of an Expert Trimmer from the famous wholesale Milliner^ House, Muller Haas, Minneapolis. Y OU are cordially invited to come to the Store and view the lovely new Fall Milli nery, Shapes and Trimmings now being shown in the windows and on the Balcony. In-as-much—as the Hats, Shapes and Trim mings now on display were not chosen until afterthe new season’s styles were established the authenticity of our showings can not be ques tioned. The dept, is under the supervision of an ex pert trimmer of many years experience, and the services of the dept, and staff are entirely at your disposal no matter how small your milli nery needs may be. Handsome Coats For Milady’s Fall Wear at Prices from $15.00 to $35.00 ISS DE PAR would be glad to give you the benefit of her help and advice in making your choice of a Coat from the handsome distinctive styles now being shown M here. There are Coats conforming to fashion’s very latest dictates in Velvet and Wool Velours, Btirrella Cloth, Broadcloth, Pom Pom, Kersey, Melton, Tweed Mixtures and Plaids, the color selection including such choice shades as Burgundy, Beetroot, Wis teria, Taupe, Bottle Green, French Blue, Seal and Havana, as well as Black and Navy Blue. 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