TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. FEBRUARY 6, 1919.
OREGON NEWS NOTES RESUME OF WORK OF ARMY CASUALTIES
AREJABULATED
OF GENERAL INTEREST OREGON LEGISLATURE
Principal Events of the Week Half of Session Has Passed Total of 53.807 Americans
Killed and Missing
With Few of Really Import
Briefly Sketched for Infor
in War.
ant Bills Presented.
mation of Our Readers.
. Salem.—When the legislature as
The total county Indebtedness of
sembled Monday for the fourth week
Klamath county is now $132,249.76.
of the session there was very little to
A large attendance of growers and
its credit in the way of bills passed
others 1 b expected at the fourth an and sent up to the governor. As a
nual meeting of the Western Walnut ihatter of fact, very few of the im
association to be held In Portland Feb portant measures have been intro
ruary 6 and 7.
duced in either house.
After a long vacation, occasioned by
While the house did considerable
the influenza epidemic, the Monmouth work last week, the senate mostly
public schools opened again Monday, marked time, due largely to the fact
having been closed since a week be that the senate committees reported
fore the Christmas holidays.
out few bills for consideration. Both
With practically no new "flu" cases houses from now on must get down to
for several days, the Albany health a steady grind and work longer hours
authoiities have removed the ban on if the usual congestion during the last
that city and allowed public meetings days of the session are to be avoided.
In churches and theatres, and schools
Perhaps the most Important piece
to reopen.
of legislation passed during the third
Because several small school chil week of the session was the Dlmick-
dren have been fun over and serious Kubli syndicalism bill, designed to
ly hurt by automobiles of late, the suppress Bolsheviki, I. W. W., and
La Orande Parent-Teacher association kindred radical movements. The bill
has launched a campaign against care carried an emergency clause to make
less driving.
It effective immediately when signed
Representatives of a party of French by the governor.
Canadians, who desire to secure farm
The house by a very large vote
ing land and locate in the Willamette passed the Gordon red flag bill, which
valley, have been in the Albany sec forbids the display of the red flag,
tion the past few days looking for de the emblem of anarchy and Bolshe
sirable tracts.
vism. This bill will undoubtedly meet
The Oregon Congress of Mothers with approval in the senate.
and Parent-Teacher associations will
Senate Passes Anti-Trust Bill.
hold a child welfare drive in Portland
The anti-trust bill passed the senate
February 12 for the purpose of financ without opposition, but it is likely to
ing the work of the parents' educa cause discussion in the house and will
tional bureau.
be amended or voted down.
An offer of $270,000 has been made
At this time no one can tell just
by A. L. Hill and other business men I what may be expected in the way of
of Medford for the purchase of the j road legislation. There is lack of
Pacific & Eastern railroad property. harmony about many features, but the
The offer is now under consideration I $10,000,000 road bonding bill is being
by the bondholders.
whipped into shape and is scheduled
One section of the McKenzie river to appear this week. It will provide
wagon road, construction of which that 75 per cent of the funds given
was halted by the declaration of war, the highway commission shall be
will be built this summer, according spent on the primary roads outllued
to word received by Clyde R. Seitz, in the road building program of 1917,
district forest supervisor.
while the remaining 25 per cent is to
Captain J. L. Wood, of Albany, is be used in the discretion of the com
one of 30 officers selected from the mission on any roads which it may
Engineer oorps of the American Ex decide are necessary of improvement.
peditionary force to appraise the prop It will provide that the rate of interest
erty damage caused by the German is not to be more than 4% per cent
army in its operations in Belgium and and that the bonds shall be retired
France.
at the end of 25 years.
The senate and house conferees on
Non-Partisan Judleiary Sought.
the revenue bill have been asked by
A bill introduced by Senator Nor-
Senator McNary to place a per gallon
blad, of Clatsop county, provides for
tax of 10 cents on loganberry and
a non-poUtlcal judicial system in Ore
pther fruit juices instead of the 20
gon. This measure is one which has
per cent gross sales tax as approved
for many years been advocated
by the house.
,
throughout the state, and the present
The taxpayers of Umatilla county
assembly is expected to enact this bill
are getting behind the movement to
into a law.
induce the county court to call for a
It is provided in the bill that all
special election for submitting to the
candidates for these offices shall be
voters the plan of'issuing serial bonds
placed on a separate ballot at pri
providing for permanent road con
mary elections and this ballot shall
struction in the county.
be officially designated as the “official
Construction on the depots for the
primary nominating non-political ju
Prineville railroad, one at the junc
dicial ballot.”
tion and the other at the terminus in
Anti-Lobby Bill Prepared.
the city of Prineville, has been start
Complying
with President Vinton’s
ed, and on the completion of these
structures, regular passenger traffic request that legislation be introduced
curbing the activities of the huge
over the road will begin.
Motor vehicle registrations for Jan paving lobby that descended on the
uary, 1919, exceeded those of January, legislature last week to lobby against
1918, by nearly 12,000, according to measures striking at the paving trust,
tabulations for the month made public Senator Dlmtek drafted a drastic
at the office of Secretary of State Ol measure prohibiting lobbying.
Authority to oopstruct a new peni
cott. There were 49.062 motor ve
tentiary
buUdlng at a cost of $500,000
hicle registrations for the past month.
Portland had the lowest monthly ie sought in a bill introduoed by Seas
fire loss during January since May; tor Rttner. The Mil provides that the
1910, with the single exception of one quastion bo referred to a vote ef the
month, December. 1917. The exact people at the neat general, regular er
fire loos has not yet been tabulated, special election.
Senator Dimlok's bMl making it a
but Fire Marshal Grenfell estimates
the January loss at approximately crime to teach the German language
in the pubUc schools aad colleges of
$5000.
The fruit crop in Douglas county re Oregon, was passed by the senate by
turned over $1,000,000 to growers in a vote of 18 to 11.
Governor Signs Eight Moaeuroo.
1918, and as labor ani weather condi
Eight bills have been signed by
tions were unfavorab,.' fruit men are
Governor Withycombe and filed with
highly pleased.
Through deals closed last week at Secretary of State Oloott. They are:
Soldiers' and sailors’ commission
Hood River, J. R. Nunamaker and
sons, Don, Floyd and Neal Nunamaker, bill, appropriating $1004)90 and carry
already owners of 75 acres of full ing an emergency clause. Now effec
bearing orchards, have Increased their tive.
Measure appropriating $552,385 to
holdings by 75 acres. The aggregate
of the sums paid will reach $50,000, it meet deficiency appropriations of the
emergency board. Emergency clause
is said.
A total of $14,270.56 was collected attached.
Measure appropriating $25,000 1»
for the Oregon soldiers’ and sailors’
fund, raised in Portland by various pay per diem and traveling expenses
entertainments for the benefit of Ore of members of the legislature and sal
gon men overseas and cf this amount aries of clerks and stenographers.
a total of $5425.09 has been disbursed, Emergency clause attached.
Bill empowering cities and towns,
leaving a balance of $8845.47 intact in
without consent of property owners
the fund.
The attendance at the public school affected, to annex property that has
at Noti, 23 miles west of Eugene on been or will be surrounded by the city
the Coos bay branch of the Southern limits. Measure has particular appli
Pacific, is so great that one room can cation to Portland.
Two bills by Senator Baldwin plan-
not accommodate all the pupils and
another will be added. The teacher ng state bank members of the federal
and the larger boy pupils of the reserve system on the same footing as
national bank members.
school will do all the work.
Measure empowering the state high
The big sawmill of the Booth-Kelly
Lumber company at Springfield re way commission to sell obsolete or
sumed operations Monday after hav wornout machinery.
Measure extending the power of
ing been closed for a month. During
eminent domain for county courts and
this time repairs have been made to
various units of the plant. The com the highway commission so that uss
pany's mill a| Wendling hgs.been op may be made of property before com
pletion of condemnation proceedings.
erated throughout the winter.
Washington.—An official tabulation
by divisions for the American expedi
tionary forces, 95 per cent complete
to date, was made public by the war
department, showing that major cas
ualties in the 91Bt (Oregon, Washing
ton and other western states) totaled
1702.
The 91st division did not get to the
front until about three months before
the armistice ended hostilities. How
ever, it saw a total <A 48 days of ac
tual battle, although all regiments were
not engaged for this number of days.
Its losses, therefore, are exceptionally
heavy in comparison to those of divi
sions which reached the fighting sones
earlier in the war.
The totals for all divisions exclu
sive of the two regiments of marines
in the 2d division are:
Killed in action, 27,76$.
Died of wounds, 11,396.
Missing in action, 11,649.
Total killed and missing, 53,807.
Prisoners, 2785.
Grand total of major casualties,
56,592.
Examination of the losses by regi
ments shows clearly that the brunt of
the fighting fell on the infantry. In
every division that got into action,
losses were many times greater, even
proportionately to the strength of the
units, than those of the artillery, ma
chine battalions, trench mortar bat
teries or engineers. A score of regi
ments lost fully one-third of the full
strength of 3700 men in killed, died of
wounds, missing and prisoners. When
figures on the wounded are available, I
officers believe the total casualties
now in several regiments may equal
the full strength.
The first regular division, built up I
out of the original force General Per I
shing took to France, suffered the !
heaviest casualties with a total of .
5248. This division was first to reach I
the line and was .almost constantly in I
action until the end.
AGREEMENT REACHED
ON WAR REVENUE BILL
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Washington.—The war revenue bill,
revised to raise about $6,000,000,000
by taxation this year and $4,000,000,-
000 annually thereafter, assumed final
form when the senate and house con
ferees reached a complete agreement i
on the measure.
The tax on campaign contributions,
a senate provision, which the house
voted to reject, and later to accept if
modified to apply only to future cam
paigns, was so amended.
The conference report and final re
draft will' be called up in the house
Friday, with the expectation of its ap
proval before adjournment. It will go
to the senate Saturday and Chairman
Simmons, of the senate managers, said
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its passage was certain.
Absence of President Wilson, the
oonfereea said, made doubtful the ex
act date the new tax law would be
come effective, but would not inter
fere with treasury plans tor collection
of new texes.
The final draft, like both house and
senate measures, provides that of the
gross levy, war excess profits and in
come taxes sbaH boar the heaviest
burdens.
LISTER RELINQUISHES WORK
Names Two Offletel Advisors Owing
to III Health.
Olympia, Wash.—Yielding to the ad-
vioe of bls attending physicians and
personal ftrtends, who were alarmed
over the condition of his health, Gov
ernor Ernest Uster announced that
be would virtually relinquish the du
ties of his ofttoe for several weeks.
In a formal statement issued, the gov
ernor named Dr. Henry SussaUo, pres
ident of the University of Washington,
and Attorney General W. V. Tanner,
as his official advisers in connection
with legislative and administrative
problems and policies. Dr. Buzxallo
will at once take up his headquarters
in the executive offices.
Governor Lister, it was said, will
not leave the state, but probably will
go away from the capital and seek
seclusion. With the increasing work
made by the session of the legislature
the governor's physicians feared he
would be unable to stand the strain.
Count Bentlnck, who gave his friend,
the kaiser, shelter In his castle at
Amerongen, Holland.
VIOLATION OF PACT
BY STRIKERS ALLEGED
Philadelphia.—Charles Pies, direc
tor-general of the Emergency Fleet
corporation, authorized a statement in
regard to the strike of shipyard work
ers on the Pacific coast, in which he
said in part:
“The strike is a direct violation of
a solemn contract entered into by the
American Federation of Labor, repre
senting the shipyard workers, the
United States navy aud the United
States Shipping Board Emergency
Fleet corporation. The men Involved
in the strike should realize that the
emergency of war is past and that
the need of ships is not as great as
while the war was in progress.
"The increasing cost of shipbuilding
in America, influenced largely by the
constantly Increasing labor cost,
threatens the very future of the in-
dustry in this country unless the out-
put Is brought proportionally up to
the elevated wage scale.
“it is inconceivable that American
workingmen would deliberately jeop
ardize their own interests, the inter
ests of their communities and the in-
terests of the nation by breaking an
agreement. I cannot believe they un-
dersteud the situation.
"The Emergency Fleet corporation,
as trustee of the money of the people
of the United States, cannot compro
mise a vital moral principle. It is
bound by an agreement with the ship
yard workers throughout the country
which is irrevocable, except through
modification by mutual consent.”
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OVER MILLION DEMOBILIZED
Several General Officers Are Included
In Those Discharged.
Washington.—Demobilization of the
army passed the million mark during
the past week. General March an
nounced. with 61,237 officers and 952,-
411 men actually discharged. Of the
offioers mustered out, 2444 were on
duty in Washington.
The demobilization has proceeded to
such a point that general officers are
being discharged from the war organi
sation. The total number of men or
dered for early discharge has reached
1,896,000 including 153,000 returning
from overseas.
Marines' Losses Are Heavy
Washington.—Figures for the ma
rine brigade of the 2d division, not
carried in the war department sum
mary, complete to January 1, show
killed and died of wounds 55 offioers
and 1507 men; missing in action, 2 ot-
flcers, 695 men; severely wounded, 91
officers and 1801 men; slightly wound
ed, 186 officers and 5296 men; gassed,
81 officers and 1854 men. Total cas
ualties for all causes, 356 officers aud
11.152 men.
Samuel Gompere Honored In Parle.
Paris.—The commission of interna
tional legislation on labor of the peace
conference unanimously elected Sem-
uel Gompers, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, as president.
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THE MARKET8
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Portland
Oats—No. 2 white feed. $45 per ton.
Barley—Standard feed, $40 per ton.
Corn—Whole, $67®69: cracked, $69
•71.
Hay—Timothy, $30®32 per ton; al
falfa, $26 50.
Butter—Creamery, 46c per pound.
Eggs—Ranch, 41c per dozen.
Potatoes—$1.50® 1.75 per hundred.
Kiev Taken by Bolehevikl.
* Poultry—Hens, 30® 32c; roosters,
Warsaw.—Kiev has been taken by 18c; turkeys, 42c.
the Bolshevist troops. General Pet-
lura's troops partially going over to
Seattle
the -enemy.
Hay—Eastern Washington timothy,
$38 per ton*; alfalfa. $34 per ton.
Wilson to Sall on February 14
I Butter—Creamery. 50c.
Paris.—President Wilson will sail
Eggs—Ranch, 54c.
for the United States on the liner
Poultry—Hens, 26® 29c; springs,
George Washington, February 14. ac 27o; roosters, dressed, 27®28c; ducks, I
cording to authoritative information.
31c; geese, 26c; turkeys, 44®47c.
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your money in local circulation by either
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P. Heisel, Farmer.
C. J. Edwards.Mgr. C.PowerCo. J. C. Holden. Vice Pres.
B. C. Lamb. Building Materials. John Morgan. Farmer.
fV. J. Riechers. Cashier.
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