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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Louisiana Germans Plot
to Destroy French Ship

New Orleans - The arrest here
Wednesday night Of four Germans is
believed by the police to have frus-
trated plot to blow up the French
steamship Rochambeau. The police
confscated box containing rs pounds
of dynamite set by clockwork to ex-
plode six and one-half days hence. The
prisoners, two of whom are said by the
authorities to have confessed, said
they understood the Rochambeau was
to sail from New York Saturday.
Shipping records, however, show that
she left New York December 13, and
the police believed the alleged con-
spirators miscalculated the date of her
departure. Two Of those arrested con-
fessed, according to the police.
The plan, it was said, was to ship
the bomb by express consigned to the
Rochambeau at New York. 1t was in
tended that the vessel would be blown
up after she got to sea.
Worry over the prospective loss Of
innocent lives Is believed responsible
for discovery of the plot. One of those
arrested, Peter Langlaan, when ques-
toned by detectives who have been at
work on the case for ten days, is said
to have told them that while he was
willing to blow up French or English
ship he was not willing to see persons
not directly connected with the war
die. s8
On information given by Langlaan,
the police arrested Frank Helon, alias
Hans Heller, and held him on charge
Of preparing explosives for shipment
in violation of the Federal statute.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
"Grandma" Todd Dies at
Great Age of I05 Years

Walla Walla, Wash. Mrs. Sarah
Todd, the Oldest resident Of Walls
Walla and probably of the Northwest,
died at the Northwest Christian Home
Friday. Had she lived until March 20,
1915, she would have been 105.
Mrs. Todd came to Walla Walls
nine months ago from Eugene, Or,
where the Christian Home was first
located.
Despite her age, she was active tc
the last and retained all her mental
faculties.
Mrs. Todd was an inveterate user Of
tobacco, sucking q pipe constantly.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
GERMAN FLEET
RAIDS ENGLAND
Three Towns on Eastern Coast
BOmbarded; 81 Killed.
Three Churches, Abbey and Other
Buildings Damaged Coast
Z Patrols Are EDaded.

London--For the first time in CEN
turtles England has been struck by a
foreign foe. A squadron of swift Ger
man cruisers crept through the fog
Wednesday night to the eastern coast,
and turned their guns against the
Britons.
When day broke they began the
bombardment Of three important towns
~ Hartlepool, at the mouth Of the
Tees; Whitby, S5 miles southwark,
and Scarborough. noted as a pleasure
resort, 15 miles beyond.
Hartlepool suffered most. There
two battle cruisers and an armored
cruiser were engaged, and at this
place the greatest loss Of life occurred.
The British war Office fixes the number
Of dead at Hartlepool as seven soldiers
and 20 civilians and the wounded at Ia
soldiers and 30 civilians.
At Scarborough, where a battle
cruiser and an armored cuiser shelled
the town, IS casualties are reported.
while at Whitby two were killed and
two wounded.
Men, women and children Of the
civilian population were left dead or
wounded ~ struck without warning
while at breakfast or at work. In all,
the casualty list totals ITO, according
to the official estimates. Of whom 81
are known to be dead.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Hobson's "Dry" Resolution
Meets Defeat in House

washington, u. C.-The Hobson
resolution to submit a constitutional
amendment for national prohibition to
the state legislatures was defeated in
the house Wednesday night, 1877 mem
bers voting for and 189 against it.
An affirmative vote Of two-thirds was
required to adpot the resolution.
Party lines were wiped out in the
struggle. Democratic Leader Under
wood and Republican Leader Mann
fought shoulder to shoulder at the head
Of the forces opposing the resolution.
When the vote came, Of the 1877 stand
ing for the resolution, ia were Demo-
Gratis, 6s Republicans and II were
Progressives and four were Independ-
ent Republicans.
Immediately after announcement Of
the vote, the house adjourned, the
crowds which had packed the galleries
throughout the prolonged debate dis
persing with mingled expressions Of
regret and jubilation.
Prohibition leaders declared that the
majority for the resolution had full
filled their expectations, as they had
not hoped for two-thirds vote at this
time. Whether similar resolution
pending in the senate submitted by
Senator Sheppard, of Texas, would
reach vote in the senate at this ses-
sion was not certain. Administration
leaders were inclined to believe, how.
ever. that it would not, in view of the
action of the house.
Notwithstanding repeated public as
sertions that many members of the
house would try to dodge record vote
on the issue, the rollcall disclosed q
heavy attendance, larger than the av-
erage throughout the session.
On the final vote 1856 votes were re.
corded. To have carried the resolu-
tion would have required 258 affirma-
tive votes. 1t thus failed by 81 votes.
1t was at the conclusion Of one Of
the most stirring contests of recent
days in congress, and following votes
on several amendments that the final
vote was reached. Representative
Hobson had closed the general debate,
participated in by all the house lead
ers, many of whom were repeatedly
cheered by men and women in the
crowded galleries. Speaker Clark re-
peatedly admonished the spectators tc
maintain order.
Although advocates of the Hobsor
resolution freely predicted that il
would receive majority vote, many
Of them, including Mr.. Hobson, hat
conceded at the start that the resolu.
tion would not receive the two-thirds
vote necessary for its adoption.
Before the final roll call, Represen.
tative Hobson presented an amendment,
which was adpoted, giving to ''the
congress and states concurrently" the
power to enforce the prohibition by
needful legislation.
An amendment offered by Represen.
tative Adamson to give the states alb
solute control of prohibition under the
proposed prohibition amendment was
voted down on rising vote, 179 to 32
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Oregon Irrigation Plan
Agreed to BY Secretary

Washington, D. C.--Socretary Lane,
after a long conference with Represen-
tative Sinnott and Senator Chamber
lain, expressed his willingness that
congress should appropriate, without
condition, $450, 900 for the construc-
tion of government irrigation project
in Eastern Oregon, and said he pos
sibly might favor the appropriation Of
"a larger amount, if it should develop
that $3.50, 900 would be inadequate.
He gave assurance to both members
Of the Oregon delegation that he
would not insist on a new appropria-
tion by the Oregon legislature to
match the amount appropriated by con-
gress.
In the course of the conference, SEN
ator Chamberlain and Representative
Sinnott quoted extensively to Secre-
tary Lane from official correspondence
bearing on the cooperative agreement
and insisted that this correspondence,
while perhaps not as definite as might
be desired, certainly justified the in
terpretation that has been placed on it
by the people of Oregon.
They reviewed negotiations from be-
ginning to end, and impressed on the
Secretary that the government is NOR
ally obligated to expend in Oregon
much more than the amount now in
controversy.
The secretary would not yield in his
personal view of what was intended by
the cooperative agreement, and, as
sustaining his contention, pointed out
that the state at no time co-operated
with or even consulted the government
about the Tumslo project which it re-
Gently completed. Plans of the state
project never were sent to Washington
for inspection or approval, nor has the
Interior department or Reclamation
service been advised from time to time
as to the progress. made with the state
work.
Rather, the secretary said, the state
has built the Tumalo project as an in
dependent state enterprise, and had
Governor West and State Engineer
Lewis regarded that project as part Of
the cooperative scheme, he thought
they certainly would have advised
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25

Baker--A famine in turkeys for the
Christmas market is predicted by
Baker dealers. Offerings Of 15 cents
a pound live and i7a cents dressed
have failed to bring out the birds from
the farms, and the statement is made
that there is real possibility that this
may be as much due to there being but
few turkeys TO offer as to a desire for
higher prices. Those in Baker who
want q real Christmas dinner, how
ever, will not have to GO entirely
without this year, as there IL q wealth
Of geese and ducks here this season.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Germans EvacuGte L0dz,
Is Claim, of Russians

Petrograd "A newspaper here quotes
high authority as saying the Ger
mans have evacuated Lodz, having
found that the town would not serve as
base of operations.
1t is believed the German plan to
capture the right bank of the Vistula
and then advance from Mlawa and
exert pressure on the left bank has
completely failed.
London-At the same time that the
Germans are cautioned by Berlin
military critic that talk of destruc-
tive defeat Of the Russian forces is a
useless and misleading exaggera-
tion.u - M
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25

with government engineers and author
tiles from time to time.
However, after hearing all that Sem
ator Chamberlain and Representative
Sinnott had to say, Secretary Lane
announced his willingness to withdraw
the condition ne suggested should be
attached to the appropriation to be
made by congress, and If the irrigation
committee, after hearing all the facts,
is willing to make an unconditional
appropriation OF $3.50, 600, or even
more, for building new irrigation
project in Eastern Oregon, ne will
approve that proposal.
He will insist, however, that appro-
priation made be spent on the project
found most feasible by engineers OF
the Reclamation service who have been
examining various possible projects In
Eastern Oregon, the Tumalo extension
among them. s
That report OF engineers has not yet
peen MED and until IT IS OF record Sec
retary Lane VIII give no intimation as
TO what project they favor. The sec
retary assured MS callers that ne main
tains his view that oregon has been
discrlmmated against in the past in
tne oistriDution OF reclamation money
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Mavtorena viii WTthdra,o.

Washington, d. C.--C Consular Agent
Carothers telegraphed the State de-
partment Monday that Governor May
torena, commanding the Villa forces
besieging General Hills garrison at
Naco, Sonora, was preparing to with
draw his troops to point 10'or IL
miles from the border to eliminate the
possibility Of firing into American ter
ritory.
This move has been awaited by off,
cials here since Provisional President
Gutierrez announced that he had d.
rected Maytorena to abandon the at
teck on Nsco unless the operations
could be carried on without sending
bullets across the international line.
Brigadier General Bliss, in com.
mand of the artillery, infantry and
cavalry concentrated about Naco,
Ariz., to enforce the American gov
ernment's demand that firing across
the line cease, reported earlier in thu
day that Maytorena apparently hat
withdrawn.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Ashland Reflects -Four.

Ashland--O. H. Johnson, mayor; C.
81. Gillette, recorder; George Eu-
banks, treasurer, and R. A. Minkler,
water commissioner, were reelected
at the city election Tuesday. s. PEN
niston was elected park commissioner.
For councilmen, R. P. Cornelius was
elected in the First ward; P. L. Ash
craft in the Second and A. J. Biegel
in the Third.
The biggest fight was for recorder,
there having been six candidates in
the field. The town went dry by more
than 700 majority. Two measures,
one enlarging the city boundaries and
the other levying half mill tax for
publicity purposes, carried. The total
vote was 1438. The maximum polling
strength is 1000.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Essav Prizes Awarded.

Salem Field Workers Maris and
Harrington, of the State department
of education, announced that prizes
offered by them for the best essays by
school children on the exhibit Of the
school industrial classes at the state
fair had been won by Perry Nathan
Pickett, Of Marion county, and Floyd
Thornton, Of Union county. Mr.. Maris
and Mr.. Harrington are pleased with
the number Of essays submitted and
because of the excellence Of a majority
of them found 1t difficult to choose
the winners.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Shells Hit 100 Homes.

Scarborough (via London) More
than 100 houses were struck by shells
in Scarborough. One street near the
station was ruined, the buildings in IL
including the Wesleyan church. The
wireless station was the objective Of
the fire Of the warships and an adja-
cent field was completely ploughed up
by the shell fire. Eight-inch shells
were used. Scarborough hospital,
which contained 20 wounded soldiers,
was struck by three shells. The resi-
dence Of the Right. Honorable Russell
Rea, was completely wrecked.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Kaiser Reporta Yictorn.

Karlsruhe, via Berlin, to London
Grand Duchess Louise, Of Baden, has
received the following telegram from
Emperor William:
"Field Marshal Won Hindenberg has
just reported that the Russian army,
after desperate fighting, retreats and
is being pursued along the entire front.
1t is evident that the Lord aided our
heroic troops. To Him alone is due the
honors. I"
Emperor William thanked In tele-
gram the Fourteenth army corps, which
participated prominently in the fighting.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Mauor Instructs People.

Newcastle, Eng. - The mayor Of
Tynemouth, q popular resort below
Newcastle on the North coast, has
issued notice declaring that the. civil
population should remain indoors Of. II
necessary 10 leave their dwellings,
they are advised to 60 inland In the
direction Of Newcastle. There are in
dications Of military activity along
the coast near Tynemouth-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Cotton Mills Reopen.

Lowell. Mass. Orders were given
by which the machinery Of the Tre-
mont and Suffolk cotton mills will be
run "a hours day, beginning imme-
diately. This applies particularly to
the weaving department. About 240c
employees win be hired on the extra or
ders. An expected demand for fabrics
early in the year is given as the reason
for the increase in production.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
General Scott Ready to
Confer With MericGns

NacO, AffZ. - General nuRn IL.
Scott, chief Of staff Of the United
States army, arrived here Monday and
at once began an investigation Of the
Mexican border trouble here, which
has resulted in the killing Of five per-
sons and the wounding of AZ by Mexi-
can bullets crossing the line during
the 10 weeks siege Of Naco, Sonora.
General Scott began series Of con-
versations with persons informed on
Mexican affairs and also with those in
touch with General Hill, the Carranza
commander entrenched In Naco,
Sonora, and Governor Maytorena, the
Villa besieger. This investigation is
preliminary to conferences General
Scott expects to hold with Hill and
Maytorena in an effort to secure some
agreement which will eliminate
further Mexican fighting along the
border.
1t is recognized that, whatever care
the Mexican factions might exercise
not to fire into the United States,
stray bullets would continue to fall
here, either through bad marksman-
ship or individual .disobedience Of or
ders.
General Scott's peace conference
will be held with an army of 470O
men, under command Of Brigadier
General Tasker H. Bliss, encamped op-
posite the Mexican battle-ground. The
American army forces now consist
Of the Eleventh, Eighteenth and Twen-
ty-second Infantry, 10 troops each Of
the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, and
three batteries each of the Fifth and
Sixth Field Artillery. This is force
greater than the combined forces Of
the two Mexican camps, with artillery
also superior to that of the Mexicans.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25

Salem - With the leasing by the
State Land Board Of Summer and Al
bert lakes. which contain rich deposits
of salts, to Jason C. Moore, head of a
New York syndicate, the development
of another of Oregon's remarkable re-
sources seems near.
What the value of the output of the
lakes annually will be is problematic,
but Mr.. Moore declared that he and his
associates would expend at least &c.
900, 900 in equipment and development
within the next two years. He thought
that from $500 to 5000 men would be
employed.
Engineers will be put to work at
once, but because of reservation Of
the board that the legislature must
pass upon the proposition, the work Of
building plant and laying pipelines
will not be started until that is done.
The board awarded the contract to
Mr.. Moore and will recommend to the
Legislature its ratification. The lease
is for As years.
Under the contract Mr.. Moore must
give bond of $25, 600 and pay to the
state annually, beginning January l,
1917, royalties Of not less than $685.
900. He deposited with his bid a
check for $4,000 as guarantee of
good faith. He agrees to give the
state 80 cents a ton for potassium
salts, 10 cents ton for sodium chlor-
ides and 25 cents ton for all other
salts. C. A. Sheppard, Mr.. Moore's
lawyer, said it is the plan to pipe the
raw product along the Deschutes river
to the Columbia river, where a plant
for extracting the salts will be erect
ed.
1t will be transported from there by
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25

Board returned to the Central Oregon
Irrigation company $29,32l settlers
notes, deposited as guaranty Of good
faith. Roscoe P. Howard, manager
Of the company, reported the capacity
of the canal to be sufficient for irrigat-
ing 10000 acres. The unit, therefore,
was cut to that acreage. The board
announced that hereafter under a rul-
ing Of the Federal authorities proof Of
a contract for land would have to be
made only by the original settler.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Aiiies, Yer Loss 2IS. 600.

Berlin, via The Hague and London
The Neusten Nachrichten prints a
Brussels dispatch estimating the losses
Of the allies in the User campaign at
$4,000 up to December IL. This
Nal ID made up of go, 200 Belgians,
20 British and 75, 900 French.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Hlibuster Is Destroyed.

Brownsville, Tex.--A filibustering
party from Texas was ''met and com
pleteIy destroyed" by Carranza troops
opposite Zapata, Tex, near here, De-
cember 20, according to message re-
ceiyed by the Carranza commander At
Matamoras, Mexico. The message
said e dozen horses, so rifles and 1000
rounds Of ammunition were captured.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
State Land Board Leases
Salt Deposits in Lakes

river to Portland and from there ship
ped to various markets by rail and
steamships.
But two bids were received by the
board, the other being by the Oregon
Sodium Potash association, through H.
s. Wallace, of Portland. The latter
one was declared to be irregular be-
cause it was not accompanied by a
check for $40, as stipulated in the
advertisement, and did not conform to
other requirements.
The association represented by Mr..
Wallace bid cents ton for sodium
chlorides and so cents ton for sodium
carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. 1t
bid So ton for potassium salts, it be-
ing $3.50 higher than that of Mr..
Moore. However, it was declared that
there was only trace of this salt in
the lakes, and the bid might as well
have been $40 ton, because there
will be little obtained.
1t made no bid under the heading
"other Salts" whereas the advertise
ment stipulated that prices should be
named for potassium salts, sodium
chloride and "other salts"
More than two years ago c. M. Sain
obtained lease from the state to de-
velop the lakes, but was compelled to
forfeit his lease because of lack Of
money to complete the work. Imme-
diately after that Mr.. Moore bid more
than 81, 500. 900 for the property OUT
right and later syndicate, represent
ed by Portland men, offered about s2,-
100000 for it. Reports that actual
value was from SIS, 100000 to $780,
100000 caused the rejection Of both
offers and the determination of the
board to lease the property on the roy
atty plan.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
"Gc-to.Schoolp Dan IL

Monmouth County School
tendent Seymour has set asi1
to school day." on which
ents in the county have
attend the school sec
work that the pupil
the visiting Of
encouraged b
large numb,
schoolroon
term 1t IL
"get TO
Of the
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Board Releases Nofes.

Salem Upon promise Of the com
pany that 1t would make no additional
sales Of land in the Central Oregon
canal unit, the State Desert Land
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25

dispatch to Reuters Tele-
from Amsterdam says
'mperor has completely
has returned to the
go an announcement
aain headquarters. :
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-25
Loss of Ships Is Denied.

London--The admiralty has issued a
statement denying that any British
warships were lost during the recent
raid by a German squadron on the east
coast Of England. The statement adds
that all German assertions to the con-
trary are untrue. That the British
destroyer Hardy was among the war
sos With on the German squad
the east coast
disclosed
the adj
and
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-18
TERRIFIC Battle ON FOR
-FOUR DAYS AROUND SOLDAU

Paris, Nov. 10, 4.S1 P. MA dis
patch received here from Petrograd BY
the Hsvas Agency is as follows:
A terrific battle of unexampled vio
lenee has been proceeding for four davs
around Soldau. The cannonading has
been maintained night and day. The
Russisns are endeavoring at any cost
to avenge their check at Soldau, and
are throwing themselves at the Germans
with indescrIbable fury. They have
carried position after position by as
sault, in spite of the internal fire of the
Germans.
1.-THE Germans are offering a most
energetic resistance, and their fighting
is alternately offensive and defensive.
"'In spite of the torrential rains
which have turned the ground into
quagmire, the Russians are advancing
toward the interior of Germany Thev
have captured ten big cannon, none of
them damaged. -