The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1914-12-04
news OF THE WEEK
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout the World

81, $50. .000, 900.
The department Of Agriculture pre-
diets cheaper fowls for the Christmas
dinner tables.
Two prisoners in the jail at Eugene.
Or, bound and gagged the turnkey
and made their escape.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke. American
minister to The Netherlands, says
peace talk IL premature.
Kaiser visits his troops in East
Prussia, where fierce fighting with the
Russians is In progress.
The Supreme court Of Oregon holds
that II q bartender sells a minor
drink, the proprietor is likewise liable
TO prosecution.
A dispatch from Berlin claims that
the Germans broke through the Rus
sian lines near LODI, capturing 10000
men and rs guns.
A prominent department store owner
in Portland sees q rosy future" for
Northwest business, but adds that OPP
timism is the only need.
John d. Rockefeller, head Of the
Standard Oil Co., has expanded to the
extent that the oil fields Of Peru, have
been taken over by that company.
Coalition chiefs, villa and Zapata,
are ia the suburbs Of Mexico City in
readiness TO enter when the eonven-
tional president Gutierrez, arrives.
An attorney Of Marshfeld, Or, is
disbarred three months for helping to
drive /. W. W. advocates from that
city, according to a Supreme court
decision.
For the first time in history the
mikado consented to Japan's gift Of
SIS, 900 for the establishment of hos
pital under the auspices Of the Epis-
eopsl mission at Toxic.
The Worlds Purity Federation in
session at La Crosse, Wis, is making
preparations for the safety of girls
who attend the Panama exposition at
San Francisco next year.
The government assures those who
failed to secure revenue stamps the
first day of the new war tax law, that
there win be no prosecutions II their
intentions were apparent.
Few saloons in Portland, Or, will
suspend business before the prohibition
amendment goes into effect January 1,
1916, as great majority have applied
for license covering that period.
"Human element" is blamed for the
wreck Of the steamship Hanalei, which
went ashore on the reefs of Duxbury,
near San Francisco, November 20, by
coroner's jury. The jury further
recommends the erection of a life
saving station at the scene of the dis
aster.
Arkansas has secured new electri-
clan who viii pull the lever that will
put to death 10 condemned men who
were reprieved to await the outcome
of the abolishment Of capital punish
ment amendment that was lost in the
recent election. The former electri-
clan quit the place because of the
gruesomeness of the job.
The Turkish embassy at Rome says
that the Egyptian advance guard on
the Suez canal has deserted to the
Turks.
Thanksgiving Day found 1000, 900
Belgians in dire want OF
bread and only half enough to appease
their hunger.
"A young Portland streetcar con-
ductor was electrocuted in bath tub
when he reached Iup to turn off the
electric light.
A dispatch to the Havas agency
from Athens says adyices received In
the Greek capital from Mitylene state
that Turkish mine-layer has been tor
pedoed and sunk in the Bosphorus.
It is said in Petrograd that the re-
port published in the Bourse Gazette
that Russia, France and Great Britain
were endeavoring to secure the re-
opening of the Dardanelles is q pure
invention.
Reports of pan-Islamic anti-British
are confirmed by the Russ
koye Slovo, of Petrograd, which says
that the movement had its beginning
in Afghanistan. The Porte says that
Ill Arabs who are fit for military serv-
Ice have declared their readiness for
holy war.
1.-THE situation at present does not
demand Legislation for the suppression
If football, F" said Premier Asquith in
he house of commons, replying to
question as to whether such a move
was under way. The premier added
hat negotiations with the football
nagnates were progressing from
which satisfactory results were ex-
,ected.
Dispatches from Petrograd state
hat the German lines in Russian Po-
and have been seriously disorganized,
md that a great army Is surrounded by
he Russians.
A British aviator dropped a bomb
quarely on a German ammunition
rain, which blew up. The explosion
vas heard and felt many miles along
he allies lines.
Turkey has made 3 formal and satis-
actory explanation to the United
Itates government for firing on an
american launch that attempted 70
inter- a Turkish closed harbor.