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Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
KILLING FROSTS
FAIL TO APPEAR
Slight Frost in Various Sections
Does Very Little Damage to
Grain or Fruit.
SOME DAMAGE ON LowLANDs

According to morning reports TO
the railroad headquarters, coming
from station agents out on the west
ern lines, the killing frosts expected
for Thursday night throughout, Ne
brsska failed to materialize. The
weather is now mucn warmer. the
change having set IN throughout the
western and central portions OF the
state at an early hour this morning.
OF seventy-two stations along the
Burlington. scattered through all por-
tions of Nebraska, fourteen reported
frost, but nowhere severe enough to
injure the most tender vegetation,
except at Belmont, in the extreme
west part of the state, where the tenn
perature dropped to freezing
Along the Northwestern's line tempera-
lures during the night dropped to 20 to g
degrees above zero, but the brisk wind
prevented any frost on the southern
lines temperatures during the night
ranged from " to 80 above zero.
Wind Heads OFF Frost.
over the entire Union Pacific system
I'm Nebraska there was a brisk wind dur
ing the entire night, which did away
with the possibility OF a damaging frost
In a number of places in the western
| part of the state light frost was reported
I but not heavy enough to do any damage,
| Reports TO the Missouri Pacific from
the fruit growing section in the south
east corner of the state were to the effect
that the mercury did not drop to the frost
line during the night around 40 to q
above zero being the coolest recorded
Market gardeners in towns from NJ
ana down the river reported that on some
of the low lands there was a light frost
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
Summer Recreation
Planned for Summer
Hill Farm by "Y. W."

Plans for Young women's Chrlstian
association summer activities are rapidly
being formulated. Summer Inn Farm
will be open to guests from Saturday.
May 90 until August 30, and will DC in
charge of Mrs. Laura Bancroft, the new
house secretary. The first two weeks in
July are to be reserved at the farm for
girls under IS who have no special chap
erone. Miss Helen Lawrence, secretary
Of the girls work committee. will be in
charge then. The Athletic club has al
ready engaged the entire space for the
opening weekend. and the Business Girls
club is planning TO spend the first week
In June at the farm.
Swimming lessons viii begin June l.
The tennis this year will be in charge
OF the Athletic club, and reservations may
be made to the members or the physical
directors beginning Monday,
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
From Steel to Auto
Shown at the Movies

From Molten Steel to Automobile" is
The title of an interesting motion pic
ture film which is being shown at Omaha
eleetric theaters this week. The pic
lures show the complete eonstruct'o on OF
tho Maxwell car from the casting Of the
parts In rough TO the assembling, AID. to
complete the picture there is ihcluded a
little story Of the purchase OF a car by
a doting father for his daughter aud
attendant demonstrations OF the cars
operation. The pictures show all de-
partments Of the big Maxwell factory
and the operation OF many OF the bis
special machines. The film Is beinF
shown at the local theaters this week "a
connection with the special demonstra
lions put on by the Francis-Cullls Auto
company and may be seen today at IN,
local theaters.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
Elevators in U. P.
Building Garry Two
Million Passengers

DR.. Milliner. superintendent OF the
Union Pacific headquarters building. has
figured out some elevator data with
reference TO the structure that 10 twelve
stories high and IN which eight elevators
are operated S65 days Of each year
The doctor figures that the elevators
carry an average OF 5.sls passengers daily.
or e total Of 1.siO.STO during a year Each
car travels an average OF l2.9 miles per
day. averaging 20 trips and making an
average Of 1851 stops.
To operate an elevator in the Union
Pacific building means an average ex-
pendituro OF sS9i per day. and the cost
OF carrying q single passenger Is figured
At .ooH cents. The cost per car mile Is
3.8 cents Y
The floor space in the Union Pacific
totals Soi.9n square feet, or about eight
acres. and the cost Of maintenance IS
about .oo34 cents per month, or .OoOl cents
per day.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
Get Rid or ..sprInE Fever

lazy liver ana sluggish bowels will
overcome any ambitious and energetic
man or woman and make them feel all
tired out. duh. stupid and lfeless Foley
cathartic Tablets relieve constipation, re-
store healthy bowel action aud liven up
your liver. They are wholesome and thor.
ouGhly cleansing. do not gripe or nause-
ale. They Danish that full. close. heavy
feeling. J. l. knight. Fort Worth. Texas.
says: MY disagreeable symptoms were
entirely removed BY the thorough cleans
ing they gave my system" Sold every
whsre. Acknowledgement
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
TELEPHONE MAN is
HELD FOR FORGERY
R. Allen Grim Bound Over al FIRE.
mont-Company Gets the
Money Back.
BANK MAKES THE CHARGES

r. Allen Grim Of Omaha district
plant chief Of the Nebraska Tele-
phone company. is under arrest at
Fremont. where charges of forgery
are made against him by the Com
mercial National bank OF that place.
The case involves a regular voucher
check of the Nebraska Telephone
company, cashed a. this bank for
S40O. The check was made in favor
OF z. L. Minton, line foreman, on
emergency line work with gang OF
men. in February. when the check
was made.
Minton. the line foreman, never got the
money. he saya. and knors nothing Of the
check Minton's name wns endorsed on
the back Of the check however. by some
one and the check was cached at the
Commercial National bank February a.
The telephone company has It's money
hack. bur the bank is loser tor having
cashed q forged check. Thus the bank
brought the charges through the county
attorney OF Dodge county, and Sheriff
Condit Of Fremont came 60 Omaha Mon
day and arrested Grim. The arrest was
made only after the telephone company
had made a searching investigation and
after the detectives employed by the
American Bankers association had made
an independent investigation. Both In
vestigations. conducted independently, led
straight 10 Grim; and Teller Cleland Of
the bank who cashed the check. came
20 Omaha and says he can positively ideu-
tify Grim as the man 90 whom he paid
tne money.
Record Not Quite Straight.
He gave me a swell line OF talk and
got a good chance TO observe him.
said the teller, 80 ] cannot be mis-
taken In the Identity"
The check was drawn by the auditors
office, signed by the treasurer, and
turned over 20 Grims office. as was cus-
tomary In such cases II Is known that
the check was stu in the office at ,
o'clock In the afternoon OF February u
The following day It was cashed at the
Commercial National bank at Fremont
between the hours OF II and o'clock,
the bank says:
Mr.. Grim sets up an alibi, showing that
ne was In his office in Omaha the day
before and the day after the check was
cashed.
Grim was formerly employed as man
ager of the Rocky Mountain Telephone
company at Idaho Falls. Idaho leaving
it's employ March 10. 1906, according to a
letter received from the company.
When called to account by the Me-
braska Telephone company since this
matter came up. Grim Is said to have ad-
mltted that he falsified his bond applica-
ton. and falslfied his record in making
his application to the Nebraska COM
panx.
Asked for q statement as TO the COM
pany's attitude In the case. President
Yost Of the Nebraska Telephone COM
pany. said: There Is nothing much 20
say from our standpoint. The bank has
made good the money TO US. The Bank
ers' association has the matter in charge.
They think they have the guilty party
So we are out of II entirely"
Mr. Grim was arraigned before a JUS
tice court IN Fremont and is bound over
20 the district court on the charge Of for
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08

Read The Bees business Chances"
and get into your own business.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
Big Convention of
Lutheran Society
Will Be Held Here

The nineteenth bi-annual convention of
the Woman's Home and Foreign Mission
airy society of the General Synod Evan
gelical Lutheran church will be held In
Omaha, May to 10. This is the first
time in twenty-five years this convention
has been held in Omaha
The day sessions OF the convention will
be held at the Kountze Memorial church,
while the evening sessions will be dis
tributed among the other Lutheran
churches Of the city Mrs. J. r. Hart
man of Philadelphia Is president Of the
body and will preside at the convention
Several Omaha women are active In Tire
missionary society. Mrs. o. d. Baltzly,
wife of the pastor OF the Kountze church,
is one of the department secretaries.
Read The Bees Business Chances"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08

so Dozen Mems Sample Union Suits
-Nainsook. lisle ribbed and condo
mesh. Worth to $3.50. Spe- Hn.
cially priced at CSC and. 49,. OSC
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
COMMISSIONERS PUT LEAGUE
PETITION IN WASTE BASKET

The mayor and commissioners have re-
eeived from a committee OF the Eco
nomic league letters urging against the
selection Of Mayor Dahlman To- an
other term
The recipients OF these missives threw
them into their waste baskets with COM
n.ents more emphatic than elegant.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
Two Fired from
I City Hall for Work
For the big Six"

ED T. Peterson, levy cierA. and Andy
Jensen, clerk in the office OF City Com
missioner McGOvern. defeated for re-
election, were discharged Friday. The
action was result OF the campaign.
during which Peterson and Jensen as
sisted In defeating McGovern.
There is less work now than there
was" said McGoven. "It,was possible
TO reduce the force by two men and theso
were the ones who were selected"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08

somewhere in the state this summer The
tentative plan is TO finance chautauqua
on a large scale in which business talks
and lectures of a practical sort would
predominant instead Of the usual fun
and entertainment features. The plan is
not at all definitely worked out, and It
Is possible that enough fun and frolic
would be sprinkied in to draw the
crowds. The question OF locating the
chautauqua at Omaha Is up
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08

Mems SILK Four-in-HandS-A
fine lot Of beautiful new pat
terms. Regular SOC val Or
ues. Saturday, each. .... AJC
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08
BUSINESS MEN STILL TALK
OVER SUMMER CHAUTAUQUA

A half dozen business men from Lin
coin and other parts OF the state met to
DAY with large committee OF whole
sRlers and other business men OF Omaha
to discuss further the proposition OF
inBtltuting a business mems chautauque
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-08

early this morning. but not enough 20
inture the most tender plantS except In
rare instances. on the high lands, gar
deners asserted there was no Indication
OF frost.
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been slow to enter upon a war with
Germany and Austria. even with
France as their ally, if unable to
cunt, also, upon British aid. A ma
ion aiming at the wiping out of the
stain of one defeat with the glory of
\ victorious war, must calculate care
fully against the chance of deepening
and widening the first stain with an
other.
But holding Great Britain respon-
sible for the wal because one of her
lilies forced it, on the strength of the
alliance, is casuistry, unless the
chancellor has evidence showing that
British diplomacy urged Russian te-
merity into taking the action which
forced the German declaration. But
3asuistry or even worse things, would
De welcome could they enlarge all
nations sense of the moral RESPONSE
Oility they assume in making often
i've and defensive compacts, and so
put an end to triple ententes, triple
alliances, or whatever new names
diplomacy may invent for such things
in future.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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AND PERSONAL
George Flint came up from LIE!
ington Tuesday.

George Flint came up from Lex
ington Tuesday.
N. M. Johnson OF G%ooseberry was
in Heppner Tuesday evening.
Mrs. c.. C. Rhea, of Rhea creek,
was a Heppner visitor yesterday.
Lou Ziegler is on the sick list this
week, with an attack of la grippe.
Minor Bros. shipped two cars of
cattle to the Portland market Mon
day.
E. E. Gillian has purchased the
Jess Hall property on Baltimore
street.
j. F. Vaughn is in Portland this
week attending the convention of
Retail Hardware men.
j.. w. Ball of Sumpter, is visiting
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
G. w. Jackson, in this city.
j. II. Gemmell is in poor health
at this time and is confined to his
home a large part Of the time.
B. F. Swaggart, Mule King Of
the Northwest, was transacting bus
mess in the county seat yesterday.
Rev. T. S. Handsaker went up to
Walla Walla Tuesday, where he will
remain three of four days on bust
ness.
Mack. Smith Is suffering an attack
of infamatory rheumatism, the same
having settled in n Of his ankles.
He is able to get about with the aid
Of crutches.
j. C. Turner, a prominent farmer
of Weston, spent a couple of days in
Heppner this week. Mr.. Turner has
been visiting various sections Of the
Northwest the past few weeks. He
likes our town.
j. T. Michel and wife, of Peace
River Crossing, Alta, are visiting
with relatives in Heppner. Mrs. Nit
chell is a sister of Mrs. W. Il. Pruyn
and George, James, Charles and Will
liam Thomson Of this city.
w. p. Mahoney of Bonners Ferry,
Idaho, is spending a few days in
Heppner visiting with his brother,
T. j. Mahoney and family. Mr.. Ma
honey has just been up at Boise with
the legislature, in the interests Of a
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this freight, nothing but the lowest
rate should be used regardless Of
whether it be by rail or water. The
fact that the wool buyer may intend
to ship the wool by rail should be of
no concern to the wool grower. He
is entitled to sell his wool on the pre-
sumption that the buyer is going to
use reasonable efficiency in getting it
to market.
1t will be noted that all-rail rates
used in this comparison are the rates
on baled wool which are 15 per cent
lower than on sacked wool which We
have always paid in the past. When
the rate case was decided the Inter
state Commerce Commission said that
baled wool should take a rate 10
per cent lower than sacked wool be-
cause more could be loaded in the
car. The railroads put the baled
rate into effect on all wool moving
east, but refused to provide rates on
baled wool moving west. Technical
ly that had a right to do this because
the Commissions order referred to
eastbound shipments. However, I'M
der the circumstances, it is little
short of an outrage for the roads to
fail to give a rate on baled wool
moving west Is per cent lower than
The present rates. There can not be
the slightest doubt that if the ques-
ton was presented to the Commits
sion they would order the roads to
put in a rate on w~estbound baled
wool Is per cent lower than tht pres
ent rate.-National Woolgrower.
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THESE ARE STIRRING DAYS IN
OREGON LEGISLATURE.

The two women of the Oregon leg
lslature have held a caucus. Face
tious writer's (male) will take delight
in subtly suggesting that Miss Sena-
tor Clark and-we would not dare
call her Miss Representative Towne,
because that would be an evil pun
conferred as to whether the speakers
chair should be done" in lowered
c%retonne. This sort of thing will
never do. 1t is, at best, a decayed
brand of humor that represents our
franchise-dowried ~womankind as lap
sing into the frivolous.
1t should not be difficult to mag
inc what the Oregon women legis-
lators cacaused about. People in
Oregon never did talk about more
than one thing-the one being poll
tics. Politics is the great product of
the commonwealth of Oregon, as eli
mate is of California. Oregon has
no time to attend to anything but
the making of new laws and the Sc
lection of those who are to make the
new laws. 1t is the nations great
laboratory of Legislation and it itself
the dog on which its own remedies
are tried. Out of the mouths of Ore
gon babes come remarks on local self
government and the like. If Powered
cretonne eve entered the heads Of
Miss Senator Clark and Representa-
tive Miss Towne then w. ]. Bryan is
a wine bibber.
And then the scenes of Difference,
of courtesy when Miss Clark entered
the senate! Bows, smiles, adjusting
of ~cravats, removal Of feet from
desks, disappearance Of cigars! Mas
terful manipulation in committee to
get ones desk more favorably locat-
ed. Harsh, down-on-the-farm Ian
guage reserved until after session
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STREAMING A POINT.

Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
drops into casuistry in the manner OF
his finding Great Britain responsible
for the present wal In Europe. If
Russia had not been fortified with
the British alliance, he said to the
correspondent of the Associated
Press, she would not have committed
the overt acts which forced the kai-
ser to mobilize and to declare war.
This is probably a not inaccurate
estimate Of the forces at work In Eu
ropean diplomacy during some weeks
preceding the opening Of hostilities.
1t is not unlikely that, without the
British alliance, the car would have
been much less bellicose. The Rus
SLAMS have been seeking an opportu
nifty for wiping out the Janapese de
feat, but naturally they would have
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MORROW COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER


The farmers Of Butter creek are
using poison as a means of eradlcat-
ing the rabbit pest in their n~eighbor-
hood. It is reported that their latest
method is proving very successful,
as they have been able to locate some
eight or ten thousand dead rabbits
who had partaken Of the poisoned
hay. Great care must be taken to
keep the poisoned hay out OF reach
of all valuable stock. In the entire
Butter creek district, it is said that
only one horse had eaten of hay put
out to kill rabbits, and he died in
spite of all efforts to save him. After
all, the loss of one horse may not be
considered too great in view of the
great good that is being done in the
other instance.
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county division for his section.

Harry Cummings is now in Port
land enjoying a visit with his family.
He expects to remain there until
Spring, when he will again return
to Heppner to look after his nursery.
In a letter to this office he says that
Mrs. Cummings mother is enjoying
splendid health at the present time.
Weather in Portland according to
Mr.. Cummings is very disaggreeable
and if the people there only knew
what a great climate we have in
Heppner, a great influx of people
would be the result, is his belief.
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U.S.EALLST REAR

The United States will drop from
third to fourth place among the
worlds sea powers with the compile
ton Of all ships under construction
up to July /, 1914, according to the
calculations in the Navy Year Book,
issued last Friday by the Senate ma
val committee. France will move
from fourth to third place, accord
ing to the official table.
With the outbreak of the Euro
pean war, information as to the ma
val programmes of the belligerents
was no longer available, and the
book contains only a list of the yes
sells lost in action during the war
up to January 1, 1915, to supplement
figures for construction prior to last
July.
The comparison is based on ton
mage and the official table is as fol-
lows for the worlds first eight sea
powers.
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January, 1915, file in this Office its
application to select under the pro-
visions of the act of Congress, ap-
proved July /. 1898 go Stat. 597,
620.) NEA NWA Sec. rs, TIP. 3 S..
h. 20 East, w. M.
Serial No. O14245
Any and all persons claiming ad-
versely the lands described, or desir-
ing to object because of the Mineral
character Of the land, or any other
reason, to the disposal of applicant.
should file their atfidavits of protest
In this office, on or before the 18th
day Of March, 1915.
f. c. BRAMWELL, Register.
Publish in Gazette-Times, located at
Heppner, Oregon.
J 2S-6t.
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APPLICATION FOR GRAZING PER-
NITS.

Notice is hereby given that all ap-
plications for permits to Craze cat
tie, horses and sheep within the
UMATILLA NATIONAL FOREST
during the season of 1915, must be
filed in my office at Heppner, Oregon.
on or before February %, 1915.
Full information in regard to the
grazing fees to be charged and blank
forms to be used in making applica-
tons will be furnished upon request.
w. w. CRYDER,
Supervisor.
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hours. What esthetic delight there
is in being an Oregon state senator!
We must not, however, have any
thing of the kind in our OWL state
assembly. There is too much social
life in Olympia as it is, and efficiency
experts in both houses gnash their
teeth in vain as their butterfly col
leagues dash off on weekend trips.
-Spokesman-Review.
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Gold Discovery in California.
THEN


Sixty-seven years ago today, John
w. Marshall, a native of New Jersey,
discovered the first gold field in Cal
lfornia, at Coloma, Ell Dorado Il
ty. about forty miles east and north
of Sacramento. Marshal had entered
into a sort of partnership with John
A. Suffer, a Swiss, and ex-French
army officer, who had settled, nearly
a decade before, where Sacramento
now stands, and had secured from
the Mexican Government large land
| grants, and who owned vast herds
and maintained hundreds of native
| retainers. Marshall was at Coloma
developing crude w~aterpower on the
American river to drive a sawmill
A long tail-race had been dug. II
walking along this tail-race early in
the afternoon of January "a, 1S4S,
Marshall noticed some tiny, dull-yel-
low Jumps mingling with the newly
| ~excavated earth and water. Debating
whether it was worth while to benz
his back to investigate, he finally
picked up several, deciding, upon ex
animation, that there was a bare pos
| sibility of their being gold. Two or
three days later, having gathered a
small %pouchfull, he rode to the Fort,
as Suffers headquarters was called,
and summoned that %potentate to a
mysterious conference. From vari-
Gus crude tests there instituted it was
determined that the Jumps were, in
truth, nuggets of almost pure gold.
California had been under explora-
ton for 300 years and for nearly a
century had been occupied by Span
ish, Mexicans and Americans. There
government passed to the United
States.
a common source, high in the Sierras
"a mountain of pure gold-and
scores of expeditions to search for it
were undertaken. Gold quartz, dis
covered in 1851, dispelled that theo-
ry. Some of the lodges located in
that year have been followed into
the earth slanting distances of oveT
a mile and are still being worked
During the thirty years following
1855, some $500, 900, 900 was ex
tracted from the hills of northern
NOW
Today. California has produced
approximately two billion dollars in
gold, the governments incomplete
records placing the sum at about ST.
700, 1000, 900. The high mark was
reached in 1856 with $57,509.411.
The present output Is about $21 ,000,-
600 annually. Notwithstanding eff
forts on the part of Suffer and Mar
shall to suppress it, news of the dis
covery soon leaked out and by mid
summer of 1S48 virtually the whole
Californian ~populace had turned to
~gold-seeking. The treasure was
found everywhere, in the hills and
gulches, for 300 miles along the
Sierras. Nuggets worth from 81 to
100000 were of common occurrence
1t is estimated that ten million dol
lars had been scooped up by the close
of 1S4S, before the mighty thrush
from the east set in. The early gold
seekers, having no knowledge of
mining or metallurgy, believed that
the deposits had washed down from
countries by the hydraulic process.
This was finally prohibited by law
owing to the huge quantities of de-
bris, washed down upon the valleys.
The migration to California tran
scended any similar occurrence in
history, over 100000 crossing the
plains or going by sea in 1849 alone.
klamath Falls Northwestern.