The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-12-01
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.

Women Of New York plan boycott
to cut food prices.
The kaiser is planning to send Presi-
dent Wilson Christmas gift.
Teutons are only 81 miles from Bu-
charest, the Roumanian capital.
Juarez fears an attack from Villa,
who is reported as having taken Chi
huahua.
The Island of Sardinia, in the Med
iterranean, has been ravaged by cy-
clone, according to report received in
Rome.
An ordinance to put all private
banks in Chicago under city supervis-
ion was recommended for passage by a
city council committee.
Charles H. Sherman, who is believed
to be the last of the famous San Fran
cisco vigilantes, died in Santa Bar
bara, CAL, Tuesday. He was 81
years old.
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Announcement was made at army
headquarters at San Antonio, Tex,
that the Third Minnesota regiment is
scheduled to start home from the bor-
der on December 2.
The Distilling Company of America,
an $85, 900, 900 corporation with New
Jersey charter, has filed articles Of
dissolution. The actual amount of
stock issued is SIT, 073, 900.
DR.. Philip Mills Jones, editor of the
California State Journal of Medicine,
is dead in San Francisco. He was
widely known in medical circles and
was trustee Of the American Medical
Association.
The American steamer Chemung,
bound from New York to Genoa, was
torpedoed Tuesday, and sunk of the
coast of Spain. The captain refused
to lower his colors and the ship went
down flying the American Flag. The
crew was landed.
The constitutionality of the Federal
inheritance tax law is attacked in San
Francisco in the United States Dis
trict court by Edward F. Treadwell,
representing the estate of Henry Mil
Ter, cattle and land king, who seeks
the dismissal of the action of Gustave
Rembold, Of Oregon, against the Mil
ler heirs.
An empty purse is valuable, Rev.
Charles R. Brown, dean of the Yale
Divinity School, told members of the
Sunday evening club in Chicago. He
said being without money makes peo-
pie cut out expensive wickedness,
starts a man looking for job, and
has an infallible power for pointing
out real friends.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion report on the valuation of the
Kansas City Southern railway shows
that the railroad capitalized at $685.
052. 900, including s51, 600, 900 in stock
and $48, 052, 900 of unmatured funded
bonded debt, could be reproduced new
for SAG, 274, 1853, or reproduced, less
depreciation, for $SS, 25s, 900.
Another. raid by airships over the
Northeastern coast of England took
place Tuesday night. The official
statement says: Hostile airships
crossed the Northeastern coast.
Bombs, it is reported, have been drop
ped in several places in the Northern
counties, but no reports of casualties
Or damage have been received.
Sir George White, of London, is
dead. Sir George established the first
mandatory of airplanes in England.
He was pioneer of electric street
traction, being the first to introduce it
in London. He was 62 years old and
received the title of baronet in 1904.
President Wilson Friday sent a tele-
gram to Charles E. Hughes acknowl-
edging his message of congratulation.
The Presidents telegram said: II
am sincerely obliged to you for your
message Of congratulation. Allow me
to assure you of my good wishes for
the years to come"
A dispatch from Mexico City to the
Chihuahus City press, states that The
odore Roosevelt has started revolu-
tion against President Wilson. The
message further states that Roosevelt
charges the President with authorizing
various electoral frauds in order to
triumph in the past election"
The Chicago Health departments
"diet squad" on its 40 cents day
menu is gaining weight.
Nationwide prohibition is urged on
congress by the National Grange in
resolutions adopted which asked spe-
officially that the District Of Columbia
be included in a any National prohibit
tion legislation.
Russia officially announces the loss
of the dreadnaught Imperatritsa Ma
ria. The statement reads: "The Rus
sian dreadnaught Imperatritsa Maria
has been sunk by an internal explosion.
Two hundred Of the crew are missing. !"