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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Afraid OF husband; Wants Divorce.

Afraid that her husband will kill
her father or brother, according to
her allegations, Mrs. Artie M. Bea-
the Of Basket Mountain has brought
suit against Clarence G.. Beathe for a
divorce. She alleges that he has or
dered her father. W. Fl. Case OF Wes-
ton. and her brother to keep OFF hc;
farm and threatened to kill them il
they came upon it. She further al
leges that he left home last MAY.
leaving her and their 10 year old dau-
glitter alone on the farm. Day before
Yesterday he returned and found that
her father had been visiting her. His
actions so alarmed them that her fa-
Their was hurried away, she alleges.
She further alleges that he is ex-
tremely brutal and cruel in his treat
ment of his stock. She wants the Gus
tody of the daughter. Carter &
Smythe are attorneys for her.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
PIONEER WOMAN DIES
AT HER ATHENA HOME
Mrs. Elizabeth Stamper Passes Away
Thursday Afternoon, Aged 81 Years
s Months and is Days.

ATHENA, July I4.-Mrs, Elizabeth
Stamper died Thursday afternoon at
the HON of her SON G. w. Bush. at
the age of So years, s months and Is
days. She had been ill for "a number
of years, the immediate cause of her
death being hue to paralysis.
Mrs. Stamper was one Of h few
remaining pioneers who came to
umatiila county in the early 70's,
coming to this county ~ years ago.
Since last fall Mrs. Stamper has
beer living in Athena with her son.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Il.
F. Swaggart and Mrs. James Stamp
er and three sons, Milt, Willis and
lobe, The funeral was held at ?
o'clock today at the M. f. church
Rev, Walter :. Gleiser offieiated. The
burial took place in the Athena
cemetery.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Pruitts Return From Trip.

W. C. E. Pruitt, publicity man for
the Pendleton Roundup, arrived
home yesterday from an extended
trip through the willamette valley
and southern oregon where he founf
much interest in the annual frontier
festival of this city. He attended
several Of the small frontier shows
in the western part of the state but
does moi believe they will interfere
with the Roundup crowd. He vas
accompanied on his auto trip by his
wife. Miss Mary Joerger Joined them
at Salem and returned with them, as
also did Miss Jean Jacobs of Port
land and Miss Margaret Fell of Eu-
gene. Miss Jacobs win be a guest
of the Fruits and Miss Fell of her
grandmother. Mrs. Clara StOcker.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

department is the opinion of United
States Senator George Il. Chamber
lain. OF Oregon. chairman of the mill
itary affairs committee of the sem
ate. Senator Chamberlain made this
assertion on the floor Of the senate.
and added that IL these spies can be
found they must either be shot or
hanged, Senator Chamberlain says
he feels certain that Information re-
garding the Pershing expedition To
France reached Germany from spies
in America and that these spies have
aids in the navy department.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
LEAVES ENTIRE. ESTATE,
$35, To PEABODY INSTITUTE

= Though his estate is valued
y approximately at $35 only,
= Charles Hammond, veteran
= English bootblack who lie
= here recently, left "A will in
. which, with the exception Of rs
= cents to each of several rela-
= tives in England. ne devised
= and -bequeathed all Of his pro-
= perty to the Peabody Institute
= of New York. a charitable insti-
tuition.
= Back Of the will there Is a
= story. The will was drawn in
= 1905 by City Recorder Thomas
y Fitz Gerald and was turned
= over by him today to V. Strnble
= administrator. At the time Of
= the making of the Will. Ham
= mond was under the impress
, sion that someone in England
= had left him considerable pro-
y perry. In some manner he de-
. veloped "A belief that a promi-
. nent Portland attorney and the
. british consul were conspiring
= to defra1d him of his property
. and, knowing hat the Peabody
. institute was a wealthy corpor-
. alton, made that institution his
. chief beneficiary, thinking it
. would undertake to secure the
= property by legal means.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

From the little town Of Unity,
Oregon, five Young men arrived in
Pendleton this morning for the pur-
pose of enlisting. All of them enlist
ed in the Tenty Field Regiment of
the National Army at the office Of
Corporal Frank Harvey and will leave
for Portland for final examination.
are Archie J. Davis, Ray r.
Faust, Arthur r. and Delbert W.
Husbands and Joseph o. Hardman.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
TACOMA Street CAR
employees THREATEN
TO STRIKE MONDAY

TACOMA, July 14.-Street car mo-
t"rmen, conductors and employees Of
every other branch of the Tacoma
railways voted today to call "A strike
Monday morning unless their requests
t." the management were acceded to
before then The men ask for rein
statement of the six street car men
an one electric operator recently dis
charged for connection with the uni
on. it was alleged, They ask the
right to organize locally.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Has beautiful skunk Hides.

Stanley Jewett of the Biological
urvey has just finished mounting
four beautiful skunk hides and they
now form the most attractive part OF
his exhibit of bird and animal skins
The animals were captured by him
recently while on a moving picture
trip with w l. Finley They succeed
ed in getting some good motion pic
tres of the little tsriped animals but
had a rather odorous time of it then
and for a few days succeeding
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Kasari pivorce suIt Dismissed.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob B.. Kasari yes
terday settled their domestic difficult
ties and the divorce suit and cross
complaint was dismissed by their at
torney. Mr.. Kasari brought the suit
for divorce and his wife promptly
brought a cross-compIaint What
threatened to be a bitterly fought
case ended ~peaceably when the hus-
band. wife and two children met dur
ing the afternoon and agreed to for
get all past differences.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
VIII Confer With U. S. w. v.

Dean Shull left this morning for
Portland as a representative of Mala-
bon Camp U. s. w ", to confer
with the authorities in Portland upon
the matter of cooperating in the pro-
lection of the grain fields of this
county during the harvest season.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Leaving on Auto "Trip.

Walter S, Bowman, pioneer photo
grapher of Pendleton, accompanied
by his wife and daughter, xpect to
leave today or tomorrow for a six
weeks uto trip through oregon and
California, They expect to go as fat
south as San Diego.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Market Writer Here.

Hymen H. Cohen. market editor of
the Oregon Journal. arrived in PEN
dleton early this afternoon on his an
nual pilgrimage of inspection over
the inland empire wheat fields. He
has just been through the PaIouse
and Walla Walla countries and finds
conditions better than he anticipated.
He expects a big crop this year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

William Kennedy of Hermiston,
charged with assault with a danger
Gus weapon upon his son. was yester-
day afternoon held under $500 aft
err being arraigned before Justice of
the Peace Joe H, Parkes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Small Men Can Enlist.

The minimum height and weight
for acceptance as an army recruit
has been reduced so hat a very small
man, providing he is otherwise quail
flied, may now enlist. Recruiting
Officer Frank Harvey this morning
received instructions hat the mini
mum height had been reduced to 81
inches and the minimum weight to
10 pounds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Thermometer ut IO2

The mercury reached 1O2 this aft
ernoon, a high as it has been this
season. Vt noon the official Their
mometer registered 100 and the max.
imum was reached about 1880. AT
PAS the mercury had sunk to 9S ow-
ing to clouds blowing up.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
BUYS INTO schaefcr's ,Iewelry.

f. Green, employed as watch
maker for the past three years at
the A. L. Schaefer iewelry store, has
purchased an interest in the store.
Mr.. Green has had IS years expert
ence in wholesale and retail jewelry
business besides having an expert
knowledge of the intricacies Of
matchmaking.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

probation for good headgear is in no.
wise impaired. saw the hat and took
an insane fancy to it. When the
editorial president came to leave the
hospital. his hat was not where he
left it. 1t required a diligent search
by the attednants before it was re-
covered.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
ENGIAND'S LOSSES IN
WEEK ARE 20 VESSEL -

LONDON. July 1.-THE sinking
of II British merchantmen OF more
than 1900 o m is reported i'm the
weekly summary of shipping losses
issued today.
Three merchantmen OF less than
1909 tons and seven fishing vessels
also were sunk.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

a fire was threatened at the Troy
Laundry this morning when the big
smokestack burned out. The fire
department hosed the building and
prevented any spread of the fire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
President Lost His Hat.

President 2. e. Brodie Of the Ore
gon State Editorial Association went
down to the Eastern Oregon State
Hospital last evening with a hat on
his head but he had a narrow es-
cape from returning bareheaded. 1t
so happened that one Of the inmates
OF the hospital, whose faculty of APP
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

Future meetings of the Carpenters.
and Joiners Union will be held in
the Little Eagle-Woodman (Union)
Hall ]. II. ROSS. President.
Earl A.. WILLIAMS, Secretary. 7-l6
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

Behind the East st. Louis murders
IS the skulking figure OF the scoun-
drel who spreads deadly r,Imors
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

cd Charities win be held this evening
at the council room of the city hall,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

Though a great NAM cows are GO
ing dry, the result is not due to the
of prohibition congressman
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

Is IBOF1.
A daughter was born last night at
sos Union street to Mr., and Mrs,
Ernest Zerba of Athena.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

other severe infections to be guard
ed against. yermin often in lUxuriant
multiplication to be eliminated, while
sharing bare sustenance with starv
ing people; these, with the lack OF
bathing facilities, are the monoton
Gus entries in many a woman phy
5ician's diary during the first years
OF the war.
Now that Englands medical and
surgical needs are greater, the wom-
en- physicians have proved most help
full in the care of soldiers suffering
from the effects of wounds of joints
Cnd nerves. These cases require pat
lent care. sympathy and encourage
ment, but above ali must have expert
medical skill to help thin take aG-
vantage of every possible chance for
Improvement Women physicians have
proved ideal fer the task. Manifest
ly American women physicians will
have great professional opportunity
N emulating the fine example set by
their English sisters.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04
WOMAN PLAYS Her PART.

A recent summary Of the work done
by women physicians for the allied
nations makes it very clear that a
most significant chapter OF the medi-
cal history of the war has been made
through their heroic efforts. England
and the United States are the two
countries with a notable proportion Of
women in the medical profession. At
the beginning of the war, as the Brit
sh Medical Journal notes, their sery-
ices we're not needed in England, SO
many of them devoted themselves to
the crying needs OF Belgium, Serbia
and France, with magnificent results
The example Of their unstinted hero
ism under conditions where there was
no publicity to stimulate, no applause
to encourage and just a high sense
Of duty to support in some of the most
deterrent tasks, is worthy Of enduring;
record. Virulent typhus to be fought,
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04
Women Study Law,

Atlanta, Oct. 3.-Dozens of young
women have matriculated at the At
lanta law school, which is just open
ing for the fall term, and if the war
continues long enough the Fulton
county courts will find women lawyers
quite the common thing. Under an
act OF the Georgia legislature, passed
In 1916, women are admitted to the
practice of law in this state, and sew
eral already have taken advantage Of
the privilege conferred upon them. At
present the operation of the courts
in Atlanta and Fulton county is con-
siderably hampered by the fact that
more than 100 lawyers have Joined
the nations fighting forces.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04
NO PUNISHMENT TOO SEVERE.

There can be no question that the
activities of the I. ". W. and similar
organizations have been promoted by
German agents with German none.
The membership Of that organization
consists Of material particularly amen
aJle 10 the G 3rman purpose, for that
portion Of it not openly anti-Ameriean
is distinctly un-American, IS an or
sanitation the I. ". w is against ali
organized society; its membership
largely consists Of Individuals Who
left the countries Of their Dirtl Tor
he good OF those countries-p persons
who never should have been permit
led to find an asylum il this land
Today they are as foreign to Ameri
aanism as they were the day they
landed at Ellis Island TOO liberia
immigration laws have made il pos
2ible for European countries TO un
load upon the United States theil
criminal classes, and now we are pay
ing the penalty.
Proper diagnosis is half the cure
for any disease. War has taught II.
what the l. W. w. is ard of what i
consists. No punishment can be TOT
severe for the men who have direct
Cd sabotage or other crimes obvious
~ reasonable when the nation is a
var Men or women guilty Of com
hitting such crimes, or OF being con
nected in any way with thom mus
re punished IS severely as the law
Of the land viii permit AS for alitI
members or those members natural
lied but still alien at heart, the fac
Of their membership in the I. w W
or similar organizations should be SUI
ficient evidence to warrant their be
ing sent back without delay to TIN
lands from which they came.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04
FOES OF AMERICA.

None too soon have the federal au-
thorilics taken the necessary steps to
put out of harms way many Of the
leaders OF the Iawless and Un-Amerl-
can organization known as the Indus
uial Workers Of the World. L at
less officials Of The Department OF
Justice long have realized the menace
that ANA aimilar organizations are
TO order and peace in this country,
bu, lack of law and lack OF direct eyi-
dence have acted heretofore IS a de-
torrent 80 arrest Now that the need
cd wholesale roundup" has come. it
safely may he assumed that the
agen.s Of the department are in pos
session of evidence to convict and
that the courts will do their part.
There should be no cessation OF
governmental activity until every Sc
3ilorisS. no matter wha. his guiso OF
how loudly he processes Amer:canism.
IS run TO earth. This applies to all
those who endeavor in any way to
hamper the government in It's great
work Of successfully prosecuting til,
war, whether they be aliens or pro
Tossing Americans.
That the l. ". v. Is an Organize
ion ami I. Il. v. leaders as inaivid-
uaIs have bee1 engaged il distinct
ly reasonable movement there Is lit
tie reason t oaoubt Recently ii WIS
shown r. Enid. Okla. that rising
to create throughou. the country
reign cf terrorism was projected for
midsummer, and i left TO so their
way unmo]ested the reasonable eIe-
menss involved i'll that project viii
leave no stone unturned to bring
about such a condition as was then
contemplated.
Recent news dispatches have told
9f farmers Of Western states taking
INTO Their own hands the punishment
Of individual members Of the I. ".
W That there was warrant for dras-
tic action in their case is shown by
records found by Department OF jus
ice agents at some of the I. W. W.
headquarters containing reference TO
sums of money paid out fer sabotage
What sabotage means is accurately
described by 4 witness having inside
knowledge Of the I. W W. Ii means.
Gays this witness, dropping phoplor-
GUS balls into dry wheat fields so that
babies may lack bread" It means
pinching the apples 9 man IS paid to
pick so that they viii rot in the bar
rel. 1t means firing resinous forests
70 dry the springs and turn fruitful
land into desert It means stones
thrown INTO threshing machines. rail
Dad trains ditched, lumber yards de-
troy al, food warehouses; burned. It
means bombs hidden on ships So that
cargoes may sink and sailors die"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04
News OF a Day in
The State Capitol
KICK MADE FOR GOOD ROAD TO
CAMP GORDoN-oTHER
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Atlanta, Oct. 3.-While Camp Cor
don, the great cantonment thirteen
miles north of Atlanta, is almost is
olated from the city by reason of the
condition of the automobile road, At
lanta civic organizations and public
officials are storming the office of
the commissioner Of roads and reve-
nues of DeKalb county, in which the
cantonment is located
Twice the commissioner, whose
name Is r. j. Freeman, has promised
In writing to build modern automo.
bile highway from Camp Gordon to
the terminus of the Fulton county
highway at the county line, but up to
date he has not put a pick in the
ground or used shovel Moreover
his road work superintendent has
broadly intimated that the canton
ment is doing DeKalb county no good,
an dthe commissioner therefore does
not intend to spend a nickel building
road. OF course in this contention
no one agrees, since the training
camp has immensely increased land
values and created market for all
the produce the county can raise. :,
The military authorities at Camp
Gordon have exhausted themselves in
an effort to obtain action from the
DeKalb county commissioner, who is
now absent from Decatur, the county
seat, on fishing trip.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

The colored selectmen Of the state
Will report at Camp Gordon tomor-
row and the next day We believe
that there will be no trouble with
the colored troops lin the various
camps. There are bad men in every
community, as there are specked ap-
pies in most barrels, but we are OF
the opinion that the good will out
weigh the bad and that all will be
well with the negro troops.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

What becomes of the money spent
for war purposes? Of course, it is
not lost in the sense that it is destroy
ed or taken permanently out of the
markets. But it is lost to the people
from whose pockets it has been taken,
even though it be promptly restored
as circulating medium-those who
produced it have signed mortgage
leld by those who earn it.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04
VELVET BEANS.

To Georgia's store OF plenty there
is being added to Il new commodity
velvet beans, The discovery that the
heretofore unused legume. for other
purposes than grazing and forage, has
d wonderful food value brings natur-
ally TO nina the day when cotton seed
were used for stock bedding or burn
cd to get rid OF them. 1t is a wide
difference between a valuation Of near
Iy 500 4 ton and a burden the farmer
used to worry himself over how to
get rid OF. but it has come. says the
Macon Telegraph.
Just what the tonnage of velvet
beans grown n Georgia this year will
be isn't known. They are almost all
over the face Of the earth in Georgia
this year ana The sudden increase in
acreage has been SO great nobody has
gone to the trouble, or found reason
yet to figure out the prospective ton
mage. Suffice it, at this time, to say
that there ale so many velvet bean
crops that mills over the whole state
have provided themselves with mach
inory for crushing them into meal
which, at first, was to be used for
stock feed on a sort of experiment.
but without any really definite knowl-
edge of its full value.
Necessity has become the mother Of
Investigation, rather than invention,
and the fact now develops that the
velvet bean has higher protein CON
tent and therefore 3 greater food val
ne than the more Or less wonderful
cottonseed meal Cottonsaed meal
selling at $44 per ton is found 20 be
Of no greater food value than velvet
beans crushd with hull included,
while the protein, carbohydrates pad
fat contents of the velvet bean minus
the hull is in excess of the same CON
tents Of the cotton seed In addition
| o which, those who have made the
investigation point out. the manufac-
| ture of velvet beans into meal is far
less expensive than that of cotton
| seed.
Taken 10 either this means-in the
i light Of t. : abundant yield of beans
! in Georgia this year-that there hes
been added to the states worderfu
cattle grazing attractions which are
making for great big things for Gecr
gia in the live stock enterprises; u
its increase of 10,000,0G0 bushels i
the yield of sweet potatoes which 10
the first time have this year beer
given an international place on a die
list; to the nearer approach Of indie
pendence of the other corn growing
states; to the long list Of vastly in
! creased food crops of nearly ever.
variety, Georgia is on the verge o
entering into the discovery OF its Owl
| possibilities with yet another agri
cultural product that will liken t,
bringing into everyday use some o
The citrus fruits which for ages hav
been believed to be poison
Instead Of cover crop planted sole
Iy for the grazing Of cattle, yet at
hitting all its great value in that re
spect, the velvet bean promises t
become in a very short time one @
the real big money crops i'll thi
state.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

Those apple dumping editorials in
the Triton Gazette make us hungry
all right enough, and what's more,
they make US wish with all Of our
heart fer some OF those delightful ap-
pie dumDlings that mother use tt
make
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

That Brunswick picture displayed
in a local moving picture house the
other night might have been great
advertisement for Brunswick and we
hope it was, but we merely suggest
20 the Board OF Trade that hereafter
it purchase that sort Of publicity from
the newspapers and pay for it!
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

livery American vessel CT more
than 2,5o0 tons dead weight capacity
Will be requisitioned by the govern
ment on October Is; it seems Europe
has planned i winter campaign.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

The Dixie Fruit Produce Company
of Mobile turned one hundred car
loads OF melons into choice vinegar
in sixty days. The company has plan
ned to plant 5000 acres of land in
melons next season.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

an Alabama farmer furnished MS
watermelons to the Dixie Produce
Company for making vinegar at So
per ton; he reports that he made 1920
an acre. Taking all the melons, the
company paid him for forty tons ptr
acre on the average.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04

Brunswick must keep up her repu-
tation with reference to the sale OF
Liberty bonds We shot high; We
muat shoot in the same direction the
second time.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-04
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
GIynn County,
City OF Brunswick,
United States Court, Souther Dis
trict Of Georgia for ten counties.
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That St. Paul convention the other
day was real joke. Composed O.
farmers it prohibited war profits OF
all lines except agriculture.