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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-07-10
SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLT NIPPED.
Military Measures Taken to Cope With
Grave Situation.


Pretoria.-premier Botha Of the IN
ion of South Africa has issued a state
ment showing that serious unrest eX-
lists in South Africa. Strong police
and military measures are being TAX
en- to cope with the situation.
Premier Botha said that had not
prompt and effective military meas
ures been taken the situation would
have eliminated in a grave disturb
ance and probably serious loss Of life.
The former : DER leader added that
the government had Information point
ing to the existence of a movement
having for its object the subversion of
the constitution by violent methods.
"There is good reason for suspecting
that enemy agencies are at work in
this country and that they are intri-
gui lingo stir up strife" Premier Botha
says, mot only among Europeans, but
also among the natives, and no means
or matters are deemed toe deSpicable
so long as they can attain their OBJ
ject."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-07-10
johnson CongI Church Notes

Our pastor gave us a very interesting
sermon Sunday morning on ''The Presence
of God" Mum. 1874. The music by the
choir was fine. A solo, from Handel's Or
atorio of The Messiah, sung by Miss Camp
bell of Boston, added much. Miss Camp =
bell is visiting her sister, Mrs. Saleeby.
Prayer meeting at 1880 instead of 7:45 D.
M, Wednesday so that all may attend the
lecture. Subject, Doing more than the
law requires. Matt. s.: 3S-4S.
c. E. Sunday evening. Lessons from
Favorite PARALLELS. Mark AIS, 26-32.
Ladies' Missionary Meeting, Thursday
at 3 p. m. at Mrs. Mudgett's.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-07-10
johnson Methodist Church Note.

Attention IS called to the Missionary
Bulletin which has been placed in the yes
try of the church. Missionary programs
are arranged for the Sunday School once a
month under the direction of Miss Alice
Beecher.
The prayer meeting will be held We'd
nerday at 7:30 p, m. and the subject will
be, "Victory through Defeat"
The Ladies Aid will serve supper in the
vestry Thursday at 8 p. m. until all are
served. The price is 25c.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-07-10

With an army Of more than a million
in France and a steady stream going
over at the rate of3OO, 900 a month, is Mt
it time to give three cheers for Uncle Sam
and Old Glory7
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-07-10

Small, but industrious.
1t takes 5000 bees to weigh a pound
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04
TOO MUCH SUGAR
IN JAPAN AND JAVA

TOXIC, Sept. Awhile housewives
of America and Europe are suffering
from a shortage of sugar, those of the
Far East have superabundnce of
the sweet. Toxic sugar dealers are
wroth, for they fear the product of
the Japanese Empire is to be driven
off the market, or greatly lowered in
value. by sugar imported from Java.
Java is at the bottom of the trouble.
With a smaller export demand than
usual, its centrifugal sugar has ac-
cumulated into great stocks at Ba-
tavia and Sourabay. and consequent
~ prices there are down. This week
the prices have dropped from
1926 to $3.10 picul. C33 pounds so
that the present price at Batavia for
centrifugal sugar is about two and
third cents a pound. With higher
prices in Japan, it is to be expected
that sugar should flow this way. 1t is
being suggested in Toxic that avail
able space on ships plying from Yo-
lsohmma to San Francisco and Seattle
should be devoted to sugar on the
ground that it is not economy to waste
either ship space or fruit available for
canning.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04

mes yesterday. The enemy put down
a heavy barrage and the americans
saw the Germans coming over the top
through morning starlight.
The Americans opened machine
gun fire quickly breaking up the att
tack before it reached the American
lines Then American artillery bar
ragged into the fleeing Germans, in-
flicting heavy losses. Within half an
hour the enemy reformed and real
tackled in the same place. American
rifles thinned out the advancing ranks
so rapidly that the unwounded Ger
mans fled.
Nightly American patrols scout
No Man's-Land discovering German
posts and keeping constant contact
with the enemy along the whole Vesle
front. American artillery is shelling
the enemy rear areas effectively.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04
Y. M. C. A. Secretaries
Off to Front, Brothers
Invade Spruce Camps

PORTLAND, Aug. 31.-Twenty
three Y NJ. C. A. secretaries invaded
the spruce camps today just as their
brothers secretaries have gone to the
French front.
They took with them many things
to make life in the forests pleasanter.
At each camp they will erect a recrea-
tional tent 16 by 80 feet in size and
equipped for letter writing and enter
tainments.
The 23 pioneers will be reinforced
later until the number reaches 60.
They will have six trucks which will
be movable Y. NJ. c. AS.
The "Y's' will work among the 100
600 loggers and the 10000 soldiers Of
the Spruce division. The work will he
divided into several divisions with
headquarters at Port Angeles. Ray
mond, Aberdeen, Coos Bay, Seaside,
Powers and Newport.
Before the work is long underway
there will be 125 small associations at
the many camps. These associations
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04
MOTION PICTURE NEWS
What the Picture Theaters
Have to Tell You.
Alta Today.

/
| With the number of so-calIed "war
pictures" which we have seen--one
or two of them excellent and the
others SO palpably faxed and false
IL Is refreshing, to say the least, to
view one like my Four Years in
Germany"
How anyone, no race or creed bar.
rcd, could view this picture and not
be thrilled to the very core Is beyond
conception. 1t is a truly wonderful
perturbation of events, historically
true. taken from the book OF the
same name, by Ambassador James w.
Gerard. and visualized in manner
both interesting and entertaining.
The photography is said to be per-
feet, the interior settings life-like to
the minutest detail, the exteriors we'll
chosen and the acting of the princi-
pals and entire cast beyond criticism.
The portrayal Of the kaiser and his
staff, the treatment accorded the
Russian and English prisoners by the
Germans; the capturing and deporta-
ton of the Belgian women, the killing
off of the old and young; the shoot
ing of other prisoners en- route to the
prison camps to avoid feeding them;
all these and more are shown in a
manner that can't but bring the war
home to those who view this pic.
ture and it ia interesting to learn at
first hand just what "our boys" are
going up against, and the mastery
struggle of one OF them who prom
ised dad I'd get six of them" He
gets" his six Germans, one after the
other and winds up by rescuing
comrade from the last
The last reel is an answer to the
Germans THE Americans Won't
Fight" and a perturbation of Mr..
Gerard's reply, They won't ehi'
Scene after scene shows the U. s.
troops training. marching and the
West Point cadets in their wonderful
machine like parade, compared to the
kaisers finest hussars with their |
'goose-step."
This remarkable screen production |
which has probably created the most |
comment of any picture ever produc-
ed, will be seen here at the Alta
and Wednesday of this week, |
twice daily. 2:30 afternoons, Sis |
nights. Admission, including tax.
adults, soc children-25c.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04

Allen G. Brattstrom, Seattle, Wash
died of wounds.
Edward H. Keel, Bellingham, Wn''
severly wounded.
William D. Maxwell. Baker, Ore.'
wounded severely.
Carl NJ. Anderson, Wensper, Idaho,
wounded severely.
Robert Duncan Chisholm, Tacoma,
Wash. wounded severely.
Justin H. wilkins st. Helens, Orc.
wounded, undetermined.
Arthur Book, Seattle, Wash.
wounded, undetermined.
Peter Pongon, Sloelm, Wash.
missing in action.
Clinton c. weddell, Startup Wash,
killed in action.
Sgt. Ellis NJ. Miles. Marine. Spo-
kane, Wash. killed in action.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04

should put themselves in relation to-
wards the evening with Lieut.. DOM
browski at st. Martin.
THE companies can even go them
selves when the sectors will have pas
sed in conformity with the orders
given. (Render account to X. T. K.)
Verbal orders for relief will be remitt-
ed by the commander of the cid COM
upany in line to the new one.
"Mattern. Lieutenant, officer Of
Ordnance of the battalion"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04

will move as the camps move. John
A. Goodell, personal representative of
the War Work Council of the Y. NJ.
C. A, is in charge of the work in the
Northwest. Tom Davis is supervising
secretary of the work with headquar-
ters here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04
TODAY'S CASUALTIES.

Released for afternoon papers:
Killed in action .........-.....-- So
Missing in action ..........-... as
Wounded severely ......--..... l6o
Died of disease ..........-..... 15
Wounded, degree undetermined e. rs
Died of wounds .......--.. Z
Died of aeroplane accident. . 2
Died from accident and other
causes ....'..--.-.-. 8
Total ...-............ 4O2
Northwest casualties released to-
day:
Roderick Blythe, Robe, Wash.
killed in action.
William c. Voelker, Colfax, Wash.
killed in action.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04
YANKEE RIFLE AND
CANNON SCATTER FOE
Attacking Enemy Fall or
Flee in Starlight
Attempt.
BY WEBB MILLER

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE AMERICANS IN
FRANCE, September S.-The Amer
leans repulsed strong raids near Fis-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04
Huns HAVE CHIEF
ARMY PILLAGER
BY HENRY WOOD


Omitted Press correspondent
), WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
July, 29.-(By Mail .)-Document'
taken from German prisoners captur-
ed recently on the French front esI
tablished beyond shadow the doubt
that the Germans now have an Off
cially organized system of plllaging
new French territory as fast as 1t is
occupied.
The documents captured show that
this has been especially the case in
the rich territory between the Aisne
and the Marne, where the inhabitants
fleeing before the Hun advance, were
able to take away with them only a
few scattered belongings. According
to these official documents special
troops are set aside for the pillaging
and the various batallions. regiments
and divisions make request through
the regular official channels on these
/ pillaging troops for their portion of
the booty.
! Following is one of these official re-
quests. addressed to the Chief Pillager
for certain kinds of booty:
CDateless)
First Battalion, 442d Regiment
Dear Mr.. Dombrowski:
THE chief of the battalion re-
quests me to ask you to hold ready.
IL possible during the course of the
day or IL not at least at nightfall with
the chief of the section in charge of
the clothing depot, several articles of
which the staff has need.
1--WE will send under cover of the
fp fn ha ok
Yesterday, on account of the obscurity
we did not receive everything that was
necessary. For example we carried
away some women's chemises instead
Of shoes.
Regular shopping List
"You will kindly procure for us:
-Four pairs of laced shoes No. 43.
Two pairs of laced shoes No. 40.
Two pairs of laced shoes No. Al.
Ten pairs of house slippers of diff
ferent sizes
Five over-blouses.
1.-TWO summer blouses.
"Putties.
"'Fine socks.
Tooth brushes.
"(word here unreadable.)
Twenty bottles of Champagne"
with many thanks In advance and
with best wishes.
NJ. MATTERN.
"P. SIN case other companies
make similar demands the battalion
kindly requests you to give them
your best advice"
The above document was found on
the body of a dead German following
the recapture by the French of Hin
No. 90t, west of Chateau Thierry
The evidence contained in this docu-
ment of the official character of tho
Germans pillagiRE is further confiun-
ed in another letter also sent by W.
Mattern. in which he officially desig-
mates Lieut.. Dombrowski, to whom
the above letter was sent. as the grand
pillager OF Chateau Thierry:"
More Prussian system
New Cantonment-Bezy- Ger
main:
Tonight beginning at midnight. an
empty machinegun munition wagon
will be at the place where the rolling
kitchens were formerly installed. iR or
der to permit YOU TO transport various
objects. (It will be necessary for you
to furnish men to haul theml
The rolling kitchen will no longer
bring you warm meals TO the front
lines
"In case the company has need to
have clothing sent TO them from the
hiar II nVa4 af f-Isafeatt = srl5frrrv thew
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-04

of soldiers names are
in fered or died for It,
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-02-11
DETA|N DIPLOMATS
ON ORDERS ISSUED
BY FINN GOVERNMENT
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

STOCKHOLM. Feb. An diplo-
matte couriers on their way to Petro-
grad have been detained in Stockholm
because of instructions received by the
Finnish minister here TO wise no pass
ports for foreigners
Ira Nelson Morris, the American
minister, has received information from
Tornea, on the Finnish border that a
train had left there for Petrograd, but
that there was no certainty that it
would get through to the Russian cap
ital.
A Swedish relief boat will leave to-
morrow for Manly -Luoto. taking pro-
visions and money furnished by Min
lister Morris for the American consul at
Helsingfors.
Scandinavian refugees brought to
Stockholm by the first Swedish relief
expedition tell narrowing stories of
wholesale murder by the Red Guards in
Helsingfors and TammerfOrs. In the
latter city, according to reports, sew
enty youths We're stood against a wall
and moved down with machine gun
fire while they wept and pleaded for
mercy. Their bodies were stripped and
mutilated.
! Red Guards are reported hunting
down students remorselessly and the
/ total murders in Helsingfors. it is es-
| timated will reach into the hundreds.
| Persons familiar with Finland believe
! the majority of the country's socialists
are fighting on the governments side.
J They point out that the district where
| the White Guards strength was chiefly
| recruited is normally a socialist strong
/ hold. The revolt, they contend could
! be suppressed quickly if it were not
I for the Russian soldiers and sailors
who are fighting on the side of the
reds on orders from Petrograd.
That Lenine, Trotzky and their asso-
ciates in Russia regard the Finnish
struggle as a first step in spreading
the Bolshevik revolution westward is
indicated by an interview with Lenine
published in the local Bolshevik organ
the Politiken. He declared:
I'VE shall soon dispose of the small
states" Upon the interview the Poll
tiken comments thus:
What is going on in Finland now
is only a rehearsal for the European
drama in which the curtain shortly is
going up
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-02-11
CHINA RULER
CHIDES SELF
AS TOO WEAK
Presiden, 91sa 81 Kwo Chang
Blames No 81 ;SSlse for
Shortcomings h, .ecasts
His Own Retirement Soon
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1


PEkING, Wednesday. Feb 6.-Pres-
ident Feng Kow Chang, in a remark
able mandate issued today, bitterly
reproached himself for the country's
political trouble. He declared he was
too weak for the burden imposed
upon him and forecast his retirement
from the presidency as soon as order
is restored.
'At the time of the uprising in
Human last year" the president said,
'the cabinet advocated Il militant
policy. Though l gave my approval,
/ always have considered the diff
ficulty of the situation and been
inclined to peace. l have not pub
licly declared war, and this accounts
for the present trouble"
The president cited various defec-
tions by generals and reserves to
the northern troops which he said
have damaged the nations dignity,
and that, therefore, ministers, one
after another, have resigned.
Sat that time" the mandate con-
tinues, Il should have upheld law by
inspiring the army to fight. but the
Human authorities telegraphed that
hostilities had been suspended and
the Kwang Tung officials promised
to cancel their declaration of inde-
pendence. Taking their words al
their face value, suspected that wal
might still be averted at the eleventh
hour
The president then analyzes the
causes of the peoples misery, placing
the blame first upon Flu Liang Tio
former governor of Human, who de-
serted, and others who failed to dc
their duty.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-02-11
NEW CHAIRMAN
Of REPUBLICAN
PARTY SOUGHT
Republican 4. p. Leased Wire1

ST LOUIS, Feb. 10.-Eighteen
members of the republican national
committee, which is to hold series
of conferences and one formal meet
ing here tomorrow and Tuesday, had
reported to Secretary James B. Rey-
nolds tonight, and chief interest cent
ers in the contest for the chairman
ship, made vacant by the resigna-
ton of William r. Wilcox. John T.
Adams, committeeman from Iowa, and
w. II. Hays of Indiana are leading
figures in this.
George w. Perkins arrived tonight
and issued a statement in which he
insisted that "all we progressives
ask is that a republican be selected
as chairman of the national COM
mittee who, by his record and abil-
ity will at once give promise of being
able to harmonic and organize; for
a political party succeeds by assimi-
latiOn, not by elimination"
Committeeman registered with Mr.
Reynolds include Allen B. Jaynes
Arizona: Hubert Work, Colorado; H
f. MacGregor, Texas.
Three progressives. Mr.. Perkins
Harold Licks. Chicago, and Everett
Colby, New Jersey, were present by
invitation They We're included in the
six progressives on the advisory COM
mittee of fifteen on the Hughes cam
paign. The other three were not
expected, although invited
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-02-11
Casualties
of American
Men Reported
Republican A. P. Leased Wire

Republican A. p. Leased Wirel
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. -
Deaths from natural causes were
reported by General Pershins to-
day as follows:
Corporal James F. Strange, in
fantry, diabetes, South Manches-
ter, Conn.
Mechanic Alfred Hagen, infant
ry, pneumonia, lostine, Ore.
Private Solomon Goldwater, en-
gneer (cause not given), New
York City.
Private Frank H. GiIIis, infant
ry, puer ura, Ansonia, Conn.
Cook John Miller, Jr., field ar
tillery, heart disease, Minneapolis.
Private Leslie A. Gray, balloon
squadron, pneumonia, Jerseyv'IIe,
III.
Private BureaII Pitts, infantry,
pneumonia, Callahan, Cal.
Private Michael O'ConnelI, en-
gineers, diabetes, Allegheny, N. Y.
Corporal Walter L. Nelson, in
fantry, pneumonia, Portland, Ore.
Private Irving r. Finn. infantry,
mesenteric thrombosis, Northamp-
ton, Mass.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-02-11
PLOT SCENTED IN
DYNAMITE FOUND
BY MESA FARMER

MESA, Feb. 11.-Ellsworth Baily
who is ranching just north of Mesa, on
Saturday last while walking through
his cotton field, located = find which
at once commanded and received his
respectful and cautious attention.
Smuggling contentedly under bed of
leaves there reposed three sticks of
dynamite labeled extra strength" So
confident was Mr.. Ellsworth that the
dynamite meant what it said, that he
phOned in for Policeman Pickens That
gentleman, handling the innocent lit
tie yellow packages as one would a
babe in swaddling clothes. brought it
to town and deposited it in a place
where it would be safe from the hands
of the careless. Pickens states that
never in his life has he driven over as
rough a stretch of road as lies along
the smooth highway between Bailey $
ranch house and town.
There is no clue as to who placed the
explosive in the field. 1t evidently had
been deposited since the rain, as the
covering bore no marks of the weather.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-02-11
SHERIFF and
DEPUTIES DIE
IN FIGHT TO
GET SLACKERS
Graham County Officer and
Posse Men Killed by Two
Young Men Declared to be
Selective Draft Evaders
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lHepuDlcdn A. p. Leased Wire
GLOBE, Feb. 10. = Sheriff Frank
Mcbride and Deputy Sheriffs Martin
kempton and Cain Wootan. of Graham
county, are dead, an aged man named
Powers is probably fatally wounded.
and Thomas and John Powers, his
sons, and Thomas Sisson are fugitives
as result of fight near Klondyke,
80 miles southeast of here, early to-
day, when the officers sought to ar
rest Powers's sons as alleged draft
evaders. Deputy United States Mar
shall Frank Haynes of Globe escaped
with slight injury.
According TO Haynes's account, he
planned to arrest the younger Powers
on the draft evasion charge the
Graham county officers volunteering
to accompanying him that they might
investigate the death of a sister Of
the alleged draft evaders. who died
about six weeks ago. under circum-
stances which Haynes said the other
Officers considered suspicious HAYNES
said that. when the officers reached
/ the Powers cabin in the mountains.
after a long horseback and automobile
trip from Stafford. Ariz, they found
Powers. his two sons and Sisson there.
Haynes said they opened fire on the
D
shots had been exchanged Mcbride
Kempton and Wootan We're killed and
he was wounded. He hurried back to
Stafford TO secure aid
While he was gone Powers's sons and
/ Sisson took the horses and arms of
the slain officers and escaped into the
mountains. Posses from Globe. SAT-
ford, Winkleman, Tucson and Wilcox
were sent out after the fugitives and
/ tonight had not reported
The Powers trio operated a small
/ gold mine.
The offices of the United States at
\ torney and the United States marshal
IN Phoenix were informed early yes
terday evening of the murder of the
Graham county officers, but no details
of the crime in addition to those con-
veyed in the Associated Press dispatch
We're received.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-02-11
FEDERAL POSSE
AFTER SLACKERS

Word received at o'clock this morn
ing from Deputy United States Marshal
Weage was to the effect that posse
is on the trail of the alleged slackers
who are declared to have killed three
Graham county officers in a gun battle
yesterday. The men are said to be
headed toward Nogales, in southwest
erly direction which indicates their ap-
parent intention of crossing the Mexi-
can border.
The elder Powers, father of the two
men alleged to be evadng the draft
is reported dangerously wounded in the
right eye.
Deputy United States Marshal
Weage, in a telegram received from
United States Marshal Frank Haynes
of Globe, was informed of the details
Of the shooting last evening. All Off
GERS in the state have been notified.
Marshal Dillon is in Prescott, the chief
deputy marshal at Tucson and MIR.
Weage is in charge here.
Marshal Frank Haynes was armed
with warrants for the men, charging
draft evasion when they were encoun-
tered and the fight started.