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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1917
Page
1
A compilation of Oregon happenings including Bend population figures, Albany conventions, labor meetings, irrigation and mining activity, university sports results, water projects, and local government actions. Notable items mention Linn County, Willamette University game scores, Roseburg prune shipments, and inquiries into irrigation law and fish and game policy.
A meeting at State Treasurer Kay's office with members of the State Land Board and the Grange outlined a bill to activate rural credits amendments. The plan would leave loan rules discretionary with the Land Board. War context interjects, listing alliances and tensions affecting policy as Germany and Austria are cited amid broader European turmoil.
Wayne MacVeagh and Frank MacVeagh are cited as dead in a garbled notice. Reports place U S militiamen returning by March 1 and Pershing's column on the American side of a border dispute. Villa evades troops southwest of Chihuahua City as government forces pursue bandit chiefs northward. Oklahoma House passes anticigarette bill by 79 to 1, banning smoking and cigarette distribution. Senate banking panel backs Ghafroth bill to extend federal farm loan district to Colorado Wyoming Utah New Mexico. Mexican American Joint Commission dissolves after failed negotiations. Supreme Court reads Mann white slave law as covering interstate transportation of women for personal immoral purposes. Convictions of PF Caminott and Maury Diggs of Sacramento affirmed.
The entente reply to President Wilson's peace notes outlines restoration of Alsace Lorraine to France, Trentino and Trieste to Italy, and the Savonic provinces to a separate main. It calls Transylvania to Romania, restoration of a revived Bo verte kingdom, a united Poland under Russian protection, expulsion of Turks from Syria, and liberation of Armenians, Arabes and Syrians from Turkish rule amid German statements to neutrals.
Efforts to unify Republicans and progressives yielded a stormy pretest from George W Perkins and Everett Colby, progressive leaders, accusing Republicans of bad faith. A later Republican committee statement declared the charges unfounded.
The readable portion mentions an advertisement ban and a security official, with references to Alabama and a mailed transmission. The fragment is incomplete and lacks clear entities, dates, or events to anchor a fuller summary.
Report from the federal and city investigators details Seizure of about 1400 quarts of whisky from the steamer A Kilbern after docking on the waterfront. The raid followed a prior seizure of 60 quarts earlier in the night, with Lan ey and Walter Geren cited as key figures in the investigation.
Tacoma obituary notes former United States senator from Washington Week-Addision G. Foster died at his home after several days of illness. The long service included national politics and state leadership with Foster shaping postwar policy.
Portland offers wheat varieties with club at 1.48 and red Russian 1.56 while fortyfold stands at 1.00. Hariey feed and timothy hay price per ton around 29.58 and 21 respectively with alfaite at 18. Woul Eastern Oregon, 360, valley Boe notes. Seattle shows wheat investments at 1.68 with other wheat grades and butter creameries listed around 38 cents.
Washington reports the Danish West Indies are now under U S sovereignty after ratifications of the cession treaty were exchanged by Secretary Lansing and Danish Minister Brun. The long negotiation spanning half a century concluded Wednesday, formalizing the transfer of control to the United States.
Washington reports the death of Admiral Dewey the nation s Spanish War hero and premier naval officer of the world at his home in his 80th year after a general breakdown and arteria seloroala incident to old age.
London reports official confirmation that a German raider sank numerous British and French merchant ships. The Japanese steamer Hudson Maru brought masters and crews of several vessels. other ships including St Theodore and Yarwaterdale were captured, with crews totaling hundreds. The raider’s activity suggests a broad South American coast presence, marking a destructive record comparable to the Emden.
Bertin reports by wireless from Sayville that Russian and Roumanian troops attacked north of the Suchitza valley on the northern Roumanian front. German defenses repulsed the assaults as von Mackensen’s outposts sit six miles from Galata, with Vadeni captured on the Braila Galats line. On the Riga front Russians claim success despite German counterattacks. Franco Belgian front sees mainly artillery activity.
Denver reports a large funeral for Col William F Cody Buffalo Bill with attendance by two governors lieutenant governor officials and legislators from three states and many military fraternal and civic groups. The event drew thousands of mourners and marked a major page in western history.
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