lBjohU NO. :.(> VOL XII BOLSHEVÍKI SAYS AMERICA IS STARVING I AL REVIEW OUR OWN STATE -^5 tea ‘ I SPOKANE LOOTED Paints Lurid Picture to Help Robber Gets $800, Failing Their Cause to Molest Twenty Millions in Vault. *•’ -. vi Some Recent Happening.« i In Various Parts of Oregon Manufac:.' tes, Enterprises and Improvements, Providing Paytolls and Pio not­ ing Deveicpment Cottag? Grove District Produces Good Corn Crop Stockholm, Sunday, Sept. 8.—The lack of reliable information in Finland Spokane, Wash., Sept. 9. Liberty and Sweden concerning internal affairs in Russia amazed the American and I bonds and thrift stamps totaling V00 Il dian reufgees who have just arrive, in value were stolen fr. m the cafe in from Russia. They were likewise the otfice of Turner Oliver, rsgister of much sui prised to find Finland and the Federal Land bank, on the filth fluor of a down to wn office building Sweden in such a normal condition. here early ye.terday morning. They The BuLhevik and German news­ papers and propagandists have the field were the property ofjemployes of the ad to themselves in supplying Russia bulk an 1 their friends. Securities with information. Russia is given valued at $20,IX)0,000 in the v..ult of little foreign news except that which the bank were nut. molested. The thief apparently was interrup indicates weakness on the part of the entente powers and the strength of the e l at his work by the arrival at hi Oiiice of G. B Ryan, a title examiner central empires. The government now actually prints for the bank, who met a younj m. n in the few journals still appearing in the corri.ler whom he supposed to te a fellow employe an i greeted hi n with a Petrograd and Moscow, pleasant “good tn irning”. When the The Associate I Press correspondent theft was discovered the man Ind dis­ at Moscow', who left Russia with the appeared. The vault of the bank appa­ recently arrived party and is filing this rently had not been tampered with. dispatch, can testify that the Ameri cans remaining in Russia were treat­ ed to many announcements that the Concrete Shiis Form s Indians were opposing conscription Nearly R. tidy. in America and that the United States was again in the throes of an Indian war. The people of the United Sta’e.s Vancouv r, Wash., Sept. 10. F'vms were described as starving fol the laca or such corn nudities ai sugar ani Hoar for the first cm rete vessel to b i built general predictions were made that on the Columbia river are being built allied activities on the Western at the yards of the Great Northern Italia 1 fronts would fail because Concrete Shipbuildi ig cu np my in this United States and Canada could city. The ways have been so nearly completed that actual work on the first not furnish the necessary bread. of five vessels under contract for the Such stories were so ridiculous that quartermaster department of the army .'they gained no credence among the has now started. The first ceme it will educated foreigners. Neither did they bepiurel into the form* sometime this lielieve the wild reports of wholesale week, it is expected. Cone rete vessels Btaivation in England, where persons are launched sideways, and ste .4 vessels were pictured as falling dead from ar4 usu il'y launched stern first. hunger.—Telegram. A large crew of men is employed at ----- —--------- the local plant, which is expected to produce at least a ship a month wh< n Major J. M. Williams the plant is in full operation. Cottage Grove, Or., Sept. 10 With in a few Lrief years the Cottage Grove j country has disproved the allegation, , often made, that Oregon conld not gr w corn. The product of that cereal is increasing every year and the quality has improved until many ate predicting that this will in the future become one of the most important crops of the Willamette valley. Jackson Godard, who found time outside of school to put in a crop on the Spencer pl ice, has two acres of corn, many of the ears of which are 9 or 10 inches long, ul’ good size and tilled out perfectly. cf Greo.i. Sept. 9. Malli', ur -National Nir.it Company buys mill. Remodeling enlarging building for machinery fueled in few wee' s. Empire—Southern Oregon Co npriny mill here to be operated, employing ■ men. 2'K»,w $4,811 school liuil lie ' Forest Fires Destroy to be built here at once. Fencing in Polk County. I If th Te ever was a time wli 1 abs >- Dallas, Or., Sept. (5. — Fo’cst fires lute business should oe applied to pubh : during the past week have done con- affairs it is now when the nati >n is at siuerable damage to property in the 1 war.. Corvallis—Y M. C. A. appropri t .1 western part i f the county. In one Confronted with the menace of a power which knew no place near l e.ies several miles of fenc­ $6,000 for hut here. law but its own bestial pleasure, America had no course but to add ing on the Frank Kai property and on Mr.rcola New Fischer m II to r.->! i • > its strength to the battle which should establish for some centuries he MeSherry ranch were destroy cl. one destroyed by tire, to c *s'. $101.0 * >. that nitght is not right. On no other basis will peace last. The fire entered the green timber, but Work under way; w ll employ 17 > m i. V/ith every fiber of the national being aquiver with war effort, the strenous etrorts put forth by i Capacity 150,0 ) i feet d Jly. are YOU contributing the full measure of your support? forest Cottage Grove —Brown Planer in Let your answer be loud and clear at the next opportunity, ranchers and the l’olk county from eratio 1. Machine op Tate! bv elec­ fire patrolmen kept the 111 lies which is the Fourth Liberty Loan. Nothing but MORE THAN ¡spreading and they are now under tricity has capacity of 10,000 daily. YOU CAN AFFORD will.be an honest answer. I control. N Tth Bend again has hopes .of a ’ -4»____________________________ 4 hotel. TO VISIT BORDER FOR Hood River Valley Rye Pasture is Used to Happner—Construction work on con­ crete building begun here. Product Plant Burns. Help Hay Shortngc. LABORERS Salem One million p mndsof Bart' “t Hood River, Or., Sept. 9—The Hood Corvaliis, O1-., Sept. 10.—Rye for fall pears will probably be record establi li­ River Valley Products company’s plant pasture to releave the hay ^shortage is ed this year for Wallace orchard ne f Dundon Off to Mexican Line at Odell, just alter the workmen had being pl in* I by many Lane county here. Last year orchard .prod ic J completed additional buildings and the farmers. Those who tried it last year For Mento Relieve Short 10t),0i)i) pounds. installation of equipment, ourned Sat ­ report to N. S, Robb, county agricult­ Eugene—Montana men buy two tim­ urday morning, entailing a loss of $5010. ural agent, that they are enthusiastic age on Railroads. But for the rallying of scores of ranch­ ber tracts in Al a district. Building over the results obtained. A much ers from the surrounding communities, of mil! to handle logs planned; $d!> ),<).)) larger planting is expected this year. Nam d Camp Adjutant. involved in transaction. “Rye seeded io S 'fitemborae in b;t Portland. Sept 10., —In the hone of who forniedjbucket brigades, the en- 1 M.irshti 4d Bu'ii-'.TS to bnild. troop entire town of Odell would proably pastured all fall,” says Mr. Robb, "It recruiting Mexican laborers from tl e Italy Protests lo U. Ä barracks to provide quarters for have been wiped out. is the best supplemental fool for international border for places as track Camp Lewis. American Lake, Wash. on Ban on Wine. dairy cows. Cattle, sheep and hogs workers on the railways of O egon and men. Sept. 7. —Major John M. Willioms, of feed upon it. It is so good that most Wasiiitgton, J. H. Dundon, lab >r Halfway — 50,000 pound carlo id Portland, Or , yesterday became camp Popular Vote is Needed. of the rye grown in Lane county last commissioner under L. C. Gilman, mohair valued at $28,000 shipp ■ ! fro n adjutant, succeeui ig Major Lester protest Washington, Sept. 9.—A Salem, Or., Sept. 7.—In an opinion here. Gehm m. who has been acting in that against the provision in the war time fall was used for pisture with the re­ district director of the United States to District Attorney Ray, of Lane sult that the amount harvested is not railroad admit . istu atioi , has left on a capacity- Major Gehman returned to prohibition bill birring the importation Riddle M iehinerv being place I on his command in the 166th depot|brigade. of wines, except thote in transit more than a fourth of the quanity trip for the South, intending to go as County, Attorney-General Brown today property of Oreg in Nickel Mining *’e. explained how a road district might needed this fall. far as El Paso, Texas. He will be ' near here for fiurpo.se of handlii g Major Williams was adjutant general after final passage of the measure, Rve for pasture has not been grown gone about l<> days. There is a raise a sum in excess of the 6 per cent I chrome ores. Equipment^will probably of the Oregou National guard until his has been m l ie by th? Italian govern­ limitation amendment when no money so extensively as it should be. thinks scarcity of common labor in the Pacific 1 lie used later in working nickel ores a Imssion to t le U. S. army- He has ment through Ambissa.lor Di Cell re. Mr. Robb, who has arranged supplv Northwest and the shortage will at all had been raised by the district been in the state military service for Astoria Cranb Try crop along C >' A copy of the protest was tra ism t- the year before. and demand lists and will farin' enough b? more acute as the demands for man 20 years and has three sons “Over ed t> the senate foreign relations c > n- ’ nmbia River is big- On Oregon si I He holds the district must extri seed from Portland to supply all power grow with the progress of war, There” with Pershing’s forces. mittee today by Secretary Lansing. 200 and on Washington side ¡S'M) pie; first, whether it desires to raise farmer orders. but from the fact that railways in j ers wiil be needed about six weeks other parts of the country are scout­ cess sum. and if so then vote on the i from September 1st. amount to be raised. ing along the Mexican line for unskill­ This same procedure would hold good Eugene—Lane crop of dried prunes ed workmen. Commissioner Dundon feels he is taking a chance on achiev­ in event the district had levied a speci­ this year to be 1.*1)0.040 lbs., will net ing success on his recruiting mission. fied sum for road purposes during the growers 10'c cents as-compared with preceding year. 8!>cents for 1917 cron. Eviqxirati n Dundon says there is a shortage of ----------------- — plants in operation 'with cap .uitv 5i)i'O track laborers in Oregon and curing product ^available from Washington and 200,000 on all the rail­ Salmon Run In Umpqua orchards in comity. » roads in tne United States. He esti­ River is Increasing Albany — 900 acre Gellately place mates a shortage of unskilled help in I the shipyards of the Pacific Northwest ' Eugene, Or.,»Sept. 9. — After a poor Benton county traded for Thomas at 5000 and a total shortage of 30,000 1 run of salmon since the fishing Season Spillman farm at Fromaa . station. common laborers for all of the indust­ began on the Umpqua river in May, $30,000 involved. . ÌSÌ ries in Oregon and Washington. the run during thp past week .has Canyon—Work’Wn" construction of the been normal and the .fishermen are permanent ¡state*'highway connecting making good catches every night, ac- John Dav ami l'ruirie will be starte I cording to reports from there. this fall. The first carload of salmon sent out Ms il. from Reedsport, the shipping point of Hood River—Apple crop • reported largest since 1914, the Umpqua, this season went through Roseburg Pass Creek Canyon r >a 1 to Eugene last week bound for New Yura New Yo.k, Sept. 10. —Max Miller, be “navigable” coming winter as it is aerial mail carrier between New York City, and if the run continues as it did being rocked. last week regular shipments will go and Chicago, arrive I at Belmont Park Astorie Slightly more than 501),O' O on his flight at 11:22 a. tn. He left forward weekly. The run rias been 50 cases, valued at over $1,6'*0,0*M is the per cent of normal up co the past week Chicago yesterday at 6 a. m. Miller’s actual flying time was eight hours and but the shippers expect that, if the total fiack of salmon upon the Coiutnb a two minutes. Miller prepare 1 at once catch is good up to the time the sea­ river for the spring season of 1918. .. id i a to take the air again and fly to Wash­ son closes in November there chance of bring the catch for the ington. Soldiers Training at O A. C. The feasibility of transportation of season up to the average. Corvallis, Oregon, Sept. 10. —From mail by airplanes beween New York I MM1 to 1000 soldiers will be in training and Chicago w thin a maximum time of Selling Di eased Hogs Costly, a* th" Oregon Agricultural Culler 10 hours h is been 4 im mstratu I, in th s Albany, Or., Sept., 9. -For shipping during the-coming college year, in ad­ opinion ot Postal olii tals. Tne opinion was expressed today after Miller com­ rliseuriil h igs l.i tne Portland markets dition to th-students of the Studen*-* S, G. Tails, of this city, wat fined $100 Army Training Corps, the unenlist« I pleted the first round trip. by Judge Kelly in the Circuit Court men and the women. As rapidly ns any here today, lie was convii ted earlier group completes its course it is assig ■- five Million Feet of in the week. 1 he costs probably e I to duty, and new men arrive t > Spruce Cut in a Week. will amount to more than the line as take their places. The men wi|l be Talia was tried twice. After convict­ taught wirelest, auto mechanics, black ------- $r ion in the Justice Court here he had smithing and carpentry. Pioneer Merchant z 11 qiifam. Wash. S- fit,- 7,,-With an appealed to the Circuit Court, oMput of alloue 5,1)0 ),OUO ■frel t$r th Town Will Have no laxes week ending August 24; The »; Grays Price of Sugar lo Advance Harbor district establi ih 4. a veif 4 for I tne production of spruce for air- Salt Lake, Sept. 10. Pho ni($, Vtah, luto Delivery. 'plsne construction. C.os -Bai and about 3 ) miles from Salt L'Jys^lity, Phone 74 San Francisco, Sept. 7.—Thé price of will i.av.-no t ix < . j ,yy> r Sl'TIt !e»n ir i, Oregon Were"' > >.v mgar is to advance one cent a pound au.ll« ri i' s' expenses fur the couiipg 12 .¡'11 Hi.'out put ' apo 14f$®t0*') ft. , at thu relit»« riv.s begining. Monday, H months. This irjorru i*l >n !i,; , * ’’’’ TT’*■ r-f i ■ I e Cotbit Lux­ wa.s an.i.»ufp e 1 by Preston McKinney, been received by the V.unity Auiiito . burg. Luxburg, you will remember,. j.aetutg fr« dural Fond Aduiiniatruiwr for Several Utah communities have reduc­ ' c ihimitled the unpardonable crime uf GalifoBnta, hcru today. Increased cost I ed the tax levy this year, but PhOenix being found out. of production was given as the cause. I is the only one that will have ffo levy. i h n Hi Hl H ii ÍÍ M ii III il Special Prices on Ladies* & Children’s Oxfords We also have a stock of Baled hay, bran, shorts, wheat, cracked corn and rolled barley. Lewis Ulrich Jacksonville Oregon I