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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1915)
OREGON STATE NEWS AMERICAN BOY IN Insurance Report Is Issued. FOREIGN LEGION WRITES OF WAR Baleni Inveatiiienta or >11 classes of Insurance companies in Oregon bonds, their mortgage loans on real estate and real estate owned total 823.235.063. accordine Io Harvey Wells, state Insurance Inspector. Fig urcs are l>u»e<l on the year iVI4. Life and accident Inaura.’?« com paules lead all others In the amount ot their Oregon Investments, with a total of 810.924.264 Of this slim, 310.- OI5.6IA la In mortgages, 32,0011,983 In municipal, school, road and miscellan eous bonds. 32,894,000 In Interurban uml street railway bonds, and >14,77® In real estate. Fire and marine Insurance compan ies have 32.430,118 Invested In bonds, mortgages and real estate; foreign mutual fire. 323.000; domestic mutual fire. 3143,(50; fraternal benefit 83.- 087,640, and miscellaneous companlea 3322.401. In distributing their Investments In Oregon, the insurance companies have seemed to favor mortgage loans on realty, for these figures total 811.328,- 718. Il la to be noted, however, that life and accident companlea, especial ly. have favored this class of Invest ment. Fraternal benefit societies operat ing In Oregon have confined their in vestments for the moat part to munici pal. school and road bonds, for tho re port shown that of the 33.987,640 In vested. all but 3887,834 la In bonds of thin character. Although property owned by local lodges In the state aggregate several millions, only the property owned and controlled by thè general lodge la mentioned In the report. Thia totals 3113,000 and Is credited to tho Women of Woodcraft. Assess Land Grant $5 Per Acre. Eugene The Oregon A California land» In l.ane county have been plac ed upon the assessment rolls at valua tlons of from S3 to 320. the total ap praisement amounting to 33.350.000, by li. F. Keeney, county assessor, dis regarding the recent ruling of the su preme court ot the United Htates, which held that the Southern Pacific Railroad company's Interest In this land amounted to 32 50 per acre: "Whether wo have a right to assess these lands only tor the amount of the railroad's equity of 32 50 per acre, or whether wo have u right to assess It at all. la a matter for the board of equalization to determine.'' he said. "This land la assessed at virtually the same figure as last year." Salmon Fishing Improves. Astoria.—There was quite an Im provement In the catch ot salmon the past few days. Thia was especially true In the section ot the river oppo site the city and above Tongue Point, where several gill netterà secured In the neighborhood of a ton each, and catches of 500 to 600 pounds were common The upriver seines and traps also made good hauls. In the lower harbor, however, the catch was not so good. Indicating that the school of fish which began to en ter the river on Saturday hastened up stream. Day of Rock Roads Ends. Oregon City.—The ultimate solution of the rural road building problem Is not In the construction of macadam or rock roads. County Judge Anderson said here. In the future It will be the policy of tho Clackamas county court, at least as far as Judge Anderson Is concern vd. to replace worn-out rock roads with bituminous macadam, and the carrying out of thia programme has already begun. Next year a bitumin ous road to Portland from Oregon City may be completed. Polk Prune Yield Normal, Monmouth.—Pruno trees In the hills about Falla City, Monmouth, Pallas and Alrlle arc expected to yield nor mally this year. The growers report a favorable season for fruit develop ment and claim only In a few In stances the early frosts have injured the fruit. While not as large as last year, the size of the prunes will rank well up with the past few years, ac cording to the growers. Many new orchards will bear this fall. Sumpter and Auburn Fires Checked. Baker.—That fire In the Sumpter Valley and Auburn districts Is now well under control was reported by County Fire Warden Palmer, who re turned from Auburn, where ho direct ed trenching operations. Mr. Palmer believes that new firns will hold the only danger to timber In the section through which ho was working, as those now burning are well safe guarded. Takes Part in Terrific FiQhting at La Targette, Near t Souchez. . HIS COMPANY BAOLY CUT UP Walk« IS Mils« Evsry Night to Dig Tranches Only 230 Yards From ths Garman Lin««—Says War Is Aslnln« Wasts. ANOTHER AMERICAN VESSEL SUNK BY GERMANS reminded m« of the crater of a volca no. It waa easily thirty feat deep, •tench Was Horrible. “Our bombardment of May I played havoo with tbe German trench««; a great number of the roofs on th« huts bad fallen during tbe cannonading, burying alive all tba occupants. Around these places the stench was horrible. “All through these trench«« was «vl- dene« of heavy losses on the part of the Germans; at Intervals arms and legs protruded from th« walls and floors, and all In all It was a gruesome journey Ac a reault of May 3 our line le advanced about two miles, but the Germans bold a dangerous position on tbe side of a large hill and It will be bard work chasing them off "We have been out to dig trenches and. believe me. you sure do work. Imagine getting up and working on tbe ground about 250 yards from tbe German line, with them shooting all tbe time Work! You bet the men work with a will, and It does not take them very long to get a good trench dug. Walk Nine Mlles to Work. "We walk about nine miles from this town to tho first line, dig a trench and walk back. Wo leave at 6 p. m. and get back at 5 a. m. Tbe Idea ot walking nine miles to work. “There Is not much left of this regi ment since May 9; the Italians have just been liberated to return to their own army Our company at present has 55 men out of a full company of 150 but we expect to be tilled up with men from Ballbonne and Lyon American steamship Leelanaw which waa torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Scotland "Well, this war Is a great game The because It bad a cargo of flax for Belfast. The crew was saved. next person who mentions tbe glories of war to you jump on him with both feet Picture the charge with the band playing and the men singing—what tommyrot In the first place the In struments never get near tbe actual fighting, and In tbe second place, the men don't care a hang for a song. Want War to End. "We have some fun wltb the boxing gloves, and it la surprising bi know how many good boxers there ate hers. The other day two zouavea turned up: they weighed about 180 poundu each and were very good. One bad boxed for the amateur championship ot Tunis. They would give many profes sional fighters a run for ths money. "We are all In the best of health and getting plenty to eat. We are unanimous In wishing for the war to end soon. Take It from me. those who clamor for war tbe most In the Statea are those who know nothing about IL War la an asinine waste and I take my hat olT to Wilson and hla level headedness." New York.—When Russell Kelly, fwenty-two years old, son of a New York attorney and for a while a stu dent at Virginia Military institute. got tho war fever last fall he took a job on a cattle boat, worked his way to Bordeaux and enlisted In the famous French Foreign Legion. In recent letters home he telle of taking part In terrific fighting at I-a Targette. near Souchez and not far from the celebrated labyrinth. Hie company was badly rut up. but be es caped with a bad bruise on the fore head caused by the vacuum of a great shell which passed a few Inches from hla head. Under date of May 29. he write«: “After our attack of May 9-10 we went to the rear, about ten miles from the front, and were reorganized. We needed It. as 1 understand more than half of the regiment were either killed or wounded Th" general reviewed us and dlatrlbuted five military medals. Captsln Was Killed. "Tho recruits came up from Vai- bonne and Lyon, so we are ready to go back We havo a new captain In place of the one who waa killed The 1 one we lost was a very game man; ■ ho led us without a sword or any side arms, using only bls swagger stick Our new captain is a Swede. Many German prisoners have passed us late ly; one day as many as 800 went by; tboy looked well. By a strange coinci dence the same Bavarian troops who faced us In Champagne are against us here, and yesterday we recognized among the prisoners a man who do- gerted from us in Champagne, I guess It la all over with him; It should TELLS OF WAR’S HORRORS bo. "You remember In my letter from Lyon 1 spoke about three brothers from Argentine, and how Inseparable they were? Well, they are Inseparable In death, as they were killed side by •Id«. Ns Convulsion«. "After leaving our trenches and crossing the Germans', which were battered to pieces by the bombard ment. our first atop waa In the shelter of a road Here the good-looking Ital ian, the fellow who hit me with the brick In the scrap I wrote about, be- carno reckless and tried to survey the landscape He waa killed Instantly by a bullet through tho heart No con vulsive tossing of tho arms one reads about or sees In the movies; he just sank down aud It was all over. Soon after wo left this position, his chum, tho other Italian, was shot through the leg There was absolutely no Ill-feel ing between us on account of our scrap. Regular Ty Cobb Slide. “We advance by sections. When the order comes wo jump up and. carrying tho sack as a shield, run about 100 feet, and talk about Ty Cobb sliding Into second base. It Isn’t a circum stance to the way I hit tho grit, and what a strain to the nerves, waitlug for our turn to advance again, fellows all around being hit In a couple of cases 1 have seen men lifted from the ground, so hard were they hit. One fellow very near me got hit and be gan to squeal. Almost Immediately a second bullet hit him and he made for "We work by day and weep at the rear on all fours, crying like a night," was the heroic remark of a baby. "Field was full of such sights; but German woman tn a hospital in Ber compared to the shells the bullets are lin to Miss Angells Morgan, the poet, nothing; give me most anything but delegate to the recent Woman's Peaco nn artillery bombardment Shortly conference at The Hague, who arrived after we gained the crest of the hill home recently. "Al one of the Ameri their artillery came up and began tir can Red Cross hospitals In Munich." ing on us; it was terrible. The way Baid Miss Morgan, "we saw scores of those shells would tear by nnd dig a poor men who had been blinded in bat holo five feet deep was enough for the tle. They were muklag pitiful efforts most solid nerves. At nightfall we In to learn to read and wrlto under tho trenched, but were on tho watch all new conditions. Ono poor fellow had his face so mangled that ho will have night. "The noxt day their artillery opened to wear a mask over It tho rost of his on ua and their Infantry started an life. He had been engagod to marry attack, but we stood firm and Bmeared when the war started, but his romanco was at an end." them." Pumpkin 8how Planned. Junction City.—The seventh annual Junction City Pumpkin Show will be held on September III, 17 and 18. Tho show will have ten departments: Pumpkin, forage, orchard and vino- yard, vegetables, grain and seed, cul German Trenches Well Built. inary, flowers and art, Industrial In a letter dated June 10 he says: school exhibits, fancy work and poul 'The German trenches are built try. The state exhibitors of poultry are Invited to compete. II. F. Keeney much better than ours. Some of the huts In which the men lived were 20 will judge the poultry exhibits. feet underground. They used a great Artesian Well Borings Succeed. number of dirt sacks Thrre must be Kinmath Falls.—Success obtained a shortage of material in Germany as by II. S. Grigsby, of tlilH city, a few those sacks were made from every weeks ago In obtaining artesian water thing. mostly from cheap, light calico, on his ranch nonr Fort Klamath, north of here, was such that five other wells hardly strong enough to hold the , havo since been put down, anil more earth. "They had an extensive system of likely will follow. Tho record for get ting water la on the Grover Neal place. mlneB and we made the attack (May 9) just in time, as Pavelka and I in Percheron Prizes Up. vestigated the saps with the aid of a Salem.—W. Al Jones, secretary of candle They were all loaded nnd tho state fair, announced that tho Per wired ready to be set off One had cheron Society of America had offered 13 special premiums for stallions and been exploded; the Germans, In dig mares exhibited al tho mooting, which ging, must have lost their bearings, opens September 27 and continues six becauso the hole was actually nearer days. Tho fair board has offered prizes their own line than ours. They used totaling 3622 and a banner each for a tremendous charge and the explosion champion stallion and champion mare must have been terrific, for the result in the Percheron exhibit. VINCENT ASTOR’S NEW HYDRO-AEROPLANE The first hydroaeroplane made for Vincent Astor having been smashed tn Its trial flight, ba ordered various changes, and the result Is the machine here shown, the flr st of Its type. The seat« are not on th« pontoon, but higher. In the center of the plane, and the wings are in the form of a broken V. FIRST BATTLESHIP THROUGH CANAL This photograph shows the battleship Missouri tn the west chamber of the Pedro Miguel locks as the first battleships to pass through the Panama canal wero going through. At the right is one of tbe electric towing mules. KINDNESS ON THE BATTLEFIELD NEW YORK’S OLDEST TWINS Two Woman Will Be Rocked In Cradl« of Their Babyhood on Their Birthday. Middletown. N. Y.—Mrs. J. C. Bar rett of Edmonston and Mrs. Nathan V. Brand of Leonardsvllle. who claim tho distinction of being tho oldest twins in the state, expect soon to cclo- brate their eighty-sixth birthday to gether with some unusual features. The cradle in which they slept as children has boon preserved, and It is planned that the twins shall be rocked In it in the presence of the guests. Raises Her Kittens In a Tree. Rich Hill, Mo.—Frank Brown, who lives eight miles southwest of hore, has an old mother cat who la raising a litter of kittens In the forks of a tr«s 15 feet from the ground War Is not always as supposed by most people Even the officers of the armies find other.things on the field than mere f ghtlng. Pity creeps forth even from the hardest of hearts. The photograt it shows a German officer helping a wounded Russian soldier. The soldi» i had crawled for shelter Into a large hole dug by an exploded shell. He.-e he lay patiently awaiting tho end of the day's battle. A German officer p issing noted the plight of tho Russian and stopped to minister to his warts IRISH HERO AND FATHER The return home on short leave ot the popular Irish Guardsmar hero. Sergt. Michael O'Leary, V. C„ who "practically captured an enemy's posi tion by himself," killing eight Ger mans single-handed and taking two others prisoners, at Culnchy, did not pa»« unobserved. The king sent for him to Buckingham palace and pinned the cross on his breast, with the queen and princess warmly congratulating tbe sergeant; Cork gave O'Leary an ovation as he drove through the city with the lord mayor. We see him here at his cottage home at Inchlgeelah, near Macroom, County Cork, with hla father, to whom Sergeant O'I>ary Is showing his cross. May Give Bruin Bread Card. The authoritiea of Elberfeld. Ger many. are confronted with the most puxzling problem that they have had to solve since the bread card became an Institution In Germnny—and all because of a show bear that Is so fus sy about his food that he will eat nothing but bread. The owner of the animal recently was haled before the lower court and lined an 1 sentenced to prison because he had shared his weekly portion ot bread with the bear. With two months’ Incarceration staring h m In the face he appealed, alleging th it the be»r was hiu only means ot si pport. A klnd-hea’ted judge changed the sentence to a fine of 100 marks, and advised the owner to apply to the president ot the government tn which Elberfeld Iles to Issue bruin a bread card just like any regular human b» Ing.