Crook County journal., September 10, 1914, Image 2

OREGON HEWS NOTES
OF GEKBW INTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
Cctt Expert Promised.
E-igene. On the tasis that the Ore
gon farm needs scientific buslucss or
ganization s much as doc Buy cor
poration, and holding that the Oregon
farmer suffors more front inefficiency j
and leakage of cost items than any
other one factor, the United States
sovernment is preparing to place a i
farmers' efficiency expert in the state
to co operate with the county farm ex
perts. ' They will mnk a systematic survey
of conditions and formulate, if possi
ble, schedules and suggestions to elim
inate present waste.
Benson Wins By One Vote.
Salem. The state canvassing board
has decided that Judge Benson has
non the republican nomination for the
supreme court over Justice McXary
by one vote. The next step is for
Judge Bensou to receive a certificate
of nomination from Governor West.
The governor is hesitating because
Judge Benson refused several days
ago to agree to a recount of 15 votes
In Sixes precinct. Curry county, and
declined to consider extension of time
to September 22, suggested by the
state canvassing board.
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BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
Grand
Nicholas, commander-
Sandy now has a complete electric
lighting system.
A firemen's tiArmimcnt was held tit
St. Johns Monday.
rrune harvest Is In full swing In
the Myrtle Creek section.
The officers of the Southern Pacific
railroad company are considering the
erection of a $75,000 dock Itt Portland.
A permanent dairymen's organiza
tion known as the Catherine Creek
Dairymen's association, was formed at
Union.
Four new forest fires have been re
ported In the vicinity of OiikrliUc on
the upper Willamette river, within the
past few days.
The eighth annual fair of the Mult
nomah Kair association at Cresbam
j will open September 15 mid continue
until September 19.
P. J. Ooodman, aged 72, a pioneer
merchant of Astoria, died at his homo
there, following a long Illness. Ho
had lived In Astoria 25 years.
St. Helen's Hall, an Kplscopai nead-
fn-chief of the Russian armies, cper-i emy for girls at Portland, wua gutted
ating against Austria and Germany.
BRIEF WAR NEWS
Round-Up to Be Bigger and Better.
Fendleton. The greatest bunch of
performers, both cowboys and cow
girls, ever gotten together, will be seen
at the roundup this year, Sept. 24, 25
and 26. With the closing of the con
tract for the McCarty outfit of Chey
enne, including all the winners of the
main events at Cheyenne this year,
the roundup program is brought to the
greatest perfection of any ever yet offered.
One Fatal Wreck Accident Reported
Salem. Seventy-two accidents, one
fatal, were reported to State Labor
Commissioner- Hoff during the last
week. The fatal accident occurred at
Lime Mile Board, where H. R. Yuhi. a
railroad section employe, lost his life.
Lumbering activities caused the great
er number of accidents, 25 being hurt
in that employment, and railroads
came second with a total of 19 accidents.
ARSON TRUST IS ALLEGED
Small Shopkeepers Charged With
Starting Fifty Fires.
Portland. Wholesale indictments
charging arson were returned here by
the grand jury. Those accused are:
Phillip Davis, A. Wolfman, A- Zaik,
David Pepp, L. Sax, Sam Sax, Max Al
bert, I. W. Weinberg and P. Miller.
Eight Indictments were returned.
All gave bail of $3000 each on being
arrested.
David Pepp is an attorney with of
, fices in the Board of Trade building.
It is charged that he counseled crim
inal acts by the others and acted as
Insurance adjuster in a number of
cases.
The others are small shopkeepers
whose frequent fires have brought
them wrongwise of the law. It is al
leged by the district attorney's office,
which is pressing the charges against
the accused, that an arson trust has
existed in Portland for many months
and that an investigation has uncov
ered no less than 50 fires in the city
within the past few years that were
unquestionably of incendiary origin.
Facts upon which the indictments
are predicated were brought to light
in a searching Inquiry into the arson
situation by Deputy District Attorney
Charles W. Robison and Walter Garen,
special agent. During three months
this summer they were probing con
stantly the situation and finally se
cured such complete evidence that en
tire confidence is felt convictions will
be secured.
No important engagement is report
ed between the forces of the Allies
and the Germans during the past
week. The Germans continued to
force their way toward Paris, the al
lied armies falling back, fighting rear
guard engagements.
The French government, in order to
avoid the possibility of being bottled
up in Paris, was removed to Bordeaux.
The honors of the week are Ger
many's for the spectacular march of
her right wing to the environs of
Paris, but strategically, they are emp
ty honors. Germany can do nothing
with Paris for the moment Her main
objective must continue to be the sep
aration of the opposing forces and
their envelopment
The week has seen these envelop
ing attempts tried again and again.
but each time the English and French j
have stepped backward before the cir- j
cle was completed and the noose has
been pulled in vain. j
These successes prove not so much I
an uncanny ability of Germany to
crush fortresses at will, as a very
pressing fear of the allied field armies :
that if they get too near their own )
fortified areas they may be driven in- j
side and surrounded. I
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There is no indication that the al- j
lies in the west intend to assume the j
aggressive. Oa the other hand, the j
indications are that if the Germans
capture Paris every effort will be j
made to render it a barren triumph 1
by leadicg the Germans from position ,
to position in a series of rearguard
actions until the isvaders are exhaust- ;
ed.
News from Northern Belgium indi
cates that the Belgian troops are re-
and almost entirely destroyed by fire
at a loss of about $50,000, fully cov
ered by Insurance.
George W. Webb, former state
treasurer, and known and loved
throughout eastern Oregon us "Undo
George," celebrated his 90th birthday
at Pendleton Thursday.
Physicians and surgeons from all
parts of Oregon will gather In Tort
land Thursday and Friday to attend
the annual meeting of the Oregon
State Medical association.
Baron vou Ilorst, who was arrested
in England as a German spy, is well
known to some of the leading hop
growers of Independence, where he
was interested in the hop industry.
According to a report submitted to
Governor West by the secretary of the
state game and fish commission the
expenditures of the commission from
January 1 to August 1' totaled $S3.
237.S5. An election Tuesday last to test the
sentiment of the people with regard
to bonding the city of Burns for $100,
000 for a water and sewer system, re
sulted in 172 in favor and only 37
against the proposition.
After tracking the men suspected of
, robbing the safe of the Gardiner Mill
i company of nearly $6000, to Florence,
j Sheriff George Quine of Roseburg ar
rested one of the suspects as he was
about to board a boat bound for Yreka,
jCL
j Complaints are pouring Into Gover-
nor West's office that the seines of
! fishermen are killing thousands of
j crabs in the bays near Waldport, and
j the executive has asked the state
game and fit h commission to make an
' investigation.
Mrs. L. . Shelley was thrown out
j of the wagon when the horses dashed
j down a grade on the John Day moun
! tain and sustained severe Injuries,
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Fred W. Noble
says a report from John Day. Guy
covering from the gruelling punish-. Durham, the driver, escaped with
ment inflicted on them by the German ' m;nor injuries.
Confession Clears Murder Mystery.
Klamath Falls. With a bullet hole
in his bead and the lower part of his
face crushed as if with an ax, the body
of Allan McLeod, a Scotchman, was
found buried in a shallow grave about
60 feet from the cabin on bis home
stead, near Tule Lake. Frank Wil
liams, an ex-prizefighter, is being
held, and is said to have made a com
plete confession to the officers. The
body was found by Homer Depuy.
Salmon Men Raise Fund.
Astoria. As a result of the offer
of the United States bureau of fish
eries to give the state of Oregon 6,-
000,000 Alaska salmon eggs taken at
the Yes Bay hatchery, the Columbia
river salmon packers have undertaken
to raise a fund to care for the eggs
when they arrive and keep the young
fry until they are ready to be released,
The improvements will cost approxi
mately $5000.
invaders and are resuming their activ
ities. In some quarters the belief pre
vailed that the German plans of cam
paign may be radically changed by the
Austrian disasters, but in spite of this
move observers are of the opinion that
Germany must continue her remorse
less advance in the west without con
sidering the misfortunes of her ally.
These misfortunes are now admit
ted by Vienna, whence has come offi
cial admission that the Russians have
captured both Lemberg and Halicx.
Russia has retrieved In Galicia dur
ing the week her disaster in eastern
Prussia and starts, by her own asser
tions, a new offensive movement of
20 army corps toward Berlin.
The Galician operations can have
little influence on events in France,
which are subject to serious German
disarrangement only as Russia gets
close to Berlin. The Slav now is no
nearer the German capital than he
was at the outbreak of hostilities. His
first movement was violently thrust
back in the lake district of Allenstein
during the week.
The Germans are being strongly re
inforced In eastern Prussia and it is
certain that the Russians will meet
with a strenuous resistance before
they succeed in clearing the roads to
Berlin.
In eastern Galicia the Austrians
have suffered disaster almost on the
scale of that which overwhelmed Mc-
Mahon 44 years ago. The Russians
also defeated the Austrians between
Lublin and Cholm and forced them to
retreat south.
The Russian capture of Lemberg is
declared to be of first Importance and
Petrograd (St. Petersburg) declares
it has rendered the Austrian army In
Galicia of no further military value,
It is known that the military opera
tions in that region have been over
whelming in their magnitude. Along
the entire front of 250 miles probably
1,500,000 men were engaged. Around
Lemberg the Austrians had 200,000
men and perhaps 500 pieces of artil
lery. Lemberg is a junction point of
eight railroads and contained great
quantities of military stores. Russian
officials declare their victory has put
out of action a quarter of Austria's
first line troops.
Profile and topographic maps show
ing the water power pcrrlbllitles of
the Deschutes and HocJ rivers have
been completed by the state and Unit
ed States geological survey depart
ments, according to State Engineer
John H- Lewis.
Dennis McCarthy, county cruiser,
who for five years has been cruising
the standing timber of Coos county,
filed his report with County Assessor
Thrift According to the summary
of his report there are 18,927,856,000
feet of timber In Coos county.
A petition to divide Grant county
asks that seven of the northern pre
cincts of Grant county be cut off to
form a new county, to be named Wa
na, an Indian word, meaning running
water, and used by the Indians to des
ignate the north fork of the John Day
river.
According to Secretary Garnett, of
the state industrial accident commis
sion, the commission now has a fund
of $74,571.68. Further, he announces
that It has paid out $2362 In compen
sation for time lost, $4512.84 for first
aid, and $28,416.88 has been put In the
segregated fund as a guarantee of the
payment of pensions. In addition, a
reserve fund for next year's business
has been created.
Students of the agricultural college
are active in editing and publishing
five college publications, as follows:
The Barometer, the Oregon Country
man, the Student Engineer, the C-P
Journal and the Orange. Not only are
the ordinary expenses of publishing
met by the students themselves
through subscriptions, advertising and
otherwise, but the cost of illustrating
them Is also a part of the legitimate
expenses of publishing.
Salem constitutional lawyers say
that the universal eight-hour law to
be voted upon by the people at the
coming election, even though It should
be approved, would be held unconsti
tutional by the courts. They declare
that a clause in it bringing certain
railway employes within Its provisions
trespasses upon an act of congress re
lating to the hours of labor of such
employes, and that clause, not being
separable from the remainder of the
bill, would make it void in Its entirely.
Fruit Trees!
Central Oregon Grown
The ooly kind you can afford
to plant ILLUSTRATED
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for one. Prices low enough
to imrpriMe you.
Laf ollette Nursery Co.
Princville, 6 6. Oregon
The Oregon Bar
At th Old Stand
G. W. Wiley & Co., Prps
All kinds of Choice Liquors
Wines and Cigars.
Famous Ranier Beer in
Bottles and on Draft
Lower Prices on Ford Cars
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Buyers to Share in Profits
Effective from August 1, 1914, to August 1, 1915,
and guaranteed against any reduction
during that lime;
- Touring Car $490
Runbout 440
Town Car 690
F. O. B. Ddtroit, all cars fully equipped. (In the
United States only). For furthor particulars
regarding the low prices and profit-sharing plan see
C. W. WILSON
1-15 Crook County Agent, Prineville, Ore.
Garage Opposite Post Office
The Brosius Bar
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