OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERALjNTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Ex-Convict li KWf Hoppner. Walter Cason, aged 44, eputy sheritf of Morrow county and arshal of lone, shot and instantly tiled Charles Earheart, aged 46, an x-convict from the Oregon penlten- iary, la front of the Palace hotel. hen the latter pulled a gun on the fficer and cried "Your game's up; I m going to get you." , Earheart, who had been drinking. wlee shot wide of his mark, and be ore he could turn a third barrel, Ca son drew his revolver and with one shot in the breast, Frheart fell dead. lOne Fatal Aceldf"-. P.tported in Week Salem. One fatal accident out of I a total of 71 mishaps during the week was the record, according to Labor I Commissioner Hoff. The fatal acci dent occurred near Summit, where James Hennessy was a victim of a bridge construction accident Twenty nine were injured in railroad accidents and 19 were hurt while employed in lumber mills or logging. Banks Report Increase. Astoria. As an index of the com mercial activity in the Lower Colum bia river district, the reports recently issued by the four banks in this city, show that .during the past 13 months the amounts of their deposits bave been increased over $1,000,000, while the increase in the amounts of their resources has been practically the same. Eight New Member of Faculty. Eugene. Eight new members of the faculty of the University of Oregon are in Eugene beginning their year's work. They are H. B. Miller, Ellis F. Lawrence and W. F. O. Thacher, of Portland; Dr. John E. Gutberlet, Dr. Ralph Culver Bennett, Dr. John J. Landsbury, Earl Kilpatrick and Miss Kathrina M. Davis. LAND CASE HEARING IS SET Taking Testimony May Begin Septem ber 28 In Forfeiture Suit. Roseburg. Taking of testimony In the case of the government against the Southern Oregon company, claimant to 96,000 acres included In the Coos Bay wagon road land grant, will begin at Roseburg September 28 or 29, accord ing to plans of attorneys concerned. The land involved is in Coos and Curry counties, and is nearly all heav ily timbered. It was granted by con gress on condition that a miliary wa gon road be built from Coos Bay to Roseburg and that the land be sold to actual settlers in 160-acre tracts at sot more than $2.50 an acre. The Ore gon legislature later transferred the grant, originally 104,000 acres, on con dition that the terms of the original grant be carried out Passing through various hands, the land came to be held by the Southern Oregon company, which was organ ized to take it over. The government charges that no at tempt has been made to observe the grant terms and contends that the re mainder of the land, some 8000 acres, having been sold at various prices, shall be forfeited, as the Oregon It California grant lands were forfeited, back into the public domain. Woman Shot at Astoria. Astoria. Lillian Hendrickson, aged 17, shot down in a local cannery by a fellow laborer died here after Drs. Fulton and Forstrom had exhausted every effort to save her life. Peroll, the man who shot Miss Hendrickson, and later turned the gun on himself, is improving in the hospital, and bis recovery is expected. Two Quarrel; One Dies. Klamath Falls. In a quarrel over pasturage of calves,, Otis Hickman seized a rifle and shot dead his brother-in-law, Vivian Evans, 35 years old. Hickman was exonerated by a cor oner's jury after Hickman's mother-in-law and wife, the only witnesses to the shooting, had testified that the shot was fired in self-defense. Blackbirds Destroying Grain. Silver Lake. Grain stacks and stub ble fields of the valley have been cov ered for a week past with clouds of blackbirds, apparently driven from the uplands by recent heavy snows and cold weather. The birds are so nu merous that unthreshed stacks at times appear to be shrouded In an an imated mantle of black. Sheepman Is Killed. Portland, Benjamin Selling,' Sr., pioneer sheepman of the Pacific Northwest, uncle of Ben Selling, of Portland, was struck and instantly killed when he stepped in front of a moving locomotive at the Northrup street crossing of the Northern Pacific Terminal company's yards here. GENERAL GALLIENI General Gallienl, who la In com mand of the army and fortifications defending Pari. BRIEF WAR NEWS Battling desperately for supremacy in what may prove to be the greatest battle in the world's history, on a line extending from the region of Noyon, on the river Olse, northwest of Paris, to the river Meuse, north of Verdun, the armies of the allies and Germany accomplished nothing definite or de cisive during the past week. Conditions 'for the struggle could not be worse. The bloody field was drenched with cold, torrential rain that filled the trenches behind which the fighters sought shelter, adding to their torment The allies apparently have not at tempted storming tactics during the week. Instead they exerted great pressure to break through the German center and tried constantly to envelop General von Kluck's right wing. Both efforts failed, as they have failed con sistently whenever attempted by eith er side during the French campaign. That the enormous resisting powers of a million men, when skillfully led, is greater than their offensive strength, seems to be the principal lesson taught by this retreat to and from Paris Each of the contending forces had practically exhausted itself as the week closed and though the battle line was continually restless, only slight gains by one side, offset by moderate victories by the other, can be counted as the result of the seven days' western fighting. The casualties of the allies probably exceeded those of the Germans the past week for the first time since the war began. The German defensive was excellently chosen for administer ing severe punishment to the pursu ers, and there are suggestions that the artillery fire from the northern heights of the Aisne has been very destructive. The German official report says the French attacks have been repulsed, that Beaumont has been stormed and that many French prisoners have been captured. French reports, on the oth er hand, while agreeing to the stub bornness of the contest declare the situation is "satisfactory," despite the fact the Geramns have received rein forcements, presumably from Lor raine. The French army, operating on the right bank of the river Olse in the region of Noyon, according to this re port, has made some progress, while the Anglo-French force which a week ago crossed the river Aisne in the face of a withering fire from the German guns, holds the heights to the north of that point. In the center the Ger mans have not moved from the trenches which they dug when they were compelled to fall back, while the crown prince's army, which holds the German left, again has retired. The German forces in east Prussia bave been more successful than in France. The Russians have been forced to evacuate almost all of the German territory they had previously occupied and an offensive movement has penetrated some distance into Russian Poland. Its serious signifi cance is indicated by an announce ment from Petrograd that 900,000 ad ditional troops are preparing to march into Germany. Petrograd reports that General Ren nenkatoipff has definitely arrested the German advance. This movement has been assisted by river excursion boats changed into what the soldiers termed a "one-horse navy." In Galicia, Austrian defeats have been continuous during the week, though not as overwhelming as Rus sian reports first Indicated. All the province east of the San river is now held by Russia, but the strong fortifi cations of the San have not yet fallen. The way to Cracow, however, Is partly open and the week closed with Russia's campaign In eastern Galicia well under way. ' When Galicia has been wholly traversed the Russian march in full strength will begin and with it may be Initiated the last phase of the war. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON The eighth annual Ltun county fair opened September 23. George M. Cole, 68 ears old, regis tered at the university of Oregon as a freshman. Michael Tynan, for the last 43 years a resident of Roseburg, is dead ut his home In Roseburg at the age of 87 years. Klatinth Indians and settlers as fur as North Bend are gettlug large quan tities of winter fruit from the wild plum thickets. The Cottage Grove Commercial club urges voters of that section to work for the reestabllshtnent of the Oregon Normal at Ashlnnd. The state fish and game commis sion has granted right of way through property at the Bonneville Hatchery for the Columbia Highway. The Oregon hop Industry and har vesting of crops will be shown by mov ing pictures at the Panama-Pacific exposition at Sun Francisco, The boys' and girls' Industrial con test for Douglas county, held at Rose burg in connection with the county fair, was a complete success. C. W. Wa8hburne, one of the oldeBt pioneers In the north end of Lane county, celebrated his ninetieth birth day anniversary at his home south of Junction City. John Warner, chief engineer of the Albany fire department won the sil ver medal donated for the best shot by the Albany Gun club in contests during the summer. The 49th session of the Columbia annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, convened at Tangent with Bishop Mouzon, of San Antonio, Texas, in charge. John Tate, of Portland, was elected second vice-president at Buffalo, N. Y., of the National Laundrymen's association of America, which is going to Portland for its 1915 meeting. Lewia Langvtsch von der Haydl, be lieved to have been a member of Ger man nobility and a general in the Franco-Prussian war, died at the state insane asylum. He was 88 years old. Woodburn district hop men harvest ed most of their crops before the rains came and the yield Is said to be 20 to 25 per cent lesB than last year with exception of a few yards which showed gains. Robert Griffin, Cottage Grove's sec ond mayor and a veteran of the Civil war, because of the new requirements for citizenship in Oregon, has taken out his second papers at the age of 80 years. Civil War veterans of Salem, Sil verton, Woodburn, Independence, Dal las, Stayton and other parts of Marion county at a meeting at Salem decided to hold reunions in Salem in Decem ber, in Woodburn in April and in 811 verton in August east year. Secretary of State Olcott says that all aspirants for nominations at the re cent primary have filed statements of expense with the exception of Mrs. Claudine S. Faust, of Dufur, nominee of the progressive party for represen tative of the 29th district in tho legis lature. Bids probably will be invited soon for the construction of a pipeline and water system to extend from Clacka mas to Oregon ,Clty. The plans, al ready drawn, estimate the cost of the work at about $225,000. One feature will be a reservoir with a capacity of 6,000,000 gallons. The biggest week in the history of The Dalles will be the one commenc ing September 27, during which the big Wild West show, The Dalles Ro deo, the annual Wasco county fair and meetings for homecoming pioneers will be held. It will be homecoming week in The Dalles, and all former res idents of the city have been Invited to return. The extension division of the Ore gon Agricultural College is taxed to the utmost to provide judges, lectur ers and demonstrators for the many agricultural and school fairs being held In all parts of the state. Last week almost 20 representatives offi ciated at 11 different fairs. This week 12 engagements are scheduled. The total for September and October is over 30. Having decided to make compulsory the use of the safety logging bunk, La bor Commissioner Hoff announced that be would Invite the six companies of fering the bunks for sale in this state to equip a train with their devices for demonstration purposes. Each com pany will be asked to equip one car of the train so the representatives of the logging companies may have little trou ble in determining which they Intend to adopt. Potato experts of the United States department of agriculture, Holland and Germany, are in Portland. Pro fessors II. S. Jackson and F. D. Bailey, of the Oregon Agricultural college, will have charge of the party during its Investigation of the potato ques tion and potato diseases in Oregon The visitors include Dr. W. A. Orton, leading potato disease expert of the federal department; Dr. Otto Appel, of Berlin; Dr. John Wenterdyk, of Am Bterdam; A. K. 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