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. Fisher and William
Stuart, specialists of the federal do
nartment.
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Famous Ranier Beer in
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Lower Prices on Ford Cars
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1, 1914, to August 1, 1915,
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