OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1916.
Passing in Review
News of the Week from War
Zones of Europe and
Mexico
News from the Isonzo front indi
cates that the army of the Duke of
Acosta is rapidly following up the
notable success won by the Italians in
the capture of the Austrian strong
hold of Gorizai, with some 20,000
prisoners. Italian troops are report'
ed in force over the Isonzo, vigorous'
ly pursuing the flying Australians.
whose big seaport, Triest, 22 miles to
the southeast, is threatened.
"Trouble for the United States and
the Carranza government is afoot and
is being stirred right here in El Paso
by a number of wealthy Mexican ex
iles who desire Carranza's overthrow
and American intervention, if neces
sary," said a government official at
El Paso on Saturday.
Six ships were held up at one time
Thursday, by a German submarine,
one of the number, the French steam
ship Marie, being sunk in plain view
of the crews of the other five vessels,
The crew of the steamship sunk was
saved. The Norwegian steamships
Lredo and boro were then sent to the
bottom in the order named. The oth
er three vessels were allowed to pro
ceed on their way after submitting to
a thorough search.
at the White House personally to
place his declination before the pres
ident. This action followed an inter
view with Chief Justice White at
which the latter objected to partici
pation by. a member of the United
States supreme court in the Mexican
mediation conference.
Along the Galician front the Rus
sian sweep continues unchecked, the
official anouncement of Monday
states. Further gains have been made
on. the Upper Sereth. In the region
of the Middle Stripa and the Koro-
pice, the Austrians are being pur
sued by the Russians, who reached the
northern bank of the Dniester before
Mariampol. The Austrian lines along
cne stripa, which they have held since
early in September, have crumpled
and General von Bothmer is in full
retreat along the whole front, accord
ing to the. latest information received
by the Russian general staff. It is
said semi-officially that the Austrians
evacuated the Stripa line without a
battle.
Confronted by a stiffening resist
ance, punctuated with determined
Austrian counter attacks, the Italian
offensive on the Isonzo front has lost
. much of it's headway. Progress is re-
ported by the war office at Rome, ad
vance in the Carso plateau has been
pushed three fifths of a mile beyond
Upachiasella, whose capture was an
nounced Saturday.
To the south near Montfalcone, the
heights have been carried, while east
of Gorizia an advance is reported
The Italian drive has netted more than
15,000 prisoners since it's inception,
For the same period Vienna reports
the capture of 5000 Italians.
General Haig's Anzac corps again
won the honors of the day in a con
tinuation of the strong Anglo-French
forward movement on the 15-mile
front from Thiepval to the Somme
on Sunday. These veteran corps
smashed ahead on a mile line north
west of Pozieres during the night',
penetrating the German tranches for
300 to 400 yards. The British also
approached closer to the Martinpuich
ridge by an advance across the pla
teau northwest of Bazentin-Le-Petit,
while Foch's French troops shoves
their line further up the river high
lands around Buscourt and Clery ana
are nearing the summit of the chain
of hills designed on military maps as
ridge No. 109.
Capturing the town of Zborov, on
the Strypa, .General Sakharoff, com,
manding the right wing of the Rus,
sian armies in Galicia, Monday pushed
his lines within 49 miles of Lemberg,
the Austrian crown lands capital. At
the samo time the Russian left wing,
commanded by General Letchitsky,
closing in on the fortified railway city
of Halicz, took Tustobaby, less than 13
miles northeast of it s objective. Tus
tobaby, which lies on the west bank
of the Zlota Lipa, was stubbornly de
,$!Srided to the last by the Austro-Ger-nian
forces which are trying with
might and main to retard the Russian
advance in order to save the bulk of
the Austrian throne heir's army from
envelopment.
Reports of social discontent in
Mexico are contained in a copy of El
Nacional, a Carranza organ of Mex
ico City, which reached El Paso this
week. It stated that last week Gene
ral Benjamin Hill, military command
er of the federal district, had covered
the city with patrols to disperse gath
erings of striking employes of the
electric lines and street railway com
pany. It added that several shots
had been fired and that small riots
had resulted.
Continued gains for the Russians
in the Sereth River region and along
the Zlota Lipa, where their troops
have crossed at several points to the
western -bank, and the capture of the
village of Tustobaby, northwest of the
Dniester, are chronicled in the official
Russian statement issued late Monday.
The retreat of the Austrians from
the Stripa continues, with the Rus
sians pounding the Austrian rear
guard. Podgiacy, on the Koropice
has fallen, and General Count von
Bothmer's forces are taking up posi
tions on the west bank of the Zlota
Lipa. The line of the Austrian de
fense as it appears Monday runs from
Berestechk through Ssezurovitz along
the headwaters of the Styr and
through Olesko-Zboroff to Brzezany
forming a zig-zag in the upper Zlota
Stripa; along that stream to Korzor,
thence west to Josupol, 10 miles north
west of Stanislau; thence south to
Solotvina.
In other words, the Austrians, con
tracting the circle about Lemberg, are
withdrawing to a line between the
Carpathians and Pinsk marshes, the
shorter length of which will compen
sate them in some measure for the
tremendous losses they have suffered
since the beginning of the Russian advance1.
"The capture of the third line of the
German defense from Hardecourt to
the Somme was preceded by a bom
bardment so intense that for a radius
of 20 kilometres the ground seemed to
be shaken by an earthquake," says
La Liberto correspondent in the north
of France.
"In the trenches the infantry
watched the formidable artillery prep
arations," the correspondent adds,
"waiting patiently for the moment to
rush to the assault."
Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Monday declined to serve on the Mex
ican mediation commission. He called
For the first time since Julv 8 a
heavy rain fell in the battle area in
France on Monday, breaking the long
drought and one of the longest heat
waves in recent years. The dry bot
tom trenches were running with wat
er and thousands of men in the open
were, drenched, but even at the ex
pense of being slopping wet the cool
air was a welcome change.
There were vigorous artillery du
els south of the Somme and on the
right bank of the Meuse this week, ac
cording to the French official com
munication issued early in the week.
A German aeroplane dropped bombs
on Rheims, while German batteries
shelled various quarters of that city,
destroying the civil hospital and kill
ing six persons, the statement adds.
Official announcement of a new
$250,000,000 loan to Great Britain,
negotiations for which have been in
progress for some time, probably will
be made within a few days, it is stat
ed in financial circles at New York.
The loan, according to an unofficial
summary of it's terms, obtained from
banking sources, will be in the form
of two-year 5 per cent notes, secured
by deposits of collateral. The pro
ceeds will probably take care of Great
Britain's financial obligations in this
country for a considerable period.
About the State
Resume of the News of the
Week from All Parts
of Oregon
RAINWATER LAD BURIED
The Woodburn factory of the
Pheasant Fruit Juice company closed
down Monday night for the season
alter a very successful run, the re
sult being 71,000 gallons of loganber
ry juice stored in the Coe building.
Vice-President M. R. Johnson, of
the First National bank of Forest
Grove, who recently bought an inter
est in that institution, closed a deal
this week for the purchase of the res
idence owned by Mrs. Esther Fuoua
on nrst street; south, and Fourth av
enue.
The most envied man today is the
owner ot a Willamette Vallev farm,
He should be the most contented even
though it should be the ease that
there is a mortgage on his farm. That
is nothing, for many a better man
than he has been in debt and nrob
ably is today. Woodburn Independ
ent.
Fred Ries of Albany, found a re
markable egg out at his hennery on
west JNinth street. It had a soft out
er surface with a hard shell inside
plainly felt. The egg measures 7
by 9 inches, a monster for a common
hen. The particular hen that pro
auceo it is a barred Plymouth Rock.
THREE DIVORCES ASKED
Mill Grinds Slowly and Turns Out but
Two Divorce Decrees
Three divorce complaints were put
into Clackamas county's popular di
vorce mill within the past week and
two divorce decrees came out. siened
by Judge Campbell, liberating folk
dissatisfied with married life.
On Monday the three complaints
were tiled. The first by Gustav
Schramm, who seeks legal separa
tion from Louise Schramm whom he
married at Portland on November 28,
1905. He alleges cruelty and asso
ciation with persons unknown to him.
The couple has lived at Robertson in
this county and twin girls, aged 5
years, were born to the union. Mr.
Schramm alleges that his wife spent
most of his earnings for her person-
adornment and decoration. He
asks the custody of the children and a
decree that will declare him sole own
er of property at Robertson.
Bertha Jenson of Clackamas coun
ty seeks divorce from Bert Jenson
whom she married at Soton, Wash.,
on April 10, 1897. For three years,
the complaint states, the husband has
failed to provide for his wife and 14-year-old
son. He is said to be the
owner of valuable properties at Walla
Walla, Wash., her legal share of
which is sought by the plaintiff, who
also asks custody of the boy, attorney
fees, $25 a month alimony and the
restoration of her maiden name, Mer
tha Sura. The complaint gives cruel
ty, bodily injury and threatened death
as causes of action.
Pearl Mary Bonness and John Rob
ert Bonness were married at Emerson,
Canada on April 23, 1909. Thev have
discovered that they do not like the
life and she seeks to cause a divorce
through allegations of cruelty and
the heaping upon her head of person
al indignities. Mr. Bonness is said
to be the owner of property at Minne
sota, a division of which has been
arranged in lieu of suit money and
alimony.
Judge Campbell signed decrees seD-
arating E. Vera Nelson from Charles
R. Nelson and grants the former re
quest for the restoration of her maid
en name, E. Vera Powell; and Minnie
Smalley from George W. Smalley. To
the former was restored her maiden
name, Minnie Fanton.
Whether Bend will vote a bond is
sue of $35,000 with which to purchase
terminal grounds and rights-of-way
tor the Uregon, California & Eastern
railroad desired by Robert E. Stra
horn, and whether the corporate
limits ot the city will be extended to
include all the platted additions ad
joining the city, will be determined
at an election upon which these two is
sues will come before the people.
For the purpose of investigating
tne advisability of organizing a cow
testing association at .Junction City,
. irieyer, neia aairyman in charge
of the work of the western dairy di
vision for the United States depart
ment of agriculture, with headquar
ters at Salt Lake, is in Eugene at the
invitation of N. S. Robb, Lane county
agricultural agent, who accompanied
Mr. Meyer to Junction City Tuesday.
The wedding of Eugene Lane and
Miss Coos Bay at the railroad jubilee
in the latter city, August 24 to 26, is
to be immortalized in song, according
to an announcement from Roseburg.
Martin Mayer and Ted Rowland, of
that city, are preparing words and
music for the vocalists of Douglas
county who propose to attend the
wedding ceremony and sing for the
bride and groom and thousands at
tending the celebration of the com
pletion of the new railroad.
Car and Occupant Sprinkled with Tar
Near Paving Operations
Miss Nora Webster of Gladstone
received a most unpleasant shower
bath Tuesday while driving past the
county paving operations on the coun
ty road near Meldrum. She was
sprinkled with warm, dripping, sticky
smelling, coal black tar, and her new
Dodge auto, which she was driving at
the time, was given a most generous
pplication of the same material.
Miss Webster was passing the coun
ty paving operations near Meldrum.
A big tar sprinkler was standing in
the road and the driver was seated
in the car. Miss Webster signalled
and started to pass the big sprinkler,
giving a wide berth to the county's
machine. Just as the front end of
her car came along side the sprinkler,
the driver turned on the juice full
force and the oozy black stuff cover-
d the exposed side of Miss Webster
and her car, from head to foot. Miss
Webster's clothes were ruined and
workmen have been laboring diligent
ly on her car in an effort to remove
the tar without removing the paint.
Miss Webster is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Webster, and is a
well known young lady of Gladstone.
Five churches in Dallas, Polk coun
ty, the Baptist, Christian, Evangel
ical, Methodist and Presbyterian, have
arranged to -conduct a second union
religious service in the court house
square next Sunday evening, begin
ning at 7:30. This service will take
the place of evening services in the
churches, and will be continued dur
ing the month of August if agreeable
to all. The first one was held last
Sunday evening and was successful.
Milwaukie, Oregon.
Aucr. 14. 1916.
To the Editor:
Will you kindly print in your pa
per the following resolutions adopted
at a meeting of the local W. C. T. TI.
last Thursday?
RESOLVED, that as an organiza
tion working for the promotion of law
enforcement we deeply regret the re
cent action of Circuit Judge Campbell
in releasing Fritz Bovsen. who has in
three trials been convicted of the il
legal sale of liquor; and be it further
RESOLVED-, that we raise our voice
in vigorous protest against such
breach of trust on the part of one of
our officials.
MRS. JOHN R. NASH,
Secretary.
City C. E. Union Picnic
The Christian Endeavor union of
this city will picnic on the banks of
the Clackamas river, between the
wagon bridge and the P. R. L. & P.
company's bridge, Friday August 18,
from 3 in the afternoon to 9:30 in the
evening. Picnic supper at 6:30.
All members and friends of the
union are cordially invited to attend
and participate in the fun.
Who said prosperity? Six Oreeon
farm crops alone have a value esti
mated at more than $30,000,000 this
year.
According to a report submitted by
District Sealer Jones to Fred G. Buch
tel, head of the state weights and
measures department, he last week
condemned 18 scales used by creamery
and cheese factories in Tillamook
county. Twenty-five scales were ad
justed and 125 scales were corrected
and sealed. During his tour of Tilla
mook county he made a total of 600
inspections.
Forest Supervisor Macduff has re
ceived the contract between the for
est service and the Coos Bay Lumber
company under which 27 million feet
of timber on the Coquille river in the
Siskiyou national forest is sold to that
company. The stumpage prices pro
vided in he contract are $2.00 for Port
Orford cedar or Lawson cypress, $1.25
for Douglas fir, $1.00 for Western red
cedar and 50c for western hemlock
and grand fir. The estimate value of
the timber is $38,000.00. Cutting will
begin August 7.
McMinnville isn't sleeping. The
old town is a mighty busy one this
summer and much improvement is in
progress. Work has begun on fifty
blocks of asphaltic concrete pavement
and the McMinnville blocks are large
one. Street improvements prepara
tory to hard-surfacing are in progress.
The grading crews have completed B.
C, and E streets and some of the
cross streets are being taken up. The
concrete men are putting in the cufbs
on B street and a leveling crew is at
work on that same street placing it
in readiness to receive the concrete
foundation over which will be spread
the asphaltic mixture.
Preliminary plans were made
by the several committees of
the Gresham commercial club at
their meeting on Wednesday evening
for the street carnival to be held on
Tuesday evening, August 22. Mayor
Stapleton was selected to make an
opening address of greeting and a
few other details were confirmed that
had been tentatively suggested. A
stand will be built over the old con
crete basement on the Ely lots and
the grounds will be leveled so as to
give a neater appearance to the sur
roundings. Just south of the plat
form the firemen were authorized to
erect booths and bowers of evergreen
trees and flowering shrubs.
Last Chapter of Sad Tragedy Closed
Here Tuesday
The body of Wilbur Rainwater, the
little 12 year old lad who was kicked
by a horse July 14 at West Linn and
died immediately from the effects of
the blow, was laid to rest Tuesday in
Mountain View cemetery.
The body has been held since the
lad's death by Meyers & Brady, await
ing instructions from the parents of
the lad, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Rainwater,
who were fprced to start overland to
their home in Spokane following the
tragedy. The parents, with the lad.
were making an overland trip to Ban
don from their Spokane home at the
time of the accident and it was their
intention, upon returning, to have the
body shipped there for burial. The
family is now at Wasco, where the
father is employed in the harvest
fields. The mother is down sick at
that place and the family is said to
be in stringent circumstances.
Dr. Milliken officiated at the service
and a large volunteer choir from the
Baptist church sang appropriate mu
sic. A large crowd was in attend
ance at the funeral and many follow
ed the remains of the little stranger
to their last resting place.
It is understood that since the
family left Oregon City they have lost
another child, an infant born shortly
after leaving here.
With the services yesterday the
last chapter in another of Clackamas
county's many sad tragedies was clos
ed.
AUTO GIVEN TAR-BATH
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Announcing Our
Exchange Department
IT is with pleasure that we announce the formal opening
of our Exchange Department Which will be operated
directly in connection with our furniture department. f We
propose to render to the people of Oregon City and Clack
amas County a new kind of service. We will take in ex
change any odd or out of date pieces of furniture in part
payment on new and up to date furniture. (J We will take
in exchange or buy for cash, your old stoves, chairs, tables,
beds, etc. I Our broad guarantee of perfect satisfaction,
backed by our reputation of 35 years of honest and fair deal
ing with the people of this community, is behind every piece
of furniture sold from our store.
FRANK BUSCH
Oregon City's Leading Furniture and
Hardware Store
&
LIGHT STOCK RUN
ortland Market With Liberal Offer
ing of Hogs. Few Sheep
A very light run of cattle started
the week's trading at the Portland
stock market with the receipt of about
600 head. There was a very good de
mand and prices took an advance of a
good 25 cents. Quality was very good
as a rule. The bulk of receipts were
steers and most sales were from $6.25
to $7. There was a light run of cows
with a very good demand. Prices
were in some cases as much as 50
ents higher than last week, but most
sales were 25 cents better. There
were but few bulls with the choice
offering selling at 25 cents higher.
Ihe best feeders sold around $6 and
as most of the stuff was thin the gen
eral sales were $5 and $5.50. Calvs
sold at $7.50.
A liberal offering of hogs came in
to the market on Monday. The best
run received for several weeks and
the market was unsettled throughout
with tops selling $9.90, although the
eneral market was on a 5 cent lower
basis. The bulk sales were $9.65 and
$9.75.
Sheep receipts Monday were light,
900 head having been received. There
was a very good demand for fat stuff.
Valley lambs continu to sell at $8,
while choice Mt. Adams lambs are
bringing $8.25. Best yearling weath
ers bring $6 to $6.50 and ewes $5 to
$5.25.
Lieutenancy Open
A second lieutenancy in the United
States army is open, by competitive
examination, to all graduates of the
Oregon Agricultural college who are
ot over 27 years of age. Examina-
ions, according to an order issued
August 3 from the war department,
will be held on August 21 at some
point in the Pacific northwest to be
ubsequently designated by the ad
jutant general of the army, Washing
ton, D. C, to whom application should
be made at once. Eoth a mental and a
physical examination will be requi
site to appointment, the mental exam-
nation including elementary Freeh,
Germa or Spanish, General History,
elemetary surveying, and a choice of
advanced work in English, modern
nguagen, analytical geometry, cal
culus, military art and field engineer
ing, or advanced surveying.
Tuesday we had the interesting
news from Salem that Governor
Withycombe had pardoned ten prison
ers. If Oswald West had pardoned
that many at one pot-shot that repub
lic Coud Hardly Walk
Kidney trouble manifests itself in
many ways. Rheumatism, aches and
pains, soreness and stiffness are com
mon symptoms. Ambrose Gary, Sul
phur, Okla., writes: "I was bothered
with kidney trouble ten years and at
times could hardly walk. Three
months ago I began taking Foley Kid
ney Pills. I got relief from the first
bottle but continued to take them till
I had taken three bottles. I feel like
a new man. It is a wonderful medi
cine." No harmful drugs. Jones
Drug Co.
Oregon City is looked up to
throughout the Btate as the "real"
city of the Willamette valley. Surely,
its navrnll nnrl it vnlnmn nf
, - .1 V -. UUOI-
iitan press oi xne state would have ness and its tributary territory en
had political capital for a scare head j title Oregon City to such honorable
and a page of editorial matter. I mention.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
New Prices August 1, 1916
The following prices for Ford cars will be ef-
fective on and after August 1st, 1916
Chassis .
Runabout . . .
Touring Car . . .
Coupelet ....
Town Car . .
Sedan
f. o, b. Detroit
$325.00
345.00
360.00
505.00
595.00
645.00
These prices are positively guaranteed against any reduction before August 1st,
1917, but there is no guarantee against an advance in price at any time.
Pacific Highway Garage
OREGON CITY, OREGON
SHOOTS WHILE DRUNK
William Bennett in the Cold Dawn of
the Morning After
Residents dreamed of the palmy old
days of the raw west early on Friday
when William Bennett, at the height
of a beautiful "jag" brought a vic
ious revolver into play and fired a
number of shots which awakened
peaceful sleepers.
Bennett "took a couple of drinks"
to aid in reforming a very troublesome
cold and, according to his statement in
jail, he becomes a "regular Indian"
when he takes liquor.
Officers .located the refractory citi
zen, after he had greatly frightened
a street car crew by brandishing his
44 calibre revolver, in his room here
and placed him under arrest. On Fri
day Bennett pleaded guilty to a charge
of drunkenness before Mayor Hackett,
who levied a fine of $50 (or the al
ternative of 25 days in jail) which the
prisoner was unable to pay. Bennett,
the wild-west town painter, is spend
ing his vacation of 25 days in the city
jail.
FARMER FILES SUIT
Christ Zwahlen Would Collect $5,000
in Slander Judgment
Christ Zwahlen wants $5,000 of the
savings of Fred Baurer because the
latter slandered him and injured his
reputation and peace of mind. Mr.
Zwahlen filed complaint late Thurs
day in the circuit court here alleging
that Mr. Baurer, a Clarkes farmer,
made untrue statements to neighbors
which injured him in the community.
The complaint specifically alleges
that Mr. Baurer said to W. H. Wett
laufer of Clarkes: "He (Mr. Zwahlen)
eat my steer and ate of it at his table.
He was without meat and had to steal
for a living. If he had come to me I
would have given him something so
that he would not have to steal. He
took my heifer and put his brand on
my heifer and kept the heifer in his
pasture. He butchered my steer."
A new variety of cherry which fruit
growers believe will mean a fortune
to horticulturists, has been discovered
by C. E. Stewart, county fruit inspec
tor of Lane county. The cherry is
a seedling, but looks and tastes very
much like a Royal Anne. It has near
ly all the appearances of the Royal
Anne, but it is just now ripening,
a month later than the standard va
riety matures. There are several
trees of this variety growing on a
farm on the upper Willamette river
above Eugene. The trees are old and
have been bearing at this time of the
year for many years.
For Sale
Having sold my farm I must sell
29 goats, 5 cows, 3 calves, 1 span of
horses, 3 sets of harnes, 2 wagons
3 V -inch. All are in good condition
and will be sold cheap for cash.
CHARLES T. TOOZE
108 14th St., Oregon City..
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