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THE MORXING OREGOMAX, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1914. BRITONS SHELLED FROM ALL ANGLES Gains Made by Degrees, How ever, Reports Commander Sir John French. GERMANS ALLEGED CRAFTY Pretending to Surrender, Kaisers Approach Queen's Guards Trench and Fire Point Blank; Ma chine Gun Avenges. (Continued From Page 1.) trenches are elaborately constructed itil cleverly concealed. In many places there are wire entanglements and lengths of rabbit fencing. - "iioth woods and open are carefully aligned, so that they can be swept by Tine tire and machine guns, which are invisible from our side of the valley. The ground in front of the infantry trenches is also as a rule under cross lire from the field artillery placed on neighboring features and under high 4int;iet Are from pieces placed well back behind the woods on top of the plateau. "A feature of this action, as of the previous fighting, is the use by the ftiemy of their numerous heavy how itzers, with which they are able to di rect long-range fire all over the valley and right across it. Upon these they evidently place great reliance. Shelling Practically Continuous. "Where our men are holding the for ward edges of the high ground on the north side they are now strongly in trenched. They are well fed and, in spite of the wet weather of the past week, are cheerful and confident. "The bombardment by both sides has been very heavy and on Sunday, Mon day and Tuesday was practically con tinuous. Nevertheless, in spite of the general din caused by the reports of the immense number of heavy guns in action along 'our front on Wednesday, the arrival of the French force acting against the German right flank was at once announced on the east of our front some miles away by the continuous roar of the quick-firing artillery with which the attack was opened. "So far as the British are concerned the greater part of this week has been passed in bombardment, In gaining ground by degrees and in beating back fcevero counter attacks witn heavy slaughter.. Our casualties have been severe, but it is probable that those of the enemy are heavier. "The rain has caused a great drop in the temperature and there is more than 11 distinct feeling of Autumn in the air, especially in the early morn ing. Ton. Taken Four Times. "On our right and left the French have been fighting fiercely and have also been gradually gaining ground. One village already has during this battle been captured and recaptured twice by each side and at the time of writing remains in the hands of the Germans. "The fighting has been at close quar ters and of the most desperate nature and the streets of the village are filled with dead of both sides. '" "The Germans are a formidable enemy, well trained, long prepared and brave. Their soldiers are carrying on the contest with skill and valor. Never theless, they are fighting to win any how, regardless of all the rules of fair play, and there is evidence that they do not hesitate at anything in order to gain victory. "A large number of the tales of the misbehaviors are exaggeration and some of the stringent precautions they have taken to guard themselves against the inhabitants of the areas traversed are possibly justifiable measures of war. But at the same time it has been definitely established that they have committed atrocities on many occa sions and they have been guilty of brutal conduct- Treacaerjr Is Aveagcd. "Amongst the minor happenings of interest Is the followijig: "During a counter attack by the German Fifty-third Regiment on por tions of the Northampton and Queen's regiments on Thursday, the 17th, a force of somo 400 of the enemy were allowed to approach right up to th trench occupied by a platoon of the former regiment, owing to the fact that tbey held up their hands and made ges tures that were interpreted as signi that they wished to surrender. When they were actually on the parapet of the trench they opened on our men point blank. "Unluckily 'for the enemy, however. flanking them and only some 400 yards away, there happened to be a machine gun, manned by a detachment of the Queen's. This opened tire, cutting a lane through the mass, and they fell back to their own trench with great loss. Shortly afterwards they were driven further back, with additional loss, by a battalion of guards which came up In. support. Airmen Fight Duel. "An incident which occurred some little time ago during our retirement is also worthy of record. On August 28. during the battle fought by the French along the Olse, between Latere anu liuise, one or me irencn com manders desired to make an air re connaisance. It was found, however. that no observers were available. "Wishing to help our alllies as much as possible, a British officer attached to this particular French army volun teered to go up with the pilot to ob serve. He had never been in an aero plane, but he made the ascent and. pro duced a valuable reconnaisance report. "Incidentally he had a duel in the air at an altitude of 6000 feet with the ob server of a German taube monoplane, which approached. He fired several thots and drove off the hostile aero plane. His action was much appre ' elated by the French. "In view of the many statements made in the press as to the use of the Zeppelins against us, it is interesting to note that thm Royal Flying Corps who had been out on reconnoisances every day since their -arrival in Frunce, have never seen a Zeppelin, though airships of a non-rigid type have been seen on two occasions near Marne. "The orders of the Royal Flying Corps are to attack Zeppelins at once and there is some disappointment at the absence of those targets." THREE CRUISERS ARE SUNK (Continued From Fag-a I.) squadron, without a care and as if there were no German seawolves in armored clothing. For two hours we lay under water on the outposts. We could with certainty have succeeded in fetching under a big cruiser. But we must not; we were on patrol, and our boat had further work to do." YMUIDEN, Holland, via London. Sept. S2. Two of five German submarine boats which attacked and sunk the BriUah cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue were sent to the bottom by the British ships, according to survivors from the cruisers, who arrived here to night AMSTERDAM, via London. Sept. 22. The steamer Flores arrived at Ymuiden tonight with 287 survivors from the British cruisers sunk by the German submarines. The correspondent of the Handelsblad interviewed at Ymuiden, Holland, one of the survivors of the battle between the German submarines and the British cruisers in the North Sea. "We were navigating with the cruis ers in the North Sea in beautiful weath er," the survivor is reported as say ing. "This morning at 6 o'clock the Aboukir was hit in several places and disappeared within five minutes. "The other men-of-war thought the Aboukir had struck a mine as no hos tile ships could be seen. They lowered their boats. A few minutes later the Hogue was hit and sank. In a short time the Cressy also was torpedoed and sank about 8 o'clock." HARWICH, England, Sept. 23, via London. -It is computed here that 700 men from the British cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue were saved. Thirty uninjured officers, survivors of the three sunken warships, arrived here tonight. They had been rescued from the water and wore improvised clothing. Eighty other survivors were landed at Farkeston quay, three miles west of Harwich. WIFE DYING; MAN HELD MBS. MINNIE: ANDERSON FOUND IV CRITICAL CONDITION. Blow From Sharp Weapon and Acid Poisoning; Blamed for Injuries ' That May Cause Death. Mrs. Minnie Anderson, 22, a half blood Indian, was struck on the head with a sharp instrument, receiving a fractured skull, and then poisoned with carbolic acid, purchased by her hus band, following a quarrel in their, res idence, 366 First street, late yesterday. The husband, W. S. Anderson, is held pending further investigation. Patrolman Leisy and Detective Crad dock found Mrs. Anderson lying on the floor of the kitchen. Mrs. Anderson was taken to St. Vin cent's Hospital by the Ambulance Serv ice Company. She was reported dying last night. According to the story told by Anderson after his arrest, his wife received a letter yesterday from a man who, he said, declared his love for Mrs. Anderson. The husband said his wife wanted to elope with the man. Anderson said he remonstrated with her and refused to allow her to re move her possessions from their res idence. A quarrel followed, he said, and his wife fell into a washtub, re ceiving the injuries to her skull. Then, he said, she struggled out of the tub and staggered to a shelf, where a bottle of carbolic acid was kept. She drank a part of this. Anderson said he immediately rushed to a grocery to secure eggs to be used as an antedote. When he returned the detectives were in waiting and took him to the Mu nicipal Jail. Anderson told Detective Captain Baty, on a preliminary examination, that he purchased the carbolic acid two weeks ago to he used in killing flies. Later he told the detective that he purchased the acid more than a month ago. BRITISH TAKE 3 VESSELS Hamburg-American Liner and Two ... Colliers Are Prizes. LONDON, Sept. 22. The Hamburg. American line steamer Spreewald - has been captured by the British cruiser Berwick in the North Atlantic Ocean, according to an announcement by the Admiralty tonight. , It was also said two colliers had been captured. The Spreewald was fitted out as an armed cruiser. The two colliers carried 2600 tons of coal and 180 tons of pro visions for the German cruisers in At lantic waters. The Berwick is com manded by Captain Lewis C. Baker. The total number of German vessels which, according to latest reports, have been captured by British vessels at sea or by British port authorities, is 92 Ninety-five German vessels were de tained in British ports at the outbreak of the war. Seventy British vessels were held in German ports at the commencement of hostilities and since then 12 British seagoing vessels out of the upwards of 4000 carrying on over-sea trade have been captured and sunk at sea. The Spreewald is a steamer of 2214 tons. She was last reported as hav ing sailed from Antwerp, July 12, for the West Indies, and to have arrived -at St. Thomas, D. W. I., August 4. FESTIVAL HEADS NAMED President of Board of Directors Makes Appointment for 1915. At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Rose Festival Asso ciation at the Commercial Club last night, President Olmstead announced his appointment of the committee heads to direct the various department activities or the 1915 Festival. Upon the Invitation of Imperial Chief Mut Strandborg, the directors voted to ac cept the services of the "Mut Wang- Oooaie Band ' that is now in the pro cess oi organization. The following directors will serve at the head of respective committees Military, fraternal and industrial. George L. Baker; athletics and special features. Charles F. Berg; publicity, J. Fred Larson; finance, H. L. Corbett; decorations, Jacob Kanzler; automobile. ira J? . fowers; transportation. F. W. Hild; entertainment and reception. Dean Vincent; school participation, O. M. Plumraer; properties and music, S. C. Pier, and Rose Center, John F. Car roll. The head of the marine com. mittee has not yet been chosen. REED COLLEGE PAPER BOWS The Quest, Edited by Edgar E. Piper and Others, Is Bright and Newsy. Chock-full of real college news and well supplied with advertisements, tha first issue of the Reed College Quest, the official student publication of Reed College, is off the press. The -Quest is a neat, well-edited paper of four pages of five columns each. A feature of the paper is a column captioned "Information About College Publisht for Newcomers." As explained at the head of the editorial page, "cer tain words in the news and editorial columns of the Quest are speld ac cording to the recommendations of the simplified spelling board." The staff is composed of the fol lowing named collegians: Editor, Edgar E. Piper '16) ; associate editor, Lois M. Williams '16); contributing editors, Elsa F. Gill ('15), Ellis H. Jones 016); assistant editors, A. M. Lockey C16), Henry Norman ("16): reporters, Arthur Houck ("15), Harold Golder ('16). Clyde BeaU '). Clara Eliot ('17). REGALLERS Will IN COLUMBIA COUNTY Road Policies Stir Resentment and Court Loses Fight as Returns Are Counted. ATTORNEY IS OUSTED, TOO Harmony Witli Plans or State High way Commission for Work to Be Done and Economy Is on Candidates' Pledge. RAINIER. Or., Sept. 22. (Special.) Recallers won their light against the present County Court and its highway policies by a majority of 375 when the returns from the Columbia County elec tion were counted tonight. Twenty four hundred votes were cast. County Judge W. A. Harris and Com missioners John Farr and Lewis Fluh ier were recalled. Andrew L. Clark soon will be installed as County Judge and B. J. Keeland and A. E. Harvey as Commissioners. W. B. Dillard was re called as County Attorney and Ben K Metsker elected in his place. . The fight on the present court came about largely through its policies i in road construction. A new highway through St. Helens was proposed by the court. It was vetoed by the State Highway Engineer, preventing any chance for state aid. The new court is pledged to an administration of econ omy and to work in harmony with the State Highway Commission and its en gineer. The plan of the present court, on the face of the complete returns to night, did not meet with favor through the county. Anti-recallers have raised the point during the election that the County Attorney cannot be recalled because the bill passed by the last Legislature made him a state officer until 1916. Under the provisions of the bill, it is asserted, the Governor alone can ap point or remove the County Attorney until the next general election." The case went Into the courts but the election was permitted in spite of the petition for a restraining order asked by the present county officials. The court, it is said, has not been in harmony with the State Commission! and its demand that a road be pushed through old St. Helens has met with opposition, culminating in the recall carried at today's election. DAZED WOU IS SEEN PROBABLE CLEW TO MRS. FCESTON, MISSING WIFE, REPORTED. White Salmon Message Says Two, One Answering Description, Were Hound for Canton, Wash. A clew to the whereabouts of Mrs. Stella Fueaton, wife of Gaines Fueston. of 2304 Russell street, who disappeared last Saturday afternoon, was obtained in a telephone message to Portland from White Salmon yesterday, and the police authorities in many Washington cities have been telegrapsed to be on the lookout for two women traveling together. According to the information, which was received by D. E. Bowman, of 294 East Fourteenth street North, a woman tallying in every detail with the. de scription in The Oregonian and resem bling the picture published, was seen in White Salmon yesterday with an other woman. The supposed Mrs. Fuea ton. said the informant, seemed to be dazed and possibly was under the in fluence of a drug. The woman with her was questioned and said they were going. to a springs at Carson, Wash. They were not detained, but a relative of Mr. Bowman notified him yesterday and he immediately communicated with Mr. Fueston and Portland detectives. The description of the woman as given over the telephone was correct. even to the pleats of the dress worn. which were of a different color than the garment. It was learned yesterday that a neigh bor woman, who is suspected of having been involved in the case, has disap peared also. It is said that the woman, whose name is withheld by the police, showed Mrs. Fueston a check for $4U0 a few days before the disappearance Saturday of Mrs. Fueston, which she said was given her by a Spokane timekeeper, under suspicion in connection with the alleged kidnaping of Mrs. Fueston. SARAJEVO IS CAPTURED Town Where Archduke Was Slain in Hands of Enemy. LONDON, Sept. 22. The Rome corre spondent of the Star says the Servian and Montenegrin troops have occupied Sarajevo, which was abandoned by the Austrians after an overwhelming de feat. Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia. It is a fortified town of some 27,000 in habitants. It manufactures copper, brass and iron ware and cotton goods and tobacco. It was here that Arch duke Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, and his wife were assassinated shortly before Aus tria declared war on Servla. BRITISH TAKE PACIFIC ISLE Germans' Last Stationary Wireless Plant on This Side. LONDON. Sept22. The destruction of the wireless station on the Island of Nauru, removing the last German sta tionary wireless apparatus in the Pa cific, is reported today from Sydney, New South Wales. The British flag now flies over the SUGAR DOWN 11 Beet Sugar, per Back .S7.00 Fruit Sugar, per sack. . . .87.20 Gblrardelirs Chocolate, lb can 254 Hundreds of other bargains. Buy here because you save money. Service unsurpassed. Prompt delivery. THE PEOPLES First and Taylor. Main 5700, A SDSNVSIDE STORE 094-998 Belmont." Tabor 18. B 1215. CAUSED BY OVEREATING Deficient gastric secretion, meaniny a lack of the fluids necessary fori digestion, is a prevalent condition. Too! may have it now and not know it be cause you are able to get along with out actual discomfort even with' your enfeebled digestion. But if you overeat then you are 'in trouble. You have indigestion because you have given your weakened stomach too much to do. The deficient gastric secretion was what doctors call the predisposing cause. The overeating was the exciting cause. It is easy not to repeat the overeating, but the pre disposing cause must be corrected if you are to be welL The secretions that digest the food come from glands that are nourished directly by the blood. When these se cretions are insufficient the only way to restore their healthful condition is by building up the blood. This can be done by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, the non-alcoholic tonic that assists na ture In keeping the body in health. Proper attention to diet and the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills should be tried in cases of disordered digestion because it is the simple and natural way to correct the trouble. . Send today for a copy of. our free diet book, "What to Eat and. How to Eat." Address the Dr. Williams Med icine Co.. Schenectady, N. Y. Your own druggist Bells Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. island, though the German Governor and his staff have been allowed to re main. Scattered fighting has taken place at Rabaul, on an island in the Bismarck Archipelago. The natives, under Ger man leaders, proved troublesome, but the Australian landing party took to cover cleverly and suffered no losses, and after a skirmish, Rabaul practic ally surrendered. Dr. Pockley, a member of the Aus tralian Red Cross detachment, was shot by a German officer after he had removed his coat with the Red Cross band on the sleeves to cover a wounded man. More Bonds to Be Sold. A second attempt is to be made by the city to sell $100,000 in 4 per cent long-time municipal dock bonds. Re cently an attempt at the sale of these bonds failed because there were no bidders. An ordinance will be before the City Council this morning au thorizing the purchasing agent to ad vertise for bids. "OUR FIGHT"' FOR' THE OREGON LEGISLATURE SECOND LESSON IN PRACTICAL POLITICS VOur lesson today, children, 'is "Our Fight for the Oregon Leg islature." I promised you that this would be a bigger joke than our first lesson. After our big "hurrah meeting" in Pittsburg, the political depart ment of the millionaires called us field agitators in and gave us our programme. They said that the tide of commerce would begin shifting -when the' Panama Canal was completed and that they would have to get busy and begin getting a grip on the Legislatures of the Pacific Coast. I never knew that there were such shrewd politicians in the whole world until they got us into that room. They explained to- us that, through the different millionaires in the Anti-Saloon League, they could pull strings on a lot of rich men in all three Pa cific Coast states. You see they owned a lot of natural resources out here already, or were silent partners in a lot of corporations whose officers and active heads they could twist around their thumb. There were great iron and other mineral deposits in these states ; the timber resources of these three states were the great est in the whole country; the power possibilities were immense and these millionaires wanted them. But, you see, children, they could steal most of these resources by merely stealing the Legislatures. They wouldn't have to pay a cent for them. Isn't that the simplest thing in high financing, children, you ever saw? Willie, I shall send Double Stamps Till 2 Today Phone U8 Yoar Orders Free Delivery Always Get Your Stamps. They're Money. DRUGS mwf Fine Framed Pictures For the Schoolroom or Home. We show in oar Alder st. window today a very attractive line of Carbons and Photogravure Reproductions of famous paintings, and architectural subjects price of "We make no extended remarks concerning these pic tures. We submit they are most appropriate and de sirable for any and every schoolroom, while the price at which we offer them for this week only should place them upon the walls of many a bare room, where they will give lasting pleasure to all who may see them. "The truest education is through the eye." SERVING TRAYS (new) Inlaid and hand-carved, mahogany, heavy polished plate centers,' antique silver, brass and carved wood handles, vcrv beautiful. ELECTRIC LAMPS New patterns, artis tic, practical, harmonious. j1- - English Celluloid Photo Frames Card or cabinet size, single or double, special X-4 ,NTJT MEATS New Crop. Walnuts, Pecans, Pine Nuts, Goobers, Almonds. 1 DRUGS EVER EAT GOOD CANDY? Try our, fresh each day. Hand-rolled Vanilla Chocolates, lb 37 llershey's Nut and Milk Bars, 6 for. .25 Baby Sticks, assorted flavors, lb.... 24 Wood-Lark Building wSs ilk you home if you don't stop laugh ing. - But when they handed us our programme, with the three differ ent prohibition issues for the three different Pacific Coast states all nicely typewritten, I could hardly keep my own face straight. But I thought of my new job of fooling the people and that sobered me up. These politicians explained to us that we should remember that we were not working for true temper ance, but for votes, because it takes votes to get Legislatures. They told us that they did not expect to get the California and Washington Legislatures this first year, but that Oregon voters pos sibly might be fooled. The people of Oregon, they told us, had swal lowed about every brand of freak legislation, if enough hysteria and emotion had been put into it. Of course, children, we are forced to admit that if we were working for true temperance in Oregon we would have to prohibit the "manufacture," "sale," "dis tribution," "use" and "giving away" of alcoholic beverages for "all purposes." But we felt that we could fool enough of the voters of Oregon by only prohibiting the "manufacture" and "sale" of alcoholic beverages to capture the Legislature. So you see we crossed out the words "distribution," "use" and "giving away" in the Oregon issue. As you think this over, children, you will see how this clever little piece of politics may get us enough votes to get the Legislature. We didn't have a ghost of a show of getting the REGISTER AND .Paid Advertisement, Taxpayers' ana Wage X 0 $1.95 at a uniform "Agentala" gold, silver no muss a wonderful fabric. Clutch Pencils 19 "Oregon" Lawn, a fine note paper, full pound 25 Recipe Indexes, oak box and cards, complete 50 Clean, convenient, durable. "Woodlark" letter Tiles S9 Fountain Pens OS 10 days' trial free. THIS A Wizard A Wizard For Legislature without doing it. The people don't generally know it, but we already have quite a number of members of the Legis lature now in all three states, in cluding Oregon. So, ,even though we don't carry the prohibition amendment here in Oregon this Fall, if we elect enough "prohi" members to give us a majority, we don't care a whoop whether our brand of prohibition succeeds or not. The politicians told us that they didn't have a chance, within 200, 000 votes, of carrying California, but they wanted to use the issue in that state for campaign pur poses in states to the eastward. You see their grip on the Legisla tures has been slipping in Colo rado, Ohio and Virginia, where they have been doing some rotten work with their workingmen. These are the only other states where they are making a FIGHT FOR TEM PERANCE this year, and they are trying to save their face in those states by pointing out WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR IN CALI FORNIA. So in the California is sue they left the word "distribu tion" in. Even at that they figure ou capturing some more members in the California Legislature this Fall. We all had a good laugh when the Washington issue was decided on. Th'e politicians explained that the Washington' voters wouldn't begin to vote for what the Oregon voters would, so they figured out that they would make the County Auditors the official barkeepers of that state. VOTE 333 X Karners' League of Oregon, Portland, is the new dry polish cloth for and metal, 2o. No dirt "WOODLARK" PLAYING CARDS. Gold edges, Congress style, heavy tele scope boxes. A 50-cent card for....25i WEEK Mop Polish .. .$L25 . .25 $1.50 -51.19 Alder at West Park So they scratched out everything that would mean true temperance except the word "manufacture" and arranged for the Washington voters, man or woman, that they may ship in a HALF GALLON OF ALCOHOL or a DOZEN BOT TLES OF BEER EVERY TWEN TY DAYS by buying a 25-cent per mit. You see Washington would continue to get the saloon license money in another way, but in Ore gon they decided they could fool the voters so as to take about NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS away from them in li cense money. The people in Ore gon, you see, children, have voted for any freak legislation that came along, if enough hysteria could be put into the issue to fool tbem. They're beginning to holler, I un derstand, now that they find that their taxes are going up like a sky rocket, but we hope to have them overlook this side of the issue this year by fooling them. We laughed and laughed when one politician told us that the peo ple of Washington could stay drunk all the time on the gallon of whisky which each voter could make out of his half gallon of alcohol. That, you know, children, is more than the average individual consumption .in the whole United Stales today. But as long as we are not working for true temperance in these three Pacific Coast states, but only want the Legislatures, we were told that we should worry. I think it's the funniest thing in practical politics I have ever seen. Don't you, children? NO Or. 7 V