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T he N kws stands for a greater and better Falls City all the time FALLS CITY NEWS Buy all goods of homo merchants and help to make Falls City greater FALLS CITY. OREGON, SATURDAY. JUNE 27. 1914 VOL. X Everything Quiet At Butte Since Tuesday’s Battle Butte, Mont., Juno 25. —All is quiet today after the riot Tues day night in which one man was killed, one was mortally wound ed, another was less seriously hurt, in a fusillade by Deputy Sheriffs, who were keeping the crowds back from the Miners’ Union Hall,- Three charges of dynamite were exploded in and under the hall, the front o f which was blown out. The crowds had pressed on the Miners’ Union hall in conse quence o f a scheduled meeting there, at which President Moyer, o f the Western Federation o f Miners, was to outline a peace plan. Most o f the shots were fired into the air by the officers. The shooting o f the three men ap parently took most o f the nerve out o f the crowd and they quick ly backed a distance o f two blocks from each side o f the hall. A hundred deputies with saw ed-off Bhotguns were holding the hall. Sheriff Driscoll, shortly after the firing began and after the crowd was forced down the street, appeared at the entrance o f the hall and shouted that he wanted 500 deputies. No re sponse was made to the sheriff’s appeal. Ernest Noy, traveling inspec tor for the Montana demurrage bureau, a bystander, was the man killed. The bullet passed through his neck. The mortally wounded man is J. H. Brune, aged 52. H e was shot through the head and can not live. Brune was proceeding upstairs to the miners’ hall to at tend the meeting when a bullet struck him. The deputies ap parently fired on any one in sight who approached the hall. The third wounded man is Charles Kramer, o f l x » Angeles, a spectator. The bullet grazed his stomach. He is not serious ly hurt. The battle then raged around Miners’ Union Hall, insurgent miners firing from the tops o f all nearby buildings into the hall. The deputies reserved their fire, but occasionally a deputy rushed to a window, fired and retired to inner rooms. Miners rushed for their wea pons and such arms as they could get. There was much shouting for dynamite among the crowd. The deputies, it is said, feared dynamite had been planted under the hall, consequently they would allow no one to approach within range o f their guns. The deputies held the hall fear ing that the mob would wreak vengeance on President Moyer and Bert Riley, head o f the fed eration local, who are in the Miners’ Union hall. The shooting was first precipi tated by fear o f the deputies that the crowd o f miners assembled in the streets would rush the meeting the union. The shoot ing came as a surprise to the crowd, as no warning had come from the deputies. President Moyer had asked Sheriff Driscoll for protection and had been assured by the Sheriff that deputies would be on hand to prevent any attempt to break up the meeting. A t the first sign o f firing, Moyer, Riley and all the other officials took to fligh t from a rear door from the Miners’ Union hall, according to officers, and none but the deputies are in the hall. The union officials have left the city, according to an un confirmed report, which says that an automobile was in readiness at a rear door, in which the offic ials were whisked away. No. 43 HURT IN A RUNAWAY Nr. Nttl Sailers Bratus ss4 it Its4ers4 Us •S M d S W . What might have proved a fa tal accident occurred late Satur day night near Guthrie, on the Dall&s-Falls City road Wm. Neat being severely injured, and his Ti.e first dynamite charge failed companion. Ray Gebott, is cop to do great damage. The explos ing with minor scratches and ion could be heard fojr blocks. bruises. The gentlemen were on Aruisd men proceeded to the Slew- the way home from Falls City in art mine and boldly carried down a livery rig when a large auto boxes of dynamite in the attempt struck the carriage and tore it to blow up the hall, but the guns into pieces. The machine carried of the deputies prevented effective j but two small lights in front and was ro t seen until within a few placing of the charge. Two more heavy explosions fol feet o f the team. Tl.»> auto fad lowed and crowds again attempted ed away into i he distance while the occupants o f the rig were to dynamite the hall. The insurgent miners hurriedly making a search for each other. had printed thousands of handbills' Mr. Neat, who has been for some for distribution among the miners, years deprived o f both his lower urging them to disperse and go extremities in a railway accident, home in the name of the union. is nursing a badly bruised scalp, The appeal was addressed by Pres a severe sprain o f the wrist and ident Michael McDouall of the a badly scratched face. He gain ed consciousness after being new union. The second and third charges of brought to Dallas, aid being ten dynamite blew the front out of the dered by a passing automobile party from Falls City. The team building. was uninjured.—Dallas Observer. ------- » «------- • Parent’ s Mass Meeting The School Board have called a mass meeting of the parents of the school district for July 15, for the purpose of discussing the advis ability of continuing arts of Dom estic Science and Manual Train ing. Every parent should attend this meetinj and hear and be heard in this matter. Returned From Fishing Trip George Hegler, Mr. anil Mrs. Allen and Vernon Brentner return ed Tuesday afternoon from a fish ing trip in the Siletz country. They were on the Big I.uckiamute and say that they caught plenty of fish. The rain drove them heme sooner than they expected. Mr. Hegler nays that they are working on the Valley & Siletz railroad T ry a Sack of HIGH FLIGHT FLOUR EASY MONEY News From Various Parts Of The Country Doings of the Week Gathered from Our Exchanges and Other Reliable Sources VICTIM OF REPTILE LIVES l(tovir) Drptndi on Overcoming of Fur, Siy S c lu iitti Soy l a m M(dford Doctors. SfeoaM Be WateJuB for l u p r S ig n . MEDFORD. Or.. June 21.— James King, snake charmer at the street carnival bitten by a Gila monster Saturday while showing the reptile to a crowd, is resting easy tonight, with ao even chance o f recovery. The man’s temperature is nor mal and he is rational. The worst phase o f the case is his certainty that he cannot live. According to Mr. K ing the poison does not t»ke effect at once, and death is inevitable. The doctors have made a study o f the poison, and declare that if the man’8 fear o f death can be overcome he has a good chance o f recovering. ------- ♦—♦ ♦ 1(4 H u ff Bay* 6(1 Noaal l a m a From Bight «( Way. BIG ERUPTION POSSIBLE ..... li m p i d 353 AT NORMAL SCHOOL RED BLUFFS. Cal.. June 22. —Young boys o f Red Bluff have commercialized the keen interest in the volcanic disturbance at Mount Lassen on the part o f travelers passing through here by train. Today they sold small rocks from the Southern Pacific roadbed marked "la v a ” as sam ples from the crater for 10 cents each. A woman bought one boy’ s whole stock and asked for more. The lad scampered down the track, filled his pockets, told the woman they had just been ob tained and received $1.50. REDDING, Cal., June 2 5 .- Lassen is not a geyser. Its action since first it broke into eruption on May 30 has been deddediy volcanic. This was the declara tion today o f J. S. Diller, a Gov ernment expert, and considered the foremost authority oft the Lassen quadrangle. " I don’t predict more serious eruptions,” said Mr. Diller, “but the mountain ought to be watch ed for increased activity, and for tremors that might indicate more serious disturbances. The action to date involves only a small area o f the mountain top. but i f . new apertures should be blown open, they would be the forerunner of more dangerous disturbances,” Declines the Position Att(ndii<( for Summer Work Brraks I(tar4s for Thru Yurs. County Superindent of Schools H. C. Seymour, who was elected principal o f the Kennedy school in Portland for the school year 1914-15, has declined the posi tion, and will remain in charge of the Polk county schools, news that will be received with no small degree o f satisfaction by the educational interests here. T. J. Gary o f Oregon City gets the place.— Dallas Observer. Monmouth. Or., June 22.—When 353 students had registered up to 6 o ’clock tonight for work in the Summer school here, records for three years were broken. It is probable that the number will total 400 or more before the close o f the week. The g irl’s dormitory is packed to capacity and it is likely that Crops Damaged every house available for board Big rains in the east have done ing students will be used. Every member o f the faculty will be considerable damage to growing crops. employed during the session. POLK COUNTY CHAUTAUQUA DALLAS, OREGON, June 27 to July 2. s ix B IG DAYS and watch results e n t e r t a i n e r s All Goods and Prices Are Right AT Falls City Lumber Co. : Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, Ciricillo’ s Italian Band, Col. W. H. Miller Dr. Thomas E . Green, Lyric Glee Club, Dr. Peter MacQueen Thaviu Grand Opera Co. Elwynn Trio, Ng Poon Chew, Mrs. A. L . A. Robinson, Mrs. Wm. Calvin Chilton, William A. 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