FALLS eiTY NEWS T kk N kwh stands for a greater and better Kalis City all the time FALLS CITY. OREGON, SATURDAY. JULY 25, 1914 VOL. X News From Various Parts Of The Country TO FIGHT OREGON OFFICER’S DIGNITY SACRED FOREST FIRES An Appropriation of S25.000 Mado to Fight Oregon Forest Fires. Washington, July 28.—The se nate to a conference report on the sundry civil bill, including an appropriation o f $25,000 to enable the Interior Department and the Forest Service to protect against Are all lands in Oregon involved in the Oregon and California land grant suit. ■ ........ ♦ — Harvest Hands Go North Railroads Overrun With Mon Boating Their Way to Wheat Fields. Omaha, Neb., July 23. Two hundred thousand dollars’ worth o f railroad transportation has been stolen from Nebraska rail roads this year by harvesters "beating” their way to wheat fields. This estimate was made at the headquarters o f the State Railway Commission. Freight trains o f all roads have been overrun with nonpaying passengers for the last six weeks. The railroads have made little effort • to prevent the practice. There is a law in Nebraska mak ing the stealing o f a railroad ride a felony, but no effort is being made to enforce the statute. Two hundred harvest hands today took possession of a North western train west o f Omaha and forced the trainmen to carry them to the harvest fields in Northeastern Nebraska. Two Oírle Who Laughed at H|m iaoh Finad S10. the National Guard has caused a heavy paper mortality among the highly ornamental officers The requirement that the militia con form in organization to regular Army standards has b<»?n met Hurry-up Calls Comas to Portland to by all o f the states except South Sond Out Fightors. Carolina with the startling result that there have already been dropped three Major-Generals, 30 DISTICT NEAR 0 S W I0 0 THREATENED Brigadier-Generals, more than 100 Colonels and a corresponding Large Section Already Devastated and number o f officers o f less rank. the Flamoa Still Ruah On. As a result ‘o f these changes, there has been a great improve Forest fires are beginning U>| ment in the physical fitness of spring up in various sections of ihe country. A report stated that the enlisted force o f the militia the fires between Fulton Station and progress in the instruction of and Oswego had again assumed officers who are now really avail alarming proportions and that ing themselves o f the kindly there was great danger o f the criticisms o f the inspection offi cers o f the United States Army entire section being wiped out. Several miles o f territory have working among them. already been devastated. Besides the timber, several homes have UNIONS FINANCE FIGHT been swept away in the path. The Goodwin Shingle Works, the yards o f the Patterson Fuel Com California Organized Labor To Be pany and the Holman Fuel Com Assessed 5 Cents Each pany are reported to have been San Francisco, July 23.—Every destroyed. union man in California will be The fire started last Saturday. assessed 5 cents a week to aid in Men and women fought it des financing the union side o f a con perately. Word was sent to the troversy between the Merchants’ Sheriff who took two automobile Manufacturers’ and Employers’ loads o f prisoners out with axes Association o f Stockton and the and shovels to dig trenches and unions. Action to this effect was cut away brush and logs. By decided Saturday, at a confer daylight they had the fire fairly ence of San Francisco and state well under control. All telephone labor representatives. lines in the vicinity were destroy National and international uni ed and it was necessary to go ons whose locals are involved several miles to reach a telephone have sent representatives who in working order. shortly will form an executive FOREST FIRES ARE RAGING New York, July 21.— Magis trate Ten Eyck agreed with Pa trolman Campbell that makifig merry with an officer o f the law on whose manly shoulder his young lady companion lays her head, is a finable offense. He imposed a fine o f $10 each on Rose and Mary Smith, sisters, 24 and 28 years old, respectively. The charge was disorderly con duct. Campbell said he was returning on a trolley over ihe Queensboro bridge with Miss Emma Blome, after spending the day in Long Island. Miss Blome was tired and rested her head on his shoul der. Then it was the Smith girls laughed, and one o f them said: "W hy don’ t you wait until you get home?” When he got off the car the Smith girls followed him, Camp bell said, and their remarks be came so annoying he arrested them. They told the magistrate they were only joking and meant no harm. Together the two were ----------------- » — ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ " — council with the assistance o f the able to pay Rose’s fíne and then locals to take charge o f the situ she hurried out and got money ORNAMENTAL OFFICERS ation. to free Mary. OF MILITIA ARE GONE Extra copies of The News are Homesteaders’ Aid Wins printed each week, and will be sent Succumb To Paper Mortality When Strict Regulation is Enforced to any address desired, postpaid, House Passes Sinott Bill Giving Ad* for 2 cents per copy. ditional Aquisilion Rights Washington, July 20. Appli Ore. Fire Relief Aasoci’n,McMinn ville. F. K. Hubbard, local agent. cation of the new milita laws to a n d w a t c h r e s u lt s All Goods and Prices Are Right AT Falls City Lumber Co. STORE ■ ■ ■ ............. .. WHERE FARMER IS KING Need of Organization Among Farmers and Fruit growers and Benefits That May Result On various trips 1 note from time to time the advancement of var ious parts o f the country. Some ten years r.go I was at Puyallup, Wash., when there was considerable agitation and more aggravation among the farmers in that vicinity owing to the fact that they were having difficulty in marketing their products. A few claimed that they should raise more and better, the rest rebuted their argument with, what’s the use, we can’t sell what we now' produce. The former few declar ed that was exactly the reason that they should raise more, so that they need not depend on home market but could ship in quantity to whatever part o f the country needed their produce, and that they should raise the best quality possible so that they could establish a distinct brand that the consumers might feel that they could rely on. With this resolu tion in mind these few energetic, progressive farmers put their heads together and organized the Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Grow ers Association. Today they have 1400 members. A recent state ment shows that they are now do ing more than $1,000,000 business annually. While the total capital ization of the Association is but $2,300. The Association gives to its members two advantages, First it furnishes a market for their pro ducts at a price which invariably is above what other farmers get and second it furnishes their sup plies, such as crates fertilizer etc, at a low er rate than other farmers pay. These two advantages make the Puyallup and Sumner valleys among the most prosperous com munities in the world. I believe the Little Luckiamute valley is capable of growing just as good and as many berries per acre as the Puyallup district, in fact Falls City district has the advantage of having different classes of soil suitable for raising different var ieties of fruit, vegetables, etc., which should give a longer and more profitable harvesting season. But if the Falls City farmers make a success they must get together, raise more so they can ship in quantity, and the very best o f quality so as to establish a distinct brand that the consumers throughout the world would seek. The following newspaper clipping should give you a better idea of what grew out o f the small begin ning of the few men who had the nerve to put their shoulder to gether and push ahead. $37,500 Paid Pickers Tacoma, Wash., July )6 .—The Puy allup and Sumner Fruit Growers’ Association mailed checks at its Puy allup office today for $37.500 to meet the pav roll o f the growers to berry pickers this week. This is the lar gest amount o f money ever distrib uted in one day by the association. It has orders for 3,000,000 cans o f berries this year, which is double the record pack o f last year. More than 450,000 pounds o f berries worth more than $18,000 are being received daily at the Puyallup and Sumner receiv ing stations. Fifteen thousand pickers are being employed in harvesting the red rasp berry crop, which is now at its height. The Puyallup and Sumner stations ( Continued on page 4 ) Washington, July 2 2 .- Repre sentative Sinnott secured the passage through the House of of the law of over $500,010. his bill providing that any home We earnestly trust that in this steader who has acquired patent to 160 acres o f land in a section instance the brewers and saloon where the enlarged homestead keepers are not deliberately evad ing is permitted may acquire 160 ing the law. or showing acontempt acres additional and contiguously for it. We desire to give them an located, thus making his entire opportunity to remedy what was Centurions’ Chirman Warns Printing holdings 320 acres a most unquestionable error, but As the law now stands, addi Company About Posters in at the same time we would re tional entry may not be made mind you and trust you will con Saloons. after final proof has been made. vey this warning to your employ ...... -• ♦ •— '■ ■ -■ ■ Portland, Ore.. July 22. J. E. ers, that we intend to see that Wheeler, as chairman of tha Com every statement made on behalf Will Open Land In mittee o f One Hundred, has sent o f a “ wet” Oregon is properly following letter to the Press sponsored. Umpqua Forest the Printing and Advertising Co.: In this instance we do net feel it Over the cash register of nearly our duty to institute prosecutions, Sixteen Sections included In Acer* every saloon in Portland there are but would advise strongly that to be found today posters which every one of the posters now dis age to Be Opened to Entry to purport to discuss the Oregon dry played in direct violation of the Homesteaders Next Fall question from a brewer and saloon law lie withdrawn. Itoseburg, Oregon, July 23.— keeper’s standpoint. These pos For your convenience we are giv An order has been received at ters apparently make a direct ap ing you herewith section 3519 of Roseberg land office to the effect peal to the patrons o f saloons to statutes relating to elections.Lord’s that 16 sections o f land formerly vote against prohibition so that Oregon laws: “ It shall be unlaw a pari o f the Umpqua national the saloon and brewery may con ful to write, print or circulate forest reserve, will be opened to tinue to receive their quota o f the through the mails or otherwise entry to homesteaders October 2. any letter, circular, hill, placard or Most o f the land is heavily tim earnings of the community. We note that these posters are poster relating to any election or bered and is situated almost di printed by your organization. By to any candidate at any election, rectly west o f Roseberg on the so doing you have rendered your unless the same shall bear on its Coast Range mountains and near self liable to a fine of $1.000. face the name and address of the the head o f Coos river. ’The Corrupt Practices Act dis author, and of the printer and The purpose o f removing this tinctly states that all such posters publisher thereof; and any person land from the forest reserve is writing, printing, publishing, cir or placards must be signed with thought to be, to make the re culating. posting or causiug to be the name o f the author. In two serve more regular and the re maining portions easier to patrol. instances o f which we have speci written, printed, circulated, posted The land will be open to settle mens in the office posters were or published any such letter, bill, ment September 3, and to entry printed unsigned except with the placard, circular or poster as afore said, which fails to bear on its October 2, although entries may name of your firm as printers. We should like you to warn your face the name and address of the be filed as early as September 12. The sections o f land open to brewer friends and the saloon author and the printer or publisher entry are scattered in three twp' keepers displaying these signs shall be guilty of an illegal prac 20. 24 and 86 to 30 inclusive, and that they are rendering them tice, and shall, on conviction there 32 33 and 34 in townships 26-8 selves liable to a fine of $1,000 of, he punished by a fiue of not section 4, township 27-8, and sec each. It would be possible to col less than $10 nor more than lect a total fine for this violation $ 1000 .” tions 10 and 14, township 28-9. in Violation of Law HIGH FUGHT FLOUR ■ No. 46 Anti-Dry S ig n s are T ry a S a c k of ■" ■ Buy all goods o f home merchants and help to make Falls City greater