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'V - \ > T u b N e w s stands for a greater an,| better Falls City all the time r • FALLS CITY Huy all goods o f home merchants and help to make Falls City greater FALLS CITY. OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8. 1914 VOL. X News From Various Parts Of The Country Interesting News Clipped From Exchanges and Gathered From Other Sources TH R EE DIE IH FO REST SALMON PICKLING HELD UP FIR E H EA R DRAIR War Stop« Shipment* to Germany: Canning to Procoed. elsewhere. A fte r the disciples of Blackstone had pounded against! the walls o f the prison for a time, Mr. Kakin, incoming suspicious that a jail delivery was about to i>e perpetrated, hastened to the scene and learned the dilemma in which the men were. A fev* moments later the Independence attorneys were given their free dom.—Observer. COURT N O W JN SESSION TWO CRIMINALS PLEAD GUILTY, IN MATES OF PENITENTIARY Observer Several Other* Injured end lumber Astoria, Or., Aug. 4. The in 'Hie August, term of the circuit Camp Destroyed. ability to ship pickled salmon to court convened on Monday morrw Germany on account o f the war is ing, Judge Webster Holmes pre Dynamite H ast Causes Fire. Change the cause o f considerable worry siding. The time has been devot among the local packers. ed principally to hearing motions, of Wind Traps Fire Fighters. Three o f the cold-storage plants stopped pickling today and during Drain, Or., Aug. 4 .- Three men the balance o f the season the lost their lives today in a forest great bulk o f the catch will go fire which destroyed all the camp into cans. equipment and three donkey en gines o f the Leona Mills Lumber ATTORNEYS ARE JAILED Company, two miles west o f the town o f Leona. The fire is still raging and a large force o f men Independence Oisciples of Blackstono are fighting it. Incarcerated Within Bastilo Wall*. The dead are John P. Durfee, Albert Safley and George Hughes. Hiram Applegate and several others were badly burned. The fire started from a log on which two blasts o f dynamite had been placed. One o f the charges did not explode and the men were afraid to approach the spot to combat the fire until it had spread beyond control. The victims were caught when the wind suddenly changed the course of the fire, surrounding them. Mr. Durfee is survived by a w ife and two children, and Mr. Hughes leaves a bride o f three months. Attorneys Butler and Hurley of Independence were incarcerated in the Polk county hastile on Mon day afternoon without offense against the i>eace and dignity of the people, or any one else. And it was only through the efforts o f Hort. Eakin that they were en abled to make their get-away. It all happened in this manner. Hav ing clients in the county jail they were admitted to consult with them, the sheriff making his exit and baring the door behind him, as is his custom. Having conclud ed their interview the attorneys sought deliverance, but their cries were unheard by Sheriff Grant, who was temporarily engaged demurers, and considering appli cations for divorce. The petit jury will convene today at 1 o’clock, when the new grand jury will be draw'n and its work under taken. Several indictments were returned by the old grand jury, and two offenders are now serv ing time in the state penitentiary. They are Roy Hilligus and Jim McLean, the former having plead ed guilty to breaking into a store at Falls City, and the latter to having attempted to pass a worth less check at Independence. Hil ligus was given an indeterminate sentence o f from one to seven years, and McLean from one to five years. The latter appeared to be anxious to go to the peniten tiary where he could have the at tention o f a physician for an ail ment from which he is suffering. — ♦ - ----- JACK JOHNSON WOULD WAR Paris, Aug. 4.—Jack Johnson, the pugilist, today handed over his automobile to the government and asked leave to enlist in the French army. T ry a S a c k of HIGH FLIGHT FLOUR a n d w a t c h r e s u lt s No. 48 KNOWLS WRITES ALL WITH CHARCOAL Woodsman Writes Mes sage With Charred Wood EUROPE MAY BE INVOLVED IN WAR German War Ships Bombard Towns In Algeria. Germans Lose at Liege Knowles Camp, Klamath Nat ional Forest, via Grants Pass, Or., Aug. 4.—Charred wood taken London, Aug. 6.—German war man ships as the latter were at from his woodsmen’s fires was Joe Knowles’ fountain pen used ships have destroyed some forti tempting apparently to flee from by him in writing his 11th mes fied towns and places for the em English ships. The battle reports barkation of French troops on the although meager, indicate a fur sage. ious engagement ensued before coast o f Algeria. The letter was written on a the Panther sunk. The French In the first naval conflicts o f the section o f green fir hark, which vessels then easily took the Bres general European war now on, in had been peeled from the tree lau and the disabled Goeben. volving Russia, France, England with a stone implement. Origin The Breslau, while not so large and Belgium on the one side and ; ally it was written on the smooth a vessel, did considerable damage Germany and Austria-Hungary undersurface o f this bark with to the town o f Bona with shells. on the other, the German forces charcoal. Whatever Russian vessels are seem to have suffered the mo3t. While Knowles’ first letter was French warriors off the coast o f j in the Bosporus on the other hand written with charcoal from his Algiers have captured the Ger are 1 Kittled up as Turkey closed fire and was scratchy and hard man vessels Goeben and Bresleau that port today. to read, the one for the seventh The capture o f the Belgian and have sunk the Panther. The was written with smooth charcoal frontier town o f Vise was effected Goeben is one of the bigger men which had evidently been special by German troops after an en ly made for the purpose by char o f war in the German navy. gagement lasting several hours. German Liner Taken, ring green wood. It is said the victors set fire to the The British cruiser Amphion The letter in its present state is town, killing those o f the popula not as originally found. Charcoal has sunk the Hamburg-American tion who resisted them. The town is the only material Mr. Knowles liner Koenigen Luise. The Luise of Argenteau is also in flames. has or can have until he is some was fitted out for mine laying. Official dispatches report that A t Hull the British authorities what further along. Charcoal is, the Belgians have repulsed all at however, not permanent enough have ordered the seizure o f a tacks by the Germans in the to stand shipment or handling. number o f small German vessels. neighborhood o f Liege. The Bel A French warship has captured The 11th letter was retouched by gians delivered a vigorous counter B. E. Lambert with ivory black the German steamer Porto, off attack, killing all the Germans after it had been received in camp, Guernsey, Channel Islands. The who had passed the forts. examined and transliterated. In Porto plied between Hamburg The fortifications afforded ad other words, Mr. Lambert traced and Portuguese ports and is a mirable resistance to German over Mr. Knowles’ handwriting vessel o f 1800 tons. shells. Evegnee fort, which was Cables to Germany from impor with a brush. It is quite imposs in action all day, was absolutely ible to get these letters written in tant points have been cut and unharmed. The Belgian aviators charcoal out o f the woods in any Germany is now practically isolat proved every whit as good as the ed from the world. The cable to other way. Germans. ‘ ‘ Now that we know that Mr. England, although it is not known Several civilians have been shot Knowles is likely to write with to have been cut, is useless from at Vise and the town has been charcoal,” said Professor W ater the German standpoint. burned. Many German vessels have been man, “ we shall try to provide our An official announcement says selves with ‘fixitif,’ which will seized in the Black sea. today that 17 Alsatians, while en A German destroyer has been make the record permanent with wrecked in the North Sea and a deavoring to cross into France, out mokifying it. crew o f 20 lost. An explosion in were captured by the Germans Dr. Waterman and Professor and summarily shot. the boiler room was the cause. Edwards started today to visit According to the Neue Freie The German fleet, now in the Knowles in his home in the woods. Presse, o f Vienna, a Russian aero Orient has been concentrate l and For just two weeks the man o f plane, carrying a pilot and two the forest has been alone except is supposed to be starting for a Russian officers, was sighted on when he has been by miners, and scene o f activity. the Russo-German frontier near G crm ais Lose in S o u t:. now these special observers, who Lemborg, an important military were sent here to see how Know The most violent o f ti c naval station o f Austria-Hnugary, and les lived and made his weapons engagements occurred off the A l was fired on by Austrians. The and instruments, are going into giers coast, at Bona, wh e the machine crashed to the ground the woods to have him demon French vessels cornered the Ger- and the two officers were killed. strate his work. Professor Ed wards left a note for Joe two loaded guns. T w elve big street days ago, saying it was the in arc lamps will arrive tomorrow tention of the men to take photo and will be placed on high pole3 graphs of his home and his work about the kilns and machines. and asking for an appointment. “ A wire fence encircling the machines and kilns will be charg In all probability they will hear ed with high voltage electricity from him the next time he sends sufficient to stand a man on his a message to the outside world head. W e expect much trouble- I W. W. Expected to Start and then they will go in. The difficulties commenced last l-ambert has discovered a pool Trouble In California j ear when three deputy sheriffs in a motor car were fired upon in the Indian Creek which is and a woman killed by a stray Eugene, Ore., Aug., 6.— Labor trampled on the bank in such a bullet in the battle between the conditions in the California hop manner as might be made by sheriff’sforce andjlaborjagitators. Knowles’ sandals, and it appears communities, not prevalent in probable that this is the spot this state, are revealed in a letter T h e O ld est J u ry . where has been catching his fish. from F'loyd South, a University The oldest Greek poet has left us o f Oregon Student, the son o f 0. ♦ — ♦ — # ----------------- a picture of what the jury was in H. South,owner a f a 750 acre hop his time. The primitive court is A S t ra n g e C ustom . sitting, and the question is “ guilty” ranch in Tahama County, be The Bnyanzi, who live along the or “ not guilty.” The old men of tne upper Kongo, have a strange cus tween Tahama and Red Bluff, to community give their opinions in tom which makes life a burden to friends in Eugene. According turn. The adjudicating democracy, the married women. Brass rods are to his letter a semi-warfare ex the commons, standing round about, welded into the great rings round ists between the I. W. W. and applaud the opinions which strike the necks of the wives. Many of them most, and the applause deter these rings worn by the women the hopgrowers. Hoppicking is mines the decision. Such was prob whose husbands are well to do weigh about to begin and trouble is ex- ably the earliest form of jury. as much as thirty pounds, and this spected. burden must be carried by the ‘ ‘The I. W. VV. are planning W hy? wretched creatures ns long as they big trouble for hoppicking here,” Alden has reached the “ Why?” live. _______________ writes Mr. South. ‘ ‘They have age. It isn’t always easy to answer A T r u e H e ro in *. several tons o f dynamite ready the whvs. One day he lay on the "What is your idea of a heroine, and hav organized mobs to stop floor with his eyes shut. “ Am I asleep, mother?” he asked. John?” asked the wife of his boson work on every ranch until the “ You know you aren’t,” said his as she looked up from the novel she man that got a life sentence last mother. was reading. “ Well, I'm King down; my eyes "A heroine, my dear,” answered year is released from ja il.” “ We are guarding hoppicking are shut. Why ain’t I asleep?"'— John, "is a woman who could talk back, but doesn’t.” —Chicago News. machines night and day with Lippiucott’s. HOP MEN PRE PARE FOR WAR All Goods and Prices Are Right AT Falls City Lumber Co. STORE