FALLS CITY NEWS T h e N e w -) stam i» for a greater und botter Fulla City ull the time FALLS CITY. O R E G O N , S A T U R D A Y , O C T O B E R 10, 1014 V O L. XI MOTOR CAR STRIKES AUTO; KIUS TWO MEN I. W. W. ON MARCH Fifteen Hundred Armed Men on Way I lo Butte. Quiok Fonto Mansion and J. Warren Art Struck While Crossing Rail way by Motor Car and Both Are Killed. Last Monday morning u fatal nccident occurred at the railroad crostiing o f the Salem, Fall» City & Western lluilroud at BowerB- vills* that resulted in the deaths o f Fonso Mansion and J. Warren Quick, citizens o f Dallas. accident occurred at the The same crossing where the traction en gine driven by Ed Blodgett was knocked from the track by a log ging train Tuesday o f last week. From the facts learned o f the accident Quick and Mansion were going out to the Quick home in an automobile, coming to the crossing, it is thought thai they attempted to cross in front o f the oncoming motor car that runs from Salem and meets the one at Dallus. The automobile w a s struck in the middle and dragged u distance o f 676 feet before the motor could be brought standstill. to a Mansion was caught between the motor and the auto mobile and crushed to death. Quick was thrown a distance o f sixty feet from the track and badly mangled and died an hour later. Huy all goods o f home merchant» and help to inakf Falla City greater Pieces and contents o f the automobile were scattered along the track. Manston and Quick were both young men and married and were prominent citizens o f Polk coun ty. Manston’s father was fore man of the section crew here for many years. MONDAY’ S ELECTION Falls City No Longer a Separate Road Oiatrict. But Is Now Under the Jurisdiction of County Judge. The election held Monday for Oovernor Stewart ol Montana h.- the purpose o f repealing that atrueta Sharif fa to bo on Watch--- section o f the charter making Ride Free On Trains. Falls City a separate road district resulted in the repeal o f said section and Falls City is now a Helena, Mont., Oct. 7. Pre part o f road district No. 21, and sumably headed for Butte, and under the control o f the County carrying arms, as many as 1500 Judge so far as the disposition o f I. W. W ’s., are scattered along the funds are concerned. the route o f the Great Northern The object o f getting back into railway between Great Falla and the county roal district was to Fargo. N. I)., according to in get a road through from Falls formation given to Governor City to the Lincoln county line. Samuel V. Stewart today by the : It was not believed that a suftic- railroad olticiuls. 1 ient levy could be voted without Upon being appraised ot the I the aid o f Falls City, as it was seriousness o f the situation, and 'thought that there would be ir. order to prevent the I. W. enough o f people in the city in W .’a front congregating in uny t favor o f the road to carry the great number, Governor Stewart levy. The vote was 112 for the immediately wired to the sheriffs repeal and 47 against the repeal. o f counties through which the Very little interest was taken as Great Northern extends, and was attested by the small vote asked them to be on the lookout polled. for the wanderers. He also in formed the Bheriffa o f eastern counties through which the Mil IS JAPAN WANTING TROUBLE waukee and Northern Pacific en WITH THE UNITED STATES? ter Montana. The railway officials are much Pekin, Oct. 7, 7:45 P. M. A c concerned over the situation. cording to a German news agency They reported to the governor dispatch, Japanese forces have that many o f the invaders were occupied the island o f Yap. the armed and that they are forcing most important island in the the trainmen to permit them to Carolina group, or new Philip ride. pines, in the Pacific Ocean. It was suggested to the gover nor today that a band o f fifty I. The Caroline Islands are east W. W .’s had left Havre yester o f the Philippines. The group is day morning and probably had very extended and comprises arrived in Great Falls. It is un about 080 small islands. Yap is derstood, also, that bands o f the about 1000 miles from the Island wanderers have been seen in j o f Mindanao, one o f the Philip Powell county, and near Boze p in e group, and only 400 miles from Guam, which also belongs man. The sheriffs have been request to the United States. The Caro ed to handle the situation as it line Islands were sold by Spain to Germany in 1890. seems best to them. Try a Sack of HIGH FU G H T FLOUR and watch results Al LIES WESTERN WING IS EXTENDED OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Overlapping Movement Carries ‘ Them to Within 30 Miles of the Belgian Border. Part».- The western wing of the al lied armies was still further extended and now reaches within 30 miles of the Belgian frontier, carrying the al lies' overlapping movement In a north- j easterly direction The German right has hammered away at the French left wing in the region between Hoye and Lassigny and east of Amiens toward Doual. All reporta agree that the fighting Is ot the most deadly nature with the losses enormous. In reality, the proceedings aré In the nature of separate and distinct cn gagementa, more Independent battles than anything else. The Germans have been very heavily reinforced but so have the allies. The result Is that the contest has borne the appearance, for the most part, of a draw, with the advantage-to the allies, In that for every individual killed or wounded on their side the Germans are losing two or three. German cavalry again made Its re appearance on the scene of action In great force, thus disproving the re pot ts that all of its horses had been rendered useless owing to an epidemic of the glanders. The allies' extended front has met with vigorous counter attacks on the part of the Germans who seem to have weakened their position on the center of the battle line In order to throw- heavy masses of men against the right and left wings. The allies, although forced back short distances at some points on their left, have been gen erally able to hold their own . The eastern wing also was the scene of severe combats, but there the bat tle was between Infantry and artillery, and the allies were able Jto push for ward. RU SSIAN S. CANNON T A K EN Germans Capture 3000 Prisoner» in Two Days. Ixtndon.— A dispatch from Amster dam to Reuter's Telegram company say»: "The German commander at Koen- Igsberg, Fast Prussia, has officially announced that the Russian armies in the battles of October 1 and 2 lost 3000 prisoners, 18 big guns and many machine guns and much transport ma terial.” In a dispatch dealing with the fight ing in the Russian provinces which border on East Prussia, the Petrograd correspondent of Reuter's Telegram company says: "The recent German operations were particularly vigorous along the rail way line between Suwalki and Olita. The enemy's intention was to reach Vilna, a turning movement around Yo- von. The Russians began to fall back and then made a fierce counter attack. The shock was terrible. The Rus sians made frequent bayonet charges and drove back the Germans, on whom they Inflicted enormous losses.” GERMANS TAKE OUTER LINE OF BELGIAN FORTS All Goods and Prices Are Right Falls City 1 Lumber Co. S T (ORE No. « Rerltn.— An official reiort from the German army headquarters says that In the siege of Antwerp the forts of Llerre, Waelhem and Koningshoyckt. and the intermediate redoubts, with 30 guns, have been taken. Thus a breach has been made in the outer circle of forts, rendering an attack on the Inner circle of forts and the town itself possible. According to a statement made by Cardlnal Bettlnger. the highest Ro man Catholic authority In Bavaria, the statements appearing In English and American newspapers that priest9 have been shot and bayoneted by Ger man soldiers while attending the wounded in Belgium are to be consid ered as absolutely without foundation. It Is also declared that the English newspaper correspondents overlook the fact that a large portion of the German army Is Roman Catholic. A manifesto signed by Harnack Bode. Behring. Haupntan. Klinger, Su dormano. Roentgen. Fulda. Peissman. Liszt, Thoma. Wundt and other prom inent savants and artists, Indignantly protests against what Is termed "uu ceasing lies about the pretended bar barons warfare of the Germans.” Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Contour Survey Nearly Finiehed. Eugene.—A United States geologi cal surveying party, composed of nine men. under J. G. Staaks, arrived at Ridgon ranch, on the upper Wlllam- ette river. 50 miles east of here, this week, where they have established the last camp on a large topographical survey project. They expect to com plete the mapping of what Is known as the Diamond Lake quadrangle by November 15. The party has been at work all summer, having left Rose- burg, In Douglas county, early in the spring. Contour lines are being run, show ing all streams, ranges, mountains, roads and trails, including both artifi cial and natural features. GOVERNOR WEST FOR OREGON L*RY State'» Executive Tells Why Ihe Peo ple Should Dump the Foreign ' liquor Corporations By Oswald West, Governor o f Oregon. Oregon should go dry because there does not exist a single reason on earth why it should stay wet. The war news from Europe strikes us with horror; yet this great war, with all its carnage, past, present and future, w ill not prove a drop in the bucket compared with the ravages w hich are being made throughout the land by booze. We boast that we are the great est nation upon earth, and in our ; efforts to preserve that position we must strive constantly to Jack Grant Champion Baby of Oregon raise, or at least maintain, the Salem.— With an almost perfect standard o f our citizenship, and score, Jack Grant, son of Mr. and Mrs. to accomplish this end we must D. J. Grant, of Dallas, was awarded a gold medal for being the finest baby unceasingly fight organized greed entered in the eugenics contest at the and graft, stamp out poverty, state fair. Doris Lee Gordon, daugh vice and crime, protect the home, ter of I. J. Gordon, of Portland, won and make life more pleasant for the girl baby first prize, scoring a those who have been less fortun fraction of a point less than the Grant ate than others. It is idle, how child. ever, to talk o f progress along j these lines so long as K ing Alco P A P ER M ILLS COM BINE hol occupies the throne. New Company Has Capitalization of »13,000,000. Who grabs the pay check from the honest workman on Saturday night, and makes his w ife and little ones go ragged and hun gry? Mr. Booze. Portland.— For the purpose of re ducing operating expenses by elimina tion of duplication in fixed charges, the pulp and paper Interests control ling ihe Croivn-Columbia Paper com Who sows the seeds of,poverty pany and the Willamette Pulp & Pa per company have perfected a consol and distress everywhere? Mr. idation involving a capitalization of Booze. $13,000,000 and will hereafter operate Who fills our insane asylums, under the corporate name of Crown- feeble minded institutions, pen Wlllamette Paper company. All prop erties of the two companies located in itentiaries and reform schools? Oregon, Washington and California Mr. Booze. will be taken into the combination. It Who loads upon us most o f our is understood that a majority of the tax burdens? Mr. Booze. stockholders in the two concerns have The wets protest against our ratified the plan and that the new- com pany will be organized as a Maine cor voting the state dry because it poration. will close Paul Wessinger’s brew It is declared that additional new- ery and be equivalent to the con capital will be brought Into the busi fiscation o f his property; but they ness and enable the consolidation to make extensive improvements which do not tell you how the biew ery have been In contemplation for some was built through the ruination time. o f homes and the confiscation o f The Crown-Columbia Paper company paychecks. They do not tell you has a large modern plant at Camas, that every brick in the building Wash., said to have the finest equip represents a broken heart, and ment of any paper mill in the world. It has a capacity of 175 tons a day. It the color o f the building is em manufactures print paper, paper bags blematical o f the blood that has and tissue paper. It has an auxiliary dripped therefrom. plant for making wrapping paper at Whenever I think o f the Devil Oregon City, pulp mills at Warren- : I think o f booze, and whenever 1 dale, Or., and a large wrapping paper and tissue paper establishment at think o f booze 1 think o f the Floriston, Cal., where the chief out Devil, for the Devil is booze and put is tissue paper wrappers for fruit. ! booze is hell. The chief plant of the Willamette Old Booze is an outlaw who has Pulp & Paper company is located at been long pursued but never sub Oregon City, with a capacity of 200 tons of print paper » day. The com dued. A t no time and under no bined capacity of the various mills in | circumstances should he be given volved in the deal is about 450 tons quarter, and it is the duty o f a day. every good citizen to stand ready to sandbag him whenever he sticks his head in sight. All Oregon will have a chance to sandbag him on November 3, and for the Lord’s sake let us make a good job o f it! W. C. T. U. Ends 3-Day Session. The Dalles.—The 31st annual con vention of the Oregon Women's Chris tlan Temperance Union came to a close in this city after a three-day ses sion. The following new officers were elected: President, Mrs. Jennie Kemp. Portland; corresponding secretary. Mrs. Mary Russell, McMinnville; re cording secretary, Mrs. Madge Mears, Shedd, and treasurer. Mrs. Margaret Houston, Portland. Paid Advertisement. ANTI SALOON LEAGUE OF OREGON. 611 Stock Exchange Bldg., Portland Oregon. PO R TLA N D HAS R E C A L L 1 Leet. an attorney, is candidate against | Commissioner Brewster and H. E. Mayor Albee, Commissioners Dieck | Abry, an employe of the United States and Brewster Accused. Engineer department, is candidate Portland. — Recall petitions, bear against Commissioner Dteck. ing approximately 9800 names, were i Under the provisions of the recall filed with City Auditor Barbur against | amendment the officers are given five Mayor Albee and City Commissioners i days in which to resign. After that Dieck and Brewster. They were filed the city auditor ts obliged to call a by a committee comprising M. E. Gib special election within 20 days. Mayor son, C. W’ . Hohlt and A. C. Allen, Albee and Commissioner Dieck both which cdtamittee has headed the re announced that they would not resign call movement, which has been under Commissioner Brewster i9 out of the way for about two months. city. This means that the election B. E. Kennedy, a real estate man. Is will be held unless legal complication» the recall candidate for mayor, W. A. set in. i