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T ub N bwh stands for a greater and better Falls City all the time FALLS CITY NEWS FALLS CITY. OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915 VOL. XI SUEZ MOST VITAL TO GREAT BRITAIN Protectorate Over Egypt Form ed to Safegoird Canal FEAR OF OTTOMAN ATTACK. P ro p .r D . l . n . i v . M . a . u r . i C ould Not B . M ado W h ile T u rk e y H old Thao- ratioal Rularohip O var P h a rao h 's L a n d — N ow G overnor H a s tho T ills of Sultan. I-oDdon. — "L on g lira Sultan Uus- aelu!'' Such ts the crjr which la re sounding throughout ICgypt. over which Knglnud has now declared a protectorate, giving her a freer hand In safeguarding the Hue* canal, upou which the eilstence o f her vast empire so greatly depend* The naming o f liussvlu n* aultMU end* the 400-yesrold connection between Turkey and Kgypt. The new ruler I* an uncle o f the deponed khedlve, Abba* llllm l, who ha* mode common cauae with the enetnlea o f tho British empire. The Hues canal bna tieeu described aa the moat vulnerable point In the British empire. It Is Kuglaud's chief lino o f communication with Australia, with India and with other British de pendencies In the eu*t. uot counting Its value In the relations with Japan. Slightly less than 100 miles In length, the Hues canal la even more liu|*ortant to Great Britain than U the Panama canal to tha United States. In any plan o f war between Turkey aud Great Britnlu the Hue* canal courue o f construct loll. The sultan raarrhed troops from Akabnh to Tnba. on the gulf o f Akabab. at once. Great Britain culled upon him to evacuate Tuba on the ground that It a «a Egyptian territory aud finally forced hlin to conaeut lo the fixing of the boundary line so (lint It should run from Kl Bufa, on the Med it erra nomi to a |wlnt oil the gulf o f Aknliah, at least three miles east of the town o f Akubub. Since then the |>o*lt|on of Grant Britain baa luteo even more dell ente, mid It has been obviously Itn possible to propose ngulu to fortify Egyptian territory against nn Invasion which could conic only from Turkey, the stirerà I n o f Kgypt. MOTHER PLODS FAR TO CAMP T ru d g e s W ea ry M ile s to B rin g Cioir.ec to H er Soldier Son. V ienna.-A story o f a mother's love for her soldier sou Is published iu the Neue Frele Urease. A farmer'* old w ife suddenly apiieured lu one o f I be divisions o f troofai near the Hervlau frontier after many days of weury walking from Hsegedln uloug roads flooded with the rain o f many weeks. She explained that she hud made the trip In order to bring warm woolen clothing for winter to her eighteen- year-old sou, a volunteer lu n llungar- rlan Infantry regiment. She wanted to muke sure that he received the clothing Tbc woman explained that she had been stopped countless times, but tbut Invariably she found good hearted sol liters who forwarded her from regl mint to regiment. Finally, reaching tbc regiment lu which her son was serving, she wua stopped by the guard. Her prayers Anally brought her before the commanding officer, who, touched by this evidence of mother love, seut for the young soldier. The nsac-mbled officers loaded the woman down with gift*. Then, satlsAed, abe returned home. lo Dio Insistence of Ills friends that he cornu home, but *tr»|>|u*d the il|>|>«r purl o f his arm to bis body sud hunted all week, lie walked six miles tu the nearest settlement und was brought home, a distance o f forty miles, by Au tomobile The arm was reset, and he la little «'orse for the ex|>etience. CURFEW FOR “CARD FIENDS.” It S trik e s at M id n ig h t In M u n cis, W h en C ig a r Store* Close. Munc-le, Ind Because o f the com plaint by wives nnd mothers tbut bus- hands slid sous were being kept out ton late at night by the fascination o f playing rbum nnd other card gumes In cigar stores the police have Issued or der* that »IF cigar store* in this elty must close their doors at midnight. The owners o f these places have compiled willingly, most o f them say ing that they weleome the opportunity to get sway from their places o f busi ness at a reasonable hour instead o f having to sitetid the night entertaining "card fiends." WAR STORIES KEEP ARRIVING E ve ry D a y the C ab le and M a il B rin g T ale * F rom E ure pe 's Battlefield*. Senegalese H a d Frozen T ee s A m p u tated W ith o u t E ve n e G roan — A K in g Albert Ineident. :: :: :: :: Cheer up, brother! The United States has enough ammunition for its coast defense guns to fight a cattle o f an hour’s duration. And many things might be accomplish ed in an hour. WE WANT TO SELL YOU SHOES AND HOSE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY JUST ONE SEASON. AFTER THAT OUR SHOES AND HOSE WILL SELL THEMSELVES TO YOU. OUR SHOES FIT: THEY LOOK RIGHT AND SAT- ISFY. SO 00 OUR HOSE. - :: II :: D U R IN G On Walk to California Their Gantaen Springs a Leak. London’s Auxiliary Force Will G in Mostly For M i l i t a Bellefonte. Ua.—Isaac Miller, seventy- four years old. a member o f n Belle fonte hunting party out on the Alleghe nies after deer, fel, off a box In the hunters' tent and dislocated his left shoulder. So eager wns be to get a shot at a deer that he refnaed to listen 6uriuan Officer Fell Between Trendies; Kept Diary. GIRLS NEARLY DIE OF THIRST IN 816 DESERT WOMEN “BOBBIES” WAR INNOVATION M an , 8 *v *n ty -fo u r, Keeps A fte r a Deer F or a W eek A fte r Accident. No. 20 LAY NINE DAYS ON FIELD WOUNDED New York.—8trnnge stories keep com ing from the battle front In Europe. Tragic tales o f heroism and death are so numerous that only the most strik ing can ever be printed. Here are Censor Opened Prince's M ail. London. —When the I ’rinec o f Wales some that have Just reached this coun sent two long letters to his mother de try: A correspondent o f the London Dally scribing tils experience« at the front they were opened by Ilia* censor In the Chronicle In Flanders telegraphs the tame manner as those of ordinary sol following: dlers. "The Germans had been attacked and driven back during a certain en- Cbesanlug. Mich.—According to let ters received by C'besaning friends from Misses Murle aud Kittle Bible- MAN’S LEG FOUND IN SHARK. ritz, the girls bad u narrow escape from death by thirst while crossing g k o i on Foot Identified as B e lon gin g the Nevada desert. They left Saginaw to M io sin g C aptain. last spring to walk to the coast and Uenuacola. F la .-A man4* leg was are now In San Francisco, having found In the stomach o f a shark caught completed the Journey successfully. In the ocean near here and brought to At the point where they crossed the laud by the Austrian steamer Lucia. desert It was fifteen miles betweeu bu- I All the flesh bad been digested, leaving mnn habitations. When they were five ! the tames o f the thigh und calf bare, miles ou their way they discovered ' with the knee joint still Intact, except that their only canteen had sprung a on the foot, which was covered by n leak and that there was very little new shoe. water left. They drank this and then This shoe was examined by a dealer hastened their pace. It was a race mid Identlllcd ns one of u pair he sold against death. a short time ago to Captiym Bisneck o f Very soon their tongues swelled up the fishing smack Algoum. who was from lack o f water and their faces [ drowned about tw o weeks before. turned purple. It was Intensely hot, The skipper and a member o f his with no shelter o f any kind. Several crew were in a small bout trying to times one or the other, exhausted, was make a lundlng near the navy yard ready to give up aud lie down beneath afisr their smack had been anchored the blazlug sun, but they struggled on. for the night, when the bout was over “ I f the courage o f both o f us had turned. Captain Bisneck was never given out at the same time we surely seen again, although the tugs aud would have died there," said one of pilot* on duty at the entrances o f tho the letters. harbor kept a close lookout for bis As they were staggering along, dazed body. The shark In which the left nnd half blinded, tho building which was found wns tw elve mid one-half houses n pool In the desert wns dis feet long. covered on the horizon. Their strength wns almost spent, blit they reached the spring, crawling the last few rods on their band« and knees. They were too Inexperienced to drink sparingly, and overindulgence almost completed the Photo of canul <0 by Illustrations bureau work which privation began. They BOATS IN SUEZ CANAL AND DBI'OSBD KHK- finally managed to reach a tittle town DIVB O r EGYPT. on the edge o f the desert and there would naturally lie the Oral object of spent the night. attack by the Ottomau army. For n tong time the porte has been preparing AIR CRAFT TEST LABORATORY. fo r such n move. Many years ago on agitation was tie- Second of Its K in d and M o st Elaborate gun to have the canal adequately pre Opened In B a y State. pared sgulnat on Invasion. It was pro London.—Conditions Incidental to the B oston .-A t the Massachusetts In posed to put the province o f Kl Arinin 1 war tn this city have resulted In the stitute o f Technology a new aero comprising the desert o f Tib and the formation o f a new police auxiliary dynamic laboratory, second o f Its kind peninsula o f Hlnal. In a state of de force o f women, known as the wo in thia country, has been opened. Its fense In order to prevont Injury to the men's police volunteers, who will soon equipment for testing aeronautic de canal by nn enemy. become familiar sights in the streets vices and models o f air craft la said to The difficulty lu the way o f a renllan here. be the most elaborate in the United tlou o f this plan has b"eti the fact Dressed In ueat blue uniforms, they States. The government baa assigned that Kgypt has been until uow a theo have already begun their duties, which Assistant Naval Constructor Jerome retical dependency o f the Ottoman em are at present concerned mostly with C. Ilunsaker to duty as superintendent pire. the khedlve ranking at Stamboul the welfare o f women and children. o f the laboratory, which Is expected to aa hereditary governor—Inferior In The headquarters o f the force Is In prove o f great service In training the grade to the gram^ vialer and the grand Cannon row, near the well known future builders o f aeroplanes and dlrl eunuch o f the seraglio. The khedlve gtbles nnd In giving assistance to con Scotland Yard. haa always l»een a Turkophlle, pre The formation o f a woman's sqund structors who have begun the work of ferring the porte to England, which be in the London police force la being upbdttdlng the nation’s aerial fleets. baa always bated. followed by the organization In Eng In addition to this there has been land o f a women’* volunteer reserve G erm an y W o n 't B u y O u r O il A fte r W ar. a very considerable pro Turk lab ele for Bucb military duties as signaling, Amsterdam .-Professor Wygodstnskl, ment In Egypt which, with the ruler, dispatch riding, telegraphing, motor lecturer on economics at the U niver would have raised very serious objec ing and camp cooking, thus replacing sity o f Bonn, tn discussing In the Koeln- tlona to the uae o f the revenues o f the nation to fortify the canal agalust the men who could be more usefully em lache Zcitung the economic measures which Germany will adopt after the Turks, who, In all probability, would ployed on the firing line. It I* proposed to arm these women war, expresses Indignation at the Uni hare construed such nn action an a hos "fo r their own defeuse tn the last ex ted States for not Insisting that Great tile step. Britain permit the passage o f petro The porte has always Insisted that tremity.” leum. He declares that after the war t i e desert o f Tib really belongs to Turkey and wns not Included In the ARM BROKEN, HE HUNTS ON. Germany will make herself Independ ent o f American otl generally. khedlvlntc. In 1006. on the occasion of a Bedouin uprising In the province of Sinai and the Tlh desert, s British off) rial o f the Egyptian government, was appointed commander and Inspector of tfce peninsula. Thereupon the anti Brltlah element In Turkey spread the report that England was going to fort! fy the gulf o f Akabah to menace the .Medina-Damascus railway, then In Buy all goods o f horns merchants and help to make Falla City greater OUR CLEARANCE SALE jj W e are a llo w in g Ten P e r C e n t D iscou nt On S h o e s :: A lso G ivin g T rad in g S t a m p s for C ash. ■ ■ N. SELIG. á Photo C by Am erican Press Association. » I 1 I n - l-M-M-M-M I 1 I'H -f H 1 1 1 I 1 1 -H -fr * : FBl'XCH A L P IN X SOLDIERS TA K IN G SOME THING TO EAT BEFORE A BATTLE. gagement to their trenches, 400 yards from oars. Between the lines a Ger man officer fell wounded by a bayonet. He was nearer the British trenches than the German, but whenever our men began to go out to carry In the wounded man tbc German snipers got busy. They would neither succor their tortured comrade nor let the British do It. "F o r nine days the wounded officer lingered. Finally a British noncom missioned officer nnd one or two pri vates crawled to the fallen mnn at night and brought him in. For nine days he had lain there pierced by a bayonet from breast to back without food or drink. He was unconscious when rescued aud died soon after ward. During his purgatory the gal lant man. unable even to crawl, bad kept a diary, a record o f physical and mental anguish borne like a noble gen tleman. On him was found a photo graph of his w ife nnd two little chil dren. “ A British officer translated the diary to our men and with a catch In his voice held up the Germnu officer as a hero to whom they should Iw n their heads In reverence. The diary was sent to headquarters aud perhaps has by now found Its way with the picture to the widow of this man." A K in g A lbert Story. A Belgian soldier In northern France, slightly wounded, told a correspondent: "The other day 1 saw our king. He was muddy and stained. An officer with him wanted to remove the rand from his clothes. “ 'No.' said King Albert; ‘let It stay I f my own land should cling thus to me let It stay. It 1» better so,' be laughed. "W e all cheered him. H e bade us take heart, as brighter days are dawn ing." T h e H a rd y 8 *n *ga i*a*. Mrs. Harry Floyd, chief commission er o f the French wounded emergency fund, who haa Just returned to Lon don from a vtalt to French hospitals, tells o f the suffering o f the soldiers from the tropics In the Belgian trenches. She says also many o f the hospitals need anaesthetics, tetanus serum, surgical Instruments and sur geons. "In one hospital I saw Senegalese operated on without anaesthetics," said Mrs. Floyd. “ Their toes had been fro zen, aud Immediate amputation was necessary. "A ll the toes o f one Senegalese were removed, and he did not even groan. Suddenly he leaped from the i>|M-ratlng table nnd began searching. He found a pipe, filled It nnd lay down, smoking to deaden the pain. Then be began to pray In a low voice. Presently a nurse offered to bring luncheon, but he re fused. H e walked to the convalescents' table nnd ate with his friends. “ The courage and heroism o f these men are simply beyond belief. They never complain. They always urge the nurses to attend to others. But their sufferings In the cold climate are piti fu l." COURT TO INSPECT HIGHWAY. can be had for the way they have carried out their work.—Lincoln County SentineL Mayor Balks Mayor Van Orsdel of Dallas has refused to sign the bill providing an appropriation o f $ mill on the assessed valuation for the support o f the Dallas Band. Drag Starts in C m * ta “ Dry” Marshfield, Or.,—No more liquor Work on Proposed Road to Newport o f any kind under any circum Will Be Commenced Scon. The county court will probably make a trip over the road from Falls City to the Siletz basin this week, the object being to inspect the present condition o f the high way in order to make arrange ments for its further improvement as early as possible next spring. It is proposed to make this road a short cut to Newport, and it will be graded and macadamized to the Lincoln county line, the road district having voted a special tax to aid in the work o f permanent construction. —Observer. stances will be sold in the drug stores in Coos county. This was decided upon at a meeting of the Coos County Pharmaceutical as sociation when resolutions to this effect were passed. Liquor will not be sold by the druggists even on prescriptions of The physicians. resolutions state that the druggists realize that liquor is not necessary in modern materia med- ica and that they desire to free themselves o f the necessity o f holding a United States license and Something Wrong A t the council meeting Monday night, Mayor Gaither made the statement that during the past year the amount o f money paid into the city treasury exceeds the sum paid out by about $1200. This means that the council during the past year has made a great reduc tion in the city tax. The policy of the council has been retrenchment and nothing but commendation thus avoid the odium o f being classed as retail liquor stores. The resolutions include spirituous, vinous or malt liquors. The sig ners include the leading druggists o f Marshfield, North Bend, Go- quiDe and Myrtle Point. A t the last term o f the circuit court one o f the Myrtle Point druggists was heavily fined for selling liquor in a dry town.