FALLS CITY NEWS
VOL. XI
FALLS CITY. OKKGON.
Youthful Criminals
Jim and Nathan Taylor Rob Houia
Sunday Morning. Happy at
Lark», on Way to Jail
GETS CONTRACT
Rock Crushing Contract Awarded to
J. V. Chltty ot Dallas.
Star
Transfer Co. Will Do the
Hauling
“ 1/
Falls City contractors did not
even get a pleasant look in the let
ting of the rock-crushing and
hauling contract let by the county
last week. J. V. Chitty of Dallas
was awarded the contract for
crushing at 80 per cubic yard, as
against $1.00 asked by Frank Tig-
lie, 94c by W. B. Stevens and 85c
by Sam McVey. The hauling was
awarded to the Star Transfer Co.
of Dallas on a sliding scale of 2}c
for first tiuarter, 5 for second 20
for third and 28 fourth and up to
five miles.
CLEANUP DAY IN FALLS CITY
The people generally took ad
vantage ol cleanup day and i id
their premise* of accumulated ruli-
biah. Great loads of tin cane and
varioua and sundry curios were
gathered up and taken to the gar
bage dump. In fact the haulers
Were unable to serve ull in one
day. Fulls City is a cleaner if not
a better town and efforts should
be make to keep it clean.
17, 1915 [
Making allowance for nuother six
weeks of lighting. (his fxtlinate differs
BET WAR WILL authority
little from the 1.250.000 of the English
referred to above.
END BY SEPT. 1
A I k hi hi * belonging to Mrs. K. S. Odds In London Ten to One on
Ferguson was mbbed Sunday and
Peace Before Dec. 1.
$46 00 in gold and three or four
in siivur, a gold watch and a num
ber of articles of jewelry taken. BIG SUPPLY OF AMMUNITION
The house contained household ef
fects but no one lived in it. Mrs.
Ferguson had secreted the money British Expert Thinks Thst ths Sid#
Thst Can Kill ths Most Msn Will
and jewelry in the house.
Win In ths End— Asssrts Thst Ger
Jim and Nathan Taylor, aged many
a Sufficient Supply of
13 and 10 respectively, were Food to Has
Last Ysar.
noticed displaying a considerable Louuon.—There U probably no goes
amount of money aud were arrest Unit
more frequently just now
ed and searched. Some of the than: asked
"When do you tbluk the war will
missing articles and about $15.00 end?" Opinions differ widely, us is
wus found in their imsseasion. ouly natural when there is ao little
Information to go upon. Betting
They said they paid a butcher bil> real
in
the
la quoted as belug, that Lbu
of about $8.00 a small drug bill war will city end:
and 60 cents to Park Calkins that Before May 1, 1015—3 to 1 againaL
their father owed, besides giving Before June 1, 1015—2 to 1 ugulnaL
him, their father, $10.00. The old Before Sept. 1, 1016—even.
Dee. 1, 1015—10 to 1 on.
gentleman denied receiving the Before
Before
Murch 1, 1010—15 to 1 on.
coin. The boys produced some of This certainly
indicate* a more op
timistic feeling than anything said by
the missing articles, however.
ministers and other important author
City Marshal Lewis had taken ities
would seem to justify, though ull
charge of the boys and turned of these
are careful not to commit
them over to Sheriff Orr. They themselves to anything definite.
Generally speaking, the highly placed
were given a hearing Tuesday and authorities
in tone, and prep
started to the reform school at 1 arations of are all grave
kinds are going on
p. m. They did not appear to be with Increasing vigor. Lord Southwark
ut the annual meeting of
disturbed in the least over their announced
the
Associated
Chambers of Commerce
arrest but were as happy as tho’ that he was authorized
by Lord Kltch-
going to a picnic.
ncr to say that since the beginning of
the war "wo have Increased the output
These are the same boys that of
300 times in excess of
wandered down to Dallas some what war It mutci-lul
was before, lie added that un
weeks ago and their forlorn and dor the bill we were discussing In the
of lords he hoped uml expected
destitue condition aroused the to house
get
a
great accession of labor which
sympathy of our bighearted sher would enable
him enormously to lu
iff who fitted them out with shoes crease the supplies.”
and tickets for Falls City. It is Statements like this and Asquith's
warning that tho war would he
said that they told the sheriff that recent
n long one seem to suggest that the
their father was lazv and lay calculations of those who ought to
drunk around the saloons and know best hardly reckon on nu early
to fighting.
their mother had gone off on a end A high
said the other day:
visit and left them to hustle for "This war authority
will ouly he ended by kill
Ing. The allies have to face Germany
themselves.
DALLAS MAN
SATURDAY. APRIL
with a butcher's bill so huge that she
will at last refuse to* see It Increased."
To the qticstlou of how big be
thought that the hill would have to he
he answered after uwhile: "That Is
hard to say. But I estimate the Ger
man crsunltles up to dnte at 1,250.000.
and that. I think. Is barely half what
they will have to be. But, believe me
It Is only by kill, kill, kill that they
can he defeated. The question of food
will not cuter Into It. They have plenty
of provisions. It Is only by killing
their men that we shall make them
give in.”
He then told me of a remark made
by a German officer rescued from the
Bluechcr. "Have your sailors nothing
better to do with their time than to
save the lives of the enemy?" This,
he said, was right In effect, for the
•loath of every German soldier or sullor
brought tho war so much nearer to Its
end. but the tradition of the British
navy Is to save life after the defeat of
tho enemy.
An Interesting article published by
n writer whose oplnons have often
proved well Justified gives the result
of an Inquiry made on the spot Into
the present conditions In Germany,
l-'rom a friend In the diplomatic corps
In Berlin, who had unusual facilities
for collecting the information, he ob
tained tho following figures: There
were C.000.000 ablebodled men between
nineteen nnd forty-flvo who had not
served In the army np to Jan 1. There
were close upon 1.000.000 volunteers,
half of whom were Included In the
erantxreaerve or substitute reserves.
To these are to be added the approxi
mately 4,000,000 now with the colors.
Casualties reported up to Jan. 15
were said by the same authority to be:
Killed, 153,000; wounded, 574.000; miss
ing and prisoners, 102,000. making a
total of 889.000. An estimate of the
losses up to Feb. 1 makes the killed,
wounded nnd missing or prisoners ap
proximately 1,289,000. Allowing for the
return to the firing line of only one-
third of the wounded, the Irretrievable
loss tn fighting ninterinl Is estimated at
1,080,000. officers and men up to Feb. L
BUY OUR STRONG. STYLISH
. S H O E S AND H O S E
FOR ALL TH E FAMILY
WEALTHY BOY JOINS NAVY.
Pasadena Millionaire Gives Consent
Whsn His 8onaEnlists.
I.os Angeles, Cal.—Donald Murphy.
nineteen years old. aon of A. M. Mur
phy, u I’asadena millionaire. Is at Mare
Island. Hun Frsnelseo. where he en
listed for three years' service In the
navy. Young Murphy drove np to the
naval recruiting ofllre tn Spring street
In his automobile, accompanied by bis
parents.
“I want to enlist as a sailor In the
American navy,*' he said to the ofllcer
tu charge. Ills father aud mother
gave their consent He passed the
physical and mental examination and
then wus enlisted. Re-entering the
automobile, be went to the Santa Fe
station, where he boarded a train for
Mare Island. Murphy last year wss
graduated from the Pasadent high
school.
No. 33.:
L
WARDEN'S P0LICT KINDNESS.
New Head of Atlanta Prison Outlaws
Lash and Dungeon.
Atlanta, Ga.—Prison dungeons and
cat-o'-nlne tails treatment »ill be out
lawed by the new warden of the fed
eral prison here. Fred Zerbst. ex-dep
THE LEATHER WHICH GOES INTO OUR SHOES
uty warden of the federal prison at
IS SO TANNED TH AT IT NOT ONLY FEELS COM
Leavenworth, Kan., who took charge
April 1. Mr. Zerbst said that all of the
FORTABLE BUT WEARS A LONG TIME. THE SOLES
federal prisons bad abolished the old
time corrective methods und that bD
ARE MADE OF STRONG LEATHER TH A T W O N T
policy would be to win over the prison
ers through kind treatment.
SOON WEAR OUT. STYLE. FIT. COMFORT AND THE
"The best way to treat these men Is
to apfieal to their manhood and sense
LOW PRICE ARE WHAT WE GIUE YOU WHEN WE
of right,'' he declared. “The whipping
SELL
YOU SHOES.
post aud the ‘black bole' are relics of
the post The new plan calls for close
confinement as the usual punishment
OUR SHOES WILL STAND THE STRAIN OF BUSY
for Infraction of rules, and 1 feel sure
FEET. TRY IT ONCE: YOU’LL BUY IT AGAIN.
this will accomplish more than any
other method."
In his trip through the prison Sir
Zerbst kept his eye open for the "dun
geon" which Julian Hawthorne and
other prisoners described, but he de
dared after his first tour that be bad
failed to locate IL Warden Moyer,
FALLS CITY D E P A R T M E N T STO R E
whose position Mr. Zerbst takes, has
maintained all aloug that there was no
such place, aud be bas challenged bla
foes to find IL
shares, an' If any revenoos come aroun* ASK REPEAL OF DRUG LAW.
keep 'em off the trail to the still."
No deputy manacles bis wrists; no
INVENTS PERISCOPE GUN.
Dope Fiends Send Pathetic
prison guard comes for him. But the Habitual
Letters to Rtvtnus Department.
Philadelphia Man Has Nswsst Offen old man has received the summons of
Washington.—Appeals for some re
the United States court to appear and laxation
sive and Defensive Weapon.
of the rigid anti-drug law are
Philadelphia.—The periscope gun is answer to a charge of violating the pouring
in
on the commissioner of In
federal
law
against
the
Illicit
manu
the newest offensive and defensive
ternal revenue from unfortunates tn
weapon brought forth by the modern facture aDd sale of liquor.
parts of the country.
trench war. Jones Wister of this city And so the old man shoulders his all The
find their sources of
has Invented a rifle with curved barrel gun aud sets out from bis cabin In the supply sufferers
cut
off
and
are becoming des
bills
and
tramps
down
the
mountain
and periscope attached, by the use of
perate. Pathetic and hysterical applica
which a soldier may remain securely side to the railroad station twenty tions
hare been penned. None of the
hidden In hla trench and yet observe miles away. Next week he gets up
are being made public, but tt
every movement of the enemy and con before Judge William T. Newman of is letters
said-that the names of some of the
Atlanta or Judge Emory Speer of Sa signers
ttnue firing nt will.
of the epistles would startle the
The Inventor is well known socially vannah and pleads guilty.
communities In which they live.
and as n sportsman. He is thoroughly "Six months." says the Judge.
the commissioner Is power
acquainted with firearms nnd ever since The old man sighs and remarks. "I'd less Naturally
to do anything other than enforce
the war started has been experiment like mighty well ter go back an’ make j the law
even If be wished to modify
ing with his periscope gun. After a crap. Jldge."
many trials he finally bcDt the portion The Judge knows that up In the bills j the regulations.
of a rifle barrel at an angle of 45 de the old woman and the old man's fam
grees and soldered It to the end of an ily of sturdy mountain lads and lassies
ordinary army rifle. Two toy mirrors are dependent on the “crap" for a living COLLEGE GIRLS DO MARRY.
are then attached to the gun. The through next winter. So he says. “Go Bryn M iw r Doan Says More Than SO
upper mirror Is on a level with the back and make your crop and report to
Por Cent of Graduates Wed.
curved end of the barrel.
the Jail on Sept 1."
Philadelphia. — The popular Impesa
Mr. Wister declares that he can aim The old man strides to the railroad slon
that college women do not like
perfectly with this contrivance. The station, catches the first train for home wedlock
refuted by the statement of
process consists In getting a reflection and tramps the twenty miles up Into “Doctor" Is Isabel
Maddlson. recording
of the object aimed nt In the center of the hills again.
of Bryn Mawr college, who ny s
the lower mirror, on a level with the Winter will be breaking tn the hills, denn
that more than 50 per cent of ths
marksman's eye. Then, he gays, tt Is and for weeks to come he will be buay school's
graduates who left the Institu
almost Impossible to miss.
planting the crop of corn. Day after tion fifteen
years ago are now married.
day he will clamber up the rugged She considers
that this average la a
path, hitch the gray mule to the plow fine one. hut refuses
comment on th*
and turn the furrows of his little patch. fact that about nine to out
of every tea
One day he looks Into the almanac women not of college tralnlag
are mar-
and says to his wife:
reaching
the thirty mark.
‘Me an' th' boys are off to Jail ter ileil before
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morrow."
The next day he swings down the
NOTICE OF ESTNAY SALE
trail to the railroad station twenty
miles away. As his head drops below Notice is hereby given that on
Pleads Guilty Each Year, hut the
brink of the path he calls back:
about the 1st day of July, 1914,
"See yer In tber spring, ol’ woman!” or
there
came to my place the follow
next week he Is swapping
Allowed to Make a Crop. cut And plug the with
the deputy at the Jail, ing described animal:
having reported to the turnkey's office, One gray Jersey heifer about 16
Savannah, Ga.—The time la at hand alone and unoffleered.
months old: no earmarks or brands
next spring?
for the annual pilgrimage of the And
Why. he will be back In the hills discernible. Said estray will be
Georgia moonshiner. Today be la up again,
bis "crap" nnd manufac
in the hills, tomorrow be will be tried turing making
moonshine whisky on the side. sold at public auction for cash in
and sentenced, the day after be will
hand at the farm of W. F. Gilliam
be planting hla crop In the bills again,
in PeDee Precinct, Polk County,
the next, setting out for the county Jail
No Gold at Monts Carlo.
to serve hia sentence.
Monte Carlo.—Gambling Is again Oregon on the 30th day of April,
" ’Bout time for co't, M'rla,” he will rampant here, but no gold or silver
say to his wife. "Guess I'll be amblin'. shines on the green cloth. Ivory chips 1915, 2:30 P. M.
W. F. Gilliam.
Don't forgit to git out them plow- have taken their place.
N. SELIG’S
GEORGIA MOONSHINER
ON HIS WAY TO JAIL
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