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 --------—. ---------------- 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 I