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FALLS CITY
VOL. XI
RUSSIA SEEKING
AMERICAN TRADE
Manufacturers Are Advised to
Go After This New Business.
NATION STRONG FINANCIALLY
Haionoff, M l m . t . r of Porolgn Affairs,
Point* O u t Opportunitio* F o r A m s r -
Icona— Mono/ Ones Span! on Vodka
N o * Uaod F o r A g r i c u lt u r e — Bank
Savings Maks Rooord.
Cblcajto.— From its corn*»|xm<leut In
IVtrugrud tliu Tribuuo publishes a <1U
patch quoting M Sntonoff, the Ilusaiun
nilnlater o f foreign atfnlni.
"ItuMsIa wimta just two things of
America, the first nut] most Important
being n permanent maintenance of tbo
close ami cordial relations between the
two nut ions; the second, an enormous
quantity of all kinds o f manufactured
urtlclea," bo auaertqd.
"B efore the war Germany supplied
from tta workshops the greater part of
Itusslu’a demand, am f as for commodi
ties It could not supply Itself acted as
the middleman, exacting large proflta.
"German merchants readily adapted
themselves to ltussian customs and
had an added advantage o f natlouul
good will.
“ After this war Hussla will prefer to
buy elsewhere all the goods it used to
buy In Germany upon comparatively
equal terms.
"Now especially U the time for
American manufacturers to scud agents
to learn the ltussian ways In order to
he In u poult Ion to (III the enormous
di-mnud on the purt o f the civil impu
tation when the war ends. The Itus-
FALLS CITY. OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 1. 1915
power o f tin- rouble n i» depredated miles the way la over foothills and
very little, food supplie« are plentiful, through undulating country. Besides
and the agricultural |«q>ulntlon. except being a marvel In englutqtring. the road
In the Immediate war area, has more Is one o f the most scenic and pictur
actual money tliau ever before, owing esque In the nest, passing, as It does,
to the prohibition of voilku drinking. through lied Buck cauyeo. Dead Man's
This Is shown by the I an miry savings canyon and muny other ruouutalo beau
deposits, » hielt were more for the ty spots.
Tbo roud averages eighteen feet In
otte monili than for the whole o f the
width and Is perfectly crowned and
previous year.
“ It Is declured III Itusnla that any In dralued. Although It offers a succes
sion o f climbs, so skillfully was tha en
dependent peace with Austria must In
gineering work done that heavy gradca
volte the questlou of neutral trading
have been eliminated, and the motorist
with Germany, for at this time Aus
la confronted with only one grade as
tria us a neutral power friendly to Ger
high as 0 per cent
many might prove more dangerous to
Under the Colorado system each con
the allies than Austria actively hostile,
rlct Is allowed ten days off hts sen
but disintegrating through defeat.
tence for aacb mouth o f labor on the
"A separate pence. It Is said, must
roads. This la In addition to the utual
contain n chiuse giving Ute allies con reduction for good behavior. The cost
trol during the war of the Austro Ger of building many o f the mountain
man frontier. In addition, the ulllee roods would be almost prohibitive If
cannot guaranteo weakened Austria the state were compelled to construct
ugalust attack by Ituly."
them under ordinary conditions.
The entire country baa reaped the
F a rm in g In Belgium,
benefits o f Colorado's pioneering be
Berlin.—The German auttiorltlea In cause It has been able to open to trav
Belgium will try to ranke the country elera from all sections o f the country
self supporting by raising corn, pota- aome o f Its most splendid mouulaln
| toes, etc.. Instead of sugar beets.
scenery.
Thomas J. Tynan, warden o f the
ROYAL PO RTRA ITS FOUND.
stole iwnltenttary. under whose super
vision tbo work o f the last three yean
Prlnesa W h o T a lk s d W ith Chsope end
has been done, anys:
S aw P y ra m i d » Rita Excavated.
"Basing our figures on actual expe
Bouton.—Four portrait heads of an rieuce, we nre confident that we can
cient Egyptian princes, discovered In construct In the next teu years more
excavullou o f the royal cemetery at tliau 3.000 miles of the very finest road
^>Us, will be sent to the Boston Mu ways for l«>xx than $3UM sni . and this
seum o f Flue Arts, according to word without adding anything whatever to
the burden o f the taxisiyers.
from Dr. George A. Iteisner. In charge
"T h e innii who Is allowed to leave
o f explorations for the museum In
the prtsou fur the road ramp has proc
Egypt
tlcnllj »ccii l lie last o f prison life If be
They uro port o f n group o f eight on
conducts himself properly
Hts f«xid
earthed In u pit previously examined and clothing ure better: bis self re
by a European archaeologist and tup
s|s*et Is preserved. During the Inst
posed to have been exhausted. Four three years we have tind more than
will he placed In the museum at Cairo
1.000 unguarded Individual prisoners tn
Dr. Iteisner writes:
the convict camps Lets than 1 per
“The Importance of these portraits cent have violated their pledget sod
from (be artistic, the historical and the made succ«*ssful e»«*n|ie."
merely human point o f view makes
the groups a find almost equal to tbo
Warrior Marriea at Eighty.
group o f statues fouud In the Mycerl
Colfax. W asb .-B . ft? laike. aged
nils temples.
eighty, a veteran o f the elvll war and
"The men and women whose faces d resident o f Colfax for noarly forty
they show us bad spoken with Cheops years, after an absence o f tw o years
and Cbepbren and had seen the Oral ’«'turned to Colfax with bla bride. He
nud second pyramids In building."
snirrled Mrs. Anna Wells o f Port Or-
Dr. Iteisner thinks that gome o f these ,'bnrd.
portraits support the theory that Egyp
tian rulers o f the fourth dynasty, IDOO-
2730 B. C „ had negro blood
SAYS DESCRIPTION WAS CORRECT
On«* o f the h«*ads o f a princess he de-
srrtbes as “ o f a distinctly negroid
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Photo by American Press Association.
M. SAZONorr. IIPKHIAN U1NISTKR OF POB-
RION AFFAIR*.
inal Huckleberry Finn o f Mark Twain's
books, has Just celebrated bis ninetieth
birthday at hts ranch on the McKeuxle
river near hero and Is hule and hearty
lie has n vivid recollectlou o f Murk
Twain, with whom he vvorke«! on a
Mississippi steamboat, but says Twain
really didn't get much from himself
of what he wrote about Huckleberry
Finn except the nam«*.
“ W e called Clemens Charley In «hose
days,” said Finn.
“ He and I both
u orked on the steamer Shot well, run
ning out o f S t Louis.
1 was nick
named
Huckleberry, and Clemens
seemed to take a fancy to the name.
Toni Sawyer was my chum, but 1 was
well grown before Clemens knew me.”
Finn has llv«*«l on the McKenzie riv
er here for forty years past and seldom
emerg«*s from Ids retreat
alun government will lend cordial aid
to all Auicrlcau (Irma wishing to trade
with Russia.
“ Even before the war Busala hud
cstiihll.sliisl a line o f steamers trading
directly from Libau with New York.
It will encourage more such ltussian
companies and will also encourage
American companies trading to Rus
sian ports."
The ltussian government, the cor
respondent points out. Is the largest
single purchaser In the world. He also
says that Russia offera not merely a
market formerly monopolized by Ger
many, hut au added market due to
the abolition of the vodka truffle. The
Russian peasant now bus his vodka
money to put Into agricultural machin
Colorado Springs. Colo.—The Colora
ery. He baa already become a more
productive man, and even In this war do Springs and Canyon City highway
and the Pikes peak ocean to ocean
time Is a greater consumer o f manu
road In Uto pass are two o f the best
factured urtlclea.
mountain roads In the United States
The London Dally News correspond
ent In Russia sends from Kiev the fol snd two o f the best examples o f the re
sults o f couvtct labor.
lowing dispatch:
The first named Is a fine example of
"Th e situation tn Russia from the
For twenty
military, economic and political points scientific road building.
miles south o f Colorado Springs tho
o f view Is better today thnn It has been
road winds around the foothills and
nt nny other time since the first retreat
mountains, practically the entire road-
o f the Gcrmuus from Itusslnu Poland.
“ The country outside the war zone bed having been cut out o f the hillside
and in many places blasted out o f solid
has suffered astonishingly little mate
rock. For the remntnlng twenty five
rially from the war. Jhe purchasing
COLORADO CONVICTS
BUILD GOOD ROADS
Boll! Stale and Prisoners Bene
fit Dy New System.
A re|>ort o f council meeting in
Fa'ls City
News of
April 24th
credits Attorney Tooze with the
statement, that owing to an error
o f the City engineer in his descrip
tion o f the property involved in
the
Mathews condemnation suit
they are unable to reach the river.
The engineer made no mistake
and as proof we have the ruling
o f the court: “ Objections have
been made to Mr. Tooze’s claim of
252 feet as belonging to Irving
Mathews as he owns but 200 feet
and no greater number o f feet
can be condemned than actually
belongs to Irving Mathews. To
obtain land belonging to another
party or parties seperate, condem
nation proceedings must be insti
tuted.”
The engineer’s description cover
ed all o f the property belonging to
Irving Mathews and 2 feet more
and this was all Mr. Tooze’s bill
asked for.
I f there has been a mistake it is
because separate condemnation
proceedings were not instituted
against W. H. Mathews, father of
the defendant and owner o f the
52 feet necessary to reach the
desired point
Certainly your engineer is not
responsible for their neglect or
oversight.
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COME IN.
N. S E L IG ’S
FALLS CITY D E P A R TM E N T STORE
THE WEEK IN HISTORY
sleeping lad. Then they suddenly
discovered that he was dead. It
turned out that his sleepiness was
caused by heroin, and that his
death had resulted from an over
dose o f that deadly drug. Subse-
covered, 1858.
i quent investigation revealed that
Wednesday, 28.—San Francisco the boy was addicted to the use of
earthquake and fire, 1906. First the drug, that he had acquired
steamboat in Ohio river, 1812.
the habit at the public school, and
Thursday’ 29.—Sewing machine that many other boys, like him,
patented, 1862. Joan o f A re were confirmed dope fiends.
It was a sorrowful home-com
begun siege o f Orleans, 1429.
ing
to the New York parents. It
Friday, 30.—Washington inaugu
was
a fearful fate to fall over a
rated, 1789; Louisiana purchas
bright-eyed,
promising lad o f 17.
ed from France, 1803.
But these tragedies are all
Saturday, May 1. Dewey captur
around and everywhere. The
ed Manila, 1898. England and
cigarette kills hundreds of fine
Scotland united, 1797.
boys to where heroin kills one.
Sunday, 2.—Constitutional conven
We are tumultuously vocal over
tion convened in Philadelphia,
the destruction of life in the Eu
1789.
ropean war, and properly so. But
we are sweetly oblivious to the red
AT SEVENTEEN
cheeked sturdy boys in their 'teens
P ortlan d Jo u rn al.
who are gradually killing their
Kenneth Nell, aged 17, was morals and killing their bodies
cabin boy on the American liner with nicotine.
A police authority in Philadel
Philadelphia, sailing between New
phia recently stated that most of
York and Liverpool.
His mother was waiting to greet the crimes in that city are com
him as he arrived at the New mitted by boys o f 16 to 22. Cigar
York docks from a recent voyage. ette smoking by young boys is the
She wanted him to tell o f his ex preparation for those crimes, and
periences at sea. and he beg,an preparation for the Kenneth Nells
telling her, but went to sleep, then to die while unsuspecting parents
watch over them while they sleep.
begged that he be allowed to rest
before talking more.
NOTICE
The father returned from work
A
ll
persona
knowing« themselves
at 7 o'clock, and aroused his son
to
be
indebted
to the late Dr. W.
to talk to him. The boy convers
B.
Officer,
are
requested to gettle
ed for a short time, and fell asleep
at
the
Drug
Store.
M. L. Thomp
again.
son,
Administrator
of
the estate of
Until after midnight the father
W
,
B.
Officer,
«leceased.
and mother watched over the
City Engineer Saye That Description
Monday, 26.—Odd Fellows Societv
Furnished Covered AU Property
H U C K LEB ER R Y FINN AT 90.
organized, 1819. Surrender o f
Owned by Irving Mathews.
Johnson's army, 1865.
O ri ginal of Mask T w a i n ’» Haro Telia
Tired of Being Scapegoat
H o w It C am e About.
Tuesday, 27.—First oil \?ell dis
for Others Blunders.
Portland, tire.—B. F Finn, the orig
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