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FB L LS eiTY NEWS
VOL. XI
WIDE RECRUITING
PLOT INDICATED
BRITISH AQENTS SAID TO HAVE UN
LIMITED FINANCES
Soldiers and Sailora of United Stale»
Induoed to Deaert to Oo to En
gland. Say Investigator».
KALLS CITY. OREGON. SATURDAY. JULY 3, 1915
NEWSBOY MAKES A FORTUNE
W ar
B ring* W ealth to Youth W ho
Saved Hi* P*nnl*s.
Bridgeport. Conn. —W ar has brought
I prosperity to Charles ("B u ck "! Itose.
¡newsboy, twenty-two yeurs old. so rap
idly that he is undecided whether to
buy a «team yacht or a submarine
A
year ago he put $100. the savings from
six years' sales of uuwspa|>ers, Into u
lot nt Avon I'urk, In the eastern part
of the city, nssumlug u uiortguge there-
ou of $U00
The Increased sale of
newspaper*, due to tho war. has enu
bled hint to |>ny off the mortgage—but
thut Is not all.
The lot “ Buck" owns stands In tbe
path o f the building progress eastward
which the rapidly extending munitions
plants are making. O n e day recently a
real estate operator representing un
named Interests offered $ 10.000 for the
lot. lie « a s pondering over this cum.
pltment to Ills sagacity when a repre
sentative o f the British government
came along with an offer of $20.000.
Tho conference ended wbeu “ Buck”
submitted a counter protmsal that the*
British government lease tbe land for
a term o f yeurs at $20.000 u year uud
that the munitions company, for which
(¡rest Britain Is eager to build a fac
tory. give him one-half o f tho profits
from Its product.
San Francisco, June 21*. —The
Federal wand jury today dug
deeper into the maze o f the secret
<>|H*rations o f alleged recruiting
agents o f the Hritixh government
in San Francisco.
Witness before the jury testi
fied that some 300 recruits ship
ped from here to New York for
ultimate duty in the British army
received medical examination in a
room next to the British consulate,
in New- York City. Frank Cook,
one o f the recruits arrested in
New York and returned here as a
witness, said that ut this room a
“ Captain Roche or Roach” took
charge of the recruits and sub
jected them to the physical exam
inations.
John W. Preston, United States,
District Attorney, advised the ex
amination o f another witness held
in New York.
It was said at the close o f to
day’s session o f the grand jury
that the name o f the San Francis New York.—" I f the ship's officers
co bank through which the alleg had not assured us there was no dan
ed recruiting o f 300 men here was ger and that the vessel would not sink
I think more lives would hare been
financed has been learned.
It
| saved.”
was also said on high authority
This Is tho opinion of Miss Virginia
That in the ulleged recruiting of II. Loney of lluutington* N Y.. a sur
these 300 men more than $150,000 vivor of tho Lusitania disaster, who
arrived here, accompiuilqd by Mrs.
w as spent. Federal investigators Harry Sedgwick.
Miss Louey. who is sixteen, but targe
are endeavoring to get at the
source of this flood o f cash. The for her years, wus greatly saddened by
enormous amount inured into San
Francisco for recruiting operations
is taken to indicate that similiar
recruiting almost inexhaustably
financed has taken p'ace in other
American cities.
According to the statements of
a Federal investigator, soldiers
and sailors o f the United States
Government have been induced to
desert and join the bands o f re
cruits sent from here. It was
said that recruiting agents work
ed in the Army and Navy Y. M.
C. A. here.—Oregonian.
WEDDING ON RIVER BRI0GE.
U t* Idaho L ic tn t* . C alling Paator From
Prayor.
Lewiston, liln.— Mrs. Mnud Kate*
of Kamlnji and A. J. Stuart of Stltes
wore united In nmrrluge a few days
ago on the Lewiston Clarkston bridge.
Juat on the Idaho side of the mtdehan-
nel of the Snake river. The parties
had eoiue to Lewiston expecting to be
married by their pastor, the Rev. J. B.
York of the Hnptlat church of Stltes,
who wan In attendance nt an nssocla-
tlon meeting nt Claitston. Ou learning
of their mission they were Invited to
bo tunrrloiVdn the association meeting,
but this was Impossible because the
license was obtained In Idaho, and so
the meeting adjourned to the center of
the bridge.
A SEVEN FOOT “COP.”
Q ra n tib u rg ’s Chief T ip s Scale* at 340
Pound*.
Grantsburg, WIs.—This city, peace
ful as It la, boasts of the largest chief
of police In the w-orld. He Is Oust An
derson. who Is seven feet four Inches
In height, and, though perfectly well
proportioned, weighs 340 pounds. He
Is the only tall member of a big family
and came here from Sweden, where
he was born In 1872.
Ho served a short time on the police
force at Superior, until he was strtek-
en with typhoid fever.
This giant
came to this country In 1894 and for
thirteen consecutlvo years has been
chief of police.
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companion, suddenly exclaimed r’8ee!
There Is a submarine!"
Miss Loney became greatly agitated,
and. turning her gaze from tbe sea.
said: "No. no! I can’t atand It ngain.”
The ship's officer* said the periscope
of a British submarine might have
been seen, but that no German craft
. hud come to tbe sur'ace during tb»
' run through the w ar .brie
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J GAVE
j
UP MORPHINE SUPPLY.
I'o man, 8 i x t y f o u r , T h * n A*k*d to B*
8*nt A w a y .
Evansville. Ind.— Declaring she was
determined to win In a fight against i
the druu habit, to which she had been !
addicted many years, Mrs. Maud Lynn,
aged sixty-four, walked Into tbe office
of Snmuel W urm. township trustee of
Hgeon township here, and presenter!
W urm with a cardboard box contain
ing about $30 worth o f morphine
The woman told the trustee the mor
phine was all the property she bad nnd
that she wished to part with It on con
dition thut she be sent to a sanitarium
to be cured o f tbe drug habit She war
«eut to a local bosplfe.l.
CHINA WANTS TO BE
MADE AN ORPHAN BY THE WORLD’S TOY SHOP
LUSITANIA DISASTER Promoters to Manufacture All
Pretty New York Girl Tells of
Experiences on Vessel
•
Kinds of Playthings.
THE POORER KINDS: THEY INSURE THE HEALTH
AND HAPPINESS OF YOURSELF AND FAMILY.
AND THEY COST ABOUT THE SAME AS THE
OTHERS.
NOT ONLY SHOULD YOUR GROCERIES BE
“ GOOD” BUT ALSO “ FRESH.” WE PRICE OUR
GROCERIES LOW AND DO THE BIG GROCERY
BUSINESS IN THIS CITY: TH A T KEEPS FRESH
GOODS COMING IN RIGHT ALONG. ORDER YOUR
GROCERIES FROM U S -W E L L SAUE YOU MONEY.
New York.— Forty thousand dollars
was spent for toys, most of It In N ew
York, by Chang K l Kalo. a special rep
resentative of the Chinese government,
who came to the United Btatea several
weeks ugo with the Chinese commis
sion. H e bought everything in the
shape of a toy or dinner tavor made of
metal which he could And. Mr. Chang
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Is now busy In seeking among manu
facturers o f machinery for men who
can build machines to make In China
the toys which before the w ar were
practically all made In Germany.
China, with her cheap labor and
cheap sailing ship freights, proposes to
compete with the toymalfers at Nu- j
remtierg. Fuersch and Thllt. who have
supplied toys for most of the civilized j
light as day. and Tt' finally passed out
world for generations. Many of the
of sight north by 32 degrees east.
toys were purchased also for their edu- [
Mr. Evans observed about what time
catlonal value In the schools o f China. j
It was. and eight minutes later heard
One sample of every sort of toy was j
the explosion. By basing a calculation
sought by Mr. Chang, not only from |
upon the difference In the rapidity with
the great toy Importing houses and big
which light and round waves travel he MEN BETWEEN 15 AND 65 ARE TO
retail shops, but the Bowery was
estimated It w as between three and
searched for the cheaper articles.
BE INCLUDED
four hundred mile;» away, and follow
Frlces paid ranged from three for a
Ing that direction would make the loca-
cent to $750 for a miniature model
tlon of the meteor some distance out at Workingmen and Employers Given
boiler, burning coal dust, attached to a
*ea off the coast of Maryland.
complete miniature Corliss engine and
Until Thursday to End Differences.
electric generator. This last was pur
Rewarded F o r Good Advic*.
chased in Philadelphia and was used
London, June 29.—The first step
Yonkers. N. Y.—Because Police Cap
by the proprietor o f a big toy shop to
run ull sorts of toy machines In hts tain George Cooley advised his men to toward conscription was taken in
read the Bible or other good literature England today when W alter Hume
shop window.
while Idle a woman has made him ex Long, president of. the local gov
The engines purchased ranged from
one operated by alcohol flame at 95 ecutor o f her $1.000.000 estate, which ernment. introduced a national re
cents to the Corliss, which cost $140 will pay him a fee of $25 00l>.
gister bill in the house o f com
alone. Every sort of toy lathe, saw and
mons. The bill calls for the en
stamp mill is represented In Mr. HE WANTS AN INDIAN WIFE.
rollment of all males between the
Chang’s collection. He has twenty seta
of toy looeomotives, from a pewter Require* N ot Beauty or Grfec*. O n ly ages o f 15 and 65 years with a
statement o f their physical ability
model at 10 cents to one with appa
Mean*.
to bear arms and other informa
ratus for supplying Its motive power
Pendleton. Ore.— The following is
tion o f value to the war office in
nt |29.
taken from the East Oregonian:
One set of lead soldiers cost $188. It
"W anted.—An Indian girl with means case conscription should be neces
Includes every arm o f military service,
by a young man with forty acres o f sary.
with mountain and field batteries, a
Photo by American Press Association.
Aside from the munitions bill,
land.”
Red Cross ambulance, forage wagons
I f there is a daughter o f the Cay- prevented by David Lloyd-George;
MISS V IR G IN IA LOKKV.
and automobile trucks.
uses, the Um atilla* or W alla W allas on minister of munitions, this is the
Boats nt three for a cent are at one
the loss of her parents. Mr. anil Mrs.
the reservation who Is tired of the w ig most radical piece o f legislation
Allen D. Loney, who accompanied her side o f a collection which Includes a
wam of her father and who would like that has been proposed as a result
on the disastrous trip of the Cunarder. complete battleship that cost $235.
to pass up the young braves who are o f the crisis brought on by the
Printing
outfits
from
$1.9o
to
$45
are
In
"F ive minutes before the Lusitania
angling for her hand and land and ally
sank," she said, "two officers went the collection, with boys’ carpenter tool herself for life with a paleface she war.
The workingmen and employers
around the deck and assured us there boxes of every size.
need wait no longer. The opportunity
wns no danger. As soon ns the tor
have been given until Thursday
Is herewith tendered her.
pedo struck us my father went below
W illiam Hadenfeldt o f Rupert, Idcw. o f this week to settle their differ
SEE BRILLIANT METEORITE.
to get life preservers
H e procured
Is looking for her. In fa c t he Is so bent ences among themselves and com
some, but used none for himself. My Mad* N ig h t B rig h t a* D ay— It* Fall on his desires that he hns enlisted the ply with the demands of the gov
father and mother both insisted that 1
aid of the paper In discovering her. ernment for greater production
Shook th# E a rth .
get into one of the lifeboats that wns
Orangeburg, 8. Cl—A wonderfully In the local column will be found hts
being lowered.
I did not want to brilliant meteorite w as seen and the ad. He gives his age. weight, height of munitions before the latter
leave them, but they Insisted in a fond explosion was heard In this city and and shade, also his landed wealth. H e measure is enacted.
In present
way that I go. T^ie boat was upset county recently about 2 o’clock a. m. does not show himself to be a particu
ing
his
registration
measure
today,
and 1 was thrown Into the sea. where Many people saw the bright mass as lar man. H e requires not beauty or
I drifted for about ten minutes Then It fell toward the earth, and a police grace In the gttl he wants. His only and discussing the labor situation,
1 wns picked up My father and moth
man In Ornngehurg felt the earth trem- specification Is that the must have Long declared it was not the gov
er went down with the ship."
hlo nnd heard the courthouse windows means.
ernment s object to coerce labor,
Miss Loney took an oar that had shake.
but to secure satisfactory organ
fallen from the hands of a sailor who
Thaw Never Was Insane
Some of tho most, interesting facta
ization of the nation’s resources.
had collapsed and did her share of brought to light so fa r are told by J. 8.
The murder o f Stanford White
the rowing until the survivors were Evans of near Elloree. H e w as sitting
I f this is accomplished, Long
was
the act o f a sane man, says
taken aboard a trawler.
by a window that wits o p e n V In the
said
it would be sufficient to de
Dr.
Austin
Flint,
world
famous
W hile the St. Paul was being con right direction to get a. full view. The
voyed through the war zone by two brilliance o f the fall'tng meteor was alienist. Could not find evidence feat England’s enemies, — Portland
British destroyers. Mrs. Sedgwick, her veçy marked, reatlerjp.i the rpun.try * f that Thaw ever was insane.
Journal.
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N. SELIG’S
FALLS CITY D E P A R T M E N T STO RE
ENC1AN0 TAKES FIRST
STEP TO CONSCRIPTION