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Not (ho Bast in (ho World,
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FALLS CITY
FALLS CITY OREGON, S A T U R D A Y , N O V E M B E R 13. 1915
VOL. XII
PARIS TALK ENDS
TEN TEAKS' WORK
ent uf I .; * naval \ ,!(■..■ '
ii ia. ih re
iMirti-i) ns x iijtiu that tolcphi-nlc com
iuiiii I, uil'tti between I he navy depart
nicnt and war ve*(«la at sea was only
» question o f I oh I u III ok the necessary
apparatus.
"W e are ulile to communicate with
battleships now by menus o f wireless
tvlegruphy.“ «aid Captain Dullard,
‘bat wireless telephony bolds many ad
(lltlonnl advantages. The person call
big knows exactly to whom he Is talk
Ing. direct contact Is established and a
reply comes buck Immediately."
Carly Says Many Experts La
bored Decade on Apparatus.
f
The hides, uf which there were 1,352.
will go to tanneries In Loudon lo be
made finally lulu trunks, valises and
other leather things. The bides ought
to fetch $38,700 That makea a total
o f $40,270 for the season.
• Next to elcpbuut and rhinoceros hide,
walrus hide Is the toughest leather.
The allies use It to polish big guns Juat
out o f the foundry.
The Alaska water« offer the flneat
field In the world for walnut bunting,
hut there are no tanneries In this conn-
i
try equlp|ied to treat the hide«.
“ PA U PER" L E F T
DLL OF THEM AMERICANS.
MEDALS HAVE TH EM
To cchin i
Cap tain B u lla rd ,'H a a d of N aval Radio
Borvico,
Dootarod
That
Wiraloae
Tolaphony Holda Many Additional
Advantayaa— Pow erful C u rran t F o r
L a te s t Achievomont.
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CUIcuKO. John J . flirty , tli« Amorl
cun TcIt'Liluniu uml Valtitrapb eoiniw
iiy'a chief cimliiccr. who directed tlio
lontf «erica o f w ire!«*» telcphimo ox-
lurUuciil.i thut leceiitl/ reached • dl-
limit In the inlk In in ecu the American
atatiou nt ArtlUKiun uud the Klffol tow-
or In I’llrin. auld ut the f ulveralty club
that thta Intent aclcutlllc achievement
tvua all Amcrtcau.
"The pleat staff o f dtatluguliilied ad
ciitbita mid employee« o f the telephone
company who lum, furnlahed their
hmltii fur the development o f the 111
iciitloiia. are yruduatea o f American
college« uml universities," wild Mr
fa rty . "TV« have worked In accrot le
add thta laurel to Am erica'« Helen tide
crown. The achievement 1» American
from the ground up. It la routed In
America and will be wrltteu on the
pages o f American history,
"Wireless telephony la the product of
American genlua. the lubor of a staff
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L a s t D ays
House.
In
Post
HIS F IR S T TRAIN RID E AT 79.
Old««t Pioneer of K noxvillo, Is., Hod
P e cu lia r Dread of "tho C a rs."
Knoxville, la.—Joseph Fee, seventy-
nine year» old, the oldest pioneer of
Knoxville, where he baa lived since
1849, recently took his first ride on a
railroad train, going to Tracy, a four
teen mile trip.
Mr. Fee has resided within a mile of
the railroad for forty years, a branch
line passing through Ids land, but be
has always had a peculiar dread of
"the cars."
A few years ago bis friends threat
ened to rope* tbe old man and take
him to tbe state fair. They abandoned
tbe plan when be vehemently declared
he would kill every man In the crowd
If such a thing wns ever attempted.
BLAMES HIGI^MEAT t
GOST FOR PELLAGRA
Says Poor In South Eat an
Excess of Fats.
RESOLUTIONS
RETURNS FROM NOME
WITH 1,353 WALRUSES
v
o f Atuorlcan »dentist* and other«. All
I did was to direct the work. The
men under tue did the rest.
"In this wonderful achievement there
is glory enough for nil. T w o of the
principal scientists who luborcd on the
problem and whose researches and dis
coveries were o f great value were K.
H. Jewett mid II L>. Arnold, liotb
Seattle. Wash.—Tho steamers Cor
young men.
win. Captain J. It. Healy, In from
“ Ten years ago the American T ele
Nome, Alaska, brought 1,353 walruses,
phone uud Tclegruph company decided
by far the biggest catch on record, nc-
to test the possibilities o f wireless te
j cording lo Captain Uculy and Oscar
lephony. There ure approximately 500
Aunevlk, the chief hunter.
eminent scientists In the employ of
The Corwin left Seattle on May t
the company.
During the lust ten
with passengers and freight, reaching
years ul least fifty of these men have
j Nome on the 21st, being the llrst boat
devoted tbclr time largely to the ap
to reach the far north last spring.
paratus needed."
I Using Nome as her base, tbe Corwin
"H o w would a message Le sent by
! made tw o trips among the Ice floes.
your telephony apparatus?" the Inter
On the flrst trip 841 walruses were
viewer asked.
killed nud 522 on tbe socoud.
“ There Is n common telephone at the
The boat carried twenty-five armed
base o f the wireless towers." Mr. Car-
native buutcrs. They approached the
ly explained. "You enter the building
Ice Hoes In a gasoline launch, while
where It's housed aud take off the re
1 the steamer atood by
ceiver, placing It to your ear. The
A walrus must be bit in the head.
current that tlows through the wire
The hide on the body Is so tough that
t from this telephone has little power.
It w ill stop any bullets. I f not Instant
It Is not severe enough to more than
ly killed tho walrus Hops off the Ice
cause your tongue to tingle, providing
and sinks In the sett.
power o f that strength were applied to
Captain Healy says that walrus hunt
your tongue.
ing Is tame and would not attract
"Electrical waves caused by the keen sportsmen. A walrus, he says,
sound o f the voice as they pass along j will hardly ever fight. Sometimes, of
Mils wire reach an electrical apparatus, course, accidents happen. A walrus
which Is one o f the keys to the Inven | may flop against the boat and smash
tion. This weak current Is so develop It, or It may drive Its tusks through
ed ns It passes on and upward that the plankn of the bottom nud rip them
when It runs out along a high tension open. But the stenmer Is never very
wire and Is shot Into the air In the form far away, and you cam swim to It—If
o f electrical waves the voltage would you don't freeze to dentil on the way.
kill a man. This Is accomplished by
Having killed the walrus, the steam
an electrical generator o f between fif er comes nlougslde the Ice, au'* the
ty and seventy-five horsepower.
In carcass Is hoisted aboard and stripped
other words, this apparatus which de o f tusks, hide, whiskers nnd blubber.
velop* electrical currents that will pass
The Corwin brought down 338 bar
around the globe develops the same rels o f walrus oil, worth 31 cents per
horsepower as the average automobile gallon, or $5,070, nnd four tous o f tho
tusk*, about $4,000 worth, ns the Ivory
driven 6y a business man.
“ The w iv e s nre sent out in all di Is worth 35 to 50 cents per pound.
The whiskers are used In China for
rections and uot In a straight line.
toothpicks, nnd the Corwin bfuught
They reach everywhere."
Cncjain TV TT. Bullard, superintend enopgh fo make a valuation o f $500.
Addroiseo G ets It W ith T w en ty-th re «
Po stm arks on Envolopo.
Los Angeles, Cal.—A registered let
ter mailed three years ago from Van
couver by J. A. Fitzsimmons to D. C.
Kllng, Oeotlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, was
received recently In Long Beach.
Twenty-three postmarks showed tbe
trail o f Its travels.
From Vancouver to Mexico and back
It went. The second time the letter
was received In ’ Mexico Postmaster
Gomez directed It to Los Angeles.
Finally It reached Its destination at
Ixtng Beach.
Huge S te er F o r F a ir .
Klamath Falls, Ore.—George Watt,
manager o f the Klamath Packing com
pany of this city, intends to send to
the exposition at San Francisco what
Is believed to be tho largest steer ever
produced in the state o f Oregon. He Is
a six-year-old range fed animal weigh
ing 3,000 pounds and has never been In
a stall.
N ests U n d sr Buggy Soat.
Cleveland, Ga.—When Wesley Nix of
Etrls arrived nt enmp meeting he dis
covered while assisting his family from
(he vehicle a hen sitting on eggs under
tbe seat of his buggy. He prevented
Biddy from attending meeting nnd re
turned home with the sitting hen still
on duty.
SUGAR FOR
BRAIN TUMOR.
Exp erim en t at U. of P. Proves H u n
dreds of O p eratio ns A re Needless.
Philadelphia.—Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor,
professor o f physiological chemistry at
the University o f Pennsylvania, and
forty-five medical students are on a
sugnr diet und dally undergoing blood
tests lu an endeavor to establish a sug
ar Index by which physicians may
positively ascertain before recommend
ing operations whether blindness in a
patient Is or Is not due to a brain tu
mor.
So far the experiment has proved, It
Is said, that hundreds o f brain opera
tlons have been performed needlessly.
Tbe method of-"dlagn ou ln g" brain
tumor up to date has beexi based on
tbe assumption that a person suffering
from that disease could take sugar
continually, the belief .being that all
11.
o f It wus absorbed by tbe (utuof. Many
medical men regard this test as defi
cient. Now H is shown that perfectly
healthy and normal young uieu can as
similate Just as much ’ sugar without
harmful effect to their ay item«.
lied wood City, Cal.—B Toceblnl. be
Mlawntbu, Kuu. Cl old medula fur lieved to huve ticen peuidless and who
prize crops are so numerous with H. U. died aa a pauper at tbe Ban Mateo
Trent o f lliuwuthu, who has Just been county poor farm, leaves an estât« val
designated at the I ’nnama I'uclOc ex ; ued at $10,000
position us champion corn grower for
Tw o mortgage« for $3.000 «ach no
Kansas, that ho uses the prize medals | Man Francisco property and certlfl-
as pat*erweights In his mill office.
cates o f cash deposits totalliot $4.000
Trent has no formula o f secret prac were found In hi* effect« by Assistant
tice that enabled him to raise the 117 Muperlutcndent Janies Urbana o f tb «
bushels to the acre and w in the prize institution
BLIND MAN B A S E B A LL FAN.
The coru was grown on his father's
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farm, live miles southwest o f town. In
John Mooro of D ecatu r, III., Book*
a Held o f eighteen acre’s Trent mens
Cham pionship Prize.
u m l off on acre, planted tiooue conn
Decatur,
III.—John Moore has enter
ty white com, cultivated It Just us be
ed a competition for the distinction of
would an ordinary crop and gave It
being tbe most confirmed baseball fan
no «p ed al attention o f any kind. The
o f the country. Moore is blind, but Is
corn grew and made him 117 bushels
not depending upon that Infirmity to
bring him any advantage over bis
PREA CH ER PAID IN EGGS.
rivals. The prize is a ticket admitting
the bolder to all ball games between
professional teams In this country or
Circuit Rider’s 8tory Told at M. E.
Conference.
i Canada.
Moore baa not missed a game at De
8t. Louis.--'The hardships o f a Moth
catur. which Is a member o f tbe Three
odist circuit rider were brought fo rd
I league, tn eight years.
bly to the attention of the city minis
a
Washington. -Thu spreud of pella
ter» attending the St Louis conference
gra in the south In the last seven or
of the Methodist Episcopal church
eight yeura 1« largely due to the high
when one country preacher reported
cost o f fresh meat, which baa led the
thut In the Inst two months he had
pooler classes to eat too large an
received half of a hog uud a great
amount o f carbohydrutes aud fats.
many eggs, but no money. He had
To The Interstate Commission:
sent tw elve dozen eggs to the district This is the conclusion announced by
Edgur
Mydeustrtcker,
statiaticlan
of
Gentlemen:
superintendent, be said.
Another circuit rider said he had re the United States health service.
"In the northern states,” be «ays.
It having come to the notice o f
reived 110 In tw o months, aud a third,
that he bad received no money, but "the average family was found to con the citizens o f Falls City that
that his parishioners hud promised to sume between 1,000 and 1,100 pounds certain Portland, Oregon, lumber
buy him u horse before winter and had o f protein, while in the southern states
entertained him liberally In their the protein consumption averaged be interests are strenuously oppos
tween 700 and 800 pounds.
homes
ing the recent 4 cent differential
"Tbe southern v fam ily consumed
nearly a pound a week less o f fresh rate made by the Southern Pac
DOG SAVES WOMAN’S L IF E . beef, nearly half as much milk, very ific Company to the lumber deal
much less o f other meats and hardly
the
I C a m s * N ot* W hich B rin g s H tlp A fter any aalt beef, as compared with north ers and manufacturers o f
Willamette
Valley
over
Portland
Q irl Has Died.
ern families.
Dallas Tex.— A report from Cisco.
"W h ile families In uortbern states on Oregon shipments o f lumber
Tex., tells o f the feat which a dog |»er- were found to consume larger quanti
to California points, claiming
formed In getting relief to an aged vic ties o f butter, families In southern
that
it is discriminating; there
tim o f ptomaine poisoning on a farm states consumed over 00 per cent more
nine miles from thut place.
lard and nearly three times as much fore, we the committee selected
■% Miss Bettle Alexander, twenty two salt hog products."
in mass meeting by the citizens
year« old, had died and Mrs. Eliza
The lower wages In the Bouth, eTen
Power*, eeventy-two years, wag dying In the mill districts, put the people o f Falls City, November 1, 1915,
when she wrote a note which she tied down there at an economic disadvan to present the case to your hon
to the dog's neck uud bude hint "go tage with the west and north, be aa
orable body, from their stand
home." The dog made Its way to Cisco serfs
point submit the following:
through a rainstorm, and relatives o f
tile victims, hastening to the farm,
Whereas the Portland, Oregon
L E T T E R ON WAY T H R E E YEA R S.
found Mrs. Powers unconscious
i
/
Spent
H ia w a th a (K a n .) ft «id«nt Ue«t Them
a> P ap erw eigh ts In Office.
Although Monsters, Hunting
Them is Unexciting.
i
$10,000.
DUTY.
No
lumber manufacturers have a
favorable differential rate over
the Willamette Valley points in
shipment to Eastern Oregon.
Washington, Idaho,
Montana.
Middle Western Canadian T erri
tory and both North and South
Dakota, and
Whereas, the Portland, Oregon
manufacturers o f lumber have a
water rate from Portland, Oregon
to San Francisco, California by
coast wise boats whereby they
are enabled to load their ship
ments on lumber carrying boats,
thus removing the necesity o f
their shipping by rail to points in
California, and in order to obtain
water transportation, the Valley
mills must pay local rates to
Portland, and
Whereas, the Portland, Oregon
lumber manufacturers have ask
ed that the 4 cent differential in
favor o f Valley points over Port
land shipments to California be
removed we claim that the V al
ley mills are entitled to the d if
ferential it being on an average
o f 122 miles shorter haul, and
Whereas, the removal o f this 4
cent differential rate would prac
tically close the California mar
ket to Valley shippers, thereby
closing their principal market for
lumber, and
Whereas, the closing o f this
market to Valley mills will moan
the loss o f thousands o f dollars
to the respective communities in
which the mills are located, as
well as a direct loss to the Valley
millers, therefore,
Be it Resolved, That it is the
sense o f the Falls City Business
Men’ s League and the citizens in
COME
OFTEN
IF YOU BVif YOUR GROCERIES FROM US YOU
WILL GET CLEAN. FRESH GROCERIES. B ECA U SE
WE SELL LOTS OF THEM. WHENEVER YOU WANT
ANYTHING TO EAT COME TO US ANO GET IT
AND YOU WILL GET GOOD FOOD. YOU OWE
THIS TO YOURSELF ANO TO YOUR FAMILY. WE
WILL NOT SELL POOR FOOD AT ANY PRICE.
WE PRICE OUR GROCERIES RIGHT. TOO.
p
N. S E L IG ’S
FALLS CITY D E P A R TM E N T STO RE
general that the differential rate develop in accordance with the
made Willamette Valley to Cali amount and quality o f effort put
fornia points are just and equit forth by their citizenship, and pro
able in every particular and that l gressive, right-living people #vh o
tho discontinuance o f the said , have long since learned that it is
rate would practically destroy { neither profitable nor pleasant to
the lumber industry in the Valley. | hve in non-progressive commun®
and
¡ties. In nearly every locality
Be it Resolved, That we ask are fathers and mothers whose •
your honorable body to carefuliy sons and daughters have been
consider the lumber interests o f forced to leave home in order to
the Valley and if possible main secure profitable employment that
tain said rates, and
should have been afforded locally.
Be it further Resolved. That a | I f you live on a farm you want
copy o f these resolutions be pre- j good roads, schools, churehes.tek-
sented to the Southern Pacific! pltone service, mail delivery and a
Company.
convenient market in which to
Respectfully submitted,
dispose o f .your products and from
D. L. Wood.
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which to supply your wants.
.
N. Selig,
>Committe. !
I f you live in town you want, in
W. F. Nichols,
addition to the above, good streets
and sidewalks, wholesome amuse
ments—those things that go to
COMMUNITY CO OPERATION
make a community worth living
By R V Holland
in.
These advantages are the na
Helping to M ake a P rogressive Town
tural outcome of. and are limited
I f you have children to educate, to the growth and condition of
if you are interested in local con your locality, which is in turn de
ditions or religious alfairs, if you pendent upon the extent o f local
own, or expect to own a home, or trade activities.
other property in your commun
Did you ever see a really good
ity, a few minutes’ thought will town that did not have good
convince you that it is decidedly stores? The two go hand in hand.
to your best interest to patronize
I personally know of an in
your local stores at all times, pro stance, within the past year,
vided investigation proves that where a very wealthy man refus
you can do so to as good advan ed to locate and establish a modern
tage as elsewhere.
store in a town of some three
I realize that there is a certain thousand population for the reason
class o f merchants- and they are that an investigation developed
still represented in many towns the fact that the better class o f
and cities—who will not handle residents adhered to a tong-stand
standard products and who expect ing policy, or habit, o f doing prac
buyers to pay exorbitant prices tically all of their buying in the
for goods o f unknown or doubtful stores o f a nearby city, or by mail.
quality and origin—merchandise
On the face of it, this town had
on which they can demand wide merely failed to secure a neiv
margins o f profit.
store. On the other hand, think
The class o f “ storekeepers,” for a minute what this rich, ag
howevsr, represents a compara gressive man, with the up-to-date
tively small minority and is fast store heVould have put in. em
going the way of the prehistoric bodying his ideas and methods,
dinosaur and the nearly extinct would have meant to the com
mossback farmer who “ don t have munity. It would have afforded
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