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ft FALLS CITY NEWS VOL. XII KALLS CITY OREGON, SATURDAY. JUNE 24, 1916 iency than by right in trying to settle it. As things have gone, it is hard to see how' we can re W ar with Mexico is a serious cede from our position. The oniy matter. There is no doubt uh to apparent thing to Bave the situa the finul outcome, yet it would Tricks of the Clever Crooks That tion is a backdown or concession Raspecttd Citizen of Polk County mean the loss o f thousands o f our | Steal Automobiles. on the part o f Carranza, and Potsoi of Ripe Old Ago soldier boys, u lonK drawn out whether he can do that remains guerrilla warfare, untold hard to be seen. There is no doubt DARING IN THEIR METHODS. ships of a campaign over deserts strong pressure will be exerted Dallas, Or.. June 2 1 — Judge and mountains, yet there will be in that direction and he mav be O n « o f T h « ir P a t 8 c h » m » » 1« to D io - James L- Collins, a resident o f no lack of recruits; and the voice forced to yield to it, which would g u io o T h o m M l v o t a t R epair«!-» a n d Folk county for 09 years, died at o f the “ mollycoddle killer” is no temporarily avoid the crash.— O p a n ly T o w th a C a r A w a y — O r d i his home in Dallas last night, o f longer heard. n a r y S a f e g u a r d » A r a a J o k a to T h a m . Evening Telegram. infirmatives incident to old age. I f war must come it is to be j The luau who iteala an autotnobil« la He was 83 May 9 last. ho|>ed that WilHon will forsake his ouo of the cleverest mechanicians In CALL TO ARMS. Judge Collins was born in W ar the country, lie knows every make of “ W eary W aiting” policies and car from the steering wheel to the Urea, ren county, Mo., and crossed the The call to arms was sounded push the war to a finish. He will and there la acarcely any precaution plains with his father, Smith Sunday night and members o f the find no lack o f sup|>ort, for how taken by the owner o f the car to safe- Collins, and family, when he was ever men differ |>olitically, they state mifctia were disturbed in guard bla property that the automobile ' 13. They left Kansas City in the thief cannot beat their Sunday evening devotions are loyal to the flag and will join : Some car ownera fondly Imagine that spring o f 1846 in a big wagon and hurried off to the armory at w hen they chain the wheel o f tbelrcar ! hands in its defense. train, the first to come into Ore Although the idea has been rid-j Dallas to await further orders. with a fairly thick ateel chain they gon by the “ south road,” or have made It Impossible for any crook iculed, there is little doubt that Rufus and ’ Pug’ Ferguson, Albert to move the auto from Its anchorage "A p p legate’s cutoff.’•’ Much o f Mexico has been edged up to com Bancroft and Archie Montgomery The almpllclty of thia aafeguard muni the trail, particularly through mit overt acts; for o f a certainty were among those called from cuuae hilarity among the motorcar southern Oregon, had to be cut crooks, for the ordinary ateel chain can she alone could not hope to hold j Falls City. be cut In a second with the appliances as they came. There is much speculation as to that the motor thieves carry tn their out against the United States. The party had its first encoun what has happened to disturb outfit. Whether Jupan has sinister de ter with Indians in Humboldt But moat car owners consider they signs u|)on this country will prob Wilson’s Watchful Waiting, espec hare made the car Immovable by mere valley, northern California. The ably become known later Her ially so soon after the St. Louis ly locking the switch box. It will inter Indians stole some o f the emi head was badly swelled by whip convention. That there has been eat them to know (bat tbe car thieves grants cattle. This happened ping Russia and her success in anything recently that would jus can beat this precaution very easily. Tbe clever mechanician who makes a again in the Umpqua valley on China against Germany. It is also tify a mobilization o f troops on the bualueaa o f stealing cars can cross the way to the Willamette. The know that a prominent Japanese border more than there has been wires so as to cause tgnltlon and move white men gave chase, and one was guest o f honor and visited all during the past two years is not the engine without bothering with tbe switch box at a ll A method that Is kin o f them was killed. important cities, manufacturing apparent Plundering and mur dergurten to tbe car thief la to connect The Collins family got as far plunts; studying "American meth dering American citizens has been wires from tbe dry cell battery direct j as the site o f the present city o f ods,” it was said. It is very a favorite pastime and the admin to tbe Ignition coll, thus starting tbe I motor without difficulty. Eugene in December, 1846. The probable that the Japanes govern istration has apparently been in Some cars have devices by which the i weather turned bad, and it was ment has very complete drawings different to the sportive Mexican gasoline supply can be locked, and this decided to leave young James o f our coast and interior fortifica bandit Even raids across the la regarded by some owners as placing a hopeless barrier In tbe way o f the Collins and a man to care for the tions. There is such a thing as border only partly aroused the thief who would run off with the \ administration from its lethargy 'standing car. For how can a car be ; stock until spring. The rest o f being too friendly. giving Villa ample time to escape moved when tbe supply o f gasoline la j the Collins family went on to off? Nothing easier. Tbe motor* Folk county and settled on a to the mountain fastness where shut car thief carries with him his own sup claim on the Little Luckiamute MEXICO. the half-hearted efforts to dis ply o f gasoline In a flask. With this Nobody feels about this affair lodge him have accomplished gasoline tbe automobile thief can nego river. Not long after they left in Mexico as though it were a d e -; tiate a good run with the car by con the camp at Eugene the man left nothing. necting his flask o f gasollno direct to fensive war. No'jody is very j I f the administration did not in the carburetor. Feeding the gasoUne with James became ill. and a proud o f the Mexican war o f 18481 tend to uphold and protect her to the carburetor through a rubber little later a crippled man came or the motives which actuated us hose, the automobile thief can send tbe citizens in Mexico against the i>er- car sufficiently far to euable him to put along and made his abode with in fighting it. Outside o f the; secutions and indignities o f the the gusollne tank and the car In regu them. military end o f it, it is not a very i It was a hard winter for the outlaw element, there should have lar commission and speed where he pleasant page to read. T errito r-; will to safety and a sale. young immigrant, with two help been at least a safe retreat afford But the commonest and therefore the ial aggrandizement, pure and less men and himself to provide ed them that they might have safest trick of tbe automobile thief re- simple, was at the bottom o f it. for and the cattle to look after. j quires no expert mechanical knowl been able to save as much o f their The South w aited more slave edge. It simply requires nerve, which property as possible. The blaring these thieves possess to an unusual de For three months all the food he territory to offset the steadilv o f trumpets and parade o f the gree. This trick Is tbe old one o f driv and the men had was killed with growing free territory in the military at this stage o f the game ing up in an auto that looks like a ga his rifle. rage repair wagon, hitching a rope to North, and the Mexican war was He drove the cattle on north seems rather incongruous with the car that Is to be stolen and towing the natural outcome o f it. Grant in the spring and joined the former tactics o f the great peace It away. The thieves dress for the part was not proud o f the part we family. A t that time Oregon In oil soaked overalls. When they have advocate and sender o f notes. It selected tbe car to be stolen, picking City was the nearest trading played in Mexico, though he was is possible to take a great inoffen one that Is In a side street and not like in that war, and at the close of sive pup and so tease and tanta ly to be under the eye o f a policeman point. the Civil war American troops Largely self educated, Judge lize it that it will become vicious who may have been tipped to watch the car, the thieves come up to the Collins taught school as a young under Sheridan were rushed to and unsafe and in the interest of scene In their old car. looking like tbe the border to drive out the Aus public safety the pup must be ordinary crew Sent for from the garage man, studying law in his spare trian invader. Emperor Maxmil- j killed. So it has been with Mexico. to repair a car that Is In trouble or Isn't time. He was admitted to the working as well as Its fastidious owner ian. Fortunately the Mexicans bar at the first term o f circuit As an ignorant race, inoffensive in would wish. themselves settled the matter by court held in Polk county after a measure, they have been rob-1 They alight from their own car and capturing Maximilian and execu- make a great pretense o f examining Oregon became a state in 1859, bed, starved and oppressed until the car that they Intend to spirit away. ing him at Queretaro. in the interest of public safety They, remove the hood and scrutinize by Judge R. L. Boies. We have not managed things Judge Collins became a res and public interests it will be the motor. They get out a kit o f tools well in our relations with Mexico and tinker for awhile with some part ident o f Dallas in 1861, and con necessary to kill them. Had they o f the machinery. I f any one should tinued to practice law there up in the last three years, mavbe been treated fairly and humanely hnppen to be watching them or looking longer. Through our own inepti in years gone by, the guerilla on from a neighboring window all the to about six years ago. He was tude we may have sinned away w arfare that has been carried on tueu do has the appearance of natural appointed county judge o f Polk work by honest workmen from the the day o f grace and be forced for a number o f years would have repair shop. Presently the men hold county in 1869 by Governor by conditions largely o f our own been prevented. It looks as if it a consultation, pointing to some part Woods, to fill a vacancy. making into a war o f pacification Among his effects is the first had gone too far now to correct o f the motor machinery, and apparent that will carry with it thousands ly come to the conclusion that the car law library ever brought to the mistake with peaceful methods. cannot be started with the tools at o f human lives and billions of Oregon. He bought it from their command. Then they hitch a money, that may end in givin g rope to the car and tow it away at the Judge Nesmith when the latter Mexico the man on horseback, end of their own car. Could anything was elected to the United States BAPTISM with our full consent. How much senate. On the above subject a sermon be more simple? How can you beat such a game as closer would we then be to a will be preached by Rev. W. J. this? Carrying away part o f the ma Judge Collins was married in betterment o f conditions in M ex Warren in the M. E. Church, Sun chinery does not prevent the thieves 1861 to Miss Mary Whiteaker, ico? Not very much, perhaps, day at 8 P. M. The sermon will from towing the car away. One sure who died in 1865. leaving one way to prevent robbery Is to have the but the outcome in that respect deal chiefly with the scriptural enr watched. The policeman on that i child. Tw o years later he was is one that time alone can dis mode o f Baptism. Also if water j patrol will keep an eye on It If you married to Miss Mary E. Kimes. are only going to make a visit to some To this union there were born 10 close. baptism is essential. office building and coming back In a We are confronted with an i short time. But If you keep your car children o f whom the following, awkward impasse in Mexico. We In tbe street the entire day no one can with the mother, are living: Mrs. RECITAL. watch I t You are simply taking a E. Watts, Hillsboro; Mrs. J. L went in there to get a bandit On Tuesday evening eighteen of chance with the car thieves. named Villa. For one reason or Miss Hammond's pupils gave a re There are other ways o f making the Billups, Portland; Miss Nellie Col another we didn’t get him, main cital at the home o f Mrs. D. Grant. pnth of the motorcar crook as steep lins, Jerome, A r iz .; Mrs. J. U. and difficult as possible. One motor ly, perhaps, because the Carran-1 Miss Mildred Grant helped with ist believes he has solved the thief j Nanney, Benson. A riz.; Frank zistas were a hindrance, rath er, the program. A fte r the musicale problem by having a slot cut In the ; W. Collins, Thane, Alaska; Miss than a help to us. But the fact Ednelle Collins, Dallas, and Dean Mrs. Grant served ice cream and clutch pedal shaft. Through this he J passes a bar which he locks. So far ; Collins, Portland. remains we didn't get him, and cake to the guests. There were his car has not been stolen. Another now we are invited to vacate and Funeral services will be held in way Is to remove the rotor. This forty present get back to our side o f the inter makes It very difficult for any th ief to Dallas tomorrow at 1 o ’clock. steal the ear, for be would have to | The body will be taken to Port national line. The dilemma is serious, and we are very likely, Road District No. ,21 expended carry a number o f rotors to be sure : land fo r cremation, and the ashes o f having one that would fit that par in the face o f a national election, $1,597.82 last month. More good ticular motor. — Philadelphia North will be returned to Dallas for in American. to be governed more by exped- roads. terment in the family burial plot. WAR WITH MEXICO BOLD CAB THIEVES Judge J. L. Collins Pioneer of PolK Dead No. 4*4. Summer Time You will find our store well supplied to meet your requirements during the long summer days to come. Easy comfortable shoes An excellent assortment wash goods Bathing suits from 25c up Warners light weight corsets Tennis shoes, barefoot sandals A full complete line of groceries A car of flour and feed just arrived. our prices and do your trading at Get Selig’s Cash Price Store, “ Meeting and Beating Competition". 4th of JU L Y the best time fo r y o u r Vacation Trip Suggestions for your trip Golf or tennis at Neah-Kah-Nie Bathing at Tillamook County Beaches Gathering agates at Newport Dedication of Springs at Ashland Fishing is fine at many points Rogue River Roundup Ashland July 4, 5, 6, Cherry fair at Salem Celebration at Newport July 4th L o w R o u n d T r ip F a r e s between all Southern Pacific stations in Oregon where the one way fare is $6 or less on July 1, 2, 3 and 4. Return limit July 6th Ask your local agent (or further information or write to John M. Scott. General Passenger Agent Portland. Oregon S O U T H E R N PACIFIC BASKET PICNIC CITY PARK, FALLS CITY. OREGON J U L Y F O U R T H 1916 Prominent Speakers, Good Music, Ball Games and other Amusements. BASKET DINNER AT NOON EVERYBODY WELCOME ,