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i----------------------------------------- r---------------------------- - ------------------------- Œljr jFallfi d it g N puih D. L. WOOD ft SON, Publisher*. Kat*rxl u H n x v l-a » mall al U m al ralla Cl U . Poil Coaaty. Oratoa. a »Ja* tka a et «f ebnem » of Maroh S. 1ST*-_____________ TcltphostPkw jO fflc«. « 3 . Subscription Rata» Oaaraar. $1.00; aia month*. H n a U . tkraa moolh». tf> conta alacia « M .1 U «. ▲dTertlalng Rate»: Duplay. 1 5 «n ta a n In c h ) Biuineaa Noticaa. t n n l i a Una: For 8*1«, Rani, Czcbange. Wan« and Pay Entarialnmant No- ileaa, » eta. a line. Card olT hau ka 80 c u ; Las» Noticei. legal rates. Copy for new ida. am lchan|fi»ho«l<i be tent to The New« not later than Wednesday. Official Newspaper of the City ef Falla City I ssued E v e r y S at u r d a y M orning WORLD’S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK They Will Lend Money to Farmers. Of General Interest About Oregon R. M. Wondarly, Counollmau at-Larfa Q. W. Rrentner, George C. March, C. J. Bradley, Councilman I . G. S i n g l e t o n . C. L. Hopkins, N.Selig. C, E. McPherren, Auditor and Police Ji Walter L. Too««? Jr.. City Attorney. Pat Murphy. Marshal and Water Supt. M. L. Thompson. Treasurer Dr. F. M. Hellwarth. Health Officer, TheCouncil meets in regular session on the first Monday night of each mouth, at 7 JO o ’clock, in the office of the Fall* City Newt. p r o f e s s io n a l C a rO s PHYSICIAN UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU Uve News Items of AU Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. F. M. HELLWARTH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office one door east of P. 0 . 2£îdennc2 Phone 368 Tall* City, Oregon HOTEL jFa lls C it\> 1 b o te l Sem ple R oom s Bost A ccom m odations BARBER SHOPS Bohie’s Barber Shops Falls City, Oregon Where van eta get a Shave, la ir Cat, Bath or ‘Shine' Agent for Balias Steam Laiadry Bundles forwarded Tuesday evening ___________ MONUMENTS MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS Dallas, Oregon FU N ERAL DIRECTOR R. L. C H A P M A N FUNERAL DIRECVOR We attend to all work promptly. Dallas and Falls City, Ora. REAL ESTATE J . O. M I C K A L S O N Dealer in R E A L ESTATE Falls City, Oregon. BROWN-SIBLEY ABSTRACT CO; 610 Mill Street. Dallas, Oregon. JOHN H. SIBLEY. Manager. Our abstract plant is posted daily from Polk County Records. Notice to News Subscribers A mark here indicates thaU your subscription is delinquent. Please call and fix it. , Homa Saakar- C O M C T O FALLS C IT Y . O R E G O N and B E u y Orehard Land ) SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY Passenger Train Schedule Effective Oct. 4,1914 Salem . . . D allas. . . Falls City. Bl’ k R ock . BASTVtOUXD Bl’ k Rock Falls City. D allas. . . Salem . . . 161 i») am. am. 7:00 9.45 8.15 11.02 8.50 11.35 11:55 164 IW. pm. 1.06 9.30 1.25 10.10 2.00 1 1 .0 1 3.15 am. Owing to court duties. Justice Bran- deis will not accept appointment on the commission to settle the Mexican problem. Human blood from recovered victims of infantile paralysis, ia being used as serum to combat the disease in New York City. A San Francisco contracting firm is expected to get the job of building Portland’s million-dollar postoffice, be cause o f its low bid. For the first time since July 8 a heavy rain fell in the battle area, breaking the long drought and one of the longest heat waves in recent years. A California farmer is cultivating jimpeon weed, considered a pest in this country, but which is used as a household remedy in China;, and prin cipally for asthma. Oregon shippers are facing ruin be cause of the car shortage. A deficit of 975 cars on the Southern Pacific in Oregon is shown by the Public Service commission investigation. The wheat and apple crop o f the Pa cific Northwest will be materially larger than heretofore estimated, ac cording to the crop report o f the de partment o f Agriculture. G. L. H A W K I N S w trraocxD Secretary Baker has mapped out ar guments to be used in the campaign for the re-election of President Wilson. The British torpedo boat destroyer Lassoo sank Sunday off the Dutch coast, having struck a mine or been torpedoed. Six of the crew are miss ing. F. D roege, Proprietor ( Candidate Hughes, speaking to wo men only in Spokane, addressed them as “ fellow citizens.'* An insane fugitive from the Oregon asylum, terrorizes citizens of Salem, and it is feared he may reach his home and do bodily barm to his family. b u s i n e s s C a rD s Mr Oregon troops on the border have just received their first payment for services. The U. S. forestry reports practi cally no damage by tires in the na tional forests in the Northwest, thus far this season. IS7 pm. 4.00 5.30 6.05 1 170 pm. 6.10 6.40 7.45 A. C. POWSRS. AOtWT President Wilson is conferring with the railroad officials and employes in the hope o f finding amicable adjust ment of their differences. The im pression grows that arbitration in some form will be agreed upon. The price o f milk by the pint was raised in New York City, retailers as serting the advance was necessary ow ing to the increased cost o f supplies, principally bottles. The price of milk by the quart remains unchanged. The Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci caught fire and blew up in the harbor of Trant, Italy, and 400 of her crew were drowned, says a Turin dis patch to the Petit Journal. The date o f the disaster is given only as a day in August. Chinese troops have attacked the Japanese garrison at Chengchiatun, between Mukden and Chaoyangfu, and have killed or wodnded 17 Japanese soldiers and killed one officer. A c cording to official advices from Cheng chiatun, the Japanese barracks now is being besieged by the Chinese soldiers. Heavy advances in the price of flour are announced in Chicago. The Bartlett pear picking season is now in full swing in the Rogue River valley, Oregon, and all indications point to a <1,000,000 pear and apple crop. PASSED BY SDIATE Government August Crop Amendment for Independence in Four Report for Oregon Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. OITICIAL DIRECTORY 0 1 n L L I CITY H. J, Griffin. Mayor. NEWS ITEMS PHILIPPINE MEASURE These are the men nominated for members of the Farm Loan Board by j President Wilson. Secretary o f the Treasury McAdoo will be a member ex-officio. Charles E. Lobdell is a student of farm problems and has had extensive experience in farm loans. He was reared on a farm, which he left to study law, being admitted to the bar in Kansas in 1882. He represented Lane county in the Kansas legislature ten years, and was speaker o f the Kansas house in 1895. In 1902 he was elected judge of the Thirty-third judi cial districL He served on the bench until 1911, when he resigned to accept the presidency of the First National bank o f Great Bend. In 1914 he was president of the Kansas Bar associa tion, and in 1915 president of the Kan sas Bankers’ association. He is a Re publican. George W. Norris is a student of economic and social questiona. He was graduated from the University of of Pennsylvania, did newspaper work from 1880 to 1886, and then began the practice of law. In 1894 he took charge of the bond investment busi ness of the private banking firm of Ed ward B. Smith & Co., o f Philadelphia, serving as member of that firm until 1911. At the request o f Mayor Blank enburg he accepted, in December, 1911, the directorship of the municipal department of wharves, docks and fer- ries. He is a director and deputy chair man of the Federal Reserve bank of Philadelphia. He is president of the City Club and the Philadelphia Hous ing association, and a is Democrat. Captain Smith is a farmer and now is an expert in farm practice in the de partment of Agriculture at Washing ton. He has been a student of rural credits for many years and la an au thority on farm loans. When a young man hie followed the sea, and at an early age became a shipmaster. He quit the sea to engage in farming. For many years Captain Smith was a director of the Stockyards National bank of Sioux City, Iowa, which trans acts millions of dollars of business an nually with farmer«. He ia s Repub lican. Herbert Quick is a student o f rural credits, and widely known to farmers. Unitl a few months ago he was editor of Farm and Fireside. He, too, was reared on a farm, en gaged in teaching, and later practiced law in Sioux City from 1890 to 1909. He was general manager of the Ne braska Clark Automatic Telephone company and the Iowa Clark Auto matic Telephone company, 1902 to 1906, and was nominated three times for mayor of Sioux City, and elected once, serving from 1898 to 1900. He was nominated for judge of the Su preme court of Iowa in 1902. Congress Breaks Expense Record Special appropriations include $20,- Washington, D. C.— The importance of the $200,000,000 revenue bill, to 000,000 for a government nitrate which the senate has devoted many plant; $6,000,000 for good roaad; hours o f deliberation in caucus, is be $15,000,000 for rural credita, and $60,- ing impressed on leaders by the fact 100,000 for the government shipping that appropriations now nearing com project. With President Wilson and a major- pletion have broken all records. With passage this week of the $50,- | ity of the party leaders urgently sup 000,000 ship-purchase bill and probable porting the naval building and peraon- approval by the house of the senate’s , nel increases, it is beileved the house gigantic naval bill, the appropriations will agree to them after advocates of of the Sixty-fourth congress will have a small navy have made their laat exceeded the previous high record by ! fight. In anticipation o f a close vote, every absent reprenBtative was noti at least $500,000,000. While exact figures cannot be com fied more than a week ago o f the ap puted until the gaval has fallen on the proaching contest, which will mark last supply bill o f the session, the ag the climax of the national defense- gregate appropriations by congress for campaign this week. Appropriations for preparedness all purposes probably will approximate $1,700,000,000 as against $1,114,000,- alone will aggregate approximately $640,000,000 unless unforseen develop 000 for the Sixty-third congress. Besides regular supply bills, which ments should force a curtailment. total, as they now stand, $1,387,206,- While the bouse this week is bringing 580, congress will have added, when business to a close, the senate will the shipping bill is approved, more pass the shipping bill, workmen’s com than $90,000,000 for special purposes. pensation bill and conference reports There also have been contract author preparatory for the revenue bill, on izations amounting to about $270,000,- which a stubborn assault will be 000, all of which would bring the waged by the Republicans. When the grand aggregate to $1,685,000,000, amended revenue bill gets through con with the uncertain general defic ference. it is expected congress will be leaders of both iency appropriation bill, still in the ready to adjourn. making, to be added at the end of the parties are hoping adjournment will j come by September 1. session. Use o f a special train to enable J. Frank Hanley, nominee for President, and Dr. Ira Landritb, candidate for vice president, to reach the entire na tion, has been authorized by the Pro Constable Kills Two Mexicans. hibition National campaign committee. Tucson, Ariz.— A fter has horse had It is understood the train will start been shot from under him by two Mex- about September 12. ican suspected o f having perpetrated a St. Louis dairies affected by the burglary, and he himself had been shot strike and lockout o f union milk driv through the hip. Constable John Bright ers did not attempt household deliver o f Courtland, drawing his gun as he ies Friday, but considered plans for lay prone on the ground beside the body resuming service. Many strikers were o f his horse, killed the two Mexicans arrested. There was considerable in Saturday. After emptying his revol terference with grocery and bakery ver at the Mexicans, who had ambush wagons that went to the dairies to get ed him. Bright crawled a distance of milk to retail. two miles on his hands and reported to Russian forces are now within bom a ranch house that he had been am barding distance of Stanislaus, Austria. bushed by the suspected burglars. Printers Fear Idleness. * Baltimore — The danger that thou- sands of printers may be thrown out of work because of the high cost of white paper was said to be a question seri ously concerning the delegates to the 62d annual convention of the Interna tional Typographical union here. John W. Hays, secretary, said the shortage of print paper is making it difficult for many newspapers to keep in busi ness. In some cities, he said, there was talk of consolidating plants to reduce working forces and expenses. Political influence is being brought Angry Editors Apologize. to bear on the Treasury department to Birmingham, Ala. — Settlement of compel the use of Bedford limestone differences between E. W. Barrett and from Indiana on the new Portland, Or., W. H. Jeffriea, o f the Age-Herald, and postoffice. V. H. Hanson, of the News, was an The National Association of Master nounced Monday by a committee of the Bakers, in session in Salt Lake City, Birmingham Rotary club. Both pa adopted a resolution to President W il pers will publish apologies and re son and to congress, asking that an tractions of personal charges made embargo be placed on the present during a recent dispute over business wheat crop in order to prevent any methods. The Rotary club intervened further advance in the market price of when it was reported that Barrett and Hanaon were going to fight a duel. wheat. Hogs Bring SIO Per Hundred. Seattle — Hogs on the hoof Bold at the Union Stockyards Saturday at the highest price since the opening of the yards, $10 per 100 pounds. I. H. Preston, of Midvale, Idaho, was the shipper, with 90 head averaging 194 pounds. Hogs sold hare one day in 1909 at l i t cents, but the city had no yards. Packers express a willingness to pay 11) cents next week for similar weights and finish unless a serious break in Eastern prices intervenes. A summary o f the August crop re port for the state o f Oregon, aa com piled by the bureau of crop eatimatea, U. S. department of Agriculture, la aa follows: Winter wheat— Preliminary eati- mate, 12,600,000 bushels; production last year, final eatimate, 16,200,000 bushels. Spring wheat—August 1 forecast, 4,460,000 bushels; production laat year, Anal estimate, 3,826,000 bushels. Oats— August 1 forecast, 14,400,000 bushela; production laat year, final es timate, 16,060,000 bushela. Barley— August 1 forecast, 4,600,- 000 bushels; production last year, final eatimate, 4,680,000 bushela. Potatoes August 1 forecast, 6,790, 000 bushela; production laat year, final estimate, 5,620,000 bushels. Hay— August 1 forecast, 1,820,000 tons; production Isst year, final esti mate, 1,870,000 tona. Pasture — August 1 condition 99. compared with the ten-year average of 92. Apples -August 1 forecast, 1,210,- 000 barrels; production last year, final estimate, 1,043,000 barrels. Prices- The first price given below Is the average on August 1 this year, and the second, the average on August 1 last year; Wheat, 90 and 87 cents per bushel. Corn, 80 and 86. Oats, 42 and 42. Potatoes, 80 and 68. Hay, $10.20 and 8.70 pur ton. Eggs, 24 and 23 cents per dozen. Nearly One-Fourth of County’s Students Attend High School “ If Benton county had had eight more students in the high school laat year, ont^fourth of all the school chil dren in that county would have been attending high school. That ia to aay, practically one pupil in every four who attended school in Benton county last year, was s high school student, ” said Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. A. Churchill, recently. This In formation is contained in the annual report of County Superintendent Roy E. Cannon, which was recently filed with the state department of educa tion. The fact that any county in Oregon haa one-fourth of its pupils enrolled in the high schools is considered s re markable showing, in view of the fact that the United States as a whole, leas than 7 per cent of the children get into the high school, according to the last rsport of the United States commis sioner of education. The attend ance reports from many other counties are almost equally encouraging. Mr. Churchill believes that the increased attendance in the high schools is due to a considerable extent to their stand ardization, and to the new high school tuition fund law which provides free tuition to high school students. Settlers to Get $92,648.13 for Forfeited Land Grant Lands Moro— The bill recently Introduced by Representative Sinnott, and passed by the house and senate, which now awaits the President’s signature, ap propriates a total of $92,648.13 to re imburse settlers who entered upon the land of The Dalles Military Road com pany in 1867, and subsequently lost the land and improvements. The grant was declared forfeited by the government, and the courts subse quently vested the title in the Eastern Oregon Land company, successors to the road company. The bill contains a proviso that not more than 6 per cent of the amounts recovered shall be paid as attorney’s fees. The total number of claims allowed ia 67 and the amounts range from $300 to $2000 each. Thirteen of the claim ants are dead and 27 have removed to parts unknown. Years is tlimiuted. MAY REMAIN PARI OF II. S. House Expected to Approve Senate Action Reorganization of Na tive Government Likely. Washington, I). C.- The Philippine bill, as reported from conference, with tho Clarke amendment providing for independence of the islands within four years eliminated, but containing a promise o f freedom whenever the Fili pinos have demonstrated their ability to maintain a stable government. An ally was approved Thursday by the senate. The vote was 87 to 22. Senator Borah, Republican, declared the elimination of the amendment after it had passed the senate was an index of public sentiment against re linquishing the Islands, and meant the United States had decided to keep the islands for all time. "P u blic opinion haa been so clea r," said he, "that we may conclude and the Philippine people should decide that the independence question has been settled for alt time unless the fortunes of war should change the American policy.” The house ia expected to approve the conference measure within a few daya and send it to the President. It pro vides for reorganisation of tho Island government ao as to materially extend native control. A senate amendment for prohibition In the ialanda was stricken out. Senator Hitchcock, chairihan of the Philippine committee, told the senate that the independence and prohibition features had to be eliminated in order to get an agreement for approval of the bill at thia session. Danish Senators Are Not Ready to Sell Islands to United States Copenhagen—The Landathing. the upper house of the Danish parliament, met Thursday aa a committee of the whole to consider the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United Statea, and 47 of the 61 members present placed themselves in favor o f the order of the day declaring that the sale cannot be settled before elections for both houses of Parlia ment have been held. The situation haa iiwn further com plicated by a proposal from Premier /s h e that the government resign and help in the formation of a cabinet rep resenting the various parties. Thia proposal, if carried out, would avoid the holding of elections as advocated by the Conservatives and the l-eft. Native Vote Favors Sale. St. Thomas, Danish West Indies— Apparently the inhabitants of the is land of St. Croix are in favor of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Unofficial balloting was held there Thursday and of the vote* cast 6000 were in favor of the proposition and only 11 against it. One hundred Mexicans Held to Courtmartial in Chihuahua City Chihuahua City— Preparations are under way here for the greatest aeries of courtmartials ever held in Mexico, in an effort to stamp out disloyalty in Northern Mexico. One hundred prom inent figures in Mexican politics are held awaiting trial here in connection with the discovery of recent revolu tionary plots and hunrdeds o f witnesses Forest “ Test” Fire Set. have been summoned from all over the Baker— Setting fires in the Minam republic. National forest to keep his lookout El Paso, Tex.— General Francisco men In training is the unique method inaugurated by Forest Supervisor Eph Gonzales, commnading the Mexican raim Barnes. A brush fire was set army of Northern Chihuahua, left near Sanger, at a point viaible to look Juarez Thursday for Chihuahua City, outs but to none of the other fighting where he will appear as a witness force. Precautions were taken to keep against Jose Ynez Salazar the noted trial on a rangers and lookout men ignorant of revolutionist, held for the real cause of the fire, and when the charge of .treason. smoke was first sighted word was C oncord to Be Repaired. flashed by the nearest lookout to the Astoria, Or. — Quarantine Officer flre-chsser at Eagle Forks, bringing a man to the scene within two hours. Ebert has been notified by the depart ment that congress has set aside $5000 Widows to Get $13,611. for repairing and improving the old Salem—Nineteen widows of Marion gunboat Concord and has been asked to conty will be paid $13,611 due them recommend what alterations shall be under the Widows’ Pension act of made to the vessel. Since the Concord 1913, as a result of a recent decision was brought here approximately $2000 of the Oregon Supreme court sustain has been spent on her in constructing ing the Circuit court’s ruling that the bunks, installing a galley, a water sys 19 applicants were entitled to relief. tem, driving dolphins and making The County court ordered the pensions minor alterations. It ia probable that paid after withholding payment for the additional $5000 will be expended three years. Mrs. Eva Maude Wolfe, in a heating and lighting system. one of the applicants, will receive a total of $1716 in back pension. Seattle Pier Dynamited. Seattle, Wash.—The timbers in the Car Shortage is Serious. southeast corner of Pier I), at the foot Salem—Convinced that business In of King street, were blown down and a terests in Oragon tributary to the shack built alongside the pier was en Southern Pacific company face disas tirely destroyed Thursday morning, ter and ultimate bankruptcy unless im when a bomb placed near the street mediate measures to relieve the grow end of the pier exploded. Thomas Mc- ing freight car shortage are adopted, Loughlin, a night watchman, saw the the Oregon Public Service commission sparka from the fuse, and thinking It has demanded that the company fur was a Are, routed from the shack three nish needed facilities to Oregon pro dock workers who were sleeping there. ducers and shippera. None were injured.