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ON CONGRESS TO ROUMANIA DECLARES WAR ON WORLD’S DOINGS WILSON AVtRI CALLS NATION WIDE R. R. STRIKE EMPLOYES REFUSI AUSTRIA HUNGARY; JOINS ALLIES ITALY DECLARES OF CURRENT WEEK WAR ON GERMANY TO MODIFY TERMS Qtyr Jalla (City Nfute D. L. W OOD * SON, Publisher*. b l i n d u .IM S * rlmm nail at tfca paatofflea at falla City. PuU loaaty. <>r*«aa ‘ act it Cbacraaa o f Marc» a UTS. Ttlsghas* -Kkwi Offlct, S I Subscription Rataa: Onayaar. » ■ « ; •** «naotha IS aanta. tkraa monta a. It canta; »Inala copy, i eta. a d n rtla ln ( Ratea: Duplay. It casta an Inch; Buaisaaa Xotleea. »canta alin e: Fot tala. Rant. Excbant*. Wan» and Pay Entertainment No- tleea, Jet», aline. Card ol Thank» » eta ; Lega Notice», lessi ratea Copy for new ad», and changes should be aent to Tha Near» not later than Wednesday. Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed I s s u e d E very S aturday M orning for Our Busy Readers. OFFICIAL D im iC T O lT OF FALLA CITY H. J, Griffin, Mayor. R M. Wonderly. Councilman at-Larf a G. W. Brantner, George C. March, C. J. Bradley, Councilman I. G. Singleton. C. L. Hopkins, N. 8ellg. C. S. McPherren. Auditor and Police Ji Waiter L. Toose Jr.. City Attorney. Pat Murphy, Marshal and Water Supt. M. L. Thompson. Treasurer Dr. F. M. Hellwarth. Health Officer. TheCouncll meets in regular session on the first Monday night of each month, at 7 SO o'clock, in the office of the Falls City News. The senate, under Democratic cau cus control, is unable to bring the im migration bill to a vote. Wheat at Chicago takes a tumble o f 11 cents per bushel when news o f Rou- mania’s entrance into the war was re ceived. John D. Shoop, superintendent of the Chicago public shcoois, had eight ribs broken in an auto wreck at Dan ville, III. A fire in the Snoqualmie forest serve on the Whitechuck river, near the Cascades, it again beyond control, a fter being reported under control Sunday night. professional CarOs P H Y S IC IA N F. M. HELLWARTH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office one door east of P. O. W d . n « Phone 368 K ing Constantine undergoes opera tion, by which a part o f his tenth rib was removed. Falls City, Oregon President Wilson is preparing a message to congress this week on the nation-wide railroad strike siutation and advising measures with which to adjust the difficulties. The epidemic o f infantile paralysis in New York is on the wane according to statistics o f the health department. One day showed 39 cases were dis missed from hospitals and 36 admitted. »usíness Caris HOTEL Jails City Ibotel Sampln R oom s Boat A ccom m odations F . D ro e g e , P ro p rie to r B A R K E R SHOPS Bohle’s Barber Shops Falls C i t y , Oragon Vkcrt f t t can get a Shave, lair C«L Bath or ‘Shine* Agent for Dallas Steam Laandry Bundle» forwarded luesday evening MONUMENTS G. L. H A W K I N S M ARB LE A N D G R A N ITE MONUMENTS D allas, Oragon F U N E R A L DIRECTOR R. L. C H A P M A N FUNERAL DIRECTOR We attend to alt work promptly. Dallas and Falls City, Ore. R E A L ESTATE Capt. John Astor, o f England, and son o f Baron W illiam W aldorf Astor, form erly o f N ew York, marries Lady Charles Mercer Nairne, widow o f Lord Naime, who was killed early in the war. The San Francisco chamber o f com merce and the Union Iron Works have lost their fight in the United States District court to forestall inauguration o f higher transcontinental freigh t rates to and from Pacific Coast ports September 1. Santo Domingo— The United States armored cruiser Memphis was driven ashore on the rocks o f the outer harbor Tuesday by a great and sudden ground swell. It is said that many lives were loet as a result o f the disaster. A ll fires under the boilers of the Mem phis were extinguished by the inrush o f water. Designs for a 9.6-inch howitzer have The United States gunboat Castine been virtually completed and U. S. managed to escape by putting to sea. army officers believe the gun a more powerful and better weapon in every Washington, D. C.— Rear Amdiral way than the 11-inch and 12-inch guns Pond, at San Domingo City, cabled the o f similar type now in use abroad. It N avy department that the armored w ill have a range o f nearly ten miles. cruiser Memphis, swept upon the rocks Tw o and one-half ounces were taken from each loaf o f bread baked Wednes day by San Francisco bakers to be sold for 5 cents, and doughnuts were raised from 12 to 15 cents a dozen, as also were snails, rolls and buns. Here tofore the 5-cent loaves have weighed 16 ounces. Suit fo r $1,500,000 against an al leged cement combine seeking absolute control or the ruin o f the Oregon Port land Cement company, o f Oswego, is filed in the Federal court at Portland by Aman Moore, largest individual stockholder, vice president and treas urer, in the name o f the company. The meeting of the American-Mexico conferees to settle border questions w ill meet during the first week o f Sep tember somewhere along the New England coast. A mark here indicates that your subscription is delinquent. Please call and fix it. ( Mr. Horn* Saokar— | C O M E T O F A L L S C IT Y . O R E G O N 1 and B u y Orohard Land I SO U THERN PACIFIC CO M PANY Passenger Train Schedule Effective Oct. 4,1914 W ESTBO U ND Salem . . . D allas. . . Falls City. B l’kRock. 161 164 l A S T M l 'K D i« i I am. am. 7:00 9.45 8.15 11.02 8.50 11.35 1! :55 1 « pm. 1.05 Bl'k Rock FallsCity. 9.30 1.25 D allas. . . 10.10 2.00 Salem . . . 11.01 3.15 am. 1 *7 pm. 4.00 5.30 6.05 ! 17 0 pm. 6.10 6.40 17.45 A . C. Powsita, An ext U. S. Cruiser Memphis Goes Ashore at San Domingo; 20 Lost The German emperor has c-dered postponement until a fter the war o f the execution o f all sentences imposed for the punishment o f French pris oners, both civilian and m ilitary, on account of acts committed up to Sep tember 1 o f this year. Major General Leonard Wood, com manding the arm y’s Eastern depart ment, has been appointed head o f a join t army and navy board, to pass judgment on the radio-controlled tor pedo, provision fo r the purchase o f which from the inventor, John Hays Hammond Jr., has been made in con gress. Notice to News Subscribers Washington, D. C. — President W il son, laying the railway strike situation before congress Tuesday with recom mendations for legislation, advanced the crisis to a stage where the next developments depend upon two points. They are: Whether the legislation he proposes can be passed. I f enacted, will it be effective to pre vent a strike already called for 7 a. m. September 4T The brotherhoods, announcing their intention to fight certain portions o f the President's program, are at logger- heads over whether its enactment would prevent the strike. The railway presidents favorable to President W ilson's plan in the main, think it would make it difficult for the strike to begin. Meanwhile, although negotiations between the employers and men were broken off by the rejec tion o f the railway president’s latest proposal for arbitration. President Wilson is continuing his efforts to bring the two sides together on some form o f agreement. Efforts which might be described as “ almost super human" are being exerted to that end. Three important phases o f arbitra tion contention in the railway contro versy are: Employes declare that compulsory investigation law would "insure the bondage o f the workingman.” They contend that "th e period o f investiga tion is eternally utilixed by the em ployer to intrench himself in his effort to defeat the demands o f the m en." Managers say they cannot surrender the valuable principle o f arbitration. They do not assent to the assertion that the eight-hour day has the sanc tion o f society, but say that society has not recorded its judgment. They suggest investigation o f coat o f grant ing demands and offer to abide by de cision o f impartial tribunal. President Wilson says he agrees to arbitration in principle, but contends that there is now no law by which it can be put into action. He asks con gress to enact legislation establishing the eight-hour day as a "le g a l basis," empowering the Interstate Commerce commission to take account o f wages in fixing freigh t rates, requiring inves tigation before strike or lockout can be declared, and em(lowering the Pres ident to draft railroad men in the event o f m ilitary necessity. by a heavy sea in the habror there Tuesday, would be a total loss, and al though it was expected all on board would be saved, 20 men returning to the ship from shore leave in a motor- boat had been drowned. Governor Johnson, California, Wins Nomination for U. S. Senatorship San Francisco— Governor Hiram W. Johnson has won the Republican nom ination for United States senator, ac cording to the returns from half the precincts in the state, which give him a lead over W illis H. Booth, of 17,199. The figures as they stand on about one-half the state counted at 1 o ’clock Wednesday morning, are as follows: Booth, 75,353; Johnson, 97,552. This is the result o f Tuesday’s state wide primary election within the Re publican party as it is .shown by the latest returns, scattered over the en tire state and numbering 2759 pre cincts out o f a total in the state, in- culding the city and county o f San Francisco, o f 5443. These figures show that the state ad ministration has been successful, ap parently, in securing a considerable number o f the northern and central counties in the state and with having held down the vote in some o f the ex pected strong supporting districts in the south fo r Booth. Patricia Burke, a noted California beauty, is another American girl who has married an English title. She is now the Countess Cottenham, having been married to the Earl o f Cottenham in London on August 16. Russian forces operating in South ern Turkish Armenia have reoccupied Crank Follows Hughes. Mush, captured by the Turks on Au Cheyenne, Wyo. — The police of gust 8, says an official announcement. The statement adda the Russians cap Northren Colorado have been warned to watch for a man believed to be A. tured 2300 prisoners at Rachta. L. Cans, o f Chicago, whose actions The 22d battalion, Sonora Infantry, here in connection with the visit o f 200 strong, was practically annihilated Charles E. Hughes, Republican presi after it had been ambushed by Yaquis dential nominee, have been the subject near Batamonte, in the Alamos dis of an investigation. According to the trict, about 10 days ago, according to police, Gans was ejected from the reports from Sahuaripa. The Mexican Hughes special Friday night. While troops were paasing through a narrow at a hotel here Gans is said to have ex canyon. Only a few stragglers escaped. hibited several pieces of burned time "Y o u fellows did A fte r seven months' session the fuse and remarked: English parliament adjourns to Octo- not search my grip the other n igh t." ber. 10. Greeks Shout for Allies. An important advance in the cam Athens, Sunday, Aug. 27, via Lon paign for the conquest o f German East don— A fte r a pro-entente demonstra A frica is reported in a Reuter dispatch tion before the residence o f ex-Premier from Nairobi. Venizelos today, in which 60,000 per Julius Pullen, 11 years old, o f Eure sons took part, a committee was ap ka, Cal., must have silhouetted like a pointed to present to K in g Constantine deer when he raised his hand to wipe the resolutions outlined by M Venize the sweat from his brow, for just as los. The resolutions concluded: " I f he did so an unknown hunter shot at we, the people, are not heard in these, him. The bullet carried away three our resolutions, we must take counsel fingers and a thumb from the young what is to be done to minimize the ruin which a w a its." ster’ s le ft hand. Berlin, Aug. 28, via London— Rou- mania declared war on* Auatrla-Hun- garia on Sunday evening, It Is an nounced officially here. Congress Paves Way for legislalion to Prevent Catastrophe. "SETTLEMENT” MUST BE MADE Confidence Still Prevails That Walk out Will Be Averted— President May Appeal Direct to Men. Paris, Aug. 28— Koumani* declared war against Austria-Hungary last night, says a Havas dispatch from Berne, Switserland, which declares that the W olff agency at Berlin made the announcement. Roumanla's decision to enter the war was reached at a meeting o f the Crown council held at Bucharest yes terday morning, says a Havas dispatch from Geneva. The W olff agency announces that the German federal council was convok«! immediately after the decision became known. formal Action Against Kaiser Result of Pressure by Allies. MILITARY PHASE UNCHANGED Both Countries Have Been Drifting Steadily Toward Break— Troops Now Available Anywhere. Will Investigate New I‘resident of Panama Washington, I). C.— A ll the in fluence o f the administration w brought to bear Wednesday in an e f fort to persuade the railroad brother hood leaders to cancel or postpone the order calling for a nation-wide strike Monday, while leaders in congress be gan paving the way for legislation de signed to prevent or stop the threat ened industrial catastrophe. L ittle progress was made in either direction, but nevertheless in official quarters there still prevailed confi dence that in one way or another the walkout would be averted. To the spokesmen o f President W il son who approached them, all of the brotherhood officials gave the same re ply— that they had no power to recall the strike order and that only one thing, " a satisfactory settlem ent," would keep their men at work after 7 a. m. Labor Day, Further pressure will be brought to bear, and as a last resort the President is considering a public appeal to the men themselvea to have the order re scinded. Apparently the legislation which is being count«! upon to stay the brother hoods is that part o f the President’s program which would fix an eight-hour day for railroad employes engaged in operating trains in interstate com merce and provide for an investigation o f ita effects by a commission or board. This embodies the principal features o f the President’s original plan, ac cepted by the trainmen, and W. G. Lee, head o f the trainmen, said that its enactment with a guarantee of the present rate o f daily pay would be re ga rd «! by the brotherhood leaders as a “ satisfactory settlem ent." Immedi ately upon its becoming a law, he said, the brotherhood leaders would notify general chairmen that the strike order should not go into effect. 15,000 Slate Troops Ordered Home From Mexican Border Duty RAMON VALDEZ. 13 A report has reached Washington that Ramon Valdes has been instru mental in gettin g a large land col sion for the Japanese government near the Panama canal. Secretary Lansing has ordered an investigation to ascer tain whether Valdez haa made the con cession o f land to a Sapniaru named Fernandez, who it the Havana agent for Japanese silk firms. The land, ap proximately 60,000 acres, is said to be on the Atlantic seaboard, directly op posite the Bay of San Miguel. It might be very valuable to the Japan ese government for the establishment of a naval base there. Last Chance to Avert Strike Appears To Lie in Action of Congress Roipe- Italy Sunday declared war on Germany. Italy and Germany have been d rift ing steadily toward war. The declara tion became inevitable when Italy re cently sent trixipe to Salunlki to co operate In the campaign of the entente allies on the Macedonian front, as Ger many is directing the oppueing forces and has troop* on this battle line. Italy's position In regard to Ger many ha* been an anomalous one since Italy withdrew from the Triple A lli ance May 23 o f last year and declared war on Austria. Although by this art she arrayed herself against her former allies, Germany and Austria, she re mained officially at peace with Ger many until Sunday. Before Italy took this step Germany exerted every effort to Induce her to remain neutral, sending to Home a* an ambassador Prince von Buelow. The prince for some timo averted war be tween Austria and Italy, and when he saw a rupture was inevitable took steps toward preservation o f an official peace between Germany and Italy. He n egotiat«! a special agreement un der which, in case o f war between Austria and Italy, Germany and Italy p l«lged themselves to respect the pro|ierties and livea of their respective subject* in one another's domains. According to unofficial reports from Europe, Italy's allies were dissatisfied and at the Paris council o f entente powers in February last asked the Ital ian representatives why their nation was not at war with Germany. Italy already had agreed not to conclude a Hcpurate peace and at the Paris con ference sanction«! the plan for a per manent high council o f the entente powers for future conduct o f the war. The increasing co-operation among the entente allies and the neceesity for bringing into service Italy's sur plus o f troops gradually brought Italy into such a position that it became evident a declaration o f hostilities against Germany was certain. The first overt act in this direction occurred shortly after the Paris confer ence, February 29, when Italy requl- «tinned 34 o f the 37 German steam ships interned in Italian ports to help meet the pressing need o f the allies for shipping facilities. Other indica tions of approaching war have been observed in recent weeks. Washington, I). C.— President W il son’s negotiations for averting the threatened nation-wide railroad strike are in the last stage with a break or a settlement apparently not far off. W ith the railway executives standing firm against conceding the eight-hour day and the brotherhood leaders still standing out against arbitrating it, the hope o f preventing a tie-up o f the country’s transportation s y s t e m s seemed to lie with congress. Just exactly what can be done, none o f the congressional leaders themsel ves seem to know. Conferences among them and with President W il son, which began Sunday night, were continued Monday. The situation was viewed on all sides as the most perilous since the ne gotiations began two weeks ago. The hope o f the President and administra tion leaders was in the possibility o f getting the brotherhood men to give more time to continue the negotia tions. It is reliably reported that the strike order which the chairmen carried in sealed envelopes when they le ft Wash ington Monday, is to enter into effect on September 4, unless an agreement should be reached prior to that date. The four brotherhood heads issued a statement replying to President Rea, o f the Pennsylvania, who made an an nouncement that rather than give up to arbitration the mails preferred to face a strike. The statement ch arg«] the Pennsylvania with inconsistency in that two years ago it fought the e f forts o f its shopmen to organize and arbitrate. It also declared that as the controlling interest in five small roads it has refused them representation on the managers’ conference committee, and that if arbitration were agreed up on it would apply to these roads. Washington, I). C. — The greatest war game ever undertaken by the American navy en d «i Sunday with a victory for Admiral Mayo's “ R e d " fleet, which, theoretically, wiped out the defending "B lu e ” fleet and landed an invading army at Far RockaWay Bearh, Long Island. Rear-Admiral Knight, acting as um pire, announced the reault in this re port to the navy department: "M aneuver completed. Red and Blue bodiea engaged 9:30 to 10:30, 10 milea south of Ambrose Lighthip. Blue deciaivley d e fe a t«). Red gaining com mand o f sea. Red effeota landing at Fort Rorkaway and secures base." The final report followed one an nouncing that Rear-Admiral Helm's "B lu e ” defending fleet virtually had been annihilated in a dramatic fight off Scotland Lightship at the entrance to the New York harbor. W ith the exception of a few light craft, the en tire "B lu e ” fleet was “ sunk." The full extent o f the " R e d " losses was not known, although early reports Bhowed that they included the auper- dreadnaughts Nevada and Texas and two destroyers. Enraged Mob Injure* Sheriff. Lima, O.— Enraged at the success of Sheriff Sherman Eley in spiriting Charles Daniels, a negro accused o f at tacking Mrs. John Barber, young w ife o f a prominent farmer, out o f their reach early Wednesday evening, a mob captured the sheriff, seriously wounded him, placed a noose around his neck and forced him to direct a cortege o f a hundred automobiles into the rough country north of this city, where it was supposed the negro prisoner was in hiding. Mexicans Beg fo r Help. El Paso, Texas— An appeal o f the people o f Aguas Calientes and Zacate cas to authorities o f the defarto gov ernment in Mexico City to send physi cians, medicines and food to alleviate disease and famine rampant in the two states has been fruitless, accord ing to private advices here. The re port said there was not more than enough food in the Federal district to provide for the people there, and that if there were any physicias available they could do nothing, for there were no serma to combat the epidemics. Infantile Paralysis as Old as World. Paris— Infantile paralysis, whose ap pearance in France seemed to be feared, is said by Prof. Arnold Netter, a member o f the Academy o f Medicine and an authority on the disease, to be a malady as old as the world and one long known in the form o f sporadic epidemics, affecting adult* as well as children. He says: " I t exists now in England and France. Thousands of persons were affected by the disease In Sweden in 1905 and France suffered in its turn in 1909 and 1910, and even aa late as 1914." Loading Charge Held Lip. Washington, D. C .- The Interstate Commerce commission Wednesday sus pended until December 30 a proposal o f Western roads to make a charge for loading and unloading shipments o f less than carload lots. The roads proposed to charge 11 cents per hundred pounds for such load ing and unloading, a charge which would have materially increased rev enue and which was to have gone into effect September 1. Seize Counterfeiting Plant. Oakland — Operatives o f the United States secret service seized here Mon day a complete counterfeiting plant, which included mo!da, dies and bogus coins made in imitation o f silver dol lars and gold $6 and $10 pieces. The seizure was made follow ing the arrest o f Charles G. Bush and Louis Miller, the former o f whom, according to Harry M. Moffitt, head o f the secret service bureau at San Francisco, has served a sentence for counterfeiting. W ord "C ilk " Held Deceit. New York— The Federal Trade Com mission has isau«i an order directing the Circle Cilk company, o f Philadel phia, to discontinue using the word “ cilk ” in reference to any o f its prod ucts other than real silk In connection with sales, trademarks and advertising matter. The commission held that the use o f the word “ cilk ” for products made o f mercerized sea island cotton thread was deceptive. The decision is looked on as a precedent. Washington, D. C.— Orders for the return to their state mobilization camps o f 16,000 National guardsmen now on the Mexican border were is sued by the War department Wednes day night. General Funston was directed to re turn three regiments from New York, two from New Jersey, two from Illi nois, two from Missouri and one each from California, Oregon, Washington and Louisiana. Secretary Baker announced the order after a conference with President W il son at the W hite House. Earlier in the day the department had ordered to their home stations 6000 regular coast artillerymen who have been serving as infantry on the border. The secretary’s statement said: “ In view o f the fact that substan tially the number o f troops who have not done patrol duty on the border are now on their way there, it is felt that this number can be spared." In a few days, if transportation fa- cilitities remain undisturbed, the de partment intends to order home some more regiments. Papers May Have to Quit. New Y ork — A large number o f the daily newspapers o f the United States w ill be forced to suspend publication on account o f lack o f paper if a nation wide railroad strike continues for two weeks, it was declared Thursday by Lincoln B. Palmer, manager o f the American Newspaper Publishers’ asso ciation. “ The print paper situation is acute, from causes entirely outside the problem o f transportation, and many publishers Bre on a hand-to-mouth basis, getting a carload just as they exhaust the carload on hand." U. S. fleet “ Sunk;” “ Enemy” lands Army on Long Island