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VOL. XIII
FALLS CITY NEWS
FALLS CITY. OREGON, SATURDAY. JUNE
APAC H ES S T IL L NOM ADS.
W a n t Lota of Room and froodom F ro m
W h ite M on’» C om pany.
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Of all the ward« of Uncle Sam
none enjoyed a worse reputation
nor a better deserved one than the
Apache Indians of the southwest
fifty years ago. They terrorized the
Mexicans, robbed the wagon trains
in the Santa Fe trail, made the
frontiersman’s life miserable, caus­
ed the patient troopers of the regu­
lar army to plod and struggle over
countless miles of hot sand and blue
lava on their trail, and aH soon as
they were fairly beaten and settled
down they broke out in a new place.
Today their country is given over
to the farmer and the automobile,
and what remains of the tribe oc­
cupies a spacious reservation in
northwestern New Mexico.
The reservation is spacious be­
cause the Apache needs plenty of
mom. It contains little besides
space, because that is the kind of
land that suits hun and, luckily
for him, has little attraction for
anybody else. The Apache’s idea of
a small one man homestead would
run anywhere from a thousand
acres up. H$ does not go in for in­
tensive cultivation. ITe plants n lit­
tle corn here and there, and he
harvests wild hay wherever it
chances to grow thickly enough to
make the process worth while, but
real farming is incompatible with
his idea of the dignity of a roan
and an Indian.
The boundaries of the reserva­
tion are not visible to the naked
eye, so that if you chance to be
traveling in the neighborhood you
may easily stray over the Apache’s
hearth and home without finding it
out. The owner, however, will in­
form you of the fact with great
vigor if he chances to find you. On
the other hand, you may travel on
Apache land for weeks snd never
meet a soul. The reservation com­
prises hundreds of square miles, and
the Indians are true nomads, wan­
dering from place to place as the
fancy seizes.
The reservation is a land of roll­
ing hills, with a few stubby moun­
tain ranges and a share of barron
plain. Most of the country is fer­
tile enough, especially the hill land,
but the Indian makes no attempt
to realize on its fertility. At least,
he is doing nothing to exhaust tho
soil, and ahould his race or another
ever come to farm it they will find
earth as virgin as that of the west­
ern prairies a hundred years ago.—
Buffalo News.
B u rsting Steel.
An experiment that demonstrat­
ed the capacity of steel to endure
greater pressure than the hardest
stone was made in Germany. Corun­
dum was chosen for the stone, and
small cubes of both substances were
placed under pressure. A weight of
six tons smashed the corundum, but
forty-two tons were required to
crush the steel. When the steel did
give way the effects are described
as remarkable. With a loud explo­
sion the metal flow into powder,
and its sparks aro said to have bored
minute noles in the crushing ma­
chine.—New York Tribune.
tween high and low water. ’Ilia
highest tides in the world occur at
the bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia,
where Ihe difference is over seventy
feet. The lowest tides in the world
exist at Lake Michigan, «here the
difference between high and low wa­
ter it only three inches.
Extram ss In Tid es.
INDEPENDENCE
Philosophy of Orsam s.
Speaking one day before Harvard
Medical school, I»r. Percy G. Stiles
of Boston said: “If dreams are of a
rambling variety it is a pretty good
sign that you are not overtired. It
they are a continuation of the day’s
worries the dinners are that you are
overtired. Dreams remote from the
day’s work are a vacation, but
dreams connected with the day’s
work are overtime.”
JULY 4,1917
Boiling Potato««.
There is a simple wav to prevent
potatoes from burning and sticking
to the bottom of the pot. An in­
verted pic pan placed in the bottom
of the pot avoids scorching potatoes.
The water and empty space beneath
the pan save the potatoes. This also
makes the work of cleaning pots
easier, as no adhering parts of po­
tatoes are left to he scoured out.
SAVING THE FOOD
The conservation of food is g
question of great importance.
Economy should be taught and
practiced in times of peace as
well as in war. The frugality of
the New Englander is proverbial.
He grows wealth on the bleak
hillside and nothing is wasted-
The wastefulness of the South­
erner and Westerner is also pro­
verbial. With the finest climate
and soil for growing all kinds of
crops he indolently lives "from
hand to mouth” and everywhere
are evidences of criminal waste.
The passage of a too stringent
food law at this time would prob­
ably work confusion. Notwith­
standing President Wilson’s re­
markable statement concerning
the draft, that, "It is in no sense
a conscription of the unwilling.”
there is much bitter feeling.
Couple this with a shortage of
food and serious results may be
expected. That Congress should
hesitate to put the stock gambler
out of business is remarkable,
unless there are too many cong­
ressmen engaged in it. To allow
him to operate without let or
hinderance and impose stringent
food restrictions on the people is
inviting disaster.
A former admirer of President
Wilson, one who voted for him
on the hypothesis that Wilson
kept us out of war, is much puz­
zled over the attitude of the dem­
ocratic party. They praised him
for keeping us out of war. and
Relic» of tho Siogo of P a ri».
no«' praise him for getiing us
Many French families still keep
under glass a piece of the black into war.
bread on which raris fed during the
siege. It was with bread, in which
rice and oats mixed with bran and
starch took the place of flour, that
Paris, with a population of 2,000,-
000 inhabitants, hold out for 140
days. The fuel difficulty was the
worst, and it led to the cutting
down of the trees and the digging
np of the asphalt of the streets.
1917
In the meantime you Will
find our stocks fairly complete
in the essentials to make you
well dressed on this,
OUR NATIONAL HOLIDAY
SELIG’S, Cash Price Store,
“ Meeting and Beating Competition” .
C A R E L ESS
PEOPLE
CARRY
CASH
But the Careful Person deposits
his money in the
BANK OF FALLS C ITY .
and pays all his bills and purchases
with his personal check.
not
The Red Cross fund was over-1 »cut
cidedIV
. Why and
out
this
royal
business
subscribed.
become democratic?
Three Austrian regiments have
deserted, is reported.
Suffragists were arrested in
Washington, recently, for carry­
ing
inscribed with quota­
Will King George of England, tions banners
from
Wilson’s
speech.
Victor Emanuel of Italy, Albert
of Belgium, Alfonso XIII of
Spain, Yoshito of Japan agree to England is having troubles of
a “World Democracy” after her own. The Irish question
Prussianism is crushed? Democ­ won’t down and is very vexing
racy is opposed to the rule of in these ‘democratic’ times.
King, Prince or Potentate.
The highest tides in all Europe
King George is contemplating
occur in the Bristol channel, where United Sates first, says Presi­ changing
the name of the British
dent
Wilson
speaking
of
the
food
at spring tides there is sometimes
royal house which now has a de-
a difference of .over fortv feet be­ question. Good! Stick to it.
One of the most vicious propo­
sitions unless it be the shipping
in of alien labor, is the sending
to this country the German pris - 1
oners of war to work on the
farms. This must be of pro Ger­
man origin. We imagine that
the Kaiser himself could not have
devised a surer way of starving
this country a id the Allies as
well than to turn the production
of food over to the German sold­
ier. Anyway, why should the
United States assume the respon­
sibilities of caring for the Allies
prisoners. Uncle Samuel has
certainly hubbed more than a
young sapling this time.
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