The Monmouth herald., September 21, 1917, Image 4

CREGON m KOTES
CFGEriER.lL INTEREST;
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
The ackson county fair opens Sep
tember 18, tt the natatorlum In Med
ford. Walter E. Keyes, mayor of Salem,
and Miss Ua Heine, were married at i
Stletn.
A return of $115 from an acre of
pf ppermlnt la reported ty E. F. Martin
of Eugene. !
Elevator operator! In Tortland, of
whom thrre are about 75, have organiz
ed a labor union.
Construction work on the Douglas
county unit of the Pacific highway
will login shortly.
The pioneer of Jarkson county
held their annual reunion In Llthla
park In Ashland Thursday.
Ileal Calther, 20, was crushed to
death between two large spruce logs
at the Baile mill at Toledo.
Miss Martha Hechen has been a?-'
pointed county agent for Hood River,
Wasco and Sherman countleg.
Captain ini! G. Kronk, acting quar
termaster at Fort Stevens, committed
suicide by cutting bis throat with a
razor. j
Fire entirely destroyed the Cknada
hingle mill and a large quantity of
lilngle that were on hand ready for
shipment.
The southern Pacific company re
ported to the public service commis
sion a net shortage on Its Oregon lines
of 1021 cars.
During the month of August 4897
warrants were Issued ly Secretary of
Slate Olcott, the largest number in
the history of the state.
That the bean crop of nouirlas coun
ty this year will exceed $100,000 Is
the statenier made by J. C. Hurd,
county agricultural agent. I
Oregon's greatest agricultural and
Industrial exposition the 56th an
nual state fair will open at Salem
September 24, for a week.
Secretary Olcott has Issued a state
ment showing that on July 1 there
were $11,929.63 In unclaimed bank
deposits In the banks of the state. j
fletween 5.000,000 and 6,000,000 '
pounds of prunes Is the estimate of
Douglas county's present crop as made
by the, buyers who are In the field.
Governor Withycomb? has lifted the
proclamation Issued by him several
weeks ago closing the hunting season ,
In the timbered area because of forest
fires.
The state highway commission has
now under way 30 projects of con
struction, the total estimated and con
tract prlctta of which approximates
$2,100,000.
Soldiers who have been guarding
the forests of Oregon with orders to
"shoot to kill" all persons detected
fit the act of setting fires, have been
withdrawn.
So great Is the scarcity of men In
the John Day valley that nearly all of
the women at Long Creek are now
working with their husbands in" the
harvest fields. i
The Oregon Field Trlnl club has'
completed arrangements for the run-1
nlng of Its thirty-second annual trials
September 1617, using grounds near
Orrnco station, j
TiTla'obllf atory upon school super-'
luteudents, lu counties which are
under the high school tuition law, to
pay the tuition of students from that
county who reside In districts having
uo high school and who attend high
school lu another district or county,
according to an opiulou given by At
torney Geneial Brown to J. A.
Churchill, aupe'luleudent ' of public
tuslruetiou.
Wasco, Moro and Grass Valley, the
three principal cities of Sherman
county, have each granted franchises 1
to a group of promoters said to be
working in the Interests of the Pa- i
ciflc I'ower k Light company, for a
24 hour electric light and power rv-'
Ice, to be supplied from the White
river falls. Work Is expected to bo-'
gin within 60 days on the installation
of the new system. j
The iiuuti v f industrial accidents
continue t i i -I), according to the
wed ly e state industrial
acclde.u . .:. . .t. During the past
week 4.. .. ..,ts were reported,
this Lfit.i; . ...;,it number for any
week fcii.i -he workmen's compen-j
gallon It vut into effect. Three of
the acc.xci.is v. ere fatal, as follows:
Aadrew I'.i'i.lsolm, Portland, miller;
Alex An:ska and SUfan Kuleshevkh,
Ktiappa, logger.
' A'va
a afcaa
Thnllinsr Tale of U Boat Huntin?. Told bv an American Boy
Who Served For Months With the
Thrilling and Perilous Work That
of Other American Boys.
No. 3
A Motor Launch Raid
cn the Belgian Coast
By
A SEA SLUG,
British Service JTame For Crews
of Submaiiae (lasers.
Copyright, 1!17. ty the Dell Syn
dicate, Inc.
I'UOUXILE.
The author of thl uriet of four artt
eli it a timing A merlean, who hat tpent
mjt of hit line . luce the war ttartcd
with the llrithh patrol fleet, taking an
important part in helping to organize
that branch of the unite known a
the feci Hhgi.
He hai accumulated a remarkable
collection of aneetlntet incident to thii
exciting brawh of the arrive, und
many of thee irere perianal adivn
(( In vhleh he took part and which
tnake one of the ttlrring narrative! to
come out of the tear. He recently re
turned to the I'ttitvd titatet to ait
the American mi eg in organising the
tame branch of the tcrvlce and should
Ic of great value became of hit expert
tiiee abroad. So far at known, he it the
oi.ly Amriean to terre with the Britinh
patrol prior tn the advent of the United
Statet dettroger flotilla in Dritinh wa
fer. Of eourne tome of hit experience,
of military vulue to the enemy, cannot
be rcfotoi. At the requett of the tcrviee
puhlleuthn of hit name it withheld.
IT Is better that I do not mention the
name of the Vea Slug who con
ceived the Men of a motor Inuncli
ruld on the coast of lteliuui-t!iut part
of the coast held by Germany, bor-
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Thsrt It No Moon. W Dash Along
Full Spud Aheid.
dered by a muxe of mines, irtrt by a
moving belt of pmilioiita ai.d patrol
craft and frevkUd wlij a series ot
laud batteries whl. h make the experts
say it Would 1 tiiathemiitlcaily tmiios
sllile to tuuusli into the uaval bases
from the wa Klile.
The 1'iitish government prefers to
keep his name sN ret f r the present,
so it would not lie policy for uie to
divulge it. When he put the idea up
to the commander of the base he said
rlttht away:
"I dou't want to h'e mure than fix
boats. If you can tret sis crews to
volunteer for the service tro ahead. I
won't order anybody on a raid like
that."
Sir times six crews volunteered, but
only six were allowed to fro. We
clniR chutrped out of iNiver just lefore
sundown, every mini with a lifebelt
strupiHHl under his shoulders, petrol
(links tilled to the Inst drop, ammuni
tion in every avullable spai and every
motor thoroughly Inspetted down to
the last screw.
We were tlilnkliiR only of what a
time we were Koinsj to give the Roches.
The boys that w brwau'irod "UoiHlby" to
Us believed they had mm us for the
lust time, but wished they were with
us Just the same. Straight for a cer
tuin selected 8H t on the Rcltrlan coast
we laid onr course, und when nljrht
fell we couldn't even see our own
boats. There wasn't so much as a plu
point of lljrht showing on any of the
crnft Everr one, wore.rhrk uniforms.
STOCK
British Patrol and Who Did the
Is Now Being Done by Hundreds
and every" oiice In awhile when we'd
crowd o - lile more speed thrw
would suddenly looiii'up TiiTit aGead
the dark hull of the (mat we were fol
lowing and we'd almo t le nlxmrd her.
The men at the wheels had t hare
their nerve with them. '
Over the Mine Fields.
The chap w ho hud proposed the raid
-we nili-'ht as well call him Jones,
which Is not his name had figured out
the tide conditions to a nicety, and on
this particular nlbt we were Laving
the fullest high water of the autumn.
Just before we ran Into the mine fields
we passed a I'.ritisii monitor, about
which I will have more to say later,
and then begau the real work of the
expedition.
As every one knows, some mines are
set so that they rise and full wltn tQe
tide and remain always a certain dis
tance below the surface of fue water,
and If we didn't hit one of these it
would be ineiely a matter of luck.
There were thousands of mines all
around us, and there was no earthly
way of telling where any of them
were.
As for the mines which are anchored
always the same distance above the
bottom of the sea, we were counting
on the extra high tide to take us, over,
these. At least Jones had figured that
It would.
There Is no moon. We dash along
full speed ahead, for we must run in.
ac'ompllsh our task and run out ajialu
before that tide ebbs enough to make
tt iiext to Impossible for even our
The Gunnor Fires Into the Source of
the Light
litrht draft craft to escape because of
the anchored mines coming to the sur
face. The men tn each crew. ha1 ve been
carefully selected. They are all lu the
best physical condition, pood swim
mers, and the Brass Huts (officers)
have even made certain that none of
them has a cold. A aneeze or a couph
mlfht betray us. Despite this, the
damp, chilly utpht air makes one of
the men hi our boat sneeze suddenly,
j It sounds to us like tiie crash of a
mine. I don't see why It didn't take
; the top of the fellow's head off. Our
nneiy mime motors, or course, were
muliled until you cotild not distinguish
th( purr ten feet awny.
"A thousand yards or so and we'll be
j across the fields," says the Brass Hat
j In our liout lie has It figured down
pretty nue. ?ow we are skimming
over a bar, where a heavier boat could
not go.
Discover Enemy Destroyers.
We strain our eyes ahead to catch
the white gleam of the wake of our
lending craft and stare behind to make
out the white bow wave of the one
following us. It is the only way we
cau keep ourseJves In line. '
Presently I pick up out of the black
ness of the night a patcli of something
that Is even blacker. A ripple runs
down my spine. The pre.it moment
has arrived. This Is not l.ke chasing
a tubcuttiue which is trio, to Lida
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an3 wTHch you cau aTmost iun"clfcles
around. It is more like six mosquitoes
tackling a band of giants. If ever
they can hit us a slap we will be
crushed to jelly.
I point out the black patch to the
Brass Hat. He strains through his
night glasses, then bauds them to me.
"Destroyer!" be says.
The term Is well applied, and I real
ize for the first time what destructive
power one of these slick sea fighters
has. She ia running without lights.
We wonder in whispers whether the
other craft have sighted her. There is
no wajt for us to signal them. The
man standing at the wheel throws her
over a little to starboard, following
the white wake of the boat ahead
of us.
"They see her," says the Brass nat
next. "They're circling in."
A glance astern shows us that our
followers have observed the change in
our course. I do not kuow how far
we are from t'httt destroyer. In the
dark she looms so big that It seems we
must be going to graze her.
There Is a lurid stab of red In the
darkness ahead a deafening roar the
smell of battle is in our nostrils. The
leader's three incher has barked. Ours
barks at almost the same time. Ours
hag bitten, for we cau see the flash of
the explosion as the shell falls on
board the destroyer. That is better
luck than we had looked for.
The Searchlight Scour the Sea.
The flashes have shown us other
eraft destroyers, patrol boats and
gunboats. Xo hoi of concealment
n5wi I'g. wait Just loii enough be-
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