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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1915)
OREGON STATE NEWS WATER SCARCE IN MEXICO CITY DOCTOR HERO RETURNS PLAN LIKE BUILDER Oregon Cadets Praised. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis A letterjfrom Brigadier Gen eral Tanker H, Bliss, chief of staff, United StateB Army, at Washington, D. C, to the Oregon Agricultural col lege, says that the attention of Secre tary Garrison has been drawn to the satisfactory Improvement and steady progress of the work of the military department here. The reports were based on the latest annual inspection of the cadet regiment by Captain W. T. Merry, who has been the inspecting officer for the last three years. The cadet regiment is ranked In the second highest'class attainable by ca dets of institutions other than Bulely military. Oregon Permit Refused. Salem Corporation Commissioner Schulderman has denied the American Banking Credit company, with head quarters in Chicago and incorporated in Delaware, a permit to do buisness in this state. The company has an investment and loan scheme which Mr. Schulderman has decided is not feas ible. He does not believe it can make the loans promised with its means of investment. To do business in Oregon, according to Mr. Schulderman, the company would have to comply with the build ing and loan laws and the banking laws, which it has not intimated it would do. Oregon Foliage Pleases. Portland A thoroughly successful convention was that of the American Association of Park Superintendents, held in San Francisco last week, ac cording to'E. T. Mische, of Portland, who was elected the association's pres ident. Many members present were highly pleased with what they saw when passing through Oregon. Some of the greatest men in their line in the coun try did not realize the variety of foli age we have in Oregon. They were very much surprised and impressed. Sandy Crops Are Large. Sandy Farmers near this place and at George, Dover and Firwood are har vesting, and the crops of oats, wheat and barley will be larger than ever be fore and the yield to the acre greater, according to the reports received here. The yield of hay also is large. E. C. Read, near Cherryville, has a field of beardless barley that is exciting com ment. He will save seed for future crops of the same sort. Much road work is in progress, and crushed rock is being used extensively on all the roads near this place. Eccles Mill to Start Short Run. Banks The big $200,000 Eccles lumber mill, completed more than a year ago here, is preparing for a brief run. The company plans to run the planer and finish up the lumber now on hand for shipment, which will require about a month. Thereafter the mill and logging camp may be operated about a month, or long enough to re stock the yards. After being com pleted the mill ran about 30 days and then was compelled to close on account of the poor market. Log Air Line Record Made. Klamath Falls A record run of 155,000 feet of timber was made Wednesday over the Algoma Lumber company's lift recently constructed over the mountain north of its plant a few miles, according to Manager Grant. The lift is double-tracked, 2800 feet in length and extends over a mountain 800 feet high. The mill is now cutting 3,600,000 feet of lumber each month and is employing nearly 200 men. Pests Boom Egg Output. Baker Grasshoppers, a pest in the John Day country for years, this sea son have become a blessing. Ira G. Boyce, an oldtime merchant at John Day, says eggs are more plen tiful than in years because of the abundance of this delicacy for the chickens to feed on, and that the Au gust record of production will beat any in its history. The grasshoppers are more numerous than ever at this time of year. Chinook to Dredge Channel Shoal. Astoria To work on the shoal be tween the channel in which she1 has been digging and what is known as the south channel, off the end of the jetty, the dredge Chinook is now in the mouth of the river. The removal of this shoal, which is expected to be ac complished before fall, will provide one main channel 3500 feet wide and carrying a depth of approximately 36 feet at low tide. Ranch Is Sold for $31,000. Klamath Falls The well-known Bill Smith ranch, comprising 720 acres, near Bly, 50 miles northeast of here, was purchased by L. A. Brittan, for merly a prominent rancher of Boze man, Mont., for $31,000 cash. Mr. Brittan will stock the ranch with 250 dairy cows and 1000 sheep, as it is ideally located at the junction of the north and south forks of the Sprague river. f mt4M wMJSm 'tiM&&b?' , ' 4 v iii 'i p , y J$ Not only did the food supply fall In Mexico City, but for days at a time the water supply was cut off and at all wells water was sold at a high price. The photograph shows one of those wells, the owner of which was ejected by force In order that the poor people might get water. GERMANS P 1 Scene In Russian Poland when a German Infantry company halted In ong enough to permit the tired soldiers to refresh themselyes with a swim LIBERTY BELL AT "Native daughter" of California kissing the Liberty Bell after it had com pleted its triumphant journey to the Panama-Pacific exposition. It has been installed in the Pennsylvania building to remain until December 1. BARRICADES IN far , 9??kti These stone barricades were erected by the Germans In the Alsatian Tillage of Requlerllle, after it Xad beea taken from the French. -0 ENJOY A STOP IN SAN FRANCISCO ALSATIAN VILLAGE :4 f wnoRWooi A; 1 n POLAND the course of a hot and hard march In a stream. FAMOUS TOWER A WAR RUIN The ancient and historical tower of Rawa on the River Rawka, In Russian Poland, as It appeared after the bom bardment by artillery and Infantry that resulted In the capture of the city by the Germans. Building a Molasses Ship, Another large shipbuilding contract obtained by the Gore River Shipbuild ing corporation has been announced. It is a tank steamer for the Cuban Distilling company and is a sister ship of the steamer now In course of con struction at the yards, which will be called the Cubadlst. The newer ship contracted for is to be S89 feet long, 54 feet 6 inches beam, 82 feet 6 inches depth and 9,000 tons displacement. It will be capable of carrying 2,500,000 gallons of molasses. About a year will be required to construct this ves sel. The contract Is the second received within two weeks, the former being for a 10,000-ton cargo capacity freight steamer for Edgar E. Luckenbach of New York. The yard now has about 5,000 employees. Boston Transcript, This Fish Is Educated. Theodore Sharp, a fisherman of San dusky, Ohio, claims to be the owner of the only educated carp in exis tence. Sharp says the carp, which weighs nearly 40 pounds and when out of the water resembles to a marked degree a fat hog, will come to him when he whistles; that It will eat out of his hand and that when he Is out in a boat will follow him around, swimming close astern near the surface. Germans Prepare for Battle With Great Precision. Decide on Certain Plan, Provide Nec essary 8oldlers and Equipment With Margin for Miscalculation, but No More, Never Less. Petrograd. In an interview with a correspondent a Russian general who fought In the Gallclan battles has just explained the German plan of cam paign which has resulted so success fully this summer. He said the Germans plan battles as builders plan houses. A builder gets together his blue prints and his estlmatos, engages a sufficient number of workmen and a certain quantity of matorml and sets to work. He doeBn't try to build a bigger house than he has materials or labor for. Of course, accidents or bankruptcy may prevent the execution of the plan. Similarly the Germans plan that a certain thing shall be done; they bring up the necessary soldiers and the necessary gunB, shells and bullets, with a margin for miscalculation, but no more and never less. They may, through accident or mis calculation, fall. But they never start fighting on the principle of doing the best with the men and shells they have. To revert to the bouse parallel: The house may collapse during con struction, owing to a mistake. But the builders will not decide suddenly that they have not enough material and dock the house oft one story, nor will they abandon the houBe half built, because of lack of work men or material. They know what they want to do. The battle planned and prepared for months in advance Is a precise work. The whole eastern campaign shows this. When the Germans won at Tan nenberg they planned the march on the Lower Vistula, which ended near Warsaw. Hardly had they retreated when they tried a new vast and clear cut openxion from Thorn. When that stagnated on the Bzura they were preparing the battle of the Masurian lakes, which was a great victory, and hardly was over when they were send' tng their armies south to assault the Dunajeo. "The GermanB, In short," said the general, "never start fighting on the principle that would make them say we have so many men, so many guns let us have a shot at the foe and do him as much harm as we can with these men and guns. They plan the shot firBt, se that they have the men and guns to execute the plan, and do not touch a plan which is from the first plainly beyond their strength. "Thus, they never once tried to crush our army as a whole. That Is beyond them. Even admitting their technical superiority and good muni tion supply, they would want, In order to cruh us by one operation, at least as many men as we have. Their way is to plan relatively small operations, which attack only one section of our front, In the hope of destroying this section before we can strengthen it. "The battle of the Dunajoc shows that the enemy planned to take these lines and to reach the San. He prepared everything for this, and something over, but did not Intend to march straight to Lemberg. When he reached the San he had to stop apart from our attempts to counter attack. "Then he bi ought up, no doubt, shells, food and men for his next op eration. He treated the next opera tion as a self-contained thing, and until it succeeded or failed he would attempt no more. Also he will not attempt a modified plan. If he feels too weak he will try something new, which, according to his judgment, Is within his strength." EAGLE FIGHTS FOR YOUNG 6uperlor Deadllnesi of the "Female of the Speclet" Is Demonstrated In California. Merced, Cal. William Barcroft and Manuel Thomas returned from Pleas ant Valley converted to Kipling's theory of the superior deadliness of "the female of the species," after hav ing a terrific fight with a mother eagle tor an hour and a half. The two men scaled an oak tree to examine an aerie and found the whole family, father and mother eagle and two eaglets, at home. After shooting and killing the male in self-protection, Thomas Joined forces with Barcroft against the beak and talon attack of the infuriated mother bird. After an exhausting conflict they managed to grab her by the neck and pull her talons from the flesh of Bar croft's arms, which are very much cut and scratched. Fearing to release the bird and rink another encounter, the men brought the eagle and her young ones to town for eihlbltlon. Band Leader at Seven. Muncle, Ind. At the concert given In the town hall at Eaton a few nights ago by the Garrett Boys' band, which Is to play at the National G. A. R. encampment In Washington, D. C, In September, the director was Paul Gar rett, seven years old. The boy, who Is a son of E. W. Garrett, organizer and general manager of the band, is an accomplished moslolan and direc tor notwithstanding he Is is years little nor than a baby. j'-.M'ww.'.MtlVfc Dr. Samuel W. Hodge of Knoxville, Tenn., one of the original Red Cross contingent to go to Serbia, returned recently to the United States. Doctor Hodge was the roommate of Dr. James J. Donnelly, who died from typhus In Serbia, and was himself; stricken with the dreaded disease and was ill for 26 days, part of the time being cared for on the yacht Erin by Sir Thomas LIpton. Afterward he took charge of the Tetova district, where he cared for 800 typhus patients. The young doctor has been decorated with the Serbian Red Cross medal for bis work in that country. SHE TAUGHT 70 YEARS AGO Oldest Among Teachers at Connec ticut Is In Her Eighty Fifth Year. Franklin, Conn. At the Old School week in Willlmantlc the oldest among the teachers who returned for the re union was Mrs. Julia Ayer Verplanck, In her eighty-fifth year, mother of Superintendent of Schools Frederick A. Verplanck of South Manchester. She was a Franklin girl, who, nearly sev enty years ago, taught In Windham, South Windham and Norwich. Her first salary was $12 a month' "and board around." She taught in all 13 years, her highest salary being $325 a year. She thinks that teachers of today may well be content with com fortable school buildings and good wages. The first winter she taught, she says, the "ventilation was quite mod ern air currents from the baseboard, under which one could pass a hand or foot." When she taught at Windham Cen ter most boys as well as girls brought handiwork from the homes to do when not studying their hooks; It was the forerunner of the mddern system of manual training. It Is believed that Mrs. Verplanck is the oldest living teacher in Con nectlcut. CAUGHT POOR-BOX ROBBER Caretaker of Catholic Church In Mil. waukee Rigs Up His Own Alarm Device. Milwaukee. Louis Kowalski of Chi cago, arraigned in district court on a charge of stealing 40 cents from the poor box of the Holy Trinity church, can trace his downfall to the inven tive genius of George Miller, care taker of the church. For several weeks complaints of money being stolen from the poor box had been received. Tired of the many thefts, Miller rigged up an alarm, which he attached to the box and con nected with his quarters. He was sitting in his rooms the other afternoon when the alarm sound ed. Rushing Into the church, he came upon Kowalski, who was kneeling as if in prayer. An investigation by Mil ler brought to light a jimmy and a number of other burglar tools. He summoned a patrolman and Kowalski was arrested. GIRL OF 19 WEDS MAN OF 89 Then Happy Couple Start on Their Wedding Trip in an Auto mobile. Greenfield, Mo. "Uncle Matt" Mc pherson, eighty-nine years old and one of the pioneer citizens of Dade coun ty, and Miss Clara Burns, nineteen years old, of Higglnsvllle, Mo., were married at the courthouse here re cently. The ceremony was performed by Rev. William Shaw of this city. The young bride arrived at Lock wood, where the bridegroom lives, on a train. "Uncle Matt" was at the sta tion to meet her. Within a few hours "Uncle Matt" had donned a new suit of clothes and, engaging an automo bile, set out for Greenfield. Cannon Has New Job. Pemota, Okla. An old army cannon Which is said to have seen Bervice during the Civil war, has been re ceived here by express from Philadel phia by Glenn Green, tank farm fore man for the Quaker Oil company. Green Is a veteran of the Spanish American war. The Quaker company recently bought the cannon and shipped it to the oil field for use In shooting steel tanks In case of firej This cannon was made in 1862.