OF GENERAL INTEREST
Event* Occurring Throughout
the Stato During the Foot
Week.
Kx-Convlct 1« Killed.
Heppner.— Walter Cason, aged 44.
deputy sheriff o f Morrow eouaty «a d
marshal o f lone, shot sad lastaaUy
killed Charles Earheart, aged 44. aa
ex-convict from the Oreeoa pealten-
tlary, la front o f the PaRtco hotel,
when the latter palled a gun oa the
officer and cried “ T ea * game’s up; I
am going to get yon.”
Earheart. who had been drinking,
twice shot «ride o f his mark, and be
fore he coaid turn a third barrel. Ca
son drew his revolver and with one
shot In the breast. Earheart fell dead.
nr the Saloon Helps Business.— I t takes the pay checks from the pocket o f the work
in g man, fatten s the man behind the bar and leaves the fam ily o f the laborer without
groceries and clothing.
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Both Sides Are Intrenched and
Have Settled Down For
* Another Battle.
armies, despite almost super-
fatigue, show the utmost ds-
forests are finding batteries
doned by the Austrians.”
Cold steel played a considerable
part la the battle o f enormous hosts
fighting along the Alans, the Oise and
Woevre. T h e most remarkable point
shoot the enoouaters Is that ths troops
soaroely sea each other before they
actually oome hand to hand.
The recklessness displayed at the
beginning of the hoe till ties, srlth the
reealtaat carnage through the machine
guns almost has disappeared, and
every movement of the attacking and
defending troops Is carried out with
the utmost caution until the moment
o f actual ooatacL
The Germans have suffered most la
these engagements, for the French
troops from Africa and the British
were adepts with the bayonet, and
they watt in the treoches until their
adversaries are so close that a quick
dash brings them together.
The oountry behind the French
arm y is being rapidly repopulated.
Herds o f cattle and sheep mingle srlth
supply trains along the roads leading
to the north. They are being home
ward driven by peasants, woman, old
men and beys.
CAPTURE STR0N6 POSITIONS
Forts of Verdun Attacked and French
* Surprised at Nancy.
Berlin, via London.— hn official com
munication regarding the coarse of
the battles around Rheims says:
"T h e strong, hilly positions at Cra
on ne have been captured. Advancing
on Rheims our troops occupied the
village of Bethany.
“ W e are attacking the strong forts
oa the line south of Verdun and the
Germans have crossed the east border
In the direction of Lorraine, which Is
defended by eight French army corps.
A sortie from the northeast o f Verdun
has been repulsed.
“ The French troops camping to the
north o f Tool (near Nancy) fiave been
surprised by our artillery.
“ In the rest o f the French war the
ater there have been no engagements.
“ In the Belgian and eastern battle
fields ths situation Is unchanged.” s
WBCfiOQ Austrians Routed, Say Serbs.
Parts.— A dispatch to tho Havas
Ageaoy from Nish, Servla, says:
“ A fter several day* o f battle near
Kronpaai, 10 m ile« from the Bosnian
border, la which 88Ç.000 Austrians
w ere engaged, the Austrians suffered
complete defeat and' are . flying la
panic from the hanks o f the river
Dries.
“Th e Servians, who called buck
their troops In Syrmla for this battle
ere now advancing toward Svornlk.
London.— la a dispatch to the Tim es
a correspondent at' Petrograd says:
” A Saxon cavalry division which r e
cently arrived ia East Prussia from
France has suffered heavy losses.
“ Near Sandomtr, Russian Poland,
the Russians have again defeated the
broken remnants of the second Ger
man landwehr corps under General
Woirsch. Here evidently the Aus
trians had prepared to cross the Vis
tula river.
The eighth annual Linn oouhty fa ir
spened September 28.
George M. Cole, 68 years old, regis
tered at the university e f Oregon as a
freshman.
Michael Tynan, for the last 46 years
a resident o f Roeeburg, is dead at his
home In Roeeburg at the age o f $7
years.
K lam ith Indians and settlers as far
as North Bend are getting large quan
tities of winter fruit from the wild
plum thickets. *
The Cottage Grove Commercial club
urges voters o f that section to work
for the reestablishment o f tho Oregon
Normal at Ashland.
Ths stats fish and gams commis
sion has granted right of w ay thrnsgh
property at the Bonneville Hatchery
for the Columbia Highway.
The Oregon hop Industry and har
vesting o f crops w ill bo shown by mov
ing pictures at the Panama-Pacific
exposition at San Francisco.
The boys’ and girls’ Industrial con
test for Douglas county, held at Rose-
burg in connection with tho oouaty
fair, was a complete suocees.
C. W. Washburns, one o f the oldest
pioneers In the north end o f Lane
oounty, celebrated his ninetieth birth
day anniversary at hia home south o f
Junction City.
John Warner, chief engineer o f the
Albany fire department, won tho sli
ver medal donated for tho best shot
by the Albany Ona club la con testa
during the summer.
The 48th eeesion o f the Columbia
annual conference of tho Methodist
Episcopal church, south, convened at
Tangent, with Bishop Monsoa, o f Saa
Antonio, Texas, la charge
John Tate, o f Portland, was elooted
seooad vice-president at Buffalo, N.
Y „ o f the National Laundrymea’e
association o f America, which Is going
to Portland tor Its 1*18 meeting.
Lesrls Langvlech von der Haydl. be
lieved to have been a membA- o f Oer-
man nobility and a general la the
war, died at the state
One Fatal Accident Reported In W eek
Salem.— One fatal accident oat o f
a total o f 71 mishaps during the week
was the record, according to Labor
Commissioner Hoff. The fatal acci
dent occurred near Summit, where
James Henneesy was a victim o f a
bridge construction accident Twenty-
nine were injured In railroad accidents
and I t w ere hurt while am played la
lumber mills or logging.
( I f H Laid on Sunday Fay Pastor.
Dallas.—T h e women o f the Baptist
ohurch of this city have Inaugurated
a novel plan to assist la the payment
o f the pastor's salary. Each woman
mr-uiurr oi w e muren
nsvinx
eas wffl contribute all the e g w her
hens lay oa Sundays. These «rill be
turned over to a committee who will
sell them, to n in g the oash lato the
ohurch treasary to be applied oa the
minister's salary.
Do not put o ff until tom orrow w hat you ought to do to-day.
Home is not what it should be without Electric Lights.
I f you are using oil or other means o f illumination not
electric, your home is not modern or sanitary.
W e w ire your house w ell, but cheaply.
N ow is the tim e to have your w irin g done.
See us—B LU E 34.
Fill Yota Refrigerator
Ranks Report Increase.
Astoria.— As an Index of the com
mercial activity la the Low er Colum
bia river district, the reports recently
Issued by the four beaks In this city,
show that during the past IS months
the amounts of their deposits have
been Increased over $1,060,040, while
the increase in the amounts o f their
resources has been practically the
same.
Insane asylum. He was 88 years old.
Wood burn district hop men harvest
ed most o f their crops before the ralna
came and the yield Is said to be 28 to
$6 per cent leas than last year srlth
exception o f a few yards which showed
gains.
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Robert Griffin, Cottage Grove’s sec
ond mayor and a veteran o f the Civil
Eight New Members of Faculty.
war, because of the new requirements
Eugene.— Eight new members o f the
for dtlien ship In Oregon, has taken
faculty o f the University o f Oregon
out bis second papers at the age o f
are in Eugene beginning their year’s
80 years.
work. They are H. & Miller, Ellis T .
Civil W ar veterans o f Salma, 811-
Lawrence and W. F. O. Thacker, of
verton. Wood bum, Independence, Dal
Portland; Dr. John E. Gutberiet, Dr.
las, Stayton and other parts o f Marian
Ralph Culver Bennett, Dr. John J.
county at a meeting at Salem decided
Landsbury, Earl Kilpatrick and Miss
to hold reunions la Salem ia Decem
Kathrlna M. Davis.
ber, la Woodburn la A pril and la 811-
verton la August east year.
Secretary o f State Olcott says that
all aspirants for nominations at ths re
cent primary have filed statements o f Taking Testimony May Regln Septem
ber 28 In Forfeiture Suit.
expanse with the exception o f Mrs.
Claudlne 8. Faust, o f Dufur, nominee
Roeeburg.— Taking o f testimony In
o f the progressive party for represen the case o f the government against the
tative of the 80th district in the lagto
latnre.
•8,000 acres included la the Coos Bay
Bids probably w ill be Invited boob wagon road land grant, w ill begin at
fo r the construction o f a pipeline and Roeeburg September 88 or 88, accord
water system to extend from Clacka ing to plans o f attorneys concerned.
mas ‘to Oregon City. The plana, al
The land Involved la in Coos and
ready dcawn, estimate the cost o f the Carry counties, and Is nearly all heav
work at about $226,000. One feature ily timbered. It was granted by con
w ill be a reservoir with a capacity of gress oa condition that a miliary wa
8,000,000 gallons
gon road be built from Coos Bay to
The biggest week la the history of Roeeburg and that the land be sold
The Dalles w ill be the one commenc to actual settlers in 180-acre tracts at,
ing September 27, during which the not mors than $2.60 an acre. The Ore
big W ild West show. Th e Dalles Ro gon legislature later transferred the
deo, the annual Waaco county fa ir and grant, originally 104,000 acres, on con
meetings fo r homecoming pioneers dition that the terms o f the original
w ill he held. It w ill be homecoming grant be carried out.
week In The Dalles, and aH form er res
Passing through various hands, the
idents of the city have been Invited to land came to be held by the Southern
return.
Oregon company, which was organ
The extension division of the Ore ised to take it over.
The government charges thst no at
gon Agricultural College la taxed to
the utmost to provide judges, lectur tempt has been made to Observe the
ers and demonstrators for the many grant terms and contends thst the re
agricultural and school fairs being mainder of the land, some 8000 acres,
held In all parts o f the state. Last having been sold at various prices,
week almost 20 representatives offi shall be forfeited, aa the Oregon A
ciated at 11 different fairs. This week California grant lands were forfeited,
12 engagements are scheduled. Tbs hack Into the public domain.
total for September and October is
Women Shot at Astoria.
over 30.
Astoria.— Lillian Hendrickson, aged
Having decided to make compulsory
ths use of the safety logging hunk. La 17, shot down In a local cannery by a
bor Commissioner H off announced that fellow laborer died here after Drs.
hs would Invite the six companies of Fulton and Foretrom had exhausted
fering the bunks tor sale in this state every effort to save her life. Peroll,
to equip a train with their devices for the man who shot Miss Hendrickson,
demonstration purposes. Each com and later turned the gun on himself.
pany will be asked to equip one car of Is Improving In the hospital, and his
the train so ths representatives of the recovery Is expected.
logging companies may have little trou
ble In determining which they Intend
to adopt
Potato experts of the United States
department of agriculture, Holland
and Germany, are In Portland. Pro
fessors H. 8. Jackson and F. D. Bailey,
o f the Oregon Agricultural college,
w ill -have charge of the party during
Its Investigation of the potato ques
tton and potato diseases In Oregon.
The vleltore include Dr. W. A. Orton,
leading petato disease expert e f the
federal department; Dr. Otto Appel,
o f Berlin; Dr. John Westerdyk. of Am
sterdam; A. K. Fisher and William
Stuart specialists of the federal de
partment
To-Day, Not To-Morrow
Tw o Quarrel; One Dice.
Klamath Falls.— In a quarrel over
pasturage of calves,, Otis Hickman
seised a rifle and shot dead his broth
er-in-law, Vivian Evans, 36 years old.
Hickman was exonerated by a cor
oner’s jury after Hickman’s mother-
in-law and wife, the only witnesses
to the «hooting, had testified that the
shot was fired In self-defense.
Blackbirds Destroying Grain.
Silver Lake.—Grain stacks and stub
ble fields of the valley have been cov
ered fo r a week past with clouds of
blackbirds, apparently driven from the
uplands by recent' heavy snows and
cold weather. The birds are so nu
merous that unthreshed stacks at
Sheepman Is Killed.
Portland.— Benjamin Selling, 8r.
pioneer sheepman o f the Pacific
Northwest, uncle of Ben Selling, of
Portland, was struck and Instantly
U llsd when he stepped In front of a
moving locomotive at the Northrop
street crossing of the Northern Paotflc
Terminal company’s yards h e n
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