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About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1918)
Esoapo Gorman Shell When Ono of Party Stops to Dig Up Redo. SEE SCENES OF DESOLATION Once nichty Cultivated Valleys Speckled With Happy Vlllagci, Now Dut a Sodden Panorama of Churned-Up Soil. With tho French Armies In tho Field, If ono of tho party hiuln't Mopped to dig up it lloclui bnynnct from thu rond side, thl plcco wouldn't Imvo been written. Tim French oillcer-chuperono tint! his charges hud lurried on tho way buck to Verdun from ono of (hit outlying forts to chat with n hunch of Ited CroNN men, mid lucliluntnlly to wntch tint tuition of n Hock of (lermiin air planes iin they dodged In mid out mount: thu fenthery puffs of Hhrnpnel. 'i'hu usual dully nrtlllery Ktmfu hud lieoii 011 for mimii hours. Hundreds of tons of niotiil hud heeu bowling uliovo our heads from hot It Mite, fur up nnd down tho line. At times thero wns 11 hot for every second. Hut no fur tho Jlocho targets hud heeu locutvd 11 com fortiihlo dlstnncu away. Our olllcer hud given tho word to ro ntimu thu Journey, und tho chnurfeura wero cranking up. when tho oppor tunlty of gathering In unother buttle field houvenlr Intervened. It Is Mttll there. Ciireful figuring, conducted very shortly therenfter In ono of tho Hud Cross dugouts nenrhy, convinced tho whole piirty thut If It hudn't been for thu hnyonut eplsodu our cunt would Imvo culllded with tho big Iloclio shell JiiMt ut thu inoiiieiit of Its explosion about 11 block down tho rond. Tho experleuco hnd merely supplied a vivid flnnl touch to Impressions nl renily nciiulred of whut thu soldiers of Verdun Imvo been undergoing In the Inst elKhteen mouthn. In thin ro Klou Nnttire lino been Riven no oppor tunity, nit kIiu ImH, for example, on tho bnttlefleld of thu Hommu, to repnlr nil best she cm tho ravages of wnr. From the top of ono of tho buttered forts thut now forms an unbrenknblo ring about Verdun reenptured from tho flernmiiH with n valor nnd nt n mirrlllce of llfo thut will mako Its nnino tinmortnl In history stretches out, ns far iin ten-ply. mnde-tn-Oermnny binoc ulars can rench, n vInIii of utter doves tntlon. Onco thickly forested IiIIIh nnd rich ly cultivated valleys speckled with huppy villages; now n sodden, grayish, monotonous panorama of churned-up aoll, crisscrossed hero nnd thero with trenches, nnd only 1111 ocenNlounl stump or pile of crumpled stones to evidence Uh former beauty. II'h llko Notre Dame do Lorette, Vlmy, Wytseheto, MossliioH and I'aHSchoudacle Itldcu nil Ncrambled together. All tho forcoH of Din tiro fire, flood, hurricane und earthquake could not Imvo wrought such havoc. Only man could do It. Even looking backward, tho only discernible color Ih thu green of the distant IiIIIh, thu tdmttcrcd red tiled roofs of thu fortress city, and tho clusters of purple-wreathed graves where sleep tho men who mndo tho motto of Verdun "On no pusso pas" (No trespassers allowed I) a reality. ' Tho ncriuuiiH now occupy much thu same lino an thut from which the crown prince launched his costly but futllo attack upon thlfl stronghold. Pre viously wo had traversed tho valley o the Murno wliosu lnndscnpu bourn am ple testimony to tho characteristic French traits of dnsh, mobility nnd re flourcefulness; Just as Verdun's piti fully burrowed hillsides will iilwnyH bo n monument to thu hitherto less famil iarly known French qualities of tiro loss energy and dogged stubbornness. TttTTTTTTTtTTTTTTTTTTTTtT i CONQUEST AND KULTUR t 1 ! I From nil this It nppcnra tlmt ' ' tho Monroo doctrlno cannot bo ! ! Justified. ... So It rcmntus ' only what wo Europeans huvo '. described ns nn Inspiration. And so It remains only what wo Eu- ' ropeaiiB almost universally con- ; ; slder It, nn Importlnenco. With n noisy cry they try to mako an ! '. Impression on tho world nnd succeed, especially with tho stu- I! pld. Tho Inviolability of tho ' American soil Is Invoked with- ! '. out thero being nt hand tho ; ; slightest means of warding off I thu attack of n rcspectnblu ISu- ropcun power. Johnnnes Vol- lert, Alldeutschn Illntter, Jan. I! 17, 1003. I Usually regarded ns a modern dls cubo, appendicitis vna known In Egypt nioro than 0,000 years ngo nnd was 'accurately described In records thut still exist. L Then on through tho forest of tho Vosgos down to where Franco In tho curly days of tho war plucked, and still tightly clutches, 11 bit of what used to bo hers. It's only a fow nquiiro miles Just about equal to tho plot of ground Hint Ilelglum now holds of her own ravished country hut entirely sulllcleut to exemplify and Justify un other lino French trait, Intense pride of accomplishment. "Alsnco ItecoiiqulKol" proudly reads tho sign over 11 little shop fronting tho badly scarred old church In thu public squnro of Tliunii. Nearly nil tho old signs huvo been changed from Herman, but soino huvo been retained Just for souvenirs. In this corner of tho "lost FLYERS BREAK ALL Purls. 80 innny speed nnd distance records huvo been shnttered nnd set nnd then surpassed again by allied aviators that. It Is doubtful If tho best performnnces will ever bo straightened out nnd set down on tho olllclnl books. Hut nvlntors Imvo been flying from points In IJnglund nnd In Franco to thu Itnllun front every day, ns tho Ilrltlsh nnd French war olllces hnvo outdouo themselves In their efforts to rc-euforco tho French aviation serv ice. Pilots Just breveted nnd thero wero 11 certnln number of Americans among them soared Into tho nlr, nnd following thu lend of an Instructor or some veteran nvlutor, net their courso for Itnly. Youths who hnd not ant In nn air plane two months before, duplicated tho feat of Itolnnd Ourros which startled tho world n few yenrs ngo; the traversing of the Itnllun Alps. Flights of -tOO, 000 nnd 000 miles with out stop wero common occurrences. And In nil enses thu nverngo speed maintained wns considerably tnoro Mum 100 miles nn hour. Ono of aenernl Cndornn's first re quests to tho French nnd Ilrltlsh wns for re-enforcements In nlrplnnes nnd pilots. Tho Germans tind assembled several scoro of their best fighting nnd bombarding cscndrlllcs on the Itnllun front nnd hud struck ruddenly In n body. In ono dny the Ocrmnn forma tions hnd practically cleared tho nlr of Itnllan fighting aircraft, nnd they followed up this advantage by s nil lug over Into tho Itnllan lines squadron nfter squadron of bombing machines. Incendiary bombs nnd aerial torpe NONE TOO OLD S That scrvlco to ono's country recosnlr.es no ngo limit Is evident from this photograph showing Frenchmen too old to flght constructing trenches nnd dugouts behind thu bnttlo lines. ISnch mnn, ti volunteer, has released a younger man for duty nt tho front Many of theso men served Franco In 1870. WORK FOR MAIMED Plan for Re-Educatlon of Dis abled American Soldiers. To Do Helped to Rehabilitate Them- selves as Useful Cltlrens of tho Republic. Washington. Now that our troops huvo begun to actually tako part In tho great war, n grcnt jevblem will soon huvo to bo faced. It will soon have to bo faced. It will huvo to do with tho re-education of disabled sol diers. It will not bo enough for tho government to placo thoso who nro permanently disabled In soldiers' homes nnd allow them to complcto their oxlstenco In mntcrlnl comfort, but thoso who nru partially disabled so as to muko them unable to return to tho occupations nnd trades which they left to servo tholr country will huvo to bo ro-uducutcd In soma employ ment which will enublo thorn to rehu- provinces" thero In no doubt how tho peoplo stand. Aro thu peoplo of Franco wor-wenry? Yen; so tiro thoso of nil Ihirope. But they nro not wenry to the point of oven thinking of giving up tho strug gle, despite, or, nither, because of, the fact that of nil tho allies France's bur den nnd her sncrlllco In blood and des olated homes has been the greatest. In n tour of tho wnr zone nnd of the provincial towns behind the lines, from tho chnnnel to Hwltxerlund, ono may find overywhero nbiindiuit evidence of 11 relentless determination, among both soldiers and homufolks, to see the thing through. lint tho predominant sentiment In Franco todny Is ono of Intense grntl tudo Hint America has come In to help. Any Heeling doubts ns to tho outcome wero dispelled with thu arrival of the Sammies. AERIAL RECORDS does wero rained on tho Italian avia tion fields nnd tho linngnrs and Italian aircraft burned together. Iloth thu French nnd Ilrltlsh general staffs reullzed tlmt without Its "eyes" tho Italian army might wander Into traps nnd pitfalls. And they gnve the order nt onco to rc-enforco the Italian aviation scrvlfo with their own cs cndrlllcs. Tho order went out to nil tho aviation camps nnd schools In Hnglnnd and Franco. Within n few hours tho orders wero being executed. Pilots having passed their brevets wero mustered out on the fields. They were told to wear two leather and rub ber union suits Instead of tho single garment they usunlly wear. The gaso line tanks wero filled and they wero Instructed to follow the lender. Then they soared off In long coveys, ull headed toward tho Itallnn Alps. Cover Vatt Territory. 8ome of tho Ilrltlsh machines went clear across Knglnnd, traversed the channel, then soared over Franco nnd scnled the Alps and proceeded straight on to tho Tagllumento line without ever descending. French machines flow from remoto corners of the re public over tho grcnt mountain range nnd ncross tho plains of Lombnrdy to Udlne, arriving there before tho Itnl Ions wero forced to retrcnt from that strategic railway center. I mny not even vaguely Indlcnte the number of nlrplnnes that were sent from Franco and I'nglnnd, but I can stnto thut tho number of nccldcnts wns us low ns the average total for a day at any of thu big aviation schools. TO SERVE FRANCE bllltnto themselves ns useful citizens of tho republic. Although tho plans hnvo not pro gressed enough to mnko n forinnl announcement of their scope, It Is known tlmt tho wnr depnrtment, tho surgeon general's olllce, Is working on tho theory that tho re-educntlon must commence In tho hospital while tho patient is convalescent. Tho government will probnbly fol low closely tho plans of tho Cunndlun government, which Is to contlnuo Its military control over tho badly wounded until n competent bonrd con sisting of olllcers, doctors nnd lay men pronounco tho re-educntlon com plete nnd tho soldier rendy for now endenvors. According to accepted theories, tho ro-employment of tho fncultlea begins In tho hospltnl bed with games nnd puzzles which cxclto tho lutcrest nnd tako tho mind off misfortunes. Tho bndly maimed often loso courago nud hopo, nnd hnvo often after previous wurs Insisted upon being supported by tho Government In soldiers' homes without effort on their own behalf. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. J I Tony Itoss and Lawrence Whltscttc, f (Sold Hill, who recently IchhciI tho Reynolds Conner mine, six miles went of Waldo, aro making progress Jn de velopment work und expect soon to bo shippers. Withycombo Cottage Is tho namo which tho Bonrd of Control has given to tho now ?20,000 woman's dormitory nt tho Stnto school for thu feeble minded. Tho now cottage was accept ed by tho bonrd Tuesday. Tiio State Land Board has granted to parties represented by Samuel Con- nell, of tho Sam Conncll Lumber com pany, of Portland, the right to make teats of the waters in Summer and Abort lakes, in Lake county, to deter mine the extent of tho soda deposits in such lakes. Captain C. E. MacFarianc, repre senting Colonel DIsque, is on Coos Bay consulting with miJImen, logging operators and owners of timber on the peninsula, with a view to opening sev eral new camps in tho spruce district, that the program for acroplano stock may bo increased heavily. Tho warm, wet weather of tho past month has been a boon to the stock men of Umatilla county. In the hills whero, during tho last few weeks of fall, tho range was dry as tinder. the grass is now green and succulent nnd the stock is making up for the lean months of late summer. "No ono need fear to put in any kind of a farm crop, as the govern mcnt will see that the farm labor sit uation is taken caro of," declared State Labor Commissioner Hon", and he is advising some inquirers who have written in as to tho possibility of the farm labor situation during the next harvest to go ahead and plant. Tho State Fair Board, at its annual meeting Tuesday night reached a defi nite conclusion to construct a coliseum at tho State Fair grounds tho coming summer, and instructed an architect to prepare plans for a building which will scat 15000 persons. It will cost 522, 000. This building will be used for horse and cattle shows and judging. J. M. Peters, superintendent of the Clatskanio River hatchery, says the 5,000,000 young Chinook salmon now in the ponds aro in excellent condition. The warm rains of the present winter period seem to agree with the salmon fry nnd an exceptional output will bo tho result this season. About 2,000, 000 of the fry will be liberated in June and tho rest in August. Tho quarterly report of State En gineer Lewis, completed Wednesday, shows that 109 permits to appropriate water and 10 permits to construct reservoirs were issued during the quar ter. Theso permits include for the irrigation of land amounting to 10,639 acres nnd water supply for three mu nicipalities, the estimated cost of con struction nmounting to $294,887. Lnno county fruitgrowes are apply ing scientific grafting of trees to make up for n shortago of bees for the pol lination of cherries and pears, accord ing to C. E. Stewart, county fruit in spector. Waterhouso cherries nro be ing grafted into Lamberts, Bings and Royal Anns, as theso three varieties nro self-sterile, nnd Fall Butter pears nro being grafted into Bnrtlett trees, also self-sterile. Hnir-pulling rather than a suit in court settled an alleged case of aliena tion of nITectiona nt Albany Friday. Tho affair got into tho Polico court, however, ns nn assault case. When Mrs. Charles Simpson met Mrs. W. O. Wimmer on the street tho former ac cused tho latter of alienating her hus band's nfToctions. Tho charge was de nied nnd n fistic encounter ensued. Tho Lincoln County court has cre ated the office of county agricultural agent for Lincoln county. Tho amount of $1600 wns appropriated for tho current year. O. M. Plummer, of Portland, appeared beforo the board and mndo a plea for tho appropriation, from tho standpoint of food conserva tion nnd as a special representative of tho department of Agriculture, at Washington. Stnto Labor Commissioner HofT has inaugurated tho enmpnign for obtain ing exact data on farm holp and crop conditions for 1918 throughout tho state, by sending out letters to nil granges and farmers unions in Oregon outlining tho plan to bo adopted. Ho also designated tho first week in Feb ruary ns tho period for concentrated effort to got information from tho farmers to bo sent to tho Labor de partment for compilation. Money supposod to belong to E. J. Frnsier, who loft Eugcno recently af tor being convicted on a chnrgo of forgory, was found on Gearhart Beach Tuesday afternoon. Tho money is now in possession of City Marshal Ober, of Gearhart, and tho authorities at Eu gono hnvo been notified. Itis thought Frasior becamo demented and com mitted suicido. A man bearing his description was scon in Gearhart. HOMESTEADS FOR SOLDIERS Opening of Reclamation Projects Ad vocated by Irrigation Congress. Yakima, Wash. Soldiers and sailors returning from tho European war will find tho government ready to give them homesteads on reclamation proj ects and prepared to set them up in business if legislation projected by tho Washington Irrigation institute ia en acted by that time. Legislation fol lowing tho Australian plan as outlined by Dr. El wood Mead in his address be fore a recent meeting of tho institute will bo fostered here. At a meeting of the executive - com mittee of the instituto held here Fri day evening, tho proposition was dis cussed at length and a legislative com mitce composed of R. K. Tiffany, chairman, E. M. Chandler, George E. Rodman, D. V. Northland and E. F. Benson was appointed to draft a bill to be presented to congress through Washington members. The commit tee also decided on the date and place for the next annual meeting, fixing December 17 and 18, 1918, at Yakima. Cotton Grown Along Columbia. Ellensburg, Wash. T. Brulett, of McPhcreon's sheep ranch at Rich mond's ferry, on the Columbia river, has raised some cotton. It is of fair quality and good color, but is not long and had not fully matured. Those in terested in its cultivation think that because of the long growing season and the hot, dry summers, and the fact that the country there is only 435 feet above sea level, the cotton may be grown on a commercial scale. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT Wheat Bulk basis for No. l'grade: Hard white: Bluestem, Early Bart, Allen, Galgalus, Martin Amber, $2.05. Soft white Palouse bluestem, forty fold, White valley, Gold Coin White Russian, $2.03. White club Little club, Jenkins club, white hybrids, So nora, $2.01. Red Walla Walla Red Russian, red hybrids, Jones fife, Cop pei, $1.98. No. 2 grade, 3c less. No. 3 grade, 6c less. Other grades handled by sample. FlourPatents, $10. Millfeed Net mill prices, car lots: Bran, $30 per ton; shorts, $32; mid dlings, $39; mixed cars and less than carloads, 50c more; rolled barley, $60 62; rolled oats, $62. Corn Whole, $75 per ton; cracked, $76. Hay Buying prices delivered: East ern Oregon timothy, $27 per ton; val ley timothy, $2526; alfalfa, $23.50; valley grain hay, $24; clover, $22; straw, $8. Butter Cubes, extras, 50c per pound; prime firsts, 49Jc Jobbing prices: Prints, extras, 5253c; car tons, lc extra; butterfat, No. 1, 56 57c, delivered. Eggs Ranch, current receipts, 451c per dozen; candled, 47471c; se lects, 50c Poultry Hens, heavy, 2425c per pound; light, 23c; springs, 2425c; stags, 1820c; ducks, 2025c; geese, 15(j817c; turkeys, live, 24c; dressed, choice, 35c Veal 1718c per'pound. Pork 19c per pound. Vegetables Tomatoes, $22.75 per crate; cabbage. l2ic per pound; let tuce, $1.752.25 per crate; cucum bers, 85c$1.75 per dozen; peppers, 15c per pound; cauliflower, $2.252.50 per crate; sprouts, 10llc per pound; artichokes, 85c$1.10; garlic, 78Jc per pound; squash, 2Jc; celery, $3.25 4.25 per crate; carrots, $1.25 per sack; beets, $1.501.75; turnips, $1.50; parsnips, $1.501.75. Potatoes Burbanks, $1.251.40 per hundred; Yakimas, $1.50 1.65; sweet potatoes, 5c per pound. Onions Uuying price, $1.75 per hundred. Green Fruits Apples, $12.25 per box; pears, $2.25; grapes, 8&c per pound; cranberries, Eastern, $18 per barrel. Hops 1917 crop, 1518c per pound; 1916 crop, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 5060c per pound; valley, 5055c; valley lamb, 4550c; mohair, long staple, full year, 50e; six months, 4050c; curry, 35 40c. January 9, 1918. Cattlo Med. to choice steers. . . .$ 9.7510.25 Good to med. steers 8.60 9.50 Com. to good steers 7.00 8.40 Choice cows and heifers. 7.00 7.60 Com. to good cows and hf 6.75 7.00 Cannors 3.00 5.25 Bulls 4.50 6.75 Calves 7.0010.00 Stockersand feeders.... 6.00 8.00 Iloga Prime light hogs $15.4515.60 Prime heavy hogs 15.6015.65 Pigs 13.5014.60 Bulk 15.60 Sheep Western lambs $14.5015.00 Valley lambs 14.0014.50 Yearlings 12.6013.00 Wethers 12.0012.50 Ewes 9.5011.00