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About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1919)
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Should you wish any other magazine or paper pub lished in the United States we will make you a reduced price jf clubbed with the News. Idaho Statesman (dajly) and E. V. News, regular price $8; our offer to you now $7.00 paily Qregqnian and E. V. News, regular price $8, for $8.00 Portland Journal, daily and E. V. News, regular price for both $7, yours for $5.90 Portland Telegram.c'aily.and E. V. News, regular price $7; you may have 'em for $5.75 Weekly Hed Rock Democrat and E. V. News, regular price $3.50, get 'em for $3.10 Let us send for your periodicals; we'll save you money. McDowell Bros. & St. John APIARY Bee Keepers Supplies of all kinds Hives, Supers, Cards, Foundation, etc. All orders filled promptly and satisfaction guaranteed Write, phone or call for prices. C. C. St. John, Manager, - Richland, Oregon J the Federal Reserve Bank at Chandler Blue Bird Zephyrs Devonshire Cloth Waldorf DraperU Truville Chalies 1 for Children Waists. E. V. News and The Youth's Companion, total regular price $4, you get 'em for $3.25 McClure's and E). V. News, regular price $4, now $8.00 Scribner's and E. V. News, regular price $G, our spe cial 1919 bargain price $4.75 Outing and E. V. Nows, the total price $5, to you now $4.00 New West Magazine and E. V. News, price $4, now $2.75 Other periodicals at club rates. BclTciinS! WINS FAME AND WAR DECORATION Anzac Colonel Wounded and 0i dcred Home Enlists and Fights Again. IS RECOGNIZED IN FRANCE General Sends for Him find Gives Him Commission Decorated With Order of St. Michael nnd St. George. Loudon, Tho story of a colonel of Australian Inr.mtry who was wound- oil In the Giil!!)" i campaign mul went back to Aiiitniilu. but who concealed his rauk ami re-enlisted hn a private to servo ulili tho Australian! In France, has edited, to tho esteem In which Austral I it u are held In London. Col. Charles Melville Mac NiiKhten, tho hoo of tin story, Id hailed an a num of gallantry and grit. Ho was the .sun of Sir Mcl villa Mac Nughtcn, chief uf thevcrlinliml Investi gation depnitment of Scotland yard, says tho Dally Mall, and was practlc Ins law In Ai u.ill.i when the war he gun. lie wa. I lie major In coiaiuaiul of tho First brigade whleh landed at Ansae Cove m Gnlllpoll penlnsuln. Within two days he was wounded three times. After recovery In Kng land he returned to Calllpoll and led his battalion In their Immortal ehnrgu nt Lone l'lne. Ordered Back to Australia. After the eaeuutiou of Gnlllpoll he served for a time In Kgypt and wax sent from th re to Knglund, suffering from wounds and fever. Surgeons re fused him prr'iil"ilnn to return to ac tive service, and he was sent to Au tralla ns no "d In command of au Australian tr lining ramp. One day In- slipped away from tho camp und joined u replacement bat talion In Queensland under the name! of Charles Melville, and soon nfler j ward was back In Knglnnd training on Siilhl.ury pluln as 1'ilvate Melville, lie v.as quickly promoted to be cor poral, and ono day was asked by Ids commanding olllcer: 'Voi-pornl, do yon think you could drill this company?' Having commanded n brigade, the corporal put the company through lt:i paces like tho veteran he was. Recognized by Officers. Hack In Franco again, ho was rec ognized by officers who had known him In Galllpoll ns the daring and brilliant soldier they hnd called "Fighting Mnp," General Iilrdwood, with whom he had sqpxd nt Lone l'lne, sent for hlra nnd gave him n commission. Not long afterward Colonel Mac Nnghtep was ngaln sent ns an Invalid to Knglund, where he was summoned to Buckingham palace to receive frn,m tho king a decoration ns a companion of tho order of St. Mlchuel nnd St, Qeorgo, which had icen conferred upon him several years before for his gallantry at Gal llpoll. While serving In tl)0 ranks In France ns "Corpprnl Melville" ho had been personally congratulated by the commanding genera for valor at, Mcsslncs rldgo. I Mnc Nnghten'H fighting days are now over and he Is compelled to ree-; pgnlzo this fact, for, as ono of hUl men put It, "ho la riddled like :v colander and. It Is only his fighting j spirit which keeps hlui alive,'' "GERMAN DOGS" Kaiser lllll and Crown 1'rlnce, two Ccrman dogs that wtye so clnlNtenod ly Prlvnto IloldpHoa Cloyo ind Djmlel i mi m wis pwi mi. Neson o$ tho F.lvo llumjred and TTifr. t)'-rtli engineers ntitl'Tlirr'n Iluudrt'd arid Seventy-second Infantry, who cap- turejl thette dogs from tho (leruians. Roth these colored soldiers woro woundi'd In action and returned td this country aboard tho transport Gcbrgo 'Washington. . . rMnma run Diuiion ouuuicno Dill Providing for Dig Subsidies to Be Introduced In Parlia ment. London. Pinna havo been perfected for the Introduction In parliament o( a bill .'-ranting subsidies amounting to millions of pounds sterling fur the purchase of small farum for men ills charged from the rtrltlidi army, accord ing to announcement here, The meas ure will be given precedence In iwr llament, It Is said While the govern ment will bear the coi.t of the work. It I said, local authorities wuj ho asked to afcslt In carrying out do tally. sera bun spie 0 SHO Anollicr Was Hanged and Many More Arc Serving Prison Terms. TRICKED BY DETECTIVES Fclss News Manufactured 8o That Germany Might Ho Misinformed- Spies Were of Very Lltthj Service to Germany. London. In tho ptmcRston of u sergeant-major of thu British iiillitary Urol police Is a peculiarly made leath er lni or, rather, a series of n traps for whleh Madamu Tinwaud'a donbtleas would pay a laigo sum or III60C.V. It Is the strap with which German Lcpb-s caught In this country and con demned to denth were fastened In u spt'cln! chair at the Tower of Loudon prior t i being shot. Lllte n wise man, the MTgennt-maJor had the strap made to his own design and paid for It with hs own money. It Is to him n priceless relic of thu great war. Germany's vaunted spy system, like the overbooincd German navy hardly realized expectations. There were, It Is true, a great mnuy spies Ii) Knglnnd, both before nnd after the war acting on behalf of the kaiser. Most of them were neutrals, and came originally from South American states. The Krltlsh secret iservlco resem bled Its magnificent navy. It did Its work ns silently and effectively, and tho ncccBBiiry reticence observed as to Its doings contributed very materially to tho dlscomllturo felt by tho Ger man government owing to tho mis lending Information which "fell" Into fJermaa hands. Mythical Barrafjo fn Channel. Ajj a matter of fact, tho naval In telligence department, under Rear Ad miral Hall, acting la conjunction with tho censor's department, provid ed false Information to tho Germans, an Instanco being tho mythical Strait of Dover submarlno bnrrugo rovcalcd by Sir Itoger Keycs. Nearly nil Oorroany'H epics in this country attempted to fonvnrd their information by post. Uut thanks tq tho censor's staff It was rarely theso letters, oven although written In in visible ink, went undetected. All spies woro not arrested Imme diately they wcro detected. The Ilrlt Islt secret servlco, over considerate, allowed them to send nnd receive let ters and collect information, but it re served tho privllego of opening tho correspondence both ways and mak ing alterations likely to bo of moro use to the allies than to Gcrmnny. It Is (lllllcult to estimate tho valuo of tho Information obtained by this method. Tho Hun, with Ids profound disrespect for Ilritlsh finesse, prob ably never will believe that Britain could bo guilty of inich astuteness. It Is certain that Germany obtained very little that was useful from hor spies In Knglnnd. From thu outbreak of war tho ports woro too carefully watched to penult of much leakage Up and down tho cast and south west coosis j)f JKjydjimJ .wcrc'i IjpW' & I !N BRlTAiN j cvor, many "hydros,11 pnnjla) hotels, built rlgljt on tile sen, wlh '(lirgu cop, per domes twnlng jirlgjilly for many iidjM out ht sen. Ahd tli'u 'malinger ! wnn'nftch German) "' WkM Germnil m'Im wei'j executed ' H'l" country, while iipiny more, nru ' undergoing long lernm or penul scrvb , tlldo. For olivlinm reasons tie names 1 of many never were revealed, Tim Imperial government continued to communicate with them blissfully unaware lint their ngeiils had gone to n bouriiu from which not oven a German spy return, The Ilritlsh se cret service kindly ncted as tlut spy'.i deputy. Executed In Tower. Tim uwcullon of these spls Is nat urally au unpleasant subject, but nulla tho Icm luterciitlng. Afler the secret trial and condemnHlon to death thu spy was Inkn to the tower, therp to await the divad itimtaous In the early hour of tho morning. Taken from bin cell by h pnrtv of military )mIIc Uio tpy was fctrnppod to u t-hulr In n ! iundrngl of the tower. There, fac ins him, alKtut ten pee dUtaul, wni n firing party, uauallx eight meu, from the battalion of guard on duty at tho time. A low Instruction from (hit offlcei' In coiunvnd to aim at the heart, a inrn order "Flrcl" a bt rst of flame, and the crack of eight Hllc hi.d end ed tho career of another of (Setmnny'a tools. One Hy wun bunged nt Wormwood Senilis prison; seven olheis were shot. Tho haniclng cost about $100. and, coming to the coiieluslnii that It would be Just as effective, to aayiiulh lug of considerably oheiipwr. It wa i decided to shoot all spies at the low er. I.'lttht cartridges at three tenia enrh wia a much mere appropriate valuation of a German. Of the female stilus much doubt less will be written by flettnn writer ef the future. Llbe the men. they suc ceeded In getting comparatively little Information of value out of ' the coun try. Most of them, nnlther young nor iieautlful like the spy of the nloiy writer, nru languishing behind prison Wall and will remain there for seme years to come. ItrttUh chivalry for bade their execution. Poverty on Increaso. Unlontown. I'a. Mesplte the grrnt prosperity In this country during thu period of the war, with thousands of coal miners and others enrnlng from $.1 to S'-'fi a day, thu poorhouitc shows a large Increase In the number of In mates. RELATIVES TO tit- INFORMED War Department Will Keep Them Posted on the Condition of Wounded Soldiers. Washington. Relatives of sick and wounded soldiers admitted to military hospitals In thu United States will bo advised of the lyhcrcahouts and condi tion of lljo patients at the time of ad mission if infer n plan soop to be put Into operation by the war department. Combined with the order Issued by General Pershing to the jnen overseas lo write home, It Is believed by war department nlllclils that tlje plan will Klve relatives prompt Information na to all WQtiudcd or sick men, HospltnlB In this country, It was an nounce), would be required lo send card a reporting Immediately to tho nearest of kin when n soldier Is ad mitted what his wound or nllinent Is .mil )ds genera! physlcnl condition, Truusfcrs of men from one hospital to anptlter plso will be reported, Kills Dig Eagle, Independence, Mo. A bald rnglo, thive feel ftpm the beak to the tip of tils tali and weighing nine mid one tut 1 1 pounds, was killed by a Term la Inner near here. The bird measured fovea feet from tip to lip of the wlngu find 1ms been mounted by 'i taxidermist, lUU; I fill 1119 llille, Swallows His Money n Uoslon. Tony Grandelto of A the dory ilshlng licet caught n eod, and In Its stomach he found a gold Unglhli sovereign. V Along me waieriiuut morn in ki a dlfferoncj of opinion. Ono is ft that tho fish feared I fit- sharl; would got his money and prefer- M rid (0 bo ills f.un biiiilx'i'. The J other Is Unit the tun ,wut up J the coin from some ship Hull had &j been sunk by 11 subimirlbe.