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MONDAY. ..MAUOH' ..12. .1!" PAGE TWO THE SPRINGFIELD .NEWS The Springfield News sJ. C. DIMM, WALTER R. DIMM Editors and Publishers published Every Monday and Thursday RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION Ono Year .... $1.60 81x Months . ... .76 Throo months .... .60 Advertising rates furnished on application. - ' I 1 THE LOOKING GLASS ' " Some folks nro just naturally so crabbed It makes you think they baro swallow od the vinegar cruet;' for fair, and you feel alt puckered up and squelched ' every tlmo they manage ; to grind out a "How do doM OUR CORRESPONDENTS CAMP CREEK Ruby Crab tree MARCOLA Audrey Lewis THURSTON, Mrs. Walter Edmiston DONNA Charles Heck i in your direction., COBURQ Elale Anderson I . CEQAR FLAT Mrs. Anne Morse ' And wo happen to know some west Springfield; L Mrs. Clara Chllds I But we Just concluded they had been r Mwnser of the YYHMmette Valley Editorial AsMltlen. disappointed in love, T jQNDAYy1.MARCH 12; 191?. And now we feel sorry for the sisters. THE OLH FLAG rt I Because we too .had a lowr once and we took him home to exhibit to. I Vf. tt with tba aM Sat U9. W. to tii akyJ It 11t sn&H'tiia el S; Tfeta Bome eaa at dial fe - Cb, bs,- wtUL-xo eW Sx! ' If pefeee skaiaatta"eJ4 tbm, It'ato&'titiltia wsri Tar. ni act tfca old toe Bon out of tb frayt Shea why puU tha etd Sac A4owa la gjtroyT . Tmu JastJea'tharKXV K, Tls Justice that cells; Tls mora than arthbon To hang from oar walla; Twu truth that unfurled It out In tha past: If troth It did symbol The symbol must last. Twos bome love that gathered Its votaries then; Tls home love that brings them Together again. Twos patience and valor That kept It so long; Then patience and valor ilust still be our song. the family -i -2 and he looVed us 'oil oxer . a ' and decided he'd take oar youngest sister.. r . . .. , ' a a jAnd our llfa4has been 'blighted w ever since. Game Laws Are Greatly Changed Up, up, with the old nag I Up, up, to the sky! Oh, God, bless the old flag! Thy truth must not diet -Bv. James Deans In Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. MEW BRITISH AIRPLANE TAKES 21 UP A MILE legislature Makes Hunting With Dogs Unlawful; Says Women Must Have License, Too. E. C Hills, state deputy game wa- jden, has Just received a communica , Uon from Carl D. Shoemaker, state game warden, which contained several ' points of interest lo local anglers and . hunters. An excerpt from the letar I follows: j "The session of the legislature lust J closed passed a game code which is . !a the interest of game instead of the sporUmsn, in other words. It Is a I code for the conservation of game. The code" of which a number of the Huge Machine Designed to Carry principal parts follow, goes into etren Civ MonKinn flnt nnrl 1 Cfl1 . -M.'iy -'1 W IS III lt Wl II I Ik WUIIW Ul it aw WW Pounds of Bombs. The Aeroplane, a London publication, says a newly designed giant aeroplane in a test trip has risen to an altitude of 7,000 feet, carrying a pilot and twenty passengers. This is" the lirst news that the super aeroplanes planned three months ago have been successful. Ever since the "big. push" last year the British and French constructors have been devel oping larger and larger machines. De tails of the most recent show that they have ' as high as 1,000 horsepower, divided between four and sometimes two water cooled motors. The complete equipment of these giant planes calls for four and some times six machine guns, at .least two of which are three luch. They will carry more than 1,500 pounds of bombs and hure a sped of between 85 and 100 miles an hour. This is the "tlrst time that a single aeroplane has been reported as carry' "No prrson or persons shall ma.co use of a dog In hunting, pursuing or 1 killing any of the game of the State of Oregon. '"Bfith men and women are comp-j I ed to tivke out a hunting license under , the new game code, although women r re oxompt from purchasing a fisiin's liqauso The price of a hunting J c ensc is $1.50 instead, and the '.?cc truv for an . Jolnig license. "In ganiu dl'-ir'ct number 1 the pea vii on door cprrs August 15 and ct-n r.fun u!li! October 15. The oir limit hits' been reduced to two. "Tho cpen ctason all over the '.fdes oi 'ilgmlory, b:idp hereafter will le I rit: 'Jitoner 1 to January 15. "Tho Chinese pheasant hen has be'-n fixterl"! and it is unlawful .o 1.1)1 the same at any time hereafter. In same ditrlct number 2 ihe open season on deer begins September 1 and continues through until October lng twenty-one passengers. The giant 31. The bag limit Is two Instead of Sikorsky aeroplanes built by the Rus- three, elans have carried ten and twelve, and j .In me district number 2 the open an American tyK of super-hydroaero-1 aeasonTon sage hen8 begInB AuEU8t x ytuuv uua uuim uLtessiuii wilu tuts same number. PHOSPHORUS SMOKE USED TO SAVE SHIPS TOCOTUPIIGGEST 1 v4to. i FARM IN WORLD 22,000 Acres In Horili Dako ta to Bo Divided, TO MAKE SMALL FARMS Famous Oalrymple Holding Ware Ac quired In Early Days of Northwest. Change In Agricultural Conditions Brings About Decision to Split Up Vast Tract. The famous Dalrymplc farm In Traill and Cass counties, X. I)., said to bo tho largest in the world and kuown wher ever agriculture on a mammoth scale to talked-of, la. to dltmppar. That which remains of the groat holdings of Oliver Dalrymplc, la hU day the great eat: farmer lu the world, comprint 22, 000 acri. It Is to be cut up Into about 100' saall farms of' ICO to 320 acres, says the Mlririeapolut JbaroaL The seed that Is already In the Dal rymple seedhousea oa the farm for the 1017 crop will go lata the ground this year,- fortthe Upd Is fall .powtd aad, ci ready a can be at, tub time for the spring planting, "hut when the 1017 crop la taken o&T'the land that will be the end of the Dalrymple farm. Oay T Benansa Farms Past. CitseUbB. Valley City. Fargo aud other prosperous North Dakota town's will be glad to see the big farm brokeu up. Time was when these bonanza farms were a, great asset, and the pub licity that their successful operation gave to the northwest at a time when many people supposed grain could not profitably be raised that far north was worth millions, l'.ut eiouonikully North Dakota' has changed. Oliver Dalryuiple. who was a Scotch man and n skilled farmer, operated n 3,000 acre farm south of St. Paul prior to 1S73. That made him an agricultur ist of some note eren then. In 1S75 Oliver Dalrymplc and bis brother. William I DalryniP'e. became Inter ested In North Dakota land. The Dalryinplcs Interested E. B W. J. and J. L. Uraudin, three brothers, of Tldloutc, Pa., also two eastern capital ists named Cass and Cheney. In, all 75,000 acres of land were bought- The Northern Pacltic.' to finance Itself In a period of tight money, was Issuing land, scrip w,Itb stock, and tho land was' ac quired this way In part, holding a num ber of farms that were of such size that each was remarkable In Itself. But the Dalrymple farm was tho largest of any. and after breaking 20.000 acres in 1S70 Mr. Dalrymple con tinued extending until at one time bo had in excess of 30.000 acres under cultivation. Show Piacs of tha Northwest. Visitors from every part of the Unit ed States and many from abroad camo to the farm ut harvest time to see the wheat. Writers for eastern publica tions enme to view and describe the farm. Many columns were written in magazines and eastern periodicals of the scale on which operations were conducted. The romance of the bo nanza farmer was written and rewrit ten. For twenty-five consecutive years nothing but wheat was raised on the Dalrymple arm. But for some years past crop rotation has been followed, and the farm has produced vast quan tities of flax, barley, rye, oats, millet and other crops In the process of rest ing and restoring the soil, and every year a portion has been laid In summer fallow. Oilier Dalrymple. his name knowulu Englaud, France and Oermnuy, him self n St. Paul resident In rilo winter Ume and a practical farmer on tho land In spring, summer and harvest time, died in 100S. There was somo cutting off of parcels of land before and after bis death, but even after that had been done bis two sons. .William Dalrymple and J. S. Dalrymple of Min neapolis, came into possession of near ly 22.000 acres. OFFERS A CONVICT REGIMENT. Cemmltitonar Lawls Would Rierult 1,200 From City Prisons. New York. Now York gangsters may yet rlvul the oxplnits of the upnclics of Paris on ihu.tlriug Hue, and the Amer ican gun muii mid the French blue devil may yet tic lidding side hy side. Ihir dcMc O. towls, qoinmlKidoner of correc tion, announced that ho had beeu In consultation with Major General Leon ard Wood regarding the advisability of recruiting a regiment of workhouso aud (HMiltvutlary Inmate lu the event of war between the Lulled States ntid Germany. Commissioner 1a? wis also consulted with Major General O'ltynn, commanding the national guard. Commissioner Iwts kihM;i of the ex ploits or the npnehes of Pari, tho out laws of the boulevards, who nro com parable to the gun men nnd gangsters of New York, In tho full of 1PH, when the German army was almost at the gqtes of Paris, n force of apaches so distinguished itself for dcsjicrnte fight ing (hat It won tho sobriquet of the bltio devils. The commissioner of cor rection believes that the aamo reckless Individuality SBd excess of physical ex uberance which enter Into the person ality of gang leaders and gang men would tend to make New York's work house and penitentiary population a valuable fighting force If oiBccrcd by strict disciplinarians. lAAyrtrVk lIlYVH .u MJMMM Whs. t : W tl at jiilalaW J ar-aiaaaaaaaw C V IS f KIM S H mm fm, Mr w POSTOFFICE AIDS AIR RACE. Dailgnataa Tranaoantlnantal Couraa aa an Official Mali "touts. Washington. Delivery of United States mall by aeroplane will be a feature of, the cross continents I race planned for next June, as the route of the contest will be 'designated aa an aerial mail route by the poalofflce de partment In ncccntlnir tho Arm rliih'n offer of I co-oiicratlon the second assistant post- master general, Otto Traegcr, says tu a l letter read at tho aeronautics exposi tion In the Grand Central palace. New York, by Alan ft. Uawlcy, president of tho club: , "Tho field superintendents of tho rail way mull service have presented to the deiartment thirty -seven practicable aeroplane mnll routes. The postoOIce department will appreciate It If you wllldcslgnatc n committee to co-ojKTntc with this bureau in making nu investi gation as to tho designation of such cities In various states us aerial ma. I stations, where satisfactory lauding places can bo provided." S. P. AND CENTRAL PACIFIC PERMITTED TO REMAIN UNITED (Continued from page one) instead of July 15, and continues un til August 31. "In game district number 2, winter fishing has been eliminated except for trout over 18 inches in length. "In Harney and Malheur counties, the open season on migratory birds begins on September 1C and continue i imHi norpmhor at. in ihn snmn ! panles. It Ib believed the government ' counties the open season on deer Is ! w"l appeal immediately to the United supremo court from the de cision. When told of tho decision today, William V. Herrln, chief counsel for the Southern Pacific said: Completely Hides Fleeing Vessels M II i m . . -- r- - - rrom u Boats Apparatus i tram Aucust is to octoher is. with a i states Disolaved In Philadelohia. : a& mit of two. - i "In Hood River county an opeu season on Chinese pheasants has been declared from October 1 to October The mysterious smoko apparatus trlth which British stcamshlns have been provided to protect them against j 10 wltl1 a ,jaK Umlt of three In any submarine attacks was seen for tho one day or not more than 10 during first time several days ago In Pblia- ' the season. delphla. Two drums nro attached to ' "The bag limit on trout has been the afterdeck, one on each sldo of the changed throughout tho state from 7r. ahlp. Each drum is filled with phos- t co t u or 35 d , ona Phorus. When the lookout sights a subma-1 " Hno an order is, given to fire tho phos- j Pliorus in tho drums. Almost Immo-, F,nds Watch After 2 Years, dlntely heavy clouds of black smoko -As Lowell Slkes was walking along begin to pour from the phosphorus con- tho fence which runs along A street tamers. The snip is euurely envelop- between Sixth and Seventh, Thursday ed in the smoke and leaves such a long .trail in Its wuko that the submarine Cannot locuto the fleeing merchantman. Fire British vessels now in the port 9t .Philadelphia are equipped with tho smokers." ,., ,.. Henry Fandrem has parcUased a Uetz 22 of the Fifth street garage In Jingeno, ho saw something shining in the mud. Upon examination, it proved to bo a gold watch; with tho name Calvtn Burns on a fob attached. The boy took tho watch to Mr, Burns, who said be had lost it over two years ago, while drlralg a laundry wagon for J, W Baker. The watch, which U an Elgin with a 20 year guarantee, ran along quite well upon being wound "It was the government's contention that tho Central and Sputherp Pacific were competitors and that, thoreforo, their control and management under ono ownership was In restraint of trade. Now tho court has found that this chargo was not fact and has dis missed the government's petition," Had the court decided in favor of tho government, it would have meant tho "unscrambling" of about IF.00,000, 000 in stocks. Many Attend Services. Walter Balley.speaklng on the theme of "Let Brotherly Lovo Continue," twas beard by a good crowd at the local Metnoaist cnurcti last evening, Reverond Bishop, pastor of tho church at Croawell, preached n good sermon, and drew many worohlppors, in the morning, SLATES MAY COME BACK. High Price of Paper Forces' Them Into Use In New Jersey. Pennsgrove, N. J. Slates may come into vogue again In south Jersey schools. In spito of objections to them on sanitary grounds, as a result of the shortage and increased cost of paper. County Superintendent of Schools Dixon has already issued an order to pupils of the Salem county schools to use both sides of the paper lu prepar ing written lessons. A number of organizations and church societies throughout this end of the state aro collecting and selling otd paper as nn effective method of raising funds for their various schemes. The most systematic paper saving cam paign in this part of the state is being conducted at tho new Du Pont vil lages, where a salvage department has been eslublltbed. Old paifcr Is regularly collected In wagons, and presses have been set up for baling it Into 100 pound bundles for shipment. BEAR IN RUSSIAN ARMY. Huge Animal Fights With a Regiment on French Front Petrograd. Fighting with tho Bus stun army In France is n huge bear from the Caucasian mountains, who seems to enjoy his sojourn ou the French front fully as much as his mus ters enjoy theirs. He Is tho mascot of ono of the Rus sian regiments that wero transported hulf.ivay round the world from tho Rus sian to the French front to show the solidarity of the nllics. When the tlmo comes for tho bear's regiment to go to tho front line trenches for Us six days of duty the bear goes along. He keeps tho all night vigils with the sentinels, am) as there is nothing else to cat but tho regular rations brought up from the rear he permits tho soldiers to divide their shnro with him. COUGARS EATING DOGS. Live Canines as Bait Very Popular Amanij Mountain Beaits. Los AHg(iles.-Joliu B, Miller, presi dent of the Southern California ICdlson company, tins encountered a. problem which ho did not consider when he built his country home In Llveouk can yon, nortli of Pomona, Inst summer Tl)o problem Is bow to get rid of the mountain lions. It not only Is worrying Mr. Miller, hiit threatens to spread to the county authorities for determination of tuo question whether or uot live dogs rauy bo gsod for bnt Reports from the Miller home wero that the tiuckrf of the lion wero as largo as a mnn'ti hand anil that the dis tance It covered when It leaped on the animal killed was fifteen feet. Hannibal Gets Mark Twain's Chair. Hannibal. Mu.-A willow chair, which was Mark Twain's favorlto scot, lias, ,been presented lo. tio 'boyhood lionp of the humarlBt lu Hniinlba by Albert BigcJow palpe. Accompanying It was a photograph taken by Twain mated in tbe chair In 1000, upon which tile humorist wrote: "This Is my best Mark Twain." 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FIRST NATIONAL BANK, EUGENE, OREGON Zm r MULTIPLIED POWER Is given all your advertising matter and other printing by the work of skilled, tasteful craftsmen, using up-to-date type, machmeryand judgment. There is no place now-a-days, for any but the best printing you can get the class of work executed here. 1 I I M The Springfield Phone 2 News I