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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1915)
.THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON, THURSDAY. SEPT. 30. 1915. FIVE A Wonderful Array Of Women's and Misses' Coats Priced from $4.95 to $50 We meet all mail order houses' prices. See our wonder coat at $5.95 THIS IS A GREAT SPECIAL You will be extremely pleased with all our values TRY SALEM FIRST v. v LIVES ARE LOST AND PHOPERTY DAMAGE IS GREA I News Coming In Slowly From Storm Stricken Territory of New Orleans W. P. Now Laying Rails South of Siuslaw River Eugene, Or., Sept. 30. The work of laying rails on that portion of the Wil lamette .Pacific grade just south of the Hiuslaw river was started this week, according to Ralph Moody, attorney for the Southern Pacific company, who lias returned from a trip to Mapleton and Cushman, in company with Engin eer II. P. Ilocy, in charge of construc tion. ' The big bridge ncros9 the Siuslaw will now permit the crossing of con struction trains so ,that the rails may be laid past Tsiltcoos Lake and as far as Lake Tahkenich, where work on a long trestle is now in progress. After the track is laid ballast trains Will be started out of the Natron pits. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 30. Thousands of dollars of dutnnge and several lives lost ere the estimated results today of th tropical cyclone which swept New Or leans yesterday. Wireless communica tion with vessels outside the city were the means available. These vessels said the storm had died down in the city, and has turned northeast wii diminished violence. Lake Fonchartrain was reported six feet over its banks, flooding the coun try for miles, while residents fled for their lives into New Orleans. . The delta dikes are reported to have crumbled at many points. Trains are marooned, and sorvice has halted between hero and the crescent city. Mobile escaped without serious loss, though the waves lashed over wharves :ind d:.maged 'evrul buildings. The death toll is believed to be the largest in small cities along Lake Pon chartrain . and the Mississippi. Miln burg and other New Orleans suburbs were reported under water. A long lane trestle was reported swept away be tween Bay St. Louis and New Orleans. New Orleans is without light, tele phone or trolley service. Oue of the big railway carbarns is reported to have been toppled over by the hurricane whose velocity rouged from 90 to 130 miles an hour. A number of houses, too, crashed into ruins. Fears were felt for rue Southern Pa cific Protesus, known yesterday to have been in the center of the storm. The revenue cutter Tallapoosa had ths liner by wireless yesterday morning, but sud denly this communication ceased. Much Property Wrecked. Shreveport, La., Sept. 30 Five to ten killed and much property wrecked was the reported toll in the New Orleans hurricane, according to advices reaeb ing here before wires were prostrated by the storm. - AH wire and train service with Now Orleans and the Louisiana-Mississippi eoast district went out last night. ! The Peavy Byrne sawmill at Kidr, La., waa destroyed by fire with a $0, 000 loss, -white the gale threatened to spread th. embers and wipe out th town. The Texas Pacific has annulled its service to New Orleans beeause of the danger of crossing the Mississippi. The Vieksburg, Shreveport & Fa eifio railroad dispatchers lest Vieksburg after a message from there said an east bound passenger train had been delayed two hours at the crossing because of the high wind. Tan Reported Killed. Beaumont, Texas, Sept. 30. Beports filtering In today over crippled wires from towns outside storm swept New Orleans indicated that the West Indian hurricane which hit that city Tuesday night and yesterday killed ten persona injured more than 100, and destroyed more than 1,000,000 worth of property. Direct communication with the city ia shattered, but reports declared the telephone, light and trolley systems were shut off, the Masonic temple, many schools and churches were badly damaged. Warnings by the weather bu reau were credited here with having saved many lives and much shipping. Peoplo fled into hotels or locked them selves securely in their homes, while shipping men saw to it that vessels rid ing in the harbor were securely anchor ed. Hence only smart crafts suffered from the fury of the storm. The force of the hurricane can he gathered from the foot that it swont through the city at a t:.!p of nearly 130 miles an hour, accenting to wireless reports. Washington, Sept. 30. The weather bureau todav was unable to communi cate with New Orleans, through it usual channels, but Imped to be nble to establish wireless communication before night. Increased Price of "Hop" Drives Fiends From Frisco San Francisco, Sept. 30. The in creased price of hop due to the passage of the Harrison act, March 1, has driv en 5,000 "dope fiends" from San Francisco, Secretary Zeh of the state board of pharmacy said 'today. On the streets and in the dens of San Francisco cocaine and morphine are selling "for 50 cents and tl.OO a "shot," where they sold for IS cents and 50 cents three months ago. Opium has becomo a luxury among its user, rising from $30 a tin to $t0 a tin. Driven by their cravings, thousands of victims of the drug are flocking in to Loa Angeles, where "hop" is some cheaper because it can be more easily smuggled into this country, via Mexico, Secretary Zeh said. OF SCENOF CONFLICT British and Moslem Battle On Site Made Famous by Fall of Man By J. W. T. Mason. New York, Sept. 30. A most import ant victory for the British has been gained in Mesopotamia in the heart of the territory iu which German states men planned to mnke future colonial expansion in Asia. When the English capture Kutsxel Amara, on the road to Bagdad, they made proDable the fall of the Arabian Nights city before the nd of the winter, tlerniaiiy'a ambi tions, therefore. In this most fruitful region must disappear .unless the Ger mans gain concessions in the peace con ference after the war. vThe Turks are demoralized and in sore need of munitions, though they outnumber the British. Tho Germans at Constantinople "have been prevented from reiuforoing Mesopotamia or they would have done so long'ligo. , A fresh Turkish army was sent out after tho British had crossed the legendary situ of the Garden of Eden, whore the Tigris and Euphrates join. They attempted to make flank attack from the west, but were routed in July when their ammuni tion was exhausted. BEAKS RAID MARKET. Josh Billings Said "EARLY IMPRESUNS ARE THE MOST LASTING : THE FIRST KISS AND THE FIRST LICKING CUM UNDER THIS HEAD." -FIRST IMPRESHUNS" OF A STORE ARE ALWAYS LASTING. So we endeavor to have our store attrac tive and modern; to have our clerks court eous and prompt. To make the first impres sion of our store as nearly correct as possible. We have the best lines of Ready-to-Wear Clothing, Hats and Furnishing Goods in Salem, and we want everyone to know it. New Suits $15-20-25-30 Winter Overcoats $15-20-25-30 Latest Fall Hals $2-3-4-5-6 FJorsheim Shoes $5-6-6.50-7 Hammond-Bishop Company Leading Clotheirs Nfw York, Sept. 30. Following on the heels of bull activity for several days past, the bears today raided the market, and sent prices tumbling. Sell ing was heavy in an excited market. A partial recovery had set in by after noon, but not before, many weak speculators' accounts had been wiped out. Tho market closed irregular. fc jjt )c sjc sfc st jc )c $c jfc )Jc sfc jfc WHEAT ADVANCES TODAY. Chicago, Sept. 30. September wheat jumped 11 points today iu the pit before closing, hitting $1.15 1-4. Because of delayed shipments due to bad weather, the shorts were caught and had to buy heavily to meet contracts today, the settlement, day. )c sfc sfc s(c sc sfc sc ifc jfc sc sfc "THE TOGGERY' 167 Commercial Street Plans to Make Study of Northwestern Apple Crop Washington, D. C, Sept. 30. Com plying with numerous requests from the growers' councils, chambers of commerce,, growers' and shippers' or ganizations in the slates of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, the office of markets and rural organization of tho United States department of agri culture b.n made plans to establish temporary headquarters in the north west for tho study of the distribution of the .1015 boxed npplo crop. Tho plun as outlined is bused upon assurance that the office of markets and rural organization will receive the co-operation of all those interested in the apple industry, for without this co opcralion the efforts of the office would not produce valuuble results. It is probable, that the field head- quarters for this work will be in Spo kane, 'because of the accessibility of that point to the apple territory in the northwestern states. The work which the office will do i not that of a telegraphic market news service, but rather contemplates the col lection by mail and the compilation of dnta and issuance of weekly bullctinn concerning tho shipments and destina tion of tho northwestern boxed apples. In this connection similar work will bo carried on to a certain extent in tho apple section of Colorado, Utah and California. A Y? 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