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REGULARLY IN THIS
CITY IS PRESENT PLAN
Portland Boxers Will Come to
This City To Reside and
WiD Open Club
In the belief that Salem sport lovers
will support clean and scientific box
ing matches, Portland men have been
persuaded to hold smokers in this city
at regular intervals and Bobby Evans,
manager of Billy Mascott and Al Som
mers is in Salem today looking over
the accommodations in this city. Evans
proposes to move to Sulem and to
bring Maseott and Sommers here to
live in case an athletic club is started
here.
The boxing matches which it ib pro
posed to stage are not prize fights by
any means and no "rough stuff" is
permitted. The boys are clean athletes
and since boxing is their game they
are pursuing no tactics that will harm
the sport in this city. Some of the
top notchers in Portland are willing to
come to Salem to box if they find sup
port in this city and as Sommers, who
weighs 158 pounds, and Mascott who
boxes at 122 , are among the top
notchers of Portland it will be rreees
sary to secure classy opponents for
them in order to put on a good card.
Bobby Evans wa9 looking out for a
liall and training quarters here today
and if they can be secured he will puil
off a smoker on February 22. The
police authorities have been present at
all of the smokers put on in the past
and as the bouts were of short dura
tion none of the boxers became dis
tressed and were able to pull off lively
boxing matches. No knockouts will
be permitted nor will any one sided
matches be allowed and as long as the
boys keep their bouts toned down to
clean sport they will be permitted ns
they aro in Portland and other cities
of the northwest.
THEY HUNTED COYOTES
Fifteen or twenty men with guns, to
say nothing of the dogs, chased a lone
coyote all day Monday in the Saoitiam
bottoms west of Stayton. Several got
sight of Mars' Wolf, and it is said on
good authority that Art Elder shot at
him eight separate and distinct shots.
However, there was something the
matter with the blamed sights, or may
hap the gun barrel was crooked for the
varmint escaped without a scratch, af
ter being run to the ball ground at the
west edge of Stayton by Ves Downing 'a
big hound "Smoke."
Henry Smith and the whole bunch
were up bright and early Tuesday for
another chnse but soon heard shots
fired on the Linn county side, and lo
and behold in the afternoon I.uther
Cole and Lee Kerber enme to town
with a fine coyote hide in the buggy
between them. '"Do all the work, and
some other fellow gets the grapes."
"Blnnkety blank the luck anyhow,"
said Henry.
Moral Never count your coyote
hides until they are hung up to dry.
Stayton Mail.
WILL NOT OUST COFFORTH
Pan Diego, Cal., Feb. 5. A rumor
that A. B. Spreckels of San Francisco,
was planning to oust .Tames V. Cof-
Exide .Battery
Gives more .service than any Battery on
the market.
Buy a guaranteed Battery. We make re
placements on any make of Battery. Com
plete stock at all times. All kinds of Gen
eral Repairing and Overhauling. We are
installing the latest machinery that will en
able us to make quick repairs. Only first
class mechanics employed, no apprentices
in shop.
Complete line of Supplies for Hudson,
Auburn and Reo Cars. Shop open until
midnight.
Full line of Auto Accessories.
Great Western Garage
C. C. SIMERAL, sole owner. Opposite Court House
1GHT
Promoter Announces That
Special Arrangements Will
Be Made For Them
New York, Feb. 5 Women fight fans
will have ample opportunity to be at
the ringside when Jess Willard and
Frank Moran meet here March 17 for
the heavyweight championship of the
worm.
Tex Hiekard, promoter of the battle,
made this announcement today. His
arrangements, he declared, include a
special women's private entrance to
the arena with plenty of attendants to
see that women boxing enthusiasts will
be courteously treated, lie expects that
some of the best women in New York
will seine the opportunity.
The best seats in the house will sell
at $23, Kickard declared.
'.'And there will be no trouble with
speculators such as has been encounter
ed, for example, by baseball fans dur
ing worlds series games," he said. "I
expect to reserve seats for outside
boxing fans ns well as for local pa
trons and to take steps to protect these
people.
Kickard also said he will insist that
both Moran and Willard shall finish
their training in New York. Both will
do their preliminary work away from
this city, but will be here St least two
weeks before the scrap.
"1 am not sufforing from over con
fidence when I say that I will certainly
whip Willard," said Moran today. "He
will not be likely to take any chances
and I expect to force the fighting right
from the outset. "
SPORTING ERIEFS
Boston, Mass. Eddio Campi got the
decision over Mickey Brown, of Maiden,
in h 12-round match here. Campi out
pointed Brown in early rounds.
St. Paul, Minn. The Canadian cham
pion, Johnny O'Leary, got an easy de
cision over Otto Wallace, of Milwau
kee, in a 10-jound battle.
I.aCrosse, Wis. Young White, of
Oshkosk, was put down for the count by
Joe Welling, of Chicago. White's claim
of foul was disallowed.
Seattle, Wash. By playing Victoria
off its feet in the final period here
last night Neattlo won at ice hockey
C to 3.
Vancouver, B. C Portland further
clinched their right to the championship
in a hard fought hockey game here last
night in which they defeated Vancouver
6 to 1.
NORMAN ROSS, HERO
San Francisco, Feb. 5. Norman Ross,
former Portland tank star, was the hero
of San Francisco's aquatic Bports fans
today because of hig performance last
night in winning with ease the only
there events he entered in the Olvmpic
club's tourney. He captured the 50,
100 and 250 yard dashes in fust time.
forth and Jake Holtmnn, Cofforth's
chief lieutenant, from the affairs of the
Lower California Jockey club, was de
nied here today by Holtman.
"There is absolutely no foundation
for it," he declared. "I will assure
tho racing fans that the Tijuana track
will be reopened just as soon as condi
tions permit."
Herman (Germany) Sehaefer,
Kewark Feds the big league veteran. Herman (Germany) - Bchaef er.j
Sehaefer, who is a valuable utility inflelder and coach in addition to his;
ability to amuse the crowds with comedy from tht coaching box. will W
used in a general. capacity. . v
Heroic Maubeuge Defense
By William Philip Simms.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
Paris, Jan. 11. (By mall.) The
mystery of the fall of Maubeuge has at
last been cleared up, after seventeen
months of mmors and doubts. Instead
of the surrender of the French fortress
having been due to treason, as intimat
ed by German sources, the defense of
the citadel is said to have been one
of the brilliant actions of the war.
In an exclusive interview with a
French officer, a member of the stuf
of General Fouruier, Military Governor
of Maubeuge, who has reached this
country after escaping from a Germnn
prison, where he was sent with the oth
er officers of the garrison, tho whole
story in detail was male known.
"Afaubeuge was not another Metz,"
he said, "but a new Belfort. General
Fonrnier began fortifying the ap
proaches to the place on August 2,
working 6,000 laborers with 25,000 ter
ritorials. They dug 13 miles of trenches
around the city, showing great fore
though, as at that time trench fiphti
had not begun. They strung one mil
lion squaro yards of barbed wire on a
million aid a half stages and stationed
50 mobilo batteries of artillery at
strategic points, as well as many dum
my batteries to fool the enemy.
"The city was invested towards the
end of August by 65,000 Germans
against our 30,000 territorials. The
Gormang were commanded by General
Von Zwehl in the presence of the
kniscr's nephew, Prince Leopold, of
Prussia For nine dnys a furious bat
tle raged, all the German heavy artil
lery being brought up from Liege and
Nnmur, including the 305 milimeter ai"'
420 milimeter howitzers. Ceaselessly
shells rained on the forts day and night
causing a reign of terror, for in addi
tion to the city's residents there were
40,000 refugees, mostly women, chil
dren and old people from the north
quartered in the town.
"The German shell fire was directed
by neroplunes and spies who had been
on tho job for years, living in Mau
beuge and ostensibly engaged in busi
ness there. One by one the 50 batteries
were picked off. Tho arsenal was fire-'
by a German shell and 2,000 French
shells exploded inside at one time. Peo
ple, all over the city were knocked
down by tho force of the explosion. The
water, gas, electricity, telephones and
telegraph were instantly cut off r.nd the
city, including tho hospitals, 'vns burn
ing. "Outside the city, in tlu trenches,
the troops fought on withojt relief as
we were prevented from reaching them
by a curtain of artillery fire. We made
four sorties, once charging to within
200 yards of the German mortars.
"The city wrecked and on fire, our
ammunition exploded and means of re
sistance dwindled, General Fournier sur
rendered on September S, when the Ger
mans begnn hurling shells into the
quarter packed with refugees. To fight
on would have meant but one thing;
the slaughter of women and babies.
"When tho Germans entered they
were astonished to find it defended
only by territorials. They believed
ther were attacking a big garrison of
actives. In recognition of the brave
defense of tho citadel, Von Zwehl told
Fournier to keep his sword. Fournier
refused because the other officers were
not granted the same courtesy. He
said:
" 'Whatever their lot is. I will share
it: What is (rood enough fur them is
good enough for me.'
"General Fournier was font to the
military nriunn at Torgti. in Pilesig. Ife
is a heartbroken man. but Trond. He
held out against trciimendous odds, sus
By Raw Territorials
taining what was certainly the migh
itiest bombardment tiic world has ever
' seen.
"Before the Germans entered all
; arms and other materials were destroy-
ed and regimental flags burned to keep
. them from falling into tho enemy's
. hands.
i " Fournier 's defense of Maubeuge
;was not merely heroic; it was of grout
j military value. During the battle of
.the Marno which ended in a crushing
! defeat of the Germans after Beveral
j critical days he held up 65,000 of the
'. flower of tho kaiser's army. After the
; fall of Maubcugo it was too late for
i these men to do any good; the tide at
I the Marno had turned on September 8
and two days later it was complete. Had
t Fournier not held out as he did, nnd
ihad ho let the Germans pass without
Tiumun, inings mignt very conceiv
ably have turned out another way.
"The rumors of treason scattered by
Germans in order to demoralize French
troops had absolutely no foundation in
fact."
Motion Picture Films
Barred From Coaches
As A further step to safeguard the
life of passengers from accident, West
ern railroads on tho first of February,
prohibited the carrying of motion pic
ture films in passenger cars. Tho cel
luloid of which the films aro niado is a
highly combustible substance, and the
fear that a chance contract with fire
might end in disaster.
This action follows that already tak
en by railroads of tho country located
in the east and middle west. A pas
senger on a suburb.in train running out
of Chicago recently carried into the
combination sniokinif ainl humm
j four reels of motion picture films nnd
pi?;ed it on tins tloor between tho
wits. In some wny, presumably by a
lighted match dropped by a smoker, the
films were set off and .in explosion
occurred in which 38 persons were bad
ly burned, two fatally. As a result,
railroads are no louircr williim t.. .nk
jniit their customers to such a hazard.
wjien lilins lire sent by express, they
can be inspected when received for
shipment, nnd carried in the safe man
ner l.iid clown by the packing rules of
the interstate commerce commission.
This ruling has been recommended
by tin; American linilwny association,
the Bureau for Safe Transportation of
KiplosivtM.
Five Lives Are Lost
When Hotel Burns
Atlantic City, N. J., Feb. 4. Five are
dead in a tire that wrought 4200,000
damage in the Hotel Overbrook enrlv
today. The body of an unidentified
man has not been recovered.
Mrs. Marina Johnson is dead and
Thomas Mott, aged CO, and his wife,
the parents of the proprietor, also lost
their lives.
Paul Hendricks, aged 24, was ndded
to the death toll after investigation,
making the total five.
One of the vi' tims perished in a win
dow of the fourth flooi
"We raw him stagger in the window
rind throw nn his arms," said Sergenrt
Krringer. "I guess a thousand peopls
yelled at him to jump, nnd the tele
phone girls across the street were cr
ing. T saw him praying as he stood
there like a cross. As the flumes rnuvM
on to his clothing, he STenmed. T s""
the fire nrwd over him nnd then he
crumpled on the window sill and later
slid out of (sight."
Billy Sunday Must Hurry Or
He Will Have No Work
To Do
(By United Press.)
New York, Feb. 5 Billy Sunday had
better hurry up if he expects to find
any soiled spots on New York's bou).
For New York is getting most amazing
ly good; and is proving jt by facts, fig
ures and performances.
None of the bright lights have been
dimmed, but they sparkle in purer at
mosphere of late. Anthony Couistock's
ghost several times has been reported
skittering about the neighborhood of
Forty-secoud and Broadway, just liter
ally tickled to death, if a ghost may so
bo tickled. '
Consider the New York playhouses:
They h.ive been fie-fied and shamey
shamed l'ur their naughty performances
until tho censor has gotten out his lit
tle old quietus uml put it on 'em all.
Let the last word of that sentence be
emphasized, for highbrow, lowbrow and
intermediate have been treated alike,
beginning with the burlesque houses,
several of which were nu.l n.i
of which was compelled to put tights
uu iuo gins- oarc legs, tno wave of
purity has rolled up to the heights of
the $o a throw urtistc aggregations
nuicn leave noining to me imagina
tion but a veil.
Just the other d.iy a big ballet pre
senting The Faun Dance wis compelled
) uiu cin.iur io cut, oui ie iinaie, in
which the Faun presented a certain
"disuustine incedcut." with the nl.i f
a filmy veil dropped-by one of the
uieen imuueiis on pursued tnrougn t.-ic
dance. j
As for the coniniercini-e.1 vi..o .-W..
ation, Young Mr. John I). Kocket'i III r s!
iuieu ui nucim nygiene nas just r. ;
norted that, th.it. tins ili.-i-.ntn',i '
than 50 per cent in New York in the
luni, year, in niz tne bureau found
142 parlor hous.'s with l,fls6 inmates;
but November 1, 1013 there were only
teil SUch houses with 21 ininntou Mth.
er comparative figures for the same
periods show: 1.17H irregular tenement
houses with 2,'J04 in mutes then, but
oiiiy i,m nouses wun ui inmates now;
only ill disorderly hotels now as com
pared to 103 then. A long list of other
figures shows the s.inii! decrease. Tjere
were in 1U12 in New York 14,'il'O pro
fessional prostitutes as compared with
1,347 now.
Mr. Rockefeller says the jolice de
pnrtment is getting 'mighty good uml
virtuous and pure, ton. He sa.ys the
reason New York City is getting good
is because the police are getting good.
Anyhow, Sunday had better get here
before his January, 1!H7 schedule, or
he may find no devils to fight.
McNannie Says Wife
Committed Suicide
Los Angeles, ( al., Feb. 4. T. ('.
McNannie today identified as the body
uf his wife the supposedly murdered
corpse found in Kciio Park lake, with a
handkerchief knotted tightly around
its neck.
He declared it was a case of suicide.
asserting she leit the houso very early
this morniivg. When McNannie net
out to hunt for her, he heard of the wo
man being found in the lake, investi
gated, and ionii-1 his wife's remains,
McNannie said he hid had trouble
with her, and that they were separated
"in living in ine same House, rnc
handkerchief around her neck, which
detectives thought hud been used to
strangle her, was worn because- she had
a cold, the husband said.
Detectives said thev would gcceiit
the suicide theory.
Did It Ever Happen
WILLIE-Johe-'sT) NX1 BY THE- )
s , ATo ME ILL1- LAu v r'H6LA'i-" -
Pennsylvania Is Far Larger
Than Any Other American
Battleship of Navy
Washington, Feb. 5. The new mon
stcr super-dreadnought V. S. S. Penn
sylvania, one of the most powerful sea
battlers afloat, began her trials off the
Maine coast today.
The Pennsylvania displaces 31.400
tons, is 60S feet over all, 97 feet in
breadth and will, if she fills her on
tract agreement, bo capable of develop
ing snots, tier main Dattery con
sists of twelve 14-inch guns in four
turrets, and four submerged torpedo
tubes.
In her secondary battery are twenty-two
5-inch rapid firo guns, four 3
pounder saluting guns, two one-pounder
gun9 .for boats, two 3-inch field
guns nnd two .3 calibre machine guns.
Her full complement is sixty-five of
ficers, 803 men and seveuty-four
marines. She has a fuel capacity of
tia4,830 gallons of oil and 2,322 tons of
coal. Her total cost was $13,000,000.
An idea of the monster 'a size and
power can be better realized through
comparison with tho Delaware,
launched in February, 1909, and at
that time considered the lust word in a
man-o'-war. The Delaware displaces
20,000 tons. She carries ten 12-inch
guns in five turrets from which enn
be hurled a broadside of five tons. A
broadside from the Pennsylvania
weighs seven and one-hulf tons.
The Pennsylvania was tho second
ship to be launched since 1843 with
ceremonies that included prayer. The
other was the Oklahoma, launched in
I!' 14. This latest supcrdrcadnought
was built at tho Newport News yards.
Would Interest Federal
Authorities In Brown Rot
F.fforts arc being mado to interest
the l'nitc.1 States department of ug-riculture,-
throutt- tn-4r?ii. 04- pluut.
industry, in the alarming brown rot
situation in the Willamette valley. Let
ters have been written to W. A. Tay
lor, chief of bureau, by W. T. Jenks,
of this city, and Mason Khrmnn & Co.,
regnrdiug the seriousness of the brown
rot disease of prunes in the Willamette
alley.
In taking up tho subject, Mr. Tay
lor in writing Congressman Uawley,
states that tiie results of the work on
the crop season of 1014, while not en
tirely satisfactory, will enable his bu
reau to issue a preliminary fuihlication
which should be helpful to growers in
arranging their spray treatment for the
disease.
The letter states that experimental
work was done on cherries at Salem
and on prunes at Vancouver, Washing
ton. In the way of encouragement,
Mr. Taylor writes that the Oregon Fx
pcriment station has been prosecuting
experiments und that the work will he
continued in both the vicinity of Su
lem and Vancouver and that he is coi
fident tho bureau will be able, to meet
tiie most pressing needs of tho situa
atiou. WILL PLAY YANKEES
run xrancisco, ten. o. Joe neuron
will ploy with the New York Yankees
next year, Baseball enthusiasts here
advised today stating that the Wash
ington club had yielded to tho ruling
of President Hun Johnson of tho Amer
ican league thut the senators are nut
entitled to the second Backer's services.
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paper.
CREE IS RELEASED
New York, Feb. 5. Birdie Crco wi'l
no longer gambol in the outfield for
the New York Yankees. Announcement
was made today that tho veteran bn.t
been unconditionally released, at hii
own request, although his contract cnM
ing for $0,000 a year, will not expim
until next fall.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
. Robinson and Utlcy to John. Van Ai
nam, part J. O, Putnam claw., iiii, '
K; part Dan'l Higgs claim, 2, , 1 I'.
W. H. McHce et ux to Julius Hop:.,
lot 1, block S, lioo. 11. Jones Add., K;i
lent. Ken T. Karnnui to Mrs. Klin, L. (SU
bert, E 1-2 lot 22 and W 1-2 lot 23, Cap
ital Homo Add., Salem.
L:uitod .States to Olive P. Itetpin
(nee Bcigeviu) widow and heir nt luw
of Pclix liergevin, deceased, claim No.
99 in 5, 2 W, Olive Jlcrpin, X 1-2, hei
of Kclix Bergevin, S 1-2.
John A. Aupperlo to John L. Jones,
part James M. Bates claim, 05, lo, :l W.
lot 1, block 1 and lots 1 to 12, block
lots 1 to 9 in block 3, all in Bates Am
ended Add. to Jefferson.
li. T. IJaaJiill ot ux to Arthur P. IVu
per. admin., lot 10, block 3, Run Jails'
Add., Salem.
W. 11. Bclieu ct ux to Hogue and
Clara 1'arrish, lot 3, block l.V lei,t
Add., Salem.
T. 11. Barnes et ux to City of Salcp,
pnrt block Knglcwood Ad.
Wm, and Yendii Psetak to Justin I!.
Knight, part lot 27, Capital Home Adu.
UP TOR THIRTY YEARS
Oroville, Oil., Feb. .1. After Willitu .
I.arsen had been sentenced today to 0
years for rape, eight prisoners in the,
felony ward of the county jail plotted
to iln.ke him to death, according to
revelations mado by a prisoner in a ni.ty
to Sheriff Riddle,
Middle nt once prepared to tnk'c I.iu
scn to Folscun penitentiary.
By Mort Burger