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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1916)
ft THE DATLY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, . SATURDAY, AUG. W( 1916. Mr. Business Man Have you ever given your home paper a careful thought? ffllt advertises home bar- J gains, which are the 5 best bargains. It has all the home news and works for the home town all the time. It has all the latest tele graph news that is fit to print-and prints it it the day it happens not the next morning. (Tlx Dcrito Atal Kouraal Is Salem's, as well as Marion and Polk Counties Leading Daily Home Paper. ( Mr. Business Man think it over 99 ft J STATE NEWS , Bandon World: Bear arc quite plen tiful in western Oregon tins year, at least that is the conclusion reached i from several reports from nearby places I of bear signs, and the fact two large j auimals have been killed in this vicin- , itv within the last few weeks. I The latest bruin bagged was killed by George Cox, of Bear creek. The ani mul was a black bear, said to hnve been the largest killed in those parts tor a : number of years. It was notr in verv good condition, but would have tipped the scales at 400 pounds. The hide was in fair condition to make a good robe or rug. Astorian: One hundred and seventy five cans of trout fry, including both the Rainbow and Eastern Brook, arriv ed in Astoria Friday evening and yes terday were distributed throughout the county, several strenms receiving large numbers of the fish. The carload offish was in charge of Messrs. Crnig and Ho gan, of the Bonneville hatcheries, from which the shipment came. The fish were handled promptly by the members of tho Astoria Hod ana Gun club and it is doubtful if any fish wero lost at all in transferring them to the streams. THE REGULATION SMILE - fcsfc There's mure darned regulations in I hi m army life, b'licvo nie, Than fleas on nil our army pets or riiindrops in the sen; . Our regulation army mules put regulation hay. And when they kick they hnve to kick in regulation style. You simply have to take it with a regulation smile. For everything is organized by men who know (he game. And it's not for such ns you and nie to grumble and complain Ho when the sergeant, cusses you in regulation stylo Just do ,vour little duty wilh u regulation smile, There's regulation uniforms and regulation shoes And regulation everything but regulation booze. And if you fail to do the things tho regulation say They stand you up and shoot you in the regulation way With regulation muskets filled with regulation lead And read the regulations for a sermon when you're dead. For everything is out and dried by men who know tho game And it's not for such as you and me to grumble and complain. Ho when the sergeant damns your soul in regulation style, Just say, "I'm reining, sergeant," wilh n regulation smile. There's just one consolation, friends, for such as you and me The regulations let lis sleep from taps to reveille, Unless the bloomiu' tents. blow down or someone's taken sick, And sergeant says, "I 'limb out of there and get tlmt stretcher quick!" And you r limit out and nib your eyes in regulation style, And wonder what has happened to your regulation smile. ( everything is cut and dried by men who know (he game. And it's not for such as yon and me to grumble and complain Itut when they die and Ko below in regulation slyly We'll heat the fire hotter with a regulation smile! I'RIVATK KOI. 1.0 V. CU.VTKlt. in Boise (Idaho) Statesman. "Billy" Burke, who, the police say, served a term in a jail in .Sweden. The brainy Sophie, beautiful in her younger days, played her game of blackmail, shoplifting, sneak thievinig and "confidence" work in this country and in Kuropp. She was arrested here last in lStfli whilo trying to rob a Sixth avenue department store. After thut she reformed. She took na interest in religion, devoted herself to her daughter, whom she had brought up with remarkable cure, and traveled much hero mid abroad. She wrote a book, "Why Crime Does Not I'ay." Lake County Examiner: "Erected to the memory of John V. Tilmau, wh discovered Crater lake at this point Juno 12, 1853, Mr. Ililinan was born in Albany, N. Y., March 2!. 1S;!2; came to Oregon in 1840, and died in Hope Villa, l.a March lit, 1913." This will bo the inscription on a con crete seat to be placed at the spot where Hihnau discovered Crater lake in 185;!. The contract for the seat has been awarded to a Medford man, and it will consist of reinforced concrete built in a semi circle 17 feet in diameter with paving inside of concrete tile in maroon. Famous Woman Crook Becomes Bible Student Buffalo. Mrs. Sophia Lyons Burke, who is better known to the police of two continents ns Sophie Lyons, was sued here recently by Fred Leaner for $10,000. he charging malicious prosecu tion. Mrs. Burke accused I.enuer of swindling her out of H00 In Detroit. Mie came here from her home, 4:1 Thirty-third street, Detroit, but could not identify Leaner. "This only goes to show how jtis- ftico miscarried," said Mrs. Burke, "t have been arrested 27 times on mistak en identity." Mrs. Burke claims the distinction of being tho only woman who ever cs saped from Sing Sing prison, whence she made her exit in 1873. Last Feb ruary she offered to the city of De troit her property, worth !3,0fl0, to CALL OF TtiE COLORS I. It's fine, when summer's with you, to b tn N in ' your ense, Loafin' when you like to, fishin' when you please; T like a swiugiu' hammock where I'm shaded from the sun. But there's a feller that I know, n- shoulderin' his gun! II. 0 it's fine to he n-ilrenmin' lulled to rest by bird an' stream .Tust listenin' to the rolliu' of the old earth, iu a dream! Oh that just seems to suit me to think the toil is done. But there's n feller that I know, n- shoulileriii ' his gun! HI 1 hear the boys n-mnrchin' thru the glory o' the day, The band's play i u ' "Dixie" an' they nnswered with "Hooray." I guess the country needs me, and I'd be the country's son, So here's another feller that's n- shoulderin' his gun. Atlanta Constitution. "Bobby, do you know you've de liberately broken the eighth command ment by stealing .Tames' enndyf" "Well, I thought I might as well break the eighth commandment and have the enndv as tn hrenk the tenth establish a homo to reclaim children and only 'covet' it," Life. with criminal tendencies. Sophie Lvons, now about 70 years old. is worth $500,000, it is said. Her maiden name was Levy, Her first husband was Nod Lyons, a notorious The Englishman who laughed at a "conscientious objector" until the man of pence thrashed him for hi j pains, is now himself the laughing bank burglar. Then sire married stock of the village, IK. viv Oregon City Enterprise: The sample of honey that is shown in the display window of the publicity department ot the Oregon City Commercial club is at tructing no little attentiou. This is the production of the bees on the dairy farm of 0. A. Nash in the northeastern part of the city, Mr. Nash having 40 llivcs Ul uis mini. Diuce ginning jiuu this industry in the spring he has ob tnincd from the hives 1,000 pounds of some of the finest honey marketed in this city. It is all disposed of in the local market, and Mr. Nash finds no difficulty in 'finding a ready sale of tho same, ' Medford Sun: The loss of pears and apples throughout the seetiou within a radius of 15 miles of Medford will not exceed 10 per cent, according to C. C. Cnte, county pathologist, whose men have been investigating the loss nt var ious orchards, occasioned by the electric storm of Friday afternoon, which was (followed by a third of an inch of rain fall. The loss tails almost entirety upon the pears. The Rogue river valley is just good enough without water for irrigation to keep irrigation from being gen eral, says the Grants Pass Cou rier. If crops could not have been grown here without the artificial ap plication of water, the valley would today be producing ten-fold the crops it is today. Had it been classed as an arid region, capital would have been readily available to bring the waters, which flow here in nbund aace, upon the acres. The results produced by the application of water prove the futility of dry farming in southern Oregon. The lnnds once placed under water are far too valuable to go without water. That the dreaded Canadian thistle is getting a start in Benton and nearly every other county in the Willamette valley is the report of road supervisors. The counties are realizing that forcible measures must bo taken to rid the farms of the dan gerous pest before it spreads and gets beyond -control. The Oregon laws are veiy stringent and impose heavy penalties on the owners of land who do not exterminate the thistles. A salesman of farm machinery who travels over nearly all of western Oregon stated that in the western parts of Clackamas and Marion counties the thistle is get ing a firm foothold. tt'E PROGRESSIVES. The Lynch k Taylor Produce com pnny, of North Yakima, hns estb Halted a packing plant at The Dalles. It offers $35 a ton for prunes and wants all the fruit it can get at this price. This company will also pack peaches nnd pears, which will be ship ped to North and South Dakota and Canada. Home of it will De usea uy rue I'nited States army. The company ha already purchased the entire output of prunes from the O. E. Sanders' or chards, Frank Creigbton's crop and all of the fruit from the Spenser farm west o'f The Dalles. The same concern will pack all of output of the Mosier Fruit Growers' association. Ashland Tidings: It now appears probable that in the very near future Grants Pass is to have access to the Josephine county caves by a fine gov ernment highway, built to the very en trance of the marble halls. Every pres sure is being brought to bear by the Grants Pass people on the interior de partment to have a portion of the first million dollars, whicn will UKeiy rje available this fall by the terms of the Shackleford bill, appropriated toward the early construction of the road from Grants Pass to the caves. The inter est of the entire Oregon delegation has been solicited and assured in the appro' priation of a portion of the funds to the caves rood project. Head Forester Graves, as well as the Grants Fass for estry officials, are favorable to the proposition. STRIKERS KEEP WITHIN LA W'S LIMITS IN THE BIG NEW YORK CAR STRIKE t" "n; f i " H "1ST5 ri t lh. "J C If 4t" 4f 4 I 4 ht7to M M I V f "ti P?3 l?- tfrm n ' i - l' New York's big car strike, which threatened to tie up all the transpor tation systems of the city, surface, sub surface and overhead, began with few iiiuuifestutions of disorder. There were however, a' few cases of rioting prompt ly cheeked by the police. Frank Lord, deputy police commissioner, told a meet ing of strikers that union men had as much , right us other citizens to rido ou street cars, and that there was no law to prevent them from soliciting motormen and conductors to joiu the un ion and quit work so long as there was no effort at intimidation. Ho said the policemen on the cars would not inter fere with that right. He also praised the orderly methods of the union. Some high police officials complained that trolley officials seemed to be hysterical and had called for help to quell purely imaginary disorders. There was so lit tle disorder at one time that many of the policemen who had been mobilized at ubout a hundred points iu the danger zone were allowed to go home. Depart ment heads figured that they could guard all power houses, bums and cars. NEW YORK CP2 STRIKE. -"HUSTLW 6" FIND RRRE57ING STRIKERS THE KNOCKER By James Barton Adams Heard a feller t'other day blow-in' in a grouchy way 'Bout the durned oppressors' heels scarrin' up his neck Nearly pawed the ground as he shot his language viciously At the way the bloomin' land wns goin' plum to wreck. We was gittin' it with tax where the pullet got-the nx, Burdens piled on us would break tho ridgepole of a mule. held at Oregon Citv, iu an address on j Taxes henpin' more an' more on the shoulders of the poor, Tuesday afternoon. Dr. Macphersou at-1 And the man that wouldu t kick was a coward tool. tnbiited this remarkable condition to the high rate of taxation in this state j Haiil the day was romin' when-men 'twas worth the name o' men vtoum arise 111 sen ticiense gainst me grarrin crew: They would break the gallin' chain thut was given' us a pain Harder tiiau a hostile corn in a pinchin' shoe. They would struggle for the right in a reformation fight Long as they was able to draw a livin' breath, An' would teach the spendthrifts they couldn't like the dam vultures prey Ou poor fellows Biich as he, tnxin' them to death. and Clackamas counties were not mak ing $1 a day for the members of the family who are occupied at farm work, in addition to two per cent ou their in vestments. Dr. Hector Macphersou. ot the Oregon Agricultural college, startled 140 teachers in attendance upon the an- uuul county teachers' institute ueing and the excessive cost of land. Lake County Examiner: Owing to i the scarcity nnd high price of hay dur ing the coming winter, many of the lo cal sheepmen nave decided to use cot tonseed cake during the coming winter. Chas. Sherlock has been the leader in this move nnd has written to many sheepmen in Nevada, Idaho and Mon tana making inquiries about the cotton seed cake where it has been used. The replies received are verv favorable, all stating that the cake is cheaper than hay to feed. A MOTHER'S VIEW Then a feller made a play in a catiiechizin' way, Like a lawyer buckin' at a witness on the stand, Finn' questions at him hot, every one a center shot, Till the knocker wilted like a flower in desert sand. Made the cuss acknowledge that he'd been shootin' through his hat, Wasn't paying taxes now, an' never had Owned a piece o property anywheres in town, an' he Tried to shirk the taxes on his yaller dog, bedad. Albany Herald: G-. M. PcUlegel. pro prietor of one of the numerous thresh ing machines which are now grinding from mnruing until night, was in the city this morning and reported the grain turning out very well. He states that at the Mart Bros, place on which he was threshing this morning the wheat went S2 bushels to the acre, machine measure, and weighed out 38 bushels, which is considered a very good yield. Declaring that the farmers of Oregon, A writer signing herself "A Wil son Republican Mother," iu the Dal las Itemizer, shown how people are taking a hand iu politics this year and doing their own thinking. It is quite readable, aud here it is: It is said around town that Ralph Williams says he will never come back to Dallus should Polk county go for Wilson, This is seriously to be regret ted, as I know that the three banks of which he is president in old Polk will seriously miss his guardianship, but I am not willing to throw down the best presideut we ever had ou that account. Ralph is a good boy, genial and like able, and 1 have been pleased to see him make such a success of life finan cially, but there are other things to be considered in this life besides money, especially from a mother's viewpoint. 1 know Ralph well enough to know that he always has an object in view for whatever he advocates, and that ob ject alwnvs is the acquirement of more money, so that his present stand as an advocate of '.irogressiveuess does not m the least blind my eyes to the tact tliatj;.- wiihf up wnuis in reiuru is ine return tVm of the old republican stand-put repub-jJJ licau party to power, tn order that tho.Jv many numerous good legislative deeds jV of Mr. Wilson may be made useless, es-N5 pecinlly where they relate to the curb- M nig of the mouey power. 1 also know j that the election of Hughes means Roosevelt in power to a great extent, and that the summer outing and thor ough instruction in military life at the border our boys are receiving from Mr. Wilsou, would, under Hughes, be turn ed into the dreadful carnage of war, with the probable death of the oalv son I have. While I pity poor Ralph for hitt rnsli BKSArrinn T unuiinl refrnin from votiliar for Wilson in Ynvflnihor. i SS and am certain that the eyes of enough Polk county mothers, fathers, and rel atives will be opened to assure him a grand majority in this county, despite the fact that we are normally republi can by long odds." if I don't die he'd better look out in When Princess Arthur of Co the morning." Chicago Herald. I naught recently opened the British , ! . , women workers' exhibition at Prince's It's the little things that count, skating cUh rf of honor but don't lose sight of the fact thattne women's territorial corps and wo the biggest fish get away. men police. Conditional Forgiveness. Harry and James, brothers, were in their piny room for a little recreation after supper. Harry hit James, and in the midst of the quarrel the nurse hap pened in with the news that, it was time for them to retire. James was nut to bed first. The nurse ssid: "You must forgive vour brother be fore you go to bed. You might die in the night.1' After a few minutes elapsed James replied; "Well, I'll forgive him tonight, but TELL THE TELEPHONE Lost? Found? Help? Work? For Rent? For Sale? House Wanted? Business Onnortnnitv? fm rsr - i An Auto? A Horse? If your name is in the tele 5 phone directory i TELL THE TELEPHONE S Every phone in Salem, Marion and Polk coun- ties connects in an instant with The Capital jg Journal Want Ad Phone No. 81. 1 TELL THE TELEPHONE BailgL t(al Kouraal 81 I? Business Office