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EIGHT THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALE At, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1916. mmmmmmmmmmmmmum - At Last! The Red Thing in Mptoirs Ride in a Willys-Knight. You don't know the real thinguntil you've had this experience. Don't judge it by any other car. There's nothing with which to compare it. D. Misner The quiet powerful smoothness of the Willys-Knight motor is a thing to marvel at it simply revolution izes any previous no tion you may have had about how smooth and soft a motor could be. 235 You can't possibly real ize what it means un . til you try it. You simply wouldn't have anything else after you know what it means. See us today. S. Commercial Phone 97 The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio "Made In U. S. A.' il iiiiiil : STATE HOUSE NEWS I j Forty-three firms of wall paper deal ers in Oregon, having Stl firm members, employ n average of 70 lersotm, wlio nre paid in one year a totnl of $72,000, according lo figures compiled nt tho office of the stuto commissioner of labor.. Stilting Hint tin' Associated Fruit (Irowers of i 1 ! Kiver is insolvent, 'or orn t i o ii Commissioner Si linlitcriiiiiti yesterday asked tho district attorney nt Hood River to tiiki' legul steps for tho protection of the creditors. Tin1 pom-! 1 paiiy h it r iti 1 1 wns caucelud Inst No-j veinnor. i no company was organized i in 11)14, with u capital of 70.M0. j The lionrd of regents of thp Oregon Normal Hi'hool, in n survey ot the norm- nl situation in the state, stiys the ut j tendance nt tint Monmouth minimi school for the summer of 1!HI is over Hull, which exceeds the ncconimoda i linn for Ih work. The bonrd dee lures I Hint the dormitory eiiiiinient is innde iiuite, nnd tlmt the quadrangle origin 'ally planned kIiiiuIiI lie completed, for lnhirli nn appropriation of $r0,0ml in j ueeiled. The uascmhly hull in insuf Ifbicnt, it iti an id, nud $25,000 is needed to enlarge it. For pnving nnd improve-1 incuts of grounds iji5,0)0 is needed. Only ono of the 204 ncciilents report-! ed to the industrial accident commission the past week was fatnl. Jack Fisher, n logger, was killed near 1'ortlanil. (It the accidents reported 2IU were subject to the eoiupensalion act, j7 were irom piihlic utility corporations, 42 were irinn firms and corporations which have rejected tho provisions of the net, and one was from n firm which does not employ labor in hii.nrdous occupation.-. OVER 100 FAST ONES FOR THE STATE FAIR Some of Fastest Horses Oo Coast Entered for Speed Contests Bakings Are Perfect Now THE BISCUITS MOTHER USED TO MAKE in the old wood range oven would hardly bear comparison with the fluffy, crisp biscuits daughter now bakes in the Gas Range oven. A Gas Range is a boon for any housewife, not only because it assures a clean, cool kitchen and is a great convenience, but because it makes per fect cooking easy. A Gas Range Is Economical As Well As Reliable As much or as little heat as you need is avail able at the turn of a handle. You don't have to fill the fire box, heat the whole stove and warm up the kitchen to set the tea pot boiling. Simply light a single burner the flame is sootless, odor less, safe, steady and sure. A call at our showroom will enable you to select the type of Range best suited to your needs. Phone 85. The Gas Co. Fnginccr Kea, who is in charge of the Ochoco irrigation project near Prino vile, Crook county, is here today lor the purpose or submitting a report to State l.ngineer Lewis. This project covers 2;i,000 acres, and it is proposed to issue tionds for $1,000,000 in order to finance it. Tho plans include the construction of n diim 125 feet high, providing storage for 47,(100 acres feet of water, nnd also for the construction of a power plant of NOO horse power lo pump witter to tho higher binds. Mont of the lund cnu be rear lied by the gruv itv svsteui. The car shortage continues to in crease. According to tho lutest report received at tho offieo of tho public service commission tho Southern Pa cific company is now J,li()7 cars short of filling its orders on the l'ortlnnd di vision. A totnl of five empty cars were received at Ashland during the past 24 hours. Articles of incorporation were filed nt the corporation department this morning liy tho Old Fashion Milling company, Furtlaud, capitalized for $5,000, and supplementary articles of incorporation were filed by the Mn.a inns, a Furtlaud exploration club. ST. PAUL ITEMS St. Find. Ore., Sept. IS. W. M. Hay, who conducts tho SI. Faul Feed Mill, has installed n new combination grind iug nnd rolling inncliino which is be ing driven by a three-phase, (lenernl Llottric, 10 horse motor, lie had closed down for several mouths during the summer, but is now running. W. M. Bernard moved his clover hull er and engine over from Yamhill county Inst week via tho new bridge and has been doing some hulling of rod clover, which seems to be turning out lighter than expected in some places. The best yield noted Deems to be n little bettor than four bushels per acre. Most of the hop picking is over but on accouut of a scarcity of pickers sev eral large yards will probably be at it 10 days or more. Pickiug was resumed nt several yards that had been abandon ed, as the weather seemed to check the mold and ninny good hops were still on the vine. The amount of butter turned out by the St. Faul creamery during the month ot August and first half of September is practically double the output during the same time in 1913. The product has been grading as "extra" quality. Owing lo the good corn prospects some farmers are looking for shouts to feed it to. The school attendance at both the academy and public school are not quite complete this week owiuit to the busy season being later this year than usual. Mrs. ('. A. Brentnno. of Yamhill, is reported as being very low. Cancer seems to be the affliction and the end of her suffering is perhaups only a Blot ter of days. Woodburn ludcieiidcut, SILVERTON NOTES. Ask That Rev. R. N. Avison Be Re-appointed The fourth quarterly conference of' the First Methodist church in session September 20 passed a resolution re questing the Rev. Mntt S. Hughes, bish op of the Metiiodist Kpiscopnl church lo re-appoint the Rev. R. X. Avison as: pastor of the First Methodist church in Salem for the coining year. He is now completing his sixth yenr ns pas tor of the church. Dr. Avison will go next week to at tend the annual session of the Oregon conference which coilveues at I.eblinOii September 27. During the six years as pastor of the ciiurch there lias been n substantial growth lor the historic church. Under: his pastorate, S:'l members have been! received, mure than $27,000 has beeuj raised for benevolent purposes nud $12,-j 000 has been spent for tho new parson-j ugc and other improvements, Besides I these amounts, 2",000 lias been expend-! ed for current expenses nnd minister ial support. Ilnul.l,j tltu Bi.ififnnl u-ni-lt fni which the church stands, every civic, eduea-! tionnl and moral interest of the city I has felt the impulse of this center ofi religious lite. I At the fourth quarterly conference! held in the city September 20, reports' from all the departments ot the worn, showed the church to be in excellent condition. A resolution presented by K. .T. Swufford was unanimously adopt ed requesting liishop Hughes to reap point Dr. Avison tor nuotlier year, wiiich is practical assurance that be will be returned to begin his seventh year's work in Salem. A similar resolution wns unanimously adopted requesting the appointment of the Aev. T. II. Ford ns superintendent of the Suleni district for another year. Dr. Ford has been one yenr in this dis trict nud the church has already felt the touch of his strong leadership. Fairgrounds, Sulem, Ore., Sept. 23. With over 100 trotters and pacers on the grouuds to be entered in one or more of the speed events to be staged during the week, of which number 90 are actually entered in the events which closed on June 1 and September 11, and with more than 30 running horses on the circuit and expected to be on hand to coutest for the big stakes offered in the sprinting class, and Lone Oak track in the best condition that it has been for years nnd fully a second faster the prospects for some intensely exciting races and broken records were never better than for the speed program dur ing Rtate fair week, September 25 to 30. All of the big stake races, including the 3:08 pace, $2,000, 3 in 5, scheduled for Salem day (Wednesday); the 2:12 trot, $2,000, 3 in 5, for Thursday (Port land day); the 2:25 pace, $700, for Sat urday; the 2:18 pace, $750, for Tuesday; the 2:20 pace, $750, for Thursday; all filled with not less than 15 entries, while the 2:10 pace, $750, for Monday; the free-for-all pace, $750, for Friday; the 2:15 trot, $700, for Tuesday, and the 2:18 trot, $700, for Friday, each filled with 10, 7, 8 and 10 entries, respective ly. These entries guarantee correspond ingly large entries for the two consola tions, pacing and trotting, for $500 each and other races to be made up (luring the week, and two or three speciul races, of the combination order, which are in tontemplutiou. The running events to be pulled off during the week, according to the fixed program nil of which are to be made up over night, include: Monday, five eighths mile handicap dash, $200; Tues day, five-eighths mile for l)-yenr-olds, $250; and seven-eighth mile, $250; Wed nesday, one mile, $;)50, and three-eighths mile, $100; Thursday, 1 1-4 miles (l'ort lnnd Derby), $500; Friday, five-eighths mile, $250, and one-half mile, $200; Sat urday, one mile handicap, $.150. The judges who will officiate nt the lace course, so fur as have been select ed, will be W. C. Bristol, of l'ortlnnd, and H. W. Hutch, of Snlem. The third judge will be chosen Inter. The starters ere W. 1'. McMair, of Phoenix, Ariz., for the harness events, nnd Ld Fortune, of Oregon City, for the running races. The timers will be E. B. Tongue, of Hillshoro, nnd Kd Fortune, Oregon City, and the third w ill be named Inter. Frank Dnvey, of Salem, will officiate ns clerk of tho course. DRAINAGE DISTRICT SURVEYED School will open at Kvergreea Mou day, Oct. 2, with Win. Taw and Miss Ruth Fuilay as teachers. The board has arranged to put in new floors and a speciul meeting will be held Sept, 30, to consider the budget for the coming year. The Silverton schools will open next Monday, Septemlier 25. The schools were expecting to ypen last Monday, but the board was implored by different ones to put off the opening for a week Preliminary work in engineering and soil surveys on the French Prai rie drniuuge district in .Marion county near Salem, has been done by O. A. Hart, of the I'. S. department of ag riculture, and Professors C. V. Kuzek and W. I.. Powers of the Oregon Ag rieulturul college. The report shows that the area is comprised of about 10,000 acres of wet lands, about 40 per cent of which is white hinds near the central part, 3(1 per cent brown loam with slight natural ilruiiinge, and the remainder intermediate gray loam surrounding the white lands and sepnrutiiig it from the brown loam. The total cost of completing the drain age, including excavation, right-of-way, bridges and 20 per cent fur or ganization, administration, engineer ing any supervision, is estiinuted nt $S5,000 or nn average cost of $5.72 per ncrc. The , soil surveys shows thnt the binds will pay a higher total rate of interest on the investment when drained. -. "Trains stop in the Heart of Town." Portland Day Sept. 28 Harvest Time in Orego "let's All Co to the Fair' State tair 8 FAST TRAINS between Salem and Portland Oregon Electric 'Railway J. W. Ritchie, Agent, Salem, Ore. Sale Dates for reduced Tickets from all O. E. points Sept 21 to . Sept. 30 Good for re turn "until Oct. 4 TWELVE YEAR OLD 10 And Who Tried to Roast His Sister To Be Given Chance longer on account of the lateness of the harvest. The board met on Friday afternoon and divided on the postpone ment. There is senreelv an empty house in this city for rent. In one way this is a good tiling and in Another it is not, With all of the available houses filled there bt no chance for new coiners to find accomodations and this occurs quite frequently of late. Only this week a lady was here lookiug for a suitable house to rent, but whs unable 10 'find a plneo to move into. Henry Pnluiateer one of the mill wrights at the Silverton Lumber Co. met with a peculiar accident Monday morning just after he went to work. A crowbar weighiug eighteen pounds fell six feet and struck his right foot with the sharp point passing through. Fortunately no bones v. ere brokeu. Mr. Pnlniateer' will be laid up for several davs. Sanitorium Notes. Mrs. John Kogie will leave Friday to visit her brother. Simon Yoder of Woodburu and from there she will go to her home in Needy. A. M. Morris was' taken suddenly ill at the Silverton Lumber Co's will and was taken to the Sanitarium. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Black of I.os Angeles, California, arrived at the Sani tnriuin Sunday evening to begin a course of treatment. Mr. Black is the sou of Mrs. Winifred BlacU Bonf ils of San Francisco who is considered the greatest newspaper woman in America. As the Blacks were aso;iated in the newspaper work they were great frieuds of America's noted cartoouist. Homer Davenport and through him the Davenport family at I.os Angeles. Mr. Black is afflicted with a malady that is geaerolly eoasidered incurable and upon hearing of similar ease having been cured aevtral years ago in Silverton of a relative o the Daven port family, divided to come to Silver- ton with the hopes that he may recover anil enil bis long searvb tor ucann. silvertoa Appeal. New Orleans, l.n., Sept. 2.1. Little Willie Zimnier, age 12, who shot his mother to death here July 14, will not be tried for murder. Although he made no positive statement, Chandler C. Luz enberg, district attorney, intimated to day that the boy neither would be sent to the gallows nor imprisoned for life. The plea of thousands of youngsters and club women in nearly every state in the Union has had its effect, and Wil lie will be given a chance to begin life all over ngnin. Willie killed his mother because she tried to bent him with a broomstick. Willie's parents were separated. On the day of the killing he had been with his father. The father thrashed him for I some trivial offense so Willie went to his mother s home for comfort. But Mrs. Zimmer was in no comforting mood. He offended her and when she raised a stick to him he fired a bullet into her breast. She tried to run but n second bullet lodged in her abdo men. She continued to run and when she reached nn ullev-wnv fell, crying "Willie has killed mo."' Nearly every page of the history of Willie's life is a thriller. Neighbors sny he has been a bad boy, from the day he took his first step. " Five years ngu he attempted to place a younger sis ter in n bake oven and roast her. When the boy wns arrested for his mother's murder this little girl begged tho officers for a knife. "Please give me a knife," she pleaded, "I'll cut his head off nnd avenge my mother." Those same neighbors said Willie's) favorite pastime was dissecting cats aiu' " many a neighborhood feline met its fato 1 at the hands of the little Zimmer boy. He was a leader in any mischievous un dertaking the younger element under took. Since his arrest Willie has been indif ferent. Until today he had never ex pressed sorrow for his deed. "I'm sorry I killed my mother," he said today, "but she tried to beat me, and that's why I killed her." Local club women contend the boy hasn't had tho proper care in bis early days which deprived him of an even break in his battle of life. With prop er environments they hope to make a man of the little fellow. Present plans cnu ror a rive or bix yenr course in I some institution other thau penul. I The district nttomey today said such action would be acceptable to him ami I all prosecution plans probably will bo dropped in a few days. TIMES ARF.MT HARD Don't talk hard times when hoi yards ennnot be picked for want of pickers. Growers have been running; around here this week actually crazy for piciiers and the demand could not near be met. Many of the yards got through picking, but the pickers re turned home deciding that they had made their fortunes and did not care for any more work m that line, es pecially nt 80 cents per cwt. Then so many found it paid them better to pick berries. It is hoped thnt those having hops still on the vines will be. able ti get pickers as the market for hops seems to be getting stronger. Woodburn Independent, Are times "hard" in the Willamctta valley Do you know of any unem ployed men who renlly want to workl Think of the present situation. Hop glowers unable to secure help enotign to pick their crop; road supervisors com plnining that they are unable to get men to work tho roads, and fuel dealers unable to find men nad teams to haul wood to fill orders already ou hand. Dallas Itemizer. JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. One of the busiest and most prolific peus of the last quarter century has been that of John Kendrick Bangs, the inventor of "The HenUil Idiot" and the discoverer of "A House Bunt on the Styx." Tiie author of nearly fifty volumes of humorous prose and verse has found time even iu a period of such productivity to devote a deal of energy to other things than writing, and hits been iu turn managing editor of "Life," editor of '-'Literature," ed itor of "Harpers Weekly" and the "Metropolitan Magazine." . . Mr. Jiangs' most -notable platform effort, "Salubrities I Have Met" is lively running talk about the more or less famous bneu or women he has known iii the course of his career. It includes gossipy anecdotes of states men, poets, novelists, philanthropists, and others, and closes with nn exquis ite presentation of the character of one of the greatest of salubrities in a story entitled "A Strenuous Day at Oyster Bay" of which critic has said: "It is a gen of kindly humor, than which nothing more continuously funny has been produced in American literature." Bicycles and Motorcycles Supplies and Repairing at the lowest prices. 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