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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-11-22
COURT HOUSE NEWS
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Judge William, Galloway returned
from Albany today and opened court
in his department where he heard the
testimony in the case of A. l. Eoff and
is. F. Anderson against Anton Fisher
and T. M. Hicks, a suit to foreclose a
mechanics lien upon an auto for $l69.9S
and $50 attorneys fees. After hearing
the testimony in the case the argument
was postponed until 8 O'Clock tomor-
row morning.
Judge Galloway today issued the
final decree in the case Of the First
National bank of st. Johns against
Andrew Story and others. By the de.
cree the plaintiff gets judgment
against the defendant in the sum of
$1,000 with $3.50 attorneys fees and
the claims of the ather defendants to
the property in question were declared
to be void. The property consists Of
lots z, 8, o and 10 in tract is, Wise
Acres. W. G. Winslow was attorney for
the plaintiff and Smith & Shields for
the defendants.
Ella Byrne was declared to be the
owner in fee simple of two tracts Of
land in this county consisting Of 55 and
81 acres respectively by decree issued
today by Judge Galloway in depart
ment No. Of the circuit court.
Glen Lee was returned from Tilla-
nook today by Constable Cooper and
locked in the county Jail charged with
a statutory crime. Lee will be arraign'
ed on the charge in justice court to.
morrow. He is former resident Of this
city.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-11-22

Tickets sold Wednesday and Thursday, "a and 25,
good for return until Monday the 29 between points
on
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-11-22
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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
The MOTHER SHIP or TIE ATTACKING AERoPLANEa.

Here, facing each to each almost Ike
the salientS ola forddcadon, Lay three
harbor gates to the northeastern United
States-Buzzards bay, gashing deeply
into Massachusetts; Narragausett bay,
almost cutting Rhode Island in two,
and the eastern entrance to Long Is
land sound and the cities Of Connects,
cut
open any one Of these gates, and It.
opened the way at one blow to both
New York and Boston
These three sen salients were greatly
armed for defense. In each harboE lay
batteries of fourteen and twelve inch
all steel rided cannon- Hidden under
facinss OF earth steel and concrete.
they sat ON disappearing carriages and
pneumatic gun lifts TINT would swing
them up as if they weighed ounces In
stead Of tons and Instantly plunge them
back again into cover after firing
Deep under earth embanments,
squattng In concrete lined graves,
twelve inch mortars. sixteen to a.
group, stared upward aft the patches OF
sky over their heads. which WAS aid
that their men would see while they
were firing, however bitter the fight:
might be. $3.50
a single shot from one Of the long.
graceful rifles might sink ship Il 1T
were wen placed A single salyo from
the motars. the sixteen firing together,
assuredly would. And they could do
II. Aimed by mathematics, they were.
sure to strike the spot a score OF.
serving devices in the defenses We're
slaves to the steel champions. Search
lights In nrmoc waited Ike men at arms
10 point Wit, 4 long white finger MT
their prey. kline fields and emplace-
ments and cable conduits were there to
force the ships to steer where the guns
could strike them most surely Masked
by trees and mounds, concealed byeI-
cry device OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ererange
fndeEyand nge control stations
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
highest atrainable unit eficiency Tor

highest aCta1nAb1e unit encleRcy ZOE
war
The boats were scarcely OF the beach
to return to the ships before 500 OF
these units were trottine through the
upland, throwing out advancing par
Ties and making hasty trenches from
which In q moment there looked the
greyhound mules Of machine guns
On the shore the strand party was
sinking sand anchors and rigging der
Kicks. Others were setting together the
i've and one-haH foot sections OF Joint
ed hollow masts for the wireless
When the boats beached again. with
more men, two forty foot masts reach
ed into the night, and hand power gem
orators were making the anfennae
pulse with their mysterious life.
Launches came in now, dragging
wide, fat bottomed pontoons and
swinging them on to shore and speed
ing back for more. Men snatched at
them and held them In the surf and ran
their mocring up the beach, While 9th
ers carried out Hedges and boat an
chors from all sides to make them he
steady In the ground swell
The beach shone white as day an at
once. The desroyers had steamed in
and We're giving tneA1 AoeA1 < az w
their searchlights
In swung more pontoons. Broadside
to broadsfde, kedged and anchored out,
they were moored ont into the sea at
hall dozen parts OF the beach. Laid
far enough apart that they should not
touch, however hard the swell might
strive to grind them together, they
formed aoatng piers reaching beyond
the farthest outer line OF SURF From
pontoon to pontoons ran gangplanks
dashed fast
Three hours had passed Three times
the ships boats had made the 1p be
tween warships and shore-thn1rty
naval service cutters each Carrying
thirty men Twent-se hundred
safiors. m,r.r1nes and soldiers were hold
ing the Rhoda Islsaa eeas
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
Foreign FIGHTERS SET FOOT MAINLAND OF THE
STATES.

10 the survivors who had escaped
from the first red blast the thing seem
ed only deed OF insane wfckedness.
what had they done, they asked each
other with sobbing breaths. to bring a
steel navy at them3 What could a
great powerful enemy gain by this
murder OF unarmed country folks
The men who were working the
Ships guns were from little villages,
from pretty seashore hamlets like these
themselves They were not thinking Of
theshabitations which were being blast
ed away. II was an operation OF war.
with their broonns Of steel and IRE
they simply were sweeping cIear the
door on which that army was to set
Its foot.
Far in shore OF the fame torn
cruisers. safe from any land Ere under
the parabolas OF the nayal projec6les
as Il they were under bombproof
arch; certain little vessels had toned
up and down from the beginning Slow
E,sfor they dragged between them long
wire cables that hung down TO the
sea bottom. they moved back and
forth along the beach, fishing The
5 6sh they were trying to catch were
spherical and contcal steel fish that
bore little protuberances on their tops
Ike the sprouting horns OF gearing
kid.
a touch as soft as the touch OF a
lovsTs hand could drive those little
horns in-ward TO awaken a slumbering
1ftde devil OF illuminate OF mercury
whose sleep IS so light that mere tap
wHI break It And the Eliminates eS-
zSI,sso,s rvouId detonate 800 pounds of
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27

positions ready for fight or to park
them ready for moving when the adj
vance should begin
F5om vantage points inland, from
hills ON Fishers island, from such ven
uresome spies. as aI9, went the news
to Washington and so through the land
The crowds In the cities, dense even at
that,early hour OF the nnorning read on
the bulletin boards:
Enemy elected a landing during the
night on Rhode Island between Nara
gansett bay and Long Island sound
Transports are now close In, preparing:
to put troops ashore. Scouts reportfour
liners. aggregating 100, 600 tons. Army
officials estimate that at the usual al:
lowance OF two men per ton this means
80, 900 men. More transports waiting
under Block Island
Now IS the time TO sHfkessem,s cried
the men, before they can bring more
forces sashore1 They should have been
attackedst in the night. What kind OF:
generals have we got to let 'em land,
instead Of throwing 'em back into the
sea as fast as they Gomez Where IS
our army? Keeping itself safe q
The army, with TO- 600 civilian work
ers impressed as they were needed,
was destroying the railroads OF south
ern New England It was tearing up
the shore line OF the New York, New
Haven and Har6ord railroad from
New Hayen TO New London and from
New London to Proytdence. It was
throwing the rails on Fat cars to be
wbfrIed1 away westward and north;
ward Concrete nnd stone embank-s
n
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27

stead of thefr coping drags, OF they
VIII. npple one too close OF Their
wire cable VIII clutch two mines and.
swing them together so that the little
horns touch.
But IL the mine sweepers are per.
rnitted TO work ON the mines maykm
and XII and Hu, yet IN the end they
WILDE gathered In
There is an absolute answer to the
mine sweepers. It's 20 hammer them
with rapid fire from the shore These
Little vessels, Dragging laboriously pre-
sent targets that scarcely move No
artillerist can miss them
But again there is an answer to the
mine protecting guns. 1t is long range
IRE from the ships that lie safely out
side Of the mine fields
There is only one answer to that 1t
IS for defenders ON land TO plant huge
guns far inland that can reach the
ships and beat them back that they
dare not come close enough to reach
the lesser shore artillery nearer the
sea
This formula Of shore defense is q
formula so simple that mathemati-
cian given the conditions can work 1t
out with simple; arithmetic though he
never had seen q. cannon in his life.
Guns. guns and again guns-and an
army to protect them! This was the
only possible reply to the deet that
was pounding the coast The United
States had not enough sufficiently pow
erful mobile coast guns and siege guns
It had not enough arti11ertsts TO fight
what guns there were. And It had not
enough ammunition to provide. them
with food
In Bethlehem, Pa mp the Hudson, In
smoky Watervliet; In Hartford and
Bridgeport and New Havenanda dozen
other. towns, with machinery hastily
assembled and worlmen hastily learn
Ing, they were trying now to make
proJectiles enough and guns enough.
They were trying to make enough pow
der in Delaware and New jersey
In the encampment OF the United
States army at that moment trains
were delivering guns-suns made In
record time. magnificent testimony to
American efficiency under stress But
the guns were coming In one by one.
to meet an enemy who was beating at
the gates and could not be stopped ex-
cept with hundreds.
Even then the flagship OF the coast
was suffering code into the night
1t was long code, but its meaning
was short 1t meant Now
The mine sweepers hauled their gear
and came out Fourteen had gone In.
Those that came out were nine
Before they had wei begun to move
the beach was white with ships boats,
and 800 bluejackets and marines set
foot on the mainland OF the Untted
States.
With sharpened knives In their
sheaths, and loaded carbines and ban
doleefs filed with cartridges, and en-
trenching tools and provisions, each
man of that first force presented the
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27

ton eds would catch coming tcWer
and masts and perfscope tubes Even
fit tore awaysnom them the whirl OF
the propeller renamed to renew the
danger sucking the trailing cords 10
itself and IN one instant switching
them around and around the spinning
shaft
WITH the propeller blocked the sub
marine must rise. for only with It's
propeller TRUSTING and its horizontal
fms set TO hold # down can the sub
marine stay under It submerges not:
by sinking. but by diving With main
strength
Another rather vivid picture flashed
into the Heutenant's mind 1t was not
picture this time Of a wolf among
sheep 1t was q picture OF sudden.
enormous connection among those
quiet net boys, as OF something sGug
Cling down below, and then ofsa vio-
lent surge as the tangled nets were
carried to the surface by a helpless
submarine held fastsby the TAI.
"A breeze arose with the rising sun,
and theswater roughened. The subma-
zine stopped It could not meet rough
water while It was awash. Although
its buoyancy when it was Sealed was
such that its propeller had to thrust
full speed to make dive, yet with its
matches open 200 gallons Of water, far
less than is contained in a single big
wave, would send It down Ike tin
can.
The commander held on as 1ongras;
he could, watching the whitening wa.
term the east and watching the trans
ports. He saw that at thousand
yards. distance around them Gust
what he would have chosen as neat
torpedo range there lay a little feet
of-gunboats, all thrusting out booms;
with steel nets that made them look
oddly, as IL they were hoped and;
wide skirted Disposed In an oval.
they guarded the transports with a,
second wall of steel wire
And overhead, soaring In sptrals,
never flying far away and always re-
turning. were three naval planes The
commander of the Mo knew that they
were waiting and watching for Just
one thing-the shadow OF sub.
merged submarine
[From an altitude Of 1000 feet the.
movements Of submarine torpedo
boatmay be easily observed unless the
water is very mud y.-Captain We
Clark. Aviation Corps, Q. s. A., De-
cember issue. Coast ARTILLERY Journag
This enemy plainly was taking NO
chances The feet had power and.
time. 1t bent them to one object-to
land its men safely. Itswould not en-
gage the .harbor defenses md 80 open
Itself to the risks OF pImging fire and
torpedo attack. Itwould not blockade
harbors and 80 make itself a chosen
mark for such terrors as No
: Very scientifically very thoughtfuny,
had the enemy staked out the vital spot
at which he had decided to strike
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(continued from last Sunday.3s

- sss.
Batflesiips 1y1nS on the. mouth OF
Buzzards bay were dropping shells INTO
the darbor and into the shorea one
ship had venturedS close INFO ene ianc1,.
approaching within the zone OF dre.
from Fort Holman. ana had -droppeo
shells nearsNew Bedford Hidden by
intervening 1t had: escaped return 2
IRE and was now lying Just out OF
range, dropping an OCCASIONAL fifteen;
inch pro5ectile toward the de1enses-
THE extreme range OF the present
armament Of American harbor defenses
$4,000 yards. This Is not reliably
e6ecdye fighting range and Is merely
5 stated as being The extreme range
under crucial test OF the twelve men
steel rtded mortars- The r1ned guns
rs now mounted have Q. range OF no1
more than 1900 yards. Battiesnips
now being constructed are armed WITH
fifteen and sixteen inch guns tnat can can
ouhange the extreme theoretical range
ofthe mortars-1
Other ships were nr1nS INTO Nar-
rasansett bay. They too, Were firing
at Immensely long range, TO avoid re
trrn fire from the defenses Montauk
Points wireless transmitted dispatch
-.s.,..,,, s+.,,1f,,e n,
-. -, s.Ss.S;-s.. IS<,o+s .rl,a,, tla
~ r .o% 80. aiIas+ Po,,+ Ind,+b,s,
esi1 sno.l-,ne, sooT,
u1e - s,..,Sate1 wss +ba,
.sa.I-sa rs saer a. A., bonr
Is '- s.ee,r r-on, Mar
ies - hos heer,
$1,000 : 1eA e-s 80 -. ~ -
So assLsto -r.-4o-,,- a,.p1o,,s.
tu .. 49, .a1d
1slan $500, ,vere.
Aro1 nel.. 49, $500 nv
{ t ourn1 ano wele 100 a,esse1hsI
neavy :. -. ++,ashi,,.
tnat .ais as F.on, +ts
Sor+,s zneortars and rifles and throwing
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-

Here sareIPertswho had studied the
most occult questions OF r4thmettcs
eeomety. surveying nav1satton and
scartoSraphyforon one pose-toS direct
those long gums true. =
Before them lay charts of t1e sea
area that they were guarding ct
shin come Tithin the limit Of thehsap-
naratus, and IN the time required to
speak into telephone the gun pits
miles away down the defense line
would crackswdth the explosion OF tons
of smokeless powder
z But under the iron yfsages wassweak-
ness. In none of. the defepsess on this
morning when the time bad come for.
Their test, were there more than one
1,alf the number Of men required to
hold them
They could fight the guns, long as
the action remained a ship to fort &c
lion. but IL the enemy attacked at the
rear. from the land, they were not In
Sufficient force to meet him and throw
him back Attacked from the land
the men OF the3d efenses would have to
retire to the innerkeep. and fight from
shelter with rapid IRE guns Andwhen
the defenses thus began to defend
themselves their hour would have
struck.
I Sin for the time theyswere deadly.
The enemy heet pafd them the supreme:
+r;lnte OF .scrupu1ous respect Not a
ressel .yentured after dawn into the.
deadly circle Of their reach To make
sire that no vessel should expose IT.
self. 81 accident, the n1inelayerszofith the
enemy feet were even then moving
Wen outside of the zone OF. extreme fire,
md LAYING immense steel buoys, paint
~ vivid scarlet
Tbese scarIet buoys outlined an area
of safety thnt was shaped somewhat
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27

from the Henches Of the advance
party a wireless spoke TO the cruiser.
bearing the senior omceE Motor
scouts reported in, front, on road, three
thousand yards In. WI fire rocket.
indicating Direction
The rocket burst For minute It:
made all that part of the black county
stand outas under lighming Crash
said the ship Over the b1uejac1ets.
swept the shells and burst
4Crashr said another ship
apparently effective said the wire
less again. Shall send patrols for
ward And again It spoke. in half
an hour: Enemy driven back. Our
patrols hold road Barb wire entangIe-
ments completed Scouts In Report
land clear, except for enemy cavalry
In force inland out OF range
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emotion OF an the cities along the. At
lanuc coast IN tf1afs QUO:
I FOWL ssnese Aesaean
oeens nrrfured IN tne very p1csessssenceso k
an atnaee1 zoe 1nere were oeeS.ta,
elalnenlI win tne lee'
mayor ana the governor OF :taeat
One OF enese nAa =
N nus names WnaeS can we GO ne!
asked y we nao .ne
staIe heSe We Woeta I've -. 1 80
men tae zoe
ms guns on e,s .1.ososNy
VIII pc guns tnae II t,sn
anu s1s.,. =
- .s. -, =
cnecS MN De1ote ne 'sss
% save our peopss IVES We
1enoel ke sase.lDis =
- : y 'e,
~ nan IsaiI ,.sa..1se.s
,,ad- =. ra,e<,si1 ~,
49, ~.
- - -. .-.ss "a. 1uS.,..S-
MA -
-S,f1a = 1890 ,-,,.,,,d +i,a
s,-a,e1 800 +ter crnn,nled q snddenIv
ss-s,,. a, Nc, 45st sT1brovine ~ tn Iths
49, ~ 80 ne, foot On. a.
ar s., ;, ~ cried Ivfth flashing ewes
..,at him tleatroy| h. Better sim. LET M
destroy it1 When the enemy ap-
nroaches Iet MS send our Boston town
mn IN flames and fraSments, Let us
leave him not SO much as Hvet TO
MOI mn for Iootw
seTf an fbourbt 1ke you.~ said one.
mn Old praye man. seBut we have 7o0.-
O(1o neonle ana thew are not soldiers
or phnosophers: they're human men.
It Is laid ON us TO protect them at
whatever price e ONT national pnoe:
hunniliaraon y tt.e - st.s-s =
must pay s1ol
WY, ea /" 2 las -
enouen 1I w. - ..s,,,.r,a,.,
:. ~ 20 =. - :
pnla, IN score q -
une -, -,
frst outourse OF 1u1y ana
neroisn ana enen taat,
thought born NOT OF <ssossatolce, u
cold logic Eds orenelsteln 1AllInsS
seaboard with as cfalns OF 1l-soooseesOV
city dweIlers was no sHol lil, % drown
itself under Its OWL sea IN orders 20 oee-s
stroy it's foe These c1ues sWere no
Moscows TO devour themselves IN n -.
that the enemy n'sne pee. - y.
them This was the United States OF
America, and this was the tWenrle1n
century, and the men. no less brave.
no less patriotic faced the CONDITIONS
They fomed committees Of safety
They wrestled Win tneir IopneaYy 1ae.-
nicipal machfner1es TO MAKE tnedu mem 2 n
swer the. sharp neeo gnoe, NE
all the detects OF their political rue
$1,000 OUT
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- f1wInrTfc 4mspen4fnE pvArF against che
Dndsed States BY q coax q poweEs OF
srScnie4 ri -v,oIgsneeer 4orceg u ocdered
me snat5oual anthor1t5eS 4 nd chat faee
Dnifed States Is 5ui1ys.Gnp1epASSssso--.s
I,ocfed 100 miles taslengtaa The GE1csd
Staee61 navy loses ships n 5oes9te.ss Lne3
land horizon. and Amertca eecoEEes 2ax1se
g1i,,,eesr avsator 0coutsne a7ong.
les,es AniaSseles sooaSe discovers fAe 1Coaa-l
ION 4Ieet on 1SeW Beo6o914s a6A1sss-I z11Eey
SSssszS5rIsets N toNJr9
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80. - ,.oss fron, +T,,s deck at tha
esS s1fsbtIy7
- aaroyS1anes were
SIa.sd - r-t,ese wera Tnotber.
ssi ,,s y
su1.,s,-, ,,..+.,z r,,.,,dei1 nv Destroy.
$3.50 Nv sn1,n sent
NO., oysrbeed thev were sending
ant eTss +f,e5-s s1,es 10 search the Iand
The two united States hiers, stand
I'M. i1v tbeir machines IN Fort Wight,
5i i1,S 1T the ascending swarm. sNo7s
1yondar- said one. You know how
,,oTyy one az those nations had at last
occco1n+so Twelve bundled.
aa1,,d r1,a,ya rof. thirteen In the army
and twelve I'm the navy. His COM
nanion laughed. .eAnd serta had
sixty before the great war
Thev said no more, but watched IN
silence. That ascending. continually
growing line of flying things was IKE
something that was writing into the
sky the word resources"
Suddenly the American air men
noticed that these new machines were
not lying to the coast near them They
were turning OF, In regular order. One
tuned west to dy over Long Island
The next one turned east toward Buz-
yards bay. They alternated thus tn
the entire division had separated and
disappeared
one of the scouts slapped his thigh
.1 believe, said he, .sthat they are
going to show themselves TO Boston
ana New York.
THAT WIS at 9 o'clock In the morning.
al noon the crowds In the two cities
were startled bv a distant roar that
crew. almost before they had first
heard IL into laundering that shook.
the AIR. They stared upward and be-:
held the first SQUADRON Of amed fly.
Ing machines that America ever had
seen.
Arnoneds wifi, the bright colors Of
+he eT,eTnv on theIr under bodies. the
aeronIanes from the enemy feet new
- sT3ev ssImn,efl close to the state
1,onsa = IN Roston,s Reacon Hm Thev
aew oyers tbe fan municipal building
s,,.,,,,d +r,1--,,,5 +bs
M = I9rori-
s,Sa,s fs,,r,-+on
80 -, NJ IIayen
They passed over every one OK t1e 1ac--;
tory cities of New Jersey that crowd
-, No na,- secasw works harfor
~ ....-s : a. %
"ne1e y = - =
fGAYz bore some 1G1SL61Ie 11f1lkAIOY I'LL
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ereat Britain s.: one year spends
nearly S150. 600. 90 on tobaceo
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.Welch 3 sFuHerton, druggIsts,

denver tosaB paris Of The CITY.
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Como one dte and go through olind
The lieutenant knew the limitations OF
his terrible little animal Its Kiss could
draw a 10000 ton slip into the abyss,
but the woven twine would laugh at
torpedoes- ,,,ss
1ts nose could cut through them IKE
the THREADS that they were s9E-tes1