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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-17

The annual report of the Bisker Tel
ephene and Telegraph company, of
Halfway, Oregon, shows an operating
revenue Of $3.50 and an operating ex-
pense of $3.50
The report Of the Rogue River Wa
ter company of Grants Pass, with Of
flee in the Railway Exchange building,
Portland, shows that the gross income
of the company was $2,754.03, and the
expense account $2,509,3l, which leaves
a net income of $244.72.
Articles of incorporation of the Off
shore company were filed this morn
ing. This company is composed Of Sa-
lem men and the object is to catch,
cure, and sell fish, and to manufacture
food, fertilization, and by-products.
The capital is placed at $4,000 and the
hnape office is IN Salem The incorpo
rabors are r. NJ Hofer, d. M. Field
and L. f. Hofef.
Certificate of increase Of capital
stock of the Ball Manufacturing cons
panv from $4,000 TO $4,000 was fill
ed this morning, and also a certificate
sof dissolution Of the Putnam Frazier
company
In response to a query from the
Gardner Mill company, of San Fran
cisco, Calf, concerning the operation
of senate bill No. .f31s passed by the
recent legislature, which bill regulates
the booming of logs in the waters OF
the state of Oregon, the public service
commission yesterday stated that only
corporations formed under the laws OF
the state of Oregon can engage in the
business of booming, driving, rafting
OF holding logs for hire II was deemed
by the commission that the provisions
of the bill limit booming operations to
the corporations operating in the state
The commission will proceed, when
the law goes into effect on May 20,
to formulate regulations covering the
business. There are several applicants
for franchises to operate booms but
until the law goes into effect no at
tention can be paid to them, other than
to receive and place on file. The plae-
ing of an application now will not give
priority, according to a decision of the
commission.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-17
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-17

x X X i II X X X x X X X * X x
Nnmker Of associations In the world
7la; counties having associations 80:
world membership 7ss.0o0; number
Of associations in Z. s. $50; members
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-17

A most enthusiastic and appreeiative
audience of parents and interested
friends gathered at the residence stu
dio of Mrs Walter A. Denton last Fri-
day night, when she presented her
younger piano pupils IN delightful
recital,
The tiny tots participated in the
first part of the programme. and inf-
mesliatelv won the hearts of the guests.
Little Frances Martin and Maxine
Glover were especially clever in their
numbers. The two Edwards children
deserved credit for their efforts after
only three weeks Of study Kenneth
Stont, a little lad between and .
years is making exceptional progress.
It is impossible to give individual
mention. as all the pupils acquitted
themselves remarkably we'll. greatly
pleasing their parents and friends.
Ethelwynne Kelly, nine years Of
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19
De WET WAS HARD TO CATCH
Boer Leader Took Delight in Telling
of His Achievements in Evad-
ing the Pursuing Britons.

OF the three great figures that
emerged on the Boer side in the war
Of defense that developed after Lady
smith-Botha, De Wet and Delarey-
De We was much the most impress
sive. His face was a study in resis-
lance, says Harold Spender in Cen
eral Botha, the Career and the Man.
His body seemed all muscle. Looking
IN him, n could understand the fear
that he inspired in his own men. But
it was his schemes of escape, almost
miraculous in their cunning, that per-
picked or empire and puzzled u plan
ct.
his face light up when he referred
to one of his W achievements in
evasion, and of those achievements
one still stands out in my memory.
One evening, after a long days
march-so he told us-all his wander
ings seemed to have come to an end.
The lights of the British bivouac fires
twinkled from every point Of the hori-
zon. De Wet, as was his wont, went
apart from his men and sat alone in
dumb despair. Then there came to
him softly one of those wonderful
scouts who served him so we'll. The
scout had discovered a slight gap in
the British lines between two regi-
ments that we're not quite keeping
touch.
In a moment De Wet was on his
feet. Within an hour every horses
foot was muffled with cloth or wool
and every wagon wheel was swathed.
The Boer camp fires were lighted aud
were left burning brightly. Then the
whole Boer force crept out through
the darkness of the night in utter 81
lence, penetrated the gap in the Brit
ish lines and started on a new course
of fugitive warfare.-Youth's Compan.
ion.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19

real fight with real opposition, John.
son isn't particular whether the ad-
versary is a pugilist, and the game a
physical one, or q constitutional law
yer, and the weapon required legal
talent. He is always on the job. He
never had a chip on his shoulder, was
never looking for one to knock of.
but he felt himself lucky, indeed, when
he had an opportunity for action.
What Johnson says goes. If he aver
made a misstatement in his life it was
an un%intentional error, and it isn't too
late yet for him to make the correc-
ton"
When Oklahoma became a state
Johnson's activities were ended there.
to become national ones. He was made
chief special officer, with duties ex-
tending w every Indian reservation
in the country. %"Pussyfoot" became q
national name.
In Oklahoma one man transformed
the situation from n of lawlessness
to one of respect for the government.
But he had sown seeds of hatred
which were to blossom into a crop Of
deaths and s%anguinary battles, in re-
lentless tracking and in dramatic re.
venge.
Copyright. by W. G. Chapman.)
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19
Exploits of "PuSSyf00t" Johnson
in Cleaning Up Indian Territory

hol. johnson went before various
grand juries with this evidence, and
the grand juries smiled and voted mo
bill"
That spurred Johnson. He gave out
a signed statement to the newspapers
that he was going away for a few days,
and that, on his return, he was going
to Carrie Nationize Indian Territory.
He posted spoilers" at all points
where beer or whisky could enter the
territory. thus actually blockading it.
Then, gathering a band of deputies
around him, and armed with a big six
shooter. a steel hammer, and a Jim
my" for prying open cases, collins.
etc., he returned. And that was the
beginning of real war.
Il was shanghaied by Mr.. Leupp
into the job Of leading this enterprise"
says Johnson. Il marveled somewhat
at taking the job, as 1 knew what it
meant if anything real was under
taken.
Il gathered together a band of fell
lows who felt much as l did and who
were ready to take a chance with
me. And for IA months flying beer
bottles, midnight shooting affairs,
burning gambling outfits. and broken
heads followed.
"At the end of the period an astro-
nomical reckoning showed that we had
destroyed 100000 bottles of liquor,
burned out Is gambling houses, and
made LAP arrests. Fresh mounds of
earth marked the resting places of
four of my boys who had been killed
in the campaign. Another carried a
bullet in his neck, and most of us
carried a of one sort or another.
There has been something doing
1--WE have not been very tender in
our dealings with these hyenas, who
would get an Indian drunk so as to
rob him Of his blanket. Nothing but
the u%nrelenting cold steel of absolute
justice will have any effect on the
cuticle Of such. There is no quarter
asked or given, and no sympathy
wasted. I have never invoked the law
against a man for making an assault
on me or attempting my life."
Tulsa, I. T., was the scene Of the
first hostilities. Numbers of gamblers
had flocked into that city across the
Texas line, and had made arrange
ments with the city council to open
gambling houses on payment of a
fine" of $125. The inevitable crowd
of bootleggers and whisky peddlers fol-
lowed them.
Shortly before midnight johnson,
accompanied by three trusted deputies,
Sam Cone, Ed T. Egan and Frank
West, who was a half-breed Creek In
dian, slipped into Tulsa. Their move
ments we're so swift and sudden that
the %terrorized citizens believed that
Johnson had a whole army at his
back. For four hours the town was in
a fever Of excitement. Three gambling
houses were burned out, the flames
reaching as high as the tops of the
tallest buildings. Only n man Of
fered resistance. This was a no
torious bad man" named Bill Burke,
who armed himself and threatened to
drive the raiders out of the town. This
added some zest to Johnson's enjoy
ment. He at one turned his prisoners
owe to his assistant, and, taking a
magazine rifle, started down the mid
die of the street to give battle to the
terror" Covered with sweat and
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19

At an editors desk in W~esterville,
o.. there sits a stoutish man of about
f1fty-two. preparing the lay-outs of q
chain of temperance magazines and
newspapers. His head Is as bald as an
egg. and it would surprise anyone who
had just met him and was listening to
the editors gentle, half-timid accents,
to know that the several indentations
IN the top of it come from revolver
butts implanted there during a strug.
gle in a courtroom somewhere in
Texas, when the said editor was
known as the most sensational news.
paper detective west of the Missis.
sippi.
William Eugene Johnson is q
natural-born bad man.. That his &C.
uvities have always been enlisted on
behalf of good citizenship is probably
an accident due to early training and
environment. Picture a man of about
six feet three, by four feet in diameter,
an elongated flour barrel, with mus
cles bullying out all over him; the face
of a bandit, utter fearlessness, a love
of fighting surprising an Irishman's,
q strain of Indian blood that makes
him Is tenacious and resolute as a
full-blood, and n governing princi-
pie. That is Johnson.
The governing principle is this:
Save the Indian from the bootleggers
who are ~debauching them with illicit
alcohol.
Johnson is a stanch temperance
man, but no fanatic. 1t is only when
his blood-brothers. the Indians, are
ruined by rum" that you can see the
mans moral indignation aroused to
the point OF fanaticism. For six years
he fought a battle in the West on be-
half of the governments wards that
has never been eGualed in strenuous
activity The tale of his exploits is
here to be set out in full for the first
time.
In August, 1906, at the suggestion
of Commissioner Francis E.. Leupp,
johnson was appointed by Secretary
Hitchcock to be special agent in In.
dian Territory, for the purpose OF
stamping out the sale of intoxicants to
Indians. In 1905 he was made chief
of the service, and after Oklahoma
achieved statehood his duties were
extended to cover all the Indian reser
vations throughout the country.
go down there" we're Johnson's in
structions. "and put as many bootleg
gers and illicit whisky sellers out Of
business as you can. Put them in Jail
for as long as you are able, and. when
they get out, throw them back again"
Johnson, arriving at the scene OF
operations. found four courts and
eight judges. with 5000 criminal
cases awaiting trial. 1t was evident
that he might kick his heels till judg-
ment day SO far as bringing criminals
to trial was concerned. He found his
deputies buIldozed and d~isheartened
and laughed at by the ~grog-sellers.
! That was where Johnson began.
His first move was to make the best
collection of so-called Temperance
drinks used for ~debauching Indians
that was ever assembled. He
scocped up bottles of "Uno," "1no,'
'Mistletoe." "Longhorn," "Waukesha,'
'New State" Meth" "Teetotal," Tin.
top "Uauto," "Nottox." pablo" etc.
anu had them submitted to expert
analysis Every one of them proved
to be beer. highly charged with alco
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19

rived. Johnson had to work with apa-
thetic courts and civil officials almost
invariably hostile. He met lawlessness
with scrupulous law abidingness. He
dug up an old Indian treaty Of 1855
which banned the sale of liquor to In
dians in Minnesota, and put the lid
on hundreds of grog shops in that
state. He dug up another old law CIV
ing an officer the right to enter q
gambling house and destroy the para
phernalia within. Johnson's huge bon.
fires became q feature of his cam
paign. Often he had the opposition
of the fire departments. which put out
the flames. But he never faltered. A
dozen times he was arrested and
thrown into Jail, but he got free and
turned the tables completely.
At Mahnomen, the village marshal,
accompanied by a posse of armed citi-
zens, appeared at the doorway of q
saloon while Johnson's Ratchet, WELD
ed with all the muscular force of his
strong right arm, was battering in q
safe. The marshal had come to arrest
Johnson for destroying property.
Johnson paused long enough in his
work Of destruction to thrust his re-
volver into the marshal's face.
II represent the department of In.
dian AFFAIRS" he said quietly. "You
men had better get out of here until
we finish u work"
AS the marshal demurred Johnson
advanced a step in his direction and
smiled in his face.
Get OUT" he said.
The marshal accepted the spirit of
the invitation and got" So did the
armed posse. When the destruction
was complete Johnson led his deputies
out Of the saloon to where the marshal
and the posse were standing.
did you want to arrest me?" in
quired Johnson, with his famous smile.
"Why, yes" stammered the marshal,
II should like to-"
go ahead, them" answered John
son, and the marshal went ahead. But
Johnson was fully sustained by the au-
thorities ut Washington and liberated
almost Immediately.
Johnson possessed a small caliber
rifle which had been specially made
for him. 1t would shoot through "a
inches of hardwood. The reputation
of this weapon spread throughout the
West and Southwest. That was a
good thing, for Johnson, like most
stout men, is not a first-class Splinter.
"Why didn't you try to escape?"
somebody once asked one Of Johnson's
captives in his presence.
II was afraid he'd turn that darned
spray on me-" replied the prisoner,
glancing at Johnson's automatics.
BY the time Indian Territory was in
corporated with Oklahoma as a state
a large and thriving colony of federal
prisoners at Fort L~eavenworth and in
other United States penitentiaries at
tested to Johnson's activities. Many
are still there, life prisoners. includ-
ing the murderer Harris, whom John
son arrested single-handed in his camp
near the Canadian river. Johnson had
succeeded in making his name n Of
terror to every outlaw in the Territory.
He was shot at innumerable times.
but, though four of his deputies were
shot dead and three others wounded
he escaped with nothing worse than
a few fingers broken upon a prisoners
head. And he had inspired his fol-
lowers with his own enthusiasm and
courage.
To quote a comment made on him:
johnson is a fighter. He would rath.
er fight than eat So long as it is a
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19
Nervousness

"What's the trouble with you?"
kind of a nervous dyspepsia, I sup
pose. Every time I think Of what
my dinner is going to cost I get
nervous"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19

In Five Years by Grit, Courage, Ingenuity and Bulldog Tenacity
He Wiped Out the Gamblers and Whisky PeddIers From
Every Indian Observation-Disclosures Narrative
That Rivals Deeds Of Old Frontiersmen.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-10-05
St. Paul and Minneapolis October ++6, 1917.

specifically yours and weave it round
some meaningless, unrecognizable
name and thus discount the patri-
otto traditions of our race?
To quote the immortal bard:
who steals my purse steals trash,
but he who takes away my good
name steals something immeasur-
ably precious" The Jewish young
men by eliminating their Jewish sur
names are permitting a slur to be
cast on the patriotism of the Jew
in the army and navy.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-10-05
JEW LED FIRST COMPANY IN
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Jews Always in the Vanguard to
Found Some State of Free
dom and Equality.


1T was revolutionary Jew who
led the first company of the Preo-
brazhenski regiment the Cars crack
corps of guards-to the duma during
the afternoon Of March II, the deci-
slve day of the Russian revolution.
The arrival of that Jew with those
revolving soldiers marked the inau
guration of the most radical govern
ment in history"
The above opening paragraph of al
article in the Chicago Daily News,
shows the indominitable spirit of the
Jew, tense, battling, challenging, who
through maze of oppression and per-
secution always bears aloft the en-
blem Of freedom and righteousness.
There is something symbolic in this
fact
Zangwill in his "Dreamers of the
Ghetto" speaks of LA Sale" the
peoples savior" seeing himself in
his boyish imagination the head of an
armed nation delivering it from bond
age, and reigning over a free people,"
In his dreams of larger fight for hui
mainly, his friends and inspirers
were all Jews; Heine and Bourne in
his youth and in his manhood Karl
Marx. Was it perhaps their sense of
the great Ghetto tragedy that quick
ened their indignation against all
wrong?
Moses leading his people OUT of
Egypt, Herzl leading Israel back to
the promised land and this unknown
Jew leading the first company of Rus
sian soldiers are all Jewish links in
the close-meshed, eternal chain of hui
man evolution to found state of
freedom and equality, some true state
of right, state which would stand for
justice on earth, and material and
spiritual blessedness for all.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-10-05

In glancing over the names of the
men who had won commissions at
the various training camps one finds,
seemingly, the names of Jews, "like
angels visits" few and far between.
The inference formulated itself that
racial discrimination may have been
at the root of this. However, it was
the racial discrimination of our lew
ish young men to their own Jewish
names that accounts for this gap!
1t seems that Jewish young men
disown or disavow their Jewish sur
names when enlisting, and if pres
ent war history does not exactly
TEEN with Jewish names it is be-
cause our young men rccast their
names into more Anglo-Saxon
mold. The son of a prominent Ii
onist and writer is known in camp
by the unhebraic pseudonym of
Carr" another Jewish young man
shines under the non de plume of
"Russell"; Mr.. Painkovsky prefers
the more illustrious name of
"Paine,' ad infnitum, and only very
few seem to stick to their right
names. These painful efforts to
change Jewish names into some non
Jewish cognomen goes deeper than
the perfunctory flinging away of
name. 1t hurts the Jew racially, for
when one looks over the army list,
instead of seeing a splendid roster of
Jewish names that reflect the patriot
ism of our co-religionists, exempli-
fled in full measure, the serried rows
of non ewish names would make
one believe that very few Jews have
responded to their country's call.
In England not so long ago two
young men won the Victoria Cross
for unusual valor. T he name of one
was Smith and the other Burke, and
only when it was revealed that Mr..
Smith had been Mr.. Snitkowsky,
and Mr.. Burke had been Mr.. Berko-
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-10-05

WITT, could the Jews thrill with the
consciousness that it was their own
flesh and blood who had done their
glorious bit in their country's trial
and hardship and SO shone in the
glory! 1t will also be remembered
that few years ago when Sammy
Meisenberg was brought back
hero it was disclosed that he had
enlisted under the name Of Samuel
Martin.
For many years the cry has been
flung at the Jew that he has not
been patriotic, bat proud memories
of patriotic service by the Jew can
hardly be evoked by non Jewish
surnames. The Jewish names that
arc repudiated are certainly no less
euphonious than Richardson, Rus
sell, Carr, or Riley, etc. The man
who founders when giving a Jew
lsh name may possess personality
of the right stuff, but it can only be
reached under many film flams. A
name is SO valuable an asset that
men generally commit felonies only
under aliases or assumed names, and
penltent-aries mete out punishment
by taking away the distinguishing
mark of name from man and as
signing him a number instead.
1t is more than an individual mat
ter when Jews in the army and
navy cast off their Jewish names like
one would an old cloak, but they
incidentally toss away some grip of
loyalty, some grip Of reality, some
drop Of Jewishness, that looms high
and higher with the years in the
scale of proportion.
We Jews have hard task before
us. in every country, and the cry
that the Jew is not patriot is far
flung. May it not be. that this light
remuneration of Understanding
names by Jews in the army and
navy is accountable?
In serving ones country one may
add glory to ones name. So why
unlink honor from a name that is
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-10-05
NON-JEWISH NAMES OF SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS MAKE PATRIOTIC GAP

Number of Young Men Who Won Commissions Training
Camps Toss Aside Their Jewish Sounding Names. This
Accounts for Seeming Paucity of Jewish Men Who
Win Commissions or Enter Service at Call Of
Old Glory.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-01-04
omio Offerings.

Correspondence of the Record, Dec. 26.
Mrs. I. c.. Lloyd left last Wednes-
day to visit relatives in Minnesota
Omio school children are having a
vacation until Tuesday after New
Years.
Arlo Pitcher was confined 10 the
house last week with an attack of
measles.
Miss Emma Bleyhl is spending the
holidays in the northeastern part of
the township.
Little Isabelle Drayton has been
quite sick with bronchial pneumonia,
but is much better at this writing.
The Christmas program held at she
Stone Church S;.turda! evening was
well attended, considering the stormy
weather.
The Literary program will be held
at H. Hanson's Saturday evening
January 9th, having been postponed
one week.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-01-04
Temvik Talk.

Correspondence Of the Record, Jan. 2.
Mrs. Fred Snyder returned Friday
from Aberdeen, s. D.
Misses Brochcard and Martha Graf
spent New Years in the city.
Mrs. Block returned Friday from
Bismarck where she spent Xmas.
Mrs. Mcinhover and children, of
Linton, are in the city visiting the
formers parents.
Mr. Bell, father Of Mrs. McVcy, ar
rived Friday from La Coma, Iowa, to
spend the winter.
Miss l.. Quasi returned to Linton
Friday, after visiting week with
Mr.. and Mrs. Quasi.
Mrs. S. A. Schoonover and Mrs
r. c. Burlingame and son, Elva, ar
rived from Chicago, ILL.,, Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. Dave Colquhoun en-
tertained New Years at dinner the
following friends: Messrs. and Mes
DANES H. V. Sedig and children, L..
S. Hartman, E. H. Hardt, H. S.
Anderson, Fred Snyder and Jones
Blasen and E. Grottering
DR.. 6. A. and Jake Schatz And
P. Tempcl left for Eureka, S. D..
Friday evening, stopping at Linton Ia
take in the dance and going to Eure,
ka Saturday to spend New Years. p
Tempel returned Tuesday and Jake
Schatz goes on to Valparaiso, Ind, tc
attend school.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-01-04

our bankers ask but one per cent,
watch the howl.
Mr.. Conrad Erck and wife left for
Yankton, S. Oak, for "a visit with
friends and relatives of that place.
Mrs. Erck has daughter in the con-
vent at that place.
Pneumonia is quite prevalent among
the smaller children in the commune
ty. The three little. ones of H. B.
Kiefer have been quite i'll with high
fevers and lung troubles.
Among those that were snow-bound
and arrived Thursday night were VIM.
Jellema, Miss Ema VAIL, who came
from Aberdeen and Plus Volk and Ju-
Illus Schatz, who had been snow bound
lover at Eureka.