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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
GOVERNMENT TO ASK
APPEAL ON OIL CASE
Rehearing Of Suits Against
Southern Pacific Railway
viii Be Sought.

Los Angeles, CAL, Aug. 29.-(United
Press. )--Counsel for the government in
dicated today it would seek an appeal
from the decision last night Of Judge
Bledsoe, which dismissed the six con
solidated suits of the government in
volving immense oil holdings of the
Southern Pacific.
The government alleged the Southern
Pacific obtained 10000 acres Of oil
bearing land in the San Joaquin valley
through fraud on affidavits alleging
them to be agricultural. The lands are
valued at $4g1 100000.
Judge Bledsoe held that the govern.
ment failed TO sustain the fraud charge
He cited the following points:
The government surveyor had return
ed the lands as non-mineral bearing.
For several years the Southern Pacific
sold the lands at prices ranging from
$3.50 to S. AN acre.
| The big suit was begun eight year!
ago. For some years the Southern Pact
! fic produced 100000 barrel Of oil an
, nually from the land involved.
Judge Bledsoe heard all the evidence
in person, in hearings held at San Fran
cisco, New York, Washington, Los An
I fgeles and Fresno. Sixteen Thousand
pages Of testimony were taken.
| The government contended that th
Southern Pacific obtained patents OF
the land as non-mineral bearing will
actual knowledge on the part Of its off
GERS that the land was rich in oil an,
non-patentable.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
Steamers Damaged In Clash
OFF New York Early Today

New York, Aug. Quilted Press.)
The Munaires, $3.50 ton freighter of
the Munson Steamship Lines, was badly
damaged in a collision early today with
the British freighter Hortensius in the
Ambrose channel. The Munaircs was
reported safely anchored ut Red Hook
Flats at $50 a. M, where she was able
to proceed under her own steam No
lives were lost.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
Senate foreign Relations
Committee Will Complete
Work or Treaty Wednesday

mittee took no action. On Thursday .
hearing took UP the morning and an
executive session in the afternoon took
no action. 1t was deferred until Fri
day.
However, said Sesator HitehcoeH,
administration leader, am confident
that by next Wednesday or Thursday
the treaty will be ready to report"
Every speech the president makes will
be promptly answered on the senate
floor. Prospects are that little legisla-
tive business will be transacted while
the Joint debate goes on.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
Return I Z: rs Bay District Of
Strike I, seNes And Traf-
fic SAlmed.
STEAM TRAIN NMAKE
I, FIRST BREAK IN SOUTH
Score OF Engineers And Con-
ductors AT Los Angeles
Quit Strikers Ranks.

Los Angeles, CAL, Aug. 80 Engineers
of the steam roads of Southern Caiifor-
mia will respond to the orders Of their
chief executive and will be ready to
work some time today in the belief Of
M. E. Montgomery, assistant grand chief
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers.
~ am hopeful they will return tc
work, said Montgomery.
Montgomery continued his efforts tc
persuade the men to return by ad
dressing a meeting of engineers early
today, urging them to fulfill their con
tracts with the government controlled
roads.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29

portland Or Ane. %. - General
pr;oo . n;Sora for,nar commander of
inc spruce Pfout''ioii NV isioi anu ~
mer president of the spruce production
corporation, unexpectedly returned to-.
Portland today to face his detractors
lin the congressional spruce production
which is now under way
i'm Portland.
Disque arrived here from New YORK,
where he is president OF the U, Ans
inck company, an exporting and I'M
porting concern. lie lmmediately eail'
ded upon Congressman james A. frear,
chairman OF the congressional suD-com
mittee, for opportunity to be heard.
In formal letter he said:
IL have como across the continent
Tor the purpose or assisting your COIN
mttee to arrive at the facts concern
ing spruce production while yon are
here in the northwest, where the sub
ject has become one Of public interest
and where | feel that my evidence Is
necessary III orusf 70 p,e'eh. . niisun
aerslanoing IN inc puoiic hii'u VI o"'
opefatiohs'
uehe''i y, a..o.a, u,s ..aton,ant that q thera
:" . pe' oont aoa. as are e. in tbe admins.
ration at oa tha snrncs nroduction diyis.
;on and cornoration fts record Is as
clean os new washed dish. =
! D;sone declared that he can prove
the spruce production enterprise to be
free of reproach, and that the inter
ests of the government and her allies
Iwere the first and only consideration
in the entire operation from John =
Ryan, director OF alrpiane uiVls'ol
down. 80, !,
John y. hryaii WI oe s,o"n ~ ~
man TOO Dls, Pa,fio'ic ann s "th .,e - =
haSe Deeh .1:.t,5 ~. & ), sai,
" cfoonuanesa =. ~ = a,aan no, &c the,
maIs Iet thom !,
mIt vas heartbreakinp thing II
stav IN tbis side, he declared, "ant
iT ouly accented the assignment whei
shown that it was my duty
That $4,000 900 was squandered, mis-
anplied and converted to the use of tn
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroa,
company. in the construction of tn
Stems. .Carey. .Kerbaugh spruce ron
though the OLYMPIA peninsula is tn
official finding Of the committee.
The committee. which Just complete
an extensive probe of the spruce admin
istration at Seattle. and will open hear
. inos here this afternoon, forwarded ii
initial reportto Secretary Of War Bake
last night. in which it urged:
"Those directly responsible for es
I cessiye expenditures, used to advanc
. large business interests, should be hel
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
COLONEL CRADELBAUCH
WILL BE H0N0RED

Hood River, Or, Aug, %.
On Wednesday September II,
the Hood River county Pioneer
society at its annual reunion
will observe Cradlebaugh and
Glacier day in respect to the
memory Of J.. H. Gradlebaugh,
first editor of the Hood River
Glacier, the fruit valleys pio-
neer newspaper. George 7. Pra-
ther, Summit orchardistr who
established the Glacier as pub
Usher, later selling it to Mr..
Cradlebaugh, will read q paper
entitled" How the Glacier came
to be founded.
Poems of Mf. Cradlebaugh,
who for many years before his
death had been on the staff Of
the Salem Capital Journal, will
be read at the meeting.
X X X X X X X X X X X *
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
PRESIDENT TO
HIT DIRECTLY
At OPPOSITION
Most Of Speeches On Trip 10
Be Made In States 0ppos-
ing League.
ADDRESSES SLATED FOR
THIRTY LARGER CITIES
viii Spend Day And Entire
Evening OF September IA
In Portland.

Washington, Aug. 29( United Pressl
The itinerary of President Wilson's
tour on behalf Of the peace treaty and
league covenant officially given out to
day, calls for visits in thirty citiesiia
twenty states.
The route to be followed win cover
approximately 10000 miles and the trip
win last ~ days.
The president win leave Washington
the evening Of next Wednesday and ~
turn at Id. M, September 80 He win
60 west as far as Kansas City, north in
to Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota
and Montana and then into the Pacific
coast.
He will then swing down the coast to
San Diego, turn north to Rono ana
across to Denver, returning through
Kansas and Oklahoma. The itinerary
reveals how the president has planned
his journey to carry the fight into tho
territory Of the biterest enemies Of tho
treaty and the League,
He will eonfinc his speeches to the
west and middle west, in which section
col,ss ~ svAu q sa .. s.saas 4, nhin san..
az W. soL',' 49, n,s .tsso Spsh I's Sor.
t.o. As [ wataa,'n 20 Tnd;an. 81.
- ao,s .ssv auu ~ ,,ras,Jaat,s noass Man.
He will tryto arouse their constituents
at lndianapohs.
BY invading oalifornia ana luano, INC
president will aim blows at Two OF ms
bitterest enemies OH the treaty-Sena-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
BRITISH BARGE DESTROYED

Archangel, Aug. 2S.-Twcnty men
were killed and forty are missing, it was
reported today, as result of the explo-
sion of an ammunition barge which de-
stroved the British monitor Glow Worm.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
Hldreh Refuses $300.0O0
For Three Year Oh Horse

New York, Aug. 29.--Samuei G. Hill
dreth announced today that he had re-
fused an offer of 100000 for his three
year-old horse, Purchase. 1t Is said to
be the largest offer that was ever made
for a race horse in the United States.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29

Ldndon-Complainang that soldiers
bileted on him had stolen his gram
aphone a Welsh householder was ask,
cd if that was the only thing he had
lost. "Well, my wife. But tho grama-
phone cost fifty five dollars. =
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
DROPS
IN ON SPRUCE
INVESTIGATORS
General Arrives Unexpectedly
In Portland To Answer
Graft Charges.
RECORD DECLARED CLEAN
AS NEW WASHED DISH
Ryan Defended As Man Too
Big, Patriotic, Honest For
Crooked Work.
SOLDIERS TO TESTIFY

Portland, Or, Aug. 29.-see-
rctary Of War Baker wired the
congressional probers Of the
spruce production expenditures
this afternoon that soldiers de-
string to testify at the Port
land hearings will be given full
protection.
Chairman Frear announced
that returned soldiers had in
I formed him they had startling
revelations to make if promis-
ed immunity.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29

london" Wilson Peace were the
Christian names luckaess Finchley
baby had to stand for through being
born in peace year.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29
Official Itinerary

VlltNA@k LpNAASAN~H
Washington, Aug. 29.-The offlciai
itinerary for President Wilson's tcnr
today was announced as follows;
Thursday morning, September Go
lumbus, Ohio.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-29

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
Storied Old CitY.

Danzig is one of the most strongly
fortified cities in the world, and has
been so through its history. 1t was a
free city through centuries for the
same reason that most free cities of
the marauding ages were free-be-
cause its people had seized upon the
naturally powerful defensive topog-
raphy of the country surrounding,
and made its defenses almost impreg--
nable. 1t was too tough nut for the
kings of the middle ages to crack
with their armies, so they graciously
allowed it to be free. Under the for
mer German emperor, It's miiitaristic
aspect was even more accentuated
than it was in the days when ii was
one of the Big Four" of the Han
seattle league. With Konigsberg, Thorn
and POsen, it formed u mighty chain
of fortresses.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
LIVE IN STRANGE ABODES
Danes and HoIIanders Would Seem to
Take Big Chances in the
North Sea.

The worlds strangest dwelling
places are to be found in the North
sea, not far from HelgOland.
Centuries ago there was a large and
prosperous island province, called
Nordstrand, off the coast of Schleswig-
Holstein. Storm and earthquake de-
strOyed it one Sunday night, and near
ly 5000 people were drowned.
In course of time, however, high
mounds emerged from the waters, and
ultimately venturesome Hollanders
built their cottages on the SUBMITS of
these mounds. BY sharing fowl and
wild duck, collecting eggs, oysters, and
seals, they managed to exc out living
The sea-girt mounds are known as
"halligen." Except on GLAND, the larg-
est, there are no trees or fuel, except
that obtained from submerged beds
Of peat, and no fresh water except
rain-water collected In butts.
Nevertheless, adventurous Danes
and Hollanders, attracted by the thou
sands Of wild fowl and fish, continue
to live on the "halligen," In spite of
the fact that four months in the year
the coarse, grass pastures. on which
cattle just manage to live, lie under
water. Sometimes all is swept away.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
First Dust" Explosion.

Until the summer of 1873 such a
thing as a dust explosion" was TN
known. No doubt many such explo-
sions had occurred, but they were of
small account and no investigation
followed to disclose the true nature
of the case.
In that summer the Washburn flour
ing mills at Minneapolis, then the
largest In the world, exploded with
terrific violence. ..
Several massive buildings, with
granite walls two feet thick and of
particularly strong mill construction,
were demolished as if by an immense
charge of dynamite.
The flame of the first explosion was
communicated to two other mills.
which were destroyed in the con-
fiagration which followed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
EMULATION COUNTS IN LIFE
Woman Evangelist Was Evidently
Aware of the Fact, and Turned
Ii to Advantage. +,

In an Indiana city, not long ago, q
woman evangelist held revival meet
ing. She took no collections while the
services were in progress, but on the
final night she announced that free
will offering would be in order. Inter-
est in the meetings had been growing
and the church was crowded to capac-
ity. The ushers, with contribution
plates, started on their rounds. The
evangelist said she had instructed them
to say "Amen" whenever % cents was
dropped into the plate; when 80 cents
the usher was to say "Hallelujah ~ and
when 81 the usher was to say GLORY
hallelujah!" in loud tone. The col
| lection amount to S1,100.
If there had been no emulation the
total might have been small, but the
evangelist knew that no person with
| money to give would be content with
an "Amen" when a neighbour sitting In
the next pew, was acclaimed with
'Glory hallelujah =! The same principle
holds good in everyday life. If one
man has a fine vegetable garden it Is
| an incentive to his neighbors. The
interest women have in pretty frocks
is largely due to somebody getting one
| and making the others desire some
thing equally becoming. Men would
care little for position If it were not
for the age-old lure that makes them
want better job than the other fell
low.
Without such emulation there would
be nothing to drag men and women
away from the commonplace things of
life. There would be nothing to induce
one boy to seek for the head of his
class or persuade him that he should
run for president later on. Many, of
course, are content to have amen"
said to their efforts in life, but more
want to hear the "GlOry hallelujah -
Indianapolis News.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30

Ottumwa, Ia.-Tnree young Oska.
loosa people, Beulah Kirkpatrick
Tom Eisinger and Floyd Shoemaker
were given hearing in federal court
here this afternoon, charged with
violating the interstate Commerce
law.
They were brought here from
Oskaloosa yesterday, where it is
alleged they broke the seal on a
freight car and removed three five
gallon jugs filed with alcohol, which
they buried in the outskirts of Oska-
Ioosa. The jugs were brought here
as evidence.
They were arraigned before
United States Commissioner z. r.
Mitchell and entered a plea of not
guilty and were bound Owe
federal grand jury under $1,000
bonds. They We're unable 10 furnish
bonds and went to the county jail.
The father of the Kirkpatrick girl
is said to run a restaurant in Oska-
loosa and she is reported 70 be the
wife of soldier now serving in
France. All belong to reputable Oska-
loosa families.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
PREDICTS BIG APPLE CROP.
Iowa to Produce $4,000 Barrels
Compared to 900 in 1918.

Council Bluffs, Ia-Frank S. Pin
ney, field agent for the federal bu-
reau Of crop estimates at Council
Bluffs, states that the special COM
mercial apple crop report forecasts
a production of 10000 barrels, COM
pared with 100000 barrels last
year
In the counties of Fremont, Mills,
PCItawattamie and Harrison, in
southwestern Iowa, or better known
to the apple growers as the Missouri
region counties, it is probable that a
production Of $4,000 barrels will
be the gift OF, nature, compared with
only $4,000 barrels last year. Most
srTaYed orchards are in excellent
condition in the vicinity OF Hamburg
and Council Bluffs.
Indications are that only Is to 40
per cent of the crop will be harvest
ed in the apple producing sections
in southeastern Iowa, in the counties
Of Lee, Van Buren,, Wapello, NAH
aska, and Scott. Likely late freeze
and scab have combined to reduce
the production in southeastern Iowa.
Canker worms in unsprayed orchards
in the southern portion OF the state
have practically defoilated trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
Joyousness.

How should it be otherwise? l can
bear a melancholy man, but never a
melancholy child. Into whatever quag-
mire the former sinks, he may raise
his eyes either to the realm of reason
or to that of hope; but the little child
sinks and perlshes in single black
poison-drop of the present time, Only
imagine n child conducted to the seat
foId-Cupid in a German cofiin--or
fancy a butterfly crawling like u cater.
pillar with his four wings pulled off,
and you will feel what mean.--Oliyer
Wendell Holmes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
Dst 3 Husbands; Gets S172 Month.

HOSt % huSbdnuS, NclS Sls- IL hOHtn.
A negro woman is drawing three
$3.50 checks, or $172.50 a month,
BIN the government for the loss OF
Tree husbands during the war, and
ill draw that amount for 20 years.
Mrs. Amanda Jones husband died
y spinal meningitis shortly after en-
Gring the service and taking out a
10000 insurance policy.
The widow Jones married a man
AIMED Smith. He took OUT a maxi
UNI insurance policy in her favor,
nd was killed tin action.
Then Mrs. Amanda Jones-smith
arried Private Jackson, a returned
bldier, who also named her in a
900 policy. Influenza made her a
idow third time in less than Two
bars.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
Moved Legs OFF Dog.

yorktown, Ia.-Harmon Handorf a
frmer near Yorktown, moved all
bur legs off his good shepherd dog,
which he was very fond.
The dog was lying III the tall
lass and tried to jump out of the
lay into the clearing where the
fass had been moved.
But the cycle caught him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
She Took Home $40.

Yorktown, Ia.-Selling her fine
Barred Rocks to Berry Poultry farm,
Mrs. Bob 10y received 81 each for
twelve springs and $40 a dozen for
one dozen matured fowls. She re-
ceived the rest of $40 for eggs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30

A man considers himself the head
of the household because he foots
the bills. ..
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30

through
n
| dnes pictures
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-06-26
FAKE OIL COMPANIES
WILL BE FOUGHT BY
TEXAS ORGANIZATION

DALLAS, Textile Texas Oil
Investors Protective association has
been organized to combat activities
of irresponsible and fraudulent stock
selling oil companies. The asso-
citation, composed Of hundreds of
investors, will take action to force
dividends from fraudulent companies
and salvage from incompetents.
Association officers claim that
many companies have sQuandered
funds of stockholders, while many
others are failing to pay dividends
when production is ample to justify
such payment.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-06-26

writer claimed, the hotel man was
sentenced to march daily for thirty
days alongside the band and after
its parade to tell its leader, Sir,
your music pleases me to per-
lection"
American intelligence officers are
endeavoring to ascertain through
what channels the Leipzig CORES
pendent obtained the alleged I'm
formation while in Coblenz, par
ticularly stories about the fines and
sentences imposed upon women.
Court records do not reveal any
such cases.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-06-26

Diver Hanson, who has been work
ing on fish trap near Kasaan, had
an encounter with a monster octo-
pus recently while working under
water. The diver saw the fish,
which he states measured fully
twenty feet across, coming toward
him, and signaled to be hauled up
Immediately, but before he could get
away the octopus succeeded in grab
bling him with one tenacle by the
arm. The current swept the diver
under the trap and it was difficult
for him to make fight, but he
finally eluded the big sea-spider.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-06-26
boat to Juneau.

boat to Juneau.
The pebbles are required for
grinding the ore as it comes from
the crushers of the quartz mill. At
one time an Alaska mining company
got its pebbles in Norway, the ore
grinding process requiring very
hard pebble. Now, however, a con-
tract has been given to a Juneau
man to furnish the company with
IS tons of pebbles not less than
two and one7half inches in diameter
and not over four inches. The con-
tractor intends to bring the peb-
bles from Lituya bay. To get them
out, it will be necessary to con-
struct l2-nile road.
The Lituya pebbles have been
used before at the Chichagoff mills
and their flint-like qualities are said
to have made them very satisfac-
tory. Should they meet the re-
quirements, operators of this dis
trict believe new and unique bust
ness of dealing with pebbles may
be developed in Alaska.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-06-26
HUN WRITER'S
TELL FANTASTIC
TALES Of YANKS

COBLENZ.-Some fantastic fic-
ton is published in German news
papers By writer's from Frankfort
and Leipzig who have visited Cob
LEM and returned home TO write
whatever they may please about the
American army, Many of the
stories they tell ara new to the
officers Of the Third army, who
count them as German propaganda
One writer Of a long article II
the Leipzig paper dealing with life
in Goblecz relates alleged instances
of ridiculous sentences imposed up
on Germans by the American army
courts. In one case he says that
the wife Of government official,
annoyed on the street by a drunken
solder, exclaimed in her anger: If
only al the Americans would go to
the devil" The military court, he
says. punished her for this re-
ligious wish" by sentencing her to
appear every morning for thirty
days at the headquarters of the COM
manding officer and repeating 70
those present the phrase: Il am gla.l
that you are still here. gentlemen,
and it is my wish that you con-
tinue to stay here for a long while"
This is all news to the American
officers. If any woman appears
at headquarters every morning, the
sentries on duty there have failed
70 notice il. Il is part of their
job to prevent trespassing by Ger
mans at the main entrance Of the
Third army headquarters.
Another fictitious tale narrated
by the Leipzig writer to arouse
German dislike for Americans, deals
with a case in which a woman,
splashed by mud from an automo-
bile, calculated, chose dirty Amer
can automobiles For this, the
Leipzig Munchausen AYERS, mill
tary court sentenced her to climb
the fortress Of Ehrenbrietstein daily
at 5 a. m, for thirty days, carrying
a pail, scrubbing brush and scour-
ing rag, and to clean six American
automobiles. Upon completion Of
this task he asserted, she was re-
quired to walk back home similarly
equipped.
Another fantastic tale told by the
Leipzig journalist is of sentence
which he declares was imposed upon
a hotel owner whose nerves could
no longer stand the wild music"
produced by the American band;
and who commented upon it unfav-
orally. II punishment, the fiction
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-06-26
SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC
IN EUROPE AVERTED
BY VACCINATION

PARASITIC world war will be
held unique in the fact that it has
not been accompanied by an out
break Of smallpox. This may be
due in part TO the precautions taken
in urging all Paris to be vaccinated
or re-vaccinated. At any rate more
than 1,374,00O persons were vac
cinated during the war, and only
Sc cases of smallpox were recorded,
of which rs were fatal.