The Statesman reported that Dallas residents had arrived safely from the European theater in “Dallasites Safe:”

Dallas Travelers, Marooned by War, Now in N.Y.

Dallas, Or., Se;t. 25 – Word was received this week telling of the safe arrival in New York city of the Gerlinger party who have been marooned since the beginning of the hostilities in Europe in their old home in Alsace-Lorraine.  The news came as a happy surprise to the Dallas relatives as they had been awaiting word form them since receiving the news a couple of weeks ago through the state department that they were safe.  It is elected that they will arrive in this city within the next few days.

The headlines in the Capital Journal spoke loudly of the carnage of the war as the sides battled to what would be a stalemate for the next three years:
RIVERS RUN REDDENED WITH GORE
Rivers Oise, Aisne and Somme Crimsoned by Life Blood of Slain
CORPSES FLOAT THINK ON BLOODY WATERS
Slaughter Described As “Horrible” – New Victims Rushed to the Front
KAISER THROUGH HIS CHANCELLOR MAKES STATEMENT
Says England’s Jealousy of German Achievement Was Cause of War
“BRITISH POLICY KNOWS NO SCRUPLES”
As a Depicter of Horrors Chancellor Belongs on Yellow Journal
The German statement and rational for the war now goes beyond the mere issue of backing Austria in its declaration of war against Serbia, which drew in all of Europe and where now, “rivers run reddened with gore.”  

England now tries to injure Germany by the most petty means, striking out our commerce and our colonies, while, regardless of the inevitable consequences for the common civilization of our white race, she has provoked Japan to a predatory raid upon our colony at Kiso Chau and has led the negroes of Africa to battle against the Germans in our colonies there.

After destroying all of Germany’s means of communication across the seas, England went further and opened an all-round campaign of lies.  Thus, you Americans are told that German troops have burned down Belgian villages and cities but you are not told that Belgian women gouged out the eyes of our helpless wounded lying on the battlefields.

The officials of Belgian cities invited officers of our army to eat with them and then shot them dead across the table.

On the editorial page, the editor commented on “Human Limitations:”

If the German staff believed that men were no longer merely men when they had been fitted into the Kaiser’s great war machine, it believed only what the world in general believed.  In the future there will be fewer writers and military experts who suffer from the delusion that drill and iron discipline can overcome all the natural physical and nervous limitations of the human animal.  The most tremendous war machine that the mind of man can fashion is only flesh and blood, and subject to all the vicissitudes of flesh and blood.

It was not a lesson learned and was to be acted out a second time in World War II.
Possibly commenting editorially on the front page article, the editor writes:

Rev. Father Molloy, and American priest, of evident Irish descent, and who has for years been stationed in New Zealand, gives the lie to statements of German cruelty, and pays a glowing tribute to their tender and humane treatment of British prisoners, which was better even than the treatment given their own wounded.  Among the charges and counter charges of interested parties, the statement of a unprejudiced onlooker must carry great weight and be practically convincing.  The truth no count is that outside of a few isolated cases, the present war is as humane as other wars, and perhaps as humane as human butchery can be made.  Solicitous crippling and affectionate assassination are sentimentally beautiful, but practically impossible.