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WEATHER Highest yesterday Lowest Utt night SS Fair tonight and Friday. H your buslfMta I slut tish, give your attantiM to advertising. It' a won derful tonie work while you aleep and delivers tha food. . DOUGLAS CPU NT V )a Consolidate, ' , " I as tha ReMburf Review Am Independent Nawapapar, Publlahad tar tha Bast Intarasta of th Peopls JOU XXV- NO. 152. OF ROSEBURG rr ROSEBURG. OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY J, 1921. VOL. XI, NO. 158, OF THE EVENING NEWS. Km 01 IE0MEII INSPECT PROPOSED SITE Lodge Officials Endeavoring to Find Suitable Place . For Home COME FROM EUGENE Speaker at Lane County City n ri States 1 hat School Law re cently Passed Here May Prevent Location The delegation of Yeomen lodge officials and their wives who are making a trip through the west for .nrnAu nf innnActlne nronosed ino 1"" r"-v sites for the children's home which . . i . In tha tnsi oruer w . near future, arrived in Roseburg this morning and spent the gerater pari of the day Inspecting the. Curry ranch which is being ouerea to them here. The delegation is com posed of Mr. and Mrs. George N. L.i..b r,..a Vfnlnon Mr And Mrs. Ward F. Senn, Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Vrooman ana Mr. ana i t u iT9n nf Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. McKee, who were members of the party, were canea back to Detroit ana lert irom tu- last ntcrht Mr McKee has. been Kreatly Interested in the selection of the site and it is regretted that be was unable to come to Roseburg to day. k iJaU.oo Hnn nf Roaehlirft hURfheftS men met the lodge officials at Eu sene this morning and brought them to Roseburg in automoDliep. ine party went to the Curry -ranch for unch and then spent the afternoon lin a trip ot Inspection. Tonight a Vumber ot local business men will lueet the victors at a banquet to be ten ai urn iminjua nuici. . School 1-n.w Is liar. El'GENE. May 3 Oregon, with admittedly the bed. building sites, may not get the Yeomen's home for children. That Is what Mark T. Mc Kee, Detroit attorney who Is a mem lier of the board of directors ot tbe Yeoman lodne and chairman of the home committee, told members of he Chamber of Commerce at the luncheon last night where- Yeomen committee members and .their : wives were entertained, and spoke. ,., . The school bill passed at the No vember election, may keep the brotherhood from locating its cot tage plan school for orphan children in this state, he said, unless some means is found to get around it. McKee said that other states had passed laws making it easier for the eomen to favor - their i common- weallhs: Oregon was the only state that had raised the bars. Hie further declared that the committee would not have come out here on their in- pectlon trip If they had known more or the law. Along with the other isltlng speakers, he Drained Oregon -plrlt and said nennln here were due hosts busy men having drop- pea tnelr work to drive them-from town to town by automobile.' McKee. railed the "father of the collate school idea." said 380 sites were up for examination and thaf Iter the committee had heen 'over ground, only 25 would be left tor extensive study. ' 1 It is their Plan to hlllld a niimhei "t cottagea. each under the direction ' a "an and wife so that true home environment could be secured, for aoout one thousand Darentless chil Iren. In this- they will 1e helped by Inn MoOJe. Who have a wnnrtorfnl home of this nature tn Indiana. Th '""neon Legion, McKee. aaid. Is Planning the same sort of an es- anusnment. . George X. Frink. national nre.l- nt. aald -"the Nimmlitn l. ,m n f'rogon climate." and would like to "iie 'Heir school here. Ha prom-Iw-d that money for Dolitica would count In tha Selection nnh Ilia "" is to he considered Further ho jointed out, no money is sought by - ..rer. aii win be furnished by the lodge. 1-3T0P PLANE SIGHTED IN N. M. . Br Unites Press) TTrl observers reported a huge Plan huji , . r . ' w"i over nere early "Our. H Is believed certain to have en the army monoplane making ln transe ntinental non-stop flight. "MS1B - fCB HSST PUCE avftftv Associated Prase.) SANDWICH. England, May 3. Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland and Francis Oulmet, ot Boaton, former American open champions, were tied today for first place In the two days' stroke competition for the St. Ceogre's challenge cup, one ot the most Important EngliBh golf tro phies. Willing and Oulmet each had 153. They will play 18 holes to morrow to decide the winner. PUBLIC LANDS TO-BE OPENED Government Announces That Large Tract Will Be Thrown Open VETS GET PREFERENCE Ex-Service Men Have Ninety Days in Which to Exercise. Homestead Rights, Then Land Open to Public (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. May 3. A tract of 220,000 acres ot public lands in Coos arid Douglaa counties were thrown open to entry by former ser vice men today. The entries will be restricted to 160 acres and after 91 days the lands will be thrown open to the general public. A rush of homesteaders to this city as a result of the announcement made by the general land office to day, is anticipated here. The local land office has not yet received any information regarding the' opening ot the lands other than the state ment contained In the above dis patch from the Associated Press as It Is the policy of the general land office to send thlB information by mall In spite of the fact that the announcement Is made to the press as soon as the plans are given offi cial approval. . ' The lands opened include Coos Bay Wagon Grants lands and Oregon California railroad grant lands the greater part of the land lying in the western part of Douglas county and In Coos county. They are chiefly valuable for graz ing and stock raising, there being a comparatively small percentage suit able for farming purposes. There is some land which can be used for farming and pasture land, but this is not In any great' quantity. ( The government in . classifying land divides It Into three classes, power sites, tlmberlandii. and agricultural Agricultural lands are those tracts containing less than 300,000 feet of timber on each forty acres. No re quirement Is made regarding the suitabllty of the land for agricul tural purposes. In former entries many young men have rushed to this community hoping to find valuable lands, being led to believe that there would- be no difficulty In finding homesteads. The fact is, that only a small portion is suitable for such purposes, and that the majority must he used' for grazing stock or some other such use. ' i The grant lands now being thrown open were originally given to the Oregon-California Railroad company and the Coos Bay Wagon Road com pany. These two concerns were each, given every odd section for twenty miles on ?ach side of the right of way of the railroad and tbe WAeon road. A few yeprs ago It developed that the companies were falling to sell the land; at 32.5Q per acre as was provided In the agreement and con annuently steps were taken to re voke the grant. The title was re vested with the government, the companies being paid 82.50 per acre by the government. Settlers on this land are now required to pay the $2.50 In addition td homesteading the land. It is exnected that within a few days the land office will receive no- lice of the lands listed for entry and will he able to give definite dates for the receiving of applications. Ex-service men are given a prefer ence nnder the government regu lations and they have ninety days In which to exrerclse their privilege nf filing on the homestead lands. At he end of that time anyone may file on desirable tracta. regardless of whether or not they have had army service. The definite dates will not be known nntll the official an nouncement Is received by the land offce from Washington. Two similar tracta each composed SAYS WHITFIELD jo LD Of CRIME Cell Mate of Accused Boy Declares He Told About , Attacking Girl GIVES STORY IN DETAIL Roy Moore, in Jail for Alleged Robbery, Goes on Stand and Tells of Alleged Confes sion Made to Him (By United Press.) VANCOUVER, Wn., May 3. Roy Moore, a fellow prisoner, of George Whitfield, In - the Clarke county Jail, today told a sensational story of an alleged confession of Vt hltfleld, whose trial opened Wed nesday, for the murder ot 11 year old Anna Nosko. After telling of 'the attack, Moore says Whitfield told him he cut the girl's throat because she was "suf fering and I thought It would put her out of her misery. I was sorry for her." , In telling his story Moore said: "He told me that . he met the girl walking down the railroad track that he grabbed her and that she screamed. He said he hit her with his fist and she screamed louder. Then he knocked her out with a sap. the sap flying out of his hand." It was at this point that Whitfield made his second outburst. After he had been quieted, Moore continued with hla story. "He told me he picked the girl up and carried her through the barbed wire fence to a rock Then he went down to the railroad track and ran out of' the brush to get h,er parasol. He saw her little broth er but didn't think the little brojher saw him.- "I asked him 'what did you cut her throat for?" "Well, she was lying there ?asp ln,T and groaning and apparently suffering and I thought I would put her out or her mlftry. I was sorry for her,' he replied. " 'Did they get a knife off you?" r asked him. " "Yes," he said. "'That the knife you cut her throat with?' I said. " 'N'd, I threw that one away.' ' 'Ed. what about this chicken story you told the officers? Did you really kill a chicken?'" Whitfield had told the officers in explanation of the blood found o nhls clothing that It spurted from a chicken which he had killed that day. " ' No I didn't,' he replied. 'I thought of that story on the way into town.' ' Moore's story remained unshaken despite sharp cross-examination on the part of the defense, which was marked by frequent clashes between Joseph E. Hall, prosecuting attor ney, and the defense counsel. Upon cross-examination, Moore said he had been in the county Jail almost continuously since his arrest for the circus holdup September 17 1921. He has charge of the county fall In that he sees that the Jail is kept clean and that order is kept imong the prisoners, he testified. He related how he heard Whitfield shaking the lock to his cell one night and the following morning Moore said he told him "I heard you fooling with the lock lastnlght. Do von ' want to get ont and get me, too?" "What do you mean, 'get you too?" Whitfield Is alleged to have replied. "Well, you won't get me and If I catch you monkeying with that lock agcln I'll knock your hand off," Moore says he told Whitfield. "Whitfield ' asked me If t was going to testlfy against him. at the trial." Moore said In another part of his testimony. "I told htm I waa. " 'Roy. have mercy,1 he said. " 'Ed, you didn't have a bit of mercy on that poor little girl,' I told him. - : . ' Moore's motives In consenting to become a witness were sharply questioned by the defense and fre quent objections were made by Mr. Hall. The objections were sustained In most car.es by Judge Simpson, who presided. An attempt to inquire Into details of the circus robbery brought tha response from Moore: "Mr. Yates. I'm not on trial for -that now." He was sustained by the court. of 300.000 acres have been opened j since the war. These attracted htin I dreds of ex-service men from tbe i middle west particularly, but only a, few remained. It Is expected that ! (he new opening will avaln draw 'a large number. Tl IS FATAL TO SEVEN Ttr TTnlted Press V GRAND JUNi TION, Col., May 3. Seven ware killed and thirty Injured at 11. o'clock last night when the Denver Rio Grande pas- senger train Number 1, eastbound ) from California, ran through an open switch at Woodnlde Utah, overturning both locomotives double header, two baggage, the smoker and chair cars. A relief train with nurses and physicians was rushed from here. List of killed. - SALT LAKE CITY. May 3. (A. P). Five persons were killed, one la missing and 23 injured in a wreck ot tbe Denver and Rio Grande western passenger train, eastbound, at Woodside, Utah, last night,' according to official advices today. The dead are: Arthur Hockey, naval training station. Great Ijtkes, III. Mrs. E. C. White, Soldier Sum- mlt. Utah. Edward Pastrldge, Provo Utah. F. R. Radef, locomotive engi- neer, Grand Junction, Colo. A train baggageman is reported missing. Deaths Total Sevan. SALT LAKE CITY. May 3. (A. P). Seven are dead and thirty injured as a result of the Denver and Rio Grande western wreck at Woodside Utah. The death lint was Increased this morning when Mrs. Irene Mohr and Infant daughter died aboard the special train enroute to Salt Lake City. The wrecked train left here yes- w terday afternoon. A majority of the passengers were from the Pa- cifle coast. Among the Injured is Mrs. Hattie Snook of Portland Oregon who sustained a frac- tured skull. ASSUMES DUTIES Dr.' Aa C. Seely firesides at Regular Rotary Luncheon , Held Today. Noon COMMITTEES NAMED Work for the Past Year Is Re viewed by Retiring President Dexter Rice Excellent - Results Attained At today's luncheon of the local Rotary club the retiring presiden. Dexter Rice, reviewed the work u compllshed during the past year, touching briefly upon those Import ant matters that the local organiza tion had carried into effect during his term of office. For the good ac complished, and the club lias been a mighty factor In many wayn to bring about various 'improvements, the retiring president deeply hanked the members for their untiring ef- I forts and close cooperation In the work undertaken, expressing the I thought that credit was not due the president but to -the club for Its f I forts to bring about a happy and successful term during his Incum bency. Mr. Rice has made an untiring of ficial as the head of the Roiury club in Roseburg and it was with much rrpret among all the members that his term of office had expired, lie has always given the club's activities the closest attention and strlved in every pj IMe manner to bring it to ine highest standard of perfection thrt It m 1k lit accomplish Its purpos es to the fullest . extent. Service above self can properly b. applied to the retiring president, for he lias given the Ty best possible servlc to the club ever since it una first organized In this city and his leader ship has brought the standing or th -organization to the highest point success. Dr. Seelr. the new president, In msklng his Initial address to the club today noon spoke in glowing terms of th retiring president, and then. In hu usual good manner, made a heart to heart talk to the members, urging their assirttimre that the activities of the club he not retarded under bis supervision iVpromlsed hi. unt.rln, et.ott, , , accomplish even greater resnlts than NEW PRESIDENT had been obtained, now that tbeiday brnnght In a crate to tha local club la In good working shape sod ! markets. This was preceded by sev he members are confident that the),.r, boxes which he brought to town new president will meet everv nlll-the other day. They are very fine gallon and will have their fullest co-iherriea large and sweet, and were (Continued on page 8) quickly absorbed by the local market. KENTUCKY FEUDS STILL SMOULDER Seven Lives Taken Recently in One County Fight Fiercely ENTIRE FAMILY BATTLES Posse Surrounded House and Finally Secured a Surrender Woman a Crack Shot Children Left Orphans (International News Snrvtce.) HARLAN, Ky.. May 3. The flash of gunfire, with Its inevitable after math of tragic death, sweeps the Kentucky foothills today vAlh a reg ularity only duplicated in the popu lar vein of fiction which recounts her most famous blood feuds. In this one county, high In the Hlue. Ridge Mountains, seven lives were taken recently within forty- eignt noura In a trio of gun battles ine dead were Kell Walker. Hell county deputy sheriff; Ike Strong, a mountaineer; Mrs. Strong, his wife; George Strong, his brother Constable Alex Little. Constable Caulde Short, both pioneers ot tha hills, and Ernest Gilliam, a boy. Four of the seven, including Mrs. Strong, were slain In a fierce battle waged at the Strong home between the family and a posse of Federal and county officers. The posse was raiding in search of a still and had surrounded the house before calling on the family ,to aurrender. Woman Was (Yack rihot Mra. Strong, a powerfully built woman, opened the front door and blazed away with a rifle. Her first shot was believed to have struck Deputy Sheriff Walker, a member of the posse. His body later waa found riddled with shot, In front of the home. The answering fire of the raiders crashed lime and again through the house until all signs of life had ceased. For a long while, though, the Strongs maintained a .constant counter-attack on the posse, but when silence reigned again the possenien broke into the house to find Strong, his wife and his broth er lifeless on the floor. Children lft Orphaned Five little children of the family were found huddled under the bed. where they stared, terrified, at the lifeless bodies of their father and mother. The posse took the children away to place them later In a State Institution. Sea re n of the dwelling also re vealed two monster stills, 600 gal lons of mar.h and 75 gallons of whiskey. Three persons were killed In the second tattle. A trio of town con stables Claude Short, Alex Little and C. H. tiilllnm participated In It. at the town of Khtts, near here The quarrel was said to Jiave started over "nothing" when .the mountain spirit suddenly flared. At any rate al three "pulled" their guns, and when the tire ended Little was dead In his tracks, and Short was fatally wounded. Gilliam escaped unscath ed, but his young son, Ernest, had been struck down by a stray bul let. The youth and Short died with in an hour. "Dea'lliiit" Tanglo I'p. The third battle was between ."tleud.nl, ots" and the , two . gunmen ho participated were . both badly wounded, but probably will recover. Ceorge Uelcher and Jens Pace.' feared by all the mountaineers for their straight shooting, m4 and quarreled. Uelcher fired first, and Puce fell drilled through the cheat. Lying on the street desperately wounded, Pace drew his gun and blazed away. Five times his gun spat lead at Uelcher, and when the latter tell the five shots were seen to have truck within a circle of eight In ches. Moth men were rushed to a hospital and operated on Immediate I? There is soma hope they may live. Calm observers declared all three battles were caused by the "moun tain spirit" born In the days of feuds when lives were held In contempt and only the "honor of the family" counted, Even with modern schools invading eery nook of the back woods this spirit nf sudden warfare with recourse to rifles and guns Is not expected to die. It Is an Integral part of the mountain Ufa, Brings In 8trawberriaa A r t- .. L. t- .1 1 I - , Sponsible ?Ar the flm .TraVber". lot the season In that section, yester- PEARE ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE (ny I'nlted Hrc ) MARRHKlKl.il, Ore.. May 3 L. W. Pea re, convicted murderer of his wife and James Culver, sentenced lo hung on June 1, slashed his throat with a safety razor blade Wednesday after noon. The physicians du nut expect hlin to live. Hears was unconscious from loss of blood when found by the jailer, only a short time after he had been out ot alght of other prisoners. LEAGUE OPPOSES PROJECTS Resolution Adopted Asking Court to Start No New Road Work WANT JOBS COMPLETED Work Now Underway Should Be Finished Before New Contracts Are Allowed Directors Believe A resolution asking the county court to open up no new road pro jects and to allow no more contracts other than thoae already advertised waa adopted yesterday afternoon at '.he monthly meeting of the directors ot the Douglas County Taxpayers League. The meeting was held at the Douglas Abstract office with the lull board present. The county has only a small amount of bond money left, it waa stated, and there is a question as to whether or not there will be enough bond money to finish up the roads already started. It was the sentiment of the directors that all tax money should be used -for improvements and maintenance on existing roads and not . for new construction other than minor changes and alterations. The bond money should be used, they believe, Jo complete the pro jects for which it was voted. These jobs should be finished, and until that work la done, the court should not lake on new work outalde ot the adopted program. Aa soon as the projects covered In the bond pro gram are finished, there will then be no objection to spending the remain ing funds. If any are left, to other Important roads. , The resolution also recommended that the county court force all con tractors to give bond and that. 25 per cent of the contract price bo re served until the contract -la com pleted. The reserve would force the completion of the project according to plans and specifications. The Sundry Items committee re ported that they had examined the bills for the past two months and found all bills to be properly Item ized. One ot th i directors, who has been on the committee for the past three years, stated that the accounts are In better shape than they have ever been on this committee. The executive committee recom mended that a public accountant be hired lo check over all expenditures of bond money since the date the first bonds were Issued. R. A. Hercher, chairman of the road committee, reported that owing to his Illness the committee had not yet completed Its report. This com mittee, however, has been working for about two months and has a con siderable amount of data lo submit at the next meeting. EXPLOSION FATAL HELSINGFORS. May 3 An un confirmed dispatch from Moscow today reports one hundred killed In an explosion of the ammunition de pot at Tula, 105 miles south of Mos cow. CHEWINQ TOBACCO AND 8NUFF DRUG ON MARKET ST. CLA1RSVILLE. Ohio., May 3. Snuff and plug tohacto are no longer In demand, says HI wood Kyle, local grocer. In the old days snuff and plug tobacco were staple articles, much in demand. Even the smallest store had Its cutter for cutting "J. T." and "Star" plugs. Scrap has taken the place of plug tobacco. Chewing gum haa replaced snuff among the women. FIELD MEET TO BE HELD MAY 18 Final Arrangements Made for County Athletic and De clamation Contest BIG CROWD EXPECTED Believed That Many Out-of- Town People Will Be in I Roseburg on 1 8th to Wit ness School Contests Tha annual field meet and decla mation contest among the schools of the county will be held In Rose burg on May 18. These contests' were started several years ago and have met with much favor and are means of stimulating athletics among the children of the county. A program of events Is arranged early In the year. Each school then makes up a team to compete In these var ious events. The events themselves -are divided up for clasaaa. tbe class es being rased on the weight ot tha -children participating. This limits competition to children of the same size so that there is not apt to be any overstrain or dangerous exertion. The county Is divided Into districts and after each school has made up Its team by elimination .methods. all of the teams In each district get together in- an elimination ' match and , the winners In the various events form a team which will rep resent the district In the county meet, held In Roseburg. llecause of tha advantage which Roseburg haa in tha matter of selection, the city Brhools are given a heavy handicap so that every school In the county has an equal chance. Tha prizes are ribbons denoting tbe place taken by the contestants and the children work as hard for these "prizes as If there was a lllieral cash award. At the previous contests large crowds have been attracted. Over two hundred children participate In the athletic events and naturally ' there are other students and par ents present to witness the event, so that usually there Is a very pleasing attendance. At a meeting of the officers and sectional directors for the county meet resolutions and final arrange-, ments were adopted and are being mailed to all school teachers and others Interested throughout the county. These resolutions required that a child In order to enter In tbe county meet must be a winner In the sec tional meet. The director in the sec tlon has the right to fill any vacancy which may occur, which provides thnt there may be four entrants for each event but only three may start. In the baseball throw for accuracy the distance for gfrls and class A and I) boys will he 30 feet and for C and D hoyS, 60 feet. All sectional directors are urged to hold their meets before May 12 and to report at once to the coun ty office so that the hooks may be made up for the final contest. The teachers of all schools are re ouo"ted to a-k the board of directors - 'heir dis'rlct for a holiday on the 18'h so that all punlls mv attend the eooy meet. It Is desired to make the day a great school rally da:'. A great deal of attention Is being shown this year In the declamation contest and the chairman of this event Is very anxious that the full quota of contestanta from each sec tion be present. This means a boy and girl from each section for both high school and grade school. Teachers are referred to Miss Rosa II. Parrott or Mr. Edith Falbe of Roseburg If in doubt as to whether or not the author selected Is stan dard. Rules for the contest have been mailed to each teacher. A charge of 13 cents for school children and 25 cents for adults will be made- for the field meet and de clamation content, the price going to 25 and .15 rents on the day of the meet. HOAI) 1'TllAfrs I.KT Three road contracts were allowed today by 'the county court. The surfacing of the ttlept-ens section vai I't lo W. C. Roimrts In the sum of, 83.- Olio. Mr. Roberts nlto received the contract on th Falroaks section, bidding 38.375. The contract on the Anchor section of the Johns ranch-Anchor road, was let to J. W. Thomas In the Minn of $:l,150.