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9 Saytmt DAYTON, OREGON, AUGUST 13, 1920. V olume ix N o . 37 NEWLETS GATHER ED ABOUT COUNTY COURT HOUSE Minor Mailer of More than Passim) Interest (sooty WerreeH County warrant» issued in lieu of (jonde voted for road building pur|>osas but for which there naa been found no market, should not be told for leaa than par, according to an opinion prepared by Atttorney General Brown, in reply to an inquiry from T. H . Goyne district attorney for Ullam ook county. While there is no proviaion in the J e w expreaaly forbidding Bale of war- ranta at leaa than par, it dues prohibit the aale of bonda for leaa than 100 centa on the dollar, the attorney general pointe nut, adding that the legialature probably did not intend that the par idea ahould be defeated through issu ance of warranta at a leaa rate than par. (sooty Net *511 Stheal (kiMrra Baaed on the per capita baaia of achool age within the atate, Yamhill county w ill receive from the State’a Irreducible ecbool fund 912,964.26. It haa 6618 achool children. Articlea of incorporation have been filed with the county clerk by the Carl* ton Cooperative Elevator Aaaociation; capital atock, 810,000; incirporatora are A. J. French, B. A. Smith. Jam«» Armbural, O. H Lullenweider aad C H . Gravea. The Grande Ronde Telegraph and Telephone company haa Aled ita affida v it of ownerahip under the proviaiona of the aaaumed name law. J. W. Boy er and Heny L. Boyer conduct the buai- neea. Areead the Ceart Neeac » Otto M iller waa sentenced by Judge Belt to one year In the penitentiary a f ter having been arraigned and plehding guilty and waiving time for aenteace. M iller waa charged with burgerly. Prebete Ceert Estate Cyrus Palmer, deceased; 8. L. Farrett, J. C. Colcord and Ralph Butt appointed appraiaera; Mary John eon appointed executrix to aerve w ith out bonda. Eatate John W. Meaainger, docear ed; Sarah C. Meaainger appointed ex ecutrix to aerve without bonda: J. A. Meaainger, Ed D. Hendricka and A r thur McPhllipa appoint«) appraiaera. | Eatate Sarah Wheeler, deceaaed; petition for aale of real property and the appointment of guardian ad litem Aled; ordered aa prayed for. Eetate Anna Powell, deceaaed; J. S. Rankin appointed aa appraiaer of aaid eatate. 0 Eatate ot Joaeph Dadaourak. deceaa ed; appraisement Aled showing 83313.- 73. ' Guardianship of Lois Janette and Horace M. G. Smith, minora; Esther L. Smith appointed guardian of the person and eatate of the above named minora, bond Axed at 82000. Sella are filed 1 days. ! j , and Daniel G. Stultx va John R. Sawyer et a l; R. L. Conner attorney fur plair. tiff. Action for money; M. W. Patton va. Cnehalem Valley M ills; H. A. Klika at torney for plaintiff. ALLIES AGREE ON AID FOR POLAND Troops Will Not Be Used But Economic Move Is Planned. llythe. England.—Great Britain and Franca am convinced that the holahe vlkl intend to capture Warsaw uud set up a soviet government in Poland. Io British and French clrclea It la admitted that the situation haa brought a criala ouly second In gravity to that of 1914. The allied conference here reached a complete agreement on plana tor dealing with the Kuaao-Pollah crisis They Include the relmpoaition of the blockade, but on the advice of the experts no allied troops will be em ployed. Having decided that actual war ahall not be waged on Russia, Pre miers Lloyd George and Millerand were confronted with a moat difficult problem It Is known they are in dined to give Poland every aid within the lim it of thia decision. In both French and British clrclea here, however, the word "defensive’ la emphasised and it la pointed out that France and Great Britain wish It distinctly understood that they an not contemplating offenaive measures FOREIGN LEGATIONS HAVE LEFT WARSAW Warsaw. — A ll foreign legations In Warsaw left for Posen Bunduy night. John Campbell White, secretary, and J. Pierrcpont Moffat, third secretary of the Amexlcan legation, and the m ili tary attaches w ill remain in Warsaw for the present, but the real of the personnel left. A few American Red Cross nurses and some Y. M. C. A. worker» also remained. Soviet forces striking westward from the vicinity of Breat-Lltovak in their great encircling movement have cut through the Pollah lines and crossed the railroad running between Sokolow and Siedlce. They retched a point weat of Sokolow, but were coun ter attacked and violent fighting la proceeding, according to an official statement. The Poles took soma pris oner». Bitter fighting la reported nnr*ucaat of Waraaw, where several vfliugua have changed handa several tin % B it the bolahevlkl made no gains. ROxun. three miles southwest of OstrolsMkti was taken by the bolahevlkl Saturday but now la In the handa of the M e who are defending It. There la heavy fighting along thr Bug river from Drchlcxyn to Wlow xlmler-Zwolyn, where the bolahevlkl are being held. FRANCE IS AROUSED T reaty of Veraalllee to Be Enforced, le Demand. C ircuit Judge Belt heard a number Faria.— France, acting alone, if nec of cases on Tuesday of last week in the essary, la on the verge of sending a circuit court. Testimony waa taken note to Germany informing it that before a referee in the divorce suit of France will act instantly and force Pearl Hamilton and Charles W. H am il fully, to enforce the treaty of Ver sailles and ita provisions, for eastern ton. Suit of J. C. Sleighter vs W . W. Europe aa well aa for the weat, and that France can properly take coer Heiser; diemisaed on motion of plain cive action along the Rhine, accord tiff. ing to reports in high official circles. Suit for injunction; Floyd Creawell France is declared to be convinced vs C. H . Van Hoy; Frank Holmes and Germany is plotting with the soviets Roy Spark*, for plaintiff. to nullify Polish boundaries, created Suit for apeciffc performance of con by the allies last year, and hampering all allied efforts to aid the new re tract; C. J. I4indlngham va Geo. W. public. Briedwell et al; Frank Holmoa and J. The feeling also is ascribed to the E. Burdett attorneys for plaintiff. French in high quarters that efforts In the divorce suit of May C .'B eal vs by certain factions tn Germany to pro John M. Baal, dsfsndanttopay 876 suit voke an open quarrel between the money and 876 attorney fee w ithin 30 twe countries is approaching a crisis. j The Grssn Hsron. This bird, which Is sometimes called the “Ay-up-the-creek," Is about one and ings, default and decree. . a half feet long and Is common through Nina May Matharly va W illiam J. out the United States and Canada. It M atharly; default and deciee granted. feeds mostly on Ash, frogs and other aquatic anltnals, and may be seen, par- : Ruby Klmm va John Klm m ; default tlculnrly In the morning and In the eve* and divorce granted, nlng, standing pntlently motionless In some shallow water, waiting till prey l u i t to q u iet tiH a ; F ran k DltmaA comes within rench, i Emma G. Haatinga vs John 3. Hast Sfrtbmt? SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR Harding as Washington’s Double OREGON NEWS NOTES PORTLAND FIRE IS F A T A U O THREE OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Many Leap From Hotel Win* dows When Flames Cut Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Off Escape. Foreign Imports received at Port land during the month of June amount ed to 8980.889. Paving work has le-gun on the seven mile section of the Pacific highway north of Jefferson. Benton county now haa 46 threshing outflta. From pregent Indication» the crop will be the best In years. Increased rates are allowed the New berg Telephone company by an order of the public service comml»»lon. Forest fires reported by the air plane patrol of the forest service to taled 33 during the latter half of July. At a meeting of the state highway commission in Portland, August 24, bids will be opened on 91.600,000 state highway bends. J. C. Nelson, an Oregon pioneer, died at h it home in Newberg at the age of 93. W ith bis parents he located in the Cbehalem valley in 1846. The first unit of the kangell valley Irrigation district In Klamath county has made application to the atate to approve a bond issue of 9197,000. Oregon haa a population In 1920 of 783.286, according to census figures, which la a gain of 110,520 or 16.4 per cent over the 1910 figures of 672,7(5 Fred Peterson, 76, a native of Den mark, was burned to death when hia cabin on the .Mohawk river, 15 miles northeast of Eugene, waa destroyed by fire. W. I. Butters of Allegany has been held to the grand Jury in Coos county on the charge of selling rocks for cbtttlm bark to improve the weight of the bark. Monday, September 6. Labor day, has been selected by Hood River as the date for formal celebration of the opening of the completely paved Co lumbia River highway. ' Wheal harvest is under way in Mor row county and the grain is of first- cluss quality. The yield is a fair av erage although many fields were in jured by the hot weather. Oregon la suffering from a shortage of librarians, according to Miss Cor nelia Marvin, state librarian, who has a Bat of eight important posts in the state that should be filled. Notwithstanding the gasoline short age. the number of automobiles visit ing Crater lake ao far this'summer baa exceeded the number that visited the resort during the entire season of 1919. Approximately 95.000 motor vehicles are registered iu Oregon, according to u statement made at the office of the secretary ot state. Thia is one car for about every eight persons in Oregon. The F ru it Orowers' league of Med ford has opened an employment bur eau with the object of cooperating with other fruit growers in the allo cation of pickers throughout the val ley. The public service commission has issued orders granting service rate in creases to the Deschutes Telephone company of Clackamas county and C. A. Bradford telephone lines in Grant county. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 880 dentists were licensed to prac tice in Oregon. Of these. 184 were non-resident. The licenses of 81 den tists were revoked because of non-pay ment of fees. July was an exceptionally dry month in Astpria and the lower Columbia river district, according to the records In the local weather observer's office. The precipitation for the month was .9 of an inch. The special committee of state legis lators appointed to investigate the state game and fish commission will meet in Portland August 18 to hear anyone who has a complaint to make against the commission. W hile testing out a forest service radio outfit at Eugene, human voices were picked up by the instruments. I t was learned that the voices came from Portland through a wireless tele phone apparatus in that olty. F ire destroyed the Strange Shingle company's mill, four miles from the city limits of Portland on the Linnton road, and burned four dwellings, tout bunkhouses and a boarding house, with a total loss of about 860,000. The Klamath Falls council has de elded not to remove dies and card games from pool rooms ta d other pub lie places but w ill amend existing or dinancss by providing for revocation of llosnsa In css« gambllg g Ig allowed Portland, Ore.—Three persons lost their lives and ten were injured, some of them seriously, in a fire which swept through the Elton Court hotel, Eleventh und Yamhill streets, driving out the 60 residents In scanty attire and deetroylng the four-story struc ture. with a loss estimated at 830,000 The dead: Mrs. Josephine J. Chan ey, 54, a teacher In the Sunnyside school for the last 23 years; Miss Gertrude Evans, 25, stenographer for Wadhams A K err; Miss Edith Bogus, 25, clerk at the Northwestern Nation al bank. The fire started in the lobby of the hotel on the first floor from an un known cause and swept up the ele vator shaft and circular stairway with alarming rapidity, so that the escape of a large majority of the residents was cut off from other means than by window * Trapped by the flames many persons Jumped. Others were rescued by the firemen with ladders or were caught in the life net. Mrs. Chaney fell while firemen were attempting to rescue her from a fourth story window. She dropped to the sidewalk four stories below. Mice Gertrude Evans and Mist Edith Bogue also were fatally Injured by Jumping from high windows. JAPANESE FEELING IS MORE BITTER Toklo.— The statement of Represen tative Albert Johnson at Tacoma, Wash., that thousands of Japanese are smuggled Into the United States from Japan yearly. Is giving evidences of a tendency to increase the feeling with regard to the United States created by the arrival of the reefent American note and subsequent newspaper at tacks against America. W ith reference to the statement of Representative Johnson, the foreign office wade tbe following statement "We can only express surprise at the extraordinary statement made by Congressman Johnson at Tacoma. De tails of the scheme, as outlined by Mr.' JobnBon, appear fantastic and most improbable. W hile solitary cases of smuggling come to our notice from time to time. It is unimaginable that such an Involved and Intricate pro gramme as described by Mr. Johnson should be systematically practiced by any group of Individuals or organlxa tlon. "The Japanese government would gladly co-operate with the American government in exposing any such il legitimate and underhanded system. It is hoped that Mr. Johnson w ill give the names of the banks, associations or individuals concerned. A ll such In formation must be in the hands of Mr. Johnson, who otherwise would not have made the statem ent” JOINT SESSION TO BE HELD Washington, Idaho and Oregon Com mission to Sit Together. Olympia, Wash.— As the state’s questions involving allowance of In creased freight and passenger rates on local traffic as fixed by the inter state commerce commission for In terstate traffic are common to the northwest the public service commis sions of Oregon and Idaho will sit with the Washington commission on Tuesday, August 17, in a hearing be ginning at 10 A. M. in the senate chamber here. The common problem before the commissions of the three northwest states will be to harmonise local increases asked with the re quired Increase necessary to guaran tee a return of 514 per cent consist ent with the recent interstate com merce commission ruling. Northwest Crias for Cars. Washington.— Agricultural interests in the northwest face bankruptcy be cause of the present car shortage, the Interstate commerce commission was told by railroad commissioners and shippers from Montana, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The commission was asked to issue orders guaranteeing the ear eupply for the movement ot the grain crops, * The above photographs showing the remarkable likeness of Sen ator Warren O. Harding, the Republican candidate tor president, and George Washington, the first president of the United States, were pub lished in a recent issne of the Boston Evening Transcript. The large picture In the oval and the smaller picture of Senator Harding on the right were made from the same photograph. The face has not been touched up In any way but merely framed la the Washington headgear and dress. The Boston Evening Transcript reproduced these pictures after receiving a number of letters calling attention to the similarity between the first president and Senator Harding. Reproduced by per mission of the Boston Evening Transcript. NOTICE TO PUBLIC A t a recent meeting of the City Council, a decision was reached to al low ail persons to use city water for sprinkling purposes, between the hours of 5 to 9 p. m. The North and West side of each street, according to the facing of tbe houses, may use tbe water Tuesdays Thursdays, and Saturdays. South and East side of each stieet, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Water may be used for one hour on each sprinkling day. No one can use larger than a i inch nozzle and nozzle must at all times be attached to the hose when sprinkling, and the hose disconnected from the standpipe after sprinkling. Any hose found attached to tbe standpipe a fte r 9 p. m. the Water w ill be cut off and the right to sprinkle w ill be forfieted. By ord^r of the City Council. W. T. H . Tuckei, Recorder of the C ity of Dayton. 915,000,000 Added to Lumber Freight. Seattle.— Increase in freight rates recently allowed by the interstate commerce commission will mean an increase of 33 1-3 per cent on forest products, costing the lumber industry of Washington and Oregon approxi mately 915,000,000 a year In added charges, according to a statement Is sued by Robert B. Allen, manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's associa tion. Foch Sees Chance For Poles. London.— Poland is still far from being beaten, In the opinion of Mar shal Foch, as expressed in an Inter view with the Exchange Telegraph company’s correspondent at Hythe. Providing Poland's forces and her m ilitary material are quickly organ ised, the marshal Is quoted as saying, she may yet be able successfully to defend her frontiers. Msnnlx Landed In Penxanoe, England Penzance, England. — Archbishop Msnnlx waa landed hers from a de stroyer. The archblahop declined to llv s out • ita te m e a t, Simler— Booth The seven o’clock hour on last Sun day evening Witnessed tbe wedding of Erma Simler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Simler, and Emmett Booth, form erly of the Arm of Booth and Detmer- ing. The ring ceremony was supervia- i ed by Rev. Marcy and witnessed by the immediate relatives of tbe happy couple. Mr. Floyd Denson served aa best man, Miss Versa Simler as bride’s maid. Mrs. Simler and daughter Margaret I had prepared a delightful wedding lun cheon which was enjoyed, compliment ed and consumed by those present. The bride’s beauty was attractively emphasized by a daintly trimmed white gown and a boquet o f flowers a t the waist. Mr. and Mrs. Booth are both graduates of the D a y to n -H ig h School and have an exceedingly large circle i of friends who wish them well. Mrs. Booth was a member of tbe Dayton Girls Glee Club during her school days and was a universal favorite. Mr. Booth’s position as a student and later as a business mar. has made him a well known figure on our street» and we sin cerely hope that the future may bring the newlyweds to Dayton for their home. Hallsted— VanDorn A t the home of the brides mother, Mrs. Amenda Hallsted near Hopewell. Oregon, on Sunday, August 8tb, 1920, Mr. Diamond H . VanDorn to Miss Ella May Hallsted, Rev. Morris Goodrich paster of the Hopewell United Breth- ern church officiating. The bride waa beautifully gowned in silk crepe de chine and the groom was neatly attired in blue serge. The groom la the son of M r. and Mrs. D. C. VanDorn one of Webfoot’s progressive farmers. These newlyweds were the recipients of numerous beautiful and useful presents. A fter light reresh- ments were served they took their de- psture for Portland and other adjacent points for a short honeymoon.