The Willamina times., December 13, 1923, Image 2

>f. Corvallis was re-elected secretary Oregon should come from th e secre­
reasurer.
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tary of the in terio r in the next few
Weeks. In the last several days a
-A s a resu lt of the wind and ¡rain
te rm th a t swept the state last week; j determ ined drive h as been m ade by
,1reels in W arrenton were flooded; the Oregon delegation in both houses
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•ocks fell on the Columbia R iver high- of congress, supported by rep resen ta­
f-nj and trees blocked o ih er i o a d f ijj tives of four new projects in the state,
Brief Resume of Happenings oi Seaside and W arrenton telephone ' cor some definite step tow ard the de­
.witchboards were burned out; the j velopment of fu rth er irrigation.
the Week Collected for
.«urned area of A storia was flooded | Tillamook harbor im provem ents
-■.-hen a high tide backed up over the | have been approved, subject to m inor
Our Readers.
,eawall; Young’s bay and John Day j modifications, by th e hoard of riv er i
The Eugene M asons have decided to Lrawbridges were put out of eommis- 1 and harbor engineers, as a resu lt of i
,i.m tem porarily; and m inor d am ag e.! a hearing in W ashington, D. C., a t J
erect a new tem ple next year.
i-as done at Hood River.
which the Oregon delegation and resi­
F ire com pletely destroyed the Chil­
dent's of th a t section placed new facts I
The
state
highway
departm
ent
has
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oquin hotel at Chiloquin, 30 miles
before th e board. If th is project is |-
granted
perm
ission
to
tho
C
oast
Pow-
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n o rth of K lam ath Falls.
er company to reconstruct and extend | completed the federal governm ent will
'T h e 'to ta l assessm ent of public utili­ its power line on th e Roosevelt high-j appropriate about $250,000.
ties of Uriion county is $5,583,283. L a st way betw een M anhattan and Gara-» 1 .. The secretary of the interior at the
y ear’s assessm ent was $5,127,436.
bald i. |
request of R epresentative Sinnott, has
The Eugene lodge of Elks has ap­
Saturday afternoon nt 3 o’clock1 a treld up paten ts to land in Oregon in-
pointed a com m ittee to investigate the
memorial tab let placed on the old volvéd in th e cases of F. A. Tîyde, C.
feasibility of rem odeling its tem ple.
M ethodist church at Jacksonville, W. - Clark and others. Mr. Sinnott
Members of the W illam ette Valley 1 which is said to be the oldest' P ro tes­ acted on the telegraphed request of !
Grain Growers’ association held a con­ ta n t chu’-ch huiidirg now standing A ttorney-G eneral Van W inkle of Ore- ;
ference in Salem to discuss m arket w est of th e Rocky m ountains, was un­ gon. The cases involve state lands .
used under the old lieu land law to !
conditions, " -
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veiled. ..
' obtain title to 'governm ent- lands.
Seventy-six carloads, or approxi­
General M arager A. F. S. Steele of
m ately 22,000, m ore sheep w ere ship­ I the Apple Grow ers’ association , has ;
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ped out of Bend this fall than in the ! received a. fetter from United Stares ’
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fall of 1822.
Senator.'.' M cNary • to 'the-- effect t h a t ;
The Pacific northw est intercolle-' stored apples .may bis. utilized as se-
giate conference m eeting, scheduled f eutity fob/loans; w ith interm ediate .
to be held in 'Spokane, has been ’ credit banks.
; switched to Portland. •
Farm acreage in Oregon . for 1923'i. I
To relieve the shortage of dwelling p'exciusive of T1 counties which have !
house-, jn A lbany a building and loan mot i reported,, aggregated 4,946,9/3.57
association is planned by several busi­ ■ acres as against 8,419,954.88 acres in.
ness men of th a t city.
i -1922. This inform ation was contain­
The 14th annual convention of the ed in a statm en t by E arl Fisher, state
Oregon Hotel Men’s association was tax commissioner.
held in Portland with more th an 100
P etitions num erously signed by p e r -1
delegates in attendance.
sons residing in 36 counties of Ore­
Cooperative m arketing and banking gon urging thé appointm ent of W allace I
were discussed at the annual con­ McCamant of Portland, to the U nited ]
vention at The Dalles of the Oregon S tates court of appeals, ninth circuit, ■
S tate H orticultural society.
San Francisco, have reached W ash­
HB The Medford school district census ington and will be subm itted to P resi­
A; for lifts .<year, ju s f taken, shows the dent Coolidge.
larg est school population in the city’s
More satisfactory distribution of
;; history, the num ber being 2342.
harvest labor to the end th a t both the
The fourth : annual W inter fair and em ployer and employe m ay be bene­
Í eighth | annual Southern Oregon Poul­ fited will be attem pted
the Season­
try show, combined, was held in the able Em ploym ent commission, : which
1 C hautauqua building In Ashland.
was organized at a conference held in
R obert J. G rant, since June 1, 1921,
Axel Erickson, a logger, was drown­ the oftice-j of C Iï. CryM, s ta le labor su perintendent o f th e m in t a t Denver,
who has been appointed d ire c to r of
ed when he accidentally fell into the commissioner, at Salem.
th
e m in t to succeed E. F. Scobey, re­
Nehalem river a t the B irkenseld Lum ­
Federal prohibition officers have
ber company camp at Birkenseld.
notified operators of cider plants th a t signed.
A ttorneys of the state, at » an in- they m ust cease m anufacturing cider
' formal gathering in Salem, presented unless the finished product contains
to the suprem e court an oil paint­ benzoate of soda. Cider m anufactur­
ers allege th a t the order will ruin
ing of Justice George H. B urnett.
: Two additional units of 25 miles and th eir business, as the soda content
one of 12 miles on the Klam ath-Eu­ s p u ils th e llavoc Of th i apple product.
gene line will be contracted by the
Oregon pensions have been granted
W ashington, D. C. — Announcement
Southern Pacific on December 21.
as follows : Ver da A. Orchard, P o rt­
of
the candidacy of President Coolidge
Fred C. Schulte, form er constable land, $20 ; D elbert A. Lyons, C entral
for the republican nom ination for
and deputy sheriff at Reedsport, was Point, $12; Jam es W. Hackm an, Tim ­
president in 1924 was made here by
found guilty of accepting a bribe ber, $18; Janies M oriarity, Portland,
F ran k W. Stearns of Boston, who is
from B. O. R oberts, confessed boot­ $18; Carl Woolman, Baker, $24 ; Jam es
known
as his closest personal and po­
A rthur, Portland, $15; Andrew Bratz,
legger.
litical friend.
Dr. Mabel Aikin and Mrs. S. E. A. Portland, $12; W illiam C. Hicinboth-
W illiam M. Butler, republican n a­
Smith, both of Portland, w ere appoint­ em, Estacada, $18,
tional com m ittee m an for Massachu
Mrs. R obert Byers of Los Angeles, setts, also a close personal and politi-
ed by Governor Pierce as .members of
the advisory board of the state in­ bude of a week, y a s 1 drowned in*,the cal friend of Mr. Coolidge, it was
W illam ette riv er at H arrisburg, when stated, will act as the president’s per­
dustrial school for girls.z
C onstruction of the retaining walls an autom obile driven by W illiam J. sonal representative in the campaign:
for th e .s tré e ts in the devastated dis­ P arks of San Francisco plunged down
The announcem ent was made by Mr.
trict of A storia and of the tunnels the steep ferry approach on the P a­ Stearns through a statem ent which
for the protection of the trunk sew­ cific highway into 16 feet of w ater was given out by Jam es B. Reynolds,
while the ferry boat was on the op­ former secretary of the republican n a­
ers has been completed.
posite side of the river.
tional committee, who ■ directed the
W illiam A. M arshall, who was re-
appointed a m em ber of the state in­ . There w ere two fatalities in Ore­ campaign for Mr. Coolidge in 1920. Mr.
dustrial accident commission has serv­ gon industries during the week end­ Reynolds made phblic th e statem ent
ed in this capacity since the creation ing Decem ber 6, according to a re ­ w ithout comment.
port prepared by the state ’industrial
. of the departm ent in 1913.
accident commission. ' The victim s
An artesian well with a flow óf 120
“ KIDNAPPERS” SENTENCED
were W alter S tuart, Seaside, brake-
, gallons per m inute has ‘been encotmt -
man, and Amos Breeden, Black Rock,
G riffis , Alleged Leader in Plot, to
ered at a depth of 425 feet a t the
pile d r i v e r . A total of 63 7 accidents
workings of the E astern Oregon Oil
Serve 21 M onths.
¡w ere reported during the week.
. Exploration company near H erm iston.
Mosbach, B ad en .— Corliss Hooven
All train service on the Eugene-Coos
A quarantine on all dairy and breed­
Griffis of Ham ilton, O., was sentenced
bay branch . of. the Southern Pacific
to serve 21 m onths in prison for con­
ing cattle brought into Oregon from
railw ay was tied up on account of
California became operative Decem-
spiring to kidnap Grover Cleveland
dam age to a steel bridge across the
Bergdoll, th e Am erican d raft evader
je r 1, m any cases of tuberculosis in
Suislaw river near Linslaw, 36 miles
Carl Sperber of P aris was sentenced
f southern Oregon having been traced to
w est of Eugene. A fir tree four feet
- California.
, to’ 18 m onths; F a u st Gagarin, a -Rue
iu diam eter fell a c ro ss'th e bridge and
The dem and for the appropriation caved in the top p art of it so th at sian prince, to eight m onths, and Eu­
■jf fu rther funds to complete the trains were unable to operate over it. gene V ictor Nelson of Chicago, to
three m onths’ im prisonm ent for their
Tongue Point naval base along lines
- The to tal value of taxable property share in th e plot which the group a t­
originally planned is being carried
in Oregon, including th a t equalized tem pted to carry out at Eberbach in
Í iirect to S ecretary of the Navy Denby
by the state board of equalization and August.
.¡./ Senator McNary.
th at equalized and apportioned by the
A shipm ent of eight black foxes, state tax commission, is $1,042,410',- " All the defendants will have sub­
¡mined at $8000, has arrived a t Klam- 618.66, according to a report prepared tracted from th eir term s the period
v.h Fails by express, consigned from ; by E ar 1 Fisher, state tax c ommi s sion- of th eir incarceration before the trial
>«ew B runs wick;11 Maine, to C aptain H. ! er. L ast year the total value of the and Nelson was set free a t once, as
J. Hans bury, who is startin g a fox taxable property was $1,009,499,160.38. the court considered his term had
been' served. Griffis also was fined
C-vm on upper K lam ath lake.
The outlet of Siltcoos lake, which 2,000,000,000,000 m arks, about 50 cents.
¿iGRCl officials of the California-Ore­ is only two miles from the Pacific
gon Power company in San Francisco ■ ocean in w estern : Lane county, is
F lorida Flogging C laim Paid.
îovë1 autiiofized im m ediate construc- again clogged by s a n d / due to wind
Langdon, N. D.—Paym ent of $20,000
.ïéh of ' a half-million-dollar pqwer I Fad high sea
The s ta te fish a ttd has been m ade by th e Putnam Lumber
r a n t on Link riv er in K lam ath Falls i game commission this fall cleared th^
company of Wis cons in to the family
¡.ith a capacity of 4500 horsepower.
] channel of. obstructions in order th at’ of M artin T abert of Munich, N. D.,
The Oregon W alnut Grow ers’ asso- ! salmon m ight enter the lake to spawn who died in a convict labor camp
.ratio n , iff session at Salem, voted to. but it is now worse th an ever, reports conducted by the company in Florida
¡old its convention next .year a t New- A fete,: ■
following a flogging given by W alter
L. S. Otis of Newberg was
Some decision w ith regard to reor­ fliggspbctham, “whipping boss.” .
¡lected- president and Ç. E ,.S cheu ster ganizing new irrigation projects in
OREGON O S ITEMS
OF
COOLIDGE CANDIDACY
FORMALLY ANNOUNCED
M OTHER!
Fletcher’s Castoria is a harmless Substitute for
Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups,
orepared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of
OGiistipation
Flatulency
D iarrhea
W ind Colic
To Sweeten Stomach
Regulate Bowels
Aids in the assimilation of Food, promoting Cheerfulness, Rest, and
'Natural Sleep without Opiates
y? ;
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T o àvpid imitations, always look for the signature of
Prnvpn rlirprtiòns nn parh nackac
S a i l a i t less
BUT DOST
7260 Fewer Pensioners But
Expenditures $9.405,000
Greater.
"PTivcîf'îo'no pirpnrwliprp rommmpuH it.
Brownings Freed in Ballantyne Death,
Salt Lake City.—John Browning, son
of John M. Browning, the arm s in­
ventor, and M hrriner A.
iVho h a i e odest oif triitl fob j^W'-Slayi^.g
ol Bimjaipln jF v-
Browning’s brother-in-law, w e re ’ ac­
quitted by a jury here.
S e c re ta ry W a lla c e u rg e s F re ig h t C u t.
W ashington, D. C .—A reduct ion of
at least 25 per cent on freight ra te s
tVashlngtcfa, D. C — W ith 7260 few er on "wheat and w heat products to re ­
pensioners on the governmeib roil s lieve the present “w heat crisis” was
than in 1922, expenditures increased ! itehommemfexl b y .S ecretary
last year $9,405,000, the pension bu­ i ture W allace ; in a special rep o rt to
reau announced in its annual report. President Coolidge.-
The increase was ascribed to changes
in the rates and m ethod of payment. New T reaty W ith Germany Signed.
The num ber of pensioners on the
W ashington, D. C.—A new com m er­
roll June 30, 1923, was 539,756, as cial tre a ty betw een the U nited States
against 547,016 on June 30, 1922. Of and Germany has been signed by Sec­
ike ^pensioners an the roll, 1 68,623 retary Hughes and A m bassador Wied-
were civil war veterans, 264,580 civil feldt. The pact takes the place of
w ar widows, 63,393 Spanish war vet­ thaf^abrogstthdj d.firna.g th e ¡world
erans and 13,167 Spanish w ar widows.
There .a re yet on the
toll 49
T H E M ARKETS
soldiers of the Mexican war and 40
w i d o t t h o s e husbands served in the
Portland Y
war of 1812.
W heat—-H ard white, soft white and
By classes there were on the pension western,’ Avhite, SR; har<J w inter, ^fir;
roll at the close of the fiscal year northern spring, 97c; w estern red, 98e.
253,605 soldiers, 278,700 widows, 2333
Hay—Alfalfa, $17 @18 ton; cheat,
minor children, 931 helpless children, $12@13; valley tim othy, $19@20; east
4106 dependents of soldiers and 81 fe­
male arm y nurses. D uring the year
25,452 civil w ar veterans died, as
Eggs—Ranch, '38@44c. -
against 25,082 in the previous year, cChéese—P rices to jobbers, f. 0. b.
and 23,974 widows as against 21,259. Tillam ook; Triplets, 30c; longhorns,
31c ; loaf, 32c per lb.
C attle — Beef steers, good grade,
$6 50@7.50 ; medium, $5.50@6.50.
Hogs—Medium to good, $7.10@7.60.
Sheep—Medium, good and choice
lambs, $10 @11.
MEXICAN REBELS
CAPTURE JALAPA
Mexico City.-—Rebels and federal
troops clashed at Jalapa, capital of
Ver a Cruz, as the insurgents, under
General Sanchez, moved tow ards Tam ­
pico, in w hat was apparently an a t­
tempt to seize the oil fields of Mexico.
- I n a statem ent, the president ex­
pressed confidence th at federal forces
could handle the situation.
“The government, which has known
in the past how to face crises, will
spare no sacrifice to protect existing
institutions of the country from the
attem pt on the p art of the conserva­
tive group,” a statem ent he issued said.
The uprising was by supporters of
Adolfo de la H uerta against Ohregon
and the la tte r’s candidate for succes­
sion to the presidency, General Calles.
Vera Cruz.—Jalapa, capital of the
state of Vera Cruz, fell into the hands
of beseiging revolutionary forces Sat­
urday evening. The rebels took 200
prisoners, among them General Ber-
anga, Colonel Mayer and th e provi­
sional governor.A ngel Casarin.
Seattle.
W heat—H ard, soft and w estern
whittï’-and B ig.B ènd bluestem ,
aard red w inter, soft red w inter, north-
fern spring and w estern red, 99c.
Bay—Alfalfa, $22 ; D. C., $24; tim-
htbY*- $25p J0 ßt, $27 ; maxed hày,
■ Eggs—Ranch, 45c.
B u tterfat—50 @ 52c.
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C attle—Choice, steers, $6.75@7.50;
medium, to good, $6.25@6.75.
Hogs—P rim e light, $7.50 @7.90.
Cheese — W ashington cream brick,
38c ; W ashington triplets, 25@26c ;
W ashington Young America, 25@26c;
Tillamook triplets, f. o. b., 33c.
“ COLD IN THE HEAD”
is an a c u te a tta c k o f N a sa l C a ta rrh ,
T hose su b ject to fre q u en t “ colds” a re
g enerally in a “ru n dow n” condition.
H A LU ’S catarrh medicine is a
T re a tm e n t consisting of an O intm ent, to
be used locally, an d a Tonic, w hich acts
Q uickly th ro u g h th e Blood on th e M u­
cous S urfaces, building u p th é /S y s te m ,
an d m ak in g you less liable to “colds.”
Sold by d ru g g ists for. over 40 Y ears,
S’. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.