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wilds of upper Drift creek, near
OF GENERAL INTEREST Taft, has been the entire region but
land
lost
Cormier, Port
December
abandoned. Searching
parties combed
only found si4ne torn clothing.
Brief Resume of Happenings of Drilling was scheduled to be resum
ed at the well of the Guaranty Oil
the Week Collected for
company near Eugene last week. Bunk
Our Readers.
houses and a mess hall have been pre
pared and everything is ready for ac
Linn county’s total Indebtedne^ for tive operations, it was announced.
the Albany bridge has been cut to $47,-
A Siuslaw chamber of commerce
800. The original debt, contracted in was organized at Florence last Satur Relation Between Earth Cur
day when a group of men represent
1926. was >112,500.
rents and Reception
ing
West
Lane
county
met
there.
Each
Mrs. Emma L. Hufstater has been
Seen by Expert.
nominated by President Coolidge as district chose two men to represent
A new explanation with reference to
postmistress at Knappa, a position them. Earl Hill of Cushman was elect
ed president and Jack C. Pensler of fading is advanced by Q WartMd
she has held for many years.
Florence, secretary.
Keefer, noted radio experimenter of
Approximately 600 carloads of broc
Baltimore.
A
60
foot
plunge
off
the
new
Soap
coli will be shipped from the Umpqua
He believes “man-made static’’ Is
valley during the coming season, ac stone bridge on the Roosevelt high a big factor.
way, near Astoria, proved fatal to
cording to present estimates.
“It certainly looks as though there
Edwin Bergdahl, 41, laborer, Tuesday. Is a relation between the earth cur
The Red Cross chapter at The Bergdahl was carrying materials for
Dalles is one of the most prosperous the bridge across the skeleton struo rents and reception,’’ he states.
“One phase of radio transmission
in the state. It now has a member ture when he misstepped and fell tc
and
reception that is being Intensively
ship of 900, nearly double that of last the bottom of the narrow gorge.
Investigated by radio engineers Is fad
year.
By a margin of 26 votes at the spe ing.” Mr. Keefer continues.
There are 1628 children of school
“As a rule the longer the wave
clal election held in Seaside last Mon
age in Albany this year, according to
length the less the fading effect, al
D. D. Hackelman, school clerk. This day, the measure to provide for a though there are cases where the fad
fund of $2500 “to advertise the beau ing on the shorter waves Is very small.
is a gain of only five over the 1926
ties and advantages of the city of Most fading Is relatively slow; that Is.
census.
Seaside, as a pleasure and health re- the time interval between maximum
The Bert Mullins confectionery and , sort’’ was defeated. The vote stood and minimum signal strength muy be
newsstand in Heppner was robbed 104 in favor of tha measure and 130 two minutes or more. Generally speak
A Young Maid
early Wednesday and about $70 taken against.
ing, fading Is more prevalent at night.
(Prepared by th« Natlonnl Ge”<raDhlo
from the safe, which may have been
Observations made at the same locu
Society. W ashing to*« D. C.)
State highway crews have not only tion on frequencies very close together
unlocked.
IKE ancient Gaul, Guatemala
kept the McKenzie highway open to show that they do not fade simultane
The Fowler-street bridge was opened
may be divided Into three parts,
Lost Creek ranch, a winter sports cen ously. The type may be Identical, but
at Roseburg last week, eliminating
with a special brand of climate
ter 12 miles above McKenzie bridge, there Is no relation between the max
the long highway detour, over which
assigned to each. There are
but have scraped the snow far enough imum and minimum values, Mr.
traffic has been routed for the past
the lowlands of the Atlantic and Pa
Keefer
says.
off the center to allow two cars to
six weeks.
"In Baltimore everyone Is familiar cific—the hot country; the uplands,
pass at almost any place, according to
Yamiiiil county closed the books on Smith L. Taylor, national forest ranger with the behavior of WJZ, WGY and ranging from 3,(MX) to C.lXX) fiet—the
KDKA. The first of these three sta temperate land; and the highlands,
its treasury November 30 with cash of McKenzie bridge.
tions
presents a very Interesting study. where fanglike peaks stretch up to
on hand amounting to 1230,115.59, the
A
dog
saved
the
life
of
Otto
C.
Kar
As a general rule WJZ Is affected with 14,(MX) feet above the sea—the cold
largest cash balance in the history of
country. In Guatemala clltniite Is a
the most troublesome type of fading.
stens,
farmer
of
the
Knox
Butts
dis
the county.
thing of altitude rather than latitude.
“Two well-defined types of fading
trict east of Albany last week. An
The American visitor to Guatemala
Charles H. Hamlin, past 70, log angered bull attacked Karstens and are recognized synchronous and asyn
scaler at Mike Morrison’s camp above gored him in the body and legs, break chronous. The first, which Is uniform, Is likely to land at Puerto Barrios, on
Bridge, near Myrtle Point, was killed ing one of his ankles. A farm hand may be compensated somewhat by con the Atlantic or Caribbean side of this
country. This port, set on the inner
instantly when he was struck by a tried to catch the bull, but was chased trol adjustments at the receiving seL rim of Amatique bay, is alluringly
Asynchronous fading is the type where
falling tree.
up a tree. The infuriated animal fin the side bands and the carrier wave do beautiful from the steamer. Though
one accepts It as a tropical dream
Rural delivery route No. 1 has been ally was diverted by the dog.
not fade together. When the carrier come true. It does not bear close In-
established at St. Helens. The route
wave
is
reduced
to
the
value
of
the
By vote of its board of directors the
serves 120 families over a distance of Lexington State bank in Morrow coun side bands or lower, the distortion spection. Here Is the north coast ter
26 miles with one carrier at a salary ty did not open its doors last Tues- that results Is marked frequently to minal of the International railways
and important buildings of the United
of $1890 a year.
| day and it was turned over to the euch a degree that speech may be un Fruit company. Aside from these,
Officials of the Firs! National bank state banking department. For the intelligible. This condition has been Puerto Barrios does not intrigue one
of Eugene last Friday celebrated the last six years the bank has operated frequently observed with WGY and ns a site for permanent residence, nor
KDKA, which seem to fade uniformly Is the hotel the type to which one
44th anniversary of the founding of at a loss. Arrangements have been in this section.
yearns to return.
the institution. The bank first opened made to pay the depositors 80 cents
“One theory recently advanced Is
A few decades ago the Guatemalan
December 16, 1883.
on the dollar without delay.
based upon the fluctuations in the di government concluded to build a rail
Owing to weather conditions, all
A proposal to improve reclamation rectional flow and intensity of earth way connecting Its capital and west
work has been suspended at the Moon in Klamath by expending between currents.
coast coffee plantations with the north
“It is true that natural earth cur coast markets. When this road was
Lumber company's planing mill in $200,000 and $250,000 on new drains
Ashland until March, throwing 20 men and deepening existing drains has so rents are highly related to the mag half-Unit*hed, both nmney and credit
netic storms and also rather definitely
out of employment.
aroused the interest of the United correspond to solar activity as Indi ran low, leaving a pair of rails begin
A snowfall that has covered the ! States bureau of reclamation that a cated by sun spots. Continuous records ning at tidewater and ending at a
spot in the broad, warm desert sur
ground to a depth of more than six drainage engineer, I. R. Lakisch, has have been made of natural earth cur rounding El Rancho. Then an Ameri
Inches has caused the temporary shut been sent to the Klamath country to rents at several magnetic observa can stepped Into the breach, com
down of nearly all the logging camps investigate the feasibility of the proj tories, Including one at Ebro, Spain, pleted the railway, and made It pos
and Watheroo, western Australia, tie sible for passengers to ride on a well-
in the Nehalem country.
ect.
equipped train from the shipside to
A total of 356 stray horses have
H. F. Hunt, principal of Stadium reports.
“In or near civilization most of the most of the population centers of the
been rounded up in Pine and Eagle high school, Tacoma, has accepted an
earth currents notes are not natural, republic.
valleys near Baker and sold to a invitation to address the high school
First Impressions of Guatemala
but are caused by leakage from vari
Mr. Martin of Portland for shipment principals of Oregon when they as ous electric services, particularly from have to do with countless bunches of
semble at the University of Oregon, trolley lines. For these currents the green bananas, for this northern
to a meat cannery there.
Eugene,
January 13 and 14, for the rapid changes in Intensity and often fringe of the republic Is bnnanaland.
The newly created office of city
marshal at Coquille, as provided in first annual principal’s conference to direction are generally related to the The great fruit farms are recent, and
the 1928 budget, will be filled by P. be held in conjunction with the regu changing amount and position of the to make them, the low, rich, swampy
coastland was drained and made sani
R. Bernhardt, appointment being made lar conference of student editors and currents drawn by the trolley cars.
tary.
“
Electricity,
through
electrolytic
ac
officers.
last week by the city council.
Race Between Time and Decay.
tion,
will
decompose
Iron
at
the
rute
For the first time in 18 years
Mrs. Mary Henderson, 90, an Ore
of twenty-one pounds of iron per am
Railways, banana walks, adminis
gon pioneer of 1843, and since 1878 a Gresham was without fire protection pere per year. It Is possible, therefore, tration buildings, Imposing hospitals,
resident of Baker county, died last last week, due to the disbanding of that such currents could, through elec modern towns—these have all been
week at the home of her daughter, the Gresham volunteer fire depart trolytic action, change the earth’s re built In order that a fleet of vessels
ment. Vote to disband was unanimous, sistance In certain areas, and so more may be fed two-score million bunches
Mrs. Jennie Baisley, in Baker.
Fall-sown crops are looking fine all 25 members joining in the ballot. or less permanently change reception of bananas yearly. It Is efficiency and
conditions. Undoubtedly, the transmis organization par excellence.
around Dayton and the continued mild Lack of oo-operation by the city coun sion of radio waves Is very greatly af
Reduced to Its least common de
weather is ideal for them. Farmers cil, and refusal of that body to pur fected by human activities, such as nominator, It Is a race between time
chase
adequate
apparatus,
were
given
have been able to finish seeding, as
as cause for the department’s disban Is evidenced by transmission over a and decay. The cutter, mule carrier,
the soil was in perfect condition.
city of steel skyscrapers.
pick-up train, fast steamship, radio
ding.
“Investigation of this theory Is now telephone, fruit dlspntch, all combine
An organization known as the East
The Douglas county court was in being made in Baltimore.”
to deliver tills highly perishable com
ern Clackamas Business Men’s Credit
formed
last
week
that
the
government
modify from the banana farm to the
association was recently organized at
corner store In Iowa before rot over
has
approved
the
1926
Douglas
county
Estacada and a meeting was held in
takes the fruit and turns profit Into
claim for O. & C. tax refund money In Much Improvement in
the city hall last Friday evening.
loss.
the sum of $192,838.38. This Is $445.17
Home-Built
Radio
Sets
Believed to be Portland’s oldest cit less than was claimed by the county.
We leave bnnanaland aboard the
The home craftsman has joined in little train of the International rail
izen, Mrs. Angeline Yane, 103 years Approximately $121,500 will be retain
5 months and 21 days of age, died in ed in the county fund and the remain the evolution of the indlo receiver. ways and start south. From Qulrlgun
No longer does his product resemble
tha home of her daughter, Mrs. John der will be distributed among road and the haywire jumble of the past. It the railroad winds up the Motngun
Pugh, 575 Savier street, last Thursday school districts, Port of Umpqua and rivals and sometimes surpasses the valley through plantations, skirting
abrupt hillsides. The train crosses
Alfred Richardson, 38, negro em Umpqua highway improvement dis commercial output In the way of mod the Motagua river every few kilome
ernisms.
ploye of a barber shop in Astoria, trict.
ters, and, all along the way, pusses
Individual Ingenuity has not been
was blinded last week when lye being
standing under pnlm shells on
Merchandise and commodity exports entirely responsible .for the Improve women
the stream banks, washing clothing
used to cleanse a drain exploded. Phy from Oregon in the second quarter of
sicians feared blindness may be per the current year declined rather ment, but it has spurred the home children and themselves.
builder to greater efforts and to de
After leaving Zacapa the long climb
manent.
sharply from those of the same quar mand better parts.
to Guatemala City begins, over a road
Damage aggregating $159,170 re ter in 1926, according to report just
The kitchen sink soldering expert that winds In horseshoe curves, up
sulted from 778 forest fires burning released by the United States depart doesn't have tc replace expensive ma mountainsides, through cuts and tun
over a total of 24,078 acres of forest ment of commerce. The department chinery when he wants to change the nels, over fills and bridges. Now and
land during the past season, according fixed value of the quarter’s exports design of his receiver. All he has to then one glimpses the shingly gravel
to a report just made public by F. A. from this state at $11,067,328, com do Is to detach a few wires, replace a bars of the Motagua and the brush
Elliott, state forester.
pared with $17,818,029 in the same few instruments and his receiver is fishtrnps set by the Indians. Thore
radically changed. Th. set manufac are villages where vegetable gardens
Fatally injured when struck on the period of 1926, a decline of $6,751,001. turer must often go to great expense are built on stilts, and perpendicular
forehead by a piece of oak wood which The value of second quarter exports when such departures are made in his cornfields.
broke while he was working it on a of this state placed it 22d among the output. Yet the home builder and the
And still one climbs, past hot sul
lathe In the Bend high school manual states of the union this year, as com manufacturer are far from rivals. One phur springs with steam clouds curl
training shop, Norland Pitman, 16 pared with 16th place in the sam< labors for the thrills and the oth*r ing above them and deep railway cuts
through volcanic ash. The air grows
tor financial returns.
guarter last year.
tied in a Bend hospital
New Explanation
of Fading Bogies
L
of Guatemala.
chill as the altitude Increases. At
sunset the profiles of purple peaks
stand out against a yellow sky. Thea
comes night with more chill and final
ly, below In the plain, the twinkling
lights of Guatemala City.
Capital Often Destroyed.
Guatemala City la not of the New
Work!. It belongs to ”1'1 Spain. It Is
u city suggestive of the Moors, with
narrow streets, varicolored houses,
deep-set barred windows, bright
patlcsi, porticos and colonnades. Guate
mala's capital has always been Vul
can's plaything. He has shaken It
down, even destroyed It, and has seen
It rise again on three different sites
In 1627 Pedro de Alvarado began
the first city on the lower slopes of
Agua. In 1541 came a night of tor
rential rain, lightning, thunder and
earth rumblings, then a terrifying
shudder. The crater of Agua was
torn apart and the hike which filled
It rushed down to overwhelm the city.
A new capital, built a few miles to
the northeast, In time became one of
the most Imposing cities of the New
World, with splendid palaces and
more than (Ml Impressive church build
ings. The old city was but a memory,
earthquakes were forgottea, and all
seemed well as the new capital grew
richer nnd more powerful. In 1717,
with an eruption of Fuego, came nn
earthquake that leveled the city. Again
It was built and again shaken down
In 1773, the year of the Boston Tea
party.
The capita) was again transferred,
this time 30 miles away to the site
of the present city, nnd the life of the
people moved on until In 1917 came a
series of tremblings that first cracked
the thick adobe walls and then caused
them to crumble. Since 1917 the capi
tal city has again been practically re
built, thus Illustrating the tenacity
with which people cling to homes that
have been erected where the shadow
of some volcano falls.
On the Mixco Road.
Ten miles away, In the village of
Mixco, live the Indians who each day
carry to the capital the foodstuffs
which Its people buy. The road from
Mixco to Guatemala City Is one of
the fascinating moving pictures of
Central America.
Dawn In Mixco finds everyone tip,
preparing for the long, dally walk to
the market place and back home
again. Early risers set out with their
wares packed In a broad basket, homa
on the head If the carrier be a wom
an, or If a man. tn a encnste carried
on the bnck, with a brond leather
tumpllne leading from either side of
the load about the forehead
By nine o’clock there Is a proces
sion ten miles long, more fascinating,
varied, nnd Interesting than any cir
cus parade that ever followed a cnl-
llope. Women with leathery, wrin
kled skin, gray hair, and shriveled
bare arms and legs, still trot back
and forth on this 20 mile errand Meh
day, carrying to market n crate of
eggs, a half dozen fowls, n tray of
ngucates, or nny one of a hundred
things to eat nnd wear.
Here comes a family. The father
bears a heavy lond of corn or beans
or other vegetables, bonding forward
under the weight nnd balancing ft
urth the tumpllne. The mother, per
haps, juggles n wide wicker tray of!
vegetables on her head, while sho
carries n pair of chickens In either
hand and nn Infnnt swung In n shawl
about her body. A brood of children
follows, each laden according to
size nnd capacity. The family dog,
anemic, apologetic. Is always In the
party and frequently wears n neck
lace of dried lemons to ward off ca
nine Ills.