OREGON CITY, ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JULY 1 4, 1922. ' Page six Forest Ranger Has ; Seen Long Service SANDY, July 11 C. L. Henson, whose resignation, took effect at Zig Zag June 30, took charge of the Little Sandy ranger station in 1910. He has seen forest protection develop in this section from a single patrolman with a pack on his back climbing over high peaks to reach lookouts and fife finders, to Ford cars and even aero plane service. There were only 7 miles of phone lines when Henson went to the Little Sandy. Now there are 79 miles of lines in this district, all of which were built under his supervision. There are at present 171 miles of trails. All the old rtails have been reconstructed and many new one's built, which includes the loop trail around Bull Run reserve. Henson first entered the service in 1908 in Hood River ranger district No. 1, and moved his wife and six months old daughter up to the mountains on horseback where they lived in tents for two years. At Lava Lake Mrs. Henson was alone all one summer with "no settlement 'in thirty miles. The only accident occurring under Henson's regime was during the big fire on Roaring river in 1919 when Roy Mitchell, a Sandy overseas hero was killed by a falling tree. " Henson will probably move to San dy this fall. Installation Held By Sandy Lodges SANDY. July 11 A joint installa tion of the I. O. O. Jr. and iceDeican lodges was held last night at the Odd Fellows hall. Herman Bruns, district deputy grand president, assisted by grand marshalls Willard Bosholm and Ella 3aumback installed the following officers of Sand Lodge L O. O. F. No. 195 and Sandy Rebekah Lodge No. 193: N. G., R. C. Frace and Susan Kelli 'herr V. G., Sylvester Ha-and -Anna Duke; warden, Geo. Maronay, Ruth Reed; conductor, W. Bosholm and Libbie Hall; I. N. G., R. S. Smith, Ed na Esson; O. N. G., John Maronay and Blanche Shelley; R. S. N. G., C. O. Duke and Sadie Bosholm; L. S. N. G., Joe Albel and Vera Smith; chaplain, R. E. Esson, Ella Baumback; R. S. V. G.. Elmer Radford, Mary Jaawin; u. S. V. G., Cal Wilson and Ethel Town send. After the installation (ceremonies were over a social time was enjoyed and cake and ice cream were served. Services Are Held At R. S. Smith Home SANDY, July 10 A home-like church service was held at the R. S. Smith residence Sunday evening. Mrs. Irene Hall Smith, wife of the late Rev. Ernest Smith gave heart-to-heart talk, touching on the associations of her self and husband while in charge of the pastorate here. H. H. Udell and H. H. Watkins responded with a few remarks. There was special music by the Sandy quartet, and Mrs. Smith, the special guest of the evening sang "O Love that will not let me go", in sweet voice. Rev. Cotton then gave a short sermon on the relation of par ents and children. A service of this kind may be announced again. There was also a plan mentioned to hold a basket dinner all day service later. Leg Is Broken In Accident at Sandy SANDY, July 10 Little Arthur Lun deen, the three and one half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lundeen of Ssandyridge had his leg broken yes terday between the knee and hip when the child ran under the wagon so quickly the accident was unavoid able. The child's aunt. Miss Lilly Jonsrud, hurried out from Portland with a physician and the leg was set, then Arthur was taken to the Eman uel hospital where Miss Jonsrud has been nursing for two years. It will be three months before the little fel low can wolk, but he will be home soon. Grange Picnic At Dodge Park Success SANDY, July 11 There was a short session of Sandy Grange No. 392 Sat urday morning then the farmers went home to their hay fields again. Re ports from the big picnic at Dodge park were made, and the financial re turns from the jitney dance at the pavilion and the refreshment stand were very gratifying. It was a "big day for at least 5,000 people were at the park July 4. Almost everybody was there from this section, and Portland furnished a great portion of the crowd. The grange will probably arrange for another big picnic at the park on Labor day. Trapper In Canada Writes Home Folks SANDY, July 10 Mrs. Mare Krebs received a. letter recently from her son Bernhardt Krebs who writes in terestingly of life at Finlay Forks, B. r. Krebs trapped during the winter and caught 18 marten, 25 white weas el, 3 lynx, 9 mink and 23 other ani mals. He "sold most of hi3 hides to a Hudson Bay fur trader. CHOICE MEATS b mgmgKmmmifmmmmiiSH n m i'. nimmpiiii.Mii- 'WJt mi imm ' ' bLpi flWHIilAl MRS. J. M. C. MILLER Correspondent It has been unusually dry up there and rain was needed badly. The heavy swarms of mosquitos were a little late in coming, probably due to the dry weather, but whether indoors or' out it was necessary to sleep In mosquito "tents. Krebs told of two women, one from Boston and one from New Yorfc and neither of them had seen a white wo men since last fall, and only a few men beside their husbands. Krebs did not say-anything about when he will come home to Sandy. He is 70 miles from a post office and can write home only about twice a year. Boy Is Injured By Wood Saw Fly Wheel SANDY, July 9. Vernon, six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Dahrens, is recovering from a severe accident caused while a Portland man was dem onstrating a wood saw here last week. The fly wheel flew off and the boy was struck. The bridge of his nose was broken, a gash cut in his cheek, and there was also a cut above one eye. Several stitches had to be taken, but the plucky little fellow did not cry. The same "afternoon Mrs. Dahrens discovered the other boys just in time to save them from falling in the old well in the lot adjoining. VISITOR DEPARTS SANDY, July 14 Mrs. McKinney i (Annie Nelson) left for her home in 1 San Francisco last week after a short stay with her mother, Mrs. Hannan Nelson at Kelso. Mrs. McKinney was in excellent health and she and her husband have been doing well. They each had a visit east a short time ago. Old time friends were sorry Mrs. McKinney could not remain longer. FOREST EXAMINER BUSY SANDY, July 12 A. G. Jackson, for est examiner, has been at Zig Zag the past week getting things lined up for Raymond E. Smith, the new ranger. He was also giving instruc tion to a class 'of patrolmen in fire protection. Jackson will be at the Summit ranger station this season. JOHN SLADKE INJURED SANDY, July 10 John Sladke, who had his skull fractured last week from a fall into a chute at the Sandy Lum ber Company mill is getting along as well as could be expected at the Good Samaritan hospital. The accident hap pened on July 4. Sladke has been nightwatchman at the mill for several years. START MOTOR TRIP SANDY, July 14 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed and little Frances left last week on a two months' motoring trip to Yellowstone park and Eastern Oregon. They will spend a portion of their time with Mr. and Mrs. August Hoernicke at Baker. SANDY WINS ANOTHER SANDY, July 10 Sandy boys are "coming up" on their scores. After "skunking" the Irvington Park team last week they won 12 to 7 over Trout dale this week. Frank Schmitz and Shipley made two home runs. There was a big crowd at the Sandy dia mond. RANGERS FIGHT FIRE SANDY, July 12 A potato demon stration was held at the Burdick home last Saturday. County Agent Holt took the crowd through the field and pointed out the diseased vines, then gave a talk explaining methods to overcome the trouble, which was very instructive. ZIG ZAG OPERATORS LEAVE SANDY, July 10 Miss Helen Hoss and Miss Inglis of Gresham went to Eig Zag last week where they will handle the switch board for the ranger station this summer. Prof, and Mrs. IQuickstall also of Gresham are at Zig Zag for the sea son. HOTEL CHANGES HANDS SANDY, July 10 The Sandy hotel changed management recently, J. R. Bates of Portland having purchased the furniture and equipment from Beers and Scales. CRUSHER WORK RESUMED SANDY, July 12 The Austrians em ployed at the rock crusher won their suit last week and started up work again. It is hoped there will be no more delays in connection with the rock work on the highway here. SANDY LOCALS Jim Allison is weilding the paint brush and is "painting up" the Hen nessey house with a brand new coat of light yellow. Clarke Young and family are going to move to Bandon this month where Young will be employed, in the lum ber business. The Youngs are now living on the Rich place at Boring. The first aeroplane of the season passed over Sandy last week. Last week just as the strawberry season ended here Walter Creighton sent down from Zig Zag for boxes to handle his crop, which will all he sold locally. John Meyer and R. Kaiser bought the hay crop on the old Bosholm farm last week. Geo Beers acted as agent for O'Neil, the owner. Mrs. R. E. Esson had a nice visit FAIR, PRICES - As c good Judge of Meats, you'll en) j buying here where there are 6o many luscious Steaks, Chops and x'.oasts. Quality Meats Only. Gresham Meat Market A. J. W. Brown with her mother in Portland for a couple of days recently. Miss Calista de la Fontaine was a week-end visitor in Sandy, and was a house guest of Mrs. J. C. Duke. Calis ta returned from Berkeley recently. Herman Krebs and his mother went to Portland to .see their guests off for Camp Lewis, and also visited oth r relatives. On Monday they drove to Sherwood where Mrs. Krebs will remain with a daughter for a week. Mrs. Julius C. Sture spent the first of the week with her sister, Mrs. Ol son of Powell Valley. Chas. F- BarDer was out last week for a day. The Garden Club of Amer ica in session at Cleveland while in specting a garden where delphiniums (larkspur) were blooming "resolved" the collection "very fine" and those very plants were started at the Bar ber garden at Sandy. The Arrawanna hotel will not be re built this season, but Mr. Bowman is making plan to build again next sum mer. Mrs. Thiess and Annaliesa were out for a few days visit with Mrs. Wuin sche last week. Mrs. Thiess expects to come out in August for a week's stay at the home of her son, Frank Thiess. Peter Hefty went through town re cently on his way to Rhododendron where he owns a five acre tract. Hef ty is a gardner for the city now. He formerly came to Firwood every sum mer and gathered moss for florists. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Dahrens and chil drens, Mrs. Carl Wendland and Otto S Matz all went to Canby last week to celebrate for three days. A delightful time is reported. Miss Elsie Lippold and her mother and children drove over from Salem to celebrate the Fourth at a picnic on Cedar creek. The Lippolds were joined with Miss Margaret and Miss Eslie Miller and their aunt. Miss George. Mrs. Marie Farnam was out from Portland recently to visit her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Malar. Miss Josephine Dixon was in town recently with her father, J. W. Dixon. Tony Pailo was here the Fourth, and also spent a portion of the day with his friends, the Boitano-Pizzola families. Word was received by the Herman Miller family that a baby daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Langer on July 1. Carl Langer was for years a resident of Sandyridge and his friends are congratulating him over his new title of "papa." Mr. and Mrs. W. R- Locke of Port land were guests of the Herman Mill er family on the Fourth. Mrs. A. F. Curtis and small son went to Rhododendron Inn last week to remain for the summer. Mrs. Cur tis is a friend of the Mllers of Sandy, and has been entertained here. A daughter of the late, Jack Gib bons was in Sandy on the Fourth and called at Junkers. She noted many changes here. Discussing many and varied ques tions of the day proved an interesting diversion during the noon day hour at the Miller home recently. Guests were: Mrs. F. D. Eason, C. O. Duke and Dr. Julus C. Sture. A simple luncheon was served. ' Mrs. Cyril Gray is proving a very agreeable and capable "hello girl" at the switchboard. Mr. and Mrs. James Wolfe are here from The Dalles for a visit at the Gray household for a few weeks. Mrs. Wolfe will always be remembered as a popular "central." Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christianson took a drive over to The Dalles recent ly to see the home folks. C. O- Duke joined a Portland party of three automobiles and went to Gov ernment Camp to celebrate. The-little son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Frace who was struck by a horn when the family cow was brushing the flies away is nearly recovered. The wound was just below the eye. The Scales family were -dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Gray one evening before Mrs. Grays house guests returned to Wash ington. Kenneth and Tommy Scales were happy lads again last week when they went to Portland to see the Beavers and San Francisco play. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Dahrens were at Sherwood to spend the Fourth and were still there visiting when the Cameron-Hogue mill burned. Dah rens rushed over to Aimes as soon as he heard of the fire. R S. Smith went up the mountains for two days last week to enjoy soli tude and rest. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Dittert and Heinie climbed up the mountain as far as Crater Rock last week, and de cided not to try the climb the rest of the way as it was very hard climb ing. They got sufficient "thrills" that far. John Dunn is doing a lot of improv ing on his place this season. He now has the frame up for a big barn. Miss Bess Barton has been promot ed to the head of the domestic science department of the Puyallup schools so will teach in her home town again next year. Miss Barton was at Dodge park on the Fourth. Mrs. Miller was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Deaver of Portland last Saturday and Sunday. F. L. Proctor, Dr. Sture, C. O. Duke and R- E Esson went over to the "ole swimmn hole' at Bull Run the other night and it turned so cool Esson nearly froze before getting home, and thought his last hour was nigh! FOR SALE Six fresh cows, four coming fresh W. P. Roberts. Phone 185. Write, Eagle Creek, Route 2. Adv. v J. S- Wilcoxon, who has been spend ing the past seven months in The Pen dleton country came back to Sandy to visit his sister, Mrs. W. Bosholm and family, and also to celebrate the Fourth in the old haunts. Wilcoxon is is so improved in health that his old neighbors hardly knew him. Dr. Julius Sture, his brother, Hild ing Sture and August Johnson climb ed Mt. Hood recently. Theyleft Gov ernment Camp at 4 oclock A. m. and reached the top at 12:30 P. M. Dr. says somehow the "universe seems different from such a lofty height." Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hagan and Mrs. Alma Maronay had as guests at their picnic luncheon on the Fourth, Hilda Bttner and children and Mrs. ' J. M. C. Miller Mrs Effie Fox and Lee Fox were guests of the John Maronay family recently. SANDY. July 13-C. Chapelie Brown, architect for the new high school building was out recently and was pleased with the work done. The basement is going to present a splen did appearance. Mr. and Mrs. Billy TJpdegrave are receiving congratulations over the ar rival of a new- baby daughter which the "stork" left for a Fourth of July present. The little one weighed .84 pounds and is named Dorothy Eunice. Mrs. Johnson took ill while cook ing at the Sandy hotel and had "to re turn to her home in the mountains. Mrs. Susan Kelliher supplied as cook for a time. . Mrs. Lehnfield entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Snedden and daughter, Martha, the Dodson family, Sam Cox and John King recently with a fine dinner "and plenty of it". Piano and accordian music " furnished pleasure for the guests. The Kesterson children's grand father passed away last week and was buried at Portland, but the children could not go down to the funerah Bob Akin ""was around our town again one day last week from the Mar mot way. Rev. Father Boniventura has been the guest of the Scharnke family for a week. Max Kligel took the Father to -Mt. Angel and back the first of the week. Mrs. R. S. Smith and Mrs. John Maronay drove up to Strong's one day during the week. Mrs. Smith drives her Ford very capably now. The W. G. Duncan family went to their' place at Boring to camp out and pick wild blackberries this week. Mrs. Hilda Bittner has returned from her Hawaiian trip and tells many interesting things about the life on the islands. Americans are very pop ular there, and "Uncle Sam" is rev erenced as a good "father", the people realizing that this country stepped in at the right time for their protecion. The native population has died off. however, till there is only ten per cent left, the remaining 90 per cent being mostly Japs and Chinese. Mrs. Bittner had a delightful trip. Bernice Duncan spent a portion of last week with Mrs. Edna Goheen, on the old Maronay place. Mrs. Andrew Oaks had quite a se vere spell of illness last week accord ing to report. Mrs. Dodd is spending the summer at the Oaks place taking care of Mrs. Oaks. Geo. Scharnke was at Hood River a few- days recently, and reports things booming over there. 250 men are employed on the new electric plant being constructed there. Paul Sullivan and mother were out several times recently to visit at the Thomas clirk. home, and were here again Sunday. v Dr. Helen Crysler, Mr. "Crysler and the family came out Wednesday to spend the summer at their country place. TheF. E. Burdick family are busy papering, painting and haying. Their hay turned out well, both clover and timothy crops were good. Mrs. Irene Hall Smith and chil dren, and her mother, Mrs. Hall of Nebraska have been house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lennartz of Pleasant Home for some time. Mrs. J. C. Duke invited Mrs. J. M. C. Miller as her guest at the joint public installation ceremonies of the Rebekah and I. O. O. F. lodges Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Will Bell were enter tained at the home of Mrs. Viola Doug lass at Estacada last Sunday.. C. Scharnke is painting the Robert Jonsrud house, and his next job will be the A. W. Bell house. Dr. and Mrs. Thompson were in Portland Monday on a hurried busi ness trip. "Ruddy" got a small sliver of steel In his eye while working at the crusher recently. Mrs. J. G. DeShazer and Mrs. Lee have been looking after the needs of Mrs. Will. TJpdegrave and the new baby. Mr.-and Mrs. Ed LIttlepage recent ly entertained Mr. and Mrs. Will Bell, the Fred Suckows, Henry Hermans, Lou Gherke and Miss Josie Fischer. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Udell and fam ily were down from Dover Sunday night to attend church services which were held at the R. S. Smith home. The Udells are planning an all day basket dinner ' service at Dover this month. The, next regular meeting of the farm bureau will be the third Friday night (July 21). There will probably be speakers out from Portland. The Bruns Lumber Co. are espec ially busy sawing lumber. Bruns has orders two months ahead. COTTRELL NEWS SANDY, July 9 There will be an ice cream social at the Cottrell com munity church Friday night, July 21, to raise money to help out the paint ing fund 1 for the church. All mem bers of the church and Sunday school are endeavoring to earn a dollar to ward the fund, and the program will consist of each one telling in verse or some amusing "stunt" how the money was "earned. Children will earn a smaller amount. "Everybody invited to the social. Mrs. Green who lives near the Cot trell store has received word that her mother, Mrs. Stout, has passed away at her home in Tennessee. Mrs. Stout visited here for several months and was well known in the neighborhood. Fred Wagner has been up with the lark the past week helping the Van Fleets haul in hay. Fred Radford has been over helping Hans Koch with his haying the past Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Van Fleet drove to Gladstone one day last week to en joy the Chautauqua program. - Mrs. Joe Caldo is entertaining her mother, Mrs. Fields of Chicago for the summer. Mrs. Fields enjoys the weather here much better than the Chicago summers. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Watkins attend- j Miiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiim EE ymmiiimmiiiiiiimmm iiiiiiimiiiiiiini iiiumiiiiim lining 1 1 THE WIDE-AWAKE FARMER I EE is no more content with slipshod method's ( E EE EE j in handling his personal, household and 5 EE E farm finances than with unscientific, hap" EE EE hazard methods in the management of the EE EE E . farm itself. v EE EE The maintenance of a Checking Account E EE' E provides for a simple, accurate system of EE E bookkeeping which has many times EE EE E proved its worth. EE Hj It is a modern necessity and convenience EE EE that no alert, progressive farmer can af- E EE EE ford to overlook. E 1 1 FIRST STATE BANK I j H , GRESHAM, OREGON 1 EE iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllliiiiiililllllliiiiiiiiiiillllliniif EE !ll!!IIIIIIill!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!ll!llIilI!Illll!ilIllilllIlil!li:iII!!IH enjoyed meeting Mrs. Ernest Smith again. Mr., an Mrs. Bay Wilkinson are en joying a visit from Mrs. Wilkinson's sister and brother, Mr. and Mrs. Park inson of Des Moines, Iowa, who drove west in a roadster and made the trip from Des Moines to Cottrell in just 10 days. They drove 240 "miles in one day. There was no car -trouble to speak of. Joe Caldo and cousin. Miss Wilson, Lonnie Radford. Fred Radford, Mr. an Mrs. H. if Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilkinson, all drove to Gladstone to see "Cappy Ricks", which play they pronounced as "very fine." TRUCK ATTACHED -SANDY, July 11 Sheriff Wilson came out this afternoon and attached a truck belonging to the Palmer Con struction company. The truck Is held at Shaw's blacksmith shop. BORING NEWS " The Boring I. O. O. F. and Rebekah lodges met Friday night and held joint installation of officers after which a social hour and banquet were enjoy ed. Kenneth Child and Earl Moore, who have been in Eastern Oregon for the past four months, came down to cele brate the Fourth of July and visit the home folks, returning to Rock CreeS July 8. Sadie Bartelmay, also from Rock Creek is visiting friends in Boring. Miss Buna Child has gone to Cas cade Locks where she is employed in a telephone office. Misses Mable Breathwaite of Port land is visiting with Mrs. L. C. Fish er. Miss Breathwaite is studying to be a foreign missionary. Clarke Fisher and family motored down from Wendling, Or., to spend the Fourth with L. C. Fisher and fam ily. Frank Smith, a sailor. . who has spent the past year on the U. S. S. California is home on a 20 day fur lough. Royce Child who has been on the U. S. S. New Mexico the past 3 years is expected home this week. Clarence Dayton came down from Pendleton for a short visit over the Fourth. The ball game between Boring and Portland was another victory for the Boring team, the score being 11 to 5. THREE ARE SAVED FROM TILUMOOKFOREST nRE PORTLAND, July 7. From the heart of a blazing forest in Eastern Tillamook county, a fire patrol ranger, his wife and son, were rescued by a Southern Pacific fire train Thursday night, after a thrilling battle with the walls of flames which encompass ed the little family. A report of the rescue was received today by E. H. King, superintendent of the Southern Pacific company, from the fire train force which brought the name of the ranger, although it is be lieved that H. C. Hoover, patrol near Belding, may have been the one res cued. Since C. C. Scott, secretary of the Forest Fire Patrol association, had not received advice from the fire dis trict today, he was unable to give the patrol's family to safety at Timber. Boy Walks Nearly Mile After Wheel Passes Over Body PROSSER, Wash., July 10 The breaking of a line caused Wilbur Du mars, 13-year old son of I Dumas of Horse Heaven, to fall from the seat of a loaded water wagon beneath a rear" wheel, which passed over his ab domen. Although In terrible pain the boy walked to his home nearly a mile away. A physician was summoned and the lad was brought to town, la ter being taken to Yakima, where he died at St. Elizabeth's hospital. Hall's Catarrh Medicine Those who are In a "run down" condi tion will notice that Catarrh bothers them much more than when they are in good health. This fact proves that while Ca tarrh Is a local disease. It is great! y In fluenced by constitutional conditions. HALL'S 'CATARRH MEDICINE is a Tonic and acts through the blood upon the mucous surfaces of the body, thus reducing- the Inflammation and assisting Nature in restoring normal conditions. All Druggists. Circulars free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. i- BEAVERTON HAS BLAZE; DAMAGE ABOUT $4000 BEAVERTON, Ore., July 7 The general supply and auto accessory de pot of the Oregon rural mail car rier's association took fire at 2 a. m. and the "building and contents, con sisting of general merchandise, tires, tubes and hardware, were totally de stroyed. The loss to the building and contents was $1700, covered by $1000 insurance. The building was owned by the carriers. The adjoining building, owned by the Bank of Beaverton and occupied by E. E. Swenson as a real estate of fice, suffered a nominal loss, partly covered by insurance. Swenson, who is school clerk, entered the building during the fire and saved the school records and books. The Hillsboro fire fighters re sponded to a hurry call for aid, but the fire was well under control be fore they arrived. The totalestimated loss is set at about $4000. 2 DEAD, MANY MISSING MERVTLLE, Vancouver Island, B. C.,' July 7 Two are. known to be dead, many are missing and ten houses are in ruins from a fire which last night, swept from the brush through the soldier settlement here. Scores fled when a shift in the wind turned the raging bush fires toward the settlement and no complete check up is available. Lack of modern apparatus has made difficult the work of fighting flames, in which soldier settlers have joined with residents of Courtenay, nine miles away. Jack Clifford, 16, and Ernst Lay land, 42, died from bums suffered during the destruction of their homes. 2 MEMBERS OF DEFUNCT BANK SOUGHT BY POLICE SEATTLE. July 11 Secretly indict i h hv the anecial county grand jury j which returned its final report late i Monday afternoon. J. ju. unuoerg, former president of the defunct bean a in avia.i1 American hank of Seattle and J. F. Lane, cashier under Chil berg, were sought by the sheriff to day on warrants charging grand lar fnv. Eight other indictments were re turned against public officials ana business men. Claude C. Ramsay Thomas Dobson and Lou Smith, com nriaint. Hi hoard nf COUMV COmmiSS- I' o ' ioners, were indicted on four counts ear for alleeed grand larceny in con nection with the operation of the county, ferries and their lease to Cap tain John L. Anderson. Cigarette Fire In The Dalles Causes Damage of .$75,000 TTTF DALLES. Ore.. July 11. A fire started by a lighted cigarette last night destroyed the Washington noiei, the Model laundry and several Chi nese stores and shops here with an estimated loss of over $75,000. The fire started soon after 7:30 and swept by a high wind it was soon beyond control of firemen. . - BOY HIT BY AUTOMOBILE , ON COLUMBIA HIGHWAY GRESHAM, Ore., July 10. Kenneth Keller, aged 12, from Estacada, was struck by a machine driven by J. B. Duncan of Vancouver, Wash., while walking on the Columbia highway near Shepherds Dell. Sunday after noon. The lad was brought to Gresh am, where a broken leg was set by Dr. Hughes. The accident was said to have been unavoidable, owing to tho crowded condition of the highway. OLDEST MAN IN WORLD DIES;, IS 1 33 YEARS OLD GREASY CHEEK, Ky July 10 "Uncle" Johnny Shell, said to be the oldest man in the world, is dead. Records he had preserved purported to show he' was 133 years old, hav ing been born in Tennessee in 1788. For 100 years he .had lived on the same farm in Leslie county. He was "too old to fight" in the Mexican war. At his funeral will be two sons, one 83 years older than the other. They are William, 90, and Albert 7. The latter is the son of Shell's second wife, who was 45 when she Wa"s mar ried. By his first wife, who died 12 years ago at the age of 122, Shell had four sons and a daughter. His chil dren survive him. Up to the last he maintained complete possession of his faculties. Physicians said they believed Shell was correct in the estimate of his age. - MAN IS SERIOUSLY HURT BY RECKLESS MOTORIST HAYWARD, Cal., July 10. Police saved Frank Titsos from possible lynching after his automobile had struck and seriously injured Charles Welch as he alighted from a street car Sunday. Titsos sped on after the accident, pursued by other motorists, and wrecked his car on a curve. Threats of hanging had been made by the irate crowd when officers with drawn revolvers spirited Titsos away. BOATS WORTH $50,000 GO UP IN BIG BLAZE LEWISTON, Idaho, Jply 12. The river steamers Spokane and Lew is ton, owned by the Oregon-Washington Rail Road and Navigation company and valued at more than $50,000 each, burned to the water's edge at their docks in the Snake river here "at 4 a. m. Wednesday. A night watchman could give no ex planation for the fires. The boats, which had been operated for more than twenty years, were en gaged in freight and passenger haul ing during the mining excitement in the Pierce City and Thunder Mountain districts. More recently they had been hauling wheat, making connec tions with the railroad at Riparia, and had been laid up for some weeks, ow ing to low water. SLAYER OF FARMER IS EXONERATED BY JURY BEND, Ore., July 6 Exonerated by a coroner's jury, Ed Halvorsen, con fessed slayer of -William W. Garrett, walked from the Deschutes county jail a free man Monday. The jury found that he had shot and killed Garrett Saturday night in self de fense. Dr. R. I. Garrett of Canby, Jrother of the victim of the shooting affray, which took place on Halvorsen's ranch near Bend, left Tuesday night with the body for Canby, where the funeral will be held. Halvorsen, the only eye witness, told a matter of fact story of the killing. Garrett had suspected him of killing chickens, and had come to his house Saturday night and opened fire from just outside the door. After Garrett had fired two shots, a bullet from Halvorsen's revolver had found lodgment in Garrett's heart, the wit ness said. . Germany Fails To Pay Belgium Debt BRUSSELS, July 12. Negotiations which have been in progress here be tween representatives of the Belgian and German governments for redemp tion of 6,000,000,000 marks which Ger many circulated in Belgium during the war were broken off Wednesday because the German proposals were inadequate, according to the Belgian view, to mee tthe rfquiremenls. The Belgian government has decid ed to proceed immediately with liquid ation of sequestered German property in order to raise a fund for redemption of the marks in question. DRIVERIOTEDTO DEATH IN CAR ACCIDENT KLAMATH FALLS, July 7 With portions of his body literally cooked by scalding water from the radiator nf nla trunk, which, turned over on a hill near this city late yesterday, D. L. Hamilton, truck driver for the Tfinso Lumber company, died in a hospital here this morning. Hamilton- told the mon who found him IS lYifnntM after the accident occurred" that his engine had stopped, and as the brakes refused to hold he had at tempted to back the heavy truck In to an embankment. The embankment was low and the truck went over it into a ditch, turning over. Powerless to extricate himself, boiling water from the radiator poured over Hamil ton "until help came. FOR SALE 175 new and 200 second hand grain sacks, and one telephone. Phone 16F22, Clackamas, Or. A. Daue. PORTABLE SAW MILL men will find an opportunity in a tract of timber 4 - miles tip the Willamette River from Wilsonville. Write to or see the undersigned owner. Joe J. Thornton, Wilsonville, Ore.