TITE MORNING OREGON IAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1920
15
OREGON TRIPLETS
TO FEATURE SHOW
Several Entries In for Eugene
Celebration.
EIGHT YEARS AGE LIMIT
pany and proprietary companies for
1919, as disclosed in the annual re
port published today, amounted to
239,657,272, an increase of $18,046.
066, or 8.14 per cent, over the pre
ceding year. . .
An increase of $24,205,111, or 14. SS
per cent, in operating expenses, how
ever, caused a decrease of $6,169,045.
or 10.46 per cent, in net revenues from
railroad returns. In effect, after pay
ing 1919 operating expenses there re
mained out of each dollar of revenue
only 22 cents, compared with 38 cents
remaining in the last year previous to
federal control.
Chairman Kruttschnitt declared the
federal railroad administration failed
to maintain the company's property
at its previous high standard and
that a special investigation of "under-
maintenance during federal control
is now beine made.
NORTH DAKOTA HELD
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UNDER BOSS
HUB
Weight, Color or Sex Xo Bar
Firt Prize Twins Will Be
Haled Sllgrhtly Lower.
EUGENE. Or., June 24. (Special.)
Triplets anywhere in the state of
Oregon may compete in the "triplet
sweepstakes" in the big baby show
at Eugene's celebration July 5, ac
cording to announcement of A. H.
McDonald, chairman of the commit
tee on celebration. This is to be a' big
feature of the day and already there
are several entries, says Mr. McDon
ald. The committee announces that
weight and color are no bar in the
contest for the $25 first prize. Age is
the only limit for the three-boy, or
girl or mixed, team must be under
eipht years.
Twins will be rated only slightly
lower than triplets in the prize money
for the best pair in the parade and
festival will get an even- $20.
This infant carnival is the product
of the celebration committees' efforts
to srive persons of every age a part
in the day and a place in the gubna
tinn. The committee announces that in
the baby show large prizes will
be offered for the best decorated
perambulator in the parade for boys
and girls under eight years of age.
costumed, and for the best-looking
lads and lassies not over that age.
Another feature of the parade will
be mounted cowboys and the commit
tee has offered liberal prizes for the
most picturesque. A hose-laying con
test between firemen of different
cities will be staged, a tractor race
will be another feature and wrestling
and boxing promise to be drawing
cards for the boxing programme,
"rink" Manerude of Eugene and Neil
Zimmerman of Portland will be the
participants in the main event of ten
rounds. They are featherweights. A
heavyweight match and two light
weight matches will also be on the
card. George Fidler, 180 pounds, of
Euscnr, and Edwin Fry. 175 pounds
of Harrisburg. will tangle in the main
event of the wrestling bout.
Townley Succeeds McKenzie
as State's Dictator."
SITUATION
NOT NEW
SOVIET HOLDS IRKUTSK
250 RUBLES PAID FOR POCXD
OF BLACK BREAD.
M
MILLWRIGHT IS KILLED
Body Discovered Badly Mangled on
Floor Near Belt.
ABERDEEN.. Wash., June 24. (Spe
cial.) Henry M. Kirkchess, 35, mill
wright employed by the Grays Har
bor Commercial company. Cosmopolis.
was Instantly killed at'7:45 last night
when a belt he was repairing slipped
ofr the pulley.
There were no witnesses to the ac
cident, but it is presumed he became
entangled in the. belt, as his body was
badly mangled. Another employe sent
to help him discovered the body near
the machine. The big pulley on which
the belt runs was located near the
floor.
A sister lives at East Sound, Or.,
and his mother at Bellingham, Wash.
Bolshevik Side' of Selenga River
Intrenched and Ready for
Japanese Invasion. -
IRKUTSK, Central Siberia, June 24.
(By the Associated Press.) Soviet
rule has been thoroughly established
in Irkutsk. All institutions have been
nationalized, most of tne stores have
been closed and a permit is neces
sary even to purchase a newspaper."
Food conditions are most serious
and the population eats black bread.
Chinese merchants charge 250 rubles
a pound for this bread.
Few . foreigners remain in Irkutsk.
It is estimated that 10,000 Chinese
left Irkutsk during May to walk to
the Chinese frontier.
The Associated - Press correspond
ent, in reaching Irkutsk, made a 2000
mile detour, which took six weeks,
from Vladivostok through China and
Mongolia and across the 700-mile
stretch of the Gobi desert. He was
the first American to enter soviet
boundaries from the east since the
collapse of the Kolchak regime.
Crossing the Mongolian frontier, he
entered the new buffer state of the
Far East republic- and found it nec
essary to wait at Verkhnie-Udinsk
for bolshevik permission to' enter so
viet territory. He was assured that
an American press representative
would be welcome.
The trip led over the old caravan
route, in order that the correspondent
might avoid what is known here as
the "black spot of Siberia," a district
near Chita, where remaining reac
tionaries under Semenoff, supported
by Japanese military forces, continue
to block the Russian mail route.
The far eastern situation is of par
amount interest to the soviet au
thorities. The bolshevik side of the
Selenga river has been newly in
trenched and the soviet army is ready
in case Japanese invade its territory.
There is direct rail and wire com
munication from here to Moscow and
it is claimed trains make the trip in
14 days. All persons except high gov
ernment officials must travel in
freight cars.
Newspapers here print the daily of
ficial statements relative to opera
tions on the Polish front and state
ments by Nicolai Lenine, Russian bol
shevik premier, on the foreign affairs
of the country.
NEW BOARD ELECTS CLERK
Professor O. It. Jones Succeeds to
School Duties or J. K. Moore.
EUGENE, Or.. June 24. (Special.)
The new board of education, after
organizing at a meeting last night,
announced the appointment of Profes
sor O. H. Jones as clerk of the Eugene
district to succeed J. K. Moore, who
has served in that capacity for the
past several years.
Professor Jones has been -principal
of the junior high school for the past
three years and previous to that was
principal of the Condon grade school.
He was one of the many teachers who
were not re-employed by the old
board for next year.
S. M. Calkins, a member of the old
board, tendered his resignation last
night, to take effect immediately.
EAGLES NfiME ABERDEEN
WASHINGTON" LODGE AWARDS
XEXT COXVEXTIOX.
W.
T. Linahan Chosen President.
Session Is Closed Rain
Halts Street Dance.
BERGER CASE PUZZLING
Supreme Court Asked to Help in
Reaching Decision.
CHICAGO. June it -The circuit Q-RYS ACT IN ARGENTINA
couri oi appeals loaay asuea Lne
VANCOUVER. Wash., June 24.
(Special.) Aberdeen was selected to
day for the 1921 state convention of
Eagles. There was little opposition
to the choice, although Seattle was
mentioned.
W. T. Linahan. state vice-president
of the organization, was chosen state
president to succeed Charles Gaila
gher of Black Diamond. H. C, Byrum
of Tacoma succeeds Mr. Gallagher.
Mr. Gallagher, ex-chaplain, will be
succeeded by Crawford White of Se
attle. Frank Dowd, secretary, and S
A. Hoag, treasurer, were re-elected
E. C. Collier, inside guard, was chosen
conductor and V. 1. Howe inside
guard.
The convention closed tonight and
the Washington Eagles tomorrow
will go to Portland for a joint ses
sion with the Oregon Eagles.
btreet dancing and a competitive
drill tonight were halted by rain.
Population Made Vp of Foreigners
Always Held Under Power
of Political Leader.
BY GEORGE K. AIKEN.
GRAND FORKS. N. D., June 24.
(Special.) Norm Dakota has always
been a political orphan. Not in all its
history has the commonwealth- been
without a political, dictator. A reali
zation of that fact is one of the first
essentials in an attempt to understand
the growth of the non-partisan league.
This very fact accounts for the
weird manner in which the ranchers,
who otherwise would be condemning
the rule of A. C. Townley, accept It.
There ia a growing number among
Townley's followers who are willing
to admit that the party is wrong in
some of its methods.
You see North Dakota was for years
the political pawn of Alex McKenzie,
the notorious receiver of the Nome
district, who was convicted and served
a short sentence for his part in the
claim jumping scandals in that famous
region. He is the McNamara of Rex
Beach's "The Spoilers" in- real life.
Tammany hall in its zenith of power
never developed a boss more powerful
than Alex McKenzie.
Control Finally Broken.
Of course his connection with the
Nome scandal and his subsequent con
viction led to a break in his con
trol, especially since it came just as
Theodore Roosevelt was rising to a
position of power in national affairs,
for the' Roosevelt wing of the repub
lican party in North Dakota did not
kotow to McKenzie and that led to an
open break headed by the so-called
progressives.
But . the Progressives, while they
broke the open hold of McKenzie did
not win the offices for themselves,
but furnished the means for the elec-
ion of John Burke, the democrat.
The many and varied scandals con
nected with the McKenzie regirtie pre
pared the people of North Dakota for
anything. There is nothing that is
being said now of Townley, so far as
his abuse of power is concerned, that
hey had not heard repeatedly of Mc
Kenzie, and so the followers of
Townley merely pass up all criticism.
They have heard it before.
Four Crops Are Failures.
On top of this long familiarity with
political domination, the ranchers of
North Dakota, especially in the west
ern part, where the league is strong
est.' have had four successive crop
failures. They have been preached
t for years by socialists, populists
and independent reformers and always
tola tne same tale, that they were
being robbed by the Grain Exchange
n Minneapolis and the Board of Trade
in Duluth, to which points practical
ly all of North Dakota's vast wheat
crop moves each fall.
Now American farmers, men raised
in this country and familiar with
its institutions and its business, would
not have taken all this so seriously,
or would have found means of cor
recting it long ago. if it had been all
true, but North Dakota is not popu
lated by Americans of long standing,
it is essentially a foreign state. -
one business man declared to me
that 80 per cent of North Dakota's
population is eitner or the first or
second generation of Scandinavians.
or Russians, with a liberal sprinkling
or tocoicn wno came via Canada, a few
Irish and several thousand Poles, all
of whom have been more or less
imbued with socialistic doctrines in
Europe. Thus an ideal field was found
for the propaganda of distrust and
hate spread by Townley and his so
cialist cohorts.
United States supreme court to help
decide the case of Victor Berger and
four other socialists who are appeal
ing from 20-year sentences imposed
for violation of the espionage act
during the war.
The appellate court asks the su
preme court to decide whether Judge
Landis, trial judge, ruled correctly
in dismissing affidavits of prejudice.
filed by the socialists prior to their
trial.
Four of Chamber of Deputies to
Introduce Prohibition Bill.
BUENOS AIRES, June 24. Fou
CLATSKflNIE FETE READY
TENTH AXXCAL ROSE SHOW TO
OPEX TOMORROW SOOX.
Strange rarallel Cited.
During the days when he was at
the height of his power Alex Mc
Kenzie ruled St. Paul from a room
in the Merchants hotel in St. Paul, for
St. Paul was the headquarters of the
two principal railroad lines that op
erated in the state and also it could
be more easily reached by people of
southern and southwestern North
Dakota than could the state capital.
Strange to say, A. C. Townley has
taken that leaf from the McKenzie
programme and is running the state
from an office in the Endicott build
ing, just a block from the Merchants'
hotel, where Alex McKenzie still can
be found.
The connection between these men
one a boss of the old school whose
headquarters was under his hat, the
otner witn nis elaborate offices, hi
army of paid organizers, his airplanes
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Miss Helen Burke to Be Crowned
Queen Immediately After Big
Chicken Dinner.
CLATSKAXIE, Or., June 24. (Spe
cial.) Final arrangements for Clats-
kanie's tenth annual rose show have
been completed and the event is ex
pected to be the best ever.
The festival will open at noon on
aturday with a chicken dinner' in
the chapel of the Presbyterian church.
At 1:30 P. M., immediately foltowing
the dinner. Miss Helen Burke will
be crowned as roee queen, and fol
lowing this the floral parade will be
held through the downtown streets.
Throughout the afternoon the roses
will be on display in Holman hall
and entries are expected from the
towns of Columbia county, and in ad
dition all other lower Columbia river
towns. In the evening an entertain
ment will be given in the theater.
after which all prizes will be awarded
by Queen Helen.
The Clatskanie and St. Helens base
ball teams will meet in a two-game
series, Saturday and Sunday, as the
main athletic feature of the rose
show. Both teams are playing in
mid-season form, and this is expected
to be a crucial series, as the winner
undoubtedly will be picked to meet
the Astoria Centennials for the cham
pionship of the lower Columbia.
for the Grays Harbor Commercial
company, was killed last night while
at his work in the mill. No one wit
nessed the death, but from the condi
tion of the badly mangled body he
was caugnt ana tnrown by some of
tne machinery. The last seen of hir
Mr. Kirchoff was working on a pul
ley at some distance from other
workmen. His body was found
crushed under the belt.
REGISTRATION DRIVE ON
American Legion Men Wage Cam
paign in CeiHralia.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. June 24.
(Special.) At a meeting held Tues
day night by a committee of the
(J rant Hodge post, American Legion,
plans were completed for a city cam
paign to urge voters to register. A
team of Legionaires has been as
signed to each precinct. The team
captains are Earl Abbott. Geo. Barner,
B. F. Oliver, A. F. Poundstone, John
McKay. Ho.ward Breen, M. F. Sam
pies, W. C. Schacht, Elden Roberts,
Floyd Doersch, C. P. Hicks and
Howard Barner.
The registration campaign being
waged this week is showing results,
according to Miss Mabel Lee, city
clerk.
NY drink which is incompletely fermented before
you take it is apt to complete its fermentation in
your stomach causing flatulence and biliousness.
Many beverages now on the market are only partially
fermented, having been rushed out in less than forty
eight hours. They are neither good, nor good for you.
They are likely to interfere with everything they meet in
your stomach.
Schlitz is thoroughly aged fully ripened. It will not
cause biliousness.
Schlitz is pure. It is aged in glass-lined tanks, cooled
in washed air, filtered through white wood pulp. Schlitz
is healthful. It comes to you under the familiar label
your father knew with the alcoholic content reduced to
the limit prescribed by the Federal Government
The Brown Bottle protects its purity and healthfulness
until it reaches your glass. m
cialistic workers, does not end,
many North Dakotans believe,
so
ith
members of the chamber of deputies ) and his imported professors and so
have announced their intention to in
troduce a bill to prohibit the importa
tion, manufacture "and sale of alco
holic liquors. If adopted the law
would become effective one year after
its enactment.
This will be the first legislative ef
fort in favor of prohibition in Argentina.
WOMAN TO BE INDUCTED
Palmer May Administer Oath to FOOD SURVEY IS ORDERED
Sirs. Annette Adams.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., June 24
Attorney-General Palmer will be
asked on his arrival here tomorrow
to attend the democratic national
convent'on to administer the oath of
office to Mrs. Annette Adams, the
first woman to be appointed assistant
attorney-general of the United States.
Her friends are anxious that the
ceremony of her induction into office
should be carried out here instead of
in Washington, eince Mr. Palmer is
to be here.
Every Effort to Be Made to Move
Necessities of lyife. .
WASHINGTON, June 24. Surveys
of foodstuffs and other necessities
held up in transit as a result of the
railroad strike, was ordered today by
Howard Figg, special assistant to the
attorney-general.
Every effort will be made, Mr. Figg
said, to move necessities of life if it
is found that any great quantities
are held up.
SPOUSE IDENTIFIES BODY
Woman Found in Reservoir Said to
Suffer Mental Aberration.
SEATTLE, June 24. The body of
the woman found in the Beacon Hill
reservoir last' evening was today
identified as Mrs. .Joseph Grass of
1308s Denny Way,' Seattle, who die-
appeared from her home a few days
ago.
The identification was made by her
husband and others who expressed
the belief that she suffered from
mental aberration. '
MENNONITES QUIT CANADA
123,000 Acres Bought by Sect in
State of Mississippi.
REGINA, Sask., June 24. Mennon-
ites will leave their lands in the Swift
Current district some time in July
and will go to Mississippi, where they
have purchased 125,000 acres, accord
ing to a statement today by J. E.
Friesen, administrator for the colony,
Their present holdings will be sold
for $5,000,000. They have paid $18 an
acre for land in Mississippi.
Colombia Sends Gold.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LOSES
Kct lie venue for 1019 Is Cut Down
$6,150,045, Company Reports.
NEW YORK, June 24. Operating:
revenues of the Southern Pacific com-J lead The Oregonian classified ada
NEW TORK, June 24. Sent by Co
lombian bankers to stabilise the ex
change between their country and the
United States, Jooo.uuo in united
States gold coin consigned to variou
American banking houses arrived here
today from Kingston, Jamaica, and
Central American ports.
the proximity of their offices.
"While we cannot prove it," said a
prominent citizen here today, "for
both are too foxy to make an oDen
show of the fact, enough Oias trans-'
pired to indicate that Townley and
McKenzie reached an agreement on
the division of control in this state.
We are just pawns, our politics are
run from St. Paul, either from the
Endicott by Townley or the Mer
chants by McKenzie.
Power Dlviafon Siiffpected.
"When Townley started in his pres-
nt organization he realized that he
could use McKenzie, who was at outs
with the progressive wing and ready
to seek any means to get revenge, eo
he agreed with McKenzie to keep his
hands offvof the national officer
united States senators, national com
mitteemen and federal appointments
providing McKenzie would give him
the right of way in state affairs. They
declare that there is indirect evidence
to justify this belief.
When one realizes the attitude of
opponents of each of these men and
the estimate they place on each it is
not hard to understand their convic
tion on this matter. It also indicates
the degree of control and its character
under which Jsorth Dakota is and has
been held
There is no element lacking then
for the growth of the non-partisan
league, which arrived on the scene in
North Dakota in 1916. with its glow
ing picture of a political Utopia; it
found a foreign people, on bleak
prairies suffering from four long, hard
years ot drought, who had been ruled
for years by an absolute political
boss of the old type, and preached at
in season and out by populistic
orators; had tried the Equity move
ment and other panaceas with indif
ferent success and were ready to fol-
loy any leader who offered hope for
better conditions.
The following installments will tell
of Townley and his start and with
whom' he associated himself.
SALMON CATCHES .GOOD
Tack at Artoria Reported to Be
Fully Up to Year Ago.
ASTORIA. Or., June 24. (Special.)
Good catches of salmon have been
made by the gillnetters during the
present week in practically every sec
tion of the lower harbor. Several of
the boats have averaged about 600
pounds a day each. About 11 seining
grounds are in operation, but accord
ing to reports their takes nave not
been large, the majority of them do
ing little more than paying expenses.
Only a few of the companies are
packing cold-storage fish, the great
bulk of the salmon going to the can
neries, and the result is that the
canned pack is fully up to that of a
year ago.
Man Killed in Mill. '
HOQUIAM, Wash., June 24. (Spe
cial.) Henry M. Kirchoff, millwright
ALASKA. IS GOING AHEAD
Territory Interested in Water Bill.
Says Governor.
SEATTLE, Wash.. June 24. "Alas
ka is much interested in the water
power bill signed recently by the
president, for it means much new de
velopment in various parts of the ter
ritory," said Governor Thomas Riggs
Jr., of Alaska, here today on his way
to the democratic national conven
tion in San Francisco.
"All lines of business in Alaska are
prosperous, he continued. One of
the new industries is a pulp mill just
installed at Port Snetishaw. There
is considerable activity in mining op
erations and just now a small gold
strike on the Kuskokwim river, which
parallels the Yukon on the south, is
claiming some attention."
tOO. 000. 000 fund being raised by the
Northern Baptist convention, it was
announced yesterday. The drive enJs
this week.
Injured Men Improving. '
ASTORIA. Or.. June 24. (Special.)
The six men who are at the local
hospital on account of injuries sus
tained in the explosion on the steam
er State of Washington are improv
ing slowly and all are considered out
of danger.
. Baptist Drive rrogresses.
CENTRALIA, Wash.. June 24
(Special.) Centralia Baptists have
raised $10,000 for their share of the
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Prominent Lumberman Dies.
EUREKA. Cal., June 24. Charles
Willis Ward, prominent as a lumber
man and bulb grower, died here today.
He was 4 years old.
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Cost $23000, Including: AU Privileges .
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Boy Shoots Scir In L.eg.
HOQUIAM, Wash., June 24. (Spe
cial.) Albert Van Brabant, young
son of Hector Van Brabant, was shot
the lee yesterday when his rifle
was accidentally discharged. Brabant
and some other boys were on a hunt
when the pun fell, exploding the bul
let. The lad was rushed to the Ho
quiam general hospital for an opera
tion. -
I. W. W. Meeting Protested.
CEXTKALTA, Wash.. June 24.
The Albert J. Hamilton post. Amer
ican Lesrion. in Bellinirham. has
adopted resolutions protetinr asralnyt
the action of the chief of police
there in allowing Elmer Smith. Cen-
Lrana anorney, iiiiuk h. timio -murder
in connection with the armistice-day
massacre, to address a recent
meeting- there. The meetlner in uues
tion was held under the auspices of
the "northwest defense committee'' of
the I. W. W.
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