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V.'' .y.,V V - . '...y' ' THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1911. THREATEN FORCE Klamath Falls Says Typhoid Cases Due to Old Ankeny Aqueduct and Gets Into a Row With Uncle Sam. (KpK-Ul to Tb Journal Klamath Falls, Or., Sept. 20. Unles an amicable settlement 1b reached at once there will soon be filed a suit In the district court which will be entitled "United States vs. City of Klamath Falls, Oregon." For many years there has been main tained in this city the old Ankeny Irri gation canal, which when tyie govern ment invaded the Klamath field It took over. Since the village of Llnkvllle has developed Into the city of Klamath Falls, the canal Is accused of having become more and more of a menace to the good health of the community. This fall the city has been threat ened with an epidemic of typhoid fever and City Health Officer R. R. Hamil ton found that the city water supply, which 1b taken from a large spring along the river, was contaminated by seepage from the Ankeny canal. Dr Calvin S.' White, secretary of the state board of health, verified the findings of Dr. Hamilton and advised that lntmedl ate action be taken to shut off the water flowing In the canal. The at torney general then mapped out a course of procedure for the city au thorttles. City Sams Canal; Sam Taksh Out. Mayor Sanderson and Dr. Hamilton, realising that Immediate action was necessary, had a dam built across the canal Just where It enters the city limits. The dam was no more than built when a force of men employed by the reclamation service removed it. The city again had it built. The reclama tion service has threatened to remove It and to bring suit against the city to restrain It from placing further ob tractions In the canal. Project Engineer W. W. Patch occu pies the peculiar position where he is forced to perform a duty he would much rather leave undone. He Is fully aware that the old canal Is a menace to the good health of the city and has exerted every Influence to have the canal abandoned or else turned over to the city so that It could be replaced with a pipe line. The government, how ever, must maintain the canal, as there are several water rights field by parties who use the water for irrigating lawns and gardens. Mr. Patch has orde'rs from his superiors to keep the canal open and to supply water for those holding rights. - Citizens Xeady to Use Pore. Those who have charge of the situa tlon say that the dam built by the city will be maintained no matter what trie results. If the government brings suit and gets a restraining order it Is al most certain that If the ditch cannot be , shut down legally the reclamation serv ice will have to maintain an armed guard to keep it open. There are at present a number of typhoid cases in this city and in the past month two deaths have occurred. It has been es tablished to the satisfaction of every one that the water supply is contami nated and that the old Ankeny ditch is the cause of it. The officials feel that If the nuisance cannot be abated legally tne situation is so serious that it luiist be atalcd by force. The typhoid situation is not extreme ly Herious. The health officer Issued a timely warning and the water company haH notified its patrons to boil all water ued for household purposes. All dairies Iihvo been inspected and when ever It was found that unsanitary con ditions existed they were remedied or else the dairy was forced out of busi- riews. 1 hose drastic measures nave averted a probable epidemic. WET PLOWING TO SOLVE PROBLEM Farmers Need Education in Backward Counties To Cooperate. Walter Wade, rancher and business man of Olex, Gilliam county, who Is In Portland today, says that the land own ers' of his county are ready - to ener getically aid the program planned for Morrpw-Sherman-OUllam counties by the tri-county development committee and state conservation commission of which J. N. Teal Is chairman, and with whom Mr. Wade conferred today, "We have not had usual rainfall for several years in our county. This ac counts In part for retrogression," aalu Mr. ' Wade. "There hRve been other handicaps. But If you want to put your finger on the heart of our troubles, it is agricultural methods. "The land Is plowed when It Is dry. To conserve molature It should be plowed when wet and kept free from weeds. Lack of stock and scarcity of money keeps the farmers behind. But when the plowing la done when the land Is wet results are always forthcoming, even if rainfall Is slight I know three farmers that always do- this and they always do better-than pay expenses, even In bad years. "The people need education. They want it. They look with warmest in terest and approval on the Sherman-Morrow-Gllllam program for the next year. This Interest particularly applies to the land owners. Renters are not so much concerned. Their interest extends to what can be gotten out pf the land, this year, not next or the year after. But the land owners are ready to do anything that will Increase production and make the land yield as it should. "The land is all right. It is rich. The land that has been farmed longest produces best, and this without ferti lizer." The Sherman-Morrow-Gilllam pro gram of which Mr. Wade spoke, in cludes a conference at Arlington next month when a special demonstration train of the Harrlman lines and the Agricultural college will be present. A hog, poultry, small crop contest will be Instituted, and the awards given next year at a tri-county fair. "Let us change our methods, let us get the wet plowing Idea firmly fixed, and cut up the great tracts of land after getting water on them," said Mr. Wade, "and we will have the homes and the home life and the permanent, pro ductive, prosperous population that Is needed for the advance of our country." SAYS POLICEMAN ACTED CRUELLY McCants Stewart, Colored Lawyer, Declares Bluecoat Knocked Him Down. Portland, Sept. 20. To the Editor of The Journal In the matter of the ref erence In yesterday's edition of your paper concerning my charges against Policeman E. a. Marsh: Saturday night, September 1, I wish to say that I left a Vancouver car at Russell and Union avenue north, en route to my home, which is at 613 North Union avenue, just about 100 feet from the corner, on the west aide of the street, and In passing the restaurant at 624 Union avenue north I aaw some friends and acquaintances who live In that Im mediate' vicinity dining. . I stopped on the sidewalk to exchange pleasantries through the screen door, aaylng in Jovial way that it was time for their banquet to close. This door was 10 or 15 feet from the corner. I was sur prised a moment later when my atten- 1 tion was directed to an officer. No. 136, ! whom 1 subsequently learned was E. O. Marsh, who swiftly came around the 1 corner and In a gruff, uncivil and rough 1 manner, howled at me, "Cut out that ! noise. What are you doing out here?" continuing toward me. I asked him, "What is the matter with you?" He said that he would show me what the matter was, that he would run me in. I told him that he could not run me In because I had not done anything. I had scarcely time to say more when he pushed, jerked and knocked me off of the street into the gutter. About this time the men In the res taurant were 'up and at the door, at which time I demanded an explanation from the officer, telling him that he had used no Judgment and asking him what was the matter, what had I done, la which conversation I referred to him as a "tin soldier,' and told him that in stead of seeking to create a disturbance and to arrest an inoffensive citizen on his way home and in front of his very house-door, he should be looking for criminals, murderers and thugs. The way I spoke to him in front of the crowd hurt his pride and he placed me under arrest. He took me to the box near Rodney and Russell streets and sent in a call for the wagon. He in formed me that the wagon could not come there and that I would have to walk with him to Union and Holladay streets. 17 or 18 blocks away. As we proceeded south on Union avenue and came to my residence, I requested per mission to go to my door and' inform my wife that I would be out on a mat ter of business and that she should not wait for me longer and informed Marsh that there was no possibility of my es caping, because - I wore a "cork leg," but he pointedly and gruffly refused. When he reached Holladay and Union avenue the wagon came and I was taken to the police station, where I was in formed that the Judge had to fix ball, it being the rule of the department at this time that the chief captains and offi cers in etiarge had not that authority. After falling to connect with Judge Taawell over the telephone, Captain Keller allowed me to order a taxloab, and delivering me into the custody of Sergeant Joseph Kalian, we were driven to Judge Taswell's home, and even then we were unable to get the Judge. I was admitted to the bar In St. Paul, Minn., In 1899, a graduate of the law department of the University of Minnesota, where I afterwards returned and took a post course. While my home was In New York city, where I attended the publio schools, yet I was sent south and attended and finished the normal course at Tuskegee Institute, at the same time learning the printers Itrade. I came to this city In 1902 and was duly admitted In the supreme court to practice In all the courts of this state, and have continuously practiced law here since that time. I enjoy the con fidence and respect of my friends and associates, as well as of the bench and bar of this county. This matter is an Important one and might have been serious. This officer was In a bad, ugly and quarrelsome disposition, and had I taken hold of him or offered any retaliation, he would have resorted to his gun and blackjack there on the side walk and sought to brand me as one resisting an officer. I have the names and addresses of the persons present, none of whom can satisfactorily explain to me or themselves or account for the unwarranted actions of this police offi cer. In my opinion and in the opinion of others. Officer Marsh, No. 186, lacks Judgment He committed a wanton, wilful assault and battery upon me, without cause. He was niggardly, ma licious and rude In his conduct and de meanor, such conduct unbecoming a officer and a gentleman, ' He la not, safe man for our polloe force, 1 hara I do not propose to be knocked and pushed In the gutbar, arrested and sent to the town lockup wltbout any cause, and allow the matter to go unchallenged and unprotested. -! v -, ITCjCNTS STEWART, V J A 4.. inn ' (United Praia ILm4 WlreA New York, Sept. 20 The recgntly ap pointed board of Inebriety of New Tare at its first meeting decided to establish. a farm where "drunlta" may be train to hold seats on the 'water wagon. RAILWAY EMPLOYES REORGANIZE I 80,000 JEWS LEAVE RUSSIA IN YEAR 1910 (L'nlt.-d l'mta leased Wlre. London. Sept. 20. Eighty thousand Jews left Russia in 1910. of whom 60,000 settled in the United States, the rest go Ing to Argentine, Brazil and Palestine. Theee figures are given by the Jewish Colonization association, founded 20 years ago by Baron Hlrscli. Most of tnese Jewish emigrants have been set up as farmers by ht association. In all more than 100,000 Jews left Europe last year. V HANDS WOULD CRACK OPENJOLEED Blisters Formed, Skin Scaled Off, and Flesh Burned and Itched .... , . i Dreadtully. Healed Dy Less I nan I One Cake of Cirticura Soap and I 1 One Box of Cuticura Ointment. y ia - w "About two months ago my hands started to crack open and bleed, the skin would scale off, and the good flesh would burn and itcn areaaruuy. wnenmy hands first started to get sore, there were small A W 'VrA blisters like water blbten which formed. They Itched dreadfully, It Just seemed ss though I could tear the skin all off. I would scratch them and the skin would peel off, and the flesh would be all red and crack open inn hlaed. It worried me -v. T hnrf never had snrthlnc the matter with my skin. I was so afraid I would have to give up m eDwmwi. I consulted my doctor, and be said he didn't think it weuld amount to anything. But It kept gemg ww u . , nt th nanom ahont a ladv who a niece iu ui w r '. .u. t mil hi with her hands. She hd used Cutlcurs Soap and Ointment and was cured, i aeciueu m j mom, im m j .n honied before I had used one ' rake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment. I am truly thankful for the good result! from the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, for thanks to them I was eared, and did not have to lose a dar from work. I hare had no return of the akin trouble." (Signed) Mrs. Mary E. Breig, 2623 Brown Street, Phila delphia, Pa.. Jan. 12, 1911. Cuticura Soap and Ointment are for sale everywhere, but those who wish to try them ' without charge -may do so by tending to Fotter Drug Chem. Corp., Dept. 6A, Boston, for a liberal sample of each, post-free, togetb' 1 with S3, took oo th akta and scalp. ; L. H. Ledger of San Francisco, su preme conductor of the Order of Rail way Employes, is in Portland for the purpose of reorganizing the Portland division of the order. The reorganiza tion will take place at a smoker to be given at Ringler's Academy in the Mul key building, Second and Morrison streets next Friday evening. Public In stallation of officers will also occur at the smoker followed by a general good time. The meeting 1b to be open and a general invitation has been ex tended to all roalroad men, members and non-members to attend. The order was organized six years ago in Sacramento so that railroad em ployes might have protection against accident or sickness. Fraternal Insur ance is provided to its members at ab solute cost. It extends from the Can adian to the Mexican line and east as far as Denver and is rapidly gaining a foothold as far east as Chicago. The membership at present is 35.000 and growing rapidly. Its headquarters are in San Francisco. The order has gained the recognition and approval of 2 different transcon tinental roads and the representatives of the order are allowed from 10 to 15 minutes of the companies' time to talk with the employes on the insurance question which means a great deal to the roads in some of their big shops. The companies also allow their em ployes to take out the insurance and premiums from their pay checks at the end of the month. This gives many employes a chance to take out the in surance who otherwise would have to wait some time if they did not have this privilege. AEROPLANE MUST BE HEAVY TO CROSS SEA ' (United Prwi Uufd WImO London. Sept. 20. "It is scientifically possible for an aeroplane to fly across the Atlantic, and before many years the world will look back with wonder that the feat was ever regarded as impossi ble." A cautious scientist, A. K. Berrlman of London, made this statement In a paper read before the British Associa tion of Portsmouth. "But," he added, "before an uninter rupted Journey across the 1700 miles that separate the nearest adjacent points of land can be accomplished by a machine carrying two men It will have to be shown that an aeroplane can be built capable of carrying at least 1500 pounds of useful load at 60 miles an hour, at a gliding angle more nearly in the order of one ir seven than the an gle of one In four, which at present rep resents the efficiency of a good mod ern flier.' CITY MAY ESTABLISH HORSESHOEING PLANT Mayor Rushlight will. In his annual budget to the council the first of the year, recommend an appropriation of S1500 to establish a portable blacksmith shop for the use of the fire, street clean ing and other departments. lie expects to accomplish by this Innovation a sav ing of several hundred dollars a month on horseshoeing bills alone. The cost of shoeing the 280 horses in the fire and street cleaning departments aggregates between 8500 and 8700 monthly and the mayor believes a great saving can be made If the city does the work ltsell. Another desirable result that would be attained would be the greater effi ciency that would be brought about in the fire ' department. Every horse In the department Is shod at least ones, a' month, and heretofore It has been neo essary to put entire companies tem porarily out of service while the ani mals were being res hod. With a port able outfit each station could be visited Mfularlyr . r :. 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