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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1922. TOE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. C01UA1NOF II STATE IRRIGATION CONTROL IS URGED Bend. Oct. .t. Unless state super vision of Irrlg-atlon financing and 'de velopment' Is continued it will lose public confidence, but-with state su pervision It will be put on an abso lutely sound footing:. State Engineer Percy A. Cupper asserted this morning at the . pnegron Irrigation congress which , will ' end its . session here this afternoon. I A new era began in irrigation in Oregon when the district law was passed. Cupper said. Changing! crops beat use of market fiuxries was advised 'against in a pam per on prod uCtion and marketing of vegetables. --Selection of crops by field trials which will determine their fit hess In accordance with natural con ditions Was j advised. , HOT FIGHT EXPECTEP 7; Providing that all reclamation con tracts in exeess of UDOOin amount he approved by the state securities commisaibn. one ' of the most . import ant resolutions1 ever brought before the Oregon Irrigation congress, 1 a ex pected td bring: forth a battle on the floor of the congress if the resolu tions eommitte reports it. It is be ing hotly contested In committee. Another ; resolution which may be reported calls for "the creation of a state eclatnation board, which would upset the existing system. Resolutions which will! be reported favor the com mon use of, the Central Pacific rail road by- any line wishing to enter and develop the, Western country, an Oregon label for Oregon agricultural products, continuation of Fred N. Wal lace and James M. Kyle on the Ore- : eon development board, legislation glv irig the state water board control ot underground , waters ; indorsement of the SSmithrMcNary bill and thanks to Congfessraesi IS. J; Sinnott for his participation la , the session of the congress. -. ' Sixty persons attending the Oregon Irrigation congress Friday made a trip through the projects of Central Oregon, seeing irrigated land or land which is included in proposed projects aurmg most of a 200-mile drive. . Following ttw& paper trail left by the pilot car driven by O. C. Henkle, : they first visited the Orange hall dis trict, east of Bend, and then doubled back and! across the river to the Tu malo, project. Roads all-- the way were in excellent shape. From' the Tumalo the 15 cars went to Redmond, thea crossed Crooked river to the proposed ftn Ti n tx nmlA4.fr onH nftfth unit : making a trip across Agency plains and back to Madras, where they were entertained at luncheon. : MADBAS GIVEJf CKEDIT r Congressman Sinnott, the only speaker, at- the luncheon, declared that irrigation in Oregon will not be com pleted until water is running and al falfa is growing on the fertile lands of the north unit. He gave credit to A. X). Anderson of Madras for. securing a $400,000 appro priation for reclamation on The Pes ' chutes, the . first government fund, provided for this territory This vas later withdrawn in favor of Baker; but another appropriation will come soon. Sinnott declared. OCHOCO LAND VISITED " From Madras the party, went south east, crossing through more large wheat fields, to the Qchoco project just nnrth nf rnnkdH rivt T sn wr .lr.tr.ka. of fields sown to '. alfalfa, since the Ochoco dam was built, as well as some older development, were viewed "ith surprise by many of the visitors, who had not realized that there is so much irrigated land in this part of the state. Some 'of the cars visited" the Ochoco dam, while others spent some time at the interstate" fair at PrlnevUle- The 'trip back waa made by way of the - Powell Butte section and Redmond. " Practically every car had returned to : Bend by- 6 o'clock, in time for those making the trip to get ready for the ' bafeiUet Friday evening. K1LET MAKES TALK " "The East, is coming west, not be cause it wants to come, . but because it is being dragged west.-" . declared Frank Branch Riley, famous lecurer, at Friday night's annual banquet .of the Oregofn Irrigation congress. TUley's addrefes was .full of sprightly humor, for which he is noted. Scenery, America's last forests, water power of which only. 20 per cent is now being used, the changing of the theatres of politics and trade to the West, all these are being seen by the Easterner, Riley declared. The tourist is usually a business man. trained to see business opportuni ' ties. He does not come for business reasons, but after he comes he cannot help seeing the opportunities, and as a result great development throughout the .Northwest and particulaly Ore gon, will be seen in the next few years, he declared. Two hundred per - sons attended the banquet. Prospects for more and greater, lrri- are bright. Representative -Sinnott said at the banquet. ..iLand included in government projects on. which IISO.000, 000 'was expended is jriow valued at 1500,000.000. Crops 'worth' $650;000,000 have been harvested from these lands. A ' population of 450,000 has bieen settled on them and 223 towns have been built as a result of the 'expenditure of this sum, said SinrooU. .. . ; ' . : Three .o fbur rail Hon acres of land iare susceptible of Irrigation, -he eafd. sand when this area lis watered tie lvalue of Its products cannot be esti mated. Fred "N. ' Wallace, president of the Irrigation congress, was presented with a gold ' watch as a gift from the con gress, by Janes Kyle of Stanfield. J then placed charges of possession and transporting liquor against Teaa.j He was found guilty of the charges Tluurs day.. - , . y:. ,.. . r Delta alleged in court be was not in the machine,: and Judge Ekrwall stated it was so apparent that he was the man who either Jumped cor ,feH rfrorn it at X-ombard and Cecelia 'streets that he considered it necessary .to bind him over to the grand jury on a charge of perjury. u t : , Lad, Runs: to Meet Father, Is Killed In Motor Accident Aberdeen, Wash., Oct. 7 Phillip De lanty, age ,json of H. M." DeLanty. nianager of the Grays Harbor Steve dore company, was run down arfd allied Thursday by an automobile- rafiven by Nell Tebb., son of TY. W. Tebb, sales manager of the Pacific Lumber agency. ? 1 The boy, 'who had .been expecting his father, mistook the' rnachine thinking it would turn into the Delaney home grounds and ran directly' in front of t- - f . Tebb was exonerated by a coroner's jury. ; I; . . - iAHOLA IS FREED OF CHARGE OF . . ... Medford to Vote on Charter Amendpient Medford, Oct. 7. Couacll Friday night passed an ordinance calling for a vote November f on kn amendment to the city charter creating a municipal water board of five members. If the amendment is adopted by the voters a board will be appointed after Janu ary 1. . SLAYING AGENT Stevenson,' Wash, Oct. 7.r Harold Ahola Friday night waa found not guilty of the murder of Richard Rori son, Clarke wunty deputy sheriff, who was killed two months-ago while as sisting federal .prohibition Officers in raiding a still on Nelson creek, east of here. The jury retired at 6 o'clock and returned its verdict two 1 hours later. . r Ahola's acquittal was expected after the state finished the introduction of its evidence, as no proof was offered that Ahola did the shooting. The prosecution tried to prove that the murder was the result of, a conspiracy between Ahola and Paul Hickey. al leged partners in moonshining, to kill any -officers who tried to arrest them. Hickey was killed in the battle which followed the finding of the still by two federal officers and R orison. Raymond cJ Sly. prosecuting attor ney, was in charge of, the prosecution during the trial and t Judge A. t. Mil ler of Vancouver was leading counsel for the defense. ' Ahola's father and mother sat beside him during the trial. The, defendant? who is 22, did not tes tify. The state examined 20 witnesses and the defense 15. It developed during the trial that the raid on the: still w as the j result of information given federal authori ties by Arthur Davidson, who lives near the scene. Davidson accompa- rHed 'RoMson," James Morgan and John Pickett, the last two .United States profcibition officers, to Nelson creek and. told them 4 where- the still could bo? found. . Wben tl ; three . officers a pproached the ; stilt they met Hickey, w ho was armed ; with aL rifle, f They callta ,to that Miey wro - federal officers . and Sdvlsed him to submit tc asrest. Instead Hickey opened fire and" a battle followed in which Hickey aad' RorispH . Were killed and Morgan seriously . wounded. ; i . Ahola. ,igav himself, up after the stooting,v admitting that he was with Hickey a short time before the battle and that he was interested in the still, but denying any guilt 4n the murder. It is understood Ahola will be prose cuted on a liquor law violation charge. Theft? of Building Materials Reported Wholesale thefts of building ma terials and sJbplies in Alameda, where a large number of homes, are under: construction, were brought " to lhe at tention of the police j department Fri day. Cement, lumbef and 'tools have been, carried away by thieves in large lota, it was reported ,H. P. Capell, No. 875 East 23d street jiorth. a con tractor, reported to the police Filday seven barrels of cement was stolen from a house he has under construc tion at 29th street and Alameda drive. 5IHS. HATTIE GARDXfe Mrs. Hattie Gardner, 62, . resident of Portland for' 20 years, . died Friday nljht at her home, No. 104 Eapt 64th street. ? Surviving are her widower, George ?M. Gardner; two sons. Charles H. Clark of Portland, atid Morton J. McQuoid of Denver, and one daughter, Mrs. Luella Thomas Of Portland. Report Accidents Physicians wilt be required t report sudden deaths to the city health of fice on special cards that at sonce designate their character aad report treatment, of all persona .who,hv suffered in accident except where aoch treatment takes place in a hospital, if an ordinance is adopted which. Dr. George Parrish. city health officer and city registrar, has announced he will. frame and send to tho citycoun cirnext week. .; - J--"- i , :-This 4s an outcome: of' tho comment caused., by Coroner Smith's "published Statement that he had withheld from the public informatioB regarding sudden- deaths 'in physicians' . offices in Portland. The proposed Jeglslatioa is approyed by . members ; of .the lty council. ' . ' - . ' -1 West Ditches Bed,: Sleeps on Trains . Bendj. Oct. 7.---Requireiment8 . .placed 'upon his time in both Portland and Bend have caused Oswald West, for" mer ' gownwr, now Secretary of the North Canal company, -to form the habit; of sleeping on trains rather than in his Portland' home or at a hotel here. West has spent four nights this week on trams between "Portland and Bend. j. G$EBXS HATE HBW SOS Oregon City, Oct. 7. A son was born Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Green of Gladstone. Charge of Perjury IAftermathof Booze Conviction ' . : 11. te4tx. arrested at Lombard and Cecelia streets on charges of posses sion of intoxicating liquor and throw ing glass : irf the street, was ifound guilty .by a jury In municipal courttlate rTway ana was oouoa over to the Estate grand jury byi Judge Kkwall on a charge of perjury. , According to testimony. Delta and Georga Freas were in an automobile containing tho liquor when two motor cycle patrolmen gave chase. At Lom bard -and Cecelia streets Delta la said to have thrown a sack full of bottles into thelstreet in front of the motor cycles, and to have later; jumped from the automobile. " s -.. . He was arrested after he rolled from wm aLULoniuuiiQ woua uio outer motor cycle , patrolmen followed the car. When th machine was Overtaken. Fraaa, who was driving, was arrested and charged with speeding. The auto mobile was searched aad the liouor There are a Pozen Good Reasons for SAVING T isn't liow much you earn, but how much you save that really counts . Though you may be well paid for what you do, if you spend all you make, your time and labor are lost. - Make your work count for more. Begin saving. Remember, the bank .will keep your savings at work for you and will pay you interest. fil or more opens a saving? JL account in this bank V it I LADDSiTTUOir aiK , . As a .pedal ceav.al.ace the Saving. Department Is open Saturday evenings to a .'clock Oldest in the Northwest Washington at Third 5JiDtititsnvT Oregon Manufacturers"and Jobbers 1 t - r- r . I.I m mm mm i - x You can do it Better with Gas INTERNATIONAL Pipe and Pipelesa i COTBIHATIOH KAtTaKS scxarss OAS BASGES W0O9S.KTEBT9S SOUS rvXJ. ; &AKGES ... . r' .Tear Old Vtria. . Tak.a -a fart rayaneat - LYNCH BROS. Bdwy.SMS. 11 lUSWXMrirMk, Son Tcrfcred Bdties Seep Mothers Rest After : Cuticura EXPERIENCE TEACHES Through the policy : ap parent by the actiori of the highway commission in fav oring shock-absorbing pave ment, it is evident that they have profited by their own experience as well as that of engineers who encourage the use of shock-absorbing pavement because it not only impedes the process of crystallizing in pavement but in the axles and other steel parts of a vehicle as well. Warrenite-Bitulithic is a shock-absorbing pave ment". . - ' ' j '. .; HACKETT DIGGER CO it Foot East Clay St. Phoae Xiit 8 Washed aad Sereeaed. i .. RIVER SAKD AND GRAVEL ; r ; Fill Material ' j I ' Towins; and Usrhteriar PENDLETCN WCOLEN KILLS rCMOLrRM. OR. I' -v-'""'7-.- Ji if '"-4 - JIANCrACTTJKESS OP PURE FLEECE WOOL ELAKKETS iNDiasj : ajoass. aTcamcit mis, BATH KOat , AMD SWTO 1 KOBKS NEW HAVEN CARRIAGE & AUTO WORKS OCO. WAGNER and JOHN WASHER Auto nd ; Truck Bodies. SprinC Wind. BhieM Cb 0r OriTers Brat t 8PEOIALIZK ON WHEELS PHONE BROADWAY 1472 CORNER FIFTH AND EVERETT KNIGHT'S ROGUE RIVER BRAND ; TOMAtO CATSUP . iL, KNIGHT FfKG. CO. POBTLAKD, OBG05 Shope Brick Co. FACE AND BJANTLK BRISK 4 SPEOIALTV Made in Portland ir rrs brick, we have it EASTSTH aa4 DIVISION, PORTLAND, OR. Rasmussen&Co. Makers of Paints and Varnish N. E. Cor. 2d and Taylor Portland, Oregon . Truck, Stage and Delivery Bodies Built Wheel Work ' BlaeksmlthlaK Lowest prices ; all work guaranteed Eureka Carriage & Auto Works . 821.JS7 Cosclt ,8U Bdwy. 31V Multnomah Trunk & Bas Co. I Wholesale JUfgs. of Trunks, Suit ar" . a M w- war . . n I teases, eic eo fi. w aier bl, ron- land. Or. Phone 224-66. II I If I I "N 1 fH . S - "sal W m i ; t f;f a 'i ;! if;-,- r if- ' ' . - (From an1 Address Made at Albany, Oregon, October 4, J922) ; 1 came into this State 40 years ago,, a wandering boy, working as a farm hand. ' For SO years I have been m public office, i I have never deliber ately misled or deceived anybody. In public life I have tried to play abso lutely square. ; i ..4 ; When I was nominated last May, I said to my friends : ; I will carry the message of lower taxes to the people of this State. I have nd money, but I expect tovmake a hundred speeches Five times I have touched the ocean, and gone from California to the river in Idaho three times." I have gone wherever the invitation was ex tended; wherever I could meet- a little group and talk to them about what. I think is a startling state of affairs. I am trying to do it .fairly, honestly and in the open. Friends, if we save Oregon from the auction block, if we save our prop erty from confiscation by taxation, we have got to do-some very hard thinking. To my mind, the tax ques tion is the foremost problem in Ore gon today. It rises above all else. The question is: Are you going to own your own homes and your own farms in 'future years, or are they going to be taken from you by the risingHide of taxes ? The rental value trf all property in Oregon is too high according to the value of the property, caused by the high taxes. It doesn't cut much ice in the money markets when the prop erty passes away from the man who thought he owned it. He is left with the husk ; the kernel is gone. When I went to the Senate the first time it took about 15 of the rental value of property to pay taxes. That year Umatilla county raised 3,000,000 bushels of wheat. Our State taxes Were $100,000 in that county; 36 , of the wheat crop paid its taxes. This year that county produced 4,000,000 bushels of wheat, while her taxes are $1,549,000, of which $433,084 is State tax, while the whole is 40 of the value of the wheat crop taken for taxes. The population of the State then was about 313,000. Now it is not quite 800,000. When I entered the State Senate 20 years ago; $1,000,000 was the total State expense. When I returned to the Senate six years ago it was $2,500,000 per year. Today $15,000, 000 or more is collected from us in taxation. Can this tide continue to rise if we keep our property? How .high is it going to go ? There is collected $6,000,000 in fees now, six times as much as we spent 20. years ago; more than twice what we spent six years ago. In knots and in groups I have been carrying this message to the people: ! 'THIS MUST STOPr I shall con- ' tinue to carry it until election, day. i I asked Mr. Day,' as. Secretary of the Tax Investigation Committee, to collect some figures for me. Accord- ing to these figures, there are only five or six States in the Union that have more bonded indebtedness than; we have. In weaJtii and population we rank down about thirty-sixth. The figures show we are spending more money.f or State government than the State of Kansas, j Kansas spends $8,500,000; we spend $1'5,000,000; while Minnesota spends only $1,600,- 000. You ask, "Why is Minnesota' awayjlown there?' - It is because Minnesota has raised from indirect Sources the larger part of her revenue for State purposes, while we have raised, it from the farmer, the cattle , ma ; and the sheep man. They thought these men could not kick, but they ARE kicking today. If I i: VI- do not miss my guess, they will show v stur more kicking in November, " I VI - Minnesota collects ' 5 upon all il i public service corporations in -that ; State. California pays her State taxes, l " in the same way. ;That should "be ' done in Oregon. You may say .this tax comes back upon the people. -Just :m the same, it is spread out on, more j I people. It is not on a few scattered l j farmers. " " , !. i t - . . .... . s . -: : ' . r ! r- .' ' . . .- , ' ; . Today we are confiscating property , i and ruining the people of this State ' who are feeding us. TJiey v cannot li Jr operate their farms at a profit, and ' if; - k they cannot pay the heavy - taxes levied upon them. ... ' ".' ' J'Lt Minnesota collects 25 cents ; from' every ton of ore dug , up and "taken from ' the State. This is don by, a severance tax. When you take a pro duct f rom that State, you must pay for the privilege.. . I was, at a place 4n Oregon where they showed me a mine from which a company had taken out a million dollars in gold. It fwas owned by citizens of England. They had not paid a dollar in taxes to the State of Oregon for removing this great wealth. . '-',-,. A severance tax has been levied, by several i States in ) this Union. It is something for us to talk about and r 1 consider. In a few years Oregon's beautiful forests Twill - be ; blackened I stumps. Here we allow the Govern- -; 1 ; I ment to set aside great forest reser- H yauons, irom wnicn j no taxes are Received. From forests m the reserves Easterners cut the timber and ship the lumber to Oklahoma. Thus from Oregon's great forests in the reserve there .come no' taxes ' to support Nthe State. I ' .j i , - -., - t . J We have $10,000,000 in bonded in- debtedness for the soldier - boys. ; I f don't regret the money we gave them. ! It was Senator Smith' of Coo and I i who introduced the bill. Two and a ; half million dollars have been' raised t to encourage the boys to go- back tb-f school. I am glad we have given this money to them. .We can never do too much for the men who went down on the fields of France to do-and to die. We have on the ballot a , measure j to impose a flat income tax. ; It am 1 opposed to that, but I am in favor of a . graduated income tax, because I I believe the man who has the large -income should pay more than the man" who has the small income. . . .; c I J A gross earnings tax would be . another source of revenues ? ., -l : The cattle grower certainjy needs relief. Cattle iare selling cheaper than they have sold in 30 years m propor- tion to cost of production. A million ! head of cattle in this. State are going to the butcher'aiblock.- -i They simply ! cannot be produced for -the money that is ; paid f6r them today. The burden upon the farm-and ranch has " ! become unbearable. .. ...J."; ; There is no question"infthis canv I paign but that of taxes." There is no N otlfer thing to talk about.. If ; I don't , do anythingNelse, I am going to do . this-to the end of time. - You can in six years drive this State into'bank ruptcy.. I have done and am doing the very best I know how ' to carry, this i'i message of lower taxes to the people of Oregon.- Extravagance-must atop ISv Expenses must be reduced! Taxes i must come down! - - . ? - ' --v4i.' r'- v-qMis' It, all depends upon . you who read these words. You can say by vour? ballot in November wHether you want to go on paying this terrific cost,: or wnetner you aon'U . t . ' ! My pledge is thisf If electedGbvi - ernor, I wiU' do every proper thing within my power,to reduce taxation V-' in Oregon. " On this basis I ask your. ; supiporn ana vote. - i . ; I ;-f . "... rf You Should Help Pierce by contribatina; Ono Dollar to his campairn oxponaas. La doiBC this .yon wiU help yourself rodac your own taxos, for that ia tho groat iasoo Piorco ia makma; for -yo.' Sad Ob Dollar, la cash, monay erdor or cheeky today to -. ' f. H. CRAWFokD, Manag Pierci-for-GoTernor CampalfB 5 :. Gordom BuiMioc Portland, Oregon . ! (Paid JUtTtftiMBtrnt) - - -t " . - . ... - i:; it er L.TllMl IIWJ ailmnwtHilliH T.Mi waa found by the patrolmen who. I -