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"Olson & s 11 Feb. THE BOARDMAN MIRROR VOLUME II BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1922 NUMBER 21 MASSACRE BLAMED ON COAL OFFICIALS Herrin Coroner's Jury Finds Deaths Due to Coal Com panies' Men. Herrin. HI. "We, the Jury, find from the evidence that the deaths of de cedents were due to acts direct and Indirect of officials of the Southern Illinois Coal company. "We recommend that an investiga tion be conducted for the purpose of fixing the blame personally on in dividuals responsible." This was the verdict of the cor oner's jury held here and its recom mendation. Non-union miners and guards fired first in the battle which claimed 22 lives, the military board appointed by Governor Len Small to investigate conditions in "bloody" Williamson county reported. The report said that the killine started when two union men who weiu to the mine to protest to officials against operation with strikebreakers, were fired on by the mine guards. The massacre was the act of a mol which got beyond the control of tin cooler element, which was attemptlm to escort the captives to Herrin t "how them off to the boys," according to information gleaned here. As soon as the forty-four non-union miners surrendered a cry went up for the lives of captives, persons who say they were eye witnesses state. The leaders, it was said, finally weft compelled to yield to the clamors ol the mob that the prisoners "beat It.' The fleeing men thereupon were shot down, beaten to death and one wa known to have been hanged. They died, hunted across the fields, stoned, hot at, tied and dragged down dust) country roads. Although a number of the miner hudder at the slaughter, all say "they got just what they deserved." M LOCAL ft DISABLED VETERANS HOLD CONVENTION San Francisco. A spare and shat tered battalion, broken on the wheel of war and counting In its numbers the blind, the halt and the lame, arose in Inspiring salutation to the national banner Monday when the second an Bual convention of the disabled Amor lean veterans of the world war wat called to order. "A rendezvous of faith" was the phrase by which this initial session was referred to by the speakers. The whole convention, they said, is a plea to the country not to forget, as the broken veteran intends to cling to In faith In the things for which he fought. Tuesday the aerloui formalities of the convention began in earnest, with a big parade from the Embarcadero to the civic center. In this the "Living Hall of Fame" appeared. This was comprised of state heroes from a score Of states who were designated by their respective governors to add new fer vor and Inspiration to the convention. The city council of Redmond has posted street improvement notices which call for more than five miles of cement sidewalks. Oregon will be well represented at the annual convention of the Na' tonal Education association to be held In Boston July 1 to 8. Bernard O. Kempfer of Rye Valley, Or., has been appointed postmaster at Rainbow Mine, a new office establish ed in Malheur cour.tv The tourists are going through in great numbers and the auto camp grounds are filled nearly every night Mrs. Neech returned home from Portland where she had been attend ing the Rose Festival. Her son and his bride came home with her. They are here for a visit with his parents. M, L. Morgan was a business visi tor in Portland several days this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Weston and Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Morgan and child ren were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. ('has Nlzer. Mrs. Evelyn Scott, daughter- in law of A. B. Chaffee and grand-niece of Mrs. H. H. Weston has returned 'o her home at Dexter, after being a iuest at the Chaffee-Thienes wedd-ng- The T. E. Broyles and Packard families were picnicers at Irrigon last Sunday. Frank Miles motored to Portland on a business trip Sunday. It looks rather suspicious for a young bachelor to have a truck load of furniture sneaked from Messner to his ranch in the West end, after dark, doesn't it? We never thot it of you Glen!. Miss Edna Broyles and Adna Cha ffee were dancing the light fantastic oe at Arlington, on Monday night. Mrs A. S. Smith and daughter, Mary, left Messner for Kentucky on Thursday of this week. Mrs. Flickinger and Mrs Messen ger are on their way to Illinois for a vacation with their relatives. Mr. and Mrs. A, T. Hereim were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mulkey last Monday evening. Mr. King and family spent the day Sunday with the Mulkey family, it beng the event of Miriane's fourth birthday,.. Mesdames King, Christensen, and Larson with the children of Mrs. King and Sadie Larson were guests at Mildred Kutzner's birthday party Tuseday. Mrs. Frank Cramer, Mrs. Gibbons and daughter Norma, motored to Ir rigon Friday with Mr. and Mrs. F.arl Cramer and son, Basil, to spend the day with Mrs. B. Wat kins. Mesdames Garrett, Richardson and Hereim drove to Irrigon Thursday for cherries. The arson family were guests of Mrs. Hereim for dinner Sunday. Road work in the East End Is piogressing rapidly and a great nui i ber of men and teams are at work. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK I Switching of automobile license George Potter, St. Helens city mar plates has become a common offense ! naI aml Cal Hoffmtller, deputy mar- SAM BOARDMAN USES CHEESE FOR BAIT GOES TO JAII William Cooper, of Heriniston, ar rested Saturday for moonshining at his ranch near Hermiston Wednesday was fined $250.00 and costs.I'p to a late hour last night he had not paid his fine and it is believed that he will serve it out in jail. among unscrupulous motorists In Ore gon. During June a total of twenty nine arrests were made by officers ot the state traffic department for this offense. C. A. Sloat, Oakville, Linn county, school teacher, waB "dressed In" at the state penitentiary after having pleaded guilty to assaulting two small Salem .girls and being immediately sentenced lo two life terms In prison by Judge Percy R. Kelly. Three hundred petitions providing for 100 names each were put in clrqu latlon by the state headquarters of the American Legion through all local posts, seeking to have placed on the November ballot an initiative act en titled "antl alien land ownership bill." The Bosewell mineral springs prop-i erty, once one of the state's most fa mous resorts, haB been purchased by a Rogeburg company which will pro ceed at once to restore the baths and develop a modern resort which is ex pected to become immediately popular. Oregon will receive approximately. $3,000,000 for road Improvement work from the federal government during the next three years under the terms of the transportation bill just signed by President Harding, according to Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer. Tragedy marred the Portland Rose Festival marine parade, when H. B. Conroy .boatswain's mate aboard the battleship Connecticut, fell overboard from his vessel's entry In the parade and was drowned in the river a few feet below the draw span of the Morrison-street bridge. Eight crews, all said to be employed by the same Interests, have begun cruising as many separate tracts of timber in the Nehalem valley. Who the crews represent is not known but the extensive cruising is believed to he the forerunner of the sale of some large holdings of tlmberlands in that district. Through action of the national geo graphic board, made known in a letter received at Bend Commercial club headquarters, the name of John Y. Todd, early pioneer of central Oregon, receives a permanent place on the scenic map of the state. Lost lake has ceased to be. Todd lake takes Its place. When the period for filing applica tions with the state bonus and loan commission expired, a total of 31.974 ex-service men had applied for loans and cash bonuses. No further appli cations will he accepted. Cash appli cations received total 18,287, repre MBtlng $3,528,589.70, and applications for loans number 13,687. requesting loans in the amount of $.'13,751,400. At a special meeting of the Canb city council, an ordinance providin" for the collection of a license fee fron' all stage companies stopping in Canbj was passed. The license fee was no' set by the councllmen, but probabl;. will be at the first meeting In Jul) The fact that the stages will be chart d a fee when stopping here ha arou nd public interest. A number of bus: ness men have expressed disapproval of the ordinance. According to a statement issued by Clyde O. Huntley. 67,640 personal in come tax returns, i epn senting net in come of $19:!.652,:'81 and normal ami surtax of IM4I.011, were filed In th Oregon office of the Internal revenue collector for the cHlendar year Of 1920 These figures show 17,977 more re turns filed tlist in 191 S, and a total net increase in income of $27,411.7.ri lilt a decrease of $1,583,426 In tax BOl lected In Orgon shnl and city traffic officer, pleaded guilty in City Recorder Godfrey's court to charges of disorderly conduct, and were fined $10 each. The fines were the result of the fistic battle In the McBrldge school shed In West St Helens between Officer Hoffmiller and E. E. Dewey Harrison, St. Helens groceryman. The fight was refereed by Marshal Potter. Appeals in four of the friendly suits filed against the state bonus commis sion to test angles of the bonus law were filed with the supreme court un ler a stipulation which provides for 'he argument of al! four cases at the !ame time. Points involved in the our suits include the right of a mother f a deceased ex-service man to pari : Spate in the bonus benefits, the right f an ex-service man to Invest his onus loan in business stocks and the iUPRtlon as to whether bonus money as to be regarded as part of the es tate of a deceased ex-service man or .vent to the widow as a personal gift. David F. West, 70, a farmer, shot iml killed C. M. Kendall, sheriff of Ltnn county, and the Rov. Roy Healy, astor of the Albany First Christian hurch, at West's farm home near 'latnvlew, where they had gone to ook for an Illicit still, concerning vhtch the sheriff had received ln 'ormatlon. Relatives of West tele phoned the news of what had occurred nd a potse of off1 ears and citizens ahered and surrounded the house. 'Vest thereupon bade his wife a good bye, which he told her would be his ' ist, sent her to the home of a neigh bor and then shot and killed himself. The general upward trend In the lumber business of the Pacific Coast has already resulted in the boosting of the price of box shooks From 13 to 15 cents each. Cra'r Lake lintel has changed bnnds. A. L. Parkhurst has sold his interest In the confession without res ervation, to the Crater Lake National Park company. George A White, adjutant general of Oregon, was promoted from colonel to brigadier general 111 the national guard at Camp Lewis, according to advices received from camp. Two hundri d members of the Knight of Pyihias lodges of Central Oregon attended the degree work staged on he top of Pilot Butte In Bend, the firs! uldoor Initiation held in Central Ore Mb r'orty-six work horses were burned 0 death in the stables of James Lyons. 1 Portland contractor, 222 Union ivemie, Friday night in a blaze that id comparatively little damage other wise. Alleged failure to enforce prohlbl lion laws, and general Inefficiency on the part of Olfl Nelson, sheriff of Clat nop county, are said to be the basis of petitions asking a special election to eeall the sheriff. Tom Chrlsleusen, 38, prominent farmer and stockman, was instantly killed at Haines when a hay den irk he was moving came In contact with a high voltage line of I lie Western Oregon Light k Power company. Otis Patterson has resigned as one of the board of appraisers for Grant county, representing the world war veteran' ma am ootnxnlseloa for On-toii H Moore of John Day has been recommended as his successor. J. ('.. Stevens, engineer for tin Kla math Drainage district, (lied with tin state engineer ten. alive plans by which the district expects to Issu bonds In the sum Ol $20,000 and to d' velop approximately 17,000 aCTCf of land. Heppner Herald Sam Hoartjnian, father of and i booster extraordinary tor the town that Dears his name, was a visitor here Thursday night enlisting repre sentatives from Heppner to attend a meeting of the Portland Chamber of Commerce on June 2fi when that body has promised to get behind the Umatilla Rapids power project and help put 'er thru. Mr. llourdman wants every community in the country adjacent or tributary to the rapids to send at least one dele gate to the Portland meeting just to show the Portland fellows that the Inland Umpire means business. If the Umatilla project Is developed It will mean the reclamation of 50,000 acres alon gthe north boundary of the John Day project, Mr Itoardman says, and he is already looking for means to pry that chunk of acreage loose from the John Day and attach it to the Umatilla project. "It may take sonic jack screws and dyna mite to jar it loose" Sam says, "but It is good siol and the town of lioardman will need it in a few years to make it become the metropolis of eastern Oregon." Mr. Boardman is always boosting for his town and mostly carries a supply of bail to attract and hoi 1 his audience. This trip it was a huge brick o1' Swisi, cheese made t.i 'he Boardmait Creamery Co., and to s: tnat it was tine cneeae is to put tue or.:t i iciidly Sam says h ,. aa has a boquet all its own, its charac (eristics being so pronounced as to sometimes lead to wrong conclusions. Mr. Boardman says the Missionary society has reorganized and is again doing fine work and that Jack (lor ham reports ' business good In the store. NEW MEXICAN ' CRISIS DEVELOPS Bandit Activities and Holding of Americans for Ransom Causes Discussion. IRRIGATION WATER SI IM'LY SHORT IS Irrigation water supply which so far this year has run ovcept ionalb well, according A. E Perry, stale watermaster for dislrlct No. 5, be very short from this date this year. The Umatilla river which has ion high late in the season is now down I" a nieasuremerr (if 14 1 I OOP lid loot .! Campbell, real liarnhart, and is ,!iping at II." rntf of 20 feet a o tv. 'The watet ; going fast," V r id'ier Perrv neea-.ti. Butt ' ft!i is aotieaUv (ii ami atkor wr 9 I hat section is low The Furnish res ervior will be dry July tl as five feet water have now been drawn and two feet per day are being used. The westrn land ditch, operated by the West land irrigation district l now cut off form the river and the only ditch outside of the government pro ject which will oontihtti running thru the summer is the Allen ditch which is the oldest water right in the county and which supplies the alf alfa ranches about Echo. At present the government reser voir Is practically full, the canal run from the river contlnunlg two weak! longer than usual and slopping only June 15. This run from the river was possible only on account of the continued high run ot mountain water, w atermasler ferry declares thai It is likely that the government dam will stop the tea on with as high which gets Its water from the Umatll ply thru the summer which Is not ex pected lo run short of 126 second feet during the hot weather. People of the east end of the county have prac tically an assiipd water supply from county. Washington, D. C The holding of forty American citizens for ransom by a Mexican general near Tampico, coming on the heels of the kidnaping of A. Bruce Bielaskt, former chief of the bureau of Investigation of the de partment of justice, has produced an other crisis in American relations with Mexico. The two incidents have served to call In question President Obregon's power to protect Americans in Mex ico and to bring the Harding admin istration face to face with the prob lem of enforcing respect for Amer icans and their property rights. Although the customary represen tations have been made to the Mex ican government by the state depart ment, the use of armed forces by the United States to rescue thy imperiled Americans and provisions for their fu ture protection has been broached la the councils of the administration. The forty American citizens and American property valued at a quur ler of a million dollars are being held tot ransom by the Mexican Ueneral dorozabe. The seizure occurred Sun day morning and forty-eight hours from that time was ullowed for the payment of 15,000 pesos ransom. The property belongs to the Cortei Oil company, an American concern carrying on extensive operations In the Tampico field. The property seiz 1 d was located at the Aguare station of the company, and the forty Amer icans captured are believed to have been employes of the company or at least connected with the oil Indus try In that region. BROOKINGS BANK WINS INJUNCTION Portland, Ore. A permanent Injunc tion was granted the Brookings State hank, or llrookings, Ore., restraining the Federal Keaorve bank of San Fran cisco from sending checks and drafts drawn upon the Brookings hank direct lo the institution demanding "remit lance in full without deduction for ex change or collection charges," by Judge Charles e. Wolvsrton, iu United states district court. The decision rendered In the Brook ings case is of national Importance, as it uffoctH state banks throughout the country that are not members of the Federal Reserve system. All suoh hanks, being without the pale of the federal reserve act, have the right, If they see fit, to charge reasonable ex ciiatige on remittances, according to the ruling. Contract has been let and work started on a new three-story doruiltwry on the campus of the girls' college of the Eugene Bible university. George Quayle, secretary of the Ore gon State Chamber of Commerce, has submitted his resignation to the board of directors of that organization. Resumption of work on a projected railway fine between Klamath Falls and Bend has been undertaken in a modest way, according to R. K Btra horn. Work on the construction of a diver sion dam In the Deschutes river ami a canal to carry water to the Tumalo feed canal Is expected to be startsd by July 1. HOME II SWEET ra HOME vi oeMre 'AC K INb , Au 'O (-A s-r I 1 'ftfV ' OM.fAAMMAcj CAN l'4iSW,JWJf l E I rt-TI rnm ""A to out ahd play ow!V rK2Sifjp took aayv. 1 ' ' AU MkuH TM 1 YOU