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PI mm r- VOL. 2 BOARDMAN, OFtEON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1923 NUMBER 9 ALEXANDER P. MOORE msB'i Alexander P. Moore, Pittsburgh pab lisher, who is now American minister to Spain. WOMAN FRUSTRATES PGSTOFFICE RORRERY Granite Falls, Wash. An attempt by three bandits to rob the Granite Falls postoffice was frustrated by Mrs. Florence Carpenter, wife of the post master, who, clad only in her night clothes, engaged in a running gun fight with the bandits, driving them off after more than a, dozen shots had been exchanged. No one was Injured. Postmaster Carpenter said thero was an unusually large amount of money in the postoffice vault, includ ing payrolls for a number of logging camps in the vicinity. The bandits, who had jimmied the front door of the building, had fired one shot of nitroglycerin in the vault when they were discovered. Mrs. Carpenter was awakened by the first shot and from a window in her house, 100 feet distant, saw one of the bandits maintaining a lookout in front of tife building. She armed her self with a .22-callber pistol and rush ed to the front porch, opening fire. Two other men joined the lookout and returned the fire. They fled, pursued by Mrs. Carpenter, and made good their escape. PARENTS PETITION THAT TEACHERS 1510 RE-ELdBCTED This year is the first school year in OUT his ory that the patrons are well pleased with our teaching corps. Tile tfiachers, a great number of thsm, are anxious to know if their Bo rv lees .-il! he desired next year. It i- not right that any school board Should delay asking the teachers to i iain next year, if their services ! i- been what we desire. So a few b the parents have signed the fol-i- . iug petition. Inasmuch as the present corps of hers is giving good satisfaction ! :a : m-h as they desire to know il tiio parctua '.a..T tlioir services another year, we, the undersigned, in this maimer, recommend that i no bi : hool board urge them to stay v. 1th us, and not wait longer, as the herj are anious to know where they will locate another year: Signed S. fit. ISoardman, Paul Smith, C. ft. Blayden, Mr. and Mrs. C. E Berger, 1 . Mead, J. F. Gorham, Mrs. Marvel il. Gorman, Mrs. e. h. Blayden, Mrs. C. D. Albright, Mrs. J. It. John; on, Mrs. Ray Brown, Mrs. Oscar I3eck, Mrs. D. F. Kansi' r.Mrs. Royal Hands, Mrs. H. W. Klages, Mrs. T. V. Denip sey, J. R. Johnson, E. T. Messenger, Mrs. J. M. Allen, Florence Root, Annabelle H. Boardman, Mrs. Mary Messenger, Mrs. L. V. Kutzner, Mrs. JSarl D. Cramer, Earl D. Cramer, and Mrs. Lee Mead. BOARDMAN BEATS tONE IX FIRST BASiiP.ALL GAME SURVEY VETS' HOSPITALS , i ' By a ECcre of 4 to 3 Roardman took first blood of the baseball sea son from the crack team lone sent here Sunday. Kcyes pitched the en tire game for Boardman and showed up in fine form. lone got two runs in the second and one in the third, but after that were unable to get a man across, while Boardman the longer she played the better she got, gathering up one run in the filth, one In the eighth and two in the ninth. I.es Dlakeley came over from Faint ilia to watch the game from the bench, but Itoardman put him in as a pinch hitter in the ninth and he laced out a two-bagger that won the ratno, even though lone put Roche to the box. We go to lone next Sunday and, as Sai 4 Itoardman says, there is blood on the moon. So everybody go over and rot, for lone will sure gang up on us to get revenge. The playerp: Hoard-nan Power, Jess, 2b Lee. Guy, short Macomber, Nate, lb Keyos, V., p. Mafford, Al, If Macomber, Al, m Rands, Ray, 3b Wat kins, Dale, c McLoughlln, Phil, Davis, sub. rf Program Throughout Nation to Be Investigated, Says Director Hinea. Washington, D. C. A complete sur vey of the veterans' bureau hospital program Is being made.-Directcr Hines says, to determine whether existing facilities are adequate both as to the number of beds and as to the condi tion of the hospital buildings The first establishments to he ex amined, it was indicated, are those in the district comprising southern California. Another establishment is the Livermore, Cal., project. The survey eventually will comprise forty-eight hospitals in the veterans' bureau program and if it is found that the program cannot be completed un der present appropriations, additional money will be asked. one Hanks, U., ss l ock. G. 2b Cochran, c "i 'it man, W Rejtrmka, o., Ro 'he, p-ni Lewis, rf Dlake, m-p Reiunan, V. Linn Score by Innings : 12 3 4 Hnardhian lone , 3b lb If 5 6 7 8 9 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 2100000 0- Yucatan Ruins Date to 450 A. D. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. hxamlna tlon of the Maya ruins of Chichonitza. just completed by the American scien tist, Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, has brought to light evidences of a civiliza tion dating back to the middle of the fifth century A. D., which Dr. Morley says was the most advanced of any iii the western hemisphere prior to th discovery of America by Columbus. Catholic Vicar Executed By Soviet. Moscow. Monsignor Constantine 1 Butchkavitch, v car general of the , Roman Catholic church in Russia, con j demned to death for wilfully opposing i the soviet government, has been exe ! cuted by a firing squad. Appeals from the outside world,, which had poured in upon the roviet authorities, had no I effect in staying the hand of their Farm Lana Ban f jper is called. Washington, D. C The federal farm loan board called for redemption May 1 of all outstanding bonds of the 12 farm banks issued May 1, 1918. The total of the issue by the 12 banks is $55,032,000. The action of the farm loan board in calling all of the 1918 issue of land bank bonds for retire ment was accepted aa foreshadowing an early issue of new bonds at a lower rate of interest than the 5 per cent rate carried by the obligations which are to be retired. I OiiEiiBN NEWS NOUS OF IMPORTANT EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK Joe Siemens and J. W. Casey, trus ties at the state penitentiary, have es caped. The bankers of Oregon will rt'.vt in annual convention in A'Jjany, June 8 and 9. The cannery fleet which goes to Alaskan waters will leave Astoria early in the month. An enrollment at Oregon Arrrloul tural collpge to date of 3411 students for this year has been announced. The last of the Oregon district con ferences of American Leglcn pys'.s I -year will be held in Portland on April 14. A general riso in the wage scale at the plant of the Hawley Puip & Paper company at Oregon City was put in to effect April 1. II. B. Van Duzer of Portland has ac cepted appointment as a member of the state highway commission to sue ceed John B. Yeon. f) A big advert s.n eov.;;aiTn to puss the sale of Holstein milk will be in augurated at once by the Lane County Holstein-Friesian association. The McKenzie Swiss Cheese com pany, which operates a factory heat Thurston, in Lone county, has nrrans ed to bring in a herd of about 20 reg istered Holstein cows. The highest temperature ever re cord; d in Portland in March was r tered at the wea.her bureau . t last week when the termomoter r. i ed 82 degree.-, wh . 3 degress abovi the former record. The new ly appointed members of thi male paroie noaru ne;u iu.2ir ma. meeting in Saiem last week. A largi number of application for parole were considered, -but in most cases deflnit' action was deferred. Prospncts for a bi:mper charry crop in the Willamette valley were ne, better than at the present time, ac cording to W. M. V n Trump, Marion county (rait inspector, who recent l made a survey of the orchards. Governor Pierce and members cf the state irrigation and drainage, securi ties commission left Salem Tuesday fir southern and central Orc-;:n. win r they will Inspect a number of the larger irrigation projects In the state. Christopher Qulgley, Klamath Falls logging contractor, was killed when the automobile which he was driving from Yreka to Hnrr.brook, Cal., skid ded off the rim of the road at a turn and fell 140 feet into the Shasla river. Charles L. McNary, senator from Oregon, has returned to, Washington D. C, from the guif str.tcs. where he has been presiding over hearings of the senate committee of reforestation. He will remain thsre Indefinitely to hold further hearings. In a letter to the Astoria Chamber of Commerce, A. B. Hamm-nd of Sin Francisco, head of the Hammond Lum ber company, announced that he will visit Astoria wiihin the next GO days to take up the matter of rebuilding tin company's big miil there. Loganberry growers of Marion coun ty, aga'nH wh: m Judgments aggregat ing $122 000 recently wore obtained by the Salem Kruit union and the Phez company, have announced that the case will be appealed to the supreme f-ourt far final determination. Owners o: for h re-car garages, who rent automobile to bootleggers, must sue in the federal court to recover their properly, If the rented machli: is seized by dry arents, according ) a ruling male by Dr. J. A. Llnvilf . natioual prohibition director for Ore gon. Clips of wool, estimated to be of total we ght of 125,000 pounds, chang ed hands at Pendleton when wool growers of the Pilot Rock and Butt' r creek country sold to J. W. Beymer ' Heppner. Prices reported on the i jority of the clips was 42 xk cents pound. Production for the 128 mills report ing to the West Coast Lumberm -n -association for the week ended March 24 was 16 per cent above normal, ac corn ne, to a report issued. New bust n; ss was 4 per cere, above normal and tfeipmi nta were 10 per cent above now business. Owners of property in the burned area of Astoria have reached an agree merit as to the type of construction tfcey desire in the rebuilding of the streets. 1 hey have asked the coun ell to call for bids on a fill with re juforeed concrete retaining walls only, thns e'lim'natlng the lalked-of fill with Utepped bulkheads. Tn estimated cost of tlrs proposed Improvement Is about fooo.coo. I Because of the circulation of reports that Governor Pitrce in. e. ids to re duce the e.;:nse of conducting the state highway department by weeding out a lar;;e number of employes, a dele gation of highway engineers visited the executive and urged taat he re frain from demoralizing the depart ment through any drastic action. Fires in the peat and tulle deposits of Lower Klamath lake have broken out again, according to reports re ceived from Klamath Fails by United States Game Warden Steele. Conserv ationists are considering i.he possibil ity of letting in water from Upper Klamath lake to the dry bed of tin lower lake to put out the fire if it continues. Sam A. Kozer, secretary of s;ate, has sent letters to the heads of all state departments and institutions re questing information to be Included In the Ulue Hook for the years 192:' and 924. The Blue Book contains -arse amount of information reg. nl Ing state activities, and is printed un der an appropriation authorized by the legislature. The Marion county court has an noiiuced that it was ready to proceed with the construction of the Pudding river bridge on the route of the Pa cific highway between Salem and Port land and that the next move is up to the Clackamas county officials. A lid of $74,000 has been received and is now before the state highway officluls for approval. Announcement by representatives of the Sacramento Investment company of Sacramento, Cal., which recently ac quired title to the 401 ranch near Med ford, one of the largest orchard prop erties in that vicinity, that the' white employes would be replaced by Jap anese, has called forth vigorous pro tests from varioua civic and fraternal organizations. Brigadier-General Mitchell, assistant chief of the air service of the United States army, with headquarters at Washington, D. C, Is expected to visit Oregon within a few days, according; to word received at EttffMa from Crissey field, Sin Francisco. General Mitcaell will confer with state and fed eral forest officials while in Oregon Regarding the air fire putrol. There were three futulltles duo to ndustrial accidents in Oregon in th i week ending March 29, according to a report prepared by the state indus trial accident commission. The vic ims were Howard House, chaser, Ureshanl; Olof E. Peterson, laborer, Sumpter, and John Heberson, powder man, S.xes. A total of 1(7 act ioents were reported to the commission. Taxes to be raisi d In the state of Oregon for the year 1923, based on the tax rolls for last year, will ex ceed the returns fur the year 1922, bas ed on the tax rolls for the previous year, by approximately $540,000. This was Indicated in a comparative state ment for the years 1922 and 1923, is sued by the state tax commission. For the year 1923 there wili be raised a total tax of $40,942,271.73, as against $40,401,709.21 last year Berry and hopgrowers of the Wil lamette valley are reported to be con fronted by one of the most ser ous labor situation in their history. They need workers, but declare they can not afford to pay more than 20 cents an hour. This wage has been refused by laborers, who prefer the logging ' amps and other Industries, where bet 'er wages prevail. Unless there Is re ief some of the growers said it would he necessary to cut down their cul tivated acreage. BOARDMAN MAY HAVE NiOW OHEBHB FACTORY Prospects are flatering for a new cheese factory in Boardman.- Jacob Marty of Jacob Marly & Son, whole sale clies( dealers of oPrtland, was In Boardman last Friday and went over the project to interview the local dairymen and on Sulurday mot with tiu ranchers to put before them the pronoeition of Blurting a cheese fac tory here. If liie milk from 75 or 80 cows is assured Alt'. Mauiy will estab lish t lie i';t( tory. C. G. Blayden tells us feigned up 60 for sure and mo re tentatively assured J. HAMILTON LEWIS he has has 80 if l he sal will ranchers' are confident th go through. Portland prices for butlerfat will be paid and five cents additional lor skimmed milk. A charge of Hi cents will be made for collecting milk. n option has been taken on the ilany Murohie building. . r. Marty agrees to install a churn if the factory is started so enough made lo supply local be 'titter may demand. The petition Wednesday. was sent to Portland POWEB BANQUET BOOKED iiydm-iiicctiic League t Olve Celebration April 20. .' banquet to celebrate tJ:e c.p p uprlation o:' a total of $7,),"o:i ! u 'ne Invostigv.tion of the (J .urn !la '.apids hydro-electric project on the Columbia river will be giv t Friday, April 20, by (he Hydro-Elect fit league of Oregon, The asaoclat'on is !0 ;!'( ed of people in the State 'n teie trd in the development of by dio electric power as the bjrin o! fntUrfl development of the district. 1 he appropriation i n i v e $00,000 by the federal government ..nd $10,000 by the sta e. At the din ner n. J. sinnott, representative in ongresa from the second dl trict Cyril 0. Brovnell, representative loot Ml'ltno'.i'Sli county. Gov r:n" Pi i"i and Guy W Phelps, pre Ident of !h Uma'llla Ifapids association, will b among iho ipna hss. The banquet is to be hold at the Chamber of Commerce1 at 0:30 o'clock. Reservations at $i.ro a plate can le made by calling P. O !oUl t, Main 2S09, or F. K. B.'ach, . troadvay 0525. ftOYAfj NKIGIIBOItK iTHI-:it; pisrrsH D.ATiis of vuunava The Royal Neighbors held t, ir fitvt regular meeting Tuesday even ing al the J. !' i'( r' a' i home. Date of iiioeti'ig were thoroughly dl cu ted nnd in order 'o accommodate the ma OTlty of those, living at a distance ro' l town. It was d 'eided lo meet the Piral Thursday and the third Tu day of ea ii monfi. The la i Ineeting to be a social meeting wlih t-he M. W. A. April 17, will be the io! nii"-t-g date and a social time is being planned. I'MV.i BO.BI MIOIiTS The Park Hoard mel Saturday v ning at Mrs. I layden's iiouse to attend to business so necessary to set work begun. Mr. King had sent notice he could not serve and Mr. Boardman was elected to take hjj 4ace Mr. BoardmaD, Paul siuith.Mr. itands and Mr. Blayden were to look n r the puk i rotinds, mark out the lay of the ditches, and report as soon is po I bio. We decided on the name '.'Project Pari;". Former Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago photographed on his return from Europe, where he spent a year ss American observer at Genoa and Lausanne conferences. AMERICA TO REVISE ALL NAV-U DATA Washington, D. C. Steps taken by the navy department to prevent re currence of the incident which recent ly led to the withdrawal by Secretary Hughes of certain comments on Brit ish aaxai activity, may result in each of the nations signutory to the Wash Ittgton naval treaty being put on rec ord us to their programs under the provit out of that agreement. Orders have been issued for a care ful revision of all Information In the files of the government hearing upon the world's principal navies. Data de rived from unofficial sources, no mat ter how reliable, will be pla nly so labeled and information which cannot be lUbStantl&tsd will be weeded out. It Is believed a f.irmal request will be made for Information desired from the different governments, by the dif ferent naval at Inches. The altitude of the various admiral ties to such an approach is awa ted with deep interest by officials here as having especial bearing upon the con troversy us to the Interpretation to be placed on some clauses of the naval agreement. One million or mors feet of fir tlni ber in the Siuslaw f rest on the Alsea river 12 miles from aldport has been sold to the Laws n Logging company at g 1 . 2 T per 100 J feet, according to an nouncement at the of; OS of Ralph S Shelley, supervisor of this forest, at Eug( ne. This company will cut the timber, drag t to the Alsei, raft It down that stream to the logging rail way and then haul It to the Yarpiina river, where It v.-'ll a;;ain bo rafted to the mill at Toll do. i fresh f 3 from the ) factory FRESH EKIEF general news J. K. Reynolds of La Grnude waB looted president of thS Oregon state fair board, which held its annual meet ing in S inn. Six German workers at the Krupp Plgnt In Ksseli have been killed and twenty Injured in a conflict with the Fii in h military. Bi Khedive Abbas Hllml or Egypt i has been expelled from S.in Remo by the Italian goven ment for allogud propaganda activities. j 'I he OregOU state tax on gasoline nti'l distillate produced revenue of ' $07,704 77 during Pehruary, or an in crease of 2.r per ci nt over the remit tances in February, i'.22 In nine unelng that It estimated world Production of beet aad cane sugar for the crop year 11122 2.'! at 20,- 450,000 short tons, the department of agriculture said it was not prepare! to estimate the probable consumptive demand. Married men employed by the New Orleans city government were thrown into consternation with the announce ment that hereafter their pay Checks would he mailed to their home ad-dn-.-ses Instead of being handed to then in parson. Vt T O B AC CO J I ROLL YOUH OWN WITH I E Hi L. Crnl Papers Attt ln-rf A ; Pit Stock Promoters Are Arrested. Fort Worth, Tex. -With the surren- der of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic SXploreT and ml promoter, to federal au liorities, a total of twenty oil men have either been Utken Into custody or I surrendered and have ben arraigned I before United States Commissioner ; George Parker on charges ol (raudu I lent uses of the rnu I Cook is presi dent and sole trustee of the Petroleum Producers' association.