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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1923)
11 reb-1 VOL. 2 BOA RDM AN, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1923 NUMBER 11 HARRY L KEEFE L ir'ESE BANI KIDNAP PASSENGERS Pek'n. One foreigner was killed ai:d 150 passengers were carried olf v. hen bandits held up the Shanghai Fekin exprtss train on the Tientsin p.i; in railway near the Shantung border according lo word received hare. Miss Lucy Aldrich cf New York c ty, daughter of the late United States Snator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhod L .-'.ad and s'lter-in-law 'of Joiin D. Rockefeller Jr.was among the passen ger. The foreigner killed was believed to be a Russian. sjhe express train was northbound from Soochow when attacked by the bandits, who tcre up a long stretch of railroad track. Fifty first class and 100 second-class passengers were car ried off, it was reported here. Six foreigners escaped. OHtGON NEWS NOTES OF IMPIIR1ANT EVLNTS HAPPtNiNU DURING WEEK Harry L. Ksefo of Nebraska, who was elected head of the United States Grain Growers, the marketing firm cf the American Farm Bureau federation. ON LIQUOR FEARED Washington, D. C. The suprem a court decision barring liquor on shii s in American waters will be so liberally construed that there will be no com plications with foreign powers, it was indicated at the White House. While the government is proceeding with extreme caution in drawing up i the regulations that are to be effei -tive June 10, it was said that these wi'i take into consideration the comity and amity between the nations established by international law. It was not intimated whether soma loophole would be found which wouU enable foreign ships to bring liquor in under seal, or to class wine and rum rations for crews as other than bever age liquors. Ambassador Jusserand, the French envoy here, acting on instructions from Premier Poincare, conferred with Secretary of States Hughes and in an j extended conference set forth tb.3 . views of his government, which while not in the form of a written note, was in the nature of a protest. GERMAN OFFER REJECTED French and Belg an Governments Agree Proposals Unsatisfactory. Paris. France and Belgium have again served notice on Germany that ttaay Intend the reparations bill shall be paid in full and that there will ha no consideration of any German pro posal as long as passive resistance in the Ruhr continues to bs the Reiche watchword. The French note to Germany was Communicated in substance to Pre mier Mussolina of Italy before the final draft was made, it was declare 1 In official circles, and he expressed full approval of it, agreeing with Pre mier Poincare that the German pro posal could not be taken into consideration. Seattle Port Project Wins. Seattle, Wash. Returns from Sc ot "e's municipal election, referendum on bond issues and port district elec tion indicated that the voters passed the proposal to build a bridge over the Ll ko Washington canal near the Uni v i si'y of Washington and granted a 3 mill tax for a school building cam paign and that the port district ap proved toe proposal to develop the SI. inner & Eddy wartime shipyard site as part of the Port of Seattle. The 75O,000 school bond is ;ue w as lost. Tacoma Passes $2,400,000 School Bond. Tacoma, Wash. The 12,400.000 bona election for new schools for Tacoma carried nearly 3 to 1 on the face of unofficial returns. Two school direc tors running for re-election were re turned to office. Spokane Re-Elects Mayor. Spokane, Wash. Incumbent city commissioners, Mayor Charles A. Fleming and Dr. Ralph Hendricks, were re-elected on the basis of the returns in the city election. THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat Hard white, $1.31; soft white, western white, $1.23; hard win ter, $115; northern spring and re 1 western, $1.16. Hay Alfalfa, $22 per ton; valley timothy, $26; eastern Oregon timothy. $27. Butter Fat 41c. Eggs Ranch, 2328c. Cheese Tillamook cream, 26c Young Americas, 27c; block Swisi 33 35c; cream brick, 31 33c. Cattle Choice steers. $8.25 $9. medium to good, $7.258. Sheep Choice spring lambs, $11 12; medium spring lambs, $1011. Hogs Prime light. $8.759.1Q smooth heavy, $7.50 8.75. Seattle. Wheat Hard white, $1.30; soft white, $1.25; western white, $1.24, hard and soft red winter, northern tpring, western red, $1.19. Butter Fat 41 43c. Kggs Ranch, 2228c. Cattle Prime steers, $89; me dium to choice, $7.258. Hogs Prime light, $8.7539.25; imooth heavy, $7.25 8.25. Indict Ex-Banker on Two Counts. Tillamook, Or. Frank A. Rowe, who was connected with the Nehalem Valley bank at Wheeler, Much was dosed by the state bank examiner O. tober 25, 1920, was indicted by the ccuntv grand jury on two counts, charging him with Mt)baiatnent of piblio runds. it was announced. Rowe at oiip time represented Tillamook iu the Rtatp legislature. Chinese Promise Ransom Payment. Washington, D. C. The l'ekin gov ernment bus promised to pay the ran ge m demanded by Chinese bandits who captured American citizens and a num ber of foreign nationals after wreck In1; the Suanghai-Pekin express Sun day morning, the state department was ad . ised by Jacob G. Schuriuan, Amer ican minister st l'ekin. Forces at war against the western ill e beetle in the Klamath Falis dls- rict were elated by a telegram from iacramento saying the governor ha.! icned the bdl creat.ng beetle contro. ,it:icts in California fmd providing . r coii palsory contributions towaro iie bee.'.e traJ.caticn tund by tini e.- owners therein. 7o know how rood a cigarette really can oe madty you must try a-y IIstrikeJI WNCIGARETTE, The annual raestins of 'he State Bar as-celadon wje held in Portland. Forty six new buildings and Wfu m 11a ara under construction at Resilt -pcrt. United States Senator McNary wi'.l arrive In Sal. in May 20 to spend the summer. Three trusties employed at the stat penitentiary wood dftuip near Marion escaped last week. Mere than 3G00 Shriners attended thj Willamette valley ceremonial hj! 1 In Salem Saturday. The new lath mill of the Winchnstf Bey Lumber company of R-edspor ha3 began operations. Fish Lake has been selected as th site of the permanent camp of the Bo. Scouts of Linn county. As a result of an 861 to 587 vot, the honor system will be tried ou, at the Oregon Agricultural college. The highway over the Cascades X way of the Willamette pats is expect ed to be open earlier this year tha-. usual. PrscMdent Harding will spend th; F( urth of July in Portland and lea( ( the! following day on a battleship tv.i Alaska. Thursday is the day scheduled f the dedication of the new $1,260.01'-hydro-electric plant, just completed o Hood river. Appointment of Mrs. Mary V. Char ton of Powell Butte, as justice of th peace, has given Crook county its firt woman magistrate. The sale from 'he Oswego pos if4 which was stolen on the night of Jane ary 2G has been found four miles froi; Vancouver, Wash. The Salem Kiv.anis club is leadin; all the clubs in the United States ii the ten weeks' attendance contei which will end this week. Concrete workers and other aerc! skilled building trades craft worker! wont on strike at Portland, refusing t w oik for less than ?0 a day. Wiiliain B. Gretiey, chief f t. si of the United States forest service will arrive in Poland on a lour ci national forest inspection May 20. Reduced rates to compete with thosi arnouneed recently by the Oregoi. Electric railroad have been put iuti eLect by the Southern Pacific com pany. Nearly 1000 persons attended tin ninth annual field and track meet at Talent conducted under the ausptoei of the Jackson Couaty Athletic asso oiation. A meeting pf alfalfa growers, whos. crops are menaced by tue eel orm, I pi st which is fast spreading owi th oastern Oregon country was b( Id a Marmislon. First Lieutenant Benjamin Full Doris, of Eugene, has been ci'.sd b. the war department to receive th. silver star for gallantry in acton ll the world war. Senator McNary has advised th; Portland Chamber of Commerce lha. his measure extending market newt service to th s coast w ill become oper ative about July 1. The public service commission hat set Friday as the day for heating ? complaint filed by the Payette -Oregon Slope Irrigation district against the 'daho Power comp any. Burglars, gaining entrance by let ting themselves down from a skylight In the roof, looted the A. M. William t Co. store at The Dalles of mi ri han dle valued in excess of $1500. Preliminary steps have been taken at Salem to initiate at the general election In 1924 a cot.stitutional amendment fixing the legal tat- of in terest in Oregon at 6 per cent. District fire wardens from ail parts of Oregon will 3te mble In Balem .V 21 and 22, in the first statewide con ference to be held under the directiM of the state forestry department. Umatilla county's wool clip for 1923 of close to 1,300,01,0 pounds is report ed foid. The price ranges between 40 and 44 cents, between five and s;veu cents better than that of last year. Dr. Richard B. Dillehunt, dean of the University of . Oregon medical school, has been chosen as surgeon in chief Of the Portland unit of the Shrlners' ho.spitals for crippled chii divn. A movement; has been begun by tha Clackamas county farm bureau to en deavor to join with three otlur eoun ties of Oregon to organ ze an asso elation for the grading and market ing of potatoes grown in Clackamas Multnomah, Washington and Columbia The matter is to be taken up with the state farm bureau. The Southern Paclffc company had an operating Income of $41,726,048 69 during the year 1922, according to thf annual report of lh ccrpo a.ion filer' with the public service commission. More than 300 Salem men and wo men attended a mass meeting in tha dty and adopted resolutions protes' ing against the high sugar prices. boycott of the sw et was demanded. To finance an extra sivs progra: if street iniprovem; CtS, which it ; toped to start by the middle of Jun; ha Lend city council voted to advei iise for bids on $200,000 worth o. imids. With nearly 200 pioneers of Wasco ;ouniy in attendance, and an addition il 200 gu. Ets. t'ae ByCo:!.: a' nu.il re inion of the Old Wasco County Pio leers' association was hsld at The Oalles. Employes of the B ik;'r V.'h'te tine Lumber company of Baker celebrated Way day. especially set aside by the 1. W. W. ps a day of paralysis for the tdustry, by turning iu a record cut of tnbi r. The Errwnlre Lumber company I mill In Medford, with a capacity of 125,000 feet every eight hourj, bas iecu sold by J. N. Prownlee to M. 1). Olds, owner of the Pacific & Eastern ratlrcad. Motor vehicle registration fe-cs f o ' the month of April aggregated Z9Bv 765.25, according to a report prepared by the seen tnry of state. A total of )5!-2 passenger automobiles were reg istered during the month. A great rush of landseekers to Ruse burg Is expected as a result of tha announcement of the general land of fice at Washington that 220,000 acres nf land in Coos and Douglas OOUntiCS will be thrown open to entry. James Blair Miller, 82, brother of 'he late Jor.quin Miller, poet, died at h's home at Creawell, near I u'4' ti I, from an attack of pneunion.a. II I eaBM across the plains to Oregon In 1862 and settled near Coburg, Lane county. Completed petitions looking to the referendum of the so-called oleomar garine law enacted at the last sessioa i tlid legislature were filed in IBS of fices oi the secretary of state at Balem, the petitions contain approxlma eiy 10,500 names. Arguments for publication in the votcts' pamphlet lor and against the 3tate income tax law, which v. Ill be subjected to the referendum at a spec al elettion to be hold in NOVemher, most be filed with the secretary of stale by May 18. A handsome granite boulder with sun d.al on top was unveiled at Med ford in tribute to the memory of Mi.'.. Julia CheeUiam Fielder, veteran teach ar, who had taught 2U years alone in ths Washington school in that c ty and who died last July. Ex service men will be given 91 days preference In filing on 220, ",69 acrs of land In Coos and Dou as unties thrown open to settlement by the sec retaiy of the Interior. The lan I wa originally part of the On g in & Culi foruia ati i the Coos Lay 'wagon roao grants. Charles L. McNary. sena'or from Oregon, has left Washington wit. the senate commission for ref r ta tion, of which he is chairman, far M gan and Minnesota to hold a seii. s : hearing. At the conclusion of th. hearing he will go to Oregon for thi summer. Investigation of :he facililbs afford ; ed by the Northern Pacific Tormina, c.inpany, owners cf the union siatiui prope.ty In l eriloni. with relation tc the handling of traffic, depot accommo ilatlons and yard practices, will be un- : dertaken by the Oregon public serv ice emm :;lon. ON flekib e tariff Washington, D. C. President Hard ing told a delegation from the south, which protested to him against revl don of the vegetable oil schedule of he Fordnoy McCuniber tariff act, that 'n acting under the flexible provision Df the tarilf law he would modify rates "only in most striking evidence of the necessity for such a change in "ales." "I can tell you surely," Mr. Harding sa:d, "that the president would pro claim no reduction of the tariff unless there wre very pronouncid reasons for it." The flexible provision of the tariff law, which was enacted by congress a gely at the insistence of the ex mtive, the president told the dele cation, is designed, "to protect tl. Amcr'can consumer against Inordina e charges as well 83 the Amerlcaa pro ducer against unfair competition.' STATE DRY LAW RETEALfc!) Fedtral Off.cials Face Necessity of Dryir.g Up New York State. New York. federal prohibition en torcement officials In New York, fac ing the necessity of drying up Ha state unaided if tile bill repealing th. Mullan-Oage stite enforcement act be comes effective, have started drafting plans for spreading their attenuate 1 lines over the territory which has been largely covered for them by stale and municipal forces. Palmer Canfleld, enforcement (I rector for New York state, had SbOUl 2000 men at h's ct mniand to cover the entire state, it eluding the Cana dian border, now largely patrolled against rum-runners by state polio The bill will make New York the only stall' rescinding legislation sup plementary lo the federal Volstead act. Indiana to Sue U. G. for $753,000,000 Washington, D. c. The government will be sued for approximately $750, 000,000 by the Sioux Indians who claim a gigantic fraud . s I, en perp.-tm: ed againet them through violation ol their treaty r ghts. The suit, probably the bigg., st . ver fil -d against the go eminent, was entered iu the court Ol claims here Monday. Attorneys for the Indians claim that 8,000,000 acrer of valuable lands, Including the Iliac Hills cf South Dakota, where gold wa discovered shortly after the Civil win were taken from the red men In viola tion of lb ir treaty rights and .. .thou just eon pensatton. Court Voids Limit On MscJio.ne Booze New York. Federal Judge Knox d Clared void that poition Ol the (folates act wh eh limits the amoit'it of llqui which a physician may prescribe an granted an Injunction ia h ra n ng pc hibitk n enforcemsnt auiborlties fro: InterfeMitg with the pract CS of D Sato tel W. Lambert, i ne baiiii eiia.i-.er el com uc ic s started a movo.neut to advert, liem and Mar. on county as tic gl ,t I. -i rygrow .ng Center in the Unite itatis. To defray the cost of tl. Jvei titdng, it Is proposed to a-s" . ach loganberry graver .1 cent i ..uud for his ent re output. 'I he Oregon public service eommls on hi s ordered a hearing to be belc i Portland June 14 to iiiestigaie in astate rate and charges made b. 10 railroads ol this slate on fr Sb am led fiu U and vegetables. A lota I 42 railroads have been requSStOi i have repre-e.it.., n es at the BOftMUl GOOD CIGARETTES i.oc r 4','? GENUINE FRANK J. IRWIN duri:a,i TOtlACCO Piank J. Irwin of New York, who has been named chairman of the re habilitation committee of the Disabled American Veterans to aid in speeding up relief. WHITFIELD TO DIE FOR KILLING GIRL 'Vancouver, Wash. George E. Whit field, 21, must pay the death penalty for the murder of little Anna Nosko, the Jury which heard the five days' rial of the youth decided. Little time was consumed in reaching a verdict if guilty of murder in the first de gree, which was reached on the second ballot, it was said, but In this state the ury in a murder case must make a a pedal finding as to whether or not the death penalty shall be inflicted. It was on th h question that the jury halted and deliberated, finally deotaV ing thai Whitfield's act merited death. On the night of March 8, 1923, Clarke DOanty was shocked by reports of the murder of little Anna Nosko, 11-year-ild school girl of Hnttle Ground. She ailed to reach home on the night in question, and search made by a largo number of men resulted iu fiud.ug her l.oily hid In a dense thick 't of under lined! south of the Northern Pae il railroad track, Whitfield was aire I that same night as he stood among he crowd of men gathered near the liudy. FCRD COMPANY IS RICHEST Figures Show Motor Company Hss $159,005,687 in Treasury. New York. -The Kuril M tor coii 'lany, inc., has more actual cajh in i's res than any other corporation in he United States, If not n the entire vi rid, according to figur.-s announced n Wall street, The f ;,r s, tattsn from a st"t ii ent ri'eil with the If a 4 'ehus.'tts tommlsslos at Boston, shy w that on 'ci ru..ry It, 1923, the K id c m pany ad a total of 159,6o5,6i;7 cash on .and. This 01 mpares with total eah lOldingl of 12fl,700,131 repined by he Units I States Steel ci rporatlun u its last annual report of December U, 1922 U. S. Rights Upheld Over Ship Owners. Washington, D, C. The United Stale;, can ( umpel masters of arriving vessels to submit ' inifesta showing all articles aboard, including those whose importatiofl is prohlbitsd, the supreme court i dd In a ease brought by the government fii m the state of Washington against Wesley L. S.tcho. Seattle Metal Trades Workert Strike. Seattle, Wash. Iletween 2T.00 and 3000 metal trades workers went on strike her.' wlon employers refused a demand for a flat increase of 10 cents an I "nr. There were six fatalities due to In luntrlal accidents in Oregon during .he week ending May 3, according to i report prepared by the state indus trial accident comm 'sslon. The vio lins were Karl Mohorick, Portland j '.. ('. Stewart, second loader. Yank on; Hugh Hurt, truck driver, Prine ille; Tied Vanryt, tail grfcaser, lists ada, (iharles Heed, logger, I'ortland, ml W. C. Tuf ord, laborer, Portfand. v total of 609 tOCtd nts wus re; ort ,,d during the week.