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Moonshiner Murders
Government Officers
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M onm outh, Polk C o u n ty , O re g o n , F rid ay , S e p te m b e r 8, 1922
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T h e r e is N o L an d L ike O r e g o n an d O n ly O n e W illa m e tte V a lle y
half, but did not regain conscious
ness.
As Warren started to leave the
scene Holden, who was standing a
short distance away, opened fire
with his pistol, but it was not
known for some time whether or
not he had hit Warren.
Sheriff John W. Orr of Polk
county, who knew nothing of the
federal officers, intended visit to
this county, was notified immediate
ly after the shooting, and with
Deputy Oliver Chase went to
Grand Ronde at once. He found
Warren in bed at the home of his
father with a bullet wound in his
hip. Orr arrested Warren und
brought him to the hospital in this
city, where he is being held under
guard. His wound is not consider
ed serious.
Coroner R. L. Chapman held an
inquest early Sunday morning over
the bodies of Price and Todd, later
bringing the bodies to Dallas. The
coroner’s jury returned a verdict
that both men came to their deaths
at the hands of Warren. Petite was
not arrested by the Polk county
officers as he was not considered
implicated.
Glen H. Pi ice of Multnomah
station and Grover C. Todd of
Woodburn,
federal prohibition
agents, were shot ard killed on the
streets of Grand Ronde, the new
town in northern Polk county,
about midnight Saturday night.
Phillip Warren, Indian, an alleg
ed bootlegger, is under arrest and
faces a charge of murder. Warren
was shot and slightly wounded in
the left.hip by E. W. Holden, depu
ty sheriff of Tillamook county.
Price, Todd, E. L. Marshall and
J. S. Kenyon, officers working from
the office of Federal Prohibition
Director Linville at Portland, had
been operating in Tillamook county.
They arrived at Grand Ronde short
ly before midnight, accompanied by
Holden, a man named Perry and
Robert Marshall, driver of their
car. The party intended spending
the night there.
E. L. Marshall went to the ho
tel, while the other officers started
looking for a couple of bootleggers
that had been reported to them.
They shortly encountered Henry
Ray Chute has traded his home
Petite and Warren, Indians in at the corner of Mill and Hay ter
whose possession they claim they streets, Dallas to L. D. Brown for
found a small amount of moonshine. 20 acres of farm land near Oak
Both men were placed under arrest Grove. There are no improvements
and put in the automobile. A fight on the land secured by Mr. Chute.
then started during which both The deal was closed during the
prisoners escaped.
early part of this week.
Petite, who is about 60 and heavy,
soon was overtaken, but Warren
The annual picnic of the em
outdistanced the officers. He is ployees of the Miller stores was
said to have gone to the home of held Labor day in the Miller store
his fath er,• John Warren, a short building in Salem. The day
distance from the town, where / he threatened rain and the big store
obtained a 30-30 rifle and returntd building made a most comfortable
to town.
place for the occasion. About two
He was first seen when he enter hundred employees, relatives and
ed the restaurant and inquired for friends were present, As a part of
the officers, declaring, it is claimed, the afternoon program Proffessor
his intention of killing them. He Dubac of the Agricultural college
encountered the men near the rail- j made an address on trade conditions
road crossing on the main street of and possibilities in South America.
the town. Price attempted to take
the rifle away from Warren and in
Attorney B. F. Swope is to main
the scuffle it was discharged be tain an office in Dallas, instead of
tween their feet. Warren jerked in Independence in connection with
away from Price, who ran around an office in Monmouth as was pub
the car. Warren fired through the lished in the Herald last week. He
car, hitting Price in the chest, kil is to take possession of the Chesebro
ling him instantly.
residence September 15.
The
Just at that time Todd, who ap - 1 Swopes have a large group of ac
parently had hidden under the c a r.1 quaintances in Polk county and are
crawled out almost at Warren's highly regarded by all. They will
feet. The Indian fired from the receive a hearty wt Icome to our
hip while standing over Todd, the midst. In Dallas Mr. Swope is to
bullet passing through the officers share a suite of office rooms with
head. He lived for an hour and a Attorney L. D. Brown.
DESERTED
Rumored, Reported Transformation of
Concocted, Collected
Civilian to Soldier
Del T. Harman of Elkins was one
of the young men of Oregon to take
the White course in the Citizen’s
Military Training Camp at Ft.
Worden, Washington this past sum
mer. Last year he took the Red
course at Camp Lewis. The White
course is under the Coast Artillery
corps. The young soldier sends us
the following account of his exper
iences this season. He went by
train, via Independence and Port
land and notes the signs of prosper
ity along the way.
“ North of Portland for nearly
thirty miles is marsh after marsh;
tide water and back water from the
Columbia river at high tide. Thru
all this distance the track is on a
fill some te n o r twelve feet high.
After leaving this district a consid
erable amount of grain is seen and
then there is a rise of altitude and
timber lands are on either side of
you. Among these mountains are
many valleys, in each of these is a
town, some large, but most of them
Alfred Moullet, a logger employ small, and everv one boasting of a
ed at Camp 1 at Valsetz, lost his sawmill. The two largest towns
life by an accident last week. He along this route are Centralia and
was felling a tree when it broke Tacoma, the latter having about one
unexpectedly and a piece of the hundred five thousand population.
tree struck him in the breast, kill
“ From Tacoma to Seattle the
ing him instantly. The accident rocky nature of the soil permits of
occurred August 29. He was taken very little farming except in the
to Valsetz and from there to Inde valleys. There are a number of
pendence where Undertaker Keeney cattle ranches and some gardening.
took charge of the remains. Bur The main occupation however,, is
ial was at Stay ton, August 31. lumbering.
Moullet was’a resident of Salem
“ At 6:30 P. M. the train pulled
and is survived by a widow and into the Great Northern Depot at
three children.
Seattle. This depot is a beautiful
structure, the inside being inlaid
W. Wynn Johnson died Friday at with granite upheld by doric style
his home in Dallas, Oregon. Some pillars.
time ago he suffered a stroke of
“ After reaching the depot a walk
apoplexy, but was thought to be of five blocks is necessary to take
recovering when a serious turn one to the Coleman docks. At
came several days ago.
twelve o’clock P. M. the Sol Due
From 1898 to 1906 he was in tourist boat left for Fort.Worden,
charge of The Portland Telegram's arriving there at three o’clock in
advertising department. Before the morning.
going to Portland, Wynn Johnson
“ On the morning of July 27 I
had been employed in the business had my first view of camp. The
offices of newspapers in Chicago and cantonments are about a hundred
New York.
After growing weary feet above sea level. Between the
of the hard grind of metropolitan cantonments and the sea is a rocky
newspaper life, he purchased a prominence some four hundred feet
prune ranch near Dallas and moved high ard containing about ten ceres
to Polk county about ten years ago. of comparatively flat surface. On
He is survived by his widow, this mountain the batteries are
Martha Williams Johnson, and two located.
sons. Dr. Leslie Johnson of Marsh “ The coast defense of Puget
field and Sidney Johnson of Tacoma. Sound is divided among three forts;
S. R. Smith is visiting with a Fort Worden, the largest. Flaglar
daughter in Forest Grove.
and Casey. These forts are located
in a right triangle and efficiently
command the entrance to Puget
Sound, leaving out of consideration
the protection rendered bv mine
fields, which are laid out in time
of war.
“The daily routine is more easily
understood in form of an outline, so
will give it in as few words as pos
sible.,
6:15 A. M. First call for reveille
6:45 Calisthenics or exerc’ses
7:00 Chow, the army name for
meals
7:45 Infantry drill
9:00 Topography and map making
10:15 Lectures on subjects per
taining to the army
12:00 Chow
12:45 P. M. Company adminis
tration
2:0« Artillery drill
3:15 War game (a miniature rep
resentation of Puget Sound in relief
used In planning the coast defenses)
4:15 Recreation
period for
games, etc.
5:C0 Rest and retd
6:00 Chow
9:00 Lights out. (This is a bugle
call)
11:00 Bugle, call to quarters
“ Besides this regular routine we
have had one trip out in the country
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in an army truck, and a boat trip
For the 'first time in the history
of the Oregon fruit industry pears
are being dried this season in com
mercial quantities at the drying
plant of the Oregon Growers asso
ciation located at Dallas. The dried
fruit will be shipped Jto eastern
markets for selling. It was decid
ed to dry pears in large quantities
as a result of the prolonged rail
road strike which made a great
risk in shipping a perishable fruit
for any long distance, and by the
drying process the fruit may be
preserved for an indefinite period
as well as saving on freight rates
on the decreased weight of the
fruit.
Pears of the first quallity are
being canned while only the poorer
grades are being put through the
dryer. A small amount of apples
has been received by the association
but no apple canning has been start
ed as yet, as only a few early va
rieties have been harvested.
to Diamond Point where the U. S.
quarantine station is situated.
“The purpose of the Citizens’
Military Training camps is to qual
ify physically and mentally fit
citizens to commissioned orticers
rank in the regular army. The Red
course makes ones 1st class private,
the White course qualifies one as
non commissioned officer, and the
Blue course, if successfully complet
ed, qualifies one for a commissioned
officeis job.’’
Real Estate Changes
Mrs. Martha Moreland, who so|d
her farm to J. B. Stump last week,
bought another one this week. This
is the Stewart place northeast of
the tile yard. It consists of five
acres and a good house and barn.
The house is equipped with lights
and water.
Consideration was
$3,000. G. T. Boothby engineered
the deal.
The Kurre house on Main street
in which John Webber is now living
was sold Wednesday to W. J. Mel-
linger of St. Helens. Consideration
$1500. G. T. Boothby made the
deal.
School Prelim inaries
Principal L. L. Gooding will be
in his office in the high school build
ing from 2 to 4 o’clock each after
noon except Saturdays from now
until the opening of high school,
September 25, for the purpose of
registering students and advising
with students and parents concern
ing the work for the coming year.
It is desired that all who expect to
enter high school the coming year
should arrange to start at the very
beginning as a late start is a decid
ed handicap to the student and often
leads to discouragement and some
times results in the student either
failing or dropping out of school
entirely.
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Room s fo r Four
Local Grange Hears
Call to Countv Fair
The Monmouth Grange has ap
pointed committees to arrange for
a booth products show at the Polk
County Fair, October 5, 6 and 7.
All of its enterprising, loyal, patri
otic members are on duty—boosting!
That meens you! Boost! for your
own calling and county and help
win the $60 prize by contrib uting
something to help fill up and make
an attractive booth. Grains, grass
es, vegetables, canned and fresh
fruits, nuts, flowers, needlework
and varied natural ornamentations.
Report by letter right away giving
full list, or in person, not later
than September 9, to the Grange
secretary. Miss Maggie Butler.
M any M elons
Mrs. W. C. Cochrane of Julietta,
Idaho is visiting with her sister,
Mrs. S. R. Smith. Julietta is near
Lewistown and is fortunately locat
ed for cherries and vegetables.
Mrs. Cochrane’s son sold $3,000
worth of watermelons from 8 acres
last year. He sent out two truck
loads a day as long as the season
lasted. . The Ju 'ietta melons are
famous for their quality. Her son
has five acres of tomatoes and five
of muskmelons. The tomatoes are
sold to a cannery.
Maxwell Bowersox left Tuesday
for Walla Walla where he plans to
attend Whitman college and study
for the ministry. On Sundays he
will supply the pulpits of three
Congregational mission churches.
Cost of feeding insects in Ore
gon for one year is estimated at
$2,000,000. This loss, much of
which is preventable, would build
480 miles of paved highway in Or
egon each year. The progreasive
farmers, who plow the ground well,
who use good seed, and follow out
the recommendations of the experi
ment stations, are not the heavy
losers. Those who use poor scad,
are careless in plowing, and leave
debris piled in fields are the unsuc
cessful farmers and lose heavily in
the long run from failure to take a
little time and trouble to keep their
farms in condition.
Through the generosity of J. W.
Pember four deserving students are
to be helped on their way through
Normal this neott year. Mr. Pem
ber has had two rooms fitted up in
his basement, for student use. In
addition to free rent the students
are to have heat furnished and the
use of a range. President Landers,
who expresses the appreciation of
the Normal for this courtesy, is at
Cal Youngs well known stockmrn
present selecting the students who
of Lane county, recently fed out 8
are to be favored.
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shoats for market on a grain alona
Big C om m unity Sale
ration, reports an irvestigator.
Farmers of Elkins are preparing They made a 65 pound gain each in
for a community sale of live stock 49 days. It required but 365 pounds
•<nd machinery which is to take of grain to make lOOjpounds of in
place on the Elkins school grpunds crease in weight. The coat per
Thursday, September 21. It is to pound gain was 51 cents. The pigs
be an all day sale, starting at 10 wer^ a choice lot of Poland Chinas
o’clock with free lunch at noon and were thrifty, which accounts
Further particulars will appear in for the good showing made.
the Herald next week. A. E.
Attention is called to the import
Tetherow, H. W. Harman, and E.
ance
of handling live stock with
A Tedrow are the committee in
care
on
the way to market. Bruised
charge and they have listed a fine
meat
caused
by injury to the animal
bunch of stuff for sale. If the auc
creates
a
heavy
loss to the producers
tion turns out as well as it promises
each
year.
These
bruises are caused
to at present it will be nade an
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by
horns,
poorly
constructed car
annual event.
doors,sharp cornered gateposta, pike
Monmouth has several delega poles, clubs, whips, etc., all of
tions among the hop pickers in the which can be avoided by a litt'e
yards near Independence.
careful forethought.
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vice-presidents, aceord-
This smactore is to be the oftriil
r been fur
■ng to Washington reports. VKc-pcesodents have
nnhed with qnartrrs
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Mrs. Calvin Cool id ge ls said to have already
inspected this home hid) is now neargif completion.