Effort Appears at Salem to Promote big. Appropriations It is the Taxpayers who Must pay for any Such Policy
City News
1HZ WEATHER
oret.n: Rain "armer
Urtkti 1 Prol"""y
Mod.r.t. to tron toilh..it
.long Ihi coast. T.mp.ra.
,r. today: Minimum, 33 it.
Mamlxum Sunday, 49.
precipitation, .42 of an
,ch Stag, of river, 9 foot. Dl.
Action of wind, southeast.
VOL. C3
TODAVS NEWS TODAY
EUGENE, OKEQON, MONDAY KVKNINO, FKHHUAK'V
BeJd Won
sixteen l""lr''1 P0"" 1
ult , .: i, in district 05
- 'r,ir , r Vida were
! TODAYS M:V.S TllMAV J'Q Of)
mi out li-U3 a'-'-"-"-"
Zi. cmnty commissioner. Mainte-
... o bc in 'ros,e6' 00
rilcKcMie highway in this district
.cveral '" uu "
urfaciM i" b luamtamea si .u.
rrJ near Vida, the commissioner
JltM. TWs is the first large inninte-
MB,e project to oe -
. . nn.i i exncctcu to be
county t .
liir(lUh early ... orue. . -lh,
road eauipuient may be sent to
,!, work later.
Hobo Policy Good
( , (,, more cities would adopt
the plan "I Eugene in p.o...."6
ix aU buboes arrested there would
K Jess annoyance from this class of
roadsters," according to Special Of
'ir McClain of the Southern l'acific
oilway. Mr. JlcL'lain states mm iu
rd that Eugene is "poor picsins
,nd that good hoboes who hate work
tbtU pass it up cold is being spread
along the road. "We have less trou-
,t at the depot here now wun ut
.buses of the many transients who
,,,1 to make it their headquarters
UtMen trains," the detective stales.
Return from Klamath
Sheriff Frank K. Taylor and Chief
l'Uiuty Van Svarverud returned jes-
trday from Klamath l ulls where
jihfy'testified in the case of John
id'Shca held on a charge of murder,
line jury aniuilled O'Shea of the
Urtler charge but a charge of rob
itrj is stilt pending. The Lane offi
jc.ils report that coining ont over the
AililondKlamalb Falls highway that
a heavy suow had started Saturday
luiht and Sunday. A crew uf 30 men
employed along the road to keep
kit route open through the winter,
the report.
Spiclal Chamber Program
As the .Thursday noon luncheon of
is Eugene chamber of commerce will
; Wd on Ljncoln'a birthday tlrs
VeW MtuWliinjir tilnnn ir, ondi n'nv
r a spci-iai program appropriate rur
n tcciuioii, according to announce
ment today of E. Eugene Chadwick,
'Xretary. The ideals of tho tlreut
!uiancipator will be told by- a spenk-
r Dlthnlllfh tlm unlcr'tion nf the orii-
j'r ban not jet been announced. A
rogrnui of Appropriate patriotic inu
c will ulso be prepared for the
tent, is the announcement.
fillisters to Entertain
Members of the Eugene .Ministerial
will be hosts to their wives at
e lawn meeting of the organization
l held next Friday, nt the College
'le inn, according to announcement
iaj of Iti v. Charles E. Dunham,
tr of the First Baptist church
'I preaidi-nt of the union. A talk on
' internal. omil peace movement will
liven by Professor Wnltcr Uarnos,
' thp ilopartment of history of the
liversitj of Oregon.
H. Ware to Spea:;
II- Ware, son-in-law of W. C.
111 at l-.itgene, will be the chief
faker at tlie nionthlr .linn,r . f tl.
Andrews society, mens club of Hie
"al l'reslijterian church .Monday
"ins at (1:15 o'clock. Mr. Ware will
" on his experiences in the orient.
' "s fur two jeara business man-
'"'rot the-Christian college at Cno-
1 '-"una. Dm id Jones will sing.
t Sale starts
1 upaiiin for. sale of tiokt-ts for
' I-'ueoln d.i.nor to be held here' on
arsd.,j ,Twt, Mnnci ,0()oy aaJ
n,:;"M r that a large number
be fid t..,l,,v, according to Dr. M.
""is. Lincoln club president.
Uwivi,,-C T. Harris will be the
Url'el PP.lV,T Hi It,. ,Hn..
F'ber Gets Map
m Burno Honored ,
lurnn, former basketball
'"'lit' university and now a med-
' ItllH.T,, . .
jnt Harvard, has won an-
I'-intinurrt nn nnn. . ,
s. vinim, r QBE
K''NTMtCbUBStOF
Ii nt5 0U;NFe F,,t, .
1 BtAOlNG THL
MM COLUMNS
8
Cave Shaft for
ALLEGED HOAX
INVESTIGATION
111 BE ID
New Fissure Discovered; Is
To Be Opened In Hope
Of Connection
New Delay Is Met; Shaft
Is Less Than Half Way
Down At Present
CAVE CITY. Ky., Feb. 0. (P
The shaft being bored into Sand cave,
where Floyd Collins lies entombed,
was 33 feet deep at 3 p. m. Further
tests with a sound amplifying appar
atus and an electric wire in the cave
convinced the observers that Collins
was alive.
The test indicated, they said, his
respiration was about '0 times a
minute.
WOKK ON FISSUFlE ,
"CAVE CITY.'Ky", Feb! 1 UP)
Work was started today on a narrow
fissure, discovered some SO feel from
the entrance to Sand cave, where
l'luyd Collins is entombed, which W.-
I). Funkhouser, geologist, believes
may prove a Hack entrance, to the
chamber near the imprisoned man.
The fissure now is too small for a
man to enter.
, TESTS CONDUCTED
CAVK C1TV, Feb. 9. OP) Five
eiectrical tests conducted with voice
amplifiers today have convinced H.
T. Carmichnel in charge of the Floyd
Collins rescue work at Sand cave that
Collins is still olive, after 10 days' im
prisonment, II. (!. Lane, MunfordviHe, operat
ing the lighting system which supplier
current fir tJie hutb left at Collins
lieml, said Homer Collins, after lis
tening - ) minutes on the wire was
convinced he had heard Floyd's heart
(Continued on page eight)
IF
WASIHNCTON, Feb. ft Sur
charges Imposed upon railroad pas
sengers using Pullman futilities were
held today by the interstate commerce
commission to be justifiable and
railroads were authorized to keep the
practice in effect.
The approval of the surcharge, un
der which every passenger engaging
Pullman accommodations pays to th"
railroad an amount equivalent to 'U
per cent of tJie Pullman charge, re
sulted fmm the Wtst (rp of an in-vestigatr-n
into the earnings of Uie
Pullman company and the terms of its
contract with ra:lro.ids.
The decision declared that the in-,
instigation had not prorpeded far j
enough for the c nnnision lo rxjiress j
inclusions as to the g"neral reason j
ableness of Pullman charge-., n.j"
that the surcharge had justified itfe f.
' Whn the rfmes comes for re.iiirin4
tJie rnilr'-ads to accept leis paseu- ;
j'ger revenue than they now reeciw, j
; those wbo experience the rcluhve di.-rnmf-'rt
nf ordinary coa-h tnnl.
many of thrni brue they mnf
'count the penni", rather than th-f
who select the most expensive ai-d
Insurious form of transportation
which modern rsilrond afford r
clearly entitled to pri-r consider-;
tion," tlie niaj-rity opinion said. 'fh.s
showing jusiiftf tJie conclusion th.it j
at least tlier is less warrant f"f eli- ?
I minaling the surcharge than for re-j
during the basic pnsenrer fnre w hich (
applied even to trattf in mixed tr.iin.
j of freight and paweiifers crs," j
ICtdHHsMMB
Mirth Provokers are Here
.' .
They've Come to Stay
Folks, Meet Mutt and Jeff
Look who hove arrived in our fair
city! A pair of no less importance
than Mutt and Jeff, risibility provok
ers) extraordinary.
.Mutt and Jeff will be in The Cuord
daily hereafter. liook them up on the
feature page. They will give every
render at least one laugh n day. They
always do that wherever they appear.
There is no newspaper comic more
popular tliHii .Mutt and Jeff, nor any
that is more worthy of popularity.
Hud Fisher, who draws them is the
John D. Itockefellcr of newspaper
dom, the highest paid man who ever
drew a picture, and perhaps the-most
envifd and most misrepresented fel
low in his line.
lie has made Mutt nnd Jeff the two
best-known comic characters in the
world. Only the income tax fnnn
knows exactly how much Mr. Fisher
makes each year out of those two
creatures of his brain, but it ia close
to a quarter of a million dollars.
lie sells Mutt and Jeff to hundreds
of newspapers all over the world in
every corner of America, to a dozen
papers in Kuglnnd, to papers in Aus
tralia, Franc. Japan and China. If
Itenibrandt and Michael Angelo could
have sold their pintings for the pric
es they now command they would not
have received "hat Mr. Fisher has
Income Tax B;ll of
Senator Tooze Will
Not be Introduced
STATE IHil'SE. SAI.KM, Ore..
Feb II.- Senator Tnox. who has in
inc . me tax bill prcpnred, alin'iiince.l ;
tnilny that he would li"t mtniduce it.
He eaid h f"'lt it would be futile .i
nttempt t" g'-t Hie luiMioire t .ruigli.
and Hint lie will initiate Hie bill in
tend t 1 lie earhest ibition pof
.il.l". Tome bin tax cinaliitalinll niee
urc lo which he will ili'vole all bin
energy a" far " lai!i"n iiieuniren
art 1" nrerned.
REINDEER SHOWN
An A'a-'kan reindeer is beinu hov,ii
in the display window a of NWrnairs
nvat market. W Nin'Ji nvenue .
The derr, which n shipped from
Alaska, dresses ITU pouicis. and will
be cut up Thursday, a'-ionliiif ! th
niansceinent of the markt. H came
from a relnd- r farm in the north,
which ra.ses the anuii.tls for the me-,:.
Rescue Sinks
been paid for drawing Mutt nnd Jeff.
It may rurprise persons who have
tried to analyze the appeal-of 'Mutt
and Jeff to know .Unit Pud Fisher
has one of the keenest brains in the
country; that he uudertsands Mutt
and Jeff, that he knows just why peo
ple follow their weird careers; and
that he works along n perfectly sound
nnd sane line which would he approv
ed even by the highest-brow psychol
ogists. This is true because Fisher m
a ftbrcwd student and Analyst uf hu
mini nature.
Hu is nn odd little fellow; cocky,
assertive, self -confident nnd aggres-
aive, yet, strangely enough, he is one i
of the few men who possess a just
mind, one that is capable of seeing
both aides of any question if he wants
to do so.
He was born in a, small town in II
Ifflois, raised in California, educated
in Chicago, first at Hyde I'nrk high
school, and later, for n time, in the
University of Chicago. lie went to
.San Francisco, knocked around for a
lime, and on November 10, 1007, in
troduced Mutt to newspaper readers
as a piker clerk touting the race re
sults. A month later, he introduced
Mutt to his now famous pal Jeff.
Mutt and Jeff made an instant hit.
And their popularity has endured.
Body Found Near
La Grande; Boys
3IflkC' Discovery ""' wi" 'or ,h w'niniH
j American Ificup team again Hii aea
I fun, be annoiiiiccil today. He will Jon
LA liriAXIll;, Ore., Teh. II Tlie,h tcim in Florida in two weeka.
body of a man believed by police to
been robbed and slain about nix
weeks ago wiii. found at the rdgi of
a woods west of Iwi (iramie yesterday
by three boys. The man uas well
dressed and paperi indiated bis name
may have been (i. Ilrady of Toronto,
Canada,
PiM-keta of the men's clothing were
turned Inside out and nearby were
found an empty wsllet, i'7 cents in
ash, a bat and f.ilsc teeth. No traies
of tracks were found. A soft spi on
the skull indicated nhere the fiitsl
blow iniKht have been struck, said
off i ers. The left arm wai tatooed
with a hnrs and initials ". fi." The
ImhIj was lying VU) feet from the
rate highway.
E
T
Diphtheria Serum Carried
To Aid In Routing The
Dread Disease
Route Will Cover 920 Miles
Over Snow And Ice To
Stricken City
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Fob. 0. OP)
A rare between an nirplnno and re
lays of dng tcarufi to Nome, Alaska,
wai starting today. The dogs left No
mina, fifty miles west of here yester
day, The plane was all ready to tnke
off early this morning.
The burden of eoj h journey is anti
toxin for diphtheria,' of which six
persons have died in Nome, in an epi
demic reported .Jnnunry 27 and with
which 30 persons were' reported suf
fering there yesterday. '
The distanee from here to K'ome on
the route the dogs and plane are to
follow was put at about- 1)20 miles.
Darling Is Pilot
"Everything looks fine." was the
final word last night of Hoy S. I Mr
ling, agent of the department of jus
tice here, and navy aviator in the
World wnr, pilot for the trip to Nojnc.
He and ltalph V. Mnrkie, nn employe
of the Alaska milroiid at Anchorage,
mechanician for the trip to Nome, had
spent the whole day tuning up their
(.Coniinued on page five)
Second semester opened today in
Kugene's schools, with an approxi
mate enrollment of JW00 pupils in
actual attendance.
This Teprcsents an Increase of few
er than KM) pupils, tire number of
new pupils entering the primiry and
other graders being estimated below
tJiat number, (.'hisses were resumed
this morning nt 0 o'clock with little
congestion in the Fwr grades, ar
rangements being rompleted In ad
vance to take enre of crowded condi
tions expected as a result.
Joseph T. filenn, city school su
perintendent, w.ia making a survey of
the enrollment this afternoon, and the
city school b .ird, which mcets to
night to pass on routine business may
consider pint for caring for the
increased attendance, In case enroll
incut figures are nvailable.
Walter Johnson
To Pitch Again
HHNO, Nev., Keb. I. W. Jnhnsun
haa giren tip any hope of acquiring a
Pacific C-iaat league' bnpehnll club.
i Tl 1 A "Ii
! I'dl-KS lO IUC UIl
Lincoln Birthday
AU KugMi banks will he rl"ed all
day Thursday in observam-e f Lin
coln's birthday anniversary. Tii
Jiolidiy will not bt Renrnlly oSttervi-J
here and all t res and offu-es mill be
opetl.f'-r the fj:iy.
! FRANCHISE IS PROTESTED
j rOHTI.ANI), ttre., Keb. It.-Judge
M. farey, chief counsel for the
Spokane, I'ortlnnd and Sfatile rail
way aystem and A. .!. Witrhell. chief
engineer, have gone to Klamath Kails
! to appear before the rlty councl to
1 nht fn stipport of a protest agftinil
itbe proposed granting of an exclusive
j franchise to tU Oregon, California
and Kastern railway for terminal
rights in tint city.
DOGS TO RAC
WITH PLANE N
Nl
Deeper
T
T
I. N. Day Of Portland Tells
Kiwanis Club Members
Of Proposal
People Of Lane Urged To
Have Active Interest
In Improvement
The harbor of the Port of Siuslaw
can bc Improved and made navigable
for deep water vessels with less work
and at less expense Uinu any of the
other Pacific onst harbors designed
to bc brought under the plan recently
launched U v obtaining notion by the
federal government looking to a gen
eral port improvement program, in
order that overripe timber around j
tlwsc hurbx-re may be harvested and
shipped to market. This was an out
standing thought of nu address de
livered today before Fugene Kiwanis
by 1. N. Iay of Portland, former
state senator, ' wJio initiated' and- is
active in promoting the harbor iin
provetnent (iroje'et.
Reasons Given.
"There jre sound reasons why the
federal government tdiould become In
terested in this port development
project and curry it to completion,"
d'dr.red Mr. Day. "In the firnt plate
only about $10,(HK),0K) Ins been ex
1 cndul to date in improvement wort
for the- eutirc group of ports Includ
ed Jn (lie plnn, and of (his "00, ()!
has been furnished locally by the
ports. The government owes theic
ports more of its consideration. Sec
ondly n great part nf the billions of
feet of timber now standing in ter
ritory contiguous to these ports Ii
f.wned by (Jic government Itself nnd
inurr of this timber is overripe and
vnJ'hg for want of ndciu;itc menus
to get it to market, which, nf cmirs
prevents its being harvested. The I'm
her of the northwest which is
(Continued on page two;
New Slide Covers
Pacific Highway
ItOSKIU'Ita, Ore., Fef. 0. A new ;
slide occurred on the Pacific highway 1
north of Myrtle Creek today nnd Is j
holding up all traffic except light
cars. The road is covered with about
eighteen inches of soft dirt, and mud :
, . . .... . .. .
nnil rock keep nlBlinic in ns ottcmptH
' . '
are mnuo to clear the pnvenient.
...
Hukon are trnnufcrrmif nniNeii(i'rii
... ., . ' . ..
nml trucks nrc unable to get by. It
, . ... ... ... . . .
la expected that it will take all week
... ... I'll
..... ... 1 1
eiirred during the pant three ibiya, nl-
though cara are expected to he able lo
get through by this evening.
j Mrg Mary Endslcy
Dies, Near Natron
HI'rtlNtiFIKI.It, Ore., Feb. B.-
(Special I --Mm. Mary. Kndaley,
years oiu. a resiuent 01 i nnar, vasn
itigtmt, died at the home of fier daugh
ter, Mri. James Harpile, near Nat
ron, ' Mr. Kndsley was
here on a viit from Var-hinRton when
she was taken sick several weeks
I ago.
1 Mrs. Kndhley was born In Iowa nn
j November 10, 1M1. The body will be
I shopped from the W, Kred Walker
chapel tomorrow morning to her old
! home in Colfa.
John McCormack is
! Ill in New Orleans
! NKW OIII.KA.SS, l.a., Feb. 0.
1,lohp .MeCorinai k. the tenor, in ill at
hie h'rel euite here with the giiitie
and hi concert arrmiged for t'.liigJit
ln lHen p'itmned.
1 ir. S, M. Illackuhenr, who la nt
Hnding him, anid Ilia Condition wim
not regnriled na eerloipi. but it whi
provide he wotild be forceil to re
main In hia room aeveral ilnys.
mm o
inOVEIN
UN BOOSTED
I None Was In iurcd - :
FLUUU UHllllHbL !
TTTJitl., " J rn-rinai-rrn it ' I v.
to. t t V 4
1 T
' He built his house at the bottom
of a hill; and he didn't build It strong
enough to withstand attacks of rolling
stoncB. Now you see what happened
when a six-ton boulder set out to roll,
and rolled right through the house of
Steve Musters, Klamath Falls, Ore.
The baby cried when Us crib was up
set. Otherwise nothing happened, cx
cent thai the house was wrecked.
OF 1925 IS SEEN
The first snowfall of the year JO'J.")
visited Eugene last night.
Announcement to this effect wns
made by (lerard M.-de Uroekert, Inlt
id States weather ' observer, this
morning, who said that Old Man Win
fer dropped Into town for n brief visit
during the early hours of the morning.
A light rain, freezing as ft fell,
produced the snow. The mercury sunk
lo within one degree of (he freezing
point during the night tho lowest It
has been for several weeks.
Bandit Search is
Spurred by Reward
o ne-
TACOMA, Wafdi.. Feb
wards totalling were spurring
police officers and private detectives
in their hunt for the three bnudits
who Saturday killed Harry H.
Schmidt, an employee of the National
Bnnk of Tncnma. The bandits oh
lained several thousand dollnra and
fled In nn automobile.
It wnj niinoiincnd liy Ihc linnk Hint
ilH BSPlirim ill (lie city will lio rhwoil
... .
uit once owing in me (iniigiT 10 rtn-
"
; nlovn from bmiilitH. Sntiinlny b kill-
: 1 ... . . .
' injr oicilirnl in front of one of the
i . ,
. iiceneirn, nnd n few weekn nuo em-
" '
: ployed of anollier ngency were held up
1 ... , . ,. .. ,
1 ntvi nt that time the baudita fired
1 aevernl nholn.
1. 11 5 v& & J"i K
'
, BULLETINS
KAN FRANCISCO,
driving toward tho
cordlnR to a mesange
la boimil frnm Vancouver,
rcnu h an nbtnlncd ntorm
tn thn Cnnudinn lino.
STEAMSHIP REPORTEO IN COLLISION
HIGHLAND!. N. J , Keb. 0. -Thn ateamahlp Kmpiess of Scotland.,
which left New York today, with tnurlMta for .Meilltorrnni'an points,
ciilllibil with the frciKhtir ticottsbuiK. near tho qiiar.imina stadoa
today.
6TOKE3 MOTION MEETS DENIAL
CHICAGO, Feb. 0.--A. A defenao motion for a mistrial In
the, trial of W. 12. O. Hlnkea, New York inllllonalro nuil olhots
chared with conaplrncy to ilofamn lila wife, Mm. Helen Klwnud
Stokca, of Iienver. wan ri'Jeitiil by .ludgn William N. (icinmlll today.
The (U'fnnan tinned Itn motion on a alory published today by the
CbliaKO Tribune.
EGG TAKING FUTURE ASSURED
rollTI.ANI). Feb. 9. The state game cointnlHaion nt lln monlhly
mnetlng hero received nnHiirnnce In a Ictlor from Stephen Mather,
director of the national pnrk bureau, that If Diamond lake should
at some future limn bo placed tinder the pnrk bureau Instead uf
the forest service, there would bn no Interference with the operation
of the rgg taking station which tliu commission maintains at the
lake.
: I I 11,111 1 1 H MM
jv : '.'i'- - "ii is n s ra -
' ? I I i I I Klin I L II II I
, r .i i m i r 1 1 hi m
lmJ 1 1 D II I I l U III
PULP MILLION
Every Basement And Low
er Floor In City Filled
With Debri3
Appeal For Aid Is Sent Out
By Citizens; Ranchers
Lend Everything
VALE, Ore., eb. 0. Pestilence is I .
feared here by city officials as a re- j
suit of the floo et Vale and sur- j
rounding territory caused by the i
bursting of the irrigation dara on Bui- ,' jj .
lyrcreek Thursday. ' . ( tSs "
Caught in. tfie flood from 2000 to?-' . j
4 in hi ii v mi vi cjuiic aim eucep were -"?
drowned In the lowlands west of Vale
and are lying dead in that section..
Every basement and lower floor of.'
Vale's residential and business sec-,
tion is filled with mud and debris, ami
from this stnndpoiut the health fctj
untion is viewed with alarm. Yh
Every precaution has been official-;:
ly ordered, which Includes the boiliu.
of drinking water, as the water sys
tem and wells in this locality -have
been contaminated. Mayor llobinett
and city iteahh officials spnt nuncul
for relief to Ur. Frederick D. istricU
cr, of Portland,- secretary oft Btmo
board of henllh. Kcliof will, also bo
sought of the Pacific division of thi
Hed Cross nt Sun Francisco; .'
Loss of property swept by the flood
will leach $3Hi,000, It was estimated,
instead of 250,000, as was first re
ported. A large number of ruucheis
in the path of the flovd 'but (heir
homes, livestock and virtually every
thing they possessed. In Vale not, a
properly .owner, escaped a loss of
seme nature. A number of fiiiuilie
who had their Jinnies swept away are
without funds.
CONDITIONS ALARMING '
POUTLANI), Ore., Feb. 0. Condi
tions at Vale, as shown in several
teb-grnuis received by Ir. Frederick
I). Strieker, secretnry of the fitnio
(Continued on page five)
Import on Deaths
For January Aladc
v
Tliiiiy-fivn birlliH nui! 21 Un t h ore
rrpnrwil during Jtinimry, iitronrdiiiK fu
llm iniiiitlily ri'imrt of Dr. S. M. Kcr-
i nn' -'''y
completed
nnil ennnty hcnllli offircr.
tmliiy. The birth recortl
I 1"itt B ilrop (ruin the record
"f "-l et ill llpeemlier. Thi birlll lit
! !.........U tu I I IT :.... i il
' ' " "".'a '" wi mu
i , . ...
iili'iiHi", five were a.ciilenH, nn uu-
n . .1
ummlly biree number for one liionlll
j. , . ...
111 l.nne coiinly. 1 wo nicp were killed
, , -, . 1
by Hie riiilrond, two by awiilenO in
, . , , ...
lugx'tig nnil null work anil oue while
1 Iritikinif.
Feb. 9 A wiiithwcst burrlcnnis bearing rain
Wnslilnglcn, On gon nnd Cnllfomln coast, ac
received from the niolorshlp AoronKl. which
II. C. to the Fur F.ast. The weather hu
wu i n I iikh pimtcd from Point Koyes, C'al.,
t