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EDITION
Bulbt Saved
wring 1" i,hli buIb" to ti0
krourt the winter, Ben F.
,, one of tho few an count,
of th"e Pla'"s belieTe" that
.nv of them from freeiing
.loeeold peU inirtcemoer. i
nWiined many ol toe puma ana
Aem in Pftct condition dome,
us "S si'11" about two
km The covering of snow
st , round protected 'the bulbs.
n-.r who Btored tho bulbs
. or basements have lost
ir Keeney said. About Jo
.jM of dahlia bulbs arc grown
n president Writes
it Jlr. oud Mrs. Kverctt Uill of
fin- tin ioved their brief
. r-..-mo oml thf hasuitalhv dij-
jiius""- -
; imlicaiod in a letter receiv-
r D. Horer from Mr. Hill. The
,, i president of International
.,i rnntlv on iiis wav south
. meeting at Portland stopped
on ihe Shasta. Eugene Rotarians
-Dtfd Mrs. Hill with a bouquet of
h:ch she appreciated highly,
i'Dj to ilr. inn. mt. norcr anu
Hill were formerly business as-
... :. nl-lilimna
improvement oai ia
Hit 00 iue hiiiiiuviiicuv ii iui
i ...4 -Ul Btnrt Metnrinv Thv tho
j crews, according to aunounce-
01 l- ""''I s-uumj vufeiu-
Ttc bids for the handling of the
or tli is road and also for maiu-
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DM WOrit m uu uiicuuu "tuuvo-
About two uiiles. of the road will
rtded and rocked, according to
. M..:..nn. . 1. :..
aed for the route a further dis-
01 scvcrui uim-a, in me uu-
cemeot.
wav Commission To Meet
suae nicuway commission wiu
I at Portland Thursday, Feb
ju. ftccoraiDK to worn receivea
It is not expected that there
be auj thing of importance to
t county to come before the meet
iccordiog to present indications.
judge states.
Uilla- lnnrAul.n
i to the Pacific Christian bospi-
fw the past week as the result of
iad witliin another week he ex-
to be able to return to his sup-
mil owr iuc road improvement
"p"-- wmvvu diuic auu
. ivju jl iikjiii ia
rwjnty.
Church of Christ will bnJd ser-
' " M. W. A. hall over Griffin's
iuie aniuruay evening at
niiig ni iu onu on n day
si a. Stephen ycttle of Cali-
It tn .
i rurnana
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'ft for I'urilimrf UKt Minin
:f,e for the next fow days on a
- !. .ai ,ook have return
.I,a a ""''e wreka trip up the
.r nvpr. Mr (Writ 1ifi Tn..m.
P""iimn at the Eugene Gun
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i " Home
" M Mr,. (1. s. Fletcher, who
from Mo.cow, Ma.,
L,k' thrir homo in Kuitene, are
into tb roniilence at 16CS
'""t. Mr. Kletchw is the new
"f Hcus, SniH
ni tli nrw apartment
Wni fii.i,he,i hy c. I. Kerser
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FARMERS L
0 AN
Committees To Be Named In
Each of Counties Affect
ed By Measure
Rules Laid Down For Ap
plications; Sworn State
ments to be Required
STATE HOUSE, SALEM, ,Ore.,
Feb. 13. A committee of five per
sons in each county where state funds
are to be loaned farmers for re-seod-ing
their crops under, the $1,500,000
relief act will assist the state board
of control in making the loans ac
cording to rules promulgated 1y the
board -of control. The ru!es include
the following poiuts: '
A county committee of five persons
appointed by the board of control to
assist in the loaning of Btate funds
to farmers for re-seeding purposes
must pass upon recommendation ap
plications for loans before finally ap
proved by the board.
Blank applications for loans, print
ed forms of notes and crop mortgag
e's, waivers of liens, etc., vtfl be, fur
nished hy the board of control to the
county committee for .the use of ap
plicants for re-seeding loans. ' i
Notary Necessary.
All applications for loans must be
sworn to before n notary public.
Where tho land to be re-seeded is
held under lease or contract of pur
chase, the certificate forming a part
of the. application must be signed by
the lessor or vendor. '
Tho certificate of committee rec
ommending loan must be signed by at
(Continued on .jnce two;
Kitty Collars
Fail to Find
Any Support
HARTFOIUV Conn., Feb. 13. A
bill for taxation of cats was vigorous
ly opposed at n heariug before a Con
neciticut legislative committee.
William Eairchitd, a justice of New
Kairfiekl, declared that every pair of
rats permitted to live produced des
cendants to the number of 250,700,
S42 in three years, and that the sur
est way to limit the rat population
was to encourage cats.
He said that if cats were taxed
"you'd have to put collars on all the
C8 tf and it would be some job for the
cat waidens."
Mrs. Ellen T. Lewis, representing
a humane society, deplored the
necessity of collars for cats because
they would be in danger of hanging
every lime they climbed a tree.
No one favored the bill.
SAX FRANCISCO. Mm Li
Northern and central California were
leenvrring today from the preliminnry
.litifets of u storm severe enough to
lip numerous huilding ' from their
f.nind.ittonf, cause at least one traiu
wreck, wash out railmada and High
ways at Inlervo's for n collective
.total of man j- miles, prontr.its lishl
and power wires and even charge the
contour of the InnnVcupp In places
hy causing tremendous landslides.
The Morm is not yet over, accord
ing to the Vnited Ktates weather bu
reau here, but it is generally believ
ed that the peak has paused and tJiat
there will be a quirk subsidence of the
elemental joust that thus far has
caused many thousands of dollars
dunage and indirectly -tak'n one life.
,7ohn Watson, a former marine mid
fonn.T resident of Aberdeen, Wash.,
nix killed in a cellar cave-In near St.
ltd -Ha. nrth of Nnpn. Two fell., I
w.trkpit. It. S. Whic and l I. Clnrk j
were injured. While nerloiiIy. Th
cellar -had been undermined by fluo.l J
water?. j
The flood, v .iters were receding
grad-ully. hut the railroad nnd higJi
wayi of the storm jrea, partieu'arly j
in th- const country, presented n ser-j
les of miniature lakes, washouts an-J ,
landslides. .
FOR DIVISION MEET
OF STATE DEALERS
Questions for discussion at the di
vision meetings of the Oregon Retail
Merchants association 21st nnnu.il
convention to be held here February
15 to 18 bave been prepared. The
division meetings will be held bv
(k-nlers in various lines. '
Thf following are the programs of
each division:
Grocery division", Operating costs"
Professor Aythur B. Stillman, Uni
versity of Oregon: Address, F. 1.
Oonuoly, isin Francisco.
Xry goods division Executive
committee, ' J. C. Mann, Medford,
chairman; R. E. Siason, Salens Wil
liam F. Kennedy, Corvallis; George H.
McMorran, Eugene; A. F. Hoffman,
I'oreMt Grove. The meeting will be
called to order by Mr. McMorran. "Do
depuitmynt stores departmentize er
ptnsesV" , Profossur Franklin U.
Folta, University of Oregon.
General store division Jonas M.
Will of Aurora, Oregon, will jict as
chairman and will conduct - the con
ference. Hardware dealers division Ad
dress, E. P. Lewis, Medford,
Other divisions of the state asso
ciation for which special conference
Lave- been arranged, the complete
IiroKirfins of which have not yet beea
tiriiounced, are; Furniture, fuel deal
ers, shoe dealers clothiers druggists,
crcditvaud collections.
Ride on Clouds to
California Put Off
As World Wags oh
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13. OP)
An old msn nnd his wife, residents of
an eistern stale, wJio expected to be
wafted to Ciilifornla on a cloud in
tht hur rf fulfillment of .Mrs. Mar
garet Itowen'i 'end of the world'
propheny, nnd vbo passed up the
cloud and came to Log Angelet in a
train when the prediction failed to
materi-ilUe last Friday were among
tin witnesses slated for n,uesli(niiirf
by the city pronecutor tod.iy in nU
investigation hit ft finnnciaj feature
of the dooms day prophesy.
Compliments Paid
City by Magazine
Ferguson Amnesty j
' JJill is Worthless,
AUSTIN. Tel., Feb. M The am
nesty bill restoring political rights to
.tames E. Ferguson, former governor. ,
passed last week by the state sen- j
ate. was held unconstitutional in an .
opinion announced today by Attorney ;
General Pen Moody. The opinion ;
was prepared at the rnuet of th .
I bouse of represents tires.
Complimenting Eugene on its excel
lent facilities as a uvrtition city, th
current number of "The Oregon Mer
chant,' published hy tJie Portland gro
cers and merrhants ansoeiution. con
tains on article on Eugene and Line
with numerous illustrations of their
attraction.
The f dlowing compliment is paiil
the city ly the PortUod publication:
"As a convention city Eugene Is
ideally situated and offers many at
iraetions, that cannot be duplicated
elsewhere. The requirements for a
convention, city are accessibility, suit
able auditoriums for meeting places,
amp'e hotel space, e ntertninment fea
tures, ami the desire and tMlity on
the rt of the eitiien to make their
vititors feel welcome and at home1
FLAYED; FARM
LEADER T
Secretary Seeking to Dom
inate Agriculture, Is
Charge Hurled
Revised , McNary - Haugen
Bill Could Be Passed,
Says Charles Hearst
WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. The
charge . that Secretary Hoover "ia
seeking to dominate the agriculture
of America' was made before the
house agricultural today, by Charles
E. Hearst of Iowa, chairman of the
legislative committee of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. -
In explanation of the assertion the
witnesses produced a magazine ar
ticle in which he said the secretary
claimed authorship of suggestions
contained in the pending Capper-Williams
farm relief legislation, ' ,
While Mr. Hearst was testifying
the senate committee continued exam
ination Into suggestions of President
Cooliilge's agricultural conference
with Chairman Carey of the confer
ence as a witueas. ...
Delegated to Protest.
Mr. Hearst declared he had been
delegated to protest against delay of
legislative assistance congress might
be able to offer.
' A revised McXary-IIaugen bill, au
thorizing a farmers' export corpora
tion, could be passed at the present
session, he declared, adding however,
that he was in favor of any cooper
ative measure.
The witness asserted that tlie ag-
(Continued on page six)
BE HERE FEB." 25
Chris Johnson, formerly with the
dairy division of the United States
department of agriculture, and now
inspector for the newly-organized
North Pacific Co-operative Creamer
ies association, will be in Eugene Feb
ruary 25 at the nnnual meeting nf the
Farmers' Union creamery, It has been
announced. Mr. Johnson w:is a visitor
here for a short time last Saturday
Organization of the association of
wtiicJi the local creamery is a member
was Initiated through efforts of the
Portland chamber of commerce, thi
dairy and food commissioner of Port
land, and Oregon Agricultural cul
Ir ge. The Immedinte goal vt the asso
ciation is to vtnndnrdizc and raise th
quality of butter mndp by its members
with the ultimate object of finding a
larger outside market for Oregon but
ter. .
Creameries now belonging to the
ai'Sorinlion include Eugene Farmer;
Capital City Co-operative, Silem;
St. Paul; Hood River, Hood River;
Lower Columbia, Astoria; and Raven
Dairy company, Porlland.
Bend Water Bill
Passes in Senate
HOUSE TAKES
UP REPORT OF
INVESTIGATORS
Special Order of business
To See Disposal of Dry
Department Query
Two Sets of Recommenda
tions Promise to Keep
; Things Stirred Up
STATK IK.Il'SK. SAI.KM, Ore,
b. III. Kfnate bill V, providing a!
pure witer tupplr fur Hit ciljr of j
llrud bjr irranginK an enliinfe nf i
wntrr from De.rhutrf Hvrr for wn(er
from Tiimnlo crffk, panNcd thi. urnate
toilay 'over lite veto of Governor
Pierre.
Zimmerman of Yamhill ami Urown
of Marion fought the hill Garlnml and i
Tarl"r. hotk democrat, aiatr-d Sen
ator t'pton in defrnding the measure
agninit the veto.
Joepu mi Kith the minnriljr In
oppo:nf the hill, declaring It aa
fraught with litigation.
Itroirn, Joaeph, Kinner, Htrayer and
Zimmerman votrd to auitoin the veto.
STATE IIOVSE, SALEM, Ore.,
Feb. 13. W) The bouse aa a spe
cial order of business at 2 p. m. to
day bad before it the recommenda
tions of the investigating committee
of the state prohibition director. The
report was road late yesterday after
noon. The findings, signed by nil the
committee members, were adopted by
the house..
The- two sets of recommendations
promise to stir up considerable ar
gument. That the bouse is not unan
imous for either set of recommenda
tions was ovidenced yesterday.
Difference Is Seen
There are some who will stand for
the continuance of the department as
it now exist but with another man
in Cleaver's place.
Others believe in a re-organization
of the. department as the other half
of the committee recommends. That
i,:fc. orguniznrion of a flying squad
ron to move about the state assisting
sheriffs and district attorneys in en
forcing tho law with the main burden
placed on the' shoulders of the county
officers. .
Two Bills Up
Two bills affecting the prohibition
department hove been iutroriuccd by
the senate committee on nlchollc traf
fic. One of these provides that the
moneys derived from fines under the
prohibition act shall be divided equal
ly between the counties and the state,
whereby the prohibition department
will have fit) per cent 'instead of So
per cent for enforcement of the Inw.
Tho other half is divided between thi
sheriffs and tho district attorneys,
75 and 25 per cent respectively.
The other bill would repeal the
present law whereby the governor Is
allowed to tnke money from the pro
hibition fund for enforcement of the
nnrcntic drugs Inw.
Tho governor said today thnt be
has not made up his mind as to what
ho will do about removing George
L. I'leaver aa prohibition commission
er. The investigators urged Cleaver's
removal or resignation.
State Bank Near
Portland Robbed
By Unmasked Men
rOUTI.AM), Ore.. Keh. fa. The
I'arkrose Htnte Ilnnk, located in a
business community on Ihe outskirts
of Portland, was robbed of be
tween HS00 aifd 17"0 today
by two unmasked men who .held
up Charles P. Crura, csshler, while he
was alone in Ihe bank shortly before
the noon hour. The robbers escaped.
While one nf the men who entered
first asked Ihe cashier if he could
cash a check, Ihe other drew a re
volver forcing Cruni to hold up his
hsnds. The first man leaned over a
runnier gathered up about I5, and
he pair then forced the cashier In
open a compartment in the safe from
which the robbers took the rest of the
money. The robbers walked some dis.
tunce from the bank nnd'enterrd an
auto in which they disappeared.
Memorial Building:
Drive is Planned
William K. North, president of Ihe
O. A. C. Portland Aluninl associa
tion, and C. W. Hall of the memorial
union building committee, are In Ku
gene today to confer with officers and
leaders of the I.ane County ). A. C.
club with regard lo Ihe campaign to
be conducted for funds to erect the
big memorial in Corvallis.
The meeting will be held tonight
in the office of Charles M. Emery, 117
Ninth avenue west. Mr. Emery is
president of the local O. A. C. club.
Stokes Trial is Opened in Chicago Court
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BREATHING
Gin MED
mwmmm
TO BE HEARD
Tunnel Gives Rise to Hopa
Of Rescue, But Proves
To Be False '
Above, Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes; be-
JURY C0W1PLETED ."" Is
FOB STOKES CASE jiM
IIU CHICAGO COURT ( fi
CHICAGO, Feb. 111. UP) The
jury in the trial nf W. E. I). Stokes
and others was completed at 12:2S
p. m. today. .
(Hy N 10 A Service) ,
CHICAGO, 1'eb. l.'t. A sensntion
al case is scheduled for Hal before
Justice William N. Gemmill, .
W. E. I). Stokes, muHi-millionalrc
New York hotel owner, nnd five
others, inclining Dnnlel Nugent, New
York attorney, are accused of con
spiracy to defame Stokes' young wife,
Mrs, Helen Stokes, from whom he re
peatedly has tried to securo a divorce
in eastern courts,
Chsrges, colled "too utterly false
and terrible lo print," by State's At
torney Crowe, will be aired in an up
roar of alleged chicanery, and plots
within plots.
Claim Conspiracy.
The prosecution nt the triol will
contend that Stokes entered Into a
conspiracy to brand Mrs. Stokes as a
former Inmate of ihe notorious Ever
leigh club, whlrh In the old da.rs was
(Continued on page ten)
Wire Fence Used
To Protect Bank
From River Wash
Senate Approves
Columbia River
Power Measure
RTATB HOUKK, BAMttl, Ore.,
Feb. 33. Tho senate today adopted
house concurrent resolution No. 12
providing for a committee, from Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho and Montana
to study and consider tho develop
.ment of the Columbia river for agri
cultural and power purposes.
House joint resolution No. 13, in
troduced by Carkin, memorialising
thn interstate commerce commiHHir.n
to urge the construction of n railroad
In southern Oregon was adopted by
the senate today.
Shaft Continues to go Deep-
er as Rescuers Work
Frantically
CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 13. Andy
Disig, Louisville, said be heard Floyd
Collins cough twice at 4:30 o'clock
this morning. Bisig t'dd this afternoon
of going into the Uiain pussageway to
Sand cave with several other men and
said that while in there he heard fnint
coughing. Ho called to Collins sev
eral times, he said, but received no 4
answer.
BREATHING HEARD
RAND CAVE, Ky., Feb. 13. Aa
officiul announcement made at 3
o'clock this afternoon by Drlgudler
Geue'rul H. H. lX-nhardt was Unit
Floyd (jJollius had been heard breath
ing at 0:43 o'clock this morning.
The announcement was made after
Ed Brenner, Cincinnati and A. Flev
ius had given a Htutemeut at tho
military court of inquiry at thu cave
aide, which was put intg the record.
V TUNNEL HOPES DASHED
' CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb.' 13. OP) -H.
T. Carniii buel, In charge of opera
tions, and other officiuls who went
down iuto the shaft being dug to
wards Sand cave, where Floyd Col
lins has been imprisoned for two
weeks, came out of the abaft at 1
o'clock this afteruoou and announced
that the hope of rescuing Collins
through a tunnel discovered In shaft
f0 feet down, would have to be aban
doned. The tunnel exploration failed
to disclose n passage way.
Re&cuo Is Remote.
Digging was resumed In the bot
tom of the shuft Itself and Mr. Car
miclmel said that It probably would
t.,e two of three days to reach the
70-foot level, where they plan to be
gin lateral tunnels in au effort to
strike Sand cave,
Hopes of the rescue of Collins by
noon today through the new tuouel
attracted hundreds of persons to tho
cave. For a time the crowd, Includ
ing newspaper men, was kept away '
from tho opening but when the crev
ice failed to develop Into anything
passable all were allowed to again ap
proach the shaft.
Officials Discouraged.
The failure of the high hopes rais
ed by finding of this tunnel noticeably
discouraged the officials of the rescua
party but "digging as usual" began
again at once, in the hope of finding
(Continued on page six)
BULLETINS
l.sne farmers who fear the action
of Ihe rivrr may wash' away their
land and cause damage to their prop
erty arc advised by George Melvin
Miller to take action similar to a ptnn
of bis 15 years ago. Ordinary woven
wire fence rolled and filled with rocks
has proved a success on a piece of
property on the river about three
miles from Eugene owned by Mr. Mil
ler. "This wire fencing has been in the
river for more than 15 years now and
1 is In fine condition," Mr. Miller said.
. The plan lias been suggested to P. M.
) Morse, county engineer, who w ill In
, sped Ihe success of it at the Miller
, property.
j "The wire is rolled out into the
I river from the bunk where it is an
' cliorcd. Itocks are piled on the wire
' net and then the sides are bent up
I over the rocks to form a sort of long
' tube filled with rocks. These rolls
' set at an angle down the current
I turn the water away and will save
the bank," Mr. Miller declared.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Thn Bcmita commerco department to
day approved these projects: Oakland harbor, California; Tillamook
Day entrance, Oregon and VVrangcll Narrows, Alnskn.
EXECUTION STAYED AT WASHINGTON PRISON
WALLA WALLA, Wusli., Full. 13. Execution of Gulda Grassl,
convicted Italian slayer, scheduled to havo been held at dnwn today
at thn statu prison, was Indefinitely postponed as a Tcsull of Ilia
Insanity hearing belli I" tho superior court hero yesterday afternoon
which 'Influenced Governor Hartley to Issue tL stay of execution by
telegraph Inst night. Six physicians who questioned Grussl pro
nounced 111 in Insane.
DRIGAOIERGENERAL MITCHELL IS CALLED
.WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. Ilrlgndler-General Mitchell, nsslstant
nrmy air chief, was recalled for the fourth time today, by the house
aircraft committee fur further questlonlnK In the aircraft control
versy. Other witnesses summoned Included Edward V. Rlckenbacker,
army flying ace In the World war, and a number nf officers of the
navnl air service.
FOO CAUSES SERIES Of ACCIDENTS
IIENI), Ore., Feb. 13. A heavy fug which hung over the town
last night was responsible for a series of accidents at the Newport
bridge across the Deschutes river within the city limits. District
Attorney A. J. Monro ninnnged to save himself from going over (li'i
slda of the bridge when he enmn suddenly upon n crowd around
the car of Lloyd Mnglll which hall Just turned complete around and
finally stopped crosswise of the road at the approach to tho bridge.
a