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L>',r»r> 4 "(ITS THE CLIMATE WE’RE TELLING THE WORLD ♦ : : COME AND ENJOY IT” ♦ Dui In Courier route G RAN TH PAB44, JOHEI’HINE COUNTY, OKEGOM, VOL. X.. No. 107 ; WHOLE NIMBER 2M7». Tl EH DAY, MXl'AKY 27, 1I#2O. EXPERT S PLAN OF PROPERTY TOTRHW.W. Cost of l*roducti<m Mill Mounting, Is HllUciiM'iit of Delegate» lo <'an nera' AiuHM-iatlon Cleveland, Jan. 27.—Higher food (ON MULTI NG ENGINEER WILEY AlDITOR ALLYN FIND* VALUE prices this year were predicted by OUTLINE* WORK l*OK 4XBÍ- OF HEAL AND PERMONAL delegates to the joint convention of MTRUCTION OF HYHTEM HOLDING OF GRANT* PAM* National fanners' Association, Can ESTIMATE OF TOTAL $30,303.44 Public IJbrury Found to t'outniu LIMWI Volume» Wliicb Have Cost the ('ll/ $3714.38 The city of Grants Baas has pro perty, real and 4>en*onal, of a value of 330,203.4 4. according to a recent survey and invoice made by 'Auditor H. If. Allyn. The report made by Mr. Allyn Is most complete, detailing the first cost of all property, the cost of additions, reimtrs, maintenance, •to. with estimate of present values. The real estate of the city Is of a present estimated value of 33,835, not taking Into »r oust the improve ments. The seven lots upon which •the city hall Is located are valued al 31125. A site for the city barn has a value of 3300, and the 5.2 acres down the river used as a dumping ground Is listed at 3260. The city park ground is considered of a fair value at 3150 par acre, or 32250 for the entire park property I tn prove- menu upon these parcels are valued as pillows City hall. •'».*43.40; tool shed. 3203.04; bath house, $534.02. Furniture and fixture* used In the various city departmenu are valued at 33.801.2». The munl'Hiality has an Invest ment of 310,502.2» in Its fire de- luirtinent. The ’big 1 .a France (ruck, with its junior pump and equipment, is valued at 30.104.60, while the chemical truck and equipment has a value of 31387.69, Road machin ery and tools are valued at 31227.- 25, nnd Improvements In the i>ark. ning Machinery and Supplies Aaso- ciaGon. and National Canned Foods, and Dried Fruit Brokers Association. Officials said tlis cannera had hon estly striven to reduce cost of pro duction, but face probale Increases Instead. > R0B8ERSGEÎ S150BUT 'M« * IHBUSJNB Hillsboro. Ore., Jan. 27.—Two masked men last night robbed H. M (Barton of 3150 in his store at Orenco. near here, but overlooked 31000 which he had hidden. CALL OOF OF 300 TALESMEN WIII Advertise fur Hid» for Remain Kurmer liquor Healer and a TimlM-r- man Are the <>nl> Temporary der of Bond Ixeue and install • 1 l*um|M> Tills Season Juror» let Accepted A vjii Washington, Jan. 27.—The fate of gj,;\ATOR NEWBERRY HEADS the compromise in the negotiations LIST OF PROMINENT MEN WHO on the treaty remained doubtful af ARE UNDER FIRE ter the bipartisan conference had 1 discussed it without decision. The republicans' refusal of compromise of article ten is keeping the conferees I apart. Another meeting will be held on Thursday. Democratic leaders j I expressed surprise at the republican stand, saying most members of the Grew Out of the Election of New- berry to a Scat in the United fonference had assented to article Stat.-. Senate ten conipromise. ARE CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION I A npe'iai meeting of the directors Montesano, Wash., Jan. 27.—A of the Granta Paaa Irrigation district ai>ecial venire of 300 talesman was was held Monday afternoon, at the • in court here today, The women courthouse, to hear the report of ( generally took advantage of their le Ralph Schneeloch, president of the gal exemption on account of sex. The Portland bond bouse that has pur influenza kept some veniremen chased the district bonds, and also to away, but the disease is not epidemic. listen to the report of A. J. Wiley, John C. Connor, of Montesano, a for consulting engineer, of Boise, Idaho, mer liquor dealer, and Timothy Mar- relative to the proposed plans for the ■ tin, of Hoquiam, a timberman, are Irrigation of the district by grav the only temporary jurors in the box ity development In attendance at I today. the meeting were also H. tD. Norton, attorney for the district, and an ad visory committee consisting of Messrs. Demaray, Niles and Schmidt, as well as representatives of the Portland, Ore., Jan. 27—The near banka of the city, and busineM men. est relatives of men who died during As a result of Mr. Wiley's investi the »world war are requested to send gation of the project a tentative plan the full name« of 'he soldiers, sail was determined upon for the Irriga- ors or marines ma. Ing the supreme Uou of the district. A preliminary sacrifice, to the American legion plan was presented to the )>oard. out Post In their locality as soon as pos lined by Engineer Wiley as follows; sible, in order that the men may be To construct a concrete dam on the ‘remembered in the presentation of Itogu > river at the Ruard ranch, a memorial certificate« of the French canal to run to the vicinity of Green I government creek, where a pumping nlant v 'll i»e Presentation ceremonies will be installed to lift water to the ditches held by local poets of the American s it») lying the higher unlt.i, and to Ijegion on February 22. 1920, Wash ‘c.illnre the gravity dit:h«»s on both ington's birthday. sides of the river to supply all lands I With the names of the men who within the district that come under. died, should go the names and ad This gravity ditch can be carried dresses of the next of kin. and the through the city to supply the lands probable place where they can be leached on February 22nd. (Continued on page 2.) Ixindon. Jan. 27. 27.- -A lively com- petition for Trsnacaucasian trade ap pears to have sprung up among the American. British and Italian inter- ewts working there. The British con»ul at Batuni in a report publish- ed in the .'Board of Trade Journal states that mrmiem of the American relief committees are »busily engaged In opening up trade with America. The British still load in Importations he asserts. The consul states that “hitherto little else »but flour and clothing for distribution to Armen ian refugees and persons of other na- (Continued on page 2.) tlouallties In distress have reached thia country from the United State« but the attention which is being paid | to the Trans-Caucasus by American Interests points to an appreciable in-■ crease In American trade In the near future.” The Italian mission, as part of its Salem, Jan. 27.—A proposed con-. • Oakland. Cal., Jan. 27 27.—The case campaign, has established a fort stilutional amendment initiated by of Mias Anita Whitney, member of H|>ok.iac. W.iuU., Jan. 2*. .-’tock- nightly service of [tassenger and car Fishermen's women's clubs, lecturer and social men have received approximately 8 go steamers between Triest and Ba the Clackamas County the secretary worker, who is charged with viola union was filed with per cent return on their 4cveatui"i.t tum. The route takes the boats during the past five years. Dr. L»’in through the northern Black Sea and of state today. The new amendment tion of the California crimnal syn- would wipe out all existing fish and dicalsm act. was set for trial in the A. Donovan of Butte, Mont , estimat stoits are made at Caucasian |>orts. game statutes and abolish the fish sui»erior court here today. The law ed In an addresj h» delivered to lay and game commission. The amend makes it a felony to advocate vio before the American .-.'ationul e- ment further provides that the sher lence as a means of accomplishing a stock Association convention here iff of each county be administrator l>olitlcal or industrial change. lie made this statement in refer-1 of the fish and game laws in his She was the first woman In the ring to alleged advertisements oft county. Also that each county could state arrested under the law. She the »packers that they were “making' vote on o|*en and closed seasons, The was said to be a friend and sympa the stockmen fabulously rich.” governor would appoint a fish cul- thizer of Miss Theodora Pollok who Advocating the legislation Senator turlst to handle the propagation and ' was convicted early last year in the John B. Kendrick is urging in con distribution of fish and game, ac-. United States district court at Sac- gress. Dr. Donovan said the senator cording to the provisions of the new ramento. Cal., and later fined 1100 Denver. Colo., Jan. 27. — When had the interests of the packers as I Sergeant Fremont Wright of Denver amendment. for violation of the espionage act. well as those of the stock raisers at went to France with the 33rd divl- Authorities here charge that Miss heart. RADICAL AGITATORS FI.EE Whit.ney .was an organizer for the ■ion, he carried with h4m a pijoto- "Patience ceases to be a virtue,” graph of his sister, Mlss Dotha ACROSS MEXICAN BORDER communist labor party. She was ar _______ I rested after an address she delivered he said, "when the cow producer per- ¡Wright of thia dty. There was no Mexico City, Jan. 27.—Fourteen In vainly he should i isicwi nlark it isi of 'itivnviii' identification — sista —— ■— --- — * Imagining •• cvuvn on iiiv ,,v viuv radical agitators, fleeing from the before the Oakland Civic Center. the 3 iiicture Her attorney, J. E. Pemberton of receive one good pair of shoe« tn re-'eKcept the written inscription “With United States, have been detained at San Francisco, failed in an attempt turn for the cow hide he lias donat- |OVS( si«.” >ogales. General Juan Torres has through habeas corpus proceedings ed, when he »wonders in vain how the ( Sergeant Wright left the photo- repdrted to the war departmeat. I to have the law declared unconsti 70 pound bale of »hay he sold recent- grn|),|| with other iiersonal effects at Their disposition seems to he a prob tutional. ly is weighed back to him at a hun- port of embarkation. lem. dred In some stock yards, He does , The‘photograph of Miss Dot ha was ,1p on a battlefield in France not abprec.iate the excuses given him In lieu of cash. • , by Corporal Floyd W. Stevick of Ber “These »lock men are more cle lin, New Jersey. Stevick noticed the I pendent upon, and more at heart name of the Denver photographer on friendly with the great packing In the picture and recently mailed it to terests today than any other class of him with a note explaining »that he men; yet, I confess we do envy the feared the girl's brother might have great advertising agencies a few of been killed. The photographer gave the miilllona of dollars they are re the picture to a local newspai>er. Santiago. Chile, Jan. 27.—The Sydney. Australia. Jan. 27. The ceiving for enlightening you and me Half an hour after the newspai>er commercial situation of Chile has Japanese are now discouraging emi as to Ihow these gentlemen won the with ths picture had been put on the very much Improved in the last gration to America and Brazil, ac war. how they are making the stock streets, Sergeant Wright spied the month« of past year and a gen- men fabulously rich and all the other picture and the story which accom oral tone of business briskness pre- cording to R. Yamashina. vice-pres- innumerable blessings they are en panied It and came to the newspaper vail» us shown b.v the Increase of Ident of the Tokio Chamber of Com- forcing upon humanity. Incidentally office to Identify and clnliu the orig trders for Imported goods and the merce. “We are now a manufactur- we fail to note in these advertlse- inal »photo. augment of the bulk of exportation. ing nation,” he explained, while on a ments, even between the lines, the “I can’t understand,” said the ser Nitrate, the leading article of Chilean visit to Sydney, “and we do not want mention that it is being done indi- geant, “how the picture got out of exportation has been raised in prices our people to emigrate. There will rectly at the expense of the stock my kit bag at the embarkation port and all the production of the present not be much of it in the near fu year is sold. ture.” growers.” and onto a French battle field.” PHOTO LOST ON BATTLE FIELD FINDS ITS OWNER Republican Conferees Refuse to| Yield on Article Ten, and Con ference Again (Joes Over ♦ Grand Rapida, Mich., Jan. 27.—• United States Senator Truman H. Newberry and 123 prominent poli ticians of »Michigan went on trial here today charged with conspiracy, fraud and corruption in the senator Unlversity of Oregon, Eugene, ial election. Jan. 27.—Another leading professor Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 27. of the University of Oregon has suc cumbed to the lure of a higher sal United States Senator Truman it. ary and better research conditions, Newberry and 123 other men »er» elsewhere. Doctor Joseph Schafer, charged wit If corruption, fraud and head of the department of history conspiracy by the federal grand jury since 1900, and one of the most pop which investigated the senatorial ular professors, will leave either at election of 1818. When the Indict- Easter or in June for the University ments were returned November 30, of Wisconsin, where he will become last. United States District Judge C. superintendent of the Wisconsin W. Sessions, who assembled the jury. State Historical Society, the position indicated that evidence obtained by made famous by the late' Rueben the inquisitors disclosed that bo- Gold Thwaltes. the well known bls- tween 3500,000 and 31.000,000 had torian of the American West. Dr. been ext»ended fraudulently in con- Schafer will begin at a salary 31,-inection with the election. 000 higher than the state of Oregon I The indicted men included every has been able to pay him, in addi-i member of the committee that con- tion to other inducements that have ducted the Newberry campaign and been promised him. state, county and municipal officials In his new position Dr. Schafer in virtually every county from Lake will have time to work on his "His-. Superior to the Ohio border. torv of American Agriculture, Agriculture. “ in The contusions of the grand jury which he treats of what he con" were embodied in fwo blanket indict siders the economic basis of Ameri ments. They charged violation of can civilization, a great undertaking .both federal and state laws by use of already under way to which he ex- sum8 of money far in^excees of legit- pects to devote his energy for the imate expenses in the campaign; and next 25 years. He has also outlin- violation of the federal corrupt prac- ed a plan for a History of \\ isconsin tices act, which penalizes payment of and for the organization of »historical money to voters. Use of the mails societies in all parts of the state. -t0 defraud all the people of Mlch- Dr. Schafer is author of “The jgan,” was further charged against History of the Pacific Northwest, the campaign committee. More than largely used in universities and high (Continued on Page 2) schools, of “The Pacific Slope and Alaska,” of “The History of I^nd Grants in Aid of Education,” and of The Acquisition of Oregon Terri tory.” He was dean of extension division from 1912 to 1917. and was the founder of the Portland center of the University of Oregon. From 1912 to 1918 he was also Dean of the summer school. Roseburg. Jan. 27.—The never to j be forgotten spirit of battle once again cropped out at the Soldiers Home yesterday. From the evi dences of blood spilled, it was no mild comparison with those hand to hand engagements in which the par ticipants figured in days of yore, and for a few minutes it must have been An unusually interesting meeting about as exciting. No one was ser of the »American Legion is expected iously hurt but several are said to when the members of the local post have received badly scratched faces gather at the courthouse tonight. It and blood actually flowed. is thought an exceptionally large at According to the report current in tendance will be on hand as several this city this afternoon. William Cot matters of general interest to ex- trell. one of the well known veterans service men are to come up for dis of the home, and a man aged about 70 years, started the hostilities with cussion and decision. New opportunities for obtaining some remarks somewhat derogatory excellent vocational training will be to Germany. »Mr. Cottrell is a thor the chief point of interest for those ough American and was somewhat who are not yet established. Lists emphatic in his denouncements of furnished .by state headquarters of the one time imperial government, soldiers already recommended for with the result that Ms words are federal vocational training will also said t» have nettled his hearers, who be on hand. If any ex-soldler has were ready to back up their views applied for such training and has not with force, and a combat ensued. Mr. Cottrell was on the streets received notice, he may find hi* soon after the fray and his face was name somewhere on these» lists. The sentiment of the local post still bleeding. He told inquirers that will also be determined on several his glasses were broken when the matters relating to pending state and rush came and after that he was un national legislation, as well as a lo able to see. He said there was a cal question of vital Importance, group of veterans .who attacked him which is not yet ready for publicity. and that he stood them off as well as The meeflng will be held this be could until relief came, though evening at 8 o'clock in the G. 'A. R. he could only strike blindly and with room at the courthouse. All ex-ser but little effect. After the fight was vice men are invited to attend this over the veterans are said to have re meeting and partake of the spirit as tired to their usuaJ routine with no well as the refreshments of the Am other feelings than that they had settled another argument. erican Legion meeting.