WESTERN ROADS TO
ASK HIGHER RATES
PAUL A. S IP L E
P rin cip al Events of the W eek
Assem bled fo r Inform ation
of Our R eaders.
E arn in g s
D e c la re d
Below
Those of E a s te rn and
S outhern L in es.
W ashington, D. C.—The first step
tow ard institu tin g a general upward
revision of freight rates in w estern
te rrito ry has been Instituted before
th e In terstate comm erce commission
by rep resen tativ es of w estern trunk
line railroads.
Agents of the w estern roads asked
th e commission tor perm ission to fill
Im m ediately applications looking to
Increases on a wide range of commodi­
tie s over most of the w estern terri­
to ry and asserted th a t th e increases
Were necessary because th eir earnings
"fo r some years have been and now
are conspicuously Inadequate."
W estern railroads have contended
during recent years th a t th eir earn ­
ings were considerably below those of
carriers in the eastern and southern
districts. It was fu rth er declared th at
trainm en and conductors in the west­
ern territo ry have pending dem ands
for wage increases which have been
pushed to the point of a strik e threat.
W hile no m ention was made of the
im pending Increase in w estern rail­
road labor costs, it was assumed th at
the two m atters had a t least an indi­
rect connection.
The n atu re and extent of the In­
creases contem plated by the w estern
lines was not disclosed by the prelim ­
inary approach to the commission. It
Is expected the commission will indi­
cate some aspects of its views as to
the proposal soon. The prelim inary
proposal looked merely to the removal
of technical obstruction which pre­
vents the roads from im m ediately pub­
lishing the rate increase proposals as
ten tativ e schedules.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
B aker's cash balance Septem ber 1,
- as shown by the quarterly statem ent
' Just out, was $96,660.65.
,
J. M. Buker died at his home in Ba-
| ker, aged 78. He had been in failing
health for several years.
j
Gravel hauling on the fresh grading
of the Dayton-Salem m arket road with
the county trucks was begun In the
Unionvaie d istrict recently.
Eagle Scout Paul A. Siple of Erie,
Pa., who was selected by Commander
Byrd as hla orderly on the expedition
|
PAROLES REFUSED
IN CENTRALIA CASE
Deer hunting In eastern and central
Oregon has been unusually good this
year, according to reports brought
back by The Dalles hunters.
Ignatius Wild Bill, one of the most
picturesque Indians on the U m atilla
reservation, died recently, following
an operation for appendicitis.
Plans for the m arketing of a bumper
turkey crop a re being developed at
Roseburg by the recently organised
turkey m arketing association.
An ordinance calling for a bond is­
sue of $30,000 to buy new fire equip­
m ent and pay for a new fire hall will
be on the November ballot at Medford.
U nder a recent decision of the inter­
state comm erce commission, livestock
shippers of Oregon have won th eir
fight for reduced rates on purebred
stock.
W hether the m anagerial form of
governm ent wiU be substituted for
Bend's present councilmanic system
will be decided by local voters in
November.
Approach of fall, with some snow al­
ready covering the high peaks, finds
stockm en of central Oregon optimistic.
T h e optimism is based on the upward
tren d of prices.
A survey of the apple crop through­
out the Grand Ronde valley shows
that, with few exceptions, there will
be a bumper crop, especially in the
Im bler district.
W ith more than 60 per cent of the
Houston, Tex.—An airplane motor,
concrete poured at R eeder Gulch dam,
based on a new internal combustion,
n ear Ashland, contractors are looking
two-cycle principle, was dem onstrated
forward to the completion of the Job
in secret here by its inventors before
before December.
Houston aviators and new spaper men.
The two shoals in the Siuslaw river
A four-cylinder model on a steel
betw een Cushman and Florence will
PROBE IN C LU D ES COAST
tripod and with a regulation air screw
be removed some tim e this w inter,
was dem onstrated.
At its highest [
Utilities Investigtion Scheduled to according to E arl Hill, secretary of
speed it made 1300 revolutions per
Begin Next Month.
the port of Siuslaw.
m inute, developing between 80 and 90
W ashington, D. C.—Publicity activi­
The discovery of a rich vein of min­
horsepower.
ties of power utilities in Pacific coast eral along the Redwood highway and
The Inventors, H. S. Lyons and Vic­
states will receive the attention of the so close to th e road th a t it can be
to r Toce, told spectators th a t the
of the investigation being conducted touched, is reported by George Jenni-
company was amply financed, and th at
by the federal trade commission dur­ son of G rants Pass.
they had filed 16 claims for basic
ing the week of October 7.
Seth Rleden is under a rrest at Pen­
patents.
W itnesses to the dem onstration said I Although no definite dates or list dleton charged with breaking into the
of w itnesses have been m ade public, sheriff's office and stealing two kegs
the new four-cylinder engine has 13
the commission announced th at Cali- of whiskey, confiscated by county of­
working parts, weighs 175 pounds, con­
fornia, Oregon, W ashington and per- , ficers and stored there.
sum es between five and six gallons of
haps other w estern states would be
gasoline an hour and displaces 196
A fter the g reatest season in its his
covered.
cubic Inches. It requires no prelim- i
tory, the C rater Lake lodge a t the
The southern phase of th e investi­
rim of C rater lake closed recently.
lnary warming up. functions either
gation, which will cover Georgia, Ala­
Roads into the national park probably
upright or upside down w ithout loss |
bama, T ennessee and North Carolina,
will rem ain open for several months.
of gasoline or oil, has no valves, car­
buretor, cam shaft, tappets, valve began Tuesday.
Installation of a chlorinator to pur
springs or rocking arm s, and is air
Ify the A storia w ater supply was com­
Bomb Explosion. Rocks Spokane.
cooled.
pleted recently. The purchase of the
Spokane, W ash.—The second "m ys­
chlorinator followed reports by county
tery" explosion in a week. Saturday
health officials th a t colon baccllli had
K IDNA PER A D M IT S G UILT
night rocked the entire north side and
been found in the water.
brought calls to the police and fire
Honolulu Japanese Boy Confesses
The third two days’ H arvest F esti­
departm ents from all over the city.
Child Theft and Murder.
Detective Captain Miles announced val and T rade at Home week will be
Honolulu. T. H.—Yutaka Fukunaga.
held again this year at Lebanon dur­
sought as the slayer of Gil Jam ieson, the explosion was caused by a bomb. ing October. One of the features will
Fragm
ents
of
the
infernal
m
achine
banker's son, a fter the later was kid­
were found. It was ap parently made probably be a walking contest from
naped from his home, was arrested
of copper and tin. A fuse had been Sweet Home to Lebanon.
and confessed, police said. Fukunaga
D. E. R ichards, county agent of
is a Japanese, aged 19 The Japanese attached and pieces of it also were G rant county for several years, left
found near the hole in the ground.
youth told officials that he had studied
Baker recently for Bozeman. Mont.,
the methods used by Leob and Leo­
w here he will join the staff of the
Plane Uses Oil Burning Motor.
pold in the Franks m urder In Chicago.
M ontana S tate college extension serv­
Detroit.
The
Packard
Motor
com
William Edward H ickm an's kidnaping
ice as a livestock specialist.
pany
has
announced
successful
com
and slaying of Marian P ark er in Los
A three-foot blue shark, the first
pletion
of
test
flights
with
an
airplane
Angeles served as a model for Kukun
caught in the Columbia river for many
aga. He lured th e boy away from powered by an oil-burning motor. This
years, was landed at A storia recently
school on the pretext th at Mrs. Jam ie j is the first Diesel type aircraft engine
a fter a 10-minute fight by Mrs. Sylvia
ever
built.
son had been Injured, took him to a
Roberts, who, with other women, was
lonely spot and strangled him to death. '
fishing for tom cod from the municipal
THE
MARKETS
Like Hickman, the first clue to Fukun­
pier.
Portland
aga was the spending of some of the :
The federal treasu ry departm ent, at
$4000 ransom money F rederick Jamie- ] W heat Big Bend bluestem . hard
son, the father, hnd paid him for the J white. >141; soft white. $1.18; w est­ th e next session of congress, will a t­
ern white. $1.17; hard w inter. $110; tem pt to obtain a supplem ental ap­
safe return of Gill.
northern spring $109; w estern red, propriation with which to enlarge the
Revenge was the motive the Japa
Salem postoffice, according to a tele­
neae gave for his crime. The plan $1 10.
Hay — Alfalfa. $170 17 50; valley gram received at Salem by Senator
was first evolved last March, when
the Hawaiian T ru st company was tim othy $170 17.50, eastern Oregon McNary.
Installation of the beacon lights
pressing his father for rent, which was timothy, $20.50 0 21.
B u tterfat—55c.
marking the route of the Pacllfc di­
in arrears.
Eggs Ranch. 25045c.
vision of the federal a ir mail route
C attle—Steers, good, $11 50612.35
south front Portland will begin as soon
Boise Man Heads Odd Fellows.
Hogs — Medium to choice, $9.75® as the survey of em ergency fields re­
Montreal. At the convention of the
cently selected. Is completed between
Independent O rder of Odd Fellows, 12 00.
Lum bs Good to choice, $11® 12.50. Portland and Roseburg.
Frank Martin of Boise, Idaho, a law
Seattle
yer, was elected grand sire for the en­
Reclaimed this sum m er from an
W heat Soft white, $1.18; w estern area that was covered with trees,
suing year During the past year he
has been deputy grand sire and his white. $1,174»; hard w inter, $110; brush and rocks. Bend's airport was
promotion came autom atically. The w estern red. $1.12*»; n orthern spring. used by airplanes for the first time
$1 10H ; bluestem . $1 39.
1929 «invention will be h eld,in Hous
when pilots circled out of the central
Hay — Alfalfa. $24; tim othy $30; Oregon skies last week and made use
ton. Tex.
t> 8 . $24
of the new runways.
B u tterfat—64c.
Tunney's Flaecee Leaves for Italy.
A $50,000 veneer plant for Coquille
Eggs
-R
anch.
47051c.
New York, N. Y. Mies Mary Jose
waa promised to the city council by
C attle Prim e steers. $11 75012 50
phine Lauder, fiance of Gene Tunney,
Ralph Smith. K ansas City lumberman,
Hogs ' Prime, $12 75012 95
has sailed from New York to Join the
and a Mr Reeves of Portland. The
Lambs Choice. $1125012.25.
retired heavyw eight champion In
plant is to be located near the .Oerd
Spokane.
Europe, nnd the couple will be mar
Ing W hite C edar mill. The plant Is
Hugs Good and choice, $10 75 011
rled In Sorrento, Italy, early in Octo­
to employ 50 persons.
C attle—S i- rs, good, $11011.75.
ber.
DEMONSTRATE NEW
AIRPLANE ENGINE
W alla Walla, Wash. — The state
prison board, at its session Just end­
ed, refused to grant requests for
clemency for eight m em bers of the
International W orkers of the World
who have been held in prison for
seven years on m urder charges grow­
ing out of the A rm istice day parade
killings in C entralia in 1919.
Requests for clemency came from
pacifists, socialists and the In tern a­
tional W orkers of the W orld as a
body, and also David S tarr Jordan-, in­
ternationally known educator. The
board has taken sim ilar action each
tim e the requests were made. The
men were sentenced to from 25 to 40
years each for m urder on April 5, 1920,
and entered prison in June, 1921, when
the United S tates suprem e court re­
fused th eir appeal.
American Legion m em bers In the
parade asserted the International
W orkers of the World m em bers fired
on them as th eir parade passed the
International W orkers of the World
hall, and the International W orkers
of the world declared the hall was a t­
tacked and they fired in self-defense.
A proposed tax levy of $96,188 and
estim ated revenues of $7161 are in­
cluded in the city budget of Bend for
1929.
Lilacs in the cem etery at Halfway
have bloomed twice this season. The
second crop flowers are as fragrant
as the first.
A list of 13 names, under the simple
heading of "O ur Camper Dead,” has
been posted near the entrance gate
of the state fair grounds. The nam es
represent those m em bers of the S tate
F air Cam pers’ association who have
died during the past year.
Fire losses in August in P ortland
amounted to $303,971, according to a
report by Fred W. Roberts, fire
m arshal. One hundred and seventy-
four alarm s were answ ered in the
month, but only 51 were responsible
for the fire damage figure.
The attem pt on the part of Newport
to have the county seat changed from
Toledo to Newport is stirring up con­
siderable interest throughout the coun­
ty, and is destined to cause a record
vote on th e part of the electorate of
these two cities particularly.
A pproxim ately 125,000 choice daffo­
dil bulbs have been recently shipped
to New York and other eastern points
by William M artin and Robert and
Jean W arrens of W ashington county.
The bulbs were for the most part of
the Golden Spur and Victoria varie­
ties.
J. M. T ucker of Albany was so bois­
terous while aw aiting trial at the city
Jail for being drunk th a t the fire de­
partm ent turned a stream of w ater in­
to his cell. Tucker was quiet for the
rest of the day and later paid a $100
fine. He also lost his driver's license
for 60 days.
A B artlett pear weighing one pound
and 15 ounces and m easuring nine
Inches from stem to blossom end and
13*4 inches In circum ference was pick­
ed on the Clarence Badger farm in the
Grand Island district. The tree bear­
ing this pear bore a very heavy yield
of fruit in 1927.
The construction of a new fireproof
building, m aterial of hollow tile, was
commenced recently by W. R. Cook,
I Madras postm aster. The new build­
ing, which will be erected in the site
of the old postoffice destroyed in the
big fire of 1924, will be completed be­
fore November 1.
If La G rande's present warm
w eather continues a few weeks longer
the eastern Oregon norm al school
building will be erected and roofed
this fall, thus allowing workmen to
continue with Interior work during
the w inter m onths, it w’as announced
by the contractor.
A com m ittee of the Oregon state
board of forestry m et in Salem to de­
vise ways and means for the construc­
tion of a forestry building at the state
fair grounds. The cost of the stru c­
ture has not yet been determ ined. It
was proposed to have the structure
completed before the 1929 state fair.
Roy Fitzw ater, field man for the
N orthw est Cannery company, had his
upper jaw broken in several places
recently when a horse kicked him in
the face. H e was alone a t the time.
Regaining consciousness, he drove to
Lebanon, where he was given first aid,
then was sent to P ortland to a special­
ist.
E astern Oregon's new state tuber­
culosis hospital, now in the process
of construction a t The Dalles, was
dedicated recently in an im pressive
cerem ony held on Sunset hill attended
by Governor P atterson, o th er state
officials and hundreds of spectators
from The Dalles and elsewhere in Ore-
! gon.
A training plane belonging to the
W ashington national guard was barely
saved from destruction by fire a t the
Roseburg airport last week. The plane,
piloted by C. E. Forbes and F. J.
H astnett, was on the way back to
Spokane from the Los Angeles races
and rem ained at the local airport
over night.
J. H ardy Crow, 83, one of the pic-
I turesque and one of the best-known
residents of Cottage Grove, died there
recently. He arrived a t Lorane, ten
miles west of Cottage Grove, 50 years
ago when the road to that place was
not much more than a deer trail in the
most favorable w eather and he lived
there until rem oving to Cottage Grove
i eight years ago.
Four and seven-tenths miles of the
Roosevelt highway south of Bandon
was oiled by the state highway de-
i partm ent m aintenance crew.
The
work was completed as the first fall
rain fell. The coating was of light
oil. It was said the work will not
be resum ed until next spring, when
the commission will oil to Gold Beach
and probably to the state line.
F ruit grow ers of Union county are
preparing to harvest two bumper
crops th is tall—prunes and apples.
They expect to ship 75 carloads of
high quality prunes. Picking and pack­
ing will begin shortly a t Cove and
Union. The apple outlook is good,
j About 50« carloads are expected. R e
cent rains have increased size and
Improved coloring of fruit around Im
bier and Elgin. The Im bler district
expects a crop of 30C carloads. Indi­
cations are th at the total yield may
net $35C,000 to growers.
H. L ANDERSO N
1,GOO TO 2,200 LOST
IN FLORIDA STORM
N u m ber of L iv e s Lost M ay
N e v e r be D e fin ite ly
K now n.
Herbert Lyman Anderson is the new
chief examiner of the federal trade
oommission.
NORTHCOTT AND HIS
MOTHER INDICTED
W est Palm Beach, Fla.—Officials In
charge of Florida hurricane relief state
th a t the death list, estim ated at 1069
to 2200, probably would never be ac­
curately made. It was explained that
conditions In th e devastated area now
are such as to m ake a definite check
im possible.
Two hundred additional bodies were
found at Pelican bay on Lake Oke-
chobee, bringing to 400 the total found
there, A. L. Schafer, W ashington rep-
resentative of the American Red
Cross, announced.
Bodies now being found are in such
condition, they said, th a t many were
being crem ated, while others were be­
ing buried n ear w here they were
found.
In placing th e death list at "more
than 1006,” Howard Selby, chairman
of th e Palm Beach county chapter of
the Red Cross, added th a t he could
"lay his hands” on th a t many, adding
th a t since crem ation or burial of bod­
ies in the stricken area had become
necessary it would be im possible to
determ ine the to ta l loss of life.
Steps to effect a state wide relief
organization to care for Florida’s 15,-
000 hom eless w ere taken by the na­
tional Red C ross when branch head­
q u arters were established a t Jackson­
ville, Tam pa and F o rt Myers.
H oward Selby, chairm an of the
W est Palm Beach Red C ross chapter,
raised his estim ate of the county’s
property loss to $50,000,000.
Riverside. Cal.—M urder Indictm ents
against Gordon S tu art N orthcott, 20,
and his m other, Mrs. S arah Louisa
N orthcott, charging them with slaying
youths on the N orthcott chicken ranch
n ear here, w ere returned by the coun­
ty grand jury.
N orthcott and his m other were
charged In one indictm ent wi»h the
m urder of W alter Collins, 10, who dis­
appeared last spring from Glendale,
Cal. The second bill charged N orth­
cott with th e slaying of an unidenti­
fied Mexican youth and Louis and
Nelson W inslow, aged 12 and 10, re- I
spectively, who disappeared several
m onths ago from Pomona, Cal.
Cyrus G. N orthcott, fath er of Gor­
don N orthcott, and Sanford Clark, who
first revealed the existence of the al­
W ashington, D. C.—The position of
leged “m urder farm ,” were w itnesses the W ashington governm ent on the
before the grand jury.
A nglo-French naval accord for the
lim itation of cru isers and subm arines
Vancouver, B. C.—Declaring th at he is expected to be made clear a fter
has been “fram ed,” and th a t he will P resid en t Coolidge has had an oppor­
fight extradition to the United States, tu n ity to study the prelim inary draft
Gordon S tu art N orthcott, charged with of a note being prepared a t the state
m urdering several young boys on his departm ent.
father's farm at Riverside, Cal., was
T hat th e reply if sent will express
locked in a cell in O akalla prison here. A m erican disfavor of the principles
N orthcott was captured at Vernon, B. of big cruiser and subm arine lim ita­
C. Mrs. S arah Louisa N orthcott, his tions w ithout lim itation of sm aller
m other, is under a rre st in Calgary.
ships of either type which was evolved
in the Anglo-French conversations, is
considered certain.
B R IE F G ENERAL NEW S
About the only official m a tte r of
Paul W upper, 51, president of the which the W ashington governm ent
Beemer (Neb.) State bank, is charged has taken cognizance consists of the
with em bezzlem ent of at least $67,000 two resum es of th e understanding
from the bank.
betw een F rance and England, sent
The A lberta governm ent announced h ere by those countries early in Au­
It had completed negotiations for the gust with requests for comm ent.
sale of all its railroads to the Canadian
These resum es disclose th a t G reat
Pacific Railway.
B ritain and France proposed to sub­
Paavo Nurmi, famous Finnish run­ m it a plan to the league of nations
ner, is said to be tired of record sm ash­ preparatory comm ission on arm am ent
ing and he will retire a t the end of lim itations for the restriction of large
the present season.
cruisers and subm arines and to ignore
An agreem ent was reached by a lim itations of lig h ter craft.
comm ission of the league of nations j
for the convocation of a preparatory
174 DEAD IN PORTO RICO
disarm am ent commission either in
January or February, 1929.
Thousands of Survivors Said to Be
A press report in Mexico City says
Near Starvation.
the late President-elect Obregon car­
W ashington. D. C.—Incom plete re­
ried about $1,000,000 in life insurance
ports from Porto Rican Insular police
in various American companies Issued
place the dead from the hurricane in
by agencies in Los Angeles and th at
th at island at 174, w ith 381 injured,
the companies have Indicated inten­
H enry M. Baker, national director of
tion to contest paym ents because of
d isaster relief for the Red Cross, wir-
the nature of General O bregon's death.
, ed national headquarters from San
' Juan.
Grand Army Elects Nebraska Veteran.
W illiam B. Taylor, one of the Red
Denver, Colo.—John Rees of Broken
Cross assistan ts in the field, returned
Bow, Neb., was elected commander-in-
. from a visit to nine nearby tow ns and
chief of the Grand Army of the Re­
reported th a t th ere were 32,000 per­
public. R ees’ victory over Samuel P.
sons in need of food.
Town of Philadelphia came as a su r­
"If they do not get food from the
prise. Town appeared certain of the
Red Cross, they don't eat," he said.
post up to th e tim e of the election.
"T housands are living on green ba­
The vote was 421 to 140 and then was
nanas and other fruits th a t can be
made unanimous. Portland, Maine was
scavengered from the ground. This
chosen as the 1929 meeting place. The
is lowering resistance and sickness
Maine city won over Sacram ento, Cal.,
m ust follow. One town I visited re­
366 to 250.
ported 200 cases of influenza from
expo- are."
Roosevelt Trophy Won by Bob Crosby
f t epidem ic of Influenza has al­
Pendleton, Or.—Bob Crosby is the
ready started in Porto Rico, Red Cross
all-round cowboy champion and is now
officials found in m aking a survey of
the perm anent holder of the Roose­
approxim ately one qu arter of the area
velt trophy, which he has won three
devastated by the tropical hurricane.
times. He cinched the championship
a t the Round-up when he won the
World Sugar Conference Fails,
steer roping cham pionship by throw ­
Berlin.—Sugar-raising countries out­
ing his anim al in 25 1-5 seconds. His
side of Europe. particularly Cuba and
time for three steers was 1 m inute, 2
Java, are generally blamed here for
2 5th seconds.
th e failure of the projected conference
among sugar producers because of the
Kidnapers Free Boy Held 13 Days.
Impossibility of securing an agreem ent
Chicago.—W illiam Ranierl. ten-year-
’ with the m any restricted outputs.
old boy who was held for $15.600 ran ­
I R epresentatives of the sugar industry
som for 13 days, was freed without J in Germany. Poland and Czecho-Slo-
the ransom having been paid. He was
j vakia decided to cancel th e in tern a­
unharm ed and little the worse for his
tional conference which had been call­
experience. He was put out of an
ed for next month.
autom obile a mile north of LockporL
U, S. NAVAL VIEWS
TO BE MADE CLEAR
Higher Flax T ariff Asked.
St. Paul. Minn.—An im m ediate In­
crease of 50 per cent in the flax tariff
was asked of President Coolidge in a
telegram sent by Governor Christian-
•on.
Eagle to Go With Byrd.
Nashua. N. H.—An
eagle, which has made
anim al farm here for
was sent to H am pton
be the mascot on the
expedition.
American bald
its home on an
several years,
Roads. Va„ to
Byrd A ntarctic
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