A nother step tow ard th e construe»
tlon of the final link of the Lakeview-
K lamath F ails highway from Dairy to
M IS S VERONA HARDY
Lorens Mill has been taken by the
K lamath county court in securing the
rights of way.
The new hop w arehouse of the Ore­
P rin cip a l Events of the W eek
G en eral Pershing Given a
gon E lectric railroad a t Donald is
Assem bled fo r In fo rm atio n
completed. T he first day a fter its
Trem enbous O vatiou Upon
completion over 2500 bales of hops
of Our R eaders.
His A rriv a l.
were deposited. This has been a ban­
ner year for hope.
R. G. Johnson Jr. of W asco eounty
Louis Rorden, 74, The Dalles m er­
San Antonio, Tex. — The national
has been appointed county agent of I chant of pre-railroad days, died th ere
American Legion convention opened
G rant county.
recently a fter a brief illness. He was
h ere Monday.
W alnuts are beginning to drop and a t his place of business until the day
W est Texas cowboys shouted and
filberts are coming in. Price is a little before his death, when he left on ad­
perform ed tricks with th eir ropes in
i lower th is year on account of a large vice of a physician.
th e streets, cannon crackers reverber­
foreign crop.
ated from time to tim e through the
H eppner is planning a new 600,000
business d istrict, hundreds of one, two
A total of 1,224,958 pounds of milk gallon reservoir for the city w ater sys­
and three-m en reunions met in the
and 54.442 pounds of butterfat was tem. A survey has been made. It is
streets, uniforms of every description
produced in August by the herds te st­ understood th a t one of the present
gave the streets a holiday appearance
reservoirs will.be abandoned when the
ed In Tillamook county.
and bands and drum corps added to
T here are said to be nearly 10,000 new one is completed.
th e din.
The official program for F rances
head of cattle in K lam ath county in
The housing bureau estim ated more
prim e condition for m arket, and heavy E. W illard day, October 26, has been
th an 30,000 visitors had been register­
shipm ents are anticipated ia the near completed by C. A. Howard, sta te su­
ed. This estim ate did not include any
perintendent of public instruction, and
future.
of the official delegates to the conven­
copies have been sen t to all school
Miss Verona Hardy, of Gulfport,
G overnor P atterson has issued a
tion. Traffic became so heavy in the
superintendents in Oregon.
business distri ‘ early in the day that Miss., who was congratulated by Lieut. proclam ation urging the citizens of
C. M. Nelson, dairym an of Coos
police gradually closed the streets to Gov. Bidwell Adams of Mississippi on Oregon to join in the observance of
river, has a record-m aking herd of
her
essay,
which
won
the
Harvey
Fire­
national
fire
prevention
week,
October
automobiles In order to give the le­
cows which have averaged him 367
stone good roads scholarship, a $4,000 7 to 13.
gionnaires all the room possible.
pounds of b u tterfa t in nine m onths of
General John J. P ershing was given award. Her essay was “The Relation
The apple crop in the Milton-Free­ 1928. In July Mr. Nelson’s cows were
a trem endous ovation when he a r­ of Improved Highways to Education.” w ater d istrict this year will break all
second in the state returns.
rived. Other prom inent visitors who
records and it is estim ated that more
A proposr' to vote bonds for $110,-
came during the day included Hanford
th an 1000 cars will be shipped from
000 to com p.ete the Umpqua highway
Macnlder, ex assistan t secretary of
th a t section.
between D rain and S cottsburg will be
war, and F. Trobee Davison, assistan t
Lane county Four-H club boys and placed before the voters of the Ump­
secretary of war, for aviation.
girls won 16 first places and 85 rib ­ qua highway im provem ent d istrict a t
As the opening session approached,
bons on th eir work a t the state fair, the coming November election, accord­
the serious questions which will come
according
to Arnold D. Collier, county ing to a resolution adopted by the
before the convention from the reso­
New York. — A m erica’s automobile
club agent.
trustees.
lution comm ittee and from the floor casualty list is growing alarm ingly.
The first tim ber wolf killed in Jack-
began to come to the fore.
A third crop of blossoms is appear­
Seventy deaths a day was the coun­
National Commander E. E. Spafford try ’s toll for July, It was estim ated son county in many years was bagged ing on a p ear tree on the place of E.
issued a statem ent favoring Legion at the National Safety congress In recently by Wilsie P ru itt of Medford, T. Templeman a t Oakridge and he has
advocacy of a universal draft in war session here. In the first seven months who with a party was hunting deer already gathered two crops of ripe
time.
fruit from the tree, he said. B ranches
of this year, the total deaths In auto­ on the Umpqua divide.
mobile accidents were 13,800, as com­
H enry W. Collins of Pendleton has from th e tree showing ripe p ears and
pared with 12,900 the first seven purchased from the Fox Film company blossoms side by side were brought
months of last year.
for $27,000 the standing grain on 450 to Eugene and exhibited.
Indications are th at this y ear’s acres near Thornholiow used in the
F irst carload of potatoes sold by the
total of automobile deaths will exceed ' filming of "Our Daily Bread."
newly organized Ceneral Oregon Po­
th at of last year by 2000.
Adelaide C larissa Clarke O'Brien, tato G rowers’ association will be ship­
Illustrating the enorm ity of the prob­ the first w hite girl to settle in Klam ­ ped out of Redmond to P ortland with­
A tlanta, Ga.—Clinton S. Carnes, de­ lem, It. L. Forney of Chicago, head of
ath county, passed aw ay last week at in a few days, M. G. Coe, association
faulting treasu rer of the Southern the statistical bureau of the National
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lillie m anager, announced. One hundred
B aptist convention home
mission ' Safety council, said that accidents of
carloads of potatoes have been con­
Fiackus, in Dairy, aged 68 years.
board, recently captured In Winnipeg, 1 all kinds in the United S tates last
tracted by the association this year.
High
school
is
dism
issed
at
Cove,
in
Canada, was brought back to A tlanta j year caused death to 95,000 and in- |
A total of 3300 carloads of pears
Union
county,
th
a
t
the
pupils
may
as­
to face charges of having embezzled Jury to 10,000,000 more.
have been shipped from Medford this
approximately $1,000,000 of the board's j “Of the 95,000 killed last year, 25,- 1 sist the packers in preparing the large
crop of prunes for m arket. Shippers season w ith indications th a t th ere will
funds.
775 were autom obile deaths," said
be a t least two weeks more of heavy
a re paying $20 a ton for prunes.
When Carnes reached here he was Forney.
activity. To date 200 c a rt of r.pples
Two
carloads
of
m
achinery
and
greeted with a third indictm ent charg­
Automobile drivers seemingly will
have
been shipped. T here will be at
ing embezzlement of $80,000 in bonds. not be “educated" Into "safety first" equipm ent for the developm ent of the
least 500 cars sent from the Rogue
His total embezzlements were said to methods, although excellent progress cinnabar properties east of Sutherlin
river valley by the end of the harvest­
be approxim ately $1,000,000.
is made along other lines in accident have been ordered and the plant will
ing.
be in operation in a few weeks.
The indictment gave the date of the prevention.
A fter being forw arded here and
embezzlement as August 15, the day j
Septem ber export lum ber shipm ents
Carnes disappeared, and charged mis­
a t M arshfield topped the 1928 business ■
' there over a period of 11 years, a let­
VETERANS V IS IT CUBA
te r w ritten by Mrs. Lena Scharff in
appropriation of the following group
on Coos Bay, with a clearance of 15,-
St. Paul, Minn., August 25, 1917, was
of securities: $10,000 General Motors
115,533
feet.
Nine
steam
ers
carried
6800 Spanish War Men Open Conven­
returned to it» au th o r in Salem last
bonds, $7000 Florida E ast Coast rail­
the
shipm
ents,
valued
a
t
$422,931.
tion in Havana.
week. T he le tte r originally was ad­
road bonds, $15,000 liberty bonds. $19,-
H
avana.—B
attles of the Spanish- I The sta te ’s general fund is In the dressed to Yokohama, Japan. Mrs.
000 N orthern Pacific bonds, $15,000
red approxim ately $600,000 and the de­
governm ent of Switzerland bonds and American wur were refought in words ficit can be expected to grow until the S charff has lived in Salem for seven
in
many
hotel
lobbies
of
Havana,
years.
$11,000 Toledo Edison bonds.
next tax funds begin to arrive In No­
The indictm ent said all these secur­ where veterans met ex-comrades gath­ vem ber, according to S tate T reasu rer | The offer by Mrs. Ellen Baldwin,
W asco county pioneer, of 160 acres of
ities were the property of the home ered here for the convention of the Kay.
tim bered land in the Mount Hood foot
mission board, and although Carnes United Spnnlsh-War veterans.
At a city caucus held In Newberg |
More than 6000 partook of the unre­
hills to Boy Scouts of W asco and ad­
already Is under indictm ent on two
counts of having diverted approxim ate­ stricted privileges which Cuba has Mayor Nixon was nom inated by the jacent counties for camp use was ac­
ly $150,000 of the boards’ funds, this granted the men who aided in obtain­ people for a third tim e. C. F. Hin- cepted recently by m em bers of the
was the first true bill which specifi­ ing her independence. Ships due to ­ shaw was renom inated for city record­ mid-Columbia-Deschutes area council
er and W. H. W oodworth for city treas­ of the Scouts in quarterly session at
cally listed any of the m isappropriated morrow have 800 veterans aboard.
P resident Gerardo Machada and urer.
items.
Redmond.
other prom inent Cubans received at
A three-prong snow-white buck deer
The onion h arv est has been in prog­
th e state departm ent Admiral Hugh was shot recently by Tom Stevenson, i
HOOVER V IS IT S THE SOUTH Wiley and General John J. G arrity, n ear C edar butle, on th e W ilson river ress at Lake Labish, betw een Brooks
and Salem, w here over 500 carloads
i
commander-in-chief of the veterans, In Tillamook county, according to re­
are being m ade ready for shipm ent
Tennessee People Welcome Republi- :
with other of th eir officials.
ports coming from th a t section of the by a big crowd of employes in trim ­
can Candidate for Presidency.
state.
ming, drying, sacking, etc.
It has
Elizabethton, Tenn.— H erbert H oov j
Between 10,000 and 12.000 turkeys been a good season for onions in th at
er, republican presidential candidate, King of Albanians Besieged by Rebels
made a personal hid here Saturday J Vienna With a blood feud recently will be shipped out of U m atilla coun­ section, says Seym our Jones, state
for the electoral vote of the solid ' declared against him, Zogu, king of ty this year for the Thanksgiving and m arket a g e n t
th e Albanians, is stated in uncensored C hristm as trade. T here a re more than
South.
J. P eterson, ran ch er of the Shaw
Speaking to an immense crowd, dispatches from the m ountain king­ 40 turkey raisers in the H erm iston district, has appealed to the Marion
many of whom stood alm ost ankle dom to be virtually barricaded in h.s d istrict.
county court to appoint a county agent
deep In a muddy field, the republican palace at Tirana.
New buildings in La Grande passed to tell Salem business men how to
presidential candidate made one of the
the $S5o,OOO m ark for the year of 192S conduct th eir business. The applica­
lirst personal pleas for the support of Roosevelt to Run for Smith’s Place. last week with the issuing of a perm it tion was filed by Mr. P eterson a fter
th e normally solid dem ocratic south
Rochester, N. Y. New York demo­ in th e am ount of $14,000 to Julius a num ber of business men and bank­
th a t a nominee of his party has made crats. at the closing session of th eir Roesch for the erection of a garage ers had gone on record favoring a
in modern political history.
county agent to direct the farm ers.
state convention here, nom inated building.
The crow/l was tum ultous in Its wel­ Franklin D. Roosevelt of Hyde P ark,
A cream pool with 550 cows to draw
H earing a noise in his garden re­
come of the republican standard bear­ form er assistan t secretary of the navy, from was organized by H erm iston cently, Carl H ansen, who lives a t the
er. He spoke on a platform built at for governor.
dairym en a t a m eeting held in that north edge of Seaside, turned his dog
the toot of a high hill on the edge of
city last week. The H erm iston Cream­ loose to frighten the m arauder. A mo­
the mountain town ami the crowd
THE MARKETS
ery company will handle all cream m ent la te r th e dog rushed into the
formed into a huge fan shaped m ass
Portland
of the pool.
house with a large bull elk in full
of humanity below him. Hundreds of
W heat 11. B. bluestem . hard white,
Playground apparatus is being In­ p u rs u it H ansen found the bull elk
o thers were seated in tem porary $1.44; Soft white, $1.20; w estern
st lied in the block which was recent­ with two cows had broken his fence»
stands which sprawled across the hill white. $1 19; hard w inter. $1.12; north­
ly donated to the city of McMinnville and were eating corn in the garden.
w ider the shade of the trees above ern spring. $1.11; w estern red, $114.
by Mrs. W. B. Smith. It is to be a
Quinn S. B utler of Ashland was
him.
Hay — Alfalfa. $17®17.50; valley mem orial to her husband, the late elected president of th e Southern Ore­
tim othy $17®17.(0; eastern Oregon W. B. Smith.
gon Pioneer association at Jackson­
"Flying Sleeper" Service Planned.
imothy. $20.50621.
The drill team of the Corvallis fire ville last week. Mrs. A. E. Kenney of
New York. Inclusion of a "flying
B u tterfat—55c.
departm ent was the w inner of the sil­ Jacksonville was named vice presi­
sleeper" service In the transcontinen­
E g g s—Ranch, 24®47c.
ver cup trophy In a com petitive con­ dent and Mrs. M. J. Nelson perm anent
tal air transport system will bring the
C attle Steers, good. $12612 50.
test at the Pacific coast fire chiefs' secretary. Two of the oldest mem­
Pacific Coast one day nearer to the
Hogs Medium to choice, $9.25® convention at Sacram ento recently, ac- bers, Mary Vining. 92, of A shland, and
A tlantic, according to an announce­ 10 00.
coruing to a tel< gram received from Mrs. E lizabeth Paine, 94, of Ashland,
ment made by Colonel C harles A.
Lambs Good to choice, $11612 25.
(Tare A. Lee, state fire m arshal.
w ere p re s e n t
Lindbergh, technical chairm an, who
Seattle.
Misses B arbara R icker and Pearl ; Sixty six head of sheep killed by
stated th at the new feature lessens
W heat Soft white, $120*»: west
the coast-to coast journey to 19 hours. ern white. $1 40; hard winter. $1 12Vfc; Cess, well-known nurses of Medford, J dogs near Bend cost D eschutes county
left last Sunday on a 2500-mile hiking j $437. The w arran t paying Con F.
w estern red, $114; northern spring,
tr.p to New O rleans. They plan to : lloody of Sum m er Lake for the sheep
George Beban Dies of Injury.
$1 12; bluestem . $1 15
was draw n on the dog license fund as
Los Angeles, Cal. — George ileban,
H ay—Alfalfa, $22; timothy. $27.50; make the entire journey afoot except j
for a tra.n ride across the desert coun­ Is provided by the Oregon laws.
ch aracter actor in motion pictures, P. 8. $22
A reunion rem iniscent of the cele­
try of Arizona and Texas.
died in a hospital here from injuries
B utterfat 69c.
Ia»st Friday m arked the three-quar- bration two years ago when Chief Jos­
received when he was thrown from a
Eggs Ranch, 31643c.
r century m ark of Oregon residence eph's bones w ere rem oved from near
horse recently.
C attle Prime steers. $12012.50.
fcr 8. B. C athcart, who lives at Marsn- Wallowa and interred a t the foot of
Hogs Prime. $100 10 35.
1 1 J. He is one of the old pioneers of Wallowa lake will be held during the
Chicago Schools W ill Teach Aviation.
Lambs Choice, $11 25612 26.
he
state, and a surveyor who laid out fail of 1929. It was deciaed at a spe-
Chicago, III — Aviation ia to be
Spokane.
ial met ting of J o t t i h commercial
’any of the official surveys cf roads
taught In the classroom s of 10 leading
Hogs Good, and choice. $9 50 6 9 75
.
southern
and
cen
tral
Uregoa.
alsU
Chicago high school».
C attle- Steers, good, $10.76611.50.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
AMERICAN LEGION
CONVENES IN TEXAS
AUTOMOBILE DEATHS
STEADILY GROWING
ACCUSED CHURCHMAN
IS BACK IN ATLANTA
NORTHERN RAILROAD
MERGER SUBMITTED
I
L a st A rgum ent P resen ted on
G reat N o rth ern P acific
C om bination.
W ashington, D. C.— Conditional au­
thorization of the unification of the
G reat N orthern and the N orthern Pa­
cific railw ays loomefl as a possibility
a fte r counsel for th e northern lines
suggested to the in te rsta te commerce
comm ission th a t certain objections
voiced to the proposal, if deemed valid
by the comm ission, could be m et by
conditional approval of the m erger.
M embers of the comm ission also
pointed out how in certain other re­
spects the effect of the unification on
the public in terest w as speculative,
and inquired w hether certain condi­
tions designed to safeguard the public
in te re st would be acceptable to the
n orthern lines.
Jack Moakley, who has a great re »
Most far reaching in effect among
ord in the thirty years of being track conditions proposed was the sugges­
coach at Cornell university behind tion th at the comm ission reserve the
him. He's a veteran at the game and rig h t to abrogate the proposed 99-year
ia still going strong.
lease of the G reat N orthern, N orthern
Pacific and Spokane, P ortland & Se­
attle railw ays to th e new company,
th e G reat N orthern Pacific, if at some
future date a nationw ide plan of rail­
way consolidation was developed with
w hich th e n orthern line alignm ent
could not be reconciled.
W iener N eustadt, A ustria — The
A sim ilar reservation which would
huge rival propaganda m eeting of the provide for th e abrogation of the uni­
social dem ocrats and home defense fication if in effect it proved contrary
leaguers Sunday passed w ithout dis­ to public interest, was proposed. An­
order under the vigilant guard of other condition reserving to the com­
thousands of arm ed soldiers. Sixty m ission the rig h t to m ake some other
com m unists who staged a dem onstra­ disposition of the Burlington was sug­
tion were arre ste d and double th a t gested by Com m issioner E astm an.
num ber were taken in custody at Pot-
The concensus of those following
tendorf.
th e case is th a t several m onths will
Due perhaps to the awesome pres­ elapse before a decision Is forthcom­
ence of the troops, not a shot disturb­ ing, due not only to th e voluminous
ed the sabbath quiet of this home of record in th e case but to th e fact
A ustria’s form er kings. The two bel­ th at, as indicated by expressions by
ligerent political organizations, al­ sw e ra l of the com m issioners during
though secretly well arm ed, contented ♦ ho oral argum ents far-reaching prece­
them selves with verbal broadsides.
dents are likely to be established.
Sim ultaneous gathering of the so­
cial dem ocrats, who control the city
of Vienna and the H elm w ehr, or home
defense league of C hristian socialists,
who control the federal governm ent,
presented a strange blending of a hi­
larious picnic and a gigantic m ilitary
m aneuver, wholly unedifying to a for­
Philadelphia, P a.—A police official,
eigner.
for the first tim e since a special
A cordon of 3000 arm ed soldiers grand jury started its Investigation of
w ith barricades of barbed wire kept bootlegging and police corruption, has
the wordy belligerents safely apart. refused to testify on the ground that
On a plateau overlooking the town the it might incrim inate him, D istrict At­
arm y had constructed a veritable Gi­ torney Monaghan revealed.
braltar, with how itzers trained on the
Monaghan said the indictm ent has
public square, w here the m eetings m arked a new phase of the investiga­
w ere held. The town Itself, which is tion of large bank accounts and other
only an hour’s journey from Vienna, asse ts of police officials. He declined
was alive witli m achine guns, m ortars, to disclose the nam e of the official
bayonets and rifles, held by vigilant who refused to answ er questions.
soldiers.
The prosecutor announced th a t Po­
lice C aptain Jam es Gross had depos­
ited more than $23,000 in five banks
B R IEF G ENERAL NEW S
since the first of th is year, including
P ortes Gil, provisional president­ “ very substantial deposits up to the
elect of Mexico, has draw n up a bill early part of this m onth."
M atthew P atterso n , republican or­
granting freedom to num erous mili­
ganization w ard leader and mem ber
ta ry and civil prisonrs.
Surrounded by a group of Intim ate of the state legislature, and Police
friends, Gene Tunney, retired heavy­ C aptain C harles W. Schoenleber. were
weight champion, and Miss Mary Jos­ Indicted. The indictm ent of Schoen­
ephine L auder of Greenwich. Conn., leber and P atterso n was based on the
statem en ts of saloonkeepers before
w ere m arried in Rome, Italy.
The republican national com m ittee the special grand jury th a t they had
has received contributions totaling $1,- paid large sum s of money for protec­
733,289 so far and has expended 6L- tion.
406,834, according to figures on file
with the house and senate campaign
S M IT H GOES SOUTH
com m ittees.
Increase of 56 per cent in the Alaska Chattanocga and Nashville to Be
salmon pack this year as com pared
Visited This Week.
with last, and of nearly 12 per cent
Albany, N. Y.—Governor Alfred E.
over the last five year average, is in­ Fm ith has announced he would leave
dicated in prelim inary figures of the New York T hursday for his second
fisheries bureau of the departm ent of cam paign tour, going directly to Ten­
nessee.
commerce.
League of nations officials express­
He said he will visit both C hatta­
ed disappointm ent on receipt of the nooga and Nashville to confer with
com m unication from the United S tates dem ocratic leaders there, but will not
governm ent declining an invitation to apeak in T ennessee. His only speech
sit with the council In appointing a of the first week will be in Louisville,
central board of control set up by the Ky.. Saturday night, where he will go
1925 G eneva opium convention.
from T ennessee.
Beyond his engagem ent in K entucky
Two Killed When Plane Crashes.
tiie governor said nothing had been
Denver, Colo.—H urled 2000 feet to decided as final. It is quite generally
the ground. Mary Begole, 23. student believed, however, that the week of
aviatrix, popular in D enver's social O ctober 15 will find him in Chicago
set, and her sister, C arroll, 19, were and som ewhere in Missouri for the
instantly killed in an airplane crash second and third speeches.
two miles w est of Derby, n ear here.
C harles Wilson, 44. a student pilot,
Colony Plan Proposed for British.
who had agreed to pitot the girls on
O ttaw a, Can.—The d epartm ent of
a short flight, suffered a broken back Im m igration is considering a proposal
and was removed to the Denver gen­ by the British governm ent for the set-
eral hospital in a critical condition. tit ment of 20.000 B ritish fam ilies on
Both his legs and arm s also were Canadian farm s during the next ten
broken.
years. It is known th at the heads of
the fam ilies to be brought over would
Bedford Unionists Accept Wage Cuts. be with some agricultural training.
New Bedford. Mass A m ajority of The new com ers would be provided
the New Bedford craft unions voted with cottages until they had becom e
to end the 25 week strike by accept­ seif-supporting. T hen they would be
ing a compromise of 5 per cent wage placed on farm s for which they would
ru t and stipulation of 30-day notice pay over a 30-year period.
before a general wage cut.
SOLDIERS THREATEN
AUSTRIAN MASSES
BARE POLICE GRAFT
IN PHILADELPHIA
Po -5 Championship Won by Yankees.
teo Diegel Wins U. S. Golf Title.
Baltimore. Md.—Leo Diegel won the
National Professional G olfers' associa­
tion cham pionship by defeating AJ
Espinosa, 6 and 7.
W estbury. N. Y.—The U nited S tates
won the polo cham pionship of the
Americas here by defeating A rgentina
13 to 7 in the final game of a three-
game series.