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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1933)
U' A THE SHERMAN german Qlmmtg Journal Managing Editor c. J Entered as second-clast matter at the ’ostoffice, al Moro, Oregon, under Aet of Congress of March 8, 1879. । | SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 81 » 100 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1933. TUE COMMITTEE HAS WORK TO DO The governor has appointed a committee. It looks like a , good committee with one possible exception; the taxpayers are not * represented by as many members as are the tax spenders and the relief agency heads, but that may be taken care of by others All they have to do is to determine how much money the state needs and propose a feasible way of raising it, a way that will meet with sufficient popularity to k uarantee its acceptance by the citizenry of the state- That is job enough for any committee and we do not join with those who say it must be done quickly. It is more important that it is done well. We have expressed the opinion that a sales tax is not the pro per means of raising money at this time when every effort is being made to increase sales instead of hampering the exchange of goods for money The arguments against a sales tax are that it pt is a bar, however slight, against each sale and that it taxes h. se least able to pay Therefore, it is a poor tax for times like these. The proposal to ra se four or five million dollars through a tax on liquors would, if put into effect, defeat the purrose back of the repeal of the 18th amendment. Bootleggers and home brewers would flourish as in the prohibition days. Oregonians are not going to drink enough liquor to pay a tax of five dollars per year, anyway We hope the committee, composed as it is of the leaders in every major oiganizaiion of th state, will be able to propcie something t ew instead oi something tl at has been already found impractical or decidedly unpopul r it may be possible lor (he count its to bundle their own it ie; * rublems belter than the state can d it. The farthei the otgani zation is from the people it serves the sr aller chance it has oi administering p opeily and the more remote th« scource of the funds given 'or relief the more lax are the local agencies- It is easy to give Bill Jones and his family state or federal money but • it would be watched more closely if it was locally app opri- ated and raised. Th5 longer we have huge funds for relief the longer we will have long relief lists There is no doubt that there is need for relief However, th* factThat the taxpayers are straining to raise such funds should cause the agencies administering it to be very watchful of the funds paid out Practically every county has a greater amount of delinquent taxes than they have unpaid warrants because they have spent less money than has been appropriated It might be impossible to- raise money on this potential income at preseut but bonds might be sold that could be paid from this fund. The legislative Could allow county courts to transfer to the relief fund. Whatever is recommended by the committee which meets to day it is to be hoped they do nothing that materially increases taxes and thus hampers the recovery that is said to be on the road. ..... —Q*1 ' .... ./.-sense« Misses Maud and Helene Home wood returned Sunday from a two months visit to their family in Iowa durin* which time they spent several days in Chica*o lookin* over the fair. It b really a pa*eant of pro*rees they say with replicas or ori*inals of nearly every manufactured article old ctwemshiys old locomotives old airplanes. Tho wonders of science as pictured or described were found interestin*- | A YWell. Roberta says if he’d only make love to her like a reasonable man she'd fall for him bard. That means she's still safe. . Bill Latham, you've got to get that girl back home In a hurry. Those infernal sheep and my foolish schemld* sent ter to Texas, sod In order to get her borne those sheep must be disposed of—In a hurry God help me. I’ll have to buy them myself—and If that Hlguenes bandit ever gets on to the Identity of the purchaser, he’ll Induce her to soak me so hard, when I'm un able to defend myself, that i’ll never general atore he purchased a pair of overalls, a canvas coat and s gray The Baker and Lemley families at sombrero, which, combined with a soft tended the Sherman county picnic in white shirt and black tie und the boots • (a relic of other days) which Portland last Sunday he 4 habitually wore, metamorphosed D> and Mrs. Poley returned from Crooked Bill into a very fair Imitation Portland Tuesday after a short risit ef a Texas eitlsen of the wide open spaces. Thus garbed he called upon to consult rith other doctors about Don Prudencio Aivlao. Rachael's health- , "My name's Blodgett Mr. Alvtsn." he announced, and soothed his con Oscar *Ru**les and family don't in science with the thought that It was— tend to live on spuds and beans this his middle name. “I understand you’re winter for they just returned from have the heart to ent a mutton chop the attorney for Tom Antrim's estate. a trip to Mt- Adams with several again. Glenn, tny boy, fighting your 1 also understand he left quite a fight la going to be mighty expensive, gallons of huckleberries. smear of sheep.” ’ • but as an adjunct to ths family 1 Don Prudencio nodded. -1 Elmer Coyle and con Gordon who guess you’re worth IL" He telephoned "Are they for sale?"" . have been workn* here left for their to his office in New York, Instructing “A sale might be ananged. we^h it to secure-him transportation and -the consent of the court. Señor Blod home in Oregon City thb week. a drawing room 4o Loe Algodones. gett." Don Prudencio answered gmird- iM. J- Murphy, railroad engineer, Texas, end the following day was en edly. who formerly pulled the train from route to consummate the crookedest "Flne^" said Crooked BUI. ‘.'1*11 huy Shaniko to Birr* on tbh line.was piece of business he had ever contem- I them. I've a notion I ran make a plated--that of swindling himself! I (urn on those sheep. I understand An here this week repairin* hb house. In due course he arrived in Los trim’s .heir Ilves In New York, so 1 L. R. French was in Umatilla- Algodones and put up at the Mansion presume she’ll be glad to sejl and git house. Neither the town nor the hotel ’ rid of a nuisance.” Morrow and Gilliam counties this had changed a particle in the twenty- | Don Prudencio shrugged. "Maybe week working on the barge system five years that had passed since be so.” With his eyes he inquired what for wheat shipment. had seen it lAst. Señor Blodgett’s offer might be. J lav 'U p ' s a replica of my Uncle Bill. If Roy Barnett somewhat recovered - Nobody knew him. nor did any of ing looked up the market quotations ho had Uncle Bill's clothes on I’d get from his foot injury of last week is the faces of the loungers in the chairs tn an El Paso paper Crooked Bill out und kiss him without question. tipped back against the front of the promptly named a figure one dollar staying in town while hauling wheat hotel awaken in Crooked Bill the per head above the highest market Good gracious. what a marked resem- blancej Why he and Uncle Bill are ms near alike as twins." Stanley Krusow is home from Port faintest flicker of recognition. At the quotations. Don Prudencio stirred slightly. “I "So?” ‘murmured Don Jaime and land- looking pretty peaked due to •51 weel sell you. those sheeps, subject to stepped on hla foot throttle. "Now school matters claim his entire at- a sinus operation while on his stay In the confirmation by the court.” he that's mighty Interesting.” ention. purred. "1 am the executor for the the city. He parked in front of the bank, ex Hays Boyce is home from Prine ee-state. The sheep have been count’ cused himself to Roberta, entered and Doris Stradley came home Monday recently and I weel guarantee the night from Spokane where she has ville where he has spent the major count. I weel write for you an offer sought the cashier. "Ed," he said, "yesterday ten thou a meet of her sister for the past P*rt of the summer workin*. for nil those sheeps, wheech you will sand dollars was wired here to the three months Chris Taylo? once a Grass Valleyite sign. Then 1 weel accept, subject to credit of the eatats of Thomaa Antrim, but now a resident of the John Day the confirmation Uy iW court end you aa a flrat payment on account of the Rinehart Wassemiller and Miss weel pay me now on account ten thou Alice Dawson of The Dalles were bottoms east of Moro, was in town sand dollar*, nn? T am qneeck tender purchaae, by one Blodgett, of the An trim sheep. That young lady outside —like you. married in Hood River Friday by Rev last week for * day or two. I d my car la Antrim's heir, Mia* Ro -tn have the money wired to the Hilgendorf of the Luthem church- Vern and Taylor Baker and Edwin berta Antrim. I want to know what of the estate In any bank you Mr. Wassemiller Sr. having watched Peters went to the huckleberry pat credit New York bank wired It" It will he there tomorrow. the ceremony spent a few days visit ches on Mt. Hood this week to try name. "Certainly. I don't think 1 violate You've sold something.” any confidence. The Twelfth Na- in*. their luck and ambition- Don Prudencio Alviso might have tlonaL” Miss Ottille Wassemiller returned Bill Roth had the misfortune or looked sleepy, but behind those slight "Who ordered the transfer?” to her work as nurse in the Emman bad aim to shoot himself in the arm ly liverish eyes be was very wide "A man by the name of Glenn awake. Within ten minutes he had uel hospital in Portland this week. with a small calibered rifle this William B. Latham sewed up on a Hackett." "Thanks,” said Don Jaime, and She has been vacating here for sev week- contract of purchase and sale, pro climbed back Into the car with Ro eral week’s- vided the court approved D od Pruden- berta. When they were half-way back L- C. Dickson i ranted with his ton- clo’s action as executor. to Valle Verde he said to her very V- A. Baker and family were visi siis last week wl W in The Dalles- When Crooked Bill had th* contract casually, "Do you know a man In New tors at Forest Grove last week. Floyd and Elmer Thun have gone safely tucked In his pocket he com York by ths name of Glenn Hackett?” I_.es Peterson is home from the hos to California after working here dur menced talking with Don Prudencio Roberta jerked erect with surprise. about the deceased Tom Antrim, and pital with his injured foot in a cast ing harvest. learned that for a few days following "Why. yes! He's one of my dearest friends and my Uncle Bill’s attorney. and a couple of pins sticking through Mrs. Florence Beezley is visiting Antrim's death the sheep had re Do you know Glenn, Jimmy?” it- mained in charge of %ne QIU Dingle. here for a few days from Portland "No—and I hope I never do. I dis Harold Hughes was in Portland where she has been living for several Antrim’s foreman. Later Dingle had like him very much. He's In love with been rather forcibly relieved of his last week for his final visit before months. charges by Jaime Hlguenee, of the you?f’ "That's none of your business, and Rancho Valle Verde. "That Dingle might be a good expe besides. If be were, Jimmy, you couldn’t rienced sheepman to care for these expect me to discuss, the subject with sheep In case the court approves the you. Who has been telling you about sale,** Crooked Bill suggested hope Glenn Hackett?” "The fairies,” Don Jaime replied enig fully. "Where might one get Ip touch matically. And though Roberta With him?” Don Prudencio gave him m|nute di presaed him to tell her more and em rections for finding Mr. Dingle, and ployed every feminine wile to break with a heart beating high w)th hope down his resolve not to, ha refused. As they alighted at tho hacienda* the Crooked Bill took his departure. "Tomorrow I’ll hire a oar and driver outrageous man still further mystified and hie me out to saw tho«« sheep off her by saying: “And I don't think so much of your on Bill Dingle,” he decide*!- TH givo that grass thief a bargain he just nat old Uncle Bill, either.” This statement when there was not urally won't have the heart to refuse. Then 1*11 get an airplane to freight me apparently any reason why Uncle Bill back home In a hurry, because I should ever be tho subject of thought, was the final feather that broke the mustn’t waste any time with that Hlg- We specialize in selecting first quality wood and uenes bird always on the job. Once back of Roberta’s curiosity. “Jimmy,” home. I'll wire Roberta I’m very III she pleaded, "would you core to save coal for our trade, delivered direct to you by truck and to come home Immediately. After a human Ufo?” or F. O. B. car. "Some humans You, for Instance." that—the Deluge." "Then tell me what has lowered my Innocent Uncle Bill In your estima tion.” "He’s crooked.” * For a long time after Crooked BUI “Oh, Jimmy, he Isn’t I His friends - had left his office Don Prudencio AL csll him Crooked Bill because he's— viso sat In his swivel chair and stared well, rather joyously sly, cunning and hard at the opposite wall. He was prudent But dishonest—never!" thinking equally hard. Presently ho “He's out to boost the stock of this took down the telephone and called Glenn Hackett person to you and to the proprietor of the Mansion house depress mine.” and with him held a conversation in T Roberta smiled a small and knowing Spanish. Then he hung up and waited. smile but said nothin*. Presently the telephone ran* and Don "No, he doesn’t play fair,” Don Prudencio answered. "Gracias,’* He Jaime protested. “He says one thin* hung up and wrote on a scratch pad and means somethin* else, so just for the Initials W. B. L Thereafter he that I’m going to take your Uncle continued to stare at the wall for an Bill’s conceit down a couple of notches." other hour. “How do you know he doesn’t play The following night no appeared at fair?" tho Rancho Valle Verde. Roberta was He laid finger on Up. “Hush I It’s dressing for dinner, and Don Jaime a secret" was lying in his Ion* chair on the "Evidently," Roberta replied bitter gallery, with Ken Hobart betide him. ly, after waiting about twenty seconds "Hello. Prudy. what brings you for him to Impart the secret. out)” Don J a I ubo hailed him. "1 think I’ll go back to Los Algo "I am mystified," Don Prudoncio re dones," ho announced suddenly. plied. and forthwith related In meticu •There’s somethin* about tho atmos lous detail hit impending sale of tho phere of that town that aids my p*w Antrim sheep to a fat-hoaded old gen ere of dlviua'Jnn." tleman for a very great deal more "Am I Invited to ride back with you? .id his Or must I mope around the house un than they were worth. "He name was Blodgett, and si| id the til you return?" contract William L. Blodgett,” t*e law "I think you had better mopa I yer continued. "He did not say where have need :o do some thinking— and ho was from, but I could seo ^o knew you ditch riy train of ¿bought" He nothing of sheep and was a city mam looked at Ker keenly, earnestly, sud Ho did not bargain with mo and ho Winter will soon be here.* N R A MEMBER Insure against the COLD EAST WINDS and ICY yreather by stocking up. with TUM - A - LUM POOR BUSINESS No one who attended the children’s fair at the county fair grounds last Monday could help but be impressed with the pover ty stricken appearance of the buildings and grounds. Not one window could be found that was not cracked and there are few that are not gone entirely. Small boys have certainly done a complete job of destruction. Whether we are to have a fair again soon or not it behooves the county officials or the fair board—which ever has the responsi. bility—to have some repairs made on the buildings before it is too late Snow and rain should be kept from the interior of those buildings having floors and locks should be put on all doors to prevent the entrance of irreponsible persons. It might be advis able to post notices warning everyone from the grounds under penalty. M The county has the authority to keep boys from breaking windows and thieves from stealing equipment and stricter watch should be kept of this public property. o The present generation is happier going scmeplace instead <5f staying home regardless of the destination. We didn’t know the same inclination had taken charge of government until lately, though It is easy to feel the touch of fall in the air unless one has an overcoat. • o There’s a lot of hooey about who smacked Huey. r laemed to me to be quite too anxious to hoy the sheep. So I telephoned to the Mansion house to inquire If he was stopping there and when I described him they said they had a guest there from New York by that name, but that his baggage carried the initials W B. I-” “Rum-m-m!" Don Jaime grunted and sat up very straight "He isn't a very good liar, is he? What doee W It I. of New York, want of the Antrim sheep, and why should be pay such a high price for them? This Is Indeed very mysterious, Prudy. Did he d*^ posit the ten thousand?" "He did. It was telegraphed from New York." "I wonder what the old Idiot is go ing to do with those sheep?' "I Imagine he’s going to get Bill Dio gle to care for them." t “Not on my ranga Prudy, the min ute those sheep pass out of possession of the estate of Thomas Antrim, de ceased. they’re going to get off the Hlguenee range. If they linger there’ll be a fight or a foot race." "Do you suppose Miss Antrim will agree to sell the sheep, my friend?" Don Prudencio queried. •‘Bell them? Of course she'll sell them., You are her executor and you recomRend the sale. I am her friend and business adviser and I certainly recommend it. and as the probate judge knows nothing of sheep and will be guided by such experts as you and ine In making his decision, naturally he will sign an order of sale Have a drink. After that long and Interesting report I” “Worth de-ilght,” said Don Pru dencio. . The (ulLowina morning Dop Jalma motored In to Los Algodones, and Ro berta accompanied him. As they swung down the main street past the Man sion homie, with Its row of chair-warm ers on the front porch, Roberta started and laid a half-detaining hand on Don Jaime's arm.' "Jimmy, look I See that man sitting on the right of the Une—the one In the nhi^ overalls and canvas coat?” Blackberries |1.25 per crate. Wo pay 14c for eggt. 2 lbs steak 25c. 2 Iba butter 45 c. 2 Iba cheece 35c. Grass Valley Meet Market. Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By One Year.. 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I don't relish driving around tills country at night because Just at present, for me. at least, the night has u number of eyes." "You mean—” “1 mean that your foreman. Bill Din gle. has been across the Line, nnd somethin* tells me he went there h» hire some renegade to bump me off. I don’t particularly blame him for that. A man acts according to bls lights, and I gave Dingle and his men s pretty tough deal." "But you went to town today un armed, Jimmy?" . He shook his head, half remove I his tropical whipcord coat and displ :yed "I Gave Dingle and His Men a Pretty Tough Deal.” a gun under each arm, In a shoulder holster. "I try to appear non-polson- ous off the ranch,” he explained. "Well. I have a few friends who keep mtf advised on matters in which I am interested. I'm pretty safe in daylight, but coming home In the dusk I'd just as lief have a good man for company. So you stay home, Roberta, and 1’11 take Ken Hobart with me. He’s very reliable.” With a careless nod he left hexulo drive over'TO the men’s quarters for his foreman. Roberta stood In the patio entrance and watched him—saw * Ken Hobart come out of the saddle room, receive his orders and go to his own adobe bungalow for his coat and a couple of carbines and ammunition belts. Then the two drove away, and Roberta, with terror In her heart, went to her room and wept, as her lively Imagination pictured Don Jaime Miguel Hlguenes, all bloody and limp, lying In the deep gray dust of the road to Los Algodones. • • ■ • • • • . • In the cobl of the late afternoon Don Jaime dropped into a vacant chair be side Crooked Bill on the veranda of the Mansion house, after first Inqulr- ^ing, tn Spanish, If by an chance the chair was reserved for any friend of his. "Not at all,” Crooked Bill replied In the same language, albeit haltingly, for the years had been long since his tongue had caressed so many vowels. “Help yourself, my friend." “I thank you," Don Jaime replied In English, "I observe yop do not speak Spanish too well. I beg pardon for addressing you in that tongue, but ob serving that you appear to be of this country I supposed you spoke the lan guage of the country." "Never was much of a band at for eign languages,” Crooked Bill replied with the utmost friendliness. Don Jaime produced two cigars and handed one to his neighbor. Crooked Bill favored the weed with a swift, furtive appraisal, saw that It was a brand that retailed at three for a dol lar. and decided he might risk It “'Much obliged,” he murmured. "Tm a stranger here," he added. •My name's Blodgett—William Blodgett" “I sm pleased to met you, Mr. Blod gett I am Jaime Miguel Hlguenes." Crooked Bill started noticeably. "The h—1 you are!" he burst out, un guardedly. "Ah, you have heard of met* Don Jaime’s face betokened mild surprise and Inquiry. "Why yes, Senor Hlguenee—if you will forgive me for bringing up a deli cate subject I believe you’re the young man who wafted old Tom An trim Into the bosom of Abraham." "I had the pleasure," Don Jaime replied modestly. “Would you mind shaking hands with me, Senor Hlguenes? By the holy poker, that was a first-class job of work you did on Tom. Tm de lighted to meet you, sir." “The pleasure Is mutual, Mr. Blod gett You knew Antrim?" "I should tell a man. He skinned me on a cow deal once. That rascal was so low ho could kiss a rat without bending his knee*." To be Tourist, arrested in Paris I tell you I’m an American citizen! You can’t do that to mol Officer—Sin* the Star-Span*led Ban« ner," Tourist—I can’t. Officer—You're released. I seo you are an American. Patroniie Journal Advertiser«.
