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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1914)
¿ I ■ 1 IK H V .B . y a . ■ÉTYÍR *■■■« 1 s Peti # 4 gfrJ / \ ; J «MH» ' *"W" lì I ■, «E 1 V i al l 1 1 j p I 1 *1 » 1 4 ' Moro,* Sherm an County ■ IS S BELLE « L U S O NEW FROM OUR NATIONAL CARTAI ATTEMPT OUTBREAK Events President Wilson Announces Three Prisoners and Four Citi ■*' New Features la Handling zens Killed In Pistol Battle Trust Question. A Brief N e w t ef the Week Occurring Throughout the State During thè Past Week. ‘ at State Penitentiary. • member of « « fr o s s from Illinois. He wee abet by a prisoner while walt- tag la the warden’s ottlee. The dead are H. 8. Drover, superin tendent Bert Ilion department; Patrick Ontee, assistant deputy warden; F. C. Godfrey, guard, sad three prisoners, China Meed. Tess Lane, and Charles Koonts. The attempted mutiny occurred at the end of the day's work, and was led by Reed. Koonts end Lane. The men worked la the tailor shop, and when their work was ended they approached the bach door of the office of the American building. There they met Martin, the turnkey. They told Martin they wanted to see the parole officer. As Martin opened the door Reed struck him repeatedly with a large revolver, shot him through the eheek and robbed him of his keys. Tbeh the three prisoners, all armed with revolvers and shouting to others to follow, ran towards the warden’s office. They met Oates, the asslstart warden, and before He could defend himself Reed shot him through the heart With the keys they had taken I tram Turnkey Martin they unlocked 1 It were free. Outside the gate the horse aad buggy of Warden Dick was tied. The men sprang Into IL Guards and prison officials quickly moontad horses and the pursuit of the sonvlets hsgsa. It was short-lived. The heavy load Warden Dick’s home was -pulling soon ended the flight The guards poured a merciless fire tnto the boggy. The horse fell end the coA lets erased firing. The three found deed. *' Intense suffering from cold and lack Third—Wherever, nt the instance of of food are reported frooTtbe Calumet Mich., mining districts where the men the government either In civil or are out on strike. Charitable Inatltu- criminal proceedings, the courts have rendered Judgment on the unlawfuF ttons are aiding the victims. A robber boarded a Western A At- 1 ■see of any combination. Individuals lantic passenger train nt Vinings, Ga., I or concerns aggrieved, through the combination would have the benefit and after robbing passengers, fought I of each adjudication and not ho re a duel with a deputy sheriff, and es quired In their salts to prove again caped with his booty. Hearings of rival cities of the oast I the Illegality of the combination. The president has dealt with those In the matter of claims for establish general principles In which he believ ing reserve banks have been oonclud ed public sentiment Is agreed that od and the committee correction Is ne c e ssar y . . He has em- has started w est Chock* aggregating more than I V I «0.000 In legacies under terms of the will of Benjamin Altman of B. Altman R Co , of New York, have been die tributed to the firm's employee. Three city employee of New York gave the new mayor a surprise by asking for a reduction of their sal aries. They said that sew arrange-1 m enu required hut half of their time. given la all o as es for business to ad- Monday, the anniversary of thed just Itself to new conditions, even to Mrth of General Robert B. Lea, was a period of from oae to two yean. observed as a holiday In Mississippi. In line with the Idee that public G Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North opinion Is more or leas agreed on cer Carolina. South Carolina, Virginia and tain principles, the president consid Alabama. ers the prohibition of holding oom- a With 1< living men on board, the panics as a vital part of the pro- o British submarine A-7 went to the gramme. He believes th a t beginning bottom of Whltsand hay, six miles with the decision of the United States from Plymouth, England. supreme court In the Northern Secur A majority of the women of the ities case, holding companies have Roman aristocracy have decided to ooase under the ban of public disap- eonform to Instructions issued hy Car proval. [ dinal Basllio Pomplll, vicar-general of A function analogous to a public f Rome, and banish the tango from their i utilities commission would ba given to the new Interstate * trade commit- salons. There were 1141 mine workers kill slon through Its power of Inquisition ed In ar.d about the mines of Pennsyl and Investigation of what constitute vania is 1913, according to a report competitive and non-competltlve con made public by James E. Roderick, ditions. it la recognised hy admlnta- 1 chief of the state department of mines. tratlve advocates of this feature that In the eruption of a volcano on the I there are many cases In which a wide Island of Sakura, Japan, terrible lose I sweeping prohibition of holding com of life resulted. The town of Kago panies might prevent the organisation shima was destroyed, together with a of useful enterprises. The supervision number of smaller towns. No Ameri of the Issuance of railroad securities eans perished, It Is reported from I le to he regulated In the belief that ’ railroad capitalisation and the lean-, * Tok io. anoe of securities are closely Involved with Increases tai rates. People in the News Agricultural Clearing House Proposed J Sir Robert Bond, former premier, I Co-opere ti on among the farmers In announced his withdrawal from public stead of competition, that the “farm life, In a statement issued at S t John, er may receive the whole of the con N. F. sumer’s dollar for his product Instead mttted suicide. In support of one of General Louis Wagner, commander- I of »6 to 45 per oent as Is now the these presumptions, Mr. Clark’s bat in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re I case,” la the si*** of a hill Introduced was found on the ocean beach, a mile public in 1880, died at his home In by Senator Borah to create an “agri- north of the Santo Barbara wharf. Philadelphia. eultural capital,” or clearing-house, to Mr Clark, who bad been in this vi Roger O. Sullivan, of Chicago, has be run by the farmers under govern cinity for the past thrqe months, oom- pennnneed his candidacy for the demo ment charter or subsidy. lng from Spokane for the benefit of cratic nomination for United States II * The bill would furnish machinery his health, was staying at a hotel. for scientific marketing and etaadard- It Is said that Mrs. Clark does not I isation of farm products under dlrec- believe her husband Is dead and will ‘ I tlon of a country-wide organisation of institute a vigorous search for him on ‘ producers Irrespective of government the theory thst he merely wandered I control. It created quite a stir in the awagr.wWhen Mrs. Clark left Santo ’ senate. Senator Borah explaining later ft« r W y Friday night for Spokane she [ that he had not written the measure, leftflrer husband in hit usual good 1 bat had Introduced It together with a spirits. Immediately * thereafter he 1 memorial, at the request of K. H. Ret- dismissed his chauffeur at the depot ’ tig. a farmer of Opportunity, Wash. and he has not been seen since. The clearing house would be under * I the w w gniw »nt of a board of IS di Father Prendergast Dies. rector« chosen by agricultural sub- 8an Francisco.—Monsignor J. J. 1 divisions of the country for terms of Prendergast vicar-general of the arch ” five years. Their salaries would bo diocese of California, pastor of S t r »6000 a year. The association would i Mary’s church In this city, and a Cath draw its real strength from ooanty olic priest In San Francisco for 58 * associations consisting of not lees yearn, died hero of old age. R than 50 farmers each. n Lean Bill Made Rider. Four Children Lost In Dense Forest h I Senator Borah, of Idaho, offered an Roseburg, Or.—Hundreds of farmers * amendment to the Alaska government oombed the timbered districts lying 8 railroad bill, authorising s loan of east of thia city for trace of the four L »100,000,000 to the reclamation fund ohUdren of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew 0 under the same oonditlons and on the Adams, who wandered away from same terms aa oongresa recently an* *’ I thortsed a loan of »10,000,000. This their borne; *’ amendment la drawn in conformity with the recommendation made by Secretary Lane In hie annual report d The proposal was brought forward la h connection with the Alaska railroad k hill because of the expectation that *• the railroad bill le boob to beoome * l»W. Copyright, 1911, by the Panam a-Pacific International E xposition Co. PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION BY NIGHT, IOHT perspective t f (fce Panama Pudfle International Exposition la San Francisco fe> W15. At night giant searchlights will trans form the vast expogltlon city Into a fairyland. The lighting scheme la the most remarkable ever planned. Farmers to Face Legislator«. Oregon City.— -A* the regular quar- terly state convention of the Farmers' Society of Equity held here the farm ers placed themselves on record as Indorsing the movement started by the fanners’ union and state grange to appoint legislative committees to attend the sessions of the legislatures and look after the farmers' Interests. Resolutions providing for such com mittees were passed by the delegates at the meeting. The society also passed resolutions favoring the abol ishment of the state senate and adopt ing proportionate representation In the bouse of representatives. Eight-Hour Day is Edict. Salem.—State Labor Commissioner O. P. Hoff has ordered Mayor Albee, of Portland to place the members of the Portland police department and the fire department on an eight-hour day. Under the recent supreme court decision In the state Insane asylum case, Commissioner Hoff holds that all police officers and firemen are sub ject to the eight-hour law and cannot be on duty more than eight hours a day. Ralph Farias, the youthful Cellfor- nla train bandit who has bees con demned to be hanged. JUDGE UPHOLDS GOVERNOR Copperfield Martial Law Action Ap proved by Court Decision. Raker, Or.—Governor West was up held In his action in declaring martial law at Copperfield January J by a decision filed by Circuit Judge Gustav Apples to Come to Portland. Anderson. . 1 Hood River.—The board of trustees The decision overruled the demurrer of the North Pacific Fruit Distribut to an answer to a complaint on which ors at a meeting at Spokane has de a temporary Injunction had been cided to establish an office In Port granted, the principal finding being land In time to handle next season’s that the powers granted to the execu apple crop. The North Pacific Fruit tive cannot be taken away from him Distributors now has 92 affiliated as by the court even should he, as con sociations and numerous other fruit tended by the attorney for the Cop districts have planned to Join the cen perfield saloonmen, abuse those pow tral agency before the marketing of er» next season’s crop begins. The court holds that the constitu tional rights of the plaintiffs, William Albany College le Ready For Donation. Wiegand and H. A. Stewart the office- Albany.—Conditions prescribed by holding saloonmen of Copperfield James J. Hill, in connection with his whose property was confiscated by proposed endowment of »60,000, have the militia at Governor West's order, been met with by Albany college au were not violated by the governor s thorities, and a committee has been action, and are not violated hy the appointed by the board of trustees governor’s action, and are not violated to make a showing of assets and to- by overruling the demurrer, Inasmuch cure the cash subscription offered by as they still have the right to bring the financier. civil action for damages against Gov ernor West, Colonel B. K. Lawson, PROBE INSURANCE TACTICS Fern Hobbs and the other defendants, or to Institute criminal proceedings Interference of Casualty Companies against them. With Compensation Act Resented. the P a n a m a -P a cific In tern ation al E xp osition Co. MARVELOUS SETTING FOR SCULPTURE AT THE PAN AMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, 1915. HE dominating architectural featu re or tne expaeuiuu. m e »ui-rtu T Salem.—Declaring that a number of casualty companies were trying to in duce employers to reject the work men's compensation act, C. D. Bab- cock, a member of the state Industrial accident commission, says he is con vinced if the opposition is continued Oregon will follow the example of Ohio and provide compulsory com pensation. He says three men will be started to work In Portland can vassing all firms for information nec essary in conducting the department. Mr. Babcock said that the com panies were trying to create senti ment In their favor by stating that T ow er of Jew els which will command the south entrance of the Court of Son and Stars at the P anam a Pacific International Ex position In San Francisco in 1015. T his tower, 430 feet In h e ig h t will have a base one acre in extent. The tow er will rise upward In terraces, giving way at last to a group of figures supporting a globe, typifying the world. The repeated figure« of armored horsemen and of explorers of th e ocean will be used on the tower, which, w ith Its sta tu ary mural painting" and mosaics, will be indescribably beautiful. M essrs. CaiTere A H astings, architects in chief of the Pan American E x position a t Buffalo In 1001. are the architects. Club W ill Raise Funds. r M ' hr B i Hood River.—The county court hav ing failed to make an appropriation of »1000 asked by citizens of this county to care for the expense of mak ing an exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition, the members of the Hood River commercial club have decided to raise the amount by popular sub scription among themselvea. 1,000,000 Salmon Shipped. Astoria.—Julius Jenaen, superin tendent of the Chinook hatchery, has shipped 1,000.000 salmon to other hatcheries and now has In the neigh borhood of 2,000,000 at the Chinook plant. These young fish are growing rapidly and will be placed In the re taining ponds In about two months. Marshfield Woman • Shoots Husband. Marshfield.—Mrs. Charles Franklin Is In Jail charged with shooting at her husband. The couple quarreled fre quently and in their apartments the woman attacked her husband with a revolver, hitting him In the hand. The oouple came here from Tillamook. Copyright, lf ll, by P upam a.P acific International Exposition Co. ■ PIECES OF STATUARY AT THE PANAMA EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO, 1915. i pf the decorative sculpture at the Panama- Ml Exposition are shown In those two lllns- eft Is “Rain.” by Albert Jaegers, a figure that on to "Sunshine,” by the same 0™#* Four Seasons In the main group of exhlbit pab Hohammedan rider Is hy Frederick Q. B- Roth* Europe’s Weather Cold. Paris—What bids fair to he the worst cold snap In 60 years is holding the southern portion of western Eu rope In a tight grip. Temperatures as low as four degrees below sero (Fahrenheit) have been registered. New York Schools to Try Movies. New York.—Moving pictures with » cents as the price of admission are to be given in the East Side public schools, It was announced by the city superintendent of schools. Marfa. T ex —Footsore, ragged al most famished from their three-day march on foot of 67 miles over a wind swept mountain road, the 3300 Mexi can soldiers and generals routed from OJinaga, Mex., hy the rebela, arrived whence they are to he transported by train Po Fort Bliss, at El Paao. With them are 1067 women and »00 chil dren. . - ! __ The ragged remnant of the Huerta army, which sought asylum In this country rather than face possible ex termination by the rebels, will he for mally Interned at Fort Bliss as wards of the government They aró to he Moyer May Be Called Fugitive. Houghton. Mich.—Charlee H. Moyer, president, end the six other officials and organisers of the Western Fed eration of Miners who are under in dictment hero for conspiracy w lll.be considered fugitives from Justice un less they return voluntarily to the state to stand trial. THE MARKETS. Round-Up Dates Bet Pendleton.—The 1»14 Round-Up will Portland. ---- he held September 24. 25 and 28. This Wheat—Club, 85c; blueetom .1 Is the announcement made hy the red Russian, 84c. board of directors of the association Hay—Timothy, »17; alfalfa, »14. after having been authorised hy the Butter—Creamery, <5o. stockholders to fix the dates. -- Eggs—Candled, 27c. Grants Pass Has Twq Pollue Foroee. Grants Paaa.—Grants Pass has two police forces. One wears stars; mem bers of the other have badgbe. The situation Is the outoome of the new oounoU’a refusal to confirm the p o ta to « * mode h i the w u t o
