Sherman County observer., January 23, 1920, Image 1

ERNAN r'DLNTYf IB5ERVER
«F
E s ta b lis h e d 1 8 8 7 .
J. R. Morgan
ZDon.t3.et
M o i« , S h e r m a n
HOLLAND ASKED TO
GIVE UP EX-O IS E»
A D M IR A L S IM S
Office on Fir»t itreet,
MORO.
-
S u p re m e
OREGON
Office in the Bank of Moro build
ing, upstairs.
OREGON
DR. W ALTER W. HART
< Q .
D E N T IS T I
T W f £TT
Vo«i Bldg.
OREGON
D r . C . L . P o le y
Physician and Surgeon.
Moro, Oregon.
O ffic e in
r e s id e n c e .
Residence phone M 72
Office phone 463
•J.
Garics Shormley, ID.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEO
: ft ? upp. Hotel Sherman
.VASCO,
:
OREGON
Dr. I. I. CU3H, 0. P. I.
A d m iral W . 8. 8 1 ma, who criticised
tha course of the navy departm ent
during the w ar before a senate com­
m ittee investigating naval w ar decora­
tions.
RUSSIAN BLOCKADE
PARTIALLY LIFTED
Parts.— I d an official communication
the supreme council approved of recom­
mendations to relieve the population
in the Interior of Russia by giving
them medicine, agricultural machinery
and other commodities of which the
people are In sore need in exchange for
grain and flax.
Thia partial lifting of the blockade
Is described in the official communi­
cation aa an exchange of goods on the
basis of reciprocity between the Rus­
sian people and allied and neutral
countries, but through the co-opera­
tive societies. .
“These arrangements Imply no
change In the policy of the allied
governments toward the soviet gov­
ernment,“ said the communication of
the supreme council.
C O M P R O M IS E
VOTE
LEADS
Intercollegiate
Ballot
Opposing
League In A n y Form le 13,933.
a
E Y E S P E C IA L IS T
New York.—Advocates of ratifica­
tion of the peace treaty by compromise
Wickersham Optical Co., 617-18 headed the poll In the complete re­
turns of the intercollegiate referendum
Oregonian Bldg.
PORTLAND. OREGON . made public, hers-----They lad by a
W ill visit Moro on regular schedule every small margin voters who favored rati­
two week«. Watch lor announcement.
fication without reservation or amend­
ment.
According to the revised figures the
Hours by Appointment referendum was voted upon in 410 col­
Phone
leges and universities and 139,788
votes were cast with the following re­
sult: Compromise between the Lodge
and democratic r é se r v io n s, 49,053;
ratification wPhnut reservation, 48,-
\
232; ratification with the Lodge res­
ervations, 27,970; opposition to the
league in any form. 13,933 votea.
D R . C. H . JO H N S
C h irop ractor
Office at Residence.
MORO, ORE.
V u lc a n iz in g
Send yourtires and tubes to Wasco
Vulcanizing Station for repairs.
M l w o rk
guaranteed.'
TJY CHAMNESS
Oregon
A/jseo,
C ite s
L is t
'V . N. J O N E S
A llT O T R U C K
DRAY
Phone Main 314 Moro, Oregon
Freight and Express
Handled Promptly. Moving
Efficiently Attended To.
ubscription OrJers Taken
For the
D a lly O r e g o n ia n
D a lly J o u r n a l •
E v e n in g T e le g r a m
A» the Observer «ffice, Moro.
Ground Gripper
Shoes
Caa be ordered by mall for
the whole family. The easl-
* eat and best ehoe made today. +-
%
A Real Corrective Shoe.
(ROUND GRIPPER SHOE STORE,
Japan Approaches China on Shantung.
Toklo.—The Japanese government,
according to the newspapers, sent in­
structions to Yukichl Obata, the min­
ister to Chins, to notify the Pekin gov­
ernment that Japan, having succeeded
to Germany’s rights in Shantung on
Jaifuary 10 by virtue of the treaty of
peace, was ready now to negotiate at
any time for their return.
Navy in Need of 00,000.
Washington. D. C.—An existing offi­
cial naval force of 143,167 for the 1921
year was recommended by Rear Admlr-
Washington, chief of navigation,
who told the house naval committee
that 60,009 recruits or re enlistments
would be necessary to reach that
strength.
Idaho Opene Legal Battle on I. W . W .
Sand Point, Idaho,----- Idaho's first
big court fight against the I. W. W.
opened here when 22 alleged members
of that organization went to trial.
They are charged with criminal syn­
dicalism.
THE MARKET8.
Portland.
Oats—No. 3 white feed, >63.50 a ton.
Corn—Whole, >70; cracked, >72.
Hay—Willamette valley timothy,
>26®28 per ton; alfalfa, >31.50.
Butter Fat—66@67c.
Eggs—Ranch, 45c per dozen.
Poultry—Hens, 28®33c.
Cattle — Best steers, >11.25® 12;
good to choice, >10.50® 11; medium to
good, >9®9.75.
Hogs—Prime mixed, >15.50® 16; me­
dium mixed, >16®16.50; pigs, >1240®
14.50.
Sheep—Eastern lambs, >14®16.60;
valley laiftbs, >12.50® 16; ewes, >7®9.
Beattie.
Hay—Eastern Washington timothy,
>38®39 per ton; alfalfa, >35.
Bid tor fat—<0®61C. .
Eggs—Ranch, 60®56c.
Poultry—Hens, heavy, dressed, 43c;
light, 40c.
Hogs—Prime, >16®16.50; medium
to choice, >16®16; pigs, >18.60014.60.
Cattle—Best steers, >11.60® 11; heif­
er«. » 9 1 0 1 onWti. V 9 H ’
i
Ja n u a ry
¡23, 1 9 2 0 .
F i v e G e n ts
ANTI-BRITISH ORDER
DENIED BY DANIELS
N a v a l S e c r e ta r y D id N o t T e ll
A d m ira l to W a tc h
of R e q u e s t
D E N T IS T
THE DALLES. •
C o n n e ll
F rid a y .
Gaicwaÿ of ilie
o f C rim e s in S u p p o rt
Dr. C. E. Gard
MORO,
C o u n ty , O re g o n .
S o c,-.
B ritis h .
Paris.—Tha supreme council’s note
Washington.—Secretary Daniels, In
to the Dutch government asking that
a letter forwarded to Chairman Page
the former Oerman emperor be given
of the senate naval affairs committee,
up to the allies under article 227 of
declared that it was not he who had
the Versailles treaty for trial, points
told Rear-Admiral William S. Sims
out that If the former emperor had
before the admiral’s departure in
remained In Qermany he would have
March, 1917, for London “Not to let
been delivered up under the same con­
the British pull the wool over your
ditions by the German government.
eyes,“ And that the United States
“Among so many crimes,“ the note
“would
as soon fight the British as
recalls tha cynical violation of the neu­
the Germans.”
trality of Belgium and Luxembourg,
Testifying before a senate naval sitW
the barbarous system of hostages,
commlttee
Investigating naval awards.
massed deportations, systematic dev­
Admiral Sims said that such admoni­
astation without military reasons, the
Gsn. John J. Pershing, former com­
tion had been given him “by a high
submsrlne war.
official” and quoted from a letter re­ mander of the American forces in
It concludes by expressing the con­
cently written to Mr. Daniels entitled France, who Is on a tour of ths Pacific
viction that “Holland, one of the first
“certain naval lessons of the great Coast this weak.
to claim a place in the League of Na­
war” which arraigned many aspects of
tions, will not desire to cover by moral
the navy department’s conduct of the
authority violation of the essential
war.
principled of the solidarity of nations,
Secretary Daniels In his letter to
and that all are interested to prevdfat
Senator
Page said that Admiral Sims’
a return of a similar catastrophe. 3
letter had bean referred to the gen­
Brussels.—Deep emotion has been
eral board of the navy for action.
caused in Holland by the allied de­
Charges of Rear Admiral Sims that
Berkeley, Cal.—Securities and other
mand for the extradition of former
Canal Street, New Orleans.
the navy department failed to co oper­ loot valued at more than $100,000 taken
Emperor William of Germany, accord­
ate with the allies during the war will from a mall car of the eastern express
HE greatest port and metropolis
ing to a dispatch. Belief is expressed
of the southern section of the owned grain elevator, and 1,513 feel be investigated by the senate sub­ of the Southern Pacific by a robber
at Ths Hague that measures will be
United States, New Orleans, Is of wharf at the publicly owned cot­ committee before which they were near Stege Saturday night, were re­
taken with a view to inducing him
unique among cities of the ton warehouse."
made.
covered by a posse of railroad detec­
voluntarily to place himself at the Americas. There is no other like it.
The cotton warehouse and the grain
This was decided by the full naval tives m miles east of Stege foothills.
elevator
are
the
latest
development!
disposal of the allies.
Up-to-the-minute in its modern civic
committee, which also authorized ap­ Jewelry, checks and money orders are
Improvements, typically American In In port improvement!^ The former b
pointment of another sub committee to included In the plunder abandoned by
the
largest
handling
plant
for
an
agri
Its aggressive commercial energy, even
ahead of the times in Its city govern­ cultural product In the world, is the determine if there should be an in­ the robbft*.
That the robbery may total >200,000
ment and municipal ownership and most efficientl.v .equipped structure of quiry into charges by J. R. Rathom,
control of public utilities, it Is never­ its kind in existence, and Is a profit- editor of the Providence (R. I.) Journal or more is the belief of special agents
theless, In some features, one of the earning institution while serving the that with the knowledge of Secretary of the railroad company at work on
oldest and certainly one of the quaint­ public most economically. The stor­ Daniels "many seamen have been used the case.
est and most foreign of the large cit­ age facilities offered the cotton grower for most vile and nameless practices
The hold-up occured at 9:65 o’clock
Hango, Finland.—The United States ies of the United States, says the Bul­ by the warehouse, coupled with the
to entrap Innocent men.”
Saturday night while the train was be­
army transport Buford, having on letin 'of the 4’nn-Aineriean Unjon. In low Insurance rate, make It possibh
tween Pullman and Stege. Covering
board 249 radicals deported from the southwest quarter, with its mod­ for»him to hold his cotton until such
the mall clerks with a revolver, he
time
as
he
may
see
fit-
to
market
It.
ern
business
houses
and
fine
resi­
America, has arrived here.
while
at
the
same
time
enjoying
the
remarked that he had been in the
American marines and Finnish white dences, the visitor finds himself in a
use of bankable warehouse receipts
trenches during the war and wanted
modern
city
of
the
United
States;
in
guards were drawn up as the radicals
that are (tacked by the resources oi
some of the government’s money.
proceeded from the ship to their train. ten minutes he may cross Canal street, the state of Louisiana nnd are nego­
Backing the clerks to the end of
stroll Into the northeast or “Latin
The “undesirables“ were placed in
Quarter” and find himself '• In a tiable in financial circles the world
the car he selected 32 pieces of regis­
boxcars fitted with plank benches, quaintly medieval city which might be over.
Washington.—Recent activities of tered mail with particular care, then
The port of New Orleans Is one of
tables and beds. Each car contained French or Spanish. In the old “French
radical
propagandists led Secretary with the loot under his arm, be gave
seven boxes of army rations.
Market“ section he hears a veritable the safest harbors in the world, and
Lansing
last week to display for the a railroad man!« signal to atop which
provides
practically
unlimited
anchor­
The train was held here until posi­ babel of tongnes—French, Spanish,
first
time
In 18 years the original the engineer obeyed. He disappeared
age
space.
Vessels
are
usually
tive assurance was received from the Yiddish, neur-Engllsh, and snme^
anchored
in
the
lower
part
of
the
port
parchments
of the Declaration of In­ in the darkness.
soviets that they would permit the times several of these mixed up
the
depth
of
water
being
60
to
80
feet
dependence
and
the Constitution of the
party to cross the Russian border and In n “patois“ that Is distinctively “New nt low stnge. ‘From the city of New
United
States.
Orlennsesque.”
Even
the
names
of
B R IE F G E N E R A L N E W S
that the deportees would not be mo­
In the presence of a group of offi­
the streets reflect something of the Orleans to the passes opening Into
lested.
the
gulf
there
Is
a
depth
of
water
City’s history. Its French origin is re­
cials the parchments were removed
Indiana is the 26th state to ratify
Alexander Berkman and Emma
In the South
vealed In such names as Toulouse, Or­ from 60 to 90 feet.
from
the
protecting
walls
of
a
steel
the
woman’s suffrage amendment
Goldman, who have been looked upon leans, I)u Maine, Conti, Bourbon, pass there Is a 30-foot channel nt
Reginald De Koven, American oper­
as the leaders of the deportees, have Da'uphine, Chartres, etc., while other mean tide, and at extreme high tide safe Inclosing them and placed on view
declared they will not remain in sjreet names such as Unznga, Galvez, a depth of 31 % feet. The govern­ In the state department for an hour, atic composer and conductor, died In
Russia, but will “ref urn to America Miro, Salcedo, Casa Calvo, Baronne, ment Is at present nt work creating while motion picture cameras record­ Chicago of apoplexy.
ed their appearance for the benefit 07
A boycott on potatoes until the price
etc., reveal the fact that at one time and maintaining a 35-foot channel.
to save It.”
The
New
Orlenns
inner
harbor,
or
falls
was declared by the Housewlvea’
the
110,000,000
persons
living
under
the
the Spaniards were in possession.
league of San Francisco.
f
Again Tchoupltoulas street would lead Industrial canal, now In the process principles enunciated by them.
T E A C H E R S H O R T A G E A C U T E one to infer that Indians had also had of construction, Is one of the world’s
Owing to their age, exhibition of
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has corn-
a hand In the general admixture of no­ great engineering feats. It connects the parchments is a.rare event. Ex­ completed a round trip to Brazil which
Thousands Resign and Normal 8chool menclature.
Lake I'onchartraln with the’ city's posure to light even though each sheet she took for the benefit of her health.
Attendance Falls.
Situated about 107 miles above the river harbor, nnd the gulf. The rout» is protected carefully from air by
Employes of railways under federal
New York.—The teache? shortage mouth of the Mississippi river, whose from New Orleans to the sen through
hermetically sealed glass plates, caused control have been Instructed to refuse
the
Industrial
canal
nnd
Lake
Ponchar­
has developed Into a national public system of navlguble waterways radi­
additional fading of the Ink Inscribing tender of Canadian coin and currency
school crisis. Teachers by the tens of ate 13,000 miles through the great traln will be approximately half the the Immortal words which brought the for fares and dining car and sleeping
distance
vl^
the
Mississippi.
The
thousands have given up teaching. middle section of the United States,
car charges, or In payment of freight
canal will furnish Ideal sites for In­ republic into being.
Their positions are either remaining and on Lake Ponchartraln, with ac­ dustrial plants. The Inner harbor ex^
bills, except at the prevailing rates
unfilled or are being taken by an In­ cess to Mississippi sound water routes tending from the Mississippi to Lake
of discount covering exchange rates.
eastward
to
Mobile,
Ain.,
and
thence
O PPOSE A N TI-S E D IT IO N BILLS
creasing number of poorly-prepared
Shipyard frauds on the Pacific coast
by the Warrior river to the great coal Ponchartraln, six miles in length, will
persons. Normal and other training
He
entirely
within
the
city
limits,
nnd
and iron fields of Alabama, the center
Gompers Announces American Federa­ said to Involve many millions of dollars
schools cannot meet the demands. The of six canals, and the principal ter­ will he served through Its length by
have* been under Investigation by the
tion of Labor w ill Fight.
number of students attending is rapid­ minal of ten trunk lines of railways the Public Belt railroad. The canal
government tor some time. Shipbuild­
Washington.—Formal announcement
ly decreasing.
operating a total of 145,288 miles, Is being built by the dock board and
ing plants In Oregon. Washington and
will
cost
nt
lowest
estimate
$12,000,-
that the American Federation of Labor
The reason for the conditions con­ New Orleans hns become one of the
California
have been Involved in the
great Industrial centers of the world. 000. The Industrial canal will make would oppose "with whatever power federal probe.
fronting the schools is low salaries.
New
Orleans
the
port
of
deposit
and
it may possess” the enactment of the
Reports gathered by the* National Its manufacturing Industries have an
Military control of the occupied areas
the Industrial port of the South.
anti sedition bills now pending In con­
Educational association from 1700 output of over $140,000,000 worth of
of
Germany, excepting the zone held
New
Orlenns
Is
peculiarly
situated
school superintendents who supervise products annually, while as a mnrket to carry on a trade with the countries gress, was nade In a statement by by the Americans, has passed Into the
center
the
city
distributes
$1,130,000,-
Samuel Gompers.
238,573 teaching positions show a pres­
hands of civilians.the Interallied Rhine
000 worth of commodities each year, a of Latin America. A glnnce at the
The attack of organized labor, its
ent shortage of 14,689 teachers, or tremendous trade that Is accounted map will suffice to show that this large
land high commission becoming the
more than 6 per cent of their teach­ for by the fact that New Orleans is city of the United States Is but a few chieftain indicated, will be directed governing power, according to the
ing positions. This shortage would the gateway for the Mississippi valley, hundred miles from the countries of impartially against the Sterling bill, terms of peace, with headquarters at
have been greater had proper stand­ the great producing area of the United Central America nnd the northern r» recently passed by the senate and Coblenz.
ards for teachers been maintained, but States. Comprising 41 per cent of the publics of South America. With Cuba against the Graham measure, based
By a vote of nearly three to one—62
the superintendents declare that they United States proper, this great sec­ nnd the West Indies also New Or­ on suggestions of Attorney-General in favor—the senate passed the water
leans
has
the
advantage
of
location
are employing 23,006 teachers below tion, which Includes from an economic over other North American ports. Via Palmer and awaiting action by the power development bill, different in
standard. This is almost 10 per cent standpoint 21 states, yields 82.4 per New Orleans Is the natural trndf house rules committee for a special some respects from the measure adopt­
of their entire teaching staffs. During cent of the nation*« cotton and cotton­ route between the Mississippi valley rule to expedite consideration. Refer­ ed by the house in July, but fol­
seed products, 27.9 per cent of its coal
ring to the two measures as one bill, lowing In a general way the same
the year more than 22 per cent or output, 62.7 per cent of all the Iron nnd Central and South America.
President Oompers declared its enact­ bill that has been before congress,
52,798 teachers gave uplheir positions. ore mined, 67.5 per cent of Its live
Pal m and Pine Flourlah Together.
ment
"would violate the constitution in one form or another, for the last
The cllmnte of a clFy often serves
stock, and 31.7 per cent of its total
Seattle Reds Held For Deportation. manufactures.
to give an idea of It thnt other char­ and rob the whole American people of decade.
acteristics do not The palm tree nnd their most cherished and basic guar­
Seattle.—Federal officials announc­
8tste Owns Port facilities.
the
pine grow side by side In New Or­ antees of free government.’’
ed that twenty-seven alleged radicals,
In the harbor of New Orlenns Is seen
National Banks Set New Record.
arrested in raids here Monday night, a Rtrlklngly successful application of lenns. It Is not too tropical, because
Washington, D. C.—With resources
thnt
would
kill
the
pine;
It
Is
not
too
are to be held for deportation. Three the doctrine of public ownership and
cold, because the palm* could not ro- TO V E T O S T R A IG H T T IC K E T aggregating >22,444.992,000 on Novem­
hundred and sixteen were arrested In operation of public utilities. Sixty dure. The average temperature for
ber 17, national banks of the United
the raids which were directed against per cent of the port facilities have the Inst 47 years has been 65 degrees. Govsrnor Olcott Indicates His Dis­ States have established a new record
been
built
or
developed
by
the
dock
approval of Recant Act.
members of the union of Russian work
During the last 43 years there have
for growth and development, it was
era and other alleged radical organiza­ hoard, a state In -tttntlon. In the 17 been only 211 days when the thermom­
Salem, Or.—The so-called "straight announced by John Skelton Williams,
yenrs this board has had charge it has
tions. Many were released after ex­ expended $18.000.000 on the whnrves, eter dropped to 32 degrees or lower. party” ticket bill which was passed controller. Between the call of Sep­
amination by department of Justice steel sheds, elevators, and warehouses About once every ten years there is a in the closing hours of the special tember 12 and November 17 national
officials.
on they east bank. These, with ter­ gentle snovvfnll. Although New Or­ legislative session will be vetoed, ac­ banking- resources increased $829,676,-
minal* hull| by ttie railroads, will give leans is situated In the southern­ cording to an announcement made by 000. A gain of >2,623,638.000 In re­
Odsssa Falls Before Bolshevik Armies. New Orleans almost eight miles of most pnrt of the United States, It Is a Governor Olcott.
sources for the year ending November
cooler city than many In the northern
Washington.—The - Bolshevikl have docks, capable of accommodating at part. During the last 43 years there
The bill provides a form, of ballot 17 was recorded.
captured the important city of Odsssa. one time 80 vessels 500 feet long. All were only seven days when the tem­ enabling the voter to approve an en­
on the Black sea, the state department are served by the Public Belt railroad, perature went to 100 degrees or higher. tire party ticket by a tingle mark of Deschanel Elected French President.
was advised by Polish authorities In another triumph of public ownership.
Health conditions of New Orlenns the pencil. There Is a provision in
Versailles. — Paul Deschanel was
Assurance of future port expansion
are
reflected in the remarkably low the bill, however, which allows the elected president of the French repub­
Bucharest
without fear of private profiteering is
death rate. Even Including the ne­ voter to scratch a ticket if he so de-
given by the fact that the title to the
lic by 734 votes Of the 889 members
Cabinet of Premier Clemenceau Quite. water front for 41 miles on both sides groes, who comprise a large percent­
of
the national assembly voting. His
±
Paris.—The cabinet ~.of Premier of the Mississippi river Is vested In age of the population, the total rate B,rus
majority was the largest since the
Is
only
17.54
for
each
1.000
population.
Clemenceau has resigned. President the public and under the control of
election of Louis Adolphe Thiers, the
Influenza Sweeps Chicago.
New Orleflns compares very well In
Poincare asked Alexander Millerand, the dock board. In addition, the hoard this respect with the other cities.
first president after the fall of the em­
Chicago.
—
Influenza
continues
to
governor.of Alsace, to form a new cab­ Is now building an Inner harbor six
But not all of New Orleans Is cen­ sweep through Chicago at the rate of pire. whe was choeen unanimously.
miles
In
lengih,
(he
fWmous
Industrial
inet.
tered arnynd Its water front. There 1100 new cases every- twenty four
canal.
are beautiful residence sections and hours!. During forty-eight hours 2279
Eisner’s Slayer to Die.
Terminal fadlllle« erected «by the
numerous lakes and parks. Because
Distillate Taken Off Oil Market
dock hoard comprise 18 of the most
Munich
Count Arco Valley
new
cases
were
reported
and
the
Ban Francisco.—d istilla te has been* modern steel shed«, 17,924 feet In of its wide streets, extensive I h w i . s ,
sentenced to death for the
and
numerous
open
squares,
New
()r-‘
kdsaths
numbered
twenty
«1«
There
withdrawn from the market by ths length, 4,257 feet of open wharves,
were 111 new o m m at >a«umonla aa< I tton of Kurt Eisner, tha Bavarian »tw
Standard OU company.
1,200 feet of wharf at the publicly leans 1« called the City of Magulflcent «UtT«ta
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4».
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<•
$100,000 RECOVERED
FROM TRAIN ROBBER
T
VESSEL WITH REDS
ON BOARD ARRIVES
USE OLD DOCUMENTS
TO FIGHT RADICALS