Sherman County observer., October 21, 1921, Image 1

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CITY IS BUILT ON HILLSIDE I
LEAGUE
PRESIDENT
II. S. PREPARING
SERGEANT CRAWLEY
850 DISASTER DEATH
Office Phone Main 93
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Valparaiso a Picturesque If Not Al­
FOR BIG STRIKE
ways a Comfortabl» Placa In
TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
¡W. C. B f t Y A N T
Which to Live.
Five Brotherhoods Are In­
I ^ .J Ü H r a b lis h e d 1 8 8 7 .
A tto rn e y -a t-L a w
MORO,
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OREGON
Valparaiso, tbe greatest port not
only of Chile; but of the west eoust
of South America, la tlje Vale of Par­
adise only comparatively. It la built
In layers or strata up the steep sides
of the barren shale coast hills, stretch­
ing for miles over the amphitheater of
low mountains that surround a large
semicircular bay, behind which oue
can see Jumbled • masses of houses
sprawling away over the many ridges
until these have climbed out of sight.
There Is so little shore at Valparaiso
that there is room In most places only
for t w o ’or tht4e narrow streotg fol­
low In«-1 he curva.of the hey. end for
only onq .street the entire length of
the town,, under the edge of tlie cliffs,
much of It occupied by the dingy, two-
story, female-“conducted” street cars.
In the central part of town a small
space of tint ground has been filled
In across one of the scalldps of the
Jonkheer . Van (K»mebe«k, foreign
bay. and on this made land are m inister of HoHated, yvho was preal-
cramped the principal business houses
Qf
a„ en1bly
the
and the central plaza, Arturo P ra t.,
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I t Js here that the earthquakes do Laao«« of Nat
& S ir»
ï
Officials Alert, But Are Hoping
structed te V/alk Out on
, Means May Be Found to
October 30.
Avert Walkout.
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Red Cross Gives $1,871,OOO Re-
lief When 6 5 ,0 0 0 Families
Are Made Homeless.
Chicag o — More than half a million
Washington. — The government,
American railroad men Saturday were
Forty-three disasters, resulting In
through Its various departments, be­
ordered to Initial« a strike October 30,
gan a survey of the situation as de­ the death In the United Stutes of 850
w hile other unions whose membership
veloped by the call of railroad union persons and the Injury of 2,50») called
for eiuergeney relief measures uni
! brings the total to about 2,000.000 an-
leaders for a general strike beginning
ths expenditure of >1,871,000 by the
' nounced o ffic ia lly that they were pre­
D E N T lá T
October 30.
American Red Cross during the flscnl
paring to follow* suit and mage the
Officials from President Harding year ending June 30, 1021, says an
walkout general <ek the same date.
down to danarUnental bureau chiefs announcement bnsed upon the forth
O te g o n
M oro
Thy AUiXe pflBra,. weraUaausd to
and secret service agents were known coming annual report of the Red Cross
t the b £ five brotherhoods, oldest and
to be watching the situation closely, These disasters caused property dum
most powerful of, tho railway unions,
meanwhile hoping that some means age estimated at 0^0.000,00»), alTected
and they . epocUfcally included mall
mlgjit be found for averting a paraly­ sixty-seven communities and rendered
66,000 families homeless.
áJ
States dental ex-
trains.
a.
sis of the nation's transportation sys­
The year’s disasters were of vary­
Cessation of train service’ with a
tem.
im in e r for j h i s distric. • •
ing types, lncldiflng several which pre
minimum force only sufficient to
Hope was expressed generally by vlously hnd never been thought of
guard against fire and damage to rail­
officials that the suggestion advanced as falling within that classifica­
Sergeant T . B. Craw ley, U. S. M.
road property on duty in shops and
The Red Cross furnished
by the publlo group of the railroad la­ tion.
depots, wus Indicated by the drastic who set a new w orld’s record by shoot­ bor board, here for conferences with relief In seventeen tires of magnitude,
regulations Issued by the railroad ing 177 consecutive bull’s-eyes at 800 the Interstate commerce commission, five floods, seven tornadoes or cy­
clones, •one devastating storm, three
brotherhoods in connection with thtelr yards, using a service rifle.
might be made the basis for a solution explosions, Including the one in Wall
(Heir m ost* appalling damage. The
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D E N T IS T
strike ealL
of the problem The public group of street; one building accident, tw >
rest of the city climbs steeply up the
Tbe strike was announced following
the board proposed that the railroads typhoid epidemics, the most serious be­
shale Tillls overhanging the business
i an overwhelming vote, said to he op
Immediately put Into effect freight re­ ing that nt Salem, Ohio, which af
region In a JumMed riot of buildings
wards of 00 per cent, favoring a strike
O F F IC E
ductions equivalent to the wage de­ fected 9 per cent of the population;
which give the town Its only pictur­
because of a 12 per cent wage reduc­
creases authorised by the board last one smallpox epidemic, in the republic
O p p o s ite S h e r m a n H o te l esque and unique feature.
tion authorized by the railroad labor
July, that the railroads withdraw fur­ of Haiti; one train wreck, the race riot
at Tulsa, Okla.; the famine In China,
board of July 1, and after It was de­
ther requests for wage reductions, and
Walla
Walla.
Wash.—Organization
Odd Newspaper Subscriptions.
emergency relief In famine among the
Chicago,
111.
—
Judge
Harry
Fisher
clared
by
the
Association
of
Railwuy
that the employes rescind the strike
Greenland hasn’t many newspapers of the eastern Washington branch of
W ASCO, OREGON
sustained the demurrer of the Chicago order pending action by the board on Indians of Aluska, the grasshopper
plague In North Dakota and oaf earth­
of any kind, but the oddest of them the Intermediate Rate association was Executives In session here that a fur­
«n Is a monthly paper called the perfected here with Robert B. Allen. ther reduction would be sought by Tribune to the ,10,000.000 libel suit proposals of the carriers for further quake in Italy.
brought by the city of Chicago. He pay cuts.
Kalorlkmlt. (Did you get your tongue W'alla Wafla, president, and O. C. tho railroads. '
Pueblo Most Serious
The country was divided Into four declared the city had no cause for
twisted after pronouncing this name?) Soots, Yakima, secretary-tfeaaurer. A
Postmaster4 General Hays. In the
By far the most severe of the dis­
The most unusual thing about this pa­ fund of ,20,000 will be raised, a purt groups, In which the men were au­ action hnd denied it the right to amend only public statem ent Issued up to asters in the United States during the
per Is that a three months’ subscrip
of ,10,000 assessm ent for the stnte. thorized to walk out progressively, its petition. The city brought Iden­ neon, declared "the mails will be period covered by the Red Cross re­
tlon costs two ducks, while It requires
tical suits against tho Tribune and moved.”
port was the Pueblo flood early In
and of this Spokane will p ly half. one group every 24 hours.
P hysician and Surgeon.
„ unble skin to pav for a year.
June,
192L The rehabilitation prob­
Chicago
Daily
News,
claiming
the
pa­
“I am sure the parties to the con­
Walla Walla and Yakima will raise
pers hnd printed false statements re­ troversy will not Interfere with gov­ lem confronting, the Red Cross in
IS per cent of tbe rest, Wenatchee
garding Chicago's financial standing ernment service,” said Mr. Hays. Pueblo was one of the most difficult
12 per cent and the other communities
in recent years. When the first news
Moro, Oregon.
and thereby injured the city's credit. "This Is no time for statem ents from
of the horror was flashed throughout
2 to 4 per cent.
Judge Fisher declared the portions this department. A time may come the country, the American Red Cross
Purpose of the organization is to
O ffic e in re s id e n c e .
of
English law and statutes which re­ for action. I sincerely trust that It National Headquarter« responded with
fight the petition of the railroads for
stricted the liberty of the press had will not. If it does, there will be ac­ a grant of 0105,000 for relief work.
a reduction of through rates from tha
Governor Shoup of Colorado, appre­
Washington, D. ¿ —As a means of not been inherited by this country. tion. The malls will be moved.”
east to coast points, the rosds leaving
ciating the long and successful experi­
"This
action,"
he
said,
"Is
not
In
har­
giving
employment
to
16,000
workers
ths Inter-mountain rates as they are
ence of the Red Cross In erganlzing
Residence phone M 72
mony
with
the
genius,
spirit
and
ob­
now. Talks made ware to the effect this winter the United States reclama­
disaster relief work, placed the en­
that this would lop off two-thbrda of tion service has recommended to the jects of our Institutions.
tire responsibility for the administra­
Office phone 463
ig a w e ;
The decision was of far reaching Im­
tion of relief In tta hands.
the Jobbing territory of all Inter-moun­ public works committee of the presl
in response to appeals from Presi­
tain points. Walla Walla would be dent’s unemployment conference that portance to newspapers, as the suit
dent Harding, Governor 8houp and
limited to a 29-mile district instead of congress be called u>on to appropriate was the first on record In which
other governors of western states and
,16,200,000 for speeding up work on municipality sought to restrict the
79 miles.
i through local chapters of . the Red
right to criticize Its corporate acts.
11 irrigation projects in the w ett.
Washington^ D. C.— Five elate«
Oroas and other comipunlt/ organiza­
Representative"’ Smith "fef Idaho In­
Montana, Idaho. Wyoming, Utah and tion», public-spirited citizens brought
VETERANS
ARE
FAVORED
W ashington—hr d less Illiteracy among the total contributed for Pueblo’s re­
troduced a bill In the house appro­
GRIEF GENERAL NEWS
their native white population In 1920 habilitation to more than >325,000.
Office opp. Hotel Sherman*
Preference Provided In Awarding priating ,23.000.000 for Immediate con­
All
foreign
loans
will
be
funded
Into
struction
work
on
western
reclamation
Tbe terrible havoc wrought by the
than
any other states, It was shown In
Postmasterships.
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OREGON
projects as recommended by the re­ long term bonds bearing 5 per cent In­ figures mads public by the census flood waters Is a matter of record.
Washington, D.
>ftaed policy
More than 2,300 home« were affected
clamation service to th e'p resid en t’» terest under present plans, Secretary bureau.
giving preferential dotstderation to
and
7,851 persons were left homeless.
unemployment conference.
Meljon has announced.
The native whiter population of those
postmastership applicants who are
Bstlnrates of 0500,000 as an absolute,
*dnAam and Wheeler Counties
Oregon has just received ,102,189.51 states classed as Illiterate, namely,
Of this amdunt ,7,800,000 would go
minimum for rehabilitation were made
veterans of the world war, was In­
to projects In Oregon, Washington and Washington ,77.180.59 as their unable to write, amounted to three- by Red Cross officials In charge of ths
augurated by President Harding by
shares in the annual receipts from tenths of 1 per cent. The District of relief work.
and Idaho.
executive order...
the national forests located in the two Columbia had the same percentage,
Fast Work In W alpStreet
The c iv il, service commission was
and South Dakota, Nevada and Ore­
states.
The Wall street explosion was nota­
FO R S A LE
directed by the.' order to >dd five CHIEFS CALLED TO CONFER
• An official order has gone out from gon ranked next, each with four-tenths ble In that relief workers of the Red
polgts to the examination rating of
Cross were on the scene twenty min­
Washington to prohibition enforce­ of 1 per cent.
\
Action
Regarded
as
First
Step
In
De­
every prospective presidential post­
The state of New^^jAlco had the utes after the disaster occurred. The
ment officials to stop the sale of the
termining
Efficiency
of
Labor
Board.
master who had been in the govern­
race riot at Tulsa also was unique In
Chicago, 111.—Telegrams summoning materials that go Into the making of great Illiteracy amoag^lmbative white disaster relief annals In that outside
ment service during the war. In ad
Once you’ve
home brew.
,
population in 1920, the percentage be­
of a small emergency relief fund,con­
Upper Main Street, opp. Garage
dltlon the president ordered that age the chiefs of the big four brotherhoods
F. S. Dietrich. VnlteJ States district ing 11.6.
enjoyed the
tributed by the Red Cross, the only
lim itations be waived in such casee i and the Switchmen’s union to a con-
Judge of Idaho, will be recommended
Among the foreign while population relief measures outslda the city con­
toasted flavor
And that the period of servtce during i ference with the United States rail-
OONDON. ORE.
for promotion to the circuit court of the largest percentage was 33.8 for sisted of the service of social work­
you Kill al­
the war be reckoned as a part of the J road labor board in an endeavor to
appeals at San Francisco when the Texas, and the smallest 4.7 for South ers, nurses and a trained executive
required length of buataeaa expert- j forestall an actual walkout on the
ways want it
first vacancy on that court takes place Dakota and Washington. The per­ whose object was to assist local forces
ence.
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1 nation’s railroads were dispatched to
according
to Senator liorah.
centage of Illiteracy among the negro In directing their own efforts.
am es stew art
yie labor chiefs.
In decided contrast with the pre­
Premier Lloyd George will attend population ranged from 38 5 per cent
The conference was called for 2
vious year, oflly one tornado assumed-
,900,233 Turned In By Fans at Series.
the Washington limitation of arms In Louisiana to 2 9 per cent In New the proportions of s major disaster.
New York.—The 1921 world aeries, o’clock Thursday afternoon. October conference, remaining in the United York.
This occurred on April 15, In the bor­
20.
at
the
labor
board
headquarters
which was won by the New York
States six weeks, unless unexpected
Arizona led all states In decreasing der sections of Texas and Arkansas
here.
»
Giants, set new financial and attend­
developnients in the Irish situation Its Illiteracy between 1910 and 1920. with the city of Texarkuna as the
ance records. Total receipts for t>e
prevent. It was authoritatively stated. having reported 4.2 per cent In 1910 center. The significant feature of this
i SH E R M A N C O U N TY
Washington.—The action of the rail­
disaster relief work was the fact that
eight games were ,900.233, contributed
Mrs. Emma Richardson Burkett of and 2.1 last year.
road labor board In summoning rail­
R covered so much rural territory as
by 269,976 spectators.
Hillsdale, Ind., was found guilty In
road union chiefs to Chicago for con­
to make necessary a large number of
A adret* : MORO. OÄK.
New York of forging the name of the MARSHAL
FACES BIG JOB relief workers.
ference was described in high official
Gen. Wood Take» Office in Philippines
late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to a
The famine in China, necessitating
circles as a first step to determine
Manila.—General Leonard Wood was
note for ,69.000 which she had ai- Would Be Compelled to Visit Every relief expenditures totalling more than
whether
the
railway
board
Is
to
be
deputies
»worn In as governor-general Of the
>1,000.000 by the American Red Cross
legotl the former president signed in
State If All Accepted.
regarded as an* efficient government
was by far the most serious of the
Philippines Saiuplay, upon his arrival
Chicago id 1912. The Jury recom­
Paris.—Marshal
Foch
would
be
com­
L . Scksdswits,
Dr Jo« Ssunden,V .S
foreign disasters In which ths Ited
from Japjfi. and immediately took up agency or a failure.
mended mercy.
$
Rest Ore
M o ro ,O re.
pelled to travel more than 20,000 miles Cross gave aid.
'. W . H . Meyer, W u c o .
his new duties.
and visit nearly every state In the
* Honor For Japanese Requested.
Builds Up Its Machinery
>
Congress Not to Inveatigata Kian.
American union If he should accept
Ban
Francisco.
—
A
telegram
from
In connection with the adihlnlstra-
T H E M ARKETS
Washington, D. C.— Tho proposed In­ all the Invitation» he has received tlon of disaster relief measures, an In­
Eseretfiry of State Hughes was re­
vestigation
of the Ku Klux Kian by from the United States since It was creasing effectiveness on the part of
ceived by Mayer Rolph In which Sec­
Portland.
congress blew up Monday. After a announced that he would cross the the Red Cross to deal with emergen­
retary
Hughes,
in
diplomatic
language,
Wheat trading was at a standstill
10 minutes’ seHslon behind closed Atlantic this fall. Friends who call cies Was manifested during the past
In this market. The break of 5%c to asked the people of San Francisco, doors, the house rliles commlttoe,
upon the marshal ir e shown a stack year. In 328 Chapters of the Ameri­
V eterinary Surgon and
can Reif C toss there have been formed
• U c in futures at Chicago was too and through these of all California, tq
be cordial to tjie Japanese disarma­ which previously had put William J. of Invitations more than foot thick, special committees to survey the re­
much
for
the
grain
then
at
the
Mer­
f:
V.
J
.
W
alker,
Dl»t.
M
g
r
D e n tis t
Simmons, tha«..klan’a Imperial wizard, which he has received.
sources of their respective communi­
chants’ exchange and ho Wheat bids ment conference delegates, upon their through a rigid examination, voted un­
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î V2 v i
’ "Which of them will you accept?" ties and to be preimred- In ense of
W aseo, O regon
arrival here.
were forthcoming.
animously not- to call any more wit­ an American visitor asked the marshal disaster. In others of the 3,402 active
Oats—No. 2 white feed, ,26.
Chapters, a network of communication
nesses.
recently.
Seventeen Burned In Oregon Mina
Corn—Whole, ,34; cracked, ,36.
“All of them,” he replied, “and I has been formed through which Instan­
M
arshfield—Seventeen
men
were
Hay — Alfalfa, ,15 per ton; valley
taneous relief mny be dispatched to
Moro H otel Moro, Oregon
would like to visit every state In the
Senator Knox Is Burled.
any part of the United States.
timothy, >15©15.6Q; eastern Oregon bnrq<»d hy the explosion In the Beaver
Hill mine, near here. All whq were
Valley Forge, Ea.—Senator Philan­ union.”
That Its wprk In thia field may be
timothy, ,,,<£>19.
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continued with ever greater effective­
In
the
mine
were
rescued,
but
five
of
der
C. Knox was laid to rest In Valley
Butter Fat—46@52c.
ness. the American Red Cr<*a Is ap­
01,200,000 For Ruselan Relief.
the Injured may die.
Three • wer« Forge Memorial cemetery here. The
Eggs—Ranch, 40@47c.
pealing for widespread renewal of
New
York.—Appropriation
of
>1.200,-
overcome
gy
gas
and
the
others
were
body
of
the
senator,
who
died
In
Wash­
Cattle—Choice steers, >6@6.50; me­
membership during Its Annual Roll
000
for
relief
work
in
Russia
and
for
burned
As
most
of
the
men
were
ington
from
a
stroke
of
paraljrsls.
lay
dium to good, >5.50®>6.
Call, to be conducted this year from
, W asco, Oregon
aiding
refugees
In
nearby
countries
Sheep — East of mountain lambs. wearing only undershirts, they are all In the bookroom of.his residence here
November 11 to 24.
«
All kinds of work done. X
where many friends paid their last was annouuced by Felix M. Warburg,
>6.50@7; best valley lambs, >606 50. burned from the watat up.
also have some good second
chairman
of
the
Joint
distribution
com­
respects.
Hogs — Prime lig h ts >9.60®ld;
mittee of the American funds for Jew­ L IF E S A V IN G C O R P S
Wheat Supply Cut Down.
hand tires and tubes on hand.
smooth heavy. >809.
E N R O L L M E N T 1 0 ,0 0 0
ish war sufferers.
Seven hundred
• Washington, D. C.—Wheat on farms, Hightower Found Guilty of Murder.
8 . V. Cuddeback
thousand
dollars
of
the
appropriation
excluding that required for uae by
Redwood City, C a l— William A.
~ BaatUA
Growth of Red Cross Life Saving
Opposite boss A Co. Garage Moro
Wheat -t- Hard white, soft white, tha farmers, was estimated by the Hightower, Itinerant baker, was de­ will be expended within Russia Corps througbont the country W’n-
through
the
American
relief
adminis­
tlnued unabated during the last fiscal
soft red winter. >1| white club and department ef agriculture In figures clared guilty by a Jury of first degree
hard rod winter, ,1.01; northefo made public here at 318,000,000 bush­ murder lh connection with the death tration and >600,000 will be utilised year, a summary of the year’s
achievements by that Red cross Sere-
spring, ,1.02; eastern red Walla, 98«; els this year, compared with 447,000,- of Father Patrick E. Heslln. a Colma. for the refugees.
Ice show s Thesw are now 100 Corps
000 bushels last year.
Cal.. Catholic priest. The Jury recom­
Big Bend bluestem, ,1.07.
with
a total membership of more than
F o r b e s
& S o n
1,2«8,364
Registered
In
New
York
City
mended life imprisonment.
Hay—Alfalfa, No. 1, ,20; mixed hay,
10,000 members, of which 1.276 am
War
Hortas
and
Mulaa
Ara
Honorad
New
York.—Complete
returns
for
No.
1.
,22;
timothy.
No.
1A
,26;
straw.
Treats all Dom esticated Animals
sufficiently skilled In the work to set
W ashington, D. C.—A bronze tablet
registration week show that 1,268,364 as examiners. Among the outstanding
House Recommits Membership Bill.
,18.
D R A Y
commemorating the services of the
11.00
voters are registered In the greater achievement* of tho Red Cross In this
P r e » c r ip iio n , lor W ound Dre»»in<, 8 O«
/ Butter Fat— 46®48c. .
Washington, D. C.—The house re­
52.«
, M O R O , OREGON
Prescription for Aid in Colic, 8 O t , . . .
243,136 horses and mules attached to committed to the census commlttoe city, as compared wltk 1,373,873 last field during the last year was the or­
Eggs—Ranch,
46®
53c.
51 00
fkcscribtion for Collar Soros, IS O s .......
Cattle— Prime steers, ,6 0 6 .6 0 ; m e the American forces during the war the 8elgel rcapp jrtlonmont bill pro- year, a loss of 106.509. but a gain of ganization at the UnHed Whites
(A ll Orders Must Bs Accompanied by Cesb)
Freight and Expre»
Academy, Annapolis, o f whwt Is P*r
<8.682 ‘ of which perished, was un-
dlnm to choice, >506.
vldlng for an Increase In membership 572316
. , „ over 1817. th« last mayoralty
tho statq, war and navy 'rom 436 to 460. Tho vote w o, 144 to' tltc llo h root, tho women hot rofttter haps the largeat Uf« saving cvrpe te
tjo jj —
Prime
light,
>9.50010;
vailed
Iq
Handled
Promptly.
MovlnM
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the world.
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bulldinc.
smooth heavy, ,7 0 8 .
Telephone Main 502
141.
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