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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1923)
M O l «o, M o rg a n D E N TIS T D r J. R . United States Dental Exam iner for this district. Office at MORO, OREGON "SNAKE KING" IS DEAD A TT HEARS S h e rm a n C o u n tv ,,j|> t* g v h . DENTIST Natural Death Comes to Man Who Handled Thousands of Poisonous Reptiles. BsllaehaH W ae W en t to Declare T h a t the Rattlesnake W ae Much Misunder stood— U n Isas Mwleetod It W ould M et Strike O rdinarily. Baa AMawte. T a x ^ -J u lto s & D rC L .P O L E Y Physician and Surgeon Office in Residence MORO - - OREGON Attorney-at-Law Practice io AU the Court» of Oregon Pboac Maia 541 BANK OP MORO BUILDING Moro . . . Oregon W. C. BRYANT A tto m e y -a t-L a w Office Phone loro M ain 93 Oregon CRANDALL UNDERTA K IN G . CO M PA N Y T H E D A L LE S . O R E G O N 8am Briabine, Agent M o ro . Oregon 1 * 1 * * * * * STOCK & WHEAT R AN C H E S FOR SALE : F .T . HURLBURT U»»« Sab Stm t, w -G mm « C m 4 m - - 0 n (M JAMES STEWART SHERMAN COUNTY STOCK AND BRAND - INSPECTOR . M m - - Ortf»« D E P U T IE S : L . Schedewltx. Kent. Oregon; D r. Joe. Saunders, Moro, O re.; W . H . M erer, Weeeo, Ore. Formerly the Albert The Dallas' Narirest and Best H o stelry CENTRALLY LOCATED A p r il 1 8 . IP S .* 8 ÔR. F. 6. BANTING RAN A WHOLESALE BUSINESS Dr. Howard Gove K i-ir ia y . BaAA- •ehelt, slveaty-one, known to the world af the circus and museum as "The Rat tlesnake King." Is dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Kmma Braun. In Ban Antonio. Although he had handled literally hundreds of thousands of — C— In a long career, hla death was a natural one-. y, v Ballschelt was a native of Germany Dr. F. Q. Banting of the University hut came to Texas when a young man of Toronto, who discovered insulin, and at first engaged In fanning. It used In the treatm ent of diabetes. * was purely by accident that he started In the snake business, It la said. A medicine show was In Helotes, a email settlement in Bexar county and offered |2 for a rattlesnake. Ballschelt never The Decision May Affect Val Idity of Statutes in Sev eral States. Board Announces M o n ey -w ill Be Advanced Only on Staple Products, Washlagton, D. C.— Indication» were given by the federal farm loan board that an interest rate of 5% per cent would be charged on loans made by the new Intermediate credit banks. While the Interest rate to be charg ed will be fixed by the credit banka, subject to approval of the farm loan board, farmers will be able. If the In dicated ¿purest rate la accepted, to borrow money at 7 per cent or less. The law specifies that the rediscount ing agency shall not charge In excess of lVi P«r cent for handling the obliga tions. , Commissioner Lobdell said he ex pected some of the banks would be ready to make actual loans by April The board has decided “for the Richard M. Tobin of San Francisco, supreme court to Intervene in vne c a s e present” to limit loans under the who has been appointed American min as friends of the court. They all have credits act to livestock, grain, wool, ister to the Netherlands. wage fixing statutes of their own. cotton, tobacco and peanuts as “staple The decision was made by a divided agricultural products” within the bench, with C h id Justice Taft and moaning of the law. Loans on dairy Justices SanforAand Holmes dissenting products, eggs, fruits and vegetables and with Justice Brandels taking no are left to future determinations but the p art in the proceedings. exclusion of those commodities, It ap > The majority based its position peared, Is not Intended to be perman Essen.—The explosion of a time broadly upon the right of contract. In ent. Washington, D. C. — Seventy-eight A limitation of loans to nine cities of the country will have a popu bomb destroyed thapAock of the Dort- sisting that while laws could be en mund-Ems canal near Herne. The forced to regulate working conditions, m onths’ maturity also Is prescribed lation of 100,000 or more on July 1 canal was blocked, seriously interfer the employer anid the employe must be In the regulations as the maximum, this year, according to estim ates of ing with the complicated Inland water free of legal restraint in determining while the minimum life of security to the census bureau. between themselves what wages are be taken by the credit banks was fixed way traffic In the Ruhr. There were 68 in 1920. Of the ten This 1« the most serious case of acceptable. at not loss than “six months from the additional cities, Flint, Mich., made sabotage yet reported on the Ruhr date of the transaction." The credit the most rapid growth, Its estimate be waterways. The lock destroyed Is ing 117,968. which ranks it as fflst city Bear* the Junction of the Dortmund- In population. Erie, Pa.. Is estimated Ems canal with the main canal that at 112,571, placing It in 66th rank. runs down to the Rhine at Dulsberg Duluth takes rank as 70th city with and Ruhrort, where the world’s largest 106,289. Inland port la located. Elisabeth, N. J., now ranks as 72d Washington, D. C.—Oil stock pro The Intentlen of the dynamiters ap farm work was slack frequently wenr olty with 103,947. Estimates for the moters operating in the state of Texas ■nak« catchinu. 11 l*en they mads a parently was n o t.to block the canal, other cities, which have advanced Into catch they were certain to ftnd a mar but to drain the water from the main luring thc<laa£ five years have filched the 100,000 class, follow: kst with “the Snake King" Rhine-Herne canal, which Is the fna'r more than »109,090.000 from the public, Utica. N. Y„ 73d. 103,467; Lynn. Mr. Ballachelt was wont to declare waterway artery of the Ruhr. The Postmaster General New was advised Mass.. 74th, 102,683; Tulsa, Okla., 76th, that the rattlesnake was much rnlaun French say thia main canal has uot by John II. Edwards, solicitor of the Aerstood. Unless the reptile • was 102,018; Tacoma, Wash., 76th, 101,- been interfered with, as the locks on postofflce tl apartment, and Chief Post molested It would not strike ordinarily, 731; Oklahoma City, 77th. 101,160. dbd but would e«(«P<- from the vicinity of- both sides of the one which was dyna- al Inspector Simmons. They are In Jacksonville, Fla., 78th 100,046. threatened danger. If a rattler It talted were closed Immediately after Fort Worth cQ^pernUftg with the de Estim ates (or the larger oitiea show partment c* just’ec in the prosecution the explosion to prevent the drain startled It will strike and In the skin probable totals as of July 1, 1922, as of mall fraud oases involving oil pro «bidding sewsoo. when the reptile Is lng of the main canal. follow s: blind, anything approaches at It« peril, moters. - ( New York, 5,927,626; Chicago, 2.886,- for the snake lashes out at every noise. In making public the report, the 121; Philadelphia. 1.822.788; Detroit, Belonging to the viper family, the I. W. W. BARRED IN KANSAS postmaster-generul also declared the 996.668; Cleveland 888,619; St. Louis. rattler’s young are born, not hatched postoffice department intended to as In tbs case of many other reptiles, Supreme Court Upholds Injunction 803,863; Baltimore, 773,860; Boston, move in the most vigorous and per , Washington, D. C.— Back at his desk Against Oragnlzation. «pH references to rattlesnake eggs, 770,400; Los Angeles, 666,863; Pitts Bistent manner possible for the en In the White House after five weeks Topeka, Kan.—I. W. W. as an organ sometimes seen, are due to mistaking burg^ 613,442; San Francisco, 639,068; the eggs of some other snake for those iaatlon and all of Its members are bar forcement of both the criminal law of strenuous vacationing In the South Seattle, not estimated; Portland, Or., of the deadly rattling viper or to na red from Kansas In a decision handed and the fraud order statutes against land. President Harding rolled up his 278,621; Oakland, 240.086; Denver, rare faking. The female gives birth down by the supreme court affirming the fraudulent use of the malls not sleeves and plunged headlong Into a 272.031; Salt Lake City, 126.241; Spo- Aometlmes to litters of ss many as a the granting of an Injunction agaidst only in the sale of fraudulent oil series of tusks, which will keep him doten vigorous little reptiles In the «Socks but In all other cases involv busily engaged until he Is ready to early spring, and they emerge Into the the order to prevent “depredations leave Washington again for his trip ing fraud lu the mails. against property by criminal syndical world fully equipped with poleon sacs to the Pacific coast. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS and fangs, capable of slaying man or ism and sabotage In Kansas.’* The amount of administrative work The court held that the literature DOPE RUNNERS DISCOVERED beast from the day of their birth on. that awaited hlB consideration was President Harding’s western trip will and talk of members of the organisa Warns Before Striking. monumental In Its proportions, but the begin about June 16, according to re International Fleet Dealing In Drugs tion were of such a threatening nature “The rattlesnake 1« a gentleman. He president, bronzed by hot Florida suns ports. Found Operating on Atlantic Border. always gives due warning before he that the state was Justified in seek and refreshed by hundreds of rounds Automobiles ran down 1489 persons G eneva—An International “dope” strikes," Mr. Ballachelt explained re lng an Injunction to prevent carrying cently. "In shedding season when he out of threats to destroy property In fleet Is operating off the Canadian of golf, waded Into It with a determi in New York city In March, of whom cannot hunt because of bllndnpsa, his oil and wheat districts of the state. coast, landing drugs for shipment to nation to speed things up to the limit, 58 died. I hunger and sightlessness ms » ^ the the United States and other countries, until he sees his way clear once more The death of Senator Nicholson of rattler a mean customer. Sometimes There w as a grand rush to the White Colorado reduced the republican ma 8395363,655 Value of Orest Northern. the dominion government has notified he will sound warning, but generally Washington, D. C.—Upon the vast the secretariat of the League of Na House from all parts of the capital and jority In the senate to sight. not. and he will strike no,8e cabinet officials vied with one another Flfty-twq bootleggers were tried in properties of the Great Northern rail tlona. during th at period.” In being tho first to get various prob the federal cotfrt term Jt$st ended at This flotilla of drug runuers operates Mr. Ballschelt was not afraid of rat way system the Interstate commerce lems formally before the president. Pocatello, Idaho. Fifty-one of them tlers and the larger they were, sn<1 commission tentatively fixed a valu similarly to the liquor fleet off the HurrMr» the more dangerous, the bet ation of »396,363.665, which compares New York and New Jersey shores. The were convicted. One Jumped his bond ter be liked them, fw rattlers «sill b> with the company's own book value notification to the league states that CAR-PROBE ORDERED Captain Richard Derby, 28, of Ta Die peund-and not by length aa the un estim ate of Its holdings at »384.273,873. the “dope” smugglers are engaged In coma. Wash., flyer at McCook field. Initiated might Imagine. The Great Northern system Is the transporting cocaine, morphine and Roads Failure to Move Apples to Be Dayton, Ohio, was Instantly killed When the demand for the live sa«*“ “^ largest for which the commission has other narcotics. A Canadian official. Investigated. proved slack, the snake« still proved Washington. D. C.—An order was yet found a value, under the 1907 It is stated, discovered a regular route profitable to Mrf Ballachelt. who killed for smuggling drugs from Germany Issued by the Interstate commerce 1 them and cured the hides for one In values law which ordered a physical to Spain, thence to France, thence to commission for an Investigation of the valuation of all railroad property In I Vxather goods such aa b e lt s , hatbands St. Pierre Mlguelou.j-gi» New Found- extent to which railroad« serving the •oba and purses, the skins being soft the United States. land. and finally Into Canada and the Pacific northwest failed during the and pilable when properly tanned. The carcasses are rendered for--the fat, German Marks Total 5,500,000,OOQJXM). United States. last crop season to supply adequate which la highly esteemed for lotions, facilities for the transportation to Berlin.—The total German currency I ointments and for use as a treatment In circulation April 1 was 5.500,000,000,- U. 8. Sends Not« On Cuban Crisis. market of apples and other perishable for rheumatic affections. The .vWnom Washington, D. C. — The Untied products. also Is useful In., science and In the 000 marks. States has sent a note to Cuba on the The order was prompted by a reso I* manufacture of drugs. present cabinet crisla In the island re luction adopted by the senate January T H E MARKETS While many of the snakes sold by public, It was reported. The present 20. John P. Hartman of Seattle, who I “the Rnake King" went to the pur situation Is brought about by the resig has orchard Interests ,n Washington Portland. chasers with their poison fangs IntaCt, the majority had theft tongs extracted Wheat — Hard white, »1.36; soft nation of the cabinet at the request of east of the Cascades, made the com Wool Rates Probe Dates 8st. President Zayas. The United States plaint that the railroads failed to sup white., » L i t ; western white, »124; Washington, D. C —All railroad prac hard winter, northern spring and red ment will not endanger the program of ply sufficient refrigerator cars to move wants to be sure that this develop- the apple crop. This complaint re tices and ratsa In the west with refer westertL-.»Lift ence to transportation of wool were Hay^Alfalfa^ »23 per ton; valley readjustment lu Cuba and has so stat sulted In the resolution. „ ordered under Investigation by the In tim othy,.»26; eastern Oregon timothy, ed In the note terstate commerce commission. Ex N aluralizatlon Head Indicted 8 Times. »26. aminers wars ordered to open hear Steel Companies Incrssse Wages. Buttar Fat—46c. San Francisco. — Five indictments ings at Billings. Mont, April 26; Saif New York.- The United States Steel were returned against A. Frederick N. . Egg«--junoh, 21024c. Flniah Big Alaska Bridge. Lake City. April 80; Boise, May 4; ebeseo — Tillamook cream, 26c; corporation announced a wage Increase Littleton, naturalisation examiner, by Anchorage, Alaska.—The bridge over Portland, Or., May 7; and Phoenix. the Tanana river at Nenana hae beea Young Americas. 270; Nock Swiss, of 11 per cent effective April 16 for the federal grand Jury. Three of the May 14. day laborers employed In the manu indictments charge violation of the completed and formally turned over to 82084c; cream brick, 80032c. the Alaska railroad commission. It Cattle' — Choice stoere. »7.2608; facturing plants di Ita subsidiary com naturalization laws and two of bribery Qun 8hoots 120 a Minute. has a single steel span 700 feet long panies, with an equitable adjustment with ten separate counts. medium to good, »6.7507.2». Ogdon, Utah.—John M. Browning, Hhsep—East of mountain lambs and f o / other clanash of labor In those noted Ogden firearms laveffieL has planta. A number of «o-called Inde- Helicopter Attains 20-Foot Altitude. obolo« Yhlloy to«hs. |lfc*O 0l4. completed a new weapon, capable of Bags - Prime light. »1750915; Dayton, 0 .—New helicopter records shooting 120 rounds a minute with a Twltoh of Eye Save» smooth heavy, »7.8008.76. ware made at McCook field, when range of six miles and large enough Life of Man in Coffin Thurman H. Bane, ex commandant at to penetrate airplane armor, it was Beattie. Italian Princess Marries Commonsr. McCook Held, rose vertically more A twitch of his eye saved Hen Rome.—Princess Yolanda, eldest than 20 feet In several teats of the announced here. Wheat Hard whlto, »125; soft ry Hlser. fifty years old. of ,Ho- daughter of Klag Victor Emmanuel De Bothezat helicopter. white. »126; western whits, »1.28; blesvllle, Ind., from going to hla Foster C sss Jury Disagrees, and Queen Elena, was married to b—a red winter, soft red winter, west grave prematurely. As an under flt. Joseph, Mich.—Hopelessly dead Count Cslvl di Bsrgolo, an Italian com am red «ûd northern spring, f l.lt . taker was «bout to placsjitbe locked after 11 U hours the Jury try 'ButtsrF6t^l6047c. monsr. body In (he coffin he noticed a Kelso, Wash. — 8u1ts aggregating ing William S. Foster of Chicago for Uggs—Ranch, 19025«. atnaeulsr contraction of one eye. »219.000 were filed against Cowllts alleged violation of the Michigan law Stuyvesant Fish Dies Suddenly. A physician was called and n e a r Osttte — Prima steers, <7.2508 00; county and the city of Kelso on be against criminal ayndleallam was dis was soon on the read to recovery. New Y ork.- Stuyvesant Fish, banker medium to choice. »».78 0 7.2». half of nlno claimants for damages on The apparent death was-asused Hogs — Prime light, »».0009.60; and former president of the Illinois account of the Kelso bridge collapse, charged. The Jurors stood 5 to 8 dar b j paralysis., ing 38 ballots. Central railroad, died suddenly here. smooth heavy. 17.8008.60. AAnjw\ruVuV‘f*‘ i‘*‘‘" •» •*•***» *« *, < Automobile Blocked by Snow Drifts, Physician Makes Per ilous Trip to Save Child. Unusually Heavy Snows This W inter In New England Impose Severa Hardships on Country Doctor— Use of Snowshoes Common. Did you ever think of the oountry doctor as a hero? Don't you think this one a real one 7 * North Adams, Muss.—In this winter of heavy snows In New Englund, the country doctor has heeu subjected to unusual hardships. With hill roads blocked by drifts for days, and some times weeks at a time, he has had to resort to many expedients to reach pa tlents In Isolated farmhouses. The use of snowshoes has been common and one physician had built a special ski- runner equipment for his motorcar. One of the outstanding feats of per severance In the face of difficulty and danger was that of Dr. JohnT hfe-IUley, the oldest physician In this city. The January snowfall In North Adams was 80 Inches, and in the outlying towns among the Berkshire mountains the wind swept the snow into huge drifts. Early one evening, when a blizzard was raging Doctor IUley was notified that a little girl was apparently dying from pneumonia In a farmhouse on the side of Florida mountain. A boy who hud managed to work his way down over the half-broken-out roads In an automobile brought the word. Starts Up on Foot. Doctor Riley Immediately started out with the boy In the car. A high wind was blowing and when they reached an exposed point on the main highway, the snow had drifted so badly that the ear stalled. The physician, wearing a heavy fur overcoat and carrying his medicine coae, started on foot up the mountain toward the farmhouse, sev eral mile« distant. On his way he met two men walking down. They urged him to turn back, declaring that he could not get through the storm alive. He refused. After he had gene some distance the boy, who had succeeded In starting the car, overtook him. They wero able to drive to a schoolhouse, a mile nr\<l a half from the farm where the girl was lying 111. There they ran Into drifts that stopped all further progress. The highway to the farmhouse from this point was hidden under snow many feet deep and Doctor Riley, faml’.’ar with the region, struck Into a wood road where the forest provided some protection from the gale. Mlssee the Trail. Plodding along slowly he suddenly found he had missed the trail, and brought up against a baf»ed wire fence. He followed the lino of the fence for some dlstunce, hut could not relocate the wood road. He was almost exhausted and was on the point of discarding his overcoat to lighten his burden when he saw the light of a swinging lantern. Ho shouted, but the sound of his voice was drowned by the wind. He stumbled toward the light and finally' camo up with the bearer of the lantern, a young woman of the sick child’s family. She had ventured out In the hope of meeting him. After Doctor Riley had done all he .could for the tick girl ho borrowed dry clothing, walked down the trail to the schoolhouse and came back to North Adams with the boy In the au tomobile. He had been at home but a few minutes when another call came for him. A woman was dying In Clarksbhrg, several miles distant. He started out without hesitation and was able to make thia trip In his car. Whan he got back, long after midnight, he i a i nearly wornout from his experi ence«, but the next day he was attend ing to his calls as usual. — — —— —— * Eats Four Pounds of Meat Dally. Washington.—More meat was con sumed in the United States last year than In any previous year, the Depart ment of Agriculture announced. The totnl consumption was estimated at~lfl.333,000,000 pounds, which amowots to 149 .7 pounds per person, or approxi mately four pounds dally. The per capita consumption showed an Increase of six pounds over 1921 and six and one-half pounds over 1920. Complete Jungle Lives in Big Volcano’s Crater A complete Jungle In the crater of sn extinct volcano In Africa w ss described bp T. A. Barnes, an English scientist, upon his ar rival In New York city from an exploration trip to the center of Mount Kilimanjaro. In the Tan «snylkn district of Africa The scientist said that at least 75.000- animals are living In the crater—elephants, tigers, leop ards and rhinos. The crater Is 2,000 feet deep, be said, and a veritable Garden of Eden, with • lake three miles long.
