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
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W. C. BRYANT
A tto m e y -a t-L a w
Office
Phone
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Oregon
CRANDALL
UNDERTA K IN G
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T H E D A L LE S . O R E G O N
8am Briabine, Agent
M o ro . Oregon
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STOCK & WHEAT
R AN C H E S
FOR SALE
: F .T . HURLBURT
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JAMES STEWART
SHERMAN COUNTY
STOCK AND BRAND
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INSPECTOR
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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.