Sherman County observer., July 03, 1925, Image 1

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Moro,, Sherman County, Oregon, Friday, July 3, 1925
Established 1887
OREGON NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST
Oregon
Fhooe
Main 541
RANK OF MORO BUILDING
Moro
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.
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Oregon
Dr J. R. Morgan
DENTIST
United Stales Dental Exam
iner for tbit district. : -
Office at
MORO, OREGON
this was ujfnouacen ny tne stare fann
board after it had entered lato con­
tracts with eight corporations in Port­
land which am desirous of obtaining
„rand and gravel from the Willamette
W C. H. ERDMAN
CALIFORNIA ROCKED
BY EARTH TREmiOR
Office and Residence
Hotel Moro
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OAce with D». W. N. Morse
Phone No. 182
Residence on» block—first cor­
ner—east of'Reid grocery store.
Phone No. 183
WASCO, OREGON
Physician and Surgeon
WASCO, OREGON
Phone
No,
182
THE DALLES, OREGON
Office at the Hamilton Hospital
Phone No. Hoepital 487
I I
99 91 1»»»
De Larhue
Optical €o.
Eycaight Specialists
Manufacturing Opticians
Eyea Examined Glasses Fitted .
Exclusively Optical
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Complete Lena Manufacturing
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Plant in Connection
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OREGON
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JAMES STEWART
SHERMAN COUNTY
STOCK AND BRAND
INSPECTOR
$100,000 LIQUOR
CARGO IS SEIZED
CO-OPERATIVE SALES
URGED BY JARDINE
MOTOR OIL
NON DETONATING
RANCHES
No Lives Lost but Property
Damage Piared at
$500.000.
GOVERNMENT SURPLUS
FOR YEAR IS HUGE
S
AND
STOCK & WHEAT
MONTAÑA SHAKEN BY
A SERIES OF QUAKES
Helena, Mont.
Santa
checking up damage done by earth-’
earthquakes, described by survivors as
quakes throughout Montana over three
rocking and swaying the business cen­
days proceeded, indications were that
ter of Sama Barbara as if it were a
total property damage would net ex­
turbulent ocean, early Monday left the
ceed 9500,000.
principal structures of the city a mass
Although shocks were reported Mon­
of debris and ruins. The lose of life
day
from Helena. Great Falls. Billing«.
was. not large. due to the trejnor oc­
Bozeman, Logan, Thfee Forks and
curring at 6:44 o’clock in the morning
Manhattan, none was severe enough to
The gaaettaa fishing boat Nena-
and also to the mass of ruins falling
I 000,
cause
additional damage.
mosha, owned by the Burke Fish com­
tn the second earthquake some
1921, the department of commerce an­
Residents of th» Gallatin vajley, the
pany, was rra down in the Columbia
minutes
after
the
first
tremor.
nounced In making public a summary
apparent center of the earthquake
river entrance fn a dense fog by the
Estimates of the loss vary from
of the biennial census of manufac­
which shook four states Saturday
Oregon-Oriental freighter West No­
000,000,
a
“
conservative
“
figure
by
the
tures for thia state. The aggregate
night and Sunday fastidiously remain­
mentum and two members of her crew value of Oregon manufactures in 1923,
city manager, to $30,000,000, a figure
ed out in the wide op^n spaces Mon­
were drowned.
quott<l by the city engineer. Indica­
according to the department, was
day, looking back at dbout >500.000
tions
wgFe
that
12
lives
were
lost,
Bales of mills of the West Coast 1398.912,099 as compared with 9229,-
Worth of ruins—the aggregate ccSt of
although this rested utam the recov­
Lumberman’s association hold up well, 444,000 la'1921.
the temblor.
ery
of
several
bodies
asserted
to
be
according to report just Issued for the
A campaign against the white pine seminary, who was elected moderator
It was a whimsical earthquake. No
in the ruins.
of the Presbyterian genera! assembly
one
was killed. Nearly a reore nf
State-street, the main thoroughfare,
James J. Storrow of Boston, who
gate bookings of 113 reporting mille ducted by T. D. Mallory and R. B. in „Columbus, Ohio..
buildings cracked end fe’l
There
was
left
a
ghastly
avenue
of
ruin,
por
­
was elected president of the Boy were a half dozen landslides. A crevice
was 110,821,935 feet. The new business Fehren of the Oregon Agricultural col­
tions of Its most stately buildings hav­ Scouts of America at the annusi meet-
was 3 per cent above manufactures, lege, under direction of the depart­
extending at Irregular intervals from
ing been tumbled down, and cornices, Ing In New York.
which amounted to 107.276,027 feet. ment of agriculture. The cultivated
Manhattan to Three Forks, a distance
walls
and
fronts
of
practically
all
Shipments aggregating 117,850,139 feet English black currant and the wild
of
ten milest remains as one of the
principal structures shattered down.
were 9 per cent above bookings.
gooseberry are the objects of attack.
scars caused by the quak»*. The Loin
The ''arthquakes continued through­
All individuals, firms and corpora­ A force of 30 men are now camped
bard tunnel of the Chicago. Milwaukee
out the day. They menaced the water
tions taking sand and gravel from the at Woodruff Meadows engaged in de­
& St. Paul railroad suffered a cave-in.
supply by crashing out the dam of
navigable streams in Oregon will be stroying gooseberry and black currant
The quake began about 6:22 o'clock
South Bend, Wash.—From the deck Sheffield reservoir, but a by pass harç
required to pay royalty to the stale bushes. The war on the fungas will of an ordinary and common-place-ap­
Saturday
night. Thousands of persons
been established to a main reservoir
at the rate of 10 cento a cubic‘yard. be waged until snow falls. _
In Butte, Great Falls, Billings, Liv­
pearing gravel barge, moored In the back in the hills and water provided
Washington, D. C.—The federal gov­ ingston, ’Missoula, Helena aûà otheY
placid waters of Lauderbaek slough, for the etty.
ernment finished the fiscal year Tues­ cities and towns were thrown into a
a secluded estuary of Willapa river,
Throughout the residential district«.
9100,009 worth "f rare
peach particularly in the east side, the small­ day with a surplus In excess of $345,- near panic and rushed clear of build­
brandy and mellow Scotch whiskey j er fram^ houses In many cases Were 000,000, nearly 95O.OOO.OOO greater than ings. The shocks continued intermit­
was ruthlessly poun d to be borne by knocked askew by the temblor, some any previous estimate and more than tently until well after 10 o'clock. Sun­
twice as large as was calculated when day there were slight recurrences at
the tide of the sea. t
with fronts fallen out, chimneys and
the year began.
Three Forks, White Sulphur Springs
Under the direction of F. A. Hazel- gables gone and yards flooded by the
Another phase of treasury opera­ and Anaconda.
tine, divisional prohibition director, a broken water rfialns.
tions that gave rise to feelings of sat-
Three Forks, Manhattan and Logan,
Cheney, Washington
wrecking crew smashed bottles and
Another slight temblor struck this
’ isfactlon was the continued upward all near the junction of Madison, Gall-
poiyed the liquor over the sljje of the city at 5:45 a. in. Tuesday.
trend of receipts from income taxes.
atin and Jefferson rivers, which form
barge. More than 1600 cases were so
The night and early morning were
| Despite - the' reductions tn tax the source of the Missouri, sustained
destroyed, having been seized in a raid punctuated by two other severe tem­
rates which have been effective the greatest loss. The courthouse at
Aime Smith, at whose boat yard the blors which again rv ked the city at
throughout the current fiscal year, .White Sulphur Springs fell and sev­
4 39 a. m. The first Af these
’'?rge was found, by the federal of­ 1'22
♦total Internal revenue, receipts are ex­ eral smaller structures were demolish­
I
roughi
down
one
of
the
remaining
ficers. and- Ton}. Cars-n were under
pected to fall only about $220,000,000 ed. The loss there will exceed $100,-
arre-t. on a chare' rf “possessing chimneys of the Arlington hotel and
below the receipts for the last fiscal 000, it is said, and Three Forks, where
also c< tnpM^tl the wrecking of a
liquor.”
year, which totaled $3,975,912,000. the damage was greater, lost about
According to Hazeltine, who took । couple of snlall brick buildings which
Total receipts to June 15 of this year 9200,000 repotrs say.
charge cf the situation after the raid 1 had been badly damaged in the quake
Leaning walls and twisted buildings
hod •been mad» W George H Hurl | of Mondav mornfng. A r the hotel were roughly 93,750,009,000. Since re­
ceipts from income taxes thus far in Manhattan and Three Forks prob­
burt’ and tv-o «»ther agent«, the ftrit chimney pnfe crashing down where
are only about 930,000,000 below those ably will have to be razed by dyna­
steps in breaking up a gigantic rum w r ‘fk hi g rrrMt were clearing the do-
for 1924, it thus becomes obvious that mite in order to forstall danger.
bris, “the squads of searchers sought
ring had trees ts’ en.
the
shrinkage In the revenues has
The Rotary Rod Weeder & Mfg Co. of Cheney,
The seizure v4as one of th? largest safety in flight., but returned to their
been in the miscellaneous group and
labor
almost
before
the
dust
of
the
LANDSLIDE CREATS LAKE
ever made in the Pacific northwest.
Washington, was established in 1912. Since that
। as a result pf the abolition of certain
smash had cleared away.
time they have, built nothing but Rotary Rod
! taxes.
Geography of Jackson's Hole Region
The quake was general throughout
ank robbers convicted Southern
Weeders. This company originated the Rotary
Permanently Changed.
California but apparently
Rod Weeder and while imitations are. appearing
Jackson,
Wyo.—The geography of
BRIEF
GENERAL
NEWS
centered
at
Santa
Barbara.
Where
the
Bank Holdups Found Guilty of First
the famous Jackson’s Hole region was
damhg^ and loss of life was greatest.
on the market, you can buy the best value for
Degree Murder.
President Coolidge appointed Alfred permanently changed by a gigantic
your money from these pioneer builders of the
Charles Kinney
Tacoma, Wash
J. Pearson of Iowa to be American landslide, forest officials say. Tiro
and Arden Lloyd, both of Seattle, were
most valuable farm implement - placed on the
minister to Finland.
Gros Ventre valley above the natural
found guilty here of the murder of
As the result of a coup. General dam, formed when the north end of
market in recent years.
Harry Schmidt, who was slain Feb
Pangalos, ex-war minitser, overthrew Sheep mountain crashed Into it, is des­
ruary 7 during a bank holdup. The
the Greek cabinet and established a tined to become a lake more than a
jury was out 19 hours.
new government under Pangalos' pre­ mile in width, six to seven miles long
The Moro Hardware. & Implement Co. carry a
The verdict was one of first de ।
miership.
and nearly 200 feet deep. It will take
Cooperative
market
complete line of Rotary Rod Weeders and re­
gree.murder without recommendation i Portland
Abolishment of 294 positions in the four weeks, it Is estimated, for the
ing and a strict businesslike admin­
for the death penalty.
pairs. The new machines, guaranteed to please
field service bureau of Indian affairs river to fill the lake. The slide was
The decision was reached on the istration of agricultural affairs, said on July 1, with an annual saving of preceded by earth tremors.
you, can be seen at the Moro Hardware & Im­
William
M.
Jardine,
secretary
of
agri
­
positive identification of the prisoners]
A section of the Teton national for­
plement Co. warehouse. Ask N. W. Thompson
culture, In an address at the Portland $227,905 In its payroll, was announced
by 11 witnesses of the robbery of the I
by
the
secretary
of
the
interior.
est
was smashed to splinters. Several
Chamber of Commerce, will prove the
to explain this guarantee.
Thirty eight h it reet branch of the Na
John W. Mahan •of Helena, Mont., herds of cattle swept away and many
salvation
of
the
American
farmer.
which
tlonal Bank of Tacoma,
“I am a firm believer In co-opera­ was elected national commander, and buildings lost, the advices said.
Harry Schmidt was shot down in cold
tive
marketing,” said Mr. Jardine. "I Atlanta. Ga., was selected for the 1926
blood and his money satchel, ruthless­
am against price-fixing by the gov­ convention city by the Disabled Amer- Coolidge Opposed to Tariff Reduction.
ly snatched from his stiffening fingers
Swampscott, Mass.—President Cool­
ernment. Export corporation legisla­ leant Veterans of the WorM War at
by his murderer, who the jury found
the concluding session of the conven­ idge has no sympathy with recent sug-
tion
such
as
has
been
recently
pro
­
C. V. Belknap, Proprietor
to be Lloyd.
gustions frorp abroad that this coun­
posed would not, in my opinion, help tion held in Omaha.
The first step toward putting France try curtail production and lower Its
move the surplus of production that
Coolidge’» Father Is Seriously III-
the farmer back on gold basis was taken when tariff in order to assist Germany to
has been the bane
senate and chamber of deputies voted pay reparations and other nations to
Plymouth,
Vt.
—
Suffering
from
an
everywhere ever since the war.
Moro, Oregon
abdominal ailment, Colonel John Cool­
“The farmer must learn to sell his approval of Calllaux financial bill in­ pay their international, debts. It was
idge, father of President Coolidge, is products; to merchandise the stock of creasing paper circulation by 6,000,- stated officlàlly at the summer White
Ladie<*and Children’s Hair Cutting
confined to his homt under a physi­ the soil as the merchant merchan- 000,000 francs and providing credits of House here. The president regards
and Shinule. Bobbini___ cian’s care. The prpgjdent. who made diHWi his stock of manufactured goods 3,229,000,000 francs for current needs such suggestions as a repetition of
of government.
a hurried trip here from Swampscott, and as Gary markets his steel.”
previous efforts to persuade the peo­
Mass., was assured that the patient
ple of the Unltde States themselves
Seismograph Showa Quake In Spokane to pay the reparations cost or to can­
apparently was out of danger, although
it was emphasized that in view ol IDAHO TO HAVE NEW LINE
Spokane, Waah. — A severe earth­ cel debts.
quake disturbance which was felt dis­
the colonel’s age a setback was pos
Railroad to Cost >3.000,000 Will Tap
tinctly in Spokane was registered on
slble.
Big Timber Belt.
the seismograph at Gonzaga univer­
Washington, I). C.
Retired and
Minneapolis.—Construction of a $3.-
THE MARKETS
sity at 5:25 Saturday afternoon. Ac­ former United States army and navy
000,000 40-inlle line of railroad In the cording to A. M. Jung, observer of
officers may form the backbone of
Clearwater timber district of Idaho to
Portland
the Gonzaga seismograph, ft was the administration’s new prohibition
serve the largest white pine lumber evidently close to Spokane. The dis­
Wheat — Hard white, soft .white,
mill in the Pacific northwest has been turbance continued for some time enforcement system, ft 'was learned at
northern spring, western white, $1.50,
announced by Charles Donnelly, presi­ after the first shock. The quake was the treasury department. General L.
Hay — Alfalfa, 919®20 ton; valley
dent of the Northern Pacific railway. felt distinctly in all parts of the city. C. Andrews, field marshal of prohibi­
timothy. $2Q®21; eastern Oregon
tion, who is reorganizing enforcement
The line will run' northeast from
timothy,' $23(524.
under
plans approved by Preaident
Orofinc, Idaho, and will be construct­
La Follette's Estate Small»
Butterfat—44c delivered Portland
Coolidge, announced that qualifica­
ed
by
the
Northern
Pacifie
and
Union
Eggs—Ranch. 29<g>33c.
Madison, Wis.—Senator Robert M tions being equal he will select ex-
Cheese—^Prices f. o. b. Tillamook Pacific railroads to serve the Clear­ La Follette's will, offered for probate military men
district adminístra­
water Timber company, a Weyerhaeus­
Triplets, 27c; loa*f, 28c per lb.
lo county court here names hJs widow tors |n preference to civilians.
Cattle—Steers, medhun. 98O07J9OO. er Interest, who are planning to erect as sole beneficiary and executrix. The
a huge lumber mill at Lewiston, Idaho.
Hogs—Medium to choice, $12.50®
senator’s debts including the mort­ Chinese Note Sent State D«partmi
i Work on the new line will start
gage on the homestead are estimated
14.00. '
* >
Washington-,-D. C.—The Peklg ]
Sheep—I^ambs. medium to choice, this fait Mr. Donnelly «hid He aleo tn the petition at 129,000, his personal visional government has transmitted
announced that the Union Pacific and
property at 120,000 and his real es to the state department a duplicate
$10@12.
his line may construct another line
tats, which is the homestead, at $48, copy of Its latest communication to
from Bend to Klamath Falls, .Or., an-,
Seattle.
000.
the diplomatic representatives in
other heavily timbered district.
Wheat—Soft white, 91-44; western
China requesting among other things
white, 91-43; hard winter, 91.44; west­
Pierce Veto Is Sustained.
sctlon which would pave the way for
Oakville, Wash-, Mill Burns-
ern red, 91-44; northern spring, 91.45.
Salem, Or.—In an oral opinion hand­ relinquishment by foreign nations of
Oakville, Wash.—The shingle mill
Hay-rAlfalfa, 924; D. C.. 1
tim
ed down,<he supreme court sustained extra-territorial rights there.
and lumber manufacturing plant of
othy, $26; mixed hay, 924.
Governor Plecre in bis veto of the bill
‘he Wray Lumber company here was passed by the last legislature calling
Butterfat—44c.
Kidnaper* Foiled In 850,000 Plot
Icstroyed by firp Sunday mprning at for a special election on referendum
Eggs—Ranch, 35@38c.
San Francisco. Cal.—An attempt to
2 p'clock’,* causing a loss of about $10,-
Hogs—Prime, 914.WG14.75
measures In September.
extort 950,000 from D. C. Jackltng.
300 with no insurance.
Cattle—Prime »teéss,'99.26® 9.50.
wealthy Utah and San Francisco cap­
Cheese—Oregon fancy to retailers,
italist, through a reported plot to kid­
Chsplin Father of IM Pound Boy.
29c per lb ; dô standards, 25c; Wash E. B. Stewart Head^ OrSfOn Lsglon-
Beverly Hills, Cal—The birth of a nap his wife, was foiled by Jackltog
Prineville, Og,—Dr. W. B. Stewart of
ington fancy triplets, 25e.
6% pound son to Mrs. Lita Grey Chap­ and the police. Bliss Baker, a stu­
Roseburg was the unanimous choice
lin, wife of the film comedian. Charlee dent at the University of California
of the state convention here as depart­
Spokane.
Spencer Chaplin, was announced by and Russell Crawford were held to
ment commcwder of the American Le­
Hqga—Primé, H3 5G013.W.
spokesmen
for the actor here fuaday connection with the alleged plot.
gion !
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Çattle—Prime Heart, 91.00 98,10
Moro Hotel Barber Shop
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JAMES J. STORROW
Santa Barbara Suffers Loss
L fe and Property
Damage Heavy.
At a special election held at Falls
City to authorise the sale of the muni­
Important Occurrences of
cipal light plant there were <7 ballots
cast for the sale and 26 against. By
Part Week Briefly Com­
this election the mayor and city coun­
piled for Our Readers.
cil ane authorised to accept the offer
of >15,000 cash and lights for street
purposes to the value of 1750 a year
for
two years following the transfer,
which for a time threatened
made
by the Mountain States Power
the main business section of The
company.
Danes,
Manufactured products made In
houses
Second
009.
The Rotary Rod Weeder
Physician and Surgeon
Price Five Cents
UNION OIL COMPANY
CALIFORNIA