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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1925)
LF# uuswsfaaaaba^mMS«— miHL’LCTSXJSUL’’« .MMn • *. !\ HERMAN Or.Hisi^oc.j — AudUoriwi Pricè Five Cents Moro, Sherman County, Oregon, Friday, August 28, 1925 W. C. BRYANT ICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That a special election will be held in the City, of Moro, Sherman County, Oregon, on the |4th day of Septem ber, 1925, to deteripine whether or not the charter amendment adopted, proposed and submitted to the voters of said city by the Common Council shall be enacted by the city. The ballot title of said proposed charter amendment, and the form and num ber in which the question will be printed on the official ballot, being as follows: " ' BELGIAN SETTLEMENT ESCAPED OREGON CONVICTS RETAKEN DISPLEASES BORAH OUR AIM« TO SERVE YOU WELL AND FAITHFULLY —ALWAYS | 1 1 ■ /NST,Tin/o^- ¡ J.Lpnney Vo. fl^TION-WIDE WHERE SAVINGS ARE GREATEST THRUOUT THE YEAR Boise, Idaho.—Senator Borah is not Murray Is Captured at Cen satisfied with the settlement of the Belgian debt to the United States, tralia, Kelly and Willos which virtually refunds approximate Near Guldendale. ly 1160X100,000 ip accumulated interest ’ 1 DEPARTMENT STORES to that country. He makes thia dear Office Phone Main 93 in a statement issued here and In a Portland, Or. — The hunt for the Oregon Moro telegram to Senator Reed Smoot of three convicts who shot their way CHARTER AMENDMENT SUBMIT Utah, a member of America’s debt out of the Oregon state penitentiary TED TO THE VOTERS BY funding commission. Senator Borah on the afternoon of August 12 caine to THE COMMON COUNCIL. does not want the Belgian terms to successtai end when Tom Murray, AN ACT be looked upon aa a precedent. Sen leader of the gang, was captured at To amend the Charter of the City ator Smoot assured him no precedent Centralia, Wash . and Ellsworth Kelly of M.oro, entitled:* An act to incor- and James WUlo« were surprised and Mwrate the City of Moro, in Sherman had been established. Belgium’s debt Co the United States taken without M-JTsthnce by a posse bounty, State-of Oregon, being an act of the«Legislature Assembly of tv 1447,000,000. Added to this is ac of Multnomah county officials near the State of Oregon, approved the cumulated interest of 1108,000,000, Goldendale, Wash» 17th day of February,1899,as amend which the debt funding commission All three have been returned to the Practice in All the Courts ed by an act proposed by the Com recommends be thrown off. President prison and will face charges of first mon Council of the City of Moro, of Oregon degree murder. Sherman County, Oregon, and entitl Coolidge approved the settlement. “I am very much dissatisfied witb ed: “An ordinance to amend subdi The capture of the trio was effect Maio 541 vision 59 of Section 89 of the act of the Belgian debt settlement,” said ed largely through the aid of Phil Car- BANK OP MORO BUILDING the Legislative Assembly of the State Senator Borah. "I feel that if this if son, who had been ordered from Port Oregon Moro of Oregon, entitled: ’An act to incor porate the'City of Moro, in Sherman to serve as a precedent for other set land by a police judge. Carson met County, State of Oregon, approved dements to come it would result In Murray at Vancouver when the two February 17, 1899,’ io as to author- the cancellation of several billion dol boarded a northbound freight train .ze the Council of said City of Moro lars. late Friday. Murray admitted hia to. borrow .money in a sum not ex- "I take the position that congrese Identity and planned with Carson to ceeumg. ten thousand ($10,000.00) deBars to--satisfy bonds heretofore merely acted as agent for the Amer hold up some place at Centralia. He also told the informant that he, issued rf efthwpurpose of acquiring ican taxpayers in lending this money Oar Exclusive and 'maintaining water works and and that it is the business of con Kelly and Willo« had been hiding in DENTIST electric light works, er either of such gress to collect it.’’ Sheeting the woods near White Salmon, Wash., works, and to issue bonds therefor” and that he and Willos having quar United States Denta! Exam* and passed by the vote of the people The scientific Sheeting! All the available knowledge reled he had left his compansions. of the City of Moro on February 20, BRIEF GENERAL NEWS of v htt «nakes fine Sheeting has been used in tnanu- iner for thia district. Carson and Centralia officials laid 1920, And to amend all other acts t*-:iuri '.g this brand. Long, selected fibre cotton has providing a charter; for said city, Francis M Martin, pioneer north a trap and Murray was captured with ••/en used in w eaving. Experts only participate in the and amending the game by adding out trouble. Information that the trio « ntJacturc of “ * Penco” Sheets and sheeting. thereto Chapter XIII providing for west milling man, who died August Office at the pufqhnM by the pity of Moro of 10, left an estate of approximately had been about White Salmon having Note The*e Price*! the Moro Rotel Company property in 1300,000, according to his will filed foi crossed to the Washington side by the "MORO, OREGON Hood River toll bridge, coupled With the City of More-, merman County, probate at Spokane. */ I width unbleached Sheeting or 8/4 State of Oregon, for the sum of Escorted by two American destroy the report that a’store had been loot . Bleached, the yard .. ...................... $31500 for auditorium and general ed and an SLUto stolen al Bingen. .0/4 width unbleached Sheeting or 9/4 civic purposes, and for procuring era, the Japanese cruiser Tama, bear Bleached, the yard ....................... funds by a bond ipsue in the sum of ing the body of Edgar A. Bancroft, Wash., resulted in dispatch of a posse $31,500 for the payment of the same. American ambassador to Japan, arriv composed of Deputy Sheriffs Chris Penco Ready Made Sheets, 72 by 90 size, £ — q 100 Yes. topherson, Rexford and Jackson and ed at San Francisco Saturday. each ....................................................... «p 1 .OC/ No. 101 Freight . traffic for the first six Constable Gloes all of Multnomah \.ico Ready-Made Sheets, 81 by 90 size, (Explanation: To vote mark an X months of 1925 amounted to 212,509,- county, to that locality Saturday morn each............... »................................ in the space between the ballot num . . 796,000 net ton miles, an increase ol ing." ber and the answer voted for.) Physician and Surgeon . \nco Pillow Cases, 42 by 36, each........... About 4 o’clock in the afternoon the That the polling place, designated 7,782,890,000 net ton miles, or 3.8 pei by the Council, will be at what is cent over the corresponding period four officers, driving along the Golden inon finish pillow tubing, circular weave, ¿tab known as the Huis Building situate last year. dalo-Yakima road, saw where a nia- 40-mt li width, the yard........... . . on the Southeast side of First Street Dr, Henry C, Tayler, chief of the cl.Lne had recently been driven from Pillow Turing in the 42-inch width, the between Main and Scott Street in 'iOffidA Vnd Residence a deep said City of Moro, and that said elec bureau of agricultural economics ol ihe road into the brush tion will be held, and the polls the agriculture department, has ro canyon. Leaving -their machine the atafeel' Moro opened at eight (Tclock in the morn signed at the request of Secretary Jar I four officer« »lipped quietly down the ing and continue until eight o’clock dine.. Thom« P. Cooper, dean of tbf ¡ car yon and found two men eating in the afternoon of said day; that the lurch. The two were surrounded, cov Judges and Clerks appointed as elec agricultural college of the University | tion board for said election are as of Kentucky, has been choeen to vue ered with rtfh* and ordert-d to sur Of Fine Gingham render. They obeyed without show of follows: G. A. Mitchell, W. S. Pow ceed him. ... ell and R. F. Dean, Judges, and J. L. resistance. Superior G i n g b a m Ideal Bed Coverings Searcy and W. H. Williams, Clerks. That the notorious trio who shot Dr. J; A. Wonderlick by is amended by adding thereto Gocksdor girls from 7 to Dated this 24th dav of August, 1925. down two prison guards and serious Chapter XIII to read as follows: 14 years of age. Made J. L. SEARCY, Comfortables are w a r m, ly wounded several others in the Physician of quality gingham ia City Recorder of the City of Moro. CHAPTER XIII- practica], and. make-a most at- sanguinary battle at the time of their si\ les, which are piquant and Surgeon Section L The common council escape, should be captured without the tractive boudoir! They’re and youthful. An act proposed by the Common of the City of Moro, Sherman Coun slightest resistance came as a dis especially nice in our colors La»gc variety! i ty, State of Oregon, is hereby autho Council of the City pf Mpro, Sher Office in McKee Building. man County, Oregon, to enact an rized and empowered, for the pur tlnct surprise to peace officers. and patterns. Of course, you’ll Phgne No. 182 amendment to the Charter of said pose of providing the citizens and in find our prices lower 1 City of Moro and to be submitted to habitants of saia city with a building Residence One Block South East the legal voters of said City for their for public purposes to be used as a DOROTHY IS FOUND GUILTY “ No. 183 Phon« approval or rejection, at a special public auditorium, community house election to be held in said City on the or building suitable and convenient San Francisco Matricide Convicted of 14th day of September, 1925, and to to be used as a civic center for the WASCO, OREGON Manslaughter. repeal all acts, and parts of acts, in convenience and general welfare of San Francisco, Cal.—Dorothy Filing its citizens', to purchase from the conflict therewith. Proposed and THERMOS BOTTLES adopted by the Common Council or V'vro Hotel Company, a corporation, son, 17-year-old confessed matricide, said City and filed in the office of thb >.at certain building, known as the was found guilty of manslaughter by ONE PINT SIZE City Recorder on the 11th day of Moro Hotel, together wi^h the fur a superior court jury. A manslaughter August, 1925, in accordance with the niture and fixtures contained therein, verdict carries a penalty of one to Covered with sateen or silkalinc drid filled with fine Just right for School provisions of Chapter 226 of the ogethef with Let» Four (4) and J.iie carded cotton. Sonic have borders; others are Lunches and Picnics General Laws of the State of Oregon Five (5) of Block Six (6) of the orig- ten years In the penitentiary. Dorothy ibbon tied. You’ll agree that all of them are truly for 1907 and thip nmendments nal City of Moro, Sherman County, will be eligible to parole after the first Oregon, upon which the same is sit year. thereto, . * Physician and Burgeon ent. Triced from uate, for the sum of $31,500, and for The girl shot and killed her mother. “AN ACT the purpose of procuring funds with <fWASCO, OREGON To amend an act entitled: “An .vhich to purchase the same, together Mrs. Joseph Ellingson, when the girl’s ♦ Thone No. 182 act to incorporate the City of Moro, with all the right, title and interest mother refused to consent to her at in Sherman County, State of Oregon, A said Moro Hotel Company, a cor- tending a jazz party. AND being an act of the Legislative As oration, in and to said property, for At the first trial the jury found sembly of the State of ‘Oregon, ap any or all of the aforesaid purposes, |h$ Ellingson girl Insane and she was . EH® DALLES, OREGON iffiee at the Hamilton Hospital proved the 17th day of February, r.he common council of the City of committed to the state hospital for the 1899, and as amended by an act pro .loro is hereby authorized and em Phone No. Hospital 487 po^ed by the Common Council of the powered to isque »nd dispose of gen insane at Napa, where she remained a City of Moro, Sherman County, Ore re! obligation bonds of said city in month under observation. After this n r« ■ ■ gon, and entitled: “An ordinance to he sum of |31500, said bonds to be detention, alienists pronounced her Mail Orders Filled Rromptlv subdivision 59 of Section 39 .n denominations of $500.00 and sane and she was again brought to HUUtt W KO I!« 11 i ««-H amend of the act of the Legislative Assembly #1000.00 each, duly signed by the Ó of the State of Oregon, entitled ‘An xdcyor and countersigned by the Re trial on a charge of murder. £ bùi act to incorporate the city of Moro, corder, under the corporate seal of in Sherman County, State of Ore the City, bearing semi-annual inter- Centralia PolifeinaR «nd Carson Differ gon, approved February 17, 1899,’ so st coupons attached thereto, bear- Centralia Wash.—Patrolman Charles as to authorize the Council of saia ng facsimile engraved signatures near Port Angeles. Is already being Eyesight Specialist« City of Moro to borrow money in a of the Mayor and Recordafr, whereby pilling issued a statement reciting in mined and Is yielding ore of excep Manufacturing Optician« ; sum not exceeding ten thousanj the city shall be hel.4, in aubstance detail the events leading up to the tionally high grade. > Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted • ($10,000.00) dollars to satisfy bonds md effect, te undertake and promise' capture of Toni Murray, Oregon fugl- “The manganese deposits of the Exclusively Optical ' heretofore issued fqr the purpose of o ray the bearers of each of said | heret which differs materially onds at maturity thereof the sum . .. . . ., . Olympics have hardly been scratch Complete Lens $anufagmr|ng ; acquiring and maintaining watci .Lc.e ’in named in Gold Coin of the' ,rom the 8tory toW by Phn,,P Carson, works and electric light works, or ed,” said Mr. Pardeen. “There are Flint K Coinn^tion Washington, D. C.—The Joint con Washington. D. C —The department either pugh work«, and to issue bonu- United States of the present standard 1 betrayer of Murray, Immediately after 1 also traces of Iron and copper in the ference between Canadian and Amer OREGON the. capture. According (« Pilling ’ s therefor, ” and passed by the vote oi jf value, with interoet thereon in like THE DALLES of agriculture estimated that 250,000 the people of the City of Moro, Feb-' Jold Coin at the rate of 6 per cent, I statement, Carson’s announcement fewer cattle will be marketed from the high country.” ican customs officials, which has been 16-16 Vogt Block. ruary 20 th, 1920, and all other payable semi-annually, each of said that he had lom Murray In the hotel in progress here for several days was rang«; country this fall than last fall, acta providing a charter for said city, bonds to be a direct general obliga concluded with complete agreement on To Fight Cheap Auto Olis. room came only after Pilling had trial with the principal reduction in the theretofore and thereafter enacted by tion of the said City of Moro, apd to mutual aid to reduce smuggling of ed Carson and Murray to the hotel southwest. The number for market Is of Washington, D. C. — The national Legislative Assembly or by vote be known as the City of Muro Audi 4 I I I I H* I I I I I Htl I H I I -4 -I- H torium Bond«, ¿»id bonds shall be and later, after Carson had emerged placed at 4,077,000 head, compared better business bureau announced the liquor, Immigrant« and other contra the people. dated at a convenient time, to be after engaging the room, the police with 4,322,000 last tall and 4,208,000 in launching of a campaign against the band across the International bound- The City of Moro does qrdqin a? Axed by the council, the maturity^ JAMES STEWART man had followed him and searched the fall of 1923. substitution of inferior oils at filling iollows: or ’ maturities, to be likewise fixed Canadian officials agreed that here - SHERMAN CQUNH That an acf entitled: An act to by the Council but not to exceed him tor a gun. Feed conditions over the range stations for the high-grade oil the after clearance papers for ships carry ncorporate the City of Moro, Sher- twenty (20) years fropj the date, country are generally very good ex-j motor car owner asks for and believes . ' KTMK AND BRAND .nan County, Oregon, being an Act and the principal and interest of Oregon Prison Inquiry Body Selected. cept In the southwest. he is getting. The bureau said Injunc-1 ing liquor or other contraband will be jf the Legislative Assembly of the said bends shall be payable at the1 INSPECTOR ' Salem, Or — C- O. Thompson, man Excellent feed supplies in Idaho, tlon suits to stop substitution were be- denied when it is apparent their "dis State of Oregon, approved the 17 th fiscal agency of the State of Oregon ager of Crater latke National park; Oregon, Washington and Utah will re- ing filed tn many cities throughout the tant destinations” are faked. Moro . » Drogo» aay of February, 1899, and as a- in New York City. 7 Agreement also was reached on a mended by aq act proposed by the ( Section 2. The debt limit con Brigadier General George A. White spit in moie cattle for market this country. mutual system of “tipping* between CommonCbuncil of the City of Moro, tained in the charter of said city, of Salem and Jefferson Myers of Port- winter than last year, with most of! PFFÚTIE* L ^ent Sherr.ian County,’ State of Oregon, shall not apply tp the bonds hereby । landf former state treasurer, were the forces along the border, under these cattle moving to coast markets. More Wheat In the World- • ’ Or. Jo«. 8au*den, Moro and entitled : An ordinance to amend authorized,' | named by Governor Pierce as a coin- 1 ’ — ... *■ . ■ __ ____ rA_ ’-------------------------- - I Washington, D. C.—The department which the agents on one side will tip subdivision 59 of Sectjon 39 of the Ore.; W, H- Merer, Wasco, Ore Section 3. The council shall, each mittee to investigate. conditions at the the agents on the other side of the act of the Legislative Assembly of year, at the time of making the an-' MANGANESE IN OLYMPICS of inculture reported that wheat pro- passage of suspicious persons and ve the State of Oregon, entitled ‘ An act state prison liore and make rVconi- nual tax levy for city purposes, in-1----- . f ill -IH -1 I I t~l I 4 I I'M Fb* . —- / .duction in 22 countries pn August 19 hicles. io incorporate the City of Moro, elude in such levy a sum sufficient to mendations for needed Improvements j w Sherman County, State of Oregon, pay interest due on the outstanding! tó increase - • security ■ - insti U. S. Geologist After Extensive Sur was estimated at 2,222,000.000 bushels, i the of - the against 2,156,000,000 bushels for the I approved the 17th day of February, bonds of this issue and to retire the vey Reports Plenty. Alaskan Natives Disappearing. tution. 1899, so as to authorize said city of principal thereof at maturity.” same countries last year. The coun-1 Within a few decade» full blood« <I Aberdeen, Wash —The Olympic pen- Moro to borrow money in a sum not tries. the department said, represent- natlvea gion^ the southwestern cfki-d I, Jv L. Searcy, City Recorder of exceeding ten thousand ($10,000) nsula.Ui rich in deposits of manganese Business Man lq Csnfassed Thief. «♦d 72 per cent of the world crop out- of Alaska will be scarce, according to the Ci|y of Moro, Sherman County, dollars to satisfy bonds heretofore STOCK & WHEAT Fred Nichols, - ore, according to J. T. Pardeen of the side of Russia and China. — — - — C. -»• --------- Charles Coach, who haa spent mdeh issued for the purpose of acquiring Oregon, do hereby certify that the ( Dkytwu, Ohio. United States' geological survey, who time in the lower Cook Inlet country and maintaining water works and above and foregoing J* a full, true president of the Nichols Manufactur- electric light works, or either of and ppn*Wt odTy of wt* original ing company, confessed to police he returned from an extensive Invest iga- Victor Lawson Funeral Held Monday, The squaws refuse to marry full-blood the Olym- uan<Bt who robbed the North don of mineral deposits In such works, and tq issue bonds there proposed chnrter amendment, as I wag FOR SALE ' ed men because the white men are bet Chicago.—The city to which he gave ter providers and offer better oppor adopted and proponed to be । a»«««», pics. for,’ and passed by the vote of the passed, submitted to the voters of the City ; Da,yton branch of ,he r)R y ton Savings people of the City ofjioro, Sherman , Pardeen said that there are man- a brilliant life of generous service will tunities for social advancement. Mr. County, Oregon, on the 20th day of by the City Council of Moro, Sher- A Trust company of 128,000. A squad gañese traces throughout Aie moun- pause Monday for the funeral rites foi Coach explained. ; Only the' ednrkkd . F.T. HURLBURT February, 1920 and all other acts man County, Oregon, on the 11th of patrolmen when to Nichols’ >40,- Victor Fremont Lawson, late ownei native who has^mme regular mode of Upper Maia Street, opp. Garage 000 mansion and found 921,000 of the tains and that several vast bodies of providing a charter for said City, day of August, W25. theretofore or thereafter enacted by Dated this 24th day of Aúgust, 1925. loot cached in a'garage back o( th« the ore have been discovered. One Candoa - • Oregon ---- and publisher of the Chicago Dully earning a living han't cHanc* to win J. L. SEARCY, ' a young aquaw. ‘ » . ■ Legislative Assembly, or by the vote house. / I of these deposits, on the Solduc burn. News. City Recorder of the people, be, and the same here- The Dalles, 'Oregon “Penco IBA M. PETERSON Spells Quality! Sheets, Sheeting, Cases, and Tubing Dr J. R. Morgan 59c 65c Dc^M. F. Froyd <- F $1.69 42c 39c 42c See Our Comfortables! school Dresses $1.49 J 98c F $2.98 >» $5.90 Open Saturday Nights Until Nine O’clock De Larhue Optical Co. WILL MARKET FEWER CATTLE THIS FALL U. S. AND CANADA TO STOP SM UGGLIN G RANCHES 4 . I