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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1927)
^HERMAN NT Moro, Sherman County,! Oregon, Friday,*May 13, 1927 Established 1887 >90000000000000000000000000 WE WANT YOUR TRADE ! ’MTREASURER PRAIRIE S M ÍES ARE ALLEGED TO BE SHORT SWEPT BY TWISTERS ----------------- Killef) and Prop Damage Will Pass hree of State's Well Known Many Persons Citizens Charged With If Good Reliable Goods, (Lowest Possible Prices, Fair and Square Dealing and Polite Attention Will Get It * Embezzlement erty $4.000,000. Moro, Oregon Dependable Used Cars $225 $625 $700 $475 $600 $300 $150 $125 $400 $150 Ford Coupe — 1926 Buick Touring Six........... — ALSO — We have Several Other Cars ranging in price — and up — from.................... HIGHWAY CHAIRMAN SUES FOB RECORDS INDORSE IDAHO NORTH Olympia. Wash.—Difficulties of the AND SOOTH RAIL LINE state highway committee were brought to the state supreme court In a man-, damus action instituted by the at- torney general against Róland H Hartley, as governor of the state and ex-officio member of the highway Buy With Confidence committee, and Samuel J. Humes, as state highway engineer, requiring WALTHER - WILLIAMS CO them to return to C. W. Clausen, chair The Dalles, Oregon man'of the highway committee, or to allow access to. books, records, docu DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CARS ments, papers, minute books and un GRAHAM BROTHERS TRUCKS opened bids of highway contractors which they are charged with wrong fully having in their possession or under their controL The respondents were notified that Friday, May 20, ‘at 10 A. M„ "or as C. V. Belknap, Proprietor soon thereafter as counsel could be heard,” was set for the application tot the peremptory writ of mandate. The action was based on affidavits Moro, Oregon of W. G. Potts, state treasurer, and C. W. Clausen, state auditor, ex of Ladies and Children’s Hair Cutting members of the committee, alleg > flcio ing that minutes of the highway com and Shingle Bobbing mittee meeting on May 3 at which George T. McCoy was elected secre tary and C. W. Clausen chairman, and bids of firms seeking contracts for state highway work to* be awarded OQOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0O0G0C00OO0OCO0O0O0O00OO00O000CX? on. that day, were carried away. Attorney-General Dunbar and As sistant Attorney General Donley will represent the highway committee in the supremo court action. $25 Moro Hotel Barber Shop BATHS R ead & G alloway MACHINE GENERAL SHOP Repairing Trucks, Tractor«, Automobiles, (’aterj illars, and Combine Motors, Cylinder Grin ’ing, Oyx-acetylene and Electric W elding The Dalles, Ore Phone Mein 4Q01 616 Eaet Second 8t WHEN YOU TRAVEL SET 4JP NEW WHEAT BUREAU International Conference Takes Step of Importance. Kansas City, -r The international wheat pool conference at Its closing session here voted to establish a per manent international bureau of co operative marketing to act as a clear ing house for statistical information and the development of plans. Delegates considered the establish ment of this bureau the first step to ward world co-ordination in pool wheat selling. 1 C. H. Burnell, Winnipeg, chairman of the conference, urged the United States co-operatives to sign 60 per cent of the wheat production as soon as possible. -BY AUTO AND VISIT THE DALLES I STORE YOUR CAR ... . • ' . • J ■ . In the concrete, fully equipped, roomy garage of Walther-Williams Company. Competent workmen always ready to help you in any way they can at least expense to you. for any service fender- ej the charge will always be reasonable, WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE THE PALLES, “ when »amngt are greatest * * , * Reno, Nev. — Three of Nevada’« beat Kansas Ctty. Mo. — Tornado apd known citizens spent Sunday In jail, • storm casnsMles in middle western two of them looking from their cell state« stood at more than 200 dead window out across the main street of and upward >of 600 injured, many the capital to the state house, former- probably fatally ly scene of their employment at Car- | Hundreds -Were homeless In five son City. They are Ed Malley, state states visited by a scries of freak We Can Count on You treasurer; George A. Cole, ex-state storms thafc^ouarted Saturday and controller, and H. C. Clapp, ex-esushier reached a climpx Monday when lai go For a Customer ! of the Carson Valley bank. The three areas were dqva*lated in Arkansas, are charged with embezzlement. Missouri, Texas and Illinois. Torren- The men are involved in one of the tial rains over the week end added most clever schemes, according to in- to property louses estimated at mil vestlgators, possible to devise, i lions of dollars. Through their alleged machinations ' Arkansas reported 70 knov. n dead Member Store United Grocer* of Oregoi they are alleged to havè embezzled and more than 300 injured in the wake i 1516,322.16 from the state or the bank, of tornadoes that swept from th ' 10000000000000000000000000900000000000000000000000000 It is not decided which will be the southern section of tha state to the ultimate loser. northeast counties. Lawrence county | A feature of the operations with i was hardest hit. Twenty-eight perish | which the men are charged was that 1 od there and approximately 200 were | all the alleged transactions were of J injured. Eighteen were dead and 10 1 a nature that they would not be dis-i unaccounted for at Strong and Nor j ooyered by a bank examiner or quali- , phlet in Union county, while eight J fled accountant until something broke ! were killed In Cleveland county. the combination. That Occurred when | Seventy-three persons were known j. Watch Thia Bulletin Clapp was discharged as cashier of ( to have been killed in a dozen Mis I For Good Used Ciar Values he Carson Valley bank. His dis sourt communities Sixty died in a charge had no bearing on the case, । tornado that razed the business sec tion of Poplar Bluff in southeast Mis It was authoritatively stated. 1920 Dodge Brothers Touring —- New • A large num passed through the Car- souri. Relief workers had placed 42 Paint — New Tires — Overhauled.... son Valley bank each year. All col bodies in morgue«, while 12 bodies 1924 Dodge Brothen Coupo-New paint lections for taxes, fees and other were taken to homes in the damaged Lots of extras—been well taken fare of •terns are paid by check, sent through residential district. 1926 Dodge Brothen Coujie — New Ten deaths resulted from tornadoes the mail as a rule. The universal con- Duco Paint —■ Extras............................ r .’idence accorded Malley and the bank In central Missouri Seven were kill 1923 Dodge Brothen Sedan — Excel s declared to have been the basis for ed in Gallaway county In the vicinity lent Shape ... ........................................... I the transactions, under which alleged-1 of Auxvasse, New Bloomfield, Guthrie ly fictitious cashier's checks were and Carrington. A 70unlle gale tlpt 1924 Dodge Brothen Sedan — Very placed in the state treasury. raked St. Louis caused three deaths Good Value .............................................. The -wen were arrested on a com- Texas reported 33 dead, more than 1921 Dodge Brothers Touring — Over- plaint sworn by Governor Balzar. 100 injured and property damage ex ceeding 31,000,000 from twisters that dipped at scattered points in Dallas, Studebaker Six Touring — Good Shape Collin, Hunt and Lunar counties. Ford Touring — 1923 MAY & SON Pnce Five Cents OREGON The reader of advertiaemente know« that he has the most reliable guide to markets that exists in the world today. Smallpox Shows Gsln In United States New York:—The American Assocla tlon for Medical Progress announced । hat the United States for the year 1926 reported m|re cases of ^mallp^ than any other country outside of Asia, although the percentage was less than that 009257 Only two staili, Rhode Island and Vermont, were en tirely free from the disease last year. Portland, Or. — Impetus was given th* movement having as Its objective issuance by the interstate commerce commission of an-order to the,Union Paciflp system to construct water- grade rail connection between Home stead, Or., and Lewiston, Idaho. Officials of Idaho and Washington and civic delegations 4from those States and Oregon, met at the PorG land Chamber of Commerce and per fected an organization which will, it is contemplated, institute a new ac- tion with the federal commission re- questing the rail extension. Public service commissions of the three Pacific northwest states will be requested to father the complaint be fore the interstate commerce commis sion. Washington and Idaho commissions have agreed to co-o^erato. A special committee was named to wail upon the Oregon commission and request its participation. TwentJanine persons, 11 of thorn officials of Washington and Idaho, came to Portland-for the meltlfig.- OWYHEE IS FAVORED Plan Outlined at Conference Subject to Approval by Mr. Work. Portland. Ore.—Colonization of th' SO,000 acres of the Owyhee reclama tion project in Oregon will be under taken by the government, providing land owners will agree to the terms ptlpulated by the government. At trading settlers will not cost the land owners a penny and by placing - the sale under control of the govern ment all suspicion of speculation in values by owners will be eliminated. Thus one of the big handicaps to niak Ing reclamation projects successful will be surmounted, thanks to the ef forts of Uncle Sam* Such was the proposal made by Dr Elwood Mead, United States comnjis stoner of reclamation; to n delegation of Owyhee land owners at t meeting here. Dr. M<*ad explained that the proposition is subject, of course, to approval of Secretary Work of the de- ■ partment of the interior, his chiefs The Dalles, Oregon Known Quality Assured By Our Own Trade Marked Merchandise Trademarked Goods The Fruit of Experience 25th Anniversary | •‘That was the best doth I ever had. I wish 1 could get some more.” How often you hear such remarks, or perhaps make them yourself. Trademarked goods are tf very practical solution of the difficulty. 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