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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1923)
Tuesday, October i6, 1923 PAGE TWO THE HEPPNER HERALD AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER S. A. PATTISON, Entered at the Heppner, Oregon, Poiitolloe as second-claag Matter Terms of Subscription One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months $0.50 KITLATIO.V AT CONDOV TOIJ iiV Ti;i,i;GItAM MAN (Continued from priRO onu) Tlie (sheriff li;is no cliurcli affiliation. Tin; district utlornf y is not a church man, but his wif' mid iiuif.;lil,i r arc members of the Congregational 'hurc.ii. XeiUicr county judge nor t'ircuit jiKiKo are churchmen. None of these men is a member of the Ku Klux Klau. Oni! of the justices of tlx; peace is saitli ito be a member of that ordjiT. lie Is the only peace ol Xicer in Condon who is believed to bo connected with it. Hoys' ( bib I'oi'incd A year ago the Congregational rhurch requiri d a pastor. The job paid $2000 a year and use of the. pa.ssonage. Chancy came, from Pas co, claiming in be a Congregational minister. Their need was immediate jind with scant preliminaries lie wan .'iv(on the place. "For awhile he did very well," Kaid Truslee (!. YV. Carman, one of several members v.ilh whom I talk ed, all of, whom wen- uniformly calm and frank in the mailer, "lie show ed an unusual interest in the young people and formed a Hoys' club, so liciting all citizens alikci lor meinher Hhip, the fee being $2. 7a. A large number of the men of the town joined to help II. along, both I'rol i,l ant.B and Catholics con : ribul ing. "The next, thing we knew hi; had changed this into a 'Friendship club, so-called, placing the member ship fee at $20. It was apparent to liH that no hoys could afford to Join at that price. Then U developed that this organization was the Ku Klux Klan. lie had removed Home partitions ill Ihe parsonage to make a larger meeting place and bought .Bevenil hundred dollars worth of furniture. Half a jear had passed iiml tilings were going from had to IVOIKO. "A good many of Ihe members, especially among the women, were In dignant and began withdrawing from membership. We' then decided to jet busy and take drastic action to net rid of Chancy. We had written to State Secretary llanmoii at Port land and at (list he was disinclined to lake it hand, but lelng again ap plied to, he look up the mntler and UHcerlalincd that Chaney was not an ordained minister of ilie church." The trustees say (hat when they cnllfd a meeting to vote on the dis missal of Chancy it was found that lie had i u let l" Initiated enough members of the Ku Klu Klan inlo the church Id outvote the old niem liers, and they were unable to dis lodge li I ill. llcpeatid meetings were held and at last Ihe regular niem tierslilp mustered a majority ami t'baney was dismissed. rarsoiinge Is "Mall" Meantime he had held possession of (lie parsonage property and was using It for Klan m.'i I ings. and it had become generally Known that lie was u Klan organizer. The Klan had become aggressive jind a large number of citizens who were opposed to it bad organized tly "minute men," pledged to assist the regularly constituted pence ol' iicei'H to enforce the laws and pre vent out rages. Then came the bombshell. At '.! o'clock on the morning of July 20 the Congregational parsonage was "idiot up." The Saturday following, while (be minute men were bidding a meetliiK In ml open field at the rdgj of town, attended by the dis trict attorney, the sheriff and other officials, more shooting occurred near (he meeting place. Sheriff Montague hurried In his automobile to the scene of the shoot HOT DRINKS and McAtee Editor and Publisher ing and arrived In time to see a car driven away. An examination of the parsonage used as Klan hall disclosed several bullet holes through the walls and windows and InsidjO there were bul let hides through some of the stuffed furniture with which Chaney had equipped the parsonage. Action Is Mystery The identity of the shooters has lyver been discovered. Shortly thereafter Chanep removed his furniture to a vacant, building on one of the business streets and called it the "Church of Christ" and the Congregatlonalista recovered pos session of their somewhat dismantled parsonage. Chaney still holds forth with his improvised church in Condon, al though he is not there much of the time. When the writer sought for him it was found he was away from the city. It was said he had gone to Portland to confer with Klan of ficers there. lie is under bond of $2500 on a charge of abduction, which is an other story. iiAssi.Fii is ii.M,i;.(;i:i I'm; i'ioT!:.u i: S. 10. Nolson, district attorney; Judge Campbell and Mr. Frank Cil liani, a merchant of Heppner, who are (he stale bonus commission ap praisers for Morrow counly, were in lone Wednesday on their way to Ce cil and liottrdman to appraise prop erly. They had with them S. A. Pat tison, the venerable editor of the Heppner Herald, who was being given an outing and to act as bal last. lone Independent. "Venerable!" "llallast!" Where does the man get that stuff? We deny the allegation and defy the al legalor and hereby challenge Iirother llassler to a footrace one mile, up hill, on slippery ground and without spikes. Try that in your old briar. MAVIti: TIIK KMTOIt N'K l) I K I TO ( IIAV.I, MIS SI1IKT Some time Tuesday night, thieves jimmied the rear door of the Pert Mason store and rifled the cash reg ister of about some $.1.00 in change, overlooking $11 In their haste. One shirt was taken and probably other articles which yet is unknown. Pe ing In a dry town, they tapped a couple of bottles of grape juice. In their haste to get away, they left a sack full of canned goods and a half roll el' cheese. Our marshal has dis covered no clew. It looks like a lo cal job.- lone Independent. Sale of Ford Cars keeps I p Chas. II. l.atoiirell, authorized Ford dealer, reports that, business in iin line lis holding up well. During the past week (he Heppner hiune made die following sales: C. F. Crooni. roadster; Roy Kay. truck; Marl in l.ovgren. truck; A. W. Alderman, touring car. "Yes," iitiotli Charlie, alter giving the reporter the item, "the slogan. 'Ford, the V'niversal Car,' fits the Ford like an idd shoe. It's short, like (he Ford; it's true, like the Ford, and (he buyers believe in It just as they believe In the Ford car, ami they're proving It every day." Held at Vancouver Word has reached the sheriff's of fice that Alvln Straight, who Is want ed hero on an assault charge Is be ing held at Vancouver, Washington. It la understood that extradition proceeding!) have, been Instituted by officers h,ere. Straight Is said to have resisted arrest last summer when a sheriff's posse raided a moonshine plant In the Juniper can von section. I LUNCHES ,luvt the thing (o warm jou up when the fivvty mornings come. Our line of Soft DrioKs, Candies, t igars. Tobaccos, 'ipts, Ktc, is com. pleie. & Aiken OF AUTO TRIP TO IOWA ARTHUR CAMPBELL J)ECLAK1 . OREGON' ROADS ARE BEST Idaho Speed Limit, Yellowstone Scenery, Nebraska Mud Sup ply Coloring Arthur Campbell, son of Judge and Mrs. W. T. Campbell, who re cently drove from Heppner to Iowa City, Iowa, where he has accepted the position of assistant instructor in chemistry at Iowa university, has written his mother the following in teresting1 story of his trip which in volved many new experiences for the Oregon boy: Well, here I am at last, and bo believe me, I sure am not sorry to get off the roads once more. Speak ing of roads, I have sure been over every kind, ami I truly believe that good old Oregon has the best that I have ever driven. At least they are better than those of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa. Now, please don't think that I am beiing misguided by sectional patriotism, or pride in Oregon's roads, but I really am expressing what I believe to be true in general. I had fine roads un til I left Oregon, then I hit the washed gravel roads of Idaho, and you know how rough cobblestones can get. The roads around Poise can't compare with ihe roads around Salem. On through Idaho I follow i(l the Old Oregon Trail, leaving it tit Pocatello. Between American Falls and Pocatello I saw a strip of country that surely reflects the farming spirit of the war period. 1 can illustrate best by describing one scone. Along the right hand side of tile road I had been following the railroad for a good many miles, on the other side were frequent deserted farm buildings Finally I came to a veiy large and fine looking elevator standing by the side of ihe road. The window lights were knocked out by the rocks of vandalism, and the road way to it that told the tale of the dead hopes and wilted ambitions of the builders. It was a riot of weeds! Apparently not a wagon or perhaps a pedestrian had passed over it for a couple of years. In direct anticlimax to the above was a sign that I had seen along the road the day before, just out of Hoise: "Speed Limit 100 Miles Per Hour. Fords, Do Your Damnedest!" I entered the park at West Yel lowstone, and paid 30 cents per gal lon for gas thei-e. 1 can hardly say enough in praise of the park. It is wonderful. I did not go there for ihe beauty of the place. I had read quite a lot of the park, and knew some thing of the geology of that region, so 1 knew something of what I was to see. However, reading had not prepared me for1 what I did see. Of course they have cliffs, but they didn't compare with the Columbia gorge, and there are large (?) trees there. Hut when I remembered that the main elevation of the park is about 8000 f,eot I rather changed my idea of thflr size. One thing took my attention, and that was the geysers and hot springs. They are (be I'nrk. Everything else is secondary to those. I can't begin to describe the geysers and springs. (There are loo many and moreover, 1 hae not the command of the English language necissary to tell of such a wonderful phenomenon. I saw Old Faithful erupt, twice, saw the Castle and several other smaller ones in activity. Some of the small ones run every few minutes and then only a few inches in heigh h. Then there late the larire ones that shoot onlv occasionally and for a long period. For instance the (liantess reaches a heighth of 100 feet, plays for 12 to ;!ti hours, ami has a period of about fifteen days, with a leeway of five days either way. Here is an interesting bit copied from the lltiyius guide. Chinaman Cejsrr, which was named in memory of that Oriental who es tablished a lauinlrv here, put in the clothes and soap, and was annihilat ed, so the sierv goes, by the violent jeruption which ensued. It is a I'je jniarkable act that a bar or two of jsoap will cause practically any geyser iu piay wiuuu a. lew iiuuuies. The practice of causing eruptions in this manner became so common a few years ago that the government put a stop to it. as it was feared that the geysers would be Injured." If you ever visit the park, by all menus buy a Haynes guide the first thing, then read it, and after tha; you can enjoy the park quit,o intelligently. I camped at the Lake camp the first night in, and it is by far the finest camp that I found in the park. I tried to fish with (lies from the bank but didn't g,et a bite. I went out In a boat later with a young lady, and tried It again with flies and hooked one, a big el low of course, and he got away, so I had to leave Yellowstone without eating any of their tine game fish. At the Fishing Bridge camp I had the pleas ure of making the acquaintance of a yearling bear. He was a regular visitor at the garbage can, and as a result quite lame. Several ladies es sayed to feed and pet him. while the nst of the admiring crowd stood around and look pictures. IVtwtVn Lake eaeip and Tower '..ills one pass, s Mud ,k':ini and Dragon's mouth 'The hit!, r i- the most e.seinatii'. g tMn-r t!::t ! s.iw in l':.. '.. I; is in. r Iv a hi'ie ,i! on: '." '"'" wi.'o ami four uvt .U:'; run i . i : i -: h. ck and down Into the liiM The w ,t. r com; s out into a pool with a !'.') an.! s;!a.sh, the water rarning l;eU ei. y to do u iir . it! oor !..'.m. Om. would Uiink, vat -hing it from a ,! tamv. that quit a quan t'ly of w.it r would be liberated; however there Is but a mere thread of water flowing away from It. This in most ':"ise3 wleue there is ts of activity in hot springs. How 'he geysers don't follow that ; so closely. ').-. this same drive you come to i- nd Can. n of the Yellow It s rely is a wonderful sight. It is large, but I was not so much impressed with it as I was with Crater lake. It is not nearly so enormous, but it has one thing that Crater lake does not have, and that is the gorgeous coloring of the can yon walls. That is the thing that caught my eye. ivjammoth Hot Springs, when view ed from below, is certainly aw,e in spiring. It lies on the side of great mountain that has been in part de posited by the action of the mineral in the v-Uer. One looks up to a grea t mass 'of white rock that is cov ered with steaming water, which is more wonderful if viewed against the setting sun. Mammoth Springs i s the headquarters of the parte system, and there is quite a pretty little city built up tlyre as a result of the busi ness passing through the park every season. It was estimated that one hundred and fifty thousand people visited the park last, summer. I left the pafk by the Cody en trance, going out through the Sylvan Pass. It is high, and the road is wonderful. The grades down through there are remarkable. This road leads to (he Shoshone river, and along this river many strange forma tions in the soft, weathered limestone may be seen. The Shoshone dam is a remarkable piece of work. It is situated in a very narrow gorge be low a wide valley, in which the wa ter is now confined. The road from the dam to Cody is bad. From Cody to Thermopolis I had fair roads. One thing in particular attracted my at tention. Many places tne roau, in stead of going around a small hill, would go right over the top of it, all for no visible reason. This is not the exception but the rule, it seemed. Be tween Thermopolis and Casper there were the worst roads that I have ever driven over. The road leads over the famous Birdseye Pass, and it is a bird. Coming down the east slope the road was badly washed, and it was necessary to run in low gear down the grade for about fifteen miles. Very steep. Many places the car merely rolled from one boul der to the next. Casper, Wyoming, is the seat of many large oil refiner ies. That appeared to me to be the ri,ivT,i-iuiitr nnd intevpstin y j town that I saw on the entire trip. The popuation. is uevoieu to me on game, and is rapidly boosting the country. It is about fifteen miles southeast of Casper to the oil fields proper, located at Parkerton. Here a small valley slightly larger than that occupied by Heppner, filled with the towers of oil wells. I noticed that most of the pumps were busy sending oil to Casper. The road from Casper to Chey.onne was good, with only a couple of poor detours. They are building good roads in Wyoming, but they sure did start late at the game.. From Chey enne I followed the Lincoln high way. It cannot be compared to any highway in Oregon. It is merely a dirt highway that has been graded up, and as a result is rather badly rutted, and chucky. I thought that it was almost an insult to the Great American, to name such a road after him. I was quite decided in that opinion after I got into rain at North Platte. At this point it started rain ing, and kept it up until I was only two days out of Iowa City. I hope that I am never called upon '0 drive through such roads as those through Nebraska and Iowa were. I say "through" advis-'dly certainly net over. I have never seen anything that could compare with that mud for slackness. There were times that I stood still, and the rear wheels whirled around and around, in spite of the fact that I had tire chains on. I went in the ditch once, and had to buv a rope from a farmer to ge. pulled out again. Fortunately there was another car going through to practically the same place, and they pulled me out. There were several places that the axles drug the 'ground. One place I recall I had to drive through about five miles of mud. and no place din. I get half way out of it. Terrible, nhsolntelv terrible, and I couldn't ! turn back or stop, for I had to be here for the statf meeting ot tlie de partment on the eighteenth. I didn't make that meeting by four days. The rain stopped as I left Council Bluffs, and the roads dried just enough to be terribly rough by the time 1 reached my destination. There has been some rain since I gat here, but noil for several days now. so the roads about town are fine. I was out on some of them last Sunday, and they are fine wh,en dry but terrible when wet. A teaspoonful of water makes this clay slicker than John D.'s best. wmi that Is about all I can tell 'jiy means of a typewriter about the trip. From ine iooks oi uie jums it become a sort of a symposium on roads. I sure do stand up for the West when it comes to frlendy peo ple and good roads. Your son, ARTHUR. Many rhoasants Bagged Sunday Sunday was the first day of the open season for Chinese pheasants in Morrow county and local sportsmen were on the job early to take advnn Job Printing SEE US When in need of any thing in the Hne of neat and attractive Printing. NEW BIG PACKAGE ton Cigarettes tage of the occasion. The weather was fine and birds were plentiful and nearly every hunter bagged the limit. FORMER HEPI'NER (ilKL MARRIED AT MONMOUTH Cards have been received here an nouncing the marriage on October 6th of Miss Eulalia Anita Butlpr to Mr. Ralph Russell Bailey at the home of the bride's parents, Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Buttler, at Monmouth, Oregon. The Butler family were former residents of Heppner removing to Monmouth some two years ago. The bride is a most charming young woman and a large circle of friends and acquaintances in Morrow county will unite in best wishes for her fu ture happiness. Mr. Bailey is a sen ior at the University of Oregon and is highly spoken of by those who know him. WE HAVE IN STOCK THE FOL LOWING SIZES Of Mason Cords AT THESE PRSCES 31x4 Heavy Duty OYsiz $19.50 32x4 " " " $19.95 33x4 " " " $20.55 34x4 " " " $21.15 32x4 1-2 " " $26.40 33x41-2 " " $27.00 34x41-2 " " $27.80 35x41-2 " " $28.45 BATTERY SHOP SIGSBEE STUDIO Is now open and prepared to take first-class Photographs B. G. SIGSBEE PHOTOGRAPHER Located on Main Street Opposite Star Theatre, Heppner LUCIOUS RED APPLES DIRECT TO YOU Large, Highly Colored. Fancv Grade Faced" and Filled Rome Beauty Apples shipped direcMo yofim he grower Quality guaranteed. The finest Ron beauty Apples ,n the world raised here. All appks state inspected. Ruy your winter apples now LVr r.ovl-. O. I1,. 1-Veewater . . Sl 2. ioluixl,ns F. O. n. 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