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
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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
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AT THESE PRSCES
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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
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PHOTOGRAPHER
Located on Main Street Opposite Star Theatre, Heppner
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