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MEDFORD. ORKOOX. MONDAY. FKIiKUAUY f). 1 f).
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Five Electrical Tests Reported
to Demonstrate Entombed
Man Still Living Heart Beat
Heard At Present Rate
Shaft Won't Reach Collins
Until Thursday or Friday.
CAVE CITY, Kj, Feb. 0. (By
the Associated I'ihism) The slin-ft
being bored into Sunt! cave,
where, noyd Collins lies en
tombed was 33 feet (loop at 3
p. m., today. Further tests wllli
a sound amplifying apparatus null
nn electric wlro In the enve con
vinced the observers Unit Collins
wuh nllro The test liullciiiu-d,
they wild, his respiration was
about l!6 times a minute.
CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 9. (By
the Associated Press.) Five elec
trical tests conducted with voice
amplifiers today have convinced
H. T. Carmichael, In charge of the
Floyd Collins rescue work at Sand
cave, that Collins is alive, despite
ten days' imprisonment.
H. G. Lane, Munfordville, oper
ating the lighting system which
supplies current for the bulb left
at Collins' head, said Homer Col
lins, after listening 20 minutes on
the wire, was convinced he had -heard
Floyd's heart beating at the
rate of 20 times a minute. .
Lane said Floyd was breathinq
and his heart beating 18 to 21
times a minute.
"While we were in the cave we
attempted to compare the breath
ing of Homer Collins with that of
his imprisoned brother, but we
couldn't do this successfully be
cause Homer Collins was so ex
cited," Lane added.
The 'test was made on the wire
which had been placed around
Collins' chest last week by res
cuers. "Many people on the out
side would not believe our test
proved Collins was alive," Lane
said, adding that a statement
would be given out later "proving
that Collins was alive."
CAVE CITY, Ky. .Feb. !. (Ily the
Associated Press.) The shaft through
which rescuers hope to reach Floyd
Collins in Sand Cave was approxi
mately 30 feet deep at 9 A. M. today,
our days after it was started. At the
present rate the level where Collins
. is thought to be will not be reached
before Thursday or Friday.
Mother nature today had added an
other obstacle to the efforts of man
to rescue Collins from the grip of a
boulder trap in the depths of Sand
cave, sending torrents of rain last
night with a promise of more today.
Despite precautions to keep water
out of the pcniendiuclar shaft aimed
at Collins' prison, seepage crept Into
the bottom of the shaft and added
heavily to the burden of the volunteer
diggers. They kept doggedly at it
with some slight increase In hourly
progress as the tenth (lay of Collins'
Imprisonment ended at 10 o'clock this
morning. The shaft then was less
than half way to Collins, 60 or 70 feet
below the surface.
When rock slides blocked the nat
ural tunnel of Sand cave Thursday,
the use of pungent but harmless gas
was seized upon as a means of finding
the back end of Collins' latest cave,
but the experiment tried last night
with banana oil was unsuccessful.
Despite a strong down draft of air
into Sand cave, no trace of the .odor
could be located in another nearoy
cave.
With most of the spectacular, frenz
ied striving to free Collins a closed
chapter and all efforts centered on
. the monotonous toil of digging and
hoisting, new theories began to de
velop about the situation until they
were almost as thick as the outstand
ing Incidents In the drama.
Scoff at a Publicity Hoax.
The principal groups of theories fall
Into three classes that the imprison
ment of Collins by a rock slide on his
leg Is a publicity hoax; that enemies
finding him trapped caused the walls
of the cave to collapse so lie could
not be rescued alive, or possibly
caused the slide which trapped-him.
Continued on Pair Elsrhtl
BABY IS SAVED BY OPERATION WHEN
MOTHER FATALLY INJURED IN CRASH
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9. Out of the
wreckage of a family, two members
of which are dead and one Is dying
as the result of an automobile colli
' slon, surgeons at a hospital here to
day saved the life of a seven pound
baby hoy by performing a Caesarian
operation upon Its mother, pronounc
ed fntnllv injured In the crash.
Sidney' Kahn, 35, and ht 18 months
State Senate Passes
Bill Providing for
Bible in Schools
STATE HOUSE, SALEM, Feb.
9. Senator Garland's bill pro
viding for lilblo reading in the
public schools passed the senate
today. Those voting against tho
measure were Cnrnsner, Clark)
Davis, Rltner and Strnyer.
The measure provides for a
commission of nine, one of whom
shall be of . the Jewish faith,
one Catholic, one Christian Sci
entist, four Frotestnnt nnd tho
state superintendent of schools
as chairman.
Oarland explained that the
purpose of the bill was to teach
morality and respect for law
without sectarian influence,
44. 4
DOGS TO RELIEF
OF NOME SICK
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 0. (I5y
the Associated Press) A race be
tween an airplane and relays or dog
teams to Nome, Alaska, was starting
today.
The dngs left Nennnn, fifty miles
west nf here yesterday. The plane
was all ready to take off early this
morning.
The burden of each journey Is anti
toxin for diphtheria, of which six per
sons have died in Nome In nn epi
demic reported January 27 and with
which thirty persons were reported
suffering yesterday.
The distance from here to Nome on
the route the dogs and plane are to
follow was put at about 920 miles.
'Everything looks fine," was the
final word last night of Roy S. Dar
ling, agent of the department of Jus
tice here and navy aviator in the
World war, pilot for the trip to Nome.
He. and Ralph P. llncklo, an employe
of the Alaska railroad at Anchorage,
mechanician for tho trip to Nome,
had spent the whole day tuning up
their machine. This machine is an
old one, brought to Alaska three
years ago In n half sporting, half
commercial enterprise . organized by
sourdoughs or pioneers of the north.
"Rvei-vthlnp- looks fine." ncreed
Maekie, "although the temperature of
3 5 degrees below zero i has made
things very difficult. .1 froze one of
my hands this afternoon while sitting
in the cockpit of the bus warming up
nnd testing the engine."
The Alaska railroad received at Se
ward Saturday 1.100,000 units of diph
theria anti-toxin.
The dog teams of the United States
mall left Nenana at 4:55 yesterday
afternoon with 000,000 units.
3D TRIAL STARTS
KLAMATH FALLS
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, Feb. 9.
Pete Sullivan, alleged to hnvo been
the actual slayer of Oscar Erickson
In a gambling house robbery here
early in January, went on trial here
this morning for first degree murder.
He is the last of the alleged partici
pants in the double crime to be prose
cuted. Like John O'Shea, who was acquit
ted Saturday night, , Sullivan will en
deavor to set tip an alibi according
to his attorneys. O'Shea was found
not guilty on the first ballot. He was
alleged to have operated the auto
mobile which took the men to and
from the scene of the robbery.
MURDER WHITE PAL
CHICAGO, Feb. 0. Roy Oillun, 16
years old negro, confessed to the po
lice flint he had clubbed to death
Edward Schmidt, his 17 year old white
companion yesterday.
The two youths were to have been
arraigned In the Juvenile court under
a charge of robbing a grocery store.
Oillun told the police Schmidt had
been arrested first nnd Implicated
him, which he said was the reason
for the killing.
old child, were Instantly killed when
the automobile In which Ihey nnd
Mrs. Kahn were ruling coiuueu wim
another machine and the woman bus-'
talned n skull fracture and other In
juries which surgeons said would
nr.t-A f;i!i in view nf her aonar-'
ently certain death it was decided to
operate Immediately. The infant was
horn within on hour after the accident.
AIRPLANE RACES
L
E
General Denhardt to Investi
gate Everything Connected
With Trapping oT Floyd Col
lins in Sand Cave Truth to
Be Determined.
CAVE CITV, Ky., Feb. 9. (IVy the
Associated Tress) Circumstances
surrounding tho trapping of Floyd
Collins in sand Cave and tho efforts
of volunteer rescuers to release him
will be modo the subject of a military
court of Inquiry, Brigadier General
II. H. Denhardt, In command of
guardsmen here, announced today.
I hone by this court of inquiry to
lay at rest all suspicions, whisper
ings of the efforts to block rescue
work, nnd rumors that Collins' en-
trnumenl was not genuine." said lien
eial Denhardt. Tho commander said
liis plan for the military investiga
tion had been sanctioned by Governor
Fields and Adjutant General Kehoo.
"It is my purpose to determine ex
actly why the efforts to rescue Col
lins through the natural passage fall
ed," Denhardt continued, "whether
Collins went into sand cave, through
the regular entrance and was caught
coming out and whether he knew ol
any oilier way out, are matters which
will be delved Into.
"I have received information that
the eye of suspicion has been turned
on Kentucky and its officials and the
woyderful cave region by persons un-
lnmiliar with too cave section. i
propose In the inquiry to bring out
every fact.
"It is hoped that the findings of
the body will he so definite and thor
ough from the testimony we hear
that the underground whisperings
will be quieted. Every witness will
be summoned to testify and will be
heard in full. "
Members of the court probably will
be named today, .
. Testimony Recorded. 1
The entire testimony nnd proceed
ings will be recorded In a complete
stenographic record. The court will
be conducted in a lent at the scene
of the rescue work near the en
trance to Sand Cnve. General Den
hardt deemed it advisable to hold the
hearing before Collins' fate has been
determined because of the difficulty
of bringing the desired witness to
Sand Cave after the work has been
ended and the rescuers returned to
their homes.
Lieutenant Robert Burdon of the
Louisville fire department, who has
stated that he had "positive knowl
edge efforts were made to block the
rescue work." will be summoned. He
was one of the few who talked to
Collins. Tho three brothers of the
Imprisoned man, Homer, Marshall and
Andrew Collins, will be summoned and
William H. Miller, of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, Is .expected to give
his testimony.
All of those who talked to the
trapped victim and those who know
the circumstances ot his exploring
the hole will be heard. Persons fa
mlllur with the cuve country and
those who huve heard various ru
mors will be examined.
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Feb. 9. On n
busy corner of Lincoln square, a Sand
cave bulletin display nnd chart ope
rated by the Louisville Herald-Tost
attracted many persons today. A
cross-section diagram eight feet high
has a huge red pointer following the
progress of the rescue shaft which
early today had passed twenty-seven
feet, with more than forty yet to
go.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 9. (By the
Associated Press.) One of the two
chief outside eye-witnesses of the
predicament of Floyd Collins in Sand
cave, Lieutenant Robert A. Burdon,
when he learned of the military In
quiry ordered by Lieutenant-Governor
Denhardt today, was emphatic in his
assertions that there had been definite
opposition to the rescue of Collins by
some of the natives when he was there
early last week.
"When I went back to the cave
Wednesday morning," said Lieutenant
Burdon, "after resting from our tre
mendous efforts with the Jack under
the boulder Tuesday evening, they
told me that there had been a cave-in
that had blocked the passage and that
I couldn't go in. They wouldn't let
me get by.
" 'Skeets' Miller managed to slip
past them some way and he and
Homer Collins went, down; when he
came out he was looking more scared
than I ever saw him during the whole
time. His nose was bloody.
"He would not tell me what was
the matter, but told me for God's sake
not to go back in there and to see that
Homer Collins didn't go in again if
I had to sit in the entrance all day
long.
"He went back in by himself a little
later to take the telephone back and
I think that was the last time he was
in the cave.
Crew Had Whisky.
"Late in the afternoon I heard some
body calling lor me. I was told that
I could go back In the cave if I wanted
to now, and that they had picked a
crew for mo. Each of the crew picked
must have been armed with a good
drink of whisky, because I could smell
it on all of them. 1 went down the
(Continual on Fk Eight)
MILITARY
WIL
CONDUCT PROB
OFCOLLINSCASE
European Opera
Stars American
7 .
v
John Charles Thomas, Balti
more, J1&, youth who leaped
from musical comedy to the con
cert 'platform, has climbed an
other rung into opera. lie has
been engaged by the Brussels
grand opera as its leading bari
tone. ITO: VETOES
HOUSE BILL AS
AID TO TRUST
STATE HOUSE, SALr.M. Feb. 9.
Holding that house bill No. 91. intro
duced by the committee on education
is In the Interest of the school book
publishers. Governor Tierce today
vetoed the measure. It is a measure
providing for renewal of contracts be
tween the state nnd the companies.
"Tills amendment to section fi340,
Oregon laws, proposes to remedy a
situation arising over the renewal of
text book? contracts which will expire
in June. 1925." says the veto message.
"Your house bill No.-91 proposes to
confer power upon the board of edu
cation to enter into a renewal con
tract with the publishers at the 'host
possible price' since there is to be no
competition, this means It will be a
one-sided bargain, the stato being
forced to accept the terms of the pub
lishers. ' .
"Since the publishers, whose con
tracts expire In June, 1920, refuse to
renew nt the same prices, although
under the present law such contracts
would remain in force under their
present terms did the publishers not
object. It follows that the state is not
bound as the other party to the con
ract, but is free under such an emer
gency to consider competitive offer
ings from other concerns.
"The state contracts for all of Its
other supplies under open, competi
tive bids. It would not consider for ii
moment the renewal of a flour con
tract or a meat contract for Its Insti
tutions at Increased prices without
competition. Who, should It be called
upon to renew book contracts at ad
vanced prices and with no remedy
other than this proposal to empower
the board of education two members
being In a majority to moke such u
contract? Why surrender to the
book trust?
"Since the publishers themselves
refuse to renew at tho prices enjoyed
by them for the past six years, it
seems to me that the stale should not
deliberately deprive Itself of the right
to force tho book publishers into open
competition for contracts. To elim
inate the right of tho state to uet thru
Its text book commission In such a re
newal Is, In my Judgment a mistaken
remedy. It coold have but one re
sult; an increase in the cost of text
books. Text book legislation biiouici
be In the interest of the patrons of
our schools, rather than to afford a
eans of further exploitation or an
already overburdened public."
The Noted Dead
itrHTnr Feb. 9. Thomas W,
t u-unn wnnrtiirular financier, author
and gentleman farmer, will be burled
tomorrow beside his wife on a small
portion of his magnificent countiy
estate that was saved from the wreck
of his fortune several years ago.
u'hnn Mrs. Iiwson died In 1906
after nine years of invalidism, her
husband gave ners thojt noHhln
should i disturbed In the room she
occupied at "The Nest," a simple cot
tage unjoining the mansion of Dream
world, at Egypt, Mass. Mrs. Lawson
was buried near "Tho Nest." "Tom"
Lawson will be laid beside her after
funeral services In "The Nest.
Mr. Lawson died suddenly yester
day.
BEND, Ore., Feb. 9. Mrs. Henry
McCall of Trlnevllle. Crook county,
i a daughter of Thomas Lawson, Bos
ton financier, who died yesterday In
the east.
Mr. Lawson was responsible for
bringing considerable purebred stock
Into central Oregon. Mr. McCall, son.
In-law of the deceased, is a son of rx
Oovernor MeCnll of Massachusetts,
Douglas Wiwson, son of the Hoc-
ton financier, was also woll known
In central Oregon country, but left
the vicinity at the outbreak of tho
World war.
MR.&MRS.JACK
DEMPSEY FOUND
AND LOST AGAIN
Heavyweight Champion and
Bride Appear at Former's
Hotel and Then Disappear
Promise to Return Tonight
Sport World Agog.
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 9. If the
sporting world held Its breath with
anxiety when Jack Dempsey and his
bride, formerly Estelle Taylor, slip
ped out of a hotel In San Diego early
yesterday and disappeared, it can re
lax today and givo Its tautened nerves
a rest, for the heavyweight cham
pion and his film actress wife have
been found; at lcr.,:t they were found
for a few minutes .ate last night. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey arrived In
Los Angeles without being detected,
but were recognized, at once, of
course, when they entered a hotel,
which tlie champion operates when he
is not fighting or acting in pictures.
The clerk, being on Dcitipscy's pay
roll, could not bo mistaken in tho
identity of the visitors, but If ho
thought they were going to occupy
the bridal suite he was disappointed,
for in less than ten minutes they
played the Sail Diego trick all over
again slipped away for a destination
unannounced.
As a concession to the curious, how
ever, the champion left behind him
the information that he and Mrs.
Dempsey would lie bac k in Los Ange
les tonight or tomorrow and that the
world need not worry.
State Legislature
Items for Today
8TAT1.' linT'tiP KAf.F.M. Feb. 9.
Senator Tooze who has an income tax
hill prepared, announced today that
be would not Introduce. It." Hu said
he felt It would he futile to attempt
to get the measuro through and thet
ho will Initiate the bill instead, at the
earliest election possible.
Tooze has a tax equalization meas
ure to which he will devote all his
energy as far as taxation measures are
concerned.
STATIC IIOlSi:, SALKM, Fob. fl.
The peniitti this afternoon wil'. havo
the fish cominls.sion hill nn a .special
ordr. It i one of the tnnin Inci
dents In the fitfht hetween tli legis
lative roganlzntion nnd the governor,
providing that appointment of the
state fish rotmniKsion he taken out of
the governor's hands and placed with
the stato board of control.
STATK UOUHK, HALKM, Feb. 9.
A special tux classification of lands
suitable only to forest growth would
be provided under house bill 41(i. in
troduced by Representative Motl,
Clatsop county, today.
The bill In designed to eucourago
the reforestation of denuded lands in
the state.
KTATB TIOUSK, HA LIS M, Teh. 9.
House hill 409 by Representative
Tucker, Linn county, providing for
creation of a stato board of censor
ship for moving picture films, was re
ferred to the house committee on
public health nnd morals when it
come up for second reading today.
House bill 413, a substitute for
house bills 19 and Tift, was recom
mended favorably by the house roads
and highways committee this morn
ing. It sets forth license rates and
additional fees on buses and trucks
based on a rate of three-eighths of a
mill per seat per ton capacity multi
plied by tho number of miles traveled.
statr untruth KAT.I'M T-Vli n
Concluding apparently, after a sur-
very or the situation, that It could not
muster enough votes to pass the com
mcrcfnl flxh hill nvor llm veld nf the
governor, tho senate organization late
this afternoon postponed action on
the measuro until Wednesday urter
noon. STATK HOUHH, HALKM, Feb. 9.
The banking code bill which was
scheduled for third reading in the
senate today was made a special
order for eleven o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Death Toll of
the Automobile
SACRAMENTO, Cat., Feb. 9.
Alander K. Hoglnnd, president of the
Fyrac manufacturing company of
Rockford, III., was killed early this
morning when his . automobile went
into a ditch here and turned over
pinning him beneath It In shallow
water. He was probably drowned.
During tho war Ilogland was nn
aviator stationed nt Mather field
here. In December 1918, ho made a
coast flying record from Hacramento
to Heattlc and return. .
LOH ANOKI.KH, Feb. 9. Jack
Dempsey will continue to keep In
training and arrangements tor a title
mutch during thn summer will be
discussed In New York next month, It
was nnnounced here tuday by Jack
Kearns, Dempsej'n inauuger,
Snow and Freezing
Weather Reported in
Bend and Klamath
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., Feb.
9. Freezing temperature and a
cloudless sky today gave prom
ise of a marked change in the
weather conditions in Klamath
Falls. Snow lies more than a
half foot deep.
TEND, Ore., Feb. 9. Two
inches of snow covered the
ground this morning while clear
skies and n low temperaturo
gave promise of relief from In
termittent showers and snow
flurries which have alternated
for more than forty-eight hours.
Snow which began falling late
Saturday evening continued with
few interruptions all day Sun
day until about six o'clock when
the atmosphere cleared and tile
temperature dropped several do
grees below the freezing point.
SLIDES BLOCK
IIF.DDING, Cal., Feb. 9. Although
t lit heavv rains hail abated today, tho
I stale highway north of Redding to
Pollock, a distance of 3X miles, Is
practically blocked by numerous land
slides in that section of the road,
which was rebuilt, regarded, altered
ind widened. Mere the loose carlh
and rocks, propelled by mountain
flood waters, have piled down from1
hillsides. Many calls for assistance
have been received here from stranded
motor travelers. j
Steam shovels are already nt wouk
clearing the way.
.aterals and other.
' side roads have been damged even
more on the highways.
was
Impossible today to reach Weavervilln
because or water, ueep nmd, and iau-
infill mi .t ..-..,,-,, ....
rot-ciling fiiHt. All local hIuko -Hrhcil-
ult'H havo boon tornponirlly rancvlleu.
KuHl'JMu nu, urn., fi'ii, -a now
slide occurred nn the raolilo. highway
north of Myrtle ('reek today unit is
PACIFIC HI-WAY
NORTH&SOUTH
homing up an t runic cvrcpi ngni cars. rPnre here by city officials an a re
Thn road is covered with about 18 ruU of the flood at Valo and surround
Inrhos of soft dirt and mud and rock fnK territory caused by tlie bursting of
keep sliding In an attempts are made the irrigation dam on Bully creek
to clear tho pavement. Stages aro Thursday.
transferring passengers and trucks) Caught in tho flood from 2000 to
are unable to gel by. It is expocted 4000 head of sheep and cattle were
It will take all week to clean off tho drowned in the lowlands west of Valo
Hlides which havo occurred during tho
past threo days, although cars are ex-
pected to be able to get through by
this evening.
LEC'I
BILL IS
S A I.EM, Ore., Feb. 9. Tho house
to.i.iy went tnrougn a grist or oius.
Among inoso pnssea were:
II. II. 211, with amendments call-
ing for a potltlon of three-fifths "'
the voters concerned In mutters per-
taming io cnuiiKuiK ul ruling nvm
anil exienoing ine lime lor removal
after authorization from 90 days to
one year.
H. II. 228. making tho law apply
JACKSONVJL
ing to persons pointing guns nt one ,..,, reC8iveu by Dr. Froredlck D.
another reach persons of any ago , strycker, secretary ot the state board
rather than only those over sixteen ' r Me!lt, .from local authorities there.
S'0",',, are alarming.
11. n. 2SB, requiring marriage II-1 1)ri strycker, however, said there is
cense applicants, to file n personal at- n0 epidemic at Vale at present. The
fidavlt to tho effect that they hnvo ,iH,)0Bton of between 2000 nnd 4000
been free of certain diseases for a carcasses of sheep, cattle and horses
period of one year prior to such ap-,8the paramount Issue, and local funds
plication. I nt Vale nro insufficient to handlo the
II. H. 109, providing that one must f situation, Dr. Strycker has been in
be a resident ot a county six months farmed,
prior to fllltlg for divorce in the
courts of such county.
II. It. 191V, providing a flno ot from1
$25 to $100 ngnlnst persons enn-j
vlcted of using stnte automobiles for
other than offlclnl business.
EX-KAISER SEES
LONDON, Feb. 0. Tho Dally
Telegraph quotes recent visitors to
Doom, Holland, ns declaring that the
former Oerninn emperor was extraor
dinarily excited by the news that an
agreement had been reached between
Japan and soviet Russia.
"This treaty portends a tremendoui
change In the world's outlook," he
is reported to hnve said. "'The porll
which I, Mono, among the rulers of
F.uropo predicted nearly a quarter of
a century ago. now has materialized.
The repercussions of this event will
shortly be felt in the relations of all
RUSSIA'S ALLIANCE WITH JAPANESE
WATER
Bridges Washed Out, Livestock
Drowned and Dams Wrecked
By Downpour of Rain and
Melting Snows Pestilence
at Vale Feared Legislature
Asked for Help.
WAIMNITIA. Ore., Feb. 9. Flood
waters, caused by recent heavy rains
and tho Chinook winds that have
melted considerable, of the snow in
tlie eastern Cascades, are filling every
creek and stream to overflowing.
White river is at tho danger point.
Tho Deschutes has swallowed the
Shearer Bridge fulls, overflowing the
rock basin from one railroad to an
other. Ulit roads aro Impassnblo west of
Wupinlllu, and carriers are relaying
mall by team.
. Reports from Celilo are to the effect
th.il tho Columbia is overflowing the
rocks and caverns ill the Celilo fulls
basin and threatens to wash away
fish wheels and their foundation
structures.
in the vicinity of Pino Grove, Chi
nook winds huvo melted snow that
I will bo needed for Irrigation next
Un tho Cascade roof snow
8 S(,ven ee( (eep.
BAKER, Ore., Feb. 9. The dam of
tho Camp Creek Water compuny on
Camp creek in tlie Burnt river district
went out nt midnight Tuesday and
caused considerable loss to the farm-
uru (11 tlm ImmmHiitu nnth nf thn fbmil
T,, f.nn, ,,m .a .
Btructcd a couple of years ago at a
cost of approximately $50,0110 and
Btr0u nbmlt U)u ncre feet , water.
Twenty-six cows and, ealyesvlwlg4ig-
.,, 1 1 ii) nn i ii Dfi in nn warn itvnwtmit
The break in the dam la 40 feet wide
nt the top and tho damage 1b estl-
ntntnd lit nhnnt SWf.nn
Pestilence Is Feared.
VALE. Ore.. Feb. 9. Pestilence Is
and are lying dead in that section.
Kvery basement and lower floor ot
Vale's residential and business section
is filled with mud and debris, and
from this standpoint the health situa
tion is viewed with alarm.
Kvery precaution has been officially
ordered, which Includes the boiling of
drinking water, as the water system
and wells in this locality have been
contaminated. Mayor Koomette and
city health officials sent appeals for
relief to Dr. Frederick D, Strycker of
Portland, secretary ot the state board
of health. Relief will also be sought
of tho Pacific division of the Red Cross
at San Francisco.
Loss to property swept by the flood
will reach $500,000, It was estimated,
instead of $250,000, as was first re
ported. A large number of ranchera
In the path of the flood lost their
ilolllc8i uvestock and virtually every.
UlllK tjey I)09SeBa0(1, in Vale not a
lm,IM.rty owllcr escaped a loss of some
nature. A number of families who. had
tn((,r ,,()mes swept away are wltilout
funtis.
Conditions Alarming.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 9. Condi
tions nt Vale, as shown in several tele-
STATE HOUSE, SALEM, Feb. 9.
A representative from the flood
stricken city of Vale, Malheur county,
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the European states nnd It Is bound
to causo deep thinking and heart
searching In Germany and among the
allleg. France is hacking tho black
races, Russia Is backing the yellow
nnd America and England are backing"
the while, where will Germany
slund? Where should she stand?"
It Is reported from the same source"
that William Is displeased over tho
prominence the former crown prince
Is courting In Germany and tho at
tention paid him by the nationalists
and militarists, ns the ex-kalser still
regards himself as the only lawful
claimant to the Hohentollcrn throne.