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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1936)
r h K 15 ° porn n m \ 11 i. y »» * M ........... ^ MERRILL'S BANK NIGHT N O T IF IE S PC LtC E OF TRIPLE CRIME Raised on Whisky; Süll Coin;- at 102 Toledo,—A couple They I Three SJ'.in and p • • 1 Now Yoi k.—Cunt. Thomas R nvo was qulotl v doing his turn on the Newark (N. J.) police quartors do>k at 12:30 a. m. one morning when the telephone rang. “ I've Just murdered three men and I am going to kill myself,” said a man’s voice. ‘‘Where are you?” asked Rowe. “ At o.".s South Twentieth street." the caller answered and hung up. Captain Iiowe marshalled detec tives and police radio cars and sped to that a ’ Ire-s. The converg ing policemen found an apartment building. Neighbors told them o? voices and four explosions in a five room suite leased bv Orlando Le Van. X<» one answer«' 1 there and the police crashed in the door. The living room lights were on. A body was tin the couch. Nearhv was a shotgun. In the kitchen were the bodies of three others all riddled with buckshot. After investigating all the angles, the police were able to reconstruct the crim e: Mrs. Orlando I.e Van had died three weeks h«>fore at Kas* n. I’a.. find had left her 820.000 e~rare to her husband, fifty-five, and name«! a nephew. John S. (leary. forty- one. as executor. Charles deary, forty-three, a relative, was care taker of the l.e Vans’ farm at Toby- har. i. Pa. Mrs Le V was entombed temporarily, but T.e Van and his brother. Benjamin, unemployed, wanted it hurled in a site already occupied by Charles Geary’s m th<*r. who had died It years before, deary didn’t want his mother's body dug up. Taking a 12 gauge pump action shotgun an 1 a .22 caliber revolver, he left bis wife an ! two children on the Tobyhann farm and went to Newark. There he met I’.enja- mln arid visited a beer garden with him. They seemed on the best of terms. Tiien they argued about the burial. Returning to the apart ment they found Orlando and John Geary and continued the dispute. The police found three kitchen chairs overturned as though their occupants had risen hastily. The fourth chair was pushed up to the table, on which were four glasses and an empty bottle. From the po sition of the bo«lies police con cluded that Charles Geary lined Benjamin and Orlando T.e Van and John Geary up before the kitchen door and then fired into their backs. Then he telephone«l his grim mes cage and killed himself. ago on his ninc'y n":*h 1 b d.'i> •Vol.” J. 1». Hancock ” «■ • ' to plows vxb.il«' setting ty 1* ‘ B> Seattle, but he made el " a comeback to In T«>ledo on his way to a G. A. R. encamp ment with a hearty word for the "riproarln* life." The “ colonel," who was In charge «>f railway transport»!! n with the Black Watch In India, and «lid the same tiling In the Civil war «'ii President Lincoln’s A'quest. doesn’t take credit f r his longevity. His father was killed at nln«'ty-slx. His m :in*r «lied at one hundred and seven and two aunts llve«l to be one hundred and fourteen and one hundred and twelve, respectively. “ This business about «Ir.nk killing people makes me tir«*d. said the colonel. ” 1 was raised on whisky and I still «lrink h - much as I want. 1 also take a good smoke the minute I get up and keep it up until late at night.” TW O WOMEN SEEKING MISSION TREASURE Hoard Believed Secreted in Ancient Church. San Diego, Calif.—Hoping to en 1 a hundred years’ search with dis covery of the “ Lost Mission of Pow er California.” and th«‘ fabulous treasure «aid to be concealed with in its walls, two American women are prepared to penetrate on burro back several hundred miles ir.ro the rugged mountains .south of h**re. TI ip women, who will speed two months on the journey, are Mrs. Grifling Bancroft, society matron and an authority on Lower <’a!i- fornla, and Mrs. Bertie M. ling, res ident of San Jose del Telino, a small mountain village 200 miles - -nth. Acting on n**w information as to the whereabouts of the missing link in the chain o f missions which «'X- tends from thb southernmost tip of Lower California far into Upper California, they plan to press their search to the southern side of in accessible San Pedro Martlr moun tain. Although she refused to reveal details. Mrs. Bam-roft said the new Information came from two ‘sources. One was a rejwirt from a “ vaqnero” on the Beling ranch that he had geen an old brush-covered flight of stone steps, believed to lead into the mission’s gold mine, and an other is the story o f an old Indian whose forefathers are said to have been caretakers for the minion. The G aelic W o r d “ Ba.'le” According to meager historical The Gaelic word “ Baile” (pro reports, the “ lost Mission" was nounced “ Ball-ya” ), meaning a called Santa Tsabel and was built town, was formerly used to denote by the Jesuits sometime before 1708 any group of dwellings or settle when they were driven out of Low- ments larger than a mere village er California by the Franciscans and the name of the local chief under Father Juniper Serra. The was added, says Pearson’s Weekly. Jesuits are said to have concealed Thus we have Bally-martin. Bally- large quantities of gold and other honan, etc. Where there was no treasures in the mission's walls local lord or chief of sufficient im when they abandoned it. portance to be thu« honored, the Search for the legendary rn!««!on. town was distinguished bv some has been carried on by many Amer peculiarity of the surrounding neighborhood, e.g.. Ball-na-hinch— ican parties in tbe Ian hundred or Ballynahinch—“ the town-of-the* years. islands.” Many Use» (o r Cacti O rigin o f Name “ W hite H o u s e ” The name “ White House” is sup- pored to have been given the Cap itol after it was painted white to efface the blackened walls, the re sult of its partial destruction by the British in 1814. There is some controversy about this, however, one claim being that it was so named because Martha Custis was owner of “ White House” when she and Washington first met. It was first popularly known as the Pres idents House, but by the year 1828 the nickname “ White House” bad come to be widely used. Cacti are put to many us«*s. They furnish fruit known as Indian tigs Some cactus plant pulps of the ter. ture of melon rind are made into conserves like orange or citron peel and sold or made Into candy. From other cacti drugs us»‘«i medic inally, or deadly pol8«»ns, are ex tracted. The lophophoras yields peyote that temporarily turns its addicts Into irresponsible madmen. Some sturdy cactaceous structur«*s ,erve as fence posts, timbers for mines, or even as material for In dian huts. Cacti use really rang«‘s from seeds ground Into thmr for food to living plants set thickly for Impenetrable fences.—Los An geles Times. AWARD JUMPS TO $15 Canal Ripraping Progresses Fast Fifteen Of the round. Iron men « ill go to the holder Of <!ie B.ck> ¡ticket at Columbia Lai d e w a WH II D* p e r .. Ut <>f Ils baie! laid riprap lu fia* In the low«r Cascade l«ocks &»,urdny nl* h* )o< k approa* il canal |\»< 111« «’ «ni ,l' 1 '•-‘ »Kl.Nr, lo r the past two Saturday*, no »m ictio n com pany I* w-H attend one has com«* forward to claim uf s» hed U le au«l ctm tom plâte» «• 1 a i .*• ;,,VP#I r X ¿ I the Bank Nlltbt S‘ l • finish «<f thi «aual-lltilng Juh in Five dollars will »»• given “ » * ; ,!:*,h °* hi* 4 ab«iut six wer<k*. llepending ott M j . , , * ¡ j v the w eather. Joh» TV,-rhu f when his number is called, it the Pacifie s crew o f t i nten ha* •*' hool student, rkfeii lucky number. go"d (or $1 ; hiced about tw o-th lrd s, o r l l j t i n K f Ulla* 1 T.i- Tuesday claimed on »he first drawing. yards «»f U»«»«** i iprap Home , T>i»n Mis, Kill, ^ Johnny W ilk w • orchestra yar«ls ot flnlshed atone bas been will provide music for the «lame laid and 3.000 yar«L o f ba- kliil h» Portal Wh**n «om p leted . 7 o f«-•*t <■ th> ' 1 k WUsog, ^ LOCKS CITIZEN PLOWS »outli si«le an«l fiâo feet «>f th» norlh si«!** o f the caual will b- 1 ik«-d to Waag, v* SNOW FROM STREETS rlprapped. 1 • <"•«.« « S how thls we«-k nltttost par. the point M L. Morgan of Cascade Locks I atyt«*<l Paclflr’g rock lavlng, .»<- Bonne, in* s Id he didn’t want us to mention CHUS- the St «fie Collld luit b - this, but w ere going to anyway d u m j«d w lthout slldlug ail lh - w ,,h Springdale k When Monday evening found a way (in«rn Into the «anal - *ou their n half foot o f snow all over Cascade « f H to I. The tr i « t ! I ■ • I Locks streets. Morgan made a D‘-H ta i snow phiw, towed it behind bis most en tlrely h>* h.md work. nid »: » The hoyi r*a car to clear sidewalks ami streets •-d by tw o or three tru ck s and a 'o lo points ig tfc through the main part «»( town bulldoser. A game s u | He repeated the plowing Tuesday ■ ■ ‘ ■ : r T .«d Through Morgan’s • (fort#, an p. V «■ it V||| noi ^ unasked donation to the city, of ‘ h** weather sidewalks were k«*:t clear and pe T ’ *<• C.R the hi destrians enabled to walk about I:: the sixth and town with ense. f r the ;nat * « District R anger R<>> L \k««- ¿an¡ Horton. Klinor II. » kins Virgil j V|( >\ I y « HtlH It*' HIGH bas com pleted bis ’a d m in istra -j Jl-irn. Tbotnaa 1 Cascade Locks postofflee sent live plait.” a sch edu le o f ail the IV*w. out $1.0 22 In money orders dur work to b< done d uring the »oro- L»t»e tioodrkl. ing January, according to Post ing year The plan is required **lr Ha aloft. Jar master Frank Hall. Fsnai m onth each y*-ar fo r auhutissiuu to the ' B ■ ' *- - Gemid ist ly average is isOO.fSOu. On»y ex forest s : p*-rv i*or"s office in !*■ .t planation. sa)s Mr. Hall, Is that land. The various p rojects, iiuro L .rolli Jsbte. fili p«-ople are paying bills for ber o f men required and tint»-! Smith, Russell K« Christmas pr« .«* nt*. since the need'•d to c ompleta Sears-Roebuck »atuiog f*r ih b CASCA <l'd Ji Higtng i year haven’t been distributed yet umln ou s sh«rets on Hi \tll.l.l\«iVa \V — man s plan Ik V », Hits Birle i l>AM \\ U.IA»I*S INI W I K I c 's id -a tha r Ml * Vtrrtau 7<i The 7th Infantry tballj rang**rs hav e to d o • ■. ' «r.d T -atj t*-a went back lo Fort Vancouver! time is sit by th«r fire and swap noon. Thursday night, beaten by Bonne-1 stori*rs is at 1 wrong v Virginia T«** vllle dam hoopaler* to the tune of j Co 1 ambia gorge t ' M * I'-’» 3t.it: .'.'{-4 7. Game was fa*<| and expertly stat it<n will ,e wr í: a t i » and Monday. soon li played. prutalily the finest fire truck th< Mi*» Tb-odoc» 0* í< r* t **-nlc«! has ex«-r ha«» In Ml-» It i»c b» tint ai 5dj this «11,tri't The old tru* k I, now Cat’s Kleptomania Is I •/■boot* tali being rebuilt at W yeth CCC ram p Inr the i »ratlos bf* Great Worry for Owner The .'».70-gallon w ater tank I, be Ml*« F»bel ; Sydney. — Sydney claims the ing lo w -re d lfi Inches to lower ». ! »H : ^ys vi.L l*ij commonwealth’, mod daring nnd the center o f gravity and make in Portland only genuine a* burglar. Simon by the truck better able t o n egotiate The high name. HI* re<- i of robberies g-»-, the to rtu o u , w in d in g , o f the (.* t<-;»tn '* Hi pl*f 0W * back to the time when he w;u* only lumbla river h igh w ay. a new ing in the bigi a kitten burglar, and he ,tjnrlv«*e 4o -•*0 gallon p er-»n ln u l- p tup is Jack McCarrigl» «1 at four y«*ar«. d< spite «hotgun an ! b-trig p la t-d on the truck, enroll'd In tbe l#** poison bait. BUI R oyer. a<-alstant to Rang* r this W'-ek. Typical o f Simon was his later i • • » Huh j escapade Involving the b .*.« by two W eetnan. finally got tired *• ft• r t r w M. H">. »* e veral days o f hatching, so he j girls of very n«?c<*w«ary articles o f apparel which di»api*«*ared fr*>rn went Into i*ortlan«l T uesday uight Monday. their rooms during th** night. The to bring back Mrs H oyer. who U t M M4TI»! things were found <11 «played on the ha«J en joy ed a several-d ay sta;, ! r: ?. rtnatlcn c9 front fence. In full view of the pa»«- with friends. - rate* and K ang-r Ai W a n g,*form erly dis lng populace. Previously from the op* • a lion ha* taf trict ranger at C olu m b ia gory* same building tie had taken pajama pants, numerous handkerchiefs, arid station, is expected to visit his «»1<1 ”f b * g V stam ping grou n d s som etim e of V . I’nlvenitJ a maid’s apron. within a m onth or so. He will cordlog t» wor< * * 5 One morning a man beard a slight bring his w ife to visit he» par sound, as of something moving in ents su r o s , the river. W ang i» tnation Iro® " , j l the Ironing room. Creeping in he «ill be p r* 2 now stationed at O kanogan . \ V ti Jammed on the light switch nnd llrectlon of i t e * * " tnw—a big black and white cat-mak ing off with a blanket in his mouth. Try a want ad In the C hronicle project. It was Simon, who. letting go of his loot. I«*:iiw*d for the oj>en window and was swallowed up it, the gloom. | Simon t k«-» everything to the home of his rnistn -•», who is very «11»- tressed about the whole hudne«* nnd makes every endeavor to trace owners. 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