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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH M, 191S
"Let Unfortunates of Ohio and Indiana Come to
Land of Nod9 is Plea of Klamath County Residents
OPENING OF THE
PRESERVATION IS
PLAN SUGGESTED
COLUMBUS
HARD
HIGH
BY THE
WATER
It May be Sam's Swan Song IQAYTON ESCAPES
WITH FEWER LUST
THAN EXPECTED
Ti:u;i'in.i: manager tki.lh of
MUCH MUFFKHING
(Vromr uf Orrat Clly IMIevro That
Many rmnlllr Have Horn Com
.rlrljr U'IhmI Out of Eilstrar.
Hall of IHm-ovcwI lcad in Culuw
Iml llu Item Identlfled aaea
tlllo I Almost Out of Food.
Vniud I'ff Hervlce
Ull.UMIIUH, )., March a. Fifty
U!lr iirm In the inorgwe hero at
Si 1.1. lUlf of tlMm Imi been Mn
unci.
(Wuiirr Dennett at I o'clock rail
liulnl Dial Hie dead would bo UOO III
IliU t lljr alone.
Hindu fnuilllta art report"! lo be
ilrml III kollto ImiWTO.
Tlir kImxU are thronged with peo
ple Making loat relative.
h. K. Mitchell, eMprrlateadrat of
llic Ohio MiHirtc railway of Zaaro
tlllr, reached a telephone four wile
wnl of Zaaratllle, anil telephoned lo
(ioiminr Colt
"W have food only for twenty-four
liomv" liu mIiI. The faullllra have
lu ht-aty, Tlio clljr 1 under water
for Hiiro uillra."
Called l'reaa Service
INDIANAPOLIS, March 11. A
search of the house la moat of West
liiillaiwH)IU failed to dlacleao elo
tic ilratli.
Hnm Kvana left Thursday night for
Kan Francisco, and rumor are cur
rent on tlio at rents today that another
n ectnculnr newspaper venture In
1 tntimtti KnIU Iirm about reached nn
inl. Probably never before lion money
been no extravagantly waited In a
imwspaper enterprise In tlio West u
the Klamath KnIU public has been
privileged to witness durlnjc tho pait
sucti'sa, but l.o made bli fatal mil
take when ho entered tha ilald of
journalism. He camo to Klamath
KnIU nboul n year ago and acquired
nu Interest In tlio Klamath KnIU
Nortliweatern, n mornliiK uewipaper.
Tlio plant of tlio paper wai amply
iiltcd to the necdM hero at tha time,
but Mr. Kvans had aomo "llroailway
Ideaa," which ho proponed to try out
year. Hut It would appear Hint tha Ion tlio Klnmath Fall public.
Init act of thU newspaper drama la
nrarlnK nu end, nud that sauo moth-'
odi will bo adopted from IliU tlmo on.
Mr. Kvans U described by those
who know him beat na a young man
with n hubby newspapers. A n
magailnn writer he achieved aomo
With bncklnK not yet Identified, he
proceeded to buy nn entirely new
plant. Ho aelected machinery calcu
Intnd to servo n city of 100,000 pop
ulation nml Installed It here. Al
though tha morning paper with the
K.KAMI.VATIOX OF PLOODKD Dig
TRICT PLEASES
l Continued en I'tve 11
JOY RIDERS TO
BE
PUNISHED
CALIFORNIA 1-1 W MA K KIM ARK
RKTEHMINKD TO l'IMTKCT THK
OWN KltH OK ClltO WAOONM
AOAIN'HT CARKLH OXKJi
intied l're ttervtr
HACItAMKNTO, March 28. Joy.
rldera who itoal automobllea "Juit
ORIGINAL "VOTES
FOR WOMEN" MAN
A WAHIII.N'flTO.V COXGHI:hHMAN
hays that hk hah kavorku
mi:ahuhk from thk start.
I'ltOIIK WIM UK MADE
United I'rear Service
WAaillNOTON, D. 0.. March 18.
Albert Sidney Jobnaon, congrewman-
for a rldo" will bo guilty of a felony, elect from Hoqulom, Waahlngton,
with n Duo of IS00 or ono ycu a lm-
prlinumcul, It Aaaemblymnn Mouior'a
bill U favorably acted upon by tlio
wto houira. It haa been reported out
of tha committee.
t continued on rnco it
It l Not Relieved That Reatli Roll
Will Re Anywhere .Near aa Maay
am Ran Kern Reported Crcat of
Ihn Flood Haw Arrived, aad Water
In Now Recedlag People Wade
Out of Danger
United l'reaa Mnrlc
DAYTOX, March M (Rnlleda)
At a:UO tlila aternooe. reporU froaa
all aectlona of the eky Indicate that
Hie deatlia here will not eiceed 909.
There are but US bodice now hi the
morgue.
United l'reaa Service
DAYTO&, March 28. Tha dead Ik
Dayton will not exceed 100.
ThU lUtemeat la baaed on aa in
vestigation of every part ot the city.
Tho part expected to produce the
grenteat number ot fatalities appear
to be free of deaths.
-.tlnueu on I'nge it
Rotcrmund on Herald Stafi
Krcd G. Ilotermund, well known
from San Dlcgo to Vancouver, II. C,
o an advertising expert, haa joined
Tho Herald staff, and hereafter will
be in charge ot tho advertising de
partment of this paper. He comes to
Ktamcth Falls well recommended,
nnd Tho Herald bolleres he will
"mako good" with tho Klamath Falls
public.
Mr. Kotcrmund's experience hould
bo of great benefit to Klamath Falls
advertisers. Ho has made a life study
of publicity, and ono ot tho arrange
ments under which he Is working U
structed by the management of The
Herald that he Is not to accept ad
vertising except where he believes the
advertising will prove a beaeflt to
both parties to the arrangement the
public first and then the advertiser.
No false statements as to results
will be permitted by The Herald. Mr.
Ilotermund will not be authorUed to
promise any fictitious circulation to
the advertiser. Neither will he he
permitted to accept from any adver
tiser any copy which promUes Impos
sible things.
The Herald believes that Mr. Roter-
tlint ho shall consider the public first, Imund will be faithful to his trust, and
and next the advertiser. In other .commends him to the public as well
words, Mr. Ilotermund has been ln-as to the adrertUers.
KILL LOOTERS,
IS AN ORDER
OHIO MILITIA COLONEL WILL
TAKK SO CHAXCK WITH BPOIL
ER8 THOUSANDS OF OHIOAXg
ARE MISSING
United l'reaa Serve
COLUMBUS, 0., March It Theaa-
ands ot people are missing and hun
dreds are known to be dead u a re-
(Continued nn Page S)
HAMILTON SAID
TO BE HIT HARD
KSTIMATKS OK DEAD VARY FROM
ONE HUNDRED TO FIVE HUN
IMIKD MANY PEOPLE ARE RE
PORTED MISSING
I'oltcd Press Service
INDIANAPOLIS, March II. It U
the bullet here that relief baa reached
II of tho refugees la Central and
Nortlitm Indiana.
Tho lower ond of tho Wabash River L
mit ha arrived, and the troubles ap
pear to bo Juat commencing.
Krom I'oru comes the report that
POTATOES ARE
SENT TO EAST
DE IJiV AND ARANT GIVE SPUDS
TO THE SUFFERERS OF THE
EAST AND HIGH SCHOOL STU
DKXTH LOAD THE CAR
Students of tho high school today
tlio fatalities there will number 360. 'nro loading a carload of potatoea to ;
Court House Question is
Now Before Circuit Court
Question of a New County Building Will be Disposed
of by Judge Benson. Probably, on Evidence
Agreed by Stipulation Between Attorneys
United Press Service
HAMILTON, O- March 28. leU-
niatea ot the dead here vary from
100 to S00. Fifty corpses have been
Identified.
Hundreds ot people are mUslng.
The streets are piled with debrU.
HOMES ARE WAIT1NO HERE FOK
VICTIMS OF FLOOD N
President WUsoa Wall
Throw Open Indian
Acres Am AvaHahte fa
fioae of SetUeaaent If Km Pi-isll a
WIU Imm the Order Fred
Oatllaea P!m
Efforts to submit the case of Oboa-
chain vs. Daggett, as county trcssur-
a. a a Ate etw iiiiiiaiinn bibi
llrookvllle estimates that the dead ', , , ,,, ...i.i,.,, .ii.trirt Df Ohio '.!- 1...1 nn i..un mmninini un to a
niero will bo CO. I
The sltunllon everywhere- I1 better,
tliough It will bo months beforo It will
ho normal.
It Is estimated that the state has
len dnmngod to tho extent of ISO,-000,000.
II. II. Van Valkenburg left this
morning for Merrill on a business
(rip.
nnd Indiana.
Tha potatoes were furnished by
Charllo Do Up and Captain Arant.
Tomorrow a car will bo loaded with
potatoos furnished by tho Klamath
Dovolopment company.
Tho Southern Pacific railroad com
pany has furulshod frco transporta
tion for the cars.
Big Cattle Firm to be
in Business in County
Swanson & Son,of Sacramento.,Have
Leased Luke Walker Ranch on
Sprague River. Raise Cattle
Hwnnion ft Bon, the big cattle buy
er of Sacramento, will enter the
tock business in Klamath county,
through their superintendent, Fred
Mol, they have leased the Luke
Walker ranch on Sprague River, and
vor 2,000 acres of hay and grailng
ami. About 500 head of cattle will
ho shipped hero from the Sacramento
Vulloy, and In addition other cattle
wl he bought here.
The entire ranch will he used aa
l"ture, where these " cattle wlU ba
graiod until fall, when they will prob
ably be taken to Merrill to be fed tor
tho California markets.
C, Swanson, now dead, the original
head of tho firm, was one ot the plo
noor cattle buyers In Klamath coun
ty. Ills Arm has been buying cattle
from this soctlon tor the past twenty
flvo years, and It U estimated that
during that time they have bought
and shipped to the California mar
kots 10,000 head ot cattlo from
Klamath and Lake counties.
Into hour this afternoon, although the
opposing attorneys had boou In fre
quent consultations. In tho moantiiuo
tho witnesses In tho caso bavo been
present In tho circuit court room dur
ing tho entire aftornoou.
Tho plau was for the attorney to
agree on a statement ot the testimony
which would bo given by the different
witnesses, end by so doing bring the
caso more rapidly to the attention ot
Judge llenson, upon whom the aues
tluo of providing tor the building ot a
new court houso appears to rest.
Tho Obenchaln case attacks the
right of tho county court to create a
special fund for the building ot the
new county building. It Is contend
odl that any money paid by taxpayers
for court houso tax must be put Into
tho general fund, and warrants of
that fund taken up In tho order pro
tested. Kuykcndall ft Ferguson appear for
the plaintiff and District Attorney
John Irwin represents the defendant.
MRS. 6E0. DEAL
IS OPERATED ON
QUARTET OK MEDICOS PERFORM
DIFFICULT OPERATION AT THE
HOSPITAL ON WELL KNOWN
liANUELL VALLEY RESIDENT
At tho Blackburn hospital (this
morning Doctors Truax, Merryman,
White and Wright performed aa oper
ation on Mrs. George Deal ot Langell
Valley, and succeeded In removing
a number of gall stones, which have
been a source ot much Inconvenience
for somo time.
Mr. Deal brought his wife to this
city early this week for medical treat
ment, and at that time It was not
thought sho was In a serious condi
tion, but the strain ot the trip from
tholr homo to this city was so great
that on their arrival Mrs, Deal'a con
dition was so serious that Dr. Truax
called Into consultation Drs. Merry
man, Wright and White, and It was
decldod that an Immediate opera
tion was necessary.
She was removed to the hospital
Thursday mornlug, and this morning
tho successful operation was per
formed. At a late hour thU afternoon Mrs.
Deal was reported as resting easily.
and the medical gentlemen were con
gratulating themselves upon their
success.
816 RIVER IS
ON AJAMPAGE
REFUGEES FLOCK TO CAIRO, AND
PREPARATIONS ARE MADE FOR
RISE IN THE MISSISSIPPI THE
LEVEE IS REPORTED BROKEN
CAIRO, March 18. Refugees are
tlocklng to this city,
It Is reported that the Mlseiaslppl
has broken through the levee below
here.
The city Is preparing for a record
rise.
SAVID6E CASES
ARE DISMISSED
DISTRICT ATTORNTV DECLARES
THERE IS NOT SUFFICIENT EVI
DENCE TO WARRANT SPEND
ING COUNTY MONEY
The cases against Hunter Bavldge,
Herbert Bavldge and J. F. Qoeller
were formally dismissed on motion of
the district attorney this morning.
Promptly at 9 o'clock, in open
court, District Attorney Irwin made
tho formal motion which dismissed
the Indictments of the grand Jury.
The official county records show tha
following preceedure:
"In the Circuit Court of the Stat, ot
Oregon, Jor the County ot Klam
ath Klamath Falls. Oregon,
March 88, 1911.
"In the Matter ot the State ot Oregon
vs.
"Hunter Bavldge. Herbert Savidge,
Continued1 on Page
'iiiUmI Press Survlcr
CLEVELAND, O.. March 28. The
receding waters have greatly relieved
the flood situation.
Cessation ot heavy rain makes res
cues possible, but reveals great de
struction and death.
A conservative estimate ot the dead
In Indiana la as low as 600.
The worst danger now la pesti
lence.
Tho clear, cold weather conditions
are bettering the situation.
Commercial paralysis prevails.
No wires are available except for
the transmUslon of press dispatches,
It Is believed that by night every
homeless person will be housed and
fed.
"Let's make a plaee (or th. hems
leas la Ohio and Indiana."
Today thU Is Us slogan of thee,
who hav. at heart not only the hater
eats ot the Klamath country, hnt at
the farmers who an teday wkhent
homes In the fertile valleys e the
Miami. Wabash, etc
The plan la to brlag Keaswr. to
bear on President Wtlae, ea that hm
will immediately opea to settlsameat
the vast Klamath India resvatieav
It is said by those 'who are pasted
that there are almost a million i
half acres of fertile lands la the 1
vatln, ot which !esethaa oao-thlrd
has been alloted to .Indiana. Should
hU land be thrown opea places would
bo easily found for th. unfortunate
(people who have lest their all la the
istrlckea districts of the last aad
would do more toward allevlatlag
the suffering, both physical aad moa
tal, than anything else.
Fred Mills, a well kaowa loeoi at
torney, who la credited with
the father ot the plaa. la
that President Wilson wlU Uk. 1
on the suggestion. Maay pceavkseat
cltUens have been latervlewed, aad
It appears to be th. prevailing etav
ion that la the Klamath oouatry Heo
the salvation of the unfortunates of
th. East.
United Press Service
COLUMBUS, O., March 18. Ar
rangements have been made to put
CO bodies In the general morgue.
Crowds are awaiting the arrival ot
the bodies.
PERU ESCAPES
WITH MtA
Penalty Raised
United Press Service
..SACRAMENTO, March 18. The
senate today passed the Butler bill,
raising the penalty tor the crime ot
rape from 10 to 60 years.
Uultf d Press Bervte.
PERU, March 88. Relief parttea
have arrived here, and are now etoae
enough to forward supply heats to tha
needy, so that the susteriag la re
lieved. The fatalities her. will he I.
Dr. Moraow returned last aright
from Donanxa, where, assisted by Dr.
HarrU ot Hlldebraad, he perforated
an operation ea Mrs. Graat Blake. "
Sunday Matt Delivery)
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Poatmaater Brandenburg announe
od today that beginning this week
mall would be distributed to all of
the boxea In the postoace. This will
permit those who have boxes to r
celve their mall oa Sunday, tha aaxfto
aa oa week days. The general dale?
ry, however, will remala closed, aa R
haa Been la tha naat.
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The, Instructions from Hie)
department haa.beea to i
no mall doMvarlaa ha atoatt em
except' to hotels,- ht naMatBf Hi
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