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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1917.
Railroad Ordinance Passed by
COUNCIL TAKES
FINAL STEP IN
RAILROAD DEAL
MAYOR IS NOW TO SIGN CON.
TRACT WITH STRAHORN
Deed li Ing Prepared for Transfer.
ence of Right of Way Mr. 8trhorn
Will Htrt Until Saturday, When
Everything to Bo Clotod Up Work
on Construction Will Begin In Thirty
Days, or Soontr.
Tin- rll) council pnsittxt tlm ordi
nance providing for the signing of Hid
conl met for Mm construction of the
railroad from thin city to Dairy last
night tiy a unanimous tote, the council I
rhnmbrra brine more tlmn AIM with
a Isrse and Interested crowd of towns
people, who desired to witness the lant
Mrp, practically, on the part of the city
la doing Ha aharo towards starting this
railroad conl ruction work.
The council took up thin ordinance
ahead of tlio regular business, and fol
lowing the action by the council, which
wan loudly applauded by the audience.
Mayor CrUler called on Mr. Blrahorn,
who wax In the audience, to apeak.
A large imrtlon of the audience wan
composed of women and these Mr.
Strahorn personally addressed, giving
Ihrm much credit for tliclr share In
the work for tho railroad. '
"We have reached the final mile.
tone In Hih ureal enterprise, and I
am proud to be here," said Mr. Btra
horn. "I desire lo congratulate Klamath
Falls, and desire to acknowledge the
progress made here ahead of all the
other town, although Ihla city wan
the last approached, to her, therefore,
belongs the great credit due for the
final consummation of thla work.
"Thin Is an accomplishment, I be
lleve, which la much larger than any
of you have yet dared dream or nave
been able to realise. I believe that
this is but the atartlng point of the
beginning of a great project.
"Every human activity la now grip
ped In the great war. and no one can
avoid his responsibility. rTom a patrl
otic standpoint, there could do a no
more patriotic work undertaken by a
people In putting your shoulders lo the
wheel of thla great enterprise.
"In war It la necessary lo raise1 men,
Provide them with equipment and the
other things, but the greatest problem
Is (o feed thoso men and the peoplo of
the foreign lands.
"We cannot push the rails of thin
railroad out Into thla great region fast
enough to develop tha thousands or
acres, and contribute our share of tho
food for the country.
"Thorefore, thla step marks history
In thla city and, aa we often aay In
ramp, a start la aa good as n day.
"I feci safe In saying that none or
you will over havo cause to regret tho
step you havo taken, and that you will
rejoice when It la finished, and that
It will bo far beyond what you ox
peeled."
The council meeting then virtually
resolved Itself into an Informal recep
tion for the crowd In the council cham
ber, many of Its members riling by Mr.
8trahorn to renew acquaintances,
Continued on Pate 4
British Motorship, Afire is
Being Towed to Newport
BOSTON, May ! A Norwegian
learner is reported lowing to Newport
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Railroad Man Here
To Sign Contract
Who raid today that dirt ought to bo
moving by Junt lit on city' railroad tt
Dairy, and who will let contracts local
ly, to far at la possible.
STRAHORN TO LET
CONTRACTS HERE
WANTS LOCAL PEOPLC TO HAN.
OLE WORK TO KEEP MONEY
HOME WORK OUGHT TO BE
FLYING BY JUNE 1, HE SAID
"The contracts for the construction
work on the railroad from this city to
Dairy will be given to local contract
ors whenever possible," said Robert E.
Strahorn today. -
"I desire to let these contracts to
local men wherever possible, and do
not want them to feel backward about
putting In bids for the work," he said.
"They will be let In sections, so that
they can handle the work, and It Is our
desire to patronize home Industry
whenever It Is possible, so that wo can
keep the money ut home."
Notices will bo given for t,he calling
of bids on the contracts, and every
opportunity afforded local contractors
and workmen to take care of this work
for Mr. 8trahorn. f
'I expect to be throwing dirt on the,
work by Juno 1st. at lensO' said Mr.
Strahorn today. '
EIGHT THOUSAND
KIDS WILL FARM
COLUMBUS, O, May 9. Seeking lo
lead Its sister states In averting a food
famine by producing bumper crops.
Ohio this summer will place 8,000 boya
and girls at work on farma and In gar
dena under tho supervision or Ohio
Stato University.
At least 2.000 or these children will
be boya or the Ohio Boys Corn Club.
They will produce at least 50,000
bushels or corn, It Is estimated.
Boys' and Girls' Club leadora or tho
state university will have direct super
vision or tho children work.
Each boy will have at least one aero
ror corn growing. They should aver
ago twonty-flvo bushels or corn por
acre. Other children will grow pota
toes, ralso pigs and poultry, and do
their bit in canning and garden clubB.
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ROBERT E. 8TRAH0RN
COUNTY AGENT'
ARRANGES MORE
SATURDAY MEETS
II NO WARRANOBD FOR AORICUL
TURAL DEFENSE DAY
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Yield of 1016 Principal Cereals Wat
1,217,404 Bushels Short of 111ft 290,".
000,000 Bushels of Wheat Wore Ex
ported Last Year, Compared With
Average of 11,731,000 Much of Thla
Wheat Waa Sunk by Enemlee.
Seven more meetings have been ar
ranged to be held in the rural dlatricta
or Klamath county oh Agricultural De
fense Day, next Saturday, In the move
ment started by the federal govern
ment to Increase the food production
of the nation to provide the allies with
food, and also America. In the war.
This makes a total of eighteen
meetlnga In thla county, which will be
held Saturday, the day proclaimed by
Governor Wlthycombe aa the day for
tln-i.v meetings to be held In every
county in tho state. Kvery county has
been provided with an agricultural
expert, the county agenta acting where
they are employed, while special
agenta have been provided for those
counilea without agenta.
Special men have been appointed
and are now at work In the towns of
all counties In the state urging that
home gardens and food stuffs bo raised
In the cltica.
"Without exception all agricultural
authorities havo warned us that the
world Is racing a food condition that is
without 'parallel, and there la no ex
ception to their appeal to the farmer
of the United States that he can pro
duce aa he haa never produced before,
calling his attention to the fact that
there can be no such thing aa an "over
production of the ataple food stuffs."
says a bulletin Isaued by the extension
service of the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege. The yield of all the principal cereals
waa far below normal In 1816, saya the
bulletin. The 1918 crops of wheat,
oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, corn
and beana waa 1,117,404,000 bushels
short of the 1915 crop, and while the
average export from 1913-14 waa 61,
738,000 bushels of wheat, In 1916 we
exported 250,000,000 bushela more
thijn seven times aa milch.
rteporta alnce January 1, 1917, gives
us 'these facta concerning the wheat
crop for thla year, says the bulletin:
New Zealand About 75 per cent un
der 191516.
Australia 1,000,000 acres less sown
than In 191516.
United States Winter wheat will be
',2.000,000 buahela leaa than In 1816.
Argentine 300,000,000 buahela short.
Spain Haa embargo against expor
tation. The meetlnga acheduled further for
Saturday night at 8 o'clock, with the
men io be In charge, are:
Lorella school M. T. Prince.
Plevna school C. o. Hunt.
Bonanza church J. C Hamaker.
Hltdobrand school J. O. Wight.
Dairy school B. P. Sedge.
Algoma school John Hagelatein.
Keno school H. R. Olalsyer.
PREPARE PLANS FOR
BIO MILL AT WEED
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Plans are being drawn here by the
Hunter Sawmill, Engineering and Con
struction company for a complete four
band mill for the Weed I Lumber com
pany to be erected at Weed,
The contracts for the concrete work
for the mill timber are to brallowed
this week, ,
Mr. Hunter la remaining here In his
oMce, and will have a man it Weed
also ln.BMtetlon with the work.
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ERECTED WHEN
ROAD IS ASSURED
HUNTER ANNOUNCES PLANS ARE
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Logging Rate Over NewRoad, Con
etructlon Will Start on Mill on Lake
Ewai,na Spurs Will Be Secured
' With Both Railroads for Logs and
Lumber Shipments.
"A soon as the railroad construction
contract Is signed, by Mayor Crislcr
and Robert E. Strahorn, and wo can
secure a logging rate, construction will
start on our sawmill, for wlilch n site
haa been secured on I-ake Kivnuna."
said 1. Hill Hunter of the Hunter Saw
mill, Engineering and Construction
company of thla city, today.
"We hate secured the site nnd will
have a lake frontage nnd spurs from
both the Southern Pacific nnd the Stra
horn railroadn for Hocurlnc; our logs
and ror shipping our lumber.
"We have made arrangements to re-
cure logs from bojywtheaorh,jnd
from the east over the new rond, and
will dlsposo of our output to the
Ewauna ilex- company here largely.
"The parties Interested In the mill
are rmself nnd some Minneapolis poo
pie. We will build a mill with a ca
pacity of I5flon,000 feet of lumber
a year. It will be a comparatively
small plant at this time, and owing to
our Inability to get the band'equipment
we desired, we will put in a circular
outfit at thla time, so that we can get
started thla year.
"The only thing that is preventing
consti urtlon work starting now is a
satisfactory logging rate, which we ex
pect to get without trouble from Mr.
Strahorn aa soon as the railroad is as
sured beyond a doubt
"The mill will employ thirty men
here and larger forces In the woods.
It will be, modern In every respent, and
will run the mill eleven months out
of the year."
The Ilwauna Box factory haa been
placing its shavings and sawdust ror
some time between Ita alte and the site
to be occupied by thla'mill. to provide
a road by which the materials may be
taken to the lake front for the mill
which Is owned by Mr. Hunter.
While logs will not be secured at
thla ,tlme via tho river and lake, it Is
expected that large bodies of timber
adjacent and tributary to tho Klamath
river will be eventually brought to the
mills by thla route, including the Hop
kins, and other large tracts.
PARIS CHEERS
AMERICAN UNIT
MUNITION TRANSPORT SERVICE
BODY MARCHES THROUGH THE
FRENCH CAPITAL AND POLICE
HOLD CROWDS
PARIS, May 9. Sixty Americans,
composing the first unit of the Amer
ican munitions transport service for
the French front, marched through
Paris today.
Colonel Gerard reviewed the body.
Cheering thousands" of people crowd
ed the streets, and the
police were
forced to clear tho way for them.
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arrived In Chesapeake Bay a few days
since with members of the French com
mission to the United States, have
England's Daily
Is $34,500,000 Daily-Law
LONDON, May 9. Chancellor of the
Exchequer Bonar Law, introducing the
new bill In a vote for more credit, told
the house of commons today that Eng
land's war expenses total $34,500,000
daily.
The chancellor asked to have a bil
lion pounds for war credit, and de
claied that the British have captured
over 20,000 uermans, zm guns, ssi
trench mortars and 470 machine guns
WILL THEYKBEP THE
PIG8 IN THE PARLOR
COLUMDUS, Ohio, May 9. Any
Tluckeye boy or girl who wants to
raise a pig will receive substantial en
couragement from the state or Ohio.
Hundreds or children are planning
to have pigs for pets, taking them at
tho age of twelve weeks or younger,
nnd feeding and caring for them until
they become unwieldly. County fairs
will offer prizes for the pigs with the
best manners.
Reichstag Committee Will
Repatriate Forced Workers
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AMSTERDAM. May 9. The main
committee of the relcnitag haa decided!
to repatriate speedily the workers In
the -German occupied acctlona of. Po-i
the Councfl
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swarmed about New York, where the
vesael now Is, for several days. They
have been received with open arms,
and the officers have been entertained
by scorea. x
Expense
since April 1st. He said that the Brit
ish casualties have been between 60
and 75 per cent under the Sonune of
fensive losses.
The French have captured 29,000
Germans, making a total of 49,000
Germans taken during the offensive,
he bald. Illndenburg's operations in
the Mazurian swamps In tho early war
Is the onlly instance of the war equal
ling the present, he said.
REFUSES TO PERMIT
THAW EXTRADITION
HARRISBURG, Pa.. May 9.-Oovei"
nor Braumbaugb today refused a r
quest from New York for the extradi
tion of Harry K. Thaw.
FIRST LINE TRENCH
TAKtN ON FRONT
LONDON, May 9. The British have
recovered some lost ground around
Fresnoy, and gained northwest of Har-
gt court.
The French took three quarters of a
mile of first line trench northeast of
Chevreaux. s.
i land and Ltthunla. and also the de-
ported Belgians. They will be given
I equal rights with the Germans, they
announce.
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PRESIDENT URGES
SHNLDI16E11L
DE SPEEDED UP
INCREASED TAX ON COFFBK AN
TEA IB ADOED
Houee la Considering the AetaMitlotrev
ilon'e Bill Thla Afternoon, ProvWw
for a Fooej Census anal ApprepHat
ing 5,000,000 for Sasoo Power to
Reg date Traffic la Given to
state Commerce Commission.
WASHINGTON, May . President
Wilson called the republican and dec
ocratic leaders of the senate apprepfl-
latlon committee to the White Hoaee to
day and 'urged the incorporation in tho,
urgent definlency.bFll a IMSSjStSjMS
shipbuilding appropriation. H used
for the immediate passage of the ME. ,
The house ways and moans eeenmst
tee reported favorably on the' IMto.
000,000 revenue MIL
Kitchen Immediately tntrodnoad n
measure in the house to call reMlI
In the house tomorrow. TM'eeanaitV
tee baa added a tax of one cert on oaeh
pound of. coffee aadt ' two eentsvon tin
imported. '
The house thla afternoon Ia'consId
ering tho admlnlstratloa'a food Mlt
authorizing a food census and aa ap
propriation of 15.000,000 for aeedai
A bill empowering tho interstate
commerc commission to regulate tho
car service In times of emergency to
prevent car shortages was
day.
ELKS TO HOLD
INITIATORY MEET
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FORT KLAMATH, KLAMATH ABEN
CY AND WOOD RIVER DELEBA.
TION EXpfcTED tO OO IN.'
PLANS FOR ftAB DAY
Tomorrow night will bo tho regnUr
Initiation night 'at the Dka Lodge.
Sixteen candidates have boon passed
for Initiation, and It k expected that
moat of them will bo in attendance nt
thla meeting. Among tho number la
a bunch from Fort Klamath, and the
Agency and, a delegation (roan tho
Wood River country haa planned to
come down for the oooaslon,
Special orchestra and voeal mnate
haa been arranged, and light rorroaa
ments will be served during tho cran
ing. Initiation claaaea are only being
held once a month, so as to permit all
members to be able to bo present' em
these Interesting occasions. Plana are
also to be made tomorrow night' for
holding the annual flag day
lea, which thla year on acoonnt ofttan
war, will be observed o a -
orate scale throughout Um
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