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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1917
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Win: (IK FORMER COUNCILMAN
NOW' IN AHMV INSTITUTI-H ).
yehui: riioL'niiNOH, claim.
INU LIFE WAS I1UHI1ENHOME
miitihh foiu:eh
LOCAL BOY
ELS OF HIS
Tffl ABROAD
heal (-o.M)itionh in England
at this time are brought
in interesting letter from
klamath naval volunteer
William McMillan, well known to
n Urge number of Klamath Fulls res-
lilnntu Ima written an account of a
Aliening that her life with the dc-
I fftiutniit tuiu tinrnmo liurriotitmlim. tluit
AlJ.lt.R SUPPLIES REPORTER IN violent iiIiuhIvo language has boon ap-
piled to her. and that hIio has lived In I . , ... ..
DANGER AT VLADIVOSTOK. fcBr of lier ,lfe, ftn tctlon for divorce! V,8U ,0 "nao"' anu ul "'" , '"
1 1... 111...1 in i. !, n, tim'once with submarines. HIh letter.
HEimoN, a cm nijaii jmujh.i- " --- ;, .. .,
circuit court clerk by Mrs. Una Math
l,KM. IH OAITHEII RV THE own against Oscar D. Mathews.
The complaint recltcH thut tho do-
Ifvmlaiit Is n person of ungoernnble
j temper, and Hint while she has at all
War Camp Recreation
Fund Drive Nets $715
That a total of $715 was secured In i Br T. 0. Walton and O. Peyton, in
Klamath County during the recent Klamath Falls, fill casli, $3 pledges
times been a fallliful wlfo, said (It
KKRKXNKV MH HEEN CHOSEN ,nIldnnl na8 public)) Impugned her
MtMHTEE OF JUSTICE OF TEM. Inck of nsiny. lvorco nna tim 0I
tho action are asked.
POKAHY GOVERNMENT IN SI-f Tho couplo wero married In No-
vnmtinr 1 flflA TlinV linV.i tin rllll-
dren.
The dofondunl Is woll known
IIKItIA GENERAL KOHMLOIT
JOINS THE COS-JACKS
lly Aimofliitcol lrcs
DATELESS lly a heavy super
,ienty or numbers aid uiiuiiucs or Frmtr
.trtterlsl, the enoiulei have suceooiWd torncy.
'In pushing the U'Uluna back .lurlin:
Hie last four days mi nn nxotiigo of
Mi'eo miles on n ten mllo front, ullhn
lint defense lino has not been broken.
It Is believed thai tlio Anurlcar.
declaration of war on Austria will
probably be a great help to tho ltnl-j
in troops.
It Is reported tint the Urltlsh hnvo
ttpturcd Hebron, southwest of Joru-j
Mtm. j
Fifteen hundred of'tho Bolshovikl
troops are Bald to havo arrived at
Vladivostok, where much war inn-'
tartal and other supplies shipped
(ram the United States, Japan and the
tear allies has been stored.
berla has chosen formor Promlor Kor-
Kornlloff has been reported to. hnvo
In
tliU cltv. bavins served as. council-
, mifi for tho Second Ward for a num
ber of years. lh recently left to
Join the Twentieth Engineers Lum
bermen's battalion ftfr service In
John Irwin Is plnlntlff's at-
HIGH SCHOO
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TEACHERS OFF
TO IN ARMY
TWO POPULAR MEMRERH OF ML
CAL FACULTY LEAVE TO EN
LIST IIANI1HOME PRE8ENT8
ARE MADE THEM HY STUDENTS
PLEAHINO RILL AT ORPHEUS
A very pleasing bill wns preseny '
Tho Klnmuth County high school
w- i b0e" re,ortcd to-,mvo members havo said fnicwell to two
Joined (leneral Kaledlncsr.tho Cos- members of tho faculty, Pro-
IMk,ea,1r. I, ' Jit I. llnln nn lloyal F. Nlles,
lunnuin t -
who leave their positions here to Join
.1,0 unrvim nf their country.
a. n moctliiK hold at the school
...!.. n.n aiminiit body oresent-
ry pieasing dim wns presenui yciuiu7. ." - -
t the Orpheus theater last evening ed both tho young men with a hand-
... .. . ...tu .. n inlAit of re
J me appearance of Clara Kimball somo wrisi " '-
Voung In "Marriage n la Carte." This spect and good wishes.
PUyhouse has now been thoroly ren-l Mr. Nlles loft today for San Fra i
ovated and placed in nrst class ahape Cisco and Mr. Uoln plans to Ini
'or the winter season's run. Two morrow. The brunches thoy will en
'madkin . .. . .- .. i,na nnt honn announced.
---v,M.1CH are now lnsiauea, bo as 10 ibi '" ,..i. -,111
"brlate .11 delay between the acta. I Mr. Nlles place In ho tm Kj w
The new management ha. secured a bo filled by Miss Wh ' WH
n. line of picture, for Ihe enter-. IUbou. N. D. Mr. Bains Place has
Ulnment of the local nubile. not boon flllod.
which Is one of unusual Interert, Is
Klvcn below In port. McMillan was
ono of tho first to volunteer In the
navy when the call to the colors was
made last spring.
November 17 We are at sea now
and are getting along fine. We are
out of the, war zone, and I have a
little time to write. We left New
York about three weeks ago for Hal
ifax, In Nova Scotia. Canada, wo
stayed there over night, and started
for England that day.
We got to England O. K. No bubs
showed up. Wo got to Davenport, in
Rnuthern KnElund. on the 7th, and
nvorv man cot n chance to go to Lon
don. 1 could hnrdly afford It, but
could not miss the chance, so I went.
Southern England Is the cleanest
and most beautiful place for green
Helds nnd rolling hills I ever saw.
Wo cot on the train about 3 o'clock
In tho nfternoon, and got to London
nhciit 9:30. It wns dnrk there, and
tho town was nil darkened on account
of tho nlr raids, so we did not know
whero to co. Wo stopped In at a
restnurant and ordered n meal. Wo
nniv irot tHreo little slices of bread,
nnd they were mighty thin, as Eng-
Innd has pnssed a food control law.
Wo irot.n room and went to bed, then,
nnd next morning we started out. I
never saw so many different uniforms
In my life before. Every man from
17 to 35 was In n uniform, and If you
hcor that England Is .not liuttlng out
hor share of men. you tell them tney
don't know what they nre talking
ahout. Every day there Is train load
after train load of "wounded coming
In. You soe men with no arms or
only one nrm, or one leg. It is a
common thin. You can't realize
what a thing this war la on England,
and I guess It Is worse on France.
Thore are lots of Americans nght
Inir with Canada's troops.1
We nre on our way back to the
United States now. We had a little
trouble coming thru the war .one
with the subs, but they did not get us.
Old Kaiser BUI said wo would never
irh thn United States again, but
drive for the war camp recreation
fund Is brought out In a detailed re
port just published by H. D. Morten
son, who bad charge of this work.
The quota portioned for Klamath
County was $400, and the drive initi
ated by the Klamath. Commercial
Club.
The workers selected worked with
such enthusiasm and the public re
sponded to the call in such a gener
ous manner that tbe amount request
e'd was oversubscribed by 79 per cent.
Those, who worked on the- drive
wish to thank all for co-operating
with them in a fashion so liberal and
wilting that the collection of the
funds became a real pleasure.
The collection, made were a. fol
lows :
by H. D. Mdrtenson and C. Riley,
$165.
By Father Marshall, Sunday serv
ice, $1.
By Father Marshall at Algoma
Lumber company, $28.
By E. H. Pike, at Pelican Bay Lum
ber company, $134.50.
By E. 8. Terwilllger, Merrill, $65.
By C. Loosley, Fort Klamath, $42.
By W. S. Dalton, Malln, $15.
By C. F. Setter, Chelsea Box com
pany, $58.50.
By O. A. Krause, Klamath Manu
facturing company, $63. I
By A. J. Voye, Big Lakes Box and
Lumber company. $15: pledged, $3.
By. J. B. McAllister, Ewauna Box
company, $16.
Total, $709; pledged, $6
Grand total, $715. ' '
Chief Counsel
of the Federal
Trade Commission
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BUDGET FAR
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COMPLETED
RUMANIANS JOIN ARMISTICE
JASSY, Roumanla, Dec. 8.
It has been decided that tbe
Roumanian troop, shall associ-
atn themselves 'with the Rub-
sians In' the proposed armistice.
Altho tire Roumanians have
rntocted overy attempt at fra-
ternlzatlon previously, hostlll-
itles have been supsended to-
day over the whole front. 4
Ing the service in the navy
NAVAL OFFICERS
EXPECTED TONIGHT
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Assistant Burgeon J. 8. Saurman of
tho U. 8. .Navy, with Chief Boat
swalri'. Mate -D. Warner will be In
Klamath Fall, tomorrow and Monday,
and" will be pleased to answer all
question, pertaining to the new 'draft
act taking effect December 15th, to
the new insurance allotment laws,
and any Information required regard-
John Walsh, who ha. been appoint
ed chief counsel of the Federal Trade
Commisslcn. He Is the nrst chief
counsel of the commission, the posi
tion having been vacant until hi. ap
pointment. Mr. Watsh Is a brother of
Senator T. J. Walsh of Montana.
MEFi
PROPOSED AMOUNT WILL TOTAL
TRIFLE OVER FOUR HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS BIG SUM.
MADE AVAHiABLE TOKfiVKW
COURTHOUSE, , ;
OVER NINETEEN THOUSAND
WILL BK ' AVAttABLBr'
Switzerland Hears
Too Much Peace Talk
SOLIR BOYS
TOMORROW
COUNTY
BALANCE
ROAD" WORK'
FROM
LAST
LEVY OVER 6 MILLS
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presence from time to time of na
tional character, from either side.
Tbe fact, seem to indicate that, It
peace negotiations actually are going
on, they are privately conducted, for
their respective governments, by un
pretentious and more or less unoffi
cial persons.
One American assert, that he has
PRESBYTERIANS WILL HOLD
PATRIOTIC MEETING IN HONOR
OF UOY8 OF CHURCH NOW IN
ARMY AND NAVY
American Destroyer
Torpedoed and Sunk
WASHlNQTpN, D. 0 Dec,. 8.
The American destroyer Jacob Jone.
vu torpedoed and aunk In the war
tone Thursday, with a loss of a la'rgo
Ptt of her crew.
Thlrty-taven survivors were taken
I on on.j Ufa raftf ' Name, of ten
btvs been received bare,
swung seeurrea si p. w.. ','', W,.,9T men
Wl. the vs., ws. octroi duty. ! J "JJ S
P uss.eommsnded by Lieutenant
Commander David Worth Bailey, a
brother-in-law of Secretary o, me
Navy Banlels. ..
This Is the first Important Amer
ican naval loss. The Jacob Jon
; tho destroyer which saved 305
persons 'from tbe sinking Cram
which was torpedoed, on Oc ober
19th. Bho was one of the newest and
. -.in Hmtroyers. having
L. L.t.d in 1916. Her P"
p.cu v-r mm ,
time complement twi r"'
helieved lost, probably In
cluding Commander Bailey.1
If I will get to mail this to you yet
one of the subs showed up for a
few minutes the third day out, and
we put the lead so close to her that
she dived, and that wa. the last we
saw of her.
I have some English money that t
will send to you, and maybe yo
think we didn't have a time .pending
It. We would Just hold out a hand
ful and let' them pick out all they
wanted. Everything was shilling,
and pence. and half a crown, and a
crown, and it sure get. a teiiow rat
tled. - "
They called for volunteer, for the
torpedo destroyer., and a bunch of
thn fallow went. They are In Eng
land now. I think if we eyer go there
again and I get the chance, I win
loin them. too. , .
This I. our last day but, we will
pull In at about 3 p. m. today. I will
nnt ( a chance 'to mall'thls till we
pet to New York,' as wis. will not'get
ny Jtberty. at Hampton Roaa.wnere
we ire going to coal.
, We' hsd1 bur first snow yesterday.
BERNE, Nove. 15. (Correspond-!
ence of the Associated Prew) About
the only thing that Switzerland ha.
too much of 1. peace rumor.. Trav
eler, who come from Germany, Aus
tria, .France and Italy say those coun.
tries, too. are'full of talk about the
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conferences mot are vupiiubcu - , ...
. .. .. k-.... ' acted a. a "peace emUsary" for the
going on conBHinuy usm uumeou ..... r.
"personalities" from tbe entente and; entente, and In this capacity met a
v ' . German of Inconspicuous station,
ASfc. who, because of hi. "ho. thj, Amerlcan'was given to be
prominence in ocal affair., must be ve, wn, prepared to make peace
nemeless. sum. up the actual altua- 'rouoal.. The two met. the German
tlon, a. he correspondent has found explained that be under.tood he wa.
. "w ,,,... t, . ht the to receive, rather than submit a peace
presence of notables from belligerent ' . 5?-! .r"
ss2,Tir wstj; - -
Mathla. Er.berger, tbe German
centrist deputy, one-time "uncrown
ed king behind the Prussian throne,'
he, has not got us yet, and It look, asj come here to "feel out" the sentl-
ment-of tbe other .me, tney are not
often peace envoy.
Any proposition which any govern
ua. .1 !. a n1tiaMMa 4 at.
In honor of soldier boys who have
left1 to euter the service of the nation
from the First Presbyterian church,
a special service has been arranged
tor tomorrow morning.
The church is to be decorated with
flags and Inspiring music in keeping
with the occasion will be played. A
"Prayer for the Nation" by the choir
and "The Star Spangled .Banner" by
Mrs. Bert C. Thomas are among
these. .
The following short addresses win
nim bo eiven: "Our Honor kou ana
Their Mothers," W. A. Delzell; "The
Church and the Flag," W, S. Slough;
The Chuich and Conservation," E.
L. 'Elliott; "The Church at prayer in
War Time." J. B. Mason, and "The
Soldier and His Religion," by Rev. E.
P. Lawrence
Presbyterian church boys with the
colors ore Ralph C. Hum, William
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- i. -mi . flnvan.. o? to ac'"" a"0"" a having saia ne naa nao
. ....j . an interview with an English "peace
waSiSSt-SSiy-t..-. But It ...believed here that
.' Erzbera-er's fellow conferee was one
and wno is wiwow mwmwj w , ,:. -mia. vln.
That the estimated bndgetVfer,
Klamath County for the comtagjear-
win be 1400.044.66. an'amount'eoje
laiderablyJeM .thaJutfu-WeJ-mv-.
Is .hown Jn figure, decided, uponM
the meeting of the County Court
Thursday and Friday ofthte wes.
While bee.tlmaUd coat of-cw.ty
operations ne year ro iwMyy
miioh n nmvionalr. the decrease sias
been explained In the fact that,ti:tJ
crued Interest on the warrants; na.' t
been lightened by $11,000 and-Uat
tbe different court ees fortBe,$t'
year have been materially greater, t
With the levy on $60,000 for court
house construction and tbe balance
$63,000 now In the treasury for this
purpose, an amount sufclent for, tke
completion of this structure issbefry2
ed In sight. It 1. also tfiought"that
the county roads can be materially
improved with the expenditure of the
$50,000 levied for' this purpose, to
gether with the $42,000 balance left
over from last season.' TJie sum of
$17,000 now remains -in the general
fund. '
Some of the high school district '
levies nre Interesting details of the
estimate. DUtrfirt 47, tor Instance,
which is in thefOlene section,' call.
for 18 mills, ;WMe district No. 14.
at Merrill, Is to stand one of 14 mills,
7 mills special and 7 mill, on bond.
If the estimated budget goe. thru
as nrono.ed by the court, it will mean
a lew of something over 26 mills,
i ...ith .Ml. tliA ltv law nf S.R1&
mills, will bring tbe city taxpayers'
levy to more than 60 mill. ' t
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SUM FOR RED CROSS
The Merrill Library Club ba. turn
ed over $87 to tbe Red Cross Society
as its share of tbe proceed, from the
UUIUIB mo ay. w. , .. -
and Floyd McMillan, Morris Graves, dance dlven Thanksgiving nlgBt.sTals
Wilbur Telford, Garrett Van Kiper sum represents one ui -
and Robert Rlggs.
ceeds.
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more than deliver or listen to a pro
posal. No one has been compromised.
particularly no one ha. exhibited
"signs, of weakness" by advancing
"terms'"
That such tentative ."feelers" have
been put out repeatedly seem, be
yond doubt, but It I. not these that
have caused the ever-recurring peace
rumors 'to circulate, but ratber the
It was fplh all day, but I. nice to
day, but cold,
Neveiab.r $$. Tbe ship Is coaled,
lamd.wa will sBsnd'half a day tomef-i
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row eieaniag up, ens ta.n comes -t-ft
big turkey dinner, we are on ou.r
way to New York saw. The captain
wants to be there for dlniir,
of the unofficial kind.
Something like three year, of this
diet of peace rumor, has left the ma
jority of 8wl. pes.imi.tlc, Mention
peace, and the average Swiss shakes
bis head sadly. Roll a few big and
Imposing names from your tonguti,
and he becomes positively gloomy.
for be I. like the child who has once
been burned by the fire, and has
learned the utter futility of 'setting
any .tore by the pfesence of various
big characters from fill nations who,
at' one time or another, have been
here . . nr have been aald in he here.' '
, Tfeat secret, ;'unocli! peace dis-
"j-attsisif Aas Vett-avar-LatH wsirtrafaiiiatltfas t
vtg sld.s who are not bound", and
hjtvel no.suthorlty have taken 'place
and'jRfs'p. are'tkklng ptice.Ms' gen
erally believed. ' ' " '
Commerce Commission
Hear ing Is Postponed
A . . -Jr -fij
the traffic attorneys, at Ban rraaclseo, ,ff
that It will ba called at an early date.,, MfM
aeueveQ toe -. w?
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Ths meetlni of f trw Hfta
per's which uwtiiiaHt'Uim&
will oe neia was not - - --T7TJT v.:Iwij.v Vjyjs
de.m.t,ed, bufthehopa l.Vxpr.sd b. Postpont wn fw $$?l ,
intbe m.,.ie from Birfop Bablerjlng I. "WW, 4ffit! . J
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News was received by the Com
mercial C)ub today to the effect that
the rate hearing before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, scheduled for
the Wbfte Pelican hotri on December
Htb. had'b'een postponed, by mem
fcoro nf the commission. The date
when the hearlog will be held wa. not
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