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OFFICIAL PAPER OP
KLAMATH FALLS
Thirteenth Year No. 3,598
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1919
Price, Five Cent
KUMATH FALLS
LiltS HOW TO
BUILD II CITY
HUGE SUM FOR HIGHWAY WORK
STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION PLACES TOTAL
COST OF WORK OUTLINED FOR KLAMATH
COUNTY AT $861,980, TO BE PAID BY COUNTY,
INDIAN DEPARTMENT, STATE AND THE FED-
ERAL GOVERNMENT
,of 11,700 per year, mill cillKt gnul
j uitti'H mi ntnriiKo of $2,400 it year
r (Jmy lnillniti.il thut tha college
graduate lm, Just 800 dinners of
nticci's us coinimrinl with llm Jill tor-'
ntn person I
Lovully to thn church was another
factor which thin iiuiti see us vlUI
ly necessary In tlio homo town Tim
war Iiiin Ikh.ii it great factor In lirltiK-!
, Iiik closer together Hid denominations
i whoso potty ilnctrlnul disputes lniva1
i ii ajj rm J "" l,"flU"ly handicapped tho prog-l
Remarkable Addreta Made r f n,rl(lan,, Tm, ,,,,,, , ,ll() ,
Here Last Nitrht ;iriic!io worn not piirtlculur un to1
, whether tlmlr Hplrlluul old eamn from
m Methodist, n llapllst, u Cnthollc, a
OPERA HOUSE PACKED , J 31" Mn IITLAND, April 17.-The Oregon State Highway
Hiring about inoro unity, a mint v "r . u-Llueu w cu-uuerawj wnn L.aKe ana
crffbrtir.! orir iinuKiit in by vlYl'1 w"r, ,lruf ' crow at tho Klamath counties, and to bring them back commercially
.. . . , , ,,,H r " " wt th roiKiii of tho nio uregon, ana tne memoers win urge additional govern
ii..mr Mr... AK-utioi. !,,, Urnomitmtion. leading to tho ment co-operation to bring this about.
M..nm.pnt ..f Public Hrhuni.ttinmii ami comiK gradually cio,0r four hundred miles of new highway are involved in the
Hnmcr.ii...no,m.K.cutn.. 2hr ti.cy .endod. w. new prograrn being outHned here today. One hundred
Mmu T.t win Not ii Forgone i,ynity to ,ho homo nowpap(ir wnil and forty-five miles are to be built in Klamath County, 105
Uiiphiicii.yory strongly during tho miles connecting the cities of Klamath Falls and Lakeview,
, . , . ... !ddr.i., it wn mated thnt the dinry land 148 miles additional in Lake County .
ab ip ration to mako Kiaumth f TMOOiIore rtoOBt)yoIt WM va)uml i Th Klamath improvements are to cost $861,980, 'in
to . M.r ta i. ii ii. , ,00.000. a,.,, that a nuarter of a!which the county, fndian department, state and federal
I ; ', :,: .,,. i... .:.,.. .nonBrn. .;;. : ,Z" government will all co-operate
when I)r Ora H, Gray gave his pln-;sald tho speaker, "Ik thn diary of your f
did address on "Tho Essentials of a city Through It tho record of your
Cowl Town." pant yearn can ho found nt any tlmo.
A finished orator to tho taut do-! Your papers, If properly operated,
ire. Dr dray figuratively picked hi can ho tho biggest factom In tho up
turn audience up with III a first few building of your community. Sup
worJj and carried It throuKh tho eli-,port them with your advertisements
tin address. Not only tho adult mem- and your subscriptions "
Un went captivated, hut tha school "Loyalty to your hunks In another
children, of which thero wero a large matter of great Importance Almost
number, wero also hold by tho mag-. without exception tho hanker In tho
NORWAY TAKKS LEAD
I.V mSAUMASIIJNT.
stllc talker.
Oae freckled faced youpgator on
cltlen of tho United Stated uro men
with loading qualltlei. who are work
the front row had leaned oyer to Ing conntantly for tjio development of
mike lor.ie huinoroun roinark to hi their renpoctlva placet.. Get your
'companion when Dr. Oray commenced boy acquainted, with tho banker. Tho
to talk. Ho had his mouth open to'hest book that ho can become foinll
pik, when he caught tho first lor with next to tho lllblo Is tho bank
"words, It was Interesting to watch book
klm. Ho did not 'got through with "And whtituver you do, patronize
hU roinark, and his mouth remained your homo morchunt. Ha him coino
optn. He did not get It cloned until Anto your town, inndo a hit; Invest-j
The sum indicated in the above dispatch undoubtedly
includes the highway to Ashland, together with the high
ways north and south, east and west. Of the sum indi
cated, Klamath County will be able this year to contribute
approximately $430,0U0; the state and various branches of
the federal government contributing the remainder.
This announcement is the climax of the road campaign
inaugurated by the Herald last January, and assures a
highway system for Klamath that will make it the greatest
county in the state of Oregon.
County Engineer Darley is in Portland now, represent
ing Klamath Countyj and if he returns with assurance that
Klamath wili'have federll and state support to the extent
indicated in the above dispatch, JClamath Falls must stage
a celebration that will be heard throughout Oregon.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 17.
Norway has taken tho load In world
disarmament, reducing her mlllu.7
appropriations for 1320 by 7.500,000
crowns, or approximate! $t,300,0'j0,
nccrodlnu to Scandinavian advices
today. Tho army expenditures will ho
reduced. It was stated, by limiting
the training period of men of mili
tary age and the navy b the reduc
tion of the construction program and
orders for now equipment.
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HEARING SET FOR FRIDAY HV
GOV. OLCOTT FOR CriARGES
AGAINST COMMISSION PUT OFF
FOR TIME
tht closo of tho address.
ment, puys n good shnro of tho tuxes, i
A nation wide movement toward .supports every move for tho i.dvunco
'community development Is one, the mont of the community, and Is com
iptaker declared which Is unpreco- polled tofaca the cheap competition
dented In Its scope. It has been of the big mall order house, which by
brought about largely by tho fact thut neatly pictured cutH succeeds In work
.iton hundred thousand men In the Ing oft a gigantic amount of trash on
United Htali'H who hud never been u credulous public "
'active In any work outside of their' Or Orny mudo the nilnundlng un-
on IiukIiichs previous to tho war, nouiu'emont that 96 per cent of tho
vere brought Into the various kinds goods put out by the Sours-Itoebuck
vwf war nrk during tho groat con- company wore goods of immolei
"let, mid have realized tho jjfriiiil hnp- bnitiils. In many cases these goods
plnoj of unselfish endeavor In thfi worn manufactured by reputable con
(nd Cross mid other great works corns, hut had been found to bo do
,tbat lime l(.,.n carried .tin, and will fectivo In hoiiio piirtlculur .iinil" the
orcr again be contont to drag nlong llrm lofuseil to slump It with tho
in the narrow ruts of their previous triulo mark. It Is then bought up by,
..ejlstenco Home mull order Iioiiho itml sold as n !
, Myalty Is tho first essential, of tho llrst class urtlclo utn slightly reduced
food town tniui. When a person can't llgure. Union men who bitterly op
w a good word for his own com- poso "scab" labor will pntronlzo thc-o
munlty and boost it oug, It Is high houses whoso goods uro munuructur
time that ho was moving Into somood to i. large extent by tho kind of
other neighborhood. Dr. Orny rldl- labor they nro lighting against. Ono
ileil the old-fashlonod knocker, who big cloak and suit houso of national
' forever talking aliout tho "good old roputatlon In Now York hires many
1V when he was n boy," "Good old of tho patients who aro Blowly dying
l7s when it cost 18 cents to sand ojof cancer nt a hospital next door to
letter"; "good old days when Ooorgo spend a part of their time In Itn work
Wiihlngtnn had boon burlod two days! rooms. Mt Is conditions such ns theso
"ioro tho nows roachod Now York";1 which tho homo merchant Is up
CLOSE OF LENT HUNS REPLY TO
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SALEM4 April 17. Because Frank,
M. Warren, member of the state Fish
and Game Commission which has
been under fire by the Sportsman
Leaguo and the Multnomah Ang
lers Club has been called east unex
pectedly, the hearing of the charges
which the Governor had set for next
Friday, has been indefinitely post
Kned. The hearing will -be held In
a few weeks on Warren's return.
A controversy over the Fish and
Gme Commission has been raging
for several weeks and Governor Ol
cott had set the date Friday for
bearing when all the charges that
have been Intimated In the volume of
correspondence could be brought and
the matter sifted down. Doth sides
of the controversy have a host of
bdckem and a most Interested meet
ing was expected. Governor Olcott
is one member of the Commission
and the others aro F. W. Warren
OPPOSE 01 0
F
PI GOMPAM
IS
Take Move to Protect Reser
vation Lands
ASKING FOR BIG LOAN
Delegation of New Tribal CouHI
Will Go to Washington to Take Up
Matters of Importance New Hos
pital and Better Roads Wanted.
Good Words for Saperlntendeat.
That the Indians of the Klamath.
Reservation will oppose the construc
tion of the proposed Link Rlrer dam
by the California Oregon Power Com
pany, on the grounds that It threat
ens the overflow and will prevent the
drainage of many of the lands around
Modoc Point and Wood River Valley,
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OBSERVED
N
and 1. N. Flelshner of Portland, Mnr
lap Jark of Pendleton and C. F.
Stone of KlamUh Falls.
Members of the Oregon Sports
men's league have charged Game
Warden Shoemaker with spending bis
tlinn lilnvlnrr nnlltlrR nntl with lis
J BITPIAI. IKATllti:S IN SHtVICKS f.MTKI. STATES MAY UK ASKKU , ,pp fQr
TO LOOK AFTER AFFAIRS IX I poses. "They charge that the commis-
1 sion Is dominated by the commercial
TllfHKV AMI OTJIKll ADKIA-
1 Olt THIS OCCASION' AUK HELD
AT SACKED HEART CHURCH
THIS MORNING
ood old dny, piffle, tho boat days
nit ever happoned anywhere for any.
oody aro right In the coad old V. H
tot now, the greatest facilities for
comfortable existence and the best
opportunities for every one to get
MMa the result of industry and
otcrprlse."
One Ot tho ireitmt hinrflrana a.
I'tlng In this country at the present
-.; , " the ten nd half million Il
literate persons here, and steps must
M token to bring about a rapid
"nge in this condition.
Another startling fact that was
-"ugni out was that there wore- 4,-
v,vuo ponons In tho United States
, n could not speak or write the
English languago, and the speaker de
clared that a country that was good
"ough to sacrifice tho mon wo had
""t In therocont war, was good
wough to hnvo Us languago spoken
y Us cltlzons, and that until a por
i could road and understand tho
tonaiitmio,, which ho was support-
1!!K' 1() wns not fit to cast n ballot.
N0w York nitv. iiiin. in i,ii...t tn
,a tlio most cosmopolitan- city In tlio
rll. pnys tho llirtornto man nn
svorngo snlnry of ?C00 n yonr. Mon
" common school education got
'i nvornco of ?0S0 por yonr. High
uiool Brnilmites rocolvo nn nvorago
against, und tho homo purchasor
should take such things Into consid
eration when comparing tho prices.
In pleading for unity In this com
munlty, Dr. Gray handed Klamath
Falls a humorous Jolt which will bo
long remembered by his hearers. He
described a visit which he had made
with a famous physician to an'lnsano
aslyum in Now Jersey. Ho had bo
come greatly Impressed with tho fero
cious appearance of the men In a par
ticular ward, who numbered nearly
forty, and who wero guarded by one
small man whose physical prowess
was apparently unequal to any ono ot
the Inmates. On going out ho called
tho guard to one side and askod why
he was unafraid ot this big bunch of
men, who wero quarreling so florcoly,
and suggested that It they should
combine and turn on him ho would
have, no chanco at nil. Tho guard
laughed, and assured him that ho hud
boot! employed thoro for Ilftoon yenrs,
and had learned that ono of tho fuiv-
dlmentul rulos of Insane pooplo IsJ
that thoy nlwnya quarrel iimong
thonisolvoH, hut will novor Join
forces against nnyono olao. Tho
sponkor's .allusion to Klnmath 'Fulls
court houses following this was not
necessary. Ho had ilrlvon his point
Continued on Pngo S
TIC.ATIOX9
'The closing karvlccs of tho Lenten
sea-son nro bolng held In the Sacred
Heart Churrh, beginning this morn
ing at 7:30 o'clock with mass, fol
lowed by procession of tjio Blessed
Sacrament, participated In by tho
children of tho parish, tlio llttlo girls
being dressed In whlto, woarlng Ing the starving Russians. Represen-
Dateless dispatch by Associated
Prtss. Germany will be forced to
accept or reject tho peace terms of
fered her by May 14th but no ,-eply
U expected before May 6th.
Norway and Switzerland will act
as the agents qf tho Allies in feed
crowns of garlands and flowers ond
carrying bouquets of roses and lilies,
and 8trowlng tho aisles of tho church
with flowers.
At 7:30 tills evening will bo held
tho sorvlco ot tho beautiful Holy
Hour.
Tomorrow at 7:30 In tho morning
and again at 7:3p In the evening tho
solemn services of Good Friday will
bo conducted.
On Saturday, at 6:30 a.m., tho final
ot the Lenten services will be brought
to conclusion by the singing of
tho Allelulla and Magnificat. In tho
evonlng confessions will be heard.
Sunday morning Masses will be
said at 8:00 and 10:00 o'clock, fur
ther announcement ot which will be
made tomorrow.
RELIEF CORPS TO
ATTEND RECEPTION
Members ot tho Womans' Relief
Corps aro Invited to be present at
the recoptlon for the soldiers and
sailors at tho Christian Church to
night. This la' tho ht.it publlo reception
tendered tuo boys who hnvo return
ed from servlco.ahd It Is hoped that
thoy will nil bo on hand ylth tholr
families. Tho reception, will begin r.t
8:00 o'clock. A number of-plnls have
boon 'rondo for maglng tho affair a
success, A-5,
NEW HOV ARRIVES.
A baby boy nnmod'Pnul Lostor nr
rlvod this morning nt'tho homo ot
Mr. and Mrs. George 11. Icenhowor,
C20 Crescent Avenue-', J)r, A.-A. Soulo
was In HttondutiCo.
Utlves of Franco have mado reserve
-lions on this subjecf'whlch aro now
being considered. Tho plan has been
opposed to Russians who are oppos
ed to tho Dolshevlkl.
Tho conference Is now considering
the question ot the United States be
coming mandatory for Armenia and
Clcllla, Albania and taking over con
trol ot Constantinople.
Tho Communists still control Mun
ich but the Bavarians troops are ad
vancing on the Capital. J
LONDON, April 17. The sltua
tlon in Turkey Is now causing great
anxiety. Internal disorders and riots
are prevailing and It Is feared there
will be an outbreak shortly and Mas.
sacres of the Armenians on a large
scale.
COPENHAGEN, April 17 Bolshe
vism In Russia Is giving way to 'hw
Bourgeoises', according to a director
ot the Red Cross Committee who ar
rived here today. Lenlne and Trot
sky are trying to reach an under
standing with the moderate olemoaU.
CLAIM AWARDED
IN CIVIL CASE
Tlio case ot A. C, Yadon versus J.
V. Thomas and wife, which wsa re
ferred to Dr. R. H. Hamilton as ar
iiltrntor, has been settled by tho
uwnrdlng Yndon ?100 and ('osts, an
(ordlig to a statoment by Justice H,
J, Clupmnn yesterday.
Tlfte was ii claim hold by Dr, C, K.
Wheojor for JliiO was assigned to
the plnlntlff, Dr. Hamilton, who ws
ocqw.fnted with tho circAmsjacos,
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fish Interests and the funds derived
from the sale of angler's licenses have
been diverted from the propagation
and protection ot game fish to the
propagation ot commercial flsh
Various other charges have been
made. The governor not only has In
vited everyone who has corresponded
with him about the commission to bo
present at tho meeting next Friday,
but he has invited them to ask any
one elso who knows anything about
tho situation to be on hand.
The chlof executive Is taking the
lid off. Everybody Is to have a chance
to bo heard, and a general airing Is
to be given to the entire situation.
Developments of this meeting like
ly will have a strong bearing upon
the governor's future course relative
to the personnel ot the fish and game
commission and the game warden
and other employes who may be
brought under, tire.
MRS. BLADE WAS SHARP.
CHICAGO, April 17. Just how
thq burglar knew Mrs. George Blado
would not be In a position to mako
his presence known Is a mystery, but
Mrs. Blade reported to the police
that while she was In the tub-bath,
not wash a negro prowler entered
the bathroom. Before he had time to
make any demands Mrs, Blade told
him where he could find the family
purse containing $90,
"FLU" SEVERE IN AUSTRALIA.
MELBOURNE). April 17. The
Commonwealth government lius de
cided to prohibit all movemont ot
shipping from Australian ports as a
result of sovorltr of the Influent!
epidemic In Australia and Now Zeal
and.
ALASKA STATESMAN PASSES.
SEATTLE, April 17. Alaska dis
patches today said that Clins. A. Kill
zor, tho Alaska congressional lolo
gato elect, dlod suddenly Saturday
night on n launch while going to.so-
euro modlcal treatment.
on which irrigation aqd dralnatjo .
assessments have already been made.
Is the report brought In today by Se
cretary Clayton Kirk of the Klamatb
Reservatlon Council, following a
meeting at the Klamath Agency on.
Tuesday afternoon.
Secretary Kirk Intimates that the
proposed dam will be strenuously op
posed by the Indian body and that a.
delegation composed of Joe Ball,
Charles Hood and himself will be sent
to Washington In a short tims to
take up this matter, among athers.
with he Indian Department and Con
gressmen. The Indhns will make,a plea for
a loan from the covernment 'tor
1 $iio0.000, secired by their timber in
' terests here, for an "Industrial sup
port and uplift work." Fifty thomand
of this amount, if secured, will be de
voted to. the construction of new
highways on the Reservation
A new hospital Is one of tho Inno
vations contemrlatfd Irom .'i mis al
ready placed to the credit of tho
Tribe.
The completing of the, allotment
rolls, which, according to a ruling of
tho Indian Department, terminated
on April 15th, 1910, and over which,
thero has bsei considerable contro
versy. Is anociie- trat will bi finally
determined at an early date and ona
which will be taken up by the dele
gates to Washington.
The Indians of the Reservation are
most enthusiastic over the co-operation
extended them by their new Su
perintendent, W. G. West, who is.
working hand In hand with them to
secure the things they most aeed
and providing permission -can be se
cured, the Washington committed
will take the new official to the capi
tal to aid In Its work. Seldon Klrfc 1
Chalrman ot the new Tribal CounclL
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PETTY LARCENY TO
BE STAMPED OUT
An organised effort Is being mid
by a number of the local merchants
ot the city to put a stop to the petty
ptltlering of the counters that ban
been going on during business hours
for some time. Work ot this kla
has not been noted here until recent
ly. It Is reported by many ot the mer
chants In the city, and a representa
tive business man declared today that
It was going to be stamped out very
effectually.
GOAT GIVES WEIGHT
IN MILK EACH 11 DATS.
PLAINVILLE, Kan., April 17.
J, E. Gebhart, a farmer who Uvea In
town, boasts a goat that gives her
Weight In milk every 11 days. "Don't
talk cows to me," said Mr, Gebhart.
"Where keeping a cow Is Impossible,
a goat will fit In nicely. He keeps tha
goat In a tiny shed In tho rear ot ht3
homo liore.
SOLDIERS VOTE t
NEW ZEALAND Win.
LONDON, April 17. A vote ot
Now Zealand soldiers wiped cut the
majority for prohibition at a roceut
election.
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