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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1920)
" ,V . . A ' I M&X SO 'V Ar48"W '-ajv tjf x? . vr jsriW9rr jkx "" swccaews Wtt 3Eu immn Iforalfi OFFICIAL PAPER OK KLAMATH FALLH OFFICIAL PAPER 09 ..KLAMATH COI 37 1c Fourteenth Year No. 3931 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1920 Price Five Cent v f w T ON RESULTS OF I Coiiipllntlim of tlin ri-atitl of Frl liny' iirltnury election iraetlcully cninpli'l'i Tlin ranvaaalnx hoard la now clmrkliiK utur tint rcmilU of lu labor for errors and discrepancies nil eipeot to have a report of tho Klamath county balloting prepared fur mailing to tlin secretary ( ilMo tomorrow. Lloyd a)w ran nw-uy from hU op ponent, John Farnell, In th rnro for Republican nomination (or alwrlff , Judge C. C. Ilrowiir of Klamath Tall captured the Republican nnml nation for district attorney by a lead of K9 votra orer William Marx of Merrill. I. I., Oiigmlien secured both He pnlillcan anil Dumucrallc nomina tion! for Juallce of the jwari of l.tnkvllle township, receding 120 COLIN M T NT MR Republican and 29 Democratic ote,"" " " C. It, Do Up, county clerk, who ,nl" rflon w,",l,rl"' Thura- wa unoppoied on tho prlnlud ballot, ',u' A u',,,,p nf r,,,,"lc '"' lno' ' led the Hepubllcnn ticket In the com- pllmrntary .wile with 1114. C. T. Barley, for auneyor, came unit with 72, (leorge I.. Ilumplirny for aherlff led tho Democratic tlrkrt a the gatherer of complimentary rntea, an curing 400, 0 K Van Itlper for treaiurer wna a cne aecmid nllh 398, W. A. Duncun, for dlitrlct at torney, rweltrd 302 tnlna (leorgit Chnataln, Dviiiocrntlc ran dlilnln for county Judge, unopposed on hla own ticket, not only recelted tho atsmped npprorat of hla own par ty but 102 Kepubllrnn voter took the trouble to write hit name In on their bnllola. II. II. Ilunnrll .llepubllrnn Incum bent, received 29 writ!:) In Demo cratic votea, " Ilurretl Hhort, Democratic candi date for cnmmlaalnner, received 2.H written. In ov from Rcpubllrana. Fred I'eteraon, tlio Republican regu lar candidate came back ulth a Dvm ocratlc wrlttun-ln volo of 30. All innuaurea on Ihn general ballot carried. With tho exception of thn bill reatorlng capital punlahment thn afflrniatlvo majorities went largo. Vote for capital punlahment were 889; agalnat 72.".. Tho higher educational tax hilt got thn larxeat majority 1437 to 296. With thn exception of central com mitteemen for varloua precincts and candidates for Justice of the peaco and conalablu In several townahlp, the Hat below I complete. Tim Tote for the ofllcca excepted wore mail, In many Inatanrea there aro aereral tie with one rote each, and It will take a little adjustment to And out Juat who' who on the party county committee. Following la the ceunt: ReyaMtrM Delegate at largo Doyd 4 SO, Butler 272, Cameron 194, Carey 374, Cotnpton 13, Harrison J. Kollock 104, Macdonald C0, MacLean 345, Marls 33S, McCamant 373, Olson, MICKIE SAYS bhHIVM ls") Wss"WaS' avsj MMM "H 0XTTAH' KCMNUV4 UMM m NROOl) 1vHt . fMW fO Ht OOUtJOV fUvtHO tM&Ki Htv4 V4WH W CO TfMCU mMSM T tAAf W KtXMXMR. AM UaVMC Ow OCNO WrAKV WOW. tOM4M KVCvX HAO.4 MOW VMMMDAUK'' f ibbI I JsTv"W''9 I s-r-v. '?r aaai I i JOIf.NtO.V AIMIAD AH I nl'.T HMMIIII'.HSIIH PORTLAND, May 2't Com. plnli) oillclul rutiirn f rnni "it) roiiiitli'it, mioillcliil com pint i) re- turn from It coimllitH nml In- 0 tompl'.'tit return from II vo COIItltlP of till) Sllltl), Clllll tlllfll 0 nl noon Kltu Johnson a plural- Ity over Wood of lOiil wile. Tilt) votu tiitnl Johnson K.,3l'.i Wood 43,288 ETULE LIKE CROPS mw w,""""''" -' " " i""""' "" - , .' i. I'0 hiarcn in the paraae, it. a. it. of dollar north of crop In the Tulelriurer ever appearing In thla C"rmen veteran of any Indian war, lake rrglon If prompt action la not ha received eloaer attention or at- H,,in',h Amerlcan war veteran will taken to check inrm. any county Agent Thonitt. Tbo flrat trouble In '"""" " " nl u" " Ml work atnrleil towanu poisoning. Kurlhir examination ahowvii thot inn graaalioppur were hutchluK out In mM Vw. Vesterday the county igent, ar- rompanled by D M. Smith, madi) n trip over a larcn purl of thn district. A 200-poiind barrel of ursenle and a barrel of inolasne wua sent to Malln from tlio farmliureau offUn Mnmliiy. A large supply ai orden'd by wlro and will be here In the next day or two. A et tho grasshopper " i ronflnr. Mo small area, varying from I an eighth of an acre to two or three acres In some can-. Arounn tneso hatching beds, tlio ground Is liter ally cowed by grasshopper. Wllhln a few da)s, they will spread oer hundreds of acre nf crops If prompt action Is not taken. Kerone having crops In that ro glon should Join In the fighting, oven If the grasshoppers are not on, their land ut present, as thvy Iruvel fast and If allowed lo go unchecked until they aro ready to fly they scatter over the vnllro lake region. In counts madu whom the first poison was put nut, a high as 300 dead grasshopper wero found to the suaru foot. Tho standard poison bran mlxtilro I Iwlng used. It Is tho samo mlxluro that was so vffec llvo In the Keno-1'lcvna district dait year. ' 260, lluiid 471, Stewart 286, lllckey 230. Delegates second district Rrooko 806, Cooper 676, Curl 179. Donnell 426. Prualdent Hoover 126, Johnson 911. l-o'mden 216, Wood 226. Vice president Lodge S69, Wash ington 27S, Webster 216. Senator Abraham 619, Btantlcld 269. Representative Jones 347, Sin nott 897. Secretary of state Coburn 238, Jone 177, Koier 237, Lockley 123, I'araona 260, Bchulderman 109, Wood 92, Public aervlco commlaaloner. Corey 806, I.uper 26S. Joint atato senator Upton 368, Wlloy 998. State .ropreaontatlvo Rrattaln, 5C4, Uurdlck. 481, Ovorturt 949. Klcctors for prcsldont George CC0, Hondeo 436, Hotchklsa 743, Halno 769, Ivonhoo C08, Ixjckwood S70, Richardson 730, Robh 736. Justice of tho Htipromo court Henry J. Dean 849, Hunry h. Ron son, 1088, I.awronco T. Harris 351, Tlioinus A. Mcllrldo 8G3. , Dairy nnd food commissioner C. I,. Hawloy 0C2, District attorney C, C. Ilrowor 664, William Marx 67S. ' County Offlcivi ' For aherlff John Furnoll 350, Lloyd Low 917. Uncontested Place County Judgo, n, H. Dunnoll 927; county commissioner, Fred Peterson 972; county clerk, O. R. DeLap 1114; aurveyor, O, T. Darley 972. Written la Itepubllraa Treaiurer, 9. K. Van Riper 87; assessor, J. P, Lee 117; county Judge, Oeorge Chastaln 102; .district attor ney, WllllamMarx'7; coroner, Karl (CoatlatMd oa Pact I) BURNS LECTURE ME TNT N E Tlin big brown tent at Chautauqua I'lnna worn Isld last night at the wnii well flllnl yesterday afternoon , meeting of Klnmath post of tlin nml livening ami patron of tho as-j American legion for partlcapatlon sembly received two program of, with Ihn Woman's Relief Corp In iron til no Interest and valuo along mu- appropriate Decoration Day exer slcal and lecture lines. rise hero next Sunday, May 30. Porhapi tho outstanding orent of There are several soldiers' grave In ilm ilay wan the lecture In tho even-!"1" Ing, "Remaking tho Kentucky Moun tulnenr," by President Jamea A. II urn a of Oneida Initltute. more fam iliarly known a "Ilurn of the Moun talni." Ilurna makes no pretention at be ing an orator. He I one of the few mm in ihn rnuntrv who dlacourace i -" ; , ' ,. tracteil neeper aainirauon. with no money or luflucnco thl. """ "" """" 7 "' """'-"'u "- ijounger Teierani oi me gri war. llMn )Ut ,, ,chool In the heart of the An effort I being made, and will Cumberland mountain which haDronaby be aucceaafnl, to ecure a n"w w'como on.- of in iei Knowu.,anj f0r tho occalon ...lucatlonal Inatltutlona In tho outB. nIlrn (0vml tho feud problem .by bringing education to tho mountain children. Ilia rtory was fascinating i.,i ,y c F I'arkcr at Seventh and ami gripping from beginning to end. I fine ntrc-ti next Wednesday even The Now York artists' trio mado'lng, when a big open air dance will many frlinda hero yesterday on their Mm- held. Mr. I'nrkcr has promised .tt mnr..r. nreiu.le.. Iowell Pat-, to furnish the bctt mask obtnlnablo ton, pianist, Ruth llcvorly Cummlng, soprano, and May Kllzabeth Reel roiuprlsed this company. As a solo ist und accompanist ration I cer- ,al,y ono of ,h, ,)c.t 0ung artist humTl, ht.re. Ml cummlng. i( ha ,(en Mttrrc(j utely In vi-i.i,fit,i r,iman' now.P0" evening, a new commute UtlHIIU" ,.w..... , operu, iixhlliltcu a voice 01 rare ocau ly with rich fresh tones. Her rendi tion of "One Fine Duy" from "M dame, llutterfly" waa exqulaltely pre aimted. Mia Rees, who has Just re turned front entertainment work overiM'as, mado a decided hit with Klamath Kails folk. In tho afternoon Sam Qrathwell demonstrated clearly his right to bo ,,rrMdcnt of thc Weed Lumber corn colled n "pcptlmlst." Ho gave alia)). iK.cause of his knowledge of strong Inspirational lecturo packed with life and action. Tcnlght tho Morriaon girls, a com pany produced and coached by Ross Oearhart Morriaon, will present a prelude of musical entertainment. This will bo followed by one of the feature lecture of tho week, "China' Probloms, National and Internation al," by Dr. Ng Poon Chew, the promi nent Chinese orator,, humorist and Ntatcsman. AUTO HITS BUGGY: LOCAL WOMAN HURT Mr. P. K. Ilannon la confined to her home at the Knterprlse Ranch by Injuries received late Monday night when tho buggy In which she was riding with her son, Murray Ilannon, wa run down by an auto mobile owned by McKendree & Call and reported to have been driven by Scott McKendree. Tho accident occured on Sixth street ,whlle Mrs. Hannon was driv ing home from town. She niert that he was on the propor aide of the road and that tho machine, ap proaching from the othor direction, wa on tho wrong ildo when It smashed headlong Into her rig. Tho horse wa thrown down and Mrs. Hannon was thrown from tho buggy honcath tho struggling nnl mnl. Rntwoen tho fall and thn strug gle of the horsa sfio was badly brulsod and lacoratod but, consider ing tho nature of tho accident, I for tunnto to hnvo escaped without seri ous or even fatal Injuries, Tho driver of tho automobile stop ped but, In tho oxcltemont, elthor gave a wrong namo or his name was misunderstood, and officer woro busy yeatorday before Anally suc ceeding In locating and Identifying tho auto. LOGGBR INJUItKD Tom Collins, employoo of the Lamm Lumbar company at Modoc Point li In the Blackburn hoijltal suffering from a broken wrist bruise received wten ke got In' tWftt- tsaatec cm. thsv. Klamath Indian patk of a rolllaf lor. HU lajdtiearimrTMai.- TM t oaf of big are not aerioMa aid' he will be imwisj if smnsaVkav timber rapo'rtod tkla ia a iw ays. LEGION TO JOIN IN DECORATION UN! '' cemetery, men wno mea during the (treat war and tbelr com rade will pay tho memory of the de parted fitting tribute. A non-uniformed parade will form In front of the city hall on Fifth atreet at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morn Inn and march to the cemetery. All m,en who aerved In any army of the '....'. inepuDiic aurin any war are urgea , wolcomed In the rank of the ,()Un.,.r ,feMB of the treat war. . DnBri N'rxt Wnlneday The legion will christen the new dancing pavilion that la being erect- for the occasion. , .No llulldlnjt Itrport Tho building commltteo appointed ut the last meeting of the post to se cure data on site and finance In connection with a proposed Legion ''"' building was not ready to r- ... was appointed Visitor From tVrkrley S. O. Johnson, commander of the Ikirketey post of the legion, wl0"Va with the forestry branch of the en gineer In France, holding a major' commission, visited the local post. Major Johnson will be remember ed as head at ono time of the Klam nlh Derelnnrnnnt comnsnr and ice- lumbering operation In the, ad vanced section during military op erations In Francs and directed tho effort of some 3S00 men engaged In getting out timber for the army. Major Johnson Is here on a busi ness visit. BACKED. WOOD WITH HALF A MILLION WASHINGTON. Mar 36. Wil liam C. Proctor, of Cincinnati baa ad vanced $500,000 to the campaign fund of General Wood, he testified today at tho Senate InvaatlgatloB of -pro-convention presidential cam paign, anamclag. Proctor- said, thlav advance was "more than all other contributions to Wood'a campaign-," and added that he bad. Individually contributed 110,000. WASHINGTON, Mar 2f .-Comr!-batlona to the campaign of Attorney General Palmer for-the Democratic presidential nomination were today placed at 109,610, by .former Repre sentative C. C. Carllne of Virginia, tho campaign manager. BELIEVED INJURED LOGGER MAY LIVE Fred Snydor, who was run ovor hy a fivo-ton logging truck Monday aftornoon at Puckett Rros, canip noar Odessa and frightfully crushed, has a good chance for rocovory was tho roport from tho Warren Hunt hos pital today. Uosldcs Internal In juries whoro the truck passed across his abdomon, Snydor received a frac ture of the skull. Ho is displaying marvelous vital ity and In the face of what would or dinarily aoem fatal Injuries U more than balding his own. DIG LAKF-S OO. BUYS 1W8BRVAT10X TIMIlKIt The Big: Lake. Box company bai ptsrckaaad front-Captain J. W. Sle- teiwea 40 mad 60 million feet W. VA. "FAVORITE HON'" LKADH WOOI J WHKKLINO, W, Va May 26. Returns from yesterday's primary In Weal Virginia show- eil early today that Senator Houurd Sutherland continued to lead General Wood for tho Republican prcaldentlal ptcfer- ence. Only 443 precinct out of 1840 are tabulated. The vote 0 la. Wood, 6,841; Sutherland, 0 9,751. There w'era no Demo- 0 cratlc candidate on the ballot. ACRES OF MINT PLANTATION A big atep toward making Klam ath county what those familiar with the Industry and the condition needed to make It a success boast that It will be In the near future "The Mint Growing Center of the United States" U announced today In the purchase by John X. Davis, pioneer mint grower of the Willam ette valley, and Capt. J. W. Selmtns of 2500 acres of tho Caledonia marsh. , ( The land was sold by the MeCor nack heirs; Ruth and Arthur D. Ad dlslon. D. M. and Angelina W. Stevenson, Calvin and Agnes Host; son and George K. 8tevenson. The decision of Messrs. Davis and Siemens to plant the major portion of their newly acquired holdings to mint, follows Investigation of Mr. Davis of conditions here and the suc cess of the Initial experiment of Cipt. Slemena and associate with 80 acre of mint planted this spring at Kagle Ridge. t , tapfi- Siemens arid Mr. DavU will start development of the'jCaledonta marsh tract at once and expect to plant 1660 acrea to mint, both pep permint and spearmint. The bal nnco of the 2200 acere tract I graz ing land. Thla mint plantation, large as It Is and by far' eclipsing anything in the mint producing line ever attempted in Oregon on one tract. Is but the In itial stage of the growth of the mint Industry. Thousand and thousands of suitable acres remain for planting along Klamath county marshes and ultimately will no doubt be given over to mint production. A distillery will probably be erect ed this fall by Capt. Siemens and other to take care of the crop from this year's planting. SUGAR MAGNATE SAYS PROBE IS POLITICAL MEDFORD. Ore., May 26. That the government Investigation of tke Utah-Idaho Sugar company is entire ly political and merely a convenient shield to hide tke efforts of the Dem ocratic administration to defeat Sen ator Smoot, of Utah, for re-election, was the charge made here today by Alexander Nlbley, of Portland, sonasf the presiding bishop of the Mormon church, and manager of the sugar company, who made public tke text of several telegrams to prove his as sertion. JACKSON COMMISSIONER DROPS DEAD, APOPLF.XY MEDFORD, May 26. Oeorge Owen, county commissioner, and 'a woll known farmer of southern Ore gon, dropped dead today while seated In a chair at tho regular session of the county court. Appoplexy ' was given as the cause. WEATHER REPORT OREOON Tonight, fair and warm; Thursday fair, except prob ably showers In the northwest. MARKET REPORT PORTLAND, May 26. Cattle weak, choice steers 111. BO. and 112.25; hogs steady and uncbangod; aheep lower, lambs 113 and 113.50; butter and eg gi unchanged. 1 Fifty per cent of tke hops grown ia tke United State are produced tat n Oretesi. . , C.0FC. HOLDS ' MEETING: PUNS 1 MT The monthly meeting of tho Klam ath county chamber of commerce wsi held at the room of the chamber em Fifth street last evening. Although not largely attended on account of the Chautauqua program now In pro gress the gathering was optimistic and confident as to the future work of the organization, the unanlmosja expresslon being that with earnoat and faithful effort through It 11 im portant committees, It will be made av power for Improvement and develop ment throughout the entire county. The name of the eleventk com mittee wa changed from "aoclal" t "statistic and Information" and tkla bureau under the direction. of its ef ficient chairman, E. S. Veatcli of tke First National bank, bas already be gun Its work In gathering the variola fact In regard to the Industries and potentialities of Klamath county. Atl the people of the county wM invuea 10 turnisn information to ti bureau'.so that tke facta wjll be hand from every portion of county, also from other portion the Klamath basin beyond the cow lines. A mAf?n nf tttA nw flnnti VajZ'j mittee, consisting of T. D. E.- TLuddeaaadAadrew treasurer. 1 -HI be keld at tke ckaaafcK'. J. s'J of commerce rooms this afternoon at ? , ?j,vf " oj o'clock to confer as to th f lljinalil '' ' condition of the association aaWlsx formulate plans to? gather up tke "sinews' of war" and to. extend .the persenal.of, the orffaalsa'ttea, a cam paign will be inaugurated .lauMdl ately for this purpeae and aJtW scrlbers are4vld not even t await the pWlaal call of 'tne'Jasm mf)u hisinfeeaveeleat. tmHm . chase" receipts tf-tke Fifth street et- ' flee'1 where the secretary or Mr,. Ooa ong will be In attendance at all knal neas hours of the day, and pleased to prepare the receipts. The chamber Is going to do great work for the county, bat cannot function properly without tke "dough. - ' f PRElll H Preparations are being worked ont for the Decoration day exercises, and a full announcement will be mado to. The Herald within a day or two. It la certain that the plana ma turing will make It the most notable observance of tke kind wklck kaa ever occurred la tkla city. As decided -by the legion at tkeir meeting last night a military divi sion will be organised, comprising the veterans of all our wars aa aw single unit of the parade. The headquarters for.the arrange menta for the entire observance will be at the rooms of tke chamber of. commerce where Capt. O. O. Apple gate, who will, as usual, sbe grand marshall of tke day, will be glad to confer In regard to the detail of tan. program. r LOCAL ELKS GOING TO" LAKEVIEW, ALTURAS The ofneors of the local Elks lodge will leave Frtduy morning by auto mobile for Lakovlew and Alturas to initiate classes of candidate Into the mysteries of Elkdom, The Lakevlow Inlfntlon Is sched uled for Friday evening and Satur day morning the local F.lkn will go to Alturas where Initiation core mon ies jwlll be held Saturday evenings The party will return lioru Sunday evening. All members of the lodgo deajrlng to make Jhe trip will ' be welcomed heartily to the caravan. Arrange- menta to Join tke tour may be mado by calling H. E, Momyor, secretary of the local lodge at tbo Elkj temple. Tomorrow night la tka regular meeting night of the local lodge aid 0 clasa of sevsn or eight candidates aro scheduled for initiation. Re rreskmeoU and smokes will folWf tko oeremealea.' ' - v " DECOR T 1 MI i i m rX w c ,i '