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Convict Confesses to
Murder at Sacramento
Nearly Two Years Ago
C. R. Moor, Serving: Time From Lane County,
in Fit of Jealous Rage, Confesses to Brutal
' Slaying' and Implicates His Wife
SALEM, Ore., May 5. Jealousy, inspired by the belief
that his wife was running around the country and enjoy
ing herself while he is confined to the state prison here, is
believed by prison officials to be the motive behind the
confession of C. R. Moor, convict, that he shot and killed
Harry Brown of Sacramento, during an attempted high
way robbery near Sacramento in September, 1923.
Moor, the prkon authorities say, is insanely jealous of
his wife and when she visited him at the prison kunform
him that she would have to go to Portland to seek em
ployment he flew into a rage and declared he would tell
everything, inferring that she would find herself in pris
on too. According to Moor's confession, his wife drove
the car in which they escaped from the scene of the
murder. .
The confession was made Friday after Moor had been
visited by his wife and the two had quarreled over the
woman s declared intention
work. Sua bocumo hyatarK-ul. Moor
became vloluiit ,"J1 koU la bo
likon littnre Ilia warden, ifo wti
handcuffed anil In too warden's of
fice signed a written coiifolan to
tho Drown murder.
Html Automobile
Moor waa aont up from Eugeno
latt March fur automobile theft
after ho had boon extradited from
Doover. Eugeno authorities placed
lllllo credence In tho confession bo
tMUio of a Ktatompnt Moor mndo to
authorities tlioro that he had klllud
a man In a holdup In Portland.
: Tho tolr-grum received from Sac
ramonto, however, appears to con
,flrm tho coiifojulon mndo hero Fri
day. Wirden Dairymplo ban noti
fied Sucramonlo uutltorltlcs that
Moor -will bo lurnod over n them
It they doirira. Tho .confeailou waft
lined by both Moor und It la wltu.
NlKUCtl Confession.
The confcaalon atatos that Moor
and hi wife drovo from Erie, I'a.,
to California, reaching Sacramento
Boptomlicr 17, 1923 . Whllo nt
tentptltig to holdup a man on Sep
tember 23, ho killed tho man ' who
proved to be Drown, says tho con
fession. Moor believe a you tin
.woman ' wa with Ilrown. Pursuit
wns begun at once but berauii Mi.-.
Moor had tho car In motion when
tho shooting took placo. tho ouplo
luado tholr escape Tho sliitomont
says thoy drovo to Stockton and
Frcnno, lator lived In Arliina and
Texas nd enmo to Oregon In July,
1024, lntor going to Bottle,, Woir.il
ehco and Yakima. Thoy returned lo
Orogon and lived nenr Kugenn.
After tho automobile theft nt
Eugcno, Moor escaped to lawn, and
whllo being roturnoil to Oregon
from Clinton, Iowa, .attacked the
duputy ahorlff who had him In cus
tody with n molikoy wrench tinil
fractured his akull. Ho filled lo
escape. '
Information from C. S. Morioll,
suporlntondont . of t'ho California
atnta bureau ot Idontlflcutlon, slows
Moor lias served In various prisons
In tho lust, ton yours und has boon
known by it ho names of It. C.
Whlto, C, 11. Whllo, Muc.Mjoro and
Clifford Holland Moaro. Ilocord
show that lia lias dona tlmo tit tho
Indiana reformatory, Folsom, San
Quentln, Keno and Donvor,
mU. ki.ino lines
WASHINGTON, Mtly (5. Mrs.
Carollno 'lloatly Kllng, slopmolhor
ot tho . lato Mn. Plornnco Kllng
Harding, (Hod suddenly today on n
train while enroufo from Duylonn,
Florida, to her homo In Columbus,
era
to go to Portland to seek
WOMAN DEJECTED
AS PRISON GATE
OPENS FOR HER
SALB.M. Oro., May E.Mm. C. A.
Taton, axed Tillamook woman, ,vaa
received nt tho stuto penltontlary
last night -to begin serving tlmo for
fnnnalaiighlor. Mrs. I'utoa wai con
victed of cuualng (ho do uh of her
atrnndduugliler by beating the child
an acvcro'y with a strap t'a-it she
died. Tho woman waa ;iim.;i de
jected when rocelved at tho prison
and had nothing to say. !lho was
turned ovar lo tho matron of the
prison and Is Imprisoned wHh tl ree
other women aluto prisoners and
eight federal femaln prliniic.-s that
tiro now In tho .I'enltenl1.!-.
NEW LAVA CAVE
FOUND BY BOYS
CLOSE TO BEND
IllCN'l). Ore., May 5. A new lava
cavern bollovod never to havo been
vlnltod beforo by man wua discov
ered Sunday by four Bend boys who
woro soaking new openings In the
Arnold Ico cave southeast of Ilend.
Tho walla nro covered with Ice
bends, according to tho boys who ex
plored It for a mllo and n half. It
Is thought to be a continuation ot
tho Arnold cavo on another level.
Members of tho party discovering
tho now cava wcro Krvln McNonl,
Wilbur Wnlklns and Kimor John
son, who woro among thoso who
two years ngo scaled Mount Wash
ington. Lowls McN'oal, 12 yours
old, wns tho fourth member ot tho
party. ,
FORMER HEAD OF
VANCOUVER BANK
HELD FOR THEFT
VANCOUVER, Wash., May B, O.
Jorgon Olson, former president of
ho Amorlcnn Security bank hero,
who was arrestod yoslordny charged
Svlt'h omboiMlomont of funds of tlio
bunk,- was questioned In tho county
Jail today by Sheriff Thompson ns
lo tho dls'uppcnriiiico ot Liberty
bonds totalling (2100 from , the
Yneolt, WrhIi., bunk, which was
robbed on tho night ot March 3,
102,'l. Olson wns president -of tho
Yao.ilt bank until ho rotlgnod re-
"ccntliy as .proHldont of M101
American
Socitrlly bank. Tho shor
Iff snid ho
Mnn ttniiblo to obtain a
sUlomoat
roni Olson.
KLAMATH FALLS,
"BILL" JJUVDINE
TO RIDE
5
Secretary of Agriculture Ac
cepts "Dare" of Boy-',
hood Chum
MANDA.S', N. V.. May 5. Accept
ing n "dare" of a boyhood chum,
Wllllum "Hill" Jurdlno. secretary of
agriculture hag been entered In the
broncho riding event at tho third
annual Mundan roundup to be held
here July 2. 3 ond 4.
, Mr. Jardlnn "will bo able in rldo
as many bronchoes as you can lead
beforo him." said F. M. Russell, as
sistant secretary of agriculture, In
letter to John M. Stephens, sup
erintendent of. tho United States
Northern (ireat Plains field station
hore.
A ltol liuulier
"1)111" and John Stephens were
both born at Malud City, Idaho, and
grew up together. Iloth punched
cows as youngsters and both de
veloped reputations as "mean bomb
res" with an "outlaw." Then "Bill"
went over Into western Montana
and punched cows for four years.
Doth gravitated Into the scientific
Ida of ngrlcultun and Stephens,
prior to entering tho government
service, served us assistant to Jar
dine when the latter wns- head of
din Idaho1 agricultural department.
- When Stephens was In Washing
ton recently he had a talk with his
old pal, the new secretary of agri
culture, who Informed him ot his In
tended lour through tho west and
his Intention lo visit the govern
ment farm at Mandan.
"Dolter cosne up at the time of
the Mandan roundup and I'll get
you a tough broncho to ride," sug
gested Stephons. -
"I will If I can mnko it," return
ed Jardino. "I'll lot you know."
"Bet you can't stick on an 'out
law,' bet you pull lenthor," dnred
Stephens.
"Met I can still ride 'em straight
up," was Jnrdlne's response.
"Wo will try to accommodate
him," said I. H. Connolly, general
chairman ot tho citizens' committee
which stages the rodeo annually.
"He'll have plenty of opportunity to
tacklo tough horses." '
STAGE ROBBERY
BELIEVED WORK
OF EX-CONVICTS
NEVADA CITY. Cfll.. May 6.
Two motl suspected ot being Floyd
linlt and Joo Tanlco, escaped mur
derers from San Quentln, this morn
ing hold up a atngo belonging to
Jack Muscntlnl, ncur Oranltovllle.
2Ii miles norihe.iHt ot here. They
commnndoered the vehicle, turned
It around and stnrtod in tho direc
tion of this city. Posses woro sent
Ant to intercept them.
.The driver of tho stage was said
I3 have Identified tho holdups as
Tnnko nnd Hall, tor whom a posse
set out yosterdny.
WAR VET GIVEN
HELPING HAND BY
AMERICAN LEGION
' Once again tho local American
legion post has como to tho front
and through t lip efforts ot its ser
vlco officer lias provided miedlcul
aid to Walker Burow ot this city,
a world war vol,, suffering from
tuboroulosls. .
Bnroiv Is leaving today for Port
land whera ho will undergo medi
cal examination at tho Veteran's
Unrouit hospital.
Barow, iinnhlo to tnko caro of
himself nppculod to1 tho legion, Im
mediate comimunlcation ot tho local
laglon with tho Votornn's btironu In
Porllnnd rosullod In tho latter pro
viding funds tor Wiilkor to como to
Poi'tlnnd, 1
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HOW
Associated Press Leased Wire
OREGON, TUESDAY," MAY 5, 1925
L BiMenefee
May Rebuild
Modoc Plant
Portland . Lumberman
Admits Considering
a New Plant
"It l uncitiilu but Dm mill v. ill
piohnbly tin ri'bulll."
This win llm NliKenient (riven to
Ilia Associated Ims In I'ortlnnd to
day by L. I. Menefec, owner of the
Modoc I'lno company mill, VlUch
wua coiiiplirtely destroyed yestcrdny
Alft-rnoon by fire
"It In Impossible: to give nn' de
finite announcement yet," Mr. Mrac
feo said.
Originating from saw dual ignit
ed by a hot box In the boiler room,
tho Modoc mill caught tiro yester
day at 4 p. m. and in a short time
the plant waa a mass if flames. .
Haines Spread
So quirk did the tire spread that
employes, who did not hear tho
alarm jumped from the second story
to a millwright's shed below. No
serious injuries were reported as a
result of tho fire.
Loss wag estimated at $125,000,
most bt which is said to have been
covered by Insurance.
When It became evident that the
mill wua doomed, the employes of
the mill aldeeljOy-'resldciits of Chilo
quln, concentrated their efforts In
preventing the fire from spreading
to the dry kilns, the company office
nnd the lumber yards. This was ac
complished after strenuous effort,
although 30,000 feet of lumber and
fifty lumber buggies went up in
flames.
llloiv To Chlloquln
Approximately 100 men were
thrown out ot employment by the
fire and the loss of the mill will
be a serious blow, to the reservation
town of Chiloquin, which has been
booming, since the mill opened up
this spring.
Formerly owned by J. O. Goldth
waitc, tho mill was taken over by
the L. B. Menefce Lumber company,
'When, it is said, he failed to meet
certain financial obligations to the
Portland concern. Last year It did
not operate but this year, under the
gianagement of V. D. C. Beach ot
Portland, the mill opened once
more. ,
HURLING SPEAR
STRIKES YOUTH
WHILE AT PLAY
YAKIMA, Wash., May 5. Clar
enee J. Ilador, 14, Naches high
school freshman, is In a Yakima
hospital today with a fractured skull
as a result of the track practice at
Naches yesterday. Kader trying out
for the sprints was struck by a
Javelin, the point ot tho spear hit
ting his head and fracturing the
skull so soveroly that an operation
was nocessary. The lad Is expected
to recover but must spend ninny
weeks In the hospital. The boy
who threw tho Javelin is prostrntod
over the affair.
BIG LEAGUE SCORES
National nt Vhllndelpliln
R. H. E.
New York .. 6 7 2
rhlladolphla 13 11 3
Baltorles Scott, Dean and Hart
loy; Knight, Sonthworth and Hen
Hue. American nt. New York
H. II. 10.
Philadelphia 4 0 1
Now York 8 IS 1
Batteries Grovos, Andrews,
Stokes nnd Cochrane, Schnng; Pon
nock nnd O'Neill.
National nt Boston
It. "if.- E.
Brooklyn 6 10 1
Boston J. 1 0
Uattorlos Grlmoa ond Taylor;
Dnrnos, Ryan, Kump nnd O'Noll.
T7.T7
FORTY-FIVE TO
SCHOOL COURSE
Commencement Exercises
Set for May 22 at Pine
Tree Theater
Forty-five students of the Klam
ath County high school senior class
will, on the evening of May 22, re
ceive graduation diplomas, Princi
pal ?J. O. Darling announced this
afternoon.
The list of candidates for gradua
tion, announced by Mr.. Darling, Is
based on the day to day work of
the students and Is assuming that
the students will pass their exam
ination on May 18, 19 and 20, as
easily as monthly testa throughout
the year.
Final Exams
Senior students at the high school
are working over time, between pre
paring for final exams and attend
ing to various social functions
which will wind up their high school
work. On May 14, the senior class
play will be given and during the
afternoon of the same day, senior
class exercises will be held at the
high school. , 7 .J rr
Commencement exercises are set
fur the evening ot May 22, In the
Pino Tree theater.
The v 1925 ETaddaUng ' class" ex
ceeds last year'a class by 5, but Is in
turn exceeded by tho 4923 graduat
ing class ot 46.
Graduating Class ..
Following is the graduating class:
Harold Batoman, Velma Flossie
Brown, Vrnon R. Christy, Mae Cry
stal, Fred Lawrence Goeller, Eliza
beth Graham, Ed V. Grimm, Dehlla
A. Hawkins, Florence Ellen Hector,
Laura May Holllday, Bonlta W. Kee
see, Hugh Kerwln, Alice Kos, Char
les H. Mack, Marguerite Geraldlne
Mars, Josephine Leslie Melssner,
Anna S. Michaelson, Alice Louise
Miller, Mary Gertrude Maak, Harry
Molatore. Robert E. Murphy, Max-'
well Ncwsom, Bethel A. Nixon,
Oliver Rogers. Paynter, Harry E.
P e 1 1 2, Wndell Prime, Thelma
Short, Letha Slmmonds, .WUda Mae
Slavens', Agnes Evelyn Sly, Gertrude
It. Smigh, Wendell Bristow Smith,
S. Gordon Smith, Ernest Dale Soule,
Mildred Axora Taber, Wilfred Dixon,
Virginia Ethel Tickle, Frank M'elvin
Upp, Katherine Wblton, Dale F.
West, Marion t. West, Frances
West, Mary N. Whltelino, Audrey
L. Yancey,-Ralph Edwin Turner.
INFERNAL MACHINE
SENT THROUGH MAIL
SPOKANE. Wash., May 5. An
Internal machine sent by express to
Electa chapter. Eastern Star lodge,
here from Los Angeles, Cat., was
turned over to the police, who an
nounced todwy that had It not tailed
lo explode when -opened, It Would
have been able to kill fifty persons.
The cxpresi company's tag showed
the sender as H. E. Colbert, 327
North Dillon street, Los Angeles.
CATTLE MUNCH
DYNAMITE; NOW
THEY'RE DEAD
MEDFOIU), Ore., May 5. E. B.
Day, a rancher in the Sams valley
district found four ot his best beet
cattlo dead on the range a few days
ago and reportod the matter to
Stuto Veterinarian W. H. Lytlo of
Salem,' who came down and after
an autopsy declared the animals
had been killed by eating dynamite.
Tho wrappers on the dynnmlto with
the milker's nnmo plainly visible
wore found in the stomachs ot the
dead cattlo.
According to Mr. iLytle tho state
will assist Jackson county officials
In prosecuting tho ' guilty parlies
responsible tor leaving dynamite
loose on the cattle range, - ,
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COMPLETE H GH
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Northern Lines Show!
Proposed Extensions
Into This Territory
Either Sprague River or West Side of Klamath
Lake May Be Choice of Hill System4- ,
,Work Would Cost $40,000 per Mile ; ;
PORTLAND, Ore., May 5. The detailed route of the
proposed extension of the Oregon Trunk from Bend 'to
Klamath Falls is set forth in an application prepared for
filing with the interstate commerce commission today,
says a special dispatch from. Washington, r " ; ' .
Cost of constructing the extension is placed at $40,000
a mile.- , ,,:; .r; -' ,
The plans, provide for a single line sixty miles from
Bend to Skookum, . formerly known, 'as -OdelL At this
point the line would branch off in two possible routes to '
Klamath Falls. The petition is quoted as follows :
A line from Bend, Ore., southwesterly, following" gen-'
erally up the Deschutes valley, a distance of j approxi-,
mately 65 miles to the height of land or summit bet-ween 1
the Deschutes and Williamson., river, . .drainage ; then i
southerly and southeasterly approximately forty miles
to the summit between the Williamson river aid- the
Sycan. river?: thence in a- southerly -direction 'approxi- -
CLAIM AGENT IS
INDICTED; CHECK
RAISING CHARGED
PORTLAND, Ore., May. 5. Ed
ward It. Jovlln, claim agent tor the
United Underwriters Automobile
Insurance company was arrested era
a secret indictment charging that
he had altered a bank check.
The exact charge Is that he gave
a $25 check to C. A. Wells of Hood
River, then cashed it, afterward
raised it to $1525 and .Interpolated
a release from oil further claims
against the company over Wells'
signature.
Wells at the time was In a hos
pital. His car had been struck by
a Columbia stage which was pro
tected by the Insurance company.
Mrs. Wells and Merwin Wells, a son.
have since received civil judgments
tor M000 and $25,000.
WIFE WHO THREW
ACID AT HUBBY '
MUST GO TO PEN
LOS ANOELES, May 5. One to
fourteen years In San Quentln peni
tentiary loomed ahead ot Mrs. Ber
nlce Lundstrcm Day today as the
result ot her conviction In superior
court yesterday of throwing acid In
to the face ot her husband. Darby
Day, Jr., during a domestic quar
rel In Beverly Hills last February
Sontcnce will be pronounced Thurs
day. Young Day, the son ot a Chicago
capitalist, was not In court when
the jury returned. Had be been
there he would have seen his wife
take the verdict without blinking
an eyelash, without even a small
display of emotion.
Carlyn Lundstrom, who was tried
with her sister as an accomplice In
the acid throwing, was acquitted.
UNITED STATES TO
PROPOSE CHANGES
IN ARMS TRAFFIC
GENEVA, May : 6. The United
States will have certain constructive
suggestions to , offer tho interna
tional conference tor control ot the
traffic In arms, Representative Bur
ton of Ohio told the conference to
day. Ono ot tho most Important, ho
said, concerned additional measures
to deal with tho traffic In poison
ous gases with tho hope ot reducing
the barbarity ot modern warfare. .
Published Dally at
KLAMATH FALLS
"An Empire Awakening"
PRICE FIVE CENTS
- f at-"
mateiy . zt nuiej to tne aprague
river; thence in ioutherV, south
westerly and" wesferiy'" airs-lIon,ar
proximately 43 miles 'to Klamath
Falls. . .' . ,;;
Klamath Lake ltpute ' ' - -
Also a line connecting wlu the
Aforementioned line noar the sum
mit bet weea the Deschutes and tho
Wlllamson river "drainage; thence
southwesterly and ; Southerly.' fol
lowing , generally down the Wil
liamson river 56. miles to the rallej"
-north of Upper Klamath lake;. -thence
southwesterly1,' southerly and
finally easterly, fallowing generally
the west aide of upper Klamath
lake to Klamath iFalls, 26 miles. i-
"The applicant does not now. pro
pose to Issue' any securities tor con
structing the extensions,' the appli
cation sets forth, "but will file
separate , applications therefor,
should occasion require. ; . . ' x,
-"Applicant's outstanding shares
of stock are owned by 8poksa4, .
Portland and Seattle Railroad com
pany (herein referred to as the' ft.
P. and 8.) whose capital stock . fit
turn is owned, one-half each, ' by
Great Northern -Railway compahy
and the Northern Pacific; Railway
company (herein referred to as the
Northern- lines). The Northern
lines have Invested ' more than
1100,000,000 In the construction of
the railroad ot the S. P. and S. and
In the acquisition or construction
of the railroads ot the tatter's sub
sidiaries, Including the allroad of
this applicant. ., : ". '
"The required funds for the
construction ot .the. proposed ex
tensions will he furnished by the
Northern lines. The northern lines
own (one-half each) about -98 per
cent ot the capital . stock of tho
Burlington. : The . Burlington ' owns
48.3 per cent ot the stock of h
Colorado and Southern Railway
company. The cost of construction
Is estimated "at $40,000 a mile." . ,
PARIS RADICALS- '
STAGE WALK-OUT '
ON STREET CARS
PARIS, May 5. Street car and
automobile bus services wero atm
pended today. In some sections' pf
the city where the radical elements
are strong, services everywhere were
greatly crippled and . about one
third of all the transportation ' em
ployes ceased work In a strike.
called as a result of the ;t.ponslon
of aomo transportation employes for
not working on May Day. t . . .
Car barns and power houses woro
guarded by troops and a policeman
was stationed on ea.-h car tint op
erated, "
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