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"An Empire Awakening"
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Eighteenth Year No. 5518
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1925
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FORIERKAISAS,
BEFORE JURORS
Jonathan M. Davis Placed
on Trial for Alleged
l Bribe Taking
TOPEKA, Slay It. Tho trial of
Jonathan M. Davis, former governor
of Kansas on charges of conslplring
while In office with his hunk com
missioner, Carl J. Poterson, to ob
tain a bribe In exchange for a pniv
don, began today beforo Judge
.Jamos A. McClure In the district
court. Selection of a jury was start.
' 0(1. '
The- former governor went on trial
alono. Peterson, named jointly with
(Davis on the warrant, Is to be tried
later. Davis faces two criminal
suits. In the case going to trial to
day he and Poterson are alleged to
have attpmpted to obtain a bribe In
exchange for a pardon for Walter
Grundy, Hutchinson banker, who is
serving a sentenco In the stato pen
itentlary for embezzlement. In tho
other 'suit, the ex-governor's son
Russell 0. Davis, Is named jointly
with his father on charges of ob
taining $1,250 in exchange for a
ipardon for Fred W. Pollnian, . con
victed La Cygno banker. I .
A, L. Oswald, young H.utchinso'n
lawyor, who appealed to Jonathan
M. Davis, while the latter was gov
ernor, to pardon Cirundy, is the
state's star witness among 24 sun
poenaed.. 1 SUSTAINED
Aliens Must Prove Purchase
Not Through Fraud,
Says High Court
. WASHINGTON, May ll.Tho
i provision of the alien land law
of California Imposing upon aliens
Ineligible to citizenship the burden
of p'roving that tlieir purchase of
agricultural, land was not for the
puropse of dofeatlng' that statute
was susthlned today by the supremo
court In an appeal brought, by W.
A. Cockrlll and S. Ikada.
Undor the alien land laws of
California, as construed by tho fed
oral supreme court, Jnpanoie arc
prohibited from owning or leasing
agricultural property. S. Ikuda, a
Japanese, . furnished money with
which W. A. Cockrlll, his attorney,
purchased land to bo. hold for tho
bonoflt of tho - Amorlcan-born chil
dren of Ikada. The stato courts of
. California hold that tile transaction
was invalid. '
TWO -WOMEN KILLED
MANILA, May 11. Two women
were killed during the recent earth-
quakes In .the town of Bnls and
several persons were killed as a re
sult of temblor at Bacons, Occi
dental Negroa province.. This con-
flrmatlon. was contained in an , of- j
flclal telegram recoived today at thei
nfflcn nf Governor General Leonard
Wood. '.- .''
Churches Observe
ANTI
JAP LAW
' In Services Throughout City
' Klamath Falls churches observed
yesterday, the second. Sunday In
May, as Mothers' day, paying hom
age to the mothers of America.
Klamath Falls, as every other city
In the United Stntoa, opened Her
churches' doors ta the public, 'which
flocked to the portals to observe
the day belonging to niot'r.ers only,
., SaturdttyV'jilBht the florist shops
In America were bare of blooms, njt
in many of the stores. Candy shop;i
did a wholesale business as box
nftor box nf sweets Were sent to
Mother's door. . And perhaps most
significant of all was tho telegraph
office, where, the bos' and girls,
men and women; and fathers and
mothers, who had Molacrn of their
own to remember, sont a Mother'
day message In remembrance ot tho
dearest person In their lives. '
New Principal
To Arrive In
Klamath Soon
As soon ns tlin school year at
Olympia, Wash., high school Is com
pleted, Paul Jackson, who was elect
ed principal of the Klamath County
High School, will wind up ,h!s af
fairs in Olympiu, Wash., and come
to Klamath to prepare for tho school'
work of the ensuing year.
Mr. Jackson will como with a fav
orable reputation as an educator.
Ho has hail a fund of , experience
from not only the teaching Bltlo but
also the administrative. Ho is now
assistant principal of . the Olympia
high school, an institution of 800
pupils.. ' '
ENTIRE FLEET
' ANCHORED OFF
SMALL ISLAND
ABOARD V. S. S. STATTLE AT
LAIIAINA ROADS ;.ANCIIORAGE
May 11. The Blecpy little vlllago of
Old Lahaina, .rich In Hawaiian tra
dition and historic . incidents was
granted today a privilege denied all
other parts of the l:nlted States, for
l sea, before the former scat of the
Hawaiian imonarchy, rodo at anchor
tlie lurgost nunrber of American war-,
ship's ever assembled at one place
nt one lime in the history of the na
tion. ' -
Difficulties of anchorage at San
Francisco, Honolulu and nil other
ports 'of the fleets call necessitated'
splitting of the armada into several
detachments, but with the practically
unlimited anchorages In tho roads
between the Islands of Maul and
I. anal, Admiral Coontz was flblo to
bring the entire, fleet together for
the first time.
MILIj HKAUS HKKJO
On their way south from
Bend to ' McCloud, .'Calif., a
party of Shevlin-Hixou' Lumber
0 company officials stopped over
In Klamath Falls Saturday
night and also visited for sov-
oral hours at the Modoc' Pino-
companV at Aspgrove. Tho
party was composed of B. W,.
Lakin. manager of the Ale-
Cloud River Lumber company'
Slievlin-lllxon . concern E.
II. De'a, general sawmill super-
intendent, for the' Shovlln-
Carpenter -and Clarke; T,. N.
Horstgotto and -S. Horstkotte,
mill designers,'' and W. Bust.
No official business was trans-
acted In Klnmath'-Falls,' with
regard to construction of a new
nrtll In Klamath Falls. The
party stopped at the White
Pelican hotel.
Mothers Day
Crowded to tho utmost capacity,
houses of '"worship in the city were
addressed by the ministers whose
subjects dwelt .only on the subject
of mother. Here and thore In the?
j audience could be uiscernea n wnuo
i ro?e or carnation on the lapel, of
I a coat whose owners eyes Nufteried
j at the thought of the past. Red
j roses gleamed against .white frocks,
l thankfulness readable in the faces
them, still. "'
For some tho day was damponed.
Alter .tho early -morning services
i Klhmnth ' Falls cemeteries
wero
visited . and on the graves of
Mothers gone, fljweiyi of , delicate
hue and odor wero left. ;
But for all tho memory was
sweet. Mothers' Day In honor of
Mothers of America, observed in
j Klamath Fnlls as In every vlllago
jand city In the ynhort States. ,
FOR STATE
m
BOARD REMOVED
Ross Farnham of Deschutes
and D. W. Sheehan, i
Wallowa, Fired
KALKJI, Slay 11. Tho. state
and board today removed I). W.
Kliocliiiii lis attorney for the board in
Wallowa county mid Boss l'lirnliiim
ns iitloiney for die board In Desch
utes county, Jind appointed in their
places Sylvester M. Hurley of Km em
prise unci X. A. JIuYdkk of Kcdinonq'
respectively. (
The change' in WaiIowa county
was rocoinmcnded by James S. Stew
art, investigator for tlie beard, tho
reason being that Sheehan was not
active enough in tire work of the
board and wus reluctant to (prose
cute foreclosures arising out of long
standing defaults of interest pay
ment on stato loans. Governor
Pierce was not recorded' as voting
for or against this change. The gov
ernor voted against tho change in
Deschutes county. Members of the
board said no complaint had been
made against Farnhami's work, but
that there were other reasons for
his removal. Both Sheehan. ami
Fnrnhnm were appointed by tho
board when Governor Pierce and
Jefferson' Myers were its majority
members,, and Farnhnim served as a
spucial prosecutor of prohibtion vio-
aBon cases in Deschutes county by
appointment of Pierce. Burdick Is
the father of Denton G. Burdick,
speaker of the house of representa
tives at the 1925 legislative session.
STILL SEARCH
FOB BODIES OF
WRECK VICTIMS
Engineers Trying to. Break
Framework of Sunken
i Boat With Anchor
MJOMPHilS, Tenii., May 11 Us
ing a large anchor ntfciclicil to n
fifty foot eliniii us n liniiimcr, Unit
el States engineers today will break
the framework f the cabin of Hie
sunken stcnimT Jf. K. Kormaii, in
tlio Jiope of releasing bodies of some
of the 2:t persons avho drowjfei
wlien tlie vessel turned over and
sank last Friday.
Stationed at intervals down the
river, Crews of government boats
will watch for the bodies which, the
engineers aro confident will be r
leased. .
Cabin Located
Tho cabin was definitely located
last night after the workers had
broken up other parts of the steam
or.' Attempts to j-ench the hull of
the vessel with expert divers failed
because of the strong under current
which swept the divers tar ' down
stream when they attempted to de
scend.
To raze tho hull of the steamer
with chain's, engineers decided they
would require several days. They
determined on the plan of breaking
up tho superstructure of tho Norman
os Iho most practicable method of
reaching the ylcttms.
, Searching Uiver
Fearing that somo of tho bodies
have- been swept down' stream, those
In charge,, have ordorod the Search
of tho river as far down ns Helena.
Ark.; to cohtlnue unceasingly. .
Charts show tho steamer ' lying
with- the stern 380 feet from tho
shore. The Vessel Is resting on her
port' side with the smokestacks
pointing towards tho shore. '
First success In breaking up the
superstructure .of .tho vessel was
scored when the aft flagpole of the
Norman shot up through 50 feet of
water with the American flag flying.
Later the ship clock was brought up
Its hands showing that it had stop
ped at 4:50 o'clock which hour on
Friday afternoon engineers now ac
cept as the exact time the stenmer
sank. .' .:.',''. ' ' . '
ni.scrss imiUTK
WASHINGTON, May 11. Infor
mal conversations relative ' to a
French debt settlement are again In
progress, U was dlsclrfsetl today nt
Iho stain department. -' '
McNealy Quits
As Director of
t Sportsmen Club
I'linble to devote the time neces
sary to handle the posltipn .W. W.
McNealy today announced his resig
nation from the board of directors
of the State Sportsmen' assocla
tlon, a position which he has held
for the past two years.
0. D. Mathews, vice-president of
the Klamath Sportsmen's associa
tion was appointed by Dr. Chester
C, Moore,president of tho state as
sociation, to succeed Mr. McNealy.
"I feel that Dr. Moore's appoint
ment of my successor was indeed a
fortunate one," Mr. McNealy said
today. "Mr. Mathews, Is vice-president
of the Klamath association and
active in all constructive fish and
game work in this county. He will
be a connecting' link between the
local association and the state or
ganization, . a link that will prove
advantageous to the Klamath coun
try." ' ' j. ' '
Mr. McNealy wins elected directot
of the state association two years
ago. When ho had served his year's
term he was reelected. Tho work
of the stato association is largely
legislative, Representatives . from
from different sections of the stajc
submit thq needs and problems of
their respective sections ar.d after
passing on the relative merits of
claims froni each ccinty, the logls
ativo commlttes drafts nroDOsed
bills and then through tho influence
of the organization endeavors . to
pass them through both houses of
the legislature. -
TWO KILLED
SORDID LQ
TANGLE
Seattle Man Shoots Woman
and Then Himself in
. Vancouver Hotel
VANCOUVER, B. C May 11. An
drew Neilson shot to death 1 Mrs
Ogle Wick in the IRegent hotol here
last night and then committed sui
cide, polico reported.
iBoth persons were from Seattle,
The slaylngs were the outcome
ot a love tangle In which five Seat-
tlo men and 'women wero involved,
the police said. - '
. -Mrs. 'John F. I-oughrene declared
that Neilson telephoned her yester
day morninl? nt Seattle that her hus
band had gone to Vancouver with
Mrs. Mablo Meyer. Sho agreed, she
said, to drive to Vancouver with
Neilson to confirm his statement. '
Arriving here the couple went to
tlie Regent hotel and knocked on
the door ot a room which Loughren
opened. Mrs. Wick was In the room
Mrs. Loughren said.
Neilson entered and Loughren
came out of . the apartment leaving
Mrs: Wick and Neilson alone. Shots
followed. Mrs. Loughren' related
and police found the couple dead
At the sound of tho firing Mrs. Mov
er came running from another
roolni, No one saw the shooting, the
police, said.
It was alleged that Loughron re
gistered Mrs. Meyer as bis wife at
tho hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Loughren
and Mrs. Moyer are to be held pend
ing an inquiry. , ' .
. Jl'IKJH IUKOLKS' TWO
Recommendation of leniency
by the. grand Jury in the case
of L. -A! WHlams and John
Lewis, iiidlctod on a charge ot
concealing stolen property, was.
followed to the letter this
afternoon by Judge A. L. Lcav-
Itt, who sentenced the two
'young men to one year 'In the
peaitonUary. and then paroled
them to the district attorney.
The judge stipulated that the
,two young men should report
to the district, att-nney once a
!' month. , ':.,' , , .
': In its , .reebmmendntian to
the court, the grand jury
stated, that although facts of
thecaso mado It- necessary to
. return a trife hill, U appeared
that tho young men had been
Influenced ' to break. , the law,
by an older person, '-' '
ft t t t
E RE RE
ST
VINEGAR PLANT
Damage of $180,000 . Is
Wrought by Blaze Which
. Takes Big Industry ;
HOOD RIVER, May 11. Hood
River suffered the most severe fire
loss in Its history Sunday morning
when the big plant of tho Hood
River Apple Vinegar company and
the warehouse'of Kelly Brothers,
merchants and apple dealers, burned
the estimate' of the combined loss
was placed t approximately $180,-
000, tho vinegar plants damage es
timated at $150,000.
The origin of the fire, which ap
parently started to tho boiler room,
was not determined. George Carl
ton, night watchiman ' and boilor
man, stated that he had started a
fire in tho boilers about four o'clock
Shortly before six residents saw the
smoke and flames. ,
Tlie fire had gained such head
way when the fire dopartment arriv
ed that all efforts at bringing it un
der control were fruitless.
While C. J. Calkins, founder and
manager of the vinegar plant, said,
ho thought the iplnnt would prob
ably bo rebuilt on more modern lines
he declined to make anydeflnlte
statement: .' , ' :
Kelly Brothers, whose warehouse
was a three story, wooden sturcture,
will replace it at once with a more
modern plant. !
IIE1S II
PLANS FOR W
Fourteen Compose Oregon
Trunk Crew-; Now in
Klamath Falls..
j Information necessary to ' have,
before actual surveying work, was
being sought this morning by the
leaders of the Hill line survey crew
which arrived in Klamath Falls Sat
urday night. Particular Intorest In
Link river and the depth of Klam
alh lake near Eagle ' Rldgo was
evinced by the surveyors In ques
tioning 'county engineers..
Work on the survey will .start
immediately and bo comploted as
soon as possible.- iMembors of the
crew are composed of the follow
ing: W. H. Bell of 'Portland,, field
engineer and in charge of the sur
vey crew; C E. LIntner, E. Valle,
G. E. Mitchell, H. R. Haywood, Ear
Ward, S. P. Sawyer, Joshua ' Alex
ander, . P. I). Haywood, Warren
Hastings,- L. E. : Bill, T. L. llllss,
Linn Dock and Fuong Ging.
SUICIDE VERDICT
FOUND BY JURORS
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., May 11
Tho Coroner's jury today return
ed a verdict that the Hon. Francis
John LasCelles, who was found dead
at his , home Saturday, committed
suicide while temporarily insane.
The deceased was a half brother
of the Earl of Harewood, who is the
father in law of Princess Mary.
JENNEY CREEK
ANGLERS HAVE
. SMALL SUCCESS
Neither salmon eggs,' nor spoon
nor woi'nis, nor fly, could lure Jen
ney Creek brook trout from the so
curily ot deep pools yesterday, ac
cording to reports from a flock of
anglers who returned, from the
stream last night with empty creels,
"Fact of tho matter ls It. wa
just like trying to beat , tho season
about four weeks," one disgusted
angler remarked upon his return
"Tho water is too high, too murky
in three or four weeks when tho
snow witter runs off and the stream
drops down to normal, I predlc
find fishing In tlie creek. There Is
so much natural feed in . tho crock
that the trout scorn artificial lures
presented beforo them by anglers
Several dofcen fishermen .tried
their luck along (ho banks of Jon
noy.' Creek, l'lnehurst folk report
ed the road to, Frcdonhurg springs
to the, upper leaches of the stream
Impassable, -
Mqre Settlers Needed
On Western Projects
Says Secretary Work
Cabinet Official Reports onTourThrough
This Section of .Country Blanket
Relief tolrrigationist s Cannot Be
Granted ---Policies Are Outlined
WASHINGTON, May 1L
and acceleration of agricultural development are the ouk ,.
standing needs of many federal reclamation projects,
ecretaiy Work declared today m a statement summanz- .
mg the result of his. recent inspection tour.
The secretary said the discovery that settlers are leav
ing projects and fanners are failing to take their places
was a cause-for "real anxiety" to those who had the
cause of reclamation at heart.
"The money to repay project costs cornea from the
farm and is repaid to the government by the farmers,"
he said. Unless settlers can be attracted to the projects
and are able to remain, there will be no one benefited
by building them and the government will not pe reim-.
bursed for their cost. - ' : . " .; ,
"Of the dozen projects we,
interested in the success of the older ones as an, assurance
that the development of the new ones may be reasonably
expected. It is a cause tor
found that the settlers are
ome to take tneir place. To aven.
this welfare tarying to discover
some new land settlement pro
grams and have been holding con
ferences with railroad emigration
agent3 and governors, trying-to en
list their assistance. Upon It rests
not. only thi success .of JfeiPTOjUr'
aireaoy duul dui ui .uie piujuuis lu
be'built In the future:" -
T " For Reclamation
The administration Is "committed
to development of all feasible recla
mation projects," Secretary Work
said, but be. added that it should
be remembered "no new project Is
feasible until it can be settled and
that no old project in which the set
tlers aro living and , to Which new
farmers cannot be attracted will
ultimately survive."
'The reclamation service can
build irrigation works," ho said,
but it cannot' draft settlers.. We
hope states, railroads and chambers
of commerce will cooperate with us
to this end. Local towns and states
will be the first beneficiaries from
now projects, the government will
be the last. Tho first Intention of
reclamation was to 'build homos.
Wo want to insure tho ownership of
tho homeS to those who make
them."' . "
Referring to the relief granted
farmers on the old projects, Secre
tary Work said that congress had
been, extremoiy generous In permit
ting the deferment of payment in
oases wliere settlers iouna inm-
selves in financial aimcuuies'. , .
. ' May Ask Relii-r '
' "But it has found," he continued,
that there have been requests for
whole-ale relief In which the entire
irrigation districts composed ot
hundreds of farmers have asltpd
that their -charges be jointly sus
pended. We cannot accede to re
quests for blanket relief. In many
of these districts there are farmers
and form owners who rent their
lands and others who are prosper
ous. ' '' ' :.';'".' ';, ; .- ''-,'
"It would be manifestly unjust to
their neighbors who cannot pay and
Brigade of Housewives Scour
Vacant Lots
MvRsc'rns that have disturbed the
cqunnlmlty of Klamath Falls -people
f ir montlH, were attacked by , a
brigade of housewivei and their
aides, and activity manifest on' the
nneiiiimr dav of Clenn-I'n weok In
dicates the annual nffulrs to bo a
gr.eater success than last year or
years before. - ' ' .
Miss Clara B. Calkins, who is con
ducting the campaign, has struck
upon the system of zoning the city
and naming a manager for each
Jione, ' In addition there s a com
Completion of settlement
visited,, we were primarily
anxiety, therefore, when it 13
Jeaving and farmers ,f ail to
to the government to .permit them
to escape paying the. charges due
the. government under the contract
ivhen able to do so. The government
must keep its contract with the set-:
tier and he In turn with, the govern- .
lX,
"This does not mean that rellefi
to the individual farmer, is being,
denied. 'Every ''application is re- .
ceiying fair 'and' equitable considera
tion. Any settler on any project who
presents reasonable proof of his In
ability financially to meet his pay,-:
ments is being granted an extension,
of time, expecting that he will even
tually pay his obligations to tho
government as provided by con
gress." .- . ':.;'' ;-','-;
f
Lieutenant John D. Barrigar
Burned to Death as.
'; ' Plane Falls
MANILA; May il. Lieutenant
John D.- Barrigar" was burned to
death when his airplane crashed
and took fire near beloarmeiy
rampanga province yesterday. Pri
vate John Tabor, his ' mechanic,
escaped with- slight Injuries. Bar
rlngar was searching for .three ar
tillery soldiers who are lost in tao
mountains. , ,
Barrigar was . flying low' when
the plane struck a tree and crashed .
to the ground. Tabor was thrown
clcir of the plane and landed In a ,
river uninjured but was seriously,
burned in attempting to froo Bar
rigar. Barrigar, a native of Denver,
enlisted as a private In the United
States army and was commissioned
and transferred to the air service ,
after the war. His father Is a resi
dent of Portland, Oregon'. . .
and Yards Today
mittee of seven, Who are acting as
fiold supervisors of- ,the'- work. ' .,
Awnkoliing of a civic pride, whir i
will niiinlfest Itself in turfijng a
rake and hoe . to unkempt lawns,
unsightly plies ,of calls and refuse
and dirty streets,., is. predicted., ' ; ,
Through the schools, hundreds of
yards will he cleaned. Children will
bo asked .to.' devote thoir.timo this
week to making their ; homes as
clean as any ln: the olty. , ,
.Cloau-up. woety, which starts, to:
day, will last throughout tae woolt,
ending next Saturday afternoon, '
R
AVIATOR
EN
CRASR