VOL. I.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1925
No. 9
PROWLERS ME
FRIGHTENED BY
RESTAURANTPMN
'Would be Robbers Prowl
Around Sixth Street Of-
fices Thursday ,
Luat Thursday evening two- sus
picious looking characters wero.loaf
ing around the Ewauna Dux coni-
, panyhs factory nifd office between the
hours o JO unci lS.' The watchman
ordered them oft the property for
smoking cigarettes. T.ioy left the
, Ewauna .premises, but hung around
the , Quick Lunch restaurant for
somo time, filially walking up the
street, . inspecting . the Union Oil
company's office, and stopping by
the People's warehouse.
B. A. Dahleln, . proprietor of the
Quick Lunch, Was watching the two
men, and when they stopped by the
warehouse- Duhlelu ran over to the
Union Oil offico and warned the
bookkeeper, who was working over
time .that evening; that they 'were
about. , . . ..
Apparently the men became
frightened away by Dahlelns watch.
' fulness ; and mado no 'attempt al
robbery, which from their actions
they undoubtedly contemplate:!. In
a year, from March 1024, to .March
1925, the Quick Lunch roitaurant
was robbed eight timos. -"Mr.-. Dah-
. leln now slocp3 In his restaurant,
and keeps a watch dog with him.
Dahleln stated that ho Is awaken
ed at aH.times'of tho night by men
prowling about his otblishment.
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JOIX Cf i.K CLUB
'--Superintendent E...H., Tiko and
Yard Superintendent Bob Harrison
of the Pelican Bay Lumber company
have joined the golf club. Last
Sunday Harrison drove to Medford,
where he played on the Medford
golf course. - ' ,
1KHVX FROM CI1IU)QL"IX
Jake Stolgor, logging operator,
was In town t'rojn the Stelger camps
above Chlloqln last .Wednesday.'
. LOGGING CI
OF KLAMATH GO.
SHIP HEAVILY
Total Cut of County Ap
proximately Two Million
Feet Per Day
An average or around one hund
red and sixty cars of logs per lay
Is being moved over the Soulhorn
Pacific every day to the mills' of
Klamath county.
One hundred and twenty of these
care are shipped from Klrkford,
from the camps of (Pelican .Bay,
Modoc, Algoma, Shaw-Bortrain and
Lamm Lumber companies. Ewauna
Box and- Wheeler Olnutead bring
the total up to an average of one
hundred and sixty cars each day,
'the Ewauna1 camp being at Lnmbor
ton, between Klrkford nnd Chilo
quln on the main line, and Wheel-er-Olmstead'a
spur joining tho main
.lino above Chiloquln. Allowing a
little better than ten thousand to
a car, this would bring the log cut
"of these companies tq( say, 1,750,000
per day. . ., .;..
This estimate does not Include' tho
Chiloquln' Lumbor company, which
uses Its own railroad line to1, the
mill at Chiloquln, too Big Lakes
logs from the Loe camp,. Douglas
Puckott's camp, on -the'iwest side of
upper Lake, the McCullom mill hi'
low Kono, Kltt's mill, the ShaHa
View Lumbor and Box company,
the Long Pino Lumbor company,
t the Crystal Lumber conipany,
Kruse's , mill, -Prentice Puckott's
camp, the Campbell Towlo -Lumber,
- Co., und several others- throughout
the cpunty. '.'.
' It' is safe to say that t'.ie lumbor
and logging companies of Klamath,
county are felling and shipping
timber at the rate of two -million
Joet per day, ;; , - - ' 'y
Paul Bunyan Was a
i jTi . w
Ana a ureal Lover or uooa uogsi
What Is cap without a d ig? Paul
Bunyan loved dogs ' as well as the
next man hut never would have ono
around that could not earn Hi
keep. Paul's dags hud to. work,
hunt or catch rats. ' It took a good
dog to kill tho rats anil m'lie in
Paul's camp for the rodents nicked
up scraps of tho buffalo milk pan-1
cakos and grew to lie as big aa two
year old boars. i"
Elmer, tho mooso terrier, practis
ed up on the rata when he was a
small pup and was soon able to catch
a moose on the run and finish It
with ono shake.. Elmer loafed
around tho conk camp and if the
meat supply happened to run low
the cook would put the dog out the
door- and say, "bring in a mnoio."
Elmer would run into tho timber,
catch a moose and bring it In and
repeat the performance until, after
a few minutes work, tha coek flgijr
'iX '.'S5"Eal" bno'ngd' Tor a j.;- s.;and
would call the dog in, '
Sport, tho reversible dog was the
really best hunter. He was part
wolf and part elephant hound and
was raised on bear milk. One night
when Sport was quite, ycung, he
was playing around the horse bain
and Paul, mistaking - him for a
mouse, throw a hand axe at him.
Tho axe cut the dog in two but
Paul, iiHtantly realizing what had
happened, quickly sfijck the' two
halves together, gave the pup first
aid and bandaged him up. With
careful nursing the dog soon re
covered, and then it was seen that
Paul in his haste had twisted the
two halves so that the - hind legs
pointed up. This proved to be an
advantage for tho dog learned to
run on ono pair of lags for a while
and then flop over without loss of
speed and-run on the other pair.
Because of this ho never tired and
anything ho started after got caught.
Sport nevor got his full growth.
While' still a' pup ho broke through
four foot of ico on Lake Superior
and was ,drowned. ) ,
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Length of cooling
shed increased by .
the ewauna box co.
A hundred foot extension is be
ing added to tho cooling shod by
tho Ewiiuia Box company. Trucks
from the kilns that tho pinning mill
crew is not ready to run may be
nin 4i p tills extension, and left un
til required. Tho .roof of the plan
ing mill will bo extended to cover
the addition, and the wall removed
so that lu'.nber that is, to lo shipped
rough may bo loaded without pas
sing over the conveyor chain, to the
planor, and boing' pulled fVani tho
ftlsij'
Mighty Hunter
- ' t r i n
As a hunter, Paul would make
old Nlmrpd himself look like a city
fludo lost fro mhls, guide.' He was
also a good' fisherman. Oldtlmers
toll of seeing Paul as a small- boy,
fishing off the Atlantic Coast. He
would sail out early in the morning
in his three-mast-schooner and wade
hack before breakfast with his boat
full of fish on his shoulder. (
About this time he got . his shot
gun that .required four dishpans of
powder and a keg of spike3 to Ioa:l
each borrel. With ' this -gun ho
could shoot geese so high, in the air
they would spoil before reaching
the ground.
Tracking was Paul's favorite sport,
and no trail was too old or 'too dim
for him to follow. He once came
acro3s the skeleton of a mooso that
had died of old use, and, just' for
.curiosity, picked up the tracks of
the animal and spent the whole
afternoon following its trail ba:k
to1 tho place where it was -bom, '
The shaggy dog that spent most
of his time pretending to sleep in
front of Johnny Inkslinger's count
er In tho Samp offico, was Fldo, the
watch dog. Fldo wa3 the bug-boar
(not bearer, just bear) of the green
horns. They wore told that Paul
starved Fido all wlnto'r and then,
just before payday, fed him all tho
Nice D066Y
1
boys, and student
very marrow was
frozen in their bonas at the thought
of being turned into dog'fcod; Their
fears were groundless, Paul -would
never let a dog go hungry or mis
treat a human being. Fido was fed
rft tho watch ; peddlors, tailor's
agents, Insurance agents, 'and camp
inspectors and thu3 served a very
useful purpose. . "'
Cuts and text courtesy o llled
Itivor Lumber Co.
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DOWX FltOAI MODOC POINT
Tex King, night setter for the
Lamm Lumber' company, .was in
town over, the week-end. '
XKI.HTOX WIUTR8
Poflfal cards have been received
by nob H:ivrloii and F.' Hyson-Sta-lcy
from .lack Nelston, who is spend
ing his,, .vacation on the coast. Nel
ston Is evidently enjoying hiin.ielf
hugely. : " ''
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swampers, barn
bull-cooks.' The
chain onto buggies.. This not only
saves one lundllng of; the, , lumber,
but wlU - 'not intorefore . .IthjUie
opetailon of the."ntanors)".s ..the
present .system does.. ' ' '
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(FWAIINJl Tfl iflfl
iLiiiiuiiii i u ulsu
FIIiTO
Construction to be Complet
ed About the First of
September
Ewanna Box, company Is adding
rfive more kilns fo its drying plant.
Ten kilns are operating now, with
a capacity between fifty and sixty
thousand per , day. The addition
of thn new kilns will bring' the
capacity of the drying plant to be
tween seventy five and ninety thous
and, depending .'upon the thickness
of lumber cut and the- shifts run.
The kilns to be installed are tho
sameas the , other ten', Northwest
Blower kilns, and they will be in
stalled by the Sawmill Engineering
and Construction company. Piles
for the kilns -vere driven some time
back, and tho company expects to
have the kilns completed by Sep
tember 1. ' . i
The additional capacity of the
kilns -will more than caro for the
drying of tlie shep and better grades
and allow rush orders of common
to bo put through without gumming
up operations. ' .
BACK FUOrll VACAT.IOX
Glenn Hoatherington, Pelican Bay
grader, returned from Baker last
week .after spending a two week's
vacation visiting with friends . and
relatives thorj.-; ; '
THE PAST W
Four Deals Completed and a
New Mill Planned for
Lake County '
Four timber deals were consum
ated in Klamath and Lake counties
last week, probably influenced by
the railway activity during the past
month, which has culminated ia the
arrival of tho Hill lino surveying
par.ty.
Prentiss Puckett purchased the
timber on a section of land lying
between the source ; of Williamson
and Spraguo river, containing ap
proximately 3,000,000 feet, from the
Yamsay Land and Cattle company.
The IJoycy Timber company pur
chased 1509 acres of government
script timber land from F. A. Hyde
for a consideration of $20,000. The
land lies In. eastern Klamath county
and Langell Valley.
A small tract of land, evidently
a mill stto, was purchased by Fav
ell and 'Utley, realtors and timber
brokers of Lakeview. Tho reput-
:;d mill site is near the junction of
tho northand south forks of the
Sprague, river. Favoll and Utley fre
quently buy for the Weyerhaeuser
interests, and thero is considerable
speculation among lumbermen over
Ho deal. The site, however, is not
iultablo for an operation on the
Weyerhaeuser scale, and since the
Weyerhaeuser company has a mill
site on Klamath river it Is unlikely
that it 13 behind tho deal.
Thero aro two otiier lumber com
pany's with largo timber holdins
In that section, tho ,' Booth-Kelly
Lumber company, and tho Ho'Vey
Timber company. It is known that
the Booth-Kelly cimpany would like
to .dispose of jl3 holdings in this
section, which probably aggregate
eight or nlno hundrod million. The
Hovey. Timber company recently ad
ded 1590 acres lo Its holdings in
this county and unless Favell und
Utley-aro buying tho site for specu
lation, it is possible that tho -Hovey
Timber company is behind the
purchase. . . .
Edgerton ami Adanu purchased a
tract of ten million feet ndjacent
to Crane Lake, and - contemplate
securing twenty million, foot of na
tional forest. They plan to erect
a sawmill .Immediately -and cut some
lumber ' this season, '
DRYING PLAIT!
TIIEIIIIII
JUnWE .DURING
Logging Firm of Applegaie and
Bunyan Logged Aspen Mountain
Captain O. C. Applegate and
Paul Bunyan logged off Aspen
mountain the year of the Blue snow.
Everything was going along splend
idly, .until the Blue snow got so
deep that the captain and Paul had
to put up a scaffolding and add a
length to the cookhouse stove pipe
every morning to get- draft. In spite
of this, they made excellent pro
gress until the pipe and scaffolding
got so high that it took the captain
a half day to get up and down.
Then Paul installed tho Aurora
Borenlis, and operated throe ten
hour shifts, and Captain Applegate
worked twice as hard as f armely to
make up for the half day he had to
spend on tho stove pipe. Every
thing was lovely then, and they ex
pected to. finish die. thirty first day
of Feruary, until one. bright moon
light evening they heafd a horrible
grating, and looked up through
tho hashing rays of the aurora
borealis to see the moon hung, on
the top" of the stove pipe. : 1
Captain Applegate, at great risk
to his life, owing 15 .the uncretaiu
HANNEN AND NEILSON
ARE CAPTURED AND
SECURELY CHAINED
La.it Thursday afternoon cries of
"Stop . Thief," aroused the", people
of Pelican City. On running to the
doors the people saw .the supposed
ly respectable Dusty Hannen, poet
laureate of'Pelican City, being pur
sued acrossthe hills back of town.
The rumor flew from house to house
that Hannon. had rpbbed..,a. loank,1
but it turned -.out iatiit;- that' fie 'wa's
merely being pursued by a herd of
Elks, who Were trying to gather him
into the fold.'
, After capturing Hannon, the ant
lered posse overcame -Pete Neilson,
and returned to town with both
victims. Neilson was chained in
front of the Gun stove, aad Han
nen in front of Gertrude's millinr
ery store. . , ... . " , ' ',
Neilson declares that he had quite
a battle to keep the ladle3 from car
rying him away, chains and all.
The men, however, declare that a
string of people strung In and out
of the gun store, inquiring whether
the queer animal in - front was a
high-behlnd or a tigermuhk, arid
wlfere.it w;as caught, and wht bait
was used.
..The men of Pelican City and the
Elks aro agreed, however, that tho
ladies greatly admired Hannen.
Nearly a score stopped to inquire
where he got his head gear. Hannen.
is contemplating presenting a bill to
Gertrude and company for services
as a model. . '
TO MEDFORD
' Noel, Turner, planer', boss for
Pelican Bay, drove to Medford' and
back 'Sunday. , ; ..
lumherlogue
Lumberlogue wishes to apologize for an attempt
at jocosity in regard to the methods .employed by
Pierson & Son in initiating their Star touring rcai
in the light of the following letter received from
them.. :..'; ; " ,
Editor Lumberlogue: '; .. ,..'.,. - ,
. We noticed an article in a recent issue of the
Lumberlogue that is rather sarcastic about the way
we break in cars. . .To the layman, it may seem
odd, but as we have been breaking in cars since
'72 we feel that we know our stuff. ' As an illus-
. tratiQn of.'h6w this works : On a recent trip to
Klamath Falls, .we brought this car to a full stop .
' on the' curve at the. beginning of the Algoma hill.
Then. we started it, and at. the speed of ten miles
per hour we through out the clutch, shut off the
gas, and coasted to. the top. Our speedometer
registered 55 ; miles just as we reached Lookout
point. Let some of these wise birds duplicate this
feat before they begin to criticise -others that know
'their business. ', : , ; : ' ; ; '.':-.
. . . . ' ; Pierson & Son.
P. S. This was done without a carburetor. Lost
ours just as we were going out o fthe garage and:
didn't know it until we got back. . ' Son.
' P. S. S. The ; Kid doesnt know, ' but ;K had . the
emergency brake on all .the way up, because, he
is rather a reckle.ss driver. . .. . P.a,d. ' 1
light of the aurora borealis, dash
ed up the scaffolding and removed
several lengths before . Co moon
ooujd lib diverod from its regular
path. Thereafter the, Captain de
voted his entire time to tho stove
pipe. ' He would climb the s.af-
foiding' in the morning, -.add' a
length so that it would draw above
the snow, return to the ground in
time for dinner,' and climb .up again
in tho afternoon in order to remrVe
the top lengths for the safe -passage
of the moon. J ...
Applegate & Bunyan had set their
hearts on finishing the job- before
February 30, so they decided to
alter ; the calendar thnt year, cut
ting out the thirtieth day of Feb
ruary, and advancing it till the next
year..-. Next season, however, they
forgot to put It back.
The tru'th of this story: ia vouch
ed for by Captain O. C. Applegate,
and. by the well known fact that
there are but 2S dcai's in February
except leap year,' when thero" are
29. ;'. ' ;:'.;'.
LOCAL BANKER FINED
FOR ATTEMPTING TO
STOP FOREST FIRES
At a recent meeting of the Rotary
clyb, -v. E. Lamm, president -cf the
club distributed -verses'. to be .read
In connection with national forest
week. -Most of the verses dealt with
forest fires and their prevention.
After they were read, J. A. Gordon,
president of the ' First ; National
Bank., rose from his chair,, declared
that'liff-'had been 'deeply. "affected
by. tho verses, and moved that the
Rotarlans place themselves on i
cord as favoring fire prevention by
quitting smoking . ror - the, summer
months. ' . ... ;
. Several, voices cried "fine him,
fine himi;' and president Lamm ad
ministered a fine, of fifty cents.
This may, seem rather harsh treat
ment for one sponsoring a worthy
cause, and might put the Rotary club
in a rather peculiar position, . But
members o'f the club state that.' Mr.
Gordon .uses . smokeless tobacco,
which put3 another face on the af
fair. ' , ; .' ' ' ', ' .
BESSLER IMPROVES
ToHijBossler, of Lamm's mill, who
has been, in the Klamath General
hospital with a severely, sprained
ankle fcr the past week, will bo
discharged from the hospital today
or tomorrow. Bessler sprained his
ankle-playing baseball. .. ;, ..
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SAWDUST BURNING STOVE
L. T, Frost, formerly of Denver.
Colo., now resident in Portland, i;
placing on the market a stove for
burning sawdust. Eight pounds of
sawdust will produce heat for four
to five hours..
izes
Apolog
JAMES STEVENS
WHITES YOLIf
ON PAUL BUNYA
Lumberjack-Author Publish
es Interesting Book of '."
. ' Logger's Tale3
Paul Bunyam by James Stevens,
recently published by . Alfred ..A.,
Knopf, is a highly '.entertaining col-;
lection of logging camp, 'legends- of.
the redoubtable Paul, b-ginning with
the finding of Bubo, during -, tna
winter of the Blue Snowy aucbehron
Icllng the ir.arvelou3 exploits of
Paul, Babe, Hels Helson, and the
other inembers. of that mighty or
ganization until It J tragic disin
tegration under tho evil Influence
of the mechanically inclined Ford
Fordson, and of women, who claim
ed Paul's loggers as fathers for
their children.
.The book, is excellently. written,
containing several .- beautifully im
aginative' descriptions ; of fantaitic
happenings, particularly th03e .deal
ing with the ' Winter of the ; Blue.
Snow, the Kingdom ot Kansas, and
New Iowa. This virtue of the work
also lt3. chief defect; for tho
Bunyan stories; to be at their , bast,
niust be told in short, -crisp, matter
of fact vernacular, arid ' if written,
a style as near . colloquial as; poa-,
slble adds to their- cnarni:.-
Mr. Stevens gives the only plaus
ible explanation cf the growth of
the Paul . Bunyan legend that wo
have heard. - ;IIe traces'. Paul- Bun
yan back to Paul Bunya:!, a-mighty
French-Cariadian wiro fought' against
the English in the Papmeau Rebel
lion of 1837The French-Canadians
exaggerated the exploits or this log
ger and- fighter,;, believing seriously
their , own distortions. - Then .ths
American lumberjacks of the norti.-'
ern state3 re-exaggerated the tales,
burlesquing' the Canadians, and en
joyed the sport so much that Paul
grew to stupendous proportions. .
The book sontains some ' .very1.
amusing satire. Bab ' Babbltson is
self expanatory; Prof Sherm Sher.n
3on, the cdvocats of tho moral Noi'-
dlc blond, arid 'Ford' Foi'ilson, the
mechanical geniiis, aro certainly
concealed very thinly; '-,'- '. !''
' Mr; Stevens, who has - boon a
lumberjack, a dirt-mover- a hard
ro:k man; and a skinner, knows
lumberjacks, cf the old order, which
is rapidly vanishing - And he has
admirably caught the pathos of tho
passing of the old wflite-p ne -jacks
in his last chaptor; when Paul- and
hil heroic crew are left along , in
their camps, all the loggers having
deserted Paul lor woman, and for
Ford Fordson.wilh his ten uour day
and nil mechanical donkeys. '
Tho book may be. purchased thru
any book ' store, or ' ordered , direct
frcm Alfred ' A.:' Knopf,.. 730 Fifth
Avenue, New York City. The price
is $2.50 plus postage. V, 7; ;. t :-
ICE PRESIDENT
OF LONG - BELL
SITS
Accompanied by J.M.White
and C. W. Murphy of
Vecd Lumber. Co.
J. D.. Tonnant, ' vico" proshlenl of
the Long-Dell ' Lumber company, . C.
It. Fleming, assir.l.int to Mr;. Teu
nant, C M. Murphy, logging super
intendent for tho Weed Lumber,
company at Tonnant, and J. -M.
White, general manager of the Weed
Lumber company arrived In Khun--nth
Falls from Tonnant Friday morn
ing, and loft s.iorM.v after lunch
for Wood by wnv of Ashland. .
"Just driving through', ,1s oil, and
stoiiping ut the Big Hnsln brunch,"
said Air. White.
Mr. Tennaat,. and : hU nsalntant,
Mr. Fleming, will attend tho meet-
ihg of the board of directors of the
Long-Boll Lumber' company to bo
held shortly in San Francisco..'
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