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I STORM
NHDDLEWEST
i cms
Baby Tornado Brings Injury
and Property Damage
in North Omaha
HOUSES TORN DOWN
Third Successive Day Finds
Much Property Ruined
Throughout State
OMAHA, Nob.. June 4. Hevon
Injured nnd $100,000 property
damage wn llio tiruru fur ihu etc
mnnlH yesterday, when, for the
loriiix, called n buby tornado,
third nucrusslvo iliiy, violin I wind
swept across northwest Omaha,
levelling trees, lmtiHi nml wires.
While llio d"n III toll In Nebraska
of Ilia three days' ili'lmin'h of (ho
ntarm klnit Mood at four nml the
Injured number over u score-, nd
dltlonnl reports of violent weather
continued to rench Oiiiulin. Mlllnrd
nnd lllnlr. Neb., mid oilier lo
Intnd points reported wind und rnln.
Three death near Madison. Neb..
Tuesday, and ana nt Orchard, Ni b.,
the ssmo day comprised llio fa
tulillca. Yesterday's storm unroofed, und
in Homo cases rimed, several houses.
Rainfall Here
Is Breaking AU
Previous Marks
All rainfall record for tho past
20 yoar In this section have been
broken In thn period from October.
1924, to tho prone nt date, accord
ing to official! of tho lncul rocla
nmtlon service.
Rainfall rorord nro taken for
"slrcnm years." from October of
onn year to October the next, t'nl-
pndur years arc not used nit mols
turn falling In thn lultnr part of n
cnlondnr year li of no benefit to
crops of that year.
To llio end of May. 14,69 Inches
had fallen thin year. To dale,
counting thn heavy ruin of Juno 1,
16.04 I no lion liv fallen, with n
largo part of thn Blrenni year ye I
to go.
In tho 1911 stream year a tnlal
of 18.73 Inches was recorded, up to
now a record.
Klamath County
Roads Best In
2,000-Milc Trip
That Klnmnlh county ronds over
thn Oroon Springs inoiinlaln to thin
city aru bettor than uny encountered
In n 2 ,(-in II n trip from llimsun,
Arizona, In tho doclnrntlon of two
former resident who returned been
Inst night.
Thoy nro Minn Auhrn Iirndliury
nnd Mini Mnxlno Ilrndhury, duugli
. torn of Mr. nnd Mrs. It. K. Ilrndhury
Miss Auhrn Dradbury lias boon
teaching ichnol In Ilonmm, Arlinliu,
and her sister hns boon nltcndlng
school thcro,
Thoy nindu thn trip hero by wny
of I.ob Angolo. They will vIbII hero
with thnlr pnrnntn thin summer.
Jealousy Causes Farmer to
Murder Sweetheart and Man
He Thought Was His Rival
TACOMA, Wash., Juno 4. Un
rngod bncniiBo ho believed thai ho
was losing favor In tho eyes of his
swootlieart, Victor Hugo Halo, 2B
yoar old Orogon farmer, yostorday
ovonlng shot nnd killed Miss Polnot
ta Qnlnot, thn girl, and his believed'
rival, Klinor Monica, 21, n former
JJ. S, Bailor nnd then turned tho gun
Hill Railroad
Will Not Harm
Klamath Mills
C. A, Hart Says Big-
Operator Will Not i
Bring Disaster 1
Kiilraucii of III" Northern linn
Into this Beet ion will nut imher In
an era (if fcrciil coinpetllloii fur
locnl box shook manufacturers, do
ilin iiiito coinmon belief to tho
contrary.
This in I he declaration of ('. A.
Hart of I'ortland, of the law firm
of Cnrey & Kerr, legal representa
tive of tho Northern lines in this
section. I lu left yesterday evening
for Portland, In coinpiiny wllh I.. ('.
(lllmnn of Keattlo. vice president of
lh (ireut Northern.
"It Is Iruo that the. prospected
route of the Northern lines .will
Inp territory which will render
large bodies of Wcycrhausor und
Long-Hell timber accessible for
mnnufncliiri) In llio near futuro,
but that will have lltilo bearing on
local Vondltlons. It will inenn more
mills for Klu ninth Kails, but It will
not uieun stlffer coinpetllloii for
mills already here.
.Middle West .Market
"The Weyerhaeuser anil Long
Hell companies nro not lurKv munu
farturers of box shook, nnd 'their
limber holdings hero nro uot des
tined to be made ' Into that com
modity. "tSule nitcnclea of hOih firms arc
almost .wholly In tho grcnt fnrra-
lug nnd Industrial sections of th
middle west, and it Is th-so sales j
agencies that will bo suppllej with j
rv. nn m.n .umoer. , o
Ilo.h companies have these ho & oa thc
njtonc cs already established and!. . ,, , , . ,
., , ,, , . 1 house nnd said he would shoot tho
their problem s not to open new
, ' . , , , , ' pictures oft the wall. Russell Is 43
markets or to buck other people j . 0()
who hnvo markets established, hut I F ! ' ' ., ,,', i
.... , ... , I Most of those killed were sleep-
to supply their agencies with lum-, ,
her. - I'""-
"renin Xev Mnrkcf
"A rensonablo view of this mat
ter will show tho truth of my state
ment nnd I fuel that local lumber
men will soon come to seo Hint nny
action on thu pnrt ot big companies
In this section will not bo for tho
purpose of nnulhllntlng competition,
but rather to supply nn existing
demand which these compnnlci
hnvo created and which they nro
supplying right now with timber
from other sections."
Hurt will In all probability be
thu man who will nppcnr botoro the
Interstate t'ommerco foininlmilon. In
Washington when flnnl hearing of
tho Northern lines" application to ,
enter this section Is formally heard.
TAXSI'i:il AI'PUOVKI)
WASHINGTON. Jtm 4. (A. P.)
Transfer of tho biirenfi of mines j
from tho interior department to
tho department of com memo hns
been decided upon,
, TIIUOWIXH SNOWBALLS
C1RKAT FALLS, Mont., June
4. Four Inches of snow, fol-
lowed by n heavy rnln, fell
hero between 3 nnd 1 1 o'clock
this morning, (luring a storm
I which, according to available
reports, was general over this
0 section. ' ' Heavy damago to 0
trees, shrubbery nnd gardens
In tho city from tho heavy
snow was reported.
on himself In his apartment here, ac
cording to police.
Miss Qulnot nnd Monica nro be-
1 loved to hnvo been Instantly killed
but Dale lived long enough to ho
taken to tho county hospital. How
ever, before physicians could pro
paro him for nn operation, Halo died.
Ilo pnssud nwny without giving u
motive
K LAMATII FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1925
I
RUNS AlvlUGK
8;
IN PADDED CELL
Lloyd Russel, Hamilton, O.,
Becomes Wildly Insane
and Stages Killings
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Entire Family Almost Wip
ed Out in Frenzied
Shooting of Maniac
HAMILTON, Ohio, Juno 4, (AP)
-Rccoiiilng violently iiiBiino, Lloyd j
KuhbcII enrly today shot and killed
eight members ot his finally, accord
ing to tho pollen who arrested him
nfter ho bud shot and sIlKhtly
wounded himself. Ills victims aro
tho five children of his brother, his
mother, brother and slsier-ln-law.
Hussell Is lu n padded cell in the
county Jail. Tho dead: Mrs. Rose
Russell, 60, mother.
John Lowell Russell, brother.
Kmmn Itusnell. Zb. wife of John
Lowell KiikscM.
Julia, 12. Kobert, 8. lieorgo Kran
cls, G, Paul Lewis, .1, and lib hard,
4 month's, nil children ot Mr. and
Mrs. John KuphcII.
Cliilil Haves Self
Dorothy. 10, naved berselt by hid
ing In bed when she heard shots.
ltiiHsell Ibnii turned the wonnon
,, ,, ,,,,,, , thn
(lf( jun
.,,,, ,, .,,,,.,, ..
of Bevrlll of ,he .chndron
I oitcciucn nuimuoncii
Itohert Leonard nnd Lotils
Keller, policemen. , nnd Captain
Wesley Wulzcn. deputy sheriff,
wero summoned.
As they npproached tho 'house.
Hushel, who wns employed ns a
laborer, appeared at a window and
told a story that a $1600 mortgnge
was duo on the place, and that they
would hnvo to move todny. .
"I'll shoot tho pictures off the
wall and then surrender," Russel
told the police.
With thnt the slayer turned about
and fired mora bullets Into the
boM(, t tho children lying In the
room.
Russel (lion appeared nt another
window nnd the police broko in a
door.
-. Russel then turned thu pistol on
himself,
Ho fired ono shot before
tho police could reach him nnd tho
bullet penetrated hlH lung, near the
heart, but ho will live, according to
reports from the Jail.
"I mndo a poor Job of myself,"
Russel said when taken into cus
tody. Thomas Marshall
. Is Laid To Rest
Simple Service Marks Funeral
of the Former Vice
' President
. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Juno 4.---ThnmnB
Riley Marshall was laid to
rest horq "today. Such simple ,obso
quloa na might ho tendered nny
humble citizen wero accorded tho,
man who sorved tho nation as vice
president during tho World war
nnd his native stulo of Indiana its
lis 27th governor. It was tho wid
ow's wish thnt In death he should
ho unostentatious Just ns ho was
In life.
A trlhulo was pnid by Rev. Mat
thew Smith, Mr. Murshnll's warm
friend nnd pastor. Scottish rite
services for a departed brothor wero
read nnd then the body wns taken
to Crown Hill cemetery, where It
will remain in a receiving vault
until Mrs. Marshall decides upon Its
final resting pluco,
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Associated Press Leased Wire
Common User
Demanded on
S. P. Tracks
Public Service Commis
sion Asks I. C. C.
for Ruling
WASHINGTON. June 4. f AP)
A petition for reopening of the case
which has allowed llio Southern
Pacific to retain control of the Cen
tral Pacific was filed today by the
public service commission In Ore
gon. In approving continuance of the
merger of tho two railroads the
commission attacked certain condi
tions of the merger and the Oregon
p1!tlln nHK(!(i for tho enforcement
of rights to uso Central Pacific prop
erty which other railroads, may be
entitled to exercise.
Tim Central Pacific now has n
lino through Oregon, the petition
said, which tho Oregon Trunk rail
road lias been entitled to use be
tween Skookum .and Klamath Falls.
Tho general complaint was made
that the merger In Oregon had re
duced competition in railroad ser
vice. Frances West Will
Become June Bride
Marriage Tomorrow Morning
, to Paul Evans is Made
Public. Today
Mls Frances West, daughter of,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter West, of 20 4
South Riverside, will bo married
tomorrow morning to Paul Evans,
employe ot tho Union Oil company
' lmrn rtlatinn 1 llomtnclnn nf the
Episcopal church will officiate The
hour of thc woddlng will depend
upon the hour of Hlshop Reming
ton's arrival in tho city.
It will bo a quiet home wedding
with only tho immediate family in
attendance. Following the ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Evans will take a
short wedding trip, the destination
of which they aro not divulging.
Upon their return to tho city
thoy will reside In their new home
nt Third nnd Ornut streets.
Jury Exonerates
Killer Of Tatro
Gurnee's Act Found Fully
Justifiable at Coroner's
Inquest
"Justifiable homicide" was the
verdict of a coroner's Jury at 3
o'clock this afternoon", Investigating
the shooting of Robert J. Tatro ear
ly yesterday morning by Thomas
C! urnee.
Tho Jury found that Tatro, when
shot, was attempting 'to break Into
tho II. P. Lewis grocery nnd that
liurnoe wns justified In shooting.
Members ot tho Jury were: J. J.
Keller. It. K. Calkins, li. L. Cook,
It. It. Amlcke, C. A. Rocknrd nnd
It. L. Orom.
Tatro died late yesterday after
noon. His body Is held nt Whit',
lock's undertaking parlors, pending
word from relatives in tho cast.
Conditions Here
Good, Opinion Of
Bradstreet Man
That buslnoss conditions In Klnm-
'nth Falls are very satisfactory on
the whole. Is the opinion of J. II.
Currie, representative of P.rnd
street's, III Ibis clly for n couple
of weeks on business for his or
gnnlxallon. Wllh comparatively few full tires
nnd wllh many businesses showing
added strength over Inst your the
outlook here Is iiulto good, Mr.
Currlo said.
Ho emphnslzod especially that
thin city might expect great ac
tivity und move prosperity ns tho
result of contemplated rail de
velopment hero,
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SUEGOVERHMENT
FOR ALLOTMENTS
Maggie Ball and Rosetta
Crawford Plaintiffs in
Federal Litigation
WANT TITLE TO LAND j
Say They Have Been De-j
Pr,NiX 20Y,arf !
Maggie John Hall, 21, and Ro
setta Crawford, 19, members of
th;; Klamath and Modoc Indian
tribes living on the Klamath reser
vation, have filed suit In the fed
eral court at Portland seeking to
force tho government to give them
title to allotments which they al
lege were made to them In 1906.
"The government, tho complaint
sets forth, has refused to give title j ' KIamath counlry was near death in a Lakeview
to the land on the grounds that It. ..... , .. . .
was part of the timber holdings, j hospital this afternoon from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The two Indian women charged that ) He was found slumped down in the front seat of his
their homes also were valuable as sedan on the Lakeview highwav this .morning between
grazing land and thnt they had j B and Lakeview. The discove'ry was made by a stage
been occupied and Improved since ,i , , . . . . ....u'. tU
innp
ac -
Titio to the allotments, an
counting of the funds received
by
the government for use of tho land
Blnco 19l6, -the
returns this;
other relief Is sought.
He Worked for
Swift and His
Speed
Tc CnnA
xs vjuuu
PORTLAND. Juno 4. Harry E.
Wachnick, for five years an em
ploye ot the receiving department
of Swift and company, was arrested
today on charges of defrauding the
firm out of 17500 to $10,000.
Although on a salary of slightly
more than $100 a month, Wochnick
has . been living at an expensive
hotel, riding about in an expensice
auto, according lo deputy district
attorney, Leon Beherman.
Officers who arre3ted him, re
ported that they found a quart ot
gin on his hip. Possession of liqu
or charges were also placed against
him.
According to Deputy District At
torney John Mowmy a conferedate
who delivered cracklings to the
Swift plant, cashed ficticious receiv
ing invoices supplied by Wochnick
and split the proceeds.
LONDON ALARMED
LONDON, June 4. (A.P.) A
very grave view is taken hero of
tho disturbances at Shanghai nnd
the outlook In China generally, fear
belns expressed thnt things are
moving toward a situation
sembling the noxcr uprising.
rc-
La Grande Votes
For Improvements
Additional Fire Equipment,
Sewers, Sewage . And
Water System Asked
LA CiRANDK, Ore., . June ; 4. La '
CIrando voters yesterday nccopted t
four municipal bond Issues totalling '
$:;ii0,00(i at a special election by a
vote of nearly flvo to one, unof-!
flcial figures this morniiiK show, j
Tho vote was medium, with 1041
ballots cast. The vote follows: i
'For $1S5.00H to Improve water
system and build auxiliary supply.
Yes, Slid; no, 205.
For $15,000 for sewage disposal
plniy. Yes. S72; no. Hill.
For $25,000 for storm sewers.
Yes, 7S7; no, 2,1 n.
For $ 15,000 for nditlonal fire
pumper, equipment and housing
room. Yes, 75t; no, 205.
This is tho first bond election
resulting favorably In La (irnndo
lu IS yours, city officials declared.
Found Unconscious In
Car On Lakeview Road
By Stage Driver Today
Carbon Monoxide Gas
Physician Called From
Out No Hope-Fainted Last Night, Belief
At 3:30 this afternoon a
hospital was to the effect that
slight improvement and now
life. He is being attended
rushed to the Howard ranch
pital at Lakeview.
Jarlc McAuliffe- nn nt
luiivci, nriiu Laiiicu tiiiu
: OHie Howard ranch.
', A physician was summoned from Lakeview , immedi-.
ately. ; He pronounced it
i . "sj ii u..
iCLiiu lidiu uicic wu,.uui a
i He rushed the unconscious
pital shortly before 2 o'clock
j When the stage ' driver.,, discovered .'McAuliffe in the
car this, morning, the machine ; was parked by the side
!of the road, and the. motor idled down, was still running.
! Gas fumes' rising, into the closed car are believed to
' nave caused the poisoning:'
j Members 0f the OHie- Howard family saw McAuliffe
driving by there at a fast rate of speed early last night,4
going toward Lakeview. His car
tj ""l J'was sti" heal'e' toward Lakevlow
WOmari VjnargeOl'when found this- morning, and it
f
With Murdering
Three Children!
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M A r' ' r"rrr
rs. Anna running-
hanit Gary Ind.,
pg "Jj.gJ .
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CROWN POINT. Ind.. June 4.
(IP t Mis ' Annn Ptinnlnffhjim.'
49,' Gary. Ind.. widow, was Indicted
on three first degree
murder1
htirf..,a vplorilnv liv the I.fike
county grand jury." The state ! "Potions are believed to have brok
charges that she slew three of her'en down hU healtl1" - , , "
children by poison. F'1,s 4o Hovive
Mrs. Cunningham was held with-! Lakeview physicians who ' woro
out bail by Judge Martin Smith of i called to aid tho stricken man were
the stiDerior court. i cf the belief that he felt a fainting
The Indictments charge that the
mother killed lsabolle, IS; Charles,
19, and Walter, 13, upon whose
(tenths insurance nnlleles were col-
l..ete,l 1,1 lwr cnntnolnn Vra
Cunningham said she killed u:ily
tho ones she loved best nnd at
tempted to kill herself bv poiron
so thnt they might "Join pa in
heaven.". Her husband. David Cun
ningham, Sr., who she culled "I n,'"
died July 2. 1918, when tho fumity
lived nt Valparaiso, Ind. After his .
ilnn, I, Vr-a fnn 11 in fb 11 m nnil 11. e'
children moved to tlary, where all!
ofithe other deaths occurred.
Robert A. Booth's Niece
Is Secretly Married to
Grandson of Levi Ankeny
DALLKS, Ore., Juno 4. Invesli-
gntioli here todny of a report from
Walla Walla, Washington that. Levi
Ankeny Jr., grandson of tho lute
Senator Ankeny ot Washington, was I
married hero two months ago to
Klysta Cornett, uaiiRlitor of a form
er Prinoville. Oregon businessman
nnd nleco of R. A. Booth, former
chairman of tho statu highway corn-
Published Daily at ..
KLAMATH FALLS
"An Empire Awakening"
PRICE FIVE CENTS '
Poisoning Held Cause-
Lakeview But Holds
report from the Lakeview
McAuliffe had shown some
has a fighting chance for
by Dr. J. H. Kelty, who
and took him to the hos-.
tho Keaf Irnnwn lni-Lmn nf
uic aiagv auu iuoiicu iu tuo
carbon monoxide poisoning
.i:V. . .1 t .
uui' Luaiikc l ui ixi.uvcij
-man to' the Lakeview hos
this afternoon.
1 Koll
Is believed he had remained In an
unconscious state throughout thu
ight. . . ..
Tlrcaks Blood Vcmcl
During the heavy rains In tho
Sacramento valley Inst wlntar, - Mc-
'Aulifte lo9t a large number ot oat-
tle Ia the gwonerj torrents. .' By he-
jraic efforts he succeeded In resell;
j ing s)me of his cattle, and Ills over .
exertion at that time caused a blood
vessel In his head to burst. A a
result he was forced to undergo an-
' operation at -CWo
'i"lis uc -a viicmicu uu
'far appenaicittes. ana. tnese two
spell coming on as he was driving
toward Likeview. n Then, to protect
himself ho had stopped his cur by
the roadsldo until the fainting spell
I 'ad paS3ed
I mit tno iieatuy carnon nionoxiuo
I fumes began to get In their work
in tho warm .closed car, and he
failed to recover consciousness.
; (.'Ives Hope .
Although a car was rushing Klin
to the Lokeview hospital this after-.
noon, the physician told members
nf tho Itnw.rit fnmtlv ttiul h en4A
was extremely critical nnd he. 1 dkl
(Continued ou i'n go Font )
t - r
1 1
I mission, revealed that a license had
been granted to Leo Ankeny, 21: nnd
Ulancho Cornett, 18, ori April 17.
nnd that they were married hero the
snnio day.
Tho marriage coremo;.? was per
formed nt thu Preshyterlun church
hero. Ankeny wns described as a
student at Kugeno nnd Rlnnche Cor
nett gave her home as Tllckrnnll, ft
town four miles east of Dalles.