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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 192.'
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CONVICT ELUDES
GUARD
E
Morton' Hanson, Alias
"Whitey Fuller" Flees
Posse at Federal Prison
IS STILL IN HIDING
i
Man Under Investigation
Here in Murder Case
Still Keeps His Liberty
. TACOM A, Wash., Juno 25,(l)
Suddenly coming runt la fuco with
.Mort in Hansen, thn escaped feder
ul pcnltent-lury convict who has linen
frnn on McNeil Island far Hired
lyn, (liiuril Klinur V. Illllon fir.'. I
A filall.nli of bullet m III in curly
IIiIh iniirnliiK, Hut HiiiiHi'ii look a
long ehuiico M'lil o .raped In thn
briiNli again, (luiird lllltun was vii
tvrliiK Hi" mui'lilnw shop uboul 1
o'clock III In m.irnlng, Jim as lie
oiinin In from onu !do. I humeri en
leri'il (lia shop from the oilier.
"Throw up your hinnl:i nntl d m't
try la got nwuy, ir I'll shoot jmii,"
s.ild Illllon.
'I'm k en I Hit chance
lluimnii quickly raised III hands
m It In miliinlKiloti and llien luok
a chunee, anil us lift muni Just bill
able thn door through whlrh tie liu.l
entered, lis limited Ink, puiiheil
the door open nnd plunged outside.
An the door wan nwliiRvng hnt
bark of the prisoner, Illlluii tired
three Union. Hilton rushed out
side U nee I ho prisoner Juki dis
appearing over the tup of J hill lu:li
of the shop, lie let two mire Bin In
fly nl hint, hut I hey evidently did
no damage.
Hide lu IIioj.Ii
Hansen was Keen (or tho hint time
at ha disappeared In the b'unh.
Patrolling of the Inland In rllll
going on to, prevent him oilcan UK-
lUnitrn rams In McNeil Inland
lanl March from Portland. Ore., on'
a two year sentence. " Officials have
recently been checking up lr!i no.
alble Implication In a murder nl
Klamath Fall".
Begin Tests
of Soil in
Lower Lake
Soil Experts Here
Begin Labors
Today
to
Ooorgo C. Kroutior, director of
tho dlvlalon of farm cconomica of
tho U. 8. Biirouu of Rerlumntlnri
will bo unable to bo hero until Fri
day for the hearing on tho request
of the Audubon aoclnty that the
Lower Klnmnlh I.uko liaaln be again
flooded.
Professor Shaw of tho University
of Cullfornlu, Professor Powers of
O. A. C. nnd Roll Export Lnpltam of
tho U. 8. Department of ARrlculluro
arrived Inst night nnd todny were
preparing to begin their Boll tests In
tho Lower I.nko.
All three omphnslzcd that they
wore technical mon nnd Hint llielr
only function wnn to secure nnd
muka nnnlysls of samples of thu soil
nnd to report ns to tho commercial
Tallin of tho luko lied as a plnro to
(trow crops.
Their fllidlngs aro to bo prosentod
to Krettttor nnd on tho strength of
thorn ho la to tnnko n rocommendn
tlon to tho Department of tho In
terior. The move to flood the luko Is op
posed by Klumutli Htockmen nnd by
members of the Klumutli Driilnngn
district.
Man Injured In
v- Family Row To
Recover, Belief
Condition of Sam Ilimtod, nt tin
Klnmuth Geneva! hoipltal recuper
ating from Injuries alloge.l to b.ivo
boon irocolvod :n u tmht with his
Son-ln-luw, Henry Asking, was snld
Milny to bo f '.utly Improved. It
.was tho opinio i of hospllnl nli.icliiu
Hint he wottW roeovtr unless terl
oua complications sot In, Tho .'Iglit
occurred nt tho nunnnll camp
grounds, Asklns Is held nt tho
county Jail, ohargad with assault
and baltory, with ball sot r.t ,1000.
UNDER GUN FIB
Eskimos Are
Not to Learn
World History
Would-Be Educator Is
Declared to Be
Shoplifter
With tho urrnut of Frank K. Illli
ler lodity, iiiilli'u believe I hut they
have solved Hie mystery of smull
theft from
tho merchant iilonK
for the Inst three or
Mulll street
four days.
lllbler, when arrested by Officers
llrnwii unit Lewis, hud on his per
son a flashlight and several other
siiiitll article believed to huvo boon
taken, from the Klur Iruir store. It
In aliened Hint lllhler tins been sol
Iiik Minn 1 1 articles stolen from vari
ous stores about the streets re
cently. Home of these articles . bore
Hie Itcxall trademark, mid It wus
from this clew and the fuel Ihut the
Hlur drug store has suspected blm
for sevcriil duys, Hint
Hie police
Hindu the arrest. It. Is alleged' that
lllbler has been In the huhll of
coming Into the duric store early
In the morning, asking for a drink
of W'.iler, and slipping whatever he
co ii I il Into lr!s pocket while the
clerk went lo Hie buck of the
store to Kit III ill u drink.
lllhler wus arrested earlier this
week on u churKu of Intoxication,
but was relensnd on his plea of be
nt! deaf, mid tliut he was Just talk-
I ii K to himself, and not drunk. He
stated nt tills time Hint ho was on
bla way In Alaska to sell Weill
Oulllno of History to the Kskltnos,
and that he was a veteran of tho
liner war, the Spanish American
war and the World war.
Jardine And Party
Guests Of Medford
Secretary of Agriculture Visits
Orchards and Inspects
State Troops .
MEDFOUD. Ore.. Juno 25. Sec
rotary of Agriculture W. M. Jar-
dlna and party arrived In a spe
cial car on tho Shasta shortly after
11 o'clock this morning. He was
mot by a delegation of Medford
citizens headed by Muyor O. O
Alenderfer, luken on u short tour
of tho orchard district nnd then
whisked to Camp Jackson, where
nflor a salutn of 19 guns, he was
tho guest of honor nt a luncheon
glvon by Brigadier Oenernl Gcorgo
A. White.
Secretary Jardlno on his arrival
was accompanied by his brother,
J. T. Jardine, director of tho ex
periment station at Oregon Agrlcul
(urn I collcgo; Prof, W. A. Jensen,
exocullvo secretary, O. A. C; Dean
llexell of O. A. C, nnd Ilohort
Kerr, son of President Kerr of
O. A. C.
Tho secretary of agriculture Is
making a tour of the const to In
spect ngrlcultiirnl conditions nud
nftor a conferenco with leading
business men and rnnchorH In Med
ford will lenvo for n motor trip
to Itosehurg this evening. f
Dragon Day Finds
Shanghai In Arms
ailANOIIAt, June 25. (?)
Dragon Day, observed by Chinese
In less trnublusomo I hues to mni'k
tho season of sprouting soeds, todny
was commemorated with tinned
forces patrolling tho sweltering
streets of Shanghai, which took on
n holiday aspect diesplta the ex
pressed fluro-up of strike sympa
thizers. . -
Mrs. Morgan Is
Reported!; Better
Wife of Noted Financier Re-
covering Slowly From
Sleeping Sickness"
NEW YORK, Juno 25. (P)
Hopes for tho onvly recovery of
Mrs. 1. P. Morgan, wife of tho
financier, who has been 111 of
sleeping sickness at her summer
homo nunr Olcnrovo, .wore strength
oned todny when Mrs. Morgan, for
tho first time since sho fell Into a
Rtnto of coma on June 17, novo In
dications of rulurnlng conscious
ness, 1
Mrs, Morgan's physicians , an
nounced Snturdny sho hud passed
tho crisis.
FIRE HAZARD IN
STATE DECLARED
TO BE CRITICAL
Hot Dry Wind Sweeping
Through Forests of
Oregon, Says Report
TIMBER THREATENED
Camps and Equipment of
Siletz Basin Company
in Path of Flames
I '(JUTLAND, Ore., Juno 25. Pj
While n hot, drying wind was sweep
ing the forest areas of Oregon, hour
ly Increasing the fire hazard, several
fires were being fought lodiiy la the
western part of the stale, and one
In centra Oregon.
A hoiiK.st'Midi'r's cabin wus bnrn-
i ..... ....
;eil nnil :i ai res swept ny a lire near
Mist,' Oregon, yesterday, Hie chief
Oregon flro relief association re
ported todny. The fire was brought
under control.
About 100 acres of old slashing of
the Nehnlem limber company near
Scuppnnse, was burned over, It was
reported today.
Crews At. Work
Led by forest service officials be
tween 120 and HO men wore todaj
fighting o fire which broke out yes
terday in timber owned by the
llrldul Veil Lumber company and
(ieorgo Joseph, near Palmer, Oregon.
Several logging ramps in tho
Cochran nnd Kerry district on .the
lower Columbia river, closed down
today on account of fire danger.
Threatening a greul body of tim
ber in I be Silott basin, tho fire
which yesterday destroyed camp 4
of tho Cobbs-Milchell plant at Vul
setx was still burning today. The
company's entire force of 200 men
were fighting tho flames. For a
time thu flro menaced the town of
Vnlsett and tho big mill at that
pluce. Hut (ho wind changed and
ifro-cilmJiily within inurler:of a
mile of the town. .
SALti.M, Ore., June 25. Camps
and equipment of tho Wllllamette
Valley Lumber company northeast
of Sllett basin are directly In lino
with a forest tiro In green timber
that Is burning fiercely and making
rapid headway in Hint direction to.
day, according to a message received
from Will Caldwall, In charge of the
ranger station on Dnld mountain.
Tho latest outbreak of the fire is
a continuation of the tire Ilia, burn
ed ovor a' wl.do area In Slletx basin
yesterday. The basin flro in uudjr
control, nut has climbed tho llilfe
of the basin, nnd, whipped by
southwest wind, is ruging to the
northeast. A crew from tho Wil
lamette Valley company's camps is
fighting the flames under hand!
cap by building flro trulls. It Is
practically impossible to uso bacV
flros, because tho exceedingly dry
weather makes these dnugerous.
Tho fire is doubtless destructive
slnca It Is In green timber. It has
been found Hint tho flro started In
tho Slluts basin from a ynrder or
largo donkey cnglno. This machine
was not damaged, but six other
donkeys were damaged, some cut
logs wero burned and sonio fcroon
timber destroyed.
Another small flro northwest of
Fulls Cllyjs undur control.
C(.ST LIIAOI'M HCOIIHS
At Vernon 11, Portland 6.
At Salt Lake 10, San Francisco 9.
At Oakland 2, Seattle !).
At Sncrnmonto 13, Los Angeles G.
Oregon G. A. R.
Names Officers
F. N. Lathrop of Port
i land Is New Com
. mander
OREGON CITY, Ore., Juno 25.
Nowly elected officers of thi Ore
gon atnto department of the G. A.
II. were Installed todny at tho an
nual enenmpmont hero.
F. N. Lnthrop, Portland, was
elected stnto department command
or Into yesterdny.
James K. Nelson, Oreon City,
wus chosen senior vice commander:
Comrade, Knolrhoim, Gremlin m
Junior vlco commnndor; J, T. But.
lor, Glndstono, department chap.
lain, and J. K. Mall, Portland,
niodical advisor.
Mexican Held
'After Fight
Near Algoma
Countryman Files Com
plaint Charges
Stabbing
Trlnldid Vjtirungan is held In
Hid county Jail charged with as
sault wilh a dangerous weapon and
Florentine Navurr'j U nursing a bad
ly slushed fight hand following a
free-for-all fig'it In a oabln near
Algoma last night.
lioth iVunrangan and Navarro are
Mexicans and unable lo give a clear
account of the occurrence.
According V) the story told offi
cers more woa a puny in which
Ix.w.imen and six men participated.
As the party progressed three
women left, leaving three women
unit u'-x men and this discrepancy
numbers Is alleged to have cuus-
eil tie fight.
Vanraguii Is said by Navarro to
hive been the aggressor and the
lulter appeared at the district at
torney's office and demanded that
u nurrunt be sworn out.
Stage Driver
Who Swallowed
Acid Is Dead
George Stanley of Bend
Succumbs From
Poison
Hend, June 25. George Stanley,
24 year old stage driver who drunk
commercial acid by mistake March
D, died Into yesterday directly as
a result of drinking the add, which
ate away the lining of his stomach
according to the physicians. He
is said to have literally starved to
death.
Stanley was driving a stage to
Hend whenthe accident happened.
mora-inan an' hours ride rrom Bena
He stopped by the side of another
machine and during the absence of
the other driver, saw a bottle on
the seat and without noticing the
contents, took a. big swallow. When
ft was discovered that he hid drunk
the poison, he was a-ushed to Bend
but owing to bad roads arrival was
delayed and it was some time be
fore ho received medical attention
Hesldes his widow Stanley Is
survived by a three year old daugh
ter. Hubby Punches
Wifey's Nose;
He's Arrested
Domestic Troubles of
Wealthy ' Couple
Are Aired
NKW VOItK, June 2B. (AP)
Domestic tumbles of Arthur
K. Bourne, Jr., 21, grandson
of Oiiiimodnre Frcdlrlck (.
lUiurne, sorting machine inug
liutu who left, n $4o,tMH),0(lU
estate, hnvo culminated In his
nrrest after a chno by his wife,
who says ho punchi-il her nose.
Ought by n police automo
bile directed by Ills wife,
Itoiirne pleaded not guilty.
For two days, his wife, Ben
tiice ("limey llournc, nlso 21,
laid seine to his imrtnient
liou.se. Sho said she wanted
to queslicn him rcgm-dliiR n
divorce suit ho f Hod . in 1'iisu
denn, California, recently.
Bourne came home last nlaht.
An argument ensued while u
crowd withered. He punched
licr nose, she snld, nud fled
- theniiuh the crowd, t'oiiiniiind
eerliiic n police flivver, Mrs,
Itourno stood on tho rmiiiliiK
board anil directed tho jiollco
driver until Bourne was caught
three blocks fail her on.
TOO HOT TO WOltK
SALEM, June 25. Hot
weather has produced an
acute labor situation In Wicr-
ry orchards ond loganberry
yards hero due to tlio rapid
ripening at tho fruit. A hurry
'tip .call hits hjien sent out for
150 additional cherry pickers
'and 100 loganberry pickers.
T
0
EXPECTED TQ BE
CLOSED TONIGHT
Defense Attorney , Stewart
Makes Closing Argu
ment This Morning
CROWE WILL FINISH
Special Night Session May
be Held to Wind up Big
Murder Case
CHICAGO, June 25, yp) Tho
Shepherd murder trial prbbably will
be concluded with a session tonight.
Judge Thomas J. Lynch and the
awyers for both sides tentatively
agreed to such a step at a recess
conference in chambers this mora-
ng. The first jury plea on behalf
of Shepherd wus continued today by
Win. Scott Stewart, chief of defense
counsel. He spoke for more than
wo hours .yesterday and said this
morning he would require all of the
forenoon and probably would con-
Inue this afternoon.
Tho Indicated length of his argu
ment set back the probable time nt
ho case going to tho Jury. .
After Stewart concludes, V. W.
O'Brien, "IiiH associate will close for
the defense., Robert E. Crowe,
state's attorney, then will close for
the prosecution.
Shepherd entered the court room
this morning with bis face showing
distinct marks of worry. He seem
ed more care worn than at any time
since be wns accused of using ty
phoid germs to murder his million
aire foster son, William Nelspn Mc-
Cllntock.
Takes To Will t
Stewart took up the manner of the
making of Billy McClintock'a will
and scored that as a point in Shep
herd's favor.
"If he had been nursing the .boy
along to slay him, wouldn't ho have
gotten so'mo ' brife else-fbdraw,'fhe
will?" asked Stewart. "That is one
of the points he Is going to have to
explain in the probate court in the
will fight. He must face It. But if
ho had been trying to prepare an
alibi, wouldn't ho have had some
body else draw the will so as to
cast suspicion from him?"
Stewart took up tho testimony of
many witnesses in the trial and anal
yzed It from h'.s view point for the
Jury.
Letter To Nurse
The letter Shepherd wrote to Miss
Estelle Gehllng, a young nurse with
whom he once was frtetidly, "was
just a letter to a girl," Stewart said,
even though Shepherd wrote that ho
was bankrupt, had no pltjns and
probably would close his office and
drift imay from It all., '
Shepherd's statement to the young
woman that he had asked Billy to
give him a valuable piece of property
was not In keeping witH his alleged
plan to kill the youth and gett all,
Stewart said.
Another Workman
Killed In Tunnel
BEND, Ore., June 25. A work
man, Joe Coll, wns killed in an ac
cident In the tunnel Inst night at
Odell, according to word received
In Bond this morning. Details of the
accident aro not available. The
hoJy Is being brought to Bend
however, according to a long dis
tance message received by Sheriff
S. E. Roberts.
Jealous Woman
Murders Lover
Robert Smith Slain in
Oakland1 This'
Morning
OAKLAND, Calif., Juno 25.
Holier t Smith, 4D, wns shot und
killed today In an apartment of
Mrs. Mniio On nn lug hum. Mrs.
Cunningham wns taken Into custody
and wns said by the police to have
admitted Hint- sho killed Smith
through Jealousy.
"Ho told me ho was going to
Portland with 'another woTiin,"
Mrs. Cunningham said.. "I pleaded
with him nil night not to go. Ho
refused nnd then I shot him, 1
tried to shoot myself but there were
no cartridges loft in the pistol."
HEP
HAL
Man May Die;
Unconscious
After Attack
Heat Blamed for Af
fliction of Lumber
Worker
Overcome by the heat while
sealed mi a bench ill Hie holler
'(mm ;f the. Pelican Bay I.um-lx-r
coin pan) Monday, Ijucy
Oinohundro, an employee of thn
company, toppled to the floor
unconscious and this afternoon
was reported to be still In an
iinconM-lous c million at the
Klnmuth General Hospital.
Onuihundro wa repairing n
pair of shoes, when utlnck'.l.
Doctors believe t!w heat,
(unbilled with the extra warm
th of the boller.4, caused him to
give way.
He suffered a very slight
failure of the skull when he
Knpled to Hie floor. His con
dition is regarded as being very
fccriou.
JUDGE LEAVITT
DISQUALIFIED
IN LIBEL SUIT
After pondering over tho ques
tion for twenty-four hours, A. L.
Leavltt, circuit Judge for thiB coun
ty, this afternoon decided that he
was not qualified to sit in the case
of Myers vs. The Herald Publishing
company. W. H. Perkins and E. J.
Murray. The decision came as a
result of an affidavit of prejudice
filed against him by E. J. Murray
in which he alleged that he did
not believe he could secure a fair
and impartial trial before Leavltt.
j Leavltt stated that he t found upon
investigation that he had no alter
native but allow the case to pass
to another Judge, since he had
made no ruling in the case.
The case- in question is the one
filed, by Myers, alleging, ..Hhel on
?ttiuua4.u&iruantsX Vjj
Reorganization Of
Indian Service Is
To Start July 1st
WASHINGTON, June 25 ()
Two hundred an ninety four em
ployes in the field service of the
Indian bureau. Including one
more In nearly every connection
agency and reservation in the
country, will lose their Jobs July
1, under a sweeping reorganization
program announced here today.
The reduction of force will clip
$227,905 annually from the pay
roll. Clerks, stenographers, matrons,
Indnan police. Judges and other of
ficials are among those whose posi
tions will be abolished. The num
ber remaining on the bureau rolls
July 1 will be 4932.
LaFollette Leaves
Property To Widow
Entire Holdings Amount
to
Only $68,000 -Debts .
Listed at $29,000
MADISON. Wis., Juno 25.
Senator Robert M. LaFollette's will,
offered for probate in county court
today, names his widow as sole
beneficiary and executrix.
Tho senator's debts, including the
mortgage on the homestead, are
estimated in the petition at 29,000.
tlis oersonnl property at $20,000
and his real estate, which Is the
homestead, at IMS, 000.
One Death Occurs
Because Of Heat
Astoria Man Dives Off Dock
and Breaks Neck Mer
cury Mounting
. ASTORIA, Juno 25. With Astor
ia and Clatsop county suffering
tinder tho most Intenso hent wave
over experienced bore; the hot
weather .took Its toll in an indirect
nuuiner when Eckhurt R. Ilunsen.
25, single, of Hammond, a fishing
village near this city, became over
heated nt his work yesterday nnd
stripping off his clothes dovo Into
tho Columbia river from n dock.
The ebb tide had lowered the wntor
beneath tho dock to a depth of a
foot or so nnd Hanson's neck wns
broken, death occurring InBtantly.
TWO ROBBED
BY HUSKY
YOUTHS
Matt Swisle and Paul
.. Riser Victims of
Street Bandits -
Two shirt-sleeved husky
youths, strolling aimlessly in
the vicinity of 11th and
Walnut, last night at 11:00
o'clock "strong-armed" Matt
Swisle of the Crater Rooms
and Paul T. Riser, cook in
the Central Hotel Dining
Room.
After choking' and beat
ing Swisle and Riser into
submission the holdups took
$25 in cash from Swisle and
$115 from Riser. .
They also took Riser's hat
but in the melee failed to ,
notice that he was wearing
a $100 diamond ring as a
tie pin. . , , , . .
Swisle was overpowered ,
without too much trouble
but Riser , tried to Irlck his op
ponent In the nose and -as a result
T - d and beaten about I ho
raabar sh:wed any sign .
, '.' rued, flcoxglkij? to fllger.
; Swisle caulrt give.
.-naffine aiV .. and
d one was
short. , , V 'v
"l:nv. g,2f T 'i-J get - a -permit '
carry a gu:. KlaeT'deW-wrath-fullv
t S
"I've, lived firr yean in Alaska,
and 'toiieil l:t ixiom-'town mining
camps but this is the "first tlmo I
eves felt that I 'needed a gun."
WASHINGTON. June 25. Per
emptory orders have been Issued
by Secretary Wilbur for tho instal
lation of navy wireless equipment
on the .Mac.Mlll.in arctic exploration
ship Peary. .
Whew! It Sure
Is Warm Today
Year's Record for Heat
Broken This "
Afternoon
Klamath Falls sweltered nrfth the
rest of the state today when the
c.fficlul thermometer at the reclama
tion office recorded the hottest day
of the year. , , .
At 1:30 this afternoon -tho. mer
cury had reached 03 degvees nnil
wns Nt (It mounting, said HydrORr.l
pher Smith. He .Timllcted It proli
ably would reach 07 before tho kIihv
dc.wnward march would begin. '
The sky was cloudier, up ' eurly
this afternoon but whether or not
It presaged ft storm weather export
could not say. The forecast for to
morrow is fcr continued hot weiith
ed in this section, t
Convicts Stage t
Riot; Is Due To
Water Shortage
SALEM, Ore,, Juno 25. Incensed
because of a sliortago of wuter in
their colls, several convicts created
a disturbance- nt the state peniten
tiary lust night, and broke halt a
dozen window panes by throwing
tobacco tins through the bars of
their coll doors. They ndded to tho
disturbance by yelling for water and
pounding on the doors. , .
Warden Dalrytnplo said ha
thought not more than lx prisonern
wero Involved and that hn had not
been able 10 find out who they wero.
Some of tho convicts . had allowed
tho water faucets to run in their
cells to cool tho air, with the result
that water In tho prison tank be
came low and cut off tho flow.
It was first reported that ft riot
of largo proportions was created by
tho prisoners, that they broko up
furniture., nnd that tho number of
broken windows greatly exceeded
the number actually shattered. ' '