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KLAMATH FALLS
"An Empire Awakening"
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Eighteenth Year Number 6618
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 11)25
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HUGE TIBER SALE COMPLETED
EP OP SEARCH
FOR LOST PLANE
Destroyers, Scout Plnnrs and
Other Craft Rushed
Toward Hawaii
LOOK FOR WRECKAGE
Hope of Finding Officers
and Men Alive Practic
ally Abandoned
HONOLULU; Bopl t. (ff) l li
work i r wresting from the stubborn
i ii. in tropical son Its precious so
crnt of Wbsrosboutl of Hi'-
mlaslot seaplsno I'N : number i.
was under way today wllh renewed
Intensity.
Eighteen destroyers woro r uni, -lug
toward lbs scone by breaking
iiwuy from ill" fleel detnehwoni
turning from the sntlpodoi
From lbs toasl the airplane onrrli i
Langloy, with 'i cargo of Seoul
pianos aboard, was cruising i" the
vicinity where starch wis being car
rlod on for t ii - missing piano whloh
wan u victim of fuel shortage whiM
on ii non-stop flight from Sun
Pranclsco to Honolulu flvoj days
ago.
Tin destroyers and aircraft aboard
the. Lanflsy will nugmoul Hi" forest
on aim tad all will' Ii httt boon
cruising for days In March f Iho
plane, llin last Word from which In
eluded iiiin laconic message:
"Wo will truck If We have lo
land in this ranch woathtr wllh no
power.''
with tin' patrol I'U" ni Lahalnt
abaniloni'il, a now base for airplanes
will bo pin in operation on western
moot iniiimi mi the Archloollgo,
Kauai, Tin' spot, which Is Inbab
Itocl by ttw, contains many covot
which may provide a now spurchlng
grounds fur those in ttuttt of tbe
in inn in k bird men ami their piano.
Dan Warm Gets
Price For
Stand Of Pine
Given $10,000 For 160
Acre Tract of
Timber
ouo of die target! ppIcos imiii for
ploo timber aeroagt this yoor woe
imiii yesterday by the Cainpbell
Towio Lumber company tor nn 160
arm tract purchased from Dan Wunn.
Hiorc keeper at Spraguo tttyar. The
purchase price was approximately
til), 0U0, or $08.60 anil acre. In nil
dltlon, tin- ciunpiirii Towto Lumber
company piirchatod a 340 acre tract
from Wann for $11000.
All of the Hinder Is looatod from
three to four miles s6uthwosl and
southeast of Vninax. Tile lumber com
pany la located on Hie Spraguo riv
er 10 miles east of Klaiiiiilh Kails.
PHILADELPHIA., Two defend
mils In liquor casus are free booauae
a Htate law 181 years Old prohibits
the serving of search warrants on
Sunday.
OALDWBLL, da. After ooL
leotlng food tor lotting visitors view
Hie wreck of the Shenandoah on Ills
farm, Charles Nliiwongor tied, think
ing lie was going lo he arrested, He's
hack now, doing huslness as usual.
NO PAPKll MONDAY
In observance o( Labor Day
bhare will he no paper issuon
Monday evening. Employes of
the Evening Herald will thus
he given tWO days free from
lliolr work, Sunday mill .Men
day. The next Issue will he
Tuesdwy evening.
PACIFIC
Kiwanis Show
Will Be Shown
Again Tonight
"Pirates of Penzance"
Postponed Last
Night
Undismayed by an in timed show-
Or Hun prevented tbe second per
formaneo of ihe rimies of Ptntact
i.r.i night, Hi" Klwtnii club todty
annotii 'I Hint the final lie rf (inn -!
an f Hie show would ie staged
tonlghl hi tbe county fair grounds,
Potpltt the ti i i po ie ni
of Hie second performance, tbe on
lire nun of I he comic opera is liiiaei
fur Hie performance IoiiIkIiI anil In-
dleatlont gift promise of an tvtu
more delightful show than Hie firm
p irformance.
All tlrkols that were to line boon I
used last night are good for tonight, I
W. w. Southwell, general manager
of the ahoW, tnnouncod Ibll morn
Tidewater Law of
State Is Defended
( i
KALKM. Ore., Hepl. r.. The term '
tide water" in Orogon It defined by
an opinion of the attorney genoral
to mean toy r,v,-r ..r streain runalng
Into Qm Pacific ocomi. Its hay, or
inlets, at tar upstream at the ttrtara I
Is affoetod by the ebb and flow of I
the Hde The opinion was asked by
the state game commlsiloo with re-'
ferenee lo law wlnir an Dime '
season on troui III Inches or more
In longth during ihe montiis of be
i-einher. January, Kehruiiry, March
tad April In all tidewaters.
County Court
Back; Meets
This Morning
Judge Bunnell and
Commissioner Short
Return
An accumulation of w-ork that
would annoy the inosl efficient of
public servants faced the county
court when It went Into session tills
morning tor the first time m over
two weeks.
Today's mooting Is the first of
ihe Soptomber torn) of oodrl which
slarled lasi Wednesday. Judge Bun
nell and County Commissioner short
have In en away on a vacation trip
for the past two weeks.
In order Ilia! the court lUlgtll nt
t oiid the county fair this afternoon,
ihe session was scheduled for this
morning. The court confined their
first meeting of the September term
io consideration mid passage or mui-
tldunlOUS hills thai had piled up on
ihe county couri table,
Airpl
anes To
Be At Roundup j ;
PENDLBTON, Ore.. SOpt, 5, -
Prom :is to ro If. S. airplanes wUI,
fly lo the PottdlotoU ronndrUp from
Pearson field, Vancouver, Wash. The
planes will arrive here Thursday
afternoon, Septombor i". promptly
:il 1 p. in. and will carry man.v dis
tinguished aviators, according to
word received here today by (ieorge
c. liner, business manager of tbe
show, from I, lent. Oakley (1. Kelly
of Vanoouvor, who is arranging the
flight.
Heading the list of those who will
he in the planes are OOBlaln Lowell
A. Smith and LlOtttS. Arnold mid Nel
OtOD of world flight fame. LlOUten
mils John A. McCrendy and Oakley
O. Kelly of eiiasl lo eonst Cllghi
promlnonco, win alto i"1 1 ihe group
iih win coionei io. p. Lfthni, air of
ficer, ninth corps srea, ami Captain
N'uni'.esser, Krelleh ace.
'Pirates of Ponwinco" tonight.
8 city era
IN SH REMIT
RAZED By FIRE
More than Thousand People
Left Homeless in $500,-
000 Blaze
WATER MAINS BREAK
Dramatic Scenes Enacted as
Red Demon Licks Way
Through Streets
silliKVKl'iHtT, la., Sept. B. (AP)
Mne city blocks, embracing mure
than SUM dwellings in which lived
more Uiatl liOOO persons wore level.
Od here lotl night ami
b) a fire wtilch broke
miy toting
out shortly1
; aflei- some mlgllty force liiol wrts'k
eil Hie cltj water null riM to three
plmen.
Properly loss was tttlmatod early
today at upwards of 60OtOO0 ei
LlmlM i.r 1 ,msi,'i liv mil, 11,. iiHIIHm
wrt bioom m the fire swtpi
area were occupied by homes of
moderiiutcjy wall to do pcr.jna mOIIo
rcmainiiiB six blocks, which ex-
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""'M'" '""lst """
slx I"5'""" cro Injured, two
" utly.
Beyond ponOvl
The WW" t,u b,lUl
EP0"1 ,1,u UomB ot - ChlWross, a
rbr, ami whipped l- the hooviesl
nlK'il winds In many weeks, uulckly
got beyond control.
Hundreds of persons funned buck
et Orlgtdes In tn effurt to stem the
riitrliln k tide of flumes.
Kor five hours, however, tbe city
was lotl virtually a( thu mercy of
the fire until finally the bronks In
the mains were repaired.
The fire Started In a house own
ed by t former fire department
chlut and across the street from a
tire station,
The breaks In the main remained
unexplained nttrfcf today. One theory
was tiiat limy wore cauted by dy
namite need In nearby construction
work.
Plun Relief
Mayor L. BS. Taomas called u cit
lnon's meeting for ten o'clock this
morning lo plan relief measures tor
the homeless.
The Cotton boll and tbo Texts ft
Pn.'lflc railroads rushed carloads or
water bs tho scons and lent great
al l While private water concerns dis
tributing well water rushed thetr
SUPPllOS and City sprinkling wagons,
filled at Red River, kept running to
and from the scene of tho con
flagration, City otflclivls dM not venture to
fix responsibility tor the, breaks In
tbs water main.
Cries for Ruin
"Oh Hod, let it rain," one wo
man cried l'runtl -ally as u'.ie sat 10
Pile street and witnessed the do
tructlon of her home and the homes
,,( her neighbors. Sobbing women
carrying enuoTon in m "" "..-
led away from the patii of tne
flames. At 11 uciicK no.-
nhanired its eottrse, veering i com a
nibrnheriy direction to southwest.
A I one place, three men wrapped
In gunny sucks to protect thenl from
the heat, fought against fierce odds
and won.
Prom a hillside a thousand spec
tators stoinl Idly watching.
All XlK'lt VlgU
As the fury of In' tinmen died
down, groups of Ihe homeless gath
ered around w'.iat property they had
inabshed hn'm their lomes mv.l be
gan their all Inght vigil.
Here and there tainUlet discuss
ed their loss. OicuMunally the sobs
of a weeptnW woman was heard. Bui
there also was laughter. A negro
boy played Ob u piano that bad been
dragged from a Ihrealend residence,
while a group ol negroes slood about
Mm and 'danced to the Strains of
"Alabama" and "Rullroad limes."
l.HWISTON, Ida. There a golf
rush here.
Klamath Fair
Will Come To
Close
Annual Event Declared
To Be Biggest
Success
! Klumaili county's annual fair was
' swinging Into the final stages at
the fulr grounds this afternoon, with
j the largest crowd of the entire
I week thronging along the txhlblt
j booths, the itock sheds am) milling
about the grandstand where the
final races were scheduled.
Youngttera flocked inside the
gates in swarms and droves, in
: iiutoH, In w-Hgons. on bicycles ami
on foot, they came to munch pop
j corn, cat "hot dogs" umi enjoy
; themselves to the fullest extent on
j tint eve of the upening of a new
' school year.
The work of the Judges was fln
! lulled In every department, and the
prlwi winners have recolved their
award ribbons. Almost without ex
ception the Judges declared it was
the most difficult task they erer
' faced. Tbe exhibits were so com
' plete and so nearly equal that they
' hud a hard time deciding the win
' tiers in most of the divisions.
The fair will be brought to a
j close tonight, w ith the big en
closure packed almost to the limit
, wllh holiday crowds. The horse and
l auto races this afternoon promise
to be more exciting than on the
first two dgs. and with Galloway's
orchestra furnishing lively music,
j the crowds are assured a big time
' until, tired ami happy, they start
for home.
Baragraph Of
Dirigible Is
Located Today
I Cause of Wreck of
Shenandoah Can
Now be Learned
j CALDWELL, Ohio. Sept. 6. lP)
I The much sought baragraph and
; records from the Shenandoah have
been found and may aid the naval
' authorities in urtonninini: the
(cause of the smash up.
The Paragraph was located at
t'ambridge, log sheets there from
a short distance away. They were
lp the hands of souvenir seekers.
The baragrnph record will show
I air pressure, atmospheric moisture
'and temperature. From the graph
'drawn on the automatic drum by a
moving stylus.it will be possible also
lo compute how rapidly the Shen
andoah rose in the buffeting of the
storm before the buckling amidship
occurred.
The authorities have not had time
'as yet to check up the reading on
'thu baragraph records,
j The record is to be photographed
tind enlarged so that the authorities
loan more easily determine the alti
I ttule during the storm and before
! the storm.
Oaptain George Washington Steele
Jr.. commanding officer of the Lake
Hurst naval station, arrived here
at 8:55 a. tn. He Immediately set
i out with Commander Jacob ft. Klein
lahd oilier I, nke Hurst officials to
. visit the scene of the wreck at Ava
1 and Sharon.
If found necessary Captain Steele
and the other Lake Hurst officials
will follow overland the path taken
by the drifting prow of the ship
after it left the nft-portion. they
said as they departed. Should they
follow thai course they will be
Obliged to climb liills and cross
ravines.
Most of the day may be con
sumed In tho Investigation.
coast LRAauR SCQttKB
Al Portland l, San Franotaco 4.
Al Vernor 4. Sacramento
Al Oakland . Salt Lake lo.
At Seattle f, Los Angeles 2.
See "Pirates of PenianCt" tonight
L
i
Tonisht tiLMMUD nnnoun
FOR WRONG i
II
Expected to Abduct Daught
er of Wealthy Banker in
New York City
MURDERS CHAUFFEUR
Posses Intensify Search for
Man who Holds Little
Mary Daly, Age 6
MONTCL.tllt, N. J., Sept. r,. (AP)
Posset today Intensified their
searches tor 11 Utile white girl kiil
naped by q negro who presumably
klllcil unoiJicr negTOi in order to
get an automobile roc the abduction.
Apparent:!.- having planned to kid
nap tho niece of a wealthy banker,
the fugitive seems to have found
that be abducted the wrong girl.
Tie kidnaping plot, police believe
was aimed against Joseph A. Bower,
vice president of the Now York
Trust whose seven year old nleca,
Dorothy CdttOj was visiting him.
Instead the negro grabbed Mary
Daly, six year old daugi'itcr of
David Daly, hardware merchant,
near the liower home yesterday
afternoon.
Police at first suspected ItaymonJ
Pierce, a negro chauffeur, who had
borrowed the car which the, abduct
or used. Hut Piorce's body was
found last night in a culvert with a
bullet hole in the head. Tie as
sumption Is that he was killed bp
ihe kidnuper iu order to get the
car.
Last night Mrs. Bower was callc.I
on the telephone by a man who de
manded M000 for the return of
her niece. But her niece was safe
in bed at the time. Mary Daly and
Dorothy Coates look very much
alike.
After the kidnaper hud grabbel
Mary he sped away. John Candin,
the Bower chauffeur, gave chase.
After ten miles Sandin crowded the
fugitive car toward the curb, and
the negro fired, hilling Sandin in
the head. He was taken to a hos
pital. Confessed Slayer
Tells About Crime
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 5. W. R.
Lloyd, ex-convict and Confessed
slayer of C. P. Baun, Independence
garage mail, held in the Multnomah
county jail following his arrest In
The Dalles Wednesday, today show
ed no signs of remorse.
"1 had been bumming around
Independence for a couple of days."
said Lloyd. "I have an uncle there
in the hop fields. I wanted to see
my folks who are working in the
hop fields near Springfield, and
I asked Baun to take tne to Dallas.
"No. I had never seen llaun until
1 went to Independence."
Kenneth North
Will Be Taken
To Institution
Alleged Pervert Given
Hearing Before
Bunnell
Kenneth North, aged 16, charged
with criminal assault upon u three
year old girl, was committed to Uhe
stnto training SOhoot bhts morning
by County Judge It. II. Bunnell.
North's otge saved him from pro- lie dinner will be given here tonight
secntlen i the state, Inasmuch on In honor of Senator n. N. Stanfletd
he is under 18 years Ot age. his land hut' follow members Of the senate
case comes under the Jurisdiction -if eommittee on public lands, and to
Juvenlle authorities. j morrow the party will be taken lo
He will lie Incarcerated in the . Crater Lake and Klamath Falls
slate training school until he is ill
years of age, unless his behavior
persuades iiuHiioiities to release 'liim to arrive In their apodal car at :i:20 Joy their holldajs. planning to re
before thai time. I this afternoon, J turn home on Mouday evening, a
Shevlin-Hixon Buys Out
Gilchrist; Five Million
Involved In Transaction
Bend Concern Purchases One Billion Three
Hundred Million Feet of Pine Timber in
Northern Klamath; Company is
Now Second Largest Holder
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept 5. (AP) Authentic reports
in timber circles here and at Klamath Falls are to the
effect that the Fremont Land company, a corporation
subsidiary to the Shevlin-Hixon company, operating at
Bend, has purchased from R. E. Gilchrist of Alpena,
Mich., approximately 65,000 acres of pine timber land
in scattered sections of northern Klamath county. Ths
timber on the land is to be paid for as cut under the
sales contract, and the total consideration is said to be
much more than $4,500,00.
According to Portland timber operators who are fam
iliar with this transaction this cruise of the timbered
area sold by R. E. Gilchrist to the Shevlin-Hixon inter
ests exceeds 1,300,000,000 feet of high quality pine and
the consideration paid is approxi
MITCHELL RAPS
y
FOR DISASTERS
Former Head of Air Service
Expects Military Arrest
by Monday
HIGHER - UPS SCORED
Says Incompetence, Crimin
al Negligence Prevail
in Both Branches
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Sept. a.
W-A prediction that he would be '
piuceu uuoer ini.ua., oi.es. u,
day necuuse ot wnat ne suio. v.oiune. i
William Mitchell, air officer or. the
eighth corps area, and deposed as
sistant eliief of the. air service, to-
,i..v i.c,..i sn.ien.nni rienouneina
the war department and the navy
department in connection witli the
1
1
m
disaster which befell the Shenan-' "inner uy u..e ane iiu-.iixou uwm
doah and the loss of the seaplane her cjmpany makes that coucers
PN-9 number 1 on an attempted ' second only U Weyerhaeuser In
hop to Honolulu. vatc timber holdings. The purer.-
The statement was issued after i ase brings the Bend company above
"mature deliberation and after a the Long-Bell Lumber company
sufficient time has elapsed since the j w'Jlch formerly held second place
accidents to our naval aircraft to in Klamath county,
find out what happened." to quote j R. E. Ollchrlst acquired the orlg
from the statement. I inal block of his timber in northern
"Those accidents are the direct! Kla'mati.i in 1902, when he bought a
result of Incompetency, criminal I large block jf scrip lan.l at a cost
negligence and almost treasonable ' reported to bo S8 an acre. Since that
administration of the national de- j time, he has from time to tlnvi
tense by the war and navy depart- blocked up on his holdings until
nieiits," he wrote. they leaded the Immense (stand
Charging that both the army and i 0 one billion, three hundred million
navy departments have gone to the fcet
utmost lengths to keep down the j uy consummation of huge llmbur
development of aviation, and to j jeil3 ,; iy nle successful bidding
maintain aeronautics as a part of the j on reservation unit, the Shevlln
two departments. Colonel Mitchell ijxcn Lumber company havo sp.'Od-
said that all aviation policies are
directed by non-flying officers who
"know nothing about flying" and
that "lives of airmen are being used
merely as pawns In their hands."
Senators to Reach
Medford Today on
Way to this City
1 MEDFORD, Ore.. Sept. B. A pub
where u public hearing is scheduled
for Monday
The senators are due.1
mately J5,t)00,00.
The timber just sold Is interlock-
ed with the Weyerhaeused holdings
j far which a mill at Klamath Falls
Is to he erecteJ. :i vonling to offi
cial announcement made recenlldvon
completion of the Southern Pacini's
Eugcne-KIamath Falls cut-off. The
surveyed line of the Orogon Trunk
railroad (Great Northern-Norti icrn
Pacific) is through a large portion
of the It. E. Gilchrist tract.
The timber sale anauon-'ec dis
tinct from the reported sale lart
February of 45,000 acres of tinib.'r
In' Klamath and Deschutes counties
from W. A. Gilchrist and associutes
of Alpena, Mich., to Shevlin-Hixon
Interests. In that transaction 900,
000,000 feet of pine was said to
have been taken over.
Ii'i at tract of timber would sell
for not less than M a thousand and
pel haps to a thousand," was the
of an old timber
cf thl3 section.
'At that rate, the eventual pui-
; chase price of the billion, t'iirec
hundred million feet tract, would
be between five and five and one
m
half milium dollars.'
The contra! of the liujo trucrat
Uy increased uielr Klamath timber
holdings during the past 13 montus,
llouglit Reservation t'liit
First Intimation flint t'ley were
i interested In the Klamath torrivciy
came when they were the successful
bidders on the North Marsh Reser
vation timber unit, a tract of ap
proximately 600.000,000 feet. Gradu
ally they traded and bought from
ot'ier timber holders of thul suril m
until with the purchase of the 11.
E. Ollchrlst holdings, they ark one
of the roremost timber holding con
cerns In Klamath.
TO AHliLA.N'U
Mr. and .Mrs. 0. N. Clifton ami
fiimlly will leave for Ashland to-
morrow morning where they lll en