The Evening herald., September 17, 1925, Page 6, Image 6

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, XM
EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH t'M,l,S. OREGON
Issiiod Daily, except Sunday, by
Company, bllicc : 1 19 N. Eighth Si
E. J. MURRAY
V. 11. PERKINS
Entered as second class matter at the postofEce at Klamath
Falls, Oregon, under act of March 3 1379.
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wise credited in this paper and also the loci
therein. All rights of republication of special
are also reserved.
T.he Evening Herald is the official paper of Klamath County
and the City of Klamath Falls.
8UBSOHIPT1
by Carrier
Dell wed
One Year
Blx Months;
Three Momhi
one Mouth
16 .50
S.50
1.95
. .65
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1925
THE LUMBERMEN'S CREED
The lumbermen or rather fourteen lumbermen of
the Klamath district have issued an "I believe" state
ment, carrying the earmarks of "sign here" that charac
terized the initial pronouncement, when they surprised
the people of the county in coming out in favor of the
exclusion of the Northern lines. The most surprising
thing about this latest effusion is that any man of or- j
dmary intelligence would sign it, or permit his name to
be appended to it. It purports to give facts and figures i
to prove that it is better for Klamath county to have
only one railroad than it is to have two.
If the lumbermen were frank enough to come to the
veople of Klamath county and tell them that if the
Oregon Trunk is extended into Klamath Falls, it will
mean the entrance of the Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany, Shevlin-Hixon company and other large opera
tors', that their coming will so increase the production
of Klamath pine that it will bring about a lowering of
prices and either force them to adopt modem methods
cf manufacture or go out of the lumbering business, and
for that reason, together with the fact that they are
afraid to antagonize the Southern Pacific at this time,
thev have issued the two statements that have been
published, it would at least
On its face '
Tncfon,-! L. L-,t-Q rr-.-iorl
XI lOVUtl LllGJr Hi. V t OlgllU
jucjjtiieu uy wits euuuiciii j: ctuiiiu, in wmuu it 10 ouugub 1
to convince the people of the county that it will be of i
greater advantage to this district to have the Southern j of those, days were
ia an insult tn!3"c1' 9 procession.
.. lauii- VAVi UOl l i . .ivil i, . v i . l - i i j i i i ........ w-f
the intelligence of the citizenry of Klamath county and
it ill becomes the local lumbermen to presume upon
the confidence and friendship of the community to be
a party to such deception.
The lumbermen know and if they do not, then they
have no right to sign the statement they did that the
Northern lines will develop their own tonnage, and in
addition they will bring about a development locally that
will create a greater incoming tonnage than now comes j
into the Klamath territory. This talk about capital re
fusing to embark upon the extensive program announc-l
- nd hv tho Knnthorn Pnrifir-
in, is mere propaganda. It is trde that if the Northern
lines come in, there will be no necessity for the con
struction of much of the mileage included in the South-!
ern Pacific nroPTnm. for the
bv the former railroad. This,
,.v! oi.u r,,;f; .AA
LllKi OUUUlCi:i J. CILillt; 1U1 eAtCllVLlIl its lilies 1111.U Hcnrw
ritory that will be immediately productive of much ton
nage and which is not tributary to the Northern lines.
So far as Klamath county is concerned, it is not wor
rying about the carrying out of the Southern Pacific
program, for the people here know that if it refuses to
go ahead and the Northern lines come in here, the
latter company will go ahead and open up the terri
tory the Southern Pacific has abandoned and open it up
on a common user basis, thus giving to those sections
the benefit of competition, a benefit that the Southern
Pacific is willing to spend fifteen million dollars to pre
vent. The claim by the lumbermen that the exclusion of
the Northern lines will mean the making of Klamath
Falls into a railroad center, the objective of wholesale
jobbing houses and a passenger diversion point of such
importance as to gain nationwide attention, is so silly
as to be pitiful. We would be ashamed to have our
name associated with any such propaganda, but it seems
that some people reach that stage in life when the race
for the almighty dollar makes them impervious to such
a thing as shame.
It requires no great degree of knowledge or exper
ience for one to know that another railroad will mean
more to Klamath Falls than twice the construction pro
posed by the Southern Pacific. It will mean the making
of a real railroad center; it will mean two terminal
points, with two roundhouses and repair shops; it will
mean the immediate construction of the big Weyerhaeus
er plant, with its addition to the population of over six
thousand people: it will mean the immediate construc
: lion of the Shevlin-Hixon plant, with ail added popula
tion close to that brought in by the Weyerhaeuser plant;
it will mean the opening of the Klamath country to the
tourist travel tributary to the Northern lines and the ad
vertising of the beauties of this territory, to inil-
riic 11 or a 1.1 Publishing
reet, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Publisher
Xews Editor
use of rc-
not other-
1 news published
dispatches herein
O N K A T K S
Br Mm!
One Tear 5.tn
Six Months
Three Mentha 1.60
One Mou.."-. ,.
have the virtue of honesty i
i
o otnmnt tViQf V.oo Uaan I
CI . - i i V- 1 . . - I 1 - Lin..'. i.li. 1
if rhr Mnrfhprn lines crime
territory will be cared for
however, does not prevent
u r,ne. Iv,f ,,a, to...
I lions of people who have never heard of it; it will open
up the markets for livestock, lumber and manufactured
I articles in states that today are buying these products
elsewhere; it will make of Klamath Kails the greatest
lumber manufacturing center of the United Stales ami
the jiino lumber center of the' world, according to two
of the greatest lumber authorities in the world; it will
mean a city of from oO.OOO to 10.000 people as against
12,000 to 15,000 under the Southern Pacific program,
These are some of the possibilities the lumbermen who
signed the latest Southern Pacific statement Would deny
to the people now here in order that their resources may
lie increased, that competition may be shut out and their
control of the local lumber market may be perpetuated'
The Herald has no objection to the lumbermen seek
ing to maintain their control; to the Southern Pacific
seeking to shut out competition, Hut it docs object to
being classed as a fool by those who are trying to twist
fancies into facts, the better to serve the selfish motive
back of the propaganda of which they are the agents.
Klamath county wauls the Southern Pacific to expand
its lines to the fullest degree. It ever will cooperate wit.h
it in the conservation of its interests and the protection
of its investment, but it never will become a party to
any program that has for its purpose the making of the
great resources of the county a mere pawn in the hands
of designing individuals, whose only -thought is selfish
aggrandizement at the expense of those who have wait
ed here for years to see the
reason to expect ami which
conditions.
Circuit Judge Leavitt Speaks
On The Birth Of Klamath Falls
Intorstinjj: htffhUgbU on tlu early
i KNtory in Kfnmath Fulls wore givon
1 tills week by Circuit Jutigu Loavltt
(before the Daughters of tho Amor-
ic;;n Koak'timi, who spoke or: "Tho
I Birth of Klamath Falls."
By reason of the tact tha ho was
'.ho first mnyor cf Klamath Falls,
Judge Louvitt's recital of curly IiIk
tor!eal incidents vttfi of real inter
est. Ills tuldresn, in
Daughters of th
lution: You have
full, follows:
American Kcvo
aaked me to toil
you something about th
the city of Klamath Falls.
birth of
I respond
with more pleasure than you can
Imagine. I love the past: especial
ly that p"art of the pant that has to
do with the beginning, the growth
and the development of the City
of Klamath Falls. I love, on occa
sion, to take my plttco in the re-
virv.'in ir stnnrl ft ji no rf fur i! i-nr.
topped boys and as the procession
moves past point out to members of
a laur generation the part this or
that personage played in the events
going to make up the earlier
of our city; to show how
history
typical
the marchers In
While I am to occupy the review
ing stand this evening (for a few
brief moments the occasion is a bit
too formal for me to give free reign
to memory and let it wander where
soever it might: and besides, to at
tempt, to give voice and description
in this narative to a tenth part of
what such a procession reveals to
me would be to extend this nara
tive to an undue length, so I will
content myself with what seems
to mo to be the outstanding features
the salient facts attending the birth
of
Klamath Falls.
The earlier history of our city
so closely interwoven with the
itory of Linkville, Its predecessor,
interest that. I must perforce go
back some little, distant
for a start-
!" oi,,t- Ah y narrative ii
i base" tensely upon persona!
to
x-
perlence and 'observation I have
elected to begin with my arrival in
Linkvlll
July 10, 1884, at
m.
three I
o'clock' p. 1
To begin
with, I shall end
a sort of birdseyo
first.
me. the eminence
I to give you
I as I saw it
At that t
view!
upon
which stands the Central School
extended in gradual slope across
Main street to approximately the
middle of the first tier of blocks
south of main street opposite, com
pletely shutting off the view upj
main Street from one approaching I
from the east. The easterly ap
proach to the town in those days,
and for a long lime afterward, wtis
Via the "Devil's teakettle." celebrat
ed then, as now. for Its scalding
temperature. Indeed, I think it was
recognized as more of an attraction
at that time than now; at least It
was a common .-enter to which we
all drifted, on occasion, to t.cald onr
hogs. The townspeople watered
their horses and cows at a Spring
located about the middle of the In
tersection of main and seventh
streets, tin; overflow from the spring
wandering off down the easterly
side of Beventl) street to the
flat
below. A rail fence along ' what is
now Klamath avenue from
point
near the White Pelican hotel to the
i-iver just below the bridge was the
northerly boundary fence enclosing
what was then known ns the Brooks
pasture, and It was comprised ot
the territory now occupied by Rail
road addition! Klamath addition and
part ol' Mills addition. A small
hotel- the Morton house, as Its sign I
said stood about . where tod
stands the C.olili u Itule
ston
and
itiu
full development they havt
they know are justified by
was vacant. On th
and Sixth stood a
Stable with a very
i urner of Main
Hvery hnd feed
limited patron
a blacksmith
atUfl block wan
; age ;
I shop.
opposite wa
anil in the
the rest
j or and
ocas of M r. J
Ir. A, D. Cani
W. Hirmuk
. ib black-
I;i Ih" next block toward
the river anil on th" game side ot
the street resided John O. Shallot k
and a pr.ri of the Cranston family:
on the blork opposite on the present
site of the Melhase . build tni stood
a dwelling known as the J. X. T.
Miller house, a stone and adobe
structure. On what Is now the
Matthews property at the corner of
Pine ami rourlh, stood the house of
the postmaster. On the site of the
j Imperial garftgd stood the Cranston
residence and opposite was the res
idence of !!. B. Hattoa. We havo
, now reached Center street kuIdr
toward the river. Rounding the
angle of tho street Rives us a view
of the real LlnkvUle. There we be
hold tho postofflce. Dr. Sumner's
residence, the Krolsu hall, J. W.
Mannings livery and feed stable,
the "red" house a two story struc
ture. Forbes' saloon, tho Baldwin
and Forbes hardware, a barber shop,
the "brick" store and the l.lukvllle
hotel.
Bear In mind, this Is a descrip
tion of l.lukvllle 41 years ago. Its
setting was attractive even then,
and its few Inhabitants, pioneers,
of course, were real live people,
abreast of the times In a business
way. Ti:"ir accomplishments In the
line of municipal development were
meager' but fully in accord with the
development of the surrounding
country. Hedged about as they wero
by mouutalns, contact with com
mercial centers such as Portland.
San Francisco and Sacramento was
r.ot frequently possible. The rall-ro.-.rl
from Portland south was then
building Just south of Itoseburg
and In the Cow (.'reek canyon, and
north from Sacramento In and about
Delta In the Sacramento canyon.
Communication from north ami
SOuth was via Ashland, and the mall
came that way by stage from Ash
land over tho old Ashland mad.
"Transportation, in the modern sig
nification of thai term, was not a
burning question in I.lnkville. Then.
was no need of any propaganda for
unity of action, antl therei were no
factions. There was just one source
of revenue, that which was derived
from the sale of beef driven south
to meet the on-conilng railroad.
As Hie mother of the city ot
Klamath Fails, I.iukvillc was not
nationally known; indeed I doubt
very much that Its existence wait
generi
Connet
The
primll
uncoil
In tin
posed
by th.
lly known outside the people
ted with the Modoc wur.
little town nestling in Its
Ive isolation was. 1 think,
iclousty struggling for a place
sun under n handicap im
nt Its christening In J Si 1 7 ,
pioneer George Nurse, who
laid
Indl
out and later platted the orlg
townsltd. 1J veil while labor
ing tinder the handicap of ils name,
and Its Isolation, tho llttlo town
about that year begun to develop
ambitious propensities, ami though
they build. d slowly With Hie tools
ut hand Hi" biiilded well the foun
dations upon veil i. li wan to rest their
dream castles of iiie future, li was
in lie- year 1884 that saw the first
Influx of new Bettlers lo (he Khim
atli Basin and the town profited
to quite an extent; 'l lie tirsi news
paper, the Klamath county Btar,
begun mailing lis weekly appear-
unci
Com Martin built, li flour
mill
W. Smith, having acquired
Nurse ijbtol proporty rontoai log
and greatly improved (ha property
and bestowed upon the structure
the name "Llukvllle lloiel." Q,
V. J, Wilson, and .Win. Steele, set
tlors from Nevada, began the ciiu
Klmctltm of tin Irrigating canal,
which Inter became known us the
Anketiy canal. The I're diylerlnn
church was erected, To give ,uiu
mi Idea ol the town's progress: in
lSStl there wore Heveti stores, four
saloons, three holds, three black
smith shops, ii brewery, three liv
ery and feed stable, a flour mill, u
suwinltl. harness shop, butcher shop.
telegronh office, (cue dottow, four
lawyi re, O newspaper and a popula
tion of probably. Uiroe hundred ami
firty souls.
The following your, Ittt, a bill
was Introduced in the legislature
to Incorporate the town ut LtnKrllle.
Tlu. measure tailed: and it was not
until February, 1880, that the town
was finally Incorporated. tu Sep
tember tsth of that year occurred
the big rire that eliminated every-
Oiing of ati lofiamttble nature from
Center, Street to the bridge across
I. Ink Itlver, and would have elim
inated tint bridge hut for the heroic
efforts of the women.
That disaster was closely followed
by the hard winter 01 IStfi and '80.
The loss of slock was very great.
Ager was then the gal .way lo the
Klamath country. Our letters and
papers, when receive'! in February,
wero thirty days old. As an In
stance of id, numerous natdaltipa
encountered during that winter and
of ly Intrepidity or th" sufferers,
u Mr. Teeters, living on the river
just above Keuo. in the early part
of the winter, on foot leading a
milch cow, broke a trait through
lo I.lnkville and cart led home on
the buck of the old cow three sacks
of flour to teed his hungry family.
A picture" of the stute Highway De
partment keeping the highway open
to Ashland. I.akevlew and Fort
Klamath during such a winter as
that, would be a real curiosity. That
winter witnessed th" first serious
epidemic of La OHppc in In Halted
States: and how In the world ii ever
found its way Into I.lnkville that
winter is still an unexplained mys
tery, but it did, and laid low Its en
tire population at approximately the
same time.
The fire of 1819 was a blow to
the west portion of th" town from
which it never recov.-red. and the
business activities gradually but
persistently sought and found locu
tions cant of Center street. About
this time, rtl., 1890. a civil engineer
Isa Leskard by numo, drifted to
the Klamath country and was ap
pointed city engineer. Nichols ad
dition and Klamath addition had
been laid out and platted as addi
tions' to the original town in a man
ner foreshadowing future complica
tions nut! the Board of Trustees
determined Upon a resurvey and re
plannig of th.- town. It was while
engaged upon Ibis work that Lea
ker,! conceited fho Idcn that it
was altogether too Important antl
promising a town to be handicapped
ill its future operations by its (lieu
official nam", bringing forward num
erous reasons to support his con
tention. The first mention of the
subject In our locaKpapcr was In
April 1891, The subject became
very much of an obsession with
friend l.eskard, and no one escaped
his importunities lor a change of
names for the town. The idea fin
ally found a lodgment In the minds
of lb" people am! a line of action
was agreed upon. In December
ism. the post office department wa.;
petitioned t'. change the name of
the post office at. this point to Klnni
alh Falls, and In March, 1802, the
1 following communication was receiv
ed by our postmaster, Mr. ('. ii.
Wit brow:
Washington. D. C.
March n, 1SD2.
sir: The Postmaster Oeheral
has Changed th" name of your post
office from i.lnkville in Klamath
Paiise in iiic state oi Oregon. Tho
new name, however, must not lie
used until the beginning of the
next quart"!', nor null! you have
oxecuted a bond ami been commis
sioned under lie- u"w name.
cj. (i. RATHBONEi,
First AssIhI. l M. lletiernl.
on April l, 1 81)2, Klamath Palls
became th" official name ol' our
pOgtOfflCO. A legislative act belli:
requisite to lie- rcl iicorpora: ion of
ib" town under th" name of Klam
ath calls, a proposed new charter
was prepared and submitted lo the
.board of trustees for approval on
December 10th, 18W!, ami being ap
proved1 wan submitted lo Iho legis
lature of I8D81 and on the stroke
of i:i midnight, Monday, Pflbruttfy
i, 1808, "An Act entitled an Act
to incorporate the town til Klamalli
Fails, and to repeal an Act entiled
Act to Incorporate the town of
i.lnkville, Oregon," was passed, ami
the town of Llnkvltlo coased to pxisl
1 11 legal entity.
in accordance wiih the chart! r
.-! new hoard 01 trustees was oinctod,
The p'Tsnnn"! of I in- ii"v board was
follows: .1. I), rounialn. Clias, s.
.Moore, ('. S. .Sergent mid A, L.
Loavitt. your bumble servant' was
chosen president of the new board
of trustees, an honor in which 1
fool 11 nnrjonnblu' pride oveil iii 1 hi;
In to day. V. F.. Ilowdoh. was c-Juol
od treasurer sUd t'luis. L. I'imtMi
recorder. Titus nun Iho Town ol'
Kliimnlh Falls off to a (lying slur!,
and Ihftt, loo. ill a lime when the
entire country was in the tbroos
01 one of the greatest business do
pre-. Ions In Ils history. While the
ToWU of Klamalli Fulls came Into
its legal itatUS In 18H, I! WU BOl
until iho adoption 01' tile "Home
Kill"" charter or tOll thill ll as
sumed the more protein Inns end
becoming name of Klamath Fails.
Returning ai Dili point 10 ihu
your 1808. 'wo yours after the re
Incorporation, a mere matter or to
years ago, a census gave the town
11 population or I52 an updijr-flstl-
unite, of course. The assessable
properly was appi'oluiiil"l.v IIHT.-
uiMi. nut, listen to this: in Novem
ber ol' this year a switch In u Hill"
power plant on Link river was closed
mid electric lights fhedicd on Main
street iiml In th" residences In close
proximity, and Ih" new water sys
tem wits lit operation. Truly 11 "red
letter day." Hill that was dcdliicd
to be eclipsed as a red letter day
when on May . 1000, the old
timers went aboard the Steamer
Klamath nt the wharf ju-i below
the bridge, steamed down to th"
straight 1 and rode In on the first
train. Little did the more apt!
mlstlc ot us realise, when assent
lug to l.oskard's proposition lo
change the name of our town, the
iiiugic charm "r progress contained
In Lbs nume Klgmatb Falls. Hpouk
ii. now well 11 becomae the month.
Write- It. How well it looks. Among
the thousands of names designating
cities and towns throughout the
t'nlted States It possesses u distinct
iveness (hut seems more tllllngly lo
associate Itself In the mind or th"
lteQt( or writer with the trend
f
Stock Up
Now With
Groceries
Winter w
here and l
and Vegf
II soon Iif
resh Pruita
bit
will
a
not be. obtainable.
Fhifl is your opportun
ity to lay in your win
ter's supply of High
Grade Groceries ;it
prices that in several
instances are less than
wholesale.
FIXTURES
FOR SALE
'iiie following nigh Grade
Fixtures remain ami must
be sold:
liaylon Computing Scales
Shelving
show Ogses
Burroughs Adding Machine
ti. K. Meal slicing Maoblhe
Hubbard Blec. Coffee Mill
W in. .1. Burns Chock
Protector
McCaskey Crsdlt System,
CI so ('utter
Cheese Case
American Multlgraph
Addressograph
And other grocery ouulp-
1111 ill.
M. I
chaser
IUjOTCK V
of the slock
of
HOUSTON
PHELPS
Kill and M11I11
Notice Difference
14 Hours or Less!
M 1
his lesl! Kml suffering
from Indigestion, Pimple', Cuius in
Hack ami sides, Constipation, lioaiv.
actios ami tlrodi run down condition,
duo in soii'-i'oisouiug, bocattsq of
siuggisii iifor ami clogged intostlnos.
Take a ptoasani Bto6iitu1 or Dr,
Thatcher's -Liver ami DlOQil Syrup
Otter I he next I wo meals. In lesi
thoil 1-1 hours' nottoc i 11 iiU dlffer
..nc" 1,1 way you loel, .Moiltnhis
pufo ic'iioiublo (narptljonta approved
of iii" Dross: with tho pjarob r
progress, II has uouia fo piotn
nonmttilug In tlth Intfitstfldli tho
1,0. lul and the railroad world Verily,
11 helun so elirbitendili wis u happy
circumstance in the niu or Iho city.
Bargains
Cannot Last
2r
Am
tlldSf
Villi will
find at 1 lie La Vogue
Store are gofng fast.
If the
been
stock had oot
so complete
I'verv
garmem wouici
havt
ago.
been sold long
I lout miss this chance
lo buy your Winler
Goats, Dress or Fur.
Millinery
Fall models in the
best of materials may
be had in many of the
desirable shades.
Everything
Half Price
And Less
La Vogue
Store
8th nnd Main
pOllMKIl LOCATION OP
HOVHTON .v PHKMPH
WOKLIi'H OLDKHT KTKAMRIl
Is DKHTflOYKI) HV ITJtK
KOFI'INti. .Sweden. tl'l Tho
steamer F.-iiu. will. It was claimed,
was tl Idosl In lb" world In ac
tive service, recently wns destroyed
by tire. BIU In ISIS at Molala
wharf, the heal had been making
regular trips between this city and
Bioekhoim. sin." us launching it
had boon reehrjstened several nines
ami wss rebuilt III I'"1"
,t the tin r its destruction
there were 1 pnaseongora besides
tin, crew aboard! all of whom ns-
capodi
Watch Your Frail,
Puny Child Grow,
Strong-Take on Weight
In Just u fuw days QUtckor than
you mvit dreaml oi thoso wonoor
rni riesh making tablets called Mo
Ooy's t'od Liver 011 Compound Tob-
letl will start lo help any weak,
thin! under nourished IfttlU oun.
After sickness ami where rlekeis
; are iusi H'd they ur ipaclally
I valuable. No need to give thorn any
mOro naslv Coil Liver Oil- Iiie e
I tablets are m ule to l ike Iho place
j of that good bui ovll s Ulnar,
I stomach upsetting modlclne ami they
j surely 1I1) II. They do pitl on flnsii.
I star nrns Store. Underwodtl'i
i I'liarmacv,' whitmans Drug Co., or
I any druggist for McCoy's Ootl Llvor
I Oil Compound TublCtSas easy to
I take as candy' .mil not ul all cx-
iiunslvu 00 tablets 0U cents.
I lie suro and get MoOoy'Si the
original and genulno and give tho
I child a ohance for :tu days, If you
j aren't delighted with insults Just
I got, your money back.
ay You Feel in
I by Physicians. HuJps nature cleanse
,-no: 1 ii" your llvor strengpton
your iIIriisIIVI! organs suutllo Ihu
1 i'.ii slid overtaxed norvos, brncs
up your systoin ami purify your
blood, 11 lias helped thousands feel
retUrt Of slreiiglh. vigor and onOfgy
avail). Vmi, Ion, 11,1,; be satisfied,
or no OOSti
lir. Thhtclior'S Is sold and recom
tnelldeii nnd"l- Ibis Klisi'llltlee by Mlsr
DHUg Main and nil leading di uggluli