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KLAMATH FALLS
"An Empire Awakening"
Eighteenth Year Number
FIGHTER
OREGON TRUNK LINE ENDORSED'?
Chamber 01 Commerce
Railroad Committee
Approves Extension
Railroad from Bend to Klamath Falls Approved
Want S. P. Forced to Build Modoc
Northern if Hill Lines Kept Out
Months of deliberation and research brought forth this
noon the first positive statement of policy from the rail
road committee of the chamber of commerce as to what
stand the Klamath county chamber of commerce should
take in the railroad controversy between the Northern
lines and the Southern Pacific.
The committee recommended that the chamber en
dorse the entrance of the Northern lines in Klamath
county and that the chamber also endorse the Southern
Pacific nroffram.
In event the interstate commerce commission refused j
the Northern lines entrance into the Klamath terri
tory on the ground that there was not sufficient tonnage
to justify the extension, the committee would have .the
thamber recommend to the commission that the South
ern liclfl.- lie forced lii go ihruiiK'i
Willi their program nit I ttM III lir
tlfUlur tfto B. I. tt forced In tl
Mriirl I'll" lino Huulli from Kletnet!
vail tin- ukIi Merrill. Cornell. '
canned Willi III" N. f. O. '" Al
turna, Calif.
Tho report uf US vommitloo wai
read tills MOD at a mooting o( Wa
directors ol the chemoet end uyer
brief discussion fss tabled until a
called meeting when lbs directum
will hav nil"1 opportunity i" dlicu-..
the report ui length.
The report VTU road by W. fi.
.Smith, chairman of Hi" rslleoed c.ni
jnlttoc. Ii was dtVLWn up list nlghl
ftor mail' bUWl of dlspUMlon unl
debate over the wording of U !" r' -port,
Tho report t the fkttrosd ""
mlltoo, In full, fellows;
Your committee appelated to
study the trtuipWUtren needs o!
Kiuiuuth couniy, sod boiiiK toque
od to, report buck to you the resttil
of audi hi iily, herewith submits for
ivuiir consideration (tots fend recom-
mendetlona rotative t furjther rail
road construction in Klemslb coun-
ly. Your comMlttec has 'held num
erous meetings, at which time trans
portatlon problems affecting this
diauui Ware ibeen caretuUy dlseusii
ad'. Conferences have alio beep
hold with the tollorwlni parties!
Oregon Public Service Commission
KifficluU; Northern Woes' Officials)
nail Southern Ptfettlo officiate! ; for
tho piirpoau of ttbtalnthg Uiolr views,
Kurlhornioro, wo have OOltocUVOly
and tadlvldualto obtained data worii
Klamath agriculture Interests; lum-
1ior Interests, and oilers.
Geogreplile LOcn'uon
KhmaH'.i cinnty, Willi Klamath
Fnlln I'lie iMiunty soul, h located In
tho extreme southern psrt of the
fltnto or Oregon, with mi aVeraue
nltltiudo of about 4, iino root, it fe v
county with an area f approximate
ly 7300 square miles, with' large
natural resources. The rd ourros of
thia district embrace the Ifoltuwfngi
(approximately Ho!oo0,000,00fl feel
of pine llnilier: 'fertile p: uliictlvo
lands nii iti'out im.uoo aeon u.
dar Irrigation; an ample supply of .' (l,(. Wo liKiitrlil it
Irrlga.lon water; excellent water ; SOU the tract. We DOURlll U
nheda which proWct the supply of SeVM&l years ago witli in
wntor far domestic uhps; nnmOTOMB tehtitins of placing a mill
power niton; and aconlo put-doors Uhrg S0111C time ill the f VI-
piny frouwi WMion unnnui u v
jiareo wun an on ui" i-uciiiu owi"-.
Klamath Kails hi a city. OStlmat
ted In July of this year, to htivo a
population of 10,000 paople, la
(Continued on l'nge Five)
Ml? Kurobut
Mil!::
REPORT OE ANY
SALE IS
General Manager of Long
Bell Company Spikes
Unauthorized Rumor
NO NEGOTIATIONS ON
Forest Lumber Company is
Not Dickering for Pur
chase of Klamath Pine
LONGVIEW, Wash.,
Sept. 22. (AP) Discussing
a report current in Klamath
Falls that the Long-Bell
Lumber company was nego
tiating with the Forest Lum
ber company, of Kansas
City, for the sale of a tract
of two billion feet of pine
timber in the Klamath In
dian reservation, J. D. Ten?
nant, vice president and
general manager of the
Long-Hell Lumber company,
said today :
"Representatives of the
White interests of Kansas
City, controlling the Forest
Lumber company, have been
looking over the Long-Bell
holdings in the Klamath In
dian reservation on their
own account, but no negoti
ations are under way for the
sale of the tract, and pros
pecta of a sale are remote
The Long-Bell Lumber com
UiftViti In m&kinir no effort to
lypg
I.MOXAItl) COXFINJM) T( HOMH
It. Leonard is confined to his
homo with a icvero nttnelt of totl
ulllttt!. '
PENDING TIMBER
DENIED
KLAMATH FALLS,
SOUGHT
E BEATS
T
City Council Fails to Act on
Mayor's Veto and Issue
Automatically Expires
BEATEN THIRD TJME
Oregon California and East
ern Must Start in at Be
ginning Once More
Robert E. Strahorn, for
the third time, nu; A go back
to the starting place again.
Three times has he secured
the support of the city coun
cil for the Sixth street ex
clusive crossing grant and
three times has the mayor's
veto
..,. fllu ,innnl
tt.T - - r- "
the move.
Last night was
; j-v IT
time. The Oregon Cahfor -
nia and Eastern railroad
had petitioned for an exten-
sion, it would have been a
Virtual admisjii that tho street
crossing was all right as far as the
interests of tho city wero cmcernol.
Tho OOUCotl granted Iho time ex
tension bUl Mayor Qbddsrd vetoed
the grant and last night tho v un
ci! fulled bo act on the vetj. T.iis
alienee placed Strahorn back t i
where 'he was about eigv.t months
ago when he first tasked the council
f.ir an exclusive gratit across Sixth
utrect.
BetOfe the matter can he brought
Up Hgein before the council, it must
be introduced through anothet reso
lution and brouafJt up In the regular
way before the OOUKSil,
FIND NO TRACE
OF MISSING MAN
STRAHORN
C OS 1 GRAN
I OQT IM Wnnn5!nl Spencer creek, under the direc
Lual lly wuwa Itlon and financing o( the Klamath
No trace had been found by :!
o'clock this afternoon of Martin
Owensby. Merrill rancher, 60 years
old. who has been missing In the
wilds of Huckleberry mountain since
last Wednesday. Searching parties
left for the mountain last night pre
pared to hunt through the densely
wooded country for the remainder
of the week In an effort to find
some trace of the missing man.
According to Owennby's aged
mother, he went into the mountain
country last Wednesday in search
of a missing horse. When he failed
to return by Wednesday the mother
procured the assistance of a group
of Indians, who searched (be country
nil day without success. The In
diana, howover. found Owensby's
horse, with his rifle tied to the
saddle.
Tho county court late yesterday
authorized tho expenditure of
for the purchase of food for the
searching party which left last night.
Included III this posse were A. C.
Stearns. Und and William Oyer,
l.eo and Max llartlerodo.
1,000,000 Blaze
Sweeps Tia Juana
san D1RG0, Calif., sept. 22.
(pj Flames storting in the Vernon
club In Tia Juana, early this morn
ing, swept through an entire block
(hat Included some of the best
known resorts In the border city,
causing a loss that business men of
tho town estimated would total
nearly si.ooo.ouu.
Associated Press Leased Wire
OUEtJON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 22, 1926
Bandits Fail
In Attempt To
Hold Up Clerk
Employe of Roseburg
Hotel Scares Off
Robbers
ItOSKIiritO. 0r.-.. Sept, 22, An
attempt to hold up the nicht clerk,
V. J. Tliompnon. at the Crand hou l
I In thiH elly early this mornlnn failed
when the clerk decked behind the
! counter and fired a shot throuuh
llho grille. Thompson told police
: officers that two men entered the
lobby about 4:30 this morning and
I asked for room.
An he started to register them,
he hald, he noticed one of the men
fumbling In hla hip pocket, and saw
blm drawing a revolver. The ham
mer of the weapon caught in the
man's pocket, giving the clerk time
to duck behind th" counter and
elio his own gun in un open draw
er. Thpttpeon reached up ami fired
lillndlv. breaking the Elass i:i the
grille.
' The two men then ran outside
1 iiml (Irt-ilicd MfftV in a Ford roime.
tlii) offioors ware informed. De
the third scrlpUons of the two im?n were
I' UT.iai)IU'i I O -Hii! nui'lil ;iHU nuiiiii
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Beetle CcHTlpS
I
In County To
Be Open Soon
Wawkey Tract And
Spencer Creek Stand
To Be Controlled
Hundreds of thousands of tiny
Insects which each year burrow their
way Into the soft bnrk of the pine
tree, will be assailed by two pine
beetle control crews that will be es
tablished next week In sections most
seriously Infested by the beetle.
One crew of K men will be work
ing on a unit between Aspen lake
I Forest Protective association.
...tin,, nf tlmtiA land itf
over BOOO acres, known as the Waw
key tract, will be the objective of
another beetle camp of 15 men. The
control project Is being financed by
C, C. Wawkey. owner of the timber,
who has become worried over the
Inroads made in his holdings by the
destructive beetle. The Wawkey tract
is located on the forested slope In
the northern Klamath basin near the
boundary of Crater National forest.
Tho same method of controlling
the pest as has been used in tho past
three years, will continue this year.
The infected tree will be felled, the
bark stripped Slid theh. piled up olose
to Iho trunk of the Hoc and burned,
The only known method of control-
ling the Insect is lo take udvunlgae
of its habit of colony bunching to -
gether on one small stand of trees.
liKFT TODAY
J. II. Miner who has been here
for the past two months left on this
morning train for Cuperlina, Calif.
LOCAL FI'UITIVE IIKl.lt
Kl'UF.N'K. Ore.. Sept. 22.
Harold Harvey, of Klamath
Falls, tvus arrested by the po-
lice here lyoaterday on a war-
rani charging him with lar- 0
cony lot all nutoni'ibilo a! Klam-
alb Falls. The car Is "alleged
lo have been stolen Sunday
4 nlgjht.
literals
FOR
s
INST
Secretary Testified that its
Maintenance is Essential
to Department
IS PART OF FABRIC
Sea Fighters Need Own Air
Service to work Hand in
Hand With Vessels
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. Main
tainance of the navy air service
organization In substantially Its
present form was advocated today
by Secretary Wilbur before the
president's air board.
Called as the first witness of the
day by the board, which yesterday
inquired into the policy of the war
department and the army air ser-(
vice. Mr. Wilbur emphatically op
posed creation of department of
national defense. Bach a step, he
declared, would be a well nigh j
Irreparable mistake.,
Can Solve Problem
"Air forces." he asserted, "form j
an essential part of the fabric of
the navy itself and its administra
tion and its organization like other
administrative Internal to the navy
will, if unmolested by outside forces,
be solved with the same efficiency!
and with the same happy results
as has been obtained in similar
problems in the past."
The secretary likewise expressed
opposition to establishment to the
naval air service as the corpsana
logus to tho marine corps and de
clared against a single air service,
maintained for national defense, but
not under the army or navy.
A Vital Element
The navy, he said, requires its
own air force as "a vital element
of a naval battle.
adding that an
independent air service would
move from the naval commander
that unity of command in time of
battle, and that uniformity of train
ing In time of peace, which every
war has proved to be essential lo
victory."
Woman Is Hurt
By Auto Today
Mrs. Kmma Bovfn, a resident of
Willow street, was severely bruised
shortly before ;! p. m. today when
she was struck at the intersection
of Sixth and Klamath avenue by a
coupe said to have been driven by
Mrs. .lames Ltnil of Ibis city. Her
condition was not sufficiently serious
to warrant hospital treatment and
I ghe was taken to her home shortly
'alter the accident.
j Mrs. Llnal swore lo a complaint
j charging John Karnell. well known
(resident of Ibis city, with abusive
land profane language. Mrs. Linzi
I charges thai Farnoll sworo at her
abusively following the accident.
, According to witnesses the ncci-
(dent was unavoidable. Mrs. Bovtn
j when struck clung to the radiator!
, until tho car stopped.
Lettuce Growers
Estimate 40 Cars
Will Be Shipped j,
( -
j Win n the last head is plucked
and crated. HI carloads of lettuce will
' have been shipped rrom the 90 acres
j seeded lo lettuce this year by the
wholesale lettuce 'firm of Sawdy and
I Hunt, according to word received
I here today.
II
A
ATTACK
MURDER
ui Miiing
. Weed 3 Weeks Ago
Siskiyou County Authorities Seek Boxer Who
Fought Here During Summer Pal Is
Reported to Have Confessed
WEED, Cal., Sept. 22. Joe Coffman, well known
Pacific coast lightweight boxer, is being sought as a
murder su3pect here. A charge of first degree mur
der has been filed against the young pugilist, and a de
scription of him has been forwarded to peace officers
throughout the west.
Coffman is alleged to have participated in the mur
der of an unknown logger here about three weeks ago.
The logger was lured into a barn owned bv Dr. W. E.
Tebbe. for the purpose cf
j death.
Two persons are new in jail at Yreka charged jointly
with Coffman with the crime. They are Oscar Schuler
and a woman giving t:e name of
gfiS EXPANSION
i SHENANDOAH
CAUSE OF CRASH
New Testimony Offered To
day at Inquiry in Wreck
of Big Dirigible
OFFICERS ON STAND
Farmers Also Tell Their Im
pressions of Disaster and
What Caused it
Sept. 22. ;
-that there!
LAKE lifltST, N. J..
A new bit of testimony-
cells before the airship Shenandoah
broke up was given today before
i tl)e naTa committee investigating
the loss of the ship.
Lieutenant Thomas S. Hendley,
communication officer, testified that
he was awakened by the pressure
of a gas cell on his face and like-
wise by the unusual angle at which
the ship was, riding. Previously
testimony had been that this time
the Shenandoah was above her pres-
sure height that is. where the in
side pressure of gas equalled the
outside pressure of the air.
Not Excessive Gas
Before Lieutenant Hendley was
called. Lieutenant Charles E. Bauch,
watch officer on duty at the tine.1,
declared inspection some time be
fore the accident showed that the
gas pressure wtts not excessive.
Both Lieutenants Hendley and
Bauch, as well as Lieutenant Koland
C. Mayr, construction officer on
board, agreed with other witnesses
that the breakup occurred when
the ship's nose was suddenly tilted
up during a second rapid ascent.
Stories as told by civilian eye
witnesses to the special' investigat
ing naval board were summarized
to the court by Commander Jacob
B. Klein, president of that board.
Ho said the two most Intelligent of
these witnesses agreed that the ship
broke at the bottom. Others, less
intelligent. Commander Klein said,
agreed that the craft "humped up"
and broke at the top.
The special board was told by
some farriers near the scene of
tho wreck Hint the wind was the
strongest they had ever experienced.
Commander Klein said it appeared
that the wind was coming from all
directions at once.
Nono of the witnesses saw nny
j lightning near the ship, Commander
Klein added, and theru was no uvl-
dence that there w as any fire of
, any kind before, at the tlnln of, or
after the craft bruku ui.
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Logger in
robbery, and was choked to
I Mabel Ar int. T':e Arant woman is
j believed to have come here from
; Klamath Falls with Coffman.
I Faced with the chain of evidence
j which has been weaved about him.
I Schuler has broken down and con-
fessej his part in the Krime, It
ibeeame ka-.rn badaff. He- named
J je Coffman as the other member ot
the hold-up parly, and insists that It
wsls Coffman who choked the loaje,"
to death.
i'al "Squeals"
By reason of his complete con
fession. :t is understood he.e that
Schuler has promised t.i turn state's
evidence against Coffman, and that
he will be granted some form ot Im
munity in the event that Ocffman l.i
captured and convicted.
Al'J lough every effort has been
made to llentlfy the murder victim.
hij identity still remains a mysler;'
with officers of Siskiyou county,
A picture of Coffman in his fight-
togs has been procured by
Sheriff Calkins and has been mailed
'to sheriffs throuebout Callforata.
: Oregon. Washington and lda- j. Ho
is known to have been at Rose-
' burg, Oregon, about a week ago but
( since then officers have lost Ul
I trail.
j
Charge Kept Quiet
j YltEKA. Ca!.. Sept. 22. Wnfle
admitting that a murder cha:ge has
( been filed against Coffman, i.-oanti
officials here are reluctant lv give
out ;v:.y inf-rmation a:ncernlng the
youn pogiltit, whj is said to be
involved in the murder of an un
known logger at Weed last month.
The two reputed accomplices are
in t '.e i Mtnty jail here 'and It Is un
derstood that Oscar Sd-iuler has
made a complete confession to
Sheriff Calkins.
1' has been known here for the
past two (weeks that Coffman Witii
being sjutfut as one of the murder
sttspocts but all news of hta alleged
participation In the brutal crime
was withheld In order to permit,
authorities tj w irk unhampered In
baetr efforts to locate him.
J':e C'offmin. noouaad of lOe brut
al Weed murder last month, Is well
known In Klamath Falls, having en
gaged in aeyeral lioxlng bonta here
last spring and summer. Coffman
was in Klamath Falls fir mor"
than two monthj and built up quite
a following among local boxing fans.
In ihls first bout here Ciffmni
knocked out Jack Crlm, Indian light
weight. Then he took on the tough
Joonnio Carlson and put tliiat aspir
ing flghler away by K. O. route. Ho
lost in a roturn boil wttfi Crlm on
the reservation.
Just before he left here Coffman
told some of hi" friends that he
baa been married, and the woman
who left hern with him and who li
now Iheld as one of the accomplices
at Yreka Is believed here lo have
been posing as his wile.