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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1925)
Unlvettjty Library ButftttHi Oragoi Published Duily at KLAMATH FALLS "An Empire Awakening" BUY AT HOME; LOCAL MERCHANTS CAN GIVE YOU BETTER BARGAINS I YO Associated Press Leased Wire Eighteenth Year Numlier 5655 KLAMATH l-'ALLS, OltEGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS it T CAUSE OF DUCKS DYING III LAKE Deadly Bacteria not Found in Dead Birds by U. S. Health Department ' CHEMICAL POISONNIG Further Report to Follow Preliminary Investigation; Ducks Still Dying BoIuIIddi poison Is do) i iq causa ot thousands of dueks dying in Tulo Ink... u i chemical poison lag of soma description, Thin, iii brut Is tho ontont o( ih firm laboratory report on I g Jul.- Juki, djaek crisis, it u rMalred this morning from th f I, HklUi dapartmtiit laborattony in Portland by OOUttty RMlth Officer Dr, 0, B. NkWSOffl, A morn complete n.pori will lie lamed lutvr ihin reook, iii rules UmO thl m-tunl CtUM.Ct tho ! ii i of (i. iiiriu will probably be given. Tim rorl recelvo I I.,. made out by William Levin, in charge of tho t. s. laboratory, Following Is Iba report: "Wo wars ooabla to Chid h Out ullnui iii tba duok receiver! iron you .inn Hunt uij.i. The , , markedly Jaundiced It bad airing mucous, linn talutad but n otbor patbologloal oondlllon, Culti made from various ungatm ri'movi'il at autopsy did nut nh.w tba pr enco of D. Bolnllnus, Ufa sbk duck whlob wun brought In hara by menaungor on Thursday, Ocl ibar lsth died tin. following day. tho lowl hud epraplbta paralysis oj Uta lens before dcatli uuil well marked paralysis when it firm rutin, bars, it hmi nt clinical srymptoms or B'; Uotullnus lufaotlon. Tha duck way outHpMn unit euitue nude tnln Various organs. It Is loo early yet tj give our findings on the riillur , mada m tba organ of tba second durk. Those will be reported next week. "I aw htii to ballave fbal tho dttckl did not ilia from II. Ilotullnus Bince the examination of tba duets did nut reveal Clinical nor Pdoi Morton) symptoms in thin test. The examination of the specimen .f mud nlno fulled to show B. BolUllnus, also the water from the lake wan noga tlvn of it. Botullnus, Tha mud uvea vui'jr.honvy In Us OontontS of hydro- gen aulpblda. There in a marked possibility that the ilnekn have died from a I'hninlcal polt-Miilug ralher than baotarlal infection. "Of course, you understand how our work on mich problems must tnteennarlly be very limited In scop since we neither have the time r the equipment to do n thorough bus. Inenn uf Investigation which your it'ii lltlun . there i-erlaluly demand. "I iihould think thai Ihe Poultry Department of l ie l)rog.n Agrlcu! turnl Collofte or some oilier allied dapBtUnool of dint sdi i would ba the proper aigettlilba Iii lake chars') of mioh Investigations and I w.iuli! strongly advise thai you get In Much with them." Three Are Killed in Airplane Fall CAPSi may obunt housb, n. J.. Oct. 111. UV) Three men were killed today when an airplane Inn i Ing the numlier A-S 88614, fell near here. The Identity of (he air men were apt known. A package found In tha plane wan addressed to a tiieuteueni tiaiey. MlTOHBLIi KlKI.lt. N v . lie'. ;10(P) (Army plane number ( s . n a t loft here at 10::i0 aJ irt. today f.'.v J.ungloy Field, II wan piloted by Lieutenant Abbott 0. Mairtin who had with 'aim an passengers CUptala Itobeil A. KlnV.eh and Staff Hoiri- eant nosoph Oolson. i.icti tuTiiunt Martin's ship was ma of two big bomhern ftttadhad Ij the twentieth bombardment squadron at tho Virginia Held, which left this Million at Mlfi naniu time thin morn ing. COAST LHAGt'K H CORKS Al Health. 11-2, Portland 0-8. ai i, is Angelas a-a, Vernon i-i. ai Sacrameoltio 4-11.', salt Lake s-n At Hun Francisco 8"18, Oakland I B0TULINU5 Whole Section Purchased By Shevlin-Hixon $21,500 Paid to Chi nook Timber Co. For Pine An entire section ot Klamath pine ebangad haudn yesterday after noon, ami no did 121, B00. To ibe Buerlln-Hlxon company woni the section of land ami to tho Chinook Timber company, tho tin BOO, The timber pun linhcd by Ibe lien I concern from the Qhlnpok Timber company Ilea Jum it miles south deal of Croaconti and cbmprlaas 040 iicroN, Approximately 131.80 per; tore was the price paid to the Mleh- Ikiiii eoncern. The properly In d'.- scrlbed an belni in section 88, town ship , souili ruga lb earn. it wan n transfer of pine from a timber holding concern to a timber otieralln:; concern. Yearn iiko the CblnOOk Timber eoinpau enlere I thin territory nad bought up large tracts of timber in tile northern atbttotti not for tin. purpone of op- aratlng. but because tbey felt the inn.' would coma when tba demand for pine ilmbi-i would be mo grenl thai ihey could dlaposo of tbelr hoi i liiK'i at a haiidnome profit. Their Judgment al that time In what they are reaping profits on at ibis tinu, and the transfer to the llond eon- aern in but a small samplo of wbai Ihey huve rold durliiK Ihe pnM twelve montba, and what they pron- ably will sell In the m m year. Five Robbers Make Big Haul Crime in New York Continues Over Week-end NKW. VOUK. Oct. IM. band of five rouMf, one of rifjm wenrlnc it pjIlcemun'H ulilform, com- niltted a aeries or boldtttps in Brook lyu early tolny while li Mauhnii.i.i two gunh0n shot and probably fat ally wounded llio propriety)! of .i low'er east nldo Te:dau:ant In which thoro were 18 rutrons, IrioludlOB five iwonien. The boldest robbcuv by the Brook lyn baud wan the holdup of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel QoMutan and ICioIr chauffeur an their c.ir was paaalng along oaatarn Parkway, after they had crowded the Ooldman auto to the curb. The five robbers took tr.OUU lu Jewelry and 8260 in cash from Ihe victims. LOSS OF BLOOD NEARLY FATAL RiggB Sconchir) Almost Dies from Gasli in I lead Yesterday Saved from death by inluute'. RiggB Sconchln. Klamath Indian and an eiupioye of the PaytOU l.or. ttlnu company. Is recovorlng today at tin- Klamath General hosplt-il from loss of blood and u large y.nsli In the head, sunatlned yester day morning when u chain snappo I and hll bin skull. It wan from loss or blood, rather than the gash, thai the Indian nearly died. I'nable to mop the bleeding, co-workers brought him to Klamath Pails over it miles .-r rouih roads. When he arrived nt : liie hospital hln condition wan oritl- eal. a little lonCar and ha would j have died. I Hut today he Is Improving and I will recover from the 'accident. Scon- , chin as working for the logging I coinpnny al SOMgua river at the terminus or ihe Oregon California and Rjaater.n railroad. Another Chinese City Is Captured BCHANOHAI, Oct. 10, Reports from Nanking, a treaty port 810 miles west of Shanghai, say the crly has bean captured by the ChoklaUg troops, an another phase ot tha cam liaiitn which resulted in the recent 6apti)re or Shanghai. After street tiring, the troops of Chang Tso-Lin, the Maneliurian leader, were toned to. retreat Keross the YnniUzo river to I'ukow where they expeci to be Joined by reinforcements driven from Hlinliflhn, F FEARS FOR LIFE; E Benjamin Crapscr Claimn ' Spouse Threatened Him With Gun Saturday SUES FOR DIVORCE Woman Released on Own Recognizance until hear ing in Justice Court tint on a little ranch hear BouaitxiSj there was turmoil KridUJ ami Siifiinla, and an a result Mm. i iiie trapaer in miller ni-rent on a Charge of aeanull with a daiiooroua wea pon ami liar hoabandi Bonjamlu (tranaer, in atblng a dtvoroe. Thai bin wif.- on Friday boat blm over the lii-od with mi Iron poker und then on Suturduy night picked up a Kim ami tbroataned him la tin- abarga of Crnnaer to tin- dletrl t attorney's orflce. An a result a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon was filed Sgalnil Mrs. Crap scr Saturday and she was urrested Sunday. Thin morning, when she nppeared before Justice of the Peace Bd Kendall for arralKiimen.. she wan released on lo r recogniz ance, Xoi PJrst Time This Is not tin- first linn- tha do mesiie dlfflcultlen of the Crapsarl family have com.- to tin- attention of COUnty authorities. Several weeks alio Mrs. Crapscr nlKin d a complaint sharking her husband with insanity- A roaulnr bearing before County Judgo it. li Bunnell, al which ihe prominent Bonanaa farmer wan ex amined, disclosod thai no slcns of insanity eilstcd. Tile complaint wan dismissed ami Crepaw; dlscbargod'. Authorities advlwd thfl 'eyupio to patch dp tl'iflr l.'J. and live l.l gothar on their rlroobi Itow Iln-aks Dot Hut the smouldering rire or dis content broi.e out again on Friday, according to Crapsar, when his wire clouted him over the lead with a heavy Iron poker and at that time threatened to kin hint. The blow from ihe poker, the runner claimed. Km. .led him out. Saturday Crapsar Journeyed to Klamath Kalis and asked the advlco or tin- district attorney's otflCO, Their advice at that time was -o seek a divorce, rather than acek action UKalnst his wife in the crim inal court. t'rapser consulted an attorney, filed a suit for divorce Saturday an I was granted a restraining order sai urday afternoon by Judge l.eavlt. restraining bis wife from interfer ing Willi him on ihe ranch or els-- v.inre. until settlement of the suit. A deputy sheriff served the restrain ing order on Mrs. Crapscr Salurdav according to reports. Threatened Him Crapscr contends that despite the restraining order, his wife threat ened hint with a Klin, while he was on his ranch. Until the alleged gun Play. Dis trict Attorney Elliott and his depu ty. V. A. Wlcst, were disposed to view the case merely as a domestic trouble thai should be handled li tile divorce courts. No date for Ihe preliminary hear ing; was set this morning, as Mrs. Crapser's attorney said that it woaid be some lime het'ore he could seen v witnesses. Bootleggers and Booze Are Taken MBDFOltD, Ore., (let. 10,- Two aliened bootleggers giving th.-ii-names as Jaek lloyd and Jack Mar tin, of Portland, were arrest'd on the Pacific highway north of Con tra! Point at three o'clock ibis morn ing by local dry officers and l'."i case., of gin and whiskey with a market value ol' $2(100, and their automobile were seized. The two men win be given a hearing ibis nllernoon. AOKt) VET DIK8 CINCINNATI, O.. ot, It. (A1) (leneriil Til. onus T. Hall til, !U. among (!e last surviving brigadier gonarala or tha civil war, died yfe- lerday al bis homo In l.o.'kland.' Ohio. He nVas breveted for Kallan try In llio haltlo of Wn-vnoboro, On, BONANZA n HI ARRESTED Widely Known Writer Is Victim Of Highwaymen Nina Wilcox Putnam Reports Loss of $6000 WEST PACK BACH, Flu. Oct. 10. I f't Klvo highwaymen wc.e the oh jeets of ii search today by mailed and sheriff's furre.i following the roported robbery al Mm. Nina Wil cox Putnam, wull known writer and her cninpsnlon, it. W. (lunger, ol t,000 In Jewelry, papers and cash early yesterday. .Mrs. I'ulnam 'old police tCiey ha 1 nt ippcd to repair a minor accident to their aut mioblle r. hen the band Its approached, first to offer assist ance and then to rob. The -writer told police the Ihlvcs took from her u set of ear rings valued at $ 1 .ooo -a isno vanity use, papers wurth $4. 50(1 und 175 from her and her companion. TAX IN T Surtax Rate Should be Low ered, is Recommenda tion to Congress BIG SAVING PLANNED Would Repeal Publicity Sec tion Other Changes Arc Advocated WASHINGTON. Oct. 19. (p) A tax -reduction ot 2.r0,000,000 to $300,000,00(1 inui recommended to ,-niiKrcsa today jr Hesreta-ry Mellon. without BttempUnig to lay down definite schedules, he suggested thai Hint n reductl n In surtaxes to 20 per cent in place of present .17 per cent would not nipple the treasury. This would reduce the maximum tax, surtax nnd normal, levied on tuo largest Income to ii penrcnt. It now is 42 per cent. The secretary also adv.Vated these additional ohangaai i Repeal of the estate lax. repeal .;f the gift tax. i IfOduCO Auto Taxes Reduction of automobile tn;e.i by repeal ,jf the levies on trucks, tlrea and accessories. Repeal of a unmoor of miscellane ous taxes, sudh aaVthat ' on works of ait bVohght fii.m VotWrd. Ropoal t the publicity Beotlbn ot the Income tax law. He oppored. repeul cf. the tax on tl.-kets lo theatrea and iwr places of amu'aementjand various other pro posals for amendment of i n- preaent law, 'lOKMudlng' any pxtensiTn lu the Jurisdiction of tho board of tux appeals. . Barnlua in Sight The secretary's I recommendatl.'.ns based on the conclusion of treasury Oftloiala that a surplus of $100,000, 000 Is Iii prospect this year in fed eral revenues, was submit ted to t ie house ways and means committee at the opening or its hearing on tax BftMprm. lie made reference m his si iic menl to all "inequity taxation'' pro duced by the earned income exemp tion allowed in the present law, bat, he added, Unit if tho 20 per cent maximum suVisx is accepted, the In equity fostered by the clause given credit on I lie incomes ttelonr te:i thousand dollars as earned Incomes "will not be l.i pronounced." Kxenvu Securities Tho treasury secretary ilso re newed his udvecucyVkU' u constiltionul amendment abollalting tax exempt securities, lie obferved, however, that ihe amounl or tutstwadlng tax exempt securities no' is so iRTIge, he estimated them at fourteen bill) n dollars, ihut the govOraJheiit should nttompt taking awa)y ilnV'artifii-lui" advantage held by thosesacui'ltles. Knaclmeiit ,.f the iiroposKI 20 per cent sllilax will do the ftlOnk, the secretary added. The Rift tax was claaacteiiaod by ibe sBoretarv s oneof a "gmal many nrtlflclai restraints nnd equities new Qn the taxing latw.N He declared "tleleXCUSe lor the gift tax would ennjiely disappear" it (ronllnucil oil Togo acven PO NEX 111 MELLON PLAN Still More Men Eager To Get .$400 And Bride; Salem Woman Learns It Pays To Advertise Mysterious "Jordan" Who Wants Husband ' Approval" Until She Gets Estate Can Have Her Pick From Nearly Ei-ery State of Union SAI.K.M, Ore.. Oct. 19. The mys terious "Jordan" who advertised for a husband of four months duration to clear up an estate and Offered 1 MjO ror the use of the man's nam;, appeared in person at the' Capital Journal office lute Saturday evening.. . Inline.! the some 50 odd letters and' tHf-KraniH which came for lier art'l (litappearad in tha olgbv Only an office hoy was prfMnt to give her tb6 coinniunlf-atlons and an a retail her identity lu Mill concealed bo hind the cloak of myntery. Hut her opportunltieH were not all wrapped up in the bundle ihfl received Saturday evening as aince then il more communiiat.ton have been received as well a an addition al e.iotograplt. DON'T EAT TULE LAKE DUCKS, U. S. WARDEN ADVISES George Tonkin Investigates Mysterious Game Bird Epidemic I).iu!inus or no botullnus. no ducks from Tule lake should be eaten. Carcasses of thousands or dead birds have so contaminated Ihe water that meat of live and well birds would be detrimentally af fected. This was tho statement this morning of George Tonkin, UniteI States Warden .fior California, who during the past few days has been Investigating tlbe mysterious epi demic (lr.it ima caused the death of over 15.000 ducks In Tule lake. The statement nvas supplemented Ibis afternoon by one of similar na ture from Dr. G. S. Newsom, couuty health ofricer. "We now knw that botullnus Is not causing death of the ducks." the health oHIcer Bald. "But Mr. Tonkin's statement concerning :on tamlnaUon should be seriously con sidered. With that many dead and pubrUylng ducks in Tule lake, tho water Is naturally contaminated. Ulrds consuming Ibis water, would naturally be affected by it. "Then there Is another ansle. There are hundreds ot birds f iat have contracted the disease but yet lo Ihe eyes of the hunter, are per fectly all right. They are sftot, killed and taken home to bo eaten. Even though the ducks are not dy ing Worn botullnus, one must re member that they are enltng a sick bird and I'.iut sick birds arc lut just the right ' diet. "I have no desire to spoil the pleasure of enthusiastic hunters of Klamath, but In the performance of my duties us health officer. 1 feel it necessary to advise the pubtta to re frain from eating birds from Tuie lake." .Mr. Tonkin expressed the opinion that no sfhooting should be done on the lake until tho ice collies. "Then this epidemic will disap pear Quickly I reel," he said. "Ij.i til that time I can't help but teel that the Tule lake ducks should not he eaten." NOW THINK GIRL MURDERED YOUTH EUREKA. Calif.. Oct. -9. (JP) District Attorney A. W. Hill stald today that ihe was la p.issessloit of conclusive evidence that Henry Q.veet the Dyorville youth', who was found BClot to death in nis uttUmo bilo on Ihe highway south of here a week ago was killed by a 'bullet from the rifle of Miss Carmen Wag ner, his hunting companion. Miss Wagner has been missing since tho Shi ml tag. WAGE DAW INVALID WASHINGTON. Oct. 19. (.-T) The Arizona minimum wage luur for WOmeh was held to be uucoitsfltuti nnul today by the supremo WUrl. VRANOBLL., Alasky.'Vhe last boat of the season caio down the Btlkine river from tht Caasair gold legion in northern British Columbia, with n capacity Us of passengers. On The latest photograph Is from Itobert 11. Norman, of Oakland. California, and says In: is "ambitious i ami IrtfioliHtir- and formes gnat po nibHitlen and opportunities in life ' Ht. Marii-s. Idaho, Denver. Colo.. Anaconda, Lincoln. Nebraska, Tra cey, California, Marion, Ind.. Oma ha. N'ebr., as well as Oakland and San FranclHco. were among the lot- est places to he heard from with applicants for the lady's hand. .Many of the inquirers are an proaehing the subject carefully. They address their communications to the Capital Journal directly, inquiring about the woman, something of hr antecedents and in other word', want to be shown before takim? the final step into a venture go surrounded with mystery. Budget Committee to Meet Thursday Faced with statutory limitations on tax Increase, ten men who com prise the budget committee of the Klamath county schools outside Klamath Falls will meet next Thursday to puzzle out a means of providing sufficient school funds to take care of the gradual expansion in county Bchools during the past few months. The committee, which will con fene in the county school superin tendent's office, hopes to clean up their work in one long session. It is composed of the five members of the county school board, Charles Mack, Francis Bowne, Ray Looseley, Roy Nelson. George Offield; and five other citizens, Harry Wilson. W. C Balfour. J. O. Hamaker, U. A. Talbot and Sam Deblinger. COST OF BABIES IS FIGURED OUT BEULIN. Oct. 19. (P) An in genious statistician has fojind that to every family, each baby costs $S per month "extra during the first two years of its life. The figures are effective only af ter the stork has performed his chief duty and his assistant, the doctor, has rendered his bill, together with that of the nurse. They are also based on the assumption that tile mother does not Indulge in the luxury of a maid. Crime in Chicago Costs Large Amount CHICAGO, Oct. 19. (P) Crime in Chicago costs the clhy so much each year that it could well afforl to jay each of its estimated 30.000 c.i. ks $20,000 annually, or $600,- 11000,000 to leave town, Charles R. Holden, president of the Chicago crime commission, told a church audience yesterday. Holden estimated t'-uit approxi mately cae per cent of the cities 3.000,000 are engaged in criminal pursuits and asserted that crime had been invreosed 100 per cent since 1900. , Affidavit of Prejudice W Attacked by Jupist SAJjfsM. Ore.. Oct. 19. (4 Con- ; stiUftcciality of the law permitting LaWdavlts of prejudice to be filed against Judges ajlfl compelling the judges in sucv'casej to relinquish t'he bench Jo another jurist, is at tacked yfthe case of W. S. L"Reo OgalnsJT Judge George G. Bagle.. ut Washington e .'iuity. 'he case grows out of divorce eedlng of Byron Cliffo .1 Saltus Hgutnst Ktnei ticrtruue nanus in wlflch U'Ren submitted an affidavit f prejudice against BarjloV. The tttcr as judge of the court refused to recognize it and I Ken filed riginal proceedings in mandamus in the state supreme rjourt, an al- ,' tentative w rit being issued by Chief Justice McBride on 0-t:ber !. Baa ley today filed a demurrer tu the writ. BERLIN. Atisteu Chamberlain Is going to learn tospeak German, lie told a GermanCorrespondent so at LocArnOi TOM MURRAY TO RANG BEC. 18TH Young Leader of Convicts Makes Plea to Judge Kelly for Mercy RECITES HIS RECORD Slayer of penitentiary guard Denies Charge That he is Killer HA I, EM, Ore., Ocl. Il. Tom .Murray, convict, convicted of the murder of tiuurd John Sweeney in the prison break of August 12, was tills morning sentenced by Judge Percy R. Kelly, to hung for tile crime on I'lldny, December ih. The sentenco was Imposed aft-ir Murray had made a statement to th i court, pleading for mercy on his record and his youth. Asked by the court If he had anything to sav relative to why he should not be sentenced to pay the extreme pen alty, the convict replied: "Yes. I might say something," and in a clear tone of rolce contin ued: Gives Record "Tlie prosecution in this case has tried Its best to dig up my criminal record, but the best they have been ao!" tn do is to show two cHivia. a burglary in California committed when I was only IS years and didn't know any better, and the Florence bank robbery. "After being released from San Quentin I went straight for two years before we stuck up the Flor ence bank. "They have said that I was a killer. In the Florence Job w. could have killed but we didn't. During the time I have been in the penitentiary I have been shot at five times without any warning. They would shoot first and talk afterwards. Didn't Kill Others "In this break we could havn killed several we didn't even shoot at. I had John Davidson in mv power, and it there was any man at tho penitentiary I would have reason to kill it would have boon him. but I didn't. "We could have killed Guard Gardner as he ran ahead of us to ward the State hospital to give the alarm, and wo could have domi the same thing at Monitor and at the Newman's. I could have taken the clothes of the Monitor boys, but I only took a coat and kept on my prison pants. "There are scverul we could have killed and kept from giving infor mation about us. But wo didn't.' There was a hush over the crowd ed courtroom as Murray rpoke. As he finished and stood half faring ihe court. Judge Kelley said: "Tk law gives the court no discretion. (Continued on page two) ying Th Game S q u are To "throw down" tho busi ness men who fouglii for you when they backed up Oregon Trunk In its fight to come into this county? Their fight was your fight. It is now your turn to stand by them as they stood by you. If you have a dollar lo spend, see that it goes to the merchant who risked so much in standing for the Oregon Trunk. Play the game on the square and you will always win. FOR PEN MURDER 18 w-v
