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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1925)
Wt'diic'Hday, (ktuhiT 21, 1025 T H E liUMB E It I) 0 QUE tage Nlncj LONG BEL!. MAY BE IMPLICATED IN KELSO BRf Former Mayor declares com pany Official in Polit ical Syndicate MAY CALL ON DARROW Todd to Run for Governor; Will Expose Knowledge During Campaign F.l'tiKNi: "ir w h'nvo mm (he polities of lbs itate oi Washington upside dowDi we're going i" ii i" lb bottom of tin- Dovary munier,' declared a liurlo Todd, former may or of Kelso, Washington. In talk before a small crowd "t Qtigcnc pod pit at th armory recently. "NO mnticr If ih" evidence leads la tba hiKKi'Mt nu in Cowllti county, tin nluto Of Wiirihlnitiun or Kansas City, we're going in Mini iiti num robpan Ibid tor ii urder or th Kelso sdltor." Mr. Todd mail" Charge iiKiilnst many prominent men in the Wash ington town In blob Tom iov,-ry, former Bnge'iie man and editor ol lbs Cowllti County Mows, wan nun dared curly hint umiii"r Tba Odl tor's dnulh was l uc. ha siild, to a political syndicate composed of noma ol iho mom prominent man r tho la iii ii ii H y ami officials of tba i.oiik Boll Lumber oompspy. Mr. Dowry crltlclned dealing f tho company in their appropriations of iiiko land, declared Mr Todd, end an a rabbit his paper WSJ In jured. MarchnntN warn told not to advertise in it by tba lumbar com pany oft triaiH with ilia result tbtl the paper wiih almost bankrupt at tbo time thai tha adltor wnn murder ad, ho dulnicd. Theory ir id Pnsoand Tho thaory expreeeod by Luko H. May. criminologist, now at work on the case, that Mr. Dovery wiih murdered for purposes of robbery was declared unsound by tho for mar mayor. "No innn,'' ha mild, "would he mi) foollnh an to murdi-r a men if Dovcry's circumstances for his money." Thara won DOtblni taken frnni tha murderod mau's person, ha claimed. Tbora wai'a Mvoral dollar In silver in hl pockets which wi n- not tak en and n druft" for ft coblldorabli num wan In anotbar porkit. The speaker ntliickcd Uta n; dona hy Mr. May In hU levoatlgii llons In tbo case, "Wo don't ne lluvo tbbl Tom Dovary WSS killed by a profeeeloaal killer," ha de clared, "Wo don't believe that Mr, May hi'llevi'h thai In- was killi't hi a professional kiiii-r ami we don't bailor that Mr. May Ih a good dr taotlve. iii work wnh phoQlcali and flbr prints Ii" Is an expert hut not an ii detective In tin . . That Mr. May la working In lb BMO for high py without much work Was tho obarif Intimated by Mr. Todd. Ita was given tSOOO for bin Investigations with a f SOI POPS iiecoiinl, claimed Mr. Tddd, and all the work bs ovor did Wo to coino down iiliniit one a week, draw his expense moni-y. and i-lalm thnl ha had a "red-hot" load. No lie port Mmli No roport on but Investigation Iiiih bi'an mad, mild tho apdaker. Ho deelarad thai ha believed thai Mr. May had not made a systematic investigation of tho crlmo. Friend of Mr. Dovary bslpSd tho criminol ogist im in mil iih ihry could, aald tho ex-mayor, but their efforts weta of no avail, "I wunt to thank Mayor Polks for his nttompt to gat u crowd for my (minting." Hiild tba ono-llmo FILL THIS OUT It Means More Money And A Better Job For You! Lumberlogue, Klamath Falls, Oregon. No Gentlemen : I desire to rnnolvn the ConeHpotulence Cottrso In Lumbor nntl Construction Information for ltetall Lumber Dealers. I oxpoet to apply myself to the study of this course nnd to comply with tho requirements of administration, in case I find it Im possible to continue the work with duo diligence. It Is my under standing that tho course will ho re-asslgncd. Signed Name of firfti of employer City ; State Street Address (This Course is Free!) Ki'Iho Muyor. "Hi claims that Mr. May In u friend of bin. 1, loo, am a friend of Mr. May. I ndmlro hlin ami bollOV that ho hi an ugrneuhlu periOP In live with. Hut In thin case, i think bin ndavors rn uss lesH, Ho look over the nine III th" belief that It wan ii clear cane it robbsfy, bfjd n ha gutten no far on Ice In that hi'llef thai lie cannot KOI mil of It. We mum g th" laiil national loggl latent bolor the cane In nettled." B Mayor Todd charged that the CoronQr tOOli tb Inaly of Mr. Dor cry away from the death 1000 b fare proper InVNBtlgBtlOOl could be mad by officer ami that no at tempt had boon made lo solve the murder, except hy the friend, of the murdi rod man, 'riie ra n' worked out by tb90 men la a poi-lllve ca9i be claimed, and th" attorney general of the ntate in or the opinion th it tt in sound. A ires tod Men BxRoplpyQ Tb men reoBotly arroitad in con noctlon with th" ' r i iih, on" of thorn belps srrostod in Lane ootinty near Oakrldgo, were formerly employe! iy the Long-llell company, he claim ed, Thonpgon, th" man arratd hro, ihowad a wlUlngnaa to so back to KolSO without tho unual legal formislltlcH. he claimed. A promiOent KoIho man wan down her" on a bunting trip abOOt the mime lime an TbOfOpsOn wnn urrented and Mr Todd Intimated that he wnn con lie, ted with the arrant. Mr Dovary attacked the buying of school liimtn In Cowlitz county hy iltlicnn mid the nelllng of the tlmbbr lo lumber companle at a great profit, mild the ex-mayor and iih a rOftUJI won the dlnllke of the rating combination of the commun- fly and the cotnpuny offielulH. He wan threatened by prominent map before be wan murdered! he clatmodi WIltieHHen have lieen found, aald Mr. Todd, that nuw a IiIk car BtOp at the place whdr Mr. Dovary was found dead at about tba tlmo be wan killed. One of the wltnaSOM wuh a yottag woman who mtid she nuw the body of the editor lying on the lawn next to the nldewalk. When the body wim found It bad been moved to tbo middle of the walk. Darren May Im- BBaplayad Mont Juries wuuld convict tho men arreiud in the caen but n Kelso Jury would not, atild Mr. Todd, Th" friends of the murdered man will carry on their endeavors until the real rrlmlnnln are found, be said, and If tho men nro prone outejl It Is potslbl that the prose cuting attorney1 win have to face Chifencu Harrow, the famous Crim inal lawyer. It the case in not Battled before the next ntate election, Mr. Todd wlU run for governor, he declared, aud In hin campaign win eapoee the men thnt nn" now In nffleo. Mr. Tod wan twice elected mayor of Kelno, he mild, and wan once re called, II" Intimated that the re mil election was criminally parried 'mi ami thai there wero about GOO , votes that no one could account tor. They counted 1800 Voters and when the hnllotri were COUntOd there were 1S00, he contended. One man con feason to have voted file limes ant the Bgme man claimed that he knew others that had voted a.i many us 10 times. Mr. Todd wan twice elected mayor a speech by John DVIB, one of bis friends who is accompanying him on his trip. He outlined the groWtb of the pnrty of men which he al leged to be running the Cowlitz county government. Lumber com pany officials are connected with them, he nnhl. 300 Men at Work ClIBHALIS, Wn. Operations have been resumed nl Llttel hy the Snow Lumber & Shingle Co., idle sln.-o July I. Three lliundred men aro einpl lyed to the company's mill and camp. BELIEVE MERGER IS SOLUTION OF Lfl MILL Connolidation Seen as Only Wuy to Cut Down Over Production EXPERT GIVES PLAN Price Making Now Entirely in Hands of Buyers, Lumber Man Says BfOATTLB, Wash. The inerKlng of went coasl mills into Igrg unit an a lueana of murketlm; northwest product more advantagaousl) was suggested recently hy lloherl II. Al len, manager of the Went Coasl i.um bermon1 association, in an addross before the Keultle Association of Credit men. The speaker at Ibe oulnet pointed out tin- weakness of mills in coping with tho problem of maintaining a Sufficient nulcs force to cover the exteoBlvo territory in which Douglas fir is used. The result of thin weak Bee, Mr. Allen declared, in to throw the hulk of price making into the hands of buyers, to whose mercy the tnllUj are constantly exposed. Miii Lack 1'rofiu Doaplto tho production record of ISf.5, the mills us u general thing, Allen ha i.l, have not profited In tiny degree llku other big Industries. Al len predicted that thu present de mand for lumber will continue until winter weather compels n cassation or building, and that if tho winter rut could lu some orderly manner bo curtailed, or the Winter cut held In Stock, 1020 would be u profitable year for the mills. "Kor this year lo date," suld Al len, "tho west count has produced more lumber than in any former like period. Despite this extremely heavy production the mills today ure over sold. Stocks at the mills are con siderably below whut could be culled normal. Demand has been kooiI for the entire year, nt times nullifying thu law of commercial gravitation whh b Insists on specific periods of lean inQulry. Statistically, west coast lumber should be lu a very solid position from (he viewpoint of the mills. Ar u mutter or demonstrable fact. It has been fur from a protltible year for tho avontgo mill. The manufactur er bas BU glad In meeting his pay rolls and baa duchaTged his obliga tions to bin employes and the com munity in which he operates, but tho financial return has not been suffi ciently compensating when tbo hui urd of the Investment Is considered." UKEVIEW SEES (Continued pron Page Sevcstt) Mr. Dusenbury Is the owner of u tract of timber land estlmuted to coninln upwards of half a billion feel of pine, though In his testimony he rates It at 360,000,000, The trait inclmli's the Irvine tract and additional holdings wblcb Mr: Du senbury has secured since bis pur chase of tho tract two years ago. Tributary to his holdings Is a large body of timber in the Fremont Nation!) Foresl which would also bo lapped by tho construction of n railroad into his holdings. The lands lie approximately fifteen miles nort.i of Lakevjew and Mr. Dusenbury plans to build the mills horo. bringing the logs In ovor his own logging rond. Frank Boutin of Portland, ownor of some 12000 acres of timber in the Dog Lnke section, stated that his holdings totaled approximately 250,000,000 foot of pine nnd that his plans called for tho construc tion of a mill nt Lakoview nnd a logging road out to the timber tract, a distance of some twenty-five miles.. Tho mill, as planned, will bavo a capacity of upwards of 100,000 feet per shift, rind probably cut 80,000,- ooo annually Adjacent to the holdings of Mr. Iloutln, tho Dog Lalto unit of the Fremont Forest contains a Jorge body of timber. Forest engineers nro now making a study of this tract iih to the engineering features to be BUOOUntered in the logging of It. A portion of the national forest lies between tho Boutin hold ings nnd their outlet to Lakoview. While both Mr. Dusenbury nnd Mr. Boutin have confided tholr plttM to a circle of local businosn men, neither would heretofore per mit public announcement of the proposed mills, In vlow of tho pre liminary stage in which tho projects have heretofore stood. Tho an nouncement wus hailed villi some surprise and much satisfaction In LultovleW. it is nlso understood that Mr. Iloutln bus also sucured n consider able Interest in tho Lakoview mills and Timber company whose miu is located at Crime Creek, four mile BOUth of I.akovlew, The mill was only recently placed In operdtlOD anil n quarter of a million feel or lum le r i:i now on sticks In the yard. wiiii" equipped now with circular saws, the mill In dgelgned for th" Installation of a band saw and an lie i .i " of output up to 70,000 feet dully, 'fills mill will no doubt cut many or Ibe logs from Hie lioutln holdings, Mr. Boutin' la agpected to arrive In LakeVlOW the first part of the coming week to attend to matters in connection with bin heavy In vi Lmqnt in Lake county and also matotra looking forward to tbalr development. Mill Is Leased OitTINfJ, Wn. The IV 8, Lumber mill, formerly leased by Hurry Mm ny, baa been leased by W K. Hull. c. B. Hopkins in the in superin tendent, Wooden Railway Nearly Finished! ' J JUNCTION CITY. The track of the wooden railway h'-liix built out of this city by tho B. J. Horton Lumber coinpuny will reach th.)' summit of the Coast mountains by' the first of November, It In predict-1 ed. It will go by way of the "high; pass," When the summit is reach- j dd, construction work will conic' until next nprlng. and motor truck w ill him I lumber transported over the roud trom thut point to Junction City. . Down for Repairs BELLINOHAM, Wash. The Mor rison MIII company will clone Ita sawmill Saturday for two weeks! for annual repairs.. Its box factory, will continue operation, though, ao-l cording to C. K Keyes, manager, the I box trado has slowed down ma-; terlally, The company's sawmill at Itlalne bus Just undergone repairs. I I i I n Tl Li n m i 1 n n n n n n m Tl OI-VMI'IA. Wash. --Settlement of the lot: rale use and dismissal of all legal actions pending In the courts and before the stuto depart ment of puhllc wvjrkB In tho log tariff controversy wero agreed upon here tttts morning mt a oonfaranc botwean rapreteDiatlva of the four rail carriers' Interests and of the Kg Shippers' anscclatlon. Ulrecter John 0. Denney announced. V'.nler tb.j agreement -reached, tho North Pacific Coasl Freight bu reau, representing the Northern ra- olflc, Oreat Northern, Org-J.i-Vash-Ingtan Itallroad & Navlgatt n and the Chlnagn. Milwaukee t St. Paral railway companies, will file a new tariff iwhl-h will be about 2 214 per ent under the rates named 111 tariff 29 and about 23 per cent over the rales effective June 1, w'.ien the car riers held tihat tariff 20 became effective. The tariff will probably be filed tomorrow. Director Den'aey said, following which the depart ment will enter Its order. Iti'paralions Ora&iad In addition u granting lower ratei than tariff 29, the new tariff provides for reparations amounting lo the dlfrereuce between the no tariff and No. 29, the reparations being retroactive to Juno 1. The new tariff will uU lie effective an ...' June 1. The minimum car!oa 1 is reduced from the old scale of 7000 bojrd feet per car tl 600 feet. The rates will provide for uniform charges based on gi.-nduated mileage 'hauls on all lines repluclng the fol mcr method of the large numt.er of tariffs iflled by the Individual carriers, which was one of the points In controversy. The action today will TeBult In the dismissal lof the general log rate LOG BUTE IR GOMES i Paul Bunyan Were President HIS ECONOMICAL PROGRAM WOULD BE SUCH AS TO CAUSE EVERY MAN TO TURN FROM A PATH OF ERRORS AND PRACTICE TRUE ECONOMY BY TRADING WITH Lloyd Ryan Clothier "Home of the Workingman" nine, which WO begun In 1920 and nlso of the action started by thu itat department to consider the ap plicability (to bug tariffs of the gon eral freight reductions order hy f ie Interstate commerce commlssio-n iu 1920. The carriers iwere represented hem today by (Jeorge T. Ileld if Seattle und the shippers' association by K. H. .McCord of Seattle and Scott '.. Henderson of Tnroma. The new tariff agreed upon udav based on the vhnrge per 1000 feet hoard measure fallows: First 10 rnllos $ 1.70 ; 10 to 15 miles 15 tn 20 miles, $2.10: 0 to 25 miles 12.20; 25 t 30 miles, 12.27 W; 30 0 35 miles, 12.35; 35 to 40 miles ptAtWl 4 lo 45 miles, $1.80; 45 to 60 miles 2,57,)gf over 50 miles and not over 35 miles, add 7 'A vents for each five miles or fraction of five miles; over 95 miles, aJd one crrnt for each additional mile. amps Are Opened TACOMA, Wash.. The Cascade Timber Co., owning two camps near Alder on the Tacoma and Eastern railroad, has resumed work after a shutdown of approximately four months, with intention to operate the capacity of four sides. The Mineral Lake Lumber Co. at Ashford has started camp 17 after a shutdown of nine months. Contin uous operation is assured, according to statements, as the log rate contro versy has been amicably settled. Box Plant Rushed ASTORIA, Ore. Because of n water shipment order which must be ready In a certain time and the demand for boxes locally, the box factory of the Astoria Box company here is temporarily operating ten j hours a day. The sawmill of the I company is not working extra hours. I In all likelihood, according to W. P. j O'Brien, manager, the box factory I will be back on an eight-bour day I by November 1. F Kelso Acts on Port KELSO, Wash., The Kelso port commission has taken final action to purchase tho Orugon Way site of 40 ncros for port development from thu Long-llell Lumbor Co. for 1100, 000. It voted to make n two mill tux levy which would rtilsu 36,600 and to is sue one per cent In bonds to raise 182.000. This sum would flnanco the purchase of the site and Improve ments, It wits estimated. To Draw Mill Plan ORECION CITY, Ore. Plans will bo drawn at once for the new St. Helens pulp and paper mill to be built at St. Helens by a paper com pany In which the llawley Pulp and Paper Co. Is the principal stockhold er, according to Wlllnrd P. How ley, 'Jr. Tho first unit of thu plant, to cost approximately $1,500,000, will be ready for operation la November, it was predicted. Plan New Mills BELLINGHAM, Wash. Two new sawmills will be built In Whstcorn I county this year. The Warnlck Lum- ber Co., successor of the Qlaclcr Lumber Co. will build on the site of the Glacier Lumber Co.'s fire destroy ed plant at Warnlck, and the Maple Palls Tie and Lumber Co. will build near Maplo Falls. The Warnlck mill will have a one-shift capacity of 30, 000 feet, stater Frank N. Brooks, president, and it will be operating early in 1926. The company owns a large tract of timber, wblcb It Is now logging. Study Completed POTLATCH, Idaho. A prelimin ary study of the holdings and. oper ations of thu Potlatch Lumber com pany as a basis for considering a definite forestry and load manage ment policy, has Jvst been com pleted for the company by E. T. Al len and Norman G. Jacobson, repre senting the research department of tho Western Forestry and Conserva tion association. 1 i 0 n n I I i m
