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ICLAMATII FALLS .
"An Empire Awakening"
Lift US MAKE 1926 .
THE BANNER YEAR ,
FOR THIS SECTION
Associated Press Leased Wire
Eighteenth Year Number C757
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1926
PRICE FIVE CENTS
mr. .
PIONEERS MOURN
AS 01 SHOOK
DEATH IS Kil
Picturesque figure, 57 Years
a Cattleman Here, Dies
Sunday Night
WAS REAL OLD-TIMER
Had Fine Ranch Near Dairy
in Old Days Before Link
River Was Bridged
; A plctiiresquo and prominent
rancher, a mun who for 67 years had
ridden (ho rangua of Klamath, died
Hunday night. Ha wns Oavo Hliook,
ogod 73, Yonna valley calllu operal
or, and member of tlm famous
Bliook family (hat crowd I ho plains
In 1804 and settled In Yonna valley
In IKS.
Mr. Shook had bcu III for a
month and In loral hospital for
throe weuks, suffering from bron
chial pneumonia. Immndlato rauio of
hit death Haturday was a htiart at
tack. "
It wa In the spring of 1868 that
John Shook, SI year old brother of
the deceased, cama to tho Klamath
country, lilt mother and father,
brothora and ilatera. Including Dave,
wore In (ho Hoguo Itlwr valley, anx
loua to mova acrosa the Cascades
to the great Klamath country, of
which they had heard o much.
Hlutok Knmlly Moves
John Bhook returned to the Rogue
rtlver valley with good lldlnga of a
fertile country, adapted to livestock
railing. 80 In the fall of 1888 the
Bhook family moved from Rogue
niver valloy to Yonna valley, then
known aa Alkali valley. Prank Smith,
who had mode I tin original trip with
John, did not return to Alkali vnl
. ley, though Kit Penning did.
Tho Bhooki aotitlod In Alkali val
ley and 4n a ahorl time acquired
- 3100 aoree of tho choicest land of
tho-dlslrlct. Davo, John, William and
Newt took up tho burifen of develop
Ing what later proved to be one
of tho biggest livestock operations
In Klamath. And for 57 yeara they
havo continued railing cm tie.
Dave Bhook waa 17 years old
when ho came to Klamath. And
Klamath at that tlnio was a veritable
wlldernoaa.
"They didn't oven havo a bridge
'acrosa Link river when we enmo,"
John Bliook said today. "Thera were
two houses by tho river and not a
houie between hero and Lakovlow."
Active In Range Wnin
Davo Bhook waa a cattleman of
the old type, a typical character of
tho plonoor weat. Ha, like all tho reel
of aho ploncur llvestockmon of tho
tlmo, actively reaontod the oncronch
molit of snoop operator In tho
Klamath country, and ho took an ac
tive part lit tho rango wars of the
early daya, upholding tho tenets of
tho calltomen no fences, no shcop,
and an open range.
Nowt Shook, another brother, died
juat a fow montha ago in Ashland,
and waa lnld to rout In an Anhlnnd
comotvry.
. Funeral services for Davo Shook
will bo hold tomorrow afternoon at
3 o'clock nt Whltlock'a mortuary.
The services will bo conducted by
tho Klamath Knlls lodge or KIN.
The body will bo laid ito rost besldo
the graves of his mother and father
and a brothor.
Hnrvlvotl by Five
Mr, Shook la survived by two hro
thors, both of Klnmath, John S.
Bhook and William II. Shook; thrco
Negress Fails In Attempt To
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Klumiith Avonuo Ncono of I'ihikuiiI Kndciivor DurhiR Itnlii
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Die Under Passing Automobiles
"v Motorists along the lower end of Klamath Avenue last
evening reported -that an . earnest suicide attempt was
being made by a bulky and voluble negress.
She favored neither gun, rope, nor poison but attempt
ed the more modern method of throwing herself beneath
passing . cars. As the attempts occurred in a driving
rain, blurred windshields prevented autoists from seeing
her clearly and almost made the attempt a success.
Indlgant drivers stopped their cars and tried to talk
to her but she insisted that death only would soothe her
.sorrows. A distinct odor of alcohol was observable in
her vicinity. Police today said no report had been made
pj the affair,
Demand Made For Abolition Of
U. S. Tariff Body; Farm Group
Says Acts Cdnstitute Scandal
Constant Xurmoil in Body Prevents Judicial
Functioning of Commission, View Held
By Indiana Representative
t WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. (AP) A demand for abol
ition, of the tariff commission waa made to the house ap
propriations committee during its consideration of fiscal
funds for that body, it was disclosed today in published
records of the hearings.
The demand was made in behalf of the national board
of farm organizations by its secretary, Charles R. Hol
man. He presented a resolution adopted by the farm
GRAZING BILL UP
CONGRESS TODAY
Secretary Work Opposes
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WASHINGTON. Fob. 10. -,P:
wisiauoo 10 roguiiiio grn.ing on.
tlie public domain was advocated by
Secretary Work today beforo the
senate public lands committee. The ',
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Stnnfleld bill providing grating regu-
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miions, wu.cu ine commute iooa
under consideration .today, was op-
posed by tho eucrotary as cumber-
some and roqulrlng a division of nil-
thorlly between tho federal govern
ment and local regulatory boards
provided for In the measure.
Secretary Work ossertod that any
legislation on the grailug subject
should leave broad powers of
lation In tho hands of tho goneral
land offlco. 1
Provlhions In tho Stunfield bill nu-1
thorlslng local control, ho aald,
would tako away tho government's
authority and would inako adminis
tration by tho Interior department
difficult.
"Tho fedoral government," tho
secretary said, "should not surrender
its right of final datormlnntHou of
grating rights. The government
would be better off with no leglsln
tlon than with ns much legislation
as provided in this measure."
Tho secretary cxproHsed approval
of .the local regulatory principle pro
vided that appeal In all questions
might be taken first to the genornl
land enforcement. Such a systom, he
said, would prosorvo the fedoral
government's rights.
NK;ui:hk klaix
ASTORIA. Oro Fob. IB. (P)
Killed by a blow, presumably from
a milk bottle, tho body of Pearl
Vargos, negro, was found In an
Astor atreot room Into Inst night.
Police and sheriff's officers declar
ed this morning Unit they had. found
little Information beyond tho fact
that the- murder wns committed
Sitlurday night.
sisttirs, Mrs. Fnnnlo Schumap of San
Francisco, Mrs. Ilattlo J. Parker of
Los An fro Ion and Mrs. Ada Kuuck of
Yonna valloy.
Ho wnB born In David county, In.,
1852, and spent .tho early yonrs of
his 11 to in that stnlo. Ho resided
Willi his (iimlly four yourg In Rogtio
River valloy boforo moving with
lliom across tho Cascudo ninuntnlns
to Klnnuith. Ma was not married.
E
oigunltatlon at a recent meeting.
charging the commission waa guilty
of "unwarranted delay In arriving nt
declsljna; prejudiced treatment of
purlieu appearing before It," und at
tacking its secret hearing as having
"created a situation approaching
closely to a public scandal."
Hnlmun usscrted that tho 'V-Jin-
mlftnlnners nro and have been since
the flexible tariff provision was en
acted, divided among themselves and
I so far as we have been able to as-
e'alii, that division effects even the
personnel of the commission la Its
staff. Tae couimlsclon haa, to date
(beon unable to formulato any regular
f"""1""., .'" ""'"
its cases. '
- ..Tner0 , ,rln0 j thn
commission," remurked Represonta
tlve Wood, republican, Indiana
chairman of tho aprpprluttons sub-
committee, who heard the protest
. .
"It Is no longer a secret; every-
kBOW, Ucre fr.on
there that absolutely prevents the
proper Judicial functioning of the
commission."
The farmors and organisation
represented, Mr. Holman anld, would
"rather take their chances with con
gress nvlth respect to the tariff act
in pretoronco to the delegation of
rogit-wfuncUans by congtess. to enable
somobady else to change the act
from tlmo to lime.
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Chapman Must
Hang; Plea To
Court Failure
Gunman to Pay Su
preme Penalty on
March 3
NEW YORK. Feb. 15. (ff)
Gerald Clyipmnn. convicted bandit
and murderer, today lost his -appeal
to the United Slates circuit court of
appeals for a writ of habeas corpus,
The appellate court sustained the
order of Federal Judge Thomas of
Connecticut In dismissing Chapman's
npllcatlon for tho writ.
Chapman, under sentence to hang
on March 3 for the murder of t
New Oritaln, Conn., policeman, had
sought by ithe habeas corpus pro
ceedings to be returned to Atlnntn
penitentlnry, from which he escaped
after serving a short part of his 25
year sentence for tho million dollar
mall robbery In Now York City.
Tho opinion handed down today
declined to go Into the question of
tho validity of tho, president's com
mutation of Chapman's sentence.
Tho court held that only tho United
States government would havo (ho
right to enter tin objection in this
connection.
Government assistant V. 8. Attor
ney Cohen had urged that tho son
tenco of tho Connecticut state court
bo carried out. '
Earl Of Craven
Flees To Escape
Arrest In U. S.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. ()
A warrant for tho arrest of the
Unrl of Cravon was Issued today 'bv
tho department of labor.
NEW YORK, Fob. 15. (IP) -Tho
Now York World today Bays that
tho Early of Craven, who faced do
portntlon from tho United States
bocnunq of his formor relations wll.h
tho Countess of Cathcart, is In
Canada. ',
, MONTREAL, Quo., Fob. 16. (ff)
The Earl of Cravon was staying at
tho mtz-Cnrlton hotel, Montreal, to
day. Ho refused to bo Interviewed
TUfJE TO BE
SPENT 1 N CITY
PROJECTS, 1926
At Least Half-Million Dol
lars Will be Expended,
Engineer Estimates
TWO SEWER PROJECTS
Northern Section of City to
be Benefitted by Pav
ing of Streets
At least cne half million, dollars
will be spent during 1926 in paving
and sewer projects If presjnt plans
of tho city oJuncli and property bold-
era in residential aid business dis
tricts materialize, according to As
sistant City Engineer Gene Henry.
This estimate of the city official
is based upon a general survey of
II the city Improvement projects
which have come up before the city
council t date, and of other im
provement! walcb will be placed be
fore the council In the form of
petitions within the next few iweeks.
Tho 5 ear 1926. will be t'ae out
standing year in city improvements
of any other city In the state.' Tho
Improvements will open up new Resi
dential districts, particularly In the
northern part of the city.
Many Projects Certain
Of the paving projects, the follow
ing are nearly certain for 1926;
Main street from Spring cast to the
government canal; California ave
nue from Conger avenue north-east
to connect with Oregon avenue;
Crescent avenue from the end of the
paving north to tho S.uthern Pacific
railroad tracks. '
Other paving' projects which will
probably be consummated this year
but -which " are - not certain aa yet
are the paving of Cypress avenue
from south Riverside to Lipplncott
street and in connection with the
same project, the paving of Lewis
street, whi.'h joins with Cypress ave
nue; paving of unimproved streets
in . the vicinity of the Klamath
(Coiitlnucil on l'ngo Two) '
Film Folk May
Finish Picture
In Short Time
Speed to 4e Watchword
Of New Director
. With a new hand at tho helm,
re-f liming of the picture "Crashing
Timbers" started yesterday and will
be rushed to completion within ten
days, if sunshiny weather prevails.
Tho new hand is Coorge Seitz,
veteran director, who succeeds. James
O. Spearing of Los Angoles. Mr.
Seltz plans a different trentment of
tho picture, with a new setting.
Yesterday the movie folk worj
busy getting tire new setting ready,
and today despite the adverse weath
er, wore taking pictures oh the bank
of the Klamath river nt McCollum's
mill.
Speed nnd work will be tho watch
word of the movie troupe from now
on, It was said, as the, Universal
Corporation wishes to have tho pic
ture complotod with little more ex
pense Involvod. It is said that only
exterior scenes will be taken from
now on, nnd that Interior ' scenes
will be taken in Universal city,
whoro more equipment 'Is nt hand.
Kenneth Harlan, accompanied by
his wife, Mario I'revost, and slstor-In-lnw,
Teggy Provost, returned last
night from Xos Angeles, where Har
lan was callod by tho tragic dea'.h
of his mother-in-law, Mrs. H. Pro
vost, in nn automobilo accident.' Ho
hns boon nwny from Klamath ?.ir
a week, i
WASHINGTON. Feb: , 15. (A)
Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny
and Harry F, Sinclair were over
ruled today In tho supremo court
of tho District of Columbia In tholr
nt'tomiit to hnvo conspiracy Indict-
wonts against tlleni quashed.
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OIL MAGNATES
GIVEN
SETBACK
Tia Juana In Throes Of General
Cleanup; Public Meeting In San
Diego May Result In Border Ban
Crossing Border Without Passport May be
, Barred; Decision in Case of Seven Arrest
ed Mexicans to be Made Soon
TIA JUANA, Mex., Feb. 15. (AP) On two sides of
the international boundaiy today moves are under way
against Tia Juana vice conditions brought into the spot
light by the Peteet tragedy, which resulted yesterday in
murder charges being presented in Mexican courts
against seven men, held in connection with alleged at
tacks upon Audrey and Clyde Peteet. If found guilty the
prosecution will ask that the seven face a firing squad.
in jia juana. &a per ceni 01 iii?
saloons are reported facing closure
as a result of orders by Governor
Rodriguez restricting saloons to two
streets and placing these under
1 10,000 cash bond each. Womn
entertainers today are banished from
bars and cafes and suspicious char
acters are to be deported or exiled
to Trcs Marias islands In the Gulf
of California. "
Meeting Called
In San Diego, Mayor John L. Ba
con baa called a public meeting tor
this morning at which plana for
action by San Diego in relation .o
the border town conditions are to
bo discussed. The question of cloning-
tho border to entry except by
passport Is expected to come before
this meeting.
The United States state depart
ment took ita place in tho Investi
gation in the I'eteet case, when tho
consul at Mexican arrived and took
several affidavits in connection with
(Continued on Pago Six)
Ashland Man Is
Hurt As Autos
Crash Head-On
G.
S. Butler Receives
Broken Leg in
Smash
C. S. Butler of Ashland suffered I
a broken leg yesterday when a sedan
he was driving crashed head on into
a light truck driven by Charles Har
ris at' the highway turn near the
end of the Link River bridge.
With HarriB In the truck waa Wil
liam A. Crlnley, business manager
for the Universal picture troupe here
on location.
Both Crlnley and Harris escaped
with minor bruises. Butler has. been
taken to Ashland for treatment. Both
ca?3 were badly damaged.
The accident was caused by a skid.
Blank Income
Tax Forms On
Way To Public
Mailed to 42,000 Peo
pie Who Paid in '
M 1925
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 15. (yP)
Oregon Income tax payers no
longor nood worry about delay in
receiving blank forms on which lo
report their Incomes'' to .the col
lector of Internal revenue for' the
Unitod States government. Forty
two thousand forms have been mail
ed to those who submitted reports
last year . nnd most all of these
forms will reach their destination
by tomorrow night, according vtoj
Clydo G. Huntley, collector for Ore-1
gon. ; I
Every individual who Inst year,
was in the class of salary earner) i
and wago' earners submitting tax
roturns is In the list to receive
blank forms now.
March 15 is tho last date on
which tax returns may bo luado
beforo delinquency begins. At least
one fourth, of tho tax is payable
then. Tho blank forms now in the
mulls concern only those whose in
dividual income during 1925 did
not exceed '(5,000. This class ln-t
eludes every person who was un
married throughout the year and
whose not Income was $1500 or
more; ovory ' unmarried person
claiming exemption as head of ti
family whoso net Income was J 1500
or more, and ovory married per
son whoso not tncomo was $3500 or
more during 1920.
PALM
REACH
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TIGHTS FOff SON
Hard-Boiled Sleuth Employ
' ed by Millicent Rogers
Proves Hard td Scare
PALM BEACH. Fla.. Feb. 15,
iff) Still tingling over the thrill it'
got yesterday when Connt Ludwig
Salm Von-Hoogstretem met "his in
fant son. Peter Constantin, for the
first time, Palm Beach aociety anx
iously awaited atatementa which
were promised today by the count
end H. H. Rogers, father of the
countess. , '
The thrill came when the count
flttptnntoH fn hanfRh thA nrivatA Ha.
tective the countess Millicent sent
along with the nurse and young
Peer. The sleuth, Oenus
Gotham,:
was not of the banishing type ana
the. AuBtrianV glaro failed to
or kha, Hi tint count ke raa-j
n't at all tickled to let him see the
baby In his room aynway.
" ' Demands Rights
The count waved his papers which
had been signed by O'Malley, New
York, and demanded bis rights. .
! ThA HnferttvA instated nn thA Bur
den or on the beach.
Baby Peter started to cry. His
Grandma, the Dowager Countess,
had hysterics.
The countess and her father were
nowhere to be seen. The countess
was entertaining a party of friends
on the beach near her home, after
which she went to a dance at a road
house. ' .
Dowager Has Hysterica
Then the nurse and the detective
picked up the baby and left. The
count, and 'the Dowager countess ac
companied him to the elevator, the
dowager countess still weeping hys
terically. The count tried to quUt
his son. who wailed the louder and
spurned the "dollies" his titled fath
er proferred.
The count told the detective that
unless he could see. his son in the
privacy of his room, he didn't care
to see him at all. "I came thousands
of miles to see my Boy," he de
clared. "I did not come to see tlie
mother. I don't care a damn about
seeing her. I only want to see
tho baby."
Trouble Ahead
: After the detectlvo and nurse loft,
with the baby, tho count went into
conference with Wm. Baruch of Port
Chester. N. Y., his lawyer, and Wil
liam Anholt, publisher of the Pic
torial Review,, who has been acting
as the count's adviser, as to what
the next steps would be in obtaining
Postoffice Flooded With!
Still People Who Believe
in
Mail On Valentine's Day:
The God of Love still reigns, in Klamath, at least. '
For yesterday was Valentine's day and Saturday and
Sunday post office employes labored incessantly ;to
handle the heavy load of mail. , . ': . .
"It is the biggest mail that we have ever had on Vali
ontine's day," Postmaster John McCall said. "Of course
we expect a heavy mail on that day, but yesterday was
particularly large, not only in the mail department but
also the parcel post division."
So tiespite the fact that some people say thb is an
age of realism and that life is moving too fast for such
a thing as romance, the facts are that all, young ones',
old ones, fat ones and slim ones, recognized Valentine's
day by sending at least one valentine tg sornebod.
DESCENDS
nuiv
KLAMATH
TRAFFIC STOPS
Dirt Roads are Impassable
Traffic on Macadam is
" Open But Hazardous '
HILLS ARE COVERED
Reclamation and Power Co.
Officials Hopeful of ;
, Continuation of Storm i
A heavy snow which started lata .
yesterday afternoon "and haa been
falling intermittently ever since, ren
dered dirt roads in Klamath 'Impas
sable today and nude, automobllo
traffic ca macadam :oada hazardous.
For the first time this year, re-;
clamatlon officials gazed at the
, crest of tue Cascade range aud s&ir.
I the mountains covered with a blank-,
et of white, mitigating. In part, the
I fear of a serious water ahortage this
year. Continuation of the storm la
the prayer of power compaiy and
reclamation officials, and also of
Klamath livestock men; who de
pend upon springs and mountain
pasture, to feed their cattle and
sheep during summer months.- ,
. Donis Rood Impnasabte '
C. J. 'McCnllunl, roatf auponrtsor
for the southwestern district, re
ported this morning tiit the road
to Dorrls waa lmpauabla and warn
ed motorists to not even attempt to
get through with chains. -
The Lakeviav road la Impassable
to auto (raffle, the Lakevlew atago
office
hears
reported this morning.' j 44
in the Lake conntv seat, with mi.
ernmeat ,.mall. Over macadamized
with-.sections f the Klamath Fal'.e-Laka-
view MgHVa?,' antomebfles WieVr,--
but on dirt sections, the ma.'l is re
layed by horse and wagon. The
highway Is open to Bonanza. "I
v Ashland Road Open !T
' The Ashland-Klamath Folia high
way Is open, but frut driving -on
the slippery road U dangerous, the
state highway office reports. The
worst section of the highway Is- at
McCollum's mill, a stretch of 309
yards Just before coming td the
Klamath river bridge.-
Only macadamized sections of tS
Dalles-California highway are open
I to traffic and hence it Is Impossible
for automobiles to get through- to
Bend, according to report. .
One Road into Chlloquin J ,
But -one road to Chlloquin la opan,
the Chlloquht Agency road. The
Williamson river road to the reser
vation town Is virtually impassable.
The Agency road leaves the Dalles
Califonaia highway at'. Klamath
Agency.
The Rock Creek TMtl Is .Impass
able. ' " . - V
Snow which tell In Klamath Falls
was .wet and melted Into slush '. as
soon as it lit. But in the- moon
tains, according ti reporti, the ano
was dry and piled up to a depth' of
several feet In some sections. V
the privileges extended to him under
the New . York court order.
Last night lie declined to discuss
any probable steps he might take,
although he Bald ha might Issue a
statement today. Mr. Rogers also
Indicated hs had under consideration
tho advlsnbllity of Issuing a state
ment on behalf of the Rogers fam
ily. ' '"'., ' ' :
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Romance,
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