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Official Paper of City
of KLAMATH FALLS
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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY. MAY 28,1925.
Price Five CentJ
F. Girl Shoots
Langell Valley
Farmers Praise
Govt. Irrigation
OPTIMISM PREVAILS
MINE EXPLOSt
Klamath District
Situation In Bad
Straits -Thomas
Barclay Captured
But Escapes From
Jail; Manhunt On
f 3 Times In
BRINGS INSTANT
DEATH TO FIFTY
hicide Attempt
NEWS
11
of Husband's Attentions To Other Sa8cbrush Uni ' Turned
en, Thelma CuIIen Tries To End ZTXC
Near Newberg, Ore.; Recovery
(ful; Husband Admits Blame.
Three Klamath county "dirt far
mers" who havo struggled through
long yearn with iiranty rtr-land
crops to ho rowurded finally luitt
year with an uhundance or Irriga
tion - .VI-..,.. I ...
, . .. . . . ft . i ... iui iiiuir unruly iuduh,
attempt to commit suicide by firing three pistol H. J. Tlcknor. A. E. dale, nad W.
II. Pankey, of Langell valley, with
their stralghtforeward testimony
created a rift In the cloud of peg-
Li fatMy shot, Mrs. Thelma Cullcn Siroy, a rcsi
(math Falla, lie in a Newberg, Ore., hospital, the
Optimists
her breast Tuesday , morning at Newberg, it was
terdsy. Driven by jeolousy, caused by her husband's
tntions to other women, caused the shooting, ac-
the sob-filled tory Thelma told at the hospital.
i admitted he was at blame.
koy worxeu unuer me name o. Mrs. Ihelma Cut-
math Falls. She was employed by the Klamath
Lei! as the Evening Herald in advertising work.
told bonds and securities here for a savings and
Utton.
WIFE EXPLAINS MYSTERY
jred for a timo at the White Pelican hotel and
d to the St. Francis apartments. Mrs. Siroy left
ills on a business trip only several days ago. Her
hile here, was employed as a bookkeeper in a local
tiroy was picked up in a clump of brush at Dundee,
from Newberg. Mystery at first surrounded the
One man said the woman's husband found her fol-
ihooting, which occurred across iiie rai'ioad tracks
Wittrich's garage, where the woman left her au
Sht is said to have left the car with instructions
turned over only to someone who would produce
i ulhorizing' such action. . She spent the night at
kllome, but Wittrich and members of the family
iittyu the shooting or the woman.- .
HAND FALL
ICTED ON
Women May Now Smoke In
Lot Angeles Street Cars
V i
f-TO.W May 27. llenpltK
of brlhery chargog
rt B. Kail and Kdward
'rora the new Indict-
tlii'ui. returned horej
amcat oil counsel Insist
e not nlvon up tholr
Mibllsh the transfer of
N In a little black sat-
Ibe. .
nmy rot," snorted ex-
t'onicrcno, ono of tho
'l counsel, when ho
"nent from Dohenv's
Ansolca, dcclnrlng
' return bribery Indlct-
lctory for bin client,
lovernment had given
letting uuywhere with
l bribery.
fwtvnc KH).. rf
better do their boast-
'1 take their nrm off
Put It on." Pomorone
" Kme heat.
have not abandoned.
"arses?" ho wan asked.
r' ot, hut we're not
lur and we're not going
n In the newsnannra."
"Piled.
"nmcnt hn oblnlned re-
01 lortner Secretary of
' Pall. ii.-... , ,.,,.
j 11 J oincimr
I ,' tohmy, on charges or
10 Ibe Irani,,.
. b v.1 guvem-
rervCd for tho navy's
!' l dropping the brlh-
1
. idwL,r ' 0
r '""rely frm tIl0 aow
"urlng tho Teanot
0I of the Benato,
UtH AXGELES, May 27 Wo
men of !m Aiik'1'" ' now
xmiiko openly In siren curs. An
unwritten Inw, which governed
1I1I.1 roniliirl wiia repealed hero
Wrdneiuluy ny official of two
leading trolley jntin wln-n ov
i-rul Indira roiiipliiiniMl roiidurtoni
uvrfi colliTtliiji; rlcnrf-ltift n well
nn fnrra.
f'WllMtl,
Doh(
teMlfled under
. carried the $100,
n little black
U. y"' n,,tl''ng oIko
Ml st tXPOC,e"'" "all A1"
fctln. hnm hora. to"
r,"ndlCt-
SLIS,' Mny 2' "U la
Mlllcul capital
Swiftest Justice on
Klamath Records Is
Six Bodies Recovered; All
Hope Abandoned For
Others Entombed
CUM MOCK, N. C, May 28.
Six bodieB of approximately
50 miners who were entombed
yesterday in the Carolina Coal
company mine by an explosion,
had been recovered Thursday
morning;.
More than 40 miners remain
ed in the earth, dead) accord
ing to officials of the coal com
pany. Only two of the sis bodies
had been identified.
A volunteer rescue crew of
ulnilsm and despair which threat-
board of survey an adjustment ml""""" '"'"''K
the circuit court room, yesterday car'y Vday Th;1sd1a- to
ber in which it . was believed
Klamath Falls, also a Langell val
ley farm ownor corroborated their
testimony. The board Is composed
of ex-governor Campbell, of Arl
mna, chairman, Francis M. Good
win, former awrstant secretary of
the . interior and W. A. Dclzell,
secrotury to Governor Pierce.
I'rubw To Xewcll
Mr. Gale said he had no fault
to find with the reclamation ser
vice "We have not asked for
anything Lut what we have asked
for wo got because our requests
were within reason. We have guished
the bodies of the remaining
miners lay.
Hope Abandoned
Hope that these men might
still live was abandoned last
night. Suffocution from the
poisonous gases liberated by
the blast, caused their death
immediately, it was believed.
The bodies were brought
out by rescue crews, who don
ned gas masks and entered the
shaft, after fire, which follow
ed thj blast, had been extin-
found Mr. . D. Newell, reclama
lion head and Mr. Buud, who pre
ceded him, always to have been
moro than coiiBlderute and fair and
The bodies were found in a
main chamber of the mine, in
dicating that the explosion
which trapped between 60 and
wining to cooperate to the fullest : 60 miners, occurred in close
extent. Wo nave whut we believe ; proximity to where the men
tu be the best constructed Irriga-1 worked.
tlon itystems in the country, the; . . Poisonous-.gases still, hung
cost of which was moderate no- heavy in the mine. recesses, and
cause wo have nevor believed In i rescuers' eff ort3 necessarily
"scrapping." We got what we went ' had to be limited to periods of
after peacefully. I have 400 acres short duration. Gas masks
under the now project and I want! failed to afford absolute pro
to sell two or three hundred acres . tcction, and several rescuers
of my holdings because irrigation j were furnished first-aid when
Is a new experiment with me and they collapsed after emerging
I don't want to Btart out to learn i from the mine,
how to Irrigate with only my son- Gasses Hinder Rescuers
in-law to hoip me. with more! The voiunteer rescue crew
land than we can possibly handle f entered the shaft
successfully. Our land Is mostly i cariy iast night, after heavy
sage brush land now, tut It la good
ncreage and 8 havo no fear that
we will be ablo to produce ua;lug
crops with It. All we needed was
the water.
ljingill Ilustlcm
Asked by Mr. Goodwin to ex
plain the history of the J12.50 per
acre project cost assessment on
gasses, wnicn naa ninaerea
work for several hours, had
cleared.
The six bodies were found
where the passageway widen
ed into a main working cham
ber. Thev were brought to
the surface, and the band of
rescuers re-entered, intending
m w . it ,i acre projei
iYletCd JDOOlieggtTS the Langell project. Mr. Gale said to explore the main chamber.
that originally me seiuei u-
vlsed that the project cost for
building the Clear Lake dam and
canals would ho JS.OO per acre
against their land. Not depending
on government reclamation asBtst-
The swiftcBt Jusllce on Klamath
county records was meted out to
Frank nnd Marjorlo Uachelll, 820
Oak street lent night wlion tne
sheriff and several deputies raided ance the land owners went ahead
and voted around sttuo.uuu ouuua ii
build their irrigating system, but
costs for private construction ap
peared prohibitive so the sottlers
made a final appeal for U. S. rec
lamation assistance and they were
told that J10. 00 per acre would be
the. cost. Then in the final show
down It proved to be 12.50 but
(Continued on Pngo Two)
that place at 9 p. m., found between
four and five gallons of moon
shine and brought the two before
Justice of 1he Peace Hunsaker at
his home, where he Is confined on
account of Illness. The pair dc-
elded the minute t!iey were caught
with the goods to plead guilty. At
9:20 they had been sentenced by
Hunsaker and fined a total of sjuu
or $150 each.
According to authorities nacholll
la ono of Klamath Falls' bootlegger
kings. Ho has boen under sur
veillance since the murdor of Oscar
Erlckson. when Bachclll was held
as o Buspect. While cleared of
all charges In connection with the
murder. Information obtained by
authorities In questioning him about
the case led them to believe he was
a bootlegger.
Those making the rstlrt- "er01,B"
tff Hurt Hawkins. Deputies llnrko.
Kondnll and I'"""1
KAIXS 2 HTtHMHHW'A'rrHK"
CHICAGO, May ".-T-
The poisonous gases were
too dense, however, and a com
plete exploration could not be
made. It is in this chamber
that the additional bodies will
be found, it is believed.
. All miners trapped when
the explosion occurred were
immediately suffocated, com
pany officials believed. Ab
sence of dirt-blocked passage
ways and a cave-in pointed to
suffocation, officials said.
The disaster is the third in
the history of Cummock, the
Cummock mines having exper
ienced heavy life loss.
PESSIMISM PREVAILS
Klamath Farmers About To
Face Bankruptcy; Ask A
Re-Assessment Be Made;
Controversy Arises
A large percentage of the farmers
of the Klamath project are In des
perate straits, according to a report
Introduced In the board of survey
and adjustment hearing with offi
cers oT tho Klamath Irrigation dis
trict, which got underway lata yes
terday afternoon.
Secretary Thomas offered figures
tending to show that there were
198,000 of delinquent taxes in Klam
ath, county at the present time, some
of the delinquencies running back
a great many years are now draw
lng as high as 7 per cent of accrued
Interest and penalties. Wholesale
foreclosures were only being held In
abeyance now pending the outcome
of this hearing, and it these fore
closures were permitted to go
through it would mean the bank
rupting of the district. A bill had
been put through the recent legis
lature, It was pointed out, creating
a temporary moratorium- for ser
iously delinquent farmers.
Ri'llcf a Necessity
The co-operation of the depart
ment of the Interior was the only
salvation the speaker could forsee
that would bring about this extra
ordinary necessity for relief. The
average incuiuberance on .project
land was around $24 per acre. It
was pointed out, and one-third of
the water users were delinquent in
their assessments at the present
time. .
The solution desired in the way
of relief was the withdrawing of all
delinquent taxos and a re-assessment
made. It was recommended - that
future payment be made on a crop
production basis, to be arrived at
through study of crop returns. The
point was strongly made that in the
local situation, where farmers- were
confronted with such high penalties
for delinquency, it would be a phy
sical Impossibility to ever catch up
and pay out because the productivity
of the average acre was only from
$18 to ?22 per year, and that costs
would mount faster than any pos
sible hope for- profit from tilling
tho soil.
Classification Dispute ' '
A report on land classification in
the district as required by the board
was presented substantially as fol
lows: In the' district thcro are In
cultivation a total of 17,933 acres
of first class land, 14.475 acres
second class, 5,684 of third class,
2.852 of fourth class. 2,372 of fifth
class and 322 of sixth class.
On the above report Superinten
dent H. D. Newell of the local rec
lamation service, submitted a min
ority report, taking issue with the
above figures, as compiled by the
Irrigation district, and objecting to
the basis on which some lands were
classified.
Some .Mud Slinging
A controversy arose with A. L.
Wishard over the classification of
his Altamont acre tracts by tha re-
( Continued on Page Two)
"Slippery Silas," Klamath Indian Outlaw
and Jailbreaker, Wanted in Probe of
Rodeo Rider's. Death, Escapes Jail At
Copco; All Roads Closed and Hunt On.
Elinor Glyn, Writer Of Sex Stories Gets Her Inspiration
In Bath Tub, Surrounded By Sweet Scents Of Violets And
Roses; Scouts Theory Of Coffee and Doughnut Poetic Diet
HOLLYWOOD. May 27. Elinor
Glyn, famotiB author of sex storleB
gels her Inspiration for writing love
scenes when sho Is In her bath nnd
surrounded by sweet scented roses
and violets. v
This short cut and guide to liter
ary Inspiration was given by Mrs.
Glyn to United -News Wednesday
old Michael Krtatulovlch fell u buddlnB authoresBes the
itr Mi a moment biu . . .... ,l.
.I, inmitnir cn a cement
"walk and beyond . few .cratches
was not hurt. A net work of cloth
line, probably wren" the Infant from
Instant death.
world over might enjoy the right
start on literary careers.
ltnllitnh and Roses!
"My) most Inspired writings nro
developed In the early morning and
, 'my best Ideas come when I am In
luiliY KOtNI
-put-nAl.LKS. May 27 Tho body u.lh . noted writer said.
of A. L. McCutheon. V" ) ..In my tub I have scents of roses
flo policeman aru.u - and T0leta and I 'find when writing
. . Mow 1A V
cnuis river . . . truncation )Hoq Xra l"w rnupa I imn
T-oftgftntf lltffnt. mi"11" ' ', ....... wiian r hnvA thntn nrinra
Inspirations wnen I have thoso odors
near mo. All during tho writing
of tho love scene In 'Throe Weeks'
I had red roses by my side.' The
perfume seemed to guido me.
"I have often thought that I
should havo a dictaphone near my
tub," Mrs. Glyn continued, "be
cause then many thoughts which are
lost by not remembering them later
on would bo saved."
Utcrnty Jiua Baby
Music also helps her In writing
her stcrles and books.
"Music of tho sweet sentimental
type Is another stimulant for n.y
inspiration," she Bald. "While I
am writing my maid keeps the Vic
trola going In the next room, play
ing soft music of tho modern
trend, and although I am not real
ly conscious of what Is being play
ed, it blends with my thoughts and
makes me write more easily."
Not all scents are Inspirational,
however. '
"Heavy scouts, such as oriental
perfumes and IncenseB, aro repul
sive io me and I can never write If
they are nearby."
Human Knts Regularly
Some authors don't eat regular
ly; Mrs. Glyu does, but not when
she Is writing.
"I seldom eat when I am writ
ing. I never write at night, pre
ferring the hours from 5 to 10 a.
m.," she declared.
When writing Intense lovo scones.
Mrs. Glyn declared, she prefers
"Llelestraum" as the best musi
cal stimulus and the odor from
red roses as the most Inspiring
scent."
"Slippery Silas" Barclay, Klamath Indian outlaw, who
has twice made sensational escapes from Klamath officers,
has for a third time eluded the law. The erstwhile escape
was made yesterday morning at Copco. Barclay is wanted '
by Klamath county officers on a charge of liquor possession
and the mysterious death of Freddie Jackson, dashing young
Klamath Indian buckaroo and famed rodeo rider, who met
his death at Chiloquin several months ago after a fall from
his horse.
The third escape of "Slippery Silas" was made from the
Copco jail, where ho was arrested, it was reported, by Dep
uty Sheriff "Euck" Fing after a desperate fistic encounter in
which Fing brought the Indian to submission. It took Barclay
only several hours to tear away the iron bars with his arms.
Sheriff Hawkins had just been notified of the capture of
Barclay and Klamath deputy sheriffs were preparing to drive
to Copco to bring their man back again to the Klamath Jail,
when word came that the elusive Klamath had escaped.
All roads leading from Copco are closed and Deputy Fing '
is reported to be scouring the surrounding country with a
possee in search of the outlaw.!
"Slippery Silas", has proven a baffling prisoner to Klam
ath authorities. .Arrested nt Chiloquin on a liquor charge a
day after the Jackson death, he was brought to the Klamath ,
jail and was scheduled to be grilled by the district attorney
on a Monday. When arrested, county authorities were ignor
ant of his alleged connection with the Jackson death. It has
been said, that when Barclay heard that information of such
character had reached the authorities he planned his escape .
on a 'Sunday night -several months
Fire Destroys Business'
Section Of Hepner, Ore.
HEPPNER, Ore, May 27.
Firo early this morning destroy
ed seven business houses on a
quarter block here. Including tho
public library. A tiro and bat
tery shop,- ment market, millin
ery store, tailor shop, lodging
honse, pecondhnn:! . store - and
needle crnft store, were burned
out.
I
Ex-Service Men on
Tule Ask Reduction
In Gov't Assessing
LeRoy R. Reagan, commander of,
the new Tule Lake post cf the Am
erican Legion and Joe Zump, post
adjutant, appeared before Beard of
Survey and Adjustment at the
court house yesterday afternoon as
spokesmen for the Tale Lake Home
steaders and both men particularly
emphasized the desire of the ex-service
men for the reduction of the
?90 per acre costs sat by the gov
ernment on their allotments, claim-
ago. At any rate, Barclay did make ,
a sensational escape by. climbing
down from . the top story of the
courthouse Jail via a dozen braided
blankets. Several days later he was
reported arrested at Chiloquin by '
an Indian police. While eating with
the police that evening, prior to his
being returned to the Jail here, Bar
clay is reported to have' made a
dash for the door and a successful
getaway on a pinto tied at a hitch- -lng
post In front of the Chiloquin
cafe.
A short time after "Slippery '
Silas" was reported in Red Bluff,
Calif., wbere reservation police wore
dispatched to search for him. An
other report had him In Sacramento,
but Barclay continued to elude the
officers. ?
Up to early this morning no re
port had been received from Copco -as
to whether Barclay had been re-.
captured.
Bank Fails In Oklal .
Farming Community
HUGO, Okla.. May 27. The 6000
citizens of Hugo are without a
bank. Hugo is in the center of a
farming community. ,
The City National bank, the only
survivor qf four institutions, was
closed Wednesday by order of the
lng that some of the costs that had j board of directors, due to the over
been assessed were unfair.
Reagan asked that the reduction
extension of credit.
Less than tour years ago, Hugo
on the land be made and the re-' PPed four banks. One died
opening of the great area of gov
ernment land there for entry with
preferential rights to ex-service
men.
Queried by ex-governor Campbell
as to the crops they were raising,
Reagan pointed out that alfalfa was
the principal crcp and he placed
great emphasis on the possibilities
that would be opened up for the
settlers with new railroad construc
tion into the Merrill and Mulln
country.' Tointing out that the
truck charges to the railroad wco
now 30c per cwt. or moro on freight
from Tule Lake. The chairman in
dicated that his mind was pretty
fully made up that the Initial land
ccst was not an Important issue
In the case. Ho said the ability to
pay for land depended absolutely
on what could be produced, and
whero 'the government was asking
for payment on a production basis,
tho Initial cost was not an object.
Possibilities With R. Rs.
"If you had four railroads into
that section It wouldn't make much
difference If nil you produce Is al
falfa," ho said. "It Is not prac
tical or economical for you to flg-
(Contlnucd on Pago Five)
by the wayside after an existence
of six months and two others, the
Hugo State bank and the Hugo
National bank were closed May 6.
The combined deposits In the
four houses were $3,000,000.
COLIMI1IA CLAIMS WOMAX
ST. HELENS, Ore., May 27.
The body of a woman betwoen 40
and 60 years of age was in the
Columbia river, caught In drift, op
posite Columbia City Tuesday. The
body according to the coroner ap
parently had been" In tho water
about six weeks but Is In such a
stato of preservation that he be
llevos identification will be possible.
OltEGOV MAX APPOINTED
WASHINGTON, May 27. Presi
dent Caolldge today reappointed
Bert K. Haney, Portland, as a mem
ber of tho United States shipping
board.
PMMKEItS MAV STARVE
GARY, ' Ind., May 27. The
plumbers here have decided to call
off their strike for more wages and
will continue to struggle along on a
mere $ 1 2 a day.
''Be Tliree)
was positive, It wn I1.