THE KLAMATH NEWS
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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1925.
Price Five Cent
EXPLOSION
F TOLL OF 26
Making Strenuous
Locate Bodies
Jtombed Miner ;
trails Killing 13
M, Ky., Juno 8.
tiers remained en
the West Kentucky
nimvM mine neur
h wus wrecked by
hn Monday morning.
irouRht out the bod-
ni'tiro miners lute
Ig, and now hope to
other men or their
midnight.
ig lights are strung
b black pit mouth to
workers nnd to en-
h-elatives of the en
in among the 2,000
to identify their kin
b broucrht up.
er compartment of the
Mundsy afternoon worn
nwounded. but stunned
bd huddled there since
t go. They were led to
Fate Of Woman
Doubtful After
Mystery Wire
Sheriff And Husband Hurry
To Rescue of Hood River
Woman Who Sends Ur
gent Message For Aid
mine officiate tear that
HOOD ItlVKIt. Junn Mystery
surround thu dlsupporanro on Hat
urduy of Mrs. Monte Read, wife of
a mill worker, of Due. 1SI10 Iff I
hure Saturday morning driving their
aulrmohllo to Portland to meut her
huKand. She did not arrivo and
nothing was heard of her until Rite
Saturday when a telegram was re
ceived by her husband.
The message dated from IllRgs.
In eastern Oregon, raid:
"Kor God's sake save me or I
will kill myself, am bolng taken
away by force."
Read, together with Deputy Sher
iff Bloat, of Hood river and Sher
iffs Hugh Chrlsman, of Moro, left
Immediately for lllgga. There it
was definitely ascertained that a
woman answering the description of
Mrs. Read had gone Into a service
station on Saturday afternoon and
had slipped the note embodying
tho telegram and a dollar to the
woman In charge of 'the station,
asking her to send the message.
Woman Crying
It was said that Mrs. Read was
10 14 FOR HILL
LINES OVER S. P.
Half of Those Present At
Meeting Take Neutral At
titude of Encouragement
To Both Roads
crying and both her head ' and
following tho explosion, clothing was disheveled as If she
but off the air supply to! had been etiUKgllng with somebody
e lowor levels and left After hurriedly passing the note
long before this, the!. Mrs. Read ran out of the service
king through the debris
Interrupted.
BE, lad., June 8. Thlr-
td bodies have been re
i beneath tons of tumb-
I belched out of a string
freight cars onto a
Ohio section gang
t narrow rut near here
llescuo workers still are
through the murderous
rrh of two more men be-
nve been crushed when
left the track. Fifteen
rers wore seriously In
ns dentl men except one
k laborers, comprising a
of 30 men, which was
the narrow cut by the
nrs and cascading conl.
Mont Is believed to havo
d by a rail which spread
fivy train swung through
1 under a viaduct. Due
iriKli'd condition of tho
tho necessity of dlseov
railroad time sheets tho
(be men In the gang, the
pntlflcatlon Is proceeding
Ir.
ears and two camp
foe trucks after the tender
station and jumped Into a car which
she was driving. All happened so
quickly that nobobdy ascertained
who was In the car with her. Of
ficera tolephoned to Pendleton and
other points along the highway but
! without, securing .results..... -
Kunduy afternoon another call for
help was received by telegram, this
from W'nllsburg. eastern Washington
and officers Immediately sought aid
In the new sone. Sheriff Edick, of
thla county believes that a man or
mon who are wanted selied her car
and being unable to drive nave
terrified the woman Into taking
them through oastorn Washington
and . Idaho and do the Canadian
lino. Ho cannot understand why
Mrs. Read docs not telegraph ahead
for aid as well as to send back to
Hood Hiver.
r: omrKKH here
f MM. Wallnr A Vimlnr
nnd Mrs. Ira K. Ray of
aro vlHltors in the city for
'" Walter Foster nnd Ira
"lalo traffic offlcors, nnd
this section of tho Btato
" trip.
NINKHS VISITORS
'bo vliHtors from the south
l,r are D. D. Davia and C.
P'lark. Roth are residents
smeniu hero on hijflfriGfm.
r w I nte rented In a rub-
mpany of the south.
OF STORI
i.ovdon. Juno 8. Citing In
stances of secret military training,
hidden war stores and other treaty
infractions, tho Intnr-nllled commis
sion of control charges that except
In a few Instnnces Germany s mili
tary nrmament Is ns strong today
ns It was In 1022.
Tho commission's report, which
formed the basis of tho rorent allied
not to Germany, domnndlng fulfill
ment of the treaty terms, was pub
llshed by the foreign office here to
day. The commission declares Ger
many still falls far short of corn
playing with the military provisions
of tho Versailles treaty. Nearly an
the infractions existing In 1922 still
rf-mnnd readjustment, the report
said.
A stinging resolution, endorsing
the Mill railway lines in their pro
posed extension from Bend into the
Klamath country, and slapping the
fare of the Southern Pacific lines,
who were offering to build Into their
community, was panned by a mass
meeting at Mullu Sunday, attended
by over 251) people, but more than
half of whom did not tako any part
In tho vote, realizing ' tho dan
geroua consequences that might
result from offending a railroad
which was definitely offering trans
portation assistance. The actual
vote was 80 for and 14 aguinst.
Ilefore i. vote on tho resolution,
which wns a cut and dried expres
sion of a group of citizens bitterly
opposed to anything the Southern
Pacific had to offer. Chairman Harry
Wilson of the Farmers' Society of
Tule Lake, drove the thinking mem
bers of his audience to adopt a neu
tral attitude when he said: "That
there may be no misunderstanding
I want you to know that this reso
lution Is antagonistic to the South-I
ern Pacific. If you do not want
to antagonise it, then don't vote for
the resolution as it Is. If you do
want to antagonize it then a vote
for the resolution will have ,that
affect."
II. H. Corey of the public service
commission of -Oregon', opened the
meeting with the advice: "Do not
get excited, my advice to you is
not to take sides in this matter."
Ho waa followed by Dr. F. R.
Goddard, mayor of Klamath Falls,
also fl. E. Bradbury, and A. M.
Thomas, all of whom roasted the
S. P. to a turn, emphasizing the
point that the road had. years to
build Into Malin and bad never
made good. Dr. F. M. Trout made
the point thnt Malln would rather
havo no road than to be on tho
end of a lrk water spur. .
C. A. Hinshaw, assistant frolght
and traffic manager of the South
ern Pacific, explained tho cause of
the delajr building the Modoc
Northern, consenting to speak In
place of J. J. Miller, district freight
and passenger agent who was call
ed by tho charman to explain his
road's policies.
Commenting on tho mooting. Rob
ert K. Slrahorn. president of tho
O. C. & K. made tho following
statement to The News laBt night:
"I have been, led to believe that
Malln roally wanted a railroad and
t hnve been diligently urgod to hcip
secure It, hut several speakers said
they objected to tho S. P. because
It would only glvo them what
would bo a branch line from Klam
ath Falls. Of courso the Southorn
Pacific has too many Jlaces urging
railroad , construction elsewhere, to
force cne upon any community not
wishing it."
Famous Battleship,
Will Up Anchor On
Tues. for Portland
l-OHTI.AVD, June H. Tho
famous old . buttfcMhlp Oreffnn
will move out of her herlli nt
the llmnrrton navy yard in tow
of thrre tugs Tucwlny morning
in cliargo of ('apt, Robert T. Men
arr on her journey to tier final
resting; nut in I'oillniiil harbor.
Tlii vessel is ilne to arrive Kat
unliiy or Hunriay.
Whrn I bo butllrahip arrives
aim will be greeted with Masts
from whistle of mill anil fac
tory and water rruft. July 8
has been set as the time) for a
formal relebrallon of the) homo
coming of Uie old battleship, tills
being the a" Hi annixTHury of
the bat tin of Hnnllago. Hecre
tary'of tile Siivy Wilbur will bo
SHkeil to coble to Portland to
participate Irt tho event.
REC'D'BYl.C. C.
C. C. Unable To Act On
Letter , Sent By City
Officials On O. C. E.
(BUR REFUSES TO PERMIT BIG
IRIGIBLE TO MAKE RESCUE TRIP
RIDERS ACCEPT
Lorena Trickey and Mabel
Strickland r radically As
sured; Riding Prizes To
Be Boosted This Year
Merrill People To
Hold An Impartial
K. F. TENTATIVE Rail Mass Meeting
$29,385 In BIdg.
Permits Granted
F'NGTON, juno . 8. "We
lng to mart any wild
ha Into the arctic Teg-
NUredjSecretary of the
UbuMn response""to""an np-
F ,ne Lnj Angolos or tho
OI,h be sent In sen rrh of
I and his Norwegian "no.
dltlon.
fPPeal fnr bi
"glan aero elh mfclM, ...
th" Amundsen, expedition.
"ld the ,
"a t ut that unless more
1 '"formation .
'"on of th0 l08t paf thB
-'ea would fc too
rrant sending dlrlgl
r'" r"al to 'net cam
somewhat a surprise to the ser
vice as the navy men. V""
those assigned to tho two dirigih les,
have been anxious to undertake the
rcacue flight.- Commander Lans
j f n,o Shenandoah has worK-
""""' .... .nh ailne.
ed out detailed " , tne!,60o, M. R. Bcottl: tent house, 35i
r,ii.. subm tied tnem ... ....
"I".', I.t week. With-
navy npinu"iiu -
Building permits totaling $29,
385 were granted by the city coun
cil at their regular mooting last
night as follows:
Dwelling. S250, W. L. Ingram
dwelling, 700, W. B. O'Nell; gar
age, J300, D. C. McKay; altera
tion bldg.. $75, Mrs. J. O. Goldth
walte; dwelling, $2500, C. A. Hor
ton; dwelling, $3000, J. M. Jensen;
garago, $100, N. H. Branlein; dwell
ing, $1500, T. B. Walters; dwell-
1600, Ida Hatton: warcnouse,
In answer to a letter framed by
City Attorney Carnahan and Mayor
F. R. Goddard, and dispatched to
the Interstate, commerce commission
last month relative to the commis
sion interceding In the matter of
protecting thB city of Klamath Falls'
$300,000 Investment In the O. C. ft
E. railroad in . the event, of a Bale to
tho Southern Pacific company; In
affect tho following answer from
the. commission was read at the
council meeting last night.
"Owing to tho fact that no ap
plication has yet been made by the
Southern Pacific railroad to take
over the Oregon California and East
ern line, ',the Interstate commerce
commission is not in position to act
in any manner on your yetter of re
cent date. If such application is
received your communication will be
given duo consideration.
(Signed) "MAHAFFEY,
"Commissioner.
No comment or further notion on
this matter waa forthcoming from
any of tho council members.
Local architects Coseboom a
Marks were retained by the council
by official action last night, to pre
pare plans and specifications for
the now city public library and rest
room.
Relative to tho mattor of delin
quencies on the Sixth sewer deficit
unit. Judge Lent L,. uagnagsn was
Instructed to proceed with condemn
nation proceedings against offending
property owners In that district.
A petition of property owners on
Washington streot between Seventh
and Eighth streets, requesting hard
surface, was brought up before tile
council and favorably passed to the
city engineer to make . preliminary
Inspection and to draw plans and
estimates. '
Ordinances accepting the bids of
Dunn & Baker for paving units 36
and 37, and of the Warren Con
struction Co.. for unit 36a were
passed tholr final reading, through
the emergency clause at last night's
meeting.
Lorena Trickey, famous rider.
Mable Strickland and Hugo Strick
land and the champion Drumhill
string of relay horses will be fea
tures of the July . rodeo If plans of
the committee, now fully laid are
completed. According to Seth
Dixon, well known rancher, of the
Fort Klamath country, and judge
for the past five years of the
Pendleton round-up. Mils Trickey
and the Stricklands irro practically
assured for the Klamath rodeo. All
have tentatively accepted offers to
ride here.
A purse of $1,000, tar surpass
ing the purses of the past seven
years, for the bucking contest Is
among tho offers put forth by the
association. The first ''prize will
Include the sum of $500. the sec
ond, prize of $300 and the third
$200.. Tho purse for the-ladies re
lay race Is not made up.
The champion Drumhill . relay
string will be brought to Klamath
Falls Sum Prlnevlllo where they
will be .ridden by others besides
Miss Trickey. who is kndwn
throughout the United States as
trick, rider. Miss Trickey was one
of the most interesting features of
the last Olympic meet held In Eur
ope when she and her horse walk
ed away with all honors offered in
riding contests. She is known
throughout- eastern Oregon and
Idaho where . ahe appears ' annually
at the round-ups, and rodeos,
rermancnt Headquarters
Hugo Strickland and his wife,
Mable Strickland are known as the
greatest Tiders in the west. They
will appear at Prinevllle the latter
part of June and before returning
to their homes In eastern Oregon
will come to Klamath Falls for
the three days celebration, July
2, 3 and 4.
Stickers for the cars of all Klam
ath Falls Tesldenta and visitors 'ad
vertlslog the rodeo are obtainable
at many of the Klamath Falls
business houses. There are three
sizes of slickers, 500 nf each, and
lariro oil cloth niacards for the
backs of cars.
Permanent quarters have, been en
tablished in the M. and H. Solo
parlors, the apace having been given
to the Rodeo association through
the courtesy cf the management.
J. N. Givans, president of the
association, , has returned to his
hnma in Blv but will return in
the near futuro to assist In the per
fection of the details. James Ed
sail, of Bly, a director of tho asso
elation will remain in K!amath
Falls until the close of the Uodoo
on July 4. Ross Flnley is handling
publicity for the association,
Wires Sent For Representatives of Both
Roads For Some Intelligent Means of
Taking Stand; Malin Meeting Is One
Sided Say Merrill Folk. .
Highly displeased with the one-sided action taken at the
mass meeting at Malin on the Klamath railroad situation Sun
day, where representatives of one road were told to take a
back seat and shut up, the people of Merrill will hold a big
assembly at the Merrill Community hall at Merrill, Thursday
evening at 8 p. m., according to Rev. C. C. Hulet. . . .
"The action taken at the Malin meeting is entirely wrong
in the opinion of nearly every Merrill citizen I have discussed
the matter with," said Rev. Hulet last night.
"Our meeting wyl not be a one-
Erling Is Apponted
Street Commissioner
To Succeed J. Franey
REALTORS HERE
Ernest L. Scott and Mnrlln
Khobel of Medford are among the
valley business men to visit in Klam
ath Falls thla week. Scott - and
Knobel arrived last night. . ,
F. Business Men To
Help Farm Children
Oregon Historian
Is Forum Speaker
A .Innes: dwelling. IIUUU, airs.
J. B. Colmus; remodel dwelling,
$200, Addle Walker: garage, $700,
A. R. Wilson; dwelling, $1650, Ar-
out making any official recommend
ation It was understood he wa "-
Ions to undertone '-"" , ,,,, ,. .ddltlon. $1,000. F. 01-
and that his crew stands reu, , $2000 E T Roberts;
volunteer.- ji.ihlB garage, $125, H. Illester; ware-
Cltlng the dangers u. ,hnfihou.e. $3000. Lakeside Lbr.. Co.;
,j n.r Wilbur snia m"'
WOUIII em ""' M.lnre
there was great danger
attaching to the envelope and free.
!. to tho big bag. The cold wealh
er would ..ffon the lbrM '
of the engines also he feared.
dwelling. $2600, J. H. Cole; dwell
ing. $3800, L. A. Davis; tent house,
1.10. J. H. Paxaon; dwelling, $2,-
200. J. T. McCollough; dwelling,
J600, Wm'. Floyd.
Business men of Klamath Falls
will furnish 10 or 12 cars on Sun
day to transport some 50 or 60
Klamath' county boys and girls to
Ashland, where they will board a
special train carrying county club
delegates of southern Oregon to
Corvallls tpr the O. A. C. short
course offered next week to these
desserving youngsters from counties
all over Oregon.
Frank Sexton, father of the local
boys and girls club movement will
accompany the party and will be
In charge of the Klamath delega
tion. Each year tho local kids
have made the trip. They have
captured premier honors at Cor
vallls In competition with the or
ganizations from all parts of the
state.
J. A. Erling, a resident of
Klamath county for the past 40
years, and a former street com
missioner of Klamath Falls was
rc-appointed to that office last
night by tho city council, by
unantmons Vote. Erllng is fill
ing tho 'position loft .vacant- by
the rcHlgnutlon of J. E. Franey
about s, month ago. Erllng will
take up. his duties at once.
It. E. Patterson and Floyd
Collins were appointed on Chief
iourk's police force and the ap
pointment wss confirmed by the
New Gold Rush To ,
Be a Peaceful One
WRANGLE, Alaska, June 8.
Prospectors who are pushing Into
the Caasiar district of British Col-'
um'ola on the north's newest gold
rush are being deprived of most of
their shooting -irons.
Commissioner J. E. Dodd, sta
tioned at Telegraph creek is allow
ing, only rifles in the region toward
Deas lake where the stampede cen
ters, according to ' word reaching
hero Monday. ; . '
"A man neefls a rifle to shoot
game, hut It won't take him Into
a: .quarrel as quickly as would
a pistol," Is the commissioner's argument.
sided affair where the Interests of
one f oad are considered and ' speak
ers of the other not permitted to
talk. We have wired Portland, ask
Ing that representatives of the Hill
lines be down here and have reason
able assurance that they will be. ,
We have also wired to San Fran
cisco, and have reasonable assur
ance that either representatives of
the Southern Pacific frbm'that city
or Klamath Falls will be here.
What we want to find out Is some
thing definite. We want a railroad,
and the line that can give us the
first definite assurance that we will
get one will bs the road .we win
back. The wording of the resolu
tion adopted ifi Malln does not meet
with -our favor at-all: Of course.
we want a trunk line. But we don't
want to go on record o toying we
want a trunk) fins or nothing. W
need a railroad and will , accept a
branch line at first. Eventually.' I
think, eithef road that builds into
the Malin and Merrill country will
extend farther south when the time
is ripe. ". y
We have reasonable - assurance
that H, H. Corey, public service
commissioner of Oregon, will be
with us. - His talk at Malln about
giving encouragement to both roads,
and not antagonizing anyone was
met' with favor by Merrill citizens.
We want railroads, all that we can
get, and we don't want to antagon
ize anyone."
' Extensive pians aro being made
for tho big maRS meeting. Rev. Hulet
declared. Co-operation of The News
was asked in aiding the publicity
for the meeting, at which a packed
house is expected. Rev. Hulet has
been appointed by Merrill citizens to
have charge of the meeting.'
E.VPKCTEII HOME
Chris Dianas and sisters,
Miss
Ponajota Blanas and Miss Mary
Dianas are expected home within the
next throe days from Sacramento
and San Francisco, where they have
been enjoying a two weeks' trip in i
that, section of California. The
parly motored south Bnvoral weeks
ago.
England And France ,
Agree On Germany's
-Plea For " Security
CALIKOKXIAXS VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Wilson. Mrs.
Emella J. Wilson and Bird M. Davis
are among the tourists in the city
at the present. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
and Mrs. Wilson are residents of
Chico. Miss Davis is a resident of
Grimes, California.
CENEVA. June 8. A complete
accord between England and Franco
on the reply to German's proposal
for a European security pact is un
derstood to havo been reached here
Monday. '
Austen Chamberlain, British for
eign secretary, presented Foreign
Minister Briand of Franco with tho
British answer to the French mem
orandum on security. It is under
stood that the British will under
take lo guaranteo France's eastern
frontier against foreign attack.
The chamber of commerce forum
for Wednesday 'will feature Dr. J.
B. Horner, professor of history of
the Oregon Agricultural college and
his subject will- be "History of Ore
gon,'.', a subject on which the speak
er Is probably more fhmlliar than
any man In ' Oregon since he has
written an Oregon history which
has been widely used " text Dook
In the schools of the state.
This meeting will be the forum
"Flag Day" and the meeting will'
be In charge of Klamath boy Bcouts
who will appear In ' uniform and
they will-stage a drill of the col
ors. '-
Professor Horner arrives In
Klamath Falls today and Thursday
starts out with Captain O. C. Ap-
CRATER LAKE CANNOT POSSIBLY BE
OPENED BEFORE JULY 1-0PINI0N
Crater .lake cannot possibly open are out of tholr wintor sleeping
to the public traffic before the
first day of July.' if the opinion of
John Maben, caretaker of the lodge
holds true.
Maben, who spent the week-end
in the city, made the trip through
deep snow and although, according
to Maben, the snow Is off of the
side opposite to the hotel from the
Klamath Fulls entry, the snow is
deeper In places than It has been
for several years.
quarters and are exceedingly shy
although the bears at times be
come exceedingly bold in their
search for food. They present a
very different picture than at tho
close of last summer's tourist sea
son when they were fat and sleek
from the rich food fed them by
the visitors.
The lodge and the caretakers of
the grounds are anticipating lar
ger tourist season than at any time
in the history of the resort accord-
Tha caretaker was accompanied
as far as Fort Klamath by Pete Ing to communications received and
tha Oard,- chief ranger of the Crater the large amount of publicity given
nieaaie on an exploration mi .u umu, ...... . ......
lava beds and the points of Interest: lake forests, who made the trip to the lodge during the past year
In tha Modoc war. Thursday, Fri- for supplies and articles for the! through various advertising mod
day' and Saturday will b' taken up! lodge. Ilums nad magazines throughout ths
by theso trips, I According to the men the hears United States,