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KLAMATH FALLS, ORe), FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1925.
Price Five Centi
LLIQTT GIVEN APPODMEMT
IRES ACCEPTANCE
h OFFER AS NEW
STRICT ATTORNEY
I Elliott at 11:45 this morn in it accented the annointment
strict attorney of Klamath county, tendered him officially
jvernor Pierce, earlier in the day.
he appointment upsets the "dope" around Klamath Falls
the resignation 01 niniam uanongmaitaieD j ones, now
district attorney, would receive the permanent appoint-
he following message was received by Elliott early this
ng from the governor.
i A A A A A A f II ll
Appoinimeni as aisinci attorney 01 iviamatn coun
. effective August 1, to fill vacancy caused by Ganong
fsignation is tendered you. Will you accept?
(Signed) "WALTER G. PIERCE, Governor
Slliott's answer is as follows:
I "Your personal requestat Medford and in your wire
Wsuades me to accept your offer. Our friends here ,
& tirm l i a.- m t
lice, win De reauy iu mite unite mgusi i.
Thank you.
(Sijrned) "E. L. ELLIOTT."
lie remaining term of office that will fall to Elliott is more
'hree vears. '
rnest Lee Elliott, who is 56 years of age, came to Klamath
as a Dracticine attorney in 1909, sixteen years ago. He
)orn in Waverly, Iowa, in 1868, admitted to the bar in Iowa
Jo, alter graduating irom Waterloo college ana taKing a
graduate course in Drake university, school of law, at Des
fes, Iowa. Before coming to the west, in 1907, Elliott served
Judge of the superior court at Oelwein, Iowa. He came to
5 in 1907, and after remaining there for two years moved
jamaUi Falls, where he has made his home up until the pres
Ime. JVho will serve under Elliott as deputy district attorney, he
able to sav at this time. It might be said, with some de-
of accuracv. that David D. Vandenberg, a promising young
" ' . - !! A
piey, now serving as deputy under taieD Jones, win stay in
he uncxnired term he ncr filled bv Mr. Elliott is due to the
nation of William Ganong, who resigned the office three
MP, due to ill health.
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Why And How 2
Girls Left Home
ITold By Rhodes
1 ELKS' GET
11
Relegation Greets 150
raising Through
" Way South
t'S with Ihcm a niomonto of
s" l Klamath Vail, ir.n
hncl,rnn Klk returned to
lmo In tho south last n1Rlit.
HMIng two hours yostorday
n 'n the city at tha guests
plwiath lodge who prosonted
ta, In charge of the
lr'n, with t beautiful plcturo
er Uke to hang in the San
Elka club' rooms.
vl"tlng Klks detrained at
Wednesday mornlm .ri.r
Mde from Portland anri h.
w visited during tha major
- nay at Crater Lake.
met m.n. .
I,. . -fM iiioir reiurn
f resort at 4 p. m. ,.,h.v
"ore of tha vi. .i. .
n,. .uin lonae
tZ?." "-'a POP"
",r e benoflt of
I thirsty visitor.
Dedication of the 8nn Frnnclsrn
Klks tomplo will bo hold next month
when (Irand Kxaullod Ruler At
well, will bo present to Utko a iiroin
Innnt part In the anrvleca. When
completed tho temple will cost In
the neighborhood of 1, GOO, Olio.
Members of tho Klka loelRO. which
participated In the entertainment
of tho visitors Inrludod W. W. Mc
Nealy. Jnmca K. Bwanson, l.lnn W.
Nosmlth, Karl Whltlock. Jnmea II.
Drlscnll, Hurry . Poolo, John II.
Houston and Harry Howard.
Frank And King Will
Have Good New Actor
Having recently left the cast of
"Topay and Eva" now playing In
Chicago, C. Dunhar'arrlved In Klam
ath Falls last evening to Join the
Frank and King Stock company,
which la now playing In the big
white tent on Seventh and Pine.
Dunbar comes to Klamath Falls
highly recommended, having played
several successful seasons both in
New York and Chicago, and will be
seen to advantage with the Frank
and King players. Dunbar will
make his initial appoarance In "Olo
theSlck-a-Ded.'
$500,000 Rose City
Waterfront Fire Is
Raging Last Night
rOHTLAM, Ore., July 16.
(I'nltcd News) Fire broko out
shortly after noon today on tho
lwr Portland wuterrronl, nml In
atlll raging tlil nflrrnoon after
causing an ratiiiintrd damage of
.WO,()00.
I hut ruction to tho Heaver l.lnn.
Inn Lumber company plant was
complete. ,, i. Peterson, owner,
declared the "" would amount
to a.K,MM). An adjoining; mill
,.. r'nt Lumber pnni
til iiiu
I pany, w swept by f liinic. It was
In this plant that the nro oroKO
out. Tlo main aawniill was saved,
but the planing mill nl much
cut lumber was burned.
Kl Ownfrll,' fire marshal, es
timated the total loss at close to
half a million dollars.
Trees anil shrubbery In the
Llimton hill broke Into flames,
and Thursday evening, although
tho flro atlll burned fiercely In
tho Biirroundlng brush, It was lie
llcvol It had been confined.
K. L. Klllrtt. resident of Klamath
county for 'the pant 16 years, who
wired bis acceptance to the appoint
ment as district attorney tendered
by Guv'oiuor Pierce at- 11:20 this
morning. '" '.
GIRL PLUNGES 60
Following to a first hand story
of the flight of Warnle
Rhodes and 4 he Dradshaw
gtrls to Portland, told ei
clualvely to the Klamath
News.
FT.
GARFIELD i-HURT
Girl Narrowly Escape Sure
Death From 200 Ft Ridge;
Klamath Driver Makes
Trip From Crater In Hour
UAnd A Half
Descending from Mount
Garfield at Crater lake early
yesterday afternoon, Miss Mar
ian Miller, of Chicago, lost her
footing on a treacherous crag,
fell 60 feet down one of the
mountain ridges and miracul
ously escaped with her life,'
after seriously breaking her
ankle and injuring a portion
of her leg. She lacked only a
few feet of falling down a sec
ond ridge of 200 feet.
The injured girl was rushed
to a Klamath Falls hospital in
less than one hour and a half,
Otto Nichols of Klamath Falls
driving the car, which brought
Miss Miller and several who
assisted in lessening the pain
which she was suffering.
The accident happened when Miss
Miller, roturning from the danger
ous bike up Garfield peak, slipped
near tho edge, and striking the
rough rocks and crags, narrowly es
caped with her life. That her In
juries were not more serious Is the
wonder of her companions, who
were helpleas in giving her aid as
she fell.
Miss Miller Is the daughter of
Mrs. Allan Miller, who with her
family, was a guest in tho Crater
lake, lodgo. The visitors oro resi
dents of Chicago, enjoying tholr1
summer In tho wost.
Last reports from tho hospital
were fuvorahlo for Miss Miller's con
dition, and she was said to have
spent a quiet night.
PORTLAND, July It. I worked
tor Dradshaw about five months and
then I quit him about two weeks
ago. Ever since I first started
working for him tha girls were af
ter me to help thorn get away. At
first I wouldn't listen to them but
when I saw tho cruel and moan
treatment 'their dad gave them
agreed to help them run away from
him . Besides, they told me that If
I didn't help them get away they
would go away by themselves and
I didn't want them to go away on
foot.
After I quit Bradshaw I kept In
touch with the girls and the - day
before we left I drove out to their
tent and told them to have things
1 ready to go the next night.
The next day I drove Into Klam
ath Falls to have my car fixed and
had it filled with gas and oil. That
afternoon I returned to Tule lake
and got the girls. We left at 11
o'clock Tuesday night (July T) and
got Ho the summit of the Green
Springs mountain about daylight.
We didn't atop in Klamath Falls,
but went right straight through.
I burned out my brake and low
bands going down hill and I had to
caU on the garage at the Intersec
tion of it he Ashland-Klamath Falls
road and the Pacific highway for
help. Ha sent a car whic.1 got be;
hind me, and let me down-- the elope.
easy with a rope.. I lost a halt
day at the garage getting the car
In" shape again. I lost another
halt a day at Medford on another
breakdown.'
I drove the girls right s'raight
through day and night, till we got
to Portland late Thursday nisbt. I
found them the apartment, paid
their rent month In advance ana
gave them tio to keep them going
till hey could find something to
do.
I was going to take them on as
far aa Seattlo but I figured I had
better hurry back to Tule lake. I
stayed la Portland only three hours
and then drove day. and night to get
back Saturday night. The girls
said they didn't think they would
look up their .married slater in
Portland as she might give them
away.
I returned to the O. H. Williams
ranch in Tule lake, where I had
been slaying after 1 left Bradshaw.
I was sure Bradshaw suspected me
of knowing where the ' girls were
so I wasnt surprised when Traffic
Officer Foster on Instructions from
Salem took mo into custody at
Malin and brought me to Klam
ath Falls for' questioning. I know
I. shouldn't have helped thorn run
away but I felt So sorry for them
I was willing to risk It
ORIENTALS CAPTURE
WEALTHY AUTHORESS
CALEXICO, Calif.. July 18.
(United News) Mrs. Virginia Lee
Cookson, wealthy authoress, for
whom a posse of 80 men had been
searching the Santa Ana hills for
more than 43 hours, reported to
police here that ehe ihad been kid
naped by Orientals.
Mrs. Cookson was without shoes
and was hyaterlal. She told police
she was driving near the entrance
of Orango county park Tuesday
when tihe Orientals farced her car
to the elde of the .road and forcibly
placed her in their machine.
They were about to carry her
across the border, ehe eald, when
she leaped out of their car.
Girls Found In Jap
Rooming Flat Not
Harmed and Happy
(By THOMAS R. CURRAN)
(Special Staff Correspondent of The Klamath News)
PORTLAND, Ore., July 16 (United New) The Brad.
haw jirls, Junie, 14, and Esther, 12, are safe. : , -
The two girls, who have been misting; from the ranch of
their father, A. W. Bradshaw, in the Tule lake district, were
found by Sheriff Sharp of Modoc county and Constable Garry
Cozad, of Klamath Falls, in a cheap, but respectable Japan
ese rooming house on the Portland west side, late Thursday
afternoon. The officers were led to the rooming house by
Waraie Rhodes, a former employ on the Bradshaw ranch,
who confessed to Sharp and Cozad in Klamath Falls late Wed
nesday night that he had brought the girls to Portland. At
the time of the officers' arrival at the two-room apartment,
pointed out by Rhodes, the girls were not at home, and the
officers sat down to wait. .'.
GIRLS ARE SURPRISED ' "
Sheriff Sharp and Constable Cozad went -out to recon
notire. During their absence, Esther came into the room. :
"Hello, Warnie," she said cordially to Rhodes.. "Then
turning to the Klamath News reporter,-she asked: - "Who's
this party?"
Sheriff Sharp came back at this juncture. ' 1
"Whose he?" demanded Eateher.
"Oh, he's Mr. Sharp from Modoc," Rhodes replied.
' l've come to take you back with me," the .California
sheriff said to her gently.
"All right," Esther said. "But I'm not going to stay with
my dad. If you send me back to him I'll vamoose right over
again." ' ' .
Esther then described, to the sheriff dealings which she
declared over and over again had been given to both her and
Junie by their father.
She told the sheriff that her father on .one occasion had
knocked Junie down with, a stick, rendering her-unconscious.
According 'to Esther's story, as her sister lay prone upon the
ground her father repeatedly struck her over the head.
"I iove my mother, but I'll not have anything more to do
with my dad," Esther declared. She then told of the hope
of Junie and herself that they might be able to earn enough
money in Portland to send for their mother and have her live :
with them. .- ... ..' ""' '
Junie Near Tears evening he had taken the ' girl, to
Junie did not appear at the rooms ;Portlan the two otflcerB vere ready
for nearly two hours. Esther camel t0 jeave within fifteen minutes time,
in at 4:30 p. m., but Junie did not Alternating at the wheel. Sharp and
return until nearly 6:40. She was; CoIad droV6 through tha. night. jnak- '
Visitor Busy Hunting
Lost Hats and Shoes
Have you seen a poor, forlorn
little woman wandering around town
bareheaded and barefooted? Or
have you seen her husband gnashing
hit teeth at the price 'of hate and
looking as though Easter couldn t
stay away too long to suit him?
" If you havo, and you have any
thing but a heart of stone, please
Join in tho search for one hat box
containing three hats and two pairs
of shoes, 1925 models, about 3-
double-A's.
A visitor In our fair city lost these
articles yesterday afternoon on lower
Sixth street, near the Southern Pa
cific tracks, and has thrown herself
on the mercy of Klamath Falls ama
teur bloodhounds In the hopes that
she will not have to expose her head
to the rays of the merciless sun or
her feet to the stickiness of our
melting asphalt
A substantial reward has been left
at The Klamath News office for the
person who finds those and returns
them to this office. .
met at the foot of the stairs by
Sheriff Sharp and Constable Coiad,
who greeted her kindly and endeav
ored tr reassure her. She seemed
ready to burst into tears, but mus
tered a wan smile when Esteher
nidged her sturdily. Esther show
ed remarkable self possession and
composure. She laughed with the
officers and gaily told them of the
story she and her sister had given
out to , the effect that they wore
sisters-in-law and that Junle's hits-'
band had Jur recently died, (.
J Roma and Noma!
" The girls' during tbelr week's
stay in Portland went by the ro
mantic names of Roma and Noma
Richie. Their rooms were In or
derly condition and on the back of
an envelope Junie had made -out a
tentative budget for household ex
penses and a record of her expendi
tures. Esther told the officers that she
had worked four hours in the morn
ing at a neighboring restaurant,
washing dishes and cleaning vege
tables. She said she represented
her age as seventeen Junie, who
gave her age In Portland as 19. had
worked in an ice plant, checking ice
deliveries. ,
' Officers' Good Work
The solving ' of the "Bradshaw
mystery" is due entirely to the work
of Constable Coiad. Sheriff Sharp
and County Traffic Officer Foster.
It was Constable Coiad who gain
ed the admission from Rhodes that
he had brought the girls to Port
land after Rhodes had denied all
knowledge of their whereabouts for
nearly 48 hours. .Sheriff Sharp de
serves a great meaaure of credit for
his determined decision' to solve the
mystery of tho girls' disappearance
at any cost. The sheriff worked
day and night, patiently exhausting
each clue in turn before he turned
to another. -
Although Sharp and Cotad had
driven about since early Wednesday
morning in search ot leads, when
Rhodes admitted late Wednesday
ing only brief stops for hot cops of
coffee at Medford, Oakland and
Salem. The Sharp party left Klam
ath Falls at 9 o'clock Wednesday
night and arrived in Portland at 1
o'clock Thursday afternoon. - The
girls tonight will be taken oare ot
by Police Matron Mrs. G. B: Nlck-
erson, and will leave tomorrow tor
Alturaa, returning - via Klamath '
Falls. .
Liked City Life V ; i
- Sheriff Sharp plans to turn the
girls over to the juvenile court 'at.
Alturas for disposition... ... . i.
'The girls did not visit their
married slslter in Portland, ' but
planned to do so today or tomorrow. -They
then- expected to change their t
names again and move to another
place.
Both girls declared they thorough- :
ly enjoyed tho bustlo and gaiety
ot the Oregon metropolis and relish
ed city life as a change from the
bleak existence of herding sheep
in the Tule lake country. '
Worried About Mania '
Esther declared she was worried
about her mother and had plan
ned to write Mrs. Bradshaw today
telling her both she and Junie were
all right and happy. Both girls
admitted they "got quite a kick"
from reading about themselves In
the Oregon Journal and piles .of
Portland papers In their rooms tes
tified to their interest In follow
ing the course ot the Investiga
tion. Rhodes, the former Bradshaw
hired man, admitted that he ' bad
helped the girls escape only when
he realised they would run away
by themselves. The girls corrobor
ated hla story of 111 tnvwlment at
tho hends ot their father and' It
Is unlikely that any criminal ac
tion will be taken against him.
Ills part In the case it has been
clearly shown, was solely that of
sympathetic spectator who was
foved to action by compulsion tor
the unfortunate plight of the girls.