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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1925)
gjEvery 10 GALLO Mil :ii:rtnire Win For Life '.ling Gallows Time 0, Aug. 6. I Russell acou t U perhaps the Hie ngni to evade the gal- icted murderer, t waited in the the hour when g, ituked hit luHt .e on a plea or lictory late toduy, at the conclUHion kit colorful, sanity d him Insane. Uw, Scott will lance of his days louse. But the he noose hangs 1. It later he in c, the law pro- be executed im- When Sane urjr, find the de le, and a lunatic, h 14," was the 11 I f 1L. I nea is me jury 1 12 men had de li of Scott's law- fcFclient, broken) pent, naa become cell shock" since lion. Want ahall be re- k Chester asylum Ite as he may be the verdict con- shall then be re peated in accord- Je sentence of the T 14. 1924. ns Scott, wife of (he oo bu nude a val- "c (lbt fur hie free- upported the plea of m presented a a 1 llh bowed head, i Thomas Scott, the ! tither. a worn and uausted from hie rle, hi. thin hands "If. 4 IVmotlonnl IC". his wife, remaln- composed, ex- plloa Ihroughout tho Mrt, howover, exclte- I ' Court. Prlnn.l. ilde. Amon them f ' b In the confusion w" taken from the ( the brIUite of slKhs loc. before ehe could the court room. ' 'th tear. Nd face. wa crying: '"OK God." 01 He press ..kJ kin, her "ma-. looked at the man: f Tli.nkfn, "J Planal Mv nl over anrt ,... 1 don't know." JoMHng thrnn. wl. 'balred Rlin 1 l ... tfuHepn "tner of ih. led. uu)r wno ylum t. ll"1' ' thlnk" fotntnent. "t ln..n,. " uo not After 62 aOf Separation r'-Aftor a ... Alvlr Townn 7 m Paul, Minn.. THE KLAMAlTH NEWS Morning Except Monday) fowc IS'Federal Bldg. wr w- . For l. . Drive On In Earnest Local Committee To Confer With Senatorial Body Here Next Month The Klamath County Federal Building committee working with the chamber of commerce, met In the chamber rooms last night and dle cuaaed the advisability of taking up with the aperlal senatorial In vestigating committee, that la all probability will come to Klamath Palls, the first part of September, the amid of a Federal Huildlng. here' or whether It should only be taken up with United Htatea Senator Slanfleld, Oregon's Junior senator. It was decided to ascertain If the aenate committee would care lo list en lo the argumenla of the Federal lllulding committee, and Its accret ary l.lnn N'vamllh. waa Instructed to communicate with Senator Hlun field at once. Orrgun Senator Favorable It la an aaaured fact thst Senator Btanfleld. Congreaaman Blnnoit, and Senator McNary are vitally Interested In the plan lo locate a federal build ing here, and the facta and general data will be preaented to them aome time thia an miner or fall, if the special senate committee have not the lime to give II during Ihelr vialt hero. The plan now la to meet the nine dlatlngulahed vlaltors at Crater Lake and bring them to Klamath Falla lor Ihelr hearing on the grating sit uation and then ttake them lo Med io rd. The .federal building committee for the county la Judge L. L. Gag bagen, chairman, Una W. Neamith secretary, John McCall poet maater, W. O. Smith. Uert Thomas and Her bert D. Newell. ' RAIL MERGERS A MAJOR ISSUE Senator Watson, Chairman Rail Committee la Favorable WASHINGTON, Aug. a. (United Newa) Consolidation of Tollroads Into a few great systems will le " ""I sough, by the administration m meana of aiding agriculture, which aaka lower freight rates and of help ing the railroads at the esme time. President Coolldge's endorsement ui vunauiiumioil 'waa luiioweu u? statement here Tnuradsy from oen - ator Watson of Indiana, who will be chairman of the senate Inter state commerce committee In the new congress, approving the prin ciple of consolidations generally and the propoaed Nickel Plate merger In particular. The Nlckle Plate merger Is now before the Interstate commerce commission for approval. "I am In favor of railroad con solidations whenever and wherever practlceable and to that end be lieve In the arrangement now be ing made by the Vanswerlngens In the so-called Nickel Plate combina tion of railroad properties," Wat son aald In a letter to Chairman McChord of the commission. "I believe it to 1s consistent with the spirit of the Esch-Cum mlns transportation act on the sub ject of consolidation and I am sure that thla effort meets with the approval of a great majority of the business people of the sec tions affected." As a result of the president's Interest and recent pronounce ment, It la expected that this sub ject of consolidation will forge to tho front as one or the major Is sues for the rest of his adminlS' tratlon, . MARHHF1KI.II CJKTH UK) IIOTF.L MARSHFIELD, Aug. . The Marshfleld Hotel company, at a ses slon of directors today, decided to start work Immediately on the $376,000 nine-story strdcure and finish It In 1920. Ben Oatllng was appolntod manager of building and will work with building committee. t United Newt KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY. AUGUST 7, 1925. GIRLS MIFurner Declares BRMCIiNTSM'Usrnt American GirU Will Start Tonight On 50 Mile Channel Stretch CAPE MUZ NEZ, France, Aug. I. (Uolled Newa) Gertrude Eder le and Lillian Harrlaon, will tattle the Engllih channel together Fri day night In an effort to reach the Brlllah ahores after dawn Saturday near Dover. It vu announced Thursday that the two girls, -who have been friends for some time and recently have been training to gether for the channel swim would alip into the water here at 6:30 Friday evening, weather permit ting. Under the eye of Captain Jabec Wolfe, who has attempted to swim the channel many times him aelf without aucceaa. M1m Ederle trained first off the pebbly beach at! llrlrhlnn En. , and ih.n transfer. red her preparation to Cape Gray Noae. France, where ahe bu been for aome weeks swimming every day with her trainer except when! ih. holsieroua channel nroved too unruly. Mlea Harrlaon. an Argen- "Ion is ahown by the fact that we Una swimmer, has been tralnlngihsve proceeded to acquire property .l,h the American atlrl In nreoara- lion for her second channel at tempt of the summer. She was removed from the water exhausted aeveral weeks, ago. MI ' Against Them Jalie fllon, the French woman who failed spectacularly In sn at tempt to swim the chsnnel Wednes day trained -with the pair who plan to start Friday, The odds against the two -women" Ihny be estimated from the fact that ecores of women have dared the channel swim but HAH Stir reeded ' In reaching the other shore. Msny men have fail ed too. The latest such failure waa recorded when Col. Fryeberg. the British officer endeavored to awlm from hers lo Dover Tueaduy night. Five Men Have Done It Only five men have triumphed over the chsnnel. and these five aiLlercsicats ere dlatrlbuted over 60 years. Captain Mattthew Webb, an Engllsbmsn, swsm the channel In 1876. Then for 36 years none was successful until Thomas W. Burges awsm scross In 1911. Henry Sullivan, of Lowell .Mass., and Se L.u.i.n Tlraboschl, from the Ar- (ho crossing In d" ,h. Hftk .wimmer waa . cnanea mu, .y.r. rrnaaed In 1923. Hun- dreds of times It has seemed that the channel would te beaten, but rip tides and baffling winds usual- nrOVall i - . . lh wlln loin eel 16 hours 64 minutes. MAN SEARCHES FOR FATHER IN KLAMATH nrfward Hathaway, farmer of Baker, Oregon, spent Thursday In Ki.math Falls searching for his ...h.r Harrv H. Hathaway, who Is aald to have disappears num Hathaway ranch live years ago, without apparent cause or reason. Hathaway described his father as 45 years of age. six feet, weighing i.iwen 180 and 190 pounds, brown eyes snd brown holr, sober and in dustrious. The son heard of the employment of his father In this sec tion several years ego, and this is the first time he was able to appear In Klamath Falls in the search for the man. Search For Schwartz Extends To High Sea MARTINEZ. Calif.. Aug. 6. The search for Charles Henry Schwarts. missing chemist . tl f' murder, has been extended to the high seas. nin, a report Thursday that a man answering the description of Schw.rts had been seen aboard the Swedish freighter Nordic before she ".a w of Ssn Francisco bay ....j .av. wlroless messages were ,ent to the rtlps "kln? him w P'rml1 ' w'h';B the vessel louche. Westport, Ore., Friday. and United Prea Telegraph Services ...jiwruieni L,mes PORTLAND. Aug. 6. (United News) While lum- Ikering interests of Klamath Falls have gone on record favoring the exclusive services of the Southern Pacific rail way in that territory, many of them have expressed their de sire for the entrance of the Oregon Trunk railway in that section, according to W. F. Turner, president of the latter railway. He said operators have been pressed for aome time to Induce them to algn the resolution. "The mills now operating at Klamath Falls, are of course, solely dependent upon the exiatlng trans portation facilities" be declared. "Several of these operators have indicated that construction of our line will be advantageous to them, but unl" lt ta cerU1 tb,t ermls- '" will De graniea, reaaona o. Po'" eomVl acquiescence In what 's ini by exiatlng lines. "Our confidence in our ability to demonstrate the need for our line to the Interstate commerce commis- for terminals In Klamath Falls. Klamath Cattle Rustler Given 2 Year Sentence PORTLAND, Aug. 6. A con trast in the way cattle rustling was looked upon years ago and In modern days was demonstrated here today, when Harry Gooder ham waa sentenced by Federal Judge Wolverton to two years at McNeill's Island, following a plea of guilty. Gooderham stole 60 head of cattle, most of them be longing to Amy Ball, on the Klam ath Indian reservation, laat month. ' Before he stole the cattle he obtained s mnrtraae for $600 on them, and was driving them to Bend to be shipped away, when several Klamath cattlemen, sus picious of his actions, followed him throughout the night and bad him arrested near Crescent, Ore. Gooderham confessed to rust ling at first, but later changed his plea to not guilty. Several days before the trial was sched uled, however, he changed his plea again to guilty. 'This is the first time I have ever done a dishonest act," Good erham told Judge Wolverton just before sentence was pronounced. "I hope It Is the last time. Two years at McNeill's island," an swered the judge. Texan Electrocuted Declaring Innocence HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Aug. 7 (United News) George Clem Gray, protesting his Innocence of the crime for which he was sentenced to die. was shocked to death In the electric chair at the Texas penitentiary here early Friday morning. The electric current was turned on at 12:14 a, m and Gray was pronounced dead three minutes later. . i Gray made a statement just be. fore bis execution denying that he was responsible for, or an accessory to the murder of Otis Ballard of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, for which crime he was sontenced to death. MINERS OF HALIFAX . VOTE TO GO BACK HALIFAX, N. 8., Aug. 1 Strikers of the Nova Scotia coal mines of the British empire steel corporation have voted to end the constart trouble and privation of the past five months and Tcturn to work tinder proposal advanced By the nrovinclal government. . The re sult of the plebiscite was a vote of 3913 against 2780 In favor of returning to work. Many miners abstained from voting. S. P. AND 0. 1 RATTir MD riTV UttllLL 1U11 bill PARK OBJECTIVES City Council May Be Means Of Deciding Disposition Of Riverside Tract The most open and direct clash between the rival interests in the Klamath country occurred Thurs day afternoon, when O. B. Richmond. land agent of the Oregon Trunk, and R. E. Strahorn and R. C. Groesbeck. representing the Southern Pacific, appeared before the city park board to bid for Riverside park. Officials of the Oregon Trunk are expected to be here early next week to urge that the entire park be sold to that railroad. ' The only definite action taken by the park commissioners was the adoption of a recommendation to the city council, favoring the sale to the Oregon Trunk of a . two-acre piece in the Riverside park for $16. 000. The land recommended for sale to the Hill line Is that portion of the park fronting South Riverside street 200 feet deep near lot 6. thence all of lot 1 and 150 feet on west Main street. ' Both Lines After It Richmond offered $9,000 for this land, but the park commissioners thought $16,000 was a more equit able figure. Before the adoption of the recom mendation to sell the land to the Oregon Trunk, R. C. Groesbeck. speaking in behalf of the Southern Pacific, urged that the park be sold at .public auction to the highest bid der. The recommendation, ' however, waa unanimously adopted. It was moved by O. D. Mathews, .and sec onded by Will Baldwin. . Presenting more fully the needs of the. Southern Pacific, Robert E. Strahorn declared his road intended to run lines up and down the west side of Link river and Lake Ewau na. - The Southern Pacific, he as serted, was anxious to buy the en tire park; one-half of the park prop erty, or the remaining three-quarters after the Oregon Trunk had pur chased Us right-of-way. A price of $7,500 an acre, the rate at which he Hill line property was recom mended to be sold, was agreed upon by Strahorn for whatever portion of the park was acquired by the South ern Pacific. B. P. Wants For Bridge If, however, Strahorn declared, half of, the park were acquired, the Southern Pacific would require at least twenty feet on Main street as a base for a Y-shape bridge across the river. None of the park commissioners were enthusiastic over the prospect of Setalnlng for park purposes, the remaining portion of the park, after both roada had taken out a total of four acres for their respective rights-of-way. It was agreed that the property would be useless as a park site with two lines of track flanking it on the west and east. ' The drama of the afternoon came when Strahorn repeatedly requested the park board to make a recom mendation to the city council, sim ilar to that adopted for Richmond's bid, In regsrd to the Southern Pa cific offer to. pay $7,500 an Sere for the eastern half, or the remain der of the park, after the Oregon Trunk was given its required space. Commissioner Matthews objected. He fayored giving the Oregon Trunk until Tuesday to determine whether it requires additional property or whether It needs the entire tract. Attempt TO Block "This appears to me merely an at tempt to block the Northern road,' Matthews declared. "You have re ceived sufficient consideration from this' city, Mr. Strahorn, In the past. The Oregon Trunk asked for the park property first and t favor giv ing them a first chance toward get ting It." - Strahorn demurred any Intention to block the Northern Hues, but the board adjourned without recom mending the city council to accept the Southern Pacific offer. M Ml RnKItED IX YEAR IX L. A, LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6. One per son In every 20,000 here Is doom ed to die by a murderer s hand, a police report revealed. Fifty-six known murders were Investigated here In the past year. Opportunity To Enter Annapolis Given K. F. Boy Sinnott To Give Every Boy An Equal Chance For Splendid Training Local high school boys between the ages of 17 and 21 will be given an opportunity to compete for the honor of an appointment to one of the two of tbe nation's highest mili tary institutions, tbe Annapolis naval academy, through tbe cour tesy of Rep. N. J. Sinnott, who. In stead of using the JacksOnian spoils system, is giving every yonth In Oregon an opportunity to compete. Congressman Sinnott has an nounced that be will appoint the midshipmen to Annapolis In 1926 on the basis of a competitive examina tion. Examinations Here This examination will be held on Saturday, October 24, 1926, in tbe following cities in ihe second dis trict of Oregon, and will be con ducted by the United States civil service commission: Pendleton, La Grande, Baker, The Dalles, Klamath Falls," Lakevlew Hood River, Enterprise, Prlneville and Bend. The candidate receiving the high est rating in this mental test will be appointed as principal by Con gressman Sinnott. The candidates rating next highest will be appointed alternates. Examination will be con ducted in the following subjects Algebra, plane geometry, English composition and literature. United States history, indent history and physics (science.) Any further in formation desired by those interested can be obtained by writing to Con gressman Sinnott at The Dalles. Oregon.- ' -- Jenny Not Dead, But Wishes That She Was LONDON, Aug. 6. The original Jennie Lee, famous as "Poor Jo," is not dead, despite reports of her death from Hollywood, and her own wish that they were true, according to the Dally Sketch. "I wish to Cod It were true," Jennie Lee exclaimed when a re porter showed her the story from Hollywood, annonnclng her death. She was found to be a semi-invalid. living. in squalid poverty; an utterly dejected woman. She frequently has been on the verge of starvation, ac cording to a physician who has at tended her. ' TAMMANY FORSAKES ITS FRIEND HYLAN NEW YORK, Aug. 6. Tammany made out its slate of candidates for municipal government In the coming primaries Thursday and among the missing names was that of John F. Hylan, who has been mayor of the town for nearly eight years and would like to be the same for the rest of his natural life. To replace Hylan, the Tammany executive committee has unani mously nominated state Senator James J. Walker, known through out New York and the state capital as "Jimmy." , Detroit Girl Retains ' Diving Championship DETROIT, Mich., Aug. . (United News) Alleen Riggtn, wo man' national diving chamolon re tained her title In the first day's: of the national A. A. U. here I Miss Harrison, or Argentine, Is Thursday, by outpointing Olive not anxious to swim Friday, but Filer of Atlantic City. jshe announced that lt the American Miss Riggin Is the star member' girl started, she would follow a of the tesm of women's swimming few minutes later. association of New York. Her vlc- 1 " tory gave her team first place In General Pershing Is the a. a. u. final, of Detroit'.; sixm annual -water carnival. FRENCH GIRL AFRAID DITNKERKtlB Franeha. Anf Fright contributed to Jane Slon's failure to swim the English chan- nels more than cold or fatigue the French woman said In an inter view discussing her venture ' of Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Price Five Cents WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY ENTERS KLAMATH FIELD Million Dollar Corporation To Establish a $35,000 Concern On Ground Floor Of McCarthy Bldg. Following closely on the heels of many other outside corporations, who see the great development of the Klamath country in the not distant fu ture, and are establishing branches in Klamath Falls, the Western Auto Supply, a mil lion dollar corporation, has leased the entire northeast cor ner of the ground floor of the McCarthy building,, for the purpose of opening an estab lishment here the middle of September. Alterations on the ' ground floor to cost in the neighbor hood of $10,000, and installa tion of a $25,000 stock of au tomobile accessories,' will start at once. - ' . . ., , The space, which is 35x105 feet, was leased yesterday by L. A. Patience, of Los Angeles, representing the Western Auto Supply's main offices. , , v . The Western Auto Supply is established in more than 150 cities ,.on - the Pacific ; coast They will handle a complete line of automobile accessories in Klamath Falls. AMERICAN AVIATORS ARE ON RIFF FRONT ISTRES, France, Aug. 6. Five of the seven American aviators who are enroute to Morocco to fly French planes against Abd el Krlm'a Rif fians, arrived Thursday night. . The filers will proceed to Barcelona Fri day. Two of the party are one lap be hind tbe five, but are flying south. SLAYER OF DEPUTY GIVES HIMSELF UP DENTON, Tex.. Aug. 6. (United News) W. A. Martin. 40, 'alleged slayer of R. B. Parsons, a deputy sheriff, who iwas killed on the street In Denton, Thursday after noon, was arrested here Thursday night by Denton and Dallas county officers, after he had barricaded himself in his home for several hours. Sheriff Fry of Denton county ad vised the United News Thursday night that several shots wars fired previous to the arrest, - but none of the participants were injured. Dallas county officers with sawed off shot guns had been summoned to aid the local eonstabularly 1a -taking Martin. . .v .' .- AMERICAN GIRL IS SWIMMING CHANNEL CAPE GRIZ NEZ, France, Aug. 6. (United News) Gertrude Eder le, and Lillian Harrison will begin an attempt to swim the English channel, Friday night at 10 o'clock. This decision sets back the time of departure three houra and a half from that announced early Thurs day.. The selection of 10 o'clock as the moment of the start was made suddenlr in the Ederle camp. So American Mediator ARICA. Chile, Aug. $. -From a conference room overlooking the Pacific ocean, and . with donkey trains and farm carts rumbling by on the cobbled road leading to this city, Gen. John J. Pershing Is pre- paring to preside over the plebis citary commission created to remove a source of friction between Chita ahd Peru.