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The I SERVICE - If four ropy of TIIH NEWS doe not arrive by H:II0 a. in,, pltono NTT awl a coiy of iliu paper will be sent. The Klamath News Official Paper County of Klamath : v United Neva and United Preu Telegraph Services Vol. 3, No. 2(59 Price Five CunU KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1926 (Every Morning Except Monday) KILLS SELF AND TWO CHILDREN Klamath New Sconchin is Guilty of Crime Says Jury Coroner' Verdict to Re sult in Defendant Be- . ing Tried for Murder McClellan William. ; The coroner' jury luto yes tcrday afternoon found Guy Sconchin. 30, Klamath Indian, guilty of a crime in connec tion with the murder of Mc Ciellan "Mack" Williams. 60. Modoc Indian, who was Main near his cabin on Whiskey Creek near Remity at 8 o'clock Sunday niitht. A tain of colit blooded murder waa unfolded In the office of Karl Whltlock. county corouer. when the Jury listened to Ilia facts surround Iuk the murder of Williams: Following Is the siory. Sconchin ami lleorgo Itlddle. In dian, drove from llostty to Wll II. mi iihack on Whiskey Creek. ihrM mllca south of Hotly. In Ihnl dVsolata rountry charnrlcrlstlc of that southern Oregon section. A carho of inoonshlno waa sought nu William'! place that Hconehln claim ad ha bad placed, 4.bre, aumo limn before. Lived With William" Hvilonchln had bran living at IIih Wllllania' home and treated Ilka one of tho faintly, although be member of a well known Indian family on that aerlloti of the rescr vallon. A quarrel ensued over thu hiding of llnuor on Wllllania' prop erty and Bchonohln. taklnit offense, told Wllllania ho would leave bla houae. Packing Ilia clothes, he walked out Into tho yard. Wllllania followed tHo young In dian to bla car. Witnesses to the quarrel and subsequent murder were Mm. Minnie Wlllliima. wlfo o the Indian rancher who met death; Allele Wllllania, hla alxtcr. aud hla daughter. Etta William, who waa recently released from cuatody of (Continued on lee Knar) Highway Bureau To Get Exhibit Of Grains, Hay The Klamath Fulla-Asliland high way Junction booth, which haa acrv ed aa a ahlw window tor Klamnth county agricultural produce during the paat aummor, will today recolve tho flrat load of quality exhibits thai are to advertise thla aectloii to tourists throughout the winter. Wray I-awronoo, assistant county agent, will leave here thla morning with an automobllo full of ptlto grains, hay and olbor. produce, nnd will dlacard the vegetables und cthor products now on dlaplny. A aecond and final loud will be lakoti to tho junction booth later In the week. Moat of tho Kralna and the liny to be taken over were on display at the atato fair at Salem recently, nnd nro anld to fur surpass any prodtico which baa yet decorated the booth. rluvnrl bundles of the Klamnlh cminty wheat contnlnnd tho tnlloiit stalks of any grain on display tit the atnte fair. Tho alfnlfn hay, elected und cured with utmost enra, la anld to have 1'oen tho beat . colorod nnd Iheroforo tho moat present bio ex hibit of I la kind nt the big ahnw. Tho hny la Mrtlcitlurly good, Lawrence Hinted, and will show to udvnntugn nil winter long. Tho winter exhibit at IIih booth will cmslst Inrguly of griilna, hny and n considerable . quantity of Klnmuth pitata". "Wo aim to Rive plenty of spued In the spud exhibit and play It tiu to the heat poaalble advantage." tho assistant counly a(,ont said, "na thla la fust becoming one of mir lending producta." HISTORIC BELL, TROPHY OF WAR, IS AGAIN ACTIVE Hi:.rn.i:. Wah., .vv. i (lulled ) A historic Ih Irophy of war. la used lo alarl and rloae llie rouuds when Hcalllr'a naval reservists i-ngHge hi the liuiiily ml of M-lf-da-frim licit'. The uuorthodox gong once waa tlin ship's lull on the Hmnlli guiilMiat Itlln. Tluit tM-foro Hie hli Ma cupturcd In Hav ana harbor by American blue Jackets ilurlnic llie war against Spain. rnilcncolHK n i-i-modi-ling ut ('barb alon, H. '., Hie Itlla ln canie a l ulled Slate ami) Iraiw hiH. Again rrbulll, aln waa foftliioiied lulo lite llumldc, I'ac Iflc cable alilp. Structural Steel Is Unloaded For g 1 7 1 . I MOnSier ViaaUCljmuikct roads has gone for- a..o. "'"lahown by the fact that on Be Completed By February ! I, Pouring Concrete P.era- Progressing Favorably. With llie unloailliiK here yea enlay of eluht enra of alrurturat .till, the HlMh l nit viaduct la rauklly taklnK form, acconlhiK to engineer In clutrKe of the con- ' at mot Ion. Uue blK alep wan marked with llie cloaliis of hint week wben Initial concrete an poured for the upprouchfn, Kraiuvwork for the many plera which are to aup porl th huge atructurv. la virtually completed, and moat of tho plera have been poured. It waa atated. In cluding; two of throe major Siipporta. It la expected that by the end of thla week, workmen will com mence netting up tlie atcel frame work for the body of the bridge. While a delayed atart on the via duct retarded progrena at flrnt. all Indication-! are that the bridge will be ready ' for u by February 1 of next year. I Young High School Student Injured as Car Is Overturned Mhm Murjorle Foanuni, daughter of .Mr. and Mm. John Koaaum. S.1K Juniper fit not. la aufferlug from a broken' collar bono and minor cuts and brulaea aa tho result of an ac cident Saturday morning when the car In which she and six other Klamath boya and girls were rldlugj to Mcdtord to attend the high school foolballa game, overturned near Keno. Kdward lllilin was driving the cur. It waa learned, when the ms- chine overturned, fulling upon atiimp. Misa Koaaum waa thrown clear of tho car nnd Injury or poa slide death waa prevented for the other members of tho parly, when tho machine fell on tho Ktnmp. Ted Orell of North Demi suf fered a badly mashed bund and other members of the party, whose namoa could not bo learned, were badly shaken. Miss Possum la a well known high school student and nn officer of her class. Cashing Checks Is Dangerous in Opinion Elliott Men-hunts ot Klamnth Falls and business men In general, will cash checks ut their own risk. This wns the torso announcement ihndo by District Attorney K. I,. El liott, following a mlnlnttire deluge of bad checks In Klnmath Fnlls on merchants mitt business houses. According to Elliott two men approached him In his office yes-! terdny requesting the prosecution ..r ... 1. ... 1! ,1 I'Mitien iui w 111. ill inej iiiiu Luaiiuu checks, only to find thorn worthless paper when presented nt t)ie city's banks. "There bus been too much of thts check-cashing by men who aro an xious In havo.tho money and not careful .enough lo Investigate before t hoy gave money tot1 worthless pa per," KIII11II staled. IHeadway Si s Made on Market Highways Biennial Report of Engi- neer Jenson of Much I Interest to People of Klamath County Under the impetun of wide; i uprt-ad development through I every Hection of the Southern ! r 1 ! nnnUlvn,t!f,n rtf . V. 1 I K u 1 1 UUOIJI, iwiinii uv.iuii v. Novtmber x the tota expen on thja cUuM of hi(?h I ly important work had reached, $80,838.81. Thla la according, to the biennial report made yentenlay by County I Knxlneer Joaeph Jenson. which la to be forwarded to the atato highway. engineer. Of thla high total. S.1."17.78 waa expended oil four projects fully completed In !& and 10SS. while the romululng I27.10J.0U waa spent up to Novsmbcr I on projects which bavo not yet been finished. Thla totnl disbursement, howovor, does nul nclHlttM3-!S expended otyj market Toad" projects carried over; from l:t. Thla sum accumulated fr mar ket roads only through fifty-fifty donations from tho county and the state, has served to bring the lotsl mileage ot market roads in Ktam- nlh mnnlv lln lo 100.8. Of tills '. , number as. i nines are macuuainiicu.. (Continued on Pago Five.) Pilcher Stores Are Bought by Thanhauser Co. I'OIITLANI). Nov. 1 (I'lilted Xo ws) The 11. A. Pilcher chain of six stores In Oregon were sold In federal court hero Monday, whon Judge, Dean accepted tho highest figure offered by prospective pur chasers. Tho storos wcro sold In two lots. Iho l'lirtlond. Albany. Eugene and Klnmuth Kalis establishments being purchased for $86,600 by the Than hauaer lint company of Portland, nnd tho Pendleton store being pur-! chased by the Lleberman and ltoscn- ! crsnts company of Sun Francisco, on an offer of ?1 2.11011 In throwing out the first and lower bid of J. ('. Hrlll nnd company and Iho O. ('. SiminKton bid ot Pendlctoii, Judge llcnn said he be- ' llevad it Incumbent upon the court to accept the highest tlguro offered In the Interest of the creditors In volved. Letter Is Dropped From Name New , Cascade Division Pullurc of the masses, as well as much ot the railroad fraternity, lo add tho final consonant, has re - suited In tho name of tho Southern PacUlc-s newest lino being changed from .Cascades to Cascade. This Is according to a messsge received by J. . J. Miller, district freight and passenger agent here, from F. U. Tied Inn Is, passenger ttnf - tic manager, Rnn Fnuiclsco, yester-' day. McOlnnls was very brief In his ,-!,, .but It Is anld to be generally 1 ... . . ! understood that Joo tew people used ' the nninu of the new line properly mat is (.ascaoes preferring ne Wtnn s week shook Manila shqrt- simpler use nnd pronunciation. Asjv hpfor,, ton o'clock Tuesday morn - nil Initial literature, tlmo tables, I 'nfl una niivo ooen printcu 1 asrnites, 11 considerable nervousness and hun ts expected that a new batch of thedreds hurriedly left buildings until Informative phamplets and folders 1 effecpi of tho latest tremor had will be but snnn. passed. NAVY PROGRAM TO BE GIVEN PLENTY OF FINANCIAL AID HAS KH.NlHro, Nov. 1 (t'tillifl Hil million tUtU liirn will In .lirow.ii Inio tin iiMVf iroKium of lHlHtcrliiK vtt U-U-my nt ,uurlf-Hii ftlatlutiM In (lit rr Iflr ilurJitK lie nvt llwttl yrur. Atlirf from Uiialihi(foii nUtmt Ihnl rJ.iO-4Ml will Ih umi for iuumI biiMK ami liiiirovr iiirut of riulitM'iii. N'mvuI pr will lx htntn tty uImui fMHMMMt. Smvni nuiIIoiim In II- wmII, tuuiut Hu mem, plnm mml t bi i 'hliut iih. i -Miip. ,Kl.,lH, will bruiflt ' by Um riirnillture of 97.0OO..MH). Texas Preacher 4 1 1 fl C iVSKCU UUUlgC Ul V m 1 TCIIUC 111' JLriI.F D Frank horria Saya He nw. Cannot Receive Fair Trial , in Own Community Where He Haa Retided 20 Years, i KOItT aKTH. Nur. I (I'ltteU Xrft lr. J. Ktank orrta. the faiuouH ruiiibinirnlal lat iaMor of Fort Worth, doesn't Ixllive thai be can be fairly trictl for runnier iu thla com. uiuiilly. when, for more than SO yearn, lie liaa been the leading figure III a bitter n-liKloua con- , , Appearing for trial today charged ! with the murder last July of 1). E. Chlpp. a wealthy lumberman, whom he shot to death In bis study In j the Hirst Uapllst church here. Pas ! lor Norrls, through his attorneys. ((d , motlo.''. for a change ot cue. .. - , Although the state rathef ex- peeled a motion for a continuance (Continued on I'age Five) Window Cleaning is Popular aport S I'm WW 11 AtTPr rlilllflWP Pfl It wss window cleaning day yes terday, and Joy reigned among business men In general. It there was window on the business sec- lion ot the city that escaped the scrutiny ot tho small hoy either 1 Saturday or Sunday night Hal-i lowe-en It has not been discover-1 vd. Soup In liberal quantities was used by the youngsters, but hap-, plly they confined themselves to practical amusement. Few cases ot actual malicious mischief were re-j ported to tbe authorities. Klnglug ot the boll in the bcl- fry of the Methodist church Sunday night brought a hurried run from a number of policemen, and a couple of tho boya were captured. After being given a lecture by the! officers they were permitted to go , homo, and it Is not expected nn'. 1 prosecution will follow. Cupid Lambasts Old Man Divorce in,;n 0rKov UU.1 111 WlUUla. The little pink-lipped, winged ; god ot love flitted happily oft the. October culcndar when the past month far surpassed tho month of' October, 1926. In the marriage re cord. I According to books in the office of County Clerk C. K. DeLap. niar-i rlnRe licenses to the number of 20 were Issued In tho month of October ; In October of 1925. thcru were j18 miirrla(,e licenses Issued, Tho agrimtied god of divorce waKK,, an M bnld u,ad aml cmmt. ed ,)ul ,lx divorce filings during ,e lm,t mon,n, V' Ti Qn;iQ Tc Pn.lrol ! JTIalllla 13 IVUCIVCU By Strong Quake For Fifth Time MANILA. Nov. 1 (United News) : .Th fifth earthquake felt here. Prisoners Succeed in Covering up Tracks Daring Escape of Three . . men r rum uiuniy tv&ii Effected Early Yester day Morning The three Klamath county; . . ' ' 1 c" Henry Kxline and Henry Bit-; chell, who effected a daring; escape from the county jail at 14 o'clock yesterday morning. were at large last night and . U U-:rC. CC; aA roirl jed no. trace of the men who! ! disappeared into the cold fog. j of the early hours. J. E. Fol- lock, fourth member of the j party, was apprehended while ' making his escape. I According to Sheriff Burt E. i Hawkins, who arrived at the county Jail Immediately following the break JU" " ' the prisoners had kept a dinner knife from the meals served in the Jail and beaten It Into a fine- toothed saw. It was with this im provised saw that the three menj cut through the bars ot th Jail; ed, waiting nntil lhksrd. J. C. Edsall. had passed by ' oit-irtsf I rounds, made their eacape. Blankets from the Jail, were- knotted together to form a rope that; stretched from the top of the build- Ing to the ground id. 45 feet below.! Slide Down ltoe Fisher. Blichell and Exline had slid down the Improvised rope and Pollock waa climbing, over the wall when Edsall, hearing a commotion, rounded the corner ot the Jail. Or dering Pollock to return to his ,, . , ..... Kl anJ . s t the remainder oi tne prisoners wnoj were also preparing to make their (Continued on rage Five) larl l?lich FlvllPrfpH A riV A 2. . At TaX COUnter in Next Three Days j Taxes in Klamath county. onlra, ., before Police Judge Gag - ! county proporly. aiuountlng to $400,-' nagcll on a charge of being drunk1' pany. who returned to' her office ouo must be paid within the nextan disorderly. His sentence was .yesterday following a' week's bttilr , three days or that property will belt 25 or 12 dave. and not having theses trip through southern Idaho. . declnrcd delinquent by the sheriff. Tn8 WA-lnc anouncement made: Tetserdav afternoon by Oarrett Van' Hper 0f the tax collectors office! ho is Interested In tho collection of the huge auin of money before, Xovcmber 5. "Property owners have until No - vember 5 to pay their taxes, and a"cr ,hat "me " De necessary t0 declare them Ht llnnupnt hv or- ' dcr ot tho shelrft and the law," stnted Van Hiper yesterday. "Be - cause Tuesday is election day, and tho court house will bo cs;0:i there remains but three days. No vember 3, 4 and 5. to pay the i taxes which total more than $400. 000. There will be a mad rush on ' the fifth and the office Is urging) taxpayers to come as early as pos sible." ! Farmer Loses Two Fingers of Left Hand by Shotgun Hurry Mostly suffered the loss Klamath J-'nlls by Wells were; ! Rrowth. with Its completion. . A ot two fingers on his loft hand j Frank Uooley. arrested at Chiloquin. 1 uwakelned Interest Is already appar yestorday whon ho was painfully In-' was lodged Jn Jail under $2,500 ;nt, and undoubtedly the line B Jnred by the explosion of his gun j ball on charges of liquor violations ' J"'t wi" attract considerable irtw while homing in the Klamnth Lake on tho Klnmuth Indian reservation, farming blood to those sections, fa country Sunday. . According ' to witnesses, Mosby raised his bun to bring down a !"01'11 of geese flying overhead. Ho' j was hunting on his ranch In the, charged accidentally, breaking his arm between the wrist and the olbow, and badly burning the fingers. ALUMINUM PLANES WILL BE OFFERED ON MARKET SOON MH .VMirXKM, Not. I. (Inl lrl .w) New niolln In nil ulunt lnuiit Hirer ft will In on tlif nutrkfC iMMii, A, K. Ilell(r, In to ul or of llif Aro, brllrvr. lU'Hrr Ih plntinlnjc to lulrrmt In (ovfrniiM'iit In wluit lie oV i inn hi llir only HHf-uu MHinK fllriKHfloalrplnm com ba nal ion rvrr rrrntifl In thin roun try. Outfitted with Mix driving fun which, will turn I In machine In any direction, uml dcaigneil to remain motion kw In in If hi I r tut long (Iniml, ltllcr tuui rom lkf cd n mlnlnt an raotlrl repre rcMntlnx 20 years of experiment. IToIl anrl Ttnhonv uilu 1uiii.iit Must Fact Trial on November 22ied her father arid p?? i health, is believed to haVo Government Scores Victory : and Defendants Ordered to Appear Nov. 10 to Enter Pleas to Charges pending WASHINGTON. Nov. I. (tl- led "News) The way waa opened for a climax In one of the fara ous anlta Involving lease 'of gov- enrnient oil reserves, Monday, when Justice Hohling of the dis trict of Columbia, auprelue court ordered that trial of former Hre retary of the Interior Albert B. Kail and tUlwln K Dohrny, oil magnnto on rharjsea of rriuilnal conspiracy In the Klk HlHa case, to begin here on November 22. - Justice Hohling fixed arraign ment t ,,,, tTQ KJnrlDJll, tt. (he; Behsatlonal rase for Norembr ; In the district supreme court. Thin was a Tfrtorr for rho srrr-' nment conn,e, for and jco-tlnne,! m p. Pone p.rl, , ' 1 ' ' 4. ' j JJrUPK Bt LdSUrC Want All OtherS i arrangements for the disposition m m 1 7 A. 'personal belongings. ''' ' 'j'v"' lo lake Vacation; Mr, imwood u uid w V.. 1 Vtnulf n .1 ann-an,ltf I U t uuaj UlUlBcii a,u avi,uit; , nreferrtng to see everyone else ai - - . u what under the Influence ot illicit potations, attempted to start a fight .with workmen on the new Farrell ! building near the postotflce Sunday i afternoon, and is now In tho city noceegow. resting out a l!-aay sen tence. ' rhamberltn, arrested by Officer Brown, after some little scrimmage. I cash on hand. Chamberlin took the twelve. jrk An-hie nnnrehemled Kntnr. day night after creating a disturb - . mice in a local hotel, is also In jail, following a sentence from the police iudge yestcrdav. of $20 or ! ten days, ( Franson Smith. Indian woman ; from Chiloquin. arrested Sunday nltvhfr nn . ehnrvn nt flriiiikpnnpiui 1 paid a $20 fine in the police court j yesterday and was released Klamath People Held Under Bonds By Federal Court POUTLAN'D. Ore.. Nov 1 ( Unit - led News) Millard Lang. Klamath ' '" Rood many have ttirhed tBehr 'Indian, wns released Monday on;eyos In this direction."', '.'. ; furnishing $1,000 ball, after he had , The $5. 000.000 Owybeo Irrigation 1 been brought from Klamath Falls ' project which is to be constructed; I by Deputy U. S. Marshal Wells on ' for the benefit of southern Idaho a charge of attacking his wife with a dangerous weapon. , , Other coses brought here from v. i..-..-i..k ,... ,j.. Mate Muruslch Was held under $4,000 bond on white slave charges. HJs wife. Knthertno, also was brought hero as a material witness under $1,000 bail. Muruslch is charged with having News) Premier Mussolini, onhls transported the woman from Aber-1 arrival at Forll, - telegraphed ' to dcen, Washington to Klamath Falls. : Rome ordering that all demonstra and from Seattle lo Los Angeles for Hons planned In celebration bf, his Immoral pu'rpbses. escape be stopped. " V. ' V" Turns Gas in and Gut Los Angeles Woman I Believed to Have Be Mentally Unbalanced in Committing Act.l. j ! LOS ANGELES, Nor. l-5r j W1J11-CU .,tD 1 lit of a Chicago firm, partly own caused Mrs. Lufuerry Irnwoo 30, to take the lives of heft self and her two babies in Um 1 gas filled nursery of -.their ;hom ere Monday. :. ; :'r 1 The lregedy was discovered : by i Loug K. I m wood, husband ot' tie i woman( wnen he awakened to ftoA the door to the bedroom oecoptaaj by Lufuerry. three years, and Blllj.' two years eld. closed and the tracks stuffed with paper. t; H" He found his wife tested between the beds of lbs ' children and 'Im mediately called the police. . V-; Rescue : squads - with ? labaAators worked on the: bodies fof'serertlt hours, but their ef forts ' failed. ' According to neighbors. Mrsvlm- ' wood" bad" liltinss'-asN'iJkMH;. Urom a three montha' vralt"wlth-htr parents v in Chicago The latinre . .a.. Mn.nM Mte..r i 0j Chicago, in which bar-' father wss i Ly. , trinuiea 10 ner aci. She left, a note asking that ber road been suffering from nervousness. I . . .'. I - J tt.t lAk Uff- UlUUCCa IF BllWk mm. MJJHikw I fereri a vear ago in a gasoline e , V -j . a r Klamath in Lead Over All Sections ' J Says Mrs. Yadeti "I'm mighty glad I live 'in Kltsl ath Falls." declared Jgrs. El 3. T- 1 den of the Trt-State Realty ,Soom- The sheep Industry has . beta ; highly satisfactory In southerw (de ho. and tho farm produce l of eg- 1 ceptionally good quality, Mrs. Ya- den said, bat no part of the ceoa j try compares with tho southern Ore- i Sn basin. Among otner ernes sire. Yaden visited Boise and CaldVejl. during the course of beV motor trip, and while none ot tha1 places compared at all with Klamath Falls for business and building, activity, a big interest there in the ros)h ot this city is apparent, (he stated. "Incidentally. In no pari of south ern Idaho does one find the feel 1 estate values that are prevalent UV1V. .SIB. IIUIH U.U. ... 14 "People there hardly believe' tle figures cn building growth In K- i ninth Falls, but the fact remains j and southeastern Oregon, Is doing I much for that country and people I there are locking forward to, a new "den s opinion. 1 NO DEMONSTRATIONS! ' WANTED BY MtJHUOLlXt MILAN. Italy. Nov. 1. (Unrted Nursery Wipes