THE KLAMATH NEWS
SUNDAY, NOVKMRER 4. 12
BOV ATTACKED
BY VICIOUS DOG:
' HufforliiK frnm lcp ah
Ihrnuiih llm rlirhl arm, Jual nlmyx
I ho wrlat, whlrh h rorolvd
wlion ii villous ring nllnilii'il hi in
tHi iho tilKh way In Dm Almmntit
(llalrlit ynalmiliiy ninriilhi, III 10
i'iir nlil .riimlann u( (', A. I'olvln
a ruahoil In Klumiiili Kulla fur
iiii'ilhul nili'iitliin,
A alKtl on 111" fi'llrn nf Hit
nlili'nr wurn.'il uiiiilh i hut a
"hud d"" w ull Ihn in riilooa.
Wlllinul wnrnlim 'ihn dun, hurl
ulrciliiln, loapdl from I ho yard
ii ii (I linhiililii Ilia toot Ii In I Ik
i-lillila' urin.
J ' li.'iulty almrirr l.nuls Muollor
ilium honrlns of Ihn aii'lilonl
llurrlnl In III Alluinnnt illalrlcl
whvru ho "t nnn limn-ranKo
nhul nl I ho dog na II iliHuiiponroil
ilnwn I ho hlKliwnV.
"Tho l.il alithl I hail (if Ihn
iluK II i riiniiliiit ilnwn iho
liliihwny tnwarda Morrill a fuai
pa Ha oa rmilil Imvol," Muollor
riinninniiil.
Ekstrorri Reported
Better by Doctor
Tha rnnillllnn nf K. Bkalrnm,
who miointilod In tukn hla life
nn Friday iniirnliiK hy plordm
lila luiii wllh packet sulfa
nil alnalilnx n doop wnunil In hla
wrlal waa unlit In b Ininruvoil. J
Ki'i'orilliiB In ' wonl frnm Ihn j
Kliiinmh Viilluy linnpltnl l.ini '
nluhl. I
Kkairnm liml nmdo hla Jiuinoi
ul Iho IhiIkI Mnlrnpnlltan fur llipl
Puhi thron wooka. Hit wua found I
In hla riiiim, almrlly uflor Ihoj
Hllfllilili'il anh'lun by Mra. If. Mill-
luro, nwuur of Iho Imalolry.
Al Smith Sams Up
btand on
Mechanical Man Guest of Honor Chicago to Stop
' Election Disorders
, iootiiai.i, i H kii.i.i:ii
1 NCU'AltK. Ohio, Nov. 1. A I I
( Thnr iicraoiM K'dng to Um
Oil In SlHlo t'rlnn ton font Ik It
(vaiui at Otliiinhu ' wcr killed
ttuirily iH'foro nnnii unrl it
foiioh 1m In H'MTlniiM iiukIIiIoii
nt Ihn hospital hern n m le-iill
of Oii'lr automobile htrlkhiR h
lim k on u rut to and Rulitu lutn
u diOh.
j (Ownilnaivl Prom Pag Oae)
o.nnt.MthlMK ii limit prohlhl-
lion, h nald. protulhlug to carry
'hU fight for nfmni In Iho people
I of tho rountry, Ho would oTOr,
ihu addrd, Rovornnirlit proHtfOnti
'of tin water power riouri'ii: a
aympalhetlt' fnrin policy; wider
' .p"-ad pro-perti ; a Inrlff kepi
oiil of potttlm; rn-ordlmiHtm of
' government burenun mtil hornet
uil mlitUl rut inn.
, Hmtili i hnrgc4 htit repuhlhau
joppoumi liml hardly IWn fulrih
lulling l ( lo tn thw Ihaiio, M
nut On American ryntim of po
'lilrM pniifimd i lut t u niitliMinl
1 mmpulicn Hhotild ho di'lmin to
; Ifl ihu pt'oph di'iidtt iho Umiiimi.
A fiood Hon niiN IiimI liv iff) uImmi Mr. TU-vus, On ntii iMiufctil loiio,
hum iiiifrlitMrd ul h hlrlido pjnly Ok hIht d.i lo Oh KiinI
rilixhiirjtti W i OouImuim hIii:iI. Tltr in--n4i n wnn Mr. 1 Ti-li'Vu
fir-! liliilidnv. ,t (lie lilnliihiy ri'lflitioii, ifi to rif-hl, art
A. Mi-rrlik, II. I'. H.ii.n, mui Itity Vrn.h-, Invi'otur nf ilt
ml ol.
Klamath Motor
Branch Leads All
r ha rue of Hit lorn I ot(Uf.
Thl riu-ord in jtir.itcr lhan uuy
brunch office for th' entire utato,
for ihi month.
It may In
Tin K I h in a t h KalU branch
off hi of On Ori'Koii Hiuitt Motor dhdd that the
AkmhIuOoii hotiU liotn.r-. for Dm- priid-nt won
rnoiiOi of Oriohcr, ri(-ilviuit I i
nit'ttilMTH into ihc ohhoiIh' ion.
Mm. Virgin a KrhupM Ih In
protty af(t pro-
c;iit(iiilafp i-lftti'd
have u tu mil-
lioti majority.
Ki'inliiliio vtTrtl.m: If Oh kIhk;
fit, w-ur it U" MmHl)-r.
(ContlnaiMl from Page (fee)
voKtltfiitiii t-U'ctUm fraudt burn I
In ft' 't in nionlliN hiivf flgrpffd
tlmt On trouble ftinduinonUlly i
thut ii rl) fillliiiitA civlHtH hc
tvecn (MtlltldjOM mid iTlmlnahi. '
'flit' irimlmtU hi'lp th polltlcluim
Wl Into off!. tind thi'U the p dl
tl'laitM pay nit tliulr political
dfhlit In Oio rrlnilnulH hy ttllow
liin thcin I14 "i;t'i away with
mnnl'-r."
Tl.lr, i lin ilon d.iy finds ' ( hi- ;
f.iKo makliiK Oi mohl Haborato
platiH In rt hUlory lo kft-p pfiu-o
ut Hit poll, (an'fully prepared
llhtN of pcritotM hoi quallflfd to
vut,. huvf lM.cn Klven I Ik- 12.000
wuirhrK and ttui ptAUo. 8;mm
Inl i hu tlon utirii will hu oim'q
nil day lo da with offi'iidem. '
Ithu KUiif haw b.'in ditrlnU'd
lo nffli-iTN In i harKU of l lie mora
I run lib omu wui om.
, iiiidldnlcH ,t vn'tt
In Cook county, which lx main
ly f'hl aKO, thu nnwt hitter lorn)
content U ot ihu Affice of
mi ji1j-m atiorney, from which Hob
erl K. Crowu Ih retiring afttr
rlxtii yearn. Two f (inner judKffl
of Oio crlminl court are Candi
da ten fur Oio pohIiIoii, John A.
Kwamon. i he reptihllran, and Wil
liam J. Ijndxuy, the doniorrat.
lioili nlh'(. thut Dm otlu-r U
receiving I he Hiipy.rt of Kann-
Mrct of lh( trouhlu makurH of
April an now under Indictment
and ou trial for offenses ranRlnx
FIBEPUTOUT,
ON LOWER LAKE
i All In veil on Lower Klamath'
I Lake, tald fUntterJohn F. Tiurko,
flulurday whn ho waa In Klara-;
iith Falln on hiiflmB.
'Thot flra that hav hfipn
huinifiK." fald Itanfier Ilurku,
"are all cither a Oi.hk of tho
punt or under romplein roiiin1.
HnnterH can now IhkIo to turn
their fyfH inward l-owit Klam
ulh hake for Olo Indh uOoiim uro
Rood for fc'iooOiiK Oh re from now
on."
In iM-uklnK of Hie fe-d for
Hheep, Mr. flurko naid alNxit i )',
000 head arc Krazlnx nn the
lake tied nor and If On entire
tract In finally Irrigated it will
Iih OMCt Of lb1 grnlent nheep
paHtnrix In Iho world.
' It will be remembered that the
Uower Klamath Knko Oruzlnic
AHm-latlon win formed a year
hko and now hux Hnpervl.-iiou ofi
(he InkelH'd wllh Itanuer Iturke
uh tho unrHT'ntendenl.
'from murder to rrntinK" ftt
Oiere U abundant evhlenrw that
tho rrlniinal elfinent lute rest t?d
in pidltics in by no me:un wiped
out. WltneKfie in Om trials n:wl
In proicriK are being Intimidated
'dally with threaix anl ulaicinc
hy RangMers Interested hi pre-
1 vent In j( thm from test'.fyiiiK
nKuttiMt the defen?. ' .
I'lli. U. HJ -ml CJ1 ,
TTlnfn'','lh't ". mi him V
Ii W,fJt' OriHUt 7
, Im M SUnOI'lt.U.f rMMUi.w I
,A Br -r-t. it.iiJi. turn,, T
. -Wiora t Muccisrs tyraVwa.
Pl-
tlf. died n a hmipitul hern Ut
nlKht after having bli -lekfj cut
off below iho ttnc by a freight
train' on which h wan beating
hla way bark to ftenttle.
Bounties, From Oregon Rivers
lr-KH rlirrn olfor iinaurniiaani aonlo IhiiiiI), I hi- goat nlf
Hirt nml the rliullrnao ut ndii nluro. 4
Tor our ir.T il w.-ii-i'Iiik, (,i-,-Bi.n rlvtTa Klv- n fl nlv1
wnnif in r i viiiiih.io II.I..1TI07. J-ISM iMW, THI f
I.K.lHT OK Till-; IIII KIIS' tilKrs. f
FROM THE RIVERS COME . ,
Water for Mining Water for Irrigation''
Water for Lumbering
Hydro-Electric Power";
Shalt We Tic Up
Four Great River?
Thp nlin .if th- Miilir und flh hi I It
v. fo iriililliU (lie iimo nf HHU'rj
from Ilio IIKHI'IU'TM, M, KKIi:
I Ml'iJI'.t ami III Kil l-: river anit
iliotr tilhuliirlm for knny puri10:
n lilawvi;r,M rxropf flwh pmpan
lion, rovi'rlna; one-fourth of tlir
Nlnlr, und oni-lialf tlio unilcvolnpnt1
MMtor MIWT.
Water for Manufacture
Water for Communities
. Vote NO
X 309
X 311
X313
X 315
Tho Mlnalonitry Siirloly of Iho
FlrM Itupllsl il.ur.h will hold mi
apron and i-au.ly kuIo Nov. Gth,
al Ihu liavia f'urtill nn Kt .ro.
aily. 2-31 ,
These bills stop development and progress.
VOTE NO
l.oujjuo in Oppo'iiion lu Wator anil Flh ItllU
J. K aholtnn, Proalilcnt.
I'ald AdvorllsiinK'nl. Kuonn tlreson
DE - BUNKIN
E. J.
MURRAY
E. J. Murray, former editor of The Herald, hai gone out of hit
way to attack me once more, in an ad. in thi paper, which force me
to keep my promUe, to inform the public of the real reaion for Mur
ray' opposition to me, a County Commiiiipner,
M urray stated in hi first ad. thnt he was opposing me, because
I had raised the timber cruise in the county too high, for taxation
purposes. I answered, that timber taxation was only a sham reason
with Murray. I pointed out, that Murray had never been friendly to
the timber interests, when he lived here, and I also pointed out, that
Murray was running ads. agairfst Fred Cofer for Mayor, because Fred
had favored the timberman, while ho was running ad against me, be
cause I had not favored the timbermen. .
I warned Murray to be careful, that he might lose his whole- i
ticket, if he tried to beat too many men. I have learned since that
Murray will probably come out before election day against some other
candidatos, so Cofer and I won't need to feel so lonesome.
Now, I am not going to let Murray get me into an argument with
the lumbermen. A number of them are good friends of mine, and I
have had chances in tho past to do them many favors. Murray would
like to get me and the timbermen to saying things about each other,
that would be hard to forget. But, we will not do that, because the
lumbermen and I have our homes, and property, and business here,
and we are going to have to live together, and get along together,
long after this campaign is ended, while Murray will slip out, the day
before election,' to go back to Coos Bay to vote, and that will be all
we will hear from him, -until the next- election, or until he wants
something else from somebody over hero, as I will explain later.
But I would like to point out briefly the bunk in Murray's argu
ment against the timber cruise. Murray tries to make two points, and
they are both Simon-pure bunk, as everyone will now see.
Murray says, First, that I should not have voted for the money
to make the recruite, because the same result could have been ac
complished by simply raising the assessment ten cents per thousand
on timber.
Now, everybody knows that the County Commissioner has noth
ing to do with assessments. That i all in the hands of County
Assessor Lee, and, since ho wouldn't raise tho assessment to a point,
which the county court thought was fair, considering the low cruise
on which the assessment was based, the only thing left to "do, was to
sk for a new cruise, so that the exact millions of feet of timber
could be put on the tax roll and fairly assessed, before too much
of it was cut off, and removed from the county.
And that is exactly what I, nnd the other members of the county .
court did, with the resuit that $1,500,000 was added to the tax roll and
a reduction, to that extent, made possible, in favor of the business '
men, the homeowners, the farmers and the stockmen of the county,
who previously had been paying more than their share of the taxes,
at least to that amount.
And, mind you, in that action, I was joined by tho unanimous vote,
of two ''county courts. Former County Judgo Bunnell voted for the
cruise, former Commissioner. Charles Murtin, a leading business man
of Klamath Falls, voted for it, the present County Judge Goddard
voted for it, and Commissioner Horace Dunlap voted for it. So, if I
was wrong, in asking for fair taxation of the timber of the county,
all of these other county court members were wrong also.
Point Number Two in Murray's article is, that if the timber had
to be cruised, why did I not accept the eight cent bid?
Now, the eight cent bid was made by the timbermen, and if
Murray hadn't put hi name to such a question, I could hardly be
lieve that he wrote it, for, whatever else might be said about Mur
( ray, when he lived here, ho was bright then.
Let the timbermen cruise their own timber! What a proposal
from this self confessed expert on tax matters.
Let the timbermen cruise their own timber 1 Why not let the
railroads levy their own taxes and the power company make it
own assessment?
Did anybody ever suggest, that it would be all right for the
farmers and other small taxpayers to determine their own taxes?
Well, you must say this about King Edward. When ho cornea to
His Provinces, to give out the laws, he take no half way measures.
When he regulates timber taxation, ho put it in the hands of the
timber men themselves. ' '
We can only laugh off the remedy of this tax doctor from Coos '
vBay. We can do nothing else. In charity, I can only imagine, that
the plan to have the timbermen make their own ruise for taxation
purpose wa conceivod in a brain that find taxation questions
extremely difficult, even the simplest kind.
But, I do not intend to dismiss Murray's article with only a laugh.
By Burrell Short
Buried in the heart of .the article, I find some personal reflection
- on my conduct of county affair, particularly, the handling of county
money, and I don't intend to let this gentleman, now of Coo Bay,
get away with these statements.
I don't know if Murray intended to charge me with official
misconduct. I would not be surprised, if that was his intention, as
he is a character assassin, by nature.
Many's the better man than Murray, who had to submit to his
unbridled abuse, when Murray ran a paper here, the friends of
Judge Lcavitt will not soon forget the contemptible nature of the
. attacks Murray, made on the Judge, when the latter' recall was
attempted. . ... :.. , . .
tThe hostof friends -Lloyd -Low- hasj remember how Murray
hounded Lloyd out after hi first term of office. Further back, the
o!d timers recall Murray's unjust crucifixion of Alva Lewis.
But, Judge Leavilt is apparently as strong in the esteem of his
many friends, as ever, despite Murray's attacks. The Judge still
resides in Klamath Falls while Murray has folded his tent and gone
to other parts. And I note that Lloyd Low's many friends gave him
their party nomination again Uu3 spring, as an expression of their
continued friendship and confidence, while I doubt if there is a single
man in Klamath county that Murray can call by the magic name,
"Friend." . ,
And now Mr. Murray, you have come back to crucify Fred Cofer
and me and perhaps others yet to be named, for refusing to bow to
your yoke.
I have no doubt that you have held back, for the closing days of
the campaign, vicious and libelous matter to be directed against
both Cofer and me, which you will print when it is too late to be
answered. That was always your style.
For my part, I challenge you to open the vials of your hate
nd wrath. I only warn my friends of what to expect. My life in
Klamath county is an open book, I gladly submit it for comparison
with yours. I have lived my life here, raised my children here, seen
them grow up, and bo married here, supported them at the graves
of their loved or.es, and I hope to dio here,
What have you to cay for yourself in comparison, except that
you made a fortune here, out of the heartaches you caused your
fellowmcn, and out of the tears shed by women and children, behind
the closed doors of the homes you singled out for attacks conceived
by your vicious mentality. You made a fortune that's all and then
you sought greener pastures. ' .
But not so green as you thought, for when you got to Coos Bay
you doubted if you had made a good move by going there, and you
reflected on the fat days that you had had in Klamath Falls, which
brings me to the reason of why you are attacking me now, the reason
I promised to give, at the opening of this article.
THE REASON V
You want to drive me out of office if you can, because I have
kept your long arm out of the five hundred thousand dollar road fund,
voted by the people of Klamath County.
You were long interested in sand and gravel in this county, and
F have been told, and believe it to be true, that you are now interested
with certain road contractors, who have been making every effort to
get road contracts on terms, that would allow them an unconscionable
profit. . I have stopped this raid on the treasury, and in so doing, have
thwarted you.
You have made big money out of. the newspaper business. You
are a rich man now. You own the Murray building of Eighth street,
you own the new building on Main street, where the Woolworth store
is going in. You have a big interest, in the Central hotel and you have
a great deal of other property and assets.
I think you did very well in Klamath Falls, but it spoiled you
for Coos Bay, or any other place, which ha only a moderate growth,
for when you got over to Coos Bay, among the rrabs and clams, and
looked back across the hills, that shut you off from Klamath Falls,
and when you read of the millions, that were being spent here in
public improvements, on account of this town's phenomenal growth,
you wondered if you had not sold your newspaper too soon. The
fleshpots of Egypt got into your nostrils. Pickings have not been so
. good on Coos Bay and three hundred miles is not too far for you to
scent something ripe and juicy.
So, you decided, in the delusion of your importance, that you
rould still keep your interests in Coos Bay, and that you could also,
occasionally return to Klamath Falls and get some more "easy money."
Well, Mr. Murray, I make a pledge now
My pledge is, that, if re-elected, as I expect to be, I will keep .
you as far from the treasury of Klamath county, as Coos Bay is from
Klamath Falls, and I have no doubt if Fred Cofer is elected, he will
also see that you are driven from the public crib of Klamath Fall.
I could easily answer the questions you ask about the timber
cruise, but its pretty thoroughly demonstrated by now, that the tim
ber cruise was only the excuse for you to make a personal attack
on me. I , ' "
One point alone, is sufficient answer to all you say about the
' cruise. Out of five hundred thousand acres cruised in the county, you
picked out, in your first ad. one timber claim and said it had been
cruised at 3,000,000 feet, whereas a. check showed only 300,000 feet.
. Jo ypur second article,:. you. apologized for' this, a a misstatement.
"You said the figures should have been 1,725,000 feet, for the cruise
of the claim and 550,000 feet shown by the recheck.
This inaccuracy and wobbling concerning the cruise shows that
you simply don't know what you are talking about Ov. that subject.
Somebody has handed you some figures, and you are using them
blindly.
Even if your figures had been right, picking out 160 acres for. '
criticism out of a total of five hundred thousand acres would brand
you as an unfair man, if everybody did not already know about you.
To end the discussion about the cruise: County Assessor Lee bitterly
opposed the cruise at all times, but he agreed in the Spring of this
year, that, if a recheck of three sections, to be picked out, one by
each member of the county court showed the cruise to be correct, he
would put the cruise on the tax roll thi year. '
What did the recheck show? The cruise to be so deadly accurate,
that Lee, and my associates on the County Court, called the recheck
eff, before it was finished, and Lee immediately put the cruise oh
the tax rolls, with the result, as I have stated before, that a million
, and a half dollars of new values were added to the taxable wealth of
the county. ' " ' ,
Now, in closing, I don't want to be unkind with you Mr. Mur
ray. You are a stranger within our gates now, and certain courtesies
ere due you. . I know that Klamath Falls probably doesn't seem as
familiar ground to you, as when you swaggered, a newspaper bully,
up and down its streets. There are many here now, who never heard
cfjrou as the great Warwick you were in your day and, consequently,
who pay no more attention to what you have to say than any other
occasional visitors. They are interested and attentive, but after all,
they are running their own affair's here, without outside assistance.
Then, there are the old timers that you bullied and brow beat, :
when you were here. They are not under your spell now. You cah
no longer ruin them in their business by a poisonous and unjust blaSt
from your newspaper. They feel free to speak their minds and, '
naturally, you cannot expect them to vote your ticket.
So, all in all, with your old time audience diminished, and your
following shrunk to one or two, who get crumbs at ycur tabic, it is ;
hardly just that I address you further. I think I have told you plenty, ;
and I am not unmindful that it is going to be very hard for you to
take some of your own medicine. It always is with newspaper bullies. '
Eut, since you have come all the way from Coos Bay to tell the ,'
people of this city and county how to run their affairs, and since you
have singled me out for personal abuse and vilification, I want to give
you one final thought to take back to Coos Bay with you, when you
return there to vote.
I . want to say to you, that, with all the money you made in
Klamath Falls, and 'all the power that you are attempting to exercise ,
in Coos Bay, and with all the power that you feel you still have here,
I know that you are not personally happy. They tell me that yo-j have
lost all your political fights, since you went to Coos Bay.' You have
been a one hundred per cent loser, and there are no rainbows in the
sky for you in that country, where they so often have beautiful rain- ,
bows. And, so far as Klamath Falls and Klamath county is con- '
ccrned, I don't believe you feel any happier, about your situation here.
I don't believe you have any real confidence in your ability to dictate
the city and county ticket for this community.
But, unhappy as you must be, I want to tell you, who in my
opinion, is unhappiest of all, over your coming back, and the situation
you have created for them. It is the lumbermen, that you have jump
ed into bed with. The reason they are unhappy, is, because they
know from past experience with "you, that, after their temporary
wedlock with you is ended, and after you are gone, they will find,
some place, affixed to their persons, your stinger which you will have
left in them. ' r( r....- ,. :
Paid Ailvertlsoment. , . , -