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About Klamath republican. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1896-1914 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1913)
d«r»tund (hut It wuh not an I hhu «, und the stalo of Oregon, in Its whole ex other mistatenu nt of bls, made to t'y ground, and if done at other times the 111111 l/finil/ ill PHIIilTV QrUiiniO they did not need to vote uguliiHl him istence, wus never in debt a million Io get th<- grand jury's searchlight off vork would be largely wasted. This “ILL RUUAR ALL bUUllll ObnUULd and a half dollars? Ami do tho tax himself. on that account? everybody except the county court ——— ti nucid írdiii ruge l > Aguln, wax not E. E. Filch a Wor payers <>f Klamath county, who huvo No wonder he winces and squirms • in, to know. The »»me govern SUPERINTENDENT PETERSON is den man, who hud been working with It to pay, think a debt of >357,000 "a ! under It. Who wouldn't? went engineer said "that statistic» FillRARING TO TAKE I'll TURKS Hallock, commenced It, mid so It has him in securing Hie Modoc Northern mere bugutcllu"? And do they think The Kctio Canal In the good roads department »bow OF El I ICY St IK Mil, IN KI.AM- been, from him on down to Judgn right of wuy in Hi« Merrill country, this "Napoleon of linum«,” who tulks In all that has been said by Judg<* that 10 per cent of the roads In the VIII < Ol NTY Worden. If lie hud k«-pt somewhere ' nominated In the uHsembly for com- >o lightly of a county debt of hun Worden on Oils subject, there Is only country carry 90 per cent of the traf near (lie facts, I would not be dis niiKMioner by priictlcully 1 ly huiiio d«l- dreds of thousands, up to u million me thing true, and that Is "that the fic, and if you will pick out and im In order to have definite data from poned to nolle« It, but his situation 1 cgiiie» a» tli« Judge, for n and u half, a proper man to have canal was built by tlie reclamation prove that 10 per cent of the roads alt of the s< hooia In Klamath county, being de iki . i I i , h< I iuh adopted des of having him for u teum mute on the cliurge of Hi« county business? In service as far as the Moore Bros, you will have accommodated 90 per i ounty School Superintendent Fred perate iiiemis, which compels me to ' bonrd In moving the court I ioiihc , uno lonsidvrlng how tills >357,000 wus power plant." The farmers in the < ent of the travel." Peterson has made arrangements to show to the people to what ends be 1 i . iih lie not defeated In Hie Hon by added to our county debt in the last project have never paid one cent Mile» of road, good the year round take kodak views of the school house has gone, so Hint when they render Guy Merrill, then iigalnnt removal? two years, the taxpayers will look in towards its construction, and prob and little traveled, have been worked and yard in each district, showing the their verdli > on his can« Il will be If ho , It run uh well be claimed Holt the little book, which I commend to ably never will. It Is not true "that while other pieces of much traveled pupils, teachers, interior and exterior with the full knowledge of the facts Merrill'» election wuh un Instruction the careful consideration of every tlie dry lands in the project were cut road have been left almost impassable of the buildings, etc. before them, and In doing tills they n gu I nut re mo vii I iih thnt Worden's ' voter If I remember rightly, our out because Moore Bros, owned the the whole summer. I met the county In addition he will have Informa will remember Hui! It Is him that la <de< tlon wuh un liiHtriictlon for it. I county tax levy this year la 23 mills, only developed water power In the er urt in an auto In one of the well tion as to attendance, etc., compiled, on trial for his official acts, mid not ’I’iiiM bring» mo down to III» lat«»t and half that amount In Lake county. county,” as the government has 2,000 nigh impassable places Just south of and this will be set forth in tabulated the private life of Melbase, Martin liuif truth contained In ills »upplo- i>o tho taxpayers of Klamath foci that horse iiower in this same Keno canal. Naylox last summer. form on a large chart, and surround mid Moore. The judge appeals for melltlll HtlltellK-Ilt of th« lfitli, uh to they are getting 100 per cent better What he means when he says: "They Another thing, with the widespread ed by the photographs of the district sympathy, by claiming that tho largo my lnt«rvlew with him I iih I »prlng on service than the taxpayers of Lake? (the farmers) know why the upper sentiment tor good road» existing referred to. These charts, one for bunking mid timber interests ure Hie court llouM quenllon, und thin Is it seems unaccountable to Judge Wor- project (Dairy, Bonanza and Lan- throughout the state it was only a each district, will be the property of agaltiHt him. but Hint I m only tlie usual wliut occurred. When I returned to i|< n that Mr. Martin, because tho firm gell Valley; and the pumping system question of a short time when provi the superintendent's office, and they cry of (be demagogue. I don't know Klumatli Full» I uh I »prlng ufter th« of liurrls A Co., In which he Is In [ was also eliminated," I don't know, sion would be made (perhaps the will be an interesting adjunct at the whether it I m true or not, but if not, court I ioiihc ciihc bad been tried In thu terested, had the work of building a except that there are voters In tbat legislature now in sesnion has already various educational institutes held It ought to bo, uh every taxpayer in c.r< lilt court and before tlie doclHion bridge and the court house founda i country ho hopes to gel by making done so) so the county could obtain each year. tlin county, largo and miiih II, should had been rendured, 1 wuh linked by tion, should not be with tho county them believe that some of the people money on long time, low interest The pictures will be taken by Mr. bo iignlnut him, not for the rouHons piirtleri more Interested than mynelf court, notwithstanding the expose of against him have injured them. For bonds for road building, letting fu Peterson, and in anticipation of a that In gives, dial they wunt control to »■ « if somo compromise could not the grand jury. I suppose the army the same reason he insinuates that ture generations pay some of the cost. busy season, he has laid in a big of the finances of tho county (just b« effected, and wum told thut a recall of road workers and others employed Moore Bros, caused the construction Then, why all this haste at double supply of "Three-A" size film. He is now u half u million doilur debt),'or 1« tltion had been cir< ulaled, und wu» by the court during the last two years of the Keno canal to cease when It cost, in violation of law, to be paid visiting the Henley school today. for tho denial,of favor» of any kind, only nliort 11 few name», whlrh could will likewise be expected to stand In had reached their power house. What 1 immediately by the taxpayers, many but on account of Hie record ho Ims cuMlly be secured, und believing then "because they got some of the pork,” difference would It make to us? Our of whom are burdened with water Europe in its entirety has 107 in muds ns county judge. Look In the um I do now, thut the proponed re and some of them may come forward quantity of water was fixed, but as and other charges of ail they can habitants to the square mile. little book and soo It. tliis latter insinuation has been made bear? 1 submit to the people, if the moval of the court houMe hud been in defense. The Judge further saya that "we, before I will take this oportunity to Judge's road policy has been wise or Mr. Martin, as reported In your is- tlie wbolo cause of tbe split und In- body of which Judge Worden is tbe sue of tho I tth, made a brief and eni- hnrmony In Hie city, und that If thut tho county court, buve been owned by say that It is an entire fabrication, prudent. responsible head, has been charged phatlc reply to the only matter of ICUUHO wiia removed, 1" ¡ico and har- no one.” Tlie people will be glad to with not a particle ot foundation of if 1 may be pardoned for it, there by the grand jury, another official much Importance In Ills whole page mony woulil immediately bo restored, know this, as it ia generally supposed truth, and that any one hereafter re is one or two things in the Judge's body, with flagrant mismanagement article of tlie 11 Hi, viz Whether or w hie li otherwise would take several thut he wears a collar, bearing ini peating it will be guilty of a willful, personal history of my life, that ot county business and waste of the not lie and myself In our Interview year», I consented to tn ku the effort. tials, other than his own. lie further deliberate and malicious falsehood, while having no bearing on the ques peoples' money, which jn my opinion with Major Word-n claimed to limo und culled on the Ju<ige und other» saya that Klamath county owes noth and the same will be true as to their tion at issue would like to mention has not and cannot be disproved, and "sufficient Influence with the grand near to him, und told I tin und them ing to Mr. Martin or myself, with having anything to do with having on account of a little personal pride. heartily and tu to which [cut out vs»v tlie s'MMjp pump mi or utuvi other iauua lands any any- • I have attributed what little success 1 will they, after knowing it, sit idly by jury to slop any proceedings before that In tho Interest of liurtnony und which .. xxxvxi we »V v ii ’ iiini; agree, uum wuavu jvwv and let this wild and reckless extrav we will add thut that neither does it owe where in the project. For proof of j have had to being somewhat prac- that body.” However, as the judgu the good of the city, the court house wo agance continue in violation of law saetns to have u fixed habit of stating row ought to be »topped, und um the him anything, but, on the contrary, all 1 have Baid in regard to this in- ; lical, but when he says that I am not, and all rules of common sense until f --------- “ ** Martin, — only hulf truths, as to ull occurrences people ot tlie West End had offered he Is very greatly indebted to the 'quire at the reclamation office, il is j nor *" is “ Mr. and proves it, ‘ by I the county is hopelessly in debt, and I 'county for his notorious waste of its [on Judge Worden's road between his thut lie cun In any way twist Into his tbe Hal« block, and the K. D Co. had | pointing to the living evidence in | let their money be spent in a way that advantage, I will relate all that diu offered the Hot KprlngH site, thu thing money, and the big debt he has piled house and the court bouse, and only those cement columns in front of the I would make a "drunken sailor” feel occur ut that Interview. 1 in my opinion to do wum to try und up against it, und I believe be can la couple or three blocks from the , First National bank, it hurts my like a miser? Or will they rid the _ ____ Wo did ask Major Worden to meet get tho K. D. Co. to withdraw it» 'come nearer squarrlng it, right now, 'Northwestern office. Lincoln said, [pride, and makes me a little "sore,” county of this incubus and get back offer of it» »11«, uud build on Hie us, und did tell him that wo wore ad olil by promptly resigning, than in any I "you may fool all the people part of and to only think how easily it could into safe and sane hands before it la other wuy. Again he says,.................. vised that tho grand jury would re one. "that 1 ’tho time, and part of them all the have been avoided by getting the too late? It is up to them, and I be new Its Inventigutioii of tho county lie said "that there would be no don't think that it would be wise to'time, but not all of them all the Judge to build them. The only trou lieve they will do the latter. court, with possibility of Will being compromize," and "that be waa com let either of them (Martin or Moore) time,” and 1 think the time has come ble about that would be that there' If some things in thia statement indic ted, unci if that did not occur the mitted t<> the Hot Spring» »It«," etc , <>i tbeir representatives secure in any in Klamath county when Judge Wor would be no money left to run the 1 !are not as full as they should be, or roc ull would ho Invoked, mi cl that ho iir he stutva. I then asked him "It he way th« management of the county'» den can no longer fool any of the bank with, when he got through. I if in any particular not absolutely would be recalled, and that would would be willing to put It on the bal affairs." Whether wise or not we 'people any of tbe time, notwithstand But, never mind, Judge, we will plas correct, it is because I have had to make u long, dlsugrceablo tight mid lot and let Hie legal voter» decide It?” neither wunt it for ourselves or others ing bls soft soap palavering method». ter them up as soon as possible, and write it from memory, with no data "I would like to do 01 to have anything to do with the Speaking of this, have you noticed it won't cost the taxpayers a cent. thut ho ought to resign, in which Hl» utiHWcr waa other than the little book containing event our Influence would bu exerted that, but our attorneys advise uh Hint mnnugeinent of tho county's uffairs. his high tribute to Captain Lee and Tbe other thing is when he says, the grand Jury report to refresh it. U I 10 prevent further effort at prosecu It can't be done.” (Noto how this All we ask is that it bo run with somo [tho Cal and Ore. Power Co.?—both. "They never constructed in a perma I is as I believe it to be, but I don't tion. No word was said about having agree» with tho advice ho claim» to degree of Intelligence and common [ deserved, no doubt, but what have nent manner," and calls attention to want Judge Worden, or other mem- Influence with or trying to influence! have had just before ho was elected I sense, and regard for tho law, and If ¡they to do with his case? 1'11 tell | the i-akeside Inn, brick store and ad accountable for anything it is not re Hie grand jury, the sole Idea being, So thut interview ended. If ho felt he had of done that, there would you. Captain Lee has numerous vot-! jacent buildings, but forgot (same sponsible for, as that is bad enough. thut with th« ninlu factor In the coun- »• nr«d then ho did not show it, and I have been none of this investigation ing friends throughout the county, as old habit) to mention the West Side Apply tbe "acid test” to what he and ty's recklcMM and extravagant waste hope ho I h not having nervous chill» by the grand jury or complaint of the has been demonstrated at many elec-| sawmill, erected by C. S. and R. S. I, as well af the grand jury, have of taxpayers' money out of the way, over It now I had learned from poo- taxpayers, or recall. tlons. and may not some of them be , Moore at a cost of >30,000, which ia said, and if you find that his man there would be no further Incentive pie near the Judge Hint a compromise All that portion of his statement, Induced to vote for the great friend las good and up-to-date mill as there agement has been honest, wise, care or activity on their part to assist In might be effected on tho Central which constitutes three fourths ot it. of their friend? A good many voters [is in the country of its size; or the ful and prudent, sustain him, other gathering evidence on which to base Mchool block. If the people opposed to giving the life history of Mr. Martin are also connected with the power Moore power plant and transmission wise vote for a change, unless he a prose« ution, und that tho Interest leinoval would agree to It. Till» 1 put mid myself In (viamath Falls is whol- company. It won't work. I have just lines to Merrill and Bonanza, erected changes his mind about "standing would Ing mid finally cease for wunt up to the people who linked mo to ly outsido the subject, and has notb- received a statement of the taxes just by the same firm at a cost of >75,000, pat,” and decides to render the coun of support from them, which we Intercedo In tho mutter, and they Ing to do with it. Don't forget that now due from C. 8. A R. S. Moore, and 1 don't believe there is a better ty the greatest service he can ever would encourage mid help. hail u meeting of tbe Commercial ! tho question at issue is: "Has Judge amounting to >1,112.20, as against power plant of its size anywhere in render it, by promptly resigning. lie further says that we, in the in- , (Tub tulled, which voted it down, Worden proved himself u prudent, >742 on the same property last year. the Northwest. I might say that the So much for the county judge and tervle* With Ills father, told Hie which ended that matter. safe, competent and careful official, or Just a little matter of 50 per cent Moore sawmill on Link River, above his statement. Major that Guy Merrill had "promts- 1 1 dislike to take up »0 much space has be been a reckless, incompetent raise, "a mere bagatelle.” I hope town and at the present site, were op in the first line of your editorial of cd” to resign thut la another only with (lie court house question, as af spendthrift, wasting tho people's mon every taxpayer will compare bis last erated by us from 1878 to 1910, and the 11th, you say, “we Lave como to half truth the word "promised" Im ter the decision of tho supreme court ey?” And whether or not Mr. Mar year's receipt with this year's, and I venture to say that prior to the i tbe parting of the wave 'n the af- plying that we had asked him to re I have considered II settled, and only tin's home is in California, and that ask himself if he is getting value re building of the mills and box fac- ifairs of Klamath coun'v” and in the sign, when the fact Is that I saicl "Guy do so becitUHe of Judge Worden's ho is seventy-four years old, and has ceived in good honest service, worth tories on the Upper Lake only a few concluding paragraph. "The line has Merrill hud told me lie was going to stating only the half truths In the amassed a fortune, or whether I for one hundred cents on the dollar. years ago, our firm paid out more been drawn, whose county shall this icsign," which, by the way, was un mutter, so ns to distort the facts. merly owned tho Klamath Falls Light leaving out the Impropriety of money as wages to men in our mills be, Mr. Common Man—yours, or the solicited on my part, und wholly vol (Note particularly tho purtH he omit and Water Works, and have in con trading poor farms with a member of and logging camps than all other property of the bank and the city?” untary on his part, he having raised ted. ) junction with Ben* Selling built a 'his own family, without public ad manufacturing establishments in the The first sentence quoted above is tlie subject liIm»<• If. A»k Ouy. lie says, in substance, that If the building in Portland and forty other vertisement, do the people believe country combined, excepting possibly 'correct. We have truly come to a The judge. III the first paragraph, blinks of Klamath Falls had stood l.-iimll ir irrelevant things have no con ¡that a >36.000 poor farm is now re those in the Pokegama country. Lum ' parting of the ways, but the question after rc-lutlng what his father told buck of the county court, mid helped nection with his mismanagement of quired to keep seven or eight in- ber from our mills was distributed all is not as stated in your concluding him about our interview with hlin, to kee|i tho warrants at par, they ¡county affairs, have any bearing on mates nt a cost for maintenance of over the country from Bly, Fort paragraph, but is "Shall the men who saya: would now be at par, and how nice it the question, ns neither Mr. Martin >131 | ht month, when, as the grand Klamath, Langell Valley, Clear and happen to be elected to conduct the "1 did not know whether or not would have been for ull to have work- nor myself arc holding, seeking, or JurX says, "they could be kept for less Tule Lakes to Klamath Falls, at county's business affairs for a time the- pretentions of Marlin mid Moore • •I together In peace mid harmony, would have nny public office. We. motley at the White Pelican hotel.” 1 33 1-3 per cent lower than present be allowed to conduct them with utter were bused on fact. 1 knew, of course, mid what a showing Hie county could however, pay some taxes in Klamath doubt If any other county in the state j prices at the mills. Whether these disregard of the constitution and laws that D. V. Kuykendall, former dis have made, etc. No doubt, and how 'county, and have a right to know|l’«" one costing so much, except the things have contributed anything to which in their oaths of office they trict attorney, who hud initiated the beautiful it would have been and (hut it will not be improperly expend county of Multnomah, in whicli Port the benefit and development of the swore to support and obey, and in vio proc i dings iigainsl the county court wliut a hilarious time we could iiuvx ed ns in the last two years. land is situated. Icily and county will leave to the peo- let ion of all business rules, prudence before the present grand jury, was liud, mid costing nobody an.'thing but In one of Ills co-called "letters of Iple, and whether tbe wages paid has or common sense? Or shall they be Court House Construction attorney for the First National bunk, tho taxpayers, Why, Judge. d<>n t explanation," which don't explain nny The folly of trying to carry on con- I aided anybody, will leave to men like i mi elled to have some regard and mid handled (lie (gcrsonal business of you reinember that tile banks went I thing, one of the reasons given for -• ruction work of any magnitude in John, Burrell and Lum Short, Steve onsideratlon for the taxpayer, whose Mm I hi mid Moore.” Wrong again. right on taking warruntH the same as I awarding tlie contract for steel to the Klamath county la the winter time is l ow, Billy Hazen, C. D. Wilson, John asoney they are squandering?” Judge, as you knew nothing of the they I hk I been lifter you came into ■Northwest Steel company at a higher apparent to any one having spent a 'i abler and dozens ot other old real- Very respectfully, kind, uh tlie fact Is Kuykendall Is not office, until they commenced coming j price than Hie bld of the Pacific Roll winter there, »till the work goes on tents, who worked in our mills and 15-lt CHAS. S. MOORE. now, mid never was, attorney for Hi < in so thick and fiiHt that even if ing Mill company, was that the tneas- by day s labor. Judging from recent logging camps, and will also submit many of them have not been Issued in First National bunk or of the old I ut cinents of tho steel of tho latter mention in the paper» of the auditing o the people if these things have been Klamath County bank. I don't bo- lit h r dlsrcgurd of law Hint even the c ompany would not bo true to meas ot a pay roll over the protest of Com of as much benefit to the county as II- vc- lie him ever handled any of Mr. Bunk of California would not have urement», and could not bo put in missioner liagelstein. What ought selling an occasional alleged town lot Martin's pe> onal busincHH. He has cured to have huc I i bulging wallets of I place by any one except skilled labor- Ito be done, and what any prudent n the sago brush on a side track bear With the Old Wdtch? done come business for C. 8. A- It. 8. iicli long time, low interest paper. A IcrH, while that of the Northwest Steel bonrd would do, would be to not do ing the Judge's name. It's not getting any younger, you Mooie, as have several other attor bunk'a money belongs principally to company would be true to measure I another lick of work on it by day’s in concluding my statement in an know, and once in a while it needs neys of tlie city. Only Inst fall ho tlie depositors, mid if it Htays in busi- ment, and could bo put up by unsklll- work, but have specifications made swer to Judge Worden's statement a rc.-t and overhauling. Railroad bent the- Klamath County bank in Its 111'.. h It must not Imvo too much slow ied local workmen. This Hop to local lip and take bids and let contracts for an<i supplement thereto, will say chi t watches are cleaned and overhauled Hull agalnHl Bonanza School District | .i|uT, and no bad, if it knows it. A h workmen sounds like a joko. Who > it's entire completion. Then we will it is much longer than I would likv, nee a year to insure accurate time- lor tlie payment of a school warrant, to the showing Hie county could hnvo told him this? It mut sahve been know what it is going to cost, and which is made necessary by reason of k ping. Why not bring yours in and h<- being attorney for the district. I 111.11I0 if tlie bunks liud of stood bo- the« Northwest Steel company, and that graft and waste will bo eliminat- his numerous false and misleading let us give it the attention that is wonder if the feeling shown by the I i I ik I tlie court, it would have prob without knowing anything about it 1 led, which we cannot know in any datements, and if he will do that, necessary for gooj time keeping. Judge ill Ills letters against Kuyken ably been ill tho shape of a million i will venture the assertion that a steel ! other way. The Water Users ex ibout matters having no direct bear-: F II A N K M. V 1’ 1’ dall, mid tho high regard mid kind dollars debt, Instead of only halt a structure like that of (ho court house pressed themselves on that question ng on the charges against him ant] Wiitcliinnke., Jeweler and Engraver. consideration expressed for the grand million, and the superintendent of can bo put in place, w hether the steel in the work on the Klamath project, made as before stated for the sole 8. I*. Watch Inspector • Jury I h Influenced In any way by the tlie poor farm might have had instead comes from the Northwest company and if Commissioner liagelstein can purpose of creating sympathy, preju Willitts Building fin I that tlie former I h no longer < 1 a >362 wagon in which to rido to or any other company, by skilled ¡accomplish it's completion by con- dicing voteis and diverting the atten proicec utlng attorney, while tlie latter town, n >2,000 automobile, with a workmen in that lino for one-half of trait he will be entitled to the lasting tion o.f the people from his own acts, 11 still doing busInt-HH nt the old ihmiffeur. In fact, wo might Imvo what it can be done for by unskilled gratitude of tho people. can nny dependence whatever bo aland, mid him not finished Its inves Hiirrounded the court house lot with laborers, bo they otherwise ever so , placed on anything he says about Road Construction autos for uho of county officers and competent. "Every man to his trade." tigation of Hie county court. Wo are all agreed that the time matters directly bearing on or af In tlie Judge's article' of tho 11th employe». The Judge says in substance “that has come for better and more perma fecting the charges against him, ns, ' Tho Judge nMurcs iih that the debt it I h an old saying that the charging nent roads, which don't mean that it ¡for instance, his numerous long at-j and In former loiters lie' puts groat We have everything you Htn-HH on I i I h claim Hint ho was elect ol >.157,000, incurred in the last two of ten and twelve per cent interest is all has to be done in a couple of [tempted explanations heretofore pub-, need for that fishing trip: ed to move the court house. 1 wish years I h "a mere bagatelle,” mid thnt what has held buck the development years, or at a time of tho year when llshed, of tlie charges against hint in ' Hook, line, rods, reels, ho would tell the people, then, what a debt of 11 million or a million and a of Klamath Falls and Klamath coun it costs twico as much to do it, and which he talks about American Ingot ! basket», etc. We rvnt he meant to liavo some voters under half would bo "within good buHlncsH ty." Does he or nny other living per J not so good as if done at the proper iron Culverts being better than steel, tents, guns and camping stand when ho told them Just beforo lines." D001 ho know of any county son In the' county know of one In time. Within the last two weeks I and worth almost twice as much and outfits. (ho election, at which ho was elected, ol the stnlo having, or that over had, st unco where twelve per cent interest heard an engineer of the United the Structural Steel of the Northwest that "wo have discovered that tho •1 million dollar debt, not excepting has been charged, either directly or States good roads department lecture, Steel company being truo to measure J. B. CHAMBERS court house cannot bo removed ex tho wealthy county of Multnomah, Indirectly? If so, don't delay in hav [and he stated that the time to build ments, while thnt ot the other bidder I Phone K98 Jacobs Itlk cept by a three fifths vote of tho poo- with an assessed value of over >3Q0,- ing the guilty party indicted and sent good roads was in the spring of the is not, etc. Tho thing to keep in mind plo.” Did ho not want them to un- 000,000? And does he not know that to tho pen for usury. This Is only an year, when nioisturo was yet in the is, that tho county court, an official ' C. S. MÜUKl RlPLItS What’s .the Matter FISHING TACKLE THE GUN STORE