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innt-ìlìrrkh| ♦ ♦♦«.♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ LEADING PAPER OF ♦ ♦ SOUTHERN OREGON ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ REACHES EVERYONE ♦ ♦ IN KLAMATH COUNTY ♦ NUMBER 17 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1914 VOLUME XIX «&. f I ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The following are the success ful candidates for the republican and democrat nominations: National Committeeman—Ralph E.Williams and H. M. Esterly. United States Senator—R. A. ♦ Booth and George E. Cham berlain. ♦ ♦ Congressman—Nj J. Sinnot; the democratic nominee is hot yet ♦ known. ♦ ♦ Governor — James Withycombe and C. J. Smith. ■ ing the Washington dispatches hint- ♦ ALSO WANTS A VOICE IN THE [ ing that Huertists might propose ♦ State Treasurer.—Thos. B. Kay. !Louis Cabrera for the presidency to ♦ At torney General—George CHOOSING OF HIS SUC- Brown and John A. Jeffrey. ■succeed. Huerta, said: ■ “Carranza will not step aside for ♦ Superintendent of Public CESSOR IN OFFICE struction—J. A. Churchill. ‘any candidate the mediation confer- ♦ ience may propose for the presidency. ♦ St.ite Engineer-—John H. Lewis. Information to Tills Effect Was For i We all recognize the ability of Cabre- ♦ Labor Commissioner—O. P. Hoff xvarded to Huerta’s Envoys at Niag- ¡ro> and we value his friendship to the ♦ Railroad Commissioner-—Frank J. Miller. ♦ ara Falls Today—Dictator Alsoi Superintendent of Water Divi sion No. 1—Jas. T. Chinnock. Suggests That Asiatic Colonies Be, nock. Forbidden on Mexican Soil St.ite Representative (two Rental Plan' Suggested. elect)—Vernon A. Forbes and W. O. Smith, republican; P. H. Dencer, democrat. Other By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD nominee not known until final (Staff Correspondent) Pseount, as a number of names were written in. VERA CRUZ, May 18.—Victoriana County Judge—-«Wm. S. Worden Huerta will quit the presidency of and Marion Hanks. Mexico provided the United States Sheriff—Chas. C. Low and J. W. will make a loan of $400,000,000 to Hawxhurst. Mexico, lease Magdalena Bay as a; Jounty Clerk-—C. R. DeLap and naval base for $99,000,000, and bar; J. H. Everett. Carranza from the presidency. County 'Tressurer—George Haydon. Reliable Mexico City information, County Commissioner—F. H. Me states that Huerta forwarded these in-' Cornack and Edw. Freuer. structions to his envoys at Niagara ’ County Surveyor—E. B. Henry. Falls. • Clerk ofi Circuit Court—George Huerta also wants some voice ih 1 Chastain, both tickets. the naming of his successor. ♦ 4County Coroner—Earl Whitlock, It is understood that Huerta’s plans democrat. contemplate the expenditure of the‘ Justice of Peace, Linkville Dis $400,000,000 in the upbuilding of the! trict—E. W. Gowen and O. E. nation. This is to be done under the Willey. supervision of a commission Composed ! Constable, .Linkville District— of two Americans, two Mexicans and a I John Schallock. representative each from England, j France and Germany. It is reported that he proposes a constitutionalist < cause, but if Huerta’s 99-year rental plan at a payment of delegates even consider such a propo $1,000,000 annually. sition they will shoot away wide of It is also understood that he sug the mark. gests: that Asiatic races be forbidden “Madero owed his downfall to a to colonize in Mexico. compromise. The position of Carranza and his followers is that Huerta must United Press Service jgo, not' through compromise,, but JAUREZ, May 18.—A man close to ¡through abdication, with Villa’s army Carranza, When asked today regard- ¡occupying the capital.” « FATALITIES NARROWLY AVERT ED WHEN AUTOMOBILE AND STEED COLLIDE ON THE MER- RILL ROAD The official score of Sunday’s base- ered in everything that parsed the ball game at Yreka reads Yreka 4,1 bat, never making so much as a wob- Klamath Falls 3. ble or bobble. Dale, Maxwell, Mesner The official scorer (a Yreka man) ! and Hayden composed the brick-wall emphatically declares the score should j infield, and Hurn, Arnold and Noel read Klamath Falls 3, Yreka 2. The ¡the errorless outfield, confusion arose over a foul ball thatj The trip, made in four of George was called fair by the umpire. (Biehn’s Ford cars, was completed The winning or losing so close a j vithout a single mishap, making the game, ho-vever, is of minor import 148 miles without so much as a punc awe—the real tiling is the fact thar ture. Klamath Falls has a ball team that The bunch of boosters for the Elks can play ball.. The Klamath Falls Rodeo, whp accompanied the ball boys, wearing their new suits for the team, remained in Yreka last night first time in a game, played giltedged to attend to the publicity stunts they are pulling off for the Rodeo. They ball. One error, and one error only, did went in Eddie Dunham’s Reo, which the scorer mark against the Klamath I w§s decorated with a big banner in Falls team, while, during the nine ex viting the world to Klamath Falls for citing innings, the phenomenal plays the big celebration, July 3, 4 and 5. pulled off by the Oregon boys brought The ball team left Yreka at 5 the fans to their feet a dozen times o’clock, and ran to the Klamath Hot to cheer the brilliant work. Springs for dinner. Mr. and Mrs. W. “Bun” Browne, who pitched for C. Brown, who have charge of the Klamath Falls, was hit on his pitching Hot Springs hotel, treated the ball arm by one of Keegan’s swiftest in players royally, and arranged with shoots, that raised a lump as large as Manager Duhl for a game to be played a Klamath County spud, and numbed on the Hot Springs grounds during the arm for the rest of the game. In July. spite of this, he went the other tor Mr. Duhl is trying to arrange a turous innings, holding the game safe game with Weed for next Sunday, to until the fatal miscall of the umpire be played here. If that cannot be ar in the eighth. ranged, a game with the Slcan Indians “Bun” deserves credit with his bat-! or the Chiloquin-Fort Klamath team tery mate, Keith Ambrose, who gath-| will be played on the home grounds. J ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ United Press Service PORTLAND, May 18.—Chief Justice Thos. McBride, Justices Henry J. Bean and Charles Mc Nary and Lawrence T. Harris of Eugene, were nominated by the republicans as candidates for the supreme court in order named. The vote follows: McBride, 36,660; Bean, 34,236; McNary, 32,696; Harris, 31,165; Clee- ton, 24,497; Benson, 25,839. ♦ l ♦ i ♦ HUERTISTATRODPS ♦ I I ♦ ♦I ♦i ♦ ♦; EAST OF SALTILLO ♦ ! ♦ ¡ATTACK IS ALSO MADE NEAR ♦ * FLORAV ’Following Short Encounter, Federate SUITS SIARiLD .___ _ Retreat—Huerta Says He Will Punish the Men Responsible for the Death of American Trooper if He Was Killed Inside the Federal Picket Lines. • ■ I i FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP MER- j United Presa ServlC9 RH j L BRINGS TWO ACTIONS, in ! WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.— WHICH C. G. MERRILL FIGURES ¡The Brazilian minister today notified i Secretary Bryan that Huerta’s foreign AS DEFENDANT ; secretary has promised to'punish the ¡men responsible for the death of Pri- „. ... e .. . , „ iyate Parks if he finds that Parks was Two suits for the recovery of money P ™ i < in the .i, circuit: ■ .*! killed within the federal lines. were filed j this morning court by . the First National bank of j ~ Merrill. Rutenic & Kent appear as the; United Press Service plaintiff’s attorneys. i Rio COAHUILA, May 18.—The In one action the bank seeks to col-i federal troops opened a bombard- ¡lect promissory notes for $600 and|ment on the rebels under Villa this >965, signed by former County Com- ¡morning, eight miles east of SaltiUo, imlssioner C. G. Merrill, and for $225.iana ,a skirmish followed. The out- [attorney fees. ¡posts have clashed frequently since ¡before starting on the morning round, The second action names F. T. i iaSf night. ! United Press Service SANDWICH, England, jnay ig.__ ¡“but I am goinng to try my best to Peach, Guy Merrill and E. <M. Ham- , Villa’s main body was attacked by iThe eyes of the world of sport in gen win. I like the English courses, and mond as defendants. It Is alleged ; the federate at Florav last night. Af- eral and the world of golf in partic- j they suit me very well, so I expect to that Peach wrote a check for $1,200 !fer a short encounter, the.federate re- j on the First National bank of Oak-1 treated. ular, were centered today on the his-1 render a good account of myself, toric links here, xyhen play com-: “It is true that I have not been land in favor of Merrill, and the lab ’ Villa’s temporary base is here. It menced ¡for the British amateur cham- i playing in top form in my practice ter endorsed it to Hammond. When i iS expected that he will direct his final pionship. ¡games, but I have got into my stride the Merrill bank cashed it and sent it' assault from here, ________ This year’s entry broke all records, Ipretty well. Travers, Herreshoff and to Oakland for collection, the check | was protested. In addition to the faceH more than 200 competitors having '*‘Chick” Evans have the advantage sent in their names and announced !°ver me in experience of English links j value of the check, the bank seeks to ' E m ra V jj 11T ¡|V|il| | II their intention of defending the title i SP T am not going to shout about my recover $4 protest fees. against Francis Ouiinet, the American |°'rfn eahnees. Nervous? Not a bit.” open champion, and other American! Ouimet will have the pull in the cracks. ¡matter of nerves, for fully half of The American competitors included [the English competitors have not the II .. .Tjagiga Jerome D. Travers, last year’s United ¡slightest chance of success, and if States champion; Fred Herreshoff, A. I drawn against the cracks would be G. Lock wood (Ouimet’s friend and | morally beaten before they started. 'BELIEVED COLORADO’S GOVER- » counsellor), and Charles (“Chick”) [ The other American competitors NOR WILL REQUEST THE WITH Evans of Chicago, but well known as are cheerful and confident, and see a DRAWAL OF REGULAR ARMY these players are on the English links, I propitious omen in the fact that the the star performer was easily young, last time the championship was play FORCES FROM STATE Ouimet, who gained such a sensation- i ed at Sandwich, W. J. Travers won al victory over the English profession- for America, startling the English DENVER, May 18.—Observers of als, Vardon and Ray, in the American ¡golfing world by defeating Edward ■ the labor trouble today predict that open championship at Brookline, Mas- ! Blackwell, SUB i Governor Ammons will soon request The English cracks include Harold sachusetts, last fall. ' the withdrawal of the federal forces Great crowds followed the young ! Hilton, John Ball, Edward'Blackwell, I from the strike zone, and allow him to Bostonian, who laughingly pointed IH. D. Gilles and H. E. Taylor, All i return the militia. out that he was no longer “the boy ¡ these, as well as the American com- The union is opposing this step, wonder,” as he celebrated his 21st [peiitors wili play in the French ama- ¡and has urged the officers of all the birtliday ten days ago. ¡terr championship next week, and the I unions to protest to President Wilson. “I don’t know that I am a wonder i British open championship next It is feared that the withdrawal of at all,” he said to the United Press month. JUSTICE McNARY the regulars will see a renewal of One of the Chosen ¡violence. ¡¡■IM A fine saddle horse belonging to the i Greenfield Farm is dead, and the au tomobile belonging to Bob Alexander is badly battered, as the results of a collision on the Merrill road late last night, in which Fred Sperry, riding the horse, and a party of five in the car, driven by Claude Alexander, flg- ured. According to the members of the auto party, as they were returning to Klamath Falls at a speed of fifteen miles an hour or, near the Melhase ■ place they espied Sperry on the horse, | also riding toward town, and like them, on the right hand side of the road. Expecting Sperry to turn to CLOUDBURST CAUSES FOUNTAIN POSTMASTER GENERAL MAKES A the left, Alexander drove his car NEW ORDER FOR QUICKER RE RIVER TO BREAK LEVIES AND along the right hand side until he was TURNING OF SPECIAL DELIV- just behind Sperry. FLOOD LOWLANDS, CAUSING Thinking to avoid a collision, Alex ERY MAIL MUCH DAMAGE ander. at this time swung his car to the left of the road, but not in time to escape striking the horse with the United Press Service As the result of an order recently engine and left fender of the car. As issued by the postmaster general at PUEBLO, Colo., May 18.—-A cloud Washington, undelivered special de a result, the horse’s leg was broken, burst which caused a flood in the livery letters will be returned to the and it had to be shot. Sperry’s escape from being injured by the thrown Fountain River, and broke the levees writer within the time indicated by and inundated the lowlands, caused the sender. horse is marvelous. damage to the extent of half a mil Heretofore such letters have been Three letters have been found in lion dollars this morning. held for five days before returning to Three hundred families were ren- the sender. Now these letters will be the treasury department at Washing dered homeless, but so far no fatali- ( returned in one day if the sender so ton, after having remained in a crack in the wall for twenty-seven years. ties have been reported, S'everal wishes. -________ _______ One of the letters contained money school houses were wrecked or badly | damaged by the flood. j machine has been perfected which sent to the treasury to be redeemed, while one of the others was an out ------------------------- pours and dry powder into a paper There are about 100 gas stoves ini bag, folds the bag, and makesa paper going letter, which was mailed the use in Hong Kong, the Chinese cooks box and places the bag and a folded day after it was found. preferring their old methods, prepar circular within it, pastes on the label Great Britain last year consumed ing the food over charcoal and wood and seals the box, at the rate of 1,500 fires. 100,000,000 gallons of gasoline. . boxes an hour. II BUTTES, COLO. K Squirrels Ruin Ditch Reclamation Canals Continually Hurt by Rodents A bounty on squirrels is being ad-. cial today. “It was only a few days vocated by a number of farmers un- ; aS° that the east branch canal bank der the Klamath project, who state !was washed out. “The squirrels are causing ten that the rodents this year have in-. times more trouble this year than creased at an alarming rate, and are[ ever before. Although our ditch riders are constantly working to erad liable to cause damage. Owing to the burrowings of .the' icate them, the country is so thick squirrels along the reclamation ser with them that this work amounts to vice canals, one of the banks on the very little. The reclamation service is furnish south branch canal, between the south branch headquarters and the big ing squirrel poison to water users free flume washed out last night. To re of charge this year, in the hope of pair this it was necessary to shut of killing off the pests. The majority of the full head of water all day today, the water users believe the county which works a hardship on the irri- should place a bounty on the squir rels for a few months, anyhow, and gationists. “This is the second bad break in make their extermination a matter the canals caused by the squirrels this I worth while to people who will have year,” said a reclamation service offi- time to kill them,”
