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* o' I I JffK. a VOI I MF 34; NUMBER 45 I Icaòliqljt TILLAMOOK, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1923 J i 8 il PRICE $2.00 A YEAR 3 I ■ i 1 i —- FIRE CONVENTIONS ATTEDED BY CHIEF ÍS tfFINEEXHIBil MISSING RANCHER FREER MOVEMEfiII ÍY BELIEVED MURDERED SI[ATE AM)RYI * Man.' Entries Airead' Hate Been Made in Livestock Department AUTO SHOW IS FEATURE ¿11 Slock Entries Must be Made by September First on Account of Health Test Jack Rupp, one of the directors of tat county fair, writes agent Pine that he will be down here some time the coming week to take charge of the work of making the fair grounds ready for the big show when the var ious superintendents and others can make their wants known as to the arrangements of booths and exhibit rooms. Th' Sunset, Tillgmook und Chevro let garages will stage a big exhibit together under a big 50xl(H> tent und will put on a big auto show dvring the fair. Conover i Conover will have u big grocery display in a space just taken by that firm. Gee. Burckard will show a fine lire of plumbing stock and uuto accessor ies, etc. Photographer Graves will make a display <i‘ hits work in u booth at the fair The Nelson Electric company wil) have a booth in the main display pa Betchel W Gooch, florists, will have a firs collection of flowers and flow «nag shrubs which should interest lover- of the beautiful in that line. The Page Furniture Co. has engag- de space for their exhibit and prom- »■ a gii.xl exhibit. Mrs. Royal Stillwell will show her hrg< ai ssortment of canary birds in a Ipeeia il booth, as usual. The ( ■Mist Power company has tak- m the- whole north end of the ex Mbr bi uiiding and will put on an «tato rat • display of their lighting sys ten am ad electric appliances which •ear tea it will be worth seeing. A. A Pennington, will I m - there with * nii' assortment of g- neral merch- ssdi-w fo exhibition showing latest f*i' and wnter styles. Oth' : it is understood are making Improper placing and I se of Fire Fighting Equipment Brings Charge bv " arden Fred ltobitscii, a prominent logger in the vicinity of Huddon, who is op erating a logging camp and furnish ing the logs to a mill company in his vicinity, was arrested last Thursday by deputy state Fire Warden A. L. McCarty who is also connected with the State Forestry bureau. The com plaint alleged non-cumplianc< with the state law in the matter of the proper location of tire fighting appa ratus required to be kept in logging camps. Mr. Robitach plead guilty to the charge and Judge Stanley imposed the minimum tine of $25 and costs. This is believed to be- the first case of the kind ever brought in this county, and it was only until lately that pro secutions have been brought in the state under provisions of the law above quoted. It is understood, how ever, by Mr. McCarty, that the law will now be rigidly enforced us fires from donkey engines in the woods are responsible to a great extent for des tructive tires each summer, and much of this could be avoided on the part of loggers and others by keeping the implements for incipient tires in the places provided for by the luw. The action was brought aguiust Mr. Bob itsch under Sec. 201 the state law, which reads as 1 allows. "Each side of a logging operation shall maintain a tool box at or neai railway containing at ail times from May first to October first, six shov els, six hazel or grub hoes and six water buckets in good condition for tire lighting purposes.” Mr. Robitsch claims that he had not carefully read the law, the non-ob- sevance of which as to some of the provisions of the section caused the trouble for him. New Fair Property Favored by Flyers as Suitable Landing Field Thus. Coates, heud of the local fire 'department of this city, returned Sat- j urduj night lust from attendance on a session of, the Pacific Coast Fire I Chiefs, held in Wallace, Idaho. Pre viously he attended the annual meet ing of the state convention of fire Fair Officials Give Assurance That chiefs held at Bend on July 27 to the 29th. There were about 50 delegates (■round May be l sed for present at the state convention and Aviation Purposes Bend gave the convention a royal wel come. The object of the association “is to elevate the standard of knowl Tuesday last Lieut. Powell und Sgt. edge regarding the prevention, handl Giles, pilot, in a large DeHaviland ing and extinguishing fires.” The delegates were feted by the airplane arrived in Tillamook and Bend chamber of commerce at the landed at the new- fair grounds site Pilot Butte Inn. At this meeting Mr. east of the city, The arrival WMS Coates was called on by the toast- about 10 a. m. and the flight from muster atid introduced as the “Chief Vancouver, Wn., occupied 45 minutes (Continued on page 4) from the time of starting until the plane mude its landing here. The course was by com pas almost on a due east and west course from Portland most of the way on account of fog conditions. While a board fence had been pluced across the ground since it was used by Lyle A foreclosure suit on u mortgage Smith a couple of years ago, the pilot hud no difficulty in making the slop. made by Ivan Donaldson and N. P. Later on, in the forenoon, the plane Christenson and Ja< k Fletcher, pro circled the town several times and prietors of the Portland - Tillamook repeated the flight lisully in the af stage line, was filed by the First Na tional bunk of this city in circuit court ternoon. It is understood that Lieut. Powell for this county this week, asking for be was instructed from his superior uf- a judgment for $3572, alleged to due the bank from the defendants to (Continued on page 61 the suit. FIELD IS PHOTOGRAPHED! SUIT IS BROUGHT AGAINST STAGE LINE CONCRETE MACHINE J. P. McGinnis of Portland bus filed a suit in circuit court for foreclosure of a certain chattel mortgage against F. C. Feldschau of this city to recov er the sum of $840 and interest, al leged to be due from the defendant on the sale of a concrete mixer to him on The county clerk and his force which it is alleged in the complaint worked overtime last Saturday issu- that payment has not been mude. ing marriage licenses, Five glory tickets were issued that day. The whole atmosphere was surcharged with a current of hymeneal bliss, Clerk Brimhall says he never saw the like before since he has been in that office, Who says we are to have race suicide ? As a result of the licenses G. D. Edgar and Alice Kelley of Ne halem were married by Rev. L. E. Ta (Continued on page 6) ber at that city, Aug 11; John Snider was married to Violet Baxter by Rev. Geo. Harness on the same day, in this city; Leslie M. Walker and Edith M. Fletcher secured a license to wed and two other permits were issudW and the marriages are recorded elsewhere in this issue, making five in one day. And August isn’t supposed to be a Jim t'hristenson—everybody knows bride's month, but it was. Jim—who lives out in Echo Dell, near Pkavant valley, brought to this of- fc* Wednesday a freak egg laid by an »naisuming Rhode Island Red hen. The egg is quite large und has mys- •«nou and unnatural corrugations Wer th- shell which attracted the at- •♦»tior. of Mr. Christenson. Four of •Awe corrugations are the letters “R” Sergeant John Aschim and Elwell Joined together as if written. There •’* Other undecipherable hieroglyph- Erskine, Garold Graves, Jimmie Wat on the surface. Some of those son, Jr., and Harry Miller of com •An ha vi- men the egg are inclined to pany K. l«2d inf. left Thursday morn a superstitious view of the mat- ing last for the stale rifle range at **1 and various speculations are rife Clackamas to participate in the state v to what they might portend or militia target practice. The boys arc- The egg expert of this office, all good shots und it is believed they however, j, inclined to view the fig- will figure when the scores are check #r»- a mere accidental corrugations ed up at the end of the practice. MERRY MARRY MAKERS SWAMP COUNTY CLERK Local Fire Department Head Returns From Meeting of Coast Chiefs Held at " alluce, Idaho Late Report Says that Very Little Cheese is Now Held in Storage LOAF CHEESE FAVORED TOE GETS SMASHED BY MOVING TRUCK TRASK RIVER ROAD While attempting to board u mov ing truck from the Y'. M. C. A. camp up the Trask river last Monday morn ing, Ralph Sipperrel of Portland, missed his footing with the result that one of his big toes was flattened and bruised by a wheel of the truck« in flicting a painful wound. Dr. Ringo attended to the injury. DISCOVERED ON EGG GUARDSMEN SHOTS — GARIDALDI RESIDENT The county has recently done some good work in widening the turns and taking off the shoulders of the points on the Trask river road leading up O. 1». Gravell, a Garibaldi man who to the state hatchery resulting in a very satisfactory condition to auloists is said to have considerable property in ;hat city, was arrested by Sheriff and others. Aschim last Tuesday on two charges one for the possession and sale of in toxicating liquor and another for pos session of liquor. He was arraigned before Justice Stanley Tuesday and plead guilty to both charges and was fined for the possession and sale of liquor in the sum of $200 and costs and was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail; on the second charge he was lined $100 and costs and giv en an additional thirty days in the court house basement. The total fines amount to $300 and the costs and the total jail sentence is ninety days of confinement. At this writing Gravelle had not paid l-.is fines and in any event will have to serve his nine ty days in jail. SUICIDAL MANIAC IS SENT TO ASYLUM ATTEND STATE MATCH undertaken to classify the hen Guy Ford of the Tillamook cheese •Wieri with other freak productions *•’ nature sometimes seems to bring factory, bought a new Willys-Knight coupe last week. without explanation. Merrick, Chaffee & He.vd to Get Contract for State Construction A dispatch from Astoria to a Port land daily August 9th states that the skeleton of a man was found in the timber near the old West ranch on the Tillamook highway about 4 miles south of its junction with the Necani- cum river. Neceasary Amount is Pledged by Sheriff John Aschim is of the opin Kiwanis Club at Meeting Held ion that the remains are those of Joe Wednesday Night West, a Belgian, ,who mysteriously disappeared about six years ago from The second calling for bids for the his home on the north fork of the Ne- state armory that is to be erected halem river, Sheriff Aschim at the here was successful Wednesday after time was a state fire warden and he the first figures submitted some time and A. L. McCarty who was working ago were all found to be too high. Merrick. Chaffee & Heyd, local con with Aschim at the time, spent con siderable time at intervals during the tractors, were the successful bidders, summer following West’s disapjiear- with a price of $30,199. Other con ance looking for his remains, believ tractors bid the following figures on ing that he had met with foul play at the general work: Hoover & McNeil the hands of some Russian neighbors, $31,082; Hedges & Huis $32,888; A. with whom he had several times had Lombard $30,960. The heating and trouble. One of the Russians told plumbing contract will be allowed to Aschim and McCarty that West had George H. Burckard for $5362.25 and gone away, after killing his dogs, and the electrical wiring contrrct to the that he thought West was crazy. Coast Power companw for $1075. Members of the general staff who Blood traces were found near a small creek near thi West home, shortly af-| were present at the opening of the ter the latter's disappearance and the bids were General George A. White, Russians sought to account for the Lt. Col. Hirum U. Welch and Major blood by saying that West had shot Janies 8. Gay, Jr. As soon as the bonds are approved his dogs at that point. Both Aschim and McCarty became convinced that and the contract - signed work on the West had been murdered and search building will be started. At a meeting of the Kiwanis club ed for traces of him at intervals dur ing the summer when in that vicinity. Wednesday night a sufficient amount The county judge of Clatsop county- was pledged to cover the deficiency in received an anonymous letter which the appropriation for the building. stated that the writer had seen West somewhere back east, some time after (Continued on nage 4) Fair Days and Restless Nights MYSTERIOUS FIGURES i i 1 * 4 I > I START BUILDING SOON Production Now 25 Per Cent Above That of One Year Ago; Now at 5500 Boxes Carl Haberlach returned from i a trip to Portland on Monday where he had gone in the interests of 1 the cheese and feed business. Mr. Hab erlach reports the cheese market as in better condition at present than it bus been for three or four weeks, as cheese is moving off quite readily, and while little cheese is being placed in storage it is not more than the mar ket will readily absorb the coming winter. Mr. Haberlach states that the loaf cheese is now meeting with better success than formerly as the association spent considerable money adver Using tile ioal uheeae during June and July. He figures that near ly ull of the winter milk that will lie for the making of first class cheese will go into the making of loaf, so that the association should have a fair amount of cheese in storage to be sold during the winter. Cheese production is keeping up well, the production for the lust week being 25 per cent over a yeur ago. Production to date has been about 550ti boxes over last year. Sheriff Aschim Recalls Peculiar In cidents Which Took Place Several Years Ago Melvin Shupp, who has been in this county for about eight months, was taken in custody Tuesday by the sher iff charged with being mentally un balanced. He was examined by local physicians who decided that he was insane and by order of the county judge was so adjudged. Shupp is about GO years of age and is said to have a suicidal mania and according to witnesses had several times threat ened to take his own life, lie was aken to the asylum for the insane list Wednesday by a guard from that institution. j < » t i « ♦ i X I f .1 5 ; * « f ; 1 »,, » ?< I I i 1 I. À-- , i ; I 4 I LOCAL SCHOOLS OPEN ON SEPTEMBER 17TH Superintendent of schools Turnbull stated Thursday that the public schools of this city would be op'-n on September 17 as it is believed the building will be ready by that time. LUMBER BREAKS LEO OF CLOVERDALE MAN J. E. Ramus who works for the Clo verdale Lumber Co., had a leg brok en on the Sth inst. A pile of lumber skidded and fell upon mu of his legs with the above result. Tit- injured man was brought to .Shearer-Merrick hospital where Dr. Shearer set the broken limb. -------------------- Î ». THREE ARE CONVICTED FOR "POSSESSION” V *• «. Howard Williams. Merle Rogers and Howard Trout who were arrested on August 1, charged with the unlawful possession of liquor and who at the time of their arraignment plead not guilty to the charge, were tried in Justice Stanley’s court last Monday. County Attorney Coyne appeared for the stale and IL T. Botts defended the trio. The defendants demanded a juiy trial and M. N. Lamb, E. G. Krebs, ('. W. Wagy, H. H. Rosenberg, Heniy Schild and M. C. Trowbridge wt-ie chosen as jurymen, The trial lasted several hours and resulted in a verdict finding all the defendants guilty as charged. The verdict, how ever, recommended leniency in the cases of Trout and Rogers. Justice Stanley fined Williams • oil and i osts and according to the i. < "iinnendations of the jury, suspended sentence on Rogers and Trout during good behav ior. I