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TILLAMOOK, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1923
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FIRE CONVENTIONS
ATTEDED BY CHIEF
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MISSING RANCHER
FREER MOVEMEfiII
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BELIEVED MURDERED
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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
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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
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the suit.
FIELD IS PHOTOGRAPHED!
SUIT
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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
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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
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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
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Fair Days and Restless Nights
MYSTERIOUS FIGURES
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Production Now 25 Per Cent Above
That of One Year Ago;
Now
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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.
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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.
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THREE ARE CONVICTED
FOR "POSSESSION”
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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.
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