Sillamoo VOLUME 37; NUMBER 1,897 eaMigfct TILLAMOOK, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1924 PRICE $2.00 THE YEAR I STATE FAIR EXHIBITS SPRINKLING SYSTEM ARE STOLEN SUNDAY PUT IN COURT HOUSE Bart of Indian Outfit Engaged for County Fair Hold aa Once Taking Goods Committee Evening Met Monday With City Council REVIEW STREET PLANS Avenue Lights May Be Ex­ tended to Seventh Street Before Long i it is estimated by the budget com­ mittee appointed by the city coun- W that the city expenses for the com­ ing year will amount to nearly forty mousand dollars. [David Kuratli, C. I. Clough, W. J. Bechers, H. H. Rosenberg and C. J. Edwards who were members of this Committee met with the city council Monday evening and arrived at a pro­ posed budget estimate which totaled 139,857.90. Of this amount it is esti­ mated that about $3,300 will be raised through fines and licenses and the re­ naming $36,500 will be received from lues. In the budget, $9,715 has been allowed for salaries, and $5,000 for he sinking fund. Twelve hundred lollars has been set aside for a pub- fit rest room for women, and $6,742 lor interest on the general bonds, pi payers will be given an opportun­ ity to voice any objections they may ■ve to this budge^ at the meeting llonday, September 29, which is the late set for the final adoption. I The Mutual telephone company pre- lented a petition to the council ask- K for a re-franchise to cover a per- ltd of ten years. The matter was re- bred to a committee composed of M finance committee and H. H. Bosenberg and David Kuratli, who fere appointed by the mayor. They till compare the franchise prayed for Pith the one now in effect and report ■ the next council meeting. Mem- Im of the council voiced the opinion Bat as the city is growing rapidly bd there is already some objection to Pone and light poles being placed on B* main streets it might not be wise F five a franchise that would allow batntenance of these poles over too a period. I Ordinance No. 450 was adopted ap- boring and adopting the reports re- britng the changes in the street at r* Haberlach corner on Third street fr authorizing the steps necessaty b accomplish t hj s improvement. Bonny Rogers, David Kuratli and W. ■ Aiderman were appointed by the •»ncil as viewers. iRollie Watson was present with a fcoest that the chain of lights on frond avenue east be extended to fronth street. He stated that eighty f cent- of the property owners are ■ [avor of this improvement. The of installing the lights will Bborne by the property owners f^ng the city pays for the up frF Expenses of putting in the f** mil be much less than on those r*°y *n anc* should the proposed ot Second avenue be accom- the cable could be laid before fr Pavement is put in. «solution by the finance com- that the insurance on the city be divided between Gilham and fr”* and Rollie Watson was adopt- B Each of the firms will write pol- B*°f $10,000. B“* PDrchase of two stop watches ■*” the police in detecting speeders V *®thorized. îH SCHOOL CLASS STUDIES NEWSPAPER Tillamook county’s chances of hav­ ing an exhibit at the state fair were nearly ruined when the main building at the fair grounds was looted Sunday and a majority of the first and second prize products in the vegetable and canned goods displays were stolen. The loss was discovered Monday morning when Jack Rupp and W. D. Pine, members of the fair board went out to check up on the exhibits pre­ paratory to packing them for ship­ ment to Salem. They immediately notified the sheriff's office and a search was begun. Sheriff Lucas dis­ covered the first clue when he found a broken jar of fruit in the railroad stock yards where the Indians who were an attratcion at the fair loaded their horses on the freight car. They at once notingd tne snerift of Washington county to look out for them and Lucas accompanied by Mr. Pine started for Hillsboro by auto­ mobile. They succeeded in getting to Hillsboro before the arrival of the train and were on hand with the sheriff of Washington county and a deputy when the train came in. A search of the car brought to light sev­ eral jars of canned goods, but as the car was crowded with horses and bag­ gage a thorough search was imposs­ ible. The officers rode on with the train to Brookline where they unload­ ed the car and found most of the rest of the missing articles. Sife Johnley, Indian and Delbert Jarman a jockey for the Indians, con­ fessed to the crime and were brought back to Tillamook. They were lodged in the county jail and bail was set at $3000 each which they were unable to furnish. The charge placed against them is burglary. LIQUOR CHARGES BRING 2 TO COURT Bert Renfro was brought before Justice Stanley this week charged with unlawful possession of intoxicat­ ing liquor. He plead not guilty and was bound over to the grand jury. His bail was placed at $500, which he furnished. James Bodyfelt plead guilty in the justice court to the charge of driving while intoxicated and paid a fine of $25 and costs. Erwin Harrison and W. F. Smith each were fined $2.50 and costs for operating a motor vehicle without a tail light. L. L. Kellow was charged with speeding to which he plead guilty and paid $10 and costs. System Designed Loed By Chief Expected to Minimiie Timber Owners Granted Fire Dancer By County if State Tax Body Sees Fit A new sprinkling system has just been installed in the basement of the court house which will go far toward eliminating the fire hazard in the building. Fire Chief Coates has been advocat­ Saturday l-ast Day For Filing I’e- ing the placing of such sprinklers in titions Before County Tax the business buildings of the town and was instrumental in getting the Governing Body county to install one in the court house. The sprinkler is a very sim­ Several requests for reduction of ple device, consisting of a two inch assessed valuations of property were pipe with a rotating nozzle attached granted by the equalization board this to the end. The other end protrudes week. through the exterior of the building At the Monday meeting B. B Lu ten and is arranged so as to fit a hose of the Oregon Logging and Timber I I coupling. In case of fire a hose is company was present and made a re­ attached to the pipe from the outside quest for several reductions on differ­ and the engine pumps water into ent sections owned.by several differ­ the basement. ent people. He gave as reason for In the court house there are four the request the damage that had been of these sprinklers located so as to done by fire this year and last year throw water to every part of the after the assessment was made, and basement. A hose can be attached also the inaccessability of the timber to any one of them or they can all to markets. He asked and was grant­ be operated at once. By being able ed certain reductions on the holdings to connect the sprinklers individually of Jacob A. Hawk, Luther K. Hawk, the water can be directed to the spot the estate of Sarah K. Hawk and the where it is most needed. Basement Oregon Logging and Timber com­ fires are generally hard to fight, pany. All of this property is near particularly where there is wood stored Enright and Cochran. and the advantage of such a fire fight­ The board met again on Wednesday ing system can readily be seen. The system used in the court house and heard the request of H. T. Botts for a reduction of assessment on was designed by Mr. Coates and was property held by the Nehalem Harbor made, with the exception of the noz­ company of Wheeler. Mr. Botts also zles, by a local firm­ The cost, ac- made a request for himself and oth­ cording to Mr. Coates will not reach ers for the reduction of valuation on $100. The sprinklers will throw a property at Lake Lytle. Both re­ stream over a thirty foot area. In quests were denied by the board as a room twenty five feet in diameter other owners in the same locality they will wet every inch of the floor, were not objecting to the assessment walls and ceiling. Chief Coates be­ Charles T. McDougal of Portland lieves that it should be made compul­ was granted a reduction on assessed sory for every building in town to valuation of Tillamook county hold- have such a system. (Continued on poge 4) 5 PETITIONS DENIED AUTO ACCIDENT AT HOBSONVILLE A slight acident occurred at the fot of the Hobsonville hill Tuesday morning when a car driven by A. A. St. Onge collided with another car owned by Mrs. D. C. Peregoy of Ne­ halem, and driven by W. H. Peregoy. St. Onge was rounding the turn in the road in his light coupe at a high rate of speed when his car skidded, colliding with the Peregoy machine, and damaging the front end of it considerably. TELEPHONE TRUCK BREAKS BRIDGE A heavy truck belonging to the Pa­ cific telephone company went through a bridge on Trask river four miles above the Gold Creek hatchery Sat- urday night about nine o’clock, The truck was bound up the river with supplies to repair the telephone lines which were in danger of going out on account of the firea in that region. Howard Brooks too a truck to the scene and succeeded in pulling the telephone company's truck out about two o’clock Sunday afternoon. FREIGHT CAR WRECK DELAYS PASSENGERS The passenger train to th > Tuesday afternoon was delayed b> a Headlight office was the scene f eight car jumping the track on •’’usual activity Thursday after- trestle near Mohler. In the attempt to putjthe car , *^*n • class of twenty F"«i!ish on th* ~H. «*!.<« from the high sch«M brought and pencils and took notes h win «* ■***•**o * ; L ®aking of a newspaper, «... <*■"-• 'W"d “ ijlass which is taking English it back on the track. LT Grace Mielke is making * Journalism and described l T** ‘"formation. They will-be T** ** writ* • theme from the daring their sbesmstissM DRIVER RAMS LARSON CAR Local Merchanla and Families Badly Shaken Up and Injured Soma in Mix Stretch Will Be Graveled Some Reductions By Packing Up One million trout fry are being planted in the Miami, Kilchis, Wilson, Trask, Tillamook. Big Nestucca and Little Nestucca rivers this week. 200,- 000 of these small fry have already been planted in the Foley and Neha­ lem. With 4550,000 more growing at the Gold Creek hatchery which will be released as soon as they are suffi­ ciently large the streams in the coun­ ty will be well stocked and this should be indeed a fisherman’s paradise. Forty cans of bass wire brought in with the trout and are being placed in Lake Lytle and Ocean Lake. Th« makes a total of 160 cans of bass and catfish that have been planted in these two lakes this year Fire JET1Y ROAD OPEN TO LIMITED TRAFFIC DRUNKEN PART MUST BE PLANKED County Commisioner and Brighton Man Visit Highway Comm- ission Recently It is now possible for traffic to pass to Brighton and Wheeler by way of the Jetty Creek road, though very few cars have been allowed to take this route on account of the very soft condition of the road bed. Construction has progressed so far that this section of the Roosevelt highway is ready for hard surfacing, which will probably be done before wet weather starts. The county court has made a pro­ position to gravel a part of this road consisting of the entire stretch with the exception of a heavy fill, which must be planked, it is said, The county's proposition was that they expend $5000 in graveling the road, this amount to be substracted from the debt the county owes the state for this construction. Brighton mills company through Thomas Watt, manager, has offered to supply the planking needed for the fill free of cost to the highway com­ mission. This would complete a road which --could be used by north end residents for all winter travel. Tuesday County Commissioner H. V. Alley and Mr. Watt made a trip to Portland to confer with highway commission officials and, while no re­ port has come from them at this time, it is expected that the improvement will be allowed. The county court has had consider­ able struggle to get this section of the Roosevelt highway opened, which will practically complete Tillamook county’s part of this great traffic vein. Many difficulties have arisen from time to time, over the opening and construction of this particular piece. Albert Bennett and wife of Dallas motored in and spent Sunday with Ralph Bennett and his family. The Bennett brothers tried to lure a few 'wily fish from the streams but were unsuccessful. A drunken driver was responsible for another automobile accident which occurred Sunday morning at six thirty about on«. mi)e*'Myond the summit on the McMinnville-Tillamook highway. Clarence Larson and Harry Hecht- ner accompanied by their wives were driving to Portland in Mr. Larson’s car when they met a Maxwell car driven by E. L. Whistler, a barber of Portland. Whistler it seems was de­ cidedly under the influence of liquor and was attempting io drive with one arm around a companion. This made his driving rather uncertain and he jammed into the Larson car, damag­ ing both cars badly. Mr. Hechtner received a badly cut ear necessitating several stitches ¿."d Mrs. Hechtner sustained a wrenched back. Both Mr. and Mrs. Larson were badly shaken and bruised. The Larson car was damaged to the extent of about $200, which will have to be borne by Whistler. It is thought he will learn that moonshine and gasoline will not mix. MAN BROUGHT BACK. TO MAKE AMENDS Deputy Sheriff Lucas went to Ver- nonia Wednesday and brought back Robert Schneiter, the young man who ran over Claud Morse on the highway near Pleasant Valley last May. Morse was badly injured in the acci­ dent and for some time his life was despaired of. Schneiter who was said to have been traveling at a high late of speed did not stop and offer aid to Morse. He was apprehended and released on bonds pending the outcome of Morse's injuries. Later a settlement was effected and Schneiter released. He failed to keep his agree­ ment and ia now lodged in the county jail charged with unlawful operation of a motor vehicle, failure to render aid and assistance and failure to re- port accident. CITY MAIL DELIVERY BEING TALKED OF The matter of free mail delivery in the city was brought up and discuss­ ed at the meeting of the Kiwanis club Wednesday. It appears that thia city is now elegible for such service, pro­ viding certain requirements such as better sidewalks and street signs are met. The matter was referred to the public affairs committee who will re­ port their findings to the club next week. G. W. Rauch, a prominent member of the American I-egion in Portland gave a very able address on Constitu­ tion week. H. R. Gray, connected with the 8. P. and S. railroad was called on for a talk and said that he was not authorized to give out any information but hoped this company would be in here with a road soon. Two Big Engines Damaged By Fire Near Coch' ran, Oregon TRAIN SERVICE HALTED Brighton Mills Company Suffern Loss of Considerable Felled Timber Rain which has been falling inter­ mittently for the past few days haa brought relief to the fire fighters and will be the means of saving milliona of feet of timber in the burning areas. Latest report from Rector where a bad fire has been raging are to the effect that the fire is practically out. Should the present rains continue all danger from thia fire will be past, but dry weather and a low humidity would probably cause it to break cut again. Another bad fire was located in the C. H. Wheeler holdings at Cochran. Here the fire burned out seven bridges on the logging road and par­ tially damaged two skidders, valued at $36,000 each. The fire at the Flora Logging com­ pany in Washington county near Carlton, just over the Tillamook coun­ ty line, was a very serious one, threatening a large area of timber. This company lost eleven donkey en­ gine with their equipment, and an undetermined amount of timber. They were, however, covered by insurance. The Brighton mills company were successful in saving all of their equipment at Rector with the excep­ tion of one donkey sled. The ex­ cellent fire fighting quipment they had on hand was the means of keep­ ing the fire confined to a comparative­ ly small area, and away from the green timber. They suffered about a thirty per cent, loss on twelve million feet of logs already felled and bucked. The Southern Pacific company rend­ ered them very valuable service by taking their own engine and water tanks onto the logging road and as­ sisting the fire fighters. Train > service to this city was held up Thursday and Friday oa account of the burning anags rolling eft the bluff and onto the railroad track, making the passage of the train un­ safe. E. H. LINDSAY, MOHLER, FILES FOR COMMISSION Answering a demand from a large number of constituents in his dis­ trict, E. H. Lindsey has filed his can­ didacy on the independent ticket for county commissioner in district No. 1, against S. G. Reed republican nom­ inee for this position. Mr. Lindsey is well known, both in his home district and in Tillamook, having lived in the county for a number of years. His home is at Lynnbrook where he has a dairy ranch. This place, which is a stop station on the Southern Pacific road was named for him. BOILER ROOM FIRE ENDANGERS MILL REFUSES FIRE WARDEN, PUT UNDER ARREST fire alarm was turned in this morning a! about one thirty, when a blaze was discovered in the engine Because he refused to assist Fire room of the Coats Lumber company', Warden A. L. McCarthy in fighting fire at the Rector camp, John Brentin plant. Charles Volger, proprietor of the j was placed under arrest and sent to Bungalow noticed a peculiar ill imina­ the sheriff here. Brentin. who is ap­ tion near the mill and upon going I parently of Austrian birth came to ■ver to investigate Uncovered Hseovered t) tin nt 1 Rector last week to go to work. With the sawdust in the engine room h'd h ’J a bad fire raging in the woods the ■ v ■ Laugh fire and was burning briskly : fire warden was p.es nng . e ponds! r fl. a depai men ponde J | cble n an into ttrvic» and attemp *d p!ly to the call and <0011 *oon ha.! la! the t**e f 1 o send Brentin out with the others. inteiio' nf ■ xtfriguished The inteiio* eff j Wh«n he rvfused to g > F-* aa place i he engine room was badly sew « had ' nde. ar> rat and is now in the co-nty •ail awaituu trial. This offense ca. - m «. no other damage was -sported its 3 ne of f-»in $’<> to $100. H. H. Rosenberg and Ji« '*1 «ins motored to Newbetg^Fri lay, whe .-.-Th:« hsne of th» ’I»ad!lgh wee Mr Rosenberg had busine's :» ‘h fh-’y«.l-y ' >w.. neeeesa y to »»nd to Ftotiand for rn and was glad to rwurn the same eve­ export warhmia t« rsffiair tb»ava- I china. ning