Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, July 30, 1920, Page 7

ESCAPING PRISONERS KILL OREGON SHERIFF » T. D. Taylor of Umatilla Coun- ty Loses Life in Fight | With Fugitives Pendleton, Or.—T. D. Taylor, sheriff of Umatilla county, was shot through the breast and fatelly wounded Sun- day afternoon when six of seven pris- oners confined in the county jail made their escape. Sheriff Taylor died four hours later. ‘Yhe prisoners in the jail-break were: Neil Hart, Indian, aged 22, held in jail after a duel with Taylor and Deputy Sheriff Marin in the hills near Reith | jast week, and who faced charges of | grand larceny and attempt to kin; | Jim Owens, Indian, aged 29, caught with Hart; Jack hathie, 22 years old held on robbery charge; Albert Lind gren, alleged check raiser; Richard | Patterson and Lewis Anderson, held on bad-check charges. All of them were awaiting grand jury action. The prisoners first overpowered | Jake Marin, a deputy sheriff, who had entered a cell to bring the prisoners their dinner, and then led by Hart, the ludian, they made their way to the sheriff's office and began a search for guns and ammunition Hart evidently obtained ae rifle which he loaded and, accompanied by two of the other prisoners, left Tay lor's office. Taylor and Guy Wyrick, a friend were just encering the sheriff's office when they saw Owens and Patterson ruminaging the drawers in the search for ammunition. They rushed the | prisoners and Taylor threw Owens | down. Wyrick over-powered Patter- | son. Then Hart entered the office with the loaded rifle and shot Taylor Immediately after they obtained the guns the prisoners fled from the building. They then made their way to the O.-.W. R. & N. railway tracks where they boarded an eastbound freight train The fugitives rode the train for four miles, getting off at Mission sta tion. From there they fled into the Umber } One of the escaped men, Albert| Lindgren, alleged check raiser, was captured near Cayuse Monday morn ing. He was asleep when the posse men descended on him and put up no fight. } Lindgren is believed to have had nc hand in the actual killing, although he told officers that the plot was hatched several days ago. The fact that he left the others and played a lone hand clean, at least, of killing, is felt to be the sole reason why he came back to Pendleton alive. ROBBER HOLDS UP CALIFORNIA STAGES Fresno, Cal. — Four automobile | atages en route to the Yosemite valley | filled with passengers were held up| and the passengers in two of them were robbed of money by a lone out law at a point on the mountain high way about a mile and a half from Miami lodge in Mariposa county. As near as could be estimated, the robber obtained aboout $350. The robber es caped In the brush and a posse under Sheriff Al Turner of Mariposa county was searching the mountain country. The robber had thrown a log across the road and when the first stage reached {t he suddenly appeared from the underbrush on the mountain side above the road and commanded the passengers to remain in their seats He was armed with a rifle and had a flour sack over his head. RATE ON WHEAT DESIRED Move to Bring Montana Crop to the Pacific Coast Started. Olympia Wash. — Recommendation has been made to the interstate com merce commission by O. O. Calderhead rate expert of the Washington public service commission, for establishment of an export rate for shipment of the Montana wheat crop to Pacific coast ports, it became known here. Establishment of an export rate proportionate to the rate to the At lantic coast would tend to divert cars to the west and assist in relieving the present car shortage, it was said Ole Hanson in Court Clash. Chicago.—The taking of testimony | in the trial of 20 members of the com- | munist party ended in flares of feeling from attorneys and witnesses. At one | point Ole Hanson, ex-mayor of Seattle, | Wash., was led from the courtroom to end a controversy between him and | Clarence Darrow, .of counsel for the defense. Prohibition Cuts San Francisco Arrests San Francisco. — Arrests in San Francisco have been cut nearly in two @uting the first year of prohibition. business concerns. No truck, we believe, h Power from the GMC Motor may be applied for other pur- poses than driving the vehicle, through the Powe: Take-off. In raising telephone poles, moving safes, and in other auxilliary op- erations, the Power Take-off is thrown into gear through aspe- cial lever from the driver's seat, THE OCEAN BEACH RESORTS at the Mouth of the Columbia River are a Glorious Vacation Delight for residents of the interior and are at the height of their glory just now Worth Beach Resorts Clatsop Beaches Tillamook Beaches are all splendidy equipped and offord the keenest of beach pleasures The added pleasure of a trip through the delightfully picturesque Columbia River Gorge is assured if your ticket is purchased of the UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM North Beach visitors have the op- tion of rail or river route from Portland, but choice should be made when ticket is purchased. Let our agent explain all particu- lars, make reservation and arrange your trip. Wm. McMurry, Gen. Pass. 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Their enduring quality has been proved in severest war work of the United States and Allied Armies, in United States Mail Service, and in the daily deliveries of hundreds of Hoene Hardware included, California| fect condition. 248. Alaska and Hawaii rank-| county agent of ed Jowest with 30 and 24 depos-| that while he has heard of en- Top” why not today? as surpassed its record. GMC Trucks are built and backed by the great General Motors Corporation, the strongest concern in the automotive industry, insuring against ‘‘orphan- age,”’ insuring parts and service for the full, long life of every GMC Truck. Judge any truck by its maker—by its service to users. believe you'll select GMC. Three-quarter to 5 tons. Any style body. itors respectively for 1,000 in- | habitants. | The average for all states was | 190 per 1,000 or one deposit for j every 5s persons in the country |The total number of depositors }on May 4th was 20,380,000. Of | this number 8,065,000 were time jor savings accounts | GASOLINE “TO BURN” While other northwest towns have been suffering with a gas- oline shortage, Moscow is “long” }on gasoline and has more than |can be handled here. Judge W. |G. Barge, in charge of the office }of the Continental Oil Company here, telegraphed the company j asking what to do with two tank ;cars loaded with gasoline, which are on the tracts here but for which he has no storage capa- city. The tanks in the yard are full and these two cars have ar- |rived with no place to put the | gasoline. Moscow has never been short of gasoline this year. On the contrary this station has sup- plied many towns and trucks have come from as far away as | LaCrosse, Tekoa and towns be- | tween these places and Moscow, to get gasoline for local trade. The price has just been advanc- }ed to 3014 cents wholesale, and {33 cents retail. It has been re- ling at 30 cents until July 20. in price was Moscow Mirror. ta when an advance | | | announced. | ENSILAGE KEPT LONG. Jacob Hoffman a farmer of the Deep creek, Washington, district, opened up a silo that }had been filled with corn ensil- age in September, 1916, and had not been touched since. The ensilage was found to be in per- Virgil Patton, On that basis we silage being stored for an even longer period of time, he believes Hoffman is the first farmer in this section to keep ensilage for such a period, EIGHT HOME RUNS. George Livingston, who le chief of the bureau of markets, United States department of agriculture. ARMERS PLANNING TO SELL TOGETHER Chicago.—Appointment of commit tees to devise plans for the co-opera- tive marketing of grain and livestock was determined upon at the final ses- sion of the American farm bureau fed- eration. The livestock proposal was unanimously approved when the asso- ciation’s committee on that industry recommended it. This action came a few hours after the plan of the grain committee had been received favor- ably by a majority of the convention. The grain committee, which will be appointed soon by J. R. Howard, prest- dent of the federation, will be a per- manent body with headquarters in Chicago. It will investigate existing plans of co-operative marketing as well as suggest new plans. Members of the committee will comprise teading grain producers, grain elevator men and others. A resolution was adopted directing that efforts be made by the farm bu- reau to obtain cars to move crops. It also was recommended that freight problems be referred to the federation to obtain uniform freight rates and equal facilities for all farmers. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS Heavy property damage was caused by the cyclone which hit North Da- kota in the vicinity of Minot, Following the discovery of a $10,000 shortage in his accounts while city auditor, Mayor E. A. Bock, of Salt Lake City, resigned. The formal notification of Governor James M. Cox will be held August 7, at Dayton, Ohio, and that of Franklin D. Roosevelt August 9, at Hyde Park, New York A total of 1,340,000 seedlings, prin- ipally Douglas fir, were planted on the forests of Oregon and Washington in the fiscal year ending June 30, ac- cording to a report by the United States forest service Ohio got its third presidential candt- date for the 1920 campaign when the prohibition national convention nomi- nated Aaron 8S. Watkins of German- town, O., after learning from W. J. Bryan that he would not accept the nomination. “Babe” Ruth, the famous home run batter, has nothing on the Prairie baseball league, for Sunday Kooskia and Cottonwood players were able to clot 8 home runs during the game. Seven of these home runs belong to the credit of the Kooskia team who defeated Cottonwood in a loose- ly played game, the score being 28 to 3. Craigmont defeated Grange- ville in a ten imning game, the score being 4 to 5. ‘It is stated this game has been contested on the grounds that Charley Litch- field, who was running to third base in the 7th inning was out, but whom the umpire called safe. The fact that the umpire fail- ed to call Litchfield out cost Grangeville the game, for had he been declared out it would have retired the side for that inning and the game would have resulted in a victory for Grange- ville by a score of 2 to 4. Nezperce defeated Winchester Sunday, the score being 4 to 5. Kamiah whitewashed Ferdin- and Sunday, the score being 11 to 0. Games for Sunday are as fol- lows: Cottonwood at Nezperce. Craigmont at Ferdinand. Grangeville at Kamiah. Kooskia at Winchester . The games Sunday close the official games of the schedule, but there still remains several postponed games to be played. 14tf regular | | Skipper Sued By Washington Cadets. Seattle, Wash.—Eight merchant ma- | rine cadets from Washington, stranded }at Hilo, Hawatian {slands, have | brought suit for $25,000 damages | against Captain E. F. Eckhardt, mas- ter of the training ship Vicksburg. | iis \lwaco Plant is Burned. | Astoria, Or.—The town of Ilwaco, Wash., faces the necessity of being | without light, power or water for an indefinite period as the result of a fire | that destroyed the plant of the North | Shore Light & Power company. Western States Lead in Depositors. Washington.—Three western states, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, led all others on May 4 in the number of bank depositors, per 1000 population, ac- cording to figures compiled by the controller of the currency. ' Medford Has Fire Loss. Medford, Or.—The most destructive | fire in Medford’s history occured early Monday morning when Eads brothers’ warehouse, in the heart of the city, | burned at a loss of $100,000. | Secretary Roosevelt Resigns. Washington.—Franklin D. Roosevelt, | Democratic vice-presidential candidate, | submitted to President Wilson his res- | ignation as assistant secretary of the navy, effective August 5. Two Dead in Canadian Cyclone. Regina, Sask.—Two persons were kMiled, a score injured and property | damaged to the extent of $200,000 io Spokane says] Eventually you will buy “Tip|« cyclone which swept the southera part of Saskatchowas. —