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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-07-29
LUMBER CAPITAL
IN FIVE YEARS
That Is What Harry Holgatc Says
He Was Told Is to he the Fate OF
klamath Falls, Which Means II Is
To Re n Great City.

You know Harry Holgate, don't
you? Well. he's in town. Here for
the purpose of looking into some of
the legal kinks that are always aris-
ing since this county was cursed by
the rule OF the reclamation service.
: A peculiar thing about Holgate is
the fact that he belongs to the recia.
nation service. and at the same time
is white clear through. Occasionally
such things happen, and Holgate
seems to be one of the ''occasionals."
1t is now a matter of a year or more
since he was here. and since he was
once bona fde resident Of this city.
and before he fell from grace and
went to work for the government. so
he is a pretty good Judge of what
this city was. is. and will be. both
by way Of personal experience and
comparison, for he is on the go all
the time. So, just listen to this:
do you know that klamath Falls
is to be the pine lumber capital OF
the world-yes, 'world'-within five
years? It's a fact. and I have 1t on
the authority of two OF the biggest
lum ber operators on the coast, neith-
er OF whom has a dollar invested in
here, and who are unlikely to have.
But it is the old story over again
you have to go away from home to
hear the news
II was riding in the smoking sec
tion of the Pullman on my way here,
and heard two chaps talking about
the numbering industry in general.
and many times they referred to
klamath Falls. This naturally
aroused my curiosity. and I butted
into the talk. What I heard made
my hair stand on end. These fellows
told me things that were so big
did not have room for them under
my hat, so you can better imagine
than I can tell you what they said,
and it was all about klamath Falls.
They told about mills. and railroads,
and development. and all that, Just
as easy. So l pinched myself to see
IL was really awake. Now you
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
new GOVERNOR
WILL DELIVER
ADDRESS TODAY
Continued From Page One.)

strong personalities yet there are
very few radicals or men with single
track minds-so there will be but
little chance during this legislature
for crank solons to throw sand in
the journal boxes of the car of pro-
gressive legislation.
In both houses there are a suffi-
ciert number of representatives OF
The leading interests of the state,
such as agriculture, the trades and
professions, as we'll as business to
see that measures beneficial to each
interest will receive fair and intelli-
gent hearing and that detrimental
legislation will find rough shedding.
Just now the work being done
is that of organization and the com
pliance with constitutional formali-
ties incident to organization. Yet
in every caucus and gathering, as
well as assembly of either body
there has been complete harmony
There seems to be unanimous dis
position among the members to
work together for the larger good
Busy On Committees.
The committee on committees is
at work on the personnel of the
standing committees of the house.
and where preference is being given
to the individual choice of commit
teeships by the Numbers, yet great
care is being exercised in placing
on all important committees men of
such experience and qualifications
as will guarantee the highest type
of efficiency from these bodies.
1--WE are not going to have any
unnecessary cogs to the machinery
of the house when it gets in work
ing order" said Speaker Daily,
1--WE will only have such employees
as are absolutely necessary for the
conduct Of its business. All soft
snaps and sinecures will be abol-
ished. There will be no waste of
the public money in this direction.
Persons in the know were vastly
amused at the opening of the house
session Wedne sday, when Hostel
Ter of Buffalo asked for the appoint
ment of committee to investigate
the carpet situation in the Office of
the chief clerk, and that that COM
mittee have power to act"
1t seems that two years ago, Fire
Commissioner Ridgell occupied the
office now devoted to the chief
clerk. On account of its proximity
to the house chamber the office
room was largely used by members
during the session for conferences
and the carpet was badly worn,
Ridgell asked the house to buy a
rev carpet, but Hostetler and 9TH
ers opposed this and Ridgell, at a
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
Roosevelt Extoled
by Aged Nurse for
Devotion to Family

New York, Jan. S.-One mourner
who was invited to the funeral OF
Colonel Roosevelt and who could
not attend was Mrs, Mary D. Led
with, SO years old. OF this city, who
for more than 50 years had been
nurse and governess in the Roose-
welt family.
Colonel Roosevelt's chief charac-
teristics, said Mrs. Ledwith, were
his intense devotion to his family
and his great love for his fellow
men," She said he was the most
vigorous personality she had ever
known. The aged Irish woman's
room was filled with autographed
photographs of the colonel and OF
his children.
When Mr.. Roosevelt married
Miss Edith Carow in 1887, the old
Irish nurse accompanied them to
London on their honeymoon and
visited Europe with them twice
afterwards.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09

cost OF $l7S purchased a new carpet
cut of fees OF his Office, which
adorned the floor until the morning
of the assembling of the legislature
when the room was picked for the
occupancy of the chief clerk.
Now in Basement.
Ridgell pulled up the carpet and
had it removed to the basement of
the capital, where it is now evidently
secreted He will not permit the
members of the legislature to tread
on its velvety softness and is saw
ing it for his successor.
1t may be that the committee
which is yet to be named by the
chairman, may, in its Investigation"
run across the carpet and seize it for
the use of the chief clerks room,
which is left bleak and bare of
adornment by the right of the house
to exercise eminent domain in the
premises.
Business in the senate is running
along expeditiously because tl6 of
its 50 members have had former
Legislative experience.
Mcdonald on Deck.
The advance guard of lobbyists
has not yet put in its appearance,
if we except ]. r. Mcdonald of the
Omaha police force, who is here in
the interest of the new police salary
bill
Mcdonald appeared in the city
Tuesday evening and was busy but
tonholing members in the lobby of
the Lndell hotel. He created a
favorable impression and had many
promises of favorable consideration
on the part of out-in-th e-state men,
bers.
1t seems that there has been some
friction on the part of the Douglas
delegation as to which member
should receive the credit OF intro
ducing the bill, and to obviate any
embarrassment that may occur from
this, provision is being made to have
the measure introduced by some per-
son out in the state, preferably the
western section.
Choice OF chairman for the house
ways and means committee lies be-
tween Good of Nemaha and Hos
teller of Buffalo. Druesedow of
Douglas may be chairman of cities
and towns, handling legislation af-
fecting Omaha. Senator Saunders
may head the municipal affairs COM
mittee of the upper chamber.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
PROGRESS MADE
0NPR0CRAMF0R
PEACE C0NFAb
Continued From Page One.)

been cleared for the beginning of
the actual negotiations
The impending informal meetings
between President Wilson and the
entente premiers will deal with sub
jects of fundamental importance. 1t
will De for these officials to arrange
the program which will govern the
peace congress itself, subject to
approval when all the delegates
formally gather. The Japanese del
egates already here have been par
ticipating in some phases of the
discussions between the groups. 1t
is assumed that they have been
consulted in the preparation of the
program and that they have out
lined the treatment OF certain is
sues in which they are particularly
interested.
League Plan Foremost.
1t has been agreed that the first
matter to be considered at the meet
ing of President Wilson and the
premiers will be the representation
to be accorded the powers seeking
participation in the peace congress.
Then must come the question of
a league of nations, which is re
garded as the foundation upon
which must be erected the whole
structure of permanent peace
treaty and the adjustment of bound
aries to meet conditions after the
war. The next subject to engage
attention as next in importance is
the naturalization of international
waterways, having especially in
mind the Dardanelles and perhaps
the Scheldt and the Danube littoral.
Probably next among the FORE.
most subjects to receive attention
will be use of the high seas" 1t
may be significant that this phrase
now is being adopted instead of
the Older freedom of the seas" but
it is not yet possible to ascertain
in what the distinction is to consist.
Vance Mccormick, chairman of
the war trade board, and other
American experts are now on the
way to Paris and they will be called
into consultation when the subjects
on which they have specialized are
brought into the deliberations of
the principal delegates.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
Kermit Roosevelt is
Told Of Death After He
Reads Father S Letter

American Army OF Occupation,
Jan. 8.-(By Associated Press.)-
News of the death of Colonel Roose.
welt was withheld by friend from
Capt Kermit Roosevelt OF the Sew,
enth artillery, until the captain hao
been given an opportunity to reae
his fathers latest letters. The
friend was in Coblenz when the
news was received at army head
quarters there and he delivered the
letter before transmitting advice:
on the colonels death.
1t. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr.
is with the 10Th infantry near
Montebaun. Dr.. Richard Derby,
Colonel Roosevelt's son-in-law, is a
surgeon attached to the headquar-
tiers of the Second division.
Word of the death of Colonel
Roosevelt was received over the
wires of the American signal corps
and was flashed Immediately to all
headquarters in the area of occupa
ton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
EMINENT U. S.
AMERICAN IS
BORNE TO REST

ter boughs which cast shadows upon
the bushes of red berries lining the
roadside, the procession moved
slowly. headed by mounted police
men, who were the colonels friends
in life and who had been sent by
the city of New York to act as a
guard of honor.
Around the shore of a pond-like
inlet of Oyster Bay and over a hill
the cortege moved to reach the
church, green frame structure
which soon was to toll the passing
of the nations twenty-sixth presi-
dent.
Standing on the slippery hillocks,
which are the lawns of some of the
colonies neighbors, were waiting
townspeople. Because of the limit
ed seating capacity of Christ church
these villagers, to whom the colonel
had long been friend and neighbor,
had not found admittance. They
uncovered their heads as the casket
was borne into the church and wait
ed outside until the services were
over and the procession started for
the cemetery.
The sun had passed the meridian
and the stained glass windows
caught and held its rays as the
casket was carried up the aisle and
placed close to the altar.
Public Men Present.
In the pews were men who are
among the foremost of the country's
citizens. Vice President Marshall
represented President Wilson. Gen
Peyton c. March, chief of staff of
the army and Admiral c. MGR. Wins
low, represented the military and
naval services and Secretary Lane
the cabinet. William H. Taft, who,
upon Colonel Roosevelt's death be-
came the only living ex-president;
Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root,
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts, Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood, Vice Admiral
Gleaves. Henry L. Stimson, secre-
tary of war in Taft's cabinet;
Gov Alfred E. Smith of New York.
Speaker Champ Clark, and former
Speaker ]. G. Cannon of the house
of representatives. were present to
pay their last tribute on behalf of
the nation, congress, the state and
METROPOLIS. The diplomatic corps
at Washington also was represented.
Many wreaths and floral tributes
for which there had not been room
at the Sycamore Hill home filled
the church with fragrance. One
which was sent to the Roosevelt
home and then brought to the altar
was the tribute of President Wilson
DR.. Talmage, with Bishop Bur-
CESS, of Long Island, seated in the
sanctuary, read the sentences,
psalms and scriptural lessons which
are a part of the Protestant Epis-
copal funeral service. The former
presidents favorite hymn, How
Firm a Foundation" was recited by
the rector, in conformance to the
Roosevelt family's desire that all
music, even the organ voluntary, be
omitted. When he came finally to
the Lords Prayer, the congrega-
ton joined
Scene at Grave Impressive.
The scene at the grave side was
perhaps the more impressive. The
plot which Colonel Roosevelt him
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09

self had selected as his burial place
is the commanding spot in the
peaceful and picturesque cemetery,
At the foot OF slope and beyond
the public highway there is cove
while beyond lie the waters of
Long Island sound Not far dis
that, but concealed from view by
some of the woods in which the
colonel was wont to roam, stands
the Sycamore Hill home to which
his father brought him when he
was a small boy. Trees stand about
this knoll and today the winter
grasses were visible through the
thinning snow.
Here stood the Roosevelt family,
except the boys who are abroad
and their mother, as the casket, its
historic flags now removed, was
lowered into the ground. Near at
hand, loklng on reverently. were
men in public and private life who
had been intimately acquainted with
Colonel Roosevelt in affairs of
state, politics, literature and the
army, rough riders, neighbors for
whom Sycamore Hill will ever be
almost halowed' ground, and chill
dren from the village school, to which
the colonel sent his own sons and
daughters. They formed a sorrow
ing circle as DR.. Talmage read the
brief commita..
Ex-President Taft Weeps.
Former President Taft, who was
in tears when he emerged from the
church portal, stood quite apart from
the Others in these final moments
and seemed almost an isolated fig
ure. The political quarrel which
kept these two former presidents so
long apart had long since been
healed and Mr.. Taft had hurried
here from Pennsylvania to attend
the funeral. Earlier in the day he
had said to interviewers:
Colonel Roosevelt would never
have been happy to live the life of
an invalid. His passing is an inter-
national loss"
At the grave side he joined DR..
Talmage and the others assembled
in saying aloud the Lord prayer as
part of the committal ceremony.
Tonight, while an honor guard OF
soldiers was pacing back and forth
near the graveGn voluntary service,
it became known that Mrs. Roose-
welt had deferred indefinitely the
pilgrimage Which she had planned
to take with her husband to France
to visit the grave Of Quentin, her
youngest soldier son, who died in an
aerial battle with a German pilot.
1t was reported here that Mrs.
Roosevelt would go to Florida be-
fore making the overseas journey.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
Oyster Bay Planning
Monument to Roosevelt

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Jan. 8.-A
movement to erect here a monu-
ment to commemorate the life and
work of Theodore Roosevelt has
teen innaugurated by leading men
of Oyster Bay and Nassau county.
1t was said that the movement
might be extended to become ma
tion-wide, if it seemed to meet
with public approval
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
German Plot to Buy
Ammunition for Villa
Exposed by Banker

St. Louis, Mo-, Jan. S,-Breckeu-
ridge Jones, president of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Trust company. said
today that the trust company fur
nished the United States govern
ment the information now being
made public concerning the ship
ment of munitions to Villa on the
Mexican border, and paid for by
F. A. Sommerfeld, now informed as
an enemy alien.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09

English fleet by Admiral Sir John
Jellicoe.
3-The low visibility.
Had the weather been clear, and
had the opponent had determined
leader, the outcome OF that battle
would have been, for US, destruction.
The British guns, of so much more
powerful range than our own.
would have shot our ieebiy armed
vessels to cinders. But despite the
fortune that smiled upon us, the
losses which our feet suffered were
tremendous and on June |, 1916, It
was clear to everyone who knew the
actual conditions that that battle
would and must remain the only
one. This, in fact, has been frankly
admitted by the competent authori-
ties.
Tirpitz Learns Nothing.
Tirpitz drew no lessons from the
events of the war. Commandments
OF U-boats and torpedo boats were
continually clamoring for bigger
guns; vainly the airship commanders
complained that their motors were
constantly breaking down and that
they must have better ones, manu-
featured by firms other than those
favored by the marine admlnistra-
ton. Vainly commanders urged
that their crews were being GRIM
inally sent to their deaths.
Tirpitz remained deaf, even in
the face of Weddigens great feat
with the U-9. From all sides he
was being besieged with the demand
to drop everything else, to build
only aU-boats. He would not listen
to it. Thus, under him and under
his successor, Capelle, numberless
valuable workers were until Octo-
Der. 1917, employed in building use
'less big fighting ships which could
never be put in the service during
the war.
At last, on October /, 1917,
Reichstag deputies like Struwe
and Gothein succeeded in gaining
the ear of the ARMY commandment
those of the marine ministry. The
result was an order to discontinue
construction of dreadnaughts and
battle cruisers.
Meantime the material for u
boat construction had become so
scarce that in order to keep up
building submarines ships Of the line
and other vessels had to be taken to
pieces. At the beginning of 1918
the following vessels had thus been
put out of commission. Ships OF
the line: Schlesien, Schleswig-Hol-
stein. Hanover, Deutschland (Which
had only been launched in 1870,
Lothringen, Preussen, Hessen, FL
saas, Brunschweig, Mecklenberg,
Schwaben, Zachringen, Victim, Wit
telsbach, Kaiser Barbarossa, Karl
Der Gross, Wilhelm Der Gross,
Kaiser Wilhelm II, Friedrich, Bran
denberg, Woerth, Wuerttemberg
and Baden; eight armed coast
guards of the Aegir and other class
es. the armored cruisers Room,
Heinrich and Bismarck; five of the
Hama class, Kaiserin Augusta, and
finally the small cruisers Strassburg
(only launched September 4, 19ln,
as we'll as Is other cruisers.
Thus in 1918 our high seas feet,
as far as big fighting ships were
concerned, consisted only of the
dreadnaughts, the line ships of the
Nassau, Heligoland, Kaiser and
Markgraf classes, and few battle
cruisers.
With the putting out of commits
sion all the other Creations" of Won
Tirpitz it was thus admitted that
these creation" that is, all ships
which Tirpitz had built during his
incumbency in ohice-l8o7-l9l6-at
the cost of untold millions-werc
useless and incapable of fighting
British ships.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
Rolla Wells Resigns.

St. Louis, Jan. S.-Roila Wells,
governor of the Federal Reserve
bank of St. Louis and of the Eighth
federal reserve district, today con-
frmed the report that he had re-
signed his position, and said tina,
he had been notified that his sue
cessor would be selected soon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-09
Famous Phrases Created
By Colonel Roosevelt

Speak softly and big stick Maefactors OF great wealth
Nv hats in the ring. The short and ugly word
I'm for the square deal The simple life.
We fought at ArmaGeddon. The life.
Delighted! Beaten a FRAGILE.
Mofycodde Like King Agag stepping softly.
The Ananias club. Buly
The River of Doubt Pussyfooer
Nature fakirs. Muckraker.
Terms Applied Colonel Roosevelt by His Friends and Admirers
The Rough Rider (Spanish-Amercan war;.
= The Bull Mooser (Bull Moose partly.
The American Warwick Cat the time when he made Taft
presdent). =.
The Great Advertiser Cat the time he the American feet
around the world).
Bwana Jumbo (of South African lion hunting fame)
I. R
The Colonel.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
Car Hits Train.

A Ford driven by ]. w. CHS
holm, with Numa Thomas and
John Chisholm as occupants, was
practically demolished Monday
evening at $50, shortly after
dusk. A Rockingham Railroad
freight was backing towards Pee
Dee mill No 2, and the forward
car passed the crossing at the
creek bridge just after the Ford
had turned the corner and was
on the point of crossing the track
on to the bridge. The result was
that the Ford ran head-on against
the freight. Fortunately, the
driver was going slowly, and this
enabled the three occupants to
jump out without with being
hurt.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
A Few DOn'tS
for Christmas

Don't court indigestion.
Don't grumble, whatever you do.
Don't half fill the kiddies' stockings
Don't give presents which will be
useless.
Don't forget the mlstletoe. Romance
still lives.
Don't forget that it ought to be a
merry Christmas.
Don't deny the little ones ideas
about Santa Claus.
Don't worry about unpaid bills-at
any rate until tomorrow.
Don't scott at the lingering super
stitions of the good old days.
Don't for the show Of things, buy
presents which you can't afford.
Don't expect too many presents.
Take what you get and be thankful.
Don't, If you get up on your wrong
side, make everybody else miserable.
Don't forget to think at least once
during the day what Christmas really
means.
Don't give present unless you want
to. Better not give at all than give In
sincerely.
Don't forget that the giving Of
Christmas boxes, like charity, should
begin at home.
Don't, II you are girl, stand under
the mistletOe until you see the right
chap approaching.
Don't kiss somebody else's best girl,
even though she is under the mistle-
toe. There might be a row.
Don't work on Christmas day If you
can avoid it. If you have to, however,
don't make song about it.
Don't give Johnnie a trumpet and
Peter a whistle and expect to have a
quiet time. It's unreasonable.
Don't put off buying presents until
the last minute. You'll get better value
and avoid the crush If you shop early.
Don't send an electric runabout to a
freezing widow with five starving chill
dren. This is like throwing a rope of
pearls to drowning man.
Don't look panied when somebody
tells a fif.y-year-old Christmas story.
That's one of the unavoidable circum-
stances of the festive season.
Don't give a new song to some one
who doesn't sing; but be still more
certain that you don't give new song
to some one who imagines he can sing.
Don't refrain from giving because
you can't afford to give much. The In
trinsic value of a gift counts for moth
ing. 1t is the thought which prompts
1t that matters.
E Don't let the wife give you a Christ
mas present in the form Of cigars. If
she persists in doing so, don't smoke
them-give them away again, without
letting her know about it. of course.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
Christmas Presents

David is fou:: years old and q . ltient
of Sunnyside. One morning the nurse
entered the room during rest hour"
and David exclaimed:
Miss, cleaned up all the
crumbs from my crackers and jelly and
washed the stand all nice and clean"
But where did sou get the rag to
do your cleaning with?"
"Oh! just took my wash rag and
towel"
"And where did you get the water?"
"Oh had plenty of water. You see,
got.it out of the goldfish bowl."-In-
dianapolis Star.