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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05
WORTH TRYING

= voters In klamath county W
venture to say that the name o
Ralph Williams means nothing a
all. Yet for fourteen years vii
liams has been the Oregon member
OF the national republican commit
tee. the voice and vote OF Oregon
ians in national political affairs.
Fourteen years OF non-accom
plishment have worn the patience
OF Oregon business men, and thi,
year Williams is opposed for re.
election by o. II. rithian. Portland
mefchsat, whose platform has q
ring of promise.
A national committeeman can bs
far more than q fisurehead. and
Fithian promises. II elected. that
he will do certain definite things
for the development OF Oregon.
klamath county Is especially In
teres,ed in his promise to secure
war finance corporation aid for
farmers and stockmen.
The opposing platforms are con.
tras,ed In recent article by Henry
NJ. Hanzen. political editor OF the
Portland Telegram. and q compari.
son OF his analysis with the official
platforms submitted by the candi-
dates 10 the secretary of state,
shows that Hanzen has stuck to the
record In measuring the merits Of
the men. This is his summing -up:
Fithian Is a progressive republican
and is seeking the office on . con.
structive platform promising party
loyalty. and faithful public service
TO the state.
Williams is a reactionary. and ID
seeking reelection on Q political
platform promising merely party
service.
Fithian promises to "ioyaily sup
port the principles Of the Republi.
can party" and also to eonscisnti.
.ously labor to advance Orsepp.a N.
tisrfihi. .ssascsNfrsi ana fhaaclal
intercsts. ~ t~f
Williams promises 'te ehampioa
those principles for which the n
publican party stands" and there
his platform stops.
Ftthian's conception OF the duties
OF national committeeman Is two.
fold--loyalty to his party. but svsr
and above all service 70 the psopos.
Williams conception OF the du.
ties OF a national committeeman 10
purely politicai-feaity no party.
and its organization.
Fithian promises ito work In
harmonious cooperation with Ore.
CONS delegation In congress-
Williams has never worked in
harmony with the delegation. and
makes no promise In his platform
that he will endeavor to do sosin
the future. t
Fithian promises 70 do his ut
most 70 assist the Oregon dslsss-
tion to obtain legislation for the re-
lief Of oreson's farmers and live
stock men.
Williams has never lifted q finger
TO. aid either OF them. and promises
for them In his platform.
Fithian promises to aid the Ore
gon delegation to secure for Ore
gon farmers their just share OF loans
from the war finance corporation.
williams has never offered to
aid them. and In his platform
makes no pledges along that line
for the future.
Fithian favors nationwide
primary.
Williams IL silent ON that all im-
portant political issue In his plat
form. l4H.
Fithlan declares himself "heart-
lily In favor" OF prompt" and lust
Of all war veterans.
Williams is also silent ON this
great issue Of human rights now
pending before congress.
Fithian favors equal rights for
women within the republican
party"
Williams platform Is also silent
Dn this big political question.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

FOR SALE-Short-horned bull. took
first prize at fair last year as q
two-year old. J. Z. Enman near Stuk-
ell bridge. l-6'
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05
APPROVE COAL BILL

WASHINGTON. ID. C., May g.
a favorable report was made by the
house labor committee on the Bland
bill to create q coal industry In
vestigation commission.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

FOR RENT-Niccly furnished front
room. Bath and phone. SIG n. 9Th
St. l-3'
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05
CLASSIFIED ADS

LoST-Between <th st. and Link
river bridge .one starting crank
for Oldsmobilc car. Finder kindly re-
turn to Baldwin ardwarc company
and receive reward. i-6
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS

LoST-'waterman Fountain pen, No.
So, Finder notify q. NJ. Raymond.
court house. Reward. As
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

Z. r. CARPENTER. Painter and
Paperhanger. Phone 27eJ
A-8-M-12s
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

Herald hssified ads mean the best
results, quick!
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

LOsT-Tuesday evening, mans bicy.
Gle. Was left on corner 6th 4 Main.
Please return 10 Arthur Boleo, Phone
4S0w. As
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

Swedish select certified seed oats.
ton lots ga cts: less quantity 3 cts.
J. A. Bushong. klamath Falls, Ore.
gon. Cali at Murphey's Feed store.
l2t s. 6th 81. 3U
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

Your grocery orders are apprcciat-
cd at J. r. Enders Il Co. 2s-39
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

Redmond--Sisters-Tumalo high.
way to be resurfaced with gravel.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05
MARKET REPORT

PORTLAND. May 5.-Cattle aad
hogs. steady; sheep steady. Spring
lambs soc higher. @l+ to $i4.50.
EGGS and butter. steady.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05
FILZ SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Present enrolment IS pupils.
Thera Mnxs n, n RA>snn

For the fact that our present enroll.
ment Is the largest ever held by q
school in klamath county. Complete
course on the piano In 20 lessons.
Course starts at any time. EnSoli now.
Studio 306-309 winters Bldg. 20U
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05
NEW TODAY

NAN. AND w1FE-wants any kind
Of work. Box l3+, Herald office.
5.9s
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

FOR RENT nicely furnished
rooms. 1875 Pine. sl3 and SIS. 40
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05
For Men

Ss,Oo WhitinE-A Adams lath-
cr brush. bristles set In
rubber and guaranteed
not to shed, Special si.bg
Colgato's shaving stick.
Powder or Cream ..... 3Sc
williams shaving stick,
Powder or Cream .........s sbc
woodbury's shaving stick 35c
RcSali Shaving Stick. Pow
dor Or Cream .....u....... 15c
Palmoliyc shaving Cream 3bc
FRANKS I.athcr Cream .., ace
Menn,n's shaving Cream soc
shave ................................. bOr
Styptic Pencils ........... ...... iOc
Gentlemen After shave
Talcum Powder ............bc
Af,cr-Shnying Lotion ...... t5c
Harmony Lilac vesrtai
shaving Lotion $40
AutOStrop Valet Rai,ty
Ra1ors .,.......u..... 800
Gillette Brownie Safety
Ra.ors ......................si.o0 90
Colgaics Barber nar ....,,.. Toe
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

FOR SALE-Fifty head stock cattle.
T. +. Boggs. Lorclla. Ore. 2s-5
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

Vacuum cleaners rented by the
hour. Comet Electric Co. 8
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

DODGE CAR-For sale or will trade
for late model Ford. Box Ill. Mcr-
rill. Ore. 4-5'
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

FOR sALE-Touiouse sanders, S2,-
so. well-bred birds. Write box 81,
Fort Klamath. 2-s'
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

FOR RENT room apt. partly fur
nished. Steam heat, hot and cold
water. bath. Also one sleeping room.
Swanson Bldg, 625 Main. 3-6'
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

FOR RENT-Cabin furnished Al
See Dick, $40 Broad st. As
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-05-05

SHOE REPAIRING-Jack Frost. 1ls
s. Sixth st. i7tf
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

"Mac's service record card doesn't
say anything about how Dan Mcgee
dragged him into the telephone office
at Greeley one bright morning in the
'long ago" and made a messenger
out of him-but that is just what
happened. Harry had made of him
newsboy on the streets hat he
thought he'd better stick to the
"poiper game" but Dan told him he'd
soon be too big to sell papers, and
advised him to get into a business
he could grow up with. He did.
According to the company's rec
ords, Harry came up the line about
this way: Made cashier in Greeley,
1907; travelling auditor in 1909; dis
trict manager at Butte, 1911; divi-
sion general manager, Helena, 1917;
acting division general manager, Den
yer, January /, 1921; Colorado man
ager, May 1, 1921; general CONNER
cia1 manager, July 1, 1921-making
three distinct advances in the same
year.
Harry is a sturdy, strong-minded
conservative man, who always has
the interests of the company at heart,
and with his slogan-"make a friend
a day"-he has gained a reputation
throughout the organization that is
worth having. In presenting Harry
McAfee's photograph in the Monitor,
we do so with pride and pleasure"
Mrs. McAfee was formerly Miss
Bertha Foster of Great Falls and is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. L. E.
Foster of GIT Third avenue north.
She is the mother of two children,
Harry Foster McAfee and little Vir-
ginia McAfee. The McAfee's live at
Denver.
The Christmas number of the
Monitor also carries the second of
a series of articles by Roy J. Collins
of Helena, construction engineer of
the Mountain States.
Previous to the November issue a
series Of four articles by Frank Ears
we'll, manager of the Great Falls dis
trict of the Mountain States, entitled
From Mine to Line" was run in
the Monitor.
The first article dealt with the
copper and brass exhibit at the Hotel
the second with mining at
Butte, the third with the smelling at
Anaconda, and the fourth with re-
filming at Great Falls.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28
M'AFEE HEAD OF
PHONE COMPANY
HIS RISE READS LIKE ALGER
NOVEL; MONTANA GIRL is
FACTOR IN SUCCESS
Began as a Messenger Boy in the
Greeley Office; Was for Many
Years in Charge of Company's
Montana interests; FarweH Writes
About Montana.

From messenger boy in Greeley,
Colorado, through a succession of
promotions in Montana to general
of the Mountain States
Telephone company at Denver and
with a bright future ahead, the
rise of Harry McAfee with the big
telephone company which erves
Montana reads like a HoratiO Alger
novel.
The Monitor, the official house
organ of the telephone company, in
its Christmas edition carries a large
Photographic likeness OF McAfee as
a supplement.
The accompanying article to the
picture speaks for itself:
"You know, there are some fellows
so we'll known that it seems just
about as useless to introduce them
as it would be to say GOOD morning;
have you heard of Santa CLAUSE
That's Harry McAfee, through and
through. He has been with our COM
pany about sixteen years, during
which time he has made some high
jumps that bespeak his efficiency and
loyalty.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

met. The last tie was of laurel,
cut in the mountains of California.
1t had been beautifully polished
and vas now put in place in the
roadbed; then the last rail was laid
and spiked. The two locomotives
faced each other on the track, pant
ing noisily. Across the track Gov
ernor Stanford, president of the
Central Pacific, and Vice-President
Durant of the Union Pacific shook
hands and drove the golden spike.
The Atlantic and Pacific, $500
miles apart and with four lofty
mountain ranges between, were at
last joined together by bands of
steel. The first great transcontin-
entail railway, then the most i'm
portant steam route in the world,
was completed.
Among the hundreds of men who
watched the ceremonies marking
the conclusion of the railroad was
one who looked on with mixed feel
ings. His name was Sam Gets,
and he viewed the exercises some
what wistfully from the seat of a
stagecoach. He was making the
last drive on the famous and his
toric Overland Stage route. For
three years Gets and his fellow
drivers had noted the progress
made by the two railroads. They
were of the frontier, and they
ed the passing of the life they we're
accustomed to live and the ways
they had known. 1t was on this
morning of May 10th that Gets
left Salt Lake with his stagecoach
for Fort Crittenden, and just as the
last rails were being laid, he drove
up with his six horses at a dead run
and reined them in with a flourish.
Gets, seated on his old Concord
coach, the last of the Overland
drivers, was a picturesque and pa
thetic figure in the drama that was
enacted there on the prairie. Amid
the clamor and the cheering that
followed the driving of a golden
symbolic of civilizations
conquest of the vast, wild empire
of the west, he was the lone repres-
entative of all that host of trail
blazers and pioneers whose kind
we're then passing, and who were
destined to disappear within an
other decade from the prairies and
mountains they had known.
copyrighted by Cheely-Raban Syndicate.)
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Judge Joseph r.. Jackson OF Sill
yer Bow county, who advocates
spanking for incorrigible girls.
The jurists' suggestion came at the
end of the trial of a girl Of II,
charged with delinquency, and who
tried to evade trial on the ground
that she was married. She insisted
that she was 10 years of age but
her mother testified that she was
but IL, and had been married by a
blind justice OF the peace.
This Judge found the girl guilty
of the incorrigibility charge and
sentenced her to the state institu-
ton until she became 20 years old.
On the plea of her mother, the girl
was allowed to go home, with the
understanding that she report t O
the probation officers every two
weeks.
He stated that such girls should
be given a ''good spanking and
directed her mother to use the rod
If the girl did not behave herself.
He also directed that immediate
steps be taken to have the marriage
annulled.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

New York-Robed and masked in
Ku Klux Khan costume, a mar strobe
up the aisle Of Washington avenue
Baptist church, Brooklyn, during SER
vices Sunday night, mounted the
platform and read a statement on
Khan history and Khan purposes to a
crowded congregation.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

When, on May 10th, 1869, the
golden spike was driven at Prom
ontory, Utah., which marked the
meeting of the rails laid westward
from Omaha by the Union Pacific
and those set eastward by the Cen
trail Pacific from Sacramento, the
final act in the conquest of the
great trans-Mississippi region had
been accomplished. The generation
then living regarded the event as
one of vast Importance in the his
tory of the nation. For several
years the building of the connect
ing link in a transcontinental route
by steam had been watched with
eager interest. It's completion fur
nished a thrill to the country that
was equaled in the COS only by two
other events-the firing of the first
shot on Fort Sumpter and the sur
render of Lee to Grant. AT this
time it seems strange that SO vast
an undertaking should have been
completed within a third Of a cen
fury Of the time it was first thought
of. The dispatch with which the
first hazy idea was crystalized in
to a definite plan, and with which
that plan was executed successfully
stands as a monument to American
enterprise of the 10Th century.
The first report presented to.
congress on the construction of a
railroad to the Pacific was made in
1916 by Sidney Breese, chairman
of the committee on Pacific lands.
This was the first result of the la
bors of Asa Whitney, a New York
merchant, who had become an en-
thusiast on the subject of a Pacific
railroad. Between 1880 and 1885,
in China, Whitney read of
the experiments in railroad build
ing in England and began to re-
fleet at once upon the enormous
possibilities the new transportation
method made possible. He thought
It would be an easy matter to cross
he American continent and connect
with the Orient by way of
he Pacific. AS the dream grew
1pon him he began to gather sta
istics concerning the trade Of,
China, Japan and India. He devot-
ID a year or two to this work, re-
urning to America full of faith in
lis great scheme.
Whitney proposed to build a
Dad from Lake Superior to Puget
in consideration of a grant
# land from the government along
he entire line. In 1841 he began
lis first public work in America
pom the project. After four years
f hard work and many disap-
'ointments, he secured a hearing
efore congress. Then he had to
yait seven more years before con-
ress, with considerable %reluct-
nee, made an appropriation for
ne first preliminary survey. I
First Martyr to Cause I
For a score OF more of years {
Whitney held to his ideas with a
aith that was almost fanatical. He $
-etted the best part of his lite {
way trying to overcome impos- !
BILE obstacles. He sacrificed his c
fortune. He was regarded t
y men of affairs with pity, SO lost
as he in the pursuit of his dream
is plan was not feasible, but he +
ave his enthusiasm, his fortune t
ossibly his life-to the work, Il e
ally disappearing from the scene, !.
lie first martyr to the great enter Il
rise. t
Others followed in Whitney's v
footsteps. Scores of men wasted
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28
Building of Railroad that First Linked Atlantic ad Pacific Oceans in 1869
Ended in Desperate Battle Benuen Construction Companies for Mileage Honors

their fortunes and worried them
selves into their graves in a vain
effort to secure a suitable franchise
and the capital necessary to build
a Pacific railroad. At last, in 1862,
a charter was granted by congress,
but it was too circumscribed in its
provisions to permit anything more
than the effecting of an organiza-
ton.
But in 1864, convinced that moth
ing could be done without more
help from the government, and
that a railroad to the Pacific was
a military necessity, congress
amended the original charter,
doubled the land grant and added
to the inducements offered capital
lists. Capital was extremely shy,
but after months of hard work
enough money was raised to make
a beginning, and with drums roll
ing and trumpets blaring ground
was broken at Omaha. Flags flut-
tered above the tent villages of the
construction crews that today are
cities at either end of the bridge
spanning the Missouri. There ex-
element ran wild as the rails crept
out toward the west, but to the
capitalists of the nation there was
only the picture of the rough-look-
ing construction camps, with the
boundless american DESERT be-
and they refused to sink their
dollars in the enterprise.
The Rails Creep Westward
AS a last resort a construction
was organized under the
name of the Credit Mobi1ier,"
whose methods of raising money
and spending it have been criticized
by all historians, but which, re-
CARELESS of the means employed,
led to a successful end.
In the spring Of 1865 work be-
gan in earnest, but everything was
done at a terrifying cost. No rail
road reached the Missouri at Oma-
ha at the time. All materials, ma
chinery, locomotives, men and cars
had to be brought up from St.
by boat. The wages de-
handed by the men-often in adj
vance of the days work-were
in excess of those paid for
similar labor where the dangers
we're not SO great. Men refused to
90 out on the prairies and do the
1eavy work of railroad building !
ust for the excitement. There was
10 coal or wood. For stretches of
many miles there was no stone for
ockwork. Ties actually cost the I
company $3.50 apiece for a long I
distance, as great numbers of these |
lad to be shipped by river from T
It. Louis, along with the rest of the I
materials needed. I
By the end of 1865 forty miles of I
DAD had been put down, which, I
pom its acceptance by the govern
aent, brought the construction I
ompany $4,000 in government '
or $4,000 a mile, as a sub {
loan. This money helped the ;
ompany to a certain extent, but :
did not put an end to its finan- Z
embarrassment, which contin-
until the road was completed. !
The Road from the West ?
While the Union Pacific was
ullding west from the Missouri,
lie Central Pacific was laying rails r.
astward from the Golden Gate. 81
he law that authorized the build t
lg of the Pacific roads directed If
lie companies to join their rails W
herever they met between Omaha o.
I'd the coast. The California p'
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

ton camps, and at the close of each
day the result in miles of track laid
went out over the wires to the pub
lie. Men who had made reputa-
tons as wal correspondents in the
Civil wal sharpened their pencils
and went west, for here, too, vas
warfare. While one army of men
labored, it took another army to
protect them from hostile Indians.
General Dodge, chief engineer of
the railroad construction, being
fresh from the army, himself, was
able to secure valuable aid from
the war department, without which
it would have been impossible to
complete the road. Said he, in des-
cribing the help extended from the
troops: Even the commissary of
the regular army was open to us.
Their troops guarded us; we recon
noitered, surveyed, located and
built inside their picket line. We
marched to work to the tap of the
drum, with our men armed. They
stacked their arms on the dump,
and were ready at a minutes notice
to fall in and fight"
Most of the men employed on the
Union Pacific had been soldiers in
the Union army. They were &C
customed to camp life and soon
learned to jump to arms, day or
night, when the cry, "Sioux," was
heard. Nearly every manager and
foreman had a well-earned mill
tary title won in the war. After
the chief engineer, General Dodge,
came General "Jack" Easement, in
charge of the track trains, who
with his brother, Dan, could form
and arm a regiment at a word, and
from general to captain it could be
commanded by experienced Off
GERS. The stories of Indian fights
along the Union Pacific alone
would make a big book. How
many men who died in battle with
the reds will never be known. Up
and down the steel rails that cross
the continent from east to west are
the unmarked graves of the trail
makers, for besides those who were
victims of the reds, there we're
countless others who died from dis
ease or from n of a dozen other
mischances of construction camp
life.
The Two Roads Meet
In the spring of 1869 a compare
short gap lay between the
two roads, and this was rapidly be-
.ng closed up. The intervening
,pace-more than 1000 miles two
years beforehand dwindled to less
han 200, and day by day the dis
grew less. Each company
vas fighting desperately to get the
most road. When the Union Paci-
&c was finished to a point only i've
niles east of Promontory, the Cen
raj Pacific crews astonished every
me by laying nine miles of track
n a single day, beating every pre-
ious record known in railroad
'uilding. The spirit of the battle
ntered the blood of the men and
hey worked feverishly at top
peed.
The track-layers of the two roads,
our by hour neared each other.
hey met face to face at Promon-
,ry Summit, a little west of Salt
axe, on the morning of May 10th.
hen began the closing exercises of
lie great undertaking. The road
ed had for soome weeks been fin
he'd, and it was understood that
lie scene of the exercises would
o1oce mhere tho frack crexvc
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off Ointment in five minutes
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. 1t
will do for poor compilations, dandruff,
itching and red rough hands.-Adv.