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2 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 7. 1906. GUILTY OF GIVING PUCKERS REBATES Chicago & Alton and Two ex Officials Convicted in United States Court at Chicago. FINE MAY BE VERY HEAVY Refund to Schwarzchlld & Sulzber ger Employes of Money Paid Out for Transportation Declared by Court No Offense. CHICAGO, July 6. The Chicago & Aiton Railroad and John N. Falthorn and Fred A. Wann, formerly officials of of the road, were today convicted In the United States District Court of Illi nois of illegally granting rebates to the Schwarzchlld & Sulzberger Pack ing Company. No sentence was imposed today by Judge Landls, pending the arguments for a new trial for the de fendants, which will be heard tomor row morning. It was alleged by the Government that officials of the railroad company .had allowed the employes of the pack ing company to travel free of expense, by refunding to them all money ex pended for transportation. It was de clared by the court that this did not comprise a rebate and he instructed the Jury that a ,verdict of not guilty should be returned as to two counts of the indictment which charged the giving of rebates in connection with passenger transportation. In the other eight counts of the in dictment, on all of which the defend ants were found guilty, two offenses against the Elkins' law were alleged. It was shown by the Government that the railroad company had charged J4 per car for handling the products of Schwarzchlld & Sulzberger at Kansas City and had then paid the packing company $1 on each. The Government alleged and the court held that the failure of the rail road to publish in its tariff sheet the fact that the SI was repaid made in fact a secret rebate. It was alleged by the attorneys for the defendants that the refund of the 91 per car was free because the packing company owned the railroad track near Its plant and compelled the railroad company to pay that amount for trackage to haul the cars nway. Under the law the maximum sentence of the court may be a fine of $120,000 for each of the three defendants. No imprisonment provision appears in the law. There are two specific allegations of rebating alleged in the eight counts of the Indictment upheld by the court OPINION ON THE ELKINS LAW New York Judge Sustains Pine, but Decides Against Imprisonment. NEW YORK, July 6. Judge Holt, in the United States Circuit Court today. handed down an opinion, the effect of which Is to dismiss the indictments found against Nathan Guilford, vice-president, and C. F. S. Pomeroy, traffic manager of the New York Central Railroad, and C. G. Edgar and Edwin Earle, the latter sugar merchants of Detroit, charging them with conspiracy to violate the pro Visions of the Elkins rebating act punish able by Imprisonment. The court, how over, holds that the indictments against ; the New York Central road, Guilford and Pomeroy, found under the Elkins act, are good, and sustains them so far as they 'are punishable by fine. In sustaining the jdemurrer to the conspiracy Indictments : and dismissing the demurrer to the other 'indictments, the court holds that Con gress did not intend violations of the i Elkins law to be punished by Imprison ment. Judge Holl further holds that the (amendment to the Elkins act providing "a punishment by imprisonment was not I retroactive, and therefore could not in clude the men charged with conspiracy. The American Sugar Refining Company, jointly Indicted with the New York Cen ftral. pleaded not guilty, but Interposed no demurrer to the indictment preferring evidently to stand trial under the Indict ments as returned. "The public." said United States Attor ney Stlmson today, commenting on the decision, "must not misunderstand Judge Holt's decision. The Government charges 1 the defendants with twq distfnet crimes; One for conspiring to commit an offence ragalnst the Government and the second for the actual commission of that offense. Tho conspiracy Indictment was returned under a Federal enactment entirely sepa rate and distinct from the Elkins act. "By this decision Judge Holt merely holds thai Congress did not Intend a vio lation of the Elkins act should be pun . ished with Imprisonment, and throws out that indictment. The Indictments re turned under the Elkins act are sustained in their entirety by Judge Holt, and we shall proceed to try the accused forth with or as soon as possible. "Judge Holt's decision only affects the form of punishment to be administered, if the accused are found guilty." Mayor Rose Pined for Contempt. 'iuPEKA, Kan.. July 6. The State Su preme Court today handed down a de rision holding Mayor Rose, of Kansas City, Kan., in contempt for having as sumed the office of Mayor after the court had ousted him for the non-enforcement of ue Prohibition law and the law against gambling. In the order today. Mayor Rose Is ordered to relinquish the office and is fined $1000 tor contempt. The court further orders. If Mayor Rose fails to pay the fine within 20 days, he shall be committed to Jail until such time as it Is paid. Mayor Rose's attorneys Immediately filed a writ of error. If this is not grant ed, the case will be appealed to the United States 8upreme Court. After being ousted last January. Rose was re-elected at a special election. Prevents Scalping of Tickets. SALT LAKE CITY. July 6. In the Federal Court here today Judge John A. Marshall made permanent an Injunction restraining 11 ticket brokers doing busi ness In Salt Lake City and Ogden from dealing In railroad tickets Issued by the Rlo Grand Western Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The order of Judge Marshall Is sweeping in character, and In effect prohibits the scalping of, railroad tickets anywhere in Utah. The decision was rendered after a hearing extending over several days. Judge John L Mullins, sitting in the Crim inal Court, to oust District Attorney Stidger and Sheriff Nisbe, they had de rided to drop the matter. The court took the request under advisement and prob ably will announce its decision tomorrow. Young Zelaya Jumps Bail. WASHINGTON, July 6. When the case of Alfonso Zelaya, son of the President of Nicaragua, who was arrested on a war rant charging petit larceny, was called today, the collateral, amounting to $10, which was put up to secure his release, was forfeited, the accused not appearing. PLAY IS NOT CRIMINAL Want to Drop Investigation. DENVER. July 6. Attorneys for the League for Honest Elections today asked leave to withdraw their petition in the Criminal Court for a grand jury to inves tigate alleged frauds In the vote on fran chises at the city election. May 15. They made a formal statement setting forth their reasons, the purport of which was that they wanted to have a jury drawn by elisors and the investigation conducted by special prosecutors, and that as the Supremo Court had forbidden District Decision of New York Court on "Sirs. Warren's Profession." NEW YORK. July 6. The production of George Bernard Shaw's play, "Mrs. Warren's Profession," in this city dur ing the last theatrical season was not a violation of the penal code, accord ing to a decision nanded down by the Justices of the Court of Special Ses sions today. The decision was given in the cases of Arnold Daly and Sam uel Gumpertz, who" were arrested at the time the piav was ordered discon tinued by the Police Commissioner. The two defendants are acquitted by the decision announced today. The court rules that there is nothing In the words themselves, or in any par ticular phrase or expression in the play, which can be said to be indecent. The decision goes on: "While the court may hold decided opin ion regarding the fitness of this play as a stage production, when it comes to con sider a question of criminality of the acts of these defendants in publicly pro ducing it, it must make application of the principle of law laid down by the Court of Appeals 1 as the test of crimi nality. "Making such application In the case at bar, it appears that instead of exciting Impure Imagination in the mind of the spectator, that which Is really excited is disgust; that the unlovely, the repellant, the disgusting In the play are merely ac cessories to the main purpose of the dra ma, which is an attack on certain social conditions relating to the employment of women, which the dramatist believes, as do many others with him, should be reformed." PERRY MITCHELL'S STORY (Continued From Page 1.) father was God and that she had no father on earth. "After a few months, though, she got more sensible, and we thought she was cured. We let her go back to Oregon af ter Creffleld had been put in Jail. But as son as he got out she got back Into his power again. George was very angry that we had let her come away from home, and said he would never speak to either father or me if CrefHeld succeeded in get ting control of Esther." Brother's Insanity Ruled Out. Witness then testified that his brother Fred had committed suicide in Portland three years ago as the culmination of an unfortunate love affair. This testimony. Introduced for the purpose of showing the family taint of insanity, was ruled out by Judge Frater. In conclusion Perry told of the day his brother started out to kill Creffleld. "It was in April last," he said, "and George had just been released from the Good Samaritan Hospital at Portland, af ter getting over an attack of measles. He was very weak, and had little money, but said he was going to find Creffleld. even If he bad to walk from place to place in order to get him. He also told me he had been talking with the spirits and that God had commanded him to de liver up the spirit of Creffleld." On cross-examination Perry admitted that he made no effort to talk his brother out of the idea of killing the Holy Roller. Mr. Berry, the principal witness of the forenoon session, admitted having given some heed to Creffleld' s teachings at one time, at Corvallis. Needed Money for Tabernacle. "He told me," the witness testified, "that he needed money to build a taber nacle. He told me that I must sell all my valuables, including my automobile, and give the money to him. He said God had told him I must do these things, and that he had also been told by God to tell me to quit work and devote myself to the church. Tnen Creffleld and I had a fall ing out, as I would not do the things he said." Berry, In conclusion, substantiated the things that have been told by a doien wit nesses regarding Creffleld's practices. Louis Sandall. of Seattle, brother of Miss Ollle Sandall. who followed Creffleld to the beach, early this year, told of Cref fleld's control over the girl. He also told unprintable things of what he had learned concerning Creffleld's Holy Roller orgies. He saw Mitchell in Seattle the day before the shooting, and Mitchell told him he had been commanded by God to put Creffleld off the earth. Was as Crazy as a Loon. "I could see at the time that Mitchell was crazy as a loon," said Sandall. Sim ilar testimony regarding Mitchell's mental state was given by John Baldwin, box maker and fellow-workman of Burgess Starr at the Portland branch of the Stand ard OH Company. Baldwin met Mitchell In April through Starr. At the time Mitch ell could talk of nothing but his Intention to put an end to Creffleld, witness said. Dr. F. W. Brooks, of Portland, testified regarding Mitchell's good reputation. He had known him for five years, and attend ed him when he had the measles. At that time he talked of messages from the spir its directing him to kill Creffleld. Dr. Brooks' testimony was corroborated by Mrs. Harriet Hager, who nursed Mitchell through his illness. Further corroborative evidence In the same strain was presented by Emery Harris, a former roommate of the accused, and by Peter View, a Port land mill owner and former employer of Mitchell. All Important Testimony In. Considerable interest centers in the tes timony to be presented tomorrow by Pros ecuting Attorneys Manning and Bryson. After that, however, there will probably be a falling off In interest until the case goes to the Jury, as the balance of the testimony will be principally corroborative and cumulative. The defense hopes to conclude by the middle or latter part of next week. Patal Explosion at Saginaw. SAGINAW, Mich., July 6. Three per sons were killed and six injured, two of them seriously, by the explosion of a large gasoline tank at the Cosendtl Dye Works here today. The dead: E. A. Fohl, George Cosendal, George Slgelko. Every window In the block was broken by the explosion. The building was con sumed by the flames which followed the explosion. Ixss. $30,000. Carl Cosendal died this afternoon at St. Mary's Hospital, making the death list four. The "Different Store Fifth, Sixth and Washington Streets HOLDS'WORTMANfcKltlG U Store OPENS at 8 A. M. CLOSES at 6 P. M. Store TheSaturday Shopper9 s Handy Guide: A Ready Reference of End-of- Week Needs of Vacationists and Stay-at-Homes Women3 s Cool and Dainty Summer Apparel at Underprices Some at Less Than a FOURTH of Worth: Months ago we planned these July sales and every thing helped even the had weather that set the garment makers wild because it hurt their business for the time. But the makers never dreamed while they were planning these garments how little they'd be sold for. Prices on these Morning Kimonos Summer Dresses and Beautiful Shirtwaists Don't Begin to Cover Cost of Making! Women's Pretty White Summer Dresses Worth to $12.50 at $2.98 These to close only a few and, need we say, "Better come early for these"? In the offering are dainty shirt waist styles and fancy effects. Suits prettily and tastefully trimmed with insertions and laces. Regular length sleeves that any woman with deft fingers, a pair of scissors, with needle and thread, can quickly transform to modish elbow length. A remarkable bargain offer values to $12.50, to close $2.98 Handsome Jap Kimonos $3. 78 Instead of $5 Very dainty and charming these fetching, beautiful Oriental creations. Fashioned from the picturesque imported Japanese silks in quaint designs typical of the denizens of the "Flowery Kingdom." Trimmings of plain silks set off the patterened grounds. Yokes are daintily shirred behind and before. The model is a 24-inch length. These $5.00 beauties are today but $3.7S Exquisite White Shirtwaists Going to the Shore, "Bundy's" or "The Oaks"? Take Along a Bathing Bathing Suits, Caps and Shoes Headquarters This store is ripe with suggestions of things for outings and vacation wear and use. There are prices to help, too, in most cases specially Bathing Suits, Caps and Shoes. There's no excuse for unbecomingness either. A section in the Underwear Shops, First Floor, is devoted to and literally filled with inexpensive and very fetching garments to wear when bathing. Hints of what's to pay. When you go "swimming" take along a bathing suit of your own. No need to wear a hired fright when you may purchase a neat-fitting suit for your own at trifling cost. As modest as you like, as expensive as you wish they're equally tasteful and pretty, sure to give good service. Women s black cotton Bathing Suits, V- A big line of women's black and navy blue $1.79 Worth $2, $2.25, $2.50, $2.75, for One of the Store s Typical Waist Sales on Today! Come early there'll be a rush for these. The waists are new, charming, chic, cool and deliciously inviting in their snowy white beauty and "frostings" of dainty lace. All the newest of the Summer's bright est, smartest conceptions. Materials of sheer lawn, models give choice of elbow and Tegular sleeve lengths; ten separate and distinctly smart styles in the choosing; trimmings of lace and pretty embroi deries some in the allover effects; insertions in cobwebby effects and dainty hemstitchings, some have yokes of embroidery. Plaited and tucked styles, beauties, all. The lowest priced in the lot is all the $2.00 post; others are hitched at $2.25 and $2.50, while many are in the $2.75 class. However, today, they're alllike in the running, choice $1.79 shaped front, 3 rows white braid trim ming, all sizes, at, suit $2.00 Women's dark blue S. S. mohair Bathing Suits, sailor collar, 4 rows white braid trimming, special $2.25 Women's black cotton Bathing Suits, trim med with fancy braid and red duck sailor collar, special $2.75 Women's navy blue mohair Bathing Suits, round neck, V front, fancy white braid trimmings; special $3.00 Women's black and navy blue mohair Bath ing Suits, round sailor collar, six rows white braid trimming, at $5.0O Bathing Suits, fancy braid trimming, sailor collar, square and round-cut neck, V front; special at $3.50, $3.75 and $4.00. Women's fine mohair Bathing Suits in blue, browu and black, beautifully trimmed and made, sailor collars, round or square neck, special at $6, $7.50 and $9 Women's extra fine Bathing Suits in blue and black at $10, $12.50. $13.50 Bathing Shoes at, pair 25c to 65c Bathing Caps at 15 to $1.25 A big assortment of Children's Bathing Suits priced from 75 to $5.00 Special Sale of Men's Vacation Toggery: Sixth-Street Annex First Floor. We provide a seasonable group of special values for our men patrons today. Shop here and save something to help defray other vacation and outing expenses. IN THE "HABERDASHERIE" TODAY. Men '8 50c Underwear 37y2c A line of Men's Summer-weight ribbed and flat Balbrig gan Underwear in ecru and flesh color; regular value 50c, special, garment. . . .37V2 Men's $1.50 Golf Shirts 97c Men's New Golf Shirts in tan, plaids and blue and gray figured effects; regular $1.50 value, special 97 i Men's 35c Hosiery 19c A line of Men's Silk Lisle Hose in black, tan, blue, mode and plaids; regular value 35c, special, pair 19 Men's 50c Silk Handkerchiefs 35c Men's Japanese Silk Handkerchiefs, with plain cen ters and colored borders; also plain centers, colored borders and initials; regular value 50c, special 35 c Men's 50c Underwear 39c Men's fine combed blbriggan drop-stitch Underwear in salmon color; regular value 50c, special, garment 39 Men's I2V2C Hosiery 7c Men's plain black and tan colored Hose; sold by other dealers for I2V2C; our special price, pair 7 Men's $1.00 Golf Shirts 55c Men's Golf Shirts, white, with white silk figures; regular value $1.00, special ....... 55 Men's 50c Neckwear 35c Windsor Ties, in a large variety of patterns; regular value 50c, special 35c Closing Day of the Sale of the Monster Hosiery Purchase! Hundreds, aye, thousands, of eager, happy shop pers thronged the Hosiery Shops yesterday and -vied with each other for a share in the matchless values distributed there First Floor. AN IMMENSE LINE OF Handsome Hosiery A Wholesale Stock of Samples Selling for a Song! The song is pitched in five keys, or, to make it plainer, the lot is divided for con venience in selling into five parts, priced as printed. See how low we've set the prices "get the pitch." Not all could be put on sale yesterday. New values, equal to or better than those of the first day, will be brought forward for Saturday shoppers. Read a bit of detail: The values are remarkable. Hosiery is all of finest quality, only standard makes of leading mills renowned for quality of their product. Splendid wearing goods. All wanted colorings, embracing tans, browns, champagnes, navys, French blues, pinks, car dinal, resedas, emeralds, grays, blues, wines, mandarin and fancy combinations. Tex tures give wide choice, running the gamut of lisle, gauze, cobweb and gossamer weaves, lace effects, mercerized materials in daintily embroidered and plain' styles, and but, come. Sfee the wonderful display. A gigantic gathering of the master-hosiery looms of the world The monster lot is spread out On Five Great Tables Running Through Center of Entire Ground Floor of Main Building- -For Saturday Only And for convenience to the throngs divided the entire immense lot into Five Lots. EVERY LOT AN UNPRECEDENTED BARGAIN. VALUES UP TO $1.25 A PAIR Counter No. 1 Choice of any Hosiery on Counter No. 3 Choice of any Hosierv on this counter, pair 19 this counter, pair 39C Counter No. 2 Choice of any Hosiery on Counter No. 4 Choice of any Hosiery on this counter, pair 29 this counter, pair 49 Counter No. 5 Choice of any Hosiery on this counter, pair 59 Housework Helps in Summer Homes Saturday Specials to Interest Housewives COTTAGE OR SEASIDE DINNER SETS These Dishes are Colonial shape and have a pretty green deco ration. Are specially adapted for use in the Summer home 50-piece set, $7.20 value, special $5.76; 60-piece set, $9.60 value, special $7.68; 100-pieee set, $14.40 value, special $11.52 Third Floor. Needfuls for the Summer Outing Paper Plates, special at, the dozen 3 Wood Plates, special at, the dozen 6J Tin Teaspoons, special at, the dozen 6c Can Openers, good quality, special at, each 8 Tin Cups, special at, each 2 c White Enameled Cups, special at, each 10 COFFEE POTS, KNTVES AND FORKS, FRYING PANS, ETC All at Special Sale Prices. GREYOLA CARPCIDE, for cleaning carpets, rugs, lace curtains, clothing, silks and ribbons. Try a sample pack ageit has no equal. Full directions on each package. A trial will prove to you its merits. 1-povmd can, special at 20c 2V2-pound can, special at 40i Seasonable goods shown in our big third-floor stores Refrigerators, Ice Cream Freezers, Ice Picks, Chisels and Shavers, Lemonade Straws Lawn Mowers, Garden Hose and Sprinklers Gas and Oil Stoves all at Money Saving Prices. The Sale of Handbags Continues: Leather Goods Aisle Annex, First Floor. WOMEN'S $2.00 HANDBAGS $1.15. A sale of handsome Handbags, made of best walrus-grain leather, with best stitched leather handles, riveted frames, thoroughly leather lined and fitted with coin purse, in black or brown, gilt or gunmetal trimmings ; regular $2.00 value, special $1.13 Hammocks Croquet Sets Pillows The Prices Are Lower Than Usual Today: Fourth F)f or. Summer Games and Comforts for Warm Days Soft and Downy Pillows for Tired Heads on Summer Nights. $4.00 PILLOWS FOR $2.88. All-feather-filled Pillows, size 20 by 28 inches; our $4.00 value, special sale price, the pair $2.88 $3.50 CROQUET SET FOR $2.15. Professional Croquet Set, consisting of eight hardwood balls and eight long hardwood mallets, wicket pins ; put up in good box, complete; our $3.50 value, special sale price, the set $2.15 $3.50 HAMMOCKS $2.35. Heavy canvas-weave Hammocks, with pillow, concealed spreader and long valance ; our $3.50 value, special sale price, each $2.35 Embroideries Far Below Value First Floor. If you need embroideries for fine white lingerie blouses ; if you need dainty patterns in exquisite blind work, eye let work, fine veining and featherstitching that almost persuade you it is handwork, for chemisettes, the coquet tish half sleeves every other woman is wearing; if you want beautiful flouneings, sheer and fine, for lovely Sum mer gowns in short, if you have embroidery needs of any kind, come today and supply them at less than you'll pay elsewhere for inferior goods. SPECIAL TODAY Thousands of yards of assorted Em broideries, made with the best buttonhole edges, will , wash nicely without fraying. In nainsook, Swiss and cambric, assorted widths and insertions; worth from 35c to 65c, special, yard 25 Of Interest to Dress Goods Buyers : Colored Dress Goods Department Winding up the Sum mer season. Goods must go; the new early Fall goods are on the way. Neat checks, stripes and gray stuffs. Regular $1.00 values, special at, yard 84d Regular $1.25 values, special at, yard $1.04 Regular $1.50 values, special at, yard $1.24 Regular $1.75 values, special at, yard $1.47 Regular $2.00 values, special at, yard $1.68 Summer Silks at Lessened Price White India Silks for the warm weather at special prices. 27 inches wide, regular $1.25 grade; special, yard $1.02 27 inches wide, regular $1.50 grade; special, yard $1.21 28-inch Silk and Wool Bengalines, Poplins and 19-inch Green and Blue Check Louisines, all good colors to choose from; regular 85c and $1.00 value only, yd 45c Novelty Suit Silks A grand collection of down-to-date new silks, all the new colors and weaves, divided in two big lots on bargain tables in Silk Annex ; regular values $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50, at; yard 77 and 81 "Penny Savers 1 First Floor A little thing to get is often a big thing to want. Don't go away without providing for all the "little needs." Here, to day you may fill all the "wants" large or small, at little prices that create big savings. Examples: 2Se box Bathasweet, special 17c 75c bottle Williams' Toilet Water, special 49C White Waxed Paper, 24 sheets In roll, special 4c 5 double sheets Fly Paper, special IOC 25c package Allen's Footease, special 17o 15c box Lettuce Toilet Soap, special IOC 35c bottle Eclipse Almond Cream, special 20c 25c box fine fabric finish white Writing Paper, special .. 15c 25c fine fancy crepe paper Lunch Sets, special 15c 9c thin Foreign Mall Writing Tablet, special 5 15c Postcard writing Tablet, special 9c 5c cabinet box wire Hairpins special 3C Pair 36c plain Shell Side Combs, special Best English Needlebooks, special 15c Card of 1 doxen white-headed Hatpins, special 5c