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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAX. SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1DOS. 6 Nemo'' Corsets Fitted by the ONLY Expert Corse tier in Portland This Is "Nemo" Week Come and Learn the New Corset Fashions ll li ' . . It n li nnnr ill ft Misses' a n d Children's TRIMMED HATS $6.00 Values $3.45 Every one exclusive with and the daintiest lot Trimmed hats for misses and children we have ever shown. Beautiful net hats, light, airy straw hats, taste fully trimmed with ribbons, flowers, etc. Positively the best values shown in town today. Values $3, to Sale Store Open Tonight Until 9:30 ummer Showing of ROBINSON & WELLS' English Tailored Hats Li'pman, Wolfe & Co. Sole Portland Agents TELLS EARLY LIFE! friend of Bella Gunness' Childhood Found. TRAVELED AS CONJURER Her Father a Strolling Magician, Very Brutal and Iavlsn 'With His Money Woman Said to Have Unfinished Divorce Suit, CHRISTIANIA, May IS. In addition to the fact previously mentioned in these dispatches .that Mrs. Bella Gunness was the daughter of Fetters Paulsen, a trav eling conjurer and musician, and per formed with her father at public fairs in Norway, the Associated Press has gathered here and at Trondjera many additional details of her family history. Her mother was regarded as a respect able woman. Her father, a Swede of gypsy origin, was a clever illusionist. Hip daughter Bella, when about 6 or 8 years old. used to travel with' bis com pany everywhere in the country and was especially well known in Christiania. An old artist friend of Paulsen was found here today. His name is Julius Bastel. He says he first met Paulsen at Karrstad. Sweden, in 1S6S. He Is de scribed as having been a brutal man and lavish with his money. Bella Paulsen was confirmed at Christiansand, South Norway, in 1876. her dress for the occasion being ordered from Paris. Shortly after ward Paulsen retired from business and Invested his savings in a glassware store at Trondjem, but lost his all and re sumed the performing business. His daughter remained at Christiania, Bastel says, and in 1S80 or 1S90 married an en gineer. Bastel has not seen her since IKH. Old Paulsen Is paid to have died last year at Nasvik from the effects of fall ing down a flight of stairs. It vis re ported that the daughter, before leaving Norway, was a participant in a suit in the divorce court and that the case never has been finished. MAY' BE JAW OP MRS. GXTXXESS Bone Taken From Ruins Partly Identified. LA PORTE, Ind., May 15. "There Is no lestion but that the piece of Jawbone tound on the Gunness farm yesterday is from a human being. Furthermore, it ars a strong resemblance to the lower law of Mrs. Gunness." This positive statement of Identification was made by Ir. I, P. Norton, the dentist ir ho performed a large amount of work n the toeth of the owner of the death tarm, after he had examined the Jawbone. "There is almost no chance that the bone came from the Jaw of an animal." ae- said. "There only remains to be dis- rovered some of the gold which I placed opon the cuspid to make the identification t this piece of bone perfect and com plete. So far as I myself am concerned. ( am certain as to the origin of the bone Bow." Sheriff Smulzer also brought In to Dr. Norton a number of new bits of metal tound In the debris this morning. They proved, however, to be brass. Otherwise the search at the farm was fruitless. The report of the Coroner's physi cians to the effect that the Jawbones found at the Gunness farm yesterday came from the skull of an adult human being. Is all that Is required to con firm the establishment of the corpus delicti In tile case against Ray Um phere. according to the prosec uting of ficials of this county. Just when this formal report will be made Is uncer tain. Sheriff Smulzer was Jubilant over his discoveries last night, and resumed his Investigations today. When the screen ing is nnlihed the Sheriff has the sluic ing and panning method to fall back npon. This novel method of unearth ing evidence has given several results already, although the amount of ashes gone over has Deej inconsiderable. It Is alleged on the tremendous heat engendered In the flaming ruins the state must depend for support of its contention that the head of Mrs. Gun , , ,. , . Ml' LI j us ,$3 of r , , . For Women of Fashion ness -was incinerated on the morning of April 28. The first of the Gunness victims to be interred with Christian rites was buried tonight in'Patton's Cemetery on the outskirts of La Porte. The corpse was that of Andrew K. Hegeleln, of Mansfield, N. D., the last man to meet his death In the trap to which Mrs. Gunness lured her victims. The body was removed for burial this evening after Coroner Mack had received the reports of the Bertillon experts who have examined H, and compared their findings with figures taken from the records of the Minnesota penitentiary at Stillwater. The burial rites of the Swedish Lutheran church were read at the morgue by a minister, and two men followed the coffin to tile grave by the light of a lantern. TWO KILLED BY BLAST Men Tamping rowdeif Get the Full Force of IMscliargo. BAN FRANCISCO, May 15. Marian Burns and John Brown, employes of the San Pablo Quarry Company, were killed by an accidental blast in the Point Richmond quarry this morning. Both were shockingly mangled. They were tamping powder in a hole, and, standing over the hole, both re ceived the full force of the discharge and were thrown some distance away. Burns died within two hours and Brown an hour later. FAVOR LIABILITY BILL Effort to Bo Made Today to 'Put It Through the House. , "WASHINGTON, May IS. True to its special order adopted a day or two ago, the House Judiciary committee today voted to report favorably the bill intro duced by Alexander, of New York, estab lishing the liability of the Government for the injury or death of certain classes of employes. This is one of the legislative measures urged upon Congress by the President. An effort will be made to pass the bill in the House tomorrow. Code of Laws for China Court. WASHINGTON. May 15. The House committee on foreign affairs today or dered a favorable report on the bill in troduced by Mr. Denby, of Michigan, cre ating a code of laws for the United States Court for China, which Is now operating under the common law. The bill makes applicable the California laws. Vacuum Cleaner Company Falls. KEW YORK" Hit 15 Tho Vini'iim Clonnei rnmnnnV II- T u tnAayr nlaniul the hands of a receiver, with liabilities oi i.'iu.uuu ana estimatea assets of $400,000. The company used the Vacuum process for cleaning the inner and outer walls of buildings. Auto Race Across and Back. NEW YORK. May 15. As the result of a meeting of automobile manufacturers and their representatives here tonight, the holding of a transcontinental automobile race from New York to San Francisco and back again is practically assured. General Wood Arrives In Enropo. MARSEILLES, May 15. Major-General Leonard Wood, U. S. A., accompanied by the members of his family, arrived here today from Manila by way of Gibraltar. He Is en route to Paris. Mark Lincoln's Birthplace. WASHINGTON, May 15. A bill appro priating J5O.00O for a memorial to Abra ham Lincoln on the site of the Uncoln birthplace in Kentucky was passed by the Senate today. Doctors Beery Whisky. CLARKESVILLE. W. Va., May 15. A resolution denouncing the use of whisky In the medical profession was adopted to day by the West Virginia Medical Asso ciation. Night Maneuvers Suspended. LONDON, May 15. As a result of re cent naval disasters the admiralty has issued orders suspending all night ma neuvers by the Navy till further notice. $100,000 Fire in Minneapolis, MINNEAPOLIS, May 16. The Minne apolis Storage Company's central ware hoose, at 630-10 First street North, was destroyed by fire today, Lees, $WXA. EtabIUhed 1 850- Good Merchandise Suitcases rices around, bolts, Handsome Leather Traveling Cases, with comb, brush, etc. ; $6.00 and $5.00 GA AQ values, sale ..p" 0 Will Testify in Effort to Secure His Freedom. EXPERTS DO NOT AGREE Some Declare He Is Sane, Others That He Would Be Menace to 'So ciety How Thaw Felt When He Killed Stanford White. ' THIONTESTND POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 15. Ex amination of expert medical witnesses in an endeavor to show that Harry K. Thaw is sane was begun here late today by-Thaw's counsel in the habeas corpus proceedings instituted to free him from confinement at the Matteawan asylum for the criminal insane, where he was lodged at the conclusion of his trial for the killing of Stanford White. Or. George G. ' Jacoby, qualifying as an expert, said that he had examined Thaw twice during his stay at Mattea wan. He had found Thaw, he said, logi cal, with good memory and capable of following an argument. He gave it as his unqualified opinion that Thaw was sane at present. Dr. Graeme Hammond, another expert on mental diseases, the last witness of the session, deelared that Thaw was not a paranoiac, in his opin ion, but was now sane. An Interesting development of the day was the quoted report of A. Russell Pea body, of Thaw's counsel, that Thaw would go on the witness stand. Experts called by Mr. Jerome earlier in the day testified that in their opinion Thaw was an incurable paranoiac and that his release would be dangerous to public safety. Experts Do Not Agree. Dr. Carlos F. Macdonald testified that Thaw is an incurable paranoiac, whose confinement is demanded by consider ations of public safety. Dr. Amos T. Baker, acting superintendent of the asylum, asserted on the witness stand that from his observations made in the asylum he was of the opinion that to free Thaw would endanger public safety. , District Attorney Jerome at 4:15 this afternoon rested his case. It Is prob able that further witnesses will be called by Mr. Jerome In rebuttal. Dr. Baker, acting superintendent of the asylum at Matteawan, was called by Dis trict Attorney Jerome, not as an expert, but to give the court a statement of Thaw's conduct during the three months he was in the Matteawan institution, be ginning February L 1908. Dr. Baker related conversations with Thaw in which the latter told of epilepsy or nervous excitements suffered by a sis ter and an uncle. Thaw, the witness said, also told of the desultory way in which his education was acquired. At 7 years of age, he said, he had had St. Vitus' dance. He described an attack of pneu monia at Monte Carlo, concerning which he did not agree with the diagnosis of his physicians. Thaw told Dr. Baker, the latter said, that he used tobacco at 18, used alcohol in moderation and denied ever using drugs. The witness said Thaw described his movements before the shoot ing since his return from Europe and his marriage to Miss Nesbit. He gave his age as 37, though he was 34 when he en tered the hospital. Says He Is Impersonated. Thaw told the witness that at his trial , some of the doctors had greatly exaggerated their estimates of his condition; that they had In mind a nephew of his, whom they had examined, who traveled under the same name, and was often taken for him. He said that his lawyer and doctors did very clever work In his defense, Mr. Baker said Thaw said to him: "If I was ever insane In my life the attack began one minute before I shot White, and ended half a minute after ward." The doctor repeated a description that Thaw gave him of the house alleged to have been maintained by Stanford sWhlte and others. He said that these men had plotted to put him in an asylum to pre vent him from exposing their alleged mls deedb, "He told me that- ha -appealed to ills FIFTY - EIGHT YEARS IN BUSINESS-Established 1 850 toman, IPoSf & $ Only Quality Considered Oar Prices and Grips Real cowhide leather Suitcase, large shirt fold, steel frame, deep top, straps all around, solid brass locks a- qq and bolts, reg. $10, special. P iJO Cowhide leather Bags, with riveted handle, patent locks and bolts, 18 in. long, $5 values. PJ.OU "Woven straw Grips, fancy lining, leath er bound, very light and dur- able, $6.00 value...- p4.&i3 Straw Suitcases, very light, strictly waterproof, shirt fold, straps . all patent locks and $3.98 $5.50 value Pegmoid leather Suitcases, 24-inch, pat ent locks and catches, $2.50 QQ values i Straw Suitcases, with leather corners, shirt fold, extra well made, AO $3.50 value, special ipZ.4o Extra large straw Suitcase, leather bound, shirt fold, fancy linen lined, straps all around, heavy ' leather handles, $7.00 value. p54o Helen Gould and was referred by her to Anthony Comstock," said Dr. .Baker. "Thaw said that detectives employed by him to watch White and the latter's house Informed him that he was in danger." When the witness asked him to give the substance of the detectives' reports, he refused to answer, "by advice of coun sel." Dr. Baker continued: "He said that his physicians and lawyers had advised him not to discuss what had occurred on the Madison Square Roof Garden the night he shot Stanford White. He volunteered, however, this much. He compared his situation at that moment to that of a man standing on the brink of a precipice, seized with an irre sistible impulse, to Jump." FORAKER HELD THE KEY (Continued From First Page.) Taft is proof against that. He would rather lose - the Presidency than enter into a deal to sell out his Ohio friends, who are determined to take Mr. For aker's scalp. But the Senators think there are other ways of taking the hide oft this troublesome feline. They hope Mr. Taft's Ohio friends, who want to make sure of his nomination and election, will hold out the olive branch to the leader of the black contingent. PRESIDENT UPHELD BY COURT Negro Dismissed at Brownsville Loses Suit to Recover Pay. NEW YORK, May IS. The right of President Roosevelt summarily to dis miss a negro soldier of the Twenty-fifth Infantry for alleged participation In the riot at Brownsville, Tex., was sustained today by Judge Hough, in the United States District Court. Oscar W. Held, the soldier, sued the Government to re cover 1122 as wages from the date of his dismissal to the expiration of his enlist ment District Attorney Stlmson con tended that the President had a right to dismiss the soldier. Judge Hough sus tained this contention and directed a judgment In favor of the Government. Judge Hough In his decision held that the President was entirely within his rights In dismissing the soldiers of the Twenty-flfth Regiment, Inasmuch as the enlistment papers and oath provide that a soldier shall serve "for the period of three years unless sooner discharged by proper authority." The President is proper authority, the decision declares, and continues: Whether Reld or his comrade or any of them was guilty or the rlotoue disturbances, or whether Reld personally committed any infraction of good order or military disci pline or whether he Is in fact a desirable soldier, or knew or withheld anything tend ing toward the discovery of the perpetra tors of the Brownsville riot; or whether, no far as Reld or others are concerned, the President's action was unnecessarily severe, cruel or unjust, are questions beyond this Judicial decision. By the soldier's contract the burden of military service Is not for a definite time, but for three years unless discharg-ed by proper authority. I do not give assent to the assertion that a soldier's engagement Is or bears much resemblance to a civil contract of "aire; but on the Assumption that It is such a contract terminable at will. If that will be expressed through a proper officer. Judgment was directed against the pe tioner, with costs. . BOTH 1 DIE AFTER DUEL Discharged Employe Fights With Ex-Employer. SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 15. Ulmer Green, a prominent orchardist, and How ard Cook, formerly employed by him, killed one another in a pistol duel on Green's ranch, near Freeport, 12 miles from here today. Cook had a grievance against Green, who dismissed him from his employ some two weeks ago, and since that time has laid in wait for an opportunity to kill his former employer. This afternoon he fired at Green, hitting him in the stomach. Green fired back at Cook, sending a bullet Into the lat ter's brain. Both dropped dead, and the bodies were eventually discovered by Mrs. Green. Can't Agree on Chairman. ST. LOUIS. May tfBecause the candi dates on the state ticket could not agree upon an executive chairman, the Demo cratic State Centra Committee met here today and organised, did not elect a cam paign manager, and adjourned until May 37, when It Is expected a choice will be made. . Are Always the Lowest at Bargain Cowhide leather Suitcase, shirt fold, heavy riveted corners, extra . J. Q well made, $8.00 value p4.;70 Cowhide leather Suitcase, large double case, very smart and durable, large rivets, straps all around, r gf $16.00 value plZ.UU Cowhide leather Bag, linen lined, heavy frames, patent catches, $4.50 aa value, sale JJ5sUU Cowhide leather Oxford Bag, leather lined, very handsome, 14-in. p-rv size, $6.98 value, special pO.ovl Pegmoid leather Suitcase, large size, well made, straps all around, n t?f shirt fold, $5 value, special. P53" Black walrus Case, handsome moire lin ing, gilt locks and bolts, splendid case for a lady, $12.00 t7 flfi value J .UU Real hornback alligator Bags, leather lined, 8-in. size, $8.00 value, !j- nr special JOeUU Soft leather Collar Bags for q traveling, $1.00 value 05 C -FIRE III ILLINOIS JOHNSON CITTB FORMED TO SWING DELEGATION. Leading Chicago Democrats Hope to Induce Delegates to Violate Bryan Instructions. CHICAGO, May 15. (Special.) Definite steps were taken today to swing the Illinois delegation to the Democratic Na tional Convention from the Bryan column to Governor Johnson, of Minnesota. They were revealed by the announcement of the Informal organization of the Chi cago Johnson Club, backed by -some of the most conspicuous Democrats of the city, among whom is at least one delegate to the Denver convention. Twenty-five thousand postalcards went through the mails tonight to every ward In the city, asking for signatures to a pledge to the Johnson movement. The 20 men identified with the prelimi nary organization are all prominent in business here. ALREADY HAS 22 CONTESTS Republican National Committee to Begin Hearing June 1. CHICAGO, May 15. Notices of 22 con tests have been received by the Republi can National committee in advance of the meeting of the sub-committee on ar rangements. The contestants will have until May 26 to file their papers, and they are expected to number nearly 200 when all are In. All but one of the 22 contests come from Southern States, the exception being the Sixth District of Ohio, where an antl-Taft delegation is seeking seats in the convention. Two of the contests are over delegates-at-large, they being from Alabama and Mississippi. The others are from Congressional districts. The lists as prepared by Secretary Dover follow: Alabama Fourth District, Sixth Dis trict. Arkansas Fifth District. Florida Third District. Georgia Second District, Third Dis trict, Fifth District, Eighth District. Mississippi Fifth District, Sixth Dis trict, Seventh District, Eighth District. Missouri Fifth District, Eleventh Dis trict, Twelfth District. Ohio Sixth District. South Carolina First District, Fifth District. Tennessee Third District, Seventh Dis trict. In these contests 48 delegates are In- Hood's Sarsaparilla 40,366 People - RECOMMEND IT As a spring medicine, for the blood, for lost appetite, for rheumatism and other troubles that number hav ing written us in two years telling of cures and remarkable benefit from it. This great volume of testimony should convince you that it is the medicine for you this spring. Get a bottle and begin to take it today. In sist on having Hood's. "This spring my mother -was feel ing miserable. She tried several medicines without benefit. She then began taking Hood 's Sarsaparilla and felt much better in a short time. She thinks there is no medicine equal to Hood's." Miss Tressie Hynes, Box 33, Galilee, Pa. In usual liquid form or In chocolate-coated tablets called Sarsatabx. 100 Doses One Dollar. "CLEANLINESS" 1m the watchword for health and vigor, oomf art and beauty. Mankind is learn ing not only the necessity but the lux ury of oleanllness. SAPOUO, whloh has wrought such Changes In the home, nnonnoM her sister triumph. HAND SAPOLIO FOB TOILET AJTD BATH A special soap which, energises the whole body, starts the oiroulation and leaves an exhilarating- glow. All mbm 2000 Lace Veils Vals.to$2.75at95c Another of our great Veil sales, a special large pur chase of round, square and oblong shape Chantilly Lace Veils, in all colors and pat terns, including Point d 'Es prit, ring dot, soutache and dotted effects. These are the very smartest novelties of the season the kind of veils that other stores always sell at top prices. Values 95c up to $2.75, each. Today Is Children's Day Depts. Children s Coats, Reefers Infants' and Children's colored cloth Coats ani Reefers, in light or dark colors; plaids, checks and stripes; sizes 2 to 6 years. Gry r Values to $3.5Q p9iZ? Infants' and Children's colored Coats and Reef ers, made in plain colors or fancy stripe; velvet or moire silk collars. Values to firv.ro $5.00. Saturday volved. it being a case of Taft against the field In all of them. The full National committee will hear evidence in each case. Chairman Harry S. New will Issue a call May 20 for a meeting of the National committee In Chicago June 1 or 2. From then until the convention opens the con tests will be heard. The sub-committee on arrangements. In addition to selecting a temporary chair man when it meets here tomorrow, will decide the order in which contests shall be taken up. It is likely to be alpha betically. SOCIALISTS DO XOT EXD WORK Ticket, Headed by Debs, to Be Rati fied at Mass-Meeting. CHICAGO, May 15. The delegates of the Socialist party, in convention here, who at an early hour this morning nom inated Eugene V. Debs, of Indiana for Presidential candidate, and Benjamin Hanford, of New York, for Vice-President, had not completed their work when adjournment was taken until tomorrow. The ticket will he ratified at a mass meeting called for tomorrow night, at which it is expected Debs will speak and over which William D. Haywood, ex secretary of the "Western Federation of Miners, will preside. Foraker by a Narrow Margin. COSHOCTON, O.. May 15. By a vote of 23 to 22 Senator Foraker was in dorsed for the Presidency over Sec retary of War Taft today by the Sev enteenth Congressional District con vention. Coshocton and Licking Coun ties voted solidly for the Foraker reso lution. Japan Election Quiet. TOKIO, May 15. The elections today passed off quietly in Tokio and it is be lieved the same conditions prevailed in the provinces. The absence of excitement is unprecedented. The official results will be announced a week hence. Chasing Bears cf 1 the food that combines the life of the wheat with the soothing, invigorating tonic of barley-malt. Try it for break fast. You will like the sweet, crisp, malty flakes. "FORCE" is made of the best white wheat, steam -cooked, rolled into thin flakes, com bined with the purest barley-malt and baked. Always "crisp" it before serving it by pouring into a pan and warming it in oven. Then serve -in large dish with cream, piling the flakes in one side of the dish and pouring the cream in the other side, dipping the flakes as eaten. Your grocer sells it. No other Flaked Food is "just as good." 4o.w LABOR DOES NOT GET II HIGH WAGES XOT VALID EXCUSE FOIt COSTLY PAPER. Canadian Manufacturer Contradict! Trust's Story and Trust Presi- dent Repeats Story. j WASHINGTON, May 15. The Hour special committee which Is conducting an investigation of the paper trust sat till a late hour tonight in an effort to complete the hearings and report its findings to Congress before the session closes. From the point of view of the newspaper publishers the most signifi cant development of today'B session was the introduction of a telegram from the-.. J. R. Booth Paper Company, of Ottawa. Canada, stating that the company pays some of its skilled laborers higher wages than are paid in this country. Publish ers say that this Information goes far to bear out their allegation that the statement of the wood pulp men that an increase in the price of paper was owing chiefly to concessions to labor is not In accord with the facts. John Norris' statement that American and Canadian manufacturers have en tered into an agreement whereby Cana dian manufacturers keep out of the Eastern markets was denied by Davis S. Cowles, president of the American Paper & Pulp Association, and several others prominently identified with the paper making industry. Mr. Cowles Informed the committee that the association of which he is president' really exists in name only. As a matter of fact, he said, last April Canadian paper had been offered to Her man Ridder, president of the 'Publishers' Association, at $2.40 per hundred pounds, delivered in the pressroom in New York. Mr. Cowles reiterated a statement he had made some time ago that wages at his mills had advanced 40 per cent. through the tall timber gave our forefathers stomachs that could digest any thing. The man with his nose on a desk has to " cod dle" his stomach.' The best "coddler" is