Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1909)
TTIE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1909. .T7 T7 The Leading City in the Heart of the'Deschutes Valley l i I I LEADING CITY IN -I lw-NI THE HEART OF THE 3V Vik COOPER &TKtmM(0 1 IfCOOPER S.TAYL0R Urs 207-208-209 HENRY BtlMj . THIS IS IMPORTANT J. J. Hill's Statement to G. Springer of the Deschutes Valley Yqu are going to get a big lot of people in your country; be sure and the right kind. James J. get CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL, NOV. 18 ' tracklaVing under way 4 Blasting Day and Night Along the Deschutes TRACKLAYING MACHINE IN USE Harriman Expects to Have Ten Miles of, Steel Laici by First of Year. THE OREGON HUS, NOV. 18 TRACKLAYING MACHINE AT WORK Construction Is Being Forced Day - and Night O NWARD TO H ILLMAN. Weather Conditions Will Not Inter fere With Construction" Work. IT ' xv-S- TbJJraTT.AT sio to , Nearly lOOO sold and going like wildfire every day HILL AND HARRIMAN ARE FOUNDING ANOTHER EMPIRE CROOK COUNTY INVESTMENT CO. COOPER. TAYLOR For the accommodation of thgse unable to call on 'other days of the week we have decided to remain open H day today (Thursday) 206-207-208 Henry Building, Corner Fourth and Stark Streets "T. 0." REFUSES I Roosevelt Turns Down Mayor ship Chance. WANTED VACATION MORE Invitation From Greater "ew York Republicans to Run for Execu tive on Ticket Fails to Appeal to ''Teddy." XETW YORK. Nov. Sfc Theodore Roose velt, in the latter part of his Presidential term, flatly refused to consider running for Mayor of Greater Xew York to aid the ReDubllcans against Tammany In the recent municipal election. a, This became known today through Her bert Parsons, president of the Republi can County Committee, who said he per EonaHy had made such an appeal to Colonel Roosevelt. Governorship 3ot Mentioned. "Whenf Mr. Roosevelt was President," paid Mr. Parsons, "and again shortly he fore he tailed away for Africa, I asked him ifv he would consent to become a candidate for Mayor, but he absolutely refused to have his name considered for the office. I never t asked him, however. If he would consent' to run for Governor. Aked why Colonel Roosevelt refused to Consider the - Mayoralty nomination, Mr. Parsons said: , Roosevelt Wanted Vacation. "1 think he believed that it was an office that required a great deal of hard work, a great deal of attention to de tail?. ' "He had lust finished seven years of arduous work at the "White House and he did not feel that we had the right to draft hiii into the public service again. He felt that as a private citizen he A-ouM still be of service to the state and Mr. Parsons said that he was sure Colo' nol- Roosevelt went away without any thought of ever becoming United States i Senator to succeed Chauncey M. Depew in 1911. NEGRO'S BODY BURNED Brute Captured After long Chase. Victim May Die. AXNISTOX. Ala., Xovy. 24. A mob lynched Roy Rnlston, a negro, here today for attacking Mrs. W. C. Cheat wood, wife o a white farmer. The negro fled after his crime and was tracked many miles. His piM-suers riddled him with shot and burned his body. ' Mrs. Cheatwood may die. 1 AUTO STRANGELY WRECKED Detective Probe 1 My stery of Scat tered Farts and Missing Riders.' CHICAGO. Nov. 24. Detectives of Chi cago and the authorities of Lake and Taaner Counties, Indiana, are'ln pursuit .of a mystery Including in Its elements 7. h idenCUy and the present whereabouts of four persons one of them a woman and the hreaking up and burying" of an automobile. In Jasper " County, Indiana, within 10 milea of Water Valley, where three wheels and the other parts of an automo bile were found in the Kankakee River November 4. is the farm of Mrs. Chris tian Justedt. ln "soft spots" above this house Sheriff Thomas Grant, of Crown Point, discovered parts of an au tomobile which apparently tallied with the wheels found in the Kankakee River. Further search developed the tonneau of a, machine, covered with grain, in Mrs. Justedt's barn. In the house in Mrs. Justedt's woodbox were found pieces f the woodwork of an automobile. The shop, sales, state and other numbers, which might have served fordentiflcation, were missing. Sheriff Grant after obtaining Informa tion that at least one man spent three nights at Mrs. Justedt's and destroyed the automobile, left a Constable to watch the situation at the farm. OIL TRUST TO TEST LAW WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER TALKS OF RECEXT DECISION' Determination to Secure Final Inter pretation of Sherman Act Is Declared. " JvEW YORK, Nov. 84. William Rocke feller, a vice-president and director of the Standard Oil Company, gives a differ ent color today to the appeal which Mortimer Elliottj the company's general solicitor, had announced is to be taken from the decree of the United States Cir cuit Court., ,. Legal affairs of the company," Mr. Rockefeller said,1 would continue to .re main in the hands of its legal department, 'but as a layman he wished to indicate that his own attitude and that of his associates had its share of altruism.' "It seems to me desirable," he said, "not only for my own Interests and those of my associates, but for the public at large, and for all other great business ventures, that the Sherman act should be finally settled beyond contention as interpreted by the "Supreme Court of the United States. Undoubtedly our case will be appealed, and for this reason. "I am not a lawyer and cannot discuss the decree of the Circuit Court, but Mr. Elliott has said that an appeal will be taken, and the matter is entirely in the hands of the counsel. "In this connection, I want to say as a large stockholder, however, as the case eventuates there will be no unwillingness to comply fully, not only with the letter but wtth the spirit of the law as it shall' be settled by the Supreme Court." . ,, GIRL IS ACQUITTED Jury Promptly Clears Alma Bell of Murder Charge. INSANITY PLEA SAVES INSURANCE LAW INVALID Canadian Judge Opens Way to En trance of Unsegistered Companies. c ' MONTREAL, Nov. 24 A decision which, tf upheld by the higher courts, will open the door of the Dominion of Canada to all foreign insurance companies.' without their being subjected to the regulations prescribed' by the Canadian insurance, act, was given by Judge Leet here today. In deciding 4n favor of the defendant In a suit brought by the Crown against William Faber & Co., Insurance agents, representing Lloyds of London, Judge Leet held the, Canadian Insurance act in valid. This act provides that no unregis tered company may write Insurance in Canada. ' t Trunks, suitcases and bajes. Largest variety at Harris Trunk Co. . Brothers of Miss Bell Declare They Will Send Young Woman to Rela tives in East Where Her Story y Is Xot Known to Public. AUBURN, Cal., Nov. 24 After being out only an hour and 15 minutes, a jury, -composed largely of sturdy mountaineers, ac quitted Alma Bell today of the murder of her lover, Joe Armes, on the ground that the young unlettered mountain girl was temporarily insane at the time that she shot Armes. ' As the verdict was announced, the young woman burst into tears and threw herself into the arms of her aged mother. A dimonstration in the crowded court room was checked by the court. 'Three ballots were taken by the jury to reach a verdict. r Unwritten Law Pleaded. The trial of Alma Bell attracted much attention because the defense rested Its case upon the "unwritten law," as the young woman, it was alleged, shot Armes only after he had refused to keep his promise of -marriage and had declined to shield her from dishonor. A second plea was temporary insanity, brought on by the girl's desperation and overwrought mental state as a result of the situation In which she found her self. v - ' . District Attorney Tuttle announced him self .as satisfied' with the verdjet. Alma Bell was acoused of shooting Joe Armes, on the night of June 6 last. The giri called Armes rora the cabin -where he was sleeping with his brothers, and shortly after wards a olstol shot was heard from the direction in which the eouple had gone. Frank and Manuel Armes, brothers of Joe. and Tony Grinko, who also was in the cabin, rushed out and found their brother's dead body. Girl Admits Killing. The Sheriff was notified, and the next morning he found Alma Bell crouching in the brush near the scene -of the shooting. After the shooting. Miss Bell went to a nearby ranch house and told tha inrnates that 6he had killed Armes. She left, but returned late, and said she knew that he was not dead, because she could hear him crying. She left for the second time, and was not seen again until she was found the next morning by Sheriff McAuley. During the trial the defense sought to prove that Alma Bell was betrayed under promise of marriage. Insanity Plea Saves , The srerdict was rendered on the ground that Alma Bell was Insane at the mo ment of the shooting, but was sane im mediately before and immediately after this homicide. The instructions of Judge Arnot were to this effect. The Jury took three! ballots. After the -verdict, the girl received the congratulation ot her attorneys, friends and family. Her brothers declare today that they would send her to relatives in the East, where her history is not known. BALLINGER AIDS SETTLERS Secretary Extends Time for Water Rent to April 1, 1910. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Nov. 24. Secretary R. A. Bal llnger todajvannounced that settlers- on all Government irrigation . projects whose annual payment, for water be comes due December 1 may, if they so desire,' postpone this . payment until April 1, 1910, but after, that date no further extension will be made. He announces that this one extension does not commit the department to a per manent change in date, and the plan may. not be followed another year. Extension is granted because of ap peals from settlers who believe by holding their crops till late Winter they can sell to a better advantage than if forced to put their product on the mar ket before December 1. The question of permanently chang ing the date for the collection of an nual payments will be given further consideration. , s STATE LAND LOSS SQUARED Ballliiger Approves 16 9 8 Portland District Acres as Indemnity. WASHINGTON, Nov." 34. (Special.) Secretary of' the Interior Ballinger today approved Clear- List No. 3. embracing 1299 acres in the Portland Land District. This acreage was selected by Oregon as Indemnity for its loss of school lands. GBXTLEMEX OF TASTE Will find at Elder's' Buret, corner of Fourth and Washington streets, Fili pino Punch, a drink never before seved in Portland, also a turkey "lunch, the entire day of Thanksgiving. All we ask of our patrons is a comment on the same at Elder's expense. Indescribable " ' But Real - the unique" "ioasty" flavour of Post Toasties Our special process of "flaking" fresh, clean, selected White Corn re tains all the rich food properties, and adds a new and. distinct fla- vour. 'The Memory Lingers" , Sold by Grocers. M MMmiriA'0' Jm i j M j XJy -SOLID THROUGH TRAIN V "THE NORTH BANK ROAD" (S. P. 8 S. Ry.) ' V W NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY r THROUGH SLEEPING GAR TO OMAHA Standard Drawing - Room and , Tourist Sleeping Gars Dining Gar Meals, a la carte Day Coaches . Steam Heated ' Electric Lighted An Individual Light in Each Berth v Tickets and full information at Corner Third and Morrison Streets, Portland A. D. CHARLTON, Asst. Gen. Pass Agent Northern -Pacific Railway r. C. 2M9 A- N