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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1909. ll LEGAL FIGHT .IN BANK CASE OPENS Alleged Wreckers of Oregon Trust Would Break Indictments. MUCH LIKE ROSS CHARGES Ex-Senator Fulton, for Defendant Bankers, Argues Indictments Not Drawn in Accordance With 10 0? Amended Laws. The attorneys for the alleged wreckers of tha -Oregon Trust & Savings Bank opened their legal batteries in the Circuit Oourt yesterday morning in an effort to break down the Indictments set up against them. Present before Presiding Judge Bro riaugh were C. W. Fulton, Dan J. Malar key, John II. Hall. Arthur Langguth and R. (Mtron. for the defendant bankers, and District Attorney Cameron, Deputy Fitzgerald, Deputy Vreeland and Deputy Page, representing the state. The brunt of the battle fell upon ex Senator Fulton, Attorneys Malarkey and Hall, and Deputies Vreeland and Fitz gerald. The latter was arguing when ' time for adjournment came last night. Judge Bronaugh will take up the case again this morning. As the indictments are Identical with those against J. Thor burn Rose, of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company! which was sustained in the Supreme Court, it is believed it will be decided the Indictments are valid. Statute of Limitations Arises. . Fulton represented "W. H. and H. A. Mooro and W. C. Morris. He argued that tha question whether or not the statute of limitations had run hinges upon whether his clients are charged with a felony or a mtodemeanor. He cited .the Judge to sections 1236 and 1230 of the code. He then went on to argue that the in dictments against his clients had not been drawn in accordance with section 1835, as amended by the 1907 Legislature. "We are entitled to know whether or not the property alleged to have been embezzled actually belonged to the Ore gon Trust A Savings Bank, or to someone else," he said. Another point made was that the in dividual director can have nothing to say about the receiving' of funds In a bank; that he is not an ofrtcer, and therefore not liable. "A man should not be held liable under the law for something he cannot individually control," he argued. "A director has nothing more than a voto upon the bank's policy. H. A. Moore was not a duly elected cashier. He was only an acting cashier and director; hence in the same class as Jeo Frlede. also a di rector. Facts In Question Xow. "An embezzler is punished In the discre tion of the court as is one guilty of lar ceny. Therefore, the specific values of each article embezzled must be set up in the indictment. The facts as given to us in the grand Jury's Indictment are insuf ficiently defined so that we can tell whether we are working upon the same set of farts as the grand jury or not." The arguments for E. E. Lytle and Leo Frlede, indicted with the Moores and Morris, were much the same as those for the other bank' officials. Deputy Fitzgerald argued that the in dictment is ample to inform the defend ants of the crime with which they are charged: that further unfolding of the facts should be left to the time of trial, i 1 for the Jury to pass upon. DAGGER HELD TO HER BREAST Mrs. Puckett Says Fear Alone Pre vented Husband From Killing. Except for the fear of discovery, T. O. Puckett would have been a murderer, ac cording to the charge Mrs. Eva j. Puck ett makes in a divorce complaint filed in the Circuit Court. She -was deserted a year ago last January, ten days after she had undergone a surgical operation, fshe says. But early in the following April her husband returned, and, clasp ing one hand over her mouth o prevent an outcry, held a dagger point against her breast. A noise In the house caused him to suspect she had secreted a spy, fhe says, and dissuaded him from killing her. At that time the couple had been mar ried less than a year, the wedding cere mony having been performed July 4. 1907. Six months after the marriage tier spouse began to remain away from home even ings, and later all night, without excuse. Then came a refusal to pay the bills except those for groceries. The wife says he has given her only 2rt for clothing during the last two years. Puckett had an aversion, to his wife's son by a former marriage, she says frigrhtenlng the lad by threatening to knock his teeth down his throat. One , night the woman Bays he buried himself In a newspaper when she wished to talk to him. and when she took away the pa ver, knocked her under the table, uncon- ,Wants a" tl,e Property. Hilda Charlotte Swunson alleges, in a divorce complaint against Charles Swan son filed yesterday, that he called her a a?1 a ,lar' and eara h will do her -?Jji harm- an injunction re straining him from visiting her. He ac cused her of unchastity, she says. She fa thelr ,wo children and 120 a month alimony. They were mar " rled at Minneapolis, Minn. HCSBAXD IS IjAZY, SAYS WIFE Mrs. Catherine 3Ietz Tells Family , Troubles In Seeking Title. Befora Mrs. Catherine Metz was mar ried she thought her fiance owned a T'lrLi reBn- B"t after she had mar ried Theodore Metz she found ho had no ranch, and that he was lazy, she told C ircult Judge Cleland yesterday morning. She is suing to quiet title of community property. ,..Met and hta w,fe wore married in Wisconsin. Soon thereafter they came to Oregon. Mrs. Metz said she found she had to pay all the expenses, it being her husband s wish to "play the gentleman." Metx was a saloonkeeper in Wisconsin but sold out for $500. His wife had $6000, she said. They purchased a store on Mtlwaukle avenue, Sellwood. from Waidt & McKenna for J2400. Her hus band obtained a deed in fee simple to the property. She said yesterday she wanted the property t rest in her name while she lived, then in her husband's name until his death, then in her daughter's name. CtSTIS PLEADS NOT GUILTY Other Prisoners Arraigned for Liquor Selling- and Assault. Samuel Custls. accused of murder in the first degree for tha killing- of Albert Wilson, on November 24. was arraigned in the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon, and pleaded not guilty. Isaac Brunn and Antonio Cuvato were also arraigned, the former being charged with having sold liquor to Frank McCrum, a minor, aged 16 years. Cuvato is alleged to -have assaulted Giacinto Viscioni with a knife November 14. He and Brunn will plead Monday. Drydock Case Comes tTp Today. The test case to determine whether the Port of Portland commission has the right to lease the . drydock to a private corporation will come up for argument in the Circuit Court this afternoon. C, E. S. Wood, appearing for the Port of Portland, said yester day he would be ready to take up the matter today, and it was set for hear ing by Presiding Judge Bronaugh. Score of Prisoners Xow in Jail. Sheriff Stevens reports 20 prison ers now in custody in the county Jail Since James A. Finch was hanged, and Harry Daly conveyed to the peniten tiary at Salem there is but one alleged murderer in the Jail, Sam Custis. S. B. Lewis is held on a manslaughter charge. In 'six cases the charge Is larceny, and Jn one case burglary on three counts. , PENINSULA CARS TOPiG MASS MEETING TO BE HELD BY - IREFUL PATRONS. Push Club to Demand Better Serv iceOpen Coaches Blamed for Much Illness. Not enough cars in the rush hours of morning and evening, irregular and broken time, open refrigerator " or "pneumonia" cars, as they are called, and cars without heat on the St. John line, are complained of by residents of the Peninsula, from St. John to Port land. The new routing of the St. John cars by way of Union avenue and the Burnside bridge makes a little longer run, but seems satisfactory. Complaints are bitter over the op eration of open cars at the rush hours when young- women and others come from heated offices and are forced to stand up for an hour in the open air clinging to a strap. Push clubs on the Peninsula, represented by the Peninsula Development League, have taken up the question of streetcar service on the Peninsula. A mass meeting of citizens on the Peninsula and St. John will be held tomorrow night in the firehouse at Arbor Lodge. Then definite plan of action, will be adopted. H. O. Slbray, of the University Park Board of Trade, said yesterday: "We have been patient and peti tioned the streetcar company for com fortable cars, but Manager Fuller -refused to give us relief. The whole car service on the Peninsula to St. John is bad. The company ' says- the line does not pay. although two-thirds of the passengers hang on to straps on this line. It is an outrage to operate open cars In the cold rains. Many people In this vicinity are sick from exposure while on the pneumonia cars. We are supposed to get a 15-mlnute service, and yet delays of 25 and 30 minutes are the rule. Having peti tioned and begged the streetcar com pany, for comfortable cars and failed, we shall now try the big stick, the voice of the people, and see what ef fect that will have." SNEAK THIEVES AT'WORK Many Victims of Thefts of Jewelry and Money Reported. Snenk thieves are plying their trade in this city according to reports given the police yesterday. D. H. Diamond, who lives at 729 Northrup street, was the victim of one who took $60 in cash and who entered the house and left without touching any other articles of value, al though Jewelry was in sight on a bureau near where the money was found. Mrs. M. Mills, of 89 Tenth street, was visited by some one who selected $100 worth of furs and decamped with them without arousing any of the household In the daytime. Another one relieved J. Plamonda, who rooms in the Elkton house at Sixth and Davis streets, of a valuable watch. Mrs. M. Willis, 395 East Davis street, on Tuesday night lost two coats belong ing to the Misses Hattle Myers and Anna Kruger. milliners employed by the Won der Millinery Company, who were visit ing Mrs. Willis for that evening. During Tuesday night the clothes line of Mrs. E. Morton, 62 Fairmount Hotel, was stripped of its contents, the prowler securing a complete outfit of clothing. At the same time the thieves entered the room of IjouIs Weismandel. -202 Fourth street, and took clothing valued at $40. J. F. Wilson," 314 Sacramento street, re ported that a number of -tools had been stolen from him, and James Clancey, 715 Multnomah street, that his bicycle had been taken. Yesterday morning, J. H". Hembree. of Bridal Veil, Or., left his suitcase and blanket roll for a moment and when he returned his belongings had been carried off. HOUSEWARMING PLANNED Woman's Exchange to Give a Recep tion to Miss Failing. The board of directors of the "Woman's Exchange will give a house-warming at their new quarters, 186 Fifth street, near Yamhill, next Monday afternoon in hon or of Miss Etta Failing, who has Just returned from a trip abroad of several months' duration. The hours are from S to 5 o'clock. Miss Failing is president of the Wo man's Exchange. The.dlrectors hope that all the friends of the Exchange will be with them on Monday. There is to be no admission fee, and the directors are to act together as hostesses. . Receiving will be: Miss Failing, Mrs. Aaron Meier, Mrs. Philip C. Schuyler Mrs. H. W. Corbett. Mrs. Charles .Scad ding, Mrs. Richard Koehler and Mrs. J. B. Montgomery. At the tea tables will be Mrs. L. Allen Lewis. Mrs. S. Frank, Miss May Failing and Mrs. I. N. Fleischner- will pour tea and coffee. Assisting in the different rooms will be: Miss Frances Wilson, Miss Muriel Williams, Miss Evelyn Wilson, Miss Caroline Burns. Miss Use Koehler, Miss Leila Shelby. Miss . Dorothy Morrison, Miss Isabella Gauld, Miss Hazel Dolph, Mrs. Hunt Lewis, Mrs. Frank Branch Riley, Mrs. David Honeyman, Miss Flora Fleischner, Miss Florenca Wolfe and Mrs. Guy- Talbot , BLACK DRESS GOODS. Special reduced prices today on fine black dress goods and silks. 'McAllen & McDonnell's for fine dress goods." You can't beat our prices; 36-inch Black Taf feta Silk at 89c a yard. McAUen & Mc Donnell, Third and Morrison. TO CURE A COLO IX OXE D,V. Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. rugglsts refund money If It falls to cure. K. W. GROVE'S signature Is on each box. 25c HIGH DAM FEARED Mount Taborites See Danger In Reservoir Elevation. CASE IS DISCUSSED LONG Portland and Seattle Engineers Say Basin No. 6 Safe -Mayor Halts at $36,000 Expenditure to"" Lower New Tank, Whether Justifiable to expend $3S,000 of public funds for the purpose of lowering the elevation of proposed Reservoir No. 6 at Mount Tabor for the sake of easing the minds of the residents there as to, the question of safety, is puzzling Mayor Simon and members of. the water board. A long session of the board was held yesterday afternoon, at which the sub ject was discussed. The reports of Chief Engineer Clarke were heard and the statements of Consulting Engineer Thomson, of Seattle, were talked over. The board took no definite action. Chief Engineer Clarke, of the local board, recommended the lower elevation, which would plaee the reservoir 300 feet above city datum, and will cost $36,000 additional to build. He said, however, that he is satisfied that either elevation, the other being 10 feet higher, is safe. Both Declared Safe. Consulting Engineer Thomson, Seattle's City Engineer, says either elevation is safe, but recommends the higher eleva tion for four reasons. His reasons are: Difference In the cost of construction on the higher elevation, effecting a sav ing of the amount named; better pres sure, which he deems necessary for the district; less danger of contamination from dust arising on West avenue, the reservoir being but 100 feet . removed from that thoroughfare, and the fact that the slope could be parked to better advantage and made beautiful. ' Chief Engineer Clarke agrees that tlie dust would be less if the reservoir sits higher, but he says there is no necessity for increased pressure, to be thus gained. He also argues that the lower elevation could be parked equally as well and says that, to ease the minds of the residents in the neighborhood, he would spend the additional money neces sary to lower the proposed elevation. Board For and Against. The subject is now narrowed down to a decision by the board, and at the meeting yesterday afternoon it developed that- the 1 members are evenly divided. Mayor Simon, answering a question by Commissioner Wilcox, said he does not want to expend the extra funds, unless It is shown that the safety of the reser voir depends upon it. Commissioner Wil-' cox takes the same view, but Commis sioners Ainsworth and Mackey believe it is the proper function of the board to consider the effect on property in the vicinity. There is a possibility that concessions may be secured from Wakefield & Co., the contracting firm for "Reservoirs No. 6 and No. 5, whereby the cost of con struction of the big basin on the 300-foot plan will be materially reduced. Com missioner Wilcox said, should this be done, he might see. his way clear to vote for the expenditure of the sum needed to build it on the lower elevation. Other wise, he said, he could not see, as yet, where tfie board is justified in spending that amount of public money, in view of the statements of both engineers that there is no danger attached to either elevation. Action Is Deferred. The hoard decided to postpone action until such time as the members can see the contractors and ascertain whether they will give any concessions to the city in exchange for the privilege of a change In the specifications regarding the handling of the dirt to be removed. If the ehange is granted, as recommended i by Engineer Clarke, the cost of con struction to the contractors, it is said, will be greatly reduced. Mr. Wilcox said he would not favor granting the change unless this reduction is to be of financial benefit to the municipality. The board authorized Mayor Simon to purchase on its behalf $25,000 worth of the city improvement bonds, more than $300,000 of which are to be sold by the committee on ways and means of the Council next Monday afternoon. The Mayor intends to buy these at par and accrued interest, without entering into competition with other bidders. He de clares this can be done, notwithstanding the fact that City Attorney Kavanaugh has ruled to the contrary. LABOR LAW UP TO COURT Boxmaker Accused -of Working Women More Than Ten Hours. For the first time since the factory and workshop law was enacted in this state, that provision of the statute which pro hibits the working of female employes more than ten hours a day will be sub mitted for judicial interpretation in the Municipal Court next Wednesday. On complaint of Labor Commissioner Hon. F. p, Stettler, manufacturer of paper boxes at Tenth and Olisan streets, has been arrested, charged with violating this law. Mr. Stettler is Bald to have admitted that he employs girls and women who work more than ten hours a day, but de fends his action by saying that these em ployes are working on piece work, and for that reason are privileged to labor such hours as they are disposed. It is the contention of the Labor Com missioner that the manner in which women are employed in no way concerns the statute, which presumes that females shall be employed only ten hours a day and not to exceed 60 hours a week, re gardless of whether they are employed by the flay or are paid for piece work. Considerable interest- is being taken in the ease by the labor organizations of this city. NEW TRAIN. New Portland-Silverton Train Service. The Southern Paeifio has just added a new train to the Portland-Silverton serv ice which will bo a great convenience to residents of Silverten and intermediate points desiring more time in Portland The new train leaves Silverton at 7 A M. and on return does not leave Portland until 6:30 P. M. daily. A SIMPLE REMEDY. A soldier who has suffered all kinds of hardships and their consequent ills says that he has found almost instant relief from rheumatism, lumbago and kidney trouble by procuring 'from his druggist two ounces of salgrene and four ounces of olive oil, thoroughly mixed, and taken in two teaspoonful doses every three or four hours until relieved: then one teasooonful three times a day. BRITISH COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT OWN A FARM AND YOU ARE NO MAN'S SLAVE BRITISH COLUMBIA F FESTIVAL GETS PROMISE RAILROAD MEN WIXIj WORK TO OBTAIN EXCURSION RATES. Erent to Be Made Prominent in Ad vertising of Transconti nental Lines. James Charlton, chairman of the Trans continental Passenger Association, the traffic organization .which fixes tourist, excursion and all special rates applying throughout the United States, has ad vised the Rose Festival that its request for low rates from all points will be acted upon at the next meeting, which takes place in Chicago, Kebruary 2. In his letter to Mr. Charlton, President Hoyt, of the Festival, emphasized the point that there will be no other big at tractions in this part of the country next Summer except the Portland Rose Festi val. He explained the details of the week's programme of parades and spec tacles to be held from June 6 to 11, and ttrged that the transcontinental lines con sider the question of low rates seriously, with a view not only of giving cheap fares to the Pacific Northwest, but also of enlisting the advertising departments of the great trunk roads in the work of exploiting the Rose Festival next year. Supplementing the interest which Mr. Charlton haa shown in the local festivi ties. Assistant Traffic Director McCor mick, of the Harriman lines, who. was here last week with President Ivett's party, has assured the Festival that he will use his own influence toward featur ing the Portland annual floral celebration in the publicity work of the lines in his charge. If i.ny of the passenger traffic officials of the different roads having terminals in Portland attend the Chicago meeting in February, they will be asked to champion the cause of the Festival on the floor of the Transcontinental Passenger Associa tion meeting. In submitting his subscription to the general Festival fund yesterday, W. S. Sibson paid high compliment to the ad vertising which the celebration is giving the roses of Portland in all other sec tions of the country, not. only in the way of inducing more widespread culture of roses here, but also in the quickening de mand for Portland roses elsewhere. "It is a fact," remarked Mr. Sibson at Festival headquarters, "that I have 'had orders for our principal varieties of roses from the Kew England States, from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Ohio and several other states, and in a con siderable number of the orders mention has been made of the Rose Festival. I attribute the success of the movement to ward putting Portland on the map, to a large degree, to the Rose Festival." COURT ORDER SHATTERS Miss Lvdla Rodney, Executrix, in Hospital Due to Worry. Following the service of citation papers, requiring her to appear in court Decem ber 4. Miss Lydia Rodney, sister of the late Mrs. B. Wistar Morris, is a. patient In the Good Samaritan Hospital, suffering from worry and nervous strain. Miss Rodney is executrix of the estate left by her late sister. Miss Clementina Rodney, who died recently at the Good Samaritan Hospital. Miss Clementina's death, followed in a' few days by the death of Mrs. Morris, affected Miss Rod ney considerably, and she took a room at the Good Samaritan Hospital for the purpose of recuperation. After spending four weeks In the hospi tal, she left for her home, apparently fully recoVered. However, she was very frail, owing to her years. Miss Rodney was then served with a citation, follow, ing a statement filed in the County Court $3.85 TO $5.50 AN ACRE-OH TERMS THE RUSH IS ON IN EARNEST Many people have secux-ed British Columbia Government land since we opened our offices in Portland. Business was exceedingly brisk Saturday, with a good demand Monday, and splendid sales Tuesday. Portland people have been quick to recognize the. great opportunity offered them, and have cheerfully and confidently invested. HERE IS THE REASON The people know that there is a pronounced tendency among city people to own a farm: Xot only for" the reason that the farming' communities are highly prosperous, but for tfie reason that farm land is becoming scarcer, and is rap idly advancing in price. Think o.f the prosperity of the farmers of Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Illi nois. History will repeat itself in Nechaco Valley. Don't let your backbone be a wishbone. STEP LIVELY! And avoid the scrap-heap of the "I WISH I HAD'S." Secure 40 acres of this splendid productive land if you can't afford a hundred, and be a producer as well as a consumer. Grow wheat, barley, oats, apples, peaches, pears, grapes, vegetables, livestock. LISTEN! JUST THINK OF IT! $3.85 TO $5.50 AN ACRE ON TERMS INCORPORATED 219-220 COMMERCIAL CLUB BUILDING. R.S.KING, President; H.D. MOON, Vice-President; A.D. SEMON, by Sanderson Reed, who has been acting as1 her attorney, that she is incompetent to attend to the estate left by her sister. Miss - Rodney is not attended by her physician, and it is declared by her brother. H. F. Rodney, that all that Is required is that she be left alone for a time, and that in a month she will be able to be around and attend to her duties as executrix. Although Miss Rodney Is up and around and is not attended by the nurses other than to take her meals, it is believed she will not be strong enough to appear in court December 4. as required. It is thought her attorneys will secure a post ponement of the order. PERSONALMENTION. F. Monettl, of Seattle, is registered at the Rafnapo Hotel. C. R. Borie, of Hood River, is a guest at the Ramapo Hotel. Frank I. Towle, of San Francisco, is a guest at the Portland Hotel. D. S. R. Walker, of Roseburg, is reg istered at tha Perkins Hotel. M. Ellis, a merchant of Rainier, is registered at the Hotel Oregon. J. B. Cartwright. a hotel man of Sea side. Is a guest at the Imperial Hotel. W. L. Thompson, a banker of Pendle ton, is a guest at the Imperial Hotel. C. L. Fltchard, a hop buyer of Inde pendence, is, a guest at the Imperial .Hotel. H. B. Rchlel, a stone manufacturer of Tenino, Wash., is a guest at the Lenox Hotel. F. H. Curtis, warden in the State Pen itentiary at Salem, is registered at the Lenox Hotel. E. O. McCoy, a prominent business man of The Dalles, is registered at the Portland Hotel. H. L. Bradley, a prominent Spokane business man and wife, are guests at the Perkins Hotel. ,E. E. Redfleld, a prominent sports man and hunter of Glendale, is registered at -,the Lenox. C. B. Fallett, of Tacoma. is visiting Portland and is staying at the Ramapo Hotel during his stay here. TJ. M.,MulvehiU," a 'prominent business man and clubman of Spokane, is. regis tered at the Hotel Oregon. I. R. Veitch and F. R. Brown, railroad men from Chicago, are staying at the Portland Hotel during a visit to this city. O. A. Wolverton, Postmaster of Mon mouth and a brother of Judge Wolverton, is visiting Portland and is staying at the Perkins Hotel. G. A. Kyle, chief engineer for the Ore gon Trunk line which is building Into the Central Oregon country, is a guest at the Hotel Oregon. E. Ai Lawbaugh, of the firm of Bray ton & Lawbaugh of Meriden, Conn., one of the largest timber dealing firm3 in the country, is registered at the . Portland Hotel. CHICAGO, Dec. 1. (Special.) People from Portland registered here today as follows: W. F. Stine, at the Stratford: G. H. Wiese, at the Wellington; F. S. Lock wood, F. P. Kendall, at the Great North ern; W. W. Kapus, at the LaSalle. CHICAGO, Det 1- (Special.) Oregon people registered at Chicago hotels today as follows: J. H. Vogt, at the Congress; George E. Lamb, at the Great Northern; L, F. Weaver, J. Z. Painter, of Salem, at the Lexington. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. (Special.) Peo ple' from the Northwest registered at leading hotels here today as follows: From Seattle E. S. Kingsley. at the Y-ork: G. G. Black, at the Breslln; C. Johnson, at the Grand Union. From Eugene, Or. J. T. Hall, at the Hoffman. From Tacoma O. W. Olson, Mrs. O. W. Olson, at the Herald Square. .From Tacoma W- EX. Mast at the Grand TJnlor ARM LAND AGED FARMER DRUGGED GLENDALE MAN SAYS TOO HE WAS ROBBED OF $185. 4 S. Copely, After Being Found Guilty of Being: Drunk, Awakens to Find He Was "Victimized." Asserting that he had been drugged and robbed of $185 In gold in a saloon at Third and Flanders street. W. S. Copely, an aged farmer of Glendale. Or., was a complainant at the police station late yesterday afternoon. Copely says that he was en route from his home In Glendale to visit relatives in Elma, Wash., and that he dropped into the saloon on his way to the depot and asked for a drink of sherry wine. According to his story, after drinking this wine he remem bered nothing until he partially re gained consciousness to find the bar tender shoving him out Into the street. His head splitting from the effects of some sort of drug and reeling un der its influence, he clung to a nearby telephone pole for a moment, when a policeman arrested him, charging him with being drunk. The robbery occurred Tuesday night and Copely was arraigned before Judge Bennett yesterday morning and fined $2 for being drunk. Copely exhibited a hole cut through his trousers' pocket and the cloth of the trousers from which he says bis purse, containing the gold coins, were extracted. The old man said that he was not drunk and had taken only the one glass of wine which, he avers, must have been drugged. He failed to take his train and is now penniless in this city without the means of paying his transportation to his destination. His storx was referred to the de tective department. HOW CAMPBELL VOTED With Others in Legislature He Op posed Supreme Court Increase. SAI.S5M. Or.. Nov. 28. (To the EdltoO Today I heard a man "roast" Judge Camp bell, of the Fifth Judicial District, for the alleged reason that he had supported, in the recent legislative session, the bin in creasing the number of Judges on the Pu- Look To . , " Your Food If You Have Indigestion. Stop taking drugs an(j g0 iq davs on rape with cream or good milk. It will work wonders. . This food is made of wheat and barley and is baked for many hours. It is easily digested and contains the material the weak stomach requries to grow strong on so that other food can be eaten later. Be sure to chew the Grape-Nuts well before swallowing. "There's a Reason" Postum Cereal Co, Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. LANDS ASSOCIATION Secretary. preme Court, and that he had "gotten his reward ' In an appointment from Chamber lain." etc., etc. 1 dissented, and denied that Campbell had supported the bill. The man proceeded to declare that hi assertions were true and that he had gotten his in formation from The Oregonian. I have seen nothing In The Oregonlan to warrant the statement that you ha a endeavored to hold Judge Campbell respon sible for the Judgeship bill, except an item copied from a Southern Oregon paper. As one man was misled by it. others may have been, and I give herewith the names of those who voted against tha bill, as found In the legislative Journels. In the Senate the "nays" were Bailey. Beach, Johnson. Kay, Merry-man, Miller of Unn, and Wood. In the House the nays" were Abhoft, Bonebrake, Bryant. Calkins, Campbell, Conyers. Couch. Dlmick, Farrell, Greer. Hatteberg, Hawley. Bines, Hughes. Jones of Clackamas. Jones of Douglas. Jones of Polk. I-einenweher, Muncy, Reynolds. Richardson. Rusk and Smith. It thus appears" that Mr. Campbell, who has since been appointed to the "circuit bench by Governor Benson, to All the va cancy caused by the promotion of Judge McBrlde to the Appellate Court, voted against the Judgeship hill. Also It appears from the House Journal, page 349. that Representatives Dlmick. Rusk and sundry others. including Campbell, supported an effort to strike the emergency clause from the bill, so a referendum vote might be taken on it; but . Representatives Bean, Brooke and others succeeded In retaining the emergency clause, and thereby Governor Chamberlain- was given the power to name two Justices of the Supreme Court. The action of Judge Campbell was steadily and consistently against the bill. w. r. PACIFIC MONTHLY BRIGHT Portland .Authors Stand Alongside Jack London This Month. December's issue of the Pacific Month ly has a number of good features. In cluding some fuIl-pago pictures of excel lent artistic effect. One of the best fea tures of the issue is a story by Jack Iondon, being one of a aeries of articles he will contribute to that magazine on his trip in the Snark in the South Seas. There are several good pictures accom panying the London article, including a full-page picture of Mr. and Mrs. Iondon on the Snark. Frank J. McOettigan. a Portland news paper man, contributes an entertaining article, entitled. "A Nine Day's Wonder," In which he tells In detail the mysterious movement of furniture at the Marshall street house, in this city, attributed to the mystic powers of little Ernest Harps -Arnn Doscii. formerly of Poiiand. con tributes an illustrated article concerning a day's experience on a hay schooner. There are stories and verse about Chriet mas. accompanied by some illustration. -Nuts 1