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6 THE MOBmg OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1910. TAGOIVIA IN MUDDLE OVER fJElV CHARTER Officials May Resign to Make Themselves Eligible Under Commission Plan. LAWYERS NOT OF ONE MIND City Attorney's View Combatted, but Councilnien Who Want to Be Mayor Declare That They Are Not Worrying. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 14. (Special. Tacoma city officials who contemplate resigning1 so that no question can arise over their eligibility to hold office under the new commission plan of government can serve nearly two months more with out violating- the charter provision which the City Attorney believes disbars some of the present of fleers . f rom running un less they resign. Petitions of candidacy under the new charter must be filed with the City Clerk not earlier than 30 days nor later than 20 days before election. The date of the election is April 5. The new charter provides for a Mayor and four "Councilmen"1 to be Commis sioners. Under the wording of the char ter Councilmen who wish to run for Ormncilm any hips need not resign, the Attorney says, becailse the new charter says "any other office" than the one they now hold. If they seek the Mayoralty, It is asserted, they must resign as Coun cilmen. Councilmen L.ynn and Boll intend to run for Mayor. Commissioner McGregor i out for one of the Councilmanships, as are also City Clerk Hoys and Treasurer Kreeland. They are in a dilemma. Mc Gregor says that he will not resign. Bell says he will If he has to. Freeland says his attorney advises him not to resign Ht present. Roys says he is not wor ried. Lynn also disagrees with the at torney. Other of the city officials, who have consulted their attorneys, decline to say what the views of the attorneys were. Others say that their attorneys tell them ;o pay no attention to the section. PORTLAND FIRM BARRED Merchants Savings & Trust Company Must Quit Washington. OLTMPIA, Wash.. Jan. 14. (Special.) Barring an Oregon corporation from doing business in Washington, the Attorney-General today rendered the fol lowing opinion to J. L. Mohundro, State Banlc Examiner: "Yours of the 12th Inst, asking an opinion as to the report of the Mer chants Savings & Trust Co., of Port land. Or., doing business in this state without complying with the provisions Of the trust law, will say, that this question was fully settled in the case of State ex rel, Amalgamated Republic Mines Company vs. Nicholas 47 Wash, p. 117; In that case, as you see. the court held that a trust company could not do business in this state without complying with all of the terms and conditions of the trust company act. "The company claims that it is not lis intention to do a banking business in this state, but it expressly states that it desires to come into this state for the purpose of doing a trust busi ness and this is clearly prohibited un der our law and under the decision Hoove cited, unless they comply with the trust company act as above, stated." CLARK COUNTY GETS TROUT Spawn to Number or 500,000 Placed in Hatchery. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 14. (Spe cial.) Half a million Kastern red speckled trout spawn were yesterday placed in the hatchery on Basket Creek, near Yacolt, in Clark County, by J. W. Crawford, of Bellingham, state super intendent of fish hatcheries for the State of Washington. These young; trout were shipped here from Rhode Island. The hatchery is fully equipped for handling1 2.000,000 spawn at one time and many times 2,000,000 during each year. "The Basket Creek hatchery is the only trout hatchery west of the moun tains. said Mr. Crawford, Vand.it has mi f tirient capacity to stock . every ntr;'.n in the state with trout. present cold wave is working n .....terial hardship on the hatcheries. It will make hatching; a little slower, but not much. Neither will the high waters In the Spring do any damage." WOMAN'S ACT BETRAYS HER rresencp Vnkiiowiv to Police Until . Attempt at .Suicide Tolls. rENOLETON. Or.. Jan. 14. (Spe cial.) Her attempt to end her life by eating antiseptic tablets led to the arrest of Sadie Doyle in her rooms in this city last night on the charge of larceny. She is now being held in the county latl awaiting the arrival of an officer from The ralles, to which city she will be taken for trial. Although she is known here and al though the local officers had been in formed that she was wanted In The Dalles, her presence in Pendleton was not suspected until she attempted to commit suicide. LOT SPECULATION BLAMED Linnton Man Says United Railways Withhold Part of the Truth. LINNTON, Or.. Jan. 14. (To the Edi tor.) The statement of the United Railways before the citizens of Llnnton ln the Chamber of Commerce last even ing does not tell the whole truth. The manager said the company was paying out JjOO to J1000 more than it was paying in. and upon this statement asked the people of Llnnton to pay 10 cents fare. Instead of the S cents called for by the franchise. The whole truth would be more like this: 1) The road is as yet in an unfin ished condition, necessarily calling for continual outlay. 2) The company is running its equipment three and a half miles below Llnnton to lands and town sites owned and controlled by the United Hallways, where the intervening traffic is practically nil. The owners of the United Railways purchased many hunr dreds of acres there for around $100 an acre, and have sold much of this land In lot for $S0O to io0 a lot, or say J1600 an acre not a bad speculation in itself. The company has a perfect right to deal In real estate along its line, but we object to Its charging up the running expenses or tne line to these land and lots owned or promoted by it to the Llnnton' people. and then making the poor mouth that the road does not pay expenses. As a mat ter of fact, the cars run this entire dis tance from Llnnton to Burlington and return with one, two or three passen gers. What, have the Llnnton people to do with that? The company would not run the cars over this three and a half miles of road with little or no business were it not for the enormous profits it has made or is making from the above mentioned land bought . at $100 an acre and sold at $1500 on acre. (3) The company did not mention the value of its franchise, granted free, either by the county or the City of Port land, whichever it may be. These fran chises are known to be of enormous value and increase every year at & rapid rate, with increase of population. Llnn ton has no more share in the increase value of that franchise than it has in the real estate owned and controlled by the United Railways at the end of the line. (4) The manager did not mention the fact that he has antagonized the people or Llnnton m different ways from the first day. he started operating the road, by running through the town without stopping cars, by collecting 10 cents fare instead of 5, upon which basis it obtained the franchise, and neglecting or refusing to restore the main street of the town to Its former condition, after its being torn up in building the line, and by neglect ing or ""refusing to furnish a waiting room at its principal stop. In none of the conditions of the fran chise obtained from the County Court affecting Linnton has the company kept faith with the people. W. F. HARRIS OTHER HEIRS PROTEST CHILDREN OP SAMUEL J. IRWIV .. WANT SHARE OP PROPERTY". Assert Mrs. Elizabeth Boyle Ob tained Complete Control of Father's Affairs. ALBANY, Or., Jan. u! (Special.) Al leging that her sister, Elizabeth M. Boyle, of Sodaville, poisoned the mind of her father against his other children and thus secured all of his property, Luzena B. Hood, of Philomath, today filed a peti tion in the County Court here to set aside the will of Samuel J. Irwin. Irwin died at Sodaville, Linn County, July 23 last and on August 5 Mrs. Hood filed a petition for letters of administra tion on his estate. The petition was granted and she was appointed adminis tratrix. Five days later Mrs. Boyle pre sented a will executed by the deceased and this, was admitted to probate. At torney Samuel M. Garland, of Lebanon, who was named as executor by the will, was appointed executor of the estate and the letters of administration which had been issued to Mrs. Hood were revoked. Now Mrs. Hood wants the will set -aside. Irwin left three children Luzena B. Hood, of Philomath, Or.; John F. Irwin, of Waterville. Wash., and Elizabeth M. Boyle, of Sodaville, Or. The estate is appraised at ?4070, all of which is be queathed to Mrs. Boyle. If Mrs. Hood succeeds in setting the will aside, all the children will share equally in the di vision of the property. Mrs. Hood alleges in her petition to set the will aside that Irwin was incapable of attending to his business properly at the time the will was made and that for several years preceding his death Mrs. Boyle had lived at his home and had had charge of his business affairs, collecting the rents from his lands, buying his clothes and, in short, securimj complete control of her father and all his actions. It is also asserted that under this con dition of affairs Mrs. Boyle was able to dictate her father's will. It is expected the petition filed today will precipitate an active contest, for Mrs. Boyle asserts that she lived with her father and cared for him continually for years and is thus entitled to what 'prop erty he left and that It was her father's well-defined wish as expressed in his will that this should be so. DUMAS DECLINES HONOR W. T. CLARK HEADS WASHING TON HORTICULTURISTS. Convent ion at Wenatchee Adjourns to Hold Next Session at Prosscr. WENATCHEE. Wash., Jan. 14. (Special.) W. T. Clark, of Wenatchee, was elected president of the Washing ton State Horticultural Association at the close of its session in tiiis city this afternoon. Owing to the attack which had been made upon the retiring president. S. R. Dumas, of Dayton, by shippers in the East through the Fruit Buyers' OSulde, their official guide. It was urged by his friends that his re-election would show the faith held by the fruitgrowers in Mr. Dumas. As the vote was about to be taken President Du mas withdrew from the race and Mr. Clark was unanimously elected. The rest of the officers are as fol lows: First vice-president, E. T. Ben son, Prosser; second vice-president, W. A. Ritz. Walla Walla; secretary, L. Q. Monroe. Spokane; treasurer, Mike Ho- ran, Wenatchee. Prosser was selected as the next convention city, with Walla Walla and larkston asking for the -convention in 1912. i The change in the rules regarding the p;ick. as proposed at the National pple Show in Spokane, created con siderable discussion and the matter was finally laid on the table without defi nite action. The convention was practically unan imous that immediate action should be aken to urge the defeat of an amend ment to the pure food bill which has been proposed recently in Congress In place of the Lafean bill, which has been he subject of much comment, owing to Jts unfairness to Western growers. An enort wiir be made to get the en- lre congressional delegation on the Pacific Coast to exert their influence against its passage. Great Northern Man's Relative Dies. ALBANY. Or., Jan. 14. (Special.) Mrs. E. A. Bailey, mother-in-law of Fred erick V. Brown, chief counsel for the Great Northern Railroad at Seattle, died last night at the home of her niece, .Mrs. Arthur Porter, near this city. Mrs. Bailey's home is in Minneapolis, but she was spending the Winter with her niece and her husband. Mrs. Bailey was a native of New Hampshire and was S4 years old. Her husband died several years ago and1 is survived by only one child, Mrs. Frederick Brown, of Seattle, whose husband was formerly a leading attorney of Minneapolis, where he served on the bench for several years before going to Seattle. Mrs. Bailey's body will be shipped to Prescott, Wis., where she formerly resided and where the body of her husband is now burled. CASE IS RE-ELECTED Stae Federation Selects Offi cers and Adjourns. BUILDING COUNCIL FORMS Unions of Aberdeen and Hoqulam Erfect Temporary Organization, Which Will Be Offered for Ratification by Referendum. HOQUIAM, Wash., Jan. 14. (S.peclal.) The State Federation of Labor conven tion adjourned this afternoon, but a large number of delegates remained, here to night and took the initial steps for a State Building Trades organization. This will include the unions of the carpenters, painters, electrical workers, plumbers, steam and gasfitters. plasterers and lath ers and the building laborers. A temporary organization was effected, which will be offered for ratification by referendum vote. . Officers were elected as follows: President. C. P. Case. Seattle (re elected); secretary-treasurer. Charles Perry Taylor, Tacoma (re-elected): first vice-president, Fred. Hudson, Bellingham; second vice-president, W. J. Coates, Spo kane; third vice-president; W. J. Clark, Walla Walla: fourth vice-president, F. E. Hite, Aberdeen; fifth vice-president, W. J. Bradford, Tacoma! sixth vice president, James Durham. Black Dia mond: seventh vice-president,, J. E. Campbell, Everett; delegate to American Federation of Labor at St, Louis, Charles R. Case. Seattle (also elected delegate to Washington State Grange); delegate' to Fanners' Union, L. F. Clark, Walla Walla. In the contest for delegate to St. Louis, Miss Lord, of Seattle, received 68, E. H. Mitchell 16 and Mr. Case 119 votes. A resolution presented by the Tacoma delegation was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. The resolution was in part: "That the executive and legisla tive committee be authorized and in structed to present Hoquiam and Aber deen Trades Councils with engrossed sets of resolutions, setting forth the appre ciation of all their delegates attending the ninth annual convention for the en tertainment provided, and especially com mending our entertainers in that they have their cities so well organized and that they have no unfair list." FREIGHT THIEF PAROLED WAREHOUSE FOREMAN SEN TENCED, THEN SET FREE. Freight Inspector Let Orf With Fine of $60 In Case That Once Caused Sensation. PENDLETON, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.) With the transcontinental freight in spector, Frank J. Ely, sentenced to pay a fine of $60 and with Warehouse Foreman Charles Dickens sentenced to serve a year in the. County Jail and then paroled, the famous O. R. & N. freight warehouse theft cases came to an unexpected end in this city this morning. William Edwards, a truckman, had already pleaded guilty and-been fined $60 and Dickens had made a confes sion, but It was expected that Ely would fight. The arrest of these three men in their homes at midnight, the recovery of a wagonload of goods, ranging from socks to furniture, and the unearthing of a systematic plan of stealing which had cost the O. R. & N. Company thou sands of dollars caused a sensation in railroad circles several months ago. Much of the stolen goods was shipped to Tacoma, where it had been dis posed of. Dickens Implicated other fel low employes in his confession, but owing to the laelz of corroborating testimony the cases were not prose cuted. FARM SELLS FOR $30,000 Lewis County Ranch of 400 Acres . Changes Hands. CHEHAL1S, Wash., Jan. 14. (Special.) The Sam Guy farm of 400 acres, three and a half miles southwest of Ohehalls, on Stearns Creek, has been sold to Mr. Miner, of Whatcom County, for $30,000. The sale will net Mr. Guy a handsome Increase over the original investment. Roscoe Everett also sold the SO-acre Chandler Brown farm to John Harms, a Chehalis merchant, for JSC00. This farm was offered for sale a few years since for $1900. PUBLICITY FUND GROWS Dallas Business Men Wilt Raise $3000 to Boom Community. DALLAS, Or., Jan. U. (Special.) More than $1000 was raised in this city this afternoon for publicity of this city and the surrounding community, when the business men of Dallas" gathered to gether to lay plans for a two-year active publicity campaign. It is intended to raise the fund to $3000, and steps1 will be taken to this end at the meeting called for next Friday. W 03. Welle, of the Southern Pacific road publicity department, Is actively interested in the proposal. Today's addition to the fund was $1063. MISSTEP FATAL TO WOMAN Physician's Aged Mother Falls on Her Way to Visit Friend. PAYETTE, Idaho, Jan. 14. (Special.) Mrs. A. L. Burns, aged mother of Dr. B. Burns, met de-ath this afternoon. She had -climbed to the- second story of the oodward building to spend the af ternoon with a friend. In passing along the hallway she misstepped and fell bead long down the rear flight of stairs, strik- mk her head at the bottom. Two physicians and a, nurse were in the building ind gave her immediate at tention, but she died in less than an hour. GRANGER LEAVES CANAL Resignation Follows Complete Exon eration of Sunnyside Manager. NORTH TAKIMA. Wash.. Jan. 14. (Special.) Walter K. Granger, manager or tne great Sunnyside Canal, today handed in, his resignation to Supervis ing Engineer Swigart. The resigna tion has been forwarded to Washington. 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The Sunnyside Canal was conceived by Granger 20 years ago and was built under his supervision by the Washing ton Irrigation Company. He remained as manager when it was taken over by the Government about three vears ago. intending to resign soon. Charges of mismanagement were preferred against him by the trustees of the Water Users' Association. These charges have just been dismissed by the Government, after a thorough investigation by a special agent, who commended Mr. Granger highly. Having been fully exonerated, Mr. Granger decided to resign. He will de vote himself now to several private irrigation projects in which he is in terested In Washington and will con tinue to live in the Yakima Valley. POSTAL BUYS BIG POLES Order for 2 6,000 Posts Placed for San Francisco Line. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Jan. 14. (Spe cial.) The Postal Telegraph & Cable Company, through its purchasing agent, H. M. Smith, of Chicago, is contracting in this territory for 26,000 telegraph poles for shipment -to points east from San Francisco to be used in the construction of a new overland route from that city to New York, in competition with the merger formed by the consolidation of the West ern Union and Bell Telephone Companies. When these are supplied, another equal ly large number will be bought for a two-wire line from San Francisco to Port land and Seattle. C. W. Copen, of New York, who is general superintendent of the Postal, and J. G. Blake, of San Fran cisco, superintendent of the Paaclflc di vision, are here with Purchasing Agent Smith. GUARDIAN IS ASKED FOR Relatives or H. W. Settlemire, of Tangent, Petition Court. ALBANY, Or., Jen. 14. (Special.) A pe tition was filed in the County Court here today asking for the appointment of a guardian for Henry W. Settlemire, of Tangent, one of the best known men of Linn County, who, it is stated. Is becom ing feeble and is unable to attend to his large business interests. . The value of Settlemire's property, as given in the? pe tition, is ?25,000. The petition is signed by Georgianna Forster, of Tangent, Settlemire's daugh ter: M. L. Forster, his son-in-law, and A. W. McEKmald, a son-in-law. The peti tioners ask for the appointment of L. M. Curl, a local attorney, as guardian. MAN HAS ODD DELUSION Believing Kc Runs by Electricity, ' George Newton Adjudged Insane. GRANTS PASS, Or., Jan. 14. (Spe cial.) George Newton was committed to the insane asylum today because he believes that he runs by electricity and must wear a large breastplate of rub ber. Kred Mansfield, whose skull was frac tured in a mine several years ago, w-as committed also, -having become men tally unbalanced. TRESTLES T0BE FILLED Milwaukee Road Will Expend Mil lion Dollars In Work. SEATTLE. Jan. 14. The Chicago. Mil waukee & Puget Sound has awarded con tracts for filling with earth all its wooden trestles in this state, the cot being esti mated at between $750,000 and tl.000,000. The work is to be completed before the railroad puts on its fast passenger trains Detween cnicago and Seattle next Sum mer. Willapa Mills Have Big Output. SOUTH BEND. Wash., Jan. 14. (Spe cial.) The extent of the lumber industry on this harbor is shown by reports of the mill companies. In 1909 the 11 mills of the harbor cut 196,829.888 feet of lumber. Two of these mills operated only in No vember and December. With all the mills operating all year the cut would have run close to 250,000,001). OIL! OIL! OIL! NO DOUBT OF IT, and we are going to sell another block of stock for THIS REA SON. As we fro down in the well we are boring at Nehalem now, we find the- pros pects SO VERY FLATTERING that we want to be prepared to put down at least SIX more wells, as soon as 'we get the Oil in this first well, and our expert tells us Ave will not have to go deeper than SEVEN HUNDRED and FIFTY feet, to strike the OIL LAKE, and at the rate we are going down, we will reach that depth within thr- next 40 TO 60 DAYS, hence our desire to be prepared for the future in a financial way, as it will take a considerable amount of. money to put down that many wells. Our representative at the well repoits the finding of NUMEROUS SEAPAGES MORE NUMEROUS AS THEY GO DOWN. The formation now is BLUE SHALE AND A HARD BLUE CLAY MIXED WITH SHELLS. This formation is IMPREGNATED WITH THE OIL, and our head driller says we are undoubtedly near the selurium rock, under which the oil is held. We have contracted the boring of the well to an expert driller, and the only way he can make money is by putting down the well as fast as pos sible, and the progress he is making is satisfactory. The capitalization of the company is but 50,000 SHARES, par value $1.00 per share and because of this low capitalization this stock will be worth from $100 to $500 per share' as soon as Oil is procured. The usual capitalizations of Oil companies is from One Million to Five Million shares, and these shares are sold at a low price which puts them into the hands of THOUSANDS of people, and this makes both the stock and dividends unat tractive to the thinking and carefid investors. NOT SO WITH THE STOCK OF THIS COMPANY, for it will get into the hands of but FEW PEOPLE, and THAT FEW WILL ENJOY THE ENORMOUS PROFITS. When we reach the depth of 500 feet, it is EX TREMELY LIKELY that the stock will be taken from the market altogether, and we ex pect to reach that depth about the FIRST OF FEBRUARY. The history of finding Oil in the Pacific Northwest is, that all, so far, has been found very near the coast. Go from lower California to the far North in Alaska, and you will find this to be true. If desired, we sell the stock upon the following plan, as it constitutes a guarantee against loss, should the oil proposition not prove a success. To illustrate, should you buy say $50 worth of the oil stock, and for any reason you may become dissatisfied with it, the Nehalem Bay Land Company, owners of Necarney City, a Townsite, a beach resort on Nehalem Peninsula, will take over your stock and allow you full credit for the $50 on any one unsold lot you may select, in above said Townsite, at the time of assigning said stock to that said Company, arid the pi-ice of said lots to remain as they are now selling, being $200 each, and the balance paid at the rate of $5 per month, on each lot. These lots will easily sell for from $400 to $500 when the railroad reaches there, next Summer. THERE IS NO BUSINESS IN THE WORLD AS PROFITABLE as THE OIL BUSI NESS. The rich have been made richer, and many poor have been lifted from poverty to affluence and wealth, by investing in legitimate Oil propositions, and no Oil proposi tion has ever been put before the people, upon a more honest basis, than this of the Ne carpey City Hydrocarbon Oil Company. Present Price of Stock Is $2.50 Per Share Send for Oil prospectus. Address all communications to the N.C. 274 Oak St., Board of Trade Bldg., Portland, Or. Stock for Sale Also by D. F. HOLT, Treasurer, Room 206, Rothchild Building WIDOW ASKS MORE Mrs. John Miles Says Estate Is Underestimated. WANTS WILL SET ASIDE Wealthiest Man in Lewis County Devised Property on Basis of $150,000, but It Is Said to Be Worth Nearer $400,000. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Jan. 14. (Special.) When John Miles, of Chehalis, reckoned Iwi8 County's wealthiest man. died t few days ago, his estate, as1 he estimated it in his will, amounted to about $150,000. In providing, for his widow he directed that $80 be paid to her monthly for the support of the household and left her SW.OOO to be invested as he directed. Mrs. Mills, acting: on the advice of bankers and others who are said to be well informed, makes? the 'assertion that tho estate is nearer $400,000 in value, and has begun suit to have the will set aside and for more money to be paid for the support of herself and her two minor children. The petition sets forth that the estate is valued at about $400,000 and consists mostly of personal property, that she has no means of support for herself and her children unless she use money of her own, and that, the allowance provided by the will is not sufficient. She therefore asks that she be allowed the property, exempt from execution, and a monthly . allowance of $350, payable in advance. W. A. Reynolds, attorney for the ex ecutors, sets forth the provisions of the will in his answer and declares the widow has refused to accept the $S0 monthly al lowed. He asks that the request for a greater allowance be not granted. JUDGE BOOTH RECOVERING Consciousness Returns and Doctors Say Health Will Be Regained. GRANTS PA S3, Or.) Jan. 14. (Special.) After nearly & week in a comatose state, Judge J. O. Booth has rallied and recog nized those in attendance. The physicians believe now that he will regain his health. He has been unable to take food for some time, but now he advisedly takes small quantities every three hours, in or der to gradually build up his strength. LANE FARMERS SPRAYING Orcliardists Propose tlie Fruit Trees Shall Be Xeglected No Longer. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 14. Special.) Fruit-growers are spraying their trees. Many orchards which have been allowed to so without attention will be thorough- OIL! NEHALEM It 1 1 OILC ly sprayed within, the next few weeks. Moreover, there is every indication that the negligence of past years in the mat ter of caring for orchards is practically at an end In Lane County. It is confidently predicted that if the Lane County horticulturists will give the fruit industry the proper attention. Lane County can raise as many and as good apples as any other section of the state. There is more activity at this time in the matter of development of fruit culture in Lane County than ever before. GRANTS PASS GETS DEPOT Southern Pacific Makes City Prom ises of Improvements. GRANTS PASS, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.) This city will soon have a new passen ger depot. "Words to that effect were announced today by the Southern Pacific officials, as 'they tarried long enough to meet with the executive committee of the Commercial Club and go over the plans. The new depot will be built of tile and stone, and will be erected on Seventh street, a block east of the old one. The present depot will be utilized for a freight house and will be moved west near Sec ond street. The sites for the freight and passenger depots will eliminate the constant dan ger that has been felt by the heavy traf fic across Sixth street. The company has also promised a few other minor improve ments that have been asked for. NOVELIST STUDIES COLOR Mrs. Wilson Woodrow Writing Book in Blue Mountain Retreat. DAYTON. Wash., Jan. 14. (Special.) Mrs. Mary Woodrow Wilson, said here to be the novelist, Mrs. Wilson Wood row, came down from the Blue Moun tains today to testify in the burglary case in which B. A. Daniels is the de fendant. She has gentle manners that cannot be disguised, though garbed in the habiliments of the backwoods, and modestly conceals her identity. She has been living In this part of the country to study its people and is gathering material for a new novel, 400 pages of which she has written. She came here three months ago with a Wild West show, which she was fol lowing to observe. After testifying in court she returned to her mountain re treat. State Senator Takes Pulpit. ALBANY, Or..' Jan. 14. (Special.) State Senator Frank J. Miller, of this city, will occupy the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church of Albany next Sun day evening. He will .not preach a ser mon, however, but will deliver a talk on "Conservation of . Resources." Senator Miller is a member of the State Conser vation Commission and has made a study of this question, which Is of great inter est now in view of the Balllnger-Pinchot controversy. I-ane Will Improve Roads. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.) The County Commissioners in session yester day closed a contract for another large rockcrusher, to be delivered in this city by April 1, and to cost $1800. The board also purchased a seven-ton roadroller at a cost of $1500. There will be an un usual amount of road Improvement throughout the county this year. 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