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THE MORNING OREGON IAN, WEDNESDAY. FEB RU ART 16, 1910. SPRECKELS WILL IS DECLARED INVALID John D. and Adolph Win Vic tory in Court on Day of Mother's Death. CLAUS AND RUDOLPH LOSE Children to Receive Equally About $1,500,000 Each Requests of Widow's Share of $2,500,000 Xot to Be Affected. SAN' FRAXCISCO, Feb. 15. (Spe cial.) On the very day of the death of Airs. Spreckles, the widow, the trust clause In the will of the late Claus Spreckels was today declared invalid under the California law in the Su perior Court. By this decision John. D. Spreckels and Adolph Spreckels win a signal victory over Rudolph and Claus A. Spreckels, who as executors under the will sougrht to preserve it as they construed it, pivlnfr to themselves prac tically all of the $10,000,000 estate, less the bequests to the widow, Mrs. Anna Christiana Spreckels, who died at 2 o'clock this morning:. -The be quests to the widow amounted to about $2,500,000. The decision nullities the will in its entirety, with the exception of the bequests to the widow, which are not included in trust clauses. The court holds that, although the testator was a man of reat business intellect and sought to do certain things, the words used In his will must he construed in conformity with the law. Under the ruling- of the court, the five children of the testator will receive approximately $1,500,000 each and will thus reduce the expectations of Rudolph and Claus A., the execu tors, from $7,500,000 between them to a division of $3,000,000. The death of Mrs. Anna Christina Spreckles this morning will not ma tfrially affect the settlement of the estate under the terms of the decision. Mrs. Spreckels" estate was practically in her own hands at the time of her death and was disposed of by will, which it is said she made last July. Mrs. Spreckels" death came after a lingering illness, at the age of 79 years. Besides her four sons, she is mourned by a daughter, Mrs. John Ferris, of Reigate. Surrey. England. COAL FRAUDS ALLEGED tiovernment Sues Executors of Es tate of General Palmer. DKN'VER." Feb. 15. s'uit was filed in the Federal Court today against David C. Dodge, George Foster Peabody, George A. Krause and Charles Mellen, as executors under the will of tieneral William J. Palmer, charging extensive coal frauds. The action is irl equity to recover $543,000, the value of 3H2.000 tons of coal. Attorney-General WUkershani and F. E. Maynard, as sistant to the Attorney-General, with headquarters at Salt Iake, filed the complaints. It is alleged that betwen January 1, 1SH9, and June 30, 1900, Peabody and Palmer erected mining shafts and dug coal oit of 1293 acres of Government land that had been illegally acquired. The lands are said to have been part of a tract controlled by the Ute Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and were in volved In charges against prominent Western men In the Federal Courts re cently. The cases were dismissed in the higher courts. General Palmer died March 13, 1909, at Colorado Springs. PROHIBITIVE RATE LOSES Commerce Commission Decides Case Against Santa. "es Protest. WASHINGTON", Feb. 15. Against the vigorous protest of the Atchison, To peka & Santa Fe and several other railways, the Interstate Commerce Commission today, in an opinion hand ed down in the case of the Cedar Hill Coal & Cok Company of .South eastern Colorado, established through routes and Joint rates from the Walsen burg coal district of Colorado to points in Kansas, Texas and New Mexico. Heretofore the rates on coal from the Walsenburg district to some points in other states have been prohibitive. As was testified to by a Santa Fe offi cial, "the figures are prohibitive. They are meant to be so." Tinder the law a satisfactory through route is required if demanded and the commission established the routes and rates requested by the complainant. HIGHER UPS" WORRIED Kurt tier Indictments Expected T.'ntlerweigrliing Frauds. In NEW YORK, Feb. 15. Following further presentation of testimony re garding the sugar underweighing frauds to the Federal grand jury, it was intimated today that further In dictments of "higher up" sugar com: pany officials might be expected short ly. It was stated today that the Federal Sugar Refining Company had prac tically agreed to pay the Government an amount in excess of $100,000, which the Government claims on account of underweighing of raw sugar cargoes. CORAM SUES DAVIS HEIRS l'lfteen-Vear-Olir liltijration Over Estate Starts Afresh. BOSTON, Feb. 16. LJti.xation over the estate of Andrew J. Davis, the Butte copper mine millionaire, which has been before the courts for 15 years', is not yet at an end. In the Supreme Court today Joseph A. Coram, of Brookline, brought a bill against Henry A. Root, trustee, end against the heirs of the Davis estate, reeking to compel them to reimburse him t-x the amount of $30,000 which lie says he expended in litigation over the will in Montana. SAILORS HAVE SMALLPOX Five Members if Crew of Washing ton Quarantined. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. Five mem vars of the armored cruiser Washing ton are Inflicted with, varioloid, a mild form of smallpox, which developed on the ship's homeward journey from Hon olulu, v On February 2. before the Washing ton left Honolulu, Daniel J. Thompson, a coal-passer, died of smallpox and his body cremated. Washington was bound for Puget Sound, but will stop at Port Townsend quarantine station, where the sick will be taken ashore for treatment. After the ship has been thoroughly disinfected she will continue on her voyage. No other members of the crew, it is believed, are likely to develop the disease. SMALLPOX OX BURXSIDE ALSO Alaska Town Will Xot Let Sick Man Land, Crew I Exposed. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 15. The cruiser Washington landed her five smallpox patients at the Port Town send quarantine station. The cable ship Burnside was ordered today from Tacoma ' to tne Diamond Head quarantine station. Two Fili pinos of the crew are ill with varioloid. The outbreak Is believed to be due to the action of the city officials of Juneau. Alaska, who recently, by force of arms, prevented the landing of a smallpox patient, necessitating a spe cial trip to Port Townsend and expos ing the other members of the cre to infection. The Burnside will be dis infected and released after she lands her sick men. NELSON ESTATE DIVIDED WILL OF SPRINGFIELD MILLION' AIRE MADE PVBMC. Xante of Mrs. Mary Booth, of Port land, Does Xot Appear in List of Legatees. SPRJNGFIELJ, Mass., Feb. 15. (Spe cial.) Frank G. Carpenter, attorney for the late George D. . Nelson, who left an estate estimated at $000,000 to $1,000,000, drew up the will of the "Man of Mystery," and the document was filed today. It sets at rest many of the etories circulated regarding Nelson. "There never was a clearer will made than that drawn up for Nelson the- week before his death," said Mr. Carpenter. "Nelson made George G. Dunn, his nephew, practically his sole heir. Of course we expect claims, they invariably spring up wherever a large amount of money is involved." The will was drawn January 27, 1910, but was not executed until February 2, six days before Nelson's death. George G. Dunn is named executor. All proceedings relative to the will took place in Nelson's apartments in the Nelson Hotel, which he owned. Beneficiaries under the will, aside from Dunn, the residuary legatee, are Thomas Qulgley. fireman of the Nelson Hotel, $."i000; George Buckley, eon of the lessee of the Nelson Hotel, $10,000; Cornelius Flynn, keeper of the Hampden Clubhouse, Hampden, $5000, also Nelson's third in terest in property in Hampden; Mrs. Georgia A. Silson, $5000; Mrs. Fannie S. Dana, $3000; Mrs. Florence F. Moody, $TiOO0, and Miss Caldwell, of Bradford, $5000. The name of young Nelson, of Jersey City, is not mentioned. The name of Mrs. Mary Booth, of Port land, sister of the woman who left tho fortune to Nelson, is not mentioned in the list of beneficiaries. Mrs. Booth, through her attorney, H. C. . King, assisted by Monroe Goldstein, a reporter on the Evening Telegram, had made a fight for ah expected share in this estate. Last week word came that her claim had been recognized, but her sliort-lived happiness apparently is at an end. THRIFT WINS $10,000 RICH MAX, AS LABORER, SAVES $459 IX TWO YEARS. $10,000 Bet Made by Wealthy Xew Yorkers to Prove Opportunity to Sare Today. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 15. (Specials Elmer E. Von Vleet, a wealthy resident of Elmira, N. T., who two years ago bet $10,000 with A. V. McKell, owner of the Elmira Courier, that he could work two years as a. common laborer and pave $400, left tonight for hts home and will collect the money from the newspaperman. He has a bank account from his earn ings of $459 and th best job he had dur ing the two years was driving a milk wagon at $40 per month. "Only two of the 11 men who employed me during that time treated me as if I was a white man," said "Von Vleet. "My muscles are like rocks and my health has been greatly improved. "Last Saturday, when the two years expired and I had won the wager, I ceased to pass as Elmer Grey, the name I assumed when I started out to demon strate what a. thrifty man could save on the customary small wage paid for un skilled labor. I am especially proud of my achieve ment, owing to the fact that I accom plished, thy purpose during hard times, when work was not only hard to get, but prices of food and other necessaries of life were advanced to a point that cause a general protest from consumers." FORT SITE TO BE SELECTED Army and Xavy. Board Leaves on Trip to Panama. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. General Witherspoon, head of the Army War Col lege; Major Haam, of the Coast Artillery Corps; Captain Knapp and Commander Maxwell, of the Navy, left Washington today for Panama. General Crozier, Chief of Ordnance; General Murray. Chief of Coast Artillery, and General Marshall, Chief Engineer in the Army, will leave for Panama within two weeks. These officers comprise the joint Army and Navy board and their mission is to determine the site for canal fortifications. The party probably will return to Wash ington on April 1. HEAVY HOGS COME HIGH Record, Price of $8.95 a Hundred Realized in Kansas City. . " KANSAS CITY, Feb. 15. Heavy hogs brought $8.95 a hundred pounds at the stockyards here today. This price was never before reached at this market. Gladstone Is Made a. Peer. LONDON, Feb. 15. Herbert John Glad stone, Secretary of State for Home Af fairs, who, through a recent appointment, is about to become Governor-General' of British South Africa, was elevated to the peerage today. ALL FRANCE WOULD HONOR ROOSEVELT Ex-President Accepts Presi dent Fallieres' Invita tion. OSTENTATION IS TABOOED Paris to See Colonel in April for Stay of but Four Days, and Then Only as at an of Learn ing, He Says. PARIS. Feb. 15. M. Liard. vice-rector of the University of Paris, has been offi cially advised that Theodore Roosevelt will reach Paris about April 14, and the length of his stay, will probably not ex ceed three or four days. The French government is anxious to receive the ex-President of the United States with the highest honors. French society is prepared to lionize him; liter ary and scientific bodies desire to enter tain him, and the American colony owuld like to give a grand reception in his honor. But Mr. Roosevelt has discreetly al lowed It to be understood that he desires to avoid any appearance of ostentation, and that he will preserve, so far as pos sible, merely the role of a man of learn ing, in which capacity he accepted the Invitation to lecture at Sorbonne. This invitation was extended through Ambas sador Jusserand When Mr. Roosevelt still occupied the White House. Mr. Roosevelt's visit to Paris, there fore, will be devoid of spectacular feat ures that characterized ex-President Grant's visit at the time of his tour around the world. Mr. Roosevelt's wishes will be carried out In the main, but the governmept declined to forego the honor of entertaining him, and the ex-President has accepted the invitation of President Fallieres to be his guest at Elysee palace. A reception .will be held in the grand salon of the university, at which the lec turer will meet a brilliant assemblage of French savants, including "the forty Im mortals." On April 16, Mr. Roosevelt will be received in solemn audience by the in stitute, of which he is a member in virtue of his recent election as an asso ciate of the Academy of Political and Moral Sciences. MRS. ROOSEVELT SAILS EAST Wife of ex-President Off for Kliar toum to Meet Husband. NEW YORK, Feb. 15. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter Miss Ethel, sailed for Naples today on the Hamburg American line steamer Hamburg, en route to Khartoum, where on March 14 they will meet Colonel Roosevelt and re turn with him to Europe on his way back to the United States from his African hunting trip. Colonel Roosevelt will reach the United States between Junel and June 15. Alderman J6hnson today introduced a resolution in the Board of Aldermen pro viding to set apart the day on which ex President Roosevelt arrives in this city from his journeyings as "a day of rejoic ing for his safe return." The resolution also asks that the Governor desicnntA the day as a state holiday. The resolu- I lion was rererrea to the committee on rules. PACIFIC TO SEE ROOSEVELT? Western Xewspaper Owners Off to Meet ex-President at Khartoum. DENVER. Feb. 15. F. G. Boivflls and George Creel, of the Denver Post, and Kansas City Post, left Denver today for Khartoum, where they expect to meet ex-President Roosevelt on his way home from a year's hunt. Following reports from scores' of Chambers of Commerce and civic bodies in the West, they will urge the Presi dent . to return to his native land by way of the Pacific Coast. TODAY IS DOUGLAS DAY Big Booster Meeting to Assemble at Roseburg Trains Chartered. ROSEBURG. Or., Feb. 15. (Special.) Douglas County visitors will flock to Roseburg tomorrow from all parts to celebrate Douglas County day. It will be in the nature of a return visit -after Strange, what a little thing Will upset a man and Keep him so all day, When he ought to be Alert and cheerful. v A soggy, hot biscuit For breakfast has been known To create a "scrap" Between life-long friends. For a successful day Eat a saucer of Grape -Nuts And cream (chew slowly.) The thorough chewing of the Crisp, nutty granules which Have a delicious flavour Will not only put one right, But give strength of Mind and body For the morning's work. Try it! "There's a Reason." Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Postum Cereal Company, Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich, the recent business men's excursion. Special cars have been chartered by different towns along the line and elaborate preparations have been made by commercial clubs and business men of Roseburg to entertain the visitors. About 400 guests are expected. o OTHELLO is the name of the most promising city in the entire Northwest. It is in the State of Washington, on the new transconti nental railroad, built by the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Rail way Company, and known throughout the United States as "The Milwaukee." , OTHELLO occupies the same relative position on the "Milwau kee" Railroad as North Yakima occupies on the Northern Pacific. OTHELLO is the agricultural center of a country which the "Out look," the magazine of which ex-President Roosevelt is contributing, editor, as the most prolific in the world the Big Bend country. OTHELLO is now the divisional point for Eastern Washington for the Milwaukee Railroad. It will be the junctional point of the "Mil waukee' lines north and south and east and west. The right of way has already been fried for beginning work on the new lines to run north and south at right angles to the -present main line. OTHELLO is the center of the finest Fruit Belt in Washington. The soil is of the same chemical analysis as the famous Wenatchee fruit lands. The apples and peaches grown at OTHELLO are superior in coloring and flavor to those of any other fruitgrowing section we know of. ' OTHELLO is a wholesale center and a manufacturing center. Its nearness to cheap coal supplies is very attractive, to manufacturers, who already have recognized the great possibilities of the new city from the standpoint of manufacturing and shipping. WHAT WE WANT IS THIS; YOU WRITE US AN ADVERTISEMENT We want a brief story, or description, or essay, or composition, or whatever you may choose to call it, upon the subject, "Why I Should Invest in Othello." There are hundreds of reasons why any person should invest in OTHELLO. Our sales manager, onr advertising de partment and rpany newspaper writers have written advertisements for us, but none of these "just touch the spot.'' These writers are all right in their "way, but their descriptions and their advertisements are not natural, not human enough. We want the sort of a little story (which is the same thing as an For Any Further Information Regarding Othello, Call or Write Othello Improvement ComDanv Office Open From 10 A; M. 219-220 Commercial Corner fifth and IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT SMARTLY DRESSED MEN WILL WEAR THIS SEASON ASK BEN SELLING Between 9:30 o'clock and noon the business men of Roseburg will receive the visitors in their places of business. At 1:45 P. M. at the Commercial Club rooms Mayor Haynes will welcome the guests to the city. At 2 o'clock busi ness houses will close until 3:30 P. M. VALUABLE FRIZES FOR PEOPLE OF PORTLAND to 9 I. M. P. D. NEWKIRK, MANAGING DIRECTOR Club Building Oak. OUR PRESENT SHOWING OF SPRING SUITS FOR MEN, YOUNG MEN and BOYS upholds our reputation for presenting only the BEST the season affords in STYLE-QUALITY and VALUE MEN'S SUITS $20 to $40 YOUNG MEN'S $10 to $30 BOYS' SUITS $5 to $20 WINNERS IN AUTOMOBILE CONTEST GERALDINE ROOT 30,494 VERA GAITENS 27,512 CARL SUTTON . . 20,681 HARRY HAMO 18,624 JOHN WOOD 16,602 to give the visitors a chance to attend a big booster sermon at the tabernacle by Evangelist C Kenwick Reed. From 3:30 to 5:30 P. M. both theaters will be at the disposal of visitors free of charge. From 6 to 8 P. M. a ban quet will be served. At the Taber E advertisement), written by some person who will say just the natural things in just the natural, every-day way that people talk. That is the sort of story some person who has never had any technical training in writing advertisements will write without making a strained or un natural effort. WE WILL GIVE AN ACRE OF FRUIT LAND FREE FOR THE BEST STORY OF THIS KIND; AND WE WILL GIVE A CITY LOT IN OTHELLO FOR THE NET BEST STORY; AND WE WILL GIVE A CHECK FOR $100 IN PAYMENT FOR ANY FRUIT LAND OR LOTS IN OTHELLO TO THE NEXT BEST; AND WE WILL GIVE TEN CHECKS FOR $50 EACH TO THE TEN NEXT BEST. These checks will also be accepted as payment upon any fruit tract or lot we own in Othello. Now you know about OTHELLO. If you do not, call at our offices at once and ask for any information you want about it. Then sit right down and write your composition and mail it to us. There is no telling who will get the prize.- Advertising is the most remarkable process in the world. The very best advertisements and advertising stories are written by people who do not know tiring about the art of composi tion. The famous "Sunny Jim" advertisements for "Force" were written by a young girl not out of Grammar School. The advertisements which will make Othello known from one end of the continent to the other will be. written by some Portland citizen No one is limited to the number of stories they may send in, nor as to the style of the matter, nor in any other way, excepting as to the length. The contest will close Monday evening, February 28, at 10 o'clock. You may send"-in your story at any time before that date. But you should not put the matter off until you become indifferent. The best advertisements are written naturally and while the mind is full of the subject to be written about. Write it now. Do not wait. i All the letters must be in before 10 o'clock Monday evening, Feb ruary 28, when they will be turned over to a committee of prominent Portland newspaper men, who will decide wljich of the stories are entitled to tho prizes. We reserve the right to use any of the stories submitted which may not win prizes, and will pay a fair price for stories so used. Phone Marshall 727 LEADING CLOTHIER nacle meeting addresses will e de livered by Dr. Andrew C. Smith. Judge L,. R. Webster. Allan Moore, of Port land: A. 11. Carson, of Grants Pass, and O. P. Coshow. of Roseburg. Sam Josephson, of Roseburg, will be chair man of the evening. o Portland, Oregon