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THE MORNING OREGOyiAN. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1910. GRIFFIN SAYS WIFE LOVES MERRY LIFE where the plaintiff's injury Is the ame as that of the general public Attorney Llnthlcum contended further that it would not do to plat the tract regardless of the contour of the land. Attorney William M. Davis, representing Filter, was given three days in which to file an amended complaint. HUH LEY'S FRIENDS FOBCED TO TESTIFY POLTGAJUST BREAKS PAROLE Joyriding With Sundry Affini ties Given as Cause for Seeking Divorce. FAMILY MEALS UNCOOKED "While Mrs. Griffin Made Merry, Says Husband, Child Fed on Pas try and Cookies Amorous Letters Withheld by Court. Edmond B. Griffin, a teacher of the common branches at the T. M. C. A., was one of the three dissatisfied spouses who appeared before Circuit Judge Morrow yesterday morning and secured divorces. This is not Griffin's only suit in court, for he recently filed a complaint against the.T. M. C. A. for $10,000 damages for injuries sus tained in an elevator accident. The elevator boy. declared Griffin, tried to Jump off the car after it had started down. The Instructor in shorthand and oth er branches told Judge Morrow yes terday morning that his wife, Lucy G. Griffin, tired of the quiet home life and decided that Joy-riding and visits to grills at late hours of the night were more enticing. P. K. Struck, formerly grand chief ranger of the Order of Foresters, man ager of the Acme Planing Mills, and a building contractor, was named by Griffin as one of the co-respondents. He said Struck'and Mrs. Griffin visited the Turn Halle Cafe together, and that love letters passed between them. Judge Morrow refused to give these let ters out for publication. John Steven son, Griffin's attorney, says, however, they contain the usual expressions of indearment which pass between sweet Hearts. Other Lover Is Named. But according to Griffin, Struck was' not the only lover Mrs. Griffin had. He said that in 1908 she had a habit of going out at night with another man, and that she came home with the smell of liquor on her breath. She failed to cook the meals for the fam ily, he said, so that their nine-year-Dld daughter, Ruth, was compelled to sat cookies and pastry. Griffin said that on one occasion his wife became no drunk at the New Grand Central Hotel that he had to be put to bed. The complaining husband alleges that his wife made a trip through Cali fornia, meeting a man on the train .nd going with him and the little girl on a visit to the lewd resorts of Sac ramento. He alleges also that she had an affinity in Arkansas named John Daly. In April, 1908, he said, she visited the Twelve-mile House and the last time he saw her he was out joy riding with three men. Before the marriage her name was Lucy G. Thompson. The wedding took place at Van Alstyne, Texas, September 10, 1899. Wife Accused of Desertion. Robert H. Barnes asked a divorce from Rita L. Barnes, but he was anx ious that the judge give her the cus tody of their child, and insisted on making monthly payments for the child's support. He said his wife lived' In BuJ,te, Mont., before the marriage, and that he went with her in Phila delphia. But as her health was not good, the physician advised her to make the trip to her home. Barnes said he went to Memphis and later came to Portland, asking his wife sev eral times to join him. She wrote she would never return, he declared. The couple married in Seattle, January 18, 1905. Catherine Moussegne said Francois Moussegne wanted her to earn the liv ing while he Idled away his time. She objected, and he left her in 1900. They were married in France, July 23, 1883, but were living in Alameda, Cal., when he left. Plot With Affinity Aliened. Ernest V. Jensen filed in the Circuit Court yesterday an answer to Eliza beth Margaret Jensen's divorce suit, in which he says- they lived happily togther unitl four years ago, when his wife found an affinity in the person of W. A. Hall. Secret meetings will Hall were followed by bolder conduct, says Jen sen, but upon his wife's confession and promise to remain away from Hall, he forgave her. Then she told him, he says, that she wished to visit a sister at Trout Lake, Wash., met Hall at Hood River and registered at the hotel as Mrs. Hall, going from there to Trout I.ake with him. Since then, says Jen sen, she has been conniving with her affinity to secure a divorce from Jen sen. She had him arrested and in the city Jail for ten days, he says, so that he failed to have hia answer filed in time. He says he was misled by Mrs. Jensen's attorney, who told him noth ing would be done in the case for two weeks. He asks that the default or der be set aside. Clara Foline filed a divorce cult yes terday against P. T. Foline, accusing him of becoming so drunk that he can not attend to his work. She married him February 7, 1896. WADE HAS COUNTER CHARGE Insists His Arrest Was an Attempt to Collect for Debt. R. A. Wade, arrested by the Portland police on a telegraphic warrant from White Salmon, Wash., was released yes terday after a writ of habeas corpus had been sworn out. and Harrison H. School field and Perley C Heald had signed a 1500 bond. Sfhoolfleld is an electrical en gineer and Heald Is a timber dealer. Wade Is charged with forgery, his ar rest having been procured by Frank Egan. according to his statement In the petition for the habeas corpus writ. Wade declares his arrest an attempt to collect a debt by criminal action. He regards It as nothing short of extortion, as, he says it Is alleged that he obtained by false pretenses, and the demand is for J278.SS In settlement. PLITER'S SCIT THROWX OUT Action Against Laurclhurst Company Held to Have N'o Basis. The suit of F. M. Filter against the Laurelhurst Company to compel the plat ting of the southwest quarter of the Laurelhurst tract in conformity with 9un nyside streets, was thrown out of court by Presiding Judge Morrow yesterday, the defendant's attorneys, Williams, Wood & Llnthlcum. having filed a de murrer to the complaint. It was the contention of the latter that PUter showed in his complaint no special Injury, and that suit cannot be brought Ward Robertson's Second Downfall Is Blamed to Woman. Ward Robertson, 57 years old, sentenced November 19. 1908, by Circuit Judge Gan tenbeln to two years in the Penitentiary for polygamy, and paroled to John Teu scher, of the Prisoners' Aid Society, has broken bis parole, according to Mr. Teuscher, and laid himself liable to ar rest and imprisonment for two years from the date of his apprehension. According to Officer Teuscher, a woman is the cause of Robertson's second downfall. The man was working for a farmer named J. E. Reeves, near Cornelius, and became Infatuated with the woman, but found too late that he was only second choice and that she was interested in another man, with whom she J said to have eloped. At the time of Robertson's arrest he was living under the assumed name of John Robbins. Although he had a wife living and undivorced, he married Julia Gunlach in Vancouver, Wash., October 16, the ceremony being performed by a minister named A. McKenzie. On October 23, 1908, he was taken before Justice of the Peace Bell and bound over to the grand Jury, which returned a true bill. When arraigned before Judge Gantenbein he pleaded guilty. Mr. Teuscher says he has until lately been faithful about re porting. He left bis place at Cornelius February 20. MORTGAGE SWINDLE CHARGED Augustus Walker on Trial for "Wheat Land" Transaction. Augustus Walker is on trial before a Jury in Judge Bronaugh's department of the Circuit Court for the alleged swind ling of John Rometsch of 1000. He Is al leged to have passed a worthless mort gage upon Rometsch, the mortgage cov ering 640 acres of what Walker is alleged to have represented to be Douglas County, Washington, wheat land. The mortgage was passed and the $1000 secured October 10, 1908. The land is described as section IS, town ship 23. north of range 22, east of Wil lamette meridian. The mortgage was signed by A. E. Carter in Walker's favor, being dated September 17, 1908. Accord ing to the Indictment, the specific charge In which is obtaining money by false pre tenses. Carter did not own the land, it was not wheat land, it was not worth more than $600, and the Carter mortgage was not a first mortgage, as represented. S10,00 ASKED FOR ARREST L. A. Porter Sues Four Defendants for Imprisonment. Damages In the amount of $10,000 for alleged false arrest are asked by L. A. Porter in his suit against R. W. Bruns, Frank C. Kelley. H. R. Pome roy and the American Surety Com pany, which is on trial in Judge Gantenbeln's department of the Cir cuit Court. The defendants conspired in Sep tember, 1908, he says, to have him ar rested because he owed them $270. He says he was kept in the Astoria jail all one afternoon and then taken to Fort Stevens, or being compelled to pay his own railroad fare, refused communication with friends or an at torney and finally compelled to re linquish a $270 check. He denies hav ing committed any crime. $ 10,000 ASKED FOR GOOD WILL Bicycle Man Loses Damage Suit Against Rival in Trade. Blam Shaw, proprietor of a bicycle re pair shop at 307 Stark street, failed yes terday to recover $10,000 damages from F. J. Wyatt, who has a shop at 189 Mor rison street, the jury bringing in a ver dict for the defendant- Shaw alleged that on September 24, 1907, Wyatt sold him the good will of his business at 307 Stark street for $1350, agreeing not to .enter business for himself in Portland for two years. He said Wyatt started a rival shop the next month. He thinks Wyatt has ob tained $10,000 worth of business in the last two years which he should have had. Wyatt, on the other hand, declared that Shaw agreed to employ him during the two years. But Shaw sold out half his business to a man named Perkins, said Wyatt, and Perkins discharged him. Suit Brought on Timber Deal. J. P. Graham is suing C. C. Shay be fore Circuit Judge Cleland for $1600 dam ages on a timber deal. Graham says that land in Clackamas County was repre sented to him by Shay to contain be tween 5.000.000 and 6,000,000 feet of timber, and that to secure him against loss Shay placed two lots in the Mount Tabor Cen tral tract in escrow with the Security Savings & Trust Company for six months. Shay declares that he told Graham he had never seen the land, and that Graham should receive damages now, as IS months have elapsed since he bought the land. MORE MONEY FOR MUSIC East Side Seeks Added Band Con certs for Coming Season. Fr6m all 'wectione of the East Side there is a demand for an Increased ap propriation for public band concerts', it being felt that $2500 and 15 concerts are not sufficient to go around. Concerts are wanted at Kenilwqrth, Sunnyside, Sell wood. Holladay Addition. Aibina, North Aibina, Mount Tabor and Uni versity Park, and 16 concerts will not provide more than one In each of these suburbs besides those which will be given in the City Park. The East Side Business Men's Club has already taken the matter up and will ask that the ap propriation be increased to $5000. President George T. Atchley is strongly in favor of having the appropriation in creased and expressed the opinion that the increase will be a very popular movement on the part of the Council. San Francisco, he says, appropriated $20,000 for its annual band concerts and Los Angeles $10,000. "The appropriation of $2300 Is too small and is money thrown away," declared J. H. Nolta. of North Albtna Push Clubs." and I favor the movement for an in creased appropriation. Portland ought to appropriate $10,000 annually for pnblic concerts. What are our parks without music I am confident that all the Pen insula clubs will favor increasing the concert appropriation." Conduit Suit to Be Advanced. Whether the National Automatic Fire Alarm Company will be permitted to use the city's conduits for Its pri vate use, probably will be decided In the near future. An Injunction suit is pending In the Circuit Court, and City Attorney Kavanangh Intends to make his showing soon as to why this should be dissolved. By this tempor ary restraining order, municipal work men are prohibited from proceeding with the laying underground of the fire department wires. Free Sunday excursion. Woodburn Orchard Co, Henry: Bldg. Both, phones. Neighbors of Stockman Averse to Telling of Woodcutting- $2500 BOND FURNISHED Big Harney County Land and Stock Owner Surrenders' to Marshal and Departs on . Bail Is Charged In Two Counts. William Hanley, the Harney Countr stockman indicted by the Federal grand jury upon . charge of having procured the unlawful cutting of 1200 cords of wood upon the Government domain, yesterday appeared at the office of United States .Mara rial Reed, where he surrendered to the warrant outstanding for his appre hension. The bond having been fixed at the sum of $2500 was immediatelv siirned, Dy 1arry t. and Elliot R. Corbett. and Mr. Hanley departed as quietly as he came to the building. The manager of the "Diainond-P" ranch rs charged under two counts, one for hav ing caused the wood to be cut and the other for having removed It for use other than "by the United States Navy." The case is brought under the act of 1873, which allows every settler the free uee of wood from Government land to the value of $50 in any one year, any amount in excess thereof being controlled by special permit from the Department of the Interior. The evidence was gathered by Special Agent Mead from among the old neigh bors of Mr. Hanley, and whan the grand jury summoned C. L, Pearson, George McLaren, Robert S. Dugger, Frank Spencer and J. T. Jefferson to tell the Inquisitors as to what they knew of the matter, it Is said that they came under protest. All of them were men who had known and worked with and for the big cattle-owner for many years and for whom they entertained the warmest friendship, but sworn to tell the truth they "came through" with the informa tion that Jackass Mountain, where the depredation was alleged to have been committed, was open Government land. One Witness Willing. The only willing witness was said to have been a sheepman, named H. D. Pugsley, who is charged with having harbored a resentment because of the ancient range feud between the cattlemen and the flockmasters. Another element said to have entered Into the filing of the information with the special agents of the land office, was the high price of hay in Harney County. During the se verity of the Winter weather the sheep men have been forced to pay as high as $26 per ton for hay to keep their woolies alive. Of the 1200 cords of Juniper wood which Mr. Hanley Us said to have purloined from the Government domain for the operation of a steam dredger used in digging a ditch for the drainage of a swamp, 460 cords are alleged to have been burned and 750 cords are under selsure. A proposition has been submitted by Chief Christensen of the land department for a. settlement at the rate of $4.50 per cord on the stump, and which has not received attention from the Harney County stockman. The wood under seizure is located 25 miles from the town of Bums, and since se curing possession has been advertised for sale by the Government on at least two occasions. Kot a single bid for the material has been secured, it is said, and there appears to be very little hope that it can be disposed of before decay shall cause Its deterioration. It is probable that there will be no Immediate demand for the wood because of its Inaccessible location. The indictment was among the batch of secret returns made by the grand, jury last month, and although Mr. Han ley was in the city a few days prior to the action and in the state almost continuously since, he Just learned of the affair when apprised over the phone that a warrant was in the hands of the Marshal. Presentation Was Regular. When lntervlwed concerning the Ra tion of the Government, Assistant United States Attorney Walter H. Evans said: "In the absence of Mr. McCourt, I do not desire to discuss the matter and especially do I not desire to en gage in a newspaper controversy with Mr. Hanley. The reports and informa tion upon which the indictment was based were prevented to this office in the regular way by officers of the land office inspection service just as other criminal matters are and the matter was presented to the grand jury for its consideration and action." Information is not obtainable as to whether the grand jury considered the criminality of the men who entered into the contracts to cut and deliver the eordwood for Mr. Hanley. They were not Indicted. Special Agent Mead, who investigated the case, was among the officers of the land department who were recently furlougrhed because of a shortage of funds with which to pay salaries, and has since been transferred to the Forest Service and is engaged in the division of claims. He is an attorney. When seen yesterday, he said: "Beyond denying any personal feel ing In the matter, and saying that my report on the cutting or wood at the Instance of Mr. Hanley was the result of an Investigation of a complaint sent to the office of Chief Christensen. I have nothing to say." PERSONALMENTION. G. Syrket. of L& Grande, la at tha Seward. J. M. Culbertson, of Hood River, is at the Ramapo. J. C. Henry, of La Grande, came to the Seward last night. W. F. Broderick, of Spokane, came to Portland yesterday. Lynn Caton. of Oakland, a retired capi talist, is at the Imperial. A. N. Brown, of Caldwell, Idaho, went to the Perkins yesterday. Mrs. R. H. Sowers, of Medford, arrived at the Cornelius yesterday. E. 11- Hayter. of Dallas, is with the crowd In the Cornelius lobby. J. E. Verdin and wife, of Grants Pass, registered at the Lenox yesterday. Fred A. Williams, of Grants Pass, Is among the arrivals at the Portland. J. E. Leonard, largely interested In Chehalis. Wash., if at the Perkins. Charles Devendorf. a Tacoma merchant, registered at the Imperial yesterday. F. A. Moore, of Walla Walla, son of a Washington ex-Governor, is In the city. C W. Abraras, a newspaper man at Salem, is among the arrivals at the Cor nelius. W. A. Howe, the Carlton banker, is at the t Nortonia. and is accompanied by hia family. Mrs. F. glrooj-cf Js'ew Tork, a sister -of Winner of Every Glidden Tour COVEY MOTOR CAR CO. Seventh and Couch St. PIERCE CADILLAC Gus Rosenblatt, is visiting her brother at the beward. H. . B, Montague, of San Francisco, is at the Nortonia while looking after his ortland properties. B. W. Thomas, general manager of the streetcar system at The Dalles, arrived at the Oregon yesterday. O. T. McKendrlck. general manager for the Lake View Stage Iine Company, is siayuig at tne imperial. Superintendent F. W. Vallle, of the 13th division of the Railway Mail Service, ar rived in the city last night. W. B." McLeod, manager and secretary of the Hammond Lumber Company, of Astoria, is at the Imperial. E. L. Tollman and Miss Agnes Toll man, of Hoqulam, are among the Wash ington people at the Perkins. W. L. Soehren. of Dallas, was visiting the Jobbing trade of Portland yesterday ana registered at the Perkins. Charles T. Early, one of Hood River's leading citizens and a capitalist, is mak ing headquarters at the Imperial. K. C. Fldrldge, dealer in general mer chandise at Independence, Is among the out-or-town merchants at the Oregon. W. S. Lysons, connected with the right- of-way department of the Northern Pa cific, came In from Kelso, Wash., yester day. J. O'B. Scobey, of the firm of Moul ton & Scobey, Is seriously ill at his home at Nineteenth and Marshall streets. ' Sam Lowenstein, of Portland, returned yesterday from a Winter at Santa Bar bara, Cal., and will make his home at the Lenox. Sidney Norman, of Los Angeles, a nephew of Ben and W. S. Norman, of the Portland Hotel, is paying a visit to his relatives. Andrew Johnson, lumberman and timber-land owner of Wlnlock, secured quar ters at the Imperial on his arrival In the city yesterday. Mrs. L. W. Therkelsen and son re turned yesterday from a Winter season at Pasadena and joined Mr. Therkelsen at the Nortonia. N. H. Cooper, recently a member of the force of clerks at the Hotel Portland, has accepted a position with the Idanha Hotel at Boise, Idaho, as chief clerk. S. A. Best and P. E. Chase, of Mon mouth, are at the Perkins while engaged In promoting Interest in the re-establishment of the State Normal School for which their city is pressing. NEW YORK, April 8. (Special.) The following persons from the Pacific Northwest registered at New York ho tels today: From Portland A. T. and A. H. Kerr, at' the Broadway Central. From Spokane C. C. Manning, at the Grand Union. From Tacoma C. H, Mackay, at the New Amsterdam; W. H. Shenk, at the Imperial. From Seattle O. Jarvis and wife, at the Astor; G. A. Morris, at the Hoff man; W. R. Leusch, at the Grand Union; C. C. Belknap, at the Imperial. CHICAGO, April '& (Special.) Portland people registered at Chicago hotels today as follows: Great Northern. Mrs. B. Walker, Miss M. Walker. LABORER BADLY STABBED Assailants Said, to He Italians, but K scape Is Made. In a cutting affray yesterday after noon at 3:45 o'clock at First and Main streets, Mitchell B. Haney, a laborer, said to be Intoxicated, was slashed In the neck, with a knife -by an unknown Italian, who. with two companions, escaped. Haney was taken, to the po lice station, where he is' being: held while detectives are searching" for his assailant. James R. Howe, another laborer, who accompanied Haney, and Frank Kennedy, an onlooker, were also arrested as witnesses. Haney Is not fatally stabbed. He was taken immediately to the office of rr. Gillette, over G radon 3c Koehlers drug- store at the corner of First and Main streets and his wounds were dressed. He was later taken to jail. Kennedy was a spectator in a moving picture show at First and Main streets and. hearing 'the commotion, ran out Into the street. He saw the bleeding man and the escape of the men who apparently had attacked Haney. The assailants were Italians, he said. Neither Haney nor Howe could give any explanation of how the Quarrel arose or who had stabbed Haney. The gash In his neck was nearly six inches long. TERM AT PENDLETON ENDS Only Two of Many Socketed Indian Cases Disposed Of. Closing on Thursday the first term of the United States Court ever held In East ern Oregon, Judge Bean, Clerk of the Court Marsh and Deputy Marshal Nichol son returned to Portland yesterday. United States Attorney McCourt remained at Pendleton on private business. Of the large number of Indian land claims which were docketed for trial, only two were disposed of. AH the-re-maining cases will be heard after the testimony has been taken before a com missioner. The court will then cause the records to be presented at a term in Portland. The claims m most cases Involve the standing of alleged heirs resulting from the operation of peculiar marriage laws among the Umatlllas, polygamy having been a common practice in past years. The next term of the United States Court at Pendleton will be held In April. 1911. Reaches Its 20 th Milestone. The 20th anniversary number of the Des Moines Capital, the best-known evening newspaper in Iowa, has been received and is a most creditable issue and presentation of conditions in the busy city where its home is. Twenty years ago the Ies Moines Capital V and passed into the proprietorship of La fayette Young, and from that day to this it has known no other change in ownership. The anniversary issue has a most prosperous appearance, and shows excellent work throughout. Judge Williams' Life to Be Topic. "The Life and Character of George H. Williams." will be the subject of an address by Rodney L. Gllsan at next Sunday's session of the young Men's Bible Class of Trinity Church. The close personal friendship which has ex isted through many years between Judge Williams and Mr. Gllsan, gives assurance that the address will be one of unusual interest and profit.- The class will meet In the guild room of Trinity Parish House, Nineteenth street, opposite Davis, at 10 A. M. 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This young man, frank, fine and honest, takes a dip in the social whirl pool and is courted by designing ma trons, the mothers for their daughters and the widows for themselves. He has a great round of experiences and polls out of some tight holes. Readers who are familiar with the life story of Edna May may wonder whether she is not the prototype of the heroine of this romance. It will add to Miss Van Vorst's already brilliant reputation and win for her thousands of new readers. Pictures by Cooles and Meylan The BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, FEW YORK. 34 Union St.. INDIANAPOLIS, The I who a tax on both. E. Vernon, General Agent Phone Main PORTLAND Traffic Mgr., Los Angeles p j From drawiirg oy f PAUX MKYLAH for the cover of THE GIRL FROM HIS TOWN Publishers 9-11 If ask. St. 1274 I .. tSJj i - r 4y