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13 Join Our Sewing Machine Club and Own the Best Machine on the Market-Dues $1 a Week Use Ladies' Home journal Patterns and You Will Never Make a Mistake LIBEL SUIT ECHOES GDURTHOUSEFIGHT GRADUATING CLASS, JUNE, -1910, ALLEN PREPARATORY SCHOOL, NUMBERS TWELVE! reater San Franciscans Sue Publish ers of Klamath Chronicle in Federal Court. TOWN LOT DEAL ALLEGED THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, JUNE IT, 1910. i x ;; 4r: CNa N1 ' v if V : T t G Olds Wort gjll,0PO,OO Removal SsJle , . Objection Made to Charge That Of ficials Were Bribed With Gifts of Real Estate Stockholders. Are Leading Men. Echoes of the bitter controversy now being -waged in Klamath County over the ground to be occupied by a new Court house reached the United States Court yesterday with the filing of th?ee libel suits against the publishers of the Kla math Falls Chronicle, which has been fighting u, change of location. S. O. Johnson and G. X. Wedling, prominent citizens of San Francisco, are two of the plaintiffs and the other is the Klamath Development Company, a California cor poration. The total amount of damages claimed is $200,000. Charges of corruption on the part of the County Commissioners having con trol of the location of the new building are recited as a partial basis for the complaint, but the Californians particu larly object to the stary printed in the Chronicle of April 10, which accuses them of having donated city lots to those offi cials as an inducement for ordering the Courthouse removed to an addition to the town of Klamath Falls known as the Hot Springs. Business Men Aroused. The fight started wth the advent of the railroad into the city, and when the owners of the Hot Springs, the plaintiffs in this case, laid out their addition a proposal is said to have been submitted by the Klamath Development Company to the County Commissioners offering to furnish a large tract, build cement side walks and, when the building, to cost J100.000, should be completed, to equip it with a heating plant which would utilize the hot water from the springs near by. The Chronicle charged that the proposal was considered secretly by the Commis sioners and that those officers made a quiet visit to the ground to select the spot that suited them. The newspaper insinuated that it was at that time that the Commissioners received gifts of lots. The paper also accused the Commis sioners of having agreed to make . the move without consulting the business in terests of the town. The arrangement is said to have be come known, and it Is declared that business men located around the Court bouse, as the center of business, organ ized the publishing company which now own 8 the Chronicle and to finance its fight against the removal with a fund of $10,000. i Following this move a delegation of citizens is said to have forced its way into the rooms of the County Commis sioners and labored with the officials sev eral hours, finally forcing them to agree to submit the question to the voters at the Fall election. The Chronicle denounced the Klamath Development Company and its officers as city lot speculators who desired to secure the Courthouse as an aid to their business and accused them of bribing the newspapers of the county, specifying that the woman editor of the Merrill Record received $250 to support the proposition. The suit is designed to reach the stock holders of the paper, who- are among the best-known business men of Klamath Falls. Attorneys Benson and Stone, of Klamath Falls, appear for the plaintiffs In each of the three suits. $30,000 IS ASKED OF ROAD Workman Blames Carelessness of Train Crew for Injury. Asserting that the loss of his right leg under the wheels of a Southern Pacific train on January 10 was oc-. casioned by the failure of a train crew to announce the approach of the train at a dangerous point in South Port land, Joseph Poeshl yesterday brought BUlt in the United States Court for damages to the amount of -$30,000. Poeshl was employed on Trestle No. 3 in the south end of the city, work ing at a point where trains deploy on the bridge from a deep cut built around a curve. He asserts that a train sud denly ran out of the cut without giv ing any warning of its approach, over taking him and mangling his right leg In such manner that it had to be amputated. EXPERT SEEKS FOR OIL Government Asks Co-operation of People Who Have Information. r At the request of Chambers of Com merce and other public organizations of Western Oregon, the Government has ordered an examination of the oil prospects of the Coast Range of Ore gon. This is the same belt of moun tains that contains the great oil fields of California, which in the last 10 years have enriched that state more than $100,000,000 without materially affecting-the total supply of oil . In the ground. The work is in charge of Chester W. Washburn, of the United States Geo logical Survey, of Washington. Mr. Washburne is a former resident of Oregon and has already made prelimi nary studies in nearly every county in the state. He is now working south ward from Astoria, and all persons knowing of oli seeps, asphaltum, gas, salt and sulphur water and related phenomena are urged to write a full description of each occurrence, includ ing -its location, and mall to Mr. Wash burn, whose address is now Astoria. This work is being done by the Gov ernment primarily for the benefit of the people. No charge is made for the service. AUNT BLAMED FOR PLIGHT Waif Picked Up In Vancouver Says He Was Deserted. VANCOUVER, Wash.. June 16. (Spe cial.) Declaring that he is an orphan and that he-was deserted by his aunt, Mrs. Waldon, of the East Side, in Port land, with but 50 cents, Samuel Taylor, 13 years old. was picked up on the streets here last night by the police. Young Taylor 6aid that he has a grandmother in Yamhill, Or., so. a job of washing dishes was found for him today. He will work long enough to secure the fare for a ticket to Yamhill, which will be bought for him by his mployer. 4 1 Bernard Mercer 1 2, Crawford Coraplon, vic-e-presldentt 3, Zena Mctiuaid; 4 Ilrlen Piatt; 5, Marjorle Cogswell! 6, Ktell Ford, aerre tarri 7, Harry Pogarty, treaiureri 8, Homer Sliavtrj 9, Ednarii Smythet lO, Herbert 'Scott, president) It, Earl Crabbe; 12, Harold Manlon. Commencement exercises of the Aflen Preparatory School were x held last night in Hawthorne Park Presbyterian Church. An appro priate address was delivered by Rev. James A. P. McGaw D. D. The graduates receiving diplomas are: Majorle K. Cogswell,' Crawford Compton, Earl R. Crabbe, Estella Ford, Harry Fogarty, Harold Man Ion, Zena McQuaid. Bernard Mercer, Helen Piatt, Herbert Scott, Homer Shaver, Edward Smythe. The diplomas were presented by Mar garet V. Allen, principal of the school. Vocal numbers were rendered by Imegene Harding Brodie and Dom Zan. Miss Alta Broughton was accompanist. At the Conclusion of the exercises a reception was held at the school building by the class and friends of the school. . LAW. CHANGE ASKED Oregon Humane Society Wants to Receive Fines. PLAN SUCCESS ELSEWHERE Ordinance Drafted and Presented to City' Council Two Cases of Bru tality to Children Are Re ported to Organization. At a meeting of the Oregon Humane Society, held last Friday afternoon, it was decided to ask the Mayor and City Council to pass an ordinance to provide for the payment of all lines Imposed for cruelty to animals direct to the humane organization. This EO'stem is in vogue in Ixis Angeles, and is said to work out with great success. The following draft has been presented to the Mayor and the City Council with the request that it be made . an ordi nance: ' . Any -person who shall cruelly beat, torture, deprive of food and water, or otherwise treat any animal with cruelty, shall, upon conviction before the Municipal Court, be punished by a. fine of not less than $5 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment in the City Jail not exceeding; 50 days, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the dis cretion of the court, and any fine collected for a violation of this ordinance shall . be paid by the Municipal Judge direct to the Oregon Humane Society. Regular monthly reports were sub mitted to the society by its officers at the meeting. One report was to the effect that a man on the Powell Valley road had brutally beaten his 4-year-old boy. Another concerned the inhuman treat ment of a little girl in Sellwood. Both of thes cases were turned over to the Boys and Girls' Aid Society to be taken care of. Humane Officer Crate' reported that during the months of April and May he had investigated 45 cases of alleged cruelty to animals, some of which were flagrant enough to cause the arrest and conviction of the offender, f ORPHANS TO SEE PORTLAND Saturday Will Be "Red-Letter" Day for Parentless Youngsters. Saturday is going to prove a "red-letter" day and one long to be remembered by the many children in the various philanthropic Institutions in Portland, for that is the day when each and every one of tbem is to be taken for an auto mobile ride that will stretch over two hours In duration, and over all the pic turesque drives, parks and beautiful spots la the immediate vicinity of the city. This great treat has been made possible through the untiring efforts and thought fulness of Mrs. W. B. Fechheimer, presi dent of the Fruit end Flower Mission, and the generosity of the Portland Auto mobile Club. The latter will provide the machines. All the children are requested to meet at the Portland public playgrounds, on Park and Everett streets, at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Any person not a members of the Automobile Club but who wishes to tender a machine please communicate with Mrs. Fechheimer. Call Main 8249 or A 5531. PERSONALMENTION. H. L. Benson, of Klamath Falls, is et the Imperial. C K. Marshall, a fruitgrower of Hood River, is at the Perkins. G. Wingate, a merchant of Astoria, is registered at the Hole! Oregon. M. T. O'Connell, a lumberman of Wlnlock, Is at the Hotel Oregon. Dr. A. A Lindsay, a physician of Se attle, is registered at the Seward. J. W. Ivey, ex-Collector -of Customs at Seattle, is registered at the Perkins. Lyman O. Orton, an orchardist of Medford, is 'registered at the Seward Hotel. George W. Hug, principal of tne Eu gene High School, is visiting friends in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Stewart, of Seattle, are Portland visitors, staying at the Lenox Hotel. , Mr and Mrs. A. L. Richardson, of Forest Grove, are registered at the Hotel Lenox. F. B. Connolly, a wholeaa'a grocer of San Francisco, regiscerel at the Cornel ius yesterday. He is returning from the grocerymen's convention at Springfield, 111. - R. G. Starr, a rancher of Yamhill Coun ty, is visiting Portland and has quarters at the Hotel Oregon. Alex NcNair, a prominent timberman of Tillamook, and his wife are staying at the Perkins Hotel. Mm. F. Lewis Clirke- and Mrs. George Nettleton, both prominent socially in Spokane, are at the Portland Hotel. " B. F. O'Neil, of Wallace, candidate for Governor of Idaho on the Republican ticket, is registered at the Portland Hotel. Mrs. J. W. Bailey and daughter. Miss Eva Bailey, of Hillsboro, are visiting Portland and have taken rooms at the Cornelius Hotel. S. Blum and. family, of Cordova, Alaska, are staying at the Imperial Hotel during a visit to Portland. Mr. Blum is a capitalist and merchant of the Alaska town. SAN FRANCISCO. June 16. (Spe cial.) Portland arrivals at the Palace Hotel today are Joseph A. Boyce and wife, R. B. Jones, M. H. Black. From Medford, E. B. Picket and wife, Mrs. W. I. Vawter and son. Rev. E. Nelson Allen, of the Hawthorne Presbyterian Church, returned Wednes day night from Marshall, Mo., where he went the early part of the month to de-1 liver the commencement address and re ceive the degree of doctor of divinity from his alma mater. He afterwards went South and held a reunion with sev eral of his brothers. NEW YORK. June 16. (Special.) The following persons from the Pacific North west registered at New York hotels today: From Portland At the Park Avenue, J. McCord. From Seattle At the Murray Hill. W. W. Phillips; at the Webster, W. A. Peters, Jr.; at the Hoffman, H. - H. Eaton; at the Grand Union, L. F. McDonald. From Spokane At the King Edward, P. E. Klems; at the Wellington. S. Brady and wife; at the Grand Union, A. L. Baily. Fly's Undoing Is Plotted by Philanthropist Gifts of Unique Traps to Be , Made to Charitable Instltu- tiona. As a really original philanthropist, R. H. Thompson, of Portland, seems eligible for the Abou Ben Adhem wreath. Mr. Thompson believes that the ex termination of the housefly will be of greatest benefit to mankind. He is of the opinion that the fly, h's parents and other relatives may e induced to walk Into a nicely arranged parlor of wire. This little parlor is hung up in the window. Mr. and Mrs. Fly are at tracted by an odor of sweetness. They walk up an Inclined and twisting stair case, that twists so much that once the fly walks up he loses his sense of loca tion, and there not being any fly po licemen to.-direct him home again, he stays immured in the little parlor. Inci dentally he leaves the parlor only to die. Mr. Thompson believes the fly is the cause of all kinds of disease. He baa bought six gross of a unique fly-catcher and intends to present them to ail the charitable Institutions in town, until the supply gives out. When that happens he will renew the supply. If by these means the fly evil can be checked, Mr. Thompson believes, ex pense is no object. He Is a member of the American Civic Association, which has sworn the de struction of the fly. He contends that were the Federal Government to appro priate the money expended in Inoculating soldiers with typhoid scrum, taking Into account the expense of having each man' lay off a month, to the cause of fly de struction It would be a simple matter to rid the world of flies. "Then we would have no more pneu monia or typhoid," said Mr. Thompson. Mr. Thompson lives at the Eaton and has his office with his son, an automobile dealer, 533 Alder street. There he should be addressed by the institutions who de sire to help him see his aim achieved the total destruction of Mr. and Mrs. Fly and family. CANADIANR0CKIES. No trip, in all the world so enjoyable as one through the Canadian Rockies iry ine vjiiiiuimii faciuc rouie, up-TO-date equipment, excellent service. Effect of Xet Fishing Feared. SALEM. Or., June 16. An initiative petition is being circulated in this state by residents along the Rogue River, for an act making it unlawful to fish with other than a line and hook in that portion of the river con trolled by the Hume Canning Company. The canning firm has control of 100 miles up and down the stream and it is feared net fishing will greatly reduce the supply of fish. A Few of .Today's Specials as Advertised in Yesterday's Papers $7.5Q Handbags $5-69 $3.3Q Corsets for Qoc 65cFancyNecKwear39c Ladies" $1,25 Belts at4-8c 33c MesK Veilings at 9c 2Qc Taffeta Ribbon 15c $1.25 BlacK Taffeta 79c CKild's 25c Underw'r 15 c Demonstration New Polar Star Ice Cream Freezer On Third Floor A perfectly sanitary, very handy Ice Cream Freezer. A child can operate it. It saves the ice, and the cost is onlv 75S $1, 91.50, $2 32.50 Sxiits $11.95 Special Purchase 1QOO Just Recei v' d A lucky Friday for thrifty women. Don't miss it. The greatest sale of the season. Our Miss Bernard, now en route to Europe, sends us from New York l600 Suits which she pur chased at less than half the regular maker's price. The neatest, best made lot we have yet offered. Serges, sackcloths, diagonals, wide - wales, worsteds, mixtures, etc. Jackets come in the 2, 3,. or 4-button styles, semi or tight-fitting, medium length. Plain or fancy tailored collars. Every wanted shade in the lot. Real sensi ble suits, well made, good materials; sure to fit; styled in the latest vogue. Val u e s to $32.50. To- day special S1L95 at- I I KV 1 1 III II 1 i piece. Cuttings from our best-selling goods, which have accumu lated daring the last few weeks. A tremendous clean-up of all short lengths. Every department will be active today. There's a short piece here for almost any kind of a garment that can be made from a. few yards. On sale ONE-HALF PRICE Cleanup of All Octets a.OLgi Ends On the second floor Broken lot of Corsets, odd lines of Under muslins, Children's Dresses, Boys' Wash Suits, etc. On the third floor Odd line of Chinaware, Olassware, Cooking Utensils, etc. On the fourth floor Odd pairs of Curtains, sample line of Cur tains, Draperies, etc. On the first floor A general clean-up of odd lines of Gloves, Hosiery, Underwear, Shoes, Neckwear for men or women. Towels, Napkins, etc., in short linest are greatly reduced to effect a speedy clean-up. Take advantage of this sale. 5QO Women's Silk Dresses- $35 Values $13.95 A sale of unusual importance, featuring some of our most distinctive styles in Silk Dresses. All new, - o QC every wanted color in foulards, corded silks, taffetas, messalines, shantungs, etc. Values to $35. Sp'l ylOtJO $3.QO SKirt-wraists 98c $8.5Q SilK Petticoats $3.35 3.50 Turban Hats $1.98 $1Q Willow Phimes $5-95 Ladies' $2..50 Gowns 98c $2.5Q Drawers at $1.Q9 $250 Corset Cover 98c 6Qc Knit Underwear 39c Remnants V2 "Price Thousands of yards of Dress Goods, Silks, Wash Goods, Embroid eries, Laces, etc., in short lengths of 1 yard to 4 or 5 yards in a VIOLIN MAKES DISCORD REPLEVIN SUIT IMPAIRS EVI DENCE AGAIXST THIEF. Detectives Assert They Asked That Pawnbroker Be Held Blameless in Lieu of Reward. Feeling between the city detective bu reau and Deputy District Attorney Page developed yesterday over the replevlnlng by Page of a stolen violin from the pos session of a pawnbroker, entailing, it is asserted by the detectives, a eerioua im pairment of the value of the evidence against the man accused of the theft. The violin, which is valued by the owner at $150, . was- stolen several days ago from Et Hadley. and Detectives Day and Hyde were assigned to the case. They assert that Hadley made promises of a reward if the instrument were re covered and they say that after they had found it they told him that all the reward they wished him to pay waa that he v should hold harmless the pawn broker who had lent J18 on the instru ment. In any case, they gave directions that the violin should be left In the pawnshop pending the prosecution of the alleged thief, as its removal would neces sitate more complicated proof of its hav ing been stolen. . Page, acting as private attorney for Hadley, replevined the Instrument, assert ing that his client should not be required to pay the pawnbroker's charges. . Charles Marcoff, living at 541 Delay street, was arrested yesterday and charged with the theft. It is alleged that a large amount of stolen goods were found- In- his room which connects him not only with the theft from Hadley. but ot Oru Out Of Woman Hundred will ever change back to ordi nary vanilla, when (he has once used BURNETT'S 1 YANILLA There's at much difference sga ia the strength and flavor of p3 Burnett's Vanilla and the jche! common kinds, as there f t! ' is between pure, rich ice cream Hg and the thin, weak cornstarch kind. Fj ' Altvays insist on getting , m Burnett's . Vanilla fffi ' Yoa 'will hafoe better jfgj desserts if yoa do. g 1 uiiiiii.iiiidaiaiiuuaiiiiiumm.iui-.niiTLi also one committed in the rooms of Peter Salle. Day, Hyde, Tichenor and Howell worked up the case against Marcoff. Bill Ervin, a three-year prisoner from the Oregon Penitentiary, was . arrested yesterday by Detectives Coleman and Snow and charged with stealing a watch from- J. O. Linn. He had the watch wljen arrested. Abraham L. Smith, was taken into cus tody by Hellyer and Moloney, charged with passing a bad check upon Mont Shephardson. The Recused man is a farmer who has been having a "good time" in the city. It was believed that he drew the checks in good faith, but upon the wrong bank. Upon satisfying the victim he was released. TO BBl VIA 2 Hours Fastest 45 Miles Shortest Only Day Trains on Any Line Night Train 'The Inland Empire Express" Leave Portland... 9 :00 A. M. Arrive Spokane.. . 9 :30 P. M. Columbia River Scenery The Oregonian" Leave PortIand..ll:00 A. M. Arrive Spokane . 10 :25 P. M. 'The North Bank Limited" Leave Portland... 7:00 P. M. Arrive Spokane . ..6 :55 A. M. Fast Business Train Observation Cars, Library Parlor Cars, Com partment Standard and Tourist Sleepers, First Class Coaches. Comfort insured fcy perfect track and equip ment. Evening train ready and dinner served at 6:30. Passenger Station, 11th and Hoyt Streets CITY TICKET OFFICES: Third and Morrison Sts. 122 Third St. 100 Third St.