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18 THE MORXIXQ' OREGOXIAy. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1910. , t PROPERTY-OWNERS PREPARE TO SUE Proebstel Addition Title Held to Be Good by Purchasers. EFFORT TO TAX PROTESTED Alfegrd Heir Says ffo I Ready to Trove Statement and Will Sue llimclf If Demand Is Not Promptly raid. Probatel Addition property owners are fjrparinj to fight th attempt to tax their property to clear tho title as fcrearbed at a meeting oo Wednesday eUtiU O. J. Laird, who was present at the me tine and wbo is a property owner ra tho addition, aaid yesterday: -Owners of property In th Proebstel AddiUon In Upper Albloa win never pay J. C. Proebatel or any of the alleged heirs ho says ha haa found on hia two trips to Ireland a cent and will fight him to the end. Wa consider our title good and propose to resist any and aU at tempts to tax tho owners for any al leged deeds from proebstel or the alleaed heirs. I hara talked with others In thla territory and this Is their onlted senti ment after hearing Proebstela proposition-- It was also announced yesterday that Veazle Veazlo would brine suit tn be bah of ths property owners today gainst J. C Proebstei. J. r. Proebstel. who has made an Investigation and who aaya ha has discovered that tha property was fraudulently purchased from persons In Ireland who never held title, re affirmed his claim to tha only title to the property la an Interview last night. When he waa Informed tnat ue property-owners would brine suit to cora po" aim to clear tha title he deolared thu nothlnr would Dlease him belter as then the real facts would be brought! out and hla rights established. I went before the people In the ad dition Wednesday slant and gave them the Information I had fathered In my two tripe to Ireland." aaid Mr. Proeb atel. "I wanted them te have all the funs so they could act Intelligently and for their own Interests. The offer I made to clve lotownera a clear title to their homes so they could rest easily Is a fair and reasonable offer and much leas than It would cost to have a suit 'la the court. Had I been grasping and entertained a dealre to press these peo ple? who have purchased property In this tract, thinking they were getting a good and sufficient title, I submit that no such modest offer would have been made. "If you draw a mark over this entire tract the north half of the Proebstel donation land claim yon cover a dis trict in which no title has ever been vonveyed since the death of Jane Proebstel to any one. and the alleged aale of the property alleged to have been made by Benton Killin and others waa fraudulent and without a scintilla of legal around, as I am prepared to enow in court or anywhere else. "I am prepared to show that Thomas Chapman, who waa the principal al leged heir Killin said he had found. was not a brother of Jane proebstel. but only a cousin, and hence could not have been an heir. Archibald Woods, Margaret GrlRln. Christiana Woods. John Broomfleld and Jeremiah Broom- Held, alleired nieces and nephews of Thomas Chapman, were not heirs. "While In Ireland I obtained the correspondence which passed between Benton Killin and Chapman, and am prepared to show that Killin never had a power of attorney to settle the es tate tn their behalf, and the court rec ords will show this fact. J have traced thla matter to the end. There Is not a missing link la the proof to show that Thomas Chapman waa not the brother of Jane Chapman Proebstel. and also can show that Chapman knew this to be the fact at the time. There Is no mlslnr link tn the proof to show that I have discovered the reel heirs to the property and that I have deeds from them. "As to the statement that the stst- ote of limitations would establish the present occupants title. I will aay that the statute of limitation la never good In case of fraud. If the occupants of the property were squatters, then they might hold; but not where they hold Mile through fraudulent transactions. I am prepared to show that ail the transactions connected with the north half of the donation land claim, both here and In Ireland, were fraudulent and were undertaken to get possession of a valuable piece of land. ROAD NEARSJUTTE FALLS Pacific as Eastern Line Rapidly Ap proaching Completion. MEDFORD, Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) Chief Engineer Gerlg. of the Pacific at Eastern railroad, reports that rails have been laid to a point within four miles of Butte Falls, the northern terminus of the road. Two more bridges are to be completed before the teel can be laid Into the town. Mr. Uertg says that the road will be corn Dieted by November is. In ample time tor the "Jim Hill" day celebration. Work Is being rushed on the depots .at Eagle Point and Butte Falls, and also at the Med ford terminus of the line. A temporary structure Is being fitted up at this end until next year. when the line over the Cascades win be completed. FAITHFUL SERVANT BEATEN Oirl, Defending Employers Prop erty, Felled by Robber. GRAND JI XCTION. Coio.. Oct. T.. In an effort to defend her employer's prop erty. Ro!aeUghton. a 15-year-old servant Ctrl In the household of Robert Adams; e.t Fruits, Li miles west of here, was -twice beaten Into unconsciousness late today by two masked men wbo entered tee house Intent on robbery. he was first truck on the bead with .a revolver and when she recovered con svlousness waa bound and gagged and sella beaten Into Insensibility. The rob bers secured no valuable. LONDON PLAYS FAILURES Vet End Managers Encounter I-ong Kerlew of Rervere. IjOXDON. Oct. J7- Fpe'-Ul. A writer In one of the London morning papers, couimcuiiug bb hj wuuww. n- marks that "the Fall theatrical leaves are falling." by which he means euphemistically to convey that man agers all over the West End are "get ting It badly la the neck." In plainer phrase new productions are "falling down" almost every night In the week. Hall Calne's two plays at the Oar rlck. "The Eternal Question" and 'The Bishop's Son." failed in rapid succession and - richly-deserved disaster never overtook any brace of plays more awful than .these. Evelyn Millard started at the New Theater only two months ago and already she has twice put up the shutters. "The Man From the Pes," W. J. Locke's play at the Queen s, has Its death warrant. "The Grotesques." a feeble show of the Weber Fields order. Is doomed at the Savor end so tha tale of loss and disappointment goes on. With the exception of the great musical comedy winners, few solid suc cesses have to be recorded. Of these the chief Is "Inconstant George." Charles Hawtreya big hit at the prince of Wales. Hawtrey In pajamas for a whole act Is drawing the town more successfully than would our most beau tiful soubrette In her bath. The women Just idollie Hawtrey. anyway, but in pajamas well, there yon have the chief appeal of an exceedingly witty adapta tion from the French; the work, by the way. of that, brilliant American woman. Gladys Unger. ' "The Bhop-Solled Girl" Is the allur ing tlrte ot a newly-launrhed melo- PRESS IS COMPARED Australian Journalist Con trasts Different Methods. OREGON APPLES PLEASE Lieutenant-Colonel Reay, Managing Editor of Melbourne) Herald, Hugh McKenil and Dr. El wood Sad Vlt.lt. There Is a wide difference between Journalism in Australia and In the United States, according to Lieutenant Colonel Reay, managing editor of the Melbourne Evening Herald, who. with Hugh Mackensle. Minister of. Lands of DISTINGUISHED AUSTRALIANS ON TRIP OF INVESTIGATION THROUGH" AMEBIC A PAY VISIT TO PORTLAND. lr-i: .. ' : . r -.. . . . - vr;: r.-.f-; , . . v v . v ; : . .. ay-.;.-.!.....! :( 4 .... .efV. . . v a - v.: iJ 1 iassisia 111 la iissl ssWslsaa 1st iiiml Hash Maekeasie. W. T. Beay. drama written by Walter Melville, the asture and wealthy purveyor of theat rical trip for the tripe-loving multi tude, it 1" sweet thing In drama, and being a skillful mixture of crude naughtiness, bilious sentiment and flatulent heroics is coining money. It Isn't high art. by a whole Jugful, but It Is much more useful at the pay box. brakesIdWwork TrALATIX WRECK DUE TO DE FECT IX APPLIAXCES. Foreman Parson Says He Tried to Apply Brake, but Failed and Speed Readied "0 Mile. The airbrakes failed to work when the flatcar which dealt death to five Greek laborers and Injuries to 15 others started down the west slope of Tualatin hilt on the I nlteo juiiwy wuiii Wednesday night, according to the itatements of Koy Parsons. assim . . f th. ianr who ar- rived in town last night to have his srm. which waa broken in the accident, placed In lints. Parsons waa accompanied oy nis nue Orn llllla WV. all Of WllOIIl YO6 OO t Ill-fated car. He and Mm Parsons are at Good Samaritan Hospital. Ttie boy a are in charge of their grandfather. Charles Goseert. the foreman, who was rldiiir In the engine when the car started down the bill. Neither of the boys la badly hurt. Mrs. Parsons' injuries are not serious). She lived at the camp, being i.. i ima,lian wnrrLan there. She did not cook for the Greeks, however. Parsons states that tt air oraKes were pplled to the car on top of the bill as soon as tt was dlsconnectea irom me engine. When he saw that tne car was gaining speed he attempted to apply the brakes with no result. "I knew then that we were gone, saia Parsons. "I tried the best I could to m wtf. Mit hllHran and had dif ficulty In holding them on the car. I thought we woulu oe aawiea " .... t .tuin't know what han- pened after the crash came until I was picked up nearly 3D feet oeyona me puiuw of coltlson." Parsons estimates the speed of the car the lime ot tne impact si iv mire- hour. The track, where the car started. la built on a grade of from 1 to per cent. At some places it Is more tnan per cent. Trainmen say that a car, al tnough standing still, would start away on a Ti per cent graae ir were released. An application of air should be sufficient to stop It. Conductor Ryan used the nsna Draae. be says, but with the leverage of an Iron bolt waa unable to accomplish anything. Brakemao Prulit dropped from tho rear of the car soon after It exartod and ran .. .. l. . n .niif. tv engineer and Goesert. ITultt is at the hoepltal with serious In juries. Tr r,t tha men at Good Samaritan Hospital . may die. Gust Sanos has a fractured rih. whicn pierceo nis iuna. .t t i...lu. i. In - like condition. JllH HU!RI.IW - Steve Krasa has a fractured clavicle and a fractured skull. Some of the dead men have wives and famtltea in Greece. RAILROAD BOARD POWEKUS Accident on VncorupIeteU Lino Not Within Jurisdiction. SALQI. Or.. Oct. r7. (Special.! Kol loalng the advice of Attorney-General Crawford, the State- RallroaS Commis sion will make no investlgstion into the accident on the extension of the L'nlted Hallways from Burlington. Inasmuch as this extension ls still In the hands of the contractors, the Attorney-General ad vised the CommJsaion that such an In vestigation would nut be under Its Juris diction. The law under which the Railroad Commission operates provides that It shall have Jurisdiction over common car rtera and the Attomey-Goneral is of the opinion that the United Railways' exten sion is In no aay a common carrier up to the present stags of construction. Realty Men Meet Tonight. Members of tlie Portland Realty Board will meet tonight In the office of the see-, retary. James O. Rountree, In the Rail way Exchange building, tor the purpose of dii-up!ng plans of a campaign for re pealing the law regulating the collection vf commissions. Victoria." and Dr. Elwood Mead, chair mu of the State Rivers Commission of Victoria. Is visiting Portland on their American tour. In a talk about the Australian press yesterday as compared to the Ameri can press. Colonel Reay aaid: "The most marked variance probably arises from a difference in the political at mosphere. We are wholly unaccus tomed to hear public men charged with corrupt practices, and therefore a great deal of what some of your politicians say about each other, and the press says about them. Is frankly surprising. In Australia It Is Different. "One finds It difficult to believe that there is Just cause for so much viru lence of speech, but' of that an out sider can hardly be presumed to Judge. All I can say Is that as we have no such conditions to deal with In Aus tralia, the tone of our press comment Is very much tamer than yours. "Do not think, however, that the make-up of an Australian paper is dull. We use some black headings some times when the occasion seems to re quire it. and put them Into double or even treble columns. We are probably a little slower to change In Australia than perhaps we ought to be, and I am studying with a great deal of In terest some ot the American methods. Some of these methods may yet come Into use among a people who do not differ greatly from your own. I have had the honor to meet many brilliant and effective Journalists during my American tour." Hood River Apples Praised. Colonel Reay was presented with a box of Hood River apples, which he pronounced to be the most marvelous he had ever seen. "Victoria and Tas mania," he said, "have put Into the Covent Garden Market of London some of -the finest apples ever produced, and I have seen them sold there at top prices, but never have I seen there or anywhere else such marvelous apples as those produced tn Hood River Val ley." Dr. Elwood Mead arrived from San Francisco last night and Joined Mr. Mackensle and Colonel Reay at the Portland Hotel. The three will leave this morning for Vancouver, B. C, where Mr. Mackenzie and Dr. Mead will sail for Melbourne on the steamer Makura, November 4. Colonel Reay will go from Vancouver to New York, and after spending a few weeks In the American metropolis, will sail for England, and thence by way of the Sues Canal for Australia. CLASSED,THE BEST. The famous Hop Gold Bottled Beer, manufactured from the purest and best Ingredients to be obtained, makea a fitting beverage for any occasion, be It the Impromptu lunch or for a dinner. Always convenient to have on band to regale the unexpected guest. Order by phone. East 46. r. 114. I Man Mangled Stealing Ride. The mangled body of an unidentified man. apparently 40 years old, waa found on the North Bank Railroad tracks be low Penuoyer'a sawmill yesterday. Evi dently he had been killed when stealing a ride on an outgoing passenger train. Although the body was dressed In three suits of clothes, not a mark of Identifi cation was found. DAILY METEOBOMKUCAL REPORT. PORTLAND. Oct. 17. Maximum temper ature, to dear; minimum. 4s degrees. River readlDg, I A.- M.. l.s fea'; change In la it 24 hours. O.S foot fall. Total rainfall. t P. It. to P. !.. none; total rainfall alnra September 1. 110. I ll Inch; normal. I II Inehea: deficiency, S.34 Inch. Total sun shine. October J4. t hours 40 minutes; pos sible, le hours II minutes. Barometer 4 re duced to sea levsl) at i P. M.. IH.IO Inches. WEATHER CONDITIONS. A, I arcs h Is h-pressure araa overlies the eastern elope of tb Rocky Mountains and a storm of marked severity is passing- down tha 8t. Lawrence Valley. Tha hlsrh-Dreaaura area la attended by unusually cool weather. which now prevails generally over tba west ern half of tha l'nlted States, except In California and near the coast In Oregon and WuhlDiton. The eastarn Storm haa caused dangerously high winds In tba Lxiwsr Lake Region ana at uunaio a maximum ve locity of IS mllea occurred during tba day. No rain of consequence haa fallen west of the Mississippi Kiver and tha fall attend ing tha Eastern storm haa been lleht run. sluerlng lbs Intensity of the disturbance. The conditions are ravoraoie ror fair weather In this district Friday with easterly winds probably veering to southerly. FORECASTS. Portland and wlnita. Oregon Fwir; eaateriy winds, becoming southerly. Wasulugton rair, exc-epi povwimy ram rtrenls northwest portion; aouthsastarly winds. Malm Fair. KDWAKD A. BEAL8. Uistrlat JTonaasstaa vicinity Pair; eaateriy itfine It W rto Money ? Fruit Land at $10 to $80 per acre. The terms are $10 cash and $10 monthly without inter est on a large proportion of these fruit farms. Are they worth the money ? Write and see. "Jas. Johnsfone takes $500 rnn i. per acre net from a 7-year-old apple orchard $1050 per acre $J from cherries, "annually.". "F. G. Fauquier takes 5 boxes v of perfect apples from a 5-year- JgQQ naj old Spy tree he takes $600 per acre from strawberries and 8CT6 raspberries." "John Hyslop, an old Ontario fruit grower who has moved to the Kootenay because he gets so much better crops, takes $900 $900 pft" per acre from raspberries and $900 per acre from a 12-year-old apple orchard." Excerpts from "Fruit Ranching in British Co lumbia" by J. T. Bealby, M.A. , Edgewood Orchards Mild Climate, Desirable Rainfall and Crop Every Year Irrigation There is an average annual rain-fall of 28 inches in the v"""mmrrWtst Kootenay District. British Columbia. Irrigation is therefore unnecessary. Souerlo Frsll Laad Priees The fruit is of superb color, flavor and keeping quality. A large propprtion of the prizes at the National Apple Show at Spokane and at British' Horticultural shows, have been awarded to Kootenay fruit. The fruit growing possibilities of the West Kootenay have only just been realized. But already slightly improved lands have been sold for $500 and even as high .as $1000 per acre. The soil, the transportation and the social ad vantages at Edgewood tract are as good as where these high prices have been realized . AH? Edgewood Orchards Mild Climate, Desirable Rainfall and Crop Every Year The Edgewood Orchard tract is a choice portion of Fire Vallev along the Lower Arrow Lake. Farmers have been Provaa operating alongside this tract for from 1 0 to 18 years. They are now beginning to grow fruit and have thrifty young orchards.' Frnl The lands adjoining the Edgewood tract are held at up ward of $100 per acre in large areas of several hundred acres. They are good value at this price. Similar land in Oregon or Washington would cost $300 to $500 per acre. Edgewood Orchard land at $10 to $80 per acre in small farms, is just where values ranged for choice Oregon and Washington fruit lands 1 0 to 15 years ago. atjwtmlm-Talaea Values Com pared Read About B.C. 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After checking; carefully 77 of the 1SS enumeration preclrrets of Portland wherein errors and padding; had been discovered. Urban Hester, special agent of the Census Bureau, closed his offices here last night. Mr. Hester said that such padding: as he found appeared to be only in a few precincts. He declined to give any fig ures for publication, but announced positively that there was not the slight est suspicion that Supervisor Beach or hia chief aide knew of the errors In tha count. "I will say that in the last days of the census enumeration period some of the enumerators weakened," said Mr. Hester. "From some place pressure was brought to bear, and It proved sufficiently strong to cause the men to add spurious names to their rolls. 1 am certain that we have elimin ated all those and there will be no oc casion for a recount of the city." Mr. Hester would not give an opinion as to whether the people of Portland would be satisfied with the result of his striking names off the books. The special agents admitted that he had telegraphed a synopsis of his findings to Washington, and believed that an nouncement of the totals might be mads by Director Durand at any time. It Is believed that the reductions made by Mr. Hester will total between B000 and 7000 names. If the greater number is correct the population of the city will be estimated at about 216,000. When Mr". Hester had devoted two weeks on the work in this city, he said he did not believe a reduction of five per cent would be made on account of errors and padding. That figure would have meant a reduction of Jl.OOO as the result of the yellow label cam paign. Supervisor Beach declared that no such reduction could be warranted In any circumstances. Special Agent Hester has been or dered to Centralia, Wash., where he will recheck the returns of that city, and where he will be located con veniently to take charge of the recount of Tacoma, should one be ordered. FRAITD CHARGE STITjIj STAXDS Durand Grants Tacoma Recount, but Allows Xo Interference. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. Reiterating and emphasizing his previous allega tions of fraud in connection with the census of Tacoma. Wash., Director Du rand. of the Census Bureau, today forwarded to the Tacoma committee a letter conceding the request for a re enumeration of the population of that city. The director makes the condition that no private Individual or private organization shall In any way under take to interfere with or assist In the work of renumeration, except In such manner as may be approved by him self. He closes this warning with the dec laration that if any such interference should be attempted enumeration would cease at once. In the bo'dy of his let ter Mr. Durand says: "The recount Is not conceded because of any doubt whatsoever as to the ex istence and great extent of the frauds in the original enumeration. The evi dence of such frauds Is overwhelming. 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