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THE MORMXG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1911. GHARGES HEARSAY MAKER CONFESSES Accuser of Stephenson Says He Relied on Unofficial Stories of Bribery. NO FACTS ARE PRESENTED Senatorial Investigators Pot Issae Sqnareiy fp to Blaine, Wbo Prwe-d Case Orla-inallv Before Legislature. MILWAUKEE. Oct. 19. Chnr that I'nlted State Senator Btephenaon of Wisconsin procured his election thronch bribery were today put by the Vnlted State Senate Investigating commlttee up to John J. Blaine, tho State Senator who brought the charg-ea, Aa a result. Btalna admitted that he had no Information personally known by hlai to be true upon which to sub stantial hi charge. H admitted that the ehsrres wer based largely on newspaper edltorllal. political speeches and hearsay. "And upon uch Information you wer wllllns; to make allegations which mlitht Jeopardise a United States Sen ator, and which. If proved true. mlht send him to th penitentiary la that truer" asked Senator Heyburn. the chairman. Wain made no answer other than that he thoua-ht he wa performing a public duty by having- an Investls-atlon of what h said wa current report. Pnklle Daty iawrtei. "To you think that a public duty to briny charge against a United State Senator without fact to substantiate themr" asked Chairman Heyburn. I thought so." replied the witness. Blalno was on the witness stand vir tually all day. It wa he ho ortclnal lr brouf-ht the charge In the Wiscon sin Feglrlature. where twe Investiga tions wer held, one resulting favor ably to the Senator and on adversely. Blaine charges, purporting to give If specific Instance wherein the law had been violated, were that prior to hi nomination at th primaries In 10I. Senato.- Stephenson corruptly spent 10;,731 to etcompasa hi election. The first three of the charge pertained to th riving 19 . A. Edmonds, a cam paign manager, "a um In exreaa of flOJ.000 and approximating I2SO.O0O." It was developed that I107.7M was th correct amount. Cmrrupt Pwi pees Aeeejaeed- "How do you know this money wa glvea to Edmonds to corrmlt bribery nd to accomplish other corrupt end? Blaine was asked. I had Edmonds word that he re ceived certain sums for campaign pur pose. The words corrupting- and brib ing elector' were put In to meet th requirements of th law In making peclflc charges in such Instances. Th charge that money waa distrib uted unlawfully first to voters of Grant County and to voters In the entire state. Blaine said, were mad upon Informa tion gtvan him by L. H. Stevens and O. A. Eastman, hut no facta a to th amount of money wer obtained. Th witness said he did not know of any Iemocrata to whom Stephenson m"f ey was paid. II did not know that the charge was true. Hi chare that Stephenson money waa spent to buy the editorial support of newspapers, Blaine said, waa oasd on Information given him by an editor at Lancaster. Wla but th witness had no facta that anv money wa pxirt for such purposes. Blaine s charge thnt Stephenson of fered Lester Til ton. of NeillsvlUe, Wis.. IJO to run for the Assembly and If elected to vote for Stephenson for Sen ator, was then read. Blaine said this charge wa based upon m hat he had read of political speeches by Democrat ic candidates. PRESBYTERY IS CLOSED Portland Conference Will Recon vene? at Mount Tabor Church. ASTORIA. Or. Oct. 10. (PpeclaL) The Portland ITeebytery closed Its session her today and will re-convene at the Mount Tabor Church In Port land for a short meeting on Thursday morning. One of th feature of th afternoon session was th resignation of R-v. Robert J. IHven. aa (Sunday School missionary, he, having been called as pastor of th Spokane An nw Church In Portland. Th standing committees appointed to serve until the next annual meet ing of the presbytery are as follows: Bills and overtures, r.ev. T. Holme Walker. Rev. J. K. Snydor and Elder J M. Holt; judicial cases. Kev. D. A. MrKenile Rev. O. R. Croraley and Elder VT. Benefleld; finance. Elder Mason. Frost and Holt; resolutions. Rev. JL L. Navex D. D. Rev. L. Myron Pooler snd Elder A. M. Shlbley; Min- ' utes of General Assembly, Rev. J. R. Iandshorough. Rev. K. N. McLean and Elder Benetteld: minute of aynod tto report tn Iecmber. Rev. J. R. Welch, 1 Ttev. R. J. Dlven and Elder Frost. - HARNEY FARMERS ORGANIZE Director of Experiment Station Ask ' for Pa la on Soil. BURNS. Or Oct. 10. (Special.) At th request of Director Breithaupt. of th Harney County Experiment Sta tion, a large crowd of Harney County farmer met at Lecher's Hall for th purpose of organising a Farmers' Co operative League, the object of which, according to Mr. Breithaupt' state ment t to keep the farmer and th experimental station constantly In touch with on another, so they may work for mutual help and benefit. Mr. Breithaupt wishes th farmer all ever the county to report to him what they are accomplishing, th method pursued, their success or failure, the character of the soil op erated on ' and the varieties of pro duce cultivated. In order that h may know and demonstrate. Pr. L. E. Hibbard was elected presi dent and Professor R- II. Harris sec retary of the league snd th roll was opened at once, being signed by prac tically all who were present, men and women. urday of grand larceny, having broken Into and stolen about ISM worth of merchandise from a boxcar her two week ago. to from two to fir years In th Penitentiary. Th prisoner wer conducted to Salem tola morning by Marshal Robert T. Lewis and Deputy Sheriff E. Oilnger. This session of th Circuit Court baa been the longest of th year. N ulnar ous witnesses tn civil Issues have made th sessions unusually tedious. Dav Peck and Mat Dou-laa sued th county for I:uv4 damages for personal In juries received last March, when they were struck by a tree blown down In a wind storm on th Belmont road. Evi dene wa introduced showing that th county officials had been negligent In allowing the tre to stand, and th former plaintiff wa granted " damages, while Douglas received xituv, The court will probaby close tomor row. The ens receiving attention to day I that of J. F. Gardner against J. R. Johnson. Th plaintiff declar that he and Mr. Joanson agreed to tart a bank In a Western city. Gardner waa t MARVLAXD EDUCATOR WILL I TEACH BOTA W AT COR . VALLI9. r;- - 7,-.; H s- ' . v 7 ; t t K. P. Walla, Jlew Ist reefer Oregea Agrlevlraral College. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallls. tr.. Oct. 10. (Special.) Appointment of E. P. Wall, graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College, aa Instruc tor In botany has been announced at th Oregon Agricultural Col lege. Mr. Wall received hi B. S. decree, from the Maryland Agricultural College In 1801 and hla master1 degree In 105. Ho later did two year of post-grad-nate work at Johns Hopkins. For the last four years Mr. Walls has been Instructor In agronomy and botany at th Maryland Agricul tural College. Ho baa already as sumed ehaxg of his work at Corvallls. to manage the Institution, while th de fendant waa to furnish the greater part celved a telegram from the defendant that Hood River offered an excellent location for another bank, and aaya he disposed of his Interest In Dickinson, n w w m i.rani.11 for a Minneapolis banking house, and cam West for the purpose of entering niS View position, wnvn k I i 0 "riruu . broks the contract and refused to lend assistance In th establishing of t!te Institution, which wa to be known a the Apple-growra nana ot uooa rover. Mr. Gardner asas sauvu carnages. M I - - I 1 .A..n,A .Ulm fA, damages, due. he allege, to fraudulent representation on in pan i mi plaintiff. H says that thes misrepre sentations have damaged him to th ex tent of more than f(000. EUGENE EYES NEW FORM COMMISSION GOVERNMENT TO BE VOTED ON IN NOVEMBER. TREE FALL NETS $2600 Hood River Jury Give Two Verdict Against Coanty Court. HOOP RrvrR. Or. Oct. It. (pe clX Judge BraJshaw sentenced John Stevenson. Robert Brooks and John Coadoa. th three men found guilty Sat- Two Charter Have Been Presented to Citlien Elected Body and Independents Are Rival. EUGENE. Or.. Oct. 10. (SpoclaL) Eugen will vote on th adoption of commission form of government No vember IS. the. City Council having et that date lat night for th necessary special election. The voters will b asked also to decide between two charters which will be presented to them. On of th charter waa pre pared by a regularly elected commis sion, and the other by independent workers. Both have been submittea to the Council, which passed them on to a vot of th peopl. - Different commissions have been at work for over a year drafting charter. Th agitation cam to a head In Feb ruary, when a charter which had been prepared by a committee of represen tative cttlsens and had been approved by two successive masi meetings, was prevented to th City Council for rati nes t ton. The membership of the Council at that that time was opposed to the sub mission of commission form to the people, and delayed action on the char ter which had peen suomiiiea unui u wa too late to submit It at the reg-u-lar election In April. The Council, however, named a commission of nln members, whose duty It would b to prepare a new charter to be submit ted Bret to th Council and than to th peopl. ,t After veral month ot work, tn commission finished Its charter and presented it to th council for ratlfl catlon. A fw day Uter a second charter wa submitted by an independ ent commission, and th Council an nounced that both would be auomiitea to a vote. Chargee hsv been mad freely that submission of two charters I an at tempt to defeat the commission plan by confusing th voters. Friend of commission form are lining up for th support of th charter prepared by th regular commission. GREENPOINT WOMAN DIES Son of Mr. Catherine Gibbons Not Reached by Message. OREGON C1TT. Or.. Oct- 10 (Sp claLJ Mr. Catherine Gibbons, tt year old. died today at her home in Green point, where she had lived alone for several years, and so far all efforts to communicate with her son, James HolUngshead. a wealthy rancher, of Barry. Wash., have been unavailing, jjra. Gibbons' granddaughter. Mrs. J. W. Strauser. of Portland, arrived here this afternoon and arranged to have the body held at an undertaking es tsbllshment until Mr. HoUingahead could b notified of hi mothers desth. Mrs. Gibbons bad been 111 several weeks and was cared for by neigh bor. I Do you and the wife and the kiddies enjoy all the lux you wish to? Aren't there many things you want and not have simply because of The Higlb Cost of Livlo We Have Solved this problem for hundreds in the last 10 days. There is no reason why your living expenses should eat up your entire income, month after month. There is no reason why you cannot ant your living ex penses square in two. "TTipr i no TpAson whv vou cannot have some- thins: left at the end of the month to spend for fg? some 01 me Deuer uxuigs oj. inc. ,?v' HERE'S THE SOLUTION: Just beyond Rose City Park 10 . minutes by streetcar lies a beautiful, sloping,, productive piece of land known as uries can- PARKROSE You can buy a half acre in Parkrose for $600 or $700 or a full acre for $1100 or $1200, on easy terms, like paying rent. Do this. Take the family out there. The air is pure. The location is ideal. It is convenient to the city. The soil is rich and productive. v . You will have good neighbors. You will have city con venienceselectricity, water, streets, good car service. You will be happy, for you will have everything to make you happy and not only thaj, you will be able to live for just about half what it costs you in the city. You ;an plant orn, potatoes, beans, peas, asparagus, onions, tomatoes, radishes everything in the vegetable line. You can have a cow to produce your own fresh milk every day. Fresh eggs from your own chickens. You can raise your own fruit. You can save and you can live in PAKK-ROSE. Come to our office at once and let us tell you more of the won derful possibilities for saving and making money at PARKROSE. Let us take you out and SHOW you. Hartman & Thompson Ground Floor Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Fourth and Stark Sts. Main 20S A 20S0 STORY IS UNSHAKEN Sheriff Denies Application of Third Degree in Coble Case. SECTION HAND TESTIFIES Prisoner Told Him "I Done It," Sajt Witness Wilson Described Scene of Mnrder, Declares De tective Who Worked on Crime. CL.YMPIA. Wash.. Oct. 10. (Special.) The ststs examined Its most Im portant witnesses In the ease of George II. Wilson, the Rainier section foreman on trial for the murder of Nettle Coble at Rainier July 10, today when PherlfT George Gaston, of Thurston County, who made the arrest of the prisoner, and Detective FanausKV, 01 the Burns agency, were placed on the stsnd. Sheriff Gaston related facts sur- roundlnr the confession mast to the authorities by Wilson. He denied ever havlnsr subjected the prisoner to the "third des-ree" to get this confession. He told also of how the prisoner said he must have committed the crime, but could not remember the details. Detective Pandusky did not throw truch mbre light on the case with the exception of his conversation with Wilson in the County Jell, In which Wilson described In detail the Coble home at the time of the murder. Leandro Castro, s section hand, also testified through an interpreter, saying that the prisoner . told blm shortly after the murder. I done it," but he was not oertaln whether Wilson meant that he made the arrest of Swan Peter son or murdered the couple. This took place at fhe time Peterson was ar rested as a suspect. WOMAN SEEKS CITY OFFICE Mrs. Edna Eddlng-i Candidate for Treasnrer In Primaries. OLTMPIA. Wash, Oct. 10. (Special.) Added interest was Infused Into Olympla municipal politics at closing; time Saturday when, taking advant age of the extra filing time, three more candidates announced their will ingness to get Into the running. AU filed on the Citizens' ticket. J. E. Daller. for years a leading Democrat, getting Into the race lor Mayor; Mrs. Edna Eddtngs filing for City Treas urer, and Frank Maabs seeking the of fice of Councilman from the Fifth "Ward. As there are no other candi dates on that tloket against them, the only other on on being R- M. Fry. a Keoubllcan. who wants to be City At torney, all are sure to be nominated. This Is the nrst time mat a woman tiaa entered into local politics. There is considerable speculation aa to how many votes she will secure, as the coming election will be the first time thst the ;Woroen of Olympla have had a chance to exercise their right of suf frage, as few were registered a year ago. The Citizens' ticket Is a strange com bination, having only four candidates, the head being a Democrat, and other wise consisting of a woman and Ke Dubllcans who did not care to take chances in the Republican primaries. No more Republican candidates Hied. as the members of the majority party had a hard time securing a suincient number of candidates to fill the places. Undertaker Seriously Injured. rhLFAX. Wash.. Oct. 10. J. W. Cook- erly. an undertaker of Walla Walla, who was elected president of the Na tional Funeral Directors' Association at the recent convention at Atlantic City, N. J, while en route home waa seriously Injured Monday afternoon hear Baker, Or., by falling over a suit case in the aisle of the Pullman car. He feU against a seat, breaking several ribs. Els left lung was punctured, causing hemorrhages. He was taken to Baker Hospital. His wife reached bis bedside today and reported his con dition critical. MAYOR URGES NEW RULE Commission to Revise Oregon City Charter May Be Named. OREGON CITY, Oct. 10. (Special.) It Is believed that the commission form of government will be put Into effect in Oregon City within It months and probably earlier. Mayor Brownell. who has announced himself in favor of the change, gave out the following state ment: The Mayor with the consent of the City Council Is about to appoint a com mission consisting of Ave members to prepare a new charter by way of amendment to the present city charter for the preparation of wha Is known as the commission form of government. "Petitions will have to be circulated In order" to take a vote upon the proposition. This would have to be done at a special election to be called by the City Council for that purpose." The Council probably will act upon the suggestion at the next regular meeting. A majority of the members have declared In favor of the commis sion form of government, and It Is virtually assured that the Mayor will be authorised to appoint the commis sion for revising the charter. It la planned to name two members of the City Council and three others. LEWIS FRUITMEN TO SHOW Third Annual Exhibition Will Be Held at Woodland, Wash. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallls. Oct. 10. L. H. Reea, of the plant pathology department of the Ore gon Agricultural College, passed the last six weeks In an extended trip over the state to determine the causes of so-called sun scald or Winter injury of prunes. Mr. Rees has visited 17 prune orch ards and made careful Inspection of these with a view to ascertain the ex tent of the Injury and Its causes. The damage Is largely confined to the young trees from to T years old. and. although It usually occurs on the southwest side of the tree, it is found not infrequently on the other side and sometimes entirely girdling the tree. Mr. Rees leaves early next week to Investigate apple tree canker in the Hood River district. SCHOOL' LIBRARIES GROW More Than 18,000 Books to Be Dis tributed in Clackamas County. OREGON CITTTor Oct. 10. (Spe cial.) Superintendent of County Schools Gary today received 18.495 books for distribution among the school libraries of the county. The books will be apportioned according to the num ber of children In the districts. The Oregon City schools will get the largest number. An extra fund was pro vided for the purchase of the volumes. When the libraries were established in the echools the tendency was toward the selection of fiction, but the demand now is for scientific books. The vol umes are aelected by the clerks of the districts and the teachers, who are guided largely by the desires of the children. With this latest installment all the echools will have a large num ber of books. , Champion Checker Player Dies. NEW TORK. Oct. 10. Richard Jor dan, the world'a champion checker player. Is dead at his home in Edin burgh. Scotland, according to a dis patch received by friends here. ACID D1SRGURES GIRL THROWER RINGS DOORBELL; ESCAPES AFTER ASSACIT. San -Francisco Case Similar to One In Which Schoolgirl Was Vio - tun Pozzies Police. BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10. Hurling a ball of cotton saturated with carbolic acid full into the face of Hazel Ander son, 17 years old, an unidentified man dashed down the steps of the girl's residence tn the Mission today and es caped. One of Miss Anderson's eyes was injured and her face was badly burned. The girl had answered the doorbell and was trying to unfasten a chain holding the door when a man's hand was extended through the crack and the acid thrown. Miss Anderson's screams summoned members of the household, but by the time the door could be opened the man had van ished. Physicians say that the girl may lose the sight of her injured eye and that she probably will be badly disfigured. The police so far have been unable to find any clew to the assailant. The War Declared Catarrh Germs Must Be Coaquered or Health Will Be Deetroyed. If you have catarrh you must van quish an army of persistent, destructive microbes before you can get rid of it. 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Sick headache, biliousness, dizziness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul breath always trace them to torpid liver, delayed fermenting food In the bowels or sour, gassy stomach. Poisonous matter clogged in the in testines. Instead of being cast out of the system is re-absorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches the delicate brain tissue it causes conges tion and that dull, throbbing, sickening headache. Salts, cathartic pills, oil and purga tive waters force a passageway for a day or two yes but they don't take the poisons out and have no effect upon the liver or stomach. Cascarets immediately cleanse and regulate the stomach, remove the sour, undigested and fermenting food and foul gases, take the excess bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the decomposed waste matter and poisons in the intestines and bowels. A Cascaret tonight will surely straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep a 10-cent- box from your druggist means inside clean liness and a clear head for months. Ask any of the millions of Cascaret users if they ever have headache. girl's foster parents have recalled that stones were thrown against he house early today, and they think that the stone-thrower is the same person who hurled the acid. The assault In many respects is simi lar to that perpetrated on Ruth Wilson, a Lowell High School girl, about a year ago. In that case, too, the assailant escaped, leaving only slight traces. Rail Valuations Announced. . SOUTH BEND, Wash., Oct. 10. (Spe cial.) At a- session of the Pacific County Commissioners, just adjourned, the following railroad valuations for Pacific County were received from the State Tax Commission: Northern Pa cific, real, $268,450; personal, $45,263; total. $313,713. O.-W. R. & N., real, $102,885; personal. $12,438; total, $115,- 323. Pacific & Eastern, real, $23,716; personal, $1.4.129; total, $37,845. West ern Union Telegraph Company, real, $1183. Grand total, $468,064. These val uations ar for purposes of taxation and are supposed to be 30 per cent of the real values. Last Yukon Steamer Leaves. SEATTLE, Oct. 10. The last Yukon River steamer sailed from Dawson for White Horse today, carrying the last passengers from the Lower Yukon. All further travel in the Yuko- Valley until Spring will be by trail. Two steamers are yet to arrive in Seattle from Nome before the closing of Ber ing Sea. The mining season on Sew ard Peninsula has not yet ended, and operations will be continued until the ditches freeze. FALL EXCURSIONS EAST OCTOBER 17, 18,' 19 THE LAST FOR mil xh.av. ot are selliiiff to all Eastern desti- - . -a J.J.. TTz-alT TVlOTaS- nations for tnose aates. jr rial reductions from regular fares. Call or write for particulars. 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