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5 CREDITORS BESET 10 STALLO GIRLS CONNER'S DEFENSE ADMITS ITS PERIL HEIRESSES WHOSE MANY CREDITORS KEEP FATHER AND LAWYER ON EDGE. ere is the finest in - "" SB Talking: Machines Attorney Tells How He and Young Women's Father Had to Raise Cash. Testimony of Parks as to Dynamiting Unshaken by Cross-Examination. that will ever be offered, including an almost endless variety of choice records and other inducements, for 4 HEIfTESSES ARE "HARD UP" CREDIBILITY IS ASSAILED See It This Afternoon or Tonight TIIE MORNING OKEGOXIAX, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13. 1912. H Ex-Counsel for Guardian Says He Put Vp $ 1 000 of His Okd Money and He Wants It Back To gether With His Pay. NETTV YORK. Jan. 12. 5rlal.) The Stalls girl Laura, and Helena aupposed to be hetrexnes to an estate of f50.000.000, but which their father and guardian. Edmund K. Stallo. Bays la far Irnn than that, have In the past hen so extravagant In their mode of livlnjt that they not only sprnt al their Inrome. but kept Papa Stallo and his lawyer, Charles It. tftoll. exceed ingly busy raining: money with which to stand off their creditors. Trades people of all kinds wanted to get their talons upon such bits of the Stallo wealth as was due then and It was quite a task to get the wherewltha with which to stop their commercial mouths. If Lawyer Stoll may be be lieved. The debt-oontracting habits of the Stallo Kirla. their father's and his dis tress over them were told of by Stoll In Surrogate Fowler's court, where he appeared to show cause why he should not turn over to Stallo, as guardian of the girls, vouchers representing mon ey be had paid out In behalf of the McDonald estate, which the Misses Stallo Inherited. Stoll Is no longer counsel for Stalin. Lawyer Moll Rxplalas. Mr. Stoll explained the situation and added that he kept th vouchers on lien for services rendered (and not yet paid for) and for money advanced. He aid be was perfectly willing to turn over the vouchers when he had re ceived his pay and got back the 11000 he furnished when the Stallo girls were unable to raise a loan. 6toll aald "A year and a half ago Stallo told me that his daughters had such extrav a rant habits they had already spent JiO.OOO more thsn their Income had been, and that he was at Ms wits' end to get out of the difficulty. I bad been counsel for the administrators of the McDonald estate, and from them Taised a loan of 15000 and also de posited $1000 with the Massachusetts Bonding Company to secure Stallo's bondsmen. I am still responsible on the bond of which the 11000 is deposited. My own bill for services, which ap pears among the vouchers, has not been paid. "The Stallos will not O. K. my ac count as represented by the vouchers nor will they say it is Incorrect, and so there remains a possibility of fu lure action on the guardianship bond, and. that being so. I must decline to turn over -vouchers that constitute proof of the accounts I have rendered.' MonralBSr Jewels Costly. It was learned that within two months after the death of their grand father the Stallo girls purchased "mourning Jewelry" consisting of watches, black enamelled and diamond studded. at 1250: black enamelled chains at ITS and a diamond ring in black settings at J550. Among th many Items making up the account pf Edmund K. Stallo, as guardian of his daughter, Helena, are: Matheson Anto Company, $145.33: O. Benson. chauffeur. (300. Stallo wants to resign as guardian. It is declared that one reason why opposition Is raised to the resignation of Stallo until his accounts have been Judicially settled Is that when the debt for auto and chauffeur hire was con tracted the Stallo girls were at their Summer place on Prince Kdward Isl and and the car and chauffeur, except for a few hours while the girls were pssslng through this city, were used exclusively hy Stallo himself. It also appears that In the Mount Vernon National Punk Is an account In the name of the Stallo girls amount ing to 11300. This. In the account Stal lo submits In asking for his release as puardlan. Is treated as cash, although the bank has failed. t V 1 : mm- . v ... .. jr - t ' " NEWPORT PLANS FOR VISIT t Itlrrn M ill Make Orotn Trip to Tillamook In Short Time. NKWI'nRT, Or.. Jan. 12. (SpeciaL) At a metnt7 of the citliens of New port. Indorsed l-y th Newport Com mercial Club. Wednesday niprht. at which attractions fur the coming Sum mer nfon were Hscu8sm1. It was de rided to secure an ocean-coins; boat and to make an excursion to Tilla mook a noon the weather will per mit. A committee of two was ap pointed to make the arrangements. The object of the excursion la to brine the citizens of the two Summer-resort towns In closer communication. An Indian cantata, to be bold next July In the wild city park, in also being flnnned by the women of Newport. Robert Depot, an Indian, now In chare; of a school on the Stlets Reserratlon and leader of the SUets Indian Hand, who already has srlven sereral success ful cantatas on the SUM a. has offered his assistance and will furnish the band music for th occasion. It Is planned to s;tve sereral free performances. 1 t i . r- - . . . . .... . . ABOVE, MISS UIRA STALLO BELOW, MISS HELENA STALLO. STORM IS ABATING Middle West, However, Still Badly Tied Up. TRACKS ARE IMPASSABLE 8 now Packed Tight in Cuts Resl&U Efforts of notaries Seven Be low Zero Hailed as Com parative Warmth. president, Fred H. Melhase; vice-president and cashier. Fred Schalloclc; as sistant cashier, Claude Chaatain: sec retary, ' Claude H. Daggrett; treasurer, Gus Melhase: directors, Fred H. Melhase, Fred Schallork: Clauds H. Daggett. Gus Melhase, Fred Etltser. In the First National Mr. Moore as vice-president succeeds Alexander Martin, Jr., while the office of assistant cashier, filled by W. E. Pelzell, Is dropped. In the First Trust & Savings President Siemens takes the place of ex-County Judge George T. Baldwin, who retires to attend to private affairs. The three banks declared the usual dividends and added to their surplus. KANSAS CITT. Mo.. Jan. 12. Re lief from the low temperatures which have prevailed over Iowa. Nebraska. Missouri. Kansas and Oklahoma is In sight. The weather observer issued statement tonight that beginning- to morrow It would be warmer. It I raining In the Northwest and th storm renter is turning this way. All previous January records for this rlclnlty were broken. In Kansas City the mercury stopped on Its down ward course at 20 degrees below sero. By 8 o'clock tonight It had risen, how ever, and th reading at that hour was seven degrees below sero. In Kansas train service west of To- peka still Is badly demoralised. Up to a late hour tonight no trains had reached Kansas City from the West In the past 24 hours. For the third time, in two weeks the Union Psrifle tracks are Impassable. The snow In the cuts Is packed so hard that the ordinary snowplow can not get thrnugh and the number of rotaries In Kansas Is limited. Msny of the drifts were several thousand feet ong. The Rock Island today ran a special train of coal from Texas into the snowbound district to relieve the situation. FIRM BLAMED FOR DEATH MrMon RelIrnt to Ask Grand Jury to Investigate Electrocution. TVESTON". Or.. Jsn. 12. (Special.) The grand Jury will be asked to hold the Preston Parton Milling Company, of Athena, responsible for the death of Kugens F. Graham, who was electro cuted In the basemrnt cf the Jarman store here Tuesday. An Inquest was held today and. while tii Coroner's Jury refused to fix the responsibility for the death, rltixens of Weston declare, the milling com pany, which furnished the power for Weston's lighting system, permitted the defective wiring which caused tha death, and propose to appeal to the grand Jury. Line to Tap Burned Area. FALI.S CITT. Or.. Jan. 12 (Special.) The Kal'.s City Lumber Company has surveyors seeking a route for a rail road Into the Cobb A Mitchell timber belt in the SUets Basin. The main ob ject for building such a railroad is the securing of 150.009.000 feet of burned timber for which the company has con tracted. Numerous surveys have been tnade. but none was satisfactory. nnixs is cold at 21 below Harney County Gets Snow and Tem perature Takes Drop. BURNS. Or, Jan. II. (Special.) The New Tear so far has brought va rious brands of weather to Burns and Harney County. Turlng the night of the second and the morning, of the third, the Government thermometer here registered 21 degrees below sero. the coldest for two years, but moder ating temperature followed with soma snow each night, and on Saturday a Chinook wind, accompanied by light rains, blew all the afternoon and even ing, melting a good deal of snow. That night, however. It turned cold again and a light snow fell, followed by a cold wind from the Northwest, which drifted the snow and made travel most uncomfortable. There Is an average depth of about 14 Inches of snow, with a great deal more In the high hills, so the prospect Is good for plenty of water this year. The days in general are bright and pleasant, and there baa been no suf fering, so far. Hay Is plentiful throughout the county, and cattle, horses and sheep are in good condition. OREGON COUNTIES IN LEAD Statistics Gathered Concerning At tendance in State. RALEM, Or, Jan. 12. (Special.) That certain counties in the state lead the world as far as school attendsnce Is concerned Is shown In a statement which Is being prepared by Superin tendent Alderman. The purpose of the statement is to secure statistics as to the number of school children who leave the eighth grade and continue to go to school. The table is not complete for the en tire state, but a large number of coun ties are in. Malheur and Sherman counties show an average of 100 per cent each for the pupils leaving the eighth grade and continuing in school Union has 93 per cent. Benton 82 per cent and Wallowa 92 par cent. Superintendent Alderman, at the ex hibit held at Spokane several weeks ago, showed a diagram for Lane Coun ty claiming that this county led the world. Superintendent Busch, of Yakima County, Washington, took ex ception to the assertion and forwarded a statement to superintendent Aider man showing that Yakima County aver aged 91.2 per cent, which distanced the Lane County claim. These later ng ures, however, show that Oregon Is well in the lead again. KLAMATH BANKS ELECT Youth of IS Becomes Cashjcr of First Trust & Sarins. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Jan. 12. (Special.) Officers have been elected by Klamath Falls banks as follows: First National, president Alexander Martin. Sr.: vice-president. Charles 8. Moore: cashier. Leslie Rogers: direc tors. Alexander Martin. Sr., C. 8. Moore, K. R. Reames, L. F. Wtllitts. Alexander Martin. Jr. First Trust & Savings Bank, presi dent. J. W. Siemens: Vice-president. P. M. Reldr; cashier. J. H. Siemens, who Is but is yesrs old; directors, J. W. Siemens. George T. Baldwin. T. A. Reidy. James A. M add ox. D. M. Griffith. American Bank A Trust Company, COWLITZ DOCTORS MEET County Medical Society Gathers at "Woodland, Wash. WOOPLAND. Wash.. Jan. 12.. (Spe rial.) The Cowlltx County Medical So ciety held its first monthly meeting here Wednesday night In Bozorth's Hall. It was attended by Dr. Bales, tr. Bird and Dr. Hocking, of Kelso; Dr. C. J. Hoffman and Dr. Alice Hall Chapman, of Woodland. Seventy-flve cltlsens of Woodland gathered to hear the addresses. Dr. Bales is president. and Dr. Hoffman, vice-president. Dr. Bales spoke on "The Medical Pro fession in Its Relation to the Public"; Dr. Hocking dwelt on "Tuberculosis. and Dr. Bird read a paper on "Vaccination.' After the meeting Dr. Hoffman en tertained the visiting physicians at supper at Hotel Martin. It is the intention of the society to hold monthly meetings In the various towns of the county. The next meet ing will be held. February 10 at Ka- lama. SECURE HARBOR ENGINEER Aberdeen and Uoqulam Get Man to Look Over Situation. nOQUIAM. Wash.. Jan. 12. (Special.) Virgil Bogue, the engineer, who has Just completed a plan for tha develop ment nf Tacoma's harbor, bas been en gaged by the Grays Harbor Port Com mission to prepare a general plan of development for Grays Harbor. Decis ion to this effect was reached yesterday at a meeting of the Port Commission at which Mr. Bogue was present. Olympla to Get Building Soon. OLTMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 12. (Special.) Information received from Represen tative In Congress Warburton. Indi cates that the proposed Federal build ing to be built in Olympla will be start ed In a short time. Representative Warburton announces that the plans are being gone over by the supervising architect, and that bids will be called for within a few days. The structure will be completed not later than July 1, 1912. and the contractors will be permitted to place In their bids the time of completion. Attorney Will Call Several Wit nesses, but Chief Hope Rests on, Attack Upon Both De tectives of County. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 12. Although assailed from every angle in an all-day attack, the testimony given by I. Man sell Parks against Bert Conners in the Hall of Records dynamiting trial, withstood today all the attacks of the defense. No Important contradiction was obtained on any point conoerning the alleged conspiracy with which Parks swore not only Conners, but six other prominent labor-men, were con nected, and before the end of the day Lecompte Davis, one of counsel for the prisoner, said that the witness' testimony was "dangerous to Conners." Court adjourned until Monday and the state announced that It still had 10 more or less Important witnesses to call. The attorneys for the defense said they Intended to call aeveral, but ad mitted that their case rested largely upon destroying the credibility or botn Parks and Joseph Bishop, another county detective, who also associated with the defendant. H. H. AppelL one of Conners law yers, led in the endeavor today to make Parks contradict himself, but failed. When Deputy District Attorney Hor ton objected to some of Appell's in sinuations that Parks' memory was not good on some matters, Appell declared that he "would show that Parks re membered well only that which he was brought into court to testify to." PHOTOS USED AS VOUCHERS McXamara Distrustful of McManigal on Dynamite Errands. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Jan. 12 De scrlptlons of how Ortie McManlgal. with a suitcase filled with explosives and time fuses, sneaked about the streets of Pittsburg and Bunaio ana met men who discussed or pointed out "open-shop" Jobs that were to be blown up. together with photographs of wrecked places, whioh were forwarded to John J. McNamara, were presented before the Federal grand Jury In its In vestigation of the dynamite conspiracy today.' McManlgal made three visits to Buf falo, the first in July, 1908. when he blew up a bridge. It developed that McNamara. as secretary-treasurer . or the International Association of Bridge and Steel Structural Ironworkers, ob tained, whenever nossibli nhotographs of structure! which McManlgal blew up. In order to keep a check on the dyna' miter in paying him "fees" out of the 21000 a month allowed McNamara for organization purposes. Many of these photographs are in tne nanas oi mo Government. Just before he went to Buffalo. Mc Manlgal said, he tried to quit dynamit ing, but was. deterred by threats of exposure. Mrs. McManlgal was examined ay tna grand Jury today and confirmed her husband s story in important details. From conversations she had with her husband in Chicago. Mrs. McManlgal, it is said, was able to tell much about tne man who approached McManlgal when he was working on a building in De troit in June. 1907. and induced him to begin the many explosions on "open shop" Jobs. This man went to Detroit from Indianapolis and professed to have Instructions and money from J. J. Mc Namara. After McManlgal took up dy namiting regularly be frequently met In Chicago men who. it is said, talked about places to be blown up. Mrs. McManlgal was questioned about her husband's carrying explosives through Chicago to points in Wiscon sin. Missouri and Iowa, and about per sons who accompanied him when he blew up a, place in South Chicago, Feb ruary 24. 1911. SEATTLE VISITORS SOUGHT Detectives Tracing Two Men and Woman Ip McXamara Case. SEATTLE. Jan. 12. The identity of two men and a woman who visited James B. McNamara, when he was in hiding in Seattle, previous to the dyna miting of the Lyons building, August 31, 1910. is being Investigated by de tectives In connection with the Gov ernment dynamite investigations. A man answering the description of James B. McNamara lived six week in a room In a cottage In the rear of 1020 Sixth avenue, which he engaged from Arthur McCormlck. McNamara, who gave his name as Pete Petrovltsky, re fused to allow a chambermaid to enter his room. "My attention was first called to the peculiar actions of the man by the ac cumulation of mall postmarked Chicago and addressed to J. M. Boyce and J. B. Bryce." said Mr. McCormlck today. "When I asked him If he knew to whom they belonged he said they were his. "While he was there he had three callers, two men and a woman. The men called several times. When he gave up the room I made a search and found an alarm clock with wires fastened to the alarm. This clock is now in the possession of District At torney Fredericks, of Los Angeles. Sev eral pictures were sent to me by Mr. Fredericks and from them I was able to Identify my roomer as James B. McNamara." LEADERS AGAIN INDICTED Tveltmoe, Clancy and Johannsen Ar rested on Xeur Charges. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12. Olaf G. 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