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r- OKEGOXTAX, FRIDAY. MARCH. 1912. . . tt I III. .MWIl.ll.MI ! 3 CONVICTS KILL ! 3 KEEPERS; ESCAPE Nebraska Prison Warden and Two Aides Assassinated. Fourth Wounded. MILITIA IS ORDERED OUT1 ! i rvnltmtiarp lloal Wiped Out j i Bank nobbrr fluttilr Ka.h. ' IVIImr-JVlon Io Not Ort Ont. ; Blizzard Hirl- rmfttlTC. LINCOLN. N-h. March 14. Three pritnnrra at the Nebraska petititcn ttarr at 1-anraMer. three mil's south of here, thin kllrmtnn. ansa alnatcd Warden Janicn lelahuniv. Deputy Warden f'harle Wagner and t"her A. S. Ilcilan and woumlrl the cellhouse kpr. named Poody. The three ronrirtii than ma.1 their rinpa from the front mtranf of the wntlrntlarf arxt were nwillowwl up In a billiard The killing wax done bv ronvi. u Mnrlev. Tor arHl Iwil. all of whom fr rntonr"l for bank rohlvn. Morlev hax nerved previous! In Mifiaourt or murler. The trl. nhot In-puty Wr.lm Was n'r In hm office. Jul off the chapel, whlrh look out Inio the prison yarl. PrwMlv was ahnrt Juat outalde the cell houe of whirl! he waa keener. The muMrrrrs. after blowing off Ibr lock of tlu- llrat ateel door whlrh lead Into tha public entrance of the prison, ruahad tha turnkey. at tha point of a nun. forced him to unlock another door, took Ms ke- and let inetnselTe otit into the main corridor. Before the men let themselves, out they hal shot Warden tn-Iahunty and l aher Heilman through, the barred .loors. when tha tw-o men rushed out of their offices into tha main corridor. Tha warden waa shot once and Hell man twice. .s the trio rushed by tha warden another bullet was put Into h is body as ha leaned against a door rasing Nona of the other conm-ls except tna three who iid the shooting at tempted to eaeapa. The turnkey locked Ihe doors Immediately after their departure and the remainlns con. yicts were looked In their cells. No liberty will be allowed any of the con vict until Oomnor AMrlch orders 1u Mllltla la Called Oat. Ai soon as new of tha uprising reat he.l the OoTrrnor'i office, an order was received calling out the local company of the atate mllltla. It waa marched to the station, where a spe cial train was waiting to carry tt to ihe penitentiary. Sheriff Tlyera and a oossa also started Immediately for tha prison, together with Chief Hunger, of ihe Lincoln police department, and five patrolmen. . Uovrrnor AWlrirh waa at Teru. vis--tt(n the State Normal School. and from there directed that Adjulant Oneral Thelpa. of tha state militia, he put In temporary charR of the pen itentiary. It U not known whara tha convicts Ihelr vrilKHM. but It is believed i hey were smuggled In by former prisoners. Word waa received at tha peniten tiary late today that three men had heea seen going Into a haystack about threa miles west of the prison. A ioes Immediately atartod out on this flew. Oat break. Reaalt ml Kaaseat. Today's outbreak Is believed to ba the outrome of a spirit of unrest pre valent anions- the convtcta for mora than a month. On Sunday morning. Kebruary 11. a negro convict. Albert l-rrnre, fatally stabbed Iepuiy Warden liavls at the ilia in-1 service. No attempt was made at a general outbreak at that time, althoucb the convicts were asemMel in the pews. tn Friday. .March 1. employes of the prison saw rx-convli-ls pass a phial of morphine through the ata of the prison yard to one of the inmates. Fte strirtloiui tmmoliately were pkired on the convicts, wild a view to stampiiiK out the trafrlr In the .Iru. Ijist Saturday chaplain Johnson, of the peniientUry. resiirne.1 after a inn versatmn with the liovernor relative to prrson .it ipline. A week aso twlav tha i;overnor lssucl an onler barring women prison workers and Sunday s hool teachers from visiting t!ie pri son .lurinc services. drrlarlne that inelr uh latloo with the t-onvicts was unoe.irable. s DALLAS GIRL USES TALENTS i ,' in lc llrlrn tiM.nl Harrow Onf- fifth vrr of land Hrclf. I .KM. ir . Murrli 1 !ir' ll lUrro ific lnd hvT'.r'f. arrnnclns i h.tJ.! a. tnf roum( It hrrf anil k, ...m Mrrnimrt Kri-ilt ural -ork. fVn ta:tl. Utl iu'hii girl of Aj nm n to S'lrintnHcrt ; Ailrmnn -rrfi n th Intrrrnt whl- h -h i MK;nc tn t Indui-tru: ront5t. In rr lrtt-r a: m. - rttita I p-ri t. pat it :i twt p.trv i n ihrin.- 1 hm.t tn mr, ' fTrtT MC. ' It t-ti'f. rm. ,im It p-i 'n Thit im frit tim th tun, hat r been I ip-t to pwt up m br f-nr af. . )t .rrp ih fx rd ti-r off and I .i rhirk'rt I hi t lh ps'lJi'r- I I'" ' r'w ..ihr th'-c. frr f!'r bjt I wT! put !hrti m. iiiaTma't Kran. CENTRAUA TOVOTE BONDS lropont C"tt Watrr SMrm frtir I .. smu Crrtaln of Atiop4kn. 'KXTRA!J.. Ir" 4 (Special A m" mwnntf wa hfl.t h-r-' ti!Khl ut ctt'zrn n rriclMrr f-r thr rlrrtton Ai'r-I Jl. whfn pronoii.-- .-n"is f-r the insinuation tf mxini riPsit uravity m-tr yitrTn m til h-vott-t. on. V latrn oumb-r of mn at lrndM th martini; From the nrr.d kfntinirnt fsprrt-vs! throughout thr rr. Ihe bnnin will orry -T Urp majority. A b"ni rlertlon alt will . hi hl in t'hrhali. April f an orii - nantr provkiln fr th btititiinar of a .vntrm tn tht ctty bavin 4mv1 Ort ratn br the city cmmoii. BOAT CONTROL CENSURED llallroad t inmii-ln Waul. Kail 1.1 lie Barred SAL.K.M. " . March 11. Special fyaprecatlne t.e control of water lines kv eompetihK tall lines, the State riall- ' read CommtssioD has forwarded a tele tram to all of tha Urrcon delegation In Congress asking for care In tha pro posed legislation. The effect of the ownership or con trol of competing, water lines by rail ;inea In this country Is too well known to require any extended explanation." statea the telegram sent. "This control and ownership has practically elimin ated water- competition and largely minimized water transportallon. There are biUs now pending In Congress con taining provisions which forbid the ownership or control directly or In directly of competing steamer or boat, lines by rail lines. "Some bills limit it only to the use of steamers using tha Panama Can:. We believe the law should be general In Its scope. We respectfully solicit your support of the bills now pending, ad vocating laws forbidding such own ership or control. We know nothing that Is more detrimental to the devel- tORt-T f.KOVF tOMMKRCIAI. CM'n LI-ECTH OITirF.lt FOB Ifll. is A sto.sarrA-aAi.tsii li Haaaer C. A l well. FOREST C.flOVE, Or.." Mareb 1-X t.tpM laf. ) At th annual mwt inc of the Korcat irov Oomtnerrlal Club held laat nicht. Homer C. At wtll wii irctvHl pmident for tha num year. Mr. Atwvll l a prom inent hortu utturtst and booster of tbi ti-inlfjr and fr four yeara held th position of president of -the State llorttruttural Socletv. At tha pres ent time h la fruit -Inapector of Wawhincton County. The othar of ficers lctvd were aa follows: Vice president. I M. Oraham; secretary. A. K. Hart: treasurer. A. TJttler. A full report of the work don by thr ormuitxation d urine the past year showed that er O0 pieces of literature had ben sent out sd ertlslns; the College City. Tha rlub ls wlclrswake and purposes to do much toward the advancement of the town durinir tha next year. The follow tn s; U re tors were elected, who wtll have full charge of tha work of tha club for the year: H. t. AtweTI. T. J O. Thatcher, A. O. Hoffman. K. W. Haines. A. E. Pcott. J. A. Thornbunrh. A. E. Hart. I. M. r.raham and C. A, Uttler. opment of water transportation than the ownership or control olV-ornpetins; water line br rail lines." EUGENE SCANDAL AIRED V. S. riAK TF.STIrTr-X IX STIT ;.IXST C.riT.MST MORSE. rTvldrm-r in Anion for Alienation of Wii" .vrfrx'tions I Given by K.MratiKfd t'oiiplr. Kl'GK.VK. )r . March 1 1. i Special ) A mac's efTorts to keep his family intact for the sake of his daughter, and a wife's wandering fancy was the burden of the testimony of Willard Dank in his suit for lin.ooo against W. I. Morse. KuKena capitalist, for allesrd alteration of Mrs. flanks af fections, trial of which was begun here this mornlns. AccontinK to t'Unk's testimony. Mrs. riank. five years aeo. went to Mich igan, leaving their t-year-old daugh ter in his care. A young man of the name of Wheeler, cousin of Plank, had been attentive to Mrs. Tlank. and he tiattrared during the time Mrs. I'lank waa in Michigan. I'lank testified he wrote his wife that he would provide railroad fare if she would return, and she did. and that he freelv foraave her. wishing that she nuaiit tlve a mothers care to their dauchter. ller Wheeler appeared cim ami tha I'lank family went to Minnesota for the Winter. When heeler appeared there, i'lank testt f I -d. he cave his wife her choice and she ch"c to return to Oregon with ii'm Wheeler disappeared and until Mf.rse appeared on the scene, all waa hspfuie-s In the family. officers have been summoned to tes I fv t the arrest of Mrs. flank and Morse In a house here. Kvtdence was introduced by the plaintiff to tha effect that the room In which Mrs. riank and Morse were arrested February , was the only fur nished apartment In the building. The defense was begun late In the afternoon. Mrs. I'lank giving testi mony, he saw! that aha was not hap py with her husband and daughter. She affirmed that her sole Interest In Whee ler wa pity for a motherless boy and that WheWer helred her about the house, hrinmmz tn watr and In nirlme brr In other task. he denied that her relation with Wheeler had been Improper. Her testimony as to thr arrest of herself and Morse last month will be taken tomorrow. BRIDGE WORK ACCEPTABLE llroailua) pan Min-Struclurt Kills . Kcquirvinrnt- of Knr.incf r. A report having been filed by Ralph MeJeskL consulting engineer for the city on the Broadway bridge. tha hridce committee of the Executive Hoard yesterday recommended accept ance of the sub-structure, which has been completed In first-class condition bv the I nion Bridge A Construction Company. Incidentally. Mr. Modjeski hiKhly complimented this company, saying that his every ruling had been cheerfully complle-d with. Bills aggregating about 150.000 have been submitted by the company and recommended for pament by the con sulting engineer. These bills are for work and materials required over and above the preliminary estimate., hut Mr. Modjeski assured the committee that they are entirely reasonable aua are based on unit rales for toe coo-atroctioo. FRIDAY SATURDAY Sale of Rubber Goods Rubber Goods of guaranteed quality, the dependable kind, at removal prices. $2.00 2-qt. maroon guaranteed Combi nation Bottle 127 $1.00 2-qt. Fountain Syringe 63 $1.50 3-qt. maroon Water Bottle, guar anteed 79m $1.75 3-qt. red Fountain Syringe, guar anteed $1.37 $1.25 Ladies' Douche at only 98? 45c Silk Sponges selling at each. .33 Friday 'Saturday REMOVAL SALE OF Leathers and Trunks Ladies' Handbags in latest styles and shapes in seal, walrus, pigskin and morocco. Values ranging from $2.50 to $25.00 and which are not duplicated any wVipVp rprlvicerl ONE-FOURTH MEN'S COIN PURSES, 39o FITTED TRAVELING CASES Men's fine coin purses in pigskin, seal and Something every person should have , ,i when traveling. Good substantial walrus leathers; our regular low price Cases Uptodate fittings, ranging of 75c is still further reduced these two j in price from $1.50 to $25.00. Now days. Your choice 39c1 I reduced ONE-FOURTH Our new line of Traveling Bags, Suitcases and "Likly" Trunks are arriving wejvant you to see them. Now selling at Removal Sale prices $6.50 to $75.00, Bargains PICTURES. PICTURES. PICTURES. : Friday and Saturday. Two days in which you can secure ! urnll lAfinratinnc! at O CftTl Cld OVQ til O CQV. ing. One table of colored facsimiles, 11x14 and 10x22. Our regular low price of 35c reduced for this sale ; your choice of the lot, each 23c One room hung in 16x20 Carbonettes, .framed in mahogany; 13x28 Etch ings, framed in 2-inch oaks ; combina tion Fruit Pictures in mission oak; famous Firelight Series; also Hang ing of Crane and Home Keeping Hearts; our regular low values to $4.00 reduced for the two days' sell ing; your choice $1.37 FRIDAY-SATURDAY SALE OF Patent Medicines $1.00 Hay's Hair Health. .72c ' $1.00 Cuticura Resolvent. .S3c $1.75 Succus Alterans. .$1-34 $1.00 Kendall Spavin 69r 50c Sloan's Liniment ... 29 75c Antiphlogistine 53f $1.00 Cooper's Sarsaparilla, the best blood purifier 73t 3 for $2.00 $1.00 Mercolized Wax. . . .G9c $1.00 Pierce's Favorite Pre scription 69? $1.00 Ovoferrin $1.00 Hanford's Balsam Myrrh only 65c $1.50 Vapo Cresoline, complete, only ..$1.09 $1.00 Muco Solvent 74 c $1.00Uricsol 79c 50c Foley's Honey and Tar at only ' 29e Two Days' Sale of Toilet Preparations 50c Pebeco 29c 50c Stillman's Freckle Cream at only 2S 50c Sempre Giovine 2S 25c Bathasweet . . . 16c 25c Spiro Powder 16c 50c Hines' Honey and Almond Cream 27c 25c Holmes' Frostilla 13c 25c Babcock's Corylopsis . . . 13c 25c No-Odor, 2 for 25 50c De Miracle Cold Cream. .29c 50c Queen Hair Dye 32c Toilet Soap Sale now in progress. FRIDAY-SATURDAY SALE OF Household Drugs 10c Glycerine and Bay Rum, bottle 6c 10c Compound Licorice Pow der, package 6c 10c Chloride Lime, !b Sc 15c Saltpetre, powder or lump, package 9 c 10c can Sewing Machine Oil, can 6c 25c Denatured Alcohol, bot tle 20c 15c Soap Stone (French chalk), package 97 ii 25c Rose Water, bottle. . .J 4c ij 40c Crude Carbolic Acid, bot-' tie ,31c 35c Absorbent Cotton, lb., 27c 25c Hydrogen Peroxide, bot tle 16c 25c Assorted . Corks, very use ful 20c 25c Sweet Almond Meal, can only 9t 50c Ripe Olives, qt. can, 40c 5c Cough Drops, pkg 3c Friday-Saturday Sale of COMBS, HAIR AND TOOTH BRUSHES Handsome large black Combs, choice of several makes, regular $1.00. These two days, each 7."C 25c Tooth Brush, guaranteed bristles; only 19f $2.00 Hair Brush, choice of ebony or rosewood backs; good value; spe cial $1.49 $4.50 Parisian cushion back Hair Brush with Comb; two days' spe cial $3.59 WOOD-TO-BURN. This is your last opportunity to buy wood-burning subjects at less than cost. Just a lot of odds and ends, all grouped together, pieces worth up to 75c; your choice while it lasts 3 PIECES FOR 5c $2.75 Burning Outfits, while they last, each 9Sc EASTER NOVELTIES IN OUR STATIONERY DEPARTMENT PRICED 10c TO 85c Also very large line of Easter and St. Patrick Post Cards. Arrange now for your after-Easter en graving. Let us show you samples that we will duplicate on your work and the cost will be no greater than the ordinary sort. Announcements, wedding and call ing cards. Laird & Lee's Diarys You need one every day. 25c kind at only 19 $1.00 Goodall Playing Cards, Tartar backs . . , 42c $1.25 "Cross" two-letter monogram box Stationery, extra special 75c 75c box Stationery 47? 35c box Stationery 1 7c 10c Dime Banks 7C Fountain pens cleaned while you wait no charge. We'll also fill your pen without money and without price. SPRAY YOUR "ROSES WITH "WOOD LARK" ROSE AND FRUIT SPRAY Pint. 25c Quart 50c Spray Pump 50c 5k Are You Fitted? "firnss' f!hamois Gloves, sold SP the world over at the uniform U price of $1.50, are on sale Fri- soado day and Saturday, cnoice yac. "CROSS" NOVELTIES As a birthday or Easter gift nothing could be more acceptable than one of the many "Cross" Novelties such as Sew ing Baskets, Writing Cases,' Collar Boxes, Utility Sets, etc., to be found only at this store. Removal Sale Prices IN OUR JEWELRY SECTION Hair Nets in all regular shades, regular 10c grade, at only ..6i Genuine human Hair Nets, all shades; 25c grade at only 16 Drop Earrings in latest styles, now ex tremely popular; priced $1.00 to $15.00. Your choice at ONE-HALF PRICE TWO DAYS SELLING OF MEDICINAL WINES AND LIQUORS $1.25 Old Oscar Pepper, bottled in bond 98c $1.00 Carlisle Rye, bot. in bond. . .797 $1.00 Old Tom Martin 69c Muskingum Valley, the best medicinal whisky made. Qts. SI. 25. Gal. S4 $1.00 3-Star California Brandy. . .$9c 25c California Claret, 3 for. . 50c Bottle 18c 50c California Claret, Zinfandel. Ries ling, Catawba and Port, 3 for $1.00 Bottle 34 75c California Sherry, 3 for $1.50 Bottle 61c Good Medicinal California Wines, gallon SI. 00 Extra fine Medicinal California Wines, gallon $1.50 Very best Medicinal California Wines, gallon $2.50 Imported Medicinal Wines, gal. S3. 50 MINERAL WATERS FOR LESS You can purchase all well-known Mineral Waters here whether of do- are always less than otners asK. OPEN A MONTHLY CHARGE ACCOUNT WITH US WOOD ARB, CLARICE & CO. VIOLA CARVER CALM Girl Doesn't Seem to Realize She's Charged With Murder. CORONER'S INQUEST HELD I'nkiicmn Youth Urlns- AivummI Woman Itnuqurl Mi" ItrfU!c lo l.ikr Swtonniit Villi! Hit FatlKT Keai-lip !.! AXiiEI.KS. l"al.. Mar.-h 14. S- itnl.i 'That J Kdwin Edse tm( to hla Vatli Marcti 11 tlirmish a Kiinhot wound of th hralr. InllU'to.l hy Viola Carver, with Intent to kill anil mur der." Thin a the verdict sORned today he fore Coroner H.irtwelle Inquest over the body of J. Kdwin Kdge. a younjr real entate dealer killed In hla oitli-e in the ConaoUdated Ftealty buildlnir. mill not make any statements to any one until my father comes." waa the reiterated declaration of thla atranae Klrl. Viola Carver, today, and he stuck to It. Hecause of the reti cence of Mla Carver, whose friends ral lied to her defense as one. the police are puixled a to the motive which Im pelled her to take the life of Ed-e and try to kill herself. "I ll wait until my father cornea be fore 1 make a statement." she repeats with a calmness that seems almost un cannv but the physician who saw her today' lr. William M. Horton. predicts that when her father does arrive, Viola Carver will collapse at sight of him. .Hualloa ol Realised. ihe does not reallae her position vef said Vr. llorton. "It Is all the same to her whether the charge against fcer Is murder, the stealinK of a suit of clothes or cheating a streetcar conduc tor of her fare. .he does not under stand where she is or what she has done." . .... All day todav the clrl received call ers dosens of them, and greeted them all ainlablv. from the youth who brought her violets, although he hd never seen her before, to the numerous missionaries who sought to make a con vert of her. Then, late In the day. the Kirl announced that she would receive no more visitors: nor would she dis cuss her case, even with her attorneys, who were retained by a telegram from the girl's father, mho will arrive here Saturday from Tacoma. Girt llaa aelf-Caalrol. Mi5 Carver, under uaxdi C ihroe -of ficers, hi brought into the inquest room only long enough for identilica tlon hy the merchant who had sold her the revolver. As Miss Carver entered the room her eyes fell to the floor and she then covered l:er face with her hands, lhe seemed to have good con trol of herself, however.' and did not sit down during her stay In the room. Tentimony of the two officers sum moned after the- shooting wits taken. Both declared Miss Carver had tried to leap from the second-story window of the building where the shooting oc curred, and that she begged them to al low' her to kill herself. "I love, him and he turned me down, hot he never dM nte any wrong." one officer swore Miss Carver said Just after her arrest. Miss Carver was locked up in the County Jail, charged with murder. RENT NEW PIANOS, $4. Bush & Lane Piano Co., 355 Wash. CHEHAUS, Wash.. March 14. (Spe cial.) Owing to the splendid weather. Spring work in the. field and garden in and about Chehalls is farther advanced at this ttme than for years past. Plow ing has been done everywhere and a general air of activity prevails UFTURE Seeley, Who Fitted Czar of Russia, Called to Portland Foley's Spermatic Shield Pad You lip'l The Do W Groove K. H. Sc.-lcv, of Chicago and F'hlla delphia. Is now at the .Multnomah llot.-l and will remain in Portland this Frldav. altirday. Iloadsr sari I'nenday. He says: "The Spermatic Shield Truss as fitted to the Czar of Kusiu and now us-d and approved by the l-'nite! States Government, will not only retain any case uf Hernia perfectly, affording im mediate and complete relief, but closes the opening in tn days on the average laser' Tills Instrument received the onlv award in England and in Spain, prodm-lng results without surgery or harmful injei tions. Mr. Seeley has doc umentary reference-s from the 1T. S. Gov ernment. Washington. I. C, for inspec tion. If any interested will call he will he glad to show thn truss without charge, or fit them if desired. Kiiptnre is not a breach or tear in the abdominal wall, as ijrnorantly sup jiOM?(l therefore iiothinp to knit or heal. But rupture is the dilation or stretching of natural opening therefore subject to closure by stimulation. Don't wear a Iruss where the lump is, but where the rapture is. It's different. I MEET AND BEAT The strongest competition in the city on MEN'S SUITS My Special for Tomorrow A Inch-grade Suit in the new hade of pray, brown or pencil stripe, including blue series. MY PRICE Cost you $20.00 in the ground-floor stores JIMMY DUNN, 1268 Room 315 Oregonian BIdg. TAKE ELEVATOR Successful Growth After all is said and done, the most practical proof of a tue cessful financial institution is its steady growth. This bank, ever since it opened for business, 19 years ago, has enjoyed a most satisfactory growth, especially in the past two years, during which time its deposits have doubled in amount. We cordially place our facilities at your disposal. Accounts subject to check arc received and 4 per cent interest paid on savings.- ;"A Conservative Custodian." - Hibernia Savings Bank Second and Washington Sts. Open Saturday Evenings, 6 to 8 NEW LOCATION 244 Washington Street Bvtwean Second and Third Ground Floor Same Old Prices