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TTlK MUKnvc? UKUlitTXIAIT, SATURDAY, ATOIL 27, 1912. 13 BOY KILLS MOTHER OF GIRL HE WANTED Youth Murders Woman Who Objected to Marriage of Daughter of 15. SLAYER BOASTS OF DEED I-w Whltlock, IS. Confess" Crime and Kxprc!rs If Rcrrr-t After Shooting Mrs. Bellalre. Nr If-Defense Dented. Because Mri. Margaret Bellaire. 4. refused to coni'nt to tha mrrlr of her daughter Harriet. 15. to Low Whlttock. IS. he vu shot and killed by Whltlock. In her room at Tenth and Stark streets, yesterday morning, t The youth was captured Immediately and made full confession of his crime, gloating over It and requesting newspaper men to TnaKe a jrooa .or of It. and say ttat I am proud of what I did and am willing to swing for It If thrv want me to. ' . . . i i ., i.v, ' inrougnout nu t-Aimi ........ was taken up by Deputy District At torney Fltajrerald within a few minutes after tho crime. Whltlock showed the greatest coolness and betrayed not the slightest remorse. Kllllasr Clearly rreaardltate. riear premeditation In hown hy Whitlock'a statements, lie rented the weapon with which the murder was committed from a store at First and Madison streets early yesterday morn Ins, for tho purpose, he said, of de fending himself If tho woman "flew off the handle"" when he brought up the subject of the marriage. Mrs. Bellaire. with Mark Boren. op erated a cleaning and pressing estab lishment on Stark street, near Tenth. She had rooms directly acrosa the street, where her three younne.it chil dren lodged. The eldest of these Is .Harriet. 15. who had been receiving schoolgirl "stentions from Whltlock for several years. The girl Is em ploved In a department store. Last year Whltlock endeavored to obtain .consent to a marriage but failed. He left the city and worked In logging ramps till last Sunday, when he re- turned, hunted up the family and re newed the negotiations. He was strain repulsed, and yesterday set out for a final Interview. Mayer Telia of Deed, t went to the shop." ssld Whlt-lo.-k. "and saw Mrs. Bellaire and Boren. I asked her to go over to the rooms, as 1 wanted to speak to her privately. She- went with me and we sat down and began talking. J told her I loved the girl and she lovTd me, but the woman wouldn't listen to me. and I began throwing things up to her about Boren. Then she slapped me. ran Into the kitchen and got a butcher knife. I tried to grab II. but missed. Then I drew the revolver and fired five times, to ret her before she got me. She still had the knife In her hand when I left her. I pointed tho run any place: It made no difference ;to me. Then I started to the police i station, but a man caught me and 'held me-tlll the police came." "I think 1 did a good turn." con tinued Whltlock. In a matter-of-fact tone. "She tried to put her daugh ters on the bum." i Self-Defease la Deated. Whitlock"s plea of self-defense la denied by three witnesses. Of these. 'Gladys, the 13-year-old daughter of the .murdered woman, was the first to see tlie body. She had been sent by Boren to keep watch because he feared trouble, and she heard the shots and met Whltlock as he came out. He tried to keep her from going In, leaving "I killed her." "But." said the girl, "I slapped him snd pushed by." This witness ssys that the knife lay n a box In the next room. Just where she had left It that morning, ten feet from the corpse. She Is sustained by , Boren and Detective Swennes, both of whom say the knife was on the box. The little girl showed great cool ness, though overcome by grief. Ctrl PraUes Dead Mother. "She was a good mother and I loved her a great deal. She was a very pleasant woman." she told the In quisttor. Only one of five shots took effect, ranging Just below t.ie collarbone. Death was almost Immediate. The body of the woman Is at the Coroner's office, where an Inquest will be held today. Whltlock Is held without ball lor first degree murder. Beside the three children. Harriet, Gladys and Harry, a boy of 11 years, sn older daughter Is married to a brother of Whltlock and lives on the Kast Side, and a son Is with a di vorced husband of Mrs. Bellaire, at Shelton. Was a. Toung WhIUock'a real name Is Torbet, bat his mother died at his birth and bla father disappeared and Is supposed to have died In Alaska. He was adopted by hia uncle. W. T. Whltlock, of Berkeley, on the Estacada ltne, and he calls-that place his home. SLEUTH KILLS SICK CAT Woman Attorney Carries Animal to Station to Be Dispatched. Carrying a squalling cat. much the sorte for a cutaneous disorder. Mrs. Mary Leonard, first woman to be ad mitted to the practice of law In Ore gon, marched into the Police. Station esterday and dumped her burden out of the straw reticule she always car ries, onto the telephone desk oper ated by Patrolman LaSalle. "Take it away." cried tho aston ished officer. "I will not," replied Mrs. Leonard, firmly. "Tho poor thing Is In misery, and tho city ordinances, with which I 'am familiar, make every policeman a humane officer. Therefore 1 demand that you kill it." Not until Patrolman Sherwood, for mer Justice of the Peace, took the dam med feline behind the station and des patched It. would the woman attorney be satisfied. Then she left in triumph. ; PERSONALMENTION. C. H. Carr, of Pasadena, Is at the Portland. W. S. Gribble. of Mount Hood, la at the Cornelius. IL L. Morrison, a Boise merchant, la at tho Oregon. j R, Raley. a Pendleton attorney. Is at the Imperial. ' M. L. Scott, an Omaha bridge-builder, is at tho Bowers. '. K. A. Hull, a merrhaift of Chehalls, is .'rveiotered at the Oregon. i Kdwln P. Hughes, an Ashland mer chant. Is at the Perkins. George H- Adair, a dealer In high explosives at Seattle. Is at the Mult nomah. R, C. Keeney, a Eusene real estate operator, is at the Oregon. K. E. Goodwin, a capitalist of The Dalles, la at the Cornelius. C M. McCauley, a merchant of Klam ath Kails. Is at the Perkins. H. S. McGowan. a canneryman of MrGowan. la at the Imperial. J. W. Johnston, an Astoria business man, is registered at the Imperial. James Mlddleton. a Dallas timber man. Is registered art the Perkins. A. A. Hilton, a carwheel manufactur er of Tacoma. Is at the Multnomah. Jf. C Slmonsen. a real estate pro moter of Sheridan. Is at the Perkins. James P. O'Neill, of Woodland. Is at tho Carlton, en route to New York. Dan J. Moore, of the Hotel Moore, ot Seaside. Is registered at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. J. I Jones, of Vancou ver. B. C. are registered at the Bowers. Judge C. - F. Goodman and Jorgeji Howard, of illllsooro. are rrjuir -i tho Carlton. F. J. Miller. State Railroad Commis sioner. Is registered at the Cornelius from Salem. W. M. Wllev. a beet sugar manufac- t f r. i J Lew Whltlock, Aged 1. Who i Killed Mrs. Margaret Bellaire Yesterday. a turer of Holly. Colo., is registered at the Multnomah. W. IL Kceles. formerly of Ogden. but now In the lumber business at Baker, is at the Oregon. G. de Latour. a California winegrow er, is at the Multnomah, accompanied by Mrs. de Latour. Frank Metchan. proprietor of the Jo sephine Hotel, of Grants Pass. Is a guest of the Imperial. C. K. Spaulrtlng. president of the Spaulding Lumber Company, is regis tered at the Imperial from Salem. Charles Hotchklss. general manager of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company, with headquarters at Tacoma. is at the Multnomah. Everett G. Griggs, president of the St. Paul Tacoma Lumber Company and president of the National Lumber men's Association, is at the Multno mah. CHICAGO. April IS. (Special.) E. L. Man-In. of Portland, Or., Is at the Hotel Sherman. GROWTH CAUSES CHANGE HARTStAV A THOMPSON TO DO BANKING OVLY, HEREAFTER. City Investment Company Tales Over Realty Department and Selling Agcnc. O On account of their Increasing busi ness. Hartman to Thompson, bankers, with headquarters on the ground floor of tho Chamber of Commerce building, will discontinue their city real estate operations and in the future will con duct an exclusive banking business. The City Investment Company, or ganized by A. B. Slauson and C. C. Craig, has taken over the realty de partment and the selling agency of all the properties Improved and placed on the market by Hartman & Thompson. With this change, the banking firm has Incorporated with a capitalization of $100,000. with E. L. Thompson presi dent and J. L. Hartman vice-president. As aoon as the new realty company se cures another location, the bank will occupy the entire space now used by the banking and realty departments. "We have been growing rapidly and have found It necessary to provide ore space for the bank," said K. L. Thompson yesterday. "We decided to devote our attention almost entirely to banking activities and for that reason we disposed of the realty department. The firm In the past five years has handled several million dollars' worth of property and haa met with remark able success in all Its activities, ine new realty firm will continue with the aame force and the same method that we had employed. "On my recent trip abroad I was suc cessful In forming strong financial con nections in London and also in New York. As a result, we expect to bring much English and Eastern capital to Oregon for permanent Investments." A. B. Slauson and C C Craig have been identified with Hartman ft Thompson several years and have had charge of the realty department of the firm. The company organized by them will engage In the buying, selling and development of city and suburban properties. They will continue the pro motion of Rose City Park. Parkrose and Morningslde additions. In ad dition to these properties the City In vestment Company will put on the mar ket a new residential dibtrlct. of which definite announcement will be made in a few days. "The new firm will r.dopt the same methods followed by Hartman tc Thompson the past 15 years," said Mr. Craig. "We have plans under way for the development of new properties. Tho divorcing of the real estate department from the bank will mean a further ex pansion and greater growth for both enterprises." BANK CLEARINGS INCREASE Portland Leads Coast Cities In Per centage of Gain. Portland's bank clearings for the k amounted to I10.S44.000. com pared with $9,430,000 at Seattle. The increase; over the record for the cor responding week of last year was 14.4 per cent, while the gain at Seattle was J per cent. The totals at Sookane were f4.SlC.000 and at Tacoma $4,385,000. The gain In each city was 4.9 per cent. San Fran cisco and Los Angeles also made sub stantial increases. :i.r ' -'IS i I ' -1 i v .: 1 ' - : STAGE 000R SHUTS - . 'Campus Mouser' Coach Bars All CnoMotnpc Mil OpeCldlUI O. ESCORTS LEFT IN COLD Director Doesn't Even Allow Pass port to Hall for Young Men. Secret Practice Observed. Surprise Promised. Won't yu open rtst doah anrt let rauh In? I'm sianuln' here frcvmin. wet to ue akin. (tYlth apolog-les to omcbody). That's the happy, not to say classic, little refrain Portland's dapper society chaps are a-singlng now. and even Frank Riley, he whom everybody lovet, vu among the much-worried ones yes terday and took "The Campus Mouser" coach to task, for fear she had shut the doors on lilm, but. alas, not Frank, above all. And. too. Merle Campbell, who haa been chosen aa assistant prompter (If there Is to be any prompting clna at all). Is whistling to tie refrain and tune. "Tou got to quit klrkln' my time around," for there are those of the 150 In the east of "The Campua Mouser" who are such good actors, born to the manner, as It were, that they are not allowed long spesklng parts, but are ever In demand to watch for their cues, see re I Practice gtara. Be all this as It may or maynot, "dat doah" at Chrlstensen's Hall, where re hearsala are being held for society's big show next Tuesday night and Wednes day afternoon at the HelllR Is the portal past which several of Portland's stage Johnnies would go. If the bar hadn't been placed, for now all re hearsals are being held, as In football parlance. In "secret practice." All of which means lhat there are many new features being carried out and many surprises in store for 1-ortland theater goers next week. The girls have been gently but firm ly informed by Miss Gerrlsh. their direc tor, that when they come to practice they must leave their escorts on the doorstep at the entrance, near Morrison and Eleventh streets, because "the young men will not be allowed pass port to the hall. If you please." Just like that, too. In "them" words. It was a foggy and damp night and dark. too. and one could hear: Ain't dst a shame, a mealy ahame. To keap your honey out In de rain? f.aagplaak Drami I . Tet the ones so "krooly delt with" have not yet stormed the bastile, for Brer Christensen's gangplank is drawn up as soon as all the fair ones have gained entrance, and nPt let down till It la time for them to go home or to Informal dances or dinners following rehearsals. Such Is life on and off the stage, in a real play, but where "we can act. yes. really act: we don't care much." assert all the glris In the specialties. Which reminds us that no one should miss Mrs. Harry Litt In her clever por trayal as leader in the "Parasol Spe cialty." with the chorus of Portland's fair society folk ably assisting. It's great. That's the only adjective one can use. after seeing It. and ev(i Nes clus Nltta, of Punklndorf Station, has declared hia intention of buying a round-trip ticket clear from Punkln dorf to Portland to witness the "first night" production and the matinee per. formance aa well, of "The Campus Mouser" at the Heillg Theater. ELK PEDESTRIAN IS ILL One of Four Men Walking From Missouri Detained. C. B. Johnson, one of the four young men of Brook held. Mo., who are walk ing to the Elks' National convention in Portland in July, has taken sick and ia detained in a small town In Eastern Nebraska. His companions, 11. K. Clark. F. & Lyons and C. D. Stone, are pushing onward toward Portland, and are a day ahead of their schedule. The local commission agrees to pay for the return transportation of those who finish the trip on foot. Elks at various cltlea through which they have passed are entertaining them. George L. Baker, chairman of the Portland parade committee, is arrang ing for decorations along the route which he selected last December, tie will have full charge of this feature of the convention. W. E. Flnzer. Ad jutant-General of the Oregon National Guard, has been named chief of staff lo Jamea R. Nicholson, of , Springfield. Mass- grand esquire, and K. K. Kubll. past exalted ruler of the Portland lodge, has been named an aide to tne grand esquire. He served in a similar capacity at Atlantic City last year. JUNKETERS TO VISIT HERE Prominent Easterners Plan IC-Hour Stay in Portland. Word was received at the Commercial Club yesterday that 12 of the officers of the American Electric Railway Asso ciation and the American Electrical Railway Manufacturers' Association will Islt Portland May 14. remaining about 1 hours. The party, traveling In the special car Advance, left New York April 17, and will be on the road until May SO. Those In the party are: Thomas H. McCarter, president of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey: C. N. Black, vice-president and general manager of the United Rail ways, ot San Francisco: C. Loom Is Al len Syracuse. N. Y.. president of the Newport News and Old Point Railway Company: C. T. Crosby, Wilmington, Del., president of the Wilmington & Philadelphia Traction Company; C. C. Pierce, Boston, district manager Gen eral Electric Company: J. H. McGraw, New York, president McGraw Publish ing Company, and" E. M. Williams, Cleveland, manager of tho street rail way sales department, the Sherwin Williams Company, and others whose names have not been received. AGED WOMAN' FOUND DEAD Mr. Anna Benson Expires Alone In Knott-Street Cabin. Mrs. Anna Benson, an aged and ap parently destitute woman, was found dead In her cabin at TO Knott street yesterday by a neighbor. Patrolman Golts was called and found the woman had died from natural causes. The Coroner took charge of the body. For many years Mrs. Benson has lived alone, protected by a number of wealthy women, led by the late Mrs. W. S. Ladd. She has a cabin erected on the property of the O.-W. R. A N. Com pany, and when changes were made some years ago, tho company carefully moved the cabin to another spot. ty or her protectors, lulred another cabin. j which she rented for $6 a month, and this, so far as Is known, was her only resource. ( Some years ago a man entered the aged woman's cabin and beat her se- Tverely with an iron bar. He is now j serving a term of 20 years in the pen- j ;., .Bncna' ' streetcar accident and received a small amount in damages. f A aon. supposed to be at Eusene, is InO Oni IIOWi iriamc. POUCE AUTO KEPT BUSY Record Smashed for Large Variety of Cnlls. For rapid succession and queer as sortment of calls for the police auto- ' mobile, the record of yesterday morn ing cannot be surpassed in the history of the department, says Drlvet Slierill. who piloted the machine during a variety of Incidents. The day started off with the con veying of a demented man to the Mrs. Harry Lltt, Whose Tarn no I Specialty'' With Parasol Chorus, Is One of Hits of "The Campus Mouser." Courthouse, when he was suddenly seized with a religious mania at the City Jail. Next the wagon cre.v was sent on a hurry-up call to Sixth and Burnside streets, where a man had (alien In a fit. An automobile wrecK came next, and it was no sooner attended to than two drunken men, a white and an Indian, required attention. The car had Just returned with these prisoners, when an alarm came from Tenth and Stark streets, where a mur der had been committed. By the time the prisoner in this case had been deposited at the station, an other automobile accident occurred on upper Washington strett. The rest of the day passed as usiial. WOMAN HELD BEST JUDGE Mrs. Evans Testimony as to Clean liness of Bakery Accepted. Women, ex-officio. qualify as experts In giving testimony on the question of cleanliness, ruled Judge Tazwell yes terday in passing sentence on Alfred Duplus, baker, accused of keeping an unsanitary place. It was a question of opinion between Mrs. Sarah Ann ftvans, market Inspector, on the ono hand, and employes of the place .on the other. Mrs. Evans said that the utensils In the bakery, which Is at 229 Twenty third street, were not kept clean, and that the workmen scooped out lard with their hands. The bakers said that everything waa neat as a pin about their place. Without hearing argument, tho court found the defendant guilty, but his at torney Insisted on being heard, and raised the point that one's opinion of what constituted cleanliness was as good as another's. "I do not agree." said the court. "I think that Mrs. Evans, by nature of her sex. Is the more competent to pass upon the question, and- I shall be guid ed by her statement. The fine will be 50." Y. M. C. A. HAS DAILY TALKS Beginning Tuesday Meetings Will Be Held Throughout Week. Short religious services are to be held at the Portland Young Men's Christian Association twice dally be ginning next Tuesday and continuing throughout the week. They will be conducted by Frank Dickson who was formerly a resident of Portland, but who tor several years has been a member of the Chapman-Alexander evangelistic party. The first meeting will be held Tues day from 12:15 to 12:50 o'clock and a meeting will be held at this hour on SYRUP OF FIGS" FOR (Through the charity Mrs. Benson acquli r T ! m .Miu.ai.ani .i . ... - " I t T : t - - i IT j . - ' I. V- V " ' ii M T ) x T ' i f ii ' "lA ii ' J t T BILIOUSNESS AND CONSTIPATION Better Than Castor Oil, Calomel or Cathartics to Cleanse Your Stomach, Liver and 30 Feet of Bowels Harm less Laxative for Men, Women and Children. Primitive folks did not need laxa tives. They lived outdoors, ate plenty of fruit, and all of their food was coarse. W modern people are differ ent. W exercise too little, eat little fruit, and our food Is too fine too rich. We simply can't have our ten yards of bowels clogged up. liver choked with sour bile and stomach full of foul effete matter and feel well. It means that the food and waste retained In the stomach and thirty feet of bowels fer mentsdecays. The decay creates poi sons, gases and acids, and those poi sons are sucked Into the blood through the very ducts Intended to suck in the nutriment. Then we have sick head ache, become dull, bilious, tongue coat ed, nervous, meals don't digest, and we feel miserable all over. So we must make our choice. We must live like primitive folks, els we must take arti LAND WILL NEVE CHEAPER 4 -T Monday, April 15, at 9 A. M. we opened one of the most remarkable land sales we have ever conducted. We offered the people of Portland their choice of 90o acres of land at a flat price of $50 per acre. We Sell 5 Acres for $250, $10 Cash, $5 Per Month 10 Acres for $500, $20 Cash, $10 Per Month 20 Acres for $1000, $40 Cash, $20 Per Month This land lies near Knappa, 4 mile to K. R. 15 minutes' walk to school and station. is in famous Clatsop Countv, one of the best places in the world to make a home. Our offices have been croAvded night and day. People are going on our ex cursions daily. to build the familv up as well as your neighbors; where fishing and hunting abound; where the busy hum of industry is heard at all times; where the grass grows green every month in the year. That's why our land is selling fast. Why put off coming any longer ? Get in now when the choice pieces are not sold. Get in and pick out your piece of land. Get a home now. $10 cash is all you need. $5 per month is all you will have to pay. Better shirt todav. Come in and bring your wife and neighbors and talk to us about it. YVe know it's the place you are looking for. Office open evenings until 9 o'clock. QatsoD County Laed Second Floor, 212 Railway each following; day. Evening meet ings will be held from 7 to 7:4o o clock. Tho meetings are open to all men. Mr. Dickson la said to be an unusual ly entertaining speaker. He is also a vocalist of ability and will sins at all of his meetings. STREET WIDENING URGED S. Benson Says He Favors SeTenth Strect Improvement. s S. Benson, a wealthy Fortland resi dent and owner of two parcels of prop erty fronting on Seventh stret, has ad dressed a letter to Mayor Rushlight, urging the proposed widening of Sev enth street between Burnside and Hoyt street. Mr. Benson said that ho had signed tho remonstrance against tho proposed Improvement under a misunderstanding, but since Investi gating the situation he was In hearty INDIGESTION, ficial means to move the excess bile and waste matter on and out of the system. The safest, most harmless and ef fective stomach, liver and bowel cleanser and regulator for men, women and children is delicious Syrup of Figs, which doesn't Irritate, gripe or weaken. Its effect is the effect of fruits. It is composed entirely of lus cious figs, senna and aromatics. Don't think you are drugging your self. Syrup of Figs can be constantly used without harm. Ask your druggist for "Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna," and se? on the label that it is prepared by The California Fig Syrup Company. This Is the only genuine the old reliable. Re fuse, with contempt, the so-called Fig Syrup imitations sometimes offered to deceive you. IN WESTERN OREGON ' T . - -y., a. " ' - ft ' - KVKRY VUIETY OF VEGETABLE IS GROWN IX CLATSOP COCXTl Because deep down in every man's heart is the desire to own a piece of land; a place where one can live independent oni -nf rionpnrJ nn warps: a nlace where there is a chance a aw CHARLES DELFEL, Sales Agent. Exchange Building:, on Stark, Between Third and Fourth Streets accord with the movement. . His let ter follows: I signed a protest or remonstrance against tho proposed widening of lower Seventh street through a misunderstanding of the situation. Since, however, 1 havp looked into thf matter, and tlna inn u ni Froolble Trouble yourself to see that the meat -you eat is pure and whole some and that is very little trouble. All you have to do is to ask to see the Government in spection stamp, which is the best guarantee in the -world. It costs you no more than uninspected meat then why run any risk? TXSIST nnnn vonr dealer GoVFRJTMElfT cTlMP on an meais you uuj. in Uncle Barn's guarantee or clean, meats. UNION MEAT COMPANY PIONEER PACKERS OF THE PACIFIC Producers "Columbia Brand" Products R BE ANY ....v! L' L.. great benefit to the city at large and to the street, and, therefore, wish to have my name withdrawn from the protest and fur ther, to bo recorded In favor of the widen ing. It is not my intention, nor has it evei been, to Interfere with the progress and growth or ine otty. 138 ahowinir Ton US 0; ixean wnoieaomo of the famous nv.Co