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u. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 16, 1908. 3 I i It GIRL'S LETTERS TO Schooled by Her IVbther, She Offers Love and Asks for Money. PROMISES HIM HAPPINESS Missives Which Kx posed Depravity of Minister's Family Head at the Snell Trial Will Contest tJoes to (lie Jury. CLINTON. III.. Feb. 13. (Special.) The letters of EIna Hamilton (known also as "P"). daughter of Rev. H A. Hamilton, to the late millionaire. Tom Snell, were made public today. Like her mother's to SnelJ, Elna's contain many'" requests for money. A letter dated September 5, lfclS. urged Colonel Snell to vMt the Hamilton home and make Elna happy. It reads: My dearest and btst friend: I got the letter that, you s.-nt me and also the flu. Thank you. 1 on o hauiiy. Come over .bout. Saturday and make me so Unsay. I will be so rood to you. Mamma and I went to IndianapollH and got a new coat for $3o. Please send mo $-0; I know you will. I will do all I csn ' to make vou happy. 1 know you -will eond it to m. Lota of love and kisses PET. Wants a Silk Dress. Aifain, October 8, Elnu wrote: My tlearest and best friend: I' ran", Imagim; nliat yon must think of me for not writing to you biTore this. I became lck and could not ro to lndlcnanolls with Mamma. I yas so disappointed that you did not set to vir!t us. You will come aoon. won t you? it you do. It will make me to happy. We will all live with you when Papa stops preaching. All the Rlrls here have plain sl!k dresses. 1 always look to you for anything I want and I know you will get It for mo. Vou always Kive it to mc. 1 only want $10 now to set the dress. If you send It to me I will make you the happiest man on earth. With lots of love and kisses. PKT. Wants Money to Learn Music. November 14, 1006, she wrote: I sot your letter last Friday night. 1 was orry when I sot home that you were gone. Aunt Annie was here that evening and I had to be very careful what I said. Thank you for the locket: I am bo proud of it. I must Rive you a kiss when I see you. Next Tuesday T am 10 years old. What I want most Is the money to go to school. Mamma fays you will send me to Jacksonville next Kail. 1 want to study music and 1 need money. I am the youngest pupil In my class. Oceans of Jove and kisses. ETNA. Buy Her Home at Blooming-ton. A letter received by Colonel Snell July 21, 1!W5, from Etna, said: My dearest and best friend. When I re ceived the clothes you sent me. Mamma aid: "What nice clothes for you to wear to school." I will try and make you happy and be your little sweetheart, at Leota was It will not be long until I go to school. I have to trouble you somewhat, but I know you will get a nice lot of clothes for me if I will be your sweetheart. Mamma says you are going to get us a home In Bloomington and that we will live with you. Oh. how nice that will be! We will go out driving every day and I will be so good to you. Mamma worries all the time over money matters. We have no home and that trou bles her same. I am ashamed of this poor little house that we live in. Please send me the $.M) you told mamma you would give me and write me a nice letter. I will try to make you happy apd will try to b nice to you. Oh. how I hope you will buy us a home in Bloomlngton and that we can ill live with you. My dresses are getting kind of shp.bby and the things you sent will help a whole lot. Please send me some aioney. 1 will be so nice to you. Lots of ove and kteses. Your little sweetheart. PET. Love and Hugs Wants Money. Another letter says: My .iearest and best friend: I am tshamed of myself for not answering your letter sooner. I received the check you sent me for my birthday and I was very thankful for the Jio. I will do anything to make you happy If you will only be good to me The girls here are trying to get their Spring suits made as quickly as pos sible. If you will send me . money, I will get better clothes than anybody else in school. I am so lonesome today. I was in Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. I looked In the windows and wished I had money to buy the clothes I saw. Honestly I love you. The cloak you gave me is nicer than any one of the other girls have here at school. I must get this letter finished so as to get It oft In a hurry. Lots of love and hugs. PET. There are a number of other letters of the same sort from Etna, all mixed manifestations of love and requests for money. Case Goes to Jury. The will casa went to the jury late this afternoon. Judge Cockrane's in- struotlons are regarded as favorable to the defenders of the will. In particu lar, he told the jurors that a man might be a moral leper and still make a sound will and that the proof of mental and moral depravity does not disprove testamentary capacity. PUT SLEUTHS ON TRAILS (Continued From First Page.) ment for $200,000 in an action of con tract against Charles W. Morse, of New York, was filed here today. The plaintiffs are John C. Reld and Louis Kuehne. of New Jersey. The nature of the suit is not known here. OFFERS TO SETTIE WITH FISTS Bank President Charged With Em bezzlement Is Confident. CARSON, Nev.. Feb. 15. Thomas B. Rickey, president of the State Bank & Trust Company, was arrested late this afternoon on a charge of embezzlement. The warrant was sworn by K. M. Bo halt, who states that he Is a depositor and that the bank, received deposits knowing that it win Insolvent. The war rant charges embezzlement under the law passed during the legislature of a year ago. Mr. Rickey, upon being served with the warrant, went before a justice of the peace and was placed under a $10,000 bond. As soon as the bond, which la re turnable Monday at 2 o'clock, was filed, Mr. Rickey left for his home. He stated that there was nothing in the proceedings that he feared in the least, "that the bank is and has been solvent, especially the time the last de posit was made," and that he did not have to furnish bonds to be present at any Investigation, either before the grand jury or the public. Mr. Rickey and the District Attorney passed a number of very warm remarks at the hearing before the justice, and Mr. Rickey offered once to take the attor ney outside and settle the affair. Michigan Bank Bankrupt. GRAND RAJ-IDS. Mien.. Feb. 16. M E I Petition was filed in the United States Court to declare Lyle, Gatce & Co., private bankers of DowaKiac. Mich., 4 bankrupt alike as a co-partnership and individually. Liabilities are placed at I 1270.000. represented by R00 depositors. Assets are scheduled at $320,000. Price Not Yet Known. KEW YORK. Feb. 15. Until he hears ) from two checks submitted Friday with I the bids of Stephen L.. Tingley and A. K. Reed, of Boston, for S,440,000 of city bonds. Controller Metz will be unable to announce the exact price at which the toO.000,000 of New York City 4'4 per cent bonds told yesterday. FIFTY COLLEGES COMPETE Fifth Annual Federal Indoor Games at Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Fifty col leges and 12 schools of 12 different cities were represented at the fifth Re newal of the Federal indoor games held tonight at Convention Hall. The pro gramme consisted of 28 events, 14 of which were relay races. Among those who competed were several National champions and intercollegiate champ ions. Partial summary: Putting 12-pound shot, scholastic M. J. Sheridan, Irish-American A. C, 52 feet, 8 inches, won; A. Strypp, Mer cersburg, 50 feet, 6 inches, second. Fifty-yard open handicap hurdle J. lNs! sg I M W! M ' 3' ' M k 5 j j - vf; p I Charles V. Morse, the bankrupt banker, who will be arrested on his return from England today, and bis house, which waa seized for debt.1. Hartranft, University of Pennsylvania, 3M feet handicap, won; T. E. Smith, of Georgetown Preparatory School, scratch, second. Time. 6 2-5 seconds. One mile, open handicap F. G. B. Breyer, Johns Hopkins University, 45 yards handicap, won; B. F. P. Brencon, Johns Hopkins University, 45 yards handicap, second. Time, 4:35 1-5. NEXT MEETIXG AT PITTSBURG American Bowling Congress Elects Same Officers. CINCINNATI, O.. Feb. 15. The Amer ican Bowling Congress this afternoon se lected Pittsburg as the next meeting place. The old officers were unanimously re-elected, headed by Augustus Herrman, of Cincinnati for president. Mr. Herrman appointed J. H. Haager, Robert Bryson, J. W. McCormick, William D. Alexander and Samuel Karpf as a conference com mittee. Woodbury and Stoike, of Chicago, who held the Canadian Bowling Association championship for two-men teams, defeat ed Richter and Bigely, of Louisville, the A. B. C. champions, in the two-men team championship contest this afternoon by a score of 1155 to 1133. Woodbury and Stoike will meet Smith and Dunbar to decide the championship In this class. Protests were filed today against Smith and Dunbar, playing as substi tutes for Tuthill and Nelson, the Na tional Bowling Association champions In the two-men championship contest, announced as a special event for this afternoon. Owing to the lateness of the protest the tournament committee decided to allow Smith and Dunbar to play, the question of ineligibility be ing left for later decision, and the substitute team at once began the con test with a great run, leading Its op ponents by nearly 100 on a score by Smith and Dunbar of 424 in the first game. Smith and Dunbar made a total score of 1259, or five pins higher than the best score in the regular runs of the present congress. Their first opponents, Volght and Everhard, of Kansas City, the Western Bowling Association champions, scored only 1065. The best score of the morn ing was made by Nelson and Morsek, of Chicago, 1245. giving them third place in the two-men team standings. The highest scores In the first four shifts of the Individual events were: Charles Karlson. Chicago, 654: Charles G. B. Bahn. Louisville, 628; F. Woodbury, Milwaukee, 622. J. Noonan, of the Canadian champions, won the individual international match by a score of 1666 In nine games. The other scores were: Marshall Levy, In dianapolis, 1567; F. Sauer, New York, 1562; J. F. Morris. Seattle, 1521. The International two-men matches will be played tomorrow. The Ave highest scores In the five-men events were as follows: Century, Chi cago, 2706; Dornsbach. Chicago, 26S6; Kloppenburg, Cincinnati, 2661; Lipmans, Chicago, 2601; Koerners, Milwaukee, 2571. Mackay Companies. Prosperous. BOSTON. Feb. 15. Clarence E. Mackay, president of the Mackay companies, at the meeting held in Boston today, said that notwithstanding the financial trou bles and business depression, the Mackay companies and their allied companies during each of the past three months have been, and are still, earning more than the amount necessary to pay divi dends on the preferred shares of the Mackay companies. - Maine Anniversary In Havana. HAVANA. Feb. 15. The tenth anniver sary of the destruction of the Maino was observed here today with customary cere monies. Probably this was the last time the wreck will be decorated, as it is ex pected It will be removed within the year to clear the entrance to wharves to be built. Jnnctlon City Votes Bonds. JUNCTION CITY, Or., Feb. 15. (Spe cial.) Bonds were voted today for tho erection of a high school. MAKE NO PROGRESS Engineers and Owners Cannot Adjust Differences. THREE PROPOSITIONS MADE All Turned Down and Second Sleet ing Called Owners Reserve Right to Knforce Edict of Reduction, Which Will Mean Lockout. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15. At the meeting today in the offiices of A. B. Hammond between the committees rep resenting the Shipowners and Marine En gineers in the coastwise lumber trade, the submission and Uie rejection of two propositions by the engineers, the turn ing down of a single proposition advanced by the Shipowners and a parting with 5 v P p- I ' t"P ii -CP P-wWUwW f the understanding that a second meeting would be held at an early date, were the developments' in the controversy of the Marine Engineers' Association and the Shipowners' Association today. By their first proposition the engineers proposed a way out of the difficulty through the Adoption of a schedule where by the manning of a vessel should be i-e-termlned by the number of miles in the voyage. Limit for Two Engineers. From San Francisco to Eureka on the north and Point Conception on the south, they proposed should be the maximum voyage for a vessel carrying but two en gineers. The committee of the owners de clined to accept the proposition. A second and more complicated arrange ment. In which the number of engineers should be fixed according to the amount of cargo carried by a vessel was also re jected by the owners. Accoruing to this proposition vessels carrying over 500,000 feet of lumber should have a crew of three engineers. On vessels carrying less, two engineers, and where the cargo was more than a million feet four engineers were necessary. Engineers Ask More Time. An attempt was made by the owners to rate engine crews according to the horse power of the boilers, but this re sulted, in the dispute being brought no nearer to a close than ever. The engineers' committee asked until Wednesday to lay the matter before the organization which they represented, but no promise of that much delay was given, the owners retaining the right to enforce at any moment their former edict of a re duction in all crews, which will result in a lockout. EUIIDTXG TRADES ORGANIZE Form. Department Subsidiary to the American Federation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Organization was completed today or the .building trades department of the American Fed eration of Labor. The organization, which is to be subsidiary to the American Federation of Labor, Is composed of the members of the National and interna tional building trades ' organizations which are affiliated with the Federation. A constitution was adopted today, officers were elected, and it was decided that the next convention of the body, which is to be the head of the various building trades organizations of the country, should be held In Denver next November. The constitution provides that the pres ident of the body shall receive an annual salary of $2200; the secretary-treasurer, $2000, and the five vice-presidents a per diem stipend while actually attending to the business of the organization. The of ficers elected were: President, J. H. Kirby, Chicago; secretary-treasurer, J. B. Spencer. Cleveland; vice-presidents, W. J. MoSorley (Ohio), Gorme Hedrlck i A 1 hanv M V 1 KVnnt nv.n tr-v,i , James Hannahan (Chicago) and C. L.' true t.xew jersey;. FIGHT RCXIXG IN BUCK CASE Organized Labor to Raise $100,000 to Carry It to Supreme Court. NEW YORK. Feb. 15. New York labor unions last night contributed about $o)09 to the fund asked for by President Sam uel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, for the purpose of fighting the Injunctions issued by the District of Co lumbia courts in the suit against the Federation by the Buck Stove & Range Company. The suit is to determine the right of the federation to blacklist manu facturers who do not employ union la bor. The cases are to be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Federation officers have appealed to the unions for $100,000 to fight them. It is said the appeal will bring $50,000 within a month, of which sum the New York unions are expected to subscribe $20,000. Metzger fits glasses for 11.00. Wlhut dliiP Ftall'HT Will WiMi lOTlMl Will When we advertise that One Dollar is all you pay and you get the article 'without delay, we mean it. - There is no string attached to this offer. We cannot state our offer in plainer words. And don't lose sight of the fact that behind every dollar's worth of goods you buy stands our dignified, generous and just credit system that removes from your mind all worry of after pay ments. Pay $1 on any of the articles shown Hardwood Sideboard, oval French bevel mirror, swell top C00 Cf) and top drawers; price. s)fcfcvll Terms, $1.00 Down, $1.00 a Week. Powers' SEVEN DEAD 111 COLLISION EXGIXB PLOWS IXTO STREET CAR OX GRADE CROSSING. Motornian Disregards Conductor's Signal and Sends Car Across the Track as Train Comes. TOLEDO. O., Feb. IS. Seven persons were killed and a dozen Injured when a Big Four passenger train struck a Toledo & Western electric at the Michgan Cen tral crossing In West Toledo tonight. The dead are: JAMBS METERS, motorman, Toledo. ROY FISHER, West Toledo. MRS1 WILLIAM FISHER, West Toledo. CLARENCE BEECH. Sylvanla. MRS. CLARENCE BEEiH. ' TWO BEECH CHILDREN. According to an eye-witness of tho wreck, which occurred shortly after 8 o'clock, tho conductor stopped at the crossing to flag the car across. Seeing the train coming, he motioned the motor man to stop, but this signal was either misunderstood or not seen or disregarded, for the car came ahead with sickening result. The Fixer was late, and, according to witnesses, was rushing toward Detroit at nearly a mile a minute. The big inter urban car was caught squarely In the middle, lifted high In the air and thrown ISA feet. i'lib Head and Injured were piled to a heap. The dead were carried Into the West Toledo station of tho Lake Shore and the injured rushed to hospitals. One of the intensely pathetic features of the wreck was an unidentified woman about 40 years of age. who met death with her young son clasped In her arms. The mother was Instantly killed, but the child lived several minutes and tried to rouse) his mother from her death stupor. An other son of the woman met instant deatn. Clayton Toung. S4 years old. Sylvania, O., had both legs broken and was Inter nally injured: will die. Chester Burns. 30 years, Sylvania, chest crushed: will die. Hiram Parker, 65 years, skull fractured, injured Internally: will die. CHANGE THE SHERMAN LAW Civic Federation Considering Plans for Amendments. CHICAGO, Feb. 15. The report of the subcommittee of the executive council of the National Civic Federation, which has been considering plans for amending the Sherman anti-trust law, was out lined here tonight by Ralph M. Easley, chairman of the council. A delegation of 25 persons from this city will attend the public hearings to be held before the ju lllbX3k below and we will deliver it to your home. JlWin The Celebrated Allwin Go-Cart, only satisfactory col- C10 Cft lapsible cart; price J)ltuU Terms, $1.00 Down, $1.00 a Week. Great. Three-Room Outfit Terms $10.00 Down $2.50 a Week Jewel Ranges 15-Year Guarantee $1 Down $1 Week Iron Bed, in cream enamel jr Ver nis Martin, 1 1-16-inch posts, extra heavy castings and Clyl (Ifl chills; price J I't.UU Terms, $1.00 Down, $1.00 a Week. diciary committee of the House and Senate, March 6 and 7. "The subcommittee has approved and proposed changes in the laws so as to permit what are really harmless combi nations,"' said Mr. Easley tonight. "It is the desire to make the laws more direct In their workings and change them so as to allow proper expansions in business and Industry. The two subjects have been under consideration: "First, taking the railroads from under the Sherman act and by enlarging the scope of the Interstate commerce act, al lowing them to enter 4nto freight and passenger agreements and labor contracts under certain restrictions. "Second Changing the present laws so as to permit more freedom in labor, agricultural and Industrial agreements which are now so restricted that It is difficult to determine what Is a legal working agreement." VICTIM OF SGML FREE EX - STATE SENATOR HARRY BUNKERS TO BE PAROLED. Mixed Vp in California Building and Ixan Graft Affair Released for Turning State's Evidence. SAN FRANCISCO, CaL. Feb. 15. (Spe cial.) The doors of San Quentln Prison will swing open tomorrow morning and Harry Bunkers, ex-State Senator from San Francisco, will go forth on parole. Bunkers has been In prison since May, 1905. He has two more years to serve, but in view of the fact that he turned state's evidence after his conviction, le niency has been extended to him. His faithful little wife burst into tears to night when a telegram reached her sum moning her to the prison to greet her husband, once again a free man. The crime for which Bunkers was sent to prison formed part of one of California's greatest legislative scan dals. A great cry had been raised against the local Building and Loan Associations In 1905 and the Legislature of that year appointed an investigating committee. On the committea were Senators (Harry Bunkers and ' Frank French of San Francisco. E. J. Emmons of Bakersfield and Ell Wright- of San Jose. It soon became known to the Building and Loan men that the four Senators were out rough shod for coin. A trap was laid. Three companies got together and raised a fund and paid each of the four Senators $350 in con sideration for which the Senators had agreed to whitewash the contributing companies. The bills were marked and the en tire transaction was witnessed by de tectives, who had been previously em ployed. A dramatic exposure was made on the floor of the Senate. The four men were expelled from the Legisla ture. Bunkers was tried first and con victed. Then he turned state's evidence TRADE MARK FOLDING GO-CART Terms $10.00 Down $2.50 a Week Ajax Steel Range $33 $1 Down $1 Week and his testimony convicted Emmons. French, by a slip, escaped conviction, and Wright fled the state. SMASHES NOSE; PAYS FINE Ex-Supreme Judge in Nevada Even9 Old Score With Attorney. RENO, . Nev., Feb. 15. Ex-Supreme Judge Massey, of Nevada, this afternoon pleaded guilty to the charge of assault before Justice of the Peace Bell and was fined So. Massey took occasion to thrash Attorney J. B. Dixon in the office of the County Recorder here this afternoon,! and the blood was flowing freely from Dixon's nose when the attorneys were separated by a Deputy Sherin. The fight was the culmination of a'rudge of long standing which has cropped out several times dur ing the legal caees in court, and resulted in a severe reprimand to both attorneys by the court. TENDENCY IS TO COMBINE Commerce Commission Answers Till man's Question About Railroads. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. 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Bed room, Dining-Room and Kitchen furnished com plete, from the most important piece of furni ture down to the most insignificant articles. Ell t I CT m hi - -. --a reiterated, and that express companies have large Interests in the railroad?, is pointed out In a report which the Senate has received from the Interstate Com merce Commission in response to Senator Tillman's resolution asking whether any corporations engaged In Interstate com merce own any of the capital stock of other corporations transporting passen gers and freight. Some of the greatest authorities on ra dium now incline to the belief that It Is a compound rather than a chemical element. No Stndents-No Gas-No Cocaine We Set the Pace SPECIALISTS IN PAINLESS DENTISTRY NERVOUS PEOPLE and - those afflicted with heart weakness can have their teeth extracted and filled without any pain or bad results. 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