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SALEM. OUEGOX, FKIDAV, JANUARY 27, 1911.
NO. 23.
LETTIIE(
THE WHOLE TRUTH GOME 0
TASY
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CHARGES BE IDE
THEN HEAR STEIf,
1 PEOPLE WANT FACTS
WITH POLITICS LEFT OUT -STEINER
WILL GIVE THEM
Superintendent Says: "I Have Nothing to Conceal in My Ad
ministration of the AsylumTurn on the Searchlight
Let the Legslature Come Out and See the Institution for
Themselves, or I Will Be Glad to Go Before It and Answer
Any Questions.
lER'S S
SPECIFIC
IDE OF IT
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I . About Jap Immigration.
The people are entitled to know the
whole truth about the Oregon Insane
Asylum. The charges against the ad
ministration under Acting Governor
Benson and Uowernian, and Superin
tendent Steiner are not being Investi
gated, and the proposition to have a
Joint committee extend Its operations
over Into 1913 and probably cause an
extra session of the legislature are
not In the Interest of the truth and
the taxpayers.
Let the Truth Come Out
The Bpecial legislative committee
that made its report to the legislature
on conditions at the asylum made a
wry brief investigation and two of
lie committee did not act. Not a
(ember of that committee spent a
moment on the wards and not a mem
ber of the Marion county delegation
has visited the Institution and made
any investigation whatever. A reso
lution was introduced this afternoon
by Reynolds calling for an investiga
tion In committee of the whole, and
summoning Superintendent Steiner
before the bar of the house or a Joint
convention of both houses and let him
tell his side of the story of the
charges, and allow any member of
either house to question bim on any
matter connected with his administra
tion, and let the facts come out from
such an open hearing, where nothing
Is covered up and where nq political
animosity or concealed motive can
play any part in the investigation.
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Nig Storm in Idaho.
Washington, Jan. 27. A new
treaty between Japan and the
United States, which eliminates
all reference to coolie immlgra-
tion is about to be presented
for ratification, according to re-
ports today. If the proposed ar-
gument is reached, each nation
will be allowed to regulate the
influx of foreigners as it sees
fit. The clause in the old treaty
by which the United States has
been able to force Japan to
check its coolie output will be
dropped.
The people are entitled to know the
truth, and in justice to Superintend
ent Steiner, who has been known as
a high-minded and progressive ad
ministrator of the insane asylum, let
him be heard. That would let light
on the whole situation, and not have
another colored report mixed up with
politics, and not wait for a long
winded investigation after the legis
lature has adjourned.
Explain theAppropriutions.
Superintendent Steiner would also
be given a chance under this resolu
tion, o explain the needs of the in
stitution, and the reasons for asking
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Only This Week Left of Our Annual
CLEARING SALE
Avail yourself of this opportunity to get big bargains and Jsave money.-
MONEY
SAVING
BARGAINS
Boise, Idaho, Jan. 27. Traf
fic is congested, tracks washed
out and much live stock has
been lost as a result of a flood
raging in Northern Bannock and
Southern Bingham counties.
Water stands in the streets of
Pocatello, Bancroft, Ross Fork
and Blackfoot in some places
to a depth of three feet.
Property has suffered dam
age in other cities of Southeastern
Idaho.
The flood 13 considered as
among the worst of recent years.
It was caused by a Chinook wind
which melted the snow, cora-
blned with a rain storm which
began Wednesday and still con-
tinues.
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Juneau, Alaska, Jan. 27.
Hundreds of native Alaska Indi
ans are dying of tuberculosis,
whicih is sweeping the nation
like a plague. The government
boat, Rush, has just returned
here from an extended tour
of Inspection of the Alaska na
tions, End Surgeon Hasseltiue
declared that it is only a ques
tion of li'me before the nat'.ona
are vipc! out. . In the Kllllsnoo
natian, vhich has 336 members,
40 deaths: from consumption
occurred in six weeks.
DGTflLIlG
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LATTER IS "IflSIIIUflTlflG"
AS TO FAVORITE SHERIFFS
WHO ARE AGAIflST THE DILL
It All, Came Up in Committee of the Whole Where the Bill Pro
viding for Employing County Prisoners Was Up for Discus
sionThe Senate Talked for Some Hours, and Then the
Committee of the Whole Arose and Reported Progress
Along the Lines of Conversation, as There Was Nothing
Elss to Report On.
Packer Schenk Maunders Like
a. Maudlin Irsihman Half
Drunk on Sfale Holland Beer
WARBLES LIKE A . PARROT
His Statements Indicate That He I
An Imbecile, and Also That the,
, Family Has Been Getting in Its
Work in Loading the Old Man's
Mind Against His Wife She May
He a Criminal, Hut There Is No
Doubt of Him llcing a Fool.
Profit cuts no figure during our annual CleaM
ance sale. If you want anythnig in the ladies'
wearng apparel now s your tme to buy, as we
are showing no mercy to prices,
Ladies' $18, $20 and $25 Suits
Like the Picture now only $7.90,
$8.90, $10.50 and $12.50.
Ladies' Coats, Like the Picture,
$10.00, $12.50, $18.50 and $25.00
Values, Now Only $4.50, $5.90
$8.50 and $12.50.
These suits and coats are 1910 nad 1911
newest styles and materials, now on sale
half price and less.
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Girls' $8.00 and $10.00 Coats, Now
$2.90 $3.50 and $4.50.
GOODS
AND SILKS
ep foremost in your mind. the Chicago
T6 u.en you wan dress goods and
Z? v'e do the business in these de
Panments and are giving the values to our
customers
Upess 00fisi yard 25c, 35c, 49c, 65c and
25c, 35c, 49c, 65c, 75c and up
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The
Greater
Buying all our goods direct from the man
ufacturers leaves us in a position to offer
you unapproachable bargains
Remnants of fine wool dress goods now
only half-price
8 1 -3c and 10c linen finished percales, all
colors, now only, yard 5c
Hundreds of big barganis in our wash
goods department
Remnants of ginghams, outing flannels,
calicoes and percales at half-price
Chicago Store o
Salem
regon
I UNITED rilBflS LBASBD WIRE )
Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 27. In the
first statement he has given to any
one since the beginning of the case
against fiis wife, Laura Farnsworth
Schenk, for alleged attempts to kill
him by poison, John O. Schenk, mil
lionaire packer, today, to the United
Press, laid bare his mind on the sub
ject. Seen at the home of his Bister,
Mrs. Mary Dnepkin. Schenk looked
well and hearty.
"I want to tell the world through
the United Press what I think what
I have thought, how I feel and what
I intend to do," he s:tid. "There 1b a
time for everything, and this the time
to talk."
(Copyright, 1911, by the United
Press.)
(By John O. S'henk.)
What can I sayl first of the trial?
I hoped against hope for a convic
tion. I was hardly surprised at the
disagreement, for I had followed
closely the progress of the case. I
saw how Mrs. Schenk's attorneys
were playing solely on the sympa
thies of the jurors. We pinned our
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VIENNA HOLDS KECOHI)
! FOR NUMRER OF SUICIDES
, 'Hum axsTii Beau a aaxiNQ
Vienna, Jan. 27. Vienna exceeded
every other city In the world in its
suicides during 1910, according to fig
ures made public today. A rate of
four attempts at self destruction per
day was established. Of these, 5G7
were successful. Eight hundred and
ninety-one failed.
Four "suicide clubB" were found
by the police. Boys and girls formed
the membership of one. Of the sue
cessful suicides more than 100 were
under 18 years of age.
The men suicides outnumbered the
women "3' to v T.' ' Hanging - Was em
ployed lnr a-'raajority ;( 'instances.
The oldest victim was 90; the young
est, 12. '.'' - i
NEVADA GETS GOOI
V - "ITT OCT THB LIGHT'
. (united rams- leisbd wins.
Carson, Nev., Jan. 27, Cigarettes
and the "maklns"' are to go under
the ban in Nevada. ' The state senate
passed a bill making It unlawful to
sell or give away either cigarettes or
papers, and the house 1b expected to
take: similar action.,
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, Gops Hack ou His I'nl.
' UKIT1D TRE88 I.E18ED Willi. 1
Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 27. After
forcing from Roy Fox, self-confessed
car bandit, a betrayal of his pal in
the daring hold-up of an Interurban
car Wednesday night, the police to
day are searching for Sam Baron, de
clared by Fox to be the second rob
ber.
DESTITUTION
BY CLOSING
FISHERIES
Marshfleld, Jan. 27. The reports
from Curry county Indicate that a
deep interest in the bili to allow com
mercial fishing on the Rogue river.
The hglglature was never so closely
watched In this part of Oregon. Sus
pension of fishing on the Rogue river
is working a great hardship on the
working class here, who have no oth
er employment. Clos'ng of the
canneries means no vessels into Gold
Beach, where supplies are running
low, and many families will be des
titute before long. Nothing but res
toration of the fishery, at least to the
head of tide water, will gave that
section from paralysis of all Industries.
COWBOYS
WAHTED BY
miens
MADEKO, WHO WAXTS TO ENTAIL
LIMH A EW RKITKMC l OR
THEKV MEXICO, TltVIXG TO
HIKE AMERICANS TO All) HIM
Ever assuming that he has a little I
hit iiuti'a tntnlllo-anno thnn nnv nthoi
senator in the senate and that when
he bursts forth in some oratorical
display from time to time that the
wholo world pauses and listens and
applauds, Senator Malarkey, of Mult
nomah, this morning in the senate
carried that assumption to Senator
Carson, of Marlon, with the view per
haps of getting a little laughter and
applauBe at his expense with the re
sult that the Marion county senator
hurled back at him a broadside of
sarcasm and invective that made the
Multnomah senator let go lor a mo
ment of the flying itngs, forget the
rock-bound hills of Maine and the
everglades of Florida and come back
to the green earth.
Mn turkey Hum Favorite Sheriff.
. The clash - between the .two. oc
curred shortly after the senate had
resolved itself into ' a committee of
the whole to consider good road bills,
The first taken up was that of Sena
tor Carson' providing for the employ
ment of county and city prisoners on
road work. Senator Malarkey moved
that it be indefinitely postponed. He
gave as hia reasons that it was a
duplicato of the convict bill paused
yesterday afternoon at least part so,
and further contended that the pres
ent law was good enough as the peo
ple the people are always the burden
of Ills Hong had applied the referen
dum to It and sustained It.
"I am making no attack on the sen
ator's favorite sheriff," purred Sena
tor Car so nt upon gaining the floor to
reply, "notwithstanding the fact that
there him been a sheriff lobby hereto
defeat the bill. The bill Is one en
dorsed by the good roads movement
and lias for Its object the turning
over of all county and city prisoners
to the county court to use them In th
construction of roads, and If passed
will solve In a large measure the hobo
problem. .
"I don't want to interfere with
Portland," he sarcastically continued,
"because If I did the senator would
want to make a speech and I want it
distinctly understood that what I say
with reference to the bill does not ap
ply to Portland, but juBt to the rest
of the state; and notwithstanding the
distinguished opinion of the senator,
I believe that the bill is one of merit.
A vote was then taken and the mo
tion lost.
The officer referred to by Senator
Carson Is Sheriff R. L. Stevens, of"
Multnomah county who has been
hanging around the lobby of the sen
ate' for several days The bill In (lie
event that It passes will turn the pris
oners over to the county court and'
the county will have, to pay their
board durin the time it employs them.
As the law exists now the sheriff'
feeds them at so much per, and it I
perhaps because that the bill is reach
ing down Into his pockets and taking
away some of the profits which be
longs to the office that a lobby is be
ing maintained against it as charged
by Carson.
SoiiicImmIt Illundrreir.
When his motion went down In de
feat Senator Malarkey immediately
made another which was to the effect
that the bill be referred back to the
committee on roads and highways.
In speaking In behalf of hlft motion,
he took occasion again to remind
Senator Carson that the bill was In
part a duplicate of Ihe convict bill
pasRed yesterday and accused the
senator of not having rend It or being;
(Centlnued on page five.)
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Young Men's Overcoats
CKITID TIERS LliBKD Will.
Huachuca, Ariz., Jan. 2". A Mexi
can recruiting officer was reported to
day visiting towns in this vicinity en
deavoring to get recruits for the Mex
ican rebel army. CowboyB along the
border are said to be In sympathy
with the Insurrection and willing to
Join the Madero forces If well paid.
A former Arizona ranger haH offered
to. organize 100 men for service In
Sonora It Is reported. At Agua I'rle
ta and south of there rebels were re
ported active. It was said today that
500 cases of 30-30 rifle cartridges
have been sold here within the last
six weeks.
Madero has planned to pimh his
campaign in Sonora. seizing all ports
of entry, establish a new republic and
seek recognition from the United
States, It is reported.
Sizes 28 to 34 Ages 7 to 18
years,
We have reduced the price, on
these garments 33 1-3 per
cent, It will pay you to stock
up for a year,
Newest styles in cut and pat
tern, $9.00 Coats $6.00
$6.00 Coats $4.00
Salem Woolen
Mill Store
SpeciaUn Shirts 95c and foe
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