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mum SOU 33L SALEM, OREGON. WEDXESDAV. AUGUST 30, 1911. NO. 207. SSIOPJ AID IT IS FEATURES MAIN OF A BIG STACK OF CHAFF BY THE PATIENT REPORTER Covers the Ground Minutely, From Licensing Doctors and. Lawyers, to Regulating Poultry and Making it "Unlawful for a Rooster or Hen, or Both, Traveling Separately or To gether, to Roam the Streets" After Being Gone Over by City Attorney Will be Reported to Council, and by it Sub mitted to the People. The iilMillslimi'iit of primary nomi nation mid die adoption of the cer tiileiite jila ii. A inn j or with a salary of t?2,l)00 anil ho commissioners uit It u salary of JIMH) enrh. Tax levy lint to exceed 10 mills. So bonds Issued without a two thirds vote liy the people. Twenty days to remonstrate against Iniirnvi'iiii'iits. A I If ii fur assessment shall not at Inch until Improvement lias been beirnn. Fniuclilses to he granted liy hoard and nut people, but not subject to fnienreney clause. All franchises to contain common ttr cln use. (an not lie fronted for longer than K jpnrs, or without fair compensation to fit. Tentatively agreeing upon the char ter for a commission form of govern ment for the city, and of which char ter the above are the salient planks, the general committee appointed to draft It nnd submit it to the council adjourned last evening until such a time as the draft may be revised by the city attorney. When it shall have been finally revised the committee will again consider It from beginning to end, and then it will be ready for submission to the council, which will through an ordinance submit it to the people. The foregoing planks were adopted several days ago by the committee and It spent last evening in consider In? the general provisions. The planks MORE TROUBLE ABOUT DIRT FROM STREETS Discovering that contractors were taking dirt that belonged to the state and using it to make fills on the street where dirt belonging to prop erty owners had previously been taken away and sold, Dr. Stetier, su perintendent of the asylum, took th subject up with the state board to fljy. with the result that the board served notiee on the city that, unless he contractor was stopped, that hey would not pay for the excava tion. Complaint was made to Ben Tay or at the last, and also at previous, meetings, that the contractor on that "reef had aold the surplus dir, lien belonged to him, and the con tractors were directed to discontinue "'as so. At the last meeting of the uncll a committee was aopplnted w ascertain just how much dirt had je sold. i the meantime the sur Pus dirt being excavated from the nate property was ordered hauled to "ase fills on the property from which surplus dirt had been taken and oia. and then came the protest of Dr- Steiner. thTthe s,;,te board takes the position "t under a decision of the supreme twt all surplus dirt In excavating Z a strftt improvement belongs to ' Property owner, and asserts that dirt J e state 13 Biven the surplus toV m its Property that It will 01 'or the excavation. Holds Portland girl as a white slave. IrxITED TBESS LKASEP WII1I.J pfcra,11ento. Cal., Aug. 30.-Steve ,satP- wanted in Portland, Or., bfi.0. charges of white slaverv, Is ith .detam,,d at the city jail here ho Verstater. a pretty girl in his compny when appre Itu ny the locaI P1Ice tie rtri k g"d that Pennagate brought later . from Port'and Miss Ver Portbn . 3 hp Pror"ised to marry her. ified Ma'lthorities hav nti- Mn"r umne repIied t0 hoW the k.k ?t!1 an officer comes to Sri n m. ,or trlal- Relatives of the The i i- her ck t0 ner home. eu, 0Pfollce sa- they have two clear ?ate. slavery against Pen- relol.f,?? Wa'lowa county farmers ouiid their own phone lines. COMPLETES A JOE DUG OUT referred to have been dealt with be fore and need no explanation. Document Bulky. The document as completed last ev- ening is a mass of words and then more words. The last portion of it that dealing with general provisions, and which was considered last even ing, consumes twelve' closely type written pages, and their verbosity caused even ex-Councilman Stolz to gasp time and again and to remon strate against the public being bur dened with it all. As remarked by him nothing seemed to have escaped the framers, and so specifically does It enumerate all the powers that there is danger that the people may think on reading that they are surrendering all of their rights! When it is considered that the gen eral provisions begin with delegating power to the commissioners to license doctors and lawyers, and then goes on for two or three pages enumerating just whom may be licensed goes on until it reaches the subject of poultry and then after dealing in detail with that declares that It shall be unlaw ful for a rooster or hen or both, trav eling separately or together to roam the streets, and then as a climax pro vides a penalty for them so doing, it looks as though his protest was well founded. After the committee had completed Its labors a member ran through the pages and after weighing that which had been eliminated with what still remained remarked that it was still as "long as the . constitution of the 1'llted States, and this state, and the Declaration of Independence thrown In as good measure.". BATTERED HAT AND BLUDGEON ARE SHOWN HIM UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRI. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 30. The battered hat and bludgeon found on the morning following the disappear ance of George H. Shoaf, correspon dent of a Socialist paper, which could not be seen several days ago when G. S. Shoaf, father of the missing man, called at the Los Angeles police station, have turned up. Detective James Hosick, upon his return from Indianapolis unearthed the exhibits and they were examined by Shoaf, Sr.. today. Following the examination the elder Shoaf would not state whether he was aided materially In his inves tigation by the appearance of the hat and bludgeon. G. S. Shoaf has declined to work with the detectives of the local de partment on the case, preferring to work alone. No word of encourage ment has yet been given out by the elder Shoaf. o- DRINKING ( ITS ARE TOTALLY FIRED FKO.V PUBLIC PLACES. The "old oaken bukect" and the pail by teacher's desk will go out of style in the rural schools September 1, when the new law goes into effect for the first time in the state of Oregon. They will be replaced by a sanitary stone jar, with a stone cover cover to keep out spiders that were once the terror of the "little girls." Schools in the country districts have already made preparations to comply as best they can with the new law, says Dr. Calvin' S. White, state health officer, who returned yester day from a trip through Coos and Curry counties, inspecting the schools and instructing pupils and teachers in the new law. No friction is expected when the law goes Into effect Friday. Rail roads have put bubbling fountains in cars; schools in the city districts have also been supplied with the fountains, and many department stores have fol lowed the requirements of the law, although It applies only to schools, public institutions and common car riers. Many cities with the old-fashioned tincup fountains in their public parks have already made changes. Portland has still to change a number of her public fountains for the new regulation. CHARTER FOR SIZE ' A Xoble Gentleman. Xew York, Aug. 30. Ac- count Oiesto Del Noco today was arraigned in the Harlem police court on a charge of hav- ing abducted 15-year-old Dor- ols Welgle from her home In Cleveland, Ohio. He was held for examination on Friday, under $5000 bail. The detectives who found the ' girl In Del Noces apartments here claim their attention was directed toward him by an ad- ' vertlsement inserted In a Cleve- land, paper which read: Fine gentleman of noble birth wants to marry young girl who is honest and educated. Blonde with light red hair preferred.' THE NOTORIOUS JIM FARLEY IX LOS ANGELES UNITED PIKSS LEASED WIRI Los Angeles, Cal.. Aug. 30. Deelar Ine that Strikebreaker James Farlev ! of New York is In Los Angeles for the purpose of recruiting men for the Harrlman lines in the event of a walk out. President E. E. Mlsner of the Los Angeles central labor council, and special international organizer for the Machinists, came out today flat-footed in favor of an Immediate strike. "I received positive information to day," he said, "that Farley Is In town. He has men spying on our meetings, and they are reporting to Southern Pacific officials. "Local employes have absolutely made up their minds to fight. Of course, It requires time to settle trou ble on fifty thousand miles of rail way, but the Harrlman officials have had sufficient time. They are merely delaying the game in order to prepare for the strike. We have waited too long already." Stock Market Sacs. (UNITED PRESS LEASED Willi. New York, Aug. 3D At the open ing of today's stock market heavy Bell ing depressed prices sharply. A num ber of Issues fell to the lowest point of the present downward movement, International Harvester losing 3 points, Lehigh Valley, Canadian Pa cific and Amalgamated Copper 1, Southern Pacific , and practically the entire list of ledaing issues large fractions. On the rally I'nion Pacific made up all of its early loss, and Reading, U. S. Steel and some others recovered to about yesterday's clos ing. Labor troubles on the Harrlman lines resulted In continued weakness of those shares and Union and South ern Pacific touched new low points for the year. Standard Oil lost 11 points on the curb, following yester day's rise of 46 points. The market closed firm. Bonds were steady. Center in Ttloomlnirton. f UNITED FBKHR LEASED WIRE. Washington, Aug. 30. Census Di rector Durand today announced that the correct center of population In the United States Is located In the western part of Bloomington, Ind. The first estimate placed the center in Brown county, Ind., nine miles east. ANOTHER REVOLUTION IN MEXICO Juarez, Mex., Aug. 30. Secret ser vice men, both of the United States and Mexico today are watching what appears to be a new revolutionary movement of some import. The arrival here of more than 50 members of the Liberal party from Arizona and Los Angeles, plentfully supplied with money, has led o the belief that they are here to receive a large shipment of arms from New York. TOO MANY ARTISTS DOVT MAKE A ;))D FAMILY, f T ITEP TRESS I.EASFII WIRE. San Francisco, Aug. 30. Mrs. Mar ion De I.appe, artist and society girl, says two artists "Never would do In one family as husband and wife." When her final divorce decree from W. R. Lappe is signed she says she will marry Robert Pike, a business man. n 'Frisco Has a Fire. San Francisco, Aug. 30. Fire of undiscovered origin early today de stroyed the Inlaid Floor c6mpany's factory here, with a loss of $50,000, and the Eagle Brewing company's plant, with a loss of $20,000. Twelve horses were burned to death In the brewery stables, and Fireman T. O'Conner was slightly Injured. Must Buy Early. frtlTED PRESS LEARBD WIRE San Francisco, Aug. 30. The love lorn swain who desires to take a bou quet to his sweetheart on Sunday af ternoons here must not tarry. The florists have aereed to close shoo at 'noon on the Sabbath. Her Outfit a Bait. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 30. Miss Fay Evans, flirt cop, Is out of a job today, because Chief of Police Sebastian did not like the clothes she wore. When Miss Evans brought about the arrest of nine mash, ers In three days, Chief Se bastian sent for her to inquire Into her unusual success. When she reported before the chief Miss Fay wore a light colored lace dress, white shoes and stockings, a black silk large sleeved wrap lined with silk of a brilliant red, with collar and cuff 3 of the same. This was topped oft with a tall black domino hat, the size of a peck measure. "It la all very plain to me now;' remarked Chief Sebas tian. 'That getup would make most any man stare. You're flred. If SOUTH City of Savannah Reaches Port Atfer Battling With Terriffic Seas and Reports Ocean Strewn With Wreck age. AT LEAST TWENTY KILLED Storm Buttered Vessels Come Limp ing Into Port, Each Willi the Same Story of Abundant Wreckage Many Vessels Are Aground, and Feu in for Fishing Parties Are En tertuliMil Cloiiilliui'st Hits t'lmr lotte. united rnr.ss leased wire. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 30. After battling with terriffic gales over a sea that ran mountains high, and was Uttered with wreckage of scores of ocean craft, large and small, the steamer City of Savannah docked here today. The storm, which was part of the hurricane that has been raging along the South Atlantic coast, was the roughest experienced in years. A number of vessels are aground here. Fears are entertained here today for the safely of three fishing parties composed of prominent youths. The young men set out Sunday to be gone only a day. As yet no report has Ik on received from them. Boats are searching, and the beaches are being patroled. Bad ut Charleston. Charleston. S. C, Aug. 30. With reports from some of the Islands still to be received, the death list from the hurricane In this vicinity is about 20. Large crews of men are clearing away the debrl9. Storm Hits Chnilotte. Charlote, S. C. Aug. 30. North Charlotte, a suburb of this city, was badly damaged today by a hurricane which wrecked a church and un roofed a score of buildings. Thf storm was accompanied by a cloudburst, and for a .time the streets were flooded. Many home were ruined by the wind and water. o EDWIN EARLE GETS FREE ON A DEMURRER UNITED I'REHS LEASED WIHB. Los Angeles. Cal., Aug. 30. Supe rior Judge Walter Bordwell today sustained a demurerr to the charge against Edwin T. Earl, a newspaper publisher, charged with having dis closed the contents of a telegraijhlc message. Judge Bordwell held that, while the provisions of the code under which the indictment was brought covered wireless telepgraphic mes sages, those whom the code sought to prohibit were employed by the com pany. This means that Earl will not be brought to trial, unless the supe rior court overrules Judge Bord well's decision. Worse TIiiiii Runaway. riTED mrss leased ttire San Jose, Cal , Aug. 30. Former Mayor C. J. Martin has survived two serious runaways, but. the punishment alleged to have been Inflicted by his wife can not be endured. Today he is seeking a divorce. ANOTHER BAD STORM TESTIMONY TODAY FAVORS DEFENSE DEATTIE'S STORY CORROBORATED Cross Continent Flight. New York, Aug. 30. Three aviators are out today for a $50,000 prize offered for a coast to coast flight. Robert G. Fowler, of Los An- geles, Is backed by C. Fred Grundy, a California s-ports- man. C. P. Rogers, who carried off the distance honors at the Chicago aviation meet, has the support of a cash register company which will back him with $20,000, if he will carry one of Its machines, which he promises to do. Harry N. Atwood, whose sen- satlonal St. Louis-New York flight qualified him as a great cross-country flyer, says he will capture the big sum. The start Is planned from the PaclBo coast. CONTEMPT OF "COURT" IS WIDESPREAD tCNITED PBESS LEASED WIRD.I Seattle, Wash., Aug. 30. The nine men charged with "conspiring to ob struct justice" because they partici pated In a protest mass meeting aimed against Federal Judge Hanford last week," were brought before U. S. Com missioner Totten today and their hearing was postponed until Septem ber 25 by request of the U. S. district attorney. City Councilman O. T. Erlckson, Hugo Kelley and P. K. Mohr, who have been In Jail since they were ar rested last Saturday, furnished ball today. The Trousers Business Was Failure. UNITED FRESH LEASED WIRE. San Francisco, Aug. 30. Because Halfmoon Bay dairymen, failed to pur chase ready made trousers as eagerly as expected, Major A. W. Chase, U. S. A., and his wife today are defend ants in a suit for payment of $330. Frank L. Heywood, a clothing sales man, is said to have convinced Mrs. Chase that the dairymen would snap at an opportunity to buy trousers and persuaded her to invest $300; part of which she borrowed through D. E. Be secker. The scheme, It Is said, failed to prove profitable, and Besecker, al leging he has received little of the money advanced, has sued. ARRANGE FOR BIG WELCOME TO GOMPERS UNITED TRESS LEASED WIRE. Portland, Or., Aug. 30. All prepar ations to welcome and entertain Sam uel Gompers, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor during his stay in Portland tomorrow have been completed by labor leaders. Gompers will arrive here tomorrow morning from Seattle. The day will be spent in autoing and In the even ing a reception and a band concert will be held at the hotel. He will address a meeting at the nnnory in the evening. He will depart for San Francisco Friday afternoon. o THE RAISING OF THE MAINE IS DELAYED Washington. Aug. 30. Congress' failure to make additional appropria tion for the raising of the wrecked battleship Maine not only will delay actual work, but will also operate to prevent funeral services over the re covered remains of the dead, and the erection in Arlington national ceme tery of the mast of th Muine as a monument, until such 'time as money Is available. The remains and the mast will be sent to the cemetery to be stored there until congress acts. THE MAYOR SIGNED THE .FRANCHISE TODAY When Mayor Lachmund today at tached his signature to an ordinance granting a franchise to the Southern Pacific Railroad company, he put an end to a battlo which has been waged In the council for over a month. The ordinance grants a franchise for a spur to the company from Us branch on Trade street to the bot tling plant of the Salem Brewery Association. When, the ordinance first came up the council passed It, and upon the mayor vetoing It the council sustained him. That was on the ground that It d'd not contain a common us"r clause. When It came up again at the last meeting the council passed It. despite that It con tained no user clause, and today the mayor signed It. Cniil.1 Not Fly. f UNITED TREK LEASED WIRE.l Squantum Aviation Field. Boston Mass., Aug. 30. Owing to heavy wind nd rain todav's aviation program here was cancelled. TWO WITNESSES SAW MAN LIKE ONE OEATTIE SAYS DID THE FATAL SHOOTING Witnesses Say That the Man Seemed Absent Minded and Looked Wild, and Carried a Single Barrel Shotgun He Was Seen by Both Witnesses Near the Scene of the Mur der and on That Night Other Testimony Looks More Fa vorable, and Paul Beatt.ie's Story is Flatly Denied by Another. UNITED TRESS LEASED WIRE.; Chesterfield Court House, Va., Aug. 30. Sensational testimony, partially corroborating the story of Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., that a mys terious stranger shot and killed his wife on the lonely Midlothian pike was given here this afternon at Beattie'g trial for the crime. Testifying as a witness for the de fense, Eugene Hanshaw swore that about a week before the alleged mur der he saw on three different occa sions a strange man on the turn pike, "He had a two-weeks growth of beard,' 'said Henshaw, "and seemed to be about 60 years old. He was tall; I never saw him before the Wednesday preceding the murder, and I have never seen him since. He looked wild, and I thought him a lu natic. On two occasions, when I saw the man, he was seated beside the road, and once he was trudging along with his head down. On the Monday before Mrs. Beattle was killed I saw this man within three-Quarters of a mile of the scene of the murder. He wore a slouch hat, dark clothing and a dark colored shirt. Henshaw's sensation wag height ened by the next witness, W. R. Howland. He swore that he saw a man similar to the one described by Henshaw on the night of the murder within a mile of the scene. The man carried a single barreled shotgun on his shoulder, and wore a slouch hat. He was walking toward the turnpike and toward the spot where Beattle claims the stranger slew his wife, as she sat besldo him In the seat of their automobile. Cross examination failed to shake the testimony of either Henshaw or Rowland. Paul Beattle, recalled to the witness stand this afternoon, de nied testimony offered by C. F. llaker to the effect tht he told the latter after the Inquest that he Intended to i tell all he knew of the murder because Henry Beattle's father had made Paul's mother sign away lur property. I llroadnax Robertson, the 14-year-old cmiHiu oi Aiexaiioer noocrisou, men took the stand and corroborated Alex ander's story regarding the discovery of blood on the turnpike some distance from the scene of the murder. One spot, the boy testified, was at least a mile and a half from the spot where Mrs. Beattle Is alleged to have been killed. Chesterfield Court House, Va., Aug. 30. With the completion to day of detail testimony concerning the blood spots on the Midlothian turnpike on the night Henry Clay lieattie, jr., is alleged to have mur dered his wife for the sake of Beu lah Blnford, the prosecution rested its case. The last witness for the state left the stand just before the noon recess was taken. Dcteellvn Ceorgo .larrell, in deny Quality Better Than Ever We are now prepared to show the new fall models and patterns in Bishops' Ready Tailored The values this season been able to show, Owing rr !,-, KU,., V.-L J,.-!., ihsiii new iuin uuiiny uie to recure our fall stock at X tomers will get the benefit I you our new goods. Salem Woolen Mill Store I New Styles ing young Alexander Robertson's tes timony that there was a trail of blood from the scene of the murder to Mrs. Beattle's pcrents' home, said: , "I went over the road more care fully than any one connected with this case, and am certain that there was no blood, except at the scene of the killing. I Inspected the road four or five times." Detective Sherer, Major James Patten, Ben Owen, Coroner Loving and six others all corroborated Jar. rell. The first move) made by the de fense was a vlctorlaus one. Upon on motion of Beattle's counsel, Judge Watson struck out the testimony about the finding of Mrs. Beattle's hatpin near the scene of the murder, and the account of how the blood hounds were unable to take up the scent of a "tall man,'' whom Beattle said flred the fatal shot. Paul Beattle, whose damaging tes timony ngalnst his cousin, was one of the sonsaMons of the trial, was the first witness called by the de fense. Attorney Harry Smith, point ing to Q. W. Booth, nsked the wit ness If he did not tell Booth that Henry Beattle loved his wife, and that he did not believe Henry killed her. "I never talked to him about any thing,' repltod the young man. He was excused. ' Booth contradicted Beattle, say ing that on the Wednesday following the tragedy he asked Paul what he thought of Henry, and that Paul re-, piled that he. did not think Henry committed the crime, and that Henry told hlra he loved Is wife dearly. o OTIS ARRESTED FOR 1TB- LIS1IJ OBSCENE MATTER. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 30. Being charged with having violated a city ordinance by publishing alleged ob scene articles in the Los Angeles Times, a morning newspaper, a war rant was Issued this afternoon for tlin arrest of General Harrison Gray Otis, principal owner, following complanlts which were filed In Justlco Cher bourg's court Warrants were also issued for Har ry Andrews, managiug editor, and R, M. Whitney, telegraph editor. The complaints were sworn to by Alice Stobbeng Wells, the police wo man of the Los Angels police, force, nnd were prepared by City Attorney Eddy. The charges, It Ib said, grew out of the publication! of certain phases of the Beattle murder trial, and of the Haines divorce case. The article relative to the Halneg divorce case was published August 19, and that of the Beattle trial last Mon day. General Otis, Andrews and Whit ney wero directed to appear before Justice Chesehrough for a prelimin ary hearing at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. f X Clothes are the best we have ever to our Mr, C, P, Bishop be - U.."..! .... -M- uuyiiif' season we were aum the lowest figures. Our cus now, Call and let us show I t : Fall Shoes". :