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fl sftfNk s. A A n fl 4 0 f mm f! SALEM, OREGON. THUr.SIUV, AUGUST 31, 1011. XO. 208. 1,1'CflllflLO em OF HER HEETIHB DENTIST - M'DAVIT SHE BORE THREE CHILDREN TWO DIED BUT SHE SAW AND NO HUMAN BEING BUT M'DAVIT He Bought Her no Clothes in All That Time, and Her Babies Clothes She Made From Her Own Was Never Out of the Room But Once in 15 Months McDavit Tired of Her and Never Came Near Only When Drinking Hell Was a Sec tion of Paradise ot It. San Bernardino. Cal., Aug. 31. Miss McDonald, 21, daughter of a wealthy contractor, today laid bare the story of her 15-months stay in a room ad joining an office of Dr. A. W. McDavit, prominent local dentist. And all Sen Bernardino that Is, all that could crowd into the squalid courtroom was there to hear the story. Dr. McDavit, who is charged with a statutory offense in holding Miss Mc Donald a prisoner, was smuggled into San Bernardino from Riverside shortly before 10 o'clock. Fearing mob vio lence, Sheriff Ralphs spirited the den tist out of town ten days ago and secreted the prisoner in the Riverside county Jail. Crowd Was Angry'. An angry roar greeted McDavit as he was hustled out of. an automobile and hurried Into the courtroom. A dozen policemen escorted the dentist through the crowds. He was hissed and jeered as he took a seat almost uiictuj upiuMie miss lvicuoiiuiu. who STREET WORK BEING DONE RY BY THE VAGS . . , , ,, narry wgra, wno is acting police v,,!f . i , ,a bSe"ce of ,nls brother, aWn. , , ?s' E. gln' w.h0 la rl!;i.n, ,,vaca, J1' 8 marin5ta 111 1dea'inS w'th. vagrants. The police yesterday rounded un 16 men. jnost of whom were caught sleeping Ing a boxcar near the Southern Pa cific depot. When the men came up before Acting Judge Harry Elgin this morning, he ratled off "three days" so rapidly and so often that " last man up for sentence re marked. "I wonder If that fellow Knows anything excent 'threo Hnvs " mn., " " . ,h i n wer! glven tnree aay t ? lmT ,thers r?celv-d sen; Lw of. flvdy" each. Two of o'muiicu lu bei vtj Iwe UHya iULWUlliJlif me &n o inmn, uiunc ere allowed to leave town on sus-; down and left the courtroom. He re Pended sentences. One hundred and mained outside only a few minutes, twenty-seven prisoners have worked Here several women sobbed out in oa the city streets this month. These sympathy for Miss McDonald, and ! en have cost the city only 15 cents Judge Hanna adjourned court until Per day extra for their work in 2 o'clock this afternoon. eaning the street. Prisoners who ; When court convened at 2 o'clock ao not work receive two meals each Miss McDonald resumed her testt oay. Those who work are given three mony. I meals per day. Each meal is figured Gently as possible Prosecutor la cents, thus the city has had Goodcell led her over the sordid de JPProxiniately 127 days' work from tails which resulted in her leaving we prisoners this month at the rate home. i or lo cents a day. Sixteen men ar I "I did not wish my parents to learn j orklng on Twelfth street today un- of my disgrace," sobbed the girl, I Thft SUaUl of Poundmaster Irwin, "and I decided to go away. My fath- ! men are cleaning both creeks er and mother had warned me irom the railroad down to the river, against him, but I believed In Mr. o i McDavit. He told me that I was his BRYAN IS FERfllfJST EVERYONE T 1 fC;i,TI!P "tBSS LUASFD WIRK.1 UnCQln. Wh Ann- 3 1 InnlJont. following his vendeV against fell?, jfA- "" today, roasts President Taft' ta a siimmi . last r6"1"" l" i "1 concludes."1 es8' 19 ea"0r- , "The president's reasons for veto- the tariff revision mJures are mentaby weak. TheT farmers ought "remember that the president de- berae,v surrendered to the pm- ted interests andst In his lot lth,hr,5e V8"!.1? .f'A,1": . ..-, "wi - u iiirnisn tne camDaien Z- The ctton reduction bill almost entirely, and I knew that he 'unnshed Iurther evW of hig;n0 ,ongor cared. Nobody knows of v'bser,vi-ncy to the exploiting class, the dreadful hours I spent alone in " re f : . . H ' ' s . L., . rr at a him De hoped for from i. ?an declares that the Democrat- rrfier.red ln puttin8 a tarlff on ct el i not submitting the di In on ot senators' amendment, 111 not nai7 k a . . ... . Permitti s e ni-irusi dui, in 1pbIi..i 8 8ecret caucuses to control inn n j fce. alrmai of the ways and L TELLS THE STORY never once glanced toward the ac cused man. District Attorney R. B. Goodcell an nounced that he would place only two witnesses on the stand for the prose cution. These were Miss McDonald and Dr. J. S. Mancha, who attended the girl during her illness. Shortly before court opened District Attorney Goodcell ordered that Mc Davit be taken to a cell and locked up. Fired the Prisoner. "I do not want him in the court room while Miss McDonald Is testify ing," explained Goodcell. "I fear that the girl may again be brought under the influence of his hypnotic eye." Before he was removed from the court room the complaint was read to McDavit by Prosecutor Goodcell. The prisoner was then taken to a cell under a heavy guard and Miss Mc Donald called to the stand. At this point Justice J. B. Hanna noticed several women with children I on their knees. Proceedings were . halted while they were being ejected. 0-ciock Engineer Peck was bringing . 11 , 11 ,! y , , v. ,Jlu train of four cars of rock, fol ttlth quivering lips Miss McDonald , lowIng a car that was ru7lnng north then began her story of her meeting ion regUiar schedule. At Wilson with McDavit five years ago. ! Btreet Wright heard Pect give an "I met him in his office," she said, i aiarm whistle, and, looking around, "when I was having my teeth attend- saw the rock train coming down the ed to. He seemed an awful nice man hill at him with Increasing speed. and one day told me he would kiss Two passengers were at the Wilson me it i Dit mm wnue tie was ruling a tooth. I did not bite him, and he siad nothing. "The next day, however, he told me to press down to make an impression ln wax ann- hia nnger was pinched, 1 m not know u was tllere bl,t ne threw his arms around my neck and kl8Se(1 me twice." i She Loved Him. "After my third visit to Dr. McDav it's office I made no effort to resent his caresses." continued Miss McDon ald. "He told me that he loved me, and I loved him. I knew that he had a wife, but he woud look at me and ised that he would get a divorce and , r , , ,. L.7 ., a' uml 1 " dy wuum Peck and Smith, the men In charge be,haPup,v' , . , u , xJof the rock train, Jumped to the At this point in her testimony, D. hand brakes, but could not stop the best friend and that I should listen to him." At this point Miss McDonald broke down completely. Mrs. Mc Donald, the aged mother of the girl, 1 went to the witness box, and put her arms around her daughte's neck. "We love you, my child, no matter what the world may think." I Miss McDonald returned her moth er's caress and went on with her story, I intended to go to Eureka," she snirt. "and secure work of some kind but Dr. McDavit persuaded me not to go. He took me to the room adjoining his office, and told me to stay there. He fixed his eyes on me. and then it rmed the proper thing for me t0 "After my first chid was born. I rv- Tno,.it ,hn,.t hla love i"" r;7Z?' ta;:innePr cared for me. He laughed at my fears, and told me that he loved me better than all else In the world, and I bellevet him. Then I would be happy for several days. Two other children were born to me. but they died ! . hi. vti. ceased Auer a ne "a mat luiie ruuin. rui uiuiunn v time I would never see the light oi dav 1 was afraid to peer out for . fear somebody would see me. I remained in the room for ten months without leaving it. Then tne doctor took me out at 3 o'clock one morning for a 30-mtnute ride. I asket him to take me past my pa- - - - Continued on page two. 4- About Salmon Poisoning. j Portland. Or., Aug. 31. Be- ! llevlng that the amoeba, par- asltic to salmon, that causes the death of dogs that have eaten the fish, may also be the cause ot serious intestinal diseases In men, Prof. Emil F. Pernol. bac- teriologist to the State Board of Health, has commenced an elaborate series of experiments whereby he expects to prove connection between hitherto un- diagnosed diseases of the di- gestive tract and the eating of salmon. To insure success for what he considers highly Important means of preventing sickness and even death, Prof. Pernol has taken as an associate in the search Dr. Allen J. Smith, dean of the University of Pe.msylva- nla, to whom mounted slides and material containing the amoeba have been sent for clas- slfleation. To Prof. Pernol Is given credit for first discovering why dogs that eat salmon die. ROCK TRAIN SMASHES A STREET CAR Motorman Ed. Wright and Con ductor Emory Thompson had a nar row escape from being killed by a wild train running loose down Com- merplnl street h 1 7 1 frnm T.aallA i.i w,.h nnrth notion m and n street crossing, but Wright shot his car past them, and kept 'up a ter- riffle speed to keep out of the way of his pursuer, and would have done so, but his trolley went off In flying through the switch near Daue's gro- cery store. The rock train struck his car from the rear and nearly drove the car off the trucks, smashing near- ly all the glass and tumbling some of the passengers on the floor. Two boys were hurt some, and the car was driven half way up the hill north of Mission street before it sotpped. The car wa9 so badly demolished that It has been sent to the shops. The airbrakes failed to work from been Both working fine up to that time. wui King uue uu increasing headway. The accident was a very fortunate one for every body concerned. TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF SAILORS LASHEP TO THE MAST OF WATER LOfUiED SHIP, TWO PAYS AM) THREE MGHTS, ('AI'TAIX AMI TREW ARE FIXALLY SAYEP. Ne' York. Aug. 31 - Bringing a story of marvelous endurance and Bi "'oi ""'""""'f ""'"" i "u v'"' i the liner Mohawk arrived In port to- day with the captain and crew of the four-masted schooner Malcolm Seevy, which foundered off Cape Remain during the terrific hurricane which devastated Charleston and the Caro lina coast early in the week. Lashed to the upper masts, Kin n?; :.r Lashed to the upper masts, the only e water. Captain Henry Dodge and seven of the crew clung to their precarious perches for two days and three nights. The shi... laden with phosphate, en countered the gale" Saturday night. After terrible billows had time and again swept over the ve.ss,l, carrying a Portuguese sailor o h death in one of the surgeCaptaln Dodge came to anchor On Sunday seams began omenta and the whonr rapidly set- .led. liv Monday morning only the upper spars, o i.icn me n -n nau lashed themselves. wre viable tbove the surface of tne ocean ;nnHav nitht the spinnaker mast ... , ' . ,. wnicu carneu . ..ur o,.. ..ur Ba,. toppiea oer. i.nus'"s umiiciuikij- iu 'pieces oi i"a6., ...u alt nigm ana were i-"" ' companions uc J"f -"' All day Tuesday and throughout the night the men. all but unconscious with fatigue, watched in vain for help. Finally on vieunesuay iub aiuuawn Bove in g.ght and taey were saved. San Francisco, Aug. 31. Bound, gagged and bleeding from wounds that may prove fatal, Charles Ward, a negro porter In the Islam Temple cl ib of Mystic Shrlners, was fouul today In an overcoat closet and the cash register emptied of a sum that may run into the thousands. The crime, which Is the sec ond daylight robbery occurring this week within calling dis tance of the police station, has the police completely baffled. Ward cannot talk. John Bennett and J. F. Fl field, members of the club dis covered him covered with blood and dying. PRESIDENT IS BITTER Ot RECALL Denounces .the. Principle as Un-American, But Himself Proposes Some Important Changes Therein. WOULD INCREASE SALARY Thanks God for John Marshall, Who Decided That the Courts Have a Right to Make the Laws of Legis. latures Square With the Constitu tion In Other WordsJ He Presi dent Relieves In Legislation by 'he Judiciary. Boston, Mass., Aug. 31. Bitterly denouncing the principle of recall as applied to the judiciary, but himself urging a reformation in Judicial pro ceedure, President Taft addressed the convention of the American Bar as sociation here today. Before the ar rival of the president, who motored ln from Beverly in a pouring rain, the convention adopted a special re port denouncing the recall. "I am filled with gratitude for the makers of the constitution," said Pres ident Taft In opening his atldress. "ln these days when all are In favor of progress, It Is a great advantage that we have in It an instrument of .suf ficient elasticity to meet our chang ing needs and yet with sufficient re strictions to keep out the wild the ories that, If tried, would injure the community and prove a failure. "Thank God for John Marshall, who decided that the courts have the right to make the laws of the legislatures square with the constitution. Referring to the United State su preme court, the president said: "The salaries of the supreme court justices should be $23,000 a year. Men called upon to e.xercise the re sponsibilities of their position wlta the ability and learning requisite to the task ought to be amply paid." The president advocated using the court of commerce as a court of pat ent appeals. Regarding his arbitra tion agreements, he said: "I am most anxious that the trea ties as negotiated be not amended. I want them to mean something and to accomplish something. We won't go ahead with this arbitration business unless we are willing to assume obli gations and execute judgments which we may not like. "If we say we will wait until spe cific questions come up before agree ing to arbitration, then conclude that we can not win and so declare the question unjustifiable, we will have a promise written in water which will mean nothing." More Chicago Styles. UNITED MESS LEASED WIRE-. Chicago. Aug. 31. Milliners here declare that aeroplane hats with "av iation bows" will be the extremely popular things this fall. . o ALL GAMES KNOCKED OUT BY THE RAINS UNITED l'BESS LEASED WIRE Xew York, Aug. 31. For the first time this season the East must forego baseball on a day when seven games were scheduled. Rain today along the Atlantic coast Interfered with every game. Many times this season rain has stopped a number of games sched uled, but this is the first time both the major leaguw were entirely tied up. Double headers were due to be played today In Xew York. Brooklyn and Philadelphia by National League teams, while the Philadelphia-Boston game at Boston was the onl yone scheduled in the American league. THE TESTIMONY BEGINS TO POINT TO PAUL BEATTIE AS THE MURDERER Fear for the Girl. San Francisco, Aug. 31. Fearing that Pearl Adams, the girl who disappeared from her home here last January, Is be- lng detained against her will i at Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Evatt. ! the girl's aunt, appealed to the police to aid her In ascertaining under what conditions the girl is living at Spokane. The police here have forward ed to the Spokane authorities a photograph of Pearl Adams, a description of the girl and a request that they ascertain whether she Is living ln proper surroundings. Mrs. Evatt recently received a long letter from her niece, signed "Pearl Adams," and en- closing the address of Mrs. Ar- thur J. Young, "general dellv- ery,'' Spokane. 4 At the time MIse Adams left her home, Arthur J. Young, a soda water clerk, employed In a t local candy store, disappeared. ENGINE QUITS AND AVIATOR GOT BAD FALL UNITED FBBSS LEASED WIRE. Sacramento. Cal., Aug. 31. Inabil ity to get the engine of his biplane working right put a damper on Avi ator Wiseman's flight and caused him another bad fall at the state fair grounds today. Wiseman was about 75 feet in the air and starting to fly over the grand stnd when his engine missed fire, commenced to buck nd sent the bi plane to the ground. Aside from a bad shaking up, the aviator escaped uninjured. He was In the air about two minutes and flew a quarter of a mile. More flights are to follow this afternoon. THE IRIXkI0 (TP GOES TO SCIIAP HEAP In view of the fact that a recent order made by the state board of health abolishing the public drinking cup affects the state house as well as the school houses of the state, Secre tary of State Olcott Is considering the proposition of Installing a sanitary fountain. The order goes Into effect tomor row morning, and people who have been accustomed to picking up the public drinking cup in the state house and quenching their thirst with a glass of cold water will find It gone, and no doubt miss It. The order will also apply to the court house, and the cup there, will be abolished. GREATEST CRIMINALS WHIPPED UNITED rKKHH LEASED WIRE. Portland, Or., Aug. 31. Still angry on account of the remarks directed against him by Detective William J. Burns, In an Interview given out here, Samuel Oompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, arrived In Portland today from Tacoma. To night he will address a. large gather ing at the Armory, choosln the Mc Namara case as the subject of his talk. It Is expected that he will reply to Burns' charges. Regarding Burns, Oompers said: "Burns is continually rushing into print; giving out Interviews and doing everything he can to prejudice the public against the McNamaras. Burns once said that the majority of private detectives were the 'greatest criminals unwhlpped.' I believe the definition should not be passed up In summing up the character of Burns." Replying to a question as to whe ther the American Federation would support Taft at the next presidential election. Gompers said he did not know who the federation would sup port, and added: "With candor I can not say that President Taft's record has been sat isfactory so far." Gompers will leave for San Fran cisco tomorrow. Another Fish Story. UNITED rSEMH LEASED WIRE Tarrytown. N. Y., Aug. 31. George Conklln, a fisherman, Is the owner of a sterling silver nail clipper which he removed from the mouth of a giant catfish. The clipper had lodged in the fish's throat so that each time the fish gaped the nail clipper snipped. WITNESS SWEARS HE SAW PAUL BEATTIE WITH GUN THIS CONTRADICTS HIM Paiir Beattie Had Sworn He Delivered the Shotgun to His Cousin on Friday, But Witnesses Saw Him With it Sunday Young Boys Also Swear and Demonstrate That Another Story He Told About the Gu n is False His Testimony is Now Pracitcally Worthless for Any Purpose Except to Throw Suspicion on Himself. Chesterfield Courthouse, Va., Aug. 31. Testifying In his own defense on the charge of having murdered his young wife, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. will take the stand the first thing tomorrow morning. The announce ment that the young banker had posi tively decided to face the nerve wracking cross examination to which his testimony will be subjected, was made by Attorney Harry Smith dur ing the recess today. Striking in Its strongest part the case which the prosecution has built up, Ernest F. Neblltt, night superin tendent of the paper mill at the end of the Mayo bridge, today broke down a portion of Paul Seattle's testimony by swearing that he saw Paul on the bridge as watchman, carrying a single-barreled shotgun on the Sunday night preceding the murder of Mrs. Beattie. Paul previously had strenu ously denied having the gun ln his HE PUT HIS TltT ST ix rRoiiiniTioxiSTS Declaring that Dnn Hearn of Grants Pass, who was convicted of violating the local option law 'was never legally convicted, but Just technically so for the purpose of testing the Home Rule amendment, citizens of that city have sent a petition to Governor West ask ing him to pardon him so that he will not have to serve a 15-day jail sentence. The test case was decided by the supreme court a month or so ago. Josephine county was dry and Grants Pass desiring to avail Itself of the Home Rule amendment, had the coun cil pass an ordinance declaring the town wet. Hearn was arrested for violating the local option law by the prohibitionists, and to determine whe ther the Home Rule amendment, or the local option law was in effect, a test case was made, certain facts be ing agreed to by stipulation. The supreme court held that the Home Rule amendment was applicable to Grants Pass, but that the procedure gone through to invoke It was error neons that instead of ihe council de claring the town wet, it must be done by a vote of the people. The judgment of the lower court, which wns that Henrn pay n fine of $2!i0 and serve V days in jail. The prohibitionists now want It enforced, and hence the appeal to the governor for a pardon. o Shnke-I ii of Police In Portland. f UNITED I'RESS LEASED WIIIB.) Portland. Or., Aug. 81. The most extensive shakeup in tho history of the Portland police department took place this afternoon, when Chief stover issued orders tnat practically reorganized the department, and tf fected more than 75 policemen. Chief of Detectives Moore was made captain of the patrol, and Cap tain Baty was made captain of de tectives. Eight detectives were re duced to patrolmen and patrolmen given their positions. Threo sergeants were reduced to the ranks, and more than 50 police men wre transferred to Other beats. The changes follow the declaration of Mayor Rushlight that he Intended to stamp out vice In Portland, and at the samu time make the police de partment efficient. o . The Graft Worked. ff SITED I'RESS I.EANKU WII1E.1 Chicago. Aug. 31. Mrs. Kdlth An derson gave a clairvoyant $1G5 "to graft money on money." The graft worked for the necromancer and the money disappeared. o Ton Itlch for I'iilrons. ITNITED I'HKHB J.EAHHM WI1IE Hancock. Mich.. Aug. 31. Pleading guilty to diluting milk with water, Joseph Bnineau declared the product was so rich that otherwise his pat rons' digestion would be ruined. o GHAU'ITorS (.11 I OltD IH TO VISIT ALASKA f UNITED PRKAS LEANED WIRE 1 Seattle. Wash.. Aug. .11. Senator Miles C Polndexter, of Washington, and former Chief Forester Glfford Pltifhot are due to arrive from the East this evening. Senator Polndexter will leave In a fw days for Alaska, where he will make a thorough Investigation of conditions there and the needs of the Alaskan people. He will visit Con troller Bay and the conl fields. Pin chot may accompany him. - possession at the time stated, declar ing that he delivered It to his cousin Immediately after purchasing It. Neblltt testified that Paul waa ' standing ln the doorway of a little house where concrete was kept, gun ln hand. "When he saw me," Neblltt said, "he laid the weapon down at once and came over to talk with me." Neblltt's testimony remained un shaken under the prosecution's cross examination. Following Neblltt the defense placed on the stand a number of character witnesses. At the opening of the trial today. Job WelnBteln, 14 years old, corrob orated his brother's testimony, con tradicting Paul's story that he had taken the gun apart when sold. , The lad demonstrated to the court that he was not big enough to handle the weapon ln the manner mentioned. TO BUILD ROAD IF BRIDGE IS PROVIDED FOR With the assurance of the people residing between here nnd Newberg that they will levy a tax In their vari ous road districts for the construction of a highway between Newberg and this city on condition that un appro priation of $'.)0,000 Is made by Yam hill and Marlon counties for the con struction of a bridge across the Wil lamette river at Newberg; and with half of that appropriation made- by Yamhill county, and two commission ers favorable to a like appropriation being made by Marlon county, It be gins decidedly to look now as though there will be built at least one mod ern highway between here nnd the city of Portland. For the purpose of boosting this plan a booster meeting was held last night at Newberg. It was well at tended und enthusiastic and It was at It that the assurance was given that the people would build the road If the money for the bridge wns foi .icom Ing from the counties. Here Is the I'liiu. It Is pretty definitely settled now that the commission appointed by Governor West to select a route for a modern highway to be built between here and Portland which Is to be con structed by convict labor will select whut is known as the Aurora route. The section surrounding Newberg and (Continued on Page 6.) HOPSAREdF SPLENDID QUALITY If the rest of tho hops of the val k'y averaget up with the 24 bales of Fuggles recently purchased from the Iiuls Savage farm by his company, tho Willamette valley will be able to boast of the finest quality of hops ev er harvested, was the statement of U. O. Schucklng tls morning. Mr. Schucklng says that the hops are plump and very hard, nnd the quality in general Is llrst-class. The hot weather during the summer, he) states, killed the lice and the honey dew, which have been pests la past years. Two or three days rain, in his opinion, would do the hops good. Instead of Injury, and he gave it as his opinion that there was no danger of the hops being injured now, savo by nn early frost, which is not like ly. He gave it as his opinion that the hop picking was being started too early this year that the hops were not yet ripe enough to pick. o To climb a mountain in August :ivl freeze to death does not seem to be the wisest sort o enjeyment. ,