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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1913)
All the News that's Fit to Print Everybody Reads the 'Daily Capital Journal , The Best :: The Largest :: Circulation Newspaper f THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. BTAKDB, rivu CBM8. SEVENTWlBPlSOMS TRAMPLED TgDEAM 1JBHffiL FA SF FRF PRY GRANTED FULL PARDON "i TELLS OF n .JJ -J Jj-i WITHOUT SERVING DAY CRIME rirr BRI MGS SORROW Full Rights of Citizenship Restored to Man Who Was Con victed of Misappropriating School Funds Deposited in His Bank by State Treasurer Restored to Full Rights of Citi zenshipMade Full Restitution to State and This Brought ' Leniency. One of the most acceptable Christ mas presents handed anyone this year was given ChristmaB eve by Governor "West to J. Thorburn Boss, who was granted a full pardon and restored to full rights of citizenship. Koss was convicted of embezzling several hun dred thousand dollars of the estate's school funds, deposited in the now de funct Portland Title & Trust Co. His easo, of course, was appealed to the supremo court, and thence to the United Stntos supreme court and the . action of tho first court was sustained in all. Last sumnior he. was brought before Judge Kellcy, of the circuit court here, and was sentenced to the state prison, but paroled, so that he nover saw the inside of the prison. Governor West gave him a clear title to freedom last night. There was no doubt but that Boss was guilty, but UNITED PRESS LEASED WIBI.1 London, Dec. 25. King George and Queen Mary today spent thoir Christ mas very quietly with their children and a few intimate friends at thoir Norfolk residence, Sandringham. They were joined early this morning by Queeu Mother Alexandra and Princess Victoria, who drove over from York Cottage, and the wholo family Bottled down to tho onjoyment of a "good -old-fashioned English Christinas." There aro never any thrills at Sand ringham, for there the King lives like an ordinary gentleman. After tho us ual church service the morning was lovotcd to a tour of the estate, during which tho king and queon had friondly words of groeting for tho various rayal tenants. Luncheon was informal, and tonight there will be an unpretentious family dinner party, followed by games around a monster Christmas tree. On these occasions the king romps with . his children just like any other father. He is always considerate of the serv ants on Christmas, and household work Is cut down to the minimum. There will be a big dinner and ball for the royal servants and tenants, and for dependents or neighbors gifts of tur keys, geese, beef, clothing, etc. IAD OF 12 ACCUSED BY SALEM POLICE OF Ceorgo Reed a twelve-year-old lad, was arrested about 12 o'clock last night on the ehargo of late hours and later it was found thnt Keed is the one responsible for the robberies which have occurred frequently of Into from the Kozy Kitchen, a little store on Court street. The boy is being held 'ending his hearing tomorrow morning before Judge Klgin. Heed is a brother of Noel Keed, a young man who was recently arrested for drawing a gun on another nipn and who violated his word given to the justice to appear, by run ning away and joining the army at Vancouver. ttia fnif tliaf 1.a tY.o.iA ...Jl that the state did not lose a dollar, was the grounds on which leniency wag extended. Boss Appreciates It. Porttond, Or. Doc. 25. "I highly appreciate this magnificent Christmas gift that Governor West has seen fit to present to me," said J. Torburn Boss today. "I am grateful to my many friends whoso untiring efforts in my behalf has resulted in Governor West taking this action. Next to the happiness that tho governor's clemoncy has brought to me, is the satisfaction that the su premo court of the Unitod States held that I was not guilty of moral turpi tude and that the offense on which I was indicted was a technical one. This is indeed a frIo.riu.iR Christmas for me." by EARLY IN YEAR f UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Youkers, N. Y., Dec. 25. There tho mightly fow of the nowly weds and tho older weds of Yonkers, in Mount Vernon and othor sections of West chester county, who bethought them of the fine Christmas they woro having today and thon lookod forward with gloom to the bills that must be paid one week hence, when tho monthly statements arrive. For the newly weds and older weds of these localities this year solved the problem of spending with a fair degroe of prodigality on their Christmas presents without going into debt or completely depleting the family exchequer to do so. They formed Christinas clubs in January, 1913, with headquarters in various banks and financial institu tions, and by the time Christmas shop ping was necessary had saved sums ranging from $30,000 to $175,000. Members of tho clubs, according to their finances, banked sums ranging from ten cents to $2 every week. Two por cent interest was paid on the av erage weekly balance, except when a member failed to bank for one week. Scores of children's clubs wore formed, but very fow had a clean record for continuous deposits, and therefore they lust the two per cent interest. Tho club which had $175,000 to its credit this year, worked the plan last year when it met the drains of Christmas wilh a $75,000 fund. Another club this year deposited $100,000 to its credit when it camo time to buy Christ mas presents. Still another club In a largo suburban town of New Jersey had 8,000 members this year. The amount this club saved was not given. MEDFOED WOMEN PREFER SHOPPING TO VOTING Modford, Or., Dec. 25. (Special.) Christmas shopping this year has proved too engrossing for Modford women to allow them to register for the city election January lit. With the books closing Wednesday less than half of the last registration of 2217 had been made, and of these less than one fourth are women. With the interest In the recall agita tion, however, it is expected that tho last few days will show a decided in crease in the number of names enrolled PROGRAM IS VERY FINE Musical Numbers of High Order and Every One Is Pleased With Sue of Cherriana' Plans. Over 1300 children were deliehted last night when the Cherrian Club members lined them up in front of the big Christmas tree in front of the court house and handed to each kidlet a fine pound box of French mixed candy and a big red apple. Lying un expectedly in the bottom of each box was a ticket for Ye Liberty theater and the popular bIiow house will un doubtedly be packed to the very doors at each performance Friday. Promptly at 8 o'clock, the Cherrians, led by the Salem Military band, marched into the court house square and lined up in front of the gaily illuminated Christmas tree. Bev. H. E. Marshall, tho principal speaker of the evening, delivered a splendid ad dress. Ho spoke of what Christmas meant to the commonwealth and how tho eventful day is boing recognized more and moro each year. Bev. Mar shall's talk was intensoly iutorosting and he was accorded strict atentiou by over 2000 people who had gathered around the Christmas tree. Muslciong Appreciated. Probably thero nover wan a more appreciative or so large a gathering in attendance at a public affair in Salein as there was last night. When each and every musician, and there were many, mounted the platform on tho court house stops, the audience cheered loudly. Hallie Parish Hingos' boIos, the double quartet, the choir, and, in fact, evory number on tho program was evou better than was oxpectod and the moustor gathering showed its appre ciation in a most enthusiastic manner. Much credit is also due the Salem Military band. That organization sim ply "tore a bone out"" so to speak, in its efforts to entertain tho people and it succeeded in every particular. The band members could hardly get time to draw a breath away from the mouthpieces of their instruments so appreciative were the listcnors and every popular Bong known to the pres ent generation in Salem was played over and over again, Christmas Feeling Sincere. Every man, woman and child seonied to treat the whole affair just as it was intended thoy should. Despite the feict that last night's entertainment was something entirely new to the peo ple of this city, all took part in it and there -was a sincere fooling among that made the Christmas program com plete. Following the completion of the pro gram, many of the crowd attended the difforont churches while the kiddies romped towjird Ye Liberty. Tho big Christmas tree was left just as it was and every night until New Years it will be illuminated. Committee in Charge. The committee which arranged for tho Christmas tree is deserving of great credit. It was composed of Jim Young, Waltor Hpaulding and Stanley I tart on and all three of theso men worked dili gently to make both tho Christmas tree and tho progmm a shining, success. SCHNEIDER ACQUITTED. i (onitku runs LFiAsnn wins.) Chicago, Dec. 25. Harold Sclicnidcr was acquitted by a jury in Judge Hreu tano's court yesterday afternoon of murdering Joeph Logue, diamond mer chant, in tho Vicker building December 20, 1112. The jury was out less than throe hours. Mrs. Celeste Schneider, whom the defendant married fifteen days bofore the murder, collapsed when the verdict was reaL Schneider's aged mother graspod him in her arms and wept for joy. SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1913. united press leased wire.1 Los Angeles, Cal., Dee. 25. His white face lined and pasty from sleep lessness and fear, John Bostick, who confessed to Sheriff Hammel of Loe Angeles that he robbed the Sunset Limited at El Monte and shot and killed Horace E. Montague, was taken from the Southern Pacific "Owl" tmin today, shackled betwen two of ficers, and rushed through a curious crowd to the automobile that whisked hi mto jail. Bostick reaffirmed his confession to day. He admitted that he robbed the train and killed1 Montaguo, but tear fully asserted tbjit the shooting was accidental. "I had my gun on Montague," he said, "and I pullod the trigger acci dentally in my nervousness when he stepped toward me. 1 would have killed mysolf before I killed anyone else, and I was nearly crazy when I read in the papers the next day that he had died. Never Had Moment's Rest. r'Sice that hour I haven't enjoyod an hour's peaceful sleep. I always swoirt tosee hint -fallofg, and tt see his wife and two. littlo children that I read about in tho papers, crying. "I hav"o cursed myself and walked the streets trying to fforgot, but I couldn't. I don't care wliat they do with mo. I would willingly give my life if I could bring him back." Bostick claims to be 22 yoars of age. Ho became an outlaw, he said, after he had failed in every legitimate endeavor he had undertaken, ell re fused to talk of his family and said that ho has no friends. Think He Made Them Dance, His first "job" was the robbery of a train at Richmond. His success there inspired Another attempt. The officers aro certain that he is the lone bandit who robbed a mail car on a Southern Fueit'ic train at San Jose, compelling two clerks to pull mail tags over their heads mid. dance for his amusement. Bostick dismissed conver sation regarding this robbery by say ing, "They don't seem to have much information about that job; you can guess whatever you want, I won't asy anything." "I seem to bo a failure all arouud," liotick mournfully remarked after he had been taken to his cell in the county jail. "First I fail at every thing decent I try, and then I full down as a crook. Well, I dou't care whut happens now, it will bo what I deserve. " CHRISTMAS RUSH FATAL. frmmtn rnr.m leased wrni.1 Muncie, Ind., Dee. 25. Benjamin Hnrrold, aged 50 years, a rural mail carrier and father of Or villa Harrold, the famous tenor, died hero today of heart filuro In the city postoffice. The rush Incidental to Christum was said to have hastened his death. KILLS WIFE AND SELF. UNITSD PRESS t.HAEKD WIKI.l Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 2. Upbraid ed by his wife fur drinking, James Carney, aged 52 years, shot her in the bnek today with a double-barreled shot gun, killing her, and then committed suicide. The Weather The Dickey Bird says: Oregon: Pos sibly showers to night no. I tomor row. Warmer, with some sunshine. 01 Taxation Taken Out of Politics by Warnes Bill and Then Ar Many Other Important Laws. (UNITED PBESB LEASED WIRE.1 Columbus, O., Dec. 25. Claiming that Ohio has today on its statute books more real progressive legislation, re cently enacted, than many other states of the Union,. Governor James M. Cox today outlined through the United Press, in the following article, which Ohio's legislature has put through: BY GOV. JAMES M. COX, OF OHIO. (Written for the United Prop.) Upon Ohio's statute books today are ' written fifty-six of the most progros I sive laws in the nation, evolved from fifty-six campaign pledges to the peo ple of Ohio before the last election. I Thanks to a body of men composing ulno's goneral assembly, so patriotic in spirit that to oppose the right of the people would be treason, Ohio is ena- , blod todny to coll herself among the foremost of tho statos enjoying the freedom of the people's prerogatives j I am grntoful for this opportunity to j tell the poople of the nation whnt Ohio has already done in the past eventful twelvemonth. Briefly: I Tho Warnes tax law tnkes taxation out of politics, creates uniformity and will bring to light every dollar of tax able property in Ohio. It provides an appointive taxing official in every county. Locnl political bickerings, In j fluonces and obligations are effectively eliminated. The mothers' ponsion law lovlos a pittance of tnx on the comfortable for the benefit of the needy the mothers and their dependents. It will save many families from want in every one of Ohio's 88 counties the first year. The second yenr we estimate it will in crease in effectiveness 50 per cent. Ohio's compulsory workmen's com pensation law is a step in advance over all of them. It provides a system of claim investigation that defies fraud. Tt gives both workman and employer a square deal nt a negligible cost to each and clears awny massos of costly court litigntioii. Its compulsory feature affords every workingmnn its benefit and Insures protection to his depend ents. The new liquor license act eliminated 3.104 dives and joints. Tt put out of business nil of the wino-rooms so fre quently patronized by young girls and women and is a step toward higher mor als, less debauchery, white slavery, and common evils emanating from the In fluences of liquor. It brings to light of day of business that has thrived in the dark. Tt absolutely eliminates objec tionable liquor traffic and limits the trndo to one saloon for every five hun dred of population in counties now known as "wot,." Our "Blno Sky Law," operated by the stnto banking department abolishes the shady operations of illegitimate lnnd sharks, wild cnt speculations nml fake banking Institutions, Tt places sole control in the right place. Hoys under 10" snd girls under IS years are barred from health racking employments, an. evil so common In most stntes, by Ohio's newly enacted child labor lnw, Ohio today has n genernl code of good roads lnws. Most Important, Is the. llites law, providing for a half mill levy in every county to be used In the construction of 12 main market mails and n system of Inter-country roads connecting every section with a fine paved liiuhwny. A sum of kiiO.Wmi is now in tho stnto treasury waiting to be stient. It provides for the raising of Isnn.nno annually for ten yenrs. It will free Ohio from mmlhnlrs and pro vide highways that will redtics the cost of transportation of farm products. The housewife's market basket Is now protected by an act prohibition combinations to fix prices snd provld- PRIPF TWO "- TnyARVLinyro i u ivra i nuiviLO Search Being Made for Burly Alarm That He Will Be Lynched Is Considered Certain Christmas Festivities in Cop per Country Are Suspended, and Nearly Every Man Is Looking for Miscreant Only Three of Those Trampled to Death Unidentified. " UNITED FRESI LEASED WISE. Calumet, Mich., Deo. 25. There were were no Christmas festivities in the copper country today. Instead hun dreds of sorrowing fathers and mothers whose little children had boen trampled of smothered to death in the wild panio that followed a false cry of fire at a Christmas ovo entortainment in Ital ian hall, at Bed Jackot, assembled at the door of the Bed Jackot town bull, and demanded . that their dead be re stored to thorn. Inside the hall, guarded by policomon and special dep uties, lay the bodies of seventy-throe persons, fifty-six of thorn children, victims of tho "joke" of a big, in VICTIMS OF DYNAMITER. united mns tamo wire Des Moines, la., Doc, 25. A dyna mitor entered the home of Mrs. Sophro nia Johnson, agod 35, here early todav and placed a bomb under hor bed. It exploded, blowing off the loirs of Mrs. Johnson and those of her daughtor, Ophelia, aged 11. Tho houso wrecked. was STATUE STAYS IN ITALY (UNITED PRESS LEASED WISE. Florence, Doc. 25. Dnnatello's fa mous stntuo of St. John tho Baptist, winch was mado for his friond and patron, Martelll, and bought by the Itulian government for $SO,000, was I'a 1 today in Duuatello's hall in tho national museum after having re mained hidden fivo centuries in tho uld Martolli placo. Some large sums have bocu offered by foreign galleries and are collectors, but tho law prevented It leaving the country. Ing that violators shall bo fined and sent to the stnto poiiltciitiary. There Is also now no lonpholo for tho dealer who uses short measures. The stnto has appropriated ample funds to fight tho great white slave plaguo. It has in additiou considered tho general health precautions moro amply than evor bofore. Upon Ohio's statuto books wnro also placed during the past yenr, laws granting municipal ities tho option of homo rulo In any practical form; crentlng an efficient Industrial commission; eliminating poll tics through tho civil service; adjust ing and simplifying court proceoduro; ndequnto flood protection; providing for a thorough Investigation of farm credits; giving the stnto bonrd of chur- illes general supervision of tho care of nil dependent, neglected and delinquent children; creating a stnto penitentiary open air fnrm to be constructed and worked by convicts; establishing ele mentary day school for uneducated prisoners In Ohio's penitentiary, fitting the illiterate with stamina to resist evil when released nml fnee Hie world with an even break; a drastic anti-lobby law and many more. Tlin greatest object of my adminis tration will have been accomplished when the legislature this winter adopts s progressive school system endorsed by prominent educators nil over the stato and lay delegates from evcrv school district no matter how small. Tt will prove adequate, thorough and ef ficient supervision of every school In Ohio and s high standard will be re quired of every teacher old Snd young. fFNT ON TRAINS AND NfWH Drunken Man Who Shouted toxicated man, whose identity haa nob been learned. Nearly every man iu . tha copper; country today searcher1 r this man. The police had a i ' cription and; are confident ho fore night. Tf ' if captured, the foreign country is a reasoning ar fear which aptured bo ! bo lynched i today, as , the copper ,4i i.'ury as nn-i ' ;,3 ti'iolo as wag the; - impelled thosoj ' i ml?la 8d crush ?tn to death; . . in Italian women and, Xui. Only three of thoso who died in labfc night's panic remained unidentified to itay. At a mass mooting callod for this afternoon, plans will be made for 4 public funornl of all of the dead. OF De Molay Comuiaudory No. 5, Knights Templar, of this city, hold its Christmas sorvices in the beautiful Masonic lodge rooms, at 9 o'clock this morning. Those sorvices are held at the same hour In the entire jurisdic tion of tho United Stales, and are all hold when it is 12 o'clock at the place of residence of the Grand Eminent Commander, which this yoar is at Chi cago, and which makos the hour here tt in tho morning. Kminotit Commander, Sir Knight T. R. Wilson, culled the Knights to order, and tho services which were Indeed beautiful and imprcesive, began with prayer by Eminent Prolate, Sir Knight Burnett. Mrs. Hallie Parish Hinges, Mrs. Will Unbcoek and Miss Margaret Hodge gave the vocal selections splend idly, Miss Mary Schultz, with violin and Miss Sheltou piano, accompanying. Four toasts wore given, and drank; by the Sir Knights standing. Thesa toasts aro alwnys drank in ut pure water aud they were rospoudod to ast follows: ''To theOrjind Eminent Commander," by Sir Knight Thielson, who spoke feelingly and paid a fine tribute to the order goiionilly, as did Sir Knight Kay, in respondiu g to the toast "To the Knights Templar, whore ovor dis bursed," Tho toast "To tho Grand Masters," was responded to by Sir Knight More land, who gave a brief but very In teresting history of the earlier grand masters of the state. 'To the Uoyivl Arch Chapter," wus responded to by Sir Knight I'enrce, who dwelt on tho beauties of fraternity and brothorly love, which ti.u Christinas time brings so prominently to all Christian people. The services wero very beautiful and the music, it is unnecestiary to say a word about it, since it Is known who furnished it, The old fashioned boy whoso odea of wealth wns to own a goat ith a real harness now has a son who would turn up his nose at anything smaller Minn a l cylinder roadster.