The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19??, March 23, 1912, Image 3

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    Colonel Roosevelt and Senator
Dixon, His Campaign Manager
IN THK COUNTY COURT OF THIS STATE
OF OREGON, FOlt MULTNOMAH
E-l and E-2, N a v y ’s Newest
Submarines, Burn Crude Oil
ped under the door. With It wero In­
structions as to how to pay the rau-
I H EN R IETTA KERN. Deo-ahed
aom.
The postscript nrrested Mr.
CITATIO N
To J. J. Kern, Albert E. Kern, George F. Chandler's attention at once. He sur­
Kern. John M. Kern, T. J. Kern, Wil
mised that Mark had been forced to
liam Kern, Tabitha
Kern,
Meta De
Mond, William
Strove, John
Strove, write the letter and the poetscript. At
Letha. Veda Kern and Delbert Kern, any rate, he bad no idea o f burning
and all other known and unknown heirs
But In time he began to
and devisees of Henrietta Kern, deceased: tbe letter.
IN THE NAME OF TH E STATE OF wonder as to tta mennlug.
Then he
OREGON, you are hereby commanded to remembered his father's story o f how
appear before the Honorable County Clerk
o f the State of Oregon, in and for the be bad used lemon Juice to effect his
County of Multnomah, at the Court House
in the City of Portland, on the 15th day escape from prison. He held tbe letter
of April, A. D. 1912, at the hour of nine before a but tire and the problem was
o'clock A. M. of said day, to show cause, solved.
if any exist, why an order of sale should
not be made of the following described land
The same night, with a force o f po­
as prayed for in the petition of A. E. Kern,
administrator, with the will annexed of the lice, Mr. Chandler broke into tbe house
estate of Henrietta Kern, deceased, herein­ and made a thorough search.
They
before filed, to-wit:
Lot numbered three (3 ), in block num­ found nothing und hope was beginning
bered three (3 ), in Columbia Heights Ad­ to desert them when they entered the
dition to the City of Portland, and also basement. Hearing them. Mark began
lots numbered twenty-three (2 3 ), twenty- |
four (2 4 ), twenty-five
(2 5 ),
twenty-six t to shout. Mr. Chandler raised the lid
(26 ), twenty-seven (27 ) and twenty-eight o f a stationary washtub. and Mark
(28), in block numbered thirty-seven (37), |
in Peninsulur Addition Number Three, to \ jumped Into hts arms
the City of Portland, all in the County of | The police took care of those they
Multnomah and State of Oregon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said i found In the house, and Mr. Chandler
Court affixed this 11th day of March, A. took the boy home to his mother, who
D. 1912.
smothered him with kisses.
F. 8. FIELD S,
Clerk of the County Court.
"H o w did you huppeu to think o f the
By T. F. NOONAN. Deputy
lemon juice racket. Mark?" asked his
(Seal of County Court, Multnomah
County, State of Oregon.)
father.
“ I wouldn't have thought o f It I f I
hadn’t remembered grandpop’s prison
story."
There was no use In the kidnapers
putting in a defense, for Mark Identi­
fied the woman and the man who had
tnken his letter, and they are now
serving a terra tn state prison. The
i other man wus never found.
Commercial Artist
COUNTY.
In the Matter of the Estate of
C.
J. W I L S O N
and
Why She Draw Up.
Nell trending from novel!— He kissed
her on the forehead The proud beauty
drew herselt up. Belle- I suppose that
was to get her cheek up to the proper
| height- Boston Transcrtnt.
Cartoonist
Photo by American Press Association
S
Photo by American Press Association
I
T was matter for gratification to Colonel Roosevelt when the direction of
his campaign for the presidential nomination was Intrusted to Senator
Joseph M Dixon o f Montana. He was the ex-president's choice for this
highly important post, but it bad been rumored that sickness in his fam­
ily would make It impossible for him to assume the duties of a pre-convention
manager A warm friendship existed between the colonel and Mr. Dixon lie-
fore the latter was elected to the senate. The senator is a North Carolinian by
birth, but removed to Montana when a very young man and went into politics
almost Immediately. He has been there ever since and has a reputation for
getting pretty nearly any office be wants He is said to be the most popular
man In public life in bis state. His friends attribute his uniform success to
bis amiability, his unassuming manners, his sterling honesty and his knack of
seizing opportunities The Illustration shows the ex-president and the senator
returning to tbelr New York offices after having taken luncheon together.
U B M AR IN E S with masts are a new thing in the navy. The E-l and
E-2 are the first so equipped, the masts, which are about thirty feet
high, being for wireless use. The two new boats are also the first of
their kind to use the crude oil burning engines, which are expected to
save money for the navy department, since they burn oil costing 3 cents a
gallon Instead of the gasoline used In other submarine engines, which costs
10 or 11 cents a gallon. The boats, which are shown as they appeared at the
New York navy yard Just before they started for Norfolk, are 135 feet long
and are equipped with four torpedo tubes each. There is little room Inside
them for anything but the machinery and the 5.000 gallons of oil which they
carry
Each has a crew of eighteen men and a mascot. On ordinary voyages
submarines have tenders on which the members of the crew sleep, but the
New York-Norfolk trip was made without these. When the boats are sailing
on the surface of the water the navigating bridges are surrounded with canvaa
348 M AR K ET STREET
Phone Main 5645.
Res. Phone E618*
East 33
B 7118
Arthur D. Monteith
Civil and Hydraulic Engineer
587 E. 15th 8t. N. Portland, Ore.
General
gineering,
Surveying,
Landscape
Construction
Ea
Superinten­
Troy
dence, Reports and Estimates on Proj­
was not likely that his captors would
ects, Water Supply, Irrigation, Sewer
I'ermlt him to do so.
He longed also for the battery he bnd age.
Now Lumber Exchange Bldg.
at home and wires to connect it with
the telephone wires, thinking he might room, and watching his opportunity
send a message. But he was perfectly when tbe hag's back was turned to
i ife where he was. and at Inst, giving him while she stood at tbe sink, he
i i trying to devise c o in s of escape. pounced upon it und put it in ills
In- threw himself on the bed. There pocket. That was as far as he got for
lie fell to thinking how anxioas his fa ­ some time. Nevertheless, ids little
ther and mother would be about him bruin was at work, and finally he hit
upon a plan. He said to tbe woman-
anil cried himself to sleep.
"Please let me write papa to come
Early in the morning the woman
ej»
awakened him and took him out of the and take me away.”
“ Hush!” grunted the woinun. "You
room he occupied. She had no idea of
letting him stay in the daytime where no write anybody.”
One Story Leads
“ I ’ll tell him to pay you a whole lot
be might attract the attention o f those
to Another
outside and communicate with them. o f money.”
The woman’s eyes brightened at this,
She took him downstairs to the kitchen,
where die gave him something to eat. but she made no reply. When one of
tho men came the same afternoon
After that she compelled nim to re­ Mark heard him und the woman dis­
By SILAS ARMSTRONG
main there with her while she did cer­ cussing something, uud evidently he
tain chores.
was the subject o f their discussion.
The door of the kitchen closet stood When it was finished the man went
“ Mark,” said Mr. Chandler, “ here’s a
open, and Mark could see that on Its Into another room and returned with
cent; go get me a paper."
PO R TLA N D
shelves were certain remnants of pen. ink and paper.
I t was 6 o'clock in the evening, and
stores that were not likely to have
“ Y'ou write your father to send $10,-
day and night were mingling. A boy,
been bought by his captors. They had 000 and I take you home."
who was ten years old, started for the
evidently been left there by those who
Mark sat down at a table to write
japer. The walk before him there and
had occupied the premises before it without having the slightest idea how
had been closed. One thing Mark saw be wus going to use the lemon Juice.
back would require about ten minutes.
put an Idea Into his head. It was a Indeed, with the two wntchlng him It
Twenty minutes passed and he had not
lemon.
Ilis grandfather, who had would be impossible. He wrote n let­
returned. His mother began to grow
been a soldier In the civil war, had ter and on reading It over found that
anxious. Her husband laughed at her.
been captured and imprisoned.
He be had left out certain words. He laid
Dinner was announced, and still no
had communicated with friends with­ It aside and wrote another. While writ­
word from Mark. Mrs. Chandler in­
out by writing letters which would ing the second letter it occurred to him
sisted that the father should go to the
pass inspection, but on being heated that he might have use for tbe first
newsstand and make inquiries.
He
the real missive, that bnd been lnvlsi and be should secure It. But hts cap-
COR. E AST Y A M H IL L
consented and learned that the boy had
ble. would nppear. Mark had often tors were watching him every moment. EAST
been there, bought a paper and gone
heard him tell the story of how by When be finished the second letter and 63
•w ay with it in the direction o f his
this means he was assisted to escape, they were both eagerly reading It lie
home.
and it occurred to him that i f he could found an opportunity to put tbe first In
This Is what hapiiened to Mark
get hold of that lemon he might write bis pocket. Then when they returned
W hile walking home n carriage drove
a note to his father. The idea was him bis letter they had rend that he
up to the sidewalk beside him, two
very vague In bis mind, but one thing might enclose and address it. he rend
men alighted, seized the boy. put him
he determined on. to steal the lemon.
It over, tore it up and began to write
into the carriage, got in with him, shut
He was permitted to walk around the another.
the door and were driven away. There
Tbe Italians gave him a sound cuff
for what he hud done, but lie did not
mind that I f he could only follow a
plan be had In view. He wrote another
letter, which lie pur[>osely skilled; then
another, in which lie wrote tlie nmount
o f the ransom wrong. Then he said
he had chunged Ills mind and wouldn't
write to tils father after all Since tils
captors were now bent on tits doing so.
they endeavored to force him to write
another letter by repeated thrashings
But lie only said “ Tomorrow," and at
lust they desisted.
When Mark was put to lied H its time
In a room with the windows milled up
—ho wrote ill lemon Juice with n match
a description of the house In which he
was Imprisoned and its location, so far
ns he could give It. The next morning,
180 Grand Avenue
when alone with ttie hag. In* told tier
he would write the letter Kin* gave
him the writing materials and he wrote
PO R TLAND
while she d.d her chores Dually he
banded her n letter In an envelope. It
was the one he had first written, with
a postscript, "Burn up tills letter when
you have read It."
When the man who hnd been there |
the day before eame again the woman [ D O E S
showed him the letter When I i p came j I y o u b
It W ILrLe N O T I f y o u t a k e
to the postscript Mark saw ttiat lie
wns talking to the woman about It
They finally seemed to agree to let it
stand, probably considering it. If of
any importance, rather un advantage
to them The man replaced the letter
In the envelope and took It away with
him
I They will m re any kind of H»-a n hr. no
mutter what the c*u»f Perfectly ttermle**.
Meanwhile the Chandler family were
P ric e * 2 5 C e n t »
In a continued agony. One afternoon. |
THE FARCE COMEDY, EXCUSE M E.” AT HEILIO THEATRE. MARCH 24 25 26 27. 1912
L *0rflf AH LICHTY MFG. CO., De« Molne«.I*.
Henry W. Savage presents the brilliant farce comedy success, ' Excuse Me,” at the Heilig Theatre, 7th and Taylor 8t«., for four night«, on entering tils bouse. Mr. Chandler |
FOR SALE BY M
found Mark's letter that bad been slip
beginning Sunday, March 24. Special price matinee Wednesday.
A L L DRUOOI8T8
KIDNAPED
♦
stopped at a large house. It stood
alone and had the appearance o f being
unoccupied. Mark was taken into it
by a back door, but there were no
lights, uud after passing through a
basement hall and up a short stairway
was not a person near to see what had
he found himself in a handsomely fur­
been done.
nished room in which u gas Jet was
Mark Chandler was a very bright
burning. Besides the two men was a
boy. He was a boy's boy, not a girl's
woman, a verituble hag. and, though
boy by any means. He had no use for
he understood not a word o f their talk,
Indoor playthings, except that in the
he knew that the men were turning
garret o f his home he had n "-orksbop
him over to her as his Jailer A fter a
and various electrical contrivances. He
brief consultation the two men went
knew nothing o f electric theories, but
out o f the room, followed by the wo­
had played with batteries to turn min­
man. who locked the door after her.
iature mills, ring bells and make tiny
Mark threw himself on a lounge
lights so often that he had become
and cried till she came back with some
quite conversant with the adjustment
bread and a little butter and sugar on
o f wires. His other amusements were
It. She told him in Italian-Englisb not
baseball, football and in winter skat­
to cry, giving him to understand that
ing. Altogether Mark was as well cal­
he would be well treated. This helped
culated ns any boy o f his age to take
him to recover his equanimity, and he
care o f himself.
ate the supper she had provided for
He knew he was being kidnaped, him. Then she took him upstairs to a
and from the lingo in which his cap- large bedroom, in which the gas Jet
tors conversed he Judged they were was turned low, and told him to go to
Italians. O f course he was terribly bed.
frightened, but it didn’t take him very
Tlie kidnapers were evidently either
long to recover his equanimity suffi­ caretakers of the liouse or. knowing
ciently to notice the direction in which that it was vacant, bad forced an en­
be was being tuken. He bad been trance and appropriated it to their use.
about the city more or less and knew Mark didn't consider this He was too
some locations. But he was not driven young. But lie did consider means of
In a straight course and soon lost his escape. His father bad once locked
bearings. It was In the spring o f the him in a ro^m for disobedience and
year, the length o f the twilight had shortly after found him playing base-
considerably lengthened, and the boy bail with his boy companions. Mark
could see landmarks tf he only recog­ had slid down a drain pipe. As soon
nized them. Presently he passed a rink as the woman left him he began to
where he had skated. A fter this the make investigations. He raised n win
carriage turned down a broad avenue, dotv so stealthily as not to make a
which he distinctly remembered, but sound that could be heard and looked
did not know Its name. The lamps were out. He was on the third story In the
lighted, and he saw the names o f the i rear o f the bouse and nothing near by
streets crossed. Bogart street was one l which be might get down. He noticed
of them, and into this the carriage j n telephone wire leading into a room
turned. Not far from the corner of | below and wished be might get near it
the street and the avenue the carriage long enough to send a message. But It
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