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VOL. IV.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATTUD.W, 11KCUM11KII 7, 1912
No. SI
iCE MACHINERY
Is Purchased by James Chris
tian Alexander.
WORK ON PLANT COMMENCED
Plant Can Produce 100 Tons of Jet
.;. Per . Day and at a Cost Far
Less Thun Other Plants
Finished On Mar. 1.
' W." F. IvOsch, representing the
Frick Ice Machinery Manufacturing
Company, left here today after secur
ing a contract to furnish James
Christian Alexander with several
carloads of ice making machinery.
Mr. Alexander is President of the
Umpn.ua Land & Water Company,
and will errect the proposed ice mak
ing plant on his property in .West
Roseburg.
The plant, which has been designed
by Mr. Alexander, the builder of the
Alexander bridge, is pronounced by
Mr. Losch as the moat complete ice
making pjant on the Pacific coast.
Every piece of machinery is propel
led by electricity and can be operat
ed from the Company's office by
merely touching an electric hut ten.
Speaking of the cost of manufac
turing ice in Roseburg this morn
ing Mr. Losch stated that on account
of the power for propelling the ma
chinery being derived from water
power, and the cooling water for
'practically nothing, the cost of mak
ing ice and refrigerating will be re
duced to so small an item that Mr.
Alexander will have the distinction
of producing ice at the lowest price
on record.
Mr. Loach yesterday visited the !
South Umpn.ua Power station and ;
was delighted at the well designed j
and compact water power in evidence
at that point. In regard to the water
power, Mr. Losch said there was
enough power going to waste at the
present time to manufacture 100
tons of ice a day, and at price so
low that- ft could hardly be deter
mined. He also stated that this ice,
when manufactured, could be pre-
seved In cold storage for a very small j
expense. According to Mr. Losch Ice'
TheBestThatS20J
Can Buy
At Harth's Toggery for
$15.00
Any Suit or Overcoat. Kept 'pressed
free for you, too.
Best in Good all wool fabric Best in
pattern and coloring and best m care
ful tailoring. "Service with Satisfac
tion" goes with every garment.
We want you to come and see
these Suits and Overcoats you'll
be glad to find
wear $15.00 will buy here. 16,000 Automobile g
votes with each
Harth's To
HomeofRegalShozs Headquarters
will be made when the water In the
river is high and stored for future
consumption.
. "I have been traveling up. and
down the Pacific coast for the past
three years," said Mr. Losch, and
never have I found a place equul to
Roseburg for producing Ice and ship
ping it in carload lots. I believe
that the Alexander plant will prove
a strong competitor to towns situat
ed as far as 100 miles distance."
The plant is to be In operation by
March 1, 1913. The major part of
the ice to be manufactured '.
of tne crftbi clear v nitty. maJe
from filtered water from the North
Umpqua river, and electrically treated
by a special system designed and In
stalled by Mr. Alexander. Work on
the plant has already commenced and
will be pushed to a speedy comple
tion. HKNRY HANG Klt'l1 HOUGH T
HY ASYLUM OFFICIALS
Douglas County Man Writes Asylum
Officials From Springfield.
SALEM, Or., Dec. n. Learning
that Henry Bangert, a convict, who
was transferred from the penitenti
ary to the asylum, and who recently
escaped from the institution, has
made his appearance in Southern
Oregon, Dr. Steiner, the superin
tendent of the asylum, today wired
officials in that section of the state
to keep a lookout for him. After
escaping from the asylum, Bangert
wrote to Dr. Steiner from Spring
field, asking him to send a watch
left behind. The superintendent Im
mediately got Into communication
with the officers there, but Bangert
learned of it and made his escape.
As he Is considered dangerous, the
asylum authorities are anxious to ap-!
prehend him.
A. C. POSEY, O.
Specialist for Eye, Ear
Nos and Throat
Diseases.
Eyes Fiticd With Glasses
PARROT BUILDING
ROSEBURG, OREGON
outfor youself how much worth and
$15.00 Suit or Overcoat.
r
MAYOR GAYNOR ON GRAFT
Chief Executive of Nation's Greatest City Gives Inter
view to United Press on the Blight on Ameri
V
can Politics-Says Becker is Not a Type.
NEW YORK, December 7. The
great Becker-Rosenthal gambllug
graft case was analyzed today by
Mayor William J. Gaynor in a
special (interview with the United
Press, In wiilch -he pointed out les
sons that may be drawn from It by
the executives and people of other
American cities. Sitting at his desk
in the. City Hall, in the country's
largest city, the white beared, gray
bearded executive frankly admitted
there had been penty of graft here
and that some still remains. He
Insisted however, that It was being
gradually stamped out and defend
ed therank and file of the New York
police as the best in the world.
Gaynor insisted that he knew cer
tain old-time police inspectors were
grafters. He would not have been
surprised, he said, if one or more
had been caught in the recent up
heaval, and hopes and rather ex
pects some will yet be Innded In the
net.
Instead of considering Becker a
type of grafter the- Mayor declared
the lieutenant was the most remark
able criminal of his day if all that
is charged against him is true, but
with characteristic 1 ffirbeanance re
fused to deal with this subject at
length because Becker's appeal from
his conviction Is still undecided by
the highest court. i
The Mayor Insisted that three
things contributed to graft, the en
forcement of tne uqu0r regulation,
nnti-gambllng and unt'i-constltutlon
laws. But taking the enforcement
of these out of the hnnds of the
general run of police and making u
! squud " under the Immediate direc
tion of the Commissioner responsible,
the graft question Is solved, ho Bald.
The Mayor minced nothing, evad
ed nothing, and made It very plain
that, so far as ho is oncemed, he
believes that he has solved the prob
lem of how a city should be run.
'You ask me how 1 regard the
New York police force todny. as a
whole, for efficiency and effective
ness?" begun the Mayor, "The best
In the world, and I say that adviHed-
fot Stetson Hats
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ly. It Is not generally known that
compared with other cities our po
lice force here is very small. We
hnve a population of 6,000,000, and
only 10,000 policemen. What do
you think of that? Our full com
plement compared with the other
large cities would be 15,000. But
deficient In numbers as the force is.
It does excellent work, it is capable
of any work put up to It. Every one
who comes here to the city sees what
excellent outward order and decency
Is preserved. It is also a fact that
our secret service force does the
very best kind of work. It is very
seldom baffled. It is, In a large
sense, the secret service force of the
whole country. We in fact do work
for the whole country.
"We recently had two cases here
which Illustrate what I mean. Ono
was the robbery of the bunk mes
senger by the so-called taxicnb
thieves. The police had very little
to go by, and yet they arrested them
all. One I think they found in
Memphis, one In some other wes
tern city and one I think in Cuba,
or on tho way to or from Cuba. By
the wa( when a crlmlnnl here gets
outside of the city they aro able to
catch him easier than If he went Into
some hole here in the city and kept
still.
"The more recent case Is the
murder of Rosenthal, the gambler.
Those who did that deed also came
in an automobile to the place of the
murder, nnd got away in the same
way. It was nil done in a moment,
and off they went. Conflicting num
bers of taxlcabs were given by
citizen onlookers. With very little
to go by the detective force of the
city within a rew hours had the cab
brought to the station house und in
a short time several arrests of those
concerned were made. It took some
weeks to mnko the twilnnl arrests.
These two young murderers wont in
to a house in a renioto part of the
;lty and stayed there. Hut they
were found. And yel, owing to the
sensational statements of newspapers
and some public officials, tho no
tion was sent abroad that the police
tried to shield these criminals. Noth
ing more unjust was ever said of the
force here. The citlnilnals were all
promptly found. The District At
torney was rurnlshed with a com
plete case. . Then the ones who
hired the murderers turned state's
evldenco against Becker, and showed
that he instigated them to do the
murder, and thus he was indicted
und convicted of tlu! murder.
"in place of standing In the way
to Fhicld their fellow officer, the
oollue did their duty In the matter.
1 could go on multiplying Instance."
to show the efficiency of our deler-
Headquarters
For
Holiday
Goods
THE LEADER
tlve force. They do flue things ev
ery day. Of course 1 am a novice in
such matters .and I suppose would
make a very poor detector of crime.
j but I cannot help sometim'eB being
greatly Interested in the work of the
police in this line. Of course they
1 come to tell me about It, and I like
to listen to it, to make them feel
good, and to encourage them, if for
no other reason.
"I should not leave the Bubject
without snylng that we have a splen
did police commissioner, Mr. Rhlue
lander Waldo. Up to the time of the
Rosenthal murder the entire press of
city were saying that we never had
his equal as a police commissioner.
Then the degenerate press began to
in tack him. I sympathize with him
all the more becaustfI knew that they
attacked him only to attack me. And
since that a groat many have been
talking at random against Commis
sioner Waldo, .but he is the same
Commissioner Waldo that he was be
fore the Rosenthal murder. It is
true that Becker was under his Im
mediate orders in the suppression of
gambling and other" vices, and that
he was grossly decolved by Becker,
But that might have hupiamed to
any of us. Many, other men have
beon grossly deceived by employees
or subordinates. In the commercial
and banking world It Is hnppenlng
every week. And the notion which
snmo people , have of what a police
(Continued on page 2.)
I'lt.WK v.Alti.inOX ASKS
11HOWN TO IXTKItl'-KRH
District Attorney Says Kxceutlon
of tiiirrison Is I'p To (iov
enior WoNt,
Claiming that Hoy Perkins Is not
dead and that tho body identified as
his was tbnt of another party, Frank
Garrison, at present confined In the
state penitentiary uwultlng execution
on Friday, December III, lias writtpn
a letter to District Attornoy fieorg0
M. Brown, of this city, asking that
ho use his influence ',n securing him
a new trial. Other than alleging mls
identil'lcatlon of Perkins' remains.
Garrison also clrims that ho has un
earthed new pidenco which would
prove him Inr.occnt of the chnrgo on
which ho wis convicted of murder
in the first degree nnd Bentenced t;
hnng.
Speaking- of Garrison's retU."n
tills ifiornh.'g. District Attorney
Brown Bald that the condemned mnn
was twice convicted of the murder oi
itoy Perkins and was twlco suntene.
ed to hang by the court. Follow In."
the first hearing, which wub one of
the most noted murder trials ever
held in Coos county, Garrison's at
torney appealed tho decision to tho
supremo court with the rosult tliHt
the verdict of tho lowor court was
reversed. The reverBal was based on
Mio grounds that Garrison made an
'nvoluutary confession on the advice
'if a detective. '
In the second trial a convlctlni,
wa-j secured without ibe ronfi salon
A 10 MILL LEVY
Necessary to Provide Funds
For School District.
ELECTION THIS AFTERNOON
Report of School Clerk Indicates That
10-.MI11 Tax Is Necessary
Nine Mills Levied.
liut Year,
With only four taxpayers in at-
tendance the annual meeting of Rose
burg School District No, 4, was call
ed to order at the Lane school build
ing shortly after 2 o'clock this af-i
tomoon by School Clerk George Neu
nor. Following the reading of the an
nual report by the school clerk a
motion was advanced to the effect
that the voters of the district vote
n ten-mill tax for tho maintenance ot
tho schools during the next year.
The motion was duly seconded and
tho voting commenced. Inasmuch as
a 10-mtll tax Is necessary in order
to meet the current expenses of the
district nnd at the same time provide
for the contemplated Improvements
during the year It Is believed that
tho 10-mlll levy will carry.
Annum KcHirt Huliiulttcd.
In accordance with the usual cus
tom, School Clerk George Nduner
submitted a detutled report showing
tho tentative expenditures ,for the
coming year, together with the es
timated tax levy necessary to meet
tho expenses.
The report follows In detail:
To the Board of Directors and Tax
payers and Patrons of School Dis
trict Ml, 4 :
Ladles and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to the request of the
Board of School Directors of School
(Continued on page 4.) . ,
and GurrlKon was again sentenced to
die. Ho Ib now at Salem nml 1b ono
of the five men waiting execution
on December HI.
District Attorney Drown stated
this. morning that Garrison had been
convicted of a felony on Five oc
casions previous to tho Perkins mur
der, nnd consequently ho would
make, no rncoiuineiHl't'itlnns In the
mutter. "I have done my part In the
ruHe of tho State vj. Garrison," Bald
tho district nttorney, "and It Is now
up to the Governor." In tho event
he deal res to no nun u to the sentence
to llfo Imprisonment that Is his busi
ness. Garrison was Indicted by a
Grund Jury of seven men, and waa
twlio convlctod by Juries of twelve
men each. In all, 31 men have said
that GarrlBon was utility of the crime
charged. In view of thoHe tm:n I
will make no recommendation, leav
ing final disposition of the matter In
tho bands of tho Goevnror."
The body of Itoy Perkins, whom
Garrison was t wice convlctod of mur
dering, was found In the bay, near
MarHhfleld, late hi August 1910.
Numerous bruises of the faed and
head Indicated that he had been
murdered and suspicion Immediately
pointed toward Garrison.
Garrison wuh lator arrested, and
while Inraceratcd In the Coog coun
ty Jail confessed to killing Perkins
and weighting IiIh body in tho bar.
He also wroto a number of letters In
which he made numerous contra
dlctory BtaJemeuts relative to the
murder. Important anions the evi
dence introduced against Garrison at.
the rluls was testimony to the ef
fect that ho was found In possession
of the personal effects of Perkins on
day following the murder. These
effects Included a gold watch, eye
glasses and other less valuable ar
ticles. " '
, The body, which Garrison claim
whs not Identified as that of Perk
Ins, was Identified by no less thnn .
dozen witnesses, according to Dis
trict Attorney Georgo to. Flrown. Of
these witnesses a number were Per
kins companions, all of whom wef
positive In their Identification.
Unless Governor West acts In be
half of Garrison, ft Is safe to pre
dict that he will pay the death Ktn
alty together with four other mtir
"derers on Dorernber 13. At leant.
District Attorney George M. Brown
has washed his hands of the affair
and refuses to Interfere.