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VOL. XIV.
KOSLHlltU. OREGON', KI1IDAY K.VF.XIXfi, JAXl'AHV Irt, 1012.
No. 273.
DOUGLAS COUNTY'S INE
SPURNED, HE KILLS
Claude Whilsett Ends Life of
Rosa Orme, Then Suicides
DIVORCEE HAD CAST HIM OFF
Tragedy Occurs as Woman is Writing
Letter In Room to Which Mao
' Was Forbidden
PORTLAND. Or., Jan. 19. Ilc
caus. It is said, she refused to give
up her position In a laundry and
again go back to live with him after
having left him a year ago, Claude
Whltsett, aged 30 years, a bartender,
last night shot and killed Rosa Orme.
aged 25 years, and then shot himself
In the temple, dying instantly. .Miss
Orme died within a few minutes af
ter the shot was fired, and without
telling how it happened. The trage
dy took place in a rooming house at
Second and Madison streets, shortly
after 6:30 o'clock.
KnterliiK the room where the wom
an was sitting at a desk writing a let
ter to a friend, Whltsett leaned over
her and Ered downward, the bullet
from a 32-caliber revolver striking
the woman over the right breast and
lodging In the heart. Then Whltsea
stepped back and fired at his own
temple. The bullet went wild, strik
ing in the wall above his head. Then
he pulled the muzzle of the revolver
to the level of his temple and shot
again, the ball lodging in the temple
and killing him at once.
Friend First nt Scene.
Attracted by the shots. W. P. Mor
rison, employe of an oil company,
and a friend of both victims of the
tragedy, ran to the room and found
Miss Orme breathing her last. She
was unable to speak to him.
Morrison said last night that Whk
sett lived with the woman after Miss
Orme had separated from her former
husband. Harvey C. Galhraith. of San
Francisco, the two passing as man
and wife for some time, and that af
terwards the girl obtained a position
In the Union Laundry on Second
street and refused to live longer with
the bartender. Two weeks ago, he
said. Whltsett went to the lodgirtc
house and to' the girl's room. With
the assistance of the clerk of the
place, Whltsett was thrown out and
came back with a policeman, to
whom he had reported that Miss
Ormo was his wife. When the patrol
man found that Whltsett was not
the girl's husband, he escorted Whlt-
4i urn inn m-m
'. BKXEFl T BALL JANUARY 23
The local branch of the Sys
. tem Federation of Shopmen
will give a benefit ball at the
Armory. Roseburg, on Tuesday
night. January 23. The boys
. are working hard to make this
a grand success. Intending to
make k an Introduction to a
series of regular monthly
dances.
-M-M I 1 M"I"1 I M-H-M-!
Check Your Savings
as they go IN to the bank and you
will know how to disburse them. If
you acquire the banking habit when
young, and determine to let your
savings and earnings grow, you will
soon find yourself Independent. Let
n take care of your money for jou
anu relieve you of all worry as to II
safely. It will be always ready for
you when you want It.
4 Interest on
Time Deposits
FIRST TRUST SAVINGS flAXK
OF IKWKIII IU).
sett from the place and Whltsett did
not return again until last night. ,
Italy iirl is l-eft.
Miss Orme, who took her maiden
name after her sepuratiou 'from hT I
husband, whom she had married In
ISOi. is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Orme, of Grants Pass and Le
land. Oregon. In their custody is her
7-year-old child. Grace, who Is the
daughter of Galbralth. Her father
Is a partner In a placer mine at Le
land. Following, her separation from
Galbralth she lived at different place i
on the Pacific Coast, earning her liv
ing as a waitress or as a laundry
worker.
Whitsett, who Is said by Morrison
to have threatened the girl's life two
weeks ago when turned out of the
house. In the words, "I'll get in some
time and I'll show you all about it,"
was a bartender in the Fargo saloon
at 101 Sixth Btreet, and was a mem
ber of the bartenders' union. He had
been In Portland for the past seven
years.
Whltsett was a native of Dougla3
County. He was born on Roberts
Creek, 12 miles east of Roseburg. a
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey Whlt
sett. pioneers, now deceased. His
brother, John Whltsett. well known
locally as a liquor dealer and race
horse handler, left here for Portland
Thursday night upon receipt of a
telegram Informing him of the trage
dy. Another brother, Harlow, left
Roseburg a few years ago to evade
arrest on a grand Jury Indictment
charging him with "bootlegging."
The dead man also leaves a brother,
Stewart Whltsett, of Rlverton, Coos,
County, and two slaters, Mrs. W
Sovern, of Portland, and Mrs. JefT
Roberts, of Myrtle Creek.
DISTRICT TAX PAY Fit
ASKS AN INJUNCTION'
AGAINST KOAI LEVY.
Alleging Irregularities In the pro
ceedings and unjust partiality in the
proposed expenditure of the money
intended to be raised, Robert I'.
Green, a farmer of Greens, has Insti
tuted suit against Douglas County to
enjoin the collection of a 3-mllI
special tax voted for road district
No. 38, embracing his property and
extending Into the southern part of
the city of Roseburg. His share of
the tax would be $23.88. His attor
neys. John T. Long and C. L. Hamil
ton, have filed the case In the Clrc.iit
Court of Lane County, to be tried bo
fore Judge L. T. Harris. Judge Ham
ilton, being a resident and taxpayer
of the road district. Is disqualified.
The tax was voted specially to im
prove what is commonly known as
the Parrott hill, on the southern bor
der of the city, the estimated cost ol
the work being $4nui. Green al
leges that the meeting was held
clandestinely, with a minority of the
district taxpayers present, and that
the law was purposely evaded by In
sufficient advertisement of the meet
ing to keep away such a number of
taxpayers as would have voted down
the proposition. Thomas Cobb actel
as secretary of the meeting and Dr.
George E. Houck as chairman. Green
says that the full number of required
notices of the meeting were not
posted, nor was one placed in a news
paper, as required by law. The one
notice that was posted, he says,
tucked the signatures of the necessary
10 per cent of the district taxpayers,
the full number of which, he sets
forth, is 175. A majority of th-tt
u umber did not vote the special tax.
The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of
N". Y., pays the largest dividends.
Investigate. Office in Perkins Block,
Room 421.
Quarrel Over Abdication and
Massacre May Result
U. S. TROOPS ON GROUND
Italy Sifzes Another French Steamer
and Trouble May Rfsnlt Cuba
Becomes Peaceful
(Special to the Evening Review)
PEKIX, Jan. la. A bluer disnute
between the younger Munchu prince,
who want to continue the war, an 1
the older onea, who wish to submit
to the republicans, la on today. The
ManchiiH' inability to agree has dis
gusted Premier Yuan, who may re
sign.
It has long been expected the Man
clui IrrecoiicilabU-H would unite In a
massacre when all hope for the ad
ministration had vanished and a
placard posted tonight Indicates that
the Manchu threats may be fulfilled.
It call on ail loyal Manchus and
Chinese to resist the abdication of
the Emperor lo the death.
Yuan Iteavil uart1el.
The street near the olllce of the
Chinese foreign board, on which
Yuan Shi Kai resides. Is heaviy
guarded by the Premier's own mu,
of whom It is said there are 3a00.
Many Chinese who have not yet de
serted the city are preparing for
flight tomorrow, and prominent fol
lowers of Yuan are taking refuge
outside their own homes tonight,
hoping that in event of a massacre
they will not be found.
The Fifteenth t'. S. Infantry, con
sisting of 570 officers and nun, ar
rived at Ching Wang Tao today, pre
pared to guard American concession
along the Pekiu railroad.
FRENCH STEAMER SEIZED BY
ITALIANS; TROCHEE DI E.
PARIS. Jan. 19. Italian torpedo
boats today seized the French steam
er Manobau, bnund for Tunis. She
had 11 passengers, including 2N
Turkish nurses. No contraband oT
war was aboard. Feeling here in hia,,
over the seizure, because the litter
Carthago was treated similarly by
the Italians. Probably diplomatic
Interchanges will result.
CVKAXS REIIAVE WHEN I N'ITED
STATES ;ETS III SY.
WASHINGTON, .Ian. 19. Follow
ing receipt ot an official statement
from American Minister Reauprn. nt
Havana, which said that all political
activity there had ceased on account
of the veterans' movement, the Stat"
Department officially announced to
day that the Tinted S'.ates will not
interfere in Cuba now. No further
developments are expected.
MORSE PARDONED, RET SPAN OF
I II E IS CLOSING.
ATLANTA, Ga.. Jan. Physi
cians attending Charles W. Mors',
the New York banker, whose 15-year
sentence was commuted yesterday by
Taft through his wife s efforts, say
today they believe he will not leave
Georgia alive. The War Department
today permitted Morse to remain In
Fort McPherson military hospital
until his condition, which is crlticnl,
is Improved. Mrs. Morse is euroute
here from Washington.
Morse's pulse Is reported far be
low normal today, but the patient Is
greatly cheered by the news or his
pardon and Insists he will recover.
Morse, known during his financial
career as the "Ice King.' was con
victed of 'violating ti.e National
banking laws. He has served two
years of his sentence in the Federal
penitentiary.
Tho commutation of sentence,
which gives Mors1 Immediate free
dom but does not restore his civ il
rights, was granted upon recommen
dation of Attorney-General Wicker
sham and Surgeon-General Torn.'",
I'. 8. A.
According to the surgeon's repor.
Morse couid not live one month long
er In confinement, and even at liber
ty probably would not live six
months.
MM'H.imt .n:s 11 U K
TO thk ri:.MTi:Nii.itv.
Portland Journal: I-on I.ocliard
. IIU 1 .IB nil 'I'll 1"! ..!-. limn . Ill'
ens and later held as n si-ie't Ini
the Barbara l(ultzm:in rrts was seft
to state piltton eM.-id.iv en th" lar
ceny charge. A pl'-a of g'lllty ;
entered by l.o'liird. vho wa giv"l
an Indeterminate sentence, lie his
served one term in prison.
P.ev. Clarence Lake, former paa'nr
of the Episcopal Church In kn-ebur'..
passed through here this morning
enroute to C'trnitig. Cal . le re !;;;
sister. Mrs. Florence Ws'ieh. di'd
Thursday. Mr. VakukIi is -ll r.
memliered In K'ebnre. where she
resided previous to h'-r ni.irriat;
with her mother and liev. Lak'-. pjt!i
of Mrs. Waugh piren's wr" at h- r
bedside when ill ! ass d away.
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til F.STS OF KOSKlU'ltti.
llaiitiiet at Mct'lullen Will be
l'olloui-l by Itcvpllou at
Commercial Club.
Singing the praises of the
Grande Houde Valley to the
tune of "Glory Hallelujah," 25
boosters from the bustling city
of La Grande reached Koae
burg In their special car from
the south at 1:25 o'clock thin
afternoon and will be the
guests of the city until they
depart at 11: 40 tonight. En
tertained royally In several
cities of Western Oregon previ
ous to their arrival here, the
visitors were In fine fettle
when they got off their car and
the drizzling rain that fell In
nowise lessened their enthusi
asm or caused them to sing
with less ardor.
The excursionists, enroute
to Hoseburg, were m't at Kid
dle by Mayor Joseph Mlcelli
and Hon. Dexter Hlce. Upon
their arrival here they were
whirled away fu automobiles
to the Hotel McClallen. where
they ate lunch. After lunch
they were given rides about
the cliy and suburbs, though
this part of the day's program
had to be curtailed consider
ably on account of the
weather's Inopportune be
hn lor.
A bnnquot will be tendered
to the visitors at tho Hotel
McClallen nt 7::i0 tonight.
This will be followed by n pub
lic reception at the Commercial
Club, in which the Ladies'
Auxiliary will take a leading
part In entertaining. All ladies
of the city are invited to bo
present. Selected to repre
sent the Commercial Club
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banquet tonight
Dinger Hermann,
W. Hamilton, L.
C. O. Shoemaker. J.
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H. Fisher. Robert E. Smith,
Dexter Kite and A. C. Mars
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SKVKX STATUS HOVOIt MKMOltY
Ol' ItoltUKT l 1.1:1:.
ATLANTA, (la. . Jan. 1 9. Confed
erate veterans nnd soua nnd daugh
ters of veterans today held patriotic
exercises to commemorate the name
and fame or (lie South' gTent mili
tary leader. Cieneral Itohert K. I.ce,
who was born 10. I years oro today.
In Atlanta and throughout lieorgis
the day Is a leital holiday and ImibI
ut ss In many lines was suspended.
Lee's hlrthday Is also a legal holi
day In Florida, North Carolina, South
Carolina, VirBlnia. Alahama and Ar
kansas, and the observance In these
states was general.
The estate of the late County Judge
?t. 1). Thompson has been appraised
at .:i4.",.
Mrs. II. (1. Klore was III town from
Looking (ilass today. They recently
purchased the Hudson farm there.
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I4. The First Trust ft Savings 4
4 Hank of Hoseburg will be open 4
4 on Saturdays from 7 p. m. to 4
4. 8 p. m. 4.
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Use Drifted
Snow flour
The model bltietem wheat
flour that makes a model
loaf.
Dread bakers havo demon
strated It sup'-riori'y by
winning the phe In both
Oregon and Winhliigtou
fairs.
When
groc r,
ordering of your
say ' Drifted Snow.
Sperry Flour Co.
T.tlUM.t, WASH.
, Demon Grocery
I MH.K WSTIillU TOIL
BOILERSJLOW UP
Steamer Sarab Dixon Lies at
Bottom of Columbia
CAPTAIN ONE OF THREE DEAD
Dynamite Wrecks Two Buildings in
Poeblo California Unions
Loyal to Indictees
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4. Bister ot J. II. Dixon, of this 4.
4 city, and It. 11. Dixon, of Dixcn- 4.
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4. neers of this county The boat 4.
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4. Transiiortatlon Company, the 4.
4- head of which. Captain James 4.
4 Shaver, married a niece of J. 4.
4 It. Dixon, she being now do- 4.
4. ceaBed. First Male Arthur 4.
4. Moulcnl. reported killed lu the 4.
4. explosion. also married a ulece 4.
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(Special to the Evening Review).
PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 19. Three
men are believed to hav perished,
when the river steamer Sarah Dixon
sank In the Columbia River, near
Kaluma, Wash., last night, a few
ininuteB after the explosion of hJr
boilers. Nine of the crew of surviv
ors who arrived here today on the
steamer Lurllne says they are sure
that Captain Fred Stinson. First MaM
Arthur Monlcal and Fireman Silas
Knowles were killed outright when
tho explosion tore off the superstruct
ure of tho boat. No reason for the
exiilosioll is known an the lwill.,rj
were recently tested and pronounced
all rtgtit. 1 he steamer sank so quick
ly that the escaping members of the
crew had barely enough time to get
Into the life boats.
DVXAM1TK OI'TKAGK IX IIKAHT
OF COMlltADO CITY.
PCKllLO, Colo., Jan. 19. The
buildings of the Colorado Laundry
Company and Globe Kxprcss Company
were partially wrecked by a dyna
mite bomb which rocked the buaine
section of the city today. A dyna
mite fuse was found behind the ex
press building. There Is no clew to
tho perpetrator of the deed.
(-AI.IFOHXIA I'XIOXS STAND IIY
IMIIITKP LKADF.KS.
FKKSNO. Cal., Jan. 19. Absolute
belief In the Innocence and Integrity
of Tvletinoe, Johannsen and Clancy,
the labor leaders Indicted for con
spiracy In the McNamara cases, wl'n
pledges of moral and financial sup
port, was declared by the Cuilfornra
llullding Trades Council here today.
It adopted a strongly worded report
of the committee, which unanimously
approved the annual report of Tvelt
moo as secretary and treasurer. The
report says the Indictments are of
"dnstardly character and part of a
conspiracy against labor." It flays
Attorneys I.awler and Fredericks
others In the prosecution of the dv -
namlte cases.
: LAIIOH I IF. WIS MAHKKII FOK
INDHTMKXT. I
INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 19. Infor
mation that thirty prospective Indlct-
ments against union labor lenders
, had been prepared as the result of
i the activities of the Federal grand
: Jury became public today. Local
) witnesses testified today regarding
th transportation of dynamite out
' of the state by the MrN'amaras.
! That the Jury Is also Investigating
the activities of Harrow and his as
sistants during the .McNamara trlbl
was Indicated today, when severel
Investigators pmployed by Darrow,
Including C. P. Cooney, of Chicago,
testified. I
Land Lot j.
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Is twenty years old; has oper-
' ated in Oregon eighteen years,
lias 115,000 members in
twenty-nine states. I
I Made a net gain of 13.000 mem-;
bers In Il I.
Has 13,000,000 surplus snd re
' serve.
Pars death, old age snd sccldert
henents. Join now. Charter list now
open.
Cummings and Cummings
Vuclker and Voelker
Organizers
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TITLES OK I..XI ;n.tXT
I VALID, (.ALLOW A V HOLDS,
Ownership of iloo,(KM) Acres, Worth
9I.VMMUMO, Ij-guliutl rf'aso
to Supreme Court.
ALMANY. Or., Jan. 28. That tho
title to all that part of the big Oregon
ft California land grant not actually
attacked In the present Government
suits for forfeiture Is good, was the
ruling of Judge Galloway In deciding
the case of William George vs. the
Curtlss Lumber Company, lu tho
State Circuit Court here today.
This decision Is of far-reaching ef fect,
as It validates the title to about
300,000 acres of land, worth at least
$lo,000,000 and held by about 6000
different purchasers. The case wiU
be appealed to the State Supreme
Court.
Included In the land, title to which
la Indirectly Involved In this case Is
most of the town of Mill City, pan
of the city of Ilrownsvllle, thousands
of acres of Improved farming land
and large areas of valuable tlmli-r
land, all lying In western Oregon.
Small Holders Immune.
This case Is the first one ever
brought In tho entire country which
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raised the question of the validity of
not nv0vcd , tho Government suits
for forfeiture. The Government sulti
attacked only that portion of the
grant which was Bold In tracts of
1000 acres or more, and the oflkla's
ot the Department of Justice have
given assurances that the holders of
smaller portions ot this grant would
never bo attacked.
I" it the attorneys for the
plaintiff maintained that these
anres of Government officials mnde
the titles to that portion of the grant
not attacked In the Government sulfa
valid. Hut the Curtlss Company ar
gued that preBent Government ohl
clnls cannot bind their successors
and that should tho derision of Judge
Wolverton, In the Federal Court at
Portland, bo' nlllrmed in tho highe,'
courts and the Government win Its
cases, tho smaller portions of IV?
grant would also be subject to for
feiture and thnt the title to the entire
grant would become unmarketable.
"The fears that some future ad
ministration may change the wise and
humane policy of the present Depart
ment of Justice are groundless nnd
not sustained by any fact, theory or
! Prw'l',nt I" tho history of our Gov.
ernment's land policy," said Judge
Galloway, in nnnounciiig his declsio i.
"To apprehend a reversul of .his
wise and just policy, because, for
sooth, tho personnel of the Goern
meut olllclnls will be changed, !s
simply to disparage and express a
lack of confid Mice In our Government.
Human nature, common sense and
honesty, with u consciousness In the
Integrity of the Government In Its
relation to tin citizen will ho rel'ed
upon to protect theso purchasers of
small truct ot grautei rnltroai
lands."
HKSCI K WOMAX WHO
WAS XKAH TO DKATII.
SAN KIIAN'CISCO. Jan. 18 A
girl's skirt, flapping In the wind,
stopped a train In the midst of the
Mojave Desert and brought about the
rescue of Adella Kretehmer, an 1S-year-old
San Francisco girl, accord
ing to advices received here today.
Miss Kretehmer had started on a
walk In the desert near llesperla.
Cat., and lost her way. When train
men reached her, her swollen tong'ie
protruded between parched Hps and
she could not speak. She was taken
to a hospital at San Bernardino aud
resuscitated.
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Corset Special
"Onro a CosMird Always a GoaHard."
We huve jiiHt rwi'lvod our ti ' ' v lino of ConKanl Cornets, evorjr one ft
new moilt'l and JiiHt what evnry lady will wmit to give the rljtht llnt-i
to tier Hprlng HiiltH, Dmrnt-H nnd ('natx.
V fit your cornrt frco of charge and lako prl lo In uIiowIuk you tlid
dinVrMit inodHa.
Modtda for HllKht women, stout women, tall women, short women.
M litMeH, middle og' d nnd HReil.
I,4t lit liow yiu.
And they I. no In front. ,
THE LEADER
LANDS
RANCHES, FRUIT TRACTS AND
FARMS OF ALL KINDS
CITY PROPERTY
27 acres timber land 2't per sere.
22 seres Improved, close In. li'.no.
40 acres Timber snd Farm I and. Kn;0.
40 acres Improved, close to town. $3T.00.
A lot ot good buys. List yo ir property with us.
J. W. CAMPBELL
"Live Wire" Real Estate Van.
Douglas County Deposit Highly
Praised by Expert
MOST UNIFORM MATERIALS
Found in Any Qaarry West ol Clan
Located a Few Miles
From Rosebnrg
Tho current Issue of the Cement
and Knglneerlng Itevlew of Chicago
suys:
Contrary to all expectations tho
long search for high grade cement
materials In Oregon has at last been
crowned with success, so that this
state will be named In the future
among those possessing the most uni
form and most remarkable cement
deposits in the country.
The location of theso nowljr dis
covered deposits Is the I). W. Rled'.e
property near Roseburg. Oregon, a
horse-shoo shaped range of moun
tains rising Mill feet above level land.
The raw materials, an abundance ot
limestone of the highest grade, al
most pure marble, and shale of ab
solutely uniform composition, are lo
cated on the north and south side ot
tho property at nn altitude ot several
hundred feet In such a position that
they would be about 100 feet above
the crushers of a cement plant built
on one of the hillsides and that the
limestone would be within 600 feet
and tho shale within ltiOO feet of the
crushers. Moreover, the composition
of these mnterlals is so remarkable
uniform that they have to be mlxej
at all times to come In the propor
tion of 400 parts of limestone to 100
parts of shale, which Is an advantage
enjoyed by only very few cemeat
plants In the country, most of which
have to chango the composition ot
the raw materials every week or day,
and which insures the manufacture
of a safe and always reliable product.
Dr. W. Mlchaells, of Chicago, who
thoroughly examined these properties
nnd burnt l'nrtinud cement from tho
limestone nnd shnle occurring on the
Hiedlo property, declared these de
posits to contain the most uniform
and valuable cement materials west
of Devil's Slide. Utah, a statement
of some meaning, as during the past
eight years Dr. Mlchaells has been
called upon to expert und report upon
tho most Important cement proposi
tions in I'tah, Idaho, Washington and
Oregon, and consequently must be
considered nn authority 011 cement de
poBlts 111 thoso Western stales.
What next? Opie Read.
When? February 8.
Where? At the Armory.
Who will go? Everybody.
Solo Agents.
lit Cass Street