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OREGON EMERALD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VOL. XIII. EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1911. No. 9 SPRAY SAYS 800 FORGED NAMES WERE SOLD PROBE DISCLOSES MORE ROTTENNESS SIGNATURES MANUFACTURED IN WHOLESALE LOTS FOR COMMITTEE COTTAGE GROVE CITIZENS BOY NAMES Parkison Admits Selling 800 Names But Denies They Were Utilized in the Lists Filed That signatures to the referendum petitions were made to order and sold in wholesale lots to the committee of Cottage Grove citizens having the matter in charge, is the latest and most sensational development in the University of Oregon appropriation case. The hearing was re-opened be fore Judge Galloway in Salem Tues day, and John F. Spray proved the principal witness, the substance of his testimony being as stated above. Spray testified that he was one of the committee of seven appointed by a mass meeting at Cottage Grove to secure signatures to the referendum petitions. This committee employed H. J. Parkinson to obtain three thous and signatures at three and one-half cents each for one petition, or seven cents for both the petitions which circulated. These names were duly furnished by Parkinson and paid for by the committee, but it appears that in their enthusiasm for the cause, Parkinson and his associates forged some 800 names, according to Spray’s te timony and Parkinson’s confes sion. Two or three days later, Spray stated, Parkinson informed the com mittee of these 800 fraudulent sig natures and asked that the portions of the petitions bearing them should be given back to him in order to avoid trouble. Here the gentlemen from Cottage Grove took a most surprising step, according to Spray’s evidence. They restored the forged names to Parkin son and agreed to keep the matter dark, providing he would replace them with good signatures. They also con tracted with Parkinson for 1000 addi tional names and paid him in advance for them. When the time came for the filing of the petitions the commit tee became aware of the fact that their representative had included the original 800 bogus names in the list of signatures. The committee re monstrated with Parkinson on his lack of straightforward business methods in dealing with them, in not furnish ing perfectly good names as per con tract. Parkinson, however, assured the committee that the chances of de tecting the forgeries were slight, and that even if they should be detected it would be necessary to prove fraud for each separate signature, which would make the throwing out of the petitions impossible. Thereupon they were duly filed as they stood, accord ing to Spray’s testimony. Two Burns detectives testified to many of the facts brought out previ ously in the trial, that many of the “signers” of the petitions proved to have been dead for years, while oth ers could not be located, even in “that bourne from whence no traveler re turns”. Today the evidence of other prominent residents of Cottage Grove who have been subpoened, will be in toduced, including that of Mayor * * * It ****** * 4 * The University of Washington * * Football Schedule for 1911. * * _ * * University of Washington vs. * * Spokane, Oct. 28. * * University of Washington vs. * * O. A. C., at Seattle, Nov. 4. * * University of Washington vs. * * University of Oregon, at * * Portland, Nov. 18. * * University of Washington vs. * * Washington State College, * * at Seattle, Thanksgiving * * Day. * * * * * ******** CECIL PLANS ITINERARY Glee Club to Show Along Columbia River and Through Towns of Southern Oregon. Manager “Pat” Cecil is rapidly completing plans for the initial Glee Club concert, which will be given in Eugene, Monday, December 11. The Club will start south the following Wednesday, playing in Roseburg, the 13th; Grants Pass, the 14th, Medford, the 15th; and Ashland, the 16th. It is possible that the club will go to Klamath Falls from Ash land by stage. Manager Smith, of the Eugene Theatre, is contemplat ing offering the club $350 to manage the trip from Ashland to Klamath Falls and return. ^This trip will be made on Sunday, December 17tH, and the concert given Monday. In case suitable arrangements can not be made with the theatrical powers of Klamath, the club will leave Ash land Sunday for Eugene, and show Monday and Tuesday evenings in towns on the west side, possibly vis iting Corvallis and McMinnville, or Forest Grove. On Wednesday evening, Dec. 20. the club will show in Portland, at the Heilig. From Portland the club will go to Hood River and The Dallas. The Astoria trip is out of the question, the only theatre there is booked solid during Christmas week. SIXTEEN SUCCESSFUL IN FINAL DRAMATIC TRYOUT The following candidates for the Dramatic Club were successful in the final tryout held last Thursday even ing: Misses Barta, Dunham, Cowden, Peter, Taylor, Philips, and Brant; Messrs. Dudley, Skei, Anderson, Chet Moores, Anderson, Currin, Ingle, Finch, and Bratager. The club has not yet decided defi nitely on the plays to be presented this year. However, the three dramas, Ibsen’s “The Doll’s House,” Molier’s “The Shopkeeper Turned Gentlemen,” and Bernard Shaw’s “Candida,” are under consideration. Possibly one of Shakespeare’s com edies will be presented on the cam pus next May, during Junior week end. Abrams and H. S. Stuart, a leading merchant of that community. In an interview given at Portland last night, H. J. Parkinson admitted j having sold the 800 fraudulent names | to the Cottage Grove committe, but denied having listed them with the pe titions after the objections of the com mittee. He characterized the testi mony of Spray as “ full of inaccur acies and largely without any founda-! tion whatever.” BIG OREGON TEAM LEAVES TODAY FOB GAME AT HILLMAN WARNER PICKS SEVENTEEN MEN TO UPHOLD VARSITY IN FIRST CRUCIAL GAME HUNT REPORTS W. S. C. TEAM STRONG Supporters of Oregon Eleven Un easy, Due to Unsteadiness of Men In Early Season. Amid the “rah rahs” of the loyal ones the Varsity left today at noon for Pullman, where they will meet the Washington “Aggies” on Friday aft ernoon. This will be the second round of the elimination for cham pionship honors, as W. S. C. virtually put Idaho out of the running last week, when they trimmed the boys from Moscow, 17 to 0. According to the newspapers, and reports brought back by “Sandy” Hunt, the W. S. C. team will figure strongly in North west honors this season, as they have a well rounded team of veterans and play the game. Hunt was sent to the Idaho-W. S. C. game last week, and in his opinion Oregon will have to show a big burst of speed, if they bring home the long end of the score. Warner selected seventeen men to make the trip, the successful candi dates for the first squad being Brad shaw, Chandler, Hall, Bailey, Fariss, Noland, Grout, Kellog, Caufield, La tourette, Cobb, Main, Walker, Heus ner, Jones, Viereck, and Fenton. Coaches Warner and Hunt, Manager Johns, Grad Manager Geary and Bill Hayward accompanied the team. There is much uneasiness on the campus over the W. S. C. game, as the early season practice has not been highly satisfactory to either the coaches, players, or students, and the team has never had a good stiff prac tice game to show exactly what they can do. Roscoe Fawcett of the Ore gonian has been given credit for the belief that Oregon will win. The teams will line up about as follows: Oregon. W. S. C. Kellogg.c.Harter, Geo. Fariss .rgl.Harter, Joe Bailey .rtl. Clark Fenton .rel. Tyrer Noland .lgr.Suver or Love Hall .ltr. Laird Bradshaw .ler. Pynn Latourette .q .Moeser Heusner .rhl. Kienholz Main .lhr. Coulter Walker .f. Fishback (c) FRESHMEN SHY FROM ENGINEERING CLASSES The number of students enrolling in the Freshman engineering classes is much less this year than last. Pro fessor Adams, who has practically all the new students in his class in mechanical drawing, is much surprised and is wondering what is the cause of the low registration. Last year over fifty students signed up for mechanical drawing, but this year only about thirty have enrolled. Dr. and Mrs. Geary have been vis iting in Eugene for the past few j days. * 4 * * ****** * 4 * Oregon’s Football Schedule * * for 1911. * * X * Oct. 28—Washington State * * College at Pullman. * * Nov. 4—Whitman College at * * Eugene. * * Nov. 18—University of Wash- * * ington at Portland. * * Nov. 25—University of Idaho * * at Eugene. * * Nov. 30—Multnomah Club at * * Porltand. * * * * * ** ****** QUESTIONS SUBMITTED Tri-State Debaters Will Probably Take Sides On Question of Judicial Reform. Coach Johnson, of oratory and de bate, is awaiting Washington’s choice of the three questions, submitted by the three Universities in the triang ular league. In all probability they will vote for their own question, the “Judicial Recall,” and if they do, that will be the question chosen, as Stan ford has already accepted it. As soon as definite word is received from the north, a meeting will be called for all those interested in de bate. A new co-ed triangular league has been suggested by the University of Washington, to consist of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, to be con ducted on the same plan as the pres ent league, each college having two co-ed teams to represent it. Just what action will be taken on this mat ter, Manager Geary can not say at present, although he thinks the forma tion of such a league entirely probable in the near future. Word comes from Stanford Uni versity that the first woman voter to register in that district was Mrs. A. P. Coggins, a junior in the German department, who registered as a so cialist. HENRY GEORGE ASSOCIATION MEETS AND ELECTS OFFICERS Last night the Henry George Club met to transact the business of the association. The officers for the year were elected as follows: President, Edw. J. Himes; secretary-treasurer, Carlton E. Spencer; reporter, Wal ter Baily. The securing of a speaker for the November meeting was discussed and it is reasonably certain that Mr. E. S. McAllister, of Portland, can be procured. Definite notice will be given later. The Association wishes it under stood that anyone interested in re form legislation, is elligible for mem bership and they are urged to affiliate themselves with the club. Regular meetings are held every other Tues day evening. PROF. REDDIE SPEAKS AT ASSEMBLY HOUR The 10 o’clock student assembly this morning had the pleasure of listen ing to Dr. Reddie, of the Public Speaking department of the Univer sity, in interpretations of Wordworth’s Michael and Drummond’s poems de picture of French-Canadian life. Dr. Reddie proved a finished elocutionist and held the attention of his audience. | STUDENTS ARE NOT SUPPORTING TREIR EMERALD EUGENE FOLKS ONLY SUBSCRIBE FOR THREE HUNDRED COPIES TWO SORORITIES WITHOUT AN EMERALD Staff Lays Plans to Enlist Support of Students and Increase Subscriptions. “It would surprise the students of this University to know how poorly the Emerald is supported,” remarked Manager Roberts, of the Emerald, a few days ago, as he, with clouded brain, tried to figure out, where the paper was going to land at the end of the year. The paper has a circulation of about 1,200 copies, of which only about 300 go to Eugene people. The campus circulation, among some 650 students, is only 200. To all the Fraternities, Sororities and Clubs but 98 Emeralds are distributed. The largest number distributed at any one house is eleven, this number being sent to the Sigma Chis and to the Dormitory. The managment reports that at two sororities no Emeralds are left and that at most of the others the sub scriptions range from 2 to 6. The Emerald staff is disappointed with the student support in the way of subscriptions, and plans are being formed to increase the subscription list among students. The staff be lieves that the Emerald is filling the need for a newspaper on the campus, and that the paper is being read by all the students and that it is the duty of each student to subscribe to the paper he reads. Possibly the board of regents will be asked to add the Emerald subscrip tion price to the student body matri culation fee, making that fee $6.00 for the year instead of $5.00, as at pres ent. The extra dollar is calculated to mean but little to the registering stu dent, but will put the Emerald on a firm financial basis that will perimt its being issued four or five times a week instead of twice. ROBISON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF “LAWS” PORTLAND LAW SCHOOL, Oct. 24, 1911.—(Special.)—At a meeting of the Freshman class of the Oregon law school, Chas. W. Robison was chosen president, Pete Condon, late of the U. of W., was made vice-presi dent; Jim Schwartz, secretary; Seth L. Smith, treasurer; Dean Murphy, class marshal; and M. Peters, mem ber of the executive committee. Robison in his inaugural speech, impressed upon his classmates the importance of the coming Washing ton-Oregon football game and the duty of the law students as Oregon Students to get out and “root” for the University. The Freshmen were initiated by the upper classmen October 11, ac cording to the time honored law school custom. The first year men were put through numerous stunts and finally found guilty before a Kangeroo Court and fined 25 cents.