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VOL. XXXII.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1913
NO 45.
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John a. pender on
TRIAL FOR MURDER
Man Charged With Crime Committed
in September 1911 Faces a Jury
JURY VISITS SCENE THE CRIME
John A. IYntltT in on trial for
i lifo fr the murder of Duixy
Vehrnian before a jury of Colum-
,i county citizen a follows: 0
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ng Knowlcs, Orin J. MeConnell, S.
Valmsb-n, Virgil Powell, August
Ftiske, W. II. Wilkinson and Chris
HanM'n. The jury wan finally se
lected Wednesday afternoon and
on Thursday, accompanied ly Judge
Eakin and the attorneys for the
state and drfenw, were taken to
the scene of the murder. District
Attorney Tongue made the opening
statement to the jury, giving an
outline of what the testimony would
le on the part of the state, and
John A. Jeffrey of Portland, one of
the defendant's attorneys, told the
jury what the defense would he.
This morning the counsel on both
sides was leinforced, V. H. Itillard,
the newly appointed county at
torney, going in to nudist K. H.
Tongue-, who had the case in hHnd
and was familiar with all the evi
dence, while John F. Logan of
Portland arrived to assist in the
defence. Much interest is being
taken by ople from all parts of
the county in the case, the court
room being well filled and the halls
and corridors crowded. It is proba
ble that the taking of testimony
will take up nearly a week.
1EW RESIDENCE IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
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Tuesday night about 9 o'clock
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i me large new resilience oirrnna
Clii.i.-cki in St. Helens waa totally
destroyed by fire. Mr. and Mrs.
Gliniecki were down town that.
rvening and no one was at home.
AlKiut 1) o'clock they started homo '
wid when arriving in sight of the j
house discovered that it was in
flumes. The fire had such a start
that it wan impossible for them to
fct iwvthinir out with the result
Unit not only the house, but all thtv
contents, Inc 'tiding a winter s sup-i
ply of wood and groceries, were,
burned. The alarm box near the
hswpitul was broken and the alarm
ltt-mpted tube turned in. but the
J.ttein win out of order and nothing
as known of tho fire until some
f the people at the hospital came(
il..,. . u.. ...mil in an auto-
niubilo and told he boys about it.
A hose cart waa hooked onto the
into, but by the lime they arrived
there it was too late to save any-
lUing. The loss will fall quite
ovavily on Mr. Gliniecki who has
been working for several year to
make a comfortable home and had
just completed it.
W. B. OILUrOoUNTY ATTORNEY
GOV. WEST APPOINTS WELL
KNOWN LAWYER AS PROSECUIUK
Governor West has appointed W.
It. Dillard as County Attorney for
Columbia County and he has al
ren.lv Uen the office. Mr. Dillard
has been a resident of St. Helens
for about 20 years and has been
actively engaged in the practice of
law during all that time. He is
emine ntly qualified for the position
from every point of view and will
without doubt (five entire satia
faction to the (H-ople of the county
in this, his first ollicial position in
the county.
WM. ROSS MNSra TRIP
SAYS BUSINESS CONDITIONS
IN THE EAST ARE GGOO
Wm. Ross returned last Friday
from a month's trip to his old home
in Wisconsin. Mr. Ross observed
business conditions in the various
places he visited arid thinks that all
danger of a panic, if there ever was
Bny. over the new tariff law has
passed. He says the money market
is quite easy in the eastern state
and that tunes are good there. Of
Course in some of the corn states
where crops were a failure this year
there is hard times, but otherwise
everything looks bright. This was
the first vacation Mr. Ross had had
for a long time and he says he mo
thoroughly enjoyed the trip.
Will NOT AFFECT POST OFFICE
Mr. II. (5. 1'urand, the pocUl in
spcolor of this district, while in St.
Helens Isat week lookinj Tor me sue
fr new uostolilce was asked what
effect consolidation would have on the
poslolflcea in Houltoo ard St. Helens.
He answered thst it woulld make no
,iiff..rnece it all: that the post offices
would remain as they are. Thst the
Government did not pay a great deal
of attention to corportae boundaries
nd thst there could be and would he,
In case of consolidation, two post offices
within one incorporated city. This hss
been a question that has agitated the
minds of a considerable number of
,M!oplc for some time, but the informs
ton coming from hcsd.pia-ters will set
at reit all arguments against consolli
diitinn on these grounds.
BusineM Change. Handa
Wm. II. Pavies. of Kansas City.Kan
sas. has purchased the livery and trans
fer'bUHiness of Elmer Blackburn In SI.
Helens. Mr. Davies is here now aid
will have charge of the business from
now on. He will bring his family to
St Helens to make this their perma
nent home. Mr. and Mrs Blackburn
have ont defini telly decided on their
plans for the future, but will probably
remain In St. Helens and engsge in
some other line of business.
JUDGE EAKIN
SENTENSES
CONVICTED MEN
B. G. Magoon Goes lo Pen
itentiary. Others Pay
Fines and Costs
Last Friday Judge Eakin sen
tenced Byron (J. Magoon to the
penitentiary to serve from 2 to 20
years for forgery, after his convic
tion the week before. Sheriff
Thompson took Magoon to Salem
last Saturday and he is now serving
his sentence. At the same time
John Niasen and Charles Kohler
were fined $100 each and cosU for
illegal fishing, which fines were
promptly paid. Lafe Wilson, also
convicted at this term of court for
a statutory offense has not yet been
sentenced.
IMPRESSIONS OF THE EAST
COLUMBIA COUNTY MAN SAYS
JJREGON IS G000 PLACE
Mr. C. J. Larson, who left Warren
n.e months ago for a year's trip
through the middle western states, has
written to friends hen giving some im
pressions of the country and stating the
conditions there. Among other in
teresting things he says: "We are
still alive, although we were in the
hot winds of Kansas during the sum
mer when the thermometer regisered
as high as 114 degrees some days. And
now we have already experinced cold
wind storms and blizzards, but the Ore
gon blood keeps us strong yet so we
can endure these things. It is hard for
people who own property in these
stales to sell and get away just now,
the times being dull on account of crop
failures and other reasons, but many
aie planning to go west whenever they
csn get loose and I think there will be
a great many coming to our part of the
country during the next two years."
Can't blame them much for wanting
to come to a country where there are nn
blizzards and no crop failures.
Ellen Charlotte Chute
Kllen Charlotte Chute daughter
of Mr. ard Mrs. Fred Headlund
was born in Cambridge Minn. July
20 lSH7diedat home of her parents
near Warren Ore. Nov. 4th 1913
after a lingering illness, aged 26
years 3 months 15 days. Mrs.
Chute came to Oregon with the
family in 1909, was married to
George Chute July Kith 1911. She
leaves to mourn her loss " sorrow
ing husband, father, mother, four
sisters and two brothers and a host
of friends. The sympathy of the
entire community goes out to those
that mourn, Funeral services were
held at the M E church in Warren
Thursday Nov 6th by Rev. Sendin
of Portland. Interment was in the
Swedish cemetry at Warren.
SALE 0E
PROPERTY
CONFIRMED
Ford and Studebaker
Autos Wil ISoon be
for Sale Here
A few weeks ago the Mist published
an account of a real esiate deal cn Col
umbia street wherein some Portland
capitalists had purchased the Ansorge
lot and a portion of the Meeker Iota.
This week we can confirm the sale for
the representative of the new firm was
in St. Helens this week and while here
made the second nayment on the op
tion, which payment is large enough
to ensure the transfer of the property
and the erection of the buliding. The
property bought is the Ansorge lota
one facing on Columbia street and two
on Casenau street and 28 feet by 100
feet of the Meeker lots. They will
begin nxt week the excavation for the
large, two-story concrete building
85x140 and the work on the buillding
will be rushed just as soon as the ex
cavation is completed. The building
will have an entrance on Columbia
stre't on the first floor and the Case
nau street entrance will be on the
second floor. The entire building will
be occupied by the firm who will
handle the Ford and Studebaker auto
mobiles. They have secured the ex
clusive agency for Columbia county
for these two popular priced machines.
They willl also arry all needed parts
for these machines and have a com
plete repair shop for any kind of auto
mobiles. It will be the largest ex
clusive automobile house in the state
outside of Portland.
FOUR OUT OF FIVE
MEASURES CARRY
Election Returns Show That Columbia
County is Against Appropriations
RAINIER IS VOTED DRY BY 21 VOTES
At the election laat Tuesday the
two bills appropriating money for
the University of Oregon, the
Workmen's Compensation Act and
the County Attorney bill were
carried by large majorities. The
Sterilization bill waa defeated by
about 8000 votes. In Columbia
County the votes on the different
measures was as follows:
300 yes 745 University bill
301 no 853
302 yes 710 " "
303 no 878
304 yes 545 Sterilization bill
305 no 1039
306 yes 829 County Attorney bill,
307 no 716
308 yes 1358 Compensation bill
309 no 316
The question of raisins the
salaries of Columbia County officers
waa defeated by a vote of 692 to
803. Of especial interest locally
was the local option election in'
Rainier which resulted in that town
going dry by a majority of 21 votes.
Papers have been prepared con
testing the validity of the election
and the County Court will be en
joined from issuing the dry order
in that eity until it is tested out by
the courts. The contest is based
on the grounds of the invalidity of
the petition calling for the election
and some irregularities in the elec
tion itself at Rainier.
All the bills which passed last
Tuesday are now in force and
effect, with the exception of the
dry vote at Rainier.
H.
The funeral services of William
Henry Palmer were held at the resi
dence of Mr. Castaline at Houlton,
Ore., with sermon by Rev. W. T. Fair
child, from the text,. "Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter. Fear
tiod and keep his commandments, for
this is the whole duty of man," and
attended the interment at Warren
cemetery, with Mr. T. S White offl
citing. The deceased was born near
Pittsburg. Pa., Oct. 10th 1836. and
moved to California at the age of 19:
moved to Oregon 57 years ago, where
he has lived ever since. He was mar
ried in 1836 to Mary A. Buckingham.
To this union five children were born,
all of whom are living, and two of
these were present at the obseques,
Mrs. Castaline and Mary A. Palmer.
He has been a member of the M. E.
church for about 40 years at Belle
Forentano, Ore.,
Born To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Soderburg of Masten Camp on Nov.
2nd, a son.
Born To Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Moore of Yankton on Oct. 30th, a
daughter.
James Gaittens of Deer Island was
in St. Helens Wednesday.
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ST. HELENS 20 YEARS AGO
HEMS TAKEN FROM THE
MIST OF NOVEMBER 10, 1893
The Columbia for a few days past
has been full of drift, making night
navigation a little difficult as well as
dangerous.
Messrs. Jones and Orchard of the
city water works system were in town
the early part of this week looking
after their Interests here.
The people of St. Helens will soon
be obliged to use stilts, or have an or
dinance passed prohibiting cows from
taking too many liberties with the sidewalks.
Mrs. W. A. Harris, wife of our effi
cient deputy county clerk, arrived here
from Vernonia last Sunday. Mr. Harris
and family will make their home in
the house recentlly occupied by Mrs.
Butler.
Apparently our local merchants are
doing a good business considering the
supposed hard times and the inclemency
of the weather. St. Helens merchants
it can be truthfully said, always do a
good business.
An old time democrat writing to the
Oregonian says that he had rather eat
crow and skunk weed sauce with Cleve
land than to oat turkey and rranberry
sauce with Pennoyer. Rather hard for
Mr. Pennoyer.
Operations in the stone quarries here
were cut short last Thusday by the
completion of the Tacoma contract for
180,000 blocks. It is thought the sus
pension of work is only temporary, and
a new contract for a still larger amount
will soon be let,
Deipite the primitive means of loco
motion between the Nehalem valley
and the outer part of the earth, there is
constantly a rush, or at least, a steady
movement of persons traveling Ne
halemward in search of . timber and
homestead lands. There are soon to be
a large number of sections of govern
ment lands subject to entry on the
Lower Nehalem, and a tig rush is ex
pected at the land office.
The following is the report of the
St Helens school district number 2, for
the month ending October 27th: Num
ber of days taught, 20; number of
pupils enrolled, 50; average attend
ance, 44; number of vistiors, 10.
T. J. Cleeton of Clatskanie came to
town Thursday to conduct the teachers'
examination.
A glance around our little city re
veals the fact that there are many per-
A VOICE FROM FLORIDA
MR. AND MRS. M. C. GRAY TELL
GF TKEiR NEW
In a letter from Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Gray this week ordering the Mist sent
to their new home in Florida we take
the following which will be of interest
to their many friends in St Helens:
"We have bought thirty-one acres
here of what is called combination land,
as it is good for fruit and garden truck.
We have now four hundred orange and
grape fruit treees, most of them jast
beginning to bear. We will plant
some more right along. We are a
quarter of a mile from the eity limits
of Wauchula. 'The eity is some larger
than St. Helens and is growing very
fast. There are no saloons, no ne
groes. Everything is closed op on
Sundays, even the confectionery stands.
There are orange and grape fruit
groves on all sides. We like our loca
tion very much. There has been no hot
weather yet since we came. Flies
and mosquites are no more than in St.
Helens. The houses are not even
screened."
There will be services in the Episco
pal church next Sunday, Nov. 9,at 7;30
p. m.
manent improvements constantly being
made, such as bespeak confidence in
our little city's future. It is a fact
that this place has improved slowly,
but it is as true that those improve
ments made are valuable and solid, and
that the town is growing steadily. The
principal reason for this tardiness may
be truhtfully attributed to the fact that
St. Helens has depended upon local sup
port almost entirely. The resources of
this place, however, are permanent and
it is safe to predict that they will
steadily increase in volume and value.
As the country devolops St Helens will
grow in proportion, It needs no boom,
it wants no boom, but give us a chance
and let our people assist each other in
every possible way without giving it a
boom and we will slowly but surely,
steadily nad premanently improve. If
there be a desire to boom why not boom
the great and natural resources of Col
umbia county, of which St Helens is
the seat of government, till the truth
become widely known, and then took
out for the town for it will surely be
largley benefitted by the result of the
good work. Let us have a town we ean
be proud of, and to do this it becomes .
each eitixen's duty to assist in every
public or private measure to bring good
to the community or benefit the town in
any way.
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