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m mm i 3 N V VV VK VOLUME XI. 1 GRANDE UNION COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 1911. NUMBER 2J JESS PARKER ALLOWED fJEl'J TRIAL BY C0UR1 EIEIC E IT S Si FRIENDS DEEM IT IS EQUIVALENT TO A-VICTORY. CASE ATTRACTED WIDE. SPREAD ATT EMI OX HERE fclllliiir of Porter at Elgin last year to lie Aired" In Circuit Court A train, Ac cording to mandate of Supremo Court Announced at Salem Today New Trial Asked, Denied and Appeal ed For. . Jess Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Parker now of this city, but un til recently living at Elgin, has been -conceded the right of a new trial by the Supreme court of Oregon in a decision make known from Salem this morning and the case in which he was convict ed of second degree murder in the kill ing of J. W. Porter of Elgin, and sen tenced to seven years In the state pen itentiary has been remanded back to the trial court. Parker and his attor neys consider the decision akin to an acquittal as the defense claims much new testimony that will be ready for Introduction. There Is always the pos sibility of postponement and delay, and the defendant's father today x ', pressed hJaiselfas, f ullconfldenMhat 'VWheff 'tfie time"Saf e!f or "a "new "trial ther9 will be sufficient evidence pre- sented to warrant an acquittal verdict. Parker has been out on a $10,000 bond. The case was one of, Btirring Inter est last winter. Parker was accused of having killed his father-in-law, J. W. Porter, during a quarrel at the Parker ranch in which words were passed be tween them. Sufficient evidence to con vince the Jury that It was not a case of first degree murder was Introduced hut the defense claims that It was de nled the right of certain rebut'al testi mony which they claim would have a bearing on the case. When' .the con vie tion verdict w?.n rea-hed th defense moved for -a new tr'al and was denied It, appealing to the Supreme Court on the recislon. s 're feel that trt3 co.-:e Is tftuallj ' 'ii In our favir commented tho par -is of the daf'Mdant this morning w" a brief mc3-nga telling of the ncti!a of the Supreme Court was re ceived here. LIQUOR CASES ARE REVERSED KENNEDY AND L. REM ILLARD GIVEN A NEW TRIAL MOST PROMINENT OF THE MANY CASES DECIDED. Liquor Case that' Attracted, JUtie than I'sual Attention during; trill Is He. tersed nnd Local Men are Given a New Trial Several Counts IucIiuK'J In the Indictments on Which tried. Joint defendants fti an alleged illicit selling of intoxicating liquors at the time Union county was registered in the dry column, and both of them con- victed on several counts that could necessitated lengthy jail aences. have been accorded new trials by the Supreme Court today according to meager advices which were received this morning. Remniillard and Kennedy were Indicted by the grand jury at the time a total of 96 Indictments were, returned by one grand jury against alleged illicit liquor sales and the case went to trial her.' The men were con victed on several counts and took an appeal that terminated as noted above. The case attracted more than the usual amount of interest in the trial court on ccoun ojthe nmhrj of counts involved and the statutes pro vided Jail sentences regardless of what the fines would be under similar cir cumstances. ; SCHOOL MA AM TELLS DETAILS RELATES HOW MEN TARRED AND FEATHERED HER. Emotionless, Victim of Mrs. Grand1) Tongues Tells of Assault Llricon Center, Nov. 21 Apparent ly emotionless Mary Chamberlain, the school teacher, testified today In the trial of 15 men who are charged with havlne tarred and feathered hnr. She said she was stripped from the waist down, after Edward Rlcord who es corted her In a buggy to a dance had TMdden in the bushes after masked men had stopped them. Afterward Rl cord reappeared and drove her home and later boasted that he got paid for enticing her away.; The reason for the outrage Is unknown yet, but It is be lieved to have been the result of Jeal ousy of the girls and women in the town where she taught school. . They resented her popularity and started gossip that attacked her character. MR. AXD MRS. JOSEPH CHO.VTE. f F " 1 " 1 ii.ii m im " Hi WWM - . S . I t ' :" ' ' N - ' 'WJ- "XffTl ' mm- FOHjSEH POLICE THINK HE WAS KILLED LAST SATURDAY ,WAS SALESMAN FOR BRIL LIANT JEWELRY COMPANY Samuel Gompers, who is to be electa d president of the American' Federa - tion of Labor at southern conclave- of the organization..'. Se?1KSuii Head Crurfhed ln-r-AVorkniau Finds Protrutfiiidr Toe lu Mass of Debris on Front Street Disappeared Saturday ; Robbed of Large Nnm and Body Hidden Vntll Yesterday, Belief. TOITEKi; HELD CDIFJIOfiL COMMISSION APPOINT ED TO PROBE MAT TER REPORTS .! FEDERAL CONTROL OF STOCK ISSUES IS ASKED FOB Leelslutlon Tlmt Will Clre Puhllckr ta CapilaliEatlon and Other Inijiortant Matters of Cor joral ions Will Be Held Necessary bj Commission In. ventilating Stock Materlng; Habit.. San Francisco. Nov, 21. Murdered and robbed on Barbary coaet for $3,- 000 worth of diamonds, the body of Benjamin Goodman, aged 24,' and a salesman at the Brilliant Jewelry com-, pany here, was found in a gutter un-j dor debris on Front street today,. hl head crushed to a puty. It is bt lleved the body was concealed In som den Btnce Saturday and then, dlsposf of last night. ; The body .was found ivnder a m oKri rrnm a wln nlant. hv Si. ton Gale, who saw a foot protrudjf He started to kick It, thinking it; oia snoe dui men ne saw wie anKieriy and uncovered his ghastly find man resided at Stockton. Washington, Nov. 21. Watering stocks Is a criminal offenre In the eyes the commission recently appointed nt Taft to Investigate a 4 S o V The lftBt heard of Goodman was ou Saturday when he phoned his employ ers that he had a prospective' sale on the Barbary coast. ' l; : .. wording , to the commissions .blished today. The federal In of all Btocks, and bond Ipeila'j valuation of "allroad Is by government, giving oab- the actual stock values, leg f making over-capitalization a (ve among its reconimendations kefeller Padded Reports. ' 'nlngton, Nov. 21. That he pad ports of the Duluth, Mesaba & ..ern railroad under, the personal Good-1 instructions of G?ors? Murray, Rocke i feller't personal attorney, and that the s. Seattle, Nov. 21. The water famine Is growing worse and two-thirds of the city is without water" only nvt flclent is left In the reservoirs to last another day, - The schools are closed tnd cburts will close today. Water is being haul ed from Lake Washington and boiled . The fire danger is great, everywhere admit the officials. " Floods, started by chinook winds, broke the water mains a few da,rs ago. Today the flood situation is Im proved. ' Tha Chicago, Miwaukee & Pugct Sound railway will not be able to re sume direct service east for a week. Three steel bridges are out between here and Landsberg. The Great Northern is making ef forts to route the Oriental limited into the city tonight. Northern Pacific tracks are washed out at several places. (if, F(' BENYEB DEFENDANT SERENE. Mrg. Patterson Uoexclted as Hoi' Trial Comet to a Focus Today. Denver, Not. 21. When the trial of Gertrude Patterwra opened today, Mn. ir Patterson was garbed carefully and eeme4 serene and unruffled a ner The diplomat and his wife who re cently celebrated their golden mar riage anniversary, receiving wed ding presents that filled an .entire room. J. P. Morgan's gift was per haps the costliest of all. It was a 23 carat solid gold service of three pieces, a salver Included that meas ured 24 Inches across. Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce sent four ' golden coronation spoons. lawyers wrangled over the selection of the last two Jurors. It vu evident that the defense will plead emotional insanity and self defense for killing Patterson whom she claims she shot because he had sold her to Emtli Strouss, a wealthy Chicago clothier, for 11500 and attempted to make her continue the blackmail. The prosecution hopes to combat the effect of the story the woman will tell by Introducing letters Pattercon wrote his brother In which lie said she had confessed she was guilty of wrong LIGHT COMPANY TO RECLAIM ARID LAND WITH PUMP SCHEME (clamatlon of arid patchos of Grande Ronde valley soil by electric pump methods will be put to a thor ough test by the Eastern Oregon Light and Power Company on tracts of land totalling 1600 acres, east or La Grande a distance of .eight miles. Two compe tent mining engineers,. Robert Newman and Ben Collins of Baker, are here making plans for the digging of one well and experimenting thoroughly with Hand if successful In raising suf ficient water, will dig 12 others on the tracts of land the company controls. The ultimate aim of the company is to irrigate this arid land and plant colo nles on five acre tracts, once the land has been made productive of small crops by the application of water. Will Construct Sumps.. The theory of the project is to dig a well to water and when down distance of B0 feet, from the surface or at a point where the water will auto' matlcally raise itself, to construct t sump or underground "reservoir, well known to miners. The well Is cross sec tioned as It were, the diggers construct ing a reservoir at right angles to the (Continued on Page Bignci BEATTIE PfflS AT HOUR WHILE DEATH CHAIR IS TESTED HE KEPETS. Religion at First Spaines Is Refuse as Death Honr Approaches. Richmond, Va., Nov. 21. With only a shadow of his Jauntlness remaining mnry Clay Beattu prayed In his death chamber today while electri cians tested the chair In which he Is condemned to die Friday for wife mur der. Bcattle Is now realizing that death Is near and is refuging In religion he previously refused and scorned. Reports that Seattle has confessed to Rev. Dennis are unconfirmed today. YUAN KAI HAS CAST SEE XO ESCAPE MAXCHl'S. FOR TIIF doing and promised to kill him if he It la believed a detailed statement will prosecuted Strouss as he threatenetf.be made after the execution. If rteportcd Victories Are Fucts. Llltle Left to Flfrht for. , Reking, Ndv. 21. Yuan ShJ Kai, t:-o premier, is quoted today as naving said that the fight to save the Mancha throne la hopeless in view of the wide spread character of the demand for a republican government It ts believed Yuan will soon Join the rebels openly. It is rumored, but nnconflrmedly, that rebels have recaptured Hankow. If this proves true and the rebels cap- grounds, Attorney Darrow asked tile court to reopen the question today. Judge Bordwell denied the application "without prejudice" Baying he possi bly may reopen it later. This ruling would favor the defense hut Darrow contends when the Jury is allowed to fix life imprisonment for murder they might convict, knowing the decision is not fatal to the prisoner as It could be rectified. EARL GREY. Recent Photograph of Former Governor General of Canada. IMPORTANT ISSUE IT. Hall of Records, Los Angeles, Nov. 21. Alleging the prosecution was gty a material advantage by the court's ruling that it can challenge for cause men who refuse, to convict In capital punishment cases where the evidence Is entirely circumstantial while the defense- catmut'lKfHnB-nfl-4W-aiU1aTi. BaW 4i-oTme-lft-6afS-lB-lhe lines but turned them over to his hold ings hen told to do so as the con cern needed the shares to build a tiQnti marl 1?rtnVof All Al nffaraji Yilm $25 for the stock but he sold at $30. The same stock How pays $200 yearly dividends.. oil lkng somehow absorbed some of, the valuable stocks he hell, wa.s, tha burden of testimony .of C. II. Irtarta. the engineer who constructed the line, lesuiying oeiore tne sianiey vongrvB Blonal committee Investigating tha Bteel trust today. He said after Rocke feller got control of the road, he was Instructed to mate a report padded to show that the road was valued at $3, 000,000. This was submitted to the Minnesota state railroad commission in order to show that the freight rates charged on ore were not exorbitant Oldtleld to Be Reinstated, Savannah, Nov. 21. It was an nounced here today that Barney Old field may take part In the Vanderbilt cup race next year. I( is said he will drive If the Automobile association de. cldos to reinstate hlra which is proD eble. '.'.' '.' " . " ' tat y Mr. Grey this week celebrated his 50th birthday anniversary and peculiar enough the celebration came at a moment when the opposition which unseated him from office after 15 years of continuous service, took over the parliament under the new! regime. Though advanced in years Mr..Grey is still active In business affairs. Boston Mogul Demi. New Yorkv Nov. 21. William Rus tsfill, president and chief owner of the Boston. National baseball ilub, died here today. , GIRL MOTHER LEADS M'DONALD don the conflict and make ;helr way to safety. Missionary Town Racked. London, Nov. 21. Chinese rebels have sacked the town of Tal Yuen Fu in the province of Shan 81, according to a cable from Shanghai to the Bap tist missionary society here. The town is In ruins but It Is reported mission aries are safe, Ta Yuen Fu Is In the ture Nanking, practically nothing rs-une province In which 25 foreign m's mains bat for the Manchus to aban-atonartea wer4 lal recently. TRIAL OF SAN BERNARDINO DEN ' TIST COMMENCED. Jessie McDonuUd Is Lead1 From the Court Room. San Bernardino, Nov. 21 When Mc Davit was literally carried Into the su, perior court room here today to stand trial for holding Miss Jessie McDon- . aid, a high school girl, captlv In a room adjoining his dentist office for 15 monthB, the girl was seated in the court room and shrieked: . 'Those eyes Those terrible eyes! take me away, I feel my body turning to Btone!" The court then allowed them to take her from the court room with her baby Arthur, of whom it Is. alleged MoDavIt Is the father. - . , X The girl remained steadfastly faith ful to her abductor after her release several months ago. The babe was born a few weeks ago. During the time the dentist has been Jailed and fre quently the citizens threatened to mob him. He has a wife who is sueing tor a divorce. . ' The young girl first met the dentist when she had some work dona on her' teeth and the Infatuation foltowed. She -' was finally abducted and when found? ' she was dressed in rags. ,
