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THE STAYT0N ST A YTON, MARION COUNTY, OREGON, MAY 18, 1911. 1 7th Year, No. 15. SUICIDE OF AN OLD GERMAN RESIDENT starting and ending o f this sad affair. The funeral waa conducted at the parlors o f undertaker J. M. Ringo, Rev. G. W. Guthrie conducting the ser vice». John Mulke, Frank Mack, Joe Fisher, Henry Smith, A. S. Davie and Geo. Keech were the pall bearer». The OTTOMAR LUETTICH, A WEALTHY GERMAN ABOUT 65 OR 70 YEARS coffin waa o f the heat, and everything waa done to make it a fitting service. The hurried was made In the Mason's OLD, TAKES HIS OWN LIFE BY SHOOTING HIMSELF and Oddfellow’s cemetery. IN THE MOUTH WITH A REVOLVER Although the deceased lived in fear of being harmed by secret societies; it is they that give him his final resting Ottomar Luettich a wealthy German, deceased in this country, but la said he place. about 66 or 70 year* o f age, commit» has a brother snd sister in Germany. auiclde by »hooting himself with a re The authorities took charge o f the volver, the ball entering the mouth, burial, and the property will also be Warming a Chiliad Pig. breaking off a front tooth and lodging taken in charge by the county adminis O f all the means of w a r m in g » in the bark o f the neck, severing the trator, who will appoint some repntible chilled pig find restoring hia In te r * ! Ottomar In thlngt oarthly probably tbs re la spinal cord, the bullet being taken out citizen as administrator. I^uttich was a man o f considerable nothing hotter than * ream I o f wnthr by the phyairan* heated to about 93 or 99 degrees. In The deed Is supposed to have been done education, in German, but could speak which hia body and limbs can be tub- but very little English, and lived alone sometime last week, but the body was merged for ten to twenty mlnntea. In not discovered until Saturduy night and very secluded, although living with many Instance» It will well nigh re about 7:30, when some o f his neighbon, in a stones throw o f the business section vive tbe dead. I f after this hot bath not having seen the old man for two or he would not be seen for days at a Mr. Pig ts dried and placed where he three d«.ys, concluded to make an inves time, and would have but very little to can suck a well filled tent hia outlook on tbe future will lie much Improved. tigation. H .J . Marking and Charles say to anyone. People who have known him for years —Coburn's "Hwlne In America.’' Gehiin went to the house where they HAS BEEN A CITIZEN OF STAYTON FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS. discovered his dead body. The body was lying on the floor o f the kitchen, a few feet from the stove, near a chair, where it is supposed he had been sitt ing, before he took his life. He had fallen from the chair with face down, and a 38 rim-fire revolver was laying by his side. There was considerable blood on the floor and the condition of the face and body showed that he must have been dead for two or three days. Mr. Luettich came to this country from Germany 18 years ago, and has been a citizen o f Stayton for a number o f years. He had accumulated a small fortune, owning, houses and iota in town and land in the country. He also has proparty in Portland and .Salem, and money in the Stayton hank. There are no known relatives o f the say that he was a good citizen and o f good habits, but very peculiar, and seemed to live in fear of his life and especially o f secret societies, and his mind seemed to center upon mat idea, and o f late, seemed to be loosing hia mind. Anyone who has visited the house since his death would conclude at once that it could not possibly have ben the home o f a sane man. The un kempt condition was almost beyond dis cretion. His dog and his chickens lived In the house and occupied a part o f hia bed at night. The chickens roost ing on the head and foot board. There is no known reason why this unfortun ate old man lived such a life, but there might have been something that hap pened in his Fatherland years ago when he was a young man, that was ths. A NEW BUILDING Jacob Spaniol Will Build a Two Story Concrete Tin Shop. Jacob Spaniol, one of our progressive young business men will put up a two story 26 x 50 foot concrete block build ing on Ida street opposite the Mail o ff ice, to be used in his tinning anti plumb ing business. E. C. Lau is doing the work and has begun making the blocks. The building will be a great improve ment to Ida street and the city o f Stayton. Mr Spaniol is doing a good business in his line and has confidence in the future o f Stayton. B A R G A IN S LETTERHEADS o ENVELOPES FOR ©NE WEEK ©NLY One o f the largest paper houses on the Pacific coast recently decided to close out a certain line o f ruled letterheads and made a very low price in or der to sell the goods promptly. It was a snap and the Stayton Mail took the entire lot. N ow we are going to give our friends the bene fit o f our lucky buy. For one week from May 28 to June 4, we are going to print ruled letterheads at the follow ing unheard o f prices. 500 1000 2000 (one color ink) letterheads “ “ “ “ “ “ n • n $1.75 2.75 4.00 Champion Envelopes 500 (one color ink) 1000 2000 MAIL “ “ “ u 1.50 2.25 3.50 Also reduced prices on all other kinds o f letter heads fo r one week only. Remember the Pate MAY 22 TO MAY 27, 1911 get your orders in early THE STAYTON MAIL GRANGE O F T H E FU TU R E A d d r a s s b y tha P ra a id a n t af M a s s a ch u se tts A g r ic u lt u r a l C ollage. President Kenyon L. Butterfield gave some excellent suggestions as to what the grange must do and be In the future If It would attain tbe highest suo-esa. He said the grange was orlg lnally organized for the purpose o f aid ing the fanners to sell for more and buy for less, but tbe Order bad greatly Increased tbe field of Its labor since then. It bad proved a great benefit to tbe farmers and bas given them a much greater Influence In tbelr com munities. Conditions are '■banging, and the grnnge o f the future must face them. The consumer la calling for better and more varied product*. The New Eng land farmer must meet the competi tion of tbe new land o f tbe great west. He must practice Intensive farming. lie must have a better distribution of bis products. The farmer and tbe consumer »n e t be brought hearer to- getber. The grange of the future must work less for the benefit o f the in dividual and more for the benefit of tbe whole community. Tbe grange mast become a national rather than a sectional organization. Tbe grange must stand for tbe farmer and fight tbe farmer’s battle. It mast be a studying organization. It should be careful to know what It Is doing and what the effect o f what It does will be. The time la coming when tbe true teat o f the grange wlU be wbat It does or baa done for the community. The grange o f tomorrow must be aggres sive and work outside o f the grange for the reforma advocated In the grange. It must also work out a bet ter method o f co-operation. Serial No. 79 8 I.0.0.F HALL Annual Strawberry Fair DEDICATED THE NEW i.0. 0. F. HALL DEDI CATED FRIDAY NIGHT. AN EX CELLENT PROGRAM AND FEAS1 The Oddfellows dedicated their new hall Friday night and about 400 peoplt were present from the different citie» and towns o f the state. Mill City chartered a train and a large numbei came from that section. The officer» who conducted the dedicatior were, A. W Bowersox, o f Albany, representing Grand Master, Thomas F. Ryan; W. H. Hobson, grand marshall; W. H. Weddle, grand chaplin; H. A. Beauchamp, grand warden; W. M. Pintler; J. M. Ringo,A. S. Davey and B.|F. Pound, grand heralds. The program was as follows: 1 Opening Ode. 2 Prayer, Grand Chaplin. 3 Ritualistic Work. 4 Violin Solo, J. F. Lau. 6 Ritualistic Work. 6 Prayer, Grand Chaplin. 7 Vocal Solo, Mrs. J. M. Ringo. 8 Ritualistic Work. 9 Trinity Exemplified. 10 Violin Solo, J. F. Lau. 11 Selection. 12 Address, Grand Master. 13 Doxology, by audieuce. Mr. J. R. Gardner, chairman o f the building committe, delivered the keys o f the hall to the Grand Master. Grangs Not*«. Deputy Grand Master A. W . Bower- North Stonlngton (Conn.) grange cleared about 1700 from Its grange sox of Albany, conducted the impress fair. Over 2,000 people were present ive dedicatory service. one day. Judge Weatherford delivered the Probably no state can compare with principal address o f the evening which Maine as to the nnmber o f grangers In was both eloquent and enlightening, the state legislature. There are fifty- showing the great work o f the order, nine o f them 1U the Pine Tree State its strength and its bright future. body. Trinity Exemplified, by Miss Mable Evening Star grange, Multnomah county, Ofe , organised In 1873, has Gardner, Miss Zoeliner and Mrs. Candanc never failed In thirty-seven years to Down, was very ¡repressive and showed hold s “day meeting“ on tbe first Sat the excellent talent o f these ladies. urday e f each month in all that time. Short speeches were given by Mr. C. B Kegley, master o f Washington Speer, o f Albany; Mr. Fryer, o f Aums- state grange, says: “ W e are familiar ville; Mr. Tweedales, o f Albany; W. H. with the saying that when the farmer Hobson, E. E. McKinney, and W. R. is prosperous the country Is prosper Surry o f Mehema; Jno. Gill o f Scio; P. ous. I would add another thought. A. Miller, o f Elk City; Mrs. Gertrude ‘When the farmer Is right the coun try Is righ t and It Is the mission of Kirkpatrick, Aumsville; and Miss Hob the grnnge to see that the farmer U son. A fte r the program the guests were righ t’ ” seated at the banquet table and one of Sick headaches result from a dis the finest spreads that was ever given ordered stomach, and can be cured by in Stayton was participated in. This the use o f Chamberlain's Stomach and part o f the program was managed by Liver Tablets. Try it. For sale by the ladies, and it is needless to say that it was carried through in a very credit A ll Good Stores. able manner. STANDARD OIL MUST DIE Supreme Court Orders the Company to Dissolve in Six Months. Bis W A S H IN G T O N -T h e Standard Oil Co- o f New Jersey and its 19 subsidiary cor porations were declared today by the Supreme Court o f the Uninted States to be a conspiracy and combination in restraint o f trade. It was otherwise held to be monopo lizing interstate commerce in violation o f the Sherman anti-trust law. The dissolution o f tha combination was ordered to take place within six months. Thus ended the tremendous struggle on the part o f the Goverment to put down, by authority o f law, a combina tion which it held to be a menanc tc the industrial and economic advance ment o f the entire country. Do You G*t Your “ Beauty” Slsapf As a race we sleep too little. An infant's life lo nearly all sleep. Grad ually as the child grows older the hours of sleep arc shortened to half the day. or about eight hours. Youth until the age of twenty is reached requires fully ten hours' sleep. Although nature demands fewerhouro o f sleep in summer than in winter. It hns been proved that eight hours of sleep are required for the average adult in good health. By this lo meant not simply eight hours In bed. but that amount o f good, sound, restful sleep night after night Our power to work Is intimately re lated to our ability to sleep, and there is do more reliable Indication o f sound health than the rapacity to sleep natu rally. srvl the more active and ener getic the waking life the deeper the sleep. __________________ Chong# Color. Now Melon pink, the paper# ear. la Washington's now hue. Well. If the shade has come to stay That must maka Alice blue: —Now York Tlmsa. Lebanon will give a three day* straw berry fair, rose and horse show, .'.¡ay , 1 to June 2nd and are putting forth n 'reat effort to make it aanci-ess, as we hope it will be. A. C. Brown, A. V/. Hubbs, V. S. Winneiaton, J. B. Green a d R. W ai.- freen passed through Stayton Mi ndoy n a large automobile, haw ing out ad vertisement. They are making a.I the towns in this section. FIRE AT THE ASYLUM Patients became F r e n z i e d D a m age $15,000 or $20,000 Friday evening at about 7:10 fire broke out in the north side o f Ward 17, which is located in the east end o f the south wing o f the main building o f the Oregon state insane aoylum, and threat ened for a time to endanger the entire buikling, but after strenuous fighting the fire was brought under control and subdued. As soon as the fire waa discovered and the alarm turned in, the work o f remov ing the patients was begun, and this tA e d the energies o f the attendants iu charge, as many o f the patients immed iately became frenzied and fought like tigresses under torment. One woman ran back the third time into the very midst o f the flsmes and had to be dragged out a fter she had been partially overcome by the smoke. A ll were finially removed to other parts o f the building and checked over to see that none were missing. The only serious injury reported was that of Ralph Hensley, an empiope, who had his hand quite severely cut while assis ting to open up a partition. The prison department get a line o f hose into commission and within a very few minutes had a stream o f water playing on the building. The pumps at the penitentiary were set going and kept pumping during ail the time the fire raged. Huge quantities o f water were sent over and the truatiea Iccpt it directed on the spot where the blaze seemed to be concentrated. Governor West and Dr. Steirer in spected the wing after the fire and made a rough preliminary estimate o f the damage, placing it at about $15,000 or $20,000. The asylum board will hold a meeting this morning so that immedi ate action can be taken toward repair:: g the damage and putting the wing in commission again. LABOR FEDERATION LEADERS ARE FREED Mr. Taft Refuses Pardon. Washington— President T a ft has re fused to pardon Bartlett Richards, W il liam G. Comstock, Chas. C. Jameson and Aquilla Triplett, four wealthy N e braska cattlemen, who have been con victed o f conspiracy to defraud the government o f grazing lands along the Wyoming border. WAR IS NEAR END Quiet in Two Days Says Steever in a Telegram to T a f t Washington—That there is every probability o f peace in Mexico within two days was the burden o f a message sent direct to President T a ft by Colonel Steever, in command o f the American troops at El Paso. Colonel Steever’ s wire said that Judge Carbajal and Provissionai Presi dent Madero had virtually come to terms and that announcement o f the end of the revolution probably only awaited the confirmation o f the Bargain in Mex ico City. Colonel Steever’s telegram to the president con rms reports that the Diaz government, to obtain peace, has agreed that the rebels shall h ve three cabinet positions and 14 governorships. In the cabinet the rebels will have: Minsster o f war—General Gonzales Salaz. Minister o f justice—Senor Vasquez Tagle. Minister o f gubernacion—Dr. Vasquez Gomez. O f the governorships o f the 14 states which the rebels will control when the peace pact is finally approved, Abrahm Gonzales will rale Chihuahua; Senor Cayon, Sonora; Manuel Bonilla, Sinoloa; Pino Suarez, Yucatan; Guadelupe Gon zales, Zacatecas, and Vcnusticao Car ranza will get the governorsnip o f Coa- huila. It is believed that the peace agree- I ment, says Colonel Steever, will be signed within three days at most, High Tribunal Hands Down Decision Dismissing Jail S o n t ::::? . Washington—President Samui 1 Com pere, Secretary Frank Morrison and Vice President John Mitchell, c f the American Federation o f Labor, will not have to serve jail sentences. The supreme court o f the Uninted States, in a decision read by Jostle > Larmer today, reversed the deeisi the court o f appeales o f the D istrict. ' Columbia, sentencing the men for eo ,- tempt in disobeying a court injunct i in the case o f the Buck Stove & Ran oompany and dismissed the whole case. War Secretary Resigns. W A S H IN G T O N -S ecreta ry o f W ar Jacob M. Dickinson o f Tennessee, the Democratic member o f President T a ft ’s cabinet, has resigned. Henry L. Stim- son o f New York, recently defeated Republican candidate for govenor, hsi been given the portfolio. A CHARITABLE DEED Printers Build Houses for flicted Fellow Craftman. Linotype operators and printers in Portland demonstrated yesterday that they can handle hammers and saws, when nine o f the craft construcned in less then eight hours two houses for a brother printer, B. Hendey, a victim o f tuberculosis, on his lot at Fort?- seventh avenue and East Seventy-sixth street. Percy Coburn, president o f the Mult nomah Typographical Union, as fore man o f the day, went at the work like a veteran house-builder. His eight vol unteer assistants were kept on the jump to finish the work before dark, but none worked harder then Coburr. By the early part o f the afternoon good progress had been made, but they were obliged to work until dark in order ly finish the job.