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
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$1.75
2.75
4.00
Champion Envelopes
500 (one color ink)
1000
2000
MAIL
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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.
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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.