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OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRDAY. JULY 17, 1908
No 10,
26th YEAR.
CITY
WU-KJ1CK
MURDERED GIRL
HE LOVED
Slavonian Shoots Sweetheart and
Fires Three Shots at Father
MURDERER IN
Narrowly Escapes Lynching at Hands of Angry Mob
Who Follow Him to Jail Doors.
With the pangs of jealousy wrang
ling within his breast, and consider
able booze warming his blood to the
point of killing something, Satur
day night, Math Janoigaj shot and
killed the girl he loved, Mary
Smrekar. The murdered girl and her
. slayer were Austrians, the Smreser
family having come to this city a fewJ
years ago from Michigan, and the
murderer, who was an employee of
the Willamette Pulp and Paper Co.,
in Mill D., had been a resident lesB
than two years.
Jaucigaj had Bpent the evening with
a rival suitor, Charles Koman, and
together they had tipped the flowing
bowl till he was of the opinion that
Koman had better have the girl and
that he was willing to give her up;
but his talk belied his feelings, and
after getting into the proper condition
he proceeded to ttie approach of tne
suspension bridge saying goodbye to
another Austrian who he met
later andwalked towaid the river
- along the street beside the bridge,
where he vent not a portion of his
pent up feelings by bring his revolver
into the air, and then evidently at
.once making his way down
Water - l
stretto ne girl's house, where the
crimewfls-coinmitted.
After killing the girl and firing
three shots at her father Jaucigaj ran
south on Main street to Twelfth and
turned toward the hin, going up the
canyon . under the Tffeltth. street
bridge. He was in hiding in the
woods on the edge of the bluff near
Tenth street till Sunday morning
when he stole along the' bloff oou
cealed by the timber and climbing
down the side of the hill entered a
woodshed in the rear of the home of a
countryman, Peter Eurnik. He was
there probably an hour, when Eurnik
saw him. "What did you do last
night," he demanded. The murderer
did not hesitate nor attempt to escape.
"I do not know what I did," he re
plied, "but"you go and report me to
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a polibeman. " Eurnik went out
quietly and the first man he saw was
Charles Koman, the dead gill's
sweetheart, whose fancy for Mary had
turned Janoigaj's head. Upon hear
ing of the murder's whereabouts, Ko
man walked to the ooarthouse and
told Jailer Nehren, who, with Con
stable Miles, went down to Fifth
street and Railroad avenue, where
Eurnik lives. The watchful crowd
that lined the streets ran with them,
but Jaucigaj had left his lair and
climbed up the side of the bluff wait
ing for th3 officers to come and take
him.
"Up with your hands," ordered
Nehren, "and come down." Jaucigaj
slid down the steep bank and gave
himself up. "where is that gun?"
asked the officer. "Mister, I have
no gun," replied the man. "I threw
it in the river. " Five minutes later
he was behind the bars.
The Smrekar family came here two
years ago from Michigan. Beside the
father and mother, there were six
sons, two of them 'now grown, and
two daughters. The family is highly
respected. For a time they kept
- boarders until the owner of their
house objeoted, and it was daring
that time that Jnoigaj an inmate of
the house, met and fell in luve with
Mary Smrekar. While she never
oared for him she did acoept his at
tentions until her father, angered at
the dissolute oonducc of Jancigaj,
who'sanandered his eraninesin drink,
I requested ths girl to have nothing
r i An ... k 111, n1 IV11 l tvhn
was 10 years her'senior. Five months
ago Jancigaj loft the Smrekar' house
and has since boarded with Matt
Poloni, whose home is in the rear of
the postottice building.
For several blocks the crowd, num
bering over 300, followed, all eager to
get at the prisoner, whose smile of
delight at the notoriety he was re
ceiving, never faded until the jail
doors closed upon him. Cries of
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"Give us a rope," "Hacghiru," fell
upon the ears of the officers and the
murderer, but a leadr was lacking
and no time was lost by Keliren and
Miles, both well armed, and they pro
pelled their captive swiftly to the
oourthouse where the iron doors
closed behind . him. "Good bye,"
shouted the Austrian, waving his
hand asjie disappeared.
Coroner Holuian held an inquest
over the body of the dead girl, the
jury returning a verdiot in acoordauce
with the facts. The jurymen were
O. E. Nash, Henry Miley, R. T. Bar
Bur, Max Bnllack, F. M. Naught and
W. J. Wilson. Before rendering their
verdiot they went to the county ; jail
and talked with the prisoner, who
confessed his guilt.
Flreiuen's Barbecue.
The volunteer firemen held their an
nual barbecue Sunday at Gus
Sohnoor's place on the banks of the
beautiful Tualatin river, near the
Willamtte. This aunual event is for
firemen only,' and included all active,
exempt and honorary members of any
of the six companies. The general
oommittee, which had the barbecue in
charge completed all arrangements
and made the affair a most successful
one. The Oregon City band assisted
in the entertainment by several selec
tions and at 10 o'clock the firemen
boarded an electrio oar at the west
end of the suspension bridge and pro
ceeded to the scene of the festivities.
The morning hours were taken up
with informal oratory and at noon the
fine barbecue was served. Then fol
lowed the races and other athletic
sports. About 4 o'leock the firemen
indulged in a game of baseball on
the Willamette Park grounds. In the
evening a public dance was given in
the Caneniah Park pavilion, thus
ending a most enjoyable oooasion. -
High Scliool Alumni.
Alumni of Oregon City High Sohool
will picnic at Gladstone on the Chau
tauqua grounds Friday evening. A
large number are expected t3 attend,
fifty or more, and every feature is be'
ing thoroughly looked after to make
the affair a grand success. There will
be enough and to spare of the very
best things to be found on our home
tables besides all that the market
affords, so that none may remain
away for fear of going away hungry.
These banquets are annual love feasts
and are locked forward to by students
of the school as resembling home com
ings for tlm wanderers, and when all
are brought together in one large
family and story telling is the pass
word, eating the main feature of the
occasion, and visiting a side dish,
what more could be expected than
each year to have the very beBt; tinio
possible?
Rebekah Installation.
Willamette Rebekah Lodge, Inde
pendent Order of .Oddfellows, Friday
uight held its semi-annual installa
tion of ollioers the ceremonies being
Conducted by Mrs. Lizzie Finuegan,
distriot deputy. The followiug offi
cers were installed: Mrs. Rachel
Scriptore, noble grand; Mrs. Rolla O.
Shaw, vice grand ; Mrs. May Waldrou,
treasurer, Miss Anna Wileharfr, war
den! Mrs. Viola Godfrey, chaplain;
Mrs. Lizzie Finuegan, R. S. N. O.';
Mrs. F. A. Miles, R. S. V.'G. ; Mrs.
D. O..Ely, L. S. V. G.
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BRYAN AND KERN
TO HEAD TICKET
NEBRASKA THE CHOICE OF
DEMOCRATS FOR THE
THIRD TIME.
NOMINATIONS ARE UNANIMOUS.
Commoner Wins on the First Ballot
Amid a Frenzy of WUd
Enthusiasm.
Denver, Colo. William Jennings
Bryan, ot Nebraska, wa nominated
for the third time for the office of
the Presidency of the United States
amid scenes of frenzied enthusiasm.
The result came after an all-night
session, which was kept In a con
stant turmoil- up to the culminating
moment when the Nebraska leader
was proclaimed the choice of the
convention as the Democratic standard-bearer.
The nomination was made on the
first and only ballot, the vote stand
ing: William J. Bryan, 892; Govern
or John A. Johnson, 46; Judge Geo.
Gray, 59 V. Absent or not voting,
8. Total, 1006.
The announcement of the vote was
the signal for a wild demonstration.
The scene within the amphitheater
at the moment the nomination was
made was one ot stirring animation.
From pit to dome the vast building
was packed with 10,000 people,
thinned out In the gallerleB, after
hours of waiting and the discomforts
of the night. It was a spectacle Of
ths greatest proportions tier on tier
and gallery on gallery of agitated
forms ever ready to spring Into fev
erish outbreaks of enthusiasm and
everywhere the blaze of flags, bunt
ing and patriotic devices and the en
veloping folds of Old Glory. Twice
DENVER AUDITORIUM.
before the throng had been moved
into a mad ecstacy, first by the
speech placing the name of Bryan in
nomination, and when that of Gov
ernor Johnson, of Minnesota, was
proposed, but these manifestations
paled before . the culminating out
burst of emotion.
As the announcement of the Ne
braskan's actual nomination was
made the-whole assemblage arose en
masse, waving flags, handkerchiefs,
newspapers, hats and coats, any
thing and everything which hands
could lay upon to wave aloft or hurl
Into the air, while a bedlam of
sound poured out from these 10,000
throats In exultant yells, with the
added din of tin horns, the roar
of magaphones and the strains of the
band playing.
When for a moment order was se
cured, out of the tempestuous chaos
of demonstration, state after state,
which had at first recorded its vote
for Johnson or Gray fell Into line
with the overmastering Bryan col
umn and the nomination was made
unanimous and by acclamation.
Alabama, the first state on the
roll-call, yielded to Nebraska, the
home state of Bryan, whose spokes
man, the youthful orator, Ignatius J.
Dunn, of Omaha, advanced to ths
platform. He spoke with great earn
estness and to a sympathetic audi
ence, which greeted each utterance
of tribute to the Nebraska leader
with demonstrative evidence of ap
proval. His concluding passage was
a fervid tribute to the Commoner as
the intrepid leader who had borne
the battle-scarred flag of Democracy
through the campaigns ot 1898 and
1900 with the devotion and faith of
the orusaders of old, America's great
commoner, Nebraska's gifted son,
William J. Bryaa. This wai the sig
nal for a long continued uproar, last
lng upward of 48 minutes.
A few moments after the cheer
ing began an immense oil painting
of Mr. Bryan was lowered from be
hind a monster American shield,
which had reposed on the chairman's
desk ever since the convention be
gan. The appearance of the picture
raised the pitch of the outburst to a
veritable pandemonium.
The delegates poured from - the
convention floor onto the already
overcrowded stage. James Dahlman
of Omaha, a Bryan leader, Jumped to
the secretary's desk and urged the
throng forward. The stage stand
ards were grouped about the plat
form. Spectators and delegates were
on their feet waving thousands ot
flags and cheering themselves
hoarse. Many of the New York del
egates stood and cheered with the
others, but the majority remained
seated.
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Only six banners were missing
from the states in parade through
the aisles after the grouping at the
stage had broken into a procession.
They were Maryland, Minnesota,
New York, Georgia, New Jersey and
Delaware.
Many Bryan banners which had
been brought into the hall, were
gulckly caught up by the marching
delegates and carried through the
aisles, one of the largest being from
the Monroe Club, of St. Joseph, Mo.
The band In the balcony lent Its
share to the celebration of the Bryan
followers and the blare of horns, the
beat of drums and crash of cymbals
could be heard above the din of
shouting hundreds on the floor and
the thousands la the galleries.
One ot the banners that aroused
much enthusiasm was labeled, "Mis
souriNominate Bryan and we will
show you!"
The members of the Missouri dele
gation bore up to the platform a ban
ner bearing the words:
"Missouri will give Bryan 60,000
majority."
The nomination of Governor John
son precipitated another whirlwind
of excitement, If not so long sustain
ed, hardly less enthusiastic than that
for Bryan.
When the demonstration's " last
cry had died away, the chairman di
rected the secretary to continue the
call of the roll of states. Arkansas
passed and California yielded to Ore
gon. Ex-Senator Gearin then pro
ceeded to second the nomination of
Mr. Bryan.
- Mr. Gearin mentioned the name of
Bryan in his first sentence, but it re
ceived but a ripple of applause, the
enthusiasm having completely spent
Itself. The Senator spoke but a few
minutes and left the stand with lib
eral applause.
The Democratic National Conven
tion concluded its labors by the nom
ination of John Worth Kern, of In
diana, for Vice-President, complet
ing the ticket.
The nomination of Mr. Kern was
made by acolamatlon amid the re
sounding cheers of delegates and
spectators. No ballot was necessary,
as the trend of sentiment had set ir
resistibly toward the Indiana candi
date, state after state registering its
delegations in his favor and all other
candidates withdrawing before the
universal demand for his nomina
tion. The convention, after adjourning
at daylight with the nomination of
Mr. Bryan, resumed its session at 1
p. m., with a powerful undercurrent
already In motion toward the nomi
nation of Mr. Kern for second place.
The names of Judge George Gray;" of
Delaware, and John Mitchell, of Illi
nois, were not presented owing to
the positive requests of these men
not- to have their names go before
the convention.
Colorado, through ex-Governor
Thomas, placed in nomination Chas.
A. Towne, of New York; Connecticut
presented Archibald McNeill, and
Georgia, Clark Howell.
For a time it looked as though a
ballot would be required, but the
steady-line of states which joined in
seconding Mr. Kern's nomination
soon made It apparent that the
chances of all other candidates hud
been extinguished.
Mr. Towne, of New York, was the
first candidate to recognize the de
cisive nature of the Kern movement,
and in a ringing speech he withdrew
his name from consideration and
pledged his support to the ticket of
Bryan and Kern. Withdrawals quick
ly followed from the supporters of
Howell, of Georgia, and McNeill, of
Connecticut, leaving the Indiana can
didate alone in the field. The with
drawal of the Connecticut candidate
was accompanied by a motion that
Mr. Kern be. nominated by acclama
tion. The motion was carried with
a deafening shout and the great as
semblage broke Into clamorous dem
onstration on the accomplishment of
its work and the completion of the
Democratic ticket.
A feature of the demonstration
never before part of a National con
vention was that the greater part of
the cheering and uproar was dis
tinctly heard by the candidate at his
home 500 miles away, a telephone
to which wires attached to an im
mense megaphone had been placed in
the hall, and Mr. Bryan at the other
end ot the wire was at Falrvlew
where he was able to hear the cheer
lng which filled the hall.
Braker-Mead.
Miss Ruth Braker, of Greenwood,
and Mr. Walter Mead were quietly
wed on Wednesday, the 8th, at 12
o'clock, by the Rev. A. May. The
bride, on the arm of the groom, pre
ceded by the ministor and followed by
the maid of honor, Miss Annie Mar-
ley, of Oregon Oity, and the best man,
Mr. Wilber Newbury, entered the lit
tle home parlor to the wedding maroh,
nlaved bv Miss Ma3 Clark. The cer
emony was very .impressive and was
foiiowei by a sumptuous dinner, un
ly intimate friends and relatives were
present. The bride was neatly at
tired in a Copenhagen blue suit, and
carried a bouquet of sweet peas, while
the maid of honor, m.9 iwariey, waB
becomingly attired in a blue suit.
The bride received a number of use
ful presents.
The oouple have a host of friends
who wish them much happiness.
Eagles Soar High.
Friday evenintr members of Oregon
City Aerie No. IM Fraternal Older of
Eagles assembled In their rooms to
go tnrougli the very inreresung pro
gram of initiating fifteen nitiuiburs,
and from reports everything was
done for the comfort of tboso admit
ted to the mysteries. The order is
showing great gains in this oity and
its members are taking great interest
in the building op of the order, and
large classes are becoming frequent.
PROGRAMME
DRAWS CROWD
Chautauqua Summer School Scene
of Wonderful Activity
AUDITORIUM
Saturday July 18th Will
Thousands Are Coming Last Three Days.
Three more days of Chautauqua and
the grandest assembly on the coast
will close for this season. The as
sembly has been successful in every
way and the thousands y, ho have at
tended have gone away refreshed in
mind, body aud spirits. They have
eaten from the tables of plenty, drank
from the tountnius of intellectual
blessings, and grown fat from the
fund of knowledge handed ont to
them, and have been wonderfully
blessed spiritually.
Three days yet left to complete the
good Beason and many there will be
to attend. Saturday especially will
be a boomer day at the Chautauqua
grounds. Many farmers who have
been so busy at their work will lay
aside the toiling on the farm and go
to Chautauqua for the day, and every
seat in the great auditorium will be
occupied. There will be many attrac
tive features for the three days and
the program as follows will be carried
out in its entirety:
FRIDAY, JULY 17.
Morning :
8-11 -Summer Sohool.
11 :00 Chautauqua Forum. State Ag
ricultural College rally, Presi
dent W. J. Kerr.
Afternoon :
J :15 -ConoHrt by Ohemawu Baud.
2 :00 Solo by Miss Eleanor Colony.
Lecture, "Patriotism and the Re
public," Dr. B. L. Whitman.
3:30 Chautauqua Round Table,
Yf M. O. A. Subjeot, "The
Woman Traveler in Oregon."
3 :30 BiSseball.
7:15 Oohcert by Clie'viawa Band.
8 :00 Solo by Dr. R.i A. Heritage.
Quartette, Willamette Girls.
, Lecture, "The Battle of Life,"
by Dr. Robert Molntyre."
PATRIOTIC DAY, SATURDAY,
JULY 18. " .
Morning : -8-11
Summer Sohool.
11 :00 Chuutauqoa Forum. Special
Program.
Afternoon :
1:16 Concert by Ohemawa Band.
3:00 Reading by Prof. W. Eugene
Knox.
Solo.
Patriotio AddreBS, "The Evolu
tion of Abraham Lincoln," Dr.
Robert Molntyre.
8 :30 Reunions at various headqnar-
8 :80 Baseball.
7 :15 Concert by Ohemawa Band.
8 :00 Athletio Eentertainment, direc
tion of Prof. A. M. Grilley,
physical director Y. M, O. A.,
Portland.
9:30 Fireworks Fifteen set pieces
prepared by Prof. Wm. Selling,
recently from Germany.
SUNDAY, JULY 19.'
Morning :
9:00 Devotional hour.
11 :00 Suuday sohool, direction State
Sunday Sohool - Association,
R. R. Steele, President.
. Afternoon :
2 :00 Musio by Chautauqua Chorus.
Solo.
Sermon, Dr. Robert Molntyre.
1:00 Sacred concert by Ohemawa
Band.
5:00 Chinese program, direotion of
Y. M. & Y. W. C.A., of Port
land. 800 : Music by Chautauqua Chorus.
Solo.
Quartette, Willamette Girls.
Sermon, by Dr. F. J. Van Horn,
of Seattle.
This weeek hfia been full of .excellent
numbers. The Quartette by the Willam
etto Girls Sunday, was an excellent musl
cal program In Itself. The sermon by
the Kev. Dr. Ira Landrlth on this day
and also the Japanese program, were
greatly enojyed by a large number of
people, as was also the sermon in the
evening by Dr. Ii. L. Whitman, of Seat
tle. Monday following was devoted to
the usual program, the Forum, music by
the Chemnwa Hand, address by Rev. Wm,
G. Elliot, of l'urtlund, on "Health Prob
lems," and reading by Prof. W. Eugene
Knox, with baseball In the afternoon, and
in the evening the lecture by Walte
Thomas Mills, of Portland, on Public
Ownership of Monopolized Industries, was
a very scholarly address.
The program throughout the week past
has been of the greatest educational In
terest and the attraction was centered
on the lecture Saturday by the great Con
grexHloual leader, John Sharp Williams,
the Mississippi orator plainly Bhowlng
why he leads his party in Congress. His
subject was to have been "America for
Americans," but he did not talk on thai
subejet. His address would probably
better be termed a dissertation on ora
tory and genius, teeming with classical
allusions and quotations from the mas
ters of literature. One of the most ef
fective touches was a reference .to "The
Haven," of Edgar Allen Poe, interspers
ed with quotation, the speaker describ
ing this powerful poem as "dark, un
earthly, Btrangely musical, eternally hope
less." Then he lighted up the other side
of Poe by quoting from "Anabel Lee."
Hard work has produced the geniuses
of the world, declared Mr. Williams. Poe's
wild excesses were not what shaped his
words, but the days and nights lie had
spent in close application, as shown by
the books that ha took from the library
IS CROWDED
See Standing Room Only.
umphal note of the real Poe, no longer
drawing from the darkness of subcon
sciousness the fancied messengers of
"dark Plutonian shores,"
For an hour and a half he held hie au
dience while he discoursed upon the art
of oratory. It waB so well worked out,
so flue and so true that he proved him
self the master of both of the art and
practice of oratory before be concluded
his lecture.
In Introducing the speaker Congress
man Hawley paid a high tribute to Mr,
Williams' ability, high sense of honor and
scholarly attainments, saying that there
was no institution in the world where
men's characters were so tested, where
they had such opportunities to rise, or
fall, as the United States congress, and
In this crulclble Mr. Williams had been
tested with such result that on next
March he would step from congress Into
the highest tribunal In the land the
United States senate.
Chamberlain Called Upon.
Before presenting Mr. Williams, how
ever, he called upon Governor Chamber
lain, who was on the platform, to gtvs
the distinguished orator a word of greet
ing from Oregon. Governor Chamberlain,
in a short but felictous speech extended
the hospitality of the state to Mr. Wil
liams, and believed that the Chautauqua
management was doing a great thing to
bring men who held the destinies ot the
country In their hands to Oregon, that
they might know the merits of requests
that were urged upon congress for the
benefit of the state, and to learn the won
derful resources of the great west. Among
the semicircle that surrounded the speak
er was Governor Chamberlain, Mayor
Lane, Hon. George H. Williams, United
States Judge Wolverton, Richard W,
Montague, Jefferson Myers, B. Lee Pageet,
Charles Schnabel, Oglesby Toung, Dr.
James Card well, Dr. Raffety, General O.
Summers, Colonel Robert Miller, Tom
Riuhardson, Congressman Hawley and a
scre of others, while many prominent
men and women occupied seats In the
audience.
One of the most notable social events
ever given at Chautauqua ' was the re
ception, Immediately after the afternoon
program at the Federation headquarters
In honor of Mrs. Chamberlain, Mrs. Haw
ley and Miss Anna Lewis Clark of Mis
souri. . s. .
Several hundred women and nearly as
many men came to pay their respects to
these distinguished visitors.
The state president Introduced the
guests and called upon Mrs. Dunlway,
Mrs. Lutke, Miss Clark, Mrs. Henrietta
Brown and Miss Frances Gage, as well as
upon the distinguished gentlemen guests
for a word of greeting, and each respond
ed. .
Fins Floral Exhibit.
Ths stage was a veritable bower of
flowers Saturday, the sweet peas pre
dominating. The display of these was
certainly marvelous as to extent, size
and variety. Superintendent Gary was in
charge and stated that a great many
schools were represented In the exhibit.
The JudgeB were Superintendent Robin
son of Multnomah County, Mrs. Llnwood
Jones 'and Mrs. WJlllam Showman, Jr.,
of Oregon City. The Milwaukee school
received the $10 prize for cut flowers. The
other prizes, ranging from 5 to 1, were
given to the following, respectively: First
prize, Ella Jackson, Milwaukee; second
prize, Carmine Schmldley, West Oregon
City; third prize, Eddie Hagman, Har
mony; fourth prize, Lisle McCoy, Oregon
City; fifth prize, Anna Lou Sleight, Ore
gon City.
The classes throughout Saturday were
all full, with the Interest steadily Increas
ing. Blood Hounds on Trill,
Last Wednesday evening the mill of
t he Clear Creek Lumber Co. was en
tered by misoreants and parts of ma
chinery of considerable value wero
carried away. H. T. Diamond, man
ager of the mill, Thursday morning,
summoned Dotective Vaughn from
Portland, who left for the scene of
the robbery with trained blood
hounds. Mr. Diamond snspeots who
tho guilty person is and it is thought
that the dogs will easily trace the
robber to his hiding place.
Valuable belts, tolts aud wrenohes
were taken. Depredations of similar
character have been committed in the
mill before. A few nights ago sand
was.throwu in the bearings of the en
gine, causing considerable damage.
Looal "toughs" are probably respon
sible for the damage and annoyance
the lumber company has been subject
ed to and if Detootive Vaughn's dogs
trail them down it will undoubtedly
go hard with them.
Lease Extended.
The water commissioners of this
oity have secured an extension of 12
years on the water lease from the
Portland Railway Light & Power
Company. Under the old lease which
had still 18 years to run, the city has
been using water from the basin be
longing to the electrio company, on
the east side of the river, near the
falls. This concession was made by
the company to the oity in return for
a franchise granted the oompany to
maintain poles and wires on Water
street, on account of being obliged to
remove the poles on Main street.;