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she 5OKirn$ra oeegontajt. vstedesdax, PEBHTJAKT 13, 1895. 10 SHE DIED BY POISON STRYCHMXE FOUXI) IX MRS. WORTH'S ST03IACU. EUL.S- IVnlter EH.Hvrorili, Her Hnsljaad, Un der Arrext for 3Inrdcr Do 11 ! c.i Ufa Guilt. "Walter E. Ellsworth, husband of airs. Edith E. Ellsworth, whose death took place at an early hoar 1at Sunday morn ingV under very FtispteJous circumstances, is a prisoner at the central police sta tion, where he Is held without ball on a charge of poisoning his wife. Walter IJllsworth and his wife occupied housekeeping apartments at the residence of Dr. Frederick Prehn, 511 Sixth street, where they had been living for some t. eeks. At about 2 o'clock Sunday morn ing a messenger aroused Dr. Herbert Cardwell, at his residence, requesting him to attend Mrs. Ellsworth, who was seriously 111. Going to the house. Dr. Cardwell found the woman jn convulsions and. during- lucid intervals, she com plained of the bitter taste of a powder her husband had given her. Ellsworth ex plained to the physician that he had only given his wife some cornstarch in order to calm her. At about 5 o'clock the woman was again seized -ftith convulsions, and, shortly after, expired. Dr. Cardwell regarded the symptoms of the woman and her death with such sus picion that he first refused to sign the re qjired death certificate, and he also re ported the circumetanes to Coroner Cor nelius and Chief of Police Minto. It was decided to hold an autopy, and the stom ach of the dead woman was removed for investigation. The autopsy did not fully determine the cause of death, and yester day morning. Dr. Everett Mingus, after a careful chemical analysis of the contents of the stomach, discovered the presence of strychnine. He secured not only the bitter taste of the alkaloid, but the chemi cal reaction of strychnine. These results fully corroborated the suspicions of Dr. Cardwell. Yesterday morning. Coroner Cornelius held an inquost at his office, and a further investigation concerning the death of Mrs. Ellsworth was made. The jury impaneled consisted of "W. L. Hlggins. H. It. Lee, R. D. Cannon, Lou Bell, Robert Glen and C. S. Bratton. Doctors A. C. Panton, Herbert Cardwell and Everett ilingus, and "Walter E. Ells worth, husband of the deceased woman, were the principal witnesses examined. Dr. Panton flatly denied the statement made by Ellsworth that he had attended the woman during the past two weeks. Previous to that he had treated her for tick headache and nausea. Dr. Cardwell testified to substantially the same facts heretofore published, telling how his sus picions had been aroused and of his in forming Coroner Cornelius of the facts. Dr. Mingus also j.-esented the result of the chemical analysis of the stomach made by him. Ellsworth, when placed on the stand as a witness, could not entirely con ceal his nervousness, and was evidently ill at ease. He stoutly protested his inno cence of the murder or any knowledge of the cause of his wife's death. At the con clusion of the testimony, the jury re turned a verdiot that the woman come to her death from strychnine poisoning administered in some manner unknown. Immediately following the verdict of thr coroner's jury. Deputy District Attor ney Fitzgerald and Chief of Police Minto ivere in consultation, and in a few mo ments the machinery of the law was put in motion. Detectives "Welch and Day were detailed on the case, and in a short time Ellsworth was in their custody, be ing arrested on Washington street, be tween Third and Fourth. He was taken to the central station and placed in a room on the third floor, the same occu pied a few: days previous by Rev. James Hood, the bankrobber. After his Incar ceration he sent out for Mr. James R. Stoddard, the attorney whom he has en gaged to defend him." Walter Ellsworth, charged with the se rious crime of wife-murder, is 22 years of age. and was born in the town of Kow Brunswick, X. J. He left that place when but a child, and has lived in many of the Eastern states, engaged generally in newspaper work. Previous to his com ing to Portland, Ellsworth lived in Wyom ing, "where he resided for about one year, publishing the Matrona Tribune, of which he claims he had a lease. He says he also worked on a newspaper at Caspar, Wyo., and at one time he was a reporter on the Chicago Times. His wife was a native of Brooklyn, X. Y., her maiden name being Clark. He first met her In New York city, where she was engaged in giving music lessons, and she had some money. Her father and mother are both dead, and he had never seen .any of her family, although he believed she had a sister somewhere. They were mar ried in Jersey City, N. J., and had always lived together. They left Wyoming last September, and, with the exception of a few days at the Imperial hotel, occupied apartments in the house of Dr. Prehn, on SKth street. Shortly after reaching Port land, he was employed as business man ager of the Sun. and, losing that position, was engaged for a while as a solicitor on The Oregonlan during the holiday season. After this he and Richard Xorris were interested in the illusion show known as I'haroah's Daughter." exhibited first at the exposition and now on view on Wash ington street. Ellsworth, when called upon yesterday at the city jail by an Oregonian repre sentative, did not want to talk. His at torney, Mr. Stoddard, had advised him not to discuss his trouble, but after a time he drifted into a general conversa tion. ' My wife," he said, "suffered from a chronic disease. It was a headache, and The physicians found it impossible to cure her. Six weeks ago. Dr. Panton treated her for a sick stomach, on account of pregnancy. Dr. Cardwell attended her -when she tiled, and I tohl him that Dr. Panton had been prescribing for her. I did not tell him that Dr. Panton gave me the medicine I gave her the morning of her death. I dkl give her a powder, but it was only some cornstarch. Dr. Cardwell auked my wife what medicine tho had been taking, and she told hlra she had not taken anything." ls it not a fact that you yourself gave j oit wife the poteon. mixing it with some cornstarch? The physicians have found btiychnlne In her stomach. Knowing that ou had given her poison, did you not afterward administer an emetic ty your wife, before Dr. Cardwell came, hoping St would make her eject the poison?" "No! no! I am a innocent as you are. She said that day. 'What would you think If ycu should come home and rind me dead?" She told Mrs. Prehn, in my pres ence, that sometime ahe would take her life when suffering from these headaches. AS e had no idea that she would do it. If strychnine has been found in her stomach 1 cannot account for it. unless f.he took it to carry out the threats she had made." Ellsworth has told several contradlctory stone. Hentut lwtve realised that sus picion was directed toward him, even before hie wife died. As she lay dying on the bed. Dr. Cardwell closely interro gated Kllsworth about the powder with a bitter taste that the woman said he had given her. He said it came from Dr. Ponton, and there was only one. There were two; you said there were tw c." exclaimed the dying woman. "Show the doctor the other one." Kltoworth maintained that there was only oue powder, in spite of the asser tions of the dytag woman, and, afterward ailing the doctor owe sMe. told him that what he really gave his wife was some cornstarch. One pusplotowfi circumstance against Ellsworth te the evident hasty prepara Hori 1ic-wr making to leave yesterday. He htut all hte things packed ready for 'pmovlil from Mb rooms. What provis ions he had he gave to a Mrs. Eastman. woman who he said lived across the r tre t. and bad done some work for him. He told her she could have what she wanted of them. Mrs. Ellsworth had an account at the Commercial National bank, and at the time of her death there was a credit of ?13 remaining in her favor. Ellsworth went to the bank yesterday and tried to draw this balance, but it was refused him for sufficient reasons. From the time he was brought before the coroner's jury, he appeared greatly wor ried, and was anxious to ascertain what the result of the chemical analysis of the stomach was. Although not admitting it, he showed himself fearful of the re sult, and, had he not been taken in cus tody promptly by the detectives, it Is believed he would have sought to leave the city. He is reputed to have some means, but this could not be verified yes terday. The examination of Ellsworth may pos sibly take place in the municipal court to day. He does not know whether he will waive examination and let the case go directly to the grand jury, or allow a hearing to be had in the lower court. In this he says he will be guiuea entlrely by the advice of his attorney. THEY WANT THEIR WHEAT THETWANTTO INVEST MOXEYED 3IEX OF ST. LOUIS SOW IS THIS CITY. After a. "Visit to the Sound, They AVanted to See Portland A Dis tinguished Party. The Lntet Phn.se of the Silverton "Warehouse Sensation. J. W. Cochran, of Portland,-owner, and J. S. Cochran, manager, of the Silverton mill, have not heard the last of the recent commotion raised by the alleged discovery that the supply of wheat on deposit in the mill was 50,000 bushels short. The figures have dwindled down from 50,000 to 17,000 bushels; but there are a great many peo ple about Silverton who would like to know -what has become of their wheat if it is gone, and if it hasn't taken wings they would be plased to have satisfactory assurance that it Is safe. J. W. Cochran is a Portland man, but his name is not in the city directory, and no one about the leading milling offices in this city seems to know just where he can be found. A statement from him would mako interesting reading, and might prove an entirely satisfactory explanation of the whole tiouble. The latest phase of the matter is a suit brought in the circuit court for Marion county, by Coolidge & McClain, John Porter and H. B. Remington, plaintiffs, vs. J. S. Cochran, J. W. Cochran, Harry S. Starrett, J. A. Jennings, Charles Hicks, Henry Allen, Nicholas Nickel, C. F. De Gulre, John B. Waldo, P. A, Davis, Jack Riches, Chris IvJsenhart, E. Wolfard, F. Mascher, William Anderson and George Anderson, defendants. A receiver, L. J. Adam, has been appointed to take charge of the warehouse. The complaint dis closes an interesting condition of alleged facts. The plaintiffs sue not only the Cochrans, but other depositors of the Sil verton mill, on the assumption that the remainder of the wheat on deposit is to be distributed by the Cochrans to a fa vored few. It sets forth that there are now on deposit In the warehouse only 13,000 bushels of wheat. McCIaln declares that they have placed on storage there 1S76 bushels of wheat, and John Porter 11.35S busels, and H. B. Remington 500 bushels. It is claimed that the various defendants, other than the Cochrans and Starrett, had stored various amounts not exactly known to plaintiffs. And the com plaint further declaies: "That these plaintiffs and the defendants who stored wheat in the said warehouse and the other persons whose names are unknow n to these plaintiffs, are the own ers in common of all the wheat now in the said warehouse; that the said J. S. and J. W. Cochran have wrongfully con verted to their own use and taken from said warehouse more than one-half of the wheat stored therein owned by these plaintiffs and defendants and said .un known depositors, to that the this time there is a shortage of about 17,000 bushels. "That on the 26th day of January, 1895, these plaintiffs demanded of J. S. and J. W. Cochran a return of their said wheat, which demand was refused, and on the Sth day of February, 1S93, these plaintiffs de manded of the said Cochrans and Harry S. Starrett a return of their said wheat and tendered the storage charges thereon, and otherwise on their part duly com plied with all of the terms of their ware house receipts, but a return thereof was refused. "That the said defendant, Harry S. Starrett, is now in actual charge of such warehouse, and of the wheat stored there in, and he wrongfully threatens to and will deliver to a portion of the owners thereof, other than these plaintiffs, the portion of the wheat stored by such per sons in the said warehouse, if not re strained by an order of this court; that the said J. S. Cochran and J. W. Cochran and Harry S. Starrett refuse to deliver said wheat now on storage in said ware house to the owners thereof pro rata, but will, unless testrained, wrongfully deliver the whole thereof to a favored few of such depositors, to the wrong and injury of these plaintiffs, and to other depositors." It is asked that a receiver be appointed: that the wheat be divided pro rata among the depositors, and that judgment for the balance be granted against the Coch rans. It appears that Silverton has been much excited over the wheat trouble, and ef forts were made to settle it before suit was brought. The discovery of the al leged condition of affairs was brought about when the milling company failed to buy wheat offered for sale, though a promise to buy had been made. Con ferences with Mr. J. S. Cochran followed. A meeting was held and J. S. Cochran gave out notices to several farmers, which read as follows: "Silverton, Or., Feb. 6, 1S93. "Dear Sir I take this method to notify you to draw-out what wheat you have in said warehouse or mill, if you so desire, by paying storage on same, or sell same to whoever you so desire. Yours trulv, "J. S. COCHRAN." This did not satisfy anyone, and the suit followed. NOW ON SPECIAL SALE ODELL KILLED HIMSELF. Such Is the Verdict of the Coroner's Jury. The Odell inquest ended rather suddenly last evening, and the jury returned a ver dict of suicide. The sudden change in opinion in regard to the responsibility of the young ranchman's death was due to the fact that microscopic Inspection showed plainly that there was dried blood on the knife found in Odell's pocket when he was picked up. This evidence, together with the testimony of City Phy sician Wheeler, seems to point conclusive ly to the fact that Odell took his own life. This opinion is strengthened by the fact that Odell. when found, although conscious, refused to tell how he received his injury, saying merely that he had fallen on a sharp stick. Detective Welch had a very good rea son, however, for sticking to his murder theory. A woman, whose name was men tioned more than once during the in quest, told him that she had dreamed that Odell was murdered, and that she had witnessed the deed. She even went so far as to givo the names of the mur derers and tall how they had accom plished their purpose by "doping" the unsuspecting man, throwing him in a hack, and, after driving him out to a lonely spot, stabbing him in the neck and leaving him for dead. The detective at first thought that there might be some truth In the woman's dream, and so made a thorough investigation. He is now con vinced that fehe imagined the whole thing. for all the evidence obtainable seems to point to the theory of suicide. Vnlots bOine one appears to claim Odell's remains, they will probably be interred at the county's expense. Separated From Her Chlnnrunn. Miss Grace French, a Sunday school teacher and social favorite in Brooklyn, who married a Chinese laundryman two years ago, against the wishes of her parents, has returned to the latter, and her husband. Mr. Lee, advertises that he will not be responsible for her debts, etc A party of 12 St. Louis capitalists ar rived in this city last evening from Seat tle. In charge of Mr. William Gray, as sistant general freight agsnt of the Bur lington system. The party includes the following gentlemen: Colonel Henry Fladd. Julius S. Walsh, Charles Clark, George 31. Paschall, Donald Bradford, Henry Semple Ames and Edgar Ames, Major D. H. Bradford, S. E. Hoffman, Thomas Dunn, Carl Schraubstaetter and Judge W. F. Doyle. They were met at the Union depot by Mr. Shelden, the resi dent passenger agent, and taken to the Portland hotel, where they will be quar tered during their stay in the city. The party will remain in this city only until this evening, as the members are anxious to reach home by Monday next. They will return by way of the Oregon Railway & Navigation to Billings, SIonL, and thence to St. Louis over the Burlington. Every member of the party is or has been prominently connected with the busi ness interests of St. Louis, and all are seeking for the investment of capital. Their visit to Seattle was at the invi tation of the most prominent men of the state, and was for the purpose of looking over the plans for the Seattle ship canal, with a view to supplying the necessary capital to carry it through. They arrived in Seattle last Thursday, and, according to their own accounts, were royally en tertained by the citizens cf that city. Some of the leading members of the party expressed themselves ar very much pleased with what th'jy have seen. Muny of these gentlemen have never visited the coast before, and they expressed the greatest wonder and surprise at the won derful climate and magnificent resources of the great Pacific Northwest. The visit to Portland is merely an in cident of the trip. Several of the mem bers visited this city years ago, and were anxious to see what changes time had wrought in it, while the others were still more anxious to see the city which has so long been heralded as the coming me tropolis of the Pacific coast. The stay of the party is to be so short that the business men will scarcely have a chance to show their hospitality. How ever, the visitors will be tendered a luncheon at the Commercial Club, and afterward driven over the city. The per sonnel of the party is interesting. Colonel Fladd is president of the Missis sippi river commission. For 12 years he was president of the board of public im provements and resigned to accept the appointment to his present position under President Harrison. He Is a prominent member of the 3Iechanical Engineers So ciety and has a wide reputation. He was chief engineer in the construction of the Eads bridge at St. Louis, which is one of the finest structures of its kind anywhere, and has been Identified with numerous improvements. Mr. Walsh is a native of St. Louis and has been identified with a great many in stitutions in the city, at one time being president of the St. Louis Agricultural & Mechanical Association and president of the St. Louis street-car system. He sold out his interests in the street-car company to a Chicago capitalist and then interested himself in the organization of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company, of which he is now president. Mr. Clark is a director of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company and a large owner in the Granite Mountain mine and the Bi metallic mine, of Montana. He also has other large interests In the Middle West. Mr. Paschall Is a capitalist and is promi nent in several moneyed concerns. His father was editor of the St. Louis Repub lic from 1S40 until his death in 1SGS, and since that time the Paschalls have had an interest in the publication. Judge Boyle is one of the leading law yers of Missouri and at one time was a member of the circuit bench. He has been practicing law for 39 years and is a man of prominence. He is at the present time a member of the firm of Adams & Boyle. 3Ir. Dunn has long been a resident of St. Louis and is everywhere recognized as an enterprising business man. He has been a successful real estate operator. Major Goddard is a Southerner and was In the Confederate army. At the close of the war he moved from Georgia and took up his residence in St. Louis, where he en gaged in the mercantile business. He has now retired from active business pursuits and is one of the most popular men in the city. Mr. Hoffman went to St. Louis from the Middle West and engaged in banking. He has been the head of a number of banking concerns, and was until the first of the year president of the Laclede bank, a position which he was forced to resign on account of ill health. Mr. Schraubstaetter has also retired from active business. He was for a long time connected with the St. Louis type foundry as its president, and in 1S92 sold out to the American type foundry, a trust created about that time. He now devotes much of his time to traveling and has been all over this country and Europe. Henry Semple Ames and Edgar Ames are nephews of ex-Governor Semple, of Seattle. The former is manager of the Ames estate, a duty which, with the as sistance of his brother, occupies all of his time, as the estate is very extensive. Both are graduates of Yale .college, are young men of splendid appearance and stand high in business circles. The elder brother is a lawyer by profession. Edgar Ames is an enthusiastic yachtsman, and is commodore of the Illinois Yacht Club, of St. Louis. 3Ir. Bradford is a resident of Helena and he and his brother Oscar are cousins of ex-Governor Semple. They are both wealthy men, and are largely interested in varied enterprises in and about Helena. 3Ir. Grey is the assistant general freight agent of the Burlington & St. Louis, and has charge of the party. CHOICE NOVELTIES in BLACK and COLORED SILKS For waists, sleeves. Trimmings and gowns Received llonday Special at . 75e, 85e, AND $1.00 A YARD. $3.00 EACH. SEW TODAY ' ... Aline of DBESS GOODS Forming: a very Attractive display in A new window And on the DOMESTIC COUNTER f Special at 17e A YAKD. ONE OF OUR SPRING WEIGHT j'j JACKETS Offered as specials This week only at Is a wrap yon can wear From now Till next November. Sold regularly . They would run S7.50, S10.00 to S12.00 each. Are cheap as you Could make n cape; Aud the cape might not Be a succes3. OLDS & KING flew flity ombs and Side ?ombs nou; beiij$ sboun in our Jewelry Section. f full ease of fibre-Shanois, trpe successful neu; sleeie lining re ceived yesterday. An Immense Showing cf Novelties INCLUDING ti;Fi2dthe - ., prrog in yoUf pf oat rjaith out phe-sent Fog drop. Woodafd, Clai'ke St Co. 2OTrDT70 5 FIRST AND ALDER STREETS. CHEMISTS. OlUKilo THIRD AND STARK, STREETS. Jaquard Batiste ISTe'LYportelle IPli'sse OucLule Creporis ViOUreauX Beiges Gismonda Clotb.s And a Complete Lrinc oS Henriettas Series Crepon, Etc., Etc. iidulvo UttljuS CLOTH AND FUR HEW UNES J08TT RECEIVED LATEST WINTER STYLES J. B. This week will end our T?omnartSa1e. and in ordor to make a clemi sweep of all the remnants and o3ds and cikis sua on nana, we reductions iu all priccv. bavo mado material additional EXCHANGE YOUR POLICIES The Fireman's Fnml and the Xorth vvest Fire fc Murine. The holders of policies in the Northwest Fire & Marine Insurance Company are flocking to the otlic of the Fireman's Fum! Insurance Company in the Sherlock block In lare numbers, to take advantage of the arrangsments made in their favor by the receiver of the former company. The desk of all the clerks are piled with policies, and Uiey are obliged to work day and night to keep up with the rush of bus iness. The arrangements made with the Fireman's r"und Company for the protection of the policy-holders of the Northwest Fire & Mcrine company have proved very satisfactory to them. Some slight misunderstanding has been caused by misleading statements published with the intention of conveying the idea, that similar arrangements had been made with other companies, but the favorable terms arranged by the receiver can only be made with the Fireman's Fuml company, which is not making any selections of the best risks, but is acting In good faith and giving all the policy-holders the ben efit of the favorable terms. No one has yet been found who was not satisfied with the arrangements when ex plained to him, and all have cheerfully substituted the policies of the Fireman's Fund company for those of the North west Fire & Marine. Additional clerks have been, employed to facilitate the trans action of business, and partie will suffer no delay n exchanging policies as all they have to do is to call and leave their policies and take a receipt for them and they are insured In the Fireman's Fund company from that time oa. TO STOP ROBBING MAILS The Postofllce Department Offer . Substantial Rewards. The postmaster-general gave notice in June last that the pcstotlice department would pay rewards to persons causing the arrest and conviction of parties robbing or attempting to rob the mails during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895. Applications for such rewards have been made to United States Attorney Mur phy, by W. R. Wells, of Douglas county, for the conviction of Miller and Dean, lately sentenced to the penitentiary by Judge Bellinger, and by Policemen Grif fin and Holsapple for the conviction of Carlson for robbing the postoffice at Bea verton. The rewards offered are as fol lows: First The sum of $1000 for the arrest and conviction of any person, in any United States court, on the charge of robbing the mails while being conveyed In any mall car attached to a railway train, if the robber shall wound the person having custody of the mail or put his life in jeopardy by the use of dangerous weapons! ' Second The surrPof $500 for the arerst and conviction .SCany person, in any United States coiftffSn the charge of rob bing the mailsbeing conveyed over any nost route, other Than a railway. Third The sum of $250 for the arrest and conviction of any person, in any United States court, on the charge of attempting to rob the malls being con veyed over any post route, by assaulting the person having custody thereof, shooting at him or his horse, or threatening him with dangerous weapons. Fourth For the arrest and conviction of any person, in any United States court, on the charge of breaking Into a post office and stealing therefrom, or of rob bing a postofilce, or" of larceny from a post oflice, the sum of $100 in each case where in the amount stolen is less than $100; the sum of $150 in each case wherein the amount stolen is more than $100 and less than $500; and the sum of $200 in each case wherein the amount stolen exceeds S300: nrovldcd that in all cases wherein a safe in a postoffice is forced open, or otherwise opened, and public money or other public property stolen therefrom, the sum of $200 will be paid regardless of the amount stolen. THE ASSESSOR TOO POOR His ?GOOO Salary Altogether to Small to Allow Him to Take Census. County Assessor R. S. Greenleaf went before the county commissioners a few days ago, and told them very plainly that, under the present law, he did not consider it necessary for him to pay the running expenses of his office out of his very meager salary of $5000 per year. It has been the custom in the past for county assessors to do this, but the commission ers have always seen fit to allow them a certain sum, whatever In the judgment of the board might be sufficient, for "extra services." Captain Greenleaf paid for his clerk hire In getting up the assessment rolls, but now that he question of census taking has come up, he is prepared to re bel, and says he will take just so much of the census as he can get individually, and no more. The law relating to the pay of county assessors was amended during the last session of the legislature so as to read that "in Multnomah county he shall receive $6000 per annum for his services as assessor of said county." This is inter preted to mean that the assessors indi vidual compensation shall be $16 66 2-3 per day. As there has never been any pro vision made for the expense of getting out the assessment rolls, the assessor has naturally taken it upon himself to foot the bills. Senate bill No. S3, which has already passed the upper house of the legislature, re-enacts the amendment of 1SS3, with a very slight change as to the pay of the county commissioner of Union county. .,,, It will require a considerable force of clerks several weeks, and pe.-haps months, to take the census of Multnomah county, and Captain Greenleaf says he cannot see where "he is to get off at" if he at tempts to foot the bill. The county com missioners are inclined to look upon census-taking as a rather unnecessary ex pense during these "hard times." They are willing that the assessor should take the census if he wants to. but cannot see why the damages should be paid out of the general fund. The matter is still unsettled, and no preparations have been made for census taking. o Pnssenprcrs tor San Francisco. The steamer Queen sailed for San Fran cisco last night with the following pas sengers: J. S. Howell, W. J. Culligan. Miss Mc Lemon, W". P. Adams and wife. Miss Adams. William Anglin. F. Fitzhugh, Mrs. Nerdley, Miss D. Buckmaster, Miss Campbell, Miss Dolan, Miss A. S. Jorgen son, George McClane, Mrs. S. Kohn. B. F. Goldman, E. A. Walker, Mrs. D. Mor ton, C. H. Douglas, Mrs. N. Bernstein and two children, T. Twonaey. T. Quinn. Mrs. S. Ross, J. V.. Smith, Mrs. J. O. Houcke, sister and child, J. H. Gove, A. W. Gove. J. B. Tanner, Mrs. B. NeeBer ding. Mrs. L. Huntington, Captain Hyde and wife, Mrs. J. Heller. E. T. Brandley, O. F. Kinney, C. W. Heath and 4S in the i steerage. TO GOVERN THE MILITIA ChiiiiKes in Gown n s IHII, Made in Iicsislative Committee. The bill for the more efficient organiza tion and discipline of the militia of the state of Oregon, proposed by Senator Gow an, and printed in The Oregonian two weeks since, has just been reported back to the senate with amendments. It is un derstood that the senate committee con sulted with the members of the house com mittee, and. that agreement was reached pas to the form in which the bill should be presented for the consideration of the leg islature. The changes made by the committee do not affect the policy or general character of the measure. The committee's work was mostly revisory. Among the features which are different from those already published may be mentioned the following: The rank of adjutant-general, whom it was proposed to make a brigadier-general, was changed to colonel, as at present. A provision is incorporated that all mili tary records shall be kept In the adjutant general's office at the state house. Mileage and per diem are provided for members of the military board attending quarterly meetings. Commanding officers of regiments arc authorized to assemble their officers for Instruction once each year, and mileage and per diem are allowed. Mileage and per diem are allowed in specting and mustering officers. Suits brought in the name of the state for collection of fines or dues must be brought by the district attorney. The bill is elaborate, and covers 24 pages of the regulation bill-page size. JVihihK & r KAN j bU E. C. GODDARD & CO. GOOD- F0OTMEHR Will save doctors' bills this kind of weather. Have you seen those men's flee calf welt shoes we are showing for $3 per pair ? Good bargains in ladies', misses' and children's shoes. 129 SIXTH STREET, - - OREGONIAN BUILDING REMOVAL ANNOUNCEMENT G. HE1TKEMPER, The Portland Jeweler Announces to his many friends and patrons that he will, in a few days, rcmovo his magnificent stock of goods to 249 Morrison street, which is three doors east of his present store. His new store is being fitted up in very neat style, and he will be in much better shape to please his old customers and can take care of his ex pectant new ones. Until he moves, he offers his entire stock at the greatest sacrifice prices to save the moving of them. He invites you to call and inspect his goods and to price them. EiBiyfliini at a large Sacrifice. 6. HEITKEMPER, THE PORTLAND JEWELER His present location, Third and Morrison street, will bo occupied by the North ern Pacific ticket office. MISERY. The greatest amount of misery which besets the human race is very largely composed of events and happenings which never take place, and three-fourths of the poverty suffered in America is by people who never live to experience it. The im agination plays an important part in such matters, and its excesses go to the ex treme of despondency in dull times, as 4 much as it goes the other way in good times. The bucolic victim of an indiges tible breakfast sees in the future only trouble, care, poverty and misery. But the bright sunshine, the music of birds, the scent of wild flowers and the beauties of nature when clad in her springtime attire sets his blood and liver in motion, and his despondency is changed to mirth and gladness. Then he goes to the other extreme. How very few can keep their proper poise can act upon their judg ment rather than upon their imagination, and who can sit down calmly and delib erately weigh the future in the scales of common sense, measured by the weight of past experience alcne, and arrive at a conclusion satisfactory even to them selves. At best, they will miss it just in proportion as they are influenced by in cidental surroundings cheering them up or carrying them down. 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