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THE MORNING OHEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1904. SEEK AN EXPERT Bridge Investigators Need Assistance, DfFiGIAL INQUIRY BEGUN Grand Jury Also Takes Up Tanner-Creek Scandal, . WITNESS THOMAS IS MISSING Mass of Testimony Concerning Sewer Contract Is Taken Contractor Riner Hclds Conference With -City Engineer and Mayor.' KELT AVAXTED 3IAXK. WANTED EXPERT ON STEEL. BJtlDGES. Must know all about Cooper's specifications. No attache of City Engineer's department need apply. Apply bridge Investigation com- mlttee of Council. City Hall. XEW TODAY. TOR A LIMITED TIME THE GRAJfD JURY will continue Its Investigations of the Tanner Creek wer case, begun yesterday. LOST AST) FOUXD. LOST-OXE WALTER THOMAS, "WANTED as witness In sewer case. Height, 5 feet, S Inches; . weight. 185 pounds; red face, blue eyes; miner by occupation. Apply Grand Jury, Courthouse. Reward. A start on the investigation of the bridges "was made at 4 o'clock yesterday when the special Investigation commit tee of the Council held Its first session. Jt was an informal meeting and the fact quickly developed that little could be done until the services of some man who knew all about steel bridges could be ob tained. C E. Rumelin, the chairman, knows all worth knowing about lending money. Dr. "Whiting can hew out an appendix as well' as the best of 'em, and Matt Foeller is an authority on modern cigars. But steel bridges? From the City Auditor's office came a . copy of the specifications for the Balch's Gulch bridge, the contract for which was let to. J. C B. Lockwood on March 4, his bid being $28,384. Owing to the constant rush of business in the Auditor's office, the desired information about the other strutures in question has not yet been compiled. All such bridges are built ac cording to regulation specifications pre pared by one Cooper, who is a recognized authority on the subject. So an Inter preter of Cooper's specifications is badly needed by the committee. The committee authorized Chairman Rumelln to employ such a man. A num ber of experienced hrldgemen had been suggested to the committee, but almost invariably they admitted that they were better acquainted with -wooden bridges -than with "steel structures. But the cost of -securing the right man Is to be no hin drance. If he can't be found in Portland he will be imported from the East. Grand Jury Takes Up Sewer Case. Yesterday the grand jury began on the Tanner-Creek sewer case. All the pro ceedings are shrouded with the mystery becoming those of a grand jury, but it is known that a mass of testimony on con tracts and acceptances was taken. Ev erybody concerned with the case was very busy yesterday. City Engineer El liott and B, M. Rlner, the official builder of the Tanner-Creek sewer, were seen to gether in Mayor Williams' office during the day. The result of the conference is not known. Meanwhile those Interested In the sewer case are hunting for one of the most Important witnesses. Walter Thom as,' the night foreman on the sewer, who testified at a committee meeting that he had been paid $70 to make hidden, defects in the sewer has not been seen for sev eral days and he is badly wanted by both sides. The Rlners and their attorney. A. B. Mendenhall. -want him to show that influences were at work to injure the Rlners In every way. Thomas' testimony was not entirely credited by those present at the committee meeting, as he was dis appointingly indefinite at critical mo ments. But he is a very Important wit ness, nevertheless. Mayor Williams does not believe that much will come of the grand jury's In quiries. T do not -see how they can hold any MOUNTAIN SIDE IN WHICH S. B. ORMSBY REPORTED Photo by C, Aerne. Jr. "A log house 1(5x26" feet, woodshed talO, and e rmall outbuilding Three buildings were built In a substantial manner at first. Some land was cleared ot brush and sown In crass seed. The remains of a brush fence new In decoy. No alga of recent occupation f the Improvements. These were made, no doubt by the claimant, and occupied by him for a time. "The land Is growing tip In brush and the Improvements generally are going to iflecay. The Improvements when first made cost about $150 to $200. The value at the present time la but little, save that the -buildings could be repaired and made habitable for some time to come. Ills abandonment cf continuous residence seems to have been unavoidable." The above Is the report made to the Government by Forest Superintendent S. B. Onssby. in answer to the order to make a rpeclal investigation of the-catm of George A. Graham, held under suspicion by the Interior Department, in company with 11 other claims, now the foundation ot the care occupying the attention of the Federal Court. The, above picture represents the location upon which the house was said, to haw been built; in the middle of a cleared area of xveral acres seeded to grass. Since the opening of the trial,. S. "B. Ormshj. who was yesterday evely arraigned by Francis J. Hency, and declared to he equally guilty with Puter. McKlnleyt at., hast disappeared, an4 cannot now" be located by the prosecution. one guilty unless It is proved that some city official took a bribe." said lie yester day. "I do not know of a statute under which a man can be convicted lor taking money to neglect his work."- Woes of Property-Owners. "With complaint against the City Engi neer's Department being made officially by the Council, property-owners are bringing in all their woes to the City Hall. Several remonstrances are now on file for the Council's consideration. Property-owners on Alblna avenue remon strate against the assessment for the Improvement of that street. Last year a hard gravel Improvement was made on that portion of the street leading to the cast landing of the Alblna ferry. This year the. gravel foundation, which was an excellent pavement for all pur poses, was blown up with dynamite and the street cut down to the soft earth. A new grade -was thus established, "but con trary to the regular order for such pro-, ceedlngs. The remonstrance further states that no abutting property except that of the O. K. & N. Company was benefited by the new grade, for which all are assessed. UNDER WEATHER BUREAU. Wireless Telegraph Stations of Navy Department Are-Transferred. The transfer of all United States -wireless telegraph stations to the Navy De partment and the -work of ocean meteor ology to the Weather Bureau will begia today. Heretofore experimental and actual work has been done In -wireless telegraphy by three branches of the Government, the Navy, Array and Weather Bureau. A board was appointed recently to make recommendations for the benefit of this service, and It was decided and later or dered that all work along these lines shall be done hereafter under the super vision of the Navy Department. This de partment will take up the -work of coast wise communication, and furnish all in formation to the Weather Bureau. It was decided also to give the work of ocean meteorology to the Weather- Bu reau. The hydrographlc office has had this work In charge, but It was felt that better results could be obtained through the Weather Bureau. It will be the duty of the bureau now to take a transcript of the log of each vessel entering harbors, in so far as it covers the weather at sea. This will all be charted, and It Is expected that a great deal now unknown will be learned regarding the character and behavior of storms at sea. This will be of advantage to the Pacific Coast, since no warnings can be. given at present of ocean storms until they ap proach the shore. With a clew to the characteristics of such storms some bet ter forecast will be made in advance of their coming. TRIED TO LEAP INTO BEAR PIT John Dingmore Says Evil Spirits Prompted Him to, Rash Act. While violently insane, John Dingmore last night made a desperate effort to leap Into the bear pit in the City Park, but was restrained by three stalwart Dep uty Sheriffs, on duty there. It is believed that the man's life was saved, as the bears are very savage, when molested by strangers, and would probably have at tacked and killed him. A call to police headquarters caused Captain Moore to dispatch a patrol wagon. In charge of Policeman Isaacs and Lulls. When they reached the park Dingmore was lying on the ground, tied fast by ropes. His hands and feet were bound, but in his insane desire to get loose he was still striving to break his fetters, but was unable. Dingmore was removed to headquarters, where Dr. Samuel C. Slocura examined him and pronounced him to be undoubted ly insane. Today he will be taken before County Judge Webster for examination. Dingmore went to the City Park be cause, as he stated last night, he was told to-do so by an evil spirit. He said the spirit wanted to meet him there and en gage him to be one of the chief imps of purgatory, but that he wanted to get into the bear pit and escape the spirit. OFFICERS STUDY TACTICS. National Guardsmen Are Instructed in School of the Squad. The weekly officers' school, of the Third Regiment Infantry, O. N. G.. was held last night, the school of the squad being the topic The new regulations contain eo many revisions and changes that the officers feel the necessity of much study. Consequent ly these schools are well attended and a great deal of conscientious work Is gone through. Their resulting benefit Is already to be seen and this regiment Is still main taining the reputation made in the man euvers of last Summer. Kaiser to Cruise in Mediterranean. BERLIN, Nov. 29. Dispatches from Kiel aver that Emperor William will cruise In the Mediterranean in the Spring. The Hohenzollern has been refitted, and Is ordered to be ready for sea February 28. S. A. D. PUTER, ONE OF KNOWS THE FIREBUG Fred Westenfelder Keeps Name Secret WAS ADVISED TO KEEP QUIET Insurance Men Urged VHm to Protect Man Who Started Lodging-House Fire Arrest May Now Follow. Other arrests may be made In connec tion with the fires alleged to have been set in the building used ao a lodging house and owned by Fred Westenfelder, at 263 Fifth street, as he declares ho is in possession of the name of the person who set the . first fire. That occurred about one month ago. No action was taken by the officials at that time, be cause, after learning who did the deed, Mr. Westenfelder adjusted the matter and kept the secret. This he stated to a re porter last night. "But this last piece of work was too strong," said Mr. Westenfelder, "and I shall prosecute It hard- The other time my Insurance men advised me to keep quiet, and although I knew the name of the person who set the fire I did not say anything." A. B. Coon, Barney Miller and J. B. A CABIN WAS BUILT THE DEFENDANTS, AND OTHER FIGURES AT THE LAND-FRAUD TRIAL xVc uSTWb "TO Bachelder, charged with arson, are still confined in the City Jail, being unable to provide the required bonds. This morning the cases vlll come up for hearing before Municipal Judge Hogue. Deptuy District Attorney Haney will ap pear for the state and Attorneys Logan and Wolfe for the defense. It is reported that Co fin has hitherto borne a splendid reputation and that he Is wealthy, being the ownerbf very valu able land in Billings, Montana. His. wife and children, as well a his brothers and his sisters. " from Montana, will arrive early this morning to be present to ren der what service he may require. The state hopes to have a good case against all three defendants. Detectives Hartmon. Kerrigan and Snow have all evidence ready for presentation. Coon Is a Kaloon-keeper and Miller and Bachelder are hostlers. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S'LEFE. Miss Hassler Tells Children of Their Favorite Author. Children, as well as grown people, al ways like to know about the lives 'of their favorite authors, and the story of Louisa Alcotfs life, which Miss Hassler told yesterday in the children's reading room at the Library was Intensely Inter esting to them. They had heard before, many of them, that Jo. Beth, Meg, Amy and Laurie In "Little Women," were real, but they had not known of Miss Alcott'3 own brave determination in writ ing the stories to give "Marmee a com fortable time, even If she had to sell her hair," which meant more than one might think, as her hair, like Jo's was "her one beauty." For Lousla Alcott's father, the brilliant man and teacher, the friend of Emerson who said he was "a majestic soul, one with whom conversation was possible," was throughout his life peculiarly In capable In caring for his family finan cially. Louisa Inherited the fine spirit uality of her father's nature and the common sense of her mother's, and to both parents was always the most devot ed of daughters. Her first success In writing came from the sale of the "Hos pital Sketches," written through her own hard experience in an Army hospital in 1SS2. She always liked to write for boys and it was at the request of her publish ers that she wrote "Little Women," put ling into it much of the girlish experience of herself and her sisters. It was very successful, and when "Little Men" was under preparation It had an advance sale of 50.000 copies. She made a fortune of $100,000 with her books and was able to realize her dear ambition of making "Marmee's" life comfortable and delight ful. 2TET IS TIGHTER. (Continued from. First Page.) The witness said he was. "Shall I ask him to tell?" asked Mr. Heney, turning to the defense with a placid smile. i "I object to this." remarked 'Judge i Pipes, while Judge. O'Day sat down amid a burst of laughter from the. court. Judge O'Day eprang to his feet again, j I would ask the court to keep the spec- ; tators In order or have the room cleared," he raid. "This Is not:a mob." . Judge Bellinger cautioned the audience to keep order, and promised to clear the room If it were not done. t W. A. Holt was the last witness and the most important, perhaps, of the day. He Is the assistant cashier at -the Welle Fargo Bank, and was familiar with the handwriting of McXInley, Puter and Wat- son. He Identified the writing of Puter i in the homestead entries, and on the pa- pers found in the Chicago hotel when Mrs. j Watson was placed under arrest. ' More Signatures Identified. j He went farther than that and Identified . the signature of Smma Porter as in the I hand of Emma L. Watson, thus ehowing j that the latter had made the entries and i affidavits In the Emma Porter claim" . , At the :lose of court Judge Bellinger cautioned the jurors to allow no one to converse with them except in the presence of an officer of the court. He cautioned them that any violation of the rule would be a contempt of- court and punishable, and state that he had made the state ment In order to protect them from any possible trouble, am -well as to protect the caee at Issue. we twos v. WHISKY FOR BOYS Saloonkeepers Arrested , Youngsters1 Evidence, .on CHILD r DRUNK FOR HOURS Men's Resort Superintendent Obtains Strong Material for Case Against Three Proprietors in North Portland. Boys from 11 to 16 years of age have been obtaining liquor so readily In certain parts of the city that an active crusade has been started against the saloons at which they buy. Yesterday on Informa tion furnished by the boys themselves to A, C Rae, superintendent of the" boys department of the Men's Resort, three saloonkeepers were arrested and held on $100 bail for trial Saturday. That date HOMESTEAD CLAIMS Sec31: Sm32 The claims mw mtikr conteatkm In false and fr&aduUet afltSkvlU and forrrj us. Thomas WiikUtc, , Jotepls Wilson,. Zen Soai PorUr. Ger A. How. Thy are ... I izCOND STANDARD PARALLEL SOUTH . k -.ptJ was set because the witnesses arc so young that they are all In school. Warrants were issued yesterday upon the complaint of Deputy City Attorney Fitzgerald for Edward Byrne, owning a saloon at 115 North Tenth street: Felix Antlch. 441 Glisan, and John Keller, 460 Gllsan street. These men were arrested and released on ball to appear Saturday. The three saloons are In one limited district, the evidence against the pro prietors having been obtained by Mr. Rae from a few boys who happened to come under his own surveillance. It Is known that there are many other places where young boys can buy all the liquor they ,want, and those promoting the cru sade hope to cause the arrest of all the offenders. In Alblna there are two or three saloons where boy3 habitually buy liquor, and It Is believed that there are some In the South End. But no evidence against these has yet been obtained. At present the prosecution will be di rected against the three men arrested and who are considered the worst offend ers. Last Sunday one boy was found within a block or two of these places so drunk that he did not recover for hours. He was perfectly limp and helpless, and had apparently consumed considerable liquor. The evidence having been gathered from the boys who have been buying the liquor themselves, it Is feared that the saloonkeepers may seek them out and prevail on them not to appear as wit nesses, but they will find it of no use. Mr. Rae and Deputy City Attorney Fitz gerald have been trying for some time to lay hands on a few guilty saloonkeepers and bring the law upon them. May Lose Licenses, Their purpose is not to stop with a fine, but to prevail upon the City Council, if the men are found guilty, to revoke their itopnsM- The defense which the saloon keepers are expected to put up is that the j boys said they were sent by their par ents. "The trouble in securing convictions." said Deputy City Attorney Fitzgerald yesterday. "Is that often the parents are so depraved that they will stand with the saloonkeepers and say they sent the boys even when they did not. It Is hard to prove they are not telling the truth, and doubly hard to convict the saloon keepers under these circumstances." PLEDGES AID TO CRUSADE. Prohibition Alliance Against Liquor Selling to Minors. The. Multnomah Prohibition Alliance last evening adopted a resolution heartily favorlng the crusade against the sale of liquor to children. The alliance pledged Itself "to active Individual and organized support of all measures that shall be taken to arouse the public conscience and bring to justice all saloon-keepers who are io grossly viclatlng the public senti ment and the provisions of the license laws of the state..' Pastors of churches were asked in an other section of the resolution to further the crusade by speaking upon the subject next Sunday. The resolution was drawn up by Mrs, A. A. .Unruh and B. Lee Paget. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Unruh. 880 East Yamhill street. T. S. McDanlels presided. Remarks were made by L. D. Mahome, F. L. Pos3on and others. F. O. Miller told of the result of the recent Prohibition election and said that- where plans had. miscarried it had been through the ignorance or willful .neglect of county politicians rathej than neglect of Prohibitionists. THE WOMEN BLAME THE MEN Women Who Seek the Ballot Protest Against Being Blamed. PORTLAND. Nov. 29. (To the Editor.) The comprehensive report In your yesterday's Issue of Rev. Dr. Creaseys Interesting sermon of Sunday last on "The TTatural Rlzhts of Women" bar brought- to me, by person, roat and 'phone, eo many requests to-offer a pro test against one paragraph therein that I cheerfully comply. Dr. Cressey Is reported as saylrts: "We may- safely aiflrm that 'when a large majority of women of all classes earnestly de sire the privilege, there will -be little dispo sition and probably still less ability long to deny them. It rests for the most part with the women themselves." While the thanks of all thinking- women are due to Dr. Cressey, or any other voter who has the ear or eye of the public, for givlns prominence to the fact that women are making honorable progress toward liberty (progress made only as a result of the equal suffrage movement through the past 56 years which has Instigated it all) not one patriotic woman can help but- be sorry that men. even when friends Of their enfranchisement, so generally seek to cajole them with the gauzy sophistry that places the blame for their political classification with "Idiots, Insane persons, crim inals. Chinamen not native-born and Indians not taxed" upon "the women themselves." Since when was any class of men required to secure the demand of a "large majority" of all classes of men for the ballot before It was WHICH ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN OBTAINED THROUGH FRAUD sprit the Federal Court which are alleged by the Government to have bees secures by lfee use of are thase marked with the name fallowing: Frank H. Wolgamot. Xaude Witt, XeJJfe 'Back JC yftXmte, A winder R. Brows, Gecrg L alt in towusbl 11 aoaUu za 1 mmC. REV. J. F. WOODS W Pralsts PAW-PAW w"IuS,w th? R?blict0 know that I hava 2l5iun??tfs paw-Paw Tonic for the cure . muijjciwuu, Money irouola ana Ner vousness, and can truly say thatitisareraarkabls remedy. Of course, I do not court or desire public ity of this character, but I feel it my Christian duty to aid In protesting the neaiut ana happi- ness of ths human family." (Signed) "Rev. J. F. WOODS. "&J5 Main St., "Wheeling, W. Va." Mr. Wood is only one of many minis ters who have had reason to testify for Paw-Paw. Manvoa's Reme dies. A s e p a r at cere for each disease should be in. every family. They are safe, reliable, and will enable you to meet emergencies and mar save a pre- rinnc Hf. 0 MUNYDIft MW&W 0)0 TUT 83 EAT NATURAL ITJ REMEDT CAB Munyon's : Paw-Paw Laxative Pills win cu? Constipation, Biliousness, Jaundlca and all ailments arising from a torpid liver. Munyon's Witch Hazel Soap Is the purest AvoW"tlodn5U,mprtW aDyCOaiplesIQ- granted 7 And. why demand this of women? It Is well known to old Oregonlans that women In this state have petitioned for their ngnt to the elective franchise, through their own officers and representative leaders (the only avenue through which they can speak) In large majority and In greater numbers than the men that have ever yet voted against them at the polls. Susan B. Anthony, in summing up the gains made by women In the past half century, teays. In the Introduction to the fourth volume of the History of Woman Suffrage: "(But) wherever woman turns in this boasted republic, from ocean to. ocean, from lakes to gulf, seeklnsr the citizen's right of self-representation, she Is met by a dead wall of con stitutional prohibition. . . . The suffrage alone must be had through a. change of the constitution of the state, and this can" be ob tained only by consent of the majority of the voters. Therefore this most valuable of a'H rights the one which If. possessed by women at the beginning would have brought all the others without a struggle Is placed absolutely In the hands of men to be granted or with held at will from women." Among the women who requested me yes terday to write some sort of a protest, or statement. In accordance with the abovev facts, calling the attention of clergymen, lawyers and the public generally thereto, were one from Walla Walla, one from Forest Grove, one from La Fayette and mqre than a score in Portland. They do not seek to burden the columns of their family newspaper with a lot of Individual letters, hence this compliance by ABU AIL. SCOTT DUXIWAT. Honorary President O. S. E. S. A. INCOEPORATION IS OPPOSED. Motint Tabor Residents Fear Big Debt if Suburb Becomes a City. Strong oposition has already devel oped at Mount Tabor against the incor poration of that suburb, as proposed by the Mount Tabor Improvement Asso ciation Five remonstrances are being circulated against incorporation and they have been quite generally signed. I . S. N. Normandin. a well-known busi ness man of Mount Tabor, yesterday expressed .himself as opposed -to incor poration. . . "1 have talked with a. larger number of people at Mount Tabor,, sald Mr. Normandin, "and find they fear that-incorporation means a large bonded debtr and heavy taxation." Dr. O. P. Botkins says he is opposed both to Incorporation and annexation. "However, if the charter that Is being drawn up is submitted to a vote of the people," says Dr. Botkins, "I shall .sub mit to the result, be that what it may, but I doubt whether It win carry here at Mount Tabor." The charter committee Is working on the charter and "will have It ready by the next meeting of the Improvement Association. Considering Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. A subcommit tee of the House committee on appropri ations today began consideration of the executive, legislative and judicial appro-, prlatlon bill, with a. view to having it ready" to report to Congress soon after It convenes. . socUS Sec36 Pettis, Gore A. GraJMMt, Surry C - mm.. .hi 2 15