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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1906)
10 THE OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, FEBtfUAKY 7, 1906. THUS CAUSE IS MOMR-IK-Li Judge Cameron's Diagnosis-of Trouble in Household of Hughes. DEFENDANT IS FINED $20 Court; Thinks Husband Who Slapped Face or Wife Should Not Be Sent to the Whipping-Post.- JUDGE CAMEROVS OPINION. "Whsre a mother-in-law comes into a family, there Is certain to be trou ble," a!d Municipal Judge Cameron yesterday morning, during the trial of Samuel Hughes. Jr.. charged with as saulting and beating his wife "You see this defendant took the part of his mother In his difficulties." "He did not." epoke up Mrs. Hughes, the. mother-in-law In the case at point, who was on the witness stand. "I don't care to argue with you, madame," replied the Judge, and the mother-in-law subsided. After careful consideration of the case. Judge Cameron fined Hughes, Jr.. $20. It was the original intention of the young Mrs. Hughes to have her hus band lashed at the whipping post. Samuel Hughes, Jr.. was virtually saved from the whlpplng-post yesterday morning scause of the antipathy of Municipal fudge Cameron toward mothers-in-law. Charged with assaulting and beating his lfe, the defendant took the stand and ntered strong denials to her sensational sworn statements, except to admit that pc did "slap" her In the face last Sunday kternoon, during the progress of a quar- el that grew out of bitter feelings be tween his wife and his mother. A line of 120 was inflicted, and the threatened fiog- Hng averted bj Its payment. Hughes, Jr., and his wife will separate. was declared, because of their troubles. Ind by Judge Cameron, Mother-in-Law Hughes, who has been- living with them It 57 Sell wood street. Is responsible for le estrangement. The court said that here a mother-in-law comes Into a home rouble Is bound to follow, and expressed llmself as unwilling to hold the defendant the grand jury for flogging purposes. I Mrs. Huches, Jr., told a string of start ing tales regarding her husband, to whom le had been married little more than ro years. She said that he struck her I'veral times, discoloring one of her eyes; liat he often hit their child, aged nine jionths, "to tease" her; that he did not rovide well for her, and that he would t accompany her to- dances, as he tished to go with "the boys." Hughes, Jr., took the stand and entered denial to everything his wife swore to, ;cept to admit that he slapped her in tho ce once last Sunday. The mother-in-law. Iho was grilled by Judge Cameron, swore liat her son was not to blame for the toubles. Will Orell was fined $5 for using two Fienses to run four wagons. He was ar sted by Patrolman E. Burke, who is )W maKing a specialty of -this business. llnstead of fining or sending to jail S. Freiont ana j. juenmona, cook and stew d on the British ship Eskasona, Judge iimeron oraered it. Aiayer locked up until le captain of the vessel Is heard garding the case. Mayer was the corn- tuning witness, and charged the defend jits with assault and battery. It devel red that Mayer "rets on a tnnt" comi. Icasionally, and at such times usually cks up an ax ana lets arlve at the first bman being who appears on the deck. uus case, tne two men he had arrest met, and a Ditched battle fnllnwW! tn liich they used clubs to such advantage it. tney put aiayer to night. He after- ras went ashore and caused their ar- Dncc more J. W. f!nnrflrl Ik unrW -ir. st. charged with Dermlttinir disnrrirrlv tmen to frequent his saloon. Acting btective Kay is at the bottom of the puble. The case will be heard Thursday j ruing. I. Sullivan Vir1rt nn cticntMnn nr.- leased on his own recognizance. 'He s thought to be without any means of ppori. out ne aeciared he could bor- enougn money to live on, and as he spent 33 days in the Cltv Jail, it wa aught best to liberate him, ri was drunk," answered "VV. X. Mat- Ik, when asked by Deputy City Attor- .Fitzgcrala and Judge Cameron why fired two shots at Clayton Gardner, at lird and Pine streets late Monday af- rnoon. rWhat difference does it make to the in at whom you shot, whether you were link or sober?" asked Judge Cameron. pone, I guess, but J seldom get' link,"" said Matlock. hhc case was continued to "Thursday Irning. iiarrj' McXenomy. charged with high y robber', was arraigned and waived llmlnary hearing. He was held to tho md jury under 52000 bail. It is charged lit he held up and robbed V. V. Rand,' tne victim lias identified him as the Think Drug Trust a Myth. Regarding telegraphic dispatches from !w York, which set out that a newly med drug trust is about to invade Port- Id, local drug men who are named in dispatch assume to know nothing latever of the matter. If their loca ls, as is said, are desired, no offers .'e yet been received. Louis Blumauer tes Us confidence in a belief that the called drug trust has been confused by ew xorK correspondent with tho to- bco trust, which is known to have de- jd upon graining a foothold in Portland. believes the drug locations in question In fact, desired for cigars. "To my id it is ridiculous and foolish to think It a drug combine will buy up choice rtlons and enter business here," said "There is nothing nt all in the dis- Ich which warrants its having been itten." Will Build Big Warehouse, three-story brick warehouse is n to be erected by TV. 11. Harris on ! property at eighteenth and Upshur sets. The buildlnir will pnwr a Irter block. Unusually heavv tl il be used in its construction nnH ll be made with every convenienco warehouse purposes. Architect C. C. bbins is preparing the plans, and s win soon ne caiiea ror on the con iction work. A firm "nns alrendv rsed the structure and will occupy it soon as it is completed. GENERAL VTETV OF BRIDAL VEIL. CROSSES ITICATK WHERE THE TVKECK TOOK rLACE. 4 t ' INSULTS THE COURT Attorney Watts' Remarks to Judge Cameron. OVER THE GASSAGE CASE Strong Effort Made to Secure Re lease of the Woman Who Is Said to Have Buncoed Captain Drohn. After a' sensational scene In court. during which Deputy District Attorney Brand reversed his former attitude point blank and demanded the dismissal of the charges of larceny against Mrs. Laura Gas sage, and Attorney John F. Watts, for the defense, used insulting language toward Municipal Judge Cam eron, His Honor refused to accede ami held the pman to the grand Jury under $2f00 bonds. Until yesterday morning Ernest Brand, acting as a deputy for District Attorney Manning, declared he would prosecute the case with vigor unless costs of $250 were paid. His sudden change occasioned no little surprise. ana it was evident from Judge Cam eron's manner ..that he was indignant over the attempt to have the charge dismissed. It is a most unusual thins? for a court to take sucli action as Judge uameron tootc in this case, but it is said to be the .general belief that His Honor did right in refuslntr to lend his support to a scheme to drop the case. Watts "Sot Punished. It is retrardedi-an nrnhnhlo Vinf tim4 almost any other attorney in Portland but John F. Watts used such language as ne am towara tne court, a fine for contempt would have been inflicted or tne ouenuer sent to jau. hut Judge THOTOGRAPIL.OF Cameron paid no attention to Watts' words, excopt to deny a motion to dis miss and to hold the defendant to tho grand Jury. Captain H. W. Drohn, formerly in tho Government service In Alaska, is tno complaining witness, and charges that Mrs. Gassagc. alias Williams, is guilty of larceny by bailee by appropriating to her own use JUW, given to her In the form of a check on a Seattle bank, with which she was to purchase a hotel hero in Portland. He swore that It was the understanding that all of the money was to be returned by the woman if she failed to buy. Not one cont of it was returned, although she did not secure a hotcL Her arrest fol lowed, and Attorney H. G. King was engaged to act as private prosecutor. J'csterday morning he made a state ment to Judge Cameron, saying he wished to withdraw from the case: that ho and Deputy District Attorney Brand could not agree on the law or as to a settlement out of court, and he wished nothing more to do with the matter.- Attorney Brand's Position. Deputy District Attorney Brand then made a statement to the court, in which he explained that he had previously told Mr. King that unless more evidence than had been presented in court was forthcoming, he would have the case dismissed. "There is no use going before a Jury with the evidence now .given," said Mr. Brand. "You could not secure a convic tion, and It would put the state to un necessary expense." Attorney Watts then Jumped to his feet and began a harangue, but was ordered to keep his scat until called upon to speak. "The testimony of Captain Drohn, as given last week, was that he gave the .defendant that check for a certain pur pose." said Judge Cameron, replying to Mr. Brand. "In case the purpose failed, the money was to be returned. It was not returned, neither was the contract carried out." "But how could you prove that the defendant did not intend to fulfill the contract?" queried Mr. Brand. WTatts Gets Excited. . Judge Cameron then said he would listen to some law that Attorney Watts wiehed to read. Watts started to read, but the court called his attention to the fact that the quotations did not deal with the case at hand In any particu lar. This angered Watts, who slammed the book down 'on the table. "There is nothing to this case at all." THE WRECKED EVOLVE AS; IT. STOOD YESTERDAY OX THE pRIDAL. VEIL S1DLXC. shouted Watts, wildly flourishing his arms. "It rightly bolongs In the civil court., and Your Honor knows It. That's why District Attorney Manning wants It dismissed." "Well, It will not be dismissed on your argument," replied Judge Cam eron. "All right, then, bind her over." shrieked Watts, shaking his fist at Judge Cameron. "Just bind her over, is all you have to do." Is there any more evidence to be introduced?" asked Judge Cameron. "So. It Is no use' to Introduce any." replied Watts, "it will not do any good." Judge Cameron then held Mrs. Gassagc to the grand Jury. History of the Case. This case has attracted much atten tion, because of tho peculiar features connected with it. Captain Drohn is an aged man, said to be very kind of heart and most generous. He met Mrs. Gassagc, alias Williams. In a Seattle restaurant last November, and she Is said to have succeeded since In reliev ing him of about $4300. He took her on s. tour of California, and purchased handsome gowns and Jewelry for her, as well as otherwise lavishing his funds upon her. Immediately after the arrest of Mrs. Gassage. alias Williams, garnishment proceedings were resorted to and $700 attached that belonged to Captain Drohn. but which was in the keeping of the woman and which she' had locked in the safo of a local hotel. It now de velops that Attorney Watts seized upon that sum of money, and now holds it as his "fe" for defending the woman. Watts Is said by Captain Drohn to have approached him with a proposition to take a sum of money, leave the city and drop the prosecution, but friends of the old man prevented this and he Is still here, ready to make a flght to regain his small fortune. Editors Plead Jfot Guilty. A. E. Kern and Dr. Paul J. A. Scmler. publishers of Deutsche Zeltung. a Ger man weekly newspaper, pleaded not guilty in Judge Frazer's Court yesterday to a charge of attempting to extort from Meier & Frank Company in Decem ber lasu The specific accusation is that they agreed not to publish certain articles if given an advertising contract for the amount -mentioned. The trial of Dr. Scmler was set for February 16, and thaj of Mr. Kern February S. run. and was being brought down Monday night for Its regular biweekly cleaning. Intending to be taken back last night. Mr. Hayos lias had a strenuous time of it since he entered tho employ of the Pull man Company as conductor in 1901. He was in. a wreck ut Latouroll. a short distance from Bridal Veil,, two years ago, and in January. 19$. Ms car was held up by bandits In Sullivan's Gulch. The rob bers got about $100, Including some of Mr. Hayes money. Probably tho narowest escape was that of C. II. Pontor. porter on the Pullman demolished In the wreck. He was in the drcKslng-room. helping J. N. Frost, an old man, who was killed and was a partial paralytic. In dressing, when something Impelled him to go to the rear platform, an impulse which he luckily obeyed. He then saw the engine of No. 5 bearing down upon him. and Instantly Jumped off on the station sldo of the train, where the vestibule happened to be open. Had ho jumped on the other side, he would doubtless have been killed, as the wreck age piled up there. Two Tramps on Pilot.' Two tramps who wore stealing a ride on the pilot of No. I were frightened al most to dcatli when they saw themselves j JcSevum I). 7laje. Conductor of Wrecked Pullman GaUtra. being carried rapidly to destruction, but jumped from the engine and rolled across the depot platform before the crash came. A third tramp had ridden on tlye rear trucks of the wrecked Pullman from The Dalles to Cascade Locks, where he left the train because he was cold. The Adalia. the Pullman car ahead of the Galatea, was smashed to a slight ex- t AFTER TICK WRECK. 4 tent on the rear end. and her gas tanks were broken loose. Mirrors in cars of train No." 5 were broken and water tanks knocked about. The Galatea was com pletely wrecked, but engine 133 escaped with slight Injuries, owing to its great weight. Chances aro believed to be good for the recovery of all those severely injured. Mrs. Nellie Blley had her right arm crushed below the elbow, and her hand was amputated. She was resting easier Ust night than sho had during the day. Mrs. Sarah Kllncman's most serious in jury is to her nose, while her head is bruised. James K. RussclL Is recovering from no very serious wounds. No wounds were broken, but his head was bruised. William Swain, the engineer, is suffering from burned hands and face, the injury to the latter being more painful and ex tensive than bums on his hands. Others escaped with light injuries. E. Ii. Sinnott Killed. Edward Ll Sinnott one of the killed, has lived in Portland ail his life, being educated in tho Portland schools, and started in to learn the printer's trade when he was 15 years old. He has been with the American Type Founders Com pany for ten years. When killed he was on his way back from Walla Walla, where ho superintended the installation of a press for the Walla Walla Bulletin, a new afternoon paper just being started. Edward L. Buchanan was also well known in Portland, being one of the firm of Clark & Buchanan, accountants, with Offices In the Macleay building. He had rooms on Park street. He was a widower, leaving three children, the oldest of whom is a son of IS. Andrew Edwards, messenger for the B. & O. T. Company, has been on the Port-land-BonncvHIe run for several years. He roomed at Bonneville and was not Intimately known here, as he- kept his afTairs to himself: He had lost a leg in a former railroad wreck. He formerly worked for the Seattle Transfer Company. J. N. Frost, an aged passenger, who lived a few moments after the wreck oc curred, dying of a fractured skull, called pitcously for his son Henry, who was to join him in Scio. Frost a Walla Walla Man. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Feb. 6. (Spe cial.) John M. Frost, who was killed in the train wreck at Bridal Veil this morn ing, had been a resident of Walla Walla for the past 20 years, and was 65 years of age. He was on his way to join his brother. George F. Frost, at Scio. Or. Frost had been a charge at the Walla Walla County Poor Farm since last Sep tember. Prior to that time he worked as a common laborer at various jobs about the city. Before his committment to the Poor Farm Frost suffered a stroke of paralysis, which affected his brain. Frost's brother had lost all trace of him until the superintendent of the Poor Farm wrote and Informed him of the old man's condition. The brother immedi ately forwarded money with which to pay his fare to Scio. Mrs. Frank Ennls, of this city, daughter of Mrs. Riley, who was injured in tho wreck, left for Portland this evening. HIS WITNESS ORDINANCE Shepherd Has Measure to 3Iako Testimony Compulsory. Witnesses in the Richards case before the license committee of the City Council having refused to testify at the proceed ings to revoke the license of T. J. Rich ards, and there being no adequate pro vision for punishment for contempt therefor, he committee . was hampered in its investigations to such an extent that in order to obviate any future ob stacles of the sort. Councilman Shepherd has prepared the following ordinance, which will be introduced at the session of the Council tonight: An ordinance providing for the attendance of witnesses before the Council or a commit tee of the Council, and provldlnr a pun ishment fcr failure to obey aubpena. or refusal to testify. The City of Portland do ordain a follows: That any member of any committee of the Council may Issue subpenaa for a witness or witnesses to testify before the Council or any committee thereof, and such witness or wlt nemes shall be compelled to appear and tes tify before the Council or such committee when duly served with subpena. to so appear and testify. Any pereon having been duly subpenaed as a witness who fails to appear ana testify be fore the Council or a committee thereof, or any person called aa a witness who refuses to answer any question duly propounded under the direction of the Council or committee, hall be deemed guilty of a dlsdemeanor, and upon conviction In the Municipal Court shall be aubject to a fine of not less than $25 nor mere than $230, or by Imprisonment for not more than 00 days, or by both fine and im prisonment. A. 31. E. Zlon Church Entertainment A musical entertainment will be given at the Marquam Grand Theater Sunday at S o'clock, by the A. M. E. Zlon Church. Music will be furnished by the Weber Mandolin. Banjo and Guitar Club; Y. M. C A. Glee CJub; Fred P. Hohn. I. Mo3e3. J. W. Payne, soloists. Several selections will be gives by the choir, with Mrs. Mary Moore McAfee, accompanist. BUSINESS ITEMS. If Baby is CBttlssT Teeth Be sure and use that old and well-tried rem edy. Mrs. WlnsloWa Soothlns Syrup, for chil dren teethtnjr. It soothe3 the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and dlarrno. . A Doctors Medicine Ayers Cherry Pectoral is not a simple cough syrup. It is. a strong medi cine, a doctors medicine. It cures hard cases, severe and desperate cases. Especially good in bronchitis, pleurisy, consumption. Ask your own doctor all about it. Wc have no secrets We publish the formulas of all our medicines. XAi by ta J. C. Ayr Co., IwU. Uui. alio aCaaa&etarara of ATWt'S lAUt YIGOR 7ar tie hxir. ATSR'S FILLS-?er coastipxti&i. ATIK'l SAMA?UZXA-Tr tie UHi. ATX&'S AGUS CTOZ-7r attltri SEEKING F T JOBS What the State and the County Have to Offer. NO LACK OF REPUBLICANS Democrats Have Hopes for but Two or Three Political Places This Year, So Party Appli cants Arc Few. Many fat offices in the State of Ore gon at large and in Multnomah and other counties are to be filled in the June elections and the lean gentlemen who hunger for the pie arc gcttinsr ready for the cutting, and because the Democratic brethren are leading a for lorn hope, except as to two or thrc jobs, scarcely half a dozen hold their pic knives unsheathed, while the num ber of Republican braves in that atti tude is past finding out. Fattest of the Jobs. Fattest of all the plums is that of State Printer, which is repited to be worth to its possessor between $30,000 and $40,000 a year net. provided the emoluments thereof are not "cut up" between the leaders of the host, whose Influence goes a long distance In nom inations and elections. Next comes the office of State Treasurer, which is ac counted worth between $15,000 and $23. 000 a year net. After that Is the offlc? of Multnomah Sheriff, which yields to its possessor between $5000 and $10. 000. This thlrd-plnce berth used to be fourth before the Secretary of State's rake-off was cut clown to $1300 a year from a sum said to amount to $20,000. Chances for the Hungry. It will be seen that there arc to be many chances for the hungry almost a score In the state government and about as many In the government of Multnomah County, not including 73 seats which are to be filled In the Leg islature at $3 a day for the 40-day session, beginning next January. For the twoscorc jobs there arc likely to be as many as 150 candidates in the Republican primaries alone. The officers and their salaries fol low: State Governor, $5000: Secretary of State. $4500: State Treasurer. $4300; Supreme Judge. $4500; Attorney-General. $3600: State Printer, fees; Sup erintendent of Public Instruction. $3000: Labor Commissioner, $1800; four Circuit Judges, each $3000; two Circuit Judges, each $4000; one Prosecuting Attorney, $1S00. Multnomah County Sheriff, $4500; emoluments from feeding prisoners, about $4500; County Judge, $3000: County Cleric. $2500: County Auditor. $2000; County Treasurer. $2000; Cor oner, $1000: two Commissioners, each $3 a day; County Surveyor, fees; three Justices of Peace. $2000; three con stables, each $1500. Multnomah County will elect two of the Circuit Judges at $4000 each and the four others at $3000 each will be elected by tho following judicial dis tricts: Second, to succeed T. L. Harris; eighth, to succeed Samuel White; tenth, to succeed Robert Eakin, in case he should run for Supreme Judge; sev enth, to succeed W. R. Ellis. The tenth district will also elect a Prose cuting attorney to succeed Clarence Crawford. Will Celebrate Lincoln Day. Feasts in commemoration of Lincoln's birthday will be given in Salem and Port land next Monday night In the capital city by the Young Men's Republican Club. Hal D. Patton. president, and J. G. Gra ham, secretary, and in Portland by the Young Men's and the Republican Clubs. Charles E. Lockwood Is president of th flrst-named club In Portland, and F. E. Beach of the latter. Frank C. Baker, chairman of the State Central Committee of Oregon, has been invited to both feasts, and has accepted the invitation received first, namely that from Salem. "I regret that I cannot attend both ban quets at once." said Mr. Baker yesterday, and Inasmuch as I received the invitation from Salem first. I feel constrained to go to that city." Conference on Alaskan Trade. The Board of Trade ha3 invited the commercial organizations of Portland to appoint a committee of three to be present at a conference to be held in the parlors of the Commercial Club tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. The subject of the conference will be the Alaska steamship line. It is hoped by the officers and members of the Board of Trade that at the conference an un derstanding will be arrived at so a defi nite proposition can be submitted to the merchants and business men of Portland for the establishment of a line of steamers between Portland and Alaskan points. As has been published, the Board of Trade has options on three suitable steamers. It was decided to hold the conference at a special meet ing of the executive committee of the Board of Trade held yesterday afternoon.