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THE MORNING OIU2GONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1908. TOMMY BURNS IS BETTING FAVORITE London Offers Odds of Six to Four Against Jack Palmer. LOOK FOR SHORT FIGHT .American Has Suffered From Cold and 8pt'aim-d Tendon, but Is Confident of Easy Victory Over Englishman. , LONDON". Feb. 9 Tommy Burns, the Ameriran lipuvy weight pugilist, who will meet Jack Palmer, of XewcaMle, tomor row for the heavyweight championship, lias been forced to fortso a part of his usual training during tho past week on Hccount of a severe cold and a strained tendon In the rlsht foot, but he Is con tinent of his ability to make short work of Ills opponent. Offer on Six Rounds. The American is still a strong favorite In the betting. Kven the North country men, who are noted for the way In which they will bark an Bnulishman against a foreign tighter, are asking long odds be fore laying their money. They have' of fered, however, to place $3000 at 2 to 1, that Palmer will stay six rounds. Burns backers have not taken this bet, but Burns, nevertheless, believes that the light will not last longer than that. Hums said today that he intended to make the right as 6hort as possible, as ho has an engagement to gie a number of exhibitions next week and must get into phape again for the right In Dublin on March 17, for which Richard Croker, the former Tammany leader and one of the backers of Jem Rowe, the Irish cham pion, whom Burns will meet, is return ing from Kgypt. Palmer Excels Molr. Falmer Is considered a somewhat better fighter than Gunner Moir, whom Burns put away in ten rounds, hut has a repu tation for hitting low, it being on an al leged foul blow that Moir was given the decision over him when last they met. The betting at the club is ti to 4 in favor of Burns. Robert Watson, a sporting writer, whom Burns wanted as referee in his light with Molr, will act in that ca pacity in the tight tomorrow. Burns has been offered J10.000 to go to Paris in April to meet a French boxer. Chit-Chat of Sporting World BY W1I,L G. MAC RAB. p T LAST we have learned why J Brooklyn has always had a rocky baseball team. A sporting scribe eays: "Brooklyn is the cradle of basehall." "A mustard bath." says a physician, "puts new life into one." Kvldently, Sliarkey and Bob Fltzslmmons, before they declare they are about to enter the ring again, should -take a mustard bath. The woman down In St. Louis, who offered to give her husband to the Lonely Club to experiment with, must be married to a ballplayer or a fighter. Jack ("Twin") Sullivan has been matched to fight Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman. They will hook up for 10 rounds at Log Angeles on the night of February 11. Manager McCredio says he will not keep a man on his team who has a weakness for looking into polished mir rors while his foot rests on the brass railing. A sort of temperance league, huh? What became of the $10,000 purses that the Country Club said it was go ing fo give? The race management ha also overlooked the matter of de-. cent purses for the baby races. Noth ing discourages breeders more than cheap stakes for 2-year-olds. If the worst should happen. Battling; Nelson can sell his lighting face to some patent-medicine concern. AUBURN SCHOOL BURNED "Waterworks System Uivcn Chance to Pay for Itself. AUBURN. Wash., Feb. 9. (Special.) Fire tonight gutted the interior of the new public school building completed two years ago. entailing a loss estimated at jouOU. But for the prompt action of the Volunteer Fire Department and the com pletion of the new water-works system here, the building would have been entire ly destroyed. Auhurn has a water-works system com pleted only six weeks ago at a cost of $15,000. The system paid for itself to night as the. schoolhoue cost $Ly,000 and carries $13,000 insurance. MAUKIES WIFE IX SECRET Seattle Man, After Divorce From First Wife, Takes Another (Quietly. SKATTLH. Wash.. Feb. 9. (Special.) Horace J. Dunbar, formerly of this city, and Miss Mathilda Pfeiffer of Cincinnati, Ohio, were secretly married in Louis ville, Ky., February 4, according to in formation received in this city yester day. Mr. Dunbar for five years was man ager of the Rainier Grand Hotel. Several weeks before the secret marriage Mr. Dunhar was divorced from his former wife, h decree beiii!; granted in the courts or King county. He then sought out Miss Pfeiffer and they went to Louisville, where they were secretly married. BREAKS LEG IN FLIGHT E. L. Palmer Chased Out of Win dow by Drunken Kival. As a result of a quarrel over a wom an, K. L. Palmer, a real estate dealer of Salmon. Or., who is also known at times as Lou Irwin, is at St. Vincent's Hospital with a broken leg. and K. A. Kessler, a barber, and Mrs. jimma Kbeling. the latter being the woman In the case, are facing trial for dis charging firearms within the city Hin-" Its and disorderly conduct, respec tively. The three participants in the quarrel reside at the Flkton Hotel, on North Sixth street. Kessler, It seems, became smitten with the charms of Mrs. Kbe ling, to whom Palmer was also de voted. Kessler, who occupied a room on tho same floor as does Mrs. Ebellng. called at her room and found Palmer tueie in her company. He immediately became angry, and with a profane remark, drew a revolver and flourished it wild ly. Palmer promptly dashed to an open window, through which he leaped to the sidewalk. The fall broke his leg. Kessler, who was drunk, was evidently displeased that his rival should escape so easily, and rushing to the window, lirod a shot at the prostrate man on the sidewalk below. Fortunately for Palmer, the shot went wild, and when-i Kessler turned to look for tho woman she had fled screaming to the street. Sergeant of Police Johnson and Pa trolmen BewTey, Tennant, Edgerton and Hunter were sent to the scene by Captain Bailey. The police sent Palmer to the hospital In the patrol wagon, and took Kessler and Mrs. libeling I jail. Kessler was locked up, but the woman gave bail and was allowed to go. Palmer is said to have figured in the quarrel between Mrs. Ebeling and her husband which led to their Reparation a few months ago. Kessler is said to have been engaged to be nrarried, but after quarreling with his sweetheart, turned his attention to Mrs. Ebeling. At the Theaters What the Ptcm Affenta Say- DE WOLFE HOPPER TONIGHT Comedian Will Present Comic Opera "Happylund' at Hellig. The attraction at tho Heill Theater, Fourteenth and Washington streets, to night, continuing tomorrow and Wednesday nights, with a special price matinee Wednes day afternoon, will be the distinguished comedian, De Wolf Hopper. This popular and well-known fun-producer will be sup ported by Marguerite Clark and an excel lent company of 50 people in Keginald De Knven's latest comic opera success, "Happy land." Mr. Hopper's song hits are: "What Did They Do?" "Tho Black Sheep." "Mimette. My Human Mermaid" and "A Sickening Sadness Sits" on Me," the latter a sort of companion ballad to Wang's "An Klephant on Hia Hands." The tall comedian has scored heavily with ' each of these vocal numbers and has to regularly beg for the suppression of repated encores. Ada Deaves, William Wolff, Joseph Phil lips and tho handsomest chorus girls are prominent features of the tall comedian's company. Seats are now selling at the thea ter for the entire engagement. "THE KERRY GOW," MARQUAM Joseph Murphy's Famous Play Will Run Through Week. One of the most interesting of all plays Is "The Kerry Gow." In fact it has the most successful record, both artistically and finan cially, of any play yet produced. This comedy made Joseph Murphy both famous and rich, and Bernard Daly, the present star of the clever company now appearing in the play, making good. The singing voice of the star is of a high quality in tenor range and it is used effectively in all the pretty Irish bal lads, of which there is a numerous sprinkling throughout the entire four acts, and it Is a creditable performance, pleasing to both old and young. "The Kerry Gow" will be the at traction tonight and remainder of week with special priced matinee Saturday. 'CHARLEY'S AUNT" AT BAKER Will Probably Break All Records This Week. There is something in the air around Baker Theater that indicates that "Char ley's Aunt". Is going to smash all records for tho week. Signs sometimes fall, but Manager Baker has offered big odds on the result, and two capacity audiences yes terday laughed until the rafters shook Howard Russell is again appearing in the famous role of the bogus Aunt, after four years, and Mina Gleason and William Dills are two more of the original cast who are still playing their former parts. "Chinatown Charley" at Star. latest of the comedy dramas In the East Is "Chinatown Charley," which the French stock company presented for the first time yesterday at the Star Theater. It has some of the most thrilling situations ever found in a play. "Chinatown Charley" is a New York play. Local color is introduced and tho scenes In Chinatown are realistic. "As Told in the Hills." One of the most sensible and at the same time most beautiful and interesting melo dramas ever seen at the Empire is "As Told in the Hills." which opened yesterday, and will continue all week. The heroine Is a young Indian girl who is reared by white people. It Is a most interesting and fascinating tale of the far Southwest. SEAT SALE TOMORROAV. Grace George, in "Divorcons," Com ing to HeUig Theater. Tomorrow morning, at 10 o'clock, at the Hellig Theater, the advance seat sale will open for the charming actress. Miss Grace George. This delightfully clever woman will present Sardou's comedy, "Divorcons." at tho Heilig for three nights, beginning next Thursday evening, February with a spe cial price matinee Saturday afternoon. New Yorkers liked the piece so well that the two weeks lengthened into eight, and the play would probably have remained all through the Summer except that arrange ments had previously been made for Miss George's 1-ondon appearance. English audiences also took most kindly to the revival of tho famous French com edy and Miss George achieved as well a personal triumph far above that ordinarily accorded theatrical stars. AT THE VAUDEVILLE THEATERS Trick Cockatoos at Pantages. Bartholdis and the unparalleled avalry of r.."i cycling trick cockatoos are the remark able feature tff the new bill at Pantages opening today. Several of the brids ride miniature bicycles on a wire from the tiiillery to the stage. Donat Bendinl. the French comedian, with his pets, "Jim and Jens"; Allen. Delmaine & Allen, in "A Tin Wedding." put on two other big acts; Poik and Marten, eccentric comedians; Thomas and Paine, colored singers and dancers; Fred Bauer, the tenor and the motion picture, complete the show. Grand's New Features. From Alblni. the magician, to the mov ing pictures, there is not a specialty on the new bill which the Grand will intro duce this afternoon that is not giKd. Al bini is one of the foremost magicians in the world and has no superior in illusions. Keller's Virginia Belles are the special add ed attraction. They are seven beautiful girls In a singing and dancing specialty. Paul Stephens, equilibrist ; Rinaldo. violin virtuoso; the Melnotte-I-anole Duo. acrobats and wire artists; James McUuff. mimic; Bessie Allen, comedienne, are on the list. Grease paints and professionals' supplies at Woodard. Clarke & Co. Shoots His Brother Dead. Bl'TTK. Mont., Feb. 9. A special to tho Miner from Lcwistown. says John Walsh, aced 14. accidentally .shot his 12-year-old brother while playhu? sol dier on a ranch 20 miles from town. The younger boy died instantly. The two were alone when the accident occurred. "The Lawyer and the Lady." Tonight will see the first production on nny stage ofFranklln Fyle's newest play, "The Lawyer and the Lady." which promises to be a great National success. The Allen V.mpany will give it a line ierformancM. See the rainstorm scene and hear the iiiiartftt. PASTOR PIES II OF HENEY Dr. Clarence True. Wilson Gives His Impressions of Hall Trial. SAYS THE VERDICT IS JUST i Prosecutor Is Characterized as a Tremendous Power for Good and a 31 a n W ho Does Not Overestimate If Is Proofs. Impressions of the Hall Tria 1" were given last night to a large audience at the Centenary Methodist Church by the pastor. Dr. Clarence True Wilson. He characterized Heney as a tremendous power for good, and one who never tried to convict a man until he was morally sure of his guilt and that he had evi dence to convict him. The sermon In part follows: I have never been a kodak flend, but had a friend who used the camera extensively, and who once showed me a composite pic ture. As I understood It, seven men had sat In exactly the same position by turns; and had their faces photographed one upon another. The result was the composite pic ture of the average dimensions. For two weeks past I have been sitting in the crowded courtroom photographing a com posite picture of the moral rottenness, po litical degeneracy, and conscienceless chi canery of the Oregon politicians of a decade ago, the most of whom have gone out of politiral life, and the remainder of whom are destined to go if decency Is strong enough to give them the necessary push. I have been wondering what text to take on the moral lessons of the Hall trial. I have thought of "Be sure your sins will find you out. There Is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death. He that slnneth against me wrongeth his own soul. Ha that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness, for sin is lawless ness. All unrighteousness is sin. He that doeth wrong shall receive again the wrong that he hath done, and there Is no respect of persons." But perhaps no text could be so appropriate as Romans x:13, which Prosecutor Heney read in full to the jury in reply to certain Scriptural references made by Judge Webster for the defendant. These are the ten verses upon which Black stone based his four volumes of commen tary on the law of England. Short-lived Crookedness. The first impression that one received as a result of the Hall trial was the short lived power of crookedness. No man can build his political . hopes on the rotten foundation of iniquity without sooner or later suffering a collapse. One could not help but see that no matter how many join in political conspiracy the being found out and suffering the consequences is a lonely process. Who of all the political associates of John H. Hall sat with him, sympathized with him, or acknowledged their friendship by even being present at his trial? A group of men who had done right together would stand with each other to the death, but a group of men who conspire to do wrong are held by a rope of sand. The loneliness of sin's consequences Impressed me. It has been said that the wicked flee when no man pursucth, but I have noticed they make better time when Heney is after them. That trial presented a fine scene for char acter study. The Christian minister must be a character reader, for his task Is to study people and apply the remedy that hu man nature needs. I have never seen a man on the bench who impressed me with the higher sense of what a judge ought to be as did Judge Hunt. Kind, considerate, highly intellectual, impartial, leaning toward mercy, careful to weigh everything before announcing a derision, I could not help but think all through the trial that he would grace the supreme bench of the Nation. Heney a Powerful Man. I was anxious to see the sower of the man who has turned two states upside down Francis J. Heney. I wanted to analyze the secret of his power before jurlee, his in fluence with the court and his gift of sway ing, the public mind. One must recognizo the power of his strong personality, physical, mental and moral. But above this is the sublimity of a great conviction that things are corrupt, and that he Is .the concentrated protest of a Christian nation, against wrong doing, and that the fate of decency depends largely upon his words. Then, he never prosecutes a case of which he is not morally certain. He has a logical mind and masses his evidence. He is bold beyond any man I ever saw at the bar. As I went away from the trial I was im pressed with the strength and sublimity of old-fashioned righteousness, the kind our fathers and mothers taught us. the stripe that is taught in the New Testament, the brand that is marked by the Ten Command ments. And while honesty must have a greater support than policy, yet honesty sup ported by moral character is the best policy everywhere, for it cannot be put to shame, it can stand the investigation of the United States Court, of the scrutiny of the judg ment thrones. Hall But a Type. John H. Hall is but a type of the class to which he belonged who did politics for self and for party. What the Na-tion is looking for is men who stand in politics for principle and are willing to go up or down with their consciences. There are still more John Halls and John Mitchells that the citizen must eliminate from the state before we have washed out the stains of pollution that have made Oregon politics a stench in the nostrils of all decent men. We must stop the interference of politicians with the processes of our. courts of justice. What right had Senator Fulton to suggest to a Vnited States District Attorney who was to be dismissed and who tried ? We must put character at a premium in the potltics of Oregon and relegate every dirty politician to the rear. Give us men who will do right whatever others think, and mothers will not be ashamed to point their boys to our pub lic men as models for their emulation. Young men, If you have ambitions that are not to disappoint yourselves and your friends, keep your records clean. No man can be other than a moral coward with a stained record. If you are going into the business of building a character take Jesus Christ Into partnership with you. ARREST FOLLOWS FIGHT Drunken Pole Said to Be Wanted in Poland for Murder. John Peterson, a Pole, living at 654 Guild avenue, became the father of a baby prirl yesterday afternoon, and forthwith commenced to celebrate the occurrence by consuming- a large quan tity of whisky, and in this task he was joined by Mike Kakhela. The latter Is said to be Peterson's brother and to have assumed the name of Kakhela as an alias, because of his being wanted in Poland for murder. During the course of their celebration they quar reled and words led to blows. Neigh bors hearing the disturbance, sum moned Patrolman Ben Peterson, who promptly placed both men under ar rest, but not until they had rolled him around in the muddy street and forced him to call upon 'bystanders for as sistance. City Physician Ziegler visited the home of the Petersons and the woman Informed him that Kakhela was a broth-.-r of her husband, and had as sumed that name because he had fled from Poland after having murdered two men. She said Kakhela had served a sentence of four years for the first murder and that he would have received a life sentence had ho faced trial for the second, which was committed after his release from prison. Kakhela was too much under the influence of liquor last night to While shoes are always a necessity, you have the feeling and the satisfac tion of getting real lux uries when you take ad vantage of our discount sales. Fine shoes at these prices is not a frequent happening. $4 Shoes now $2.85. CLOTH Hi GCO GusKuhnFrop' 166-168 Third St. answer questions intelligently, and Peterson cannot understand English. SUES TO CANCEL PATENTS AV. G. HOWELL'S SUIT RECALLS THAYER LAND FRAUDS. Charges That Claims in Tillamook County Were Secured Through Unlawful Acts. Through a suit to cancel five patents filed Saturday in the United States Cir cuit .Court, the ghost of the Tjllamook land grab is once more set walking. The suits were tiled by W. G. Howell, of Portland, and the five defendants are Paul Erickson, of Tillamook; George W. Sappington, Phoebe A. Snodgrass, Frank Hadley and Jlary E. Smith. Pat. ents to the five claims have been issued, but Howell, through his attorneys, Murpfty, Brodie &. Swett, charges that title to the properties In question were obtained fraudulently. The Tillamook grab was the first Oregon land-fraud to be exposed, and while Claude Thayer, Hadley and Mor ris Leach managed to sneak away from an indictment by a Federal grand jury in 1902, when John H. Hall was Dis trict Attorney, they were indicted when Francis J. Heney came, and the date of the trial Is set for April 13 next. All told, about $8 claims are involved in the Thayer deal, and severol con tests have grown out of it. Charles E. Hays, one of those Indicted with Thayer, was contesting the claims at the time he was indicted. Mr. Heney, after an,' investigation, had, the indict ment against Hays dismissed, saying in open court that Hays, instead of being mixed up in the conspiracy, was, in fact, a friend of the Government, and that it was through -the Information furnished by Hax that the exposure of the Thayer deal was made. Hays it was who furnished the ma terial for the complaint . that Father Schell carried back to Washington and laid before Secretary Hitchcock, there by starting an Investigation of the Ore gon land frauds. Howell contested the Thayer claims May 28, 1S99, before the Land Office in Oregon City, and it is as a result of this contest that the suit 'has been filed. Howell alleges that his protests were ignored by the Receiver and Reg ister, and that he has been denied his preference of right of entry. He as serts that at the time of the filing of his contest, Willie E. Martin, an agent of the Thayer crowd, appeared on the scene and bought the claims, paying the specified price of $2.50 an acre. Howell says that he was hot notified by either the Register or Receiver oS his preference right of entry, and that by failing to notify him, the lands in question went to Martin. Howell alleges that Martin pur chased the various tracts of land with money furnished by the Thayer crowd, and was in the conspiracy entered into by Thayer, Hadley and Leach. He bases his suit on an act pf Congress approved May 14, 1880, which makes it the duty of the Land Office officials to notify successful contestants. The complain ant says that through the failure of the land officials to notify him they allowed the lands in question to go to patent on April 16, 1907. When the contest was made, Howell paid all of the expenses and took all of the witnesses to Oregon . City to prove that the claims made by Martin were fraudulent. In spite of this show ing. Howell contends that Martin was allowed to purchase the lands, and that the Register and Receiver did so un lawfully. A SPLENDID RECORD. The sixty-second annual report of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com pany is published elsewhere this morn ing, and its interest Is as genuine for those who happen not to hold policies with the company as for those who do. The Connecticut Mutual is the only company in the country that has paid back more to its policyholders than they have paid to it. In Its career It has re ceived from its policyholders $249.356, 745. and has returned to them J253.641.3S2. It has given them 4. 284, 637 more than they have paid to it and still has over $65. 000,000 of assets, and stands with its handsome surplus among the great com panies of the country, the one especially conspicuous for its conservative man agement. ' 1 Huntington Has Returned. 'VERSAILLES, Feb. 9. Henry Hunting ton, son of the late Major Henry Alonzo Huntington, who last July shot and wounded his two brothers and two sisters at the bedside of his dying father, in this city, and who later was adjudged insane, has returned here. He states that he was allowed to leave the private asylum where he was confined. Sweet Marie Changes Owners. . PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9. Announce ment was made today that E. T. Stotesbury ha sold Sweet Marie, the famous trotter. 2:02, to William Brad ley of Red Bank, N. J., owner of Major Pelmar. 1:S9U. Northwest People in New York. CHICAGO. Feb. 9. (Special.) J. E. Counan registered at the Great North ern today from Portland. Mwm 'v ----- ; :"Si,:.;i., iffrflf IMm tlaliiiliilm lSSfm-;fP5 Factories WWl Aberdeen and ANNOUHHl fflKS Comply will soon authorise PHWiffltlflM IJmi fared stock, payi-if IWMgMfSfef 'EMv HtlWU quarterly; par value, ifilsfK Mm WM0 per share. 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