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.
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