TVV. MORNING OREGONIANv MONDAY, MAT 25, 1908.
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J. E. BLUM KILLS -MRS.
DAISY HIGKEY
Then Shoots Himself in Lodg-ing-House
at Third and
Yamhill.
OUTCOME OF ILLICIT LOVE
Murderer Leaves Wife and Children
at Baker City, and Children
or His Victim Are Taken
by Aid Society.
Ontinud from First Page.
with her their two children, a boy of 18
and a girl of 16.
About one year ago, following a quar
rel with Blum, Mrs. Hickey left Portland
and went to live with her brother at
Troutdale. Blum remained in Portland
for a short time, during which he was
employed as a teamster by Marshall
Bros., cement contractors. While in their
employ, both at that time and on pre
vious occasions, he was known as a
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steady workman. Shortly after Mrs.
Hickey left him, Blum visited her at
Troutdale, and she returned with him to
Portland. From here the couple again
went to Beaverton, where they later sep
arated. Children Returned to Her.
Mrs. Hickey brought her children to
Portland and secured a position as a do
mestic At this time. Detective Hawley
and other officials of the Juvenile Court
took from her the custody of the chil
dren. The case was heard before Judge
Gantenbeln, who decided in Mrs. Hickey's
favor, and the boys were returned to
her. She succeeded In proving that she
was a hard-working woman and was
given the benefit of the doubt by the
court.
Shortly after this incident Blum put
in his appearance, and after purchasing
the Elkhorn rooming-house, at First
and Jefferson streets, again persuaded
Mrs. Hickey to return to him. She re
mained in charge of the rooming-house
for three weeks, when she again left
him, and secured employment with Mr.
Carter, at the laporte rooming-house.
This occurred several weeks ago, and
since that time it is not believed she
had met or had anything to do with
Blum until yesterday. She frequently
declared that she feared harm would
come to her at Blum's hands.
Walts for His Victim.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Hickey was
around the house performing her duties
and several tlmea talked with Mrs.
Roos In the halls. About 11 o'clock she
left Mrs. Roos on the third floor and
went to her room at the head of the
stairs on the second floor. Mrs. Roos,
with whom Mrs. Hickey had attended
the dance at Merrill's Hall Saturday
night, said that Mrs. Hickey appeared
in good spirits, and not aa though wor
ried. The two children had been sent
to Sunday-school, and it is presumed
tlmt when Mrs. Hickey arrived at her
door she found Blum awaiting her.
They evidently entered the room, closed
the door, which had a spring lock, and
engaged In another quarrel. No one
could be found who had heard an alter
cation, and the four shots fired by Blum
went unheeded.
Blum had spent Saturday night at
his room In the Elkhorn rooming-house,
and is believed to have left there be
tween 9 and 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Saturday night he met Mrs. C. A.
Reed, who Is looking after the Elkhorn
rooming-house for the owner, to whom
Blum sold the house several days ago,
and while talking to her, showed her
several 3S-caliber cartridges. She waa
somewhat frightened, but Blum calmly
said: "Don't be frightened. These
won't go off until the hammer is pulled
on them."
Mrs. Reed said that Blum retired about
10 o'clock Saturday night and she had
not seen him again. When Informed by
Deputy Coroner Finley of the tragedy,
she was greatly shocked.
Blum Bad Bad Temper.
"This is terrible," she exclaimed. "Mr.
Blum had a terrible temper, but I never
believed he would do such a thing as
murder Daisy. They both roomed here
when he owned the house, and she
wanted him to marry her, but there was
some hitch over which they quarrelled
frequently. Mrs. Hickey taxed htm with
having too many women on his string and
this led to a quarrel. After which she
went away. The next I heard of her she
was working at the Laporte."
Deputy Comer Finley ordered Mrs.
Reed not to allow any one to touch
Blum's effects until he should investigate
further. A search of Mrs. Hickey's
apartment after the tragedy revealed
nothing in the shape of correspondence
between her and Blum. Beneath the
mattress of her bed. was found a purse
containing (5.65, and in her trunk was
another purse containing metal discs,
most of which were saloon or slot
machine checks and carnival souvenirs.
On the table was found another metal
disc which bore the inscription "Mrs.
Daisy Blum," by which name she was
sometimes known. Another article found
that shows the close relationship of the
couple is the bill of sale of a rooming
house, supposed to be the Blkhorn. It
was dated May 12 and signed by "Mrs.
Daisy Blum"
Crowd Gathers In Street.
When the news of the tragedy spread to
the streets, a crowd congregated at
Third and Yamhill streets, and Captain
of Police Moore was compelled to send
additional officers to aid Patrolmen Riley
and Thorpe in clearing the street and
sidewalks. The offlcers had considerable
difficulty in performing the task, as the
BRICK BUILDING, GLISAN AND
crowd took up practically the entire
street.
Blum was a member of the Bloom
family of the Wapato district, near
Gaston, Or. He was born in Missouri
38 years ago, and removed with his
parents to Gaston, in which vicinity the
family still resides. About 20 years ago
be changed the spelling of his family
name from Bloom to Blum when he
married a Newport girl, who now resides
with their children at Baker City. He
is believed to have held several
mortgages on farms both at Gaston and
Beave'rton. In his pockets at the Good
Samaritan Hospital, was found $444 In
currency and silver, and in addition he
is believed to have an account In one of
the local banks.
Detective Hawley, of the regular staff
and sometimes attached to the Juvenile
Court, on special cases, was called upon
to take charge of Harry and Cecil Hickey,
the two young sons of the murdered
woman. They have been placed in charge
of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society,
pending the action of the Juvenile Court.
Coroner Finley has not yet decided
whether he will hold an Inquest, but will
probably do so this afternoon.
SPECTATOR HURT AT GAME
In Rush to Leave Grounds James
Roberts Has Bad Fall.
During a pellmell rush to get away
from yesterday's baseball game, a
crowd broke the top rail for several
feet on the top of the left bleachers,
and several spectators fell to the
ground. Mason Roberts, son of James
Roberts, a grocer at Twenty-third and
Washington streets, was injured. He
received a badly-wrenched back and a
broken collar-bone. Dr. S. M. Mann
gave Roberts what assistance he could
until Dr. J. C. Zan could get through
the crowd. Dr. Zan had the ambulance
summoned, and the injured lad was
taken to his home.
The accident happened in the ninth
inning. Dr. Zan says that while Rob
erts' injuries are painful, they are not
necessurily serious.
CLOSES SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Arlington School at Head of List All
the Time.
ARLINGTON, Or., May S 4. (Special.)
Last Friday witnessed the closing of
one of the most auccesaful school years
In the history of this city. According
to the reports made to the County Su
perintendent at the close of each month,
this school has kept first place during
the entire year. The pupils, assisted
by the local band, gave an entertain
ment at the Opera-House in the even
ing. Br-enton Vedder. the present prin
cipal, has been In charge of the school
three yearw.
Tans! Tans! Tans! at Rosenthal's.
GET SEPARATE BIDS
Architects Appear to Favor
Division of Work.
NEW BUILDING OPERATIONS
Many Buildings Under Construction
and Plans Being Made for
Others of Various Descrip
tions in All Directions.
Architects are more generally adopting
the plan of having separate bids made for
different classes of construction, rather
than awarding one contract for the fin-
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ished building. By experience, they say,
more satisfactory results are to be ob
tained In awarding contracts for brick
work, iron work, plumbing, electrical
work, glazing, etc., under separate bids.
The Northwest Bridge Company has re
moved its offices to the Worcester build
ing. This firm has the contract for the
concrete bridge over Sullivan's Gulch, at
Union avenue, and also for the span at
East Twenty-eighth street.
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Plans are being prepared for a four
flat building for Mrs. J. B. Comstock at
the northeast corner of East Sixth and
Weldler streets. Each flat will contain
live rooms. H. J. Hefty is the architect.
Steel interior work Is going up at a
rapid rate for the Fenton building at
Seventh and Ankeny streets. The small
triangular lot and two-story frame house
on the corner furnish an object-lesson, In
contrast with the . spirit of improvement
evidenced by Judge Fenton.
Amounts stated when taking out build
ing permits are sometimes as misleading
aa those given in transfers of realty. This
is largely occasioned by reason of sep
arate permits being taken out for the dif
ferent classes of work. An instance in
point is that of the permit issued for the-Burkhart-Cadwell
building, near the cor
ner of Second and Alder streets, which
is given at $30,000, whereas the cost of
the structure will be 'nearer $50,000.
Announcement is made by M. F. Don
ahoe that work will start June 1 on the
residence be intends to build at Sumner
street and Garfield avenue. Walnut Park.
The cost is estimated at $10,000 by Archi
tect A. H. Faber.
D. D. Neer, architect, has returned
from a trip to California. Mr. Neer says
that Portland Is progressing more rap
idly than any city he has visited on the
Coast. He says building operations in
San Francisco are retarded by the high
cost of labor and materials.
Architect Emit Schacht announced last
week that he will have the plans for
Mrs. Hatfield's four-flat building ready
today for figures. The building is to be
erected at Fourteenth and Qulmby
streets.
City Engineer Taylor has prepared four
plans for the proposed bridge to replace
the old Madison-street structure. The
Counclll will take up the matter of ac
cepting one of these sets of plans, prob
ably mis week. "
Schwarzschlld & Sulzberger are to erect
a store building to be used in connection
with their plant recently bought from the
Zimmerman Packing Company.
The Board of Education will receive
competitive plans and specifications for
the new High School building for the
northeastern part of the city. The fol
lowing architects have signified their in
tention to compete: F. A. Klegg. D. Hu
bert. D. L. Williams. Whitehouse & Hon
eyman, Clausen & Clausen. McNaughton,
Raymond & Lawrence. E. M. Laxarus. j.
Kroner, Kable & Kable. Northwest Bridge
Works: Bennes. Hendricks & Tobey, F.
M. Anderson, Goodrich A Goodrich. J.
Jacobberger, A. H. Faber, Doyle Pat
terson. W. C. Knighton. W. Fritsche. T.
J. Jones, Travis & Wilson, Sutton, Sut-
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Mehan & Rice have the contract for a
J6000 residence to be built on East Six
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ler. The contract for building the J8500 flat
for J. -McNamee. on Grand avenue, be
tween Pacific and Oregon streets, has
been awarded to A. R. RicbArdsoiu-
R. N. Hockenberry & Co. are prepar
ing plans for a two-story stone and rick
store and lodgeroom building at Prine
ville, for the Masonic organization. The
estimated cost is 117,500. ,
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Concrete foundations for the Burk-hart-Cadwell
building will be put in at
once, and the walls will be started in the
next few days.
Good progress is being made on the
building for the T. W. C. A. Brick work
on the second story is about half done
and the appearance of the building now
gives a fair idea of what it will look like
when completed.
. Excavation for the Rosenblatt Hotel
building at Tenth and Alder streets is
nearlng completion. Last week's' rain
retarded the work somewhat, but con
siderable dirt was removed between
showers.
Reed, Fields & Tynan, the real estate
firm, which had offices in the Lumber
Exchange building, dissolved last week,
Mr. Fields succeeding to the business
under the firm name of C. E. Fields & Co.
A building permit was taken out last
week by the Board of Education to erect
a schoolhouse on Beech street, between
Garfield and Mallory. at an estimated cost
of $30,000.
A permit was issued to the Oliver
Chilled Plow Works for a brick building
on East Taylor street, at a cost of
J25.000.
E. H.- Meyer is to build a dwelling at
East Twenty-fourth street, .between Til
lamook and Hancock, to cost J32B0.
CAL EWING RETURNS HOME
President of Ieaguo Has Good Word
for Portland.
J. Cal Ewingr, president of the Coast
League, left last night for San Fran
cisco on the same train with the Oak
land team. Henry Berry, owner of the
Los Angeles club, also went south,
taking the late train. Berry had lots
of fun poking fun at President Ewing
because Los Angeles, by taking the
double-header from the Seals, again
goes to the top of the percentage col
umn. "If I were to make up my mind to
leave California, I certainly . would
come to Portland," said President Ew
ing. before he left last night. "I. and
I speak for the rest of the officials of
the Pacific Coast League, have always
looked upon Portland as one of the
best baseball towns for its size in the
country. Your fans are loyal to the
home team, but at the same time they
keenly appreciate good playing on the
part of the visiting clubs. It is a
pleasure to sit through a game with
the Portland fans, because they are so
uniformly fair.
"With the expansion of the league
next year, while the Coast League may
not be able to furnish better baseball,
because as we stand now, we are the
fastest minor league In the business,
we will give the fans of Portland more
baseball, more teams and more play
ers." Oregon's Political Liar.
Astoria Leader.
It is a constant nag. nag, nag, before
a voter can be induced to register. He
has to swear to his political faith at
that time, and fully 23 per cent at the
recent registration lied about it. They
knew they were lying about It. So did
the registration clerk. If "no liar shall
Inherit the kingdom of heaven," then
hell may thank the Oregon election
laws for much successful missionary
work.
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$40010. IN SILL DEALS
EIGHTY TRANSFERS BOOST THE
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Daily Average of Over $50,000,
With Fifty Transactions a
Day Shown.
Over $SOO,000 was reported as the
valuation on 282 transfers of real estate
last week. One-third of the number of
transfers were entered' on the records
under nominal values, mostly at $1. If
the real values had been given, the to
tal would reach something over
$400,000. There were six transfers with
amounts given between $5000 and
$10,000; SO from $1000 to $5000. and Ave
at over $10,000. About 80 per cent of
the transfers were for pieces on the
East Side.
J. T. Peters paid $10,000 for the
property on Hawthorne avenue at East
Twenty-fourth street, the deed being
recorded last week. The purchase waa
made from Hubbard Taylor.
Last week a transfer was recorded
from Blaise Labbe, trustee, to himself,
of one-third interest in lots 2 and 3,
block 60, Couch Addition, the consid
eration named being $10,000. Block 50
Is bound by Seventh, Eighth, Flanders
and Everett.
Realty men and citizens generally are
looking forward to the lecture to be
given June 11, at the Empire Theater,
by City Engineer Thomson, of Seattle,
with much interest. The subject of
street-improvement has been one to
which much study and attention has
been given in this city for years, and
those interested In having Portland
take high rank In the way of modern
streets will embrace the opportunity to
hear from an engineer who has made a
record for himself as -one of the fore
most men in the country as an expert
on the subject.
L. Veysey has bought lot S and part
of lot 7, In block 98, Carter's Addition.
This block is bounded by Sixteenth and
Seventeenth. Spring and Elm. The lots
sold for $4500.
One-half of one-fifth interest In Ross
mere figured In the transfers last week.
J. W. Cook transferred to T. P. Cook
the interest referred to with considera
tion named of $6000.
' N. P. Olsen sold last week a five-acre
tract near Woodstock to Theodore
Schmidt, price $4000. Sale was made by
W. J. Day & Co.
Stephen T. Dove sold to W. R. Kaser
a lot on East Fourteenth and Yamhill
streets for $2100. Sale was made by
W. J. Day St Co.
Mall & Von Borstel have sold for P.
J. Melis a lot on Clackamas street,
near Twenty-sixth, to.D. A. Cole. Mr.
Cole will improve the property.
Selling agents of lots in platted
tracts report no falling off In sales.
Quite a number of sales are being made
in Heights sites for residences, and the
several new propositions down the Pen
insula are attracting buyers. Already,
a fairly good movement is reported in
lots along the line of the Oregon Elec
tric road.
Central Albina values keep improv
ing. Last week a deed was recorded
for a lot In block 9 that was bought by
Ellis Cooper for $3500.
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more than 2000 miners, who have been
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Bankers Will Meet in Denver.
DENVER. May 24. Announcement
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