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THE aiORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1908. 7
BRYAN TRAVERSES
'S
Fours Wrath on Corporations
for Threats to Em
ployes. AGAIN CRIES CORRUPTION
"With Vndlmlnlshed Voca 1 Power,
He Delivers 18 Speeches in One
ay -Makes Slrong Ap
peal for Labor Vote.
MARIETTA. O.. Vt. 21. Great crowds
and ttjstjr cheering were Ohio's greet-
In to William J. Bryan today. Juet
before tfie Temocratle candidate
parsed over the line Into West Virginia
late tonic: fit. he expressed extreme
jtleasuj-e with the receptions accorded
Mm In the native state of the Repub
lican candidate for President.
Although th? day was a hard one
for him. Mr. Bryan exhibited no signs
of fjitisrne. Inspired by the fact that
he literally w&s carrying his warfare
Into the camp of his political enemy,
he speko with a vigor that even those
who have been with him throughout
(he campaign could not fail to note.
While lie was still In bed this morning,
a newspaper was handed Into his
stateroom and Mr. Bryan read a dis
patch stating thai the New York Cen
tral Railroad system was threatening
Its employes with a reduction in
wages if he was elected. This was his
cue for tiie day aaid he fired broadside
sfter broadside into the Republicans in
eriiicisRi of their campaign tactics. He
regarded the artLon of the railroad
company as a "nnw menace." and de
clared that "the little ward heeler who
got s around and bribes a man with $5
is a moral character beside the man
who attempts to use his power to
threaten those ttho work for him and
to buy them by a promise of Increase
or threaten by a promise of a decrease.
Steelwork ers Message.
Sixteen speeches were made by the
candidate today. While he was talktng
to a vast throng in front of the Tod
llnus in Voungstown. O.. a big card
signed by a number of the workers la
the steel plants was sent up to him
bearing the message:
"We can't be with you today, but we
will be on Nevember 3."
A number of the millworkers were In
the great audience. Mr. Bryan's arrival
being at a time when the regular shifts
were being made. The route of travel
today was through many recognized
Republican strongholds, and It was at
such places that the candidate fired his
heaviest batteries. Mr. Taft got his
share of criticism, particularly In the
matter of campaign contributions and
his attitude regarding the trust and
labor questions.
As on yesterday. Mrs. Bryan, In re
sponse to the demands of tho crowd,
came out on the rear platform of the
train and bowed. She shook hands
with many hundreds and her stateroom
and the parlor of the car were banked
with flowers sent to her by friends.
The whole of tomorrow will be spent in
Vest Virginia.
Kind Words of McKinley.
Mr. Bryan wns loudly cheered by a
big crowd at Nfles. O.. the birthplace
of William McKinley. when he made a
pleasing reference to the late President.
"Your city is connected with the name
of a man whom I learned to know quite
well, not personally so well as polit
ically." he said. "I am glad to come to
the home of William McKinley and I
, have been rather proud of the fact that
in the two campaign in which I was a
candidate against him no personal un
pleasantrtes entered into the campaign:
that they were fought on the issue and
not upon criticism of the personal char
acter of the candidate."
Thinks Taft in Straits.
At a dozen poirrts the Democratic can
didate emphasized his belief that the Re
publican cause in Ohio W in desperate
straits. Me insisted that this indicated
KepuMlcan defeat in such states as In
(Iihiih. Illinois and New York. This In
dicated that the power of the adminis
tration wiw all to be concentrated in a
final effort to save Ohio to Republi
canism. He Intimated, however, that he
personally did not believe this would be
i'0!ibie.
it was conspicuously noticeable at
Mansfield that all the switch engines
oi the Erie Railroad were decorated with
flues and streamers and plastered with
lithographs of the Lemocratic candi
date. He b traveling through the state
in a special train.
BRYAX AGAIN" C'RLES COERCION
Says Railroads Threaten Employes
With Reduction of Wages.
NEWARK, o., Oct. 21. "I say to you
that the little ward-heeler who goes
around and bribes a man for five dollars
Is a moral character beside the man who
attempts t use his power to threaten
thuse who work for him and to buy them
1" a promiso of increase or threaten
t'nem by a promise to decrease."
Tnoroushly aroused by what he termed
a "new menace," through the publication
today of a press dispatch stating that the
officials of the New York Central lines
had summoned their workmen and In
formed them that, if the Democrats won
the election, there would be a 10 per cert
redaction in wages, but that if they lost
t hero woiId be an increase, William J.
Hryan, in a before-breakfast speech to a
vast throng, poured a volley of criticism
Into the Republican party for Its cam
paign tactics. He threw into his utter
ances all the v gor he could muster, and
l;:s words were greeted with loud cheers.
The second invasion of tlie native state
of his Republican opponent was begun by
Mr. Hryan at this place, he having come
direct from Louisville, Ky., during the
ii'ght.
sajs Republicans Betray People.
In his address here Mr. Bryan said
lit part:
I tti.i g'acl to come attain into Ohio. I am
tr onrr.e t a time when Democratic
jiriw-; r bright that even th Re
r jlSti-an National Committee 1 compelled
t- -onfs that th Republican candidate
in list f.-n. ba- k ti flrht for hi own slats.
It er.t out W-t to Tiht for ih West, but
Ve now nn-1 that he has difficulty enounn
at h'-'iu anJ carnot ixir any time for th
West. I am piatl th-y ar bestcrlrg to
ren'fre the force that thT have to contend
w rh and the greatest obstacle that they
fcjve if The reord ct the party that they
rt.ust fend. Twelve years of power, with
a CrfWdent euiv-KUed In the platform and a
Sr ite that thr-y cannot apologize for. and
a Huse presl'.M over by a dpot. and yet
tny cannot Wend their recoTd.
Twelve yai of. rower complete, they
ave been ahi to pa every law they want
ed :. ia. to repeal eery law they wanted
to repeal, and they have had Repubiloni
on nearly all trie Fal benches, and yet
what U "their condition? Thr feel that In
ery state of tt-: t'rlon the tide Is run
rlns afra:nst them, and they fare deserved
e:et fur their betrayal of the American
ENEMY
COUNTRY
people " b-r their officials- They have disap
pointed the laboring- man; they have re
fused to listen to his plea; they ha-e denied
him the remedies that he deserves, and now,
when embittered by disappointment and in
difmant at mistreatment, the laboring man
attempts to show his citlienshlp. declare his
Independence and register his protest at the
poH. they proceed wKh their attempts- of
coercion.
This morning's paper gives an Illustration
of attempted coercion.
Coercion by Railroads.
He then read from a dispatch In a
Columbus paper which stated 600 work
men of the Big Four Railroad at Belle
fontaine. part of the New York Central
system, had been called together in the
shops and notified that if Bryan was
elected there would be a 10 per cent re
duction in wages, and that if Taft was
elected there would be an increase in pay
and work. The dispatch stated these of
ficials were making a tour of the entire
system for the purpose of making tne
same announcement to all the employes.
Mr. Bryai continued:
There, my friends, is the statement in a
Repub:ican paper of the threat made by the
officials of a great railroad system. They
threaten to punish men for voting the Dem
ocratic ticket by a 10 per cent cut In their
wagt-fl. and they promise to increase their
pay and their work if they will vote the
Republican ticket. I say to you that the
little ward-heeler who goes around snd
brlres a man for $5 Is a moral character be
side the man who attempts- to use his power
to threaten those who work for him and to
buy them by a promt of decrease. I want
American people to understand that we have
something like a million and a half of rail
way employes, and If the managers of these
roads can enter politics and coerce that many
men. then independent elections are pat in
this country, and if these men can put Into
office men hostile to the laboring man. then
bv these coercions they can force upon the
laboring man any antagonistic legislation
that they desire.
The Republican party has refused to give
the laboring man a place In the President's
Cabinet, when our party promises hlra. if
we jsucceed. there will be a spokesman for
the w-age-eamers In the President's council
chamber. When I say to the laboring man
that, if I am elected, I want one of their
representative In my Cabinet to advise me
about labor; when t say that, these men
representing the railroads go out and tell
you that unless y&u are willing to relin
quish your claim to representation In the
Cabinet they will reduce your wages and
make your compensation smaller than It Is.
we tell the laboring men that If we win we
will amend the anti-trust law so as to take
the labor organization out from under tha
operation of that law.
And now come these heads of railroads
to tell their employee that. If they dare to
ask for relief from this anti-trust law. they
will be punished by a reduction of wagu
We say in our platform that, if we win. we
will limit this writ of injunction so that a
labor dispute will not in Itself be a suffi
cient ground for the Issuance of that writ,
that there must be something done: there
must be conditions that would juelfy that
writ, even if there were no labor dispute, be
fore It shall be used in euch a dispute. And
now come the heads of these great corpora
tions and notify these men that. If they
dare rr ak for relief from this writ of in
junction under those circumstances, they will
e punie-hed by a reduction of wages.
Trial by Jury for Contempt.
But we say in our platform that we are
In favor of trial by Jury in cases of Indirect
contempt, and now come these heads of
corporations and tell these laboring men
that this trial by Jury, which ia guaranteed
to a convicted criminal, shall not be given
to the laboring man and. If he dares to raise
his voice in protest, he shall be lashed into
subjection by a reduction of hut wages.
In this case there Is no ehadow of an ex
cuse for the th reat . beca use ou r p ! a t f o rna
specifically declares that no rate reductions
shall be made which will compel a reduction
of wages. We give a guarantee to the labor
ing man, a guarantee that he has not before
been given by the present administration.
That Is what this all means, my friends.
They tell you that. If I am elected, business
will be bad. lt them give bond that busi
ness will be good If I am defeated. They
have no way of securing you against the
failure of their predictions. 1-et them show
that they have been annolnted prophets and
have a right to tear away the veil and tell
you what lies before you. Who is this man
whose election Is to be a balm of Gllead
and remove all financial distress? He Is the
member of the President's Cabinet whom
the President appointed to be his successor.
If he couW not last Fall prevent a panic
when he was in the Cabinet, how can he
prevent one next Fall merely by raWtif him
a little higher? If he and the President
together could not protect you from the
panic last Kail, how can he hope to do It
all alone If the President deserts him and
hides In the Jungles of Africa hunting
tirens?
Observing among the crowd a num
ber of students, Mr. Bryan said to them
that he had discussed the labor question
as he had. because "of the new menace
to their, independence." Addressing him
self specifically to the students, Mr.
Bryan said they build their lives upon
ideals, and continued:
The young man who te preparing for a
career Is learning, or he oupht to leam,
that there Is but one thing that Is invin
cible and that Is truth. He ought to leam
that truth will triumph In time over every
obstacle. With his ideals he is interested
In pure politics. Ail he wants Is a ehancs
and he is willing to take his chances under
fair conditions and under equitable lawe. I
want these voung men to understand tne
contest which Ilea before us. I have been
nominated without the aid of a President.
No man with an army of officeholders was
behind me to coerce men into my support.
I had no great corporations to threaten its
employes if they did not favor my nomina
tion I had no rich relatives to put up
money for the circulation of eulogies of me.
I have had to fight my way from the time I
was a choolboy and I have had nothing to
build upon except the confidence of those
who believed with me that I believed what
I said and would- be faithful if Intrusted
with power.
ArsJnst Buying of Election.
And now I have been made the candidate
of my party Jut as one of these schoolboys
might be made the candidate of his party
In the years to come, and I ask these school
bovs If they are not interested in purifying
politic so that a man can have a chance
to make a fight for the people and not have
an election bought away from him by the
ne.-ret contributions of predatory wealtn.
which are not to be known until the people
have voted. We are making an honest fight.
"We are giving you the names of our con
tributors. We are putting in our platform
what we think ought to be done. We are
appealing to the Intelligence and to the
Judgment of the American PfopI.
we k Is that every citizen shall be allowed
to think as he pleases and then allow a man
to vote as he thinks. That Is our platform,
our plan. We leave our case with you.
Stops Speech to Avert Panic.
. k T Ivamnnl KCk CTeat WaS thS
. Vf r- Rr-n n that, after
crowa u s'cv
making a few remarks, he was compelled
to suspend In order to save buman life.
As It was, a number of women shrieked
and fainted and the crowa was bwchhik
. tut rotnetrnnhp was
in sucn a j , , 7 .
only averted by Mr. Bryan s decision to
cease talking. i
FEAR FEDERAL PROBE
Steamship Companies Will Fight Or
der to Undergo Investigation.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct. 21. The local
officials of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany and the Taclfic Coast Steamship
Company have been notified by Attorney-General
Bonaparte that on Janu
ary 1 they must produce their freight
and passenger contract records before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
for investigation. The intended Inves
tigation is received wlt,h some alarm
by the steamship officials, and it is
probable that an appeal will be taken
and the entire matter threshed out in
the Federal Courts.
The investigation is the result of the
work of the Federal grand jury at Ju
neau two years ago. At that time the
grand jury reported that. the two steam
ship companies operating to Alaska
were in a trust to keep up rates and
also to grant rebates to certain ship
pers. The testimony presented to the
grand Jury was taken down by a Fed
eral court reporter and forwarded to
Washington. At that time It was Im
possible to return Indictments on ac
count of the fact that the Interstate
Commerce Commission had not deter
mined the status of the companies.
Judge Lowell at Newport.
NEWPORT, Or.. Oct. 21. (Special.)
Judge Stephen A. LowelK gave a bril
liant political speech here tonight before
a large audience In the Interest of the
Republican campaign. He was listened
to with great attention and handled his
subject unusually well
REST BEFORE LABOR
Taft Will Begin Invasion of In
diana Today.
HIS VOICE RECUPERATES
Candidate's Throat Specialist De
clares Him Fit for Strenuous Fin
ish of Campaign Speaks to
Citizens' Taft Club.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 21. Aside from
joining the Citizen"s Taft Club of Cin
cinnati, to which, he made a noonday ad
dress, and reviewing a parade and con
vention of the Masons in this city, W.
H. Taft spent a comparatively quiet day.
He arrived at 7 o'clock this morning and
will leave at tho same hour tomorrow
morning for three days of activity in In
diana, after which he will travel In New
York for the last week of the campaign.
Voice Recovers strength.
Dr. J. Richardson, of Washington, the
throat specialist who Is traveling with
Mr. Taft, said tonight that his patient
exhibited wonderful powers of recupera
tion. He believes the candidate will be
able to negotiate the many speech
making appointments which the chair
man has made for him between now and
the end of the campaign. The day's rest
has had a very favorable effect on Mr.
Taft's condition, according to the doctor,
and he will start to till his engagements
In the Hoosier state tomorrow with a
good voice and fresh energy.
Although it was decided Monday and
announced by Chairman Hitchcock, that
the candidate would not go into Connec
ticut, the plan is understood to have
been changed to the extent of having
Mr. Taft make one speech.
Admits Will Vote for Himself.
A committee from the Citizen's Taft
Club visited the Taft residence at noon
and the candidate was prevailed upon
to go to the headquarters and address a
meeting there.
After being duly enrolled as a mem
ber and introduced to the group he said
he believed that in matters of this sort
It would not be immodest in him to stato
that he should vote with the club. Se
riously speaking, he said nothing had
given him so much real gratification aa
the movement of his friends and neigh
bors ' and fellow townsmen. He com
mented on the usefulness of the organi
zation, saying that the carrying of the
political discussion to the home by per
sons who personally knew the candidate
was far more effective than having such
work done , by strangers.
The candidate spoke of his former res
idence in the city, his four years' ab
sence in the Philippines and four years
at Washington and ending with a smile,
he hoped it would not be necessary for
him to move to the city during the next
four years, although he should always
maintain his home in Cincinnati.
HUNDREDS SUFFER HUNGER
I'XOIPLOYED ENGLISH WORK
JIEN" FACK STARVATION.
Government Prepares to Approprl
ate $150,000 to Relieve Pres
ent Critical Situation.
LONDON. Oct. 21. The very serious
matter of the unemployed in England
came up for discussion In the House of
Commons this afternoon, but a larger
dole of money than last year and cho
expediting of the naval ship building
programme were the only expedients
proposed by Premier Asquith in his un
folding of the Government's plan to
meet the situation. The gravity of the
case arising In the fact that hundreds
of thousands are on the verge of star
vation through lack of work was fully
recognized by the Premier but he could
not undertake in the legislative field to
grapple with the permanent causes
thereof uncil the next session.
The Government, he said, was pre
pared to provide a fund of $1, 500.000 to
help the unemployed and the Admiralty
was giving out orders for the construc
tion of nine torpedo boat destroyers
and five unarmored cruisers to cost a
total of J12.500.000. two' months earlier
than originally had been Intended. The
Premier made also a bid for recruits,
saying that the War Office was ready
to take 24,000 men for the Winter train
ing in the special reserves.
The proposition falls to meet the de
mands of the labor members of the
House.
SCAB NOT FUNGUS GROWTH
Agricultural College Professor Gives
Opinion on Prunes.
SALEM, Or.. Ort. 21. (Special.) That
scab on prunes, which is very prevalent
this year, is not a fungus disease, but is
caused by adverse weather conditions, is
the opinion given by Professor Cordley,
of the Oregon Agricultural College, in an
swer to an inquiry from James Winstan
ley, of this city. It follows, therefore,
that scab cannot be prevented by spray
Ipg. Professor Cordley's letter follows:
Careful examination of the accompany
ing prunes shows that tbe scab upon them
is not a fungus disease, in other words it
Is not the true prune or plum scab. I have
observed this trouble to a greater or less
extent In other seasons and have nevei
been able to find any fungus or bacterial
organism in connection with it. From what
data I have been able to collect regarding
the prevalence of this trouble and asso
ciating It with the various seasons, I have
arrived at the conclusion that it is caused
almost xcluaively by freezing or cold
weather, at least at the time of blossoming
or shortly after. In other words, the trouble
seems to be most prevalent in seasons fol
lowing freezing weather at blossoming
time. A. B. CORDLEY.
MILLARD WHITE IS BURIED
Native of Washington County Dies
in Seattle.
HILJSBORO, Or., Oct. 21. (Special.)
Millard White, aged 57 years, and a son
of the late John S. White, an early
pioneer, died in Seattle Sunday, and the
remains were interred at the West
Union cemetery yesterday.
White was a native of this county and
was a grandson of the late David Lenox,
who helped establish the first Baptist
church in the state, five miles northeast
of this city. White spent many years
in the Pendleton section. but later
moved to the Sound. Two grown sons
survive, hie wife having died some years
ago.
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FORM GOOD ROADS LEAGUE
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD
AT ARLINGTON.
Address Delivered by Judge John
11. Scott and Movement for Better
Highways Begun In Earnest.
ARLINGTON", Or.. Oct. II. (Special.)
A very enthusiastic good roads meet
ing was held here yesterday. Judge
John H. Scott, of Salem, Or., made the
principal address pointing out In a
clear and forceful manner the many
advantages that would arise from im
proved roads from an educational, so
cial and financial point of view. He
recommended that a state appropriation
be made for highway improvements and
that it be expended under the direc
tion of a State Highway Commissioner,
to be especially trained in the 3cience
of road making, that a County Engi
neer be provided to direct the road im
provements of each county, that state
convicts be used for preparing crushed
rock and that good roads leagues be
formed oyer the state..
Short speeches made by B. T. Snell,
County Commissioner, and Mayor of
Arlington, T. C. Mobley, Road Superin
tendent of the north end of Gilliam
County, G. W. Montague and others. A
splendid programme of vocal and In
strumental music was also rendered by
local people.
As a result of the meeting a Good
Roads League was formed with the fol
lowing as officers for the ensuing year:
J. D. Brown, president; O. B. Sturgess,
vice-president; H. F. Shanks, secretary;
B. T, Snell. treasurer. It was decided
that the officers of the league call a
meeting soon when a programme will
be rendered and the Good Roads ques
tion will be fully discussed.
MUST KEEP UP ITS KOADS
Postofflce Department Threatens to
Stop Yakima Rural Delivery.
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Oct. 21.
(Special.) The United States Post
office Department has given an Im
petus to the good roads movement now
under way in the Northwest by threat
ening to withdraw North .Yakima
rural routes unless the roads are im
mediately put In better shape. Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-General McGraw
has written to Postmaster W. L. Lemon
requiring him to put the matter, before
the County Commissioners and states
that if the Commissioners and property-owners
along the route are not
sufficiently Interested in the service to
see that the roads are kept passable
for the carriers, either the routes will
be altered to avoid the objectionable
roads, or done away with altogether.
It would be a matter of peculiar re
gret, as well as great Inconvenience
were North Yakima to lose its rural
routes, since the Nob Hill delivery was
the second In the country to be estab
lished after the adoption of the rural
route system by the Government.
MERCURY GOES AWAY DOWN
Blighting. Frost at Aberdeen, Break
ing October Records.
' ABERDEEN", Wash., Oct. 2L (Special.)
The lowest October temperature ever
recorded in this section prevailed last
night and this morning, the mercury at
one time registering 28 degrees. Accord
ing Weather Observer Weatherwax, all
records for cold at this season of the year
were broken.
Vegetation that escaped the frosts of
September succumbed to the blighting ef
fect of the Frost King last night. The
severity of the weather was Indicated by
the heavy white frost that covered every
thir4; this morning, remaining in some
places until afternoon.
FORMER BANKER SUICIDE
California Man Drinks Poison and
Dies at Spokane.
SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 21. (Special.)
Swallowing two ounces of cyanide
of potassium in his room in a cheap
lodging house on Main avenue, George
H. Mayer, aged about 50, a former
banker at Pine Grove, CaU, committed
suicide this morning.
On the body were found a' few pa
pers disclosing his identity and 50
cents. A letter from his wife at Pine
Grove referred to a money order that
she had sent him. Mayer had been in
the city but a short time and had been
engaged in photography.
Thinks Brother Murdered.
HILLSBORO. Or., Oct. 21. (Special.)
Postmaster Mervyn Cheek, of Sparta,
North Carolina, writes Sheriff Hancock
that a man named Perdue, residing near
that place, thinks his brother, Ebron
Perdue, is the party whom Walter John
son killed near Timber, last July. The
North Carolina brother told the post
master that Ebron Perdue left that sec
tion about a year ago In September and
that he was headed for the Pacific Coast.
Nothing had been heard of him since
that time and he Is quite positive that
his brother Is the victim of Johnson's
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Portland Plasterer at Salem
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CRIME DONE WHILE DRUNK
Couple Had Had Trouble Before and
Were About to Secure Divorce.
Injured Man Confesses
the Crime.
SALEM, Or., Oct. 21. (Special.) Cy
Tlmmons, a Portland plasterer, killed his
wife by cutting her throat with a razor
about midnight last night, and then made
an unsuccessful attempt to end his own
life In the same manner. The crime was
committed In the rooms occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Timmons, In the Westcott-Smith
rooming-house, at the foot of Court
street. That .the crime had been com
mitted was not discovered until 7:30
o'clock this morning. Timmons had re-'
cently been quarreling with his wife, had
threatened to kill her, and was under the
influence of liquor last night- He will
probably recover.
Little Is known of the Timmons family.
They came here from Portland five or
six weeks ago and took rooms at the
Smith house. Several times other occu
pants of the house have heard them quar
reling and last Monday Mrs. Timmons
told Mrs. Smith v that her husband had
flourished a knife before her, threaten
ing to cut her throat. Last night they
were heard quarreling again and about
midnight a fall was heard, but it was not
such as to excite suspicion that anything
serious had happened. This morning,
about 7:30 o'clock, an occupant of one of
the rooms saw Mr. Timmons passing
hurredly from their living-room to their
bedroom and noticed that his clothes
were covered with blood. Sheriff Minto
was notified and he and Deputy Esch pro
ceeded at once to the house. On forcing
the door of the Timmons room they found
the body of Mrs. Timmons lyins across
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and her throat cut from ear to ear.
The body was cold, and she had evi
dently been dead several hours. Timmons
was in bed, his throat cut, but he was
alive and semi-conscious. His Jujular
vein had not been Bevered but his wind
pipe was so badly cut that he could not
talk. Dr. W. B. Morse was called and
upon his advice Timmons was removed
to the Salem Hospital. A bloody razor
was found in the bed.
Timmons is about 35 years old and his
wife was 19.
Mrs. Timmons was formerly Miss Stella
Bogardt and Jived at Eugene, where she
has an uncle. At the Coroner's inquest
tonight it was shown that. Mr. and Mrs.
Timmons consulted Attorney Walter
Keys yesterday in regard to securing a
divorce because they could not live to
gether in peace. It also developed at
the inquest that a bloody ax was found
between two mattresses on the bed oc
cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Timmons. The
ax had evidently been used In striking
her a blow on the back of the head. The
brutality of the murder, and the fact
that a number of whisky bottles were
found in the room, indicate that Timmons
was intoxicated when he committed the
crime.
An examination of Timmons tonight
shows that he is not dangerously injured,
but. as a matter of precaution. Deputy
Sheriff Esch put shackles on his ankles.
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By answering questions by signs he has
confessed the killing.
Late tonight the Coroner's Jury re
turned a verdict of wilful murder
against Timmons. An information will
be filed tomorrow charging him with
murder in the first degree.
MARTIN GETS LONG TERM
Man Who Swindled W idow Thirteen
Years Ago Sentenced.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21. Frank C. Mar
tin, formerly a well-known Brooklyn
lawyer, who was convicted of swin
dling Mrs. Caroline Barry, a widow,
out of $80,000. was today sentenced to
from 15 to 20 years in State Prison.
The swindle took place 13 years ago.
Martin was finally traced to Honduras.
Later lie came to Philadelphia and
engaged in extensive operations in cot
ton. He was recently convicted in the
United States Court In Pennsylvania of
fraud in connection with these opera
tions. The Burma petroleum well In India
yielded In l&"7 53.000.000 ttnrth of oil.
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tenderness in the pit of stomach, bad
taste in mouth, constipation, pain In
limbs, sleeplessness, belching of gas,
biliousness, sick headache, nervous
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symptoms.
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you feel bloated after eating, or your
food lies like a lump of lead on your
stomach, you can make up your mind
that at tne bottom of all this there is
but one cause fermentation of undi
gested food.
Prove to yourself, after your next
meal, that your stomach is as good as
anv; that there is nothing really
wrong. Stop this fermentation and
begin eating what you want without
fear of discomfort or misery.
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you. It is merely a matter of how
soon you take some Dlapepiln.
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