ITTEN Li ACQUITS POWELL Jury Brings in Verdict After Two and Half Hours' De liberation. MAN MURMURS THANK GOD' Overcome AVIth Kmotion - When Finding Is Read Killed Homer Roper to Protect His 15 .. Year-Old Daughter, Leah. ALBANY. Or., March 17.-Special.--harles J. Powell was acquitted tonight of a charge of murder in the first de " or killing Homer Roper near Brows ville on the night of January 28. The cage went to the Jury at 3:46 P. M. this afternoon and the verdict was returned at 6 : 15. Powell, who has shown great emotion throughout the trial, almost collapsed when the verdict waa read. His head sank forward and he- clung for some time to Sheriff Smith, who stepped beside his chair to support him. He was unable to talk for several moments, finally mur muring, "Thank God." His family was not In the courtroom, nut arrived noon afterward. Powell was at once discharged from custody. The toir crowd which had tilled the courtroom all day had gone home and only a few were present to see the end of this notable case. Powell's acquittal in due to the "un written law," for he killed Roper to pro tect his 15-year-old daughter, Leah. His good reputation and high standing also tigured largely In the case. All day today was devoted to argu ment of the case andf addresses to the Jury. Deputy District Attorney Gale S. Hill made the oienlng argument for the state and was followed by J. R, Wyatt and H. H. Hewitt for the defense. The closing argument was made by District Attorney John H. McNary. All were most masterful presentations of the respective sides of the case. Great crowds thronged the courtroom all day. Halt an hour before court opened this morning the room was filled and Judge Burnett ordered the doors closed when the arguments began Then crowds remained In the halls for an op portunity to enter. There was the same rusli this afternoon, many people go ing without lunch at noon to retain their seats until the case went to the Jury. LONELY FARMER IS SUICIDE Andrew Johnson, 71 Years Old, Melancholy, Hang Himself. WOODLAND. Wash.. March 17. (Spe cial.) Mrs. J. s. Dunn, wife of a farmer two miles east of town, discovered the body of an old man hanging to a tree yesterday. Later It was found to be a man named Andrew Johnson, who tnva teriously disappeared from his home Oc tober 3. 1908. Coroner Bird, of Kelso, viewed the re mains and decided no Inquest was neces sary. Johnson was 71 years old and ad dicted to fits of melancholy. He lived alone, but had a married daughter In Kerndale. Wash. He used a short piece of -lnch rope, simply making a loop in the lower end and tying the other to a limb on a small sapling. He then lay down and. insert ing his head Into the loop, threw him self forward and strangled himself to death. When discovered the remains were badly decomposed. THUG DISARMED BY BOOKS Mail-Carrier's Aim Correct Hold-up Drops Gun. and SEATTLE. Wash.. March 17.-(Special.) Held up by highwaymen as he left a Mreetcar near his Columbia Citv home late last night. O. B. Gwyn. a city mail carrier, hurled a bundle of lodge account Took at the thug when he ordered him to throw up his hands. The robber's run was knocked from his grasp after lie had fired one shot. Then Gwin picked up the fallen weapon and emptied It at the robber, but failed to hit him Gwin. who works in the city mail de livery service out of the postal station at Klnst avenue West, and Republican street Is secretary of one of the local lodges of Woodmen of the World, and was re turning home from a meeting of the lodge. PICKETING IS ENJOINED Union Men Must Not Bother Res taurants in Spokane. SPOKANE. Wash.. March 17. (Special ) A temporary order restraining the allied crafts and the Central Labor Union from stationing pickets outside the cafeterias and the Baltimore dairy lunch counters was Issued today by Judge Hinkle. Mem bers of several unions are mentioned as defendants In the case. A bond of $300 was required of each and the order is re turnable March 23, when either a dis missal of the temporary order or a perma nent Injunction will be ordered by the court. During the pendency of the case the defendants are enjoined from posting unfair lists" containing the names of the plaintiffs. ASSAULTER BOUND OVER Kobert Davis In Jail, Woman in Case Also Held. ASTORIA. Or.. March 17. (Special.) -Robert Davis, who assaulted Nels Peterson a few days ago with an ax and fractured his skull, was arraigned in justice Goodman's court this after noon on an information charging him with assault with attemi to kill and after a preliminary examination, was committed to the County Jail without Jury t0 aWalt the actlo of the grand Pearl Davis, the woman who was with Peterson at the time the assault was made, and who Is alleged to be Davis" wife, was committed to the City Jail. In default $350 bonds, to ap pear as a witness. Peterson continues to improve slowly and there Is now reason to believt the will recover. FIGHTS CONVENTION IDEA Grange Fears Blow at llcform Mea sure If Constitution Changed. ORESHAM. Or.. March 17. (Special.) The most Important feature of tha session of Multnomah County Pomona Grange here today was the adoption or a resolution opposing a State Consti tutional Convention. T,h Grange, opposed the proposed can for a State Constitutional Conven tion principally for the reason that It was thought it would open the way for an attack upon all reform measures, by t!nry featurea or even by the refusal to refer the Constitution so proposed to the people for ratification. n motIon of State Lecturer John 5. Grane indorsed the action rLlt ,f'ate, Legislature In making Its recent liberal appropriation to the State Agricultural College. Officers for the ensuing year were Installed by State Lecturer J. J. Johnson, as follows: Master, Napoleon Davis, overseer, Ray Gill; lecturer. Jennie Kroninberg steward, Donald Fury; assistant stew ard, E. C Huffman; chaplain,.Mrs. Mary bhattuck; treasurer, W. E. Craswell secretary, Mrs. M. M. Eaton; gatekeep er Fred Benfield; Ceres, Mrs. Susan Wendle; Pomona, Mrs. Annie Craswell Flora, Christie Rasmussen; lady as sistant, Mrs. Mary Crane. The standing Unance committee was chosen. Its three members are-' A F Mulier, Mrs. Mary Shattuck and Mrs. Julia Ashcraft. A permanent committee on resolu tions was appointed by the master, consisting of F. H. Crane, E. C. Huff man and Mrs. Carrie Townsend. A committee on revision of by-laws was appointed, consisting of E Thorp, J. w. Shattuck and II. A Dart nan. The total membership of the county as reported to the secretary, was 125 2. GIRL Ii; DEFENSE OF WHOSE HONOR CHARLES J. POWELL KILED HOMER ROPER. I - - -1 - : Of this number 664 are members of the County Pomona. BENSON APPROVES BILLS S1GXS ALL BCT DUCK MEASURE, WHICH HE FILES. McArthur and Bowerman Go Over All Laws and Say Xo Mis takes This Time. SALEM. Or.. March 17.-Special.) Governor Benson today approved and signed all the bills passed at the special session of the Legislature, except the duck bill, which he has tiled In the office of the Secretary of State without signa ture. reason tor "I" failure to sign this bill is not given by the Governor, but it is thought possible the measure came too near the taboo line of new legislation and the executive did not care to give the measure his specific approval. Speaker McArthur states that he has carefully gone over every bill and Presi dent Bowerman did the same, and that there is no possibility of mistakes this time. The work of revising the Journals of the two houses will be completed In a day or two by Chief Clerks Barry, of the Senate and Neuner, of the House, and their as sistants. MAYOR IS AFTER SIGNERS Junction City Executive Says He Will Prosecute Recallers. JUNCTION' CITTTor.. March .-(Special.) Mayor Houston has made a threat of prosecuting all who have signed the recall petition against him. Further steps in the matte- of recalling the Mavor are in abeyance. A meeting was held last night, when the matter was Indefinitely postponed. The Mayor has called a meet ing for next Monday night, when he pro poses to bring up the question himself. Deny Authority Tor Meeting. PORTLAND, March 17.-To the Edi tor.) Concerning the article that ap peared In today's issue relative to "re call of members of the City Council " we desire to deny that the Hawthorne Ave nue Improvement Club took any such action as alleged in the article. Our minutes of record do not show anything relative to ,the subject, as the matter has never been mentioned or discussed at our meetings. Whatever action may have been taken by any member or members of the club, Individually, we do not know, nor do we know what action may have been taken by the Sunnvside Push Club, as that le a separate" and distinct organization from the Hawthorne Avenue Improvement Club. This club has not agreed to hold any Joint meeting with any other organization regarding the sub ject of said article. Our club is strictly an Improvement club and was not or ganized for political purposes. FRANK M. WOOD, M. D.. Pres. W. C. WITZEL, Sec. j a- New Planing Mill Begun. WOODLAND. -Wash.. March 17. Spe cial.) John Peterson, logger and mill man, announced this morning that work would commence today on a new planing mill that he expects to have In operation inside of 40 days. All the dressed lum ber needed here must now come from points outside on the railroad, and seri ous delays to intended Improvements are very frequent, hence the new mill l wel comed. , THE MORNING PREGOMAX, THURSDAY, STEPS NOT-TAKEN TOWARD INITIATIVE Normal Schools Consider Best . Way to Get Question Be fore People. WESTON TO MAKE NO MOVE Supporters Discouraged Over Fur ther Effort to Keep Vp School. All Concerned With Problem of Caring for Teachers. While it is stated that friends and sup porters of the normal schools cut off from state aid by the Legislature will in- '. voke. the initiative to bring the question before the people at the next general election in November, nothing definite has yet been started by any one of the three schools. Indeed, at Weston a sentiment has arisen against trying to do anything more for the school there. Ashland supporters have formed no plan for getting under way an initiative move ment, although it is stated that such a course will be adopted. Friends of Monmouth are asking advice of graduates as to the best means of procedure in starting an initiative measure for submission to the people All the schools are said now to be con cerned with the immediate problem of furnishing support to the teachers who TJ6 ' wlthout positions in the middle" of the year. TEACHERS ARE LEFT STRAXDED Ashland Will Start Initiative Move ment Tor Funds. ASHLAND, Or., March 17. (Special.) The Southern Oregon State Normal at Ashland will undoubtedly come be fore the peopie of Oregon for an ap propriation under the initiative at the next general election, but the matter of plans for Immediate continuance of the school is the problem in which the peo ple of this section are most Interested at the present time. A. number of the teachers of the school engaged by the State Board in the Eastern states came here last Sep- vTerndeJr contrac. to teach for a year. They brought their families with them. The salaries paid them to Feb ruary 1 barely met their moving and living expenses and a serious situation now confronts them with maintenance appropriation from the state cut off Vl? ?TZ the, hardest h't among those ? ?r frm the a"itude which Oregon, tnrough its Legislature, has taken toward the State Normal Schools. A large class of pupils, too, is about Jh?,y ? RradUate" These have Pursued their studies at the school for three and one-half years and are also anx ious over the existing situation. MONMOUTH IS DISAPPOINTED Getting Advice From Alumni as to Draft of Initiative. MONMOUTH. Or.. March 17 (Special ) Friends of Monmouth are disappointed at the failure of the special session to make any provision for the submission of the normal question to the people at the next election. They, still feel it would be better for a disinterested man to prepare an initiative bill that would be fair alike Schools No plan has been formulated et. but advice will be sought of gradu ates and friends at a distance. Monmouth supporters have been greatly encouraged by the strong personal indorsement given by members of the Legislature and by leading business men in Portland The advocates of a State Normal School, to be permanently located in Monmouth realize that the proposition must be pre sented to the people in the fairest possible manner. They believe in the success of their cause and are willing and anxious to secure advice from all quarters before determining the form of the initiative. WESTON GIVES UP ITS NORMAL Feeling Very Bitter Against Sen ators Held Responsible. WESTON STATION, Or., March 17 (Special.) While it is too early to gauge the community sentiment with regard to Invoking the initiative in behalf of the Weston Normal, it Is thought unlikely that this will be done in the opinion of those best Informed! The school will be run with local funds Everything here night as well as wear. Full dress suits for day and Tuxedos, with every de tail just as it should be. At $25 we show the finest Tux edo suit in town. 166-170 Third Street until the June commencement. After that 'it is proposed to abandon all thought of having a Normal School, which could be run only on the most meager basis, and would command no standing should it go before the people. Several of its teachers are left prac tically penniless with two months' sal aries unpaid and with no chance to get positions, and must, if they stay until June, work for the merest pittance, as the fund is not sufficient to keep the school going on a half-pay basis.. FIRST TO PACK SALMON PATRICK J. M'GOWAN OBSERVES 9 2D BIRTHDAY. Came to Oregon in 18SO and Has Been Closely Identified With Canning Industry. ASTORIA, Or., March 17. (Special.) Patrick J. McGowan, who today celebrat ed the 92d anniversary of his birth, has the distinction of having been born on the natal day of Ireland's patron saint, of being an Oregon pioneer of 1850 and also of being one of the first to recognize and take advantage of the commercial value Columbia River salmon fisheries. ic, " .McGowan was born on March 17, 1817, in Cararakeel, County Mayo Ire land. At the age of 18 years, he went to Lngland, where he remained for seven ar4v.,residinS at Liverpool, Ashton-on-the-Willows and in London. In 1842 he came to America and located at BUicott- V, L', N" wY- Tnere he e"ea&ed in the clothing business, meeting with marked success for nearly seven years, when, on account of ill health, he was compelled to seek a less severe climate. According ly, he came to the Pacific Coast, and ar rived at San Francisco In July, 1849 He immediately went to the mines and fol lowed that pursuit with moderate suc cess mitil near the close of 1S50, when he purchased a stock of clothing and opened a store in Portland, later admitting An drew Roberts as e. partner. In 1852, while East to purchase a new stock of goods, he was married at Elli cottvllle, N. T., to Miss Jane M. Huntley. In 1853 Mr. McGowan disposed of his in terest in the Portland store and pur chased a claim of 320 acres at what is now known as McGowan, located on the north shore of. the Columbia River a short distance below Chinook, Wash This claim was part of an old mission grant and the purchase was made through the presiding missionary, a French priest, named Leonette, for $1200 Residing on this claim until 1857, Mr' McGowan again moved., to Portland where he engaged in the general mer chandise business In partnership with William Church for four years, when he returned to McGowan. and since that Patrick J. lto4;.. n 01 Old, One of First to RmokdIk commercial Possibilities of Co lumbia River Salmon. time he has made his home at that place Mr. .McGowan was quick to perceive the commercial value of the Columbia River salmon fisheries and in the early bOs he commenced the packing of salmon. At that time there was no such thing as a cannery on the Pacific Coast, so he salted the fish in barrels to be sent abroad in - sailing vessels. The royal Chinook was plentiful at that early date and fishermen made fairly good wages catching them at 10 cents each. A salmon that cost 10 cents In those days would bring J2.50 now. as the fishermen are paid by the pound instead oi by the fish. A few years later he established a caii nery at McGowan and in 1883 admitted his four sons as partners, tue business now being conducted under the firm name of P. J. McGowan & Sons. In 1888 the firm s business was enlarged by the erec tion of what was known as thS Buchhelt Packing Company's cannery on the Up per Columbia. In the latter part of the same year a third cannery was estab lished by the firm on North River. Shoal water Bay. and in 18S9 a fourth cannery WAR built o f II 1 ... ----- ' xiojui, uu me tjne halis River, near Cosmopolis. Each of laimcuts provea a success nnan- P i 1 1 V Uni) tha firm V. ; . , . ...... .icia vimuuueu to con duct a profitable business. WHS CURED DI S TO 14 DATS. Pazo Ointment Is guaranteed to cure au case of ltchlns. blind, bleeding or protrudlni Silas In 6 to U days or money refunded. SOs. I ,;t 4 ; - ' if MARCH 1909. G-1534- Fashion's latest edict with outside pockets, double strap handles, all the new shades of ues to $2.50, now at Bargain Tables of Art China Take the elevator to the Third Floor, and there you will find four big bargain tables. On the tables are odd pieces of fine Imported Art China and Vases, including the beautiful Am phora, Rozane, Kouchi, Cloisonne and many other fine wares. Table No. 1 Table No. 2 Table No. 3 Table No. 4 Choice Choice Choice Chqice 50c 75c $1.00 $1.50 Values Values Values Values to $2.00. to $2.50. to $3.00. to $4.00. CANADIAN MONEY TAKEN AT PAR 'TH1EFSAYS SISTER Woman Arrested for Stealing Brother's Adoption Papers. OTHER DOCUMENTS TAKEN Ruth Millman, Actress, Charges Mrs. E. J. Kinney of Appropriating Valuable Property After At- (ending Mother's Funeral. ABERDEEN, Wash., March 17. Special.) Accused of robbing her sis ter of adoption papers and other valu able documents, Mrs. E. J. Kinney was arrested this morning: on a Northern Pacific train, as It pulled Into Olympla, by the police of that city upon in structions received from the Aberdeen authorities. Airs. Kinney is the daughter of the late Mrs. M. C. Millman; and came here last week in response to a telegram announcing the serious illness of her mother. Mrs. Millman was also the mother of Ruth Millman, known to the stage as "La Petite Ruth.'" and playing at a local theater. Mrs. Mill man died suddenly Friday morning after an Illness lasting but a few hours. Some years ago Mrs. Millman adopt ed a baby boy. Regular adoption pa pers were drawn up and signed and were in the possession of Mrs. Millman at the time of her death. She also owned some property , near Spokane and other property upon which she was making regular monthly pay ments. Papers confirming her owner ship to this property were in her pos session. This morning Mrs. Kinney left for Spokane, taking with her the adopted son. who Is six years old. After her departure her sister, Ruth Millman discovered that the .adoption papers and the mortgages and real estate con tracts covering the Spokane property were missing. Charging that Mrs. Kinney had taken these documents with the intent of defrauding her out of the property In question. Miss Mill man swore out the warrant which re sulted In the arrest of her sister. Abater developments, it is stated by the police, are to the effect that the boy's father may be conspiring with Mrs. Kinney to secure possession of the child and along with It certain rights which he is supposed to possess In the Spokane property. Deputy Sheriff Youngberg left this afternoon for Olympia. HANDLING CHARGE S LESS Grain Warehouses on Sound to Itc t duce 25 Cents Ton. TACOMA. Wash., March 17. (Special.) The Puget Sound Warehouse Company commencing April 1. will make the charge for handling grain 50 cents a ton at all its warehouses at Puget Sound ports. The present charge is 75 cents. The order has been sent out by Edward Noon an. manager of the company at Tacoma, to the various branch warehouses at Se attle, Everett and other ports. This company has a string of more than '250 warehouses. El ma Creamery to Reopen. ELM A, Wash.. March 17. (Special ) The Elma creamery, which has been closed all Winter, will resume operations in a few days. Extensive repairs are being made. The creamery Is owned prin cipally by the farmers in this vicinity and. its, output Is about 100,000 pounds of Introductory Sale OF New Spring HANDBAG Worth $2.50-On Sale at 98c We have just received an express shipment of new and nobby styles of Spring Handbags, in all Shades and leathers Elegant $2.50 Handbags at Only 98c in Handbags, purse inside, riveted frame, leathers. Val 98c butter a year. A cold storage plant and Ice-making factory Is operated in con nection. $75,000 FIRE IN . TACOMA Plant or Puget Sound Lnmber Com pany Destroyed. TACOMA, March 17. Fire tonight de stroyed the plant of the Puget Sound Lumber Company, located on the -waterfront below Old Town. Loss, $75,000: In surance, $40,000. Good Roads Advisers Xamed. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 17. (Special.) Governor Hay has appointed a good roads advisory commission. There is no legal authority for such a body, but it has been the custom that such committee be named to take up better hWhway mat. 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For statis! tics show .that nearly all eczema suf ferers are perfectly healthy in all AndrifThyS eXCCPt aS to their -kin. T,ffv5 eczema patients were really suffering from an internal malady the entire body and not only the skin would be diseased. in You can prove immediately the relief tL rUe Sk'n CUre by oil of win- tergreen as compounded in D D r fj""Cr'Ptl0n- Thi3 "I"1 kiHs the 'dis ease germs, while toning un th healthy part of the skin P 6 We have now handled this meritori ous and thoroughly scientific remedy resuUs IT andthave it- reliable results so many times that we freely ex press our confidence 0,rt.ard CJLark & Co., Skidmore SnwK-,P i: J,- C- Wya". ' Vancouver. "o.eD. D.E""' 01 reSn CUy- lD- THE POPULAR SCOTCH ; I Something new in Handbags are the new shapes, very swell and swagger, of hammered leather, outside pockets, riveted frame; shades of tan, brown and black. 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