THE MORNING- OREG ONI AX, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1909.
MRS. NELSON RSKS
THAT BODY BE HELD
year-old son of T. Hagarmu, Is dead
from an accidental pistol shot which,
he received at noon today. Mr. Hagar
man lives at Willard, but the son was
helping: on the Babcock ranch. 12 miles
southwest of St. John, when the acci
dent occurred.
Young Hagarman was at the ranch
house when the shot was fired. He
had been using: blank cartridges, snap
ping: the hammer to scare the girl -who
was cooking; for them. Then he would
place a regular cartridge in the pistol
and fire to frighten her.
Wife of Man Who Died Trying
to Find Spouse Believed to
Be in Spokane.
By mistake the boy. Intended to load
the pistol with blank caps or" cart
ridges, placed in the gun a loaded
shell. He pointed the gun at the girl.
It Is said, two or three times and
snapped It to scare her. Then to show
her there was no danger, he carelessly
pointed the pistol at his head and
pulled the trigger. The gun was dis
charged and the bullet entered the
right temple and passed through the
head.
FIGHT OVER ESTATE SURE
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Telegram Purporting to Have Been
Sent From ew York Is Re
ceived in Tacoma Lawyers
Make fgly Charges.
HAZiN6 TO BE PROBED
OREGON REGENTS AVIXIj TAKE
UP BRISTOIj CASE.
TACOMA, -Wash.. April 4. (Special.)
'New complications were added today
to the muddled situation regarding the
valuable estate left by Andrew P. Nel
son, the Tacoma switchman who killed
himself here after a fruitless search
for his wife, who disappeared last Oc
tober. Coincident with the announcement
from Spokane that Mrs. Nelson Is in
hiding in that city. Attorney G. Mc
Qtieston received a telegram from Mrs.
Nelson, dated New York. In which she
asked that her husband's body be held
until her arrival. From today's de
velopments It Is evident that Mrs. Nel
son is in the land of the living, and
that there will be a lively court con
test over the money left bv Nelson.
Nelson, according to Attorney Gar
vey, intended that his estate, believed
to be worth from 2ft.0OO to $30,000.
should be left to the Catholic Church.
Nelson died, however, before he could
make out his will.
Startling Developments Dally.
There will now be a three-cornered
fight over the estate, and unless the
woman shows up before the end of
the week further complications may be
added to give the sensational case a
dramatic close. Each day has brought
some now and startling developments,
and the attorneys are charging each
other with attempting to "rake off a
lsrse fee from the handling of the es
tate. Saturday afternoon Amos Hand, a
Tacoma brakeman, operating between
Tacoma and Portland, called on Attor
ney Charles K. George and declared
he had been shown a letter by Harry
Overland, a Portland switchman, who
stated It was from his divorced wife
In Spokane. The letter, it Is said,
stated that Mrs. Nelson had been liv
ing with Overlands divorced wife In
that city, and the two had arranged
for the purchase of a lodging-house
for the accommodation of trainmen.
Accompanying the letter, said Hand,
was a postal-card picture of the two
women taken in Spokane, showing
them seated in an automobile. Hand
was Intimately acquainted with the
late switchman and his erratic wife,
and recognized the picture Immedi
ately. Think Telegram Is "Fake."
Attorney McQueston received a tele
gram dated in New York Saturday,
which read:
"Take immediate control, as my at
torney, of all affairs of Andrew P.
Nelson. Keep his remains until I ar
rive, if possible. Mrs. Anna M. Nelson."
Attorney .McQueston now demands
all of the dead man's effects.
Hans and Louis Mikkelson, brothers
of Mrs. Nelson, who live in Spokane,
identified Nelson's remains Saturday
evening and left fo home. The tele
gram was received by McQueston after
they had telegraphed Spokane. Attor
neys George and Garvey allege the
telegram dated in New York was sent
from Spokane and that Mrs. Nelson has
boon hiding there to the knowledge of
her brothers. They deny this story.
Mrs. Nelson left her husband be
cause. It Is alleged, he brutally beat
her when he was Intoxicated. At the
time of her leaving It Is said she car
ried off a large part of the family
fortune, the ajnount named being
S3S.O00.
Hearing In Portland . Thursday to
Be Continued In Eugene on
Following Day.
The first hearing of the commission
appointed by the Board of Regents of
the University of Oregon to make an
Investigation into the Ralph Bristol
hazing episode at Eugene will be held
Thursday afternoon In the offices of
Frederic V. Holman. In Portland. Be
sides Mr. Holman, chairman, the com
mission consists of Judge William
Smith, of Baker City, and John C.
Aiosworth. of Portland.
The matter will first be considered
In a general way in this city, and on
Friday morning the party will leave
for Eugene, where an Investigation
will be held, lasting over two days
if necessary. Witnesses will be called
and examined precisely on the lines
of a judiciary court, and the regents
are determined to learn the facts In
the case.
The following formal notice has been
sent to all students of the University of
Oregon who are known to have any
knowledge of the hazing:
My Dear Sir A committee of the Board
of Kegents will hold a meeting in the new
Engineering Hall, on the University cam-
gus. at 10 o'clock in the morning of April
1909. to Investigate the Bristol bath
tubbing affair.
You are hereby notified to be present and
appear before said committee at said time.
i no registrar will approve excuses from
classes during the time you are required
to be present at this meeting. Yours very
truly. L.. H. JOHNSON. Sec.
Among the students who have been
summoned to testify are the following:
Wilfred Wattenberg, Chester A. Downs,
James JCetll. Ray Walsh, Jack Trew,
Earl Marshall, Louis McCoy, Skel Roach,
Harvey Slater, Verner Gilles. Francis
Risley, Horton Nicholas, L. H. Gregory
George Gabriel, Carl Osterholm.
Young Bristol, who is a Portland
boy; became violently Insane after be
Ing held In a tub of water by students
or the University of Oregon.
BOY BURGLARS CONFESS
TWO PORTLAND LADS ODER
ARREST IX TACOMA.
RAILROAD SHOWS DEFICIT
Glies Figures to Show That Seaside
Rates Are Not Excessive.
ASTORIA. Or.. April 4. (Special.) The
members of the State Board of Railroad
Commissioners were in session here yes
terday, hearing protests of a number of
business men of Seaside that the Astoria
A Columbia. River Railroad Company is
discriminating against that place in the
matter of freight rates, the claim being
that a higher rate is charged on a car
load of freight between Astoria and Sea
side, a distance of IS miles, than between
Portland and Astoria, a distance of 100
miless.
After hearing a portion of the testi
mony an adjournment was taken to some
date to be fixed in the future, when ad
ditional evidence will be submitted.
Among the matters submitted to the
Commission was a report of the Income
and expenses of the railroad company
during the past four years, showing that
its net deficit at the end of 190S amounted
to t590.lM.SS.
GIRL'S DEATH MYSTERIOUS
Coroner Holds Inquest Over Body of
Miss Barnes at Marshfleld.
MARSHF1ELP, Or.. April 4. (Special.)
On the belief that her sudden death
was not due to natural causes, an in
quest was held today over the body of
Mabhie L. Barnes, a-year-old daughter
of W. G. Barnes. After taking evidence,
the jury adjourned until Tuesday to give
time in which to make a cheuiic&l test
for traces of poisoning.
Miss Barnes was a beautiful young
woman and belonged to a respected fam
ily. The parents are inclined to be
lieve that death was due to heart trouble.
Floyd Fessler and Edward Richards
Captured at Home of Rich
ard's Aunt.
TACOMA, Wash.. April 4. (Special.)
Charged with eight store burglaries In
Portland, Floyd Fessler and Edward
Richards, aged 16 and 17 years respec
tively, were arrested in South Tacoma
today and are now being held awaiting
tne arrival or an officer from Portland.
With a lad named Allen Sharon, now
under arrest in Portland, the two accused
lads under arrest here burglarized two
drugstores, a commission produce and a
crockery store as well as four other
stores in Portland. Today young Rich
ards confessed to his share in the
burglaries. Implicating Fessler and
haron. .
In one of the stores burglarized, three
bank checks were taken and Sharon was
captured while attempting to cash one
of them. Richards stood across from
the store and wnen he saw Sharon ar
rested he telephoned to Fessler and with
a capital of 45 cents they crossed the
river and walked to Kelso, where they
boarded a train for South Tacoma, going
to the home of Richards' aunt, where
they were found today.
The robberies for which Edward Rich
ards and Floyd Fessler have been
arrested were perpetrated severs
days ago. Both the Laue-ravi
drug stores were entered and money
was taken from pooh one. From
the store on Washington street $3
was stolen, and J3 was taken from th
store on Third and Yamhill streets.
Bailey's crockery store was robbed of
$6 worth of stamps, a gold watch was
taken from the. Great Eastern Tea
Company's . store, stamps were stolen
from the Smith-Premier Typewriter
Company, an.', a small amount of .rash
was taken from a wholesale store on
Front street.
A stolen check that Sharon tried to
cash led to h.s airest. He was caught
at the first National Bank. Officer
Harms went to the bank and arrested
and brought him to the station,
where he was turned over to Detec
tives Coleman and Price, who exam
ined him closely. Sharon confessed to
the crime and gave the officers a clew
as to the whereabouts of his accom
plices. Detective Coleman left last night
for Tacoma to bring the young suspects
back with him.
Richards' parents are well-to-do and
live on a country place near Oak Grove.
Fessler's mother lives at 96 Thirteenth
street north.
ALBANY GROWING RAPIDLY
Postal Receipts Show Increase of
$'2000 in Two Months.
ALBANY, Or.. April 4. (Special.) The
recvipts of the Albany postoffioe for the
fiscal year ending March 31 were $15,132.14.
This is a gain of almost M0O over the
pst fiscal year, when the receipts were
$13.13.7$. That Albany is growing more
and more raridly each month is shown by
th fa.-t that the biggest postal gain of
the year was during the past month. In
March. 1!S, the receipts were $13s.13 and
during the past month the total was
$lt45.tt.
KILLED BY BLAST IN MINE
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TWO WELL-BUILT,
HANDSOME HOMES IN
BEAUTIFUL
ROSE CITY PARK
The home illustrated above is a nine-room mo&ern bunga
low, built for Mr. W. A. Patterson, of the Ideal Candy Co.,
by H. L. Camp & Co., contractors, on lot 100x100 feet. The
interior is finished in mission fir, and makes a comfortable
home, with ideal surroundings, for Mr. Patterson and his
family.
The other picture illustrates the home of F. W. Hender
son, on Rokeby avenue. It is a well-built, substantial home
valued at $4000.
These houses are. with one hundred others of the same
class, helping to establish this delightful tract as the choice
residential section of Portland. Price of lots, $450 up, in
cluding improvements.
. "We are making a rebate-to-builders offer.
II A RTMAN & THOMPSON
Chamber of Commerce.
Branch Office, Rose City Park.
COAST LAND SINKS
Army Experts Investigating
Conditions Below Astoria.
CRACKS IN WALLS OF FORT
elation of Umatilla County on Friday
and Saturday, May 28 and 29. Weston
will make elaborate preparations to
entertain tire pioneers and their
friends on this occasion. Next week
President S. A. Barnes will announce
his appointment of committees. J. D.
Lee, of Portland, president of the
State Association of Pioneers, has been
invited to give the memorial address.
The selection of the above dates will
make two events of interest to occur
at Weston within one week, as the
final annual commencement of the
Kastern Oregron State Normal School
has been set for May 23 to 25. '
J. M. O'Harra has been appointed
secretary of the Pioneers' Association,
succeeding- J. M. Hicks, resigned.
GIVEN NEWOUiS
"UNLOADED" PISTOL KILLS
Boy Who Tries to Frighten Girl,
Puts Bullet Into Own Head.
SPOKANE!- Wash.. April 4. (Spe
cial.) Tom H&sarman, Jr., the 1-
Oiw Workman Dead and Second
Fatally Injured, It Is Feared.
BELUN'OHAy. Wash.. April 4. Will
Laufman was killed and Frank Hart
probably fatally injured today by an ex
plosion In a tunnel of the Great Ex
celsior Mine In the Mount Baker district,
near Maple Falls, in this county.
The news was brought to this city by
William Hart, brother of the injured
man. who was the o'.ly other man at the
mine at the time of the accident Coro
ner Wear and a physician .et'- this eve
ning on a special tram over tha B. K. A
B. C. road for the mine.
According to the statement of William
Hart, a heavy charsre of dynamite ex
ploded prematurely while the mn were
engaged In blasting operations. They
were doing special work on oundAy and
the full crew was therefore not at work.
Laufman. who was standing almost
over the charge, was blown to pieces1
Frank Hart was hurlad several yards and
v. as injured by flying (r&gmi?ts of rock.
William Hart alone was uninjured. Iauf
man and the Harts arc residents et Bel-llngham.
Railroad Tracks Moved to Higher
Ground Height of Dykes In
creased to No Avail Rook
Work In the Jetty Sinks.
FORT STEVENS. Or.. April 4. (Spe
cial.) Army experts are deeply inter
ested In Investigations now under way
which show that the sinking condi
tion first noted at Fort Stevens is
prevalent throughout the peninsula. It
has been found that some of the heav
ier buildings at Fort Stevens are set
tling rapidly, and In some Instances to
such an extent as to cause cracks In
the masonry and foundations. In the
vicinity of Flavel It has recently been
necessary for the Astoria Colum
bia River Railroad Company to In
crease the elevation of Its track in or
der to be above high water.
It has also been found necessary
from time to time materially to In
crease the estimates for the amount
of rock required to complete the Co
lumbia River Jetty, owing to the fact
that after roek has been placed in the
jetty it settles more rapidly than can
be accounted for.
At Wflrrenton the height of the
dykes used to prevent inundation has
been greatly increased. Despite this
precaution damage has been done be
cause of flood conditions. .
Experts recently investigating the
feasibility of sea wall construction at
this point have devoted considerable
time and attention to the cause lead
ing an to this result.
The proposed fire control installa
tion, which includes the construction
of a large observation tower some 60
feet In height, may have to be post
poned pending exact information as to
the cause and extent of this apparent
subsidence.
VARSITY ISSUES BULLETIN
Xcw Number Gives Information to
Prospective Students.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
April 4. (Special.) The first bulletin of
the University of Oregon on its resources
as an institution of education is now
published. It contains a thorough de
scription of the facilities for education
as well as a description of the campus
and buildings.
It outlines the courses given, includ
ing among these the courses of law and
medicine, located tn Portland, and also
those of the correspondence and Sum
mer schools. The correspondence school
has lately been established and is now
coincident to the courses of the Univer
sity. The Summer schcM is held during
six weeks of the Summer vacation for
teachers and students who cannot at
tend the regular college course.
The Bulletin will be sent to all senior
pupils In the high schools over the state
and to others interested in the University.
J. M. Peterson Lies Dying
Berkeley Hospital.
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DOGS TRACK ASSAILANT
dered them to walk straight ahead and
not to turn back. They obeyed.
At the stone quarry where they are
employed the victims reported the rob
bery. Deputy Sheriff Warren at La
Camas and the authorities of Vancouver
have been notified. The robbers wore
derby hats, long overcoats and handker
chiefs over their faces. The latter are
said to have been Been at Fisher's wait
ing for a train.
Fair Directors Chosen.
OREGON CITY, Or., April 4. (Special.)
The Clackamas County Fair Associa
tion has elected 6ix directors, as follows:
W. H. Balr, Canby; C. il Ramsby. Ore
gon City: W. W. Everhart. Molalla:
George Lazelle, Mount Pleasant; John S.
Risley. Milwaukie; James W. Smith.
Macksburg. These, with the County
Court, constitute the board of directors.
The meeting of the board of directors
has been called for Friday, April 9.
According to Consul E). R. Birch, of Alex
andria, the final authentic estimate nxe
the size of the Egyptian cotton crop, now
heinir marketed, at from J25,000,000 to 650.-
ono.000 riounds.
FACTIONS FIGHT IN CHURCH
PIONEER PICNIC MAY 28
Weston Will Entertain State's
Early Settlers.
WESTON, Or.. April 4. (Special.)
At a meeting last evening it was de
cided to hold the fourteenth annual re
union of the Orwon Pioneers Akso-
Ono Side Seeks Removal of Priest
and Trouble Ensues.
WAXJUACE. Idaho, April 4. (Special.)
A factional fight In St. Alphonse Catho
lic Church in which one party is seeking
the removal of the priest, led to an un
pleasant scene at both masses today.
This being the day for the payment of
pew rent, when the time came for the
usual collection. Father Becker started
for the collection basket. Joseph Whalen,
one of the priest's opponents, also made
a start for the basket.
He reached it first, and was jostled
aside by the priest, but immediately came
back with sufficient force to push Father
Becker back out or tne road. He grabbed
the basket and started to take up the
collection, the priest calling, "I protest
against these proceedings." Further de
velopments are expected in the next few
days. Neither party receded from its
position, the opponents of Father Becker
deolarlng their determination that he be
removed If the matter has to be taken
to the Vatican for settlement.
Two Men Engage In Saloon Fight
Because of Slighting Remark
One Man Is Said to Have
Made Regarding Woman.
BERKELEY, Cal., April 4. John M.
Peterson, a former master-at-arms of
the revenue service, is In an Oakland
hospital tonight with nine knife
wounds in his, body, and William H.
Wiley, a resident of Ocean View, Is
hiding In the hills with a posse in
search of him. The men fought early
today as the climax of a family feud
of long standing. Peterson's recovery
is doubtful.
Aocording to Peterson's brother-in-
law, Frank Seltx, a private in the
Coast Artillery, Wiley and Peterson
quarreled late last night in a saloon.
It is said that their wives had been
unfriendly for some months, and Seltz
states that Wiley accused Peterson of
having made an insulting remark
concerning Mrs. Wiley. The men went
outside, and as Peterson was taking
off his coat. Seits says. Wiley attacked
him with a knife, stabbing him in
nine places before the bystanders could
interfere.
Wiley made his escape. but was
traced by a trail of blood to a point
where he turned off into the woods.
Pump that fit at Rosenthal's.
THUGS GET $45 WITH GUN
Hold Up Two Men in Railroad Cat
East of Vancouver.
VANCOUVER. Wash., April 4. (Spe
cial.) While walking along the railroad
track in the big cut nine miles east of
Vancouver, on the North Hank railroad.
Ben Hanson and u. Ehegerstrin, em
ployes of the Columbia Contract Com
pany of Fisher's Landing, were held up
at the point of revolvers by two rob
bers and relieved of $45 and a gold
watch.
The robbers met the men on the track
poked the guns in their faces and or
dered hands up. One man kept them
covered while the other made an investi
gation of their pockets. After taking all
the valuables they had, the robbers or-
of
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