.'TIE MORNTNG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1909.
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WDOW
MOURNS
BESIDE HER DEAD
Mrs. Frank Ellis, Crazed .With
Grief, Still Hopes for
Signs of Life.
BODY TAKEN TO DALLAS
Woman Who Endured Awful Ordeal
in Josephine Cavern Sunday,
Returns North With Dead
Body of Husband.
DALLAS. Or., Aug. S. ( Special. V-r
Half crazed with Brief and slowly break
ing under the burden of the terrible
shock of the death of her husband, and
the long vigil over his corpse in the
darkness of the Southern Oregon caves,
the widow of Frank Ellis, who was acci
dentally shot Sunday, still lingers above
his coffin at the home of his father in
this city.
Her reason, which she held with a firm
rein throughout the terrible ordeal, has
been sorely tested, and she fancies at
times that she detects the first move
ments of returning life in the cold body
..before her. only to find at last that sne
Is mistaken, and to ask in wondering
grief of the other watchers about the
bier. "Why did they take him? Why did
they take him? How will I be able to
bear It? Must I live on alone for year
and years?"
Shows Remarkable Endurance.
M. D. Ellis returned to Dallas at noon
today with the body of his son. He was
accompanied by the young widow and her
sister. Except for a few hours' sleep
gained on the train under the Influence of
opiates, the young woman has had prac
tically no rest since the tragedy, and It
is small wonder that she begins to lose
her self-control at last. Physicians In
attendance, however, have confidence that
rest and the wonderful pluck which she
has thus far displayed may soon restore
her.
Mrs. Ellis' memory of the episodes of
the tragedy is perfectly clear, and she
was able to give a full and coherent ac
count of it to her father-in-law. After
the accidental discharge of the revolver
which killed her husband, the others of
the party fled in panic from the cave,
taking the torches with them and leav
ing her in darkness. Mr. Ellis had had a
torch In his hand, but it was extinguished
and the only light she secured during the
whole time was from two matches which
she found in his vest pocket.
Ellis neither moved nor spoke after
falling, and the weakening pulsations
of his heart were the only means his
wife had of knowing that he still
lived. When these finally ceased, she
groped her way out of the cave in
search of assistance. Upon reaching
open air. she found his watch In her
hand and noted the time, S:10. The
party had entered the cave shortly
after 12 o'clock.
Coward Can't Face Woman.
After wandering about for a long
time, she finally fonnd her way to the
camp from which they had started.
Here she found the rest of the party.
When she reached the camp, the other
women of the arty ran to her and
tried to comfort her. but Arthur Vine
yard, who had been with them, was
unable to look her in the face, or even
to speak to her. It was nearly 9
o'clock before the rescue party reached
the dead body, and even then Vineyard
refused to re-or ter the cave, declaring
: that Ellis had been murdered and
that the murderer had fired a number
of shots and was still hiding in the
cave. He seemed almost hysterical
with terror.
The body wu brought out of. the
cave ea-ly the following morning and
reached Grants Pass at midnight last
right, where the funeral party was re
ceived by the father of the dead man.
who had hastened from Dallas. The
body will be burled here.
MARTIN CASE IS ARGUED
Supreme Court Asked to Reverse
Conviction of Prisoner.
SALEM. Or, Aug. 8. (Special.) Two
cases were argued in Supreme Court
today, the State vs. Walsworth and the
State vs. Edward Hugh Martin. In the
Walsworth case father and son were
convicted and sentenced to life im
prisonment for killing a man named
James Mankin. The killing grew out
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of a neighborhood row and there are
said to be some mitigating circum
stances that have aroused considerable
sympathy for the younger Walworth.
The case was appealed from Jackson
county. The defendants' are in the
penitentiary. Clarence L. Reams ap
peared for the State and Robert (
Smith for the appellants.
Attorney John Jeffrey, of Portland,
appeared for Edward H. Martin, con
victed of manslaughter for killing the
pawnbroker. Nathan Wolff, and J. H.
Page represented the State.
GIBBONS GOING TO SEATTLE
Cardinal Will Travel in Harriman'a
Private Car.
SEATTLE. Aug. 3. Cardinal Gibbons
will leave Baltimore tomorrow night on
his way to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Ex
position. He will travel m . nax
riman'fi nrivate car and will be accom
panied by Right Rev. Dennis J. O'Con-
nell. auxiliary bisnop oi an rranciotu,
and bv other friends.
Cardinal Gibbons, after staying a few
dap in Chicago, will proceed to Salt
Lake City, where ha will officiate at tne
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Philip J. Slnnott, Appointed by
Senator Chamberlain.
OREGON. CITY, Or.. Aug. 3.
(Special.) Philip J. Sinnott, who
has been appointed by United
States Senator Chamberlain as a
cadet at West Point Military
Academy, was born in G 1 e n n s
Ferry, Idaho, November 17, 1889,
being nearly 20 years old. He is
the son of Judge A. M. Sinnott,
and came here in 1904 with his
parents, graduating from Mc
Loughlfn Institute in 1906. He
has been a member of Company
G, Third Regiment of Infantry,
Oregon National Guard, since its
organization two years ago. and
Is now a corporal in the company.
For the last two years ha has
been connected with the local
newspapers as reporter, and is a
bright, steady young man, popu
lar with his fellows and highly
esteemed among his associates in
this city.
consecration of the new cathedral there.
From Salt Lake City he will go to Los
Angeles, coming on to Seattle from the
Southern California city.
BIG WATER PROJECT AFOOT
Promoters In Big Bend Would Re
claim 650,000 Acres of Land.
SPOKANE, Aug. S. Preliminary work
for a great Irrigation project, bringing
water for 100 miles to supply SoO.OOO acres
of land. i being taken up by farmers of
Grant County, 76 miles southwest or Spo
kane. Their dan is to take water from the
Columbia River, near Marcus, and con
vey it by gravity system tnrough huge
pipe lines 1V miles long. The promoters
figure that 660.000 acres, or over 800 square
miles of semi-arid land, can be irrigated
at an average cost of less than $20 an
acre. Assessments of 2H cents an acre
for preliminary work are being collected.
COURT RECORDS ALL SAVED
Monday's Fire Losses at Everett Es
timated at $200,000.
EVERETT. Wash.. Aug. 8. The Bno
homifh Counfy records, which were in the
Courthouse that burned yesterday after
noon, were not destroyed. The build
ings burned last night were frame. Eight
alarms of fire were turned in last night.
The belief that yesterday's fires were
Incendlarv is not dispelled by today's In
vestigation. The total loss la estimated
at 00.009.
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WILL IS FORGERY,
SO COURT FINDS
Mrs. Mabel Warner's Attor
neys Accused of Aiding
in Conspiracy.
DOCUMENT IS TAMPERED
Original and Only Will Admitted to
Probate Bears Evidence of Trac
ing Over Signature to Make .
It Appear Forged.
PENDLETON, Or., Aug. 3. (Special.)
Mrs. Mabel Warner Is specifically charged
with having forged the famous "mys
terious fourth" will to the estate of the
late James W. Young, while attorney S.
V. Knox, of Weston, and Mrs. Delia
Stac?y, of La Grande, are charged with
conspiring with her In the forgery, by
the findings of fact in the County Court
hearing of the Young will contest. These
findings were signed this afternoon by
County Judge Gilliland before whom the
hearing was held.
It is also declared In the findings that
she Introduced as evidence a forged let
ter and a forged memorandumof con
tract and that the only true will which
has -appeared to the estate was muti
lated while in the possession of Mrs.
Warner, her attorney and two of her
handwriting experts.
First Will Only True Will.
In accordance with the above findings
the judge signed the decrees which spe
cify that the will will not be admitted
to probate because it is forged, was never
signed by J. W. Young, and never ac
knowledged by him. The findings of
fact, after declaring the so-called "first
will," which gives the greater part of
the. estate to Mrs. Nora Watts, niece of
the deceased, cousin of Mrs. Warner
and wife of Dr. F. D. Watts, of Dent,
Idaho, la the only' true last will and
testament of the late J. W. Young, they
proceed to deal with the "fourth" will
which is the one declared to have been
forged by Mrs. Warner.
This document Is characterized as a
"pretended"' will, and is declared to have
been forged by Mrs. Warner for the pur
pose of cheating the heirs of J. W.
Young out of their share of his estate.
It is also declared that she introduced
perjured testimony In order to promote
the probation of the "pretended" will.
Jury May Indict Woman.
In view of the sensational findings of
fact signed by Judge Gilliland, the im
pression prevails generally that the grand
Jury will this Fall be called upon to
return indictments against Mrs. Warner
on the charges of forgery, perjury, sub
ornation of perjury and tampering with
a court document. The document re
ferred to is the "first" will, the signature
to which the court finds was traced over
by Mrs. Warner or her associates while
in their possession by permission of the
court, the purpose of the tracing being
to show that this document ' has been
forged.
Mrs. Warner has twice been tried on
the charge of forging wills to this es
tate, the second and third mysterious
documents being the ones credited to
her hand. Both times the Jury failed
to agree, though before the close of the
second trial it was 1mltted by both
sides that both documents were spurious.
Each of these purported to give Mrs.
Warner the bulk of the Young estate.
BANK CAPITAL INCREASED
Vale Financial Institutions Respond
to Prosperity's March.
VALD, Or., Aug. 8. (Special.) Both
the banks of Vale have made noticable
changes the past week. J. L. Cole, presi
dent of the First Rank of Vale, states
that institution had Increased its capital
stock from $60,000 to JTE.OOO and has
changed the name from First Bank of
Vale to United States National Bank.
Claude. Gatch, National bank examiner,
has been in the city two days looking
over the books preparatory to making
the change. This bank is the largest
financial institution in Malheur County,
having about 3500,000 deposits. It has on
hand 335,000 surplus and undivided
profits. It is the oldest bank in Vale,
having been organized ten years ago
with a capital etock of J2o,000.
Last year the bank built the Hotel
Drexel. a handsome three -story struc
ture of white pressed brick and native
stone, at a cost of $50,000. This is the
finest hotel In Eastern Oregon. The
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bank itself now occupies the corner room
on Washington and Mailt streets.
. The officers of the new bank will be:
President, J. L. Cole; vice-president, T.
W. Halliday; cashier, E., L. Clark; as
sistant cashier, W. J. Douglass; second
assistant cashier, R. Weaver.
The First National Bank has increased
its capital stock to $50,000.
VOTE NOT TO BE HURRIED
Governor Benson In No Kuan. About
Income-Tax Amendment.
SALEM. Or., Aug. I (Special.) The
executive department of the state gov
ernment has received from Secretary of
State Knox, at Washington, a copy of
the resolution passed by Congress pro
posing the 16th amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution empowering the Con
gress to collect taxes on incomes. In
a letter to Governor Benson of Oregon,
Secretary Knox requests that the resolu
tion be submitted to the Legislature of
the State of Oregon for such acion as
the Legislature may see fit to take.
Recently Governor Benson expressed
the opinon that no special session of the
Oregon Lesislature would be called but
that the matter would be submitted at
the next regular biennial session.
The proposed amendment reads as fol
lows: "Article XVI. The Congress shall have
power to lay and collect taxes on in
comes, from whatever source derived,
without apportionment among the sev
eral states, and without regard to any
census or enumeration."
BAD DEBTS LEFT BEHIND
W. C. Bingham, of Seaside, Sud
denly Disappears From Town.
SEASIDE. Or.. Aug. 8. (Special.) W.
C. Bingham, who had been In business on
the shell road about two weeks, quietly
left town Saturday. He hired a rig from
Allen's livery stable, took his wife and
baby and trunk and drove to Astoria
Here he put the rig In a stable, went to
a barber shop and parted with his mus
tache. As the rig -was not returned to Seaside
in the time specified Mr. Allen grew sus
picious and telephoned to Astoria, locat
ing the rig, but not the man. Sheriff
Pomeroy, of Astoria, drove the team
back to Seaside. Bingham left several
small debts In Seaside.
HUGHES DINED IN SEATTLE
New York Governor Guest of Honor
at Luncheons.
SBATTLH Wash., Aug. S. Governor
Hughes, of New York, spent the day in
sightseeing and visiting the various ex
hibit buildings on the fair grounds. At
noon he was entertained at luncheon -by
Joslah Collins at the golf club. In the
evening he took luncheon with the alumni
of Cornell and Brown Universities at the
New York state building, ana tonight he
was tlhe guest of honor at a smoker given
by Samuel H11L
Governor Hughes will leave by boat
at 9 o'clock tomorrow for Vancouver, B.
C. from where he will go Bast over the
Canadian Pacific Railroad.
Hayseed Huller Secured.
VALE; Or., Aug. 3. (Special.) The
Vale Threshing Company, a local organi
zation, has recently bought a complete
alfalfa and clover huller. The machine
Is of 16-horaepower and cost 4000.
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EUGENE. Or Ang. S. (Spedai
Good news -la otmtalned In the state
ment of A. O. Wattls, of the Utah Con
struction Company, who. while In Eu
gene this morning-, stated that his
company would want 2000 men to go to
work on the extension of the Southern
Pacific's new railroad, to built from
Natron o Klamath Falls.
Mr. Watts said that a trainload of
construction material and supplies had
been shipped here from Orovllle and
Reno, Nev., for the railroad work,
and they will arrive within a few days.
"We expect to have a large force of
men at work beyond Natron in a very
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BOY BURNS COSTLY BARN
Starts Fire While Playing With
Matches Near Hay.
WEISER, Idaho, Aug. 3. (Special.) A
fire on Mann Creek, three miles from
this city, this afternoon, destroyed a
large barn, EO tons of alfalfa hay, out
houses and two horses. The property be
longed to Herman Bradshaw.
n.i. te timnnspH to have been isr-
' nited by a boy who was playing with
matches near tne oam. mo "
amount to several (hundred dollars, with
no Insurance.
HUCKLEBERRIES BIG CROP
Gallons of Luscious Pie Fruit Go
to Waste for Lack of Pickers.
SEASIDE, Or., Aug. S. (Special.)
Huckleberries are so plentiful in the hills
about Seaside that everyone who takes
the trouble to go after them comes home
with buckets full. The berries are of
great size and many gallons will remain
on the bushes for lack of people to
gather them.
Wild blackberries are Just ripening and
will be a big crop. '
Austrians In Bloody Fight.
ELMA. Wash., Aug. 3. (Special.)
A stabbing affray that nearly proved
fatal occurred in one of the saloons
here late last night. . Two Austrians,
employed on the new railroad, attacked
each other, ene beinff armed with a
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knife, which he thrust into the back of
the other, the knife penetrating the
man's lungs. The injured man was re
moved to the hospital where attending
physicians say the wound is not fatal.
The qw.rrel is the outcome of hard
feelings that have existed for some
time.
ITALIANS IN DEADLY FEAR
Afraid to Sign Names, They Make
Appeal to Spokane Police.
SPOKANE. Aug. 3. Afraid to sign
their names, and evidently in fear for
their lives, parties signing themselves "a
group of Italian Americans," have sent a
letter to Police Chief Sullivan asking him
to break up the Black Hand Society in
Spokane.
The writers declare they are In constant
fear of bodily harm or even death.
Michigan Educator Secured.
ASTORIA. Or., Aug. 3. (Special.) The
School Board has engaged . B. mane
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Members of Club Will Spend Two
Weeks at Mount Baker.
BELLINGHAM, Aug. 3. Forty mem- .
bers of the Maiamas, a mountain-climbing
club, of Portland. Or., arrived this
afternoon and will ascend Mount Baker.
The club is headed by President W. M.
Gorman, and J. Stone, president of Pur
due University, is with the party.
.The members of the club will spend
two weeks on the mountain.
Taking Sockeye Salmon.
BELLINGHAM, Aug. 3. Three hun
dred and nine thousand sockeye salmon
have been received by the canneries here
and at Anacortes . during the past 2
nours.
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