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THE MORNING OREGOMAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1910. GETS 5 YEARS SCANDAL 15 HINTED WOMAN CALLED "QUEEN OF FAKERS. WHO WILL BE GIVEN HEARING TODAY IN VANCOUVER JUSTICE COURT. Checkered Career of Check Passer Closes for Time. Mrs. Maud Johnson Gets Hear ing at Vancouver Today. r HAS CHANCE TO REFLECT TESTIMONY TO HURT SOME BARK n. - ; i . J iilp';' :ypfilBitiflIfe jJlilili Man Whose Operations Moved From California to South Sea Iles Fi nally MeeU Waterloo in San Quentin Prison. LOS ANGBLES.Cal.. Jan. 10. (Special.) Prank M. Barr, the smooth check worker, whose operations have not only extended over California, but have been In evidence in the South Sea Islands, was Riven a five-year term in San Quen tin prison yesterday by Judge Davis. On December 31, 190S, Barr drew a check for $T25 on the First National Bank of San Diego, which J. W'eisenberger, -of this city, cashed for him. The check came back marked "No funds." Barr was ar rested at Ashland, Or., September 9, 1909, end brought back for trial. Chief of Police Wilson, of San Diego, testified that Barr had served time in the County Jail in that city, whence he had been transferred from the Alameda County Jail, having pleaded guilty to a misuse of the United States mails. Barr went to Tahiti early in 1909, after his crime here, where he married Elina Drollett, daughter of J. Drollett, whom ho soon abandoned. He went by the name of Arthur J. Stephens, which is that of a well-known photographer in Ban Diego. A letter was introduced from the father of the young woman, saying- that Barr married his daughter May 15, 1909, and that immediately after the ceremony the couple went to Auckland, New Zealand, but not before he had secured $1100 on bad checks purported to be signed by his father-in-law and 5100 from another rela tive by the same route. , When he left his young wife he took a valuable string of pearls belonging to his sister-in-law. While in Tahiti, Barr masqueraded as an Army officer. Barr denied any recollection of the al leged marriage. He said he was drunk when he secured the money on the $525 check and could give no explanation. FREE ART HELPS IMPORTS Nearly 500 Per Cent Greater Than Last Year. WASHINGTON". Jan. 9. Free art un der the new tariff law is resulting in large importations. Deputy Consul-Gen-irral Yost, at Paris, lias been giving attention to the matter and his records show that the importations during the last two months are nearly 500 per cent greater than the corresponding period of last year. Taking the first two months under the present law, the authenticated Invoices of works of art and antiquities of his office show an Increase in exportation of exactly 461 per cent over the same months of 1908. In 1908 there were 149 invoices, val ued at J36S.097, and in 1909 there were 207 invoices, valued at $'J.096,120. "This placing of works of art upon the free list has given a wonderful stimulation to their importation into the United States,' says Mr. Yost, "and will result in securing for American art inusemus and galleries some of the hest works of the great masters of Europe." MAN AIDS D0G IN FITJiHT Deals Wolf Blow" With Club and Canine, Cripple, Is Saved. MOROCCO, Ind., Jan. 1. In the Kahkakee marsh country lives L. R. Worth, whose coon dog Marks took a night trip Into the woods back of the house, and a few minutes later sounds of a fierce strugle were heard. When Worth arrived on the scene, armed with a club, he found Marks mixed up with a large wolf and seem ingly the under dog in the fight. The wolf would probably have killed' him had not Worth used his club and finally landed a blow that partially ptunned the wolf. Marks had suffient strength left to finish the wolf, but the dog was so badly used uu It had to be helped liome. Its ears are in shreds and it may lose one eye, if not its life. 'OSTRICH" BOOTH APPEARS Man Sticks His Head in Hole to Use One. NEW YORK. Jan. 9. Hanging on the vail behind the desk at the Holland House is a mahogany box about two feet long by one foot wide and deep, with an oval-shaped hole in it lined with rubber. If you wait long enough you will see a clerk fit his face to the hole. This is one of the new telephone booths one of the few that are to be ecn about New York and which it Is said the telephone company is fight ing. Talking into one gives you an ostrlchlike feeling compared with the booth of the cupboard variety, but at the Holland House they say that the result is just as satisfactory as the other kind, and the "ostrich" booth takes up no room. BULLET GOES ON RAMPAGE 1'asr.os Through Pigeon Aimed at and I-odsrcs in AVoman's Body. STAMFORD, Conn.. Jan. 10. A bullet from a rille handled by John Handel, the pollen say did some little harm here. Mr. Handel aimed the shot at a pigeon, and the bullet panned through the pigeon's body and lodged in the side of Mrs. George McEltiose. who was on her back rloop in range of the gun. Surgeons have not yet locatfl the bul let in Mrs. McElhose's body, but they Bay the wound is not serious. Onr Kirst Ameriean Book. Minneapolis Journal. The first American book printed in ths colonies was the "Bay Psalm Book." It was printed at Cambridge. Mass.. in 1640. It is a thin volume, about the sin of an ordinary 12-mo. of the present day. So rare is it that the compiler of a cata logue of such books has remarked in a note that "any comments on its import ance wonld be sheer impertinence." An other copy of the same work printed sev eral years later, supposed to be a second edition and the only known copy of that tlate, sold not long ago for J 135. SIRS. MAI D JOII.VSO.V, REaiJISITIOXED FROM OREGON" TLAST WEEK. STATE LOSES EXAMINER WILBUR, wash., max becomes BANK CASHIER. William Thomson, Ptecently of Spo kane, Accepts Position With IOwislon Institution. LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 10. (Spe cial.) William Thomson, of Wilbur, Wash., Deputy State Bank Examiner of Washington, is to be cashier of the Lewiaton National Bank which was re cently purchased by the Union Secur ities Company of Spokane. The announcement was made late to night, and Mr. Thomson, who is" now in Lewiston, has wired his resignation to Governor M. E. Hay, who has ac cepted it, and congratulated Mr. Thom son upon his appointment. Mr. Thomson, for 16 years, was as sistant cashier of the State Bank of Wilbur, and previous to his accepting the appointment of Deputy Bank Ex aminer for Washington was a director in the Spokane & Kastern Trust Com pany of Spokane. The stock of the Lewiston National Bank owned by the Idaho Trust Com pany, has been transferred to the Union Securities Company, the transfer being made late Saturday night at a con sideration amounting to something over $200,000. NO- MORE JHCENT MEALS Hardships in Store for City's Down-and-Out Class. Washington (D. C.) Herald. An increase of a penny in the cost of a meal does not seem serious, but when the price is advanced 20 per cent, that is another matter. The "soup houses" of the East Side and the Bowery, in New York, have raised the price from 5 cents to 6, which means a decided increase in the cost of living of the patrons. It is a matter of grave importance to those who patronize the Hand-in-Hand restaurants and others run on the same plan. The cost of living has increased, and the very poor are the ones who experi ence It first. Fortunately, there is pros perity in the land, which means that any able-bodied man can get work with wages large enough to support an average family. There is a "down-and-out" class, however, which is subnormal. Prosper ity or adversity is the same. This class of unfortunates suffers when the price is increased. Restaurant prices have been climb ing for several years. The cost of food stuffs is getting higher and higher. The farmer is prosperous, and this sets a standard for the Nation. But unless there is an advance of wages all along the line at a relative rate of increase with the price of food, there will be hardship. New York and Chicago are concerned with the feeding of thousands who have lost all ambition and all hope. London has a larger percentage of this class than any , other city. The larger the city the more it attracts this element, which is a study in psychology. It is not crime nor vice; it is helplessness. The single penny that has been added to the cost of a meal means much. It may turn many from laziness and a shiftless existence to crime. It may prove an incentive for the worse. W0 MONEY; OLD MAN WALKS Trip of 18 Miles In Cold Is Made by Nonogenarlan for Naught. CAMDEN, X. J., Jan. 10. Fearing the dire consequences of failure to respond to a summons of the grand Jury as- a witness in a criminal case, Gottleib Most, 90 years old. trudged 18 miles from his home in Medford to this city, only to discover that he was not needed, the case having been settled. The poor old man was trembling and blue with the cold, as he appeared at the Courthouse, and Mr. Scovel, prosecutor of the pleas, started a fund to carry him back home by rail with a little on the side for Christmas. TAME WOODPECKERS NEXT Naturalist Educates Birds to Make Birdseye Wood' Out of Maple. BANGOR. Me,. Jan. 10. After spend ing more than 60 years and more than $10,000 in hunting bears and studying the ways of wild creatures. Greenleaf Davis, of Mount Katahdin. has begun to raise tame woodpeckers with the purpose of using them to convert ordinary rock maples into the rare and costly wood known as birdseye maple. Mr. Davis is more than 80 years of age. It has been Mr. Davis' belief that no creature should be kept in captivity more I "It than a month. He has two crows, one more than 30 years old, which have stayed by him and never sought the so ciety of their kind. Two robins Jived with him for three years. His great suc cess, however, has been won with wood peckers, of which he now has nearly 100. Most of them are the red-headed sap suckers, which pick round holes In the bark of trees. He passed weeks in his grove watchins the result of the wounds which the birds inflicted in bark. As the scars healed lie noticed that there was a bright red spot left on the wood directly below the wound. It occurred to him that as tho markings of birdseye maple were due to red spots in the wood, and as nobody had ever been -able to account for them, it was possible that this variety might owe its origin to the work of woodpeck ers. By -mixing ants with - a paste formed from elm bark boiled down to a thicls batter he can smear the trunks of thrifty maples with such food as the woodpeck ers require, and while they are getting a meal from the bark their bills are bor ing new holes in the trees and transform ing ordinary maple, Worth no more than $12 a thousand feet, into birdseye maple that sells anywhere from $50 "to $60 a thousand. BEAR ATTACKS HUNTER MAN AXD BEAST ENGAGE IN FIERCE FIGHT. Bruin Commences Set-to AVhile Man Is Skinning Deer and Is Killed Only After Struggle. THE FORKS, Maine. The fourth man to be tackled by a bear in the ,woods near here recently was Wallace Durgin, who had his adventure the other day near his father's house. He had his rifle close at hand and he made short work of dispatching the brute, but this was not the luck of Earnest Gubtil of New Vineyard. Gub til had been hunting for moose for two weeks. He dropped a fine buck, and then placed his rifle against a tree and began the work of dressing the car cass. The hunter, knife in hand, was at work when suddenly he received a blow on the left side which sent him to the ground half stunned. Gubtil then found himself grappling with a black bear, which, when cold that evening, weighed 460 pounds. By means of rolling and tumbling. kicking at the bear and warding off attempts to grapple, Gubtil finally, with blood streaming from two dozen Dad scratches, reached his rifle. . Bi exerting all his remaining strength Gubtil dropped the muzzle against the bear s breast as the brute rose "and pulled the triggger. The expansion bullet killed the bear almost instantly. At the moment of the discharge the bear was making a blow for Gubtil's face, but the claws dragged against his shoulder. Gubtil was found, weak from loss of blood and unable to proceed to camp by Horace Adams, a trapper, who brought him in. Horace Adams has Killed fourteen bears this Fall and oth ers nave killed eleven. The local hunters never knew bears to be so fe rocious before. The reason for it is ascribed to the lack of wild berries. Goethe Predicted Panama Canal. J. F. Rhodes in "Historical Essays." No statesman, or man of business could have had a wider outlook than Goethe, when, Feburay 21, 1827, he thus spoke: "I should wish to see England in possession of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. . . . And it may be foreseen that the United States, with its decided predilection to the West, will. In 30 or 40 years, have occupied and peopled the large tract of land be yond the Rocky Mountains. It may furthermore be forseen that along the whole coast of the Pacific Ocean, where nature has already formed the most capacious and secure harbors, impor tant commercial towns will gradually arise, for the furtherance of a great Intercourse between China and the East Indies and the United States. In such a case, it would not only be desirable, but almost necessary, that a more rapid communication should be maintained between the eastern and western shores of North America, both by merchant ships and men-of-war, than has hither to been possible with the tedious, dis agreeable and expensive voyage around Cape Horn. . . . It Is absolutely In dispensable for the United States to effect a passage from the Gulf of Mex ico to the Pacific Ocean, and I am cer tain that they will do it. Would that I might live to see it!" Southern Malarial Germ. Topeka Journal. What now ails the "South is not so much the war and its consequences, or is it the negro, but it is the slow, sure, steady destruction of the white man's red blood corpuscle, gradually eaten up by the malarial gertn Alleged 'Queen of Fakers' Will Face Justice Court in Washington City This Morning Prisoner Returns With Sheriff. VANCOUVER. Wash., Jan. 10. Spe cial.) Mrs. Maud Johnson, whose testi mony, when she appears to answer the charge of obtaining money from the Northern Pacific by false representation, may start a scandal in the claim depart ment of the railroad, will face the local Justice Court tomorrow in this city. She was brought here Saturday night from Pendleton, Or., by Sheriff Sapping ton, who went to the Umatilla city with requisition papers for the woman. Mrj, Johnson is said to be one of the cleverest "accident fakers" in the North west. She recently obtained two ver dicts in this state for alleged Injuries sustained to her ankle, collecting dam ages from the Seattle Electric Company and the Northern Pacific Railroad. It la charged in the latter cape that she worked in conjunction with officials of the road, and divided the funds she re ceived with them. Though the prisoner denies this, it is hoped to obtain a confession from her tomorrow, in which she will implicate her accomplices. She denies that fhe has anything to confess, and maintains that she suffered bona fide injuries. When she appears in court she will have with her a baby, which, it is said. she adopted from a foundling hospital. wnere It had been raised In an Incubator. Though over a year old, the child is still fed from a bottle, a circumstance that is said to show the child is an incubator product. Much Interest is felt in the case locally, and a large attendance at the woman s arraignment is expected. HUMAN CHAIN SAVES BOY Five Women and Five Men Rescue Friend From Icy AVater. NEW YORK. Jan. 10. Rav West, of Richfield, N. J., broke through thin ice while crossing the Morris Canal. He was rescued by a human chain formed by Ave young women and five young' men. who were passing over Change bridge when the accident occurred. Robert Johnson was at the head of the chain, which was too short to reach the struggling youth, so he removed a fur tippet from his neck and threw the end to West, who caught it, and was dragged to the bank of the canal. He was carried to a nearby farmhouse, where he was revived sufficiently to be taken home. BAD MARATHONER CAUGHT Policeman, Long-Distance Hunner, Has Long Chase. NEW YORK. Jan. 10. Complaints received by Captain Steve O'Brien of the Clymer-street police station, Wil liamsburg, from men who declared they had been lured into a dwelling at 82 Gerry street, caused Plain Clothes Po licemen Sheridan and Collins to be put on the case. Sheridan is a Marathon runner. He and Collins watched the building and then decided to make a Tacoma, WW Close Connections Made for All Main and Branch Line Points Nor Cor. t 3 An event for every man to take advantage of. Supply your clothing needs now. Get the. best at small cost. Chesterfield Suits and Overcoats $20.00 Values at . $15.00 $ 5.00 Trousers at . $4.QO $22.50 Values at . $ 16.5Q $ 6.00, Trousers at . $4.75 $25.00 Values at . $ 1 9.QO $ 7.00 Trousers at . $5.5Q $30.00 Values at . $23.50 $ 8.00 Trousers at . $6.00 $35.00 Values at . $26.50 $ 9.00 Trousers at . $7.00 $40.00 Values at . $29.50 $10.00 Trousers at . $7.25 I-Y7 raid and get Florence Taylor, the re puted proprietress, who is a negress. As the policeman got into the build ing there was a scramble on1, the part of men and women to get out. Several jumped from second-story windows. When the policeman seized the woman George Ellison, a negro, who is also a Marathon runner, interfered. There was a fight, ending in Ellison being ar rested by Sheridan. -Ellison broke away from Sheridan and leaped out of a front second-floor window. In- a twinkling the other Marathon runner was after him. also going out of the window. For nearly half a mile there was . a chase, when FOUR TRAINS DAILY Seattle and Tacoma-Seattle Express 7 A. M. To Tacoma, Seattle and all interme diate points, to Grays Harbor, Olympia and South Bend branches, and all East-, ern points. Puget Sound Limited 3:30 P.M. Fast train to Tacoma, Seattle and in termediate points, including Grays Harbor and South Bend branches. Modern and up-to-date equipment, including dining , cars, parlor cars, first-class coaches in all trains. them P aci Tickets, parlor and sleeping-car reservations CORNER MORRISON AND THIRD STREETS AND UNION DEPOT Full information regarding trains, connections, etc., on application. A. D. CHARLTON; Ass't Gen'l Pass. Agent Morrison and Third Sts, Portland, Or. Telephones Main 244 and A 1244. Just know that Chesterfield hold shape 273-275 Morrison, at Fourth Ellison was overhauled. He and the woman were taken to the police station, where Florence Taylor was charged with maintaining a disorderly house and Ellison with interfering with a policeman. They were held in $500 ball for a hearing. HAT HER DISCOMFITURE Denmark Women Don't Appreciate Broadway ttire. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Because she wore a hat that was three feet in diameter, -TO- Puget Sound Points Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Vancouver Special 10:00 A. M. Fast train to Tacoma and Seattle and British Columbia points. Night Express 12:15 A. M. To Tacoma and Seattle. Standard and tourist sleeping cars, placed ready for occupancy at 9:00 P. M. lie Railway Sale on Fine Trousers Clothes Miss Ingenborg Marian Jensen, who had gone to her old home in Copenhagen on a visit, was laughed out of Denmark. "I couldn't tstand it," she said, as she stepped from the liner Oscar II. Several months ago she was operated on for appendicitis, and the surgeons recommended that she go abroad for a rest. She appeared at home wearing Broadway clothes, and created a sensa tion. Never before had the people of Copenhagen or at least those with whom she came in contact seen such attire. " "The old ladies turned around on the street and stared at me," said she. "Some of them 'jelled at me. I stood it two weeks, then went aboard the Oscar II."