THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1910. THREAT BY RIVAL IS DEEMED WEAK Sheriff of Columbia County Not to Arrest Sawyer; Girl Involved. LODGE TO BURY VICTIM Police Ketlcent as to Clews Tlioy Are Tracing Fred Knapp, Thought Jealous or Youth Slain, Writes From Kalania. ST. IIELEXS. Or.. Jan. 23. (Special.) Sheriff White declared emphatically today that he would not arrest Fred Knapp, who was the rival of young John P. Drew for the affections of Miss llattie Smith, of Houlton. Knapp's al leged threat to "dump Drew into the river," contends the Sheriff, has no connection with the death of Drew by a gunshot wound last Friday night. "I do not intend to arrest Knapp," said Sheriff White today. "I can't very well hold a man for murder simply be cause he acknowledged wanting to 'dump Drew into the river." 1 do not know whether Knapp was -in Kalania when young Drew was killed, but 1 be lieve he was. I have absolutely no clew upon which to work. Father Is Nonplussed. '"Drew's father believes his son was killed by an enemy, but can't think of any reason why the boy earned the en mity of any one. I have talked with Miss Smith and she has not enlightened me. I do not know anything about Knapp, and have never seen him." It is believed, however, that Sheriff White, has not told all he knows about the case. yesterday and today he drove into the country hereabouts and It is said about town that he did not visit Kalama. This action indicated, it is believed here, that Sheriff White places little reliance in the jealousy theory and has a clew of his own he intends to trace before expressing his opinion. Girl Tells of Threats. The funeral of young John P. Drew, rrtio was slain while on his way home from a lodge meeting In Houlton Friday night, will be held tomorrow in St. Helens under the auspices of the lodge oS Artisans, of which he was a member. Vohnny Drew and I had been keeping company some time with my father's con stat," said Miss Smith- today. "No, we vers not engaged. The last time that I saw him was at Houlton the night before his death, when he was on his way to his lodge, the United Artisans. "Knapp has made several threats against Drew to me. as Tecently as last Christmas, but Johnny never said any thing about the. threatening postal cards he. received. The day Johnny's body was found I received a postal card from Knapp on which he wrote: 'I am having a good time. What kind of a time aro you having?' That was all he wrote. The card was dated in Kalama the same day that I received it." BIRTHS IN TILLAMOOK .71 Decrease of 39 Shown In Year. Marriages 55, Deaths 4 0. TILLAMOOK, Or., Jan 23. (Special.) Records Know there were seventy-one births in Tillamook County last year, a decrease of thirty-nine compared with the. previous year. There were thirty six males and thirty-live females born. Marriages' numbered fifty-five, an in crease of nine. There were thirty-two deaths recorded, but this Is not complete, as the certificates of deaths of several persons, including- the victims of the Argo wreck, have not been filed with the County Health Officer. The deaths will number forty. In 190S only twenty one deaths were recorded. Apart from those who died in infancy or old age, five were accidentally drowned, five accidentally killed and one was murdered. Two were found dead, one committed suicide, one died of tuber culosis, three of pneumonia, one of typhoid, five of heart failure, one of asthma and one of Bright's disease. JIU JITSU, DIVORCE PLEA "White Woman Seeks Freedom From Unique Japanese Tortures. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 23. Mary Tan aka., a. white woman, who married a Jap anese in Spokane April 19, 1M9, obtained a divorce- today. She told the court her husband had practiced Jiu-jitsu on her until her wrists were almost broken and her shoulder-blades twisted from their sockets. Matters arrived at such a pass in the Tanaka household that whenever the wife thought shs had aggrieved her hus band she walked over to him and handed him her wrist, preferring immediate pun ishment to waiting around for it in ap prehension. But in spite of her docility her husband deserted her, Mrs. Tanaka testified. . , FINED $593, MAN PAYS Saloonkeeper Pleads Guilty to As sault Committed in Vancouver. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. S3. (Spe cial.) Edward Knepper, who conducts a saloon in Portland, was arraigned in the Superior Court this afternoon, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with a. dan gerous weapon with Intent to kill and was fined $500 and costs of $93.05, which 'he paid. The assault was committed upon Police Officer George Thompson in the Autumn of 190S. Officers Gassaway and Thomp son found Knepper's saloon open after midnight. When they started to arrest Knepper. the saloonkeeper whipped out his revolver and pulled the trigger in Thompson's face, but the trigger snapped. CLATSOP BUILDS SCHOOLS At Least Three Will Be Erected Dur ing Coming Summer. ASTORIA. Or., Jan. 23. (Special.) At least three and perhaps four new echoolhouses will be erected during the coming Summer in the rural districts of Clatsop County, while one new dis trict has been created and a petition has been filed asking that still another school be established. District No. 18, which is near Knappa, recently issued $3000 in bonds, which it sold to the State Land Board, and now has the funds on hand. This money is to be used in erecting and furnishing a new school building, as the 6ite is already owned by the district and it is prob able a contract for the construction will be let early in the Spring. District No. 4, also at Knappa, has issued $2000 in bonds. $200 to be used in purchasing a site, $1500 in the erec tion of a building and $300 in furnish ing the structure. These bonds are being forwarded by County Treasurer Sherman to the State Land Board, which will undoubtedly purchase them so that the funds will be available within a few weeks and the Intention is to erect the building this Summer. The bonds issued by each of these districts draw 6 per cent interest and run for six years, with the option of being retired at any time after one year. District No. 23, at Olney, has. raised money by taxation to remodel and enlarge its school building, which is to be moved to a new location as soon as title to the property which it has arranged to purchase can be per fected. 4 In the Upper Necanicum River dis trict there are already two school houses, but plans are being made to erect a third in the southern part of the district, where a number of fami lies have recently located. A new dis trict has been created at Gearhart Park, and while a building is now be ing rented for school purposes, it is understood steps are to be taken soon to arrange for the construction of a schoolhouse. A few days ago, a petition was pre- FIGHT FOR GOLD E NDS MURDER Idaho Ranch Near Jarbridge, New Eldorado, Scene of Killing. FIRST BLOOD IS SPILLED Details of Tragedy Lacking, but Story That Dead Man Tried to Jump Farm Near Goldfields Cause of Shooting by Owner. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 23. (Special.) Through the murder of C. C. Logan, a sheepherder, by John Wilkins, on the CLEWS TO SLAYER OF ST. HELENS YOUTH FEW; COUNTY POLICE OFFICIALS RETICENT ABOUT CASE. It trv : j JOHN P. DREW, YOUNG MAX KILLED, IS SECOXD, READING LEFT TO RIGHT; WILLIAM DREW, HIS FATHER, IS AT HIS RIGHT. sentcd to the County School Superin tendent, asking that a school be estab lished at the Old Clatsop Plains Church, which is in the Skipanon district, and the assertion is made that such a school would accommodate 14 pupils, who are unable to attend the Skipanon school regularly on account of the distance. 6USGH MADE CHAIRMAN NEW OREGON CITY PUBLICITY COMMITTEE. NAMED. Division- of County Will Be Resisted. Tang:Io in Funds to Be Straightened Out. OREGON CITY, Or., Jan. 23. (Spe cial.) Frank Busch, a. well-known hardware man, has been elected chair man of the committee under whose di rection the money collected for adver tising the city and county will be. ex pended in 1910. Mr. Busch's associates are O. D. Eby, Linn E. Jones, V. Harris and E. S. Larson. The treasurer is Thomas F. Ryan, who is also treasurer of the Commercial Club, and who was directed to carry the publicity funds In a separate account. The following advisory board was selected from the subscribers to the fund: Charles H. Caufleld, W. A. Hunt ley, William Andresen, George V. Ely, George A. Harding, L. Adams, C. D. Latourette. G. B. Dimick, C. H. Dye. The committee on publicity and the advisory board wer named by the board of governors of the Commercial Club at a special meeting. The club's president, T. P. Randall, last Tuesday named a publicity committee, which the board of governors refused to confirm. It was learned afterward that the club's by-laws clothe the board of governors with authority to name the" committee on publicity. , There has been considerable discus sion over the refusal of the club's gov erning body to confirm President Ran dall's committee. At the request of the governors, Mr. Randall, who .was treasurer of the publicity committee last year, turned over to the club treas urer, Thomas F. Ryan, the entire pub licity fund, amounting to about $1200, and as a consequence he was unable to honor warrants amounting to several hundred dollars issued under the direc tion of the publicity committee last Friday morning. It is probable that this financial tangle w-ill be straight ened out tomorrow . Acting under authority of a resolu tion by the board of governors. Presi dent Randall will appoint a committee of five men to attend the big annexa tion meeting at Oak Grove on Thurs day. February 3. This meeting will he attended by representatives of the Mil waukie and Gladstone Improvement Clubs and by a delegation from the Sandy and Mount Hood road district. The Oregon City committee is expected to obtain such Information as may be possible to use in fighting the move ment for a county division. Representative Walter A. Dimick was appointed as chairman of a special committee, whose mission is to secure better highways connecting the main portion of Clackamas County with the territory north of the Clackamas River. Wilkins ranch, near here, Saturday, first blood was spilled on. the trail to what is believed may be one of the greatest gold camps of the Northwest, that of Jar bidge. The slayer is one of the owners of the Wilkins ranch, the recognized outfitting point for pack trains into the new camp. Details Are Meager. Meager details of the crime are at hand, but news which reached this city today indicate that Logan was shot for at tempting to Jump the Wilkins ranch and holding it against Wilkins, on , the ground that the latter never has had title to it. The ambition of Logan to become inde pendently rich by controlling the Wil kins ranch, which would be the Mecca for pack trains, evidently was the cause of his undoing. Ever since the Jarbidge camp opened, Logan is said to have cherished this am bition. He took possesssion last .week and before he could be ousted was shot. Several days ago Mrs. J. R. Wilkins, mother of John Wilkins, made over a lease of a portion of the property tp H. F. Allen and his associates, of Twin Falls. This deal was closed here. Allen went out to the ranch, but was met by Logan, who informed him the Wilkins estate had no claim to the land. John Wilkins Settles Trouble. John Wilkins wan informed of Logan's claims and departed for the- ranch. The shooting followed. Logan and the Wilkins are well known in Southern Idaho. The murdered man celebrated his 72d birthday a few days ago. Officials have attempted to break their way through the snow to the scene and until their return the details relative to the shooting will be lacking. FIGHTERS NOT WELCOME MAYOR OF SPOKANE PUTS HIS FOOT ON GAME. Roseburg Pool Men Fined. ROSEBURG, Or., Jan. 23. (Special.) The grand jury now in session returned four indictments Saturday, three against local cigar store owners for allowing minors to play pool, all of whom plead guilty and were fined $25 each. The other indictment was against Emmltt Overman, a mining man, of Myrtle Creek. Or., for defacing a building belonging to George Carlon, a resident thei;e. Declares Switchmen's Union Guilty of Making Smoker Excuse to Pull Off Bouts. SPOKANE, Wash.. Jan. 23. (Special.) "I understand that at the recent smoker held by the Federal Union the receipts of tickets taken in at the door totaled $1124. while only $224 was paid into the sick benefit fund of the union," said Mayor Pratt today to a committee of the Switch men's ITnion, trying to arrange a smoker. "I also understand that most of, the fighters appearing at the smoker were paid for their appearance. This will not be tolerated while I am Mayor. I do not propose to see Spokane made the Mecca of meal-ticket prizefighters, nor will I there be any profit for promoters of the game here. "If the Switchmen's Union or any other reputable organization wishes to hold a smoker and have amateur contests, I have no objection, but it must be -clearly un derstood that professionals are barred, and that the . entire receipts go into the treasury of the organization which is backing the affair. ' - "I understand the word has been quiet ly passed around that the fighting game in Spokane was being opened up again. I want to correct this impressison. The law here Is to be strictly enforced as long as I am Mayor." Pioneer Eugene Resident Dies. BUGEN'R Or.. Jan. 23. (Special.) Mrs. W. W. Haines, aged 70 years, died af the family home here today of heart trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Haines crossed the plains In 1S52 to Oregon. They have lived In Eugene since 1S74, CLATSOP LOGGING ACTIVE Railroad Being Built to Get Timber From Gnat Creek District. . ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 23. (Special.) While the Whitney Company. Ltd.. has a large force of men at work construct ing a logging railroad and building a logging camp at its tract of timber in the Gnat Creek district, the indications are. that another large logging camp and perhaps a series of them will be estab lisherl near the 'Central part of Clatsop County during, the coming Summer. A York ire -Insurance Co 346 Broadway, New York SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT To the Policy-holders: At the suggestion of the Board of Trustees, I preface the brief of our Sixty-fifth Annual Report, which' appears below, with the statement which accompanied the presentation of the full Report to the Board on the 12th inst. "The figures placed before you by the officers of this Company, including- the income, disbursements and profits of the year, the balance sheet and detailed schedules of assets at the close of 1909, make an impressive picture.. No fair minded man, having reviewed the figures, can avoid the conclusion that energy, capacity and fidelity in administra tion were not born yesterday in the'New-York Life. " Any claim which we as Trustees and officers may have to approval by the 750,000 families protected by this institu tion is made stronger by the willing admission, which we all make, that our predecessors toiled both mightily and wisely. " A great life insurance company is not the product of 1 accident or violence. It does not arise from a social catas trophe, as a mountain may suddenly arise in the landscape 1 from a convulsion of nature. It is the product of peace, of : labor, of thought, of energy, of fidelity, of faith, of good will : amongst men. " When a storm has swept over an estate and has done its cruel and possibly necessary work, the owner may send for men and direct them to cut away broken and twisted : branches, to prune away unnecessary and unhealthful : growths and clear the ground. Having done this, the men : would hardly be entitled to claim credit, on that account, for 1 the fact that certain trees were still symmetrical, beautiful, ' vast in girth and vigorous to the outermost twig. Any such ' claim would be presumptuous and the man making it would ' become ridiculous. ' . " The New-York Life grew like the oak and it tells the 'same story of storm and tempest survived. " Lately the hurricane "came and did its cruel perhaps ' necessary work. We were called in by the owners of the ' estate, the policy-holders, and told to correct errors, to ' change methods, to discontinue certain practices. We have ' done the work ; but we are not now possessed of the idea '.that this necessary and useful work, as such, reflects dis ' credit on our predecessors or especial glory on us. " Having carried out the wishes of the policy-holders, we ' now assure them in the facts annexed, of the vitality, the ' soundness, the large capacity for social usefulness of the New-York Life. But we are obliged to tell them ' same time that sound and virile as the Company iuture usefulness is limited. " The owner of an estate, after the passing of a storm, ' never orders the men who remove broken-branches and cut ( away undesirable growths, to excise the living, growing body ' of a tree to cut for the deliberate purpose of ending a tree's ' further development. Such a direction would be contrary to ' nature ; it would indicate that the owner of the estate either had no knowledge of natural laws or that he cherished an especial hostility against fine trees. " When the State of New York enacted certain statutes, insuring economy, eliminating the legislative blackmailer, compelling publicity and strict accountability, it did well. : But when it enacted Section 96 of the insurance code, delib ' erately intending to stop the natural, sound and healthful ' growth of this company, it sinned against nature. " Obeying the law, we have been obliged to cut deep into 1 the Company's living tissue, into its organized working force, 1 and so strong is the Company's vitality, so rapid its recovery, : that we have been obliged to cut again and again. " Let me give you a few facts : " Our domestic working organization at the close of 1905 1 and at the close of 1909 was as follows : Branch Offices Enrolled Agents 1905., 217 4.872 1906 : 82 2,007 Decrease..... . 135 " The total number of outstanding ,865 outstanding insurance on the same dates were : policies and the total Number of Policies. 1905.... 1,001,269 1909. 981,590 Amount of Insurance. $2,061,593,886 2,002,809,227 at the is, its Decrease... 19,679 $58,784,659 " Three full years have intervened since these laws ; took effect. We find no fault with most of them. But the : record shows that Section 96, which limits our new business ' in each calendar year to an amount equal to about iy2 per ' cent of our insurance in force, makes any material expansion 'of our outstanding insurance impossible. Inevitably if the '.law remains, outstanding insurance will permanently. ' decrease. " The law was not intended to have and it does not have 1 this effect on all the companies of this State. It is therefore ' not only unsound but unfair. To correct this, it is only, ' necessary to get a clear statement of the truth before the 'people. This we have tried continuously to accomplish. ' We have made progress. Wre ' shall get reasonable relief ' in time, because in this country nothing is ever settled until ' it is settled right. " The facts in the report and the unsurpassed usefulness ' of the Company will eloquently plead our case before the bar ' of public opinion." A pamphlet showing the income and the' disbursements for 1909, the balance sheet at the year's close, and schedules describing in detail each item of the Company's assets, will be mailed to any policy-holder, .or any other person, on request. ? New York, (January 15, 1910. Yours truly, President. TOTAL ADMITTED ASSETS, 3 Book values $603,267,684 TOTAL PAID-FOR INSURANCE IN FORCE, $2,002,S09,22 7 JANUARY 1, 1910. Balance Sheet, January 1, 1910. . ASSETS. Real Estate $11,718,644.04 Loans on Mortgages .' 69,748,270.53 Loans on Policies 94,643,472.81 Bonds (market value Dec. 31, 1909) 401,214,411.04 Cash 8,720,413.40 Renewal Premiums. 7,066,659.6.8 Interest and Rents due and accrued ........... 6,596,414.47 Total $599,708,285.97 LIABILITIES. Policy Reserve $496,931,152.00 Other Policy Liabilities 7,279,671.S8 Premiums and Interest prepaid 2,953,080.10 Commissions, Salaries, etc 1,052,035.50 Dividends payable in 1910 8,844,108.89 Reserve for deferred Dividends 71,778,756.00 Reserves for other purposes..' 10,869,481.60 Total .$599,70S,2S5.97 INCOME, 1909. 1. Premiums: 2. On New Policies .$5,949,283.41 3. On Renewed Policies. .... .71,746,110.75 4. Annuities, etc 929,633.54 $78,625,027.70 5. Real Estate Rentals 1,047,577.53 6. Interest on Mortgages 2,850,114.55 7. Interest on Policy Loans 4,752,689.63 8. 'Interest on Collateral Loans ... ... 30,000.00 " 9. Interest on Bonds 15,985,458.09 10. Interest on Bank Deposits 296,079.90 11. Other Interest 2,955.07 12. Increase by adjustment in Book value of Ledger Assets ". 6.875,128.60 13. Other Income... 560,311.49 Total $111,025,342.56 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. DISBURSEMENTS, 1909. Payments to Policy-holders: Death Losses $23,017,708.20 To Living Policy-holders.. 28,972,513.18 $51,990,221.38 Instalments, Dividends and Interest paid under supplementary contracts 215,396.09 Commissions on New Business 2,712,281.08 Renewal Com'ns and Other Pay'ts to Agts 1,610,765.64 Medical Examin'n and Ag'cy Supervision 1,201,120.62 Branch Office Salaries 1,075,092.20 Home Office Salaries . 1,483,863.47 Taxes, Licenses and Insurance Dept. Fees.. 943,357.64 Rent and Real Estate Taxes and Expenses 1,016,901.05 General Expenses and Profit and Loss 774,511.93 Decrease by adjustment in Book Value of Ledger Assets ; 4,342,925.47 For Reserves to meet Policy Obligations 43,658,905.99 Total ..$111,025,342.56 NEW INSURANCE PAID FOR IN 1909 Exclusive of Revivals and Increase in Old Policies, 1 4-S904-2,4-00 : Under the laws of New York anything in excess of $150,000,000 would have made the officers of the Company liable to indictment. To keep within the law the Company closed a number of Branch Offices during 1909 and discharged a group of men who paid for over $7,500,000 in the previous twelve months. 4 force of surveyors, consisting of about 18 men, 1b engaged in running lines for a system of logging railroads, comprising a main line leading from Young's River, near the mouth of the Klaskanine, up the south- fork of that stream -with branches tapping the vast timber tracts In what is known as the Klaskanine and Fifhhawk districts. The timber in that section Is owned principally by W. W. Bowman, M. N. Holter. the. Street Lumber Company, the Merrill Lumber Company and the West ern Cooperage Company, whose combined holdings total over 50,0(J acres of heavily timbered lands. Although nothing of an official nature can be learned, it is under stood that these firms are pooling their interests In the construction of this sys tem of logging roads and that a tract of land at what is known as the old Baum gartner place, near the mouth of the Klaskanine River, has been purchased to be utilized for the establishment of log booms. Preliminary surveys for these roads were made over a year ago and the crew that is now in the field is establishing the grades and arranging the details for the commencement of construction soon. Last year a representative of one of these timber syndicates remarked while here that logs would be coming out of that section within two years and, judging from the work now in progress, it looks "Very much as though his prediction will come true. The timber in that district is said to be of exceptionally fine quality, but "much of it has attained its full growth and must be cut soon in order to prevent It from deteriorating in value. Santlam Rising Rapidly. STAYTON, Or.. Jan. 23. (SpeciaL)- Heavy rains, with occasional thunder and lightning, occurred here today. The Santlam River is rising fast.