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.
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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
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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.