WIFE CRUEL, SHE
HATED HIGH BALLS
Rich Ohio Railroad Man's Pe
culiar Complaint Heard
in Idaho.
WOMAN FIGHTS FOR RIGHTS
Valentine Winters, After 1 7 Years of
Married Life, Seeks Divorce Be
cause Spouse Found Fault
When "in Society."
BOISE. Idaho. Feb. 2. Special.) Alleg
ing: all tnrouKh the trial that his -wife
had been cruel to him. in that she inter
rupted him while drinking: highballs; that
since their separation he had given her
J31.000 for the education, support and
maintenance of .their two children, and
with hie wife pleading for the return of
her husband and his love, fighting di
vorce in all its steps on religious princi
ples, the case of Valentine Winters, mil
lionaire Dayton, Ohio, railroad magnate,
will be decided by Judge Fremont Wood
here, probably this" week.
The trial has been'one of the most sen
sational and interesting divorce suits ever
fought in an Idaho court by a member of
the elite of the East, the so-called "Pour
Hundred." at least of the Ohio town,
where Mr. Winters is president of the
Dayton & Western Traction Company and
heavily Interested in other business en
terprises. Couple Separated Four Years.
Mr. Winters and his wife, Helen Clagg
Winters, effected a separation in 1906 and
wince that time Mr. Winters has been
traveling from- place to place, seeking an
abode where he might secure an absolute
divorce. He first tried the Texas courts,
but there he was denied a divorce. He
came to Idaho and purchased a bungalow,
hired a trained housekeeper, and cook
and established himself here, leading a
typical bachelor's life during his required
residence of six months in this state be
fore suit could be brought for divorce. .
Winters, and his wife are widely sep
arated so far as a reunion is concerned,
while their two children are destined to
be the cause of straining the situation on
the issue of their guardianship.
Valentine Winters left his wife and val
uable J70.009 residence in Dayton a few
years ago, after they had lived together
for 17 years. He declared that his better
half was continually nagging and fault
finding, so that life was made miserable.
Wife Objects to Pretty Stenographer.
Mrs. Winters declared the only trouble
she had with her husband was 'over his
pretty stenographer, Annabel Clayton,
and that because she demanded that her
husband dismiss the young woman from
his services he became angry. As evi
dence of this contention she e'xhiblted a
letter Winters admits he wrote to the
stenographer. In which he referred to
dismissing her. using the endearing term
that "the thought mad? his heart bleed."
The husband declared his wife has ever
taunted him with this missive.
It was a big surprise to Winters when
he found Mrs. Winters had decided to
contest the suit, on religious principles,
she declared, as she is an Episcopalian,
and the hearing on the petition opened
here early last month, continuing for two
weeks. Some idea of the array of coun
sel may be obtained from the fact that
attorney fees were nied with the court
amounting to $5000.
Mrs. Winters attempted to effect a
reconciliation with her husband, but in
vain. Winters declared during the trial
behind closed doors that when out to
functions of various kinds Mrs. WMnters
had deliberately Interrupted him while
he was drinking highballs and in some
instances had openly taunted him with
being a drunkard, creating not a little
consternation among friends.
Winters Is Wealthy.
As president of the Dayton & Western
Traction Company, Winters is rich In his
own right, and, when marrying, secured
a great deal of property given to Mrs.
Winters by her millionaire father. In
petitioning for the divorce he declares he
will not return to Dayton to make his
home, but wHl remain in Idaho.
It was the contention of Mrs. Winters
that her husband has no cause to seek a
divorce and that she has been kind and
considerate to him at all times.
TRUANT TO, BE SENT HOME
Father of Runaway Lad Sends Rail
road Transportation.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 2. (Spe
cial.) Chief of Police John Secrist re
ceived a message this afternoon from
the superintendent of the Oregon Re
form School at Salem stating that he
had received $13.50 with which to pur
chase a" ticket for Joseph Vanderpool,
the 16-year-old runaway, who has been
In the county Jail in this city for the
past week, to return to his father,
Charles Vanderpool. in Caldwell. Idaho.
The lad was captured a few miles be
low this city on January 26. after he
had stolen a boat and crossed the Co
lumbia River. He had been released
from the reform school in Oregon and
placed on a farm near Tillamook. From
there he ran away and returned to the
reform school, where he was loitering
around. The superintendent sent to
the boy's father for money to buy him
a ticket home. Before the answer to
This letter came the boy ran away and
landed In the Vancouver jail.
RULE BY GIRLS FEARED
lilrlh Ratio Threatens Supremacy of
Male Around Dayton.
DAYTOX, Wash.. Feb. 2. (Special.)
If the record of births in Columbia
County is an indlcati on, tli 6 Blue Mouq
tain Bachelors' Club, which is now attracting-
attention, will become a Blue
Mountain Young Women's Club before
many years. Of 15 births in Dayton In
January, only two were males. Al
though the first month of 1910 was an
exception in ratio of males to females,
a review of several months shows that
the per cent of males is small compared
with the total of births. With the prow-,
lnjjr interest locally in woman suffrage.
It begins to look as if Dayton munici
pal jobs, at least, will be filled by
women within two decades.
POOL PLAYER IS STABBED
Dispute Over Points Leads to En
" counter in Holton Saloon. x
" ST. HELEN'S. Or.. Feb. 2. John Lock
aiUler. a farmer living three miles from
Warren, is In jail charged with stabbing-
J. R. Sutton, a longshoreman, in
a saloon at Houlton last night. A gash
10 inches long was cut in Sutton's
abdomen, penetrating the abdomen for
half its length.
Lockmiller and Sutton were playing
pool and a wrangle arose as to the
number of balls Sutton had made.
Lockmiller saying: the number was one,
Sutton claiming , three. Lockmiller
wanted to fight and Sutton invited him
to the bar to drink. Lockmiller re
fused, saylnir. it is alleged, that he
wanted to light, not to drink. The stab
bing followed.
Bystanders Interfered and Sutton was
brought to St. Helens, where Dr. Cliff
'sewed up the wound and said he did
not believe It would prove fatal. Sutton
then swore out a complaint for Lock
miller and SherilT White and Deputy
Prosecuting- Attorney M. E. Miller went
after him.
Lockmiller was formerly a -North
Carolina mountaineer. He has a wife
and three children.
CLEAN DAIRIES FAVORED
El'GEXE COMMERCIAL CLCB
WILL AID MOVEMENT.
Region Favored, by Nature for Profit
able Industry Now Suffers
From Indifference.
EUGENE, Or.. Feb. 2. (Special.) A
movement recently set on foot in this
city and among the farmers of Lane
County, -having for its purpose more
sanitary conditions In the dairy busi
ness, as well as a more extensive de
velopment of the dairy industry
throughout the county, received impetus
at a meeting of the promotion depart
ment of the Commercial Club last night.
The meeting was addressed by W. E.
Wilmer. formerly of Denver, and Dr.
B. M. Weller, a veterinarian, who came
here a few months ago from JSew York.
Serious lack of cleanliness and general
Indifference to sanitary conditions In
the dairies, not only in Lane County,
but throughout the state, were so gen
erally conceded that the necessity for"
reform of these conditions has enlisted
some of the leading farmers in this
vicinity and many of the more public
spirited business men of Eugene, and it
is proposed to organize a stock com
pany for the purpose of establishing
a modern dairy. Present plans include'
not only a good building, especially
for the purpose, but modern dairy
equipment and the Importation of
blooded stock, as well as the employ
ment of men of acknowledged ability
in all branches of dairying.
Facilities for dairying i this sec
tion are regarded as second only to the
lumber Industry. Yet this feature of
Lane's natural resources ife untouched
as compared with less favored sections
in other states.
The Commercial Club, at last night's
meeting, indorsed the movement for
better and cleaner dairies and general
development of the industry.
JURORS MUST BE BLIND
PUBLISHED EVIDENCE TO EE
IGNORED, SAYS COURT.
Judge Wood Seeks to Prevent Press
From Playing Any Part In Ex
posure of Boise Trusts.
BOISE, Idaho. Feb. 2. (Special.)
The lid has been placed on newspaper
probing of local trusts by Judge Fre
mont Wood, so far as the consider
ation by the grand jury of the evidence
secured by the press is concerned.' The
court todLy gave instructions to" the
special grand Jury, cautioning the mem
bers not to read the newspapers ex
posing trusts in this city, nor to con
sider these exposures as evidence.
While special instructions governing
the trust probe have been and are still
expected from the court, general sur
prise was expressed today when Judge
Wood placed County Attorney Mc
Carthy on the carpet before the jury
and demanded that he explain an inter
view appearing in a local paper to the
effect that he had secured evidence to
convict the meat trust. The County
Attorney said he had not authorized
the interview.
In his Instructions to the Jury, Judge
Wood declared it was evident some one
else needed Investigation besides the
County Attorney and the trusts. He
further declared that the agitation
against the trusts had been pretty well
tried out in the press, and if the state
ments of the newspapers were to be
taken as true, there was not much left
for the jury to do.
It was the press, however, that first
exposed the existence and actions of
local trusts, and through the publica
tion of these facts excited public opin
ion resulting in the calling of the grand
Jury.
SNOW GLADDENS FARMERS
Grain Protected From Freezing as
Thermometer Falls.
DAYTOX, Wash.. Feb. 2. (Special.)
The woret snowstorm of the winter Is
raging in the Touchet Valley. Two days
of rain were followed yesterday morning
by a sudden drop of temperature and in
five hours six Inches of snow had fallen.
A biting -wind from the west accom
panied the storm.
The sky is partially clear this evening
but indications are for more snow and
colder weather.
The . change from spring to winter
weather came unexpectedly and Dayton
ia facing a fuel famine, with the ther
mometer at 15 above zero. Farm opera
tions have been tied up indefinitely, but
farmers are elated because snow fell to
protect the fall grain from the cold.
LIFE SENTENCE TRACEY'S
Murderer of Unheal Says Time Will
Prove Innocence.
PENDLETON'. Or., Feb. 2. C. W.
Arnold, or George Tracy, his true
name, was this morning sentenced by
Judge Bean to spend the remainder of
his -rife In the Penitentiary. He was
found guilty of murder In the second
degree, Saturday night, for the murder
of Alfred Rabeal, near Umatilla, last
November. When an opportunity to speak
before sentence was passed was given
to him, Arnold said: "I am innocent and
time will prove it."
A similar statement was made by his
attorney. In passing sentence Judge
Bean said: "You have been found guilty
by the Jury and in that verdict I concur-.'
Stranger Dies of Typhoid.
ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 2. (Special.)
Hans Hoium. a young- man about 21
years of age and a stranger In the city,
was taken 111 with typhoid fever and
died at the hospital Sunday. Papers
found on him showed that he roomed
at 71 Vi North Sixth street. Portland,
but aside from that, nothing- is known
of him.
THE 3IOKXIXG OREGOXIAX,. .THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
SURVEY IS ON FILE
Boise & Western Applies for
Malheur Right-of-Way.
LAND BOUGHT WITH SCRIP
Belief Prevails That Two Routes
Are Planned Easy Access to
Jferada Outlet Indicated,
by Plans Outlined.
BURNS. Or., Feb. 2. (Special.) The
Boise & Western Railway Company has
tiled its application for right of way
over Government lands in the Jocal
Lnited States Land Office, together
with maps of its survey and location,
so far as completed, along- the Malheur
River to the east line of Harney
County, and it is expected that another
section of the survey, reaching through
the Malheur Canyon and into Harney
Valley will be filed In a few days.
A g-ood portion of the way this sur
vey follows closely the line of the Ore
gon Eastern, which the new survey
crosses at some points.' At several
strategic points along- the route, the
land through which the line passes has
been purchased with Northern Pa
cific scrip in the Interest "of the jadlse
& Western, so the latter company will
be the owner of valuabel lands along
,ulf- xnis, nowever, will not in
terfere with the right o'f way of the
Oregon Eastern (Harrlman), applica
tion for which was filed before the
land was scripped.
Two Boads Planned?
The officers of the Boise & Western
are: Colonel C. E. S. Wood, president;
James Mel. Wood, secretary. William
Hanley, of Burns, C. W. Mallett and
J. W. McCulloeh, of Ontario, and Drake
c- ' O'Reilly, of Portland, are directors.
The impression here is that the in
tention of the interests behind the
Boise & Western is to build two rail
roads through this county from the
point where the survey reaches the
level of Harney Valley after emerging
from Malheur Gap. At that point It
will strike the lands of the Willamette
Valley & Cascade Mountain Wagon
Road Company, represented by Colo
nel Wood, and the belief is that one
branch will be built through the prop
erties of this company In a north
westerly direction through this county
and Crook, connecting with the Des
chutes road. Southwest from the diverging-
point lie the holdings of the
Hanley-Corbett interests, and It Is ex
pected the other 'branch will be built
throug-h those properties and south
westward toward San Francisco.
Branch Taps Timber.
The branch throug-h the Wag-on
Road Company's lands would tap an.
Important belt of timber in the north
western part of Harney County and the
western part of Crook, which would
Supply ties and bridge timbers for con
struction, making a considerable item
in the interior, while the road up the
Blitzen River through the Hanley-Corbett
properties would open to farming
a large belt of the richest land in Ore-g-on.
Along the Blitzen River, too,
there is plenty of opportunity for
water power development, sufficient to
furnish electricity for this section.
Should this latter branch go south
ward through the Wild Horse, Trout
Creek, and Pueblo Valleys, It would
pass through rich farming lands and
between mountains of valuable min
erals g-old and copper particularly
and would then have an easy grade
through Nevada. To get from the
Blitzen Valley into Wild Horse, or even
Into Catlow Valley, will" require skill
ful engineering- and probably would
call for a tunnel or two, but once built,
such a road would be good from every
standpoint. j
ASHLAND KNOWS DOCTOR
SAX JOSE'S WOUNDED MARQUIS
BELIEVED SAME MAX.
Frenchman, Who Failed to Settle
Accounts at Hotel, May Be
Brought Back to Oregon.
ASHLAND, Or.. Feb. 2. Dr. Arnold
de Falaise was at the HoteJ Oregon in
Ashland from October 4 to 9 and left the
hotel ostensibly for a flying trip to Med
ford, but failed to return to the hotel to
settle his accounts or claim his baggage,
which consisted of a telescope grip of
small value. Later, it was reported that
he rode through this city in a farmer's
wagon and headed across the Siskiyous
afoot, acting in a mysterious manner and
announcing to those he met that he was
going south to meet his big touring car
that seemed to have been stalled some
where In the mountains en route north.
The doctor represented himself here
of royal birth, formerly Major Surgeon
in the French army and bacteriologist
and diagnostician of the Pasteur Insti
tution, his particular work at this time
being the establishment of local con
nections for the institute in treating
tuberculosis cases, he said. He was
THE HOME PHYSICIAN
This Recipe Makes a Splendid
Remedy for Coughs.
The home-made remedy described be
low will be found a very handy and ef
fective thing to -aye In the house ready
for use. It is simple, pleasant to take,
easy to prepare, and lasts a family a
long time. It wipes out a cough auicklv.
h- Take a pint of Granulated Sugar, add
one-naif pint or warm water, and stir
about two minutes. Put two and one
half ounces Pinex (50 cents worth) in
a pint bottle p-d fill up with the
Granulated Sugar Syrup. Take a tea
spoonful every one, two or three hours.
Cough preparations, as u rule, are
mostly syrup. Granulated Sugar Syrup
Is both cheap and excellent. Pinex is
the most valuable concentrated com
pound of Norway White Pine Extract
and is rich in all the healing pine ele
ments. None of the weaker pine prepara
tions can compare with the real Pinex
itself. If your druggist hasn't it. he
can easily get it for you.
This recipe is also splendid for chest
pains, whooping cough. hoarseness,
bronchitis, etc.
Strained honey can be used Instead
of the syrup, and makes a very fine
honey and pine tar cough syrup.
Some of the best known druggists
here, as Laue-Davls Drug Co. (dis
tributors) and others, think so well of
the above prescription that they guar
antee it to give perfect satisfaction or
refund the purchase price.
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apparently highly educated, and upon
his unexplained disappearance, local
people who had become acquainted with
hrm during his short stay took an in
terest In his case. . ana sent out in
quiries through the local police, though
the matter was dropped some time ago.
as far as active search Is concerned.
After leaving here, the only trace of
the doctor was from Hilts, across the
state line, from where some prescrip
tions which he had written were sent
to Ashland druggists to be filled. In
the latter part of November Ashland
people. read stories in the San Fran
cisco papers of a French Count, cor
responding in many respects, though
using a different name, who had shot
himself accidentally or otherwise in one
of the Bay cities.
SURVEYORS MAKING READY
Crews of. Two Roads Soon to Take
Field Xear Asotin.
ASOTIN. Wash.. Feb. 2. (Special.)
Reports reached Asotin today that prep
arations are being made by crews of the
Pitts burg-Gil more surveyors to enter
Asotin County within two months to
make final surveys. They have camped
as far up the river as the Wild Goose
rapids. 30 miles from here, but were
compelled to discontinue, owing to bad
weather.
Further information comes from the
Walla Walla section, that the North
Coast will begin initial operations for this
year with the view of coming into
Asotin County from down the Snake
river.
PERJURY CHARGE ADDED
Alibi Defense Leads to Second Prose
cution of Alleged Thief.
LA GRANDE, Or.. Feb. 2. (Special.)
Rube Chandler was arraigned yes
terday before Judge Knowles, of the
Circuit Court, oh the charge of per
jury and was placed under $1000
bonds. Chandler and two others were
arrested a year ago, the charge being
the looting of the premises of a rancher
near here.
His two companions confessed and
received sentences of two years each
in the penitentiary, but Chandler de
nied being In the vicinity at the time
of the robberv.
HOTEL WILL BE MADE OVER
Willamette Company at Salem to Ex
pend $60,000 on Improvements.
SALEM. Or., Feb. 2. (Special.) At a
meeting of the stockholders of the Wil
lamette Hotel Company it was decided to
proceed at the expiration of the lease of
the present tenant. In March, thoroughly
to remodel the Willamette Hotel.
The directors were authorized to enter
into a contract with Architect Louis R.
Hazeltlne for complete plans and specifi
cations. It is proposed to expend $60,000
on the building and to make It the equal
of any hotel in the West.
Institute Is Big Success.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Feb. 2. (Spe
cial.) The Merrill teachers' Institute was
one of the most successful of the year.
Among the speakers were Superintendent
Dunbar, of the Klamath Falls public
schools: Professors Butcher, Fought and
Howard, of the County High School at
Klamath Falls; Mr. Roberts, Mrs. ParlsB
and Miss Welch, of the Merrill schools;
Miss Callahan, of Gale; Miss Puckett, of
Tule Lake; Miss Adams, of Klamath
Falls, and ,E. H. Burnham, teacher in
the Summers district. The fact that an
industrial training department Is to be
inaugurated In the County High School
next year was discugswed and the grow-
LARGE TRACTS IN OREGON, WASHINGTON AND CALIFORNIA
tBOdt in abore
three States In
1 nr tract for
sal to rptatl
real estate derni
er. the big
P. C. L.-K.
19 lO.
Oldest
in America
3,
The Mutual Life
Insurance Company
of New York
RECORD OF 1909
The close of the 67th year shows an increased amount of insurance in
an increased amount of new insurance paid for, $102,040,633.
progress oi me company are:
Assets . . . . .-. $560,122,367.61;
Policy Reserves 445,338,997.00;
Interest and Rents Received 25,052,001.61;
Profits on Stocks, Bonds and
Real Estate Sold. . : 6,409,830.04;
Unprecedented Benefits to Policyholders
Dividends paid in 1909 $11,005,914,96; . Increase, $2,694,659.07
Dividends apport'd
Total paid policyholders, 1909
Held for Deferred Dividends
and Contingencies . ... . . .
The Company continues to
In connection with a largely increased volume of new insnrance. ths ratio
to Total Income is lower than any other company doing a general life insurance business has been able to
show in many years. The relative expenses of the Mutual Life have decreased more than 50 per cent ia
the last five years, resulting in a steady and satisfactory decrease in the cost of insurance.
ASSETS
Real Estate (market Value)
Mortgage Loans on Real Estate.
Loans on Policies.
Bonds (amortized book value)
Stocks (market value)
Cash (not on interest) .
Cash (deposited on interest)
. Interest and Rents, due and accrued.
Premiums in course of collection...
Miscellaneous Assets ,P .
Gross Assets
Deductions
Total Assets
ALMA D. KATZ, Manager
420-427 Corbett Bvrildino;, Portland, Oregon
THE -MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
Home Office 34 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y.
ing demand for practical instruction of
this kind was dwelt upon.
Woman Dies as She Sleeps.
OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 2. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Lizzie Hodge, of Oakland.
Or., who has been visiting; with her
sister, Mrs. C. L. Blakesley, of this
city, was found dead this morning. Mrs.
Hodge had been in poor health for the
past few days, but her illness was not
P. C. LAVEY & COMPANY
INCORPORATED
LUMBERMEN S RANK BUILDING. CORNER FIFTH AND STARK. STREETS
PORTLAND, OREGON
WHOLESALE REAL ESTATE
LARGEST FIRM ON PACIFIC COAST
February 3, 1910.
ADVERTISING MGR., THE OREG0N1AN,
CITY
Dear Sir: . '
I am the happiest man in the world I have succeeded.
In answer to my advertisements recently carried in
your paper regarding the sale of the three Southern Pacific .
'towns of Mt. Hebron, Cal., Dorris, Cal. and Worden, Oregon,
I have received, in addition to many orders for lots, many
expressions of confidence from the patrons of my - company.
These expressions mean more to me than the orders
received they make life worth living, they. make a man
stronger and better able to make the big fight 1b win. They
make him strive to be honorable and right and they make
the pretty little envious business enemy, "The Knocker,
look like a flea on top of Mt. Hood.
P.C Lavey & Company, Incorporated, will REGARDLESS OF
EVERY OBSTACLE hold their place among the larger
realty companies of the coast and will do their share of
business.
Our office will be open till 8 P. M. during this week.
Yours very respectfully,
P. C. LAVEY,
President, P. C. Lavey & Company.
Increase,
Increase,
Increase,
for 1910
12,401,752.11; Increase, 1,309,469.73
54,909,648.86; Increase, 2,246,947.83
91,498,319.99;
Increase,
maintain its PRE-EMINENCE
IN ECONOMY
Balance Sheet, December 31st,
$26,289,286.53
..... 128,754,102.94
65,274,997.91
271,526,503.63
LIABILITIES
Net Policy Reserve .. $445,388,997.00
Other Liabilities on Policies 6,366,561.90
Premiums, Interest and Rentals Paid
in advance 1,768,987.09
Miscellaneous Liabilities 937,528.05
Reserve for Death Claims unreported. 500,000.00
Reserve for Taxes, Licenses, etc., in
1910 1,252,104.55
Dividends payable in 1910 12,401,752.11
Reserve for Deferred Dividends and
Contingencies ." 91,506,436.91
57,829,377.00
630,892.58
2,050,296.50
3,897,681.25
3,923,980.43
282,631.89
v. $560,459,750.66
337,383.05
$560,122,367.61
Total Liabilities
thought to be serious. Her death was
caused by heart failure. She was about
64 years old and leaves two sons, Wes
ley and David, of Oakland, Or.;, and two
sisters, Mrs. C L. Blakesley, of this
city, and Mrs. Addle Morton, of Sell
wood. Troy Is Appointed Regent.
OliTMPIA, Wash.,.Feb. 2. (Special.)
Strongest
in the World
force, 31,441,323,848, and
Other notable features marking the
$21,083,399.48
12,251,281.00
531,868.83
Increase, 5,804,364.27
5,653,328.79
OF MANAGEMENT.
nf nTnencM (o-rcWi f
1909
$560,122,367.61
D. S. Troy, a dairyman of Chimacum,
Jefferson County, has been appointed by
Governor Hay as a member of the
Board of Regents of the State College,
at Pullman to suoceed F. J. Barnard, of
Seattle, who died recently. Mr. Troy
was at one time a member of the Lower
House.
Regular Broadway car service direct
to Alameda Park starts today.
Wheat, frnlt,
dairy and agrl
cultural lands,
ranches and nu
tT pownr attM,
Thouaaa (
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