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; PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1910.
DR. HYDE ARRESTED
FOR SWOPE'S DEATH
First Decree Murder
Is Charge.
HYDE IS SON OF PREACHER
Has Been Involved in Cases of
Much Notoriety.
WEDDED NIECE OF SWOPE
Forced Himself In as Attending
Physician to Swope Family and
Is Accused of Wholesale
Slaughter Money Object.
KANSAS OITT, Mo., Feb. 10. As a
climax to the long investigation of the
mysterious death of Colonel Thomas H.
Swope on October 3, 1909. rr. B. C.
Hyde, husband of the late millionaire's
'niece, was arrested on a charge of the
alleged murder of the aged philanthrop
ist. The warrant upon which arrest was
made was Issued at the reciuest of" At
torney John G. Paxton, executor of the
Swope estate.
First degree murder is charged. The
warrant says that Dr. Hyde, with felon
ious intent, administered strychnine to
Colonel Swope on the day of his death.
Across the back of the complaint filed by
Mr. Paxton asking lor a warrant, tne
prosecutor, Virgil Conkling, wrote above
hi signature, "I hereby indorse this
complaint."
Dr. Hyde Accepts Service.
tr. Hyde learned that a warrant was
being sought, and with his attorneys,
went to the Prosecutor's office to await
the return of Mr. Conkling. He suD
mltted to arrest without demanding to
hear the warrant read. From there the
party went to Independence, Mo., where
Dr. Hyde was arralgrferrbf ore Justice
W. G. Lnar. The physician pleaded not
guilty, and was released on a bond ot
$50,000. His preliminary hearing was
set for February 17.
Prosecutor Conkling originally planned
to have the bond fixed at $25,000, but
Hyde's attorneys had arranged for a $50,
000 surety, and, as they expressed a will
ingness to give this amount, it was ac
cepted. Rich Men Slfm Bond.
The bond was signed by F. P. Ts'eal.
president of the Southwest National
Bank!- H. F. Hall, president of the Hall
Baker Grain Company; M. D. Scruggs, a
livestock dealer; William McLaughlin, a
horseman, and John M. Cleary. Prank
P. Walsh and Judge John Lucas, attor
neys. They are all wealthy men.
The calmest man in the Justice's of
fice in Independence was Or. Hyde.
While attorneys busied themselves' mak
ing out the papers In the case and the
few spectators craned their necks for a
view of the accused physician, he sat
near the County Marshal, Joel B. Mayes,
who made the arrest, ana read a news
paper that told of developments In the
Swope investigation.
Anxious About His Wife.
"By the way. Mr. Mayes," he said,
folding up the paper, "I wish you would
call up my house and have my wife
informed that I will be home for dinner.
She will be worried about me."
Just as soon as the bond was accepted,
Xr. Hyde hurried to his home In an au
tomohlle. The'arrest followed quickly after Judge
Kalph S. Latshaw called a grand Jury
today to investigate the death of Colonel
Swope. Prosecutor Conkling made a re
quest for the jury.
By dismissing his libel suit for $600.
000 against Attorney John (5. Paxton, Dr.
Frank L Hall and Dr. Kdwavd G. Stew
art today, lr. Hyde removed himself
from the range of the attorneys, who
have been using every legal means known
1o them to get his deposition in the case,
one suit for $100,000 alleging slander Js
f-till pending against Attorney Paxton.
Mystery In Colonel Swope's leath.
The death of Colonel Thomas H.
t-Jwope on October 3 last was attended
by circumstances that mystified the
millionaire's family and close friends.
1 r. Hyde had treated Colonel Swope in
his last .hours, and had in signing1 the
death certificate given apoplexy as the
cause of death.
In December an epidemic of typhoid
fever raged In the Swope household,
eight persons were stricken, and one.
Chrlsman Swope. died under conditions
that caused much apprehension among
the attending nurses. Then John G.
Paxton. the executor, ami Mrs. Logan
Swope. mother or Chrlsman, instituted
a vigorous investigation. Dr. Kdward
I. Stewart came forward with the
statement that on November 30 Dr.
Hyde had obtained from him an active
typhoid culture. After Pr. Stewart had
divulged this information Ir. Hyde was
placed under constant surveillance of
detectives.
Tr. Hyde Himself Stricken.
in December 20 Pr. Hyde himself
suffered nn attack, declared to be
typhoid fever.
"When lr. Hyde became ill.'' said Dr.
Stewart. "1 was asked to make an ex
amination of his blood for typhoid. He
, asked that I make the Widal test. This
will show typhoid fever, even if the
subject whose blood is examined suf-
IContinuecL on I'axe 2. A
FAIRBANKS DIDN'T
ASK FOR AUDIENCE
MERELY EXPRESSED DESIRE TO
SEE POPE.
Anti-Clericals in Rome Have Foed
Incident for Renewed At
tacks on Vatican.
ROME, Italy, Feb. 10. (Special.)
Mgr. Bisleti, the Papal Major-Domo,
says that Ex-Vice-President Fairbanks
did not apply directly for an audience
with the Pope, but merely expressed a
desire to see him.' The audience was
deemed inexpedient, not because of any
objection to Mr. Fairbanks' personality,
religion or private character, but be
cause of his active participation in the
regular public church services of the
Methodists.
Mgr. Bisleti called attention to the
fact that the Ex-Vice President did not
attend the services as a member of the
congregation, but contributed by his
presence to increase the importance
and prestige of a church openly hostile
to Catholicism, active in proselyting
and numbering among its converts sev
eral apostate priests.
Anti-clericals In Rome have used the
Fairbanks incident as a pretext for an
attack on the Vatican, exaggerating
the importance of the affair and mak
ing it almost a breach of courtesy
against an American who had occupied
the second highest position in his gov
ernment. Mr. Fairbanks, however, de
plores the publicity and undue imports
ance given to the case, which he admits
was due to hfs lack of foresight.
The report that Mr. Roosevelt has
promised to participate In the Metho
dist Church services here is unfound
ed. He has notified the Vatican of his
intention to visit the Pope; therefore it
is taken for granted that he is prepared
to abstain from acts likely to hurt the
Pontiff's susceptibilities.
ORANGES HURT BY FROST
Shipment of Damaged Fruit Injures
Trade or California.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) The damage to oranges by the
heavy frosts six weeks ago is much
greater than was supposed. Some ex
perts say that one-third of the crop was
frozen, meaning a direct loss of many
millions of dollars and injury for years
to come. The market is demoralized
by shipments of bad. fruit, and how to
prevent the sendUig of frozen oranges
to the East is the burning question Wr
loday In Southern California.
The California Fruitgrowers' Ex
change has been studying the subject
for weeks and, it Is understood, the
managers have about reached the con
clusion that the only effective pre
ventive will be to have a state law
passed for the appointment of Inspect
ors, with authority to forbid shipping
of any fruit unfit for human food. This
would Include frozen oranges.
The thermometer was lower at places
in Southern California this Winter than
ever before, registering 20 degrees in.
the orange belt for an hour on two
nights.
$11,000,000 IN MINE DEAL
Dunsmnlr Properties to Be Acquired
by Mackenzie and Mann.
VICTORIA'. B. C, Feb. 10. (Special.)
Ex-Lieutenant-Governor James Duns
muir's vast coal interests and various
mines on Vancouver Island, B. C, are
to be turned over soon to MacKenzle
& Mann, builders of the Canadian
Northern Railroad. .T. P. Morgan and
James J. Hill are said to be back of
them.
The price to be paid in cash is $11.
000,000 and $5,000,000 in addition are
to be expended in the erection of steel
works on Vancouver Island and the
extension and development of the
mines. The actual output of the mines
already developed is. tremendous.
The Canadian Pacific Railway had an
option on this property but allowed it
to expire.
WOMEN WILL "MAN" PLOWS
Pick and Shovel Club of Venice to
Beautify City.
VKXICB. Cal., Feb. 10. Women of
the Pick and Shovel Club, a fashionable
organization which has undertaken the
task of beautifying this city, will
"man" plows on Saturday, when a two
acre garden at the public school is to
be prepared for the planting of flowers
and shrubbery.
The occasion is to be made a munici
pal holiday.
TEACHERS ASK MORE PAY
Seattle Educators Back Demand by
- High Cost of Living.
SEATTLE, Feb. 10. A committee
representing all the grade school teach
ers in Seattle met today and prepared
a demand upon the Board of Education
for a 10 per cent increase in -wages.
The Increased cost of living is given
as a reason for the demand. The high
school teachers are expected to join
the movement.
Albany to Boast of Airship.
ALBANY, Or.. Feb. 10. (Special.)
Work began today on the shed at Goltra
Park, just south of this city, where the
Burkhart airship is to be housed dur
ing the aviation experiments the com
ing Summer. Burkhart is now in Port
land, preparing to bring the biplane
air craft, which he exhibited at the
Portland Automobile Show, to this city,
where It will be made ready for the
coming experiments.
BELLHAS GONTRDL
' OF INDEPENDENTS
Attorneys Confident It
Has Been Proved..
MORGAN WAS BLIND MERELY
Ohio and Indiana Telephone
Companies Still Probed.
STRONG DENIAL IS MADE
Banker Who Negotiated Sale of
Properties Says Bell Company
Knew Nothing of Purchasers.
President Vail to Testify.
NEW YORK, ' Feb. 10. Counsel for
the minority stockholders In the Ohio
and Indiana Independent Telephone
Companies, control of which was re
cently sold to interests yet to be offi
cially identified, declared tonight in the
hearing held here they were satisfied
they had already proVed the control
has passed to the American Telephone
& ' Telegraph Company, commonly
known as the Bell Company.
The hearings were adjourned until a
week from today, because Western
lawyers Insisted on next examining
President Vail, of the American Tele
phone & Telegraph Company, who can
not appear until then.
Bell Control Believed Shown.
Before leaving for Cleveland tonight
H. B. McGraw, an attorney for the mi
nority stockholders, who are plaintiffs
in the action, said:
"Through Vice-President Hall and
W. H. Remick, the banker who negoti
ated the deal, we have already estab
lished that the American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. lent to Remick's firm
(R. L. Day & Co.), without security.
$7,280,000 to buy the controlling shares
Ji.theiiid.;pendent companies of Ohio
and Indiana.
"They admit the American Company
wanted these companies and provided
the money to make the purchase.
Contract Drawn In Bell Office.
"They admit that the contracts, not
only between the American Company
and Remick's firm, but between Rem
ick and F. W. Goff and James S. Brai
ley, Jr.. who had the shares of stock
to sell, were drawn In the American
Company's offices and that Remick was
acting for the American Company.
"Furthermore, we have shown that
the American Company asked J. P.Mor
gan & Co. to form afeholding company
for these Ohio and Indiana companies,
and that, when Morgan & Company
took the holdings over, 'the American
company released Remick from the op
tion, so that the transfer could be made
to Morgan's firm.
All Competition Stopped.
"We believe that this shows conclu
sively that the American Telephone &
Telegraph Company, which owns the
Central Vhton Company, in Ohio and
Indiana, has quieted all competition
there."
Remick testified today that his profit
in the deal has been "about $60,000."
Remick said that from the time he
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I AND PRICES WERE LESS. t j
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Wether.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 41.2
degrees; minimum, 33.4 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional ratn; easterly winds.
Fore-ten.
Lr. "Wllhelm Bode says Americans tate in
art measured by cirllars- Page. 1.
Fairbanks did not ask for audience; merely
expressed desire to see pope. Page 1
Xiuional.
Government-owned steamship line on Pacific
arjrued in Senate committee. Page 5.
Rivers and harboxs bill is liberal to Oregon
projects.- Page- 2.
Senate instructs members of , committee to
refuse to obey writ commanding appear
ance in court: House consents to obey
.- summons. . Page 3. .
Iouaestic
Attorneys say they have shown Betl control
of recen t ly bou g h t independent phone
companies. Page 1.
Dr. B. O. Hyde arrested, charged with mur
der oof Colonel Thomas H. Swipe. Page 1.
"W. Oould -Brorcaw goes to Arizona to rest.
Page 6.
Pullman company declares stock dividend of
2O.O00.O00. Page 1.
JS ports.
Fight between Attell and Oonley is trans
ferred to los Angeles. Page 7.
Bam langford signs for return match with
Jib Flynn in los Angeles . Page 7.
Salt Lake's hopes for staging big: fight re
vive. Page 7.
CConnell wins match with Matsuda, who
refuses second bout; row follows. Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
More Interest shown In fancy apples.
Page 19.
Steady advance in wheat at Chicago.
Page 10.
Recovery of stock prices checked. Page 19.
British bark Forth hank chartered to load
lumber for Australia. Page 18.
Pacific NorthWeit.
Fish Commissioner of Washington and Fish
"Warden of Oregon to collaborate , in man
aging salmon affairs. Page S.
Boise stockmen fleeced of $300O by bunko
gang. Page S.
On face of primary returns, friends of Gill
figure he has already won Mayoralty cam
paign in Seattle. Page 5.
State of Washington charges fraud In sale
of timber lands; sues to cancel deeds.
Page S.
James Farren, Southern Oregon pioneer.
dies, ajced 104. Page 8.
Portland and Vicinity.
Tract west of Rose City Park, bought 27
years ago for $ti5,0O0. sold for AoOO.000.
Page 14.
Many victims are found by agents who so
licit filings on railroad - land grant.
Page 3 2.
Mayor willing to help In grand jury investi
gation of prizefights. Page 12.
Bo Ham Jury polled at instance of streetcar
company, which has another to try before
the same panel; attorney admits Interest.
Page 9.
Biennial conference of Seventh Day Ad-
. ventists is opened. Page 14.
Railroad from Tillamook to Vosburg will be
opened by April l. Page 18.
Depositors of defunct Oregon Trust expected
to be paid Saturday. Pa-ge l'Z.
Hermann's lawyers begin final argument:
tria'. may end today. Page 9.
Republican -State Central Committee to meet
today to choose chairman to suoceed W.
M. Cake. Page 14.
ALLEGED FAKER IS ILL
Mrs. Maud Johnson's Condition
Puzzles Vancouver Doctors.
VANCOtiVKS'Vvash.. Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Maud Johnson, the alleged
injury faker, who has been in jail here
for the last few weeks, waiting: trial on
a charge of defrauding the Northern Pa
cific Railway Company out of $12o0, has
been ill since Monday morning. Two
physicians were called to the Jail to at
tend her last night and the prisoner's
husband came from Portland on the last
boat. She is better today.
County Physician Black said today that
the woman was suffering from tympan
itis, a gajseons swelling. She is hysterical
at times and her physicians are mysti
fied. Dr. Black said her illness might
prove serious.
Focmal charges were filed against Mrs.
Johnson today by Prosecuting Attorney
Stapleton. The charge filed alleges fel
ony by fraudulently obtaining damage
money from the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company.
ILLINOIS GETS PRIMARY
Bill Is Then Introduced to Nominate
General Assembly Members.
SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Feb. 10. A dta-ect
plurality primary bill, which previously
had passed the House, went through the
Illinois Senate with a rush today. Trail
ing it were a separate measure for nom
ination of members of the General As
sembly and a bill making it possible for
cities by majority vote to retain the old
form of nominating municipal officers.
TUFT TO DECLARE
POLICY ON TRUSTS
Nation in Suspense on
Trust Decisions.
PRESIDENT'S VIEWS STAND
Speech in New York Will Show
Flurries Don't Move Him.
MAGNATES SEE NO HOPE
If Federal Incorporation Passes, It
Will Xot Save Trusts From Ef
fecls of Standard and Tobac
co Decisions, if Taft Wins.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. A confer
ence held at the White House last night
between President Taft and Senator Ald
rich was only the forerunner of others
in the near future, the outcome of which
probably will be the Issue of a state
ment dealing with the situation that Is
discussed wherever two or three are
gathered together", yet which apparently
nobody" thus far has adeemed it. prudent
to make the subject of public utterance.
That situation relates to the possible
consequences, financial, industrial and
political, hanging upon the decisions ot
the Supreme Court of the United States
in the cases of the1 American Tobacco
Company and the Standard Oil Company.
' The immediate subject of last night's
conference between the President and
Mr. Aldrich was the Adnilnlstration's
proposed amendments to the Interstate
commerce law. but the effect of th.e Su
preme Court decisions in the tobacco and
oil cases was discussed also and will be
further diacussed on Monday.
Flurries Don't Swerve Taft.
Meanwhile the President -will speak in
New York Saturday night on the sub
ject, it is said, of "Party Pledges and
How They Should Be Kept' and he Is
attempting no concealment or modification
of his intention to make the decision of
the Supreme Court the guide of the Gov
ernment's further action in regard to cor
porations charged with -violations of the
Sherman anti-trust law. He makes it
plain to all Inquirers that he has in no
wise changed his view of what in bis
message to Congress he described as his
duty to investigate the conduct of all
trusts. Mr. Taft says he will not be
swerved therefrom by rumors or flurries
or other manifestations "in Wall street."
The general impression here ts.that the
Federal incorporation bill will not be
passed at this session. All the talk is un
favorable to its substantial progress and
Mr. Taft recently disclaimed any intention
of attempting to force its passage.
Xo Legislative Relief Xear. '
But, even if it were enacted in its
present form, it offers, in the opinion
of members of Congress and of corpor
ation men, no material relief from the
condition that hangs upon the decision
of anti-trust cases. The bill provides
that it shall not be construed to cre
ate a shelter or immunity for any cor
poration that has violated the Sher
man law. Nobody here shares what ap
pears to have been the popular impres
sion that the proposed Federal incor-
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DEATH WARNING
IS PROVED TRUE
MOVED BY STRAXGE IMPl'LSE,
EXGlXEEIt LEAVES WORK.
I'aial Accident Follows Similar
Omen Preceded Death of Family
Within Two Days.
I.OS ANGELES. Cal.. Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) Eugene O'Hara. chief engineer on
board the steamship Santa Clara for
many years,- was accidentally killed by
electricity tonight at Kingman, Ariz.,
where he went to look over some mining
property. Early yesterday morning his
sister, Mrs. . Frances O'Hara-Fields. 214
Eastlake avenue, went to Calvary Ceme
tery, moved by a desire to look upon
her mother's grave, and was greatly sur
prised to find her brother Eugene there
also.
.. "Why, Eugene," she asked, "How do
you happen to be here?"
"I can hardly tell you," he responded,
"but a peculiar feeling has come over
me that this will be the last time I will
ever see mother's grave. I feel Just as
I did before the children died, and I am
sure that something is going to happen
to me."
He referred to an affMction that befell
his family in San Francisco. November
20, 11103. He arrived ir, port that day
and was told as he stepped from the
plank that all his six children had died
of diphtheria that day. His wife died the
next day.
O'Hara had given up a good berth on
a Pacific steamer to come here.
AMERICANS' ART TASTE BAD
Dr. Bode, Noted Authority, Says Big
Names All That Is Wanted.
BERLIN, Feb. 10. (Special.) Ameri
can art connoisseurs have enough
money, but only a limited amount of
taste, according to Dr. Wilhelm Bode,
the famous director of the Prussian
art galleries, recently Involved In
a world-wide controversy over the gen
uineness of a bust he acquired. Eu
rope, he says, should take advantage
of this fact and protect itself against
predatory American millionaires who
are despoiling the Old World of its art
treasures. "Owing to competition,"
writes Dr. Bode in a leading German
art Journal, "American prices for
pictures have again Increased. Simple
portraits by Rembrandt and Hals are
selling for 1,000.000 marks ($250,000),
which is six times what they brought
a few years ago. Such gigantic prices
exclude Europeans from competition. .
"American taste, howevvr. 1 limited
and leaves a rich choice of masterpieces
which they do not want. They are
after big names and for the famous
works of Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Velas
quez and Titian they will commit any
folly. Smaller paintings of even these
masters, though, they do not want. We
must derive an advantage from this sit
uation for artistic values are not
measured with a yardstick."
Dr. Bode has been conducting a vig
orous campaign aganst activities of
American collectors.
CLAGSTONE SEEKS OFFICE
Idalio Candidate for Governor Is
: Prohibition Advocate.
LEWISTON. Idaho, Feb. 10. Paul Clag
stone. Representative from Bonner
County and Speaker of 'the House during
the last session of the Legislature, to
night formally announced his candidacy
for the nomination of Governor on the
Republican ticket, to succeed Governor
Brady.
Mr. Clagstone has announced his plat
form as being favorable to state-wide pro
hibition, legislation desired by the farm
ers' organizations throughout the state,
conservation of the state's resources as
begun by Gifford PInchot and President
Roosevelt and continued by President
Taft and Secretary Bellinger, anti-trust
legislation to reduce the cost of living,
the enactment of such laws as will pro
tect the settlers on Carey act lands so
that they will be required to pay only the
cost of reclamation and a revenue re
vision with a view to reducing taxation.
Mr. Clagstone has also announced his
Intention of campaigning Nez Perce
County in the interests of local option
for the election to be held March 9.
ARMY BARBED WIRE DOWN'
Vancouver Road Blocked During
Work Cleared by Miscreant.
v
VANCOUVER, Wash., Veb. 10. (Spe
cial.) Barricades of barbed wire on
Reserve street, from Thirteenth street
to the Cemetery, were torn down last
night. Reserve street, while it is used
as a public thoroughfare. Is a part of
the military reservation, and as such
is under the complete control of the
military authorities.
The barricades were put up again
today, much stronger than before, and
a guard has been stationed on that
part of the garrison grounds.
The Government will expend $20,000
In macadamizing this 8200 feet of Re
serve street, and the specifications re
quire the street to be shut 'off from
traffic while the work is being done.
PARRICIDE STORY DOUBTED
Attorney Defending Mrs. Brown
Questions Victim's Son's Tale.
BARTLESVILLE, Okla., Feb. 10. T,he
state closed its case today against Mrs. A.
H. Brown, charged with murdering her
husband.
Mrs. Brown's attorney, in making the
opening statement for the defense, ques
tioned the sensational story of Peter
Brown, the dead man's sou, that he killed
his father. It was hinted that the older
Brown really was not murdered at all.
Mrs. Brown, said the attorney, would
deny Improper relations with her stepson,
and insisted she did not influence him to
murder bia fathes.
PULLMAN SLICES
ENQRMOUSMELQN
Twenty Millions Given,
to Stockholders.
SHARES tfORTH DOUBLE PAR
Increased Investment in Fa
cilities Is Public Reason.
MORGAN'S ADVICE TAKEN
Step Taken Xow Iest Federal Incor
poration Act Shall Make It 1m-
- possible Datcr On Total
Gifts $64,000,000.
CHICAGO. Feb. 10. The directors of
the Pullman Company decided at a spe
cial meeting today to give the stock
holders a stock dividend of 20 per cent
on the corporation's $100,000,000 of cap
ital. This will call for the Issuance of
$20,000,000 of new capital, worth nearly
$40,000,000 in the open market, which
will be given to the present sharehold
ers without cost and will swell the
company's total capital stock to $120,
000,000. Stock Worth Twice Par.
Pullman stock pays $8 a share divi
dend each year and sells in the market
at $198 a share, or nearly twice par
value. This stock dividend of 20 per
cent is about the equivalent of 40 per
cent, therefore, of the par value of the
stock.
In a statement made by directors an
nouncing the dividend, this afternoon,
it was pointed out that "the consider
ations influencing this action were that
the Increased investment in the manu
facturing facilities of the company had
been so material and considerable as
to justify the directors in the belief
that it should be represented in addi
tional capital stock of the company."
Original Capital One Million.
The declaration of a dividend at this
time is understood to have been on the
advice of J. Pierpont Morgan, one of
the controlling figures in the company.
It is said to have been Mr. Morgan's
idea that if the company contemplated
increasing its capital in this way, it
would be better to do so before the
passage by Congress of some bill like
the Federal incorporation bill made it
impossible.
The dividend of $20,000,000 will make
a total of $64,000,000 of stock which the
Pullman Company has given to its
stockholders without cost in 12 years.
The original capital of the company
was $1,000,000.
COUNTY SPLIT THREATENS
New Issue Is Injected Into Local
Option fight at Dewiston.
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) A new issue has been injected
into the local option campaign In the
last few days at Lewiston, Idaho, by
the inauguration of a movement, both
in the Orofino country and the Prairie
districts to introduce in the next Leg
islature a bill for the division of Nez
Perce County into three counties... a
meeting having been called for Satur
day night at the Orofino Commercial
Club to formulate plans, and both fac
tions admit that the anti-local option
ists will take advantage of the move
ment to secure votes in the territory
embraced.
The plan is to make one county out
of the district north of the Clearwater
and east of the North Fork, with Oro
fino as the county seat, and another
out of the Nez Perce prairl esection,
with either Nez Perce or Vollmer as
the county seat. The leaders in both
camps admit that county division has
an important bearing on the local on
tion fight.
CHEHALIS PUPILS DOUBLE
Report Shows Children Increase
From 3 4 40 to 6839 in Decade.
MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. 10. Accord
ing to figures taken from the recent ad
dress of County Superintendent of Schools
McKtllip, Chehalis County now has S;3
persons of school age. as compared with
3446 ten years ago. Of these 2238 are in
Aberdeen, 1420 in Hoquiam and the re
maining 3181 in the cities and country
districts of the rest of the county.
During 1909 $189,196.24 was expended for
school .purposes in the enure county, as
compared with $42,661.80 spent in 189.
The expense of Aberdeen alone in 1909
was V.i times the entire cost of the county
for 1599.
Publicity Secretary Resign.
OREGON CITY. Or., Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) At a meeting this evening of the
publicity department and the advisory
board of the Oregon City Commercial
Club, the resignation of S. P. Davis,
secretary of the publicity department,
was tendered and accepted. Mr. Davis
has been with the club about eight
months.
Supreme Court Cases Set.
SALEM, Or..' Feb. 10. (Special.) In
the Supreme Court the following cases
have been set for hearing:
February 23 State vs. Smith; Tillamook
City vs. Tillamook County.
February 24 State ex rel vs. V. R., L.
& P. Co.; Talbot vs. Smith.
February 25 Moorehouse vs. -Weistv
Co.; Kelsey vs. Taylor,