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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, APRIL, 19, 1910. 9 THIEF FOUND GUILT! R. Hill Is Convicted of Rob bing Foreigner. JURY RETURNS . VERDICT Court Kails to Believe That Charles Isakson Gave Hill Money and Hill 3Iust Pay the Pen . alty of the liaw. ' Richard Hill, accused of stealing $225 from Charles Isalfson on February 13, was convicted by a jury in Judge Cle land's department of the Circuit Court yesterday. The theft took place in the Dewey House, Third and Burnside streets. It appeared from the testimony that Hill, Isakson and a third man, a soldier, had been drinking in Hill's room, in the com pany of two women. After a time, Isakson missed JTOO, which he said he had with him. He was argu ing with the soldier in the hall over the matter, when two plainclothes men ar rived, asked what the trouble was, and were told by Isakson he had lost his money. All three were taken to the Po lice Station, and Hill declared the money had been left at the Richelieu saloon. It being a Sunday morning the . bartender could not be found, and Hill is said to have afterward drawn 225 of the money from his pocket. It was Hill's contention that Isakson crave him the money when he realized that he was becoming drunk. Deputy District Attorney Vreeland prosecuted the case. The jury Included: Charles Ander son, T. X. Hagenburgher. W. R. Bridges, Martin Holman. Charles M. Brink, W. A. Fordyce, E. H. Hobbs, E. M. Angel, George C. Barclay, James Peterson, J. W. iArm strong and C. R. Kane. BAVAGK BONDSMEN RELIEVED Jrand Not Proved In Accounts of Long Absent Official. Eight years after the suit was be gun in the United States Court and about nine years after Myron H. Sav age, ex-superintendent of the Indian Industrial School at Paris, Cal., dis appeared from the haunts which had known him many years, the United States Court yesterday declared that fraud In his accounts had not been proved. The decision was rendered by Judge Bean, and had the effect of putting an end to the . efforts of the Government to question the accounts of the former Indian Department official. The suit was directed against his bondsmen. Dr. J. H. Minthorn, of Xewport, and Ben jamin S. Crook, of Portland. Four years after Savage retired from office and following his disappearance, an audit of his accounts at the Indian school was ordered by the Department. A special agent was sent to Paris and a number of affidavits secured to the effect that Savage had paid smaller amounts for certain supplies than were set out in the vouchers submitted with his accounts. Among the items upon which the Government based its case was the purchase of a team of horses for $525, when, as a matter of fact, he secured the trotters for $500. Sav age was also accused of appropriating 60 cents in an account for the crushing of barley and $20 in the purchase of a buggy. Composed of such items the total amount of illegitimate profit charged to have been gained by Sav age approximated $8000. In presenting the matter to the court the Government failed to produce wit nesses, but relied upon affidavits and copies of the accounts as prepared in the Washington office. In passing upon the case Judge Bean held that it is Incumbent upon the Government, as well as any other lttlgant, to prove Its case. The matter was dismissed. Without waiting to face the inquiry into his accounts and methods of book keeping, Savage left Oregon and . has not since been located. The Govern ment has never made any esrTort to ap prehend him, the bondsmen of the for mer official having borne all the ex pense of the long-drawn-out. litigation. WOMAN SUES ROAD FORx $.20,000 Surah M. Strucken Asks Damages for Injury I.nst Year. A Jury was selected in Judge Gan tenbein's department of the Circuit Court yesterday to try the damage 'suit' of Sarah M. Strucken against the Portland Railway. Light & Power Com pany, in which she demands $20,000 for a broken femur. She alleges that on March 16. last year, she was attempting to board an "S" car at Third and Yamhill streets, when it was suddenly started forward with a series of jerks, throwing her to the pavement. She declares the con ductor stood within easy reach, but Jailed to catch her. As an answer, the company's officials declare that the conductor told Mrs. Strucken and a number of others, standing on the corner, to take the next car, but that she boarded the car, to discover, after a few seconds, that her daughter had been left. They say she stepped directly off upon the pave ment without waiting for the car to Etop. , HVIFE DENIES "AFFINITY" PLEA Mrs. Margaret Jensen Thinks "Hubby" Has Iost Reason. Mrs. Margaret E. Jensen suggests in en affidavit filed In the Circuit Court yesterday that her husband, Ernest V. Jensen, may have lost his reason be cause he charges her with being in fatuated with W. A. Hall. "My husband states that we lived happily together until about four years ago, when I took up with W. A. Hall," says Mrs. Jensen. "Now, if defendant has not absolutely lost his reason or Is not utterly depraved, he knows that I did not take up with Hall four years ago, but that 14 years ago he took me, With the rest of my sisters and broth ers, into his family and treated us the Game as his children." On her way to visit . her sister at Trout Lake, Wash., Mrs. Jensen admits that she stopped with Hall while in Hood River, registering as "Mr. Hall and family." She says she took care of the children. I'ENXAXT TO PLEAD TOMORROW "Wife Prefers Charge, Actress Being Alleged "Affinity." Charles A. Tennant, who' recently ob tained notoriety because of the report that he attempted in the guise of a private detective to extort money from illegitimate houses, was arraigned be fore Presiding; Circuit Judge Morrow if ttrdajr on a chars preferred by bl wife, Maude A. Tennant- Bobby Pul liam, an actress whose company Ten nant is said to have preferred to that of his wife, was also arraigned. They will plead tomorrow. Fred A. NuUrown pleaded guilty and was given an indeterminate sentence of from one to ten years by Judge Mor row for assault upon 18-year-old Esther M. H. .Weis on Xovember 15. COURTS MAY CLOSE TOR GAME Judges Probably Will Attend Open ing of Season Today. Although the Courthouse will be open, it is not probable that very much Judi cial business will be transacted today, for the most of the Circuit Court judges are planning on going to the ball game. Judge Bronaugh said yesterday he would adjourn Juvenile Court until to morrow. Judge Gantenbein was non-committal last night. Judge Cleland had almost made up his mind to go, ad Judge Gatens said he would accept an invita tioin which had been extended to him to ride in the parade. Presiding Judge Morrow did not commit himself, but it is probable that he will leave his task early enough to reach the ball ground before the game commences. F. A. JACOBS DEMANDS $50,000 Sues Inside Investment Company on Lot Transaction. Charging the Inside Investment Com pany with having repudiated a con tract by which Fred A. Jacobs was to purchase lots 3 and 4, block 211, at the southwest corner of Seventh and Yam hill streets, for $200,000. Jacobs has brought suit in the Circuit Court to recover $50,000 damages. He says he paid $10,000 in cash, and was , to pay $90,000 in 50 days, and to give a mort gage, payable in two years, for the balance. The company now refuses to give title, he says, and has returned his $10,000. Real Estate Fraud Charged. Jacob Nice filed suit against Augus tus Walker in the Circuit Court yester day charging Walker with having sold him 97 acres of Marion County land without telling him of a second mort gage on the property for $4000. The mortgage was foreclosed, says Nice, and the land sold at Sheriff's sale, Nice bid ding $1389.55 for it, and receiving a Sheriff's deed. He demand judgment for this amount. ALASKA CAMP OVERRATED Charles E. Masson Discredits Tales About Iditarod. Flattering reports received from Fair banks, Alaska, about the mining oppor tunities in the new district of Iditarod, were discredited' yesterday by Charles' B. Masson, of this city, who has spent sev eral years in the mines' of Alaska, and has friends at the new district who are keeping him ' Informed concerning the conditions there. Mr. Mas3on said yesterday that he would like to warn men from being at tracted to the new field, which is nothing like it has been represented. He believes that the conditions in the new district are being misrepresented through the mine owners of the place, who want cheap labor, and by Seattle merchants, who would profit by a mining boom at that place. "The story coming from Fairbanks that they are getting 25 cents to the pan of dirt at Iditarod," said Mr. Maseon, "must be wrong, for in a letter I received from there, written on February 22, 5 cents a pan was the best that had been made at that time. "My friends at Iditarod write me that there were 1200 idle men at that place this Winter, and that as1 these are now without work and must cook for them selves1; many of the restaurants had closed up, and others had taken smaller quarters-.'' Oregon City Woman Assaulted. OREGON CITY. Or., April 18. (Spe cial.) Mrs. August Rakel was the vic tim of an unexpected attack by an un known man this afternoon in West Ore gon City. She was alone when assaulted. The man struck her in the face several times, inflicting painful bruises, but Mrs. Rakel managed to run away and tele phone to the police. NEW ORPHEUM MANAGER HAS HAD 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE AND HIS WIFE IS ACCOMPLISHED VOCALIST. s - . I njx - - -x ' . : - .-rtze ,&Azc vwej. cir&f&T'rjzr&jz'' Portland musical circles as well as theatrical circles have been benefited by the appointment of Charles P. Elliott as the new manager of the Orpheum Theater., as Mrs. Elliott, who came to Portland with her husband yesterday, is a contralto soloist with a wide reputation In the Middle West. Mr. Elliott is pleased with his new theater and likes Portland so well that he is now planning to establish his perman ent home here. He has been in tls theatrical business for 25 years as a. man ager and has followed almost every other line of the work. Until recently he had been engaged as the manager for Robert B. Mantell, which position he gave up to accept the management of the Portland Orpheum Theater, which was offered him by John Considine, of the firm of Sullivan & Considine, in Seattle, two weeks ago. He continued with Mr. Mantell to Spo kane and came here from that city. "The entire country is leaning In the direction of vaudeville these days," said Mr. Elliott last evening. "Vaudeville is the real American idea, and it Is on ac count of the great growth in popularity of vaudeville that I have seen fit to drop the 'legitimate' and take up this line here. Vaudeville started not many years ago as an experiment. It was a success from the start. At first the regulars did not re gard vaudeville as a serious theatrical venture and thought the wave which was sweeping the country was ephemeral. Then It became apparent that it had come to stay and now the regulars are be ginning to retrench in the face of a vaudeville movement .which, la o great MANY THEFTS ADMITTED SNEAKTHIEF THOUGHT TO BE BOLD BURGLAR. Fuse and Dynamite Caps for Safe Blowing Found in Room of Edgar Wilson. Investigations by Detectives Coleman and Snow into the case of Edgar Wilson, captured as a hotel sneakthief Saturday afternoon, indicate that the prisoner is a professional burglar, safecracker and all around thief of considerable reputation. Fuse and dynamite caps for blowing safes were found among his effects, as were the proceeds of at least six bur glaries with a lot of unidentified articles unclaimed. Wilson has served a term of five years in Walla Walla, for burglary. He was released in 1907. He travels under the alias of Charles Grandstrom. So far, the following burglaries have been admitted by Wilson: Seven Corners barber shop, the houseboat of R. Klausner, foot of Holgate street: the room of E. B. Griffin, Heiler building, corner of Grand avenue and Hawthorne avenues; the saloon of M. Meister, corner of East Twenty-first and Division streets; the rooms of R. W. Goodwin, 2SOV4 Grand avenue, and rooms of George L. Thomas, a't 23V4 Grand avenue. Wilson denies ownership of the cracks man's outfit and says it is the property of a man known as Harvey Martin, who is now out of the city. Martin was dis charged from the Salem Penitentiary in February, and, according to Wilson, not only had a safecracking outfit found in his effects, but had a large quantity of nitro-glycerine buried outside the city. Wilson, was captured by A. K. Lehman and his son Oscar, who conduct a rooming-house at 2S0V4 Grand avenue. Wilson was in the act of ransacking the room of R. W. Goodwin when the lodging house proprietor came upon him. Mr. Lehman grabbed him, called for assist ance and held him until the arrival of the police. Wilson was held to await the action of the grand jury yesterday in Municipal Court. METHODIST HOSPITAL DUE Steps Toward Home for Sick Urged at Ministerial Meeting. Immediate steps toward the establish ment of a Methodist hospital were urged by Jr. Benjamin Young yesterday in his address before the Methodist Ministerial Association. "The Needs of Portland Methodism" was his subject. He also declared him self in favor of less machinery in the church, and said the professional grouch is worthless. He said: Men who are ready to criticise the church forget how long it has taken to make it as grod as it is. Thus age is different from the previous onfl and from them we have profited. The present methods of reaching the people sre fairly successful. But it Is not so much the method as the man, and individual churchmen all over the world should be made to feel that resrponstbility rest upon them. The "old grouch' who sits back in a corner and criticises is cf no use to the church. The tendency o preachers is to try to do work hy multiplied machinery such as or ganization and reorganization of bodies. All st long the line there is too much of this, and this tends to overcome the personal effort. An other thing that will not make the successful preacher is the use of bizarre or sensational methods. Another is the use of books to ex cess. Books are all right as long as they are only used to suggest something to us, but by too much study of too many books we are very apt to lose our individuality. And if this goes on we will become mere vaudeville or ?toek performers. We cannot serve the world by fads. And another thing: If this city is to have oOO.ooo people soon, we should establish a Methodist hospital. No longer should the bugaboo of the mistakes and failures of the past in that direction -e allowed to prevent our starting, li only in an humble way. THOUSANDS ARE COMING I.ocal Hibernians Expect 15,000 Guests in Portland in July. Out of 1100 letters sentout by the Com mercial Club to delegates to the National convention of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians, to be held here July 19 to 24, re plies have been received from more than two-thirds. It Is now believed, according to E. H. Deery, secretary of the conven tlon committee of the local organization. as to stamp that part of theatricals in America at least as the leading class of show work now in existence. "I have been in the show business for 25 years now. ever since I was a young ster, and in every capacity except actor. I was for 13 years manager of the Craw ford circuit in Kansas, Missouri and Ne braska. For the next eight years I was the manager for Carl Hopkins' vaudeville circuit and for the last four years have been, with William A. Brady, managing Wilton Lackaye, "The Man of The Hour" and Richard Mantell. "I started in when I was 15 years old as an usher. Then I was given the conces sion of handling the sale of the lemonade and fans in the theater. One day, when business was a little slack, I gave the janitor 25 cents to build a fire in the basement furnace. It was a warm day and the demand for lemonade and fans went up. The manager found out my scheme and took away my concession, but I think I showed the earmarks of being a businessman when I started in. "After that, I became treasurer, then assistant manager and later manager of a theater and for 25 years have been ac tively in business as a theatrical man ager." Mrs. Elliott will prove a valuable addi tion to the musical world In Portland. She has been singing as soloist in the Catholic Cathedral at St. Louis. She was a member of the Symphony Society in St. Iouis where she gained an enviabie repu tation by singing ATarmen at tile Odeon auditorium. Portland music lovers will doubtless soon bj given an opportunity to hear Mri. Elliott. Your Salary Alone Will Never Make You Independent, but a Small Portion of It Wisely Invested in Real Estate Will Be the Foundation of Your Fortune. Real estate is the surest of all investments the safest of all security) Most of ttie world 's.laTest fortunes have been founded on real estate investment. The man who depends on his salary alone to make him independent or to get enough to start him in a business of his own, will find it mighty slow work and very uncertain. If he would invest a small part of his earnings .judiciously in real estate, he could soon be making as much money from his investment as his salary amounts to. This is not a theory but an absolute fact. It has been proven time and time again right here in Portland. Nine out of ten men stand back and watch the tenth one spend a part of his salary each month in real estate and make big money from it. Then they wonder why he is so lucky and they are not. It is not luck. It is business foresight, arid you can do the same if you will. We have studied the situation in Portland and we know that a man cannot go wrong if he invests wisely. You probably know this also. Then why not invest in Laurelhurst ' NOW -? Don't delay, but see the property. Call at our office and we will take you out to the tract in our automo biles, or take Rose Cny Park or Montavilla lines both lines run to and through Laurelhurst. Call at Our Office and Let Us Tell You How Little Cash Will Make a First Payment and How Little Each Month Will Win You Title to a Lot in SALEM AGENCY, A. 3V. MOORES, 1-3 BIISH-BREVMAN BLOCK. EUGENE AGENCY. MAGLADRV & SHUMATE. ALBANY AGENCY, A. T. STARK., BAKER. CITY AGENT, IRA D. STURGES. CONDON AGENT, J. W. COCHRAN. WALLA WALLA AGENCY, CDKl JIHKI.LBR A KNMS.1 W. C. KOEHNE. J that as many as 15,000 visitors will be In the city. '' "We ara having trouble convincing the merchants and property owners what a stupendous gathering It will be," said Mr. Deery. "If we make a success of the convention and come up to our prom ises, we must have money to carry them out." m A recent issue of tlS National Hiber nian, official organ of the order, says in Philadelphia alone 25 delegates have been appointed. Throughout Pennsylvania the same spirit prevails. The Indiana dele gation has already made reservations at the Imperial Hotel. NEW FIRE STATIONS DUE Buildings In Construction Bids Sought on Auto Hosecarts. Portlands Fire Department will soon have three more modern engine-houses, fully equipped. These will be at Mount Tabor. North Alblna and at Fourteenth and Montgomery streets, where houses are being rushed to completion. Adver tisements for the- necessary apparatus are being run and bids will be opened within a month. Bids are sought on au tomobile engines and hose-carts, and it is probable some of this etyle will be purchased. The fire committee of the Executive Board has also recommended the con struction of a steel Are boat and the Installation of reinforcing mains for the downtown districts, which will give to the waterfront and the wholesale and retails centers excellent protection. The flreboat. which will be of steel, and the reinforcing mains will cost approxi mately $275,000. for which there is a bond issue of that sum. The fire committee, consisting of John F. O'Shea, Samuel Connell and S. C. Pier, has Indorsed the plans and instructed Chief Campbell to secure a site for the location of the vessel. VOTING PLACES INCREASED Xumber or Precincts in Multnomah County May Reach 18 0. A re-establishment of the precinct lines throughout the city has been made necessary by the great increase In population during the last two years. County Judge Cleeton, Commissioners Lightner and Barnes, County Clerk Fields and Peputy Clerk Herman Schneider went for a trip over the city yesterday in order to locate these precinct boundaries-at such points that there will be no more voters In a pre cinct than the number allowed by law. So So St The causa of Rheumatism Is an excess of uric acid In the blood. The erratic impurity gets into the circulation by absorption, usually because of con stipation, weak kidneys, and other systemic irregularities. Then the blood be comes weak and sour and irritating urate particles are formed in this vital fluid. IVhen in this Impure condition the blood can not furnish the necessary amount of nourishment to the different muscles, tendons, nerves and ligaments of the body. Instead it constantly steeps them in the briny acrid matter, and the gritty, urate particles collect in the joints, which causes the pains, aches and soreness of Rheumatism. Liniments, plasters, etc. may relieve the acute pain of an attack of Bheumatism, but such treatment does not reach the blood and therefore can have no permanent good effect. There is but one way to cure Bheumatism and that is to purify the blood of the acid poison.' S. S. S. goes into the circulation and attacks the disease at its head. It removes the cause for the reason that it Is the greatest of all blood purifiers. It filters out every trace of the sour, In flammatory matter, cools the acid-heated circulation, adds richness and nourish ment to the blood and permanently cures Bheumatism. S. S. S. does not patch up, it cures permanently. S. S. S. is especially valuable as a remedy for Bheuma tism because it does not contain a particle of harmful mineral in any form. It is purely vegetable, a fine tonic as well as blood purifier. Book on Bhetunatisra seat Xros to all who write. TUB SWIFT SFECXTIO CO ATLANTA. OA. m mas I 1 1 , u . , . ,mMmL,mmK9Jumm,mm The Addition 522-526 Corbett Building Phones Main 1503, A An effort will be made to locate the lines In hilly sections of the city In such a way as to allow the voters to reach their polling places with the least possible difficulty. It Is thought It will be necessary to make 180 precincts this year, while there were but 115 at the election two years ago. The officials devoted their attention to the cast and southeast portions of the city yesterday. MULKEY TO MAKE ADDRESS Ex-Senator Will Discuss Taxation Issue Before State Grange. . Ex-United States Senator Mulkey will address the State Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, Wednesday, May 11, at the 37th session, which will begin at Oregon City, May 10. Mr. Mulkey's ad dress will be entitled "Constitutional Tax Amendments." This is one of the most important subjects that will come before the State Grange at this session. The sub ject of taxation has been considered by all the subordinate Granges of the state. State Master A. T. Buxton announces the following programme for this ses sion: Tuesday. 10 A. M. Opening report of committee on credentials, announcements and greetings. Afternoon session Report of of ficers. Evening session Public reception; address by the representative of the Forestry Service. Wednesday morning session Introduction of resolutions. 11 A. M. Address by esc fnited States Senator on "The Constitutional Tax Amendments." Afternoon session Klectlon of officers. Evening session Lec turers' conference. Thursday, day session Reports of commit tees and routine business. Evening., session Conferring of the sixth degree. Friday Closing business ai.d Installation of officers. MANY BAD CHECKS PASSED Police Think They ' Have Caught Flagrant Violator of Law. Investigation into the case of E. W. Kelt, who was arrested Saturday night on complaint of Edward Drake, of the J. K. Gill Company, for passing a bogus check upon that establishment for $17.50, has developed that Kelt Is one of the most daring bogus check operat ors the police have caught in a long time. Under the alias of O. M. Kerr he is said to have visited a number of merchants and succeded in passing fic tious checks. Some of his victims are the Eilers Piano House, $15: Roberts Brothers, Third and Morrison streets, $25; C. H. RHEUMATISM ' TRTWTf? J TP aUlN V i2hy 1l with; Character further literature describing Laurelhurst. Name . . Address . Town. .'. 1515 Baker, 270 "Washington street, $7.75, and E. W. Reeder, 435 Yamhill street. $20. He was arraigned, in Municipal Court yesterday morning on two charges and was held to await the ac tion of the grand Jury. The police be Jiirvnini OUR OFFICE AST 7U KNOTT J I I1TIN6T8N 3 j r 1 Buy Now and Save $200 Prices Advance May 1st on Every Unsold Lot Present May I Prices Prices Corners, 100x100 $3000 $3400 Inside lots, 50x100 1250 1450 10 Per Cent Down, 2 Per Cent Per Month. Improvements Bonded. - The Irvington carline is be ing extended out Fifteenth street. It will run within one block of the lots blocked off in the map of Irving-ton at the top of this announce ment. Prices will double. There will be a great demand for this property. Values will be high. The time to buy any property is before the prices advance. The sooner one buys the more money he makes. The blocked off section in the above map is the most de sirable residence section east of the river. Irvington al ways has been a most desir able residence place. This portion of Irvington has everything that makes for desirable home-sites. Rountree & Diamond, 241 Stark St. Si Gut this out and mail to Laurelhurst Co. 522-526 Corbett Bid?., Portland, Or. Kindly send me by return mail Orecronian. lieve that they will trace more bad checks to him. Kelt is an Englishman and came to this state from Canada. The police have discovered that he onca served a term in the Stony Point Penl tentiary of Winnipeg for forpery. gtcoira; nacran!A- nnnnnnfl M V I -1- E I Beautiful rolling ground. High elevation. One block from the Irvington school. Every modern improvement. All improvements in most generous proportions. Tne best streetcar service of any residence section of Port land. Cars every three to five minutes. Only a twelve minute ride. This week promises to be a big sale week. Those who come first have first choice of location. Every lot is view property. Come out today. Mr. Mum ford is in charge of our Irv ington office. . Take Wood lawn, Alberta, or any other car running out Union Ave nue. Get off at Knott street. Walk one block east and you are on the property.