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14 THE MORNING. OKEGONIAIS. THUKSDAY, AFHIL. 1, 1910. GIRL WIFE GONE; HUSBAND SUICIDE Tragedy Discovered in Home of Eugene P. Frohnmayer, Young Collector. BULLET ENDS HIS DESPAIR Jealousy and Threats Drive Young Bride Home to Mother arid Shoot ing lVjlIo-WK Frohnmayer El der Blames Son's Wife. Suffering with a suicidal mania which has been tormenting: him for several weeks. EJugene P. Frohnmayer, a collec tor. 25 years old, who had been married but one month to Florence Druva, took his life some time Tuesday night by shooting himself in the head with a small .rifle. His lifeless body was discovered yesterday morning in the cottage, 431 Schuyler street, where the young couple had taken up their abode but a few days before. Police broke into the house 'after the suspicions of the neighbors" had been aroused and their alarms communicated to" headquarters. The dead man lay n the floor before a bureau in front "of which hs had evidently stood, using the mirror as a means of Vming the fatal shot. An hour possibly before the tragedy occurred the 18-year-old wife had moved her belongings from the cottage and gone to the home of her mother. Mrs. N. Druva, who conducts a store and lives at 710 Kast Ankeny street. Sobbing, the girl said that, terrorized by threats against. her life and In constant fear that some harm would befall her, she had fled from the man who but a few weeks be fore had appeared so loving in her eyes. . Xo Encouragement From Mother. This was about 5:30 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. She had haraly reached her mother's house when a call came for Mrs. rruva from Eugene. He had called up from the office of Banfleld & Vesey, for whom he worked as collecter. Mrs. Druva told him that "Flossie," as the girl was called by her family, had left him for good. "Won't she come back?" he Inquired anxiously. "I fear .not," replied Mrs. Druva. "She says you have been mean to her and she refuses to go back." "I know I have been mean to her," he said, "but I thought I might make her love me more. She is so young I thought I had better be strict with her. May I come over and talk with her?" "I wish you would, but you might as well resign yourself to the idea that she will not make it up with you. She will never go back." "Very well, then." he replied, "I will do away with myself." This conversation was the last heard from him iint.il yesterday morning the family was officially notified of his death. Mrs. Margaret Stoddard, who occupied a room in the same house with the Frohn mayers, noticed that the door to their apartments was locked yesterday morn ing, and fearing that something was wrong peered through the bedroom win dow and saw the dead body lying on the floor. She notified the police and Patrol man Keith was sent to the scene. He found a 22-caliber rifle lying across the deead man's legs. A bullet hole in the center of his forehead told the story of liis death, which must have been instan taneous. Husband Mentally 'Unsound?. From the story told by the girl wife, it in believed that Frohnmayer must have suffered from some form of mental ab beration during the past few weeks. "I can't help but think that he became in tiane toward the last." said she. "Because I would not give up my girl friends and my own mother, whom I love better than anyone in the world, he threatened my life. He did this not once, but several times. He took the rifle to bed with him once and during the night, Monday, I awoke to find a 3S-caliber automatic re volver lying across my chest. "He was jealous of everything and everybody. He had threatened that if I ever ceased to love him or would leave him that he would kill himself and me too. I was both afraid to stay with him, or to leave him." Bernard Frohnmayer, the father, at tributes blame to the young wife. "She is a child, knows nothing about cook ing or keeping house and considered herself too good for housework. My son made a mistake in marrying her and I told him so. They had been ac quainted about six months. He came to me one Saturday about noon and Fald 'well, father, I am going to get Tnarrled this afternoon.' I tried to dis suade him. I told him that she was a child and not a woman and that she could not make him a sensible wife. I told him that he would have to treat her as a tmby. Nothing would dis puade him." An Intimate friend of both, how ever, declares that Eugene constantly talked of suicide and that he even threatened to take his life before the rweddlng occurred. 5CI0 IS AFTER RAILROAD incorporation Articles Are Filed and Money Pledges Made. AliBANY. Or., April 2C. (Special.) Articles of incorporation were filed here today for the Scio-Lacomb & Jordan "Valley Railroad. The incorpora tors are A. G. Prill. E. C. Peery and ,Charles Wesely, all prominent residents' of Scio. The purpose of the new corporation, ,s set forth in the articles, is to build m line from Munkers to Scio and thence 'to Jordan Valley and also a branch line from the Munkers-Jordan Valley line to Lacomb. The corporation is com posed of Sclo men and is formed pri marily to give that city railroad con nection. The first line will be from Scio to a Junction with the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad at Munkers Station. Later, it is understood, lines will be constructed to Jordan Valley and La comb for the development of the coun try around Sclo. Residents of Sclo state tnat almost enough money has been subscribed to build the Sclo-Munkers line. The sur vey was made some time ago and rights of way have been secured for the three mile line between Scio and Munkers. WHO ARE THE MOTHERS? Questions for One Who Found Many Non-Producers. PORTLAND, April 20. (To the Edi jftor.) A woman who has served her riamily for nearly 60 years as wife, ttDOther, farmer, homemaker aud grand mother, filling In ail the extra time she could spare from these duties as teacher, editor, author, lecturer, etc., etc., outside of home, cannot but won der where Mrs. Sylvia Patterson's lot has been cast? How, where and when has she found "ten non-producing" women, living in boarding-houses, to one who lives (and works) for her hus band and family? "Where are her eyes that she cannot see the tens of thousands of school children who emerge daily from the great schoolhouses that abound in our midst or garher on the playgrounds, or in the streets to soil or tear their crbthes and whet their appetites for the food their mothers are preparing for them at home? Who has "mothered" the vast armies of men who crowd the plaza, the street corners, the parades, the prizefights and political meetings, to say nothing of the men in every line of outside or indoor business endeavor, whose homes and children are being kept and cared for by women who boil and bake and stew and fry; who wash and iron and scrub and sew, and mend, and wash the dishes every day of their lives, whose "gainful" occupations the cen sus ignores? Try again, Mrs. Sylvia Patterson, trv again. ABIGAIL, SCOTT DUNI WAY. Let Woman Uelieve in Woman. PORTLAND, April 20. (To the Edi tor.) One of the most cogent and pa thetic features in the slow progress of humanity onward and upward lies. I think, in the readiness of the average woman to sneer at and belittle woman kind in general. (I find in Webster's YOUNG MAN WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE AND HIS BRIDE OF ONE MONTH. " f " ; x5 "--.. ) . L Eugene P- l-roli n raayrr dictionary, 1910 edition, exactly the shade of meaning I wish for the word "average.") How any woman who uses her eyes to look about her can say with your correspondent, there are ten mar ried women who do not live for the sake of their husbands and families to one woman who does so live, passes my comprehension. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, you may see earnest, faithful wives and mothers do ing their duty as well as they are able, according to the light they have. As to Uncle Sam considering housewives non-producers and. of no occupation, I think no one need be disturoea over that, as it is simply the outgrowth of the thought that the "Hausfrau" has never been considered In the light or wage earner. But of homemakers and loving wives and mothers our city and -other cities can boast, by the many thousands, and largely, I think. In ma loritv over the idle, helpless class of married women to which a correspond ent appears to consign practically all womankind. Let woman believe in woman and thus assist imthe progress of the world. and not pull back with too many pessi mistic notions. LILLIAN O OLDS. ORB GETS FRESH BLOW PRISON GUARD POSITIVELY IDENTIFIES HIM. Accusal Electrician, Ho Says,. Was Under His Guard In Washing ton Penitentiary. The case of mistaken Identity worked up by Frank W. Orr, electrical contractor. of the linn of E. L. Knight & Co., in his defense against the charge of being F. W. Orr, alias George ' Adams, an escaped convict, reecived a severe blow yesterday when N. L. Loveall, a penitentiary guard from Walia Walla, "Wash., positively Identified Orr as the man wanted there for burglary. Mr. Loveall arrived in this city yes terday, accompanied by C S. Reed, war den of the Walla Walla penitentiary, to take Orr to prison. It was from the custody of Loveall that Orr made his es cape. 'I would know the man in a million," said Mr. Loveall yesterday; "he made his escape at the railroad depot while I had-a number of men in charge. There can be no mistake about the man. He has had the effrontery to say that I am mistaken, but I was turnkey in the cor ridor in which Orr was confined for four years for another burglary and know him as well as I know any face I have ever encountered." Warden Reed returned to Walla Walla last night, but left Mr. Loveall to look after the extradition proceedings. Papers were made out in Walla Walla today and will be forwarded immediately to the Governor of Washington, after which they will be submitted to Governor Benson. It is thought they will arrive in Salem about Friday. Detective Coleman yesterday unearthed the fact that Orr had forged the name of E. L Knight to a small check which had gone to the bank and on which Mr. Knight had refused payment. Mr. Knight, the detective said, refused to prosecute. Wnile the officials are making all ar rangements to extradite Orr he is taking steps to prevent it. Through his attor ney, Thomas McDevItfx Jr., he has ap plied for a writ of habeas corpus to Pre siding Judge Morrow in the Circuit Court- April 22 has been set for the hearing In the case. The petition states that Orr is Imprisoned by Chief Cox without a war rant and not by virtue of any decree of a competent tribunal of civil or criminal Jurisdiction. BEGINS SATURDAY, 9 A. M. Closing Out Sale of the McAIlea & McDonnell Stock Begins at That Hour. Entire stock of Dry Goods and Women's and Children's Wear will be on sale at reductions ranging from 25 to 50 per cent from former already low prices. HONORS ARE URGED Park May Perpetuate Judge Williams' Name. SHAFT IS ALSO PLANNED Council Resolution to Provide Des ignation for Mount Tabor Park. Movement to- Erect Monument Is Becoming State Wide. ""Williams" is the name proposed for beautiful Mount Tabor Park, which em braces 125 acres and is the choicest piece of property owned by the city. This Is to be in honor of the late Judge George II. "Williams, "the Grand Old Man of Oregon." Not only is this proposed, but Mayor Simon and Councilman Ellis, of the Tenth ward, after a consultation yes- 1 iM 'r"-r Florence Druva Frohnmayer. terday, decided to try and secure co operation of the entire state in an effort to put up a fitting monument to Oregon's greatest citizen, whose name has gone down into the history of his country because of the leading part which he took in Its epoch-making af fairs while in the United States Sen ate and as Attorney-General in Presi dent Grant'B Cabinet, as well as in his political career in his adopted state. Mr. Ellis will introduce an appropri ate resolution before the City Council at Its meeting next Wednesday, re questing the Park Board to name the present Mount Tabor Park "Williams Park." This will have, the hearty sup port of Mayor Simon, who also favors the building of a fitting monument to the memory of the great jurist. "Councilman Ellis suggested to me the proposition to name Mount Tabor Park after Judge Williams," said Mayor Simon, "and I am in very great sym pathy and accord with that plan. It impresses me as being the proper thing to do, and I feel confident that, it will meet with a strong response from the people of the city and state. It meets with my heartiest approval; and I hope it will be adopted. In due time a monument to his memory, such as is fitting for one of his exalted place In the life of the city, state and Nation, could be built, and I favor this also." "I will introduce a resolution before the Council asking the Park Board to name Mount Tabor Park Williams Park, in honor of our greatest citizen and Jurist," said Councilman Ellis. "It has occurred to me that it would be doing honor to one who honored Port land and Oregon in his varied walks in life, and to whom the city certainly owes much. I chose this park because, in my estimation, it is the most beau tiful of them all, and from It can be viewed every section of the city. As to the monument, I would favor the preparation of an initiative petition, placing before the people the proposi tion, and. If they indorse it, which no doubt they would, a sufficient sum could be appropriated for that pur pose." PORT TARES OP CHARGES ABSENCE OF PILOT TUG AT BAR UNAVOIDABLE. Complaints of Captain Svendsen Are Taken Up Informally and State ment Issued by C. F. Swigert. Charges made by E. H. Svendsen. cap tain of the Norwegian steamer Rygja that he had been compelled on three oc casions to come In over the Columbia River bar without a pilot, were investi gated In an informal manner yesterday by members of the Port of Portland and the navigation committee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. The evidence showed that on the first occasion, June 4, 1909, when Captain Svednsen said he could get no pilot, the Port of Portland had not yet established a pilotage system; that the second time, a pilot boat was actually on hand, but whether it displayed the proper signals Is a disputed matter, and the third time, April 16, the pilot was necessarily absent on a tugtoat. The hearing adjourned to an indefinite time to hear the evidence of Pilot Leigh ton. This is the only instance that a tutu go urx 1.1110 giuiu iitxjs in r 11 1 1 1 ;t 1 t U.HU f the Port of Portland is making the in- I tcauKuuuu OUJlfJlJ' lu iiuw a lULUIt. occurrence of the unfortunate affair can toe avoided. Expenses of Pilot Boat Saved. The Port of Portland recently took out of service its regular pilot boat, and assigned tne pilots to tugboats. This was done to save what was believed to be an unnecessary expense during the Summer season. It is not believed that there will be. any danger of the pilots be ing absent from their station in the fu ture, as it only happened in the case of the Rygja through an unfortunate cir cumstance. To near out his charges, Captain Svendsen exhibited the log of his ship. testimony. His statement concerning the failure of a pilot to be on hand on April 16. was corroborated by the pilots, but his assertion that on his previous pass ing in over the bar without a pilot, the pilot boat dispalyed' no signals will- be further investigated by the port. The pilot had reported at the time that he presented the proper signals. Swigert Makes Statement. After the investigation, C. F. Swigert, president of the Port of Portland Com mission, made the following statement: In connection -with the pilotage, we con sider it our first duty to give a prompt and efficient service. Our next, to give it as cheaply 'as possible. We have taken the- piiot schooner off the grounds for the Sum mer, as we did last year, because by so doing we can save the taxpayers about $100O per month, and, we think, still give an ade quate service with the tugboats. It Is un fortunate that the Rygja arrived at the bar during the hour that it was uncovered, but had the captain been willing to wait a very short time he could have had a pilot; in fact, the Wallula was due from the Sound and was supposed to have 'been on the ground at the time the Wanderer left, and did. in fact, arrive very shortly after the steamer passed in and was spoken below Kort Ste vens by the Wanderer. In spite of this Incident we do not think we are justified in replacing the pilot schooner during the Summer, but will certainly use every effort to prevent a recurrence of the incident. As to Captain Svendsen's claim that this is the third time he has been unable to get a pilot, we can only say that the first in stance of which he complains was prior to our taking charge. The second, which oc curred on the morning of the 24th of No. venfber. is particularly unfortunate, as the pilot boat was on her station and the pilot in charge claims had her proper signals df?played, and that he also burned a "flare" when he saw the steamer passing a mile or less away. Captain Svendsen, on the other hand, says that he saw no flare and no vessel with pilot lights displayed. The pilot whose turn it was to-come in that morning had 'een out several days and was very anxious to get home, hence it is particularly inexplicable that he should have neglected any opportunity to signal the vessel. At ail events we trust that there will be no repe tition of the occurrence. UNION MEN CONFIDENT LEATHER WORKERS DEXY STRIKE MAY KAIL. Employers, Says Statement, Find Help Scarce and Only Forfeit Prevents Settlement. That thet strike of the Ieatherworkers Is by no .means breaking up but that the union men are growing stronger every day is the statement given out by the local union of Ieatherworkers through J. L. Shumate who denies the assertion made by Portland employers that the union men are about ready to return to work. "We have this strike almost won now," said Mr. Shumate. "Within two weeks the employers will either give in or close their doors and see one shop getting all the work. Mr. Lawrence in a statement made on Sunday makes the assertion that the strike is breaking up. It is true that' he has men at work in his shop, but they are not union men. "There are in Portland 74 men now on a strike. Of these 60 are union men, and the rest sympathisers. When the strike started on March 21 we had 44 union men in Portland. Since then 16 have joined and every one of the 60 union men is rtill out on the strike. - There are about 100 Ieatherworkers in the city and of these only 26 to 30 are working and these are almost all In the .factory of the George Lawrence Company. "We are striking for an eight-hour day instead of nine hours and a 15 per cent increase of wages. . Since the .strike started we have not considered a com promise and do not intend to accept less than all our demands. They have laid off some of the nonunion men and -then taken them back so that they could say the men were returning to work. "For our part we have a fund in the treasury to keep us going four months. We are paying, every man who ia out $5 . week unless he has other employment. Many are working as common laborers and these are not paid the to. which is wlmply a living fund. Many little shops have signed the scale. The men working In these are paying 20 per cent of their wages to the strike fund. "Today in all the country they are working in only three places Chicago, Marietta, O., and Memphis. . In all these cities there are old agreements which do not expire until June 2. The firms here in Portland have promised to- settle when the National Saddlery Manufacturers' Association signs up. Each firm has a $5000 forfeit up that it will not sign up independent of the association. They will not admit this, but we know it to be a fact." I New Road Incorporated. SALEM, Or.. April 20. (Special.) Ar ticles of incorporation have been filed in the Secretary of State's office for the Scio-Lacomb & Jordan "Valley Railroad Company, to be constructed from un kers. Linn County, to Scio, thence to, the Jordan "Valley, and from a suitable junc tion point to the Jordan Valley. The capital stock Is $50,000; the principal Atternurv'Svstem Suits. 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Spencer, W. E. Farrellf capital stock, $5000. Coun cil Crest Investment Company, Portland; incorporators, C. M. Keep. N. A. Ander son and William B. Wlggin; capital stock $15,000. ".Fishing Cases Set for Trial. ' OREGON CITY, Or.." April 20. (Spe cial.) Judge Gantenbein, of the Mult nomah County Circuit Court, will come up next Friday to preside at the trial of Ilarrj- Aune, who was arrested for vio lating the order of the State Board of Fish Commissioners by fishing for sal mon between March 1 and May ' 1. Thomas Brown, charged ' with having salmon in his possession, will bo tried May 2, and the trial of Charles Smith, under indictment on the same charge, has not been set. ' Saved From the' Grave. "I had about given up hope, after nearly four years of suffering from a severe lung trouble," writes Mrs M. L. Iix, of Clarksville, Tenn. "Often the pain in my chest would be amost un bearable and I could not do anv work. but Dr. King's New Discovery has made me reel like a new person. 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It is doubtful if a better bivy can be found in the city. .The buildings now on the block bring a fair revenue, which could be' increased largely by improve ments. This is one -of the few entire blocks in the heart of the city that is on the market today. The progress of modern building im provement in the immediate vicinity tends greatly to increase surrounding valuations. Must be sold as a whole; no subdivi sions considered. Don't let this chance escape 3 011, for the property will be snapped up speed ily without a doubt. . Call or Communicate With the Land Agent of the Company, Room 623 Electric Building. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY Operates four trains each day to Taeoma and Seattle. "PUGET SOUND LIMITED" The "crack" train to, the Sound. Leaves Grand Central Station at 3:30 P. M. daily; is composed of modern high-back seat day coaches, new parlor cars, and new dining cars, in which it is a treat to dine. " TACOMA-SE ATTLE EXPRESS"... 7:00 A. M. " TAC OMA-SE ATTLE-VANC OU VER SPECIAL" 10:00 A. M. "PUGET SOUND LIMITED" 3:30 P. M. "NIGHT EXPRESS" 12:15 A. M. Each complete in new and modern equipment. ' All trains electric-lighted. Passengers can board sleeping cars on ' ' Night Express " at 9 :30 P. M. Tickets and seat and berth reservations at our ticket offices. City Ticket Office, 255 Morrison Street. Ct - A. D. CHARLTON, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Portland. Main 244. Telephones A 1244. THE CHOICEST OF THE BARLEY CROP IS USED FOR.OLYMPIA BEER . It la cleaned once before being shipped to us and then, after It's re ceived, we clean It again. The same care Is exercised in the preparation of every other product that enters Into the makeup of Olympia Beer. But, after all that has most to do with making Olympia Beer superior to other drinks of the kind. Olympia Beer Is lnvig-orattng-. for it makes rich, red blood. Just phone Main 671 or A 2467. and We jvill send you a case. 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