TTTE ?TCTK7rnV( OREGOXL1N, WEDNESDAY, i JULY 27, 1910. MURDERER WADE MKESHISESGAPE Four. Other Patients in Crim inal Ward Also Flee, but Three Are Caught. PRISON GUARDS HUNTING Men Dash Through Grating at In sane Asylum While Given Airing. Christopher Smith, From The Dalles, Is at Large. SALEM. Or., July 26. (Special.) Five patients from the criminal ward of the State Insane Asylum made their escape this afternoon. They were being given a turn in the airing department, when they broke through the grating and started for cover. The men are Frank Wade, murderer, from near Central Point. in Jackson County; George Bowerman, ex-convict from Portland: Christopher Smith, of The Dalles; Reynolds Johnson and J. H. Kirby. Three Convicts Soon Caught. Bowerman, Johnson and Kirby were Immediately recaptured. Wade and Smith separated and made their escape. "Wade Is considered the more desperate of the two and attendants from the asy lum, with guards from the penitentiary, started after him. Wade succeeded in making some underbrush, where ha dis appeared from sight. Wade was sent to the State Peniten tiary in 1S05. after conviction of murder In the second degree. A short time af ter he was behind prison bars he dis played signs of insanity and It became necessary to send him to the asylum. He was kept there for some time, until he became convalescent and was returned to the prison. Again he became insane and was sent back to the asylum, where he has been ever since. Oeorge Bowerman was sent to the pen itentiary from Multnomah County for Iburglary December 14, 1901. He was transferred to the asylum In 1902. and although his penitentiary term has long since expired, he has remained in the asylum. Wade Is Desperate Man. With the coming of darkness Frank Wade dropped from sight and there seems small hope that the posse will catch up with him tonight. Wade has long been considered by officers one of the most desperate men in the peniten tiary. He was serving his second term, heing sent to- the prison the first time in the 'Sos for highway robbery. His last crime resulted from a quarrel in which his younger brother became lnf pllcated with a third man in Southern Oregon. At the time Frank Wade was in Eastern Oregon and when he heard of the quarrel traveled across the state to Jackson County, and with his brother came upon their victim in the road and shot him down. Officers Fear Damage. Both were sent to prison for life, the younger man being released after serving a few years, it being considered that he was dragged into the killing by the older of the men. Wade has always been closely watched, and In the opin ion of the officers he may do some seri ous damage if he is not speedily apprehended. DELEGATES HOLD MEETING Pierce County Republicans Named lor Convention, Elect Officers. , TACOMA. Wash.. July 26. (Special.) The Pierce County delegates to the state Republican convention held a meeting this afternoon. S. A. Perkins was elected chairman and B. F. Jacobs, of Puyallup. secretary. A steering committee of seven mem bers was appointed and includes James H. Davis. Walter Harvey, William Jones, P. C. Sullivan. Walter Christian, Harry Rallsback and B. F. Jacobs. Each county of the state is entitled to membership on the committee on resolutions, on rules and order of busi ness and credentials. Mr. Perkins named on the committee Judge Shack leford, George Gregg and J. C. Taylor, respectively. Different speakers said the interests of General James M. Ashton was one of the things paramount in the com lng convention. State today. Secretary of State Benson, of Roseburg, filed his petition for re election, asking that the following be put after h's name on the ballot: 'Present incumbent respectfully asks for " re-election to second term on his record." Ole p. - Hoff. State Commissioner of Labor Statistics, asks that these words be put after his name: "Continued- fearless, impartial and economical ad ministration of the duties of the office." Chief Justice Frank A. Moore, of the Supreme Court, has filed his declara tion for the six-year term, and Justice Thomas A. McBride for a four-year term. J. A. Buchanan, of Rosebure. filed his declaration of intention to become a candidate for Representative from Jackson and Douglas Counties, com prising the Ninth district. He has filed on the Republican ticket and asks that the following be written after his name on the ballot: "Believes in majority rule. Stands for honest and economical government." Sheriff Harry P. Mlnto, of Marion County, recently indorsed by the county BELLIIMGHAM GETS ARMORY Big $62,000 Contract Goes to Ever ett Firm; King Wins Also. OLTMPIA, Wash., July 26. (Special) -i ne state toaay let the contract for con struction of a state armory at Belllnsr- ham, for which $75,000 was appropriated last year, to George McKenzie. of Ever ett, for $62,000. arid the contract for fur nishing the plumbing and heating sup plies to D. H. King, of Seattle, for S49S3. The State Board of Con-trol is trying to aevise a plan mat will result in pre venting the escape of convicts. Three have escaped from the state road camps in wie last ween. tne Doard today re ceived a wire from Blanchard, Skagit County, telling of the escape of John McLaren, committed to the penitentiary from Mukilteo for robbery. The Supreme Court affirmed the Walla Walla Superior Court decision in the case of the Central Christian Churcn of Walla Walla against Eugene Lemon, involving the right of way across the property of . j-?mon irum uia cnurcn. x ne decision is in favor of the church. MAN ASKS HEAVY DAMAGES Pendleton Workman Wants $5000 Tor Thumb and Finger. LA CRAXTK. Or.. July 26. (Special.) A damage suit in which a man named Wills is trying to collect $3000 for the loss of a thumb and one finger while working in the Palmer mill went to the Jury this evening, but a verdict Is not expected until tomorrow morning. By Wednesday the Circuit Court will be ready to hear 42 bootlegging indict ment trials. A number of the defend- ants are charged on several counts. DECLARATIONS ARE FILED Candidates Prescribe Legends to Ap- pear After Their Karnes. SALEM. Or.. July 26. (Special.) Declarations ot intention were numer ' oua at the office of the Secretary DOUGLAS COUNTY WOMAN DIES AFTER ILLNESS LASTING MANT MONTHS. V v YKh. yy Mrs. T. B. Cannon. ROSEBURG, Or.; July 26. Mrs. T. B. Cannon, one of Douglas County's best known and most highly esteemed citizens, died at her home in this city late Sun day, after a lingering illness of several months. Mrs. Cannon was born near Brockway, Doug-las County, on April 28, 1864, and was married April 17, 1877. During her residence in Rose burg, covering the greater part of her life, she was popular in social and fraternal circles. She was a member of the Roseburg Rebekah lodge for many years, and had held many offices of trust. Besides her husband, she Is survived by her mother, Mrs. Mary F. Lewis, of Roseburg; two brothers, L. L. and C. P. Lewis, and one sister. Miss Susie Lewis, all of Roseburg. The funeral was held at Elks' Hall, of which lodge her husband is a member, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, burial following at the Masonic Cemetery. The funeral services were conducted under auspices of the Rebekah lodge. Rev. Charles Wilson Baker officiating. BONES OF WOMAN MURDER MYSTERY Skeleton Sticking From Old Sack Found on Newport Beach by Fisherman. MISSING GIRL RECALLED assembly, filed his declaration with the County Clerk to hurama a nnni. date for re-election. SISTER ASSERTS FRAUD FAMILY FIGHT OVER FATHER'S WIUCj ENTERS COCRT. Estate of Late Linn County Resident In Question Contest Opens for Share of Property. ALBANY, Or. July 26. (Special.) Declaring that her sister defrauded her out of her share of their father's es tate, Mrs. Luzena E. Hood is attack ing the will of her father. Samuel J. Irwin, in the County Court here today. Her petition to have the will set aside, which was filed some time ago, came up ror hearing before County Judtre J. N. Duncan today. The validity of the will is beincr de fended by Mrs. J. N. Morris, of Leba non, who is the sole heir to the Irwin estate under the terms of her father's will. Several witnesses testified in the hearing today and the contest over the will is being hard fought. Judge J. rrea xates. or corvallls. and J. K. Weatherford, of Albany, appear as at torneys ror Mrs. Hood, while Attornevs H. H. Hewitt, of Albany, and S. M. Gar land, of Lebanon, are defending the will. ... Irwin died at his home at Sodaville. Linn County. July 23, 1909. leaving three children: Lubzena E. Hood, of Philomath; John, F. Irwin, of Water vtUe, Wash., and Elizabeth M. iSoyle, of Sodaville, Or., who has since mar ried J. N. Morris, a Lebanon merchant On August 5 Mrs. Hood filed a pe tition in the probate court here asking for letters of administration on the estate. This petition was granted and she was appointed administratrix. Five days later Mtb. Boyle appeared with a will which had been executed by her father. This will was admitted to pro bate, the letters of administration is sued to Mrs. Hood were cancelled and S. M. Garland, of Lebanon, who was named as executor under the will, was appointed executor by the court. Under the terms ot the will Irwin de vised all of his property to Mrs. Boyle, not mentioning his other children at all. The estate was appraised at $4070. For several weeks Mrs. Hood ap parently abandoned the fight for a part of the property but last January she renewed it by filing a petition asking that the will be set aside and this petition came up for hearing to day. Mrs. Hood alleges that Mrs. Mor ris poisoned the mind of her father against his other children and that she secured complete control of him and dictated the will in her own interest. Mrs. Morris asserts that she lived with her father and took care of him for years, bearing the burden of his care without aid from her brother and sister, and that her father expressed his well-defined wishes in his will, which, she says, he made himself, with out suggestion on her part, that she should have all of his property for her faithful care of him. Bears Killed by Berry Picker. SEATTLE, Wash.. July 26. Two full grown black bears were killed with a 23-callber repeating rifle near Olympia the other day. James Fernell. the nim rod who laid the bears low, was picking blackberries when he came upon the game. Fernell's dog treed one of the boars, and a few moments after Fernell shot the animal the second bear came of Jipoa the. scene, and was also killed. One Clew to Identity of Remains Is Disappearance of Sopbia Nois In October, 1904 Bag- Con tains Strange Collection. NEWPORT; Or., July 26. (Special.) Bones of a white woman were found protruding from an old gunny sack on the beach near Williams' dock this morning. Hands, feet and the back bone were missing and there was little in the sack to give a hint of how the skeleton came to be there. It seems to have been satisfactorily established that the bones are those of a young woman and that she was murdered, but the rest is as deep a mystery as the county has ever known. John Schlesser, of Albany, saw the skull sticking up in the sand as he walked along the beach in search of a place to fish. The sack was half buried in the sand. Schlesser called to Roy Hendry and R. A. Bryce, of Portland, who were fishing nearby, and the trio examined the gruesome find. Beside the bones, the bag contained a mass of wavy brown hair, which had become detached from the skull, two whisky bottles, of which one bore the date of 1903, some playing cards, a scrap of silk that evidently once was part of a woman's waist, a small looking-glass, bearing the advertisement of a glove concern, and some bits of paper. These last furnished no clew to the identity of the woman. Skull Is Fractured. Dr. Calvin S. White declared that the skull had been fractured by a blow behind the right ear. The supposition Is that the woman, who is thought to have been between 18 and 24 years of age,'' was murdered, her limbs cut off, the body thrown into the sack and dis posed of. The sack with its limp human form and the curious assortment of . junk may have been tossed into the sea and washed up on the beach by the waves. There was no flesh clinging to the bones and it was evident that the vic tim of this peculiar mystery had been dead for months, or years. Coroner Carter, held an inquest over the skeleton" this afternoon and the Jury returned a verdict saying the re mains were those of a white woman of 18 or 24 years', and that she had been dead seven or eight years. The verdict did not venture a decision that she was murdered, but that theory is generally accepted. The verdict was evidently suggested by the one plausible clew to the trag edy of a rag, a bone and a hank of hair that has been presented since Schlesser dragged it from the sand this morning. That is the story of the mysterious disappearance October 15, 1904, of a young woman namad Sorjhia Nois. She was a guest at the Bay view Hotel at the time, together with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Alloway, formerly of Portland, and then living on a Siletz homestead. The girl dropped from sight that Oc tober day as if the earth had opened and swallowed her. She has never been seen since, although a search was kept up for weeks. The Yaquina Bay lifesaving crew dragged the bay in vain, and the land in this vicinity was thoroughly, scoured. When the life savers were dragging the bay, the missing girl's sister, Mrs. Alloway, sat on tne dock and predicted that they would be unsuccessful. Captain Jacobs, of the Newport, at that time proprietor of the Bayview, said that"1 at the time of her disap pearance Miss Nois appeared to be harboring a secret sorrow. He says she told him she would not return to Siletz with her sister, and threatened to kill herself. Relatives to See Bones. If Miss Nois did commit suicide there is but slight chance that the remains found today are hers, for she could not have dismembered her body and then dumped herself into the bag. The girl's relatives are understood to be on their way here to view the relics. About the only things which offer a . clew to the solution of what is undoubtedly a murder mystery are the hair, the teeth, which are well pre served, the scrap of silk and the little mirror. No one has yet been able to read in them the name of the dead woman or how her withered bones hap pened to stick from a tattered bag' on a lonely beach. The supposition that the whisky bot tles originally contained explanatory notes and that the body drifted in from sea has its adherents. It is the custom of the Siletz In diana to bury the persoaal effects with their dead. Some of . them may have discovered the body of a young woman and placed it in the sack. The father of the missing Nois girl lives at Blodgett's Valley, Lincoln County, Or. the' State Senate does not expire until January, 1913, and who is a candidate for Governor, is In the peculiar position of a man holding one office and candidate for another office, who would like to re sign from his office as President of .the State Senate, but cannot. In event of failure of Governor Frank W. Benson to return from the South and should Acting Governor Bowerman re sign as President of the Senate, the state would be left without a chief executive or Secretary of State and with no way to fill either position. State government would remain at a standstill, as there is no provision made in the law for filling the office of Governor, further than the President of the Senate. "There are some who believe I should resign as holdover Senator In becoming candidate for Governor," said the acting Governor today, "and if conditions were different, I would be glad to do so. But, by any strange chance should anything happen to the Governor, the state would be left in a deplorable condition. The cities would fill up with thieves and crooks from every state, as no extra ditions could be granted, not an account could be expended at an institution and no auditing could be done. Consequently If I do submit my resignation it will be to take effect on the day the new Gov ernor takes the reins of office." Governor Bowerman has not filed his declaration of intention as a candidate, but It is likely he will do so in the near future. SCHOOLS NOT ALL PERFECT Educational Association Gathers . Statistics in Oregon. SALEM. Or., July 26. (Special.) The joint committee of Oregon, deportment of school patrons. National Educational Association, has issued a letter to the school boards of the state as the result of an Investigation into school buildings and grounds. It is stated in the com munication that much remains to be done in city, town and rural districts to surround the children with proper sani tary conditions. The committee" co-operating with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, calls attention to a number of points for the school boards to consider In making their Summer repairs. Suitable ventila tion Is touched upon. It is asked that the light be so arranged as to come from the left side and the rear. Desks should be placed at a height suited to the size of the child. Individual drinking cups should be used and stoves surrounded with jackets. These are some of the suggestions made. The joint committee of Oregon Includes the following members: . Professor Mary H. Farnham, Forest Grove, chairman; Mrs. J. C. Elliott King, Portland, secre tary; Miss Cornelia Marvin, Salem; Mrs. Solomon Hart, Portland, and Mrs. E. T. Taggart, Portland. GRAIN IS DAMAGED BY WIND Loss to Crops Around Dayton; Wash., Will Exceed $100,000. DAYTON, Wash., July 26. (Special.) Losses exceeding $100,000 have resulted to Columbia County farmers from the heavy winds of the last three days. Jesse Courtney, a prominent north-end fanner, says the loss will reach two bushels of wheat to the acre on the average, while In some exposed places the loss from shattering of standing grain is over five bushels an acre. Fall wheat and early Spring wheat Buf fered heaviest, while much barley "fell" so that the heads rest point downward on the ground. This will necessitate close cutting, which always retards progress and increases the- expense of harvesting. Several yields of 38-busijel -wheat were reported this weekt while some -barley is going 65- bushels to the acre. Harvest will be general this week in this territory.- , BAD CHECK NULLIFIES SALE Supreme Court Affirms Decision by Judge Cleland. SALEM. Or.. July 26. (Special. Holding that receiving a check where there are no funds in a bank to sup port it merely creates a condit'onal sale and does not pass title, the Supreme Court today affirmed the deci sion of Judge John B. Cleland in Mult nomah County in the case of Charlas F. Johnson vs. Sam Ivankovetz. According to the facts' shown, E. C. Adams purchased a gun of Johnson, giving a check on the Merchants Na tional Bank, where he had no funds. He sold the gun to Ivankovetz and Johnson started an action of replevin and the court holds he is entitled to the gun, the rule 'of an innocent third purchaser not applying in this case. Other cases' decided were: William Howell, respondent, vs. Ed gar Wheeler, et aL, appellants, appeal from coos county; J. w. Hamilton, Judge; affirmed. r J. Harding, respondent, vs. Oregon Idaho Company. appellants. appeal rrom Douglas county; J. w. Hamilton, Judge; reversed. BOWERMAN CAN'T RESIGN Acting Governor In Peculiar Position as Officeholder. BANK RECEIVER RELIEVED Affairs of Defunct Scriber Institu tion Are Being Wound Up. LA GRANDE. Or., July 26. (Special.) Bank Examiner E. T. Wilson, of Seat tle, is here to check up the accounts of the receivership of the defunct Scriber bank. Walter Neldner, who has had charge of affairs since the failure, has been relieved and his books will be sent to Washington. A local legal representative will con duct the rest of the business here for the Government. Neldner has held the recievership a year and a half and was able to pay out in that time 65 per cent dividends. Examiner Wilson Is expected to have the checking done by tomorrow night, it is believed. Fire Destroys Mill Flume. - EUGENE, Or, July 26. (Special.) Fire broke out anew on the logged-off land of the Booth-Kelly .Lumber Com pany above Wendling yesterday, and has destroyed about 1750 feet of log chute. All the company's employes, numbering 300 in that section, are again at work in an effort to keep the fire out of the standing timber. Ex-Employes Sue Contractors. OLYMPIA.. Wash.. July 26. (Special.) Three former employes of Rajotte & Fo bert, contractors on the Milwaukee Rail road now building in the southern part of Thurston County, commenced action agaisnt the contractors in the Justice Court today to recover the value of their time cheeks, $25 damages and $25 attor- Pianos Are Not Luxuries Certainly Not a Player Piano Some years ago the presence of a piano in the home was regarded as a mark of affluence. But nowadays it has come to be classed as a neces sity, rather than a luxury. The only condition under which a piano may be considered a luxury is when it is seldom or never used. IS YOUR PIANO SILENT? An idle piano in the liome represents an unnecessary expense. The money it cost is not producing returns. If there is no one in the home who ia a proficient musician, something should be done. To be rid of the unprofitable investment turn luxury into a neces sity! only one course suggests itself and that is to exchange the silent piano for one of the more advanced player pianos. The Wiley B. AUen Co. offers for your consideration as superb and complete a line of player pianos as America can produce. Note well their names: Knabe, Hardman, Milton, Emerson, JCrakauer, Harrington, Autotone, Fisher and Angelus PRICE FOR PRICE, the world cannot match them in values. They are designed and made to give the very most for the money We want you to come in and see and hear for yourself. Convenient terms if desired, and one price! the right price to all buyers alike. Old instruments taken in exchange at a fair valuation. , . , r mi lai. ,i i tumm 304 Oak Street Between 5th and 6th neys fees in each case. The three men. E. Wallen, N. L. Portier and J. A. Ball, allege that they were paid checks which they were assured the saloons in Cen tralis, would cash. The saloons refused to honor the checks and the men have been unable to collect their wages, they contend. FREIGHT TRAIN IS SMASHED Broken Flange Derails a a Cars ' at Norton, on O. R. & N. BAKER CITY. Or.. July 26. (Spe cial.) A broken flange on one of tho forward cars of freight train No. SS caused an almost complete wreck of the train at Norton on the O. R. & N. at an early hour this morning-. Eigh teen of the 22 cars were loaded with coal; three with- scrap iron and one was empty. The engine was badly dam aged. The trainmen escaped uninjured. The train was coming down the grade at about 25 miles an hour, and as it struck a small curve in the road bed, the flange gave way and derailed the car. The remainder of the train piled up in a mass and it took the wrecking crew 12 hours to clear the road. The damage is estimated at $6500. New Town Springs TJp. VALE, Or., July 26. (Special.) Brogan, the new town of the Willow River irrigation project, now has train connections with "Vale, the last rail in the Brogan yards having been placed yesterday. Temporary service is be ing maintained by the construction train. Less than a year ago the town site of Brogan was a wilderness of sage-brush land, but today it is a town of several hundred people and has six modern white pressed: brick buildings. Vale Land Office Busy. VALE, Or., July 26. (Special.) :The local United States Land Office, which started business on July 1, is the busi est place in Vale. Homesteaders and persons looking for Information, with others who want to prove up on their land, are keeping Register Kester and Receiver Guild over-whelmed with work. So far, sixteen homesteads and six desert claims have been placed on the records, while the Minidoka & Southern Railroad has filed for right of way across a small strip of land in order to get into Nyssa. the "Gate City" of Oregon, from Idaho. Naval Militia Man Clieyenne. SAN FRANCISCO, July 26. The moni tor Cheyenne, which has been assigned to the state of Washington for the use of its naval militia, sailed today for Puget Sound. She is manned by eight officers and 47 naval militiamen, under command of Commander Miller Freeman, of Seattle, who recently arrived here on the cruiser Washington. During the trip the militiamen will be directed and as sisted by officers and men of the Regu lar Navy, commanded by Captain Owens. SALEM, Or.. Jury 26. (Special.) AeUne Governor Jay Bowerman, .whose term in In Wilting Weather . There's coolness and last ing comfort in ICED POSTUM Make it the usual way strong and rich by thorough boiling add cracked ice and serve with sugar, lemon, and a little cream if desired. The delightful flavour pleases the palate, and the rich food, elements of the grains of which it is made, refresh and sustain body and brain in the natural way. "There' a Reason" Postum Cereal Co., Limited, Battie Creek, Mich. 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