THE yORSISO OILEGOXIAX. SATURDAY, 1910. iii" ' ' k : mm m - - - sasasai I i r " - - - - . -- JURY SOON FREES E. JOHN JDHM SON Prisoner's Wife Goes on Stand and Tells, Story That Clears Him. TRIAL IS ONE OF SHORTEST Eolalaw Connor TVwtri I-ane County I Scene f TraRedT, band Shoot Man Ho Mwt Banning- From Ul Homo. EUGENE. Or.. THc. --,s??rZZ After on, of th. ahorte.t 'r rals in tht. county, th. Jury Oil. en. hour, returned a v.rdl-t of J not ll'ltt in. th. cas. of John E. JIM;; of alllm, E. 6 PrlmlM In th. 61ulaw country sral m" Tb. principal fatur. of loua?'. trial wa. tl testimony of Mr.. fJ h. .try. thouh .txalaht-forw.rd. , fvor her busban-1. ZZ, one. durln, t... ord.al did fc.r tomr.. Hr ramarks . . . n-w - . ...1 aniirircd rctad to in. jury. -- sl.ted and at time. bU,,m', facial expression remain th. sam. throughout th. trial. Mm. Johnaon-. .torr In r" wan. I wa at horn, all day Ponday. -c.pt when 1 visited on. of tho la th. afternoon. 1 had returned and .fter havlnn pr.P.rl .upper atand In. upon th. porch with Benny O'er lm.a .on). About t o dock cam. alm and atoned and talked I at th. at. II. talked for a loo while. Vlahor Aska for Water. -Then h. aake4 for a drink of water and 1 naked him Into th. h.mae. Fup "? waa ready, b-caus. I wa. wmltln, for my huband. I av. Henry hie .up per, undressed hint and put '" ""T?: Mr. Prlndel waa af.U there when I did that H. .tared and w. talked. Hj asked me If my husband waa -omln home. I told him that I expected him that nlsUt. My huaband had been at th loagln Aft.r om. Interruptions, th. Ttoj rutin Attorney asked her what Mr. Prlndel talked about. H. waa te'ie m About th. Sunday achool and th. revival " know h. wa. auperlnt.nd.nt In th. Sun day .chool. H. aald he wai "lng away In m few days. After I had put my son to b.d. w. talked for a little while and 1 m.n tinned that It wa. gettln late. II. aid that he thought so. to". Than th. woman told how h tried to earry her bodily UBiUlra. 8ha con tinued: Husband Slsoota to Scare. Tartly throua-h force h. Itot m. half way upstair.. I pleaded and begited with him. 1 don't know how lone It until th. cat. aqueaked. H. ran and a moment Uter I heard a .hot. Then iny ; , i it- asked me who tt waa I wa frightened, and at first I sail I dUnt know. Then I told him that It waa Mr. Prlndel. H. Mid that he did not know that Prlndel waa that kind of a man, and that he only .hot to scar, htm. Then h. w.nt outald. and came back and said: - -Oh. Kw. 1 v. .hot aim.' Then I went outsW. and we saw that 'rlndel waa dead. My hnahand exclaimed: Oh. my God: I have killed him.' "II. ran toward th. houa. and -grabbed the eun. saying: Tv. killed him and now I m oln to kill myself." 1 struggled with him and took th. gun away. Then h. telephoned to th. ele-hbora. Pretty won the people came. Mra. Johnaon wa. the lat wltneaa and the argument, were short. Johnson wa. cleared by th. Coroner-. Jury and arreated Uter at the Instance of th. (rrand Jury. E. K. Hry.cn. Pla trlct Attorney, and his deputy. G. F. Gklpworth. conducted the proaecutlon and A. C. tVoodcock and L. Bllyeu wer. attorney, for th. defenae. a Isolated eabla la th. Terxbe. Na tional Foreat that prels over th. T toa itountalna. th. nnfortunat. elk hunt er la nulfed ta h.avy .now. In an al most boundless country and baa per ished, lie disappeared two weeaa aso last Saturday, wall, on th. trail of bt came, and .inc. then no word or n.w. of any character baa oca received from him. When Harry Lamberton. th. compan ion of Corbln wh.n th. latter wa. loot, returned to Boise a few days aso after a II day." search that ended In hla lv lr. up hop. of flndlns; Corbln allva, ther. wer. It Inche. of snow on th. around, and It wa. drlftlna; badly. H. deelared that It wa. almost Impossible to take th. horse, out. t followed th. broken trail of th. Lamberton party aa far as possible toward. Kea'i Pasa. which borders on th. YeUowaton. Na tional Park. The recent .now. and wind had. however, obliterated moit of th. trail. .o that It had to b. broken a econd time. This la probably th. moat difficult part of th. search. Th. man hunt la not entirety aban doned by th. soldier, stationed In th. park. On th. contrary, they are busily enxsxed running th. boundary lines In tha hope, of running aero, a deserted cabin Into which Corbln might hav. taken refuge. This. It la believed. Is th. only hope for Corbln. If h. could hav. mad. on. of tae cabins In which th. troop, (tore food It would hav. been an easy matter to hav. survived up to th. Pev ent time, a th. supplies h. would find there would be ample to keep him. Th. Secretary of War has directed that th. soldiers keep up th. search until either Corbln is heard from or his body Is found. BILLION MARK IS NEAR TAXAI1LK VAtrATIOBf OP ORE COX IXC11KASED $150,000,000. Total Is About .325,000,09 Mult nomah County's Report Show In I77,0S,5. 8AIJUI. Or.. Pec. . Specll.) Ac cording: to th. nearest estimate that may now be made with aeveral of the gmalier publlo service cor porations mlsainr from the aaseseiment reports rscU.d ao far at th. rHicea of th State Tax Commission, th. total aa evsscd. taxable valuation of Oregon for MHO will bo SSS V-XOOO, an ' Increase of more than l3M0.fiO over the aa.-eaed valuation of we. which was WM.T77.M1.W. Tho year ?us closed is the first In which the Tax Commission haei assessed prop erty, the law creating th. commission brine- passed In 1SC9. And. from assessed valuation of public Minnniinna which cam. under Jurisdiction of th. Commission, the total assessed valuations m a " as lollonr.: TlUublj land. $I.H.a5: non-tlllabl. land. !(t..tllS; Improvement. on deelad and patented '.andsv 17.-tT4t: town and city lots. m6T.M3; improve ments on town and city lots J24.fr.l imnrovemcnts on land not deeded or patented. ti.Ti.n: logirlnc roads, v r-jfi- steamboaUi and other T.ssehs. Limu. merahandlse. HlU.731: farm- nir..r.ta r.i.iiS.?2: money 14.9U.OX: nd accounts. JS.017.Sa; shares of tru-k ttn it:- household goods; U.201 7- homes and muleex 11..4T7: cattle. bftfitn- aheen and goata, S5.l4.tel. wine. 'T74.4;o; dogs. $1.0U; miscella neous $14S.&- Grand total of all property assesaea or County Assessors. tT4...t.4'M.4. r.ml.ilnnrr Charles Galloway est! matca tha Crratn lesion will arews. tia, ... worth of publlo servlc corpora tion, during th. first year or lis aciiv. work. mi Multnomah Oountya total is an.w... Total assessment for wallows, .vvr, emi!& Total assessment of Jackson County, v . . rreat deal mors time will ba ...... in mniDiiia aewessmenta on cor- poratlona. and tne worn oi """' - equalization will begin. SOLDIERS SENT TO PRISON Severe Sentences Imposed for Steal ing and IJesertlon. VANCOtnTER BARRACKS. Wash.. c. . i Special.) Three soldiers having charge of a shipment of horses from Fort Tellowstone. Wio.. stole ftv. sacks of oats Intended for fed for th. anlm.ile and sold them, pocketing Ih. pe-ceeds. Th. tVivernment cauxht them and now th. three soldiers will have to erve a term of one year each on Al atrnx Isl and, besides being dw-harged dishonor ably from the Army. The soMI.;ra found guilty of this crime are: Charles J. Kln- kald. Troop u: rrancis v.. i-nw. """v E. and Georx. Kick. Troop F, aU of tb. Fifth Cavalry. Severe sentences were Imposed on oth er soldiers, terms of Imprtsonmentbelns accompanied by hard labor. For being drunk and disorderly on .a railroad train. Corporal Jes. U. Har grov. wa. discharged and aentenced to aix months. Harry J: Wilier stole a pair of garrison shors and wa. dishonorably discharged. George Currlngton deserted al Fort Columbia. Wash.. July J. and was sentenced to two years. Three years In prison ta Elw.rd May . penalty for los ing nearly lo worth of clothing and de serting. Although UuUIn lllukley sur rordered htmself aft-T nine months in desertion, h. stas sentenced fr three ytaxs- For going to Spokane without Ser mission and threatening to injure an ther private. Glen L. was sentenced for two years. DESTmcnox STOCTLV or bcildixq OPPOSED. Roscburt; District Aroused by Re port Lane Building Is to Give riaco to Jllgh School. FRATS FROWN ON PLEDGES Faculty of Vnlversity and Many Leading Societies Agrtm. rXIVERSITT PK WASHINGTON. B attic. lec. . Ipon recommendation from the faculty there will be no more fraternity pledging cf blah school stu dents who have net yet graduated from their schools. Th. action was previously prompted by m -ny leading "frats" them selves, believing that co-operation should exist between th. university and th. high schools. in recent years large numbers of stu dents hav. been pleJted prior to gradua tion. This, asserts th. (aoully, hinders th. work of high school students and tends to make them bvllev. they are bet se than th. usual freshmen. Hlgh Sjoaool sup.rintead.nts h.T. seen ghtlng th. rledges for several years gjul hav. been successful through th. co- SJHI I l l Mil W u.m . - " HOPE SLIGHT FOR CORBIN Banter Believed to Have Perished la Mountain Snows. TU-itSE. Idaho. Dec Cnless B. E. C tsjM"1 tha kist olss tookar, tas tonni nnspnimo. Or- Dec . (Special. . ... r..,iit of a newspaper story given out by members of th. Roseburg; School Board yesterday to th. effect that the board had practically decided to tear down th. Lan. School building to make room for th. new Central High School structure a factional flKht has been kindled amon th. taxpayers of the district. Those opposed to tearing; down th. t.t,. school building argue that such will result in throwing- away IIS.OOO and that little would b aecom-- pllihed toward relieving m. corn, conditions of th. schools. They also say th. I.an. 8chool should b. utilised as a graded institution, and that th. i.nirl Hlarh School should b. slt- ,n..t in another section oi tn. city. Those favoring th. destruction of th. I school assert that th. structur. has .utgrossn its ussruiness ana mat It should b. discarded to make room for a larger and mora modern Duiiaing n also declare that th. alt. occu pied by th. Lan. School Is centrally located, and strenuously oppos. th. arguments of taxpayers who deslr. th. structure erected la th. suburbs. So bitter Is tb. feeling tnai inose oppujed to tha destruction of the Lan. hutidtna? hav. threatened to file In junction proceedings in th. event th. board acts contrary to ineir wtsnea. PARDON HEARING PUT OFF Ietition of J. Thorburn Ross to Be Presented January S. e ' SALEM, Or., Dec t.WSpeclal.) By a chance in th. date ef hearing or Thorburn Rosa' petition for pardon from. December 21 to January I. mor. tim. is riven th. attorney. lor th. former fori land banker to arrange their case. So far as known the question will come up before Acting Governor Bowerman and It Is understood that a large delegation of Portland business men will appear and BaV an appeal In th. Interest of Ross. According to Information nere. virtual ly all of the Jurors In the Ross ess. hav. Indicated their Intention of asking leni ency and it la understood hav. allowed their names to go on th. petition. In event that th. retltlon receives favorable consideration by the Governor It is probable that motion to dismiss th. appeal, now pending In th. United States Supreme court, win iu. Grants Pass Has) Many Children GRANTS PASS. Or, Deo. (Spe- l.Lt Th. achool census Just complet d .hows 1111 .llglbl. persons of school age residing- within th. corporate lim it.. Tbl. I. a decided Increase over i.t vear'a returns, and Indicates sub sisallaT arrow IS. aiich" kas called for a new high school that Will cost about ,45.00ft. INGLE TAXERSTQ PRESS CAMPAIGN Home From New York Con ference, Mr. U'Ren Says Advocates Are Pleased. , SSUE WILL COME IN 1912 People of Ore son Will Be Expected to Pay .Greater Proportion of Cost of Own "Education," but Fels Will Help. OREGON CITT, Or., Dee. . (Spe cial.) Advocates of th. "insji.-iax method of raising- revenue have decided to go straight to the people of Oregon. In 111 with a bill to provide for the collection of .tat. and local revenue rom ground rent values, accorains i W. S. U'Ren, who returnee mis rom a trio of three weeks to. ins r-asi. where h. attended a meeting- of the Fels fund Commission In New York. "The members of the commission. said Mr. U'lte-n, "expressed themselves as highly satisfied with th. results at tained, though at that time it was sup posed that th. county home rulo mendment naa oeen iosi u v,. narfe a resort to th. commission on what had been don. in thla stat. to ward th. adoption of single tax. "Educational Campaign" Begun. -Th, rnmmlaslon decided to assist In an educational campaign in Oregon for a bill to provide for the collection of state and iooal revenue from ground rent values of land, commonly known as slngMe-tax. The effort will be to how all classes or peopi. in uBu hat It will be to the advantage of the people to remove all taxes irom use- ul business ana laDor oi evcij ....-. Hlngl.-taxer. do not refrard lana specu lation as useful business. "Th. svstem has already been adopt ed by the city of Vancouver, B. C. for local taxes, and has resulted in the lty's growing- in capital ana propenjr. s Improving more rapiaiy - before. . . The Fels Commission expeois urn the people of Oregon win pay v" greater part of tho expense of the cam paign of education for the next two years, but th. commission will assist in a moderate way, so far as the ex penses are concerned. Th. commis sion may pay one-quarter, or even little more of the expense, but does not expect to pay a largo proportion. Th. advisory board in Oregon, com posed of C E. S. Wood, W. 3. U Ben. George M. Orten. H. W. Stone. H. J. Parklsoa, C H. Chapman ana c. o. McAllister, will have charge or ine nrrnn ramnalm. so far as the com mission's efforts are concernou. xncio will be local organizations that will take an active part In the different countle. of th. state. Fels Is Coming West. "The meeting of the Fels Commls- inn w. vrv interesting. The mem bers of the commission are Daniel Klefer, of Cincinnati, president; Jack son H. Ralston, or v asnmnn. " Unit mn ler-.H C HOWC Of INCW XOrK, Tim Johnson, or cioveiana. inn I.lninln RteffenS. "I met Mr. Kels In fhliaaeipnia. no s the founder of the Fels Fund and contributes sra.euv annuany spread of single-tax propaganda in the United States. The single-taxers hava not yet matched his money. Mr. Fels is doing the same thing In England, and Is contributing to similar efforts n Denmark. France, Germany ana in. British Colonies. 'Joseph Fels and Mr. meter expeci to be on th. Pacific Coast the last oi January, and I hop. to hav. them spend two or three days among the commercial and Industrial organisa tions In Oregon.'' BIG DAM TO BE REPAIRED Iiarco Pumps Will Fill Irrigating Ditcbes Near Grants Pass. r.Bivra PASS. Or.. Deo. 9. (Spe cial.) In the neighborhood of 140.080 will bs spent witnin toe nexi icw weeks to put tb. Golden Drift Dam, thre. miles east. In geod condition for th. irrigating season. Included in the r.nifn will b. much ooacreto work and heavy machinery xor pumping w im. high land ditches. Under th. new system these large pumps will be placed on each side pf tho river and will fill a .tring of ditch.. 1J to 16 miles long. Work will ha resumed soon upon the large grav. Ity ditch which will be used for all bottom land. Tne eompany aiso win generate 4000 horsepower for electrical purposes. ARMORY MONEY GRANTED County Court Allows SSOOP ior SaJcm and JT000 for Woodbura. satem. Or- Dec. . (Special.) Grant of f0 to Salem and 7000 to. Woodburn was mad. oy in. county Court oday for new armories. The court wa. waited on by a big delega tion and received a petition represent ing more than l,000.00i of property. It is conditioned on the appropriation by the cltv of Salem of 19000 and th. state 118,000 In addition for the Salem Armory. Woodburn roust raise 7000 and the state 114,000 for the Woodburn Ar mory, the Salem building to cost 136.000 and th. Woodbura building lis.ooo. Monejr from the stats is assured. ' . e murderous and mysterious ws the Blu. Mountalna. may meet Bis Waterloo. In the last few day. numer- inn. have been re- celved her. from hunter, living in -all parts of th. Northwest asaina ii -tlculars regarding th. I&00 bounty of fered for him. " Trapper, and hunters m Washington and Idaho ar. in the capture. That dogs, on wnicn mam uu.ij.. -.... .1 k. nracllcaiy useiesa been' shown repeatedly, for the lion is too cunning to allow "mero dog" to bother him. Although the Blue Mountains ranum some of the most skillful nunters in th. West all hav. failed to get a shot at th. big animal, and only one roan has seen him. altnougn eacu uism. commits some depredation siays horse, a cow or a hog. 'in. annual . ers a trail SO miles long, yet on. night h. may slsy a sheep at en. end and v.. .,t nirht a horse at the other. He works mysteriously and effectively. BLOODY HAMMER FOUND TET OFFICIALS DO NOT TH1XK WOMAN WAS MTJRDEKED. WOMEN MOST SIT ON OLYWIPIA JURY Justice Court Summons Those Prominent in Society and . Suffrage Cause. DEFENSE OFFERS PROTEST Discrepancy In Story of Self-Coa- fessed Slayer Leads Them to Be lieve She Wna Hit by Train. MEnrnRD. Or.. Dec. 9. (Special.) Although a blood-stained hammer was found today "near tb. railroad track a mile from here, where th. body of Mrs. belle Ellis was found Wednesday morn ing, exactly as B. L. Brooks, of Bids burg, Canada, described It when ho voluntarily confessed last night to murdering the woman, local suuiuu tles think that Brooks Is demented and that Mrs. Ellis was killed by a train. This theory was contained In a verdict by the Coroner's Jury and no one doubted it until Brooks announced to .i,. niic taal he killed Mrs. Ellis when she refused to give hlrn 60 cents. xnere is on. puim -----whlcb do.s not agree with facts. Be say he was put ctf a ireigm iram was walking to Medford along tho track when ho met Mrs. Ellis. H. asked her for money and when sh. re fused him, he declares, no mi over the head with a hammer he car- l hi. nnrb.t. tbQ rODDea ucr clothing. He says mis mw""" Wednesday night, while the body was found Wednesday morning. Brooks says that after he hit the ... ... rnrw 1 11 n iiuiuuici " " He has been In Jail ever since mi night, but this evening a hammer, cov ered with blood, was found In the spot h H..crihad. This discovery adds ....... o .. u r tha Mi. Brooks seems on the verge of a col lapse and says he Is glad he Is locked Word was received from Roseburg today that Mrs. Ellis was well known in rmiiirlaa County, where she lived for several years. For two years she con ducted a restaurant at Glendale, leaving tvir ten months ago to accept employ ment as cook in a lumber camp, near Westfork. Sh. is supposed to have left that plac. about a month ago. Sh. is the wife of E. S. Ellis, at present residing In California, and is also survived by a daughter. ROAD SEEKS WIDER SCOPE Canadian Line Makes Plans to In vade Alaska Minlns; Territory. VANCOUVER, R C, Dec. The British Columbia Alaska Railway Company, Incorporated at the last ses sion of the British Columbia Legisla ture, is pplying at Ottawa for a dominion i:harter conferring . general The'company is seeking authority te build railway front Lytton up the Fraser River to Fort George, and thence through the northern portion of the Province to Alaska. Th. company Intimate, that tne American section of the road will ulti mately prove a trans-Alaskan line, with branches to th. various mining districts. Tacetns Postmaster Dead. TACOMA. Wash., Dec Henry X. Votaw. postmaster of Tacoma, died to day after an illness of several months, aged i 1 years. He came from Iowa 13 years ago. engaging in the real estate business. His appointment as post master in February, 1806. came about through the efforts of the lat. Repre sentative Cushman. He was a promi nent member of the Masonic order and was a Knight TmPar. Ha is sur vived by his widow, thr. daughters and two sons, also by bis parents, tw sisters apd. two brothers Ambulance Vsed as Dead' Wagon, OLTMPIA, Wash., Dec . (Special.) Protests have been filed with the City Council against the action of an Olympia llv.ry stable in renting out the city ambulance to be used by a local undertaking establishment as a "dead wsa-on." Dr. R. Klncald, the city health officer, has filed the complaint. Suit Is One for Damages Sustained In Runaway nd Will Decldo Status or Women as Jurors. Appeal Will Be Taken. OLYMPIA. Wash., Dec. . (Special.) Six prominent women of Olympia, all leader In the suffrage movement, have been summoned by Milton Giles, Justice of tho Peace, to serve as Jurors in the case of A. Koch, who Is suing to collect 510.05 damages from Fouls & Canneld, Employes of the contractors set off a blast while improving a atreet, and frightened a team belonging to the plain tiff. Tha women drawn as Jurors, or "Juresses," as Soot, insist, are: Miss B.rnlce Sapp, Supreme Court stenog rapher and Thurston County leader of the suffragists; Mrs. Paulina Graves, president of the Thurston County Hu mane Society; Mra J. W. Mowell, wife of on. of th. leading physicians of Olym pia; Miaa J.an McLeod. stenographer to Governor Hay and secretary of the Olym pia Suffragist Society; Rev. Geneva Lake, an ordained pastor of the Spiritual ist Church, and Mrs. Frank Blakeslee, wife of the Democratic Olympia candi date for the Legislature at the last elec tion. . . Th. list of rejected- names. 18 being drawn and 12 stricken, was as follows: Mra Mitchell Harris, wife of Mayor Harris; Mrs. George Taylor, wife of a prominent saloonman; Mrs. George Zern, Mrs. Charles Peters. Mrs. George Blank enshlp, a local newspaper woman; Mrs. Victor Meyer. Mrs. T. D. Young. Mrs. Charles Van Eaton. Mrs. Thompas Mac Leay. president Olympia Rose Society, Mrs. J. M. Hitt, wife Pf Stat, librarian, Mrs. B- L. Sylvester and Mrs. William Nunn, wife of the County Clerk. John M. Wilsop, attorney for the de fense, has protested against the Jury drawn, but the plaintiff is not Objecting. This suit, set for Vuesday, December 13, will setae the status of women as jurors, as It will be taken higher, whichever side wins, say attorneys. All women drawn are electors ana tax payers either d'rectly or pn community property. TIMBER FIRM COMPLAINS C. A. Smith Company Objects to In crease In Tax Assessment. ROSEBURG. Or.. Dec i.fSftdal.)-' A'H'" "r,T. 8C. A. Smith Timber Company has filed an appeal in th. Circuit Court from the decision of the Douglas County uoara "'ZT tion. which Board denied a petition for a reduction in tho 1910 assessment. The eompany owns 8S.0OO acres of tim ber land In Douglas County, upon which the Valuation, total 8488,418. Th. assess i...i.j n the land for th. year 1910 1. 81.88 higher than the assessment in 1909, and upon this increase mo c pany bases its objections. v t if. .tw.i th timber company says: "By reason of fires Bnd threatened fires and by reason ef the distrust in the minds of the public, created by disas trous fires the past year, the value of h. if anything, de- UlllUCl w " ' - , creased." Dayton Marshal May Lose Place. Kivirnv Wash.. Dec 8. (Special.) An Investigation committee may have . v,. ,i.,.d here to decide whether x Tr.rr Marshal, shall ba re moved from office by Mayor-elect J. A. Mulrbead. Strong opposition to the present chief ha. developed .- Muir haad's office today was crowded with taxpayers clamoring for bis decision. They got no satisfaction. Opponents of Dor? say be ha. neglected his duties snd that h. has held the office long enough anyway. Hood River powlers Active. tmnn T3TVTTR fir.. Dec 9. (Special) .Ther. Is considerable Interest in bowling this year, and already teams are being formed for tha championship J .h. vallav. Yesterday Captain H. DeWltt's team defeated Captain .i n-o team, representing the country, by the decisive score of t3Si to 2284 , Pleasant, ereslg. Bencicial. STABLE-OWNER IS SUICIDE Ell Barnuxn, Sr., Suddenly Ends Life at Lakevlew Home. LAKE-VIEW. Or.. Dee. . The sui cide here yesterday afternoon of Ell Barnum. Sr., member of the firm of Barn urn Rehart. proprietors of th. Mammoth .table, th. largest establish ment of its kind In Oregon, caused much surprise among those who hav. known Barnum for many years. The deed waa dan. at th. family home. Bar num firing a shot into his heart from a heavy revolver. Temporary Insanr ity. caused by brooding over family matter.. I. given a. th. cause. H. l.aves a wife, who Is a stepdaughter of Charles Rehart. a prominent busl aess man. aad three small children. 'OLD SLEUTH' STILL ACTIVE Mysterious and Murderous Cougar of Blue Hills Eludes Hunters. nATTOls: Wash' Dec ..(Special.) JjChrousab, jmilicitx. "Old flUiith,," hJ. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna appeals to &e cultured and the well-informed and the healthy because its component parts are simple and whole some and because it acts with out disturbing the natural func tions, as it is wholly free from every objectionable quality or. substance. In its production a pleasant and refreshing syrup, of the figs of California is unit ed with the laxative and car minative properties of certain plants known to act most bene ficially, on the human system, when its eentle cleansing is de sired. 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