TITE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN. TUESDAY, 3IAT 9, 1911. PENITENCE FORCED SAYS PEDAGOGUE VV. J. Standley Tells Schoo Board Robinson Prepared Retraction He Signed. THREATS TO SUE ALLEGED Slanual Training Teacher Declare He Confessed Slander Cnder I) areas Berore Attorney Pro bation Officer Involved. Threat by R. F. Robinson. County School Superintendent. In the office of bis attorney. William A. Leet. to brine a lawsuit against William J. Standley recalls of statements Standley mad to a few Individuals regarding; Mr. Robinson's conduct at the Seattle Ex position. Indured Standley to sign a retraction of these statements, he told the Hoard of Education yesterday. Mr. Standley said he believed, when he signed the statement, that the state ments he had previously made regard ing Mr. Robinson's reputation "were true. He said Mr. Robinson made out the statement In Attorney Leet s pri vate office, and that Mr. Leet put It In legal shape. It was then read over to him. he said, and thrust upon him for signature. Mr. Standley said It was not until last Sunday, after a talk with Mr. Robinson, that he came to a be. lief that the statements be had made were false. All the members of the Board were present at yesterday afternoon's hear ing. Assistant City Superintendent Orout. County Superintendent Robin son. Attorney Ieet and Court Stenog rapher Rogers were also present. The stenographer took down Mr. Standley's statement. Mr. Robinson was not asked for a statement of his side of the case, and made none. The School Hoard took the case under advisement, as, Mr. Standley said he preferred not to say what statements he made against Mr. Robinson In Seattle. Mr. Standley's attorney not being present at the Board meeting. The Board will meet a?ln Friday afternoon to take action In the case. Hclvhnrr Against Removal I. N". Fleischner, one of the Board members, declared, after the hearing, he would not. under the circumstances, vote to ask Mr. Standley's resignation, or to oust him from his position. J. V. Beach, who acted as chairman, did not say what position he would take, but as It was through his Influence that Mr. Standley was given a hear ing yesterday, it Is Improbable that he will vote to discharge him. If 1L C. Campbell, who also favors Mr. Stand ley's cause, refuses to vote against him. he will remain as manual train ing Instructor In the Portland public schools, unless he sees fit to resign voluntarily. Mr. Standley first submitted to the board a signed statement, and was art erward questioned about It. The state ment, dated May C. reads: two hours. I thought two or three times of getting away. I thought If I let It go until tomorrow I would have some assistance. Then I thought I would Just swallow It. I thought It was a small matter to ask an at torney to take up. If I had thought It would be published I would not have signed It. At the time I signed this statement I still believed all statements I bad ever made were true. Yesterday In talking with Mr. Robinson I thought It wasn't safe to circulate these state ments. "I would rather not repeat what I said at Seattle at this time. I am sorry I made those statements, because I am uncertain as to their origin. I might say I have a nervous trouble and I had been under a great strain just before I was Induced to sign the statement. But I had all my senses at the time." GRAY MEMORIAL UNVEILED Daughter of American Revolution Mark Historic Spot. IIOQUIAM. Wash.. Mat $. (Special.) With elaborate ceremonies, attended by one of the largest gatherings of pioneers and members of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution which ever assembled In Chehalls County, a monument In memory of Captain Robert Gray, discoverer of Grays Har bor, was unveiled near Lone Tree, Damon's Point, today. The site of the monument Is supposed to be the spot here Captain Gray landed when he entered Grays Harbor In 1791. Addresses were made by George It. Himes. secretary of the Oregon State Historical Society; W. II. Gilstrap. of GIG DRUG FIRM N5 NOV E Woodard, Clarke & Co. Buy Corner at West Park and Alder Streets. $150,000 DEAL CLOSED Portland's Pioneer Pharmacists to Build Seven-Story Structure for Its Retail Business Old Lease Vp Next Tear. Woodard. Clarke Co.. Portland's pioneer drug firm, yesterday bought from Captain E. W. Spencer the lot at the northeast comer of West Park and Alder streets. The consideration was $150.00'). Woodard. Clarke & Co. will begin the erection before the end of OFFICERS AND OWNERS OF WOODARD, CLARKE & CO., WHO HAVE BOUGHT SITE AND WILL BUILD. tit i fa i"r A Smm Tii a j-t-il.afi. .'i.j'-V.m Y "' . ''J 'r . V f'-. i s . of IS. who had left his horns In Min nesota to make his home in the Far West, began hla duties in the store as messenger and choreboy. He was ad mitted to partnership 12 years later. The flood of 1894, which submerged most of the business district, acceler ated the westward movement of re tail business and the following Winter the store was moved to the present lo cation at Fourth and Washington streets. About this time Mr. Woodard retired, disposing of his interest to Mr. Clarke and Mr. Woodward. The con cern now employs some 140 salespeo ple and Is the largest establishment In the United States devoted to the re- tall drug trade. In January. 1906. the wholesale and manufacturing business of the firm had reached such proportions that it was deemed advisable to separate this feature of the business from the re tall store and a new corporation, the Clarke-Woodward Drug Company, was formed to carry on the wholesale and manufacturing departments exclusive ly. A six-story brick building was erected at Ninth and Hoyt streets for this business. Methods of handling retail business have changed greatly in Portland since the early days of Woodard, Clarke Ic Co. 'William." said his employer to W. F. Woodward, the day he egan hla service, "make no sales under a bit; nickels are a nuisance." The store handled at that time many cases of lubricating oil made by some of the lower river canneries from well- ripened fish livers. Its ancient and penetrating odor, says Mr. Woodward, will ever linger in his olfactories. His heart would sink when, on opening the store at 6 A. M., he would find a note telling him to deliver a. case or more at once to one of the boats on the water front. The streets were rough and miry and his shoulders the only certain ve hicle. So It came about that when the senior partner, Mr. Woodard. sold his Interest to Mr. Clarke and Mr. Wood ward. In 1895. fish oil was promptly closed out and replaced with an In creased stock of scented soaps and perfumes. The firm of Woodard. Clarke & Co. Is a limited stock concern, all the stock but one share being held by Louis G. Clarke and William F. Woodward. Mr. Clarke Is president and manager, and Mr. Woodward is secretary and treas urer. Captain E. W. Spencer, who sold the ground at West Park and Alder to the drug firm, announced yesterday that he Intends to build a substantial store and apartment building on hla property on the East Side, which is situated where the Broadway bridge approach will rest. Captain fipencer owns six lots fronting on Broadway and intends to Improve the property in a first-class manner. Captain Spencer has lately turned a large amount of his property Into money to use in this enterprise. Two months ago he sold 43 lots In Irvington to L. Holte, a Seattle capitalist, for $45 000, and more recently he disposed of his fine excursion steamboat, the Charles R. Spencer, to the Monarch Transportation Company. r The popularity of a cigarette is dependable upon its ability to make friends. If MOUTHPIECE Louis C Clarke. President Manager. aad Will lam K. Woodward, aad Treasurer. Secretary Tacoma. secretary of the Washington State Historical Society, and Professor Eldredge Wheeler, of Montesano. They dwelt for the most part on the early history of Chehalls County and re counted the story of the discovery of the harbor and the work of Captain Gray. Mr. Hlroes. on behalf of the Oregon Historical Society. presented the Daughters with a large portrait of Captain Gray. T tfc- MnnnrsM. foar1 of Kdanstlon. Shrtol District xo. 1, Multnom.h County: t-in ra;i4 by jou lo explain my signing a r.traclioa tf .lalement. .t.trd to h b.n mad by me In Rfrrtnr, in R y. R"hhnn. .. tn submit the followlns: I Sf knowlciK having r;ati dalrments hlrh. at tn. Cm. 1 bllv.d to b. tru. but now. to ih bmt of my knowledge, are f- I rlrruiatetl ths stones to Injure tr. RoMn.nn In his political aspirations, but t no time was anything .aid by me or anyone to mr knowledge during the Kwattl. fajr that wou!l ca.t the allgtit eet reflection upon Jr. Rnblneon's family. The statement that Mrs. Robinson was suing Mr. Robinson foe a divorce was made be me and I repeated It to probably els persons. Mr. Robtns.in. hearing of tae cir culation of the report, gave me the oppor tunity of retracting or facing a suit I ron.lderej that a public scandal In school work was of all thing, to be avoided, and. Inferring fmm Mr. Hnolnson that the paper would be used by him among his friend. I signed It. I thought I had by this means shielded my Informant, limiting the trouble to narrow cooftnee. and feeling guilty of baring participated In gossip. I would hu miliate myself by so doing. Algne! WILJ.IAM J. BTANTH.ET. Probation Officer Involved. Mr. Standley said the person who In formed him Mrs. Robinson was suing for a divorce was Chief Probation Of ficer White, of the Juvenile Court, who was then truant officer. He said he repeated what he had heard, believing It to be true, but later learned It was not. "I did not request that my statement le published. In fact I preferred that It should not be." continued Mr. Stand- ley. -Mr. White was Just at that time stepping Into the work at the Court house, aad since he had totd me about the divorce the same as I have told others. I felt the mention of his name tn connection with it would be of great moment to him. Rather than do that I thought I would shoulder the responsi bility, air. tioninson accused me of fabricating the story, which Is not true. Pis weeks before Mr. White told me. someone else repeated this same story to me. When he also told me I thought It was verified. "When 1 circulated these stories Mr. P.oblnson was a candidate for State Superintendent. I wished him to be de feated, and also believed the statements I made to be true." "In your published statement you say rou falsely and unwarrantedly circulated false and malicious statements. Is that true?" queried Mr. Sabln. "It is not true. I signed it because I didn't think It would be published. I thought it would be passed around to members of the board, and that I would be humiliated, but that that would be the extent of It I said nothing about Mr. Koblnson but what I believed to be true. I found out only yesterday during a conversation with Mr. Robinson that the Seattle affair was not true." Hrhrunj Is Blamed. Mr. Standley went on to sav that W. H. Wehrung. of the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-clflo Kipositlon. "double crossed" him. "He talked to me one way." said Mr. Standley. "and to Mr. Robinson another way. I said there should be two school principals all the time to take charge of the exhibit at the exposition. I ap proached Mr. Wehrung about It. and he saia we mould Hire them, but that three were there already, and with the heavy expense we could not afford any more. He said. "If we could get rid of Mr. Robinson, get him to resign, we could handle it.' I said I thought prob ably he would. He said. "We will try, snd him down. Wehrung didn't ask Mr. Robinson's resignation. He went dwn and tendered it for the good of the city. Mr. Koblnson said he was sick. Mr. Wehrung said he was very sorry, that he hoped he would be able to pull through all right, so he could take charge of the school displays. "Neither I nor anybody else said any thing derogatory to Mr. Robinson's family. I must confess I did not know what I was signing at the time I signed this statement. This statement was written whtle I was In the office. I did not hear It dictated. It read over to me and then handed to rae. I could not say whether I a.tu- a- read it or aou I was la the office FIRE- INSURANCE GROWS Increapo In Value of Property Is $35,000,000, Says Koport. SALEM. Or, May 8. (Special.) Ac cording to figures compiled by In surance Commissioner Koxer the In surable property In Oregon Increased $35,000,000 during 1910 and the Insur ance rate for stock companies de creased, approximately, from fl.'O on $100 to tl.SO. During 1910 the stock fire companies wrote business amounting to $212,000. 000. as against $177,000,000 in 1909. The gross premiums for 1910 were $3,318.- 000 and the fire losses paid were $1. 13$. 000. The gross premiums during 1909 amounted to $3,013,000 and losses paid were $943,000. While no computations have been made. Insurance Commissioner Koxer considers It probable that the loss ra tio will be SO per cent of the premiums received, against 40 per cent during 1909. All of these stock fire companies are foreign corporations. The only Ore gon stock fire company Is the Paclflo States Fire, of Portland, which was started the first of the present year, and the Insurance Commissioner has no figures available In reference to the business which It has transacted. None of the figures given Include ref erence to bualness done by mutual companies. , CITY LOSES BOND POINT Demurrer Against Salt for Recovery of Check Overruled. It was stlpulsted between' City At torney Grant and the attorney for Farson Sons A Company, of Chicago, yesterday that the company may amend Its complaint by Inserting the words "In good faith." The demurrer of the city to the com pany's complaint, brought In the Fed eral Court to recover the $25,000 certi fied check put up as a guarantee of good faith when the bid for Broad way bridge bonds was submitted, was accordingly overruled by Judge Bean. The city has been allowed 30 days la which to file an answer. ROSEBURG SELECTS QUEEN Miss Evelyn Vaughn to Reign Over Strawberry Fr-sUral. ROSEBURG, Or, May . (Special.) In one of the most spirited voting con tests ever held In Roseburg. Miss Eve lyn Vaughan was elected Queen of the Strawberry Festival tonight by a ma jority of 40.000 votes. Miss Vaughan received a total of 47.180 votes, while Mrs. William Bell, her closest rival, had less than 7000 votes. Miss Vaughan was backed by the Southern Pacific employes, who were determined to win at any cost. LJttle Dorothy Abraham, daughter of Senator Abraham, was elected queen of the children's parade. W hat Foley Kidney Pills will do for yo Foley Kidney Pills are a true medi cine. They are healing, strengthening, antiseptic and tonic Foley Kidney Pills take hold of your system and help you to rid yourself of your dragging back ache, dull headache, nervousness. Im paired eyesight, and of all the miser able feelings that result from the Im paired action of your kidnevs and blad der. Remember It la Folev Kidney Pills that do this for you. Sold by all drug gists. Buy dlcfaea's fuel ties, this year of a seven-story building which is to be devoted exclusively to the retail business of this large and growing concern. Details of the sale were handled by Chester G. Murphy. The ground has a frontage of 100 feet on West Park street and 60 feet on Alder. The corner Is occupied by a large frame dwelling and there is two-story brick building on the back of the lot- Both buildings are being rented to Dr. C. W. Cornelius, owner of the Cornelius Hotel, which adjoins. and he is subletting the dwelling and nsing the brick building as an annex to the hotel. Dr. Cornelius is renting from month to month, and there is no lease to delay erection of the new building. This sale furnishes another example of the rapid advance in value of inside Portland real estate. The lot was bought by Captain Spencer four years ago from Dr. Cornelius for $76,000. Dr. Cornelius had purchased it six months previously for $40,000 from the late Louis Jagger. commission merchant, who was killed In an automobile acci dent near Greaham last July. Mr. Jagger had held It several years and made a substantial profit in his sale to lr. Cornelius. The frame dwelling on the corner was occupied for many years as a home by George Woodward and family. Woodard. Clarke A Co. have a lease on their present quarters at Fourth and Washington that will run until Sep tember, 1913, and their new building is to be completed so they can move into It berore that date. Except that it Is to be of fireproof construction, seven stories high, with full basement, noth ing has been determined about the building. The cost Is expected to reach $75,000. 'er SI to Less Expensive. It Is understood that the owners of the quarters at Fourth and Washington have notified the drug firm that the rental is to be raised to $3000 a month when the present lease expires. This Is a much higher rate than is now be ing paid by the firm. A fair percent age on the total cost of ground and seven-story building at West Park and Alder will make the rental figure only $l5u0 a month, allowing for insurance and taxes. "Nothing about the details of the building has been determined as yet, except In a most general way," said William F. Woodward, secretary and treasurer of Woodard. Clarke Co., yesterday. "The building is to be de signed especially for our use and 38 years in the business have given Mr. Clarke and myself a pretty good Idea of what the store should be like. "Our business Includes 25 departments and tbey are all expanding, so we shall require the entire building. Wo have realized for some time that we must move several blocks west of our present location. The center of the retail bust ness district has moved again In the dl rection away from the river, and it Is now centered in the sons between Wash, In s;t on. Morrison. Sixth and Tenth streets. We first tried to lease a suit able location In this district, but It was Impossible to find what we wanted, so we decided to buy and build This will be the third removal west ward the company has made. Its history la Interesting. In 185 the modest phar macy of Charles H. Woodard & Co. was opened In the river town of Portland. at Front and Alder streets. It was the initial venture of Charles H. Woodard. a young druggist from the Middle West. The store was well kept and it quickly gained considerable patronage, being sit uated In what was then the business center. Fire and Flood Withstood. Woodard was a hustler, and he brought the first soda fountain seen on the Pa cific Coast to Portland by sailing vessel. Dental instruments and photographic supplies were kept, forming the only supply depots on the Coast. When the great fire of 1872 wiped out this sec tion of Portland, a new stock was quick ly bought and the store was moved to the southwest corner of First and Alder streets "under the town clock." where It remained for nearly a quarter of a century. In 1878 a youag man from Ohio. Louis O. Clarke, who had Just graduated with honor from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, entered the store as an em ploye. Two years later he became a partner In the reorganised firm of Woodard. Clarke ek Co. GRAIN CROP DRENCHED WALLA WALLA VALLEY HAS BIG GEST RAIX OF SEASOX, Farmers Elated Over Prospects Bet tered by Downpour Eureka Flats Well Moistened. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. May 8. (Spe cial.) Drenching the valley from one end to the other, the hardest rains of the season fell here Sunday night and to day, and a total of nearly half an inch is recorded from early last night until tonight. The rains were general through out the valley, and were not local, aa were the rains of last week. Grain on Eureka flat was badly In need of moisture, and tha rains which fell were as heavy there as in this Imme diate vicinity. Farmers are rejoicing over the prospects, and all Indications point to the continuance of the rain. However, enough has fallen to place the gTain out of all present danger. is a blend of attractive tobacco qualities that please smokers it has the greatest demand of any cigarette has it caught your taste ? At all Dealers lO for lOc THE JOHN BOLLMAN CO. San Francisco NEW TRAIN IS TALKED SEATTLE-PORTL.AND FAST SERV- ICE PLAN" REPORTED. la 181 William V CT.oodax$sv-Jj4j.sckle ox aunbur.nl"snAdie PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs. P. J. Vial, of Prlndle, Wash., Is at the Portland. F. Van Dusen. an attorney of Salem. Is at the Perkins. J. 8. Cooper, a capitalist of Independ ence. Is at the Imperial. F. H. Kiddle, a cattleman of Island City, Is at the Imperial. J. R. Cartwrlght. a merchant of Har- rlsburg. is at the Perkins. H. B. Hark ness, a clothing merchant of The Dalles, is at the Imperial. C Hartley, a dentist of Corvallls, registered yesterday at the Cornelius. J. C Black, a business man of He- Mlnnvllle, is registered at Uie Oregon. J. H. Haner, real estate and timber man of Prineville. is at the Perkins. W. H. Wilson, an attorney of The Dalles, registered yesterday at the Perkins. W. E. Congers, a business man of Clatakanie, Or, is registered at the Oregon. U. M. Peyton, mine owner and cap italist of Dulutb, Minn, and Mrs. Pey ton are at the Portland. George D. O'Connor, a railroad con struction man of Eugene, registered yesterday at the Imperial. NEW YORK. May 8. (Special.) Paclflo Northwest arrivals at New Tork hotels were: From Portland At the Ansonls, Miss O. Kern; at the Herald Square. H. J. Valentine; at the Wal dorf, W. Cndmers, W. P. Ames; at Ho tel Astor. A. II. Devers. From Tacoma At the Martinique, W. P. Flint. From Seattle At the Park Avenue, L Lurie, Mrs. I. Lurle, A. P. Lensman; at the New Amsterdam, J. A. Thomas. From South Bend, Wash- At the Grand Union, C H. Gerwig. From Kverett, Wash. At the Park Avenue, A. D. Solberg. From Ashland, Or. At the St. George, F. Burcham. CHICAGO, May 8. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hall, of Portland, are at the Ptratford. O.-W. R. & X. Officials Confer on Con nection With S. P. No. 16 Here, One May Change. SEATTLE, Wash.. May 8. (Special.) Determined to obtain a portion of the transcontinental mall haul and more of the passenger business into Seattle, officials of the O.-W. R. A N. Co. held a conference today with a view to In stalling a new train between Seattle and Portland to connect with the Southern Paclflo fast train No. 18 at Portland. While the plan is still under con sideration. It was said by those in a position to know, that the service will be Installed within a few days. The train will leave Seattle at noon and. returning, will leave Portland at 10 A. M. Although equipment designated to take passengers to California and the East without change will be put on the new train in both directions. In consequence of this change, the night Portland Owl train will be started out of Seattle earlier, probably at 10:30 o'clock. This Is the train that is to compete with the Great North ern's proposed new fast schedule be tween Seattle and Portland. R. B. Miller, traffic manager of the O.-W. R. & N. Co, has been in Chi cago for the last two weeks confer ring with J. C. Stubbs, traffic director of the Harrlman system, and it is pos sible that they arranged for a new fast train service between Portland and Seattle. Mr. Miller left Chicago last night for Portland. Local officials, however, are not In clined to believe that a service such as Is proposed at Seattle will be in stalled. The fact is. they point out. that the business does not Justify it. With three roads already operating 10 trains a day each way between the two cities, little need for additional ser vice is felt. Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern, while in Portland yesterday, said that his road does not contemplate the fast train that has been spoken of in Seattle. GERMANY WARNS FRANCE Dangerous Consequences May Fol low Occupation of Vex. BERLIN, May 8. Germany has warned France of the dangerous conse quences likely to follow the occupa tion of Fes by the French troops. Fur ther than this the government has taken no step, though watching de velopments in Morocco very closely. There is no truth In the rumor pub lished today that Germany has decided to send three cruisers to Moroccan waters Jn order to display the flag at Casa Blanca, Rabat, Mogador and El Paraish. In view of the hint from Berlin, it Is believed here that the French flying column from the southwest that has been hurrying to the relief of Fes will be halted outside the capital. 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