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TTTE MORNING OKEGOXIAX. WEDXESDAY, JUNE 21. 1911. RUSHLIGHT'S AX GIRL'S VIRTUES EXTOLLED BY SEE Lirwmblfe G&. JL eroharidiae of terll Only.. To Use a Familiar . French Expression This Sale of Midsummer Hats Is "Comme il faut" WOMAN WHO SACRIFICED REPUTATION IN VAIN ENDEAVOR TO SAVE MAN FROM LIFE IMPRISONMENT. Fire Chief Campbell, Police Captain Bailey and Two ; Sergeants Slated. x Writings of Prophet of "Abso lute Life" Are Read in Courtroom. INSISTENT RUMOR HEARD CROWDS SEEK ENTRANCE i MAY BEHEAD FOUR : fi-P.:'-. ; . i ! A;.,. " -' " i V ' .1 : - ... at' f ' Hrad of Cult Sais Mona Hts I.carncJ of Sect In Portland from Correspondence With Her Mother In Chicago. CHICAGO. June 10. A long line of people. schoolgirls and boys and women, young and middle-aged. struggled for an hour today to get Into the court room where the trial of Evelyn Arthur See. founder of the "absolute life" cult. charged with abduction, waa held. Manuscripts of two of See's books. containing the history of the cult, one of them written In Jail, were admitted as evidence. Mrs. Lucille M. Bridges, wife of the chief witness and mother of the girl for whose alleged abduction See Is being tried, filed an answer to the di vorce suit recently begun by her hus band. In which charges of undue Inti macy with See were contained. Bridges left his wife soon after the exposure of the See eult and the subsequent In dictment of See. Writings Are Introduced. Prosecutor Burnham then read Into the record a numDer or extracts from See's book. In one passage See wrote: I am he whom It was announced would come to lead you unto him whom all men seek. I am now supreme, for by me all must be led unto him who sent me." The defense tried to show that the extracts had not been written by See but by a "spirit" which had See for Its amanuensis. The prosecutor read many pages through which See claimed to be a divine agent for the purpose of purifying the world and creating a new rare of men and women, all to be physically and spiritually perfect. Further on. Prosecutor Burnham. quoting See. showed that Mildred Bridges was called his chosen one. "his treasure." and "the Idol of his heart." Girl's Mother Praised. Her mother waa highly praised for giving her to him. and promised the greatest glory In the next world. Mildred was spoken of as "the high est In this body." aa containing "all the virtue of all. the strength of the strength of all. the sweetness of the sweetness of all. the gentle grace of the gentle grace of all. the queen among women, the wife of the lord, the wife of See's spirit." and In other equally glowing terms. She was. the book said, the fulfill ment of the work of the "absolute life." being, the family, the horn and the married life, from which the new race was to spring. Of Mona Rs. See wrote, according to Burnham. that Mona first learned of absolute life In Portland. Or, through correspondence with her mother. Fe lltla. who was the first person to un derstand, to aecrpt and to receive ab solute life. She came to Chicago In 1)0? to aid In compiling the books. GIRL DIES OF PNEUMONIA IIm-uc fatal to Sufferers Prom Spine Injur;. OR Ei S"N C1TT. Or, June 10. (Spe cial Mls May Kambo. well-known and popular young woman of this city, died at the home of her foster parents. Mr. and Mrs. William Kambo, of Sixth and John Adams street, early today after an Illness alnce February. Mi Kambo was recovering from her In juries to her spine sustained last Win ter when aha was taken with pneu monia. Miss Ram bo was born at Caldwell. Idaho. March IT. 1S1. and at the time of her death waa :0 years old. Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hammer, died soon after her birth and she waa adopted soon after by Mr. and Mrs. r.ambo, and had resided most of her life in this city, where she baa many friends. She leaves besides her fos ter parents, one brother. Jay Hammer, of this city. Her only sister. Mrs. James Sklllman. died about a year ago In Colorado. Mtsa Kambo waa an accomplished musician. The funeral services will be conducted on Thursday morning from the family residence at 10 o'clock. Rev. J. R. LandsborouKb. pastor of the Presbyterian Church, will officiate. The burial will be In the Mountain View Cemetery. MORO TO HONOR PIONEERS Ills Picnic and Celebration Planned for July 4. MORO. Or, June . Srecial Elab orate preparations are being made for the annual Pioneers picnic and celebra tion to be held July 4 at Ie Moss Sprints. Sherman County. A balloon ascension and automobile race will be features of the day. Attorney George Mowry. of Moro, will deliver the oration. More than people attended the cele bration last year and a greater number Is expetcxd this year. The Sherman County hand of 5 pieces has been en gaged. C U Montgomery, of Moro, will be one of the special marshals of the da. BANK BOOKS UNDER PROBE 1 jert to Kxamlne Accounts of Van couver Institution. VANCOCVER. Wash June 10. Spe clavl. J. W. Ferguson, an expert ac :ountant. Is t arrive tomorrow to be gin experttntg the books of the Com mercial G.ink of Vancouver, which tailed for about ftoo.ouo December Is. Il. Martin L. Plpea has been retained to autst Fred W. Tempes aa special prosecutor. There Is a general Impression broad that the bank officers, 11. C Phillips, president and Gilbert Daniels, as cashier, will have a chance to tell what they know of the business of the bank on the witness stand. Mr. Phil hps experts that he will be arrested and he wtll tell bis story then. An attempt ha been made to have the depositors pay for expertlng the books and a subscription la being taken V i I fit ' - -v . i SACRIFICE IS VI Woman Gives Reputation but Man Must Suffer. PARDON POWER OBDURATE To Save Mrs. Schmidt's Honor, Dr. Clemlnson Mad Refused to Offer Alibi, Now He Goes to Prison for life. CHICAGO. June JO. The sacrifice of fered by Mrs. Anna Schmidt, of St. Louis an offer of her honor,, so that a man too chivalrous to avail himself of the right to call upon her aa a witness, might be saved. Is likely to be In vain. The pardoning power has listened with deaf ears to Mrs. Schmidt's atory. Dr. Haldan Clemlnson. of Chicago, was accused of the murder of his wife. He wss arrested, tried and convicted, all the while maintaining silence. The verdict of guilty was appealed both to the Appellate and Supremo Courts of Illinois, nd aftlrmed both times. Now the only chance remaining lies In his being able to secure money enough to perfect an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Even If he should accomplish this. It la consid ered doubtful that he would win. Mrs. Schmidt has known all the time. If her story Is true, that Dr. Clemlnson waa with her the night that the murder waa committed. She declares that not only did Dr. Clemlnson leave her too late to have committed the murder as charged, but that when he did leave he was too near helplessly drunk to have committed the crime even If be had been In time. Mrs. Schmidt kept silence until Dr. Clemlnson waa convicted. Then she was moved by his sacrifice, she says, and by a sense of Justice, and went to Chicago prepared to face it all. She told the world of her shame, and a motion was made for a rehearing, but the motion was denied. This eleventh-hour festure did not Im press either the Governor, the pardon board or the courts, and the sentence stands. DAKOTA WHEAT FAILURE CHOP CONDITIONS ARE WORST IX HISTORY OF STATE. Fields Are Badly Burned In Three Counties Cereal Goes Vp Four Cent In Chicago as Result. CHICAGO. June 20. Heavy purchas ing of wheat here today followed re ports from South Dakota that crop con ditions are the worst In the history of the state. Three whole counties. Coddlngton. Clark and Spink, all large producers, were represented as being practically a failure for wheat this season. Accord ing to experts, the fields in general have been badly burned, and. where green streaks are still left the long continued hot weather la drying the plant in the milk. An advance exceeding 4 cents a bushel during the last i hours showed the extent to which speculators here had been stirred up. The September op tion today soared to SOS cents against S cents last night and lHSS cents at the preceding close. Big sales to realize profits hindered a further advance and at one time led to a lively reaction. The greatest rise today was for the July delivery: at the apex, the advance showed a bulge of 2 Vic over last night. reaching tic flat. Under heavy profit taking, however, the close was lc be low the top figures of the day. OFFER MADE FOR BLOCK S Government Would Par $10,000 Less Than Verdict. United States District Attorney Mc Court yesterday offered A. King Wilson. representing the Espey Estate Com pany. tlSS.000 for the west half of Block S and Dr. Andrew C. Smith S1S5.- 000 for the east half of the same block. which the Federal Government desires as a si is lor us new i-oruana post- Photograph copyrighted by Gor Grantham MRS. A.MTA SCHMIDT. office. In each case the offer was fSOOO less than the valuations set by the Juries which tried the condemnation suits. Dr. Smith was Inclined to accept the offer, but Mr. Wilson refuses to take less than the Jury's valuation. $140,000. He offered the Espey half of the Gov ernment August 1, 1910 for 1125.000. The offer was refused and he was forced to stand the expense and trouble of a condemnation suit and Is now deter mined that the Federal authorities must pay the amount fixed by the Jury If the property is to be obtained. Mr. McCourt contends that the valua tions fixed by the Juries, 1200.000 for the east half and IH0.0O0 for tk) west half, are in-each case 116.000 too high. He Intimates that Judge Bean will be asked soon to release the owners of the property from selling at the juries' figures unless the deal goes through. LEVY CAUSES STRIFE FACTIONAL FIGHT ENTIVEN'S SHERIDAN' SCHOOL MEETING. Putting Tax at 5 Mills May Result In Shortening of School Year, Is Assertion. SHERIDAN. Or.. June 20. (pedal.) Fractional strife, growing out of the election of two trustees and the amount to be appropriated In the school tax levy, made the annual school meeting for the City of Sheridan, held yesterday a lively affair. The Sheridan school tax of last year was 18 mills and It was asserted by the "liberal" faction that to cut the levy to 11 mills would give a fair re duction and at the same time, an ade quate tax. The "S-mlir faction, com posed principally of the heavy tax payers of the town, urged a 6-mlll tax for the coming school year. This fac tion carried the vote on the levy. This action meis that the school year may be cut short, for a provision in the motion carried provides that as soon as the funds from this tax are exhausted there shall be no further ex pendlture such aa would incur a bond ed Indebtedness. There Is considerable feeling over the result of the elctlon. many Sheridan cltlxens declaring that a state of affairs whereby the school year may be shortened on account of an Insufficient school fund, is the will of a minority only. O. D. Hamstreet and C C. Scroggin were the Trustees elected to serve for the coming year. TEN" SCHOOL DISTRICTS UNITE Cltlxens About Elmlra Combine for Rural High School. EUGENE. Or.. June 10. (Special.) At their annual meeting held yesterday. 10 school districts adjoining Elmlra voted to combine Into a rural high school district under the new state law, The vote was overwhelmingly In favor of the plan, and contracts will he let at once for a building, that achool work may be begun In the Fall. The Irving school district voted to erect during the Summer a two-story building, half of which will be used for grade work, and the other half for a high school. Several other districts will probably unite later with Irving. IIILLSBORO PLANS SEW SCHOOL Mayor lias ley Is Elected Director and Peter Boscow Clerk. HILLSBORO. Or.. June 20. (Special.) At the annual school meeting held here today H. T. Bagley was elected director to succeed A. A. Morrill, whose term expired. Peter Boscow was re elected clerk " without opposition. A resolution waa passed Instructing the directors to report at an early date on naming a site and the cost of a new school building, preliminary to an election for a bond Issue. Mr. BaKley, the new director. Is the present Mayor of HUlsboro and has been attorney for the school bond. TWO JOCKEYS ARE HURT Horse Killed In Accident on Okla homa City Track. OKLAHOMA CITY, June 20. Jockeys Robert Small and J. Denny were seri ously hurt In an accident In the first race at the Fair Grounds here today and Edna S-. the horse ridden by Small, was killed. The accident occurred on. the first turn when Witness, ridden by Denny, went down and Edna S. stumbled over him. . Both Jockeys were thrown hard. Small sustaining a concussion of the brain. Denny's collar bone was broken and he was badly bruised. Edna S. was owned by H. T. Bachlor Co, of Dallas. Leader of Blaxeflghters Said to Have Created Discontent and All Seem About to Lose Places for "Good of Service." Fire Chief Campbell, Police Captain Bailey and Police Sergeants Goltx and Wanless are said to be In line for dis missal from tne city's service when Mayor-elect Rushlight assumes the duties of office ono week from next Saturday. It is said that they will all be let out untler the general clause of the civil service "for the good of the service." Chief Campbell declared last night that he had heard no Intimation of any Such intentions on the part of Mr. Rushlight, as far as his case was con cerned, and said he could see no rea son for It. The only reason he could think of, he said, was In connection with the trials of firemen, against whom charges have been preferred which were sufficiently serious to war rant fines, suspensions or dismissal. This, he said. If not agreebate to the new administration, can easily be rem edied by shifting this responsibility from the chief and his aaslstants to the fire committee of the Executive Board. Rumor Puzzles Chief. That Chief Campbell is to be re moved. Is being discussed over all the city In the various flrehouses. and the rumor spread so thoroughly yesterday that the Chief was asked about It last night. He was unable, he said, to un derstand how It started or why his services are not acceptable to the Rushlight administration. Chief Campbell has been at the head of the department for many years. with the exception of two years when Fennoyer waa Mayor. He was let out at that time for political reasons. In the last part of the Lane administra tion, two years ago, an etrort was made by Lane and his friends to dis place the Chief, but, it failed. Chief Campbell has Incurred the en mity of a good many of his subordi nates in the past years, and there have been complaints from them that he has been unfair and that he "plays favorites." 'He recently was criticised severely by members of the Sellwood Board of Trade for finding, with his assistants, that George W. Stokes, then captain of engine company No. 20. at Sellwood, was guilty of various serious offenses. Stokes was reduced to the ranks and this decision was upheld by the Civil Service Commission. It caused a great uproar In the depart ment. Stokes quit the service. Numerous men have been fined, sua pended or dismissed on recommenda tlon of Chief Campbell and his assis tants, who have steadfastly maintained that their findings were purely for the good of the service and were In no manner brought about through bias or prejudice. Three of Police on Slate. In regard to Captain of Police Bailey, It Is said that his record during the past two years has been such as to lead the power-to-be to believe that his presence oh the force Is detri mental; that he has created endless trouble among the officers and men and that his general conduct has been such that he Is not wanted In the department under the Incoming ad ministration. He Is one of the oldest officers In the service and by many Is credited witn being one of the best Informed men there. Sergeants Goltx and Wanless. ac cording to reports, are slated for re tlrement because of their records dur ing the two years Just closing. Both have been In charge of the North End district. Goltz on the first night re- jier ana Wanless under the second night relief. FENWICK ISN0T GUILTY "P.-I." Managing Editor Cleared of Criminal Libel Charges. SEATTLE. Wash.. June 20. (Spe cial.) After listening the whole morn ing to the instructions of Judge Wil son R. Gay. In Superior Court and the argument of the lawyers, .tne Jury was CENTRAL BANK Our location, organ ization and equipment fully abreast of the re quirements of the com munity we serve. All accounts, regard less of amounts, -welcome, if in good faith. Open Saturday even ings from 6 to 8. MERCHANTS SAVINGS & TRUST COMPANY CAPITAL $150,000.00. Officers and Directors: VT. II. Fear President Willard Case Vice-President O. C. Bortzmeyer Cashier E. M. Hidden. .. .Asst. Cashier Gustavo Freiwald, Geo. N. Davis James B. Kerr. The Smartest, Most Becoming Untrimmed Hats Selling Normally From $2.25 to $3.95 Today, Special $1.39 By reason of a very advantageous purchase, we are enabled to announce a sale, in which women who participate in its economies are not likely to forget. Tagal, Hair and Milan Untrimmed Straws for Summer, in Black, Burnt, and Natural. We illustrate a few of these Hats to give you an idea of the styles. There are over a dozen selected shapes, every one reflecting the most popular model now in vogue for Midsummer wear. Pictures do not do these hats justice and for that very reason customers will be the more de lighted when they see the hats On Sale When the Store Opens. given the case of A. R. Fenwlck. man aging editor of the Post-Intelligencer, accused of criminally libeling L- H. Darwin, manager of the American and Reveille, In Bellingham. returned a verdict of not guilty. Judge Gay charged the jurors that they should consider statements that Darwin had forced Bellingham firms to advertise only so far as such state ments bore on whether Fenwlck was convinced of the truth of the article that he published about Darwin. This article was to the effect that H. line Schlitz is sold ir j ii tect its purity from the brewery to your glass. The first Schlitz was brewed iri a hut over 60 years ago. , Now our agencies dot the earth. Our output exceeds a million barrels a year. If you knew what we know about beer, you would say, "Schlitz Schlitz in Brown Bottles." ' A That Made M il J. Welty. president of the failed. Home Security Savings Bank, had obtained silence in the papers by carrying ad vertising when the- bank was financial ly weak. McXabb Murderers May Be? Caught. ROSEBURG. Or.. June 20. (Special.) Sheriff George Qulne, of Roseburg. and former Deputy Sheriff ,Tom Walker, of Coos County, are today searching for three strangers who are . ffllTD rows .V. i . . 1 ., i i a sv r ' Many Americans prefer beer in a light bottle. Most brewers of least resistance. Light starts decay even in pure beer. Dark glass gives protection against light. in brown bottles, Phones ji?5n6 ' ; Henry Fleckenstein & Co., . 204-206 Second St., ' . Portland, Ore. 1 he B eer way fxee Famous suspected of murdering Alexander JIc Nabb In his lonely cabin near Brock way on Wednesday. The suspects are said to be en route to Coos County and consequently the officers in that local ity are guarding all avenues of escape. It Is the officers' belief that the men will be run down tomorrow. Attacking the air at the center instead of at tne ends of the blade, a new aero plane propeller Invented In France la said to require leas power to obtain a given re sult than the old nty!e propfllper. follow the course to pro tlie ' mi 1 1 rn 1 n o