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THE MORNING 1 OREGOXIA N. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911. i CARPENTER-CLERIC AWAITING ASTOR COjmCTED VIRGINIA SLAYER, HIS VICTIM AND COURTHOUSE WHERE TRIAL WAS HELD. RUNS AT INDIAN Store Opens at 9 A. M. L Merchandise, of Veril Only-. Saturday Outfitting Day n n G- iiiiajs.aasawuaff j SIGHT OF WOMAN 7O-Year-0ld Preacher, Re tired, Will Marry Anyone Who Has License. HE'S READY TO TIE, KNOT Parson Who Has Laid Aside Cloth to Take Cp Hammer Believes He Will Officiate When Colonel Takes Young Bride. WEDDI0 TODAY. 19 REPORT. NEWPORT. R. I.. Sept. 8. It wu declared here tonight on quoted au thority, that the marrlag-e ceremony would be performed at Beechwood. the Astor home, tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Within a few hour there after, the report laid. Colonel Aator and his wife would sail on the Noma for a honeymoon in Southern waters, later going; to Europe and not re turning before next tipring. PROVIDENCE. R. . L, Sept. . Al though he declared he had not been definitely engaged to officiate, Edwin P. Straight, a carpenter and Joiner, of "West Providence, who Is a venerable retired preacher of the Baptist denom ination, tonight said that he believed he would perform the ceremony unit ing in marriage Colonel Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine Force, of New York. Mr. Straight, discussing the subject on his return home from his day's work t the carpenter's bench, said he was called on last Tuesday by Richard B. Comstoek. of Providence, a lawyer who has sounded several preachers In Rhode Island as to their willingness to offi ciate at Colonel Astor's wedding. Mr. Straight told Mr. Comstoek, as he informed reporters today, that ne would marry "anybody with a license," and that he had no objection to- per forming a marriage In a case where one of the parties had been divorced. Straight is 70 years old. Thirty years ago he was pastor of a small Baptist church in Warren and at times since then he has supplied various country pulpits. Recently he has de voted himself almost wholly to carpen tering, though he has occasionally of ficiated at a marriage or a funeral. It was his custom, Mr. Straight said, never to set any price on his services for perfcrming a marriage. Re thought that Rev. F. Lewis Brooks, of Little Compton, and Rev. Edward A. John son, of Newport, who are said to have turned down offers of $1000 to perform the ceremony, were foolish. Despite many reports to the con trary, it was learned definitely tonight that neither Colonel Astor nor anybody acting for him has taken out a mar riage license in Newport. !-liillItlII I JM r-T CilA 4&imt4 1 L i -"' 1111 Tl Survivor of Interesting Race Studied by Professors of Anthropology. . FEAR HARD TO CONQUER ABOVE, HEVRT CLAT BEATTIE, JR- AND THE LATE MRS .BEATTIK V'- LOW, CHKKTBHKIELD COURTHOUSE, BEATTIE IS GUILTY 12 Jurymen Shout Verdict at Calm Virginian. ELECTRIC CHAIR AWAITS MARRIAGE OX YACHT DENIED Colortel Says Ceremony Will Not Take Place Immediately. NEW TOP.K, Sept. 8. Colonel John Jacob Astor, accompanied by his fiancee. Miss Madeleine Force, and her father. -William H. Force, sailed from here late this afternoon on Colonel Astor's yacht. Noma, for what was an nounced as another week-end cruise on Long Island Sound. Statements made by Astor Just be fore, he embarked indicated that his marriage would not take place within three or four days, at least. The Colonel categorically denied a report that the marriage had already been performed secretly in Connecticut. "How silly!" exclaimed Miss Force, in confirmation of his denial. The present expedition, he said, was merely a fishing trip and the party would return to New York on Monday. There would be no marriage on the yacht, the Colonel said. WANDERING WOMAN TAKEN "I Guess My Mind Is Xot Very Clear," She Says When Arrested. Modest, winsome and well dressed, yet with a vacant expression, a young woman giving the name Ada Winter burn haa been picked up twice In two daya by policemen at the North Bank depot, wandering aimlessly and "going nowhere." as she says, and Is now held in the women's ward at the City Jail, awaiting Investigation. Sitting In the waiting-room so long that she attracted the notice of the po licemen, the woman was taken in cus tody Thursday and was turned over to the women's department. After a night at the T. W. C A. Bhe was released and again took her station at the railroad depot, where she answered all ques tions In a vague manner. Patrolman Hennessy took her in charge and to hold her placed a charge of vagrancy against her. "I am from White Salmon. Wash and I guess my mind Is not very clear. she said. "The woman I worked for said I was crazy." Inquiries are being made to find, the woman's friends. WHITE SALMON, Wash., Sept. 8. (Special.) Miss Winterburn came here three months ago from Missouri and worked as a housemaid for several people about town. So far as known, she had no trouble here, but those for whom she worked assert that she "was hard to get along with." Earnest Farmers Pray, Then De clare Prisoner Slew His Wife and Should Pay Penalty Xew Trial Will Be Asked For. (Continued From First Page.) VETERINARY HELD SLAYER Michigan Man Is Charged Murdering His Wife. With JACKSON, Mich.. Sept. 8. Dr. Joseph F. Sudman. a veterinary surgeon, whose wife was found dead In bed yesterday, was arrested today on a charge of mur der. An autopsy Is alleged to have re vealed cyanide of potassium In the stomach of the woman, and a bottle of the same poison, it is said, was found on the person of the doctor when arrested. Brownsville Farmers Worried. BRONW8VILLB. Or Sept. 8. (Spe cial.) This section of Oregon has been soaked by a steady downpour of rain that began falling since early Sunday night, and farmers and hopgrowers are worried. Many of the farmers have not yet threshed their grain and hay la stacked in the fields awaiting baling. Hop-picking was scheduled to begin in the yards around Brownsville Thurs day, but 'the rain interfered. dreary shadow on his upturned ohin as he faced the JurV. . His eyelids sagged, but did not blink. In steady gae. be held his eyes on the faces of the 12 men who had pronounced his punishment. When the court asked if the prisoner had anything to say,, he answered: "I have nothing to say." He then sat down. The perfunctory motions for a new trial were made by counsel for the de fense. The usual granting of permis sion to argue the point was denied, as Judge Watson declared that all trial rulings of the court had been on com paratively unimportant details and could not have influenced the verdict. Stay of Execution Granted. A stay of execution was granted, however, to give counsel an opportunity to apply for a writ of error when the Court of Appeals meets in November. Judge Watson delivered an impres sive speech to the prisoner. He told how the young man had stained his own life and that of the community In which he lived by his sordid acts. "Too have had a fair and impartial trial, Mr. Beattle," said Judge Watson, "and the (jury has done what it con siders Its duty. Therefore, you have been convicted of murder in the first degree, and November 24, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, you must forfeit your life to the community. May God have mercy on your soul." A moment later, accompanied by his father, and his brother, Douglas, their heads bowed in grief, young Beattle walked In the darkness of his cell. Few See Beat ties Weep. 1 The crowd lingered at the Jail and peered into the cell, illuminated by a single lamp. On the bed, with his head in his hands, sat Beattie, his father and brother beside him. Jailer Cogwlll sent the curious awav. Only a few prisoners saw Beattle break down and weep in the solitude of his cell. An hour later the hamlet was oesertea. A few. hundred yards from the laJL in a hotel, 12 men gathered up their Detongings in silence ana one by one they dxove away Into the darkness to their simple homes. The Jurors did not hesitate to admit to tneir inenas tnat tney stood in Indr. ment not only over the cold-blooded murder, but on Beattle's matrimonial innaeiity as wen. They had left the courtroom to find tneir veraict witn the words of L n Wendenbu'rg. who voluntarily assisted the commonwealth In the case, ringing id lueir ears. Denunciation la Scathing. "Let that man go freer" he . cried. "What, let that man go free? Why, the motherhood of Virginia, the wo manhood of this Nation will shudder in terror as the security of its life is threatened. Let this man go free? The man who basked in the degraded sun shine of another woman while at his home a young wife nursed his child? Gentlemen, I merely ask you In' the name of Justice to do your duty." In. vivid detail, the prosecutor pic tured the wife as she started on her Journey Into the cool air of a Summer night. To the Jury was portrayed the automobile In which she rode beside her husband, how Beattie stepped into the darkness of the thicket, found the shotgun, which he had earlier con cealed, and deliberately slew his wife. Desperate Rld4 Pictured. The desperate ride home with a bleeding and lifeless body crushed into the small space In the ront part of the machine and the husband coldly sitting against the blood-covered head of his wife, were graphically detailed to the Jury. The lawyer held aloft the bloodstained clothing -of the prisoner, "as the mute evidence of the crime," and asked: "Do you want any other evidence?" The proseoutor shouted shame at the prisoner for his relations with a girl of the age of IS years, continued after his marriage and held her forth aa the motive for the crime. ' "And the prisoner admits that It was his passion." sard Mr. Wendenburg. "Tea. it was passion, but passion born of the devil and passion that sent to death his wife so that he might con tinue his vicious pleasure. BrXFORD GIRI IS TJXPOPCXAR Sew York Women Incensed at Her Intention to Go on Stage. NEW YORK, Sept. 8. It the pro tests that are going up from promi nent clubwomen, actresses and other women well known In this city are to be taken as a criterion, Beulah Bin- ford will not be heartily welcomed to the metropolitan stage. When the news reached here that the young girl who has become notorious through her connection with tne Beat- tie murder had started north to. go on the stage," many of the leaders of women In this city protested that such an exposition of Miss Binford would be an Insult to all womankind." Beulah Binford reached this city last night "I know that everybody will think I am Just piling It on thick in going to New York right now," she said, "but the reason I am doing so Is to Just get a chance to stand alone and to try to be good. I don't suppose I will get any sympathy, and that will make it harder; but It's true. Just the same." SELF - DEFENSE IS PLEA MAN SHOOTS FATHER-IX-IAW IX SALOON BRAWL. . Enmity Since) Marriage of Daughter Believed to Have Been Cause of Trouble in Family. OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept. 8. (Special.) Asserting that he acted in self-defense, Charles Edwards, 23 years old, shot and perhaps fatally wounded the father of his 17 -year-old wife at Bu coda today, following a row In a sa loon, according to the story told by Edwards. His father-in-law, Charles Sells, has never liked him since he married Sell's daughter two years ago, when she was but 15. He says that he recently ob tained employment la Eastern Wash ington and asked his wife to Join him but she telegraphed back: "I am not coming." He says he then went to their home at Tono, in Southern Thurs ton County, and last night went to the Sells home. He was with his wife and shortly before midnight the father returned home and made him get up and dress and leave the house. He declares that this morning he found Bells and Mrs. Edwards had gone to Buceda, so he went after them. Meeting his wife, he bid her farewell, then purchased a ticket for Centralia and was having a drink when Sells as saulted him. He says he ran to the street, but the old man caught him. After firing three times to scare him, but without success, he turned the gun on the . father-in-law and shot him twice, both bullets passing through the body, one Just below tne neart. isa wards Is in Jail here. Sells is not ex pected to live. Mention of Dead Held Sacrilege, ' Which Hampers Investigators In Inquiries Into Past of Disappearing Tribe. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 8. fSpecial.) Ishi, the Southern Yahi Indian and regarded as perhaps the sole survivor of his tribe, got ready to run today when a woman appeared In sight on the grounds of the Affiliated Colleges, where Ishl is being studied for his value to anthropology, Ishl is being treated with much con sideration, for an Indian. When the first woman curiosity seeker hove in sight he crouched and made ready as if to run. When reassured by the teachers, in whom he has confidence, he decided to stand his ground. The bright colors of the women's bonnets now seem pleasing to him. Ishi is the only known survivor of the last savage race of California Indians, the anthropologists at the Affiliated Colleges are allowing their prize speci men to become acquanited with the ways of civilization gradually. While Professor T. T. Waterman is con vinced that Ishi, the name by which the Indian is now called, is the last of his race. Professor A. L. Kroeber is of the opinion that possibly a few memoirs of that tribe are still hiding in the woods in Tehama County. Distrust Hampers Savants. Ishi's racial distrust of the white man and his tribal beliefs keen him from disclosing any of the facts con nected with either the deaths of mem- mers of his tribe or the whereabouts of any of his tribesmen who may be still living. To speak of the dead is sac rilege to htm. To discuss the remain ing members of his tribe, if some there be, he seems afraid. The anthropolo gists believe Ishi is afraid to tell where his people are, if they are living, fear ing that the white men will seek them out and do them harm. Therefore, the professors who have him in charge are seeking to tame the uncontaminated aborigine, win his confidence by kindness and teach him first that the only object of the white men is to help him. If that idea can be Inculcated Into his primitive mind, then they believe he will voluntarily give the Information so much desired. Sam Batwee, the Northern Yana In dlan from Redding, who is the compan ion of Ishl at the Affiliated Colleges, is fast becoming the friend of the Deer Creek man. . Batwee ' is the only one who can carry on a conversation with Ishi, and he can understand but little of what the Yahl Indian says. Batwee, however, is leartng the language more quickly than the anthropologists, for he is gradually learning the difference between his tongue and that of Ishl, similar In many respects, yet a differ ent language. New Dictionary Soon Due. Professor Waterman is watching the Indian closely. Jotting down , every word ha hears Ishl utter, and then, through Batwee, attempting to get its meaning. Familiar objects about the college such as articles of food, metals, animals and articles in the museum are pointed out to the Indian, and he names them in his own language. Each name is recorded, for in time the professors will Issue a book containing the lang uage of the Southern Yahl Indians. The age of Ishi is a question that has not been definitely settled. The college anthropologists believe he is about 50 or 65 years of age. Sam Batwee, the Indian interpreter, himself 70 years of age, says Ishi Is about 60 years old. The Deer Creek man looks to be about 35 or 40 years old. He Is fast learning how to eat. He has mastered the spoon as applied to the eating of fruit sauces, but he still eats meat and other foods with his fingers. For thin soup he uses three fingers and for thick soup two. ON YOUR EYES It is wisdom to consult a spe cialist of experience and stand ing. It will save yonr eyes and pre vent you making a' bad bar gain. ' From my 20 years' experience as an expert in eye examina tions, eyesight testing, and the fitting of correct glasses, I am in a position to advise as to tha very best course to take. Tou can consult me with con fidence. I absolutely refuse to supply glasses in any casa that does not need them. Thompson Eyesight Specialist, Second Floor Corbett Building, Fifth and Morrison. ' the associates of Constabile to frighten others out of testifying against him. HARNEY COUNTY TAX BIG Roll of Assessable Property Jumps Over $6,000,000 Mark. BURNS. Or., Sept. 8. (Special.) County Assessor Donegan has complet ed the compilation of the Harney Coun ty tax roll for 1911, except a portion cf the non-resident grantees of the Southern Oregon Land Company. The summary of valuations is as follows: S7H.747 acres tillable land 18.361. 9S0 600.916 acres non-tillable land.... 1.101.8S5 lmDroveinents on deeded land 293.675 Value of town lots 75,400 Improvements on town lots zii.i'uo Improvements on undeeded lands. . SU.H00 Steamboats. stationary engines. eta. 32.050 Merchandise 151,480 Farm machinery, etc 73.B.;0 Money 14.400 Notes and accounts 39.750 Shares of stock 64.8o5 Household furniture, etc. ........ . D6.8SO 7S09 horses and mules 173,880 88.994 cattle fiS5.410 FLOODS RAVAGE GRAVES FLOATIXG COFFTYS SHOW EX TEXT OP DAMAGE DONE. Chinese Missionaries Still Hemmed In Pestilence Follows Reced ing of Waters. PEKIN, Sept 8. Only meager re ports have reached the capital from the walled towns about the Yangtse Val ley, where the floods have hemmed in the missionaries and other foreigners. The report received by the American mission at Wuhu, estimating that 100, 000 persons had been drowned, has not yet been verified, but every account confirms the great extent of the dis aster. Travelers arriving by steam boat at Hankow from the upper reaches of the river report that many coffins of a huge Chinese type, were encountered floating In the Yangtse. which indicates that the waters are robbing the graves of former years. From Chang Teh, In the Province of Hunan, comes word that the receding waters are being followed by pesti lence. The International Relief Society, which will convene at Shanghai Sep tember 15, will consider the question of extending its relief measures be yond the provinoes of Ngan-Hwei and Klang Su. THOUSANDS MADE DESTITUTE Cereal Crops Other Than Rice Suf fer From High Water. HANKOW, China, Sept. 8. The floods resulting from the Yangtse River's overflowing Its banks, which trans formed hnudreds of miles of the Yang tse Valley into an enormous lake and caused great loss of life, are gradu ally subsiding. In addition to the heavy death list, many thousands of the natives have been made homeless and destitute. The rice crop in the Provinces of Hupeh and Hunan probably will be an average one, but other cereals have suffered heavily. The rice crop in Ngan-Hwei, another province watered by the Yangtse Klver, is of an exceptionally poor quality. Lincoln Club Sued for $10,000. LINCOLN. Neb., Sept. 8.-r-The Lincoln Western League club has been sued for J10.000 damages by Ralph A. Han son, who was injured by an employe of the club In a riot following a de cision by Umpire McKee August 12. Kcene Continues to Improve. LONDON, Sept. 8 James R. Keene passed a good night, and today is markedly better. 147,450 sheep 7S3 swina Total 442,850 Z.Z13 ..1 6.823.633 FLOUR EXPORT IS BEST (Continued from First Page.) of flour that Portland is shipping to the Orient this Fall, heavy shipments are also being made from Seattle and Tacoma. It is probable that combined shipments from all North Paciflo ports during the entire Winter will assume record proportions. Japan, this year, has harvested a wheat orop estimated to be 10 to 15 per cent less tnan last year, out a greater shortage exists In China. The crops of the Shanghai district and Manchuria are reported to be only one half of the usual size. To make up the deficiency the buyers have had to come to the Pacific Coast. Unfavorable weather conditions in the Spring and Summer are responsible chiefly for the poor Chinese crops, but tho trouble has been aggravated by the floods that have recently occurred in the Yangtse Valley and in the Shang hai country. These floods have de stroyed much standing grain. W. P. WARNER PROMOTED Butte Man to Represent Milwaukee Road in Portland. BUTTE, Mont, Sept 8. Announce- mnt is made at the local offices of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway of the promotion of W. P. Warner, of this city, district freight and passenger agent, to be general freight and passenger agent of that line at Portland. Mr. Warner will be succeeded by A. Z. Hlllman, of Tacoma, traveling freight and passenger agent. BOMB OUTRAGE REPEATED Bilverton Postofflce Sloves. OREOONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Sept. 4 The postofflce at Silverton. Or., will move into new quarters October 1. The office is sit uated on Main street, between Water and First. This property has been leased for five years from Coolldge St MoClaine. Ringleaders's Associates Thought to : Plan Intimidation. NEW YORK, Sept 8. The Black Hand situation In New York was com plicated by the explosion of another bomb just as the police had begun to congratulate themselves that In the ar rest of Guiseppe Constabile they had found the ringleader of the crimes that have startled the city on an average of once every two days for the past month. The bomb was exploded today in front of the office of a prominent firm of bankers and steamship agents. It is regarded as a move on tha part of Ruined rmif of This Year's Cuban Tobacco Crops but this doesn't mean that you're (Tijlnft to be deprived of a good c-ijrar for Van Dyck cjuulity will always remain the same. In our Cuban warehouses are stored bales upon bales of the kind of Havana tobacco that Royalty smokes. And to this re have added the pick of Cuba's scant, but choice, late crops. Onr corps of expert Cuban cigar ' makers, at Tampa. Flu., will main tain the famous Van PyckstHndurd of workmnnshtp. Thi despite in- . creased cost of manufacture, and without the addition of one penny . to the Vao Dyck price. As always, this fa moos brand will rantinue to vm- finable value Pr your cigar money born ue by maki-ng oqr Siptrs in Tampa, we save 100 per cent uty . This caving Is yours in Van Dyck "Quality" Cigars la 27 Different Shsp One lor Every Tt 3-for-25c to ist uco AT YOUR DEALER'S M. K. GUHSr a CO. "Tss Hesss l StssUs" . Distrisstsra On . and Hosiery Underwear Sweaters Kerchiefs Gloves Hair Ribbons SOFT FELT HATS in blue, cardinal, brown and green of fine pliable felts that can be knocked in any jaunty shape your fancy likes. Very simple and girlish and just the hat for every day school wear, "artistically draped around the crown with a plaid or striped scarf of brightly colored silk. Modestly priced at $2.50. SAILOR SUITS of all wool serge in navy, cardinal and brown. Made in the regulation middy style with sailor collars and plaited skirts. For girls from 6 to 14 years. Special price JMr.DS. GIRLS' SCHOOL COATS in every practical style, made in the latest models. English slip-on styles of cravenette cloth Scotch mixtures and tweeds, polo cloths and serges. All marked at temptingly attractive prices. $4.50 to $12-50 CHILDREN'S RIBBED UNDERWEAR of fine quality in Fall and Winter weights. Priced from 50 up to $1.00. All sizes. SWEATERS are being shown in styles that are entirely new in both weave and color combinations. Knit with a close ribbed stitch. Made with heavy storm collars and close-fitting cuffs. All colors. Prices from $1.45 up to $3.50. HATS FOR LITTLE TOTS in the Hood shape, Al pine shape and poke style. Made of velvets and satins with trimmings of dainty colored shirred ribbons and rosettes. Also hats of felt trimmed with a jaunty little bow. $2.00 up. KIDDIES' COATS just like mother's. The polo style of heavy mixtures, belted and with large side pockets and storm collars. Coats of serge, broadcloth and velvets in attractive box styles, fastening with large pearl buttons. $6.00 to $12.50. Butterick Patterns for Autumn MORE EXCURSIONS 'if -n i-n nil faetorn rloct.ino. tions, September 15 and 25, October 2, 6, 17, 18 and 19. JC? Call or write for particulars I NORTH COAST LIMITED The only Exclusively First-Class Train East. Three Other High-Class Trains. To St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kan sas City, St. Louis. Round Trip T.nw Fares ly-T - V.u JL Tkrouihtke eSs Land of Tortus BJ lflCOCUCBiKair A. D. CHARLTON, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent 2SS Morrison Street, Corner Third, Portland ailway Vol. 1 Saturday, Sept. 9 NOTE Wo will rive under this column, from time to time, hints on the nrenaration and use of meat food products that may be used for the betterment of and economy in your cooking. Union Meat Co. Regarding the Cheaper Cuts of Beef Much better than -we could tell here and more in detail, is an article in the September issue of the Ladies' Home Journal on page 84 on the use of the cheaper cuts of beef, showing how they may be prepared into savory, appetizing dishes at a saving of one-third to one-half the cost of standing rib roasts, sirloin or porter house steaks. The suggestions are very practical and every housewife can profit by following the recipes given therein for the preparation of Steaks Stanley, Boiled Beef, Cottage Supper GOOD HOUSEKEEPING NEWS No. 2 Beef, Mock Steve, Beef Roll, etc. There is one very vital point that they do not mention regarding the se lection of meat and that is in regard to making sure that you secure, for your own protection, only Government Inspected Meat. It is an easy matter, as all Government Inspected Meats bear the stamp of the inspectora a little round, blue stamp on the skin with the words "U. S. Government Inspected and Passed." This is Uncle Sam's protective mark. Tou will find this mark on every pound of meat leaving our plant and also in the cen ter of the circle, our plant number "138." Look for this always when buying fresh meat as local butchers and slaughter bouses who kill and sell meat direct to the consumer are not under Government inspection and could Mil and sell diseased meat. Union Meat Co.