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mi, Monyryo oreg pyiAN, tttesdat, yovErBEs 7." 1911. MOTHER SEEKS KEY 10 SOU'S MEMORY Mrs. C. E. Lelberg Traces : Marvin to Hillsboro Where . He Worked in Summer. ALIENIST CALLED IN CASE Tout Man of T TmanMlltj Is Firm la ecltkm That He Bu jr Recollection of Hl Tst JAta. TtrLMBORO. Or, Vor. ..(SpeelaU M.ndeaTor to ptee. together the broken thread. In th. memory of .00, Bernard Marrtn. who la PIn: lr th. subjeot of strange ease of dual t pU.mr. C E. Ib.rg -rr1-d her. today from E .""'IT,1! I that her ion. who denle. all "ow': e"". of hi. parentage, was employed J." 1-st Pummer .. a ct!l engineer i br T. a Wilkes A Bon. to draft .a map of Washington County. Mr L"" hone, to dlscorer information which may. err. to recall h.r boy. m.mory ' '"A'cVomV.n.M by Ir. W. J. wm.sm on. an alienist of Portland. Mr 11 herc left tnnlRht for Eugene, It 1. W purpose to h.r, I WBlli-w es.mio. h-r on wltl reference to h). ' mental condition. Ph. Is positlre that her n l not shamming and express. th. belief that h. may hare met with om. accident that ha. clouded hi. mentality. Marrta Alwari Weak. Her .on-, life from boyhood. Mr, libera- ears, tend to show that Mat yln'a apparent mental lap.. U but th. itural outcome 01 an innereuwy we. -Wneo Bernard wa born," .aid Mr lelberg. "he weighed but thre. pounds, lie waa alway. a weakly child. Until a year, old he wa. unable to wain. H. wa peculiar and extremely .ensl tiva. While attending college at Ber keley hi. letter, to m. .bowed that h. wa. alway. abashed, yet b. tood high In hi. atudle "1 cannot understand his present mental attitude. "I ha. llted Hillsboro to see If I ran find anything which may recall hi. lUe before th. thread waa broken. Moi-aer-a Fsea Str.ax.r-a. -All th. way from Eugen. to my horn. b. aaked for my residence and I cannot comprehend th. lap.o under th. clrcumstancea. H. talked T.ry ra tionally and waa poeltlTe on ail sub jects except when h. cam. to hi. ma ternity, when he absolutely denied all knowledge of Ms mother. asserting that hi. nam. wa. Lewi, and that b. had r.eer .een me. "I hare alway. riven him plenty of money and when h. worked for th. 'htcago. Milwaukee Bt. Paul. In Mon tana, he was of a earing disposition and at on. time had kept 11000 of hi. raralnita. He waa penniless when he reached my home-" wnen M.rrln cam. to Hillsboro last tiTwiT,w it. w.e nennllesa and asked hherlrf Hancock to (It. him lode In e In th. JalL Hancock gar. hlra .om. money and. upon being told that Mar Tin wa. a civil engineer, secured work for him. Marrtn worked her. until isle In th. Bummer, when he suddenly disappeared. Official, searched th. rlrer banks. In th. belief that h. had committed suicide. Later develop ments, however, proved that Marvin had left th. city, owing a considerable hoard bill, and that th. effects ho left '. behind would only In .mall part pay th. obligation. Sweetheart Kefaa. Salt. H. wa. never Injured In this city, so far a. 1. known, and It 1. thought her. that If h. la demented It I. a . queer coincidence that, while h. left debts, he waa very prompt In getting ail tho money du. him. Letter, found after hla departure showed that he had been In cott .pondence wtth a young girl by th. nam of King. 14 years of age. In th. Ml.ta, and that .ha had declined to marry htm. Th. girl excused herself on account of her age and the distinc tion between th. families. Her fam ily were settler, on tho Slleta. while her mpther was a society woman In a .ease, as well as a physician. Part i f a not. was found bearing on th. girl's refussl of Marvin, on which was written by Marvin, as thourh speaking to himself: "You fool! Thts I. th. last time you will lov. and bo betrayed by a woman. Marvin Is said to hav. borrowed ISO from a man here, while his employer was absent In th. mountain, alleg ing that he had tnken in a 09 con tract for plats. He represented that h. wanted this money to pay his hotel Mil. but not a dollar of It waa applied . In that manner. After leaving Hills boro he appeared at the home of an aunt of the young girl with whom he was Infatuated and gave his name aa Lewis and denied that h. wa. Marvin, although they knew him well. It I. significant that from the Slletx h. went to I.eabcrg. In Lane County, where hi. mother resides. MARVIV REFI'SF.S TO TALK Yk-lUn or Pnal Personality Will Xot DIm-us HI. Caste. EUGENE. Or.. Nov. f . (Special.) Maintaining that he Is not the son of Mr C. E. IJeherc. a graduate of Berke ley, or a civil engineer, but Is Georg. Iwts. a worklngman. and apparently unable to recull events longer than six weeks ago. yet showing In hts speech and bearing that he 1 a man ft edu cation and refinement. Bernard Marvin, or Georg. A. Lewis, th. strange victim f dual personality, or of mistaken identity. Is a puzxilnr man. He Is suspicious of the woman who call, him her son. and asserts that hts rarent. are dead. In regard to his past he la silent. He refuses to dtc-uss his rase In any way. The only statement that he would give out tonight Is that there has un doubtedly been a mlntak. made In Iden tity, which will be cleared later. The last word received by Mr Lei. berg from her son. Bernsrd Marvin, was six weeks .so. He was a civil engineer In the emp'oy of th. Southern Ilrl'ic and was stationed at Hillsboro wb.a the letter was written. Sine, that time she has not beard a word from her son. She went to Hillsboro yesterday, la th. hope of securing some Information that wl.l aid her In clear ing up tao mrstery. Pr. W. A. KurkendalC who has ex amined the young man. says that there seems no doubt but that he Is Bernard Marvin, and the son of Mrs Lelberg. He thinks that there Is no doubt that th. case Is on. of lspsed memory or tfual personality, due. In all probability, to a blow on the head. New Plant. Projected. VEPrORD. Or, Nov. . SpeciaL Th. flrst pubtlo announcement of th. Siskiyou IHeotrta Company, which re cently took over th. Rogue Rlv.r Electri. Company, payln. U.J0.00 for th. local company, plant, was mad. today whan It waa declared that two new power plant, are to b. con structed, or., at Fall Creek, which will develop 0v horsepower, and th. sec ond on th. Klamath Rlv.r, which will develop 10.0.0 horsepower. It is th. plan of th. company to com bin. all those station, on the same system, which, with th. new Prospect plant and th. plant at Gold Ray. will ma. a combined horsepower of 17.000. Th. company also announce, that it Intend, to pot two more nnlt. In th. prospect plant for 10.000 horsepower each, which It believe, wilt furnlh all th. electric power that Southern Ore gon will need for clectrto lines, light, hsat ace! manufacturing. Th. Prospect plant will b. com pleted by th. Oik of th. year. It ha. been built In th. mountain, ft mile, eaat and north of Medford, on th. Cra ter Lake road, at a coat of 1500.000. Two hundred men hav. bMO work ing ther. .Inc. last March and 14.00 CRAXn ARVTTETEIUl! nisi COHHADR WITH MILI TARY HpSOB. Tho Lata Mariaa Naught. OREGON CITT. Or.. Nov. . (Special.) Marlon Naught, who died Saturday night, wa. given a military burial this afternoon by member, of Mead. Post No. 1. Tho pallbearers were O. A. Hard ing. J. Doremu J. J. Mallatt. W. V. Freeman. G. TV. Mldlam and f. XX. Clyde. Th. floral offer ings were beautiful. Edward Mo Farland sounded tap. Marlon Naught wa. born In Illinois, March 1. IMS. and cam. to Oregon in 1151. He settled In Polk County, later enlisting at Fort Vancouver In Company A of th. First Oregon. After th. close of th. war Mr. Naught mad. hi. home In th. Molalla country. H. dl.po.ed of thl. land and realded In Oregon City for th. past 14 years, making his headquarters at th. .tore of Oeorge Young, where h. met many friend, dally. Mr. Naught wa. married thre. different time hi. wive, having paaeed away many year. ago. H. I. survived by th. following children: Mr W. A. Kutch. of Milton. Or.; John L Naught, of Los Angele Cat; Leonard Naught, of Hat ton. Wash.: Frank F. Naught, of Blckleton, Wash. tons of machinery baa been transport ed over th. rough mountain road, by hors. and wagon. OIL ON FiRE BURNS FOUR EXIT FROM ROOM IS BLOCKED BT SHEET OF FLAME. Battle Maa Mistake Gmaolloe for Kerosene When Attempting to Stimulate Blaxe In Store. FEATTLK, Wash, Nor. . (Special.) Bernard Johnson, a smnd and gravel worker, .tempted to spur on a smould ering nr. with gasoline poured from a five-gallon can. In a tent shack oc cupied by himself and thre. fellow workmen on the L.k. Washington canal portage, shortly before noon today, and aa explosion followed. Trapped by a locked door, the four men fought through the cauldron of flames and es caped throough the burned canvas with their live but Johnson and Arch Sell er, were probably fatally burned, and Fetrr J. Taylor and Carl Blenheim also received serious burn Taylor ssy. that th. four men. all but Blenheim, employed by Contractor O. M. Kruse, have been living In th. shack for some time and that, wtth no work today, they were late arising. All were seated above the stove, the fir. having smouldered and burned low through lack of attention, when John son picked up a five-gallon can almost filled with gasoline, by mistake. Intend ing to pick up another can which wa. filled with kerosene. He began to pour th. g-aoolln. on th. burning wood. STATE FUNDSJG0 RAPIDLY Unpaid Warrants Are Met After De lay of Two Months. SALEM. Or.. Nov. . (Special.) More than $80,000 of tho state', money waa tKken up today by those who pre sented warrant, which In August and September were stamped "not paid for want of funds.- Ther. was 1220.000 worth of such warrants outstanding at th. opening of the day. th. call for thl. class going out last. Th. warrants carry C per cant Inter est. When th. warrants of thl. kind are fully psld th. general fund will b. approaching depletion. Th. ha lane, of the 1340.000 outstanding taxes for the second half will, however, meet th. low ebb. MURDER CASE IS BEGUN Mike Morran on Trial at Grants Pas. for York Killing. GRANTS PASS. Or, Nov. , (Pp.. clal.) Circuit Court opened today with Judge Calkins on the bench. The dsy waa set aside for th. trial of Mike Morgan, accused of killing John K. York July 1J. lll. York, who be friended th. defendant, waa struck over th. temple with a club, a rope w-a. tied around the Insennlble man's neck and the body was dragged to Rogue River where lor chalne were anchored around It and th. body thrown In th. river. Eight days after th. crime wa. com mitted Morgan waa arrested. He confessed to killing York, but alleged self-detens Piano, rented. 14 per month. Kohler ft Cbaae. STt Washington street. r 1: : l - i . . lj GENEROUS OREGON GETS BUT UTILE State Pours $13,332,066 Into Reclamation Fund by Sale of Public Lands. JUST SHARE IS ,0ESIRED Governor Receives Fl-nrea of Sum Contrtboted Money for ProJ ecta' Completion Deemed to Be Veceaaary. 8ALEM. Or. Not. t. (Special.) Fig ures secured by Oovemor West from the Commissioner of the General Land Office show that th. Stat, of Oregon has furnished to th. reclamation fund through the sal. of publlo land. $13. S32.066 after all expenses hav. been deducted. Including: the 6 per cent given to the respective state, from the net proceeds of the Rale of publlo lands In thoe. states. Thl. In Oregon amounted to 1701. 687, being 6 per cent of 114.033. -7S. total net proceed, after expanse, of sale Under th. law this portion of th. proceed. Is turned over to th. state, to be need for roads, school or as the Legislature may from time to tlm. 'direct. Taft Send. Data. Th. Governor secured these ft em res aa a result of hts conference with Presi dent Taft when he was in Salem several weeka ago. At the time Governor West urged that President Taft take up th. matter of the completion of irrigation project. In Oregon, declaring to the President that Oregon had been th. largest contributor to the reclamation fund through th. sale of public lands and bad received tho smallest benefit from the sale of such lands. Th. figure, showing that Oregon has contributed more than $11,000,000 to ward the reclamation fund were se cured to bear out the statement, of th. Governor along this line. Th. major portion of this money has been seoured In recent year. Governor Weat recently wrot. to th. President again calling his attention to th. promlas relative to giving attention to th. Umatilla project and th. Presi dent has answered, saying that he has th. matter under consideration and will glv. It hi. earliest possible attention. Wo cic Proceed, oa Project On th. West Umatilla project, work on which has not starter!, the estimated expense will be 13.600.000. The Uma tilla project proper Is about 82 per cent. completed. $1,333,000. approximately, having been expended on this, accord ing to figures available in th. office of th. Btat. Engineer, as shown by re ports of the reclamation service. On the Klamath project, abont S2.000.000 has been expended, about 6i per cent of th. work having been completed, barring two smaller unit Th. Governor believes that a large share of the money which has gone out of Oregon from the sale of Its publlo lands should b. turned back Into the state for th. completion of the Oregon projects, which are either under way or Xor which plans have been made, such as the West Umatilla projeot. It I. pointed out that Oregon's am bitions so fsr along the lines of Gov ernment reclamation hav. been rather cramped by the faot that these reclama tion projects are puny compared to om. that the Government has already proaecuted th. work upon to comple tion, and It 1. asserted that this stats Is entitled to the completion of those project, already nnder way at least, owing to th. vast sum of money which th. .tat. has poured Into th. reclama tion fund, through th. wholesale dis posal of its publlo land CLARK SHIPS 150 CARS Prone Ontpnt for Season Valued at Approximately $425,000. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Nor. .(Spe cial.) Prune, shipped from Clark County thl. year amount to approxi mately 160 carload Valued at $2800 a car, tho crop Is worth $426,000. Ow ing to unfavorable weather, the pack this year la about 100 cars short. Tho largest shipments from th. county were made by the J. K. Armsby Company, which has shipped consign ments to London, Liverpool, Gothen burg, Hamburg, "Deffenburg. -Stockholm. Antwerp and several other for eign cities. This company's pack will b. about 65 or 60 cars. The E. I French Company, of Ells worth, will ship about 40 to 45 car loads. 18 car. of which were sold In tho State of Washington. Mr. French has not shipped any Clark County prunes abroad this year, but has ex ported some from his plant In South ern Oregon. The A. C. Bnrdick Company has shipped quite a number of cars, and Mason-Ehrman and Lang A Co., of Portland, have bought prune. In this county and packed them In Portland. Irrigation System Enlarged. GRANTS PASS, Or., Nov. . (Spe cial.) The Chicago-Rogue River Com pany Is making preparations to enlarge th. Irrigation system around Grants Pas A member of the company ha. been East and procured machinery and equipment to run all Winter. This week a large force of men will be put on at the head work, to extend the concrete 'work beneath the river. All retaining wills will b. strengthened to reslxt any flood. Two large ditch dlg per. will arrlv. In a few day. and these will bo put on the big gravity dltoh that leads to tho lower river valley. These machlnea will b. op erated day and night. Stayton Land. Sold. WE.-JT STATTOX. Or, Nov. 8. f Spe cial ) J- H. Hartog was here Satur day to select 20 tracts of fiv. acres each, .old to Portland men. These tract, will be et out this Fall to ap ple, and pear Several tracts near her. were recently .old by th. same firm to Irrtgatlonlet. from th. Spokane Vallev. who will .at ths land to apples this Winter. The soil around here is especially adapted to fruit and this new enterprise will change the entire complexion of this locality, which has hitherto been a grain and hay country. Vancouver Meets Goldendale. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 8. Spe cial.) The first debate to be held by the Vancouver High School will be at Goldendale. December L when the three debaters of the local school. Lester Wood. Masdalln. HJertaas and Lloyd Hathaway, will meet the Goldendale team. The question to be donated Is. "Resolved. That the conservation of our natural resources should be a func tion of the state, rather than of th. National Government. Vanoouver has th. affirmative aide. Our Store Will Be . Will Open Wednesday iviornm: SET Store Closed Rivals Clash in Contest for State Hospital Contracts. PROPOSALS THROWN OUT West Coast Engtaeertag Company FUes Complaint That System of SntnnltttaK Bids I Ontcomo of "Frame-Up" EALEY, Or, Nov. . (Special ) Pro test by th. West Coast Engrlneermg; Company of Portland that tho Pacific Fire Extinguisher Company, th. low est bidder on th. wiring tor the East ern Oreg-on Branch Insane Hospital, had failed to llv. np to the require ment, of th. law and had not submit ted its bid In proper form, resulted m all of th. bids being thrown out and at the same time brought forth -Jeclara-tions that a war Is being carried on between contracting firm. In .n the allegation that th. form of bid tutL bKya 'th. P-lflo Fir. Extin guisher Company was eTe)Zr and a blind to dupe th. members of the State Asylum Board. These allegations were tnado by rep resentative, of th. West Coast Engi neering Company. Tho Pacific Fir. Extln&l.b.r Company. J1S.O0O for th. wiring and the West Coast Company was second lowest bla de" Its bid being $17,000. however. Bid. Generally tJalform. Two other bid. were practically tho same a. the bid by the West Coass Company. The Hassalo Engineering Company", bid. however, was far In ex cess of 'ths bids .ubmltted by th. other """O. Littler and Attorney Daniel of Portland were th. protestants who .aid that th. bid of tho Paclflo Company was not in form and th. protest wa. ac knowledged bv the board. Representa tives of the West Coast Company de .tred to have the lowest bid thrown out and tho contract awarded to their oom pany on he ground that th. lowest bid could not b. received and accepted as being out of the form required by th. board mA consequently invalid. Governor West declared that such coold not be done, as he did not Intend to see the state deprived Of the extra $4000 because th. lowest bidder omitted having Us bid In proper form. The boara took the aam. attitude and decid ed to advertls. for bid. to be opened In five days. Trick Is Alles-ed. In the course of th. argument Mr. Littler declared that the Hassalo En gineering Company and the Faclflc Fir. Extinguisher Company have been th. center of a bitter contracting war In Portland and that the Paclflo Company Intended to put the other conoern out of bus!nesa He alleged that the bidding without tho required form used was a trick on the part of th. Pacific Com pany with a plan in view that the Has salo Company would bid so low that It would receive the contract and los. money on It- On top of that be said th. oth.r com pany would come back and rest on the discrepancies In the form of Its bid to obviate th. necessity of entering Into a contract. . He declared that th. same tnok naa woraea n rwrwi CHARGED TT We axe going to retire from the EETAIL Cloak and Suit business in order that we may take care of our present wholesale trade and engage more extensively in the WHOLESALE MAJSTJEACTTIRE of Ladies' Garments. All our Ready-to-Wear Garments must be closed out. All our Cloths and Woolens will be sold by the yard or made up for your special order at sacrifice prices. Fixtures and lease of present retail store for sale or rent West Park and Morrison Streets. WE WANT A LOCATION for our wholesale factory business where we can have plenty of room at a low-interest rental. Parties having corners not less than one lot or more than a quarter block will be considered, witn a view of purchase or long-time lease. This retiring sale will begin tomorrow (Wednesday) morning and continue until all stock and fixtures and location are disposed of. . - . Full particulars in this' evening's and Wednesdays papers. ACHES0N CLOAK & SUIT CO. West Park and Morrison, Today (Tuesday), Opens Wednesday Morning Search fop Gold Rewarded. COTTAGE GROVE, Or, Nov. 6. (Special.) Dr. Oglesby. of this city, has satisfied a desire he has nursed for years to revisit a mining district in California and find a mine which his later experience had told him h. had nearly run onto when prospecting In that country In his youth, and he has written to his daughter here that he ha. Indeed found a rich gold-bearing plec. of property Just as ho expeoted. Tlmbennen Ask Lower Tax. MAE SH FIELD, Or, Nov. 8. (Spe cial.) The Board of Equalleation of Coos County has heard a number of pe titions of timber owners who asked that the assessment of the timber lands In the county be lower. Some changes were made In Individual cases but the Eight now Just when you need 'em a sale on Raincoats, Overcoats and Suits J 4- t They're the usual $20 kind and are now on display In our large cen ter show window. See them today. Over stocked, account late season, gives you this splendid saving oppor tunity. Take advantage. . LION CLOTHING CO. Gus Kuhn, Prop. 166-170 THIRD ST. Closed Today and n v rr TT general netltlon for a lowering of the assessment was turned down by the board. It was held by tho timDer own ers that the assessment of timber land was not equitable as compared to the assessment of agricultural lands In th. county. Th. board decided to place the assessment of logged-off lands at $2 an acre and It Is likely that this will be mad. the standard valuation of such lands in the future. The county now has cruisers at work cruising all of the timber lands and it Is likely that there will be no change In the general assessment until th. cruiser, have com pleted their work. Alleged Check "Raiser" Jailed. VANCOUVER, Wash, Nov. 8. (Spe cial.) William L. Baton, 2( years old. who Is alleged to hav. "raised" a check from $5 to $50 and had George McKee Will Make Copper Shine Like Gold Copper pots, kettles and other metal kitchen utensils can be kept brilliantly bright easily with the use of a little of this wonderful liquid metal polish. Requires no hard robbing. Sold by grocers, druggists and hardware dealers. Look for the name and portrait of E. W. Bennett on each can. E.W. Bennett S Co. Mawnfai lllWS San Itanclsco P k 4 WWJl 1 cash It for him, has been arrested and Is being kept in the City Jail. 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