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TJTE MORXIXO OREGOXTAX. WEDNESDAY, JAXUARY 3. 1912. MANY IDENTITIES i Store Opens at 8 A. M. Closes at 6 P. M. i- erefvandiae cf .Merit Only.. FAMOUS LITTLE COMIC OPERA STAR HOVERS BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH. Every Article Reduced BEWILDER POLICE Every Article Reduced FIXING OF MET Prisoner Has Papers Indicat ing He May Be One of Sev eral Persons. Letters Ordering Regulation of Meat Shipments and Prices Produced. A Small Advertisement But an Important One HIS MEMORY MAY BE GONE-i AUTHENTICITY NOT DENIED DOCUMENTS SHOW l"orntrp Armour Manager to Re One of (KnrrnrariiCs Mar Witnesses. Arrancement "Tcraportrj" at Bet. Is Plea. CHICAGO. Jan. Documentary evidence that the price or meat was f.xed and the business apportioned on a non-competitive basis by the pack era at their weekly meetings waa in troduced by the Government today at the trlitl of the 10 Chlcasto packers be fore L'nlted States iJistrict Judge George A. Carpenter. Hpeclal Counsel Pierce Butler, for the prosecution, read several letters received by W. I. Nile, manager of the Armour Packing Company in Kan s.n City. In June. 1SS7. In which there was given the accounts of beef to be shipped to certain Kastern markets, and there was named the price to be charged, based on a mariein of 60 cents on the uniform test cost estimate used by the packers. " nr Maaaser ta Testify. The letters. which were obtained from IV. I. Miles, former manager of the Armour Packing Company, also flatly refuted ine statement of Henry Veeiler on the witness stand that no meetings of the packers to fix prices and apportion business were held be tween April. 18S7. and January, lass, when a statistical bureau was main tained to compile records of meat shipped and prices obtained at differ ent points. Miles, who severed bis connection wtth the Armour Interests In 10J. will. It Is said, be one of the star witnesses for the Government. Letters dated June 1. 1897, read In part: "Dear Sir: This afternoon It was agreed that each party will not ship during the current week In excess of shipments agreed upon for last week. "Boston: At this point It waa agreed that each party In Interest will not ship during the current week In ex cess of bla proportion of a total ship ment of 100 cars, basing sucb propor tion on the average weekly shipments to Boston for the eight weeks ending June . 1S7. "It also was agreed that parties In Interest would endeavor to obtain for the currant week margins of $0 cents. "Pittsburg: It was agreed that each party In Interest would not ship In excess of 90 per cent of the average weekly shipment for the four weeks rnded June Zi. 1857." The letter contained, directions lim iting the total shipments of the week of June 19. 1897. to 32.:77.o:j pounds of fresh meat, of which 2.000.000 went to Boston and 712.913 to Pittsburg. Similar letters were introduced by the (Government and It was pointed out that they all were unsigned and In the form Henry Veeder testified the pack ers' letters were written. Letter Are Surprises. After Attorney Butler had ques tioned Henry Veeder. secretary of the packers, reicardlng the detalla of the combination from May. 1891. to July X. I!i)2. when the witness said the last rre:h-meat pool dissolved and he sev ered his connection with the packers, the Government sprang a surprise on the defendants by reading the letters ind offrrinK them In evidence. Veeder previously said the packers held no meetings during 'the existence f the statlaticui bureau from April 1. 1.7. to January, 189S. I'oes the reading of these letters refresh your memory In regard to an arrangement at that time covering to y shipment of beef and fixing of the margin price?" asked Attorney But ler. 'No: although 1 do not question the genuineness of those letters." the wit ness said. "They Indicate that If there was an arrangement It was of a tem porary character." Veeder was on the stand at adjourn ment. HITCHCOCK PLAN BOOSTED Second Altant Would I "ay Rail roads for What They IH. WASHINiiTON". Jan. 2. A feature of the annual report of Joseph & itw srt. IScrond Assistant Postmaster-lien-sral. made public today, la a recom mendation that the Government pay only for what It receives In the trans portation of the malls. An elaborate discussion of the pro posed plan of Postmaster-General Hitchcock to pay the railroads for ac tual service performed Is presented. This plan, it Is said, "would eliminate all distinction between payment for weight and payment for space, and would be' based on the space occupied by the malls In transit and the haul of the aame. The plan would enable the Govern ment to transport the malls at a rate of per cent above actual cost to the roads, the Interstate Commerce Com mission to have authority to resolve any differences that might arise -' tween the ratlroada and the postofflre I'epartment aa to an equitable adjust ment. ECUADOR IN "HOT WATER" .unhoat Vorklimn Sail to lawk After l'orvljrn IntrreM. V VSJU.V.ITON. Jan. I. The gunboat Yorkton. now at Panama. I.aa been crdered to rail Immediately for the K. ua.lorean Coast to look after for eign Interests there. It is believed that the. situation In K.ua-ior Is crltlt-al and that fighting will Di-cur. The steamship Peru sailed fr.-ni Psnama Iwemlwr :1 for Guay atit wtt General Kloy Aifaro, tae e-rref ier.t of Kcuailor. ILLINOIS FEELS TREMORS Might Earthquake !-ares Cltlxens of Middle Wct. CHICAGO. Jan. 2. Northern Illinois t.'U.iy experienced earth tremors which 4rinl In lntenttv from a scarcely per-reit-'tlc oeclllatton to a distinct shook w;il-h threw brti--a-hrae. and dishes from shelves and tabies Southern Wisconsin also felt the "quake." Coai I up. Edlefsen i'uel Co. I ? r 1 : " : : ' - - - . - ... ... : . - - : , - s o - - . ( : -as -v - -,v "... ' ';. ' jL-aa. a J"' " - I t L- t ij J - 1 f i J : U --- '. : : ' ..' ; " i :h- -.- .. ..'' ; ;-v , ; 4: ;l 6. ' A! 4 " i 7 ' ' yi. 1 : Li - V- ' . j -.1 J ' t . .. V ' ' - - . .- : - vv-w - : ! U r. I l Zttk'' .--TT . - i ' . ', - . " ' 1 c . y r' i Si. - i DELIA FOX. NEW TORK Jan. I. (Special.) Delia Fox will probably never act again. The famous comic opera star of 20 years ago has been hovering between life and death for days at a New York sanitarium, and It is not thought that she will recover. She was operated upon last week for appendicitis, and Is suffering from peritonitis. The appearance of Mies Fox on the stage In recent years has been fitful. It was years ago. when she waa dressed In boy's clothes and sang "A Pretty Girl, a summer Aignt- in i--o vi on noppn u.uu-.- tlon of "Wang." and when she starred in 1 no utua corporal other musical pieces that she enjoyed the heyday of euccess. Dices' son dead Lecturer Suddenly Stricken in New York Hotel. END COMES AT 67 YEARS Oldest Offspring; of Famous Novelist Named for Alfred Tennyson, Poet Children In Aus tralia Notified. NEW TORK. Jan. 2. Alfred Tenny son Dickens, oldest surviving son of Charles Dickens, the novelist, died sud denly of acute Indigestion at the Hotel Astor here late today. Mr. Dickens was In this country on a lecture tour. Mr. Dickens was a godson of the poet Tennyson. He was In his 67th rar. Mr. Dickens, who spent the greater part of his life In Australia. - going there at the age of 20, arrived In this country September 20. landing at Bos ton. He stayed there ten days be cause of a slight Indisposition, before beginning a lecture tour which opened at Lawell. Mass, October IS. His travels to fill lecture engagements took him aa far West as Denver. His last lecture waa on December 28. before the State Teachers' Association at Indian apolis. The lecturer was on his way to the theater last night when taken III. He was better this morning and was pre paring to go to Ktngston. N. T.. to fill an engagement, when he was again at tacked. He died shortly after being removed to his room from the hotel lobby. Alfred Dickens' home was In Mel bourne. Australia. No arrangements will be made for the funeral until word has been received from his chil dren there. His wife died several years ago. PERJURY LAID TO TWO ex - rums or attorxky YAXCKWICH 1XDICTKD. Workmen Alleged to Have Sworn 1'alM-ly to Detriment or Lanyer. Judge Ofeon Blamed. Indicted Saturday by the grand Jury on a rliarge of perjury, growing out of discrepancies In the character of the evidence v. hlrh he gave In Justice of the Peace Hell's court and In Judge Morrow's department of the Circuit Court In cases Involving the profes sional honor of Harry Yanrkm-ich. an attorney. John Sherban was arrested yesterday by Ieputy Sheriff Haider. He Is he'.d at the County Jail In de fault of liooo bail. Peter Petcoff. an associate of Sherban in the railway sub-rontracting business. Is yet to be arrested. He has been Indicted on a similar charge, growing out of the same transaction. Yanckn-ich blames Justice of the peace Olson, against whom he was a candidate for the office which Olson holds, at the general election In No vember, 1910, for the trouble which arose between him and the workmen. He aaya that Olson accidentally learned that he bad aettled a claim for the Roumanians and Induced them to pre fer criminal charges against him. He was arrested and discharged by Jus tice of the Peace Bell, and the work men then brought ault in Circuit Court to recover f 493 from him. A Jury found for the workmen, but Judge Morrow set the verdict aside on the ground that there had been no evidence to Jus tify It. Judge Morrow and the court reporters who reported the proceedings . ;., 2 and in both courts went before the grand Jury In Yanckwlch's behalf. A transcript of the evidence given by the workmen In the Justice court was kept and G. S. J. McAllister, ap pearing for Yanckwteh In the civil suit, used It In cross-examining them In the Circuit Court. Justice of the Peace Bell had discharged Yanckwich on the strength of evidence given by the com plaining witnesses In the Justice Court, but when they came Into the Circuit Court, after the lapse of several months, they told entirely different stories. Yanckwich waited until the. grand Jury assembled and then took the transcripts of the workmen's tes timony in the two courts before It and the Indictments for perjury resulted. "You may say for me," said Attor ney Yanckwich yesterday, "that I will be a candidate against Olson for a Re publican nomination for Justice of the Peace next April and that I will tell the story of this transaction to the voters without any frills or furbelows and al low them to be the Judges." STRIKERS SOON QUELLED Mayor Declares He Will Call for Troops if It Is Necessary. ROSEBURG. Or.. Jan. 2. (Special.) In anticipation of a clash between the strikers and strikebreakers similar to the one which occurred last night, when J. I. Call, a strikebreaker, was serious ly Injured. Sheriff Qulnn and a full staff of deputies, augmented by the local police force and members of the City Council, assembled in the railroad yard tonight in order to protect the employes as they left their work. Apparently aware of the presence of the deputies, the usual throng of strik ers was not In evidence. With the discharge of the Deputy Sheriff by the Southern Pacific on January 1, about 60 atrikers assembled near the yards last night and engaged In an alterca tion with strikers. As a result. J. L Call was knocked down and Injured. Other fistic encounters followed and finally the officers were forced to draw their cluba In quelling the mob. Spurred to action by the affair. Mayor Mlcelll today notified the strikers that they would necessarily have to abate the practice of assembling near the yards. In event of failure to act in accordance with the Mayor's ultimatum, the Governor will be asked to call out the local militia company. Mayor Mlcelll saya be is determined that future demonstrations shall be avoided, that the strikebreakers may travel the streets unmolested. In this he Is backed by the District Attorney, Sheriff and a great majority of citl sens. Following the action of Mayor Mlcelll today, the Council tonight passed resolutions condemning the procedure of the strikers In molesting the strikebreakers, and empowered the Mayor to employ as many police of ficers as necessary In maintaining or der. MAN DIES AFTER FUNERAL Daniel J. King Goes to Cemetery; Fatal Chill Attacks Him. Attending the funeral of the baby of his business partner caused the death of David J. King, aged 49 years, yes terday, a chill caught at the burial of the Infant sending him to bed after he arose yesterday morning, and re sulting In death an hour later. Baby Hurst, the Infant of Burt Hurst, with whom King was connected in the Oregon Heating Company, of 604 Railway Kxchange building, died Mon day. To attend the funeral, which was held Monday afternoon. King wrapped himself up warmly, as be had been In poor health for several weeks. At the graveside In Rlvervlew Cemetery, he complained of a chill, although it had no apparent effect Tuesday night. King arose early but about 9 o'clock returned to bed. When a maid, enter ing an hour later, found him. life was extinct. King was from Chicago and leaves a widow there. He was staying at 513 Mill street and had been five years In Portland. He waa a member of the Royal Arcanum, and the body will be taken to Chicago, where the lodge will have charge of the funeral. Buy the records for your Vlctrola from Sherman, Clay Co, Sixth at Morrison. " Coal IS up. Ediefsen Fuel Co. Man Who Kun Amuck In Hotel, Iteg lstcred as Dr. J. C. Day, Has Ef fects of Wealthy Los Angeles and Chicago Citizens. Criminal insane, a man with a lost Identity, "Dr." J. C. Day, who was taken Into custody Monday night after a stormy outbreak at a downtown ho tel, has furnished the police a mys tery to work upon. In which a bewild ering mass of conflicting data con fronts them. From the great Jumbled mass of ef fects in the possesion of the prisoner several identities and as many careers can be constructed, to support any of the classifications. Whether Dr. Day is also Frank C. Smith, a supposedly well-to-do citizen of Los Angeles, is the problem on which Detectives Hyde and Kpps were working last night. Papers In his possession indicate that he either is Smith or has come into possession of Smith's effects. Bank Books Carried. Day had a "demit" from the lodge of Royal Arch Masons In Chicago, dated ls8. and he wears the charm of that order. He also carried two bank books Issued to Smith, shares in a lead and copper company, a power of attorney Issued by Smith to Nellie K. Bell, of Fresno. Cal.. and a will leaving all the testator's property to the same woman. With these papers were 10 shares of the stock of a realty company, with a note saying that they were worth $2000 and should go to the woman In dicated in the wIlL Smith's business address was given at 502 American Bank building, Los Angeles. The de tectives believe that Day Is Smith and has forgotten his Identity or Is seek ing to conceal it. Other articles In possession of the prisoner are two wigs and beards, a purported check for $5,000 on the American Savings Bank of Seattle, drawn by John A. Miller In favor of Day. travelers' checks In the sum of $1000. issued In British Columbia to H. H. Chase, a money belt marked with the name of F. TV. Black, Soper Lum ber Company. Chicago, a bundle of papers relating to a mine located near Grants Pass, and a large quantity of morphine and cocaine. Day Saya He Is Drug I'aer. Day admits that he is addicted to the ue of morphine to the extent of 30 grains a day. He has correspondence with a sanitarium In Huston, Texas, from which It appears he has been tak ing treatment He also has many papers showing that he has been in Alaska. The prisoner has pretensions to being a literary man, and In his trunks Is a great bulk of manuscript, of apparent mediocrity. He had a copy of a letter sent an Eastern magarine, offering a series of articles to refute the attacks of Reuterdahl on the American Navy. The outbreak at the hoted occurred after a bell-boy had caught Day com ing out of a room not his own. He shut himself up in his quarters and brandished a revolver, holding the ho tel people and police at bay till he took a whim to come out. He Is an elderly man, of dingy appearance and poorly clad. He denies that he is Smith and asserts that ho found that person's effects In Victoria. Query has been sent to Los Angeles to de termine who and where Smith is. COUPLE ARE EXFELLED KCNAWAY WIFE AND SOULM ATE FORCED TO LEAVE CANADA. Move Is Kesult of Efforts of Wom an's Husband, Who Spent For tune Tracing Her. WIVNIPKG Jan. 2. The story of how J B. Snead. millionaire Texas banker.'- after tracking his wife 1000 miles and spending $23,000 in the search, overcame all obstacles in inter national diplomacy was revealed today when It was announced that his wife and her admirer. Albert O. Boyee, of Seattle, son of the cattle king of the Southwest, would be deported from Canada as undesirable persons. According to Boyce. the charge of grand larceny la trumped up to extra dite him. and he claims that it could never be proved. The Texas authorities, it is said, con tend that Boyce persuaded the woman to give him her Jewelry, valued at $20, 000, but no trace of the Jewels could be found here, and both prisoners, who were patrons of a fashionable hotel, re fuse to say what became of them. Final action In the case will be opened in Minneapolis Wednesday, when the wife will be confronted by her two children, her mother and her sister. Yesterday the husband had an Inter view with Mrs. Snead. but it Is said she declared she would not return with ""'snead said he wanted to take his wife back with him; regardless of the past. The woman claims she was Incarcerat ed in an asylum and that Snead did not give her a chance to explain. She says she wants her children, Vut her love for Boyce is so great that she Is willing to give them up for him. It is believed by the authorities that the two have engaged counsel In Min neapolis to fight extradition from Min nesota. In their cells, however, they refuse to converse about their affairs and appear to be greatly downcast over their failure to stay in Canada. Snead and Mrs. Snead later left here for Minneapolis. Boyce. the authorities here say. will be deported later. BOND HELD UNREASONABLE Judge Landis' Requirement of Dowle Executors Overruled. CHICAGO. Jan. 2. When United States District Judge Landis some months aiso refused to consider a bill of review filed by counsel for the exec utors of the will of John Alexander Dowie. founder of Zlon City, he fixed the appeal bond at $1,100,000. The United States Circuit Court of (Appeals today held that the enormous Prices on Knit Winter Underwear for Women-Child'n Prices on Blankets, Comforters and House Furnishings Prices on Table Linens, Wash Goods and Domestics Prices on House Dresses, Kimonos, Dressing Sacques Prices on All Domestic and French Undermuslins Prices on Laces, Neckwear and Embroideries Prices on Sterling Silver and Silver Plated Tableware Prices on Coats, Suits, Mackintoshes and Waists Price on Special W. B., Nemo, C. B. a la Spirite Corsets Final Final Final Final Final Final Final Final Final MARK WELL All goods purchased until January 31 will be billed to you on March 1st BfllWe solicit accounts of all worthy persons, worthy of credit. bond was "neither reasonable nor au thorized under the statute," as no stay order was Involved. Accordingly the bill of review Is reinstated. Coasting Victims Recovering. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan.' 2. Of the large number of persons injured In coasting accidents yesterday, all are re covering except Otto Forsyth, aged 25, whose Internal injuries are eertous. In addition the muscles are torn from the bones in his arms and legs. - Army Man Is Engaged. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash.. Jan. 2. (Special.) The engagement of Capt. W. M. Ooodale to Mrs. Stella B. Hartray. of Chicago, has just been an- AH Humors Are Impure matters which the skin, liv er, kidneys and other organs cannot take care of without help. Pimples, bolls, eczema and other eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired feeling, bilious turns, fits of Indiges tion, dull headaches and many other troubles are due to them. In their treatment be sure to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Thousands testify that It purifies, enriches and revitalizes the blood and builds up the whole sys tem. "I was troubled with boils. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and it entirely cured me. I have not had a boll since." Samuel Rosenliet, Cameron, O. There is no real substitute for Hood's Sarsaparilla Get It today in usual liquid form of chocolated tablets called Sareatabs. The Battle Is on Again The delight of customers because of the splendor of our holiday stock, the genuineness of our removal prices, the attentiveness, civility and courtesy of our salespeople accounts for the triumphant business of this store during the Christmas buying months. It Was Victory Won by Reliability and Truth This Very Week We Are at It Again The Last Month of Our Great Removal Sale Reinforced with final prices, urged forward by mer chandise at lower prices than ever known before, entrenched with the greatest stock of worthy mer chandise in the city and backed with our unexam pled offer of extended credit to all charge customers who are invited to purchase goods until January 31 and have them billed on their March First Bill, we inaugurate the greatest merchandising movement ever known to the shoppers of this city. It is an enlightenment to the people of Portland to see the capability of this store to conduct a sale of such immense proportions week after week with out the slightest diminution and with buying con ducted with the absence of hubbub, excitement or impatience. It is especially noticeable to everybody visiting us these days the radical difference in the standard of our merchandise compared with the shop worn odds and ends, and undesirable bargains sq wildly advertised in January Sales. Paramount to everything these days of eager buy ing is to see the satisfaction of customers, who have come to know this store since the beginning of this Great Removal Sale. TODAY nounced. Captain Goodale will go with the First Infantry to the Philippines next March, and it is understood the EVERY WEEK FOR ARTICLES ON "HOW WE WON OUR HOMES" The Portland Eealty Board invites the homeowners of Portland and vicinity to enter an essay contest for the best articles on tha general topic, "How We Won Our Home," and offers the following prizes each week: FIRST PEIZE, $25 SECOND PEIZE, $10 THIE.D PEIZE, $5 The articles should deal with actual, concrete personal experiences cf home-winning and home-building, setting forth, step by step, the progress toward the achievement, from the time of making the first payment on a lot or acreage to the realization of the ambition. It is not necessary that homes be entirely paid for. Articles will appear in The Sunday Oregonian. Photographs are desirable, but will not be considered in awarding-prizes. The right is reserved of running in The Sunday Oregonian stories not awarded prizes. The following simple directions should be observed: 1 Articles should not be more than 800 words in length. 2. The writer should be a bona fide homeowner, or a member of i homeowner's family. 3. 'VTrite on one side of paper only. 4 Sign writer's correct name and address. 6 MaU articles to City Editor of The Oregonian. 6. Prizes will be awarded Wednesday of each week. wedding will take place about Febru ary 15 at the home of Mrs. Hartrar'a brother In Pasadena, CaL