TIIE MORXIXO OREGONIAX. SATURDAY, JANUARY 13. 1913. IS. GRIFFIN ILL! ELOPER WHO SLEW YOOTG BRIDE OF RICH AMERICAN ARISTOCRAT WHO IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN SNUBBED BY EXCLUSIVE SOCIETY. IS Merchandise dt Tent nix- Pnmnnirin nf Mn ArroctoH ( Bank Robber Collapses. Hp WOMAN HANGED Last Three. Weeks of the Removal Sale All Goods Purchased Throughout January Will Be Billed to You March First EVERY ARTICLE REDUCED Execution Probably Last Be fore Death Penalty Is Sub mitted to Voters. EX-HUSBAND GREETS HER GUILT DENIED TO LAST Identity of Victim Established by Aid of Deiiti-t'e Chart, .Mter Husband Had Followed Clew From Kansas City. PAN FRANCISCO. Jan. IS. (Special.) Protesting that Hie was Innocent. Mark A. Wllklns was hanged at San Quentln prison at 10:J1 o'clock this morning; f"r the murder of Mrs. Vernle Carmen In 1907. Wllklns was the only one of the four convicted murderers condemned to be put to death today who was obliged to pay the penalty. State-wide pro tests against the death penalty rained reprieves for the other three and have riven rise to the belief that no more hangings will taice place In San Quen tin until the people have voted upon the question. Foes of capital punishment besought Governor Johnson to commute the sen tence of Wllklns or at least to post pone the execution, but he declined to do so. Wllklae Makes Stafemeat. Wllklns made the following; state ment on the scaffold: "I want you to say for me. as my last words on earth, that I am Inno rent, and have no fear of death. Ex press my deep gratitude to those who have been active In trying; to secure a pardon." Two priests. Fathers Callopy and Marrhtsto. of an Kafaet. came to his cell and spent the hour preceding; the execution alone with htm. A bit of metal, sharpened to a rasor edge, was found In Wllklns' prayer- book after the execution. The body of Mrs. Carmen was found beneath the stable of the house where Wllklns lived, at F.lmhurst. Alameda County. November 27. 1907. Wllklns waa arrested and quickly convicted of the crime. Ilaebaad Identifies Vlettaa. Mrs. Carmen was the daughter of Henry P. Llnderrnan, a hotel proprietor at tihetrielil. Sin. a suburb of Kansas I'ltr. She waa the wife of Louta L Carmen. a railroad engineer, from whom she had separated a year before she died. Carmen thought his wife had been killed In a railroad wreck near Spring field. Mo. where he lire. I. but when he learned that Wllklns was under arrest for the murder of a woman In Cali fornia, he decided to come there and view the woman's body. Carmen Iden tified the body as that of his wife by a dentist's chart that he brought from Kansas City. He and his wife never were divorced. LABOR SELECTS NOMINEES Central Council Prepare to Hold flection Xe Wftk. At the meeting last night of the tVntral Labor Council nomlnatlona were made tor the semi-annual elec tion to be held next week. The nomi nees for presiiloni over which t hire may be aome content are w imam juae Krnxle. an engineer In the Goodnough building, and VY. H. Fltxgerald. mem ber of the executive board. James Ma gulre. nominated for member of the executive committee. Is now a member of the City Council. The names prv enld last night were: William Mae kenxin. W. II. i-'ltxgerald. for president: J. A. Jordan. T. II. Burcherd. G. A. Holers, for vice-president: Arthur W. Lawrence, for secretary; Fred Li. ISourne, for reading ckrk: Fred Blngr enhclmer. for conductor: .Ralph Llddy, for warden: George May. A. C. Raven. II. B. McCabe. C. M. Dickenson, for trustees: James Msgtilr. C. A. Jordan, for executive committee: Ed Rosen borg. Philip Pollock. W. A. Randall, for legislative commlttw ; Arthur W. Law rence. Kverett Logan, for organlxatton committee. Miss Louise Hartman. of Muscatine, la-, representing the button workers of that city who are now out on strike, appeared before the Council appealing for help for her coworkers. The Coun i II made a contribution of lit and rec ommended the locals to make liberal donations to help feed those on strike. At the request of the Building Trades Council the Maegley-Tlrhner building was taken off the Council's unfair list. The building waa boycotted at the time of Its erection by reason of the fact that nonunion workmen were era ployed. SENATE ABOLITION URGED IsFTDOcratle Candidate Also Favors Biggest Xsij In World. SALEM. Or, Jan. 11 (Special. ) Abolition of the United States Senate Is among other things advocated by Alfred IV Crldge. of Portland, the first man to file bla declaration of intention to become a candidate for delegate to the Imocratlc National convention un der the new Presidential preference primary law. Crldge further says that he wishes to have four transcontinental railroads caned and operated by the Government as well as all Alaskan railroads. He also wish the initiative referendum and recall applied to National issues. officials and Judxea; proportional rep resentation In Congress: equal suf frage: a law to forbid the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of laws and the largest Navy In the world, but engaged In transporting pa.-sengers and freight. He als de clares that all tariffs are frauds and that there Is ample revenue in land values exclusive of Improvements and personal, ry. Harney County Woolmen Organize. RIT.N'S. Or.. Jan. 11. (Special.) The Harney County Woolgrowers Associ ation was -recently organized In the southeastern part of the county. Coun ty Judge Grant Thompson Is president. John K. Jenkins and James F. Mahon are vice-presidents and Ira J. Mahon Is secretary. Parson Given Pound Party. JOHN PAT. Or, Jan. 1. (Special.) A pound party was given the Rev. Charles viulnn and Mrs. yulnn Saturday night. Tl e parsonage larder waa well stocked and the guests enjoyed the evening in games and music. . . -. . x X -r- ... '-... X ! ' - . t i : t .) Z3r- 'r-' i ' . '- ' ." ' i '-'4 r i t. ? J ' . " . i : - " . . V-Vv; ' i : , . . -;.;-,' fe.,v t ; s,:-: -'; . ' - X X :.' '. i MRS. JOHX JACOB ASTOR. FORMERLY MISS J1ADELEIE FORCE. DANCE GALLED OFF Snubbing of Bride Said to Be Colonel Astor's Reason. FOUR HUNDRED IS ABUZZ Cancellation of Big; Affair Causes Gossip That Former Miss Force, kt Cold Shoulder From Society's Inner Circle. NEW YORK. Jan. 11. (Special.) The outskirts of that unsoclably social circle technically known as the "Four Hundred were throbbing with gossip today concerning Colonel John Jacob Astor and bis bride, who waa Miss Madeline Force. The question buxxed about the draw- ng-rooma waa. ny tiaa the colonel called off the great dinner dance at his home on January 217" And the query invariably brought one of two answera, the first of which waa that Mra. Aster waa tired out in maintaining her position as bride of one of tbe foremost leaders of society. The second answer was that charmed circles had not extended the warmest hand of grsetlng to her. The much - talked of dance waa planned by Colonel Astor to launch his bride into the social season, ana waa one of the first events which the Colo nel bad In mind for ber entertainment during the Winter. But now be has suddenly cancelled the affair, and come forth with the an nouncement that on January 26 he and Mrs. John Jacob Astor will leave on an extended trip up the Nile In his yacht. POSSE FLIES IN AIR FOCR AVIATORS SEEK FLEEIXG ROBBERS FROM ON" HIGH. One of Aerial Deputy Sheriffs Car ries Woman as Passenger. None See Highwaymen; LOS ANC.FLES. Jan. 13. Four avl store sworn In as deputy Sheriffs, one of thein carrying a woman passenger, flew Into the almost Impenetrable trans-mountain country around Cul abasas today In search of the two rob Sera who wounded a deputy Sheriff In a revolver duel at San Fernando Wednesdav morning. The aviators. Glenn Martin. Howard Gill, Philip Parmalee and Clifford Tur pln. are here to participate In the third International aviation meet, and agreed to seek out the fugitives, who escapea Into a region where officers In auto mobiles could not follow. Martin land ed at a ranch 30 miles north of here shortly after 1 o'clock, short of gaso line and reDorted by telephone that the only animated object they had seen was a starving stray dog. All four aviators landed at their hangars before 3 o'clock and the first man hunt by aeroplane In California came to naught. Parmalee and Turpln CAtne down In San Fernando Valley. 40 miles from Domlngurz Held, announred they had seen no trace of the men. and started back for Domingues. Gill, it developed, carried Florenre Stone, the actress wife of Dick Ferris, manager of the aviation meet, as a passenger. His engine broke down twice and rather than take further risks, returned to the Held after a flight of about 45 miles up the Santa Monica Canyon. LABORER'S SON CROESUS fOxntlnned lTQTn Ftrst Pare.) aa possible did the transient mlllonalre show signs of frappelng about tbe fenders. This was . when he took a taxlcab from the bote! to George M. Cohan's theater, where he was the guest of the comedian tonight. When he saw the Indicator Jump from 50 cents to $1. from 1.50 to !. be admitted that it would not take many such rides to put him back on a ban diet In a hurry. When the taxncab drew up at the theater and the register showed $3.10. McDevltt had to be supported or he would have collapsed. His heart waa pulling 115 strokes to the minute, and It wsa with difficulty that he recovered sufficiently to slip a dollar bill to the carriage man. He shied at taxlcabg after that and they had to blindfold him to get him back to the hotel. As a token of his regard he present ed Mr. Cohan with a. chunk of hard coal, bearing the actor's name. If McDevltt Is not able to scratch l..s head a considerable distance back of his hat tomorrow and If he isn't aching In every part. It Isn't the fault of acorea of strange things he ate and drank and smoked or the .ousands of persons who slapped him on the back, patted on the head and wrung both his hands until they hung l.mp and life less at his aide. When he became wealthy beyond his wildest dreams by agreeing to get off tbe Luzerne County Democratic ticket, bevause the party managers thought IS Irish candidates were too many for strong German county, he announced that he was going to have the time of his life with the 1:300 paid him to surrender his nomination and he cer tainly had It today. McDevltt is of humble origin and his political activities have been more or less of a Joke In Wllkesbarre. He once ran for Mayor, but received so few votes that the county committee paid no attention to bis entrance in the race for the County Treaaurershlp. He put himself up at the primaries and so msny people voted for him Just as Joke that he waa nominated. Negotiations for his withdrawal were conducted through the press, McDev ltt naming a higher price each day until the committee at last paid him something like $2500 to get off the ticket- WIFE-SLAYER PLEADS DR. WEBSTER PREPARES TO PAT PENALTY FOR HIS ORIMK. Admission of Guilt in Court Comes on Anniversary of Marriage to Woman He Killed. OREGON, 111- Jan. 11. Dr. Harry F. Webster, the young physician who killed his wife In a wood near Dixon, 111., last September, pleaded guilty to murder In the Ogle County oourt here today. He had withdrawn his pre vious plea of not guilty. Today was the first anniversary of his marriage to Bessie Kent Webster, whom he slew. John E. Erwln, of Webster's coun sel. In a brief declaration after the defendant was taken before Judge Far rand, announced formally that his client desired to enter a plea of guilty. Webster then made the plea of guilty In person. Judge Farrand asked Webster If the defendant understood that he was en titled to trial by Jury and If the plea was made with Webster's own free will. To each question Webster re piled "Yes." After he had entered his plea Web ster seated himself at the side of his mother, who wept quietly throughout the proceedings. State's Attorney Emerson placed sev eral witnesses on the stand to present certain features of the state's case. Dr. M. L. Griffin, who made an examina tion of Mrs. Webster's body, testified that Mrs. Webster's death was due to a knlfo wound In the neck which had severed the Jugular vein. He also de scribed an operation which he said had been performed some time before her death. TERROR PREVAILS IN BAHIA Government of Brazil Dispatches Troops to Restore Order. RIO JANEIRO. Jan. 13. The situa tion In Bahla has become serious. The federal government haa dispatched a warship to the City of Bahla. where fighting was reported. Business is at a standstill and the citizens are in ter ror. The Governor of the city today re signed and his functions have been as sumed by the President of the Court of Appeals. The Minister of Marine. 'Admiral Marques Leao, has resigned and will be succeeded by Admiral Beifort-Vlera-Vlera. Legislature Exonerates Vardaman. JACKSON". Miss.. Jan. It. Ex-Gov ernor and United states Senator-elect Vardaman was exonerated of all blame In alleged irregularities concerning handling of legislative contingent funds when the Joint Legislative committee reported today. Both Houses adopted the report. Canadian Mineral Output Grows. OTTAWA. Ont.. Jan. 12. Canadian mineral production last year totalled $lu5.000.000. an increase of 14 per cent. Gold production amounted to more than 0.000.000. sliver si7.ooo.ooo. nickel 111.000,000 and pig Iron 111.000,000. Following Sensational Halting of Gay Life Led by Charles Dean and Woman, Latter Secretly ' Flees to Mother's Home. LOS ANGELES. Jan? II. (Special.) Virtually penniless. Mrs. Mlna Griffin, who first told the police her name was Grace Reynolds, has returned to San Diego with her two young daughters, Sylvia and Goldie. aged 12 and 15 years respectively. It was the climax for her of an exciting three months' travel around the country, spending money lavishly, as the wife of Charles Dean, capitalist, who. the police say, is none other than Charles D. Howard, alias Hoffman, bank robber. So great has been the mental strain under which Mrs. Griffin labored, fol lowing the sensational arrest of Dean, that she suffered an emotional collapse, and is bedridden at the home of her mother, Mrs. Perslns Beebe, at 2320 D street, in San Diego. Mrs. Griffon left Los Angeles hur riedly and secretly Wednesday night, and was met at the railway station in San Diego by her former husband. Wil liam Griffin, from whom she secured a divorce in Tacoma two years ago. It was there two or three years prior to that that Griffin and his wife made Dean's acquaintance. Dean then be came a boarder at their home. Mrs. Griffin has refused to make a statement or to receive an Interviewer since she reached San Diego. Both her divorced husband and her mother, basing their assertions on what she had told them, said that she knew nothing of the bank robbery or secrets, and had no intimation whatever of Dean's crim inal career. Griffin said he knew Dean well, and had last seen him In San Diego in August. 1910. ' He also knew Addison, a missing member of the alleged rob bers' band, but had not seen him for two years. Griffin said he and Mrs. Griffin might beoome reconciled, but said that their consideration of the possibility began before Dean waa ar rested. ARMY RESERVE ADVOCATED General Carter Pleads for Greater Force or Fewer Possessions. WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. A statement that there were 35.000 former Japa nese soldiers in Hawaii who would sup port Japan if that country and the United States went to war created a deep Impression on the House commit tee on military affairs today, when MaJor-General William H Carter, as sistant chief of staff of the Army, made the assertion. General Carter expressed the belief of the Army general staff officers that the United States must enlarge Its mili tary force greatly or dispose of -some of the insular possessions. Under the reserve system of Japan, the former soldiers come into service at once if needed. He urged the creation of an Ameri can Army reserve. STUDENT SOLDIERS PARADE Short-Coarse . Pupils and Visitors Witness Maneuvers. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallia, Jan. 11 (Special.) The flret public parade of the Oregon Agricul tural Cadet Corps was held In the armory yesterday in order to Rive the ehort-course students and other vis itors an opportunity of seeing the reg ular students In maneuver. Lieuten ant Miller was congratulated by those present for the splendid showing which was made by the student soldiers. Arrangements are being made for the big military tournament, which prob ably will be held February 8. The try outs are being held for representatives of the different companies In individ ual contests of drilling, equipment race and relay race. PANCAKES SUIT; GIRL, TOO Ability to Cook "Stack o' Wheats" Wins Woman Husband. KENT, Conn., Jan. 12. Edward W11- mot, a well-to-do -farmer, advertised two weeks ago for a cook "who . can cook pancakes as they should be cooked." Miss Hilda Spins thought she could cook pancakes that way and a week ago Monday was engaged. She cooked pancakes three times a day. To prevent any cessation of the pan cake supply Mr. tvilmot proposed mar riage the following Friday and on Sat urday they were married. Their friends are wishing them long lite ana pan cakes." BRYAN IS ON WAY SOUTH Mr. Mack Will Not "Guess" Who Will Be Democratic Xomlnee. NEW YORK. Jan. 11. Colonel Wil liam J. Bryan prepared today to start south for a series of lectures and will make stops In Philadelphia and Wash ington. National Chairman Mack said that Mr. Bryan and other Democratic lead ers had talked Informally with him over the general political situation. "I wouldn't care to make a guess as to which candidate had the best chance of selection." said Mr. Mack. POINCARE'SHELP ASKED Fallleres Still Seeking Aid in Forma tion of New Cabinet. PARIS. Jan. 12. Late today Presi dent Fallleres sent for Senator Polncare In an effort to get him to form a new Cabinet. Polncare formerly was Min ister of Public Works and Minister of Finance. The President turned to Poincalre after Leon Bourgeois and M. Delcasse had declined the premiership. Bourgeois pleading unsatisfactory health. Certificates Can Be Foreclosed. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 12. (Special.) That certificates of delinquency as to taxes can be foreclosed any time after three years from the date of their be coming delinquent Is the gist of an opinion handed down by Assistant Attorney-General Van Winkle today. 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One-Cent Postage Bill Offered. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Representa tive La Follette, of Washington, haa introduced a bill providing for postage of 1 cent an ounce or fraction thereof on first-class mail matter.