ttte mohxtsg oiieconian, tiuhisdat, February 15. I9ig.
ASSESSORS' VI
LED BY UMATILLA
Strain's Protest Believed
Started by Persona! Oppo
' sition to Galloway.
PROPOSED MEASURES HIT
PUn of Exemption Is Main Groond
of Controversy Which Aria In
Meeting of Oregon Tam-Flxera
at Salem West Talks.
RALF.M. Or, Feb. 1- Special.)
Wlta aearty the entlra quota of assea
ion of tho stale prent. a mall con
tut developed at their meetlar today
over the measures proposed for tho
peopla by tha legislative ta commis
sion when tha assessors mot at tha
Slate Capital.
C P. Strain, of Umatilla, waa the
leader ia the protest, and to all In
tent and purpo imit. to bo tho
only ono proteailn:. It Is whispered
that Strain's attitude U taken In per
sonal opposition to Stat Ta Commis
sioner lialloway. who favors tho pro
posed measures. Tho plan of exemp
tloa Is tho mala ground of the con
troTersr. KtreJa protesting acalnst tha
tipulatlons of tho bill for exemption
of household furniture. He. seemingly,
from bis talks on tho floor. Is not op
posed la general to tho household ex
emption, but to tho spectnc provisions
of tha proposed bill
In addition h takes exception to the
fact that tho committee met and closed
lts work before tho meetlnr of tha as
sessors. He believes that tha commit
tee should neve waited a day or two
and thus havo tho Ideas of tho assessors
as additional data upon which to work.
Mere laser lluti Row.
Tha controversy followed a movement
to Indorse the legislative committees
recommendations for consideration of
tho people.
It may bo safely predicted, however.
If today's sentiment among- the asses
sor's Is any criterion, that tomorrow
the assessors will Indorse In toto tha
proposed measures of tho committee
end guarantee to work tor ins cms.
Strain champions a $500 exemption
for personal property.
Otto Peltr. of Sherman, was mads
tho permanent ehairtnaa of the As
sessors' Association, and J. J. Pone
can, of Harney, tho permanent secre
tary. Governor West. In a short talk, called
attention to the lnereasa In tho as
sessed valuation of pub Ho service cor
porations under tha Stat Tax Com
mission, urged mora of aa Indirect tax
ation for tho support of tho state for
ernment. and pointed out that here
after the claims of tha various Institu
tions en the Legislature for appropria
tions will b prepared In October and
will be gone ever by the state board.
Boar: te Cat Estimates.
The board will par tha estimate
r tfie superintendents and then the
hoard personally will ge before the
committee to advocate the r scorn -meadatloti.
In a vltrtollo talk. L. IX. VcVahaa.
f Valera. who waa called upon by
Covernor West, declared that Instead
of getting tog-ether to talk about how
to ratse- taxes, a committee should be
appointed to discuss ways and means
for reducing taxes.
"The stat government has become
an expensive machine, designed mora
(or the benefit of officeholders than
for the benefit of the taxpayers.' he
asserted. l stopped the $100,000 graft
for the Crater Laks road, and If the
proposed graft of 12.000.00s for a bridre
In Multnomah County over geta by the
Legislature I will stop that, too."
Slate Treasurer Kay, In a speech,
said he Is desirous of seeing nnlform
assmirf la th various counties of
the state, saying that thl will mak
no difference In th amount that th
counties hare to pay. as th taxes ars
apportioned uniformly- H (aid that
next year th stat will have to raise
Il.t7t.900 In direct taxes, which will
maka a levy of about LIS mills, or
about half th levy this ysar, du to
th fact that th levy will be for th
Brat year of a biennial period and made
Just before tha Legislature convenes.
s"enafor MeColloch. of Baker, pointed
our Th work that was don by th
recent legislative tax committee. Stat
Tax Commissioner Eaton acted as
chairman of th meeting.
JOSEPHINE SENDS EXHIBIT
Southern Oregon Mining Man Will
Tell f State's Natural Kesonrcea.
GRANTS PASS. Or.. Feb. 1. (Sje
tUl. r-Two and one-half tons of min
eral exhibits have been gathered by the
mining rasa of Southern Oregon and
forwarded ia Spokane, where It will
be placed on competition. C L. Man
gum, a mining man. will have chance
of th exhibit and will be present
to answer queries as to all mining
matters la Josephine County.
Soma of th finest or in lut world
was lent for the occasion, and mining
men declare that Josephine County's
display will equal anything In th
Northwest. The Southern Pacific Com
pany transported the exhibits free of
charge, and th cltlxena raised a hand
seme fund to place a man In charge.
The mining business has developed
wonderf oily In th last II montha
Nearly every mine In th county Is
new In aetlv operstlon or la prepare
lng to make a b: run.
POACHERS' PATROL IS PLAN
RevennA Cutter Service) Active; Ca
nadians Seise Jape.
SEATTLE. Wash- Feb. 1. Th reve
nue cutter service today called for bids
f'r the delivery of 700 tons of coal at
Kodlak Island. This coal win be for the
us of cutters In th North Faclf'c and
not In Bering Sea, Revenue cutter of
ficer expect that some sort of patrol
about th rockeries will be required to
ward off Japanese poachers.
Th Canadian fisheries steamer A!
redo last night selxsd sight J a pace
fi'hlng vessels off th Vancouver Is
land, wher they were catching herring
during th prohibited hour. Th oar
goes were confiscated and th crew
and vessels taken to Nsnslmo. B. C,
wher fine of $JT0 were inflicted.
PENDLETON HUNT CITED
Investigation of IIcrmlMon Shoot
Hinted by Citizens.
r UNPL ETON. Or.. Feb. H Spe
cial.) UxcorilEg to rumors current on
th street of Pendleton today, a num
ber of tho city's and county'a prominent
cltlsen hav been or ar to be sum
moned befor th Federal grand Jury
In Portland February 13 to tell what
they know about an alleged violation
of th gam law relative to th Fed
eral game preserve at th Umatilla
project reservoir.
According to th reports, th ffens
charged was committed last October,
when two automobile loads of men
went from Pendleton to th vicinity of
Hermlston to shoot gees and ducks.
Among those tn th party were Colonel
Jamee H. Raley. W. L. Thompson,
president of tho American National
Bank; C. E. Roosevelt, prominent mer
chant and aspiring for Congressional
honor: 8am Thompson. Fred Earl, part
owner ef th People's Wareboueo; Asa
Thomson, of Echo, and Carl Gilbert, of
Echo. A part of thos comprising this
expedition ar said to hav yielded to
temptation and to have gone Inside th
Federal reserve line In order to get
better shot at th gees.
In so doing they offended and spoiled
the shooting of Hermlston hunters who
were stsytng ontslde the proper limit;
and who promptly carried their griev
ance to Washington.
STEWART B. EUAN DIES
ErGETE PIOXEER BANKEIl WAS
ACTIVE REPUBLICAN.
In Days When Democrat Held Sway
in Lane County II Waa Be
peatedly Pat in Office.
EUGENE. Or.. Feb. 14 Special.)
Stewart B. Eakln. vice-president of th
First National Bank of Eugene, and
on of Eugene- foremost cltlxens. died
at this evening, aged 5 years.
Arrangement hav not yet been
made for the funeral.
Stewart B. Eakln was born In Elgin.
Kane County. Illinois. August IS. 14.
five years after his father had Immi
grated from Ireland.
As a young man of SO Mr. Eakln
came acros th plains to Oregon,
reaching Eugene September 4. Its.
Th young man drov on of th teams
across tho plains, and th first Winter
la Oregon remained at horn with his
parents. The next Spring h began
clerking In th stor of Peters I"ar
sons. In Eugen. continuing In this
work until 1870. when he engaged In
th sheep business.
He then erved as clerk for F. B.
Dunn until 1S74. when, unsolicited, h
waa nominated by th Republicans for
the office of Sheriff. In spit of th
larg Democratic majority In the
count he was elected by a majority of
one. but two year later h was nomi
nated and elected by a majority of JJ0.
He was continued In this office until
1580. after which he entered th em
ploy of T. O. Hendricks, who later bo
cam hi partner In th banking; busi
ness. Returning to Eugene In the Spring
of 1(83. after a long trip to old scene
In th East, h was elected to th Leg
islature, th only Republlcaa member
from laat County. Th next year he
and Mr. Hendricks formed tbe private
banking arm of Hendricks ex Eakln. Ia
January. ll(. a charter as a National
bank waa obtained and the bank was
opened under Oovernment supervision
on March . ISM, with a paid-up capital
of IS 0.000. Mr. Eakln was elected
cashier, and continued so until about
ten years sir, when h was chosen as
vice-president.
He was on of th organisers of th
Eugene water works In IPS", which
was later sold to th Willamette Valley
Company, and by them to the city.
- In Hit Mr. Eakln was elected Stat
Senator, th flrat Republican to be re
turned from Lane County to that offlc
for 11 years.
He was married In 1S71 t Miss Eliza
Hadley. of a pioneer family coming In
tho early "60s.
A little over a year ago Mr. Eakln's
health failed and h bought a llttl
farm across th Willamette River from
Eugene, where he could pass his tiro
In th open, working In hi garden.
He had been confined to hi horn In
Eus-tne sine Thanksgiving.
Bes'de his widow. Mr. Eakln Is sur
vived by three brothers Judg Eakln.
of th Stat Supreme Court: Herbert
Eakln. banker at Cottag Grove, and
Walter Eakln. an attorney of Astoria,
and two sisters Mrs. Calvin Hanna, of
Eugene, and Mrs. George McQueen,
also of this city.
SELLING CONCERN IS NEED
Tfewbera; Applegrowers Told How to
Profit in Orchards.
NEWBERO. Or, Teh. 14. (Special.)
At th last meeting of th Newberg
Apple-Orowers Association an address
was made by L A. Mason, of Hood
River, who was present by Invitation.
He gave a detailed account of methods
followed by the orchardlsts of that
locality and closed by saying what
wa stated editorially In The Oregonlan
recently that th chief problem In
that connection now Is to find a market.
He said that It had been estimated
that the apple crop this year would
amount to J7.000 carloads, but that
this would would give each man. wo
man and chlldln the United States only
two apples. But for all that. It la
only by a strong selling organization,
ha Insisted, that the Industry can b
maintained at a profit.
Mr. Mason Is on of th most suc
cessful of th Hood River growers,
and on his own place receive an In
come of 10 per cent, net. on a valua
tion of S2000 per acre. He was sever
In denunciation of Teal estat men who
plant out treea on land not adapted
to fruit-growing and selling It in small
tracts to newcomers.
GEE FONG IS LIBERATED
"Human Freight Parcel Tickled
When Freed at Vancouver.
VANCOUVER. B. C., Feb. 14. Tb
Wells -Fargo Express Company estab
lished a precedent when they under
took to transfer Oee Fong from En
senada. Mexico, to Vancouver as ex
press matter. Billed as a "human ex
press parcel. Gee, throbbing with Ori
ental vitality, was duly delivered at
his destination today by th express
company, having arrived aboard the
Canadian Pacific Rallwar steamer
Princess Alice, from San Francisco,
via Portland.
Fong was tickled to death when he
was released by th Immlgratioa au
thorities at the pier and lost no tlma
In leaving for Chinatown accompanied
by several of his compatriots.
Sophomore Pre par for "Orange."
OREGON AGRICTLTTTRAX. COL
LEGE. Corvalll. Fb. 14. Special.)
Th sophomore class at th Oregon
Agricultural College has made Its nom
inations for "The Orange." th annual
publication of th Junior class, for next
year. At this time only the editor In
chief and tha business editor wiir be
elected. The nominations for editor In
chief ar IL B. Bolls. Dallas; A. F.
Mangold. Portland, and A. F. Mason, of
Pasadena. Cal. Th nominations for
the business manarer are: C. A.
Dickey. Molalla: W. K. Peery. Albargr,
an4 J. O. Borsnaon, of Portland.
KAUF1N NOW OUT
Land Commissionership Looks
Better Than Goyernorship.
RACE TO BE INTERESTING
Lines TV 111 Be Drawn Closely la All
Contests for State Offices In
Washington as Between Hay
and Antl - Hay Forces.
OLYMPIA, Wash.. Feb. 14. (Spe
cial.) One of th most Important po
litical developments of the past week
In th Washington Gubernatorial sit
uation Is th announcement of th
withdrawal of W. H. Kaufman. As
sessor of Whatcom County, from tha
race for Governor and his candidacy
for Land Commissioner.
Kaufman was on of th first to
announce his intention of running for
Oovernor. He was backed with th
Indorsement of the Whatcom County
Grange and a numberNof th leading
"progressives" of that section. Th
granar and "progressives" In other
sections of th stat were for John C
Lawrence, and Kaufman's decision to
drop out of th race Is declared by
Lawrence's friends to cement that ele
ment In hi favor.
Th entry of Kaufman Into th fight
for th offlc of Stat Land Commis
sioner will make a pretty fight for
that position. Kaufman Is a fighter,
and he enters the race with consider
able backing. Mrs. Maude Tarn bl in has
been doing some clever work for sev
eral weeks and will have a good back
ing, and Perry Nile la a formidable
candidate all the time.
Itec t He latereetlag.
It begins to look as If th lines
would be closely drawn In all of th
contexts for stat office as between
th Hay and anti-Hay forces. An
nouncement ha been mad by Gov
ernor Hay, that he will open his West
Sid headquarter Immediately after
the Seattle city election. March I. He
will also establish headquarters for
th East Sid In Spokan about th
uma time.
Lawrence also plans to have head
quarters In working shape in Seattle
shortly after th city election, and It
I evident that Seattl and King
County will be th battleground.
J. E. Frost, State Tax Commissioner,
Is still undecided as to making the
race for Congress. If be runs, Mr.
Frost will try to be elected at large.
He says he Is trying to ascertain what
th National Issues will be before
reaching a decision. Frost naturally
will be lined up on the Hay ticket but
he I In no apparent hurry to declare
his Intentions.
Froet Bide His Time.
Oovernor Hay has been forced Into
an alignment with the Taft forces, and
Frost declares ha does not want to
com out as a Taft candidate and then
have th stat go against the National
Administration at tb Republican Na
tional convention.
Albert Johnson, tha Hoqulam editor,
is running as a "progressive," with the
reservstlon that he will support Taft
and Hay. This sounds Ilk a peculiar
combination., but at that Johnson will
be a strong candidate and It Is con
fidently expected he will make a whirl
wind campaign. To date -there ar
five announced candidates for the two
Republican Congressional nominations
at large. These are: Albert Johnson,
Hoqulam editor; A. J. Falconer, Ever
ett lumberman and State Senator;
Harry Rosenhaupt, Spokane lawyer
and ex-State Senator; W. J. Bryan,
Bremerton lawyer and State Senator,
and W. J. Biggar, Belllnsrham lawyer.
It Is also certain that E. W. Ross,
State Land Commissioner, will enter
th race, and Henry B. Dewey, Super
intendent of publlo education, probably
will mak the seventh candidate.
Just at present the rac for the Con
gressional nomination from the south
west I between Stanton Warburton
and James McXeely. This fight has
hardly warmed up as yet. Warburton
Is In Washington and McXeely Is In
California. McXeely is expected home
In a few days and will at one mak
a tourof th district, giving a good
roads lecture. He was the leader of
th lower house In th last Legisla
ture for good roads legislation.
LAWYER'S FEES PROTESTED
Oliver Declare) $10,000 Too Much
In Morrison Escheat Case. .
SALEM. Or.. Feb. 14. (Special.)
Protesting strenuously against a bill
of 110,000 presented as attorney's feea
by C. E. and George Cochran, of La
Grande, for services In the famous
Morrison escheat case. State Senator
Oliver has written to Governor West
deprecating such a charge and placing
11500 as a reasonable fee. Oliver says
tbat th estat was worth no mor
than 112.500. and alleges that th at
tempt to collect this six attorney's
fees la an effort to hold up the stat.
George Cochran today filed his declar
ation as a candidate for Congress from
th Second District.
The fact that Governor West vetoed
a bill In connection with the Morri
son estate, following the last Legisla
ture, adds a peculiar touch to the sit
uation. Mr. Oliver, who was attorney
for alleged heirs In th escheat pro
ceedings, goes Into extensive detail In
his letter In an effort to obtain a de
crease la th demand for attorneys'
fees.
UMATILLA FARMERS GLAD
Three Days Institute Will Bo Treat
of Africnltarista at Ilennlston.
HERM1STON. Or., Feb. 14. (Special.)
Farmers of th Umatilla project and
vicinity ar to be given a three days'
farmers Institute and short course
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this
week by Instructors from tha Oregon
Agricultural College. Efforts to secure
such a cours hav bean In progress
for som time.
Those coming from Corvallls ar:
Dr. Wlfhycombe. Professors Kent,
Ayers, Dryden and Bouquet. They will
also b assisted by R. W. Allen, su
perintendent of th experiment station
her. Subjects to be discussed ar of
Importance to settlers here and In
clude dairying, vegetables, small fruits
and horticulture.
TAXES UNJUST, IS PLAINT
Wood burn Cltlxen Recites Story of
Ever-Rising: Assessment.
SALEM. Or., Fob. 14. (Special)
High taxes, a sick woman and a house
full of children are too much lor
Aug-ust 6c h ram. of Woodburn, who has
written to Oovernor West and whoa
letter, which follows, waa received to
day: "In tha nam of th neighbors of tha
city of Woodburn, w coma to yon
with th mournful cry and beg you
for belp ' to deliver us from tha heavy
burden of taxes that w ar over
loaded with. W will give yon on
Instance. In the year of 1807. tho val
uation wa $1960, the tax thereon was
$35 86. In 1911 th valuation was
$2000, th tax thereon $60.21. For this
year th valuation la $3100. Tb tax
thereon Is $126.34.
"Tho assessor has mad an unjust
levy. Th house upon this land wa
built SS years ago and has never had
any improvements mad thereon and
cost at that time $500. He assesses it
now $500. Th land Is half Improved.
10 acre. Th other half la woods and
stumps. An old cow I own I paid $26
for five yearaago, he also taxes $ti.
"Now, dear Oovernor, you can so
Into this what a man can realise out
of such a place, with a house full of
children and a sick woman and paying
doctor hills. It seems that wa must
live before we can pay taxes. Wa re
gret t burden you with our writing,
but we have all faith In you. that you
will talk a strong word for us If it ia
In your power.
"THE NEIGHBORS OF WOODBTJRK.
"AUGUST SCHRAM. Writer.".
DISPLAY TRAIN 15 PLAN
GRATS HARBOR CITIES TO CAR
RY TIDIXG9 EAST.
Visit to Chicago, St, Louis and Other
Center to Be Made, by Rep
resentative Business Men.
ITOQUIAM, "Wash., Feb. 14. (Spclai.)
With the members of the Hoqulam
Commercial Club . and the Aberdeen
Chamber of Commerce taking hold
with the greatest enthusiasm, and a
large number already declaring they
are certain to make the trip, plan ar
well along for a Grays Harbor manu
facturers' and Jobbers' special train to
be sent from the harbor to the Mid
dle States and, running- as far East as
Chicago to leav here May 11.
Th train, which will go st over th
Chicago. Milwaukee & Puget Sound and
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul
Hallways as far as Chicago and return
over routes Including- th principal
cltle of th Central' States in tile Itin
erary, probably will be the greatest un
dertaking of the kind ever put through
by a community th six of Grays Har
bor. It is certain that no special train
from the Paciflo Coast has undertaken
so great a trip, and few from the larg
Eastern cities. ''
In all th trip will cover a route of
som 6000 miles. It Is planned to have
a train of five cars, all of tha finest
equipment th Milwaukee line afford.
On hundred men are to make the trip
which Is expected to occupy between 10
days and two weeks. Leaving Grays
Harbor the train will make few stops
until Montana. Is reached. As tb larger
percentile of the members of the
party will be lumbermen, stops will
be made at all points where it will be
of advantage to advertise Grays Har
bor manufactures.
From Chicago th train will go next
to St. Lout over the Chicago Sc Alton
Railway, and after a stop there will
double back to Rock Island, III. Musca
tine. Iowa, and Mollne, I1L, and thence
to Des Moines. From Des Moines the
train will be run to Omaha, thence to
Kansas City and thenc across Kansas
over the Union Pacific with stops at
the principal towns and a stop at Den
ver. From Denver the train will be run
over the Denver St Rio Grande through
th Royal Gorg to Salt Lake City.
From ther th train will return via
th Oregon Short Lin and the C-W.
K. Sc. N. to Portland and then home.
The baggage car will b turned Into
an elaborately-appointed exhibit car. It
will be finished entirely In Grays Har
bor woods. An expert Is to be em
ployed to draw plans for this, ,and be
sides lumber products, other manu
factures of this district will b shown.
Th train Is to b fitted with telephone
connections.
PACIFIC PLACED ON LIST
Standard of University . at Forest
Grove Is Recognized.
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, forest Grove,
Feb. 14. (Special.) President Ferrln
was notified today by Superintendent
of Public Instruction Alderman that
Pacific University had been placed on
the list of standardised colleges of the
United States Bureau of Education. Dr.
K. C- Babcock, of the bureau, visited all
the Institutions of Oregon and the re
port recently received at Salem states
that three of these are recegnlxed as
standard colleges. They are th Uni
versity of Oregon, Pacific University
and Willamette University.
A standard lxed college is ona in which
there are given four complete years of
work above the high school course; a
specified standard of work is required
and ther must b adequat equipment
in library facilities., laboratories, etc.
pacific University has long been rec
ognized as one of the leading colleges
of the Northwest and th larger uni
versities of th East hav received her
graduates as ready to pursue advanced
work without further preparation. Pa
cific alumni have entered such Institu
tions as th Universities of Michigan.
Yale. Columbia. Brown, California and
Cornell to tak advanced degrees. A
short tlm ago. when Western Reserv
University made new regulations re
garding th entrance of graduates of
other Institutions to her graduate
schools, president Ferrln was assured
that th grade of work don at Paciflo
University would entitle all her gradu
ates to entrance without further Inves
tigation. ROBBER SHOOTS JAPANESE
Former Kmploye of Oriental Is Ar
rested for Attack.
BAKER. Or- Feb. 14. (Special.)
Two Japanese wer shot at Halns at
S o'clock yesterday morning by a youth
said to b Howard Collins of that place.
Both will rocover and Collins has been
captured.
Th Japanese story la that 'Collins
forced a screen-door lock and relieving
the cash drawer of its contents, $2.
went to the back of th building, wher
th proprietor. Tosh ids, and Frank Ml.
so, bis cook, were sleeping, and opened
fir with a J-callber revolver. Yo
hlda waa struck In th ear and on ona
finger and a bullet graxed his side.
Mlso waa shot In the right side. In
th lower Jaw and In tha right arm.
They wer brought to St. Elizabeth
Hospital her, and th bullets removed.
Collins was captured at North Powder
by the town marshal at noon, and
brought here by Sheriff Rahd tonight.
According to Yoshlda, Collins worksd
for him for two weeks about two
months ago, and was with the Haines
Sanitarium until three days ago.
Cocaine Selling- Charges Dropped.
ASTORIA. Or.. Feb. 14. Allth
cases pending In the Justice Court
aualnst T. F. Laurln, proprietor of the
Kasrle Drugstore of this city, and J.
Kog Farr, manager .of tb store, fori
8kg
Men's Splendid Spring SMrta
at $1.00 are now on display.
The variety of cloths, pat
' terns, colors and style is very
good.
Early selection is advisable, :
aa the values are exceptional.
Every shirt is made to fit
and give the wearer com
plete satisfaction
We guarantee them.
iiiUil GusKythn Prob.
166-170 THIRD ST.-J
the alleged Illegal sale of cocaine to
soldiers from Fort Stevens, were dis
missed this morning on motion of
Deputy District Attorney H. M. Brown
til. The charges were th outcome of
Investigations mads by officers of
Fort Stevens in an endeavor some
months ago to fix the responsibility
for several cases of "doping" soldiers.
There were nine charges in all against
the men. Mr. Farr having been tried
on one of them and acquitted som
weeks ago.
MRS. TOTTENJOW. INSANE
Asylnm Folk Say Murderess Condi
tion Is Incurable.
WENATCHEH, Wash, Feb. 14. Mrs.
Delia Totten, whose sentence of life
Imprisonment In the Walla Walla peni
tentiary for killing James Sutton near
Cashmere two years ago, was recently
upheld by the Supreme Court, has be
come Insane and is confined at tha
Medical Lake asylum. Thos in charge
say she Is incurable and her condition
is growing worse.
. Mrs. Totten's mother, Mrs. Beebe,
who was tried as an accomplice and
who was granted a new trial by the
Supreme Court, may never be tried
again, as she is now nearly 76 years
old. She' is out on $5000 bond, and is
keeping house for her son-in-law, Noel
Totten. on a farm near the soene of
the murder.
HELLO GIRL DRINKS POISON
Nerve-Racking Work Assigned as
Cause, of Attempted Snicide.
SPOKANE. Wash., Feb; 14. (Spe
cial.) Racking, nerve-rending toll be
hind a telephone switchboard was the
cause of the attempted suicide of 17-year-old
Lena Bryant today, who drank
2V4 ounces of poison while lying de
spondent on a sick bed. The glrL ac
cording to Dr. W. Q. Webb, who has
been attending her for three weeks,
has been suffering from a nervous
breakdown, caused, she says, by over
work In the telephone office. Her par
ents live at Northport, Wash.
Dr. Webb prescribed medicine for
the girl last night. It contained, for
the most part, codlno sulphate, of
which there was three ounces in the
bottle, according- to her physician. Of
this sh drank nearly alL
BOOTBLACK IS ARRESTED
Corvallls Man Held for Contributing
' to Delinquency of Two Girls.
ALB ANT, Or., Feb. 14. (Special.)
Arrested in Salem a few day ago and
charged with contributing to tha de
linquency of two girls, Lena Howell
and Mary Jones, aged 16 and 17 years,
respectively, Jim Psloghols, a Corvallls
bootblack, and Peter Green, who con
ducts an oyster house In this city,
were yesterday arraigned before Judge
Webster in Salem and the former was
placed under bonds of $500 to await
the action of the Circuit Court, Oreen
being discharged.
Mary Jones and Lena Howell, the
girls in the case, are both from Leb
anon and have been ordered sent to
the Home of the Cood Shepherd at
Portland. '
SPOKANE REFUSES TO PAY
Chicago Bond House Says $875,000
Worth of Coupons Are Bad.
SPOKANE. Feb. 14. A demand was
nude upon the City of Spokane today
for the return of $875,000 to a Chi
cago bond house which recently pur
chased the Issue of Spokane Park
bonds. The demand Is made on the
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LOGGING CAMPS TO START
Timber Cnttinj In Grays and Deep
River Districts to Commence Soon.
ASTORIA, Or., Feb. It. (Special.)
All the companies - owning logsine;
camps in the Grays and Deep River
districts have small crews of men at
work; repairing; the railroad tracks or
extending the lines and probably all of
them will begin cutting Umber between
now and the first of March.
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is establishing a camp In a tract of
timber which it has purchased a short
distance from Knappton and the Camp
bell Logging Company, which com
pleted operations on Deep River last
Fall. Is arranging to begin logging
within the next few weeks in the Grays
River district. While there are a few
rafts of ' logs remaining in those
streams, practically all of them havo
been sold.
Carlton Lad of 4 Injured.
CARLTON, Or.. Feb. 14. Willie Mac
Gregor, the small son of Mrs. Elsie
MacGregor, was run over and had his
right leg crushed and cut off below the
knee, at o'clock yesterday afternoon
In the local ireigni yarus, "
Southern Pacific train, backing Into a
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ACTION IS DISMISSED
Supreme Court Passes on Gardner
Paciflo & Eastern: Case.
SALEM, Ot Feb. 1. (Special)-
Because attorneys for the plaintiff,
failed to file their transcript In time,!
the Supreme Court has dismissed tho
action of Myrtle Gardner, admlnis-'
tratrix of the estate of Walter C. Gard
ner, versus the Pacific & Eastern. This
was an action to recover damages for,
the death of the" plaintiff's husband,
and the woman was awarded $7500 by
'a Jury in the lower court. Justice Mc
Brlde wrote the opinion.
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affirmed in. the case, of Linn County,
versus the Callapoola Lumber Com-,
pany, in an opinion by Justice Bean.
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the lumber company from allowing wa
ter to run onto a county road. Tho
county lost in this case.
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Joseph Cuhan, appealed from Umatilla
County, and Frank G. Micell, et al,
versus Frank Andrus. appealed from
Douglas County.
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Yamhill Pioneer Dead.
McMINNVlLLE. Or., Feb. 14. (SpH
ciaX) Joseph Kirkwood, of Hopewell,
91 years old, a pioneer of Yamhill
County, died at his homt near Hope--well,
Monday. His funeral was held'
today.
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