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POLICE PROBE MAY HINGE Ofi KLIHGEL MISSING E1LLSB0R.C GIRL. WHO, FRIENDS FEAR, MAY HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. f Oil v i Patrolman Now on Leave Is Thought to Have Neces sary Information. ?enji- r w . - HIS ACTIONS MYSTERIOUS Sal Inquiry May Halt With Trial of Cole and Ball?; IT Mllng Officer Cannot Be Found He Is rnssibly .In Montana. fpnn trie finding of Chester C. Kllngel. a policeman on leave of absence, believed to know much of the inner history of the depart ment, drpende a widening of the probe now bring conducted In the trial of x-Serrnt Cole. Indicted for graft lne. according to admissions made by Chlf of Poll- Plover. Till w find Kllngel w hav nothing but suspicions on wblrh to proceed farther." a J th bead of th police department. Thouah sousnt by mall and through friend and relatives. Kllngel Is not to T found. He I supposed to b on a homestead In Montana, but efforfs to reach hm there hare been fruitless. Ther are no charges that can be placed against him. and even If lo cated. It w'tl be necessary to have him make a voluntary appearance. If th Investigation 1 to go deeper. Kltas-rl Wevesaeala atraage. About the time when charge of grafting In the police department be came common Kllngel wss given a leave of absence, to take up bla resl denc on a homestead which h had drawn In one of th government lot teries, fie had been off duty for soma weeks, and waa suppoaed to be on tba cla'm. when his clandestine preaenc here waa brought to light through his being stabbed and dangerously wound ed, while assisting a brother officer to quell a disturbance In the rooming house where h was staying. Kiinget was near tleath for a time, but recovered, and again dropped out of sight. In th short time that he was In th open he denied that he waa concealing th fact that h had re mained in th city, and ascribed bis failure to go away to the lack of funds, tt Is a fact, however, that he waa never about th pollc station and was seen on the streets but a few times. All aorta of guesses were read as to the explanation of Kllngel'a strange movements, because of the confidential position be oe-upled In th department. Teatlsaoay Theeght Ik port a at. Tt Is now admitted that Kllngel has. or ' believed to hare much to tell tnat would prove enlightening. Unless he is found within reach of a aubpena. or unless other avenues of Information develop, the rials of ez-Mergeant Col and Captain bailey may and th mat ter. A story has been going about that certain officers who patrolled th -rth End during th period of Cole's activity in th South End hav been given a atated number of days In which to "come through." but Chief Slover says he knows of no such negotiation. In Circuit Court today, th defense In tie trial of Sergeant Col will re sume the taking of testimony, and may conclude todav. Th prosecution will then offer rebuttal teatlmony. some of which. It Is said, will be sensational. The trial of Captain Bailey wl' b taken up later at a date not set. Speculation la common among the po licemen aa to what will be don with Patrolmen Larfleld and Fi:!ler. who have confeased tal log bribes, alleging tat they did so at th Instigation of Cole. These men probably will re relv Immunity In return for their tes timony. HEALTH REPORT ISSUED lore Car- lrged In Reporting Caws or Tuberculosis. Th quarterly report of th Stat Board of Health for th last quarter In 111 was Issued yesterday. For th first time sine th board was consti tuted. In 10J. a report from every county In th state is submitted. Jn referring to tuberculosis, the report urges more activity in reporting casea and a greater use of th State Tuber culosis Sanitarium at Salem. Th re port shows that although In cot deaths from tuberculous wer report ed, only i;i casea of the disease Itself wer reported. Th death rat In 111 from this disease mas IB J per cent, while? In 110 the rate waa 10 0. Tbla liaht decrease the board regards aa little caus for ncouragement. The report urge that all cases b reported, that state, municipal and county officials may hav knowledc of the cases and that they may be able to send the patients literature from which they and their friends might reap benefit. The portion of the report devoted to smallpox shows that, while ther wer 117 cases of this disease In 111, ther waa but one death. "An Interesting fact to note." says the report, "Is that of loo casea noted by the Stat Health Officer, not mor than eight were In people who had ever been vaccinated, and In all of these the disease waa so mild as almost entirely to escape de tection, frequently being limited to a half dosen paoules. We believe that the amount of vaccination, voluntary and compulsory, that has been don during th past 0 tlays. will hav a very salutary effect in forestalling future outbreaks." SMOKE ATTRACTS THRONGS Horning of Itefue Oil at AIMna Shops Create Alarm. .Uuch smoka and 1 ttle fire drew too holiday Idlers, hair th fir ap paratus In th city and the flreboat Go. H. Williams to the O.-W. R. N. hop In Albino, yesterday afternoon, because of ?h weekly burning-oft of the refuse otl that accumulates around the shops. Irawn by a great pillar of smoke that rose several hundred feet and floated southward. men and women from all over the city aaarmed to th vicinity. "Just what t-ippena every week." aid employes, tolerantly answering excited questions as to th cause and extent of the fire. They added that th breaking of a feed pipe In the shops, releasing some hundreds of gal lons of oil. had made the blase a little larger than usual. for a time, contrary wind made the flames aereep loirfi the Aihlna d treks, but there ample precaution ara-nat any spread in mat direction. t - -. MISS LOIS GIRL WEEK MISSING Miss Lois Harris, of Hiiisboro, May Be Suicide. PARENTS OFFER REWARD Young Woman of 22 Years Sudden ly Disappears, and Kc ported Opposition to Marriage Be lieved to Be Cause. -Slystery in th sudden disappearance from her home at Hiiisboro of Miss Lois Harris a week ago has resulted In search by both city and county author ities, and the offering- of a reward of ISO by her parent for finding th young woman. Miss Harris, who has been living with her mother and step-father. Wil liam Shafer. left her horn at Hiiisboro last Monday morning and haa not been seen since. Information that Miss Harris was missing was sent to the Portland polio yesterday w.lth the request that search be mad for her. Circumstances In con nection with the case make It appear that the young woman may have come to Portland, though some of th girl's relatives and friends express the be lief that she may have committed sui cide In a fit of despondency. Those as qualnted with her say she was Inclined to be of a morbid disposition. Sheriff Hancock of Waahlngton County and relatives and friends of th missing woman have made a fruitless search for some trace of her. but hav yet discovered no clew. Miss Harris. It Is said by her friends, was engaged to George Wolf, a young rancher living southwest of Hiiisboro. aad disapproval of the proposed match by her mother. It la thought, may have caused her action. Mr. Wolf, when Informed of Miss Harris disappearance, said that she had not Intimated to him any Inten tion of going away, and he haa as sisted in the search for her. Miss Harris went to Hiiisboro about a year ago with her mother and step father from Minnesota. She la 22 years old. Thouch Miss Harris had several thou sands dollars In her own right, she la known to hav had less than flO when she left home. CHARTER PLAN SUBMITTED ;eorr I.. Myers Would Hare Con vention Work Out Problems. A charter convention or committee almllar to state constitutional conven tions, as the solution of th problem presented by four commission govern ment charter before th people for adoption, is th plan submitted by George I Myers, private secretary of Guy W. Talbot, in a communication to Mayor Rushlight. That the public may hav ample time to consider the - question. Mr. Myers recommends that the subject of commission government be delayed un til after the state and county elec tions. He also recommends that mem bers of th proposed body be elected by the people, and that fund suffi cient to defray their expenses, includ ing the expenses of a aub-commltte to investigate commission government In other places, be appropriated by the Council. The charter Anally reported by the committee or convention would be the only charter to be submitted to the people, according to Mr. Myers plans. Mr. Myers says this will eliminate the submission of other charters and defeat the commission government, and is th only way to make possible th adoption of a commission form of gov ernment. ACTIVE CHINA FORETOLD Celestial, Kducated In America, Is rieased With Outlook. After having' completed a year'a study of the commercial life of th I'dit-d States, James F. Lee was at tbe Multnomah Hotel yesterday on his may to his home in Shanghai. China. "More than six years sco I waa sent to this country by my father to receive as education, and alter four ysara of s -- : HARRIS. study graduated from the Phillip's Academy at Andover. Mass.." said Mr. Lee, "I then returned home, remained a year, and during thia period was ap pointed by the Imperial government to attend the representatives of the com mercial bodies of the United States that visited my country and accompany them In their travels to the different cities. Later my father, who Is presi dent of the Shanghai Chamber of Com merce, president of the China-Union Insurance Company and president of Shanghai Bank of the Republic re cently organised, desired me to spend a year studying eommerclsl life in thia country before engaging In business with him. -Since then wonderful things hsve happened In China which may change my future and result in my being at tached to the republic In some capacity. I am very proud of my country, for history does not show a single republic that achieved lta existence so quickly and with ao little turmoil. That it will aoon take Its place with th great nations of th world I feel aasured. and with the enlightenment of liberty an other generation will show that It Is worthy of the task of government which is now being inaugurated." AOIfiWSSHOW REMAINING BOXES, I.OGES AND SEATS TO BE AUCTIONED. A. G. Clarke, President of Club, to Make Address at Heillp- on Night of Entertainment. A. O. Clarke, president of the Port land Ad Club, will make the principal addresa on next Monday night, Febru ary IS, at the Helllg Theater, when the club and their guests will witness the preformance of "Oet-Rlch Quick Walllngford." Ther are to be a num ber of additional entertaining features besides that of the performance. The committee having the affair in charge met at the Multnomah Hotel yesterday to go over the programme and the de tails for the event. Frank C. McCrellls. chairman of th Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Con gresss, which meets In Portland the first three days of Rose Festival week will have charge of the evening's en tertainment and will act aa director of the programme. On next Wednesday the auctioning of the remaining boxes and loges will tske place in th blue and gold room of the Multnomah.' There still remains a goodly number of the parquet seats which have not been dis posed of and It Is the understanding lhat these will be offered for sale at the aame time. Th proceeds of the entertainment are to be utilised for paying tbe expense Incurred In hold ing to annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Admen's Congress. The various Portland civic clubs have Joined in th movement and are doing what tbey can to make the affair of next Monday a success. The Ad Club haa taken the position that It will not appeal to the cltlsens by means of a subscription pa per to pay the expenses of the meeting and preferred to give a regular theatri cal entertainment with th prices charged for admission no different than those charged upon any other night. The tickets which have been .sold will be exchanged at the box offlc on Thursday morning, February 22. WORD CONTINUES CRUSADE Four Arrested on Charge of Selling; Liquor Without License. In furtherance of his - campaign against th managers of "social clubs" which are gambling houses in disguise. cot-Sheriff Word has caused the arrest of four men on charge of selling liquor without a license, and other warrants are out and not yet served. Those tinder arrest are J. P. Nichols, Martin Ready, Tom Johnson and Jack Hart. The latter three gave bail to the amount of $Jf0 each, but Nichols waa released ra his recognisance by order of Judge Tax well. The complaints against these men are based partly on th clause of th model liquor ordinance which provides that possession of a Federal liquor license shall be prima fact evidence that liquor Is being aold. In each of the clubs raided by detectives at the instance of Mr. Word a Federal license was found, without an accompanying city license. In one place a supply of liquor was discovered, and the mute testimony of the Federal licenses will be supported by the statements of witnesses. NEW PIAN0SF0R RENT At Bush-Lane Piano Co., iai Washing ton street. j anas dav' -alc bcLZ ' r i7T ,.r i 1 ' Riilm- . 'See t iJ ne Pr!nn-:LISeent on tCT MANY TICKETS SOLO Catholic Women's Ball Prom ises Big Attendance Tonight. MONEY TO GO TO LEAGUE To Orche-slras Will Furnish Music and Rooms Will Be Decorated vor Occasion at Multnomah Hotel Hostesses Sanguine. Both ballrooms and the other rooms on the mezzanine floor of the Multno mah HoteJ, at Fourth and Pin streets, kA In use Inninht by those Who attend the ball and card party given by the catholic w omens ik Knights of Columbus. Fifteen hundred tickets have been Issued, and Mrs. James Laldlaw. president of the league, expects that the entertainment will not I10UO. which will go for the benefit of the league. . The affair will be In formal. Mrs. L.aldlaw expects that many tickets will be sold at the door. It Is expected that this will be the largest function so far held in the new hotel ballrooms. Two orchestras have been engaged, and the long, wide hall connecting the two ballrooms will be decorated with palms. Card tables will be arranged at the aides. Dancing will commence at 8:80 and continue until midnight. Hostesses Are Named. The ladles receiving will be: Mrs. James Laidlaw, Mrs. H. C. Bowers, Mrs. James F. Clarkson, Mrs. J. C. Costello, Mrs. D. J. Maher, Mrs. Joseph Hughes, Mrs. R. A. Kirk. Mrs. Frank O'Nell. Mrs. T. J. Patterson and Mrs. J. H. Kern. The committee on entertain ment consists of Mrs. J. F. Clarkson. Mrs. T. J. Cronln. Mrs. Theodore Seufert. Mrs. Frsnk Klernan. Miss Kathryne Rldgley, Mrs. John Driscoll. Mrs. B. Glldner and Mrs. E. Uurney. The Knights of Columbus committee on en tertainment consists of D. J. Maher. T. J. Patterson. J. E. Malley, D. J. Mc Laughlin and T. E. Sullivan. Receiving at the door will be Mrs. T. J. Patterson, Miss Margaret Flaherty and Miss Mary McKay. The Knights of Columbus floor com mittee consists of Fred Martin. Daniel Campbell. Casalus Campbell. William McKlnnon. Daniel Ward, Thomaa Dowd, Roger Seufert. Frank Foley. Edgar Marlon, Lawrence Bchade. Albert J. O'Brien, Joseph Marls. John Cahalln. Joseph Phelan and John McKlnnon. Committees to Direct Feature. Those In charge of the card room will be: Mrs. R; A. Kirk. Mrs. Joseph Hughes. .Mrs. M. E. Foley. Mrs. J. II. Kern. Mrs. John Maginnls, Mrs. Frank Waacher, Thomaa Ward, John Hanley, P. J. Hanley, T. J. Murphy and Thomas Bweeney. In charge of the candy table will be Mrs. John E. Cronan and Mrs. T. J. Patterson, assisted by Miss Clarissa Wiley, Mra. Charles Chenery, Mrs. Morris. Mrs. A. J. Foullhoux. Mrs. Louis Cronan. Miss Josephine Cronan and several others. Mra. Edward Boyce and Mrs. John Manning constitute the committee on decorations. Miss Katherine Gil con stitutes the press committee. AID TO SETTLERS URGED Corvallls Professor Sees Need of En couraging Homeseekers. In the course of an address delivered Sunday night at a dinner 111 his honor at the Y. W. C. A.. Professor R. D. Hetzel. of Corvallls. declared that many people who ar coming to Oregon do not have a clear understanding of what they will find here and that the people of Oregon are morally bound to help the homeseekers to establish them selves here. He expressed the belief that too little la done for them after they have arrived In Oregon. He said he considered that one person dissatis fied with Oregon could turn back more prospective settlers than 50 active agents could bring here. Professor Hetzel declared that one of the problema the Nation as a whole baa got to turn Its attention to ia Im frs; ?' at niatnhi tchen Saw provement in conditions In rural dis tricts. He asserted that the time was not far distant when the Nation would be one of consumers rather than pro ducers. This was shown, he said, by the commercial reports for the past 10 years. Rural life, he pointed out. must be made more attractive before city people would be willing to change their mode of life. He also declared that another great problem was that of increasing the productivity of farm lands. The rural school system also was referred to as inadequate for the needs of the new rural communities as developed by scientific methods. Professor Slsson. of the University of Washington, and H. W. Stone, of the Young Men's Christian Association, also spoke on the dependence of the city upon the rural districts. Professor Hetzel will deliver an ad dress tonight at the services In the First Unitarian Church on "Utilitarian Education." Those present at the din ner last night were: Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Eliot. Rev. William G. Eliot. Jr.. Elliot Habersham, H. W. Latimer, J. E. Rand. John Risley. John Brooke. H. B. Hast ings, E. A. Brown. S. C. Kennell, H. A. Sargent, Dr. William Flebig, Mr. and Mrs W. F. Woodward, LeRoy Peckham, C. F. Place. A. E. Knisely. Professor R. p. Hetzel. Mr. and Mra. H. W. Stone. John D. Lee, S. G. Lathrop. J. M. Chase and H. B. Breeze. FUND FOR RELIEF ASKED APrKAIi IS FOR AID OF CHIX.VS FAMIXK SUFFERERS. 600,000 Families Said to Be With out Food or Support and No Harvest In Sight TJntil May. Setting forth the fact that 600,000 families in China are without food and means of support, the China Famine Relief Committee, of New York, which la co-operating with the Red Cross So ciety, haa issued an appeal through The Oregonlan to the people of Oregon, for funds with which to relieve the desti tution In Central China. The circular which has teen sent to all parts of the country by Bishop Greer, of New York, chairman of the rellef'committee, points out that 3.000, 000 people are on the verge of starva tion by reason of the floods which last year destroyed crops In an area of S0, 000 square miles. No harvest can be expected until May, and, the letter says, the relief must be tendered at once to be effectual. It Is declared to be one of the worst famines of modern times. Remittances are directed to be sent to the treasurer, Jacob H. Schlff. 1 Mad ison avenue, New York, or to the Fam ine Relief Committee In China through tbe Department of State at Washington. President Taft. as head of the Amer ican Red Cross Society, has issued a proclamation asking the people of the United States to help the starving peo ple in China. The vice-chairmen of the Famine Relief Committee are: Nicholas Murray Butler. Joseph H. Choate. John D. Crimmlns, Robert W. de Forest Seth Low, Oscar S. Straus, Jacob H. Schlff. treasurer, and William B. Millar, secretary. HEALTH OFFICERS TO MEET County Physicians Invited to Attend State Conference. Efforts are being made by Dr. Calvin S. White, secretary of the State Board of Health, to have all county health officers in the state in attendance at the first quarterly meeting of the State Board to bo held in Portland March 28 and 29. Many of the county health of ficers have already signified their in tentions of attending. The State Board will try to Induce the County Courts of the various counties to bear the ex penses of their health officers at this conference. The nature of the conference will par take somewhat of that of a medical nor. mal school. An hour will be set aside daily to the question box department, and at that time all knotty problems that confront county health officers will be discussed. Some of the topics of Interest will be uniform methods of collecting vital statistics; how best to enforce quarantine: different diagnosis of eruptive disease; school and munl clptal water supplies; necessity for and value of laboratory work, and achool sanitation. - qAp of jLHJ -cT'S5St0 S ft L& L- to lleT "r VaT- frseT tnvc.e toda? m in I Seotio?Uan0ooantStI of arrV Itll Great SECURITY IS AMPLE "Hazards" of Loan Shark Business Shown to Be Myth. LEASE OF $400 NOTE CITED Legal Xotlce Advertises for Sale 15 ITorses, Seven Wagons, Harness, Etc., AH on One $400 Loan. Shylocks Fear Cameras. "Hazards" of the loan shark business are well illustrated by a legal notice of sale on chattel mortgage, now being printed, at the instance of M. E. Schou weller, who through Adolphus Lane, conducts a lot.n agency in the Abington building. The notice sets forth that because W. W. Brewster, an express man, haa failed to pay a promissory note for $400, there will be sold at pub lic auction 15 horses, seven wagons, many sets of harness, and "all other personal property." Haaarda Held to Be Myth. This instance bears out the assertion of those engaged in investigating the loan shark business, that in every case so far looked into it has been found that ample security has been taken and that the hazards set up aa the excuse for outrageous charges of usury are a pure myth. Furthermore, the maker of the note asserts that on the note for )400 he obtained only $320of real cash, and has paid $80 on that despite the assertion in the notice that no part has been paid. Someone has started a report that it waa the intention of the investigators to begin publishing anap-shot photo graphs of the most prominent "sharks" with a history of their operations, and the rumor has drifted back to the in vestigators with evidence that it has produced a panic among those of guilty conscience. One of the money-lenders has made threats of dire consequences if his photograph Is published, and the whole fraternity are said to be "gun shy" at the click of the camera. Appeal Made te Authorities. A citizen of Sellwood has appealed to the District Attorney for protection against a threatened suit of one Nlchol, who has offices in the Lumbermen's building. He says he gave a note for $200 and is held to pay $30 a month. He has paid nothing for six months. He was advised to "stand pat" and re fer the claim to the District Attorney if action Is taken against him. A woman who supports herself and four children is threatened with crimi nal prosecution by the Portland Loan Company, because she placed a mort gage on chattels already mortgaged to them. The woman asserts that the property was mortgaged to the loan company by her sister, who made it over to her, and that "she obtained the new loan In Ignorance of the former one. She obtained a loan from De Shon & Hawk, receiving $24. giving her note for $33 and undertaking to pay $6.50 a month beside interest. The firm which threatens the prose cution has aroused the ire of the reme dial agents, by framing Its advertising so as to give the -impression, as they YOU SURELY 1ST -TRY THIS WHEN YOU HAVE A BAD COLD OR GRIPPE Proves Quinine Is Never Effective and Tells How to Get Relief in a Few Hours. Tou will distinctly feel your cold breaking and all the Grippe symptoms leaving after taking the very first dose. . 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