? ttit vnnTn OREGONIAX. MOND.W, . PRIL 20, 1912. U i . I AC IS VICTIM CAUGHT FOUND SAFE Man Who Lured Aged Farmer From Home Jailed by Po lice in Portland. SOLE SURVIVOR OF CHAMPOEG CONVENTION OF MAY 2, 1843, ASYLUM COUP EXPLAINED II. frank Allen After Hi Capture in Portland Tells roller How He Planned and Executed I rape om Institution. TVhtle peace officer in thre coun ties were searching j-rnterdav for J. M. Berry, an acrd. man of Hlllsboro. aupposetj to have brrn dcoyrl for pur poses of extortion by II. Frank Allen. n escaped lunatic. Allen was ter rorises a rltlscn uf Portland yesterday nd was arrexted by Patrolman Sims. tmultaneou.ly. newa came from Salem that Ierry bad arrived there on the trip Induced by Allen, the purpose of which was to obtain the release of Berry's new-phew from the Inune Asylum. The belief entertained by Hlll.'boro author ities that Berry had drawn a large amount of money at the behest of Allen was found to be a mistake. A Ilea Seeks Fries. Allen made his appearance yesterday at a sars ire at Kat Twenty-third and Belmont streets, kept by C K. Ilol- romb. x-Clerk of Washington founty and an old acquaintance of the dement ed man. This was the first definite trace found of Allen sine he bound an at tendant at the Insane Asllum and escaped with three others i week ;u. Allen, whose dementia takes the form of a hallucination that he Is a bU busi ness man. htran sending lonaditance calls orer llolcomb a telephone to Jill parts of the system, partly In seeking the serTtees of private detectives at tl a month salary, tie also made ef forts to obtain possession o a revolver. He submitted to arrest, but became verv oratorical at the City Jail. He is held for return to Salem. Allen talked rationally to the officers and took upon himself the credit for planning the roup by which he and his rompsnions escaped from the asylum. It was he. be said, who "stron-arnied" an attendant as be was lounging- in a barber chslr. bound him and took his keys, bv means of which escape was easy, lie threw no Ilsrht on the present whereabouts of his companions, but said he had been traveling ever since. Deteettv Make Sea re k. Berry. Induced by Allen, came to Tortland Saturday and proceed to Sa lem to see his newphew In the asylum. The report that he had drawn a Urce amount of money from the bank caused arave uneasiness, when Portland detec tives and Washington and Marlon County Sheriffs were unable to tret any trace of Mm Saturday night or until late yesterday. BEKRY TF.I.LS OK EXPERIENCE Hlll5boro Resident Not So.-pli-lou of Inunr Companion. HIIXFBORO. Or April IS. tSpe claL Alarmed over the circumstances surrounding the departure of John L Berry, an aged Htlisboro resident. In company wtlh II. Frank Allen, an es caped lunatic. Berry's son. Frank, this morning Instituted search and found his fattier at Salem at the home of Alexander Potter, a carpenter and friend of the family. Tue father said that be had taken the train for Salem at Jefferson street. Portland, and at once had gone to the home of his friend. He said that Allen, who said he was a physician, made no demonstration en route from Htlisboro to Portland, ex cept to be very anxious about the II which must be paid for the tig. This money Mr. Berry gave him. with t! more to pay the alleged doctor's fare to Salem, where they were to meet Monday morning. When apprised of the fact that he hsd made the trip to Portland with an Insane man Mr. Berry expressed sur prise, and said that his companion had talked of nothing but of being a brain specialist all the distance. Allen de clared that he would have Berry's nephew. Joe Fryear, now In the asylum at Salem, cured In a few weeks If he could be brought to bis Portland office. Allen, the escape, was In the same ward with Fryear at Salem, and from Fryear had learned that he had an uncle by the name of J. M. Berry at Htlisboro. Yesterday Alien hired a team In Portland and arrived at Htlis boro In the forenoon. He made Inquiry at the Hotel Washington as to the resi dence of Berry, and obtained the de sired information. He drove to the Berry borne and Introduced himself as a specialist on insanity, and aaid that recently he had been at Salem with a patient, and bad witnessed brutal treat ment of Fryear. the nephew. He then told them that he had influence at the state Institution, and that If the elder Kerry would go with htm he could get Fryear s reelase. take him to Portland to hia private sanitarium, and In a few weeks have him cured, at no expense to Frysafs relatives except the simple matter of transportation and the cost of the rig to Hlllsboro. which he repre sented was IS. He told Berry that he was ready to go back, and that they must move quickly. Berry, who Is T4 years old. went to the bank and drew lis from hla meager savings. In a telephone conversation today Mr. Berry declared that never again would he take a ride with a stranger under any circumstances. Berry has a wife and two sons here, snd one son In Montana. He was born In Missouri In 1131. and came to Oregon In 1ISS. set tling In Linn County, near Albany. He ms in the Indian wara of 1ISSS-S. and draws a pension. The old man has a great affection for bis nephew, now In the asylum. In whose behalf be made the trip with the maniac. herrv is rorsn at sw.km Washington County Farmer ay Xo Harm Was Attempted. Su:M, Or- April . (Special. J. M Berry, of Hlllsboro. who rode with Frnnk Allen, escaped lunatic, from Hlllsboro to Portland yesterday, was found today at the home of A. Totter. Twentieth and Mill streets. -Allen tl thlnjc he gsve me that name when he arrived at my home toM me that he was a. physician and that he could effect a cure for my nephew, who Is In the asylum." said Mr. Berry. "If that man Is Insane, there must be many mors Insane men out of the asylum than In. He could n.t have been more sollcttous for me If i- had been my father, and I had no .'t that he was Insane, nor did any of iiis actions Indicate It." Mr. Berry said he only drew enough money from the Hlllsboro bank to pay for the team. He Intends to remain here tomorrow and visit bit nephew. V .X. X' : y hi S t . i ' - ?. . i .X V it . - f A ; : - ' '" " ' ' - ' ' ' I . ' ' : V. Ml -. '' . - t . . 4 e v : ? n ;'! t ::. j , t v .,, I a - r I ; ) t 1 i ! . g,,- it -irrsWiifT'TT f'iJ I CALL OF IHE WILD" REGKONS WRITER K. X. MATTHIKl. PIONEERS 10 MEET Birthday of Civil Government in Oregon to Be Noted. EVENT SET FOR THURSDAY Native yin of Slate to Hold Cele bration at Chanipoec Ex-Governor Geer and E. V. . Ilolmnii Will Speak. Next Thursday will be the 9th anni versary of the birthday of American civil government on the Pacific Coast. The act of the people that day only 10! persons assembled by the adop tion or the report of a previously ap pointed committee. waa the startlnir point of the provisional government of Oregon. The. people livlnu in Oregon at tills time numbered less than 300 Americans. This organisation performed erery function of the National Oovern ment of the I'nited States until March 3. IMS. wnen the Oregon territorial government was set up by the procla mation of Governor Joseph Lano. an appointee of President Polk, by which act Oregon was formally admitted to the Union. For thtwelfth time this event is to be celebrated under the auspices of F. X. Matthleu Cabin of Native Sons of Oregon. Ex-Governor T. T. Geer will act as president of the day and the principal address will be given by Frederick V. Holman. president of the Oregon Historical Society. . F. X. Mat thlou. the only person now living who was present years ago and who voted for organisation, will be present. ChampoesT can be reached br boat leaving foot of Taylor street at 1:45 A. M- or by electric car from the Nortn Bank Ie'pot at :15 A. M.. which will reach Wllsonvllle in time to Intercept the boat at 11 A. M. nay bridge. These ure very Important links in the system. Without having obtained the franchises for them, the company is now engaged in laying the tracks n Sandy boulevard and Mil waukie street, pursuant to an agreement reached at a recent conference be tween Mayor Rushlight. Councllmen Baker and Burgard and representatives of the company. Pavoments are being put in on both streets and It was de sired that the tracks he laid ahead of the Improvement, so the company con coded the point and started work at once. Tomorrow morning at S:30 o'clock, the committee will consider the pro posed franchise on Fourth street, ap plied for by the Southern Parlrtc. which ocsires to double track and electrify that branch of Its system. FRANCHISES UP TODAY COMMITTER WILL. TRY" TO UX TAJk'GI.K PAKE RKGCLiATIOX. Street Included In Measure Arc Sandy Boulevard. MllwauUe and Seventh S. P. .Matter Due. Consideration of the proposed ordi nance, carrying a number of franchises for the Portlsnd Railway. Light A Power Company, will be resumed at 10 o'clock this morning by the street com mittee of the City Council. George I Baker Is chairman and the other mem bers are John M. Burgard. George D. Dunning. Tom X. Monks. James Ma gulre, Allan It. Joy and William jjchmeer. Ijist Thursday the committee met with the streetcar company officials and discussed various features of the f rapthls'S. but the members were deadlocked on a clause regulating fares and adjourned without rescuing any definite oeclslon. Only six of the mem bers of the committee were present at the last session. Councilman Magulre being absent, but this morning It Is expected that the full membership will be present and that the committee will either recommend the franchises to the Council or refuse so to recommend. . F. I. Fuller, vice-president of the company, told the members at the last meeting that bis company Is opposed to the clause regulating fares, as none of tbelr other franchises specifically gives the Council this right and he said that the sale of bonda would be ham pered to a great extent by the Incor poration of such a provision. City Attorney Grant Inserted thla provision, he said, to protect the city In future. He said that he dtd not be lieve that any Council would ever care to reduce the fare from five cents, but that he believed the city should have such a right In case It desired to exer cise It. Among the franchlsra Included In the ordinance ar those for the Sandy boulevard. Mllwaukle street end Sev enth street, connecting with the Broad. POLICE RAID OPIUM DEN Officer Arrest Chinese and Three White Visitors. Opium weighing .more than eight pounds and worth nearly $100 was found by Sergeant Klenlcn. Patrolmen Hutchings and Stewart, in the estab lishment or Ah Hong. 387 V Everett street, when officers raided the place early yesterday. They arrested the proprietor and three visitors Frank Anderson. Frank Howard and Mabel Wilson, all white. The house has been under surveil-. lance and haa been raided frequently. On account of the number of American visitors seen going Into the place, the police term it one of the worst opium Joints In the city. The quantity of opium was hidden In a closet In the floor, covered with a linoleum. The rooms were full of opium smoke when the raid was made. None of the visitors was smoking. PERS0NALMENTI0N. S. E. Carr, of Spokane, is at the Port land. P. A. Marsh Is registered at the Cor nelius. I R. Wallet, of Eugene, Is at the Carlton. L. H. Strelgel. of Baker, is at the Oregon. E. B. Pchull. or Pendleton, is at the Perkins. Emmett Callahan, of Baker, is at the Portland. . . R. C. Crosby, of Dundee. Is at the Multnomah. C. D.' Hartxell, of Fossil, is registered at the Imperial. L. A. Stoop Is registered at the Im perial from Elgin. It V. Waldron. of Newberg, is at the Perkins Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. L. 8. Mayes, of Baker, are at the Carlton. Herman Wise. ex-Mayor of Astoria, Is at the Multnomah. 4 H. A. Scott Is registered st the Cor nelius from Hlllsboro. T. A. Crawford, of La Grande, is reg istered at the Imperial. H. F. Laut Is registered at the Ore gon from North Yakima. J. B. Lacy, a business man of Sher wood, is st the Cornelius. l H. Plnkham. Jr an engineer from Spokane, is at the Bowers. Mr. and Mrs. Thomaa Scadden. of Butte, are at the Portland. G. A. Judd and G. B. Johnson, of As toria, are at the Multnomah. Mr.- and Mrs. A. B. Fredenthal, of Marshfleld, are at the Perkins. . Mr. snd Mrs. R. L. Ryan are regis tered at the Carlton from Fairfield. L. J. Chapman, of the Ontario Com mercial Club, Is registered at the Im perial. A. MacCorquodale, general passenger agent for the O.-W. K. & N. at Spokane, Is at the Portland. J. C. H. Ivlns, proprietor of the Hotel Ivlns, of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Ivlns are at the Oregon. Robert E. Twohy, of Twohy & Bros., who haa been engaged on a project near Vancouver, B. C, Is at the Bowers. J. G. Wood worth, of St. Paul, traffic manager of the Northern Pacific Rail way, and Mrs. Woodworth are at the Multnomah Hotel. CHICAGO, April 38. (Special.) W. M. Kollasch. of Portland. Or., Is at the Great Northern Hotel: James Turnball, of Portland, Is at the Grand racinc. A CIGAR OF QUALITY. Don't con-fuse the "Sam Sloan" cigar with "cheap and nasty" products sold for th same price 5 cents. ; No brass bands, no big inducements to dealers. Just a quality cigar which you will ap Portland Man Boards Prairie i Schooner for Long Over- j land Jaunt. j OLD MEXICO IS GOAL H. K. Wcslgate. of The Oregonian, and Wife Head South In Nomadic Kn.-hion for "Local Color" for Pictures, Stories, Health. Provloned for a six months' cruise In a prairie schooner and armed with several slabs of bacon, some hams, a case of eggs and other edibles to be used in emergencies when fish refuse t. rise to a fly or dive to a mouthful of other halt-tempters. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Westgate this morning hitched a team of fractloue cayuses to a canvas-covered wagon and headed for the open. They are off for a six months' camping trip that will rary' them through Oregon and California to the border of Old Mexico. Mr. Westgate is a newspaperman and left the copy desk of The Oregonlan Saturday night. Before oomln? to Port land lie was In the employ of the Spokesman-Review, of Spokane. He has worked for many of the big dailies be tween Pittsburg and the Pacific Coast. Including the Chicago Tribune. Salt I.a ko Tribune. Great Falls Herald. Los Angeles Herald and Examiner and papers in San Francisco. Mrs. West gat is a clever pen and Ink artist and, will Illustrate stories of the trip as written by her husband. Trip Plaaned for Tea Years. The drive to Southern California will be made by easy stages of eight or ten miles a day. and tho Westgates will camp several days at a Ume at places sffordlng good fishing or material for Mrs. Westgate's pen. Mr. Westgate says he has planned this camping trip for ten years: that he is tired of bend ing over desks In newspsper offices and of filling his lungs with bad air and tobacco smoke. In speaking of the trip, Mr. Westgate said: "We will aim to make about ten miles each day. on an average, but when the fishing is good, or the scenery appeals to us and we wish to stay longer, we may stay in camp at one spot for a week. "Hunting, fishing, monntain hikes, sketching and obtaining pictures and data for a series of newspaper articles, will make up our programme. Iove of Writing Lores. "Our plans now. which are subject to change of course, call for a wagon Journey to lxs Angeles, and we expect to reach tho Southern California city about October or November. "Among other articles. I expect to contribute a series of little stories to the newspapers on' 'What the Owners of Small Farms and Orchards In Oregon snd California Are Doing.' obtaining my Information first-hand and going Into details when describing Just what has been done, and what may be done, by the Investment of a small amount of money, coupled with hard work. In be coming an independent and carefree tiller of the soil In the Pacific Coast States." STATE TO SEND EXHIBIT OREGON WILL SHOW HEALTH riCTURKS IN EAST. Moving Films of State Institutions to Be seen at International Con gress on Hygiene. Plans have been perfected by the Oregon State Board of Health in con- Junction with several other societies. to have Oregon represented in a spe cial way at the Fifteenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, to be held In Washington. D. C. Sep tember 23-28. Beside making an ef fort to send a large delegation to reap the benefits to be derived from the ex hibits, a plan Is on foot to have motion pictures of state Institutions and of places where sanitary measures are employed. Some time ago a committee was ap pointed to arrange for an exhibit from Oregon. The committee consists of Mrs. W. B. Ayer. Mrs. Jtooert H. late. Mrs. A. E. Rockey, Dr. A. C. Smith and Dr. Calvin S. White, chairman. Dr. White yesterday received a letter from John T. Fulton, secretary-general of the congress, saying that a moving picture exhibit such as outlined would be acceptable. It Is arranged to have motion pic tures taken of the various state Instl- Health U tho foundation of all good look. 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