Morning Oregonian., June 21, 1912, Page 12, Image 12

12 " .' THE MORXING OREGONIAJT, FRTLViAY, JUNE -21, 1912.
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MEN AND WOMEN WHO KNEW OREGON BEFORE IT ATTAINED STATEHOOD, ASSEMBLED IN MASONIC TEMPLE LAST NIGHT.
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1GOO Aging and Infirm Build
Man Killed in Alder-Street
House Recognized as
Pennsylvanian. ,
ers of Oregon Gather and
Talk of Early Days.
OLD-TIMER DOES "CLOG
WOMAN SEEN AFTER DEED
PIONEERS JOYFUL
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Music, Campf Ire and Big Wirar at
Armory Make Day One of !stiV'
Ity Mayor Smith, of Grants
Pace, Makes Address.
Cheerful in spite of age and physical
. infirmities, a great throng of Oregon
: pioneers about 1000 of them assem
bled yesterday in annual reunion. Dur
ing the morning they were to be found
' at the City Hall, where they registered
at the headquarters of the Oregon no
neer Association, and exchanged remi
niscences of early days.
The aged men and women who braved
i the hardships of the great and then
iwild Northwest, when the life of the
' white settler was not secure against
the attack of the treacherous Indian,
and when hunger often stared them in
the face, were not to be kept away
from their annual celebration by a lit
tie rain. So they crowded the Masonic
Temple yesterday afternoon and last
: night to capacity.
. Aatomobiles Are Provided,
After a short programme in the aft
ernoon, at which Colonel Robert A.
Miller presided, and Robert O. Smith.
Mayor of Grants Pass, and son of
pioneer of 1853. delivered the annual
address, they were whisked away to
the Armory in automobiles furnished
by the Portland Automobile Club. There
were many who. In spite of the heavy
downpour, preferred to walk.
At the Armory the tables were hear
lly laden with good things, for 80 mem
bers of the Women's Auxiliary had been
at work preparing the feast. The annual
business meeting was held at the Ma
sonic Temple at 7:30, and after that a
. "camp fire" programme was given.
. None of the Sons and Daughters of
' the Oregon Pioneers was admitted to
' the gathering yesterday afternoon, but
last night they were welcomed. The
object of this rule was to make it pos
sible for all the pioneers to be seated
at the afternoon meeting.
; George L. Baker, president of the
Portland City Council, was called upon
to deliver the address of welcome yes
terday afternoon. He spoke briefly.
Colonel Miller, in responding, referred
to the beautiful statues to be seen in
the parks of the city, and expressed
the hope that one will soon be erected
commemorative of the work done by the
pioneers In the upbuilding of the state.
Vetera Starts to "Clog.
The old people showed their delight
at the, music rendered by the Lucas
band. ' Some clapped in time with the
music, and one even started a clog
dance. Mrs. Clyde B. Altchlson ren
dered several vocal solos, Carl Denton
being the accompanist. The Invoca
tion was by Rev. T. L. Jones, a pioneer
of 1853, and chaplain of the society.
Chairman Miller appointed a commit
tee on resolutions, as follows: K- J.
Magers. John W. Minto and E. J. Jef
fery.
In the annual address Mayor Smith
said he Is glad votes for women are
coming. Only one thing was lacking',
he said, when Oregon's provisional gov
ernment was formed, and that was a
provision for equal suffrage.
Another declaration was that when
the early settlers changed the oath of
office, making it possible for Canadians
to hold office the same as United States
cltlxens without surrendering their
rights as citizens of Canada, they de
livered one of the greatest diplomatic
strokes In the history of the North-
' west. "These people of Canada," he
said, "when they came to Oregon real
ised they stood on an equality with
the American people, and this did a
great deal to put an end to thought of
. Kritlsh occupancy."
In part. Mayor Smith said:
It has been said that the Oregon country
. was included in the Louisiana pure base, but
that was very vague. Whatever rights the
Nation might have acquired by the treaty
with Napoleon, the title was too visionary
to hold against occupancy and exploitation
by any other Nation. The Federal author
ities undoubtedly so regarded It. and It Is
undoubtedly true that Oreson would never
' have become an American territory and
state without a government established by
her own people. Widely separated from the
. seat of government, without communication
except by the most slow and laborious
means, without protection, the pioneers
were obliged to depend upon their own re
sources. Cbampoea- Date Recalled.
The beginning of the American Govern-'
meat in the Northwest dates from the meet
ing In Champoeg In 1841. for on that day
was organised the provisional government
of Oregon, without assistance, without aid
and without encouragement from the great
Republic These pioneers boldly assumed the
, right to establish a government in the face
. of British occupancy for SI) years, when
their whale number did not exceed 150.
strong and ruling must have been th
patrtotlo spirit that Impelled this handful
of people of this, the remotest outpost of
Republic, to have hazarded so much In
OREGON PIONEER ASSOCIATION AT CLOSES OP DAY'S REUNION WHICH INCLUDED BIG BANQUET AT ARMORY.
the
th f&c of ureal discouragement and ad
Terslty . There Is only one explanation of
their persistence and courage, and that Is
that they., well understood or bellered that
they were laying tne Xoundatlon of a vret
Late.
It Is true, no doubt, that some came to
the Oregon country for the purpose of ac
quiring land. Others came as missionaries
among the Indians, and a few might have
come through a spirit of adventure only.
But they all must in some degree have been
imoelled by that Instinct which so strongly
- characterizes the American people, the In
tliict vt founding states.
After the founding of the provisional
a-overnment the founders bore themselves
well. There was, no effort on their part to
antagonise those who clung to British rule,
but on the other hand there was the great
est diplomatic effort made, successfully to
Jnduc them to co-operate In the govera--znent
of the people.
When the pioneers undertook the great
was on journey across the great American
Desert they knew they would meet a savage
foe, that they would be compelled to de
fend themselves against their attacks, and
that many of them would fall by th wsy
sldv In undertaking the Journey uader
these circumstances they did not differ from
the rest of humanity, for mankind In all
ages and all times has had to defend him
self against wild beasts of the forest as
well as human enemies.
Trials of Travel Picture.
Separated from the rest of the American
people by a distance which required greater
time to travel than It did to cross the At
lantic Ocean to Europe, with communica
tion that was Intermittent and open during
only a part of the year, with officials of
Oovemment apathetic and uninterested in
this region, the pioneers must have felt and
did realize that they were without the pro
tect Ion of any government, and moreover
were liable to encounter the hostility of the
greatest government of the world. Gteat
Hrttaln. and when these pioneers reached
ttie Columbia and the Willamette they found
themselve face to face with that great rep
resentative of Imperial authority, the Hud
son's Bay Company.
It ts fortunate for the present generation
that among these pioneers were men of
giant Intellect and far-seeing vision. Had
they been mere adventurers, or seeking a
quick mad to wealth or endeavoring to es
cape the requirements of civil life, they
would no doubt have precipitated u con
flict which would have meant that British
occupancy would have extended and form
ally entrenched in the Oregon country, and
that provisional government would nave
been Impossible.
Tho character or the pioneers is nest oe
terralned by the fact that for several years
they were able to live without the sem
blance of governmental control. Congress
was memorialized again and again to se
cure protection, but the great inspiriting de
sire for the protection of this Government
was to have the flag of this country planted
there so that this would become and remain
a part of the American Nation. For years
the memorials fell on deaf ears, tut the
Oregonlans continued to beseech that Con
gress protect the Infant colony. Again they
called the attention of Congress to the fact
that the Hudson's Bay Company with the
wealth at its command would engage In a
competition with the American settlers that
would prove ruinous to their.
''eed of I .aw Recognised.
The pioneers of Oregon, like the fathers
of the Revolution, recognised the necessity!
of law and order to secure the well-being
of the community. They preferred the gov-
ernment of a republic to that of a mon
archy, and were persistent In their demands
that the republic should take them into
its fold But they were spumed and neg
lected by the Government from which they
came, on the one hand, and kindly
considerately treated by the representatives
of British authority on the other band.
They found some In their midst who had
come from another part of the British do
minion to escape British rule, who desired
the establishment of a government more to
their liking, and no man contributed more
towards the organization of this region than
that Canadian patriot, the last survivor of
the provisional government of Oregon. F.
X. Mattbieu. who Is here with us today.
Pioneer Explains Reunion.
Speaking at the meeting; of the pio
neers last night, A. B. Roberts, of
Walla Walla, said:
why do pioneers meet in social
gatherings? Why do we come from
our homes In. the various parts of this
far Northwest for a reunion after years
of separation?
"Not so much to tell of our expert
ence in our various work of building
up this great empire as to tell the
present generation of the conditions
existing here when we first started in
the work of developing this, the far
thest and most distant and most dan
gerous portion of our great country.
"The most dangerous, because our
and vicinity, I will tell of the condi
tions here. t
"When I arrived In Portland the town
claimed 600 inhabitants. It had no
city charter,- but the following Winter
a charter was granted, and early in
the Spring it began to organize for the
election of city officials.
"The first step was the holding of a
mass meeting to nominate candidates.
I. was there. W. S. Ladd was nomi
nated for Mayor and William Ui;gins
as City Marshal, and were duly elected
a little later. I was one of the voters.'
Bill Higgins challenged my vote, but
was not sustained by the Judges. I
voted at the first city election in Port
land. Orisrlnal Claimants Known.
"As soon as I could get a stock of
goods I opened a business in Portland
with J. P. Spartle, and have continued
to follow that business here and in
Washington and Idaho until the pres
ent time. Is there anyone who did
business in Portland in 1S53 and 1854?
I became personally acquainted with
every one of the original claimants of
the land on which Portland is built
the old town, and the East Side.
"Steven Coffin, Benjamin Stark, Pet
tygrove. Couch and Flanders Lowna
dale and Flnnls Caruthers, William
Stevens. Gideon Tibbets, Dr. Pretty man
and others on the East Side.
"Front street was the only business
street, there being no stores of any
kind, except Captain Baker's bakery,
on any other street.
"The stumps were not grubDed. out
OUR PIONEERS.
Hats off! Hats off! to those
brave men.
And bravest women, too.
Who march today with feeble
steps.
Whose lives are good and true.
They made & wilderness to smile
With fruit and golden grain.
For us, calm years, content and
peace.
Theirs was the toil and pain.
A warmer clasp our hands should
give.
For soon they'll march away
Into the land of their reward.
Into the endless day.
Could we but claim, as they
pass on, -
Such strength and courage ours.
Ah! may their last, long home
ward march
Be strewn with sweetest flowers,
June McMillan Ordway.
Government Irad not yet furnished suf
ficient military protection to the people
who had been induced to leave their
homes in the Fast and cross the al
most trackless deserts and the great
mountain ranges to make homes in
far-off Oregon.-
"I say Induced to come. Our Govern
ment offered greater inducements to
those who would go- to Oregon than
was offered to those of the so-called
Western states; 40 acres of land free
to any man with a wife, as a 'donation
homestead.'
-This offer was made by our Govern
ment for reasons of its own. which we
will not now stop to discuss.
Most of Pioneers Gone.
We came, and the conditions we
found are what we want to tell the
people of the present generation and
the future, I speak of the present gen
eration, for the real pioneers are of a
different generation from those of to
day. Most of those old pioneers are
gone, and only a few are left to tell
the story of the work before the be
ginners. "Now, let each old pioneer tell of
conditions existing in the particular
location where he or she began the
great work of development. As my
work began in the City of Portland
EARLY DAYS IN OREGON
RECALLED BY PIONEERS
T. X. Matthieu Arrives at ButteviUe, Marion County, in 1842, Bringing
First Ox Teams That Ever Crossed Rockies.
"I
ORTY years ago, BOO Oregon
pioneers met In my little store
at Butteville. Marion County,
Oregon, and formed the nucleus of
the association that is holding its
meeting today."- said F. X. Matthieu,
the oldest pioneer present at the big
convention yesterday. "That was in
1872. I came down from Terrebonne,
Canada, to New Tork City and then
out to ButteviUe in 1S42 with the first
ox teams that ever crossed the-Kock'
ies."
"We Just received a letter saying
that the last of his friends in Canada
had died," Mr. Matthieu's daughter,
Mrs. Rose Bergstrom, said. "He is the
last of the old school. He Is the only
one left."
Sir. Matthieu was the first president
of tha "Oresron Pioneer Association; J.
Grimm, of Astoria, the first vice-president,
and Willard Reese, of ButteviUe.
the first secretary and treasurer, urea
Geer was the other organizer.
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There was sreneral recognition, hand
shaking and recalling of incidents at
the meeting yesterday.
Remember," said William Morntt,
of Portland, to a friend, "that I helped
make the first casting ever made in
Oregon. That was at Oregon City In
1848."
...
W. H. Dufur. of Duf ur. ' Oregon, a
fiftv-niner. said:
'AH the old comrades. are dying sua
think that we should extend the
privileges of the association to pio
necrs of .1861 and 1862 at least.".
"When I was only 14 years old !
drove an ox team day after day and
kent mr eye out for Indians and out
laws," said J. N. Berry, an Indian war
veteran of Hillsboro. "When an ox
died we hitched a cow in it's place and
continued our way. Sometimes we had
enouKh to eat and other times we
boiled wheat in water as a substitute
for bread. No I don't think that those
who came In later than 1859 should
belong to the association. They had
enough to eat and there were people
here waiting to care for them.
....
'I was in the first emigrant train
that ever crossed the Rockies," said
V. N. Perry, of Clallam Bay, Washing
ton. "When we reached Green River
we were obliged to throw away every
thing, cattle, provisions, wagons and
tools, and make our way on horse
back, because there were no wagon
roads. Women and children had to be
carried for miles on horseback. Those
were real hardships.
We camped on the present site or
Portland and felt that we had met a
whole community when we came upon
one lone trapper who was catching
beaver on the premises of one of your
skyscrapers."
Mr. Perry is 72 years old, and a son
of W. T. Perry. His father cast a
vote at Champoeg. He came to Ore
gon from Iowa, leaving there May 10.
842. F. X- Alattmeu was in tne party.
He Is now conducting a store at Clal
lam. Wash.
...
"I am the oldest living white man
born west of the Rocky Mountains,"
was the claim made by Cyrus H. Walk
er, of Albany, an Indian war veteran.
I think that we should make a
change, allowing anyone who has been
SO years in Oregon to be a member
of the association. Ia this way tha ,
membership would keep up and there
wouleV be a perpetual association.
...
"Little Indians were our only play
mates, when we. as children, came to
Oregon." The cpeaker was Mrs. Ines
A. Parker, of 765 Schuyler street, who
with hundreds of other pioneers was
attending the annual reunion at the
Masonic TemDle yesterday.
"I was only three years old when
my father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Lb Adams, crossed the plains, out
remember it all." she continued. "One
of the cattle mired when we were in
the Cascade Mountains, and father had
to yoke up a cow with the other ox.
She brought us through all right, too.
The cow was 15 years old then and
lived for 10 yoars after we reached
Oregon.
"We came to Oregon from Galesburg,
la., and arrived October 1, 1848.
"My husband, the late W. W. Parker,
of Astoria, was a member of the first
vigilance committee in San Francisco.
He. arrived in San Francisco when it
was a city of tents. He came to tne
Pacific Coast by way of tne Horn, the
same year I came across the plains.
We both arrlvod the same month. Mr.
Parker died 14 years ago, within one
year of John Wesley Johnson, first
president of the University of Oregon.
"Mrs. Helen Johnson, wife of .Pro
fessor Johnson, my sister, came in
the party In which I came. She and
I were the first two women In Oregon
to learn the printing trade.
"I also am distantly related to Presi
dent Taft, and to Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt. Mr. Hlmes Is a relative of
mine, and our .family intermarried with
the family of James McBride, as we
were neighbors In Yamhill.
...... .
Mrs. P. C, Williams, of 771 Schuyler
street, came across the plains from In
diana, in 1851. HeY parents settled at
Troutdale, where her uncle, F. G.
Hlcklln, had a place.
"When we were On our way across
the continent, the Indians drove off our
horses," she said, "but they never at.
tacked the train, as it was a large one.
The horses were recovered. There
were at least 50 families In the train.
One night we joined the Ohio train.
in command of. Elijah Williams, of
Salem, father of Richard Williams. In
this way we were doubly secure
against attacks by the Indians.
.
Mrs. Sarah Hovenden came to Oregon
from Tasmania In 1852. She was then
12 years old. Her parents settled at
Butteville. In Marion County. "My
husband came to Oregon in 1849, she
said, "and settled in Marlon County,
and we lived there until his death, 20
years ago."
...
J. Lamberson came across the
plains from Iowa in 1845. He was five
years old. and is now 73. He and bis
wife are now living at Houiton, in
Columbia County.
...
J. M. Berry, sob of Francis Berry.
said his parents experienced great
hardships. Coming across the plains
they lost all they had except one little
3-year-old heifer, and a 3-year-old
yoke of steers. Other cattle in the
company were used to haul the wagon.
He came to Oregon from Gentry Coun
ty. Mo., in 1852. He was 14 years old
then. There were 12 wagons In the
party, and nine In bis father's family.
Including a married brother. I
of Front street any farther south than
First-street bridge, which crossed a
ravine.
"Timber was being cut for sawlogs
on Second and Third streets and
farther back, and was hauled on a
high-wheeled wagon to Mr. Abrams'
sawmill on the east side of Front
street, .near the First-street bridge.
"it was a dense forest to' the hills
or mountains west, where Thomas Car
ter and Ely Stewart had claims in the
gulches, and Mr. King had a tannei7.
Mr. Terwilllger had a claim and tan
nery on the south of town. These
tanneries, the - one sawmill, the shop
in which Jacobs & Harbaugh made
wagons, the bakery, Davis & Monastes'
founderies and thrue printing offices
were the principal manufacturing In
stitutions of Fortlaad.
Public Opinion Manufactured.
"Please do not laugh at the Idea of a
newspaper office being called a manu
facturing establishment, for I can
assure you that Tom Dryer, with his
Oregonlan was manufacturing public
opinion, which was as useful an article
as anything made in this territory at
that time, and through the management
of Henry Plttock, tha successor of
Dryer, 4t has continued the work. I
might say there were many leading
men who had to buy the goods yet who
disliked the bitter pills sent out.
nut there were business men In
Portland who were great leaders, who
helped build the future of this now
great city. We remember among them
the Fallings, the Corbetts. Allen &
Lewis, Anderson, B. S. Francis, W. S.
Ladd, who was just building the first
brick building, preparatory to unload
ing his cargo of goods just arrived
from New Tork; McCormlck, the first
book dealer; Frazler & Son. Story &
Davis, druggists; Semore & Joint, hard
ware; Coffin & Company, later Coffin
& Northrup; Vance Hardware Company,
William Beck, the first gunsmith.
"Those builders had a great work
before them. They had a lack of trans
portation facilities, they had the great
white wings of the ocean, but only one
line propelled by steam the Pacific
Mall Steamship Company, which at first
ran but one steamer each month from
San Francisco. Soon afterward the
company put on two steamers each
month.
Company Tries to Kill Town.
But this company, instead of trying
to boilld up Portland, attempted to kill
the town, and here came the tug of
war. Much was to be done to Improve
navigation on the Columbia below
Portland. Swan Island bar, the bar at
the mouth of the Willamette, and Wil
low bar needed dredging. So this
great steamship company took up the
idea of building a city below these bars
and accordingly bought of B. M. Durell
the town and surrounding lands of St.
Helens, where they proceeded to build
a fine wharf and warehouses at an ex
pense of more than $160,000, and then
told the men of Portland that they
would come no more to the little village
with their great ships.
No other men who ever built a
city ever met such an obstacle and
overcame it. Here was a condition, to
try the greatest of men. This was the
greatest monopoly of transportation at
the time in the United States. Here
was a seaport cut off from the sea.
What could they do?
'They told the steamship company.
we will ship by sailing vessels. . We
will not patronize you unless you land
your freight at Couch & Flanders'
dock In our city."
"What nonsense! It was like savlna-
to a railroad, 'if you don't bring your
road into our town, we wiU do our
business by ox teams.' But these men
at once chartered a steamer in New
York and gave an order for the con
struction of another, and stood by their
word.
The steamer Columbia, of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, arrived in
due time at St. Helens, and the Mult
nomah, on its run from Portland to
Astoria, brought the word that 'the
steamer was in at St. Helens. No pas
sengers and no freight were sent down.
Again the steamer arrived, hut not
pound of freight went to it.
Manager Hears Ultimatum. '
On the next trip came the manager
of the company. He came up to Port
land. He told the men of Portland that
they were crazy; that they never could
do business in that way. He was told
very plainly to go south, to a warm
country. He was informed of what
they had done and that never again
would the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany receive one dollar of patroaaa-e
until it landed a steamer at the docks
in Portland. -
'Days of argument availed nothing,
and at last the company consented "to
come to Portland. But what about St.
Helens? 'Of course we will deliver
freight at St. Helens.' 'Not a pound,'
was the order. 'Not a dock on the
Columbia River will you touch until
you have landed at Portland,' and all
of this -was agreed to.
"This was not -'hot air,' for I have
been on that old steamer as a pacsen
ger and seen her stop in midchannel
and send a small boat with a little
sack of mail ashore at their town of
St. Helens.
"There were other great boosters in
this country then. There were leaders
In education.- There were leaders in
the medical profession. There, were
leaders in morality, whose pulpit ora
tlons were world-wide in extent and
influence." - j
PIONEERS BANQUET GUESTS
Early Settlers Have Elaborate Iin
ner at Armory.
It was the simple atmosphere of the
home fireside that pervaded the ban
quet hall of the Oregon pioneers in the
auditorium of the Armory yesterday
afternoon. Fifteen hundred and forty
of the sturdy heralds of civilization in
the West gathered around the long
rows of tables to partake of the viands
served. They came together like
brothers and sisters in their annual
family reunion, at a great big family
dinner.
For a setting there was a wealth of
wlldwood green and flower amid a
bower of forest boughs. The tables
were Jon and of the home-made va
riety. Plain crockery ware was used
and the food was such as is usually
kept in the Sunday cupboard of the
family pantry. The diners were wait
ed on by young women, most of them
the daughters of pioneers. Everything
was such as to make the pioneers feel
at their ease.
Twenty tables occupied all available
space in the Armory. There were
places for 64 diners at each table.
Vases filled with flowers were Disced
along the center of each table. A dif
ferent kind of flower was placed on
each table in uniform bouquets. Around
the balcony were trees and ferns and
American flags were hung from the
ceiling. .
Each table was in charge of a sep
arate committee of six women. ,who
vied in arranging their table In the
most artistic manner.
For many weeks the executive com
mittee in charge of the banquet had
worked arranging the details. This
committee consisted of Mrs. Benton
Killin. chairman, and Mrs. S. P. Thomp
son and Mrs. P. L. Willis, assistants.
Monday morning the committee took
possession of the Armory and began
setting out tne tables.
The food for the banquet was con
tributed by business men of the city.
It . included; 60 pounds of cheese, 10
gallons of milk, 14 gallons of cream,
60 gallons of ice cream, in brick form,
213 home-made cakes, 100 pounds of
lump sugar, 64 pounds of butter, 105
pounds of candy, 180 loaves of bread.
24 baked salmon, 20 hams, 75 veal
loaves, 38 pounds of special sausage
and 40 gallons of potato salad. Tne
baked salmon was served warm and
delivered from different hotels and res
taurants in the city, where they had
been prepared.
Women at the sideboards prepared
the food and also made hot coffee and
tea. A staff of marshals, assisted by
a detail of police, under the command,
of Sergeant Roberts, were present to
give every assistance to the pioneers.
Officers Believe Ray W. Wallace Not
Slain by Female Companion Who
Posed as 'Wife Argument
Overheard After Crime.
Identification of the man murdered
Tuesday night or Wednesday morning
at 503 H Alder street as Ray W. Wal
lace, a waiter: partial identification of
the woman who shared the room with
him as Hazel Irwin, a wayward girl
from Salem and known to the police;
here: and trace of a man and woman
supposed to be the Irwin woman and her
escort, as they were leaving toward the
Union Depot at 6 o'clock Wednesday
morning were all the results of a day's
work on the part of four detectives as
signed to the case.
The murdered man. who wss found
Wednesday morning with his head bat
tered in and a heavy bolt wrapped In
paper by his side, was positively iden
tified by the proprietor of a restaurant
at 492 Washington street, wnere ne
was employed. Almost equally positive
Is the identification of the girl who
posed as Wallace's wife, as Hazel Irwin.
Girl Seen After Murder.
One clew came to the police yester
day through a person who saw a man
and woman at Sixth and Flanders
streets at 6 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing, several hours after the murder had
been committed and some hours before
it was .discovered. The woman, who
answered to the description of the Ir
win woman in everything except her
hat. wore a veil, . but this mask did
not hide her tears.
She was Drotestine. I won t go;
and the listener heard her companion
say, "Well, you will go." Then they
turned toward the station.
The man was described as about io
years old, smooth-shaven and about 5
feet 7 imh.is tall. Ho was carrying
two suitcases.
Following this clew the officers ara
making an effort to learn where a pair
so described may have taken tickets.
The two suitcases are deemed sig
nificant. The baggage belonging to
Wallace has been found, but it Is
thought that the other suitcases may
never have been In the room where
he was murdered.
Love Letters Are Found .
Monday night Wallace rented a room
in a nrivate house near the scene of
the crime and Slept there. It Is thought
that he may have done so through fear
of the "moral squad." In his baggage,
found yesterday, were papers and let
ters, most of them being loving epistles
from Marie Williams, Wllkesbarre. Pa.
They had been received at various cities
of the West. Other credentials tend to
show that.Wa'lace was a resident of
Wllkesbarre.
In the fact that the woman seen In
the North End, If she was indeed the
companion of Wallace, was accom
panied by a strange man who seemed
to have power over her, the police find
support for the belief that the fatal
blow was struck by a more vigorous
hand than hers, and that Jealousy was
the probable motive.
Search for the antecedents of the '
woman was unfruitful.
CREDIT MEN HOLD MEET
B. K. Knapp Is Named President.
Mail Frauds Discussed.
At the annual meeting of the Port
land Association of Credit Men. held
Wednesday night in the Commercial
Club, the following officers were
elected: President B. K. Knapp; vice
president, F. L. Shull; executive com
mittee, W. J. Henderson, -W. W. Dow
nard, E. G. Lelhy.
Reports of the secretary ana treas
urer showed the association to be in
flourishing condition. The member
ship now numbers 219. Monthly meet
ings have been held in the past year
at which questions of Interest to mem
bers have been discussed.
At the conclusion of the business ses
sion Walter H. Evans addressed the
meeting on "Schemes to Defraud," re- -ferring
particularly to the use of the
malls in that respect and pointing out
specific weaknesses in the Oregon
statutes. . -v-'
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PIONEERS TRAVEL . BY AUTO
Ox-Team Veterans Swished From
. ..Masonic Temple to Arraorj-.
Aged men and women, members, of
the Oregon Pioneer Association, trem
ulous with excitement, were bundled
Into the 15 closed cars furnished by
the Portland Automobile Club as they
came out of tne Masonic Temple yes
terday afternoon and were rushed to
the Armory to the big annual dinner
that awaited them there. Because of
Inclement weather the ride about the
city was not made.
The 15 cars began running at 3:30
o'clock and made quick trips until after
4 oclock and a number enjoyed their
first auto ride..
It had been planned to give the
pioneers half an hours' ride around
the city, but this was cancelled on ac
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