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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912. MISS BROOKS S STRANG E PROPOSAL Doctor Says He Loves Modern Joan of Arc Because She Looks Like Grandmother. ACTRESS WHOM COURT DENIES DECREE OF DIVORCE AND HER CHILD. SHE WILL NOT MARRY HIM JancsTillr Physician Sajs He Knows Militant Youn Woman Can Bake Good Pics She Says She Xever Made One in Life. CHICAGO. Aug. 26. (Special.) "And he says he has fallen in love with me because I look like his grandmother." V.'hereupon Miss Virginia Brooks, that extremely militant and energetic young woman who Is known as the Joan of Arc of West Hammond, threw back her head, opened hci- mouth, displayed two rows of glistening white teeth and laughed merrily. "Now isn't that a fine sentiment to come from a man whom I have never even seen and who announces publicly that he Is In love with me? Look like his grandmother. Indeed." Miss Brooks was referring to Dr. A. ' P. Burrus. a self-complacent, albeit very bashful bachelor of Janesville, Wis., who says that. In her he has found his Ideal of the one "perfect woman in the world." Matrimony Xo Conitldered. "No, I'm not thinking of committing matrimony Just at the present time," she continued. "For some time to come I am wedded to the work of cleaning up West Ham mond and of ridding the village of the ruffians and undesirables who infect It." "This loctor from Janesville Is too ridiculous to talk about. He says he knows I can make good pies, 'like grandmother used to make,' and that I can whip my weight in wildcats. I never baked a pie In my life and I've never had any experience in testing my prowess against wildcats. I ve had enough lighting to do as it Is without trying out wildcats. "Ami this doctor says he wants a wife whose chest measurement must be near 3a inches, who must not have - hollow shoulder blades or short ahem ' legs from" the knees down. Now. like most girls. I guess I know pretty well what my measurements are. And 1 guess I have some idea of my physical perfections or Imperfections. This doctor knows nothing about them. He's never even laid eyes on me and still he solemnly asserts that I am the 'perfect woman.' Bosh! Mia RrAok Too BnT. "I'm not perfect. I'm just a woman with a temper and a mind and with the frailties of the majority of my sex. I'm too busy to pay any attention to this doctor. Attempts of the dlvekeepera to stea a march on Miss Brooks and her fol lowers by establishing their places In Burnham, a village adjoining W es Hammond, were thwarted tonight by Samuel K. Markman.- attorney for the village. He declared that he had on tained the pledge of the president and every member of the village board not to Issue a license to any of the dive keepers or their stool pigeons. Women In West Hammond, who have .tried poy lice work, like it so well that they have determined to demand the rests nation of John Kulczltk. chief of po lice. This was announced tonight by Miss Brooks. I tsS.iM&-; t&fjra. 1&j4jsu ' i I . Iiv.f-ii. aiT-"M:r.::-:r... M J -ttfc.-." n;:---- tins:" ANA HELD AND HER BAICHTEII. ............ ... ......... 1 GIRL'S TEARS OPEN TO F WAY REEDDm j Aged Rancher Quits Prosecu tion of Alice Brown, Say ing He Loves Her. ! PRISON IS FLORAL BOWER DIRGE IS REFUSED Anna Held's Suit Is Held Up by Technicality. PHEASANTS HINDER CARS Birds So Plentiful in Clark County They Are Troublesome. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 26. (Spe cial.) So numerous have pheasants be mme in this county during the past three years of closed season that they are becoming troublesome. The electric car to Slfton has on numerous occasions been compelled to slacken Its speed to permit the birds to get off the track. The season for Chinese pheasants. ouall and ducks will open October 1 and remain open until December 31. Ieer may be killed for two months, be ginning September 1. No hunter may kill more than two bucks In one season and no does. Hungarian partridges will be protected until October 1. 1913. AGED SALEMITE IS DYING Isaac Iurbln Has Resided in Capital City 87 YearsI SALEM. Or.. Aug. 26. (Special.) Being brought home probably to die, Isaac Durbin. a pioner Salemlte of J $45. arrived from Newport today where he has been for several weeks. While at Newport ha was under the rare of five physicians, but little hope Is held out for him. He Is 81 years of age. Mr. Durbin Is one of the exceedingly few who are left that came to Salem In 1845. He has lived In thl vicinity continuously ever since. He was ac companied from Newport by htsi wife, liis daughter, Mrs. L. BechteL and her husband and another daughter, Mrs, D. G. Ross. JOHNSON'S NAME OPPOSED Bourne Prevents Confirmation of Nomination as Appraiser. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Aug. 26. Because of the oppo sition of Senator Bourne, the Senate failed to confirm the nomination of C. V. Johnson, of Corvallls, as appraiser of customs at Portland, to which place he was appointed on recommendation of Representative Hawley.- Hawley saw the President today re - garding Johnson and was assured that the recess appointment would be given him. which will hold him In office until .March 4 next. Oleott Officially Notified. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 26. (Special.) Official notification of the nomination of William Howard Taft as candidate for President: of James Schoolcraft Sherman, as Vice-President, at the Chi cago convention In June was received by Secretary Oleott today. The noti fication was signed by Elihu Root, chairman of the convention, and La fayette B. fileason, secretary. This, it is understood, is the first time that an official notification of this kind has been sent out following a National convention. It is thought that the notification was probably deemed nec essary in the light of the change made by the Presidential preference primaries. An "Invisible airship" Is made of chrom ium, ar. alley which takes on a hlirh polish, and the theory Is that lis Invisibility lll be accomplished by the reflecting qualitlei o: the metal. CODE NOT FOLLOWED OUT Failure of Witnesses to Sign Prop erly May Require Aetress : to Bring Entirely Xew Action Against Florcnz Zlegfeld. NEW YORK, Aug. 26. (Special. ) Supreme Court Justice Amend denied the motions made by Anna Held's at' torneys today to confirm the report of Referee Edward G. Whitaker and gran her an Interlocutory decree of divorce from Florenz Ziegfeld. He found the witnesses had not signed the evidence as required by the code of court pro cedure. Miss Held will now have to appeal to the court to permit the referee's report to be submitted again and con firmed. It was rumored today these witnesses would not again appear before the referee unless ordered to do so by the court. As there is no provision in the de cision for a rehearing before the ref eree. Miss Held may have to begin action again. Miss Held and Ziegfeld were married in Paris . In 1907. The papers in the suit were served upon the husband in April of this year. The name of the co-respondent was not disclosed. In recent Interview. Miss Held said the happiest marriages were among the poor. Both men and women, she said, should marry for love only and when united the man should be the master, if the wife erred she should be for given for she was the weaker. To stay married.". she added, "there mum ne congeniality between husband and wife and a couple should never be separated for- any length of time." Xappin Repents of His Intention to Send Her to Penitentiary and After Showering Ifcr With Bouquets Leaves City. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. (Spe cial.) Alice Brown, the pretty 24-year- old charmer of David Napping, the 72-year-old rancher of Iowa and Los An geles, was given her freedom today by Police Judge Shortall. She left the court undisturbed in her possession of the $17,000 which Napping gave her while enthusiastic over her singing and playing. When the case was dismissed Alice Brown was congratulated by a well- dressed young man who has taken a deep interest in her welfare and rela tions with Napping. They planned to seek out the old man and question him about his prosecution of th youn woman. Mapping Is Warned. A friend of Napping telegraphed to Los Angeles that the woman and her well-dressed escort were planning to Interview him and advised that Nap ping place his money in trust, so that he will not be able to give her the rest of his fortune. When Alice Brown appeared in court she was careftily groomed. She left in her cell the expensive flowers bought for her by Napping when he left here five days aso, choking and tearful over the nnguish he has caused her by hav ing her arrested. Her tears softened the old man's heart and a minute after he declared he wouldv prosecute until she was in San Quentln, he announced that he still loved her. Then he bought the flowers and. left a standing order with a florist to see that her cell was daily furnished with the choice products of tne gardens. Aged Man Departs The dismissal of the case acainst Alice Brown resulted from the failure to produce Nujping in court as a wit- linst the woman. He left the EVIDENCE FILLS MANS SPRECKELS AVIIili CONTEST , OX SEPTEMBER 14. UP Records of Sugar Company Will Be Produced In Battle Between Four Brothers. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 26. Two van- loads of documentary evidence, perhaps more, bearing on the famous Spreckels will contest, must be produced before Judge Seawell In the Superior Court on September 14. ' The evidence Is the records of the California Sugar Refining Company since June, 1898. and the order to pro duce It was signed on the affidavit of Claus A. and Rudolph Spreckels that it is necessarj- to .their action for an ac counting from their brothers John D. and Adolph B. Spreckels. John and Adolph Spreckels were cut off in their father's will. When they sued to break the will, the other two brothers retaliated by bringing action to recover gifts to them said to have been made by their father during his life in excess of his community share n the holdings of himself and his wife. The California Sugar Company Is owned by John D. Spreckels and Adolph Spreckels and constitutes part of the alleged gifts. MAYOR IS MATCHMAKER Homely" Seattle Girl Writes Van couver for "Ideal'l Man. VANCOUVER. Wash, Aug. 26. (Spe cial.) Mayor Irwin is attempting to assist a young Seattle girl to find her Ideal man for a husband. She has written to him, asking this assistance. 'If you can find my ideal in your ity I shall be pleased to hear from Im. I am over 18 years old. not yet plain and oh, must I say it quite homely, but I will answer all who care to write to me. Sincerely, 'MARGUERITE." Tk. iioai ATii.rioT.to (a lnnklriEr for ness aga ... rltV OKtensihlv for I Jlu Imreln, ar,A hte is a "man who is gentle and just. "P" nome In tna Mi(Wle West. Tne poiiee right, true to his trust, who cares more ordered to hrins- him hack Vh for honor and love than money; who's judge Shortall learned of his depart- sober and earnest, merry and gay, wno ure, Dut tne detectives failed to find cheerfully shoulders the cares of the the man and the case was dropped for j ...v. -i 1 riln-Vi wlin'l in -. ATTORNEYS' TANGLE WORRIES Xappin Visits Mrs. Brown Bearing Huge Floral Peace Offering. Curious features in the case of Alice J. Brown. alleged adventuress, ex tradited from here recently to answer at San Francisco to a charge of taking jii.uoo from David Nappin, an aged farmer, have been brought to light by Attorney W. T. Vaughn, who has returned from San Francisco' after waging a fight for the woman's release. Vaughn charges that all is not right in tne case, and makes interesting al legations to back his charge, T1 KAn-In ... I , I. . . . t f . - there, is not a shadow of a right to of laboT. and has concluded that the J""0-0! ?-C" I? . ..... . ... j. r. i " - - uii.n II mm . . tl I 1 1 1 1 never were there together, nor is any act wnicn is cnarged against her al leged to have occurred there. In ad dition to this, he says that Nappln's attorney and the District Attorney united, in open court in saying that no orfense against the laws existed in the case, yet Judge Shortall refused to grant a dismissal. Intimating that rather do right than wrong, and who holds his neighbor as dear as himself. CATHOLICS WILL OPPOSE Labor Demonstration to Mark War .Against Socialism. NEW YORK. Aug. 26. Under the direction of Cardinal Farley, the Cath olic churches of New York City will join next Sunday evening in a great labor demonstration, the first step In a campaign against Socialism. Invitations to take part have been sent to more than 100.000 laboring men. worklngman should be educated to handle the labor cause intelligently. He hopes that this move, will eventu ally prove to be a solution of the labor problem in this country. WARDEN EVOLVES PLAN Official Would Give Men One Day's the motion to dismiss was the outcome I vi buuuaiun. rrutuumiutjs num. Jntla-e Snarire. lltnrn.v A tangle in the employment of at TOPKKA. Kan.. Aug. 26. One day's torneys is hinted at by Vaughn as th freedom for each day they work at cause of the delay and the holding o building roads for the state Is what tne woman. On reaching San Fran Warden Codding of the Kansas peni- Cisco, he says, he went direct to Judge tentiarv has asked Governor Stubbs to nortan, saying that he was not li give state prisoners. The Governor censed to practice there, and wished to has the power to grant this request entrust the case to some lawyer of high through being able to commute sen- standing. He says that the judge gave tences. him the address, of his own former law "It costs more to hire guards for the partner, Walter Thompson, and even prisoners who build roads than It sent his brother to see that he found would cost to hire laborers," Warden the place. Codding said. In the meantime. Attorney Manning. handling the I'ortland end of the case, had engaged James E. Fenton. brother DEBS ACCEPTS NOMINATION Ji-JniZLth,la ",? -W?"B she insisted an hftvincr thin lnwvor nn --no ceremonies Jiar tvem ior o- near. Shortall lmmediatelv showed severity in the case, says Vaughn, and blocked every effort to secure a dis missal, even when moved by the Dis TERRE HAUTE. 2nd., Aug. 26. In trict Attorney. The woman was held marked contrast to the notification I until yesterday when her release was ceremonies practiced by other political ordered. parties, the Socialist Presidential nom Fifth, Washington and Alder Streets We Will Wei at the New come You Store Tuesday, September Third Business Suspended This Week. Temporary Office, 4th -Street Entrance of the Old Store cial 1st Candidate. Inee, Eugene V. Debs, today accepted Xappin Seems Susceptible. Vaughn met Nappin, the now-famous ... .......... Lothario, and adds features to the "T "" "' ""- character sketches of him which hav been a part of the case from the first He is rather low In stature, he says, and wears a wig and false teeth. He is proud of his agility, and has a prac tice of throwing his limbs about and boasting that he is the limberest man of his years In San Francisco. On the night before the case was called, says Vaughn, the elderly complainant was out automobile riding with a blonde Bodv Is Found on Desert 17 Miles manicurist from the hotel where he siuyeu. Aiie imiuwing uay iie was in erty to print his address of acceptance which he. had sent them In printed form. No committtee called on Mr. Debs and there was an entire lack of cere mony of any kind. MAN PERISHES OF THIRST West of Imperial. EL CKNTRO, Cal., Aug. 26. The body of a man. believed to be Herman L. N'arlzen, of San Diego, was found on the desert 17 miles west of Imperial today. He had evidently been dead for two weeks. , Coroner Petersen, who brought the body to El Centro, said death was due to thirst. attendance at the jail with a sheaf of costly roses as big as a barrel. When Alice received them, she buried her face in the flowers and wept, or .af fected to weep. That was a bad move for N'appln, who thinks that every wo man is in love with his machine I curled locks and glistening teeth, was only encouraged to continue his pur suit. Meeting of Moose Called. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Aug. 26. (Spe cial.) Though the Roosevelt Progres sives, at a convention held In the county courthouse last Saturday, went on record as opposed to putting a ticket In the field, another mass meet ing has been called by Charles W. Hall, SUNDAY CLOSING ORDERED Postoffices Must Remain Shut Now According to Bill. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. All first and second-class postoffices will bo closed on Sundays as a result of one member of the State Central com- provision of the new postal appropria- mlttee for Clark County, for 1 o'clock tion bill passed by Congress and signed Wednesday. septemDer zs. a memoer by President Tatt. of the State Central committee will be Every important city in the United present to outline plans. Letters have states is affected. Hereafter only spe been sent out to . known Roosevelt Progressives throughout the county asking assistance in spreading the call for Wednesday. Salem Water Company May Sell.' SALEM. Or., Aug. 26. (Special.) The City Council and the Salem Water Company reached an agreement tonight to submit the question of price of the plant to arbitration and leave it to the decision of three competent engineers. t Is probable that this arbitration agreement eventually will result ln he citv securing Its own water plant through the purchase of the present through college. I am called . very 1 company's properties. cial delivery letters will pass through on that day and no mall will be placed in lock boxes. Postoffices in several cities have been closed Sundays heretofore. The Postmaster-General has permitted that under a regulation of which it was evi dent that local sentiment demanded it. The closing is now compelled by law. Reyes Injuries Xot Serious. LOURDES. France. Aug. 26. Ex President Rafael Reyes, of Colombia, is unlikely to suffer serious complica tions as a result of the automobile ac cident in which he and his daughter were Injured near here on Sunday. The JL Merchandise of reril Only,. doctors report today tnat he passed a most restless night owing to the pain from several fractured ribs which had caused internal lacerations. European Famed in Orient Weds. LONDON, Aug. 26. Dr. George Ernest Morrison, hitherto correspond ent of the Times In Pekin. was mar ried today to Miss Jeanne Robin, a na tive of New Zealand, who formerly lived in China. Dr. Morrison returns immediately to Pekin to take up his duties as political adviser to the Chinese president of the Republic. Rosenthal's shoe saie now on. 0 )liiy Copper Bottom Wash Boilers .00 $1 $37.90 to Los Angeles Round Trip From Portland Account of 46th Annual Encampment G. A. R. HARDWARE CO. Fourth Street Near Washington! Body Odors n-haiha, frnm th. ukln. mouth. armDtt. fPt or Internal ora-ans, are immediately stopped and In a snort time permanently reijevea by Tyreea Antiseptic Powder. Ue a a wash, g-arg-le or douche. Perfectly harm less and delightfully cleansing, purifying and heallnpr. -5c box makes 2 gallons so lution. All drugslsta. Send for booklet and free sample. J. 8. TYREE, Chemist. M'ashinrton, D. C. September 9 to 14, inclusive, 1912. Tickets on sale September 5, 6, 7, with eoing limit to September 11. Final return limit sixty (60) days from date of sale. STOPOVERS allowed both ways; poing- until September 11; re turning' until final limit of the ticket. RETURN VIA SALT LAKE Round Trip $61.00 Correspond ingly low fares from all points in t)re- I &) SUNSET & 1 I I OG DEN & SHASTA I I I ROUTES I G. A. R. Special Train leaves Portland Saturday, September 7, 2:4.i P. M. Consists of Tourist Sleepers. Military Diner (meals oO cents) and free observation car. For information relative to fares, train sflipdiiles etc., call at City Ticket Office. Third and Washington Sis., Union Depot or East Morrison Street Depot. JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Or. 3