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ttp: morning oregoniax. Thursday, September 5, 1912. 3 SYDNEY AYRES IS E Ex-Leading Man at the Heilig Theater Tires of Being Wifeless Husband. MATE LEFT HIM, HE SAYS Quaker Woman of Means Objected to .Stage and Aftor's Love for Glow of Footlights Caused ''Break' Kive Vears Ago. Playinsr the role of wifeless hus band grew tiresome to Sydney Ayres. Yesterday the matinee idol, who sent many feminine hearts fluttering while leading man for .the Catherine Coun ties Stock Company at the Heilig, was granted a divorce. The decree was given by Judge Campbell at Oregon City, after the actor had enjoyed the bliss of five years of unfettered married life. The divorce was granted on the ground of deser tion. Wife Objected to Stage. More than ten years ago January 8, J 902 Ayres was married in New York. His wife, it is said, was some 15 yeara his senior and possessed of a consider able fortune. At the time of his mar riage. Ayres was a neophyte in the Thespian world. The embryonic stageland star had visions of six-root ' posters and scintilating career behind the footlights. This, according to Samuel M. John son, who handled Ayres' divorce suit through the office of Attorney John F. Logan, did not match the ideas of his wife. The Philadelphia bride, true to Quaker traditions, insisted that he quit the spotlight's glare. And al though the fire of ambition surged through his veins, Ayres left the stage for sometime. The lure of the the ater proved too strong, however, and he went back. That marked the part ing of the ways. Soon Mrs. Cecelia Frances Ayres left her husband. Prowpcrtlve Marriage Denied. There was no issue of the union While in Portland" Ayres kept se cret the fact that he was planning to get a divorce. Recently a story came from San Francisco that the actor was engaged to marry Miss Frank, a society girl of Oakland. He emphatically denied this and declared he bad no Intentions of marrying. Ayres left Portland two weeks ago to start an Orpheum engagement. NEW YORK "LADY BOXTNTll'LTL," WHOSE EFFORTS TO SPREAD TOOTHBRUSH HABIT GET STARTLING RESULTS. OFFICIALS T0RETAIN JOBS Holdover Postmasters in Marion County X"ot lo Be listurbed. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 4. (Special.) Holdover postmasters at Salem, Wood burn and stayton wilt remain in office until after the next general election at least, according to a statement made by , Representative Hawley today, who has just rettirned from Washington. The Salem postmastership has been one of the principal political bones of contention in Salem for the past two years. Since April, 1910, Squire Farrar, the present postmaster, has bean hold ing over after the expiration of his ap--pointment. Over a dozen applicants have had their names in for the posi tion, but under the policy of the Post office Department to retain postmasters until they are shown to lack in effi ciency he has remained in the position. No change will be made until after the Presidential election, if one Is made at that time. , PORTLAND MENJO TESTIFY Hearing in Lumber Trust Suit Trans ferred to nils City. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 4. The hear ing of testimony in the Government's anti-trust suit against the Northwest ern Lumbermen's Association and six other defendants was adjourned today to Portland, where sittings will be re sumed Friday. T. II. McLafferty. of Tenino. secretary of the Southwestern Washington Lum ber Manufacturers' Association, ap peared in answer to a summons, but was excused without going on the stand after a long conference with Clark Mc Kercher. special assistant to the Attorney-General, who Is representing the Government In the present suit, and no testimony was offered at today's session. . JK55? - e' t J? -i . -frv X Wi -if $. 4 nit;:, - BIISS THEOIl.V COLTER. LDREN TOO EAGER Miss Cotter Fails to Usher in Toothbrushes on East Side. GAMMINS FIGHT FOR THEM SLAYER'S FATHER PRAISED Judge Frees Paul Cxolgosz Who Thrashed Tormentors. CLEVELAND, Sept. 4. Paul Czolgosr, father of Leon Czoigosz. who assassin ated President McKinley. was compli mented by Municipal Judge Levine to day for having thrashed Synatz Kus einsll, who taunted Czolgosz for his son's act. Czolgosz was In court on an assault and battery charge, preferred by Rus- inslsl. After declaring the father of the assassin not guilty. Judge Levine said: "Czolgosz was taunted by Russinsli and five companions because of his son's rash act. ... In this case the father is not responsible for his son's sins.'- i Automobile Loaded With Brushes Is Greeted With Cheers by Young sters, Who Grab Them and Scatter Them in Street. NEW YORK. Sept. 4. Miss Theora Cotter, president of the Society of Good Cheer and friend of poor children, an nounces that her campaign to teach Juveniles the desirability of keeping their teeth clean will continue. One day last week Miss Cotter took an automobile load of toothbrushes over to the East Side and distributed them free among the poor children there. The recipients were a little puzzled as to the use Intended for the strange articles, but that did not lessen their eagerness to receive them. In fact they were over-eager. They swarmed over the automobile in droves: they pulled, hauled, scratched and fought for toothbrushes. They scat tered them over the ground, waved them aloft, brushed each other's hair, clothing and shoes with them, and meanwhile they kept up a vociferous clamor for more toothbrushes. Finally the confusion became so great that Lady Bountiful Cotter drove away in her car and left the children scrambling for several dozen toothbrushes which were being trampled under foot. "The children need to be told about the use of toothbrushes," said Miss Cot ter later. "It will be my purpose to devise a plan for the education of these children in this regard." Miss Cotter has not divulged the de tails of her plan. pected that E. H. Cooney, editor of tbe Great Falls Leader, will be nominated for Governor without opposition. It also is expected that Associate Justice Smith will be nominated for United States Senator. Representative Pray will be renominated and will have for his running mate either ex-State Sen ator Meyers, of Red Lodge, or L. H. Van Dyke, of Park County, with Indica tions pointing to Meyers. The nomination for Lieutenant-Governor as well as the nomination for As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court is going begging, and a hunt for volun teers is being made. H. I. Wilson, of Billings, has been selected for tempor ary chairman. L VOCXC SPA.VIARD OS LAST LEG OF 12-YEAR TRIP. IE FIGHT TO BE HOT DEMOCRATS DECIDE TO REDOU BLE EFFORTS THERE. BIG WARSHIP IS ORDERED British Will Build Craft Capable of Speed of 2 9 Knots. PORTSMOITH. England. Sept. 4. The most powerful battleship yet or dered is to be laid down here in No vember by the British Admiralty. She is- to be Too feet In length and is to displace 30.0-o tons, while' her high powered turbine engines are to de velop a speed of 19 knots. Hi reported that the new vessel Is to he armed with li-inch guns, the first tried In the British navy. Dairymen to Erect Creamery. ASTORIA. Or.. Sept. 4. (Special.) The directors of the Lower Columbia Farmers' Creamery Association have a-A-arded a contract to Palmberg & Mi-.tson for the erection of a reinforced concrete building on the property re cently purchased by the association, at the corner of Ninth and Diiane streets. The building is to be 45x60 feet, one story high, with a basement, and the contract price is J6500. It Is to be finished within three months from to day. The association is arranging to secure the mosl modern machinery and ; equipment obtainable, and the inten tion is to have the plant in operation not later than the first of the coming year. , O'Gornian and Burleson Go to Rein force Speakers McCombs Re-, turns With Health Improved. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. After a con ference this morning between Acting Chairman McAdoo. of the Democratic National Committee, Senators Pomer ene. of Ohio, and O'Gorman. of New York, and Representative Burleson, of Texas, at which the result in Vermont was thoroughly discussed, it was decid ed to bend every effort to strengthen the Democratic campaign in Maine up to the last moment before next Mon day's election. With that end In view. Senator O'Gorman and Representative Burleson left tonight for a speaking tour in Maine. Representative Palmer, of Pennsylvania, started for Maine yes terday. At the close of the conference. Act ing Chairman McAdoo gave out a statement In which he said: "The result in Vermont tells a big story for the Democrats. The latest returns show that on state issues we have polled more than 20,000 votes, and reduced the Republican plurality to less than 7000. In other years. . the Republicans have claimed the state by from S5.000 to 35.000 majority. This means that the Republican party has a big Job on Its hands to carry the state In November on national issues. The prospects of Wilson and Marshall for carrying Vermont are most grati fying." William F. McCombs, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who has been convalescing from a breakdown at a camp In the Adlron- dacks, returned to this city today. much improved. Popular subscriptions of one dollar each from 10.104 contributors to the Democratic campaign fund were re ceived todav from Arkansas newspap ers and 1500 subscribed by readers of a Portland, Or paper. GREAT FALLS EDITOR SLATED Republicans Develop Few Contests for Today's Convention. GREAT FALLS. Mont.. Sept. 4. Mon tana Republicans will meet here tomor row to select a complete state ticket. Only two contests have developed and they are of minor importance. It Is ex Barcclonian, Laden With Clippings and Consuls Seals. Goes to Col lect From Rothschilds. NEW FORK. Sept. 4. (Special.) To win 1160.000 from Baron de Rothchild, of Paris. Juan d' Llaveria, of Barce lona, has been walking around the world for the past 12 years and within two months will return to Paris and claim the money. He is In New York today, having arrived here aboard the Spanish line steamship Antonio Lopez from Havana, and will sail for Barce lona Saturday. D'Llaverla has with lilm several books filled with newspaper clippings relative to his wanderings and Is possessed of hundreds of Consuls' seals, all of which he says he will deliver to the Baron de Rothschild in exchange 'or S0O.000 france. He Is 39 years old and bronzed by the suns of many climes. In July, 1900, Baron de Rothschild evolved a plan to send three young men around the world, touching every country and al most every city and town of conse quence in them all. He offered a prize of 800,000 francs to the man who would follow out his route and return to Paris within 13 years. ' SANTA CLARA PRUNES HURT Showers in Middle of Xigtit Cause Menace to Process of Drying. SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept. 4. (Special.)- Sudden heavy showers in the middle of two successive nights have created a near-panic among the prune growers of the Santa Clara Valley. , , They are likely to lose heavily if the rainy weather continues. Rain which started falling shortly before 2 o'clock this morning beat down heavily for an hour and the night before a similar rain storm in the middle of the night forced ranchers out of their beds and into the drying yards to stack up trays and protect the drying fruit The two storms will do comparatively slight damage if there is no more wet weather, but there are Indications of other showers to come. In which case the fruit will crack, mould and stick to the trays and cause tremendous losses to growers, who have been figuring on a bumper crop at good prices. slfliil 'ForW -mm iC IS 1 If Jit I fLf merchandise ot H - Announcing tlie Opening of a New Department Dear Madam We believe Jjou may be interested in the exceptional service which the New Custom Tailoring Department sup plies to discriminating women. The artistic creations of this department, based as they are on intimate and constant relations with the foremost couturiers of Paris, are sure to have a high reputation among women who require the best apparel. The distinction- and exclusiveness of the French modes developed in these salons at moderate prices are augmented by great beauty of mate rials and a very high grade of workmanship. We extend to you a cordial invitation to avail yourself of the services of this exclusive department. Original models from Bernard, Drecoll and Draunstein, also tailored suits depicting the latest Fall fashions from our own salons, are now on exhibition. ' Seventh Floor." Fall Fashions in Millinery Merchandise mh MI, if' Fall Fashions in Millinery Merit Only 30 GIRLS LEAP FOB LIFE BEN'ZIXE VAPOR. WRECKS CHI CAGO CLEANING WORKS. Foreman Is Crushed to Death in Wreckage and Many Are Tram pled Reaching Stairways. CHICAGO. Sept. -4. Thirty girls were forced to leap out of second-story windows to escape death today, when an explosion caused by benzine vapor wrecked a building- occupied by a dye ing1 and denning- establishment at west Twenty-fourth street and Princeton av enue. Rudolph Spinner, foreman of the es tablishment, was crushed lo death in the wreckage. His body vfes dug out of the. ruins by firemen. Several of the jrirla were seriously in jured in making their escape. One girl. who escaped by lumping out or a win dow, was picked up unconscious and with both legs fractured. Others in rushing to reach the stairways were knocked down and trampled. Investigation will be made to deter mine the cause of the explosion, which was the third within a week in a dye ing and cleaning shop in Chicago. 10-year-old sister-in-law away on an errand and was not discovered until she returned. Mrs. Miller was found lying near the door as if she had tried to escape be fore death resulted from three bullet wounds. Miller was found on the bed with a bullet hole in the forehead. The tragedy probably was the re sult of domestic infelicity. Mrs. Miller JAPANESE BARBER FINED Astoria Court Assesses Punishment for Sunday Work. ASTORIA. Or..' Sept. 4. (Special.) Jlro Imamura. a Japanese barber, was found guilty in the Justice Court to day on a complaint sworn to by L. K. Ashworth and charging the defendant with "carrying on the business of bar- bering on Sunday. He was fined J10 and cots. which he paid. The defendant admitted he had cut a man's hair lastSunday, but asserted as his defense that he had charged nothing for the work. FRED DENNETT HERE TODAY Land Office Official Is Readjusting Field Divisions. SEATTLE, Sept. 4. Fred Dennett, commissioner of the General Land Office, left for Portland tonight, and after a brief stay there will go to Cali fornia, returning to Washington on September IS. He is engaged In adjusting the field divisions of the General Land Office to the reduction of $150,000 in the annual appropriation made by Congress. REALTY MAN SENTENCED Broker Who Sells Same Property to Two Persons Gets 7-Year Term. SANTA CRUZ. Cal., Sept. 4. Cary T, Scott, of Oakland, who Tvas arrested at Spokane, Wash., and convicted here of having sold property at v atsonville, Cal., to two different persons, was sen tenced today by Superior Judge Lucas F. Smith to seven years in San Quentin Penitentiary. Scott was accused of having defraud ed V. E: Campbell of property near Portland valued at 120,000, and of other holdings at Boise, Idaho valued at 10,- 000. EVERETT MAN ENDS WORRY Millworker Kills Wife and Commits Suicide Following- Suit. EVERETT, Wash.. Sept. 4. W. H. Miller, aged 26. a millworker, shot and killed his 18-year-old wife today and then committed suicide. 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Mrs. Miller was paroled. Aurora Hops Xot Damaged. AURORA, Or., Sept. 4. (Special.)- Nearly every hop yard here was filled today with all the pickers that growers could secure. Every one in Aurora who could g-et away was picking in the near-by yards. While there have been alarming reports sent out from some parts of the Valley concerning the damage that has been done to the hop crop, these reports do not mirror the conditions here. PHONE YOUR ORDER TODAY FREE RAPID DELIVERY EACH DAY a MMM III!) A Noted Iowa Catholic friest ENDORSES m ill TSEATMENr DRINK - DRUG HABITS QUICKLY CURED Over two years ago Kev. J. ti. ivu- jcent, a Catholic priest and platform lecturer of National prominence, sent a man who was a total wreck from over 20 years of excessive drinking: to take the Nea.1 Treatment. N'otinK the won derful results when he visited the pa tient on the third day of the treatment, he exclaimed: Tne Aeal la tae marvri i me wna the rreHet thine alnce raining Laz arus from the dead. 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