THE MORNING OREGON IAN, TUESDAY. MARCH 4, 1913. 5 BLACKMAIL SEEN III SOCIAL RIVALS WAR Village Leader of Smart Se Arrested on Charge of Demanding Money. PRISONER IS HYSTERICAL Sirs. Maud Stewart, of Antlgo, Wis., Accused of Sending Letter to Towns-woman and Federal Authorities Act. CHICAGO. March S. Mrs. Maud Stewart, of Antlgo. Wis., a social leader and wife of a prominent merchant, was arrested by Federal detectives here to day, charged with sending a blackmail ins; letter to a rival social leader. Mrs. Stewart collapsed when United States Commissioner Foots held her In (3000 bond. The letter which caused the arrest of Mrs. Stewart was written to Mrs. H. E. Van Ostland. who. the Government detectives say. Is a rival of Mrs. Stew art for leadership In Antlgo society. Mrs. Van Ostland attended a recent meeting of the Daughters of the Amerl can Revolution in Washington. In the letter Mrs. Stewart made some accuse. tions against Mrs. Van Ostland in con nectlon with the Washington trip, and demanded that she place a sum of money in a crevice in a post In the out skirts of Antlgo. The demand and the letter were inspired, according to the detectives, by a spirited contest between the two women for leadership in Antlgo society. Mrs. Van Ostland turned the letter over to the postal authorities. A dum my package was placed In the post and it is declared that Mrs. Stewart was en taking It. The State's Attorney, however, de clined to take the prosecution of the case, according to Federal officials, be cause of the prominence of the accused woman, declaring that a conviction would be Impossible. The postal au thorities in Wisconsin took the mat ter up and Mrs. Stewart was arrested here today on advices from District At torney Golf, of Milwaukee. Mrs. Stewart became hysterical In the Commissioner's office. "Why Is this being done to met" she demanded. I have done wrong to no one. I can't stand this. I have done no wrong." Medical attention was necessary to quiet her. The warrant on whioh she was ar rested calls for her removal to Wis consin for trial. The preliminary hear ing will take place here tomorrow. POLK COUNTY REPORT OUT Spelling Contest Records Kept In Various Grades. MONMOUTH. Or., March 8. (Spe cial) A report of the spelling contest for Polk County has been kept and a report for one month folia wa: .. , Class A (schools of more than five teach ers). fourth grade First, Daflaa, 08.27 second. Falls City. 97.1; third, Monmouth, 87. Fifth trade First, Monmouth. 98.8: second. Falls City. 97.6: third. Independence. f7.2. Sixth grade Monmouth, 97.8; Falls rltr. 67.4; Dallas. 97. Seventh grade First, Falls City, US.0; second, Independence, 93.8; third, Dallas, 91.8. Eighth grade First. Dallas, IM.O; second. Falls City, 94.-, tniro, Monmoutn, so. Class B (schools of two to five teachers) fourth grade-Flrst, Rlokreall. 99.6; second. 99.8; third. Mountain view, 09. The Interest Is still keen in the spell lng oontest work and this month's re sults are very satisfactory. It will be noticed by the above report that many schools have reached above the 05 per cent mark. All schools were entered this month and all children took part. The next test will be held on March 7. FIGHT HAS FATAL ENDING -Freeirater Irrigation Ditch Quarrel Fats Idv Man In Jail. FREEWATER, Or, March S. C. A. McCarty, a rancher. In Jail at Milton on a charge of assault with intent to kill Fred Beller at the ranch of the latter near Freewater, may face a mur der charge. The quarrel began over an Irrigating ditch. Beller died yes terday. and District Attorney Steiwer and uoroner Garfield, of Pendleton, held an inquest. A jury was empaneled and a verdict was rendered to the effect that Beller came to his death as the result of a wound Inflicted upon his head by a snovei in tne bands or Mccarty on Feb ruary 27, near the Beller home, and that McCarty acted in an unlawful manner. The original complaint of as sault will be changed by District At torney Steiwer to one of a more serious nature. 11 WOMEN, 1 MAN ON JURY Counsel, Dubious of Result, Passes One of Fair Sex for Cause. TACOMA. Wash. March 3. (Special.) The most unique Jury the Superior Court has yet seen developed today, when 11 women and one lone man were summoned to try the $5000 damage suit of William Dahlberg against Dr. W. N. Keller. R. K. Snook was the lone man. "Have you any hesitancy about serv ing on this Jury?" Attorney Harry Johnson asked Snook. Snook looked over the 11 women. "Not a bit," he answered boldly. Major C O. Bates, of counsel for the defense, waa dubious, however, and passed one of the women for cause and 8. R. Gray, a Puyallup merchant, took her place. The ten women and two men will pass on the case. ' DRUGGIST IS FINED $400 Owen Osburn, of Koseburg, Convict ed or Illegal Liquor Selling;. ROSEBtTRG. Or, March 8. (Special.) Owen Osburn, a local druggist re cently convicted of bootlegging, was to day sentenced by Judge Hamilton to pay a fine of (400 and servo 20 days in the county Jail. The Jail sentence was suspended dur ing the defendant's good behavior. SUFFRAGETTE IS UNAFRAID Mrs. IVrummond Says Mob Scenes Are "Boyish Playfulness." LONDON. March . "General". Mr. Flora Drummond, the militant auffra-j gette, whom the police had to rescue yesterday from a mob in Hyde Park, declared today that she has no fear of the threats that have been made to tar and feather her. She described the wild scenes yesterday as "merely an Instance of boyish playfulness," and added: "Every fresh outbreak of militancy on the part of the women brings en thusiastic recruits. The vast majority of the men admire us." Mrs. Drummond's optimism in re gard to the men's attitude toward the militant suffragettes was not borne out by scenes which occurred today outside a music hall where the suf fragists held a meeting. Men thronged round the doors and defeated all at tempts of the women to enter the halL There was a pitched battle between disheveled suffragettes and their op ponents. - The din caused by the clash was terrific The police finally suc ceeded in clearing the street. Elsewhere in the city more suffra gette organ grinders were mobbed and had to call for police protection. WOMAN'S TALE OF ROBBERY PUZZLES JTTDGE SENTENCES MICEI.LI TO $500 AND COSTS PAYMENT. Motion for New Trial Overruled and City Official Scored for Act of Bootlegging as Charged. ROSEBTTRG, Or, Feb. 3. (Special.) Declaring that he had been accorded e fair and impartial trial and that a re hearing of the case would simply re sult in unnecessary expense. Judge Hamilton late today overruled the mo tion for a new trial and . sentenced Mayor Joseph Mlcelli to pay a fine of o00 and the costs of the prosecution, When asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pro nounced, Mr. Mlcelli simply replied to the effect that he had been forced to trial without an opportunity to locate certain witnesses who would have testi fied In hlB behalf. 'After a careful review of the evi dence in this case I cannot think that an Injustice has been done," said Judge Hamilton, "neither nave you any one to blame but yourself. Tou have stood high among the people of this com munlty and the honor bestowed upon you through your election as Mayor only makes your crime the more serl ous. You have been represented by able counsel while the Instructions in the case were administered to the best of my ability. 'As painful aB it Is, I am compelled under the law to impose sentence upon you as I am In cases of any law vio lators. Mayor Mlcelli was at his office today for the first time since his conviction of a charge of bootlegging last Thurs day. NEW PINE COMPLAINS RAILROAD ACCUSED OF DIS. CROHN ATTXQ AGAINST TOWS. In Favor of KaJrport, Nevada, Call' fornla & Oregon Cuts Service Unreasonably, Is Charge. SALEM. Or, March S. (Special.) A formal complaint was filed with the Railroad Commission today In the mat ter of .J. . A. Ensingcx vs. the Nevada, California & Oregon Railroad. The plaintiff, on behalf of himself and other residents of the town of New Pine Creek. Or., asks that the Commis sion give them relief against the un reasonableness and discrimination, prac ticed by the defendant. The quarrel Is of long standing and has been brought to the attention of the Com mission before In an informal way. Briefly it is alleged that the railroad Is discriminating against New Pine Creek because the owners of the road have started the new boom town of Falrport, within a short distance of New Pine Creek but across the Cali fornia line. It is asserted that the of ficers of the road are selling real estate In the new place and are trying to di vert business and traffic away from New Pine Creek, It is charged In the complaint that the train no longer stops at the old depot, which has been closed up and used for a warehouse, As there is no adequate means of reaching the new station, this, they aver, works a severe hardship upon the New Pine residents. They ask that the old service be resumed. They assert their town has 350 population, while the new one has but 12. Also it Is alleged that 95 per cent of the traf fic is for New Pine. HAWTHORNE NOT CALLED Defense In Mining Fraud Case Sud denly Ends Testimony. NEW YORK. March 3l Julian Haw thorne and Josiah Qulncy. who with Dr. William Morton have been on trial for several months in the United States District Court on charges of using the malls to defraud investors in mining stocks, will not be called as witnesses in their own behalf. The defense rested its case today, without either having been called to the wit ness stand. No explanation was given by coun sel for the defense for the sudden sus pension of testimony. The Jurors were excused until tomorrow, when the Gov ernment is expected to offer testl- money In rebuttal. Police See Strange Features . in Connection With Mrs. Mills' $41 ,000 Loss. NO TRACE OF BILLS FOUND PRISONER FIGHTS JUDGE Constable Interferes, Is Attacked. and in Mlxup Man Flees. BAKER, Or March S. (Special.) A list fight with the Justice of the Peace and Constable at Carson today ended in a decision for the prisoner. His stake was liberty and he got it Justice of the Peace D. F. Locke, of Carson, and M. Feamster, of Halfway, were principals with Constable J. E. Steele acting as second to his honor. Feamster had been arraigned on the charge of gambling in Halfway and Justice Gray, of that court, transferred it to Carson, where the prisoner was released on bail. While on, his way out of the courtroom Feamster struck Judge Locke on the Jaw. inflicting a severe wound, but this did not daunt the executor of fines and he promptly floored his assailant. In attempting to separate the two fighters. Constable Steele was struck at by the alleged gambler and in the confusion that followed Feamster slipped away from ,'- pair and is still in hiding. Pope Appoints 14 Guards. ROME. March . Pope Plus appointed today 14 new noble guards. The ap pointments were made in accordance with the recently established rule whereby it Is not necessary tuat the new members shall belong to a former pontifical state. The new guards, how ever, are all Italians and none has yet been chosea from the foreign candi dates. Doctors Say Blow' on Head Insuffi cient to Bender Person Uncon scious Victim Says She May Go to St. Louis. ' CHICAGO, March . Despite the efforts of the police, the strange story told by Mrs. Mabel Mills, 46 years old, wife of a real estate dealer In San Antonio, Tex., that she lost or was robbed of $41,004 after being braised and becoming unconscious In a snow storm at Evanston, a suburb, last Sat urday night, remained a mystery to night. No one has been arrested and none of the money has been recovered. Searching the ground where Mrs. Mills said she struggled for mors than an hour and a half In the snow, under porches where it was hoped the money, all in S1000 bills, might have been blown by the gale, the police, after interviewing the woman at a hospital, announced they had discovered these facts, which they said only puzzled them: Blow Not Heavy One. Mrs. Mills said she became oon sclous only when she was being picked up on the porch of Mrs. A. J. Cooper to which she had crawled, whereas Chief of Police Shaffer, of Evanston, said he had good authority for stating that the bruise on the back of the woman's head was not sufficient to have rendered her unconscious and the physicians at the hospital said Mrs. Mills could not have lost consciousness from any other cause. Mrs. Mills told the police she waa in different about the loss of the money and said she wanted to leave the city. She announced she might be in St. Louis by tomorrow. After going throughly into the case. Chief Shaffer said he had no basis upon which to make any arrests. "I told Mrs. Mills that, being a practi cal business woman, accustomed to handling large sums of money, as she said she had in. her real estate dealings in San Antonio, it appeared to me unusual that she should have ventured to walk along a dark suburban street with $41,000 in oash in her pocketbook," said Chief Shaffer. "She only repeated her previous story that she had been to dinner at the home of Mrs. Stevens, a friend, that Bhe was on her way to a railway station when, discovering she had left her ticket and some money at Mrs. Stevens', she returned. It was on her way back, she said, she lost the money. The woman does not insist she was robbed. She says she became unconscious and when revived the money was gone. Walk Back Takes Lone Timet Tn the face of the circumstances, I was told in the hospital that the blow on the woman's bead, whether from a fall or from a flst was not severe enough to have more than stunned her. A curious thing Is that one hour and 80 minutes elapsed between the time she started to walk back to Mrs. Stevens' and the time she was found. SEATTLE DENTIST TAKEN Dr. Holcomb Charged With Attempt to Set Fire to ex-Wife's Home. j SEATTLE. Wash, March . Dr. Augustus H. Holcomb, a prominent den tist, was arrested late today on a war rant charging him with having at tempted to set fire to the home of his divorced wife. Mrs. Frances E. Bard- well, who lives with her two sons by a former marriage at Riverton, a Seattle suburb. Dr. Holcomb was held under $3000 bond, which it was asserted would be given by Mrs. Eva Holcomb. Late Saturday night neighbors of Mrs. Bardwell saw three lighted candles fixed to the Joists under the room usually occupied by Mrs. Bardwell and put out the fire. Dr. Holman married Florence E. Bardwell in Tacoma, six months after he had been divorced by Eva Holman, in whose complaint Mrs. Bardwell was named as co-respondent. North Bend Has Free Lectures. NORTH BEND. Or.. March 3. (Spe cial.) The North Bend Library Asao elation, working for a better North Bend has instituted a free lecture course for Sunday afternoon at $ o'clock, continuing to the last of Au gust. The course and lectures follow: March 9. "Local Oeology" (1), J. A. Ward. OPINION IS GIVEN IN VERYJEW WORDS Mrs. . Alves Tells How Plant Juice Benefited Her Mother and Her. Here is another testimonial from a well-known Oakland woman, who says she thinks Plant Juice is a blessing to all womankind. Mrs. E. Alves. who re sides at 1342 Thirty-fourth street. Oak land, made the following statement: 'The Plant Juice has proven a real blessing to both my mother and myself. My mother. Mrs. M. Sllvelrs. was so nervous that she could hardly raise a spoon to her lips. She waa really In a pitiful condition. She also had rheu matism badly. We have only used one bottle ol Plant Juloe and the change in her condition is marxed. 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