THE MORNING OREGON IAN, TUESDAY. MARCH 4, 1913.
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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.
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Taft Appointee Quits Bench.
SEATTLE, March 3. United States
District Judge Clinton W. Howard,
whose recess appointment as Judge for
the District of Washington will ex
pire at noon tomorrow, performed his
last official acts today when he con
vened court at 10 o'clock this morning;
to sign decrees in cases decided in the
last few days. Judge Howard was ap
pointed by President Taft to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation last -July
of Judge Cornelius H. Hanford,
who retired from the bench while a
Congressional sub-committee was in
vestigating Impeachment charges filed
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