THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913. EQUINOX THEORY VOICED IFI STORM Biting Wind and Intermitten Snowfalls Make Port land Shiver. FRUIT BENEFITS NOTICED Continued Cold Retards Too Rapid Development and Snows Bring Needed Moisture Eastern Ore gon Sheepmen Watchful. SHOW ft TILL. FAJLLfl Ef OKTHTJI. Portland Snow flurrlee freqaent. with ao tnunedlaw enn to wealh are predicted. AJtorl Warm veather totals rain. Basra Deeplta now torm. peacn tnn begin to bad. fialem finow prarae toleaalaa' fruit. La Grande (Weather Ilka midwin ter strikes, with Valley anowswept. Oranta Paaa Prutt bnde not eufa elantlr advanced to be Injured by cold nap. The Dallee Easterly wind brines old in ad. Pendleton Continued oold roak flockmaatera apprehensive. to -i Whether there be truth or not In the tradition that the coming of the equl nox Is Always accompanied by a storm of onusual character, the weather con dltlons In Portland yesterday, with cold winds and Intermittent falling of light snow, seemed to add the strength of t least one demonstration to the theory. The United States weather forcesater does not predict an Immediate change to warmer weather, and It is possible that enough snowfall to make the ground appear white at least may oc cur before the weather changes for the better. While the snow fell more or less thinly at intervals yesterday, it melted almost as rapidly as It reached t!iM cround. Whatever may come from the weather In the next few days, the ar rival of the equinox yesterday gave the official assurance of the almanac that "SDrina- has come," and for that reason little fear Is felt that the chilly weather may continue for any length of time. No Damajre Done Fruit. News from all sections of the Pacific Northwest Indicate that no damage has been done to fruit, as the buds have not advanced far enough to cause alarm. To the contrary, the snow and cold to date seems to have proved a benefit, the snow bringing welcomed moisture and the cold snap retarding too early development of the fruit tree buds. In Eastern Oregon reports show a decided fall of snow, and only in the sheep country is there fear felt, owing to the lambing season now In progress. The flockmastors for miles around Pen dleton took particular precaution yes terday to save thousands of baby lambs. Owing to the fact that Spring range is all undor snow, the farmers will be required to continue feeding. The weather bureau announces that there are signs of the cold snap break Ing. as warning signals along the Coast have been lowered, except at Marshfleld. Storm Is Widespread. The storm has been widespread, the temperature In the Middle West drop ping to 18 as a maximum and ranging from 39 to 40 along the North Pacific lope. In Southern California the mer cury registered about 60 during the day. Krom one-half inch to two inches of snow fell throughout the Willamette Valley this morning, which quite gen erally changed to rain during the after noon. At Eugene the enow fall was of half an inch, which quickly melted as a re sult of a drenching rain storm during the afternoon. At Albany two Inches of snow fell the heaviest fall ao late in the season for 15 years but melted rapidly, doing no damage. Marshfield reports lower temperature and heavy rains, but no frosts. Rose burg experienced warm rains, which promise the largest fruit yield In Doug las County In years. Salem reports a light fall of snow throughout the day. which turned to sleet tonight, succeed ed by a cold rain. CTOW IS PROTTXQ BIJESSIXG Frolt Men About Salem Say Cold Wave Hampers Heavy Frosts. SALEM. Or, March II. (Special.) Snow-coveed ground greeted the peo ple of Salem this morning and again snow fell during the afternoon, but It melted as rapidly as It fell. Frultmen say that rather than threatening to do damage, the snow Is really a blessing, as It will hold back tha development and may save from the possibility of Injury by heavy frosts. Early blossoming on varloua Kinds of fruit had given the frultmen keen est worry, but they see in the snow a chance for redemption. MKRCTHT DROPS AT IiA GRANTVE Weather Like Midwinter Follows Sudden Snovr Storm. LA GRANDE. Or, March II. (Spe cial.) On the heels of a sudden snow storm early In the week the mercury has been down a point or two more each day. until weather closely re sembling that of mid-Winter prevails here. The valley Is snow covered, though It had been practically cleared off last week, and the hard frosts have halt ed the rise In the river and other streams here. Cold, biting winds have added to the discomfort of the situa tion here this week, but no actual suf fering has been occasioned to stock thus far. Practically no damage has been done, it Is believed. CONTINENTAL TRAINS MOVE Great Northern Road Ha Ten Push Through Montana Snows. SPOKANE. Wash, March 21. Ten Great Northern trains that were snow bound in Montana arrived here early to day. The first train to arrive was the Oriental Limited, which was due Tues day. The train was held at Glacier Park until the storm abated and the rotarlea were able to clear the tracks. Two young men, sons of Mrs. Martha J. Cope, of trench Lick, Ind.. who with her tour children are en route to Ore gon, developed measles while snow bound, and were isolated In a private compartment car. iv hen the car ar rived here It was detached from the train. The young men will be kept in the car until the weather abates, when they will be removed to the local Isola tion hospital. VAIXET FRUIT NOT DAMAGED Eugene Gets Snow and Pencil Trees Begin to Bud. EUGENE. Or, March 21. (Special.) Half an inch of snow fell Just before dawn today and the day has been raw and bluster), alternating rain and sun shine. Snow has been lying low on the hills for several days. According to J. O. Holt, of the Fruit growers' Association, fruit Is not dam aged In the least. Peach trees are be ginning to bud, but are not far enough along to be Injured except by a hard frost. Berries are all snug yet. The barometer is rising here. SHEEPMEN ARE APPREHENSIVE Flock masters Prepare to Save Thou sands of Baby Lambs. PENDLETON, Or, March 2L (Spe cial.) Much apprehension is felt among flockmasters In Eastern Oregon owing to the continued cold weather. last night being a record breaker. Every precaution was exercised in various lambing camps throughout the county to shelter and save thousands of baby lambs. So far losses reported are slight, but the total loss cannot be estimated for several days to come. The weather has moderated considerably tonight with a skiff of snow In the vicinity of Pendle ton. All nocks will be fed for some days to come. Spring range being en veloped in a blanket o snow. VANCOUVER SHIVERS FN COLD Spell of Weather, However, Fails to Injure Fruit Trees. VANCOUVER, Wash, March 21. (Special.) During the present cold snap the fruit trees and Spring crops have not been injured, according to A. A. Quarnberg, District Horticulture Inspector, who has returned from trip throughout the district. While the weather Is unpleasant and raw. It Is so more on account of the wind, as the thermometer has not dropped below 27 degrees above aero during the past week. Everyone was wearing his heavy overcoat today and complaining about tha cold. BIG STATE BUSINESS FALLS UPON CLEBKS Burdens of Board of Control So Heavily Increased, Is Olcott's Explanation. TIME FOR DETAIL SMALL Trio of State Officials Will Have Little Opportunity to Handle Affairs of Their Own Of fices, Is Declaration. FRUIT BCDS XOT ADVANCED Grants Pass Country Hit by Cold, bnt Not Damaging, Weather. . GRANTS PASS. Or, March 21. (Spe cial.) Testerday was cool. Last night he temperature cropped and was fol lowed by a heavy downpour of rain until noon today. Much snow fell in the mountains and down close to the valley but none remained on the low land. The temperature Is lower, but partial sunshine was welcomed this af ternoon. Tonight was cloudy and warm. Fruit buds are not sufficiently ad vanced to be Injured by the weather so far, owing to a late aeaeon. GRATS HARBOR SNAP BROKEN Cold Spell Started With Fall of Snow From 2 to 5 Inches. HOQU1AM, Wash, March 21. (Spe cial.) Grays Harbor has experienced one of the coldest snaps for this time of the year In its history. The entire week has been unusually cold. The cold spell really started Tuesday night 1th a fall of snow varying from two i five Inches over this city and Aber deen. There has been no rain and com paratively little wind and It now ap pears the cold spell Is broken. 15-YEAR RECORD IS BROKEN Two Inches of Snow Falls at Albany, Heaviest for Long Time. ALB A NT. Or, March 21. (Special.) Two inches of snow fell at Albany to day, the heaviest snow fall recorded ere so late In the season for at least years. Most of the snow fell early this morning, but intermittent flurries con tinued until 3 o'clock this afternoon. The snow which covered the ground this morning had melted before noon and that which came later melted as fast as it fell. The storm has caused damage whatever In this section of the state. WALLA WALLA IS HOPEFUL Warmer Weather Predicted to Fol low In Washington Valley. WALLA WALLA. Wash, March 21. (Special.) Another 17 above tempera ture was recorded this morning, the same as yesterday. Warmer weather la predicted, as the barometer Is falling tonight. Never before has there been a temperature as low as 17 degrees as late as March 21. The temperature during the day got above freexing point, reaching 41 de grees, but It did not stay there long. Hood River Gets Freezing Weather. HOOD KIVER. Or, March 2L (Spe cial.) The temperature dropped below freezing point here last night and ac cording to V. A. Newman, observer for the United States Weather Bureau, reg istered at 5 degrees above zero this morning. The valley Is covered by snow, which has been falling slowly hroughout the day. The snow is from four to six Inches deep in the uppei valley. SALEM, Or, March 21. (Special.) Asserting that the recent Legislature piled up work on the members of the State Board to such an extent as to make It practically impossible to attend to all the details of the office work it self. Secretary of State Olcott declares it will be practically necessary to turn over the work ot the office to clerks when the new laws go Into effect and devote practically his entire time to board matters. The Legislature, In creating a State Board of Control to include the Gov ernor, Secretary of State and State Treasurer, placed under that board all of the state institutions, except educa tional institutions. In addition it made the Governor, Sec retary of State and State Treasurer a State Highway Commission, which will have new and largre Important duties on Its hands In framing and shaping the state highway policy. " Other Duties Are Many. At the same time It placed in the hands of the Desert Land Board, of which those three officials are also members, the job of putting through the Columbia Southern project under state direction and the expenditure of (450,000 to be uBed for that purpose. The Legislature also put into the hands of the Secretary of State the duty of carrying forward an extra special election In the shape of a special refer endum election with the duty of getting out an extra pamphlet and the red tape in connection with a general election. In addition there is a large number of new duties of more or less Impor tance which come under the laws of the last session. Secretary Olcott declared today that the time is coming when this state must assume an advanced stand in cre ating a State Board of Control which will have" exclusive jurisdiction over the state Institutions and remove them from the hands of the Governor, Secre tary of State and State Treasurer, who have large duties in connection with their present offices. Plan Already Tried. "That plan has been adopted in many states. In a state which handles the vast amount of business as Is transact' ed here and where such large sums of money are expended as here, a board of three business men, whose duties are devoted solely to the handling of the institutions of the state, will be able to plug up enough leaks to more than pay for whatever cost such a board might be to the state," said Secretary Olcott. "With the multifarious duties which devolve upon us we can scarcely get 15 minutes a day to devote to any indi vidual proposition In connection with the various Institutions. "The Columbia Southern irrigation project in Itself is a stupendous task. We are called upon to make a success out of a project that has been a failure under every condition that It has been through. of the department of history. Is di rector of the Summer school and he announces the addition of able East' ern talent to the coterie ot local in structors who will compose the faculty. Professor Stockton Axson, professor of English in Princeton University, brother-in-law of Woodrow Wilson, will be a member of the faculty. Ha will deliver the series of lectures on English literature which proved & pop ular feature of the University of Call torn la Summer school last year. Dr. P. H. Hay-ward, of London, Eng land, a noted disciple of the Herbartlan school of education, will deliver lec tures on various educational subjects. Professor Harold G. Merrlam, of the department of English of Belolt Uni versity, is a third lecturer ot National reputation. His course will be devoted to the teaching of English. The Summer school is annually at tended by a large number of students who have not sufficient time to devote to a regular course, many of whom aro mature men and women who re turn to academic precincts from busi ness or professional life. Incidental, y, many regular students of the univer sity who are behind in their wotk And it a convenient time to make up their deficiencies. Dr. Schafer expects this year's enrollment to surpass that of an previous Summer. CURREY'S GUM HALTS THIEF Former Cook In Lumber Camp Shot in Baker Drugstore. BAKER, Or, March 21. (Special.) What have robbers against the Live and Let Live Drug Store? That Is the ques tion that Is bothering the police today, after the attempt of John Carroll to break Into the store early this morn ing. In which attempt he was stopped by a load ot shot from Pinney Currey's gun. Carroll's left eye was removed at St Elizabeth's Hospital this after noon. He will recover. He refuses to talk about the case. It has been learned that he came here from La Grande, where his wife and two small children are living. He was cook in a lumber camp at St. Maries, Idaho, last Summer. This Is at least the fourth attempt In the last 16 months either to rob or hold up the drug store while other places of business have not been touched. Toung Currey, who Is the son of Dr. H. E. Currey, owner of the store, has stopped three attempts to get into the store and an employe was beaten up by a traveler who demanded cocaine. BAY CITY TO BE CLEANED Commercial Club Offers Prizes Boys for Collecting Rubbish. to Stock Suffer at Grongerille, Idaho. GRANGE VILLE. Idaho. March 2L (Special.) The weather has turned ex ceedingly cold again and. owing to the scarcity of feed. Increased suffering among cattle is expected if present weather conditions continue. Hay Jumped last week to SIS a ton and an other raise Is expected. Some of the stockmen have moved their herds to lower altitudes, where hay Is more plentiful. Astoria Hit by Cold Rain. ASTORIA Or, March 31. (Special.) Last night was warmer by three de grees than the former one. the ther mometer at the weather bureau regis tering 32 degrees above sero. The day was pleasant, with a light east wind blowing, but this evening a light cold rain set in and unless the temperature moderates it may turn to snow before morning. Water Pipes Are Frozen. SOUTH BEND. Wash, March 21. Water pipes are still frozen, and there Is little hope of a thaw. The ther mometer stood at 24 above this morn ing, as compared to 20 yesterday. An east wind prevents effective work of the sun. Cold Weather Hits The Dalles. THE DALLE 3, Or, March 21. (Spe cial.) Minimum temperature last night was 27, with easterly winds . and the maximum today was 40, clear, with no Indications of a storm. Easterly winds are blowing and it is growing colder. BAT CITY. Or., March 21. (Special.) Aa the ODenlne gun of a campaign to make Bay City a cleaner city, the Com mercial Club has decided to offer three Drlzes to the boys collecting the great est amount of rubbish between now and April 5. This Is a preliminary step of the campaign and later Mayor Gllmore will declare a "clean-up" day to be ob served by everyone in the city. The city has been unfortunately sit uated in this regard during the pro tracted timo while the suit to test Its validity has been In the courts, but the Commercial Club and Women's Civic League have been busy arranging plans to carry out the work. The clubs will furnish a team on April E to collect the rubbish assembled by the boys and dispose of It. This system Is expect ed to effeot the removal ot every tin can and objectionable article. CORVALLIS COURT OPENS Nine Divorces, bnt Not a Criminal Case, on Calendar of 105. CORVALLIS. March 21. (Special.) An adjourned term of court is in prog ress here, with Judge Hamilton pre siding. The regular March term be gins on Monday with a calendar of 105 cases. There are nine divorce cases, but not a criminal case on the calen dar. The grand Jury is Investigating three situations. The big case entered at this term, but which will hardly get to trial at this time, is that of the Garrow Lumber Company against the Portland, Eugene & Eastern and the Corvallls & Eastern railway companies, this involving 120,000 damages alleged to have been done by these companies In taking from the Willamette River near the Garrow mill the gravel that Is being used In ballasting. FIRST GOLD BROUGHT OUT Official Investigator Expected to Ar rive From Teslln Today. SKAGWAT AlaBka, March SI, The first authentlo information concerning the gold strike reported by the Indian. Skookum Jim, in the Teslln district. In Northern British Columbia, was re ceived today in a message from Atlln saying that J. E. Owens had reached there with several hundred dollars' worth of washed gold he had taken from the new diggings. Dr. Toung. Colonial Secretary for Tukon Territory, who went to Investi gate the reported discovery, will reach the outside tomorrow. SUMMER FACULTY CHOSEN Princeton and London Educators on List for Eugene Term. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Or, March 21. (SpeciaL) Plans are being made for the annual Summer school session of the University of Ore gon for this year. Dr. Joseph bchafer. HOME PATRONAGE IS URGED Mrs. Wetherred Makes Appeal to Grange at Grants Pass. GRANTS PASS. Or, March 21. (Spe cial.) Mrs.-Edith Tozler Wetherred ad dressed the Grange and Commercial Club yesterday on the subject of pat ronizing home industry. She said it was merely lack of understanding and education on the part of the people along the lines of patronizing home In dustries and the benefit to be derived therefrom that often caused firms and factories to be placed in the bands of the receiver. 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Two brothers will pay the penalty to morrow morning at 8 o'clock at the State -Penitentiary for the murder of an aged woman in a lonely cabin in the mountains near Philomath. George and Charles Humphrys will hang for this crime. Governor West reiterating again today that there will be no lurtner re prieve or no commutation. The crime ior wnicn iney nnvcuecii convicted was committed June 5, 1911 Eliza Griffith, a woman 56 years of a?e. . was strangled to death at her home In the mountains southwest of Philomath In Benton County, and her body thrown into a pond a qua.-ter of a mile distant. Unmistakable marks of violence were found upon her body. ne was completely dressed and her hair was hanging down partly braided. Signs of Struggle Seen. The house where she was murdered showed unmistakable signs of a strug gle and the upstairs room had been ransacked. In the sitting-room down stairs one of the stove fixtures had been knocked off. chairs overturned, a lamp chimney partly knocked off and other evidence of disorder. Mrs. Griffith lived elone in the house where she was murdered which is lo cated in an Isolated spot. The country about is thickly timbered and sparse ly settled. The nearest neighbors lived half a mile distant. George and Charles Humphrys lived alone with their mother less than a mile distant. She had ex pressed her fear of George Humphrys and said she wished he would never come to her home again. Just following the murder George Humphrys had a severe scratch on his face which he endeavored to conceal. Just following the murder he sold bis place at a sacrifice and moved to a remote part of Washington County. On March 13, 1912, George Humphrys, arrested for cruelty to animals in Washington County, confessed in Jail to the killing of Eliza Griffith, and a few days later his brother, Charles. confessed to the officials of Washing, ton County. Many Crimea Charged. Shortly after his confession of tha murder of Eliza Griffith Charles Hum phrys began to Implicate George In other raurderB. He said that George strangled William King, near Dayton, and George Damrose, near Yoncalla, about five years ago. He declared that George slew and burned George Selly In Polk County In 1908, and murdered N. I. Patterson near Dallas In 1903 and robbed him of a pension of 2000 se cured from the Government. Attorneys for the Humphrys after considerable Investigation made the as sertion that all of these confessions by Charles Humphry are untrue and the result of a weak mind. SMALL S0REBRINGS DEATH Blood Poisoning Spreads to Menin gitis and Arthur McPherson Dies. BAKER, Or, March 21. (Special.)! Blood poisoning, which started from a small sore on the finger of Arthur Mc Pherson, caused his death today. The poisoning started six weeks ago and spread into meningitis. He was 40 years old and a resident ot Mal heur, but has been living here this Winter to give his two children school advantages. His widow also survives. The body will be taken to Malheur to morrow for burial. MINING MEN ARE ARRESTED Idaho Trio Charged With Oonspir ing to Defrand. BOISE, Idaho. March 2L (SpeciaL) J. M. Morgan. D. W. Armstrong and Al bert J. Armstrong, well-known South ern Idaho mining men. were arrested here today by United States Marshal Hodgln. charged In indictments re turned by the last Federal grand jury, with conspiring to defraud H. H. Bon nell out of two mining claims he had filed on public land. They were taken before Judge Dietrich and the bonds of each of the Armstrongs was placed at $1000 while that of Morgan was axed at S2500. 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