, ,,, vn PORTLAND. OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 6. 10.3. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FILED:
ARE OUT
Baker and Rushlight
Arrive Early.
ALBEE ON MAYORALTY LIST
Rush Expected to Continue
Until 175 Enrolled.
LAST PLACE NOW COVETED
Among Those Being frged to Run
Are Judge Gatcns for Mayor, I.
E. Walkins, W. R. McGarry, E.
C 3Iears for Commissioner.
t CANDIDATES WHO FILED TEJ.
TERDAV,
t For Mayor A. G. Rushlight,
H. R. Albee.
For Commissioner George I
1 Baker. Tom N. Monks. Thomas
I J. Hammer. D. W. Ward. Harry
!C. McAllister. H. D. Wagnon.
Harry L. Day. A. E. Borthwlck
W. Irving Spencer. John Driscoll.
Milton Weldler.
4 Candidates Wao Filed Previously.
J For Mayor Dan Kellaher.
For Auditor A. L. Barbur.
? For Commissioner Ralph C.
I Clyde. John H. Nolta, Wallace B.
Hollingsworth. I G. Carpenter.
I M. Lepper. wunarn i.. Den
bow. M. O. Collins. C. A. Blgelow.
Pcnou Who Are CSrrnlatinsr
Petitions.
For Mayor M. E. Gibson. C.
I McKenna.
For Commissioner J. E. Wer
I leln. Jamea Maguire. Will H.
i Daly. William Schraeer, C. H.
Thompson. Ernest House, Harvey
O'Bryan, T. O. Daly. W. C. Alder
t son. M. J. Murnane. W. A-.Munly.
Dr. I Victoria- Hampton. Thad
I W. Vreeland. Mrs. M. U T. Hid
I den, George B. Thomas. J. H.
Tipton. W. T. Vaughn. Frank W.
Winn. A. G. Clark. W. H. Craw
4ord. Charlea N. Ryan, Dr. W. I.
I Cottel.
With It candldatea officlajly filed and
more than 80 nominating petitions be
ing circulated by prospective candidates
and their friends. It Is believed the list
of aspirants for commlsslonershlps at
the city election. Jone 2. will total cloae
to III. Yesterday marked the real be
ginning of tha rosh at the City Hall.
11 candidates for Commissioner . and
two for Mayor filing between 8 A. M.
and IP.M. Petitions for 80 candidates
were riven out by City Auditor Barbur.
It Is believed the rush will be kept
up until the end of the filing period.
May 13. In addition to those already
filed and the others who are circulating
petitions at present many others are
being urged to run by friends.
I.afe Entries Expected.
Many In this class have taken under
consideration the advisability of enter
ing the race and others have announced
their intention of waiting until near
the end of the filing period to see the
class of men who enter. It Is expected
that many prominent men will be
among the last to file. It Is known that
among others being urged to get Into
the fight are Circuit Court Judge Gatens
for Mayor and Frank E. Watkins, Will
lam R- McGarry and E. C Mears for
Commissioner.
The desire and effort of early candi
dates to get on the head of the ballot,
a. much-coveted place, has brought
about all kinds of trouble which may
lead to legal proceedings unless the
tangle can be atraightened out by City
Attorney Grant, to whom It waa sub
mitted yesterday by City Auditor Bar
bur. Attwnoy'n Rollnjc Asked.
Mr. Grant has been asked to decide
whether petitions secured before the
polls closed Saturday night are legal:
Blso whether petitions could be filed
legally after the office of the City Au
ditor had closed. Other questions asked
are: "Can the City Auditor receive
nominating petitions at any hour and
any place?" and "Are namea secured on
petitions on Sunday legal?"
Saturday night a number of candi
dates filed their petitions a minute or
two after the closing of the polls. The
names were secured before the polls
closed. These candidates maintain that
they were within the law in getting
the names before the charter was or
flcially adopted: others say not. Latr
Saturday night a number of candidates
filed names which were secured after
the polls closed. It Is questioned
whether these candidates could file le
gally on Saturday night, when the Au
ditor's office closed at noon Saturday.
Baker May Head Ballot.
If the first candidates to file are
upheld in their action, the ballot will
be headed, by Ralph C Clyde. If these
petitions are thrown out and the later
petitions are upneio. i. m. Pepper win
head the ballot. If all of the Satur
day night petitions are thrown out. the
ballot will be headed by George 1
Baker, who was the first candidate to
file yesterday morning.
A decision on the question probably
will not be forthcoming until Wednes
day. City Attorney Grant being out of
town. It is said that he has Invest!
cated the problema before and will be
'able to render an opinion promptly, in
I the meantime all the candidates are
I going to stand by their guns.
Yesterday's rush was led by George
PETITIONS
MORE
THE DALLES FOLK
PLAN NOVEL MOVE
CHRISTIAN CITCRCH WOMEN
PCT COIN AGAINST SALOONS.
In Tnosual "Ways "Will Dollars Be
Earned Two Start to Cultivate
Neighbor's Garden.
THE DALLES. Or.. May 5. (Special.)
A novel movement has been Insti
tuted by tne women who are members
of the Christian Church In this city.
Each has agreed to earn a dollar in
some unusual way and the money se
cured In this manner will be applied to
the fund which Is being raised by the
Methodist, Christian. United Brethren
and Baptist churches for their legal
fight which has been started against
the local saloons.
Two members of the Christian
Church congregation, Mrs. E. A. Grlf
fiin and Mrs. Lem Grifham. started to
day to cultivate a neighbor's garden.
It took them half a day to complete
their task and secure the contract
price, 82. the amount they pledged
themselves to raise for the fund. Miss
Leola Egbert will cut wood on her
homestead and sell enough of the tim
ber to secure her dolalr for the cause.
Other women have planned equally
unique ways to make money.
The four churchea have filed proceed
ings in Circuit Court, hoping they may
be able to secure an Injunction enjoin
ing the City Council from Issuing sa
loon licenses In the future. If the
churches win their case the Council
will be enjoined from granting liquor
permits June s30 thla year and The
Dalles will then become a "dry" town,
or until the liquor question can be de
cided at a special election.
The saloonmen have threatened. If
The Dalles goes "dry," to sue the city
for $300,000, the agregate amount col
lected by the city for saloon licenses
since 1905.
REDS SCARE IMMIGRANTS
Blanketed Indians on Ceremonial
Cause Stir in Xew York.
NEW YORK. May 6. (Special.)
Forty of the principal Indians of the
Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill educa
tional exhibits nearly scared the wits
out of a ferryboat load of Ellis Island
immigrants at the Battery today.
The Indians, who were on their way
to pay a visit of respect to the me
morial erected to the American Indian
at Fort Wadsworth. were all In blan
kets, war bonnets and ceremonial face
paint.
They were waiting for a tug to take
them over the bay. The ferry, with
Its rails crowded with representatives
of every nation In Europe, eager for
a glimpse at the people of the new
country, got a good look at the motley
rowd. There was something very like
a panlo; nobody could tell them Amer
ica was not Inhabited by savages. It
took half an hour for Interpreters to
persuade them to land, and even then
they glanced about fearsomely.
REPORTERS PUT IN JAIL
Four Newspaper Men Refuse to Tell
Court Source of Information.
FORT WORTH. Tex.. May 5. Rather
than divulge the source of their Infor
mation on which a newspaper Item was
based. J. O. Abemathy. Claude McCabe,
Joseph J. Fox and Charles F. Pekor,
newspaper reporters, each served an
hour In the county Jail here today. They
were held In contempt of court by Dis
trict Judge R. H. Buck.
The Item in question related to the
Indictment of a man charged wtlh at
tempting to bribe a former county
judge. Judge Buck held that the Hem
was published before the indictment
was returned in open court.
DANISH EXPLORER RETURNS
Ranrns?en Passes Three Years In
Greenland, Studying Eskimos. ,
. COPENHAGEN. May B. The expedi
tion under KnuJ Rasmussen. the Dan
ish exolorer. after a three years' ab
sence In Greenland, has returned to
Thorshaven. Faroe Islands.'
Rasmussen left Copenhagen In July.
1810. His object was to trace the mi
gration of the Greenland Eskimos from
the northern shores of the American
continent and to ascertain their origin.
It was also his Intention to try to find
Crockers Island, which was seen by
Commander Peary, and he aimed to
make an exploration over the Inland Ice.
THREE DIE OF HEAT IN EAST
Thermometer at Cleveland, O.,
Shows Mercury at 96 Degrees.
CLEVELAND, O., May 5. Three
deaths from excessive heat were re
ported today, the hottest ,May 5 for
42 years. John Kroveck, 48, of St.
Louis, was stricken In the Union Sta
tion and died a few hours later.
Jacob Behrlnger was overcome while
at work and died later, and the Infant
son of Anton Samrak succumbed to
heat prostration.
The official record was 86 degrees,
but the kiosk at the street level showed
a temperature of 96.
DEMOCRATS ARE ALARMED
Senators to Put Forth Efforts to Pre
serve Working Majority.
WASHINGTON. May B. Alarmed by
the frequent lack of a quorum In ex
ecutive sessions and by the strength
of Republican opposition to many of
President Wilsons' nominations. Senate
Democrats, at a conference today, de
cided to put forth efforts to preserve a
working majority at all times.
BRITAIN AGAIN HAS
WAVE OF MUTAHCY
Woman Runs Amuck in
Newspaper Office.
NITRO BOMB IS SENT IN MAIL
Miss Nina Boyle, Who Called
Lawmakers Cads, Arrested.
SUFFRAGE BILL IN HOUSE
Members of Parliament Discuss
Measure Which AVould Enfran
chise 6,000,000 Women, but
All Denounce Militancy.
LONDON, May .8. A militant suf
fragette effected an entrance to the
Standard newspaper offices today and
ran amuck through several of the rooms
smashing furniture. The woman was
finally ejected by the police.
The Standard asserts that the poison
ing of the Pekinese champion Choo-Tal,
the property of Miss Violet Ash ton
Cross, last week, was the work of mili
tary suffragettes. The dog died soon
after winning the championship at the
Southampton show.
Desoosrrr of Government Locked Un.
Miss Nina Boyle, who In a speech at
the meeting of the Actresses' Franchise
League last Friday night said that the
British Government was composed of
"cads and cowards." was arrested to
night with Miss Anna Munro, another
militant suffragette, while attempting
to hold a meeting in Hyde Park.
A bomb containing sufficient nitro
glycerin to demolish the great build
ing, was found among the packages col
lected by the parcel posj at the South
eastern district postoffice today.
No clew was obtained, but the police
attach suspicion to the militant suf
fragettes. Metal Gives Warning.
The metallic sound of the parcel
aroused suspicion among the employes,
several hundred of whom were on duty
at the time. The package was plunged
into water and the police who . were
called opened It and found it filled with
gunpowder, a quantity of slugs and a
tube of nltro-glycerln.
The struggle for woman suffrage be
gan again In the House of Commons
this afternoon when the second reading
was moved of Wllloughpy Dickinson's
woman's franchise bill. Whether this
measure which proposes to enfranchise
6,000,000 women shall get a fighting
chance or the whole question be burled
for the lifetime of the present Parlia
ment, will be settled tomorrow right
The vital sections of the brief bl.I are
as follows:
"1. Every woman who fa) If she
were a man would be entitled to be
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 73
degrees; minimum. 4S degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and slightly warmer; north
erly winds.
Forelsu.
Recovery of Pope is now complete. Page 8.
Plan for making universal solar system ob
servations throughout -world in harmony
is assured. Page 8.
Acts of militancy startle Britain. Page 1.
Scutari's (ate In hands o powers. Page o.
National.
Penalties In Gompera case reduced as Dis
trict of Columbia Court of Appeals up
holds convictions. Page 1.
Japanese Embassy preparing protest to be
forwarded to State Department. Page 1.
Bedfleld will probe any wage cut following
Democratic tariff bill's passage. Page 12.
Hot weather delays tariff work in Congress.
Page 4.
Tariff Issue may weld Republicans and Pro
gressives. Page 6.
Domestic
Jack Johnson Jaunty as trial begins. Page 2.
Transport Sherman takes on "unusual" load
of ammunition at San Francisco. Page -.
Taft says. "It we are to have free trade,
let's have It." Page 6.
Captain Merrlam names Major Murphy as
co-respondent at divorce trial. Page 1.
Blxby must appear In court today. Page 8.
Peace centenary envoys have meeting in
New York. Page 6.
Stars and Stripes nailed above red flag on
Socialist headquarters by owner of the
building. Page 4.
Sports.
Northwestern League results: Portland S.
Seattle 4: Tacoma 8, Victoria 2; Vancou
ver 8. Spokane O. Page 7.
Stovall. manager of fit Louis Browns, de
posed. Page 7.
Bud Anderson kidnaped by Medford ad
mirers. Page 7..
Hellmann will play first sack for Colts.
Page , 7.
Astoria regatta to be bis speed event 1
belief. Page 16.
Pacific Northwest.
Eskimo lad, refused by girl, but now edu
cated, sets sail soon for Alaska to claim
bride. Page 1.
The Dallea churchwomen plan novel cam
paign to fight saloons. Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
Apple season In Northwest Is brought to
close. Page 17.
Chicago wheat market depressed by tlmsly
rains, page 17.
Improved political situation In Europe causes
advance In stocks. Page 17.
Appropriations for lighthouse yet unknown
quantity. Page 16.
Portland and Vicinity. .
Eighteen file petitions In race for city of
fices. Psge 1.
Views of local bankers vary on Government's
demand for interest. Page 10.
Oakland delegation coming BOO-strong to
Rose Festival, want to engage theater.
Page 11.
Mount Tabor reservoir case goes to Jury.
Page 10.
Portland Women's Vnton realises 8230 at
silver shower. Page 9.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12.
Changes contemplated at City Hall prior to
Commissioner's taking office. Page 10.
Westminster Presbyterian Church folk start
SS.OOO campaign this week. Page 12.
California to send representative delegation
to World Citizenship Conference. Page 11.
LIE PROVES MAN'S SANITY
Judge Rules Ability to Deceive Es
tablishes Mental Capabalitly.
KANSAS CITY. Mo, May 6. When a
man 77 years old writes love letters,
the fact does not constitute evidence
of mental Incapacity.
Judge Ellison laid down that ruling
in a decision handed down In the Kan
sas City Court of Appeals today.
The case was one from Boone County,
in which a son sought to break his
father's will. .The love letters were
Introduced to show that the testator
was Incapable of making a will. In the
letters the writer said he was only 65
years old. Judge Ellison held that this
misrepresentation had nothing to do
with the case. The fact that he was
able to deceive, the Judge said, showed
that he was in possession of all his
faculties.
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PENALTY OF L
A6QR
LEADERS
Contempt Convictions
Upheld, However.
GONIPERS' SENTENCE 30 DAYS
Morrison and .Mitchell Fines
Cut to $500 Each.
CHIEF JUSTICE DISSENTS
Sbeppard Holds That Entire Decis
ion Should Be Reversed, Saying
Apology AVould Be Confes
sion of Wilful Perjury.
WASHINGTON, May 5. Contempt of
court judgments against Samuel Gom
pers, John Mitchell and Frank Mor
rison, the labor leaders, for their vio
lation of a court's Injunction In the
noted Buck Stove and Range case were
affirmed today by the District Court
of Appeals, but the Jail sentences im
posed were held to have been too se
vere, so the court reduced Gompers'
sentence from one year to 30 days and
decreed that Mitchell and Morrison
should only be fined $500 each. The
lower court sentenced Mitchell to nine
months And Morrison to six.
The Supreme Court of the United
States undoubtedly will be asked, again
to review the decision.
Court la Divided.
Unlike previous decisions in this
case which have been unanimously
against the labor leaders, the Court of
Appeals was divided. Chief Justice
Sheppard dissented, held that the wnoie
decision should be reversed, that con
tempt of a Federal Court was a crim
inal offense, and that the statute of
limitations had run in the case.
Justice Van Orsdel, who concurred
In the majority opinion, held that tne
refusal of Mitchell to assure the lower
court of his intention, to obey the
mandate of inferior courts in the- fu
ture was Important "in establishing
the temper and intent or tne respona
ents." .
Apology Held to Be Admission.
With that the dissenting Chief Jus
tice disagreed, saying in his opinion: .
"I am unable to see how the refusal
to apologise for an act, the commission
of which has been expressly denied,
shows a reprehensible Intent or temper.
On the contrary. It seems to me the
natural conduct of a self-respecting
man. Having sworn that he neither
disobeyed nor Intended to disotiey the
mandate of the court, a confession that
he had done so would be a solemn ad
mission of the commission of wilful
perjury."
Case Hard Fought One.
The majority decision was large.y
REDUCED
(Concluded on Page 4.)
ESKIMO LAD GOES
BACK TO WIN GIRL
PAUIi PATKOTAK, 18, EDUCATKD,
SETS SAITj NORTH SOON.
Government School Teacher in
Alaska Refuses Youth Because of
Lack of Education.
SEATTLE. Wash., May 5. Paul Pat
kotak, an 18-year-old full-blood Eski
mo, will sail for Point Barrow, the
Arctic extremity of Alaska, on May 22,
on the schooner Transit, to claim the
hand of Miss Alice Ahlook, native
teacher In the Point Barrow Govern
ment school, who refused to marry
him three years ago on account of lack
of education.
When he was Tejected by Alice Paul
set about qualifying himself. He
trapped enough Arctic foxes to pay for
a year's schooling in Seattle. He
worked bis passage to Seattle on the
Transit and was able to enter one of
the grammar schools, because of his
previous schooling at Point Barrow and
his quick mind.
During the firsX Summer vacation he
worked at various Jobs. Last Summer
he went to Prince of Wales Island
Alaska, and cleared $287 in 20 days by
fishing. During the past year he has
learned shorthand, typewriting and
bookkeeping. In addition to his other
studies. Patkotak came south clad in
furs and returns smartly dressed in
American clothing. With his new ac
complishments. In addition to his skill
as trapper, fisherman and Kayak navi
gator. It Is thought he will create a
stir on his return to Point Barrow.
PARK ISSUE IS REVIVED
Campaign ' for Bonds for Public
Playgrounds Begins Again.
The campaign in behalf of the pro
posed bond Issue for playgrounds and
recreation parks in Portland will be
renewed this week and carried on with
out Intermission up to the time of the
June election.
Arrangements are being made for ad
dresses before various organizations
V. Vincent Jones, of the playground
committee of the Portland Plans As
sociation; E. T. Mlsche. park superin
tendent; L. H. Weir, and many others
who have been active In playground
extension movements will lead In the
campaign and will deliver many of the
addresses that are proposed. The play
ground movement Is also to be urged
before the voters during the next few
weeks through the medium of the
moving-picture theaters.
A great exhibit of playground de
velopment not only in Portland but
in other cities will be featured at the
conference on the conservation of hu
man life at Reed College this week
This exhibit Is designed not only to
show what has already been done in
Portland, but, by comparison with other
cities, what is still needed.
VASSAR GIRLS STIR VICE
College Crnsade Results in War
rants for Prominent Youths.
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y., May 6.
(Special.) On Information gathered by
20 Vassar girls who investigated con
ditions here, warrants today were
sworn out for three young men. promi
nent in Fishkill Landing, who have
fled on learning of the serious charges.
The charges approach white slavery
in seriousness, and In addition to the
trio whose arrests are sought it was
learned that a score more well-known
young men have disappeared from their
haunts at the alarming news.
In addition to the issuance of war
rants It was predicted that several
hotels in Poughkeepsle and Newburg
will be closed as a result of the efforts
by the college girls to clean up the
country.
DIPPLE QUITS FOR 3 YEARS
Grand Opera , Company Pays $23,
000 for Contract and Field.
FHTLADELPHIATMay 5. It was an
nounced today at a meeting of the Chicago-Philadelphia
Grand Opera Com
pany that Andreas Dippel. who resigned
as general manager of the organization
recently, would retire from the grand
opera field for three years.
Dippel .received $25,000, which was to
have been his salary next year, and
other consideration for his agreement
not to enter the grand opera field for
three years and for turning over con
tracts held by him with singers to the
Chicago-Philadelphia company. The to
tal amount paid him was not made
public.
BARBUR ISSUES WARNING
Too Many Signatures of Same Voter
on Petitions May Disqualify.
am ... inUnr T?orhiir vesterdftv issued
innint callina-attention to the fact
that the law, as set forth in the new
commission charter, promoits any per
son from signing the nominating peti
tions of more than four candidates for
Commissioner or more than one for
Mayor or City Auditor,
The presence of a signature of a veter
more than one petition for Mayor
or Auditor will cause the name to be
stricken from all petitions and may
roauit in the entire nomination of a
candidate being thrown out ff the loss
of one name pulls the numDer of signa
tures In the petition down below 100.
CLOUDBURSTS IN KANSAS
Many Homes Menaced in Smoky
v Hill Valley in Kansas.
ELLSWORTH. Kan.. May 6. Flood
t.r. nf the Smokv Hill River, swol-
i by cloudbursts, are threatening
many homes in this vicinity.
Families are packed up and ready to
move.
ARMY SCANDAL IS
BARED IN COURTS
Merriam Divorce Case
Is Sensational.
MAJOR'S ATTENTIONS ISSUE
Wife Sobs but Captain Is
Adamant at Trial.
HUSBAND IS UNFORGIVING
Merriam Declares Young Wife Was
Too Friendly With Member of
Staff of Governor of Louisiana
While He Was in Texas.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5. (Special)
The sensational divorce case of Cap
tain Henry O. Merriam,, of the United
States Army, against Bessie C. Mer
riam, was called In Judge Graham's
court this morning. For an hour be
fore the opening of court the 10-year-old
daughter of the couple. Charlotte,
sat in the courtroom unnoticed by her
father, notwithstanding the fact that
he had not seen the child for two years,
and In face of the fact that Captain
Merriam says that the sole object of
his suit is the desire to secure absolute
custody of the child.
Mrs. Merriam entered the courtroom
with her attorneys, Barclay Henley.
Judson W. Reeves. John F. Engleke,
Prosecuting Attorney of Indianapolis;
her mother. Mrs. AC D, Ray, and her
daughter, the latter a beautiful child
with long blond curls. Captain Mer
riam was accompanied by his attorney,
Walter Llnforth; his sister. Mrs. Frank
Schultz, and his futher. Major Lewis
Merriam.
Judge Graham called the couple to
the stand and asked them to become
reconciled for the sake of the child.
Wife Willing- to Be Reconciled. .
. Mrs. Merriam, In a ' shaking voice,
said that she was willing, but her hus
band said that such a course would be
impossible. He avoided his wife's gaze"
and never throughout the time she
was on the stand did he raise his eyes.
The formal complaint In the case is
"extreme cruelty," but the documents
mention at length Major Clarence Mur
phy, on the staff of the Governor of
Louisiana, with whom it Is alleged Mrs.
Merriam was unbecomingly friendly
while her husband was away with his
regiment in Texas in the four months
of March, April, May and June In 1911.
The misconduct Is alleged to have
taken place at Jackson Barracks, near
New Orleans.
Quarrel Aired in Court.
The entire morning session was oc
cupied with examination of Mrs. Mer
riam to establish or disprove the verity
of the allegations connecting Mrs. Mer
rlam's name with that of Major. Mur
phy, and leading up to a quarrel be
tween husbund and wife in which the
latter attempted to shoot Captain Mer
riam and to a subsequent attempt of
Mrs. Merriam to poison herself and her
child.
On the stand Mrs. Merriam wept with
Indignation at the inquisition to which
she was subjected by Attorney Lln
forth, and even at these times Captain'
Merriam did not unfold his arms from
the military posture which he took on
resuming his seat after refusing to
hear of a reconciliation. His wife's
tears moved him only to suggest other
questions to Llnforth to ask.
At other times she clenched the arms
of her chair and bit her lips to keep
from weeping. Her tensity at times
was such that she seemed on the verge
of fainting, but a broadside of inquisi
tion would wring a protest from her
and she would throw back her head
and take courage.
Intimation Causes Anger.
The testimony revealed about the
state of Mrs. Merriam's health In her
husband's absence, and the names of
Army surgeons and other physicians
were Introduced in an effort to prove
that she had submitted to an opera
tion. In the face of this Intimation her
lips quivered pitifully, but her Indigna
tion at each succeeding question saved
her from utter breakdown.
Mrs. Merriam denied that she had
ever met Major Murphy alone or clan
destinely; denied that she had ever
been automobiling with him except in
the company of the wife of Major Kcp-
hart, commanding officer of Juckson
Barracks, or Mrs. Frank Schultz, sis
ter of Captain Merriam. She told of
the social life of the post, of the din
ners, balls, luncheons and receptions
Incident to Army life, and recalled
names from the Blue books of Wash
ington, D. C, and New Orleans, but
held steadfast to her statement that
she was not more friendly with Major
Murphy than the amenities of Army
usages admitted.
Merriam's Slater Tale Bearer.
Captain Merriam's sister, Mrs. Schultz.
aeems to have been the tale-bearer in
the premises, for she was the guest
of Mrs. Merriam during most of the
time Captain Merriam was in Texas,
and It is expected that her testimony
will be the plaintiff's trump card. In
fact, she has come from Washington
for that purpose, and does not hesitate
to show her animus for Mrs. Merriam.
Major Kephart testified he frequently
saw Major Murphy st the Merriam
home while Captain Merriam was ab-
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