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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, AVEDXESDAT, SEPTEMBER 17, 1913. --SfclSl.-U- ..LjJUi!(i :5- -''j1 y fL.J .PI. JBI', i IK. fijjl-yM'Fif II I '.'111 -3 'tuf-n i if r '- -jiiffriM'iTl'rnViMBinir WITH CONSPIRACY Hear your favorite music on Vict rola- Police Judge Repeats Accusa tion That Special Prosecu tor Aids Defense. any Victor eif wi y play i LAWYERS CHARGED the deal H H H UTS t for you 11 gladl "BLACKMAIL," IS RETORT District Attorney Says Ynian Pre-1 tending to Keprescnt Women's Ctubs Is Interested Only in Extorting Money. SXS FRANCISCO. Sept. It. Judge Carroll Cook, formerly on the Superior bench, and Judge Robert E. "Widney. of Los Angeles, formerly of the 17th Ju dicial district, were named today as accomplices In a criminal compact to defeat Justice in a statement made to Police Judge Shortall and repeated by him in open court, with Widney and Cook listening-. District Attorney Fickert said the charges were black mall pure and simple. Judge Widney was in court to guard the Interests of his son, A. B. Widney. who is accused by Noel Murphy of hav ing accepted her earnings and of hav ing aided in placing her In a disorder ly house. Judge Cook Is counsel for the Murphy woman, appearing as ape cial prosecutor. "Before this case goes to trial Judge Shortall. "I have a statement to make. A woman has called on me- I do not now think It proper to give her name and has informed me that Judge Cook, although ostensibly em ployed in this case as special prose cutor, is in reality under retainer of Judge Widney, and that there is a con spiracy to defeat justice." District Attorney Fickert emphat ically characterized the whole situation as fraudulent. The woman, he said, was one ostensibly representing several women's clubs with which she had no connection, and that her presence in the case was for the sole purpose of extracting money. "This case." continued Fickert. "will be vigorously prosecuted by my assist ant. Mr. Ferrari, and if this young man is innocent he will be acquitted, and If he is guilty he will be convicted. In addition. I shall run down all these shameful and petty grafters, .whether they are men or women." Daily demonstra tions. Go today and see and hear the vari- Jlgi ous styles of Victors and Victrolas $10 to $500 Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden, N. J. fi i Lid fa i FUN PRESIDES AT SMOKER Transportation Club Holds Its First Event of Season. Comedy, music, oratory and athletics combined to provide members of the Portland Transportation Club with n few hours of entertainment last night. It was the first smoker of the season end was held in the club's rooms at the Multnomah Hotel. W. A. Bobbins, president of the club', presided and drilled the members in some new sonsrs, written for the- occa sion, that will be used for the first time at the Multnomah County Fair at Gresham tomorrow - afternoon Port land day. E. W. Mosher. the club treasurer, was found guilty by a jury of falsely "proclaiming himself champion domino player of the organization and issuing a cnaiienge 10 ine world. Miss O'Neill, of the Arcadian Gar den, entertained with several vocal se lection. Two whirlwind four-round boxing contests by a quartet of promising paper-weights wound up the evening's festivities. H. H. Keck. N. C. Soule. W. O. Rob erts and E. W. Mosher composed the committee In charge of the programme. 4j Music is no longer a luxury to be enjoyed by a select few. It has come to be an actual necessity in every home and its foremost opponent to day is the Victrola. . $1 With the approach of the Autumn season and the long and sometimes rainy evenings, you will appreciate what it would mean to have a Victrola in your home to stir your imagina tion, quicken your emotions and dispel the cares of the ordinary business day. (j Visit our Victor Department and select the instrument best suited for your home. We will assist you to bring some music into your life each day to add to your happiness and make your home more complete. (j Easy terms on any Victrola. Steinway Weber and Other Pianos Ml Rid S&-.-J lifH' 1 piw Victor-Victrola XVI, $200 Mahogany or quartered oak im m.,,,. , . m Pianola Player Pianos Morrison at Sixth Opposite Post Office H ,1B (UI.JMJI . gyts-iwfi Tallin mt in-ii ir. --.r- ,.lL.,liyMlij nil, jfesgii-sS-rriiiii TiTiliiT 1' DIGGS IS ACQUITTED Harris Also Free on Suborna tion of Perjury Charge. DEFENDANTS ARE ELATED KING FAIR NETS $11,500 Prosecution Admits Disappointment Saying It Regarded Evidence as Overwhelming Lawyer's W'lfo Rejoices in Court. Expenses for Seattle Exhibit Are In Excess of Receipts. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16. In Just SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. IS. (Spe cial. King County Fair receipts amounted to approximately J11.600. ac cording to the report made to the rmmtv PnTml..nnn.. . 1 1 -. board appropriated $2000 to assist in one hour nd 30 mlnutos tne 1 ry ln meeting the obligations of the late siz tho case of Maury I. Dlggs and Charles days' session. There still remains about B- Harris, of Sacramento, charged with J3200 !n the County Fair fund t.iat may conspiracy to suborn perjury ln the ue U3i in extending such assistance. I cases oi xiggs ana r. urcw uraiiieiii, The County Commissioner in.)iuii I recently convicted under the Mann an appropriation of $25,000 ln the levy I vvhlte slave traffic act, returned a ver made last Fall for County Fair pur-1 diet of acquittal today. Neither de poses. After a lartre hm f ti i I fendant attempted to conceal his ela amount had been paid into the county I tion when the judgment was read, and treasury by taxnavers. milt wa. thr.n.leach was the recipient of congratula tened to enjoin the expenditure of the I tions from relatives and friends who money. The Commissioners averted I naa gatnerea to near me jurors' aeci litigation by consenting to rninni nnl I slon, J8.000 of the amount, the remaining For the first time ln nearly six weeks $7000 reverting to the county current there was evidence of genuine happi expense fund. The expenditures have ness tna table that the defense has not been totaled. Thev are known I usea in tne tnree cases mat nave at- however. to have larsrelv eiFi-Mipd th tracted Nation-wide attention. receipts. None of the Jurors would discuss the , verdict or their reasons for voting Diggs and Harris not guilty. Before SPR0ULE TO INSPECT LINES 'nd SMS? "I can not understand the verdict. Southern Pacific Head Today Begins I said Matt I. Sullivan, senior prosecu- i tor tor me uovernmenu i ne eviaence Trip Over Oregon Properties. I against the two men was overwhelm ing. We confidently expected a ver- Willlam Sproule. president of th dict OI etullty. boutnern Pacific, who has been In Portland on an official business visit since last Saturday, will leave this morning on an inspection trip of the company properties tn Oregon. He hopes to devote fully ten days to the !outnern pacific lines in this There was an affecting scene be tween Harris and his wife when the verdict was read. The strain of the trial told on their emotions. Harris thanked everybody for the treatment accorded him daring the trial, and, . turning to Sullivan, said: state. I .... c-.. ii i .v. - tor, but I want to say that I will never Mr. Sproule will be accompanied over the linen nf thn Sniithn T3n ni i proper by D. W. Campbell, general forKt tne fair manner in which you superintendent, and over the Portland, t"atd,.nle: I could have had no com. Kugene & Eastern lines bv Robert r! Plaint if the thing had gone the other Strahorn. president of that road. They way' win do joined oy various other offl clala as the trip progresses. Mr. Sproule hopes to travel over the Tillamook line and to look at the work now being done on the Coos Bay ex tension. It Is probable, too, that he win cover the Corvallis & Kastern, which now Is being Improved. INTRUDER IS OUTWITTED BIG SAWMILL WILL ARISE Copalis Lumber Company Lets Con tract to Sumner Iron Works. HOQUIAM. Wash., Sept. Is (Spe cial.) The Copalis Lumber Company has awarded to the Summer Iron Works of Everett a contract for a com. blnation mill near Hoqulam. The mill will have a 10-hour capacity of 150.000 feet of lumber and 500.000 shingles. The machinery la to be delivered within 60 days and the mill is to be cutting lum ber by January 1. The mill will employ 800 men In the ramps and mills. The cost to the com pany will be at least $300,000. Six of the 13 uprights will cut 12-Inch shin gles designed especially for the Eastern market. THREE DETENTION HOMES EN TERED BY PROWXER. Woman Instructor at Frailer Insti tution Cool Under Muzzle of Shotgun. To the bravery of Miss Nellie C. Gaffney, instructor in domestic science at the Frazler Home, little girl In mates of the home probably owe their escape from deatn or serious Injuries through the acts of a man whom the police believe either Is of a low type or insane, and who broke Into the home early yesterday morning. Two other places where delinquent girls aro housed were visited by the unidifenti fied prowler, but in each case he was frightened away. Carrying a shotgun, a flashlight and a bottle 'containing an alcoholic com pounds other than whisky, tho man first appeared at the Frazler Home, East Fifty-second and Hassalo streets. Miss Gaffney was ln her room, talk-Ins- tsi nnA nf th cirl.Q hnth having retired, when the man, who had been. MRS. ln the girls general dormitory, en tered. He had overheard Miss Gaffney call the girl "Annie" and he asked, her for 'Annie Martin," placing the gun close to her body as he spoke. She leplied that she knew of no "Annie Martin." but concluded to take the man to the rooms where Probation Officer Sam White was sleeping. With the gun at her back, she went to White's room, closely followed by the armed man. At this point the intruder be came frightened and ran out of the place. Half an hour later, supposedly the same man appeared at the Home of the Good Shepherd, East Twenty-sec ond and East Irving streets, where he broke open screened windows, but ran away before he was seen. A little later, a man believed to have been the same, climbed a porch at the building of the Boys and Girls' Aid So ciety, at East Twenty-ninth and East Glisan streets. He got into the boys dormitory, and when one of the boys ran to the rooms of the superintendent the man made his escape, leaving the bottle of alconolic compound behind him. Hints that the man might be the murderer of little Barbara Holzman several years ago. and had again tried to commit a similar crime were com mon about town yesterday, but the po lice were unable to find anything which would bear out the theory. No bloodhounds will be put on the trail of the offender. An attempt was made to secure a dog at Llnnton yes terday, but it was unsuccessful and it was decided that, by the time hounds could be secured from Salem the trail would be too cold. The Juvenile Court has assigned Probation Officer Jeffrey to represent it ln the search for the culprit. POLK FAIR GETS SUPPORT Much Enthusiasm Aroused at Inde pendence Meeting. INDEPENDENCE. On. Sept. 16. (Special.) The Booster Association of the Polk County Fair Association was In this city last evening for the last big boosters' meeting before the fair which takes place at Dallas, Septem ber 23, 24 and 25. The visitors were accompanied by the Dallas band and a great deal of enthusiasm was aroused. A programme was given ln a local moving picture theater. This is tho second annual fair of this county and the first one to be held since the Legislature authorized the special tax for raising money for prizes to be given at the different county fairs. This county heretofore has held blooded stock fairs, schools fairs and old-fashioned pioneer picnics. These three have been combined into one and will be held on the three days of the fair. LOSTRINGSNOWRETURN SIG SICHEL GETS. BACK VALUABLE GEMS. In Pill Box Marked "First Class Jewelry Missing Since June, 191C, Mailed to Owner. Two Taken to Hospital. George Clark, living at the Hotel Portland, suffered a broken leg by a fall at Sauvies' Island, where he was passing a vacation, and was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital yesterday. Irvln King, aged 11. also' is a patient at the hespital. having been brought in from his home In Sandy, Or., yester day. Buffering from an injury to his nee joint sustained while he was whittling with his father's chisel. Gaynor's Place Left Vacant. NEW YORK, Sept. 16. Fire Com missioner Johnson, who was manager of Mayor Gaynor's campaign for re- lection, said formally this afternoon that the Gaynor Fusion League had ceased to exist and no further effort would be made to nominate a man In Mr. Gaynor's place. Fifteen months ago. In June, 131 Mrs. SIg Slchel, wife of ex-State Sena tor and ex-Police Commissioner Slchel removed three rings from her fingers and laid them on a wasbstand as en was washing her hands in the women' rest-room at the Multnomah Hotel. She did not think of them again until the following morning. They had dlsap peared then. The rings were advertised for more than a month, a reward was offered, "with no questions asked," and every effort was made by the police to re cover them. But no trace ever was found of them - until yesterday, when Mr. Slchel opened a little package i the morning's mall addressed to htm at his office. 69 Third Btreet, in a worn an's handwriting. In what was evidently a pin box, from which every ink mark had been scratched off, were the three missing rings. Their settings were intact. To make sure that the rings should go to Mr. Sichel himself the sender had inscribed, the package "Personal." in parcel was not registered, but she had taken pains to have it go as first-class matter by affixing two 2-cent stamps and marking it "First-class." it Dore a Portland Dostmark. Mr. Sichel said that the value or tne rings as jewelry was about $800, but that he and his wife would not nave parted with them for any price be cause of the memories attached to them. One of the rings, a beautiful diamond cluster set in platinum, was Mr. Slchel's mother s mother s wedding ring and had been in his family for 100 years. It is a family heirloom" said Mr. Slchel. "Twenty-seven years ago, when visited mv mother ln Germany, she gave, me this ring to give to my wife as her wedding ring when I married. Mv mother died two years later, but I gave the ring to my wife at our wed ding, as she had wished. I would not have lost it permanently for any price. "My wife and I feel deeply grateful to the person who has returned the rings to us. We regard it as a per sonal favor. Somehow I had felt all along that the rings eventually would be returned. though Mrs. . Slchel thought they were gone for good." Mr. Slchel used due caution in break. Ing the news to Mrs. Sichel. He rang her uo by telenhone. "What would you think if I told you I had just seen a man who had a good clue to the missing rings?" he queried mildly. Mrs. Sichel did not get a bit excited. "Oh. I wouldn't think much of it," she returned. "Well er the fact is suppose I told you that I have the rings now? her husband ventured. Then he had to .own up. One of the rings is described in the data given to the police as a diamond ring set princess style. The second is the family heirloom already described. and tho third is a white pearl and a black pearl, with a diamond set in the center. ADMEN TO FEJE RIFLEMEN Team on Return From Camp Perry Will Be Gnests at Banquet. Portland Admen will assemble at the Union Station this morning at 11:80 to greet the returning Oregon National Guard rifle team, winner of honors at the recent international shoot at Camp Perry. O., and will escort its mem bers to the Portland Hotel, where they will be the luncheon jruests or tne ciud. Major L. A. Bowman will be chair man of the day. Addresses will be made by C. H. Moore, president or tne ciud; General Finzer, Colonel C. H. Martin A. L. Mills, president of the First JNa tional Bank, and Lieutenant-Com mander H. Beckwith, of the Oregon Naval Militia. Oregon's success in the rifle con tests will be the principal theme of the talks and all possible honors will be accorded to the men who took par ln the shoot. GUARDSMEN PLAN PICNIC Citizen Soldiers Will Hold MhSl. Battle at Clackamas Range. What promises to be the largest pub lic picnic ever held In the vicinity of Portland will take place next Sunday at the Clackamas Station rifle range when .tthe Oregon National Guard trooDs stationed ln Multnomah County will give a military field meet, basket picnic and maneuver battle, 'inree spe cial trains on the Southern Pacific line will be required to handle tne crowd. Details of the programme are com plete and the military features will be of a spectacular nature. The feature of the day will be the maneuver battle. Blank ammunition will give a realistic touch to the skirmish. Eauipment races, competitive drills and other athletic events of a military nature will occupy the afternoon and brief rifle competition will be neid, The picnic will be open to the public Old Jackson Resident Dead. ASHLAND. Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Funeral services of Peter Fick. an old-time resident of Jackson county, were held at Jacksonville today. Mr. Fick was born in Germany, came to America in 1868, and for 43 years was a resident of Jacksonville. He had farmed and mined since he had lived ln this section. . None of the Roman ruins shows a chim ney. TURN HI DARK WITH SAGE TEA If Mixed With Sulphur It Dark ens So- Naturally No body Can Tell. The old-time mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur for darkening gray, streaked and fading hair is grandmoth er's treatment, and folks are again us- lns: it to keen their hair a good, even color, which is quite sensible, as we are living in an age when a youthful appearance is of the greatest advan tage. Nowadays, though, we don t have the troublesome task of gathering the sage and the mussy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the ready-to-use prod uct called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy, for about 50 cents a bottle. It is very popular because no body can discover it has been applied. Simply moisten your comb or a soft brush with it ana oraw tnis through your hair, taking one small strand at time: by morning tne gray nair dis appears, but wnat aeiignts tne ladles with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur is that. besides beautifully darkening the hair after a few applications, it also pro- uces that soft lustre and appearance of abundance which is so attractive; besides, prevents dandruff, itching scalp and fallwjr hair. Adv. In School or Out these special Knieker suits .will hold your boy; they're made espe cially for this store and we'll put the. weavers' and tailors' skill against the boy's enterprise. Both Norfolk and double-breasted styles and an extra pair of trousers with every suit. New, stylish patterns and models have a look at them. $5, $6, $6.50 Boys' Shop, Second Floor BEN SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER Morrison Street at Fourth SALE OF L O T S AT PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA OTTTTATF.D at the confluence of the Fraser and Ner.haro Rivers in Central British Columbia, 450 miles north-east of Vancouver, B.C., and 467 miles east of Prince Rupert, B.C., or midway between Prince Rupert and Edmonton, Alta., on the main lino of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. l By reason of its central location, Prince George will be the natural distribut ing point for the extensive territory comprised in the Pacific Province of the Dominion, and it has therefore long been the expectation of the general public that upon the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Prince George will early become a 1 arge and important centre. J Having purchased what was known as the Fort George Indian Reserve No. 1 for thepurpose of locating a townsite thereon, the Grand Trunk Pacific Develop ment Company Limited has caused the same to be surveyed and platted and will offer lota in this townsite for sale by public auction at Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday September 17th, 1913, and at Edmonton, Alberta, Wednes day, September 24th, 1913. QThe terms of this sale will be one-quarter cash and the balance payable in one, two and three years with six per cent interest. For further particulars and plans apply to: G. U. RYLEY, Land Commissioner, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Coupsay. Winnipeg, Manitoba