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P0SLAM HEALS RAW, BURNING, ITCHING SKIN TIlMlOOeUFF DIES OF APOPLEXY London Raincoat Co. 313 Washington Sreet, BeL Fifth and Sixth Sireets FORMERLY FLORSHEIM SHOE CO. MEMBERS OF ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY TO BE MARRIED IN FAMOUS ST. JAMES CHURCH, LON DON WEDNESDAY. Stroke Received While Speak ing at Fusion Meeting Finally Fatal. ILLNESS LASTS 2 WEEKS of Ex-L,lentenant-Governor York ActlTe Political Figure In State for Nearly 30 Years Po sition In Pnrty High. XEW YORK, Oct. 12. Timothy I Woodruff, former Lieutenant-Governor of New York State, died at 9:15 o'clock tonight. lie had lain in a critical con dition for. nearly two weeks after hav ing been stricken with paralysis while addressing- a fusion party rally In this city. He was 65 years old. The former Lieutenant-Glveroor was first stricken on the night of Septem ber 29 last on the platform in Cooper Union at a fusion ratification meeting, while making a stirring- speech. The announcement of the end tonight was. made bv John E. "Woodruff, his mn vhn Rfnt a note reading: "Mr Woodruff died at 9:15 tonight from anoDlexy." Mr. Woodruff rallied for a time from hi first attack. Last Sunday night. however, his condition again became alarmlnc- and he relapsed into uncon sciousness. from which he emerged only once for a brief interval. Late last night the family gave up all hope. Start Made Without Money. Timothy Woodruff was born in New Haven August 4, 1858. His father had been a member of Congress from 1855 to the close of the Civil War. The family had means enough to educate the children, but nothing for later maintenance and the young man came to New York with only a letter of in troduction to the salt firm of Nash, Whiton & Co., now the Worcester Salt Company. He started as bookkeeper. Not long afterward he suggested to the firm to hire a vacant building In the neighbor hood and turn it into a customs ware house. The firm acted on the sugges tion and put him in charge. He drummed up business and Boon had the building filled with wares and paying better profits than were made from salt. Within one year the firm ad mitted him to partnership. By 1887 he owned four warehouses and two grain elevators. When the Brooklyn Ware house Company organized in 1888 he became a director and secretary. He had been Induced to invest money in a patent medicine company and had to take over the management to save himself. It grew to be a very pros perous concern. By similar process he became president of an insurance com pany and he was elected head of a large typewriter factory. He helped incorporate the Kings County, Hamil ton and Manufacturers' Trust Com panies of Brooklyn, became a director of the Merchants Exchange National Hank, president of the Co-operative Building Bank, treasurer of the City Savings Bank and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, all within 10 years of his arrival in New York. Pollticnl Career Active. He had been active in politics from 1885. In 1895 he was appointed park commissioner of Brooklyn, and made his administration extremely popular by throwing open the parks at night for the poor. He attended all the party conventions, state and National, as a delegate, but his only elective office was that of Lieutenant-Governor, in which he served for three terms be ginning in January, 1897. He became chairman of the state committee in 1900. He had homes in Brooklyn and Garden City, kept apartments in the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan, and his Kill-kare-kamp of 1000 acres in the Adirondacks was one of the finest es tates there. His recreations were driv ing, automobiling, fishing and shooting, and he belonged to many social clubs. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Cora Eastman, of Pough keepsie. by whom he had a son, John, born in 1882. She died in 1900. In 1905 he married Miss Isabel Morrison, who survives him. He was an active political figure in New York State for nearly 30 years, and until a year ago. when he left that party and Joined the Progressives, his name was nearly always to be found in the roll of Republican National, state and city conventions. As a delegate from New York in the Republican National convention of 1908 he nominated James S. Sherman for Vice-President. BUCKLER DENIES OFFERS Archaeologist Would Accept AVork at Johns Hopkins. LONDON, Oct. 12. (Special.) Will lam 11. Buckler, the archaeologist. de niea toaay, at his country home at Taplow, that any official offers had been made to him of the presidency of ine jonns nopains university. "It will not be true to say that In terested persons have not mentioned the matter to me," he added, "but only an unanimous invitation from the board of governors would induce anyone to accept this position. ' Conversing with friends. Professor Buckler was less guarded. Consider able pressure from several quarters has been put upon him to accept the place, and if it should be offered unanimously oy me governors he will accept. JOHNSON FRENCH CITIZEN Xegro Says He Will Never Set Foot on American Soil Again. CHICAGO, Oct. 12. Jack Johnson, negro champion heavyweight fighter, has become a naturalized citizen of France, according to a letter received here today by a negro friend. As a consequence it Is expected the gov ernment will order forfeited the 130, 000 bonds given in the white slavery charges which will be called here to morrow. In the letter Johnson said he was doing well in vaudeville. Next week, he said, he would open a nine-weeks' engagement at Vienna. "My home hereafter will be Paris. Never again will I set foot on American soil," he wrote. jests ' feY;-v 'w : 4 ' Photo by Underwood & Underwood. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA AND PRIJTCB ARTHUR. WEDDING BIG EVENT King and Queen Take Especial Interest in Nuptials. PRECEDENT IS OBSERVED Ban don Club Gives Dance. BANDON, Or., Oct. 12. (Special.) The University Club of Bandon held a successful banquet here last night. The banquet was held at the Wigwam, which had been elaborately decorated by the wives of members. The commit tee was Mrs. C. R. Wade, Mrs. N. J. Crain, Mrs. C. E. Kopf, Mrs. G. T. Treadgold and L. P. Sorenson. The banquet was followed by a dance. Marriage of Princess Alexandra and Prince Arthur Will Be,Attend ed hy Many Notables of European Courts. LONDON, Oct. 12. (Special.) All the regal ceremonies that are custom ary when members of the royal fam ily of England are married will be observed Wednesday, when Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife and Prince Arthur, son of the Duke of Connaught, are married. The wedding will be celebrated at noon.. King George and Queen Mary will be present, accompa nied by a long train of official at tendants, members of the royal fam ily of England and some of the Euro pean countries, and leaders of society and government in England. The bride and bridegroom are fa vorites of the King and Queen, in ad dition to being members of an impor tant branch of the ruling family, and King George and Queen Mary are tak ing an especial Interest in preparations for the wedding. Queen Mary is in continuous consultation with the Prin cess Royal, mother of the Duchess, and personally will see that ail prepara tions for the wedding are carried out in accordance with precedent. Already the Chapel Royal, at St James' Church, London, the scene of many royal weddings in the past, is being decorated for the wedding. Pro fessional decorators have been busy for several days and the famous old building will receive no less attention than if the Crown Prince or a daugh ter of the King 'and Queen wege to be one of the contracting parties. Although the wedding, as are all the royal weddings, will be a private at fair, preparations have been made to accommodate more than 600 guests at the wedding breakfast, and these Kuests who will attend this celebra tion are only a few of those who are exDected to be in attendance at the wedding. .The breakfast will be served in the old banquet hall, an annex to the Royal Chapel. Not the least prominent feature of the wedding will be the costumes of the guests. King George and Queen Mary are expected to wear their royal robes, other members of the royal family will be costumed in robes marking their station, and government officials who will attend are expected to aDnear In robes indicating their official rank. interested In timberlands which she wished to trade. From Portland she went to Roseburg, it is believed, and again picked up the trail of her husband and Miss Carter. Miss Carter, who has been living in Portland for several years. Is 32 years of age, and is called a striking, beauty. That she had real estate business with Mr. Coates is known in Portland, and Portland persons who know her say that It may have been on timber propo sitions that she met Mr. Coates in Roseburg, or accompanied him there. COURT RESTRAINS SHERIFF -Judge Campbell Rales in Tax Levy Case at Willamette. OREGON CITY, Or.. Oct. 12 (Spe cial.) Judge Campbell of the Circuit Court Saturday filed his decree restrain ing Sheriff Mass from collecting a 10 mill levy made by the City Council of Willamette against John Downey. The court held that the Council had no authority to raise any funds until after the charter of the city had been voted upon and adopted by the people of the city. The contention of the plaintiff was that the city had no Council because the laws of the state that give the County Court the right to incorporate cities and towns were laws that enabled a court to exercise legis lative rather than its judicial func tions. Judge Campbell did not mention that point, in his findings, however, but held that the Council had no authority to levy a 10-mill charge against the prop erty of the plaintiff until the charter had been adopted by the people. E T FKIEXDS OP COATES TKYIXG TO SMOOTH OVER STRIFE. Wife Refuses to Talk With Hnsband Arrested at Roseburg "Other Woman" Is Beauty. ROSEBURG. Or.. Oct. 12. (Special.) It is understood here today that friends of Robert Coates, arrested here yester day in company with Miss Lillian B. Carter, are making- efforts to' persuade Mrs. Coates to drop the case against her husband. District Attorney Brown, it is said, also has been requested to use his efforts in bringing about a re conciliation. The District Attorney said: "Mr. Coates will be treated in court the same as any person." Mrs. Coates, who is said to be ill, re mained in her apartments at a local hotel today and refused to be seen. Mr. Coates several times attempted to reach her over the telephone, but was unsuccessful. The detective who helped Mrs. Coates In bringing about Coates' arrest said he believed the case would go to trial. Mr. and Mrs. Coates and Miss Carter are staying at different hotels. On account of tomorrow being a holiday the preliminary hearing will not come up until Tuesday. That Mrs. Robert Coates. of Aber deen, Wash., was her own sleuth in tracing her husband and Miss Lillian B. Carter, of 106 Twelfth street, to Roseburg, is the belief of Portland persona who remember the events closely preceding the arrest. Miss Carter, who was carrying on some real estate operations while she was acting as office assistant to Dr. C. O. Boyer, of 417 Medical building, left Portland last Tuesday and on Fri day a woman, who is now believed to have been Mrs. Coates, called at the office and learned the whereabouts of Miss Carter. The caller said she was PUPILS WILL TEST MILK Testers Distributed . Among Schools in Polk County. MONMOUTH, Or., Oct. 12. (Special.) Six new milk testers to be used by the pupils of Polk county in making semi-monthly herd tests, have arrived and are being distributed. Owing to a shortage in the number of testers sent, 14 districts will be compelled to delay practical demonstrations in the new studv for a short time. Polk county has been chosen by the state superintendent or fudiic instruc tion for the first school tests, and dairymen here are Intensely interested. If the new work proves to be a sue cess in Polk county, it Is to be taken up by schools in other counties of the state. W. A. Barr. of the Oregon Agricult ural College, who helped to plan out the new practical study, is expecteo to be on hand to start the work. OLD SLATE IS FOUND Children of 4200 Years Ago Learn Phonetic Spelling. SCHOOLS MUCH AS TODAY CARE OF ORPHANS URGED Broken Homes Cause Majority Criminals, Says Exper. of INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 12. The adop tion of orphan children into the homes of citizens of each slate, that they may receive training In home life, not ob tainable in public institutions, was the plan advocated by President James A. Leonard, of MansfieldO., as one of the most certain methods of lessening crime, in his address before the open ing session of the annual convention of the American Prison Association here tonight. Careful investigation Into the lives of Inmates of large reformatories, the speaker said, showed that 76 per cent of the youths either were homeless or had been reared in nroaen nomes. di vorce, he asserted, had disrupted the homes of 60 per cent of the boy criminals. APPLES INJURED BY WORMS Loss of 20 Per Cent Estimate Milton-Freewater District. in WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct. 12. (Special.) Worms have damaged the apple crop In this valley 20 per cent, accorSing to Manager Barnes, of the local branch of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors. The central agency was figuring on 125 carloads from the Milton-Freewater district and now but 100 carloads are counted on. Apple shipments will begin Monday and from then on the crop will be rushed to market as rapidly as possi ble. Prices will be better than last year, the better quality apples bring ing from 71.26 to ii a box, though the average price probably will be about $1.35 net to the grower. Xew Mines in Portugal. An important event last year was the discovery of mines in Portugal rich in alluvial tin. Many claims have been entered for record by American, French and Spanish concerns. Near Guards, close to the Spanish frontier, an Amer ican company is preparing to operate on a large scale and is developing the resources of an entire valley. Los Angeles Has $125,000 Fire. LOS ANGELES. Oct. 12. Fire of un known origin in the Industrial district last night caused damage estimated at $125,000. The flames were discovered in the plant of the California Macaroni Company and before they were brought under control several adjoining build ings were damaged. Sumerian Pupils at Jflppnr Shown by , Study of Tablets to Have Had Training" in. Line With That of Twentieth Century. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 12. (Special.) Professor Langdon, of James College. Oxford University, who is spending some time in this city at the University of Pennsylvania, has discovered that one of the' famous Nippur tablets re veals some of the oldest schoolbobks which are known to exist. They show that children of the ancients learned much that boys and girls of today have to study, and his deciphering has led to the discovery of some important educational relics. They show that children of 4200 years ago were taught phonetic spell lng. Some of the tablets show that pupils in college at Nippur studied geography, history, geology and th ology. Their grammars and historie show that the Sumerians were a highly developed people and that they paid great attention to the education of their children. Professor Langdon calls attention to the fact that a people which could con struct a phonetic grammar in such scientific manner as .this had attained a high state of culture. Such a state of Intelligence is the climax of a long period of progress. The tablet in ques lion is therefore epoch-making in that it marks a hitherto unsuspected Intel lectual and philosophical development. One of the tablets records a treatise on the use of the preposition "by," showing the various uses of the word, Another is an exercise on the infinitive. The words "to be deep" are exploited in various ways, including the nouns "well," "ditch" and many other derlva tlves. ' About 4200 years ago a boy was working at his spelling lesson in the Temple school at Nippur, the ancient capital of Sumeria. His slate consist ed of a piece of soft clay in tablet form about six Inches long by four wide, an inch thick. On this he spelled his words by means of a stylus with a triangular end. The words were made by combinations of these triangles, and as part of his task he had written down the names of some jewels In the upper left-hand corner of his "slate. In the upper right-hand corner- he had written something else. Now, after 4200 years, after many centuries reposing in the ruins of the Temple of Nippur, it now rests in the University museum of this city pre cisely as he left it. 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TILLAMOOK, Or., Oct 12. (Special.) The County Court let a contract to day for the building of a part of the proposed road to Bayocean, which will skirt the south side of Tillamook Bay. Several efforts have been made in recent years to give Bayocean a road. It was on the petition of Fred C Baker, ope of the good roads newspaper boost ers oi., the county, that the county Court acted. About $8000 was sub scribed towards the road some time ago by property owners and business men of Tillamook City, but as only a portion of the road can be constructed this Winter, $2000 of the above amount will be donated at this time, the Coun ty Court appropriating a like amount. It Is the Intention of the promoters of this road to have it completed in two years, and with that object in view it is proposed to raise about J7600 by subscription and have the county appropriate $7500, which will complete two-thirds of the road. RUSSIANS CHRISTEN LAND (Continued From Firet Fag-eO ' new land and a large geological col lection. Nicholas Second Land was discov ered August 21 and possession taken August 22, Russian calendar. The Rus sian colors are now flying in latitude 80 N., longitude 100 E. The ships crews saw a splendid oc currence, rare in the Arctic, the phe nomenon of a green . sun, lasting 90 seconds each time, at sunset July 30 and September 11. The spectacle was sketched in colors by Meutenant Polo sen, chief engineer. The vessels have a barograph record of the Bering Sea storm and photo graphs showing the extreme inclina tion of the vessels during the storm with mountains of water apparently about to overwhelm them. The Russian officers are courteous, but reticent regarding scientific data obtained. NEW LAND IS BELIEVED LAST Scientists Say Arctic Explorers Will Be Without Jobs. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. Members of the National Geographic Society said here today that the reported Russian discovery of a continent 600 miles north of Asia, if true, would be the last great discovery of lands. They pronounced it the most important discovery within the Arctic circle in the last century. The report from St. Michaels, Alaska, that Commander Wilkitsky, in command of the Russian government steamers Taimyr and Waygatch had arrived there and announced the discovery of a body of land as largei as Greenland, extending beyond latitude 81 north and longitude 104 east, came as a distinct surprise to the members of the society. Major-General A. W. Greely. Arctic explorer and scientist, thinks some error must have been made in describ ing the location of the newly found continent. The explorer said today that on December 18, 1894, the Fram, in which D. Nansen drifted in the Arctic regions, was in latitude 83:50, longitude 104, Just a little north of where the southern extremity of the land re ported discovered is said to be. Dr. Nansen's party saw no land and so confident was he that none existed in the vicinity of his vessel that he has argued, since that the unexplored portion of the Arctic Ocean is a deep basin. General Greely suggested that it hardly seemed possible that a con tinent of the size of Greenland could exist between the path of the Fram and Cape Chelyuskin, the northern most point of Asia, although he was not inclined to doubt that a discovery had been made. That unexplored land, about the size of Greenland, does exist within the Arctic circle north of Alaska and East ern Siberia, as distinguished from Western Siberia, where the Russians are said to have discovered land, has been the theory of scientists for years. Dr. Roland A. Harris, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, years ago put forth the so-called Harris theory that a large area of undiscovered land was located within the circle. His conten tion was based on tidal observation by polar explorers, including Rear Ad miral Peary. General Greely arrived at the same conclusion about land to the westward of Grinnell land, but by a different method. His opinion was based on the prevalence in the Arctic Ocean of large flat-topped icebergs. General Greely reasoned that such bergs could only be formed cn level land of consider able extent and that as they did not come from Spitzbergen, Greenland or Grinnell land, they must come from an unknown land. In a book written by him in 1906 he said that "Within the main north polar basin there is possibly an extended ice-covered land to the north-north west of Melville Island." I At the Home of Coats Todav Only Waterproof Outer Garments for men and women every conceivable color and style effect for season 1913-14. 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Old-Fashioned Dinner Followed Music, Speaking Programme. Officers Are Named. bj Labor Commissioner Commended. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 12. (Special.) The Salem Trades and Labor Council has adopted resolutions commending Labor Commissioner Holt for his efforts to enforce the eight-hour labor law at the state Institutions. A copy of the reso lutions will be sent to the State Board of Control, which is undecided as to whether the law applies to the men employed at the Institutions. If it is so declared the expense of conducting them will be much greater than here tofore. Attorney-General Crawford held that the law applied to workmen at the recent State Fair. Indians Raid American Camp. NOG ALES, Ariz., Oct. 12. Taqul In dians raided yesterday the property of a graphite company 40 miles east of Hermosillo operated by Fred Car ruthers, an American. All provisions. arms and ammunition were taken. Aged Squaw Dies of Starvation. KENNET. CaL, Oct. 12. Because she had a severe sore - throat for three weeks that kept her from eating, Mary McCloud, an Indian, aged 75, died to day from starvation. A "hotel" for canaries built by a Ber lin man, has elevators, electric lights. Winter garden and fountain. NEWBERG, Or., Oct. 12. (Special.) Nebraska and Kansas had the right of way in Newberg yesterday. It was the occasion of the annual meeting of the Nebraska Society. At last year's meet ing it was voted to invite ex-resldents of Kansas to be present at the meet ing this year, and that an "Invitation be then extended them to join in form ing an association representing the two Dinner of the old-fashioned kind was prepared and served by women who know how to cook, and in the after noon there was a musical programme, a recitation, addresses by Rev. George C Ritchey as a representative of Ne braska, and by Mrs. Edith Hill-Booker, who told about early days in Nebraska and of later days in Kansas. Referring to the drought that has prevailed there this year, she said that the Governor of Kansas sent out word to the world that Kansas needed no pity and needed no money from outside; that Kansas could stand seven years of drought and still have part of the present deposits of $12,000,000 left in the savings banks, the result of two generations of men and women grown In a state that never saw an open saloon. Short talks were made by a number of others present, and It was arranged that the next meeting be held on the third Saturday in August, 1914. Ofllcers were elected as follows: U. S. G. Miller, president; Frank Cummins, vice-presi dent; Mrs. H. R. Stevens, treasurer, and Mrs. W. W. Colby, secretary. The or ganization will be known hereafter as the Nebraska-Kansas Association. ment Club of Chehalis is investigating the proposition of putting before the people of this city a plan to erect here a T. M. C. A. building. It Is proposed to provide the young men with a place where they may have recreation that will prove beneficial and profitable. A gymnasium, club rooms and various features of the up-to-date Y. M. C. A, quarters are contemplated. Chehalis Plans V. 31. C. A. Building. CHEHALIS, Wash.. Oct. 12. (Spe cial.) The Woman's Civic Improve- m Endowments Nature endowed man with foresight which animates tfie husband and father in securing Life Insurance for his family's protection. The Columbia Life has endowed society with an Endowment Policy, meeting the demands of the most exacting, as an investment and protection. "The company of sat isfied policy holders." oTRUJf COMPANY Spalding Building. IN your house there are many cozy nooks and corners where a big, com fortable chair would just fit in. Kingcraft Chairs are roomy, yet cozy; well made, yet graceful in ap- pearance. They're made in Oregon, too. Your dealer can supply you. - OREGON CHAIR CO. 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