TITE MORNING ORECiONIAN. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1913.
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GUILTY IS VERDICT
TRIAL
Ml S
Slayer of L L. Winters Con
victed in First Degree for
Killing October 12.
RESULT RECEIVED CALMLY
Date of Sentence Set for December
23 and Attorney for Defense
Says Appeal Will Be Taken
Unless Case Retried.
Guilty as charged In the indictment
Warn the verdict returned yesterday
against Lloyd H. Wilklns, on trial for
first degree murder of Lou L. Winters,
a real estate dealer and musician, on
October 12. The jury retired Tuesday
night at 11 o'clock, and reported its
verdict a few minutes after 4 o'clock
yesterday.
Wilklns never flinched as the verdict,
-which calls for a death penalty, was
read in open court. When the jurors
filed out of their room and crossed the
courtroom, he followed them closely,
searching the face of each as he took
his seat. After the verdict was read
he left the courtroom accompanied by
Deputy Bherlff Tennant, apparently un
disturbed by the finding of the Jurors.
Sentence Set December S3.
Judge Morrow announced that he
'would pass sentence of death on Wil
klns December 23, but would allow at
torneys for the defense SO days . be
yond that date to prepare and file a
motion for a new trial. Attorney Wil
liams was In the courtroom when the
verdict was returned and announced
later that In the event Judge Morrow
refused to grant a new trial, the case
(vould be appealed.
F. L. Wilklns, father of the prisoner.
Minn., to be present with his eon dur
ing the trial, was not In court yester
day when the verdict was returned.
Among those present were Mrs. Win
ters, widow of the murdered man;
Frankle Winters, daughter, over
whose testimony the hardest fight of
the trial was made, and A. J. and J. H.
Winters, brothers of the dead man.
Information Is Asked.
Before the noon recess was taken,
the jury, came into court and asked if
the trial judge had any power to act on
recommendations which might be re
turned with a verdict. Judge Morrow
replied that the penalty In first and
second degree murder is fixed by law
at death and life imprisonment, re
spectively, and that the trial judge
could not change the sentence. - The
court could consider a recommenda
tion of mercy, he said, if a verdict of
manslaughter was found.
Lou AVUnters was killed Sunday
morning, October 12, soon after he
stopped from a car. In front of his
home at 833 Mflwaukie street. Wilkina
almost Immediately was suspected and
a search for him begun. He was ar
rested three days later at Vancouver,
Wash. He confessed that he had an
altercation with vVinters the night of
the murder, but declared that he had
only struck him with an umbrella.
Portland business men to the confer
ence in Roseburg December 4 and the
following committee of Portland Com
mercial Club men will meet Friday to
arrange details for the trip: O. M.
Clark, W. B. Glafke, A. H. Devers,
Paul DeHaas, Tom Richardson and
John M. Scott.
The meeting at Roseburg Is the third
In the series that is being held In the
new campaign to organize community
activities in the state and to develop
the agricultural movement.
The Portland party will leave De
cember 3 at night and will return to
Portland early on Friday morning, De
cember 5. Two sleepers will be char
tered for the party.
In the morning on Thursday, Decem
ber 4, a meeting: of Commercial Club
secretaries will be held and the con
ference regular will begin at 1:30 P.
M. The proposed exhibit at Ashland,
the plans for farm credits and' co-operation
of commercial bodies in all
parts of the state to help the agricul
tural development will be the chief
subjects of discussion.
Southern Oregon will send a special
train and all of the principal towi;s
and cities of the Willamette Valley will
have representatives in Roseburg. The
fare for the excursion from Portland,
both ways, is $11.45 for a lower berth
and $10.75 for an upper. The party
will consist of about SO men. Reserva
tions are being received at the Com
mercial Club.
MORALS COURT UPHELD
CITY ATTORNEY LA ROCHE FAVORS
CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
Proposed Measures Would Bring Good
Results ad Protect Women from
Gaze of Morbid Court Loafers.
The proposed morals court and', the
charter amendment regarding appeals
from the decisions of the Municipal
Court, were the subjects of an address
by City Attorney La Roche, at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Multnomah JBar Association held In
Judge McGinn's courtroom. He in-
oraed both measures, saying that
they will bring about much needed
mprovements in municipal affairs, and
will not entail additional expense to
the city.
"The morals court Is a good proposl-
lon, said Mr. La Roche. - "The whole
purpose is to give the fallen woman a
better chance.
Under the new system the Munici
pal judge will hear cases involving
moral questions in private session,
barring the hangers on.
It is a broad subject and one
which needs attention. I believe the
proposed change In the system will
ring good results.
It is proposed to extend the right
f appeal from decisions of the Munici
pal Court to cases involving a penalty
of $25 or more, and to grant but one
jury trial. At present a case lnvolv-
r a fine of $20 can be heard before
jury in the Municipal Court and
hen be appealed to the Circuit Court
nd heard by a second Jury. Under
the proposed new system the man has
but one jury trial, and cannot appeal
nless he Is fined $25 or more. He
can take his choice of a Jury trial in
ither the Municipal or the Circuit
Court. Under the present system the
man convicted of a small offense has
more rights In regard to trial by jury
than does a man accused of murder.
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FARMS AWAIT CITY'S IDLE
Oovcrnor Has Plan to Kind Employ,
i mcnt for Men in Town.
A statewide campaign to have idle
laborers go to farms where they may
bo needed Is to be begun by Governor
West. His private secretary. Miss
Fern Hobbs, came to Portland yester
day to see Mayor Albee and get from
liim assurances of support in the move
ment. ' The Mayor was heartily in fa
vor of the plan and agreed to do all he
could to make it a success. .
it is said that there are hundreds of
laborers and others who are idle In the
city, while there are many farmers who
are In need of men. It is the plan to
lring the two together. That many
men could get work on farms is con
sidered certain by Mayor Albee, be
cause of letters of lnqurly for men re
ceived by him during the last few
weeks. He says that if publicity were
iiiven throughout the state to the fact
that there are.many people here need
ing work many farmers and ranchers
wouw be glad to furnish work.
QULTRYMAN TOO EARLY
Show Venue Changed to lulling
Building Prom Tabernacle.
Whether-he got the date of Thanks
giving mixed with the date of the
Poultry SMow or merely wanted to be
ure ot being on time to "get in on
the ground floor," a local poultryman
backed up to the Gipsy Smith Taber
nacle yesterda with a load of chickens
enter for the fifth annual exhibl-
$5000 SUIT TRANSFERRED
Federal Conrt to Handle. Claim
Stevedoro Hurt at AVork.
of
The $5000 damage suit brought by
Marcus Loland In the Circuit Court of
Multnomah County against the North
western Stevedore Company has been
transferred to the United States Dis
trlct Court at the instance of the de
fendant company. The transfer was
jrranted by Judge J. P. Kavanaugh on
account of the defendant beir : a resi
dent of the State of Washington, while
the plaintiff is a resident of Oregon,
and because the amount in controversy
exceeds $3000.
Marcus Loland, who is a stevedore,
while helping to 'stow lumber In the
lower hatch of the steamship Arabian
September 15, was struck on the left
knee by a timber which slipped from
the sling. He considers, that the accl
dent was due to the carelessness of the
company and ' its foreman. He asserts
he has become permanently lame as
result of the accident.
PORTLAND MEN GO EAST
S. Benson and K. E. Coovert to Work
for Roads and Against Hum.
S. Benson and E. H. Coovert will
leave early next week for Washing
ton, D. C, to attend the National Good
Roads Congress there early in Decern
ber.
While in Washington they will con
suit with members of Congress to de
termine what progress is being made
toward the passage of the Works bill
fostered by Mr. Benson and providing
for the abolition of whisky distilling,
whisky importation and whisky sales,
. excepting for medicinal purposes, in
the United States.
The bill provides for the gradual
elimination of distilleries and whisky
agencies, so that those engaged in the
business may have time to adjust their
affairs to meet the changed situation
Following their visit to Washington
Mr. Benson and Mr. Coovert will visit
various Eastern cities to study roads,
road conditions, paving, methods of
paving and other conditions.
BUSINESS MEN TO' ATTEND
Portland Will Send Delegation, to
Conference in Rosebnrg.
Preparations are being made to run
a. special excursion of representative
Double M-fiC Trading Stamps Tomorrow With Cash Purchases in Grocery and Bakery Pep ts, 4th Floor
Charge Purchases Remainder of This Month Go on Dec. Bill Due Jan. 1 ;
Olds, W6rttkan& King
Store Closed All Day Today
OCCUPYING ENTIRE CITY BLOCK MORRISON. TENTHS-WEST PARK AND ALDER STS.
Greatest Waist Sale of the Year!
Waist Dept., Second Floor, Tomorrow Unquestionably the most sensational
nnderpricing of high-grade "Waists Portland women have ever had an
opportunity to partake of. The pick of .o"ur magnificent stock is included
in this noteworthy offering. Many of them in fact most of them are
marked for this special sale at less than cost of production. See special
display in Tenth-street window. STORE CLOSED ALL DAY TODAY.
Up to $22.50 Waists
$11.98
Lot No. 1 Many beautiful
styles are here shown in Laces,
Nets, Crepe de Chine, Chiffon
and Combination Effects of
Chiffon and Lace. Exceedingly
pretty are these high - grade
waists we offer at the above
low price. High or low necks,
long or short sleeves. Exquis
itely trimmed.
Worth $22.50,
$11.98
Waists Worth to $15
$7.98
Lot No. 2 This assortment com
prises many of the season's
most wanted styles in Crepe de
Chine, Laces, Nets and Combi
nation of Chiffon and Laces.
Handsome models of. evening
wear. Trimmed with silks, laces,
U 1 1 1 T " 1 "
novelty ouiions, emoroifienes,
etc. Waists selling formerly up
to $15.00. Your 3rp QO
choice tomorrow, P I0
Waists Worth to $8.5Q
$4.98
Lot No. 3 Hardly a waist in this
entire assortment worth less than
$7.50, and most of them are regu
lar $8.00 and $8.50 ones. Dainty
shadow laces, nets,, messaline and
taffeta silks, chiffons; also a
number in plaid silks, trimmed
with accordion plaitings, lace and
net frills, fancy revers, vest ef
fects, etc. Very latest colorings.
Included in this lot are Waists
worth up to $8.50. j?5 QO
For Friday only, 70
4n ;
Waists Worth to$5.5Q
$3.79
Lot No. This lot .consists of a
great many beautiful waists from
our regular stock styles that
have sold especially well, leaving
but 2 or 3 of a kind. Materials
are laces, chiffons, nets, messaljne
and taffeta silks, with tritnmirlss
of lace bands, frills or fur. High
or low necks, long or 'short
sleeves. One model is trimmed
with the new rainbow chiffon.
Waists worth np to CP Q 7Ck
$5.50 in this sale at f
BOOKS
IDEAL GIFTS
A Gift must live beyond the time of giving and give each day
new pleasure by its living!
Specials for the Children
A limited quantity of 60c Books, handsomely bound, illustrated in
color, carefully selected to suit the childish mind. Special 23?
A limited number of choice Books for children, cloth bound, illus
trated handsomely selling regularly at 25c. Special price, 15 J
Bible Specials
Sunday School Teacher's Bible, leather bound, good print, full
notes, references, Bible Helps, concordance, etc. Priced SX.00
Red Letter Bible, leather bound, silk sewed, very large type ; sold
regularly at $3.50. Specially priced during this sale at S2.15
These Books make splendid Gifts. Your choice of these titles
and hundreds of others at the exceptionally low price
ONLY 50c
Ben Hur
The Blue Flower
The Ne'er Do Well
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Joyce of the North Woods
Buried Alive
The Common Law
The Girl of the Limberlost
The Iron Woman
Mary Carey
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Newest Fiction
THE BIG SIX
Laddie :...S1.35 Net
Gene Stratton Porter
Inside the Cup $1.50 Net
Winston Churchill
The Iron Trail SI. 35 Net
Rex Reach
BOOK DEPARTMENT
V V's Eyes S1.35 Net
H. S. Harrison
T. Tembarom... . . .1.40 Net
Prances Hodgson Burnett
The Honorable Mr. Tawnish
(Jeffery Farnol). -S1.00 Net
FIRST AND MAIN FLOOR
tlon of the Oregon Poultry and Pet
Stock Association, which opens next
Monday.
The original plan to hold the show
In the Gipsy Smith Tabernacle has
been changed, and the exhibition will
open at 9 o'clock Monday morning in
the new Failing building, southeast cor
ner Fifth and Alder streets, remaining
open until 10 P. M. Saturday, .Decem
ber 6.
Two hundred and fifty Individual en
tries have been made. Barred Rocks
lead, numbering 157; Rhode Island Reds
follow, with 147. Indications point to
a sharp contest between Barred Rocks,
Rhode. Island Reds and White Leghorns.
NORTON 1A HOTEL. -
We still have reserved for perma
nent bachelor and family trade a few
nice outside rooms at our low Winter
rates. Adv.
CITY-COUNTY UNION UP
CHAMBER CONSIDERS PLANS
BIKRGEl ADMINISTRATIONS.
TO
Trustees. Instruct Committee to Mlte
Investigation Favorable Report
Likely to Mean Action.
V.
MRS. FISKE'S NEW PLAY
POINTS TO HIGH MORAL
Story of Mary Page Is One of Soul Progression, Said to Have Been Writ
ten With a Purpose, but Without Preachment.
s e t ..'
tVdvantages of consolidation of the
administration of both the City of
Portland and the County of Multno
mah are to be investigated carefully
by the Portland Chamber ot Commerce,
and if the results of the investigation
are affirmative the Chamber of Com
merce may be the leader in a move
ment for legislation necessary to bring
about the consolidation.
The board of trustees of the Chamber
in the weekly meeting yesterday In
structed the committee . on municipal
affairs to make a complete investiga
tion of the matter and to submit a re
port as soon as possible, giving de
tailed Information as to the relative
advantages and disadvantages of such
a system.
Members of the committee are: R.
W. Montague, L. J. Goldsmith, R. L.
Glisan, W.J. Clemens and A. F. Flegel.
The board of trustees also contem
plates the early launching of a move
ment to devise plans for rehabilitating
the merchant marine of the United
States by some means other than ship
subsidy. ThlB movement Is attracting
the interest of the Chambers, of the
entire coast at the present time, and
letters will be sent out from the Port
land Chamber today throughout the
coast cities in which Chambers of
Commerce are organized, asking them
to co-operate and to help arrange for
a conference of, the Chambers on the
matter as soon as possible.
President Averill yesterday was au
thorized to appoint a committee of
two, to be increased later as circum
stances demand, to work for the in
creased marketing of apples of the
Northwest . through Portland. A com
mittee was also authorized to work
with the Credit Men's Association on
the problem of Are prevention.
A communication was read at "the
meeting yesterday announcing that
representatives ef Washington State
Farmers' Union wish to arrange a
meeting . on December 10 to consider
plans for making Portland their termi
nus forvwheat shipments.
Among other work at the meeting of
the trustees was the recommendation
to the .Panama-Pacific Exposition that
a topographical map of Oregon be in
cluded in the features in the Oregon
building, an affirmative vote on two
referendum questions submitted by the
National Chamber of Commerce and
authorizing that boxes of Oregon ap
ples be dispatched to Washington, D. C.,
for distribution at the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress.
APPLE DAY MENUS COME
Aftermath, of Illustration Shown by
Commercial Club Event.
The aftermath of Apple day corre
spondence that is pouring into the Port
land Commercial Club from 'all parts
of the United States indicates that the
amount of advertising given the Oregon
apple on November 18 was even greater
than had been expected. Newspapers
containing accounts of the celebration.
are being sent from all parts of the
country, and hotel menus prepared for
the day are arriving by the dozen in
every mall.
The Reveille Hotel in Ketchikan.
Alaska, not only sent Its menu sonic
time before Apple day, but yesterday
sent newspapers telling of the celebra
tion and announced that photographs
of the apple display featured would
be forwarded. The proprietor of this
hotel made a display in his lobby with
200 boxes of the choicest apples ho
could secure. New Tork. St. Louis.
Galveston. Cleveland and other large,
cities were among those represented in
the list of menus received.
Russian women are numerous among the
women studeuts of Paris. '
My Sores
QdcMy Banished
You Marvel How Worst Skin
Eruptions Disappear a$ Result
x of Famous Remedy
MRS. F1SKE, WHO i'LAVS ItOLK OK 31 AKt 1'Atib; IN "THE HIGH ROAD."
RS. FISKB- and the Manhattan
Company, under the direction of
Harrison Grey Flske, are to come
to' the Heillg Theater. Eleventh and
Morrison, In "The High Road," on Mon.'
day, Tuesday and Wednesday nights
and Wednesday matinee, December
1-2-3.
In "The High" Road." his most impor
tant work, Edward Sheldon, , author of
Mrs. Fiske's former graphic success,
"Salvation Nell," is siid to have felt
the pulse of the moment and to have
written a play with a purpose but
without a preachment. It is a. story,
so to speak, of soul progression. From
the ignorance and sordldness of her
early surroundings Mary Page starts
upon an uphill journey and educates,
broadens and develops a. naturally
great mind and, heart. After a ma
terial experience of the beauties and
luxuries of the world, there comes not
a moral awakening exactly, but a stage
In her moral development when these
things can no longer satisfy and when
her broadened vision and augmented
understanding show her a great field
pf usefulness to humanity.
Mrs. Fiske has probably never had a
more wonderfully human or more ap
pealing role than Mary Page and her
presentment of it is conceded to be one
of the most brilliant triumphs of her
brilliant career.
An admirable company will of course
be found in Mrs. Fiske's support, in
cluding in the principal roles Arthur
Byron, Eugene Ormonde and Kenneth
Hunter. The production is said to be
a notable one, even in these days of
stage opulence and beauty.
If you should meet anyone varnish
ing a sore with greasy ointment, your
best advice would be to quit such things
and attend to the blood
vTo successfully fight any blood trouble.
some eruptive skin disease call it ecze
ma, lupus, psoriasis, malaria, scrofula, or
what you will there Is but one sure, safe
way to cure it. Ask at any drug store
for a J1.00 bottle of S. S. S. and you are
then on the road to health. The action
of this remarkable remedy is Just as
direct. Just as positive, Just as certain in
Its influence as that the sun rises in the
east. It is one of those- rare medical
forces which act in the blood with the
same degree of certainty that is found in
all natural tendencies. The manner in
which it dominates and controls the mys
terious transference of rich, red. pure
Arterial blood, for the diseased venous
blood is marvelous. .
Out through every skin pore acids.
germs and other blood Impurities are
forced in the form of invisible vapor?"
The lungs breathe it out, the allver is
stimulated to consume a great ' propor
tion of impurities, the stomach and in
testines cease to convey into the blood
stream the catarrhal, malarial germs; the
bowels, kidneys, bladder and all emunc-
tories of the body are marshalled into
fighting force to expel every vestige of
eruptive disease.
There is scarcely a. community any
where but what has Its living example
of wonderful curative effects of S. K. S.
Get a hottle of this famous remedy
to-day, and if your case is stubborn or
peculiar, write to the Swift Specific Co.,
21G Swift Bldg., Atlanta. Ga.
Do not permit anyone to talk you lnta
some useless oompound they put up as a
substitute for S. S. S. No honest drug
gist win da thi
The Telephone Invites You
F you have neither time nor opportunity to join
the family group in person, you are not entirely
barred from taking part in the home festivities
on Thanksgiving Day. The telephone will enable
you to mingle your voice with their voices and
share in the spirit of reunion. f
Public telephones are found wherever busy men
may be, and it is-so easy to step to the telephone and
send your voice to those from whom you must be
separated on Thanksgiving Day.
Bring happiness to yourself and to the folks
at fTome. Telephone.
Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance
Station.
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