rtn? urnnicnro ortjgoxtan. Saturday, pecembeb 20, wis. GEORGE SAYS FOES : SEEK DESTRUCTION Founder Tf Junior Republic 1 "Maddened" by Accusation of Misconduct. TWO CAMPS ARE HOSTILE bclf-Go eminent vs. Paternalism In 1 Training ISoj and Girls Said J to Be Iteul Basis of Iisa g greemcut in Kanks. ' KEW YORK. Dc To radical 4ifferenccs of oplnloa between two fcostlla factions William R- George at tributed his attitude to the recent rec ommendation of tho State Board of Charities that he be removed from all active participation In the affairs of the George Junior Republic At Free ville. N. Y founded by him more than ten years ago. Mr. George asserted fcis innocence of all charges against tin?. "It is maddening." he said, "after having established in the world a rep utation for good character and service, to have my name dragged In the mire as a debaucher. of womanhood. Those Who know me need no reassurance Irom me that I am perfectly Innocent, tut my tortures begin In earnest when I think of the tens of thousands of people to whom I have spoken on pub lio platforms and that they may be aaying, 'It is true after all that laddy George la a lying hypocrite and villain la disguise.' ' Twa Faetloma Disagree. r 1 The seat of the whole trouble la a 'radical difference of opinion between tha two hostile camps those who be lieve In the self-governing principles ot tha Junior Republic as the best Cleans for training boys and girls for good citizenship and those who believe In paternalism and discipline from above and Institutional methods. I "Now, what about this miserable stuff T A six-year-old charge long ago Investigated and discredited, even re pudiated at one tlm by tho one mak ing It. has been dragged out with the Idea of discrediting me. "Finally in 1902. at my insistence, t'ne National Association of Junior Re publics appointed a Joint committee to Investigate everything about mo from my birth. My entire life has been one f sexual purity, as certain detectives rave found to their chagrin. All my 31fe has been spent In FTeevlllo and 5Cew York City, and every little nook and cranny of my existence has been combed. In vain. This committee, in order to settle this thing once for all, secured as judges Joseph H. Choate, Pamuel Seabury and Miss Lillian Wald to read all the testimony and give a verdict. The committee has spent months in going over my entire life. ..' laaaeade Desla-ae4 tm Discredit. . "We were all led to believe that the Ftate Board would take no action un VI the committee headed by Mr. Choate reported. Then suddenly. without warning, the State Board gives out a report carefully convicting me by innu endo, though not In so many words. This seems to me to have been done In an effort to discredit me and my asso ciates In the work for fear I shall be vindicated by the official investigating committee which has gone so intimate ly into my whole life and my whole work. "I want to' say right Jiere to my friends and supporters that the repub lic cause will continue Just as it has In tne past. It will weather this effort to ruin it. Just as it has weathered ether though lesa spectacular efforts In the past. Its cause is a just and righteous one. and around it Is a group ot earnest souls who are ready to live tor it and die for It." LOST PAINTING IS FOUND .sunlit Woods" of George Inness Recovered Painted Over. NEW YORK. Dec 1. Artists were Stirred today by news of the discovery f a lost painting by George Inness. vne of the greatest of American land scape artists. The canvass was smeared with thick white paint and Mrs. Jona than Scott Hartley, the painter's augbter. kept it for mvly Si) years after he died without learning its Value. . Remembering her father's habit or painting over unfnished pictures when a new Idea seised him and no other canvass was at hand, she had the outer covering of paint removed and there m a picture of "Sunlit Woods." -said to rank with Inness best work. The estored picture has been valued by critics as high as $25,000. WEDDINGS FOLLOW FAST $IcLachlans See All Three) or Daugh ters Married In ST Days. LOS ANGELES, Deo. 19. (Special.) When Miss Marjorie McLachlan became Mrs. Harvey S. Bissell. and Miss Gladys McLachlan became Mrs. Gardner Bow era last night at a double wed ding at the McLachlan home in Pasa dena. ex-Representative McLachlan and Mra McLachlan saw the last of their daughters married. - The double ceremony marked the third wedding In the McLachlan home within the past 37 days. Miss Anita Mc I.achlan having been married Novem ber 1J to Ralph Reynolds. Young Bis sell Is a son of the late carpet-weeper millionaire of Grand Rapids. Mich and Mr. Towne is a Stanford graduate. "MONA LISA" TRAVELING Carbineers to Guard Stations Alone Koad to Rome. FLORENCE. Dec 1. Dr. Rlccl. director-general of fine arts, personally supervised today the packing of the painting. "Mona Lisa," which will be forwarded to Rome tomorrow. The pic ture will be guarded by police and museum officials, while carbineers will be on hand at all stations along the railroad line. The school children ac companied by their tacners will be cllowed to view the "Mona Lisa" today. An unknown man visited Perugia's lawyer today and offered to advance $1000 for Perugia's bail. CUSTOMS WEIGHTS SHORT Covernment Answers Allegations of ' Defense in Fuel Cases. SAX FRANCISCO. Dec 19. Customs house welphts of coal lmrorted and for eign coal bought and delivered at this port by the Western Fuel Company be tween April 1. 1?9. and December IL 191J. show that the company received 20,720 tons less than the Invoices called for, according to a statement prepared by W. K. Tidwell, special agent of the United States Treasury Department. Tidwell testified for the Government In the trial of the eight otliclals. directors and employes of the company, who are charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government. This evidence was introduced after the defense had brought out that In coming coal Is, weighed on a rising beam scale, which gives the importer the advantage, while the coal they sold was weighed on an even beam. The de fense has contended that the over charges in the coal accounts which the prosecution has shown were ordinary overruns, due to the difference in the systems of weighing mentioned. Tidwell testified to the investigation he had carried on for the Government prior to the indictments. He said that the invoices of the company showed that since the fire of 190 the Western Fuel Company'had received at this port 2,159,651 tons of foreign coal. BOGUS $10 BILLS ISSUED COISTERFF.it LEWIS-CLARK FAIR CIRREXCV IS ABROAD. Secret Service Mts at St. Loais Find City Flooded la Few Hoars With Soiled, Defective Paper. ST. LOUIS, Dec 1. St. Louis has been flooded In the last few hours with bogus $10 notes which counterfeit the recent Lewis and Clarke issue, com memorative of the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, Or., was dis covered Monday by Federal secret serv ice men after the first notice they re ceived of the new counterfeit given by 3. C. Brasch, receiving teller of the American Trust Company. Mr. Brasch received a counterfeit note from a small business house, which took In the bill Saturday during the course of the day's business. The im position was not noticed until it reached the trained eyes of the re ceiving teller. Secret service men said the counterfeit Is one of the photo etched variety, has a "raggy" feel and a scratchy appearance. They said the counterfeit is not especially clever and had passed ordinary Inspection because It imitates a new issue which has not become generally familiar. After the report made by Mr. Brasch many other complaints were received by the Federal secret service man at the Federal building. . All victims of the passers of the counterfeits were persons of small shops, such as cigar stands, candy stores and drug stores. It is thought by secret service men that the new counterfeit must have been put nttt fintnrdav bv those guilty, so that discovery of the fraud would not be made until Monday with the deposit oi the bills. A particularly noticeable feature of the bad bills Is the red color around the figure In the center of the bill on the side with the pictures of Lewis and Clark. This red Is of too deep a color to have come from a Government press, and was Inked In with pens. The coun terfeit bills are all of the same serial number. D 12449671. The sBk fibers of the genuine issue are Imitated by fine red and blue ink lines. The bogua bills, are soiled to conceal defects. BUTTER WEIGHT DOUBTED Dairy Board Holds Few Squares on Market Will Tip Scale Beam. cAvrpivnerfi tw Is fSnecial.) The State Dairy Board has inaugu rated a crusade against snorr-weigui butter dealing and as a result of the investigation, which has been in the hands of Inspector James Smith, the District Attorney will secure three warrants tomorrow for three of the whnUiaU htitter dealers In the city. The work is in the bands of Assistant District Attorney rerun, who says Smith has put Information in his hands on which he based warrants r t, Af thA Kheer-Grando Com pany, the Sherry-Freitas Company and Lebarron iJrotnera c jeisou. yt.w1 h law th anuares of butter delivered by the wholesale commission men bear the stamp -two pounos neu rt is the contention of the State Dairy Board that there is hardly a square of butter In the open market that will raise the beam at the two-pound mark. HINDU TO BE DEPORTED Hernau Singh, Despite Plot, Loses Fight to Stay in Canada. 'vvrAiipn T? c ree. 19. Hernan Singh, the Hindu who has been the sub ject of strenuous litigation by his j .h.i vvtB tn nreveut his XI 1CIIUO ill Li i v . . r . . deportation, has lost in his tight with the immigration sumgnu, uu be deported on tne steamer chii cn India and taken to Hongkong. A sensational turn was given to the proceedings today by the disclosure that a plot existea wnereoy mo !" ture and official stamp of Immigration Inspector Reed had been attached to . v. HkAA-MnH nf TTernan Slnsrh and others long before the men ever visited this country. . . . ti -1 i;..h nf VmrflnTir. is Said to have procured the stamping and sign ing of the pictures as those of Hindus returning to India with the intention later of coming Dack to v ancourcr. WIFE REFUSES ALIMONY Ruth Goodrich Grant Wants Xone of Millionaire Spouse's Coin. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 19. A decree of absolute divorce was granted to day to Ruth Goodrich Grant, from Douglas Grant, a millionaire and son of J. D. Grant, alfeo a millionaire. Desertion and failure to provide were the grounds. At the time an interlocutory decree was granted. one year ago, Mrs. Grant obtained an award of $S00 a month temporary alimony. In waiving all alimony today she said she never had received a cent of this money and wanted none. There are no chil dren. Douglas Grant was at one time amateur golf champion of the Pacific Coast. " ' First Snow Falls at Union. UNION. Or, Dec 19. (Special.) A slight snow fell here yesterday and about two Inches of the white mantle covers Catherine Creek district. Log gers have been waiting for snow to convey their cut from the woods to the mills, but there is not sufficient as yet. This Is the first snow of the season to make the ground white. Horses and stock cattle still are thriving on the bunchgrass hills. Garfield Shoppers Busy. GARFIELD. Wash, Dec 19. (Spe cial.) The merchants of this city re port a satisfactory holiday trade, which I - k trartl fmm t h A SUITOUnd- tnr country by an alluring line of Christmas goods. Shopping -is being done early. Take home a box of Thomson's choc olates, Tour dealer sells them. AdT, "Sweeties to Bestow on Lassies.'' Ramsey. The Christmas Spirit a t the Cat 9n Fiddle Hearty cheer is in these Gifts of Delicious Candies . The essential non-essential of a Merry Xmas The One Always Appropriate Gift Bonbons Glace Fruits Chocolates Special Xmas Baskets, Boxes and French Bonbonnieres Plain or trimmed any size. , Assorted Chocolates Bitter Sweets, - Dipped Fruit and Nuts and Milk Coat- ings Assorted Bonbons All flavors with chopped Nuts and Fresh Fruit Centers. Also DllSky DreamS, the Candy Supreme Victoria Chocolates and Gift Boxes From 50c to $1 0 Beady for Delivery . On Broadway 145 -.- Near Alder Theater Row . .aasassssssaMaaaaa-aaa-aa"-- - -ssssssss.ssssssssssss-i i 1 - " I LIQUOR MEN HELP Prohibition Petitions Are Cir- culated in Saloons. CRUSHING DEFEAT DESIRED Dealers Share) Views of Prohibition ists in Northern and Central . . California That Measure Cannot Pass. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19. Petitions for an amendment to the state consti tution which would suppress the man- Ml. Imnnrtation Or iCift Of liquor in California made their appear ance here today. Aitnougn iuco rM nf th Detitlon to UULUlUfi w . " -i v.-- i. nriirlnat.!l saloonkeep ers are soliciting- signatures among: their customers, as several icmpm.o wnrkora. who had already signed later, learned to their chagrin. A state-wide proniDUion campaign for 1814 was recently Indorsed by pro kju.i snuthiirn California In Los Angeles, but was repudiated by their allies In Northern and Central California on the around that to force the Issue now wouia do io coun m. feat so crushing- that It would be years before a similar campaign could be got under way. l.lnuor dealers nrg-ins; the petition argue the same way Ali XOT XEEDED, SATS "DRY" Campaign Manager Expects Petition to Be Filed by January 1. r nr l x-j TT-Y TT Q TSm 19 Y A aDDre- clate the generosity of the liquor men who are reported 10 pd gircuiuuB .w hlbltlon petitions In San Francisco, but - na.H tHAir assistance." said Fred F. Wheeler, manager of the "Cali fornia Dry in 1314- campaign, wucu jitnK tjuliv lntinr to the activities of saloonkeepers in the north ern city. "We do not need their assistance. Wheeler continued, "because we have now 60,000 signatures for our initiative petitions and we need only about 32, 000." Wheeler said that the dry campaign- i,i fll their netitions with County Clerks within a few days and have thera checked in time to enable the Secretary of State to announce ior mally January I that the liquor ques tlon would go on the ballot in Novem ber, 191. "WOMAN ISJI0T 'PERSON'" London High Court Bars Girl From Practice of taw, Pays Compliment. LONDON. Dec 10. The appeal of Miss Gwyneth Marjorie Bebb from the j i.i -r h. 1r.rnrnnratd Law SO- ucu a. w ti " , ciety. denying her admission to the bar because of her sex was rejeciea muaj bv the High Court. The court adhered to the view that a woman Is not a "person within the k ulkltnn' i-r of 1843. gracefully adding the words: "Doubt less the applicant is oi luptimt cuu--tion and intelligence to many males, but the court has nothing to do with that." . . . . . . Misa Bebb is a graduate of Glrton College, Cambridge. "SAFETY FIRST" IS MOTTO Union Pacific's Treatment of Subsid iary Is Defended. OMAHA, Dec 19. The defense had Its Inning today, in the arguments tn the suit brought by minority stock holders of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad against the Union Fa clflc Railroad Company to prevent a further appropriation of the former's earnings to betterments and improve ments. Nelson H. Loomls, general solicitor of the Union Pacific, opened his argu ment with tho declaration that "safety first" was the motto of his company and that the same policy was being pursued on the St. Joseph line, in which the Union Pacific holds 70 per cent of the capital stock. He admitted that no dividends had been paid since the road was taken over by his company, but declared the intrinsic value of tha property had Increased three-fold and that, like the Union Pacific after its re organization 19 years ago. It was des tined to be a large dividend-payer. "The Union Pacific Is more greatly Interested In the success of this road than are the minority stockholders." Mr. Loomls contended. "The road Is actually making 11000 a day on the business thrown to it by the Union Pacific Railroad." MS PUN IS UPHELD CHINESE PROVINCES AGREE TO ABOLISHING, PARLIAMENT. RESIGNATIONS HELD VOID MRS. YOUNG'S OPPONENTS REFUSE TO QUIT SCHOOL BOARD. Setkaess, Harding and Dlbelka Declare Reelsraatlona" Were Made Before Tkey Qualified for Office. CHICAGO. Dec 19. Charles O. Seth nees, John C. Harding and James B. Dlbelka. former members of the Board of Education, whose resignations were accepted by Mayor Harrison because they voted against Mrs. Ella Flagg Toung for superintendent, refused to recognize their resignations today and took part in a meeting of the board. The three took charge of the com mittee on buildings and grounds, of which Sethness was chairman, and, although they were warned by Peter RVlnberg, president of the board, that they were no longer members, passed numerous appropriations and conduct ed other business. The secretary of the board refused to record the action of the committee. "Do you still consider yourself a member of this board?" Mr. Reinberg asked Sethness. - "On the advice of counsel we take the view that the resignation was made before he qualified as a member and that It was Illegal therefore," an swered John C Stonesby, for Sethness. A legal test is expected when the three new members appointed by Mayor Harrison attempt to appear on the board. EPIDEMIC'S CAUSE FOUND Hundred Typhoid Cases Traced to "Water on Lake Steamer. PROVIDENCE, R. I, Dec. 19. The epidemic of typhoid fever among the Rhode Island delegation to the Perry celebration at Put-in Bay, O., has been traced by the Government health serv ice to the drinking water on board a Lake Erie steamer, the cook of which was suffering from the disease three days before he was taken to a hospital. Dr. Hugh Valla, the Government physi cian who made the investigation, for warded his report here today. More than 100 members of the Rhode Island party were stricken with typhoid after returning from Put-in Bay and five of them died. Postmasterships Are Wanted. . OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Dec. 19. Senator Chamberlain has filed with the Postmaster-General applications for the appointment to Oregon postmasterships as follows: Ar lington. Mrs. G. B. Clough. Miss Laura Irbv, H. W. Lang, Charles H. Morris and M. E. Shurte: Dallas. Frank H. Fawk, V. P. Flak, Eugene Hayter, J. E. Richter, R. R. VanOrsdel; Tillamook, W. F. Baker. J. A. Dallgren. B. D. La mar, J. M. Meyer, P. W. Tood.-F. J. Welsh. Harris Trunk Co. for leather novel ties. Adv. Military and Civil Authorities of All Districts Strengthen President's Autoeratle Laws Scheme. PEKIN, Dec 19. President Yuan Shi Kai's plans for permanently doing away with the Chinese Parliament received the unqualified lnaorsement of the mili tary and civil Governors or an tne prov inces todhy. The President's design In obtaining this round-robin Indorsement was evidently to strengthen his hands for the autocratic measures now being Instituted. . U fln.flKl.l fY1nUr,8 A Ul IIIQ 111U 111 1 I'll " J I i .A at,i t )i n Vn f tnnal treasury UGO,s1'f i-" win ' are occupying Yuan's attention. As a result of pressure, large sums oi mune? are coming from the salt tax, . other . V. I 1 w rr .dm. A1l,nt f VflTTl ViVJt. 3 Ml o uCBHiiin'h . . the people and remittances are being received irom tne rrovmues. Since the antl-Manchu rebellion, the i.. i 1 ...,hntlaa anH nf f iM : H have been appropriating the revenues while the central government uaa ue pended on foreign loans. The foreign bankers recently gave President Tuan Shi Kal to understand that bankruptcy was ahead of the Chl- TAnnKit. nnlM, fmHftlnns were UOOO jiujiuuii , altered Immediately. The government s . . . . m i thrall orastia meuures uran ' months ago and Included the disbanding ui acvou n i - .. . tlrement of army commanders without pay and the Olsmissai oi provincial governors, while several rebellious Colonels and many others were exe cuted. ' Chinese May Labor In Congo. BRUSSELS, Dec. 19 Statements made recently by the Belgian premier, Charles de Broqueville, indicate that the government Intends to make every possible effort to end the labor crisis In the Congo colony, which greatly disturbs the plantation and mining so- cletles. It Is believed that the gov ernment will make such modification as will permit the immigration or uninese. Banks Burglar Sentenced. HILLS BORO, Or, Dec 19. (Special.) Charles McGrow, who was caught last July trying to burglarize the general merchandise store at Banks, was sen tenced today to an Indeterminate term of from two to five years in the State Penitentiary. McGrew's partner cs caped. A Gift That Combines Beauty and Utility at a moderate price and low maintenance The MANNING RURAL HOME GASOLINE LAMP Is attractive in appearance giving a soft white light of 300 candlepower. Abso lutely safe at all times even while rolling on the floor or burning upside down. Easy to light and carry about. No smoke, wicks, nAm- nr nhtmnnvn. This lamD means a per fect lighting in your home al all times. Write us now for a l&-day FREtS trial Price, with plain shade, 86.50; with Fancy Art Dome. SS.oO. Mantles, 75c a dozen. H. W. MANNING LIGHTING . SUPPLY CO., Dept. A. 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