THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 87. 1914.
14
WEST AWAY OFTEN,
BRIDGE BOOK SHOWS
Minutes of Interstate Commis
sion Scrutinized When Gov
ernor Denies Absence.
4 AUGUST MEETINGS FAIL
.Records of Two Scheduled Assem
blages That Went Awry Place
executive's Non-Appearance
as Adjournment Cause.
Because a denial has been made by
Governor West of a news story printed
In The Oregonian yesterday to the ef
feet that for four consecutive times he
has been absent from meetings of the
Oregon Interstate Bridge Commission
and that for an equal number of times
postponements have been made,
eluding two last Tuesday, recourse was
had to the records yesterday.
Minutes of the Interstate Bridge Com
mission and of the Oregon Interstate
Bridge Commission, public records
found in the office of the County Com
missioners, were scanned with the re
suit that these show there have been
four scheduled meetings this month
not one of which was held, and at none
of which was the Governor present.
These were meetings of the Oregon
Interstate Bridge Commission, of which
the Governor is ex-officio chairman. It
is said, however, that he did not call
these meetings and that on some oc
casions he did not receive official no
tice. On one occasion County Commis
sioner Holman says he told the Gov
ernor that he need not be present. In
the minutes of two attempted meet
ings the absence of Governor West is
mentioned as one of the reasons for
postponing action.
Postponement Are Recorded.
Minutes on file in the offices of the
County Commissioners show that at a
meeting of the Commissioners August
3, a letter was read from the District
Attorney's office calling for a meeting
of the Oregon Interstate Bridge Com
mission for settling questions of rights
of way, approach, etc. The meeting
was set for August 6 at 10 A. M. It was
directed that the Governor be notified.
The minutes set forth that this meet
ing was postponed until August 8.
In the minutes of August 7 it Is re
corded that the Commissioners ordered
that the meeting of the Oregon Inter
state Bridgo Commission, "called
August 8," be again postponed to
August 25 at 10 A. M.
Minutes of that day's proceedings
show that the Oregon Interstate Bridge
Commission met at the Courthouse at
10 A. M., "But owing to the absence
of Commissioner Lightner and Gov
ernor West," an adjournment was
taken until 2 P. M. of the same day.
A later entry in the minute book re
cords that at 2 P. M. "the Oregon Inter
state Bridge Commission met for the
purpose of locating permanently an
Oregon approach to the interstate
bridge, and in the absence of Governor
West and Commissioner Lightner, no
action was taken."
Governor Among Absent.
, A meeting of the bonding committee
was held, as published in The Orego
nian, but the official records show that
two meetings of the Oregon Interstate
Bridge Commission were attempted to
be held last Tuesday. County Commis
sioners Holman and Hart, County Clerk
CofTey, Deputy District Attorney Sul
livan and Clyde B. Aitchison, of the
Oregon Railroad Commission, were
present and a large number of Inter
ested persons. As published in The
Oregonian, Governor West was not in
attendance. ,
Governor West says he attended the
last meeting of the Interstate Bridge
Commission. Incidentally, he says that
somebody "has either been misin
formed or has deliberately lied." The
minutes of the last meeting of the
Interstate Bridge Commission, not the
Oregon Interstate Bridge Commission,
held March 30, contain a telegram from
Governor West, the opening sentence
of which reads:
"Am laid up with the grip and un
able to be with you today."
Names Tbonght Confusing.
Commissioner Holman suggests that
there is confusion in terms between
the Interstate Bridge Commission and
the Oregon Interstate Bridge Commis
sion. 'The latter body is the only one
concerned in the frequently-scheduled
meetings this month. These meetings
are recorded as set in the minutes of
the dally meetings of the County Com
missioners, these men also being mem
bers of the Bridge Commission, and as
the minutes of every day are signed
in ink by all the three Commissioners,
they are official and are presumed to
be accurate.
Governor West says in his denial
that had his presence been required
for any purpose at Tuesday's meetings
he would gladly have been present.
The Oregonian made no mention in
the article, which he says is false, as
to whether his presence was required
or not, but assumed that, as chair
man. It was essential that he attend.
"The Governor's absence did not
hinder matters any," said Commissioner
Holman last night, "because when we
came to open bids we found we had
no offers and necessarily we cannot
proceed without funds. The Governor
did not have official notice to come
Tuesday. A former meeting about two
weeks ago was called off by me and
fo I Informed the Governor, because
the District Attorney was not ready
to report. I think two Commissions,
because of their similarity in name,
may have become mixed up."
and robbed a local residence and sub
sequently held off Night Officer Ketch
at the muzzle of a loaded shotgun, was
arrested late today by Sheriff Quine,
on Roberts Creek, about 10 miles south
of Roseburg. He was brought here
tonierht and locked in the County Jail.
Sheriff Quine. Officer Ketch and
several Deputy Sheriffs were searching
the railroad yards early this morning
when they heard a man. walking on
the opposite side of some freight cars.
Ketch crawled beneath the ears and
was about to emerge on the opposite
side when a gruff voice remarked:
"Throw up your hands and "beat it.' "
At the same instant the stranger
leveled a shotgun on the officer. With
one hand in the air Ketch retreated a
few steps, whipped his revolver from
his hip pocket and aimed it at the
dark form. Twice he snapped the
trigger, but as often the revolver
failed to discharge. The stranger then
ran and disappeared in the darkness.
Sheriff Quine, Ketch and other of
ficers then continued the search for
the fugitive. He was tracked some
distance south of town, where he en
tered the timber, emerging on Roberts
Creek. When arrested he had the shot
gun as well as other articles stolen
here yesterday, the officers say.
LyRIC CAST BEST YET
MANAGER DAN FLOOD SAYS NEW
COMPANY HAS ARTISTS.
Latest Musical Hits nnd Song Suc
cesses to Be Offered by House
During Coming Season.
Manager Dan Flood, of the Lyric
Theater, arrived home Monday, after
spending two months in the East and
South gathering the cast for a musical
comedy company. He says this one
will surpass any other that he has
Del Estes. New Sonbrette for the
Lyric.
ever presented and also that he has
made arrangements with many East
ern playwrights to present only their
latest and best successes.
Every production will be presented
as elaborately as possible and no ex
pense is to be spared in scenery and
costuming. The company will be un
der the direction of Claude Kelly, an
experienced manager. This is Mr.
Kelly's first appearance, as well as
the other members of the company. A
etiotus of local girls, who have been
diligently rehearsing all Summer, will
be only one of the features. Many
others will be introduced from time
to time, the first one being "The Coun
try Grocery Store," where one gets
something for nothing. There will be
the regular performances in the even
ing and a matinee daily. Women and
children are promised a treat in the
musical as well as in the amusement
line.
LIQUOR LAW DEBATE SET
Kev. C. T. Wilson and Colonel E.
Horer to Argue Merits at Plaza.
Rev. Clarence True Wilson and Colo
nel E. Hofer, editor of the "Oregon
Manufacturer," will debate the merits
of the prohibition amendment on the
Plaza Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Mayor Albee has been requested to
preside.
The debaters will discuss the ques
tion: "Resolved, that state prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of alco
holic liquors would be beneficial to the
moral, political and economic interests
of Oregon."
The debate has been held at several
other towns' and has drawn large
crowds. Both men are able debaters.
Dr. Wilson 13 former pastor of some of
Portland's large churches and now is
the general secretary of the National
Methodist Temperance Society. Colonel
Hofer is a well-known resident of
Salem.
POISON OAK 1 IVY t
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Druggists refund money if it falls. 60a
Adv.
Of nhout 1. 400.000 pounds of caviar ob
tained each year by the Astrakhan fisher-
es, approximately .& per cent is exportea.
Remember !
Portland Stands on Its Own Feet
The only effect of the unfortunate
European war will he to stimulate in
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up our great hack country.
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ANOTHER VICTIM OF
HAMMER; WIFE HELD
Oregon City Man Mysteriously
Assaulted at Home, Appar
ently While Asleep.
HICKEY CASE PARALLELED
Woman Declares She and Husband
Alone in Ixrcked House When As
sault Occurred Hours Pass
Before Aid Summoned.
While asleep in his home, 1710 Main
street, Oregon City, early yesterday,
Charles Bernier, a carpenter, was mys
teriously attacked and is In a serious
condition at St. Vincent's Hospital. His
skull was fractured and the wounds
indicate that a hammer was used. Mrs.
Bernier is held pending further in
vestigation. The attack was similar to that made
upon Dr. Joseph Hickey early Monday.
In both cases the evidence indicates
that a hammer was used and that the
doors previously were locked and
bolted.
Mrs. Bernier says she was the only
person, other than her husband, in the
PUBLIC MARKET MASTER, WHO HAS RESIGNED AND SUCCESSOR.
EXCESSIVE LEVY CHARGED
Springfield Property Owners Pile
Suit to Stop Tax Collection.
EUGENE, Or., Aug. 26. (Special.)
Charges that the City Council of
Springfield, by evasion of the charter
provisions, has raised the tax levy four
mills in excess of the legal limit were
made in an injunction suit filed here
today.
Welby Stevens and a dozen other
property owners ask for an order re
straining 3. W. Taylor, County Treas
rr, x. C Parker, Sheriff, and the city
of Springfield from the collection of
the taxes. The plaintiffs allege that
the Council, In order to escape charter
limitations, has divided items into sep
arate funds that should have been clas
sified under the general fund. The
levy is 15 mills. The property owners
have offered their taxes, less the four
mills they believe to be in excess of
the limit.
ALLEGED ROBBER IS HELD
William Ed-wards Surrenders as
Sheriffs Close Around.
ROSEBURG, Or., Aug. 26. (Special.)
William Edwards, alleged yeggman,
who, it is charged, last night entered
it
R. W. Gill.
Because of the press of his private
Market Master in charge of the Yamhi
resignation to City Commissioner Bige
resignation has been accepted and J. A
been appointed to take his place. Alt
worked out, it is probable a member o
position of Assistant Market Master, w
man. i
Mr. Eastman has been a resident o
time he has been In the clothing busin
addition to these pursuits he has been
Bigelow to be well acquainted with m
J. A. Eastman.
business It. W. Gill, who has been
11 Public Market, has tendered his
low to take effect September 1. The
. Eastman, of 1512 East Ash street, has
hough definite plans have not been
f the police department will take the
hich place has been filled by Mr. East-
f Portland for 11 years. During that
ess and in the grocery business. In
a farmer and is said by Commissioner
arketing ideas.
house Tuesday night. She and her hus
band retired at the usual hour, she
declares, and at 2:30 A. M. she awoke.
She says she felt over to where her
husband was supposed to be sleeping
and missed him.
Wife Gives Her Story.
Mrs. Bernier told Chief of Police
Shaw, of Oregon City, that she then
went downstairs and discovered her
husband, partly unconscious, on the
lounge. She said she carried him up
stairs and placed him in a bed
other than that occupied by herself.
She dressed his wounds and nursed
him until about 6 A. M., when she sum
moned a neighbor, A. J. Surber. Mr.
Surber called Dr. M. C. Strickland.
Mr. Bernier was struck twice in the
forehead, over each eye. Another blow
struck the base of the nose. A wound
on his knee indicated that a hammer
had been used.
"I examined the lounge Mrs. Bernier
said she found her husband upon and
could And no evidence of his having
lain there," said Chief Shaw.- "The
carpet is light-colored and I am cer
tain that Bernier must have bled con
siderably. I carefully searched the
house from cellar to garret and the
yard adjoining, but I could not find a
hammer."
Arrest at Mate's Bedside.
Mrs. Bernier was arrested by Sheriff
Mass, of Oregon City, at the bedside
of her husband at St. Vincent's Hos
pital. Neighbors say the Berniers apparent
ly were compatible.
In the same hospital and on the same
floor. Dr. Joseph Hickey and Mr. Ber
nier are suffering from fractures of
the skull, both having received their
injuries in similar attacks. Dr. J. D.
Sternberg, who is attending Mr. Ber
nier, said last night that Bernier might
die as a result of his injuries. Mr.
Bernier is 55 years old.
TWO THEORIES CONSIDERED
Clackamas Suspects Charles Bernier
Attacked by Wife.
OREGON -CITY, Or., Aug. 26. (Spe
cial.) Sheriff Mass of Clackamas
county and Acting District Attorney
H. B. Hicks returned late tonight from
Portland after investigating the mys
terious attack on Charles Bernier.
The authorities are following two
theories. One is that Mrs. Bernier
may have attacked her husband in a
fit of temporary insanity and, later
when she recovered herself, began to
conceal the evidence of a possible
aberration. The other is that Bermrer
was actually attacked by someone
while he was walking just before re
tiring, and was able to reach his home
before giving up to exhaustion.
To support the first theory Sheriff
Mass says he believes the hat, pipe and
handkerchief belonging to Mr. Bernier
which were found below the Portland
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Dally train service to Med
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LOW SUMMER EXCUR
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JOHN M. SCOTT. General I'assenicer Agent. ' rf Is ml. Orrnon.
Take the "Loop Trip" from Heart of the City to the Heart of the Valley
Railway Light & Power Company's
trestle at Parkpiace. near the Bernier
hnmo -arcra ni.'iced there by the
-aiinTit. after the attack, rather
having been dropped
scuffle preceding
as-
than
there during a
the asault. lhe
sheriff savs it would have been almost
impossible for anyone wounded as Mr.
Bernier was, to have climbed the bank
and reached the Bernier home under
the conditions apparently prevailing.
The Sheriff also avers the blood found
with the hat and pipe was Insignifi
cant and that only a few drops ov.-ei
the trail from the trestle to the
Bernier home. On the other hand lie
declares considerable blood was found
In Mr. Bernier's bed. and there were
evidences that the pillow cases had
been changed.
It was discovered, that Mr
Qrwi thnmh were
niiftr. ...... .
sumably in attempting to ra wj
blows Because the knee also Is
bruised, the Sheriff and attending
physicians believe the blow was struck
while Mr. Bernier was lying on his
back, using his knee to thwart the
blows.
Bernier's
broken pre
OR. HICKEY
th state. The young man had been
in the City Jail since Monday morn
ing.
Dr. Hlckev's only statement since
the accident was made yesterday. Hos
pital attendants report that Dr. Hickey
said that he removed the l""0 diamond
ring from his finger Sunday and that
he placed the ring In his pocket, where
Mrs. Hickey says she found It Mon
day. When Leroy Hickey was arrested,
following the attack upon his father,
his hands had Just been washed. Ber
tlllon Expert Hunter removed dirt from
under the young man's finger nails and
reported that an examination showed
evidence of blood. Leroy admitted this
and said that it was from helping to
move hie father. Ho said he had as
sisted the driver and the attendant of
the Ambulance Service Company to re
move his father to the ambulance.
Detective Craddock says the driver
and the attendant declare that Leroy
Hickey was not present when lr.
Hickey was removed from the sleeping
porch where he was attacked.
Young Hickey gave the same ex
planation when questioned as to the
presence of blood stains on his night
garments.
Attorney John K. Logan has been en-
KCMMER RESORTS.
MAN ATTACKED IS SAID TO HAVE
MADE STATEMENT.
Hospital Attendants Declare Patient
Reported Putting 730 Ring In His
Pocket Son Ont on Bond.
Dr. Joseph Hickey. who was attacked
while asleep in hie home at 514 Vista
avenue early Monday morning, is im
proving rapidly, declares Dr. K. A. J.
Mackenzie.
Dr. Hickey's mind practically la
blank. Fears are felt that if his life
is saved his mind may be blank per
manently. Dr. Mackenzie said last
night that if his patient continues to
improve detectives may be allowed to
question him in three days.
Leroy Hickey, son of Dr. Hickey, was
released under J1000 bonds yesterday
afternoon. A "John Doe" warrant
charging assault with intent to kill
was sworn out and the dentist's son
was booked as a material witness for
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Portland Office,
100 Fourth Street.
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