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TTTE MOTIXTXG OEEGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTE3IT?ETl 23, 1914. CENTRALIA BANKER TO SERVE 5 YEARS Charles S. Gilchrist Is Sen tenced to McNeil Island for Embezzlement. MINIMUM PENALTY GIVEN Court Hears Plea lor Iienieiicy Made by Prisoner's Counsel, and Prosecutor Financier Oft to Oell Today. - TACOM A , Wash., Sept. 23. (Special.) Charles S. Gilchrist, first vice-president of the United States NationarBank of Centralia, which was closed yester day by Government officials, was sen tenced by Federal Judge Cushman this afternoon to serve five years' Im prisonment at McNeil Island peniten tiary for embezzlement. He will be taken to prison tomorrow. Gilchrist was represented bv Judsre Dysart, of Centralia, who pleaded for leniency, saying Gilchrist had been an officer In Centralia banks for 20 years and bad done much as a citizen, for the upbuilding of the community. Criminal Intent Denied. "He did what 'he did just as other men have done." said Attorney Dysart. "He took the bank's funds not for a criminal purpose, but expecting to rec tify his wrongdoing later. Not a cent of the money was used for his personal gain, but all the proceeds went to take up worthless paper held by the bank." Assistant United States District Attor ney Fishburne asked that the court im pose a minimum sentence. The amount involved in the indictment was $15,200. The Federal grand Jury this afternoon returned a true bill on three counts, each of which might have entailed a five-year sentence. The court, in al lowing the minimum sentence on each of the three counts, permitted them to run concurrently. The first count charged embezzlement, the second mis applying bank's funds and the third ab stracting $15,200 for personal use. Banker 35 Years Old. Gilchrist is single, 35 years old and widely known in Southwest Washing ton. Another bank at Centralia and a bank at Tenlno closed Monday as a result of the United States Bank's trouble. As explained by Attorney Dysart, Gilchrist took the money from the sale of $15,200 worth of school bonds belonging to the estate ol S. L McCormick and applied the money to take up worthless coal mine paper held by the bank, knowing the examiners were coming and seeking to give the bank as good a standing as possible. The examiners ' discovered the trans fer, which Gilchrist had hoped to cover up until it was necessary to settle for the McCormick bonds, by which time he expected to have other funds. BAXK WRECK INVOLVES MAST Several Lamber Companies Sard Hit by Failure. CENTRALIA, Wash.. Sept. 22. (Spe eial.) The closing of the United States Rational Bank yesterday may reach other parts of the state with almost as much force as It struck in Centralia, as the men in control of the bank are Interested in numerous mill and other enterprises throughout the state. The larger., of. these include the Chester Snow Logging & Shingle Company, at Lit tell; the Stillwater Lumber Company, at Vader; the Clearwater Lumber Com pany, at Hey burn; the Wabash Lumber & Shingle Company, at Tonto, and the Kastern Railway & Lumber Company and Chehalis River Lumber & Shingle Company, of Centralia. The creditors of the Baker-May Lumber Company, at Mays, another of these concerns, yes terady petitioned that a receiver be appointed. Tom Rush, of Chehalis, may be appointed receiver. The closing of the two local banks caused runs on the smaller banks of Lewis County yesterday, but all of these institutions weere prepared to meet them. The failure of the two local banks will wipe out the private fortunes of several of Centralia s. citizens. F. B. Hubbard, president of the Eastern Railway & Lumber Company and of the Union Loan & Trust Company, prob ably will be hit the hardest. Mr. Hub bard turned over all his property yes terday morning to the proper author! ties. Others who lose heavily are Judge Dysart, Charles " Gilchrist, Sr., and F. T. McNitt. State Bank Examiner Hanson ar rived here last night to look after the Union Loan & Trust Company. It la now believed that this institution, is on a sound basis and that it will reopen by the end of the week. It is believed that the action of the . , stock holders of the United States National tn turning over their holdings will pay no depositors dollar for dollar. sides of the Alps, the claim that the dog is base in bis nature is overthrown and he cannot be left a prey to every person who chooses to steal or kill him. The rule of the common law was technical in the extreme, for while it was not larceny by it to steal a dog while living, it was larceny to steal his hide after he was dead. "They are the. negro's associates and often his- only property, the poor man's friend and the rich man's -companion and the protection of women and chil dren, hearthstones and henroosts." . Market Worth Not Criterion. Justice McNary held that the owner of a dog- wrongfully killed was not circumscribed in his proof to Its mar ket value, for it may have no market value, yet be of special value to him because of certain qualities and char acteristics. Other opinions were as follows: State versus Eben J. Whitman, ap pellant, convicted of criminal assault; DECISION IS FOR DAY JUSTICE M'JtAKY FIXES. RATE FOR DAMAGES FOR DEATH. Market Valne No Criterion -to Set Amount of Lohb Wneai Heroism of Man's Companion Is Recalled. SALEM. Or., Sept. 22. (Special.) Justice .McNary,' in' an opinion today . regarding the value of a farm dog. turned from- dry legal principles long enough to quote the Immortal words of the bard: But the poor. dog,' in life .the. firmest iriena, The first to welcome, foremost to de fend, Whose honest heart Is still his mas ter's own. Who labors, 'fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonored falls,- unnoticed all -his worth. Denied in heaven the soul be held on earth; While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole, exclusive neaven. Value of Training; at Issue, The decision was in the case of M. D. McCallister against Henry Sapping- field, appealed from Marlon County. A Scotch collie belonging to the plain tiff was killed by the defendant. A ver dict of J200 in favor of the plaintiff was awarded by a jury In the Circuit Court. The defendant appealed, al leging that the plaintiff should not have been allowed to testiry as to the value of the dog to him, but only as to its market value. In sustaining the verdict Justice Mc Nary quoted the following from an opinion of New York Appellate Court: "When we call to mind the fact that a small spaniel saved the life of Will- lam of Orange and thus changed the current of modern history, and when we consider the faithful bt. Bernards, which rescue travelers caugnt in tn storms which sweep over the crests ar-i PESDtETOS ROL'IIDCP aiJKKX MAKES IlOYAIj TOUR TO' SPOKAXE. sVl', - v.- T r if . ' j - c::-.-. 7 : i 0 i Miss Lola Matlock. PENDLETON, Or., Sept. 22. (Special.) Miss Lula Matlock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley N. Matlock and granddaughter of the late William F. Matlock, has been selected Roundup queen. Miss Matlock is 16 years of age, was born and raised in Pendleton and la well known throughout Eastern Oregon. She was roy ally received on the special train to Spokane and to Heppner. appealed from Lane County; affirmed. Margaret J. Fleming and others ver sus John R. Pattison, appellant; ap pealed irom Lane uounty; motion to dusmiss appeal allowed. Oscar J. Grefiroire. annellant. versus Portland Railway. Light & Power Com pany; appealed from Multnomah Coun ty; action for damages; affirmed.. Theodore Suksdorf a.nd others, ap pellants, versus Spokane, Portland & tieatt-le Railway- Company; appealed irom Multnomah county; suit to cor rect mistake in contract; affirmed. - Rov Fisher versus Portland Railwav. Light & Power Company, appellant; appealed from Multnomah County; per sonal injury suit; affirmed. Petitions for rehearing were denied In the following cases: Smith versus L. D. Kinney, Kohler versus Dennison, Pelton versus Goldhill, and Harris ver sus tit. Helens. Mount Lassen In Eruption. Mount Lassen, only active volcano in United States, is in plain view against the skyline 45 miles east of the South ern Pacific Shasta route trains be tween Redding and Tehama. If in erup tion, passengers may have novel ex perience of car-window view of a real volcano in action. Shasta Limited leaves Portland 3:50 P. M. daily, and Mount Lassen is in view the following day between 11:30 A. M. and 12:55 P. 1L, or an hour and .25-minute view of the vol cano. Adv. $20,000,000 BILL PASSED BY SENATE House May Oppose Accept ance but Will Lose Out if Wilson Approves Plan. FILIBUSTERS ARE FIRM Senators Fighting $34,000,000 Harbor Measure Say They Will . Renew Tactics if Necessary to , Defeat ' Allowance. OREGOJflAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 22. Passage by the Senate today of a substitute measure providing J20.000.000 to be expended by the Army Engineers on existing projects finally ended the long filibuster against the river and harbqr appropria tion bill, which originally carried $53, 000,000. The bill now goes to the House, where it is expected to precipitate another vigorous fight. When ' -the commerce committee, under the Senate's instructions, brought in the substitute today no show of opposition was offered and the measure passed without a record vote. Hodbc fcxpected to Oppon, When the bill is returned to the House' It is expected it will be sent to conference, but that the conferees in the end will be obliged to accept the Senate bill, especially if the Presi dent gives Indication of being satisfied witbx, it. Moreover, Senators who de layed the river and harbor bill in the Senate for three months insist they will resume the filibuster If the conference committee rejects the Senate bill and agrees on the original House bill or anything like it and it has been amply demonstrated that' if the filibuster is resumed there will be no river and harbor appropriation whatever. The Senate managers now admit frankly that the filibusters have the situation completely in hand and can defeat any bill that does not meet their approval. Especially do. they make this admission in view of the fact that 16 Democrats voted last- night with fili busters to recommit the bill and bring back the $20,000,000 lump appropria tion. Continuing; Contract Only Loss. Senator Chamberlain, who is likely to be made a member of the conference committee, sees no hope of getting more than a 120.000,000 bill through at this session. 'Oregon ..will not suffer under the bill." he said today. "Our only loss will be the continuing contract for the mouth of the Columbia River, and that can be secured In the next river and harbor bill. "Out of the $20,000,000 fund there will "be ample money to continue work, not only at the mouth of the Columbia, but on all other Oregon projects, and every project will receive an allotment of the fund, as all are in the course of construction Senator Lane, made plain today his reason for' voting last night to recom mit the bill. "It was either a case of accepting $20,000,000 or getting no bill," said be. "There was absolutely no chance of passing the committee's bill appropriat ing $34,000,-000. The filibustering Sen ators were strong enough to have de feated that measure, and even if that bill had been-passed there would have been a prospect of its being vetoed by the President, and we would have re ceived nothing on the Pacific Allotments Will Keep Work Going. "Therefore as the $20,000,000 bill was all that could be put through the Sen ate, I voted to recommit, for, under the bill as it passed the Senate today, all our projects will receive allotments ample to keep work going until another bill is passed." Senator Jones pointed out that two Washington projects a dredge to worn in the channel between Vancouver and the mouth of the Willamette River and the appropriation for Wiliapa Harbor will be lost as the result -of the com- PIDGIE' ALMOST GUTS OUT ACTRESS FROM INTERVIEW One-Year-Old Baby of "The Lonesome Trail Company" at Heilig Occupies Center of Stage in Heart of Southern GirL ' BT LEONE CASS BABR. NO one but Pidgie will ever know how nearly Isabella Lowe came to going interviewless. For Pidgie almost copped that perquisite which belongs only to stars, leading men and women, politicians and tourists return ing from the war zone. Pidgie wasn't hunting an interview. He. wouldn't know, one if be saw it. He is just 1 year old. and his name is an affectionate muddling of the word pidgeon, which in turn is a nickname substituted for the historical name of Noah. Now, . everybody . knows that Noah. Is ho .sort of a. name to wish on a perfectly lovely baby, even if it hap pens to be the baby's pa's name. So a wise, all-loving, providence in the form of the "Lonesome Trail" company re fused absolutely to consider Noah as a name saVe for the baby's father on the bill and immediately dubbed the fat, beaming boy "Pigeon." - "Pldgrle" la Actress' Mascot. This was made over by Isabelle Lowe into '"Pidgie." He is her own mascot, and every day she spends one full hour begging his parents to give him to her for keeps. ' Pidgie occupied the center of Miss Lowe's dressing-room at the Heilig, and she eat on -the floor, cross-legged like a tailor, and divided her chatter with me and the big-eyed baby. Every other word was for Pidgie. A mighty pretty picture they made, too. Eugenics Baby Likes Petting. "Pidgie is a eugenic baby," confided Miss Lowe in a drawling honest-and-true Southern voice "and I get dread fully mixed up remembering how much of this or that thing be can't have.. "I've got so used to Seeing every thing boiled, from his milk to his hat, that I'm going to rear my family of Persian cats on scientific principles and see what the answer will be." Pidgie rolled his eugenic eyes and sub. mitted .to an absolutely un-eugenic embrace. - "I'm writing him a book of nursery Jingles," went on his admirer. "I've got dozens of verses finished and I'm going to illustrate it, too. If it's good enough maybe I'll sell it. .. Anyway I've dedicated , it to Pidgie, because he inspired every rhyme I made." She is a rare fair type of beauty, with the dazzling pink and white skin, green grey eyes and red hair inherited from a Swedish mother, who is a full-blood cousin to the wonderful Mary Ander son, now Madame Navarro. Ort her father's side the list of if Isabelle Lowe, Who In Appear ing la "The Trail of the lone some Pine" at the Hellls Theater. promise, aa both are new projects. All other Washington projects will be cared for. BABIES READT FOR FAIR Many Entries Already Made for An innal Show at Salem. Plans, for the better babies' show and tests at the State Fair are about complete. Everything is being pre pared for the comfort of the little peo ple, who will be the center of attrac tion. Some of the best physicians of the state will examine the babies, and Z nurses from the Salem hospital will be in attendance. The building is so arranged that the temperature will be suitable. Doris Leigh Gordon, who made 100 per cent in a recent test, will enter the race for the grand prizes and the Woman's Home Companion tro phies. . Among the others who have already entered are: C. Whitman' Gil lian, boy, 20 months, 34 East Forty fifth street South; John Ruedey, boy, 18 months, 142 Royal Court street; Winfield Scott Breckinridge, 32 months, 217 Vi Rosa street; Mating Reone Geoghegan, . girl. 24 months, '930 East Fourteenth street North: Lorraine Eilers. boy. 20 months, 232 East Forty seventh street; Doris McCrea, girl. 12 months, 1305 Tatton avenue; Marian McCrea, girl, 20 months; Rupert Gor don Hurst, boy, 13 months, 13 East Winchell street; Flavia Cox, girl, 16 months, 369 Fargo street: Rea Cox, girl, 35 months, 369 Fargo street; Lloyd Alexander Sutherland, boy, 27 months, 299 Humboldt street,. and Marjorie Loux Malaney, girl, 71 months, 889 Minne sota avenue. BARBER BOARD FUND SHORT Experts Find Accounts ol T. M. Lea bo, ex-Treasurer, Minus $1000. SALEM, Or.. Sept. 22 (Special.) Governor West said tonight that expert accountants had discovered a shortage of $1000 which occurred when T. M. Leabo, of Portland, was secretary treasurer, in the affairs of . the State Barbers' Board. A detailed report of the investigation will be made to him tomorrow. Leabo resigned as secretary-treasurer of the Board several months ago at the request of the Governor, and Isaac D. Rumer, also of Portland, was appointed to the place. Several persons had complained regarding the manage ment of affairs by Leabo, and the Ex ecutive decided that it would be best to appoint another man. Asked if there was a likelihood of anyone being ar rested as a result of the shortage, the Governor said that 'he would not be in a position to say until he had examined the report. ' , THREE SCHOOLS HAVE 1150 Oregon City Enrollment Exceeds Last Year's by Many Pupils. OREGON CITT. Or.. Sept 22. (Spe cial.) More than 1340 pupils are now registered in' the schools of Oregon City and West Linn, which opened yes terday. Real work began today. ' The total number of -pupils in the three schools is estimated at 1150. Of these 250 are registered in the high school and the others in the grammar school buildings. Thirty-one teachers are now employed In Oregon City and seven, will bs in the West Linn build ings. It is evident that the attendance this year will exceed last year's mark by a wide margin. Southerners who have. "gone and been somebodies" sounds like a page from Who's Who. Her grandmother was Esther Polk, a niece of President Polk and her marriage to E. Lewis Lowe, Governor of Maryland, took place in tne wnite iiouse. And she has a brother, Lieutenant-Commander R. "V. Lowe, in command of the Birmingham, of whom she is tremendously proud. Miss Lowe has the ambitions f a mature mind, and the youthfulness of a school girL She is . delightfully bubbly in her talk, when she wants to be, and when serious subjects spring up she tllks earnestly and with rare good sense. June Womanly Kind of Girl. "Why this role of June Is new every time I play her, and I dig new philos ophy, out of her character and life. She is a 'beautiful womanly girl, and I've met her - like many a time in the .Virginia hills. I've played her three'ears now, and soon I m to have a new play, but June will still be one of r y dourly beloveds." SEABIRD VICTIM IS FOUND Body of Mrs. Mary Miller Recovered on Wiliapa Harbor Beach. RAYMOND, Wash.. Sept. 22. (Spe cial.) rThe body -of Mrs. Mary Miller, of Aberdeen, one of the five victims of the Seabird, which capsized off the entrance to Grays Harbor three weeks ago, was found on the beach one mile north of the North Cove light house, located at the entrance to Wil iapa Harbor, late yesterday. Coroner Henderson, of Raymond, took charge of the body, which was to day identified by members of ths fam ily of the deceased. IMPROVEMENTS ARE READY Acceptance of Streets Up to City and Sewer Bids to Be Asked. Street Improvements amounting to $20,636. 76 will be up for final acceptance by the City Commission this morning, the work having been completed and approved by the City Engineer. The improvements involved are as follows: East Salmon street from East Eigh- THEATER Wednesday, Thursday Friday, Saturday WILL PRESENT KLAW & ERL, ANGER'S SENSATIONAL BROADWAY PRODUCTION Ws. 2f Sin A STORY THAT GOES HOME. TWO VITAGRAPH SPECIALS "THE UNTARNISHED SHIELD' WITH ARTHUR JOHNSON "FATHER'S TIE PIECE" WITH CONSTANCE TAIJtlAGE AND BILLIE QUIRK Hearst-Selig Weekly SHOWING Scenes Authentic War Coming-The Fortune Hunter-Coming tieth street to East Eighty-second street, by Keenan Brothers Company, amounting to $1369.92. Portions of East Forty-first street. East Burnside street and East Ankeny street, as a district, by Oregon Inde pendent Paving Company, amounting to 119,266.84. Bids will be opened today for sewers in East Seventieth street. East Yamhill street. Base Line road. East Seventy eighth street and Bln.ndena street from 130 feet west of Williams avenue to sewer in Vancouver avenue. SPOKANE SAYS "READY" Xew Terminals, Hotels, Big Crops Arouse Pride, Is Expressed. "Spokane now Is ready to entertain the world," says Fred Alspaugh. as sistant secretary and credit manager of the Spokane & Eastern Trust Com pany, in Portland on business yester day. 'Now that the new Davenport Uotel is open and the new terminals and passenger stations are completed, with the St. Paul roaftl operating Its trains through the1 city, Spokane has addi tional reason to be proud of herself. 'Business is showing a decided 1m- gMwroMiumiiMUBmuinHiiqimiHmiHmmuiMiMiinm Tartan weaves in I Hart Schaffher & Marx ! I clothes I - ; -n v 1 v . You know what "tartans" are: the J characteristic plaids of the old Scot- tish clans. Some of them rich col- I orings, some more quiet and subdued. Tartan colorings, in very small plaids and stripes,, are now much used in , our fabrics for men's clothing; they j come from English and Scotch weav- crs, and from the best American mills; very beautiful patterns in blues, greens, dark reds; plaids and stripes. Look especially at suits in tartan colors at $25; that price represents j j extreme value for you. We make I some as low as $18; and others 1 up to $50. I s I - Ask for our goods by name; find f I . our label in them; a small thing I to look for, a big thing to find- I Hart Schaffher & Marx I j .Good Clothes Makers . airnmgniitnufflmiuinmiitniiitmmmmmmniiHiiMU SAM'L' ROSENBLATT & CO, The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx - c.1 Clothes. provement and I believe will continue to improve. CropB are heavy and prices are good." Mr Alspaugh called on Portland bankers and took occasion to renew ac quaintance with, many friends here. Claus C Clauson, Canby, Dies. OREGON CITT. Or.. Sept. 22. (Spe cial.) Claus C. Clauson, who had lived near Canby for the past 14 years, died at his home Sunday after a long ill ness. He is .survived by his -wife, one son, Carroll Clauson. and two daugh ters, Mrs. John Samuesson and Mrs. C. B. Sannes. The luneral will be held at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Canby Lutheran Church and interment will be made in Mountain View Ceme tery. He was born 66 years ago in Norway. Lutherans in Session Xor. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 22. (Special) The congress of the Apostolic Lutheran Church opened formally this morning at 10 o'clock In the National Hall, in Uppertown. Bible study will be a fea ture of the convention. At noon the ladies of the church serve dinner in the hall and plans tor tne afternoon are arranged. There are several well known Lutheran ministers here from the different states. nun jiiiiiiiisi iiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiu ii in i ii iiiiiiiii ii in iiiiiiiiiiiiiig LEAD PENCILS . Today Only H With EVERY LOAF of "Butternut Bread" J 2 sold today, "Wednesday, September 23, j Ej a fine lead pencil will be given free. Buy EE EE all the loaves you want and get all the pen- 5 cils you want. Butternut Bread is for sale I At Your Grocer I TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIXIlIISIIIIIIIIIIISIIIIlIIXIIIIIIIiSIIIIIIIIlIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZIIIIIIXIIIIL ATTRACTIONS TODAY UNTIL SUNDAY: "THE PLOT OF THE COUNTERFEITERS" Fourteenth Episode of "THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY .Spectacular and Sensational Thanhouser Serial. "BREAK, BREAK, BREAK." "Sierra Jim's Reformation." Tennyson's beatiful poem, visual- Gripping Western Drama by the ized by American Players. Majestic Players. "MABEL'S BLUNDER." FRED SCH0LL. Mabel Normand in Keystone He plays the organ for the Comedy. pictures. 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