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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1914. WOHA II COLLAPSES WOMAN ON TRIAL TOR KILLING OF BERNARD C. LINSTROM. OUTLAWS HUMBLE PRIDE OF RIDERS AFTER TELLING ALL Immeese Crowds of People Flock to Big Sale i The Greatest Enthusiasm Ever Seen at Any Sale in Portland's History Mrs. Marsh Bares Details .of Relations With Man She Is Accused of Killing. Greatest Show on Record Is Staged at Pendleton, but Many Seats Are Vacant. DIAMOND GIVEN FOR WIFE STUNTS BY GIRLS THRILL Former Husband or Alleged Slayer Testifies That "Expense Money" Was Donated So New Mate - Might AVed His Spouse. Stage Coach. Race Furnishes - Sensa tion "When Bulky Vehicle Turns Over, Rights Itself and TJn driven Horses Finish Run. "While being helped from the witness stand at 9 o'clock last night, after a Ions cross-examination by JJeputy Dis trict Attorney Collier, a breakdown .overcame Mrs. Delia. Marsh, the frail defendant in the trial for second-degree murder. She fell, shaken by uncontrol able sobs, into her mother's arms, who sought vainly to comfort her. It was the dramatic moment of the trial. Mrs. Marsh was almost carried Into the Judge's chambers and medicine given her. Overtaxed nerves gave way after more than three hours on the wit ness stand, taken in the telling of the wretched story of her relations with Bernard C. JLinstrom, for whose killing August 7 she is on trial. Mrs. Marsh told the story of a sordid love to a gaping crowd of spectators that overflowed Judge Morrow's court room during the day. Cross-examination continued last night at a special court session. Her voice was low and weak and faltered often in the telling. In mid afternoon the trial was halted because of the pronounced weakness of the witness, and Dr. E. P. Geary was sum moned by Judge Morrow, Following his ministrations and a short rest, Mrs. Marsh was able to proceed, although che was so nearly 111 her mother had to support her on each occasion that she stepped from the witness stand. She told without reserve her rela tions with the man she is accused of having shot when his love grew cold and he expressed the wish never to see her again, and his refusal to carry out his many promises to marry her. She testified to what may be construed as a fit of emotional insanity when she said she did not know what she did when the revolver she grasped in her hand was fired and Linstrom fell dead All la Blank After Scuffle' She testified she could not tell what happened after Linstrom seized her to put her out of his hotel. They scuf flev. in the hallway, she recalled, and then she forgot what occurred. She did not realize what she did, she said. "I know now that I must have shot him," was her testimony. J. E. Marsh, vr former husband, a veterinary surgeon, who came from his home in Idaho to testify at the trial, divided interest with the defend ant yesterday. On the witness stand he showed a diamond ring on his fin ger and said it was gii jn hiro by Lin strom in response to his request for ''expense money" at the time a divorce was arranged between Mr. and Mrs. Marsh so, as both expected, Linstrom might marry her. A contract between the dead man and the former husband, it was shown in the testimony, was drawn whereby this expense money was stipulated. "Did you not demand money or its equivalent from Mr. Linstrom in re turn for allowing your wife to get a dlvorcs and turning her over to him?" queried Deputy District Attorney Col lier of Mr. Marsh. "Expense Money" ReveaveU The witness hesitated to answer and the question was repeated. "I got a diamond ring as 'expense money,' " he said. "This was a volun tary act on the part of Mr. Linstrom, and a contract was drawn up on this point. The reason I gave up my wife was that she might be happy after she had told me of her love for Mr. Lin strom." "You took a diamond ring from a man you say robbed you of your wife's af fections," persisted Mr. Collier. "As expense money, yes," was the answer. Wife's Health Causes Trips. The husband testified they were mar ried in Pocatello in October, 1910. After living happily for some months to gether, Mrs. Marsh came to Portland in the Spring of 1911 on account of her health, a low altitude being desirable. &he returned to him the following Autumn, and again In the Spring of 1912 she came to Portland. ' Just two years ago this month, he testified, he met his wife and her sister, accompanied by Mr. Linstrom, at the Pendleton Round-Up. Mr. Linstrom was explained to him by his wife as being her sister's friend. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh went to Walla Walla for a few days and to her parents' home at Weston, Or. There, he said, she told him that she was in love with Mr. Linstrom. "I told her- I would help her all I could," said Mr. Marsh, "and that if she wanted a divorce I would see that she got it. I came to Portland soon after and met my wife and Mr. Lin Strom at my room in the Imperial Hotel by appointment, where we agreed to separate upon the promise of Mr. Lin . etrom to marry Delia and treat her well. I told him he must do this and be agreed to do it. I came down to make sure he would do the square thing." Men's Relations Friendly. Relations between the two men were friendly, he said, while he was in the city. He called at Mr. Linstrom's place of business and accepted his hospitality, Then followed the Incident of the dia mond ring. "I am ready now to marry Delia and take her home with me," declared Mr. Marsh on the stand yesterday, and he made the statement as if much in earnest. Disappointment was evident among the crowd at the trial when Mrs. Marsh was directed by her counsel, Wilson T. Hume, to tell fully and without reserve all her relations with the man she is accused of having murdered, for this was not permitted by Judge Morrow upon objection from Deputy District Attorney Maguire. The court held that it would not be proper to introduce this testimony except as aiding in the proof of a definite theory by the de fense; that it would not be proper both to deny the shooting of Linstrom by the defendant and yet show extenuating circumstances for the shooting. Repeated objections were made along this line by Mr. Maguire, and he was sustained oy the court. Exceptions were noted by Attorney Hume. Couple Meet on Street. Mrs. Marsh first met Mr. Linstrom, she said, on a Portland street, he hav ing spoken to her and mentioned that she much reminded him of an ac quaintance of his. He thought she must be a relative of this friend, he ex plained. "I told him I was not,'she went on, "and in the conversation that followed I mentioned that I was looking for work as a stenographer. He gave me his card and told me to look him up and he might be able to give me some work. 'WJUUa a leTc days J went to his . " " Y 4 .. . & y V" ? $ - 4 ' I Iff f& ! " -X 1 " " X. " v : -.'. "a I .ii P"' f . .. -i iiii.W place of business, which was then near Third and Yamhill streets.' He gave me some typewriting to do.' I worked only a few hours a day for him and I also worked for other people." A recital of her trips home and the meeting with her husband at Pendleton followed and the agreement between them to get a divorce. Deputy Collier introduced a copy of the divorce com plaint in the Marsh case, the decree being given in December, 1912. Non support was charged and also the re fusal of the husband to move to Port land, it being set up that the plaintiff could no longer live in Idaho by reason of ill health. Cruel treatment also was alleged. This divorce complaint, which Mrs. Marsh testified she had signed but not read, it being her understanding that the divorce was asked on a charge of non-support only, was introduced by the prosecution in the effort to impeach the testimony of the witness. Other factors tending to this same end were carefully brought out by Mr. Collier. Woman Knew Linstrom Married Man. A month or so after the divorce, Mrs. Marsh said, she went- to live with Mr. Linstrom as his wife. She knew, she said, at that time that he was a married man, but he promised repeated ly to get a divorce and marry her. She lived with him about a year, or until the Fall of last year. Returning from a visit to her parents at Weston, she said, ' she found he had moved from their apartments to the Palace Hotel and they lived together no longer. I never intended to shoot him, said the witness. "I borrowed that gun to take with me on a trip up home, where I expected to go on a huckleberry- picking trip. I knew Mr. Linstrom about two years and lived with him about one year. He was out to the house where I lived a day or two before my visit to him at his room in the Palace Hotel. I called first at his office on August 7, of this year, and asked for a bracelet of mine that I had left there. He said it was at his room and asked me to come there for it. "That's how I came to go to his room that day. When I got there I was told I must go away on a trip. He advised me not to come back again. I asked him to keep his promise and marry me, for he had told me all Summer he would marry me. " Sick Wife Decried. "He refused to do It. He said he could not afford to marry' a sick wife; he must have a wife who could take care of herself. Yet he always said he wojjld marry me. "He finally ordered me out of his room but I wouldn't go. He took hold of me to put me out. We were out in the hall then and he was trying -to put me out of the house." "What happened then?" asked her attorney. "I don't know." "Did you realize what youere do ing?" "No. I did not." "Did you realize then the difference between right and wrong?" "No. I did not." "Do you know whether you shot hhn .or not?" Woman Knows IV ow She Snot Man. "I know now I must have shot him." Upon cross-examination, Mrs. Marsh said she was angry when Mr. Linstrom refused to keep his promises to her. Attorney Hume, however, said yester day his plea of not guilty means that his client did not shoot ana Kill Mr. Linstrom deliberately, maliciously or feloniously. First witnesses for the defense yes terday afternoon were J. Compton father of Mrs. Marsh; Mrs. Nellie Comp ton, her mother, and W. H. Compton, a brother. The testimony of these "was only as to the facts regarding the de fendant. her age, which is 27, etc The state presented Its case yester day morning in one hour and a half. Witnesses for the prosecution were Harry Holland, driver of the police pa trol; W. H. Mass, a police officer; De tective J. D. Abbott, Harry Balle, a railway conductor, who testified he had lent Mrs. Marsh a revolver a short time prior to the shooting, and Dr. R. F. James, who was called to the hotel following the shooting and who performed an autopsy on the body of Mr. Linstrom. W. H. Mass told -of having found the victim lying dead in the hallway ana Mrs. Marsh was found In a fainting condition a short distance away. Detective Abbott testified to a con versation with Mrs. Marsh following her arrest. He said the woman told him she had shot Mr. Linstrom. Former Quarrels Told About. That there were quarrels long prior to the time of the killing of Mr. Lin strom by Mrs. Marsh was brougnt out last night by Deputy District Attorney Collier in his cross-examination of the defendant. It was sought to establish former ill-will existed against the dead man on the part of Mrs. Marsh. ' Questioning elicited the fact that dls agreements had occurred, some of them of a violent .nature. On one occasion she said, he choked her and she bi him on the arm. The clothes of both were torn in the scuffle. At another date she testified to a quarrel. All of these quarrels, Mrs. Marsh tes tified, resulted from the failure of the man to keep his promise of marriage, IncrimlnatinsT Evidence Sousrut. Mr, Collier pougnt to establish .that after her arrest on the charge of hav ing killed Mr. Linstrom Mrs. Marsh said? she had -thought that some time she would kill him. Other incrim-H inatlng statements said to have been made by Mrs. Marsh directly following her arrest were referred to. but the witness did not recall having made them. A document purporting to have re leased Mr. Linstrom from his promises to Mrs. Marsh was introduced during the cross-examination. It was un dated, but was identified as having been executed during the Fall of 1913. It said that on account of money paid Mr. Linstrom was released from any and all promises he may have made and was signed by Mrs. Marsh. She testified that the amount of money mentioned was $5. An attempt to go closely Into the relations between Mr. Linstrom anf Mrs. Marsh brought the witness to the end of her strength, seemingly, and the questioning was ended. . Firing Shot Forgotten. Speaking slowly and impressively. Deputy Collier asked, referring to the killing: "Who fired the shot?-' "I must have done it, but I don't remember it," was the reply. Mrs. W. H. Maas, acting matron at the City Jail at the time Mrs. Marsh was arrested, and in whose care the woman was placed, was called as a witness for the defense, and said Mrs. Marsh was hysterical and almost in a state of collapse. She was .unable to walk alone and a phyisician was called who administered morphine injections to quiet her. It was developed by the state that the morphine was not given until after the examination of the pris oner referred to in cross-examination had been completed. Man Tells of Quarrel. H. E. Sargeant, a stockman, of Umpqua, Or., was a witness for the de fense, who testified that while on a camping trip with Mrs. Marsh, whom he knew as Mrs. Linstrom, and lira. Linstrom, in July, 1913, the two had a violent quarrel. The treatment of Mrs. Marsh was said to have been brutal. It was stated that Mr. Linstrom choked her and the witness came to the wom an's assistance. Mrs. Sargeant, his wife, who" was a member of the camping party, corrob orated this testimony. The defense then rested its case. The state will introduce a fe wmore witnesses this morning in rebuttal and the defense will by allowed to follow a like course. Arguments will be made by both sides today and it is expected to place the fate of Mrs. Marsh in the hands of the jury at some hour tonight. Anyone of three verdicts may be rendered by the Jury. If found guilty of murder in the second degree, Mrs. Marsh must serve life imprisonment. The Jury, it is said, may reduce the crime to that of manslaughter, con viction for which carries with it im prisonment in the penitentiary of from one to 15 years. Acquittal is also a possibility. $20,275 ASKED FOR INJURY Logging Company Employe Flies Damage Suit at Astoria. ASTORIA. Or.. Sept. 25. (Special.) A suit was filed In the Circuit Court today by Alexander Johnson against the Big Creek Logging Company to recover $20,275 damages for alleged personal injuries. The complaint al leges that June 9 as the plaintiff was working as a rigging slinger in the defendant's logging camp, a large log was hauled onto him, breaking the bones of his hip and crippling him for life. The plaintiff asks for $275 as the loss he has suffered by not being able to work from the date of the accident up to the time of, filing the suit and for $20,000 additional. Negligence on the part of the defendant is alleged on the ground that it had employed a young and Inexperienced boy to give the signals which directed the opera tion of the donkey engine. ASTORIA MERCHANT WINS A. E. Cook Xot Guilty on Charge of Violating Jabor Laws. ASTORIA, Or., Sept 25. (Special.) The Justice Court Jury returned a vcr diet of not guilty today In the case against A. E. Cook, a candy merchant. who was arrested on a charge of vio lating the state labor laws by work lng feminine employes more than S4 hours a week. The evidence showed the girls were employed' in the defendant's store the number of hours alleged but the de fense was that the employes were per mitted to take a half hour or more ofl during the day whenever they wished. Lebanon Schools Register 403. LEBANON, Or., Sept. 25. (Special.) The Lebanon public schools enrolled 403 pupils on the opening day. More than 120 students registered in the Ktgh. School and the increased attend ance in this department necessitated an additional teacher. BT ADDISON' BENNETT. PENDLETON. Or., Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) Whether the cause lies with the European show staged by Oeneral Mars or to the side show being run in Wash ington by Wilson, Bryan & Co., this affiant averreth not. He only knows that several thousand people who were expected here yesterday and today did not come, although accommodations and entertainment were provided for them. Perhaps, the management had reason to expect this shortage. Had they looked at the circus statistics for the year they, would have found that of 138 circuses which took to the road last Spring less than a dozen now survive. Yes, it has been "a deuce of a year" for shows of all kinds save those of a political nature. They seem to go on about as of yore. The Pendleton people can say truth fully that they are in nowise to blame for the empty seats and the unoccupied standing room at the Roundup, for the show thus far has been the best they ever staged and the management in every detail has been without a hitch. '' Outfit 'Without Flaw. There never was assembled on any grounds a larger or better lot of out law horses for the bucking contests or a finer lot of wild steers for. the ropers and bulldoggers. Nor were there ever brought together such an array of talented men and women to do the stunts with the animals. Take today's bucking contests for ex ample. Out of 21 horses mounted there was but one that was moderately tractable and no novice could have sat that one. All the others were about as fierce a lot of outlaws as ever were mounted. Out of the 21 It is true four were thrown, but when such riders as Buffalo Vernon are thrown, as he was today, you can bet there was some sort of a happening out of the ordinary. In his case it was a fence that he and the horse got tangled up with. Stage Upset Exciting. The most sensational accident that ever occurred on the grounds as it was one of the most exciting any of the audience ever saw happened in the stagecoach race. On the west turn. after making three-quarters of the first lap, the coach suddenly careened, fell over on its side, then turned up on the dashboard, thence turned nearly bot torn side up and -finally righted itself. and the horses finished the lap without a driver. " When the slip occurred there . were several people on the boot and two on the seat. Braden Gerking was driving and J. A. Parsons was plying the whip. In some mysterious way they all be came untangled from the near-wreck without being caught under the ve hicle. But Gerking had his right arm pretty badly mangled and Parsons ankle was sprained. It was announced from the mega phone pulpit a few minutes later that a moving-picture man had his instru ment aimed at the coach and was work ing the machine when it turned. If that is true and the film is a good one It will be one of the most sensational of the year. Women Perform Fine Feats. One of the best events of the day was the riding of a vicious bucking horse called Rambling Jim, by Blanch Mclioughey, without the use of halter or bridle. It was something entirely new so far as I know Another great act was the drunken Tide done by Ruth Parton. This is Jason Stanley's great specialty, but Miss Parton did it nearly or quite as well as he drves. . One of the interested spectators to day was George M. Hyland, the director-general,' or something like that, of our Interests in the San Francisco 1915 exhibition. He came here to com plete arrangements to have certain of the Roundup features reproduced in papier mache cast for the decoration of the Oregon building now in place on the grounds. He feels certain of getting a piece that will have the merit of novelty at any rate. , In the girls' relay race Miss Parton also gained fresh laurels as she took first place the same as she did yester day. So she has the race practically cinched, barring accidents. - She comes from Ellensburg, Wash. She owns the string of horses she has here. She is about as fine a rider as ever raced here, sitting her horses as if a part of the animal. The show at Happy Canyon last night was better than the night before. It is about as well worth seeing as the Roundup itself and surely will be a part of the yearly festivities from now on. Do not for a minute think there is anything like a spirit of pessimism in any of the managers of the show. Not by any means. They will not make quite as much money as they expected. but there will be a surplus large enough to make what Improvements they anticipated. Snow Belonas to- City. You must remember the show be longs to the city of Pendleton, not to individuals. - What profit is made goes for the benefit of the city; if a loss should occur it would have to be shoul dered by the managers. That gives a good insight into the class of people these Pendleton folks are. CITY SETS BRIDGE PRICE Offer of $18,000, If Refused, May Mean Substitution of Tolls. City Attorney LaRoche yesterday sent a letter to officials of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, in compliance with a re quest of the City Council, offering the company $18,000 a year for use of the upper or street deck of the new Steel bridg. In his letter Mr. LaRoche says this Is the maximum price the city is willing to pay. It is expected that a refusal of the proposal will be made, as the price of fered is less than half of the amount paid during the past two years. This may mean that the bridge will be closed October 10, when the city's contract ex pires. The company then can charge a toll for vehicles. Club Protests Car Change. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 25. (Special.) The Beaumont Push Club today asked the State Railroad Commission to pre vent the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company from discontinuing Its through car service to Beaumont dur ing rush hours. The club complained that the company . threatened to sub stitute stub service. Police on Hand to Order A hurried call for the police was sent in from Third and "Washing ton streets at 9:30 yesterday morning. They were called to dis perse great crowds of people who had congregated on Third street between Washington and Stark. These people had gathered at the point awaiting the opening of the great sale of the People's Cloth ing Company stock. The crowds were immense, and as the time drew near for the opening of the store some of the early arrivals became unruly in their eagerness to reach the doors and be among the first to enter the store. It is seldom if ever have such throngs been attracted to a bargain sale. All day long they overflowed the big store, jammed the sidewalks and even crowded the street in front of the store. The People's Clothing Company stock by the order of the administratrix, was sold to M. Schultz & Co., of Chicago, for the benefit of the creditors. This firm is getting rid of the stock in a big sale, preparatory to opening a Schultz Store, which will be one of a chain now operated by this -company. These people announced to the public yesterday in a great double page ad the . sale of the People's stock. They predicted that the sale would prove a sensation, for it was their intention to get it out of the store and get it out quick, and they were going to sell it for little or nothing. They have certainly made good on this statement, attested by the immense crowds and the enthusiasm of the buyers. ' The People's Store is located at 104-106 Third street, just off Washington. The sale will continue daily until the entire stock is sold to the bare walls. FAIR NEARLY HALTED Suit Against Yamhill School Exposition Compromised. AVIATOR MAKES FLIGHT W. O. Crawford Encircles Aviation Field and Skirts Residence Part of McMinnvilIe--Second Day Crowd Larger. M'MINNVILLE. Or.. Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) War clouds hung over Yamhill County's School Fair In the morning of the second day when E. S. Talbot In stituted suit to enjoin the fair board from carrying on the festivities. County Judge Pearce granted time to adjust the troubles and the matter was set tled without the court acting on the complaint. The trouble came up over th blockadinz of a side entrance or alley on the plaintiff's rented property. The second day s crowa eiteoueu that of the first and the fair took on its jolly festival appearance. At 6 otclock W. C. Crawford, of the North west Aviation Company, of Portland, began his second flight and twice en circled the temporary aviation field north of McMlnnvllle. skirting the resi dence district and reaching an altitude of 1000 feet. He landed almost at the same spot where a few moments before he had started. in tne nrst aay s flight, when Crawford arrived from Yamhill, not being acquainted with the lay of the country, he traveled several miles out of the nearest course, being several miles wesf of McMlnnvllle when discovered. "I believe I traveled 25 miles in yes terday's flight." said Crawford, "and this is a record for a cross-country night In Oregon." When soaring over McMinnvllle on the initial trip Crawford was at a height of about 2000 feet. L. T. Barin, manager oi tne rsortn west Aviation Company, is here assist ing in making the flights a success. "In leaving Yamhill Wednesday Crawford made a perfect start," said W. Q. Moore, lumberman, of Yamhill, here today, "and it appeared to me that he Just missed the tops of the prune trees in Mrs. C. Goodrich's orchard as he circled over the town of Yamhill. The stock parade made an excellent appearance. There were 20 horses of all grades and a number of young dairy stock. Holsteln and Jersey calves pre dominating. Other attractions were lectures by members of the faculty ofj Oregon Agncuiiurm vuue&c, u mili tary equipment race by members of Company A. Third Infantry, Oregon Militia. T. T. Geer will address the fair vis itors tomorrow on behalf of the Re publican party. W. S. U'Ren also will Bpeak. LAXE WIXXERS ARE PICKED Oscar Snyder and Elmo Chase Will Be Guests at State Fair. EUGENE, Or, Sept. 25. (Special.) Oscar Snyder, of CreswelL and Elmo Chase, of Eugene, are the two Lane County boys who will be sent to Salem by the Lane County Fair Board for a week's training at the State Fair. The awards were made late yesterday and these two boys will have the responsi bility of accompanying Lane Counxy's entire school exhibit to Salem. Oscar Snyder won over two close competitors in dairy record Keeping, and Elmo Chase won over three active competitors in the vegetable garden ex hibit. Lucile Smith and Louis Hartman each won a 17.60 cup under Class A. Neva McBee and Joseph Maughn won under Class B and Evangeline Cup won under Class C. There was no winner among the boys In this department and the cup was made a special award to Nora Hubble for the greatest variety of canned fruit. Allen Wheeler, of Pleasant Hill, and Goldie Drake, of Irving, won similar cups as special awards for . the best pens of poultry. The Great Northern trophy, valued at 440, for the best garden exhibit, went to Earl Stewart. ALBAXT CROWDS VISIT FAIR Flights Entertain Special Guests at Solo Exhibition. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 25. (Special.) Yesterday was Albany day at the Scio fair and hundreds of people attended from this part of the county. The regular trains were crowded and a large number went by automobile. The arrival of Aviator Stromer, who made a fine flight from Albany in his biplane, landing in front of the grandstand at the county fairgrounds, was the stellar attraction of the day. However, a damaged wing on his bi plane caused him to postpone his re turn trip this afternoon. Stromer had ascended about 50 feet when a sudden guest of wind brought him to the ground. Stromer escaped injury when his machine struck a fence breaking one of the wings. " The damage will be repaired immediately and the de layed flight it is promised will be made tomorrow. The visitors at the fair yesterday "I first used Chamberlain's Tablets as much as twelve years ago. Prior to taking them I had been sick for years with stomach and liver trouble. By the time I had taken four bottles all signs of stomach trouble were gone" Mrs. Sarah A. Stranger, Elida, Ohio. ADDRESSED TO WOMEN In tike Expectant Period Before the coming of the little one women need to be pos sessed of all their natural Btrength. Instead of being harassed by forebodings and weakened by nausea, sleeplessness, or nervousness if you will bring to your aid Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription you will find that most of the suffer ing will not make its appearance. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the result of a Ufa study of ailments, disorders and irregularities peculiar to women. Its continued supremacy in its particular field for more than forty years Is your aasuranctt of the benefit to be derived from its use. Neither narcotics nor alcohol will be found in this vegetable prescrip tion, in liqqid or tablet form. Sold by druggists or a trial box will be sunt you by mail on receipt cf 50 one-cent stamps. Atfdraa Dr. strc'a Invalids BtI. Buffalo. N. T. 1 Dr. Plerca's Plestaat Pellets rvcmlat liver 4 bowels Preserve were loud in their praise of the various exhibits and the programme in gen eral. The races were of especial in terest. A baby show with 50 entries was one of the main attractions today. Fair at George Success. GEORGE, Or., Sept. 25. (Special.) The community fair of the George and Bissel districts of Clackamas County, which was held here today and tonight, was a success from every standpoint. Speeches were made by H. Joyner, president and organizer of the fair; Professor Kitch, of the Oregon Agri cultural College; T. II. Cross, ofGresh am, agricultural expert of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, and J. E. Werlein, of the same company. Music was provided by the Garfield band and the woman's choir of George. The exhibits were unusually fine. L-aidlaw Fair Closes. PRINEVILLE, Or., Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) The Laidlaw Fair closed tonight. The quality of exhibits was excellent. Large delegations from Redmond. Bend and Prlnevllle and Sisters were present today. A meeting of the county Grand Army of the Republic was held, and a large crowd attended. The weather was ideal for the fair, which brought out a good attendance. Sandy Fair to Have Lecture. SANDY, Or.. Sept. 25. (Special.) . The Sandy Grange Fair committee has secured Bruce Blair, of the extension division of the Oregon Agricultural College, to deliver a lecture on the topic, "Above the Clouds," October 2, as part of the Grange Fair programme. Thou are 1,438,000 Presbyterians In the Cnited States. . 4