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THE BIORXIXG OREGONIAJf, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. STATELY 10JESK GROVE DESTROYED Engineer Seeks Author of Or der to Hew Giant Firs on Homesite. WORKMEN GIVE NO CLEW Valuable Trees on Irving ton Prop erty Gone and Owner Ignorant of Kearon Theory of Joke Is "ow Abandoned. Who ordered a crew of workmen to cut the stately fir trees on the lots owned by Italph Modjeski in Irvington, and why? These are questions that Mr. Mod jeski is trying hard to answer. But maybe he is not trying half so hard as are the men who did the work. Mr. Modjeski, who is well known as the engineer who designed and built the liroadway bridge in this city and the North Bank bridge across the Co lumbia River. north of Portland, first learned that the trees had been felled a few days ago when the workmen ap proached him for the money to pay for the job. "Tou certainly didn't cut any tree on my property." he told them, don't want those trees cut." But the men were insistent. They admitted that they were unable to find the man who had hired them and that. after inquiry, they learned that Mr. Modjeski owned the property upon which they had done their work, To satisfy himself Mr. Modjeski went out to the tract on Knott street be tween East Twentieth and East Twen ty-flrst streets. There were his proud tirs onithe ground. They had been cut off close to the roots. Mr. Modjeski was dumfounded. Early investigations led to the belief that sqmeone had ordered the trees cut down as a practical joke, but subse quent developments have convinced Mr. Modjeski and his attorneys that the workmen were directed by someone in good faith, but that they merely visited the wrong- property. Despite this sit uation neither Mr. Modjeski nor the workmen have been able to learn who was responsible for the work. Someone had offered the axemen $50 for their work. They are mourning the loss of their labors quite as much as .Mr. Modjeski is mourning- the loss of his trees. Mr. Modjeski bought the property about two years ago for JJ5.00U. It ia understood that the trees enhanced the value of the property materially. It was Mr. Modjeski's intention eventually to utilize the property as a homesite. He had prepared tentative plans for a palatial residence. Carranza is sending- to Washington protest against the execution on Wednesday of Frederico Sanchez, at oaKville, Tex., for the murder of Jailer. Mexican authorities assert Sanchei was only 17 years old and a native of Mexico and a delegation of his coun trymen appealed in person to Governor rerguson to stay the execution, but without result. The message from Carrania. sM to ne based on reports furnished hira from lexas. alleges race discrimination and asks the Mexican representatives in Washington "to protest against the discrimination against our race, as men and in the name of humanity against tnis violation of the law." CREDITS MEETING CALLED President Said to Favor IIollls Bill for Rural Relief. WASHINGTON", March 4. A prelim inary meeting of the Rural Credits Commission, authorized in the closing days of Congress, was called today by Senator Gore for tomorrow. The follow ing members of the Senate finance and agriculture and the House banking and agriculture committees have been se lected by the chairman for service on the Commission: Senators Gore. Smith of Georgia. Owen, Hollls, Kelson, and Representatives Lever, Moss, Hawley, Glass. Phelan and Hay. There Is still to be selected one mem- ROBBER SUSPECT II CAUGHT IN CHICAGO Man With Oregon Record Sus pected of Blowing Safe in British Columbia. CANADIAN BILLS BETRAY John Bingham Recalled! as Prisoner for Whom Detective Day Char tered Special Train to Con vey Him to Portland. CHICAGO, March 5. Two men be- leved by the police' to be members of gang of Ave safe-blowers who entered the branch Bank of Montreal at New music and comedy stunts and refresh ments will be served. Among those who will speak will be S. C. Pier, salesmanager for Marshall WelLs Hardware Company; A. G. Clark; advertising manager for Wadhams & Kerr and president of the Portland Ad Club, and F. S. Myers, postmaster. All will take up subjects of interest to traveling men in general. The musical entertainment will be furnished in part by the Rainbow Grill cabaret. In addition there will be vocal solos by Miss Iva Lyon, Miss Howland and Messrs. Casey and Flshburn. Com edy stunts will be put on by Jimmy Dunn, Charles Ringler and R. P. Thompson. There will be impromptu stunts by local members. The members of the committee in charge are P. C. Morton, Charles Ring-- ler and R. L. Adams. DAMAGE TO FORTS DENIED Constantinople Reports Three Allies' Ships Were Crippled. of - BERLIN". March S. (By wireless to Sayville, N. T.) Dispatches reaching Berlin from Constantinople continue to controvert the reports being given out m London concerning the damage done to the Dardanelles forts as a. result of the persistent bombardment of the past lew days by the allied fleet. Two Turkish newspapers. El Tanin and Tasfiri Ekfair, have published re ports of witnesses of these operations who say three British warships, badly PRESENT CONDITION OF FINE IRVINGTON TRACT WHERE STATELY FELLED WITHOUT OWNER'S PERMISSION. WERE J I 1 1 ' " . i i i I --,-- ---is ' V . I Jt w I - fcA ;L V ? wxr k. . Cs-- " ' Hr tlU-' t , &? '&irimz t JDRUGS I 0' I lor Over 90,000 People in Portland Are Using S. & H. Stamps. Why? Because They Mean an Actual Money Saving on Every Purchase. DOUBLE STAMPS TODAY AND THE COUPON COUPON!! 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Sweet Grass Baskets Many Vnrfet lr. One-Knurth Off ll Till Week. $1. 00 Alarm Clocks 7 $l.25FHnios Bottle. .. .tC 12.00 B r a n d t's Razor Strop 4! $1.00 Pocket - knives.. 8J 25 Per Cent Off All Shavina; Brushes. Stationery Department St. Patrick's Day Table Decoctions. ....... 10P Easter Cards, vals. to 20c each, special two for 5 Fine quality Papeteries, special J7J 35c Letter File c Morse's Select Garden and Flower Seeds All 5c packets. 6 for 25 All 10c packets, 3 for 25t BUILDING SITE OWNED BY RALPH MODJESKI. OBSTACLE TO LINE OUT WILLAMETTE-PACIFIC GETS RIGHT TO PASS THROUGH QUARRY ber of the Senate agriculture commit tee. Senator Hollis and Representative Glass discussed rural credits with Pres ident Wilson tonight preliminary to the first meeting of the Commission. The President is understood to favor the Hollis bill. Work t Be Rushed and Brldsea Built to Connect Completed Grades Beyond Tract. EL'GEXE. Or.. March 5. (Special.) An obstacle In the progress of the Willamette-Pacific Railroad that has threatened to prevent rails from reach Ins Marshfield during 1915 was re moved today with the purchase of the last piece of right-of-way. For three years the Anderson-Johnson rock quarry on the Siuslaw has blocked the only possible route. i ne praue nas Deen completed on both sides of it, but the completion of bridges across the Siuslaw and Ump qua have been dependent upon this tract. " Negotiations were carried on out of court until several months ago, when, in desperation, the railroad filed condemnation proceedings. A final ef fort made this week for settlement was successful. The railroad has agreed to pay the quarry owners $12,500 for a deed to a passage, but the quarry owners retain the rock, a right to maintain derrick booms over the railroad, to swing their rock to the barges on the river below, and the railroad agrees that its trains will not Interfere. The railroad also Heroes to build several spurs for the quarry. Announcement was made from the Willamette-Pacific engineering office In Kugene today that construction will be resumed Immediately. While the grade Is being built preparations "Will probably be made to start the con strnrtion of the bridge across the Sius law Rrver at Acme. I HARBOR DEFENSES ASKED Oregon Urged to Join In Move for wmapa and Grays Ports. SALEM, Or., March 6. (Special.) Property having a taxable value of more than $2,000,000 would be subject to damage in case of invasion of Grays and Willapa harbors, according to memorial to Congress adopted by the Washington Legislature, a copy of which was received by Secretary of State Olcott today. He was requested to submit the memorial to the next Legislature. . It asks Congress to have the harbors fortified, declaring they are without any means of repelling an attack. Figures were recently submitted to the War Department by General Maus, in charge of the military department of the Columbia, showing the necessity of fortifying the harbors. Westminster, B. C. September 15, 1911, and escaped with $317,000 in Canadian money, were arrested here today. They are George Webster and John Bingham. Suspicion was directed toward the men when they entered a private bank and attempted to have $300 In Cana dian currency changed to American bills. The police were called and as they entered the two men drew re volvers and started for the side floor. Two members of the gang are now serving sentences in British Columbia, Two others escaped from the police here in 1912 after beating Lieutenant Burns unconscious. damaged, have been lying in the port or baionikl for a week. LONDOX, March 6. The Russian Black Sea fleet Is steaming toward the Bosphorus, says a dispatch from Rome. The Bucharest correspondent of the Giornale d'ltalia, of Rome, telegraphs that the Russian fleet has passed Burghas, Bulgaria. JAIL WALLS J3AR RESCUERS Kogene- Prisoner Suffers While Big Crowd Hants Keys. KUGENE. Or., March 6. (Special.) One hundred men. Including several physicians, stood about the Lane Coun ty Jail for half an hour tonight, unable to reach John Popoff. a prisoner, sup posedly bleeding to death. Both the jailer and the Sheriff were out of the city and the only deputy who had keys could not be found. Popoff at tempted suicide by driving his head against the steel bars. Help finally came, when the officers arrived on the train. Popoff was await ing wardens to take him to the asy lum. The county physician Bays that if Popoff recovers the blow may re store his mind. V WORLD POLICE SUGGESTED ' Swedish Lecturer Finds llagne Peace Conference U6elcs. BERKELEY. Cal, March 5. The Hague peace conference under its pres ent s talus Is useless to prevent war. de clared August Schvan, ex-Chamberlaln to the King of Sweden and lecturer for tbo Carnegie foundation. In an address to the students of the University of California today. "All nations should disarm and a. su preme world court of one Judge for every 5.000,000 of population, not more than 10 from any one country, should bo established to rule on eeiy question ariainjr anions; nations. With it a pollc force, includine; a navy, should be " " tained, he said. CARRANZA SENDS PROTEST Execution of Youth in Texas Arouses Mexican General. BAN ANTONIO. Tex March . Ad vices received here torday by the con stitutionalist consul say that Genera . PERSONALMENTION. R. A. Cowden, of Sllverton, is at the Oregon. F. L. Wendt, of Medford, is at the Carlton. E. C. Quirk, of Denver, is at the Seward. O. R. Collins, of Astoria, is at the Carlton. J. F. Hall, of Medford, is at the Oregon. David Fulton, of Wasco, is at the Seward. A. R. Cyrus, of Astoria, is at the Perkins. Frank A. Rowe, of Wheeler, is at the Norton ia. Maurice Dalton, of Dallas, is at the Imperial. Ira Baldridge, of Oak Point, is at the Perkins. - A. F. Sether, of Roseburg. Is at the Imperial. H. F. White, of North Powder, is at the Oregon. Dr. W. E. llallory, of Newberg, is at the Perkins. O. F. Hill, of Juneau, Alaska, is at the Cornelius. Mrs. T. D. Beckwith. of Corvallis, Is at the Seward. E. R. Jaeger, of Juneau, Alaska, is at the Multnomah. E. T. Krueger. of The Dalles, is at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Parker, of Seattle, are at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ruddy, of Aurora- are at the Seward. Max Muller. of Pendleton, is regis tered at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Wilson, of Salem, are at the Cornelius. A. J. Waldon. of Roseburg, Is regis tered at the Perkins. G. E. Burgonne, of Seattle, is regis tered at the Carlton. C. V. Dyment, of Eugene, is regis tered at the Imperial. J. L. Hanna, of Independence, is reg Istered at the Seward. F. B. Walte. of Sutherlin, Is regis tered at the Imperial. J. A. Churchill Is registered at the Cornelius from Salem. Mrs. G. L. Baker, of McMinnville, Is register at the Eaton. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gill, of Woodburn. are registered at the Eaton. R. H. Smith and William AspinwalL of Seattle, are at the Nortonia. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Sanders, of Salem. are registered at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Clifford, of San Francisco, are registered at the Multnomah. D. W. Jarvfs. F. K. Dumaine and W. P. Straw, of New York, are at the Multnomah. Mrs. H. L. Harris and Mrs. L. D. Mc intosh, of The Dalles, are registered at the Eaton. . BIXGHA5I HAS OREGON RECORD Sensational Trip In Hands of De tective Day Recalled. Under the name of George Betts. Bingham was arrested in Portland for investigation in 1896 by Detectives Day and Simmons. The men were found with 20 suits of clothes and IE pairs of shoes each. They were released on the same day, and several hours later were suspected of a daring robbery In the North End. One of the robbers held his coat out to cover the door, wnue ine otner two carried, away a cash register containing $80. Bingham. Charles F. Moore and Rob- ert Du valle were suspected, but escaped to Tacoma before they could be arrested. Tracing their baggage cnecKs, uetective Day caused their ar rest in Spokane. Day procured ex tradition papers and started back by way of Walla Walla. Bingham made a desperate fight before he was re moved from the jail, and shouted "murder" all the way to the railway station. ihe bpokane police had given Day taken from the men after their ar rest. Bingham s attorneys secured warrant for Day s arrest for the lar ceny or this money, and held up the party at Walla Walla. The Walla Walla courts held that the extradition papers were irregular. ueiermined to bring his men hnma despite these difficulties, Day hired a norse ana Duggy and smuggled the prisoners across tho Oregon line in uingnam s attorneys followed but were powerless in this state. There was no regular train from Milton to fortiano, however, except by way of waua walla, and the attorneys pre pared to liberate the men when thev crossed DacK into Washington. How ever, an unused track ran between Mil ton and Umatilla and Day determined to get a special train. With the aid of John Minto. then cnler or Police, In Portland, and J. P. O Brien. superintendent of the O. R. & N. Company, this was accomplished. The prisoners were taken on an engine to u mat ma, where they took the regu lar train to Portland. Bingham and Moore were sentenced to three years In the Oregon peniten tiary. Day discovered later that the men were wanted in Chicago for the murder or a policeman. A Chicago de tective and deputy district attorney came to Oregon and induced the Gov ernor to pardon the men so they could be taKen to Chicago for trial. The prisoners refused to accept the pardon. They escaped once, were re captured near Oregon City and served their time. Since that time Bingham has served rive years in St. Paul and five years in Folsom prison, according to Detective Day. NEW MEN SENT TO ALSACE Geneva Hears Germans Are Adding to Forces at Front. BASEL. Switzerland, via Paris, March 5. The Germans are sending new for mations of reserves into Alsace. The new troops are from garrisons in Wurt- emburg and Bavaria- Ordinary traffic on the railroad lines In this section has been suspended. Toilet Paper Specials The "400," large roll tissue, per dozen Jlandalay, good grade crepe, per dozen .56 .56 Drugs and Patents 25c Bay Rum 10t 25o Spirits Camphor 10 25c Cotton Seed Oil -lOc 25c Formaldehyde 1 Re 25c Glycerine and Rosewater 17 Pure Extract Vanilla & Lemon Site, soc. 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The state closed its case at noon after large number of witnesses had tes- ified to threats made by Martin against Hubbard and the high character of Hubbard had been testified to by State ame Warden Finley and others. A. E. Reames, for the defense, then called witnesses who testified that Hubbard had made threats and also that he was trying to get out his gun when shot by Martin, and that the defendant had warned the advancing game warden to come no nearer or he would shoot. The trial is attracting more attention than any trial in the Rogue River Val ley for many years. Today hundreds were turned away from the courtroom, and at one time the expressions of sympathy for Martin became so pro nounced that Circuit Judge Calkins de clared another such demonstration would necessitate his clearing the court room. DEPUTY TAKES 0. J. ROSE Man, Who Forgot Xante, Leaves to Be Tried for Fraud in Missouri. SALEM, Or., March 5. (Special.) T. A. Johnson, deputy sheriff of St. Jo seph, Mo., tonight left for that city with O. J. Rose, who suffered a lapse of memory here. It was charged that he had obtained about $3000 fraudulently. According to the deputy sheriff. Rose has aliases of Oscar Russell and O. J. Rosseau. While employed by a com-, mission company of St. Joseph he uid signed blank checks In his work. According to the deputy sheriff. Roue found out the company had a balance of $3200 with a bank and wrote checks for a few dollars lens than that amount, depositing his checks In another bank. The same day he drew the entire amount from the bank and disappeared, according to the story of Mr. Johnson. Rose, about two weeks ago, went Into a store here and asked that some one tell him his name, ills mind apparently was a blank. After being vent to ths asylum, his memory returned, and then it was learned that he was wanted In St. Joseph, Mo. ' Alumni to F.lecl New Head. 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