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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1915. CASCARETS FOR OSBORNE'S IDENTITY MUCH IN DISPUTE Select Your Suit for Easter The man who consults the combined taste of the best dressed men, will find but one answer to the ready-to-wear clothes question HEADACHE, COLDS Ex-Federal Attorney Denies Acquaintance With Girl on Trial for Fraud. Oean your Kver and constipated bowels tonigni ana feel fine. GIRL AND OFFICIAL FIGURING IN" PUZZLING CASE IN NEW YORK. "11111 'i ll S A t jf - - - ' L-r BOWELS. STOMACH, ISSUE DIVIDES WITNESSES Breach of Promise Plaintiffs Three Sisters and Clerk at Holel Cor roborate Her, "While Proprie tor Testifies Otherwise. NEW YORK, Match 24 A mass of contradictory testimony was Riven hrfore l-nitod States Commissioner Monchton today, when Aliss Rae Ta zt. who recently brought suit for $50,000 aprainst .James W. Osborne, cj Asyistant District Attorney, for alleged breach of promise, was arraigned for a hearinp. The proceedings will he concluded tomorrow and at that time the Com missioner will decide whether JI1S3 Tanzer. who is charged with using the mails to defraud, should bo held for th- action of the Fraud jury. The charge is based on a bundle of letters Miss Tanzer is alleged to have mailed to Mr. Oxbornc, whom she says n'.ie knew as "Oliver Osborne," prior to the time she filed suit asking $50,000. ;lrl' Slaters Identify Attorney. . Attorneys for the defendant placed on the witness stand her three sisters, the Misses Rose. Dora and Ruth Tan---r. ami J. F. afford, clerk of a hotel at riainfield. N. .1. The testimony of Pose and Dora Tanzer was corrobora tive. They both identified James W. fnhnrn. who wax sitting in court with liis wife and hi.r son, as the man who had called on their sster. Haw. ana represented htmpelf to be "Oliver Os hnm. ranchman of Santa Rosa, Cal. Oliver, they declared, had given their sister a diamond horsafhoe ami i " diamond rings, hut. they went on. e took back his Jewelry, saying tnat ne ivni( lo have it repaired. The sisters agreed, too, that "Oliver Osborne" had told thrm that ne iikoo ae ana uii he intended to take her back to Cal ifornia with him. The sisters both iecared also that they bad been told hv Tine, after she had Known "unver for more than two monlha, that she had found out that he "really was James W. Osborne." .Irooilntanmblp la Denied. for the liovernment James W. Os borne and W. "J. Kitchen, proprietor of the hotel in Plainfields. testified. Mr. Osborne denied that he had ever sen Miss Tanzer or any of her staters. He denied also that he had ever been in the hotel at riainfield. He did say that ho had once talked to MiES Tanser over the telephone. After he received a package of letters signed by her name at the New York Athletic Club and at his office, he telephoned her to "put her right" as he said. He said be told her that she surely must be mistaken, as be had never seen her in his life and had never heard of her. In renlv. Miss Tanzer told him, Mr. Osborne said, that she knew 'she "had the right man. Mr. Kitchen said that he had seen the man and the woman in his hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Osborne." Mr. Os borne stood up and the witness said "Absolutely, that is not the man that was in my hotel." Teatlmony la 'ot Shaken. Mr. Kitchen said he was unable to Identify the woman who was with O. Osborne" as he had not paid much at tention to iher. He did know, how ever, that the woman was small of Ftature. A vigorous cross-examination failed to shake his testimony. The witness said that the man "O. Osborne" wore considerable jewelry and that he -was a younger man than James W Osborne, whom he said he had never tseen until he visited the office of the United States Attorney here in answer to a subpena. "O. Osborne." he declared, "did not H'par eye glasses." Mr. Osborne, recalled to the stand was questioned by Commissioner Uloutrhton. The Commissioner examined Mr. Osborne s thick leased eye glasses. The witness, in reply to questions, raid that he had not been without glasses during his waking hours for many years. Then he leaned over book the Commissioner had before him And at the Commissioner's suggestion wanned the caption at the top of the page. His nose almost touching: the Jiaper, he read: "Record of common cases." The commissioner then read into the records of the proceedings a statement to the effect that the actual caption on tho .page was "Iiecord of Criminal C'ases.j. Volunteer Witness Absent. Mr. Osborne's attempt to read other mailer type on the page was unsuc cessful. "Oliver Osborne." who appeared vol untarily when he read of the allega tion of Miss Tanzer in her stilt, and Announced that he knew her well and that. she had been writing him letters lo Boston calling him "Dear Oliver" at the same time she was alleged to have been writing to James AV. Osborne and Addressing him in the same terms, was not present at the proceedings today. As the Government rested its case, it was plain that he would not be called on to testify. Vnlted States District Attorney Mar shall, however, said that he could pro duce "Oliver" at any time he wanted htm. The arrest of Miss Tanzer was caused primarily by the statements ac credited by the Government to "Oliver Osborne." ROAD SUPERVISOR ACCUSED Cooks in Private Boarding-House on Public Payroll Is Charge. OLTMP1A. Wash.. March 14. Spe cial.) lo a report filed today with the Attorney-General, following an exam ination of Pacific County, the state bu reau of inspection charges that H. F. XUainc. a road supervisor, was found lo be carrying three women on the county payroll as day laborers on day work. Investigation showed, the bu reau says, that the women were not actually forking on the roads with pick and shovel, but were cooking in a boarding-house operated by the road supervisor as a private venture. The bureau report shows that Pa cific County is badly in debt, liabilities being placed at $559,174. compared with 3.els of S339.468. Ill . - MtsiAnnrim r I $580 11 SOCKS 'i:l?if.M r Jami'M W. I Get a 10-cent box now. Are you keeping your liver, stomach and bowels clean, pure and fresh with Cascarets or merely forcing a pass ageway every few days with salts, cathartic pills or castor oil? This is important. cascarets immediately cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undigested and fermenting rood ana ioui gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry out of the system the consti pated waste matter ana poison in me bowels. No odds how sick, headachy, bilious and constipated you feel, a Cascaret to. night will straighten you out by morn. -ng. They work while you sleep. A 10-cent box from your druggist will keep your head clear, stomach sweet and your liver and bowels regular for months. uon t lorgei ine cnuaren their little insides need a gentle cleansing, too. Adv. his beat. Four women testified that they paid Schuman 5 weekly, leaving tha monev with Charles Shea, a cigar store proprietor. Shea will be tried on a similar cnarge later. Davis Says Living Beyond His Means Caused Downfall. POLICE HAVE CRIME STORY Youth lie III at Eugene Said to Have Passed Bad CI i cck s, Iotcd a s Kieli Mau and Become Kn jraged to Clitco Society slrl. EUGENE. Or., March 24. Living above his means caused the downfall of Robert Lee Davis, according to his statement made in the County Jail to day. Pretending to be a. young mining man from San Francisco, he went to Chtco, Cal., a month ago, and is said to have passed himself off for a young man of wealth. He is said to have entered society there, become engaged to a prominent society .girl there, given her diamond rings, and to have become the talk of the city. Then, it is charged, he cashed a bogus check for $650, railed to see his fiancee and obtained his presents back. Jumping in a motorcar, he left and was next seen in Eugene last night, when ar rested when stepping from a fYain upon advice from the California officers. Young Davis carried $580 in his socks. He wore the money in paper just under the instep of his foot, and confessed after the money was discov ered that he passed bad checks in Chiro. The officers, however, failed to establish his identity with that of Theodore Thicl, alias B. S. Davis, wanted for the theft of a motor car In Portland from J. S. Stevens, and another car from Dr. W. M. McLaren, in ban Francisco. According to the officers, Davis de posited $300 on February 6 In a bank at Billings, Mont. He then went to San Diego, it is declared, and Jn a few days weni xo tnico. In the meantime he is said to have made false entries in his pass book on the Montana bank, adding pre tended deposits for $;00, $3800 and $"i00. He went to the Chico batik, there deposited $200, and then left a check for $4000 to be collected from the Montana bank. He said that he was in no hurry for this, but the next day he presented a check for $600. This was cashed by the bank on sight. When it was learned that the check was pot good Davis was gone. He had purchased a ticket for Eugene. The young man was unusually well dressed. and in a grip and a suitcase he carried an expensive outfit of cloth ing, including three suits of clothes and expensive toilet articles. At first he maintained that he had only $19 and he averred that he had come here looking for work. He first protested his innocense with unusual visor. He will be held pending the ar rival of California officials with ex tradition papers. Top Rnc Tauer. BoIot W. Osborne. ever, did not have time to stop at Douglas, and, consequently, contended that the $7.36 and $12.60 should be re turned to her. The Interstate Com merce Commission ordered it paid. BOWLBY LETTER DENIED ENGINEER DECLARBS HIS EXfRlOS MO.S WERR GARBLED. Norway Mother Gets First Foreign State Pension. Accident Commlaalon to Py ' Kronen a Year to Mrs. Heleno Krlstlanaen tor Death of Son in Portland. SALEM, Or., March 24. (Special.) The State Industrial Accident Com mission today authorized the pajment of a pension to the first beneficiary of the workmen's compensation act liv ing in a foreign country. Mrs. Helens Kristiansen, of Lisleby. Glcmminse, Norway, ia the person who will receive the pension. Her son. Carl Johannessen Kristiansen, fell from a dredge and wa drowned in North Portland several months ago. Chairman Beckwith, of the Commis sion, said the woman would receive about 300 kronera a year for the re mainder of. her life. A kroner repre sents about 26 centssin United States money and,, as pensions go in Norway, hers is a largo one. The papers of Mrs. Kristiansen, containing many seals re quired by her home city and country and approved by the United States Min ister in Norway, were received by the Commission today and the experts in the- office began fignrlng out. the amount of" pennion due lcr under the law. No one in the office knew juat how much a kroner is in American money, and that was a Btumbling-block until Chairman Beckwith found a table of values in an almanac. ROAD LOSES TO WOMAN MKDKOltn TEACHER GETS ORDER FOR RETURN OF FARE PAID. I'lackainus Deed Records Broken. ORECION CITT, Or.. March H. (Spe ril.l The deed to the Oregon Cily locks, filed yesterday, is the largest in f trument of its kind recorded in Clackt: mas County since the so-called war tax btiainc etieotive. An Internal revenue tflamp is not necessary on deeds con veying property to the Government, or It. A. Lelter would have been forced to coer the document with 93T5 in stamps -hm uc filed it. School Ma'am" Fights Company Before State Commlaalon for Charge Made .on Eaxtera Trip. SALEM, Or.. March 24. (Special.) That Miss Ambrosine C. Murphy, a school teacher of Medford, knows some thing about lighting for her rights, even though the battle be with a giant corporation, was proved today, when the Interstate Commerce Commission notified the State Railroad Commission that it had instructed the Southern Pacific Company to reimburse the young woman for an overcharge in railroad fare. The case is such a unique one that the members of the Interstate Com merce Commission sat en banc at the hearing, and the verdict in favor of Miss Murphy was a unanimous one. A less determined person would have given up the tight long ago. but not the plucky Medford "school ma'am." In a letter to the Railroad Commis sion last July Miss Murphy said that in June. 1913. she purchased a ticket at Medford for Omaha and return for $9.9l'. The agent at Medford informed her that returning she could go by way of Douglas. Wya. if . she desired, by paying an additional 7.35, and if she did not go to that place the money would be returned. Part of the trip to Omaha was via the Union Pacific, but returning to reach Douglas she was compelled to go as far as Cheyenne over the Chicago & Northwestern and a fare of 12.19 was charged, although she objected to paying it. She, how- Change in Officials Ilrfore Final Cheek ing Itegardcd as Dangerous Pro ceeding for Counties. MliDKORD, Or., March 24. (Special.) "I never wrote any auto club In Seattle or. elsewhere regarding the un fitness of the Pacific Highway," de clared Major If. I Bowlby, who spent Wednesday in Medford on highway business. "I did write a personal let ter to a friend In Seattle who asked me if he could make the trip over the Pacific Highway at the present time and I told mm tne trutn tnat oral narily the road could not be traversed until June, but that probably he could get through to California via Central Oregon before then. "The contractors' clique seeking to accomplish my removed did not print the letter that I wrote, but garbled it to suit themselves to stir up enmity toward me through the Willamette Valley counties. "My removal at this time would work a hardship upon the counties now constructing highway," continued Mr. Bowlby. "I am not making any effort to keep the position, but the contracts should be completed and final settle ments made before there is a change. Under the contracts the estimates of the State Highway Engineer are final and the counties must pay the awards he makes'. Knowing this every con tractor ia putting in claims for 50,000 or more above what he is entitled to receive, and if the contractors succeed In naming the engineer they hope, of course, to benefit thereby in the final settlements, so you can see where the counties get off." MARSHF1ELD CUTS EXPENSE Retrench in net Begun to Make Vp for Deoreae in Saloon Revenue. J1ARSHFIELD, Or., March 24. (Spe cial.) Several Coos County cities find themselves obliged to adopt a retrench ment policy immediately, largrely be cause there will be no saloon revenue in 1916. Marshfield led off and last week curtailed fixed expenses about $2500 yearly by withdrawing a monthly support of $150 for the Coos Bay Con cert Band and doing: away with one man on the street-cleaning force. Mayor George P. Topping1, of Ban don, has issued notice there will be an executive meeting of the Bandon City Council to decide where the city can most easily bring about a saving. North Bend is likewise discussing mu nicipal retrenchment. EUGENE GETS NEW TRAIN Additional I-Yeiglit Service Put on Swells City's Payroll $600. EUGENE. Or.. March 21. (Special.) An additional freight train from Eu gene to Wendling. on the Mohawk, will be placed in service tomorrow. It is the fifth train to make Eugene its nightly terminal and its crew will add 5600 to Eugene's monthly payroll. Kugene is the terminal for freight and passenger trains on the Willamette-Pacific to the coast, on the Port land. Eugene & Eastern to Corvallis and Portland, and on the Wendling line to a lumber district east of Eugene. These three roads bring a monthly payroll of 5050 to Eugene. Eugene also Is the terminal of the Oregon Electric road. WATER RULING IS NEAR Contest for Cliewauean Klvcr Kights Soon to Be Decided. SALEM,- Or., March 24. (Special.) Settlement of the water rights on the Chewaucan Itiver, in Lake County, .will be made soon, according to a statement of Water Commissioner Chlnnock to day. The Northwest Townsite Com pany, of Portland, which owns 12,000 acres of land it desires to irrigate, and the Chewaucan Land & Cattle Com pany, which owns 25,000 acres of land, are fighting for the water rights. According .to O. Laurgaard. formerly project engineer of the Tumalo Irriga tion District and now employed by the Northwest Townsite Company, that concern, is ready to start work, if a decision is made in its favor. Mr. Laurgaard, who Is located in Portland, is also authority for ' the statement that work on three or four other large irrigation projects will be started soon. One is in Malheur County, another In Umatilla and the other in Washington County. DRYS ASK LISTER TO TALK AVasliington Governor Invited to Ad dress Rational Anti-Saloon league. OLTMPIA, Wash.. March 24. (Spe cial.) Superintendent Conger, of the Washington Anti-Saloon League, today announced that Governor Lister, of Washington, had been selected by the National League as the only public man from the Pacific Northwest to ad dress the biennial National convention of the organization at Atlantic city next July to promote the movement for National prohibition. "Selection to address this convention is the hisrhest honor the anti-saloon organization can bestow on a public official, v said Mr. Conger. "The or ganization has been besieged by high officials seeking such an opportunity." Governor Lister is uncertain whether he will be able to accept the invitation. Ashland Man Attempts Suicide. ASHLAND, Or., March 24.-(Speclal.) H. N. Lowe, proprietor of the Colum bia Cafeteria, attempted suicide here earlv this morning by shooting himself. He is at a local hospital dangerously wounded in the region of the heart. Wounding of Prince Denied. MUNICH (vta London). March 24 The report which has been circulated abroad that .Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria has been seriously wounded bv a shell 19 officially denied. Seattle Policeman Guilty. SEATTLE, Wash, March 24. Paul It. Schuman. a former policeman, was found .guilty by a Jury in the Superior Court last night of collecting "protec tion money" from disorderly women on L A SAFE SKIN-REMEDY Vrn tiomI never hesitate to use Res- inol Ointment and Resinol Soap. There is nothing in them to injure or Irritate the tenderest skin. Resinol is a doc tnr'i nrescrintion which for 20 years baa been used by careful physicians for eczema and many other itcning, bnrnimr iinaizhtlv skTln affections. They prescribe Resinol freely, knowing that its soothing, healing action is brought about by a medication so bland and gentle as to be suited to the rpost delicate skin even of a tiny baby. Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap stop itching instantly, . and speedily heai skin humors, pimpleV sores, boils, burns and piles. All druggists sell them For samoles write to Dept. 20-R. Resinol, Baltimore, Md. A GOOD WAY TO SHAMPOO Shampoo with Resinol Soap, rubbing It3 lather thoroughly into the scalp, so as to work in the soothing, healing Resinol medication. This almost always stops dandruff and scalp Itching, and keeps the hair alive, thick and lustrous. Adv. t 1 - M m 1V1 I I sf v 1 eniamin OEbrrcct Coihes MM! (Y ALFRED BENJAMIN-WASHINGTON COMPANY New you The 1915 Spring Hat Styles Are Shown at Their Best in These: Bristol Soft and Stiff Hats $3 Schobel Soft Hats, $3.50 Stetson Soft and Stiff Hats, $4. Knox Soft and Stiff Hats, $5 Warburton Soft and Stiff Hats, $5 Take the word of those most capa ble of judging and be as well dressed as they. Benjamin Spring styles now on display. Suits $20 and $25 $30 and $35 Buffum & Pendleton Exclusive Purveyors in Portland of Benjamin Clothes Morrison Street Opposite Postofficc 1 SENIORS TIED FAST "Junior Hunk Day" at Corval lis Is Too Strenuous. FUTURE EVENTS FORBADE Prominent Upper Classmen Kid naped, hut Class of 1913 Keeps Its Flas Afloat After Skirmish. Injuries Arc "ot Serious. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, March 24. (Special. The most strenuous "junior flunk day" ever staged at the Oregon Agricultural Col lege was held today, following inter mittent skirmishes between the mem bers of the junior and senior classes during the most of the night. Accord ing to precedent, the members of the Junior classes attempted to "tie-up" the seniors, and with their rivals safely out of the way, to hold their annual picnic. So stubborn was the resistance of the seniors, however, and so fierce was the fii-htinir. that President Kerr an nounced tonight that "flunk days" would occur no more. Th Vrltement began last night, when the Juniors captured John Flint, president of the senior class; Curran McFadden, colonef of the cadet regi ment, and other prominent seniors, and carried them In machines several miles from the city, where they were hidden. The seniors retailiated by kidnaping Sereno Brett, the manager of the Junior forces. . A hot battle, in which about 200 men engaged, took place in the Armory in the early hours of the morning, the juniors finally succeeding in tying up a large number of seniors. These cap tives escaped shortly afterward and spent the day in the vicinity of the camping grounds, ensnaring such jun iors as wandered from their com rades. The senior flag, made by the co-eds of the class, waved over the administration building all day despite the efforts of the juniors to lower It. Although there were no serious in juries reported, and the spirit existing between the classes was of the best. President Kerr has decided that this particular student precedent may well be dispensed with and announced that today's affair would be tha last of lis kind. Lad lilt by Train May Iie. MARSHFIKLP, Or.. March 2. (Spe cial.) Victor Hack, 18. was struck by a (Southern Paclllc train this momlnK while riding a motorcycle and sustained probably fiitnl injuries, ono leg being broken and his head badly lacerated. The boy was unconscious late today. carnlvorntw tilrd r iudrupa In KllKland IH l the flrh of a cal. The rule Mpplten fvoti to the onrrlon crow, whlt-li will rirvnur oMri riou RreediK. SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL, STATEMENT Reliance Life Insurance Company of Pittsburg; of Pittsburg. In the State of Pennsylvania, on the Slst day of December. 1914. made to the Insurance Commissioner of the btate or Oregon (pursuant to law. Capital. p1"1.'. . ."??!. 1,000.000.00 Income. Total premium income $ 1,581,409.SJ Interest, dividends and rents ..,,-.. received during the year... -Oi,16j..6 Income from other sources re- celved during the year sl.570.OQ Total income : 1,?6,17.4S Disbursements. , Paid for losses, endowments, annuities and surrender values 416,692. 16 Dividends paid to policy hold- ....... ers during the year u9,lo5.t9 Dividends paid on capital stock during Hie year S0.000.00 Cummtajiions and salaries paid during the. year o3S, 909.41 Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the year . 43.49t.87 Amount o all other expendi tures 161. , 78.44 Accident and health dept...... 5.;6l.S8 Total expenditures 8 1,3:0,296.05 Assets. Market value ot real estate ...... , osvned 160,096.40 Market value of stocks and bonds owned 2,536,58.21 Loans on mortgages vand col laterals, etc Premium notes and policy loans 803.673.16 Cash in oanks and on hand.. (.766.77 Net uncollected and deferred premiums 232,625.70 Other assets (net) Total assets 725,901.23 113,182.00 .$ 4.832,008.49 Total assets Oregon . . . admitted Liabilities. In ..8 4.832,008.49 Net reserve 5,427,010.00 Total policy claims unpaid 10.132.34 All other liabilities 334.441.63 Accident and health dept 40.424.o2 Total liabilities exclusive of - capital stock of 81,000,- 000 8.832,008.49 Total insurance in force, De cember 31, 1914 50,494.401.00 ' Business in Oregon for the Year. Tntat risks written durlns: the year 8 Gross premiums received dur ing the year Premiums returned during the year Losses paid during the year. . Losses incurred during the year - - Total amount" of liska out standing in Oregon De cember 31. 1914 550.934.00 RELIANCE LIFE INSURANCE COMPAXT OF PITTSBI BG. By S. G. SCOTT. Secretary. Statutory general agent and attorney for "'C' HALL S. L17SK. 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