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T 12 THE MORNING OREGOXIAIf. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1915. i n Jo. .If-.- v..: JUDGE WARNS OF HIRED INFLUENCE Mr. McGinn Tells Jury Panel He Waits Opportunity for Prosecution. MEN SERVING NOT BLAMED Jail Declared " Xoomlngf " for Class Hired br Idtljrants to Gain Con fidences ot Jurymen and ' Tarn Verdict. Summoning a jury panel of nearly 80 men Into his courtroom yesterday morning-. Circuit Judge McGinn warned them against "a class of men hired by litigants and who throng the corridors and courtrooms for the purpose of get. ting into the confidences of the jury men." "I know the men who a;e engaged In this business," said Judge McGinn, "and when I have proof of specific In stances of their corruptness I propose to make an example of them. I do not believe much In the Jail, but I will Jail the scoundrel who embarks In this business." The Judge's warning to the Jurors followed closely his action Wednesday in setting aside the verdict brought in by a Jury in the suit of Roy Fisher, 8 years old, against the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company. A pre--ious Jury had awarded the boy $6000 for the death of his father. On the recond trial the jury returned a ver dict for the defendant after deliberat ing less than an hour. A transcript of the warning follows in part: Jurymen Not Censured. Gentlemen of the Jury: I desire to say a word to vou about your duties and about certain abuses which I have observed row 1ns UP about this Courthouse, growing holder and bolder. It la a matter for which you are in no manner responsible, and what I nay is not at all in censure of you. It is, however. In censure of a class ot men hired by litigants and who throng the corridors and courtrooms of this Courthouse to Bet Into the confidence of the jurymen. I will not call any names this mormns. because 1 desire to give warning; to those men. though I know who they are, and wilt make tho information public. I do not yet mean to say that they have used money, but they frequently have spoken to jurors about cases which are here for trial. They try to make "Rood fellows" of themselves nd do make "good fellows" of themselves and try to learn of Jurors what their fel lows do and what their fellows thlnK. Now. Rentlemen. you are Jurors, and for what you do as Jurors, acting: according to your consciences, no power on earth can call you in question for it, neither criminally jior civilly, anything you do. When It is the promptings of your conscience the law sup ports you in everything. Nobody has the Tlcht to approach you before a jury has been summoned, nor after you have returned a -venllet, to learn what your deliberations Aave been or how you have stood. Refuse Information, Is Advice. I will esteem it a favor if. whenever any body, be he lawyer or layman, either by telephone or by striking up an acquaintance with you in the CourthouBe, pretending to know who -you are, aftwr the verdict Is over. If they come to you and desire to know how you voted and how you stood, tell them It is none of their business and that they are obstructing Justice, and please re port them to the court. I will Jail the first man found around this courtroom or elsewhere who Is trying to find out anything of the state of a Juror's mind by this underhanded method. Just simply tell ever man, lawyer or anybody else who asks you after your verdict how you stood, that it Is an affair that belongs to you and to your fellows, and that it is a matter of no concern to them. I desire to call the District Attorney- at tention to this. It has come to my ears that there are men who approach lawyers, representing that they have influence with Jurors, and asking to be hired to use this Influence. This thing must be broken up. I want your support, gentlemen of tho jury, and your co-operation. Where anyone, either before your verdict or before you com to court, when you are summoned as Jurors and your names have been published in the papers before you come here, after your verdict or at any time, approaches you to learn anything of you or of yoxir follows about your duties or about yourselves, report such persons to me. I do Tot believe much In the jail, but I will Jail the scoundrel who embarks In this business. I want to make it plain that It is not fof anything wrong done by the Jury that I make this appeal, but I know the men who are engaged in this business, and when 1 bave proof of specific instances of their cor ruptness, I propose to make an example of them. Good Things in Markets LOUISIANA, away down at the mouth of tho Mississippi River, is sending us up ripe strawberries, large beauties, at 20 cents a box. Those from California are retailed at 15 cents a. box. RodlandH, Cal.. oranges can be bad at 25 cents a dozen. They are very weet and, in the opinion of people who know, they are quite equal to the Florida orange. Navel oranges are offered at 20, and large ones at 30 cents; blood oranges, 15 cents a dozen. Florida grapefruit, two and three for 25 cents. California stock, 6 cents each. Lemons, 15 and 25 cents a dozen. Bananas. 15 and 20 cents; the red vari ety, 40 cents a dozen. Pineapples. 20 cents, and cocoanuts 10 cents each. Apples axe getting scarcer Handsome Ted-cheeked Pippins are 40 cents; large Arkansas Black and good Wine saps are 25 cents; fancy Newtowns, 20 cents; medium-sized Black Ar kansas can be bought for 15 cents a (ioien or two dozens for- a quarter; Ben Davis, 10 cents a dozen. By the box the average is generally from $1 to J2.50. tn the vegetable market local prod ucts are coming bodily forward. Of these rhubarb is the most pronounced. Only a week or two since it was 10 cents a pound, and today for a dime a suburbanite gets as much as he would care to carry home four bunches, weighing five or six pounds. Such bargains as the poor in purse ORii secure down In the Carroll Public Market are Illustrated by home-grown new carrots and radishes, four bunches for a nickel: Clackamas asparagus specially good is offered at 10 cents a bunch, and crisp fresh lettuce at four stalks for 10 cents. Spinach, 5 cents a pound; celery, 10 cents a bunch; lettuce heads, 5 cents each and two for 15 cents. Green onions, five bunches for 5 cents; dried, three pounds for a dime. Cabbage, 5 cents a pound; mint. 5 cents a bunch. The newest comer to the market Is Summer squash from California, at 20 cents a pound. The Golden State also forwards new potatoes at two pounds for 25 cents; "fat" green peas at the same price, and wax beans at 30 cents a. pound. Very attractive celery from Michi gan, 10 cents a stalk; Bermuda Span ish onions, 10 cents a pound and Flor ida tomatoes at 25 cents a pound, are some of the offerings from "abroad." Burbank, upland potatoes are $1.60 a sack, 15 and IS pounds for 25 cents. Potatoes are getting scarce and going vp in price. Sweets. 5 cents a pound. Hock I River asparagus, fancy, 15 cents a bunch of one pound, two for 25 cents; artichokes, 5 cents each and three for a quarter. Local hothouse cucumbers. 15 and 20 cents each: to matoes, two pound for 15 cents; cauli flower. 10 and 15 cents each. Green pepper, 40 cents a pound: gar lic, 30 cents a pound, labeled "sure cure" "for anything that ails you," the dealer added laughingly. Local mushrooms are 90 cents a pound, but down in the market they can be had for even less. Local sugar peas, 25 cents a pound. In the fish market "hook and line" Chinook salmon, from the Willamette, River, is selling at 20 cents a pound: Coast, or salt water, sturgeon at 15 cents: halibut, 10 cents; Alaska rock cod, 15 cents each; sea trout, 25 cents a pound. Red snapper, rock and black cod, shad and 'halibut cheeks are each 124 cents a pound. Sanddabs and fresh mackerel are 15 cents; perch, flounders and herring each 10 cents a pound. Columbia River bine it is now getting scarce and sells at 5 cents a pound and three pounds for a dime. Crawfish, 30 cents a dozen: shad roe, 40 cents and salmon eggs 15 cents a pound. Jumbo shrimps, or prawns, 25 cents; lobsters, 35 cents a pound; crabs. EASTERN 6BE60V M X MAT bk candidate: roa RAii .. ... ROAD COMMISSIONER. 1 Jimta M. Kyle. Eastern Oregon is preparing to take full advantage of the law enacted by the recent Legislature, ' to give that section a member of ', the State Railroad Commission , and has presented a candidate. In the person of James M. Kyle, for the place. ' Mr. Kyle now is on his third term as Mayor of Stanfield, Uma- , tilla County. He has had large experience as a shipper, as he formerly was connected with big fruit distributing interests at Salem. Since settling in Kastern Oregon he has had wide experi ence in handling stock and in other enterprises that have given him much knowledge of the needs of that district. It is expected that Mr. Kyle will seek the Republican nomina tion for the Commisstonership in the Eastern Oregon district for the election of 1916. 15. 20 and 25 cents each; razor clams very scarce 15 cents a dozen; hard shell, 5 cents a pound. Eastern oysters, 60 cents a pint; Olypmia, 60 cents. Toke Point, in shell. 30 cents a dozen. In the meat market salted and fresh tongues, 20 cents; smoked, 30 cents a pound: smoked beef, 40 cents a pound; "Pride of Oregon" ham, 17 cents, picnic ham. 12 V&, and shoulder ham, 12 cents a pound. Bacon. 18, 20. 22. 24 and 26 cents a pound. In the poultry market, hens 22 cents, roasters 25. friers 35, broilers 40 cents a pound of one and one and one-half pounds weight. Ducks 25, geese 20, turkeys 30 cents a pound. Squabs, 50 to 65 cents each; guinea fowl, $1.25 to $1.50 each. Large, dry-picked hens, 25 cents a pound. Poultry, particularly drawn, is rather scarce at present, as bens are laying so well that the farmers find it more profitable to keep them, and young chickens are too small to mar ket. Only one offering of eggs at 20 cents a dozen was to be seen in market, the standard price being 25 cents a dozen, or two dozens for 45 cents. Butter. 55, 60 and 65 cents a roll; fancy. 30 cents a pound. The latest in butter is an Oregon extra-sanitary, home-churned product, made from sweet crjam of imported Jersey stock. Absolutely without coloring, it is very golden, and sells for 35 cents a pound, or 65 cents a roll. Cottage cheese, 15 cents a pint; Ger man hand cheese cottage cheese flavored with caraway seeds 5 cents each. Strawberry plants, 5 cents a dozen. Young live rabbits, 50 cents a pair. SLAVER IS F0UI1D GUILTY Dave Vestman, Twice Convicted, to Be Sentenced Monday. Dave Westman was found guilty by a jury in Federal Court Wednesday on a white slavery charge, the jury requir ing but a short time to return & con viction. This is the second trial of Westman and each resulted the same way. After serving 33 months of a for mer five-year sentence at the Federal penitentiary at McNeill's Island, he was paroled. Soon after he completed his parole he again engaged in practices that brought him to the attention of the Federal authorities. Assistant United States Attorney Johnson prosecuted Westman. He will be brought before Judge Bean for sentence Monday morning. TAB KEPT ON CITY'S MEN Report Made to Mayor on Vnmiltcs of $3-a-Day Workers. To show what is being done by the laborers in the city service who re ceive wages of $3 a day. Mayor Albee has asked the various departments to prepare lists giving the names of ail the $3-a-day men and the number of dependents of each. The Public Works Department check shows that of 53 men, 38 are married and nine are widowers. One supports nine children; one, eight children: four. seven children: two, six children; two. rive cnuctren; four, (our children: eight. three children; 10, two children, and six, one child each. MANACLED CYCLIST ON TRIP Portland-San Francisco Traveler Passes Through Rosebtirg. ROSEBURG. Or., April 15. (Special.) Traveling for a wager. W. J. Sulzer, with his hands manacled to a bicycle. passed through Roseburg yesterday en route from Portland to San Francisco. He is to eat, sleep and travel in the handcuffs, the chains connecting " the wrists passed through the frame of the wheel. He has two months t6 complete the trip and was here, but a few hours. He left Portland with 25 cents and makes his way by what people interested in his venture are willing to donate. I - r NEW FILM BILLS Ofl "The Lost House" Thrills Pa: Irons of Columbia. BALL PICTURES AT STAR 'Just Kids," Comedy for Children, Wins Approbation of Adults at Sunset; Attractions at All Found Meritorious. "The Lost House," a Mutual master piece produced under the direction of D.'-Wi-Grifnth, in which Lilllam Gish is featured, opened at the Columbia yes terday for the remainder of this .week. It contains a story of how a slender clew saved a beautiful woman ffroni a fate worse than death. Dorothy Dale, heiress, stands in the way of her uncle inheriting her for tune. He has her kidnaped and taken to a sanatorium for insane, where she Is held captive. She drops a note from the window, and it is found by a news paperman and he determines to make an investigation. Entering the institution as a patient, he finds the girl, and is on the point of rescuing her when his purpose is dis covered and he also is held a prisoner. He succeeds in notifying the police, and, in a thrilling fight, the building is set on fire. The newspaperman rescues the girl and a romance starts. "JUST KIDS" BRINGS LAUGHS Children's Comedy at Sunset Amuses Young and Old. "Just Kids." the most rollicking, dash ing and altogether charming children's comedy one could imagine, scored a big hit before crowded houses at the Sunset Theater yesterday. Every parent in the audience ha ha'd at the clever acting of the two small but wicked actor comedians who play the principal roles. So did every other grown-up. They simply couldn't help it. As for the children In the audience, they laughed and laughed and laughed. "Just Kids" is only one feature of an exceptionally well-blended bill. "The Poet of the Peaks," in two acts, pre sents Vivian Rich in a remarkable part. The scenic effects are beautiful. "The Moment of Sacrifice," another two-act drama, is an army story. The setting is laid in one of the coast defense forts, where a spy has succeeded in getting valuable plans. "Gussle's Wayward Path," a Keystone comedy, rounds out the bill with gusts of laughter. OPEXIXG-DAY SCENES SHOWX Strong and Pathetic Drama Running at Star Theater. Want to see yourself at the big open ing game? If you do. go to the Star Theater and see the films. Ten thousand smiling faces look at you from the screen with a you-ought-to-be-here look . and it is as good as a circus to see some of the expressions. These pictures are a big attraction at the Star. Warren Kerrigan appears in a role foreign to him in "The Guardian of the Flocks." He is a Mexican sheep-herder, a tender, half-civilized young brute, who knows no law except that of love. When he is cheated in that game, he thinks only of revenge. But the tiniest, smiliest little bit of babyism imaginable takes all such thoughts out of his mind and he is regenerated and made again into the tender keeper of his flocks. Handsome Ben Wrilson appears in a play of the East and West, "A Lesson of the Far Kast." SUSPECTS' HEARING SET Three Accused of Stage Ttobbcry Are Arraigned at Baker. BAKER. Or., April 15. (Special.) Molly Burgett. Joe Carlson and "Sour dough Bill" Haider, arrested .as sus pects in the robbery of $7000 gold bul lion from the Rainbow-Durkee stage Monday morning, April 4, were ar raigned before Justice of the Peace Hubbard today and charged with the crime of "robbery and assault, being armed with a dangerous weapon. The men are named as principals in the affair, while the Burgett woman is named as an accessory. The prelim inary hearing was set for next Monday morning at 9 o'clock. None of - the three did any talking during the arraignment, but seemed in excellent spirits. The Burgett wom an in particular was giggling through out the hearing. District Attorney Godwin said that the case will probably go before the grand jury- in June if the three are bound over. iniiniinniHiniiniininnniiinninnnni For extra good cooking always use Cottolene For biscuits, pie-crust, cakes and doughnuts, and for frying, Cot tolene is supreme, because it is the purest cooking fat and pos sesses important food values. Cottolene It is an exact combination of specially refined cottonseed oil, of a grade so high, it is not listed on the market, with pure beef-stearine from selected leaf beef suet. It is this precise combination which gives Cottolene its unexcelled cooking: qual ities. There are imitators, but there is no substitute for Cottolene. For economy, as well as for good cooking, vise Cottolene. You will require a third less of it than of any other shortening; or cooking fat. Any one who can cook or bake at all can cook and bake better with Cottolene. 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That principles of eugenic marriage are as old as Adam, and that not only is the Bible filled with instances of scien tific selections of husband' and wife, but that Bible characters were fully aware of-it, was the declaration made yesterday by C. I. Collins, superintend ent of schools, speaking before the stu dents of the Eugene Bible University on "Eugenics and the Bible. "The first instances of eugenic divi sions are exhibited in the characteris tics of Cain and Abel," said Mr. Collins. "Cain was the murderer and he was eliminated from the ancestry of the Hebrew race. He was the ancestor of Alameck, the originator of deadly weapons, and this indicates the strain in which the spirit, of murder and re venge was carried along from Cain. "The Hebrew race came down from Abel, and in each generation thereafter selections' were made. It was the same as in the breeding of plants and ani mals characteristics may be obtained by the proper selections, and this is shown all through the Bible. "This was shown when Ituth was brought over to enrich the stoclc of the race, for the Mohabites had descended from the same Hebrew stock. Ruth was made the wife of Boaz, and they became the ancestors of David. "In the Bible it is represented that these selections were directed divinely, but historically it was a case of eugenic selection. The Israelites were always looking for a way in which to keep their stock pure." ltegistratlon Books to Reopen. Registration books will reopen next Monday for a period of 11 days, in order to permit voters to register or chanee their addresses for the city Not Sold By Weight When you buy Shredded Wheat you are paying something for the patented process by which the whole wheat is made digestible in the human stomach. We are not selling raw wheat. It is what you digest, not what you eat, that builds muscle, bone and brain. Sluredldledi is the whole wheat made digestible by steam-cooking, shredding and baking. 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FISHER'S BLEND makes more and larger loaves of bet- election in June. The city had asked County Clerk Coffey to open the books for a 30-day period. They were held open 19 days, and then it was neces sary to close them under the law ten days prior to the special bond electio.-i. The rest of this week will be occui led in getting the books back into sh-ipe after the bond election. ROCK GIVEN FOR ROAD USE Sandy, CollrcII and Kirwood Dis tricts Join for Spring Work. The road districts of Sandy. Cottrell and Firwood have combined to secure crushed rock roads this Spring. A rock crusher has been secured and will be placed at work on the Mitt farm, about one mile north of bandy. A ledge of rock nearly equal to Kelly Butte has been found 200 feet from the bluff overlooking the Sandy River and at this ledge the crusher will be placed. Owners of the land have donated the rock for road construction. The crusher will have a capacity of 300 yards of crushed rock a day. An electric tramway will bring the rock to the crusher, a distance of 800 feet. Lumber for the bunkers to the amount of 30.000 feet has been ordered. It is planned to start work at Bear Creek and . improve the road to Pandy this year. CURRICULA ARE GONE OVER State Board as Vet Decides on No Important Changes in System. The Board of Higher Curricula of the State of Oregon met Wednesday in the office of Ir. C. J. Smith In the Broad way building to consider routine mat ters, mainly concerned with the elimi nation of duplications in the curricula of the Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Oregon, and prepar ing for the catalogues of each institu tion. The meeting was an adjourned ses sion from April' 5 and was attended by only three members. Dr. Smith, Mrs. Josephine Hirsch, of Portland, the new The Shredded Wheat 'Campbell's Tomato Soup! o, They know it Is coming. They know it by its delicious steam ing fragrance. They are hungry for it, -too.' 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The recommen dations cover a broad held, but are minor in detail, and no one department is singled out so far for any particular change." Mammoth Bear Killed Near Newport NEWPORT. Or., April 15. (Special.) Fred Butterfield, who lives on a ranch nar Otter "Rocks, killed th "WThiosrG: Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y. MS. - ... J t 21 KINDS largest bear that liu hen killed in 1-incoln County In - years. Mr. Rui-tt-rfield is a tireless hunter and fish erman and his ranch at Hald Mountain, known to mariners as t'ape Koulweath er. Is one of the most beautiful placen along the Pacific Coast. Butterfield served his apprenticeship as a boiler maker and shipwright and then re turned to farm in Lincoln County, where he was reared. Reception nt a Caller. T-ioHton Transcript. Clerk This is the best burglar alarm made. The burglar no sooner enters the house than It alarms the residents. Customer Haven't you got one that will Blarm the hunrlnr? ,1)1 5 -N II 2-k-?:l' 'IH'm'I u