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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1915)
TIIE 3IORXIXG ORECOMAN. .FRIDAY. JULY 9. 1015. COLUMBIA GROUP SNAPSHOT OF THREE PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE COLUMBIA HIGHWAY TOURING PARTY WHICH ARRIVED HOME LAST NIGHT. Expansion and July Clearance THE SURE SIGN OF REAL ECONOMY Entrust Your Summer Shopping to Us THIS-YOUR ULTIMATE STORE PARTY ENTHUSIASTIC Thousands Expected to Be En thralled With Panorama Along Mighty River. DEDICATION TOUR ENDS HIGHWAY 9 S " 1 : Errs B Hood Kiver and Every Hamlet on IJoutc of Magnificent Boulevard Kitend Royal Welcome to Visitors From Portland. HOOD RIVER, Or., July 8. (Spe cial.) "In our 200-miie trip of the past three days," said S- Benson tonight, as he sat resting in the twilight glow on a. veranda of the home of W. 1. Clark, "we have seen some of the things the Columbia Highway is going to open to the world and all of us, I think, have ret rned more enthusiastic than ever over the possibilities of the great road. "We have looked on some of the world's most gorgeous scenery. We have ridden through the orchards of Hood Kiver, Mosier and The Dalles. Nor shall we ever forget those wheat fields around Goldendale and Center vine, nor the panorama we had this afternoon as we came down from Lyle to White Salmon. It was something like the glimpse one gets in a moving picture show, but far more magnifi cent." The eyes of Oregon's first citizen glowed with the feeling that consumed him as he talked, and tiiose around him caught his enthusiasm. Dedication la Oalr Start. 'TUs J;ttle trip of the dedication party,"- said Rufus Holman, after Mr. Benson bad paused, "is Just the begin ning of what is going to follow. In the near future just such parties by the thousands are going to see what we have seen -and go away just as enthusi astic as we are. We were entertained at every town and hamlet on our route. At every place we found the people ready for this great event of the open ing of the highway and being imbued with an optimism now that it has come about." Never has any public meeting In Hood River left such a feeling among all factions of both city and valley as that of Monday night. The return of the dedication party was heralded abroad this afternoon, and the distinguished members of the party were again met at the Hood River-White Salmon ferry landing and taken on a tour of the town, the peo ple again cheering and the visitors answering. An old cannon on the Courthouse lawn was fired, and music from the local band, its members seated in cars leading the parade, added its melody to the joyous occasion. Some of the members of the dedica tion party have returned to Portland by train. Others left this evening by automobile. H. I Pittock and party left this afternoon for Homer Rogers' Mount Hood lodge, whither Commissioners Holbrook-and Lightner will go-tomorrow to see a portion of the proposed route of the hishway that will connect the fpper Hood River Valley with the old Barlow road, passing to the east side of Mount Hood. J. B. Yeon and A. 5. Benson have joined their families at the cottase form of Mrs. Alma Howe. These and others who have remained in the city will travel down to Portland over the Columbia Highway tomorrow. Sieenle. Treasures Opened. "None of us must forget this road through the National forest around the east base of Mount Hood." said Mr. Holman. "I for one feel sure that this will be built in the near future. Chief forester Graves, while en route to Alaska, will soon be here, and will make a tour of the route. I am sure that we will secure his co-operation In the construction of the road. "The completion of the Columbia Highway is Just the beginning of the opening of our scenic treasures." PARTY VISITS WHITE SALMON Hope Is Expressed for Highway Along North Bank of Columbia. WHITE SALMON, Wash., July 8. (Special.) The Columbia Highway dedication party left Mar) hill this morning at 8:30, arriving at Golden dale at 9:20, where refreshments were served and an hour passed in looking over the town. The party, which num bered 31, was joined at Goldendale by N. B. Brooks, who acted as guide on the trip to White Salmon, coming by way of Lyle and Appleton, 68 miles. White Salmon was reached at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The party was met here by members of the White Salmon Commercial Club and taken for lunch eon to the Eyrie, the beautiful country home of C. W. J. Reckers. Samuel Hill acted as toastmaster and called for talks from members of the Portland party and from members of the White Salmon Commercial Club. Judge Carey made a splendid - talk, lauding Mr. Benson's work in further ing good roads in the Northwest. Rufus Holman. H. L. Pittock, S. Benson. Ad dison Bennett and .'rank Terraee, of the Portland party, made short talks. A. R. Hayes, of White Salmon, spoke of White Salmon's location in the state as shutting it off from the political and commercial activities of the im portant centers of Washington and said in every way White Salmon district should be onsidered as tributary to Portland. He also expressed the hope that a highway would soon be con structed along the north bank of the Columbia Kiver. . - ; hC.'. 'v.'! t . -ts. .v-..,.-r- , THAW TALKS FREELY Cross-Examination Lets Wit ness Ramble On. 'RICH MEN' ARE SUSPECTED ALASKA LOT SALE TODAY 31 a ii Is Killed Clearing Streets In Townsite on Railroad. SHIP CREEK. Alaska, July 8. The sale of lots in the railroad reserve along the route of the Government rail road from Seward to Fairbanks will begin tomorrow. It was originally scheduled for today, but was postponed to give buyers coming on the steamship .Mariposa an opportunity to bid. A hundred men are at work clearing the streets of the townsite. Today, one of the workers, named Frank Amebtoy was killed by a falling tree. Lieutenant Frederick Mears. of the Alaska Engineering Commission, who makes his headquarters here, has Issued a notice to the people occupying rail road reserve land that after the sale they will be considered trespassers and forced to move. Andrew Christcnsen. chief of the Alaska field division of the General Land Office, has ported notice which says that no one will be permitted to occupy unsold lots. This means that they must buy lots, or lease giouna irom purcnasers. or move back two miles off the reserve. Prisoner Says Jerome Had finan cial Aid in Prevent I n Release. Story or Relations "With Evelyn Told Again. NEW YORK, July 8. The jury which is to pass on the sanity of Harry K. Thaw had an opportunity to study him for seven hours today under the cross examination of attorneys lor the state, who are trying to prove he Is suffer ing from paranoia and should be sent back to Matteawan Insane Asylum. Every incident of his li.'c from his school days to his marriage with Eve lyn Ncsbit, from the slaying of Stan ford White to his trials on the charge of the murder and his life at Mattea wan was thrust before him in an ef fort to let thesjury observe his mental attitude. Rasabllng Replies Not Cheeked. For the greater part of the ordeal Thaw seemed self-contained, but at times he became palpably nervous and on one occasion showed signs of anger. He was disposed to answer questions at length, and often made somewhat rambling, hesitating legal arguments, which Deputy Attorney-General Cook, hi principal cross-examiner, made no effort to stop. At other times he an swered in brief, concise sentences, but often witl. a peculiar enunciation. He will resume the stand tomorrow. Thaw began by telling of his belief that "several rich men" were interest ed In keeping him in Matteawan and that William Travers Jerome had re tained "financial support" to prevent his leaving the asylum. Thaw, in ex plaining a letter he wrote while stay ing in Concord, N. H., asking a Mr. Cooper to use his influence with "State Senators and Assemblymen not to as sist Jerome and his friends." said he was conducting a publicity campaign in favor of his cause and that tho let ters were written in furtherance of the campaign. Cru-ExaBintla Called .. Thaw denied he had traveled with Evelyn Nesbit through Europe subse quently as husband and wife, although those who saw them together might have got that Impression, be said. On their return to New York two attor neys told him that Stanford White and Mrs. Nesbit were "preparing some sort of conspiracy" to have him arrested in connection with his association with Evelyn. Thaw then characterized the attor ney's examination as perfect nonsense. "It won't advance your side of the case." he volunteered. He added that there was no truth In the stories and that he had never had a room at the house of Susan Merrill, where he is al leged to have whipped girls. He complained because the name of one of the men mentioned in the will had been suppressed at his trial, but had been disclosed after the man had died. "V'hat was your defense at your first trial?" he was asked. "The first trial was primarily to get the facts of the case before the Jury," Thaw replied. "I made the plea of in sanity at the time of the act, but the plea of defense was also put in. an otherwise we could not get some of the facts before the Jury. 1 don't think you know that. Mr. Cook." so far conducted by the Attorney-General's office had developed: That in 18S8 a gang of counterfeiters, composed of five men. had operated near Siam. Ia. They held ten acres of land directly adjoining that subse quently occupied by Samuel Anderson, who dwelt In a frontier cabin. In 1868 this cabin was occupied by a widow, Mrs. Floyd Collins, and her children. Nearby dwelt her daughter, who had been married to Jonathan Dark, a member of the gang. The counterfeiters used as a rendezvous a cave nearby. Early in the Fall of I8C8 the gang began to talk of the expected visit of a cattle buyer, who was coming into the section to buycattle and hogs, build Immense corrals, and fatten the stock for market. They knew he would bring the cash with him aa there were no banks in that vicinity in those days. They also knew he would make an overland trip, as no railroads entered the territory for miles around. On a moonlight night In September the Collins children heard a disturbance near the cabin. Maria, a daughter, who was 1 years old. went out on the porch to Investigate. She heard men's voices, which seemed to be coming nearer. Suddenly the men turned the corner on her. They were carrying some thing heavy and limp In an old quilt. The body was that of a fine-appearing man whore clothing was of the best. Not far away a youthful member of the gang was holding an ox-team. In the wagon was a chest. Seeing the girl, the men turned on her and compelled her to promise never to reveal the facs to any living person. The body was placed in an old abandoned well, where it was carefully covered. The chest was buried near the spring. The girl was compelled to wash the blood from the quilt and remove the tell-tale stains from the bandits' Homing. Investigators from the Attorney-General's office have learned that the stock buyer and a boy companion must have been waylaid on their way from the Eph Oxley farm, past the outlaw cabin to Newmarket, la. They waited for their vrctlms where the road winds around a locust grove, concealing their own oxen behind the brush. After the man had been killed the box dropped to his knees and begged for his life, but a member of the gang struck the lad on the bead with ax. dragging the body to a glade In the locust grjve. where it was burled and the spot covered with brush. EDITORS GAIN FAVOR Press Congress Told Kaiser's Recognition Aids Them. TROUBLES NOT ALL OVER STINGS OF BEES KILL COW Vuluable Jersey at Monmouth Tries to light Insects at Apiary. MONMOUTH, Or.. July 8.Specl.l. Stung by thousands of Italian bees, a valuable Jersey cow. owned by o. A. iY010"' ex-P0"naster of .Monmouth, ff Tuesday afternoon. The animal had been turned Into the grass on the southwest corner of the Normal campus. On a small lot adjoining the campus were S hives. When Bo.sle began to .? ht ever' t the Italians, hundreds, then thousands, "mobilised" and aid for the distress! d cow was impossible. OLD MURDER IS REVEALED fPonllnued From Firl Pare.) by Samuel Anderson, but Just as he was about to take possession of It Hunts man and his associates are said to have interfered and refused to let him go any further in the matter. It was becauso oi this and their refusal to make diviiion of the treasure that An derson was arranging to tight the civil suit wr. itli brought about today's de velopments. SECRET LOXG KEPT BY WOMAX State Authorities Reconstruct Story or Old Murder. DES MOINES. July 8. Attorney-General Cossoni today assigned C. A. Robbins. of his office, to take personal charge of the investigation at Red ford. Ia., of the alleged murder, of a wealthy cattleman and his t-on by a gang of counterfeiters in 18S8, which resulted today in the issuance of war rants for three men, prominent In the vicinity. Mr. Kobbins said the investigation Japanese Editor Advocates Signed News Stories and Illtorlula and Ilrlton Predicts Celter and Smaller Newspapers. . SAN FRANCESCO, July 8 Schools of Journalism, newspapers and their mak ing were discussed today by speakers from several countries, before the In ternational Press Congress at the Panama-Pacific Ex position. Henry K. Urban, of Hamburg. Ger many, said that "to be a good Journal ist is, after all. an art In Its highest expression, and It cannot be acquired at a school of Journalism. This can only furnish the ladder. The climbing to the tup must be done by the student later." A decade ago, he said, newspaper work did not rank high in Germany and prejudice still remains against It. but Kinperor William's recognition of the press had helped somewhat. "German Journalists professional llb- ! erty is not so wide aa elsewhere and I their responsibilities are greater." he said. "They can bo held responsible for all sorts of 'press offenses' from harmless libel to Insult to the Emperor. Prose cutions for the latter offense have been greatly diminished at the personal sug gestion of the Emperor." The signed news story and editorial were advocated by K. Suglmura, of the Asahl Shtmbun, of Toklo. Japan. "Sig natures increase Individuality," he said. "Anonymity Is becoming leas prevalent in Japan because writings have become more and more artistic In style, broader In view and more scientific in nature." Aaron Watson, an editorial writer on the London Times, predicted Improve ment In newapspers. with a decrease In their size. lie said readers should not look to a newspaper to tell thero what to do or think, but sought In them exprevslon of tbelr ideas and views. "There Is no present-day Indication." he declared, "that any newspaper In the future, no matter how well conducted, will direct the destinies of mankind. "Journalism is becoming more and more a matter of capital, a fact In which I see nothing to be alarmed L The more profitable It becomes the more opportunity the newspaper hss to meet the demands of the public." 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To $1.75 Pajamas $1.15 In madras, crepe cloth and soi sette in white, blue, Ian and fancy stripes. Some trimmed with mercer ized frogs, others with pearl buttons. Full sizes. 50c Porosknit Shirts and Drawers, Each, 29c Shirts with long or short sleeves, ankle or knee-length drawers. 50c Sox, Clearance, 35c Special, 3 for $1.00 Full-fashioned, mercerized tox, with fine luster. In black, gray, navy and purple. Made by the Wayne Knitting Miiis. Men's 50c Neckwear Clearance, 17c 50 different Summer patterns to select from. $2.50 Globe Union Suits, Clearance, $1.95 Made of fine mercerized yarn, in blue and flesh colors, splendid fitting and made with long or short sleeves. $2.00 Globe Union Suits, Clearance, $1.65 Of fine grade full-bleached lisle thread, made on Cooper ribbed machine, and perfect form fitting. $2.00 Vassar Union Suits, Clearance, $1.69 Comfortable, finely shaped suits, of fine, soft, long, staple cotton. 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First Floor Buy Your Summer Collar Supply From These Regular 12Hc Collars, Sale 6 for 39c Twelve distinct Summer styles to select from, in every size. Hand-laundered, pre-shrunk collars First Floor Shirts Regularly $1.00 Clearance 79c New Summer shirts, in comfort able soft bosom, soft French-cuff style. Made of superior qualities of madras and soisette, in all the most attractive striping, in black and white effects and colors. $4.00 and $3.50 Shirts Clearance $1.95 Every shirt finished like a custom-made model. In soft-bosom style with soft turned cuffs. 1 hey are made of beautiful summery mate rials. Oxfords, crvstal cloth, silk mixtures, madras, Russian cords and mercerized cloths, in every color combination that men are now wear ing. In sizes for slender men. for average men, for stout men quiet, refined shirts that alwavs sell for $3.50 and $4.00. 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They are fashioned of an unusual quality of poplin, which, unless very closely examined, hat all the appearance of heavy silk. In various widths of black and white stripes, these skirts are surely very attractive and en tirely new. Third Floor New Summer Sox for Children At 18c Seamless or fashioned sox. light Summer colorings, with fancy striped tops. All sizes 4Yz to 9. At 25 c Novelty patterns and plain stripes, in the prettiest colors, every color guaranteed fast. Of silk lisle, or silk fiber, including the famous Phoenix make. 50c PUT ilk Phoenix sox. in while, pink and sly, made without seams, and finished with ribbon or lace tops. Sizes A '' to 8. Ftrsf Flocr