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THE MORNTXG OREGOMAX. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1915. FIGHT IS MADE TO PROVE BABY MYTH WOMAN WHOM SYNDICATE OF RICH MEN IS AIDING IN SEARCH FOR CHILD 5- Agents of Dead Millionaire Resist Mrs. Gay's Efforts j. to Cut Into Estate. m WOMAN .ACCUSES DOCTOR Threats Declared to Have Beeu JVfado to Put Her In Asylum and to Take Child From Her If She Told Secret. CINCINNATI. Sept. S. Although the court hearing will not be resumed until September 21 in the sensational proceeding of Mrs. Kstelle Cooper Gay, wherein she seeks a large slice of the estate of John C. C. Mayo, deposi tions are to be taken on both sides. Meantime the questions whether Mrs. Gay ever gave birth to the Mayo baby and whether the baby Is being hid by representatives of the late multi-millionaire's estate, have stirred lively partisan discussion in a large part of Ohio and Kentucky. In her testimony in court Mrs. Gay said that she was with the late mil lionaire during the last three or four years of his life. She last saw him alive in January, 1914, at her apart ment In New York City. Her baby, she said, was born June 9, 1913, and shortly before its advent into the world she charged that Dr. S. J. D. Meade and Mr. Mayo held a confer ence as to its future existence. , She said Dr. Meade had been employed by Mayo to act as her physician. TbrfitM Said to Have Been Made. On the day after Mayo died, Mrs. Gay said she was operated on at Koosevelt Hospital in New York City. When she was recovering a mysterious Individual named "Jack' called her up, and said if she told anyone of the ex istence of the child it would be taken from her. Ho also told her that she would disappear as well as the child. In July, 1914, she returned to Cin cinnati. Dr. Meade, she alleged, called on her and said that she would cause much trouble for everyone if she said anything about the baby. He threat ened, ehe alleged, that if she failed to follow instructions she would never see the baby again. At his request she told two of Mr. Mayo's business associates that the baby .was dead. She told of threats to put her in a lunatic asylum and charged that while she was ill at the Roosevelt Hospital, In New York, an attorney for the Mayo estate told her that he had her where lie wanted her and hoped she would starve to death. She told of a conference in New York, where she said she received $1000, and $500 a month until the Mayo estate was settled was promised her, when she was to receive $500,000 for herself and the child. Son Wanted by Millionaire. Attorney Tyree produced a statement written by Mrs. Gay in which she de tailed her relations with Mayo. This statement declares that Mayo strongly desired to have a son. 1 "He thought he would be a brilliant man," she says in this statement, adding: "The baby resembled the father, but lived only an hour." The witness was asked to reconcile her present statement, but she only re-plied that Dr. Meade had instructed her to say the baby was dead. Attorney Tyree in a long statement asserts he took up Mrs. Gay's case with the belief in her story that she was the victim of a great injustice. He made efforts to have the agents of the Mayo estate settle fairly with her. She then dropped her attorney and planned to settle direct. Then, according to Attorney Tyree, Dr. Meade was unable to collect for his services. "I am satisfied Dr. Meade is telling the truth when he says that she never had any child born to her in Cincin nati to his knowledge," he continues. $4000 TIDE JGATE FINISHED lrMliiO at Work Near Kelso to Have Low cr Project Done October 1 . KELSO, Wash.. Sept. 12. (Special.) Collier & Stevenson have completed construction of the concrete headgate in diking district No. 2, adjacent to Kelso, and as soon as the concrete dries the forms will be torn down. The dredge is now working at the lower end of the project completing the dike as it goes, and D. M. Steven tnn is confident that work on the half of the diking project below the Pacific Highway will be finished by October 1. The dredse will then be moved up the t'oweeman to the upper half of the job, upon which no work has yet been done. The new tidegate was constructed at a cost of about J4000, and contains 285 yards of concrete mixture with a weight of 600 tons. FREIGHT SERVICE STARTS 1'lrst Train Departs Over Sew Line Out of Raymond. HA1.MUX1). Wash.. Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) The first freight train to leave this city over the newly completed luget Sound & Willapa" Harbor Rail way departed at 11 o'clock todav. amid a general salute from the mill whistles of the city. A large number of people turned out to see its departure. The train consisted of lumber from local mills, and will go intact as far as Aberdeen. S. Dak., where it will be broken up and shipped to various des tinations. The first passanger train over the new line will not arrive until about ANOTHER CLASH FORESEEN Continued From Klrst Page) the cities, would mobilize Its unem ployed, we would have an army of more than a million men in addition to tne reservists we already have. Triple Benefit Pointed Out. "Three months under military super vision would give these men health. morale, knowledge of how to take care of themselves and self-respect, so at the end of that time they would be three limes as capable of finding a po sition and of holding it as they were before. "This plan would remove to a large e-xtent the cost of maintaining soup kitchens and bread lines and the police uuns wouia De cleared of a great nam ber of vagrants." The plan suggested by General Wood Is the establishment of suburban camps, near the cities, where any man out of work could apply and on being admitted receive three months of mili tary training. Ms board, lodging and ; 4 jt.X i : . w I !" . ' f y - ?r ' J ! " ft Tf- ' - ' 't MORE FRUIT WANTED Oregon Products Called For at World's Exposition. GROWERS URGED TO SHOW Pomologists Carry Off Honors for State at Convention of Xatlonal Association First Apples Appear on Scene. Br AVKB SHANNON' MONROE. OREGON EXPOSITION' BUILDING, San Francisco. Sept. S. Kxhibitors are still crying aloud for products from all the -counties. This is peach time and there is no reason why Oregon should not carry off many prizes no reason but an indisposition on the part of producers to pack and ship their choicest fruit. When you bite into a California peach or apple, nine limes out of ten a saucy worm sticks out his tongue at you, and when you peel back an ear of corn, a fat grub rears up on his hind legs and dares you to go farther. Tt not thus with Oregon fruit and vegetables and we can only show the world that this is so by Having me goods. 5 Offered for Largest Peach. H. O. Frohbach, in the Southern Ore eron booth, has offered $3 for the largest peach shipped to him. He has the finest peach showing of any one down here so far. There are Elbertas from the orchards of J. B. Lroxaii, Albert Johnson and L. O. Wegen, of Ashland; also from James brothers, A. M. Wright and K. E. Bagley. of Ro?ue River, and w. T. frescott, 01 Asniana, Bartlett pears from Emil Piel, H. H. Leavitt and J. W. Milburn, of Ashland; M. T. Mineer, J. S. v lias and J. A. Perry, of Medford, and W. C. Harding, of Roseburg: Howell and Cornice pears from G. R. Boyd, of Medford; Italian prunes, from Lewis Canus, Jr.; figs, from Mrs. M. W. Bruner. J. A. Lackey is in receipt of splen did samples of grains from Umatilla, and Phil Sinnott has received an equally fine showing of grasses and grains from Klamath County. Sheaves are more than seven feet high. Oregon Triumph at Meeting. The session of the American Pomo logical Society just closed, which meets once in two years, was a big triumph for Oregon through the ac tivity of Professor C. I. Lewis, at the head of orchard economics at Oregon Agricultural College. Also attending the meeting were V. V. R. Gardiner, authority on apple pruning: R. W. Allen, irrigation and orchards; F. C. Reamer, Rogue River pears, all of the college, and E. E. Roberts, of Lane County, a fruitgrower. For two days the sessions were wholly in the hamis of the California delegation, who satis fied themselves with glittering gener alities and bluster over California's fruit supremacy. Then Mr. Lewis got the floor and gave a symposium, care fully prepared, of actual problems which horticulturists continually face and the method of working them out in Oregon. His address caused a real sensation, as it was the first definite, factful and helpful thing that -had been offcered. A lively discussion followed, in which the Oregon pomologists took part, and Dr. Cook, leader of the California fruitgrowers, completely capitulated to the Oregon men, saying that nothing like their presentation had ever been made at one of these meetings. E. R. Lake, of Washington. D. C. formerly of Oregon, was re-elected secretary of the association. l-'ira t Apples Are Shown. The first Oregon apples to appear are from Oregon City new kings. Seek-No-Furthers and Wolf Rivers, of fered by J. W. Burgoyne and S. Q. Sarchet. Splendid prunes are In from George L. Lazelle. and there Is an ex ceptionally good exhibit of grasses and grains from Linn County. Frank Mad den, County Commissioner from Jack son County, and a well-known fruit grower of that region, was here this week. He was deeply impressed with the need of stirring up all growers in the state to a realization of Oregon's opportunity. Oregon can maintain the leadership she has won down here merely by getting on the job and sending down her best. The individual grower must take an individual interest. Do not leave it to someone else. Mother in Europe to Get Estate. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Sept. 12. (Pne cialj An old mother in a Switzerland Photo by Bain News Service. KSTELLE COOPER GAY. mountain village will get the $12,000 estate in this county of her son. Julius Regenscheit, who has been missing since 107. Swiss Consul Wettrick, of Seattle, has been appointed adminis trator and will undertake to have the missing man's valuable timber claim turned over to his mother in Switzer land. Regenscheit left here seven years ago to visit his mother and has never been heard from since. HOPE FOR IRRIGATION DIES Representative Sinnott Says Silver "Lake Project Will Xot Be Started. SILVER LAKE, Or., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) "There is ro hope for Federal aid for the Silver Lake irrigation project. This was the unsatisfactory news brought to Silver Lake ranchers bv Representative N. J. Sinnott, who is making a tour of the counties he rep. resents at Washington. "It will require 40,000,000 to com plete the irrigation work in which the Government is -now helping." continued Mr. Sinnott. "and it is not the policy of .Secretary Lane, of the Interior De partment, to undertake any new projects or to promise Federal aid for new projects until the work now under way is completed. Inasmuch as money expended by the Government on irri gation work is derived solely from the sale of public lands, and the funds thus obtained have - shown, a big decrease within the past five years, it will be at least a decade before Silver Lake ca expect any water appropriation from vv ashington. "About the only hope for irrigation in this valley at present is to Interest private capital in your enterprise." AID ALLIES, SAYS PASTOR Cries of Neutrality Declared to Be "Damnable Nonsense." BOSTON", Sept. 5 The Rev. George u. Kicnmond, rector of St. John s Epis copal Church, Philadelphia, who re fused to marry John Jacob Astor, jumped to his feet at a meeting of the Boston Ministers union and followed up the peace prayers of his fellow min isters by shouting: " e ve prayed long enoough. Let's stop the war with one good fight rather than continue to pray for peace while our manufacturers go on making munitions to Keep the warring armies going. "Rather than draft a lot of resolu tions calling on eminent men of the belligerent nations of the world to pray, let us draft a resolution implor ing President Wilson to call together Congress and set in motion the ma chinery which wil send our Army and Navy to Mexico to stop that war. After that let us send the Army and Navy to Europe on the side of the allies to stop that war with peace and justice. Our neutrality cries are damnable non sense." TEACHERS HOLD INSTITUTE Linn and Benton Conuty Pedagogues to Meet at Albany. ALBANY, Or., Sept 12.-(SpeciaL) Approximately 400 teachers will at tend the Joint teachers' institute of Linn and Benton Counties, which will convene in this city tomorrow. The Institute will continue for three days. Many of Oregon's leading educators have been secured to -take part in the programme of lectures, addresses and instruction in methods. Some of the instructors for the institute are: J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of pub lic instruction; Frank K. Wells, assist ant state superintendent; W. J. Kerr, president of the Oregon Agricultural College; H. M. Crooks, president of Albany College; J. H. Ackerman, presi dent of the Monmouth Normal School; S. S. Duncan, of McMinnville. G. P. ROSSMAN IS RELEASED Man Wanted Here Gets Writ of Habeas Corpus in Vancouver. VANCOUVER. Wash., Sept. 12. (Special.) George P. Rossman, who has been held here in jail for the past ten days, charged with being a fugi tive from justice, was released yester day on a writ of habeas corpus. George O. Davis, his attorney, made a trip to Olympia to see Governor Lister and prevent extradition papers being signed to take Mr. Rossman to Oregon, where he is wanted on a charge of larceny by bailee. W. S. T. Derr, Justice of the Peace, refused to sign a warrant for Ross man's arrest, unless the County At torney would make an affidavit he was wanted in some other place, but he was called out oX the city, i LETTER MAKES NO STIR Tl'SllLTVS REQl'EST IX BEHALF OF" WILSON DISCOUNTED. President's Itenomlnatlon by Party Expected Bryan Jfot Viewed aa Candidate In 1916. OREGON IAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Sept. 12. The letter of Secre tary Tumulty to New Jersey Demo cratic leaders, asking- them to refrain from starting a "Wilson boom." created scarcely a ripple on the political wa ters, first because Mr. Tumulty only a few months agro wrote a similar letter, and second, because it is now generally acknowledged that President Wilson will be renominated and hence no boom need be started in his own state. From time to time there is an inti mation that some other Democrat will rise to battle with Mr. Wilson before the next Democratic National Conven tion. Mention of no other Democrat, save William .1. Bryan, has caused more than passing comment and of late it eeuis to be accented among Demo STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) ylnnoiinces REG. U.S. PAT.OFF. PURE WHITE MINERAL OIL WH EN war broke out last August, importations of Russian mineral oil ceased abruptly. Prices in this country doubled, tripled, and soon Russian mineral oil could not be obtained at any price. 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STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Bayonnc New Jersey 119 Wfl-.MJt .tSV crats that Mr. Bryan will not seek to enter the Presidential race of 1916. If the President holds his own there is no danger that he will be defeated for renomination, and if his popularity in his party increases any aspirant for the nomination would be more than foolish to oppose him. This being the sentiment, the declar ation of Mr. Tumulty did not cause any particular stir. It was understood that his letter meant only what It said; it did not signify any Intention, on the part of the President to retire volun tarily at the close of one term; it did not indicate any fear on the part of the President. In brief, it was not sensational and already has been al most forgotten. Motorcycle Races Scheduled. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) Eight motorcycle riders, two from Puget Sound and six from local towns, arc expected to compete In a motorcycle race to be staged on the Elma racetrack September 19. There will be four races inoluding two. five, seven and one-half and 10-mile events. Prizes of $100 will be awarded the win ners. Lake County Has Hay Shortage. SILVER LAKE, Or., Sept. 12. (Spe cial. Owing to. a bdy shortage aad Wm - M r -iWh.E WHITE m Dfelipl teWlr-i I- it I AHIRBWHrTi f It,' MINERAL OH. E IB u f - nil s3sssp' " mMmmus&m? iff-:, see im i r "'i in. high prices for feed, stockmen or Worm Lake County are driving their cattle to Klamath County for the Winter. Less wild hay was harvested here this year than any time for more than 20 years, and extreme dry and cool weath er during the growing season is re sponsible for a shortage in grain hay. V. B. Wilson IJrowned at Astoria. ASTORIA, Or.. Sept. 12. (Special.) While returning from Ilwaco on the launch Pilot about 3 o'clock this morn ing. vyjlIiarriB Wilson, secretary- WW treasurer of the John A. Montgomery Company, of this city,, fell overboard and was drowned. His body has not been recovered. He was 22 years of age and is survived by his mother and three sisters. Gaston Teaching Corps Is X'cw. GASTON. Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) The Gaston schools will open Septem ber 27 with an entirely new corps of teachers; principal, Ralph Winger; in termediate grades, Miss Pauline Elli ott; primary grades. Miss Julia Hatch. THE TALK OF THE CITY GRIFFITH'S t500.000 MASTKRPIECH Accompanied by augmented orchestra Secure Your Seats Early. Good Seats to Be Had or trfry Perform an ce. Dally Matinee, S p. M. Price 5c, Se Every evening, 8 P. M- Price 50c, SOo All Seats Reserved. Three Hours of Gripptn. Appealing. Blood -tingling. oul-tirring Interest