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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1915)
. THE MORXIXQ OBEQQXIAy, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1G. 1915. i SHORTAGE OF CARS I COSTLY TO JILLS 131 OB" On-lt raCT njrrrwvTr ... I; Lumber Orders Placed in Val I' ley Being Cancelled and 2;. Sent Out of. State. ;, , Sunday Dinner The Hazel wood Served 5:30 to 9:00 P. M. X NO RELIEF IS PROMISED PROMINENT WHITE-RIBBONERS WILL VISIT PORTLAND TODAY. I SS. ' . j " ; v ' si 1? : fi i -. jr i r- r 111 f i : : ' -- II f III Two Oregon Commissioners in San l'ranc-isco Noll f led by Telegraph and Effort Will He Made to Have Railroad Take Action. SALEM, Or, Oct. 15. (Special.) Un . able to obtain sufficient cars for load- ing, the lumber industry of Western ' Oregon, according to information in :. the hands of the Oregon Public Serv ; Ice Commission, today is practically paralyzed; orders are being cancelled ; at any mills to be filled in Washington and other states and with no immediate relief in eight, mill owners face heavy looses. Complaints which are"' pouring into ' the Commission from lumbermen throughout the Willamette Valley to day showed a shortage of 200 cars. : Although the Commission took up the matter of obtaining relief for the Val ley mills with the Southern Pacific Company last month and more cars were promised, telegrams from mill men indicate the shortage now is even more acute. Four hundred and thirteen -. loaded and empty box cars and flat cars have passed Ashland northbound since October 1. Few of these, it is declared, have been available for lum- . ber shipments, many being refrigator cars. ' Word received by the Commission to day from the Southern Pacific offices gave no encouragement that the cars needed would be supplied. Commis sioners Altchison and Miller are in ?an Francisco attending sessions of the Railroad Commissions of all the states and information of the situation was telegraphed them today. They will take up the question of furnishing more cars to Oregon mills with President Sproule, of the Southern Pacific. Secretary Corey, of the Commission, sent the following telegram to Com missioners Altchison and Miller: The car short aire Is most serious, and lumber orders are . being; canceled. The Southern Pacific admits that It Is 200 ears aliort today. Mill City Is short 70 cars: the oast Ranare Lumber Company, of Mabel. Is short 50 cars; Fischer Bros. Lumber Company, of Marcola, is short IS; the Sil vecton Lumber Company ha9 had but six Southern Pacific car since Monday. The delivery, at Ashland Is about SO cars dally, including loads and empties for alt points. Few are available for valley m'.lls. The Southern Pacific is unable to offer en couragement that the situation will be bet ter in the future. "According to the reports which have reached this office." said Secretary Corey, "lumber buyers are cancelling many orders placed with Willamette Valley mills and are giving them to mills in Washington and other states whetse care are -apparently obtainable. "At the present time Oregon mills need at least 100 cars for loading daily, and the Southern Pacific is onlv a hi to supply aoout ao daily for all pur poses. Besides the mills, fruitpackers vaney are needing cars. xue w.-w. n. ec rt. company now nas aoout 60 cars unloading wheat at i-ortiana and these will soon be avail, able for east-bound loading from Val ley points. However, this relief will oe dui small. 'Ge t V- V - y7- o- zaT3 7? Ce. rt itcAV SeJt: J?, 'pletla'S. Instead W . Hr&cf .T 1 s-h'ihem'-wrtlf-daa.1 azotes .W,U " j. J1!? special will remain here until 3:30 o'clock. It win arriv. .i ui foVa25r.o.dBnVlUtre7ft,n f?F an .hUr' Jn lch0tTth.1 ,"tl ,b,Uk.mB At b. served by tho Ad Club - - . " "v w oiuy ui O V minUIrH. Tha tS?v winlrTlveVnSo,?' "l BtU?1 t0 "et th white-Hbboners beriSmaanBSTmmePtrn-gnJn ."tlrr -rviceand thereto TRACKS OF 2 FOUND Evidence That Man and Wom an Were at Murder Scene. BORROWING OF GUN DENIED Willainina Xeighbors Tell of Seeing Mrs. Booth and Branson Close Scene of Crime About Time of Its Committal. to (Continued From First Page YEAR'S ACCIDENTS 11,190 Washington Fund Enriched $35,987 by Remarriage Ipf Widows'. Ol.YMPTA. Wash., Oct. 15. fSpeclal.) That industrial accidents In Washint ton during the last year which caused only temporary disability, numbered 11. ISO and caused a time loss of 346 925 work iays. equivalent to the loss of one year's labor by more than 1000 men, is shown by statistics prepared by the industrial insurance commission. The average time loss from temporary disabilites was 33.9 days and the average award 40.38. as with a time loss of 28.3 average award of 138.88 ceding year. The provision of the Washington law for the termination of pensions paid to widows with a cash payment of 8240. in thb event of remarriage re sulted in reserves of 836,98.7 being re turned to the accident fund during the year, the report shows. Sixteen widow petitioners remarried. compared days and for the pre- CENTRALIA HAS NEW CLUB Organization Is Demoted to Advance ment of Athletics. CKNTRAUA. Wash., Oct. 15. (Spe cial.) A constitution and bylaws were adopted for a young men's club at a meeting held in the Commercial Club rooms last night, but the election of officers and selection of a name was postponed until next Wednesday night, when the new club will give a banquet! It was decided last night to rent a enrage buiWiimr on West Main street, which will be fitted Up with gymnasium' reading-rooms and showers. A clause in. the constitution provides that in case a Young Men's Christian Associa tion ever comes to Centralia, the club's equipment may be turned over. The new club will have the advancement of athletics as its main issue. BAKER OFFICIALS CHANGE City Has I'our Commissioners stead of Three, Over Night. In- BAKER. Or.. Oct. 15. (Special.) For one niRht Baker had four City Conimissioners instead of three, as pro vided by the charter. Two men. li. A. Whittier and Anderson Kinlev, both occuiiied the position of Commissioner No. 2. But only Mr. Whittier was under bonds for the faithful performance of the duties of the office. Last night he took the oatli of office before City Clerk Cunning, but It was not until this morning that Mr. Finlev turned over the business of the office to his accessor. air. and Mrs. Finlev win leave morrow by auto for California. to- layton Kiitcrtains Church Official. HAYTON. Wash.. Oct. 15.(Special.) -A dinner was given the man of the Congregational Church Tuesday night In honor of Dr. King, executive secre tary of the Congregational conference of this state, and Rev. Hugh Elmer Brown, of Seattle, who is her On his way. to attend the National Council at New Haven. The topic of the after dinner speeches was the need for a men's -lub within the church, and the possibilities for enterprise such an or ganization would offer. told Mr. Wright that he didn't want to have any guns about his house, and spoke of his fear as to his -wife's in fidelity. He did not appear to be absolutely sure that his suspicions were correct but mtimated that he was on the watch to find Branson and his wife together. This motive is believed to have caused him to follow his wife up the plank road to the place where he was mur dered Friday. wnen he was slain. Mr. Booth was absolutely unarmed. He was not even carrying a stick. The Incident in the strawberry patch caused an intense stir in town at the time and led to a vast deal ot gossip and comment In regard to young Branson and Mrs. Booth. Another peculiar incident, harking back to three years from last Christ mas eve, n which Branson, however, does not figure in any way, was also recalled today. Mrs. Booth Once Attacked. ' As Mrs. Booth went on the back porch of her home on this night, a bul let whistled past her ear and buried Itself in the casing on one side of the back door. She, of course, hurried inside and shut the door. In discussing the inci dent she attributed the bullet to a spent shot nred carelessly by some per son on the hill several hundred feet behind the house. It was thought that the bullet, which was from a 22-caliber rifle, ranged downward in passing through the casing. The hole made in the casing was still plainly distinguishable today, but when Deputy Sheriff Flynn pried off the board this afternoon and recovered the bullet, which had gone through it and stopped against the .wall behind, it was found that instead of ranging down ward, it had ranged upward. To attain this direction it could only have been fired from somewhere in the orchard behind the house, apparently w-lth deliberate 'in tent. hat has become of the 38-caliber revolver' which young Branson bor rowed from his cousin. Milt Carter, last August, has not been learned. The authorities are deeply interested in this feature of the case, as it was a bullet from a 38-caliber revolver that killed Mr. Booth. Borrowed Revolver Mystery. Branson has never returned this re volver to his cousin. This was brought out at the preliminary hearing here Wednesday, at which Mr. Carter had been subpenaed to produce the weapon. Just before the hearing he accosted Branson and asked him for the gun. Branson, so witnesses say. at first denied ever having borrowed the gun. " nat gun." he demanded. His cousin said it was the revolver he had bor rowed in August when he was going into the mountains. "You're crazy!" he is then declared to have said. Kinally. however, he admitted hav ing borrowed ' the revolver, but de clared, he had told his cousin he didn't want it. and to come up to his house and take it away. He said he thought his cousin had done so. -Milt Carter, however, denied having received the gun. and Branson has made no further- effort to account for it. So many witnesses have testified to having seen both Mrs. Booth and young Branson going up the plank road last Friday afternoon that this point seems clearly established, though Branson denies that he went there at all. Branmn's Preseace Established. As told in The Oregonlan yesterday. Mrs. Mary Kggen. who lives on the plank road, a quarter of a mile this side of the place where the murder occurred, and Axel Nelson, who had stopped his team while talking to- Mrs. Eggen in front of her house, saw Mrs. Booth pass by (n the road at about 1 o'clock. They have both testified that 8 or 10 minutes later Branson came along in the same direction on a bicycle. Mr. Nelson drove on a few minutes later, and though he went at a good clip, did not pass either of them in the road. It was- shortly after his depar ture that Mr. Eggen saw Mr. Booth, In his shirt sleeve, half walking, half running, in a field acrosa the road from her house, where he was. evidently taking a short cut to gain the road ahead. "I thought that Mrs. Harrington, his mother-in-law, who lives out this road, and haa been ill for some time, had taken a tuYn for the worse," said Mrs. B-ggen today. Not long afterward, she heard the shot fired, and about 16 min utes later saw Branscon pedaling back down the road to town. Mrs. Eggen said today that there could be abso lutely no doubt that her identification of Branson was correct. When ho rode out the plank road he passed within a few feet of her and Mr. Nelson, and she said that she. saw him plainly as hc went back. She was In her wood shed at the time. Ironing some clothes. ' Mrs. Booth Seen After Shooting. - Mrs. Anna B. Yates, near whose house the tragedy occurred, who saw Mr. Booth jumping a fence to get down near the river just before he was shot and who heard the shot, but thought It was someone shooting at a wild bull that had been terrorizing the neigh borhood, also saw Mrs. Booth pass her house in the road later. Mrs. Booth told The Oregonlan staff correspondent at McMinnville this morning that she arrived at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Harrington, something like a mile be yond the Yates house, at 1:30 o'clock. All the witresses agree that th shoot ing occurr jd at approximately that time. But Mrs. Yates says it was IS oi- sn minutes after the shooting that she saw airm. Doom at tne curve of the road near wnere tne murder was done, walk ing past her house in the direction of ner motner s. Mrs. Yates not only saw Mrs. Booth, out sne spoke to her. She asked her now ner motner was. and Mrs. Booth answered that she was on her way out mere. Brauos'i Story tr. Branson told The Oregonian reporter this morning. In the iall at Hf.fir, ville, that he had not ridden out the pianK road at all. He said be had rid den onlyxas far as a rock quarry, ! quarter of a mile out of town. I brought the bicycle back tt th. store at 1:10 o'clock." he said, and in sisted that this time was correct. How ever, not only Mr. Nelson and Mrs. Eggen, but also Wer Stevens, who was hauling wood to ricks near the brickyard about half a mile beyond the quarry, emphatically declared they saw him. And among the' witnesses h. they saw him return besirlea fr. Eggen is C. H. Spraker. creamery agent, who says he passed at about 2:30 o'clock. Oro Godsey, proprietor of tho tnr where Branson got the bievcle ahrmt 12:30 o'clock and returned it later. says that the youth did not return until 2:30 o'clock. The rermrtp rr Th. Oregonian, through the courtesy of Sheriff Henderson, interviewed Mrs. Booth at the Sheriff's home this morn ing in McMinnville. He has taken her there because no accommodations are provided for women in the county Jail, but he expects to send her to Port land tomorrow. Mrau gooth Riot Pretty. Mrs. Booth I not pretty. Though only 32, she would be taken for more than 40. Her hair, of a dull reddish tinge, was brushed flat and parted in the middle over a .sallow face. Except for a nervous working of the fingers cf her right hand, which she kept in the pocket of her apron, she was the em bodiment of passive calm. ' x suit as innocent oi this as you are. she said in a steady voice "T had nothing to do with it. I did not meet Mr. Branson, and did not even see him that afternoon. I went out on that road to my mother's house, and arrived there not later than 1:30. 1 know some have said thev saw me at 2 o'clock on the way. but it isn't true. I was there by 1:30. 1 never had any relations with Mr. Branson except those of a friend." She admitted her husband and Mr. Branson were- unfriendly. ouna: Branson appeared self-pop- Begins Tomorrow at 11 A. M. I A drama produced hy the makers of "Damaged Goods" a glorification of motherhood. , J A discussion of the cardinal sin of modern society the limita tion of birth the murder of unborn children. J There is a thrill a moral revelation in every scene. J A feature that will be remembered like "Damaged Goods." The Price of Her Silence Ends Tonight sessed in the jail. He said he hadn't been on the plank road at all that aft ernoon, that he had gone only as far as the quarry, and that he returned the bicycle to the store at 1:10. At first insisting he and Mr. Booth had never had words over Mrs. Booth, he finally said Mr. Booth said to him some months ago, "Buck, I don't care how much you talk to her." "For the last thrte or four months he seemed sort of Jealous and mad." he added, "a id acted as if he was try ing to shun me." When . asked how Mr. Booth hap pened to speak to him about talking to Mrs. Booth he doggedly maintained that he couldn't remember. "I was Just talking to him," was all he would say. His self-possession seemed to fall several points, however, when this point was discussed. "Mrs. Booth and I were friends, that's all," he maintained. GIRLS HELP CLASSMATE I'Yanklln Students Sell Candy to Pay Hospital Kxpensc for Lad. To raise money to defray the hos pital and ambulance expenses and doc tors' bills of their schoolmate. Man fred Reinhart, the girls of Franklin High School held a candy sale yester day in the Creston Building in con- Junction with the "backfto-the-home" exhibition given there ' by Franklin High and Creston schools. Young Reinhart was Injured In a recent football game and It was to sho-W.Mietr loyalty and friendship that the girls decided to make and sell can dy at the school exhibition. A booth arranged artistically with decorations in gray and maroon was the center of attraction. Veva Klwell was chairman and among her assist ants were Alice Hubbard. Leah Mel vln. Eleanor Palmer, Katherine Harris, Alice Cobb. "Marie Cougy and Cora Yoeman. STATE BOARD IS SUED rNFAIR VALUATION OF UTILITY'S PROPERTY CHARGED. Edwin K.-PlBhr. of St. Paul. Mirth., ie ivn years old and hale and h?arty. "How do you account for your longevity ?" lie was asked. "Temperance.", he said. "There are more dangers Trom overeating than overdrinking. I have never done either." P EOPLE WEST PARK AT ALDER LAST DAY TODAY Mary Pickf ord In a Splendid Photo Production A GIRL of YESTERDAY Special Children's Matinee Bring the Children to See the Adorable "Little Mary" and Her Sweet Pomeranian Dog. It's a Picture All Children Will Enjoy. Coming Tomorrow MARIE DORO in "THE WHITE PEARL" N Eatern Oregon Light S Power Com P"ay, In I nloa County Case, Does '. Xot Complain of Rates. LA GRANDE, Or., Oct. 15. (Special.) An action has been commenced in the Circuit Court tor Union County by the Kastern Oregon Light & Power Company aeainst the Public Service Commission, formerly the Railway Commission of Oregon, the purpose of which Is to review the order of the Commission made in the proceedinK before It begun by the Commercial Club some time ago. No objection is made to that part of the order fixing; the rates as the rates fixed by the order were installed by the company as soon as the order was made." The portions of the order ob jected to pertain to the value of the company's property fixed by the Com mission. The company claims that the amount fixed by the Commission Is much too low and that because the Commiapisn gives the total valuation in one lump sum without assigning; it to the various classes of property, the company Is unable to determine what waa considered by the "Commission or what values were assigned to the prop erty that was considered. In Its complaint the company charges that the Commission did not allow it a fair value for its water rights, and that by refusing to value Its property fairly the Commission Is causing its property to suffer a reduction in value that is not justified. The Commission If now required to file an answer to s75c Menu Cream of Chicken, Corn or Vegetable Soup Celery Hearts or Ripe Olives Choice of: Stewed Chicken and Noodles or Roast Duck, Cranberry Sauce, or Prime Ribs of Beef au jus Mashed, Baked or Creamed Potatoes Choice of: Green Peas, Buttered Corn, String Beans or Stewed Squash Shrimp Salad or Lettuce-Tomato Salad Ice Cream, Pie or Pudding or French Pastry. 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Johnson, of Portland, attorney for the Newport Land A. Construction Company, admit that a settlement has been, reached with the latter company for work done on the Columbia River Highway In this county, the terms of the agreeemnt are being- kept secret until after the vouchers have been signed tomorrow. The Newport Land & Construction Company waa the successful bidder on that portion of the Columbia River Highway lying between the Multnomah County Una and Viento, the work be ing carried on with a Hood River County bond issue for $75,000, sold to S. Benson. On completion of the work June 1 the construction company made a claim - for approximately 133,000 against the county as the balance due on the contract. ASSESSMENT FIGHT BEGINS Linnlon Proper! y.Owner Files Tro tost Aguinst lloiikvard Levy. The opening gun in the fight, which has been threatened for some time against the assessing of the cost of the new Linnton highline boulevard against abutting property. ws filed yesterdav when Thomas McCuaker filed a protest against his assessment of $2580 for the improvement. The project Is one which fell into the hands of Portland when l.innton was annexed. Mr. McCiiKker nays the people In his vicinity paid for a road which lead them to the city, and that the boulevard is a detriment rather than a benefit. He also says the original estimate for the work was $75,000. and the final cost was more than double t hat amount. W.WH1-HWS..1 m-u.i.i.ii ,u...n.s....i,.L..i....- mis mi mi , nu, ii a n . ..... vmK,m , m iiir aniTi i irrui m mnm ftmttt imnmnmmM ihiiimiii hiiiibii ai.jijaiiiiLjjM...MMMM,..M.Mt THE POPULARITY OF "Columbia Brand" URE ORK SAUSAGE is due to its excellent flavor and scrupu lous care in manufacture. Order early from your dealer,' then you will be sure to get it. 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