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THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN. 3IOXDAY, . MARCH 27, 1916. TRAIN ROBBER-IS TRAILED BY HOUNDS ARTIST'S WIFE AND PORTRAIT THAT RESULTED IN $100,000 ALIENATION SUIT, BROUGHT BY HER AGAINST WOMAN WHO COMMISSIONED HIM TO PUT HER ON CANVAS. icmoi n -A TRAGIC WARNING Just a few days ago, the newspapers related the tragic story of Elsie Berlin, the little six-year-old Portland girl who -died at one of the hospitals after weeks of agony and suffering. She and her little four-year-old brother had played with matches. Her dress caught fire. She was frightfully burned. - She battled bravely for life, But it proved an unequal fight. No tears, no sorrow, no regrets can ever restore to the grief-stricken parents, in their darkened home, the little loved one that is gone. Yet there is a lesson in this pa thetic story to every home in Port land that is blessed with the sunshine and laughter of little children. For, wherever there are children and matches, little Elsie Berlin's story may some day be retold. The home equipped with "Electric Service" needs no o n o Jtfany Oregon Short Line and Utah Officers Trying to v Capture Desperado. n o REGISTERED MAIL LOOTED Lfne Outlaw Is Believed to IFavc Made Way Back to Salt Lake After Captnrlng Crews of Engine and Postal Car. SALT LAKE CITT. March 26. -or fleers of several counties of Utah and of the Oregon Short Lino Railroad's private detective force have been busy all day trying to overtake the man who held up train No. 1, err route to Butte. Iilont.. near Roy, Utah, about 30 miles north of Salt Lake, at 1 o'clock this morning. Bloodhounds from the state prison were taken to the point 'where the man held up the train, and picked up what is believed his trail early in the after noon. The footprints lead in the di rection of Salt Lake and are in the open fields. Trail Indicate Objective. The fact that the footprints do not follow any of the several pood high ways in the vicinity and invariably g:o around the occasional spots of snow left from last week's storm, cause the officers to believe that they were made by the robber. This trail is the only indication thus far disclosed of the route the robber took after his success ful robbery of the mail car. The circumstances Indicate that the robber worked entirely alone. It is thought he boarded the train as a pas senger when it left Salt Lake at 11:45 o'clock last night, although he was not observed until he climbed over the ten der land entered the cab of the loco motive, just after the train left the station at Roy. Engine Crew Threatened. Threatening with his pistol, he made the Engineer, Orson A. Chaffee, and the Fireman, H. B. Thomas, uncouple the locomotive. Leaving the fireman be hind, the robber made the engineer pull the mail car up the track a short dis tance, stop and accompany him to the car. Announcing himself as the engi neer, the robber asked the mail clerk to open the car. Mail Clerk M. Rautio, assuming that an accident had taken place, opened his door and was covered by the robber's pistol. The holdup then forced Chaffee into the car ahead and lined Chaffee and Arthur Root, the assistant mail clerk, ngainst the wall of the car and made Rautio - show him the registered mall, lie took 31 pieces of registered 'mail, overlooking . others. He then made Chaffeo return to his cab, and, threat ening to shoot if any of the men moved for 10 minutes, ran away across the fields. He made no effort to molet the passengers. PANAMA SENDS FISH TALE Anslors Tlirow Los Into Iaite as I,ure to I'lnny Tribe, la Latest. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. March 20. Spring- will soon bring forth the usual crop of fishing yarns, but the officials of the Panama Canal have started the season with a fish story which will be hard for the most Imaginative angler to equal, whether In the realm of fact or fiction. In Gatun Lake, a huge body of fresh water which forms an important link in the Canal, thousands of trees were covered by backwater, leaving only the tops above the surface of the lake. These trees were , inhabited by large colonies of ants which were unable to escape and have fed on the wood. Many of the trees are now rotting and fall ing into the lake. Whenever a. treetop infested with ants tumbles Into the water fish in that particular neighbor hood enjoy a Bumptuous repast .on the insects. The Canal officials declare that the fish have learned that It's dinner time when a tree falls and, attracted by the noise, they swim to the spot In large numbers. The veracious Canal officials, as if to tax one's credulity still further, say lo cal methods of fishing have been revo lutionized. Instead of keping quiet In order not to frighten the fish, anglers now throw logs Into the water. The greedy fish come to make another meal on ants and fall an easy prey to baited hooks. Inventive minds have added to the gayety of nations by numerous im probable fishing yarns and no matter how truthful a man may be, when he starts to tell a fish story his veracity is Immediately questioned, but if the expectant press hopes to publish any fabrication this year to equal the straightforward narrative of the Canal officials it is apt to be disappointed. STRANGER IS DISAPPOINTED Thirsty Man. Wanders Into Court house to Get Election Day Drink. MINNEAPOLIS, March 17. A stran ger entered the hall on the Fourth street side of the Courthouse, stopping to Inspect a row of boxes piled along the wall. Cautiously he approached a janitor and passed the time of day. "I see you keep a pretty good sup ply down here," he volunteered, nod ding toward the cases. "Yes," said the unsuspecting janitor, "there's quite a stack of 'em." The stranger drew his new friend into a corner. "How about slipping mo a couple of bottles?" he said, per- suasively. The light of understanding dawned in the janitor's eyes. "That ain't beer," he said, "them's ballot boxes for the primaries." The thirsty one shuffled out. SCOTCH HIGHBALLS AFLOAT Liner Loaded With Drinks for Amer icans Reaches Port Safely. NEW YORK. March 20. Loaded with Scotch whisky for various hotel bars, the British steamship Roanoke arrived from Leith. Six hours after she sailed, and while passing through the Pentland Firth, a Kritlsh torpedo-boat held her up and a lieutenant boarded her. He ordered her into Kirkwall, but Captain Williams protested that the British authorities had given him clearance papers and that he had a pure enough -Scotch cargo that was going down American throats. The lieutenant finally agreed with him after sampling the cargo, and, wishing the Roanoke a healthy and cafe voyage he allowed her to proceed. , T - -- r ZJ ,.,.. ,.....t-mm.-m ,ir-... ijwr-n w .... - -r..m.-.n- -ii-ww" I r-r-; i n ! n ' ' . 1 ' " -it- 2 v . j ? . ll . r; x - i I . 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Because he missed none of the charms of his model perhaps because he even Jiad a genlue for painting the lily, so to speak Mr.- Strauss was in demand as a painter of portraits of women who were beautiful- or who be lieved they were. Commissions began to multiply. Came into the life of Mr. Strauss, artist. Mrs. Arthur Seligman. of Phila delphia, and simultaneously, or there abouts, also into the life of Mrs. Strauss, wife and model. Mrs. Selig man (then Miss iSnellenberg. daughter of a -many, many times millionaire) had heard of the fame of Air. Strauss and desired a portrait painted. Mrs. Strauss, it now appears, had certain pangs of jealousy. But it is related that husband "needed the money" and he could not afford, he now says, to refuse the commission. Whereupon were sittings, and more sittings, and at length a finished por trait. And meanwhile the fabled green eyed monster had proved he is not a fable after all. ' Then came a salt for $100,000 brought by Mrs. Strauss against the present Mrs. Seligman, for alienation of the artist-husband's affections, now pend ing in the courts of law. "Preposterous!" is the artist's an swer. He denies any indiscretion. He says his affections have not been alien ated. The beautiful Mrs. Seligman's answer may be implied. She has acquired a husband of her own and at thia minute, quite as if no litigation had been in stituted, she is off on a honeymoon Journey to the land of cherry blossoms. ;Mrs. Strauss before her marriage was Katherine McDonald, one of the most beautiful of the beautiful Winter gar den girls. SINNOTT TO TRY AGAIN EFFORT RENEWED TO GET LAND MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. Fight Will Be Carried to Floor of House, If Neceasary Expenditure Id Oregon Demanded. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 26. When the sub-committee on public lands holds Its final session tomorrow to complete its re port on the Oregon & California land grant bill. Representative Sinnott will make another effort to restore to the bill the original Chamberlain provision for distribution of the proceeds of the sale of the timber and lands that is, 40 per cent to the land grant counties and 40 per cent to the state school fund. The sub-committee agreed to give the counties 40 per cent for roads, but refused to sanction the use of a part of this money for the support of schools. As the bill was amended by the sub committee the state gets onlv 10 ner cent. Mr. Sinnott ttood out. against IRS. MALCOLM STRAISS AU THE l'ICTIRE OF this resolution of the allotment to the state. Mr. Sinnott maintains it is better that the 40 per cent go to the state school fund than to the reclamation fund, for he points out that once the money is in. that fund it can be used as the school fund is now being used, in making farm loans, irrigation loans and other investments, which bring the state 6 per cent Interest. If the sub-committee refuses to make any concessions to Mr. Sinnott on these points, he will renew his fight in the full committee. If he is voted down by the full committee, he will carry his light to the floor of the House. There, if a majority of the House re fuses to accept the 40-40 apportionment and insists on turning 40 per cent or any other proportion of the land grant receipts into the reclamation fund, Mr. Sinnott, as a last resort, will urge an amendment requiring thaX whatever portion of this money goes to the recla mation fund shall be expended on proj ects within the state of Oregon. DYE OUTPUT IS GAINING MACHINERY BEING INSTALLED IV MANY PLANTS. Scarcity Will Cause Paler Colors to Predominate in Clothing thin Season, Saya Expert. ' WASHINGTON, March 21. Remark able progress is being made by Ameri can manufacturers who are trying to meet the demand for dyestuffs Jn this country, according to Dr. Thomas H. Norton, for years in the United States consular service in Germany and now a commercial agent of the Department of Commerce. Since the war cut off the shipments of dyestuffs from Germany, he said, enough American plants have set to work to insure half, the supply re quired by the United States. Tlie sit uation is improving dally. Dr. Norton added, and the output is gradually in creasing. Dr. Norton, who is one of the fore most chemists in the country and who is in charge of the Government's work in developing the manufacture of dye stuffs in the United States, is constant ly adding new factories to the list he is keeping. These are located in al most every section of the country, es pecially in the Eastern States, where the demand for dyestuffs Is greatest. For the most part. Dr. Norton said, these plants are only getting under way. Installing machinery for the man ufacture of the dyes. The prospects are, however, that they will be in run ning order within a very short time. Until they are ready, the United States will have to satisfy its desire for color with the "half rations" wfTlch are be ing turned out by the plants now in operation. "Everybody should understand the situation this year," Dr. Norton said, "and not be too particular about the color of the goods he is buying. When a man goes to a tailor he ought to realize that in all probability he will not be able to get the colors he has been used to wearing. All of us will have to do the best we can. "Of course the same is true for wom en's clothes, which I understand will be limited to a large degree to the paler shades this year, pinks and light blues. White will be worn a great deal, of course, by both men and women. "The need for the pale colors is just the same as the complexion of a per son would be if he could not get suffi cient food. We are actually on half rations so far as the dyestuff situation is concerned." HONESTY ' JAILS FATHER Woman Finds Missing Money, but Falls to Save Parent From Cell. CLEVELAND. March 21. For the sake of honesty. Mrs. Myrtle Lee, 19 years old, sacrificed the freedom of her father, Peter McKinney. Mrs. Anne Colfer, a neighbor, missed a purse containing $20. Mrs. Lee found the purse under her father's pillow when she made his bed. "I feel it my duty to tell the truth," sobbed Mrs. Lee in court, "but please don't send my father to jail." McKinney was sentenced to 30 day6 in jaiL MRS. ARTHUR SEI.IGM A., XEE SSELLE.VBERGER. HEAT IS RELAXED Bearish and Bullish Reports Offset Each Other. SHORT CROP IS EXPECTED Carry-Over of 100,000,000 Bushels in United States Will Offset Deficiency; Market Lea cl erics on Both Sides. CHICAGO, March 26. (Special.) The wheat market is without a leader on either side. Outside speculative trade is larger than usual at this season, but small compared with the big business of 30 to 60 days ago. A plethora of supplies with unusual receipts here and at primary markets at this season, combined with reduced export buying, were the most attrac tive bear features. They were not, however, of sufficient weight, even though combined with the sharp de clines In lCnglish markets And thi break in corn to put prices lower ihai; on recent weeks. Iln in Enough to Sustain Market The influence of big supplies was largely offset by limited selling pres sure from hedgers.- There also was enough buying to remove hedges against export sales, to take the edge off the selling by bears and to act as a sustaining Influence. Foreigners have taken futures mostly to cover short sales. A deluge of unfavorable crop re ports, mostly from the soft Winter wheat states of the Central West, have failed thus far to create enthusiastic buying by professional traders and the general public. The belief is that it is too early to make definite calculations as to the real condition of the Winter wheat crop. Northwest Scanon Backward. Some of the best crop experts have declined to go out into the country. This week, however, will see more of them on the road. A factor that is not to be lost sight of is the backwardness of the season in the Northwest, indications being that the seeding will be later than last year, with a possible reduction in acreage both sides of the international line. This will make a much shorter wheat crop for the country than last year, but the carry-over of 100,000,000 bushels or more in the United States than there were a year ago Is expected to offset an ordinary loss in yield." AER0S ARE CARRYING MAIL New Service From Base at Columbus Is Started, Is Report. EL PASO. Tex., March 22. An aero plane mail service was begun at Co lumbus this evening, according to re ports reaching here. Two aeroplanes loaded with mail left for the front. This service- will be continued, it is said, as long as American troops are in the field. There was considerable excitement in Army circles tonight over reports from Washington that some high official of the Government had stated that unless Villa was caVight within a reasonable time troops would be withdrawn from the field. Army officers expressed the view that they did not believe such a thing possible. PLAN TO BLOCK ALLIES CUT German Drive Againnt Verdun Ex plained, by French. WASHINGTON, March 21. The Ger man drive against Verdun was taken in anticipation of the expected general offensive of the entente allies along the entire western front, according to Leon Gaumont, of Paris, and Reginald C. Bromhead, of London, representa tives of a large moving -picture com pany of Paris and London, who are at the New Willard. "If the Germans should succeed .in capturing Verdun, it would not gain them any great strategical advantage." said Mr. Gaumont. "If Paris were the objective at the Verdun campaign, the fall of that fortress and city would not bring the Germans any nearer Pari3 than Verdun that is. It would not amount to any more than the capture of any other city the eame distance from Paris. It Is not a "key to any cituation. In my opinion and 1 may say in the opinion of most Frenchmen the assault on Verdun was undertaken in an effort to forestall the expected drive of the entente allies this Spring. In Paris everybody is locking forward to the Spring campaign, confident that it will result In driving the Germans back many miles, s perhaps out of France. "I have found since coming to Amer ica this time that there is a wrong im pression regarding the feeling in France and England. No one over there expects anything but a triumph Tor the allies. Many believe the war will end before the Summer is over. In Paris and in London the people have awak ened to the magnitude of the war and the seriousness of it, and this hae been a good thing. It has stirred the activi ties and the patriotism of the people. In London there is no opposition to conscriptioln, and it will be found that the married men wilt respond as quick ly and as willingly as the single men." "The Zeppelin raids on Paris and London have not been so serious as re ported. On -one occasion I was in Pica dilly when the Zeppelins swung over us just as the theaters were out. There was no alarm; on the contrary, the peo ple appeared to have a lot of fun out of it." WADSWORTH TALK HEARD Young: New York Senator Boomed as Presidential Timber in East. WASHINGTON. March 21. Governor Whitman may not be unopposed for renominatlon by the Republicans of New York, according to former Repre sentative Samuel McMllan, of Manhat tan. "There are a lot of Republicans of New York who would like to see former Representative J. Van Vetchen Olcott named to lead the st.te campaign this year," said Mr. McMilan. at the Shore ham. "Mr. Olcott has long been one of the leading Republicans of New York, and his nomination would be re ceived with satisfaction by all factions of the Republican party of the state. He would make the state safely Re publican. I am for Olcott's nomination for Governor, as I am for 'Young Jim' Wadsworth's nomination for President by the Chicago convention. Wadsworth and Olcott would make a combination that would sweep New York. Should the Republicans of New York name Olcott for Governor and the Chicago convention Wadsworth for President, the Democrats would have no more show of carrying New York this year than they did in 1896 or 1904. Mind you, I have no idea that the Democrats can win in any event. I believe the Empire State will give a substantial Republican plurality this year, for I am confident the Chicago convention will name a strong man as standard bearer, but. in my judgment- the nartv can make victory certain by nominating wadsworth lor President and Olcott for Governor." POLICEMAN NABS VILLA But He Is a Philadelphian and IIU First Name Is John. PHILADELPHIA. March 21. Villa has been captured. Residents near Fifth and Spruoe streets were thrown into a near-panic when a man raced through the streets announcing he was General Villa, the much-wanted Mexi can murderer. There was a scurrying for doors and alleyways, following the announcement, and an appeal was sent to the Second District Police Station for aid. Policeman Legrande was hurried to the scene and in a few moments placed under arrest the cause of the excite ment. The prisoner was sent to the station-house, where he described him self as John Villa, 55 years old, and no home. He was locked up. The 320 officers of the King's Jumice in England who receive aggregate annual sal aries of ?3. 750,000 make one believe the English law must tit be an "common" as textbooks would have us think. matches. In such'a home, therefore, this ever-present source of danger is removed. , If you do not have "Electric Service" in your home, now is your best opportunity to get it. Phone us today and we will tell you about our "Low Cost and Easy Payment Plan" which is good until April 15. j You will never get another chance like the present one. Decide and Act, Today. Portland Railway, light & Power Co. Marshall 5100. A 6131. "WIRE YOUR HOME NOW" SOI IOE30I LINO'S PROFIT IS BIG Attorney Large Beneficiary of Law He Denounces. SCRIP RIGHT TO HIS HAND System Declared "Vicious and Dam nable," but Under It, His Own Testimony Shows, Substantial -Profit Has Accrued to Him. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 26. When John Lind, of Minnesota, waa testifying before the House committee on public lands, he closed his talk with a peroration in which he depicted the evils of the land legislation enacted during the past 30 years and declared particularly vicious the lieu land, or scrip law. "I do not advocate the land legisla tion that has been current for the last 30 years," said Mr. Lind. "It has been vicious and damnable. I am proud to say that the last thing I did as a mem ber of this committee was to secure the repeal of the scrip law. There has been more iniquity perpetrated under that law and under the timber and stone act than under any of the other old Jand laws." Mr. Lind Forgets, Perhaps. Mr. Lind apparently had completely forgotten how, an hour earlier, he had told the committee, in some detail, how, operating under that same scrip law, he had made $75,000 or $80,000 out of C. A. Smith in the short period of five years. "In 1905," said Mr. Lind, "I bought some land in Coos County, Oregon. I bought Northern Pacific scrip at $10 and $11 and located it on 2240 acres of this timber land. I held it for five years and then sold it to C. A. Smith, whom I was representing as attorney, for $100,000." Iniquity Seems Proved. Whether or not Mr. Lind makes the apparently big profit on that transac tion will depend altogether on whether he is able to' recover from C. A. Smith the $60,000 still due him on notes given in partial payment tor the land, or whether he gets title to the 4966 acres of Oregon & California land which Mr. Smith gave him as security for the notes. If Mr. Lind phould get the 'land. ITCHING BLISTERS ON BOY'S: HEAD Got' Worse. Affected Ears, Neck and Face. Scratched Day and Night. Terribly Disfigured. , HEALED BYCUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT "When four months old my boy suffered with blisters and a kind of scaly skin on his head. I got some salve and be didn't seem to improve but got worse and his ears, neck, and face were affected. He scratched day and night the itching was so intense, and we had to keep his hands pinned the whole time. The skin waa sore and in flamed, and he didn't have a hair on his head. It was Just a cap of sore eruptions, and his face was terribly disfigured. "He got so bad we had to keep a mask on his race. The trouble lasted for months, when a lady told my husband about Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and we got them. The third- day I noticed a big Improvement and in two weeks my boy was healed." (Signed) Mrs. H. A. Thiele. 348 6th St.. Milwaukee. W is., Oct. 25. 1915. Sample Each Free by Mall With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad dress post-card "Cntieura. Dept. T, Boa too.'- Sold throughout the world. ., , - o D o X o D o n o 0 o D o IOEXO which he said was worth today $245. 000. he would clean up a handsome profit on his scrip transaction of about $200,000. The committee was disposed to believe he had proved the "iniquity" of the'lieu land law. NOTED VIRGINIAN PASSES Kailier of United States Solicitor General Succumbs to Pneumonia. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., March 21. John J. Davis, 8 2 yeaVs old, father of John W. Davis. Solicitor-General of tho United States, died recently at his homo here. He had been in failing health for six weeks, and had suffered an at tack of pneumonia. Mr. Davis was the oldest practicing; attorney in West Virginia, and was a former member of Congress, havinS served two terms. He was a member of the first constitutional convention held in West Virginia in 1872. He was elected as a Democrat to Congress, and, was re-elected in 1S74. He was a Presi dential Elector on the Tilden ticket in 1876 and the Cleveland ticket in ISSi. In 190.1 Mr. Davis served as president of the West Virginia State I'ar Asso ciation. 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