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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1916)
D THE MORNING OREGOXIAT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1910. JEWEL THIEF LIVES BEYOND HIS MEANS FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF WOMAN AVIATOR, WHO FLEW FROM CHICAGO TO NEW YORK. SPECIAL NOTICE During This Week We Are Listing Subscriptions to the Delineator at a Special Price Reduction. This Offer Applies to Both New Subscribers and Renewals STORE OPENS DAILY AT .8:30 A. M. ON SATURDAYS 9:00 A. M. STORE CLOSES DAILY AT 5:30 P. M- ON SATURDAYS 6:00 P. L Cost of Living in Fashionable Suburb Tempts Guardian of Vaults. PACIFIC PHONE MARSHALL 50SO HOME PHONE A 2112 The Most in Value The Best in Quality FULL CONFESSION IS MADE Ttnby Owned by Mrs. Harrlman and Valued at 940,000 Sold to Op- tlclan for $ 650 Jeweler Also Under Arrest. YTE-ftr TORE, Nov. 24. Behind the 60,000 Harrlman jewel robbery, brought to solution today by police In vestigators, lies a story of a middle aged and trusted employe who suc cumbed to temptation, according to his confession, while struggling to meet the cost of living in a fashionable suburb too expensive for his means. He Is un der arrest charged with grand larceny, together with his brother, who is held on a similar charge, accused of having disposed of part of the proceeds. Arthur P. Daggett, 42 years old, and married, who was guardian of the trust company vault where Mrs. E. H. Harrl man, widow of the railroad capitalist, kept her jewelry, found them one day on the floor of the safe deposit, he told folice Inspector Faurot today. .- Daggett's brother Orville, 48 years old. is accused of having disposed of a $40,000 ruby, part of the stolen Jew elry. It was bought, according to the police, by an optician for $650 from a man to whom Orville is asserted to have disposed of it. The ruby was thereafter several times sold until Its travels fur nished a clew which led to the appre hension of the Daggett brothers. Un der arrest also is a Jeweler, charged with receiving stolen property. He is said to have advanced a $500 "loan" on $10,000 worth of gems. All the missing valuables have been located. DATE OF HEARING FIXED All Persons Interested In Print Pa per Invited by Commission. "WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. The Fed eral Trade Commission today fixed De cember 12 as the date for another pub lic hearing on the news print paper situation, and invited manufacturers. Jobbers, newspaper publishers and others interested to appear. The Commission made no announce ment concerning the line of Inquiry to be pursued, but it is generally be lieved it will go deepe'r into charges of conspiracy among manufacturers to raise prices. The date was selected after confer ences with officers of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, who at a previous hearing charged high prices to a manufacturers' combination. Papermakers, who attribute high prices to a scarcity of material. alo were consulted. STABBING DUE TO ELECTION Winner of Wager at Dayvllle Attacks Sheepman After Collecting. JOHN DAY." Or., Nov. 24. (Special.) George Moore, of Dayvllle, one of Grant County's prominent stock and sheep men, wae brought here Wednes day for medical attention as the re sult of a stabbing affray at Dayvllle Wednesday. Mr. Moore was stabbed by W. E. Carrol, wtih whom he had an election bet. The bet was paid and Mr. Moore was the loser. They met today at Dayvllle, and. in talking over the results of the election, Carrol, for some reason not known, attacked Moore with a knife, cutting iim seriously in one shoulder. Mr. Carrol would also have cut Mr. Moore in the throat had not interven tion occurred. EX-FIANCEE WANTS LOTS Woman Says Engagement Is Broken but Property Is Kept. OREGON CITT, Or., Nov. 24. (Spe cial.) The suit of Ida Beighley against Daniel ' Padden for lots in Milwaukle went on trial before Circuit Judge Campbell. M rs. Beighley and Mr. Padden were engaged 10 years, when, she says, he broke off the engagement. She en trusted her money to his care, Mrs. Beighley alleges, and the property at Milwaukle was bought for the future home. She testified he refused to give the property' back to her. The defendant asserts that the prop erty was bought with his own money. Both plaintiff and defendant live in Portland. f. W. W.'S "PASS THROUGH" Trains Carry 2 50 as Supercargo With Eugene Pollco on Guard. - EUGENE, Or., Nov. 24. (Special.) More than 250 I. W. W. members passed through Eugene early today, traveling on passenger or freight trains. Chief of Police Christensen and .a force of patrolmen met each train, serving no tice to the .travelers not to get off in this city. About 40 were riding on the tender and roofs of the cars of passen frer train No. 13, and nearly 200 were traveling on a freight train, of which they had virtually taken possession. The Eugene authorities had been ad vised that the party was en route by Chief of Police Catlin, of Albany. IRISH REVOLT FUND RAISED Dublin Rebels to Fight Soon, Say Speakers In Boston. BOSTON. Nov. 24. Speakers who asked for funds to support another rev olution in Ireland, asserting that the "Dublin rebels are going to fight again and fight very soon," obtained sub scriptions at a meeting here last night. purchase rifles, "so that, when the next ICUC;iiUU Ul CIIAO Ll Will UdVB modern guns instead of clubs and JIIWU1V1&9I Flavel Land Company Sued. C- T T-, T . XT... 1 A " C . v A suit was filed in the Circuit Court today by Charles Q. Gillette against the Flavel Land & Development Com pany to recover $11,000 damages for alleged breach of contract in the sale of two lots to the plaintiff. OnlT One "BROSIO QnSlM'' To ret the renatne. call for full name, LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of E. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold In one (ay. 25c : w J. ; t; if jgj - - K. 'AVI : t v - " - - - . J it: s f?r?r ! - .a : i I- I ' r ' If "V- O ' - L, i ,v - ... v- r . j tW.iirMiiiTrriiitll..ntfi f T' Photo Copyright by Underwood. Ruth Law, Daring Young Avlatrtx, W ho Broke 'on-Stop Rword, Belny Welcomed by Major-General Leonard Wood oo Her arrival at Governor's lalaod on November SO. Miss Law, who Is a sister of the famous dare-devil, Rodman Law, in her flight from Chicago to New York broke the American cross-country, non-stop record, made by Carlstrom, on November 20, by flying from Chicago to Hornell, a distance of 690 miles. Miss Law left Chicago at 8:26 A. M., Eastern time, arrived at Hornell at S:1S P. M., and landed again at Bing hamton, where she stopped for the night, at 4:43 P. M. Her actual flying time for the 852 miles, from Chicago to New Tork, was nine hours and one minute. She was numb from the cold at the finish, despite the fact that she had enough clothing on to satisfy an Eskimo. Miss Law made the flight as a sporting proposition, flying for no prise, and paying the expenses of the flight herself. mm mm dead Inventor of Automatic Fire arms Passes at 76. ENGLISH FIRST USE GUN Question Whether Terrible Slaughter Was Justified Once Seriously Discussed by Parliament of Britain. LONDON. Nov. 24. Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic system of firearms, died at his home here early this morning. He was 76 years old. Sir Hiram Maxim was born In San- gerville. Me., on February 5, 1840. He was a descendant of English Puritans who were among the early settlers of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. After a meager schooling he went to work in a machine shop and later was em ployed in the machine works of his uncle. Levy Stevens, at r itchburg. Mass. In 1877 he took up the question of electricity and was among the first to make dynamo electric machines and electric lamps in the United States. In 1881 he was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by President Grevy. The Maxim automatic gun was in vented in 1884 in London, and was immediately adopted by the British government, which used it In the war with Matabele. The gun fired 600 rounds a minute, and caused such slaughter that Parliament seriously discussed the question as to whether its use was Justified. Some years later Sir Hiram, created a Baron by Queen Victoria, after having become natural ized as an Englishman, Invented the first smokeless powder. In 1904 Sir Hiram invented a heavler-than-air flying machine which raised itself from the ground carrying a driver and passenger, nine years before the first practicable airplane was cre ated by the Wright brothers. Sif Hiram's machine was a ponderous af fair, and broke down in its early trial. In 1915 the inventor was appointed a member of the inventions board, creat ed by the government to meet the needs of the war. NEEDED WITNESSES DEAD Pioneers Testimony Wanted in Mex ican Border Line Dispute. EL PASO. Tex., Nov. 24. Five of the pioneers by whom the Government hoped to prove the American claim to disputed territory along the shifting course of the Rio Grande have' died since the international boundary com mission first met, three years ago. It has developed. Ownership of several millions of dol lars' worth of property Is at stake, dependent on the way the Rio Grande flowed at the time of this treaty. Ships Can't- Carry Christmas Gifts. ' MILWAUKEE, Nov. 24. Philanthropic efforts of clubwomen her to Drovida fir, Al "in ' i soldiers in European trenches with boxes of Christmas gifts met with re buff today, when three steamship lines, it was said, informed them they would be unable to carry their offerings until Spring because of the heavy shipments of munitions. BOND ASKED FOR RAILROAD Roseburg Wants $150,000 Guaran tee That Lino Will Be. Built. ROSEBURG, Or.. Nov. 24. (Special.) At a meeting of the railroad commit tee of the City Council held here to day, it was decided to ask that the Roseburg & Eastern Railroad Company furnish a bond in the sum of 1150,000 to Insure the construction of the pro posed railroad from this city to Rock Creek. Kendall Bros, previously agreed to furnish the bond asked by the city In the event the Kendall Lumber Cor poration would be accepted as sureties. This was at first objectionable to the Council, but it was later decided to ac cept the offer if the stockholders of the Kendall Lumber Corporation were made sureties individually. If the bond is furnished by Kendall Bros, the Councilman say the road will be built as originally planned. Should Kendall Bros, refuse to provide the bond the railroad proposition probably will be abandoned for all time. FOOD IS DENIED I. W. W. Roseburg Officials Drive Party of 50 Out of Town. ROSEBURG, Or., Nov. 24. (Special.) Fifty- L W. W. arrived In Roseburg aboard a freight train today and sent a committee- to the office of Mayor Rice, where they demanded food and shelter. When the Mayor refused to meet their demarfds the men left nis office in. an angry mood and threatened violence. Summoning the police officers and Sheriff, the Mayor later went to the railroad yards, where the travelers were congregated, and ordered them to leave town. They reluctantly formed In line and marched to the city limits, where they are camped tonight under guard of special officers employed by the city. The men say they are en route from Everett, Wash., to California points In search of work. . TWO AMENDMENTS LOSE Aslilantl Voters Give Substantial Ad verse Majorities. ASHLAND, Or, Nov. tt. (Special.) Two proposed charter amendments were defeated by substantial majori ties here today. The first provided for a merger of the Mineral Spring's and Park commissions. The second pro vided for reassessments against real property where prior assessments have proved defective. Greater interest centered in the first proposition. Inasmuch as its advocates alleg-ed that Its adoption implied the erection immediately of a new mineral springs sanitarium here at a cost of $50,000, to be erected by outside capi tal. Dowager Grand Duchess Dies. AMSTERDAM, Via London, Nov. 24. The death at Kuenigsteln. Prussia, of Adelheid." the Dowager Grand Duchess of Luxemburg, ic reported in a Berlin telegram- Hii.it was 82 years old. a .".. VA A.4 .v.- x-x OIL PROFITS HOGE Promoters Accused of Using Dummy Locators. FABULOUS PRICE OBTAINED Million Said to Dave Been Cleared In Larger Deals Men Admit They Do Not Know Many of "Original. Locators." SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 24. Lloyd B. McMurtry and W. A. Hoeppner, pro moters, were charged with having made for themselves more than $1,000,000 In acquirement and subsequent sale of oil lands in the Kern County district, in testimony given today before United States Judge Bean in the case of the TJnited States against the Thirty-Two Oil Company and others. In addition to the larger deal, ac cording to the testimony, McMurtr and Hoeppner disposed of other oil lands in Kern County to J. M. McLeod and his wife, of Kern County, and to other persons, and by means of these minor deals they cleared for them selves approximately $50,000. Special L'nited States Attorney Frank Hali si.ught to prove that McMurtry and Hoeppner, with the assistance of Z dummy locators from Boston. New lurk and Worcester, Mass., had suc ceeded in gaining possession of oil lands which, it Is alleged, they quickly disposed of to constituted oil interests at fcbulous prices. McMurtry on the stand today admitted that many of the so-called original locators were un known to him. 'J he million-dollar deal alleged to have been engineered by McMurtry and Hoeppner, the prosecution say, was shown to have been made with the Associated Oil Company, in which "-Y. K. Herrin, R, P. Schwerin, Paul Shoup and ethers were Interested. A lengthy document setting forth all of the de tails of the alleged associated oil deal was read In court by Special Prosecutor HalU CATERERS TO CUT COST PTRCn.tJIXO BUREAU PLANNED TO B17Y IN BIO LOTS. Reatanrants, Cafeterias and Lunch Count era Consider Catues of Increased Prices. The Installation of a purchasing bureau for the benefit of Portland restaurants, cafeterias, and lunch coun ters waa considered yesterday at a meeting of the Portland Caterers' So clal Union, held in the Morgan building. Rumors to the effect that prices on commodities were being forced up by speculators led to this decision, and a committee has been appointed to ar range for a competent purchasing agent. The purchasing bureau will b 1 Newstyi Women's Fine NEW FLANNEL COLLARS AT 89 Just received a fine lot of the popular new Wool Flannel Collars in the large cape and sailor shapes. They come in cream white, and are finished with picot or pinked edge. Underpriced for This HQ Sale at OCC Dependable Quality Footwear Parents Who Know Values Best Will Immediately Realize the Importance of These Special Offerings. Misses and Children's Shoes. CI yirjiPAIR FOR SIZES pi.tJT0 8. I 8Vi TO ll. p-u HJi TO 2. Neat styles in Misses' and Children's Shoes in patent leather with mat or cloth top also in gunmetal calf with mat top. They come in button style and with solid leather sole and heel splendid appear ing, durable shoes, attractively underpriced. BOYS' BOX CALF SHOES UNDERPRICED! Both button and blucher lace styles in box calf and gunmetal leathers shoes with polid leather soles and heels, and extra well stitched throughout sizes Shi to 13 on sale at $1.9S pair, and m n ACk sizes 1 to 6 at ipV abled to handle goods in largrer quanti ties than any one restaurant ma'tne. aione. and it la tnua hoped thai more advantageous buyinfr will result. Restaurant men assert that the mar ket must be followed closely to insure advantageous buying:, tor an anticipated raise usually stimulates buyintf in ad vance, with the result that the early prion is higrher than the later price. An exair.ple ot this, they say. is found in the present high price of potatoes, which they think will not likely be maintained Other elevations of price levels, the restaurant men allege, are due to ma nipulations of a similar nature. 12 OFFICIALS ARRAIGNED Misnse or Public Funds at Hlbblng. Minn., Charged. DCLUTH, Nov. 24. Twelve officials of the village of Hlbblng and of the township of Stunti were arraigned In District Court before Judge Cant to day to answer Indictments returned against them by the grand Jury. The charges against them grew out of the report of a deputy public ex aminer, in which they are accused -f the misuse of public funds of the vil lage and township. All of the men came to Duluth without the formality of arrest. SUSPECT IS NOT CRONES Chef Who Poisoned Soup at Arch bishop's Banquet Not Found. CHICAGO. Nov. !4 Jean Crones, al leged poisoner of soup served at a university CiuD ainner io Artuunj;uii Mundeleln. is not in custody of the police at Spalding, Neb. This Dartv is not Crones." a mes sage from the Chicago detective sent to Spalding read tonigni. Crones disappeared last January after 200 guests at the banquet had been made ill by partaking of the t soup served. FLEET IN PORT FOR GAME Shore Liberty May Be Given to 10, O0O to See Navy Play Army. NEW TORK. Nov. 24. A formidable fleet of American warships im in port today to permit its officers to attend the Army and Navy football game here tomorrow. The fleet Includes one dreadnought, seven battleships, five cruisers, a torpedo boat and two col liers. It is expected that between 10. 000 and 12.000 men will receive shore liberty. The Army and Navy rootoaii squaaa arrived here today. CIVILIAN EXCHANGE AGREED Twenty Thousand to Be Returned by France and Germany. BERLIN, Nov. 24. (By wireless to Sayville. N. Y.) The negotiations for the exchange of interned civilians that have been in progress for some time between Germany and France have ended, according to the Overseas News Agency. It is announced that 20,0uu persons are to be exchanged. The repatriation of these people will begin December 4 and end at ChrLit mas. Astoria Fixes 4-Mlll rry. ASTORIA. Or.. Nor. 24. (Special.! The taxpayers of Astoria city road dis trict made a levy of 4 mills today and appropriated about 117.000 for grading and paving the road leading from the city around Smith's point, at the west end of the peninsula. Bead The Oreconian classified ads. A COMPLETE NEW SHIPMENT THE RENOWNED Henderson Corsets Fashionable Models for All Figures at $15 to $3.50 Pair The good qualities of these well-known Corsets are numberless materials, workmanship, durability, style, fit and comfort are among the most impor tat features. The low prices at which these high-grade Corsets are sold never fail to appeal to the most critical shopper. "HENDERSON'S CORSETS" Insure the Maximum of Corset Satisfaction STYLE 324 Popular priced, medium figure, made of heavy coutil and with heavy front steel. Elastic at back. A great favorite at the J " O C low price of. pX3 STYLE 360 A model similar to Style lower bust and in front-lace style. Moderately priced STYLE 552 This is a model for the 6tout figure. Shown with medium bust and hip, and' made of heavy coutil with heavy front steel ZZf and reinforced at waist. Specially priced at JXeOvl STYLE 634 A splendid medium-figure Corset. Made with low bust, and in 0 f( medium length, of fine coutiL Wide elastic band at back. A splendid Corset Pvll STYLE 672 A Corset specially adapted for the younger set. A front-lace model. In top less style, of rich flesh-tinted brocade. An extremely attractive model, priced JO ff Saturday at p.JKJ IN UNLIMITED VARIETY GEORGETTE CREPE COLLARS AT So Another special sale of Georgette Crepe Collars in cape style with Venise lace trimming, hem stitched or with picot edge. The kind regularly sold at ?1.23 and 1.50 priced for ThisQ Sale at OOC UNDERPRICED OFFERINGS IN CHILDREN'S 5 l CO OCPAIR FOR SIZES MANDAMUS SUIT FILED MtmOMAH CLERK SEEKS TO MAKE VP DEFICIT. County Court Is Made Defendant In Action Begun Before Supreme Tribunal at Salem. SALEM, Or.. Nov. 54. (Special.) John B. Coffey. Multnomah County Clerk, today" filed mandamus proceed ings in the Supreme Court to compel the Multnomah County Court to pay him $15,522.43 to make good the deflT clency in the fee account of Frank S. Fields, ex-Coirnty Clerk of Multnomah County. An alternative writ of - mandamus waa granted by the court, returnable December 5. The shortage in the fee account of Mr. Fields was created when funds de posited in the American Bank & Trust Company, of Portland, became unavail able through failure of the bank. In the petition for issuance of an alternative writ of mandamus filed here today it is alleged that the mem bers of the County Court, although directed by the provisions of chapter 2 of the 191a session laws, to make good the deficiency in Mr.- Fields' fe account by giving Mr. Coffey credit for the amount due, have refused to do so. The County Court contends that it has no valid means whereby this can be done. In 1915. Mr. Coffey alleges that a levy was made which raised the money necessary to provide for the deficiency in the former County Clerk's fee ac count and that this money is now in the county treasury. HUGHES BET PAID IN JAIL Millionaire Depnty Sheriff Spends Six Hours In Cell. PAN RAFAEL. Cal. Nov. 24. A. L. Slsson. known as the "millionaire dep uty sheriff" of Kentfield. near here, went to Jail for six hours today for the "crime" of betting on Hughes. He made the wager with Sheriff J. J. Keating, staunch Democrat. BRITISH CAPTURE U-BOAT Crew Reported to HaTC Bern Landeil In Italian Port. MILAN, via Taris. Nov. it. British naval forces recently captured a large fN LOCATING our the residential -fey.! 3 MONTGOME PROGRESSIVE FUNERAL DIRECTORS .$1.25 Neckwear f A Q PAIR FOR SIZES Herman submarine, according to th Corriero Delia Sera. The newspaper saya that a British mine sweeper landed IS sailors and two officers of the crew of the submarine at an Italian port. T.os AnrcloB has an ara of 337 muir mile. Dorft be discouraged My face was even worse than yours till I found thai .esmej clears pimply skins Just wash your face with Reslnol Soap and hot water, dry and apply pently a little Resinol Ointment. Let this stay on for ten minutes, then wash off with more Resinol Soap. In a few days pimples, redness and roughness simply vanish 1 1 know that sounds too good to be true but it is true. Try it and see ! All drut(it tell Rinol Ointment and Reinrl Snap. For a tre umple ot each, write to Dept. 4twR. KesiiKjl, Baltimore, Md. Cr fiestniSmffer 6Jy. aarthln m4 of rrmvM. nrr. t.ild. cop p9T, i n o, ail u m- QriCK TO ATT. convenient ia tvrm. tvV.d by ml Grocery. Hardware innm um on n Df lif wtirn nl- xi f- J if whrn r'tl- Li 'A JJrus tun. bed with this FTItJ I , L. f pi... kiar TO LAM. .a. . J OB UR. ELL-ASMS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage proves it 25c at all druggists. modern establishment in 324, only 6hown with M complexion ft EVER be Z r-ntwf-. rr w ;'n'wi.nv y j ; ir district, we sought quiet and refinement the absence of downtown noise and curiosity. The Finley chapel and the private driveway are two of many features which typify the gTeat improvement we - have made. R. Y AT FIFTH
