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Mrs. Alexander Declared to
Have Excellent Control
Over Her Pupils.
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NINE WITNESSES HEARD
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JUL
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Administration of Benson School
for Girls Said to Have Been
Good, With All Co-operating
for Good of School.
Miss Grace Funston was the star wit
ness among nine called last night by
A. E. Clark, one of counsel for Mrs.
Alevia Alexander. who has been
charged with Inefficient administration
of the Benson School for Girls.
Miss Funston testified minutely to
situations and conversations of many
months' standing and materially
trengthened the contention of Mrs.
Alexanders counsel that Mrs. Alexan
der had the respect both of pupils and
teachers under her and administered
the. affairs under her supervision with
great skill.
"Mrs. Alexander had excellent disci
pline among both the pupils and the
teachers under her," said Miss Funston.
"No disciplining of pupils ever resulted
in ill feeling."
Xeglected Conferences Resumed.
To refute the contention made by L.
If. Alderman that Mrs. Alexander did
not have the co-operetion of her teach
ers, Miss Funston said that Mrs. Alex
ander had, upon being made the prin
cipal of the Benson school, insisted
that the teachers not talk in the halls
before the classes had begun in the
morning, and also had started the se
ries of teachers' meetings that had up
to that time been neglected.
She told of the explanation she said
Mrs. E. H. Sibbald had given her as
to how Mrs. Sibbald came to be an in
structor in the Benson school.
"Mrs. Sibbald told me." said Miss
Funston, "that she had been doing some
work for Judge Munly's daughter when
he asked her if she would not accept
a. position in the Benson school.
"'I will if it pays well enough,' said
Sirs. Sibbald.
Dr. Smith In Conference, She Snys.
"She told me then that Judge Munly
told her he would fix that contingency,
and he then called Dr. Alan Welch
Smith by telephone. Dr. Smith and his
wife then went to Judge Munly's, and
In that way Mrs. Sibbald was given a
place in the Benson School.
"Mrs. Sibbald later came to me for
aid in preparation of attendance rec
ords, as she was new and was not ac
customed to the routine of the school
room. "She then told me several things
about Mrs. Alexander. She said last
Bummer that Mrs. Alexander, looked
worried. I told her she was mistaken.
She told me the same thing a few days
before Mrs. Alexander was removed
from Benson School. I again told her
she must be mistaken, and she then
told me that Mrs. Alexander would not
bo in the Benson School in the Fall.
That was before anything appeared in
the newspapers.
"Jhe f vr tit week in September, after
the charges had been niea against .airs-
Alexander, Mrs. Sibbald came to me
and asked me. which side I was on. J
told her I w neutral. She told me
that the teasers' positions might de
pend upon fnic-b. side they aligned
themselves.
"In a visit made by Mr. Alderman
Dr. Drake (a member of the board),
and others at the Benson School, she
told me that when Mr. Alderman left
the building he retained Mrs. Sibbald's
band and said that, whether he lost
the case or not, he would always be
thankful to her for what she had done
for him."
Paper Circulation Told of.
When asked by Mr. Clark to explain
the incident at Lincoln High School,
when Miss Edna Groves, Miss Florence
Holmes and Miss Lucie Schmitt had a
paper that they were circulating get
ting the teachers to signify by their
signatures that they were sympathetic
with Mr. Alderman, Miss Funston said:
"Miss Groves told me that it was as
much as a teacher's position was worth
not to sign the paper. Miss Holmes
and Miss Schmitt were there at the
time, and I do not see how either could
have not heard the remark.
"On the way down town I told Miss
Schmitt that I did not like the way in
which Miss Groves had threatened me
with the loss of my position if I re
fused to sign the paper. Miss Schmitt
said that she had not heard the con
versation." On cross-examination, Robert F. Ma
guire, attorney for Mr. Alderman, ques
tioned Miss Funston as to the exact
ness of conversations she recalled.
Record Kept of Tales.
-iou nave talked frequently to Mr.
case?" queried Mr. Maguire. The an
swer was In the affirmative.
"Did you keep memorandums of all
the conversations?" was the next ques
tion. Miss Funston said that she had.
She said that Bhe had kept all the con
versations and incidents that had con
cerned Mrs. Alexander and had told
Mrs. Alexander of such "while they
were fresh In her mind.".
She admitted that she would hear the
stories about Mrs. Alexander from Mrs.
Sibbald without demurring and then
carry the stories to Mrs. Alexander.
When asked if she wished the Board
to understand that she did not believe
Miss Schmitt had told the truth, when
Miss Schmitt had said she did not hear
a certain conversation. Miss Funston
said that "often people shut their ears
to things they do not care to hear."
Other character witnesses called by
the defense were Charles E. Rockwell,
one-time janitor of the Benson School
for Girls; Miss Lola Hendershott. who
taught one Summer session at the
Benson School and who has known
Mrs. Alexander for four years; Miss
Kmma Straube, Miss Ellen Miller,
Dennis Galvin, janitor at the Benson
School for Girls; Miss Katherine
Padden. who had taught under Mrs
Alexander as an elementary principal;
Miss Ida M. Manley, who taught in
the same building with Mrs. Alex
ander for two months prior to Miss
Manley's removal to the principalshlp
or me aerective scnool in the Allen
building, and Miss Pauline Manciet,
an assistant in night and Summer
School work. Most of the character
witnesses Mr. Maguire let go without
cross-examining.
Hearing Resumed Tomorrow.
O. M. Plummer made the motion that
UI other character witnesses be let
with the stipulation that thev
r.vouia testily in the same strain that
those examined last night followed. It
was decided after some discussion that
Mr. Clark be allowed to bring In all
the witnesses he had arranged to have
appear and examine them from the
stand.
The hearing will be resumed tomor
row night. Owing to the forced at
tendance of Mr. Flummer at the Pa
rific International Livestock Show next
week no sessions will be held after to
morrow night until toward mid-Decem
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MRS. SCHLOTH DIES
Pioneer Collapses at Tea in
Presence of Daughters.
DEATH QUICKLY FOLLOWS
Slother of Representative-Elect Mat
thleu's Wife and Surviving
Head of Well-Known Oregon
Family Is Stricken.
Sudde-n heart failure caused the death
last night at 5:50 o'clock of Mrs. Dora
Schloth. long a resident at Portland,
as she sipped a cup of tea in the pres
ence of her daughters. Miss Hannah
Schloth, teacher in Washington High
School, and Mrs. Frederick Watson.
The stroke came without warning.
Mrs. Schloth. who was 72 years old, was
comparatively active and in good
health. She had been making her resi
dence with her daughter, Hannah
Schloth. at 263 Benton street. At tea
time, she joined the 'family and the
meal had progressed without any sign
of the impending stroke. Suddenly as
she lifted a cup of tea to her lips, she
settled back in her chair with the re
mark: "I feel weak as if I was going to
die."
She soon collapsed and death was al
most instantaneous.
Mrs. Schloth was the surviving head
of a. familv well-known in Orpeftn nd
linked wfh other pioneer families of
the state. She was the mother of Mrs
Stephen A. Matthieu. wife of Repre
sentative-elect Matthleu, of the Oregon
Legislature, and daughter-in-law of the
late pioneer, F. X. Matthleu, of Cham
poeg fame; Mrs. J. W. Shaver, wife of
Captain J. W. Shaver, prominent river
steamboatman ; Mrs. J. E. Hardy, Mrs.
J. C. Watson. Frederick W. and Michael
R. Schloth and Miss Hannah Schloth.
teacher in Washington High School, all
of whom survive. Her sister, Mrs.
Augusta Wilhelin, survives also.
Mrs. Schloth was born in Saxony,
Germany, 1844, and came to the United
States at the age of 5. She was mar
ried at 18 in Dubuque, Iowa, and came
to Portland via the Isthmus of Panama
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Mrs. Dora Schloth, Long a Resi
dent of Oregon, Who Dropped
Dead at the Tea Table Last
Might.
in 1861. She was the widow of the
late Christopher Schloth, who was a
pioneer business man of Portland, en
gaged in the meat business for many
years with P. J. Mann and W. W.
Spaulding.
TEACHER TESTS DEC. 20
State Certificate Examinations
Last Four Days.
to
SALEM. Or.. Nov. 29. (Special.)
Examinations for state teaching cer
tificates will be held at the county seat
of each Oregon county December 20,
21, 22 and 23, J. A. Churchill, State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction, an
nounced today.
The dates on which examinations
will be held in the various subjects are
as follows:
Wednesday Mornlns, Vnlted States his
tory, penmanship, music and drawing; after
noon, physiology, reading, manual training,
composition, domestic science, methods in
reading, course of study for drawing, meth
ods in arithmetic.
Thursday Morning, arithmetic, history of
education, psychology, methods in geogra
phy, mechanical drawing, domestic art,
course of study for domestic art; afternoon,
grammar, geography, stenography, Ameri
can literature, physics, typewriting, meth
ods In language, thesis for primary certifi
cate. Friday Morning, theory and practice, or
thography, physical geography. English lit
erature, chemistry, physical culture; 'after
noon, school law, geology, algebra, civil gov
ernment. Saturday Morning. geometery. botany;
afternton, general history and bookkeeping.
FRAUD CASES TO GO AHEAD
E. J. Frasier and John Perkins Will
Be Tried This Term at Eugene.
EUGENE, Or., Nov. 29. (Special.)
The cases bf the State vs. E. J. Frasier
and John Perkins, indicted on a charge
of having obtained money under false
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pretenses, will go to trial at the
present term of court, unless District
Attorney J. M. Devers can show further
reason why a continuance should be or
dered, according to a ruling handed
down today by Circuit Judge G. F.
Skipworth. Frasier and Perkins were
indicted in connection with the opera
tions of F. G. Mathison, a California
real estate dealer, who is alleged to
have Induced Oregon farmers to ex
change properties for worthless ab
stracts of title to Texas land.
Mathison. Monday, succeeded in hav
ing his case continued until February
on the ground that time was neces
sary to obtain certain evidence from
the state of Texas.
In view of this action by the court
Attorney Devers moved that the Fra
sier and Perkins cases also be con
tinued, as many of the same witnesses
would be ised in all three cases. Fra
sier and Perkins objected.
stSte lands are sold
BOARD'S REPORT TELLS OF DIS
POSAL OF 11.500 ACRES.
Outstanding Loans From University
and State College Funds Are
Shown to Be Increasing.
SALEM, Or, Nov. 29. (Special.)
The biennial report of the State Land
Board for the period ending September
30. 1916, completed today, shows that in
the period the state has sold 11,509
acres, of which 10.722.63 acres were
school lands, 240 acres Agricultural
College lands and 647.15 acres tide
lands.
The amount received as principal on
these Kales and on tracts heretofore
sold under certificates of sale aggre
gated $187,078.34. Outstanding loans on
October 1, 1914, from the common school
fund amounted to (6.091.804, while loans
from this fund have been completed
totaling $1. 639, 591. 33.
The report shows that loans from
the common school fund paid during
the period amounted to $1, 488,28.01. The
outstanding loans from this fund at the
present time amount to 16.233.498.32.
In addition Sheriffs dwda -u.--r ,-,.,...
by the state during the two years for
seven farms acquired under foreclosure
of mortgages representing a total of
principal, so that the net cash
Increase amounts to 1141.691.32. The
amount of cash now in the common
school fund in the hands of the State
Treasurer Is $58,698.59.
The outstanding loans from the Agri
cultural College fund now total $192 168
a net increase of 12991.63. ' "
The outstanding loans from the Uni
versity fund are shown to be $97 f8
a net decrease of $5713.62 ' " '
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Hornbrook, Detained at 'Albany.
ALBANY, Nov. 29 (Snbi t c-
route from Hornbrook. Cal., to Fort-
ana witn Jo quart bottles of whisky
in their automobile, Charles Ditz and
Omer Burres. of Portland, were de
tained here today.
Local officers arrested the two men
about 2 o clock this morning. They
were not placed in 1il h
and the liquor were held.
Local officers wrestled all day with
a problem of whether they could be
held in this county on any charge.
The grand Jury being in session, the
case was submitted to that body this
afternoon, but no decision was an
nounced. The men proved the car was
their own and insist the liquor was
for their own use. No evidence could
be found of prospective delivery to any
other person.
STUDENTS LEAVE FOR HOME
Thanksgiving Affairs Arranged for
Those Who Stay at College.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Corvailis, Nov. 29. (Special.) The an
nual Thanksgiving recess at the Ore
gon Agricultural College began at noon
today, and a large proportion of the
students left for their homes. Classes
resume on Monday morning.
Those who remain will not lack for
amusements. Tomorrow afternoon there
will be a matinee dance, at which will
be given the returns from the football
game, between the Oregon Aggis and
the University of Southern California,
at Los Angeles.
Dinners and dances are planned by
many of the fraternity and clubhouses
for the evening.
Socialist Society to Meet Friday.
The meeting of the Intercollegiate
Socialist Society will be held Friday
night. Instead of tonight, as was at
first announced. The Postponement
It Cured
'Last December I had a very severe cold
and was nearly down sick in bed," says
O. J. Metcalf, Weatherby, Mo. "I bought
two bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy and it was only a few days until I
was completely restored to health." j
has been made on account of Thanks
giving. The speaker will be Eugene
K. Smith, who will have for his sub
pect, "Municipal Paving." The assem
bly will be in the Library Hall, at 8
o'clock.
Whisky Ttlng Suspected.
BEND. Or.. Nov. 29. (Special.) A
system of wholesale bootlegging in
Bend is believed to have been -uncovered
by the arrest of a man named
W'yatt and two associates, who are
charged with having peddled liquor
here for several weeks. W'yatt -has
been taken to Prineville to await'the
action of the grand Jury.
D. G. Ixjver and Ray Modell. of
Klamath Falls, also have been arrest
ed, and 60 quarts of whisky confis
cated. Joseph N. Teal Returns.
Joseph N. Teal, attorney for the Port
land traffic and transportation commit
tee, returned last night from Chicago,
where he attended a series of hearings
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission on the lumber rate cases, af
fecting the distribution of forest prod
ucts from the Northwest.
Mr. Teal also has ben summoned as
a witness before the Newlands com
mittee, now sitting in Washington, D.
C. for the purpose of inquiring into
the general subject of railroad regula
tion. Liquor Sale to Officers Charged.
J. L. Plunkett. 3Tt Fifth street, was
arrested last night by a force of depu
ties on a charge of violating the prohi
bition law. He sold the officers they
assert, four quarts of whisky. The of
ficers allege Plunkett has been going to
Hornbrook, Cal., every week and ob
tainlng'a supply of the liquor.
Log Breaks Worker's Back.
John Mykkonen, 25 years old. suffered
a broken back when a log rolled on
him in a camp near St. Helens. lie was
brought to St. Vincent's Hospital for
treatment. He will probably recover.
Gardener Hurt as Car Hits Wagon.
Joe Salts, an Italian gardener, who
lives at 266 East Fortieth street, was
knocked from his wagon by a Monta
villa streetcar at East Fifty-third and
East Gllsan streets last night, and sus
tained injuries about the chest. The
His Cold
We are informed that at some cafes, restaurants
and gardens beer and strong drinks have been
sold under the guise of the popular soft drink;
BEVO.
These reports have been confirmed sufficiently to
compel us to take action.
The beverage BEVO enjoys the protection of both
federal and state authority. In preparing it for
sale and in marketing it, we adopt every possible
precaution to project the public against imposi
tion and to prevent evasion of the law. BEVO is
sold in bottles only, we bottle all of it ourselves,
and we have adopted a kind of bottle, crown and
seals designed to prevent imitation.
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We shall omit no measure within our power to
defend the authority under which BEVO is
manufactured and sold, to protect the public from
imposition, and to safeguard the good name of this
Association.
We therefore give fair warning that we shall
refuse to sell our products to those who are found
guilty of the above offense.
-ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION
car struck the wagon from behind,
tearing one of the wheels off and
throwing Salta under the front wheels,
one of which passed over his body. He
was taken to the Good Samaritan Hos
pital by the Ambulance Service Com
pany. Iliiblx Wlee to Speak.
"Remain Rolland. a Prophet Not
Without Honor," will be Rabbi Jonah
R. Wise's topic at Temple Beth Israel
Friday night. Rolland Is held to be
typical of the world struggle now in
progress. He is an Incident In the great
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TELEPHONE REPORT FILED
Home Company Says Net Income Is
2 0,3 7 O Ho low Kxpcnes.
SALEM. Or., Nov. 29. fSpeclal ) The
net income ot the Home Telephone &
Teleeraph Company for the year end
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ing Juno CO. ISIS, according to the
annual report filed with the Oregon
Public Service Commission today was
$-0,370.66 less than the expenses of the
company.
The company's total net revenue from
operations was S14S.290.SS for the year,
or $51. 74 7. .".3 less than the year preced
ing. The operating Income wa $120.
32.1. I. or $57,050.61 less thun the ytar
be fore.
lurinR a recent tour of the Cani'l.aB
Northwest, the Duka of Ccnnsiifht w aa
made a chieftain by the Indians of the
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