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THE 3IORXIXG- OREGOXIA THTJKSDAT. DECEMBER 7, 1916. t MISS COLBY GUILTY If SEGOflO DEGREE Jury Fixes Penalty of Girl Slayer at 10 to 12 Years L in Penitentiary. JURY TAKES 40 BALLOTS Prisoner Bitter Toward Men Who, She Says, Induced Her to Kill j Thomas--Mot ion for New Trial Is Entered. THOMPSON FALLS, Mont.. Dec. 6. (Special.) Miss Edith Colby was found guilty of murder in the second degree here today for shooting: and killing: A. C. Thomas. The penalty is 10 to 12 years in the penitentiary. Motions for a. new trial were made and court was adjourned. "1 would take a sentence gladly and serve it out if the others were going with me. It was not my fight; It never was my fight. I came to Thompson Falls by accident and I know I am the only one to suffer." Angry but not discouraged. Miss Colby made the foregoing statement follow ing the verdict. Girl Bitter at Ainsworth. Asked if she would testify against A. C. Ainsworth. who is held on a mur der charge. Miss Colby said: "I shall, if they will let me, but watch it there never will be anything more done. He's responsible. I went to him the day before the shooting; he knew I had a gun; knew that I was angry at Thomas. He was trying to make me more angry. "He told me that Thomas had said that I was brought to Thompson Falls for Ainsworth's benefit. He didn't call in the Sheriff or try to take the gun away. What did he do? He laughed. He told me I was a coward: that I wouldn't have nerve to do anything. "Look at what Manire said. It's all evidence in' the case. They wanted Thomas killed. I never did. : ' Thomas were back here, he would tell the world that. I didn't try to kill him. "Parks is nothing but a tool, any way. Ainsworth told me that he knew he didn't have much sense, but that the job of prosecutor in Sanders County was a small one, that he would help out Parks and get him by. He said he could handle the law for it, "Oh. I'd take a sentence gladly if I could along with the men that got Thomas killed. I've got 70 days in which to take an appeal or get a new trial. That's all I can remember now. They stopped me from putting in some of this at the trial." Cane Costs County $3000. William Strom, Clerk of Sanders County, estimated that the case had cost the county J3000. The jury received the case at 8 o'clock last night and reached a ver dict at 4 o'clock this morning after 40 ballots had been taken. At first, according to the foreman of the jury, two votes were for acquittal. Most of the ballots were cast in an effort to. determine the punishment, as the judge asked the jury to do. The jury fixed the punishment almost at the minimum, of 10 to 12 years in the penitentiary. The trial of A. S. Ainsworth, owner of the paper on which Miss Colby worked, who is also charged with mur der, is set for Thursday. Special Prose cutor B. JC Wheeler told the court to day that he had not decided what to do with the Ainsworth case. After consulting with attorneys after luncheon. Judge Clements fixed Satur day morning as the date for sentencing Miss Colby. No bail was fixed. The motion for a new trial will be argued Saturday. NEW AGTS ARE ADVISED produced before transporting them. He urged an amendmen, introduced at the last session of Congress, to prohibit a railroad from, transporting articles manufactured or produced by it or by any corporation it is affiliated with. The present Administration, the Attorney-General says, has insist '. upon more effective dissolutions of monopo lies and combinations in restraint of trade and at the same time "has V :en solicitous to avoid prosecutions for which there is no adequate ground." During the year ten of these cases have been finally determined, and of 36 cases now pending 15 have reached the Supreme Court. Despite country-wide investigation of reported breaches of neutrality and other criminal acts arising from the war,s many of the eases were found to have violated state rather than federal laws. "Mere plotting alone," says the re port, "is not criminal. Planning or preparation - in this country of a mili tary expedition designed to start from a point outside this country seems not to be forbidden by law. Hence many activities which produce constant fric tion cannot at present be reached." RATE INCREASE COSTLY OXB COAST COMPANY SAYS LOSS WOULD BE fSOO.OOO IJT 1917. San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Argnea Against Rise Before In terstate Commission. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6. John. A. McGregor, president of the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, testified to day before the Interstate Commerce Commission examiners" here that in creased transcontinental freight rates would cost his company $800,000 dur ing 1917 alone. He said the company had ordered for ships under construc tion 100,000 tons of steel from the East and the new rates would add several dollars to the cost of each ton, thus seriously impairing profit figured on the basis of the present rates. John S. Willis, assistant manager of the Chamber of Commerce, introduced an exhibit showing that 417 ships are under construction in American ship yards and that a large percentage of them are to be employed in coast trade within the next few years, particularly after the war. The purpose of the ex hibit was to prove that the present lull in Panama Canal traffic is only temporary and should not disturb ter minal railroad rates to the Pacific Coast. James A. Keller, traffic manager for Baker & Hamilton, of San Francisco; A. J. Ames, of W. D. Sheldon & Co., of San Francisco, and F. P. Gregson, man ager of the traffic bureau of the As sociated Jobbers, of Los Angeles, all testified that the proposed increase would work a hardship to the interests they represented. Keller declared that the proposed in crease in westbound freights of 10 cents on carload lots and 25 cents on less than carload lots on so-called schedule commodities would mean a loss to his firm of $30,000 a year. Ames declared that barley shippers would suffer heavily if the proposed increase of 10 cents a ton on eastbound shipments were affected. The witnesses agreed rail carriers should be permitted to meet sea com petition and that interruption of sea competition was only temporary. HOSPITAL NETS $56,000 STATES IXSTITUTIOX TO Tt'KX BACK 905,000, SAYS Sl'PEHiSTBXDENT. PRODUCTION ' BY RAIL WS POSED BY GOVERNMENT. OP- Perfection of Neutrality Laws Also la Recommended to Congress by At-torney-Geu' ral Gregory. WASHINGTON. Dec 6. Complete di vorcement of transportation from pro duction by amending the commodities clause of the interstate commerce law, authority to sue orporations wherever they transact business, perfection of neutrality laws and extension of the right of search warrant in criminal cases are among the recommendations of Attorney-General Gregory in his an nual report to Congress, made public today. The Attorney-General says that, de spite the Government's victory in the Supreme Court in the Lackawanna Coal Company case, the railroads are still sjile to claim that the commodities clause does not prohibit them from en gaging in production along their lines. provided only that they sell the articles Increase In Per Capita Tax for Next Blenninm Avoided Despite Price Advances Up to 25 Per Cent. SALEM. Or., Dec 6 (Special.) The fact that above overhead charges, esti mated interest and other expenses, the Oregon State Hospital farm produced $65,000 net for the state in the past two years, is given as one of the principal reasons by Dr. li. E. Lee Stelner. su perintendent of the institution, why he has asked for no greater Per capita tax in this year's budget for the next bien- nium than he asked two years a:o. He states that regardless of the fact that a large share of the necessaries which will be required at the institu ion have increased in price from 25 per cent upward, the advanced cultiva tion of the farm and the added returns from it with the vast amount of prod uce used for the Inmates and employes makes it possible to hold down with out asking for a heavy per cent of Increase in the per capita cost. The per capita cost asked for two years ago was $15 and it was granted. 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One package proves it 25c at all druggists.,. Defaulting State Treasurer Asks Freedom, but Action Delayed. BOISE. Idaho, Dec. 6. (Snecial.) O. v. Allen, ex-state Treasurer of Idaho, now in the state penitentiary, a self- confessed embezzler, is an applicant tor paroie. is name appeared Tues day among a list of 29 applicants seek ing release from- the state prison. Al len's application was laid over until all members could be present and act. Allen received a sentence of from five to ten years in the penitentiary when, two years ago, he pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling $73,000 of state funds while State Treasurer. Ke bad been nominated, after serving two terms as Treasurer. Cxovernor Haines removed him from office, the state committee repudiated him, and his ar rest, the confession and imprisonment followed. Since then he has been working on the prison farm. Orollno ' Sewer Plans Acepted. OROFTNO. Idaho. Dec. 6. (Special.) 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A semi official statement from the Vatican gives the following summary of the allocution delivered by Pope Benedict at the secret consistory at which, he created 10 new cardinals: "The allocution began with the an nouncement of the promulgation of a codification of the -canon law compiled by Cardinal Gasparri under the or ders of Pope Pius X. The Pope thanked all cardinals, archbishops, bishops, clergy and laymen who con tributed to the great work and added: " "We are confident with reason that this most important and opportune work will greatly help to bind and strengthen ecclesiastical discipline, be cause In making the laws of the church better known, it promotes their better observance. . "The Pope pointed out that the abro gation or modification of laws during the long history of church legislation had caused a complication which made a new codification & work of necces slty. He said, that the glory of .that thought belongs to nis predecessor, Plus X, who as soon as he found him self responsible Xor the government o the church, not only thought out a de sign of codifying these laws, but also strenuously labored as to be within sight of the completion of the work before God called him to nls reward. Hence, although he did not live to see the work quite completed, the glory of it is all his. Thus hia name In the legis constitution of the church must be associated in history with thqse of Innocence III, . Honorius III and Gregory IX." " RAILWAY'S ACT ANGERS CanemaU Residents Object to De- ' etructlon. of -Walk. OREGON CITY. Or.. Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) Residents of Canemah have threatened to enjoin the Southern Pa-' ciflc because of the railroad removing a part of the sidewalk along the main line of the railroad in Canemah. The Southern Pacific claims the walk Is on the right-of-way, while the residents of Canemah say that the walk has been in longer use than the railroad. The company yesterday tore up about 150 feet of the walk, which was 300 feet long. The walk parallels the track at a bend, the scene of two wrecks. The walk was destroyed by each wreck, but afterwards repaired by the company. BLACKLIST STILL IN VOGUE Vancouver Drinker Gets Permit, but Loses on Failure to Report. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) The well-known "black list," on which formerly was posted the names of habitual drunkards to whom liquor dealers were forbidden to sell, seems to be in use even under prohibition in this state. Mike McCool, suspended upon his promise to report daily to the chief of police, was on tne oiacniiai as isiacKie McCool. Yesterday Blackle forgot to report. and Investigation showed that M. Mc Cool had obtained a liquor permit. 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