Morning Oregonian., December 20, 1916, Page 6, Image 6

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1916.
WILBUR CONVICTED
FOR LIQUOR SALES
PORTLAND GIRL AND SWEETHEART SHE KILLED BEFORE TAKING
HER OWN LIFE.
. ROSS'
Buy Practical Gift Pieces
Pay Next Year
NOT HIGHLY RATED
RARE ROCKER VALUES
Pattern In Oak aad Mahogany, Chaae aad Leather irpholstered.
Friars Club proprietor Is to
Be Sentenced for Third
v Time in 28 Months:
Prominent Men Say Reputa
tion for Veracity Is Not
Good in Pacific County.
$15.75 Mahogany - Fin
ished Rockers, backs and
seats upholstered in
chase leather, extra spe- I I AC
clal at. l Iit3
19.25 Spring-Seat TTp-holstered-Back
Rockers, f 7 If
solid oak frames, at. W lilU
110.60 Spring-Seat. Wlds
Upholstered-Back Rock- P 7 DC
ers, in oak. at. V I i03
$12.75 Comfort Rockers,
mass ive quartered oak
frames; upholstered lot Q Oft
chase leather, at. OiOU
$4.50 Masslv Quartered
Oak Rockers, upholstered f 17 OC
In genuine leather ..ylliOS
$29.75 Auto-Seat Rockers.
u p h o lstered In genuine I Q Ofi
leather, quartered franxrs. I JiOU
DEFENSE BLAMES PARTIES
BIG. STUMP IS IN COURT
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WORD
Visitors Are Said to Have Taken
Own Liquor to Club and to Have
. Toured It From Bottles it
Waiters Turned Away.
OftEGOM CITY. Or.. Dec. 19. (Spe
cial.) For the third time in the last
two years and a half. Julius. Wilbur
today was convicted m Circuit Judge
Campbell's court on a charge ol vio
lating a state liquor law. The jury
was out 26 minutes. Wilbur, who is
proprietor of the Friars' Club -at Mil
waukle. will., be sentenced Thursday
morning. His attorney, ex-Senator
Fulton, took 10 days to file a motion
for a new trial.
The case against Wilbur. Tommy
Nishioka and Louis Rosenstein, his em
ployes, charged with selling liquor Oc
tober 1. the day of the raid by Sheriff
Wilson and his posse, was continued,
today. The trial was-- set for today.
Mr. Fulton leaves next month for
Washington and the date for the trial
will be set upon his return.
The state completed its case this
moralng, introducing as witnesses Dep
uty Sheriffs Lee French, Henry H.
Hughes and E. C. Brownlee, who took
part In the raid.
Defense Denki Liquor Sales.
Julius Wilbur, the defendant, went
on the stand on his own behalf this
morning. He said that the 70 bottles
of assorted liquor found by Sheriff
Wilson In the raid was left from the
old wet days. He said that he did not
aea Kent Wilson, son of the Sheriff,
who visited the club September 23 to
get evidence, and denied flatly that he
old liquor of any kind.
Some parties, however. brought
liquor Into the place, he said, but
always against his own wishes. He
tried to keep drunken persons from
the club, and would send men and
women away who came in with a bot
tle of the stuff, he testified.
When his back was turned some per
sons would pour liquor from bottles
In their pockets into glasses on the
table, he said. .
Louis Rosenfeld, waiter; Tommy
Nlshloka, Japanese porter, and Casey
Jones, musician or entertainer, were
then put on the stand. Each declared
that liquor was not sold at the club,
although they did admit that the crowd
did not all leave sometimes until as
late as 6 o'clock in the morning.
James P. McGraff, who says he is
a traveling salesman, testified that he
was a member of the crowd at the
resort on the morning of the raid, one
of a party of four. He said he had 14
or 15 drinks by the time he left the
place, but that the drinks were taken
from bottles in the party. He said he
poured whisky from the bottles In the
party into glasses, as the defense al
leged was done by many guests In
spite of Wilbur's watchful eye.
The defense then Introduced three
character witnesses, W. H. Counsell, a
Milwaukie contractor; Sam Riley, Mar
shal and Deputy Sheriff, and George
Ralston, proprietor of a store. Each
man said that he had been in the place
at night, and that the crowd appeared
orderly. Riley testified that promi
nent people often went to the Friars'
Club from both Portland and Mil
waukie. Mayor Say Reputation Bad.
The defense attempted to undermine
the testimony of Kent Wilson, who said
that a negro woman was playing the
piano at th time of his visit, Septem
ber 23. F. J. Relchard, Multnomah
County Deputy Sheriff and special
pgent attached to District Attorney
Evans' office, was put on the stand
by the state rebuttal. He said that
a mulatto was playing that night. Wil
son and Relchard visited the resort at
the same time, although at the time
neither knew that the other was there.
Councilman W. H. Grasle and Mayor
G. U. felton. of Milwaukie, both testi
fied that the reputation of the place
was 'bad. The defense put Casey Jones
on the stand to refute minor points
made by the state.
The defense was an absolute denial
that liquor had been sold In the club,
that Relchard, a detective, and Wilson
had manufactured their stories, and
that the raid was pulled off for Its po
lit leal effect. Both Sheriff Wilson and
District-Attorney Hedges were candi
dates for re-election.
The laot that newspapermen, as
Deputy sheriffs. accompanied the
party and took part In the raid was
cited to bring out this point, and a
picture of Sheriff Wilson and District
Attorney Hedges standing beside the
confiscated liquor was introduced as
evidence to bring out the point.'
GIRL SHOOTS YOUTH
SLAYER CRAZED BY LOVE
Tragedy Takes Place in Marion Ho
tel at Salem, Where Young Man
Is Night Clerk Girl's Chum
Near During Shooting.
(Continued From TMrst Page.)
Mr. Finley Lectures Tonight.
All who are interested In the home
life of wild birds are invited to the
lecture which William L. Finley, State
Biologist, will give tonight In Library
Jlau, Central Library, at 8 o clock,
Mr. Finley's talk will be illustrated
with moving pictures, most of which
he has taken himself. This lecture is
piven In the Reed College course on
. Boy Scouts, scouting and boy leader
hlp, and is entirely free.
Laugh When People x
Step On Your Feet
Try this yourself then
It along to others.
It works I
pass
Ouch I ? J ? ! ! This kind of rouh
talk will be heard less here in town i
people troubled 'with corns will follow
the simple advice of this Cincinnati
authority, who claims that a few drops
of a drug called freezone when applied
to a tender, aching corn stops sorenes
at once, and soon the corn dries up
and lifts right out without pain.
He says freezone is an ether com
pound which dries Immediately and
never inflames or even irritates the
surrounding tissue or skin. A Quarte
of an ounce of freezone will cost very
littl at any drugstore, but is sum
cient to remove every hard or soft
corn or callus from one's feet. Million
of American women will welcome thi
announcement since the inauguration
of the high heels. Adv.
Reduced Rates
New Perkins Hole
riFTH AND WASHINGTON STS.
"Where tfce City LJIe Centerm."
PORTLAND. OREGON.
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. W. Cummings, Salem, Killed
by Myrtle White, Portland.
to travel alone so much. The matron,
said that her remonstrances always
met with angry response from the girl.
Mr. Cummings had been night clerk
at the hotel since last Spring. James
R. Linn, one of the principal proprie-
ors of the hotel, said today that he
had been a bellboy there for some time
prior to assuming the place as night
clerk. He was well liked at the hotel.
He came to this city from Eugene, for
merly having been a bellboy at the
Hotel Osborn in that city. His parents
live in Montana.
MantRrr Glvea Opinion.
Mr. Linn said that the tragedy mys
tified him; that he knew nothing of
the White girl, had never heard of her
before and had never heard Mr. Cum
mings mention any such girl. Manager
Miller, of the hotel, also made the same
assertions.
Miss Klghtllnger said that she had
been with Miss White most of the time
since she came from Portland for the
last time and that, aside from a word
or two spoken at the hotel counter, she
was certain that Miss White had h&d
no meeting with Mr. Cummings until he
entered her room this afternoon.
Mrs. Edwards, mother of the girl.
was notified at Portland of the tragedy
and said she would leave immediately
for Salem.
Miss Klghtllnger was closely cross-
examined by District-Attorney Ringo
tonight as to her statements. She clung
to the same story which she related
In the 'afternoon, and the District-Attorney
is convinced that she is telling
all she knows of the events leading up
to and surrounding the tragedy. Cor
oner Clough was uncertain tonight as
to whether he will hold an inquest, but
probably will not as It appears certain
that Miss White did the ehootlng.
MARRIAGE PLAXS WERE MADE
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Defense' Attempts to Show Tree fs
Felled Across Vanderpool Cabin
Intentionally, Whllo Govern
ment Says Accident.
TACOMA. Wash., Deo. 19. Previous
abortive trials of the so-called Ross
and Howard clans in Pacific County
were broughf to tha attention of the
United States District Court hers to
day, through the appearance as wit
nesses of most of the court officials
of Pacific and Wahkiakum counties, in
the night-rider case.
Expert woodsmen testified to the
probability of intent In the felling of
a six-foot fir tree by Earl and Frank
Ross, complaining witnesses on the
cabin of Mrs. May Vanderpool, witness
for the defense.
H. J. Ellis, of Raymond, said that he
believed the tree was cut so as to
make it fall on the Vanderpool cabin.
An 18-lnch section of the big six-foot
tree had been used In court for several
days, and was entered today as an ex
hlblt by the defense.
"What Is the character of Mrs. Mar
garet Ross for' truth and veracity, as
far as you know, In your neighbor
hood?" was the question asked witness
after witness by the defense.
"It is not good." was the unvarying
answer of the defense witnesses, in
cluding Sol Smith, ex-Mayor of South
Bend; A. B. McDonald, Sheriff of Pa
cific County from 1904 to 1911; F. R.
Wright, postmaster for the last eight
years at South Bend; Judge Edward
H. Wright, Superior Judge of Pacific
and Wahkiakum counties and Prose
cuting Attorney at the time of the
first night-rider troubles; Robert G.
Chambers, City Attorney of Raymond;
A, C. Little, nine times Mayor of Ray
mond, and ex-State Fish Commissioner":
Edwin M. Connor, publisher and editor
of Willapa Harbor Pilot and Demo
cratic Presidential elector; Dr. F. L.
Carr, physician and president of the
National Bank of Montesano.
Mr. Bradley testified concerning the
improvements that Mrs. Vanderpool
had made on the claim, over which the
trouble started. He said that Mrs.
Vanderpool had oats and a garden
planted in 1912, and that in 1913. on
May 20, when Mrs. Ross .arrived, there
was a growing garden,, which he had
put in for her.
"I found Mrs. Robs looking over the
claim," he said. "I asked her If she
was figuring on this claim. She said
'yea.'
" 'This belongs to a wdiow woman,
and she's away working to make a
j living.' I told her. I've been up against
! this proposition before, and I'm not
I going to be bluffed -out,' Mrs. Ross
I said."
Shop Today Open Until 9 P. M.
Leather - Covered
Oak Footstools
A large showing of these
useful gift pieces, priced ( I "7Q
up from 01 0
Real Tennessee
Red Cedar Chests
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The most fairly priced,
widely assorted show
ing of Genuine Red
Cedar Chests you will
find. All sizes in both
Slain and copper trlm'd.
ome with trays.
others without.
up from.
Priced
$9.75
$2.95
Oak
Child's
Rocker
WAS S3.75.
Just as pic
tured has
chase leather
seat. All square
stock.
Thomas W. Camming.
evidently a hurried affair, for she had
just completed the. decoration of her
room at her mother's home and to all
appearances was preparing for a re
turn there. A telegram was received
from her Monday upon her arrival at
Salem, giving assurance that every
thing was all right.
YOUTH NATIVE OF LIXX COUNTY
Thomas V. Cummings A'as Born on
Farm Xear Halsey.
Toy
Furniture
For the Kiddies
la Decorated White Enamel.
Children's Rockers for C I CC
only 0 I i03
Solid-End Doll Beds for J2 25
Table" and Chair "Set's" "for g
Chiffonier's w i t'h mirror fC Pfl
only..... OOiOU
Doll Dressers now priced J 2jj
Doll " China ciosets priced J2 Q jj
$34.50 Mahogany
Spinet Desk
These Popular Desks are shown
here In wide variety, this spe
cial number being one of the
best patterns on show. Made
of mahogany, beautifully fin
ished with excellent interior
arrangement. An ideal gift
for her. Upholstered Chair to (7 7r
match v 1 1 1 3
Trip to Salem Was to Meet Fiancee,
Mother Declares.
Miss Myrtle White is the daughter
of Mrs. Tom Edwards, proprietress of
the Lambert lodging house at i-Shi
Union avenue and had been staying
with her mother. She was employed
at a millinery establishment at Third
and Salmon streets.
Miss White, according to her moth
er's story, said that she was going to
Salem with the Intention of marrying
Thomas Cummings, night clerk of the
Marion Hotel, and the young man to
whom she said she was engaged. She
planned to return ' to Portland with
Mr. Cummings, and then they were to
so to California on their honeymoon.
Her mother last saw her on Friday.
She left Monday.
Miss Lillian Klghtllnger. the girl
that Is reported to have been In the
room at the time of the shooting, is
said ' to have stayed at a downtown
hotel- with Miss White In Portland
Sunday night, although at the hotel
mentioned there did not appear the
names of the girls on the register.
They did not stay at Miss White's
room at her mother's lodging-house.
Miss White had been introduced to
young Cummings several months ago
and had seen him on several occasions
on visits that she made to Salem, os
tensibly -to visit friends. She did not
stay at thelx. home but at the Marion
Hotel. Her acquaintance with young
Cummings covered about seven or
gight months.
Miss White appeared restless of late,
her mother attributing her actions to
some Inconsequential trouble. In tha
last two weeks she had made two trips
to Salem, and the latter part of last
week confided to some friends that
she was about to be married and "go
away.
Mrs. Edwards, after her custom
ary week-end visit to her husband
at Salem, returned Monday only to find
that Her daughter had already started
for that town. Lillian Klghtllnger is
believed to be the daughter of S. C.
Klghtlinger, of 36 Miller street, Salem.
Miss White's father and mother had
separated, and the father is said to
be employed at the White House Res
taurant. Her mother married -again.
Miss White's last trip to Salem was
ALBANY, Or., Dec. 19. (Special.)
Thomas W. Cummings, who was shot
and. killed In Salem today, was a former
Albany boy. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George B. Cummings resided here for
several years.
They left Albany almost four years
ago, and since then have been living
near Loma, Mont. Thomas Cummings
was born on a farm In Linn County,
near Halsey, 19 years ago. With his
parents he cams to Albany about ten
years ago. He attended the publio
schools here and also worked In a local
barber shop, shining shoes. Later he
was employed In a cleaning and press
lng parlor here. When his parents
went to Montana Thomas went with
them and remained there until about
one and a half years ago. He then went
to Eugene and was employed in a hotel
there for a few months. He left Eu
gene to work, in the Hotel Marion at
Salem, where he had been employed
since. As a boy- here he was popular
with his schoolmates and people gen
erally. '
The young man s father was form
erly Interested In the Albany Stables.
was then In the drayage business and
then conducted a grocery store here
for two or three years before going to
stead. Mrs. George Irvine, of this city,
is an aunt of the young man. and Hugh
Cummings. of Corvallls, an uncle. A
brother, Lester Cummings, resides at
Astoria, and another brother, Walter,
is somewhere in Washington.
TURKEYS SELL AT $58,000
Douglas Producers Find Market in
Large Coast Cities.
ROSEBURG, Or., Dec. 19. (Special.)
With the market opening at 24 cents
a pound, Douglas County poultry deal
ers today purchased approximately
7750 turkeys for the Christmas trade.
The average weight of the birds was
12 pounds, and the raisers realized
about $18,000 for their product. With
the exception of about 2500 birds,
which were bought by Oakland deal
ers, all of the Christmas consignments
were purchased In this city. The first
shipments will be as late as Thursday.
Including the sales made for the
Thanksgiving trade, the turkey raisers
of Douglas County this year realized
approximately $58,000 from their birds.
Most of the Christmas turkeys are
being shipped to the Portland, Seattle
and ban r ranclsco markets.
Mahogany Gate-Leg
Tables, Special $15.95
Exactly as pictured when leaves
are down table measures 13 H x4a
equal to any $25 table on show.
Xys! Xys!
Eight-Piece Set
Doll DlshesfQ
13 - Inch Baby
Dolls now QgQ
17 - Piece Doll
?..B.?.$I.69
Large Do 11
al! .".!?.$ 1. 95
18 - Inch Doll
Beds now (Jq
10 - Inch Baby
29 -inch Tama
Yaraa t QQ
Dolls.. ..W I oa
18-Inch Express
avt.r...?.".95c
20 - Inch Yam a
Yama Q
Dolls.... '"J
L a r g Hand-
atr.8.:rw$5.75
IrrTir"
$14.75 Ilah ogany
Tea Wagon $9.95
This pretty Tea Wagon
has wood wheels and port
able tray. Finished dull
mahogany.
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A Splendid New Combination,
slOJS.
$1.95
Steel Doll Bed
A pretty Bed In the oxidized finish,
with angle ends and real woven-wire
spring. Other styles on show.
City Council last night, E. C. Kirk
patrlck, recently appointed County
Judge of Polk County, resigned as
Mayor of this city. His resignation
was accepted, and. under the provisions
of the charter, C. B. Stone, councllman-at-large,
succeeded to the office.
Mayor Stone has been In Dallas for
five years. He. was a Progressive in
mi! hut in 191B supported Hushes. He
has been consinerea one or the most Read Th Orron1an classified ads.
earnest workers on the City Council.
Tracy Staats, Democrat, and for sev
eral hernia in the past a member of
the City Council, was elected by the
Council as Councilman-at-Large. Henry
G. Campbell was elected Councilman
from the First Ward to till a vacancy
caused by the resignation of Z. M.
Knight.
$5000 Ranch Home Burns.
MARSHFIELD. Or., Deo. 19. (Spe
cial.) The fine ranch residence of R.
A. Bock, on Catching Inlet, was burne.l
today with its - entire contents. The
building and furniture had a value of
about )5000. The home was one of the
most comfortable among the Coon
County rural dwellings. There wa-
82500 insurance on building and fur-nlshlns's.
DALLAS MAYOR RESIGNS
C. B. Stone Succeeds E. C. Klrkpat-
rlck, Connty Judge-Elect.
DALLAS. Or. Deo. 19. (Special.) I
At the regular meeting of the Dallas I
CTJM3IIXGS KNOWN" IX ECGEXE
Slain Youth Formerly Worked at Ho
tel as Bellboy.
EUGENE, Or., Deo. 19. (Special.)
Thomas W. Cummings, who was shot
and killed by Miss Myrtle White, of
Portland, today,, was well known In
Eugene, where he had been employed.
first in the cleaning and pressing par
lors of the Osburn Hotel, and later as
a bellboy.
With his brother, Lester Cummings,
who is now located in Astoria, ' he
had charge of the pressing and clean
ing establishment which is now owned
hy Mr. CummlLga' cousin. Clarence
Simons, lie went to tsaien. --it spring.
PARENTS RESIDE IN MONTANA
Youth Shot at Salem Formerly Lived
on Ranch Near Loma.
LOMA, MONT.. Dec. 19. (Special.)
Thomas Cummings, who was fatally
shot at Salem today by Miss Myrtle
White, of Portland, was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. George B. Cummings, who
live on a farm a few miles north of
here.
Mr. Cummings is well known here,
having lived with his parents on their
ranch until about two years ago. when
he returned- to Oregon.- His parents
are former residents of Albany, Or.
where the father was engaged in the
grocery business. Besides his parents,
two brothers and two sisters survive.
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