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THE MORNING OREGONIAX. FRIDAT 3IARCII 9, 1917. 5 FIVE ARRESTED ON LAUD-FRAUD CHARGE One of Eight Indicted Secretly in 1915 Is in Scotland and Two Have Died. ateaasraphsr and htv some nad oat. Very respectfully your. E. F. , COOPER. Gottlieb Miller, the only defendant now living in Portland, wrote to James ecarlatt, one of the victims or the alleged plot, June, 1913, as follows: Tour favor of the ninth just received and contents duly noted. Your papers was sent In lor flung- before I got your letter. ow. if you want to get a good quarter for your boys I can put the three all in one section that is a good one, that if if I can get them soon, the people is filing on the lands every day and I can't tell how long it will be so can place them all three in the same sec tions so when you come to Portland call me on the phone. Main 7343, or at the office of Mr. Cooper. 805 Railway Exchange. Hoping this will meet with your approval. Tours very respectfully. GOTLEIB MILLER. PORTLAND MAN IN TOILS Gottlieb Miller and Others Accused of Using Malls to Induce Vic tims to Pay $150 Each for location on Granted Area. After waiting almost two years, ac tion was obtained yesterday on a secret indictment returned in June. 1915, by the Federal grand Jury against an alleged "ring" of fraudulent locators of lands In the original Oregon & Califor nia land grant. Simultaneously in sev eral parts of the West yesterday five of the six men were arrested for using the malls to defraud, and will be brought to Portland Immediately for trial. The men arrested were W. F. Hal lowell and George L. Young, arrested In Seattle by Special Agent Byron; "W. J. Karl, arrested in San Francisco; Gottlieb Miller, arrested in Portland in (he Multnomah poolroom in the Broad way building, and W. F. Lick, arrested in Montana. The indictment was not acted upon before because Federal officers were looking for a sixth member of the alleged ring. Robert Greer. Peculiarly rnough, as soon as Federal officers in the districts in which the known de fendants were living had been in structed to act simultaneously yester day morning, news came yesterday aft ernoon that Greer had been heard from in Scotland, whither he apparently had fled when the case was under consid eration by the grand jury. Tito Have Died In Interim. Two more men, C. W. Chapman and K. F. Cooper, were also named in the Indictment, but they have died since the indictment was returned. According to Mr. Rankin the defend ants will be brought to Portland im mediately for trial. Bonds of $2000 have been placed on each defendant. According to Mr. Rankin, the defend ants sent circulars from a number of sources throughout the Northwest and advertised themselves as agents of the bouthern Pacific Company. Cooper had an office in the Railway Exchange building in this city; Hallo- well bad an office in the Teon building Karl and Greer operated from Canadian points; Young made Spokane his head quarters; Lick had' .offices in Seattle, and Chapman was in Vancouver, B. C. Although each of the men worked in dependently they corresponded with one another and "boosted" their own game, it is said. Most of the lands Involved in the al leged swindle were In Jackson and Josephine Counties. Bait Used Is Great Profit. The scheme they used, It is alleged was to charge each .of the Individuals applying for a claim S150 for a loca tlon. The land was advertised as rich timber land that within a few months after the purchase at S2.50 an acre could be disposed of at a great proht because of the amount of standing timber each claim was supposed to contain. Title to the lands was promised pros pective purchasers within six months. It is said that whenever letters were sent In by these victims makintr aDDli cation for the lands, these letters would be shown to other intended victims of the scheme for the purpose of lnduclns them to make similar application. It Is alleged by the Government that the defendants were not. and knew they were not, the authorized agents or tne bouthern Facliic Company in the aisposition or the lands. It is charged that in many daces where application was made for "rich timber lands" there was no standing timber upon the lands, and many of the tracts were worthless. Activities Cover Six Years. The scheme was entered into in 1909 and continued up to January, 1915, and it is alleged that the defendants were operating during the entire interim. The alleged victims of the scheme Included persons liviner in Orecon Washington. North Dakota. Minnesota. Canada, Iowa and New York. Some of the location fees ran as high as $300 a claim. Altogether the defendants rfr celved approximately 900 applications. Special Agent Boyer. of the Land Department, and PostofBce Inspector Barkley have worked up the case for the Government. The case was put Deiore tne b ederal grand Jury by unita btates .District Attorney Re am e a. who is absent in Seattle during the prosecution of the alleged "whisky ring." Copies of Letters Given. To show how thoroughly these de fendants co-operated with each other. K. 1'. Cooper s letter to John Slewert, In North Dakota, is an illustration Cooper said: he filled out at the request of Mr. Gottlieb Miller. You send In S1S0 with each applica tion and if you want to charge any more to make a. few dollars for yourself you can do so. You send them directly to me, as I can attend tothem just as soon as they ge here. You see that Mr. Miller Is out a good deal of the time and if you send them to him they might be delayed if they come to him. I will enclose you three sets of papers and If you want any more jou can go to a ERRY MAY BE BOUGHT Pierce County Considers Purchase of "City of Vancouver." TACOMA. Wash., March 8. (Special.) Pierce County probably will purchase the Columbia River ferry City of Van- ouver for the Tacoma-Gig Harbor route, and operate a small ferry eerv- ce between Tac.oma and vasnon island n addition. County Commissioners said today, after listening to two delegations. The only objection to the purchase f the City of Vancouver, it was said. would be a possible prohibitive cost .of ringing the ferry around to the sound rom the Columbia River. The matter f constructing an additional ferry for the Vashon Island route might be post- oned or made unnecessary, it was ad mitted, if the big ferry were purchased nd proved capable of serving both dis tricts. YALE OFFERS EQUIPMENT Mechanical Department Put at Dis posal of Government. NEW HAVEN. Conn., March 8. As a part of the preparedness for war pro gramme at Yale University, it was an- ounced todav that the facultv of Shef- ield Scientific School had voted 'to of fer the Federal Government, in event hostilities, the entire mechanical equipment and apparatus of the school. as well as the laboratories, for such uses as the Government might desire. Summarized, the university has or ganized a pnit of the reserve officers' training corps; has built an armory and stables near Yale Bowl; has built an instruction armory behind the gym nasium; organized aviation and motor patrol units; organized by corporation ote a research committee and a Gov ernment intelligence bureau. ROADS BANQUET PLANNED North Bend Chamber Active In Pro motion of Highway Legislation. NORTH BEND, Or., March 8. (Spe- lal.) The Chamber of Commerce of this city, the only organization in Coos County to Indorse E. J. Adams for member of the State Highway Commis sion, is arranging for a good roads ban quet to which Governor James Withy combe, E. J. Adams and Engineer E. I. Cantine will be Invited. The date will be announced as soon as the replies are received. North Bend has bean among the lead ing towns in boosting the good roads propaganda in Coos County and as- isted materially in having the $362,000 bond issue passed. stashing Like it On the Market For Colds in Bead, Nasal Ca tarrh. Catarrhal Headache. One simple test will convince you. ftilH!M.'i-M,l'.!IM!J;l!ritai)J-l CatarrH Jelly absolutely without equal, pleasant and effective. The only powerful antiseptic and germicidal catarrn Jelly ever onered Sold at all druggists in 25 cent tubes, packed with full directions in Red cartons. u.ry It. "A GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED PHYSIC Foley Cathartia Tablets, a wholesom physic thoroughly cleanse the bowel sweeten the stomach, tone up the live For indigestion, biliousness, bad breath bloating, gas. or constipation, no re edy is more highly recommended. Wm. O. E. Belike, Hancock. Mich., writes ,-I have given Foley Cathartic Tablets a thorough trial and I can honestly recommend them as a mild but sure laxative. They work without griping.' Give stout persons a free, light feel ing-. BERRY CONTRACTS SOUGHT Vancouver Cannery Offering Ijong Orders for Small Fruits. VANCOUVER, Wash., March 8. (Spe- lal.) Contracts for several hundred acres of strawberries, raspberries and other small fuits are being made by the Oregon Packing Company with local growers. " Where the growers are willing the contracts are extended for a period of four or five years and the company is anxious to get more acreage, agreeing to take practically all the berries it can get of the standard varieties used for canning purposes. Several hundred acres of pumpkins and beans have also been contracted for. RAILROAD BACKS WILSON Willamette Valley Southern's Offi cials Score Filibuster. OREGON CITY. Or.. March 8. (Spe cial.) Officials of the Willamette Val ley Southern Railway Company has signed a resolution backing President Wilson in his act of breaking off. dip lomatic relations with Germany, con demning the filibuster of the "twelve willful men" and' urging Congress to prepare for possible war by the crea tion of a democratic system of defense based upon universal training and service. Those signing were: G. B. Dimlck. C. D. Jett, O. V. Smith. C. J. Swanson. J. A. McConnell, H. O. Caufleld, D. C Zink, R. E. Charles, T, A. Minnegan J. A. Stacer, Edwin Foster, Hugh foster. A. Miles, ti. B. Greene. C. M. Baker and Hazel Cole. Men's $15 Department, Entire Third Floor ' i ntrn i -.i:- if--.AtJ : $15 Clothes for $15 TO SAY that I offer either $20 or $25 clothes for $15 would be to question your intelligence. No one can, in good faith, make such an offer. I DO say that I offer the BEST CLOTHES that you can buy for $15 clothes that are sold in many stores for $20, and sometimes as high as $25. Spring stocks of $15 clothes are coming in almost daily. Yqu are in vited to come and see the newest fabrics and styles. A Standard Hat at a Standard Price The Brewer, $3 D C 11 Morrison at Touvth 2' lei EXTRA JURORS PUSS Model of Wharf Where Riot Took Place Built in Court. Slayer Reprieved Seven Times. DUQUOIN. III., March 1. Elston Scott, negro murderer, sentenced to be hung and seven times reprieved by Governor Dunne, is now safely within the walls of the Southern Illinois Pen itentiary, following the action of Gov ernor Lowden, who last week com muted the sentence of Scott to life im prisonment, and arrangements were made to place the negro in the prison Sheriff White, of Jackson County, who is slated to be the new warden of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, took Scott to prison. Before leaving the Jackson County Jail Scott held a 'Tatl ncatlon" with the other prisoners to celebrate his escape from the gallows. Sea-Going Raft Is Building. KELSO, Wash.. March 8. (Special.) Construction of the first of the 1917 giant seagoing rafts Is in progress at the Hammond cradle in Coal Creek Slough at Stella. The raft, which will contain about 600.000 lineal feet of piling, will be ready for its trip down the Columbia in three or four weeks. Some of the mammoth chains used to tie the raft together weigh a ton to every 30 feet. EX-GUARD IS CHALLENGED slump in potato prices with quotations fluctuating widely and the market ap parently shot to pieces, while at the same time practically no sales are be ing made, was the outstanding feature of the market here today. Potato growers who have been holding out for still higher prices are panic stricken over the sudden change in conditions, and are using every means in their power to get their spuds on the market. Quotations on local spuds vary widely, the average price being be tween $60 and $65 a ton. Yakima po tatoes, nominally quoted at $70 a ton, are practically out of the market. Seattle Library Board President and Union Carpenter Are to Be Alternate Members State ments Begin Today. SEATTLE, Wash., March 8. In the trial of Thomas H. Tracy, accused of the murder of Deputy Sheriff Jeffer son Beard at Everett, Wash., today's session of the Superior Court was spent in qualifying two alternate jurors, who will sit with the 12 regular jurors, but who will not participate in the dellf erations except in the event of illness or death of members of the regular panel- John W. Efaw. president of the Se attle Library Board and treasurer of the Seattle General Hospital, and Harry B. Williams, a union carpenter, were chosen as the alternate jurors. Counsel tomorrow will make their opening statements, after which the taking of testimony will begin. Model of Wharf Erected. Immediately after court adjourned this afternoon carpenters erected in the courtroom models of the wharf and wharf buildings at Everett, where th steamer Verona and Tracy and other members of a "free speech" expedition sent by the Industrial Workers of the World headquarters nere, arrived me afternoon of November 6 last. During a parley between the Sheriff on the docir and the men on the Verona pistol firing began between the Sheriff's poss and those aboard the vessel. Deputy Sherlfr Beard, ana anotner member of the posse and five of those on the boat were killed. . Ex-Guard Challenged. The first business taken up today was the obtaining of two alternate Jurors for the trial. Mrs. Florence Reynolds and William H. Triggs. re tired steamboat purser. had been passed tentatively, but counsel for Tracy yesterday questioned Triggs sharply about his employment last No vember as a guard for the Pacific Steamship Company In Seattle during the lingshoremen s strike. Both were removed by challenges. Counsel for the defense yesterday repeated his questions to the jurors as to the effect on their minds of testi mony regarding beatings alleged to have been administered by citizens of Everett to men who tried to hold street meetings in that city, and was not ruled out of order by Judge Ronald, al though the judge on the previous day had forbidden mention of this subject. IDAHO SESSION STILL OM LAWMAKERS USABLE TO CI.KAK CALENDAR IN 60 DAYS. crawled Into the hamper, pulled the lid down tight and saturated her clothes with chloroform. Life had been extinct for several hours when the little girl found the body and sum moned the father from the fields. Mrs. Knowlton was 39 years old. She had been in poor health for some time and told her husband several weeks ago that she felt like ending her suffering. Slain Excitement la Over Workmen's Compensation Act and Members Nearly Come to Blows. BOISE, Idaho, March 8. (Special.) With midnight tonight set as the hour for the 14th Idaho Legislature to ad journ sine die, the calendars in both houses crowded with bills and defi nite action on a workmen's compensa tion act stitll unsettled, the closing down of Ida!a's lawmaking body at the time appif nted does not look pos sible. Legislative leaders believe that an adjournment will not take place until Friday or Saturday. Both houses were still in session at a late hour tonight. The 60th legislative day was one of the most important, insofar as the dis posal of bills of state-wide interest were concerned. The House bill creat ing a State Board of Agriculture and carrying a $20,000 appropriation for the Northwest Livestock Show at Lew- lston, $20,000 for a State Fair at Boise and $5000 for a pure seed show was passed and gent to the Governor. The compensation fight developed into a temporary deadlock when the House refused to agree to the Senate proposal to compromise on Senate bill No. 170 by Incorporating therein a third plan for casualty compensation. Representative Storey, of Ada, and Grice, of Shoshone, almost came to blows when the latter threatened to climb over the desks" after the for- ber during the debate on the labor compensation measure. Speaker Allred took the floor and enthusiastic applause greeted him when he declared that the bill amend ed by the House was the laboring man's bill and urged the House to stand by It. POCKET PILFERING LEGAL Wife Has Right to Search Hus band's Clothes, Says Court. ' NEW YORK March 8. A wife whose husband withholds a sufficient allow ance on pay day has a perfect right, according to a decision by Magistrate Cornell, of the New York Court of Domestic Relations, to go through his trousers pockets when lie is asleep. Mrs. Samuel Kell testified in court that her husband's weekly wage was $15. but that for nine years he has Why Pay Fancy Prices For Your Shoes? THE GREATEST SHOE BARGAINS in America at the BIG STORE! 5000 Pairs of Ladies' Fine Dress Shoes Including all the newest two-tones as well as plain patterns, now on sale at, pair $1.98 $2.48 $2.98 $3.98 Up to $7.50 grade The most beautiful lot of Ladies' Shoes we ever had. They come in the new white, bronze, blacks and patents and dark tans, also in the newest two-tone effects in all the newest shapes and styles. Every size and width is here up to $7.50 grades, now at $1.98, $2.48, $2.98 and $3.98 Over 3000 Pairs of Men's and Boys' SHOES On Sale at Fallowing Prices t $1.4 8 for Boys' All-Solid Shoes, best $2.25 grades, sizes 9 to lSVz.CI AQ 5H. on sale '.8. !$!. 98 also to 7, on jale at. Sizes 1 to per pair... $1.98 for Men's Black and Tans Patents. SamDle Shoes, sizes 5 worth up to $4. the above I QO sizes only at-.T OliOU $2.43 for hundreds of pairs of Men's Dress and Work Shoes, union made, black and tans, broad, medium or English styles, all sizes, per 8 $3.98 for Men's $4 to $7 Shoes, black, tans and patents, all sizes at, Qg FLNDLNGS- 6 For 2-ln-l Shoe Polish, C black, white and tan. 5 for Men's and Ladles' C Cork Soles. $1.50 Arch Supports. IT.. (. Kk.. C Dressing. O Q Pair for 17 Factory Dept. First-class shoe repairing at reasonable prices. Rubber heels put on for 25c in 10 minutes; 5 me chanics at your service. GREENFIELD'S This Is Oar Only Store. Don't Get Conf nicd. Corner 4th and Alder mssmk r-'- --iii j0imn,VifVbmSm EI'--"'r--. . .- '-'..-3 given her only $4 or $5 a week to run the house and care for their two chil dren. Iast Friday, she said, she took $17 from her husban's trousers pocket while he slept. Then Kell sewed up his pockets and took his trousers to bed with him, his wife testified, and in consequence she had him summoned to court. Miners Bonus Increased. .KELLOGG. Idaho. March 8. (Spe cial.) The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Min ing Company, the largest employer of labor in the Coeur d'Alene region, an nounced today that, effective March 1, the bonus paid workmen would be in- creased 25 cents a day. making a total bonus of $1.25 a day. This will be paii as long as the price of lead remains above $7.50, the announcement said. Swiss Extend Mobilization. PARIS, March 8. The Swiss LegaJ tion has Informed reservists on leave and subject to mobilize that the gov ernment nas decided to complete par tial mobilization of January 24 by call-' ing out other units. Including the in fantry battalions of the Third and Sixth divisions, the artillery and two batallions of the Landwehr. WOMEN 'CUT OUT' SPUDS TACOMA PRICES FALL AND MAR KET GOES TO PIECES. Estate Goes to Granddaughter. QUINCY. 111.. March 1 After four years of litigation, in which many per sons claimed by relationship right to the $15,000 estate of John Jackson, the hermit of Santa Ana, Cal., Miss Lorene Pryor. of this city, his granddaughter, has finally been awarded the money. Jackson died a friendless hermit and left no will. His fortune in gold and notes was found hidden In his shack.- Pendleton Flour Goes to Cuba- . PENDLETON. Or.. March 8. (Spe cial.) A shipment of 6000 sacks of flour was sent to Cuba today from the Pendleton roller mills in 203-pound drilled sacks. The sacks are called Osnoberg sacks and it is saia that they are of material "sufficiently heavy to be used for clothing after the contents have been emptied. Rubber to be used In making fish tins airtight Is needed' n Norway. Clmb Members Say They Cannot Afford Potatoes at Present Prices and Sabntlratea Will Be Used. TACOMA, Wash.. March 8. (Special.) While delicately refraining from use of the word "boycott," the executive board of the Woman's Club, meeting today in the Women s Club house, adopted a resolution to exclude pota toes from their menus and shopping lists until the price becomes a great lower and the quality improves. "At the present price," said Mrs. P. C. Smith, club president, "the Tacoma housekeeper cannot afford to serve po tatoes to her family twice a day or even once a day, unless she excludes from her menu some other articles of diet that probably is richer in food values. "We clubwomen will use those we have on Land, but . . are not going to purchase another supply until they become a great deal cheaper. The curious spectacle of a sudden NEW MAGAZINE APPEARS Hood River Publication Is Devoted to Christian P'sychology. HOOD RIVER, Or., March 8. (Sne- cial.) The initial number of the Psy- chogram, a magazine edited by Dr. E. L. House, owner of a local orchard place and ex-pastor of a Portland Con gregational church, appeared this week. The publication, to be devoted to study of Christian psychology, will be Issued monthly at Hood River. Associated with Dr. House will be his son, E. E. House, who will man age the publication. Young Mr. House is now engaged in caring for the House orchard place. Associate editors of the Psychogram are: Dr. w. T. S. Culp professor of psychology, Chicago Uni versity of Christian Education; Dr. C. V. Winbigler, ex-pastor of the First Baptist Church, Washington, D. C; Dr. W. E. Adams, ex-pastor of Queen Anne's Christian Church, Seattle, Wash., and Dr. Marcus Thrane, a phy sician of the East biae orcnard dis trict. . Dr. Thrane will handle the de partment of medical psychology. CHILD FINDS MOTHER DEAD Xampa Woman TJses Chloroform In Linen Hamper. NAMPA. Idaho. March 8 (Special.) 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