Morning Oregonian., July 01, 1918, Page 4, Image 4

TH MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1918.
GAPTAIN MOORE"
SOUGHT LONG TIME
Finger Prints, Bertillion Meas
urements and Photo
graph Identify.
,ONG HUNT ENDS AT LAST
Confronted With Positive Proof,
Prisoner Admits Guilt, Says
Inspector Craddock; White
Slavery Charge Possible.
"Captain M. Moore," arrested In
Portland Saturday by representatives
of the Burns Agency and Inspectors
Craddock. Morale and Swennes, has
been identified as Robert J. McCoomb,
convicted of forgery at Houston, Tex.,
eeveral years ago.
The prisoner's finger prints and Ber
tillon measurements were taken yes
terday by J. M. Hunter In charge of
the identification bureau at police
headquarters, and tally exactly with a
telegraphic description sent from Hous
ton. Tex.
Inspectors Snow and Leonard, of the
detective bureau, discovered a photo
graph of McCoomb, alias "Moore," at
detective headquarters sent, by the
Sheriff at Hannibal, Mo., which said
he was wanted for forgery committed
there December 13, 1916. McCoomb
admitted to the authorities, they say,
that it was his picture and that he had
committed the forgeries.
List of Aliases L,ong.
A letter from the Sheriff of Marion
County (Hannibal), Missouri, addressed
to the chief of police of Portland, De
cember 19, 1916. says to keep a sharp
lookout for Herbert J. McCoomb, alias
Roger M. Sutton, alias It. J. Morris,
alias A. W. Nagel, alias Herbert J.
Moran, alias P. A. Nygren, and says
McCoomb served a term in the Fort
Madison, la.. Penitentiary for forgery.
MeCoomb's arrest here, in a Nob Hill
apartment-house, in company with Mrs.
Klva Mountain, who posed as his wife,
followed an attempt to pass a ?50
forged check in a local department
store. His operations take in a greater
scope than any swindler yet captured,
according to the detectives, and he is
even known in New York, where it is
alleged he first began his criminal ca
reer, leaving in his wake many thou
sands of dollars in worthless paper
among innocent merchants throughout
the country.
Con reunion Is Made.
Confronted with his picture and
Bertillon identifications, it is said,
McCoomb, acknowledged to Inspector
Craddock that "the jig was up."
Charges of forgery and impersonat
ing an Army officer will be preferred
and it is probable a charge of white
elavery may be made, as he traveled
with his supposed wife in a great
many states.
Mrs. Klva Mountain, whose residence
Is in Portland, claimed at first they
were married, but a marriage license
was afterwards found in her belong
ings showing she married W. A.
Mountain in Vancouver in 1913. then
Rning tast. later they separated,
Mrs. Mountain returning to Portland.
A reconciliation was effected a' short
time ago and Mrs. Mountain was jour
neying East to Join her husband when
she met "Captain Moore" on the train
at Spokane, with whom she has since
lived.
W. S. S. BI V THE LIMIT
ANNUAL RECESS LOOMS
COSGHESS READY TO .CI.EAU AAV AY
PBXDINO LKUISUATIOX.
Increasing Government Wheat Price to
2.."0 a Bushel One of Important
Matters for Consideration.
WASHINGTON. D. C, June 30. Con
Kress tomorrow will begin clearing
up of legislation preparatory to a re
cess this week until early in August.
Leaders hope to finish Wednesday.
Wartime prohibition, the new bond au
thorization bill and important legisla
tion added to the 112,000, 000.000 Armv
appropriation bill, are the most urgent
matters remaining before Congress.
rile controversy over the Senate
amendment to the agricultural appro
priation bill increasing the government
guaranteed wheat price to JJ.50 1
bushel will come up in the Senate to
morrow.
Prohibition legislation is blocking
another agriculture appropriation bill.
me ii,ouu,uuu emergency food produc
tion measure. Consideration of It
probably will follow the Senate's dis
posal of the wheat controversy, with a
movement on foot to put over the "dry
question until Congress returns from
the recess.
Several measures, including the wom
an suffrage resolution in the Senate
and the water power development bill
In the House are scheduled for post'
ponement until after vacation.
W. S. 8. Bl'V THE LIMIT
WASHINGTON IS CHOSEN
Republican National Headquarters
to He at Capital.
CHICAGO, June 30. Washington is
expected to oe made permament head
Quarters of the Republican National
committee as a result 01 a conference
here Saturday of Will H. Hays, national
chairman, with National Committeeman
A. T. Hert of Kentucky and Fred B.
otaniey of Kanses. and national Treas
urer red V . u pham of Chicago.
. No announcement was made, but
is expected the conferees agreed that
with Congress in session virtually all
Summer, and with the many of the
nation's leaders in Washington, tha
city should be the base of operations.
W. S. S. BUY THE LIMIT
TRIBUTE PAID TO AMERICA
Nicaragua to Celebrate Fourth of
July With Due Solemnity.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua. June 30. Th
President of Nicaragua has decreed
the Fourth of July a holiday through
out the republic "as a mark of homage
to and admiration for the United
States as the bulwark of democracy
with which Nicaragua is allied in the
great war."
Military commanders are charged to
celebrate tho Giv with due solemnity
W. S. S. Bl'Y THE LIMIT '
Mrs. A. B. Cole, of Cauby, Injured
Mrs. A. B. Cole, of Canby, Or., wa
thrown out of her automobile on Ninth
street last night in a collision with
.Mount tocott streetcar and receive
severe oody bruises. Mrs. Cole was
driving north on Ninth street and th
streetcar was eastbound. The injured
woman received treatment at th
Emergency Hospital.
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on Saturday. Richt Mrs. Klva Mountain, Apprehended With McCoomb,
DRIVE TO CONTINUE
ublic Must Respond Loyallly
in Stamp Campaign.
STATE SETS SWIFT PACE
Whirlwind Rccanvass of Downtown
District for Increased Sales and
Pledges Will Be Made by
Civic Club Members.
(Continued From First Page.)
lie triumphs are to be simultaneous.
Those who have pledged themselves to
the purchase of war savings stamps.
according to their means, are deserved
ly to be honored. But someone ought
to say a word for the thousands of
men and women who are tramping
the streets and country roads in this
omewhat genial weather unselfish
volunteers for the war stamp cause.
hat's why I am saying it.
4th of J'lly Present Promised.
"We should achieve our quotas in a
single day s campaign," he continued.
but, personally, I am In favor of con
tinuing: the drive for a day or two un
til there Is no question of the response
that Portland and Oregon are making.
Let's make it, I say, a splendid Fourth
of July present to the Government."
Owing- to the fact that the vast bulk
of pledge cards have not yet been
hecked, accurate figures of Portland's 1
landing cannot be made available. It
is probable that the work will progress
y tonight to the point where an offi
cial statement can be issued.
At present, for the reason that cards
have not been turned in for checking.
the exact membership of the limit club.
which comprises all who have made
$1000 war stamp investments, is not
known. The record of membership
buttons to the limit club issued at
headquarters, shows 450 such investors.
or a maturity total of $450,000. Offi
cials estimate that the limit club sales.
however, have already reached 600.
Among Saturday s limit club mem
berships appear those of John P. Fink,
advertising solicitor for The Oregonian
and Mrs. John P. Fink, each of whom
is entitled to the oval button of maxi
mum investment in war stamps.
473 Pledsres nt City Hall.
Incomplete returns from the City
Hall show 473 pUdges, with a total of
$26,208. Similar returns from the
Courthouse staff record 184 pledge
signers, with a total of SS930. Returns
from the Customhouse, also incom
plete, show 120 pledges, with a total
of $9115.
Employes of The Oregonian. on in
complete returns, have signed 223
pledges for war savings Etamps, with a
total of $14,945.
One difficulty in determining the
exact status of the pledge card total,
say officials of the drive, will be the
amounts written in of pledges already
made or paid before the opening 01
the final drive. It is estimated, how
ever, that but 25 per cent of these prior
sales, which totaled more than $1,000,-
000. will appear upon tha pledge cards.
wtich largely represent complete new
S8les.
Everywhere in war stamp circles, at
headauarters and in the field, there is
maiked determination to conclude the
drive today if strenuous effort will at
tain that result.
Kiddle Subscribes S8105.
RIDDLE, Or., June 30. (Special.)
Riddle went over the top with her
quota of $8000 in war savings stamps
Friday night. A community sing, pa
triotic addresses and reports of com
mittees and canvassers was the order
of the evening. A telegram announc
ing subscriptions of $8105 was sent to
headquarters at Washington, u. v:.
Drain Closes Stamp Drive.
DRAIN, Or.. June 30. (Special.)
The war savings stamp drive closed
here Friday night with a district mass
meeting in the City Park, which was
addressed by O. C. Kershaw, of Rose-
burg. The committee reported splendid
success and feels sure that the full
quota has been reached, but was not
able to report denniteiy.
Columbia Promises Its Quota.
ST. HELENS. Or, June 30. (Spe
cial.) Reports received by Chairman
Allen of the war savings stamp cam
paign in Columbia County indicate its
full quota of $274,000. Twenty-five
school districts out of 54 report ap
proximately $100,000 subscribed. St.
Helens will go over the top with its
quota of $50,000.
Lewis County Observes Day.
CHEHALIS, Wash.. June 30. (Spe
cial.) Chehalls and Lewis County oa
served the National war savings day
along the lines requested in the Presl
dent's proclamation. Speakers from
Chehalis were sent to many places. At
Onalaska between $11,000 and $12,000
was raised. Friday's work put Chehalia
at least $3000 over.
Mosier Oversubscribes Quota.
MOSIER. Or., June 30, (Special.)
AND WOMAN WHO POSED AS
IN THIS CITY.
M. Moore," Somcht by Polife of Many Statra, and Arreatrd by Portland laapvotara
At the mass meeting held In the Chris
tian Church Friday night the Mosier
district again went "over the top," this
time in the war savings stamp drive.
With a quota placed at $5000, the
amount has been oversubscribed about
60 per cent,
Amity Exceeds Its Quota.
AMITY, Or., June 30. (Special.) At
a meeting held in the high school audi
torium Friday night it was announced
that Amity had gone over the top in
the war savings drive! This splendid
showing was due to the organization
of the committee in charge and the
manner in which the canvas was con
ducted. The district allotment was $J6.000, or
about $60 to every family. At ' the
meeting last night a permanent society
was organized to have charge of all
war drives. J. A. Ruble, president of
the Amity Light & Power Company,
was elected chairman.
Jefferson County Over Top.
MADRAS. Or., June 30. (Special.)
Reports from 65 per cent of the dis
tricts show Jefferson County well over
the top in war stamp sales. Only one
yellow card has been Issued In the en
tire county as yet. The Madras district
has gone more than $1100 over its
quota.
Xcwport Well Above Goal.
NEWPORT, Or., June 30. (Special.)
It was announced tonight that Lin
coln County will exceed its quota in
spite of the fact that its apportionment
is ever $40 per capita. Newport, ap
portioned $10,000, is over the top by
more than $1000. Two of the spruce
construction camps turned in $13,500.
Ilannaford Valley Pledges $1750.
CENTRA LI A. Wash.. June 30. (Spe
cial.) City Attorney W. R. Lee Friday
night addressed a war savings meet
ing in the Hannaford Valley, at which
$1750 was pledged to war savings. Ed
ward Hopkins at the meeting was add
ed to the local list of $1000 subscribers.
W. 8. 8. BIT THE LIMIT
POLES TO REMAIN FIRM
PREMIER VOX SEYDLER ASKED TO
CARRY OX GOVERNMENT.
Budapest Strike Reaches Close After
an Appeal by Socialists Food
Disturbances Continue.
AMSTERDAM, June 30. Emperor
Charles, of Austria, has commanded
Premier Von Seydler to carry on the
government, but he has failed to tell
him how to do it. Messages received
here indicate the Poles remain adamant
in their attitude of opposition to hi3
policy, and already have declared that
they wiii not even consider economic
concessions with which. It is reported.
Dr. Von Seydler intended to placate
them.
The Czechs and south Slavs told Em
peror Charles they would refuse to vote
for the provisional budget and the war
credits If Dr. Von Seydler remained in
office.
The Ukrainian members have come to
the rescue of the German National
party in support of Von Seydler.
Meanwhile food disturbances nave
occurred in Vienna, but beyond the
bare mention of the stopping of street
cars, the smashing of factory windows
and the raiding of bread .carts, no fur
ther details are available.
At Budapest the strike has come to
an end after an appeal by the Socialist
leaders on the ground that the parlia
mentarians of all political shades with
a few exceptions have left them in the
lurch.
Premier Wekerle, replying in the
house of magnates to the charge that
he had not acted with sufficient energy
in putting down the strike said:
"Against the foreign enemy I would
have adopted the strongest measures.
but here I was confronted with my own
people and the utmost circumspection
and prudence were called for."
W. 8. 8. BIT THE LIMIT
0. S. HELD AS FRIEND
RLSSIA IMPRESSED BY IXCREASIXG
AMERICAN ARM V.
Ronovnloff Says Nation Will Welcome
Allied Aid If Asanre'd Hun Yoke
Will Be Removed.
NEW YORK. June 30. Alexander
Konovaloff. vice-prime minister in
Kerensky's cabinet, who escaped from
prison and reached this country, via
Siberia, says the Russians consider the
United States "our greatest and truest
friend, and that the increasing Amer.
ican Army is "unique in the history of
numaniiy.
in a statement to The Associated
Press today, he said:
"Russia needs immediate general and
military help. There is no doubt that
action on the part of the allies will
be welcomed by the overwhelming
majority of Russia's population, if the
move is preluded by a joint allied dee
laration that the allies are ready to
ao everyining in ineir Dower, in ac
cordance with President Wilson's dec
laration, to free Russia from Germany's
yoKe. to restore to Kussia her lost ter
ritories and to preserve the Russian
democracy by giving her the possibil
ity for free development.
HIS WIFE AT TIME OF ARREST
Who Poaed na the "Captain's" Wife.
FOREST FIRE RAGES
Serious Blaze Discovered
.Rainier Reserve.
in
HIGH WIND FANS FLAMES
Fires Raging in Gates District of
Linn County for Past Three Days
Under Control; Hood Envel
oped in Smoke.
WHITE SALMON'. Wash.. June 30.
(Special.) A spectacular forest fire is
raging in the Rainier Forest Reserve,
in the Nigger Head district, about 30
miles Northwest of Trout Lake. Chris
Guler, who has lived in the Trout Lake
Valley for 31 years, says he has never
seen such smoke clouds, rolling and
tumbling like a volcanic discharge. Fri
day the sun was completely blotted
out. Head Forest-Ranger Lickel says
he observed a most peculiar and inter
esting phenomena in connection with
the smoke clouds near the scene. Im
mense smoke pockets burst and shot
into the air for a thousand feet.
A high windohas been blowing for
the past two days, making the heat so
intense that fire-fighters could not ap
proach the flames. It is understood
that Ranger Lickel has left with his
crew for the scene. He reports the
main fire raging in an old dead burn.
When dry these burns cause a tre
mendous heat. The entire Mid-Columbia
section, from Mt. Adams to Mt.
Hood, is under a heavy pall of smoke.
Other fires, less serious, in the dis
trict are adding to the smoke condition.
W. H. Dean, owner of the Lava Caves,
two miles from Trout Lake, says the
atmosphere at the caves Friday after
noon was singularly , clear.
LIXS BLAZE I'XDER CONTROL-
t'irc Burns Over About 100 Acres in
Gates District.
ALBANY, Or., June 30. (Special)
The forest fire which has been burn
ing the past three days about three
miles south of Gates is believed to-, be
practically under control tonight. It
has covered approximately 100 acres.
This fire is burning at the foot and
on the North Bide of Saw Mill Hill. It
is located about a mile from the near
est ranch.
A small fire In a Hammond Lumber
Company slashing less than a mile
North of Detroit is under control.
These are the only fires now burning
in yiis section of the state.
W. H. 8. BtY THE LIMIT
REED CATALOGUE OUT
SEW COURSES OFFERED IX FALL
TERM BEGIXXIXG SEPTEMBER 23.
Many Men Expected to Enroll next
Semester on Account of Special
Military Tralnlna; to Be Offered.
New courses offered at Reed College,
in the Fall term beginning September
23, are announced in Reed College Rec
ord No. 28, which is just off the press.
being the annual catalogue for 1917
1918. The college expects a large num
her of men to enroll next semester on
account of the special military training
which will be offered.
Among the new courses offered next
semester will be American political
and constitutional history, from Colonl
al origins to the present.
In accordance with tne Jteea policy
of co-operating with the Government
in all its work, the second semester
of the elementary natural science
course has been turned over to a course
in food administration. Problems of
food production and conservation will
be studied in this course, with the as
sistance of the Food Administration.
A new course offered by the English
department is "Major Influences in
American Literature." snowing tenaen-
ies In American thought, as expressed
In the works of Franklin. Jefferson,
Hawthorne, Emerson and Whitman.
A special study of the economic, so
cial and political problems of tne
Northwest is included In the courses
of the sociology department. Special
lectures will be given by men outside
the college faculty who are specialists
in the particular problems presented.
W. 8. B. SI X XHE.
GOVERNMENT GETS VERDICT
Mining Company to Pay $18,000 for
Timber Cut in Idaho.
BOISE. IDA.. June 30. (Special.)
A verdict in favor of the Government
for $18,029.24 was returned Saturday
eight at It o'clock in the big timber
suit against the Delraar Mining Com
pany, a London corporation operating
the Delmar mine in Owyhee County.
The original amount sued for was
$736,441.-33. claimed by the Government
for timber cut on the public domain
by the company's agents from January
1. 1901 to Marcn 1, lait. The case 00
cupled nine days and more than CO
witnesses testified. -
200 DRAFTED WW
BEING. REJECTED
Oregon Draft Boards Are in
Dismay Over Action of
Camp Lewis Examiners.
PERCENTAGE BASIS HIGH
Alternates Called Cpon to Take Place
of Registered Men Who Arc Auto
matically Placed in Class V; In
struction Is Awaited.
Approximately 200. or 10 per cent of
the 2000 selected men sent to Camp
Lewis from Oregon under the last call
are being turned back by the examin
era as "rejects." The percentage, has
risen so high that draft leaders are In
dismay.
The Clackamas county board, at last
reports, had 13 of the 83 men sent by
it returned as physically unfit for mili
tary service. This was 151 per cent
One Portland board has had 10 men
rejected, and a much smaller board
has reports showing seven already sent
home. The process of turning back In
ductees from the last group sent is not
completed, and all of these figures may
yet be increased.
In the past it has not been unusual
for boards of larger divisions to have
two, three or four men turned down as
physically unfit. Never before, at
Camp Lewis or Fort McDowell, to
which nearly all Oregon Inductees have
been sent, has a general average of 10
per cent of rejections for the state
been experienced, or any average near
that percentage.
"Exnlaantlon Arouses Ire.
While local draft boards and exam
iners are baffled over the situation
unable to understand why more strin
gent requirements are enforced as the
need for men becomes more urgent and
the possibility of filling quotas becomes
a problem, there comes from Camp
Lewis an explanation which will add
to the ire of the Oregon offficials and
examiners.
1o one of the Inductees who has Just
returned to Portland the explanation
was made. In substance, that "while
most of the examining physicians In
Oregon are younger doctors the camp
examiners are old and experienced men
who adhere strictly to the regulations.
So far as the great majority of ex
aminers in Oregon is concerned the
statement is a libel. Few young doc
tors are on the draft boards. With
rare exceptions, the Oregon draft ex
aminers, who are .always members of
their boards, are old and experienced
physicians. Young physicians were not
acceptable on draft boards at least
those under 31 were not. Then again,
the younger medical men could not af
ford to give the time required for ex
emption board work. For these rea
sons older men were almost invariably
obtained for the task.
No changes have been made In the
personnel of Oregon examiners. In local
or district boards, and but the slight
est relaxation of physical standards, in
accordance with orders from Washing
ton. The last groups of men inducted
were examined, for the most part, as
long ago as the first registrants ever
sent to a mobilization camp. The
change in standards then seems direct
ly traceable to the camp examiners
themselves. Whether a change in per
sonnel of the examining staff at Camp
Lewis, tho receipt of new instructions
from military heads or a sudden whim
of the examiners accounts for the in
creased proportion of rejections re
mains to be explained.
One inductee is reported to Captain
J. E. CulliBon, head of the selective
service in Oregon, to have been sent
home because one-sixteenth of an inch
too short. Another has been sent back
because he has a perforation in one
ear. The number of those rejected be
cause under weight and under height
the standards of which even a layman
can apply is large.
Alternates Are Called For.
Members of the draft boards await
light upon the aggravating situation.
Meanwhile they are calling right and
left upon the alternates needed to take
the places of rejected draftees. With
many of the boards having barely
enough men listed to fill the 2500 state
quota call for July 22, the necessity of
drawing put alternates plays havoc
with their calculations. Just what
means may be devised to keep some
of the boards from calling on Class
1L men. a move not yet' authorized.
constitutes a problem that may loom
ahead.
Under present draft regulations the
man who is a "reject from the Army
camp must be placed in class 5. where
he is not to be disturbed any more than
the man with only one leg, or who is
blind. Captain Culllson has been exer
cised over this manifestly unjust pro
cedure for some time. If the matter is
not adjusted In new glass 5 regulations
now en route from Washington, he says
he will wire a protest and request 1
change in the procedure of putting re
jected inductees past all deferred clas
slf Icatlons.
The injustice of the present arrange
ment Is fully apparent when it is un
derstood that in the physical tests and
scrutiny these inductees were found
superior to the class 1 men held for
limited or special service, touch lim
ited-service ellgibles are now being
called to take non-combatant parts in
the war. In other words they are be
ing taken for war service, while the
more physically fit man happening to
be rejected by Army examiners is slated
to remain at home with the halt and the
maimed and the blind for the duration
of the war.
W. 8. S. BI V THE LIMIT
WAR CROSS GIVEN YANKEE
Lieutenant KllevaUl Carries Wound
ed Man Back Under Fire.
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN
FRANCE, June 29. (By The Associated
Press.) Lieutenant Sidney Ellevald, of
Grand Rapids, Mich., has received the
French war cross for carrying a
wounded man back under fire.
Sergeant Charles H. Cunningham, of
Grand Rapids, has been awarded the
French war cross for routing six Ger
mans who tried to capture him. He
was leading a patrol when his de
tachment was ambushed. Cunningham
was hit in the breast and arm before
the Americans could fire. The Ger
mans used grenades to cut off the ser
geant and three of his men.
Sergeant Cunningham climbed the
parapet of a trench, emptied his pistol
and then fell exhausted into the trench.
The Germans in the meantime had been
driven off.
W. 8. 8. BUY THE LIMIT
Advances Given Railroads.
WASHINGTON, June 30. Nineteen
railroads received advances aggregat
ing $36,195,000 from the Government In
June. including ls,610.000 demand
loans at 6 per cent and the remainder
on account of rental or compensation.
bringing the total advanced In the six
months of Federal operation ending to
day to tl60,o09,000.
Cremation Is Forever
Satisfactory
Like other methods which have out
lived their time earth burial passes
because of the expansion of cities and
the building up of the country side.
The automobile ?nd the electric train
are breaking down the seclusion of
the country outside of cities, and as
we live today there is no room for a
graveyard. For that reason as much
as any, Cremation takes its place as
the satisfactory method of placing
away the departed. It is the one
method which forever insures a beau
tiful resting place for the earthly
remains.
Write, phone or call for booklet.
PORTLAND CREMATORIUM
Scllwood Car to Fourteenth
Visitors
9 to 5
STATESMAN IS LOW
Senator Tillman Seriously III
in Washington.
DAUGHTER IS CALLED EAST
Mrs. Henry AV. Hughes Leaves Port
land in What May He Kace
Against Dentil Across Conti
nent to Reach Father.
WASHINGTON. June 50. Benjamin
K. Tillman, iJemocratlc Senator from
South Carolina, is seriously ill at his
home here. His recovery is regarded
as doubtful. His left side is complete
ly paralyzed and he has been suffering
from cerebral hemorrhage since Thurs
day.
Ten years ago Senator Tillman had
similar attack which paralyzed his
right side, but he recovered to a great
extent. The latest attack completely
paralyzed his left side. The outcome
was said tonight to be extremely
doubtful.
Mr. Tillman is chairman of the Sen
ate Naval Committee.
Senator Tillman, who is almost 71
years old. was elected governor of
South Carolina in 1890, and again in
189i. He was elected to the United
States Senate in 1894. For more than
generation he has been one of the
most picturesque and powerful figures
in public and political life of the South.
Mrs. Henry W. Hughes, 20 East
Thirty-ninth street, left Portland last
night in what may be a race against
death across the continent, to reach
the bedside of her father. Senator Ben
Tillman.
Mrs. Hughes received a telegram
early yesterday morning that Senator
Tillman s condition was critical and
late yesterday afternoon another mes
sage arrived requesting her to hurry
to Washington as physicians had given
up hope that the veteran statesman
would survive many hours.
Mr. Tillman, accompanied by Mrs.
Tillman and another daughter Sally,
visited in Portland in the Summer of
1915. having come 18.000 miles by way
of Panama, to see the Hughes children.
Mr. Hughes is assistant cashier of the
Hibernia Savings Bank.
Senator Tillman continued his trip
northward at that time, and made an
investigation of the naval base sites
in the northwest.
W. 8. 8. BI V TH K LIMIT
EARLY DAYS ARE RECALLED
George Waters, Indian Chlcf Pres
ent at Tribal Reunion.
WHITE SALMON. Wash.. June SO.
(Special.) Klickitat Indians have been
holding a tribal reunion in this city
during the past 10 dsvs. Anions' the
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notables present were George Waters,
of Toppenish. a Klickitat pioneer. Dur
ing the recent reunion of the Pioneers'
Association of Western Klickitat Coun
ty he gave an Interesting address.
touching 011 incidents of his early days.
When & boy at the Hudson Bay post
at Vancouver, a party came along the
trail with a white man riding on the
back of an ox. This was the first white
man seen by this noted Indian. He
was frightened and ran to his mother
for protection.
Mr. Waters is chief of the Yaktmas
and Klickitats. He has made several
trips to Washington in the interest of
the Indians, and is always well received
on account of his intelligence and
knowledge of their wants. He is an
ordained minister.
W. S. 6. Bl'T THE LIMIT
HUNS FEAR AMERICANS
K.N KM Y CAITIOIS A BOLT JEND1NG
OVT PATROLS.
Tankers, Cut Off By Germans, Refuse
to Surrender nnd Crawl Bnclc
Through Curtain of Fire.
iBv the Associated Prefs.
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN
ALSACE. June 29. The Germans have
found the Americans at so many places
they are pushing out patrols somewhat
nervously here and there with the ob
ject of trying to fix the limits of the
American sectors.
The Americans also are out nightly
studying the lay of No Man's Land.
Clashes are frequent and the Germans
are finding that the Americans are
hard to deal with even when outnum
bered. Sergeant Dewey F. Slocum and Cor
poral John C. Phillips, both of Grand
Rapids. Mich., and Private Newton
Bell, of Muses Mills, Ky.. were cut off
from their platoon and refused to sur
render. Private Bell accounted for
four of the enemy and the other Amer
icans did nearly as well.
The Germans signaled for help and
their artillery laid down a barrage to
hold the Americans until the Germans
could reinforce their patrol, but the
patrol was driven away before help
came and the Americans crawled back,
through a curtain of fire and rejoined
their platoon.
W. 8. 8. Bl'Y THE LIMIT
PRIVATE DOBBS IN JAIL
Alleged "Millionaire Private," of
Pendleton, Or., Arretted.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, June 30. Hugh Dobbs. an en
listed man, stationed at Fort Myer,
and who claims to be a resident of
Tendleton. Or., has been placed under
arrest here on complaint of the Pow
hatan, frbm which institution be Is
alleged to have obtained money on a
bogus check.
Dobbs has most members of the Ore
gon congressional delegation worried,
because of "loans" he secured from
them, or because of check transactions
from which they are beginning to
hear. Dobbs recently was written up
in a local paper as a millionaire pri-
vate.
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