THE 3IORMXG OKEUOMAN, TUESDAY, JAXUAUV 14, 1919.
ALLEGED BOGUS LAND
FILINGS TO BE AID
Date Set for Trial of Puter,
Cook and Others.
MANY DEFRAUDED, CHARGE
tlinic th strike of railroad men and
reiumlrc operation or the Sumpltr va
ley Railway were submitted to Kdward
( hirabrri, traffic -director for tbe Kan
road Administration, at a conference
today attended by Charles T. Early,
Portland: W. E. Meacham secretary o
the Baker Chamber of Comerce; Joseph
N. Teal, of Portland: Senator McNary
and Representative hlnnott.
First, the Kail road Administrate
was asked to take over the line
operate it like other roads now unde
Government control. As an alternativ
a greater proportion of the join
through rate was asked as a means
wiping out the road's monthly defic
of 'iO. A decision is expected tomor
row.
md
Approximately $2,000,000 Cleaned
Cp by Operators In Oregon. Ac-
fording- to Indictment.
J.tV FRANCISCO. Jan. II The trial
of Id men charged in the I'nited
t-iat's I'istrict Court with an attempt
to defraud colonists In the sale of
lands alona- the Southern I'aciflc and
Oregon Short Line railroads was set
today to Ix cin June 3. It will take at
leant four weeks to complete the trial.
a"t:ordinc to Annette A. Adamj United
states I'istrict Attorney, who will have
iharee of the trial.
The defendants in the rase, known
m the orernn land fraud case, are
Norman I. Cook and Franklin P. Bull,
tan Kranrisco attorneys: S. A. D. Tuter,
of Portend. Or.; J. K Van Warmer, of
Fresno. faL: A. L. taker, of Herman,
Cal.. and others.
An Investigation Into the alleged
frauds began In 131!. m
I.aat Fillaga I rged. Charge.
Tbe Government In the Indictments
alleged fraud In inducing1 persons to
file on alternate sections along th
tailroads from the Southern Oregon
line to Eugene, Or.
During the time the frauds were
alleged to have taken place the land in
i lestion was under litigation, the Gov
trnment having soucht to have the
title revert to the Government, claim
Ir.g that the Southern Pacific Railroad
failed to live up to the conditions in
tho grant-i. The Supreme Court of the
I'nited States referred the matter to
1'ontrfn and In 118 Congress passed
an act providing that the lands bo sold
In accordance with their true value.
Trior to the Congressional art. 21.000
replications for land, virtually all of
Idem obtained by tho alleged action of
the defendants, according to the In
dictments, had been filed. The Indict
ments alleged the defendants repre
sented to applicants that a preference
Tight to purchase could be secured by
filing an application.
I'trarr Offeadera ravleed.
Former trials on similar Indictments
resulted in the conviction of nine men
who were Implicated In the alleged
frauds.
The indictment against Puter and his
associates was returned July IS. lilt.
It charged the defendants with having
represented that the Government was
co-operating with them and that it
was! the Government's purpose to force
the railroad companies to sell the land
to the applicants. It also charged that
tne defendants duplicated the applica
tions in many Instances by filing ap
plications over and over upon Identical
tracts of land.
A charge In the Indictment alleges
that the defendants procured from the
applicants contracts by the terms of
which the applicants agreed they
would deed hair of the lands to the
defendants when the title should be
tecured. The Indictment contains the
allegation that of, the many people se
cured by the defendants as applicants
not one was an actual settler upon the
land and that none f the applicants
ever Intended to settle upon the land.
It la also charged thai the mails of
the United Slates were used In the
writing and mailing pt many lottera to
carry out the alleged scheme to de
fraud. According to the statement made In
the trial of the case against Norman
D. Cook. In which there waa a dis
agreement by Uio jury, the average
filing fee charged by the locaters
amounted to approximately $100 each
and the defendants obtained approxi
mately $:.000.C0 from the applicants.
At the office of the Federal District
Attorney It was said that the trial of
Cook and Bull, who were Indicted sep
arately from Puter and his associates,
will not begin until after the trial of
Puter.
POLISH POLITICS MUDDLED
SITrATIO.Y IV COCMHV C1L
OTIC AS REDS APPROACH.
SUMPTER VALLEY CASE UP
V. S. Traffic IKroclor Meets Oregon
Representative.
Or.KOo.MAX NKWS nUUKAU. Wash
inrtn. J.in. IS Two proposals for sri-
BoNlierlst Troops More Toward
Warsaw From Vllna and Outlook
Is Far From Encouraging.
WARSAW, Jan. 10. (By the Asso
elated Press.) With Bolshevist forces
only 100 miles away, the political mud
dla continues here.
General Pilsudskl, the political mill
tary dictator, apparently la hesitating
to accept proposals of Ignace Jan
Paderewski. lfe is reported to be ad
herlng to his contention that th
present government of Poland must re
main In power until after the elec
Hons.
British and American missions have
made It plain they will do nothing to
help Poland un':ss a stable govern
ment is formed.
Bolshevist troops, moving toward
Warsaw from Vilna. have occupied
Ltda. They secured 17 locomotives In
Vilna and are said to have been given
rolling stock by Germans. Their ad
vance, therefore. Is expected to be more
rapid than it was before Vllna was cap
tured.
General Falkenhayn's loth German
army is reported to be concentrating
at Bialystok for demobilization. Grodno
will be evacuated by the Germans on
January IS. It is said.
Polish forces are six miles north of
Iemberg. where their advance seems
to have been checked..
Conferences between Germans and
Ukrainians are said to be going on at
Kiev regarding the sale of the Ger
mans' equipment. It la reported many
Germans are arranging to take up
Ukrainian citlsenship.
Polish forces are fighting under
great difficulties. Officers say that
Poland Is In great danger and that if
help Is not given by the allies, Warsaw
may be taken by the enemy.
SENATE DISCUSSES PEACE
POSTPONEMENT OF LEAGUE OI-
NATIONS PLAN DESIRED.
Dcatb of ex-Kalser, Confiscation of
Personal Fortune Advocated
by Montana Member.
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at night. In tbe morning, your own
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WASHINGTON'. Jan. 13. Speeches
advocating postponement of considera
tion of the league or nations proposal
until after the peaca conference were
made in the Senate today by Senators
Sterling, of South Dakota. Republican,
and Myers, of Montana, Democrat. Both
insisted that problems of the peace
conference should not be complicated
by thla plan.
Senator Sterling contended that exlst
ng relations between America. Great
Britain, France and Italy made a league
to enforce peaca unnecessary. Sena
tor Myers advocated establishing a re
stricted league later, without impalr-
ng the sovereignty of ita members and
with the central powers barred at least
for this generation.
Death for the former Kaiser, life Im
prisonment for Von Bernstorff and
others. Senators Myers said, should be
provisions of the final peace treaty,
lie also argued for repudiation of Ger
many's war debt and payment of the
ntlre cost of the war by the Germans:
for confiscation of the Kaiser's per
sonal fortune and retention by the Mo
ors of both the war and merchant
marine fleets of Germany.
Senators Shafroth, of Colorado, and
Borah, of Idaho, plan to speak on the
eacue of nations tomorrow, while
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, intends to
discuss the American expedition to Rus
sia.
COURT UPHOLDS REED
PillTlJMEME
Transportation of Liquor
Personal Use Illegal.
for
DISSENTING OPINION GIVEN
Stale Statutes, Permitting Small
Quantities to Re Shipped,
Are Nullified.
limits strictly on a basis of necessity
to occupy enemy territory until peace
is concluded.
Already it has had the Immediate re
sult of bringing out the reassuring de
nial in the press, from inspired sources,
that any more men are destined for
Russia, and of emphasizing that the
men now there (estimated at 20,000)
will be withdrawn as soon as the vol
unteer army can take their places, and
that this will be only to protect Rus
sians who have gained the enmity of
the Bolshevik!.
From important fluarters I was In
formed today that President Wilson is
against any further military interven
tion in Russia, as recently tola in. my
dispatch to the World.
Men who marched through the
streets today said they were against
any "capitalist war.
It is now believed that Premier Lloyd
George, accompanied by his Ministers
and secretarial staff, will leave for
Paris Saturday, though it would not be
surprising if the demonstrations delay
his departure should they continue. A
cordon of police permitted only per
sons with business to enter Downing
street today, for the Premier, im
mersed in the demobilization, had no
time to see delegations.
His first crisis finds the Premier
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. The Su- shorn or his Cabinet. It Is still not an-
nreme Court held todav that the Reed nounced who will De associated with
bone dry" prohibition amendment pro- V"" lnB 1 ivtntm
niDiis iniersiaie Transportation into
dry states of Intoxicating liquor for
beverage purposes even intended for
personal use.
Justice McReynolds, In a dissenting
opinion, concurred in by Justice Clark
declared the Reed amendment was not
an interstate commerce regulatory
measure, but a direct Intermeddling
with a state's affairs and beyond Fed
eral power.
As Interpreted by the court, the law
nullifies state statutes permitting lim
ited amounts of liquor to be brought in
for personal use.
Justice Day Glvea Opinion
In rendering the majority opinion I
Justice Day said:
"In view of tho action of Congress
over the subject matter and the enact
ment of provisions of legislation embod
led in the Wilson and Webb-Kenyon
laws, we have na question that Congress
enacted this statute because of Its be-
ief In states prohibiting the sale and
BOLSHEVIK PLANS DECLARED
CAREFULLY PREPARED.
Support Said to Have Been Given to
Government Only Until Revoln--'
tionary Forces Arrive.
(Copyright. 1!1!, by the New York World
Published by Arrangement.)
LONDON, Jan. 13. (Special Cable.)
New light Is thrown on the situation
in Berlin in a dispatch to the Daily
Telegraph from Its Rotterdam corre
spondent, who says he hears that the
manufacture of Intoxicating liquors for I reigning confusion In the capital and
beverage purposes. The facilities of I plans for a Bolshevik coup, not only In
I
nterstate commerce should be denied!
to the Introduction of intoxicants by
means of interstate commerce, except
or the limited purposes permitted in
the ctatute, which have nothing to do
with liquor when used as e beverage.
That the state saw fit to permit the
Introduction of liquor for personal use
Berlin, but also in other parts of Ger
many, were carefully prearranged.
His information is that while many
of the soldiers' councils In Berlin were
declaring their allegiance to the F.bert
government, they were at the eame
time preparing for a revolutionary
movement, to be put in motion when
n limited quantity in nowise interferes ever military forces strong enough for
with the authority of Congress, acting their, purposes might be available.
under its plenary power over inter This is really what occurred, and it
tate commerce, to make the prohlbi- was brought about in great measure
tlon against interstate shipment con- by the methods employed In the de
tained in this act. It may exert its mobilization of the Oei-man ormipf:.
authdVity as in the Wilson and Webb-' This operation was o conducted, the
Kenyon acts, having In view the laws correspondent says, that troops who
of the state, but It has a power of its left the colors consisted exclusively of
own which in this, instance it has ex- those who were not affected to any
nea in Bccoruuiiuo wnn il lew oil extent bv the revolutionary KDirit.
ubllc policy. while most of those not yet Ue-
When Congress exerts Its authority mnhilizeri ore revolutionaries anil arp
n a manner within its control, state now. adherents either of the Spartacus
aws must give way in view of tht r.9,, f ,h, irfwvnenrt-nr sni.
regulation of the subject matter by theli.,-
'THE STORE THAT UNDERSELLS BECAUSE IT SELLS FOR CASH"
More Important Price Reductions
for the Third Week of Our
Pre-Invntoiy Safe
This Is Your Best Opportunity to Get Useful
Necessaries and Seasonable Merchandise
At Prices That Bring to You Unusual and Important Savings Special Offer
ings in Every Section of This Great Store.
No Samples
Cut At
This Sale
No Phone
or Mail
Orders
Extra Sales
People
To Serve
You
Promptly
JANUARY
SILK SALES
More Than 8000 Yards of the Season's Most
Popular Silks Are Included in This Special
Offering! Beautiful High-Grade Novelties and
Staple Plain Shades Silks for Both Street and
Evening Wear in 34 and 36-Inch Widths.
To Close at 98c a Yard
This is your opportunity to secure a liberal sup
ply for both present and future needs. In this
great assortment are to be found
uperior power conferred by the Con
stitution."
Judge Mclleynola Dissents.
Justice McReynolds said in dissent.
"The Reed amendment in no jiroper
sense regulates interstate commerce.
ut is a direct Intermeddling with fhe
tate'fl Internal affairs. AVhether re
garded as reward or punishment for
wisdom or folly in enacting limited
prohibition, the amendment so con-
So what remains of the German army
Is largely a Red army. The maneuver
had special success In Brunswick
where the Soldiers' Council is wholly
Spartacus In composition. It holds the
reins of power, and has declared its
Intention to Ignore the National As
sembly
"I have reason to believe," the cor
respondent iadds, 'that this Machia
vellian scheme was worked in the or
trued, I think, goes beyond Federal I ganlsaition of the Berlin coup."
power; and to hold otherwise opens
posni unities lur partial ana sectional l t a
legislation which may destroy proper MM HPR Rl flfKAnF WAWTFn
ral states. If ConfrrAsa mn v rinv
liquor to those who live in a state president Hson In Favor or Mak-
iiiij uci;ut: its uittnuiaciure is not 1 1
permitted there, why may not this be
done for any suggested reason, namely,
because the roads are bad, or men are
anged for murder, or coals are dug.
here la the limit? The Reed evmend-
ent aa now construed is now a Con
gressional flat imposing more com-
ete prohibition wherever the state
has assumed to prevent manufacture or
sale of intoxicants."
GUN SMUGGLERS ARRESTED
ALLEGED DEVOLUTION' MAKERS
TAKEN OX BORDER.
TROOPS EXPEDITE ACTION
ALLIED SOLDIERS WANT EARLY
PEACE PACT.
Pressure Brings Denial From Lead
ers That More Men Will Be Sent
Russian Xcrrllory.
to
Seven Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
Charged With Sending
Munitions South.
TUCSON. Arlx.. Jan. 11. Peven prom
inent Mexican and Mexican-American
residents of Tucson and Itouglaa were
arrested here today by Federal authori
ties, charged with smuggling arms into "A
Mexico in connection with a new rev-At;
oiutionary movement- Charges against
them were presented at once to the
Federal grand Jury.
Tho men arrested are Mike wehby.
a Tucson merchant; It. R ('lores, G. C.
Vasques. Rosario Lopez, Major Kred-
erlco Piatt, formerly president of
t'ananea. Mexico: Ignacio Monge. of
IougIas, and a man giving the name
of Angeles Felix.
The arms seised. H Is charged, rrere
on their way to General Juan Cabral, a
Mexican revolutionary leader.
An automobile loaded with 1400
round of ammunition and rifles was
seised last cght by federal . agents
south of here.
For some time there have been ru
mors of a recrudeser.ee of the Felix
Dial movement in Northern Mexico, and
recent large purchases of arms along
the Mexican border started the inves
tigation which led to the arrests last
night.
BT JOSEPH TV. GRIGG.
Staff Correspondent of the -World.
(Copyright. 1U1H. by the w York World.
rublished by Arrangement.)
LONDON". Jan. 13. (Special Cable.)
The immediate effect of the demon
strations for quicker demobilization by
large bodies of British soldiers in this
country, which took place in London
and were Joined In the north by some
auxiliary units of the fleet, will be to
accelerate action by the peace con
ference.
Their grievances have an Interna
tlonal as well as a domestic . signlfi
cance. for it Is known that all the al
lied soldiers want an early conclusion
of peace and a "safety army" of defl
nilely prescribed limits and thone
teaT$ "B ("So? V TJC 52
- nig Change.
(Copyricht. 101!, by tho Xew Tork World,
Published by Arrangement.)
LONDON", Jan. 13. (Special Cable.)
In the preliminary conferences between
President Wilson and the heads of the
allied countries it is expected that the
President will emphasize the necessity
of relaxing the blockade against Germany.
The World correspondent was in
formed tonight that informal discus
sions on this subject are already under
way In Paris, but that until the first
conference is convened no new policy
will be formulated.
During the last three weeks much
information has been gathered by the
American and allied nations on internal
conditions in Germany, and this prob
ably will have a prompt effect on the
deliberations.
Read The Oregonian classified ad.--.
36-INCH SOLID COLORED SILK' POPLINS
36-INCH DOTTED NOVELTY SILK POPLINS
36-INCH STRIPED NOVELTY SILK POPLINS
36-INCH NEAT FIGURED FOULARD SILKS
36-INCH SELF-STRIP ED TAFFETA SILKS
36-INCH SOLID COLORED TAFFETA SILKS
36-INCH FANCY STRIPED MESSALINE SILKS
36-INCH FANCY STRIPE LUSTROUS SATINS
36-INCH NEW NOVELTY LINING SATINS
34-INCH REAL SHANTUNG PONGEE SILKS
A Startling Announcement!
Rengo Belt Reducing Corsets
Selling At This Sale
At $1.98 and at $2.98 a Pair
The Lowest Prices Ever Quoted!
These popular corsets are especially designed and'tailored along; scientific lines to fashion
ably fit stout and medium-stout figures. Wearers of Rengo Belt Corsets will not fail to
profit by this special sale and we expect hundreds of other women toavail themselves of
this opportunity to purchase these celebrated corsets. Rengo Eelt Corsets are only made
of the best materials they have double watch-spring boning and heavy silk elastic hose
supporters and every pair is guaranteed even when sold at the above sale prices.
' It Is a Corset Sale Few Women Can Afford to Bliss. .
A uother Fine Lot of
Remnants
One-half Remnant Prices
2 to 10-Yard Lengths of
Cotton Suitings, Half -Wool Suitings,
Scrims, Cretonnes, Bungalow' Nets.
Those who can arrange to attend this sale will And
hundreds and hundreds of Remnants in the above ma
terials and all are to go at ene-half the marked
Remnant prices.
&0-Creme Oil Soap
With Each Purchase of Three Bars for 2,c
4 Bars for the Regular Price of 3
Odd Lots of Stamped
Center Pieces, Pillow Covers
White Lace Trimmed, Open Work and Hemstitched
Center Pieces and Scarfs
Your Choice This Sale at Half Price
6 Bell-ans
Hot water
Sure Relief
BELL-ANS
FOR INDIGESTION,
GERMAN STEAMERS SEIZED
Provision Made for Soldier Excur
sions on Rhine.
COBLKNZ. Jan. 12. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Two
steamers to b used
and- down the Rh
men of the Third A
blens today- The trips are to be part
of tne rerreatloit prorramme for the
Army of occupation. Four additional
steamers have been requisitioned tor
the same purpose.
The excursions will Include trips be
yond Colog-ne down the river and be
yond Mayence up the stream. Bxcur-
slons will bo one-day affairs and the
excursionists will not be allowed to
land.
A ' THOMHSO.VI
8 ir 1 Deep Carve Leases
W m ' Are Better
9
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A w am C III a i its.iaiwi su-i
W THE SIGN OF PERFECT )
SERVICE
a q Eyes carefully examined
and oroverly fitted wilh3)
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(C glasser without tne ue or.,
w drug by thilled tpeciali$t. $)
( q Complete lent grinding
vv factory on the premiaes. w
f SAVE YniJR YE5 $
2sfe THOMPSON
irmy. arrived at Co- riDTiril INCTITIITC A
I)
fertlaad'a La rural. Moat Modern.
Best Kaalpped. ElOlDMve
Optical KalahUsbmeat.
IB rifc"l'H AND MOHHlSOft i
W SI.VCU 1MM. ty
45$ 35 35? Zw & 3
Celde Caaae Crip and laflaetua
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tabt re-
move the rau. Thr Is onlr one 'Broma
Quialno. K. w. ORUVI'S sisaaiure ea ta
box. 10c Adv.
Cherry's January Clearance Sale is
setting the pace for value-giving-.
Mdnthly terms and no payment until
February. J?ig- reductions on all Winter
garments. Cherry's 389-91. Washing-ton
st., Pittock block. Adv.
cSHRINERS
The Northwest
You are welcomed to
Gi'and Military
Ceremonial
Afifi Temple
Tacoma
January 18, 1919
Reception and
Military Ball
in honor of
The 13th Division
U.S. A,
January 17, 1919,
State Armory
, Tacoma
Complimentary
W omens and Misses'
Separate
Skirts $3.59
Misses' Wool Poplin Skirts in 30
and 36-inch styles navy, Copen
hagen and tan.
Women's Wool Poplin Skirts;
also in fine serges they come in
navy and in black only.
4000 Yards
Standard
Quality
Dress
Ginghams 25c Yd.
Plaid, Stripe, Check
and Plain Styles
Women s and Misses'
Fashionable
Coats $23.75
Handsome Coats in Velours and
Broadcloths; also in Plush styles
with self or fur collars sizes to 41,
in Plum, Taupe, Navy, Brown and
Green.
Beautiful Black Wool Dress Goods
Lot One at $1.49 Yard. i
54-Inch Diagonals Basket Weaves Novelty Ar
murs Wide-Wale Diagonals Granites Whipcords
Crepe Poplins Novelty Worsteds Bedford Cords
Gabardines, etc. all in black, and all on sale at
$1.40 a yard.
AT ABOUT HALF PRICE
Lot Two at 9Sc Yard
42 to 46-Inch Crepe Poplins French Crepes Di
agonals Granites Herringbone Serges Novelty
Prunellas Ottoman and other staple and novelty
weaves all fine wool fabrics and all fast dyes.
Priced this sale at 98$ a yard.
PRE-INVENTORY PRICE REDUCTIONS ON
Embroideries, Ribbons and Lace
Needed materials for trimming and making garments for infants, women and misses. All sorts of
Laces, Embroideries, Nets, Ribbons, Chiffon Cloths, etc, now on sale at reduced prices.
Laces at 5c Yd.
Included are Wash Laces, Insertion Filet Bands,
Edges, Cluny Edges and Insertions; also Zion Val.
Sets and Edges, Round Thread Vals, etc., in widths
to 4 inches.
Silk Finish Nets at 25c Yd.
A fine Silk Finish Net, full 42 inches wide, come3
in black, white and about twelve leading shades.
Trimmings at 10c Yd.
A clean-up of all odd lots, including Colored Silk
Edges and Bands, Rosebud effects, Colored Silk
Bands and Narrow Band Trimmings all to go at
the above low price.
Georgette Crepe at $19 Yd.
40-inch high-grade Georgette Crepe shown in
most all wanted colors except black a handsome
material for waists, dresses, sleeves or neckwear.
Embroideries at 15c Yd.
At this low price you have choice from fine Swiss
Cambric and Long Cloth Edges md Sets; Swiss and
Cambric Flouncings and C. C. Embroideries, in
widths to 22 inches.
Handkerchiefs at 5c Each
A great clcan-up of all odd lots, soiled or mussed.
Handkerchiefs for women and children.
Fancy Ribbons at 15c Yd.
Beautiful Warp Print Fancies in light and dark
color combinations; also plaid effects 4 and 5-inch
ribbons that are the most exceptional values at
above price.
Wash Ribbons 6c Bolt.
Numbers 1,1 and 2 Wash Ribbons in 5-yard
bolts they come in white, black, light blue, laven-,
der, etc. This sale at C a bolt.
Chiffon Cloth in 42-Inch Width at 98c Yd.
All silk, double thread Chiffon Cloth, shown in black, ivory and about fifty different colors, for street
and evening wear.
Store Opens
at 8:30 A.M.
Saturday
at9A.M.
The Most n Value The Best in Quality
Store Closes
at 5:30 P.M.
Saturday
at 6 P.M.