THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, 3IOXDAT, DECEMBER 8, 1919.
MAUDE TABOR'S FATE
ONLY WOMAN GRAIN INSPECTOR. AT HER WORK.
POLICE BAFFLED, BQY j
CLEARS UP MYSTERY
CONTINUES MYSTERY
PUBLIC AUDITORIUM
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CITY OF PORTLAND PRESENTS
Famous American Syncopated
Orchestra and Singers
Identity of Body Found in
Trunk Questioned.
New York Robbery Problem
Is Solved by Youth.
INQUEST NOT YET ENDED
WORK IS CLEVERLY DONE
Mother's Statement That Daughter
Died in Colorado Springs, Colo.,
Raises Further Doubt.
UWTOX, Mich., Dec. 7. The state
ment by Mrs. Sarah I. Tabor that
her daughter, Maude Tabor, died of
asthma in Colorado Springs, caused
some authorities today to express
doubt of the positive identification of
the body generally believed to be Miss
Tabor's which was found in a trunk
in the basement of the Tabor home
here a week ago.
Joseph Virgo, a near friend of the
dead woman, testified at the inquest
early last week that the body was
that of the schoolteacher who disap
peared nearly four years ago and,
although no other witnesses were
positive in their identification, Virgo's
belief was generally accepted.
Officials expressed the belief to
day that the testimony of the mother
and Walter Tabor, brother of the dead
woman, would clear up the mystery.
They were particularly interested in
learning if the body was buried in
Colorado Springs or if it had been
secretly sent here.
Continuance of the inquest is await
ing the return of the Tabors from
California, where deputy sheriffs
went for them yesterday, and the re
port of University of Michigan pa
thologists now examining the body in
an effort to establish the cause of
death.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 7.
Exhustive search of mortuary rec
ords of Colorado Springs and El Paso
county has failed to substantiate the
story of Mrs. Sarah Tabor, held in
California in connection with the dis
covery at Lawton. Mich., of a body
thought to be that of her daughter.
Miss Maude Tabor, that the latter died
in Colorado Springs in her arms.
MISS TABOlt ALWAYS FEARFUL
Teacher A'raid to Be Alone at
Night, Says Friend.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 7.
(Special.) Fear of death by violence
constantly haunted Miss Maude E.
Tabor, former Ogden high school
teacher, whose body was found No
vember 30 in a trunk in the basement
of the Tabor home in Lawton, Mich.,
according to Mrs. G. T. Brooke of this
city, with whom Miss Tabor lived
from December, 1913, to March, 1914.
"She would never stay at home
alone at night and even seemed afraid
in the day time," said Mrs. Brooke, in
discussing the woman. "I left her
alone one night, and when I returned
home she had all the doors bolted
and even the keyhole plugged with
paper. Several chairs were piled in
front of the door and she was so
frightened she would hardly let me
in. When I did finally gain admit
tance she was shaking with fright,
and warned nte never to leave her
alone again.
"Miss Tabor told me that her fath.
er. who she said was a lawyer, had
left her the entire estate, which con
sisted of three farms in Michigan, and
that he had left the son and his other
daughter a very small sum, I think
Khe said XI a piece, in order that they
might not contest the will. Bad feel
ing seemed to exist between the two
sisters and Miss Tabor told me that
they did not speak. I do not remem
ber ever hearing of any correspond
ence between them.
"Her brother did not seem to have
a frjendly feeling toward her, either,
although she talked about his little
son, whom, I believe, she called Mal
colm, and whom she said she was edu
cating. He used to write her little
letters in a childish hand.
"She suffered greatly from asthma
and was thin and anaemic. After her
sweetheart died she took up spiritual
ism, with the idea perhaps of com
muning with him. At least ehe used
to tell us that he came to her some
times at night and she would stay in
her room and talk to him. I went
into her room several times at night,
thinking she might be suffering from
an attack of her malady, and she
would tell me that it was nothing,
hut that she had been communing
with the dead.
"Although she was a brilliant
minded woman and possessed of a cer
tain magnetism, she was very queer
and was obsessed with the idea of
making money. She was always talk
ing about some get-rlch-quick
scheme and trying to interest the
people with whom she came in con
tact with some money-making propo
sition. "She talked much of going to Eu
rope, and planned on going there
with her mother and renting a cha
teau in France, where she might live
through a season or two. in order
that she might gain first-hand knowl
edge of the French people. She
talked French fluently, and taught it
to private pupils. She had a wonder
ful mind along mathematical lines,
and could figure with ready ease a
problem which seemed very intricate.
"I did not know her when her
sweetheart died in Arizona, but
friends of hers told me that she
mourned his loss so much that her
health was impaired. Later she be
came attached to another man, and
she consulted me in choosing her
trousseau. When she left Ogden I
understood that she was arranging
to go to Europe, as she had 'planned,
with her mother.
"Many times 1 wondered what-had
become of her and one day I was
talking to a friend of hers in Ogden
and we discussed the possibility of
her death. A number of her friends
who had been interested with her in
spiritualism talked of attempting to
commune with her spirit.
"I do not believe if she was mur
dered that it happened in Utah. I
think she went back to her home
when she left Ogden in 1914. and she
was never heard of from that time.
"She was peculiar in her habits of
dress. Once a week she would visit
a hairdresser's and have her hair ar
ranged. She would not comb it be
fore the next visit a week later to
the hairdresser. She tied a veil over
her head at night and all of the time
the lived with me I never saw her
hair down."
In 1909 Miss Tabor was visited for
half a day at Ogden by a woman
friend, who later went into the cafe
business with her in Ruth, Kev. Miss
Tabor Is said to have furnished the
money. One of Miss Tabor's sisters
lived in Los Angeles and friends in
Ogden believe this sister was the one
who went into business with her at
Ruth. In 1910 Miss Tabor made a
hurried trip to iexas to attend the
funeral of a young man whose name
was believed to have been Murdock.
This may have been the sweetheart
who is referred to as having died in.
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Arizona. It is known that Miss Tabor
made the trip to the south in a chair
car, her funds being low, not permit
ting Pullman reservations.
Miss May Kyle, a teacher in the
East high, said she had taught in the
Ogden schools with Miss Tabor, who
was considered a brilliant and able
teacher but of a very peculiar dispo
sition. She was obliged to g-ive up
her teaching work in Ogden, it was
understood among the teaching force,
Miss Kyle said, because cf Tier failing
health.
Among Miss Tabor's friends in Og
den were Mrs. J. H. Epperson, 408
Twenty-sixth street, with whom Miss
Tabor roomed from September. 1912,
until December, 1913; Mrs. A. W. Put
nam, 469 Thirteenth street, and Mrs.
T. F. Rowlands, now a resident of
Oakland.
Mrs. Putnam recalled at Ogden the
last letter she received from Miss
Tabor, late in September or the early
part of October, 1914, in which Miss
Tabor told of a lawsuit at Lawton,
Mich., in which relatives were con
cerned and in which she and her
mother were making a fight against
other members of the family. Mrs.
Putnam said that Miss Tabor's father
had been a lawyer and the daughter
seemed to have taken an interest in
legal matters and in her letter to
Mrs. Putnam she gave a vivid ac
count of the lawsuit. She also wrote
of her mother, to whom she seemed
greatly devoted.
Shortly after receiving the letter
Mrs. Putnam said that both she and
Mrs. Rowlands had written to Miss .
Ta.bor, but that the letters were i
unanswered. Then Mrs. Rowlands 1
wrote to Mrs. Tabor at Lawton to in- I
quire if Miss Tabor was ill or if
any misfortune had befallen her. The
letters were unanswered and they
were returned to the writers.
Mrs. John F. Hobbs, 2269 Adams
avenue, Ogden, was intimately ac
quainted with Miss Tabor in Baptist
church work. Mrs. Hobbs said the
church had sent a message to Miss
Tabor each year at Christmas time,
but had never received any acknowl
edgment. "Miss Tabor's disappearance seemed
a mystery to us," said Mrs. Hobs,
"as she was such a faithful worker
while here and was so interested that
we considered it strange thafc she did
not write after she left Ogden."
It was learned yesterday that Miss
Tabor's father died at Lawton while
she was teaching school at Ogden
Regarding a supposed visit to Og
den in 1918 of Mrs. Florence Tabor
Critchlow a sister of the murdered
woman, who was held for further
examination when she refused to tes
tify at the coroner's inquest at Law
ton, was recalled by Mrs. J. L. Web
ster, superintendent of the Esther
home for girls. The woman said she
was a sister of Miss Maude Tabor, ac
cording to Mrs. Webster, who former
ly taught Latin in the Ogden high
school. The supposed sister said that
she was walking from Chicago to
San Francisco. Several of Miss Ta
bor's friends met the woman, Mr3.
Webster said, but because of her ap
pearance none talked with her very
much. She left Ogden after a day's
visit.
During the time she was in Ogden
Miss Tabor was a close friend of Mrs.
O. J. Stilwell, who, with Mr. Stilwell,
came from a town in Michigan near
Lawton. When Miss Tabor left Ogden
she corresponded with Mrs. Stilwell
until the fall of 1914, when letters
ceased.-In the summer of 1913 Mr.
and Mrs. Stilwell went to ' Europe,
where they were a number of months
on a motor trip. Mrs. Stilwell sent
cards to Miss Tabor.
Salctn Church Well Financed.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 7. (Special.) Al
though confronted with many de
demands attendant to the late war,
members of the Central Congrega
tional church of Salem have sub
scribed sufficient money to meet the
budget for 1920. increased the salary
of the pastor $300 a year and have a
surplus of more than $300, together
with valuable property free from in
cumbrance. This church is uniqus in
that financial problems are never
mentioned at the services yet the
money comes.
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MISS RUBY PETERSON.
GIRL, 19, GIN INSPECTOR
DISTINCTION IS GAINED
ARDUOUS STUDY.
BY
Ruby Peterson of Seattle First Is
Messenger, Then Learns to
Identify Grades of Wheat.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec. 7. (Special.)
Toward the end of the great war
Ruby Peterson. Seattle girl, then 17
years old, desired to serve her coun
try as a nurse. Failing In this be
cause of her youth, she finally be
came attached as & messenger, girl to
the representatives of the govern
ment at the Fisher Flouring mills.
In the short space of a year she has
studied and advanced until today, at
the age of 19, she is a grain inspector,
the only woman in the United States
filling such a position.
Miss Peterson devoted her spare
time when not engaged in carrying
messages between government offices
here to studying mixed wheat so as
to be able to identify the different
classes of wheat. Later she made
separations of damaged wheat to
study the grading factors of the
standards. Then she began making
all mechanical determinations such as
weight and moisture tests. Now she
is checking, under the supervision of
the manager of the big mills, the in
spector's grades on all wheat received
at the mill, the third largest in the
country.
Miss Peterson's present work takes
her far into chemistry, a rubject she
says she knew nothing of when she
started in as a messenger girl.
Milts Peterson's success with her
work has brought her personal letters
of commendation from government
officers and in the near future she
will be the subject of a lengthy arti
cle in a woman's magazine that re
cently sent a writer to Seattle from
Philadelphia to interview her.
MI-JHP DRIVE PLANNED
HOOD RIVER LEAGUE IS PRE
PARING FOR CAMPAIGN.
Opposition to Ownership by Nip
ponese of Land in V. S. Said
to lie Growing in Oregon.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 7. (Spe
cial.) The Hood River Anti-Asiatic
league, if plans of its members mate
rialize, will conduct a nation-wide
campaign to rouse the general public
against Japanese land ownership, de
clared to be a serious menace to the
Pacific coast.
It is planned especially to enlist the
aid of farmers in all parts of the
country, and all national farm papers
will be asked to co-operate in th
movement.
Members of the local organization
declare they are well pleased with the
work of the past week. R. E. Scott
and J. H. Koberg attended the con
vention of the Farmers' union at The
Dalles to ask aid in bringing about a
law to prevent further immigration
of Japanese. The Farmers' union, by
adopting a resolution calling for can
cellation of existing Japanese land
ownership, they say. went beyond
their hopes.
That the movement is gaining
for
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ground in the state is indicated, it
is said, by the action of the Bend
Commercial club In calling for pre
vention of the purchase of 11,000 acres
of land by George Shima, Japanese
potato king of California.
CHURCH RAISES $25,000
Half of Westminster Presbyterian
Fund Is Subscribed.
That $25,000 of the $50,000 sought
for expansion equipment for West
minster Presbyterian church to en
able it better to serve the Irvington
community has been obtained, was
the announcement made last night
by O. W. Davidson, chairman of the
special committee in charge of the
campaign.
"We are meeting with excellent
support in the campaign," said Mr.
Davidson, "and are greatly encour
aged. People are responding very
well to the call, and no doubt when
we have had time to canvass the dis
trict thoroughly, the full amount will
be realized. The workers will meet
every night in the church to continue
their activities."
0PERATI0NIS UNUSUAL
Double Mastoid Removed From
Ears of Hood River Girl.
Miss Grace Wilson of Hood River
is recovering at St. Vincent's hospi
tal from a most unusual operation
performed last week. It was what
physicians call a double mastoid
operation, to relieve infection of the
mastoid bone of the inner ear. Oper
ations for mastoid infection of one
ear are comparatively common, but it
is very rarely that both ears are af
fected. The operation, which was per
formed by Dr. Hicks C. Fenton. was
entirely successful. Miss Wilson,
who is the daughter of John A. Wil
son, will probably be removed to her
borne in Hood River this week.
Canoeist Escapes Drowning.
Jack Routledge, salesman for the
Meier & Frank company and the oc
cupant of a. houseboat at the Willam
ette moorage, narrowly escaped
drowning yesterday "afternoon when
a canoe which he was paddling cap
sized. Routledge was rescued by J.
L. Gregory, another resident of the
houseboat colony, who saw his neigh.
bor struggling in the icy water, and
went to hi3 assistance in a rowboat.
Supreme
Marigold
c& a spread, this fine-flavored
Supreme Marigold is becoming more
popular every day. And it's a great
economy in the household. Packed
under the yellow and black labeL
Wholesale Distributor
FRYE 8C COMPANY
Portland, Oregon
Lad Catches Remark Not Intended
for His Ears, Follows Clew
and Arrests Result.
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lished by arrangement.)
NEW YORK, Dec 7. (Special.)
Detective work by a devotee of the
motion pictures has resulted in the
arrest of two men and three boys, fol
lowing systematic robberies of at
least four hotels and several mercan
tile Arms. The loot of these robberies
will run into thousands of dollars,
the police say.
The Waldorf Astoria, the Vander
bilt, the Biltmore and- the McAlpin
were among the hotels which were
robbed.
Antonio Campettelo, 30 years old, of
9 Morton street, is held in police head
quarters on a charge of grand larceny;
Michaels De Vito of the same address
is accused of receiving stolen goods,
and the three boys are charged with
burglary. They gave their names as
Tony Sabini. 17 years old, 367 Bleecker
street: Hugh Cox. 120 Chrystie street,
and Vincent Casarella, 94 Beacon ave
nue, Jersey City Heights.
Hotel Employe! Bribed.
According to the story the police
say Campettello told, he bribed em
ployes of hotels to wrap silverware
and glassware in linen and put these
in with the ashes or other refuse.
Campettello, who is- a collector of
refuse from hotels, says he would sort
over his load after leaving the vicinity
and remove the valuables he found
to his home.
Robberies of the hotels had been re
ported weeks ago, but the police were
never until now able to discover how
they were committed.
The boys who were arrested are said
to have confessed to at least 15 bur
glaries. They say one of these was
committed in a wholesale grocery
store at 278 Bleecker street, and that
the goods they obtained they buried
in the cellar of the Morton-street ad
dress, but when they went to take it
away later they found it had been
stolen from them.
Group Trailed by Boy.
A few days ago a boy, whose name
is withheld by the police, overheard
some others talking of robberies they
had committed. This boy, whose
favorite books are after the style of
Sherlock Holmes, trailed the group,
and. after several hours' work, learned
their names and the crimes of which
they had boasted.
He immediately reported his infor
mation to the police department, and
Detective Fiaschetti, chief of the
crime squad, with five other of his
men. arrested the boys.
Each one, in turn, made a confes
sion, the police say.
When Fiaschetti called at the Morton-street
address he found Michael
De Vito, whom he later arrested on a
charge of receiving stolen goods.
There he says he saw linen marked
with the monogram of one of the
hotels. After being questioned, De
Vito said he obtained the goods from
Campettelo.
1100 SOLDIERS RETURN
Transport From Siberia Displays
Warning to Bolshevists.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7. Eleven
hundred American soldiers returned
from Siberia today aboard the trans
port Sheridan with a large canvas
sign put up on the side of the ship
reading "Bolshevists, beware! We are
coming home to join the American
Legion."
The bodies of 45 Americans killed
in a surprise attack by the bolsheviki
in the Suchone district were aboard.
Quartermaster Agent Ryan, who
won the congressional medal for
valor displayed in the chase after tht.
Indians who massacred General Cus
ter and his command, died on the
Sheridan Friday.
All British troops have been with
drawn from Siberia, according to W.
F. Keilly, former acting British high
commissioner in Siberia
one of the
passengers. He said Great Britain
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UNION CHIEFS TO CONFER
Call Tor Federation Meeting at Cap
ital Issued by Gonipers.
WASHINGTON, Dec 7. Presidents
of all International unions affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor will meet in Washington De
cember 13 at the call of President
Gompers.
The purpose of the meeting: is to
consider the legislative situation in
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1 anti-strike provisions of the Curu-
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MARSHALL FAVORS MINERS
Men Not Adequately Compensated,
Declares Vice-President.
NEW TORK. Dec 7. Vice-President
Marshall declared in an address
at a dinner given In his honor last
night that his sympathies were with
the miners who were ''not adequately
compensated." He asserted that he
"would not po down in an Indiana
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coal mine for one day, even though
he received a vice-president's salary
for doing so."
Mr. Marshall said he was a "firm
believer in labor unions as a neces
sary evolution of our American life."
and added that bar associations and
railroad boards of directors are
"nothinp more nor less than unions"
Referring to President Wilson, the
vice-president said he would stay
with the president "even though all
men deserted him."
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or horse.
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