Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, January 03, 1920, Image 7

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Newspaper Page Text7 TEMPORARY ISOLATION HOSPITAL OPENED AT KELLY BUTTE ROCK PILE. DEAD GIRL'S LOVE REVEALED IN LETTER BRING THIS COUPON AND GET COMMENCEMENT SALE! G 20-EXTRA-20 "S. & II." Trading Stamps on your first fl cash pur chase and double A Money-Saving Event County Plant Could Be Used Louisville Coroner's Jury Fails to Hold Schott. on the balance. Good, on first floor and la basement Saturday. Jan uary 3. Also Twenty , Extra Green Trading Stamps Today Saturday if You Bring This Coupon ess to Work Idle Prisoners. THE MORNING' OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. v JANUARY 3, 1920. USE OF LINNTON DuARRY SUGGESTED mm m BUILDINGS ARE INTACT Tollce lieutenant Sajs I. AV. W I'iud It Flo Merely to Bo In Jail. Mon Than70 Now Held. With 207 prisoners in. the county Jail and 17 "time" prisoners in the city Jail, the question has been asked w hy the county rock quarry at Linn ton is not opened for the employment of at least pome of these prisoners, thereby benefiting: the roads of the county with potential labor now go Inx to waste in the jails. The city started operations at Kelly Butte yesterday with ten prisoners sent out in the patrol wagon In charge of Police Officers Bert, Ham akcr. Case, Shaefer and Porter. With the old prisoners detention quarters there, however, now turned into a hospital for smallpox patients and no Immediate possibility for the con struction of new. quarters for pris oners there, it will be necessary each morning to take prisoners out there and return them to the jail in the city each night. The advantage of using: the Linnton quarry for the employment of pris oners fa that it is equipped with de tention quarters which could be util ized for the prisoners, thereby doing away with the necessity of bringing the prisoners back to town each night and making it possible to employ larger numbers to advantage. HanllBK Is Ntctwinry. The principal difficulty with work ing the Llnnton quarry was voiced yesterday by Deputy Roadmaster Chapman, who said there was a lack of roads In that section of the county on which the rock turned out by the quarry could be utilized. He said, however, that about 4000 yards could be used on the Germantown road. Mr. Chapman said that the quarry was so located that it was necessary to haul the rock away in auto trucks, thereby permitting the use of the rock on roads too far distant. The question has been raised as to whether the county could not use the rock from that quarry in other parts of the county by shipping over the railway line passing through Linnton. This would mean a- haul from, the quarry to the railroad and also prob ably a haul from the railroad to the road to be Improved. Mr. Chapman said that the quarters for the prisoners at the Linnton quar ry were li good shape and that the county had portable machinery which could be put in there if it should be desired to operate. Present Work Handicapped. "When the plan of having the coun ty send prisoners to Kelly Butte for work there, with the necessity of re turning them to the co'unty Jail each night, was broached, it was turned down by Sheriff Hurlburt as unfeas ible. The city has now- taken up operations there on the same basis, but it is a handicap to successful operations. The plan to work the Linnton quarry has been broached as a possible means of solving the prob lem of the employment of prisoners Jn large numbers. There are now 48 I. W. W. doing time in the county jail and sentences of probably 30 others are pending In the courts. ' These are the prisoners which the public has be?n particular ly demanding should be put to work. Lieutenant Thatcher, in charge of the police emergency squad, secured about 70 I. W. W. convictions recently in the municipal court, many of which are now up on appeal. His machinery for the apprehension of the I. W. W. includes a directory in which the name and record of every I. W. W. is set down. He expressed disgust yes terday that convicted I. W. W. should merely be held in jail. "A jail sentence is pie for an I. W. TV.." he said. "It is work that they fear and a sentence on a rock pile somewhere would do more to cure them than anything else I know." The Linnton quarry has not been operated for. about 3 years now. The machinery which was used there has been disposed of. but the buildings are Intact. Prisoners Sulk nt Flrnt. "When the ten prisoners were rounded up to go to Kelly Butte yes terday morning the police had a near mutiny on their hands, and several of the most reluctant to work voiced their sentiments in no uncertain terms. Several were sullen and re fused to work for a while after ar rival at Kelly Butte. Chief Jenkins reported, however, that after they had sulked long enough to get good and cold they pitched in and worked all day. Contrary to previous plans an nounced, the rock crusher was run all day. The work of arranging the cook house and other accommodations will be done Monday, the chief announced. Mayor Baker said yesterday that a kitchen shack is to be built in which the men can remain should heavy rains fall. Here they will be. given lunch, having breakfast and supper served in the city jail. City Gets Control. Multnomah county commissioners decided yesterday to allow the city of Portland full authority at Kelly Butte until the smallpox epidemic is over, permitting the city commission ers to use the Kelly Butte jail as a temporary hospital and to operate the rockpile by prisoners taken daily from the city jail in trucks. Roadmaster Eatchel was Instructed to find out the city's desires w'th re gard to Kelly Butte and to report back at a meeting Monday, at which time a formal order of approval will be entered unless there are unfore seen developments. Sheriff Hurlburt will have nothing more to do with the management of Kelly Butte until the city is through with the temporary pest house and quarry, by this de cision of the county heads. The commissioners also agreed to turn over to the city any part of the Kelly Butte 23-acre tract which might be desired for the erection of a per manent isolation hospital, though it was suggested that abandoned county property on Canyon road where sewer and light connections are aireaay in place would be more fitting: At Kelly Butte patients would be subject to the nervous strain of irequent blast lng. . Liquor Sale in. Italy Limited. ROME, Jan. 2. Prohibitionists claimed their first notable ' achieve. ment in Italy in the issuance of a decree by which the sale of liquor containing more than 20 per cent of alcohol will be permitted only be tween 8 o'clock in the morning and 8 o'clock In the afternoon on week finvn and until 4 f. m. on isaturcays. Sales must cease at noon on Sundays and are completely pronlDitea on noli days. ' r ...... " . . ! i'i 3 7i rir&, sy. 4 Wi 0 v Q I pper Vlerr of new (imallpox hospital opened yesterday. Loner Group of city prisonera working under srunrd, breaking; rock to build roadway to proposed permanent contagious hospital. KELLY BUTTE WARD OPEN SMALLPOX- PATIENTS MOVED TO TEMPORARY. QUARTERS. 1 ; Work on New Hospital, Which Will Be Rushed to Completion, Is . Started by City. Smallpox patients were moved yesterday- to the new temporary small pox hospital at Kelly Butte rockpile. Fifteen patients were admitted and more were expected to be placed in the new quarters today. The Jail has been completely renovated and spe cially equipped to care for the sick. Some of the prisoners working at the rockpile will be used to build a roadway to the site of the new con tagious hospital, which was selected yesterday by members of the city council. The new hospital, which will be rushed to completion, according to members of the city council, will be located on the east end of the county's 23-acre site opposite the gravel pit. It will be sufficiently removed from the rockpile, ; it was said, to escape dis astrous results' coming from the dropping of huge rocks when blasting Is in progress. Surveyors were sent to the county property yesterday and as quickly as the new site has been definitely decided upon, work will begin. R. McMullin, chief of the bureau of con struction in the public works depart ment, has been .placed in charge of the co"nstruction of the building. Instead of asking for bids from private contractors, the city plans to erect the new hospital on a force account, purchasing necessary ma terials, hiring its own men, using men from various city departments and when possible utilizing city prisoners on the work. Not only will this plan tend to save money on the cost of the building, but it will serve to ex pedite the completion of the hospital, which is sorely needed by the city. INSURANCE REPORT MADE Revenue From State Department Estimated at $235,085. SALEM, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) Kevenues from the state insurance de partment for the year 1919 . totaled J235, 085.05, according to Commissioner Barber, in his annual report to the governor. With the exception of an amount slightly in excess of $19,000, representing the expenses of conduct ing the insurance department, the revenues have been turned over to the etate treasurer and credited to the general funds. The total income of the department for the past year included, the fol lowing items: .Annual licenses, $36, 766.45; fire certificates, $10,762; life certificates. $3421; miscellaneous -insurance certificates. $3228; register ing titles of policies. $115; certificates oi autnority, ?147.50; transfer of cer tificates, $55.85; annual tax, $178, 542.75, and miscellaneous, $821.50. DIVORCES TO BE PROBED Lane County Prosecutor to Appear Where Children Are Involved. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) Every divorce case filed in Lane county hereafter in which children are involved will be contested, accord ing to an announcement of District Attorney L. L. Ray today. Complying literally with the statutes the district attorney said that he will enter his appearance in all cases where the wel fare of children is at stake. "More than one-half of the boys and girls who . come up . before the juvenile court in this county are mem bers of families in which divorce has been granted," said Mr. Ray, "and I believe that if a lot of these cases are contested It will prevent separations and have a tendency to lessen the number of juvenile cases. " Mr. Ray says that 85 per cent of the girls in the state industrial school at Salem . are . from homes .that were broken through divorce, proceedings. BRIDGE TOLLS RECEIVED Check for $52,701 Received at State Department. SALEM, Or.,' Jan. 2. (Special.) A check for $53,701.62, representing the state's-share of the tolls from the in terstate bridge for the year ending December 31, 1917. was received at the state department here today from the auditor of Multnomah county. Under the law Multnomah county re ceives . three-fifths of the tolls from the bridge, while Clarke county, Washington, receives two-fifths of the tolls. Of the total sum received by Multnomah county for bridge tolls, 75 per cent of the, amount goes into the state treasury. Accompanying the check was a re port showing that between January 1, 1918, and May 28, J919, the gross receipts from the bridge were $445, 775.16; disbursements, $58,439.65, leaving a net balance of $387,335.55. Of this amount, based on the division of the receipts provided by law, Mult nomah county received $232,401.31. As yet the state has not received Its 75 per cent of this amount. RIDDLE CASE ON DOCKET Suit Against Highway Commission to Be Heard February 11. ROSEBURG, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) The case of S. H. Rockhill, repre senting the city of Riddle against S. Benson, the state highway commis sion, secretary of state- and state treasurer, a suit to enjoin the com mission from changing the route of the Pacific highway from Riddle, will be heard in the Douglas county cir cuit court' on February 11, the date being set today when the docket was called for the special term, which begins nejet Monday.. Riddle objects to the changing of the Pacific highway to what is known as the Canyonville cut-off road. It is alleged that Mr.. Benson promised the road would be retained in Its present location, and that acting upon the promise the road district spent approximately $25,000 on improve RATE HEARING DATE SET Sumpter Valley Case to Be Argued in Portland January 5. SALEM, Or.. Jan. 2. (Special.) Hearing of the application of the Sumpter Valley railroad for an in crease in both freight and passenger rates will be held in PoVtland Jan uary 5,. with All three members of the Oregon public service commission in attendance. In connection with the hearing the commission also will con sider the complamt- filed by the Baker White Pine Lumber company against the Sumpter Valley railroad officials. In this complaint the lumber com pany charges discrimination, partic ularly with, regard to the supplying of cars and motive power.. GRAND JURY TO ACT Elizabeth Griffith Bares Heart Secret to Man Who Boasts of TTnfaithfalness. LOUISVILLE. Ky Jan. 2. (Spe cial.) No blame was fixed by- the coroner's Jury this afternoon' for the murder of Miss Elizabeth Ford Grif fith, 17-year-old office attendant of Dr. Christopher G. Schott. who was found "Christmas eve shot through the heart in Dr. Schott's office. A letter from Miss Griffith to Dr. Schott was read at the inquest re vealing the girl's heart secrets, her love for Dr.. Schott and her efforts to break away from him. She dwelt on the fact that she had always been true to him. although he had boaxted that he had a different girl every night. The letter was written in' May, when Miss Griffith was at the city hospital taking a course in nursing. "Did you ever atop to think that the time would come when I didn't want to come back?" she wrote. "You seem to think you can have me or leave me at will. I'll admit that I waited, hoped and prayed during my first three -months that you would come back to me, but now it could not be if you wished It. Your unjust suspicions today settle the question forever. "Didn't you tell me that you had a different girl every night, and" when I merely go downtown to supper you say that everything is not on the level? Had I never gone with any one and let you do all the going, you would have found some other excuse. They are nothing new. I have been fed up on excuses and promises for the past three years and let me re lieve you of responsibility of making more, for I have forgotten the place where I do not even want to return. "It doesn't matter to me if you come or go. It's hell to feel that way, and I never thought I could feel any other emotion but love' for you. Don't ever think of me personally again, as I have already schooled myself to an impersonal feeling for you. I want to keep on fixing your books and I want some money, in fact, need it. "I don't mean to borrow It. as I feel that I am earning a little bit working on the books. It ,doesn't matter how deficient I was, 'twill be hard to find another girl to help you as I did and be as true as I was, considering everything, and I realize, too. you- Just want to get something on me so you can go around and' talk about me as you did Jennie Cole, and I have been good to you, too, but I see that it is all you are after. If that Is gratitude and appreciation, well. "ELIZABETH GRIFFITH." Laurene Gardner, 13-year-old wit ness for Dr. Schott, made her first public appearance and repeated nearly all her story of her ride with Dr. Schott when he delivered Christmas presents during the time Miss Grif fith was supposed to be lying dead in his office. The body was found by Dr. Bennett at 3:10 o'clock and the girl -had been dead an hour when the coroner saw her at 3:30. the ' coroner said. Dr. Schott did not testify at the inquest, but had previously stated that he did not return to his office after leaving about 12:30 o'clock" vMth Laurene Gardner. . Dr. Schott was held to the grand jury yesterday under $8000 bond, which was furniehed by friends. The grand Jury hearing is set for Jan uary 9. ; TAX RECEIPT iS ISSUED State Treasurer Closes Appraise ment of II. L. Plttock Estate. SALEM. Or., Jan. ,2. (Special.) An official receipt for the inheritance tax of $226,089.36, based on the ap praisement of the H. L. Pittock estate, amounting to $6,815,345.80, was issued today by O. P. Hoff, state treasurer. The only change made in the original appraisement, as filed by O. L. Price, executor, was an item of $150,000, which Mr. Price alleged was subject to exemption because it represented notes indorsed .by Mr. Pittock, but not actually in his possession. This discrepancy was settled satis factorily to both the state treasurer and Mr. Price, however, and the estate is now closed as far as the inheritance tax department Is concerned. Lister Portrait to Be Donated. TACOMA, Wash.. Jan. 2. O. S. Lar sen, vice-president of the Scandinavian-American bank here, will tomor row present to the state a life-size portrait of the late Governor Lister. The picture is the work of Sprague Hathaway, Boston (Mass.) artist, and will hang beside the portraits of other governors In the executive room of the capitol building at Olympia. Blackleg Losses Small. SALEM, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) The losses from blrckleg in central Ore gon have been small, according to Dr. Briton, Former Ambassador, Dies LONDON, Jan. 2. Sir Frank'Caven dish Lascalles, British ambassador to Germany from 1895 to 1908. died here today. He had been minister to Rou- mania in 1886 and to Persia in 1891 and ambassador to Russia in 1894. AVOID FLO! KEEP YOUR LIVER AIIO . BOWELS WORKING Old Herb Tea Best Insurance Against Disease Influenza, la grippe, colds, rheuma tism and more serious diseases can in most cases be blamed to sluggish liver, kidneys and bowels. A body full of poison -waste matter Is an easy victim for germs. 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Epsom Salts. ........ .ISo 4 oz. Cascara A rom. ...... -40c 5 oz. Castor Oil. .......... .Wc 1 pt. Albanal mineral oil si.OO 1 pt. r.ussian Mineral Oil SI.OO 4 oz. Chloroform Wnimcnt.BOe 4 oz. Glyc. and Bay Rum..Z5o Cooper's Dandelion P!ll3...S5e Toilet Articles Cuticura Soap...... S3c Woodbury's "Soap.'.......' 2.1c DJer Kiss Talc Powder. ..... .35c Hind's Honey Almond Cream. .40c Houblgrant's Toilet Water. Lilac and Lily of the Val--ley.. C3.75 50c FOR toi n ii.u no i' Sachet D'Elite Fancy package assorted I fin odors, very special at.... I Ub Water Bottle We Till! a 1 1 cttt yon flfy rents for your old hot-water bottle or foun tain syrlnfvr. In exchange on a new one at S2.BO or more. 22.25 Three-Quart Seamless Foun tain Syringe, five feet tubing, three pipes and one year I CO 'guarantee, only vliUi? J2.00 Two-Quart Size, eamef I M Q as above, special at Candy Specials Queen Anne Butter Balls.. 2c lb. l'canut Brittle SIHrlh. Peppermint Wafers sse lh, Wintertrrcen Wafers :tl-II. Kraose's Gum Drops 59c lb. Electric Iron six-pound slse and euaran-C QQ teed very special at.......'' Ladies' Vanity Boxes - $6 SPECIAL O.MY Electric Stove Can be used on table In prepar ing meals, costs but little CO CO to operate, on sale now at ! The TAXI Cowhide' Bags Wardrobe Trunk Wardrobe Trunk This exceptionally well-made trunk, size 40 Inches, limited number on sale, only vww This Fine Walrus Grain "Fabric Lined Bag. 18 - Inch size, fO Cfl black only, extra special at W0"'' Same Bag: as above, but f I I Cn leather lined 1 ,,3U Made of ba?swool box, size 36 by 22 by 14. closed top, square edge, black vulcanized fiber, steel brass plated, self-locking lock, extra good quality. Regrular OO Cfl price $42.50. omsale at.. . "3au $1.75 Buffer Made of composition White I OC Ivory, a bargain at. viiOJ The Wallace Electric Lamp A practical and compact lamp for office, boudoir or living room. Can be set up or attached any where, will attach to back of bed or chair, complete with M Cpj cord only iJOiJU DOLLS r , yA off Woodard, Clarke Ez. Co m n n WOOD-LARK BUILDING ALDER AT WEST PARK W. H. Lytic, state veterinarian, who returned here last night from Bend and other towns in that section of the state. Several herds of cattle were afflicted with the disease, ac cording to the veterinarian, but in only a few Instances were deaths reported. Marion to Have Milk Survey. SALEM. Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) In compliance with a request received from the Oregon Dairy Council. W. M. Smith, county school superintendent: J. W. Todd, city superintendent, and principals and teachers of the various local educational institutions will make a milk survey to ascertain how many children in Marion county are getting no milk in their diet. Re turns of the survey will be sent to Mrs. Edith Knight Hill, educational director of the dairy council. c) "Merchandise of Merit Only Meni! i Remember the Makes in This Sale Steiti'Bloch! Fashion Park! Langham! and Langham High for Younger Young Men! Of course, we refer to those men who have not attended the Big Clothing Sale Do you ever remember of anything like it? Was there ever such an astoundingly far-reaching offer of An Entire $100,000 Stock of Fine Suits and Overcoats And Every Garment All Wool at 20 Discount? - Well, that's what this sale offers, and if you are going to take full advantage of it and get best selections, we say act' Saturday and without fail. Special Provision for the Comfort of the Wives They will come Not a bad idea, either, because few stores can boast entire stocks of all-wool garments. Of course the wool question is settled here at the start, but the wife generally has ideas about style and pattern that must be respected. ONE THING WE NOTED rSome men chose to look elsewhere before buying, a practice which we welcomed. We cannot recall one such instance in which the wife was along that didn't result in return to the Big Sale!