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TTTF MORXIXG OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1920 Teon and Mr. Kiddle's successors had a grasp on the department. When appointed. Mr. Kiddle knew nothing of the roads of the state, but since then. 13 months ago. he had, been almost constantly traveling un til, at the time of his death, he .bad a fund of detailed knowledge of the IS 111 LA GRANDE road system. He always carried a note book and jotted down data con cerning the roads he traversed. These notebooks contain a vast amount of minute information concerning every state road. W. J. Kerr, grand master for Ore gon of the Ancient Free and Accept ed Masons, issued a call to the grand lodge of Oregon to assemble at La Grande, Thursday. In order to take charge of the funeral of Mr. Kiddle, Edward E. Kiddle Is Stricken Suspicions of Seattle Woman Aroused, by Candy. at Home Alone. DEMISE IS UNEXPECTED CHEMIST MAKES ANALYSIS VITOZONE Suite Roads Commissioner Passes Detectives Begin Investigation of Treatments Awtf Two Hour After He Is Pound 111 by Family. Persons Connected With Alien ation Snit by Mrs. C. Booth. Will Cure You. HA OFFICIAL POISON CHOCOLATES, ARE CHRISTMAS GIFT I If You Are Sick I Mr Ol11Cte ' ' ..-B 1 No Surgery ,Mg WMmm f ' f t v - yx f IaV GRANDE, Or, Dec. !8. (Spe taD Edward E. Kiddle, state high ay commissioner, died at 4:30 o'clock his morning at his home In Island ;ity. Or., after a few hours' Illness rom acute indigestion and heart dis ase. He came to Union county In sS6, and had lived here ever since. Te was one of the prominent business .ten of this section of the state, and .td held high positions in the Masonic . aternity. Mr. Kiddle had been alone at his uburban home all night, while his amily attended a concert. He ap arently was in good health when iiey left, but they found him violent- til when they returned. He died . y hours after their arrival.. Friends of William Pollman of Jaker, Or., today telegraphed Gover or Olcott urging his appointment as tlglrway commissioner in Mr. Kiddle's dace. Mr. Pollman had given his onsent to the move. La Grande good oads enthusiasts and politicians also ire backing Mr. Pollman for the posi- ion, and Pendleton men may join in he movement. Drat a Is ITnexpeeted. Returning' from a trip to the na lonal capital a few days ago, where le met In conference with highway ommissloners of the different states . nd appeared before congress In be half of the national highway pro gramme. Mr. Kiddle spent Christmas .ith his family and apparently was ajoying good health. ' It has been .. nown for some time that the work n the commission was hard on him. mt he seemed to stand it well, and 10 one thought that his health was n danger. Mr. Kiddle has always taken an ictlve lead in political, fraternal and business circles of not only Union county, but of the state. In 1916 Mr. Kiddle served as state senator from Union and Wallowa counties. War Work Noted. During the war Mr. Kiddle took a very active part In all of the drives, and has often been the inspiration which put over the various drives In Union county. Probably no man re siding in the Pacific northwest has reached as high points 01 service in the Masonic fraternal order as Mr. Kiddle. He has held the office of past grand master. Ancient Free and Ac cepted Masons, past grand high priest Royal Arch chapter, past grand com mander of Knights Templar, and past worthy grand patron, i.astern btar. Besides all of these state offices, he held every office in the local lodge. He Joined the Masonic lodge In Hot tonville, Kan., in 1885. Enthusiasm for Good Roada Kern. Always a worker for better high ways, Mr. Kiddle has ever been ready to aid the better road movement in district, county and in the state. When State Highway Commissioner Burgess met his death, and there was a vacancy on the commission. Governor Olcott apponited Mr. Kid dle. Mr. Kiddle was born July 15, 1862 In Warren, 111. In 1884, he was mar ried to Miss Emma Walling at Ham ilton, Mo. In 1886, Mr. and Mrs. Kid die moved to Oregon, and settled in Union county, where they have since made their home. Their first loca tion was in Union, Or., where Mr. Kiddle entered the milling business. Later. Mr. Kiddle went to Island City, where he became associated with the late W. G. Hunter and Charles Goodnough, under the firm name of Th Pioneer Flouring Mills company. This Institution was under the di rect command of Mr. Kiddle until the past year, when he retired from active business-and devoted his en tire time to public matters. He is survived by a widow, two sons, Merton W. and Fred E. of Island City, and two daughters, Mrs. Robert Eakin of this city, and Miss Leta, who is home for the holidays from the University of Oregon. One brother, Fred Kiddle, of Island City, also survives. Funeral services will be held at Island City on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. ' Edward E. Kiddle, state high way commlaMftonerv who died suddenly yesterday. which is to be held under the aus pices of the Masons. Letters and telegrams were sent to all prominent Masons urging them to be present. A special car will be attached to the train leaving Portland - at 11 o'clock tomorrow night to take those wishing to go. Thursday the Merchants exchange will be closed out of respect to the memory of Mr. Kiddle. TRIBUTE PAID BV GOVERNOR 430VERXOR WILL ACT SLOWLY uooessor to Commissioner Kiddle Regarded as Grave Problem. Bastern Oregon has been unfort unate In Its representation on the state highway commission. William L.- Thompson, who first represented that district, resigned when he moved to Portland to become vice-president of the First National bank. J. N. Burgess, who succeeded Mr. Thomp son, was murdered by hold-up men a few weeks after his appointment, and now Edward E. Kiddle has died suddenly. Governor, Olcott, who was In Port land yesterday, said that he has no one In mind as a successor to Mr. Kiddle and that he was open to sug gestions. The position of state high way commissioner is more difficult to fill than that of an appointment to the United States senate, for it calls for special requirements. In addressing the state chamber of com merce, the governor announced that be would be pleased to hear any ' recommendations for the vacancy. Pendleton is said to be discussing twT candidates, Edward Marshall, a farmer, and Mr. Rice. Pendleton banker. William Pollman. banker and stockman of Baker, also is be ing discussed as a possibility, and so Is E. P. Mahaffey.' banker at Bend. Deschutes county has wanted recognition on the commission for some time and made a strong bid for it when Mr. Kiddle was appointed. The attitude of the Bend people is that Bend Is in the center of the state and on The Dalles-California highway and the McKenzle highway and a commissioner from that point would Me that these nrolecta are pushed aUng. H. W. Collins of Pen dleton, is another prospect mentioned. In his address at the state cham ber of commerce, R. A. Booth, chair man of the commission, announced that he will accept reappeintment when his term expires March 31, the governor having issued a statement a few days ago that he would offer Mr. Booth reappointment. Commis sioner Booth explained that in view of the death of Mr. Kiddle and the recent appointment of Mr. Teon, he was the 6nly member of the commis sion familiar with the routins and policy of the commission, and he felt constrained to continue until Mr. I Death or Mr. Kiddle Declared Dis tinct Loss to State. SALEM, Or., Dec. 28. (Special.) "The passing of Edward E. Kiddle would be a distinct loss to the state at any time, but It is a greater los Just now when. Oregon is midway m a great road construction programme and needed his sound business judg ment in dealing with the important problems before the state highv commission" said Governor Olcott to night. "Mr. Kiddle made a success of his private business and he was putting the same constructive energy into his duties as a public official. He ap proached every question with an open mind and sought only to serve the best Interests of his state. He per formed his duties with an honesty of purpose that inspired confidence in all who came into contact with him. "A successor to Mr. Kiddle on the highway commission has not been chosen and no selection will be made for several days. I hope to be able to find for his successor a man of the same ability. Integrity and position in public confidence. At this time I have no one in mind." BALLOON STILL MISSING Belief Is Expressed That Gas Bag May Have Drifted Into Wilds. OTTAWA. Ont., Dec 28. The miss ing United States navy balloon A-5598, with three naval officers aboard, which floated away from Rockaway naval air station. New York, Decem ber 13, and was swallowed by the mists of the northland after being last sighted at Wells, N. Y., Is be lieved to have descended near Lake Temiskaming, 200 miles northwest of here. Sir Rupert Stupart, director of the Dominion meteorological bureau at Toronto, reported today that a care ful analysis of winds and other atmo spheric conditions obtaining during the flight made it nearly a" certainty that the gas bag had been carried into the Temiskaming region. Lake Temis kaming is an elogated body of water forming part of the Quebec-Ontario line at the headwaters of the Ottawa river. COUNTY RECOVERS $20,000 Xational Surety Company Pais Bond Of Jackson's Treasurer. MEDFORD, Or.. Dec. 28. (Special.) As a Christmas gift to Jackson county and a final accomplishment of his administration which ends this week, George M. Roberts, prosecuting attorney, yesterday presented the county court with a 320,000 check from the National Surety company of New York, the amount of the bond furnished by Miss Myrtle Blakely, county treasurer. This salvage from the failure of the Bank of Jacksonville. In which Miss Blakely had the county's funds de posited, was obtained by Mr. Roberts without a suit. SEATTLE. Wash.. Dee. !$. (Spe cial.) Her suspicions aroused by their appearance, Christmas choco lates, containing, according to City Chemist Jacobsen, some sort of pois onous salts, were brought for ex amination today by Mrs. Carrie Booth, who lives at the Vega apart ments, 1618 Terry avenue. Detectives began investigating per sons connected with an alienation suit brought by Mrs. Booth several weeks ago. Had Mrs. Booth eaten any of the candy, she would have been badly perhaps fatally, burned Jacobseh said. Mrs. Booth stated that she had no suspicion as to the sender of the package, which 6he received through the mails Monday. - Poison Crudely Injected. The chocolates, were originally put up In a 14-ounce box by a local candy manufacturer. The injection of the poison Into the candy was a crude job. That the confections had been tampered with was easily detectable. Each piece was mashed and crushed and dis colored by the coating of mercurial salts. The poison had been stuffed into the chocolates. Jacobsen said his first analysis in dicated the presence of mercury. Mrs. Booth is being sued for Al vorce by Donald H. Booth. Their marital troubles were first made pub lic several weeks ago when Mrs. Booth brought suit for S50.000 aeainst Mrs. Valeria Dwyer, milliner in (the Hotel rrye Dunning, charging alienation of ner busband s affections. Soon after that Booth entered his divorce suit. Hnaband Accuses Wife- He said he had been a kind and in dulgent husband and had tried to make a home, but that his wife had refused to keep house, nagged him. caused his arrest on an assault com plaint which was later dismissed and generally harassed him. She answered that she was forced to work for a living, that Booth took her salary away from her, and that he was -eapable of paying her J100 a month alimony. She also demanded that he be forced to pay her divorce expenses. Valeria Dwyer was named by Mrs. Booth in this answer. Mrs. Booth stated that from the time she was married to Booth in Vic toria, B. C, on October 15. 1919, they lived lovingly, peacefully and har moniously until January 1, 1920, when, she charged, Ms. Dwyer began to lorce ner attentions on Booth. Costly Presents Mentioned. She alleged Mrs. Dwyef bestowed numerous costly prsents and gifts on her husband, gave him' "valuable suits of clothes, silk . pajamas, llk hose, silk nighties, costly hats, ex pensive shoes, silk shirts, elegant ties and even a Packard automobile. "Mrs. Dwyer Is a widow of 50 years, used to the ways of the world, while my husband Is 20, unsophisticated and unused to the world," Mrs. Booth charged. "She vamped and allured my husband by flattery and induced him to take her for automobile rides and to expensive cafes where she con tributed to the bills." Booth then told her he had lost all love for her, Mrs. Booth said. Marriage Held Illegal. In another court document filed after Mrs. Booth's answer to Booth's original suit, the husband charged that she was not his legal wife. He alleged that she had married him within six months after she had been divorced from a man named Laird in Clallan county, Washington. 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Si 1 m r L PACT DEM AMERICA, BRITAIN AND JAPAN ARE URGED TO CURTAIL. ECCENTRIC DANCER IS STAR OS PANTAGES BILL. !W.'W.'.'UJt'M'V.M)l..U.M.VJj..... .y .W .Uil..BjW ; . rv Mabel BlonOell. One of the promising of the younger vaudeville stars Is Ma bel Blond-ell, whose on and dances delight at Pantages this week. Hiss Blondell Is of the eccen tric type and consequently de- -rived the sobriquet of "The Fe male Frisco" from dramatic critics, who often compared her with the famous dancing- waiter of New York. Winter Garden lame. John B. Hyman, author of many vaudeville successes, has written Miss Blondell's act es pecially for her and the combi nation Is a happy one. SUGAR . CONTRACT VALID Candy Company Must Pay $300, 000 More Than Market Price. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 28. The Continental Candy company of Chi cago must pay 119.86 per hundred pounds for 1250 tons of Java sutrar which sells on the market. today for f per Hundred, Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe of the United States district court here decided today in'declaring valid a contract signed last May by the company. The candy company sous-lit last month to repudiate the contract made on a rising market with the Califor nia-Hawaiian Sugar Refining com pany here. Judge Bledsoe, in making the oral decision, said the candy company should fill its contract "like a sport," even lr it meant DanKruptcy. More than 1300,000 over the present mar ket pries was involved in the contract WOMAN ESCAPES RADICALS Interpreter tor American . Red Cross Safe at Constantinople. PARIS. Dec. 28. Miss Irene Knlgn vetch, an interpreter for the Amer ican Red Cross, who was captured by the bolshevik! with Captain Emmett Kilpatrick of Uniontown, Pa, at Novo Alevievska October 29, when a detachment of Budenny's cavalry swept down the west coast of the Sea of Azov, has arrived at Constant inople after escaping from her cap tors, says a dispatch received by Red Cross headquarters here today. Miss Knignvetch ia a daughter of Prince Knignvetch, bead of the Rus sian Red Cross, and a cousin of. the late emperorl- ' PICTURE OFFENDS GERMAN Minister Would Forget , Execution '." of Edith Cavell. HAVANA. Dec' 2S.--Official protest against the exhibition of a moving picture film portraying the execution of Edith Cavell who was put to death by the Germans in Brussels October IS, 1915, was mads here" yesterday by Dr. Frani Karl Zittolmann, German minister to Cuba. As a result of his protest to the state department the film was withdrawn. ksad The Oregsnia classified ads. London Xewspapers Ask Mutual Agreement Between Powers for IieSs Elaborate Building. LONDON, Dec. 28. Calls for United States, Great Britain and Japan to curtail naval expense by mutual agreement, were featured by a num ber of London newspapers this morn ing. In following this course the journals give expression to the anx iety wnicn naa prevauea iicm diww th rcM nt or reoorts oi ine new American naval programme, an anx ietv which may be traced to the as- sumption that if the United States builds a big navy, Great Britain must rin likewise. Th Mnrnine Post laments that American politicians have chosen I moment when the wartime fellow ship of the American and British navies, and the "chivalrous courtesy of American seamen," have united the naval services of the two nations, 1 to declare in effect that the British navy is a potential menace to America. Another Dlea for an agreement be- tween the United States. Japan and Great Britain is voiced by the Daily News, which urged that the interval between the present moment and the inauguration of President-elect tiara Ing should be utilized by statesmen of the three countries to educate the public. ' - The Express maintains that a agreement between the three powers would "assure prosperity as well as peace." -m JAPAX ASKED TO LEAD WAT Race for Xaval Supremacy Should - End, Says Toklo Newspaper. ' TOKIO, Dec 28. (By the Associated Press.) The Jiji Shinrpo, which has been one of the strongest supporters of the government s naval programme. savs today that if tne worm consents to arrest the race for naval supremacy there is no reason why Japan s plan for eight ' battleships, eight battle cruisers and 120 submarines to be comDletted by 1925 should not be modified. The newspaper calls on the Jap anese crovernment to take the Inltia tlve and points out that tne current expenditure for education is less than one-tenth of the expenditure for armaments. scientific name for the wood, became so well known as excellent material for aeroplane timbers, for toys and other uses, including batteries, the main portion of the output went en tirely into use as railroad ties, save in the regularly timbered districts where it was cut for lumber. Millions of feet of white cedar have been dug from beneath forest decay, trees that in some Instances are known to have laid 60, 100 or more years, and, after dressing off a nar row strip of outside rot, found to be i jt ... allvrtaH t(fl souna ana ukiui r rrt Toles enters .office as Arizona state circumstances surrounding the death attorney-general, the superintendent of Lieutenant Pat O'Brien. The police of public Instruction and a third said their investigation had showed I member to be chosen by the other it clearly a suicide. LIFE DEPENDSON WOMAN XeW Arizona Official to Pass on Hanging of Prisoner. PHOENIX. Ariz, Dec. 28. Less than two weeks after Miss Elsie WHITE CEDAR IS SCARCE Millions of Feet of Lawson 'Cypress Cat From Fallen Trees. MARSHFIELD, Or- Dec 28. (Spe cial.) Joseph Fyfe Jr., , who has operated logging camps and purchased Port Orford cedar lor many years in the coast district, between Coos bay and Port Orford, declares that the White cedar tie for railroads is pass ing swiftly and it is probably there will be none for the market in an other year. . - Before the Lawson cypress, tne mm thi nlass of timber. Port Or ford cedar piling has been taken from the bay here after-being driven 50 years .ago, and found to be still sound. LONG FLIGHT IS PLANNED Airplane to Attempt Florida to California Trip in 24 Hours. SAN ANTONIO, Texas.. Dec 28. An attempt to cross the United States from Flordia to California in an air plane in 24 hours will be made by Lieutenant Alexander Pearson Jr winner of the round-trip transconti nental race last winter, according to an announcement by Major Henry C Pratt, air officer of the Eighth Corps area. The trip will be made in a re modeled De Havlland plane. The proposed flight will be made February 22 Jn three "hops." The starting point is Pablo Beach. Jack sonville, Fla. The first hop of 804 miles will be made to Ellington Field, Houston, Texas., the second from Ellington Field, to El Paso, a distance of 660 miles, and the third and last is sched uled from El Paso to Rockwell Field, San Diego, CaU, of 615 miles. The total mtleage is 2079. It is the first attempt at a transcontinental speed record, the two necessary stops only requiring 45 minutes. O'BRIEN BELIEVED SLAIN Sister of War Aviator Declares Against Theory of Suicide. MOMENCE. HL. Dec 28. Express ing her belief that her brother. Lieu tenant Pat O'Brien, war aviator, who was found dead in a hotel In Los An geles two weeks ago was murdered, Mrs. Clara Clegg said today that fur ther, investigation would be ri-ade Mrs. Clesrir said vthat her brother Merwin O'BrUn and Virgil Moore, a friend, had sufficient evidence to warrant an Investigation, and she be Ileved the fact would be established that Lieutenant O'Brien did not com mit suicide. . " . , LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec 28.-i- Police officers and the county coroner here today said they knew nothing of any further Investigation of the she will be called upon to help de cide whether a man shall be hanged. Officials say this' Is the i.rat time in Arizona's history that a woman has been asked in an official capacity to pass on a man's life. The man is Pedro Domlnguea of Greenlee county, convicted on a charge of murder in connection with the killing of a fellow miner. He was sentenced to be hanged Novem ber 5 last but obtained a reprieve until January 13. On that date the state board of pardons is to con sider his case. Miss Toles will be a member of the board, which by statutory provision, consists1 of the two. Prosser Club Secretary Resigns. PROSSER. Wash.. Dec 18. (Sp cial.) G. R. Griffith, secretary of the Prosser Community club, nss an nounced his resignation, effective February 1. His successor will be chosen at the annual meeting of the Community club Tuesday evening, January IL President E. R. Wells will recommend that the 1921 budget in clude adequate salary for a secretary, as he Is convinced that the club's ex periment in this line has demon strated that it waa a profitable Investment. Bank Will Install Wireless. CENTRALIA. Wash., Dee. 28. (Spe cial.) H. E. Bran, president of the Toledo State bank, is arranging to Install a wireless receiving and send- ( iv .I,,!.. In , h hnnlr a. mrrn mm the government has extended its serv-, to Dr. Kilmer Is Co, Rl-hamt ice for market, crop and weather re- j -V. T,. for a sample settle. wuh" ports to this section. The service Is mg ne sure ana f-f hulnr nrrnnrod for the benefit of th"'- bank's customers, Toledo being the ei-ntr of n rlrh frmlr dlxtrlot. Why Druggists Recommend Swamp-Root For many years drngKlsts tm watched with much intereiit the re markable record maintained by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the greet kid ney, liver and bladder medicine. It la a physician's preacrlptlon. Swamp-Root la a strenglhenlnc medicine. It helps the kldnrra, liver and bladder do the work nature In tended thrv should do. Swamp-Koot has sfnod the ttt stT years. It is sola oy an aruggints its merit and It should help you. Ne other kidney medicine has to many friends. Be sure to get Bwamp-noot ana start treatment at core. . However. If you wish nrst ts tse this great preparation send ten rrnta mnnnamion. Retiring From Business ! 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