TIIE HORXIXG OREGONIAX, "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1922
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HEW ELECTIDH LAW
CAUSES CONFUSIOW
Voting on City, School and
Port Matters Set for May.
OLD SYSTEM EXPENSIVE
Initiative Measures, Bond Pro
posals, Charter Amendments, All
to Be Submitted Same Day.
PUG ET SOUND BUREAU. Seattle
Wash., Jan. 3. Seattle and King
county are coming: Into a confusing
political situation tnis spring: through
the operations of the new state law
rhlch requires municipal, school and
Fort district elections to be held on
one and the same day. Under the law
the first Tuesday after the first Mon
oay In May Is fixed as the day. It
will ran this year on May 2.
The law was enacted bv the last
legislature chiefly at the instance of
teattle and King county officers and
taxpayers' organizations. Its purpose
le to consolidate In one election day
. the efforts that have heretofore been
pread over separate elections at
various times of the year, with
promise of considerable saving In
election costs. The law also provides
that Initiative measures, bond pro
posals, city charter amendments and
ell such matters as require submis
lon to popular vote, shall be set
down lor the same election day.
Old Srntfm Eifnlv(.
Hitherto the annual city election
has been held the first Tuesday after
the first Monday In March, the city
primaries having been held two
weeks earlier. Election of school di
rectors and election of port commis
eioners have been held on separate
dates early In December each year
In the even-numbered years the
congressional, legislative and county
elections have come at the usual time
in early November, with the big na
tional and state events superimposed
every fourth year.
Fairly frequent special elections on
bond Issues and other matters have
helped to keep the county and more
particularly the city, keyed up to al
most continuous performance of what
the campaign orators call the highest
ci titles of citizenship. In every year
It has been expensive. In every second
year It has been exasperating, and In
the big fourth years It has been ex
hausting. The new law was passed In order
to concentrate as much as possible,
and to pull down the costs. The date
was set farther along In the spring
In order to allow better time for
registration of voters which starts
each year on January 1.
Tenure of Office Affected.
Present and prospective confusion
arises from the fact that the general
public, and few if any public officials,
realized until recently how the new
law would affect the tenure of men
In office at the time of Its passage.
Under the old law school directors
and port commissioners went out
December 31 of each year, their suc
cessors having been elected early in
December. With no elections In De
cember. 1921, the men In these offices
will hold over until June 1. 1922,
when they will be superseded by those
elected in May.
But at the'same May election suc
cessors must also be chosen for the
school directors and port commis
sioners whose present terms do not
expire until December 31, 1922, and
T'hlle the law makes no change as to
the three-year term for' which school
and port officers are elected, the
legal advisers of both school and port
districts say that the men elected
next May will serve only until June 1,
1925, or two years and five months.
By that time the new law will have
become automatically adjusted to the
three-year term provision. In this
spring's election four school directors
must be named, instead of two, and
two port commissioners, instead of
cne.
City officials whose terms, under
the old law, would have expired two
weeks after the March election, will
this year and hereafter hold unil two
weeks after the election in May.
Seattle elects three of its nine council
men each year, its mayor every
second year, while its corporation
counsel, city controller and city
treasurer are elected for four-year
terms.
It happens this year that all of
these offices, save that of corporation
counsel, are to be refilled. This, with
the doubling up of candidates for
school director and port commissioner,
with one initiative measure already
filed and other proposals sure to fol
iow, points to a spring full of politics
for city and county.
JUDGE THOUGHT NOT NEEDED
Senator Polndexter Not Much Im
pressed With Congestion In Courts.
PUGET SOUND BUREAU. Seattle,
Jan. 3. Senator Polndexter will re
turn to the national capital not very
much Impressed with the need of an
other federal judge for the western
district of Washington. This is the
opinion of men close to the senator,
while those who brought the matter
to his attention admit that they re
ceived no encouragement to believe
he would attempt to procure an
amendment by the senate to the
house bill creating and distributing
12 new judges, in which bill this dis
trict Is not mentioned.
Members of the western Washing
ton bar called Senator Polndexter's
attention to the evidences of conges
tion In the district courts presided
over by Judge Neterer and Judge
Oushman. They were heard at length,
but it Is said that the senator's only
response was to point out the dif
ficulty of procuring an amendment
by the senate when no showing of the
need of a new Judge for this district
had been made before the distribu
tion had been decided upon and the
bill passed by the house.
Bearing in a way to the same point,
however, others who had opportunity
to talk with Senator Polndexter may
have succeeded In convincing him that
the troubles and delays in the federal
courts of this district are due to the
scarcity of help in the office of the
United States attorney. District At
torney Kevelle has four deputies,
three in the Seattle office and one
stationed In Tacoma. Though new
laws and new efforts at enforcement
have heavily Increased the volume of
work, there has been no enlargement
of the attorney's staff. It is smaller
than the office force of the legal ad
viser of many northwestern counties
and cities.
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Would-Iio Suicide Who Killed His
Mother-ln-Iaw Recovering.
PUGET SOUND BUREAU. Seattle.
Wash.. Jan. 3, Robert H. Watson,
who shot and. Killed his mother-In-
law, Mrs. Mary Bushnell, last Satur
day, and afterwards shot himself, Is
recovering from his self-inflicted
wounds at the city hospital and will
face a charge of first degree murder,
according to announcement by the
prosecuting attorney's office today.
Watson, who is 62 years old, is well
known to Deputy Prosecutor Mea
cham, the county divorce proctor, hav
ing visited the office several times in
an effort to prevent his 20-year-old
wife, thejAiughter of Mrs. Bushnell,
from gening a divorce. Watson
blamed Mrs. Bushnell for his marital
troubles and was advised by Meacham
several times to keep away from the
Bushnell home.
Saturday Watson called Meacham
by telephone and told him he was
going out to see his wife and take
their baby away from her. The di
vgrce proctor again warned him to
stay away, but he persisted In going
and the fatal shooting followed.
MISSING GIRL FOUND DAZED
Suilor From Warship Is Arrested
as Assailant of Victim.
PUGET SOUND BUREAU. . Seattle,
Wash., Jan. 3. A 15-year-old girl,
missing since New Year's eve, was
found by the police early this morning
lying in a dazed condition in a vacant
lot within two blocks of her borne, in
the southern part of the city, a victim
of an assault. She is now in the city
hospital in a critical condition.
N. I Pulley, 23 years old, a sailor
from the United States Ship New
York, was arested a few hours later
on the belief of the police that he la
the girl's assailant.
If the girl recovers, a statutory
charge will be filed against Pulley,
according to the police; if she does
not survive, the case wlli be more
serious.
VETERAN AID WORK PLANNED
Government Experts to Pass on
Claims of Northwest Men.
PUGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle,
Wash., Jan. 3. Field representatives
of the United States Veterans' bureau
will resume their work in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho tomorrow. The
three state squads, consisting of med
ical, compensation and vocational
training experts, will establish tempo
rary headquarters in the various coun
ty seats, where they will hear and
register claims for government aid of
disabled service men.
Plans also are being made to hear
the claims of bedridden service men.
The bureau now has disabled men in
24 northwestern hospitals.
DECEMBER WET MONTH
Astoria Records Show 7.S Inches
of Rain In 31 Days.
ASTORIA. Or., Jan. 3. (Special.)
Notwithstanding the cold snap that
prevailed during a portion of the
month, December was an exceedingly
damp one. The records at local
Weather Observer Rosenberg's office
show that the rainfall in the 31 days
ended last Saturday amounted to 7.3
Inches and that the greatest precipi
tation during any 24 hours was 2.85
inches, on December 11.
There were' 16 clear and 15 cloudy
or partly cloudy days. The maximum
temperature was 58 degrees, while the
minimum was 25 degrees above zero.
This is the fourth consecutive week
of east wind, an unusual occurrence
for this section.
This morning the temperature
dropped to below the freezing point.
tonight the mercury was higher and.
as the barometer was beginning to
ran, many believe that southerly
winds with rain were due.
8 COMPANIES CHARTERED
Vancouver, Wash., Rubber Concern
Has $1,000,000 Capital.
OLYMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 3. Articles
of incorporation filed with Secretary
of State Hinkie include the following:
E. S. Saul corporation, Seattle, SluO.OOO.
E. S. Saul, C. E. Meharfey and Beatrice E.
Saul, manufacturers and Jobbers.
Sequim Light & Power company, Se
quim. Amendment Increasing capital
stock from $3500 to S.'tO.OUO.
Thompson Fishtail Propellers company,
Seattle. 110,000. G. H. Thompson. John
Currle, C. B. Hagen, l.oren King. E. W.
Uoufchton. Patents and inventions.
Commerce Building; company, Tacoma,
$100,000. W. H. Miller, D. I. Cornell.
Inland Steam Car company. Spokane,
f'JO.Ooo. R. i Braden, J. w. Cowan, Lulu
K. Braden.
Pacific States Rubber company, Van
couver. $1,000,000. A. M. Elliott, N. W.
Merrlfleld.
Sheller Motor company, Sunnyslde,
$20,000. Roscoe Sheller and A. C. Fleming
Enterprise Security company, Yakima,
$15,000. A. R. Hunter, Gertrude E. Huntor,
.(. J. Bartholet, Guy O. Shumate.
Policeman Refuses Wage Cut.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Jan. 3. (Spe
cial.) Owing to the fact that the city
commission recently cut the monthly
wage of the day policeman to 1110
from $130, Lew Hawkins has tendered
his resignation. The cut in wages is
In line with others that the city com
mission has announced in various de
partments of the city administration
Early Filing Required.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 3. Appli
cations to purchase lands or timber
at the state public land sale on the
first Tuesday in April must be in by
January 15, State Land Commissioner
Clark Savidge announced today, in
order to give time for inspection
worn.
Ornheum matinee today. 15-25-FO-Ad.
For the Last Times
TODAY AND
THURSDAY!
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UiVUl Lit
Gfflrf e Brnadhnmt's
thrilling pluy and Stew
art Kdward White's
great novel. fMrturlsed
in the actual life of the
I -and of the Midnight
hun.
Scenic Weekly
Two-Part
Comedy
Keates and Our
Mighty Organ
SHERIFF S INDICTED
E
Theft of Tools by Clackamas
Official Alleged.
INVESTIGATION LONG ONE
Accused Official Declares That Al
legations Are Result of "Frame
up" by Enemies.
OREGON CITY, Or. Jan. 3. (Spe
cial.) William J. Wilson, sheriff of
Clackamas county, was indicted today
by the circuit court grand Jury on
charges of larceny by bailee.
Wilson was charged with taking
tools belonging to C. E. Moulton and
valued at $87.50. The indictment was
the result of Investigation made by
District Attorney Stipp and officials
of the Northwest Law and Order
league. The offense was alleged to
have been committed March 4, 1920.
Sheriff Williams, characterized the
Indictment as the result of a political
frame-up, said that those who insti
tuted the investigation have been
trying to "get" him for months.
"There's nothing to it. I was not
called before the grand jury, and, I
will clear myself in court," ha said.
Probe Made Since November.
Investigation of the sheriff's office
has been conducted here since the
middle of November. Officers of the
Northwest Law and Order league ap
peared before the grand jury at the
opening of the November term and.
although no public bills were re
turned It was generally understood
that testimony regarding the activi
ties of Wilson and his deputies was
taken.
H. E. Meads, ex-deputy sheriff and
candidate for the republican .nomina
tion for sheriff in opposition to Wil
son, and C. E. Moulton, Portland
plumber, were the chief witnesses be
fore the grand Jury. A bill for inves
tigation into the Wilson case from
F. W. Snyder, head of the Law and
Order league, has been presented to
the county court. It totals $263.28.
Of this amount, $106.20 has been ap
proved by District Attorney Stipp.
Wilson and the law and order
men have never worked together.
Wilson refused to approve bills sub
mitted by Snyder for prosecution of
liquor cases in Clackamas county.
Some were paid by the county court
and $646.77 is still pending. At the
recent meeting of sheriffs of the state
in Portland, Wilson openly denounced
the private operatives. Four of Sny
der's men face liquor charges in the
federal courts, and Snyder's state
authority has been revoked by the
governor. Meads for some time served
under Wilson, but 111 feeling arose
and he resigned.
The specific charges in the indict
ment are the outgrowth of an affair
at Hillsboro nearly two years ago.
The Sears bicycle shop was robbed,
and a small safe taken. It was later
found near Oswego by a school girl.
Deputy Sheriff Meads went to inves
tigate and found it had been blown
open and the contents stolen. A ma
chine, stolen from C. E. Moulton of
Portland was discovered several hun
dred yards down an old road. It had
been there for several days. Meads
brought it to Oregon City.
Tools Taken From Auto,
Moulton declared that when the car
was returned to him, uuto and plumb
ing tools were missing. It was the
theft of these tools which has been
charged to Wilson.
Moulton was brought here to testify
from Lincoln county, and the North
west Law and Order men charged this
county for 282 miles of travel, to
gether with time at $6 a day for each
man. The portion of their lump sum
bill, which was not approved by the
district attorney, was understood to
be for trips to obtain affidavits and
for "evidence."
According to Wilson, an attempt
was made to indict him upon liquor
charges. "I know that people all over
the county were interviewed by Sny
der and his men, and I understand that
testimony was taken before the grand
jury on that subject.". he said. "They
didn't do anything. They couldn't,"
he continued, "because they had noth
ing on which to base their charges.
They have been 'sore' ever since I
refused to approve their thieving
bills-."
Woman Fatally Burned.
BREMERTON, Wash., Jan. 3. Mrs.
Hattle Zuber, 23, wife of Jerry Zuber,
a rancher of Chicago, eight miles
from Bremerton, died here today as
the result of burns suffered last night
when a pail of gasoline she was car
rying into her home became ignited
from a lighted match.
The Dalles Man Picked.
CENTRALIA. Wash., Jan., 3. (Spe
cial.) Following a meeting held last
night by the new board of directors
of the chamber of commerce, at which
applications for the position of cham
ber secretary were considered, a tele
gram was sent this morning to E. F.
Van Schoick of The Dalles, Or., of
fering him the position. It is ex
pect erlthatiiewillBccent and that
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DON'T TELL EVERYTHING
A picture that thrills with lively sen
sations and charms with its fashion
i and beauty. It is all that
you expect, then some and some more.
TODAY
he1 will be here this week to begin his
duties Mr. Van Schoick has had 13
years' experience in this line of work.
For the past year he has been secre
tary of the chamber at The Dalles.
BANK RULING IS SOUGHT
Decision on Rights of Guaranteed
Depositors Demanded.
OLYMPIA. Wash., Jan. 3. A writ
of mandamus was issued by the su
preme court here today against John
P. Duke, state supervisor of banks, to
show cause why guaranteed deposi
tors of the deTunct Scandinavian
American bank of Seattle should not
be given a preferred lien in the assets
of the bank over unsecured depos
itors and general creditors of the in
stitution. The case was set for hear
ing January 13.
Petition for the writ was filed to
day by counsel for Dan Ashley Lewis,
who is a guaranteed depositor of the
bank. '
The petition declared that the state
supervisor is preparing to pay all de
positors and creditors on a parity
basis and the action is a friendly
suit brought on behalf of the guaran
teed depositors.
Girl Fugitive Captured.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Jan. 3. (Spe
cial.) A negro girl by the name of
Britton. 18 years of age, escaped from
the state industrial school at Grand
Mound Saturday night by making a
rope of sheets and lowering herself
to the ground from a second-story
window. Attired In overalls, the fu
gitive walked to Olympla, where she
was apprehended and returned to the
institution yesterday.
Two Street Cars Held Up.
TACOMA, -Wash., Jan. 3. A lone
highwayman early this morning held
up a one-man street car In the west
end of the city and then speeded to
the north end in his automobile and
duplicated his crime. He obtained
about $25.
LOOK WHO'S
HERE NOW!!
CONTINUOUS 11 A. M. TO 11 P. M.
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SEED POTATOES BARRED
WASHINGTON ISSUES QUARAN
TINE ORDER.
Tubers From California Kept Out
Because of Eelworm and
Sloth In South.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 3. All seed
potatoes grown in California will be
tarred from this state,' except those
that have been inspected by a regular
ly authorized officer of the state of
California both in the field and be
fore shipment, according to a new
quarantine order to be issued here by
E. L. French, director of the state de
partment of agriculture. This is due
to the prevalence of the potato eel
worm and the tuber moth in Califor
nia potatoes, it was said.
Another quarantine order prohibits
shipments of five-leaved pines, cur
rants or goosberry plants from any
part of western Washington to pre
vent any spread of the white pine
blister rust, which is reported to have
invaded certain sections of western
Washington. The order also provides
that all black currant plants be de
Etroyed wherever grown.
A quarantine has been Issued
against shipments of alfalfa meal
from the state of Utah, all counties
In Idaho south of Idaho county, two
counties in Oregon, two in Wyoming,
one in Colorado and one in Nevada,
in order to protect this state from the
alfalfa weevil.
No filbert trees or nursery stock
will be allowed In this state from
east of the Rocky mountains, another
quarantine order now being prepared
will state. The filbert blight is said
to constitute a real menace to the
growing of filberts on the west coast,
which promises to be quite an in
dustry. ...
Peach, nectarine or apricot trees
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in his greatest comedy
hit yet a super-dreadnought
feature with no
limitations on lafs.
. JUST
GOBS OF JOY
for four big, joyous,
sparkling, merry reels.
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PIT PUKTLA.XD IX A L.lll,ll
from most of the states east of the
Mississippi river and Nevada will be
barred by another quarantine order
to keep out the peach yellows and
peach rosette.
POLL TAX REPEAL SOUGHT
Mayor of Spokane Will Initiate
Vital State Legislation.
SPOKANE. 'wash., Jan. 3. Initia
tive measures proposing the repeal of
the state poll tax law, changing the
state public service commission from
an ap-pointive to an elective body,
and giving cities of the first class the
right to regulate public utilities ope
rating within their confines will be
petitioned for throughout the state
as soon as the necessary steps can be
taken. It was announced today by
Mayor Fleming.
He said the necessary petitions
would be placed in circulation as soon
as registration of voters is large
enough to facilitate their signatures.
Boy Drowned While Skating.
BREMERTON, Wash., Jan. 3. Louis
Eckerle, 8 years old, was drowned
while skating on a small pond in
front of his home at Phliney Bay, a
suburb, today.
Orphenm matinee to.lay. 15-25-50-Ad.
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This is just about
the very best that
he has ever done.
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ANITA
STEWART
in
"Her Mad
Bargain
The story of a
beautiful woman,
who sold her life
for $50,000.
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THE mother
"You're all we got, Davy"
his older brother is crippled,
his father is dead, victims of the
mountain fued to his mother he
is still the "baby" lie must be
her breadwinner now yet every
instinct fights for revenge he
can't have 'em thinking he's afraid.
"Don't you see how men are
about those things?" he demands.
His face is clouded his hands
clenched "I got to go," a
sob heaves in his chest rebellious
tears stream over his cheeks he
is crying like a baby he throws
an arm across his eyes he stum
bles from the room.
HOW does this simple, homespun
boy, who wants to be a man, tear
free from the agony that racks his
soul? Must he break his moth
er's heart? or his own?
See Richard Barthelmess in the role of
David in "Tol'able David" at the Lib
erty beginning Friday. Barthelmess,
star of "Way Down East," never had a
warmer, more lovable, more human
role! The story is from the Saturday
Evening Post. The author is Joseph
Hergesheimer.
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NATURE PUT IRON
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In the honkn of trriilns) sind the jreln
and kln of fruit and Tntrtblr
but modern methods of cookery throw
all these thlnKs away hence the
alarmlnp Increase in anaemia Iron
starvation of the blood, with its never
ending trend of symptoms of nervous
irritability, ncneral weakness, fatigue,
disturbed digestion, headaches, pains
across the back, etc.
Kither go back to nature or take
organic iron Nuxated Iron to help
enrich your blood and revitalize your
wornout. exhausted nerves. Over
4.000.000 people annually are usinjr it.
Nuxated Iron is sold by all diugHiats.
f -rRed BlooH.Strnitli andEndc-
A Simple Way to
Remove Dandruff
There is one sure way that has never
failed to remove dandruff at once, and
that is to dissolve it. then you destroy
it entirely. To do this Just net flbotit
four ounces of plain, common liquid
arvon from any drutr store (this is all
you will need), apply it at nisht when
retiring; use enoush to moisten the
scalp and rub it in gently with the
finKer tips.
By mornln? most. If not all. of your
dandruff will be (tone, and three or
four more applications will completely
dissolve and entirely destroy every
single sign and trace of It. no matter
how much dandruff you may have.
You will find all Itching and dig
ging of the scalp will stop Instantly,
and your hair wWl be fluffy, lustrous,
glossy, silky and soft, and look and
feel a hundred time better. Adv.
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is pleading
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Mil
SALTS IS FINE FOR
T
Flush the Kidneys at once when
Back hurts or Bladder
bothers.
Xo man or woman who eats meat
regularly can mHke a mistake by
flushing the kidneys occasionally,
says a well-known authority. AIe.it
forms uric acid which clogs the kid
ney pores so they sluggishly filter
or strain only part of the waste und
poisons from the blood, then you Kit
sick. Nearly nil rheumatism, head
aches, liver trouble, nervousness, con
stipation, dixziness. slecplessnt-ss,
bladder disorders come from sluggish
kidm-ys.
The moment you feel a dull ache In
the kidneys or your back hurts, or If
the urine Is cloudy, of ft-nstve. full of
sediment. Irregular of passage or. at
tended by a sensation of scalding, get
about four ounces of Jad Sails from
any reliable pharmacy and take n
tablespoonf ul in a gl:iss of water be
fore breakfast for n few das and
your kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts Is made from the acid
of grapes and lemon Juice, combined
with llthla. and has been used for
generations to flush clogged kidneys
and stimulate them to activity, also
to neutralize the acids in urine ao 1:
no longer causes irritation, thus end
ing bladder disorders.
Jad Halts Is inexpensive and cannot
injure; It makes a delightful effer
vescent llthla-water drink which ali
regular meat eaters should take now
and then to keep the kidneys clean
serious kidney complications. Adv.
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