TIIE 3IORXIXG OKEGOXIAX", MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1923 -
7.
ATTEMPTS TO HIDE
MURDERER SCENTED
Exposure of Depravity
Movie World Feared.
in
SCANDALOUS MESS BARED
Slayer of Director Taylor May
'ver Be found, if Film In
terests Have Their Way.
BT EDWARD DOHERTT.
LOS ANGELES. Cal Feb. 6. (Spe-
cls.L TSe murder ot William Des
mond Taylor, film director of national
reputation, may Dver be solved.
Scores of sleuths ars working on
the case, but there are many baffling
angles, many clews that lead nowhere.
many tips that serve only to cioua me
identity of the, man who fired the
hot. and the mystery arrows more
comolex everr minute.
The- detectives irt still looking for
Edward F. Ma rids, ex-valet and friend
of the slain director, for a man Known
aa a broker, lor another director, for
a. number of "hop" peddlers.
Twentr men and women are under
suspicion. Twenty theories are being;
entertained. But apparently no clew
of any great value has been un
earthed, and the starch, has become
al but hopeless.
City Brourtt Crisis.
The murder mystery has brought
the city virtually to a crisis.
There are hundreds of substantial
eltnens who see in the case 'he Iron
hand of the moving picture Riant,
holding down the curtain that the po
lice and newspapers would lift.
They believe the movie interests
would spend millions of dollar, not
to catch the murderer, but to prevent
the truth from coming out, to avert
the exposure of Hollywood, to squelch,
before It is born, the scandal of the
century.
Taylor, who seems to have deserted
his wife and baby some 14 years ago,
who lived under an alias, who sur
rounded himself with people of doubt
ful character men whe crochet, em
broider, women of queer reputation
and who lived the typical life of the
movie director, was pictured in all
the gossip of the studio as the saint
of Holly nood, according to his friends.
Tayler Declared Charsslag.
Men and women who knew him say
he was a'charming gentleman above
reproach.
It is quite true that the movie
world mould prefer to have this case
bundled in silence, even ignored.
Associates regret the death of
TayW sincerely, but they feel the
least said about it the better.
They fear the world may come to
know all about the little parties that
help to relieve the tedium of studio
life, the unconventional companion
ship between extra girls, assistant
movie directors and in many in
stances, between male and female
Stars.
They fear that the movie patrons
may learn how "Tillie Hop Scotch."
who played the sweet country girl In
the latest blah release, entertains her
friends by dressing them all in silk
kimonos, irrespective of their gender,
and sauats them down In a circle to
drink orange juice, gin, beer and
eiher. or some other queer mixture
with a kirk.
Hollywood Is Cotatetat.
Orange juice and gin is the favorite
tipple of many a dear, lovely child of
the screen. Kther and beer are con
sidered the potion of a healthy "he
man." Thev fear that there might be some
misunderstandings if the fans learned j
about those very free moonlignt
parties, sometimes held in the Bev
erly lulls district, where nymphs and
naiads dance in costumes made purely
of melting moonbeams.
Hollywood is content with Itself,
Its morals, its views of life. It wants
no change. It wants no chastisement.
It wants to go on.
The movie bosses are In power In
Los Angeles.
They have been able so far to keep
down, the blinds. Did an exposure
threaten, they vowed to leave Los
Angeles, bag and baggage. Los An
geles can ill afford to lose the mil
lions of dollars spent and invested
by the movies.
Dnc Peddlers So-aartat.
If the movies leave Los Angeles the
eitv will suffer.
Even now the police are seeking to
round up five peddlers of drugs who
have been in many a movie star's
bungalow, who know sinister things
about the cinema world, who may
know something of the murder.
"It's terrible." said one of the stars
today. "Already the people are be
ginning to think us a lot of morons
and degenerates. If this keeps up I
suppose they'll put us behind barbed
wire and throw raw meat to us and
put up signs reading 'Don't feed the
animals. "
The scandal Is breaking, too. at a
particularly inopportune time for
those of the movie colony. Many
studios have closed temporarily.
Many actors and actresses are out of
work, living on such credit as they
ran get. They have saved nothing.
When they had money tney spent it
for gay clothes, for music, for par
ties, and they haunt the office of the
casting director daily, begging for
the chance to play even a smail bit.
anything at all. Some of them who
have been featured would even de
light to get into a mob scene.
srsnt Isfornatlos Obtained.
Those at work are receiving re
duced wages, trying to live up to
their old salaries.
The police are getting scant infor
mation from the movie colony attout
the real character of the dead man.
attout his friends, his enemies. atout
any possit'ie motives for the murder
The police -are working hard, but
th, y are under a terrific handicap.
They mast deal gently with the stars.
Some of the police are friends of the
hig actors and actresses; have taken
money from them as wages for ap
pearini. in certain pictures. The po
lice are not going to question them
s tenaciously as they would "a girl
ot no position who had been caught
thoplif ting." ;
The police rest their hopes of so
lution in a series of tiny ridges and
whirls and loops, the faint lines made
on tiie smooth surface of doors and
tables and chair arms in the cozy
bachelor flat where Taylor lived; on
finger prints, and on the information
to be obtained from a band of dope
peddlers they are watching, and on
the arrest of Taylor's ex-valet, Ed
ward K. Sands, or Strathmore.
The finger prints, though, are the
most reliable clews so far found and
in them rests the fate of some of the
prettiest stars in the movie colony.
sriojKee Ar UltM-ev ere.
It is Impossible to tell the finger
print of a man f mm that of a wom
an, but an expert might be able to
make a good guess from the size and
shape of the print and it seems that
a number of women left their lJenti-
WAR CORRESPONDENTS AND
GENERAL PERSHING AT PEACE
Overseas Commander Invites Overseas Writers to Renew Old Asso
ciations and Banquet Is Held at Metropolitan Club, in Capital.
w
(Coprriirht. 1912. by The Orea-nIan.
ASHISGTOS, D. C Feb. 6.
(Special.) Now. Indeed, it may
be said that the war is over.
The general commanding the Ameri
can expeditionary forces and the war
correspondents who saw service in
France have broken bread together.
The lion and the lambs gathered
about the festal board at the -Metro
politan club on Friday noon at the
general's request to "join with him
in a renewal of old associations.
There were many stories of the try
lng days in France and many confes
sions were made. General Pershing
confessed that he personally had
acted as censor at times, and the cor
respondents opined that they knew at
last why their dispatches bad been
delayed so long.
-I wanted to know something about
every phase of the work of the ex
peditionary forces," said the general
"and so I had the press officers bring
the dispatches to me from time to
time so I could see just how they
were being handled.
"You must have learned a great
deal about . war from those dis
patches," suggested one of the bolder
spirits at the luncheon amid a burst
of laughter. But the general insisted
on being serious for a moment.
"I do not believe the people at
home realized how much they owed to
you boys. I don't believe even that
the army had anything like a full
appreciation of your work."
Gathering Is Strange One.
It was sort of a strange gathering
of correspondents at that. There
were 15 of us in all. Some had trav
eled from distant fities to be present.
The remarkable feature of the as
semblage was that with but one ex
ception not a correspondent at the
luncheon had written a book about
the war. The reason for this is not
difficult to explain. The closer one
got to the war, the more one saw of
it, the more it became a part of one,
the less you could write the stuff of
which books are made. It -was easy
enough, and gripping enough to write
the dally dispatch, but to attempt to
view the war in objective was virtu
ally impossible.
It was remarked at the luncheon
that with one or two exceptions those
who wrote the most about war were
the ones who saw the least of It.
Correspondents who made a three
days' tour of the front and got but
one impression of the war came away
and wrote for weeks and months.
Those who lived with the armies and
knew what was going on everywhere
along the line were sadly hampered
by facts.
General Pershing admitted that he
himself had experienced great diffi
culty in attempting to write of the
war as a whole. One was conscious
always of the inadequacy of mere
words. The war zone was a world
apart.
Many Remlnlscetaees Made.
The luncheon brought out many
reminiscences. One of the most in
teresting had to do with an invitation
the war correspondent with the
American expeditionary forces cabled
to Colonel Roosevelt to come over
and Join them at the front. The
colonel, having been denied the privi
lege of taking a division to France.
had accepted a post as one of the edi
torial contributors to a mid-west
paper.
"Now that you are In active harness
as a full-fledged newspaper man,
why not come over as an accredited
war correspondent?" read the cable
gram. "We will use our best en
deavors for you with the censors."
"We wanted to see." said one of
the correspondents later, "what
would happen when 'dee-lighted," met
'deleted.' "
It was one of the great regrets of
the war to the correspondents sta
tioned at N'eufchateau. a short way
from headquarters at Chaumont, that
Colonel Roosevelt's reply to the
message, sent by letter, never reached
them. The reply came to head
quarters all right and was entrusted
to one of the press officers a scion
of an old New York family with the
temporary rank of captain. The en
voy displayed the envelope and the
famous handwriting and Oyster Bay
stamp OS it to several of his cronies
in a cafe at Chaumont.' But when he
reached Neufchateau that night the
letter was lost. Being written by
pen, there was no copy ot it to be
had. Colonel Roosevelt referred to
the letter late-- in a communication
to young T. R., who at the time was
with the First division, but we never
received what unquestionably woul-J
have proved & historic document.
"The 'old First division,'" com
mented General Pershing, Friday,
"what a fine body of men they were.
Whenever I meet one of the men
from the First in my travels I feel
like hugging him. I tell him that he
had the distinction to serve with the
finest division that ever fought in
any war for any country."
General Pers-hing learned a lot
about himself at the luncheon Friday
stories that no one dared tell "the
old man" during the grim days of
the wax. For Instance, there was the
story of Heywood Broun, the dra
matic critic, who leaped almost over
night from the theaters of Broadway
to the theater of wax. It was his
first experience wi-tb. an army, or
with army discipline, and although
his sympathy was with the enlisted
men. accredited corresiondents at the
front had the tatus of officers, wore
the Sam Brown belt and everything.
Consequently they were generally
saluted. Whenever a doughboy wouIt
salute Broun the latter would more
than often walk up to him, pat him
on the back and tell him that waa
U right," and if there was an es-
taminet in the neighborhood the two
would hasten away to where the vins
were accustomed to flow, both rouge
and blanc.
It so happened one day that Broun
was in a party of correspondents ac
companying General Pers-hing on an
Inspection tour. It was in the early
days of the American expeditionary
force. All hands were somewhat
green and there was a great deal
to find fault with. Bromi followed
the general and listened to his dis
ciplinary talka for half an hour or
more and then he gave up, He also
blrew up.
"He may be a damn fine fighter,"
Id Broun, "but one thing is cer
tain nobody Is ever going to call
him "Papa Pershing.' "
And I guess he waa riglht,"
laughed the general when he heard
he yarn.
IS WATCHED
TAYLOR MURDER
'Suspect" Is Quizzed
Later Released.
But
DRUG VENDOR IS SOUGHT
Several Sew Developments Mark
Inquiry Into Death of
Film Producer.
f Continued From First Page.)
ties stamped in the prosaic furni
ture in the. dead man's rooms.
The police had hoped to find fin
ger prints of tne muraerer. mej
have sent to the army neaaquaners
for the prints of Sands, taken when
he enlisted during the war cut it
Is not certain they have Sand's prints
amons those brought out by the
aluminnm dust in the house in Al
varde street.
They have found smudges that
might have been made by a man,
prints indistinct, impressions that
could not be photographed, blurs
that remained blurs when the dust
was sprinkled on them. They are
nrinta that Taylor made himself.
prints that Henry Teavey. his colored
cook and valet, must have made
and the tiny prints that were left
by the dainty fingers of women.
Hepntatloa May Be Blasted.
The notice are attempting to iden
tify these prints in an effort to find
an tne v.omeu n , c.c. . -
moving picture man at bis home. It
may be one of them was the innocent
cause of his death. It may be one of
them wore the silken things so care
fully kept in the bureau drawer up
stairs. This, the single picture of a finger,
may blast the reputation made by
thousands of pictures of a beautiful
face.
Many of the movie stars have been
questioned by the police. Mabel Nor
mand, who left Taylor a few minutes
before he was killed: Mary Miles Min-
ter. who became hysterical wnen sne
i-enrrl of the murder, and others
known to have been fond of him at
some time during his life in Holly
wood, have been interviewed by the
police, but have been unable to fur
nui. the slightest clew. Can the
others tell anything of value?
A woman today called up the de
tective headquarters and said she had
some information on the-murder. De
tectives went hurrying to her home,
but would not say what she had re
vealed. It was the first bit of infor
mation given voluntarily.
Pravey Tries to Leave.
Henry Peavey. by the way. put all
his sewing into a satchel this after
noon, his beautiful pillow tops, his ex
quisite doilies, his crochet work and
his tatting and prepared to depart
from the city. He called on Captain
Adams to let him know of his inten
tions. "Not so quick." said Adams. You
will stay in los Angeles until re
leased." "I can't stay, captain," said the
darkev, "I'se very lonesome without
Mr. Taylor. I'll sure miss him. cap
tain. Got no one now to squz or
anges and lemins for. Got no nice
room to do my sewing in. Please let
me act '
The captain explained that he want
ed I'eavey to remain as a material
witness and declared that if he tried
to go away he might find himself in
another nice sewing room, with free
board.
NET ACREAGE IS TOTALED
t
75,000,000 ACRES COCI-D BE
MADE TILLABLE, SAYS BOOK.
Edition Just Off the Press Written
by V. Ii. Powers and T. A.
H. Teeters of College.
There are approximately 75,000.000
acres of marsh land and several times
that amount of wet lands In the
United States which could be made
available for a high state of cultiva
tion by drainage, according to the
declaration of "Land Drainage," a
new book Just off the press as one of
the Wiley agricultural engineering
series. The book was written by
W. L. Powers, chief in soils of the
Oregon Agricultural College, and
T. A. H. Teeter, ex-professor of drain
age and irrigation engineering at the
agricultural college.
The book deals of the various
phases of drainage primarily, from the
agricultural standpoint, developing
the subject largely as a matter of ap
plied soil physics.
The volume, according to announce
ment of the authors, is intended first
as a text book for students of general
agriculture or agricultural engineer
ing, second as a reference book for
practical farmers and, third, as an aid
to owners of wet, overflowed, marsh.
swamp or alkaline land who desire to
improve their holdings.
An idea of the thorough manner In
which the subject is handled may be
gained by running 'over some of the
chapter headings: "Development, Im
portance and Future of Drainage,"
"Benefits of Drainage." "The Rela
tion of Soils to Drainage," "Forms of
Soil Water," "Types of Drains and
Their Location." "Materials for Cov
ered Drains," "Depths and Frequency
for Tiles," "Measurement of Drain
age Water," "Size and Grade for
Tiles," "Construction of Underdrains,"
"Cost and Profit of Tile Drainage."
"Development of Wet Lands." There
is also a department treating with
district drainage and special drainage
problems.
ex-employe had been heard to ex
claim, when he heard of the slaying
"Bill Taylor got only what he
deserved."
Only Minor Poattloa Held.
The Investigation showed, the police
said, that the man had been employed
on the Famous Players-Lasky "lot
working under Taylor in a minor
capacity.
One day hs waa drunk when he
went on duty. Taylor ordered him
removed from the place. The next
day the man returned, only to find
an order from Taylor that he should
not be admitted.
The police said they had begun
search for him, but with little hope of
important results, as the affair seemed
too trivial to lead to a murder.
Ex-Butler Still Sought.
Sands also was still a figure in the
Investigation of the tragedy, police
detectives said, after running down
numerous clews to Sands' where
abouts. The "main issue" at the pres
ent time, one investigator said, was
to establish where Sands was for sev
erais days prior to the shooting of
Taylor.
Questioning -of . film actors and
actresses and other acquaintances of
Taylor in and out of motion-picture
circles was continued.
Peavey, also valet for Taylor, who
found the body Thursday morning.
also was questioned.
Peavey's statement was understood
to relate to the arrangement of furni
ture and other possessions of Taylor
in the apartment where the tragedy
occurred.
Continued Interest was expressed
In the statement of Mabel Normand,
film actress, that letters written by
her to Taylor, which he had pre
served, were missing from his apart
ment. Investigators said they did not
believe the letters in themselves
would throw any light on the case,
but that they were at a loss to under
stand why anyone should take the
trouble to remove them, assuming
Taylor had preserved them to the
time of his death.
A. L. Manning, head of the criminal
Investigation department of the sher
iff's office, and several deputies were
absent most of the day. on a mission
connected with the slaying.
The district attorney's office also
had men assigned to the case, work
ing jointly with the police detective
force.
The possibility that the slayer was
a frustrated blackmailer was also be
ing considered. There was also de
clared to be a remote chance that he
was a burglar, surprised by Taylor,
who fled after shooting; without at
tempting to remove any valuables.
Slayer la Believed Man.
Captain of Detectives Adams, who
is directing the police investigation
said everything in the case indicated
that the slayer was a man.
Whether the fact that Taylor had
changed his name from that of Will
iam Cunningham Deane Tanner, by
which he was known in New York 14
years ago, had any bearing upon the
case had not been determined today.
according to the police. This cir
cumstance seemed to have no bearing
upon the principal angles of the mys
tery which have been under investi
gation, it was stated.
DEALER RECOGNIZES TAXSER
Work on Hospital Stopped.
SALEM, Or.. Feb. 5. (Special.)
Work on Salem's new hospital was
stopped here last night because of a
lack of funds. The lirst unit of the
structure will cost approximately
lit.t'OO. of which more than $39.01(0
already has been expended. Henry
Meyer?, chairman of the building
committee, issued a statement today
in which he said that many persons
who had subscribed towards the
structure had failed to pay their Jan
uary assessments.
Fair Set for August.
CENTRA! J A. Wash.. Feb. 5. (Spe
cial.) R. R. Somerville. Lewis coun-
i ty cotnm'sstoner. retimed last night
from Spokane, where he attended the
annual meeting of the North Pacific
Fair association, at which 1922 fair
rtates in the northwest were fixed.
The southwest Washington fair will
be held the week of August 24, Mr.
Somerville announced.
IRISH OUTRAGES KEEP UP
Two "Black and Tan" Constables
Are Shot Dead.
DCBLIN. Feb. 5. Michael Collins,
provisional president, has informed a
deputation for Derry that the pro
visional government intends to es
tablish an advisory committee to
counsel it on matters1 concerning
northeast Ulster.
Outrages continue. Including shoot
ings and robberies. Two "black and
tan" constables were shot dead in
Ciare county Friday night. A farmer
was killed by shots fired through the
door of his house near Thurles.
Dog: Deaths Mount.
YAKIMA, Wash.. Feb. 5. Deaths of
valued hunting dogs here, due to
poison, yesterday reached 23. The
dogs are estimated to be worth $1500.
Additional deaths yesterday, follow
ing 14 Friday, were all in the same
vicinity, along or near Pleasant ave
nue, in the southwestern part of the
city.
Girl, 8, Dies of Injuries.
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 5. Ethel
Boggs. 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Boggs, residing near Deer
Park, Wash., died recently as a re
sult of injuries received a week ago
in a coasting accident while at school.
She waa struck with a ski held by a
boy playmate.
Heavy slabs, cheaper. Edlefsen's.-Ad.
Antique Shop Owner Says Taylor
Was In New York on Business.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5. A tale of
how he had known William Desmond
Taylor, slain film director, under the
name of William Cunningham Deane
Tanner, was told here today by Harry
Foster, proprietor of an antique shop.
Foster formerly was in the same
business in New York, where, he said,
he met Deane Tanner once or twice a
week for years. He knew his habits
and his family, Foster said.
"Tanner then was a partner -in an
antique shop at Thirty-first street
and Fifth avenue," said Foster. "His
two business associates were A. J.
Crawford and a man named Barker.
"That was about 18 years ago, as I
remember, and for several years
thereafter, until the antique shop
went bankrupt. I called on Tanner in
the capacity of a salesman. After
the shop went out of existence, I lo
sight of Tanner until about a. montn
ago. here In Los Angeles
"At that time a well dressed man
entered my shop. I recognized him
immediately, but he refused to recog
nize me. He assumed the role of a
stranger. I asked him if I could help
him in looking over my goods and he
replied curtly, 'No, I'm just looking
around.
"At first I thought I might have
been mistaken in identifying him as
Tanner. After I had watched him
for a time as he wandered around
the shop, I decided I had been correct
" 'Aren't you Mr. Tanner?" I asked
stepping up to him. 'Mr. Tanner for
merly of the antique shop in New
Yorkr
"He looked up briefly and replied I
was mistaken and hurriedly left the
shop. He never returned."
Foster said pictures of Taylor pub
lished since his slaying had convinced
him he was correct in his -dentifica-tion.
Sands or Edward Fit Strathmore, his
former butler, whom the director had
charged with a felony, was the fur
ther statement today by Henry
Peavey, Taylor's colored house man.
"Not long ago," said Peavey, T was
showing Mr. Taylor a coat- I had
bonght. That looks like one Sands
stole from me,' he said. Oh, if 1 could
only get my hands on that fellow!"
Melborne MacDowelL, actor, hus
band of the late Fannie Davenport,
looked over an old scrapbook today
and then gave to the press his belief
that Taylor, under the name of Cun
ningham Deane, played with the Fan
nie Davenport company at the Fifth-
avenue theater. New York, in 1894,
and later in Boston and during a tour
ol the country In lS95and 1S96.
ueane was a handsome young
Englishman," said MacDowell, "and I
believe he and Tayjor were the same
Taylor's body, dressed In the un!
rorm of a British officer, because of
his service with the British forces
during the world war, was viewed
today by many friends and others at
the undertaking establishment, where
it will lie until the funeral services
Tuesday at. St. Paul's Episcopal pro-
catnearaj.
Many flowers were sent there, too.
awaiting transfer after the services
to the cemetery vault, where the
body will be held until the arrival
from Mamoreneck, N. Y., where she
is at school, of the director's daugh
ter. Ethel Daisy Taylor.
Pallbearers, selected from Taylor's
personal friends and members of the
Motion-Picture Directors' association.
will be William C. de Mille, Frank
Beal. George Melford, Arthur Hoyt,
James Young, Frank Lloyd, David
Hartford ajid Charles Eyton.
. Members of the British Overseas
club will attend the funeral In a body
and a squad of ex-Canadian soldiers
will fire a salute over the casket.
Lester Wing, Chinese ex-chauffeur
for Taylor, said today the director
once, in an expansive mood, had told
him:
"I never really loved but one
woman. She was my stage partner.
I was engaged to her, but she died
before we could be married and I'll
never marry another woman."
The only woman with whom Taylor
passed much time during Wing's
service with him was Neva Gerber,
film actress, who said here Friday
she and Taylor once had been, en
gaged to be married. "
But, while he and Miss Gerber were
together two or three times a week,
according to Wing, Taylor passed
most of his time alone.
Wing related a number of instances
of Taylor's kindness to people in
general.
Winifred Kingston, flm actress, to
night characterized as "ridiculous"
the reported possibility she had been
engaged to marry Taylor, a rumor
that spread after it was discovered
the only framed photograph found in
the director's apartments was one of
her.
Miss Kingston said she and Taylor
had been intimately acquainted. She
said he told her he had been married
and had a young daughter.
I also learned somethimg of Sands.
the butler," said Miss Kingston.
"When Edward Knoblock was living
at Mr. Taylor's home, Sands, at vari
ous time9, bought a considerable
amount of lingerie, which, I under
stand, he gave to a youn-g girl a
very young creature in whom he was
interested and who lived at home
with her mother. All of this he
charged to Mr. Taylor's account, I
was told. This naturally enraged the
director when he returned from
abroad.
'One day, to show his affection and
regard for Mr. Taylor, Sands drew up
contract stating he would be the
director's servant for life, would al
ways be his slave. I don't know what
happened to the document, but I do
know Mr. Taylor laughed about it."
The search through the director's
belongings today brought forth mes
sages and notes from many film
actresses, including Blanche Sweet
and Gloria Swanson.
TAYLOR KNOWN IN YUKON
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"Then.and Now"Seriesjf
186
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Early wood cut of Multnomah County
Court House which stood on same site
aa present Court House. Eredted 1845-6.
Prosperity Returns
with the
Close of the
Civil War
"TJ.REAT rejoicing, min
gled with that har
rowing sorrow which is
, t ever the toll of war,
marked the termination
of the long, heart
breaking struggle be
tween North and South.
For Portland it was the beginning of an era of pros
perity; the erstwhile frontier settlement was rapidly assuming;
the proportions and airs of a real city. The dreams of her
pioneers, to the realization of which they had striven so
mightily, were being consummated at a gratifying rate gas
lamps adorned her street corners ; a telegraph line, but recently
connected up, facilitated communication with the East, via
San Francisco; the Oregon Iron Company, with a capital of
$500,000 had been organized; the Willamette Valley Railroad
these and many other projected enterprises gave intimation
of her great future.
And in the forefront of this amazing development fostering,
encouraging, helping then as it does now, to the limit of its
great resources, Ladd & Tilton carried the banner of optimism
and faith.
TILTON u
Oldest in the Northwest
Washington
at Third
MEMBER
LFEDERAL RESERVE
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Four Years Passed as Timekeeper
for Alaska Gold Company.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Feb. 6.
During most of the time between the
disappearance of William Desmond
Taylor in New York in 1908 until he
entered the employ of a motion pic
ture company in Los Angeles in 1912,
he was working" as timekeeper for the
Yukon Gold company in Yukon terri
tory, according to George Morrison,
city engineer here.
Mr. Morrison said last night Mr.
Taylor went to San Francisco from
New York early in 1909 and from
there was sent to the Yukon, arriving
at Dawson in March, 1909. He re
mained there until some time in 1912,
accoraing to lvir. .raorrison, wno was
hydraulic engineer for the company
during that time. ie then went under
the name of William Desmond Taylor,
but he told Mr. Morrison, of whom he
made a confidant, that was not his
real name. He also told Mr. Morri
son, according to the latter, that he
left New. York because of debts con
tracted while he was an art dealer
there. Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago
society leader, was his personal back
er, he told Mr. Morrison.
MALLET USED IN FIGHT
CEDOK ROMANOFF AC
MAN AND WOMAN.
JUSES
of the book. Mr. Hoflich is promi
nent in various lines of scholastic
endeavor and recently won the local
oratorical contest at the college and
with it the right to represent Albany
college at the state intercollegiate
oratorical contest to be he'd at New
berg, March 10.
tion of the disabled American veter
ans of the world war here June 26 to
30, was dispatched to Marshal Joffre
of France today.
"PAST" SEEMS COMPLICATED
Taylor Reported to Have Been in
Trouble in Alaska.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5. What the
police said tonight might throw some
light on what seemed to be the "com
plicated past" of William Desmond
Taylor was told today by Len Sledge,
a Spanish-American war veteran who
lives at the national soldiers' home at
Sawtelle, near here.
"In the fall of 1908," said Sledge,
"I was in Lewiston, Idaho. One day
an acquaintance pointed out to me a
picturesque figure in a frock coat,
large soft felt hat and wearing long
hair.
" 'That's Bill Taylor,' said my ac
quaintance. 'He came here recently
from Alaska, where he was either
United States marshal or a deputy. He
had some trouble in Alaska and got
out by concealing himself in a box or
a barrel and getting aboard ship un
discovered.
T learned Taylor had opened a
small show in Lewiston. I am sure
from pictures I have seen of Taylor
that he was the man I saw in Lewis-
ton."
Tending to show the alleged feel
ing of Taylor toward Edward F.
CHINA SENDS THANKS
Harding Congratulated on Help in
Settling Shantung Question.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 5. (By
the Associated Press.) The following
cablegram from President Hsu Shih
Chang of China was received today at
the White House:
"I am most happy to learn that dur
ing the conference at Washington,
through the untiring friendly Interest
taken by your excellency and by all
the American delegation, a solution of
the long-outstanding Shantung ques
tion has been made possible. Thus
the peace of the far east is further as
sured. On behalf of the government
and people of the republic of China
I have the honor to extend to your
excellency our sincere thanks and felicitations."
HARBOR CONGRESS SET
Proposed St. Lawrence Canal Ex
pected to Be L-ivest Topic.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 5. The
seventh convention of the national
riveps and harbors congress would be
held here March 1 and 2, it was an
nounced today.
The programme has not been def
initely formulated, but the official
call stated that "peirhaps the livest
of the topics to be discussed was the
St. Lawrence ship canal."
Retail Furniture Men Gather.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5. Hun
dreds of delegates were here for the
annual convent-ion of the Pacific
Coast Retail Furniture Dealers' asso
ciation which will open tomorrow. It
is expected the attendance will be
1000.
Proprietor and Porter of Richelieu
Hotel Arrested on Complaint
of Alleged Victim.
Anna Taloof, proprietor of the
Richelieu hotel. Sixth and Couch
streets. and Mike Willes, porter of
the same hostelry, were arrested yes
terday afternoon by Detectives Leon
ard and Gordon on charges of beat
ing Cedor Romanoff on the head with
a mallet. They were released on J200
bail each.
Romanoff was ordered placed under
arrest on a charge of ' drunkenness
and disorderly conduct and also held
as a witness, after lacerations and
contusions of his scalp were dressed
at the emergency hospital. He told
the police that during the turmoil
$220 was lost from his pocket.
Miss Taloof said Romanoff had
come into the place in a drunken
condition and started to pull her
around by the hair and that Willes,
the porter, had come to her rescue.
Romanoff was getting the beet of
Willes, she said, when she grabbed
the wooden mallet and hammered
him over the head until he desisted
in his attack. Romanoff said Miss
Taloof had started the fight and that
Willes had come to her assistance.
Marshal Joffre Invited.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5. An invi
tation to attend the national conven-
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College Annual Editor Named.
ALBANY COLLEGE, 'Albany, Or,
Feb. 5. (Special.) Harold J. Ho
flich of Albany will be editor-in-
chief of the "Orange Peal," the col
lege annual, this year. He is select
ing a staff to assist in the production
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