.VOL LXI NO. 19,232 tntrd at Partita lOrwn
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922
26 PAGES
PRICE FIVE CENTS
r iii i rr iiniriu Tim I
LONG CUTS LEAD
$16,000 LEFT DOGS; 'CTPIIfrPC ftPPTDT I $500,000 PROPERTY
RANGER KILLS YOUTH
IN ROW OVER FIRE
JIM VAXBIBBER GOES 50
MILES TO GIVE SELF UP,
KLEPPER RETAINS
CLUB 'PRESIDENCY
0 rxlLLLU VVnLIM IUU
WILL IS CONTESTED
UMIIULIIU nUULI I
IS BELIEVED SOLD
IS BLOWN TO PIECES
OF REEO TO
HARDING'S OFFER
CAKETAKEK OF 3 CAXIXES
WANTS $75 MOXTH.
EAST FIRST STREET TRACTS
REPORTED TRANSFERRED.
SEW YORK HARBOR SCEXE
OF AWFUL- EXPLOSIOX.
KUN MEMBERS
U
r
Rural Districts Reduce
Senator's Margin.
W. H. SPROUL, KANSAS, WINS
Campbell, Rules Committee
Chairman, Is Defeated.
OKLAHOMA RENAMES SIX
Mi's Alice Robertson Renoml
giatrd; Senator Sutherland of
West Virginia, In Lead.
PRIMARY RKSl tTK IX KOI R
STATES Sl'MMARIZKD.
In Missouri, senator Reed's
lead over Ereckenrldge Long
for democratic nomination for
Mni( was cut to 7744. R. R.
Brewster wit leading William
Sacks for republican nomina
tion. In Kansas. Representative
Campbell, republican, chair
man of house rules committee,
was defeated by W. H. SprouL
TV. T. Morgan Increased his
lead over W. R. Stubbs for
governor nomination.
In Oklahoma, representa
tives from six of eight con
gressional districts. Including
Miss Alice Robertson, appar
ently renominated.
In West Virginia, returns
increase lead of Senator Suth
erland, republican, over H. C
Ogdea of Wheeling.
ST. LOUIS. Aug. J (By the As
sociated press.) Senator James A.
Reed made a gain of S votes
when a telegraphic error In re
turns from Bates county was recti
fied here late tonight, and is now
leading Breckenridge Long, former
third assistant secretary of state
in the Wilson administration, in
the race for the democratic nomi
nation for United States senator by
S913 votes, on the face of returns
from 140S out of 3S4S precincts In
Missouri. The vote: Reed. 185.380;
Long. 17C.445.
The senator's lead, which reached
more than 15.000 this morning, was
rteadlly whittled away as belated
.elurns from rural districts where
the Long strength laid came in.
Throughout the day Mr. Long main
tained a consistent gain with an
verage lead of approximately IS
votes per precinct In the country
districts.
Brewster Victory Evldrat.
If this ratio is maintained In the
08 precincts to be heard from Mr.
Long- has a chance of winning, prob
ably by less than ?0OO votes.
In the republican senatorial race
K. R- Brewster of Kansas City, in
dorsed by the regular organisation,
probably will win by 30.000 to JO. 000
Totes.
The outcome of the Reed-Long
race, feature event of yesterday's
primary, probably will not be known
until virtually the complete vote has
been tabulated. Scattered precincts
In many counties are included In the
more than 704 missing, along with
the entire vote of Oaark and Stone,
two Isolated communities In the
Ozark mountains, far down in the
southwestern corner of the state.
On the basis of the returns al
ready received Reed's lead in the
Kansas City and St. Louts districts
may not b sufficient, if Mr. Long
maintains his present ratio In the
country districts, to win. An anal
ysis of the returns shows that the
present ratio, if maintained through
out the missing precincts, would
give Loaf a plurality of approxi
mately 1800.
Raral Districts far Brewster.
Sacks polled K tremendous vote In
St. Louis, his borne city, but as the
rural districts came in Brewster be
gan climbing.
Thirteen Missouri representatives,
1 - of them republicans and one a
democrat, have been renominated by
their parties, while the fate of two
others, one a republican, and the
ther a democrat, remains In doubt.
Psrtial returns Indicate they have
teen defeated.
Representative W. W. Rucker,
democrat. In the Id district. Is run
ring nearly 4000 votes behind Ralph
F. Loiter, with returns from all but
40 precincts In and apparently has
been beaten.
In the 16th district Representative
I. V. (Dick) Mcpherson, republican,
is running nearly 2000 votes behind
Joe J. Manlove with 102 out of 2J0
precincts reporting.
Seven Are laesaesed.
Republicans renominated sitting
r.reeentatlves In the first, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth and
fourteenth districts, seven of them
without opposition. The democrats
renominated the present representa
tives In the eleventh (St. Louis) dis
trict. Mrs. S. Claire Moss of Christlsn
J Relatives of Late Chicago Woman
Start Legal Battle to
Get Property.
ISr Chios,) Tribune Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO. Aug. 2. Mrs. Carrie
Bashaw, who has charge of the
three dogs which were left 114.000
by the will of Mrs. Margaret
Howard, has filed a petition In the
probate court asking 175 per -month
ttr the care of the canines. Mrs.
Bashaw ha a had the care of the dogs
since March, when Mrs. Howard
died. By the terms of her will the
14.000 Is to go to the Arkansas
Home for Children at Little Rock
after the death of the dogs. Mrs.
Bashaw's petition set forth that ITS
per month Is a fair, reasonable and
customary charge In the city of Chi
cago for the support and malnte
n: --- of three dogs.
"These dogs are an awful care."
said Mrs. Bashaw today. I have
to give them baths and keep them
In the house for fear some one will
poison them. I have had to hire a
woman at f ( a week to help care for
them."
Mrs. Bashaw's predicament de
veloped because various factions of
beneficiaries have become so ex
cited over the court battle concern
ing the will.' Two alleged wills of
Mrs. Howard figure in the legal bat
tie which Is set for hearing on Sep
t .nber 28. At that time the will
will be probated and Mrs. Bashaw':
claim considered. One of the will
favors the dogs. The other favors
the relatives.
HUGE FIRJL0G SHIPPED
West Coast Lumbermen to Exhibit
Stick at Big Convention.
ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 2. (Special.)
A monster fir log cut at the Sad
dle Mountain Logging company's
camp was taken out of the water
at the port terminals last evening
and loaded on two flat cars for ship
ment by the West Coast Lumber
men's association to Peoria, 111., for
display during the coming lumber
men's convention. The stick was 81
feet In length, nearly six feet in
diameter at the small end and
slightly more than eight feet in
diameter at the butt. It weighed
95.850 pounds and contained ap
proximately 22,000 feet of lumber by
scale measure.
To transport the timber two spe
clal f lit cars was required, ' one
being 45 feet Ion and the other 42
feet long.
DRINK PRECEDES DEATH
Seattle Pastor Believed to Have
Taken Poison for Medicine.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 2, Rev
S. Cameron Morrison, pastor of the
Church of the Epiphany, died at his
home here late this afternoon after
partaking of medicine he had just
bought at a drug store tiearby. Cor
oner W. H. Corson is investigating
the death on the strength of a re
port that Rev. Morrison drank pol
son handed him by mistake when
he purchased cough medicine. Rev.
Mr. Morrison Is widely known in the
Episcopal church.
He Is survived by a widow and an
adopted daughter.
His brother is bishop at Dubuque,
Iowa. '
BOY CAUGHT IN ASPHALT
Bend Lad Narrowly Escapes
Death In Sticky Mass.
BE.VD. Or.. Aug-. 2. (Special.)
In a pit of half-melted asphalt left
by a paving contractor last year.
Hollis Noonchester, 9-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Noonchester
of Bend, was slowly sinking when
he was rescued by employes of ths
Bend Concrete Pipe company.
But for the fact that a playmate
was with him when he attempted
to walk across the seemingly solid
surface, the child would -have been
drawn down to his death within IS
minutes more. Harold Rollins, .
tried to rescue Hollis until the trap
ped boy bad sunk to his waist, then
he ran for help.
SUIT FOR CHILD FILED
Baby Declared Held Illegally for
Board Bill.
TACOMA. Wash., Aug. 2. Gen
evieve. 15-raonths-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lindaey Gibson, is un
lawfully detained until her board
bill la paid, according to complaint
filed in superior court here today.
The Gibsons alleged they recently
went on a trip and left the child
with Mrs. John Schiller. When they
returned they went for the baby,
but Mr. Schiller refused to give it
up until her board is settled.
The suit to recover the child was
set for hearing Friday.
OUTLAW IS GUILLOTINED
French Train Robber Pays Pen
alty for Notorious Performance.
PARIS. Aug. 2. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Mennlslaa Charrler
was guillotined today for his part
in the only train holdup on record
in France, which took place August
1. 1921.
The holdup attracted much noto-
.I ,.. k.ln ,.rii n Kv , .
as "a real American wild west train 1
robbery as depicted in the motion
Good Faith Pledged by
Union Chiefs.
PAST ACTIONS DEFENDED
Carriers Breakers of Labor
Board Order Is Claim.
ISSUE PUT UP TO ROADS
Men Declare Operators Will Be
to Blame if Peace Does Not
Result From Plan.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2 (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Full acceptance of
the peace proposal submitted by
President Harding was voted tonight
by leaders of the striking railway
shopmen who, however,' gave their
own interpretation of each of the
three suggestions.
"We accept reluctantly. It is true,
but commit ourselves to carry out
the terms of the settlement in ut
most good ralth and in aid of the
general welfare," said the message
of acceptance sent to President Har
ding tonight.
"If these proposals fall to bring
about the results which you desire,
the responsibility of failure will not
rest upon the representatives of the
organized employes."
On the proposal to restore unim
paired seniority rights to the strik
ers, which was rejected by railway
executives ' at a meeting yesterday
In New York, the message declared:
"It would certainly be a wholesale
Injustice of unparalleled extent if
hundreds of thousands of experi
enced men who have given tour to
40 years' service and whose value
to the transportation industry is
proportioned to the length of their
service should be placed in a posi
tion of Inferiority to a limited
number of men who have been em
ployed as '-substitutes for the expe
rienced railroad workers."
Carriers Are
Accused.
Replying to 'the president's sug
gestion that railroads and workmen
agree to abide by decisions of the
railroad labor board, the reply said
the shopmen had always taken the
position that so long as they con
tinued to render service they should
abide by the rules and working
conditions and accept the wages
agreed upon by proper negotiations
or determined by the labor board
after a hearing of a dispute.
"Violations of the law and re
fusal to abide by decisions of the
board, have been exhibited only by
the railway managements," the reply
said, and asserted that suspension
Concluded en Pace 12. Column t.)
V sA Vou RE. OUT flN
i 5fcV WITH Z&Vs
Whisper Is Abroad That Southern
Pacific Is Acquiring Land
Near Own Main Line.
Claude D. Starr,
broker, true toy
deals would be d
2 on muctf of tr ,
Portland realty
promises that
.mmated August
.st-slde property
took options, be-
which he rece
gan closing
transfers of the
deeds in his
t ;e In the Concord
building ye
ay afternoon. In
SDite of the
-o . that several prop-
erty owner J ire known to have
received hf O rtified checks drawn
on the Ty Trust company for
the deeds Starr refused to give
out detaf w
II is impossible to estimate the
total valuation of the property
which has changed hands since the
options on the property ere taken,
but Incomplete details obtained from
owners Indicated that nearly half
a million dollars is involved.
Mr. Starr began taking options on
the property nearly three months
ago, according to property owners.
New light was thrown on the
speculation yesterday when It was
found that In some Instances the
property which Starr is acquiring is
leased for a term of years. This
would seem to Indicate, according to
the owners, that the purchase was
purely a speculation. Some time
ago the theory was advanced that
the Southern Pacific was acquiring
the property to prevent any compet
ing line from acquiring It. for It has
been pointed out that all of the
property concerned lies along East
First street at various intervals be
tween Hawthorne avenue and East
Burnslde street, adjoining the main
tracks of the company's southbound
line.
POLL-TAX UP TO VOTERS
Repeal Measure to Go on Ballot
In Washington.
OLTMPIA, Wash., Aug.' 2. The
initiative measure designed to re
peal the poll-tax law will be on the
ballot this fall, according to Charles
A. Foster, superintendent of the
elections division in the secretary
of state's office. Final check of
signatures to the petitions was
completed today. The bill carried
53,089 names, of which 8739 were
uncertified and 1062 duplicates,
leaving 43,288 valid signatures. All
bills require 39,941 it-gal signatures.
10 per cent of the gubernatorial
J vote at the last election.
Check has not been completed on
the 30-10 school apportionment
measure.
MANY PISTOLS STOLEN
High-Powered Automatics , Miss
ing From Government Stores.
NEW TORK. Aug. 2. Government
agents announced today that 875,000
to 8100.000 worth of pistols had been
stolen within the last few months
from the United States appraisers'
stores.
Many of these high-powered auto
matics of foreign make were be
lieved to have come into the posses
sion of the underworld.
HOW MUCH LONGER?
Mother of Slain Young Man Said
to Have Attempted to At
tack Slayer With Ax.
. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Aug. 2. (Spe
cial.) Jim Van bibber, a ranger In
the Washington state fire service,
today shot and killed Carl Kerorick,
a young man living on Green moun
tain, three miles south of Rlffe in
eastern Lewis county. Vanblbber
Immediately came to Chehalis and
surrendered to the sheriff. Sheriff
Roberts, Coroner Coleman and. Pros
ecuting Attorney Allen left Chehalis
this afternoon for the scene ot the
shooting.
As the distance to Green mountain
Is about 50 miles over some steep
mountain roads, the party will be
unable to return until late tonight.
Information as to the trouble' Is
meager, as Vanblbber declined to
talk for publication. It is under
stood, however, that the trouble
arose over the ranger's efforts .to
prevent the setting of a slashing
fire. It is said that the young man's
mother attempted to attack Van
blbber with an ax and that at the
same time Hemrick made a motion
as if to draw a revolver and Van
blbber fired.
JUNE BUG DITCHES AUTO
Two Go to Hospital When Insect
Lights on, Woman's Shoulder.
(By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, Aug. 2. A June bug
which alighted on a young woman's
shoulder while she was at the
wheel of an automobile last night
caused an accident which sent the
two occupants to a hospital.
The car was being driven by Miss
Mattle Seldmaa. Jules Urbaln was
riding with her. While driving
near the home of J. Ogden Armour,
in Lake Forest, the bug landed on
Miss Seldman's shoulder. The bug
so frightened her that she lost con
trol of the machine and it went
Into a ditch.
TRAIN BURNS, 200 DEAD
Zionist Pioneers Among Victims
of Railway Tragedy.
RIGA, Aug. 2. (Jewish Tele
graphic Agency.) Two hundred
passengers perished when a five-
car train was burned between Kiev
and Schepetowka, says a report
from Kiev today.
Among the victims were eight
Zionist pioneers, who were proceed
ing to join their group on the way
to Palestine.
FLIER IN BRITISH INDIA
British Aviator Circling Globe
Encounters Monsoons.
AMBALA, British India, Aug. 2.
Major W. T. Blake, the British
aviator, who is attempting to circle
the globe by airplane, has arrived
here, having flown from Lahore.
The weather in northern India is
very unfavorable for flying, owing
to monsoons.
Great Victory Scored by
Beavers' Head.
STATUS RULED ON DY LANDIS
Dealings Limited to Purely
Internal Corporate Affairs.
KENW0RTHY FREE AGENT
Player Must Report to SIcCarthy
to Obtain Freedom -or Be
Put on Black List.
BT L. H. GREGORY.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Z. (Spe
cial.) This was a day of baseball
wonders.
First, William H. Klepper won by
a knockout in the last round of the
Pacific Coast league directors'
meeting, adjourned over from yes
terday to finish up if possible the
job of finishing Klepper.
Second, he will continue as presi
dent of the Portland baseball club
and will do it with the approval of
Judge Landis himself. Possibly the
judge's approval doesn't include
flowers and hurrahs, but it's in the
records, anyhow.
, Third, W'illiam J. Kenworthy, the
good old "Iron Duke," will return
to Portland. The duke, of course,
cannot play in Portland or in the
coast league until 1924 under the
Landis' decision, but he will be
come the baseball property of Port
land just the same. It will not cost
Portland even the 81 that was of
fered, either. The league declared
Kenworthy a free agent, so he is
now free to sign a new contract
with Portland which he unques
tionably will ao.
Court Action to Be Filed.
Further, Gus Moser, league direc
tor from Portland and attorney for
the Portland club and for Klepper
and James - R. Brewster, will file
action in the future against Judge
Landis in Chicago or elsewhere in
the east, carrying the fight right
Into the judge's home country, to
restrain him fro'm enforcing that
portion of his famous decision as
it relates to the inellgibilty of Klep
per and Brewster. The coast league,
by reason of today's happenings,
will not be a defendant in the case.
Fifth, the finish of William H.
McCarthy as president of the Pacifio
coast league, was made certain by
events today and yesterday. That
first became apparent yesterday
when league directors split four
and four in support of Klepper and
against him. The linep didn't come
out in any test vote today, for no
test vote was taken, but it was
there, just the same. Had there
been a test vote Portland, Las An
geles, Salt Lake and Oakland would
against have been found voting to
gether against San Francisco, Sac
ramento, Seattle and Vernon.
Re-election Held Impossible.
McCarthy may be able to stick
out his term as president, which
has another 'year to run, but he
certainly cannot, be re-elected, .and
something may occur before the
year is out that would force him to
retire, for the four anti-McCarthy
directors are very, very anti, in
deed, while some the pro-McCarthy
side are not over-enthusiastically
pro.
The thing that took the wind
right out of the McCarthy sails
today - was Judge Landis' reply to
the telegram sent him yesterday
asking for an interpretation of that
part of his decision relating to the
ineligibility of Klepper and Brew
ster, as to whether it was to be
construed as meaning that Klepper
must get out as president of the
Portland club, an Oregon corpora
tion,, provided he had no official
dealings with the coast league, with
other leagues or club owners or
with ballplayers.
Landis Telegram tuoted.
The request for an interpretation
had been telegraphed the judge at
the suggestion of Cal Ewing, one of
Portland's friends, following the de
feat, four votes to four, of a resolu
tion introduced by San Francisco
requiring directors of the Portland
Baseballc Tub immediately to oust
Klepper as president on pain of a
8250 fine for every day's delay.
I were is ine Lnais interpretation
of his own decision:
"May 24 decision dealt with base
ball matters as distinguished from
purejy internal corporate admin
istrative affairs. It prohibits all
players, officials, agents and em
ployes of all leagues and clubs'from
recognizing Klepper and dealing
with him in respect to such baseball
matters and in this respect it ap
plies to officials, agents and em
ployes of Portland and to players on
the Portland team.
"Therefore, Pacific Coast league
is not required to cease relations
with Portland If Klepper's activities
as president are limited to purely
Internal corporate administrative
affairs. "
"KENESAW M. LANDIS."
Reading of that telegram stunned
the anti-Portland faction. But a re-
Boiler Bursts and Hurls Super
structure High Into Air;
Two Bodies Recovered.
NEW TORK, Aug. 2. The harbor
tug Edward was blown to pieces
today and the five men of her crew
were killed when her boiler ex
ploded while she lay in her slip
on the Brooklyn side of the East
river, three blocks upstream from
the Manhattan bridge.
There was a heavy puff of smoke
and clouds of steam, and through
this was shot high into the air, the
entire superstructure. When the
steam floated away only oil was
seen floating where the tug had
been. The explosion hurled mud
from the river bed, plastering the
I sides of nearby buildings.
Four men working nearby were
injured by flying debris. Others
were slightly hurt and many were
splattered with mud and water. The
captain of a barge only a few feet
away was knocked elown.
The mangled body of the skip
per. Captain Charles McCaffrey, was
found floating a block from where
his tug blew up. One other body
was recovered.
Part of the .boiler fell upon a
pier 200 feet away.
The cause of the blast had not
been determined tonight.
NEW YORKERS SHUN PIE
Thousands Fear to Eat Dessert
That Caused Six Deaths.
NEW TORK, Aug. 2. Pie, the
better half of the noon-time meal
of thousands of New York workers,
today was an almost uncalled for
article in the greater city's restau-
rants.
Fear, caused by the deaths of six
persons who ate poisoned huckle
berry pie Monday in a Broadway
restaurant, was given by restau
ranters as the cause of the pie
market slump.
Waiters in the lunch emporiums
in the Broadway shopping and
manufacturing districts said after
noon today that the pie shelves had
hardly been touched.
CLOUDBURST HITS TOWN
Boy Drowned; Property Damage
Estimated at $100,000.
SALT . LAKE ; CITY. Aug. 2. A
cloudburst struck Magna, mill town
of the Utah Copper company, this
afternoon, causing the- death of
Walden Ellis Yeates, 6 years old;
$100,000 estimated damage, the flood
ing of many homes and the tieing up
of the interurban car service. The
banks of the copper company's canal
burst and several houses were car
ried onto the water.
The Yeates boy was drowned in
his home, which was carried down
the street, as the flood took every
thing in its path. Many narrow es
capes were reported.
FELINE PUGILIST BEATEN
Wildcat on Stroll "Cleans Up" on
Marshfield's Champion.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Aug. 2. (Spe
cial) A wildcat strolled into Marsh-
field last night and at Johnson and
Eighth streets cleaned up on the fe-)
line champion in that district where
he had held sway for two or three
years with no defeats.
The tame cat was strewn over tho
best part of a city block when the
visitor finished with him. An autoist
got a glimpse of the one-sided fight
by throwing his spotlight on the
point of scrimmage.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
83 cegreea; minimum, 64 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds.
National. ,
Seniority in shops considered trivial point.
Page 3.
Domestic. '
Will leaving $10,000 to three dogs is con
tested. Fage 1.
Strikers accept Harding's offer. Page 1.
Mayor of Chicago threatens bus system
and traction company seeks strike set
tlement: Page 2.
Pacific Northwest.
. . nna. thai, noHnnal nnn
num. cwwiuu"" " " ,
fere nee at Oregon Agricultural coi-
leue. Page 12.
lege. Page
Ranker kills drouth in row over fire.
Page 1.
One killed and 15 hurt in train wreck
near Ia Grande. jr. fage la.
Sports.
Philadelphia Americans vanquish St.
Louis, 8-4. Page 14.
Pacific Coast league results: At Portland
3, Oakland 8: at Los Angeles 2. Salt
Lake 4; at San Francisco 4, Sacra
mento 3; at Seattle 2. Vernon 3.
Page 14.
Klepper retains club presidency. Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat scores advance In Chicago, but
market closes heavy. Page 24.
Optimism regarding strike sends prices
higher. Page 25.
European countries increase . hop acre
age. Page 24.
Chicago wheat weakened by profit-taking
sales. Page 24.
Foreign bonds weakest Issues in "New
York market. Page 23.
Columbia Pacific announces better serv
ice to Chinese ports. Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
Rev. William A Sunday assails present
day evils. Page 17.
Fashion display at buyerrf week to be
elaborate. Page 7.
Chief of United States bureau of public
roads visits Portland. Page 17.
Personal contact is aim of buyers' week.
Page 7.
Cut in gas rates is due August 25.
Page 20.
Five hundred thousand-dollar property
believed sold. Page 1.
Who's who of America lists 142 Oregon
residents. Page 11.
TO BE INDICTED
Medford Grand Jury Is
Filling Out Blanks.
7 TO 10 BILLS EXPECTED
Task Likely to Be Finished
Some Time Today.
STENOGRAPHIC AID ASKED
Discussion or Alleged Outrages
Begins in Morning and
Lasts Throughout Day.
MEDFORD, Or., Aug. 2. (Spe
cial.) Indictments against promi
nent members of the Medford realm
of the Ku Klux Klan will be re
turned by the special grand jury
now in session sometime tomorrow.
Just how many of them has not yet
been revealed, as the indictments .
will be secret.
But members of the grand jury
began drawing the indictments .
shortly after 3 o'clock this after
noon, and finding that it would be
impossible to complete the task at a
reasonable hour tonight, adjourned
until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The jury resumed deliberations on
the investigation at 9 o'clock this
morning in the old Jacksonville
courthouse. Throughout the morn
ing and during the early afternoon
the jury could be heard quietly dis
cussing the case that had been laid
before them.
Stenographer Asked.
Shortly after 3 o'clock this after
noon members of the jury called
upon District Attorney Moore to
furnish a stenographer. After the
stenographer had entered the grand
jury room the district attorney was
called and he made frequent trips
into the room, each time remaining
for a time.
Alone about 5 o'clock the stenog
rapher entered the grand jury room
with a telephone directory, presum
ably to aid the grand Jury in in
dorsing each indictment with the
names of the witnesses that ap
peared in each case.
Under the existing statutes each
indictment must contain the name
of every witness in the case, and
this task alone Is one mi
considerable time, and Is probably
responsible for the delay hi the
filing of the report that the grand
jury will make to Circuit Judge
Calkins on the case.
Indictments Expected.
While none ot tne grana jury
members, nor any one officially con
nected with the case, will discuss
the possible outcome, it is generally
believed that the jury will Indict -between
seven and ten persons at
this time.
A report is current that the jury
has decided not to indict certain
persons against whom testimony,
has been presented until the next
session of jury for the reason that
additional evidence Is desired.
Sheriff Terrill, who defeated the
effort to recall him by a total of
308 votes, was present in the court
room all afternoon ready to take
into custody any person who had
been indicted.
Inasmuch as the members of the
Ku Klux Klan are the persons sup
posed to have brought the recall, it
was felt that Sheriff Terrill will get
considerable pleasure out of his duty
in placing some of these1 men under
arrest.
Suspects Are Scattered.
Klansmen, whom Medford persons
expect to be under indictment when
the jury makes Its return, are scat
tered in various parts of the state,
and it may take Sheriff Terrill sev
eral days to round them all up.
It was presumed by Medford at
torneys that the indictments will ba
based on three or four statutes in
the Oregon code. Among these are
the riot statute, which carries a
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conviction; another statute, known
as No. 2046, which prohibits the use
of disguise with intent to either
hinder execution of law or an at
tempt to intimidate any person, the
extortion act of the Oregon code,
which provides a sentence of from
six months to two years in prison
for any person convicted of "intent
to compel any person to do an act
against hia will," and section 1923
which is the "assault with dangerous
weapon," clause, with a penalty of
conviction, ranging from six months
to ten years.
Three Cases Investigated.
The cases which th special grand
jury has investigated are that of
the- "hanging" of J. F. Hale, ex
Medford piano merchant; Arthur
Burr, negro porter and bootblack,
and Hank Johnson, the latter of
Jacksonville.
The Hale case is foremost In the
investigation and between five and
seven indictments are expected : i
be returned on this case alon .
Briefly, it was charged that Hi':
was called out of his home early
one morning and taken by a mob of
nightriders to some point in the
Siskiyou mountains and there
"hanged."
It is generally conceded that
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