The Sunday Oregonian., August 17, 1902, PART TWO, Image 9

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PART TWO
VOL. XXL
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1902.
NO. 33.
ARTISTIC PICTURE FKfMES MSSE TO ORDER' S
EXTEKT fRflMERS BEST MOLDINGS-LOWEST TRICES
""imb ii r '
NEW AUTUMN GOODS
Flannel Waistings in entirely new designs
and color effects, 50c, 60c, 75c.
Trimmed Walking Hats in latest styles.
New Art ' Burlaps and Taffetas.
New Fali Importation of Kid Gloves.
New Black and Colored Dress Goods.
New Veilings and Hat Drapes!
IN THE CLOAK ROOM
SILK WAISTS
Made of the richest materials, superb styles
and colorings; a collection of fine ex
amples of the waistmaker's art.
THE DOWNFALL IN PRICES
$17.50 fine Silk Waists at $11.00.
$15.00 fine Silk Waists at $9.00.
$10.00 f.ne Silk Waists at $6.00.
$7.00 fine Silk Waists at $3.85
PETTICOATS
WHEAT CROP SHORT
Willamette Valley Yield
Below the Average,
Is
DECREASE 15 TO 25 PER CENT
Made of fine mercerized black sateen, deep
pointed accordion-plaited flounce, trim
med with narrow ruffle, made oyer desp
I . rt . f f i t .I r -, l ly to their grain crops ror xne
-pranr nounernnishedt-thebottom-with i ?-
r m rn caa' rn . IIl.-put thelr-depenacnce-up
narrow run rurne. iuu or tnese
petticoats on sale at
NEW FLANNELETTES
A grand collection of new flannelettes for
kimonas, wrappers, waists, etc., in Persian
and striped designs; new shades and
color combinations just received; now is
the time to best make your
selection. Yard,
Lnnd' linn Been Devoted to Cereal
Until It In Becoming AVorn Out
Diversified Crops Savo tho
Tiller of the Soil.
MMINNVILLE, Aug. 15. (Special cor
respondence:) A tour of the Willamette
Valley, during which close Inquiry has
been made regarding the condition -of the
wheat crops, discloses that the yield Is
far under expectations. While the crop
Is In no sense a failure. It Is 15 to 23 per
cent short of last year, if the yield where
threshing has been done may be taken as
a standard for forming an estimate. The
first threshing was done on flat-land
farms, and the shortago was at once dis
covered, much to the surprise and disap
pointment of the fanners. It was hoped
that the hill lands would turn out better,
but in the few such fields that have been
harvestod the yield has been short, al
though the decrease Is not so great as on
level land. "Whether the short crop Is due
to the late rains or the hot weather, or
both. Is a question upon which opinions
differ. The quality of the wheat In every
twetion of the Valley is first class. Thero
are, perhaps, some farms upon which the
normal yield will be had. but theoe will
b6 very few. "What the average yield per
acre will be cannot now be predicted, but
it is probable that It will bC sufficient to
let the farmers out even, o.t least. If the
price should bo 53 cents. Some of them
will make expenses on their grain crops
n,t less than that.
Other Crops Made Up Deficit.
The fanners of the Willamette Valley
will have the balance on the right side of
their ledgers this year, even though the
wheat crop Is short. Tlicy have depended
upon grain lers this year than ever be
fore, and for every other produc prices
have been high. Pasturage has been good
and livestock has kept in r-plendld condi
tion. Much last year wheat was fed In
stead of sold In the market, and In the
form of pork, beef, mutton or eggs It has
found a profitable market. By patronizing
the creamery, or selling home-made but
tcr In a market relieved of surplus
through the agency of the creamery, the
farmers have added many a dollar to their
Incomes. Thus the harvest season finds
moit of them in fairly good circum
stances and not compelled io look entire
ly to their grain crops for the;mcans ti
rnoee wno
jJcra'wlhat-'
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AND EMBROIDER!
2500 yards Cambric Embroidery,
reg. 12c and 15c yard; at special, yard,
5000 yards machine-made Torchon
Laces, I 1-2 to 3 in. wide; spec'I, yd.
9c
3c
LEATHER SUIT CASES
A big shipment of Leather Suit Cases will
be placed on special sale tomorrow; bar
gains at $2.17, $2.49, $4.39, $5.19. Also
many bargains in Hand Satchels.
CHILDREN'S HOSIERY j
o
100 dozen, children's fast black, ribbed S
cotton Hosiery; double knee, heel A
and toe; special, pair
BEDSPREADS
Fringed, colored crochet Bedspreads in
pink and light blue, full size, iA
extra weight, special value . . P !4"
alone arc Just now. trying to 'figure out
whether they will have nnythlng left to
pay for their own tlrne and labor. For
tunately. the latter class arc In the ml
nority.
Shortage In Pollz Connty.
As stated In the correspondence of the
last few dayp, early threshing in Marion,
Linn and Lane Counties shows a decrease
of 10 to 20 per cent in yield, as compared
with last year. At the Oregon Milling &
Warehouse Company's warehouse at Mon'
mouth. Polk County, the Orcgonlan corre
spondent was Informed that farmers are
bringing in wheat that has been threshed
during the last five days, and statement
made by them indicate a shortage of 25
per cent. Some fields that yielded about
30 bushols last year produced but 21 this
year, thus ehowing a decrease of 33 per
cent. Farmers generally counted on
larger crop than was harvested a year
ago, and procured grain sacks In quanti
ties which they expected to need.
The acreage of wheat around Inde
pendence and Monmouth is said to be
much the same this year as last, except
that owing to the lateness of the season
some fields were sown to oats Instead of
wheat. The dairying industry is grad
ually diminishing the wheat area, but the
marked change on this account occurred
two years ago. About 123 farmers are
now selling cream to the Independence
creamer, which was established in VjOO.
When it Is taken into consideration that
this creamery disburses $29,000 per year
to Its patror.3. and that the Albany,
Salem, Corvalls and Portland creameries
also reach out for patronage in tho In
dependence territory, an idea may bo
gained of the growing magnitude of 'this
industry and its Importance to the farmer
in a year when the wheat crop is short.
The dairy herds are all small, and aro
kept as part of the stock on grain farms.
Scores of farmers who have but two or.
three cows make their butter at homo
and sell it at good prices at the stores.
None of the farmers who has begun
dairying has abandoned It.
At Derry, in one of tho best wheat
growing sections of Polk County, the
P.ickreal Milling Company has received
information which indicates that tho
wheat crop will be J5 to 25 per cent short
of last year. Wheat is now coming in
rapidly, but no sales are being made. In
the Rickreal district the wheat, crop is
estimated at about half what it was 10
years ago. The scarcity makes It neces
sary for the mill .to pay a small premium
over export quotations. In order to keep
the wheat in the country until It Is
ground Into flour.
Notes From Benton Connty
Reports received at Corvallls, Benton
Count, aro to the effect that the wheat
yield will be at least 15 per cent short of
last year. While the total yield of oats
will be greater than last year, there ore
some who express the opinion that the
yield per aero will bo slightly less. "Very
little, if any, threshing of oats has been
done. P. Avery, president of the Benton
County Milling Company, says the qual
ity of the wheat thus far received is first
class. The "market has not opened yet,
but 53 cents has been paid for one or
two lots. Mr. Avery expects the price
to bo a little better than that, but has
no quotations yet on new wheat. The
milling companies at Corvallls. usually
pay 2 to 3 cents premium over export
quotations In order to get .wheat. No
wheat 4s sent from Corvallls for export.
Raising stock for market has been
given much attention in Benton County
in recent years, and this accounts for a
large part of the reduced grain acreage.
Dairying is also -making great progress,
as Is Indicated by the fact that the Cor-
aJL- creamer' disburses $1000 per month.
A3 in all other section."! of the Willamette
Valley, very little new land in Benton
County has been cleared of timber In the
last 10 years, so there has been no means
of making up for the large amount of land
taken from the grain acreage to be util
ized for the production of fruit, hops, hay
end feed for stock.
Yamhill Also Suffers.
Yamhill County farmers who have been
in 'McMInnville In the laet two daya are
feeling pretty blue. They have always
been ready to back "Yamhill against the
world," but they do not feel very good
over tho way the wheat crop Is turning
out. Perhaps they will be willing to
measure yields with other sections of the
Willamette Valley, but unless the hill
farmers turn off hotter crops than those
upon which threshing has already been
done, not much will be said about Yam
hill wheat this year. At the Star Mill
Company'e mill at McMInnville yester
day, reports were received from a num
ber of the best farms In that section
of the county. The Tom Davis farm,
long known" as one of the best In the
state, produced but 10 bushels per aero
this year on Summer fallow land. The
John Redmond. Frank and J. F. Martin
farms are yielding only half what they
were expected to produce, and only about
three-fourths of last yearo product.
At North Yamhill, Fred Trulllngcr, of
tho Trulllnger mill, reports wheat about
25 per cent short, and says some shrivel
ed wheat is found. He attributes the
shriveling to the presence of Hessian fly,
which has been reported by a number of
farmers. He flnda the yield of grain la
also reduced by the largo quantity of foul
seed that has been permitted to get Into
the grain fields.
At Carlton, the principal wheat ship
ping point In Yamhill County, the wheat
yield Is reported 25 per cent short, but
of good quality, so far as learned from
two days receipts. A. I Xlngcry. fore
man of Senator W. A. Howc'3 elevator
at Carlton, estimates that the amount of
wheat received there this year will be
not to exceed i0,C0 buehcls. A normal
yield should be CO.00O bushels. Three
years ago the Carlton elevator took in
l'O.COO bushels of wheat, but la3t year
the receipts were only 73.000. The de
crease Is attributed both to a diminished
acrer.ge and a lessened yield per acre.
Some "Wheat Shipped From Valley, j
In. all the southern half of tho Willam
ette Valley, the cupply of grain has be
come eo short In recent years that the.
entire product would not ke-ep all the
mills busy. By paying an advanced
price, the mills secure practically nil the
wheat. In the lower end of the Valley,
efpcclally below Rickreal, on the West
Side, some wheat la bought by the ware-
housemen and shipped to Portland or Ore- ;
gon City, to be cither made Into flour at i
these places or exported.! .lei. thl3 "end of j
the VaKey mills are not bidding up .so ;
and as a consc- I
reaterproponion inan.-nsouuiT-?,
ern counties gecs out unground from tho
LICENSES PAID UP
Business Men Undecided as
. to Fighting the Tax.
CASES SETTLED OUT OF COURT
City Auditor's Office In Crowded
With. Citizen Settling: Delin
quencies In Order to Avoid
Arrest.
The City Auditor's office was a busy
place yesterday, and the deputy was kept
busy taking in delinquent licenses, duo
according to city ordinance- No. 11,784.
Those who the day before had declared
that they would form a combination to
cutlon, seem to show that they will not
all stand together, and that many have
come to the conclusion that it Is better
to pay the small tax than to bear the
expenso of the trial.
Licenses Paid Up.
Of the four who were arrested Friday all
have paid, and their cases will be
dropped. Dr. Coffey, of the firm of Geary.
Coffey, Marsh & Numbers, already held a
receipt for the license of the company.
The court thought It possible that this
was some plan of banding together and
all practicing under one license, but in
vestigation showed that the license was
all right and would stand. "They have
to pay according to the volume of their
business," said the Auditor, "and It makes
no difference how many are under the
same license." The groceryman and two
merchant tailors paid In full yesterday.
No further arrests were made, and tho
authorities say that If the licenses are
paid up there will be nothing more done
in the matter,
Since the first arrests havo been made
there are a larger number of licenses
being paid than ever before. "We are get
ting pay from firms that we did not know
existed," said the deputy yesterday.
Power of City to License.
Up until the adoption of the present plan
there has been a large number of delin
quents, and there are a number that have
WRONG MAN HANGED
Death-Bed Confession of a
Umatilla Indian.
KEPT HIS SECRET 13 YEARS
THE LATE HARVEY A. HOGUE.
rquence a-great6rpropffrlEm
locality in which It Is" produced.
Cause of ShortnRC XTiidetcrmlncd.
At the Agricultural College at Corvallls
esterday The Oregonlan correspondent In
quired the probable caue of the short
vleld of wheat this season. Tho fact that
the Agricultural College wheat fields arc
yielding 30 to50 bushels of wheat per acre.
and In coses as high as 6S bushels, op
land that has neither been treated to com
mercial fertilizer nor given extraordinary
cultivation. Indicates tho reason why the
college people have riot noticed the short
age. Up to two weeks ago the belief was
almost universal that the grain crop would
be c bumper, and It w.ns not until thresh
ing began that the real condition of the
crop was made known. A number of
farmers In Polk and Yamhill Counties ex
press the opinion that the Hessian fly Is
WELL-KXOWS O It EG OX PIONEER WHO DIED FRIDAY. ,
The remains of Harvey A. Hogue, the well-known Oregon pioneer and
business man, who died at Wlnthrop Beach, Mass., Friday afternoon,
will be brought to Portland, the scene of man- of his life's ventures, for
burial. The body will leave Wlnthrop Beach this morning, and Mrs.
HogUe' and -Chester J. Hogue. the widow and tho younger son of the
dead pioneer, will come West on the same train. The body will probably
! arrive In Portland Thursday afternoon. Arrangements for tho funeral
have jROyetfebeen. made, hut Judge Harry W. Hogue, elder pon of the
- accoasfd. said last" night that .it would .prpoawy, tnkc place-. riuay,
torment will'be m the rami:? plot In Lqne Fir cemetery.
In-
oppose the payment of this tax seemed
yesterday to have, come to the conclusion
that they wcrq up against It. and a-large
number of thtm paid during the; day.
There are still many, however, who' have
not been converted to a belief In tho Jus
tice of the license, and declare that the
cajo will be tried. The Grocers' Associa
tion will oppose It as a body. The Med
ical Association has parsed a resolution
to the effect that It will teat the validity
of the ordinance, but yesterday a num
ber of Its members appeared at the Au
ditor's office to be sure that they would
not be arrested. Among the other pro
fessions nnd trades there Is no organiza
tion that is taking the matter up, but
there arc men who are passing circulars
asking that the people engaged In "their
particular line of businers contribute to
CONFESSES ON DEATH-BED TO A MURDER FOR WHICH
ANOTHER MAN WAS HANGED
Amateur photo by Lee Morehouse, Pendleton.
VICTOR WILLIAMS, A UMATILLA INDIAX,
responsible for the light yield. Others at
tribute the decrease to the late rain and
recent hot weather. All aro agreed that
tha farms In the Willamette Valley have
been for too many continuous years forced
to raise wheat crops, and that this ac
counts for no small part of tho dwindling
of .the wheat yield-fxora year to year.
W, P,
a fund with which to try the Issue. There
is a lack of concerted action liu every'
case, however, which seems to Indicate
that there will be no contest made. Even
tho3e who are the strongest in their op
position, when questioned closely, say that
If the others do not stand In, that they
will pay rather than to have any trouble.
Tho large number that are paying, now
, ha the. cases are on the verge of prose-
never paid the occupation tax. Of the
large number of lawyers, doctors and den
tists In the city the number that paid this
tax last year were: Lawyers, 97; doctors.
92. and dentists, 45. The rate at which
they are being paid up at the present time
seems to show that the number will be
more than doubled this yeaT. Auditor
Thomas Devlin, when asked as to the pos
oibllity of collecting the license If it was
opposed, said: "The power of the- city to
levy a license tax has been thoroughly
established in several cases, and tho only
question Is as to city charter, and the
English language could not be plainer
than it is in the charter. It says:
" 'The Council has power and authority
within the City of Portland to license.
tax and regulate for the purpose of city
revenue all such licenses, callings, trades
and employments as the Common Coun
cil may require to be licensed, and as are
not prohibited by the laws of the state
Among the business and professional
men seen yesterday thero was a differ
ence of opinion as to what would be done
toward opposing the ordinance, and there
were many who would not say what Btand
they expected to take In the matter.
"The Medical Society at one time voted
to fight the payment of such a license,'
said one of the doctors, "but If part of
them have paid I do not know what the
rest will do. It does not seem Just to me
that we should have to get another license
after having been licensed by the; state.
We have to pay a tax on our property
the same as any other citizen. But If the
rest are paying. I will. It won't pay me
to contest it. I haven't talked with the
others, and I don't think that anything Is
being dond. I suppose that a special
meeting will be called and a lawyer con
suited before we decide what stand to
take."
Grocers May Fight.
A large number of the grocers paid up
yesterday, but D. C. Burns, when seen
regarding the matter, said: "I do not
think that any of the members of the
Grocers' Association have paid. We voted
some time ago that we would all' stand
together and not pay, and I have not
heard of any change. A paper Is being
circulated among them, and it has not re
turned yet and I do not know how many
have signed it."
"Will you contest it If the others do
not stand by you?" he was asked.
"I don't think that that would pay me
very well," said he, "but I am convinced
that the Grocers' Association will stand
together In the matter."
Among the barbers there has been noth
Ing definite done, although there are
some who say that they do not Intend to
pay the license. "When I started my
shop," said one, "I was told that there
were but a few of the shops that paid a
license and that it would not be enforced
I have never paid, but do not know
whether or not I am going to be com
pelted to do bo now."
The dentists are said to be circulating
a paper among themselves asking how
many will contribute toward contesting
the tax, but no one could be found yes
terday who would give any definite Infor
mation on the matter. Among all of the
business men there Is a difference of opln
Ion. "Don t know anything about it.
pay mine every time it Is due, and the
rest can do as they please," was the an
swer of a large number, while thero wen
others that insisted that the tax was an
injustice and at once commencvl an argu
ment to show the injustice of the mens
ure. The fact that all that were under
arrest paid yesterday will remove the
time of contest, if there Is one. to anm
J future date, as there can be no- trial until
other arrests are made.
Victor Williams, and Xot Pllyea
Murdered an Aged Woman for
Her Money History of
the Crime.
PENDLETON. Cr., Aug. 16. (Speclal. -
A death-bed conference makes It certain
that the wrong man was hanged for a
murder on the Umatilla Reservation 13
years ago. The man whose life was
wrongly taken was Pllycu, a young Cay
use Indian, who was convicted of the mur
der of Mrs. Agnes Tessant. Now cornea
the saddest part of the story the nar
ration of the death-bed confession of the
guilty man. which was made .by his wife
yesterday to Joe Craig, the Indian inter
preter, but not until after she had kept
the secret three weeks.
A few weeks ago, an Indian, Victor
Williams by name, whose home was near
the Government School, on the reserva
tion, finding himself at the door of death
with consumption, called his wife to his
bedside and . horrified her by confessing
that It was he, and not Pllycu, who had
murdered Mrs. Tessant. He said he- had
not Intended to kill her, but as she was
supposed to have considerable money In
her house, and lived alone, he thought he
could safely rob her. While ho was ran
sacking the house. Mrs. Tessant awoke,
made an outer and seized him. There
upon he murdered her. He had kept his
secret 13 years, but had suffered the ag
onies of the damned whenever he thought
of the weak old woman he had killed, and
Pllycu, his close personal friend, whom ho
had permitted to be judicially murdered
to screen himself. He had become unable
to sleep at night and remorse so preyed
upon him that he fell into a decline and
finally became a victim of consumption.
To case his conscience, he said, he mus-
confess his double murder before he died,
lest he could not find rest even in the
grave. Such Is the story Victor Williams
told his wife.
Story of the Crime.
On the third day of April. 1SS9, Mrs.
Agnes Tessant was murdered. Her body
was discovered by her daughter, Mrs. Mag
gie Domain. The woman's brains had
been beaten out with a club, and to make
sure of his work the assassin had cut her
throat. For some days no clew to the
murderer was found, but finally pony
tracks were discovered In an adjoining
field, which were traced to the neighbor
hood of. a young Cayuse Indian called
Pllyeu. Pilyeu's wife had been seen
washing a shirt in the Umatilla River the
day after the murder. The shirt was
found by the officers. Identified as belong
ing "to Pllyeu, and a doctor swore-at the
preliminary hearing before United States
Commissioner Tustin that the stains on
the shirt were blood, but whether of an
animal or human being he was not sure.
Pllyeu was committed for trial in the
United States Court at Portland, and was
placed In the Multnomah County Jail.
Upon his trial before Judge Deady. in ad
dition to the evidence about the pony-
tracks and tha blood stains on the shirt,
an Indian named Liberty, who had been,
a fellow prisoner with Pllyeu. went on the
witness stand and swore that Pllyeu had
confessed the murder to him in the Port
land jail. Upon this evidence Pllyeu was
convicted and duly hanged. Pllyeu always
denied his guilt to friends and lawyers.
A circumstance showing the truculent
character of Victor Williams was recalled
today by Lee Moorhouse, who was Uma
tilla Indian agent when the murder was
committed. Mr. Moorhouse says that ha
recalls the fact now that on the evening
preceding the murder. Williams came to
Pendleton and got some wnisKy. wnen
returning to the reservation, as he passed
the Sisters' School on the eastern edga
of the town, he fired a pistol shot through
a secend-story window of the academy,
the Dullet narrowly missing one of the
Slstera. His flight from the country saved
him from being prosecuted for this offense.
Sew York Republican Convention.
NEW YORK. Aug. 16. The Republican
State Convention will be held at Saratoga,
on September S3,
VACANT PULPITS.
Many Big Salaries Go Besglng" In the
Ennt.
NEW YORK. Aug. 16. There are a
number of Important pastorates vacant In
New York and Brooklyn this Summer, eo
many that it Is being commented on. The
list Includes the rectorate of the Church
of the Holy Trinity. Brooklyn, with a
salary of about I1O.C0O; Grace Church.
Brooklyn, ealary from $6000 to $3000 a year;
St. George's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn,
ealary about JC000. Episcopal vacancies in
Manhattan Includes the vlcarate of St.
tAgncs Chapel. Trinity Parish, which pays
about $5000 a year; the rectorate of tho
Church of the Epiphany, about $300o an
nually, and the rectorate of St. Mary's
Church, Mott Haven, and the Church of
the Holy Sepulcher. each of which pays
about $1500.
Temple Emanuel has been looking for
a principal rabbi for over a year to suc
ceed Dr. Gotthell, now rabbi emeritus, at
$12,000 a year. The pastorate of tho
Church of the Divine Paternity, the larg
est Unlversallst organization in this part
of the country, is vacant, salary about
$6000. The only Reformed Church pastorate
vacant Is that of the First Church, In the
Brooklyn eastern district. This church
pays Its pastor from $2000 to $3000 an
nually. There are vacant Baptist pastorates la
New York. That of the Second-Avenue
Church and that of the Riverside Church.
The Second-Avenue Church Is maintained
by the Baptist City Mission, and the
ealary has been $3GC0 a year. The River
side Church pays its pastor about $2000.
Church Membership Increasing.
WARSAW, Ind.. Aug t6. The report of
Rev. J. WllbUr Chapman, secretary of the
committee on evangelistic work, which
was appointed by the Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly In Philadelphia over a year
ago and which will, meet in annual con
ference at Winona for five days, com
mencing August 18. will show the work of
the committee haa resulted In turning the
tide in the Presbyterian Church, whose
membership, so far as an Increase is con
cerned, has reached a point of stagnation.
Last year's campaign has centralized in
Iowa. Indian Territory, Michigan. Indi
ana. Colorado. California. Kansas. Ne
braska, New Jersey and Montana. From
12.000 to 13,000 accessions to the church
can be directly traced to the work of the
evangelistic committee, which represents
just about the total Increase In member
ship throughout the United States.