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Section Two
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MOSSING, JUNE 23, 1907.
NO. 25.
VOL. XXVI.
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GOUNTY EMPLOYES
SECURE SIGNERS
Obtain Most of Signatures for
Referendum Vote on the
; Driscoll Act.
CURRY FAVOR WITH BOARD
Measure Petitions Are Aimed at Is
Bill Passed by Legislature Giving
Sheriff Control of Prisoners.
Salaries Go Skyward.
Nearly five months ago when House
Bill 243, known as the Driscoll Act.
giving the custody and control of
prisoners to the Sheriff of any county
having- more than 100,000 inhabitants,
was passed by the Legislature, and it
was decided to submit it to the peo
ple under the referendum, the County
Court promised the voter, of Mult
nomah County .that the circulation of
the petitions would be free of expense
to the taxpayers. That signatures
would be obtained by "prominent peo
ple" who had volunteered their ser
vices was the promise made by County
Judge Webster and energetically re
iterated by Commissioner. Barnes and
Llghtner. .The task has been com
pleted and the petitions, bearing 6500
signatures, are now in the hands of
the secretary of State.
But It now appears that the prom
inent people" who circulated the pe
titions were none other than County
Judge Webster, Commissioners Barnes
and Llghtner and various county em
plpyes. By a strange coincidence the
most active of these county employes
have since received Increases In salary.
Standing out boldly among the army
of signature-seekers are nine relatives
of Commissioner Barnes, employes of
the county, who obtained 540 names to
the petition that has for Its purpose
to retain for the County Court the
privilege of controlling the county's
prisoners. Figures that are obtain
able in the office of the Secretary of
State are not fabrications.
Some of Willing Workers.
Here is a digest of the list which
shows how the County Court clroulated
the petitions "without expense:"
Signatures
County Department Obtained.
County Assessor's office. ......... .. . 180
County Auditor's office 20
Burnside bridge , 300
Morrison bridge 740
Madison bridge l,OHO
. . . S20
. . . 140
. .. 120
. . . 640
. . . 8SO
. .. 20
en-
. .. ISO
.. .1.780
Steel bridge :
Ferry, J. F. Caples...
Ferry, W. S. Mason..
Ferry, L.. R. Webster
County Court ,
County Fruit Inspector
Court House Janitor, carpenter,
glneer
Roads and Bridge Supervisors....,
Total 5.SS0
Nine relatives of Commissioner Barnes
were extraordinarily active in circulating
the petitions. Six of them are employes of
the county. The following list shows their
efforts:
Signatures
Names. solicited.
J. H. Adams. Burnside bridge tiO
F. G. Forbes, Ferry Caples 40
C. Hutchinson. Steel bridge 60
YV. H. Robertson, Ferry Webster.... :.W0
S. F. Scott, Steel bridge....' 100
E. D. Barnes. Morrison bridge .'.100
F. Collinson, son-in-law 20
C. D. Starr, son-in-law 20
M, H. Carter, relative by marriage 20
Total 640
- Beginning with the County Court it is
noticeable that both officials and clerks
were active in devoting the county's time
to securing signatures to petitions for the
purpose of killing the Driscoll act.
County Commissioner Llghtner obtained
a list of 60 signatures, which, it is said,
included the name of Jack Matthews. The
name of County Judge Webster does not
appear on the list, as a solicitor, but his
handiwork is recognized in the petitions
which came in from outlying cities, where
he passed his recent vacation of a month.
Neither does the name of Commissioner
Earnes grace the list, but his influence
to block the Driscoll act has been exerted
through the activity of his relatives by
blood arid marriage.
Robert Shaw's Good Work.
Robert Shaw, secretary of the Commis
sioners' board and the next man to County
Judge Webster, exerted himself more than
others under the supervision of the County
Court and obtained 200 names to the pe
tition. Shaw was not obliged to leave his
office to swell the list of petitioners. Scores
of visitors came to his sanctum dally and
those who were known to be legal voters
were confronted immediately with the pe
tition, either before or after the trans
action of business.
Like Secretary Shaw, Fred G. Buchtel,
secretary of the County Board of Relief,
did not have to leave the Courthouse to
solicit. He obtained 100 names from among
the people who etther called upon - the
county for relief for themselves or asked
it for others.
S. Bullock, the aged bailiff for County
Judge Webster, did well for the petition
considering his years. He not only se
cured 20 names for the pet petition but
took nine-tenths of the affidavits of the
circulators who were obliged to take oath
that the signers of the petitions were
legal voters.
J an 1 to Ned Kehoe, who devotes most of
his time to caring for Judge Webster's
chambers, left his usual routine long
enough to obtain 60 names. Albina C.
Bigger, a carpenter at the Courthouse,
solicited 100 names for the petition and
C. H. Powers, the Courthouse engineer,
filled one page of the petition by secur
ing 20 names.
County Fruit Inspector Richard Deich.
who depends entirely on the County Court
for his position and salary, as do the
workmen about the Courthouse, obtained
20 signatures.
Assessor's Men Were Busy.
In the -County Assessor's office 180
names were obtained for the petition
through the efforts. It is said, of W. C.
North, head of the field deputies. North's
name does not appear as a circulator,
but six of the deputies directly under his
supervision obtained the names credited
to his office. North is a relative by
marriage of Commissioner Barnes, and
was once accused by on. of the bridge
tenders of assessing all county employes
to each to carry on the campaign of
Judge Webster and Commissioner Barnes
a year ago.
The first official act of Commissioner
Barnes after the election was to raise
the pay of North from $75. he received
under the former assessor. Colonel
Charles McDonell, to J90. Later he was
rewarded by another raise In pay, making
his salary $12o, and since the circulation
of the referendum petitions he has been
placed on the payroll at 13o.
Prominent among the active workers in
the County Assessor's office was H.
Vierick, Jr., an ex-bartender, who is ac
cused by ex-Sheriff Tom Word and
others of obtaining names to the petition
by informing men he approached that the
document was favored by Sheriff Stevens.
The three pages of the petition filled by
the efforts of Vierick bear many erasures
caused by the revooatlon of signatures of
voters who asserted they were deceived
into affixing their names.
In th County Auditor's office the
County Court found a willing solicitor in
the person of Hazel T. Page, who secured
0 names to the petition.
What Brldgemen Did.
Going from the courthouse to the
river it is found that extraordinary ef
forts were made by the bridge tenders
under pay of. the county to obtain
names for t.he petition. On the Burn
side trldKe 'eight tenders procured 300
names. It is noticeable that the list
of solicitors from this bridge does not
contain - the name of Alonzo Perkins.
Perkins complained at the courthouse
a month ago that he was discharged
for refusing to circulate the petition.
He also asserted that he had called
down the ire of the County Court by
refusing to be taxed an additional $5
for the campaign after he had con
tributed $5 for the benefit of Judge
Webster and Commissioner Barnes in
the primary contest.
. Perkins Is a Mexican War veteran
more than 80 years old and refused to
circulate the petition, though advised
to do so by Sheriff Stevens, rather than
lose a position he depended upon in his
old age.
On the Morrison street bridge 10 ten
ders secured 740 signatures, of which
A. B. Llghtner, a brother of Commis
sioner Llghtner, contributed 140, and
"Uncle" E. D. Barnes, brother of Com
missioner Sarnes father, obtained 100.
On the Madison street bridge nine
tenders gathered 54 pages of names, a
total of 1070 signatures. This bridge
is the star locality among the bridges
for signatures. Tender W. A. Hart col
lected 260 names and E. S. Elliott se
cured 160. Joe Acton, an ex-wrestler,
also a tender on this bridge, secured
100 names. In conjunction with great
activity shown by the tenders of Madi
son street bridge. It has been alleged
that their efforts voiced their gratitude
to the County Court for overlooking
their neglect In leaving the bridge
gates ajar when the draw was open,
thereby endangering many lives.
On the Steel bridge six tenders ob
tained 320 names, which represent 16
pages of the petition.
' Quota From Ferryboats.
The three ferries contributed 900 names,
the boat named after County Judge Lio
nel R. Webster taking the laurels by giv
ing to the petition 640 signatures. Among
the circulators of the petition on the fer
ryboat Lionel R. Webster was F. D.
Matthews, a .brother of Jack Matthews.
The road supervisors gathered 90 pages
of names, or 1800 signatures. H. B. Chap
man, superintendent at Kelly s Butte,
takes the prize among them by collecting
1SI names.
The entire list shows that county em
ployes and", relatives of Commissioner
Barnes obtained practically 6100 names of
the 6500 on the completed petition.
Aside from those directly connected
with the county and receiving pay from
It, many others indirectly concerned in
county affairs had a little to do with.
swelling the petition. Among these was
Louie Eberling, who has the contract for
feeding the prisoners in me county jail.
He was instrumental in obtaining 20
names.
Robert Shaw, secretary of the County
Court, obtained an increase of $25
month, and Fred G. Buchtel. holding
like position with the County Board of
Relief, was given a similar raise. The
workmen at the Courthouse were in
creased $45 in all,, and the clerks in the
Assessor's office received a general raise
of $60 a month, exclusive of the bountl
ful increase allowed W. C. North.
Tenders on the Burnside-street bridge
received a total raise of $60 a month, and
those on the Madison-street bridge a to
tal of $55. On the Steel bridge the raise
was $40, and on the Morrison-street bridge
On the. three ferries a raise in pay
was made which amounts to $155 a month.
Among the road supervisors the increase
in pay amounts to $293 a month.
According to the foregoing figures. It is
estimated that the increases in pay for
county employes who circulated the peti
tions amount to $838 a month, or $10,056
a year. This total is reached without
fltturing in the value of the county's time
that was probably used.
PROFESSES LOVE
FOR ERRING WIFE
Charles Reynolds, Who Shot
Wife's Lover, Says She
Was Hypnotized.
WANTS HER BACK AGAIN
ACCIDENT T0 A PIONEER
G. A. Burt, of Yoncalla, Knocked
Down by Runaway Team.
G. A. Burt, a well-known pioneer of
Oregon, had a narrow escape from
death in a runaway accident at the
corner of Grand avenue and East Main
street at 11 o'clock last night. Mr.
Burt, who is 84 years of age, was on
his way to the home of his gratidson,
at 26 East Market street, when he was
knocked down and trampled upon by a
runaway team attached to a delivery
wagon owned by the Martont Com
pany. No bones were broken, however,
and the aged man's injuries, while
painful.- are not thought to be serious.
He was taken to his grandson's home.
Mr. -Burt came to the city last week
from his home at Yoncalla to attend
the pioneers' reunion.
NEW JERSEY MAN LEADS
Jack Hobens Scores 224 Strokes In
Golf Championships.
PHILADELPHIA. June 22. At the
end of the third round of the 18 holes
in the National open golf champion
ship, which is being, played over the
Philadelphia cricket grounds, Jack
Hobens, -of Englewood, N. J., led the
field with a tot of 224 strokes.
Hobens .set a new record for the tour
nament yesterday with a clever 73,
and this gave him a narrow lead, Gil
bert Nichols, of Woodland, being sec
ond, and Alec Ross, third, with 228.
Nipper Campbell, of Boston is fourth
with 230 and Fred Brand, of Allegheny,
fifth, with 231.
Willie Hoare, the Salt Lake City pro
fessional, totals 252.-
Iq Command of Louisiana.
WASHINGTON, June 22. Captain
Richard Wainwright, at present on duty
here in connection with various - naval
boards, has been selected to command the
battleship Louisiana to succeed Captain
Couden, who Is to be promoted to Rear-Admlrai.
Murderer of Professor Hibblns Has
Broad Charity for Woman In the
Case, Despite Her Dam
aging Confession.
While Charles H. Reynolds nervously
paces a cell in the County Jail, under
the cloud of a murder charge for ktlllng
Professor George Herbert Hibblns, of
Walla Walla, Wednesday, he still swears
undying love and fealty to the little
woman, his wife, for whose sake he sped
the fatal bullet.
I know, I cannot believe otherwise but
that she was hypnotized by Hibblns into
loving him," he said to an Oregonian re
porter last night "Under that Influence .
she was helpless. It accounts for all. I
know It. I will never believe anything
else, even though she might say it her
self. Till this great trouble site was al
ways to me a true, a faithful and a lov
ing wife.
"What I have is hers. If it is my lot
to be acquitted and freed, or whether I
am not, it will always be the same. If I
am freed I do not want a separation from
her, for I still love her. I was only fill
ing my part of the marriage vow to
protect 1 her when I shot Hibblns. But
while I have a dollar left half of it shall
be hers."
But Mrs. Reynolds says no. Calmly
yet firmly she said last night that she
thought she never could live with her
husband again.
"I think it would be best for us to sep
arate," said she. "I can't feel kindly
towards him, though I know he is sin
cere. There is only this to it I loved
Herbert." Such Mrs. Reynolds continues
to call the man whose true name it has
been learned was Hibblns.
"Did he hypnotize me?" she continued,
in surprise. "Why, I never thought of
such a thing before. Did he? No, no. I
I am sure he didn't. We were Just at
tracted to. each other, that is ail. He
didn't hypnotize- me."
' The statement made by Reynolds is the
first one concerning his wife that he has
consented to give out. "I want to show
that I feel nothing of bitterness against
my wife." he gave as his reason. "I hon
estly believe that she was hypnotized.
It is my desire to shield her to every
possible extent."
Dramatic Scene at Morgue.
Outside the morgue Friday night there
was a dramatic meeting between Mrs.
George Herbert Hibblns, wife of the dead
man. and Mrs. Reynolds. The widow
fainted when she saw the other woman,
but later talked calmly.
"I was coming out of the morgue and
met Mrs. Hibblns on the street," said
Mrs. Reynolds. " 'If he deceived you he
deserved his fate,' she told me. She said
that Herbert was to have met her In Se
attle Sunday, and that he was deceiving
me. I dpn't think so. She was not bit
ter, but seemed to feel sorry."
Despite the full confession made by
, t ,,i M R.vnoldH. discloslnar her
criminal Intimacy with Professor George
Herbert Hibblns, her husband, Charles
H. Reynolds, must answer before a jury
for slaying the Walla Walla musician.
District Attorney Manning charged him
with murder In the first degree yesterday.
Ignoring the unwritten law phases of the
case. Reynolds will be arraigned before
Presiding Circuit Judge Cleland next
Tuesday morning.
The information accusing Reynolds of
murder will undergo a change before the
prisoner's arraignment. The document
gives the name of the dead man as
George H. Herbert, which has been as
certained to be his stago name. His true
name, as given by his widow Friday
night. Is George Herbert Hibblns. Mrs.
Hibblns came here from Seattle late Fri
day night, and, after establishing her
identity, removed the body from Flnley's
undertaking establishment and shipped it
for Interment at Walla Walla. She re
mained In Portland but two hours.
Mrs. Hibblns said she was the real
owner of the Walla Walla property left
by her husband, but had deeded it to
him to avoid trouble between them. She
said she and her husband had lived hap
pily together when employed In the same
city. As was her husband, she Is a mu
sician, and at present is employed in the
Seattle Theater orchestra as a drummer.
Hlbbihs and his wife worked together in
Portland for several months a. few years
ago. He was employed as the leader of
the orchestra at Brickson's Cafe, and his
wife played under him. The widow will
apply for letters of administration of the
estate.
Reynolds Hears Charge Calmly.
Reynolds heard of the charge of mur
der In the first degree being placed
against him calmly.
"In a way." he said, "I expected my
freedom, and I was confident first-degree
murder would not be the charge.
When I take the stand I will startle all
Oregon by my statement. It will be three
times worse than my wife's confession
and expose more."
Mrs. Reynolds Heard of th. murder
charge being lodged against her husband
without emotion.
"I am nervous and did not know
enough about law to know what would
be done," she said. "I hope for the
best."
Yesterday afternoon Reynolds was per
mitted to visit his home on Fourteenth
street, the scene of the murder, to obtain
a paper he desired to place in the care
of the Sheriff. He was accompanied by
Sheriff Stevens and two deputies, and
made the trip In an automobile, hand
cuffed to one of the deputies.
The meeting between Reynolds and his
wife and two children was a cold affair.
When he stepped' into the house Mrs.
Reynolds spoke to him about selling the
furniture and renting the home to a
woman who wished to move in immedi
ately. "There is no hurry, , Lulu, said th
husband.
"You didn't wait when you shot," re
torted the' wife.
No further words passed between them.
Reynolds gave his wife the key to his
I trunk and returned to the County Jail,