The Sunday Oregonian., October 13, 1907, SECTION THREE, Page 9, Image 31

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 13, 1907.
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READY WIT AND HIS IRON
, NERVE BROUGHT PROMOTION
"Old Hen" Rogers, Pioneer Wyoming Wool Grower, Tells How Young
Army Officer Won His Spurs in Frontier Days.
"0
LD HE.VN"
ROGERS, of ancient
'renown on tne wyomm
ranges, and who U more formally known
a H. C. Rogers, waa In Portland yes
terday. The grualy old-timer looked
about the streets that he had not aeen for
a quarter of a century with eyea atill aa
keen aa they are gray, in spite of over
two score years of alkali dust from the
Wyoming plains. I
"Great camp this," he said to an old
friend, "and It grows like a cream-fed
lamb. Showa what man can do when ha
wants to. And even one man all by him
self can do a lot sometimes," he added,
with a grim smile.
How's that?"
"Well, I don't know that U has much
to do with this home ranch', but I some
how remember when 1 said' that of how
one young Irish lieutenant once In Chey
enne did what a whole company of regu
lar cavalry couldn't do. You see It was
this way:
"The boss horsethief of the plains In
the late sixties waa a three-fingered chap
named Musgrove. Ever heard of him?
No? Well, that Is pretty long ago for
yoe youngsters, but old Oregon trailers
remember him at the cost of many a
horse and mule. Musgrove had about
300 men under him strung all the way
along the base of the Rockies from Can
ada to the Rio Grande. He would pick
up a bunch of stock on the old Mormon
trail, run them south Into Santa Fe or
El Paso and sell them. Then he would
run north another bunch and sell in Den
ver or Cheyenne. Ran a good business
on other people's brands.
"But one day he rounded up a bunch
of Uncle Sam's mulea near Cheyenne and
started off with them, thinking that there
vera too few soldiers in tha fort to come
: after him, the Injuns being pretty bad
Just then. Only about 20 well men in
the post, by the way. But as good luck
would have It a Government train with
a company of cavalry was within a day's
ride of the fort, and to make a long
story short they took right after Mr.
Musgrove and brought him back in Irons,
stork and all.
"Now, tha court was In Denver, over
100 miles away, where ha must be tried.
How to get him there was the question.
Just-aa soon as the word got out that
Musgrove had been coralled his men be
gan to gather and in no time, aa . fast
aa horse flesh could bring them, they
began to get a trifle thick around the
fort and along the trail to Denver. We
could not spara the men necessary, 50
at tha very least, to take him to Den
ver. It was a hanging proposition with
Musgrova and a life and death matter
with a whole lot more of the biggest
gang of horsethleves and cut-throats that
ever operated in the v est.
"The officers under the colonel were
discussing what to do when up spoke
this young Irishman with shoulder straps.
'Colonel, If you please, sir, I'll take Mus
grove to Denver and I'll do It alone.'
"Tha grouchy old colonel snorted his
opinion of such a sure way of suicide
when the nervy youngster told him how
he would do It. I II ride In a coach with
Musgrove chained to tha back seat and
the curtalna drawn,' he explained, 'and
with no guard whatever; Just the driver.
Only one gun In the outfit, and that will
be this slxshooter of mine. Before we
go I want to have Musgrove write a let
ter to his gang and tell them to guard
that coach all the way to Denver, because
If it Is stopped I'll kill Musgrove.'
" 'And you?" asked the colonel. 'They'll
kill me,' was the quiet answer.
" 'Go ahead, you d n fool,' growled
Personal and Pertinent
Gossip About Men,tt Women in the Public Eye
Frank Harrington, king of the rSJrt
err
land Hotel cigar stand, looked at a
friend suddenly the other day and
whispered: "Your hat Is on tha bum."
His listener instantly removed his
headgear and was examining It hastily
when Harrington added: "It's off now,"
and then escaped out of harm's way.
It was a sight for the gods and a
large slice added to the gaiety of
nations when Bob MacCracken, who
with his silk hat reaches nearly seven
feet, was Introduced yesterday In the
Portland Hotel to the three-foot hus
band of Mrs. Tom Thumb. Alphdnsa
and Gaston were not In It.
"Summed up. Just what Is the news
paper business?" asked Senator Gearln
of the hotel reporter recently. "The
newspaper business Is getting those
Into the paper that want to keep out,
and keeping those out that want to
get In," replied the reporter aa he went
on his way.
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"I am not a midget." said Mrs. Tom
Thumb recently. "A midget is a little
person without good sense." And
tinder this head no ona would class one
of the smallest yet one of the brightest
women In the world.
, County Clerk Fields has found a
couple who wish to be married and
kissed at tha Qresham Grange and
County Fair, the license to be issued
free. He has not yet announced their
names. He says the bride-to-be la
very good looking, but notwithstanding
bas consented to accept a kiss from tha
County Clerk In the presence of the
assembled multitude. The bridegroom
eha says, will have to consent willy
nilly.
Judge Cameron ia endeavoring to figure
out the significance of a remark made
to him the other day by an acquaintance.
The Judge waa approached on the street
by his acquaintance who made this sin
gular request: "Say, George. I want to
ask a favor of you." "Well," answered
the Judge, "if It la a reasonable one we
will sea what we can do. What ia it?"
"I want you to promise to pardon me out
of the Penitentiary when you are ele.-tort
Governor," said the man as he edged'
away.
Thomas Merry, one-time Sunday editor
of The Oregonlan. who la visiting In
Portland, recalled an Incident of the old
days when he lived here. He and Judge
Page atood talking on a corner on First
treet bark In the '70s when the elder
Falling passed by. When out of earshot,
Pag remarked to Merry: "Tom, there
goea a man who hasn't a redeeming
ice."
Harry Blaney and Mrs. Blaney, both
Portland artists, were the recipients of
handsome souvenirs for their efforts at
the Elks' social Thursday night. Young
. Bluney, who Is a sedate business man
of Portland, and who was recently
Initiated Into the "Best People on
Earth. formerly was a vaudeville star
In trick bicycling. His wifo, who la
equally clevor in manipulating the ma
chine, starred for several years In New
York and Europe. Both learned the art
of bicycling on Sixth street, when that
thoroughfare waa first paved, about
ten years ago.
The matter of employing children on
the stage happened to be brought up In
the presence of Mrs. H. E. French the
other day, and the wife of the manager
of the company now playing at tha Star
told of an Incident in New York some
years ao when the Gerry Society made
the colonel. 'And If you come out alive It
will be under a captain's bars. Idiot!'
"So the lieutenant explained his plan
to Musgrove, who thought it wise to
write that letter. Two days later they
started, Musgrove chained to the back
seat, the lieutenant riding on the front
seat facing him with a drawn six-gun,
the curtains down, and only the driver
unarmed on the seat. Away out on the
bluffs were a hunch of horsemen, and
the coach started straight toward them.
We watched through the glass and saw
the coach roll by them and they took up
a line of march on either side, but well
back from the road. But tTtfe coach went
on out of sight.
"Well, sir! That coach was the best
guarded coach that ever rolled between
Cheyenne and Denver. Musgrove's men
were at every stage station, but no one
bothered It for Inside was a man who
would shoot and liuagrove would get
the first shot straight through the heart.
come what might later. They rolled into
Denver In triumph, I tell you."
"What happened then?"
"Oh! Nothing ' much. The lieutenant
was made captain and Musgrove was
RESIDENCE OF G. W
lynched tha next day. Died game to tha
core, smoking a cigar. One man can
stand off a whole lot when he has to
and the reward 4s big enough."
a. campaign against , the show places in
the metropolis. An agent of the society
cam to the manager of a certain theater
where a child's part was In the cast and
complained at the employment of a child
under legal age. The manager told the
agent to go behind the scenes and inter
view the child actress. He did so and
this is tha conversation that took place:
Agent S. P. C. T. C Little girl,' are
you playing in this piece?
Little Girl Yes, sir.
Agent 8. P. C. T. C Well, little girl,
how old ars you?
Little Girl Little girl! Why bless your
heart, man, I am a grandmother.
Councilman Michael J. Drlscoll was
the unintended victim of a practical
Joke at the Elks' social the other night,
and the lncidunt furnished consider
able amusement for the antlered ones
who noticed it. The city father desired
a cigar, but was so amused by tha
programme that he did not wish to go
to the clubrooma, and requested one
from his friends. Joe Day obligingly
dug up a perfecto that had been given
him by Sig Werthelmer, and Drlscoll
lighted same, and was puffing serenely
when a hidden spring In the tobaoco
gave way and the cigar waa scattered
In mlnuto particles all over the adja
cent brothers.
J. Walter Ransom, chief clerk of the
local office of the San Francisco and
Portland Steamship Company, has gone
to San Francisco In response to orders
from R. P. Schwerln. Mr. Ransom left
for the Bay City on the steamship City
of Panama last Wednesday.
Thomas R. Wilson, of Salem. left Fri
day on a visit to his mother in Canada.
Mr. Wilson will be absent three weeks.
Captain George Conway, superintendent
of water lines for the O. R. & N. Co.,
has returned to duty at his office. Cap
tain Conway has been 111 for several
weeks.
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"At the annual meeting of the Oregon
Forestry Association soon to be held I
would like to see a paper presented on
the subject of 'Timber Cruising." " said
A. King Wilson the other day. "Rer
cently I waa Interested In a case that In
volved a distribution of some property
and it was necessary to determine the
amount of timber on the land.. I secured
estimates from two cruisers and was
amazed to find that the estimate of one
man was 10 times greater than that of
the other. Now there was no excuse for
such a discrepancy and It certainly
would be Interesting to the average lay
man to learn something as to how these
estimates are made."
Now that the baseball season la over.
"Doc" Anderson will be compelled to re
sort to the matinees or find other means
of entertainment. Just as surely as
game of professional ball was played at
the Vaughn-street grounds, "Doc" was
to be observed in the grandstand, and
he invariably sat In the same place. Al
though the Portland team for a number
of weeks had undisputed claim to fourth
money in the four-team league, Ander
son's enthusiasm did not desert him and
he- attended practically every game that
was played Portland during the sea
son. Curtis G. Sutherland, confidential man
to General Manager O'Brien, of the Har
riman lines, wore a woebegone look all
through the first week of October. The
reason was that It was Impossible for
him, owing to the rush of business, to
get away on the first day of October.
when the pheasant season opened, for a
rew aays snoot, -mere naa not been a
hunting season since the Chinese pheas-
v ill' ri fFvi I L 1 1 L I
ant was brought to Oregon that Mr.
Sutherland, who Is an Inveterate sports
man, has not been out with the rest
shooting these game birds; The fact that
he had to mias this year put htm In a
very bad humor for daps. '
R. B. Miller, general freight agent' for
the Harriman lines in the Pacific North
west, has a record that few railroad men
can boast of. Although ,e makes a
dozen trips across the continent every
year, In addition to hundreds of short
trips over the territory during the year,
he says he has never been in a railroad
wreck or on a delayed train. As he has
to travel over the O. R. & N. a great
deal in his official capacity, this la going
some.
Jess Moore, salesman for the Skldmore
Drug Company, Is entirely satisfied with
the award of prises at the recent Spo
kane bench show. The reason is not hard
to discover. His 10-months-old bull ter
rier pup, Willamette Demon, carried off
first honors as the best bull pup ex
hibited. The dog 1b a splendid specimen
of the terrier family.
MICROBES OPEN WINDOWS
Enlarged Reproductions Scare Wom
en Into Getting Fresh Air.
T.OVnON. Oct. 12 .CHnei-'.silVA r,r'nfo-
sor of hygiene. has frightened the workers I
In three Hoxton factories into a whole-J
some respect for fresh air. They were
- BOSCI1KE, LOVEJOY STREET, KA
all women, and an Ignorant majority wTio
suffered from the fatuous idea that fresh
air meant colds refused to allow the win
dows to be opened and the proprietors
were powerless until they thought of the
professor and a lantern lecture.
The proprietors suggested what his
services were wanted for and the profes
sor brought with him a series of lantern
slides showing on the screen microbes
magnified as large as mice. The effect
ls instantaneous. A shudder went
through the audience, and next day all
the windows in the factory were open.
The girls in the other factories were en
tertained on the two following nights to
the same lecture and the same lantern
slides, and the results were identical no
more closed windows whatever the char
acter of the weather.
The success of the experiment got
noised abroad, and other factory owners
who found it Impossible to keep the at
mosphere passably wholesome are calling
In the same professor to repeat his lec
ture on the evils of unventllated rooms.
SCOTCH MOVING TO TOWN
Race Suicide Prevails and Illegiti
mate Children Are. Many.
GLASGOW, Oct. 12. (Special.) Some
interesting partioulars about the popula
tion of Scotland are to be found In Dr.
Dunlop's annual report to the Registrar
General, which covers the ground up to
the end of 1905. Scotland's population
during the period under review Was 4,676,
603. Over two millions of these lived
In "principal towns," and over 600,000
in "large towns." and the figures, spread
over 15 years, show that the same mi
gration toward the towns is taking place
In Scotland as in England.
The birth-rate ls decreasing both In
"Call It Bayocean"
That was Help No. 1. The man who said it, one of
the original property-owners, has already been bene
fited by Bayocean Park.
For your help you will get deposited-in-the-bank,
written-in-the-book benefits, simply for saying and
writing
"Come to Bayocean Park"
to the people of the East who can afford to live in '
the finest beach hotel on the Pacific Coast, who can
pay good prices for summer home sites at this
v incomparable resort. . '
Boost Bayocean Park
and Bayocean Park Will
Boost Your Bank Account
Inspection of that model in our office is the first
boost for yourself. .
POTIER-CKAPIN REALTY COMPANY
402 COUGH BUILDING
Kansas City PORTLAND San Francisco
town and country. It Is much the lowest
In the rural districts, and by far the
highest In the "large-town" districts. Il
legitimate births are 8.91 per cent of the
total number. The detailed figures show
that the proportion of these was great
est (9.02) In the "mainland rural" districts,
and smallest (4.84) In the "Insular rural"
districts.
BETRAYED BY THE SLUMP
Trusted Stockbroker's Manage
Turns Out Embezzler.
NEW YORK. Oct. 12. George H. Brou
wer, a former member of the New York
Stock Exchange, who ' was arrested last
night, disclosed the details today of the
manner in which he used In speculation
more than $100,000 of the funds of
James H. Ollphant & Co. Brouwer waa
manager of that Arm's office. He said to
day that most of his losses were suffered
In speculating in. copper, smelter. South
ern Pacific and the Interborough Metro
politan stock. He is now penniless. He
said:
"Besides being the manager for Mr. Oll
phant, I was carrying a separate account
of my own. Jay K. Carlisle had a large
account with us. and when my account
was squeezed I would transfer some of
Mr. Carlisle's holdings from the Olipfcant
book, or I would carry some of iuf ac
counts from my own booka to my employ-
ers' account.
"It was very simple, the way I worked
it, and it might have been years before
It TWENT V-F1KTH.
detection came. Had It not been for .the
demoralization of the stock market, I
should be a rich man." '
7 ;;.
FEARS A GERM SPREAD
Parent Objects to Medical Inspection
of School Children.
PORTLAND. Oct, 10. (To th Editor.)
Now that we are Informed through tha
newspapers, that Chteftainesa. Br. Pohl. at
the head of 25 medicos, armed with sprayers.
ryrlng-ea and other dead It weapons to ex
terminate disease and other unpleasant mi
crobes, to be hereinafter mentioned, ls to
charge on Portland's public schools. It
might be well to Invite public opinion rep'
resented by parental criticism as to the
proposed onslaught. If this be reasonable,
permit one pair of parents for my wife
and I are a unit on the situation to ex
press an opinion. -
In the first place, if Dame Rumor Is to
be relied upon, tha pourparlers" content
plate something" even more radical than the
extermination of latent germs, and that Is
th e pursuit of patent parasites Incorrectly
referred to above as microbes In the curly
locks of pupils. Now, while the fine-tooth
comb may In some cases be mightier than
the sword. Its Indiscriminate and public ap
plication would certainly be humiliating to
the clean-headed or even to Innocent suf
ferers of parental neglect; and a little quiet
scrutiny by teachers followed by a line to
delinquent guardians would best meet the
emergency.
Then, too, it is suggested that molars
are to be examined for vacuums and when
found are to be turned over to a corps of
dentists for treatment. Supposing this to
be true, doesn't It savor Just a trifle too
much of parental government, since parents
sending their offspring to public schools do
not understand that they are placing them
in pauper asylums. Another onslaught is to
.v . u, AUMsStSS3
liiiiiiiiito
Lolman Avenue, Eastern
There is no man in the
that the syndicate back of
improving this beautiful tract of land an d making it one .of the most desirable places
for the habitation of man. During the Su mmer, while most people were away at the
seashore, taking life easy, this is what has been done:
FIVE MILES OF STREETS HAVE BEEN GRADED.
' SEVENTEEN THOUSAND FEET OF CEMENT WALKS HAVE BEEN BUILT.
THE SAME NUMBER OF FEET OF CEMENT CURBS HAVE BEEN PUT IN.
OVER 8000 FEET OF SIX-INCH WATER MAINS HAVE BEEN LAID.
OVER 7000 FEET OF LATERAL WATER MAINS HAVE BEEN PLACED. ,
ELECTRIC LIGHT SERVICE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.
TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED.
TEN-MINUTE CAR SERVICE IS NOW IN FORCE, MORNING AND EVENING.
BEST BALLASTED ROADBED IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND.
FOURTEEN. HOMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR ALREADY COMPLETED.
ONE $5000 BRICK BUSINESS BLOCK NOW BEING BUILT.
SEVEN BEAUTIFUL HOMES NOW BEING PLANNED. -
Truly Rose City Park is now more des irable as a place to live than ever it was be
fore. It is the place for the day-wearied m an, the proper place to bring up the children
and just the ideal spot for the wife. Rose City Park awaits the opportunity of num
bering you among its permanent residents.
HARTMAN & THOMPSON
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
be made on arms and legs, as the case may
be, to reveal the absence or presence of
vaccine marks which will not be a pleasing
ordeal to students or sponsors.
Next, the order will be "all mouths
open," and the caverns displayed will be
examined for blemishes. All this may be
very edifying as a corps drill, but most chil
dren, as well as adults, prefer a private se
ance for such Investigations.
Seriously. It will be Impossible to supply I
F. B. HOLBROOK
250 STARK STREET
v j i t.. i v.. -ill. ... ' f:i. r...T.p..-ir,.-.
Extremity of Park, Showing Improvements All tne Way
Northwest tha t can come to the front and truthfully state
Rose City Park has failed to make its promises good for
private instruments for each Individual case
where hundreds are Involved, and proper
sterilisation does not seem probable or even
possible on the wholesale plan contemplated.
In fact. Dr. C. E. Hawke'i declaration that
"the entire plan is not only useless but
harmful and outrageous, and that there was
more danger In examining the children for
traces of disease than In permitting them
to go unexamined," ls the only sane view
that can be taken of the matter.
TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS FOR A PLACE TO LIVE
You may go as far as you like, look at as many different desirable places
for locating in the City of Portland aa you like, you 11 not find as con
venient and reasonable a piece of property as you will right in IRVTNO
TON PARE. The streets are all cleared; although they are not yet
graded, they soon will be; there's city water at an excellent pressure;
there's streetcar service to the center of downtown in 20 minutes; there
is a building restriction to safeguard you against shacks and shanties;
there is a magnificent 15-year-old growth of shrubbery, ready for training
for your yard; and, TO CAP THE CLIMAX, you can purchase one of
these lots for $20 CASH AND $10 A MONTH." You save enough money
on the lot, in the first place, to make the first payment on a new home,
and the payments are so small that you ought to be able to CARRY
ALMOST A QUARTER OF A BLOCK. Think what that will mean for
you a couple of years from now.
TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS FOR A PLACE TO LIVE
CO.
Take Alberta Street car
at 2nd & Washington to
end of line and walk
three block north
iplAlllUjPueflM
IliilillilWlillllUUISl
ade Good
And then, cul bono? No germs might be
found when the examinations are made.
Tet In a day or a week, a school might be
infested with them. It would seem that no
advantage and a great deal of humiliation
would be the only results of this fad. If car
ried to Its fulfillment. By all means, the
authorities should investigate the sanitary
condition of the schools some of them need
Investigation badly but abandon the per
sonal features. , PARENT.
F. E. SCHWAN
EAST 33th & KILLINGSWORTH
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