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man Swearingen last October, was found
guilty. Hendricks is looked upon as
being a bad man; In fact, during the trial
he sat in the courtroom without showing
the least tremor or nervousness. He has
served time not only in the Oregon peni
tentiary but also at San Quentin.
Ed Wetzel and Irwin Medley, two young
men who were induced to participate in
a Christmas debauch, pleaded guilty to
larceny from Stephen Beers and were
sentenced to one year in the peniten
tiary. Wetzel is comparatively a stranger
here but seemingly has led up to this
time a very good life. Medley, his com
panion, has been a resident of this county
for 18 years and has always borne a good
reputation.
Important Changes Made at
Corvallis at Request of
President Kerr.
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Young Men ot Moderate Moans- Can
Secure Training in Industrial
Arts Alter Leaving the
O'uiiimon Schools.
CORVALLIS, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.)
The Important changes of policy in
augurated by the board of regents for
the State Agricultural College were the
result of recommendations by President
Kerr. The plan is modeled to more
nearly fit the needs of Oregon along in
dustrial lines. The laws of Congress fix
the scope of the institution as including
agriculture, mechanic arts, commerce
and domestfc arts. The changed plan
completely removes the college from con
ilitt with the high schools. The sub
frcshman and freshman year were mainly
devoted to what was high school en
deavor. For them there Is substituted
under the new policy, industrial training
of elementary character. They will in
clude, besides necessary work in English
and kindred instruction, instruction in
agriculture, horticulture, dairying. Verer
nary science, steamtitting, plumbing and
other handicrafts, accounts and allied
work in commerce, and for the girls,
elemental Instruction in domestic arts.
This course will be complete in 'Itself,
and will be admirably adapted to stu
dents who cannot spare but a year or
two in college, and who will return to
the farm or shops much strengthened in
the senil-tcchnical phases of their various
vocations.
The freshman year in the new course
will plunge at once into the scientific
and technical phase of industry, along
whatever line the student may be en
, tercd. At the end of two years he will
be so advanced as to begin specialization
in such given line of endeavor as may
attract him for a life work. The output
of the institution will be much strength
ened in the way of technical preparation.
At the same time, the industrial au
vantages, instead of being farther re
moved than formerly, will be brought
two years nearer the rural schools and
rural people. It gives the farm boy or
city lad, who from poverty or otherwise
has reached 21 or upward, opportunity to
enter the institution and plunge at once
Into those handicrafts or agricultural
features of great value to him in his
particular calling" without attending a
high school which he could not afford,
and on account of his age, would not at
tend. Another change of policy inaugurated
was recommended by President Kerr,
acting under instruction from the board
at the July meeting last year, pertains
to the domestic arts department. This
iranch ot instruction is to be much
strenthencd In equipment and instruc
tion. The plan provides for a professor
of household economics, a professor on
domestic arts, and -four assistants, with
extension ot the. course both theoretic
ally and in the laboratories. It will be
made a leading feature in the institution.
Twenty-tive thousand dollars, available
from a state appropriation, was ordered
expended in the purchase of new equip
ment for the various departments. Of
this sum, $1AK goes for purchase of
material for the. electrical department,
in which the students, under direction of
the head of the department, will manu
facture equipment for. use in the labora
tory, which equipment completed will be
valued at $43uu. In the wood working
'.ioi a similar outlay of material will be
manufactured Into about W;.cO worth of
sl'op equipment by the students without
further cost to the college. The ap
pliances so made will include in the
electrical department, dynamos, trans
formers and motors, and in the iron
working department, turning lathes for
the wood working department.
Other lines In which the appropriation
will be expended, is for construction of
poultry houses, equipment for household
science, for agriculture and horticulture,
dairying, for the commercial course, r.nd
the other departments of the Institution.
Miss Helen Crawford resigned as in
structor in elocution, and her place will
be filled at the beginning of the next
college year. The expenditure Is to ue
made by a committee consisting of Presi
dent Kerr, Regents Cotton and Airs.
. Waldo.
A special meeting of the .board is to
bo held early in April to adopt the
courses of study eutlined in the changed
courses, and to transact other business.
PI T PARK BELOW THKEE CENTS
Kate Hearing Likely to Be Had Be
fore State Commission.
OL.YMPIA, Wash., Jan. IS. (Special.)
Enforcement by the State Railway Com
mission of a rule that In itself is not
of great general Importance threatens to
pave the way for a hearing before that
body on the question of reducing railroad
passenger rates to a uniform basis of
2'.i cents from the present rate of 3
cents per mile.
he Commission has adopted a rule that
where the ordinary fare between two
stations is less than 3 cents per mile, the
railways, -in collecting coupons from
mileage books, shall tear off only such
number as Is equivalent to the regular
one-way fare divided by three.
In meeting boat competition, and for
other reasons, the railroads between cer
tain stations have estabfished a fare of
!''. than 3 cents per mile. Between
Olympla and Seattle, for instance, the
straight fare is Jt.SO. while the actual
mlleace is 73. The man with the leoo
mile book heretofore has had 73 mileage
cnupgns torn off whenever he traveled
between the two cities. The Railroad Com
mission says the railroads must here
after tear off but 60. The man who
travels on mileage, which he purchases
at the rate of'j cents per mile, has
really been paying more than 3 cents per
mile between the cities named.
The railroad company will fight the
mileage book rule on the ground that the
Commission, in making it. is exceeding
its constitutional authority. On no other
ground can the railroad get a standing1
in court. .
Mr. Lawrence says the Commission will
bring the rule to an early test by filing
complaints asainst any railroad company
found to be violating it.
WILL AGAIN WEAK STRIPES
John Hendricks Found Guilty of
Shooting Police Officer.
GRANTS PASS. Or.. Jan. IS. fSrtecial.)
Josephine County's criminal docket is
pretty well threshed out for this term
of court. In most every Instance the
prosecuting attorney has obtained a con
viction, John Hendricks, who shot Police-
VOOKHEES WILLING TO RUN
Washington Democrats Will Nom
inate Him for Congress.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Jan. IS. (Spe
cial.) Charles S. Voorhees, who Avas
delegate to Congress when Washing
ton was a territory, wiil be the Demo
cratic nominee for Congress from this
district, if his Democratic, brethren
have their will. Miles Poindexter, now
County Judge; W. S. Luddcn, ex
Ind Office Receiver, and two other
Republicans, are willing- to make the
race on tne Republican ticket if Wes
ley Jones is sidetracked, and the
Democrats think they have a chance
with Voorhees to capture the district,
which has gone Democratic about as
often as otherwise.
Astoria School Finances.
ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.)
George P. Clark has completed the work
of experting the books 'and accounts of
the Astoria school department and his
report gives a statement of the resources
and liabilities, which shows that, while
the district has quite an indebtedness, it
is in a healthy financial condition when
its holdings are taken into consideration.
The resources are given as follows: Real
estate and buildings, $105,300; taxes due,
$225.02; cash on hand, $13,660.36: interest
coupons, $535; total, $119,720.38. The liabili
ties are as follows: Bonded indebtedness,
$71,000; interest bearing warrants, $19,000;
salaries due, $120S.o0; accrued interest,
$1372.49; miscellaneous claims, $1106.36;
owing on heating plant, $3613.50; total in
debtedness, $97,401. 35: excess of resources
over liabilities, $22,319.03. In computing the
resources of the district, no account was
taken of the furniture and fixtures or of
the libraries in the several schools. The
valuations of the real estate and build
ings are segregated as follows: Taylor
school, lots, $2000; building, $28,000. Mc
Clure school, lots, $S0O0; building, $20,000.
Shively school, lots, $7000; lots on Irving
avenue, $12,000; building, $5000. Adair
school, lots, $5500; building, $15,000. Alder
brook school, lots, $8000; building, $5000.
Total, $105,300.
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FOREMAN DESCENDS GREAT
DEPTH IN ALPHA SHAFT.
News of Mother's Death Reported to
Have Crazed Onej of En
tombed Men.
ELY, Nev., Jan. 18. Lata last night
solid ground was reached in the Alpha
shaft, in which three miners have been
entombed since December 4. Timbers
which had fallen from above were
wedged" in the shaft, holding back the
debris and leaving an opening large
enough for the rescuers to crawl through.
They descended on a ladder 760 feet below
the mouth of the shaft. The ladder broke
and this prevented- further exploration.
This afternoon Mine Foreman McAfee
descended to within 30 feet of the 1000-foot
level, where he found solid ground. He is
confident now that he will have the men
out within 36 hours. It is rumored that
one of the entombed men has lost his
mind, the causae being the receipt of a
letter announcing the death of his
mother. The officials at the mine refuse
to give any information on the subject.
PERCY CHURCH BEHIND BARS
Man Wanted In Salem for Highway
Robbery Held in Taeoma.
TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 18. (Special.)
Percy Church, an ex-convict, and known
to the police of Coast cities as a
desperate highwayman, is in Jail here and
must return to Salem, Or., to answer to
the charge of highway robbery, com
mitted there on August 8. 1907. Church
was arrested on suspicion early this week
by city detectives, who deemed him a
dangerous man to be at large.
Today the police received a telegram
from Sheriff Culver, 'of Marion County,
giving an accurate description of Chnrch,
naming him as the man who attempted
to rob D. A. Smith, of Polk County, Or.,
on the night of August 8. Chief of Police
Maloney says every Identification mark
tallies and other material circumstances
will make his conviction sure. Sheriff
Culver will arrive Monday for the
prisoner.
Several years ago Churah was sent to
Walla Walla for a term for a brutal as
sault upon a tman at Seattle.
Debating Series Narrows.
ALBANY, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.) The
contest for the championship of the Cen
tral Oregon district in the state high
school debating series now rests between
two Linn County teams, representing the
high schools of Lebanon and Browns-
TknrlA et thnao office Bra alotal
(fit the victories, particularly because
their teams 'have defeated " the much
larger- schools of Salem, Eugene . and
Albany.
Gives Up Subsidy Contract.
VANCOUVER, B. C. Jan. 18. A spe
cial dispatch from Ottawa says:
The New Zealand Union Steamship
Company, which had the contract with
the Dominion Government for the sub
sidy for a steamship service between
Vancouver and Australia, has returned
the contract unsigned. The contract
expired last August, so that Canada
is not paying any subsidy at present.
Aberdeen Shipping.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. rs. (Spe
cial.) The steamship Lindsey. pur
chased at Chicago by the fiupert
Steamship Company, of this city, and
which carried coal from Buffalo to
San Francisco, is on her way here.
The strike of the longshoremen
working on the steamer Svea and
schooner A. B. Johnson, has been called
off.
Wheat Ships From Tacoma.
TACOMA. Jan. IS The British tramp
steamer Riverdale and French ship Ber
cngere left port tocy carrying wheat
valued at $3.6.000. The Riverdale has 212.
BoS bushels anfl the ship 123.760. The lat
ter Is liound direct to Runcorn. England,
while the Riverdale is carrying the first
grain cargo dispatched to Algoa Bay
from Tacoma this, season.
Have Not Heard of, Contest.
STOCKTON. Cal.. J?n. 18. Stockton
relatives of the late Mrs. Bradley, of
Peoria. III., know nothing of the re
ported contest of her will, and one of
J Every day our. new adver
tisement gives opportunities
for the wide-awake couple to
save money in buying cloth
ing for man and boy.
tf Coupled with our cut price
is the satisfaction of know
ing that our clothing is first
class. Watch for our big Shoe
and Hat specials tomorrow.
CLOTH1MG CO
GusKuhnProp'
166-168 Third Street.
them said tonight that the matter had
not been discussed. They do not know
the provisions of the will and have only
the press report news of the disposition
of her property. It is not believed here
that they will make any contest.
McMinnville Defeats Forest ' Grove.
M'MINNVILLE, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.)
McMinnville College basketball team
defeated Pacific University tonight by a
score of. 28 to 20. The game was hotly
contested by both sides, and was wit
nessed by a large crowd.
Body Washed Onto the Beach.
ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 18. (Special.) The
body of a man was found this afternoon
on the ocean beach a short .distance from
the jetty, but it has not yet been identi
fied. Coroner Pohl will leave tomorrow
morning to take charge of' the remains.
Dr. Rowland Very III.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.) Dr. L.
L. Rowland, for a, number of years super
intendent of the State Insane Asylum, is
ill with dropsy, and chances for his re
covery are very slight.
JUST MUST SLAP SOMEONE
Pat Callahan, Pendleton Rounder,
Meets With Trouble.
PENDLETON, Or., Jan. 18. (Spe
cial.) Pendleton has a "Pat the Slap
per." For several days Pat Callahan has
been confined in the County Jail on a
charge of insanity. Doubt existed as
to his eligibility to a commitment to
the asylum, so a consideration of his
case has been postponed. Yesterday
he was given an examination and
standing the test well he was released
on condition that he give the booze
joints a wide berth, and steer his
course In the straight and narrow
path.
He kept his promise as Ion? as he
was in sight of the Courthouse, and
no longer. Pat's past reputation as a
successful hunter of trouble Is well'
known, so when he lost sight of the
Courthouse he directed his steps to
ward the restricted district where he
struck one of the women for the loan
of a dime with which to wet his
parched lips. Upon being denied his
request, he promptly slapped her face.
From there he made his way to a
Main-street saloon. Entering the door
he saw two men standing at the bar,
relieving two schooners of their con
tents. Crowding in between the two
drinkers, he pushed one of them back
and slapped the other's face.
It suddenly became too- Interesting
for him there, and he made his get
away through the back door, closely
followed by the police. Pat Is some
what of a sprinter as well as a slap
per and it took- several hours to round
him up.
Heretofore he has been known as
Callahan, the fighter, his slapping pro
clivities having evidently developed
during his recent incarceration.
HARNEY COUNTY EXPENSES
Taxpayers Complain That the State
Burden Is Excessive.
BURNS, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.) The
expenditures of Harney County for. all
purposes for 1907 were less by about W500
than for 1906 as shown by the following
report of the County Clerk made to the
Secretary of State. This is one of the
counties which makes Its report com
plete, leaving out no items for the pur
pose of getting an advantage in the ap
portionment of state taxes, according to
the method which was expected to be the
basis for such apportionment before now
but which has been laid aside until 1912.
Harney County is now paying a burden
some share of state revenues in com
parison with other counties. The items
of expense for 1907 are:
County Court and Commissioner. .$ 1.SW.00
Circuit Court 2.077. 53
Justices' Courts 273.85
Sheriffs office 3.400.00
Clerks office 3.4O0.00
Treasurer's office 700.00
Coroner's office 117.P0
School Superintendent's office l.OT.o.03
fctot-k Inspector r.U!.!
Assessor's office l,ft.S.OO
Assessment and collection of taxes lOii.OO
T.rx rebate . . . .' 185.97
Current expenses v 73.47
Courthouse expenses i 1.941.15
Jail v B2H.33
Poor, care of 2.018.SU
Election expense 172-15
Roadmasters' salary 2."(M.00
Countv High School 4.271.41
Harney county Fair 730.06
Total, except highways $28,778.51
Roads and highways 2.022.33
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Total for 1906 -..$33,373.00
White Girl Slave or Chinese.
PITTSBURG. Jan. 18. Florence Living
stone, 16 years of age. who was captured
in a raid on a house In the Chinee quar
ters of this city, says she was kidnaped
from her parents in Cincinnati when 9
years old and had been since held by
Chinese as a slave, frequently passing
from one Chinaman to another in differ
ent parts of the country. She says she
finally forgot even the name of the street
en which she lived. She could tell the'"po
lice nothing about her parents. She now
speaks Chinese fluently.
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Salem Executive Routs. Gamb
ling Joint Single-Handed.
SURPRISE IS COMPLETE
News Spreads Rapidly Over Capital
City, and There Is Sciirving to
Cover No Arrest Made, hut
the Iid Is Tightened.
SALEM. Or., Jan. 18. (Special.) Mayor
Rodgers created a sensation In local sport
ing circles tonight by conducting a raid
on a gambling joint all by himself. No
arrests wrere made and no warrants will
be Issued, but the Mayor has, to all ap
pearances, put the lid on so far as gam
bling is concerned.
The place raided tonight is in the rear
of a cigar store conducted by Charles
Pillett on State street, next" door to the
Frank Collins saloon. Rodgers had been
informed that gambling was going on
there, so he went to investigate. He
found the front door of the cigar store
closed and locked as though for the
night, although It was only 9 o'clock. He
could find no way to reach the back door
until It occurred to ' him to go through
the saloon. By doing so he. gained ready
entrance to the card room, where he
found several poker games in progress.
After watching the games a few moments,
the Mayor had a confidential talk with
the proprietor In which he quietly but
none the less emphatically told him that
the place must close and stay closed, and
that no establishments of the kind will
be permitted hereafter.
Within a few moments the news spread
to every place in the city where games
are conducted, and there was a scurry for
cover. Proprietors of card rooms were
soon seen in consultation and the long
faces they wore left no doubt they know
the Mayor ts in earnest.
Later In the evening Chief of Police
Gibson stood in the Opera cigar store in
the Klinger block, also on State street,
and watched the proprietor, a Japanese,
shake dice with a 16-year-old boy. The
Jap lost, and paid the loss by banding
the boy a package of cigarettes. Gibson
promptly arrested the proprietor on two
charges, that of shaking dice with a
minor and giving cigarettes to a minor.
This is the first step In a crusade Mayor
Rodgers has begun against the evil prac
tice of selling or giving cigarettes or
other forms of tobacco to minors. It is
understood that under a city ordinance
boys who are found with cigarettes in
their possession will be arrested and
prosecuted.
FACE BATTERED IN JAIL
Wealthy Pendleton Man Runs
Amuck With Indian Prisoner.
MAYOR IKES Hi
PENDLETON, Or., .Jan. 18- (Special.)
As the result of a desperate fight in the
city jail last night. Jack Brown, a well-to-do
and. prominent hidebuyer of this
city, is carrying his head in a s-llng.
While Brown has several thousand dol
lars to his credit in the bank, he has a
weakness for strong drink and frequent
ly has to be Jocked up and given an op
portunity to sober off.
Yesterday he was locked up early in the
evening. Later an Indian was also put in
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$15.00 Overcoats now. . . $9.85
$10.00 Overcoats now . . . $6.35
$8.50 Overcoat3 now. . . $5.35
$5.00 Overcoats now. . ... $3.50
$3.95 Ov'ercoats.now. . .' $2.50
Boys' Sweaters
$1.00 Sweaters now 790
$1.50 Sweaters now $1.15
$2.00 Sweaters now.. $1.65
$2.50 Sweaters now. . . . . .$1.95
$25.00 Coats
$15.00 Coats
with him, both being charged with being
drunk and disorderly. Aggrieved at being
in the same jail with an Indian, Brown
started in to give the redman a thrash
ing. He succeeded, the noble brave being
knocked down and out.
But when he regained consciousness the
slwash was a sober man and he came at
Brown like -the proverbial mad bull. He
quickly floored the' dealer in hides, and,
jumping on his head with his boots, at
tempted to stamp it off. He did not suc
ceed to the fullest extent, but he cer
tainly spoiled the good looks of Mr.
Brown, who is now wearln an Injured
face as well as air.
STOLE $200,000 IN LONDON
Two Men Extradited From Califor
nia on Serious Charge.
MERCED. Cal.. Jan. IS. It is reported
here that on last Sunday a Scotland Yard
detective arrested in this city two men
who are accused of having committed a
$200,000 jewelry robbery In London nearly
five years ago. The accused men, it is
said, .waived extradition and expressed a
willingness to return to London at once.
It Is further reported that the detective
and his. prisoners left for New York
Sunday night on the Santa Fe Overland.
The story did not become public until
yesterday. The city officials say that
two men were arrested and taken away,
but they are unable to give. any names
or furnish any further information, and
as a result, a verification of the story
cannot be obtained.
According to the story told, four years
ago last April the home of a weaithy
resident of London, England, was robbed
of jewelry valued at $200,000. Simultane
ously the groom and butler employed in
the house disappeared. The detectives
of Scotland Yard traced the men around
the world.
' Will Discuss Female Smokers.
NEW YORK, Jan. 18. If there is
anyone. in New York who is willing to
come to the defense of women who de
sire to smoke in public restaurants, be
or she, will have an opportunity to be
heard on Monday when the committee
on laws and legislation of the Board of
Aldermen will give a public hearing on
the ordinance introduced by. Alderman
Sullivan making it a misdemeanor for
restaurant or hotel keepers to allow
wft-nen to smoke in nubile rooms. The
Eri9p
Seventy-seren
for Colds and
"Grip victims should go to bed and
save their vitality," say the Doctors.
This is all very well for the rich,
but how about the wage-earner f
Grip victims can keep on about their
business if they take Humphreys.'
Seventy-seven at once. Seventy-seven
not alone cures Grip, but its tonicity
Eustains the vitality, and the exhaus
tion and weakness are eliminated.
All Druggists sell "77," most Drug
gists recommend it. 23c.
Humnbreys' Homeo. Medicine Co.. Cor.
William and John Streets, New York.
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Ladies' and Misses' Man-Tailored Coats at
Special Prices
now... . $16.85
now. .$10.35
$20.00
$10.50
MOTHERS WILL MAKE GREAT SAVINGS BY
COMING HERE
ordinance is the result of the recent ac
tion of several Broadway restaurants
In removing the ban on woman smok
ing in the public dining-rooms.
It is stated that a number of minis
ters will appear at the meeting in favor
of the passage of the ordinance.
Turn Camera on Policemen.
NEW YORK. Jan-18. Orders to photo
graph the members of the entire police
department of the city were today issued
by Police Commissioner Bingham. A com
plete photographic record of the force is
desired for convenience in identifying
patrolmen against whom complaints may
be lodged. Another order issued today
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leaves of absence, will have the effect
of keeping up the numerical strength of
the force during the Summer months,
when the Commissioner believes more
men are needed to protect the empty
residences of wealthy New Yorkers as
well as to deal with a possible recurrence
of the "crime epidemic of last Summer."
Philippine Delegates Arrive.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18. Benito Le
garda and Pablo Ocampo, delegates to
Congress from the Philippines, have ar
rived here", en route to Washington.
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few days before proceeding.
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