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ID THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. JUNE 21,' 1905. DECIDE MOTION FOR DISMISSAL Judge Wolverton to Pass Upon Indictment of Land Office Receiver Booth. JURY TO REPORT FOR DUTY Arguments to Dismiss Indictment Argued arid Decision Is Reserved Till . Tomorrow Judge Hunt Denied Motion Once Before. At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternono United States Judge Wolverton will decide the motion for a dismissal at the Indict ment against J. H. Booth, ex-receiver of the Roseburg Land Office. Booth is charged with accepting a bribe while In the Government's employ. If the motion la denied, a similar motion previously having been refused by Judge Hunt, the trial of Booth will be taken up in the United States Court immediately, having bwn set for Monday, June 22. The reg ular venire of Jurymen has been sum moned to report for service tomorrow afternoon, when the pending Oregon land-fraud cases are scheduled to be taken up for trial. The indictment against Booth is the (list case to be tried. The motion to dismiss the Indictment against Booth was argutd yesterday be fore Judge Wolverton by Judge L. R. Webster, counsel for Booth, who. in the probable trial of the case, will be as sisted by D. J. Malarkey, of this city, and A. C. Woodcock, of Eugene. At the argument yesterday Judge Tracy C. Becker, special assistant to the United States Attorney-General, appeared for 'the Government. Statute That Convicted Mitchell. Booth was Indicted under Section 1872 of the Federal statutes, the same section under which Senators Mitchell, of this state, and Burton, of Kansas, were con victed. This section prohibits a Gov ernment officer from receiving or agree ing to receive compensation for services rendered or to be rendered in relation to any proceeding or matter in which the United States is a party or is indirectly or directly interested before any depart ment, bureau or office. The indictment charges that Booth, as receiver of the Land Office at Roseburg. agreed to give advance information to F. A. Ivrios that the Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington had decided that certain lands from time to time were open to settlement. In advance of giving his information to other persons. Counsel for Booth contended that, in asmuch as the decision of the Commis sioner of the General Land Office was complete when it was rendered and might have been and probably was telegraphed or brought to the notice of the public or private individuals, nothing remained to be done at the local Land Office by Booth before this information might be given out. Decision Is Reserved. It was further contended by the de fense that the service, if rendered, was rendered in his own office and before himself, whereas the statute contemplates service rendered before some other- de partment or office and intended to in fluence its action. Judge Becker, for the Government, maintained that all matters relating to lands In the Roseburg district had to pass through the Roseburg Iand Office, and that the decisions and filing of the Gen eral Land Office were not finally effec tual until thvy were communicated to the officer of the local Land Office and entered on his hooks when the lands in volved should te thrown open to all of the public alike. That in giving special Information to any individual on any sub ject thajt was still pending in his office. Booth violated the statute. Judge Becker pointed out. and that the same questions raised by the defense at this time had been presented to Judge Hunt, who had decided that they were not . available. Judge Wolverton reserved his uccision on the motion until 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. ' EIGHT MEX AltE INDICTED Federal Grand Jury Finishes Work and Is Discharged. Eight additional indictments, charging miscellaneous offenses against the Gov ernment, were Included In the final re port to United States Judge Wolverton by 'the Federal grand jury, which was discharged yesterday. The members of the jury were in cession 27 days, exam ined about 26") witnesses and returned 2S Indictments. None of the eight indict ments returned yesterday was released for the reason that the various defend ants had not been apprehended. Bench warrants have been Issued for all of the defendants.- and when these have been served tlio Jdentity of the accused and the character of the charges that have been preferred will ba made known. While many of the Indictments have been withheld from publication, the in dictment of several prominent Umatilla citizens, including J. H. Raley and Will iam Slueher and a dozen others, on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Gov ernment out of about 30,000 acres of In dian lands In Umatilla County, Is be lieved to be the most important work ac complished by the jurors. There were the usual number of indictments charg ing improper uss of the United States malls. In excusing the jury Judge Wolver ton complimented tta members for their faithful and conscientious labors. The paet month also proved a strenuous one for United States Attorney McCourt and his assistant. Walter H. Evans, who pre sented to the Jury all of the evidence on which the indictments were returned. INDICT BAKER CITY BANKER J. II. Parker Charged With Perjury to Get Mining Claim. j. H. Parker, vice-president of the First National Bank, of Baker City, was among the persons indicted by tne Fedeial grand jury, which concluded its labors and adjourned yesterday. Parker was Indicted for perjury, al leged to have been committed in seek ing to ret possession of a valuable mining claim in Baker County. Fred Wunder, of that county, was the com plaining witness against Parker when the case was investigated by the grand jury. Wunder testified that Parker undertook to beat Wunder out of a promising mining claim, on which he had filed by swearing that there were no improvements on the claim as re quired by law. Wunder further charged that Parker afterwards filed on the land himself. Parker was arrested at Baker City and gave a bond for $3000 to insure his appearance for trial in the United States Court. PETER AS OBJECT LESSON Dr. Klley Holds Out' Hope to Church Backsliders." A large audience was present at the White Temple Friday night to hear Dr. Riley's sermon on "Peter or Portland Backsliders." Evangelistic services in June are very unusual but the attend ance is good and much Interest is being manifested. Under Malcom C. Martin's leadership, the large chorus choir is proving to be e. feature of the services. On Sunday. Dr. Riley will preach three times. At 10:30 A. M. on "Obedience and Its Blessing." at 3:30 P. M., at a young people's service, on "Mutual Confes sions," and. -at 7:45 P. M., on "A Fool Farmer." Last night he took for the basis of his sermon the incident of Peter following Christ afar off. He took occasion to say, by way of introduction, that Peter was a consolation to many men. Cowards are encouraged by the memory of Peter's recovery, the speaker said, and the more courageous are inspired by his greater enthusiasm. Continuing he said: Peter was out of communion ith Christ, tie was disappointed that Jesus would nut defend himself against hie encniw and in stead of going to the cross create a crown. No man knows whether his religion Is genu ine until he has suffered disappointment until his ways and the divine ways have parted. Then the man without Christianity will complain. The true christian wlli only say. "Thy will, not mine, be' donj." Being out of communion he fell into evil com pany. The crowd In the porch of the high priest was made up of the sort o people with whom an apostle should And no fellow ship. The old Scotch woman put it cor rectly when she said: "But Teter had nae business with the nunkej-a." Peter's third step was unto cowardice. Having once lost his hope in Jus. a little maid could sneer him into fear, and a second one could secure from him a denial of Christ. There are quite a few folks who. Peter-like, boast in the day of no battle and run when the fight is on. When such an Irish soldier was taken to account by his superior officer he answered. "I have as brave a heart as ever bate in the breast of Julius Caesar but me cowardly legs will run away with it." And yet just because Peter is a Christian, he is not iost Genuine repentance takes possession of him and God recovers him and makes him the great power of the Day of Pentecost and one of the greatest apostles in all -the cen turies. For backsliders there Is .hope. SPEAKS ON NEW LANGUAGE Professor McDonald Says Esperanto Is Becoming Firmly Established. At the regular meeting of the Academy of Sciences held last night in the City Hall. Professor Charlese J. McDonald de livered an address on the new language known as Esperanto. Professor McDonald, in his opening re marks, gave a brief sketch of Dr. Zamen hof. the inventor of the new language, and the circumstances under which he undertook to develop the same. The practicability of Esperanto .was shown by the fact that it Is now established in 40 nations. It was also shown that over a hundred magazines written in Esper anto are in circulation at the present time. In the United States alone there are over 60 clubs and societies of Es perantlsts. with Boston as headquarters. A National congress wiir-ln July of this year be held at Chautauqua. New York, and an International congress in Berlin in August. Professor McDonald expressed the be lief that the new language is destined to bring the nations of the earth Into closer relations and to lead them to rec ognize the common brotherhood of man. the common fatherhood of Uod. and, to a large extent, eradicate many of the absurd national prejudices which have been detrimental to the race. WOMAN . SCARES BURGLAR Meets Request for Money With Pointed Revolver. . T. A. Roots, who conducts a woodyard and resides at the southeast corner of East Forty-eighth street and Hawthorne avenue, reported last night at the police station what the police believe to be an attempt to hold up his wife, which was foiled by the- presence of mind and brav ery of Mrs. Roots, who, at the point of a revolver, bade the suspected robber go abqut his business. The affair hap pened while Mr. Roots was temporarily absent from the house. Through the screen the hold-up de manded 5 In change from Mrs. Roots in a very peremptory manner. Believing that the man was merely using this re quest as a pretext to see if sha had to and with a view to robbing her of It if she produced It, she procured ji revolver and with the muzzle pointed at the visitor, sent him off down the street at a run. He is described as about 24 years of age. smooth shaven, of about 6 feet 10 inches In height, of about 150 pounds- in weight and was dressed in a dark suit and a dark soft hat. The police are looking for him. Kx-Restaurant Man Arrested. G. W. Kerpensteln. who formerlv owned a little restaurant at Park and Morrison streets, but who of late has been an em ploye of the Kilham Stationery & Print ing Company, was arrested last night on a warrant sworn out before Judge Cam eron In the Municipal Court which charges liim with obtaining, money under false pretenses. Kerpensteln was locked up in the City Jail In default of $1300 bail. He was ' arrested on the complaint of Philip Winter, to whom he sold the restaurant a short time since and who alleges that Kerpensteln made some rep resentations regarding the restaurant at the time of the sale which afterwards proved to be untrue. The prisoner has been in this city but a short time and Is married. Missing Swamper Found. Jack Brennan. an ex-soldier, former ly employed as a swamper In the Nug get saloon, 104 North Sixth streec. which was robbed last Monday nlgh' was arrested on a warrant last night charging him witli the robbery of the place. Brennan was left In the sa loon by J. M. Welland. the proprietor, about midnight, while he went to his room upstairs in the building for a few moments. When he returned the cash register had been rifled of its contents, about $25. and Brennan was nowhere to be seen. The police had teen look ing for him all during the week. Last night he went Into Erlckson's saloon and Patrolman Klenlen saw him and took .him into custody. Must Repair Bridge Beam. The N'ickum & Kelly Sand Company must stand the expense of repairing the needle beam of the Madison-street bridge, which was broken at S o'clock Thursday night, when the Hustler crashed into it. This notice was sent to the company by the County Commissioners yesterday. The letter abates that Mr. NIckum was in charge of the boat at the time of the accident. JUST RECEIVED. White serge coats, worth J12, Mondar 7.95, at Le Palais Royal, 375 Washing ton st. WEI! OUT ON BAIL Fanatics Come to Rescue of Their Comrade. RELEASE THEN FOLLOWS Charges Will Be Pressed Against Special orricer Who Shot Two Youths at Campmecting Friday Sight. ; After the occurrence of Friday night. In which two young men were shot by A. C. Walker, followers of the Tongues of Fire, as preached by John Glasgow, a negro, bestirred themselves yesterday morning to devise means of rescuing their comrade, who is also a special offi cer. Walker had done the shooting the night before, wounding Stanley C. Ward and Otto Dunn. As a result of his In discretion, the pious policeman was In the City Jail in default of ball, awaiting trial on the charge of "assault with a dangerous weapon." It was persecution, the congregation said, and they declared his release must be secured at any cost. Glasgow an nounced that the goods and chattels of his fellow-fanatics must be sacrificed to procure the reletise of the defender of the faith. Meanwhile others from the Mount Ta bor campmeetlrg had gone down Into the city and appeared solicitously at police headquarters. They declared there that Mayor Lane had told them to shoot at any one who disturbed their meetings when he made them special officers. Mayor Lane declares that he told them merely to defend themselves and pre serve order. When the delegation from down town returned with the Information that Walkdr's release could be procured for the cash bond of JS00, there was great joy. Glasgow's dusky hand had alreaSy gathered that sum together, and the delegation was hurried back down town with that amount. So before 11 o'clock yesterday morning Walker had been released from custody, and. still bearing his badge as special officer, was on duty during the day and last night. To his people he is as a martyr and a hero. Young Ward and Dunn are under the care of a surgeon, who is earing for their wounds, and both will probably es cape serious results. However, it Is like ly that the prosecution of Walker will be vigorously conducted. Last night there were large crowds at the campmeeting. but no hostile demon strations occurred on the part of the spectators or the worshipers. BOASTS OF TENTH ARREST Chinese Gambler Not Perturbed at Being Taken Into Custody. Detectives Smith and Kay. assisted by Patrolman Kienlen, captured seven Chinese and two Japanese gamblers last night In a raid made upon 7 Sec ond street. The players were surprised In a small room on the mezzanine floor, which the gambling house pro prietor had erected between the first and second stories of the building. All of the players made a rush for the street, but were intercepted and taken to the police station. . Ah Lee, the dealer, who boasted that last night's arrest made the tenth for him within the past few months, was discovered trying to hide the stick and beans used in the fantan game In a secret place in the floor. The two Japs gave the names of T. Ne and Ka Wah. The pro prietor gave his own name. Ling Ortgr. and the other Chinese players all claimed to be relatives of the dealer and gave tb.e names of Ah .rim, Ah Ching, Ah Wong and Ah Gwan. PERSONALMENTION. H. M. MacGregor. traveling passenger agent for the Union Pacific at San Fran cisco, is spending a few days in Portland on business, . Misses Helen and Carrie Stever. of the Hill Hotel, will leave Portland today for a trip East. ' where they will visit their former home, returning in September. Cas A. Campbell, after playing the charity baseball game Saturday after noon, left for San Francisco, where he will spend his vacation. He will . be joined there by his brother George, who Is attending . college in California, and they will return together by steamer. Refuses All Charity. Report has been made to the' police of a case of unusual destitution in which a family living in a tent on the grounds of the Oregon Electric Company at the foot of Hooker street are existing under the most extraordinary circumstances and refuse all aid. The family consists of a mother ami four children, the. -eldest of whom is 10 years and the youngest 15 months. The woman will give no name. They are Anstrians. She says her hus band left, home twq weeks ago to look for w,ork and has not since been heard from. According to tier own statements made to a. police officer, . all aha arul the four children have, had to eat since last Monday has "been 10 cents' worth' of soda crackers. Some sympathetic person noticed that the woman was very much emaciated and sent a doctor to see her. and she refused to talk with him. Seeing their plight, people in the neighborhood offered to help them out, but the woman refused all charity and declined to ap ply to the charity authorities for assist ance. She says in broken English that her husband will return soon with plenty of money and lots to eat. In the mean time, they are starving, and the chil dren, dirty, unkempt, are dressed in rags. Detective Makes Arrest. -A fashionably dressed man. who gave the police the name of M. F. Collins, was arrested just outside the police station for disorderly conduct last night. He was put In the drunk cell and spent the night there. Collins was driven up to the station by a hackman, with whom he had a rather wordy con veisation about his bill. When Collins had paid the hackdrlver. he began act ing: in a disorderly and boisterous man ner and Detective Kay, who was look ing out of the police station, run out and arrested him. . Amateur Game Today. The All-Star and International Corre spondence School ball teams will play this morning at 8 o'clock at the corner of East Twelfth and East Davis streets. No admission will be charged and all fans are Invited to attend. Another Tribe for Mulai Hafld. TANGIER, June 20. The Djebua tribesmen, who occupy the territory around Tangier, have decided to recog nize Mulai Hafld aa the legitimate Sultan of Morocco. Select Your iano Now THE ONE HUNDRED PIANOS At Wholesale Prices Will Soon Be Gone A chance of a lifetime is staring you in the face. Think of it! New high-grade PIANOS AT WHOLESALE, the' same price that large dealers pay us. THIS IS A MATTER OF ONLY A FEW DAYS not a permanent proposition. A finer lot of pjauos never stood on one floor than the MASON & HAMLIN, WEGMAN, PEICE & TEEPLE, MILTON, and others of a world-wide reputation. ' BETTER COME RIGHT-NOW, before it is too late. 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Seven Thousand People Gather at Brownsville Officers or Asso ciation Are Elected. BROWNSVILXuH. Or.. June 20. (Spe cial.) Yesterday crosed another success ful and enjoyable reunion of the pioneers of Linn County. The 20th annual picnic brought many old settlers and their friends together. While the weather was disagreeable, the rain interfering somewhat with the arrangements for the three day's celebra tion, it apparently did not mar to any great extent the pleasure of the event, for the people came in great numbers from all over Unn County and from distant parts of the state, and even some from Washington, Idaho and California. The announcement of the dates for this annual celebration is a signal for the chil dren of the pioneers, who have left tha old homestead, and settled elsewhere, to prepare to visit the old folks at home, and many are the wrinkled faces that are brightened by the homecoming of the boys, and girls. ' - - The annual reunion of the pioneers of L.lnn County is the event in the Upper Willamette Valley, for a visit to Browns ville at this season of the year insures a pleasant time and a feast of good things. Wednesday, probably 3000 people at tended, and Thursday the crowd was between 7000 and 8000. Governor George K. Chamberlain delivered the annual ad dress. The other features of the pro gramme throughout the day were highly enjoyable. Friday, which is known as sons and daughters' day, brought another big crowd, but not so large as on tb previous day. Judge P. Harris, of Kugene, delivered the annual address. It was a masterly effort. Hon. W. A. Templeton was elected pres ident of the association for the ensuing year and W. T. Cochran, secretary. O. P. Cesbom, who has served the association as secretary almost continuously .since the organization, refused re-election be cause of poor health. To him credit Is given for the success that these gather ings have attained. Notable among the pioneers in at tendance were Captain James Blakley,' of Brownsville, the oldest person In Linn County, nearly 96 years of age and still hale and hearty, and Cyrus H. Walker, of Albany, born In Oregon in 1S38. FAITH AND . HEALING. Christian Scientist . Takes Dr. Lapham to Task for Criticism.- NEWPORT. Or., ; June IS. T6 the Editor.) I regret to read such ''rot" as Dr. Lapham has uttered in his pul pit, as argument against Christian Sci ence. He even claims to have, read "Science and Health." But has he? Mrs. Eddy a free-lover? For shame to hint at such a clilng. From "Marriage." In "Science and Health." let me give a few quotations for the enlightenment of some people: "Marriage is the legal and moral pro vision for generation among' human kind. Infidelity - to the mar riage covenant is the social scourge of all races, the pestilence that walketh In darkness' 'the destruction that wasteth at noonday.' The command ment, 'Thou Shalt not commit adultery' Is no less Imperative than the one, 'Thou shale not kill.' ' Chastity Is the cement of civilization and - progress. Without It there is no stability in so ciety, and without It one cannot at tain the Science of Life. Mat rimony should never be entered into without a full recognition of its endur ing obligations on both sides. The nuptial vow should never be annulled, so long as Its moral obligations are kept intact." This breathes purity and no hint of free love. Christian Science Is a mighty relig ious movement. Its followers are num bered by tens of thousands. Its church history Is comparatively clean. Its practitioners number millions of suf ferers as healed. Within the shadow of Portland a woman lives who was operated on by surgeons for cancer, and who was healed of this dread disease by a Christian Science practitioner. After three years she still counts her self as whole. Grippe and neuralgia have been healed in two days. Truly these followers have evidence of the righteousness of their cause, in that the fruits of their labors are to be seen. No one should deny the promises or fight a righteous cause until he, too, "can do the works," as promised to them who believe. 1. L. H. ! an to the action of thes jurom. I dstrs i.cu u . ii- nai'inpnis lociuoea in your issue of this mornlnc. HENRT M. WAGNER. On of th Jurors. Australia's largt rattle herd is that running on the Victoria River Station, northern territory. 3'iO miles south of Port T 'In It 'inh.ni A OOrt bf1 Believes AVallun Is Innocent. PORTI.AN-D. June 20. (To the Editor.) In The Oreponlan Issue of this morning you have an Ittm on tr. Jury In th CharVa W. Walton case. Just tried in the Circuit Court, and state "A the trsrtimony as to Walton's guilt naff overwhelming, his statement that he is innocent standing aione against not only th oath of at least Ave men. but thr polire icord of the money found on his person after his arrest. It was thought that the Jury would bring in a verdict of con viction. The Jurors are said fo have taken into consideration ihe three years which Wal ton served in the penitentiary after hi first trial and conviction, the fact that Policeman Ne'aon recovered from the gunshot woiaadit ir.nicted by Walton and that the money ato.en by Walton from the conductor was returned to the streetcar company. They are also said to have looked with favor on Us talent as a nvialcian and to have thought ha should be given a chance to reform." Now. I do not know where your reporter ol-tained this Information. He certainty did not from the testimony In the case, nor from the deliberations of the Jury, for there could not possibly be a more absolute miestatement of the f-iote and a greater perversion of the truth. For rot one of ther-i atatemeot Is true. The Jury, and not one of the Jury, entertained any such opinion as stated, nor did the Jury take Into consideration either one of them, bui the Jurrs who voted for the acquittal of the boy did so -solely on the ground that they did not believe the atory told by the witnesses for the atate. and thar ha was tha victim of circumstances mich aa ought to enlist the sympathy of every true minded person in the community: that he Is not the person who either robbed the con ductor on the car or shot the policeman, anl it was upon these grounds that the aix Jurors acted and caused thm to vote In the Interest of Justice for the acquittal of this oung man. In tha cause of what Is right and the truth LOOK HERE What Is tbe Matter With Your Face? Go look in the Glass Notice that pallid look in the skin, those dark rings under the eyes, see those wrinkles of trou ble clouding your countenance j-our mind is dull, you cannot concentrate your, mind as you ought, you get "blue" and de spondent, nervous, and don't sleep well at night, tired in the morning you ean see there is surely something the matter. IMPONDERO-THERAPY TREATMENT will correct that. COME AND SEE US. Office Honrs: 10 A, M. to 8 P. M. Impondero-Therapy Co. 608 Merchants Trust Building, Portland, Or.