THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST
1908.
BOY
MURDERER
IS
RELEASED Oil BAIL
Bonds of $5000
as Security
son C.
Are Deposited
for Jack-Reid.
WILL HAVE JURY TRIAL
Case Will Go Over Inlil September,
When It Will Be Heard by
Second Juvenile Court
Jury Kver Called.
Jackson C. Reid. the young boy who
shot and killed George F. DcMars at
Guilds Lake Wednesday evening, was
released from the County Jail on 15000
ball at 10:15 o'clock last night. Bonds
In the sum of 110.000 were raised, leaving-
an excess bond of $5000. The
bond was given by H. V. Held. Thomas
N. Fltchard. D. Kuratll. G. 8. Held. R.
A. Reid and R. R- Held, after Attorney
Easterley had put In more than three
hours of the evening In an effort to
find one of the Circuit Judges to ap
prove the sureties offered.
The bondsmen were as follows: Tavid
Kuratll. $1000: Thomas N. Fltchard,
$1000; H. Q. Rice. $S0i: Ralph R. Reid,
$500; Harry V. Reed, $1000; Adrian Mc
Calman. $100; G. H. Reid. $500;
and Lafe Pence. 50a0. Late In
the evening Judge Morrow was
found. He approved the bond and
aimed an order directing that the
youth be released from the County Jail.
Judge Gantenbein. of the Juvenile
Court, also certified to the release.
Jury Trial la Demanded.
Attorney C. M. Idleman, who will
defend young Reid. demanded yester
day afternoon that a Jury trial be
granted at the hearing in the Juvenile
Court. This has the effect of postpon
ing the hearing of the rase from to
morrow to early In September. The
reason Is that no Jury can be drawn
before September. There Is no Jury
now In attendance upon the court, and
there will be none until the September
panel reports on September 8. From
the regular September panel six Juror
will be drawn for the Reid hearing.
The questions the Jury wlll'try Is
whether the boy, because of the shoot
ing of PeMars. Is a delinquent child.
The Juvenile Court act provides that a
child must be adjudged delinquent be
fore he can be sentenced to the Reform
Fchool or remanded for investigation
by the grand Jury and trial In the Cir
cuit Court. If the Jury should find the
boy to be delinquent. It will then, lie In
Judga Gantenbein's discretion whether
he sentences him to the Reform School
or orders him tried before the Circuit
Court, as an older person accused of
crime would be. '
Friend Gives Boy's .Side.
This will be the second Jury trial ever
had in the Juvenile Court. Tlio first Jury
was summoned by Judge Frazer to de
termine whether V. A. Plingarland was a
proper person to have the custody of his
10-year-old stepdaughter, Edna.
Part of 3-oung Reid'e side of the case
was outlined yesterday afternoon by a
friend of the family, giving reasons why
the boy resorteij so readily to the re
volver. According to this friend's story,
Government Island has long been a ren
dezvous of hobos and other dangerous
characters, who made free with every
thing they found on the Island because
of its name.
When Lafe Pence bought it, ho stored
in tie building property of different kinds
s.ild to be worth as much as $12,000, and
owing to the depredations of the hobos
and others, employed a man named Burns
iiperlally to guard the building. Burns
found himself unable to cope with the
Ian-less persons, some of whom went so
far as to break In the door of the build
ing with railroad ties and help themselves
to the articles of value they found within.
Sohenip Hired as Guard.
Burns surrendered his position In dis
gust, and Pence then employed Schemp.
the Reid boys stepfather, to make his
home on the Island and guard the Gov
ernment building with its contents.
Schemp. it Is said, met with better suc
cess, though he occasionally found It
necessary to threaten certain Intruders
with a revolver In order to prevent the
buihiing from being robbed.
On the occasion of the visit of De Mars
to the Island, the shooting occurred at
the chicken-house, which is said to be
at least feet from Schemp's house, a
distance about equal to two city blocks.
Th hoy- slater had to go and return
the 4'0 feet when she was sent for the
revolver, which would take her four or
rive minutes, and during that time it ap
pears that De Slurs remained at the spot.
It will probably be contended on he
half of the boy that as he was there
alotva. except for the other children, and
the members of the fishing party were
trespassers, he acted under the belief
that he was protecting the property as
his stepfather had done, and that his
stepfather's action in threatening In
truders with the revolver suggested the
same plan to the lad.
ADLIt
GDTS
TESTIMONIAL
Chief of Police at Brunn, Austria,
Testifies as to Character.
Determined to prove that he is not an
anarchist. Adolf Adler. who is held at the
County Jail on a charge of attempting
to extort money from Sig Sichel. has se
cured from the Chief of Police at Brunn,
Austria, an affidavit as to Adler's char
acter when lie lived at Brunn. The af
fidavit from Chief of Police Josef Sojka
at Brunn, mndo July 11. follows:
We hereby state that you. during your
stay In Brunn as treasurer of the Sick
Benefit Association during the time from
September 1, 1S9T, to until November 6.
neither belonged to an anarchistic
xx-ifty nor any similar organization.
Neither have you been prosecuted for any
criminal action. This affidavit is made
for the purpose of allowing to the Ameri
can authorities.
Adler said yesterday afternoon that he
will fight the case to a finish, taking it
to the Supreme Court if necessary. He
said he had been a tool and hinted darkly
that Mr. Sichel knew more about the al
leged extortion that he does.
EQUAL- SHAKES FOR CHILDREN
Will of John F. Caples, Disposing
or $26,050. Admitted to Probate.
The will of John F. Caples was admit
ted to probate in the County Court yes
terday on the petition of Jennie Caples.
a daughter, who was appointed executrix
to act without bonds. Judge Caples'
will Is In his own handwriting, and was
mada in November. 1903. in the presence
of F- W. Mulkey and G. W. Allen, who
ign4 it as witnesses.
Property of the estimated value of
i 2.!.V Is to be divided equally among the
six children, according to the terms of
I the will. The children are Mrs. Carrie
Saylor. Miss Jennie Caples. Mrs. Meta
Matthiew, Mrs. Mollie Anthony, Mrs. Mag
gie Paget and Robert A. Caples. The
latter is given. In addition to his sixth
interest, the gold watch and chain and all
Masonic Jewelry and clothing of his
father. A bequest of S0 is made to Hen
ry L. Caples, a brother of the deceased,
and a like sum was given to Mrs. Elisa
beth Iongfellow. a sister, but she baa
died, and her bequest lapses.
Asks $5000 for Breach of Promise.
Five thousand dollars damages for
breach of promise is sought from Peter
Johnson by Mrs. Elizabeth Bock In a stilt
filed in the Circuit Court yesterday by
Mrs. Bock's attorneys. John H. Stevenson
and John F. Logan. Mrs. Bock alleges
that she became engaged to Johnson May
38 of this year, and that he now refuses
to marry her.
Holbrook Estate Worth $63,974.
T. T. Struble. W. H. Pope and S. W.
King, appraisers of the estate of Phllo
Holbrook, yesterday afternoon filed a re
port in the County Court showing that
the estate has property valued at 04,si.
The property consists of real estate In
Multnomah County valued at $63,000, and
tash to the amount of $3,4.
KIDNAPS WOULD-BE BRIBE
MOTHER PREVENTS WEDDING
BY STRONG ARM METHODS.
Takes Daughter From Morris, HI.,
to Chicago San Francisco
Professor Follow.
CHICAGO, Aug. 8. Nearly all of last
night a young college professor walked
the streets of Chicago In a frantic ef
fort to find the bride to be who had
been whisked away from him a few hours
before the time set for the wedding. In
the meantime the young woman in the
case Is supposed to be concealed in some
remyte corner of the city and held -a
prisoner by her mother.
Dr. F. F. Fitzgerald, professor of chem
istry at Cooper Institute, Pan Francisco
and chemist for the Northern Pacific
Railway, is the man who wa to have
been the groom.
Miss Ethel Ludwig. a graduate of Le
land Stanford University, and living at
Morris, 111.. Is the bride to have been.
The storm broke in Morris Thursday
when Dr. Fitzgerald alighted from a
train prepared to go to the home of his
Intended wife. Mrs. Ludwig had con
sented to the marriage, which was to
have taken place yesterday. But at the
train the young man was met by a Mrs.
Bray, aunt of Miss Ludwig, who told
him to board the next train and leave
Morrif. as the family had reconsidered
the marriage and had voted it down.
Refused permission to see Miss Lud
wig by her mother. Dr. Fitzgerald went
to a hotel, vowing that he would see his
Intended the following day. At midnight,
however. Mrs. Ludwig forcibly placed
her daughter in an automobile and spirit
ed her out of the city. Dr. Fitzgerald
was aroused, and within an hour was
on the trail of abductor and abducted.
He traced the party to Coal City, where
It was declared they had boarded a train
for Chicago. The pursuer boarded the
next train and reached the city a few
hours later.
On reaching Chicago Dr. Fitzgerald
hired detectives to make every effort to
find the young woman, declaring that
she va of age and that her mother had
no right to hold her a prisoner against
her will.
WKLL KNOWN IN BAY CITY
Young People First Met at Stanford
University.
BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. Miss Ethel
Ludwig. who was kidnaped at her home
in Morris, 111., to prevent her marriage to
Dr. Fltsgerald, is well known In uni
versity circles as well as Is the professor
to whom she is engaged. Miss Ludwig,'
who Is a striking blonde, came from the
T'nu-.pltv rt TlKnola and entered the
Stanford University in the Fall of 1906,
and graduated in May of this year.
Fitzgerald is a well-known student in
the physiology department of the uni
versity, and after his graduation become
an assistant Instructor In the Cooper
Medical College of this city.
Miss Ludwig and Fitzgerald were' much
in each other's company and It was often
rumored that their engagement would.be
announced.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
AVriter Says This law Governs Bar
bers' Charges to Customers.
PORTLAND. Aug. 4. (To the Editor.)
In today's Oregonian. a news report
mnkes public the action of a meeting
between the "Boss" Barbers' Associa
tion and the Journeyman Barbers
I'nion, wherein they agree to reduce
their scale of prices.
The prices that have been In vogue
throughout the best shops have proven
ruinous to business. The result has
been that a great many of the bar
bers' best customers have been doing
their own work, to avoid paying what
they consider an exhorbitant price.
Notwithstanding a depreciation in
trade, the employer who lias his money
Involved in his business must con
tinue to charge the scale, and pay the
wages prescribod by the union, or do
one of two things either shut up ahop
or declare himself free from the yoke
of the union.
This latter alternative has been the
step recently taken by some of the best
and finest shops In the city. Their own
ers have chosen to operate their busi
ness In accordance with public demand
rather than accept the dictation of
those who have not a dollar at stake,
and In many instances but a alight
know-edge of the business.
The unions' old method of a boycott,
to whip their victims into line, has
no longer any weight with public
sentiment and realizing this the union
boss barbers have acknowledged their
weakness by cutting down their own
prices. By this act, they think to
hoodwink the public Into a belief that
they had Intended to do this in a
short time anyway. But this Is but
another outrage to public intelligence.
Is it not reasonable to presume that
barber patrons will stay with the mert
who have dared to "come out from
among them." and run an open shop?
If they did not, and these shops were
again forced into the Jurisdiction of the
union, how long would It be until
the same condition again prevailed?
Tho law of supply and demand reg
ulates commercial conditions.
C. F. SUTTON.
PERS0NALMENT10N.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Ruddy and Mrs.
L. A. Drennen returned Friday from
Seaside.
Senator Levi Ankeny. of Washington,
and Mrs. Ankeny were guests at the
Portland yesterday.
Mr! and Mrs. W. J. Prendcrgast, of
S.-.5 Killingswortli avenue, Piedmont,
accompanied by their little son and
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Cares for estates under will,
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Nearly four millions trusts
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daughter, left on Friday for a visit to
relatives in St. Paul and other Eastern
points.
Hon. A. W. Carter, of Honolulu, one
of the prominent residents of the Island
capital, arrived In Portland yesterday.
A. D. Carlton, assistant general passen
fcr agent of the Northern Pacific, has
gone to San Francisco on a business trip.
Mrs. Frances Reid went to Disston, east
of Cottage Grove, for her Summer vacs
tion, and will spend the season with her
son. Roy Reid. and his ramily, ot ii.ugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Little re
turned last week from CenterVille,
where they were the guests of Mrs.
Robert S. Farrelll for the past three
weeks.
Marsh Merwin, postmaster at Indepen
dence, and wife, after spending a delight
ful week with Mr. Merwin's sister, Mrs.
Isaac Vanduyn, at Seaview. left for noma
yesterday.
Theodore Hlldebrandt, a German tour
ist, registered at tho Portland yesterday.
He expects to visit In Portland for sev
eral days and make comparisons with
his home city of Berlin.
Marco II. Hellman. vice-president and
cashier of the Merchants' National Bank.
of Los Angeles, with Mrs. Hellman are
registered at the Portland. They are
making a tour of the North Pacific
Coast cities and will remain here for a
few days. Mr. Hellman belongs to
family of bankers. I. W. Hellman having
been for years an officer In two of tha
leading banks of San Francisco.
CITY PARK BAND CONCERT
JJe Caprio Will Play "McKlnley's
Funeral March" This Afternoon.
The band concert season la drawing to
a close and there will be only one mora
week of music in the parks. For the con
cert this afternoon 8ignor DeCaprio has
prepared a programme calculated to suit
all tastes. By request he will produce
his own composition, "McKlnley's Fune
ral March," written for the great Port
land memorial service held on Multno
mah field on the day of McKlnley's fu
neral In September, 1901. Tha composi
tion Is In a minor key, and breathes the
sadness of the occasion. Tha melody is
well sustained throughout and the har
monic quality of tha piece Is notable.
The programme in full follows:
March, "Lov. Is King" Innea
Walts. "Th. Klower of Italy".. Da Btefano
Overture. "Siege of Corinth" Rossini
"McKlnley's puneral March' (by request)
De Caprio
Orand selection, "II Templarlo" Nicolat
(IntermlBBion.)
Five Hungarian Dances G. Sarakowskl
No. 1. Hungarian nance, AUtto ins
tflnuto; No. 2. Polish dance, Modto;
No. a. SpanUli dance. Alluo, Coq IRpIr
ito; No. 4, .Slavonic dance, Alio 8cher
sando; No. 5, German dance. Alio Rlso
luto. Paraphrase. "Lorley" Nesvarba
"The Charge of the Hussars" Splndler
Grand selection. "I Promise Sposl"
PonrhlellO
"Portland March" Paiaclos
A. De Caprio. Director.
BOY OF 16 MAKES RESCUE
Plunges Into Water and Su,vcs 10-Vcar-Old
From Drowning.
TACOMA. Wash., Aug. (Special;)
Howard Gregory, a 16-year-old boy,
made a heroic rescue of A. Harley Gar
rison, in years old, at American Lake
yesterday.
Gregory was In his cottage when he
heard the crp of "Help.'" and, running
to tha beach, he saw a boy about 150
feet from the shore who had got be
yond his depth and was drowning.
Young Gregory plunged In without
waiting even to remove his shoes and
succeeded in reaching the boy Just as
he was going down for the third tlma
and brought him safely to shore.
Young Gregory was modest m' talk
ing about tha Incident, but it was taken
up by the neighbors, who could not
say enough in praise of tha herolo
action.
TAXPAYERS F0RM LEAGUE
Slake Demand on Lewi County for
Kxperting of Official Records.
CHEHAL1S. Wash., Aug. S. (Special.)
A meeting was held this afternoon in Citl-
sens Club rooms by soma of tha interested
taxpayers of Lewis County, for the pur
pose of perfecting the organization of a
taxpayers' league. T. J. Long was chosen
permanent chairman and James R, Som-.
erviile, secretary. An executive commit
tee of six was appointed to go before tha
commissioners and urge them to have
the books of tha county experted. An
other meeting will be held In Chehalis
next Saturday at 1:30.
Falls From Top of Train; May Die.
SALEM. Or.. Aug. . In attempting ta
steal a ride on the first section ot tha
early morning Southern Pacific Overland,
Northbound. No. 16. which passed
through this city about 6 o'clock this
morning, a young man whose name is
supposed to be M. Craig, was knocked
off the top of a passenger coach by a trol.
ley wire and fell to the ground, suffering
Injuries from which he cannot recover.
He is now lying in the Salem hospital
with concussion of the brain.
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AUTOMATIC FOR ASTORIA
City Will Have Competition in Tele
phone Business.
ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 8. (Special.) As
toria, will within a short time be the only
city in the state outside ot Portland to
have an automatic telephone system. At
the meeting- or the Council last evening- a
franchise for the plant wbs granted 10
h Northwestern Liong Distance Tele
phone Company, and in accordance with
the plan the Astoria Automatic Telephone
Company was incorporated nere toaay
with a. capital stock of 1100.000. and with
George K. Waggoner, J. H. Whyte and
G. C. Fulton as Incorporators.
The company Is compelled to mase a
deposit of $2500 In cash as a Kuaranty
that the plant will be completed within
seven months and Mr. Waggoner says
work will be commenced at once, not only
on tha installation of the local plant but
also on the construction of a long dis
tance line between here and Portland.
Tha company plans to erect a building
of its own, and says it will expend about
1160,000 for labor and material. The Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph Company,
which now Jiaa a plant here, announces
to the public that it will also erect a new
building Immediately, and will make im
provements bringing Its ' system up to
date.
Washington Pioneer Dies.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. S. (Special.)
Michael 8. Drew, for 53 years a resident
of Washington, died this week at his
residence in this city. Born at Machlas,
Me., WT. he sailed around the Horn
from New York in 1855. settling In Port
Gamble. In 1867 he married at Turn
water. Miss Isabella Biles, herself a pio
neer of the state. Mr. Drew was presi
dent of the W. C. Benedict Lumber Company.
RECKLESS AUTO DRIVING
Machine Going SO - Miles Hour
Causes Runaway at Shedds.
ALBANY, Or., Aug. 8. (Special.)
A large touring automobile, north
bound, which pased through Shedds
yesterday at 30 miles an hour, regard
less of state laws or municipal ordi
nances, caused the wrecking of the
buggy of John Miller and the slight
Injury of the horse. The horse was
tied to a hitching post. On seeing the
rapidly-approaching car, the horse be
came frightened and. breaking his hal
ter, wheeled about, upsetting and
smashing the buggy.
On seeing the approaching auto, Mr.
Miller signaled the driver to stop, but
he gave no heed. Peeing the result of
his reckless driving, he increased his
wpeed. although hailed and requested to
stop. Requests to arrest them were
phoned to Albany, but after a brief
atop here they passed on north. The
car is No. 765, Ore., and 15083 Cal.
Pioneer Castle Rock Merchant.
CASTLE ROCK, Wash., Aug. 8.
(Special.) Ira C. Conger, the piont-er
merchant of this city, died yesterday
from a complication of disoaf
brought on by old age. Mr. Conger
would have been 81 years old the 1S(!
of this month. He established a storo
at this place before there was a.toyn
here, and continued in business ever
sines. He was noted all over tills re
gion for his good nature and ruggfrt
honesty. He leaves a son, Kclsey Con
ger, of this city, and two daughters,
besides numerous grandchildren and a
host of warm friends.
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