The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, November 27, 1910, Page 10, Image 10

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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PniU'LAXD, NOVEMBER 27, 1010.
WOMAN. BELIEVED TO BE OLDEST ON PACIFIC COAST.
LNMATB Or HOME fOR AGED.
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OVER CENTURY OLD
RN1TURE
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Mrs. Mary G'Loure at Home
. for Aged, Is Thought to Be
Oldest on Coast.
EARLY LIFE DIM TO HER
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t-h Came to Portland Wlien Mctrop"
oil Site Was Wilderness and
Names John Meloughlln
Amnnf llm FVIend. Here.
BY t.VT.r MAE JOH.VCi'X.
Connected with th pM only by a
fain t f!lmmr of memory which flickers
and at time, threatens to ftn out. Msrv
O'Lour. oldest woman In Port'and and
prooabiy th oldest on the lMrlrt.- Coas.
an inmate of th Home for the Aged. t
patiently and clwerf'iliv a water. the end.
l.lcb. she will greet as tin; rr-l way
farer welcomes a r-
Mrs. G'Loure Is known to he i; years
f age, but a Frenchman who visited th
Home TrrrrtlT and t.'ked wttii the ener
hl woman says, according to incidents
which he remembers vasuely. e-.e In at
leit li and poibI older. Si Is of
m'.zti Canadian. French and Indian, and
raka broken Englls!:.
Sb hat no living relative, and her
friends art evidently ! dead, and she
rannot rmf mtwr t'.: dae of her bfrth.
Jir forreot in would b hard to aaoer-ti!n-
U t difficult for her to hrlr.j to
mind any event of her early llf. and
only at timea ran ehe b Induced to relate
her experience, which rht tella lni
connected manner difficult to understand.
Karly Lire Krcallrd.
A rear us In known. Mrs. G'Lure n
born near tha preent lta of Van
rouver. B. O. and came to Port
land when thl rountry waa a vast
wilder-nets. She namea cite after an
other of the acqua'ntancei of her early
life. rMef anion them belnit John Mo
IourMlu. ore cf Oregon' best-known
pioneers.
For many yearp rh worke-I In the
Hospital f-ir th Insane at 5-i!em. and
snys aha was oxik at one tune at t)io
Home for the Accd when It ai a ho
plt.L Thoarth her words are broken, her
nt;ncta Jerky, and. her tnlrd wnd-r-Ins;,
a vlnt with the aged pernn Is In
teresting. Wheti It waa explained to
her In French, which he undorstando
better than Rr.-'.leh. that someone was
her memory force, anl tried hard to MAN'S CASE IS WITH JURY
onng 10 mna soma lacwencs in nrr inv.
Mm G'Loure walks with a crutch. A
ar. la not paralysed and la not afflicted
with rheumaflwn. It la believed ehe met
with an accident. Bent and shrunken,
her eyea dim. her smile pWat-ant. the
aged worn An prevents a pathetic picture.
A small black shawl la rroeved on her
breast and a black and white cap entirely
corera her head.
"I am a very, very old woman." ahe
aald with a decided French tri'.l on the
r'a. -My girls died a long tlma ago. and
my boy. he die. yes. yea" Then
rocked bak and forth and crooned, tears)
trickling down her cheeks.
j liv-' '-c- A- -
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MR5. MARY" G'LOVRIS.
GIRL IS DEPORTED
Alleged White Slave Returned
to Canadian Home.
Jran Anderoii Sont Back to Family
In Victoria, B. C, 'WTilic Prlib
era tors 'WcIrIi Kvldcnoe
Against AI Xatlian.
Only Wlldcrnesa Sren.
"I came to Salem one houae. Aatoria
rci house Oregon hy wlldernesa. yes.
ye. Portland no city, all wilderness just
one log house at Brooklyn." flic con
tinued. I came to The Dalles on boat
long ttme ago. No house at Dalles; all
wlltjerness.'"
Then she lapsed Into silence and It re
quired much questioning In French to
bring br back to the subject.
Again and again iiie repeated. "Yes. I
knew lots of people John McLougtilln.
Captain WUey. Mlsa Black and Captain
Kelley. of police."
Then a sudden light came into her
face and aha gave a start.
"I saw women killed by Indians, lota
of them. Babies killed by Indians all
cut up." ahe mid as ahe drew her haud
across her breast.
In naming over her acquaintances, ahe
sema to take pride In saying: "All like
me. American ladies all like me and
good to me."
All love this interesting old woman.
Officials at the Home ear she has never
eaused them a moment' unnecessary
trouble, and baa always exhibited kind
ness toward all. 8he loves to tell of
how her daughters worked for the cause
of charity; of how one of them soM her
carriage to help the needy.
Cheat trr Forgotten.
She told of a man who, under the guitt?
of a pnest. officiated at her daughter's
fuaeral. charging the mother for hi
services. This duplicity linn left a last
ing Impression on Mr. G'Loure' mind,
and she tells of It with great concern,
putting great stress on the fact that be
was not a good man.
When she would tell something of her
I:fe. she would alwaya add over and over
again "a long time ago." and then- "I
im over 14) years old." Time and again
ihe would wire away tears from her
wrinkled cheeks. "Alt dead now.' she
would aay. "My children, my friends, and
I'll be glad to die and go to my God."
Since coming to the Home over a year
aaro, Mrs. G'Loure has not-been sick a
Bay. fche eats and aleer well, and panes
most of her time counting the rosary.
She yet has the French ahrug and when
a question la put which Is beyond her
ce-mprehension, she will answer with the
characteristic rise of the shoulders.
Jean Anderson, known In the prose
cution of Al Nathan aa llaset Morrison,
was deported from the I'nlted Ftates
yesterday. While the Jury was delib
erating on the futlt or Innocence of Al
Nathan. Astoria bartender. Federal au
thorities under the direction of Immi
gration Inspector Barbonr were hurry
ing the girl toward her home In Vlo
torla. B. C If she la again discovered
within the borders of the Vnlted States
ahe will be subject to a sentence ol
two years In the Federal prison.
The Jury returned a sealed verdict in
Nathan's caae and their decision will
be read tomorrow morning. The evi
dence waa submitted to the Jury yes
terday morning at 11:30 o'clock. After
three-quarters of an hour a verdict was
reached. The Jury was composed of
A. R. Sutherllnd. I. N. Klelschner. C. O.
Peck. J. K. Sears. J. M. Chapman. Her
man Metxger. W. A. Drury. J. M. Fr
ley. Homer Goulet. A. O. Held and W.
U. Holder. The Jury did not divulge
Its selection of a foreman.
While officers of the United Stales
Department of Justice and Immigration
Service officials hope that the verdict
now In the hands of the unknown fore
man Is a conviction, they aay the in
structions of United States Judge Wol
verton admitted a construction most
favorable to the defendant, and they
a possibility of Nathan
severest penalty of the
feel there Is
escaping the
law.
Judge Wolverton held that Jean An
derson, or Hazel Morrison, must have
submitted to tne will of Nathan when
she returned to tho I'nlted States after
visiting her mother and sisters In Can
ada. The girl testified that she came
of her own free will and that Nathan
had not contributed anything to pay
her passage. She said she had been a
resident of Astoria and had gone to
Canada on a visit, leaving her clothes
In Nathan's room, expecting to return
to him.
DETROIT MEN WANTED HERE
Albany Witnesses io to Michigan to
Give iAiid-Frand Testimony.
K. D. Cuslck. of Albany, and other
witnesses from the same district, are
en route to Detroit, Mich., where they
will appear before the United States
Court In support of an application of
the United States Attorney for tho re
moval of F. IV. GSlchrlMt and son, and
men named uorpan. Devine. cumgan
and McPherson to the Jurisdiction of
the Federal Court of Oregon to stand
trial for defrauding the United States
of timber lands In Linn County as al-
eged here.
The Indictment Is based on the old
ground of conspiracy to defraud the
United States by the use of dummies.
t waa returned In the incumbency of
iV. C. Bristol In the office of United
States District Attorney. An effort Is
being made to force the rase to trial.
It Is charged that Gilchrist and Culll-
gan were instrumental in locating a
number of land claims In the vicinity
of Prlnevllle and that before they
finished their operations approximately
25,000 acres were secured ttr capital
ists, who are said to have futnlthed the
money.
isSfej? A piece of good furniture makes
tojSj is not a commonplace erift. It is
'
an ideal gift,
beautiful and
It
al
ways useful. Moreover it lasts a lifetime and is a
constant reminder of the generosity and taste of the
giver. Our stocks are particularly rich in gift furni
ture, they include hundreds of handso me and distinctive
pieces covering every requirement and every price.
A few among our many Christmas
offerings are:
Easy Chairs
Tea Tables
Book Racks
Candle Sticks
Consol Tables
Glove Boxes
Cellarettes
Footstools
Work Tables
Book Cases
Fine Lamps
Mirrors
Jewel Boxes
Tea Wagons
. Rockers
Library Tables
Book Blocks j
Small Lamps
Pier Glasses
Cigarette Boxes
Jardiniere Stands
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You are invited to see our furniture before making your Christmas
purchases. Anything selected now will be held for delivery Dec. 24th.
FIFTH AND
STARK
J. G. MAC
K & CO.
FIFTH AND
STARK
Sent hi. School Kntertalned.
Miss Meta Buehner entertained the
children- of the sewing school of the Peo
ple's Institute, yesterday afternoon at
her home on East Fifty-fifth street and
Hawthorne avenue. Automobiles were
furnished to carry the children to the
party. Luncheon wns served, and chil
dren's games played. There were about
GO children present, including 1 boys
who study the art of sewing with the
little girls.
believe you are right, dear; or any
way. If It Isn't mud It has the con
sistency of It, and you are quite right
about the color. Mike, quite,
However, on big, vital things. Miss
Hlte has a mind all her own. ror
Instance, she thinks Marie Cahlll has
her beat a mile as a comedienne, and
Is never so happy as when she Is reel
Ing off conversation about the merits
and ability of any other actress than
herself. That is the keynote of her
entire being. She is absolutely unself
ish. v
For the most common mut who
over donned a vaudeville contract and
essayed to "comede." Miss Hlte has
only kind words and consideration.
"There's only one thing that I ever
saw her really sore about, said Mike
elegantly. "It's when some performer
steals her stuff. You see we don't play
the small towns, because they can't
pay our price, and these little per
formers see my wife act, and deliber
ately steal some of her lines or busi
ness. Then they spring it wherever
hey go, and wain Miss Hlte ant! I
come along lax-r in me oik nuts,
And that our ost stuff hH been nanded
out on some p'-'.xnus oc-a rn iy name
other at f-r. And It's all good origi
nal matter, too." he added energeti
cally, "llnea that Miss Hite lies Snake
o" nights to think up, and situations
she spends weeks planning out. There's
absolutely no redress, though."
Mabel smiled mischievously.
"Mike always wants to go and lick
their husbands. If there Is a husband
In the fold, but mama and I won't let
hira."
"Mama" doesn't belong In this Inter
view, but she should, by all rights.
She travels everywr.ire with her talent-
NEW HOTEL PLANNED
FIVE-STORY STRrCTVKE TO BE
BUILT COSTTXG $100,000.
of
Pronert.v at Southwest Corner
Fifth and Burnsld Leased for
Term of 99 Years.
According to a - lease filed for record
late yesterday, executed by Frank Phil
llppl and wife In favor of Carl Friedman,
Giu C Moeer and A. Daviason, a new
modern, flre-proof structure is to take
the place of the buildings which occupy
the- southwest corner of Fifth and Burn
sld streets. The lease is made, ror
years and the lessees are required to pay
a monthly rental of iiouu alter me new
building shall have been constructed.
While the lessees are given tnree years
to put up the new building. .Mr. .Mosvr
announced las night that work would
be fitarted on a flve-ertory hotel building
on July 1. next year, the date when the
leases of the present -tenants expire.
About SlOO.OCrt will be Invested In the new
building at that time. The building will
be designed for the addition of several
stories.
The property has a. frontage of 100
feet on Burnside street and 73 feet on
Fifth street. A two-story frame building
and two two-story dwelling houses oc
cupy the ground now.
"Portland is solng ahead at such a
accordance with the act of Congress of
1909. which permits the Secretary of the
Interior to sell by competitive bidding
air the mature timber on Indian reserva
tions In the I'nlted States.
Mr. Carroll let a field superintendent of
the Indian office and Mr. Farr is con
nected with tho same branch of tho In
terior Department In the capacity of su
perintendent of lodging-
"We have been delegated to return re
ports on the amounts of mature timber
available for sale on the Yakima and
Klamath Indian reservations," eaid Mr.
Carroll. "Not only do we ascertain the
number of feet, but al the accessibility
of transportation or to projected lines".
It would, of course, be poor business
to recommend the sale of all the tim
ber at this time for the reason that much
of It Is remote from transportation and
would not command the prices which it
will later on.
"The money which will be derived from
the sales will belong to the Indian" and
in th case of many of tho reservations
It will be sufficient to take care of the ex
pense of maintaining the reservations,
making It unnecessary for Congress to
appropriate for that purpose. Our re
port on the Yakima reservation shows
2,000.000.000 feet available for sale."
Wilson; escort, V. J. Meindel: watch
man. F. A. Beard: e?ntry, H. V. Web
ster; manager, for is months." G. 11.
Fuller. G. . C. Lawrence and fc. H. Ben
nett, members ot hall committee, for two
years. Mr. Wilson, elected to the im
portant office of clerk, to succeed the
I late J. M. Woodworth, has been city
organizer for the past two years 1n
I Portland. His election was received with
great pleasure by the members of Mult
nomah camp. He wired his resignation
as city organizer to Head Consul Boak,
who will appoint another city organizer.
"daughter and son-.n-.aw.ond .h.lr that ,-1 .rrv,n
h.ionv .ife Is a direct reruiauon or ma. '' "-j . -r-
o d'bromlde the mother-.n-law Joke. Plrat.on of the leases he!d by the pre.
"To go back to the money-saving , ent tenant-." said Mr. Moser. W e ,ha.e
subject." said Miss Hlte. "we are going enougu iciiai.ui - "
to Invest in an Oregon apple orchaid. Justify our putting up a modem, flre
rviJvXr. we so w. have .leard proof building Just as soon as we can If
about the wonderful apples ut here, we find that In the course or e.gn, .
both bacK nen wn yer. . ,..-,.- .--
construct Is not large enough or la not
Multnomah Cump Elcet.
Multnomah Camp, No. 77. Woodmen of
the World. Friday night at the meeting
In the hall on Eatt Sixth street, elected
the following officers for the enfmins
six months: Consul commander, W. B.
Holderman; adviser. Dr., A. K. Higgs;
banker. M. P. George; clerk, Jesse O.
SCHOOL CENSUS FINISHED
Enumeration When Announced Ex
pected to Reach 3 7,000.
laKtng tho school census was com
pleted yesterday by the enumerators, but
the count will not be announced until
about the middle of sfte week. On ac
count of the census-taking falling on a
holiday, the task was rendered much
easier this year than heretofore.
An estimated now, the number of
school children In the city will be In
the neighborhood of-7.000. an- increase
of about 1500 over last year. Many of tho
downtown districts will show a marked
decrease In the census, say the school
officials, while In the outlying districts
there will bo an increase, owing to peo
ple buying suburban homes and leaving
the congested business portion of the
city.
Fits All Machines
HITE-DONLIN SYNDICATE
REALLY ONLY MISS HITE
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Though Proud "Mama" Hite Travels With l5aughter and Son-in-Law,
Spokeswoman of Triumvirate la Young Actress of Ability.
fully up-to-date, we propose to tear it
down and substitute for It a structure
that will be in keeping with the progress
of the city." ;
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STATE MAYJAKE PATIENTS
County Judge Would Send Multno
mah Consumptives to Salem.'
Sixteen tuberculosis patients at th
Multnomah County poorfarm for Con
sent to th Stats Sanitarium for Con
sumptives at Salem. County Judge
Cleeton conferred yesterday with Dr.
White, secretary of the tate Board of
Health, and decided that course Is ad
vi -a Me.
"I believe that we can pla--e tnot of
the patients In the state sanitarium."
said Judge Cleeton. "It - the proper
place, and In due time the c will
brought to the attention of the Staio
Board having charge of . the sani
tarium." Ir. Whlta said the stats ought to t
able to take rare of all the tubercular
patients In advanced stages of th dis
ease. A petition was preacnted to th
County Court yesterday signed by mora
than 10 'nmstes of the county farm.
Including thos In ths tubercular ward,
saving they ware treated well and w.r
attuned with the management of th
lo tttutlon. The petition was filed.
Testerday afternoon Judse Cleeton
County Commissioner Hart. Superin
tendent Jackson and Doctors Gearr and
Ralph Mii'i'n visited th new county
farai near Troutdale to select a ait
for buildings for a tubercular hospital-
Thev examined the acreac
riooaly and chose a hlca site for tne
ward.
BT TLKONE CASS BACK.
IBEX. H1TK. Mike Donlin ond Mam
ma Elsie Hit, certainly a trium
virate to draw to, distributed them
selves comfortably about the dresslng-
-ooro at the Orpbeum yesterday ana
consented to b Interviewed collective
Iv. The "Hlte-Ponlln syndicate" does
vorythlnr collectively, although by
sommon consent Mabel Is spokesman
for the trio.
Most likely It's because the other two
recognise, or have had forced home to
them, that Mabel Is peculiarly fitted
for the chatter task, that they have
resolved themselves into a silent and
worshipful background-.
To describe Miss Hlte personality
would be like unto gathering up spilled
quick-silver In a spoon. Shea petit...
and girlish In appearance, with a seri
ous way about her that la entirely at
variance vttth the Impish maid who
frolics Irt-isponslbly before the vaudeville-
row of Incandescents.
M1ss Hlte In acutely married, and so
Is Mlk Donlln. for that matter, but
that is not tho reason she takes herself
o seriously. It's because ahe Is so
tremendously active, and so ambitious.
Th plans she has stored In her round,
sleek little cranium would make the
average commercial club chew it
flnsrer-nalls In green despairing envy.
'-It Isn't that we are tho least bit
mercenary, for we're not." said the ltt
tl comedienne. "But we don't want
to grow old on th stage. At best
there"a only ten. or a doaen years at
best In this profession. In this. Jut
as-In every line of work, there Is al
ways someone who ran take your place.
too, and I think the saddest part of
th work must be to grow old and still
be pegging away, no better off finan
cially, than when one started early In
life.
"Mr. Ponlln and I hart ben mar
ried. mell. going on flva, years, and It
was ths second year after our wedding
that we sat down one day and looked
things calmly and dispassionately In
ths face. Her we were, both young,
both ambitious, and both blessed with
work and ability to do that work. As
I say. the years 'go by pretty fast,
onco you're past the golden days of
sixteen or eighteen. So we decided
we were going to still have our good
times, and enjoy th things that come
our way, but thot we were going to
save our pennies, and that when th
rains com, and dull days, and our
youth had slipped past, we could sit
under our 'own vine and fig tree,"
figuratively speaking now, honestly, I
didn't mean that for a pun I hate 'em
and enjoy th sun's going down of
our old-gray-bonnet era. bo without
any more ado, that's what we are do
ing. When I we " she corrected her
self, glancing fondly at her athletic
husband "when we grow old you
won't hear any nonsense about 'Mabel
Hit and Mike Donlln. What! arc they
billed here attain? Why I saw them
back In lot me see 10 years a:o. etc.'
No, slr-ree when we retire there will
be no com backs.
"In this profession, probably more
than In any other, there la a tendency
It would seem, not to save. There are,
of course, many excuses and plausible
ones oftentimes, end I'll grant you that
this everlasting chase about the coun
try, living In hotels and suitcases and
sleepers Is conducive to anything rather
than thrift. But we refuse to look at
the matter that way, and take as much
delight In watching our bank account
grow, as If we lived right In a real
house all the year round and seldom
wandered from our own front yard."
"Mind you. we have our pleasures.
Interposed the ex-baseball idol from
his seat on the trunk., where he nad
been part of a three-ringed and ap
preciative audience. "We have dandy
good times, too. now let me tell yon.
We've three machines, and a mighty
comfortable country-place out from
New York, and a dear little old flat in
Chicago that we hibernate In whenever
ws play that burg, and we certainly
enjoy our friends and our friends'
frienda. but we don't depend on artl.
flcial pleasures and f rothy-on-thc-sur-face
stunts for our happiness, do we
Mabel r"
And Mabel said no they didn't. If
Mlk sid th moon was made of bin
mud Mabel would look carefully at li e
article In question and say, "yes." I
TIMBER INSPECTORS HERE
Interior Department Agents to Re
port Value of Klamath's Woods.
On their way o the Klamath Indian
reservation, where they will gather data
for a report on timber available for
sale. James A. Carroll and J. R. Farr, of
But now they're j the Interior Department, arrived in Fort-
land yesterday and registered at tne
Welsh Anthracite produces heat, no
soot: over 00 use it. Phone E. 303. C.
IJ03.
TWw York's new acqueduct will cost 1162
So you may see
some fine day."
Miss Hlte has entirely recovered
from the serious trouble she had with
her eyes last Fall. wnen. tor wywu
months her friends feared she would
lore her eyesight.
"It begn while we were I:: Paris
last Summer." she said. I guess it.
was because I tried to sea an i couia
while I was there. No. seriously,
think it was from the fearfully strong
glare of the spotlight. I naa oeen
singing on song thot necessitated my
opening my eyes very wide, in a
frlghtend mannr, sort of a 'Yama
Yama' effect, you know, and I think I
strained them. W came right home
tr. Shecoshead Bar. directly 1 anew
how bad they were.
oil ririit don't thev look It?"
I confess they dia iook it.. ortiana noiei. iiiw nao juc-i. vui.i-
The present engagement of Mr. and pleted similar work at the Takima res
Mrs Donlin lasts only two weeks , ervatlon in Washington and are acting In
longer, these to be spent In San Fran
cisco.
"Then we return to the play, 'A Cur
tain Party." in whlih w starred last
season, and which we will brliKj to
Portland later, by the way.
"We both prefer it to vaudeville
because It affords Mr. Donlln an oppor
tunity to show psople what he really
can do, on the stage."
MRS. R. J. BURLEY PASSES
Long Battle With Tuberculosla Lost
by Portland Woman.
Mis. Tt. J. Burley. wife of K. J. Bur-
ley, bookkeeper for th Clarke, Wilson
Lumber Company, of Llnnton. Or., suc
cumbed to tuberculosis yesterday morn
In-g at her home, 1193 East Taylor
street. 1 She was 36 years of age.
Born and married in Missouri, she
came to Oregon with her husband eight
years asro. For the last five year. x
ceptlng a period of a few months, they
have resided at Llnnton. near ner i:us
ba nil's work. Soon after their arrival
in Oregon a son. William Manford,
was born. The child Is now 8 years of
age.
In the Fall of 190. enjoying almoat
perfect health until that time. Mrt.
Burley contracted a severe cold. This
finally developed Into a case of tuber
culosis. She became a patient at th
Portland Open-Air Sanitarium. Kealii
ing that she could not get well, her
husband removed her from the sani
tarium to their home, where she lapsed
into a state of coma at 19:30 o'clock
yesterday morning, in the presence of
her husband and several friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Burley were married In
Carrollton. Mo., in the Summer of 101,
at the home of the bride. Mr. Burley
was a native of Missouri also. Mrs.
Burley. in addition to her son and hus
band. Is survived by her father. W. L.
Harshbarger. of Carrolton, Mo. Funeral
arrangements have not been made.
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