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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1911)
13 TTTE SUNDAY OlTEGONTAff, PORTLAND. APRIL 9, 1911. K NAPIER LOSES SUIT! ADMINISTRATION OF ES HIES AS EXECUTOR CLOSHNG-OUT Jury Gives $482 Damages for Assault and Arrest. I .Iff - SEVEN WOUNDS ALLEGED Garbage Crematory Superintendent A-"eed for Striking Wltn Re Totrr r Scavenger Who Can not Fpeak English. Barry Napier, superintendent ef the Oty Garbage Crematory, was ad U:t for assault on John Miller, a scar. ns;r, and llJ for ron-!y arresting Stiller aa a result of U flgbt. tho as sessment being mad by a Jory In Judge Kavanaus-h'e Court yesterday, at Lb. and of a trial lasting two liay. Jtlller su.d Npl.r for $1000 for tha assault and an equal amount for wroerf u! arresU In addition to expenses Incurred aa a result of the flarnt be tween him and the garba supetin tend.nt. December 7. 110. In his com plain! Miller allea-ed that Napier had truck him with a reoler. Inflicting even wounds on his head. Napier said In Ms own defenaa that Miller's waa-on was stuck In the mud aad that Miller, who la unable to talk, went to Napier, taiklnr In German so that Napier could not understand what ha said, and assumed a threatening at titude. Later. Napier testified. Miller went up behind Napier while Napier was In fcls orflce chair and struck him a blow la the back of tho bead. Napier said ha acted la self-defense In beating Miller with his revolver. After tha fla-bt. Napier, who wears an officer's star, placed Miller under arrest and took him to the Police Sta tion. Miller was found not guilty of tho charge of disorderly conduct placed aaalnet him by Napier aad was re leased by Jndae T a we 11. Then Miller employed Charlea 3. Schcabel aa attorney and filed his rait for damages. Napier was defended by Deputy City Attorney Tomllnson and BuXllTsn. youth sn:s CAR compact Brushed From Steps, Injured and Asks $30,000 Damages. For Injuries sustained when ho waa brushed from the step of a Woodstock car by some wood piled near the track. Arthur Watson, a minor, by bis g-oard-Ian. W. H. Watson, brought suit in tha Circuit Court yesterday against tha Portland Railway. LJglit s Power Company for 130.000. It Is alleged that young Watson boarded a Woodstock car on East Mor rison for bis home, on September St. lilt. Tha car at tha time, ho alleges, waa so crowded that ha waa unable to a-et Inside and was forced to rtda on the atep of the car. When the car reached East Twelfth street It brushed past a pile of cord wood, placed so near the track that tha boy was struck by pieces projecting from tha pile. Among the Injuries al lseed to bare been sustained were a broken arm and a puncture In tha lung. It la contended that tho boy waa permanently Injured and will never bo strong as a result of tho accident. Tha company la charged with haying operated lis ear faster than permitted by law at tha time of tha accident. WOMAX ASKS $5000 PA MACKS Mule Reiser Allege Man Tried to Rain Her Store Business. Llnle Reiser, who conducts a store In this city, sued James Barlett In the circuit Court yesterday for 15000 for damages she allegee she sustained In a business way as a result of Barlett's railing her a "dead beat" and saying that she was not honest. She quotes Kartell In her complaint aa havtna; said In the presence of herself and others: "She Is a dead beat. She will beat you to every way she can. Fhe won't do anything ene says she will do. and I have ber under my power. Whoever buys In this store Is my enemy, aad I am aa enemy of anyone that buya la thta place." . Coarthoose Notes. Jesse E. Ballon sued Sadie B. Fallon yesterday for divorce. Daofortb Ellery la named as co-respondent. They wars married la Portland Jane 33. Its. Julia Grltimacher, .filed suit for dl vorca yesterday against Frederick Grltzmacher. chara-lna him with treat ing ber cruelly. He spent much of his time la a saloon, she charges in ber complaint, and to make a living for herself and husband she waa forced to take In washing;. They were married In Portland. February . 1910. Belsg required by his wife to live 'with bla father-in-law aad mother-in-law waa the chief feature of the cruelty that T. R- Cooler charged to his wife la a divorce complaint filed by him yesterday. AHhougb ha was ready to provide nor with a homo as soon as married, ba says, sha would not leave ber parents, and this. In addition to mlaor forma of cruelty, caused him to sua for divorce. J. P. Webb, condemned to death for tha murder of William Johnson about a year ago In tho Grand Central Hotel, waa denied a new trial yesterday by Judge Morrow. Webb haa appealed his case to tha Slat Supreme Court. Mrs. Carrie Kersh. who waa found guilty of maasiauarnter In aiding Webb to com mit the crime and sentenced to serve It years In tho penitentiary, was also decled a new trial by Judge Morrow. Her c.s was not appealed. r LINE TO G0TO OPAL CH7 Oregon Trunk AVIII Kxtend Business to That Point April 1 . Passenger service over tho Ore jron Trunk line will be extended to Opal City. 13 rollee south ef Metollua, on Sunday. April is. and on the following day freight business for both Opal City and Culver Junction, the latter point live tnllee south of Metollus, will bo accepted. The train that now operates over tha new road as far as Metollus will run to Opal City after that date, and will start from there each morning. This service will be under the direction of tha construction department, the same as that from the Columbia River to Metollus now la. The faro from Port land to Culver Junction has been fixed at M.3S and that to Opal City at 14.56. With the line aompleted to Opal City, no mora work can be done without the use of - wagons, until after the road crosses the Crooked River. Opal City Is at the bead of a canyon four miles north of tho Crooked River, and It will ba necessary for teams to transport aft the material osed In build ing tola part of tha Una. The steel for tha Crooked River trldgs also will be Administrator or guardian by properly constituted trust com panies. U authorized under the new Danking law. We are especially equipped for this service and have trust safes constructed particularly for caring for trust business. Feel at liberty to confer with ns respecting any phase of our service. MERCHANTS SAVINGS & TRUST COMPANY 8. W. CORNER SDCTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS. PORTLAND. OREGON. W. H. Fear President W II lard C'aaw Tleo-Preald t O. C Bevtsaseyer Cashier E. St. Ilsldea. ..Aaelataat Cashier R. X. Tafford... Realty kautn transported by horses and wagons from Opal City. A freight tariff will be announced In a few daya providing for delivery and receipt of goods at Opal City, which. 1 ! -will ttAfoma lb. baa. of suppllea for the entire country south of there until after uie itooim ruver bridge is finished. The Oregon Trunk will erect ample freight and passenger facilities at the southern terminus, which will be ready for occupancy by tho time the new service la Inaugurated. WOMEN WRITERS CONFER Oregon Woman's Press Club Holds Interesting Meeting. Tha April meeting of the Woman's Press Club of Oregon, which waa held Wednesday nlgbt. April S, in a com mittee room In tha Oty Hall, was one of great Interest to the largo number of women attending. The programme covered two Impor tant subjects. Best Marketa and How to Reach Them." was bandied by alias Helen Sayr Gray. Miss Gray's first ar ticle appeared In the Ladles' Home Jour nal and she haa since contributed to many of the la rarer magazines of tha country. Mrs. Blanch Rafalsky. crltlo and reviewer, who waa with the Chi cago Tribune, had the subject "Literary Bureaua and Syndicates." So strongly Is this an aae of commercialism. Mrs. Rafalsky said, that It would be quite possible la certain parts of New York or Boston for one to start out with a market-basket very much aa a house wife might to provide the family din ner, and return with a full stock of as sorted articles, short stories. Jokes, poems and what not. Mrs. Juno Mac Mtllan Ordway led the discussion. Elec tion or officers of tha club wtll take place at the May meeting. Mrs. U. L. T. Hidden haa been president for the past two years, during which time the club has bad a prosperous growth. All applicants for active membership are limited strictly to women writers, pub lishers or Illustrators who are receiv ing remuneration for their work. BOULEVARD TO BE GRADED Mayor Signs Contract for Work In South Portland. Msyor Simon yesterday morning signed tha contract for grading tha first mils of Portland's boulevard sys tem. The witnesses wore Councilman Beldlng and Burt Jones, two well known South Portland "boosters." who have been advocating tho work for months. Mr. Beldlng represents tha Sixth Ward. In which tha boulevard Ilea, and Mr. Jones Is secretary of tha "Greater South Portland Bridge" com mittee. "This ths greatest piece of work yet undertaken In South Portland." de clared Mr. Beldlng. aa ba walked from tho Mayor's office. "I rve been work ing on this boulevard plan for months and It glvra ma great pleasure to see the contract signed. It will bo one of tho best things South I'ortland could have." Tha boulevard la 10 feet wide and a mile long and was donated by the Terwtlltrer heirs. It is a part of tha proposed Olmsted plan for connecting' all of tho city's parks in a systematla manner. It will start near tha western terminus of tha proposed Meade-street bridge aad run one mile south.. Kasarene Church Gives Warning. The Church ef tha Kasarene Issues a warning against giving subscriptions to solicitors who call them selves the Army of tha Naxarene. and say they are Identified with tha churches of the same name. These do not send out solicitors and have never appealed to tho public for aid. Tha Army of the Natarene is tha same organisation which worked under the name of tba American Salvation Army, and from letters on die at the Aasoclsted Char ities office, is very much discredited both aa to character of work and workers. Neither the Army of the Naxarene nor the American 8alvatlon Army Is endorsed by tha Chamber of Commerce. Beggar Pronounced Imposter. Complaints are being received at the Associated Charities about a man named Frank Hoyt. who sells shoe blacking from door to door and begs for help for transportation to his fam ily, either In Minneapolis or In Kansas. The Associated Charities offlcera de clare this Is the same man about whom the publlo waa warned a year ago. He Is a professional beggar and should not be encouraged. He Is rather below i average height, thin, and haa a bad cough with wbicn ne appeals to tna sympathetic housekeeper. Building Inspector Given Room. Arrangements have been made at tha City Hall whereby Building Inspector Plummer will be given additional room In which to operate tho department. The Increase in building has necessitated this. The department will have the rooms now used by tha civil service commis sion for examinations. Electric carpet cleaning. Main C75. This is positively the last week at the Litt store. Every garment in the store will be closed out this week at HALF PRICE. Take your choice from any garment this week at half; Waists, Skirts, Petticoats, Slips, Suits, Coats, all Spring and Summer goods at the Litt Store, 351 Washington street. This Week Ends the Business Forever in This Location $100.00 Gowns. $75.00 Gowns . $50.00 Gowns . $40.00 Gowns . $30.00 Gowns . $25.00 Gowns . $20.00 Gowns , .$50.00 $37.50 ..... $25.00 ... $20.00 ...$15.00 ... $12.50 .$10.00 $50.00 SllitS. . ....... r.r.- .r.T.. $25.00 $40.00 Suits. . . . .$20.00 $35.00 Suits. . .. . . . . . . . .$17.50 $25.00 Suits. .t.-T. . . . . . . . . .$12.50 $20.00 Suits. . . . . . ., . .. .$10.00 This Is Positively the Last Week in This Location Get Your Easter Apparel, it's Jrtere at nair rncc We Move Saturday, April 15th At the Litt Location 351 Washington Street JKa, Opposite the Grand Theater THE STORE WILL BE OPEN NIGHTS EASTER WEEK M.CCABEES ARE COMING SUPREME COMMANDER TO BE GCEST AT BANQUET. tlons, having visited those of Mississippi. Alabama. Louisiana, Texas. New Mexico PoiifnrniB and will go from here to Seattle. Butte. Salt Lake City, Denver. Uncoln. Neb also vaiunj mo jurisdic tions of Iowa and Illinois on fcls way home to Detroit. Convention ' of Oregon Tents Will " Also Commemorate COth Anni versary -in State. A banquet will be tendered to the supreme commander of tha Knigh:s of tl.e Maccabees. D. P. Marker, of Detroit, the state offlcera of the order aad tna rarloue delegate to the state conven tion from the 7S local bodies of tho order In Oregon at 7 P. M-, next Friday at the Commercial Ciub. This banquet is tendered by the united tells of Multnomah County ac'lng through a committee of which the chairman Is P. El Shepard and flis sec retary la H. F. Hoffman. This ban quet will also commemorate the 12th anniversary of the fovndlnir of the order In tba state, the first tent. Portland No. 1. having been Instituted by State Com mander 8nerwood In September. 1S31. The order now comprises 4000 members and 74 local organlsatlona In Oregon. Addresses will be delivered by various prominent members at the conclusion of the banquet The principal address will be by D. P. Markey. who wtll be fol lowed by Dr. C J. Smith, of Pendleton, ex-preaident of the State Board of Health, and Grant P. Dlmlck. of Oregon City; August Huckesteln. of Albany; City Treasurer Werleln. J. 8. Van Winkle, of Albany, and other prominent members. This banquet will conclude tha exercises Incident to the sixth quad renlal state convention of the order. The convention will elect two represen tatives to the supreme tent, which will convene at Cleveland on July 18. State officers will also be elected. Bupreme Commander Markey, the prin cipal guest of honor. Is on a tour of vii-ltatlon to the various state Jurlsdlc- BANKS LINE OPEN APRIL 16 United Railways to Start Regular Service to This Point. Train service on the United Railways to Banks, five miles beyond North Plains, the present terminus, will be Inaugurated Sunday, April 16. Banks will be the end of the road until the next link Is completed toward Tillamook Bay. Some work already baa been done west of this point. With the completion of Cornelius tun nel and other Improvements between Portland and North Plains the running time haa been reduced and when the ad ditional service Is put into effect a fur ther cut will be made that will maJce tha time to Banks no more than It now Is to North Plains. On tha same day the North Bank will open the Oregon Trunk to Opal City, 12 miles south of Metollus. supplies tor tne Crooked River bridge will be handled out of Opal City. LOAN COMPANY BANKRUPT Receiver for Astoria Association N'amed In Federal Court. Upon a petition filed In the United States District Court yesterday by George Voss. Frits Ross and Mary R. Jeffrey, asking that the Banking, Savings & Loan Association of Astoria be declared an Involuntary bankrupt. Federal Judge Bean placed the Institution in the hands of a receiver. Thomas R. Davies. of Astoria, was appointed to take charge and close up the affairs of the associa tion. According to the petition, the llablll- ties of the association are more than $15,000 and the assets are 5000. The peti tioners allege that the Institution is in debted to them J1400 In excess of securi ties. They also allege that It Is not a regular banking Institution, but had been conducting a real estate and loan busi ness. Tho nnnticatlon for bankruptcy is based upon a procedure by which, it is alleged. the association permitted have preference rights. a creditor ta On country slab and block wood, dry, Edlefsen Fuel Co., you should try. " "NAU'S" NEW HOME. . Many w and Exclusive Features Embodied. Nau'e Prescription Pharmacy opened its doors to the public In its new loca - tlon in the Selling building, Sixth and Alder, yesterday. People who know, say that this new store is easily the finest and best equipped and most up to date of Its kind on the Pacific Coast. The fixtures conelst of mahogany throughout; the display cases are of plate-glass, resting; on marble bases. To the left of the main entrance waa found a very comfortable leather-covered seat of goodly size, and a dainty little writing- desk, both for public use. The entire main floor is given over to the sale of sundries. Imported leather goods, fine cutlery, ivory goods and of especial Interest to ladles is the com plete line of Hurler's chocolates. The entire balcony ie occupied by the prescription department, which Is so arranged that the dispensing force cannot be disturbed by outside Influ ences every possible precaution being; taken to have tha compounding; done correctly. Worthy of note is the fact that every prescription operative is a university graduate. The usual all night service Is to continue as in the past. Mr. Nau - is certainly to ba con gratulated on his new store. ''C-r; r') -: 1ST? Plant Dahlia and Gladioli Bulbs Now These are the most satisfactory and desirable Summer and Fall blooming flowers, and they are of the easiest culture. We are making a specialty of Dahlias and Gladioli, and offer you all the beautiful varieties shown in our display at the Salem Fair and in Sherman Clay & Co.'s window last FalL Prices, from 15? to $2 per bulb. Boeklet on "Culture of Dahlias" free. Ask about "Glory," the new ruffled Glad ioli, 25e each; $2.50 a dozen. Other choic varieties, from 40c to $3.00 a dozen. See our Spring Catalogue for full descrip tions ana prices. FREE MONDAY CUT ROWERS "We have brought in from our Bulb Farm a fine collection of new and im proved Narcissus (cut flowers) and will give them away free Monday to our cus tomers. "We want you to call and get yours. 'We wjjl also at this time, if you wish, book jour orders for bulbs for next Fall delivery, at special import wholesale prices. Give us your order now and get 100 bulbs at little more than you generally pay for a dozen. Take advantage of this opportunity to see the flowers the bulbs produce. Some people call any old yellow Daffodil a Narcissus, but there's a vast difference. EASTER rabb THIS WEEK Phone Your Orders Early. New GEISHA Peony Dahlia 1911 Novelty SPECIAL for MONDAY and TUESDAY ir.TT.Tr.s I The most fragrant, beautiful and stately of all flowers produced from bulbs; they require I L very little care. Do not disturb them oftener than every three to five years. Plant about 6 to 8 inches deep, according to size of bulb; and if the ground is not well drained, use plenty of sand around the bulb, and lay it on its side. Plant in clusters or groups of six or more for best effect. The Auratums and Speciosums are the most magnificent species for outdoor culture. They increase in size and beauty each year. . . SPECIAL We will sell 1000 more Japanese Lily Bulbs, regular 25c to 75c each, at Saturday's spe cial offer of 15 each, $1.50 per dozen. PERENNIAL FLOWERING PLANTS These are more popular than ever this year, and should be slanted now for the best results. We have the largest and only complete stock in the city. Catalogue gives full list, and stock is on hand NOW. Our large field grown 2-year-old clumps will produce a profusion of flowers this season. SPECIAL 1000 Clumps Hollyhocks, any color, Burbank's Shasta Daisies, regular $2.50 per dozen. Special Monday and Tuesday at $1.20 per dozen. Geraniums and Annual Bedding Plants We have thousands of extra choice plants coming on, but it is too early now to plant outside. Watch our ads, we'll tell you when. This is the ideal time to plant Sweet Peas and Nasturtiums. Fix up your lawn spray the rose bushes and apply some "WILGKOW," the great fertilizer. WANTED At once, 200 White Baby Chicks. If you have any to sell, phone to us. - 169 2D St i