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PORTLAND. OIIEUOX. SUNDAY 3IORNING, JANUARY 21, 1912.
PRICE FIVK CENTS.
VOL. XXXI NO.
76 Pages
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BANKERS
ACCUSED
OF ILLEGAL ACTS
Stockholder German
American Sues.
ASSETS JUGGLED, HE SAYS
Ashley, Rumelin, Devlin, Reed
and Willis Are Accused.
LOOT $100,000 IS CHARGE
Sale or Sixth and Washington. Prop
erty at $0,000 by P. L. Willis to .
His Son-ln-Law Part of Prorit
Sharlng Scheme, Is Alleged.
General mismanagement of the German-American
Bank. Including the mis
appropriation of about 1100.000, alleged
to belong; to tba stockholders of the
bank. Is on of tlie sensational charges
In a suit against Mark A. 1L Ashler.
Charles E. Rumelin. Thomas C Devlin.
Samuel Q. Reed and P. L. Willie filed
In the State Circuit Court yesterday by
Arthur U Flnley. a stockholder In the
German-American Bank.
Mr. Flnley demands from the defend
ants an accounting of their transactions
with the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank
and the German-American, together
with damages In the luo of 110.000. 8.
T. Jeffreys Is attorney for Mr. Jfinley,
('asplrae-y Is Chanted.
In liia complaint Mr. Flnley charges
t'uat the defendants, Devlin, as receiver
of the Oregon Trust A Savings Bank
and cashier of the German-American
Bank; Ashley and Rumelin as Individ
uals and members of the partnership
of Ashley & Rumelin; Reed, president
of the German-American, and Willis,
director In the latter bank, through tba
organisation of a conspiracy acquired
at a big discount the obligations of
the suspended back, disposed of Its
assets at a heavy discount and so
manipulated Its affairs that the stock
of the German-American Institution,
in which plaintiff owned stock to the
amount of f 10.000. was rendered value
less. As a result of the dissipation of the
assets of the consolidated banks. It Is
charged that the defendants shared In
lha distribution of about 1100,000 In
profits.
Cmi- Bell Ahaawd.
The complaint of Flnley Is a sequel
to the arrangement by which the German-American
Bank took over the as
sets and liabilities of the Oregon Bar
ings c Trust Bank, under tha receiver
ship of Devlin and by order of court,
under a contract to liquidate In full
all claims against tba suspended bank
within two years. Plaintiff alleges
that In pursuance of the conspiracy
charged. Devlin. Reed and Willis, fol
lowing the confirmation of this agree
ment, proceeded to secure possession of
the affairs of the German-American by ,
causing themselves to be elected cash
ier, president and director, respectively.
Having thua obtained charge of the
management of the German-American
Bank. It Is alleged In the complaint that
Devlin. Reed and Willis In further pro
moting the alleged conspiracy took into
their partnership Ashley at Rumelin as
agents for the purchase of certificates
of deposit and other evidences of In
debtedness of the Oregon Trust Sav
fngs Bank at a big discount.
ate-rkbaldera Said te Be ejac-sed.
Tha certificates of deposit and tha
liabilities of the defunct bank ao ac
quired, tt Is charged, were exchanged at
par for promissory notea and other
property which came Into the pos
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SUICIDE ON WANE,
STATISTICS SHOW
RATE IX 1910 LOWER THAX IN"
PRECEDING VEARS.
Firearm Method Still Popular and
Is on Increase, With Poison
Close Second.
WASHINGTON. Jan. SO. Fewer per
sons committed suicide during 1910
than In 1)0. according to the latest
statistics on the subject, announced to
day by Dr. Cressy L- Wilbur, chief vital
statistician of the United States Censu
Bureau.
The death rate from suicide In
110 was 10 per 100.000 of popuIaUon In
the census bureau'a death reglstra
tlon area, which comprises about one
half of tha country's population, and
covers ti states and several larger
cltiea In other states. The rate was
lf.S In 190. Thera were S90 suicides
in 1910.
finlclda bv lire srms was the favorite
method of self-destruction and showed
an Increase over 1909. Poison was
rinse second.
California led the states, with i
suicides to the 100.f00 of population,
while Maryland with 10.S had the
lowest rate. In the district of mora
than 100.000 population. San Francisco,
with 44.2 suicides to tou.uvu. ieo. -am.
rial., with 13.4 was third, am
Seattle, with 31.1. fourfh; Los Angeles.
10, fifth. The Portland. Or, rate was
S A . n.l KnnlcilUl'l Wll 23.1. JSeW
York's rate was K.4 and Chicago's 20.9
TRADE METHODS VIGOROUS
Kan Francisco Organises to Get
Steamship Line to Alaska.
SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. (Special.)
Arrangements for the establishment
nf - Arrt .teamshlo Una between San
Francisco and Alaska In order that the
merchants of this city may get tnai
share of the business of the territory
which they have not heretofore en-
Joyed, are expected to follow trie re
.ur of a committee that today began
work on behalf of the Chamber of
Commerce.
It Is pointed out that the conditions
which msde It impossible for Fan Fran
cisco merchants to do as much trade
with imii was to have been ex
pected are due to circumstances over
which the merchants individually have
no control, and It Is proposed that fu
ture efforts be In the nature of mass
plays.
The committee consists of A. L. Scott,
W. K. Oore. C F. Michaels. James Ty
son and Francis J. Baker.
PUPILS DEVELOP THRIFT
School Savings Bank Has $35,000,
All Children's Own.
EAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20. (Spe
cial.) The achool savings bank system
of Sao Francisco has attained a great
er aucceas than In any city in the
world. $35,000 having been saved by
pupils in the city schools during the
last five months.
Director James E. Power, to whom
waa delegated the task of Installing
the system In the school department.
Is enthuslastlo concerning the possi
bilities of the plan. He believes that
It not only teaches children the value,
of money, but Inculcates In them a de
sire to save.. Tha savings plan la
fashioned after the postal savings
system, but Instead of permitting
negotiable certificates, each account Is
kept In bank and subject to withdraw
al only when parents or guardians ac
company the depositor.
112 MINERS ARE ENTOMBED
Six Known Dead In Disaster at
Kemmerer, Wyo.
DENVER. Colo, Jan. 20. It Is re
ported from Kemmerer. Wro, that 112
miners were entombed In a dust ex
plosion In mine No. 4 of the Kemmerer
Coal Company tonight.
Six are said to be dead, with a num
ber of Injured and th'e fate of tha rest
Is unknown. Details sre lacking.
- TAKES
WIDOWER REFUSES.
TO PA! PHYSICIAN
Novelist's Husband to
File Counter-Suit.
AL'ENATION TO BE CHARGED
McCulIough Says Wife Told
Him She Loved Doctor.
MAID REVEALS SECRETS
Woman Who Wrote "Lavender and
Old Lace" Declared to Hare
lieen Neurotic, Too Weak to
Resist Temptation.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20. (Special.)
Dragged from tha closet by the "model
husband, aa she once called him In
one of her writings, the skeleton In
Myrtle Heed McCullough's "Paradise
Flat" waa exposed to the world's view
today when James Sidney McCulIough
declared Xhat If Dr. Edmund George
Sugg pressed his suit for (7960 against
him as sole executor of the woman
novelist's estate he would put In a
counter claim for damages for allena
tlon of his wife's affection.
"I see from the attitude of Dr. Sugg
that he Is going to force publicity, so
I might as well tell the facts," said
Mr. McCulIough.
Lava for Doctor Cafeaed.
"Dr. Sugg did attend my wife pro
fessionally. for which ho waa well
paid. The trouble waa ha did not stop
with professional attentions. She fin
ally admitted to me nearly a year be
fore she died that she loved him, al
though stoutly protesting that she had
done no wrong. .
v"Her nerves were all gone to pieces
because of drugs and when she told
me that she would be strong and give
up Sugg I promised to forgive her
everything It she would only live up
to that resolatlon, but I am sorry to
say that she. In her nerve-racked state.
was too weak to do that.
'Not long after her admission to me
I learned from our maid. Annie Larsen,
that Dr. Sugg was visiting her at our
home, 5120 Kenmore avenue, and that
she waa returning the visits at his of
fice and taking him on long automobile
rides around the city.
Hoabaad aad Wife Quarrel.
'The continued attentions of Dr.
Sugg to my wife caused several quar
rels between us. Mrs. McCulIough was
becoming mora of a neurotic every day,
and aha told me that she had to take
the. automobile rides with Dr. Sugg
almost dally as part of the treatment.
'An effort was made at the time of
her death to make It appear that my
neglect of my wife and my frequent
absences - from home In the evenings
was the cause of her suicide. The facts
are that I stayed away from home be
cause of my wife's affection for Dr.
Sugg. In other words, I was the
neglected party."
Dr. Sugg declared that he never had
given McCulIough the slightest cause
for jealousy and that his only asso
ciation with Mrs. McCulIough was that
of a physician with a neurotic patient.
"Mrs. McCulIough constantly called
me to her home and called at my office
in her semi-hysterical moods," said the
physician, who Is a good looking man
of IS years.
Physician Dealea Charges.
"She never paid me anything on ac
count, for there was a mutual under
standing thst I would let her settle
the matter In her own time. That she
recognised that she owed me a debt was
evident from the fact that she left a
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INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY' 8 Maximum temperature, 86
asgrees; minimum, 38 degrees.
TODAY'8 Fair: southeasterly winds.
Foreign.
Socialists will fall to et majority of German
iteicnstag. section 1. page 4.
London unable to explain why Duke of Con
naught will not visit Wasblnston. Sec
tlon 1. page 4.
Cuban crisis past; Veterans" Association out
uses policy, bection 1. page 4.
Panama described as peaceful city. Section
l. page s.
Domesltc.
Novelist's husband refuses to pay physician's
dui; tnreatents counter suit for aliena
tion, bection 1. page 1.
Physician says Mrs. Ida von Claussen not
crasy but conceited "like many other
women;" asylum doors open. Bection 1
page 3.
Suicide rate in 1910 lower than in past.
statistics show. Section 1, page 1.
Aviators thrill throngs at Los Angeles. See-
tlon l, page S.
National.
WIckerahara gives assurance case against
Harvester Company will be prosecuted.
Becuon 1. page 4.
Taft outspoken In denouncing recall of Ju
dietary. Section 1, page 4.
Detective Bums to submit phonographic
conreesion to Lorlmer committee. Sec
tlon 1, page 2.
underwood's threat against pension bill
shows political aim. Section 1, page 8.
Graham's committee will mske scandal
nunt despite protest. Section 1, page 9.
Politics.
Anti-Tan forces all agree in working for
uninsiructed delegates, section 1. page 4.
Multnomah County Clerk Fields to file can
didacy for Republican nomination for
oecietary ol state Monday. Section 1,
page 12. "v.
Progressives'" in Illinois may desert La
rouette (or Roosevelt. Section 1. page 2.
C V. Gantenbeln. State Circuit Judge, an
nounces candidacy lor nomination at
Representative to Congress. Section 1
page 13.
senator cummins, of Iowa, announces can
didacy for President. Section 1. page 2
E. W. Ross out for Congress In State of
Vt asninston. Section 1, page 4.
Sport.
Thirty Spokane Indians will report for
training at walla walla. Section 2.
page o.
Portland asked to support Narragansett pier
ior tennis tourney honor. Section 2,
One-Round Hogsn arrives In South for train
ing. Section 2. page 3.
Northwestern League schedule announced
Section 2, page 2.
ban Francisco team again first in trap
snoot. bection i page 3.
Vernon soccer team detests' Portsmouth by
one goal to none. Section 2. page 3.
Fielder Jones and Cnnny Mack famed for
snrewdnesa in picking players. Section
Pse 2.
Commercial and Marine.
Oregon onion prices advance another quar
ter. Becuon z. page 17.
Wheat higher at Chicago, owing to famine
prices prevailing in Russia. Section 2,
page 17.
Advance in stock market is continued. Sec
tion z, page 17.
New York ranks excess surplus largely In
creased. Section 2, page 17.
Low water In boiler la thought to have
caused explosion on steamer Sarah
I'lxon. Section a,. page 10.
Pacific Northwest.
Spokane girl graduates' 10 gowns are fash
ionable. Section 1. page 1.
Dr. Hasxard's method of treatment told at
trial, ejection 1. page 1.
Short course at Oregon Agricultural Col
lege nas sso students. Section 1. page 7.
Woman who whipped Seattle Judge Is fined
.x. Becuon i, page 9.
Salem, full of idle, destitute men, faces
grave proDiem or providing tor them.
8ectlon 1, page 0.
Hay and Lawrence central figures In Wash
ington gubernatorial race. 8ectlon 1,
page e.
Member ef parole board champions reforma
tion ot murderers, section 1, page T.
Gasoline launch capslxes In Coos Bay aad
live men perisn. section 1, page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
German-American stockholder brings suit.
cnarging orticers witn looting to extent
of 410O.0O0. Section 1, page 1.
E. L. Oetlnirer, saloonman. seised as sus
pect, confesses killing E. W. Match and
dragging body away. Section 2. page 18.
Dan Kellaher, re-elected president of East
Bide Business Men s Club, reviews or
ganisation's work in lli. Section L
page 11.
Inland Empire excursionists arrive In port-
land, bection 1, page 13.
James J. Hill asked to be honor guest at
"Kose-Fiantlng day" ceremonies. Section
1. page 10.
Report of health officer shows city death
rate is on decrease. Section 1. page 14.
Klamath land dealer says real need is home-
seekers' rate throughout year Instead of
colonists' rate period. Section 2, page IS.
Jury-getting In Wilde case may be com
pleted ty Wednesday, section 1. page 10.
Little Jeanette Meier entertains tiny friends
on ber 10th birthday, section 1, page 10.
President Sproule. of Southern Pacific, says
all Haxrlman Improvements In Oregon are
to be rushed. Section 1, page 14.
Apple unions said to be against "Big Four"
merger, as originally proposed, section 1,
page 14.
Scottish Rite bodies close session. Section 1.
page 10.
Cats rejoice at close of show. Section 1.
page 14.
Excursionists from Inland Empire. British
Columbia and Grand Ronde Valley are
guests at bsnquet. Section 1, page 13.
A FLING AT SOME POLITICAL TOPICS OF THE DAY.
AT LK ST
ACCOUNTS
WAS MAMYOr ry-roov
jTCAffS OA SHS
1
WRECKED; 5 LOST
Skipper and Passen
gers Are Drowned.
CRAFT DRIFTS ON JETTY
Capsized There, It Is Swept
Out to Sea by Tide.
LIFESAVERS' EFFORTS VAIN
One of Their Own Xuniber Narrowly
Escapes Drowning Darkness
Shuts Down and Hides Over
turned Launch From View.
MARSHFIELD. Or., Jan. 20. (Spe
cial.) Five men were drowned Just at
dark this evening when the little gaso
line launch North Star No. -1, control
of which had. in some unknown man
ner, become lost, capsized on the Coos
Bay bar. Those who perished were:
Joe Yonkers, the skipper. .
Frank Tanner, married.
Ira Albee.
Con Ferrl.
William Brainerd, married and father
of four children.
Though tt is impossible to learn to
night the cause of the disaster to the
little craft. It is believed by members
of the lifesavlng crew that the engine
broke down down and it was Impos
sible for Yonkers to manage his boat
in the strong current and ebb tide.
The four men who, with Yonkers,
went down to a watery grave were
the last of a score of passengers who
had taken passage from Marshfield for
Empire. At the latter place late in the
afternoon all but the five men went
ashore, and the craft continued its
ourney toward South Slough, a tribu
tary of the bay.
Launch Strikes Jetty. '
Suddenly the launch's progress ceased
and It started to drift. Finally it
was seen td strike the jetty, where it
turned over.
The lookout on the bar immediately
rushed word of the disaster to the life
savers, but It was too late to help the
men in peril, and the strong current
carried the North Star No. 1, still cap- 1
tied, far out to sea.
The little 20-foot boat waa built only
for inside waters, and, therefore, had
little chance on the bar, and the men
aboard had little or no opportunity to
save themselves.
Llfesaver Washed Overboard.
In the attempt of the llfesavlng crew
to get within rescue distance, one of
the members of the crew was washed
overboard and with difficulty was res
cued. The work of the llfesavera was.
therefore, distracted from the North
Star to the rescue of one of their own
number, after which it was found Im
possible to reach the rapidly-disappear
ing ill-fated boat, as she grew dimmer
in the oncoming darkness.
Skipper Yonkers was one of the best
known navigators on Coos Bay. Marsh
field and 8outh Slough residents who
knew Yonkers well are inclined to be
lieve that an accident happened to the
machinery of the North Star No. 1,
which caused her to be carried before
the current.
Yonkers la Accident Two Years Asm
It was two years ago that Yonkers
had an accident In the bay when the
boat he waa operating sank from some
unknown cause, but on 'that occasion
he and his passengers saved themselves
by swimming ashore.
All the men drowned with Yonkers
today lived at South Slough.
cou.
AU
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Woootzouu
FASHION KIND TO
GIRLS' $10 GOWNS
SPOKANE GRADUATES FROCKS
ARE TJP-TO-MIXTJTE.
Limit of Expendture Indorsed, by
Class Xo Detraction From Charm
ing Tailored Effects.
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.)
When the girl graduates of the Lewis
and Clark High School adopted $10 as
the maximum price to be paid for their
graduation gowns, they not only acted
In a most sensible way, but in the most
fashionable, according to the universal
statement of the best women's tailors
in the city. Fashion has decreed that
the most up-to-date gowns for girls
must be the most simple. White Is
bound to be the prevalent shade, and
unless the graduation dress be white
and simple, it is decidedly a back
number.
"Thin, sheer goods of any kind are to
be had at very low prices," said one
women's tailor today. There are hun
dreds of kinds, but the most popular
are organdies, white Swisses, polka dot
Swisses and dimities.
"Seven or eight yards of cloth will
make a dres3 for most girls."
The Lewis and Clark High School
students will hold their graduation ex
ercises on January 31. The girl stu
dents will dress in plain 'white dresses
costing not to exceed the sum of $10.
FARE TO NORTHWEST, $25
Union Pacific Announces March-
April Colonist Rates.
OMAHA, Jan. 20. (Special.) The
Union Pacific Railroad today announced
a resumption of its low colonist rates
to the Northwest, effective for six
weeks of March and April, during
which time the fare from the Missouri
River to all Oregon and Washington
points will be $25.
Each day of the colonist rates
through train of tourist sleeping-cars,
with special dlnlng-car service and
greatly reducing dlnlng-car prices,
will be run through from Omaha to
Portland,
DAILY MRS. BELMONT'S AIM
Newspaper Will Be Managed by and
Devoted to Women.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Mrs. O. H. P.
Belmont said today she was planning
to start a dally newspaper to be man
aged by women and devoted entirely
to their interests. She said that wo
men did not have a fair representation
in the news of the day and thought the
time was ripe for women to come to
the front editorially.
Mrs. Belmont's Ideal, she announced,
"would be a paper which Is not bound
by any financial, political or social ob
ligation to suppress one bit of news or
to alter its tone." '
BUTTER PRIZE OF THIEVES
Gangs Steal Thousands of Dollars'
Worth of Valuable Product.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. The high
price to which butter has soared has
made It the prize loot of city thieves.
It developed today that gangs of
clever operatives have stolen thou
sands of dollars' worth of the commod
ity In the last few weeks, a load
valued at $1000 having been taken In
one Instance in daylight from a truck
in the wholesale district.
BILLIARD TOUCH VALUABLE
Verdict of $6000 Awarded Player
for Injury to Nervous System.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 20. For the loss of
his billiard touch, Charles Peterson, a
local professional, was given a verdict
of $6000 by a Jury here today.
He was thrown out of an automobile
when a streetcar ran Into the machine
and he sued the streetcar company for
$25,000, alleging his nervous system
was Injured.
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USiSO A COJ.O
ojzoposnrov
GIRL GAVE CRY AND
DIED, SISTER TELLS
Treatment by Dr. Haz
zard Explained.
TALE OF LAST KISS TOLD
Dying Woman Led to Believe
Kin Is Insane.
EX-ARMY MAN TAKES CASH
Husband of "Starvation Cure" Spe
cialist, "Dr." Hazzard, Admits
Williamson Maids Turned'
Over Power of Attorney.
SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 20. "Mrs.
Hazzard said, 'Would you like a treat
ment, Claire.' and putting her hand on
my sister's abdomen, she pressed down
hard. Claire gave a cry and became
unconscious. I said: 'Is it all over?
and Mrs. Hazzard replied 'Yes.'"
Thus Miss Dorothea Williamson told
a Jury in the Kitsap County Superior
Court at Port Orchard today of the last
time sho saw alive her sister Claire,
the wealthy English spinster whom
Mrs. Linda Burfleld Hazzard is ac
cused of murdering at her "starva
tion sanitarium."
Miss Williamson said that she re
turned at once to her room, which was
beneath that occupied by her sister. She
heard people walking about the room
all night, and wondered what they were
doing.
Sister Told of Death.
"I didn't know that Claire was still
alive, but was told later that she did
not die until 4 o'clock in the morning
of Friday, May 19, several hours after
they led me from the death bed," she
said.
In a simple, straightforward manner
that apparently impressed the Jury
deeply, Miss Williamson, recounted tha
events of the night her sister died.
While at the Olalla Sanitarium Dora
said she saw Claire several times. Once
she saw her body and said the girl's
chest was all mottled with purple
patches like freckles and that Uie
veins stood out in Claire's hands. Both
girls still kept on thinking they were
getting well, as they were getting
rid of the "poisons" in their bodies.
Food Kothlng bnt Broth.
Their food, or Dora's, as she testi
fied, consisted of the usual broth,
wh'ch now had six tips of asparagus in
It- Here the state began its similarity
of proof in its attempt to prove that
Mrs. Hazzard had deprived the girls
"of and kept from them food necessary
to sustain life." Dora said she often
asked for' ham, biscuits, honey and
other things and though she was led to
believe that she would get them the
next diy, they never came.
'Once I was given a few Inferior
raisins, but for a fortnight I had noth-
Ing but asparagus, and sometimes this
was so stringy I could not eat it. I
Just felt destitute for food. I used
to wake in the morning, and the first
thing I would think about would be
what I was to get to eat."
Because their relatives might give
them food, Dora said Mrs. Hazzard
would not let them notify their rela
tives where they were, but insisted
that they must go on with the fast,
"until our tongues became clean." In
the meantime, the prolonged sne.nai
were continued. It Is to be alleged
by the defense's witnesses that Do
rothea (or Dora) often had fits of men
tal aberration in her early life. Along
this line the state deduced the fol
lowing testimony from Dora:
"Mrs. Hazzard told me I was men-
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