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o THE STJXDAY OKEGOXIAX, POKTLAXD, FEBRUARY 4, 1912. - W MMM,1,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,MM,,,,B,,,,,,,,M,,,,Sssssn "" GONNERS JURY IS !f wjwar--1 Uf jLsa"WM UNABLE 10 AGREE 1 , K . HI j I V fcA BtMmon Ten Favor Acquittal of Man Accused of Dynamiting Hall of Records. BALLOTS SHOW NO CHANGE ,; II Oeairi sweep h - '..Wi : : H f LK7 . f it ' - . .'r'-: '--.- i a v & .'s t -. w st a -a r - - -a mm t i . - -jx"- r - ---- --t ,. . , . fr,rrr-v ai-n mi n r a I 1 i if k ... i r 1 1 Pmmm, im While They Last Sff) : I Qut-Mlon of Anotlirr Trial to lie De- cldrd Whrn FVedrrlrk Rrlurns to Ix9 AnRcJcs .5oclalcs Mj Re See Free. LOS A.NOELES, Feb. J. The Jury In the cmse of Brrx 1L Conners. accused ef havlnir attemptea to destroy the Ball of Records with flynamite. re ported to Judge Willis late today that It was unable to a (tree and was dis charged. It stood 10 to two for ac quittal. The Jury retired at :BJ yesterday morn Inn. and one of the Jurors said that the balloting had remained the same front the time the first Tote was taken. After the announcement of the dis agreement. Judge Willis ordered the defendant into the custody of the Sheriff. It was in the Ptstrlct Attorney's office that the question as to whether Conners wouM be tried airaln could not be determined until District Attor ney Fredericks' arrival In the city. He Is expected here the latter part of next week. F. Ira Bender and A. B. Maple are In Jail on Indictments charitins; the same offense as that as;alnst Conners. and It was intimated in the District Attorney's office that In case Conners was not tried again that the Indict ments aralnst Bender and Maple would Y quashed. M MAN I GAL CLAD 1IKS BACK People of California. Saya Prisoner, Know How to Treat Man. LOS ANGELES. Feh. J. Ortle E, Mc manlral. confessed dynamiter, arrlred In Los Aniceles tonlsht from Indianap olis, In custody of Sheriff Ilammel and two other ofBcers. The part left the Indiana capital January 31. went to Chicago, walked through the streets to the Wells-Street giatlon and taking a Chicago at Northwestern train, cam on West. McManlral aald he was flad to get back to California, "where people knew cow to treat a man." although, he ad mitted, tie had been well treated In In dianapolis. -Did the grand Jury In Indinapolle ask yon any questions that would Indi cate what they were after?" he was asked. -Well." he replied, "I don't know who they were after, but they asked me an awful lot of questions and I answered them alL I told them all 1 knew. Any time they would run out of other wit nesses, they would call me and I guess I went In their room a doxen times." Sheriff Hammel said that McManlgal had enjoyed the freedom of the car on the entire route, and. to far as pas sengers knew, was one of their party. Instead of a prisoner. "There were no handcuffs. said the Sheriff, "and Mc Manlgal slept In an upper berth oyer me. We couldn't have driren him away with a. gun." MURRAY TO SELECT SITE War Department Telia General to Pick Suitable Maneuver Camp. OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Feb. 3. The War Department has left to General M array, command ing the Western division of the Army, the selection of a site for the Joint maneuvers to be participated In next Summer by the militia and regular troop of North western states. Representative Warburton baa urged General Murray to select American Lake, near Tacoma. and General Mur ray has promised to send a board of Army officers to American Lake and to go there himself before deslKnatlng the maneuver site. If It Is the purpose to make an attack Uicn some city, Warburton points out. Tacoma Is close at band and within reasonable march ing distance of the camp. EX-PRISONER BRINGS SUIT Socialist Save He Wax Forced to At tend Religious Service. PITTSBCRG. Feb. I. Frederick H. Merrlck. editor of a Socialist newspa per, one time a prisoner at the county Jail, has brought suit for $10,000 against Warden Lewis, alleging that because he would not rttend the re ligious services at the Institution, he was thrown Into the dungeon of the Jail. He says that he was kept In solitary confinement during the serv ices, charging that the guards handled bim roughly. Later, the plaintiff asserts, he was compelled by force to attend the serv-t.-e. Herrlrk contends that his right f religious freedom, guaranteed by the Constitution of the I'nlted Stales, was violated. EMBEZZLEMENT IS CHARGE Warrant Oot for Everett's Former Treasurer, Short ft ,000. EVERETT. Wash.. Feb. I. A war rant was sworn out yesterday by the Prosecuting Attorney for the arrest of Alexander Keav. ex-tlty Treasurer, on a charge of embexxllng more than lis. 00 of the city's money. Keay left Kverett early In November. alng he was going on a hunting trip la the mountains and has not returned. The state examiner of municipal ac counts found on expertlng Keay's books that he had taken more than Slt.ooa of the city's money. He also found In Keay's office numerous majrasines containing detective stories that told ef the "pursuit of fugitives.' COLD MAKES EGGS SCARCE lllghest Price) Kvcr Reached la Chicago Is Recorded. CHICAGO. Feb. . One of the first results of the threatened cold wave was to send the price of eggs to the highest price ever reached in Chicago 40 cents a doxen, wholesale for first quality. There was talk that Monday would ee the new high record smashed ejlD, MTRO T. HERRICK. WASHINGTON. Feb. I. (Special) Myron T. Herrlck. of Ohio, con ferred with President Taft today in regard to the French Ambs.iisador shlp. which Mr. Taft has offered to him. Herrlck made no statement, but It is understood that he has signified his willingness to acM pt the post, provided his name meets with no objection from the Frendh gov ernment. . Steps will be taken at once by the State Department to sou nd the French government in regard to its attitude, Herrlck will succeed Robert Bacon, wko resigned a few weeks ago to beoome a fellow of Harvard University. GREAT MEN NAMED Roosevelt and Wilson on Liter ary Immortals' List. INSTITUTE MAKES CHOICE BUI Now Pending Before) Congress Propose) to Make Academy of Arts and Letters National by Official Sanction. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. . (Special.) The t "Immortals' of America, cbosea from among the greatest living writers, have been announced by the National Institute of Art and Letters. Among them are Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Tb list, which waa given out today by Harrison S. Morris, vice-president of the Academy, Is declared to have been chosen ac cording to the rules laid down by the famous Academie Francalse. the flrst of the five academies forming the Institute of France. The French academy, the members of which are known aa the Immortals. Is th chief tribunal of questions relating to th niceties of the French language and of grammar, rhetoric poetry and classification of French classics. Mr. Morris, who makes th announce ment, was commissioner-general from the United States to th recent art ex hibition in Rom. In addition to his membership In the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Morris Is an officer of the National Academy of Design In New York. Literary Llat Mad Is. i .Dillon to Theodore Roosevelt nd Woodrow Wilson. literary "Immortals' lowing: Charles Francis Mass. Henry Adams, of Boston. Henry M- Walton, of New Tork, edi tor of Harper"a , W. C BrownelU of New Tork. author and student of the cisssics. John Burroughs, of I naturalist and author. Nicholas Murray Butler. Tork. publicist and author. George W. Cable, of Northampton. Mass.. author and former newspaper ""Basil L. Gildersleeve. of Baltimore, editor, author and philologist. Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Tale University. William Dean Howells, of New Tork. author and editorial contributor to Harper's Mugaslne. Henry James, author and editorial writer. Robert Underwood Johnson, of New Tork. writer and editor. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, editor, author, lecturer and United States Senator. Thomas R. Lonnsbury. of New Haven. Conn- author and professor at Tale. Abbott L. Lawrence. Lowell, president of Harvard; author and scholar. Hamilton Wright Mable, of Summit. N. J., author ami editor. Admiral Ala Iaeladed. Alfred T. Mahan. of New Tork. Rear Admiral United States Navy, retired; author and editor. Brander Matthews, of New Tork. author and professor of literature at Colombia University. John Muir. of Martlnes. Cel.. the ologlst, explorer, naturalist, editor and author. Thomas Nelson Fage, of Washington, author and lecturer. Bliss Perry, of Cambridge, Mass.. professor of English literature at Harvard University. James Ford Rhodes, author and former preaident of th American His- the list of Includes the fol- Adams, of Lincoln, New Tork. of New torlcal Society, James Whltcomb Riley, tb Hoosler poet. William M- Sloane. of Princeton, N. J., professor at Columbia University; author and editor. F. Hopklnson Smith, of New Tork. artist and author. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton, N. J, author, poet and lecturer. Andrew Dlcksoa White, of Ithaca. N. V.. educator, diplomatist and author. George U. Woodberry, of Beverly, Mass., author and pi jeaan4r of litera ture at Columbia UnltsereUy. Artists Are Cls-aslaed. Included in th deguu-trxient of art are the following: John W. Alexander, of New Tork, painter. Paul W. Bartlett, f New Tork. sculptor. Edwin IL Blashflel orf New Tork. artist, author and leoturer on art at Columbia. Harvard and Tale. George Deforest Bntus, of Dublin, N. H.. artist William M. Chase, ot New Tork, artist. Kenyon Cox. of New Tork, painter and author. Dantel C French, ot New Tork, sculptor. Thomas Hastings, on New Tork, architect, chevalier ot the Legion of Honor of France. William Rutherford Mead, of New Tork, architect. Francis D. Millet, of New Tork, artist. i John S. Sargent, of New Tork. artist and officer of the Legion of Honor of France. Abbott Thayer, of Monat)'.nock, N. H., artist. Kllbu Veddei of New Tork and Rome, painter and modeler and famous mural decorator. There are two men In t!X- department of murlc who have receive! the distinc tion of election to the Arlerican acad emy. These are Georfte Whitfield Chadwick, of Boston, and Horatio M. Parker, of New Haven, (Jonn. THIEF ONCE BANK DIRECTOR Prisoner Says Inability to Get Food Drove Him to Rob f (nalt Stand. KANSAS CITT."Feb. . Asserting that he once was a suocasJsful business man and a bank dlrecnotr, a prisoner giving his name as Frld. Harry Hel mer, told In the Criminal Court here today how his failure arid his Inability to regain his former position had led him to rob an Italian fruit stand. Throwing himself on the "mercy of th court. Helraer pleaded tbs t two weeks ago, when he committed Ills crime, he had bad nothing to eat for 48 hours snd was desperate. Helmer realised what lh had done after running out of the fruit store. He stopped and as the pursuing proprietor came up he calmly faced- about while the Italian fired. The wound' was not serious, but Helmer said be hoped It would kill him. Tb court withheld sntince pending an investigation of Holm r's story. 5Mm BlIttmoM tiP0'htA pafffmort Chthtf 1 This is our After Inventory Clearance Sale. In taking account of stock, we found upward of 500 odd Suits in stock one, two or three of a style. The very fact that these various lines sold out so closely is a certain guarantee of their desirability. Every size is present in some style or another, but not every size in each style. In models as well there's full variety of slims, stouts and regulars. In colors there's an endless variety of grays and browns and fancies in light and dark effects. Eemember, not one in the lot sold at less than $15, and from that up to $25. Your choice while they last only 10. Bear in mind that first comers have best choosing r Stales Bsfflmort KCfofncsJ jBiMmort Btltlmort BiWmof) t a Billlmeit i , r&hfoisl ipiMmort 1 a'OT BtUlmon -Cottesi nan YHawn Hats f t AA Fourtb tad Alder Streets ClQthlllQ C0 j Crarrf Pheglei, Manager j 'Schhst rXJ0ftcs LA- 2d hits $3.00. Schhss Baltimore Clothes Schloss Baltimore Clothes r TttiimTimr Schloss Baltimore Clothes 4VJ' Hats kj.t;gJ rawe$vesi Hats Hats PEACE TIME RIPEl Lloyd-George Would Consider Reducing Armaments.' CABINET SPLIT UNFOUNDED ARMY MAN IS TRANSFERRED Private Michael Gallant Taken to Vancouver Under Qoard. OREGONIAN NEWS BUItEATJ. Wash ington. Feb. 3. An order wiia Issued by the War Department today -.transferring Private Michael L. Galla.at. Company K. Eleventh Infantry, from Fort Law ton to the First Infantr:r. Vancouver Barracks, and directing th at h be sent to Vancouver under guard, the expense of his transfer to be changed against his pay account. VANCOUVER "BARRACK". WasTt Feb. S. Gallant merely reported him self "absent without leave and he was ordered to be sent here. As he was probably not trustworthy, ' the Govern ment would not forward th transpor tation to him personally. He may be tried here for betng "sbelmt without leave," which Is not so sesiious as 'desertion." British Chancellor of Exchequer Be lieves Present Is Right Mo ment for Powers to Be Mutually Helpful. LONDON. Feb. I. David Lloyd George, Chancellor of th Exchequer, took occasion thla afternoon, when making a speech at tb City of London Liberal Club, to declare that the re ports of a split in the British Cabinet were entirely unfounded. He also as sured his audience that the alleged feud between lmself and Premier As qulth was a myth. gpeaklng on the reduction of arma ments, he aald he believed that the present waa an advantageous moment to consider the question. It was in the Interests of France, Germany, Russia and Great Britain that there should be a better understanding. He con tinued: "I believe that with candor, frank ness and boldness It is attainable. The world would be richer for It. Taxes might be reduced and the money which would ba saved that is now spent on armaments could be devoted to develop ing the resources of the country and improving the condition of the people. "Th cornerstone of sound finance is peace on earth and good will among men." GEBJUXT TO ADD TO FORCE Naval Bill Provides for 15,000 More Bluejackets. BERLIN, Feb. 8. Fifteen thousand bluejackets are to be added to th Ger man navy by the new naval bill about to be Introduced In th Reichstag, ac cording to this afternoon's newspapers. Where the Difference Lies l-v J KEl MERCHANT win contract ror space in u"""--53 peuiers. He will either writ his announce- himself, or employ He will sees: out tn some one to wriv man who wm con- to' do the writing for a pittance. This m ft chant gets no prof 1 table returns from his advertising. Anoiner mercnani win fca- th same amount of space. Then he will soak an advertising writer who charges onouga f- his services to enable him to prepare sell-In- copy for the advertising space. This mer-clw-nt reaps a profitable business. 501YeonBId Telephone Mioiiill3( The measure also provides for the commissioning of a third battle squad ron. The cost of the strengthening of the navy and army together Is esti mated to reach more than 125,000,000 annually. Wan-en ton Pioneer Passes Awaj. ASTORIA. Or.. Feb. 3. Phineas C. Warren died today, suddenly at his years. He came to Oregon in 1852 with his three brothers, all of whom are dead. He was born in New York State, and was IT years of age at the time he came to the Coast. He leaves a widow and two children Mrs. C. F. Lester and Frank M. Warren, both of Warrenton. Mr. Warren and his brothers were prominent figures In the development of this section for many years. During the Civil War he went East, returning to Oregon in 1872. .Safe deposit vaults, fire and burglar proof; private boxes and storage for valuables. Chamber of Commerc building, Third and Stark. Coal, dry wood. Edlefsen Fuel Co. iiiYin I I! II ii i VALENTINE You don't want to miss seeing the new novelties in hand-painted, embossed and illuminated effects from the well-known lines of Paul Elder, Davis "Quality Cards" and Rustcraft. These beautiful and artistic Valentines are now. on dis play in our Social Stationery Department, and you should see them before de ciding what you will give YOUR Valentine. Here also you will find an endless variety of cards, postals and small novelties sentimental and humorous, as well as a splendid showing of Valentine dinner cards, tally cards and score cards. Special Valentines will be made to order, if you wish something exclusive. See our special window. A Bookberibboned, boxed and banded "To My Valentine" what else so well expresses the sentiment of the day? Sweetheart Some suggestions for St. Valentine's Day. from the collection of beautiful and appropriate books we are showing for this occasion. Evolution A Fantasy.. .756 I.angdon Smith. When She was About Sixteen. . S2.00 . Rlleqr Christy IlluatraUona The Rubalyat of Omar Kliavyam K5 and S20 Kdmund Dnlac Illtutrations Other People 8-4.00 Charles Dana Glbeoa. An Old Sweetheart of Mine 81.60 James Whltcomb Klley. Siegfried and Gotter damerung S&.OO Arthur Rackham Illustra tions. Fair Americans...... S3. OO Harrtaon Flsfaer. New Fiction (See special dis play In Book Department). Leather-Bound Gift Books (See special displays). Mother "A mother Is a mother still. The holiest thing alive." What a happy thought to send mother a Valentine this year! What a 'happy surprise for her to receive) a little token of love from yon. A FEW SUGGESTIOXS Glorious Mother 50i and SI. 25. Samuel Francis Woo lard. . The Footpath to Peace...354 Henry Van Dyke. The Evening Prayer.. . .35 Robert Louis Stevenson. Mother S1.00 K. Morris. Lavender and Roses, Paper 50: Leather SI. 25 Edith Stevens. The Wife Recall the days of your courtship to your wife by sending her on February 14th, good Saint Valentine's Day, a token of your love and appreciation. A FEW SUGGESTIOXS Songs of Home S2.00 James Whltcomb Riley. An Old Sweetheart of Mine S1.60 Rllev Christy Illustrations Pictures of Memory, 50- and SI. 25 S. F. Woolard. Things Beautiful, Leath er S1.25: Paper 50H S. F. Woolard. A Wearying for You. Board 75C; Suede. .. 81.25 Edith Steven. Prayers Written at Vailima. S2.00 Robert Lonla Stevenson. For Auld Lang Syne .75J Ray Woodward. GOOD MEW FICTION (See special displays in Book Department). L f The J. K. Gill Company Corner Third And Alder Books - Social Stationery - Office Supplies - Office Furniture