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THT: STVDAT OREGOXIAX. PORTLAXD. .TUNE 8, 1913. PARISHIONER SUES RECTOR MORRISON Mrs. Marcella Clark Charges Malicious Slander and Asks $25,000. COMMUNION TO BE DENIED Woman Charges Clergyman With Goins Beyond Authority, and Promises to Attend Church and Occupy Her Pew Today. " am a. stranger in the parish. have attended this church for nearly seven years, but have never received ?ny of the courtesies usual In other places." These words, written by Mrs. Mar cella Clark, prominent suffragist, on the back of a card In Trinity Episcopal Church, Nineteenth and Everett streets, after the communion service last Sun clay, and then read aloud by her in the presence of Dr. A. A. Morrison the rector, and others, resulted yester day in the fill r . s. by Mrs. Clark In Cir cuit Court of a suit to recover $25,000 from Dr. Morrison for alleged maliciou slander. In her complaint Mrs. Clark charges that Dr. Morrison became violently en rasred and that his acts and alleged in clining language toward her were "without cause and with pure malice and Intent to Injure, defame, disgrace humiliate and bring plaintiff In con tempt." She declares that Dr. Morrison said to her: "You are an obstreperou I'erson. a mischief-maker and a nuis snee In the parish. You shall not be allowed Inside the church or to fur ther communion until you show your self by your life and conduct worthy to receive further communion." Pew to Br Occupied Today. These are the exact words of the complaint, but Mrs. Clark said last night that Dr. Morrison had not said that she would be denied the privilege of attending services, but simply that t!i- right of communion had been shut Qff.. She said that she is going to church this morning and will occupy iter pew. No. 55. for which she declared -in pays $80 a year, and that she would 'tike to see anyone try to prevent her .doing so. "According to our prayer book, com munion 1b denied only to open and no '.orioua evil persons and anyone who is acquainted with the custom in the Kpiscopal Church will certify that I am telling the truth in saying that Ihcre is always considerable expostula tion with the communicant extending river months and sometimes years be fore this drastic step is taken. Yet ttr. Morrison, on the spur of the mo vent and in his rage, presumed to ei--oniniunicate me." I'nntor" Letter Exhibited. The plaintiff exhibits and allowed to be copied the following letter which she received from Dr. Morrison on Monday. June. 2, the day following the controversy In the church: "Your conduct in the church yester day immediately after having received the holy communion, together with many other evidences of your contempt or church authority, renders it unwise for your own sake as well as subver sive of the order and discipline of the ihiirch that you be permitted to re- lve the blessed sacrament until such time as yon show by your life ar.-i con duct you are worthy to receive it. The authority for this action you will find In the rubric immediately before the rommunion office in the prayer book. I have notified the bishop of the dio nrso in accordance with the rubric. "I need scarcely add I would be well pleased if you would turn to the cat echism, especially meditating on. 'my rUity toward God' and 'my duty toward my neighbor' and also to what Is re iiuirrd of those who come t the Lord's Supper learning the necessity of re pentance and obedience, without which none arc worthy to receive holy com munion." Mad Keeling Datra Hack. According to Mrs. Clark's story, the first had feeling between Dr. Morrison and herself dates from the time, a few weeks ago, when she appeared at a dlo pese conference armed with a letter from Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway re questing that some of ihe lay delegates to tho National convention of the church, to be held in New York City In October, be women. The request, which Mrs. Clark still has In her pos session, was based on the theory that, inasmuch as women have been given the franchise In Oregon, they should be given an equal voice with men In even the most important affairs of the church. The letter was gt en consid eration, but was tabled. "At this convention In New York they are to vote On the proposition of changing the name of our church so as to include the word "Catholic." and low churchmen, of whom I am one. are opposed to it." explained Mrs. .Clark. "The diocese here Is domi nated by the high church people and rflicy elected a group of delegates who .Tavor the proposed change In name. My object was to open the question up so that the opposing element would have representation from this state. This. 1 believe, started the rancor in -Dr. Morrison's mind against me. and was what really led to his losing his tamper so quickly last Sunday." Woman Invited to Leave. Mrs. Clark declares that last Sunday Dr. Morrison walked to the door and swept and held it open, inviting her to leave. She declares that she in formed him that she had as much right there as he and that she would leave when It suited her. After some min utes she walked back through the 'hurch to her pew, secured her prayer hock and left by one of the usual ex its, not by the door of the vestibule. In which the Incident occurred. So ays that in declaring her excommun icated Dr. Morrison assumed a prerog ative which he does not possess and points to her prayer book as proof JLiiat. if any wrong has been committed by a communicant, he or she must be given ample opportunity to repent be-.-tore being denied the sacuinent. Mrs. Clark precipitated a scene at a meeting of women in the Etlers Hall - in.' months ago. when she accused Peorge L. Baker, president of the City Council, and other members of that body of insulting her by smoking cigars In a committee-room at the City Hall on an occasion when she and other women went there on business one day. Count-llinHu Makes Reply. . Some weeks later she went to the Council meeting and. on the floor of Ahe Council, again set forth herrlev- ances against Mr. Baker. At that time he replied briefly to her remarks. At the first meeting mentioned Mr. Baker made an apology to Mrs. Clark, which ah accepted at the time. "There is not the slightest foundation for any court action in the case." said Dr. Morrison last night. "It simply is a matter of church discipline. I have the power, as rector of the church, to Issue an Inhibition against a member partaking of the communion, and that is what 1 have done in her case. She has not been forbidden to enter the church. I am clearly within my rights in so dolns. I have not injured her in the slightest degree. If she will furnish you a copy of my statement to her. made In writing, it will disclose that I have not done so. "I am not at liberty to talk of Mrs. Clark publicly and I should feel very sorry snould she carry the subject into the civil courts. It Is not a matter to be hawked about and given to the pub lie." MRS. LILLIAN DAVIS DIES Bit i de or riaw months vooru Ol' HEART FA.II.IKK. Young Wife of Portland Business Man Suddenly Expires Follow ing Operation. Less than a year after their romantic marriage. Mrs. Ltlllan Dyer Davis, wife of TVilliam Davis, president of the Howe. Davis Company, printers, died i Mrs. W llllara Darin, Who Died YealerdaT. I. -J suddenly yesterday morning at her apartments in the Cumberland, 301 West Park street, of heart failure. She passed away in the arms of her sister. Mrs. P. G. Kneyse. Mrs. Davis was a daughter of H. B. Dyer, an accountant who lives at 414 K.ast Pine street, and to the time of tier marriage she was bookkeener for the firm of which Mr. Davis is head. Mrs. Davis was recuperating from an operation performed about two weeks ago. and was sitting up for the first time with her sister, when she sudden ly fainted. She revived temporarily and shortly after passed away. Dr. Klttie Plummer Gray gave the cause of death as heart failure. Besides her husband Mrs. Davis In survived by her mother and father and three sisters, Mrs. P. H. Bodson, of Denver, who is visiting In Portland, and Mrs. G. A. Gilds, and Mrs. P. G. Kneyse. of Portland. The funeral will be held Monday at SO o'clock from the KInlev undertak ing parlors, and interment will be in Kiverview Cemetery. airs. Davis was a native of Toronto Can., and had resided in Portland more than 20 years. She was a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood. c. JOE SCHMTZER WIN'S RACE FOR AUDITOR. Alice Campbell. Commissioner, Only Victorious Girl Xewsboj's Home to Get $1336. At the close of an exciting contest for the offices of Junior Mayor. Auditor and Commissioners. when the votes were counted last night, Charles Cohan was found to have won the place for chief executive of the city with a total of 4S.041. For Auditor. Joe Schnltzer won with a total of 3502. and Commis sioners Kalph Holzman. with 8124 votes; Alice Campbell, with 7S72; Henry Pan der, with 6949. and Scanland Collins, with 6069. The finish was exciting, when Ferd inand E. Reed threw in $280 for Cohan, or 28.000 votes, placing him far in the lead. This action was vigorously as sailed by W. Margulis, father of Milton Margulis. next highest candidate for Mayor, who declared that Reed obtained the money on the pretext of lifting the mortgage on the newsboys' home and then used It for deciding the race. At a penny a vote, a total of $1336. 32 was obtained for the newsboys' home. The contest lasted from Tuesday morn ing until 10 o'clock last night, when the candidates for the various offices spoke from an automobile at Sixth and Alder streets and were liberally ap plauded. The vote stood as follows: Mayer. Charles Cohan 43,041 Mill, n Margulis 3S.21D Helen Quinn 7.014 Clair Kidd 3.364 I'erlman 1.9S7 Bud Thomfiioii J.S41 R. YV. Mc.Nary -. . . 134 Andrew v.-unj f 83 Auditor. Joe Schnitxer . . . ... . . 3.302 J oe Weinsteln 670 Commissioners. Ralph Iiolzman 8.424 Alice Campbell , 7.8T2 Henry Pander 4.949 Scanland Collin 6,069 .loe Diet! 4.174 Julius Sternberg; 1.113 Abe Weinsteln 1,057 Isador Kai'lon 944 Kiuma Cohen 770 Ear! Goodwin 48s William Bolser 226 Al Ickey Schllt . . SS SNOW FLIES IN CHICAGO Gale Carries Mercury From Of to I t Within 1 5 Hours. CHICAGO. June 7. (Special.) A death, a reported fall of snow and thou sands of dollars of damage were brought to Chicago today by a 40-mile gale. The temperature fell from 91 de grees, the highest of the season, to 44 degrees In 15 hours. The gale wrecked many yachts in the harbor, sinking one. Occupants of the other boats narrowly escaped death. Homes and trees In the residential district also suffered. Many chimneys were blown down. lr BCTigWj' ? : .T.'3 :, 19 INDICTED FOR WAGE CONSPIRACY Mineworkers' Officials Ac cused of Part in Restrict ing Coal Competition. SHERMAN LAW IS INVOKED President White and 18 Fellow Officers Involved' Control or Price Is Declared to Have Been Their Purpose. CHARLESTON, W. Vs., June 7. President White and 18 other officials of the United Mine Workers of America were Indicted in the Federal Court here today on a charge of violating the Sher man an tl-trust law. It is alleged the defendants conspired with the coal operators of Western Pennsylvania, unio, Indiana and Illinois to raise wages In the West Virginia coal fields so as to prevent Its competition with ine otner lour states In the Western market. Those named In the indictment are John P. White, president; Frank J. Hayes, vice-president; Thomas Hag gerty. Joseph Vasey, James Cantrell, Charles Hatley, Marco Roman, George H. Edmonds and Benjamin F. Morris. organizers of the United Mine Work ers of America; Thomas Cairns, presi dent; Clarence O. Griffith, vice-nresi- dent; James M. Orairo. secretary of dis trict No. 17. United Mine Workers of America, and James Dana, John Nutter, Rome Mitchell. W. S. Reece, F. D. Stan ley, U. S. Cantley and A. D. Lavender. subordinate officers of district 17. Combination Declared Unlawful. The Indictments charged that the 19 men affiliated with the United Mine workers of America did in Kanawha County, West Virginia, and within the Jurisdiction of the Federal District Court, engage In a combination and conspiracy unlawfully In restraint of trade and commerce in the several states; the offense is said to have started September 1, 1912, and continued since. It is charged that the indicted men have been agents and members of "an unincorporated voluntary organization of individuals as a labor union known as the United Mineworkers of America, having many thousands of members who conspired, hy regulating wages, to control the price at which the coal mined in the state of West Virginia could compete with coal mined in Penn sylvania. Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois." ine indictments returned today are the first ever made against the offi cials of the United Mineworkers of America charging them with violating the Merman anti-trust law. Sales of Coal Restricted. The information on which the indict ment is based is said to have been the result of an extended Investigation into conditions by District Attorney Ritz, of tsiuerield, W. Va. The Indicted men. it is said, will be summoned into court during the com ing week. The indictment alleges that coal pro duced in West Virginiaespecially in Kanawha County, is shipped in compe tition with coal mined In other states of the competitive field and that the contemplated organization of the West Virginia miners is to restrict the sale of West Virginia coal In these markets. "The object and purpose of the United Mineworkers Is to fix wages to be paid laborers and to refuse to allow Bald laborers to work unless said wages arc paid,'" the complaint further reads. Market Is Limited. It Is charged that the miners in the tompetitive states which are unionized. dominated by the united Mineworkers and the coal operators of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, have entered into a combination and conspiracy with the miners' union wherein the alleged conspirators have agreed to prohibit the coal mined in West Virginia from entering- the lake markets and Canada." The alleged conspiracy, it is said, has resulted In much violence and lawless ness at the mines of the West Virginia operators on Paint and Cabin Creeks. Loss of life and destruction of property necessitated martial law. "OLD. OLD WAIL." SAYS HAYES Mineworkers' Vice-President De nies Conspiracy Existed. INDIANAPOLIS. June 7. "That's the old, old wall all operators make when they try to keep us from organizing the miners," Frank J. Hayes, vice president of the United Mineworkers of America, said tonight, when told of the indictments returned against the officials of the organization in West Virginia. He said the action was a surprise, for while the officers were expecting the operators to ask for an injunction to restrain them from organ izing the miners in parts of West Vir ginia, the indictments were not looked for. 'It is a move on the part of some operators," Mr. Hayes continued, "to draw attention away from the real con dition of affairs in West Virginia. "Our organization never has con spired to raise the wages In West Vir ginian or elsewhere. We have only asked the regular scale for the miners. We have nothing to do with fixing the price at which the coal is sold." MIDDLEMAN IS TARGET CO-OPERATION OX $50,000,000 SCALE PROPOSED. Hundred Cold Storage Houses and 200-0 Retail Shops In Xew Profit-Sharing Plan. NEW YORK. June 7. A new scheme to meet the problem of the high cost of living has been developed. It is a $50,000,000 co-operative corporation in Delaware under the name of the Na tional Co-operative Companies, to han dle cattle and produce from the pro ducer to the consumer. The plan provides for the elimina tion of a middleman or so. The com pany plans to ship livestock on the hoof to its own abattoir, kill and dress it, handle the by-products and ship the meat directly to its own retail stores. A supervisory committee has been named by William W. Bauer. This committee will name the company's directors for the first year and gen erally oversee the organization. It Is made up of John D. Crimmins. Colonel 5. T. Whistler, president of the Army and Navy Club; Dr. Charles H. Park- hurst. L. H. Healy. secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture; N. P. Hull, president of the American Dairy Farmers' Association, and J. Ar thur Sherwood, master of the Connect icut Grange. Each shareholder, regardless of how much stock he owns, has one vote for directors at each meeting, and no prox ies may be voted. Profits are to be divided this way: First, to all stockholders. 7 per cent per annum on their holdings; second, if there is any surplus remaining, 16 per cent will be divided among- em ployes in proportion to their wages; third, one-half of the surplus remain ing goes to shareholders of record to be divided pro rata to the amount of their purchases from the company's stores: and, fourth, the remainder of the profits is to be divided among shareholders. The company intends to retail meats, their usual by-products and general farm products at low prices and to es tablish cold-storage plants, slaughter houses and canning factories. There are to be 100 cold-storage houses and 2000 retail shops. ELKS SEE M'MINNVILLE FIVE HUXBKED VISITORS HELP DEDICATE TESEPItE. Excursion Trains Are- Run Prom Nearby Towns Parade Is Pea tore of Event. M'MINNVILLE, Or.. June 7. (Spe cial.) In the presence of 50 visiting Elks from all parts of the Willamette Valley, 300 of whom were from Port land, the new Elks' Temple of the Mc Minnville Lodge of Elks, No. 1283. was ucuiL-meu nere tonlgnt. During the afternoon McMinnvilles band met and escorted visiting dele gations from Dallas, Albany and other points. In the evening two special trains, one from Portland and one from Salem,, brought in trainloads of the happy Elks. The parade in the evening from the depot to the Elks' new quarters was an Interesting affair. Numerous unique features were in evidence, among which could he mentioned the police patrol drawn by a donkey and made mostly of poultry netting and an old wagon. Sev eral leading Elks were entered for a ride. A banquet was served at an early hour and speeches and oratory turned loose. Many prominent members from Portland and Salem were heard from. The Portland delegation brought with them a 42-piece band and an excellent orchestra. The McMinnville lodge was organized in July of last year and was known as the baby lodge at the National conven tion. With a start of 8'.' members it now numbers 20d and there are many ellgibles that will be initiated this Sum mer. Mayor W. T, Vinton, of this city. Is the exalted ruler. T. E. O'Neill, sec retary, and Frank Wortman. treasurer. Gales S. Hill, of Albany, was one of the speakers. The McMinnville lodge has a magnifi cently furnished temple, covering the two upper floors of one of the largest new buildings In town. WILSON IS NOT DISTURBED Cummins Insists He Will Demand That President Furnish Proof. WASHINGTON. June 7. Senators on the lobby Investigating committee were of the opinion today that Senator Townsend's sensational Charge that President Wilson himself virtually had been lobbying for the tariff bill would not be taken up by the committee as an Issue unless some specific charges were made. Senator Townsend, testi fying last night, while declaring that "White House influence" had been ex erted on certain Senators, declined to give any names. Unless those arc presented the committee Is not likely to follow up that phase. White House officials professed to be undisturbed by Senator Townsend's charge and it was said the President would not take the stand to make a personal answer unless some specinc charge was made against him. Officials declared Mr. Wilson was confident that the people of the country would take the position that he was representing them in Washington and had the right to use all his influence to further legislation promised in the Democratic platform. It was denied that the "patronage club" had been wielded to keep Senators In line. Senators Nelson and Cummins, the Republican members of the committee, had no plans today for following up that line of inquiry. "I intend, however, to insist before the hearings are over," said Senator Cummins, "that President Wilson fur nish the committee with the facts or Information on which he based his statements of 'insidious lobbying' in Washington." I. W. W. MEN ARE DUCKED Millworkers in Seattle Resent At tempt at Agitation. SEATTLE, Wash., June 7. (Special.) In complete disregard of their feel ings and the possibility of the shock of coming into contact with water proving fatal to them, a pair of In dustrial Workers of the World," who had been making nuisances of them selves around the plant of the Puget Sound Timber & Lumber Company plant at Port Angeles, were grabbed in a loose place in their clothing by mill workers and rudely tossed off the end of the company's dock, landing wrong side up in the bay. The mill workers announced themselves as tired of having the members of the "un washed horde hanging around, trying to start something." Just prior to being dumped into the Sound the two men had been in the messhouse trying to agitate among the millmen. Their remarks were overheard by Cal Welbon, one of the heroes of the flag incident on Second avenue. In Seattle, on May 1, 1912. and who Is chief steward in the quarters. Welbon threw them out of the building in the twinkling of an eye, and from the point where they landed they were transferred by willing hands to the chilly waters just beyond the end of the mill dock. C00KE DELAYS MARRIAGE Unlocked Rector to Walt Until Certified Copy of Decree Is Sent. NEW YORK" r,,n. 1 ti within the next week -r'ten days, Jere "uue Lume, ine torraer Hempstead. N. T.. clergyman, whose wife divorced him vesterrinv will ha t. etta W haley. with whom he eloped six j ine aaie or trie marriage, Cooke's la-n-t--- t .. .j .a i- . . . - - " " ' '- . naa oeen delayed until Cooke receives a certified "w .11 tne aivorce decree. "They will not be married by a minis ter." said the lawyer. "One of the most respected clergymen In New York has expressed his willingness to officiate but they decided not to change tir original plans for a civil marriage. YVHY COLD STORAGE IN YOUE HOME HONEYMAN HARDWARE FOURTH AT ALDER EXPERT IS EXPOSED Bell System Employe Shown to Have Advised Seattle. B0WERMAN BARES FACT Portland Man Testifies Attempt to Discriminate Against Independ ent Phone Company Appar ent on Puget Sound. SEATTLE. Wash., June 7. (Special.) Seattle's City Councilmen seeking ad vice about the proposed city telephone system last Winter, bought some of their expert advice from an employe of the Bell Telephone System, accord ing to ex-Governor Jay Bowerman, of Oregon, who brought out some testi mony to that effect today before the State Public Service Commission. The Commission was concluding the hearing of the complaint of the North western Long Distance Telephone Com pany against the Pacific States Tele phone & Telegraph Company, the Bell System, when Mr. Bowerman rot C H. Judson, under cross-examination. Judson. now an expert with the Bell Company, admitted that he went into that employ in November, 1912, and for a month or more he assisted Frank B. Hall in estimating the cost of a municipal telephone system for theCity of Seattle. Bowerman Has Doubts. "I have no especial Interest in the Seattle affair," said Bowerman tonight, "but I doubt If tho city got the most unprejudiced advice in the world from Mr. Judson." Judson was one of the several offi cials of the Bell company who testified today in defense of that system against the petition of the Northwestern line, which seeks to place a supervisor in the Bell long distance office to see that its calls are not delayed or interfered with. 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