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TJTE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 31, 1914.
MRS. G. H LEWIS IS
DEAD AT 75 YEARS
Three Sisters and Ten Children
Survive Pioneer Who Arrived
in Oregon in 1852.
FAMILIES HISTORY MAKERS
Marriage of Clementine freeman
Couc-h and Cicero Hunt Lewis
Solemnized in State's First
Episcopal Church in 1857.
After an illness of three months,
Mrs. Cicero Hunt Lewis, widow of the
founder of the wholesale grocery
firm of Allen & Lewis, died shortly
before 2 P. M. yesterday at the family
liorae. Nineteenth and Glisan streets.
She was nearly 76 years old, having
"been born in Newburyport, Mass., Oc
tober 14, 1838.
The funeral arrangements will not
be made until today; but it was an
nounced last night that the services
will be held from Trinity Episcopal
Church. Nineteenth and Everett streets,
of which Mrs. Lewis was an active
member for many years.
Mrs. Lewis is survived by three sis
ters. Mrs. Caroline E. . Wilson. Mrs.
Elizabeth R. Glisan, of Portland, and
Miss Mary H. Couch, who is now trav
eling abroad, and by 11 children, ten
of whom are residents of Portland.
Her sons are L Allen Lewis, presi
dent of Allen & Lewis; John C. Lewis,
Robert W. Lewis, David C. Lewis and
C. Hunt Lewis. Her daughters are
Mrs. J. E. Bingham. Mrs. George
Good, Mrs. A. Li Mills, Mrs. Sherman
R. Hall and Miss Sarah H. Lewis, all
of Portland, and Mrs. Henry P. Fair
banks, of New York City.
Panama Route Taken.
As Miss Clementine Freeman Couch,
daughter of Captain John H. Couch, a
prominent pioneer, Mrs. Lewis came
to Oregon in 1852 by .way of the Isth
mus of Panama. They took a train
part of the distance across the isth
mus, crossing the Chagres River in a
boat. In striking contrast to the present-day
method, they climbed over the
mountains where Culebra Cut is now
located by muleback.
Portland was a primitive town of
only 1000 persons when they arrived
here. There were then but two streets,
the forest extending down to what is
now First street, which, then had
stumps in It.
Captain Couch, who had preceded
his family on voyages to the Pacific
Coast in the early forties, took up a
land claim, known as the Couch dona
tion claim, adjoining the original Port
land claim established by Pettygrove
and others. With him was associated
his brother-in-law, George. H. Flan
ders, another of Oregon's pioneers.
Their tract extended from the Willam
ette River to a point a. mile back, em
bracing most of the land between An
keny and Washington streets, the river
and Thurman street. This tract was
later subdivided and sold, but the name
of Couch is perpetuated In Couch
street. Couch Addition and Couch
School, while Flanders street was
named after the other owner.
Early History Recalled.
The beautiful residence property
bounded by Nineteenth, Twentieth,
Gtisan aud Hoyt streets, has been re
tained intact all these years, and It
was in the home on this site that Mrs.
Lewis died yesterday after living In
Portland continuously for 62 years, a
large share of them passed on that
original property.
The Couch family settled at First
and Ankeny streets, where the Leon
ard building now stands, later moving
to a part of the homestead at Fourth
and Hoyt streets in the midst of a
great grove of oak trees on the shores
of Couch Lake. The former bed of the
lake has long since been filled in. The
Hill-Northern Pacific terminals are
now located there.
In that early day debates were fre
quent as to which would be the ulti
mate metropolis of this section. Port
land or St. Helens.
On January 18, 1857. Miss Clementine
Freeman Couch married Cicero Hunt
Lewis, a pioneer of 1851, who lived to
be one of Oregon's greatest merchants
and citizens. The marriage took place
In the first Episcopal Church building
erected In Oregon, a small edifice at
Second and Oak streets, where the City
Jail now stands. The church later was
moved to the corner or Fifth and Oak
streets, where the Commercial Club
building now stands. The Sunday
school of Trinity Church was con
ducted in this building for many years.
Benefactions Are Told.
Mrs. Lewis, kind and modest in her
disposition, was beloved by all who
knew her or who came In contact with
her. In a quiet way she was a generous
philanthropist, not interested in any
one particular movement, but in all.
The greatest enjoyment of her fortune
seemed to be in doing something for
others.
At the time of the San Francisco
fire she donated $20,000 to the relief
fund. She also gave liberally to the
Good Samaritan Hospital and Trinity
Episcopal Church. The addition to the
Good Samaritan Hospital was built
by her as a memorial to her husband.
Mrs. Lewis' father. Captain Couch,
vas prominent among the builders of
Portland. He was born In Newbury
port in 1811 and educated in New Eng
land. When only 14 he went to sea.
Fourteen years later, in 1839, he was
sent out by Captain Cushing, of New
buryport, the father of the celebrated
Caleb Cushing, in command of the brig
Maryland, carrying a cargo of general
merchandise, which he was to dispose
of in the Hawaiian Islands and Ore
gon. This was his first trip to the
Pacific Coast.
Portland Reached in 1S40.
In 1840 he continued upstream to the
Willnmette Falls, where only canoes
had ventured up to that time. After
building a warehouse at Oregon City
' to establish trade relations he later
abandoned it and dropped his anchor
below Ross Island In the present har
bor limits of Portland.
Keturning to Massachusetts, he bulit
th bark Chenamus. named after a
Chinook chief, on which he made three
subsequent voyages to Oregon. After
further investments in essels, he
abandoned the water and engaged in a
general wharf and warehouse business
on Front and Burnside streets. He
was a director of the Orearon Printing
Association and a plaintiff in one of
the only two cases heard at the first
term of the Supreme Gnurt. During
hi residence in Oregon City he was
elected as one of Its first Mayors, and
-was the first treasurer of the pro
visional government of Oregon.
l'nnama Route Taken In ISTiO.
Cicero Hunt Lewis occupied a fore
most position in the business circles
ef Portland for 47 years.
He was born in Cranbury. Middlesex
County. New Jersey. December 22, 1S26.
AN" hen 20 he moved to New York, where
he received his education. While there
he was employed In the dry goods house
of Chambers. Heiser & Co.
Realizing the great opportunities of
fered in the primitive West, he left
New York City in February, 1S59, In
company with L. H. Alien, taking the
Panama route to the Pacific .Coast,
traveled not long afterward by his fu
ture wife. Arriving in San Francisco
March 23, they -remained until June,
when they made arrangements to start
a. business in Portland, then a small
vilage of no commercial Importance.
In 1S53, after Mr. Allen had returned
from a trip to the East, the firm of
Allen & Lewis, which now operates on
a large scale in this territory, as one
of the largest wholesale concerns on
the Pacific Coast, was organized. This
house was at first only a small grocery.
Rise to Influence Rapid.
Mr. Lewis was for a time the agent
of the Adams Express Company and
for a line of Pacific steamships from
San Francisco. Rapidly the trade of
tho firm grew in volume and import
ance until its owners became prom
inent in financial circles. Mr. Lewis
subsequently became a director Of the
Security Savings & Trust Company and
several other banking institutions.
Though independently wealthy long
before his death in 1897. he remained
at the helm of the firm until the end
came.
He was a prominent Mason and
served in the early days as a member
of engine company No. 1, of the fire
department. He was active in many
movements for the public good, but
held only one public office, that of
member of the water committee. Like
his wife, he was charitable but in an
unostentatious way.
FIVE READY FOR DEGREE
REED WILL NOT HAVE GRADUA
TION EXERCISES UNTIL. 1915.
Student Now Completing Course En
tered Portland College With Stand-
Ing at Other Schools.
Although there Will be no graduation
exercises at Reed College until June,
1915, five students will complete their
work for the bachelor's degree this
semester. All of these students entered
Reed with advanced standing from other
colleges. They are: William Boddy,
Arthur Caylor, Gladys Lowden, Claude
Newlin and Lizzie Ross.
Mr. Boddy entered Reed College from
Spokane College, where he had taken
one year's work. In addition to his
college work he has been pastor of the
Central Free Methodist Church for
three years in Portland. He has been
one of the leading students of the col
lege in regard to scholastic attainments
and as a result of his college record he
has been elected a member of the Reed
College faculty and will begin his
duties next September as instructor in
English. He has also been prominent
in student affairs, having served two
years., on tbe student council and for
the past semester he has been editor
of the Reed College Quest.
Arthur Caylor entered Reed College
from the University of Kansas, where
he spent one semester. By hard Work
and close application he has succeeded
in making up enough extra credits to
graduate this year.
Claude Newlin is a graduate of Pa
cific College and he has had several
j ears' experience in teaching. At Reed
lie did his major work in the English
department and expects to teach Eng
lish. Miss Ross entered with the first
class after having studied a year at
the University of Oregon. Gladys
Lowden entered from Whitman College,
where she did the work of the sopho
more year. In her freshman year she
was at Mount Holyoke College.
Bishop to Be Chosen September 16.
Tho standing committee of the dio
cese of Oregon, after the funeral of
Bishop Scadding yesterday, called a
special convention of the diocese for
Wednesday, September 16, at Trinity
Church to elect a bishop.
COWBOY AT OAKS TURNS
DOWN OPERA CHANCES
Montana Bill Pruitt Refuses Long Contracts on Largest Circuits Because
They Take Him Too Far From Home and Ranch.
PIVB years ago Bill Pruitt was a
rip-snorting cow-puncher in Mon
tana. Now he turns down grand
opera engagements. j
Louis W. HUI. president of the Great
Northern Railway, heard him sing.
took him in his private car to Chicago,
introduced him to Andreas Dippel, for
mer director of the Chicago grand
opera company, and the latter made
him one offer after another.
As exhibit A, Pruitt shows a long
series of letters, telegrams and postal
cards from the volatile Dippel.
Pruitt has recently been on the "big
time" in vaudeville, and, because of
his wife's health, decided to stay in
Portland for the Summer. As a result,
he is one of the features on the bill
at the Oaks Amusement Park, singing
in a voice that excites amazement.
Range Rider Tells "Story.
This is the way Bill Pruitt, or Mon
tana Bill, as his singing and cowboy
"monaker" has it, told his story last
night.
"Ho'd I happen to come on the
stage?
"Well, partner, it all happened 'bout
five year ago. I was rldin' for the old
Five T Five Bar T outfit. Ol John
Jenkens owned it then.
"The mornin' this happened, the ol"
man sent a couple of the boys and I
to the upper ranch at Pilgrim Creek to
look after some dogies (cattle). I was
a-ridin' 'long th' edge of a cutbank,
seeing if there was any strays in the
coulee, when the ground broke under
my hawse and down we went for a
couple of hundred feet. The HT hawse
broke his leg. I got & busted rib or
two and my hip thrown out of place.
"After I got out of the hospital, 1
was ambltn' roun' town one mornin'.
"nd dropped in to see a friend of mine
who run a music store. The first thing
Charlie asked me was how I was a
feelin' and so on. when, all of a sud
den, he says: 'Bill, there's a feller
a-startin' a moving picture outfit up
the street and he's looking for a
singer."
"I looked at Charlie a. minute. 1
said: 'Are you kidding me or trying to
hand me some trouble?" After some
persuading, I took it and lasted six
months, singing for pictures. That was
as long as I could stay away from the
ranch, and I went back for two years
and a half.
"While the bunch were in town one
day In Helena, Jim Shoemaeher, then
secretary of the State Fair of Montana,
asked me if I would sing for the fair
a new song a Montana man had writ
ten, which had been O. K.'d by the
Government."
(The Shoemaker whom Pruitt men
tioned was the Shoemaker who was in
Portland last year as Louis Hill's per
sonal representative with the Glacier
Park Indians.)
Cowboy Band la Organised.
Montana Bill hitched uneasily at his
belt, then went on:
"After talking it over with Jim. we
thought it would be a good thing to
get up a cowboy band, so we got 12
of the boys who could bust instruments
nearly as well as broncs. to practice
a few days before the fair opened.
"During the week. Louis Hill came
to the fair and heard me sing, and got
OREGON PIONEERS
MEET HERE JUNE 18
Exercises Exclusively for Mem
bers Open at 2:30 P. M.
in Masonic Temple.
RAILROADS FURNISH RATES
Indian War Veterans Will Meet One
Day Ahead of Old-Timers All
Persons Coming -to 'Original
. Oregon' by 1859 Eligible
The 42d annual reunion of the Ore
gon Pioneer Association, will be held in
the Masonic Temple, on the southwest
corner of . Yamhill and West Park
streets, June 18.
The literary exercises, for pioneers
exclusively, will begin In -the Temple
at 2:30 P. M. The programme arranged
is as follows:
Call to order, Joseph L. Carter, 44.
of Hood River, president of the as
sociation; invocation by Rev. John
Flinn, 50, of Portland, chaplain; ad
dress of welcome, H. R. Albee, Mayor
of Portland, or his representative; re
sponse by the president; annual ad
dress by Judge Grant B. Dimick, of
Oregon City; benediction by the chap
lain. Patriotic band, instrumental and
vocal music will supplement the pro
gramme. ' JBanquet Follows Buftinens
The exercises jvill be followed by a
banquet intendeor pioneers, and their
wives and husbands, who may not be
pioneers.
What is termed a "Hi-You-Muck-a-Muck"
gathering will be staged in the
Armory at 4:30 o'clock. This event,
which, translated from the jargon,
means a line informal time, is jutder
the direction of the organized Woman's
Auxiliary of the Oregon Pioneer As
sociation. At the annual business meeting in
the Masonic Temple, at 7:30 P. M., of
ficers for the ensuing year will be elect
ed and other business matters trans
acted. Colonel Robert A. Miller, '54,
will preside at the annual campflre,
directly following the business session.
Among the striking features of this
occasion will be five-minute talks by
well-known pioneers, old-time melodies
by the G. A. R. Quartet, Chinook son KB
and pioneer dancing tunes by veteran
fiddlers. The children of pioneers and
the general public are invited to this
meeting.
Indian W ar Veterans to Meet.
The annual business meeting of In
dian War Veterans will be held June
17. the day preceding the pioneer meet
ings. The general pioneer headquarters are
to be at the Oregon Historical Society
rooms, in the Tourny building, 207 Sec
ond street, corner of Taylor, where, be
ginning Saturday, Jyne 14. badges for
the respective years may be secured
from the secretary, George H. Himes,
up to noon of June 18. All persons
coming to, or born in, the original ter
ritory of Oregon up to 1859, inclusive,
without regard to where they now live,
are eligible to membership and to wear
the badge of the association, labeled
ter their respective year.
Reduced rates of a fare and a third
will be given by all railroads from all
points in the Northwest for the occafc
sion. Montana Bill Priiltt. Cowboy
AVko Refused to Go loto Grand
Opera.
me and the band to go to Minneapolis
for two weeks in November, 1912.
"After the land show there, Mr. Hill
who's no tenderfoot, you can bet
cherlife took the hull outfit to Chi
cago in his private car. While there
he sure give us a good time, believe
me.
"The band and I and Mr. Hill went
downtown one day. We found the big
Chicago opera company was going to
open, so we-alls ambled back onto the
stage. One of the bunch thought it
would be lots of fun to start them
along by playing and singin', jest to
show them they was not the only ones
to sing an play.
"After we got through, the boss of
the opera outfit come to me and asked
If I would like to sing in grand opera.
I tol him if I had a few lessons 1
would take a chance. He offered to
pay all my expenses if I would sign
papers with him for five years.
At that, I think another year will
see me back on the ol ranch again for
a while, as I jest can't pull away from
it." d
Montana Bill has in his possession
now proposed contracts on the biggest
vaudeville circuits, offering him over
two years' engagements. He is at the
Oaks this week.
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Will You Look at These Pianos
in the House-Cleaning Sale of
We,lltake$45foroId
style ones, $95 for
really good ones and
$145 for slightly
used, really worth
while pianos.
Pay us a little to show
good faith and balance
as best suits your con
venience. PLAYER PIANOS DRASTIC
ALLY CUT, TOO.
We now offer Player Pianos
at prices that cannot be dupli
cated elsewhere; $290 now buys
an Apollo Player; $325 buys a
used Weber Pianola Piano, and
$650 a most elegant Weber
Pianola Piano ever seen here,
while for $335, $345, $418, $435
and $624 you can now secure
player pianos that regularly sell
for more than twice the money
in this- or any other city. Free
Music Rolls included.
MOST
PROMINENT
MAKES
INCLUDED
A h u r r ied
trip through
this big estab
lishment (four
floors devoted
to musical in
strument sell
ing:, the larg
est and most
varied stock
of everything
musical on the .
Pacific Coast)
will quickly
convince even
the most dis
c r i m i nating
music i an of
the quality of
the pianos now
offered in this
sale.
GO-OPERATION TO
REDUCE COS l URGED
Schools Should Work in Har
mony With Municipal Bodies,
- Says R. H. Thomas.
BENEFITS DECLARED MANY
Consultation or Publicity Societies
on Problems of Management Sug
gested In Final Chapter of
- Address Made Recently.
BT R. H. THOMAS..
Clerk of the Portland School Board.
(Note Sixth and concluding chap
ter of a general paper on "Some Ad
ministrative School Problems," read by
Mr. Thomas before the Inland Empire
Teachers' Association at its recent an
nual convention in Spokane. In pre
ceding issues of The Sunday Oregonian
chapters on the following subjects have
been published: "Sources of Revenue,"
"The Janitor." "Insurance," "Safety
First." "Problem of the Non-Resident
Student." Mr. Thomas is considered an
experienced school man. having been
elected last week to serve his seventh
year as clerk of the Portland board.)
Still another problem for school ad
ministration is that of co-operation
with other municipal organizations.
Schools should work in harmony with
other tax-supported municipal corpo
rations for the best results from the
taxpayers' money.
There are many common points of
expenditure and many places each can
save the other- money. There also are
many places to avoid duplication, re
duce cost and unite in support of good
public policies. Quiet co-operative team
work here will cut expenses at many
points.
Joint Meeting Called Beneficial.
In Portland, the city, county and
school officers have an organization
which meets once each month to dis
cuss questions of this kind, and find
from each other wherein help is de
sired and possible. The work is at
present too new to have read into his
tory what It can do, but It has a spe
cific plan with definite alms.
Some things already accomplished
are to be found In answers to the fol
lowing: How often does the fire department
Inspect the schoolhouses?
How much does the City Council help
out in providing ordinances for vacat
ing roadways and fencing off streets
and regulating vehicle speed past
schoolhouses and define safety in pub
lic buildings?
To what extent does the city engi
neering department survey the school
grounds and set grade stakes?
What better place is there to locate
city rain gauges than on schoolhouses?
What better places than schoolhouses
to establish survey monuments for city
levels, or election polling booths?
Who is better to ferret out youthful
offenders of the law than the school
truant officer?
Consultation of Booster Clubs I'rared.
Then, there are the semi-municipal
organizations the Chamber of Com
merce, the Commercial Club, the Push
Club, the Business Men's Association
and the local Parent-Teacher societies.
These bodies of interested citizens can
do much to insure the successful out
come of any well-defined and approved
policy of school officers. They repre
Eilers Building
Alder Street at
Broadway
sent various interests and do effective
publicity work, sometimes rated near
ly equal to the daily press.
A forceful explanation of some vital
school problem would bring to your
support many a voice and many a vote.
There are Xlmes when the public Is of
a divided opinion and you need help.
It is well to take advantage of the op
portunities they offer for public gath
erings. Usually they have wants of
their own and It is often easier to ad
just some local question if you can "dis
cuss with these people their Ideas on
the point.
Co-operation is the bottom principle
of progress, but in these days it Is
much impeded by discord and agitation,
and it takes some effort to secure an
economic working together. However,
men of ability and tact will win when
they have the will and an undiscour
aged smile. Remember:
" 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows on like a song;
But the man worth while is the man
who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong."
Olympla Bishop to Confirm Class.
Right Reverend Frederick Keator,
bishop of Olympia, will confirm the
class at St. David's Church today, which
would have been confirmed by Bishop
Scadding had he lived.
LAMPSHADE GOWN NEW
FEATURE OF COSTUMING
Design for "The Passing Show of 1913," Created by M. Paul Poiret,
Leader of Parisian Fashions in Stage and Social Dress Styles.
THE lampshade gown, a unique
feature in stage costuming, shown'
for the first time on the Ameri
can stage in "The Passing Show of
1913," which comes to the Hellig Thea
ter for seven nights, beginning to
morrow (Monday), with special mat
inee Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday,
was originated by that famous creator
of styles. M. Paul Poiret. This well
known designer of original dress styles
leaped Into prominence as a stage cos
turner with the production in Paris last
Spring of "Le Minaret." His contribu
tion to toe dressing of the production
was a set of Persian costumes which
were at once the talk of Paris. Lead
ing dressmakers at once adopted his
style, and the wired lampshade tunic
at once became the sailent note of style
over the entire fashionable world to
the' extent of entirely changing the
feminine silhouette.
M. Poiret also furnished the costume
designs for "Flowers of Allah," which
was produced at the Alhambra, London,
last year, and also for the new ballet,
"Nebuchadnezzar," the present attrac
tion at the same theater. He is Pari
sian born, and was for many years a
designer in the leading Parisian dress
making establishments. The secret of
his euccees lies in his courage to risk
the untried and new' and in getting
away from the conventional styles.
This courage has made him the orig
inator of an entirely new idea of fash
ion. He is a lover of beautiful colors
and uses them in a way never used
before.
He is not only famous for his gown
creations and - costumes, but has also
gained great renown for the Interior
decorations he designed for his estab
lishment In Paris. His soirees are so
cial events. In the beautiful setting
of his establishment and his garden of
wonderful colors and flowers, he gives
annual costume fetes. This year it was
a Greek festival, with his guests as
mythological characters. The year be
fore it was Persian. Poiret is best
known to the general public as an ex
tremist of color and line in theatrical
costuming, although the garb designed
for women In private life is toned to
an aristocratic elegance without the
HEIRESSES SUE MAN
Millionaire Distiller Charged
With Attacking Girl.
SISTER DEMANDS DAMAGES
Lexington, Ky., Young Woman
Avers Turfman Persuaded Her to
Go to His Apartments, Locked
Door and Assaulted Her.
CINCINNATI, May 30. High society
In three states Is interested In two
suits for $35,000 damages brought
against Alexander Squibb, millionaire
distiller, globe trotter, turfman, club
man and Idol In choral circles, by Mrs.
Ruth Triplette and her sister. Miss
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theatrical touch, and not lacking in
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TELEPHONE OR WRITE
Out-of-town buyers should write or tele
phone for descriptive list and numbers.
Any instrument sent subject to examination
upon deposit of amount stated in this ad
vertisement. The deposit will be cheerfully,
refunded if the instrument is not found sat
isfactory. This sale will be continued until
every instrument is sold. Remember, every
instrument is fully guaranteed, and at these
low prices all should find buyers quickly.
Eilers, the Nation's largest and most pro
gressive retailers, Eilers Building, Alder
street at Broadway.
A 1REE-CSB PLAN.
During this aalo wn issue a. special tw
years exchange agreement. We accept any
Instrument at sale prices toward payment
of one of our fine new Chickerings or tbe
Autopiano or other of the many numerous
makes we carry, actually giving every pur
chaser now two years free use of any piano
offered in this sacrifice sale. A purchaser Is
bound to prove satisfied, because every In
strument is guaranteed and no transaction
is considered closed unless it means satis
faction to the buyer.
Margaret Snyder, heiresses of Lexing
ton, Ky.
The plaintiffs are 20 and 17 and their
family, like Squibb's, occupies a promi
nent place in Ohio, Indiana and Ken
tucky. Both suits, one for $25,000 and the
other for $10,000, are based on alleged
actions of the millionaire defendant
toward the younger of the two girls,
the lesser amount being asked by the
elder on account of the loss of compan-"
ionship of her young and beautiful sis
ter and for expenses incurred and to
be incurred.
Attack Is Charged.
The story as told by the attorney for
the girls is most sensational. Both are
orphans and the younger declares that
she met Squibb, who posed as a single
man, on December 15 last. He met her.
she says, in the postofflce and persuad
ed her to come to what he said were
his apartments. She did not for a min
ute suppose, she declares, that he had
any unlawful intention. Squibb, she as
serts, locked the door and attacked her.
As a result, she declares, that her
health has been permanently impaired.
That the matter will in all probabil
ity be called to the attention of the
Juvenile Court was the declaration of
the attorney for the two sisters. This
will be done because of the fact that
the younger sister is only 17 and comes
under the Juvenile Court age.
Girls Look Aboat 16 Years Old.
Mrs. Triplette and her sister are
small and look hardly more than 16.
Squibb is well known In this city,
both in his business way and socially.
He was married October 30, 1902, to
Miss Margaret Wentzel, of Delhi, beau
tiful daughter of the late John Wentzel.
and on January of this year he filed,
suit for a divorce. .
Squibb's suit charged his wife with
neglect, cruelty and willful absence,
he alleging that she had refused, to
live with him.
The next day Mrs. Squibb filed an
answer and cross-petition, in which
she charged neglect, cruelty and un
faithfulness. She declared that her
husband showed no affection. She said
that he kept a box in the postofflce
here, although he lived In Delhi, and
his business was in Lawrenceburg. She
also declared that on October 17 last,
she and witnesses followed her hus
band and found him with another wo
man. Mrs. Squibb has been making her
home with her sister. Mrs. Herman
Groesbeck, In Clifton.
DOG STEALS BAKER'S CAKE
Boys Train Canine to Make Haid on
Window as They Watch.
PITTSBURG. Pa.. May 30. Pietra
Fiegero. an Italian taker, has missed
many pies and cakes of late.
"Those are nice boys." said Pletro,
In recounting his experiences. "They
look down my window and make much
talk. They ask me how business is and
say they hope it is good. Yes, they're
nice boys.
"I put a pan of cakes In the window
to cool a little. Then I look for it to
bring it back again, and sometimes
maybe half a pan is there. Where does
It go?
"But I find out I leave a pan of
cakes there. I watch it. By and by
a dog come along and grab a piece oi
jelly cake. I jump through the door
and tbe dog run down street. I follow
him. ; Then one of those nice boys
meets him and takes the cake trom
him. The boy runs down in the cellar.
"And what do you think I see when I
look through that cellar window all
those boys there eating my pies and
cakes. Well, my man, maybe they buy
cakes now."
Husband or Clara Morris Dead.
NEW YORK, May 30. Frederick C.
Harriott, husband of Clara Morris, the
actress, is dead today jit his home in
Whttestone, Long Island, from par
alysis, aged 74 years. Besides nis
widow, who is blind. Mr. Harriott left a
brother. Samuel, and a sister. Miss
Josephine, both living in Massachusetts.