SOME PRIZE EXHIBITS AT THIS WEEK'S POMERANIAN SHOW IN
SLAYER OF FARMER
NEW YORK-
Figures Talk
IS TAKEN Ifl CABIN
But It's the Quality Back of the Figures That Really Tells You the Most
Clarence Bettes, Assassin of
Ralph Brown, Sends for
Sheriff and Confesses.
I
CRIME IS LAID TO DRINK
Prisoner Admits llniplojcr He Killed
.Mways Had TreaU-d Htm Well.
Captive and Body or Victim
Are. on ha me Train.
THE DALLES. Or.. Jan. i. (Special.)
Clarence Bettis, slayer of Ralph
Brown, arrived at The Dalles this aft
ernoon on the same train which carried
the body of his victim. Brown was
killed as he was returning to his home
near Kaskela with his wife New Tear's
morning, his assailant firlntr from In
aide the Brown borne, the bullets going
through a screen door. Bettis Is St
years old and was employed by Brown.
He will be arraigned here Monday for
first-decree murder. The authorities
say Bettis is sane and express belief
that the ranch hand, after drinking
heavily, thought he was a "bad man"
and killed Brown.
Bettis surrendered to Sheriff Chris
man at 6:45 o'clock this morning, the
Sheriff entering the cabin where Bettis
had taken refuse, after the slayer had
nt a message that lie would surrender
if the Sheriff would come for him
alone.
Mrs. Brown was fired on by Bettis
after her husband fell dead. She
threw her coat over the body of her
husband and ran for help, through a
pouring rain to the nearest neighbor,
three and one-half miles away. She
mopped once in the long run to take
off her outer skirt, so that she could
run faster.
Bettis first explained the shooting
by saying he had a grudge against
Brown. Later he told Sheriff Chrismun
he had nothing against his employer,
saying the Browns had always treated
him well. Just before the train reached
The Dalles today. Bettis, who had pre
viously displayed indifference, said to
Deputy Sheriff Thompson:
Td willingly give my own life if I
rould bring back to life the man I
killed."
Bettis says he is of Scotch descent,
but appears to be either a Mexican or
Spaniard. He refused to tell where his
parents live.
Ralph Brown was S8 years old. He
was graduated from the University of
Oregon. About 12 years ago he and
Miss Kdtth Tercival. a Willamette Val
ley girl, and a graduate of Monmouth
Normal School, were married. There
are no children.
That Clarence Pettis, and not Clar
ence Bettis. is the slayer of W. W.
Brown was information received from
Clarence Bettis. a farmer living near
Kasleela. by his brotlier in Tortland
yesterday. Sir. Bettis said his brother
had been embarrassed by the mixture
of Identities. Last night's dispatches,
however, continued to give the name of
Lett Is.
Victim Son of Willis I. Brown.
SAt. EM. Or- Jan. . (Special.)
r.alph Brown, who was killed by an
employe on his farm near North Junc
tion, tlr, Friday, was a son of Willis
I. Brown, formerly engaged in the cat
tle business In this county. The elder
Brown formerly waa A partner of Jas
per Mlnto.
KAISER'S ABODE SECRET
(Continual Krora First Pmise.t
even a remote reference to the place
where the reunion waa celebrated.
Although a correspondent learns at
great headquarters little about plans
or movements nothing. Indeed, that is
not given out by official bulletins to
the whole empire he nevertheless
finds it the most fascinating place in
Kurope today, because it epitomizes
the German passion for system and
the German genius for bringing order
out of rhaoa. For here in this French
provincial town, where the French
engineers had blown up every bridge
and where they had reduced the great
railway tunnel to utter ruin, the Ger
man system is operating like clock
work. And going busily about his task
here Is every kind of German work
man from a German Emperor to a Ger
man bookbinder.
Kasperer Keeps Leases! Hoars.
Sven lledin says that of all these
workmen, the Emperor keeps the
longest hours.
German bakers are baking, and a
large part of their daily output goes
to feed the destitute French in the
town. German bridgebuilders are
building bridges of wood to take the
place of the atone structures destroyed
by the French when they fell back from
this placs.
The German engineers took one
grieved look at the railway tunnel
which the French had blown up and
decied that it would be quicker to dig
it out from the top instead of from
each end. So they have dug downward
from the summit of the considerable
Mil which the original tunnel pene
trated, and that work has been done
in a series of beautifully graded ter
races designed to prevent the caving
in of the new walls.
It is worth noting that this feat in
engineering is being accomplished at a
point which is within eound of the
artillery operating against the French
forces around Kheims.
Prefecture la Basy Place.
The prefecture, where the Minister
of War. the general staff and scores of
scretaries clerks and stenographers
from Berlin are housed, is pulsing with
trie business of an empire in a life-ami-death
struggle, and yet it is as
iutet as a church.
Everything which could possibly
provoke inquiry is either listed or pla
carded. As the automobile glides over
the new bridges you see freshly paint
ed slgncards reading: "Xacta Sedan."
"Nach itocrol." "Nach Meubeuge," the
words always underscored by black
arrows.
Sometimes the soldiers whizzing by
In automobiles require only general
directions or points of the compass to
show them their way. and so, in order
that they shall not have to slow up
to read signs, large arrows of red and
blue are painted on garden wails or
the sides of buildings.
Thus the German soldiery does not
have to ask of the French population
even so much as the way to the next
town.
In newly constructed sheds German
blacksmiths are shoeing German
horses. In booths that have been in-
Mailed under the archway of an old
French coutryard German soldiers are
issuing German chocolate and German
Held placards to other German sol
diers. In a large, well-lighted room of
the prefecture German bookbinders
with their paste pots and knives and
needles and binders' thread are bind
ing up tnndlea of German reports and
orders and statements, some of which
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are intended for distribution In neutral
countries.
In the railway station German cooks
are preparing German dishes. In the
main dining-room of the station, the
walls of which are adorned with fres
coes containing the arms of this an
cient French city, you hear orders
taken in German. You are surprised.
But look more sharply at the linen
jacket and white apron of the waiter
and you will see underneath the gray
cuffs and trousers of a German sol
dier's uniform.
Walk across the plaza from the sta
tion, and around the corner, and you
pass the villa occupied by the secre
tary of the German Foreign Office and
his staff. At the end of a long, quiet
corridor in the prefecture is the suite
of the German Minister of War. On
the streets German princelings. Ger
man Generals and German notables
rrom civil life who have come to spend
a dav as guests of the Emperor, are so
numerous that the looker-on finds it
difficult to keep tracK oi meir umu.
The place is less like a camp than a
capital, and though It is full of sol
diers everything moves so methodically
that the impreastn you get is not of
soldiers at the front but of business
men in uniform.
In a quiet inner office of the pre
fecture statements sent in by telephone
and telegraph concerning operations on
the east and west fronts are beins con
densed into terse bulletins marked
"anitlich" (official), and before even
ing these will be released to every
part of the German empire and will
appear under the familiar date line:
"WTB Groszes Hauptquartter, 29
Nov.. vorm. (Telegr.) Amtlich."
Sometimes these bulletins are of the
briefest, saying only, for example:
His Majesty, the Emptror. is now In,
the eastern theater of war."
But It happens that today the Em
peror is in, residence at great head
quarters. The red brick villa where
he has established himself is the most
commodious house in town and is sur
rounded by well-kept lawns and gar
dens. With its gray-stone copings,
stone steps and elaborate brick work
It recalls the kind of house that the
richest man in our town" used to build
50 or 60 years ago in the thriving
American, cities of the Middle West.
On the opposite side of the street is
a narrow atrip of park a quarter of a
mile long. It contains a statue or two
and a pavilion where a French regi
mental band gave concerts In the
Summer time. Now German sentries
are stationed there.
Officers Dine at Plaaa.
On the other side of this park is
the paved plaza of the railway build
ings. The plaza is nearly deserted.
At meal time, however, the plaza will
be livelier, for officers will be enter
ing and leaving the big dining room
marked "Reserved for officers."
Children of the poorer people have
timed these comings and goings ac
curately, and. as the officers depart,
they beg from them with the engaging
hlstriontsm that la their national in
heritance. Many of them are pretty,
and thev would be charming except
that nearly all of them have the snif
fles, and don't care who knows it.
They have learned one German word
the word "pfennig." It is all they
need. and. hearing it. the spurred and
booted officers dig down Into their
pockets and bring out two or three
ltf-pfenni pieces. The children cry
MercU monsieur." sniff and scamper
'""never knew their appeals to fail of
a response but once. That waa when
a stern little Major of the general staff
said: "The German army ts giving
thousands of pounds of bread and other
provisions to the poor of this town
every- day. and I know there is no ex
cuse for this begging by the children.
I hate beggary."
The officer with him laughed, and
said: "Major, you are right" and
reached into his pocket for pfennigs.
LITTLE OOGS SEEN
Toy Spaniel Aristocrats Have
Their Day in New York.
NEW CHAMPIONS ARE MADE
Pomeranians Make Particularly
Good Showing Tiny Poodles
That Look Like French Lamb
Chops Are Feature of Show.
NEW YORK. Jan. 2. The Toy Spaniel
Club's annual show at the Waldorf
Astoria this week was marked by the
benching of more dogs than ever before
In its history. The competition in the
classes where there were more than one
or two entries was of the keenest kind,
with the result that many old champions
lost their laurels, and others captured
their crowns.
The Judges on the whole appeared to
be generally satisfactory to the com
petitors, although here and there a
complaint was overheard of an official,
who. some thought. Judged the dogs too
superficially, not taking sufficient time
to look Into the fine points of each
animal.
Pomeranians Slake Good Showing.
The showing of the Pomeranians was
particularly good, both In quality and
quantity. One of the notable victoates
for American-bred dogs was the win
ning of Mrs. Frank T. Clarke's Fairfax
Wee Bernlce In the class of bitches bred
In America. Bernlce is a very dainty
little animal, and has all the marks of a
thoroughbred. And as Mrs. Clark said:
"She ought to have, as she was born and
bred on the property of the Coney
Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay. '
Mrs. Clarke's entry had a close com
petitor In Mrs. L. G. Forbes' Lady
Pansy, which was bred by Mrs. R. F.
Mayhew. The latter, who Is a prom
inent exhibitor at all the specialty
shows, was defeated in the puppy class
by Miss Marian Kennedy's Bunny
Blackthorn. Mrs. Mayhew's entry was
Fox Hills Highflyer, which showed to
better advantage than the winner of
the blue. The usual applause was lack
ing when this award was made.
Tiny White Poodle Attracts.
When the tiny white toy French
poodles came before the judges there
was a general exclamation of "Oh, look
at the dear little things."
With their hind quarters clipped
clean, except for a few spots where
small "poms" had been left, after the
most approved style, they resembled
half plucked chickens more than dogs,
or as one irrelevant spectator observj d,
"They look like French lamb chops."
After a great deal of deliberation the
judges awarded the blue to champion
Sweetsire of Dyker.
Mrs. M. E. Harby took many prizes
with her champions in the Pekingese
divisions. Of the small dogs her American-bred
Nowata Qua Fe won a num
ber of ribbons.
Features of the show were Mrs. R. E.
Knight's Tye See of Egham. declared
the best Pekingese; Mrs. Laflin's kennel
of Pomeranians, including Goldmine,
Cinderella, Nancy Lynde and Mistress
Peggy V, and the famous Maltese ter
rier of Mrs. J. G. Rossman, Sweetsire of
Dyker.
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Black, Blue and Full Dress included.
Genuine Sale Arrow Shirts
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Prices
Great Underwear
Reductions
$1.50 Cooper and worsted Underwear, garment $1.15
$3.00 G. & M. Silk Lisle and German wool Und. $2.25
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Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co.
Northwest Corner Third and Morrison Sts.
STATE ECONOMY URGED
WASHINGTON AUDITOR SUGGESTS
SERIES OP CHANGES.
With Broadened Functions and Los. of
Liquor Revenue, Reduced Cost
or Heavier Tax Is Imperative.
OLYMPIA. Wash., Jan. 2. (Special.)
Broadened functions of the State of
Washington, accompanied by a de
crease in liquor license revenue
through the passage of the prohibition
law. will necessitate either curtailment
of state expenses or increase of the
direct revenues, or both. State Auditor
Clausen announces in his biennial re
port. Just issued.
In the attempt to solve this problem
Mr. Clausen recommends to the legis
lature the following proposals:
. To limit the expenditures of all ex
amination and inspection boards to
their receipts.
To require maintenance cost of in
mates of state charitable institutions to
be paid from estates of those owning
property or having relatives ' able to
pay; also reciprocal arrangements for
return to their native states of non
resident insane, and other charges.
About 10 per cent of the inmates of
Washington insane hospitals are resi
dents of other states, Mr. . Clausen
says:
ii r. ; a .nartmAnL Tireierably
the Board of Control, to make pur
chases for all departments ui mc
state, as is now done for state institu
tions, and to act as custodian of all
the state's property.
Provision for tax on coal mined, on
a tonnaee basis, sufficient to pay cost
of Inspection. .
Mr. Clausen also recommends repeal
of the law providing for payment of
bounties on wild animal skins. Hunt
ers, in many instances, he says, are
palming off coyote hides, on which the
bounty is only 1.60, for wolf pelts,
on which a bounty of $15 is fixed.
GERMAN FRAUD ALLEGED
( Con tlnued From First Page.)
In the countries belligerent to Ger-
""iJis'trict Attorney Marshall, in a
statement issued tonight, said that in
view of this danger, now emphasizea
by today's arrest, the State Depart
ment had established -a system b
which, if any American passport is ex
posed to question, "the nearest diplo
mntif. or consular officer of this Gov
ernment will, on request, send a cable
.nn,-Hnr the essential facts in tne
case, which the State Department will
investigate and cause verification or
disavowal of the passport Involved to
be cabled promptly to tne onicer wno
inaugurated the Inquiry."
Few Frauds Dlaclosed.
Mr. Marshall added that thorough in
vestigation had disclosed the fact that
few United States passports had been
fraudulently obtained.
Rnmrie has been under surveillance
by secret agents of the Department of
Justice for about six weeks, tie leu
his employment with the firm of
Oelrichs & Co., agents for the North
German Lloyd Line, and established an
office in the downtown district. The
ritctlves learned, it was said, that be
was in communication . with German
reservists in .all parts of the country.
rchiiB ho received many of them every
day at his office. Large numbers of
them were furnished by Kuroeae wna
Swiss and Roumanian passports, it is
aiiirri hut American passports were
considered far more desirable, if they
could be secured.
T nhiiin these, it is charged.
Ruroede employed naturalized Germans
to apply for passports, paying them
from $25 to $50 apiece for their serv
ices, if necessary. Once certified by
the clerk of the United States District
Court, the passports were sent to
Washington for signature by Secretary
Bryan and th seal of the State De
partment, and, on being returned, were
given to the reservists.
CIGARETTE DEALS DEATH
Cleveland Police Have Xew Theory
lor Fire which Suffocates Priest.
CLEVELAND. Jan. ' 2. A lighted
cigarette dropped on a stairway may
have been responsible for the fire
which brought death by suffocation to
Rev. Stephen Makar. pastor of St.
John's Greek Catholic Church and
burned to death his housekeeper, Mrs.
Anna Fegjo. early today. Thla theory
was advanced tonight by the police.
Until late today tne ponce woraea
on the theory that the fire was of in
cendiary origin.
YAMHILL LEVY 19.45 MILLS
Budget Gets Addition or $1500 for
Annual School Fair.
M'MINNVILLE, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.)
At a gathering of about 75 taxpay
ers, the county budget met with gen
eral approval, with the exception that
those present asked the court to make
provisions for the annual school fair.
The court tedded an appropriation of
$1500 for that purpose. The county
levy for 1915 will be 19.45 mills, which
is .05 mills less than for 1914.
A resolution commending the County
Court for its appropriation of $15,000
for the Grand Ronde road improvement
was passed. The Grand Ronde road is
a link in the Portland to the Pacific
Coast road.
The county levy is distributed as
follows: General fund, including state
tax, 9.4 mills; school library, 1.2 mills;
county high' school, 1.4 mills; county
school, 3.6 mills; county roads, 5 mills.
KAY'S $350,000 BOND 0. K.
Governor-Elect Withycombe Thinks
Figure of $5.00,000 Too Ilifrb.
SALEM, Of., Jan. 2. (Special.) Gov
ernor West today accepted the bond of
State Treasurer Kay of $350,000 after
receiving a telegram .from Governor
elect Withycombe that the amount was
satisfactory to him. Governor West re
cently wrote Mr. Kay a letter, announc
ing that the bond should be $500,000.
Mr. Kay said it was Immaterial to
him what amount was fixed but tfjt
the law provided only $1200 a ear
premium for the bond and that $350.
000 was all the eurety companies wotrl.t
allow for that premium. Governor
elect Withycombe telephoned the State
Treasurer that he thought $350,000 was
a sufficient bond.
Leonard's Guilt Verdict Upheld.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) T. J.
Leonard, of Portland, recently con
victed of obtaining money by false pre
tenses, did not get a pardon today. He
was charged with obtaining the signa
tures of M. J. Denny and wife to a deed
by fraudulent representations. The Su
preme Court affirmed- the verdict of
guilt of the Multnomah County jury.
YOUTH OF 17, WITH GEMS WORTH
THOUSANDS, CAUGHT.
Unable to Find Work Is Plea of Chi.
cago Boy for Theft From D.U...
Texas, Jewelry Store.
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 2. Hurling a
brick wrapped In paper through a show
window of a jewelery store in the down
town section here late today, a boy
snatched a tray of valuable diamonds
and ran. James Williams, 17 years old,
was arrested after a chase of several
blocks, in which scores of persons
joined. An unset aolitarle diamond,
valued at $10,006. among the jewels
believed taken, still is missing. A dia
mond lavalliere, valued at $7600, was
picked up half a block away and re
turned to the store. Several other
valuable diamonds are believed to be
missing.
The boy told the police that he was
from Chtcago and had been here three
weeks, unable to find work. A search
of his person failed to disclose any of
the jewelry. Police believe Williams
swallowed the valuable diamonds.
The robbery took place when the
streets were thronged with a Saturday
crowd. .
YAMHILL FARMER BURIED
t
Peter Christian Thoniasen Leaves
Widow and Four Children.
M'MINNVILLE, Or., Jan. 2. (Spe
cial.) Peter Christian Thoraasen, who
was buried here today, was one of the
leading farmers of this county and for
many years a resident of Carlton. He
died December 31, aged 76.
He came to this country 42 years
agq. For many years he farmed part
of the Ladd holdings west of Carlton
and became the owner of a magnificent
farm one and a half miles north of
Carlton. He also was the superintend
ent of the well-knpwn Broadmeads
Farm, in the southern part of this
county.
Mr. Thomasen was born In Denmark
In 1838 and served in the army of his
native land in the war with Prussia lu
1864.
Mr. Thomasen is survived by his
widow, two sons and two daughters.
The sons are Peter Thomasen. of Tur.
ner, (Jr.; John T. Thomasen. of Carlton.
The daughtrs are Mrs. Cltra Hansen,
of Salem, and Mrs. George Kutch, of
Carlton.
Man Who Faked Suicide Arretted.
MARSH FIELD, Or., Jan. 2. (Spe
cial.) T H. Grlndrod. who faked sui
cide at North Bend recently, was ar
rested and placed In jail by Sheriff W.
W. Gage and Deputy Clyde Gae yes
terday. Grlndrod whs taken at KalT
vlew, 20 miles on the road to Rose
burg. The prisoner Is hehl to the grand
Jury on a charge of theft.
frumiay h oriiored fir. brigade, for all
principal ptl-w
mepi
roR
Rheumatism
and Lumbago
If you suffer from Rheumatism or
Lumbago, rub the aching part with
Omega Oil, then soak a piece of flan
nel with the Oil, lay it on the place
that hurts and cover with dry flannel.
This simple treatment has brought
nights of peaceful rest to people who
have suffered agonies. Trial bottle loc.
HOT TEA BREAKS
A COLD TRY THIS
Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea. or, as tho German folk
call It, "Hamburger Brunt Thee," at
any pharmacy. Take a tableepoonf ul
of the tea, put if eup of boiling wat.r
upon It pour through a sieve and drink
a teacup full at any time. It Is the moet
effective way to break a cold and
cure grip, as it opens the poroa, re
lieving congestion. Also loo.ena the
bowels, thus breaking a cold at onre.
It is Inexpensive and entirely vege
table, therefore harmless. Arir.
Book Really Worth While Book
Sale J Sale
Booklovers' Attention!
Tomorrow we inaugurate a Clean-up Sale of Books of every description good,
bad, indifferent, the accumulation of years Books for the youngster, Books for
the student, Books for light reading, including literature that would quiet the
mind of the most learned. In short, we must materially reduce our stock. Yc
must have room. to eventually conduct our business in one store only. You will
find everything as represented not a bankrupt, fire, money -raising or other
"trumped-up" affair.
Absolutely a Sale to Legitimately Reduce Our Stock
FICTION BOOKS
Hundreds and hundreds of light fiction
editions, sold usually from 50c to OC-
J
New Bibles, 40 Off
$1.50.
Our Wonder Table of Bargains
Books and Books galore, values C
25c to 50c :
Religious Books, 75 Off
Tons of Good Library Books
33V3 to 75 Off
Ridpath's Historv of the World, 9 vols. $14.35 Shakespeare, 5 vols $1.75
Rilev's Works, 10 vols., Scribner Edition, $6.35 Shakespeare, 8 vols. W.50
Longfellow, Edition de Luxe, 10 vols $8.75 Bret Harte, 25 vols. Argonaut Edition. . .$9.25
Voltaire's Works, 42 vols $27.50
Hundreds and hundreds of other Books sacred and scandalous, grave and gay are included
in this sale. Frices almost beyond belief.
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