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SALT LAKE READY TO MEET I. W. I Dire Vengeance Threatened if State Executes Hillstrom for Murder. OTHERS QUESTION TRIAL 'Friends" of Doomed Man Would Shoot Him, as They Need Money Which State rays Many Agitators Are in City. BY "WILL. G. MAC RAE. 6AL.T LAKE, Nov. 6. (Special.) A great deal depends on environment and mental suggestion. Here in Salt Lake the mental sug gestion cornea from the I. W. W. and what they are going to do now that the btate of Utah has decided to shoot Jo seph Hillstrom. convicted murderer of J. G. Morrison and his son, November 18. It is a momentous question. It has robbed every state official of his peaceful slumbers, ever since President Wilson intervened and asked for a respite for Hillstrom on behalf of W A. F. Ekengren. Swedish minister. The Salt Lake officials are single minded when it comes to Hillstrom's guilt. To the I. W. W., both in Salt Lake and from New York to Los Ange les, Hillstrom is innocent, a martyr. Even the ?250 the state pays for fthooting a condemned man the I. W. W.'s want, and there are six men on their way here from Toledo, O., to shoot Hillstrom. saying they need. the money and, inasmuch as Hillstrom has to die. it is best that he die at the hanis of his friends. They will have the trip for their pains. The execution of Hillstrom is in the hands of Sheriff Corless. He has picked his firing squad. Idaho Attorney Accused. On "October 31 an Idaho attorney, whose name is being: withheld until further investigation, is said to have offered an alibi for $25,000. He is said to have declared he could "frame" a man and woman who would swear that it was through them Hillstrom re ceived the wound in his arm which lfiUstrom says he received in a fight over a woman. The police say Hillstrom was shot by the Wilson boy during the fight at the grocery store on the night of the murder. Up to the time of Hillstrom's arrest the police had no clew to the murder and robbary. The 1. W. W. have maintained that because Hillstrom was an I. W. W. and because the police had to make a showing, he has been made the "fall guy." Whether the police have the guilty riian in Hillstrom or not, whether the Mormon Church, with its vast influence here in Salt Lake, or whether he is a victim of a police plot may never be brought to light. After a close study cf three weeks I am quite convinced there arc no church lnlluences at work. The Hillstrom trial was held before Judge Ritchie, who is not a Mormon. 1 am told the jury hearing the evidence had some !entiles on the panel. This, I take it, 'absolves "the; church. fairness of Trial Questioned. Yet to my mind, and I find that opin ion shared by many others, such as Mrs. Virginia Snow Stephens, an in structor at the University of Utah;So ren X. Christensen. F. B. Scott, attor neys for the condemned man, and many others, do not believe Hillstrom had , a fair and impartial trial. An evidence of this is the way the mem bers of the Pardoning Board have han dled the matter. At a recent meeting of the board, when President Wilson asked for a reprieve at the request of the S.vedish minister, they acted like men who were willing to take the law's word, yet listening at the same time to the public clamor. The Hillstrom case has stirred up Salt Luk. and the state officials espe cially. Governor Spry has received several hundred letters threatening him and city institutions if he allows Hillstrom to be shot. fcther officials have received the same kind of letters. Jack of Clnha la Doom. Governor Spry received notice that when he receives a jack of clubs his death will follow soon. The letters are signed "K. O. D.," meaning the Knights of Death, composed of I. W. W. mem bers who have banded themselves to gether to avenge any death or wrong Hone an I. W. W. Every precaution that can be taken to prevent an outbreak of the organ ized I. V. ". here in the city is being taken. The town is full of idle men. On Monday there was an 1. W. W. riot. While the Tribune "Car College" was standing in the street an I. W. W.. carrying a soapbox, worked his way to the center of the crowd and began to speak on the killing of an I. W. W. named ltoy J. Horton. Horton was doing the sajne thing on Saturday night, abusing the ilag and calling the Utuh t;tate officials insult ing names, when Major H. V. Myton happened along. Words followed and Major Myton shot Horton dead. The agitator Monday wanted to lead the crowd to "get" Myton and tear down the City Jail. In many quarters there are those who believe the city is harboring a band that will do lots of damage fol lowing the execution of Hillstrom. NEW RECTOR IN PULPIT REV. T. J. WILLIAMS TAKKS CHARGE OF OREGON CITY CHURCH. Blurb, of Service In Episcopalian Church Haa Been In Mlftfilona Anions; :' American Chinese. OREGON. CITY". Or.. Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Rev. Thomas J. Williams, the new rector of St. - Paul's Kpiscopal Church, has arrived in Oregon City and will appear in the pulpit of his new church for the first time tomorrow. He succeeds Rev. C. W. Robinson, who went to New York City last January to take post-graduate work in Colum bia vniversity. The Rev. Mr. Williamt- was born June 26. 1SS7. in Nashville. Tenn. When 14 years old. he went with his parents to Texas, where his father became registrar of the Universitv of Texas. In this institution. Mr. Williams re reived his education, graduating with a bachelor's degree of arts in 190S. It was while attending college that Mr. Williams was confirmed and received Into the communion of the Episcopal Church. After teaching latin for two years In preparatory schools and in ttie Uni verslty of Texas, Rev. Mr. Williams went to California in 1910 to take a post-graduate degree at the University of California, becoming Interested in the work of the Episcopal Church luiions the Chinese. He then decided to enter the ministry and devote him self to mission work among the Chi nese of the United States. With thi end in view, he took up the study of the Cantonese dialect of the Chinese language. After completing his year of post graduate work at the University of California, Rev. Mr. Williams entered the church divinity school at San Fran cisco. During the year at the univer sity and the three years at the divin ity school, he devoted his time to work in the Episcopalian Chinese mission as assistant missionary, and upon his graduation from, the divinity school he was ordained a deacon. He became assistant to the pastor in charge of Chinese missionary work in both San Francisco and Oakland. He was invited to come to Oregon to look over the field by Bishop W. T. Sumner and was called to fill the pulpit of fat. Paul's Church. Toe feV- Mr- wi,Hams made the trip to Portland by boat. His wife will be here with him in a few days? polk ScSpending LAW SOT TO BE ENFORCED VX. Til. DECIDED IX COURTS, District Attorney and Sheriff An nonnce I"oIic-j p0l nnd Billiard Halls Already Shut. DALLAS. Or., Nov. 6. (Special.) District Attorney J. E. Sibley and Sher iff John Orr, of Polk County, have an nounced that they will not take steps to enforce the Sunday closing law until the matter has been tried out and de cided in the courts. The ban upon bil liard and poolrooms has existed in this county 'for several years, but confec tionery stores have operated at all times unmolested. In Dallas, poolrooms are closed by city ordinances. In Falls City and In dependence, objection by citizens of those towns in the past led to the clos ing of pool and billiard rooms on Sun day Polk County officials are made parties defendant in the suit for in junction brought by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, nlted States District Court at Portland, and have been cited to ap pear before the Federal Court on No vember 15. ; Little enthusiasm has been created in the three leading cities of Polk County Dallas, Independence and Falls i y.Tlnavor of the strict enforcement l tJle, snday closing law. Though the lid has been clapped on tight on pool and billiards, card games and like amusements, confectionery stores, base ball games, garages and livery stables have not yet met with popular disap proval, and even the opening of a gro cery store or meat market on Sunday for an hour or so to serve the tardy uponmer "0t bCen commnted Mayor .Kilpatrick. of Dallas, also has issued orders to police officers not to molest confectionery stores for opening on Sundays until the matter has been threshed out in the courts. HALT IN CRUISES NEAR SCHOOL LAND EXCHANGE WORK WILL EXCEED ALLOTTED TIME. Washington State and Federal Offi cials Donbt That 1 00,000 Will Cover All Costs. . OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 6. (Special.) Within the next 10 days the-"work of the present season on the Federal land exchange will be completed. About half of the 18 cruising parties in the Seid' already have been retired and others are now completing their work. With reports of cruises now in from somewhat more than 250 sections, it is apparent that when remaining reports are received approximately 300 of the state school sections in the 1 1 Na tional forests in Washington will have been cruised this year. There are in all about 800 school sections in the for ests which are to be cruised, for ex change for an equal area and value of Federal lands to be eliminated from the forests in large and convenient tracts, by moving inward the forest borders. As the cruise of from 800 to 1000 sections of Federal land must follow the cruising of the remaining 600 sec tions of state land, It is already ap parent that the work cannot be com pleted within the original estimate of two years. It is also doubtful whether the original appropriations of $100,000 half from the state and half from the United States will prove sufficient.. The cruising parties this Summer have completed the cruise of all state sections in the Snoqualmie forest and have partially cruised the state sec tions in the Washington. Chelan, Rai nier, Columbia and Wenaha forests. The Colville, Okanogan and Kanisku forests have not yet been touched. GOLLEGE AIMS RAPPED DR. FOSTER CRITICISES EXCESS OF ATHLETIC SPIRIT. Making Money, Winning; Games and Gainlns Publicity" Also Alma of Racing and Prizefighting. DENVER, Nov. 6. (Special.) "Amer ican colleges today seem to have three aims making money, winning games and gaining publicity. Those are the chief aims also of prizefighting and horse racing." said President Foster, of Reed College, Friday in an address be fore the State Teachers' Association. "It is unfortunate," continued Dr. Foster, "that our universities, which should be served as balancing- forces which should inculcate the ideal of sport as a counterpoise to an over wrought civilization, are actually making conditions worse through cul tivating, by means of athletics as a business, that passion for excitement which makes sustained thinking im possible and which is elsewhere kept at fever heat by prizefights, bull fights and blood-curdling moving pictures. "Into what an illogical position we are driven by our fetish worship of college 'amateur athletics." We provide the Summer vacation and a time when the majority of students must earn a part of the expenses of the college year. Yet the student who uses this vacation to play ball and thereby earn money must either lie about it or be condemned to outer darkness. "Far more sensible would be an ar rangement whereby the games could be scheduled in vacation periods and a part of the game receipts could be used for the necessary living expenses of worthy students, instead of being squandered, as much of the gate money is squandered today." Mcskill Mill Gets Timber Tract. CHEHALIS, Wash.. Nov. 6. (Special.) The Meskill Lumber Company plant at Meskill probably will continue oper ations for the next two or three years, as a result of a timber deal made by J. F. Downs, acting manager of the concern. It had been planned to close the plant for the Winter, but Mr. Downs has just completed a. deal for a tract of timber that is estimated will run the mill for the next three years. THE SUNDAY OREGOKIAN, PORTLAND, OREGON GRANT PLAN MEETS OPPOSITION Interior Department Does Not Favor Sale of Land at Flat Rate of $2.50 Acre. POLICY NOT YET DECIDED Immediate Settlement of Essential ly Farm Tracts and Disposal of Timber to Aid Homestead ers Are Considered. OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Nov. 6. Land grant legisla tion in line with the resolutions adopt ed at the Salem conference on Septem ber 17 will be bitterly opposed by the Administration and a substitute plan will likely be submitted to Congress early in December. Exactly what plan the Administration will agree on has not yet been determined. There will be no opposition by the Interior Department to converting the unsold portion of the grant into a for est reserve. The Interior Department, however, probably will not object to the reservation of a small percentage of the land In the mountains. Secretary Lane has studied the de cision of the Supreme Court and the balem conference, has had some corre spondence from Oregon and has talked with Land Commissioner Tallman, who attended the conference at Salem. Fur ther data will be received from the field agents of the department in Ore gon, and also the Secretary wants first to receive the recommendation of the Attorney-General. In turn the Attorney-General will await the report of his special representative. Mr Will iams, who is now going over the grant. Speculation Is Feared. Forester Graves is awaiting informa tion from his representatives in Ore gon before submitting his Ideas. It is expected he will favor the reservation of a much larger area than the Inte rior Department will approve. - The attitude of the Interior Depart ment is antagonistic to the opening of the lands at the flat price of 2 50 per acre. Such a plan, the department be lieves, would lead only to speculation: would quickly enrich the relatively few individuals and would result in the transfer of all valuable timber lands Lo i?1' coraPnies. Once the lands fh .l"!1" hands of lumber companies the timber will be removed and the cut-over lands will become a drug on the market. The Interior Department is fully n.aJe .f l!?e deslre r th PPl6 of HBHn,H.KhaVe these lands developed and hold them subject to taxation. But the department disagrees with the Ore gon idea, as expressed at .Salem, as to th7t ... 4encurage development so that the state will reap the largest and most substantial benefit. Classification la Favored. There is every indication that the tSatr',hr De"artment wlU Commend that the grant be taken over by the ?avVoen.menh,Th dePartnt then will whh clfssit. Ration of the lands, after which it will open up to immediate settlement all lands That ar, ttlen tially agricultural and grazing "n character and will favor the develop ment of the mineral lands It i;s likewise certain the Interior Department will urge that the timbe fro m Th'V" VaI".'e be sold "Pirate from the. land, and that the lands be opened to homestead entry. The dl partment likewise will recommend that the funds derived from the sale of this Umber be utilized in aiding the set- WIRE COTTER IS "TREED" DARK FIGURE HANGS FROM HIGH. VOLTAGE POLE FBARINo SHOT. Watchman Camps at Foot of Tower Keeping Rifle Pointed at Shiv ering; Man Outlined In Sky. SPOKANE, Wash.. Nov. 6. Begging to be allowed to come down and warm himseir. John Burns, age 30. was com pelled to cling to the top of an elec tric cable polo in me fair grounds for more than half an hour during the coldest part of this morning between 3 and 4 o'clock. A night watchman for the fair association sat at the foot of the pole and emphasized his stand in the matter by keeping a rifle pointed continuously in the sky toward the shivering figure. The watchman, making his rounds heard the- rasp of copper wires being cut. and slipped up to the place. He beheld a dark figure at the top of a pole carrying a high voltage of elec tricity. "Don't move or I'll bore "you with this rifle,'' the watchman called up the pole. ' The wirecutter started to slide down, but the click of the rifle hammer stopped him. For a time he clung to the pole in silence, then be began to beg to be allowed to descend and get warm. At intervals the watchman shouted for another watchman on the grounds. The man was arrested, and. booked on a larceny charge, admitted that he was stealing the wire to sell it. WHITMAN PLANNING OPERA Roles Chosen for "Merry Wives of Windsor" in Spring. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 6. (Special.) Since Pro fessor Blum, of the Whitman Conserva tory of Music, saw the production of the ."Merry Wives of Windsor" in Seat tle last week, he has been enthusiastic about the success of the same opera to be staged by the conservatory in the Spring. The principals of the cast have been chosen and are holding re hearsals three times a week. The principal roles are: Bassos, John Falstaff. carried by Harold Edmonds, Mr. Ford, by Newton Barrett. Doctor Caines, by Carey Berger and Mr Page, by Sigurd Nelson; tenors. Fenton, by Roy Knight, and Slender, by Linden Barnett; contralto. Mistress Page, by Bernice Richmond; sopranos. Mistress Ford, by Anna Compton, and Annie Page, by Mildred Smith. RECALLED OFFICERS PLEAD County Commissioners at Yakima Admit Technical Offense. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash,, Nov. . (Special.) Jim Lancaster, W. 11, Stahl- hut and James Stuart, ex-County C,onv yoo.uucio, who were recalled from of fice on October 6, today by their at torneys entered pleas of guilty in Su perior Court to an indictment for non feasance. They will make a further statement of facta to the court before sentence in connection with a plea for leniency. Nominal fines are expected. The case was the last of several against the Commissioners. growing out of the grand Jury investigation last SDring. Thpv hnri n.n l i . ... other charges. This indictment accused mem or doing road work by force ac count instead of by contract, as re quired by statute. They say they took advice of County Engineer Marble, ex pecting to get better results for less money than would be likely under con tract. The non-feasance charge was adopted by the promoters of the recall against the Commissioners, as one of the charges on which the recall was based. HQQUIAM FACTORY CITY MORE THAN 4,00O,0O0 IS INVESTED IN PLANTS. Products Turned Out In Year Valued at More Than $3,000,000 by , Censua Bureau. OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Nov. 4. More than $4,000,000 is invested in factories in Hoquiam, Wash., according to a bulletin just issued by the Census Bureau, and these factories, during the last calender year, turned out products valued at $5,007. 000. The report does not take into ac count hand trades hnilHU,, or neighborhood industries, but only tusinuiisnments conducted under the factory system. Nor are statistics in cluded covering- Tilnnt. u-hs-A j .. - Is worth less than J500 per annum. save wnere the production has been reduced by reason of the factories be ing closed part of the time. The report shows there were 32 fac tories operating in Hoquiam last year, the total capital invested being S4 -087,000. ' The cost of materials used was $3,041,000. A summary for the city follows: Number of establishments 82 Persons engaged In manufacture.. 1,06 Proprietors and firm members.... 18 Salaried employes Wago-earnem (iverase number)... 1888 Primary horsepower .... l" a74 Capital 4.0S7.'Ko hervlces 1,421.000 Salaries liU.OOO Waees 1 is? 000 Materials 3.041.000 Value of products 5.007.0O0 Value added by manufacture lvalue of products less cost of materials) l.68,00O TRADE ADDRESS IS HEARD Whitman Professor Discusses South American Possibilities. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla, Wash, Nov. 6. (Special.) In an ad dress before the Men's Club, of the Central Christian Church, last week. Professor Ralph E. George, of the de partment of economics and business at Whitman College, asserted that the South American trade was being overrated at the present time. "Three great factors," he said, "were today lacking in United States trade relations with Latin America. These factors are: First, the inability or, undesirabllity of giving long-time credits by American manufacturers to South American buyers; second, the neglect by American concerns in send ing capable representatives to acquaint South Americans with United States trade, and third, the Inability of South American ports to handle American shipments on account of poor shipping laws and facilities." CANDIDATES ARE AT ODDS Dayton Likely to Have Another Ticket on Economy Platform. DAYTON, Wash., Nov. 6. (Special.) There has been a disagreement among the candidates on the Citizens' ticket to be voted on next Tuesday, and it is probable that another ticket, to be known as the Convention ticket, will be put in the field at the last minute. There has been much wrangling lately over economy in city government, and the Council has been divided on the matter of cutting down salaries, com bining the duties of several minor of fices under one head, and other means that would effectually reduce taxation. A. P. Cahill, candidate for Council man from the First Ward, has resigned from the Citizens' ticket, but will have a prominent place on the new ticket, which is to be nonpartisan. , New Teaching Plan Proposed. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla. Wash.. Nov. 6. (Special.) Interest aroused Dy -roressor w. R." Davis, head of the English department of Whit man College, on the paper read before the language department of the Wash ington Teachers' Association conven tion in Seattle last week, led the ses sion to appoint a committee of three to assist Professors Davis and -. R. P. Boas to continue their investigation of the methods of teaching oral expression Corn Limpers! Use "Gets-It" and'Smile!" Corns Coma Right Off, Clean and Quick! You Needn't Limp, or Fuss With Your Corns Any More! What's the use of spoiling a good time for yourself by limping around with fierce corns? It's one of the easiest things in the world, now, to get rid of them. "Gets-It" does it ThoM Coras Coma Rirtit Off. Char As m WbiatU. br Uiss Gts4tl" the new way. That's whv "Gets-If has become the corn remedy of America, the biggest selling corn remedy In the world, preferred by millions. 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The investigation is the outgrowth of the High School English essay contest held by the English department at Whit man last year and it is hoped that it will result in a more uniform system of teaching oral English in secondary schools. GIRLS' REST ROOM OPENED V. W. C. A. at Whitman Celebrates With Programme. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 6. (Special.) At the weekly meeting of the Whitman Col lege Y. W. C. A., held Thursday, the new girls' rest room was formally opened. The programme consisted of songs and readings by the members of the Y. W. C. A. Ger&ldine D'Ablaing read a selection from the "Passing of the White Swan" and Mrs. Penrose read from "The Golden Widow." The sing ing was accompanied by Ruth Dice and Naomi George on mandolins. Pomeroy Club to Give Play. POMEROY. Wash.. Nov. 6. (Special.) A home talent show under the aus pices of the Civic Club of Pomeroy. will be given in the Seeley Theater next Wednesday and Thursday evenings. 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