1 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, POKTLAXD, NOVEMBER 19, 1916. SERIOUS FACED GQND1TI0N AT PRISON Convicts Ask for "Humane" Superintendent, Not Ex Sheriff or Policeman. POISON PLOT IS FOUND Wash., Nov. 18.(SpeciaI.) The new girls at Whitman this week expressed their preference among the literary so cieties by handing in their applications to the dean of women. The Eibelh reans led with 20 applications. At Whitman the women's societies get new members each year by holding an open meeting In each society, after which the prospective members are al lowed to choose the one preferred. More than half of the new women expressed no preference. Man, Democrat 100 Years, Changes Politics. Mathanlel Bnraoa, Reidlnar Hear Brownsville, More Active Than His 80-Year-Old Son. Factions Exist Among; ' Inmates, Armed Guards Doubled --Governor Says Visits Are Dangerous ' and 5Icn on Verge of Kiot. SALEM. Or., Nov. ' 18. Special.) Convicts at the Oregon penitentiary, in a formal petition to the State Board o Control tonight, pleaded for the ap pointment of & prison superintendent who would treat them "humanely and fairly," and one who had not been a Sheriff or police officer. The petition was signed by more than 200 prisoners. Members of the Board said today that they had reached no decision as to who would be named to succeed J. "W. Minto, but expect to meet early next week and settle the matter. Since the dismissal of Mr. Minto the members of the Board have been receiving numerous applica tions for the position of superintendent, as well as recommendations from their friendd. Among the names now being con sidered for the place are Charles Burns, ex-Chief of Police of Oregon City; Sam uel Traeser. of Portland, formerly As sistant Superintendent of the House of Correction at Peoria, 111.; C. i. w e d d, Chief Parole Officer for the Washing ton State Reformatory at Monroe, Wash.; F. W. Reynolds. ex-Secretary to the Warden at the California State prison at San Quentin; George II. Hurl burt. Deputy Sheriff of Multnomah County; Nathan Bird.'of Portland; J. J. McCormick, of Eugene; Thomas Word, ex-Sheriff of Multnomah County, and William Esch, Sheriff of Marion County. Difficult Job Faced. That wh03Vjr is appointed superin tendent of the penitentiary will face a difficult task in governing the convicts was the prediction of members of the Board of Control today. The prisoners are divided into two factions, the smaller number asserting that con ditions a:e fairly satisfactory, and the majority complaining bitterly of their treatment at the hands of Mr. Minto and Warden Sherwood." A communication from the prisoners which accompanied their petition to the Board alleged that the former superintendent was governed entirely by Mr. Sherwood in his treatment of them; that brutality of the prison offi cials has been frequent. The men who signed the petition dis claim any intention of causing trouble to the prison management, placing the blame upon a few unruly prisoners. The prison monthly magazine, "Lend a Hand," It is declared, failed to repre sent the attitude .of the men toward the government of the prison, and the editor. Harry Lovell, is accused of "playing to the front gate." His re moval is demanded. . ... Armed Guards Doubled. The spirit of Insubordination to prison authority is said to have in creased since the resignation of Mr. Minto, and today the armed guards in the great steel cages inside the prison were doubled to prevent any break which might he attempted. For the last few nights the prison has been in an uproar for hours at a time, because of the vocal demonstrations of the con victs. That Acting Superintendent Sher wood will not be retained by the new superintendent 6eems apparent, in view of the intense feeling toward him by the prisoners, who have demanded that he he dismissed. So great is the ha tred of the men against the present prison management that members of the Board said the officers did not dare to mingle with, the men for fear of being attacked. "Every time I enter the prison to talk with the convicts," said Governor Withycombe, "I know it is dangerous. The men are in such a temper "that it would require but little to precipitate a riot. Grievances Are Heard. Secretary of State Olcott and Treas urer Kay yesterday interviewed 300 of the prisoners in the prison auditorium. At this meeting the men presented their grievances, demanding Mr. Sher wood's removai. They were assured that this would be left to the discretion of the new su perintendent when he had been named. A committee composed of Editor Lovell. of "Lend a Hand," and two other pris oners, was repudiated by the majority ' of convicts, who declared they were prison were forced to keep the two factions apart today to prevent a gen eral clash. It developed today that an elaborate plot to poison all the guards on the night shift so that a wholesale break might be made was frustrated a few days ago only through the confession of a prisoner. In some manner a quan tity of "rough on rats" was smuggled into the prison, and one of the cooks is said to have placed the poison in the lunches prepared for the guards on the night fchift. When the plan had been told the food was examined and found to be poisoned. The responsibil ity was not fixed. ALBANY. Or, Nov. 18. (Special.) "I've been a Democrat 100 years, but I think I'l change my politics." This remark was made half in Jest but not on the age question. For the speaker actually has lived 100 years. He was Nathaniel Burson, who resides 3 "4 miles north of Brownsville. He was 100 years old June 15 last. Mr. Burson addressed this remark to D. K. New land, a neighbor, who volunteered to take the centenarian to the polls in his buggy election day. "I'm afraid you'll kill my vote, though," Mr. Newland said. He is a Republican and knew Burson was a Democrat. The latter then explained that, while he did not intend to go to the trouble of going to the polling place, he had made up his mind to sup port Mr. Hughes if he voted. He for- MURDER STORY TOLD Mrs. John Allen Says Husband Shot in Self-Defense. VICTIM ARMED, SHE AVERS Woman Admits Leaving Spouse for Lewis Butts Reconciliation Is Effected Intruder Menaces Couple With Gun. BAKER, Or., Nov. 18. (Special.) Lewis Butts was killed by her husband in self-defense was the testimony given today by Mrs. John Allen in de fense of her husband who is on trial charged with murder of Butts. She told how Butts temporarily alienated her affections from her husband and this led to the shooting August 18. She said that her husband secured work in Malheur County early this year and she was forced to stay with her little daughter on the homestead near Hereford. Mrs. Allen told of NEW BUILDING AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON IS OCCUPIED. "Whitman Co-Eds Pick Societies. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla, Humphreys' Seventy-seven For Grip, Influenza, E9 r: jAr- :Ss. . s " i 9 X 3 ! K ' 1-1 ; -It v assembled at Castle Rock last night to 1 1" me numoer oi ituu lo neip ine asuie Rock Democrats celebrate the election of Wilson and Lister. A large number of Kelso Democrats attended. Follow ing a big banquet in Brewer's building short addresses were made by promi nent citizens of the county. Governor Lister had planned to attend, but was detained at Centralia by the Good Roads Association convention. JACKSON LEVY IS 16 MILLS County Budget Calls for Raising or $424,000. ASHLAND. Or., Nov. IS. (Special.) The Jackson County budget for 1917 contemplates raising $-124,000 for gen eral purposes. The levy has been fixed at It mills, apportioned as follows: General road fund, 2. mills; high school and li brary, .7 mills; Pacific Highway inter est, 1 mill; county school, 2.1 niiiij; general fund. 9.6 mills. The major items of expense in the estimates are: Pacific Highway inter est, $23,000; general road, IC8.300; coun ty school, $55,650; state tax, $100,000; redemption of outstanding warrants against general county fund $46.S3S. Balances in the various funds amount to $153, S05. Special school tax levies in 103 districts of the county vary from five-tenths of a mill to 10 mills, that of the Ashland district being nine mills. The County Court will meet Decem ber 7, affording an opportunity for dis cussion of the estimates. The New Edis on S I 0: A. C. IN APPLE SHOW Two Exhibits Will Bo Entered Spokane Affair. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis. Nov. 18. (Special.) The de partment of horticulture of the Ore gon Agricultural College will make wo exhibits at the ninth annual Apple Show to be held in Spokane. Wash., from November 20 to 23. One will be a large floor map showing the haracter and amount of fruit pro duction of the United States and the other will be a display of varieties of apples suited for the different sea- ons of the year. Professor C. I. Lewis, head of the department, will be one of the Judges at the show, and J. R. Magness, an assistant, will also represent the col- ege. Professor Lewis. Mr. Magness and Mr. Firestone left for Spokane tonight. EDUCATIONAL UlILUl.NG RECEXTL1 COMPLETED. TJNIVERSITT OF OREGON, Eugene. Nov. IS. (Special.) The University now hag one mpre building in service on the campus. The school of educa tion has its classrooms In the new building, along with offices for the profes sors. The principal department of education is the University High School, which has the entire first floor. Some interesting work is being planned for students in this work, espe cially that which is connected with the physical training of the students. Each student of the high school must undergo a thorough examination by the university physical trainers and special work will be prescribed according to the defects of the child. The law school will occupy a portion of the second and third floors, as well as the nucleus of the university law library. As soon as possible a moot court will be organized and all the other necessary equipment will be put into place. merly lived on the Mexican border, and it was the Mexican policy of the Ad ministration which had caused his decision. 'I'll bet you a cigar on the election." the aged man said to Mr. Newland. So the 100-year-old citizen bet on Hughes. Mr. Burson is in fair health. He walks about a good deal. With a read ing glass he reads newspapers and magazines and is well informed on cur rent topics. He can discuss affairs as readily and intelligently as a. middle- aged man. He has followed keenly the news about the "Deutschland, the Ger man merchant submarine. A native of Virginia, Mr. Burson has resided in many different states. He wa3 a California pioneer of 49. For the past 15 years he has been a resi dent of Oregon and now lives with his son. r. L. Burson. He is just twice as old as the son with whom he now lives. He was mar ried young and has one son. residing in Arkansas, who is 80 years of age. Three years ago he made a trip to visit relatives in the East and Middle West and called on this son. They started to take a ride together and the older man had to help his son in the buggy, the "boy" being more feeble than his father. Two years ago Mr. Burson was at tacked with pneumonia and it was feared that he would not live to reach the century mark. Two physicians of Brownsville attended hira and admit ted his condition was grave. They left orders with some neighbors who sat up with him to take good care of him and, above all, not to let him talk. The old man refused to obey instructions, but sat up in bed and talked all night, and the next morning the threatened pneu monia was broken up. The doctors said that this experience would have killed most men. Mr. Burson chews tobacco. He for merly used tobacco a great deal, but quit using it for a while when he was 99. He began again, however, though he now uses it moderately. He used liquor some also up until he was about 45 years of age, but has not used It at all for many years. He is now bitterly opposed to the use of liquor in any form. In his later years Mr. Burson has writen considerable poetry. He wrote one litle poem Just before he reached the age of 100. It was entitled "The Man From Norway" and was a tribute to a neighbor. having a private conversation with Butts and then refusing to have any thing to do with her husband. Later a reconciliation was effected. She testified how on the morning of the shooting Butts had sent away her nephew, Henry Hardman. and started to put his arms around hr. "Then he asked me if I was going to get a divorce and marry him." she continued, "and I said, 'no, I love John Allen.' Then he said if I didnt get a divorce, he'd kill me and John Allen, too. "He picked up his gun from the corner of the room and started out. I was nervous and frightened, for thought he might carry out his threat. Just then Henry came back from his errand and Mr. Butts put down his gun by the door and went out. He did not return until I called him to dinner." Her story of the shooting was that she was standing by the stove, when her husband appeared in the doorway. Hello, Butts, are you having a nice time?" was his greeting to the other man, but a fierce "Damn you, I'll kill you," was the answer she heard, as Butts raised suddenly from his chair and seized his gun standing by the door. Almost as quickly, Mrs. Allen said she rushed for the weapon, crying Don't. Lewis," and placed her left hand against his chest to halt him. Allen called to him to stop and as Butts continued to advance, stepped back, threw up his own weapon to his hip and fired. The same shot which killed Butts, wounded a finger of her left hand, the witness testified. UDGE KING AT HERMISTON Reclamation Service Counsel Deliv ers Address on District Plan. HERMISTON, Or.. Nov. 18. (Special.) Judge Will R. King, chief counsel Of the United States Reeclamation Serv ice, passed Thursday in Hermioton on official business, and while here del ivered an address on the irrigation district plan and its advantages to the settlers in relation to the rural credis law. Judge King also described how the reclamatlonvprojects in the Weet were now succeeding, and claimed that Ore gon could secure greater benefits from the reclamation fund if greater activi ties were shown. Judg King was ac company by Edward S. Taylor, of Port land, district counsel for Oregon, and A. S. Pollocke. of New Mexico, counsel for that state. INDIES SALE OPPOSED EX-GOVEHXOR IS HEARD BY DAN ISH COMMITTEE, Pathology of a Cold The diseased states produced by tak ing cold are local congestion, inflam mation and fever. The first effect of exposure- is to derange the nervous tension of the skin and some internal organ; the sec ond to check the cell-growth of the parts affected and obstruct the circula tion of the nervous fluid, produce a recoil of the nerve wave, and thereby the chill, shiver or rigor. To get the best results and help the cold away take "Seventy-seven" at the first sign of a cold. Trice 25c at all drug stores. TONIC TABLETS (HUMPHREYS') For the convalescent, for the weak and the weary Price, $1.00, at all Drug Stores, or sent, collect on de livery. Humphreys Homeo, Medicine Co., 156 William Street, New York, Present Bad Conditions Declared Dae Mainly to Labor Question and Policy Toward Negroea. COPENHAGEN. Nov. 6. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) The former Governor-General of the Danish West Indies, Helweg J-arsen, was ex amined today by a Parliamentary com mil tee and opposed the sale of the is lands. The, present bad conditions, ac cording tc the retiring Governor, are mainly due to the labor question, and the policy of the Danes in treating the negroes in the same way as white people. If the islands are sold to the United States, they would have the American tariff, according to the ex-Governor, and that would virtually kill the trade of the free port of St. Thomas. He advocated the retention of Danish sov ereignty on the ground that the islands are very important for Danish com merce and shipping. Chaplain Ejnar Olsen, of St. Croix, speaking before the committee, main tained that the negroes would be much happier under American rule. 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Croth ers, editor and publisher of the ban Francisco Bulletin, today that pressure of public duties would not permit a visit to San Francisco and the Pa cific Coast at this time, although he "hoped for such a release as will en able me to give myself the pleasure of such a trip. Mr. Crothers had Invited the Presi dent on the face of California's Wilson vote. John Dyer, of Canadian Cavalry, ltecovering Front Wounds Sus tained in Kurope and Which lied to Winning; of Bride. MEDFORD. Or.. Nov. 18. (Special.) The European war was brought close to home here when, after a 7000-mile trip from the war hospital at South ampton, England, Mrs. John Dyer ar rived to join her husband, who for three weeks has been recuperating from the effects of wounds received in the trenches in Flandars. at the borne of his sister, Mrs. E. O. Osborne. The happy reunion was the first pub lic announcement that a veteran of the Flanders campaign was living in Medford, and Involved In that reunion l.s an interesting romance of the con II let which is shattcrlg the soul of Europe. Man Made Prlttoner. Mr. Dyer enlisted in the Fifth -West ern Canadian Cavalry In August. 1915, and. after training In England, was sent to the front-line trenches the fol- James E. Keith. RIDGEFIELD, Wash., Nov. 18. (Special.) James Keith is the new president of the Ridge field Commercial Club. He was elected unanimously at the an nual business meeting which fol lowed the first anniversary cele bration of the club, which was held recently at the Ridgefield High School assembly hall. Prior to his presidency, Mr. Keith served as club secretary for one year. He has resided at Ridgefield for the past four years and has been connected with the f Ridgefield Mercantile Company t and with the Ridgefield State 7 Bank as .assistant cashier and ? cashier and later as a director J and secretary of the ooard. t He is a member of the Colum- bla Masonic Lodge, No. 114, of Portland, and the Ridgefield Odd- fellows' Lodge. He is owner and f proprietor of a large, modern suc 4 cessful poultry ranch near Ridge I field. Wltitman Debaters Cfioscn. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla. Wash.. Nov. IS. (Special.) The- try- outs for the members of the Vt hitman College team to debate the Univer sity of Washington next January were held yesterdav and the following were chosen: William lxeynolds,' Walla al la: Winthrop Chaplin, Olympia; Robert Porterfield, bpoRane, and Charles Gaff' ney, Seattle. The exact date has not been set, but the debates will take place soon after the Christmas holi days. The question is: "Resolved. That Intercollegiate Athletics Should Be Abolished." Two members of the teams are freshmen. Cripple Attempts Suicide. PASCO. Wash.. Nov. 18. (Special.) Louis Tarvian, a transient, threw him self under the wheels of train No. 330, Pendleton local, Thursday night as it entered the station at 4:30 o'clock, in an attempt to commit suicide. He was struck and thrpwn on the pilot of the engine before the train could be stopped, and was cut about the face and bruised on the arms and shoulders. He was removed to the hospital here, and it is stated that he will recover. Tarvian' has had both limbs amputated above the knees. He has been around town for some days, and declared that he attempted sulciae. lowing February. For more than a year he was in active service, and at the five days' battle before Ypres in April, 191t, was severely wounded Just as he was about to leave the trench in a counter attack. An arm and leg shattered, he wad helpless in the trench for nine hours, during which I time the Germans captured the trench and took him prisoner. The British guns, however, soon drove the Germans out in such a hurry that no prisoners could be taken, and Dyer was soon transported to a field hospital, where his wounds were dressed. He was sent back to London, but on the way was overcome and so was sent to the emergency hospital at South ampton. Here he wan attended by a Red Cross nurse. Miss Edith Skinner, with whom a close friendship sprang up which deepened into love, and the two were married at the ho.pital as soon as the patient was on the road to recovery. DUcbara-e la Obtaiaed. After examination Mr. Dyer received honorable discharge and left at once for Medford. The reunion was a h.ippy one. Mrs. Dyer being overjoyed at the rapid re covery of her husband, who now ap pears to be in the best oc bealln. al though his wounded leg still gives some annoyance. According to Mr. Dyer there will he no deadlock in the present war. but England will fight on until decisive victory is assured. Mr. Dyer's experiences would fill sev eral books and he is busy recounting his adventures to friends of the family. During one German attack he had a 12-minute duel with a German in one end of a trench, which finally ended when he drove his bayonet through the breast of his adversary. A battle in modern war he describes as a com bination between a thunder storm, hall storm and hurricane. The noise is deafening, the air full of flying lead and shells, and the striking thing to a novice in the war cone is the com paratively few men who are hit. . Mr. and Mrs. Dyer will make their home in Medford for the present. anan Speak to our customers who wear Hanan Shoes and you will hear a universal story of satisfaction, because of their style, comfort and durability. Once a wearer of Haiian shoes you will be dissatisfied with any other make. 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