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HUBERT BANCROFT,
HISTORIAN. IS DEAD
Comprehensive Record of Pa
cific Coast States and Coun
ties Collected and Compiled.
WORK FILLS 34 VOLUMES
Wkcl!T a ad Collector Begins Life
Task at Age of 40, Employing
Many Atlantt In Index
tag and Compilation.
BAN niAXCISCO. March I. Hubert
Kowi Bancroft, lamoua American hi
tort an. died today at Walnut Creek,
snlles cat of this city, aged It years.
Althoorh en of the. mwt prolific
writers of hlatory which America ever
as produced, at the as ef 4 Hubert
Howe lUncroft had never written
bel nor. by hi own statement, mad
many years later, did ha know how to
writ even the Impint manuacript.
rom early manhood ba had baan
tHiH:ir and bu.lnea man In Kan
Kranrlero. and previous to that clerk In
a hoekstore at Buffalo. N. T. Earlier
attll ha waa a farm hand and tannery
Nor near Orandville. O. where ha waa
bora Mar I. lilt It waa In the boo le
ctor e a that ha obtained hla education,
hia attendance, at public achoola being
vary limited.
eefc Call Meat Haa Besrtaalas.
Followlnc hla opening of a bookshop
at twin f'ranctaco In Hi. Bancroft con
reived the Idea ef writing a corupr
benslve hlatory of California, and to
that end began collecting book, rnanu-
-ripts and newspaper. Ho abaorbed
Old ha become In thla searrn (or ma
terial that la or 11 yeara later ha had
collected thouaanda of volumee of book
and eterke of manusrrtpta and nwa
papar file. ntlU ha had written noth
ing, and could not. for ha did not know
wfiat waa In the hooka and manu
scripts.
finally. In 1171. the paction te writ
as con earned Han croft that ha gave the
conduct of hla bualnaea over to other
and aal hlmealf la earnest to the taak.
.n( einca the plan to write only of
California had enlarged until It In
cluded the I'aclfle Coast regions of the
whole North and South American con
tinent. stress of MaasserrlM Peatrayed.
Soon despair seised upon Bancroft,
for ha discovered by teeta that the
mera work of readme, digesting and
Rotating hla material unaided would
require at last toe yeara. 'or a time
Ma deapondenry amounted almost to
Insanity. Then ha considered the ex
pedient ef employing assistants, and
anade many experiment, failure gen
erally reaulttnc. On one occasion ha
nrtw Into the furnace aa worthleea
11 raama of manuacript. represent In;
the work of els or eight men for
anoatha A aoted mediaeval acholar,
employed at a high wage, waa unable
to help htm.
Perflating, the woeM-ba historian
finally perfected p. ayatara of card
Indexing which proved successful.
Thereafter he trained and employed
handreda ef assistants, the services of
om ef whom amounted to collab
orator. From the vast notea thua ac
cumulated. Bancroft finally approached
Me real taak. be bavin learned, pain
fully, la the meantime something o
the art of wrltlnc.
"Sari Kewew First Work.
Mora difficulties aroae. Bancroft
had selected Peru a the euhject of hi
first endeavor and had decided thai It
hlatory ahould begin with the Spanish
conquest, suddenly, when the work
waa half complete, he rejected It. hold
Ins; to the theory that all hlatory
ehoaSd hec'n with th beginning of
thin;. Starting; new. he delved Into
the myth and legends of th mys
terious peoplea of the American con
ttneata. running bark Into th Middle
Aca. marshaling therefrom the fact
and theories of hi "Native Racea of
the 1'aelflc States." Thla work. In five
volumes, was taauad In I $7 4. It being
necessary, at th last, for th author
to or fen tie a publishing; company to
Insure It printing-.
lUncroft estimated .that th work of
writing; and r search expended upon
"Native Races- represented th work
ef one man. totting every day, Sunday
excepted, (or 4 years.
Thirty-rear Veteeaew Fredeevd.
Following this great effort. Ban
rrert. bow widely recognised aa an au
thority on history, plunged Into other
work, continuing; Incessantly at hi
desk antll he had produced It volume,
comprising the history cf tba Pacific
t oast state and counlrlea from Alaska
to Argentina.
Ill Ufa ambition resllied. he devoted
hlmealf to occasional writing, pro
ducing "Ketroepectloa" after paaalng
hla 10th birthday.
In 1131. accompanied by native a
tetania, be visited Mexico and spent
months la searching the ancient
archives of that country for historical
data. The result was a new history of
Mexico, recently Issued. Ills library,
housed la a specially constructed
building, constat of over (0,01)9 vol'
O rr.es.
During th evening ef hi life Ban
rreft lived quietly at hi horn la ban
I'raaclacow
terday with the mailing out of ques
tionnaire of I5 lata registrant from
Alaaka and other out-of-the-way places
hi were enable to register for the
draft at the specified time, and have
Just made thema.ivea available (or the
National Army.
The let) late registrants were turned
over In a body to Division t. and their
questionnaire were mailed yesterday.
These documents must be properly
f-:.ed out and returned wltMn seven
day, and the complication, arose from
the fart that Lee a I Advisory Hoard No.
t had been dismissed and had given op
Ita headquarters In the Courthouse, so
there waa no place to which the men
could ba directed for advice.
Ueoesre Shepherd, chairman of Board
t, rna to the occasion, however, and
engaged the services of six attorneya
In . r , k hninl These S 1 1 0 T -
neya are Fred W. Stadler. Ted Lansing
fcSELL'S BOOKS
SOLD III PORTLAND
Two Young Women, Followers
of Pastor, Arrested for Dis
tributing Literature.
LOS ANGELES PLANT RAIDED
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Aiding Alien Enemle to Leave
Vnlted Mate and Enter
Soulbcrn Kepabllc.
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llahert l(w Itaarrwrt. ! Died
at Francises) leeterday.
and Wlllametta McKIroy. Ill City Hall:
George Mowry. (01 Courthouse: an
Poole. Judge Kavaneugh'e courtroom.
Courthouse, and CJrare Arnold. IT. o.
District Attomey'a office, poatofflca.
WILLIAM L JOKES DEAD
oxrc welukxowv ORrr.o.itv
FA .. A WAT SOI TU.
Fersaev Wewepapes Man Born Jttmr
Perl la ad Latter Tears Ppent
la Seat he ra CalUerala,
Information ha bean received
Portland of th death of William
Board Wnlckly Made Tp.
Complications not foreseen In th e.
t-tiva ervtr regulations arne ves-
COUNT FIFTY! NO
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PA
Don't 8 u fieri Instant relief
follows a rubbinjr with old
St. Jacobs Liniment"
Conaners pain never fail.
Hub eoothlng. penetrating "St. Jacob
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and out come th neuralgia misery.
er a Joyful sperlrant! Try It!
Cet a small trial bottle from your drag
'st: pour a little la your hand and rub
It gaatiy on th sors. aching nerve,
and before yon ream It In Just a mo
ment all pain and neuralgia disap
pear. It's almoat magical, but the Joy
Is. that th misery doesn't coma back.
No! The nerve are aoofbad and con
gestion la relieved and your neuralgia
la overcome.
flop suffering! It'a needless neural
gta and pain ef all kinds, either in th
face. head, limb or any part of th
body, la Instantly banished. "81 Jacobs
Liniment" I perfectly harmless and
doesn't born or discolor th akin. In
use for halt a century. Adv.
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one, a quarter 'of a century ago a
welt-known roaldent of Portland and
the Northwest, which occurred In Lo
Angelas. January 17. tr. Jonea waa
aon-ln-law of the late John Wilson.
founder of Old. Wortman aV King, and
brother-in-law of itohert Wllaon and
Mrs. KJwIn Caswell, of Portland. The
uneral was held January 30. from the
family residence In Lo Angeles.
Among newspaper men Mr. Jones was
particularly well known In the North-
eat, bu. his activities extended Into
many line, and hla circle of ac
quaintance and frlenda was wide. Me
waa born near Portland In 1SS. lie
began newapaper work aa a young man.
and for more than 3 yeara waa actively
ens-aged In It. lie was editor and own
er of th HMlsboro Independent for
some time, and he founded the Morning
l-eader. of Port Townsend, Wash., when
that town first became well known.
Later he waa publisher of a weekly pa
per at San Pedro. Cel.. and for a time
held an editorial position on tha Bak
ersfleld Echo.
Mr. Jonea left th Northwest about
54 year ago and for th laat II yeara
made Lo Angelee hla horn. He waa a
member of th Kapublican state cen
tral committee of California, president
ef tha Oregon Society of Southern Cali
fornia, a member of the Sons of the
Revolution, the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce. City Club and tha Frater
nal Brotherhood.
liesldea hla widow, Llda Wilson Jones,
two children. Alice Louise and Private
Kobert Wilson Jones. Company M, fd
Infantry, survive.
With th arrest yesterday In this
city of two members of the Interna
tlonat Bible Students' Association,
prehended whil admittedly selling an
distributing the literature of their re
llglou aecL Federal authorities too
up In earnest the problem of whethe
this organization preaches sedition
Mlas M. A. Thomas, claiming Brook
lyn. N. Y., a her home, and Miss Klsi
Oaborne, of Prlnevtile. On., were ap
prehended br a Federal agent an
taken before W. R. Bryon. chief of
the bureau, for Investigation. Kvi
dence taken from the women, consist
Ing of "The Watch Tower," a public'
tlon of the Bible Students' Association
and "The Finished Mystery." a book of
Bible prophecy. Is being studied by
Assistant United State Attorney
Veatch. Pending possible Issuance of
a warrant the young women were per
mltted to go. They rv their I'ort
land addresa as 115 East Thinty-fourtn
street.
Disclosures In other cities that the
International Bible Students' Associa
lion, founded on th teachings of the
late I'aator Charlea T. Russell. Is so
strongly prejudiced against wsr tha
Its members ar urged not to partic
Date tn the present great struggle, has
DraclDltated thorough Investigation o
Its tenets.
' Whether or not these Russelllte
teachings sra so extreme as to con
stitute sedition I being determined by
th Federal prosecutors through com
munlcatlon with their superiors and I
studr of booka and publication of
th sect.
LOS ANGELES. March . Another
raid on the headquarters of the Inter
national Bible Htudentn' Association
was mad by Federal authorities today
and seversi thousand books In r.nglisn
Oernvaa. Japanese and other languages
were seized.
Many copies of an alleged seditious
book. "The Finished Mystery." were
soiled tn th first raid laat night.
LAREDO. T March t. Tnes Lo.
sano. a former Huerta officer who haa
been living In th Unltd Sttes for
four year, waa arrested by Federal
authorities her today, charged with
unlawfully assisting enemy aliens to
leave th United State for Mexico.
WASHINGTON. March J. Loul
Schroeder. an American of German
parentage, emplured as a draughtniran
at lha War DparMncnt, was Indicted
br th grand Jury yesterday on
charge of larceny from the United
States for having taken prints of gun
carriages and of other ordnance, many
of which were found In his room.
SAW FRANCISCO. March . The list
of defendants tn the tilal here of a
group of Hindus and others for an al
leged conspiracy to overthrow British
rule In India ha been Increased to 11
through the Inclusion of Naranjan Daa,
according to the prosecution.
Das. who waa Indicted, bad not been
an active defendant because of his ab
sence, but his status waa changed
when Judge William C. Van Fleet re
fused to dismiss th charges against
him and directed him to participate In
th defense.
Da was not apprehended until th
prosecution waa about half through
with Ita case.
DA"GEROCS A LI EX TAKEN
MAN ROBBED .IN
Cliarlrs Lawrence, of Crawford-
Tills, e lugged by Companion.
ALBANY. Or, March . ISpeclaL)
Charles Lawrence, of t'ra wfordsville.
who had come her to be examined as
a draft registrant, was slugged and
robbed of tit laat night at the north
end of th Albany bridge across the
Willamette here. He says that C O.
Anderson, a Crawfordevllle young man.
with whom he had walked across th
bridge, committed th crime.
Lawrence ay that as they walked
along, Anderson suddenly struck him
on the right temple with a flashlight.
knocked him down, took hi purs and
fled. II notified local officers, who
found Anderson at th Southern Ta-
clflo depot, where h had purchased a
ticket for CreawelL
ALBANY p,ot to Release Prisoners at Fort
Don gin Suspected.
SHIPMENTS SH0RT WEIGHT
Complaints on California!! Imports
Being; Investigated.
SALT LAKE CITT. March 1. A plot
to release the German aliens at the
war prison barracks at Fort Douglas
and to destroy public buildings in Salt
Lake City has been raveajed. the police
believe, through th arrest of Frank
Dlmok, all Petsold. a German subject.
Th arrest was effected when Dlmok
applied for hi registration card. In
Dlmok' possession were found a secret
code, a map of Salt Lake City with
mysterious arrows pointing toward
Fort Douglas and . tbe state capitol.
numbered diagrams which th prisoner
admitted to be of United State forti
fication and encampment, and many
other sketches which the police con
sider extremely compromising.
On of the sketches waa that of the
alien Interment compound at Fort
Douglas. It show the barracks and
th wire fence surrounding the com
pound, also lines, which the police state
plainly Indicate a tunnel reaching from
one of the buildings to a point outside
th tnclnsure. Other sketches, Dlmok
freely admitted- vert those of a mili
tary character. !
The police believe that the pictures
of the capitol with maps showing
streets leading to it. also map of the
police station, th city and county
building, with certain data concerning
same, might have been wanted for the
purposes of preparing plana to blow
up tha buildings.
It was stated that Dlmok had been
under surveillance for two weeks. The
police state that they are convinced of
a plot among certain Germana to ef
fect a wholesale delivery of alien pris
oners at Fort Douglas, and that men
with whom Dimok had been conferring
would be rounded up.
ALLIANCE MAKES PROTEST
German-American Concern "Fights
Hard to Retain Charter.
WASHINGTON, March 2. Formal
protest against the Senate committee
hearing on th bill to revoke the char
ter of th German-American Alliance
waa filed today by Karl A. M. Scholtx.
of Baltimore, attorney for the alli
ance. He questioned the right of Sen
ator King, of Utah, author of the bill,
to sit on the committee.
Th commute overruled the protest
snd then a further protest was filed by
Theodore Sutro, of New York, who con
tended Congress ha no jurisdiction to
revoke the charter. Th procedure
should be brought in th courts, be
argued, -
Th committee went on with the
hearing and secured a blanket denial
of the charge of disloyalty from Presi
dent S. V. Von Bosse, of tha alliance.
Pro-German articles appearing in the
official bulletin of the alliance were re
pudiated by Sutro, who declared the
alliance should not ba held to account
for what appeared in the publication.
Colonel Paul Meerscheidt, of San An
tonio, Texas, vice-president of the Texas
State Alliance, denied any unpatriotic
motives on the part of his organization
but said Germans In Texas were ad
vised to stand together for political
purposes In local elections. This was
regarded necessary, he said, for the
maintenance of German interests.
Preceding the election of 1916, Mr.
Meerscheidt said he received a message
from Dr. Hexamer, former president of
the Alliance, asking him to urge Ger
man voters to support Charles J.
Hughes for President.
ELECTRICAL- WORKERS STRIKE
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Supply of Light and Power at Great
Falls May Fall.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., March 2.
With all electrical workers out on
strike in all Industries except the A. C.
M. smelter, but Including tha Montana
Power Company, the continued supply
of electric light and power here Is but
a question Of hours.
As long as everything goes well, the
local smelter and the Butte minus tclll
receive power. If anything goes wrong.
In the power plants or any lines go
down, there will be no on to repair
them.
Th local telephone plant Is practi
cally out of commission, with the man
ager hard at work to keep the auto
matic switchboard working.
A party of Butt electrical workers
and the metal trades union heads are
in this city. The sympathetic atrlke
of the alectrlcal union with the ma
chinists followed the arrival of the
Butte delegation. The local union was
prevailed upon to go out after a ses
slon lasting until midnight last night.
.o meeting with tha employer asso
ciation has yet been proposed by either
side. Th machinists went out several
days ago, demanding an increase of
li.Zi a day.
Chesterfield Clothes
100 More for Your Suit, Your Overcoat, Your Underwear
for This Fall If money has any value to you it would be
the wise thing if you would buy the clothes you will need
for both Summer and Fall needs now. Our stock on hand
is , large and you will have good selection of dependable
merchandise. - Our profit-sharing plan saves you half the
regulation profit you pay at other stores. When you have
compared values we will sell you the Clothes you need, be
cause Value Will Tell.
Delivery System Incorporated,
ASTORIA, Or.. Mar. J. (Special.)
Articles of incorporation of the Central
Delivery Company were filed In the
County Clerk's office today. The In
corporators are J. T. Ross, J. L. Tucker
nd O. A. Owen. .The capital stock is
t'4.000, and the object of the Incorpo
ration is to maintain a delivery system
mr me Astoria mercnants.
Consul Akamata Transferred.
Announcement was made from the
apanese Consulate in Portland jester
ay that Consul 8. Akamatu has Just
received appointment to a position -in
he consular eervice of his nation in
Mancurla. Mr. Akamatu plans to
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Glasses made after a scien
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ES3EBEK3KfS3"32E
leave for his new post In about a month,
or upon the arrival from London, Eng
land, of M. Shlgemlgsu, announced as
his successor in Portland. Mr. Shige
mlgsu is now connected with the Japan
ese embassy in London.
T. B. Xeuhansen to Aid Senator.
T. B. Neuhausen, who was vice-chair
man of the Hughes campaign commit
tee for Oregon in 1916. is to act In an
advisory capacity for the McNary forces
during the approaching Senatorial cam
paign. Formal announcement to this
effect was made yesterday by Portland
friends of Senator McXary. It has been
the Impression among political leaders
for some time that Mr. Neuhausen was
looking after the Interests of the Senator.
ENGINEERS MEET MONDAY
Address by E. Bnrslem Thomson to
Feature Occasion.
E. Burslem, Thomson, United States
Assistant Engineer, will be the princi
pal speaker at the meeting of the Port
land sections of the American Institute
of Kleotrlral Knerlneers and National
Electric Light Association, at the Mult
nomah Hotel, tomorrow evening1 at 8
o'clock. Mr. Thomson will give an Il
lustrated talk on the "Engineering Fea
tures of the Oregon City Locks."
The speaker has made a comprehend
slve study of the construction of canals
and locks, and for this reason the
meeting wjll be thrown open to mem
bers of the Orepon Society of Engi
neers, American Society of Civil Engi
neers and other members of the engi
neering profession. Hooverized re
freshments will be servtd.
Phone your want ads to The Oreg'o-
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FALEM. Or, March . Special.)
Complaints of short weight on land
plaatar shipments from California are
being Investigated by Deputy Sealer of
Weights and Measures tipence Wort-
man, who asks mat larmer mrougnoui
the state using land plaster keep an eye
open to correct weights on their imports.
The law makes It a crime to expose
for sale, offer for ssle or sell short-
weight sjuod and if It IS ai-rtained
that the practice Is general and inten
tional, prosecution will follow, Mr.
Wortman stated.
Linn County ITesldent rasses at
Daughter's Home In Albany.
ALPANT. Or- March J. Special.)
John Traachel. resident of Linn County I
for tbe oast JS years, died this morn-
ng at the home of his daughter. Mr-
Mary Moench. tn this city, aged to
years. A native of Swltserland. he I
came to America many years ago, and I
after residing In Nebraska earns to I
Oregon and settled at Sweet Home.
He came to Albany II years ago.
Mrs Moench Is his only relative here.
He leaves two daughters tn California
and one in Swltserland. Ha waa s
member of the Evangelical Church.
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o an announcement made yesterday In
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