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THE SUNDAY OKEUOMAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 12, 1919. NEW UNO FRAUD CASE TO BE TAKEN UP Attorney-General Would Push Pacific Livestock Suits. $5000 WILL BE NEEDED Artoat Ix-mind) of Pending Pro ceeding Call for Amount of Appropriation Asked. SALE JT. Or.. Jan. II. .pccial. In a report" to the Slate Land Hoard com pleted tonla-ht. Attorney - General Urown aroes at lenpth into the land fraud situation In the Hate and de c;are that he will seek liOOO from the Lra-i.'lature to further prosecute the Pacific Livestock ca, but will at temnt no further prosecutions. -In maktnr this estimate." he stated. I have considered the per cent llm Itation and the necessity of the I.etrls lature cutting all appropriations to the uick. and bave not sought an appro priation for land lltiKatmn beyond the actual demands of pending proceed tna;..- After reviewing the Hyde-Benson eases, which opened the way for return to the state of practically tj.OOO acres of land throuch cases prosecuted by Attorney-lleneral Brown, he points out In a email measure evidence obtained In the l'artfic Livestock case through a candaritintr expert. 1700 Acre larladed. Proceeding. Mr. Brown aays: "There are Included in the Taciftc Livestock Company'! suit about 17.000 acres, conelntlnir of school lands, school Indemnity lands and swamp lands, and these lands are valuable ami were ac quired from the state because of their value to the livestock industry. It is the contention of the state that a large part of these lands were procured from the state throuKD the agency of the Jrl(lc Livestock Company and Henry Stiller, who waa the president and owner of practically every share of the company's stock. "What we are attempting to do Is to have returned to the state lands that were fraudulently acquired from the ciate. It is also claimed by the state that the lands which were not procured directly by Henry Miller or the Pacific Livestock Company from the state were purchased with the knowledse of the fraud practiced upon the state. In other words, the state is not In Its suit attempting to disturb the title to lands held by bona fide purchasers. KvldcBee .Mot Dlnrloaed. "Since the Pacific Livestock Company case has not yet been tried. I deem it inadvisable to disclose evidence which the slate has in its possession beyond what I cave previously reported to Tour boaM. "In concluding this report, permit me to call attention of the Land Board to the fact that in the last two years there haa been returned to the state of Oregon lands that had been procured by fraud that are many times the value of the amount appropriated by the last Legislature to conduct this office. "Pursuant to statute I have filed with the Secretary of State estimate of ex penditures for the next two years for the office of Attorney-General and have included the sum of J500O for the conduct of land fraud proceedings and represented that the Land Board has d'rtvted the prosecution of the suit now pending In th-s Circuit Court of the Ctata of Oregon for Harney County. Peadlng Proceedings Daly Considered. "In making the estimate I have con sidered the per rent limitation and the necessity of the Legislature cutting all appropriations to the quick, and have not sought an appropriation for land litigation beyond the actual de mands of pending proceedings." Referring to the depleted condition Of the school fund. Mr. Brown says: "Our irreducible school fund Is a mere rhadow compared to those of many other states, and wha It should have been. Much of our most valuable lands are held by large corporations, remain ing undeveloped, when they could and should provide the means of livelihood and homes for many of our citizens.' been secured from other towns to help out during the emergency. At the present time it Is estimated there are 35 rases of influenza in the town, many contracting the disease for the second time. RESIDENT OF OSWEGO DIES J. C. Ilaync Succumbs at Oregon City Hospital at Age of 70. OREGON CITT. Or Jan. 11 (Spe cial.) J. C. Jlaynes. of Oswego, died last iieht at the Oregon City Hospital Mr. Havnes was TO years of age, and was well known in Oswego, where he had resided for over 30 years. He had been Justice of the Peace there for a number of years. Mr. llayne is survived by his widow and 10 children, five boys and five girls. WIFE SLAYS MILLIONAIRE fConMnurii From Klrjt Pa?e tended by physicians, she was ques tioned for more than an hour by Dis trict Attorney Weeks and Coroner Jones. Mr. Jones said the principal purpose of the examination was to de termine whether she was in condition to he removed to the County Jail. He Id he found her greatly excited and that she talked in an incoherent manner. The Lebaudy home, where the shoot- WARDEFJ WOULDCUHE T; S WITH WORK Prisoners Will Not Be Allowed to Remain Idle. NEW POLICIES ARE GIVEN Mr. Stevens Says If Men Are Kept Busy at Work for 'W hich They Are Fitted Problem Will Be rosier. at ing took place. Is within 1000 feet of "The Box." where Mrs. Bianca de Saul- les shot and killed her husband. John Longer de Saulles. on August 3. 1917. l.rbaadr Galas Notoriety. Lebaudy. whose escapades have filled columns In New lork newspapers. attained the title of "Emperor the Sahara" in 1903. shortly after his father had died, leaving him an estate he value of which was estimated Ill.noo.COO. Conceiving the idea of establishin great maritime city and a "kingdom on the coast or Africa, iuudy sal lea from France on his yacht Krasquleta, accompanied by three followers. After anding and taking formal possesslo of the shore under the taale of "Jacques Emprror of the Sahara, he returned Kurope and collected a colony nearlv 6"0 persons whom be trans ported to his "kingdom. Title la Kenaaared. Difficulties with the French. Spanish nd Swiss governments followed, and Lebaudy hauled down his flag, three bees on a field of purple, and returned to Kranre. A French man-of-war later ook off some of his colonists. whihad ben left on the African coast. In 1904 Lebaudy issued a statement rom Brussels, "renouncing his crown but a year later It was reported" he sacrificed a payment of 1.000.000 francs due him from a sugar transaction be cause the check was not made out to "Jacques-1, Emperor of the Sahara.' Lebaudy came to the United States a short time later, reports at that time stating he bad been informed by the government of France that his pres ence there no longer was acceptable. In 1915, shortly after he had lost $1,600,000 suit against the Carnegie Trust Company, which he had employed to dispose of his holdings In France, Lebaudy was confined in the State Hos pital at Amityvllle. escaping one night, to be recaptured the next day In the woods near his home. He was released by a court order a few weeks later. Wife Is Social Leader. A short tire afterward, however, he was arrested on a charge of assault, preferred by his wife, and again was committed to an Institution. He was released within a few days. Despite his financial reverses, Le baudy was reputed to be one of the wealthiest men on Long Island, and his wife, aged 38. was recognrzed as leader of the Long Island colony. Shortly before his separation from his wife. Lebaudy startled the country side about Weatoury by staging a bat tle" on his estate, employing a number of messenger boys to act as an oppos ing army. When the "enemy's" advance threatened to engulf him, the "Emperor of the Sahara" set fire to a huge pile of straw and conducted a "strategic retreat." His "smoke barrage" resulted In the calling out of the entire village fire department. REDS WOULD END ORGIES fvntinnrd Krum First Par.) WILSON MEETS PREMIERS fomlmid Krom Kl-wt Par. IhAn war must be provided and that. c axaall agreed, must be found In the methods of arbitration and concilatlon. These methods must be studied and or ganisations for undertaking them roust be provided. "It may be Impossible, for want of time, to settle at the conference the de tails of these methods and the struc turo of these organizations, but it is essential that a beginning should be made ami solid foundations laid before the conference separates. There is an increased volume of feelinK In Great Britain supporting this idea and we trust that the American people, eminently peace loving, are overwhelmingly of the same opinion and that both the British and Ameri can delegations will have the weight of their two countries behind them. "Such details as the conference may not have time to settle might be re mitted to a strong International com mittee drawn from the four powers the United States, Great Britain. France and Italy with perhaps, some experts from neutral countries, who could draw out a scheme in detail and submit it to meeting of the conference or repre sentatives of its members to be held later In the year. Such a committee or smother committee also would consider urgent questions of economic settle ment, financial, settlement .and reduc tion of armaments. But at present the conference ought. If possible, to agree upon some general principles for the guidance of these committees." SPAIX TO STCDY LEAGUE IDEA Prominent Men Named to Decide Upon Country's Course. MADRID. Jan. 11. The government todav made public the names of the members of the committee which it has appointed to study the question of Spain's entry Into a league of n lions. Tile members include Antonio Maura, former Premier; General Wcyler. ex Minister of Finance Kcsada. ex-Minister of War De La Cterva. ex-Mlniter of Public Works Cambo. ex-Mlnister of Finance Alba, the Marquis de Alhuce mas, ex-Premier, and Senor Gasset. FLU INVADES UMATILLA School Buildin; Becomes IIo;-pltal Tor Care of Patients. UMATILLA, Or.. Jan. 11. (Special.) The Umatilla school building hss been fitted up for a temporary hospital and arrangements are being made to accom modate those who are in need of help and also to offer better facilities for thoie who become ill with Influenza. At present the railroad crews suffer most, some men working IS hours per dy. including the time devoted in as sisting with the sick. AH crews are short of help and some material has Lo Stinnes. the industrial magnate. was entered and ransacked by a mob. which was later dispersed by the police. Earlier Indirect dispatches give fur ther details of Thursday's fighting in Berlin. Doth the Spartacans and the government forces are described as acting with great determination, al though it seems worthy of note that with all the reports of severe combats, in which artillery, hand grenades and rifles are described as having been used freely, none of the observers have anything to say definitely of large casualties or has apparently observed any considerable number of bodies. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 11 Very seri ous rioting occurred Friday in Dres den. Hamburg. Augsburg and Dussel dorf. according to reporta received here The fighting was most severe in Ham burg and is still In progress. Government troops in Berlin, have not yet succeeded in crushing the Spartacans. who still hold newspaper row. Flame-throwers now are boing used, with many fatalities resulting. LONDON. Jan. 11 According to a dispatch from Hagan. n estphalia. heavy fighting has occurred there be between two companies of volunteers about to entrain for the eastern prov inces of Germany and local police troops. The local troops were opposed to military action against the Poles, in which the volunteers were on their way to take part. The outcome of the fiehtinsr is not known. SALEM. Or, Jan. 11. (Special.) warden Stevens, of the Penitentiary, for the first time since his incum bency. today issued a statement cover Ing some of the aims, objects and poli cies or his administration at the prison. L nlike wardens in the past, he be lieves that the employment situation at the prison may be solved without the necessity of legislative action, which contemplates an expenditure of money. He also believes that a large percentage of men may have the reformatory problem solved for them by the doctrine of hard work, but also by applying the doctrine to make the employment fit the man. A certain element of innovation en ters into his declaration of policies, as they differ a little from any suggested by any warden who has been at the institution. The statement from the warden came after he had taken a fair share of the day off to show a corps of newspaper men the filthy, unsanitary and unsafe conditions which surround over 300 convicts, many of whom are doomed to die within the prison walls. Mem to Be Made Fit. "We are trying to fit the men physi cally to do a day's work, and mentally to be willing to do that work when he is released from the Institution," said tnc warrien, in commenting on his pro posed application of reformatory prin ciples through the theory of work fitted to the individual. "When a man sleeps his time out at the prison he leaves here neither phys cany aoie to work nor mentally willing to work. I think I can explain myself best by saying that - when I was a bank clerk I was equipped to meet the exigencies of tho situation. That was many years ago. If I were to re turn now I would find my fingers had lost their cunning and my mind its alertness for that class of work. The fellow in the next cage who had stayed with the Job would outstrip me in a minute. The same holds true with the con vlct. He comes in here generally used to some form of labor. Unless he con tinues to work, when he gets out his hand has lost its cunning and his mind has lost its willingness to push him ahead, and if he tries the old work he can't keep up with the man alongside of him. Individual to Be Studied. "We have started in trving to fit men to meet these conditions. It is our Intention to study the individual char acteristics of every man who is In here and of every man who comes in here and see what every man is best fitted to do and then put him at it and keep him at it. "The work will be found for the men. That is up to me and I plan to find it. For instance, we have just pulled 40 acres of carrots on shares. We have one contract to cut 15,000 acres of wood, and are cleaning up another sim ilar contract. An eye will be kept out for farmers who have large crops to get in and we will do that work on shares. With our present contracts we can keep all the men busy for a time." The warden also announced an in novation in the work line, when he declared he had been taking up with the State Highway Commission, the Southern Pacific, and'eounty highway officials in some counties, a plan of purchasing rock for roads. This rock will be taken from the state lime quar ry at Gold Hill at a rate of 4 cents a yard, which has been agreed to by the lessor. "The penitentiary, under the time board law, must pay the expenses of the men to and from the quarry, also that of the guards, and feed and clothe the convicts," continued the warden. "The expense has been heavy. We ex pect to get some of it back from the rock work and at the same -time fur nish cheap rock for better roads and provide more work for the men. Jobs like these will be found and the men will be kept busy. Sufficient work along various lines will be developed to endeavor to apply every man to something he can do and keep his hand in." The warden also announces still an other policy for the Summer months. As the days grow longer the men will be required to get up with the sun, eat breakfast and do eight hours' work. After that they will be allowed recrea tion. As the Summer advances, they will be through earlier and earlier in the afternoon, and thus will be given daylight recreation in the sun and air. rather than being compelled to spend their time off in their evil-smelling cells. "When the men work, all of them will work. There will be no sports during the work hours. When the work is over they will all play or rest in the sunshine. That will be the pol icy," declares the warden. " '1 S- ltkZ K2i L? OFFICIALS NAMED SOON GOVERNOR EXPECTED TO MAKE APPOIXT.MEXTS TOMORROW. lav rnow Budget for State Educational Insti tutions Placed Before Appro priations Committee. BOISE. Idaho. Jan. 11. (Special) When the Legislature convenes Monday t is probable Governor Davis will send to the Senate the names of a number of important appointments, including those heretofore announced and sev eral new ones. The latter are said to nclude D. W. Church, of Pocatello, for Public Utilities Commissioner to suc ceed John W. Graham. The House was the only wing-or the Legislature in session today. It re ceived petitions from the Ada County Council of Defense and the Boise Typo graphical Union urging that there bo a liberal program inaugurated to start public works that returning soldiers may be given employment. The legls lature is known to be so inclined. On Monday there will be introduced in the house a measure creating in each county a soldier labor commission to be supported by direct taxation and charged with the responsibility of se curing employment for soldiers. Its author will be representative Bennett of Gooding County. The budget for state educational in stitutions to be placed in the hands of the appropriations committee for con sideration of the Legislature calls for the following appropriations: Lewiston State Normal. $150,000; Albion State Normal. 125,000: Industrial Training School, St. Anthony. J170.000; Idaho Technical Institute, Pocatello, $164,000; University of Idaho, 621, 349. These sums do not include the revenues from endowments or local revenue. In finaly deciding on . these totals the State Board of Education prunes from the recommendations of the va rious institutions about J500.000. Dr. E. A. Bryan, State Commissioner of Education, announces tho resignation of J. Fred Williams, superintendent of the Industrial Training "School, to take effect June 1, 1919. Legislators May Be Inoculated. SALEM, Or., Jan. 11. (Special.) All members of the Legislature will be in oculated with an influenza serum If they desire., according tow a telram received by Secretary of State Olcott today from Dr. A. C. Secley, president of the State Board of Health. Dr. Seeley stated that the serum and the men to apply It will be on hand with the opening of the session Monday to 'give shots to any willing members. Huns Release Kerry, Or., Matt. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 Ivar Sava- Ioja, Kerry, Or., has been released from a German prison camp and returned to France, the War Department announced today. 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The telephone company, backed by the health board, issued an anti-gossip order to all patrons today, giving medi cal messages and business calls the right of way. In many cases entire families are down both in the town and country with no one to wait on them and calls have been made for volunteer nurses. An emergency hospital has been established at Goldendale to care for patients who have no home. The first fatality in the present epi demic occurred today when Veva M. McEwen, wife of Prosecuting Attorney John R. McEwen, died after an illness of one week. Mrs. McEwen was born in Goldendale, the daughter of A. C. Chapman, a Klickitat pioneer, who is a Goldendale business man and former County Treasurer. Besides her husband Mrs. McEwen leaves two little daugh ters who are both very sick with the "flu." of the Federal railroad system. Gray recently resigned. Tylfr formerly was assistant to the operating vice-president of the Northern Paoitlc W. T. Tyler May Succeed Carl Gray. ST. PAUL, Jan. 11. It was reported in high railroad circles here today that W. T. Taylor, of St. Paul, will succeed Carl R. Gray as director of operation Bend Urged to Be Careful. BEND. Or.. Jan. 11. (Special.) That every precaution should be taken to avert a possible recurrence of the in fluenza epidemic here, is the warning given by J. D.. Donovan, in charge of the Emergency Hospital, while -the quarantine was on. Mr. Donovan has just returned from a trip through the Northwest, and bases his warning on the experience of the cities he visited. Dallas on Truck Lino. DALLAS. Or.. Jan. 11. (Special.) Dallas is now on the motor truck line between Portland and Salem, Mon mouth and Independence. The new line, known as the Willamette Valley Trans fer Company, plan to make trips througrh here three times a week. Later, if business demands, the company will place another truck In commission that trips can bo irmd each day. 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