TITE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 20. 1021
TASK JUST TO-LIVE
Ifj SOVIET RUSSIA
Some People of Gentle Birth
Survive Experiment.
FOOD, NOT MONEY, NEED
After Several Years of Censored
Silence Letters Are Now Being
Received Telling of Struggle.
RIGA RIGA. Latvia. (By the As
sociated Press.) After several years
of censored silence, letters are now
coming out of Russia from American,
English and Russian people of gentle
birth who remained and survived the
great experiment In human lives In
communistic Russia. These tell In an
Impressive way what the mere task
of keeping alive has meant to these
persons accustomed, before the revo
lution, to lives of luxury.
Here Is an extract from a letter
written by an American woman, 83
years old, from Petrograd:
"In three years, I have not heard
from any of my friends, the dearest
I have in the world. They must be
greatly astonished at my having so
far survived all these horrors, at my
years, when thousands of younger
people are dally dying of starvation
and untold hardships.
"It was most kind and thoughtful
of you to send that money; I only
hope it may arrive. For of course, al
though I work seven to eight hours a
day (official translation work, com
paratively well paid), the economic
conditions are so monstrous that It Is
Impossible to earn anywhere near
enough for the very barest necessi
ties of life. No wonder when butter
and sugar are 25,000 rubles a pound.
Food Needed More Than Money.
"Theref6re. what I need more even
than money is food, the plainest arti
cles of food. These three years I and
my faithful companion, for many
years my maid, but for whom I should
certainly not be living today, have
subsisted on black rye bread arid
water porridge and gruels, drinking
our so-called 'tea' and 'coffee' (sorry
surrogates) without milk and sugar,
with black bread, well salted. We
have forgotten what wheat bread is
like, and as for eggs, I should Jike to
see one before I die.
"Now the assistance I would crave
of you Is simply this: From time to
time send me food. We have not seen
meat for three years, and for pity's
sake send sweetB, and sweets, and J
most especially candy and chocolates.
Do not laugh at me. Just Imagine,
three years without sugar or any
thing sweet. The longing for sweets
at times becomes absolutely morbid.
"One thing more, and an essential
one: send two or three candles. We
are given electricity only for a couple
of hours. Kerosene or "candles are
not to be had any more for any
amount of money, so we have no
means of striking a light during the
dark hours of night, which Is not only
extremely uncomfortable, but may on
occasion be a real danger."
Women Anxious to Leave.
Here Is an extract from another
letter, this from a young woman to
whom an American In the Baltic
Btates sent a package of food: "I
wish you would write and advise me
what and now we could do to get
away from here. To condemn
Mamma to starvation, here, would be
a crime. We must think of some way
out, but I simply get lost when I try.
"To get away, many girls have mar
ried foreigners, and thus become for
eign subjects, when they can freely
leave the country, but I haven't con
sidered that. The doctors advise me
to go. They prescribe good food, but
I can only smile at them In reply."
A letter written in faltering Eng
lish by a Russian girl to the same
American recalls the Joy which the
American workers in Russia spread
everywhere. Here are extracts, spell
ing and all, as she wrote.
'You know till the first visit to us
of . . . (Some Americans) . . .
in our house were not heard laughter
nor lively conversations. With them
it was if the spring came to our
house. In the beginning it was
strange, but from that time the
grave's stillness of our house had
gone and we returned to life. Cer
tainly for you it is difficult to under
stand us . . . but in our life with
you went away ell happiness and
light."
Deer-Meat Owner Fined.
ROSEBURG. Or.. Nov. 19.-(Spe-cial.)
C. C. Voytcllo. resident of the
DUlard vicinity, entered a plea of
guilty when arraigned today on a
charge of unlawful possession of ven
ison, and paid a fine of J50.
DAILY BIETEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
PORTLAND. Nov. 19. Maximum tem
perature, M degrees; minimum, 84. River
reading at 8 A. M . 2.8 feet; chanie in
lRnt 24 hours, 0.2 foot fall. Total rain
fall (5 P. M. to 6 P. M ). 1.80 Inches:
total rainfall since September 1. 1021. 7.68
Inches; normal rainfall since September 1,
1921, 9.03 Inches: deficiency of rainfall
since September 1, 1921, 1.9ft Inches. -Sunrise,
7:17 A. M. ; sunset, :8 P. M. ; total
sunshine, none; possible sunshine, 0 hours
and 10 minutes. Moonriae, 10:14 P. M.,
Sunday: moonset, 11:40 A. M., Sunday.
Harometer (reduced to sea level) 6 P. M.,
i'tt.SS Inches. Relative humidity: 5 A. M.,
14 per cent; noon, 90 'per cent; 6 P. M..
M'l per cent.
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FORECAST3.
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en.-'t pertn-n: warmer; slrons southeasterly
Cales rn the coast.
Orgon Rain; strung southerly gales on
the coast.
Y. w. c. a: girls establish handy shop
TO SOLVE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT
Opportunity Is Presented Young Women Out of Work to Earn Money in Dignified Way and Without
Recourse to Charity Products for Christmas.
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THE FOUR INDUSTRIAL CLl'BS OF
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INSTEAD of resorting to charity
and other methods adopted by
civic organizations and welfare
bodies to combat unemployment and
alleviate its distress, the members of
the four industrial clubs of the local
Young Women's Christian association
have taken the problem into their
own hands and solved It In their own
way.
Realizing that the one thing an un
employed person wants most is mon
ey, what Is called the "Handy Shop"
has been opened on the sixth floor
of the Y. W. C. A. building, giving
unemployed girls an opportunity to
earn money in a dignified way and
without recourse to charity.
Eligible to work In this shop are
SOUTHWESTERN OREGON IRON
DEPOSIT DEVELOPMENT IS ON
Large Bodies of Ore and Building of Highway to Oregon Caves Make
Resources in Waldo District Practical. ,
BY A. E. KELLOGG.
GOLD HILL, Or., Nov. 19. (Special.)
At present considerable impor
tance attaches to the iron deposits of
southwestern Oregon. Whether Ore
gon can profitably produce Iron and
steel from local ores and develop an
extensive industry is the question
with the Oregon foundries. It was
during the war period that the north
west emelters set out to uncover local
Iron deposits. This was due principally
to the scarcity of shipping and ex
orbitant transportation rates from
abroad. After the war these operators
found that to make their industries
practical it meant a fundamental and
scientific production of local ore.
Iron ore is known In the Gold Hill,
Lower Applegate and Waldo districts
in this region. The Gold Hill ore
is a magnetite pyroxenlte; that of
Waldo a magnetite occurring in ser
pentine; while that of Applegate is a
qnartzite, having a cement of hema
tite with some magnetite. The Gold
Hill deposits are practical, due to their
proximity to shipping, while the Ap
plegate deposits are not practical, due
to the lack of transportation. The
large bodies of ore and the building
of the highway to the Oregon caves,
which passes within a mile of these
deposits, make the Waldo deposits
practical.
Ore Discovered In 1870.
The history of the Gold Hill deposits
dates back to the year 1870. when
the locators, two practical iron miners
from Wales before the days of rail
road in this region, hauled by wagon
several tons of ore from these de
posits to Sacramento, Cal.. and from
this point shipped it to Swansea.
Wales, for a smelter test. . The re
port on this shipment Is not available,
but it is said to demonstrate fully a
high-grade magnetite iron ore.
In the early '80s, Just after the rail
road was completed through this val
ley, two iron experts. Burgess and
Pomeroy, who were construction en
gineers of this railroad, acquired the
property. They made extensive de
velopment in the mine and shipments
t the Oswego, Or., smelter. On
account of the low price of ore
and the high transportation charges
they abandoned the project. However,
before closing down they refused the
sum of $50,000 for their holdings. Soon
after both partners died and the prop
erty fell Into the hands of a multi
tude of heirs, litigation followed and
after many years the property was
acquired by the Garfield Iron & Coal
company, which has since kept the
mine in idleness. The old works in
the mine are inaccessible and observa
tions can be taken only from the
surface.
These deposits are located at an
elevation of from 1850 to 2250 feet
within 1H miles north of Gold Hill,
and within three-fourths of a mile
from the main line of the Southern
Pacific railway, with Rogue river be
tween. The ferruginous material is
found in bunches or lenses in Pale
osolo sediments which include some
limestone and abundant arglllite. The
sediments are cut by a dike of "gran
ite" as indicated by surface float on
top of the ridge at an elevation of
about 000 feet. The sedimentary
rocks strike north. 20 degrees east,
and dip about 70-80 degrees east.
The ferruginous material Includes
limonite, hematite and magnetite.
Deposits Are Masnlve.
The ore in the- Waldo deposits has
some of thed.'tingulshing features
of both red al brown hematite. The
deposits are very massive and remark
ably regular in character and quality
throughout 'l exposures. It has a
bright metallic luster, where freshly
broken, running into a steel-gray
color apd assuming. a red tint in thin
fragments. The ore strongly resembles
that produced at Whitehaven and
Ulverstone in northwest England,
where the masses are described as
"splendid." 15. 30 and 60 feet in thick
ness. The limestone and ochre are
here in great quantity.
Thess deposits are situated on the
'ith slope of Buclc mountain, Jose
prin . county. Or. This slope extends
J.wn to Cave creek and at thlr near
est paint these deposits are not to
exce-i oa j mile north of the en
trince to the great limestone caverns.
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THE Y. W. C. A. HAVE OPENED A "HANDY SHOP" FOR THE MANUFAC
BY GIRLS TEMPORARILY OUT OF
only the girls whom the employment
bureaus have not for the time being
been able to place, and they are allot
ted work and sufficient earnings to
cope with whatever particular emer
gency they are facing. Some are al
lowed to earn 7 5 cents a day if they
have other help and those without
outside assistance are allowed from
f 1.50 to $2 and more a day.
When the shop was first opened
only two girls at a time were allowed
to work, but this has now been in
creased to six, as the demand for
their products has been raised to that
number. The girls are allowed to
work until a Job is available for
them and then new girls take their
places.
The products are mostly toys for
known as the "artie Halls of Ore-I
gon." The mountains are the Siskiyou,
or as designated by the United States
geological department, the "Klamath
group of mountains." According to
C. B. Watson, this group belongs to
a very early geological epoch and con
stituted an Island in the ocean long
before the Cascade range, on the east,
came above the surface. This was an
island when the larger part of the
American continent was under the sea
Heavy Ochre Deposits Found.
This mass of iron occupies, approxi
mately, a space one and one-quarter
or one and one-half miles in length,
and, as near as can be ascertained by
surface Indications, one-halT to three
quarters of a mile in breadth, and
from a conservative estimate, 600 feet
in thickness. Granite dikec bound It
on the east and west, but within the
field of these croppings no other
character of rock in place is found.
Float limestone is plentiful on the
surface and heavy cliffs of marble
cap the top of the mountain 1000 feet
above the Iron.
Below the marble and above the
Iron is a heavy deposit of ochre strong
ly charged with iron, . which makes
an excellent yellow pigment. No test
of this ochre for silver is available,
but its presence is likely. The erosion
is more marked on the south slopes
than on the north. Here a complete
erosion and disappearance of limestone
in place has occurred, while at the
top and on the north slope the mar
ble remains and is heavy.
The limestone formation through
metamorphism has in considerable
part become marble of a good quality
and is in the great caves and caverns
a mile away and on the opposite side
of the canyon. Reasonable specula
tion will suggest that in remote
periods this great mass of iron was
forming in caverns on the slope
where It is bedded, and it is now
FOUR OF THE MARINES WHO GUARD UNCLE SAM'S
Eleven
Tines from Sua Dlrffo have
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From now on a detachment of 11 marines will sruard the central pontofflce, other stations where they ara needed
and all mail trucks carrying consignments of registered mall in Portland. This Is in pursuance to the action taken
by tho government recently to put a stop to mail robber'es by providing heavily-armed guards for all postoffices
and mail trains.
On Friday night tl marines arrived in Portland, with Sergeant C. J Lesson in charge, and reported to Post
master Jones for duty. Ten of the detachment will be distributed In various other cities and 11 will remain
In Portland.
The primary purpose of the guard is to protect registered malls. Men will be detailed to ride on trucks
carrying this class from station to station and to ths trains. They will also mount guard at the main postoffice
aiiu several other stations in town. One marine also mount guard in the lobby of the main building during
the day.
Postma'ster Jones said more men would be detailed to Portland if they were needed, as the government Intends
to make the mail guard complete and efficient. Ths detachment of 11 men will bs tried out first, however, and
if it proves adequate, no further requests will be made.
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children, appropriate for Christmas
buying, such as Bedtyme Buddies,
Bungalow Babies, Huck Finn treasure
bags and other novelties. All these
are originals, designed within the
shop. -
The Meier & Frank Co. has donated
a sales space on their glove counter
to the shop and this has been put into
operation. The demand for the toys
has grown so that the organization
expects to provide work for at least
20 girls until Christmas time.
The four industrial clubs subscribed
$125 capital from their treasuries, in
cluding a contribution from Mrs. C. J.
Smith. Otherwise the plan has been
entirely self-supporting and Tree from
charity.
forming in the great cavern a mile
away.
Leaving the marble cliffs on the
top of Buck mountain and proceeding
down the south slope, one notices
the thinning out of the lime, until,
at a descent of about 1000 feet, the
angle of declination changes abrupt
ly and the ochreous deposits appear.
This ochre can be traced from the
ran te Ke " lne aV ? , ne
. kTIHIIIIH fllKf 71 I n H WRr .1 11 M I IIP 1 11 W
rh( h, .h. . nA ,,., ,nrin
the ochre the slope flattens, forming
a bench gently declining for several
hundred yards, where a knuckle is
formed by another sharp drop in the
surface angle. Everywhere along
this knuckle the iron crops above tbe
surface and also at points on the
bench above.
81ope Heavily Forested.
Below this knuckle the surface
flattens somewhat and at its lower
edge another line of iron croppings
appears, continuing for a distance
below. In all this space from the
top of the ochre capping to a short
distance below the lower cropping of
iron no other character of rock in
place is found; it is all iron with con
siderable limestone-float littering the
surface. Except occasional . brush
patches of small area, this mountain
slope is heavily forested with yellow
fir. sugar pine, cedar and madrona;
on the whole, for the purpose of
mining, operations, the timber is plen
tiful and suitable.
Analysis shows this ore to contain
75 per cent metallic iron. These lands
are in the United States forest re
serve. Attempts have been made in
the past few years by many com
panies and Individuals to acquire
mineral rights by location, especially
during the war period, with a view
of acquiring eventually a mineral
patent, but as a rule these claims are
abandoned. The government this sea
son let a contract for the construc
tion of a modern highway from the
Grants Pass-Crescent City coast high
way to those wonderful caves, which,
next to Crater lake, are southern
Oregon's greatest natural wonders.
This highway will be completed for
the 1922 tourist traffic to the caves.
Heretofore these caverns have been
accessible only to footmen and pack
accessible highways.
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arrived in Portland on trovernmrnt orders to sroard aealnat mall robberies.
BONUS TEST BRIEF FILED
COUKT HAS NO JURISDICTION,
SAY REPORTERS.
Attorneys for State Commission
Contend That People's decision
at Polls Sufficient.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 19. (Special.)
Respondent's brief In the friendly
suit brought by Thomas Henry Boyd,
commander of Portland post. Ameri
can Legion, to test the validity of the
so-called bonus law enacted at the
last session of the legislature and
put into operation by a vote of the
people at a subsequent election, was
tiled in the supreme court here today.
The brief was prepared by Attorney-General
I. H. Van Winkle and his
assistant, Willis Moore, on behalf of
the state bonus loan commission.
The most Important argument ad
vanced by the attorneys for the bo
r.us commission is the contention that
the people have provided that the
power to decide whether or not an
amendment has been adopted shall
be exercised by the governor. As a
tesult. respondent's brief contends
t:iat the courts ate excluded from ex
ercising any Jurisdiction In the mat
ter. In the brief filed by the plaintiff
and appellant it was contended that
the constitutional amendment was
not properly entered on the Journal.
Respondents, in their brief, allege that
the amendment was entered on the
journal in such a way that it could
be identified, and that this is suffi
cient to establish its validity.
The suit to test the validity of the
bonus and loan act originated In the
Multnomah county circuit court. The
defendants, including the members of
the world war veterans' state aid
commission, demurred to the com
plaint and such demurrer was upheld
by Judge Stapleton. Appeal on the
cemurrer then was taken to the su
preme court.
It was necessary to test the validity
cf the law In order that bonds to pro
Vide money for putting the act into
actual operation would be accepted
by dealers The first installment of
these bonds, aggregating $10,000,000,
are scheduled to be sold November SO.
Arguments in the case will be heard
Ly the supreme court Tuesday after
noon and it is likely that at least a
week will be necessary to prepare the
opinion.
ABERDEEN MS Oil WETS
11 ARE ARRESTED IN WEEK
BY DRV AGEXTS.
30-Gallon Cache of Moonshine and
Big Still Are Seized
Officers In Raids.
by
ABERDEEN. Wash., Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) Seizure of a 30-gallon cache of
moonshine, confiscation of a large
still, conviction of John MIsetrlch and
Charles Dahlstrom on liquor charges
and Fred Cook for possession of a
still, four arrests on liquor possession
charges, seven for alleged violation of
the city anti-dumping ordinance, and
one on a manufacturing charge, com
bined to make the past week one of
the most effective in the fight on the
liquor traffic In Aberdeen.
What was believed to be one of the
principal supply caches of moonshine
for Aberdeen bootleggers was found
yesterday by R. J. Schmidt, on special
duty in connection with the anti
ltquor campaign, and Officer Fournier,
In a small brick building on an alley
between F and G streets, and River
and Hume. Roland Randolph was ar
rested as he was leaving the place and
was charged with possession when a
quart of moonshine was found on him.
Search of the building disclosed six
five-gallon kegsVf liquor.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Sandvlg were
arrested on possession charges when
officers raided their place at 106 West
Hume street and found a small quan
tity of liquor.
Dahlstrom was found guilty in su
perior court at Montesano last night.
The preceding afternoon John Miset
rich was convicted on a liquor charge
carrying a minimum sentence of one
year.
Four arrests were made Thursday
afternoon by Aberdeen police. Ernest
Snider was arrested on a possession
charge. He has a similar case pend
ing. Dan Kelly, John Gammuson, D.
J. Jones, Tom Turner, A. C. Anderson
and Dave Fenton were held under a
clause of a city ordinance prohibiting
operators of soft drink parlors from
dumping any sort of liquid upon ap
pearance of officers.
Official in Ireland Resigns.
LONDON, Nov. 19. Hugh T. Barrie,
head'of the department of agriculture
tnd technical education in Ireland,
has sent his resignation to ths pre
mier. This step was taken on ths
ground that he disapproves of the
government's Irish policy.
MAIL IN PORTLAND.
CARSON DOUGLAS BEEBE HAS
LIVED TWO YEARS IN WONDER
Restoration of Sight as War Draft Expedient Opens Up Strange World
to Man Accused of Double Murder.
BT CHARLES ALEXANDER.
ALBANY, Or., Nov. 19. (Special.)
Two years ago, after his first
adventure In the world of
clanging railroad trains, busy streets
and hurrying humanity, Carson Doug
las Beebe returned to the little farm
home of his parents near Lebanon.
His left eye was bandaged. He was
in darkness. He felt his way about
house and farmyard, sensing the
presence of parents and walls and
doors and gates only by means of the
peculiar seventh sense of the blind.
That was not strange to "I'ete"
Beebe. For 16 years he had been
blind. The eyesight he had enjoyed
as a young boy had left no tangible
visions in his mind. The great
strangeness of the world did not come
to him until weeks later, when the
bandage was removed from the left
eye, the operation for cataract per
formed upon the right eye and its
consequent term of recovery having
expired. With the flood of light
pouring Into his eyes for the first
time, Beebe suddenly found himself
a Btranger in a strange and marvelous
world. In his own words, he could
only stare and gawk In amazement
at what he saw about him.
Now, after the flight of two rich
years, during which the world has
never lost Its sweet Ineffable wonder"
for him, Beebe is held in the Linn
county Jail at Albany charged with
the murder of an old man, John
Painter, 65, and his 18-year-old son,
William I'ainter. At the time of their
violent death they were Beebe's em
ployers. Father and son were found
in a scooped-out grave on their own
farm. The aged man had been shot
three times, the youth once, by a .38
caliber revolver. A .38 revolver and
a 32.30 single-shot rifle, the latter
blood-smeared (with sheep blood,
Beebe declares), were found hidden
on the farm.
And this is the fateful paradox of
Pete Beebe's life: The restoration of
his sight, brought about at the sug
gestion of a war draft board, .which
was to have made his senses complete
and opened his way to a life of Joy
and labor, has brought him Instead
to the court of men accused of a
frightful premeditated double murder.
Had he remained blind the delights
of vision never would have been his,
he would not have been in the em
ploy of the Painters, and doubtless
would not now stand jn danger of
the hangman's noose.
Beebe thinks he is 25 years old.
He is of medium height, strongly
muscled and pillar-built. His hair is
brown, his new br.ard heavy. About
his face is an openness almost a
boyishness. It is the face of a man,
yet it does not meet another man's
face with the sureness and power of
experience. In reality, Beebe has
lived only two years.
When his sight came, after the two
trips to the surgeons in Eugene,
Pete's world suddenly turned to chaos.
Nothing was as he had imagined it
during his years of darkness.
"Were your parents Mrange?" I
asked. "Were you surprised to find
them in their real form, their forms
of flesh?"
"I didn't know them," he said. "I
never knew they were like that."
He had lived in another world.
Through questioning Inquisitive boy
hood, through the stirring develop
ment of young manhood, his mind had
been unable to grasp the complexity
of the world about him, or Jo under
stand the sum of human relationa
the fine shades of forbidden and un
forbidden. He was a mental hermit.
And even when the scalpel gave to
him his sight, his was more an atti
tude of wonder than of understand
ing. Even then he could not under
TWENTY years upon the sea. In
cluding three trips around the
world In the old days of the clipper
ship, topped with a score or more
years as a wrecker, plying up and
down the Pacific coast wherever ea
disaster called for ono of his
hazardous profession, have not pre
vented Captain J. H. Roberts, local
shipping man, from pursuing a hobby
since he came to anchor in Portland.
Perhaps it was the one thing for
which his heart has been pining
since as a mere lad he left his home
in England for a life upon the sea.
At any rate his spare moments now
are taken up with a little country
place near the Powell Valley road
beyond Kelly butte. Captain Roberts
says he does it partly to keep in
shape, for he cannot tone his body
down to eight hours in an office
chair. But his friends say that the
growing fruit trees and the little
summer home among the fir trees on
Laurel avenue are as dear to his
heart as the reminiscences of the old
sea-going days.
For the last three years Captain
Roberts has put in all his extra time
clearing the little tract, building his
summer home and planting a small
orchard. The aroma of balsam fir re
places the tang of the salt air and
crosscut saw handles make Just as
heavy callouses as ships' lines ever
did. This year he harvested 'his first
cherries and pears from his young
trees.
In designing his summer home,
Captain Roberts kept close to sea
faring standards. A tall flagpole.
with colors flying whenever he is
there, marks the spot. He has built
two garages among the fir trees and
on top of one there is a roof garden,
screened in summer with potted
plants and flowers, where he and Mrs.
Roberts have their sleeping quarters.
The only means of access Is a ship's
ladder, let down in daytime and
hoisted each night to keep out
prowlers. Other appointments are
altogether in keeplnsr with the best
ship's standards of the old days.
During the 30 years Captain Roberts
has called Portland his home he has
followed the wrecking business for a
large share of the time. Among his
best-known exploits was the, feat
of moving the Columbia river light
ship from the beach where she had
grounded one and one-half miles
overland to a deep bay where she
was launched again. The work was
done in 1900 and hundreds of Port
land folk made excursions down the
river to witness its progress.
BODY IS FOUND ON BEACH
Man Drowned Near Astoria Identi
fied on Copulis, Wash., Beach.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Nov. 19 (Spe
cial.) The body found on the beach
south of Copalls November 15 lias
been Identified as that of George W.
Hlckel of Hillsboro, Or. The identifi
cation was made over long-distance
telephone late last night by conver
sation between Coroner O. V. Austin
of Aberdeen and Hillsboro authorities.
Hlckel, with a man named Joe Cor
rlgan, drove off an open drawbridge
into the bay south of Afitoria October
11 and both were drowned, lilckel
B C
stand the written or printed word.
He had no chance to learn to read.
He has not yet left behind the
dream-world of the blind. Even tiow,
he says, he stares at everything
Driving a wagon along a country
road and seeing a rabbit or pheasant
dart before the horses, he declares he
can only stare at It In wonder. Trees
and sky and earth these he has
known familiarly during, his two full
years among them on the ranches
near Lebanon where he worked. He
says he likes them.
"When I get out of this," he earn
estly declared, "I'll go back to the
country. I'll never live anywhere
else. There's nothing in the city for
any man."
.Particularly Beebe loves stock. Cows
and horses he understands, and he
asserts with pride he has never had
a team run away with him. Ho finds
them beautiful. Human companion
ship he believes he can forego; but
the companionship of livestock he
must have. Also, he must always
have a boss over him. He can live
alone and happily at his farm work
providing someone directs him about
it. The business of growing grain
and stock Is still too wonderful and
complicated tor him to do It alone.
As to a wife who might supervise his
dream-farm, he admits he knows
nothing whatever of women.
Pete says he has never fired a rifle.
He knows little of death. Telling
of his shepherd dog which was killed
b'y a speeding car. he showed indig
nation at the motorists who ran it
down, but no grief at Its death.
"You were sorry when it died?" he
was asked.
"What is dead Is dead," he replied,
unanswerably. "It was dead that's
all. I draRced it into a field off the
road end left it."
To see other boys kill pheasants
with shotguns was to him only a
matter of curiosity he said. He
watched them and marveled, but did
not feel the thrill of the chase surg
ing in his blood. He did fire a shot
gun at band-tailed pigeons, after they
had ruined li acres of grain. After
sfveral days and many shots, he
thinks he killed in all about 12
pigeons. These were cooked and
eaten. And even In that adventure
he says he knew no desire to kill.
Sight of the shot-riddled pigeons,
their graceful bodies broken ajid
bleeding, was only a matter of curi
osity. Shooting a shotgun at them
was merely a strange new experience.
Local comment has variously de
scribed Beebe as childish, subnormal,
even half-witted. In an intelligence
test he naturally would be found dif
ferent from the average man. Back
on a lonely hill farm he grew up, one
might say. In a black mental prison.
Miflure. strong-bodied, quick with the
powers of a man, he suddenly for the
first time came upon the brilliant,
desirable world. He was like a man
coming out of darkness into the
blinding day. The sweeping strength
and depth of his desires is a thing
he will be unable to put into words
when he stands at bar December 6.
He admits loving the beautiful chest
nut team of the Painters, which he
fays was promised him for wages. He
does not denying burying the bodies
of the as he claims suicides, and
driving the team away.
He sits beside the fat wood stove In
the county Jail and peers through the
bars at the blue pavement and the
Presbyterian church across Fifth
street, with its Christ in stained glass
in a window. When an electric train
passes, he turns quickly and watches.
Since his sifrht came, the world has
Deen vast and strange.
To Pete Beebe, strangest of all Is
this the bars that hold him In Jail
and the things that the law has done
and may do to him.
was emDloved hr ths P A Pai.r.nn
Automobiles-for-Hire company, HIlls-
Doro. caras or which company were
found in his pockets. Arrangements
are being made to send the body to
Hillsboro.
8053 PUPILSJN SCHOOL
Cluckunias County Superintendent
Announces Enrollment.
OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) First total figures on tho
Clackamas county school registration
were announced today by the county
superintendent. The total was 8053,
an increase of 71 over last year. Two
small districts were not included In
the report, as their registration
blanks had to be sent back for cor
rection. The figures were for the first
month of school, but were completed
late bcemuse many schools did not
open the first week In October. The
figures showed a decrease in the
number of girls attending school, but
an increase in the number of boys.
DAILY CITY STATISTICS
Vancouver Marrlsse Licenses.
SIMPSON - MANWKII.KR MHrlon R.
!mpKon. legiil, of Porilnnd and iLoulus
Manwllr. I'-tfl. of Portland.
MaeARTHCK-St.OOUM Donald A. Mac
Arthur, 2. of Portland anil E'llth 22,
Hlnfum, HI. of Portland.
SPLinsunuHlwAKTHUR Albfrt C.
Spilrtt.botl, 24, of Portland and Mlas iiessis
MarArthur, of Portland.
M.M1TH-HOPKINH Elson Smith. 23, of
Spokane, WaMh., and Zoo Kiila Hopkins.
1U. of Portland .
MTANTO.N'-WY.VN Merwln Stanton. II
of Portland and Ethel Wynn. 11), of Port
land. Mirths.
FA R A It To Mr. and Mrs. Nd Farah.
Mxty-sovenih aircut. November 13, a
son.
FEBRAXTI To Mr. and Mrs. J. Kor
ranti, tis2 Kast Persltlns. November I'i, a
duusntr r.
TEE XV To Mr. and Mrs. Dave Teeny,
481- Sixty-sixth btreet, Nuvembvr 7, a son.
PITToXE To Mr. and Mrn. J. Plltona.
1)81 Kasi Clinton. November lu. a dauKtt
ter. CIAPPANO To Mr. and Mrs. M. Clap
pano, Union avenue, November 11, a
duiiKhter.
KAISER To Mr. and Mrs. William P.
Kaifctr. Cs3 E. Salmon, November S, a son.
RUTH To Mr and Mm. C. A. Roth. .5
East Korty-thlrd, Novrniber 15. a son.
L,A BOUNTY To Mr. and Mrs. U J.
t.a Houniy. 700 East &raiu, Xovambvr 1-.
a pon.
fcl.MIS To Mr. and Mrs. William Slmli.
8l;t West Park, November 3-. a son.
HAMMONU To Mr. and Mrs. E B.
Hammond, 1113 liybe November 11,
son.
DACHTELBERG To Mr. and Mrs. L.
Dachteiberg-, JS! Caruthers, November U.
t daughtciE.
MAHCANTONIA To Mr. and Mra. J.
Marcantonla, 4! East bcvenltonth; No.
veir.ber H, a aon.
RYAN To Mr. and Mra P. Ryan, 400
Rhon. November 13, a daughter.
ROTH To Mr and Mra P. E. Roth,
-714 lrummond, November 14. a son
SPENCER To Mr. and Mra (J. B.
Spencer, io Tenth, Novenber 7, a daugh
ter. WESDLINO To Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Wendling. Zi2 East forty-fourth North.
.November 7, a son.
OSliOKNK To Mr. ano Mra S. Osborne.
163 East Yamhill, November S, a aon.
UWhN To Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Owen.
212 North Ivanhoe, November 10, a aon.
MA PLUS To Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Maples,
481 West Park, November 13, a son.
HAWKS To Mr. and Mra E. Hawea. 214
Second, November 14, a aon.
SUMNUK To Mr. and Mra. L. Sumner,
fclitf East Twenty-t jurth, November li, a
son.
BURNETT To Mr. a'.d Mrs. R. C. Bur
tett, 7115 Forty-second avenue, November
10. a son.
WK.NTZEL To Mr. and Mrs. F. A,
Wentzel, 41 Ease Seventy-eighth, Novem
ber 13. a daughter.
AlacAKTUUit lo Ur. and lira D. Use- I
Arthur. 2W Norto Twentieth, November 10,
Hun.
CLARK- To Mr. n! Mrs W. K. C.srk.
(V.M M.intirnmt.rv dr:ve. November li.
' d A uc liter
HI.OHMKNTHOL To Mr. ml tr. .11.
lllonmenthol, 414 liroutlwsy, November a.
daucntr.
JUNKS To Mr. sod Mrs. TV. M. HH,
C84 Kant Twenty-thud North, November 8,
s son.
HALL To Mr nnd Mrs W. M. flail,
71M1 KrfMi Korty-elc lit li Nurth, November
a (inuKhtrr.
MUNSJN To Mr and Mn F. O. Mun-
ron, 11S7 Last Fourteenth North, Nuveni-
I er 3. a sen.
ItnmiiiiE l'erniit..
IIEN'DnlCK.-KN C. lH.IIX Itepalr (t
ratte anil torei, ,VMI Wa-hlniMou ftrtet,
between LowiimIhI'1 and sixteenth; builder.
Lot ens m "v ; t '
t;L'ri KKK'K.-KN Kreet rosul.-m-e. 470
t;a!-l Klftv-ft'velit h street between Tlut.tip-
ron ana 1 il.ann.oK ; i tnier tame, s.t.,uu;
lot bUiek i:t. Syr, ".rat a.lilitL'n
W. M. I'M lilO'.NSioUK i CU. Krect
residence. Mti Skiuniore fctreet. bctwe.
, knt Twenty-ti: i It and Kast 'I wentv -six! li ;
builder same; M.itKI; lot 11, block 3b, Ala
meda I'ark.
W. M. I'M UnKNSTOCK & CC. v.rrct
resilience. 1M- r.iml Jhirtletn street North,
between Skidnmri anil 1'reerolt; tutlMer
atne; 4:UO; lo. 13, biork 44. Atameilii.
J. A. HKAJ) l'ri'-t rt'Ml.lenre, i iJ l'.a
Fifteenth street North, between rremotit
and lti'Hch; btillder tume; $;;.j0; lot 13,
uloeK n. mxotl I'. nee.
A. RUI.L.MAN Krect residence. ?! Kant
Seventeenth Mreet. between K.acli ami
Kailltik': buililc- ame; Suiiu; lot 11, block
0 Uixon place.
WILLIAM tiTtlKBK Repair residence,
fail I'owell Valley road, between Hut-
third and KlCly-lourlli streets; builder
satine; lloot).
Jiiimiit'HC llti.vs Gns Ht'iitor.
HOQriAM. Wash., Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) The lloiulam Gas company to
day. sold to Captain I. Shizel of Kuhc,
Japan, the largest gas heater of a cer
tain make that it had In stock. Tito
Japanese said he would use it in his
home, natural mis bcln? available
nearby. Illuminating bus of the arti
ficial kind has not yet made its ap
pearance In Japan to mj extent per
mitting Its use In homes, Captain
Shlzei Fain.
RATES FGR
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
In order to mrn the more than
one-time rnte tlvrrllnjt must run
In consecutive sUaura,
On ttm 12o per linn
Two times (arh tnup . . . . 1 lo pir ltn
Three Hm n (each iMMie) . . .lo per lln
Beven time (enrh Uutf.. Uc per lint
On to six moutha per
month $2.30 per lln
Six to twflv. month, per
"nionth 12.23 pr linn
The above rntr apply to nil htudb.ga
with tbe luUuwing ruftUlunil
Httrntlona Wanted
Each lncrt.ou 0a per Una
Help Wanted Notice
.ot and lound hiM-clul Notice
1'eT.Mmul l iiiieml Nntlre
l'ru,H.i.9 Invited Meet inn oi.ce
One time r .. l.c per lino
Two tunes (each mih) . .10 per line
Three time (-ach imme) ... Kio per line
eveu times (cacti iaauu) . . .12c por line
On moutn i per Uue
NEW TODAY
Km to l'er Llitet
I'nMy Buny
One time lVo 2o
Two times (per Ihmi)... IAo H'o
Three times (per lHsue),. Ho
Heven times (pur Uu,. IHu lTo
Out month. Uully nntl feunuay. . . .$3.uU
Count five words to the line.
No ud taken fur lens tlmn two lines.
Ails run huiidu) s uulj churned at
onr-ttme rnte.
Advertisements (eieept Personals
and "Mluuilou Vnnt !" will ! taken
over the telephone If the utl verUixrr Is
snhacriher of either phone.
1 lie trgonUii will reeelte ropy by
mall provided anf fiffent reitiiitunce fur
definite mimher of ifebues Is -itt. A
koowlcdKiueut will be forwurdctl
promptly.
AdtertUcmentn ore taken fur The
Dsiiy OreKoniun until 7:.iO 1. M.; for
The SunUur Oregouuin uutil t 1'. Si.
baturduj.
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
InvpKtlgatcs nil casM of a I 1 e ff p t
cruelty to animals. Offires, room 150
courthouae. Phone Main 37i from
8 A. M. to f P. M.
The society has full charx of tho city
pound at its home, Columbia bou
levard. Phone any time. Wixnllawn
764. Dogs for salo. Horse ambuhirieu
for sick or doubled horses. Small
animals painlessly electrocuted wIuto
necessnry ami Ktruy animals raroil
for. All dead animals, cows, nores,
etc., picked up.
TOO T.ATR TO rr.ASSIKY.
KINK BUY KUlt I'll YMCIA N .
2'J rooms of fine furniture in koo1.
clnae-ln west Hi tie locution, beautiful
house and crnum!: this would iiiskf
fino off. co ami rut trie-urn flml tho hou
now iift.s owner of f urn I ture $ KiU ,"T
nm. Hnd en n br bo uk lit riRht. for
further information ne
K. K. KfclUl. KKAI.TOR.
301 Ynmhlll. M:trfhn!l EMM.
WANTJil An Al Janitor and wife for
lu,rC tilKli-rlfisa n jmrtmnt hou.c ; mut
bo exp-ri;ne.'l elevator jnun; utri to
Apai tmtnl houHt work ; K"d plumber
and Rem ral iimehun It ; ftrood w k h to
Al man; wifn mu.sl help; only thorough,
reliable, experienced and luTiesL p.ii'MP
wanted : references result ed. AL ii(ts.
oroKfTinii.
b'OH SA IiK Strictly modern 6-room bun
galow, 2 lots, coiner, all pktveil, fun Ka
raite: rurnace. nreniaco, cement dun-
mi nt, tra a, Dutch k lichen, near ear
and school; in, "it) cumIi, balance aiy
term. So!.
AN KXCKLLKN T opportunity to Kt in
the fuel bunitiesF ; yard equipment, 2
trucks, wood Paw and ,'l."-l cords of stock;
,VVHI cash, t'iill nt 3KI :. Harrison it..
or phon K. 7-M) for appointment.
l-'OK HKNT 1 -room furnished apartment.
Including heat. JlKht and hot water;
walking difttaiu ; adults; references ex
changed. 4;n ii. nth yt. t
I ( tit .sA i.l-;, lv u n i , .Vrnoiu iiiud- rn
bunKHlow. with or without furnltur.
Inquire 130 K. 3Uh Pt. .Must eell tills
Wee (
liOl'SK wanted, unf urn in lied, suitable for
hoiLsekeupiUff rooms or apartments. I.lka
to deal with owner. Broadway I'-IL
eve n i n k.
V A NT K l3 IU-fiiied U for cooking and
hounewnrk: '2 adults, no washing; 4J.
M.-llwood Ml.
WANTKD J-ilnu by private party ou H. O,
homes, rRhh value tor.oii; no commission.
.VtH K. Sfark. A. t '. A ri ?...
SA !.: K.-k.hi. red Hoist, in bull. A.
KKR-er, l'urtlaud. Or., route 4. box 13 or 8,
t'lu.n Woo.ll.iwn 4i
INKi'HM ATM N wauled. U here Is John
K muse r. tailor, located now ? i 5 1".
Oreunti ftt n.
F( lit It hT i ne, ', -l oom nielli-Mi li'iu.-ifl,
$.!.-.. C.ill Monday, r 1 05 4Jd avn. S, li..
Ml. Si-.f rir
.MA UI'.IKI) m.n w 1 1 a family would lik-i
work of any kind, c.i pa hN unci w (ill n ;
fTprrncOts.. The iv M n In :s'M:. n pt , 7.
K A 1'KIt I K WKI i t-li.i.
ictrl call M A M
iii 1 1- tl ii. per and tliop
Monday ready fur
work. H.--1. 's 41m H
e t ti 1 1 i nn a ve
A N T h. U -To buy roni Id n.t; kw Jn-h. s
made to order. Kast lTlo. fi.'.l K.nt
Ynmhlll.
LOST, strafd or r.!.i;i-n, 1 nrm.K'' 1'ernian
cat from H.'in (iniliam i vk , snsutirs to
nmiie of I'-tllv .tiii d'w-ird
fOK .AI.K Wood lit Him !,ivf with hot
water c-e!; (,'uud us new; a snap, i'houu
Tabor 7M.17.
l-'OK SAI.K $7MI worth T Hock In J .rm't
f'ebydrattnK plant for $'.) with accrued
lAIt'l l.Y f ui niHlif.l oiii apartment, low
and clean, wi'h or without natnp; clone
In. Kst iHt'. K North.
LoST- l'ow'iiUwii, J-'riday, lstli, 1. M.. a
bunch of keys. lidwy. l:ujl or Hdwy.
L'OKO.
8-HuuM nice niodurn hou for kh le. west
side, close In, by owner to private party,
nrffi the monev. 1 1 "Ml MarsbnH.
MY IHUI 1M l Mli-; lourlUK tor S.tlr ; hpot-
llKbt, bumier, wire wheel; will consider
Ford roup". rM :.!!
S-lt" M lower
Wrilnms rv,
Hat. 27
ar lln
; (Kiinrf H.
yor.vo
CuW and c.t: ir salt. (,:ail Auto.
LA KC. V. motlern 5- room unluni i shed flat.
yj. Alnerta. near JflfiTMin hiirh.
21 no ELd .KU'S contract; will UUcouiu
per cent. AL 2-7, i'renonlan.
GOOD lot to trado lor lltlt truck,
hor 4S
GIH1. to at.Htst with houwework and chil
dren. Marshall K.'Sfl
WANTKJJ Driver for grocery delivery
truck. Call Sundnv. Main
WANT woman ti
todnv. Tfbnr rn:
cure for invalid.
Call
FuR SALE
most new.
d'.ejl H;ilck liKht tourijic,
Call Main fl; 11 . apt. S'lJ,
FOH KENT Modern .".-ruoiu bungalow for
adults only, 101 llaltey.