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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, -NOVEMBER-IS, 1922 13 TRIBUTE IS PI , B! LITTLE FOLKS Imposing Exercises Held at Roosevelt Statue. SALUTE TO COLORS GIVEN Great Throng of Pupils of All Schools With Little Flags Pledge Americanism. ttecital of the pledge of allegiance to the flag by 1200 school children, with the sincerity that comes from the hearts of the young, featured the morning ceremony yesterday in the park block on which stands the Roosevelt equestrian statue. This ceremony followed the parade of the school children through the down town district. Speakers told the throng of the virtues of Amerfca's great patriot, Theodore Roosevelt, but it remained for the children themselves to honor him, as he would have enjoyed be ing honored, by three resounding cheers. The turnout of the children was greater in numbers than had been anticipated. Under the direction of Robert Krohn, physical director of the public schools, the children inarched from the armory to the park block opposite L.add school. Here the children assembled, the girls on one side of the bronze and the boys on the other. The Jeffer son high school band and Stouden meyer's band provided music for the event. The invocation was pronounced by Dr. William Wallace Youngson, district superintendent of the Meth odist Episcopal church. City Com missioner Pier, chairman of the ceremony, introduced William F. Woodward, member of the school board, who in brief fashion reviewed the outstanding features of the life of Colonel Roosevelt and his love of country. The pledge of allegiance to the flag next was given by the chil dren, who followed this by singing "America." Dr. Henry Waldo Coe. donor1 of the Roosevelt statue, re ceived a tremendous ovation from the children when he was intro duced, as also was the case when A. Phimister Procter, sculptor who designed the bronze, stepped for ward. , The children sprang a surprise on Mr. Krohn, who had directed them thus far in their participation in the exercises. When Professor Krohn stepped forward to thank the chil .dren for the turnout he was greeted by a series of cheers, accompanied by the waving of thousands of little flags carried by the students. It came as an opportunity for these children to show their appre ciation for their instructor, and all efforts on the part of Professor Krohn to restore quite wTere unsuc cessful until the children themselves concluded this impromptu feature of the programme. Professor Krohn toldthe children that on two occasions he had been privileged to meet President Roose velt, and whilethe colonel was pres ent at the ceremony in spirit it would please him if a cheer was sent up that he could hear. First the boys cheered and the spectators for blocks around were certain that they had heard the loudest cheer possible to be given. but then the girls had their chance and they cheered even louder.- The last cheer from the girls and boys together almost shook the graceful statue that stood draped with flags. The singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" .brought the ceremony to a close. I'S SONG 15 TRITE MISS IOXE DUXN DEDICATES AIK TO GEORGE PUSEY JR. One-Time Classmate, Now Dead, Is Theme of "Just Away" Writ ten 1y Oregon City Pianist. OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 11. (Special.) "Just Away" is the title of a song written and dedicated to icir tra Pncow T Pusey of this city. The composer of the music is Miss lone Dunn, prom inent young Dian- ist of this city, who has also writ ten the words. The song is pub lished by Daniel Wilson of Port land. Miss Dunn and George P u s e v. whose death occurred in the early summer, were former schoolmates. He was the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hawley of Portland. , Miss Dunn is the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Dunn of this city. She was graduated from the Oregon City high school in June, 1922, and is now a student at the school of the Portland Art associa tion. She won a scholarship to the institution. The selection composed in honor of her late schoolmate, George Pusey, is her third. It follows: JUST AWAY. We cannot say. and we will not say That he is gone he is Just away; ' With cheery smile and wave of hand. He has wander'd to an unknown land. CHORUS. He left us dreaming, dreamins. dreamin . OC fair lands since ho is there. O yoti, whom tlie fondest yearn For same old step and glad return. Oh, think of him as faring on. In love of there as here. Think of him as the same; we say, "He is not gone; he is just away." In twilight hours as the sun sinks low And tiny stars in the heavens glow, We hear you calling sweet and low: "iroiKs, i iove you, love you all, you Know. CHORUS. Farm Instructor Xained. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Nov. 11. (Special.) Appointment of William S. Averill, vocational instructor at Gresham end former foreman of farm crops field work at this experiment sta tion, as instructor in practical farm ing' district 3, Forest Grove, has been announced by Paul V. Maris, director of extension. Mr. Averill was a Linn county farmer and has worked on dairy farms in Coos county and the Wallamette valley. He was graduated from O. A. C. in 1917. He will begin his new work November 15. ft v i - fa STATUE BY PROCTOR IS DECLARED TO BE VIRILE RECORD OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT Sculptor Who Knew Mighty Hunter of Western Game Intimately Draws Upon His Large Fund of Personal Recollections in Moulding Remarkable Work of Art in Bronze. 1 N IMPER1SHABLY recording the pose, features and character ot Colonel Roosevelt in bronze, A. Phimister Proctor, the sculptor, was never at loss for the vision of that virility he sought to depict. For the colonel and he were brothers of the great lodge of all outdoors, and many a time he talked of the trail and the hunt. Mr. Proctor knew Roosevelt intimately, and as for the sculptor's credentials, had he not bowled over, when a- boy in his teens, a rampant grizzly? "Our first meeting," recalled Mr. Proctor, "was during the Chicago world's fair, when I had been com missioned to do the Indian and the cowboy, and various animals. Col onel Roosevelt was an enthusiastic member of the Boone and Crockett c' b, a coterie of big game hunters The club built a cabin on one of the lagoons in the fair grounds, and there its members' used to gather and. dine and swap stories of. hunt ing. "I was made a member, for I had done some big game hunting on my own account, and there I met the colonel. He used to come to my studio to discuss the animals I was preparing for the grounds the deer, e" , moose and he particularly was keen for the Indian that stood be fore the transportation building. We met quite often then, and in later years when the club assembled for its dinners at Washington while he was president. "The cougar bronze, a lithe pan ther stretched full length, was one of his favorites, and though I was not at the dinner when he first saw it, ho told me laughingly of his sur prised delight. His friend, Seth Bullock, of old days on the Little Missouri, was at his right hand and before them reared a huge mass of roses. Seth and the colonel were inseparable. " 'Suddenly Seth reached out with those big hands of his,' related Col onel Roosevelt, 'and began pawing right and left among the flowers. I was amazed and moved to restrah. him, but I recalled that he was a two-gun man and held my peace. Well, Seth tossed the roses aside and there was your cougar a bully panther if ever there was one!' "Later he asked me to do some buffalo heads for him, for the main dining room of the White House He sent me an impetuous telegram to come at once. There were stone lions in the dining room then, and the colonel said that he felt he must protest against the invasion of the White House by an animal that cer tainly wasn't American and that. additionally, was the symbol of England. That was near the end of his term. " 'Hurry up.' he urged me, 'and finish the buffalo. When I get out of here no one else will put 'em in!' "Colonel Roosevelt did more for irt at the capital than any other jian in history.. He formed the art commission, which passes first upon all statues or paintings submitted, and which rejects those that are in appropriate or poorly done. And as for the depiction of American fauna, the world knows that he was both naturalist and sportsman." Concerning Mr. Proctors own prowess with the rifle, it is of rec ord that he recently returned from a hunting and sketching trip to Alaska, and that although he sue ceeded in downing a black bear or so, it was Mrs. Proctor who slew " two grizzlies in as many minutes. But he has taken a -scalp orso on his own account, and the first of these was memorable. "I was a boy when I killed that bear," said Mr. Proctor. "It was in Colorado, and the day was aeplete with incident, for not only did I get a grizzly, but I got a big bull elk as well, and both of them nearly got me. I was shooting an old single-shot 50-caliber Springfield, and I had to put five bullets into the grizzly before he quit coming in my direction. Then, too, the shells had a troublesome habit of. sticking at most inopportune times. "I wounded the elk, breaking one of his hind legs, an hour or so later, and trailed him for the remainder of the day. Finally I got another shot and missed him, whereupon 1 rushed from cover expecting to find him gone, He wasn't, and he made for me with a shell stuck fast in ROOSEVELT FAMILY, HELP WITH ADVICE ON STATUE Dr. Henry Waldo Coe Tells Manner in Which Likeness of Colonel Was Made Certainty in Memorial; fNote: Few men. bv the rinenesq of long friendship, are qualified to speak of Colonel Roosevelt as is Dr. Henry Waldo Coe. The acquaintance began In 1884, when Roosevelt was e, plainsman on the Little Missouri and Dr. Coe a physician at Mandan, N. D. Their mutual esteem brought about many subsequent meet ings and makes peculiarly fitting the tribute paid by Dr. Coe to the living memory of Theodore Roosevelt.) BY DR. HENRY WALDO COB. I N ERECTING a statute to the memory of the man I loved, 1 ! determined that it should repre sent him as a westerner. As the years go on, I argued, scores of statues will be created in honor of Theodore Roosevelt. These, ' how ever, will depict him in his later years, whei. as president and states man and .national adviser, he was known by millions. To create him as a slender and somewhat frail person, as he first appeared in Dakota territory, was, however, so vastly a contrast to the Roosevelt of his later life, tat the Rough Rider was adopted lor the statue. There have been a hundred different Roosevelts from youth to the day of his death. Others will depict him in his better-known years, but I selected the military period when he led his troops out of the west to set Cuba free. , The sculptor, A. Phimister Proc tor, at once visited the widow; Miwi Edith Kermit Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay, and on my return from Europe we kept in close touch with the family. Proviso Is Inserted. In the commission given Mr. Proc tor to make this bronze figure there was a proviso that any differences oyer the finished figure between the "sculptor and the owner" should be submitted to a committee from the New York art commission for de cision. There was no need to use the commission, for no differences over the work ever occurred be tween the sculptor and owner. When the plaster model was com pleted the artists of New York ex tended to Mr. Proctor a reception at which, during the afternoon, hun dreds of his colleagues did homage 1 4 " . if "T J H ? v the chamber. We played tag among the trees until he was right at my heels, and as a last resort I dived headlong beneath a fallen tre, all branches. There I worked on that refractory shell, with the bull in dustriously pawing away the brush above me, and when I fired at last it was so close that the powder singed his neck as the bullet broke it." i His memories of Roosevelt the man, and his own memories of a hundred settings typical of the Rooseveltian strenuosity were, so the sculptor 'declares, of invaluable assistance in the creation of the statue of his friend. "I wanted to give the world." he said, "the impression of-Roosevelt as I knew him as, indeed, I siways think of him. I most admired his fearlessness, his courage, and the to the sculptor and his work. For tunately for me I was a guest. At this gathering of all the artis tic highbrows of New York who pnide themselves first upon their ability to criticise the work of any we"ll-meamng but misled brother in the sculptor guild, I very indus triously circulated myself, and out of reach of the sculptor, and heard their under-breath comments with each other, but there was nothing but enthusiasm over what the sculp tor had to show them. Family's Opinion Wanted. I said to Mr. Proctor, however, that what I wanted was the opinion of the family. I telt that nothing would keep tne , members of the family from speaking their own true opinions upon the work, regard less of what either Mr. Proctor or I . might think. That what they would want would be n real picture of Theodore Roosevelt in the Rough Rider period of his life. That they would want this much more than to have a good-looking figure or a reproduction of later life. That if it was called for, they would criti cise to the last line the face or form, in a cool, calm manner. They, more than anyone else, knew. Hun dreds of photographs of Roosevelt in that period had been furnished by the family, but 1 wanted the family to criticise where criticism was indicated, based upon the pic tures recorded in the gray matter upon the vortex of their living brain. "This is not," I said, "the Roose velt of the presidential period and may be criticised from that stand point that it is not the man known to many of his fellowmen who will t gaze upon it.- Of a hundred Roose velts, changing as he grew older. I seek that Roosevelt known as the Rough Rider. If the Roosevelt fam ily is satisfied, then the world must take him as Mr. Proctor makes him. for he has passed his work through the most critical eVes." When the large plaster model had been about finished Mr. Proctor called me again to New York, where my wife and I remained for about three months, demoting our time to this work in hand. - At an appropriate time a week 3E energy always waiting to spring into action. I never thought of him as a man of hasty, ill-considered action. All his exuberance, all his restlessness, was only the surface that covered a quiet dignity and re serve. The popular idea of him is that he never was in repose. I wanted to show him as he appeared to me, with all' his magnificent energy held in check." '. Of his four statues typifying the spirit of the west, and favorite of all with their creator, three are in Oregon. There is "The Pioneer," a gift to the University of Oregon from J. N. Teal; "The Circuit Rider," the gift of R. A. Booth, which stands before the capital at Salem, and the equestrian statue of Roosevelt in Portland, the gift of Dr. Henry Waldo Coe'. The fourth of his west ern bronzes is that of "The Indian," at Lake George, N. T. was set apart, and I asked the Roosevelt family to visit and pass upon the work. In fact, it might be said that a Roosevelt family re union took place at the studio of Mr. Proctor. The younger daughter, Ethel, with her husband. Major and Doctor Derby, was witn us. Mrs. Derby, I thought,, was the most serious and critical student of the statue. Ker mit Roosevelt and his wife gave close study to the work. Archibald and his wife came often. "Archie," as folks still delight to call him, exclaimed when he first saw the wonderful horse. "Where did you get my sorrel horse?" He declared it to be a fair representation of the favorite horse of his father, more often ridden, however, by himself and best liked of all the horses his father had ever owned. Theodore Roosevelt, who followed his father as assistant secretary of the navy, with his wife joined th family of critics. Mrs. I.ongTrorth's Advice Sought. The sons were most of all desir ous that their elder sister, Alice (Mrs. Nicholas Longworth), should carefully criticise the work. I saw her at her home in Washington and arranged for her coming to New York and she sat in the family coun cils over the accuracy of the pic ture before her in' the studio of Mr. Proctor, at -the time ,when changes in the soft clay could easily be made. It was interesting to me to wit ness her study of the figure before her, sitting quietly for a half hour at a time something, I think, hard for her to do then possibly raisins some' question with the artist, as. for instance, some wrinkle about the eyes, which the sculptor would modify to meet the criticism; per- naps, tnen, at her suggestion, to re store it as it was originally. Alice was old enough at the time to know just how her father looked when he was -a Rough Rider, and her opinion was greatly desired. Horse Pleases Everyone. It should be said that not a single suggestion, either by the family or anyone else, was ever made as to the slightest change in the horse. All agree that it is the best horse in bronze in America, perhaps in the world, the sculptor having con ceived and produced virility, strength, intelligence and action in repose. In addition to these sons and daughters, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law. several other members of the Roosevelt family, cousins of the colonel, persons more of his own age, visited with' critical eyes and passed upon the statue. The widow kept in touch with the work as it progressed during the two years it was in process of creation in the sculptor's studio in New York, six months having been consumed upon the work on the campus of Stanford university in a studio provided by the college for Mr. Proctor. She provided the actual uniform and ac coutrements used by Colonel Roose velt at the battle of San Juan hill. Photographs Are Taken. Through the medium of frequent photographs of- the work taken as it progressed, she was able to-study its every feature. The finished image she did not see. It was very real. For obvious reasons, as ex plained by her daughter, Ethel, she thought best not yet to see the fig ure. Some. day I trust she may see it on its base in Portland. After a week's study given over to the family, and a family confer ence, a few minor suggestions were given the sculptor, embodying no material changes, however. Every suggestion was conscientiously sub mitted by Mr. Proctor to the fam ily, and at the close of this critical inspection, the family unanimously approved the work as completed and declared it perfect in reproduc tion. Mrs. Longworth, in addition to commending the features of the face, remarked: "I could tell it is my farther from the back view alone!" Artist Is Praised. Kermit declared that the artist had almost done the impossible in the perfect and natural character of his father's pose in the figure, viewed from the side. Among other lifelong friends who made a critical study of, and ap proved, the finished full-size figure in clay, was Dr. Alexander Lam bert, for more than 20 years the family physician of the colonel. Mrs. Corrine Roosevelt Robinson, a sister of the rough rider, and na tionally known as an author, also, f.f course, contemporaneous with the rough rider period, sent the fol lowing letter: NEW YORK, June 1, 1!22. Dear Dr. Coe: Yesterday I was able to go and see Mr. Proctor's wonderful equestrian statue of my brother. Colonel Roosevelt. T cannot tell you how greatly it has sur prised me. The figure of my brother and the face also are both unusually like the original and there is a mixture of enenry and repose about the whole composition that is remarkably char acteristic of Theodore Roosevelt.. 1 envy ihe people ot Portland. Or., that their city should have such a benefactor as yourself and I can but wish that an equally generous citizen of New York city should arise and make such a gal lant statue a permanent gift to our splendid Central Pak, where it might inspite thousands." It Is a great disappointment to me to feel that 1 could not respond to your invitation to see the statue with you in New 'York a little while ago. At the time 1 was very delicate after my long illness ana could not go anywhere. I should particularly have tiked to see the statue with its generous donor. Faithfully, CORRINE ROOS'EVKLT ROBINSON. Family 1,'nable to Come. The oft-postponed date for the un veiling finally coming at the time it does, upon the heels of an intensely hard-fought political battle in the east, it was impossible to si-cure the attendance of any of the family at the function, although Mrs. Rob inson wrote September 9 that while she was too ill to come, "I shall speak to every member of the family I see, young and old, and see if something cannot be done about it." ' When the date had been set for October 27, Kermit Roosevelt, who had already postponed a prospective trip to the orient to fit into such date, in a letter to Dr. Coe said: . "You may be sure that I shall do my best to arrange to be in Port land on the 27th, if it is in any way possible." He was unable to arrange his af fairs to be at the unveiling on Armistice day. Letters Sent Dr. Coe. As to October 27, the widow sent a card from Sagamore Hill, Septem ber 30, 1922, saying: Many thanks, my dear Dr. Coe for your most interesting letter. It is very good of you to send me details. I only wish I coula be with you on the 27th. Mrs. Derby sent a note as follows: The Old Adams House, Oyster Bay, Long Island. Dear Dr. Coe: It was a great pleasure to get the photograph of the statue, I read with interest the newspaper accounts you kindly sent to me of the ceremony of ground breaking. It must have been most impressive. It seems particularly apropos to dedt cate the statue to the children of Amer lea. In everything connected with your (rift you have shown such -certainty of per ception. With kind regards to you and Mrs. Coe, believe me. Very sincerely yours, f ETHEL ROOSEVELT. DERBY. Sept. 10, 1M2. Likeness la Praised. The following letter from Archi bald Roosevelt is in point as to the correctness of the work of the sculptor: - New York, Oct. 18. 1922. Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, Arlington club. Portland, Or. My Dear Dr. Coe: I certainly wish I could be at Port land at the unveiling of the statue. It is a great pleasure, however, for me to feel that I had the opportunity of seeing the statue -while it was in the making and it also is a great pleasure to feel that Portland was able to ob tain such a striking likeness of my father. ! Trusting that you will have success In the unveiling of the statue, I am Very sincerely yours, A. B. ROOSEVELT. Young Theodore Roosevelt, assist ant secretaary of the. navy, in a re cent letter expressed his extreme re gret that arduous duties imposed upon him by his department and special work required by state and national republican commtitees made it impossible for him to be w ith us at the unveiling. Secretary Unable to Come. In a later letter he states as fol lows: (I was trying to get "Teddy III" to pull the unveiling ribbon.) Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Assistant Secretary's Office, Septem ber 20, 192-2. My Dear Dr. Coe: I am very sorry that It is impossible for either myself or my son to be in the west at the time you mention. My son is only a little shaver and. 1 am all tied up with work. This, of course, is a real disappointment to me, but there is but one way we can be true to my father's memory, and that is to try to translate the doctrines he believed to -be correct in-to actual actualities, to devote one's best energies to the work right at hand. With very best wishes, believe me, . Yours very truly, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The first newspaper in the east to print a cut of the statue was the New York Sunday Times. It was from a photograph taken of the working model five feet in height, from which the greater plaster model was later made. The inscription thereunder was: Bronze statue by A. Phimister Proctor. To be presented to the city of Portland, Or., by Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, lifelong friend of the colonel: The words, "lifelong friend of the colonel," at once struck me as tell ing the story of 36 years' experience in six words. Therefore I adopted the slogan. Widow Is Consulted. My printer was getting ready to print 70,000 programmes of the ded icatory exercises. He had already set the phrase in his proof. It oc curred to me that the title might not be altogether an appropriate thins. The printer was- held up, and I wrote to Mrs. Rposevelt, the widow, asking her as to the pro priety of usingr the phrase, as I de- FAMOUS CARTOON IS TIMELY REMINDER OF GREAT AMERICAN WHOSE STATUE WAS UN VEILED YESTERDAY. . r: Nil K4M,v ' ; ; M l'' -TjJwx i ; I 1 .$? 1 1 li .... . . . .. . ...... ........ ............. ..... . . ...4 Few cartoonists have tojehed the heights of genius as surely as did J. N. Darling on the death of Colonel Roosevelt, when his masterful sketch of tribute, "The Lohg Trail," appeared in various national newspapers. Including The Oregonian. It is here reproduced as a fitting integer of the spirit that marked the dedication of the new bronze commemorating The Darling cartoon was acclaimed by critics the finest of all cartoons of all American cartoons ever published but its worth is attested by the arose for copies, and that many of the The Oregonian, and distributed them sired it neither to be immodest nor to look like boasting. In reply came the following: Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y., Octo ber 11, 1922. My Dear Dr. Coe: There seems every reason for calling yourself my husband's life-long friend, and I cannot understand how any ques tion of the propriety of this should be raised. It seems as if the changed date for unveiling is advantageous. Many thanks for sending me the result of the song competition. Faithfully yours, EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT. In this connection it is a pleasure to me to publish what Mrs. Roose velt said as to the location of the statue in front of Ladd school. Oldgate Farmington, Connecticut, April 4, 1922. Dear Dr. Coe: Thank you "so much for sending the photographs and the telegram. The children's petition from the Ladd school, promising to care for the statue if placed on the site in front of their school, is very touching and I am happy that you are helping, them to strive for good citizenship by putting a memorial of the man who loved them in their midst. Sincerely yours, EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT. IS HUSBAND ACCUSED OF GIVING CHILD "PAIN KILLER." Wife Says She Was Beaten Night of Marriage and Money for Baby Demanded for Liquor. , Benjamin F. Hubbard not only got drunk and beat his bride the night of their narriage, but when their baby came and was barely two months old he came very near killing it by giving the tot a tea snnnnfnl of "Dain killer," when he is alleged to have known that a drop in a half glass of water con stituted a dose. This is the asser tion of Molly A. Hubbard in her di vorce complaint. She says Hubbard gave her J50 for hospital expenses before the birth of the son, then forced her to return the money "for the purpose of buying liquor." Hubbard is said to be a high-class salesman and $250 a month perma nent alimony, with $50 a month ad ditional for support of Jay Warren, 4 -year-old son, is asked. Leah C. Anderson alleges that on October 22 her husband surrep titiously removed his clothing from their home and proceeded to tell friends that he had abandoned his wife. He telephoned her to see an attorney about a divorce, the plain tiff states. Desertion is also alleged in com plaints of Klise W. against John E. Gay and Jennie against Edwin P. Burns. HIGHWAY ARRESTS 958 Fines Collected During October by State Total $8489.70. SALEM. Or., Nov. 11. (Special.) There were a total of 958 arrests for traffic violations in Oregon during the month of October, according to reports filed with the secretary of state by T. A. Raffety, chief in spector for the state motor vehicle department. Fines collected during the month aggregated $8489.70. Fees caused to be mailed to the secretary of state as a result of the activities of the state traffic of ficers totaled $2361.54. These fees covered operators' licenses, chauf feurs' licenses, transfers and dupli cate license plates. Arrests for speeding were more numerous than for other violations. A total of 146 persons were arrested for speeding, while four persons were held for driving their cars while, in an intoxicated condition . I The- Oregonian is the medium through which many people supply their wants by using its classified columns. Telephone Main 7070. "THE LONG. LONG TRAIL." J Roosevelt as a virile man of the west. newspapers in which it appeared to admirers of Roosevelt. GEM SOLI) FOR $1300 HELD WOKTII LESS THAN $50. . C'hristensen, Jeweler, Accused of Fraud In Connection With Pre-Nuptial Transaction. A pearl bestowed upon her by her fiance who later became her hus band was worth less than $50 in stead of $2000 to $3000, as repre sented by C. Christensen, Portland jeweler, it is alleged in the com plaint of Alvine B. Miller, filed in circuit court. Mrs. Milfer, formerly Alvine Beaulieu, seeks to recover $1250 of the $1300 she says Miller paid for the pearl given her. . In 1917, when they were engaged, Miller paid down $300 on the price asked .for the pearl and then of fered the gem to his fiance. She demurred on the ground that she did not consider it worth the price Christensen asked for it. She al leges that the jeweler then not only told them the pearl was worth $2000 to $3000, but finally agreed to refund their money within six months if the parl did not take on a more even color and greater lustre. Thereupon she consented to payment of the balance of $1000 by her fiance. Within the six months, however, Mrs. Miller says she tendered the pearl to Christensen and asked for the return of the purchase price. He pleaded a shortage of money, promising to repay them later, she alleges. Again last March the pearl was taken back to Christensen and the money demanded, but he has not paid it back, it is alleged, so the court is asked to give judgment for $1250. TRIALS ARE POSTPONED Coates-SIuslier Alienation Case and Libel Suit Delayed. PENDLETON, Or.. Nov. 11. Trial of the W. F. Coates suit against Al vin Slusher for $10,000 on a charge of the alienation of his wife's affec tion, and the trial of the W. It. Taylor suit against Harry L. Kuck, Locipeaes i Tubular.BalrBearing.Large'lire. High Grade. Children's Vehicles OverAMUlion In Use Sold By AIL Toy Stores Yej T Hi TRICVCtES I (fM. 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