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yOfc. XXXII.
man and Woman Arrested For
.Killing and Robbing a
Stranger in Hotel.
WOMAN PARTLY
CONFESSES STORY.
Six-Year-Old Boy May Furnish
Principal Evidence
Against Pair.
(By Associated Press.)
PORTLAND, June 21. Jesse P.
Webb and Mrs. William A. Johnson
uee arrested at the Willamette
Rooming House early to-day on sus
picion of having murdered the hus
band of the woman, William A. John
son, at the Grand Central Hotel yes
terday afternoon. Johnson's body
was discovered in a trunk at the
Union Depot, from which blood was
seen trickling. The trunk was
opened and the body of the man dis
covered. The head had been terri
bly battered and he had been shot
and choked to death. The express
man who took the trunk to the depot
vas found and took a detective to
the Grand Central room occupied by
the Johnson's. The room was broken
Into and showed signs of a terrible
struggle. Blood was everywhere.
Detectives then started to locate the
woman and Webb, who had v '!;''--tered
at the hotel under the name of
Powers. They wcie traced to' tho
Willamette rooming house, where a
little son of Johnson's w,ns found.
At daylight this morning, Webb
and the woman rode up to the placa
in an auto and were taken into cus
tody. The woman had $1,000 in her
possession.
Woman Confesses.
The woman, held as Mrs. W. A.
Johnson, tho supposed wife of the
murdered man, has confessed that
she is Mrs. D. W. Korsh, Wife of a
city employee of Seattle named Bert
Kersh, whom she left a year ago to
run away with Webb. She has been
travelling and in many places during
the interval. She states she knew
Johnson In Seattle and later met him
In.Spokane, where he promised her if
she would leave Webb to set her un
la tho lodging house business in Port
land. She agreed and they left Spo
kane Sunday night. She did u"
know Webb was on the train unti.1
they all got aboard the same, hotel
bus at the depot. The hotel register
of the New Grand Central shows
Webb registered as "Powers." John
son and the woman registered as man
and wife. The woman says she
knows nothing of tne murder.
According to her story, tho men
Patched up their difference and be
gan drinking. Johnson wont to hi;
room in tho afternoon to sleep off
the effects of the liquor and she and
Webb devoted their timo to packing
Johnson's trunk, ho having an
nounced he was going to Seattle last
light. After tho trunk was packed,
she tcok her son "Willie," and went
to the Willamette rooming house,
Sl' does not explain why she
changed her place of abode. At 10
o'clock Webb called for her in an
ato and they went for a joy ride.
She supposed Johnson had gono to
Seattle. She says she knows nothing
f tho murder.
The boy is six years old and says
tho woman is his mother and Webb
13 his father. The boy has been
aught to call Webb "father." The
little fellow says Webb and Johnson
had n serious quarrel yesterday after
noon and later he was forbidden to
enter Johnson's room because John
son was "sick." So far as the police
can ascertain, there is no Mrs. John
son, The police have ascertained Webb
,f a victim of the chloral habits.
Webb Denies Crime.
Wrbb tells conflicting stories, but
he Inslg b he knows nothing of the
mu-ri, i i ncver uurt anybody in
my ' f." he declared, "to say nothlna
( having killed Johnson." He pro
fessed to recollect nothing of his do
Jnes since his arrival hore from Spo-
Van. . . . .
", ana declares he has been ' ca
a drunk" for several days,
When arrested, airs. Kersh had
".900 in her possesion, which, she
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PORTLAND QUICKLY BUS DOM
TAFT 10 MAKE
BILL ISSUE
President Will Endeavor to
Force Campaign Pub
licity Measure-
(By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, June 20. Presi
dent Taft decided to-day to make an
issue of the passage by Congress be
fore the adjournment at the present
session of the bill providing for pub
licity of contributions In all cam
paigns affecting federal offices.
At 12:30 o'clock to-day Vice-President
Sherman affixed his signature
to the Statehood bill, which Is a
step in progress of the legislation
before tho measure goes to the Presi
dent for his approval.
President Taft signed the State
hood bill at 1:40 p. m.
TAFT TO FIGHT HARD.
President Will Endeavor to 8001111'
Postal Salnu,s Hank Legislation.
1 Uv AsORieted Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 21. Receiv
ing information from the Senate to
day that a "filibuster" was proposed
by some of the insurgents against the
pas nl savings bank bill, President
Taft decided to abandon his projected
visit to New Haven to see his son
graduate to-morrow. The President
said he would stay In Washington
"all summer" If necessary to look
after the postal bank measure. He
desires the House bHT'fo'Ue adopted
by the Senate without amendment.
GILLETTE DILL PASSES.
Will Penult Justice Moody to Retire
on Full Pay.
my Associated Press.!
WASHINGTON, June 20. The
Gillette bill to permit Justice Moody
o fthe United States Supreme Court
to retire on full pay on account of his
long continued Illness, passed the
House to-day by unanimous consent.
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California Stage Line Near
Fort Bragg Has Serious
Accident.
rBy Associated Press.)
FORT BRAGG, Calif., June 21.
L. J. Miller of San Francisco was
killed, and Richard Conbs of Lime
River, Guy Redwine of Ukiah, Mr.
and Mrs. Rea of Westport, were in
jured last evening when the stage
from Wilietts to Muir Junction ran
away, following the fracture of the
brakes. w
declared, Johnson gave her yesterday
afternoon.
RECORD IX SPOKANE.
Jesse P. Webb Was Compositor on
Papers Recently.
(By Associated Press.)
SPOKANE, Wash., June 21.
Jesse P. Webb, who was arrested in
Portland on suspicion of connection
with tho murder of Johnson, left
here Sunday after having lived hero
two months. He worked as a com
positor on local papers. During the
one month stay here, he lived with a
small blond woman whom he intro
duced as his wife. He said ho had
been separatod from her, living In
Alaska many years, and met her by
accident on his return. Quarrels be
tween the two wore frequent and n
week ago Webb gave up the fur
nished house the two occupied, say
ing his wife had left him. This
house was 315 Wall street, the samo
address given as that of "Miss May
Webster," on the cards found on the
body of the murdered man.
BAD RUNAWAY
MARSHFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1910 EVENING EDITION
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Tex Rickard Announces That
Jeffries-Johnson IVIatch Will
Be Pulled Off in Nevada
Town July 4.
(By Associated P'ess i
RENO, Nov., June 21. The Jeffries-Johnson
world's championship
bout will be held in Reno. This an
nouncement was authorized to-day by
Tex Rickard, promoter of the affair.
New Series of Games Opens in
the Coast League
To-Day.
(By Associated Press.)
PORTLAND, June 21. A new ser
ies of games opens in the Coast
League to-day. Oakland will play
Los Angeles at Los Angeles the bal
ance of the week. Vernon plays San
Francisco at San Francisco and Port
land opens at Sacramento.
Yesterday's only game was between
Vernon and Portland and resulted 4
to 0 in Portland's favor.
A HDSPITA
Patients, Surgeon and Nurse
All Sisters Known in
Marshfield.
St. Vincent's hospital at Portland
was last week the scene of two opera
tions under extraordinary circum
stances, the nurses, physicians and
patients being all of one family. It
Is also of interest here because Mrs.
Baumbaugh, one of the patients, was
formerly a resident of Marshfield and
is a sister of Mrs. Blivens, whose hus
band Is proprietor of the Turkish
Bath parlors in the Coos building
here now. Concerning the affair, a
Portland paper says:
The center of Interest at St
VI n-
cent's Hospital is room No
77, Into
which sisters, nurses and physicians
are tiptoeing on visits of inquiry and
solicitation, while baskets and bou
quets of roses and other flowers are
continually arriving. It is rather a
remarkable situation which prevails
in room No. 77, one in which four
enterprising and ambitious daughters
of an old Oiegon family figure inter
estingly. Two of the sisters are the pa
dents, having undergone serious op
erations. A third sister, who is a
practicing physician and surgeon,
performed tho operations, and the
fourth sister, who is a trained nurse,
just finishing her course at St. Vin
cent's, Is the attending nurse. One
of the patients is a physician herself,
and the other Is a photographer's ex
pert retoucher. Incidentally, the op
erations were performed nnd the pa
tients are being cared for In a hospi
tal founded and managed in Its every
detail by women. "
Dr. Elsie Deputy Patton, the eld
est of the four sisters, operated on
Miss Helen- Lea (daughter of a sec
ond marriage) for appendicitis, and
immediately afterward performed an
operation on Mrs. Bertha Patton
Baumbaugh, being assisted in tho
surgery by Miss Bessie Lea, the nurse
who has the two patients In charge.
Inquiry by telephone as to how
things were going in No. 77 elicited
the information that both operations
had been entirely successful and that
tho two patients were "doing beauti
fully, thank you!"
At 9 a. m. the two patients wore
propped up on pillows daintily sniff
ing roses nnd sipping at chicken
broth, while the white-capped nurse
hovered about and the businesslike
physician was Just in the act of bus
tling out with her black medicine
grip and case of surgical Instruments.
COOS COUNTY FOR SOCIALISM.
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COAST LEAGUE
BALL SCORES
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B 6 BOOH MILLIONAIRE
It will be on July 4. The building
of the arena, special train service,
etc., will start at once, so that there
is no danger of further delays.
GOVERNOR WON'T 1XTERFERE.
Chief Executive of Nevada Giver Atti
tude on Fight.
fBy Assosinted Press.)
OGDEN, Utah, June 21. Governor
DIckerson of Nevada, who isin Ogden
to-day, declared he would not inter
fere with the Joffries-Johnson fight
SENATE WILL
Public Building Bill Allowance
in House Increased By
Senate Committee.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Juno 21. The
public buildings bill which passed the
House early this morning was re
ported to the Senate to-day by the
Senate Committee carrying authoriza
tions for about $5,000,000 additional.
The House bill authorizing the re-
I tlrement of Justice Moody was passed
by the Senate to-day. It Is now up
to the President for his signature.
Instrument Involving $1,500,
'000 Filed by Smith Com
panies at Roseburg.
ROSEBURG, Ore., June 20. A
'mortgage for $1,500,000 was filed
with County Clerk Lenox here. It
was given by the Linn and Lane Tim
ber Company and -the C. A. Smltt
Lumber & Manufacturing Company
to tho Union Trust Company and
Frederick H. Ransom, trustees. It
covers all of the immense rich tim
ber holdings of the Smith Interests In
Coos, Curry, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln
and Linn counties.
The mortgage is given to secure
the six per cent gold bonds of the
Linn and Lane Timber Company for
$1,500,000. These bonds fall due In
sections of from 25 to 50, sml-an-nually,
from 1911 to 1927, and the
real estate covered in the mortgage
is to secure the payment of each
bond ns it falls due.
The instrument was signed In Hen
nepin Co., Minnesota, June C, 1910,
C. A. Smith signing It as president
and Charles L. Trabert as secretary
of both of the companies giving the
mortgage. The Instrument is printed
and bound into a small pamphlet. It
contains 24,500 words and the filing
fee in the clerk's office here was $49.
Eastern Potentate Who Sought
Alice Roosevelt Will Sell
His Jewels.
fBy Associated Pross.)
MANILA, P. I., Juno 21. Tho Sul
tan of Sulu, who once offered his
hand in marrloge to Miss Alice Roose
velt, is to visit Amorlca. Ho an
nounced the chief object of his trip
abroad is to dispose of a collection
of poarls valued something like $250,
000, tho proceeds of which will bo de
voted to improving the condition of
his people. Ho will bo accompanied
by fourteen prominent Moros. He
has already sailed for India, and
thonco goes to Europe, visiting some
of the principal cities.
Phone I. S. Kaufman & Co. your
Coal Order. $4.30 PER TOX.
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LARGE CROWD
AI ELECTION
Over 300 Participate in Annual
School Meeting in
Marshfield.
By a vote of 177 to 112, Dr. J. T.
McCormac wns last night reelected
director of tho Marshfield schools for
a term of three years, Tom Coke be
ing tho only other candidate. Judge
John F. Hall was reelected clerk.
Thero was a lengthy discussion on
resolutions relating to Prof. F. A.
Golden, but none were adopted, a
motion to adjourn prevailing befoie
tho clash over the resolutions was
finished.
The crowd was tho largest that
ever turned out to a school election
in Marshfield, there being upwards
of three hundred in attendance. They
assembled early, many arriving at
tho High School building shortly
after 7 o'clock, although the meeting
was not called until 8.
The large crowd was partly duo to
an active campaign that was made
yesterday afternoon, the alumni be
ing especially active in behalf of Prof.
Golden and Tom Coke. Late in the
afternoon, they distributed a lengthy
circular replying to tho statement of
tho sphool board concerning Prof.
Golden. During the evening, they
had automobiles carrying supporters
to the election.
The meeting was called to order by
Dr. McCormac, president of the
school board, and the minutes of tho
last annual meeting were read by
Clerk John F. Hall. Also the yearly
report, both of which were approved.
Next came tho election of a clerk
for one year. J. W. Bennett nomi
nated John F. Hall to succeed him
self, nnd tho nomination was sec
onded by F. M. Friedberg. Thero
were no other nominees and tho
chairman was Instructed to cast the
unanimous vote for Mr. Hall.
Contest for Director.
Following" tho election of tho clerk,
nominations for director woro de
clared in order. Hugh McLain nom
inated Tom Coke, and J. W. Bennett
seconded tho nomination. In his
seconding speech, Mr. Bennett said
that one question was uppermost In
tho selection of a director whether
or not Prof. Golden should be re
tained In tho schools. Ho praised
Mr. Golden's work during the twenty
years or more that ho has been at tho
head of tho schools, pointed out tho
developments mado in that timo and
also to the record established b
Marshfield boys and girls in tho high
er institutions of learning. Ho said
that these things showed Mr. Gol
den's efficiency and that when thoy
were taken Into consideration, "you
had to take your hat off to Mr. Gol
den." Mr. Bennett said that tho di
rection of school work was tho sup
erintendent's duty and that the duty
of tho directors was to look aftor tho
finances and see that the school work
was Inspected. Ho pointed out that
Mr. Coke was tho alumni choico for
director and that a vote for him
would bo counted as a vote for Prof,
Golden.
Dr. E. MlngtiH nominated Dr. Mc
Cormac for director in a short talk In
which he pointed out tho long and
successful sorvico in school work, tho
Interest ho had taken and tho effort
he had put forth in behalf of tho
public. Dr. Mlngus said that tho
meoting was for the pnrposo of oloct
Ing a director and not a superin
tendent. F, S, Dow warmly seconded
Dr. McCormnc's nomination, praising
from personal knowledge and from a
paront's standpoint of what ho had
accomplished.
Thore being no other nominations,
Tom Bennett, John Kronholm, F. S.
Dow and Dr. G. W. Lesiio were ap
pointed tollers. John F. Hall road
tho Stato law citing the qualifications
of voters at school elections and tho
ballot was taken, tho name of oach
voter being registered as he or sha
(Continued on page 3.;
No. 290.
KILLED-
GELES ACCIDENT
Samuel Elmore, Noted Salmon
Packer, and Woman Com
panion Dead.
AUTO RIDE'S END
IS DISASTROUS.
Victim's Widow Who Is Criti
cally III May Not Sur
vive the Shock.
(By Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES, Juno 21. Tho
body of Samuel Elmore, the million
aire salmon packer of Astoria, who
was killed, together with Mrs. W. L.
Garretson while auto riding near
Florenclta Park last night, will bo
prepared for shipment to Portland.
The disposition of tho body of Mrs.
Garretson has not yet been arranged,
but It Is believed it also will bo sent
North.
Mrs. Elmore, who is critically ill
at Pasadena, mny not recover from
tho shock of her husband's death.
Her condition is precarious to-day..
TAFT URGES HILL.
President Confers With Leaders
About Campaign Publicity.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 21. Presi
dent Taft bent for tho party leaders
of both the House and the Senato
and told them his views regarding
tho campaign publicl y legislation.
Tho President said ho had mado a
personal pledge during the last Pres
idential campaign to do what the
could toward furthering tho enact
ment of-the publicity bill. Tho Pres
ident had hesitated to add this
bill to his program, however, while
Congress was devoting Itself to those
measures which the party had defi
nitely committed itself to In Its plat
form. Now that the program Is prac
tically completed, he has decided to
bring all his influence to bear In bo
half of tho publicity bill, soon to bet
called up. Members of both houses
are inclined to tho view that adjourn
ment will be had between Thursday
and Saturday of this week.
Crop Flurry Comes a Month
Early Owing to Unusual
Hot, Dry Spell.
(By Associated Press.)
ST. PAUL, Juno 21. Tho annunl
ctop scare arrived about a month
early this year as a result of an un
usual hot, dry spell In Minnesota and
Dakota. While conditions aro not
desperate, a soaking rain would do
a vast amount of good.
CHICAGO, Juno 21. Orders to
buy filled the wheat pit to-day. Tho
fact that no goneral rains wore ro
ported nowhere in tho northwest was
a big factor In causing a rush of buy
ers. Reports fiom the grain dis
tricts in tho Northwost aro not on
cournglng, but a goneral rain would
help matters considerably. Prices
went up.
MINNEAPOLIS, Juno 21. Wheat
wont up three routs on tho Mlunoapa
Ils markot yoatorday owing to high
tomperaturos and no rain.
THE WHEAT MARKET.
(By AHBoclnted Press.)
PORTLAND, Juno 20. Whoat un
changed. CHICAGO, Juno 20. Tho wheat
market closod as follows; July,
95o; September, 99 He; Docembor,
95 c.
TACOMA, June SO. Bluostem
Wheat, SOc; Club, 77o; Red Russian,
75e.
MILLINERY REDUCTION SALIJ
still continues at Mrs. J. H Somcrs,
designer,
WHEAT SCARE
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