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Newspaper Page Text13 THE OREGON DAILY .' JOURNAL, PORTLAND. THURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER T, 1905. I' DESERT TO BLOOf.1 AS GARDEH SPOT: Approval of East Umatilla Irri ; gation .Project by Government Will Settle Large Area. - - THIRTY THOUSAND ACRES ' j : UNDER THE TWO SYSTEMS Two Thousand Acres of the Inland . Irrigation' Company's Property Affected by Reclamation Project Needed aa Reservoir Ske. ' S ("pedal Dlapatra to Tb Jowatl.) -Pendleton. Or.. Deo. t. Through th J : approval of th East Umatilla Irrigation i project by Secretary Hitchcock the 1 - northwestern section of Umatilla county 1 destined to become the garden apot of all eastern Oregon. There will ap- proximately r 10,000 acres of -land open for eettleeinnt when the government croJect and that of the Furnish com cany- are completed. Urider the plans . as proposed at present about 1 0.0 00 i acres will be redeemed by the govern- i ment through its reservoir enterprise, end about half that amount wiH ba re- claimed through flood irrigation by the Inland Irrigation company, or wnicn w, ; J. Fiirnlnh ia the head. The section that is to be improved by 5- -the East -Umatilla -project -ia-going to become the garden spot or eastern ure J aron. By soil, climate-and transporta i tlon connections It Is fitted for such and It la believed that upon the reclamation 3 if the now arid land the country will 4 become densely settled, r-. -! - About 2,000 acres of the Inland com " pany's land will be affected through the ' government project. Of thla amount : 1,005 acrea will be needed by the gov ' ' ernment for a reservoir site and the ' company has offered to sell It to the , government, although no prlca haa ever , been agreed upon. a , ? , Aatde , from the reservoir site the : company will probably have to sell off , about BOO acres of their land which ; -will fall 'under the 'government reaer j voir; , Th . remainder of the company land will not .be affected, and will be re st claimed through flood irrigation as orig . Inally Intended by .the company. The work on the company ditch Is now about .' half completed and will probably be An-' ;. Jshed by February 1. Something over 125.000 haa already been expended In the ',' work, ,- '....:-' JURY DECIDES CRIME ' , WAS MANSLAUGHTER At I o'clock this afternoon th Jury in the -esse of the state against Klnta Kasaoka, accused of murdering a countryman In a north end resort,' brought In verdict of guilty of manalaughter. The Jury went out at 10:60 thl morning. 81z ballots- were taken. In the .first, one Juror stood Sor murder in the first degree and two for murder In the second de gree. The decision as finally ar rived at was not a surprise to those who had watched th prog ress of th case. Wtf Alleges Crnelty. -; Rosa Freeman has begun a suit In the circuit court for a divorce from Henry In this city October tS, 1901. She 1- .. . br,i Knth crnettv and rieaertlon. flev- era! accusations are cited In th com plaint, when Freeman is alleged to have rtruck his wire. WHEN THE WORLD IS YOUNG. '' " . 1 Obprrtfht, ' lOO. by AoMrieaa-Jotnaal-EiaaUMt. ... . ... "An, Willi, you don't know wot It ia tr be a orphan."... ., , "I don't, heyt Alnt me mudder one of then her woman lecturer, an' me fdr er newspaper edltorr -.. ' .. oCSJil IK in i if I'-fi; ! J 1 1,. - "-WHat d trouDIa, hnmpy7" Z-lk4 do jen art awallowect SAD STORY OF STRUGGLE OF OLD PEOPLE WITH POVERTY Bowed by the weight of " nearly 100 years, almost blind and Totally help less,... Robert Hardy, aged OS, and his wife, aajtxl 0$ years, await the setting of life' sun. . They have been- living in a tent near Northern Hill station on the St. Johns car line. Their Thanksgiving was a cheerless one and the outlook for Christmas Is not. cheerful. A son, Robert, who Is nearly TO years old,- la struggling to support his own family and hla aged parents as well. Robert Hardy, the younger, la a plas terer, and once there were, few local tradesmen better than he. But owing to 1ils advanced years he cannot command. Digit wages nor is ne BDie to Beep at work steadily. IUs wife .was a trained OFFERS $ 1 ,500 A MONTH FOR : FIFTH AND WASHINGTON CORNER Mrs. Barrett Fallng today was of fered $1,600 a month rental for th 50 by 100 feet at th corner of Washing ton and Fifth streets, of which SO by (0 feek is occupied by the Knight Shoe company, 20 by SO by Lot Swettand as a candy store, and 60 by 60 on Fifth street by. several smaller businesses. Frame buildings only two stories high stand on.th property. Mrs. Fallng in formed W. A. Knight, president of the shoe company, of her offer, and gav him th refusal on the property at that rate of rental. This afternoon at I o'clock he told Mrs. Fallng that he could not pay auch a rental and that if necessary he would move to- another lo cation. ;' " If th property b estimated ss to value upon l,609"a month or $18,000 a year rental, on even the ' high basis of 10 per cent, th property would be rated at $3,600 a front foot on Washing LARGE WHEAT TRACT PURCHASED AT EUREKA ' (Special Dtepatrb to Tat Journal.) Walla Walla. Wash.. Dec 7. -Grots Bros., on of thj biggest firm o.f wheat raisers in Walla Walla county, yester day completed the purchase of the C B. Upton wheat farm, on Eureka flat. The Upton farm consists ' of approximately 6,000 acres of land lying between Pleas ant View and Kureka Junction and the price paid waa $101,000, or very nearly $30 an acre, Mr. Upton haa grown rich farming these lands and will now re tire from active farming aa his health has been poor for several months. Orote Bros, have been farming th Plckard lands an th flat and have made a for tune th past few years. . i- FORMULA THAT CURED ' FAMILY OF SMALLPOX Quarantined with Ave cases of small pox In his family, a man now living In Portland used the following proscrip tion, effecting cures of all who were affected and preventing himself from taking th dlseas: , Sulphate of sine, one grain; digitalis. on grain; sugar, half a teaapoonful. Dissolve in a win glasa of soft water or water that haa been boiled - and cooled; take a teaapoonful every hour. By us of th foregoing either small pox or scarlet fever, so It Is claimed, will "disappear In 13 hours. - For chil dren the dose should be reduce daccQni- sTw Walla Walla' Jail. - (Special.. Diana tea to The Joarnal.) Walla Walla, Wash.. Dep.. 7. Th county commissioners yesterday adopted a set of plana for Walla Walla county's proposed jail building, which will be rected early In th spring at a cost of about $30,000. Th new Jail will be entirely separate from th courthouse. ' j d only 'laii w "You'lJ hav Mamma want nilrse before her marriage and haa de voted much of her- time of lata to the car of her husband1 parents. But the years of work - are telling on her, too, and she. like her husband, la not able to withstand the strain er hard labor aa In her younger day. When th case waa Investigated by a Journal reporter several daya ago, Rob ert Hardy spurned the suggestion of having the old people sent to the county farm. He said that he was willing to work day and night. If hla health would permit, for hla sged father and mother. Ho also aald that hla wife waa still will ing to continue in her labors of love In the care of th helpless old couple. ' But the future Is not rosy. ton. ' Such rating. In .th opinion of moat well-informed men, 1 much too high. ' Mrs. Fallng received .th offer through a broker and did not at the time know' who wanted th property. J. H. Peterson today gav . an option on hla 76 by 100 feet of property on Fourth at reft, between Waahlngton and Alder, th Fourth street part of th store of Llpman, Wolf at Co., for $160, 000. Mr. Peterson bought It a few months ago for $110,000, and will therefor realise $40,000 profit. If the option be closed. This is at th rat of $2,000 a front foot, and th lots, have on them a first-class brick building five stories high. - Such a valuation Is, un doubtedly low, and It la claimed that If this option be not closed, other offers as jtood will hastily be mad by broker wno are ready to buy lor intending In- vestora. Mr. Peterson does not know for whom th option waa taken. QUINTON STICKS TO POST DESPITE WEDDING Patrolman John Qulnton wanted to at tend a wedding yeaterday afternoon. "I would like to get (Of f for about an hour this afternoon. he told th cap tain In charge. ."There Is going to be a wedding and they expect me there." It should.be noted that a short while sgo Patrolman Qulnton . was asalgnedj w uuij ii me city nan ana in aisune tlon of th honor conferred upon him Is allowed to wear a cap instead of a hel met. Th captain informed him that he would be permitted to attend th wed ding, but that some other patrolman would have to be stationed at th city hall during his absence; ... "What!" exclaimed th veteran police man In surprise. "Somebody have to be placed at the city hall durlnc mv absence Well, then, I guess I'll let the weaning go. Patrolman John Qulnton waa not ab sent from his post of -duty at th city hall yesterday. ' ' ' Bonaparte Confirmed. " (Journal Special ervtce.t Washington. D. C, Dec, 7. The senate confirmed the appointments of Secre tary of th Navy Bonaparte ; and As sistant Secretary Newberry. " CZAR TO EJECT STRIKERS FROM THEIR RESIDENCES Jooraal Special Service. .St. Petersburg, Deo. 7. Th minister - of the Interior- has warned striking employes that they will be 'compelled to vacate their residences December II un less they return to work. ! wanter buy er savings bank." -: Yes, what kindf" "De kind wot er kld'a parent can't break operr.' .jr com loiowbroUier. hr tocklnaV" - . - 4-- CITY'S LADOHERS ASK RAISE Those' in Street-Cleaning; be partment Unite in: Demand for Fifty Cents a Day More. INCREASE WILL BE . V . - GRANTED PROBABLY Several Councilmen Favor the Idea and If Tbia Petition la Heard All Other Municipal Workingmen Will Be Benefited. 1 . ' laborers In ; th street cleaning de partment are preparing a petition to be presented to th olty council asking for a salary of $1.60 a day, an Increase of 60 cents a day over th wage they now receive. . There are .61 laborer In 4hl department and all of them are said to be neartlly in favor of the Increase. They declare that living -expenses are so high In Portland that It Is Impossible for them to support their, families' on $$ a' day. and It la necessary for -them to recelv mora, pay. ' - 1 Several. month ago Councilman Bald ing introduced a resolution in th city council providing for an Increase In- the salaries of laborer employed by the city, but It was decided that there were Insufficient funds in th city treasury to meet the proposed expense. -It I said that th laborer will make their plea to the ways and mean com mittee of . the couneil who will scruti nise the estimates of expense for next year and fix ' the: tax levy. Several members of the council have already expressed themselves as favorable to the plea of th laborers v - , ,r , . If the salaries of the laborers In the street cleaning department are tnoreaaed the same wages will be paid laborers In other departments of tha city.." There are 66 laborers employed In th 'water department, 20 in the engineering de partment, 14 in the City park and two In the pound department, which to gether with, those of th street cleaning department makes a total of 16 men affected by this raise. Thl would en tail an additional expense to the city of $1,7 a month. DESERVED PROMOTION FOR T.D. Heney's Right-Hand-Man Made Special Agent of Interior I Department. . - . Thomas B. Neuhausen, who haa ren dered valuable services Ho the govern ment In the land fraud prosecutions. received a telegram yeaterday from Washington advising shim that he had been promoted to b special agent of th interior department, the promotion tak ing effect from December 1.- Thl Is the third time within It months that Mr. neunausen naa neen promoted, rinl I the seal and ability he haa shown In un earthing the land frauds and In gather ing; evidence for use In the trials. ... F. J. Heney has been highly appreciative of the valuable assistance rendered by Neuhausen and the recognition accorded to the latter doubtless has been due In part to Heney's Influence with Secre tary Hitchcock. Neuhausen haa been In the Interior department sine March 1. 1000. when he was appointed special agent at Ash land, Wisconsin. In October, 1003, he was made special agent. at Th Dalles, Oregon, and In. September, 1004, he was placed In charge of all th special agents In this state. Another promotion cam In April, 1006, when he wa made In spector of United States land offices and surveyors-genersL The latest pro motion, of which he was sd vised yester day, carries with It an Increase of $600 In salary. Practically all of th evidence In the prosecution of Congressman Williamson was. secured by Neuhausen. For several months after he had- worked up that case he was occupied in Investigating the Boaeburg land office, and It wss the result of his work there that J. H. Booth and J. T. Bridges, the former register and receiver of the Office?, were sus pended and finally discharged.- When ever F. J." Heney and W. J. Burns have been absent from the state Neuhausen 'has been In charge of th land-fraud investigations; RYAN SUMMONED BY . INSURANCE COMMITTEE (Jmrnal Speeial RerTtr.l ' New Tork, Dec 7. Paul D. Cravath attorney for Thomaa. F. Byan, waa la consultation with Attorney Hughe be fore th Insurance session which- opened this morning It is reported that Byan will be a witness. John A. Hvland. bookkeeper of the-Mutual Reserve, was questioned In regard to the entries charged to the estate of Edward B. Har per, tonnfr preaiaent. lt - Jerome visited the Insurance Invest! gating committee today and asked Chair man Armstrong where -he could obtain the ' minutes of the proceedings up. to date. He refuted to, discuss his prob- BDie action. To Prevent Crnelty. ' In a letter addressed ' to Chief of Police Orltxmacher, th directors of the Oregon Humane society incloa a reso lution asking him- to see that all mem. hers of the force are Instructed in their duties as regards preventing cruel treat ment of animals and cruelty In arrest- Ing men.. Th communication Is signed by w. T. Hhannanan, Emma J. Weslty, A Berg, Otto J. Kraemer and O. Lomhurd. Chief Orltsmacher had- the resolution placed on the board and read to th three relief py their respective captain. SMELT A. DOLLAR AND t: 'r A HALF A POUND ' Columbia river smelt $1.60 a pound. This is the prlc that rilled today In the retail mar- '. ket for the. first- fw pounds of Athls famous flh to arrive In Portland from the Cowlits this Sffflsnn. In time of plenty th price to?- low as 1 cent pound. .There are about seven Ash to th pound, weight, mak-... 4 ing the present cost of each fish . over $0 cent a e PEASf AKD G.GE FILE -THEIR ANSWERS Reply to Suit of Insurance Qom pany That Seeks to Recover ' From Former Agent. ; . Attorneys F. T. 'Yveemen and J. C. Veasl thla mornings filed answers on behalf of Lauren Peas and B. W. Uage, who are betnc sued by th St. Paul Fir aV Marin Inaurance .company lor 11,044, Peas wa formerly local agent ror the insurance company, and Gag was his surety. It Is alleged by th company, in a civil suit brought against Paase, that he used th company.' fund to tha- extent of the above tamej sum Th surety bond Tor Peas waa signed hv Oaae on June Z4 last, r It Is stated, in v Peasea answer mat the bond In queation waa signed on the date named - between Cbrlatenson, Ed' wards aV Qoodwln. managers of th m surancs company, and B. W. Gage; that Lauren Pease waa the- sol , member of th firm conducted aa Lauren Pease A Co.: that --he was- entitled, under the terms of his contract with tha company. "to deduct a commission of 10 per cent of the gross premiums for policies is. sued, to deduct nis ' postage ana to re turn premiums-paid by him on canceled policies; tbst he became indebted to th managers, after th reductions had been mad, of about $800 sine th signing of th bond by Osga.", Ths signing states that Pease does not know - ta amount of business carried on by him prior to June 24. . " In the anawer of B. W. .Oaae. he states that one of the term of th company waa that the surety should, be given a regular monthly statement of the business dealings of th firm, .but that the insurance company-never gave htm such monthly reports. - He also say a that Tease s being sued for alleged hortagea that are said to have occurred prior to his (Oage's) . signing of the surety onds. . . ' t.. ' ,.- . ( CRUELTY CHARGES TO BE. CLOSELY PROBED Officers of th Juvenile court sre In vestigating the charges of cruel treat ment of ' Amos . Frank by hla father, William O. Frank, who resides at 620 Starr street. Th complaint wa signed bjj Mrst Frank yesterday and during th nal yesterday afternoon abatements were mad which cause tha officers -to think that perhaps an effort waa being made, by. Mrs. Frank to secure th care of th boy. i Th Franks were divorced three years ago. The father , was awarded th car f th children. Amos, aged IS. and Frank, now 11, and Wilbur, years old. During thet trial yesterday afternoon Frank said 'that his brdther nad fallen down the step of their home several day ago "and Injured himself. Mrs. Frank accused her husband of having truck th boy, but thl 1 denied by htm. Th statement of th younger brother yesterday caused th officers of th court to wonder if Mrs. Frank was not trying to hatch a achem to obtain the care of the eldest boy. Detention Officers Mrs. Trumbull and H. H. Haw ley were ordered, by Judge Fraser to make a thorough Investigation oi me CSS : - . ' . LISTS STILL OPEN FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO JEWS Contribution for th relief of perse cuted Jews tn Bussla aresuiipinjs. " V,r.lr..i,M,i..iiii nrrrr.TfTrr a. In of the continued outrages In Bussla the list will remains-open for subscriptions for an Indefinite period. -Treasurer Ben Selling report th following recent con tributions: - J. W. Loder, Oregon City, $1; cash, $1; Ann Kanlsher, raffle of dolly, $4.40; Junior-league, Lafayette. $1; .oung Women's Christian Association, $10; Mr. Eastes. Tualatin; $1. - ' The total amount subscribed through th local committee Is about $11,000, WALLA WALLA TO HAVE DRY SUNDAYS IN FUTURE (RDerlal Dlanatck t The Journal.) Walla Walla. Wash., Dec 7. Chief of Police Brown was Instructed by the po lice committee of thTouncil yesterday to enforce the Bunday closing law here after In Walla Walla. The action of th council in making Walla Walla a dry town wa followed by a big protest from $00 cltlsens, filed Tuesday night. asking that the law be .observed aa fat as saloon are cencemed. Saloon men are' taking th matter ' philosophically, but declare the action of the council will make a dead town out of Walla Walla, GOVERNOR AGREES TO EXTRADITE J. L HILL Rneclal Diana teh to The Journal. 1 Salem, Or., Dec. 7i--Oovernor Cham berlain has reconsidered his action on the requisition for J. L. Hill, wanted in Alabama on th charge of embesxllng partnership funds. He will honor the requisition and Issue th .warrant. Hill was arrested at La Grande. TOM LAWS0N CALLED , BEFORE GRAND JURY .- - . - (Joornal Special Karviee.) Boston, Deo. 7. Thomas W. Lawson was called beforth grand Jury this morning. He waa supposed to give evi dence tn behalf of . a counter suit 1 for criminal .libel against Clarence Barron, proprietor of 'th Barron Boston News Bureau.. i i : . '. - . ANOTHER FOOTBALL PLAYER IS KILLED loorsat giwelal arnica.) t Bridgeport, Conn., . Dec. 7. Leo - Mi Nally, aged 11, the football player whose back wss broken In a football game on Thanksgiving day, died this afternoon.- , , " i ' i i i I, K JTsw Basement for School. . The following- permit for., bulldlnn have been Issued: Iortland school dis trict, basement for High school, corner East Washington and East Thirteenth streets, cost 112,006; Mrs. A. Crnndall. cottage on Villard avenue, cost 11.400: C, C Newcastle, repair to - dwelllna. ZS Harrison street, coat 1400; Osmer Middleton, cottsge, Alblna near Killings worth avenues, cost IS00;- T. W. Lead- better, shop, Madison near Eront street, cost 1600. jtoibed Telephone Bos. "T ",' 4 In Judg FYaser's court this after noon Ernest Sldler plaad4- ability- to robbing a telephone box of several dol lars' worth" of nickel. It wns Bldler's second appearance before Judge Frsser n th charg of stealing, and h waa severely reprimanded' by th court-Hs w aentent-e to-an tndstennlnat term of Imprisonment COOfJCIL OPPOSES HOI. LEVY- Memters Do Not Support Mayor In His Plan to Restrict ' Fire Protection. ' FAVORS INCREASING - ' EAST SIDE STATIONS Plan o! Chief Executive to. Poatpon Eatablishing of EaJt Side 'Police Headquarters Alao Meet Oppo- aition. ' K v .' , . Mayor Lanaia recommendation to th city council. yesterday to reduce th est! mates of expenses of the fir department ror 1906 from $2tl.t to $$Sl.(t has not. been received with favor by the city council. Several of th members are of the opinion that ' tfie city needs more fir protection and promised their con stttuents that they will see that they get fire protection next year. With only $31,000 more than last year It whll be impossible to extend the. service In many directions. - On member of th' council haa said that h wa In favor of levying a tax a large a permitted under th charter in order to give th people fir and police protection and auch .other-public improvements aa they desire. There Is also a liberal spirit manlfeated among the entire membership of th council that th fir department should receive considerable Improvement, and yester day a 'councilman said that he believed nothing short of a f-mlll tax levy would satisfy the members of the council. Thl is considerably larger than th eatimafe of the mayor, who figured on a 4 SJ-mlll levy for all city purpose. Including the! The mayor recommendations for combining the offices of th plumbing Inspector, building Inspector end health officer are not looked upon with much favor and may not be followed. His plans for extending the police service on the" east side hy putting In service patrol wagon Instead of. a sub-station In that district Is also frowned, upon- by several of th anst side councilmen. The waya and meana committee will wrestle with the estimates at the next meeting.- as th rat -of th: tax levy must be ftxed thla month. . . JUDGE . EMM. CANDIDATE FOR SUPREME COURT - ' , 1 " i Popular Eastern Oregon Jurist Seeks Republican Nomina--tion for H alley's Place. : Judge .Bobert Kakln, circuit Judge of the tenth district, embracing Union and Wallowa counties, will be a candidate for tha Republican i nomination for Jus tice of the supreme court In the state primaries next anrlnji " viewTEuklns friends hav been urging him for some time past to become a candi date, but It was only within a few day that he decided to do so. His candidacy undoubtedlywtll be received with strong favor tn eastern Oregon, where he I regarded as th logical man ..for . the place. There I a strong feeling. that eastern Oregon should have on, of tho three justice of th supreme court, and Republicans contend that a Republican successor to Justice T. U. Hallejr should De elected. Judge Eakln came to Oregon "With his parents In 1802. His heme aa a boy waa at Eugene and he received hi education at Willamette university. In 187$ he wss admitted to the bar, and he went at once to Eastern Oregon, making his home at Union. Governor Lord ap pointed him ludg of th circuit court for the old eighth (now the tenth) dis trict In "189$. and he waa twice elected afterwards to th same office. TANBARK OAK IN DANGER OF EARLY EXHAUSTION .:. " . ' V- Scientist . Sent to Europe by Government to Study In dustry Abroad. ''("-:, , ; ." : - . . , ; - . . ..... ... ... .(Journal Special Ratvtee.) ' ' Waahlngton, Dec. 7. Professor Willis L. Jepson, of th University of Cali fornia, a collaborator with tha forest service, 1 now In Europe; where. In connection with university work, he Is devoting special attention to a study of the tanbark Industry in European coun tries for th purpose of Obtaining a broader view of the tanning Industry of the ' Pacific coast, which . th forest service Is Investigating. . . ' . A chief point In his study abroad will be th. effort to .determine th value and sources of the tanning . materials which Pacific coast tanners derive by importation from European sources. . Not only will statistics be gathered, but comparison-will be made of th qualities of leather obtained from domestic and Imported .tanning extract with a view of .finding and recommending for use on the Pacific coast the best methods of tanbark production and especially of ex tension and maintenance of preseht re sources In order that th home supply of bark may be so conservatively used aa to make Importation unnecessary. . ' Th tanbark oak of th Pacific coast, which Is preeminently the. west Ameri can source of tanning material, has been so severely cut that . despite Its wlda distribution and tta once plentiful supply there Is Increasing danger of It early exhaustion. , .-,. , . :...rv,.-.. , , Information rilV Deputy .Xlatrict Attorney dnms this afternoon filed Information against the following; J. 8. Hlmes. obtaining money by false.. .'pretenses; James Johnson, larcenv from th person: Dave Rosen berg, larceny In dwelling; J. Tantle- hlll, larceny In a store. . - . Saga; ad IVaav to Differ. . Instructor (at night school) It may be set down as an axiom that nobody can succeed in any. Un of business uu- less he has either a natural aptitude In that direction or has had a course of training for It. . Shaggy-haired - Youth Maybe It used to be that.way. but It ain't so now. I know three or four blamed fools that's f nt rich by being dummy directors In a big brewery. . i j. j SCARE THE GOOD, DAD ESCAPE Three Pairs of Detectives Look for Robbers, Three Meek , Citizens Flee. ONE MAN JUMPS INTO THE CHILLY WILLAMETTE Another Rung Like a Deer and Third' Fainta Highwaymen Fail to Ap pear to Otficera' Keen Piaappoint ment. : ' - '-, , ' ' ; f Bv order of TnnnantAr - - j , ..in, puiina Under. Instruction, tmm rkif macher, the whole detective staff and' uumoer oi station officers were -ss- - , w4 win 1 1 1 j i a cover Tuesday nlarht iml liii order either to prevent hold-ups or cap ture, me two men wno hav been en gaged In that kind of work recently. Meara a nri Mitmhv long Grand avenue, "near Market street. """ cuisen rounaea tne corner., Th hbur. was ahotit 11 n'iu.u- i-u- - . -w, a n niaq saar them an rnu.i ..w , . . v - .un-vu w . 1 1 uincr eia of th street Thinking h might be' a manwayman, in aetectlves also crossed the street nd stood In th shadow of a laundry. - , Seeing this, th cltlsen erossed back, and suddenly took to hla heels. Then the detectives realised that he took" them to be hlshwavmen anrf nail.. hlm. but he only ran th faster. They followed him and saw him run at a Major Delmar-ellp along Morrison street and at some noliYt near tha ... minus Jump from th bridge. They searcnea ror him. thinking he either had Jumped Into th water or might hav been hurt, but could see or hear : nothing further of him. ' Detectives Snow and Kerrigan were walklna alona: Brnnilwar when n came out of a saloon. He perceived them behind them as he turned up Sixth street. Kerrigan called to Mm, where- unon ha animMl hitm 1l mhratl - h. V. mlddl and broke Into a run. ' At a dis tance of three blocks, when he turned a corner, he waa still running tike a deer. Dav and Vauerhn aurnrlaed 'Irvlvfn. house man by their sudden appearance. ne woum nave run, aouotiess, nad his legs not given way under, him. He was ralUHttfrnm thai Mnaralk' mbhiim.1 am ' to hi safety and sent on hi way a - soon aa nia tegs gatnerea enougn strength to support him. INGRATITUDE'S STING MAKES FERRERA MAD 'John Pemarco, accused' of fighting,. wa tried this morning before Acting Pollcfj Judg Young. . The decision of th court was that the contest had been forced on hlmand he was discharged. He wa represented by Attorney Albert B. Ferrera. ' "Tour honor, aald Attorney Ferrera, . 'I wiah to say on thing in connection with thl esse. A .story was published yesterday that Attorney Charles Petra In had been engaged to' defend my client and had failed to repreaent him,, though ' It waa claimed he had been paid for his services .1 merely rnlah tn aa.. In l,a half of Mr. Petraln that I understand he . was not paid." . . . .Judg Young stated that th court had nothing to do with newspaper pub lications. "I don't need anybody to defend me In thl matter," said Petraln. Attorney Ferrera when he left the eourtroom said: . v "Petraln himself asked me to rise In court and make ' that statement. I obliged him by doing so. Then he told th court that he needed nobody to apeak In his .defense, without even thanking ma I had no right to expect anything else from him." ' JURYWILL DECIDE AS TO GIBLIN'S' GUILT v. - .- 1 E. F.v Olblln, a grocer and tobacco dealer at S80 Union avenue. Is on trial before a Jury, tn Judge George court on the charge of having sold tobacco to minora Chargea hav been filed against Olblln by Deputy Dlatrlct At torney Robert Galloway of having sold' tobacco to Arthur TUlson, aged 14 year, and Joseph flchnell, aged 16 years. - 1 . Olblln waa brought to trial several weeks ago on the aam charge, but he demanded: a trial by Jury. Th cases ' were tried without a Jury, pending th court' ruling on the defendant' de mand. Judge George held that th Jury -asked for should hav been allowed. ' During th first trials Olblln was a firm believer tn the theory that every man should be his own Blackstone. but today he I defended by Attorney John ' Van Zant. .... . ......... SOUTHERN OREGON MAN INJURED IN RUNAWAY (Special Dispatch to Th Journal.) -" -Medford, Or., Dec I. Yesterday aft ernoon as A. W. Sturges, a retired miner, was driving a colt In th neigh borhood of Ruch, In th AppUgat sec- -tlon, th animal ran away with him, throwing him from th buggy and breaking several ribs and' spraining hi ankla and wrist. Dr: Picket of Med-,' ford Is In- attendance and -thinks - fTis patient will recover, but I apprehensive about th shock to his system, as Stur ges waa a large and heavy man. It will not be possible to remove htm to hi Medford homefrora his present quar ter at Ruch for om day to com. , , Timber Cruisers Bad Work. . ' (Hpacial Dlapateb- to Tha Journal.) Eugene, Or., Dec, 7, The two timber cruisers, Edwards . and . Roberta, wno were engaged by the county-court to orulse and place an estimate upon the value of Lane county timber lands, hav Juat completed their task, after several months' work. .They found 1,140 ec- lions' of timber land of sufficient value to cruise and recelyed $3 a section for thalr work. ' -. ' -.. ' orpiM umov rim Kicur . ' SALEM-P.ORTLANQ ROAD , . ', (Bpeelal Ptupato ta The Jonmal.V; - ' Salem, Dec 7. A. Welch nn- ) "nmmced today that the Wlllnm- te Valley Traction eom pany - will, begin work on th Salem- . . Portland road Monday.. . ' . Work will begin from thla end 41 f 1 or wi roan, .tn company I 4. advertising tn local' paper for - ' men, .. '., , ....