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I ' " '" s )Jr 7ra.; K" -HV A " , lj' v i- T3 .AT.,. . Cain tonlcit and Zna&tr; frtih ft terly breesev . ; - , voi iv. no. ;i - ; v v ;i ' v ' PRICE TWO CSNT3. ?!JZFnrii2 ll - 7 . r j r t ' I Mrs . V II.-' ... s SLOGAL' OF PROGRESS . -y.-'--j-.--;--.-,"a'"'- ''"'-'---"- --,- -n-, - - .. . ' , f V ' - s Development League nooa mver-rresiaent ior -AnotneMrear " ' . Tom Richardson' Secretary- ' EVERY SPEAKER WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT frorirAII Jarts j)fJ5tateiCorne .Reports of the . Things, Pone or PJanned to Make State r: Better Place for Good Americans. , - ' i i . . A !, Smith of Hood - River, -whose name has been mentioned lh connection If thSsoongreasional nomination ' from - a second district to succeed Congress- V th 1 man Williamson, was rMlaetad preaidant . . of tb UxcoM DTslopmnt Imcu thl ". aoornlnr. lh vice-president - elected axe A. Bennett, editor of the Irrigator, . " trrlcoa; tr. J. T. MoCormao, Marshfleldi Oeorje T. j Baldwin.' Klamath FaUaj B, ' V. MulkeyJ, Aahland; a H. FHendlr, Eu- - Cne Tom Klehardeon -ef the Pertiftn44 : Commercial olub, thla cltr. wme reelected : - eeorelery. . - : It we r- tj ln ate 'Web-uf-.t," - ' . -r-r .ty f o- I " s VO"- ' 2 t e riaent of t-s s ne c -re I of rr yowr e t k toe aenttment. The loains hoar of the lee rue -meet . In wee replete -with ehort epeeohea br editor ' and prominent clUaena from , inrouinuut ine vjney aiiaieo he twu - day convention, the food that haa been adduced from the interchance of ideas. nd the unenimltr of -eplrlt ahowo by . all to oontlnue their efforts toward the : further upbuilding and estenalva ader ; t tiling of the state. ' Several papers were read. Resolutions were paased thanking all ooeoemed for the hospitality. shown. The good roads and dairy sections of - the league held impromptu sessions la the rooms or the club, this afternoon. while the editor held forth la the tower ; room, where officers, were elected and . matters of intereat to the newspaper ""men discussed, and papers by prominent . editors npoa timely topics were read. , Thenaaada ef vaaaBhleW' 'I '' Whea the morning session -was called to order y President E. L. arolth, Bec ' retary Torn Richardson of the Com me r '( club read a letter from Fred J. Blakeley .of , Roeeburg, a league vice-president , ; who stated that-he was unable to attend ; because ha had to entertain at his home ,.' number of Englishmen, who were to ; be his guests. - . : .. ; . - ' .v: Through the secretary, who' read a " letter from him, Orrllle Johnson of Ba , ker City told of the tone of thousand f pamphlets-the league there haa aad la distributing, adding that S.ooe acres of additional land In that vicinity will be . irrigated this year. After several minor locality reports had been read. President - Smith, Upon rndllon of J. Soott Taylor of Klamath Falls, appointed ths fol lowing committee on permanent organi sation : ?., s,.r( '.v ; 3. Beott Taylor, Klamath Palls, chair , 'mans C D.. Hoffman, La Orande; Tom ' Rlchardaon. Portland; . H. ' Blake, Marshflsld; -Arthur Conkltn, Grants FiIiei---:''.v--i. ,f;.fc.v!.:''i1 .h '"J 'v Vatareg Womdertosds. ' ;; "Nstupi's Wonderlands in ' Oregon" - was the title of a paper whloh was to I have been read br Will O. Steal of Ore -r THE JOURNAL X r r Leads ; the newspsper procession In ' th Oregon country--.'; X .: vZ , other papers foUow.Tht JourrUl, imiutlng it in method and Z character-vrhich is the sincerest form of flattery and in- .1 . -'t: dorsemeht.T-', '' Vj;M-;U;j;-V ':;V;l :rT tXTh :iToiirlaaineaida tocireiiJAtionvef-any paper- In Ithe T , field, by several thousand copies in Portland and in Oregon, XTTind a wimhg to deposit a forfeit of t0 or $1,000, to charity, other papers to pay a like sum, . .a - ' u interested aavefusers wiu unaertaKo a taoroKjn lnvetu- -1 gation of newspaper circulation hereabouta and The Jour- nal's claim of supremacy in'circulation Is hot found correct. Younial simply leadslh ffenerous support of the justice lovina: and liberal hearted -T f people "of the Oregon country, and' this' Theournal'deeply '7 B " fB,MSws&eshemeS ' sOejnteM itiS m -V . at el ! st liSfVAf ftl tls - X could crrry the circulation of beyond that cf its evening competitor, aged 3 years, and ; that of Its corninz competitor, aed tS yearf.; ' . : '$C:''':ilM:tyRz1hcrThanJh2n Elects E. L. Smith of i TELLS OF ,: gon.- In bis absence It was read by delegate. After graphically-describing f scenio points in uregon, mtj 8t' U.:.K,L land than, all other sources of revenue. With only S.OtO.OM people and an area one alxth the alio of Oregon it receives from, tourists o,OOO.OOe per annum. i"A careful In vestlgattoa . among the various hotels of this cKy reveals the fact.-1 hat . wltlx pracUceOly- o- InteUI- gent effort -being pt forth to capture tourist trade, Soo.OOS tourists visit Port land annually,. It la reaeonabla to. aue- poe rT"rf-n. , f per day, lo whiun r.e trie t -..i to lort land, alone Is $1,500,000. This should be increased tenfold and can bo within Ave years by. Intelligent work, supple mented by ample means.". m r sThm iMniircs of ' snemeth Miintv were Otlated upon InX psper byTf. Soott Taytor, oaitor ort too - auamata . Jraiis Express... He said, to-pert:- 4 ; Vlamath county la attracting more attention than any other section of the country under procees of development In the Facino northwest ' Situated In southern Oregon, east - of the -Cascade mountains, it haa aa ares, of (.000 square miles and a mean altitude of 4,100 feet Within the -county -are 1,600,000 acres of fraalng lands.. 1.100.000 acres of ag ricultural lands, 1.360,000 sores of Um ber- lands and 275,000 acres covered by lakes and marshes. There '. are . . now about t.000 acres of land in the coun ty in alfalfa, but with coming govern ment Irrigation, this. acreage will be In creased to 100,000.. ii-x-.j ;r.i?.i.: it-. The ten billion feet of soft pins' tlnv ber . of Klamath, county Is greater- In extent of finer quality sad more feast bis to log than any other In America.' v 'Sobm Iteo-KiBnto Spssohss. ; ,. j. ,'At this Juncture the permanent or ganisation oommlttee adjourned to-the lower ' room to draft resolutions and Prealdent Smith announced that five- minute speeches were next . In order. Bdltor-ITUgg-ef the St Helens Mist-told of the duties of a country editor.- . D. O.- M. Oeslt-of Cottage Drove talked of great alfalfa yields In his county. Wal lowa county Interests were dlecusaed by ; Bdltor Conley, and Mr. Soott . of the Outing Magaslne said ' the - state should look to its Iron Industries; add ing: '. ': V - k - "I can personally promise to Interest $(,000,000 ,ln - the Iron industry If the people of. the. state will take the mat ter un.". e "Rabbit villa" Bennett of the Irrigator at Irrlgerr, said bo was an optimist, not a pessimist ' "The opUmlat"- -he aaldV "ees ; the (Continued on .Page Two.1 LEADS under ths same conditions, - el a " J. 'is a e . : ' circulation and it is due to the Ths Journal, ajed only 4 years, ' ' - - A 4 I WIT AT raDKlHE AWEKTVIfro., TOM KJ C HARMON TOLDKM" BWY ITWWTORMfETS3rlBT vADVtRTUB'OSEGOii; ,Jw y : 0 hm, W CHOIR SINGER TISuSEIZED BYJnAH AND STRANGLED BY WIRE ;5v V.,;.' Body of Society Woman Who Myaterlously ; Disappeared Found In Vacant Lot With Copper Strand About ThroatMystery ' s Solved by Confession t':. of l eV" V ' . (Jesraal seeisl Berriee.) ' Chicago, Jan. 11 With the finding tbta morning of the body of Mrs, Bessie HolUster, choir singer, prominent la so ciety, ths wlfs of Franklin HoUlster of the printing house ef HolUster Bros in a. vacant lot In 'the rear of a car penter shop on Belden avenue, the police are confronted .with . another murder mystery- ' ''! Copper wire or the else used for tele phones encircled Mrs. Holllster's neck. She bad . been atrangled ' to death ap parently,- or else, the strand had been nsed In dragging the body,;.- Mrs. HolUster left . homo " at :$9 o'clock yesterday morning to sing at ths funeral, of a friend.: She signified ber Intention of .doing some shopping first and took plenty, of money. , .. , Ths last trace of ber waa at ths 0 ov ist's where she bought flowers for her friend's casket. , The police advance the theory that the murder was soaualttsd for robbery.- -v.r" , - e- . i Mrs. .HolUster, entered, the. florist's QfllUNDREinNDTdRfY : DIRECT DESCENDANTS 'r-'." - ' -" 4 ,4... -' .' Vi- (Special Bwpatefc te The Jeans.) -Tillamook,' . Or., - Jan. " II. Emanuel Inkles Jenkins died here today aged. 14 years.- Mr. Jenkins was of revolutionary jtoekandLwe bora near Lincoln's birth. place In North Carolina. . He was a stanch Democrat and had lived In Til lamook since. 1 tSK , Onu hundred . and. forty . direct .descendants- survive' him. Death waa due to old age. " . 1 '. KILLS HIMSELF AT BED ' 'M': . OF. HIS DYING DAUGHTER .,' -. ' 1 - -'' ' Joernel Rperlal Rsrvtoe.) y Denver, Col., Jan.- II. Because " his wlfs objected 'to Ms bringing more whiskey Into the house, James B. Allen, mining: engineer, - last night at the 6EO. C.BROWNtlXTte WAJ IN A HAPPY fOOD. Assailant. .5 .U.' yesterday about H o'clock and left after ordering a wreath aent to the house of her dead friend. . She was duo to slug at the funeral at noon and was to spend the Interval shopping. .This - was - the last seen of. her. Her-: actions and whereabouts after this are a mystery. Whoa she did not return borne for the night her husband became alarmed and finding that abe had not sung at ' the funeral as - aho bad promised, notified the polioe and a search enaued through out the night' without result. v '. ' This morning Richard Jones reported to the police that he had found her body In the vacant lot back of his father's carpenter shop. The polioe were enabled to Identify her from the description left by Mr. HolUster. Investigation ss to the cense of the crime Is proceeding. This afternoon the police state that Toung Jones haa confessed - that ' he Seised the woman as she passed the shop at : o'clock last night and dragged her In and assaulted her. Her - out cries' became so loud that ko strangled eer. bedside of his (-year-old daughter, who was. dying Of scarlet fever, and tn the presence of his wire, committed suicide by shooting himself.- - ' -ri- . Allen had Just t completed arrange ments to go to Death valley, Nevada, to examine mines for a local syndicate. Tbs parents of the dead man, Mr. and Mrs. - A. H. Allen, live at ell West Tenth street; Lof Ahgolei. , .."7771 v CHOP. SUET TRUST IS :Jl - ORGANIZED BY CHINESE ' ;-. (Jnensl Snedsl Si Ice.) Chicago, Janv II. A ichop suey trust has been formed with a capital of $109,000 by rich Mongolians It Is planned to control the Chinese v res taurant business tn this city, Los An geles, Detroit and New Tort . The com pany Is composed of owners of restau rants In these cities. A number of Chi namen are already preparing to fight the trust. - .i-v. ,. j.v .--'-- - -f - -,wr 1 y-v'. "I." Toorrrx.. . -,..r. SAYS LORD TOLD HIM TO FAST - Cfaudw B arker of Salem.': Has 4 Eaten Nothing for Thirty Foar Days; deAP-to EfjTcrrizs oi-i - : FATHER AND rtASTOR Member of ' Friends Church Drinks V Only Hot Water and From Ragged " Man la Reduced to Mere Shadow '. Is Rational on Other Subjects. Sssiial Msset) s The Jesreall - Salem, Or4 Jan. II. Believing that the Lord has commanded him to fast la- definitely, Claude Barker of this elty, It years of age and. a' member: of the Friends' church, haa taken. n6 food for 14 daya and drinks only hot water. To the entreaties of his father, pastor and friends he replies he cannot take food him. He la not doing penance for his alne, but thinks that the Lord Is lead ing him and , that a wonderful power wiu be given him If he faithfully ab stains from, nourishment His father was here a few days ago from Sheri dan. Indiana, and pleaded In vain with his . boy to oat. The . only . reply .. his father received was: ' , ri will break the fast whan the Lord gets ready."1 - - , - ' To his pastor. Rev. J. B. Price, he speaks more freely and says every few days that the time has - nearly eome when the Lord will tell him to take food. It was several days ago when ho first made this statement,- and yet ho keeps putting It off. - - . v . Prom a hard-working young man of lie pounds' weight he has dwindled to a mere shadow, now weighing lees than 110 pounds. - He appears aane on every other subject and In giving his testi monials In churoh and making com ments on' scripture he talks , as ration ally as any-member of his faith. - He haa alwaya been model young. man. Hi a friends are at a loss to account for his actions and know not what to do. FEEBLE CENTENARIAN STARTS ON TRAVELS 1 : f Journal Special Servtee.) --:-,' Alton, . I1L, , Jan. 11 Andrew Flynn, who claims to bo 104 years old. has left St. Joeeph's hospital to take np a life of tramping. . Flynn la feeble and hard ly able to walk, yet he says he prefers to go about the country. He started this morning for St. Louis. Over els months ago he waa sent to the hospital suffering from burns sustained It years ago -tn- an: oil -explosion. x:- : He seyjrrthaT Be wag ce" proprietor of the Denlaon house,- Cincinnati, x and owned .f our saloons , there ,. whan the civil war broke, out, ? He; says that his mother died at the ago of lot, his sis ter at 11 and uls grandfather at 111 yeara,- .- .j-t-.' j v.. -?.,...,, ;-';, ARRESTED FOR HAVING St BIRD PLUMAGE ON HAT4 t.'i '" ' ; .'V.j' :, ' i : (Joersal Speelal Servles.1 - ' -8prtngftld, Mo.. Jan, II. Miss Josw phlne Molntlre, who represents the character of the Indian princess In. a traveling theatrical company, was ar raigned m police court today on the eharge of violating a section of the game lawa of Missouri, pasaed during the last legislature, .. having been ' rested,; by Deputy Game ' Warden Fell) a who saw her wearing a hat elaborately trimmed with feathers and gorgeoue plume. He decided to make a test cane. After con sultation, the City attorney derided not to prosecute and the Judge dismiss? 1 the tfii STnRvnF mmm niinncD ' Hid cnFtn Brother and JBitter.of Jasper Jen . nlngs Tell of Merriment on ";Night -of Crime-id""1 Not HewShct. ;: '- ' n-?, '.ir.-.-' - 'j,ny.vr,-'-i . "-rf. ra v w CORONER SAYS BULLET . CAME FROM OVERHEAD -ry;2'::-. i 'v ':.' ' ";?. .7y;'': f7".': ''n'r'" ' KUaOs Found ta ' Bedv Indicating ' That Whoever Fired Rifle jStood Over ' His VictimMiners ' 8w '-: Lights In House and Heard Shots : Accused Youth Last Witness, . . v ' j.i ' ' . ,l 4,. .: . .- ' (BpseUI DispaM Tee jBvrestT ; Grants Paaa, Or Jan. 1$. The circuit court today resumed Its hearing of Jas per Jennings, who Is accused of the murder of his -father N. M. Jennings, last September, chief among the wit nesses being Julia and James Jennings, the two younger children of the mur dered man. Julia la II and James 14 yeara old. Both told a straightforward story and could not be eonfueed by 'the eroee-examinauon of . -. ine attorneys. The testimony of -both was practically Identical. Ther said on the evening of Septem ber 7. whloh was the night their father was killed, two men.' Chapen and Toole, same to the house by Invitation to spend the evening: " Toole played a violin and brought his Instrument. Ths party danced during the evening; Dora, the eld eat daughter, and the old man Joining In the merriment. - Jasper was not pres ent though he had called at the house earlier tovthe avenlng to get. his over- coat. ; Both Olrls Asleep. The cartv broke up at 10 o'clock and the two men left. - James and a younger brother - went upstairs to bed In the attio room. Dora and Julia went to the downstairs . bedroom, where' their father had already retired Immediately after the dance. , -v James awoke at t o'clock the next morning, built a fire in the kitchen and went Into the bedroom and found his father In bed. He thought his father's head was out open with an ax. - uoin sisters were still asleep. He awoke them and hurried over to the mine and told Lee 81 U. the cookhouse manager, that hie father was dead. 8111 conveyed the information to Superintendent wlok-" ersbam and the two went at once to Jennings' cabin.. ': ..,.- -:.'.- Belle rresa Abev. Wlckeraham was called to the stand and testified that on being Informed of the tragedy by Bill, the two went down and entered the cabin. Dora' had the room partly cleaned up. The old man' lay on the right aide of his body and face, covered with a sheet. His head lav ooen and not until the coroner made an Investigation did the two men know positively how Jennings met his death. When" Coroner Flanagan arrived -and made an examination, he found a bul let In the bed clothing below the head. aho wine that the abot waa fired by some one standing over ' the sleeping man and that the shot could not have been fired from the window. The bed occupied by Jennings and the other by the two daughters were but a few feet apart. -; ', - - ' . When questioned at ine time, nouner girl Aad heard the shot during the night and did not know their father -was dead till Jarne awoke them the next morn ing. - - ., ... '-; - - ... . A cousin of Jasper and Dora ' Jen nings, who occupied a cabin near Jen nings, was called and testified to hav ing heard music and dancing and also heard ths party break up and the men drive away.' Then he went to aleep and was awakened later by a rifle shot. He thought nothing of It and went to sleep again.-'.- . -. .- : Richard Graham and Albert Groves, hoi st men at the mine, were called, and told of .seeing a light . at ,. Jennlnfes (Continued on Page Two-v l Wound the Vjorid With tirvan me minaay journal ana it coots only letters Which William Jennings Bryan . account -of his visit to Honolulu. the great countries of the world. T. visits DUt ho examines also the great causes of things that are making T X a new world of the old orient. - No man is hotter nnallfted to -dleciiBs i e such subjects than he and his beat views are at the command of The . Sunday Journal readers.' !,' As-poor lUohard aays !rr his almanack He'that Uvea on bore cf ting the best aewspeper In Portland unless he buy. The HutK r . nal the first thing In the morning will have to (osvn to t i stand in the afterr--t to f -d out whafa rntng tm- ft. Sunday Journal 1 i t.e r-,!y e -erlel li i wire serv, i ' Portland and la 1 m 1 1if t t. i -- - t i paper publlnhed 1 t r 'ne, ! . t 1 i Poor T.,.' -r i ! r ' I It r next week. r 1 i . of Een.hmln Int art" , 1 Oi.. V r - r r - Potato Grower Gets Town Xt Prices for Waste of Cloujft - : 7"t, Bottoms Lying Close to 7"' New Railway. ' .f.it "i ' '1 A. M. ROBERTS HELD IT Took It Up as a Donation Claim snd " Worried "Along. Dodging Floods . and Tax Collectors, Until Old Age 1 and Wealth -; Camel Together Ua ' Doesn't Know the Purchaser. ' ' X year ago A. M. Roberts was a) farmer with 100 acres of , Columbia slough land; today he Is a capitalist, A year ago he found difficulty in rais ing money for his taxes; today he U not worrying about taxes, but is won dering what he can do witn nis weaiin. A year ago' he was planning how to "V, make his land pay with a potato orop: today he baa notions about automobiles. For Mr. Roberta and the railroad com pany met and Mr. Roberts was glad to be theirs. This week he sold t acres of his 100-acre farm for $6i.000. The week "before he had secured ti.000 fTom the O. R. N. Co. for a right of way aeroaa the hind. Ha does not know who the purchaser of the land la, but ho la satisfied to knew that -la the bank Is lti.000 to his socouat and that Of acrea of atosgh land- has departed from i domain. . - . -- '- '' -. -- Mr. Roberts received the- offer la the form of a note stating that there was $i,000 to his credit In the bank If he desired to sen t sores of his farm. ' -thought" It" ariotaTbttt-afur-a-'rta't to the bank discovered the money wes there and lost no time having the deeds ( made out. . The land has a 1.100-foot ' waterfront and adjoins the Weyerhauser trsot, but with all Its advantages the price Is a record one. being twice what the Weyerhauser people paid for their holdings and 10 times what the beat of the land waa worth a year ago. Roberta la one of the men who has hung on. Forty years ago he took up the slough farm -V a . donation land claim and for 40 years he has raised potatoes wben he could,' kept cows on the lowlands and managed to make a living. In many yeara the farm of 10 acres was a mere marsh and the flood . of three years age left but few places on It not flooded. , 1 - : No one In 8U Johns win admit ha -knows' who the purchaser or the plan la ' The place la one of the few Idle traeta that would make an Ideal alto for a factory, mill or warehouse, being on the new line of the O. R. N, near the Weyerhauser ..site. '. with a deep water frontage and located near lis proved county roads. - Those who are In close touch with the Weyerhauser in terests deny . that the ; land waa pur chased by them, asserting that had the compan-y-deslied the tract It would havw bought It at the same time the Qatton . land was aecured. when the price waa between 1300 and 1500' an acre. This argument proves nothing however, as; the Weyerhauser syndicate secured two ' more tracts, after the first Gatton pur chase, paying In each inatanoe a roundl sum ' for its delay. ' '. . , : PENROSE TO SELECT ' u , , KEYSTONE GOVERfsOri (Journal Special Sense.) -,.' Philadelphia, Pa.. Jan. 13. After the convention of ' the regular Republican held hero yesterday It IS Claimed that while. the party Is In the hands, of the "reorgantkers" Penrose haa a ma jority of ths Philadelphia delegates, and win dictate the next governor. While , it haa been thought that Weaver would . be urged aa a gubernatorial candidate- and that he would receive the support . of the Philadelphia delegation, the re sults of yesterday's convention Is be lleved to put Weaver out of the race. cents. First in the sorles er e will furnish The Journal la an ' Next he goes to Japan, and so. on to Mr. Bryan telle of the countries he T. .;:'.;. Kyi? ., ,'- .,