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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
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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, '
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WIT AT raDKlHE AWEKTVIfro.,
TOM KJ C HARMON TOLDKM"
BWY ITWWTORMfETS3rlBT
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CHOIR SINGER TISuSEIZED BYJnAH
AND STRANGLED BY WIRE
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Body of Society Woman Who Myaterlously ; Disappeared Found
In Vacant Lot With Copper Strand About ThroatMystery
' s Solved by Confession t':. of
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' . (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
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.' 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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-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. ;:
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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, .
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' (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
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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? ., ,'- .,