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THE OSECON DAILY JOURNAt, PORTLAND. FRIDAY EVCTCTrO. J'JLV 1. . J. CHECKED DAGCAGE ICE TRUST PLEADS ML'lilG- ISSUED. fifli'ii Um IS KILLED, DEFfljoyi, Conductdr of Whltcomb Excur- . slon Faithful to Duties ' ,;- to Last. " - v -- TAKES POISOn 2. E. Jones, Deserted by Wife . . Trlet Hard to End Hla 1 ; NOT GUILTY DyillMl , ;, ; ,; Author of Frenzied Finance Sends Circular Printed in Red 4 " to Portland Man. GROLVS FAST 81VS : lid I LI ' Officials of Combine, Liable, to Stevenson Quadruples Its Pop 8 an Francisco Man , Declares Mad With Rags at Anothsrfa Vic- J , tory, , Youth. Assaults ; -Coupls, ,-- 'J ; Heavy Fine and Imprlson--. , merit for Offense. ' ulation Within Space of f s " V ; ; Four ' Months. 1 '" r Oregon Crop Will Yield Only fifty Percent. ' r.ICOVERY DOUBTFUL SIMONDS KILLS HIMSELF TRIED TO MONOPOLIZE SAYS STANDARD OIL - ; - v IS LEAVING COUNTRY FAMOUS LAWSUIT v. JUST; ENDED THERE WEATHER CONDITIONS s uo, blame, he says SWEETHEART AND LOVER V J : j MAY DIE FROM INJURIES TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AS STEAMER IS LEAVING : BUSINESS OF CAPITAL tearea Farewell" Letter Addressed to Pleasure-Seekers Sail ? for Alaska Without learning That Leader J. Lying Dead on Seattle Wharf- Refused to Sell Products to Those Trust Turning Stock Into Money, He By Decision of Court Castle Rock Is Asserts Farmers in Northern Oregon i Are Beginnins; to Get Discouraged and Ars Talking of ' Moving to -Other' parts of the Country. V.1I After Crashing Her Skull With Pips Assailant Drags Object tf Hla Af ' lections to Bluff and Cuts Her to .. Railroad Tracks Far Below.-'. Wife, Who It Suing lor Divorce . Had Planned to KM Her and Him' - v self Tonlglxt."--- y-;- Who Would Not Boost Prices to Standard Maintained by Members ol the Trust. - ".- Declares, for . Purpose of. Letting the Public Hold the Bat Calls Upon Financiers to Stand Firm. T Saved as V Landmark ' and North Bank Railroad ' Secures - Riiht-of-Way at Lower Price, ' -' -. - Dead Man's Wife la With Party. I0 M I h the nmtn who had Sworn to love and honor him, C E. Jones, tt years of age. eougni eureesse irora ma sorrows shortly before noon today by quaffing a portion of a bottls of chloro form. Tba sttsmpt -at self-destruction occurred at Tanth and Couch etraata and caused . eonatdarabie- aseUemeat ia that neighborhood. City pbyalcian Spencer waa eallad to attend tha unfortunate man, who waa removed to the Good Samaritan hospital in tha patrol wagon. Hla. recovery is doubtful. ' ..... .;.-., From a farewell letter found in Jones' poaaaasion and tha Investigation by Ie tectivea Kay and Burke tt has been learned that tha young man ' has been separated from his wife. Ethel Jones, and that sha has instituted a suit for divorce, - Shortly before ..taking the poison. Jones visited tha "homo of tha woman at 414 Couch street snd importuned her to " dismiss the divorce proceedings and re turn to him, Thta aha refused to do and ha thereupon rushed from the room and swallowed the deadly draught - Writhing In -agony, tho man fell to ths sidewalk at Tenth and Couch atreeta and a call -was sent for a physician and tha ; police. Dr. i Spencer responded promptly- and administered the usual antidotes for chloroform poisoning. PTora a letter be left. It appears that Jones intended to Uks his Ufa tonight beneath the -window of his loved one. The police have also ascertained that he endeavored to secure possession of a revolver and kill both hla wife and htm self. The farewell missive Is written In sn unsteady- hand and Is to a certain - extent rambling and unintelligible. - Ths followlns Is a aopy f the letter: .i ! tetter to Kls Wife;'' . "Dear Wife This morning I learned my fata. Ton don't love, but I love yoo. snd tonight at It p. m. I will snd ray life on the porch at 414 Couch street at 10 or 10:80 tonight I wUl rot let my folks know anything about this, for It 4a net anything I want say folks to kanw about. . , This la aa awful thing for me to do, and my love for you Is more thsn I can . stand, for yon -won't gat this letter till after I have taken poison. With all the lore' la the world. I will remain up till my death your' loving husband.- . ' "This letter -will - be mailed to the public, and will be published to all whs vnw m hut HmMilwr. I -love ves more than my "life.-and would tovo-yoa-tlH aeata, vtn ye wut isu my own mi mnu let you be happy. 0 'goodbye. Ethel, jt . . crlti tfcla will hA m. leesan tn you. I am, your loving husband, who diss tonight,- uooojoye, wnn ov. . "This Is my last letter. NoW you hare took ths wrong thought, for you have no right to a divorce from ma, so I will sat goodbye for the last time. - "Kd. who lores yoa more than his - own life, and don't want te live without yoa. Remember all I hare dons for . you, ' Goodbye, dear. My few lines mean business and death, so this Is alL My clothes are at - the Gilmaa hotel. Oo and get them for my love. Goodbye, my oear. ' . ; ; ED." WATER BOARD BUYS ' . NUMBER OF METERS Vr S.V two hour this morning ths water board talked meters. Bids from a num ber of firms wars opened and there were long dlacu salons as to the relative merits sf Keys tones. Crowns, Trtdsnta and so forth. . - Between fg.000 and 11.000 la to be expanded by the board upon the purchase of new meters, which are Installed upon aerrlct-X)IbS . wnere waste is apparent end upon hotsla7laun3rtaraad timer heavy assrs of water. - Finally, upon motion of MrL Lam son, ths contrast was awarded to the Nep tune Meter company of New York for split gauge Trident meters. These will cost 17.00 each. Ir. Josephl moved that 10 Keystones, 10 Worthlngtons and five Standards be bought for experimental purposes. This wae'ordered. . ENGLAND IS Wary OF FALSE STEP IN ASIA - Oearaal pedal Berrla,. "London, July 10 Indian Secretary Morley today warned tha house of com mons of the necessity of excluding India from party politics. Hs said a false step In Asia just now would be far mors disastrous than a false step mads la South Afrloa. -Ma said, that ln asmuch as Japan, ' China and Russia are powers In Asia the moot engross ing of Britain's foreign relations ars now In Asia. . t :. t. BISHOP IS SECRETARY C ON CANAL COMMISSION ' Oearsal SoeeUI genlis.) Washington. July 0. J. B. Bishop la appointed secretary of ths Panama canal commission at a salary of f 10,000 a year. Juan Barrios, Arture v Usleo, - Jose Pinto and Manuel Caprat are appointed to represent Ouatemala In the peace conference. . " S pj L reaklet on Monday, . ."' - jr." - ' - ' (Special Dispaieft t The Joeraal.) ' Seattle, Wash., July SO. George .- T. Slmonda, personal conductor , of . the Raymond Whltcomb oscurslon ' party that, left Seattle for Alaska this morn ing, shot and killed himself on tha front of pier B of ths Paclno Coast Steamahlp company, at 0:10 . o'clock this morning, just a few minutes' before the steam ships Spokane and City of Seattle, hav ing the azourstonlsts on board, poked their noses by the front of ths wharf. The two eteamere were lying at the eide of ths wharf wbea Slmonda com mitted sulalde. No ona heard the -ahot or saw tha dead body until after the steamere had got out of tho harbor. Slmonda sad the excursion, party hs waa directing reached Seattle last night from Portland. -The party was at once transferred to ths steam era Blmonae had charge of the excuralonlete who left on ths City of Seattle. When he did not appear aa the boat waa about to depart search, was made for blm, but he could not be located. Before he committed suicide he at tended to . checking . tha excursionists' baggage. At 0:46 o'clock this morning he bought a revolver at a pawnshop. He then went te the wharf and checked the baggage. A woman, believed to be his widow. Is believed to be on the City of Seattle, -....- - No eauee for the suicide has yet been learned. Slmonda hsd a bottle of car- hollo acid In hie pocket. He placed the revolver against his forehead over his right eye. -r ' , l'.::... PHYSICIAHS ARE SCORED BY JUDGE MOT Jurist Declares They Are Too Willing to Give Certificate! " to Prospective Jurors."' Judge Hunt of the United SUtae flla- trlct court has a suspicion that Oregon physicians- are altogether too willing to certify that impanelled cltlsens are physically unfit for Jury duty. In fact, ths Judge mads some remarks about-it this morning from ths oencn. Mark Hurlburt of Albany, who snoaia have reported last Monday, had Juat ahowsd up. Prior to that hs had writ ten a letter.' He came Into court armed with a phyalclan's certificate and ex plained that he-waa too elck to act. Then Judge Hunt expressed nimseix: "I am somewhat astonished." he said. "st ths free snd easy wsy ths court is confronted with physicians' oerttfleatea No one has a greater respect for that nrofeaaion. than I. but tha number of oeitlflcates that oome to ma la jsrtaln-1 ly surprising. I presume, Mr. Muri burt, that your phyalclan Is a reputable man and would not have given you a certificate if you were not entitled to it Are you ready to swear that yoa ere 111 and unable to do Jury duty" Mr. Hurlburt took oath that such waa the ease snd tha court aald: 'Til give yoo a suggestion. - When ever you are summoned by a court, pay considerable attention to It. This thing of sitting-down and writing letters snd coming or sot ss you see fit won't do. Tou are excused for the term, Mr. Hurl burt." . ' ' - " : SAYtTHUSBAND BEAT. HER SEVEN YEARS today In. the circuit eourt Zeronlca Alleen Freeman prays ror s dlvoroa from her husband. Franklin A. Preeman. They - were married August SI, 18(0, in Portland and he Is accused of beating, ehoking and calling her vile names and also of throwing her te the floor. - ' She also prays for the eustody of their little girl and for ISO a month alimony. Judge Gentenbeln issued an order re straining Freeman from ' withdrawing 1110 from ths Hlbarnla Savings bank. Freeman Is a freight agent said te be earning till a month. EVERETT PREACHER IS CALLED TO ASTORIA Rev. Thee B. Neste from Everett,' Washington, who has been called to Astoria by tha Norwegian Synod church, arrived1nPortland-hls morning. Ha will be Installed next Sunday by Rev. W. H. Borenson. hla predecessor, whs next week leavee for Newman, Cali fornia.' :.. '. ; DESERTER FROM ARMY ' - RESTED AT SALEM Salem. Or, July 10. Richard ' Ely. who waa arrested here last evening for desertion from tha United States army, Company K. at Fort Leavenworth, Kan sas, will probably be delivered to the military authortlea at Vancouver. He escaped last October.- . ... WHEN MOTHER GOES VISITING. ePinner on Wednesday. 4Jkaraal Special Serrlee.t Washington, , July 10. Members of the local .ice truat this morning pleaded not guilty ' and were given until Sep tember 1 to file answsra They ware indicted a week ago for- violation . of the Sherman anti-trust law. - . If convictions are had there will be a total fine of 110,000, and four of the officiate will have to. go to Jail for a year.. - ...' This esse will he one v or some im portance because it Involves tha Impris onment of the officials, and : it will therefore be fought to ths sad,' The eoncerne and officers mdleted are: - The American Ice company. - The .Chapla-Backa Manufacturing company, . Samuel A. Klmberiy, local manager of the American Ioe company. George T. Hoover, sgent . for ths American Ice company. - Arthur A. Chapln, president or Ins Chapln-Sacka company.' Samuel C Redman, seoretary and treasurer of ths Chapln-Backs company. . TJnlawfnl Ooasptraoy. . Tha offense charged in these eases Is: "Unlawful conspiracy, by which con snlracy and agreement he partlee in dicted agreed between themselves that they would not sail tee wholeaale at leas than tl cents a hundred pounds, nor retail lea at Jess than 40 cents s hundred pounds." . The penalty, according to tne sner- maa law.- la: - "Every person who shall monopolise, or attempt to monopolise, combine, . or oonaplre- with " any other peraon -or persons to monopolise any part of the trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign na tions, shall be deemed guilty or a mis demeanor, and on ; eonriotion insrsoi shall be punishable by a fine not ex ceeding 11.000 or by Imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both Said punishments, in the dlaoretion of ths oourt." ' r ' ' ; r Baised Prloe of Xse, ".-"? r ' The Brinclnal allegation In the Indict ment Is substantially that ths defend ants, "on the 10th day of April. 1100, unlawfully did contract, eomoins ana eonanlre that they , would ' thereafter charge ths earns price for Ice which they or either of them ehouia eeu tome dealers In ioe or te any or eitner oz them: and that they would net sell toe to amr dealera In lea who should there after sell tee at-wholesale at leaa than 1 1 cents for ach 100 pounds, or at re tail at less than 40 cents for each 100 pounds, and that they did than and there bv means of said contract, com bination and conspiracy, prevent aad destroy competition between tnem as to the prices at which ioe should be sold." The Indicted men gave bond la the sum of 11.100 each.. Their trials can. not take place before next uetooer. vnilMC IRAKI CArPQi ' SERIOUS CHARGE Henry Campbell, employed at Pan tana theatre, was arrested last night on a statutory charge. Flora Lough, a ll-vear-old arlrL ia the complainant, and the ease will be heard in the Municipal court tomorrow. Conaiderable excite ment wss caussd at Grand avenue and East Morrison streets by the attsmpt of the fathsr of the girl to force hsr to accompany htm home ; :. It is understood that 'hs found his daughter ia the company of Campbell and ordered her to at onoe leave her es cort She-refused, sad upon the lather starting to use foroe the girl sat down on tha sldswalk and refuaed to stir. A crowd srathered and Detective Meare. at' tracted by the excitement. Jumped off a maw , n.W. An InvMtle-atflAft. He took tha girl and haarehC-to--XWM ilea headauarters and the arrest ox Campbell was ordered by Chief Orlts maoher. Pending a disposition ef the case the girl has been placed In charge of the Boys' and Girls' Aid society. DRIVES TO FIRE WITH sf LATHER ON HIS FACE That a fireman's lifs Is not slways a happy one waa amply demonstrated at noon today In the ease of George Guilds, driver of chemical engine No. 1. " Guilds was busily engaged in lather ing his . face preparatory to a shave when a telephone message announcing a Are at Fourth and Washington was re ceived. Forgetting everything else when duty called he Jumped upon his rig and raced to the Are. The spectacle "of a man driving through the streets with his face cov ered with creamy lather caused much merriment to the passing throng and speculation was rife aa to the cause of the exhibition. By a strange coincidence tha blass ' waa In a chimney over a barber shop next to ths Perkins hotel. .- ffliTortos, Moaeee Bead. "- (Seeelal Dtonateb te The JnamaL) Bilverton, Or., July - IS. John Knowles, a resident of Sllverton since Hit, died at his home near here last evening. ' Mr. Knowles has been aa In valid and almost entirely helpless for SO.yeara Thomas W. Lawson's latest ' supple ment to "Frensled Finance" In the shape or a warning and advios to the. public has just been received by J.' R. Crelgh ton of Twenty-Ninth and Division streets. H - Ona is ' printed In red Ink snd ad' dressed to "Wall Street's Old Guard." It fOllOWS:'-, , ; - The word went forth from II Broad' way a few weeks ago: ' , Turn our people s , securities ints easK Oat on foreign soil. Then give Roosevelt and hla crasy associates, our ultimatum: . - , K " ' "Change your policy or wreck Sad ruin ror all American business. ' "By this decree sis billion dollars of securities were placed on Bala "The aale Is under wsy. "AH the marveloua machinery of II Broadway la employed la Its eonduot. "Ths Rockefellers are on foreign soil. "When Rogers leaves the sale will have been completed. " ... " Standard oil' will have the nation's cash, tha people the stocks. "To tho negotiations which will rol low the Portsmouth conference wlll be aa a Mellln'e Food breakfast to a wood alcohol las. - "- The question now confronting wau - street Is 'Will you let 'Standard Oil' slip out while you hold the bag. or will the old a-uard of the street' lump Into the breach and nail them In the act! - "Had I been abia to be at my teas during the paat two weeks the world would have had the story in detail to Judge for themselves, but I don't think I will be toe late as it la 'THOMAB JUAWBUW., "Thursday. July It, IMS, T p. m.". -' ' 'J The Saooad OlrotOac. Tha second. entlUed "Word From Mr. lawson." Is signed by - Edward Mo- Sweeney, .Lawsoa'a secretary. , It - fol Iowa: ... "Mr. Lawson writes me from' Dream- wold today: - "It Is now just twe ; weeks since I t,M 1vm thnns-ht tn the market. A glahoe et the doings of that period tells me unmistakably that those help less Idiots of Wall street, the sucker speculatora who have been swallowing press agent yarns for ths past six months, are. hanging on. grimly end desperately, while Rogers sad ths tt Broadway crowd the men who six months from today will either be in penal Inatltutione or beyond the Juris diction of American auwonues are feeding out the last share the market will take. ' "Print this letter and 'send It to "the street" that some of my old friends. . the , traders, who are In the loaded pools may make dry land before It la too lata. When i leri -ine street two weeks ago there may have been some sens In their hanging on. In their hoping against hope, but now It Is evi dent to all that the big crowd are keep ing things stesdy only long enough to -Set-Out-the lsstsbars possible. -" Doee not ths simplest ool 6ft "the street" now read the handwriting? Does It not see John D. and William In Europe etarlna- only long enough to un load? Doss not "the street" see that the sailing of Rogers next week Is to be the signal T When Rogers is safe en European soil and ths crash is on. when the Amalgamated ai-naend is out in stead ef 1 nor eased, when the price- of copper, the metal, is splitting wlds open, and when steel is dropping five points a day. cannot "ths at rear", bear rrom abroad this tnsolsnt Rogers interview T Listen: ? "Tell ths American people not te blame Standard OH or Wall street financiers for the present Hell, but Smarty Roosevelt.- We had prosperity and to spare end Wall street wss only too willing to do the things necessary to continue that prosperity, but Smarty Reassvelt, bahA peo ple - take tha eon sequences, aad after the Democrats and Socialists and arehists hsve swept the fall elections. and when protection. ' which has mads ths country what it is, nse neen re placed with free trade, and there Is uni versal hell to pay, perhaps, X say, ths American people will know whom to go looking for and I don't mind saving right now for publication It won't be Standard OH or any of my friends. In ths meantime you may say - to your readers that no enterprise with which I or my sssociates ere connected will do snythlng te give relief to the Stock market which Smarty Roosevelt and his crasy followers have created not a damn thing." ?. ." TJon't let any of my Wall street friends think Rogers, Rockefeller snd their gang have lost any of their cunning. They, know Just how to deal with an emergency like tha present and 4 they are preparing tn deal with It. snd when they hsve all their wires laid Wall street will be a lurid epot for a few daye. "EDWARD M'SWEENST. . "Secretary to Thomas W. Lawson. , "Boston, July ll. lioe." . , . BEIT LEAVES MONEY" n TO PUBLIC PROJECTS ' (Josrnal Special Sertlea.) London. July SO. Alfred BelfS will was filed today in which he leavee huge sums to ths cause of education. '' The London, Hamburg and Berlin mu seums are benefited by recelvtng pic tures, and Hamburg city Is getting prop erty known aa Forstler Jagsr for a pub lie park. . GOVERNOR GENERAL ' , : IDE EXPECTS PEACE Washington,- July 10. Governor-Gen eral Ide continues to expect complete peace now throughout Luaon, exoept as to Fillpe Balvado and his fanatical fol- lowera He says the proapects of get ting him are encouraging. In Csbu the native governor scoured the surrender ef all the remaining eutlawe and all the guns. Kogae Vat Salt. Judge ' Gantenbeln today ' rendered a decision - that cranted .to ex-Munlclpal Judge H W. Hogue the sum of 1 1,000 ss attorney's . fees m a suit against Fred Buehtel Snd ethers. 1 Ths salt was for ths foreclosure of a . mortgage amounting to about Itl.OOO. : . Stevenson.-a village on the north bank ef tha Columbia rivet SO miles from Portland, has Quadrupled its popu lation In four month a. The place fur nishes a striking example of the effects of construction of the north bank Una Portland men are arranging to establish water worka. at the town and develop electrle power In Rock . creek, whtce empties into the Columbia at that point. . The village had a. population of- I B0 people laat fall. Although it was the county seat of Samania. county, the largest county In the stats of Waahlng ton. It was hardly known on. the map. Since then it , has become mors than locally famous as the place of trial of a suit involving destruction by dynamite of Castle rock, one .of the moat cele brated scenio features of the Columbia river gorge. 'The Columbia Contract company of -Portland, owners f ' the great rook and a contiguous traot of SO or, 40 aorea along the river bank,, an nounced that they would blast the pile to pieces snd use it for Jetty material in their contraot with the government for furnishing rock at the mouth of the Columbia river. ; - - - .,"-. - Tha Portland Seattle Railroad com pany wanted a' right of way along the bank and the Columbia Contract Com pany asked a high price for the ground, claiming that ' should the railroad be built , in. close proximity. It would be impoaslblo to destroy the rock with dy namite without damaging the proposed railroad and that complications arising would practically prevent the owners of ths rook from converting . It to the destined ass.- ' aVaOroaS . Wlaa amis, . The case waa heard at Stevenson this ' week, and a Jujry decided that .the rail road company must pay tha Columbia Contract company 16,000. Instead of $60,000 claimed, for a- right ef way for the railroad. It la said construction ef the railroad will havs the result ef preventing tha . contract company de stroying Castle Rock, and It will thus be preserved te the traveling public ss a landmark. Stevenson Is regarded as ens of the coming towns en the north bank, and is expected te grow- within a few years to a city of several thousand Inhabi tants. The raw road is being built di rectly through the business csnter. . The eompany'e survey ran through the row of blocks on which all ths mercantile firms were located. The survey could not be changed, and the company bought the-entlrebuslnesa .! district, paying about 1100 per front foot for the lots eodie tores thereon. A new business street Is being built up, and a 40-acre addition to the town has been laid out Within a mile. Rock creek has 1,000 available ' horsepower. and ths Stevenson Security Sc. Invest ment .company has been organised to build water works and a power plant for electricity. Ths company has ths fol lowing tn corpora tors: - Richard A. Wsde and George I. Hutchin, Portland; Roe cos M. Wright, John P. OUIett and Al- ty Judge, Mr. Glllett Is postmaster and Mr. Wright Is state's attorney at Stev venson. It Is -proposed by tha company to establish a bank and carry on other development' enterprlsea SAYS ROGE DECLARED DEAL VAS A GOOD THING Wiinam T. Shoutts Dsclarss rtogrSa1dlIller-Wa . ' ' All Right. William T. Shoulta reaumed his tes timony this afternoon in ths Nlokell land fraud case. He said that when he became eusplcious that ths deal into which he had been drawn waa a swindle hs wsnt te Hogs, who reassured him, saying: . "I am In It myself. I think tt Is good. If you are 1st down I am let down too." '.) - - Shoulta asked Hoge what kind ef a man Harry W. Miller waa and Hoge said be had Written to Rose burg about him and found he waa all right. Shoulta . latsr took Rollen B Smith te Hogs, recommending Hogs as . a friend, a neighbor snd a fine man. Hoge told Smith the scheme was a good thing, and that so long aa ths tJnlted States government got Its money hs thought the proceeding was perfectly fair.. Shoults asked te see the letter froraRoseburg referring to Miller, but Hoge, after rummaging around hla desk, said he couldn't find It - Hoge told Bmlth that he could sell ths timber on his claim for 40 cents a thou sand feet and sent him to Miller to sr range the deals. Hoge Said he bed been to see his own timber and he knew It wss there. He sdded that Shoults land was not far off. and that tho timber on both claims waa of good quality. . Rollen E. Smith was the next witness. He testified thst hs took up a timber elatm in 1104. making the filing before Commlasloner Charles Nlckell st Med ford. ;, ., ' ' '. ST. PETERSBURG BOURSE: ON VERGE OF PANIC (Journal Special Wrrrter.) . St, Petersburg, July 10. THS bourse Is on ths verge of a panic The government closed six printing- sstabllshments today.- Six hundred houaea were burned et Alatyn and tOO at Karak. At Odeaaa - striking workmen ""have teen notified that If they have not returned to wora oy e Monday they will be exiled. e w4y4 - i Oasapben-Metsle. Oregon City, Or- July 10. Ths mar- rlaga of Miss Minnie Campbell to John Metsler was solemnised yesterday art eanoon at the county courthouse. Judge Grant B. Dimlck officiating. Both bride and groom ' come from Multnomah eounty.f ., -V f. ) xt V W. 'V.' MarthT of San "Francisco, a member ef the family that ewne a strip of land S50 miles long running from Sherman county to the eastern boundary or Oregon, has returned from an auto mobile trln ohrer Sherman eauntr. where he Investigated ths wheat eondttiona At the Portland hotel this morning ' Mr. Martin, told of hie trip and stated that In his estimation the damage to the wheat erop amounted to 10 per cent "Fully 69 per cent of the wheat." he said, --"waa destroyed' by ' . the cold weather In March. Coupled with - that disaster was the- hot weather of this month,, which destroyed all the reeeeded wheat and ' about r 10 par cent of ' the wheat that escaped the eold weather, making a total loss of 00 per cent. . "The farmers; are much discouraged and many are figuring n moving to other parts; especially Is thta true ef soms beoauss of the fsct that the con ditions which' prevailed this year1 were also true last yesr. However, I think that we will be able to overcome the weather conditions In the future by the variety of wheat ws will plant. "We , are loath to give - up the club wheat. - but 'are f creed to do eo and next year we will plant .turkey red and forty-fold. Both are hardy wheat and good 'produoers. The forty-fold le . a new wheat andjf a1 wonderful producer. It la also a'hardygrahu. -When1n the soutbsrn part of ' Shsrmaa county I saw-sll -ef the -wheat down with the exception 'of about 1,000 acree ef forty fold, which fact con vlnoed' me that It would be one of the best for ths farmer to sow.. 'One objection to forty-fold wheat Is thst It Is easily shattered by fh wtrid, but in spite , of this draw back" It produces on ' an average of 10 W 0" bushels an acra ' . ' We .will also experiment with Man ehurian wheat, which is a . bearded, hardy grain, besides possessing the en dearing quality ef being a great pro ducer. ...' ' ' "Anothen result of my trip was the determination to experiment with de nateurlsed alcohol. -I have eecured a chemist to sxperlment with the potatoee grown in that locality and, from hie. re port will decide whether we will use them for the purpose of making al cohol." V' . . ' , - 4. Mr. Martin stated- that ths roads In the eastern part ef the state were la fine condition for automoblllng pur poses, and that hs had traveled mors than too miles while on his three-days' trip. He mads ths famous rattlesnake grade In" eight minutes,' a rathsr-Te-markable feat, when tt le known that wagons and ' teams often require twe hours te cover he same distance. ' . Ths following permits have been Is sued: J. N. AtUrbury, twostory dwell ing. Dekum, between Rodney and Cleve land avenues., cost 41.600; J. H. Morse, two-story dwelling. East Morrison be tween ' East Thirty-seventh aad Esst Thirty-etghth streets, cost 11.100; J. T. Kerrigan, two-gtory dweUJpg, Broadway between East Thirteenth and Eaat Four teenth, cost . 11.600; W. W. Monaatsa, two-story dwelling, Hawthorne avenue between Bast Twenty-fifth ahd Beat Twenty-sixth, cost 11.000; Miss Good man, two-story dwelling. Lucretia be tween - Washington and Everett, cost 11.000; E. W. Rasmuasea, two-story dwelling, ' Eaat Twenty-eighth, eorner Eaat Morrison, cost it,000; Hop Lee, repairs. Third between Pine and Ash, cost'flfO; A. H. Morrill, Madison near Front, cost 1460; Wllamtts Iron Steel Works, excavate for shop,- Front corner Hull, eoet $1,000; W. B. Wool folk, one-story dwelling. Florida be tween Wlsoonsln end Virginia, cost 1600; M. Owens, two-story dwelling. Tenth eorner Clifton, eoet I1.T00; Oscar Anderson, two-slory dwelling. East Al der between East Thirty-fifth and East Thlrty-slxthoatjli60;C F. Kinney two-story dwelling. East Salmon-between Eaat Twenty-fourth and Eaat Twenty-fifth, eoet 11.150; Miss Emma Ward, kitchen. East Hoyt between East Fiftieth and East Fifty-first, cost 1100. THO I'EH MARLY DROVH U DjINAL AT LOCKS. - fflBeeUl Mspstn te The Jearaal.l Oregon City, Or July 10. An effort ef Sam Stows, an employe ef the Wil lamette Pulp aV Paper company, te savs ths Ufa of George Hemmlnger of Port land, agent of the Pacific Firs Extin guisher company, this morning, nearly resulted In a double drowning. 7 . Hemmlnger fell Into the swift watsr of ths canal at the Jocks, end as was unable to swim waa ' near death when Stowe, seeing his plight, plunged Into the water te ths re sous. Stowe le sn expert swimmer but - Hemmlnger clasped him tn ths embrace of a drown ing man and he was rendered helpless. Both men would havs drowned had It not been for T. W. Roddick, another em ploye of the mill, who secured a pike pole end succeeded In bringing the drowning men to shore, both of whom recovered with but slight 111 sf feats from their plvnge. . STAIN UPON FAIR MONTAVILLA- "M-o-n-t-a-v-l-l-l-a." It's the first 'V that makes the' trouble, according to a studsnt of Italian and Spanish, who has Just caned attentlpn te something worse than aa absurdity In the name of thle suburb, now a part of. the city of Port land. ''.' As a result of ths discovery of the literal meaning pf the compound word It la probable that the spelling will be changed to M-o-n-l-e-v-l-l-l-e, . r The name ef ths suburb was hit upon years ago by the promoters' of the property, tt soundsd nloe breathed of shady nooks snd grassy vales, rippling brooks and peaceful homes. But the spelling was attempted by somebody with little knowledge or continental languages. . V ,! - (Jenraal Special servtea.) l ' . J ' Kansas city, Mo., July 10. Mad with rage and unreaulted love, a re jected suitor of Bertha Boulln Is sup posed to have committed murderous as sault upon the girl and her lover, Frank Msrna, who were found this morning, near the city In a erltloal oondW tlon, after having lain unconscious upon the ground all uight Both -ar In -a serious, condition snd It Is feared will, never . regain eonaclousness to name ' tbslr assailant, who la supposed to be a - young man In this city, who is now ' under the surveillance of the police. From Indications ' In the vicinity et the scene of the assault, Merna' and Misy Boulln wore strolling along - tha highway - when tbeir assailant ap proached them from the rear and struok t ham with a piece of water pipe. After rendering Merna unconscious with - a blow from ths pips ths assailant struck ths girl ovsr ths bead. Hs then dragged her SO feet to a bluff and east hsr to the railroad tracks 100 fset below.. By rare good fortune her body did not fall ' across the tracks, or It would have been cut te pieces by passing trains, The injuries sustained by Msrna con sist of a fraetured skull and severe bruises about the body, which are eald to havs been caused by kicks adminis tered after hs hsd been rendered uncon scious. It Is feared 'that be is injured Internally, i - . i By tha blow of tha water pipe Miss Boulln's skull was broken and fhe fall " from the bhiff broke her nose and arm. Miss Boulln, who is Jl years of age. and Merna, who Is 10 years old. have been recognised ss lovers fy some time past Not long age snother young man, . slightly older thsn the girl, began pay, tng attention to her. He la said to have) tried every means-within his power to Yut . our' Merna. This! suitor's ad-7 vancea were repulsed, however, and the. youth made threats that dire disaster would befall the-couple.) ' ; ..... i i i m i j.' .! ' .- . SAKD HOG STRIKE IS HOT RECOGNIZED Railroad, Company Says That - Thsre Is No Strike as Men LHave Been Dischargeda r (Saeetst fnsBeKh te The loarail.) Vancouver. Waab., July 10. Officials ef the Portland as Seattle Railway corn pany state that they know really noth ing of a strlks on the part of the "sand! hogs," who , were employsd upon the caissons - of ths i company's - Columbia river bridge.. So far as the company la concerned the affair le given little at tention by It ,. Last wskacnmmlt tee of tha sand hogs called upon Bridge Engineer Cros by and told him they thought their pay should be raised. - Just what they want ed they did not state end when ' they left Mr. Croeby waa in darkneea as te . what t)isy Intended to da On Monday morning, without making any direct de mands, the sand hogs failed to appear for work. The company then posted notices for She men to call and gat their time. ... It Is said at company headquarters that the sand hogs toohr advantage -ef the absence of Engineer Crosby. This Is denied by ths men. While the sand . hogs are Idle the company la going ahead wlth other work upon , the big struoture. Operat ing officials say that thsre te three months' work before It will be neoes. -sary to again oommanoe work upon the ea4esons " In fact, it is proaamo that. no mors caisson work will be dons until after the false work upon Hayden'a island la all in. 1 ' - - MRS WEBER DEAD. Wen-Snow - wetnaa ef ': ..,. Passes Away. ...''"'.".' " (Special Dispatch te The learaal.) " Oregon City, July 10. Mra Frances H. Weber, the wife of W. J. Weber, died Wednesday at hsr horns in Oak Grove, and the funeral will be held Monday morning . from St. Joseph's Catholte ' church, at o'clock, and the body wilt be taken to , Mount Cnlvary cemetery at Portland for Interment, . Deceased was born February It, JJB4, near Walla dais,' Benton county, Oregon. Eight children were born to her, of whom four survive DeRoo, Mary, John and Anna She was a granddaughter ef Monroe. Hodges, a pioneer of 1147. and A daugh ter of Mrs. Elisabeth Mellne, also a pie seer ef 114V - "V -; nni. fit or- - Julv 10. Sheriff Robert B. Beetle today released George Mackinaw from the county Jail, where he haa Just completed a 16 days' sen tence "for assault and battery. Macki naw, while nndsr the Influence of drink, hit a man who was at work on the rock crusher In West Oregon City. NAME OF PEOPLE TO ACT ' - It has alwaya been supposed that the name was ef Spanish or Italian deriva tion. : But la Spanish the word "monta" means "amount of reckoning" nothing whatever to do with a suburb. . Ana in Italian It means something very,, very different In fact, an Italian stranger la the-oity-would, think it the "restricted district" of the town. Just one little change. It seems "monta" to "monta" would set mattera right. Then the name - would .- mesa "open sloping place," something much more appropriate to Montavllla. .The matter will be called to -the . at tention of the streetcar company, and residents ef Montavllla are already tak ing measures to wipe the blot from ' the fair name ef their portion or the eity. Supper on Saturday. . Vraaa tha Detroit Ves '''.' i " - .,''.