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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1007. RICH YOUNG HAH FINDS IT 'YOU 'WANTTQ KNOW WHAT SMARTLY DULSSLD MLN WILL WEAR THIS SEASON ASK BLN SLLLIIJG , WIFE NOTORIOUS CROOK ,'T'.. GMISMCT III IDAHO CASES Millionaire's . Bride Had ; Series of Robberies Which i Aroused Suspicion. A DETECTIVE FINDS HER TO BE THIEF'S BPOUSE Spent Her Dupe's Wealth 1 In ; Sop- porting Her Beat . Husband, Who . r-Vpon Exposure Agrees to tin 'Abroad .With' WomBn.''kli1J ',; .'. ' (, '.- (Josrasl SpeeUl . Service.) ? - Nsw York, Juns 17. Detootlvs I A. Ncwcorab Of this City hat received from London va cablegram announcing tha arrival Of Mr. and Mrs. Gomes Wnilama at the Hotel Cecil' This ca blegram marks tha Introduction to the final chapter of a remarkable criminal career. . '. y ,' .r s " v'r . Gomel Williams Is said to be a well known western crook,, and Mrs. Gomes Williams, formerly Miss Beatrice Bam bridge of California, is the same young AmsntrhA In f"Mlsa I, a!... I a . v uw au viuvngv an vuv sajyiAiiB vi 1901, married the son of a New -York -r millionaire of high social position, , whose name la at present kepL-secret The weddirrs was tfa equei To a very ahort courtship. Tha young man knew nothing of his wife's family connections but was Infatuated with her beauty and ' charm of manner. Hie family decided , to make the beat of the matter and re oeived the, young woman kindly and with, avtry consideration. .. ' Xxtravaganoe Ha Tenia, ; Bhe seemed to have but one fault .,. extravagance. From the firat ahe spent more money than seemed necessary. Her nu(wiu uua m jane income ana maae her a generous allowance, but. she was aiwaya in aeot and bad to have more. , Her ability to get rid of cash Increased steadily. On top of this the young wife became tha vlotlrn of robbery after robbery. Her jewels were stolen again and again. Once In Parte where thesjewels were - stolen while the couple were stopolng at a hetel, the house detective after pa- , tlent work, intimated to the husband as : delicately as could be done that per. , haps his wife was afflicted with some - peculiar malady which caused ber to . rob herself, . - The young man's father, a shrewd ; man or affairs, finally began to worry about her expenditures and tha frequent lossfof her valuables Finally he talked the matter over with one of his confu dentlal friends, the president of an Im portant railroad. This man advised the father to lay the whole matter before the personal counsel of the railroad president.; This was done. -u.wW-.- Was a Tonne Tbisf. M . Mr. Newcombe la a Short time estab Hahed the Identity of the extravagant wife of the young millionaire with, a young woman who - with her real hus band, a crook named Wilson, had been implicated in a series of mall box rob beries in New York In 1881. At that time, the detective learned from Wil son and his wife, that they had been com Del lad to leave Ban Francisco after a scries of robberies and that they had been mixed up In several burglaries in Omaha, Chicago and Philadelphia. "After i had satisnea myseu mat ine young millionaire's wife was the Mrs. WUaon of 18 81." said Mr. Newcombe todav. "I notified the old financier. He directed me to tell his son and have the agony over with him. When I told the young man he became angry .and said I was crsty. as his wife was not born it years ago. I insisted his wife was at least 41 years Old and that she was. about : 16 when I arrested her . In 1881. After Beiricr Out Thirty Four Hours Jury Convicts Land Swindlers. WEALTHY LEWISTOtf BANKERS FACE PRISON Corah's Political Supporters Found Oulltr of Conspiracy to Defraud ... . . . i (the Government Oat of Its Public Domain. (Joarul Bpeciil Service.) ' ,tt Moscow, Idaho, June lljjlrtcf being out for 14 howrs, h'rury last night In the land fraud cases returned a verdlot "i told him the maiden name of tha t guHlrfon two of the five counts of m -jnaictmeni against the ; defendants, alleging conspiracy to defraud the gov ernment out of Us publlo lands, George It Raster, , Win.' Dwyer and' Wm, F Kettenbach, acquitting them on the re maining three counts. .The counts on which the conviction was obtained were the cases In. which Corey and Wilson are accused of filing on land for the aeienaanis, ror wiucn tney received e woman I arrested was Beatrice Bora bridge. He admitted that was his wife's nirne but said she came from Kentucky and not California.-' . . . , , , Mirf nantila V.lf a The young' man was clearl1n love ith his supposed wife and demanded stronger proof, so I srranged to confront the woman with evidence of her crim inal caresc :" The nextvsrternoon we were sea tea in the littfarv of the millionaire's horn, an acre. wnen the Old gentleman Drought in his As politely as I could The " lurv renorted ' this moraine-' to the court and were discharged. An ap- patu wui ue laaen. i Jauchter-ln-law. I told her who l was and who she was Bhe indignantly declared I was a falsi fier. Confronted with nroofa. however. she finally confessed. -capers were drawn up or whioh the woman agreed for a suhatantlsi con sideration to leave tha United States and remain away. 8 he left the house that same afternoon accompanied by myself and the lawyer, she having .1. -VL ".J'J l.?riT"J Big Tlsh Oangbt. - William F. Kittenbach and George rt. neater, president and cashier respec tively of the Lewiston National bank. have always been considered the big nsn or ine norm iaaho land fraud in- vestlgations, and although not officially agreed to take us to Oomes Wilson. ; Crooks Ura Abroad. r- "Wilson . readllv a r reed to take' Me wife abroad and live there. I had them followed until they took steamer and arranged by cable to have them shad owed on tha other aide. Wilson said they would go to the Hotel Cecil, He kept ills word. .. 4 re Into the uses to Which tha. woman put the larre sums of money snd Jew- eia given ner Dy ner dupe, xnat every thing went to Wilson I am positive. He ea conceded. It has been generally believed e rest or quire into the uses to which tha woman I of-being -toe youngest- national-bank f resident in in united States. He is 0 years of age and has lived In liewls- the caaes will be dropped. The Kester & Kettenbach timber land holdings in the Clearwater . valley number some 10,000 acres, tha largest amount held by Individuals in the timber belt. This land has been acquired in six or seven years ana is worth over szoo.ooo. . At the time of his election to the presidency of the Lewiston National nK Kittenbach enjoyed the dlatlnction - beln-toe vounsest- national'- bank president In the United States. He Is liv the, on lie rat or the land durlnar six years his wife lived as the wife of nf a weajeny man. wnetner wuson threat ened ner witn exposure and so forced her to suddIv him with moner. and stanl her .own jewels, or whether she did It voluntarily, because or love for the man. are Questions I have never been able to answer to my own satisfaction." ton sines a child. - His famllv has been closely identified with the development ox me suite ana . is one or ine most fromlnent snd wealthy ones in north daho. Kettenbach's uncle, Frank W. Kettenbach, is president of tha Idaho trust company and the Kettenbach grain LODGE CLERK SAID TO HAVE USED FUNDS , ' aVsMBssawawsBaasssaaaBSat ' ' I Walter O. Crooker of Tacoma Under Arrest- Friends Find, Exten uating Clrrumstances. ' y ; 8peelal Dispatch to The 7oarsaL) Tacoma, June 17. Walter O. Crooker, clerk of the Woodmen of the World here. Is under arrest charged with em besillng funds of local camps. Ha Is slleged to be short anywhere from 1900 ta $2,090, ; September last Croaker's two daughters, both, young women, died : from .typhoid fever. . Then his . wife died, and there followed a long ' spell of sickness of his son. Beaten down by these great misfortunes and by be coming sick nimseu, crookers xrtenas Say, his mind became unbalanced. ' -Shortages, it Is said, were noticed tn his accounts two months ago and -he was riven the opportunity to make them good, but Instead - continued getting deeper. A week sgo he disappeared after resigning his position, and -his relatives feared he had committed sui cide. His eastern bondsmen sent an Imperative oroer that he be arrested ana prosecuted. Search for him was vigorously pushed, and- It was found he had gone to Vashon island, where he has a ranch. He returned to Tacoma -and waa arrested, -.v.-; ..f-.-. company, the latter one of the largest grain companies In the stats. Ketten bach succeeded his father as bead the - old HOOD RIVER WILL v CELEBRATE GRANDLY ' - "' - i n " : I , -' fSpedal Dispatch to The Jooratl) Hood River, . June . 17. Hood River has decided to have an old-time Fourth of July celebration) with oratory, fire works, games and a street parade. One thousand dollars-has been contributed! for this purnosa bv buaineaa men hero ana committees are busy arranging ihs details of the program. Judge H. . H. Northmp of - Portland, will be the orator of the day. Speakers Of local fame Will also annear. A rhnrm of 100 trained voices will sing patrlotlo William ; Dwyer. n Brearly private Head ttt the Lewiston ' National Dank several years sgo, the latter having organised it irom tne oia jbx bank. . - " Supporters of Borah. Kester has also resided In Lewiston since childhood, and has been Identi fied With the bank in the capacity of teller and cashier for over 15 years. He has taken an active part In north Idaho politics and It was the Kester-Kettenbach-West faction of the repub lican party In north - Idaho which sup- gorted William E. Borah for the United tates senate, Borah being their chief counsel in the present case, although not actively engaged before the Jury on account of his presence at Boise as prosecutor- In the Steunenberg murder oi iocai rame win also appear. A chorus case. -. vi jvv irunea voicea wtu sing patrlotlo I wuiiam ; uwyer, the timber crslser sonars as : tart of the exerclaa. Ana leonvicted Inlntl with tha h.nk nffift.i. of the features will ha a ball game be- I came to north Idaho eight years sa-o twaan taama . . , A . . 1. 1 1 fMM TX'1-hvh n ... u- , : . - - -- mhu ,uiu : men I iviu . ,i wn,iib n, linn iwvn .operil. selected from prominent residents of the I ing out of Lewiston In the Clearwater city, in ine evening a display of flre- I timoer pelt and has i always x been works will be made. Extra police charged with being an agent of the bank proiecuon naa oeen unstM rnr anil I in ine- limner tranaantinna tn i raxirs ana others seeking: to fleece vis ltors will be suppresse T mhirH tester ana kettenbach have been in voivea. . ' During the entire progress of the land frsud cases Kettenbach and Kester have discouraged reference to the Lewiston National bank, ' feeling that they would rather have the atlgma of indicTmnni innrnfui rr thamu ,m - - uncn two ana na.u mues east or inarviauais, Tne MnK does the largest Francis, Manitoba. It Is supposed that commercUl business In the north Idaho the oars were blown -from the track and its renutatinn arafniiv "r niuo wiiiu wmcu preTautKi our- i or iia oiucmia ana ai rectors. ing a violent rainstorm there, no pas- sens-era were killed. Three men hn nmm n-n-n-nrm . scalp wounds and one has his face badly Dili V XV OJlill V XUft Jb Ull cut ana two are dossidit incarnaiiv in. Jurod. r,',- . Train Derailed bf Winds.' (Bpeelal ' Dispatch to The " Janrul.) Vancouver. B. -C. June . 17 Two coacnes ana a oming oar ' are In the . t jr .",i:i .' - . ".j ', .v ..'.. v , f . y I '. . ..." J W V .'t i f ..'.--jJier- X ' V ) ' . . - Vjy I - if I H 1 II.- , 1 I l I't 1 1 1 . i r.vr s-vj'-i , ' Mm. BN 0 ITT,o r rl v ''i .ir-fl, JV;' V : - ' -" ' OUR CLOTHING JUST A LITTLE BE,TTLR MWWWVVNAAAAAAA BATTLESHIP KANSAS (Joarail Special Berviea.) Philadelphia, Pa., June 17. At the League Island navy yard today 'the battleship Kansas, one of the most re cent additions to the American navy, was presented with a handsome liver Service, a gift from the state after wnicn the warship was named. The presentation was accompanied by the usual speeches and ceremonies. The state of Kansas was represented by a A latlna-ttlahaif turtv haaHii kv I . . , T " V " J W.CIUVf nocn. ana inciuaina secretary or State uenton, state (Auditor - Nation. State ON EASY: PAYMENTS THIS IS PORTLANDS SAFEST, BEST AND ORE ATEST CREDIT STORE; SAFEST because nothing i misrepresented. ' Any one . without even the slightest knowledge of jewelry values can buy here to as good advantage as the shrewdest : expert " . s - , , . GREATEST because we carry the most extensive stock, : the most varied assortment With our low prices on diamonds, .watchesand jewelry all intending purchasers tan buy far more economically here than elsewhere. . - CREDIT. We open scores of confidential charge ac counts every business day with persons who had always : considered jewelry a luxury, h Our easy, terms tof pay ment will pave the way fof an easy purchase. "" ' . i V tary of State Treasurer Tully. Attornev Oeneral Jack. son and Adjutant General Hughes. The stata officials ware accompanied by their I wires. . ... r . -. -..,. The silver service is one of the flnest ever given to an American warahin. The service is of beautiful creation and design, Ita masalveness being enhanced sy its simplicity, .tuacn piece is d ated with the state seal and other ap propriate empyema. , in aaaition to the sliver service the Kansas party pre sented to the ship a set of handsome flags donated by the Kansas branch f u.e uaua-nters oz tne American Re vol u uon. f It will pay yon to examine oar stock before buying' elsewhere, we charge no extra tor credit accom- modationa. OUR PRICES ARE FAR BELOW THOSE OF ANY " , CASH JEWELER. MARX &B LOCH 74 THIRD ST., NEAR OAK ; ' largest diamond dealers in Oregon:. KEEP ANNIVERSARY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE (Jonraal 'Special Servtca. Boston, Mass., . Juna , 17. Although this la not a legal holiday, practically all tha business activities of greater Boston were suspended today in observ ance of the lsza anniversary of the battle ot Bunker Hill. The patriotic celebration centered, as) usual, in Char- leatown, the scan of the famous tight The celebration began at daylight with an extensive explosion of fireworks. Two larre parades were held In Charles. town, one consisting; or military, naval and civic Doaies, including marines from tha local barracks and ships now- at the Charlestown navy yard. The other j parade was an electrical pageant with handsome floats. ; Many athletic and other out-door events wera held during the aay. A"-.":-.;:c,5, BIDS OPENED FOR , NEW BATTLESHIPS jA (Josraal Special Serrlce.irss . "VWahington, t. C.,. June 17. It is expected, that some time this week bids for the Delaware and Utah, the two to,000-ton battleships which were author- lied by the last session or congress, will be opened at the navy department Both vessels when completed Will exceed the Enaitsh battleship Dreadnauaht in power and strength. "V:. ? : it la expectea mat at least nvs eon tractors will put tn bids for the con struction of these two vessels. They are the rore itiver snipouuaing com pany, the Newport News shipbuilding company. Cramps of Philadelphia, -the Bath, Maine, ironworks, and the New Tore snipDuiiaing company or camaen. New Jersey. It Is not expected that the arovernment will construct either of the . . . . ....... m - . rref erred Stock Canned .Croodg ' Allan Lewis' Beat Brand. JUST A LITTLE BETTER TRIMMED JUST A LITTLE BETTER MADE . JUST A LITTLE BETTER FABRIC , JUST A LITTLE BETTER STYLE ; JUST THAT LITTLE BETTER SOMETHING That makes for BETTER CLOTHING. ' ; EVERYTHING- BETTER BUT THE PRICE JUST A LITTLE LOWER ' 4 j $15 id $ 40 JUVLNat CLOTHING JUST THL SAML 1 ' LEADING CLOTHIjLR TTi fl We now launch into the second week of the preat gtock-reduclne tales. The exteaOTdinary success of last week s stock-reducing sales has spurred us to still greater efforts, and crowds will continue to come and share the values, as hundreds of others have shared. Values as great, and in many instances greater, thn last week's.- Reinforcements have come from the workroom and reserve stocks have been drawn upon. We are in readiness to show you the greatest and best merchandise ever offered in Port-, land. Not a lot of odds and ends, '.but fresh, new stock, not even ever shown before. One of J.M.AS Offers Which Cannot Be Equaled Suit Values Up to 65.00 . . . . Last Week We Bad Two Snlt Sales First Sale Up to $25.68 for $5.69 Second Sale (Jp to $59.60 for $10.69 No w the Oinaas- Suits Up to $65 Tuesday Yon Have Bat to Look ta Our Windows to Be Convinced If ' The Best We've Ever Offered SlflRTS- Values Up to $5.00 ' Tuesday ) Extraordinary Values Short Box and Fitted COATS Values Up : to $16.50, Tuesday J. M. -ACM ESC H dOo Futii