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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL', PORTLAND, iWEDNESUAY EVENflJO. MAY 1B03. RATE WAR WILL THIS IS THE SEASON OF SPRING CATARRH. LliITIII READS o D - - j-- t BE HARD FOUGHT HEIVS IH PAPER At noon; yesterday . men scratches on hla fee' u standing at th bar of th Turn Hall eat, jrourca and TamhlU- trts. On man in w saloon, a bartender, knew his name. Th first edition of The Journal, tH- lne of tha sew developments in to Wolff murder, bad Just appeared. A customer came Into the aaloon and stood at the buy holding before him the front : iMtiiir tnr the ahoulder of th reader, the man with the cratched ... hliiAnMl In Mark headlines tha came of the man wanted by the police lor the muraer juiwara a. waiuu, ' own name. The bartender who knew him wa too busy to look at th newspaper, . t tha miKnecterf murderer waa within a fw feet of him. See I ng that no on " waa paying any attention to him, Mar tin turned ana quieuy ieii ui The bartender thereby miaaed a food - xhanra it recelvinc the reward Of 11,000 ' . immi ti thai Aiintv court. . Only a ehort time before three do. tectivea hurried into the Turn, Hall n ..nvh nA m. visas of beer. .They were on the -traek of Martin, but knew him only by nam. Martin watched them ome end go. It waa formerly hla habit to ait at . a table facing tha Yamhill ftreet en trance, but though he had vleited the place erery day ainoe the murder, it ' waa noticed that for the peat four or five daya he took new position, sitting" at another table and with hi; " back towards the door. This would make It necessary for any one trying to identify him to take a table fao Ing him and look at him In a poor light. Martin' favorite drink wa egg- fb the bartender with whom be ho came acquainted Martin said that while stationed near New York city Ms expenses as an army officer were $10,000 a year and his salary at' that lima but 11.808 a. year. While be never referred to the use , of drugs personally he told this ac quaintance that he had been much In the society of a certain society woman ' in New York who waa addicted to the drug habit From this it la supposed that he wished to infer she had taught him the us of opiate, as any one wno saw Martin frequently could reed - Ily-'see that he was -using a drag- tn some form. . . EOCKPILE TERM r ' FOE MABTIN EVEN , . IF HANDS CLEAN ' j jswawwseBw" ' r Should the police decide that Edward . H. Martin la not guilty f the murder of Nathan Wolff" tha First-street ' money-lender, they can sentence him to ISO days at Kelly s Butte tinder a stipu lation . which he and Judge Cameron signed March , 107. On that date Martin, accompanied by bis father and Father McDevitt, ap twttred in the police court to answer a charge of having been put after hours and of being a dm flend. He had been arrested at 4 o'clock on the morning of March 8 at Sixteenth and pavl streets, by patrolman Lelsey, and his father, who had com on from New York to visit the aon, told the court of the clr rumstancea of his downfall at that . time. Young Martin he aaid, bad ao quired the drug habit .while be was a member of General Merrttfs staff In -.. ttm tA later , returned to the Vnl ted States and been on the staff of Major-General Corbln, but bad had an altercation with General Corbln, and ratner man auuiniw . i k M.aimd. - The elder Martin said be resided at T Beat One Hundred and Forty-nlntn street new zora oy. Mr. Martin aald he ehd advised his ' son to go west In the hope that the change of climate and of his way of living might break, the chains of the drug naDIW BO tr nj n ppwu uiu u and Father McDevitt make for Martin that Judge Cameron agreed to allow the younger Martin to sign a stipula tion agreeing to accept the sentence of 1 80 days on the rockpile if be came be fore the eoxirt again. The. elder Mar tin returned i to -New York soon after hla son's release, :. j MeUger fits glasses for 11.00. V ! " f mm "a sa ! Toto Ducro, Pantomlno Clown, With Norrla ft Rowe Circus. "13" TO BE CAKE'S NUMBER ON THE BALLOT IN JUNE The thirteen hoodoo is on the trail of H. M. Cake. County Clerk Field this sorbins; re eel ved from the .secretary of state a oopy of the official ballot for state of ficers and United States senator. Cake is No. II. There are plenty of super stitions in politic, and there Is abund ance of precedent for regarding II as a fatal handicap. Most recently in mind Is the fact that in the late primaries Senator Fulton waa unluckr No. 13. As the IS hoodoo was too much for Fulton, the supersti tious onea are asking whether Cake will be able to overoome it In the pri maries Cake was No. 12. In the June election Governor Chamberlain will take No. 14. Thirteen for Cake Am not the result of a plot At least no one has yet been able to figure out a plot It lust hap- fiened. Names are placed on the ballot n alphabetical order, and Cake gets IS because he has a right to it, and no one else baa Harriman Declares It Wili Be Higher Bates or Lower Wages for Employes. , (United pnaa leased Wire.) Chicago, May I. The rat war which Is raging between the railroad and the shippers promises to be a bitter on. In Chicago th fight against the ad vance In freight rates will be fought principally by the Chicago Association of Commerce, which represent nearly all the commercial interests In th city. The - organisation will hold a meeting ioaay to pian opposition to the increase in the east at once, and to rave the way ror similar action wnen tn rates go up all over the country. It Is said that E. H. Harriman de clares It Is either a case of booatlng rates or cutting the salaries of the rail road employee. The railroads figure that the increase, under the Dresent ton nage, will net them 1200,000,000. But he shippers say the roads evidently have not stopped to consider one fact, that In tha case of an Increase of ratea the tonnage will decrease at a remark able rate, M NEVER HEARD OF ROOSEVELT Delaware Man Learns There Are Such Things as Cam eras and Automobiles. VETERAN F.1INISTER PASSES TO REWARD Eey. Thomas J. Harper Dies at Vancouver at 91 To Coast in 1852. . Awfolle Haul! ' From the ChlcagoNewa - v It's awfully hard to convince our selves that people who Praia us are liars. (Special Dlcpatch to The Journal.) Vancouver, Wash., May (. Thomas J, Harper, one of th oldsat residents of Washington and th first Protestant minister In western Washington, died at th home of -hla eon. P. H. Harper, in this city last night at (he advanced age of 91 years. Death was due to old age and a cold contracted last Sunday. Mr. Harper was born In Tennessee and In 1852 crossed the plains to Washing ton, He had previously been ordained as a Baptist minister and at onoe estab lished a church on Puget sound. ' He is survived by five son and five daugh ters. . With his death is broken up a most remarkable family, he being the nee a or nve generations, -me oldest son-. P. H. Harper, is 72 years old. The funeral will be held from ATE ICE CREAM Hi PORTLAND; IS DEAD Case of Charles E. Stanton, a Vancouver Lad, Puz zles Physicians. will be held from th been rtaKlna chapel Bunrtav. Interment will be in the Citv cemetery. (special Dispatch to The Journal.) Vancouver. Wash., May g. Charles a Btanton, th lt-y tar-old son of Henry Stanton, died at th family home. 114 East Tenth street, last nlgbt either from the effects of eating ice cream a week, ago or from brain trouble. Jast what cauaed the death th attending physlolans are unable to tell. toung Btanton with a party of friends went to Portland a week ago to spend the day and while there ate a dish of toe cream. Boon afterward he waa iueu Bios tuia uia not regain ruu con sciousness from thut t1m. i,mi ..tk came laat night While the aicknesa came on at once after eating the loe cream, the physicians do hot fully be lieve the lad waa notnnnnil Th. ... did. Investigation proves that he h.rf wormnar nara at school and tha (Tinted Freaa Leased Wire.) Georgetown, Del., May . Jame T. Calhoun, SI year old and a farmhand living 16 mile from this place, has just learned that Theodore Roosevelt 1 president of the United States and that there are such things In existence cameras. alrshlDs ana automobiles. Making his first trip on steam cars uu turn nrat visit to ueurguigwu, VsSi houn arrived In town today very muoh bewildered. He said that he was all tangled up and that he did not know whether he was walking on hi head or feet half the time. He gasped when some one tried to tax a Picture ol him. "Ain't taking any chances with thoae (tarn things," remarked Calhoun as h leaped to on side, expecting the camera to beloh forth a few slx-poundra. When some one in the group of men standing around him asked him' if he had any definite views on Roosevelt's policies, Calhoun calmly replied that he bad once heard somebody speak th Qreek language and that that sounded very much like It. "What?" said a listener, "haven't you heard about RooseveltT" The farmer had Just remarked that he had not when an automobile dashed by. This was too much for Calhoun, lies going; right back to the farm. He firmly believes that th story about airships is a rake. 0 0 DORSES ,V, tr . "15 crJ"" Dun"y. Jtneory la advanced that It was brain iroume. i , There's this difference between -4 the cocoa habit and the coffee habit: Cocoa makes you healthier, stronger, steadier, better able to do your share. Does coffee? . V V I M .- It LESS THA N A CENt A CUP Is made with scrupulous, con scientious care and old-fashioned attention to cleanliness, purity, goodness and quality. No cocoa at any price can be better or more delicious. Your grocer sells and recommends it y O.OhlrardMI Company . Ann frncIco . PEERLESS ORE v Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland Lines Up Con vention for Bryan. (United Press beaaed Wire.) Columbus. Ohio, May 6. Through the efforts of Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, W. J. Bryan today secured the indorsement of the Democratio state convention. Johnson lined up his men and succeeded in squelching all opposi tion. The tilatform adooted Is devoted almost exclusively to state issues. 13 VICTIMS (Continued from Page OneJ . JJjs I4MV I,:.; 2.000,000 T sJ?M-' ; J CAT A RRH I " MtC' 'IS -Spring ,b here j mk ftUtt ,g ..bringing those I , "Every Home in America Should Now Have a Bottle of Pertma in the House to Protect the Family Against the " Omnipresent Spring Catarrh," s. B. Martman. m. 0. Qunness and that he was Insanely Jeal ous of Heltegreen. About the time that the money arrived from Aberdeen the choreman art toe uunness tarm nounea the police that Heltegreen was wanted for murder In South Dakota. Investi gation' proved this story to be untrue. ampbn Threatened Woman. Lamphere's arrest after the burning of the Qunness home waa the result of charges made against him by Mrs. Qun ness a short time before her death. She complained of the man's attentions to her and said that although she had dis charged him he continued to hang around her farm. She asserted that Lampher hadMhreatened to burn her home and said she was afraid of him. It has also been learned that a few days before her death Mrs. Qunness made her will, which Included provision for her burial. After Heltecreen's body was discov ered in the sack the police dug deeper and unearthed th skeleton of a woman, who had been buried directly beneath the place where the South Dakotan'a body lay. This skeleton is believed to be the remains of , Jennie Olson, an adopted daughter of Mrs. Gunness. who disappeared September, 190ff. At that time Mrs. Qunness said the girl had gone to Los Angeles to make her home with relatives. . Mrs. Qunness' two husbands died un der suspicious circumstances. The first. Max Sorenaon, was Insured for 18,500, and the last, Qunness, had $S,600 on his life. The delivery of five large trunks at the Qunness farm during the past six months leads th 'detectives to believe that the place was a clearing house for a Dana 01 muraerers wno snipped the bodies of . their victim there for burial. Th entlr farmyard Is being dug up in tne searcn ana tne omcera are confident that they will And several more 'skeletons. , Three Ken Slsapepar, Mrs. Cristoferson who lived -near the Gunness family, told" the sheriff today that a year ago she saw a strange man, wearing a fur overcoat, enter the Qun ness home. He became Mrs. Qunness' hired man, but later disappeared. After his disappearance, Mr. Gunness wore the fur overcoat, explaining that the man bad given It to her. - - Shortly afterward, Mrs. CristofeVBon Stated, a large man wearing a heavy red mustache appeared , at the Qunness home. Three weeks later he disap peared, Mrs. Qunness explaining that he. had answered one of her "matri monial advertisements.", but did not suit and left. ... . . ' . j . Two weeKS -later a luraoermanw wno waa rerjorted to have been a lumber man from Wisconsin, went to the Gun ness place end he disappeared a few (lavs Inter Mr. Qunness - exDlalnln that she had dismissed him upon learn ing that he bad two cnuaren, on 01 whom was a cripple. t . . The officers aw confident th three men were murdered and that their bod ies will be dug up on the farm. Another theory, advanced by th de tectives is that tne Gunness woman was alone in the terrible crime. It was known i that the woman frequently In serted; matrimonial advertisement in the Chicago and Indianapolis papers, but apparently all of th men that answered 386 EASTUORBISONST. Jest Below Grand Ave. Up-lo-Date-FDrnltnre and Carpel Donse Phones: East 4356 B2332 Rlew Goods! agsfSJ New Prices! 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It 1 the belief that Mrs. Qunness' aim In bringing men to her farm wa not to find a husband but to slaughter and rob them. Lampher, the suspect, refuses to make any statement and there is no direct evidence againat him. When ar rested he merely aaked if Mr. Qunness and her children bad. escaped from the house. To determine th cause of death of Max- Sorenson. the flrat husband of Mrs. Gunnesn. the coroner of Cool coun ty nas decided to exhume the body. Sorenson died under suspicious circum stances in Austin, a suouro or (jnicago, CASTOR I A ' 7or Iniaatt and Cbildrea. Tfei KInJ Yea to Alwajs Bought 8axs th i Signature) of several year ago, leaving a life Insur ance policy for 18,500, which bis widow collected in full. Anton Olsen and daughter, father and sister of Jennie Olsen, today identified th body of the young woman. . There was an affecting scene when they gased on the corpse, father and daughter collapsing. . BETTEE LIGHTS IN SUBUBBS PEdMiSED The electric light committee appointed at the last meeting ot the United Push club yesterday socured from th Port land Railway. Light V Power company a promise to remedy th condition, at present ' existing; : In ' many of the sub urban districts. No charge will here after be - made for the Installation of eleefcrto light wires and ' a minimum charge of $1 has been assured. Th committee 1 composed of J... JV Nolta, Dr. WllUam Deveny and Q. E. IfelnU. . Cold in the Ileadr "Cut 1t out" j you don't need It, and you don't hav to have it. Try a Weir' a Inhaler, Any druggist '00. .. . coffee i':: The responsible man is the roaster; his is the name tojfo-bj'.' . Tour grocer returns your money If you don't like Bchllllngs Bests w pay Mm. PACIFIC MONTHLY V INC0RP0EATES ' Charles ) Ladd,' Charles H. Jones and C K. S. Wood nave filed articles of Incorporation of th Paciflo Monthly company. 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