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kzrzzl "WAiiT AD" Cccdcrs
Xlie to know facts about property and
your ad will sell your house moro gulok
ly IX you remember th-'s.
WANT ADS N
COST ONE CENT A, WORD CASIl
The weather Fair tonight; Wed
nesday probably occasional rain.'
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VOL. IX. NO. 242. (CITY EDITION)
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1910.-TWENTY-TWO PAGES.
STAN1W. HYE ( K.S 1.1
CONTRACT IS LET
AMERICAN FLEXT IN ENGLISH WATLRS
TO BEAT SELLING
Ul SENATE FIGHT
CANCELS ORDER
FORUDGEBOIS
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PUT Oil RIVER
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Jffiffl Ul
AKIHi! Oil
APPROACHES FGR
BRIDGE OPPOSED
CHICAGO COMPANY
( Defeated gubernatorial Candi-
. date v" : in .Portland to
Pull , U Land in Pres-
" ident's Chair In Senate-
HAS CHANCE, ALTHOUGH
' PORTLAND MAN LEADING
' Speakership Fight in Doubt
I New Candidates Bob Up
I y. . -Hopeful. , -
. 1
1 Senator Jay Bowerman is- out to ' da
feat Senator Ben Selling for president
of the "senate, and hejs a more po
tent factor In - the fight than Senator
Eellln''s frlniwls are Willing to admit.
Senator Bowerman reached Portland
last night from his homo in Condon and
is now at the Imperial, from which van
tage ground ho and ex-United States
Senator a .W.-. Pulton and other old Una
friends are reaching out for votes, r
' Senator Selling believes that he has
the presidency all tied up la a neat
package ready for 'delivery. ' Boms, of
bis friends . contend that her has 15
votes pledged to him or Just one less
than enough to elect him. -Every
one admits that Selling Is Vow
In the leading place, but' tney bjso aa
tnit than Jay Bowerman is some wire
puller when It comes - to manipulating
thinars, And that ha is liable to block
Selling's game between now -and, Jan
uary 9. It is a fact '' that many Of
the holdover senators , do hot like gen
ator Selling. He was too uncompromla-
lng during the last session..
Selling Too Business-like. .
Selling would concede nothing and he
!. inl-fl rs sn ovnAltlniia an A a
X business session. He kept Insisting that
appropriations should be 'cut down In
stead Of being ; increased and he was
not willing to raise . anybody's salary
unless It was clearly demonstrated that
to do so would be for the public good.
Some of the old ones, therefore, remem
ber Selling as an objector to things and
they would rather see a more easy, go
ing man in the president's chatr.j r
Senator Bowerman does not like Sen
ator Selling, politically, and wants ' to
beat him. Bowerman's friends are In
the same boat Way down deep, per
haps, the Influences that are back of
Bowerman's activity are not so mucn
for Bowerman as they are. against Sell
In. . -. : ' ;". .'
.' Bowennan's friends,. when they eheck
tip the list of probable support, say. they
are going to get their votes from Sena
tors Carson, , Abraham, Norton; Chase,
Iloskina, Wood, Lester, Merryman, bur
gess. Parish, W. N. Barrett and Bower
man himself. ' '' !,
Dark Son Kay Xnter. -
They believe that Senators Von der
Jlellen, Hawley,v Nottingham and possl
blv Slnnott would, come into the fold.
I yhey-also believe, and with reason, that
; (Continued on Page Eighteen.)
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tm
ABOUT A SUSPECT
Man Charged With 'Bamhart
Murders -Withheld From.
" k County , Authorities.
' (TJnlted Piww taHed -Wire.)
Kansas City, Kan., Deo. 13. A . dls
agreement between the authorities of
Johnson and Wyandotte coUntle re
garding Jurisdiction, and a hot dispute
ever which had a right to: question John
Slelgler, the man arrested yesterday on
BUspicion .,. ot having committed the
enadruple -. murder at the ; Barnhart
farm. sneai here, were the chief devel
Onments in the murder Investigation to-
dav. Prosecutor Little and " Sheriff
William! Siead of Johnson: county were
denied permission to tak to . Sleigler'.
Although the murders were committed
In Johnson county, ' Sleigler was ar
rested by Chief of Police Zlmmer of
Kansas City, Kan. ; and was brought
here. 1 1 .
Little and Stead demanded that they
b$ allowed to question the prisoner,
and 'when this was refused announced
tby would bring proceedings to have
blm transferred to Johnson county.
The funerals of the four victims were
held today, v, An ' Immense ' crowd . at
tended the services. , - '
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YEAR'S END
EDITION OF
THE JOURNAL
. "Annual Returns From
" : Oregon's Natural Re-
sources Yield an Enor-
. mous Sum.
FUBUGATiON'
DATE
DECEMBER 31
inmiTi
SPUTE
Mount Hood Railway & Power
Co. Buys Big Site on Wil
, lamette for Steam Auxiliary
Generating Plant, . 1 '
FOUR MONTHS IS TIME .
FOR COMPLETING WORK
Cars to Be Operated in Early
. Summer; Power Will Be
" for Sale.
The .'Mount Hood1 Railway &
Power company has purchase J
from s , the Peninsular ; Lumber
company a tract of. land on the
Willamette river for a site for its
first auxiliary stedm power plant
Contract Jias also been: let '-to
Charles E. Moore & Co. erf Sar.
Francisco for the erection of the
plant, the project to be completed
within four months. ' ' ' . . -
The ransaction means an' outlay of
several hundred .thousand dollars and
forms the first step towards furnishing
electric power1 for the road now being
built in. an easterly direction, from Port
land to Mount .Hood. The auxiliary
plant Will generate 4000 horsepower and
will furnish power, for the electric cara
that, : Immediately upon completion of
the line, will supplant the steam cars
employed during the construction period.
Upon completion of the first unit of
the hydraulic station at Bull Run the
steam plant will conUnueln operation
as an auxiliary o that it' will be per
manently, established.--!,. ;-,,;, ...-r-;'riT
fyf ;.By Bite Pt-rcbased.
The site measures: 200 by 975 feet
and has water frontage between the oil
wharves Of the Standard Oil and tin Ion
Oil company tanks. , It is also near
the lumber manufacturing plant of the
Peninsular Lumber company and it Is
understood that arrangements have been
made to utilise the waste of the mill, in
the. big furnaces. - , yy ,;: ,
But the plant will also be equipped
fos- oll fuel and it was -with this ab
ject Jn view that.a tract'amitting on the
river was secured. By building a wharf
It will be possible to'bring oil' bargea
ajrect to tne power station at the .very
least' exbenso. ' ' ' - , ' ' '
The purchase of the auxiliary power
site and the letting of the contract for
the erection of the plant, and installa
tion of the machinery was .closed today
py . c aims, chairman of the board
Of directors of the new road, who has
ben in Portland about a week attending
to preliminary details In getting the
road well under way, it bein hoped to
have It ready - for traffic . early . next
summer. , . . .
A large number of cars were pur
chased some time ago,-both for freight
and passengers,, and tracklaylng has
been progressing beyond Hontavilla
a rapid rate and work trains have been
running through the town of Gresham
on the permanent track for some time.
A franchise for entrance for its pas
senger line into Portland by way of the
Barr road will be presented to. the city
council In the 'hear future,, it is under
stood, Including permission to dispose
of surplus electric power,-of -which the
cfnpany will have great quantities upon
the completion of the projected hydrau
lic power plant near the Mount Hood
end of the line. . . : ; ;
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Interstate Commission - Says
Hauling of Such Cars Is Fa
; vor to Owner, and Use of.lt
Carries No Privileges;.
(TTnltM Tren &Med Wife.)
-Washington, Dea 38. The railroads
have the right to ' impose such demur
rage charges on private cars as they see
fit, according, to a decision rendered to
day by the' Interstate commerce com
mission. !, The finding was given Jn a
case brought by. Proctor A, Gamble, soap
manufacturers, . of Cincinnati, against
the Cincinnati, r-amfitoE & Daytnn rai
roadc The charges to which , the .com
pany objected were assessed against the
company for not unloading its private
uare, nianaing on us private tracks,
until the time limit fixed by the rallr
roaa oerore aernarrage BlKruia be
cnargea ' naa . expired.
The soap concern argued that to force
the owners of cars to pay storage on
goods held In their own property was
unfair and beyond the powers of the
railroad -company. The railroad argued
that the cars were used jts a favor to
the owners, and Insisted that aa sonn
as they were taken by the roads for the
transportation of goods they ceased to
be .private, bu t . wer. faauld -aubjeetno
the same, conditions as any others
hauled by a common carrier. . j
The commission held that railroads
are not forced to use private cars, and
may therefore impose such conditions
as they see fit wheu-they handle them
for tue owners. v
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CARS AT
IERC
V OF ROADS
ASTODEIRRAG
Six City Councilmen Say. They
Favor Going Ahead With the
Condemnation Proceedings
on Broadway Site..
0. R. & N.-.IS SUSPECTED "
OF CONCEALED PURPOSE
Lombard Declares-He Believes
New .Offer Is Another Plan
- to Delay Action. 1
Six city councilmen ' said today that
tomorrow, they- will vote for the insti
tution of condemnation proceedings to
secure the rights of way for the Broad
way bridgo. t They will vote against fur
ther arbitration, they say, and against
a trade or deal that Includes' the vaca
tions of portions of east side sfreetfc
They will vote affirmatively, they say,
only on the proposition to let the courts
adjudicate the whole controversy.
A proposal made yesterday by Secre-,
tary Southerland for, J. P. O'Brien, gen
eral manager of the O. R. & N. com-;
pany, suggesting' the appointment of a
board of arbitration of five members to
fix cash values upon property., desired
by the city did not meet with approval
from' the six councilmen. Councilmen
Lombard aqd Kubli made statements of
disapproval. Councilman Lombard said:
hmr possibla : Loopbole.
"The a & N. Co., has decided
that it" cannot put through the unfair
trade which it proposed with the city
and is seeking this way: out of the dilemma-
To my mind the only point
at issue Is securing the approach to the
Broadway bridge. - The right of way
for the sewer" in. Sullivan's gulchi and
the park site in South Portland men
tioned, in Mr. Southerland'a letter are
extraneous, s The appointment : of , a
board of . arbitration would complicate
the ' matter,. In ; the future, as has the
proceedings in the pasU-v ; ' -1 .
: "X doubt the legality of arbitration.
The charter provide, that the. city, may
negotiate for property rights, and fail
ing In this, to condemn property rights
needed. The mayor has . negotiated and
the committee has . negotiated and no
conclusion has been . reached ; To my
mind we ; are now no nearer a settle
ment ,bf the Broadway bridge contro
versy, thaajn the beginning. We will
never' reach a .conclusion yntll.thejsn.
tire matter' is put" into the' courts'."; ', -v
" oppose 4he appointment of a board
of arbitration at this late date because 1
unqualifiedly believe the city, ia- any
case, would get the worst of ttf'V,;:-
p: : Bcent niddeu Purpose, "ff .'
"The actions of the O. R. & N.'Co.
point to '. one of two conclusions. By
introducing long-contested Issues, with
the Broadway bridge right-of-way trans
action, the railroad either hopes to pre
vent the building of the . bridge -or the
completion of the transaction, or if
thmka to take- advantage of the heed
of, the bridge to obtain property rights
that otherwise' would be impossible. J
have always thought the O. R.,& N. Co.
was back of the opposition to the
Broadway bridge," although I have never
obtained tangible evidence that my be
lief , was . correct . There has always
befcn evidence 'that some, powerful secret
agency waal behind the opposition to the
Broadway bridge, c ;
. "The South' Portland park "proposition
Is merely a sop to South Portland peo
ple. Th railroad believed that If the
South Portland people . think they are ;
Lo' be benefited they will support the
railroad in its contentions. Aa soon as
I read the letter from the railroad this
morning, I made up my mind that It
was a joker to get the best of the city.
I will never vote for it ; v
Folut Out Parallel, ;
"Jf the South Portland park site Is
approved the park board has power to
obtain it : The city has the same au
thority to condemn the. bridge approach
rights of way, . We have no more excuse
fo arbitrating witft the O. R. & N. com
pany than with Albera Bros. - We con
demned tire AlberS .Bros, property and
obtained it at a reasonable price. . Now,
I say that IS Albers Bros.' property was
worth but t7TJ)00 approximately, the
O. R. right of way on the opposite
side of the river Is not worth more
than, half as much.!: The proposal was
intended' to confuse the Issue, to eon
fuse the people and to get something
for nothing."
Mr. Lombard pointed out that the
cash value of .which Mr. Southerland
speaks was fixed to the satisfaction of
the railroad by Cv K.- Henry some time
ago, and . also that C. K. Henry's re
puted, ownership of the west halves of
blocks .? TJ and T. which i the' city at
torney is Investigating, has never been
cleared up. He declared.Jthre had been
no request for arbitration -until every
other means which the railroad could
exert had been tried. '
Councilman KubU made a statement
edmllar to that of Councilman Lombard.
He said that six councilmen at least
wtu oppose anything but condemnation.
- Judge Munly of the Northeast Side
Improvement association said this
morning that he and those he repre
sents would consent to arbitration, pro
vided the, arbitration extended to set
ting a price on the property values, de
sired by the O. R. & N.
CHILD IN ASYLUM
BURNED TO DEATH
Polted Prvu Lemwd Wire. ''
' Springfield, Mo., Dec. 13.In a fire
that destroyed 1 the. Children's' Home
earry"today-jRaipli "T?arnTs'rT"years old,
was burned to death. The child was in
the : sick ward and in the ' excitement
attending the rescue of the children in
the dormitories he was forgotten. ..His
charred body was found ,in the ruins of
the bniJdlng. ' Several children, are suf
fering from effects of smoke.
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First picture of the American fleet la English waters. - The battleship In the fp water Is the Nebraska, and
. astern is sea the Rhode Island. The Atlantic fleet In British waters uncK , Uar , Admiral Schroeder is
the most powerful the United States have ever assembled, and probably the most powerful fleet that has
t. ever crossed the Atlantic. A The substitution of the new type of "Dreadnanght" battleship causes' a'dia
.', placement 30,000 tons heavier than the fleet which Rear Admirals Evans and Sperry took round the;
'. 1 world thre0 years ago, and, like its predecessor, consists of sixteen battleships. Visits such as this which
the United States ships are' making to French as well as English ports have in the post been rare. . On
, only one other occasion indeed in the last quarter of a century has an American squadron visited Eng-'
lish ports. . - r ( ,. . . ' ,'
CONVENTION H-tDS.
SURE OF SUCCESS
FOR GOOD ROAOS
Bills Providing $2,000,000 for
X Ccitcr. Highways ' Approved
iand Adoption by Legislature
:k Confidently Expected. f (
TJnnlmously dotertnlned to proceed
energetically In a practical campaign for
good roads, the Oregon Good' Roads con
vention came to a close last night With
alight modifications five bills, providing
a - total of - nearly $2,000,000 for good
roads construction, were approved by the
convention for submission to the legis
lature at its next, session,' As a large
proportion of the delegates to the con
vention wera legislators-elect adoption
of the , bills and their enactment into
law Is confidently expected. . ,.
The state aid bill was changed to
provide for an appropriation of $880,000
Instead Of the originally planned $340,
000. This amount will be apportioned
among the counties that avail them
selves of the law in sums or ib,ooo lor
1811 and $10,000 for 181$.- To take ad
vantage of the preffered aid each cpun
ty must appropriate $20,000 to balance
each $10,000 given by the state, This
makes the total of appropriation for any
one county during two years $60,000,
instead of $90,000, aa was originally
planned, ' ' .
Bonainf Act JjnenOM. .''
The bonding act was amended so aa to
provide that bonds shall not draw
greater interest than 6 pe cent,, that
bonds muBt be sold at hot less than par
and In any, denomination desired by the
purchaser. This makes It possible for
every county to buy up its own good
roads bonds, or for tne people to buy
them, if it is so desired. - '
he bin providing, for tne creation oi
tha state highway board of three mem
bers with a state highway oommissioner
as its executive officer, was left un
changed.' An effort to increase the num.
ber of the members of the board to five
and to provide they be paid each, an an
nual salary or $2000 waa defeated. s
The two Convict labor bills, one pro
viding . for the l utilization of peniten
tiary prisoners On roads, and the other
for working city end county- prisoners
hi the same way, were left unchanged.
:y To the mind of Dr. Andrew C. Smith,
president of the Oregon Good Roada as
sociation, and Judge Lionel R Webster,
chairman of the executive committee of
the association, the convention and the
nature of its representation, point, to
the fact that the peed of a systematic
road building plan in Oregon is general
ly recognized. :. ;i i .r.
Not only that," aald Judge Webster
this morning, "but the representative
citizens of thte vstate are, together In
hearty support of the road building
plan ,that waa approved yesterday.
' Sclantiflo Roads Desired. ' 4
"Practical road maklngs to be rr
gou's greatest deve-opment; factor 'dm-
(Continued on Page Eighteen.)
ELLENSBURG, 4209;
. WENATCHEE, . 4050,
SAYS CENSUS BUREAU
Washington, fee. 13. Tha :
census bureau today . announced
the population of Ellensburg, ; 4
Wash., as . 4209; Wenatchee,
Wash, as 4050. '
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GOLD OF TMWIA
PECULIAR: HEHCE
CLUE TO THIEVES
Secret , Service! Men Hope ,to
Locato Culprits by Means of
Filings; Which Cannot Ordi
narily Be Identified. .
; (Dnited Prew Leased Wlre.1 ' '
Ban Francisco, , Dec 13. With - sev
eral . suspects under arrest in connec
tion with the robbery of $57,000 in gold
bullion from the steamer HUmboldt, se
cret serviee - agents today- bent their
energies toward ' identifying the gold
filings alleged to have .been sold : by
the men under arrest and an endeavor
to trace "the supposed ' ringleaders of
the gang. "
The gold seized in the deposit vault
of the suspected men was filed into
small Pieces for easy disposal. These
ruinrs went among assayers and gold
brokers and ordinarily , could ndt be
identified as part of the stolen bullion.
The bullion was Tanaaa gold and the
detectives assert that It can be traced
because it la not like the product of juiy
other region. -- ..
The local police hold B. 1 Bmith.
Mrs. E. L. Smith, and two other sus
pects. The authorities are in posses
sion wf five bars of the bullion and as
sert that they have a clue that will lead
to the unearthing, of tha remainder at
Seattle, where, they claim., the arrest
of the ringleader of the gang Is Imml-
Conflict Between Troops and
Rebels That Began Sunday
; Still in Progress.
:' ' ICrfted Ptt Lnftj Wire.) , r
: El Paso, Texas, Dec. 13. A battle
between federal troops and lnsurrectos
20 miles from Pedernales, in the state
of Chihuahua, 'which began Sunday, Is
reported to. have resulted in great loss
of life.- Dispatches today indicate' that
the fight Is still In ' progress, but do
not say which, side haa the advantage..
v One message states : that the Insur
gents seized two machine guns at Ban
Andreas., v:: '.'
Trains are moving northward on the
Mexico f Northwestern railroad filled
with, women -and children, refugees
rrom the righting sona..vv.' ,.,&m?:j.
JOHN SPEAR, CALIFORNIA
j: PjQNEER. DJEAPj AGE 81
tVT& Press Le-Md ' Wir. 'K''.--1H
San Fran Cisco, Dea ; 1 3. JohqX!
SpcT.lyea'f STbf ler for many years
secretary of th Society of Pioneers of
California, Is dead at his home here.
Spar ; was , a prqmiiYent banker in his
early days in San Francisco and was a
member of the banking, firm of. Illcock
& Spear. Spoar came, to California in
1848 via Care lora
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Digestive - Organs Inert -and
Wealthy ' Statesman :.Lies;,in
Critical Condition; 'Malady
of Months' Standing.-
. fUnlted Prest Leaiwd WJre.)
Elklns. W. Va.. Deo. ,13. United
States Senator Stephen B. . Elklns of
West Virginia is reported to,', be sink
ing rapidly and his physicians fear he
cannot recover. Since last Wednesday
the' condition of Senator Elklns has
been critical. It Is said. Senator Elklns
baa been ill since the last session of
congress.
Washington, . Dec. 13. Surrounded
with luxury, yet starving to death ber
cause of Inability to assimilate food.
United States Senator Stephen B. Elklns
of West Virginia is near death, accord
ing to a report current here today. -
It is said that - the senator's chief
trouble Is Inability to digest food: and
that . aa a result, bis blood has become
Impoverished, It is asserted that he
has ' lost considerable weight and .that
his friends would not ,know htm, so
greatly has he changed, rjo one Is per
mitted to see the senator, although it
waa announced at the Elklna 'residence
last night that his condition was good
and that there was no cause for alarm.
Great Crowd Attends i Cross
; Examination; Important
Witnesses' to Follow. ,
Santa Rosa, C&U Dec. U.J-Lu Etta
Smith was again the center. of attrac
tion at the trial of Dr. WiUard P. Burke
today. Although the woman has told
many,; times her story, of the events
leading up to Dr. Jurke's arrest on the
charge of attempting to kill her with
dynamite, the crowd of spectators, was
as large today ss on any other day of
the trial and the announcement i thai
Miss Smith . would be; recalled to j the
stand for cross-examination drew . the
largest crowd that, haa yet assembled,
Important witnesses for ; the prose
cution i were scheduled ' to follow - MIhs
Smith on the stAnd. Dr. Addison W.
Hltt, formerly a- practicing surgeon at
Dr. Burke's sanitarium hero, was , ex
pected to: give the mosC'startling, infor
jmatlon'. Dr. . Hltt-is'. supposed to have
Irldden with br.'Burkje in a biliary from
Fulton to the sanitarium at Uie time
Dr. Burke la alleged to have bronsrht
4 -heymtte--wtthwtilea'-th''"SuUh
tent was blown up.;' ; i
-Miss Abbie L. Smith," formerly head
nurse at the sanitarium, and Miss Sa
die Dixon, a magazine , writer, who
wrote severalarticles for a periodical
published by ' Dr.' Burke," were amonj?
the other witnesses summonod ' tiat
have not hitherto figured in the ense.
SENATOR EU
AT DEATH'S DOOR
STARVATION
LU ETTA SMITH
; AGAIN OH STAND
Acting on Opinion of Their At
' torney That Bonds Not Lc
7 gaily .Safeguarded, Rollins
& Sons Want Check Back.
HAD PUT IN BID FOR
BLOCK OF $500,000
Pointed" Out That Congress
Must Consent to Building
of .Broadway Span.
Evidence of the continued efforts of
obstructionists to block the proponed
Broadway bridge waa received by City
Auditor Barbur this morning when a
letter arrived from E. II. Rollins & Soua,
bond buyers, of Chicago declining to
accept the - $500,000 ' block ' of bridgo
bonds recently awarded to the firm at
96.81. They declare that the opinion ot
their attorney holds that the bonds are
not legally safeguarded and that there
fore ,they cannot accept them.
A letter was also received from
Charles B. Wood, attorney for the firm,
in which he states facta indicating that
information had been furnished to him
by Portland people who did not. wish
him to rule in favor of the bonds. , .
Wood cites three supposed reasons
why the bonds re. not acceptable. lie
says first that proper notice of the
election- covering the bond Issue was not
given to the electors, and that there-1
fore it is not legal. He also says In
connection with, this ' point that he had
been sent a copy of the petition and a
record of the proceedings in the suit of
Klein an vs. 1 fhe city of Portland over
the bridge and that this, point la not
touched in the suit. f
The second reason cited by Wood la
based upon section 9 of i the rivers and
harbors bill, which provides -that the
consent of congress must be Secured be
fore a bridge can be constructed across
a navigable river and. that the' state
legislature must also lend its approval.
He declares that neither, of these two
conditions has' been compiled with. Wood
declares that he Is aware that, the su
preme court, of Oregon has passed upon
the matter, but that he cannot accept ,
the decision cf the state court as
against an act of congress, 1
A third reason named by Wood !s tMt
the suit has been, appealed and is now
pending in v the United , States elroc :t
court of appeals. 11a says, that t!i
would ";bi' good' and sufficient reason lor.
ruling adversely upon the bonds, if
there were no others. " '
In their letter to the auditor Rollins
& Song ask for the return of the $25,009
check deposited with him as a guaran
tee of their bid. They call attention to
the clause in their contract with the city
which provides that the bonds ara not
to be accepted if their attorney does not
regard them favorably.
(Continued on Page Six.)
DEED liJ CHICAGO
Detectives Seek Emil Mathias,
for Whom, They Believe,
Hyde Was Writing Letter
: When He Was Murdered.
fTJnltcd Press la-4 Wlre.J
Chicago Dec." 13. In a blood stained,
tpk blotted letter, that was being writ
ten by Nathan-B. Hyde," formerly rnlt
ed States commissioner in southern Ore
gon, as he was struck and killed, the
police; today believe they , hold a cluo
to the murderer." c Detectives ar tswk
ing i Emit Mathias In iconnection .with
the crime, believing that Hyde was
writing, the" letter-for Mathlaa
Hyde's body was discovered when his
blood ran through the floor snd dripped
from: the - ceiling of the room below.
This room was occupied by srathin
but the police have learned that h van
with Hyde Bhortly before the latter was
killed. , -..'
The murdered man. was struck on the
head with a crowbar, On a table bt-.
fore htm was the following note: ' '
.' "Mr. E, F. . Seott:, , I am a rrru;t
player seeking employment I-plnyed
with Bousa'a band in New Tork. I can
also-play-1 "
Hera a large Ink blot ended tho sentence,-
evidently thrown whn the rrmr
derers weapon crashed through Hydu'a
skull.' ;:;:..' :t' :;;":.- ' v y.' :' '
The police claim t" have evtilenen that
Hyde waa writing the letter for Matliiaa,
REYES CALLEdIEaE
,BY DIAZ, 13 REPORT
T'iiltd Pri Lrx4 WU.
Washington,'-. Dec
nardo Reyes, practli-ali b!irit(.hr.i
Miee,e'Tisf 1)'f.afr: . ' v. , ,
tioned in cotini!CtUn with tr
presidency a little more than a
aeo. is to return to hi. own (
liaports hero, oomlng'
sources ore tluif- T'ri-t!(
sumtnotx 1 iii'-i b.i. k hi.
to muke J.i i lB u-i,. 1
rrcKl'I'.-rify,
1
jATW B. HYDE
VICTIM OF FOUL
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