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" ' PORTLAND,;: OREGON, FRIDAY' EVENING,' FEBRUARY r;fo 1918-TWENTY.TWO PAGES.
VOL. X. NO. 291. ,
PRICE ; TWO " CP NTS 0,r thaws a wis mrwa
Will Probe County. Court Deals
Governor to Name Committee
Expense to Be Met by County
ENTHUSIASTIC AS
CAR RUNNING AX " y':-y enlist if drafted5
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EXPERT1NGB00KS
Action of West Follows Re
quest of East Side Business
Men; Grand Jury's Report
Finds Court's Methods Lax.
' .Governor Welt will appoint ft com'
mlttee of cltlsens and ah expert ac
countant to $o into the recorda of tha
Multnomah county court. - ,
The- recorda of business, transactions
and the administration of all county In
stltutions, Including- tho court Itself,
will bo exhaustively gone Into, accord-
lnr to the' present plan.
The charges of shady deals In the
court, In the operation of the county
farm, and the county hospital, will be
sorutinlsed.
Governor West agreed last night to
appoint the committee, at the Instance
of the executive board of the East Side
Business Men's club. When County
Judge Cleeton spoke before the club
last Monday he suggested that its ex
ecutive board appoint a committee of
Investigation and employ an expert In
vestigator and accountant, saying all
expense would be borne by the county.
President Dan Kellaher of the East
Bide Business Men's club said he did
not believe the club was sufficiently
high in authority to take such proced.
ure.
Coventor to Aot.
Immediately following the governor's
address before the East Side. Business
Men's club and the United East Side
Improvement association last night, a
special meeting of the executive board
of the club was held. The governor
was asked If "ha would make the ap
pointments. He said he would.
"I do not want to be understood as
Intruding In the affairs of Multnomah
" county," said Governor West this morn,
lng.
. "But with the understanding that
Judge Cleeton first suggested the , ap
pointing of an Investigator, whose sal
ary would be paid by the county, I am
willing to make the appointment and
will do so as soon as the matter - has
been formally submitted to .me. ...
Oansored by Grand Jury.
. The grand Jury yesterday returned a
report severely censuring the manage
ment of county affairs by the county
court, and calling attention to serious
laxness in the administration of the
county's business and institutions.
Complaint was made several days ago
that the county had permitted a system
which allowed the clerk of the court,
Robert Shaw, to procure a piece of
county property at about one-third of
Its lntrlnslo value.
Superintendent Jackson of the eoun-
(Continued on Page Five.)
FJGHT TO BREAK WILL
(United Press Leased Win
Redwood City, ' Cal., Feb, 9. Argu
ments on the habeas corpus petition for
jthe release of Samuel R. Timothy, slay
Ur of John J. Moore, will be heard to
morrow by Superior Judge Buck. At
the same time Mrs. Lillian I Moore
will be arranging to contest the will
filed by Jefferson Moore, the dead man's
on, by the terms of which Mrs. Moore
lscutoffwlth.il.
Through her new attorneys, Mrs.
Moors has obtained an order from Judge
'Buck requiring Jefferson. Moore and his
.counsel to produce any and all wills of
'the late capitalist which they may have
their possession.-' Judge Buck named
.February IT an the date for the Instru-
MMtfl A Via tit-All rtlf intft Mil r ftit ih
10W MOORE BEGINS
same day Judge Buck will hear the pe- valleys are flooded; that the populace
r,,V ..vn vT.e'ls ln a panic; that the Seville electrio
tltion of Jefferson Moors asking thst... . ,m t - rAn . thmt
the will cutting off Mrs. Moore bo ad
mitted to probate.
SENATORS TURN DOWN
SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION
Washington, Feb. 9. By a vote of 8
to 2 the senata committee on exposi
tions today killed the Raker resolution
asking the president to Invite partlcl-
patlon of Latin-American nations In the
San Diego Panama exposition In 191B,
Senators. Works and Newlands were the
. only, members of the committee who
voted in favor of the resolution. '
LOVELORN ELOPERS, 21, 16, 19, 14 YEARS OF
AGE, ARE PREVENTED FROM BEING MARRIED
.. (Special to The Journal)
. The Dalles, Or, Feb. 9. The hopes
:; and happiness of two counles of ebil-
and v whose hearts beat as one" wera
, ungated oy .waseo. county s ever- alert
- psutri a.. cwisiusk 1 ju v utm iukvi"
ferenoe they possibly would have at-
talncd ; thlr hnna. anil ra fM ' tia.v
MMirr .at Ar t ua ab his s w. am
been sedate married men and women.
returning to their- fond parents at
'Waahoutral. . ' - ..
L The : youngsters are Esther and Jen-
1 me ioageti, sisters, agea .it ana i lb,
tuiuAtlnln fort T1nlr ' 41 1 mA
. THisraiT noon DT i mi norm hark
T. J. Cleeton, Judge of Multnomah
County Court.
DISTRICT "ATTORNEY
Promises' to Conduct It In a "Fear
less, Honest and Impartial Man
ner"; Biz Now Seek This Office in
the April Primaries.
(Salem Boreas ef Tbe Joornat)
Salem, Or., Feb. 9. Declaration to be
come a candidate on the Republican
ticket for the nomination for the office)
of - district attorney .of Multnomah
county . was filed - today by George J.
Cameron, present.' Incumbent of the of
fice. He states his platform as fol
lows: "I will during my term ef office) eon-
duct the same in a fearless, honest and
impartial manner."
District Attorney Cameron's an
nouncement Is believed to complete the
field of candidates for his office, there
being six In all. The other candidates
are Walter H. Evans, Allan R. Joy,
W. A. Carter, Seneca Fouts and George
N.Davis.
Cameron may also have to face a re
call election in April, the petitions for
recall having been circulated under di
rection of Councilman James Maguire
and held up for the time being, so that
the date of the recall election can be
made to coincide with the primaries.
If the recall petition is filed next
month it will be up to the various can
didates to decide, whether they will also
file as candidates for the unexpired
term of Cameron, running until January,
1913.
Charles H. Carey of Rlverdale, Mult
nomah county, filed today his declara
tion to become a candidate for delegate
to the national Republican convention.
ALFONSO TO SUPERVISE
WORK OF FLOOD RESCUE
Madrid, Feb. 9. King Alfonso and
Queen Victoria started today' for the
scene of the big floods in the south
western part of the empire, where scores
of persons have perished and thousands
of aores of land are inundated. The
king plana personally to supervise the
work of rescue and relief. The Mana
sares rtver here Is swollen to a point
havnnA anv itatA reanhAd In tmfl Th I
minister of works is already in Seville.
He has telegraphed that the Andaluslan
light plant is out of operation, and that
the elty Is In darkness by night,
Two trains, on the Cadis line are re
ported caught in the flood,, and a boat
bound for La Algaba Is said to have
capsized. , " i
' Rebels 'Besiege City.
Washington, Feb. (. Dispatches re
ceived at the state department say that
1600 rebels1 are besolgtng the city of
Santa Rosalia,, in the state of Chihua
hua, Mexico, and that' disorders ar' re
ported, from Matamoraa, Vera Cms, Hi
dalgo and .Parras. At the last named
places strikes have been added to the
other disturbances. ,
restaurant and had Just started out In
search of the necessary papers that
would permit them to be married, when
Sheriff Chrlsman, who had been noti
fied by wire' to look out for them, dis
covered them on the Street and took the
four adventurers Into custody,' locking
the boys in the county jail and placlnt
tbe girls under guard. Jr ' ' - t '
Both girls and boys were very much
put out over having their arrangements
thua Interrupted, and say they will
wait . until they t are old enough, . then
show the parents that they will . get
married anyway. Their plan was to get
married In -The Dalles,' then go to Shor
man county where the boya expected to
get work on farms . and soon earn
enough to buy homes and properly cars
for their wives. '
GEORGE
CAMERON IS
AGAIN AFTER OFFICE OF
Early Morning Disaster; at End
of Couch Street, Near 19th,
Shrouded in Deepest Mys
tery.
WRECKED MACHINE AND
HAT THE ONLY EVIDENCE
Car Belongs to W. E. Dyer
but -Identity of Occupants
Is Unknown.
Speeding westward on Couch street at
the rate, of BO miles an hour a large
touring r leaped the curbing abutting
me end of Couch at Nineteenth, plunged
down an eight foot embankment, seri
ously injuring two of the five occu
pants at S o'clock this morning.
xne automobile- belongs to W. E.
Dyer, a wealthy Portland man, who
lives at .Wlnchell and Derby streets in
Kenton, and other than this fact the
affair is .steeped In mystery. . Dyer has
not been located, although he Is the ob
ject of a search. Members of his fam
ily declare he has not been at home
since yesterday noon and disclaim all
knowledge of his whereabouts.
The machine strangely ' escaped with
only minor damage, although It was
burled in the mud up to the fenders,
the hood being deeply Impressed into
the sod. ,
A few minutes after 3 o'clock a re
port like a gunshot rung out, awakening
sleepers for. a block in every direction.
Then a" clanking rush of tbe auto, a
woman's scream and a crash ended the
noise. Windows were thrown up all
about the spot and after a bit of si
lence a party of four were seen to sup
port a woman who -was unconscious.
One of the women, a handsomely dressed
brunette of about 37 years, awakened
Mrs. W. J. Fletcher and asked to use
her telephone. The visitor was so fright
ened, shocked and excited that she
could not telephone and got Mrs. Fletch
er to call a taxlcab. This done, the
woman departed almost hysterically af
ter telling of the other woman's injury.
Bat Aato ana Sat I,eft.
A few moments later the purr of a
swiftly moving auto was hiard and in
a trice the party had decamped, leav
ing but the automobile and a hat to
show early risers of their catastrophe.
Tbe hat. althoi zh battered. Is appar
ently a new derby and was bought from
the Chicago Clothing company in Spo
kane, Wash. The Initials pasted Inside
were "P. W. J." This Is supposed to
be the hat of .the man who, was Injured.
The automobile is a ffO-horepower
four-cylinder American touring car. The
front lamps are demolished and the fen
ders bent The front axle is probably
warped from the great strain cast upon
it by bumping into a small embankment
after plunging down the street - level.
The large robe In the bottom of the car ,
had no Initial to show its ownership.
At the place the car left the street
the curbing is fully 12 Inches high, and
this caused one of the tires to burst
with a thunderous report. The car
track shows that It actually left the
ground for 10 or 12 feet after Hitting
the sidewalk curbing of Nineteenth
street. Then It sped across the grass
for more than 100 feet, until it plunged
down the embankment Just behind the
Reo garage, which fronts on Washing
ton at Trinity Place. The machine missed
a tree by a foot, but bad It struck, this;
certain death to more than one must
have resulted, because of the high speed
It was maintaining. It was on the high
speed s;ear when found this morning.
Wont Bisouss Affair.
Friends of Dyer are loth to discuss
the affair, and one or two show signs
of knowing much more than they care
(Continued on Page Five.)
JOYRIDERS HURLED OVER EMBANKMENT FROM
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Bwu ot automobito
TITLE EMPEROR IS
TO BE ABOLISHED
Transfer of Chinese Capital
From Peking to Nanking Is
Also Rebel Demand; Reign
ing Family to Be Pensioned.
(United Pres Lea4 Wire.)
Washington, Feb. 9. Dispatches from
China to the state department today de
clare that the Manchu princes have
agreed that the Imperial title shall die
with tbe present emperor. United States
Minister Calhoun reports that Yuan Shi
Kat has accepted the ultimatum of the
rebels and that an annuity probably will
be given to the Imperial clan as part of
the bargain by which China becomes a
republic.
The republicans, Calhoun says, oppose
the emperor's formal proclamation of a
republic and it Is probable that the
imperial edict to that effect will be
withdrawn.
As a final demand the republloans in
sist that the capital of China shall be
transferred from Peking to Nanking.
Gaekwar Wins Degree.
(United Prew Leased Wlre.t
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 9. Jalslnt
Gaekwar, heir apparent to the throne of
Baroda, India, after winning his de
gree of A. B. at Harvard In three years
and a ha'f lnatead of four year, today
U r reps ring for his return to India.
wreck, showing . damaged . . nughlivv at
N CH NA FOREVER
JUAREZ IMS IB BERLIN
: IvATTLE
PROBABLE TODAY
--
El Paso Authorities Fear That
When Troops Manth to In
ternational Bridge;, Clash
Will Come.
(United Preu Leased Wire
Ire
El Paso, Texas, Feb. 9. A tf ttle be
tween Mexicans on American tk nl Is a
probability today as , a result of the
reported mutiny of Juarez .mrales.
Armed with two heavy cannf n and
having ISO horses, the mutinesi rs ar
rived at Juarez today. At the same
time several hundred Mexican I roops
are en route to Juares from Eagls Pass
over American territory. The a ollco
here fear that when the Mexican II roops
attempt to march through the atre f ts of
El Paso and cross the lnternau( onal
bridge Into Juarez, they will be attts. ked
by the ruralos and fighting will r tilt
Wilson Wires Revolt Spreading .
Unlte4 PreM Lnnd Wlre.r 1
Washington, Feb. 9. Ambassal or
Henry Lane Wilson, representing I he
United States In Mexico, today ti e
graphed the state department here tp it
the revolt against the Madero gove (i -ment
is spreading, and that Amerlc a n
citizens from the Interior are flockl a g
to Mexico City for protection. i
Rebels control the railroad and tel
a-
(Continued on Page Seven)
FLYING AUTO
end oX . Couch street.
MUTINY
JOURNEY MAY STOP
WLV IVY RACE
Now Believed Minister's Visit
to Germany Was to Halt
Expensive. Competition in
Expahsjonavies ... ,
(Unite Press Leased Wlra.
London, Feb. 9. It is declared hers
today by the Pall Mall Gazette that
the real purpose of the visit of Lord
Haldane, British minister of war, to Ber
lin Is to discuss a plan to and the dread
naught building race, which is costing
both governments many millions, and
not to secure the release of Bert rand
Stewart, convicted In Germany and Im
prisoned as an English spy.
Announcement that Germany planned
to spend many more millions In building
battleships is believed today to have been
the real Inspiration for tb hurried visit.
Glasgow, Feb. 9. Assertion that the
naval supremacy of Great Britain is
necessary for the preservation of the
empire, was made here today by Win
ston Spencer Churchill, first lord of
the admiralty. He said:
"It is absolutely necessary that our
naval program continue, regardless of
the activity of any other nation. No
other country is confronted with prob
lems Identical with ours. In the event
Of other nations continuing increasing
their naval strength, England will con-
Q'tlnue to Increase her ratio. Thua Great
I Britain will easily outdistance other
powers to sucn an extern tnai it win
le hopeless for them to attempt to fol-
I w.
"With Great Britain naval power Is a
r wesstty. while with Germany It Is a
la xnry."
Berlin, Feb. 9. Lord Haldane, British
ml ntster of war, whose vlolt here has
can scd much international speculation,
wal today the guest of Emperor Wil
liam . , The luncheon was purely ' social,
audi ho Inference of the object of the
Brll h war minister's hurried trip hers
wasfc gleaned.
TS Imperial chancellor. Dr. von
Betla ann-Hollweg, Admiral Alfred von
TlrpT is. minister of marine, and Gen
eral S Poslah von Heerlngen, minister of
war, l;were introduced. .
Fl
AT
F URGED T
:i"rlta PrM TnA Wire.)
Tien ; tTsln. Feb. 9. Reports reached
here toi dy that republican artillery had
shelled fn Imperial fortress at Kalptng
for 10 h burs and had finally foroed tbe
garrison . to surrender. TKe loyalist
command tr during the engagement Is
reported have executed numerous of.
fleers, act aed of conspiring with the
rebels.
GERMAIIS
WILL STAGE
LEGGED? BALLET
"BARl-
(Unit
Berlin, Fel
I Pri tMd Wlre.J - "
9. with ughts declared
to be obsolei
and bare legs the real
article, a la
adora Duncan, theatrtool
clroles hers t
day are agitated over the
he "bare legged ballet"
question of
There are pr
testa, but the managers
are apparentlj
dotermlued to follow th
lead set by arts and use "the more
classic and el resslve," If less clothed,
balieU hereaft'l r. Of course, It's in the
(PRESS
.
0 SURRENDER
Interest ef Art,!' '
As Transformation In Work
ings of State; Institutions
Are Shown, Hearers Are at
Once West Boosters. :
GOOD ROADS GOOD
BUSINESS,: HE SAYS
Pictures Show Plainly Need of
Improved Highways; Other .
Speakers.
a
Where Oovernor Bpeaxa. i
4 Governor West will speak la
behalf of good roads on ' the
street at tbe corner of Fourth
and Alder streets this evening
at 7:90 o'clock.
Wbare to SIra Fetitlona.
The Journal, business effloe,
Fifth and TamhilL '
Merchants National' bank; 8eo-
ond and Washington. ' .
i Beall Se Co, S09 Blast TamhlTL
Umbdenstook & Larson, Fourth
and Oak.
United States National bank,
Third and Oak. ! ,
0 W. J. Clemons, t Commercial
Club bunding. . .
Hartman & Thompson, ground
4i floor Chamber of Commeroo
s building.
Brady A Oliver, cigar store.
4 Teon building lobby. . ..
Paolflo States Telephone oom-
pany, Seventh and Oak.
Chapln A Herlow, 9S3 Cham-
0 ber of Commerce building.
Packard Garage, Frank C
- Rlggs, Twenty-thira and Cornell
road.
- Peninsula National bank, St.. . 4
Johns. i
Of floe Oregon Association 4
Highway Improvement, 92t
Board of Trade building. .
George W. Bates & Co, bank-
ers, 83 Fourth, street.
Clark-Cannon Co, f
4 Trade building. .
Home Telephone
Beard of
oompany.
4 Park and Burnslde.
Ai Summit Investment company,
119 Kllllngswortb. .
L J. Greco, S08 Henry bldg.
. Charles Vlsetta, regent Italian
consulate, 29 Cast EUghth';
street.
Builders' Cxchang . Second ,
and Alder.
a a-
"Good roada is good bualneaa" de
clared 'Governor West as the basis of
argument for adequate highway legisla
tion in an address last night at the Bast
Side Branch library, given ,nnder the
auspices of the Bast Bids . Business
Men's club. . i , i-'
"Bonds proposed for roads," ha added,
"are but pledging tho state's credit for
necessary business . expansion and die-r
trlbuting the cost ever a number of 1
years." ; ' , !;.? .
The men and women who listened last
night to Oovernor West wera amaaed
and made enthusiastic by.' his shewrng
of the transformation In the appearanee
and working of the stats Institutions.
He had a new series of stereoptlcon
slides to show how weed patches about
(Continued on Page Seven)
EVIDENCE AGAINST N. B.
HARVEY
Sheriff Mass Calls Wltneaaea Befora
Clackamas Grand Jury, Saying AH
the 6tat Knew Was Not Present. '
ed at the Former Hoaring. -
fSpeelal to Tbe Joaraal.t
Oregon City, Or.,- Feb. 9.-The grand
lury today began Investigating ths mur
der of the William Hill family at Arden
wald Station. Witnesses to . testify
against Nathan B. Harvey, the wealthy
Mllwaukls nurseryman, were summoned.
Harvey was arrested on a charge of eom-
mlttlnr ths crime once before, put was
dismissed by Justice of the Peace Sam
son at the preliminary hearing. '
Subpenas wars served , last . night by
Sheriff Mass and Deputy Sheriff Miles.
Mass declared today that he did not in
troduce all the witnesses he had at ths
preliminary hearing of Harvey, thinking
the evidence ho Introduced ' would be
sufficient to hold the accused. Mass
ts confident that the nurseryman will
be indicted, but George C. Brownell,
who represented Harvey at ths hearing,
declares there Is nothing against his
client. '. 1
At the preliminary hearing it was
shown that Harvey employed Bowermsn
it Abel. Portland lawyers, agreeing to
pay them $20,000 to defend him la ease
of his arrest. He said that men came
to his home In an automobile, told him
ths wooda were "full, of sheriffs and de
tectives," who were after him, and ad
vised him to employ counsel, lie sal t
he Waa frightened by ; the report, and
while In that stats he went ts Portland
and signed the contract The prosecu
tion also tried to fix the time of the
murder at, about , 1:4S o'clock In tbe
morning, and witnesses said they had
seen Harvey at Ardenwald Station at
:0 o'clock. ; A-neighbor of the It:!:
said ha was awakned by his dogs hurt
ing at about 12:60 o'clock, and a cl
whloh'Was found on ths floor of
of the rooms in the IIII1 home ! .-. 1
stopped at Uil o'clock. It arf l
that ths slayer knocked tits cio x n
a taoia
,
train, naa eaten weir ainner in a Meat
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