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- r t ;u:;day journal. Portland, :.u. no:: 1CII 1 1 FEB 7 ',ILS,aS.llie FMBAFATiEB Letter From Cabot, Wis., Pur ports to Be From Man Who Is Believed to Have Died 25 Years Ago. ' velt delegates poUeJ a plurality of two anil one-tia;f to one over the Taft nun. A 6olid Roosevelt delegation to the state convention will be chosen. Republican primaries were also held in Denver today to choose a new city committee. The Taft men carried them overwhelmingly, indicating a Taft dele gation from Denver to the stata Re publican convention. (Sped! to The Journal. 1 1 Fendleton, Or.. March 9. Mabel Younp Warner, who has found a num ber of alleged wills to the estatj of James W. Younjf of Weston, and who has been tried three times on forrery charges, has made another startling discovery but this time It was not a will. . Today sha announced receipt of what purported to be a letter from her father -whom-shs -supposed - to -hsvs died 25 years ago. The letter, she says. Is short, the writer saying he had read an account of the last trial and recog nised the picture In the paoer by its resemblance to his sister. It is post marked, she says, from Cabot, Wis., and sipmed by Michael R. young, her fath er's name. Michael R. Young was the. youngest brother nf Jamaa-Wv-Toang-f-Westo, over whose estate there has "been so much litigation. He Is supposed to have died of typhoid fever 25 years .ago in the Good Samaritan hospital in Port land, and after his supposed death, his widow married J. W. Young and Mabel - went- to Uva with them. Whetherrthla letter Is. a new, move In the famous case is the Question being debated - here. : ' , '--'" Mrs. Warner says she has received so many letters and documents through tlu mall I hut ah fa CTOWlnff SUSDtClOUS. but will nevertheless make an. attempt to find whether the missive Is authen- day that she will make na attempt to Tprobe Will No.' 7." but win leave that -matter to her brother, Fred Toung of waua w ajia. . - - RooseTelt to Take Stamp. Oyster Bay, N. Y., March 9. "I have made up my mind that I Khali have -to make some speeches." This was the announcement by Colonel Roosevelt to night after he had received a telegram from Governor Stubbs of Kansas, telling him that there. were more than 1,000,000 voters in the wee tern states who refused to become interested in the campaign. '1 had hoped that I could keep out of going on the stump." the colonel said. "but they are pressing me hard. I don't know yet where I shall go or when I shall start, but it will be soon." U was regarded as likely that the colonel would begin his trip within the next 10 days. His managers have sug gested addresses in Ohio, Illinois, Indi ana, Michigan. Kansas. Pennsylvania and the New England states. DEMOCRATS 0FMAR10N . TO HAVE FULL TICKET WILSON MANAGERS . . , ;SAY CABAL; FORMED" !; , VERSUS JERSEYMAN (Continued from Page One.) , office, will be .temporary chairman, the recognition being given him for being first to break into Republican strong' holds In the state. ' . There were 11 proxies la the meeting, a. circumstance that robbed any vote taken of any political significance it might have had If the entire committee membership had been present The proxies were gathered In for Walla Walla's fight to get the conven ,tton and the showing made by Spokane, Aberdeen and North Yakima as contend' ers for the conference of Bourbon lead ers was not serious enough to give the affair the air of a al fight Walla Walla polled IJ of the 30 votes oast to decide a convention city. North Yak ima getting four, Aberdeen three and fipokane one; ,,;. - Seven presidential electors are to be nominated. A total of TIT delegates will iiave seats in the state meeting. - - , that the tax rate should be reduced by " a drastic system of economy and be brought to a maximum of 10 mills for all purposes, within the city limits on a fair valuation for assessments, and as low rate outside as is consistent with efficiency, as against 2i.t mills on a full valuation which we ara now paying." MAYOR IS ASKED TO ABATES Ml UiOUIORilUL Salem, Or., March f. Marion county Democrats In mass meeting here today adoj!tedareaoluUonV-fa vorlng the aboM lshment of the office of county record er, declaring it to be a useless appen dage In county government and there fore a needless expense. That a complete county ticket made up of the strongest Democrats avail able, ts to be put In the field in Marlon county was the keynote.of the meeting. To make this effective a committee of 10 members was appointed to urge Democrats to get Into the race. Special stress is to be placed on candidates for the legislature, as the Democrats are particularly hopeful of winning a majority of the delegation, Before naming the committee of 10 resolutions were adopted, one decrying the present high taxes and asserting Unless something Is done by the city council to eradicate the fast grow ing smoke nuisance, Portland will come to be known aa the "city of clouds and smoke clouds," says a letter received yesterday by Mayor Rushlight from the City and County. Medical society. At a recent meeting the society adopt ed resolutions calling on the council to abate the smoke . nuisance and declar ing that the smoke from oil burning fur naces ail over . the city is becoming costly, not only to the financial inter ests of the city, but to the public health. Mayor Rushlight will refer the letter to the city lawmakers and a committee will-probably -be appointed next-week to devise ways and means of bettering conditions. Councilman. Burgard lias al ready introaucea an ordinance providing the chimneys be equipped with -smoke consumers. . ElSl'S Rj'ii! PLEASES Pffl San Francisco Divine Finds : Conditions at Salem Very Satisfactory. MERCHANT INDICTED -. FOR POISONING 00G SaTem, Or., March . Seven Indict ments were returned today by the grand Jury, charging . Isador Greenbaum, merchant and former member of city council, with poisoning the dog of Mrs. E. A. King; Julius pe Fore, with larceny; Peter O'Malley with larceny Roy Hoi comb with criminal assault on girls:. H. H. Williams with forgery, John T. McNamara with larceny; George Bark with obtaining money un der false pretenses. Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, rector of the Church of the Advent, San Francisco, and a student of prison reformation, who has been investigating the Oregon state prison at Salem, being especially Inter ested in Governor West's honor system. was much Impressed with the satisfac tory conditions be found there.- , Rev. Lathrop came up to Portland Friday, and In speaking of prison re form he said: "I believe that Governor West has taken the longest step that has yet been taken towards better prison condi tions. I was much Interested in his honor system, and upon investigating its operation .1 was surprised at its con ssrvatism. I had Imagined that the prison doors were Just thrown open and the inmates allowed a great deal of freedom. I find, however, that there are several qualifications which must be met to entitle a man to a place on the honor roll. It la a splendid move In the right direction;; Governor"" West "has, "I be lieve, many prerogatives lnprison mat. tera.that are not granted other state ex ecutives. He has the vested authority to Inaugurate many reforms. "One condition that is In my opinion a crying shame exists in Oregon'as In many other stateaThat 4s the f actof sending a discharged prisoner, out into the world with, a suit of clothes and 15. That doesn't give the ' prisoner a fair show. That such conditions exist is a re proach on the public Into, which the ex convict Is thrown. In San Francisco a movement is on foot for a municipal employment agency, the purpose of which. shall be finding employment for men Just released, from prison. I think it la but a matter of timet until each state will legislate 'f or the benefit of such unfortunates. There Is evidently need of such action in Oregon. "I relieve that not more than SO per cent of the men) in jails in this country are really bad. Many have been put there as a result ef unfortunate circum stance, and they should not be subjected to the name punishment that is given the really hard criminal. I believe In remedial punishment" Rev. Lathrop will talk at St Stephens pro-Cathedral at 11 o'clock this morning on thu subject "Prison Reform and the Duty of Churchmen to Prisoners." C.E.S.1' if 0 A DR E SSES SOUTHERN ASSOCIA II IDEM LOB OF PHILLIPS SID BY RECEIVER IE Some Notes Secured by Land Not Worth Face Value, He Tells Jurymen at Kalama; Trial Will Be Long Drawn. C E. S. Wood was the speaker at the weekly luncheon of the Association! of Southern men at the Portland Com mercial club yesterday afternoon. Mr. Wood touched upon the history of the: south and the part played by the south erners in the history of the country. He Bald that the south, like Oregon, had vast natural resources awaiting de velopment. . . !-, V Incidentally, the speaker pointed out that the future success or failure of any country depends entirely upon how its economic questions are met' "Any country will go down and out he predicted, "unless the economic prob lems are solved so that the masses are not steeped in poverty and the classes overburdened with wealth." Dr. Hamilton . Johnson was appointed chairman fo-the-ltmcheon next Satur day, whan steps will be taken to per manently organize the . association., 75 New Members In On Block. :. (Special to The Journal.) ; Pendleton, Or., March S. A whirl- wmd-membertMp campaign-was "began here this morning by the Commercial club committee and In less than two hours it . had succeeded In adding 75 names to the roster in one block of the business ' district This .is the first step In-the move of the 'new adminis tration for a greater .and better organ isation. - The United States supplies more than half the oleomargarine used by . Nor way, several million pounds a year. -i Special t The Journal.) Kalama, Wash.. March I. The session of the case against H. C. Phillips, presi- oem or the Commercial bank at Van couver, on his second trial for aoceptlng deposits when he knew the bank to be insolvent, -was given this afternoon to the testimony by M. B. Kles. receiver for the closed Institution. This testi mony consisted almost exclusively of Identifying notes and accounts and other items which the examiner said were not collectible on account of poor security. Many of these notes and loans were made upon land and other property not considered worth the vaitfe of the loan. The accounts show1 the loans to be from various parts of Clackamas county and vicinity. The receiver-said he had made attempt to collect these Items, but had failed. In a few cases, he had been able to realize something, however. Kles did not finish this evening and will be on the stand the greater part of Mon day, i ' ' - i .. Assistant Attorney General Drowley or .vvasningxon conducted the examln tlon of the receiver. The prosecution this .time is reading, into the record and before the Jury much evidence that was not introduced In the first hearing. A considerable part of this evidence con sists of letters from the bank examiner to the bank. In which the examiner con tinually called attention to matters that appeared improper and not in accordance with the best banking Judgment In the first, trial, many of these letters were not reaa io ine jury or into the record, i.Lj,.u rl.i SECURiuGSlGHATURES What is regarded as a record in filling a nomination petition was accomplished between the hours of 8:30 Friday even ing and S o'clock yesterday afternoon when W. Irving Spencer secured 435 signatures of registered voters to his petition aa Republican candidate f or v representative irom this district The record wan nM.ipv ,lnn. tfc petition must have been filed yester- ujr ior ir. spencer to receive a write- uy iu ute canaiaates- pamphlet He States that if elected ho wtn good roads legislation without vUndue uuruen io me j taxpayers, more laws based on business principles. Improved method of lwin, - W ' a .. . w iMACOfc CJLCUip. tlon of household furniture to the value fjvn irom taxation, proper laws for the. protection of fish and game and adeauata lea-lslntlnn tnr h. n,M..n,. and development of 4he , natural re- vuivcb vi me state. - He wants the foiiowfhr 1, good roads, limited exemption house hold goods from taxation." Mr, EiDenCer la mtmnr nt th. Oi-t- land Tool Works and nl4A. - - - - igbiuc, ai ia Larrabee street He la a son of Capt a. . oyemjer, a l ortiana pioneer, and a brother of Capt. Charles B. Spencer. but it was proposed 'to read them In the argument A" time limit on the argument and, the prosecution merexore waa unanje to present this evi-- aence to the jury. . 4 : ' fSlnA th. VtMAaAM.I.Inw I. . ...,. . . . intenuon of reading into the record all papers, documents and bits of eviin tha hpn rln tr will K tHlAii. xne uetense aiso ' proposes inserting much documentary evidence, which will make the trial long. , It la not expected by the attorneys that the case can be completed next week. , , ' I,. o (An ambulance used by a Buffalo ho-' pita! for the treatment of contagious diseases Iff equipped with several alumi num linings, which can be removed for disinfection and to save a person af flicted With one disease contracting an other, i X-VkALESMAN; ' NLrMTTaTpviw jCV ULLIVCK ,J- you selected in - Republicans Divided, In Indiana, ' tt'nllfd rrm teed Wire. -- Indianapolis, March . The fight be i tween the supporters of President Taft and former President Roosevelt for th Indiana delegation to the Republican -convention at Chicago promises to gain much momentum in the coming week. ' Secretary of Commerce and Labor Na gel will come to Indianapolis Monday night to speak at a Taft meeting. On Wednesday evening former Senator Al bert J. Beveridge of Indiana will be the chief speaker at a statewide Roosevelt meeting here. National Committeeman Harry 8. New asserted tonight that Indiana will send a solid delegation of SO to the Chicago convention, which will vote for the re . nomination of the, president The Roose velt forces believe they will capture a fair proportion of the delegates. Separate Conventions field. ' (By -the International News Ber1e.t Eanta Fe, N. M March '. Two.two- - ' day Republican state conventions closed here this afternoon when the 1 stand- - patters who controlled elected eight dele- gates and eight alternates " to the Re . publican national convention at Chicago instructed to vote for the renomln&tlon of President Taft and a separate con vention of Progressive Republicans - elected delegates pledged to Colonel Roosevelt ... .Until this morning it had been expected that the standpatters and progressives would be ble to agree on a program whereby Roosevelt and Taft could divide the state's delegation, but the Taftltes refused to agree and ; .insisted on sending a solid Taft dele gation. tf Fight in Kansas. (United Prn Lnied Wire. I Topeka, Kan., March . The fight be- - tween Champ Clark and Governor WU- - on for the Kansas delegation to the Democratic national; convention prob ably will be settled on the floor of the stale convention, at-Hutchinson next Thursday. Returns today from county conventions show that Clark has 217 and Wilson 209 instructed delegates. Wilson 'claims S3 and Clark 19 of the unln- structed delegates. ' , "-, ' Reports from, nearly 30 counties to bold conventions Monday are yet to be received and the indications are that the candidates will go Into the .state -con-' vention with about equal strength.- , Vf i Clark Strong la Iowa. ' (By the 'InternUonaJ Kews Serrlce.) t . Des Moines, Iowa, March 9. Dele ; gates Instructed for Champ Clark for president were selected In every one of ' .the four counties holding democratic conventions In Iowa today. Of the total delegates thus 'far selected Clark . has 65 and Wilson 14. . Fourteen Republican county conven tions were -held today of which Ta't seaured 12, - while two counties gave split delegations ' for' Cummins and; Roosevelt Including today's conven-j : tlons 30 counties have Instructed. 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About 1200 members were present out of a total membership of 2600. The vote was about threa to one in ths jirtBldcnt's favor. , ,. .- Colorado County for Roosevelt. , Denver, March .Ths first presl drnttsl preference primary In th his- Amy. at .Cnlorgiio. held ny ria-Repubi- Uctuui in ijeiu county today, resulted In a sweeping;. victory for the proe Ives aM Colonel Jtoossvelt. Tha r.oosa- i sl(-S,Ji IC A Good Place TdTrade T i a at. . . 3 3 m k.-.i m - . am',,. l r a bbjsi a $98 Three Rooms of Quality Furniture for. A $2.95 Rocker Bargain A .Solid Oak Mission Rocker, worth $4.50, with leatherette spaf. , $10.00 Cash, $1.50 Weekly ' Don't confuse this splendid outfit with the trashy outfits that you see advertised around town. We have built up the biggest furniture trade on the Pacific coast by selling quality frumture. This three-room. outfit is built to give setyice, not for "flash." That's the only , kind gf. furniture we want to" sell you. 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