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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1315. MAN KISSES HIS WIFE, TAKES UP REVOLVER AND COMMITS SUICIDE . -. . v . ' : . t . , ' - ' Charles Carroll, Wheat Ex . pert Ends Life While in a Despondent Mood. - , , r" ACT IS NOT UNEXPECTED Chxa Had Been Concealed Trade Wife's rUJow hut Husband Managed -- to At It Away. Affectionately kissing his wife a ahe lay in bed and at the same time taking- a revolver from, underneath her pillow, Charles 'Carroll, " a well-to-do wheat expert, a' few minutes later walked to the basement of -his home, 1213 East Flanders street, shortly after 7- o'clock this morning and shot himself through the head. He died almost instantly. ... - . v , It is believed that worry over real estate " transactions prompted Carroll to commit suicide, as it is said that only yesterday he had traded his city property- lor a tract near Damascus, Or., and feared that he had been worst ed in the bargain. While bis wife, a son and daughter, who were In the house, had no Imme diate intimation that Carroll was to commit suicide, his deed was not un expected. It. is said that members of the family had feared for several days that he would try to injure himself and had done everything possible to prevent his doing so. , Revolver Hidden. - They had taken every precaution to prevent his getting- hold of the re volver, - the weapon being hidden dur ing the day and kept under Mrs., Car roll's pillow at night He got it this morning, however, while he kissed his wife. W. R. Beatty of 1211 East Flanders street, who Uvea next door to the Car roll residence,- was the first person to find the body. Through a window he had seen Carroll walk into his own room about 7 o'clock, and kneel down by the side of his bed. as: though he were praying. i- Beatty thought this was somewhat unusual, as he did not know Carroll to be a religious : man. He gave the matter no - further thought, however, until he heard: the shot, and rushing over to the Carroll residence found the man was dead. ' Pollc Axe notified. The police were notified and Motor cycle OfHer Gouldstone went to the scene. The coroner was notified and Deputy Coroner Smith took charge of the body. .It is now at the morgue. Carroll was clad only in his pajamas and had evidently-' walked - directly from his wife's room to his own room, knelt by the side of his bed in prayer, then walked to the basement and killed himself, - 4 When the body was found it was in a sitting posture, with a bullet hole through the hea,d. Besides his widow he leaves a son and tw daughters. The son and 'one of the daughters live at the -family residence while the other lives in Se attle. She was notified of her father's death' this morning and Is now on the way to Portland. Bids for West Linn Plant Are Closed Oregon , City. Or., , . July 21.r Engi neers of the west Linn water board, ' after a rough Inspection of 12 bids for constructing a 976,000 water system In West Linn, assert that either bid ' of the Oregon Engineering & Construe tion company, this city, or the Boya-lohn-Arnold company, Portland, are the lowest. ; ii.V: Bids called for -V several different specifications as to pipe. ; The Oregon City company was lower on part of the : specifications and the Portland firm on s others. t The two bids ; run from $55,000 v to t $.70,060, according to " the Pipe. - - Vi -:'-- :, yTir'.r -Engineer's report will be submitted to the West Linn board Thursday eve ning and probably the contract will be let them, v Contractors who bid upon the work are: Boyajohn-Arnold com pany; Andrus & Bode; Glebisch & Jop Un; F. S., Taylor; Standlfer -Clarkson; James Kennedy C6itstruction company; J, F.Shea: Lunstrom & Akeson; Bloom- Qulst company, and Montague O'Reilly company, all of Portland and the Ore gon Engineering & Construction com; pany of this city; and Harold & Burd- . sell, Salem. . -V' U.v f:- .j--- ;f,'.. ,-; Conspicuous at Sons of Revolution Congress East Side Street : . Will Be Scene of Mask Ball Tonight That cummer moon that has been " haunting the heavens these Ijeantlf ul evenings, Just past, was bound to Inspire some one and now It is out. , V . Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Klnne, at 351 East , Forty-eighth street, near Harrison,' have Invited their friends and - neighbors, numbering ' some 60 - guests in all, to attend a fancy dressy mask ball this evening which ; will be given in the street In front of their home. " .- An orchestra will play oa the veranda, refreshments will , be served buffet ' Style from a table in front of the house on the sidewalk. Claims SheV Flagler': Widow. New York. July " !.( N. 8.)A woman who said she was Mrs. ?5ora Flagler, widow of Henry M. Flagler, multi-millionaire, ,wa held In $5000 bail in the Torkville court vers today on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense. " Her claim was repudi ated In an affidavit made ' by an .at torney representing the, Flagler estate. X " i i VmiiiBf i ii iii "' i 1 "y :: if ' . h ' l-;4' -Li ' ; J S,'" v- - - - , EARLY CAPITULATION OF.GORITZ PREDICTED; GARRISON IS IN NEED Roman Papers Claim Italians Are Winning Decisive 'Bat tles Along the Isonzo. , Rome, July 21(CT. P.) Reports of sweeping victories for the Italians to the north and south of Gorlts led news papers today to predict the eaMy capi tulation of the Austrian stronghold. The Glornal d'Jtalia declared the Ital ian forces were winning the most- de cisive engagements along the 'Isonco, inflicting heavy losses upon the enemy. The Gorit garrison is now declared to be short of food and supplies. ' The defenders are subsisting entirely tin vegetables, reports here declare. The city and defensea are in complete dark ness at night as a precaution against aerial raids. Orders have been issued threatening t shoot anyone opening a window at night, permlttine- rays to BhOW, i , -,', 'v NCLUD MEN v Deputy Game Warden Beslgns.i: Pendleton. Or, July 21. Declaring he Tense monev nlnea hA (nnk nffla TWn- uty Game Warden W. C. E. Pruitt yesterday handed his resignation to jwarioo jacK 01 inrs city, a member of ... io euiie usn ana game oommission Pruitt annnlntal nnc . aion of the legislature -when he-was private secretary to Senator J. N. Bur gess,, supplanting E. F. Averill, who resigned during the legislative contro- When writing or calling - oa advertiser please meutfon Ths Journal. . (Adr.) E MANY OF WIDE : REPUTATION Colonel Armes Great Cavalry Feat Is Told, Lad Will Be Raised to Be Soldier. The man -who performed what Gen eral Philip St. George Cook, command er ; of the : Department of the Platte, called perhaps the greatest cavalry feat ever recorded,; is Colonel George ' A. Armes of .Washington, D. C. Colonel Armes is one of the striking figures at the national congress of the. Sons of the Revolution. 4. In October, 1866, he led a company Into . South Dakota, swam two rivers, cleaned out a band of Indians and captured their, village, without the, loss of horse or man. His military career began at the age of 16. He was a special messenger for Secre tary Seward art the beginning of the Civil war.. Publicly congratulated for bravery by Lincoln, entrusted with car ry ins an important message from Grant to Stanton, and at 22 the young est captain in the - regular service, his active military career closed . against the Indians in Texas in 1883. He has made his fortune in real estate . in Washington, erecting : the first apart ment - bouse there and . promoting the Chevy .Chase i park, electric line.- Elmer Mars ton ,Wentworth. of. Des Moines, who is a member of the new executive committee, was the first "man to use the name-of P. P Claxton, Unit ed States commissioner of Education, in the fireworks at the opening session regarding an alleged, derogatory refer ence to the national flag. He wrote the resolution calling for Claxton's re moval. J if - ' ' 'Howard S.-P. ; Clark, 10-year-old on of Secretary General A. -Howard Clark of "Washington, Is a boy that is being raised to be a soldier, and , the first of the; Washington Guardsmen to come to the Pacific coast. He was the sixth member .to Join in -Washington. ? This junior affiliated society was mad a of ficial and national by the Portland con gress of the national society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Henry Fuller Punderson . of Spring field, Mass.. was ' yesterday - elected . a vice-president general. He was grand marshal of thje national officers' pil grimage from Philadelphia to Cam bridge, following the route Washington took when he went to assume command of the Revolutionary array. ' - E. O. Lee, president of - the Utah society and trustee-elect' of the na tional society, is a grand-nephew of Jason Lee, the first missionary to the Oregon Indians. Jason Lee founded what Is now Willamette university. E. O. Lee was born in Canada, Just north of the Vermont line, and was raised In minors. Mrs. Lee is the daughter ot one of the earliest settlers of Illinois. SONS OF AMERICAN' : REVOLUTION VIEWING N THE SCENERY TODAY (Continued . From Page' One) 4 i 1 1 t j.- jf The One Safei Vay! ' We know no royal road' to v wealth. .The - royal road to Independence is rhrift ; - - f 'Economy 1 . - - and the Habit of Saving ' Liberal rate of interest paid. Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000.00 ' The United States National Dank Third and Oak. given another Jolt at the banquet last night at the Hotel Portland ' Will H. Thompson of Seattle warned . the so ciety that the end of the European war will leave the victorious powers proud and militant. He asked for pre paredness against possible aggression. President Trying Rard, "The patriotic man to whom we have entrusted . 'our destiny ' Is striving mightily to keep us from drifting Into the European maelstrom and at the same time to keep our honor' untar nished," declared Mr. Thompson, . "but the fighting nations do not Intend that he shall do both." - . : f s ; "The European powers" will cot be ready -to disband their forces and con gress has left ua helpless. . Our avail able regular army only equals a Ger man or English army corps. Our na tional guard could not halt' the march of 60,000 Japanese. The coward cry of "peace at any price'' paralyses ac tivity. We spend f or - pleasure auto mobiles alone a sum sufficient to raise an army' of half a million man and dou ble ou t battle fleet.' ? Other speakers were President Gen eral Newell B. . Woodworth f Syra-1 cuse. President Chancellor L. Jenks of the Illinois society and -W, D. Wheel wrlght. - The Invocation was given by Rev. John H. Boyd, chaplain of the Oregon society. President Wallace McCamant of the Oregon society was toastm aster. , , . , Gavel Zs Presented. - R. " C Ballard Tbruston. retiring president general.; presented to the Oregon society a gavel In the form of a hatchet, ' from a wild cherry log grown near Washington's birthplace. At the close of the banquet the reso lutions committee sprang a surprise by proposing a trilogy of patriotic toasts. Elmer M. Wen t worth of xs Moines proposed Our- Revolutionary sires; may the minute men of, '16 neve have cause to blush for lack of patriotism and preparedness on the part of their descendants." , Lieutenant Colonel M W. Wood, U. S.' A-, retired, of Boise, proposed, "Our country; no north,- no south, -no east, no west"; and Judge Morris BV Beardaley of "Bridgeport. Conn., as the final toast, drunk stand ing. Quoted Lincoln's Gettysburg address, "Let us here highly ; resolve that a government Of the people, ' by ths people and for the people shall not perish, from the earth." - . - Delegates See Boenlo Highway. Early this morning the delegates and women visitors and friends left in automobiles for the Columbia river highway trip -The return from Bon neville will be made on the steamer Undine: - - - : 2 But few of the visitors left Portland last night. The principal party will leave at 8:16 o'clock ' tonight for San Francisco, where tt will be -the guest of.-; the local society for two days. Headquarters will be at the ' Palace hotel. Saturday Is Song of the Amer ican Revolution day at the Panama Pacific exposition. - Next Monday the delegates will be entertained in Oakland. , - The man1 who called the first 'meet ing of the Sons of the American Rev olution, a .forty-niner now 85 years old. sod living at Los Gatos, CaU will greet the delegates in California. Boston has extended an Invitation to the society to meet there ii 19 20, in connection with the celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pil grims on Plymouth Rock. V Yesterday afternoon the delegates Top, left to"'rlght E. :M. Went-.- worth, anti-C3axtonlte; Howard 8. P. Clark, tlio boy that Is be ingr raised to be a -soldier; EL F. - Punderson, - Tico president general-elect; E. O. Lee, 'grand , nephew of Jason Lee, and Mrs." E. O. JLee. r Bottom Colonel G. A. Armes, famous ' soldier. .. V enjoyed an automobile aide about the city.; ending with tea at the Waverley Country club. . ; i :. CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS Charles F. Read of Brookline, Mass., attending the Bons of the American Revolution convention, bears a strik ing resemblance to Senator Chamber lain and was frequently mistaken for the Oregon man. .'"-' -: - ,'''. ' Aj resolution was Introduced asking that an investigation be made of then report that William Jennings Bryan took away from the' 'state department the desk, used by the great secretaries ot, state, since . the- founding of the government. : Because of lack of infor mation, the congress took no action. President General Thruston's ad dress on the development of the flag. delivered yesterday, will be printed in pamphlet, form 'and In the year-book cf the society, by motion of the -con tress Resolutions were passed extending the thanks of the congress to retiring President General Thruston, the Ore gon society, the local committee, the local Masonic - order, Rev. John H. Boyd, the trustees of the First Presby terian church, v Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Rockey and the California committea .The congress passed a resolution calling for publishing a digest of the roll ox pensioners of the Revolution. A collection of pamphlets, .historical monographs, photographs of memorial monuments and tablets unveiled In the past year, programs of patriotic cele brations and the publications of all the societies during the year was shown at tht eonur-s". Balloting on the order of succession of the vice president generals-elect in the event of the death of the president general resulted as follows; First. H, a. tninderson, Springfield, Mass.; see ond. Lieutenant Colonel M. W. Wood. V. S. A-. retired, Boise; third. Dr. Sam uel Jttdd Holmes. Seattle; fourth. Wll liam K. Boardman, Nashville, and fifth. Mayor Samuel C Park. Salt Lake City. - . . J ' The total - membership of the Sons of the American Revolution is 13,000. State societies exist In 43 states. Dis trict of Colombia, Hawaii and France. It was organized - in Sin Francisco July" -4, 176, as Sons of Revolutionary Sires, from which was organized In 1889 the California Society Sons of American Revolutipn. Many courtesies were extended the delegates by the Multnomah, Arling ton, Waverley and University clubs. A replica of "The Coming of 'the park formed the off icial badge of the congress. - , - The gavel presented to- the presidenjt general oy uenerai j. nomas jvi.-Anaer son was made from an oak at Cham poegv where 72 years ago 100 white men formed Oregon s provisional gov ernment. ' - - , . '.". " ' - , -: v.- " . Among the patriotic a'vtivities of the society discussed was the effort to se cure the introduction of more dignified ceremonies when the oath of alle giance IS administered, v; -r ' Wallace McCamant, president of the Oregon society, who was mentioned as a strong candidate for . the office of president general, declined to permit the use of hip name on the ground that no member of a host . society should run tor orxice. . "It Is one of our principles to prove that the blood of our forefathers is not stagnant. : When It Is necessary, the Sons of the American Revolution will go to the defense of their fellows, saia .president uenerai Thruston. The congress passed a - resolution that , the executive i committee be in structed to urge congress to approorl ate a sum sufficient for the purchase or a site xor a national archives bniid. Ing and urge the beginning of con struction, at an early date. Another . resolution passed ' will -re sult in a petition to the superintendent of the Tfosemlte National park for per mission to nave one of the large trees In the Mariposa grove designated In honor of the society of the Sons of ths American Revolution. - . " A life else replica of the - Libertv Bell was -an attractive feature of -the session decorations. ... s i. - The Syracuse society has offered a banner to be given each year to the society of : the Sons of the American Revolution showins the greatest nu mericaLgain in members.: The present traveling oanner, awaraea - to wash lngton state society, Is for the greatest percentage of gain in membershio Washington's increase was 31 percent. A silk flag presented by. Herman W. Fernberger of Philadelphia went"" to tne new Jersey company of the Wash lngton guards, the first company of the new Junior affiliated patriotic so ciety to be Instituted. Later this will go to the company showing, the great est percentage , of membership Increase eavu year. - - - . Rhode Island captured the Insignia awaraea the society enrolling . the greatest number of sons of members curing ine year. Registrar-General A. Howard Claa-k Monday . read, an ; Interesting paper on --ne inances or the Revolution.' , Daniel H. Simmons of Portland .90 years old and one of the Tew living sons or a veteran or the American Rev olution, was introduced to the congress Monday giternoon oy Major V. M. C. Silva. T Newell B. Woodworth, the new president. delivered an Illustrated lec ture Monday on the pilgrimage made, last year by officers of .the na tionals society over the Philadelphia Cambridge route traversed by Wash ington to take command of the Revo lutionary army. . ' . - - Wallace McCamant. president of the Oregon state society, was appointed a member of the executive committee of the national society of the Sons of the American . Revolution yesterday by president general, Newell W, Wood worth. - ' The other members ' of the committee appointed are: R. C. Bal lard Thruston, of Kentucky, retiring president general; Chancellor L. Jenks. president of the -Illinois society; AI- . Austrian Submarine Sunk. Milan. July 21. (I. N. fl.) The See- olo announces that the . ' submarine which sank the Italian cruiser Amain has, in turn, been destroyed by an Italian submarine in the Adriatic sea; Master of Pound ' Is Charged With -Cruelty to Animals & , A charge that Poundmaster - Boyd R. Welch put .15 dogs to death March, 26 by hitting them . in the head with an ax Instead of by use of the asphyxiating 4 chamber in the pound was filed ' Hi yesterday in the district court. f Welch Is charged with cruelty to animals. Humane Officer Lewis C Pitts .swore - to the v tk i complaint and seven affidavits : 4fc Hs are in the possession of the dis- trlct attorney's office In which e tha charge ils substantiated. 4k Welch said that he knew noth- ing of the Incident but that he 4 He believes ths charge sults from H trouble with an employe whom' m i be discharged. Garment Workers' ; Strike Is Averted New Tork, July 21. (L, N. S.) The garment -r workers " strike has . been averted. Last night at the : chamber of commerce, representatives of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the - American viotnina Manufacturers. association placed their signatures to an agreement which will Insure tranquility in the garment trades union over ,., Education's. Cost Is $750,000,000 Year Wo.hlnirtnn Julv 21. (I. VI' 8.) The people of the United States spent $760,000,000 last year for educational purposes. - This was less than one third of the amount they spent for li quor and three times as much as they nr th movies. About 22.000.000 persons' were enrolled in schools and Awarded I !Jal of , Honor at Panami Pacifie Exposition pierro chico asusta a la liebre pero el grande la to : caza pTittle dogs start the hare, Lout large one catch it" J S ' C J; I used to hunt the inner gladness of smoking with cigarettes, pipe, do mestic and part-Havana cigars. A promising shadow of taste I got from the domestic cigar, friendliness I found in a pipe, the sweet, smooth draw of the cigarette pleased me but none offered the deep, rich pleasure which I knew must some-' where be. - MV friend. I have not the com- mand of language which will let me teU you how at last my hunt ended." But as large dogs catch the hare, so there is a cigar which will disclose to you 8moking8 ending note. It is tVanDyck, with every leaf of choicest Havana Yan Dyck with wrapper of satin and many-toned aroma blending into the rich bland harmony of a night under tropical skies! More than a brother to me is my cigar-case nowadays I - . gan society; Elmer M. Wentworth, f Iowa; and' J, Lenard Merrill, of New Jersey. - ' Daniel Marion Conway, an old Port land resident, introduced to the con rrM. vesterdar afternoon by Prof es- w. A-Thaxter; presented before the congress "Bull Douglass." a gun used by his grandfather in tne revolution ary war. :: Daniel H. Simmons of Portland, one of the eight living persons -wnose fathers fought in the Revolutionary war, was Introduced to the congress. He is now -87 years old and lives at the Odd Fellows' home. Mr. Simmons' father was 15 years old when the rev olution broke out. . He" was 67 years old when Daniel Simmons. was born to his third wife. After pursuing .. his trade ' of coach builder in Baltimore, the father died at his home in 'Wheel ing, W. Va in 1843. The ; organisation . of the Washing ton guardsmen, a Juvenile organization affiliated with the national society of the Sons of the American Revolution. was made of ficlal vMonday afternoon by a resolution adopted at the annual con gress of the national society at the Masonic -Temple: The juvenile organization was or ganized by the New Jersey society some time ago but was largely local in . character, i The organization will now have, national, , state and - local statos, with r the - principal : :. officers members of the Sons of ths ' Revolu tion. There will be three classes of members;' Senior guardsmen, between the ages of 16 and , 21 years; guards men, between the ages of 10 and 14; and junior guardsmen, 9 years and under. , White Man statue in Washington, bert M. Henry, president of the Michi- CAT LIN JT TTeW Arrow COLLAR THW. LIGHT YET STARCHED AND SIGHTLY tfor 6c ctrarr, vsasoeT oo, Wm hiiui HOTEL sa:j FRAr:ci3c,o ' chvicc. eesroir, umictiitD eui. 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