THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1315.
MAN KISSES HIS WIFE,
TAKES UP REVOLVER
AND COMMITS SUICIDE
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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.
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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
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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. .'"-' -:
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' 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. ' - - , . '.".
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. 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
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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. .
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- - 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
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pTittle dogs start the hare,
Lout large one catch it" J
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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-
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