THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1915. 17-YEAR-OLD YOUTH FALLS DEAD WITH BULLET IN HIS BRAIN REX LAMPMAN DECLARES -HE INTENDS TO DO BETTER GERMAN SPy WANTED BY U. S. AUTHORITIES CAPTURED BY BRITISH Officer Believed Responsible for Many of Bomb Plots Is Taken From Ship at Sea, lECOfe SUFFRAGISTS ADVANCE ON CAPITOL OREGON MAY E FAMOUS PLACE FOR GROWING OF PLANTS Father Schoener Has Com- -menced Work in Trsfns porming Land Into Garden. : Pleads Guilty to Charge of Printing "The Once Over" Twice. Woman and Man Compan-j ionsr Declare Suicide; Po-, lice Suspect Duel, i ! CRAZED WITH JEALOUSY, j ' ! Boy Infatuated With Bastaorant Work er, According- to Her Own Story Told Folic Officials. ; newspaper way of saying that Rex Lampman "has gone and done it.' On a dark street in Kenton, two, He has had "The Once Over" re-blo'-ks fr'in Dcrhy street, Louis Of- ; printed in book form. home, a lad of 17. fell dead last night with a bullet in his brain. .Mrs. Nellie! snrnt ., i -ft i h. rvw,i,.. r u ! 1 3-months-o.il baby, says he killed him- Hf because he was jealous of her.' Harold . Palmer, who was discharged from the navy three weeks ago. says the ?ame thing. The police, however, look both the girl and the sail"!, to police' headquarters, where they are now held without bail. Mrs. Stout Udd t'aptain Hat?, last night that she had been keeping com pany with both bn .-. osliorne ., employed a sheep killer by the 1'nion ieat company. The girl was employed at the Orr restaurant, 1701 Derby street, Kenton. Krom i nlervie n-sSii 1 1 Palmer .Mrs. Stout, t'aptaln of Detectives declared early this morning his belief ihat death' wa not the result of sui cide. "There is a probability that the two of them quarreled and decided to fight It out." Vaty said. "The position of the guns and ev erything else points to anything but suicide. I have dec ided to detain these two without bail until they have told a better story than they are now tell inir." The i.o.iv of i he youth, the I'M" of the head blown off with a revolver bullet. a .oond Ijing in the mud of the middle of Ie)wr awnue. The d is on the right side, just above tie far. and in view of the fac that Osborne was right handed tins cannot exphim w hv he should have shot himself with the hand. gun in his left Second Rvolvr Found. When the body of Osborne was lift ed from the ground by Deputy t'oio r.ci Sm'th. th-re u,im another surprise. A second loaded reviver, from which one bullet had been discharged, was found This weapon had teen under the shoulder, in a Dosition where it uld not have t'een dropped from ttie right hand of the expiring lad. Mrs Stout, who is the mother of a 13 months old daughter, wa at her home a short distance beyond the point of thp shuotir.g She f.a!d tliat the two youths had a i-nir.ran ied her home from a restaurant in Kenton, where she had been employed. "The hoys were chums and only friends of mine. " Mr Stout explained. "Thev had been takiritr me home for some time at nights because we were afraid of robbers. I didn't know that Louie had a revolver. "lie had been making advances to me and had been wanting to go with me, but I told him it couldn't be be cause I am married. Tonightwe were talking about it agin. although not on the way home. Woman Heard Snot Fired. ". we walked west on Denver ave nue, he smlii-'ilv told us to go on ihead. We walked a few iteps and then stopped. ,...11.-.. I tn mrv .....I t 1 A m t n trr tie i-iiiivu iu 1111: nnu i"in "c iv r-" home, and shouted 'Good-bye.' I told him that T would see him tomorrow. ....,4 V, nall Ka,.l.- tliut t Vi or-a n.-milrt be no tomorrow for him. I asked him what he meant, and then Harold went! i...,. .r.-i ,"!!., .i,. 1,1 back. Harold was talking with him and then I heard the shot. "I screamed and ran to him and tried to stop the blood, and then I ran to Kenton for the doctor. When I got back he was still breathing. "Harold and he had never quarreled. itnH T.mte wus t hp tti e as he had al ways been. 1 suppose he killed him-. self because I wouldn't go with him. ' Later, in an examination by Captain of Detectives Baty, she said that the; had been with the two boys In Os- j Lome's home at ITSU Derby street.; and they had been drinking. In this ; .statement, she "told Baty that Osborne : was Intoxicated. Neither the nor Pai- i mer showed that they had been drink- i ing, at police headquarters last night, j Parents at Police Station. ; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Osborne, parents 1 of the dead boy, called at police head- j quarters after midnight to see the girl but they were refused permission. Mr. Osborne then told the police I that he had reached home at about 8:30. No one was in the house and there were i no signs that any one had been there, j he said. I About 9:30. he said, his son left the; house. H,e was In his uual frame of j mind then, and Osborne senior had no idea that the youth was carrying two i revolvers. The lad had not been drink- i ing:, and there had been no drinking in the house, he asserted. i The coat and cap belonging to Pal- I mer was lying beside the dead Vdy in 1 the rod. After the shooting occurred, j Palmer took Jirs. Stout to her home, j and there she was found by the police. The mother of the young woman did not know what had occurred until Mrs. I Stout told her in the presence of the pol ice. Denies QnarTal Occurred. When the police found Palmer, who was loitering in the vicinity of the shooting, he tottr them that Osborna had been carrying another gun and that it was secreted somewhere near the body. "I was within a foot of him, when he shot himself,'' Palmer stated to the police, -it was pitch dark, and I did not see him draw the gun from his ' coat pocket." Palmer denied having had any words ' with Osborne and declared that the ; latter had committed suicide In a fit) of Jealousy. j The body of Osborcc was taken to) the public morgue. An Inquest will ; probably be held tonight. I The Best Gift of All After all. a piano Is a most accept- i able Christmas gift. Or perhaps, a 1 modern player piano and some well ! selected music rolls ith It. The lat ter are supplied, free to all purchasers at Eilers Music House. Such a gift is appreciated by every member or the family from frandpa Sown to the little tots. Why not a piano this Christmas? Tne consolidation sale, now in prog ress at Eilers Music House and. Graves Music Co., has placed prices lower than ever before and instruments are sold en, Yuen - low terms of payment that vary bom can readily aecure on. Ad. 'K&lrs "OulHy or not guilty," the Judge on the bench asked the culprit. "Guilty, your honor," answered Rex j Lampman a he cringed In the prison I er's dock. "la there anything you can say . which would lead the court to extend ', y "Tea, sir." answered Lampman. "It's my first offense." 1 -Iet It be your last the idea of your reprinting the once over in book form. You are sentenced to be ' a sad funny man for life." All of which is the conventional Me 1 Mad" Is Proatisplec. The cut for the frontispiece.; which i entitled "Me In Mud." mod-i pled "owar JT.if,nr.,nd j. had made a drawing i f ciftP,i author, it would have been entitled "Me and Mutt," whi r- ' would be inappropriate lecause too nearly synonymous. Advance proofs of the txiok indicate fiat it will run about 4 pages, print ed on one side of the paper only. V hy . n"t? Because you will have to turn only "once over." See" Hex Umpmsn is a srt of a wizard in distorting the English language. He j gets meaning out of words that were .never there. If you compare Ills i.i.i- wiiii Mmt nf the dictionary, ion ;i,! will find marked discrepancies, usually' Baty (in favor of the dictionary.. Charles, Umb would Dieai who .c tried to read it and it It. well for Shel- lev that he died young. Hut with all , Rex s many faults, he has managed to i start something In his oaiiy Overs anil he hopes to keep it Once- going In book form. Heady for Holiday Trad. Most of the bookstores will have copies rf the book ready for the Christ inas trade Hex was urged to charge a dollar fm the bc-k. but decided that four hits was all of too much, so that will be the Positively no free dopies Ml varieties of folly and filosofy find place in the book. They cover the M-..,nai -in-gray-al-tl-.e-p.iblic-n:a; -ket the wran:;!e in the woman's eluO. .vi i.eaui.e, .,' summer. th. tragedy of he M ,.hP!.,nut Tendor. the lamer,' of the tost dog and 111' i oru x- ; poem There are many more besides, all select e,i from the daily kolhim dur ing the last six months. Here is Rex's apologia and preface. h',s introduction and aiibi. all In one. atioenrinK on the firbt pace oi " e iw 'Wav last summer when .i" fjnv hiehwavs of the roses Portland streets and the dead eels Mere drift ing down the beautliui v lnuuicnc and entwining themselves with the bappv bathers and the swat-the-fly season was in full bloom and work was about te begin on' the new audi torium a, dear lady wrote me a letter and didn't sign her name. T nd she told me that ihe Once Over as she read it day by day in The Oregon Journal joy of living. -haa auueu 10 oci ,nd j have the letter yet f And I tave put away with my life insurance policy. flAnd in the letter the dear lady said she thought that I ought to print some of these skits in a little book ; like this some time before Christmas. t And she said she thought there'd be a lot of people ' who would want the little lxok , m j j to sen(1 to thelr nlPnOB it And perhaps the dear lady was nyway I persuaded a kind heart- ma liu-k Goughler to ;ea priii print it for me. for better or for worse. And here it is. jAnd a lot of old friends are in it. and so is my picture photographed by Woody Woodruff of me jouma. j from a statuett I , -done in mud Austrian Troops Claim Victories Official Report Declares Secapture of Advanced Outposrti from the Ital ians, "Whom Tcey Bpnlsd. Vienna, via Berlin by wireless. Dec. 5j (V. P. By dashing charges Austrian troops have recaptured ad vanced posts near Montevies from nu mericallv superior Italian forces, it was officially announced tonight. "Feeble Italian attacks In the Dolo mite Alps, tn the Oorlt district, and against Monte San Mlchele ha been repulsed," it was officially stated. "rtillery duels in the Judicari region extended west of th Chiese valley. "On the Russian front our troops re pulsed enemy reconnoiterlng detach ments near Czartorysk." Only rearguard engagements be tween Austrian troops and retreating Montenegrins, were reported in the Balkans. The Austrian took about 400 prisoners. I tome Reports Advance. Rome Dec. 11. 'I. N. St (Offi cial) There have been artillery duel- on the whole front; on the Carso plateau incursions by our infantry led to the capture of an Austrian redoubt, together with a quantity of rifles and ammunition and a bomb thrower. Livestock Sales at Show Total $21,360 Total of 100 Head Sold on Triday at Auction All But f405 Paid In Caab. Does this sound like hard times? Friday at the livestock show nearly 100 head of pure bred Holstein cattle v.ere sold at auction to breeders and dairymen of the northwest. The total day's sales amounted to $21,860, the buyer being given the option of paying cash for his pur chases or giving a note. When C. D. Minton, who had charge of the collections checked up Friday night he found that with the excep tion of $405 the entire amount has been paid in cash. Only one buyer had exercised his option of paying by note. , "I have clerked at cattle sales for the past five years,'' said Mr. Minton, "but Friday's beats anything I've ever experienced." ' '.yK''" ' ' v jc -4 4 - - "f-r- sr'ttn - 'U of$ r VI fc.' s f "' r2 . 1 , . 1 ' 4. T't . - J I v X "4 -' y t . , Z A. I -, - ' . I : v'1?' C S' 4. i 'A;r : 1 Itex LuiiipniHU as glorified in clay. just for fun by Howard I'isiier- - --the eminent oung Ainer k.iii sculp tor. 51 And besides W ood - and Howard i my I li.i nk. - o out --to the esteemed city editor and the esteemed business man ager and the esteemed C. S Jackson and the esteemed everybody else. And of course the principal rea son that I'm doing this is that there Is no law against it 5JAnd I confidently e-pct-that the Once Over bock within a year will be in all the best cellars In town. T Put anyway 1 want everybody to know that I've found a lot 6f fun doing this stuff from day to day. And if I've been able once in a while to make two smiles or even one giow where only a frown grew before I gm content. 5j And the dear ladv who wrote me tiie letter last .summer said she lived in Seattle. HU'I if some friend of hers will only let me know her address I want to ieiid her a copy. with my compliments -on her literary sagacity. and best wishes for the happiest things that life may hold. fj And If In choosing the Once Overs for this book I have left out some that you think should be in drop me a lint and tell me what it was about and I II sendyou a dipping and y LISTKN' kind reader you can Just paste in on the back of one of these pages. To Distribute Seed To Oregon Farmers Bare and Expensive Samples Are at Disposal of Congressman W. C. Haw ley for Experimenting-. Washington. Dec. 11. In connection with the distribution of new and rare field seed, authorized in the act mak ing appropriations for the United States Department of Agriculture, the department has plate,-: at the disposal of Congressman Willis Hawley a number of pick:iges of the Sudan grass seed, some Montana-grown alfal fa seed, and a few packages of an im proved variety of field peas, so that he might distribute them to the farmers of the First Congressional district of Oregon. A considerable portion of this seed is intended for spring planting, and Mr. Hawley is requested to submit the names of lann-rs to receive it at an early date. The department desires thai a farmer experiment with but . ne variety of the seed at a time, hs ihe supply is limited, the seed rare and ex pensive, and a wide distribution may in this way le secured. Congress man Hawley will be glad to have all those who desire to experi ment with (lie seed write him and he will endeavor to secure for tLem with out cost, one variety of the three a rieties placet! at his disposal. Seed will be sent b the department, upon Mr Hawley's suggestion. to those with whom suitable arrangements can be made. Charges Bromwell Murdered by a Spy TT. s. Army Engineer in Charge of Ha waiian Islands Works Killed, Not a Suicide, Claims tlia Dead Man's Son. Washington. Dec 11. (I. X. S.) The charge-was made here tonight that Lieutenant Colonel C. H. Bromwell was murdered by a Japanese spy in Hono lulu. It was reported in press dis patches that he had committed suicide. The war department has ordered a full investigation of all the facts sur rounding Colonel Bromwell's death. The charge that Colonel Bromwell was slain was made not only to his civilian friends here, but by his associates In the war department. His son. Scott Bromwell. a freshman at Harvard, is convinced that his fattier met with foul play at the hands of a Japanese. New York, Dec. 11. (I. X. S. ) A British cruiser has captured on the high seas off the coast of Brazil, a German officer the government be lieves was responsible for many of the score of mysterious fires and ex plosions In. munition plants. The spy was taken off the IamDert & Holt liner Vauban. He is now be- i lieved to be a prisoner of Great Britain either on the cruiser which captured him or in a British central or south ern American detention camp. arrest and tne suspect s activities in this country came Into the possession of the International News Service to day. Escaped From U. S. A. I'nder a forged or stolen passport, the spy escaped from this country on November 12. He was "O.o jumps" ahead of special agents of the depart ment of Justice, who had made dis oc eiies which they said connected him with the following disaster.-,: .November 10, 1916. Incendiary fire in the Bethlehem Steel company's ord nance plant, Bethlehem, Pa. The tire cruised $4,000,000 damage and a loss of 00 four-inch guns being built for the alKes. November 10, 1915 Midvale. Penn sylvania Steel Sc Ordnance c mnpany flre, two buJldngs destroyed, together ! with patterns for the manufacture of I Rr?Mh00nvnnleld November 11 Roebling Steel Rope plant, Trenton, X. J., fire. Kstimated loss $1. 600, 000. Buenos Aires Xsports Captor. On the morning of Wednesday, De cember 8, dispatches from Buenos Aires contained this sentence: "It is reported that a Hritish cruiser has captured on the high seas, on board the steamer Vauban, a German officer who. It is alleged, was involved i.. certain affairs in the I'uittd States from which country he made bib es- j cape." j The suspect is said to have been j sent to this country with "orders to , cut off the allies' flow of ammunition ' ac the source.'' ! Hp came here two months ago via' Spain and South America. t'nited States agents crossed h s trail veeks ngo. He was placed under sui veil- I lance tHt managed to conceal Ills ac- ttvlty. Ttien came the serifs of ag- gressions of bomb and arson plotters. . Most daring of these acts was the fire in the Bethlehem Steel works, con trolled by Charles M. Schwab. Within ' three, hours of the discovery of this fl'e, secret service men and depart ment of justice agents swarmed into the Pennsylvania town, and canvassed the town The presence the day before of the long suspected man was estab lished. ! When he sailed the suspect showed i woujj have to put "Made l Japan" eight Lamport & Holt officials on the j on tliem he abandoned them. The duty dock a passport. The officials and i was mt and when they were sold at the local government agents would not say what nam he used. YUAN AGREES TO TAKE THRONE IN ONE YEAR: WHAT WILL JAPAN DO? (Continued Krom Page One. i anres these two powers will not tol- erate Japanese interference. Yuan accepted the throne today af ter the state council had asked him, by 1993 votes out of 2043. A month ago the ganeral election Indicated that the country favorej such action. " Tokio Fears Crisis. Tokio. Dec. 11. (U. P.) Japan is expected to make Immediate repre- sentations to the Chinese government if Peking reports that Yuan Shi Kai, president of the Chinese government, hae accepted the crown as emperor, are borne out in formal communiea- tions to the foreign office. Offleials have no confirmation, but it is realized here that a sudden change at Peking, coming at a tttus when Chi no-Japanese affairs are in a delicate shape, mayturn the atten- tion of the world to a new Interna- tional crisis in the far east. It is feared here that revolutionary outbursts will occur throughout the Chinese republic when the reports fil ter through to the masses. Tne recent trouble at Shanghai, when rebels at- ; tacked the arsenal and seized a Chi nese cruiser, was generally considered a protest against reports that tho ' Dee. Or.. Dec. 1 1 The Williams corn government waa drifting toward a'pany will have its sawmill running by nionarchy. 1 Christina. The mill has been closed Japan, It is understood, sent a all this year owing to lack of orders, friendly i.ote of warning to Yuan Shi and sales have only been mad from Kal several months ago when it was the yard. The machinery and planer first rumored that lie planned to as- have been moved half a mile north of sume the throne. In this note the where the mill stood near the Karly Japanese government is said to have. ' orchard, and are now near the Iaven had the support of all the allied pow- port dock. In moving the boiler this ers'. Their diplomatic representatives week, the trucks, boiler and all turned conveyed to the Chinese statesmen over on aci-runt of the- soft ground, and I the declaration that their governments j would regard as unfriendly any change in the fortn of government that might I cause revolutions and endanger live-i j and property of foreigners. Packer's Daughter To Wed 'Real Cpunt' XjOUIb Swift Announce His Daughter's Enrafsmant to Count Minotto Who, Ha Cays, Zs not Customary Kind. Chicago. Dec. 11. L'. P! Miss May Swift, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Swift, Chicago, is to be married next month to Count James Minotto. Her fsther, who Is president of Swift iv. Company, packers, announced engagement today. f t'unt Minotto has charge, of the South American business of the Guar- i anty Trust company, of New York. "He's a real count, too," Swift said, 'nx.t the kind usually associated h these events. He's a goodVbusli s man." Ford Peace Ship to Arrive on Tuesday London. De 11. ( V. P. The Ford peace whip Oscar II, will arrive at Christiania Tuesday, ChrUtlanla dis patches reported tonight. Ford sent a wireless message to Christiania to day asking- that hotel accommodations ib tsaexred toy .fceut 7. persons,-. : WWTi'.Af -AiK.V'- Pe-0. y 5! j 1 lt) -n. J-HID i m im f '-"' !S f y47i i.ii.iiiiii.iij.i I tmyo.iai k f j'( ? I I Hf 7Wrw...w..iwn '"""n'' Vr j4 j fcsui4rjwiTii , H....IWI j i I I Iryrr. mj mwl . ., nfiiL i.lm.. wii . i ilwi'glW! - rr 1 1 nwwwi , mmt rrp- ' ' ' 11 ?''''0,4!',,tK VyjI'w''v,,T!c'5 I' ' Hum n i m mj 1 ' m mi.a.i m "T i-'mpTI f llirrr ; '"LL11''1' 1 ,,ir 'r uiuj 1 I " ''-1 " " , 11 1 " n i' ' liWiwM J f wiWXJl fi.i r ... . " -. : 1 I I Jim W Ji njjteoMWe Sft .ww! w v y::?! -" ' If LI -" 1 ' fff nF"fji ii t Tun r Ttrrr M"Hi jiffx xt we hwkj 1 I fcjt:x-':':--'V' --w - ' r y ----- JThitwH' n' 1 - ... '.. .. . -piie CoiigresMoaal I'nion for Woman amendment. After meeting Miss Pacific coaftt, on the outskirts of Washington, thousands of Biiffragtats paraded to the capitol to hear Representative Mondell and Senator Sutherland deliver welcoming speeches. The picture shows the women as-ending the steps of the capitol. Schwerin Bought His Flags in Japan Pacific Mail Head Ordered 70O0 Amer : ican Emblems to Ilght Seamen's i Bill, All "Mad in Nippon." San Francisco. I ec 11. i P. N. S.'l R P. Schwerin. vice president and ! general manager of the Pacific Mail company today was notified by Col lector of the Port J o Davis that he owes the government J:. This is the difference between the amount of duty due on the 7000 American flag's he refisiil to receive after they had been se'H from Japan and the amount they brought when sold at auction laat Tuesday. The flags were of silk and printed on the stem of each was the Inscrip tion "Preserve this flag on the Pacific only five more ships left." Customs offii iaJs ruled that the shipment could not come Into the I'nited States unless stamped with the country of manufac ture When Schwerin found that he auction they brought Z9. According to Davis, Schwerin must pay the dif ference. Another American Steamer Stopped Prench Cruiser Holds Up Third Tea sel and fiimovei Auitro-Germans ; Complaint to P ratio Will h Mad. I Washington, Dec. 11. (V. P.) The tale department today served notice of its Intention to call France to ao ' count for the stopping of three Amer i lean steamers and the forcible re- moval of German-Austrian passengers Hn(i members of their crews by board- ing parties from the Krench cruiser Descartes. The American government i expect- ed to file, either through the Krench embassy, or through American Ambas- sador Sharp, at Paris, a fchaip demand for an explanation of the incident, 'The state department's actU n will bs based on the principle of international aw maintained by this government ttiat there is no justification for the relT,ovaJ of an enemy subject from a neutral vessel on the high seas bound f,,r a neutral port, Mill Boiler Turns Over in the Mud it will be necessary to build a skid road in order to g t it ut f the mud. Young Ostriches For Holiday Dinner l,oi Angelef, Dec. 11. fP. .V. S. f ive voune osiricnep. io coiiinriKe wie i nrin.inai dish at a bin hotel dinner Christmas, have teen shipped from Los against him for nonpayment of ali Angeles to New York, with seven more I mony. Mrs. Werner was firm until ordered Ft forts were being made to- ! her former husband raieed his right dav to get the rest of the order from Arizona- Ostrich meat is said to be quite as edible as turkey more original. : - and is far Mother Strangles Her Seven Children Basle. Switzerland. Dec 11 if. Pl Cnable to support herself after her husband was ordered to (he front, a German woman In the village of Ierfl strangled to death her seven children and then committed suicide, recording to a Munich dispatch to night. Awards Steel t-on tracts. Washington. Dec. n. (TJ. P.I Secretary of the Navy Daniels this afternoon awarded the contracts for the steel used In the construction of battleships 43 and 4 4 to the Carnegie Steel. Carbon Steel. Pittsburg Screw & Bolt company and the. American Steel Foundry companies- Suffrage recently opened its attack on t!e capitol for the suffrage Frances Jolliffe and Mrs. Sara Bard Flekl, envoys from the Mystery Man Taken From Laysan Island Is Believed That Max SctUmmtr Had Flans of Erecting Radio Station to Commonicat with German Snips. San Francisco. Cal . Dec. 11. iU. P.) Max Sohlemme-r. the "mystery man of Laysan Isle." who was discovered by shipwrecked sailors from the berk o. M. Kellogg, was taken from his strange home by United States Immi gration officers of Honolulu and Is now held for Investigation, according to word brought today by officers of the liner Great Northern. The in quiry relates to a number of reports that Schlenimtr, with bis young son, and Harold Hrand, a Norse sailor, w ere planning to trect a radio station on the island and communicate with certain lierman ships, , hen the naval whip Narcissus ar rived st the island a distress signal was flying over the Schlemmer camp. Food had giver, out and Brand and the son were seriously ill from eating too many wild rabbits, the only food obtainable, Schlemmer, when taken into custody, declared that his purpose In staying on the lone Island was his fondness for birds. "War Ponies" Next Production of War French Army Officials Sclar Typ of Hors That Can B Used Is Tim of Battl Ar Being Exterminated. Sun Francisco, Dec. 11. (U. P.) "War ponies" a well as "war babies" are one "product" resulting from the Kuropean conflict, according to Cap tain I.. Aveline and Captain I. Balen cr of the French army, who are here after fifteen months of Inspecting horses for the French government. "Just as the ranks of the humans are dwindling, so it Is with the type of horse that can be used in war time," said Captain A valine today. "The Uni ted States is being scoured by repre sentatives of all nations involved In the war. They are taking out hundreds of thousands of a peculiar type of horse, and war ponies will have to be produced in the future." Auto Thief Caught ' In Oklahoma City Sacramento. Cal.. Dec 11. (V. P.) Raymond Laurence will be brought back from Oklahoma City to answer to the charge of stealing a Ford auto mobile in Placer county, requisition papers being secured st the governor's office today. The governor granted an extradition for the return to Cherokee county, Kansas, of Clarence Price, charged with intent to kill. Price, who was ar rested In Merced county, is cliarged with striking a small boy with a boulder. Sight of Crippled Hand Stops Suit San Francisco. Cal.. Dec. 11. ff. P.) The ight of her divorced husband's right hand, with two fingers missing, flooded Mrs. Ida Werner with remorse and compassion to such an extent to- day that she dropped proceedings hand to swear, and she saw the de formity. vTi NOW IS THE TIME to ac Carver's Cold Tablets giving quick relief in Grip, Cough. Colds, headache, used by thousand an nually. Plica 26c. LATTB-SATZS CXTJQ CO- 3rd and Yamhill Sts. 'K ... . t ; v' 7-': - . -O; Believe Mystery of Robbery Is Solved Ovir S3000 Worth of Jwlry Belong ing to Mrs. Francisca "Villa, Found tn Possession of Former Oirl Servant. Ixs Angeles, Dee. 11. (P. 1M. S.) The police believe that in the arrest of Rosa Luna, a young Mexican girl they have solved a mystery which for more than a month has surrounded the robbery of Mrs. Franciieo Villa's home here. More than $3,000 worth of valuables were taken from the resi dence of the Mexican general's wife tjy one who knew exactly where the rarest gems were secreted. The Luna girl, a former servant in the household, is said to have been caught with several of the stolen articles. England Will Accept American Securities Tondon, Tec 1V-(T. X. S.) The text of the new iTfovernment "war ob llgation bill" which provides for the mobilization of American securities, has just been issued. Provision U made to Insure that American securi ties may be deposited with the treas ury or may be given to the treasury in exchange for government bonds, not withstanding that such securities may be ubject to any trust and notwith standing any provisions of trust. Women Jurors Just Naturally Disagreed San Diego. Cal.. Dec. 11. (U. P.) Jusilce Holon Bryan today Is not so enthusiastic over women Juries as he was yesterday, when he called the first jury composed of women In this city. They couldn't agree, so he dis charged them. The rase was that of a restaurant owner, accused of battery upon a female union picketer. They argued six hours without an agree ment. The Best Possible Gift ! .. 1 A Graf onola I 1 A Pleasure Every Day in the Year J! - Why not make the fain- r I ' : ily happy by buying the Ion;' r ' I j i desired Grafonola for Xmas ? V'J ' "' 1 1 ' ; Every instrument perfect. y" . .IV . 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Ths lRnd is lo-ated on the Peninsula near -ihe Johns car line. "Horticulture in particular, and 4 flower anc1 rose culture will be th . -most important factors'in this state,' paid lie "If res culture, for instance, is -studied more deeply what a wealth ! of besuiy aio'ind ho-nes can be stab--- lished ' , - Orat Fatnr Abaad. "We may claim with fairness that:'' we havo spread out before us in th : Willamette valley the prospect of tb " n ost rig-antic flower, fruit and yg-f table garden in the world. For what- wc have not yet accomplished oat will Is strong enough, our experinc -is rie enough to undertake and bring .. . to succe;i. If we need apricots, plums, cherries, prunes, adapted to conditions and more than euual to s competition we can create them. , "'iir dim shall be not to equal good, n-scs originated In Knglaod r and France, but io bring forth better ones -as our climate and soil warrant. "We do not want a rose rebaptlsed -as American Hrauty the true Ameri- ran beauty must ha-'e the lusty hues' - of the Pacific sky. created and estab- ' lished here ; "I dare nay th'it nothing else than t -rlfent breeding Hill put Oregon and" IWtl tland most favorably on the map. ' Derby Recruiting , Campaign Extended Ixindon, lec 11. rr. P. Tord Derby's recruiting campaign came to an end at midnight tonight. But at that " hour recruiting clerks, throughout th I nited Kingdom were still faced by -long lines of men eager to enlist In t lord Kitchener's army and fesriiKT that unless they enrolled voluntarily i they would ultimately be forced Into service by ronscrl pt ion. ' So great was the rush In the closing f hours that 1t appeared likely that th recruiting officers would contlnu at thler task until after daybreak Sunday, t The government came to the resens t of the overworked clerks with th an- j nouncement that men who make appli- -cation before tomorrow night will b permitted to enlist uhder the Derby , plan If they appear again before Wed nesday night Allies Hark to Second line. Paris, Dec. 11. (F. p.) The allied'' forces have fallen back to their sec ond line of defense and now hold a line in Serbia extending from 10 to , 15 miles from the Greek frontier, ac cording to Athens dispatches tolnght. The official communication from th war office tonight stated that all Bui garlan attacks yesterday were repulsed: and Indicated that the allies were making a stand. The principal effort was directed against the French lett,-; It was stated. Press dispatches reported the evactt j ation of Strumul tia station and of th i village of Gradec. Both the British and French fronts t wr under violent attack all day yes terday and Thursday, it was stated. . i t j ,t