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,
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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." '
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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,-. :
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-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.
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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.
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LOCATED ON PENINSULA
Fntnr of Btai Zs Agricultural, Far-.
ttonlarly Fruit Frodoctioa, Bays
Plant Wlsard. '
Oregon may well become th scen .
of some of the roost remarkable suc-
cesses in plant breeding and adptA- ' i.
tion that have ever been achieved. In .
the opinion of Father Oeorge Schoener, , -the
plant wizard of Oregon. "
I'nder the auspices of an association'
of business men Father Schoener has -Just
starte-1 his work as head of th
SohotnT wientifio gardens on a tract
of land granted free for the purposaV
for five years by Coe MeKenna. 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. .
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