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.THE OREGON SUNDAY, JOURNAL. PORTLAND,: SUNDAY MORNING.! FEBRUARY tZTSMe, FIRE JOIl.COOTIS SiSNED BY CITY MARSHAL JAY STEVENS Accusation Is Made Against Vito Cola Cola Who Is Now Under Arrest.. . Sleight of; Hand f . Performance; Costly STRONG EVIDENCE CLAIM ' XtV Witnesses ' WbO - l Set tt BUM," 8MUUH , City Tire Marshal. tli Complaint charging- Vlto Col cola . with arson was signed at the district attorney's office yesterday afternoon by Fire Marshal J. W. Stevens. Cola Cola vu arrested by Patrol man Lewis and members, of the fire department , arson squad yesterday morning at 4 o'clock after three street sweepers witnessed his attempt to set flr to the home of Joseph Battagll. 424 Bast Ninth street. . In a statement to Detectives Mal let, JMce and Morak yesterday, the man said he had spent the night at the home of his family. East FoTTy flftb street , and .Hawthorne fcvenue. ' . Polios Tlslt i House. The police visited this house and found' that Ms statement was untru. He has been estranged from Ma .fam ily, and has not been home forovr three months, according to his wife. Col Cola was Intercepted as he ran i across the east approach of the Hawthorne bridge towards the house where he has-been rooming, at 350 Front street. ' ! . , "We have the evidence so conclu sively on this man that there is no shadow of doubt as to his guilt," said Fire Marshal Stevens last night. "Wo even know ' where . he . purchased the gasoline with which he fired the house. It is not necessary that he confess, for we have men-who-saw him set the blaze." f - ' . Twelve Are Convicted. - Twelve, persons have been convicted Of arson In Portland In the last 12 months, more cases of this kind hav ing arisen than in any other city in the -United States. Cola . Cola confessed yesterday that he was arrested and served a prison sentence for "shooting up" saloons at and 'in the vicinity of Fourth ah I Sheridan streets 10 years ago. He is the father of 12-year-old- Llz sle Cola Cola, the child bride, wh one marriage last August in Vancouver, to Pietro Dasti brought about many complications in the courts in an ef fort to bring about a separation. The police say theft the Dastis are still living together as man and wife. Mnskearon : Butcher ' Sees Money : Vat Into Grip But Xt Was Hot There .. When He Opened Xt., ' ' rf ' Muskegon, Mich., Feb. . 28. Wit nessing a sleighfc-of-hand performance pulled off with the aid of a, suitcase and a. handkerchief cost Frank Farkas, Muskegon Heights -butcher, $1500. , :. A man ? induced Farkas to go into a deal with him. for the purchase of a local 'saloon,' each to put up $1500. When they got ; to the .. saloon an' ap parently" tipsy friend of Farkas greeted the two. f He was ? so demonstrative that Farkas suggested they put the 93000 in a handkerchief, -drop the hand kerchief in the suitcase, while he gqt rid of the tipsy friend. Farkas agreed and got the suitcase. His partner-to-be disappeared with., the tipsy friend. Farkas waited 'and when ..the two did not comb back opened the suitcase. It was empty. SUSPECT HELD ON -; COMPLAINT OF ARSON Poor Henry -Got It Coming and Going SS Buys Bevolver to protect Himself A. gala st neighbors. Then Polloe Ar rest Him for Carrying' Weapons. Philadelphia, Feb. 26. "To1 bettah go an pay a deposit to ire undertakah, foyo ain't got long to llngah. '"Jess take a good look at yo'self 'n oe. ml-rah. fo' yo' ain't goin' to hab dat ' view much lonjfah." " 'Thesa dally greetings from his neighbor, atfcom pained -by a fusillade or cui... vase and plates, conslder- My anoyed Henry Russell. a quiet negro of Gerrnantown. It puzzled him greatly to ascertain the cause of the outbursts; When he asked questions it", appear that Henry met only with more abuse. . So ho bought a revolver. -Possession of the weapon made Russell uneasy. He couldn't sleep, fearing: that it would go off suddenly and do harm, so he went to the Oer mantown police station and told his troubles to . Sergeant Sharp. Then! he showed the sergeant the revolver, which, n as "loaded for immediate ac tion. m ' , , Sharp " looked at Henry in - amaze ment And arrested him for carrying concealed deadly weapons. Henry was astounded. Words failed him. Incidentally, the neighbor whom Henry accused of annoying him, de clared that Russell was Just as noisy as he waa.;v . As Henry couldn't prove that he was justified In carrying the Weapon, he was i held . in $400 ball for court by Magistrate Pennock. Sleeve Is Arrested; Owner Bound Over nigw Are round Concealed in Sec tion. Of Oarmeat on Which Police man Had Plrm Hold. " PMladelpnla. FeW 26. Arresting e, rleevevproved Just as efficacious in t -. '.s Caxe as . arresting the ' owner, be cause ; the : owner, who had to come along" -'withA the ' sleeve, was held In f 5 00 bail today ? for court by United - . ates 'Commissioner Edmunds, ac--cused of Illegal possession of drugs. The owner .of the sleeve, George An drews, who said-he lived at 10 14 Ger-r--; an town- -avenue.v was. obscerved by r olioemen Walsh and Brendly, of the rice squad, coming out of the rear of a house .on Arch street early In the r ornlng, of January 19. He was seen p . thing . something up his sleeve. Without much parley the policeman f 'rmly ere sped , the : sleeve and took A 7; drew - to the Eleventh and Winter s -eets Ution, where the sleeve Adis ' ' rsed itals and envelopes 6f-heroln .vder and two "blowers," the police : The man, it was testified, obtained a " rjre amount' of the drug by buying iall quantities at a time through ; ysiclans" prescriptions, Don't Cry, Little' Girl;" Says Robber Eenowned Indian t Archer Passes NX, iH'l.T .. , ! i isj Vito Cola Cola, who is accused of arson. soaked material. Disbpan containing oil - . c Chief WUbash of Chippewa Oenerally Conceded ICost Deadly Bhot Wit Bow and Arrow m, BOddle westiT death ofcfWiabash.s whose -American 'name ' was John Seymore,' Wisconsin has lost one f its greatest Chippewa Indian ; chieftains,, a man i who linked the Dast-with Xh present.-beinjr gen erally considered the most deadly shot with J?ow and j arrow'-. In this parti of the nountrv. . ' ' '. "Vt.& u'Kr M i E;arly4isettlers have handed -Jdowr stories i of i Wittbaem's prowess 'which sem scarcely believable to-, the young er, generation. - White-men privileged to accompany him,-tell of his bilnging down i- squirrels ' and' bhuskblrds ;, form the tallest trees time after, time," with scarcely a miss, ami he has evew'-bee'ni, known to shoot game on the 'wtngt'SS . Winbssh i was: chief of tthe Rice Lake band. df thChippewas,the titles having- bees.; confererd on him . by his grandfather, ': Wabaskebanieiscn, , pass ing it over the bead of his . son, - He was - an- orator mors than .ordinary ability, and . spoke the English' lan guage . perfectly.vyi:iv y.i&t Wage SystemiW&si; WeU4i6rlancK Penal Code Is Arranged Be Ch.Heno - Talley Parmer Oets His Work Bone . 'riztaanp, fr petUacj'.r-'ZJ'-, San- Francisco, Feb. 26. (P; N. 8.) Americo Cassarottf. a Chlleno valley rancher,; has ; A perfect wage . system and a penal "code- of -his own. which should result in his -Setting his farm labor done 'virtually for nothing.' . , David Canepa, the-object of Cassa rottl's system. Jt lied suit in Judare Ma gee's court today for-$150 for give months work on Cassarottfs farm. Cassarotti retaliated" by. filing a blU of $100 against Nanapa. ' The follow ing are some of the Items Included In the Ullr - - . For disobeying my wife $2. For . drowning eight chickens . in a milk vat $8.' ; For getting- bed full of fleas $7.60. For breaking cow's tall $5. For too m.neh resting , at noon time $6. ... ' ;'. Cai epa's attorney declares that Cas sarotti offered to settle Canepa's claim in full for $4$. i ii j i - ...... " ''l.1'' ' " " ' " " t 'A i,:r:?ij:w .if -? i-' V" f ; v I f: v vn'T;5rt ;l j , liiiillllipltilli1 Iliipiiilf 4liiipiliiilJi j f 1 1 Tiirkish Atrocities ? V In-Persia Terriblef Paul tlmmoa Ten erf , , i Conditions In Helgnbornood of Ttflisl , i People - Are " atarvlag ;. te Beat. New Vrork,FeWji.--(n. P.) Mm. ; Paul Shimmon told t terrible story of Turkish atrocities in western Persia here v today. With her . husband, ""a Columbia university graduate thouh Syrian born, and two of three chll dren, she recently escaped from Urrat, northwestern Persia. Holding in her hand a photograph ofa band of Kurds, she pointed out different faces. "I know . that fellow she said. In dicating one fierce bearded .Turk on a . great horse. "He. seised a woman in a " village where Iwaa, near Tlflis, and carried her away. . And that one, pointing out another, "I saw him shoot down a man. first stripping him naked. "The villages are plundered, every thing gone. The people go from the villages into Tiflls. where there-are now so many that they do not lie down to sleep. - I-myself was-sick five weeks . with typhoid fever In a room where there were five others a little room. We sit all day and all night for there are no beds for us. And hungry-'; always hungrry -no food." "All -are starving," said Mr, Shim mon. "Eighty -thousands are now destitute In northwestern Persia. I went into the villages and saw these things with my own eyes. Not a cow, not an animal of. any kind, left to the peoDle. Doors wrenched from, S their frames. Grain food of all kinds all taken. And thepeople mad with , fear.: Yes, many have gone. mad. Women carried away by the Turk. Can you wonder that the people flock to the towns. . where there is more -safefy, even. though they must starve and remain huddled together under the worst possible conditions? "I have come to ask help. But for America they would -all be dead now; my people, American mofiey has Ted thm . n J f h AmAplan f I. v Am "t V. only thing that the Turks fear." Group of little gMs wtio atteiided WasMnj Little Zelda Moses sohn was hostess friends . at at Washington's birthday j patriotic emblems wwre used in-decora-last Tuesday afternoon to 14 of her I party at J her home. Flags and other I tlons, and the general color scheme in 'the reception hall and dining room was la red, white and blue. ' The refreshments . were in keeping with the occasion. The guests were: Marlon Bowman, Roth Bromberger, Dorothy Kttinger, Charlotte Harris, Imogene Law Is, Frances Milne, Zelda Mosessohn, Kath erine Overbeck. Mary Richard, Alice Richard. Lucille Umbdenstock. Mar garet. Robinson and Dorothea Gilbert. First Place m. TTAT 1 deGb 1 al Tests od Xooklnr Strang Insists o ing Cola, ant He 2os Xt la BCost Checterfieldlaa Xanaer. I Philadelphia,''.' Feb.- j."Don't cry, little girl; tears would soil that pretty complexion-. you have.? said--a, well iressed. young highwayman v sa he ointed a revolver at Miss Emma Stee ! es, 32 years old, in a- bakery shop nducted by her father, William J. :eeblea. " The : good-looking stranger threa t- ed Miss Steebles with death if she 1 not immediately turn over to film e contents of the cash register, but : threat was made in a manner that culd have passed the censorship of a most polite, drawing room, Miss ebles gave her visitor 'the "money 1 he escaped. Detectives are search I throughout the city for him. 1 - 'ini'n'iir i i-:.!...!., '- ' ' miiiiii ..lim. ..w,., '.iii,, - i in. i 1 "': -.. " - 111 jmb ' MMff:.(Ym - W-- - -frrAsgv V' -r kWL . s, ma ( .W, yis iSax" .ZIVx 'C-- 1 l "W III -If AW t .7 ,,-xr':;-i -I W ... fi; t.r v Vir "'JC " S " ;:Cv' r - A- u 4 N -;V .' A yy-? ( A;,":; A ' - - - ,. ? - V. Vu'gg v-5 KL-C7- X'g. X4 -:Ja- Xy .ii. X X, .jg X-y - ill During the last: 13 mdnths 6S stu dents of the behnke-Walker Business College at Fourth and Yamhill streets have won gold medals - offered by the Remington Typewriter company, of New - York' city; As a result of this splendid showing the -local college is classed as the first on the list for th entire west ana second' in -the- United States. A Cleveland Roller i..f:rst t present, and though it i much fttrong- t I er numerically, its lead, consists only of several -iinore- gold medal students than the Portland Institution., This gives Behnke-Walker first In the coun try on a percentage basis. A -rtudent to wla a Remington gold medal must display a high standard of speed, ac curacy and ,. efficiency in r typewriting under test. -..Winners are. so eagerly southt by business men that Presi dent I, M. Walker, generally har posi tions in advance awaiting those who pass the tests, - i- The Remington -company Inaugurated the gold medal plan about a year and a half ago for the purpose of fixing n standard that ' would assure business men of competent stenographers Pres ident Walker of the local college was quick to see the Importance - of this progressive , step and -1 adopted "gold medal standards?" as a requirement for 'graduation. The tests are held under' the- direc tion - of , the Remington Typewriter company, and In Portland ail of them are personally supervised by Manager Waters, of the local Remington branch. All test matter is sent under, seal -direct from New York City,; and no con-i testant Is allowed to see "copy" until he-or she Is ready to write. - - ' , "The business men of Portland, are coming .to recognise-th ability dis played hy our old medal stenograph ers. --said s president Walker. '"For that the demand will be far In excess of the supply in tho very near future. Bven through Obe recent business de pression we were hard pressed to fill tiie demand for these high grade oper ators." -.:'- - . -- Follows the- names of gold -medal students whoe -pictures appear above: X Loraine Forsberg. 2 Selma Olsen, 8 -Charlotta V: Newstead. 4 Grace E. Follette, fc Clare F. Lajwbert, 6 Hor tenM Plchereau,. 7 Floy Ferguson,, a Genevieve 1.- Collette. - Maud 1. Rlchtmyer. 10 Harriet . Smith. 11 Louise Wehtje. 12 Mary Hessian. 13- Margaret E. Burehard. 1-4 Grace M Shrader, Lois Hershner,. Is P. A, Drunk. 17 Frances Barrett, 18 Flora Wilmes, 1 Mary Onslow, 10 Julian Morfitt, 21 H-J.Ierman, 22 Laura Hyldclund. t3 Vfcuerite Hessian, 24 -Margaret er, 21 Oar ret Stelsel, 2 ' Keller. 27 Violet Gibson, Zi Clarence Bice.' ,2 Esther- Bers- strom. : 20 Elisabeth Dinwiddle. 81 Esther Spring, -22 L. Barber, 33 Mildred Starr. 24 Navel la Doddridge, . 25 Matilda Hurst. 21 Sophia Pieper, 37 Mabel Seekats. 28 Irene McKcr- . cher, Mar-rF. Taylor, 40 Martha-' Schults. 41 Frieda Zeller. 42 Kath leen Walker. 43 Catherine B. Newell, 44 Cariotta Ripley. t " Top center Sylvia Wheeler, princi pal of typewriting department. .