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DAUGHTER IN
FOR
; BIUER. CONTEST
ESTATE OF $30,000
Mrs,';Nannie Mathews Says
; ;..Mr,:ancf Mrs, David Tobias
roisonearvirs, uaie s mma,
: FAMILY HISTORY IS AIRED
SuAdoaicna&jrs i Attitude of Mother's
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5 f "It was in the spring of 1914 that
Mattle Tobias and hr husband, David
V Tobias of Seattle, poisoned the
h mind of Mrs. Anna IS. Dale against her
daughter, Mrs. Nannla Mathews of
J'endl.ton, testified Mrs. Mathews to-
day in the contest she has brought to
streak her mother's will which be-
oueatbs practically all of a (30.800 es
' tats to Mrs. Tobias and her 7-year-old
daughter, Helen. 'Mrs Tobias Is a
- daughter of Mrs. Mathews and a grand-
T daughter of Mrs. Dale
k Leaving her mother in Seattle with
r the Tobiases under the most rnenu.y
circumstances, Mrs. Mathews went to
J, her home In Pendleton. She returned
q fiom Portland within two weeks, her
-a mother having come aown irora ee
attle, and found her mother terribly
tj angry toward her and refusing to have
r. Biiiiung lu ug wiin ucr.
- Mother Very Angry.
V i The cause for this change, she te
I If led, she was informed by Geo.'ge
K Watkins, now deceased, who had looked
after Mrs. Dale's business for 40 or bO
years, was that the Tobiases had told
I Mrs. Dais that Watkins and Mrs. Math
.:" ews were "trying to beat her out of the
" property
"Mother was awfully angry at me."
testified Mrs. Mathews. "I told moth
er that Mr. Watkins had been her
V friend for more than 40 years, and ho
i Ought not to talk that way about him
i ; "Mr. Watkins told me that mother
Cams and took her wi'l away from
him and was very angry. I remained
in Portland four or five days n.n.1
ft weflt to see mother every day, but she
t Remained : Vry angry with me and
refused -to discuss any of her affairs
t With, mi, u she had always done be
if. tore. ; .
I. J "Wbll 1 was here Mrs. Tobias cam
down from Seattle. My relations with
J, her were, fin. I placed Implicit con
' fidence"1ir'-her regarding my mother
When i left mother' then that was the
" list time I aver saw her until her last
r Illness.:; When Mr. Tobias telegraphed
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knew me, '
v Not ones did Mrs. Mathews as she
U kat In the witness chair refer to Mrs.
Tobaa by her given name and seldom
J as her,vdaughter.
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JUDGE RALPH DEMENT,
ONCE
' PORTLAND, IS DEAD
Former Partner of Senator
Mitchell Had Been Invalid
for Many Years.
The final passing of Judge Ralph
M. Dement, a prominent lawyer in
Portland during the early years of the
decade beginning In 1SS0, will recall
to many of the older residents of
Portland the blUiant attorney and poli
tician. He was partner of Senator
Mitchell from 1879 to 1884, whose of-
flees were at the corner of First and
' Morrison streets over the old Felden
helmer store. Under the mayoralty
of Captain John Gates, Judge Dement
.was Dolice luda-e from 1885 to 1888.
ifi an lUoaa ct several vears Judge
Dement died yesterday. Judge De
ment was the son of Colonel John
P. Dement, U. S. A., and was reared
In Oregon City. No Immediate rela
tives survive him. He was 60 years
of age. Funeral services will be held
at the chapel of Dunning & McEntee
tomorrow. Thursday, November 2S, at
10:80 a. m., and Interment will be in
Riverview cemetery.
.
DEPUTY FEDERAL CLERK DIES
Left Mrs. Mattle Tobias and daughter, Helen, chief beneficiaries of
the will of Mrs. Anna E. Dale, grandmother of Mrs. Tobias.
Top (insert) Mrs. Nannie Mathews, daughter of Mrs. Dale and mother
of Mrs. Tobias, who is contesting the will, which practically dis
inherits her.
Mrs. Vida Maston Johnston Was 34
Years Old; Funeral In Albany.
Following an illness of two months,
Mrs. Vida Maston Johnston, deputy
to the clerk of the United States dis
trict court, died yesterday morning
at the Portland Surgical hospital at
the age of 84 years.
Born in Waitsburg, Wash-, March
80. 1882. Mrs. Johnston spent her girl
hood in Albany, Or. She became dep
uty to the clerk of the federal dis
trict court In 1908.
Mrs. Johnston Is survived by her
mother, with whom she resided at
749 East Ankeny street, two suiters.
Esther and Laura Maston, and a
brother, George Maston.
Funeral services will be held in
Albany tomorrow, Rev. Dr. W. H.
Lee, president of Albany college, a
friend of the family, officiating. The
body will be forwarded to Albany to
morrow morning.
lng Is Impossible here and a revolver
may have-- been Smuggled In.
There has been talk of the alleged
smuggling of rifles and revolvers at
the institution but nothing more, he
said.
To Publish Traffic Ordinance.
Contracts have been let by the city
for the publication of the digest ef the
latest traffic ordinance. The material
was compiled by H. P. Coffin, chairman
of the public safety commission. The
booklet will be In red and green, the
"safety first" colors of the city, and
supersedes - the little green pamphlet
now being distributed to automobilists
at police headquarters. Hundreds of
Inquiries have been made at headquar
tirs lately regarding publication of the
latest ordinance. . -
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Ingram Bound Over
On Slavery Charge
Following a preliminary hearing ex
tending over two. days, Claude E-
Ingram, charged with white slavery.
has been bound over by United States
Commissioner Drake on a charge of
transporting his wife, Ooldle Ingram,
from Canada to the United States in
violation of the. Mann act.
The wife testified against him yes
terday afternoon, relating that Ingram
had lived off her earnings since 1914.
Commitment of Ingram was bitterly
contested by his attorney, Ralph E.
Moody, on the ground that the testi
mony of a wife against her husband
is not admissible.
The wife, who is being held as a
witness, gave a long recital of her life
since marrying Ingram, admitting that
she had complained against him be
cause he had come to Portland from
Everett, Wash., with a 19-year-old girl.
Cecils Stennett.
Proceedings for the removal of In
gram and his wife to Seattle were to
be heard by Judge Wolverton this
afternoon.
L The two do not speak to each other
. If they, meet in the courtroom. Mrs.
.! Mathews, dressed very plainly in b:ac k,
J reveals. In her face and hands that
' she hae spent her years in toil, while
Mrs. Tobias, who sits on the opposite
,a tide of the courtroom, Is
V. 'rnwn.H ntV1 mirrounrind with Mm a rt
y fy dressed Iff lends.
T : The husbands of the two women are
ii also in the court room. Mr. Mathews
' U a barber at Pendleton and Mr. Tobias
Is chief clerk In ono of the departments
" il the Northern Pacific's offices at Se-
attle.
. . At the time. In the spring of 1914,
i. that Mrs. Mathews went to Seattle to
see her mother it was, she said, for
a' the -purpose of "consulting about the
building it was proposed to have erect
ed on the Dale property between Thir
teenth and Fourteenth street, on Flan
ders, and which now is occupied by the
Gtodytar Tire & Rubber company. She
said her mother wanted a building put
or. the property and. approved the plana
. suggested yby Mrs. Mathews and Mr.
Watkins.
. a nn BAiiaiivu wini kii Ainu vi n
' building that would give mother an
Income," she testified.
reared Tobias Anger.
Many letters which had been written
: by Mrs, Mathews to T. H. Cahalln, in
whose hands Mrs. Dale placed her
business after she took it from Mr.
. Watkins, were read into the case as
evidence that Mrs. Mathews did not
neglect her mother. In one letter Mrs.
Mathews said: "Don't tell Mr. Tobias
I wrote you. I am afraid he will tell
mother and make trouble."
. After her mother became angry nt
- her in 1914, the witness said, her moth
er never wrote her another letter.
"She never answers my letters," Mrs.
Mathews wrote to Cahalln, "so I Show
she is still on the warpath."
Another witness this morning was
Mrs. Sarah Curtain of Vancouver, who
came to Portland about 35 years ago
from Ireland with a letter of introduc
tion to Mrs. Dale, and they had been
intimate friends since that time.
She testified that Nannie (Mrs.
Mathews) when a girl worked for IS
a week and supported her mother,
before her property had much Income,
and the girl often returned home with
leaking shoes and turned over her
week's wages to her mother.
Mrs. Mathews Good Daughter.
"She was an affectionate and good
daughter," said the witness. "There
. a - (.nwlil. In the f n in U ir nnttl
smartly Rfter Mattle Mrs Dale's grand
daughter, got married."
When she talked with Mrs. Dale in
1915, the witness said, she saw that
Mrs. Dale was childish and could
not carry on a connected conversa
tion. "About five years ago Mrs. Dale
told me," said the witness, "that
she was going to divide her property
between the two girls."
Mrs. Cleave Passes Away.
he Columbia river. October 2, 1915, Mrs. Emily Cleave, who died In this
was filed yesterday arternoon by city on wovemDer si, was 04 years
Yacob Panesuk against the Western of age and a native of Illinois, and
Transportation & Towing company, had resided in Oregon , for the past
The son, Yakim Penesuk, alias John 27 years. She Is survived by two
Roman, was employed as a deckhand daughters, Mrs. Lena Sherman and
cn a tug and was knocked off the boat Mrs. Laura Barnet. Mrs, Cleave had
Into the Columbia river. It Is al- three sisters, one being Mrs. Sophie
ltged the accident was due to th neg- Montag of Portland. Weslie Petrie
llepnra nf t h defendant was a brother. Funeral service will
m. . . be held from the A. R. Zellaf parlors
DRY LAW VTnT.ATrRJ4 irivprn tomorrow at 2 p. m.. with Interment
i at Lone Fir cemetery,
Complaints Charged Receiving
Illegal Shipments of Liquor.
Six of the 17 persons for whom war
rants were issued Monday on com
plaints charging ' them with violating
the prohibition law were brought be-
Pleasant Home Farmer Dies.
Oresham, Or.. Nov. 22. J. W. Rob
ertson. 85 years old, a farmer of
Pleasant Home, was stricken with apo
plexy Monday afternoon, from which
hA rifAd. 'Mr Ttnhnrtaon wna hnrn in
tore uistnct Juage uayion-yesteroay ruinois in 1851. He came to Oregon
aiiemoon ana eacn was Tinea iu. , Jn 1901 iater becoming a farmer in
iney pieaoea guilty to receiving more , eastern Multnomah county. He is sur-
than one order of liquor within a per
iod of 28 days.
OusfQMnderson, the seventh to be
brought into court, was dismissed as
DRILLS FOR BOYS IN
SCHOOL OPPOSED AT
A. RL CONVENTION
Socialist Delegates Carry
Resolution in Face of Ar
guments for Plan.
Baltimore, Md.. Nov. 21. (I. N. S,)
Its alliance with the railroad broth
erhoods accomplished, the convention
or the American Federation of Labor
today settled down to a program of
long and acrimonious debate on mili
tarism, the eight-hour issue, policy
towards the Japanese and Mexicans
and various minor issues. Military
training for the children in the com
mon schools was the subject before the
body when it reassembled.
By a vote of 185 to 84 the delegates
refused to send the matter to a special
committee. Amid applause the reso
lution' ooooslna- military training In
the schools was then adopted.
ln order that a definite policy on
all phases of "militarism" might also
be adopted, a special committee wss
appointed to repyrt before the conven
tion adjourns.
; Chairman Furuseth of the executive
council favored the giving of drills to
school boys throughout the country in
order that the workers may know how
to defend themselves In time of strikes.
Minority members and Social 1st del
gates held that military drills would
wean away tbo loyalty of the children
to working class Interests.
A resolution demanding an embargo
uoon the exportation of . foodstuffs
from this country until the entire need
.i the American people for food for the
coming year shall have been met, has
been favorably reported and will be
adopted. This measure la amended by
the committee so as to call for grand
jury indictment and prison sentences
for all persons found guilty of raising
the prices of food artificially.
California delegates are working for
the sending of President Gompers to
Japan next spring to assist in forming
a great trade-union movement In that
country. They consider It the best
means of cementing pcaoe with the ori
ent and at the same time reducing the
difference in wage scales which has
made the Japanese laborer so danger,
oua to his competitor in America,
Paul Scharrenburg, secretary of the
California State Federation of Labor,
will make the trip to Toklo on a siml
lar errand. !-.;, ..'',,;. "V ';
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uarioaa oi Liquor r
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When the steamer Northern Paclflo
started unloading at Flavel yesterday,
a rather surprising quantity of liquor
was "placed on the dock out of that
space la the ship allotted to the Great
Northern Express company. ' District
I Agent Starr estimated today that fully
one carload was devoted to liquor Im
ports in two-quart packages.
Mr. Starr denied published reports
that the steamer had brought up II
carloads of liquor for the express com
pany. The Great Northern office on
Sixth street was almost as busy a -place
this afternoon as the Wells;
Fargo office has been tor a week. - '
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In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bean
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special dining u room
prices are arranged for
those desiring American
plan accommodations.
TONIGHT
and every Wednesday,
BALLOON NIGHT in
the favorite ARCADIAN
GARDENS.
Harry E. Stinson
Manager
vlved by a widow, a son. Guy Robert
aon. and a daughter, Marian Robert
son, teacher in the Rock wood school
; a brother, J. J. Robertson, and a sis-
MAKRLGE BLISS SHORT LIVED
Separation Follows Month After
Wedding; Divorce Granted.
Married at Vancouver August 9.
Separated in Portland September 10.
Divorced November 21.
That is the marital record of Emma
I.ncy and John Lacy. The divorce was
granted to the wife on the grounds of
cruelty. She alleged that her husband
.abused her and finally drove her from
their home, tellng her to go back to
her relatives.
Two new suits for divorce were filed
as follows: .Walter S. Anderson vs.
Verna A. Anderson, married In Cali
fornia In 1905, four children, cruelty?
Myrtle' DeLillles vs. Alfred DeLilies,
married In Portland in 1914, one child,
asks $10 a month alimony, cruelty.
Father Sues for $10,000.
Suit for 110.000 damages for the
c.eAth of his son, who was drowned in
the express company's record book ' ter, Mrs. D. L. McLaln of Gresham.
showed that another had forged his
name. He had received a shipment
September 21 and earlier in the same
day someone else had called at the
express office and also obtained a
package in bis name. In fact the other
fellow got Anderson's package and the
express company was compelled to
rake up another package for Ander
son.
The six who pleaded guilty and
Were fined are George B. Lewis, Dr.
U. S. Q. Fletcher, Q. Richards, L. H.
Becker, A. C Stevens and Frank Hoch-feld.
Funeral services were held this after
noon at the Pleasant Home Baptist
church, with interment in Douglass
cemetery.
WANTS ESTATE REOPEXED
Violet Palmer Dies.
Violet E. Palmer, daughter of Charles
and Laura E. Palmer, of Prinevllle,
Or., died last Sunday and was buried
in the Odd Fellows' cemetery in Prlne
ville, Monday. She was 17 years of
age and death was caused by peri-
gonitis.
Woman's Relatives Sought.
Dr. C. O. Boyer, 4 22 Medical build
ing, is seeking to find the relatives of
Miss Ella A. Nelson, who died Novem
ber 20 in this city. Miss Nelson is
thought to have a brother in or near
Astoria. She was proprietress of the
Regal pharmacy, East Thlrty-seventa
land Sandy boulevard. Funeral arrange
Sister Says Brothers Got More
Than Their Share of Estate.
Charging that her brothers, F. M.
Miles and William A. Miles, execu
tors of the estate of S. A. Miles, in- i ments will not be made for a few days
SJCV OF NIFTY VARIETIES
lgffifg&ji TOCHOOSEFROM
jtpl CliOCOL-ATESM
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duced her through misrepresentation
to sign a document consenting to hav
ing the estate closed and the two ex
ecutors named as trustees, Mary E.
Butler today filed in the county court
a petition to have the estate re-opened
and an immediate liquidation and di
vision of its assets.
The estate was appraised at $151,
072, of which $93,772 consisted of
notes. By a will left by S. A. Miles,
the estate was divided share and share
alike among his widow and children.
After discovering the fraud, Mrs.
Butler says in her petition, she de
manded a settlement, agreeing to take
less than her full share In order to
avoid a controversy and publicity.
"The said executors," she said,
"could easily, out of the sums which
they had overpaid to themselves and
the sums which they had v loaned to
themselves out of the money of the
estate, have paid to the petitioner her
share of the personal property of the
estate."
Judge Cleeton signed an order citing
the executors to appear in court De
cember 5 to show cause, if any, why
the petition should not be granted.
Theft Is Charged.
Wallace McKay was arrested today
by the sheriffs office on a charge
of stealing a horse and buggy from
Fraxler & McLean, liverymen, Novem
ber 6, 1915.
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Parsnip Weighs Eight Pounds.
J. S. Roark of 1526 East Fifty
seventh street, lugged a mammoth
parsnip out of his garden the other
day which at first glance looked like
a sugar beet Ho put it on the
in hopes of hearing from some of her
relatives. Information can be sent to
Main 2711.
Deputy Warden Says
No Break Is Feared
Sherwood Declares He Has Wo JCnow.
ledge That Oon Was Smuggled Into
Prison, Though There Was Talk of It
Salem, Or., Nov. 22. Deputy Warden
Sherwood, of the state prison, declared
today that the story appearing in a
morning newspaper that it had been
found that rifles and a revolver had
been smuggled into the prison was
false. He did not fear a break, he
said, and conditions were normal.
The only thing- to indicate that there
had been any traffic in arms and am
munition was the story of a trusty
that he had carried inside the prison
a box of 20 cartridges. The- box bad
been cached by Mike McMurray, who
escaped October 18, the trusty said.
Whether there was a revolver to
go with the cartridges or rifles, the
deputy warden could not say and he
did not know where the cartridges
were.
"We have no evidence that rifles or
a revolver were smuggled In," Sher
wood said. "I don't know what the
stories are based on. Of course, noth
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Probably few people realize that a
scales and found it tipped the beam cold is a sisrnal of Dhvsical weakness.
Mb.areedabregton,8.at: exhibit I To treat a cold with weakehin
mm street. physics, alcoholic svrups or arueeed
'pills, may possibly smother the cold
but they also reduce the body powers
still further and invite another cold
or more serious sickness.
Seaside Run Direct.
To accommodate several parties of
Portland people who are planninr to
spend Thanksgiving at Gearhart and
Seaside, the Spokane. Portland & Se- ,
attie railway wm run its train next Scott's Emulsion hat alwavs rwpn
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