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-it' THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ' 1, 1918. 5 0-V:R.&N;ANDN.P,TOi AID COUNTY OPFICERS TO STOP BOOTLEGGING fVUp to S. P. Now," Says Dis trict Attorney Evans, as Three " - Roads Control Station. - under section . of , th .- penal . cods which provides' penaltiea for shipping or - causing , to b shipped , liquor not,, properly labeled. - The court held that the activities of the defendants constt tuted smuggling and Instructed the Jury to return a verdict of acquittal. ., : - Mooney and Skelly . were ald to have, shipped liquor from California to Ore- first of J917. ' . ' I "It i now up to the Southern Pacific to show what It Is going; to do' said District Attorney Evans this morning, 'referring to the recent order of the S. P. which denied officers the right to y enter the baggage room or to, examine , trunks to see if they contalryMl contra band liquor. - , C. O. Sutherland, assistant to General Manager J. P. O'Brien of the O-W. R. It X. company, called at the courthouse this morning to 'confer with Sheriff Hurlburt and Plstrict Attorney Evans - and .outline the position of the O-W. R. - A N". and the Northern Pacific eom . panles- as to the handling of illegal ship ments of liquor reaching the Union sta Ttlon. . Sutherland assured the county4 offi cials that his company and the North ern Pacific would gladly cooperate with the authorities . in every way in detect ing bootleggers. He said the officers would be furnished with every facility to carry on their work. r As to fihlpments -of liquor on the Southern Pacific as baggage, hei; said -the other two roads had no authority . over them until they were unloaded at the station. Then, he explained, it was a matter for the Terminal company to determine by whom and how it should be handled. The Union station is owned by. the Northern Pacific Terminal company which, in its turn. Is owned .by the Northern Pacific, the O-W. II. . N. and the Southern Pacific. " "inasmuch as the Southern Pacific is outvoted two to one, it will have to be good," Mr. Evans explained. LIQUOR CASE CHARGE IS UPHELD J. A. Horner, Convicted, Fined 250 ' and Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail. J. A. Horner, . 1270 Corbett street, on trial before District Judge Bell Thurs day afternoon, on a charge of having liquor illegally In his possession, was found guilty by the Jury and was sen tenced to 30 days In the county Jail and to pay a fine of $250. t Horner gave notice of appeal and Is out on baiU -The evidence showed that Horner came up on the Rose City from San Francisco January 12, bringing a trunk containing 12 -bottles of alcohol. He was arrested by Deputy- Sheriffs Christofferson and Beckman next day. The defense offered was that Horner was approached by a stranger who gave him the check to the trunk and asked him to have it delivered by an express man to a South Portland address. Horner denied having any trunk. To substantiate his statement he produced his steamer ticket which did not show a trunk had. been checked' on it. Further questioning by Deputy Dis trict Attorney Bernard elicited the in formation that Horner's son was trav eling with him, and that Horner did not think it necessary t produce the son's ticket in court to show whether or not a trunk was. checked on it. -The Jury was out but two minutes. confessed to having choked , ,Hamblln slightly, s 1 . . - In the opinion of Coroner Smith. Ham blln, who was in an advanced stage of the disease and liable to die at any time, probably succumbett to the excitement' of the altercation, and Walters was not se riously to blame.WalUrs himself Is also a tubercular patient at(the farm. Says Husband Bought Liquor Anna Martell has filed suit for divorce against Charles Martell, alleging that he spent most of his money for liquor instead- of caring for his home. They were married in 1910 at Oregon City. L. F. Pickens Granted Divorce A decree of divorce was granted this morning to L. F. Pickens from Beatrice Pickens by Circuit Judge Kavanaugh. Desertion was charged. They were mar ried In Cods county, December 28, 1915. New Cases Numbered 663 ' . The total numbe? of new cases filed In- the district court during the month of January was 865, according to a state ment compiled by "W. 3. Richmond, clerk. Of these 94 were small claims and 91 criminal matters. The sum of I1S45.80 was paid la fees! bail money deposited was $4410 ; received for fines, $2055 ; received for, litigants,. $2025. ' - BOOTLEGGER , ON JURY LIST Patrons of California Houses Called to ' Convict Other "Offenders, A Bhakeup la promised In the district court Jury list, according to statements made-, by District; Attorney Evans and Special Agent Walter F. Geren, Wednes day. . In checking the Jury list with, the list of regular customers of the San Fran cisco liquor ring, now being; investigated by the federal grand Jury they find a number of names on both lists. "So we have," said Mr. Evans, "a man doing a little 'private bootlegging on his own account sitting on a Jury that is supposed to convict a man bootlegging for another's account." ALL EFFORTS TO RECONCILE FAIL BOOTLEG FIGHTING IS DIVIDED City Will Prosecute Inside Its Limits . and the County Outside. Under a new arrangement between Sheriff Hurlburt, Chief of Police John son and District Attqrney Evans, the sheriff's office will handle ajl bootleg King cases outside the city limits, while the police force will attend to similar canes within. . This Arrangement, Mr. Evans ex plained, will necessitate dispensing with the services of R. C. Scott and W. J. Jeffries, .two special agents -who haye worked out of his office for several months. Their work has been devoted exclusively to the detection of violations of the liquor law. . Mr. E vans said further that in dis pensing with the services of Scott and Jeffries he was taking an action made necessary because of his limited office force, which is unable to attend to the large Miumber of bootlegging, cases turned in by the two special agents. He spoke in glowing terms of -their success ful work while working through his of fice. Beventy-nine bootleggers have been arrested through, their efforts in the past four montns, he said, and the county has .been enriched v $5920 through fines col lected in cases handled exclusively by them. ! Judge Gatens Takes Carey Divorce Case Under,Advisement at Close. The contested divorce case of Richard Carey against Bertha Carey was taken under advisement by Circuit Judge Ca tena this morning after an unsuccessful attempt at a reconciliation made by him in chambers. Carey, formerly claim adjuster for the Oreat Northern railway at Spokane, al- i loged that his wife was quarrelsome, jealous and meddled with business af fairs at his pfflce to such an extent that he had to seek another position. He al leged further that he was obliged to cease "polng to church because she ac cused him of flirting with women in the congregation. Mrs. Carey, In her cross-complaint, al leged that her husband treated her cru elly ; that once, when she caught him kissing another woman and upbraided him. he struck her. She asks for a divi sion of their property. DEFECT IN CODE I ACQUITS TWO lien Charged With Bootlegging In Federal Court Secure 'Verdict. ' W. J. Mooney, chief engineer of the steamer Kllburn. and I J. P. Skelly, sa loonkeeper of San Francisco, tried on the charge of bootlegging, drew an ac quittal from the Jury in the federal court Wednesday due to a defect in the penal code. . "Bootleggers need not wax Joyous over this verdict, however, for the Reed amendment has stopped up all technical loop holes for Violators of the liquor law," said Assistant United States At torney Beckman. The Reed amendment was adopted in ' July. 1917. I The Mooney and Skelly case was tried ACQUITTED OF BOOTLEGGING Jury's Verdict in Face of Direct Evi dence of Guilt, . Although testimony showed that Ed Brune, proprietor of the Australian hotel. First and Taylor streets, sold two pints of whiskey to Deputy Constable Wright and two quarts to a casual cus tomer In one night,, a Jury of four men in District Judge Jones' court acquitted him of a charge of violating the prohi bition law. The "testimony showed that Wright bought the two pints, tendering -Brune a marked $5 bill. The bill was taken from Brune at the county Jail after his arrest. A woman testified on the stand that she bought two quart bottles of whiskey that same night. ' The.. Jurors sitting ton Qfi case were: H.f,,W Graham,, foreman ; W F. Prler, Fred H. Itals and F. E. Beach. PATIENT IS - HELD BLAMELESS Coroner Says, Excitement of Fight Probably Caused Man's Death. . Rudolph Walters; thought to have been responsible for the death of Frank Ham Win, a tubercular patient at the county farm, with whom Ijp had an altercation, and who has been held In the . county jail pending an investigation, was com pletely exonerated by County Coroner Earl Smith, i Hamblin, it is said, objected to Wal ters spitting Jin a locker in the room oc cupied by the two, and after some words they came to blows. Walters, It Is said. "My Sunshine Jane" "Where the Morning Glories Grow" pB By Elizabeth Spencer and Sterling Trio gpl Four Dandy Dance Records "We're Going Over" "I Don't Know Where I'm Going" . By Peerless Quartette. "Long Boy" "I Don't Want to Get Well" By Van and Scheneck. "Hail! the Gang's All Here" 'Bring Back the Kaiser to Me" By American Quartette. 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' If you analyze the statements or arguments of those who are attempting to stir up - the u -prejudice of the people, you will find that they are insisting only that something be done - io hamper, cripple or paralyze the company,, without offering a constructive economic program based on sound business principles. . - ' , ' ir Some of our opponents want the jitneys) restored arid allowed to run wild, without re striction or regulation of anykind. : The idea is to. get the jitneys back any old way, so they will take revenues away from our Company, without a thought of the consequences . to the public as a reasonable or sensible solution of local transportation problems. Other opponents demand that all existing franchises and agreements between the City and the Companybe revoked, without presenting anything in their place that experience:; has shown will either accomplish the results aimed at or afford the necessary projection to the public or a satisfactory guarantee of adequate streetcar service. Still others insist that the Company should voluntarily and immediately abolish the.-6-cent fare and go back to the 5-cent fare, when it is or should be very well known h. that such a program would throw the Company on the financial rocks in a very short time. F The purpose of this advertisement and others that we shall publish later is to present some of the fundamental facts and conditions which have inevitably led not only our Com- pany, but every public utility of any importance in America, to. appeal for similar relief A namely, increased revenues. We feel confident that we shall be able to convince any thinking person that the only way to preserve adequate streetcar service was an increased fare, such as has been grant-: ed by the Public Service Commission, and that, without it, it would have been only a very brief time until service would, of necessity, be substantially impaired, wages and working -conditions of the carmen materially reduced, or the Company thrown into trie hands of a -receiver. . t We believe we shall be able to prove to you that a 6-cent fare for our Company is1 en tirely fair, just and reasonable, when the conditions under which we are compelled to op- r era te are given full and proper consideration. t . And, above all, we want you to bear plainly in mind that the 6-cent fare idea is not a new thing, nor is it a local issue. The movement began several years ago, and has been moving with gradually increasing speed and insistence all over the United States. 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