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ITHE OREGON !DAIIY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, . OREGON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18. UZO. BANK CRASH HARD H, AS JOHNSON il HIGHLY RESPECTED r M Medford, Aug. 18. The people of 'Jacksonville are etill dazed over the "failure of the Bank of Jacksonville through the confessed machination1 of it president and manager, W. IL Johnson. The big monetary lose ia r serious, but the greater shock was due to the absolute general confi dence in Johnson, both as bank o ficial and man. . ! lie had been a church leader and dea . - eon in the Jacksonville Presbyterian church, for years and only recently re- turned from attending the Presbyterian -general synod at Philadelphia as a lay i delegate from the Southern Oregon Pres rbytery. r i Even now; many Jacksonville residents believe Johnson's story in his confession. sa!d to have been made to friends, that he did not) profit personally. Johnson j admitted that ha had been falsifying the books of the bank for three years, dur- ins which be daily and hourly was . in ! fear of discovery and arrest. -J0HHSO3C IS BELIEVED i Now that it is all over and he is in the county: Jail through inability to t. raise the bond of $50,000 in which he f a bound over at his preliminary hear- 4ng, to the grand jury, which meet in October, he says he is glad and feels free. He has made no effort to raise the bail and. in fact, is said by both ene mies and friends to prefer to remain In Jaiil because of the bitter feeling against hton. ' - ' It will be a week or 10 days before State- Superintendent of Banks Bennett, wbo, with State Bank Kxaminer Mar shall Hooper and expert accountants are working on the books of the bank, will be able to make a public statement of the assets and liabilities, so tangled are the affairs of the bank. It is said that Johnson kept two sets of , books, one to deceive the state bank superintendent and ' bank examiners, COU3JTY BIO 1,0 SEB As near as can be learned the in dividual depositors will lose at least $60. 000 and Jackson county at least $100,000. which Myrtle Blakely, the woman county treasurer. ; had -de posited in the bank. Many sensational rumors are heard re garding big overdrafts by certain de positors, some dating a year or more back. - The formal! report on the bank's af fairs by State Superintendent Bennett 1st awaited with eagerness by both the Medford and Jacksonville public. Dis trict Attorney Roberts Is keeping in close touch, with, Bennett. . ' ilt is understood that the bank was capitalized fori $10,000 and that President Johnson held the majority of the stock and was in absolute, control, tit is also understood that Johnson now says that "business inexperience' was partly re sponsible for i the" baak's collapse, but that the main cause was bad, Joans. WIFE IS I5VAL19 Whether due to these causes., criminal, negligence or I something more sinister, the failure of ihe bank ia a severe blow to the old town of Jacksonville, all of whose business houses are hard hit andji a number of whose citizens had their life time . savings on deposit la the banl. is not more or less seriously affected financially by , the nana xaiinre. uc- ftraJ fMlinr on tha Mrt mt. depositors iff bitter but the losers as a rule are ac cepting their losses phllsophically. h Although it wa generally known a few days before the bank was oraerew closed . bv State Superintendent Bennett that the? institution was in difficulty most of the depositors bad faith :,tha President Johnson would weather the run on the bank. For three weeks ber fore the bank was ordered closed Its em barrassing situation -was I known tp many, and even the Medford- clearing house refused to honor ; checks on 1 holding them in Medford until the cash had been produced by President John- A sad feature of President Johnson's downfall and incarceration in jaij, awaiting a possible Ion penitentiary sentence, is the fact that hie wife and two young, sons are apparently i without funds and the wife is practically an ins- valid. It is understooa .ina ane ana uer sons will make their home at Oakland, Or., with relatives. - ; Escaped Convicts Have ShortLiberty Walla Walla. Wash., Aug. 18. Leo Brookshire and William Burke, prisoners, who escaped from the state penitentiary here Tuesday,' enjoyed but eight hours of liberty. Earl Mclnroe, guard, who had charge Of the state prison bloodhounds In the chase for the murderers of the late Sheriff T11J Taylor, effected the capi ture of Burke single nanoea wiinout uie aid. of the dogs, near Prescott, Wash., at about 6 o'clock and an hour later re ported the capture of Brookshire. AIITEOPE IS PREY OF POOR SPORTS; NEARLY EXTINCT r-4 ? - ii if Of Used Upright Grand and j Player r -." :.' ' ?! ,-.:';.- ! 1 . - f. i f ' 1 -'" " n i t '" v II 1 ; i - " ' ' Waiting for You Right Now! There's a Mighty Good Piano At a Mighty Low Price And at Mighty j Good Terms At the Great Annual 16 r r i IJ Now in Effect at This Store There's a Knabe at $525. j A Hobart M. Cable at $375 and a Wellington at $335. A Victor at $395. t ; j A Solo Concerto Player Piano at $565. A Farrand Player Piano at $675. And a Lot of Others, ij ' All at Prices You Can't Resist. Come Today and See Them.; Terms Cut in Half During the Sale. (CO : : ; L 1 Av nil V--. rs il 1: mm d Home of the Famous Cecilian " Bush & Lane Building, Broadway at Alder We Do as We AdvertiseBring This Ad With You i "The greatest menace to the pres ervation of the last herd, of ante lope, located in Lake county, Oregon, is the tenderfoot tourist who thinks he ia doing something big to kill an antelope," says George 'Tonkin, United States game warden itf charge of the migratory bird law in Eastern Oregon and Idaho, :who epent Wed nesday in Portland, ; Tonkin has Just returned from an in vestigation of the antelope situation in company with Sheriff Woodson of Lake- view and W. P. Wharton, secretary of the American Bison society of Oratton, Mass. - '!5'-'- "Among; the settlers the . sentiment is strong toward ' the protection of ' the an telope," says Tonkin. jThere is some op position to a reserve!, among a few of the stockmen, because !of the restrictions it would place upon I gracing, but the fact that the 'tenderfoot tourist ia not sportsman enough io' leave the -antelope alone, will make this necessary if the antelope is not'- to be exterminated. There are only a few! of them left and they are preyed upon i by foreign sheep- herders, unscrupulous trappers who' use them for bait, and most of all. the ten derfoot I tourist who says, 'there is an antelope. This is my only chance to kill one, and he jdoes. i I cannot see how any man who has i a drop of sporting blood in him can shoot one. They are so; tame and gentle and unlike the deer, they are in differ ent to the scent of a person. And there are so few of them left. The United States biological survey and the American Bison society have proposed 'the formation; of a reserve in Lake county, which would protect this last herd of antelope, in 1 the United States,,! similar to that ! for the buffalo and, the elk In the Yellowstone. , Women Ticket Clerks Want Opportunity To Labor Seven Days Women railway ticket clerks want a chance to work seven days a week, but the rules of the industrial welfare com mission do not allow more than- six. Already earning as much as the men clerks on a daily basis.! the women ap pealed to the commission for a. chance to earn an extra day's wage and the commission has called a public confer- ence on the subject for Thursday at 4 p. m. in the commissions offices, 646-44 courthouse. Representing the employers will be : E. L. Ashley of the O-W. R. & N. ; R. IS. ' McCormick of the Southern Pacific and : E. D. Kiddo of the S-. P. & "S. The em- ! ploy es will be reprenented by Mrs. Mary 1 Dillane. Miss Ella Rice i and Miss Anna Phelps, -v while H. H. Herdman, C. W. Hsyburst and Mrs. J, G. Wilson will ap pear for the public, i The members of the commission are : IW. U Brewster, Amedee M Smith and Miss Eunice Smith. i : Killer of .Umpire In Convict Game Pleads Not Guilty Walla Walla Wash.,! Aug. 18. Charles Wilson: convict at the state penitentiary. better ." known as "Black Diamond," pleaded not aruilty in the superior court Monday, to a . charge of murder in the first degree for the recent killfhg of Harold C Newcomb with a baseball bat, following a dispute over the latter's de cision in a baseball gams between two Convict teams. Wilson, is . servinsr a 1 sentence of from 10 to 24 years for crushing in the skull of a Chinaman at Yakima in 1911. New- comb was a "lifer,"! sentenced from Pierce county in 1910 for murder. Prisoners at the penitentiary are said to have i threatened to , kill Wilson as punishment for the crime. Girl Attempts to ' Save rather From Water; Both Drown Victoria. B. C., Aug! IS. (I. N. S.) William. King, a local preacher, and his lv-year-ota aaugnterj ! J.oulse, were drowned In eight feet of wkter at Cold stream 'yesterday. The father was fish ing and slipped into the water. He was unable to swim. The young girt jumped in to save her father but was caught in a death grip and both! went down. Mrs. King, "an invalid, witnessed the drown ing of her husband and daughter, being powerless to renaer aid. ; Epidemic, of jYellow Fever at Vera Cruz Is Growing Rapidly Vera Cms. Aug. 18.-HI. N. s.) Four teen new cases of yellow fever and six deaths were reported here In "the-last 24 hours. ; There are more than 100 cases and the number is growing with alarm ing speed. President De La Huerta has ordered General Guadalupe Sancbes to put a force of soldier under command of Dr. Carl Michel, an American expert, to clean up the city. ; Boy Kicked by Horse And Seriously Hurt i Thrown and kicked into unconscious ness by a horse which he was riding near his home at Stella, Wash., William Deivert. 10, was brought to the Good Samaritan ' hospital Wednesday morn ing where he was found to have a frac tured skull. The accident happened at S o'clock Tuesday evening. Hospital-attendants report - the boy In a - very se rious condition. - Car Crashes Down Mountain; None Hurt Baker. Aur. IS.-An mtrtmnxti kv HXrvm ffur nf flu nri..j Monday ran away on Hereford moun-' : l&iil. - LuriKixiir uvz- nni raeh Portland Family . "Reported Missing On Motor Journey Relatives of K. M. Fronk and family. oonslBtins of his wife and two small sons, are worried over their inability to learn of the family's whereabouts since leaving Seaside for .the return trip - to Portland Monday morning. Fears are expressed that the roadster in which the Fronks were traveling may have gone over one of (he cliffs on the Tilla mook road. The failure to return to Portland was reported to the sheriff's office Wednesday, forenoon by two broth ers of Fronk, who reside at 45S Buffalo street, Portland. The ; Fronka , had been- visiting Mrs. Fronk's father, a Mr. Baker, who con ducts a restaurant at Seaside, and tel egraphed Mrs. Isabella Fronk,' 450 Hol land street, Sunday that they would re turn by way of Tillamook road and would arrive here Monday night. Since that time nothing has been heard from them here, nor has Baker at Seaside heard from them. fugitive was owner of a pickle company there and lived with his wife and child before his disappearance. He is be lieved to ' have I friends in San Fran cisco. All important cities in the. West have been notified. . A reward of - $500 I offered for his apprehension by the Chicago authorities. : - He is described as being : 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, dark hair and dresses well. - Portland Police to - JoininSearc h For 'Whiskey1 Fugitive Portland police are requested to keep a lookout for HamM M4ftir Jew, 27. who is wanted In Chicago on a cnarge or obtaining 181,1)00 from Harry Nadel of that city on fraudulent ware house receipts for 850 cases of whiskey. According to information sent out by the chief of detectives of Chicago, the Two Are Saved From Drowning at Pasco Pasco, Wash., Aug. IS. At the bath ing beach on the Columbia river two young - men swam a ! considerable dist ance out in the river. As they were re turning one of the young men weakened and . called to his companion. . In at tempting the rescue i the other young man exhausted himself and Tom Aus tin, one of the younger members , of the life-saving corps, ewam to the rescue of both men and succeeded in bringing them to shore. . Sellwood Ferry to Obtain Steam Heat The Sellwood ferry.! which is off duty for the-puipose of undergoing repairs, will be fitted up with steam heat -a-nd electric lights. This iwas decided " upon by the county commissioners Wednes day. : and Road master Eatchel was in structed to proceed with this work. Astoria, Aug. 18. Kenneth Simpson, the boy who was Injured Sunday in a collision between his i bicycle and auto mobile, died at the hospital Tuesday as result of his injuries. Fire in Forests in ' Siskiyous Believed To. Be Controlled Medford, Aug. IS. The forest fire n scattered timber-in the! Sisklyous, close to the state line near Hilt. Cal., which. after it had burned over 100 acres was discovered last Friday by the forestry patrol plane on its dally patrol between Medford and Alturas. Cat., and which has been fought by District state Fire Warden Eberle and a large force of" fighters, has up to now spread over 14U0 acres and Is thought to be prac tically under control. Ponsl. the i Boston financial wizard, neems to have been somewhat of a "flivver" af ler all. i - t-v; r i .. i ii r z o n - HLDJJJ togfe fe7v A NATION-WIDE INSTITUTIONS THiese: Are .Gala Days fc tike TWliy! OUR STORE IS SWARMING WITH liPPY SHOPPERS QUICK TO GRASP THE SAVINGS OUR ENORMOUS M PURCHASING POWER AFFORDS M You Can Acquire No Better Habit Than Trading at Penney's 13 it I i .rv i:i :' - nt- -mm. m tr ir hi ksiw i cA 2bctiot'ufiete Institution. 111 FOURTH STJUST NORTH OF WASHINGTON If the Price Isn't Below Ours the Sale . Ceases to . Be a Sale . INITIAL FALL READY-TO-WEAR PURCHASE IS HERE! j I ' ; ' r . I - ; ' I COMPRISING171,451 GAR-(J1 O7O A7A )(! MENTS, F6R WHICH WE PAID) i ,0 ( Oyll 1).AJ DO YOU REALIZE WHAT A SAVING THIS MEANS TO ' YOU ? , 1 Buying I ia Such Vast Quantities AND PAYING SPOT CASH Is What Enables Us to Undersell . NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS ' r Women's and .misses dresses for ..street,' 'business, afternoon ; and : JreSSeS-Tevening wear. The various models cover every requirement for every occasion. There is an indescribable smartness about these new garments of Satin, Serge. Taffeta. Tricotine, Crepe de Chine, Char- JQ Qf Sfl7 Cffc meuse and the new Kittenear Crepe, Priced at aPeSVT IU OOIUU q Beautiful garments depicting everything new." Hundreds of them. Every OUllS conceivable taste will find gratification . here.. Women's and misses suits of Serge, Velours, Tricotine, Silvertone. Ooldtone. Tinseltone, Broadcloth,: Bolivia. Twills and Tweed a Many fur trimmed. It COO CfX (.A'6Q7'BA is never necessary to . pay more than we ask WiO VT. CO i0 f tOU :- a . .- ' -'? " - H ' -' i - ' -rf- ' " .r gt . Short, three-quarter and full-length models with -the new large collars VrOatS of self and fur. Every new creation is here in Velour, Bolivia, Pom Pom. Silvertone, Goldtone, ' Broadcloth and . Tweeds. Our Plush and Fur Coats , are, for equal quality, priced far below anything t C14Q (til ih Portland. Priced at . Cf-Ia Dozens and doxene of beautiful fall skirts have just arrived. Many OKirvS-" are exceptionally striking in the clever treatment of materials and patterns. AH the new pleats are liberally represented QQ Te as well as tailored and embroidered models. All colors. 20 IO 9eTe f O . I Silk and Fiber STOCKINGS 98c V. " I J An exceptionjil buy gives you these fashioned hose at this low price. Brown, black, white and navy, f Others $1.49 to $3.49 ... . Silk Jersey PETTICOATS $5.90 -,. - '. . Beautiful color comtination$ in richjerseyj silk also solid colors. Accordian pleated flounces. ,You will need some of these. ' i J - : .- Others $4.98 to $9.90 You Can Outfit the Boy at Our Store and Save j Money Penney-Jr. Suits $14.75 at4!nfr vn v rvi mnvfe nsrkrth rriec cntte rMr talnly fill the bill. They are well tailored out of beautiful woolens ' and reinforced at elbows, ' seat and knees, v . .. i , . 'i ,. Browns, greens, greys ana piuts. i i i Sizes 7 to 17 , ! BOYS' CAPS Caps of every mate rial, color and. shape, and we. can , fit him. 98c to $2.49 TOILET ARTICLES lAsell Face Powder... ....39 Melba Face Powder..,.;. -39 Palm Olive Face Powder. (39 Colgate's Talcs 13 Hind's Honey and Almond - Cream ...39 Colgate's Tooth Paste (large for 19e Pebeco Tooth Paste. 39 Colgate's Shaving 8tlck...29 Colgate's Barber Bar. ....... Palm Olive Shaving Cream for. y-29t Palm Olive Cold Cream 39 Palm Olive Soap, 3 for.. .250 Creme Oil Soap, S for. .. .,XS Woodbury's Facial Soap.. .194 Cuticura Soap 19 1 Pear's Soap ..i.. 154 Jergen's Bath Tablets...1.. .. 8 Stern's Glycerine Soap...,.Se Lux , 104 Crystal White Soap, 10 for , 594 ...54 . G4 Swift's White Soap..... Sunbright Cleanser . . . . i Boys Blouses $1.39 Famous Bell Brand in stripes and plain col ore ail sizes. j Boys Belts ."...33c Boy.' Sasp'd'rs..25c Boy Scoat Stockings Boy Scout Leggins.. -r . w il Aim. i.: ......49c ......98c ;-. . Amour-Clad Suits $17.5(0) We hive seen no better! suits than these at giry price. In fact, there Is no need of paying more because these represent the best in fabrics, workmanship and- style. See themj- a - . 1 1 BOYS' HATS These hats are of cloth, made up jiistrfe f O like Dad's. They are1 very dressy andrjvl Arir3 durable .! . w Boys'i ShirU 89c td $1.29 - . . j . - Collar: attached, both light, dark and khaki. - . : Boys. U. SuiU. ,69c Bovs' Ties . .KP. Knitteel Jasa Caps . . 4 . ... . 49c Khaki Bib Overalls t . . . . .$1.49 WE HANDLE McCALL'S . PATTE1WS 1 - r' 36-Inch GINGHAMS 35c Plaids of - every description in standard Dress Ginfhams. Fresh new merchandise at a price less than asked elsewhere for rem- Wool Mixed STORM SERGE ! .11 A good quality serfe, 6 inches wide. Comes in navy, brown and wine. " j - NOTIONS J. it, p. Coates' Crochet Cotton. for ......... I. 144 'American T. Co. Crochet Cot ton (cotors) ,. ...114 J. A P, Coates' Sewing Thread (ISO yds.) ..4....,; 84 Corticelli Bilk Sewing Thread for 4 164 Hair Nets 84 Flelsher's Knitting Tarn... 434 Shoe Polishing! Bets 434 Kickrack Braid ...134 Bias Fold Tape...., 104 Edgerel Braid .......... ..104 Damascus Pine 44 Dexter Knitting Cotton. .. .104 Coates' Darning Cotton, a for 104 Sanitary Aprons .......... 434 Rubber Baby pants. ..... .294 Hickory Carters 234 Children's, Hose Supporters 194 rr. Parker's Waist Supporters for 494 Safety Pin ..' 44 2-ln-l Shoe Polish 1 04 Whisk Brooms ....... ....lt4 Kid Hair Curlers .-104 I nints, etc... v4 recks at the foot of the hUU -There were uve oassenKera m tne ntr ik. iw. !-., all of whom escaped With only sUght r nr- , :WE lEVER HOLD A SALE; - i '"""" '"; " '"