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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1912)
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST BUSINESS STILL IMPROVING—READ: w HO says Business is dull? that have been erected in our town We know be cause we have furnished the Lumber Excuse us for making the following statement but the reason we furnished the Lumber I is because we sell good Lumber, Good Roofing and Builders’ Hardware and also the Good Service we render and I I I I I the Right Treatment we give the New York.—With a denunctstlon of the principle of judicial recall, deliver ed to the bar association of the state of New York at its banquet. President Taft concluded a busy visit. After a plea for simplification of legal pro cedure, which be argued with much earnestness before the company of lawyers, Mr. Taft waxed more Incisive In coming to the topic on which be I evidently felt deeply. “We do not believe that all people ire fitted for popular government,” he »aid. "Some of us don't dare say so, I but I do, and the question whether a people is fitted for popular self-gov ernment depends upon the restraint that the minority can place upon the majority to see that justice is done. “We of the bar are called upon to decide whether we are going to pro tect the judiciary and continue it in dependent of a majority during a time that it is deciding questions of law and justice. “The judicial recall—the words themselves are so Inconsistent that I bate to utter them! Are we going to make our constitution a liquid thing so that a majority can flood the halls of justice, decide every action and override with popular passion and prejudice every principle of this gov ernment. the greatest God ever made?" LAND TITLES HELD VALID ment In hie campaign for the Demo cratic preeldentlal nomination. Judge Galloway Ruling Legalize* Own ership of 300,000 Acre*. RAILROAD CHIEFS KILLED Albany.—That the title to all that part of the big Oregon & California land grant not actually attacked in the present government suit* for for feiture I* good, wa* the ruling of Judge Galloway in deciding the case of William George vs. the Curtis* Lumber company, in the state circuit court here. This decision 1* of far-reaching ef fect, a* it validates the title to about 300,000 acres of land, worth at least 315,000,000 and held by about 5000 dif ferent purchasers. The case will be appealed to the state supreme court. Included in the land title to which 1* indirectly involved in this case is most of the town of Mill City, part of the city of Brownsville, thousands of acre* of improved farming land, and large areas of valuable timber land, all lying in western Oregon. Illinois Central Passenger Train* Col lide. Plant Disease* at Close Range. Corvallis.—Some 40 plant disease* are being grown in cultures in the plant pathology department at the Oregon agricultural college. Although several hundred cultures are being prepared for a close study of their characteristics that adequate mean* of protection may be found, some 40 of them have not yet been wholly identifled. Launch Wrecked; Five Lost. Marshfield.—Five men were drown ed when the little gasoline launch North Star No. 1, control of which had, in some unknown manner, be come lost, capsized on the Coos Bay bar. Those who perished were: Joe Yongers, the skipper; Frank Tanner, Ira Albee, Con Ferri. William Brain erd. people. Our individual sales have reach- the 3,000 mark. Killing Follow* Saloon Quarrsl. Medford.—Frank Arara, J. W. Riley •nd Albert Halonl, honor men who broke their pledge* to Governor West and deserted the convict camp at Westville In an effort to escape, were captured by Superintendent Boltz of the Pacific A Eastern railroad near Eagle Point. They were completely George Harvey, editor of Harper’s exhausted and gave themselves up Weekly, who wa* told by Woodrow readily. Wilson that hie support was a detri and think of the many new houses for the most of them. Not All People, President De« dares, Are Filled tor Pop« ular Government. Escaped Honor Mon Recaptured. We BANKERS ARE ACCUSED We have grown Stockholder In Bank Allege* Asset* Were Juggled. I from one of the smallest to one of the largest Lumber Yards in the district. No order too small for our best at tention—none too large. Portland.—General mismanagement of the German-American bank, includ ing the misappropriation of about >100,000, alleged to belong to the stockholders of the bank, 1* one of the sensational charges In a suit against Mark A. M. Ashley. Charle* E. Rume- lin, Thomas C. Devlin. Samuel G. Reed and P. L. Willis filed in the state cir cuit court by Arthur L. Finley, a stock holder in the German-American bank. In his complaint Mr. Finley charges that the defendants, through the or I ganization of a conspiracy, acquired at a big discount the obligations of the suspended bank, disposed of its assets at a heavy discount and so manipulated its affairs that the stock of the German-American institution. In which plaintiff owned stock to the amount of >10,000, was rendered val ueless. Oregon Potatoee to Middle State*. * 1» THE E. W. MILLER LUMBER COMPANY Foster Road, Opposite Bright Realty Company TAFT OUTSPOKEN IN DEFENDING COURTS Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Portland.—Hemmed about by a strong chain of circumatantial svl- donee, Ernest L. Ostlnger, saloonist, confessed to the killing of Edward W. Mutch. The crime was committed in Oetlnger'* aaloon after a quarrel. The •layer then dragged the body of hl* victim through the aaloon and out the back door, and left it in the rain in an open area way, where It was later found. think that it is good. Just stop the past 12 months. COL GEORGE HARVEY Centralia, Ill.—Five persons are known to be dead and more than a score Injured as a result of a rear- end collision at Kinmundy, Ill., be tween Seminole Limited No. 3 and No. 25, also a fast passenger train on the Illinois Central railroad. The private car of F. O. Melcher, second vice- president of the Rock Island railroad, attached to train No. 25, wa* telee coped and the four occupants were killed, also the engineer of No. 3. The dead are F. O. Belcher, second vice-president of the Rock Island rail road, Winnetka, Ill.; J. T. Harahan, Sr., former president of the Illinois Central railroad. Chicago; E. E. Wright, an attorney of Memphis, Tenn.; Albert H. Pierce, general soli citor. Chicago. Judge Donworth to Stay on Bench. Gifford Plnchot Says He Will Support Insurgent Statesman. New York.—The political atmos phere in the east was further changed by the first appearance in this sec tion of Senator R. M. La Follette, of Wisconsin, since he announced his candidacy as a “progressive Republi can" for the presidential nomination. Gifford Plnchot, a close friend of President Roosevelt, who has been re garded as a staunch Roosevelt lieu tenant, appeared with Senator La Follette, and presided over the meet ing. He presented the senator as the "candidate I support for the Republi can presidential nomination.” Mr. La Follette mentioned the re call as a “progressive” doctrine, and said that he favored the recall of the judiciary. Washington. — Announcement was made at the White House that Judge Donworth, of Seattle, had withdrawn his resignation and in view of that fact there would be no action on the pending indorsements of Representa tive Humphrey and Elmer M. Hay Single Tax Will Go Before Voters. Salem, Or.—Upholding the conten den, of Tacoma, leading candidates tion of the single taxers in the Clack for this appointment. amas county single tax petitions and ordering a peremptory writ of manda Taft Wins in Oklahoma. mus directing Secretary of State Ol Coalgate. Okla.—President Taft was cott to place the single tax petitions Indorsed for the renomination by the on the ballot, but reversing the Jack- Fourth Congressional District Repub son county road bond case and holding lican convention here after Roosevelt that the county road bond amend supporters had made a determined ef ment is self-executing only in a nega fort to stampede the convention. tive way as a now er against incurring indebtedness, the supreme court has decided vital points in two important amendments passed by the people at the last general election. FRANCE DEMANDS RELEASE OF TURKS Paris.—The gravity of the situation arising through the seizure of the French steamer Manouba January 19 by Italian destroyers while on a voy age from Marseilles to Tunis, seems likely to lead to serious international complications, and unless Italy gives France satisfactory explanation for the seizure of French steamers, France will send a naval demonstra tion against Italy. It now appears that the captain of the Manouba, which Included among its passengers 29 Turkish nurses of the Red Crescent society, surrender ed the Turks only on orders from the French embassy at Rome. Italy’s reply to France will agree to give up the Turks surrendered by the captain of the French steamship Man ouba when that vessel was detained by the Italian authorities, but as an act of homage to France and without prejudice, according to a special dis patch from Rome. Elgin.—Twenty-four carloads of po tatoes were shipped from Elgin Mon THE MARKET». day to Kansas City market* and to Portland. cities south of that center. The ship Wheat—Track prices: Club, tic; ment wa* made a* a special train bluestem, 84c; red Russian, 80c. over the Harriman lines directly to Barley—Feed, >40 per ton. the Missouri river. Oats—No. I white, >31 per ton. Hay—Timothy, valley. >18; alfalfa, Gold In Deschutes River Sand. >14. Redmond.—Gold wa* found in the Butter—Creamery, 38c. Deschutes river at Lower Bridge, 12 Eggs—Ranch, 30c. mile* northwest of thl* city. One man Hops—1911 crop, 44c; 1910, nomi took out a large nugget and the black nal; contracts, 25c. sand In the river I* yielding returns. Wool — Eastern Oregon, 9018s; Quite an amount of gold has been Willamette Valley. 15®17c. washed out of thl* sand. Mohair—37c. Short Weight* Detectad at Astoria. L a FOLLETTE IN NEW YORK Seattle. Astoria.—Retail merchant* and lo Wheat—Bluestem. 84c; club, 81»; cal creamery men are stirred by th* red Russian, 80c. Barley—>40 per ton. finding of Deputy State Food and Dairy Commissioner Duncan, who dis Oats—>30 per ton. I covered that not one pound of butter Butter—Creamery. 38c. Eggs—31c. issued by three creameries wa* np Hay—Timothy, >18 per toa. to standard welghL ARMY IS GUARDING TEXTILE FACTORIES Lawrence, Mass.—This city Is an armed camp. Militiamen, to whom a double round of ball cartridge* was served out. patrol the business section and the mill region with their guns ready for Instant action. State police and private detectives, with revol vers anly half concealed, are much in evidence, not alone in the business section, but throughout the residence quarter. The city offislals are united in declaring that, as the result of the textile workers' strike, the city is in grave danger of destruction. In confirmation of this declaration, they point to the discoveries they allege to have made of great quanti ties of dynamite cached in the heart of the Syrian quarter In a clump of bushes less than a stone's throw from the big Arlington mills. The strike leaders openly charge the dynamite was planted by emis saries of the mill owners. Joseph Et ter, head of the strikers, said that the mill owners were frightened by the change In public sentiment which Is now behind the strikers because of their obvious attempts to preserve order in the fees of maltreatment by the militia. Bryan Espouse* Cause of Wilson Lincoln, Neb.—W. J. Bryan takes the side of Governor Woodrow Wilson In his break with Colonel Harvey and Henry Watterson and justifies the action of the New Jersey governor In requesting that his name be with drawn from the columns of Harper's Weekly. In a letter Mr. Bryan says: “The recent break between Gover nor Wilson and Colonel Harvey illus trates ths impossibility of co-opera- tlon between men who look at public questions from different points of view.”