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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1912)
We Garry in Stock All Kinds of Staple and Fancy Gro ceries Including such well known g>o«U of Merits AI.LKX A LEWIS. PRE FERRED STOCK canned good*. WHITE RIVER FLOUR Etc. Winn you don't tind what you want at other stores go to L. E. Wiley’s First Avenue and Foster Road THE BUILDING SEASON IS HERE Call and get our prices on brick, cement, plaster, lime, sand and gravel. We can save you money Our de- livery is prompt and our goods are the best. We carry a full line of hay, grain and feed. Let us show you how to save a dollar by buying right. M c K inley & son Both Phon«*, Tabor Local 3112 I block east of Postoffice, Lents BORING-SANDY STAGE LINE Hrst-Uass Uvery and feed Stables at Boring and Sandy Transportation of all kinds of Baggage to Sandy and interior pointe .... For further Information phone or write E. F. DONAHUE, Prop. Boring, • - Oregon PORTLAND MARBLE WORKS Conplete Stock of Marble and Granite MONUMENTS ESTIMATES SUWlTTED 264-266 Fourth St. JONSRUD BROS. BORING OREGON Phone '3x Mill 1 1-4 mile» «outheaxt of Kelso CEDAR POSTS SHINGLES MOULDINGS TURNED WORK OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Merchant Shoots Friend. Eugene.—Mistaken for a burglar. Joshua Cain, mail carrier between Lo well and Hasel Dell, was dangerously shot by Edward Smith, keeper of the store at Ixtwell. Cain carried a key to the store, so he could enter to get the mail sacks in the early morning He had secured the sack and was leaving the building when Smith, who lives over the store, threw up a win dow and fired at Cain with a shotgun. Vniith hastily ran downstairs and found he had shot his friend instead of a burglar Will Enforce Dog Ordinance. Roseburg.—Determination of Mayor Joseph Micelli and Chief of Police Fenton to allow no dog owner in the city to escape payment of the annual license fee for canines brought five prominent citizens into the police court. Each was fined $5.00, but col lection was suspended upon consider ation of immediate payment of the dog license fee of $1.50. Gypsum Gets Big Plant. Baker.—The Acme Cement & Plas- ter Company, of St. Louis, will erect at Gypsum, this county, next spring, probably the largest building in this vicinity for the manufacture of ce ment plaster. It will cost about $200.- 000. A large force of men will be em ployed when it is running at full cap acity. ___ ORCHARD MEN INDICTED AUTO FOR HIRE I. F. COFFMAN Albany Proscribes Dancea. Albany.—Public dances are a thing of the past in Albany. The city coun cil has passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to give a public dance in the city, defining a public dance as on* which is advertised. UNPAID SOLDIERS RIOTING IN PEKIN Candidates’ Row Mutinous Chinese Troops Burn and Slay: Authorities Seem Terrified. Pekin.—Taking the old Chluese cap Ital by surprise, some hundreds of ! Yuan Shi Kai's troops started a series of riots that rapidly penetrated all I quarters of the city. They fired in : diserlmlnately and caused panic after j panic in the crowded streets. Shops i were wrecked and burned. The riot •rs gave non paymeut of their wages I as the reason for their outbreak More than 100 execution» have tak pn place. For tne most part the vie tuus are civilians and included six women. Apparently the authorities are afraid to punish the soldiers There are now 3000 foreign troops ; in Pekin and the unlives feel safe Five thousand Japaueee troops have been ordered from Port Arthur to William Dean Howells, one of the Tien Tain, where there are only 1500 leading figures in American literature, foreign soldiers. who celebrated his seventy fifth birth day- Nanking. China.—In an effort to re Lake County Folk Active. View Point.—Believing that they have opportunities in their locality that equal and even exceed most oth ers in Central Oregon, also that the public is not aware of such existing opportunities, the homesteaders in the vicinity of View Point. Lake county, have organized themselves into what MONOPOLY ISSUE REMAINS is now known as the View Point Homesteaders' Association. Prosecutor Says Government Hae The object of this association is to Won Shoo Machinery Contention. promote the settlement of many of the New York.—The government hae homesteads yet open In that locality. auffe-ed no setback in Ita prosecution of the United Shoe Machinery com RESERVE FUNDS ALLOTTED pany under the Sherman law by rea son of the rejection of four of the five Grant With $3627 Gets Most of Any counts in the two indictments against Oregon County. officials of the company, according to Salem.—Each year the federal gov United States District Attorney ernment turns over to each state 25 French of Boston, who Is prosecuting per cent of the total revenue received the government's charge. by the government from the foreat The criminal chargee are In no wise reserves within the state, this fund removed, according to Mr. French, but to be apportioned among the counties on the other hand the government according to the forest reserve area hae won a substantial victory in hav within the county. Each county must ing sustained "the moat Important and divide its portion equally between the comprehensive c6unt, charging a com school and road funds. The distribu pleted monopoly," through the system tion of the fund received for the fiscal of leases on patented machinery. year ending June 30. 1911, has been completed in the office of the secre Delegatee Get No Rates. tary of state. I Chicago.—There will be no special In Oregon there are 1,148.900 acree railroad rates thia year either to the of forest reserves, and 25 per cent of Republican or Democratic national the revenue from them for the last fis conventions. This information was I cal year was $35,«12.30. or $0.00220524 obtained from passenger traffic offi 61 per acre. Of this amount Crook, cials in close touch with the situation Grant and Lane counties will receive and an official announcement to that over $3000, while Douglas, Klamath, effect is expected within a compara Lake and Wallowa will receive over tively short time. $2000. True Bills Returned By Grand Jury Against Real Estate Promotors. Portland.—Wildcat real estate oper i received a shock here when the LUMBER $6 AND UP ators federal grand jury returned indict Large stock of Dimension Lumber on hand Rough and Dressed lumber for all purpose! ments against the Washington Or chard Irrigation & Fruit Company, the •end order to JCN8RUD BROS. Boring RD 2 Oregon Inland Development Company and P. C. Lavey, individually. Each indictment is based on alleged fraud ulent use of the mails by which, it is declared, money was secured through the exploitation of fake land proposi tions. W. E. DeLarm, A. J. Biehl, George C. Hodges. H. H. Humphrey and 8. H. If you want the services of McWhorter are indicted in connection with the operations of the Columbia an automobile in emergency River Orchard Company, all being un- cases, night or day. call der arrest except Hodges and De- Home Phone 4421. or notify Larm. who are supposed to have left the country in fear of the consequen E. B. Woodyard. & Co.. ces of their acts, this company also Lents, Oregon doing bu.'.lnerja under the name of the Washington Orchard Irrigation and Fruit Company. ------------- «---------------- Construction is Rushed. Residence, I block south of carline Junction City.—The Oregon Electric railway is rushing work on the most Glorious News difficult section of construction be comee-fwm Dr T. J. Curtiss, Dwight, | tween Albany and Eugene—the sec- Kan He writes: “I not only have cured |i->n between Harrisburg and Junction bad cases of eczema in myfpatients with ' City—where tèe electric line wil) Electric Bitters, but also cured myself cross the Wil'arnette river and also by them of the same diaease. I feel sure will have to cross long stretches of they will benefit any case ofjteczema.*' , Rood land. This shows what thousands have proved, that Electric Bitters is a mostedfertrre blood purifier. Its an excellent remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, ing sores It stimulates boils and runnini ind liver, kidneys, ai ... bowels, ex pels poisons. helps digestion, builds up the strength. Price 50 cte. Satisfaction guaranteed by all dealers. WILLIAM D. HOWELLS WOMAN KILLS FOUR CHILDREN AND SELF Salem —Despondent because of in ability to earn enough money to keep her four children from starvation, Mrs. L. F. Jelllson, aged about 36, ad ministered a drink of cyanide of po tassium to each of them together with herself. All five are dead The tragedy was staged in a tent at 469 Liberty street, almost in the heart of the city. The police did not dis cover it until a letter was received through the postoffice telling of the deed. The letter reads as follows: "I know the law requires an Inves tigation. Do as little as possible. The plain fact is I cannot earn enough alone to keep from starving. Some one induced my boy to leave, and now I am too ill to work. I cannot see them (the children) starve. There is a little money in my purse, $21. Make it bury us altogether. Sorry to make so much disturbance, but I arn too confused to write." Immediately after receiving the let ter Chief of Police Hamilton went to the bouse where Mrs. Jelllson had been living and found it locked. Go ing to a tent to the rear his eyes were greeted by the horrible spectacle of the mother and four children, huddled together on the bed, dead. store order and Inaugurate a stable government. It 1» understood that Dr Sun Yat Sen and his advisers have de sided to go to Pekin and make that city, for the preset* at least, the capl tai of the new republic. This step Is regarded as advisable on account of the mutinous spirit evinced by the troors near Pekin and the general unrest. i ' 1 | COTTERILL LEADS GILL W«m«n Help Turn Tide to Seattle Reform Party. Seattle.—The returns Indicate the | election of George F. Cotterill. muni cipal ownership and single tax candl j date tor mayor over Hiram C. Gill, open town candidate Cotterill'» lead will be at least 1,000 votes. Credit for the victory of Cotterill 1» conceded to the woman voters The Federation of Womens Clubs and nearly all the women suffrage leaders worked strenuously against GUI. rais ing the issue of suppression of vice As far as possible, one woman In each city square was assigned to the duty of looking after the Cottsrlll vote. The referendum ballots have not yet j been taken up and there are no re turns on the single tax. municipal telephone and civic plana propositions NATHAN H. BIRD REPUBLICAN CANAIDATE FOR NOMINATION FOR SHERIFF As a candidate (or nomination tor Sheriff of Multnomah County I desire to make the following statements: FIRST: If nominated and elected, I will feed the prisoners at the Court house and at Kelly Butte at actual cost, and will make public the anme, to gether with the actual coot of the entire office, including the profile made by the lame. I will work for the fiat salary provided by law and will account to the taxpavers for all the moneys and payments that com* Into the office anil will turn the same over to the proper official. Give me a tryout anu aee what 1 will do. SECOND: I was born in thia state and have raieed and educated mv family in Portland. I have nothing to leer from my past record and am un der no obligations to iriend or foe. I am in a position, if elected, to give the c lining) element my closest attention, and will put forth a e;*clal effort to eubdue vice and crime io this city. The eherifl'a office shall Ire my head quarters at all times except when out on actual duty, and the duties of said office shall have my entire time and attention. THIRD: I am a working man myaelf and have won the confidence of the business men of Portland. Thev are aware that my training ia such that if nominated and elected I wil) give the people an economic, impartial business administration, and that I will greatly reduce the coots of the Sheriff's office to the taxpayers of this county. N. H. BIRD, (Paid Adv.) 714 Front St. All Chihuahua at Mercy of Rebels, j Chihuahua.—Rebels are In contro. of the entire state of Chihuahua. Un der Orozco's Immediate command are 600 former government troops The rebel generals declared that the num erous volunteers who were offering themselves will soon swell the rebel army to 500o men, who will be taken south to secure control of the City | of Mexico. John Ditbchurn Republican Candidate For Circuit If I am the Law, Law, as Made the BANK ROBBERS AND POLICE IN BATTLE Montreal.—Surprised while they were dynamiting the West .Montreal branch of the Royal Hank early in the morning, a gang of five bandits, till masked and heavily armed, defied the police and gave battle. One robber was killed outright and Charles Fitzpatrick, son of the local chief of police, was badly wounded. After tevo of the robbers were cap tured another battle occurred In the outskirts of the city, an<J the others are being closely pursued. The attempted robbery was the most daring In the history of Canada. Late at night, a Canadian Pacific rail way watchman saw the men loitering around the station and tracked them without being noticed. He glimpsed the men crawling through the window of the bank, the protecting bars having been sawed through. He notified the police, and a posse surrounded the building. Huge Strike In England. London.—Mine operators of Great Britian having refused to accede to the demands of the miners for a min imum wage, the long-threatened strike Suffrage Office Raided by Police. materialized and nearly 1,000,000 men London.—In pursuance of the deter quit work. mlnatlon of the government fully to test the efficiency of the existing laws THE MARKETS. to deal with the latest tactics of th* Portland. militant suffragettes, before resorting | Club. 88c; Wheat—Track prices: to special legislation to make the i bluestem. 90c; red Rusian, 86c. funds of the suffrage societies liable Barley—Feed, $39 per ton. for damage done by their members, I Oats—No. 1 white. $33 per ton. the police raided the offices of the ' Hay—Timothy, valley, $14; alfalfa Women's Social and Political Union $13. There is ample evidence that the) Butter—Creamery, 33c. recent window smashing has allenat- j Eggs Ranch, 21c. ed public sympathy. Hops 1911 crop. 38c; contracts. ?«c. Home Rule Act la Held Valid. ■Wool—Eastern Oregon, 16c; Wil Salem, Or.—Holding that the home lamette Valley, 17c. rule amendment of 1910 is eelf-execut Mohair—35c. ing. that cities and towns stand m separate entitles and that the exist | Seattle. Wheat—Bluestem. 88c, club, 85c; ence of precincts which extend partly within the borders of a city and partly | red Russian, 83c. Barley—$40 per ton without do not Invalidate an election , held with proper procedure under th< I Oats—$30 per ton. Butter—Creamery, 37c. borne rule amendment, Justice Me Bride. In an opinion of the suprnnit | Eggs, 21C. Hay—Timothy, $!• per ton. court Interpreted that amendment. Judge Dept No. 4. elected I will obey I will Enforce the the People Have Law. I believe in the Recall, in the Oregon System, and that Sex Alone Should Not Disfranchise. That there are enough Judges if they will change the system and work harder. I WILL BE Judge for All the People Not for Lawyers Only. Active P ra et i c e For 2 5 Years. I’al«! Advertisement For County Superintendent G. W. HENDERSON Republican A Practical Educator of Twenty Years Experi ence in Oregon and Eastern States. Aggressive, Progressive, Practical Educational Views. Promises Closer Supervision and more Efficient School Work. Remember the Name and -----------Vote Right----------- Paid Ad\. Read the Herald