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TWO TWICI-A-WEEK GUARD, THURSDAY. JANUARY 19, 1911 ’S Knees Became Stiff Kipling Tells Medicine Hat Why It Should Not Change Its N imc n ARK Mve Ya.tr» of Severe Rlioumatlsm ............. . of llenr» J Goldstein. Il ■ .KO.' sue. t. I '•'ten. Mil' I1* '*’ , I V I. to. * by Hoe I'* Sai .1, «I II 1 r'.l ;•>'.• ,’t n ed'.ellie lias sue ' ■ ■< U'lui’ IllHllV 4 / II.I VC lltl1’ f .11.-1 M. Goldstein says: ’1 •*»f- fere'l Ho” th.'Uninlism II*« >' ■ 11 g, ( IP, 1 I on till' " '• Ill'll ' 'III ' 'I ‘ r. b. ' ciu. pit Ing 1 'in M.v knees «-iii.il «- ,, H'lY k k ’1‘1 1 1,1,11 »’«"Y i.'. ’ll. llb • without relief. Hl* n took . , , , . .p,llill,l. >■ on tell I III I. ., ¡ i now consider no If ■ «• p |y ill- I. 1 r". Ollllliell I Ho. I ■ " <1.: tl I In usil'll- liell’i' '• .01'1 4 t iblets Killed SarsaOba Portland, July 16.—Train dispatchers, with headquarters here, to the number of fifty, today presented demands for an in crease of wages from $140 to $175 a month. The demand is addressed to the managers of the various railroads having head quarters here. It is expected that after the railroad managers confer on the matter a conference will be arranged with the representatives of the disptachers to discuss the situation and, if possible, reach an agreement. FLORENCE TO HAVE COMMERCIAL CLUB VIEW »/MEDICINE MÄT Temporary Organization Effect ed—Other News Notes of Interest MOTHER CONFESSES QUICKSILVER MINE TO MURDER OF BOY AT COTTAGE GROVE Distracted Woman Declares Great Bluffs of Ore Near the Odd Fellows’ Cem She Could Find No Place for Him etery Albany N. Y.. Jan. 16.—Prostrat Cottage Grove. Or.. Jan. 15.—An ed with grief and remorse. Mrs. Edith extensive body of cinnebar ore has .Melber. confessed murderess of her been discovered at GowdvviUe. al-1 son George, four years of age. is in most within the city limits of Cottage the care of the matron of the jail Grove. Great bluffs of the ore are I here .The woman was brought to in sight of the public road south of day from Rochester, where she was the Oddfellows’ cemetery. The big arrested, and where, the police allege, fissure vein runs diagonally across[ she told of having compelled her son the southwestern portion of the buri to drink from a bottle of carbolic al place and on across the mountain t acid. District Attorney Sanford wil where mammoth boulders are broken urge that the case be tried speedily, and have slid down the mountain and the grand jury was asked today . side. to investigate the boy’s death at once, The discovery was made by Lew A. I and return a murder indictment I Cates, who accidently stumbled against the woman. i over a piece of rock, containing mer-1 The boy’s body was found in a curie sulpides, visible to the naked swamp near Schenectady, where. Mrs. eye, while he was in that vicinity Melber told the police, after a strug i December 24, to gather a Christmas gle to find a home for the lad, she ’ tree for a child friend. gave him the poison. The boy was Mr. Cates will call the property tired and thirsty, and asked for wa the Yuletide mine, and is planning I ter. His mother told him the bottle , to organize the Yuletide Mining.1 contained water, and he drank it. Milling X- Reduction Company, nego-' When she could find no home for ' tations for options to the land being , her baby, Mrs. Melber sobbingly told , under way. the police today, she decided to kill Unlimited quantities of the treat him. ed ores can be used for filling low “I bought the carbolic acid at the grounds and dyking Silk creek and Lewis drug store, and then went to Coast Fork river, near the property the swamp,” she said. “My mind and within the city limits. Whit-' was in a whirl. I did not know what man Gowdy, one •of the pioneer resi I was doing. I wanted my boy to be dents of Cottage Grove, is by govern happy. I did not see how it was pos ment grant, owner of that portion of sible to make him so. Everybody the claim nearest the city. seemed against me. I thought if Geòrgie were dead he would be bet ter off. 1 did not take time to con GERMAN BALLOONISTS sider this matter twice. If I had I FOUND IN LAKE could not have done such a terrible thing. Berlin. Jan. 16.—The Ger- ♦ “When he asked for a drink of wa ♦ balloon. Hidlbrandt, ♦ ter I decided it should be given then. ♦ man I knew death would end his suffer ♦ missing since its ascent at ♦ ing. I gave him the acid. He chok ♦ Scharmgendorf, on December ♦ ed a little as he drank, but I held ♦ 29th. was found in Lake Po- ♦ him in my arms. Then he slipped ♦ merania province. Prussia, to- ♦ to the ground, lying as though he ♦ day. The bodies of both aer- ♦ ♦ were asleep. He looked so peace ♦ onauts were in the gondola. ful. At first I did not think I had done such a terrible thing. Now the inhumanity and unnaturalness of my act crushes me.” DALLES CITIZENS ♦ HOP MARKET HITS 19-CENT BASIS Seavey Buys 200 Bales Silverton From Lively at 18 Vi Cents Net ♦ TO TAKE CENSUS Say Durand’s Figures Absurd and Will Be Ignored— at Astoria Protests — The Dalles Or. Jan. 16.—The cens us gives this city a nopulatlon of Growers are not selling hoos and 4880, an increase of little more than at present refuse to consider offers 1000 in 10 years, which citizens here at any price, but dealers seem to consider absurd, since the postal re have little desire to hold above the ceipts have about doubled and the present price and several deals have school census shows on increase of been reported recently at 18*4 cents nearly 60 per cent Ince 1900. So dissatisfied are the citizens that a pound net at country points, which means a 19 cent market here says they will ignore the census figures and make a count of their own. un the Journal. Quite a number of 18*4 cent of der the supervision of the Business fers are out at country points, but, Men’s association. - A mass meeting not a single acceptance is reported w held in the Commercial club par by growers. T. A. Lively, a Salem j lors last night at which it was de dealer, sold 200 bales of Silverton I termined to make a count of the re» hops to Seavey Hop company at 18^4 , idents of the city, and when it is finished it will be verified by the cents net or 19 cents at Portland. Fourteen and a half cents is now Commercial club cud Business Men’s being quite freely offered for con association, and given out as the tracts on the coming growth, but as authentic population of The Dalles, in spot goods, growers are not show regardless of what is shown by the ing any disposition to accept. The government enumerators. present price is Vi cent over any re Astoria, Or. Jan. 16.—While there cent offering, indicating that brew ing interests are getting more anxi is no general dissatisfaxttion regard ing the census returns here, it is the ous for supplies. A few sales of olds are reported opinoin of a large number that As but trading in all hops has been ex toria has a larger population than 9599. There are 2856 children of tremely quiet recently. school age in Astoria and if the pop ulation were figured on the same HAMILTON AND ratio as Portland and other Oregon cities, it would give Astoria a pop ulation of about 15,000. Also when! MURPHY CONVICTED the census was taken a large number residents were in Alaska and OF HORSE STEALING of other coast points employed in the Men Caught at Goshen Last fisheries and were not enumerated. September Are Found Guilty at Vale Vale, Or., January 14. Editor Guard:—I thought perhaps a few lines from this place would be 1 of interest to you and your readers. ■ Vale is a neat little little town of [ about 1200 inhabitants, situated on 1 the west bank of the‘Malheur river.. There Is now about six inches of snow on the ground, and not much cold. Lots of undeveloped land about here yet. Would advise any one that in tends to go into horse stealing to steer clear of Malheur county, and taot get mixed up with Prosecuting Attorney J. W. McCulloch. He is sure a hard one on horse thieves. They get their just dues in short or der. Hugh M. Shaver and Hamilton and Murphy have all been convicted of horse stealing. Hamilton and Mur phy were arrested last September at Goshen for stealing the Isaacs horses.' Tours respectuflly. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Of Dexter. ; C RUDYARD K!PUrfc\ What? What’s that? Scat! Who’d have thought It or Medicine Hut' That’s "the place the weather comes from.” and It’s Just above the UnPed States tn British Columbia. Medicine Hat recently hinted about changing its name because certain Irreverent folk laughed at its queer cognomen. Rud yard Kipling, most famous of living authors—poei. story writer, novelist Im mediately wrote a letter to the Medbine Hat people. In which he said, among many other things: “So far as 1 can make out from what 1 heard when I was with you in 1907 and from the dippings you inclose the chief arguments for the change are: (a) That some United states journalists have some sort of joke that Medicine Hat supplies all the bad weather of the United States and (bl that another name would look tietter at the head of a prospectus. Inci dentally I note that both arguments art* developed at length by the Calgary Herald. I always knew that the Calgary Herald called Mi Heine Hat names, but I did not realize that Medh lne Hat wanted to be Calgary’s little godchild Vow. rs to the charge of brewing bad weather, etc., I set* no reason on earth why white men should Is* bluffed out >11 their city's birthright by an imported ,V rept the charge Joyously and proudly and g > forward ;:s Medi< lne I ,at. the only city < 'tP I.-illr recognlz si :i< capable \>f freezing out the United States .....1 :.-fv!ng the Continent cold feet. Let us examine the so nd of the present n; me Medicine Het. I have my maps by me. but I s>- t:i to r'-membe! a few names of pli. • < .. -io.-. ; i * I,order ,cli as S -bene tail . I’< <1 ms. S, «•• harie. Poughkee'r • • > <>>o*s.q'onawnnda. Oneonta, etc., all of * lu< n are rafter curb in' *o th • «:i ’ - ” LABOR CASES ON MILLION PAID IN SUPREME COUT DIVIDENDS IN CALENDAR NEW YORK Washington. Jan. 16.—Two of the most important cases affecting or ganized labor that ever came before the United States supreme court for decision are on the calendar of that tribunal for today and will probably be heard this week. Tbe appeal of President Samuel I Gompers and other officials of the American Federation of Labor from the conviction of contempt of court passed upon them in connection with the boycott of the Bucks Stove and Range company will have an early- hearing. Should the verdict of the lower court be sustained, Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison will have to pay heavy fines and serve sentences in jail. The appeal was originally set for hearing last fall, but was postponed upon motion of the coun sel for the labor leaders on the ground that it was desirable that so important a case be heard by a full ; bench. The employers’ liability cases, in ■ which the Northern Pacific and New ! Haven roads are directly, and all the railroad lines of the country indi rectly concerned, is also on today’s calendar and will come up at an early date. HEAVY FTNESARE- PAID BY BOOTLEGGERS Roeeburg Jan. 16.—Douglas coun ty authorities are having a final In ning against the bootlegers before the home rule law can legalize the 11- quor traffic. One indictee. Elmer Hayes, pleaded guilty In the circuit court last week to selling whiskey at Glendale, and paid a fine of $300. Another Glendale man, Ed Dohl, and Perry Reed, of Sutherlin, both ac cused of violating the prohibition law, were arraigned in court Saturday morning. Dohl pleaded guilty and also paid a $300 fine. Reed took un til Monday to plead. REV. C. T. WHITTLESEY ALBANY TO WORK FOR WILL REMAIN HERE MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Fairmount Presbyterian Church Albany, Or., Jan. 16.—Municipal Votes to Retain Him For ownership of water and lighting utili Another Year ties is being agitated here and plans The Fairmount Presbyterian church, at a meeting held last week, voted to ask Rev. T. C, Whittlesey to remain with them as pastor for an other year. Mr. Whittlesey has been pastor of the church for a year and nine months. During that time the membership has grown from twenty- five to seventy-three, a flourishing Christian Endeavor Society has been organized and carried on, the Sunday, school has doubled in membership,’ and other departments of the work have made good progress. This ad-1 vance has been made possib'e through the faithful foundation work and hearty co-operation of the former pastor, Rev. C. A. Wooley, and other friends in the church and out. have been formulated for the submis sion of the question to the voters at a special election. A petition has been largely signed for the purpose Complaint is made of poor lighting service, and excessive rates for both water and light. The franchise is, owned by the H. Byllesby company,! which controls several other Wiliam- I ett evalley towns. Albany Herald: H. A. Soults of Eugene came down this afternoon to look after business matters. Mr. Soults is president of the Eugene Sand & Gravel Co., which firm does an extensive business in the build ing line, and Mr. Soults is one of Eugene’s most exemplary and enter prising young busines men. New York, Jan. 16.—Millions of dollars in dividends were paid out today by savings banks and Indus-j trial and railroad organizations. The! Bowery Savings Bank, the wealthiest institution of its kind in the United States, today paid its depositors a semi-annual dividend of 3 *A per cent. The Manhattan, the Green wich and several other savings banks made disbursements today of 4 per cent on sums of $1000 or less and of 3 *4 per cent on sums of from $1000 to $3000. Despite the troubles of th* state banks, the savings institu tions of New York are said to be more prosperous than ever. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company today paid a quarterly dividend of 1 % per cent and in addition thereto 3*4 per cent on account of dividends accumulated since September 30. 1907. The com pany, which was temporarily embar- assed, is now said to be on a firm foundation. Dividend and interest disburse ments on stocks and bonds for this month will reach a total of $226,- 700,000, setting a new high-water mark. Of this sum. $133.300,000 represents interest and $93.400,000 dividends. Interest payments will be $17.800,000 more than last Jan uary and dividends show an increase over a year ago of $8,300,000. \ meeting was held at the school house in Florence Monday evening to take stees toward organizing a com mercial dub. About (went) men w. 10 pre. »'lit and considerable Inter est in the movement was manifested. Temporal',, organization was ef fected by elei'tlng W. IL Weatheisotl chairman and W. R. Hollenbeck sec rctary. There A'ore remarks by several of those present about the necessity for an organization of this kind to pro mote the Interests and general wel fare of the town and community, and of the benefits that a commercial club Is to a place. All the speak ers expressed themselves as heartily in favor of organizing a club to look after the interests of Florence. After some discussion it was voted that the chair appoint a commit tee of three to prepare a constitution ami bylaws and report at another meeting. ’I he chair appointed F. J. m nroe, D’’ Edwards anil J» W- Bergman n- such <■ immittee. Stn**c Driver Hurt. Saturday night while the Eugene stage was on its regular trip to Mn pieton. when a short distance below Ssrlss-home one of the wheels struck > root and the driver. Lester Ogden, was thrown out of the wagon lie fell behind one of the horses I which became frightened and kicked n ,,)on nr the agni. One of the wheels I 'Hissed over his breast but he ntatiug- 1 to stop th" team He drove on as far as the Walker ranch and Mr. 1 Walker then accompanied him to Mapleton, where they arrived about seven o’clock Sunday morning. | Ilelwcct« Installation. Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 10.- It developed to.' iy that infoi mation given by a negro bellman at a local hotel h d to the ui rest yesterday of Charles H. Everett, charged with having ob tained $1800 from a savings bank at Seattle n<’. 1 ’ whom dt tectives have long been searching through I ilf r d' .0,1 Btatci Four men occupied a room, according to the aef 0, ' ho v * summoned to serve liquids to them. He ■ :i'7 ¡11 jo : t’< k of b .1» on the bed and chairs. When the polk * ar; ver’ tl « : 11 h I disappeared, but a memorandum was f ' i<’ f. gt 'ups of figures, aggregating $286.000 i< ¡“i 1 » 1 1 parts. Everett was the only one of the p n *e JO’NT 1 RAC i Ft R BANK SWINDLERS ARE ARRESTED HÎLL-HAR31MAN ------ ,’ Successful Crooks Are Finally What the Mt heu.’ Canyon Dc.il Really I enm to Rnil- Jailed At Hot Springs, Arkansas 1' on Is Purtluiid. Jan. 16. After carrying on for more than a year 11 aucicHifu) bank swindling scheme through which bankers uud businessmen In various cities oil the Pacific <0n.1t have been fleeced of hiiiiis ranging from $25li to $2.’*H>, Roy It. Thorpe, alias George S Stlmpsoti. was arrest eil by Pinkerton detectives at Hot Springs, Ark.. Saturday night. T. o of Thorpe's accomplices, J. <1. Hoss and Rose Corelli, lire being shadow<xl and, the detectives say, will be ar rested within a week. Among the heaviest losers in the operations of the Thorpe gang are the Merchants* National Hank, of The following are the officers of Portland, a Seattle bank three banks ftvi-'t i’«b«l:nh Lodge of Florence I at Walla Walla, one nt *1’1110111:1. two w ho were Jpstalled last week for the In Nevada and two nt Sun Franclsc" present term Mrs. Emma Kyle, N. G. In addition, merchants in the various Leonore Titus V. G.: Alfreda Lind , cities visited by the iwinillers were gren sec.: Edwin Kyle, treas.; Mrs. ! bilked of thousands of dollars worth Greta Cox. Fin. «ee.: Mrs. Angle of Jewelry, diamonds and other valua- Tanner war.; Mrs. E. II. Miller, ! bios. con.: Mrs. J. A Yates, chap.; Mrs Proinineiit Men llooilw inkcil F H. Alexander. R S. N. G.; Mrs. The ext* nt of their operations, the Wm. Kyle I. S. N. G : Flossie Chap success which attended them In ev man R. S. N. G.; Mrs. Lillian Smith. ery case, the hooilwinking of bo.li L. S. V. G.: Isabella Kyle, 8.; John . bankers and prominent lawyers, an.I Bergman. O. G. the effrontery of the gang In follow Good Sized Hog. Ing up Its work from city to city Last week II. W. Johnson of Point without detection are features which Terrace butchered a hog that dressed make it the most striking swindling game in the criminal anni'la of the 500 pounds. After cutting off the hams and Pzclflc coast. shoulders, the fat was fried out from the remainder and eighteen gallons of lard obtained. The meat and RESUME WORK ON lard brought Mr. Johnson over fifty dollars. SIUSLAW JETTY If a farmer has a few hogs like this to dispose of. the proceeds of the Contractors to Get Busy Again sale will do up his pocket-book at a After Month's*Vaca rapid rate. Mrs. C. Nadeau departed Wednes tion Lay-Off day on h-r way back to Eugene after spending a week in Florence with The Sluslaw Jetty contractors In her husband. Mr. Nadeau says that his wife likes Florence and that she tend to resume work next week, would have remained here if she had through Mr. Wakefield states that he does not expect to commence putting the children with her. rock in at the mouth of the river In for® February 1. Operations at the rock quarry are commence Monday ns a crew of : born : to • « men will be put to work clearing out the drift that has fallen in. and get- ' ting in shape for handling rock At Elmira, Friday, January 13, I again. 1911. to Luther Armstrong and wife, A few men will begin cutting wood ad daughter. at the Jetty next -week and preparing for active operation there again as To Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Burch, soon as they are ready to bring down j at Springfield, on Saturday svenlng, rock from the quarry. Jasusry 7. 1911. a son. It Is about a month since the work i was suspended for the holidays -1 To Mr and Mrs. J. A. Valsh, at Florence West. Springfield, on Friday evening, Jan — uary 6, 1911, a daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Cox. at Springfield. Monday, January 9. t Real Estate Transfers ! Boaton, Jan. 16.—A dividend of 1911, a son. $2 per share was paid today by the American Telephone and Telegraph At Elmira, Jan. 13, 1911, to Luth Frank R. Jones to J. L. Stoner company, the so-called Bell “trust.” er Armstrong and wife, a daughter. 100 acres In sec. 5-8-18 S; $1.00. The total disbursements amounts to Fingal 3. Hinds to W H. Harri nearly $5,000,000. son tract, in sec. 33-20-3 W; $575. Lyman Adams to James Ilank- DIED : head 39 acres In sec. 17-21-3 W; DOUGLAS BUILDS GOOD $1400. Katie Walsh Bru motto to J. h ... . ROADS, BUT NO ARMORIES Bruniette tract In sec 20-18-2 W At the General hospital In Eugene, $10. Roseburg, Or., Jan. 16.—Approxi mately $175,000 will be spent on Jan. 14, 1911, Warren Allen, son of J. L. Stont to Emma J. VanVIlet Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Allen, aged 18 106 acres in sec. 5. X, tp. 18-5 W good roads In Douglas county this Death was due to obstruc $3500. year. A general levy of 4 1-2 mills years. of the bowels. He had been ill for that purpose has been made by tion Orville D. White to A. T. McAus- only a few days. the county court providing for a land lot 8, hlk. 6 of Mulligan's add The funeral will be held at the to Eugene; $1.00. fund of $145,000.’ In addition, one- Central Presbyterian church Wednes third of the sixty road districts In day afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. H. W. H. Pennington to ,1. M Wilson the county have voted special taxes, N. Mount will conduct the services. 41.23 acres in tp. 17-4 W; $1600 which will raise an aggregate total of J H. Howard to G. F. Kelso 27 75 acres In sec. 30-15-4 W; $1 248. not less than $30,000. The grand to At the home in Florence, Tuesday, tal will exceed by $65,000 any previ G. F. Kelspn to J. M. Howard blk ous sum expended in this county for January 10, 1911, of tuberculosis. 105 and W 1-3 of lot 6, blk. 94 of Fred E. Raymond, aged 4 4 years, Junction City; $800 the betterment of highways. The two months and eight days. court refused to grant the urgent, re A Clark to Charles Hurt SW *4 of SW*4 of eec. 14-18-4 w quest of a number of the heaviest The County Court of Douglas has 40 acres; $200. taxpayers for a levy of five mills to levied a general tax of 10 mills, A. M. Kaiser to F M. Johnson lot defray one-half the cost of building which will raise approximately $316 ». 10, blk. 51 of Junction City; an armory in this city. 000, figuring upon the valuation of $200. 1910, which are $31,648,558.00. A. H. Nottage The amounts are apportioned as fol tract In Morse's to T. H. Phillips OLD PIONEER OF i town of lows: State taxes, $50,637.69; Florence; $X00. add to WASHINGTON DIES Douglas county taxes, $77,53X 96; t„» B’ '<* C. A. Dm A. E. K. Duncan common school fund. $44 307 98' on —. Van n and ... I ' 1th Seattle, Jan. 16 — Jospoh Foster, deficiency, $374.25; llbrar^ fund'. Qt«, ir*« < l,,lre *1,1 sts ** SI. h. urvvn A ..... »■ . a pioneer of 1852, who had served $632 97; Indigent fund, $949 46- 14 terms In the state and territorial roads and bridges, $142,426.51. legislature, died today at his home in Foster, near this place, aged 83 J. Daltman. of South Bend., Ind. CKy; 1175» *’ blk’ 59 of J"ncl,°" years. He leaves a fortune of half a was an arival in Eugene this after- million. noon. The Guard Claaaiffed Ada Pay. Five Millinns in Dividends ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ t ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ tol?*i“,Mi “.‘I',.“ ' « ■'Ä Porti?imi. Jan. 1 Wh • r th»» pro- posed a t*w ralli«»ad I m builit through the Mill h«*nr < hi y oni III E Ort- by b > lh the itili gon It < .III U$ u 1 >id«ng to and H.i: rlni-tn a the m.. ( 1 . . !.! r* th« trac»Martlotl n MU ip <>r rlght-of way Tv It'iuUh wan transfer k «I by 1!h»» iHoiiit* 4i WoMlorn a ii'.n c orporuttiDll. t<- i he Ort ’zon n liiritltuti n. Eastern. h Hiirri Whih U h * j»r ft 1« 111 V I»«' ■ cotti«« It llarrinn i»>tl. Klvihg 1 thut sys lem (hi* iimthli» of a con tlnuous pa»M.IKt< th rough been let med th« y to t hr Eantrni Oregon situ nt Ion, It la under. stood th nt a coni i moin uN«r win pa . iiu-rrd I n(<> with i h. UHI In ter« sts. Nelther party to the transaction has confirmed or dented the report, ex cept to sty that the road will be built by tlu> Harrlinalis. How-ever, It Is ad mitted on m H sides thnt titer« la noth Ing In the sltui tlon thnt will prrieut an agreement whereby the rival road tuny operate its trains over th« pro posed new tracks. Idaho Outlet in l*r<M>|HM t Even this arrangement however, would leave Hill without an outlet In Western Idaho, bnt title, Il li be lieved, can be supplied by one of the several routes now receiving consid eration. Already there Is some talk of a Western extension of the northern branch of the Burlington Into South ern Idaho. Thin would provide the desired outlet for the east-nnd-west road through Oregon, and give Hill reason for continuing hla hold on Malheur canyon. Persons close to the builder of the Great Northern system dec lure thut hie sal« of th« 70-mlle strip provides no reason for concluding that It« has given up his purpose of Invading Eastern Oregon. William J. Hanley, of Hurns, who I h said to be close to Hill as any one not directly connecteo with his official family, talked when he was here last week of his possible construction of a road south of th« Malheur canyon route, providing for a conttei tlon with the Deachutes line, which Is now heading for Bend and which promises to be extended in a southerly direction ns soon as the line at present projected Is complet ed. Stevens Expected Home Today John F Slovens, head of the Hill roads In the Northwest, Is scheduled to return to Portland from a month a stay In Chicago and the East today. He In expected to give some informa- tloa with reference to the plan sug gested for the joint usage of the pro posed Malheur line. J. P. O'Brien, general manager of the Harriman lines In Oregon, said last night that the transfer of the title In the 70-mlle strip through th« canyon gave the Harrlmnns sole own ership In the property, and predicted that when tho road In built It will l>« owned entirely by tho Harriman sys tem He admitted, however, that a traffic or a common uset agreement Is possible. No definite steps have been taken to construct this piece of track, hut Is Is believed that the authorization of the line will be one of the next steps of the Harriman officials. COLLEGE GYMNASIUM AT DALLAS BURNS: $7000 Dallas. Or., Jan 16 Tho Dnll.’S college gymnasium wns entirely dls- troyed Sunday afternoon by fir« The fin* was first noticed at 3:15 p m. The fire department was un able to do anything to check th« fire except to keep the Southorn Pacific company's water tank and bridge from burning Th« fire started In the lower floor and spread rapldlv 'nroiighout tho building The gym- was valued at $6000 or ..¿22’ an'* an insurance of $«.iOO. The origin of tho fire fin* Is on un known, though It was probably set set on fire by some boys who’ hail balding g ln ‘h" l"W,‘r |,arl of ,he p . k T" V1.11 ""d hflr father, P. P. ’ atmer. left today for Fruitvale, Cal L W.diZT’ by Mrs. C. L. Hadley, of Roeeburg.
