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SMreat Activity Reported in Eastern Financial Markets Reflects a Condition of Business Confidence and Optimism J i - n ii City News i " tema About People You 'finow and Happenings !That Reflect the Life of Eugene and It Var ied Daily Activities. VOL 67 TODAY'S NEWS TOD AS EUGENE, OKEGOX, SATURDAY KVKN'IXO, JAXUAHY V.)2b today's news today NO. 155 V i THE WEATHER $ Oregon: Unsettled, probibly tln In the north and wt por tion! tonight and Sunday. Warm ar In tho taat portion tonight. Strong south and aouthwcat winds. Temperature Friday: max fount, 52 degrees; minimum, 41; raolptatlon .17 6f an Inch; dl- 2- ftctlon of wind, aouthweat. Stags ft river, 7:5 feet. alness Firms Move I'illiam Matheson moved his bar fcessliop in the Hoffinn hotel build in' to the First National bank build- fha yesterday, to make room for the I expansion of the Gilmore's women's t wear store. E. D. Scott's Hoffman1 House cigar store will suspend bust- Mat, the fixtures being sold to Elmer IKafcerts who runs the Emergency shi in the Matlock building on ldjajlith avenue west. W. T. Scott, who hag been managing the cigar store. 1? srilj move to Pipestone, Minn., to flf- fihfte with one of a chain of Golden 3' Bulc stores. kA " ' (ssprovo uamp urounus ! ,jl new service and grocery store fcr soon to be erected ato the auto ctap recently established at the junc fcob of the Facific and McKcnzie biajbwars near 'Willamette river, an iwtinccs W. J. Senver.'owner. H. D. Peters, recently of North Dakota, will lease both buildings. Thirteen camp cerbges will be provided on the 11 acrje tract before the tourist season begins. . Booms to Be Remodeled b .Two rooms in the Hoffman block t 'Ninth avenue and Willamette street, just vacated by the Matheson barber shop and the Scott Cigar store t if n;! tare, being remoaeieu iur .ins. vj- more's Womens' shop, which will cx- . psnd and occupy the space occupied by these business houses. Estimated E cast of the work will be fcJOOO, ac cording to the building permit issueu. ' V. '"n - Campaign Group Chosen T:n men have been named on the membership campaign committee of the., Woodmen of the World, to plan and direct a drive for 1U0 new mem bers in the next few weeks. They are Stanley Knnpp, chnirinan; . L. O. Beckwith, Virgil Itowhind, Will Ir- I win:S Cloud Wilkcrann, . h'red Lamb, Il.rb. l'inkstuff. Mii'lmcl Mulvey, Lloyd Terry and I- Stnuley. Dr. Flnlcy Visits I'.r DV. J. J. I'inley ot Corvnllis. den tiat; and family are in Eugene visiting relatives. Mrs. Finley is n sister of , airs. II. ". Siience. Mrs. Tom Seavey i and Mrs. Kd Hanson. 'Returns to Medford - C. I'. (Dulsy) liliodes, civil engi neer, Ims returned to his home in Medford after spending the holidays with Ms mother and relatives in Eu gene. Leave for Tacoma I1 it; A. lloniel and daughter, M'ss Frances linniel. who have been .visit ing over the holidays at the Walter Zarewski home have left for their home in Tdroinn. Wash. To Open Gift Ohop , Miss Marllin Smith luu arrived in Kugene from. Xansns City am) is a (Continued on p-ige five) SALES ARE HEAVY Timber totaling $4..H.!i8 in value was gold h.v the Cascade national for est; in lilL'l. according tohe annual statistical report being compiled by Nelson F. Macduff, supervisor of the forfst. The amount sold was "."..MM, B08,iiKI board feet. : A total of "l.0."j.".,fO0 hoard feet was cut during the year valued at 810.1'0. Only one of the 40 timber sales amounted to more thsn J.'iOOO, the re port Buys. There were !1$ of JUKI or leu, six front $100 to $o00, and one IroBi.fmi to ?1000. : Up to December 21, l.tilJ-IO had been surveyed In the Cascade forest, 10,6-Vi acres during the year in a erulse of 10 per cent or better, and 850 acres in a cruise of from 5 to 10 jr cent. k Farm Enumerator Works in Jackson B. C. Jackson, farm census enu merator for Lane county who has completed work in his district has bean reappointed and will have charge of the work in district 4 in Jack anni county near Medford, according to anaoncement today of Jtalph I'. I-alrd, director of the csnaus in this district. Several other of the Lane nsjmerators sre Bearing completion of their work in their respective dis tricts, Mr. Laiid states. J T GOLD HILL, ORE. Two Men Flee When Traf fic Officer Is Attracted . By Noise Charge Of Dynamite With A Burning Fuse Found By Recorder GOLD HILL, Ore., Jan. 3. Gold TI ill's city officials are investigating what thy charge were attempts ou Thursday morning to dynamite the police station and residence of City Itecordcr A. E. Kellogg. The first attempt came, according to Terry Talent, traffic officer and constable, shortly after Talcjit had returned to the police station after completing Jiis work of rounding up New Year's celebrants, A noise attracted the constable to the rear of the station. He opened a door, he declared, and flashed his pocket light on two men. One of thero. he said, he recognized. The pair fled, and Talent, after returning for his gun, gave chase. His pursuit was halt ed when a terrific .explosion near the station house uttrncted bis attention. A charge of dynamite was carried away from the building. Talent believ ed, and was dropped by the fleeing men. The blnst shattered windows on both sides of the street. Abmt the same time City Hecord er Kellogg and Jiis family were awakened by their dog, which Kel logg believes saved their lives. A charge of dynamite containing four sticks tied tighely together, with the fuse burned almost to the cap before it went out, was found near the resi dence. Mayor Miller charges that dynamit ers are attempting retaliation for tiie city ndininist rations enforcement of speed laws. LOCAL DEALERS TO PLMII I'rclimiiuiry det:rls for (lie auni tl meeting of the ( iregon Stutf Ketail Merr'iant assfitition whVh will b hHd at the 1 'Diversity of tregon within the near future will be dis cussed nt a Hireling of Kugene mer chants to be held at the Osburn hotel next Monday evening. The meeting will start with a banquet at 0 o'clock. O. K. Tate of Portland, secretnry of tJie state association, will be here to talk to the Kugene merchant)) and nlso officials of the school of busi ness administration of the Vniversity of Oregon wbn are co-operating in the preparation of the program for the session, it is announced. District Attorney Takes Post Monday .ItJin S. Medley, new district Httor ney of Lane county, is moving into hts new offices fit the courthouse to day, and will lake up his duties Mnn day morning. (Jordan S. Wells of Ku gene will g into the office ns assist ant to Mr. Medley, and will 1e In charge of prohibition law enforce ment, it is t:itMl. while Mr. Medley will take charge of criminal ope. Mr. Well was a graduate in law from the VniverMty of Oregon. Traffic Cases in Eugene Take Slump Trnffic convictions in Kugene la-it month were the lowest of the year, it is revealed by the records in tbe city recorder's nffirev Lens than $.V out of the totfil of $7Kt collected in fines during December were from' traffic violation. Only "" violation were recorded during the month, bringing tbe arer-! age to one ever working day. J 01 T T Foster Parents of 1 liinaw. m aM" i i nisi ii" lll ' Disinterested cousins forced the exhumation of the body of William N. McClintock, known as the "millionaire orphan, to determine the cause of his death. The bulk, of his . estate of $1,200,000 goes to William D. Shepherd, his foster father, with whom he lived in Chicago. McClintock died on December 14, supposedly from . typhoid fever, while his fiancee. Miss Ieabelle Pope, wnlted outside his bedroom with a marriage license and a preacher to be married that she receive an annual income of $8,000. The photographs show- Mr. and Mrs. William D. Shepherd and their home where McClintock died. - Chemists' and physicinns who examined the ex humed body have1 testified that the youth died from typhoid fever, complicated by a secondary lu ternal intestinal hemorrhage. Theirs testimony was considered a complete exoneration oi Mr.1 Shep herd, who has declared that he will take prompt .legal action against the persons he 'considers re sponsible for the Investigation. 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Under n new ruling of the internal revenue bureau many employes of municipali ties who heretofore have regnrde I themselves as exempt from the feder al income tax, will he required to pay such a levy not only in the fu ture b it to cover several years past. The ruling was ni:n"unced by Reve nue ('ommixsioner Ulair in a letter to Senator Short ridge, republican of ('o!i1'ornin, holding that the employes of the water ami electric light works at Kivcrside, Col., must pay the fed eral tax. . , Mr. Itla;r paid that nllhougb muni cipal employes heretofore had been regurded as exempt under the foder.il law, a re-ex.iminati' n of the statutes revealed that cerl.tin elisxes CJtild no: claim such exemption. The tax must be paid, iie slid, by persons employed by certain utilities, like street cur rompanies, which compete w ith pri vate enterprise. The revenue coinnrssioner busd his ruling on a circuit court of appeal- decision in a proceeding by the Los Angles (i.is and Klectric com pany, against the city of Lou Angeles. In that case, he conteidi'd, It wan held that quasi privnte enterprises, com peting with priMitf organ .i lions should be placed on similar footing before tJie l.i w in regard to certn'n features of taxation. Internal revenue "fficinla them'! ves are still in tho dark n to how nneeping the effect of the opinion will be. They appar ntty expect to determine in each rasp is it sries whether the new principle applies, and would not undrt'ike to any today in how many cities the nituation might parallel tJiat at Riverside. Agricultural Bill Reported to Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. The an nual agricultural appropriation bill carrying a total of JllM.TVi.lTS wai reported today to the senate. It was the third annual supply measure to come in from the appropriations com mittee in two da William McClintock Heavy Storm Is Reported Oh Seaboard ' T- y !' NKW YORK. ;. Jan. It.-. Winter's heaviest snowstorm has descended on the Atlantic seHboard. Forecasters predicted that it would end today and would be followed by rising temper atures and cloudy weather. The storm, which started early yes terday, d d not spare any section of the eus'ern states. A US-mile gale pil ed lo-foot waves ou the beach at At lantic City and drove shipping dunger ously close to shore. Street traffic nud wire service in Italtimore and Washington were seriously crippled. In New York ten inches of snow fell. In spite of the efforts of 700 motor plows, six bundled trucks and approximately IH.OOO shovelers, the streets were badly clogged today. ; County Will Plan New Highway Span I That a new span can be erected I u crocs the gap rut by the flood j ; wult'i's around the .Klk creek br dge j near Blue River mid open the old j road aguin, is the opinion of mem- i : hers of the c unity curl. This gap ! j wus cut by the water around one end j of the bridge but the span uns not i damaged to any considerable extent. 'Traffic over the McKenie highway jis now routed over the new road. The j Klk creek bridge 'w.ll be abandoned , next b u miner nlien the iinw road is ready for traffic, it is staled. Income Tax Work Started For Many Thert are i few fnr-sighted people of Kugene who have already made up their Income data for the pat year and art how waiting lerure for the distribution of the tar blanks whi h Are expected to be tent out in the near future, according to Orin C. Iavit local tax expert. The returns domr have to be made to the federal office at Port land until March 13 but some sre anxious to get the complicated details cleared up in order to enjoy the spring undisturbed. Only one tax blank wilt have to be filled out this year a tbe voters took action against the state law at the recent general election And Their Home to him. McCUntock's will provided WILL 8E TUESDAY CHICAGO. Jan. 3. A finnl oppor tunity to present any other Informa tion lie may hive regarding the death of William McClintock, "millionaire orphan," will be given Tuesday to Harry tlson, chief justice of tJie muuicipal court, who iustignted an In. quiry into the death, fmind by chem ists and physicians to have resulted from typhoid. Judge Olsou his offered to consider whether he would revefil (he rensom for tJie investigation if released from liability by Mrs. Shepherd and Wil liam D. Shepherd, chief beneficinry and foster father of MK'liutock, who died at lite Shepherd home, while his fiancee, Mis Isabelle Pope, waited with a license to marry him. Shepherd in a statement after the chemists reported they Imd found "nothing iibnormal" in Ihcir autopsy, declared h;s nunc had Ifen "besmir ched by the repetition of vile insjiua tion and lr,i,i,end"es'' anil tbat "th" public tint I are entitled to know the animus and malice that are b'iilnd .ill this." Judge OUon replied that the right" of possible heirs were involved and he could not disclose his information unlens KJieplurd signed a woiver of any libel action, based on tJie atate nient of dic!o-oirc. The coroner's impiest Will be con cluded Tuesday, Coroner Wolff said. Milton A. Miller Named on Hoard SAI.KM, Ore.. Jan. Milioii A. Miller, democratic mndid-ite for the 1'fiited Stiles senntor at the last elec tion was tod.iy named by (iovernor Pierce as a member of the slate b'-ard of rocatinmtl education, Mr. Miller tnkes the place of !avid N. iMinne, reprenentlng the emplojera on the board. STORY DENIED TAKIM, Jan. .'..-The Hungarian minister to France has issued a de nial to the newspaper story to the effect tJiat Former Kmpn-H Zita had appealed to the amhnps.idor' council fur permission to return, to Hungary, COUNTY GDUR T III Trucking: To Be Resumed Monday, According To Announcement Danger To Roads Passes With Warmer Weather, Officials Decide Trucking on the rnsds of T.ant counly will bo rcsunipd Monday morn ing, according to announcement of the county court today that the drastic order issued hist Snlurday would be lifted nt th.it lime. Tho limit of S50 pounds per inch of tire, which is pro vided for in tho first order of tho court will again lie in effect, is the announcement. Three ronds will still be closed by the recent order. These are: tcrrt torial road from Cheshire to the High I'nss road; Ferguson road from j.ong Tom bridge to Ferguson; Alvadorc road. These rond sre still in bad con. dition Rnd It is feared that damage will be caused by the heavy traffic. The limit ot 200 pounds per inch of tire which was ordered Inst week practically halted nil trucking and in ninny ciihcs lnrgo pnBscnger cars were prevented from using the county ronds.. .With the frost practically out of the ground now it is not considered there ia so much chance for damage to tho road surfaces and the weight limit has been raised. "The truck owners of the county showed girod cooperation - with the county mid there were hut very few violutions reported during the past week," tho members of the court stnte. Many county mills and logging cunips were efrcctcd by the order last week mill with the lifting of tho re strictions It ia expected that there will be considerable hauling as many plnnts were uiinhlc to transport logs and lumber for a week prior to the iB suVing of the restrictive order owing lo adverse weather conditions. BE RE CLASSIFIED 8HtlN;FlKM, Jan H. (Special) Although no official, figures bare been given out, Postmaster K, H. Hamlin baa announced thai the re eelpls at the Hprnigfield postoffice for HUM have eicceded ?SOOO. This is the figure set by the postal depart ment as the amount necessary to plare third flaws offires in second elass, and it is expected that Spring field will receive this classification within n short time. This exceeds the postal receipls for 10-.' by almost l.'i per rent, $7KK) having been takn in during that year. If a second elans office is authorized Hie change will lake plaee next July. Several improvements in the local serviie will be made with the change. All clerks will be required to pass u civil service examination and they also receive higher salaries and will have more regular hours. As the postmasters pay is based upon the yenrly receipt, Postmaster Hani lin will aNo recf-ivc a higher salary. It is alo lioprd that Springfield will be granted free city delivery. An jiiKpector looked in er the sit nation about two weeks ago and it is sup potted (bat his report has been tnnde. No word bus been neeived from Washington ns yet. ' Chancellor Marx To Form Cabinet ( HASCKI.I.nH S I'.KKI.IN. J in.' .'I. UP) Chancellor M in tins evening accepted a cuinniU fion from l'reiilpi!t I'.hert to furiu a non-party cuhinei. TS U AUTG WEIGHTS Speculation Runs Riot In Stock Market NEW YORK, Jan. 3. P Speculation ran riot In today's stock market with violent bullish demonstrations In the radio and allied electrical shares, several of which recorded extreme gains of four to nine points, as the out standing features, so furious was the pace of trading that It was net until 42 minutes after the market closed that the tloket recorded the final quotations, the longest delay en record. Total sales approximated I, 500,000 shares. Breaking all records in tbe history of the Kugene postoffice, total re ceipts in oil departments of the of fice during the year 10J4 were $114, 770.31, according to announcement mad (oday by Darwin E. Town, postmaster. Last year, the previous high year on record, saw receipts to taling $08,507.80. The amount taken in this year, ac cording to Mr. Yornn, shows a total gain of 10V& per cent over the re ceipts of Inst year. Every month of the year showed a hcnlthy gain. "Since postal receipts .' may bo taken ns nn indication of the growth of a city, it certniuly looks fine for Eugene to have a record like that," declared Mr. Yoran, New Trial Denied In Sweetin Case Sentences Passed MOUNT VERNON, III., Jan. 3. Judge J. C. Kern today overruled a motion for a new trial for Sirs. Elsie Swcetln and the Iter. Lawrence M. Hlght, deposed pastor, convicted of the 'poison murder of her husband, Wilford Swcotln, and formally passed sentence of life imprisonment on tbe man and 35 years on the woman. Arnold Collier to Arrive Next Week Expectations are that Arnold Col' lier, appointed assistant -county SU' perintendent of schools and club lead er, will be hero early next week to prepare for his work in Lane county during the coming year. Mr. Collier who has been at Corvallis taking 80' cial work at Uie Oregon Agricultural college. No definite plans hare as yet been outlined fr the club work of I.ane as yet, according to word re ceived here from tho stnte club leader. RESERVE DECREASES Ni:V YORK, Jan. 3. The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week (fire days) shows a deficit in reserve of f.'U(i.",,'10. Ileterre decressed 471,(1(10 compared with last week. rp S Y A "V Mr. War-field's Tlnn I V I r 1 'About Potato Bugs A v-' J-' Snitkes On Stockings (lly AltTlll'K nitlSUANT.) (Copyright, 10-1, by Htnr Company) ft. Haviea Wnrticld, president of the National 'Association of Owners (if llailroad Securities, pinna an in crease in profits for railroads, and better freight service fur the public, through common sense consolidation of boxcar service. There arc In the country 1,100,000 ordinary boxcars owned by the differ ent railroads. The life of these cara Is Knsli'd in being hauled back nnd forth, or stored on aid'nss empty. Mr. War firld suggests a cent nil agency to handle cars for the benefit of all rail roads and all carrying business. That would ba legul miller the phin that Mr. Warfleld suggests. It couldn't he accompllsned otherwise except by putting ell railroads into one grent consolidation. That doubtless will eome. llrllain forbids importation of Uni COURT RULING E 'ii lull Judge SkipwortH Passes f Decision That May Have 1 State Bearing All Reprieved Prisoners In' State Put On Status Of Escaped Men Declaring that Governor 'Walter Jf. j Fierce had no authority to grant a. I reprieve to Irfon R. Edmunson, die- I barred Eugene attorney, who has been serving time in the Lane county Jail on liquor charges, Judge O. F. Skip- worth of the circuit court this after- : noon handed down a decision that is : expected to have considerable bearing 1 on all other reprieve oases of the 1 chief executive. Ljl I Reprieved List Spring Edmunson who wss serving a six ' months sentence on a liquor charge was reprieved lsst srpring by Gover nor Fierce and et the rime it was an nounced that this was done on account of the aid that the prisoner had been to the state authorities in curbing the liqiior traffic Ho was rearrested on a liquor charge recently and at the requett of tbe district attorney Governor Fierce again committed him to jail for vio lating provisions of his parole. The writ of habeas corpus was brought to have him released again. i Under the1 authorities, the re. . ' granted by the governor; to Edmunson were void, that 1 to aay, the governor has no com stitutlonal or statutory right ta ' , grant a reprieve except In a cap. Hal case. v A reprieve may be denned as) fol lows: "A reprieve is the withdrawing of a sentence for an interval of time whereby the execution is suspended." Decision Given. The decision on Edmunson states "He Is in so better position thsn if he had broken jail, or if the sheriff had deliberately without any appar ent authority unlocked the jail and permitted him to go at large." Edmunson who is represented By Taul C. Dormitscr, attorney, of Port, land was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff. An appeal for the tempor ary release of Edmunson was made following the decision of Judge Skip worth. Late this sftcrnoon no deci sion had been made on this but it was expected that bail of $1500 might be set. As the decision will hsva a testing on all prisoners released by the gov ernor and the status of these holding reprieves is that of "escaped prison ers," there may be others arrested, according to the opinion expressed by county authorities. ted Slates potatoes. Too many po tato bugs. Canada also has potato hugs, but Canadian potatoes are not shut out. Secretary Hughes' protest calls for equal treatment with Canada. lie will learn from llreat Britain that potato bugs within the empire have import ant redeeming qualities. Tho llrltlsb empire takes csre of the Hritinh empire, nnd all Inside it. Therein It diff.vs from some of our muhy imitation statesmen, everlast ingly worrying nli'itit outside nations. Why not take a few ot the millions we lavish on foreign countries, and use them to kill off systematically all potato bugs, mosquitoes aud such ene mies? If entile tlcka can be klilrh off why not other pests? How many bil lions would It be worth to get rid ot (Continued on page four ON REPRIEV wncnnnmM 1SULU UUVlflV
