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EUGENE, OKEGOX, SATURDAY KVKN'IXO, JAXUAHY V.)2b today's news today
NO. 155
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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.
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(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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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