Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, January 12, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textpage ForR DAILY KOQCK RIVER OOUBIEIl WKDXMDAY, JAKI'AKV I J, 1010. Maud Powell VIollnlBt Portland Jan. 20, 1916 Her records are now on sale at Music and Photo House STANTON ROW ELLi Prop. AMI SEMENTS TONIGHT Star "The House of Tears." llljou "The College Orphan." CONVICTED DYNAMITER SENTENCED VOR Lira (By United Press Leased Wire.) , Los Angeles, Jan. 12. XI. A. Schmidt was sentenced to life Im prisonment today, his plea for a new trial having been denied. He was convicted of helping to dynamite the Los Angeles Times (building. Judge Willis pronounced judgment. After hearing himself ordered to prison for life. Schmidt said a few words, referring to the long fight between capital and labor, of which he said his own case was but an in sident. He closed with the lines: "Iron walls do not a prison make, Nor iron tars a cage." Defense Counsel Coghlan ' an nounced the case would be appealed. His plea for a stay of execution was denied. Schmidt will be taken within a few days to San Quentin, the prison designated Ty Judge Willis. Both J. J. McXamara and J. B. McXamara are also there. Los Angeles, Jan. 12. When M. A. Schmidt came before Judge Willis today to be sentenced to life impris onment for helping dynamite the Times building, his chief counsel, Nate Coghtan, demanded a new trial. His grounds were technical, the prin cipal one oelng that the jury was im paneled in violation of the law which excluded property owners from duty in cases where prejudice exists. The arguments seemed likely to last some time. If Willis refuses a new trial, the case will be appealed. Schmidt sat calmly beside the at torneys' table, with his sister at his elbow. He appeared quietly confident and very much at ease. SECRETARY OF WAR WANTS TO EXPEND $80,000,000 Washington, Jan. 12. Secretary of War Garrison today urged a house appropriations suVcommittee to ar range for the expenditure of $80, 000,000 in the next four years on coast fortifications. Extra special prices on dressers 1 and chiffoniers at Helmer's. 640 ! j KW TODAY CLASSIFIED AD RATESTwords, two Issues, 25c; six Issues, 50c; one month, $1.50, when paid In advance. When not paid In ad vance, 5c per line per issue. Wood and W For Cash Only Dry Fir, chunks or split per tier $2.00 Dry Oak, chunks, ier tier 92.20 Manzanlta, per tier $2.2.1 Dlumond Briquet, per ton $11.00 Diamond Briquets, per ..cwt. .. 00c Delivered Anywhere In City WILLIAMS WOOD & COAL CO. Phone 137-11 : PER52NdL 'Miss Eaton made a trip to Med ford this morning. Guaranteed electric Iron, $2.75. Bush Electric Shop. Phone 141-11. tf Attorney Hough made a trip to Med ford this morning. Mrs. O. K. Hampson, of Uosoburg, Is visiting Mrs. W. G. Scott, arriving here Tuesday. Big sale of embroideries and flounclnss at one-halt price. Kinney & Truax. 62 James T. Miller, of Chlco, stopped off here last night, leaving this morn ing for Seattle. Mrs. Gertrude Palm arrived this afternoon from Portland to make a short visit with her brother, Ed Gano Bargains in ladies' and misses' coats. One-half regular price. Mrs, E. Rehkopt. 622tf Prank Mashburn, of the Golden Rule store, left this morning tor New York on his regular semi-annual buy ing trip. The right kind of shoes, rubbers and rubber boots for this weather. Kinney & Truax. 642 "Miss'Adina Elkstrom arrived this morning from Medtord and will visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Chall son. Arrow collars at Bishop's 403tf J. H. Hosteller, of Maxwell. Iowa, arrived from Portland this afternoon and will visit his nephew, Lewis Costello. J. V. Hale, for some months em ployed as engineer on the Tillamook line, arrived here this morning to take a Southern Pacific run out of Grants Pass. Mrs. Hale and children arrived some days previous. Fresh cabbage and head lettuce. J. Pardee. 642 E. S. VanDyke returned this after noon from a trip to Portland, where he attended a convention of school boards and officers of the northwest. Royal tub-silk waists, in two-In-one styles. A full line can (be seen in our Sixth street window. Kinney & Truax. ' 642 Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gale and little daughter came In this afternoon from their ranch near Merlin,, reporting 26 Inches ot snow there. Mrs. Gale will visit her daughter, Mrs. Culy, at WUderville. ILLNESS OF SENATOR BRADi' IS SERIOIS Washington, Jan. 12. Senator Brady of Idaho has abandoned hope of taking Immediate part in the de liberations of the senate, because of serious illness with heart trouble. Instead, he plans only to take his oath of office and then leave for the south for an indefinite period. 23 BELOW ZERO IS EXPECTED IN IOWA Des Moines, Jan. 12. -With the worst blizzard of the season raging here today, a temperature of 25 be low is predicted for tonight. A farm band, blinded by snow, was killed by a train today. Sole leather, shoe nails, shoe ham- imers, stands and lasts In fact every thing you need to repair your shoes can be had at Rogue River Hard ware. 641 RH IfrTM T tonight It Jj II ( U L JJ VV J "THE HOISEOF Universal Broadway Feature OLLEGE OR Featuring Carter DeHaven & Flora Parker DeHaven In Six Big, Joyous Acts A Comedy Drama of Youth, Life and Laughter-Speeially Selected PLAYS THAT PLEASE 7:lr 8-30 No a'lvunce in prices "5 LOCAL j A Sou at Olson' Ou Sunday a sou was born to Mr. aud Mrs. Haus Olsou, ot Jerome Prairie. l-ilinu-y Mooting ThursdAy - There will be a meeting ot the Grants Pass Library association Thursday, January 13, at 3 o'clock. CabUav Extra faucy solid cabbage at Kin ney & Truax. 641 llolhauy lAdlt Will Moot The Woman's association ot Beth any Presbyterian church will hold its regular Imsluess meeting Thursday, at 2:30 o'clock, In the church parlors. tiullii Meeting Wednesday - - The regular business and social meeting of the ludles ot St. Luke's Guild will be held at 3 o'clock Wed nesday afternoon, at the Guild hall. Supt. Hull llonorvd ' " Superintendent Hull has received notification thut he was elected chair man of the Schoolmasters' Club of Southern Oregon at the receut meet ing of that organization in Medtord. The next meeting will be held at Eagle Point In April. The House of TwuV' At Star last night witnessed by packed house. Best picture yet shown. Last time tonight. 641 Snow Still Molting The snow Is still melting slowly along the valley and In the foothills, and no rise has yet occurred In the river. It was raining slightly at Waters creek this morning, and this afternoon a rain has commenced In the lower valley. Should this (be come general the snow Is apt to go off with a rush that will cause the creeks to run banks full for a few days. Cah Butter Special- Thursday at Kinney & Truax gro cery, butter 55c. 641 Glendale In Darkness The California-Oregon Power com pany now has four crews working on its power line between Grants Pass and Glendale In an effort to again supply Glendale with lights, the city's lighting system having been out of commission since Friday night. One crew reports 20 trees across the line between Wolf Creek and Grave creek, the trees having been broken down by the weight of snow. On the north side of the Grave creek divide the snow Is five to six feet deep, and on the Jump-Off-Joe divide from four to five feet deep. Snow shoes and skis are In demand. FORGER NOW I NIER SH-YEAR SENTENCE (By United Press Leased Wire.) Salem, Jan. 12. Charles Mallette, a forger, Is today under sentence of 58 years In the Oregon penitentiary. He had 18 years of an old sentence to serve, having broken his parole, and was sentenced to 20 years each on two new charges by Circuit Judge Kelly. He Is 35 years old and un married. 2L NO REGRETS" 10c A ICo KNIGHTS TO MEET . AT JOSEPHINE CMS The local lodge of Knights ot Py thias I now making plans for the staging ot Initiatory ceremonies In the Joxephluo caves during the com ing summer, and Knights from the entire northwest nro to bo asked to participate. Last season Crater lake was the scene ot one of the greatest meetings of Pythlaus ever held In the west, and the most novel ever held anywhere. It Is expected that when the Ghost chamber and Joaquin Miller's chapel and a few more ot the wonder plates In the caverns on Gray back are used for Initiatory meetings another record for Interest and novel ty will have been established. The supreme officers of the order are ex pected to come east next summer, and It Is hoped to have the meeting 'at the caves during their visit. LOVE-CRAZED YOUTH KILLS 3 AND SELF San Francisco, Jan. 12. lovo-mnd and rejected In his suit tor the hand of Mrs. Margaret Hill Ray, 19-year-old divorcee, Lloyd Peyser. 25 years old, toduy shot and killed the girl and her mother, Mrs. O. W. Kvuti. and fatally wounded the. girl's slstor, Mrs. Irene White. Then, viewing the ghastly triple, tragedy, he turned the gun upon himself and ended hla own life. For some time the family had been In terror of Peyser. After the pretty divorcee had spurned his offer of mar riage, he had threatened to wipe out the entire family, It Is said. On Sunday he had a final quarrel with Mrs. lUy. when she told him flatly she would have nothing further to do with him. The trouble was so violent that the family took precau tion to warn the policeman on the beat to watch Peyser should the lat ter return. Monday night he telephoned and told the girl that he was tired of liv ing without her. and that he Intend ed suicide. But he did not carry out his announced Intentions. Instead, he brooded over the affair until to day. Then he went to the Kvans' apartments, where the girl lived, and announced over the phone tube "This 1 Eddie," disguising his voice to make It appear he was Mrs. White's husband. The family did not suspect that their caller was other than the man he represented, so he was admitted. When he entered the apartment, his face livid and his hands working ner vously, Mrs. Evans screamod. As she did so, Peyser whipped out an automatic pistol, rushed at her and fired a bullet through her head. Meantime, Mrs. Effle Ramsey, a neighbor, with her little daughter, who had been calling at the home, Bllppcd out of the doorway and down stairs, where she crouched In terror. Mrs. White was Peyser's next vic tims. She sought to stop him, but as she did so PeyBer fired two bullets Into her nerk, mnnvbllng the while something about "getting Margin." Thereupon the mnddened youth dashed Into the living room. Address ing a curt farewell to Mrs. Ttay, he shot her and then killed himself. F. M. Ray, a relative, heard the shots while working nearby, but rushed Into the house too late to be of assistance. DONS OIT-CAMPIS KKHIDHNCF. CUKE IfHHt HfHOLAKNIIIP? Stanford University, Cal., Jan. 12. Does living off the cnmpuH affect scholarships? This Is the question uppermost In tho minds of a commit tee of the men's conference, which Is Investigating the causo of so many poor scholarships among new men students of Stanford university. Pre liminary Inquiries showed that fi0 per cunt of the warnings sent out for serious defects In scholarships went to men living off the campus, and that 45 per cent of all the now men of the university resldo In Palo Alto or other surrounding towns. The committee has been Instructed to present some plan for meeting the situation If It finds that off-campus residence has anything to do with tho poor scholarships, FEARS FELT I'OH LIVESTOCK IS PACIFIC NOUTIIWEHT Portland, Jan. 12, Fears are folt for livestock In many parts of the northwest today becnuHO of the un usually severe weather. Hay supplies are running the shortest In' many years', the ground 1b frozen hard and there Is no range. Thursday For Cash Only Snow-Fall Flour, hard wheat . $1.35 Extra Fancy Burbank Potatoes per 100 lbs 1.50 1 dozen "Holly" Milk 90c Best Creamery Butter .... 60c 30c Coffee . 25c 20c Coffee 15c Liberty Rolled Oats or Whtat, with premium a . 25c 1 sack Rolled Oats 45c 1 sack Pancake Flour .... 45c 50c Brooms 40c Navel Oranges . 20c 1 dozen Canned Corn .... $1.00 No. 5 pail Pure Lard 65c Ex. Fancy Oregon Dried Peaches 10c At Schallliorn's Grocery No telephone orders at these prices 'LONESTAR' DIETZ TO HEAD MOVIE COMP'Y (By Unltod Press Leased Wire) , Portlaud, Jan, 12. "Lonestar" Diets, Indian coach of the crack Washington State college football team, hereafter will be known as "Chief" Diets. Stopping In Portland on his way to Pullman, Wash., Diets today de tailed his plans for an Indian village and exclusively Indian motion pic ture company at Riverside, Cat. Diets will bo leading man In the company and chief of the village, which will (be made up of Sioux, Zitnl and llopl Indians. "Standnlg Hear, one of the first men to graduate from Carlisle, Is handling the Sioux situation for us," Diets said. "He will Join the com pany when we start up In June, and will firing a largo number of Sioux tribesmen with him. We have also arranged for tho Zunl and Hopl In dians who were at the San Francisco exposition to Join our colony. None but Indian pictures will be taken. ' Frank T. Miller, of Riverside, Is one of the principals In iho forma tion of the rompnny. He Is negotia ting for several white actors from other companies to take the "pale face" parts. Chicago, Jan. 12. Icy pavements, resulting from a sleety tillr..ard, were responsible today for one death. The storm Impaired wire and rail com munication throughout tho nilddlo west. Keeping It QuUt A little girl was out walking the other day with her mother wlieu she caught sight of n man with a wooden leg. "Oh, muuium!" she cried. "Hee llmt mini with a slick for u leg?" "l)u't talk mo loudly." mild nuimmu. "He'll hear you." "Why?" the Utile one replied In sur prise. "Doesn't he know It V Loudon Mali. Easy to 'roh. "Who wruie Unit urtirle n how to support u I'mully or Mix ou $111 ii week?" friend linked Wongles. the editor of the Household Friend. "Hlng lium, one of our bent men," xulil Wog gles, without a smile "We pay him $ii,ooo a yi'iir"l.oulsvlle Courier Joumiii. His Rtoord Clean. "Vmir son doi'Nu't work verv hurl In the i) IM co since lie left eolicw ' "No; lie doesn't want to Jeopardise Ills sum tour standing."- LoiiImvIIIo Courier-Journal. Curt Par Tlppllnfl. To cure n mnn or drinking take down In shorthand everything he hii.vb uliotit til 'self In a Inirronm nml tend It to hlni tin- nextdny.-Plitslnirgli Vnm. llano envy wlthors nt another's joy and bates the excellence It eontiot reach. Thomson ' ' ' ' - and Friday MOTION' PICTI'KK I'M XT D.VM.MiKD ItY FIIIK (lly United I'ruu Leased Wire.) Santa .Monica, Cat., Jan. U. Thomas II. line, director of the New York Motion Picture company, and eight film cutters sufferod today from burns sustained when a f lop.000 tire destroyed a tortloii of the big movie plant In Santa Yncs canyon. The Mate Is ihetlovod to have been caused by an exploding film. Im-e and the others were forced to dive through the flames to safety. The film cut ting room, general offices and a large amount of valuable manuscript were burned. Spontaneous coitilniHilon In a pile of oil-soaked rags started a tire In the new Culver City plant of the New York Motion Picture company Inst night. Prank Klwell, a prop erty man, extinguished It. Tho dam age was nominal. Drl-Fout will make your shoes waterproof if there are no holes In the leather. Only J5 cents a can, nt Rogue Itlver Hardware. 641 Tonight The Home of Features Paramount, Metro and Fox Tho supreme emotional actress Miss Emily Stevens In "The House of Tears" Unique plot, soloct cast, superb photography. This Is a first run picture and has not 'beon shown evon In Portland yot. A grim tragedy of the divorce court, a child loft In a tortured father's care, a misjudged and mlsguldod woman who sucks solace tor tho wrong done her ty becoming the wife ot the "othor mnn," years of misery for all, the father's sudden death after his financial ruin, the mother's ultimate desertion by the "othor man," and finally, through a strange chain of cir cumstances, her discovery that he In about to wed tho daugh ter whom she has not soon for yours, form a grntihln and su premely pnthetlo story of un usual chnrnctnr. "Tho Final Judgment" photo play hns boon delayed, hut will be shown later nt tho Star. 10 and lfi' Cents