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WIFE 65, ACCUSED OF POISON ATTEMP I Dog Dies After Eating Food Left for Her Husband Money Dispute. Roseburg. Charged with an attempt to murder her 72-year-old husband in order that she might name her nephew as heir to property amount' ing in value to around $10,000,, Mrs. Amanda McConneli, bo, was arrested here and was bound over to the grand jury. James McConneli, the officers said, wanted to make his nephew heir to the property and this led to a quarrel which caused the woman ' to attempt to poison her husband. Mr. and Mrs. McConneli were mar ried in Whitman county, Washington, in 1883, and since that time haVe made their home in Roseburg where they are well known. They had four sons, three of them now dead. , The fourth, Doran, was sent to the reform school in 1917 and has been missing since his. release. One of the sons, Roy McConneli, a disabled world war veteran, died last month at the veteran's . hospital in Walla Walla, leaving an insurance policy of $2000 due to his mother, together with about $900 in cash. The division of the money immediately led to domes tic trouble, the officers were in formed. The question also came up of the matter of a will and the nam ing of the persons to receive the property belonging to Mr. and Mrs, McConneli. The husband wanted to leave the property, the officers were told to his nephew, Rev. Carl Mc Conneli of Walla Walla, and the' wife favored" her nephew, Dee Adams of Dixonville near Roseburg. Last week Mrs. McConneli saw in - an Astoria paper a picture of a man sent to the penitentiary at Salem and found in the picture a resemblance to their missing son Doran, according to the statement received from both Mr. and Mrs. McConneli by the officers. Mrs. McConnel insisted upon going to Salem, although her husband op posed the trip. As Mr. McConneli re fused to go, she called in her nephew. Last Sunday morning she prepared an early breakfast, leaving Mr. Mc Conneli in bed, as he was not feeling well. The statements of both the husband and wife agree that Mrs. McConneli prepared some biscuits and having a small amount of dough remaining, baked one large biscuit separately, and left it for her husband, after which she and Mr. Adams took a stage for Salem. Mr. McConneli, in his statement to the officers, said that he attempted to eat the biscuit but found it bit ter, and, not feeling well decided not to eat breakfast, so scraped the food that she left for him into a plate and set it outside for the dog. Within a few minutes the dog went into con vulsions and died. Becoming suspicious, Mr. McCon neli went back to the kitchen and there found two bottles on the table, one partially filled with strychnine and the other with .a harmless med icine. As his glasses were missing, he was unable to read the labels on the bottles, and so took them to his doctor, who, after hearing the man's! story called Sheriff Webb to investi gate the case. i Mrs. McConnel on her return from ! Salem, where she found that the! prisoner was noi ner son, was ques tioned by the officers. She stated that the two bottles had been in a pocketbook in a room adjoining the kitchen. She had bundled some pap ers and pictures to be used in her attempt to identify her son and as these did not fit her regular pocket book, she took the other, and dumped the articles in it on the table. The dog followed Mrs. McConneli, she said, as she left the home, and she told the officers she believed it must have eaten poison away from the house. She also has advanced the story that her husband poisoned the dog to cast discredit on her so that she would be stopped from having a part in distributing the money. It is now stated that McConneli re fuses to testify against his wife and has employed an attorney to defend her. McNary-Haugen Bill Upheld as Basis for Relief, Washington, D. C. The much-dis' cussed equalization fee of the Mc Nary-Haugen bill was upheld as basis for a permanent farm relief system before the house agriculture committee by Chester H. Gray of the American Farm Bureau federation, with the opening of hearings on mean? of remedying the agricultural situa tion. Representing farmers' organiza tions throughout the middle west and west, Gray advocated the passage of the remodeled McNary-Haugen bill on the ground that it represented th best legislation obtainable. He sug gested one important amendment, creation of advisory councils in each of the 12 federal land bank districts, m place of commodity advisory coun cils to be established at the discre' tion of the federal farm board. This would mean, he said, that emergency situations in all commodi ties in the regions would be met and dealt with by councils of the respec tive regions. Under the present plan separate councils ae - requirea as situations arise respecting any commodity. Gray told the committee this charge would be in the farmers' interest and would be a concession to them to make up for revoking the power which they had in the previous bill to stimulate in general the member ship of the federal farm board. one LOW FARES Zft - .vJ ' You can live at economically at at home TDACK UP the family and old kit bag; go to sunny California for a few weeks, months or for the winter. Visit movieland, orange groves, the oil fields, beach resorts, big cities. Golf courses galore! FinefastUnionPacifictrainMfford connections via Portland or Salt LakeCity.Diveneroutepennitted. MAKE TOUR RESERVATIONS NOW UNION PACIFIC ins vvenurai KUVTB C. M. EAGER, Agent Athena. Oreg 100 MUCH LABOR SUPPLY ON COAST Small Demand Reported In Oregon and Washington By Agency. A general decrease in employment, and surplus of labor in the Pacific coast states during December, is re ported by the United States employ ment service. In California, a report says. winter surplus of labor exists through out the state. It is particularly no ticeable in southern California where workers seeking employment continue to arrive in unusually large numbers from every state. A large over-sup' ply of farm help is reported in prac' tically all districts. Lumber mills are all in operation, but with reduced forces. A large volume of building is in progress in the larger cities, but a surplus of building craftsmen exists, All outdoor industries in Oregon are employing fewer men, the service finds. The lumber industry will be compelled to work below normal for the next 60 to 90 days, while in east ern Oregon, a large number of Pine mills that usually operate all winter have been closed for indefinite pe riods. Usually shutdowns in logging camps and mills tor holiday repair periods occurred in .Washington dur ing December. The number employed in outdoor activities decreased notice ably, while all districts along the coast report a surplus of men. There are virtually no demands for help from agricultural or general construction sources. ' Rusty Hands Alice, a mgii-scliool student, came home from school one afternoon and when she walked in her bedroom she found her little sister evidently try ing to conceal the fact that she had been playing with her big sister's cos metics. She hastily picked up the bot tle of band lotion, which she had often been permitted to use, and re' marked casually: "I Just thought that i would use some of this on my hands, they are so rusty." 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