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Mi', .J "a ' -, -.4. ) ".TO irr. KOi V ,y &v c:tc::::: Uhnfi Ih Cm4 Prop Several, there are who are leaking balm in' the divorce courts Karulina Miller vs, Jo seph Miller, luit for divorce. Plaintfff allege tliat'' defendant beat her, also that he told plain tiff didn't want work and would not .work and plaintiff was com pelled to feed him. It is alleged that plaintiff was compelled to rapport the three small children and defendant would leaye home whenever It suited him to do bo. J. E. Daw vs. Nettie Daw. Divorce. Plaintiff alleges that defendant Would leave home and remain away with friends whom the plaintiff did not know and against his consent Defendant is also alleged to have neglected duties of the home and failed to keep the home in order. Catherine F. scnoaover vs. v Arthur Bchonover. Divorce on ' the alleged ground of cruel and inhuman treatment Plaintiff, first of all alleges that defendant struck her with his fist and then kicked her. The defendant failed to support his family properly and is alleged to have said he did not like them, and that he was in the habit of running roand with other women and was once arrested for joyriding: ' Plaintiff auks for custody of three minor children and alimony amounting to $25 . per month and costs of action. A. A. Walker vs. Ethel Walker. Divorce. On alleged grounds of desertion. '" White vs. Id M. Chandler. Judgaient for sum of 168.17 with interest from the fifteenth day of April, 1916. Plaintiff alleges that fee sold a bill of goods to the above sum. - : . : I. 3. McAlear vs. Ray D, Morse et al. 'Mortgage fore closure on real property upon which is due the sum of $2000 with interest at 8 per cent from July, 1915. Jennie Long vs. Jasper E. Reeves. Plaintiff is asking for an injunction' restraining he de fendant from selling certain real property. Plaintiff alleging that judgment obtained by Sheridan -bank against C. G. and C. Rhoades is void as neither have any claim upon the property in volved, ' ,; PROBATE COURT. in the estate of the late Helen p. Jennings. ' A petition has peen filed by her son, D. V. Jen nings for the appointment of himself as administrator of the estate the value of which is about 5000. ' In the estate of Catherine Loughy, a petition has been filed for the appointment of Annie Mabel Johnson as administrator. The value of the estate is said to be $600. v MAJUUACI UCEMSES. Daniel V. Herriek and Theo dora M. Kruige. Fred C. Miller and Bertha Oglesby. - ELECTION RETURNS. . With reports from seven pre cincts sealed and consequently uncounted the summary of votes cast for the different candidates stands about as follows and the uncounted preeincts will have no particular effect upon the win ners' margin: Circuit Judge Geo. R. Bagler, 2,087; W. H. Hollis, 1,172. , District Attorney-!!. T. Bag ley, 1,507; I. 6. Tongue, 419. Sheriff-, C. Applegate, 1,788; J. W. Connell, 974. Geo. G. ganeock, 49; .Grant Mann 211; . M. Melnnis'126. County Clark-H. A. fcaratli .t r, O. I KcCjrmick, 1,23. " CJonty Asaeatr-W. P. Boley : 93,-Chae. E. Lftle 6; 7. W. McRoberts, 637; A. A. lloirifl, exs. if :-tuai!in?- . cpreentative Benton Bow- van, 1,470; a P. Cornelius. 1 1,K8; U A. Eernswortii. 4.191: & A. D. Meek. 1.2B: K. L. Moore, 1,190; S. Paisley; 1.115: a it' - ' T- ' ' ' TteaaoiwEftV J. Godaan, UW; K a Sappington, 1860. ' County Survejor--e. O. Rei toi, 1.WB; Thosj Wilkes, J.298. County ConnqiaBioner H. T. Besse, l,r61; C. F. Tigard, 1,894. Joint Senator Edwards, 996; Handley. 1,085; Uichelbook. 802: smith, 1,134. Late returns place Bowman. Meek, and Cornelius in the lead for representative, Ferns worth losing by IB votes. . I a c:i? ct;t::y DaWs B4y Hot Tt lUnrerefW Jfiere Chasa. v Fnajkt Hits Varfe Traia aa Treitle A wreck occurred on the South ern Pacific railway at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday morning at the trestle across Dairy creek just west of Hillsboro in which Engineer G. M. Hoberg, Fireman A. D. Siek afoose, and Brakeman W. A. Kimmell, all of Portland, were injured. , The fireman was scalded about the ankle and the others mora or lesB bruised. The injured men were aUpn the heavy freight train which, approaching at consider able speed, met a work train backing out of the switch at the end of the yards. With the ex ception of-.- Sickafoose. they jumped from the train. The lo comotive struck the rear car of the work train and damaged two gravel cars, while a flat car and a box car, loaded with condensed milk, were completely wrecked. The tender was smashed and also thrown from the trestle. The place of meeting was on a trestle about 20 feet high. The locomotive and some other cars were derailed, but remained on the trestle. Mail and passengers are being transferred from Hillsboro to Jobe crossing by auto trucks, According to reports of the aecident received at the Southern Pacific operating headquarters in Portland, Engineer Hoberg's body and head are bruised and his back is wrenched, but his in Junes are not believed to be mortal. The brakeman and the fireman have bruised bodies and heads, believed to be dae to jumping from the.'1 locomotive to me trestle. The three jlnjured trainmen were brought to the Good Samar itan hospital in this city. Responsibility for the collision has not yet been fixed. The damage to the equipment is esti mated at $2600. Beaverton is to have a float in the civic parade of the Rose Fes tival. It will be typical of the products of Beaverton and vicin ity. In order to make a cred itable showing it will require about $30. The Chamber of Commerce is donating $10 and every farmer and' merchant in Beaverton and vicinity is asked to make a contribution. Leave your money at the Beaverton bank and help the cause along. The sheriff scrap rather fizzled out When the votes were counted as the totals gave J. C. Apple gate a majority of near one thou sand. The fight over the dis trict attorneyship resulted in the usual , victory for Mr. Tongue. His majority was not great, however. , The Circuit Judgeship was at no time in doubt. Geo. Bagley leading f rem the start and.gaining steadily. He carried Tillamook county by a vote of two to one, ' A week lias elapsed since the brutal killing of Helen Jennings' saihe slept peacefully in her! residence near Tualatjn. In the Hillsboro jail is a man, Thomp son, who is accased of the crime ei double murder. The autaori ties are sure they have the man. utaa yet he is held en eircura- ltantial evidence atone, nothing to directly connect him with the etime nas yet been uncovered al though several who saw the man on the fateful night say he re sembles the : person who asked Bistmas to -carry him to the scene of the crime, Over the whole affair rests a pall of complete mystery made more obscure by the vague in quiries of the authorities in charge. At present numerous searching ' parties , have been securing the woods and fields for miles around the location where the double crime was supposed to have taken place. ' the first clue unearthed was a bloody shirt from which the col lar and cuffs were missing. The shirt was bespattered with drops of human blood and had been rolled up by the murderer and dropped by a pool of water where the man was supposed to have stopped to wash his hands. Later the laprobe which belonged to the car was found, blood clotted, dirty, and covered with human hair. Evidently the form of the driver had been placed in the robe while it Was being carried away.' ''''''' "- If so why did the murderer not leave the robe with the body? Because the body was placed where the robe would have dis closed the spot where it had been disposed. ' Later a house belonging to a sister of Thompson who resides in Portland was searched and on the clothes line behind the house was found an undershirt with spots on it which resembled blood. These were subjected to a chemical test which proved them to be stains of human blood. Upon this hinges most of the positive proof which will fix the crime upon the rsan held in the county jail; for the first shirr, found had a collar unmistakably too small for the suspect. Late reports say that the outside shirt has been placed over the under shirt -and the stains compared, the companion bringing out the fact that the stains are identical. If this is the case then the cul prit has been apprehended; for an extraordinary alibi would be required to prove that Thompson was not at the scene of the crime on that night. A report was circulated last Monday that a man had been ap prehended wandering in a dazed condition near Estacada, who re sembled closely Ristman, but in. vestigation soon proved that he was not the missing jitney driver although he closely resembled him and spoke vaguely of driv ing an auto in Portland. He told the men who first questioned him that he was a Frenchman when asked his name. Sunday large parties went to the scene of the crime from Portland and other nearby points and formed a gigantic searching party. They combed tl.e woods in the vicinity of , the death house, between Tualatin and Sherwood, and between the Gore ranch and Sherwood Without re sults, no clue oeing , uncovered for twnsiderable distance en both Me of the bridge, but disclosed , .. yj ft. J-:.w.i,..,,"V,,. B4 ej Laa Kscovtrta. (Late Report) I The long search is ended, and part of the mystery has been solved. In a lonely spot some four miles from tne house of death the unrecognisable body of the dead jitney driver was recov ered early today by authorities from . Multnomah and Washing. ton counties. Far from any house, surround ed by brush and tall trees, per- hips ten yards from the rough wood road on a little path in an open spot, the dead jitney man had been dumped after the fiend had crushed the back of his skull with some blunt instrument . Upon examination of the skull. from which the flesh had been completely decomposed, there appeared a crack extending from one side of the head to the other just above the base of the skull and terminating in a huge hole where the instrument of destruc tion had been forcefully applied. The hole had the appearance of a blow with a hammer applied with all the force that could be mustered into the blow. To sum up the evidence as we see it would indicate that Kist-i man had been lured to the spot and then killed. An interview with a Mr. Thorbrue disclosed the fact that a motor had been heard on the Monday night when the crime was committed about the hour of ten o'clock, the en gine running as it stood for some ten minutes, inn was in the neighborhood of one hundred yards south of the spot where the body was recovered. The first clue to the where abouts of the remains was found last evening when Deputy Sher iff 'Bob Phillips of Portland found one of Kistman's gloves a few yards north of the place where the body was found. This was undoubtedly lost at the time the crime was committed as the other glove was with the body? As the machine must have come in from the north, so it must have passed on south after the murderer had deposited his grewsnme charge, and returned via Sherwood and so to the Gore ranch where the Becond crime was committed. Here the man left the machine in the Jennings door yard and started out on foot. - Earlv this morning Sheriff Hurlburt and Deputy Phillips of Portland made the discovery while traveling up and down the different wood roads in search of a clue in the vicinity of the glove found last night No evidence was found which would serve to assist in fixing the crime upon Thompson although he was known to have hauled wood last summer from the neighborhood and knew the country well. t"i r Thiaga That are o( Interest To Everyone. - Gus Rossi is speeding around in a fine car these day. Mrs, Geo, Klein spent the week end in Portland with her sister Mrs. Conners. ' , V I Patrick Weeds. Patrick Woods, late ' dKc-ased, was born in Milltown, New Brunswick. At the age of nine teen he moved to Minneapolis and later came to Beaverton where he has resided for. the past seven years. At the time of his death he was aged 68 years. We leaves two sisters and one brother, both in the east V ' All singers of the Beaverton Choral Society and others willing to assist, will please meet in the public school building next Tues day evening. May 30, to prepare music for the dedicatory exer cises of the High School. Former singers will please , bring the music sung at the Choral Con cert i - A delightful tea was given at the residence of Mrs. Perry York to a few of her neighbors last week. The afternoon was spent in a Boeial good time followed by luncheon. Those present were: Mrs. W. C. McKell and mother, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Stipe and daughter Inez, Mrs. R. . L. Tucker, Mrs. F. C. Peck, Mrs. Mm. Lottie Robinson was down from Banks the first of the week looking after her residence. The infant daughter of Peter Paluae died last Monday in the hospital (n Hillsboro. Horace Emmons has been fill ing the place of Roy Payne at McMlnnville for a few days, re turning Tuesday, M. P. Cady made a trip to Al bany Tuesday with a ear which he' delivered to a purchaser at that place. V Geo. Thyng accompanied Par ley lowell to the scene of the freight wreck above Hillsboro lueauay. Wm. Gaskell and wife, and Geo. Hughson and wife left this week for a two weeks fishing trip at Mt Hood. Mrs. W. E. Pegg left Wednes. day for battle, Washington, where she was called to the bed' aide of her father, J. C Strain, who is very ill, , Will the men who picked up the shaft with two wheels last Wednesday near the mill on the Hillsboro road please return same to Wm. Hunter. It Two petitions are in the hands of Chas. Craig for lights, one line to run across the tracks and north from the mill and the other east along the canyon road. Harold Pegg and Wm, Camp bell went last week up on the Wilson River where they will pursue the timid trout eat bacon and dry bread and sleep in a tree, James Emmons was suffering the other night from a seriouB attack of ptomaine poisoning brought on, it is thought by eat ing cookies which were slightly stale. He is getting along very nicely now, Ike Aseltine returned Tuesday from a prolonged absence during which time he has traveled ex tensively over the middle west. Ike says that this is the only place he has seen where there was much doing. Perry Yorit, late assistant in the lumber yards cf Beedle & Waits, is now located at White Salmon where he is working in the office of the Mt Adams Lum ber Company, Later his family ajay join him. Wednesday afternoon the ladies of the Methodist church gave a very successful tea at the resi dence of Mrs. R. L. Tucker in South Beaverton. About thirty ladies were present to whom a delightful lunch was served. Fred Darrah spent the week end with his parents and, friends here. Fred has received a pro motion which will take him to Deer Lodge, Montana, where he will hold down a position with the Chicago, Milwaukee ft St Paul. His friends will be pleased to hear of his promotion. The Beaverton band gave an excellent and well attended dance in Morse hall last Saturday night There were one or two couples present and every one enjoyed themselves. The musicians play ed several selections for their own .benefit and to while away the time, then went home to bed. For StU. . 3tfensen. end Mrs. ; Richard Another party dragged the river j Johnson of Progress. ; ' '' ;Crf INt;' ' A report on 'crop VjndjtlQna i6 Washington eeuaty: Garden Home No serfoua damage account recent f rests. Beaverton. Or. Man planU inga early potatoes must be rex planted ' account seed vmuing. Fruit ; Indicate! good yield. ; Oreneo, Or. Fall aw-a of grain in fine condition. ! V, 111 be usual ;: acreage of lata potatoU, No indication of material danv i oy rrovs, ,M,u.j.lll(fil , Hillaboro, Or. -Ma; aptarent seriobi damage by frosU. 1 Indi cations for good fruit oro ITork being done in hopyards, which look fine. Seeding of othercropf will not be completed (or about a week. , - ' : . Forest Grove Cold weather did little damage to prunes, ' Other fruits In good condition, : Grains, hay ' and hops ' promise good yields. Slight damage to garden truck by frosts. , Tigard, Or.-gtnal) grain all in' 1 ground, mort of "which is up end ; growing nicely. Not much win-' ter grain eown. Potato crop, slightly delayed by bad weather which will cause late start On ions in, but making slow head way, also apples, pears and cher ries, account cold rains. Tualatin, Or. Onions and po tatoes all m. ' Recent heavy frosts caused some concern about fruit and early gardens, but not Indi cated as very heavy. Crops in general believed to be in good Condition,-"'-:'! vii -:..-, I J !. Tonquin, Or. Oats and hn looking fine. ' Potatoes promise good crop. Onions just coming - up end acreage about the same aa last year. Fruit not damaged by recent frosts. WilsonfiHe, Or. Spring plant- - ing and sowing nearly finished, Wheat and bat acreage about the same aa 19151' Small Increase in onion acreage. ' Meadows looking fine and show prospects of good hay yield. - Hop acreage same at last year, although work delayed.. Experimental crop of French pea ' 1 beans put in. Small fruity and -berries look -toward good orop. Peaches injured by recent frosts. Freih Jeney cow. When fruh aivH 9 fo 10 gallons rich milk. Foe inform tioa ispiy at Time office. 7l5 Beaver Program, ' Saturday May 27 'The Air Torpedo," an egcltfog auventure story nued with stirring situations 'The Desert," a one part drama of the west 'Phony Lovers," a unique eomi eay in one reel SundavMayM . 'The Twisted Ear," 8-act story of a dual life, featuring a man with the, hand of a Raffles ' ' - 'Fixing the Fakers," a one act drama of the underworld 'In Dry Territory," a pne act cornea y scream - First , show 7:30 P. M., second ' Show 9P.M. BeavettM 3 easel Nates. Th hut ol l Mrlat of batehtl nmM wu played lait Friday between th Haa verton and the Gallon high acnooh, re- tutting in a ncor of 21 to 2 favor o I Beaverton; - -Rlchardanr -and - Snydef -componed the battery (or.. Haaverton, whilo Snyder arid Strygltr' wer for Uaatoh, ,..'.,. . ,, -,: The hlah achobl claw are 'to have a leaaon Friday on canning and oraervinir tomatoes and itrawberriea, , - The manual training bovi are nreririna (or an exhibit ol their work aoon. , Thoee in the lower aranunar arader that are perfect In attendance, application. poruuent lor Ins out month ar Laura Fry, Marion Jonee, Ruth Jonea, Mary Howe, LSren Craig, George Fuller. Jackie Malarky, Band Lea Gilbert, Annie Grette, Bertha Matike, Carol Read, Arllne bnyder, Mildred Watte, Percy Fry. Erneat Mautera, Thurlow Weed. Georae Poet, - FrancI-v Allon,. Olive Ci Klva pkatrom, Ihesta Pegg, Cam mar son. Clara Schofiner. - Evci Whirarortk GeraM.i-Acklen, . John Gray, Kohart, Hockxri, Imogene Hocken, Myrtle J -q-aon, Pearl Fuller, Robert Haruen, H - Pyrneaa, Margaret Cady, Alice Ericueun, amea . wmtwortn, j-rancea - Ji'niiaua, 'hiliDDd Barnes. Geneva bai-zee. Ravl(trd - Hall, Woldon Squires, Jot-eirune. AUeaVf Lovena Allen, Clara Erickson. . - Lowell Tollman who was abwmt-r.ki- daya hut week " Recount of aluuicas 4 in achod agaai. . -