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0- ol OiiU0llMffi THE WEATHER Tonight and Friday showers and ALBANY DAILY DEMOCRAT " Eitablkhed fai Be Advtrtiiin Medium In Una County. cooler. " VOL. XXIX. ALBANY, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1916. No. 100. BLIND PIGGING Francis Ward and Mary Bal lard Said to Have Sold Booze to F. N. Shuck. HOUSE CONDUCTED IS ON EAST FIRST STREET Witnesses Examined at First May Be Tried Fqr Perjury of Testimony. Mint Mary Milliard ami Francis (I'icl) Want aro under arrest charg ed with conducting a blind pig in a huiisc un l-"nl I'lnl -.licet' bvlwcrn I. yon anil Maker MrccU. Mary ll.il lanl was arrested aliutil 5 o'clock last evening I C'-li ir f til Police C'allln un a warrant issued ly Deputy District A l li.rniy Willard I.. Maiks through Judge 1., 1.. Swan courl, and Ward, upon rciiiniintc to thi city ihit morn ing and learning that he wa wauled, weni It) Judge Swan' office and null' milled In arrest. Iluili have been ar raigned nnd the Milliard' cane will he irlcd Thumday, Sept. 14, at IU a. in., and thy Ward cac the name day nt 1 o'clock. ' The arret were hroiiKlit about thru l- M. Shuck, the farmer from Air lie. who came to town Saturday with a load of pcachc and not drunk belorc he old them. He Inken up on the trct late Saturday nigh! by Sam Worrell and at that time told Judge Van Tamel. who i acting for Judge I.ewellinK. thai he had lorn hii watch, $40 in miiney, and other arti cle!. An investigation 'a utarlcd and, Shuck wan fnrccd lo tell where he got "tihr liquor. 1-our wnitcc wctt call ed, two of whom arc naid to have perjured themselves in .wearing false ly to couditiui existing al the1 home where Ihe Italian! girl and Ward con dinted iheir liiiior vending room. However. ciioukIi evidruce wa ad duced to how that Shuck his. on different occasions. purc;iacd liquor from holh Ward and Ihe icirl. ' thai Ihe goods he lined l- become in toxicated with Sauirday were pur chased from holh of Iheni. The trialn were set for Thursday a account of the fact that P.. K. Bailey dcfendinii Miss llallard and Ward would not he able lo complete hi.' case today, and Judge Swan will Ii:inc Friday for prater l-ake. Judge Swai larted for the lake a short time ago and had an accident, or was stalled near Gold Hill and had lo leave hi ear. He will be gone about a week. THOMPSON TRIAL BEOUN. Deputy Sheriff Andrews, the First Wltnes Called for the State. (By United Prc) ' t ilillthoro, Sept. 7. James I.. An drew, deputy ;teriff. was Ihe first witness in the Dennett Thompson trial on the charge of murdering Mrs. Hel en Jcnning and l-'red Kistman. a jit ney bus driver. Andrew described the finding of Kisiman's bloody jit liey behind the house, the discuvcrinu of Mr. Jcnniug's dead body in bed. villi her head smashed. The audience Mas mostly composed of women. New Solicitor. (By United Press) Washington, Sept. 7. President Wilson nominated Charles B. Mahaf fey, of Portland, solicitor for the in terior department. x PORTLAND BAKERS TO FIGHT HOME MADE BREAD (lly United Press) . ' Portland, Sept. 7. Porilnml bakers meet tonight to discuss plans for n campaign against homemade bread. Portland housewives intend to fight' the "high cost of bread" by home bakiig. The bakers arc considering "educational advertising" nnd not In tend lo raise bread prices. They plan to gradually reduce, the sine of five nnd ten cent loaves. GORVALLIS MAN FELL FROM FLUME AND BROKE NECK Was on His Way Home Last Night From Firemen's Tournament. No! arriving at home when expect ed, last evening, the wife of Jake L'nmlraii, engineer -at the Itcnen craiiu aaw mill three miles west of Corvalli, became alarmed and begun Investigating the cause u her hus band' absence. Mr, Condran had been in Corvalli attending the frie incn' celebration, the mill not run ning during ihe day. At 6 o'clock ahc called up the residence of Gene Tot nra, and learned that he had passed there at 5 o'clock on hi way home. She informed the mill men, and they immediately began a hunt for him, al ') o'clock finding hi body near the flume running lo the mill, hi neck broken. On hi way to the place, where he and his wife were camping near the mill he had walked along a sidewalk betide the flume, as he had often done before, and had evidently stumbled and fallen headfirst to the ground, about fifteen feet below. Coudiati it highly spoken of a a man of excellent habit well liked by ill with whom he was associated. He leaves a wife and no children. He wa about forty-live years of age. S. P. TO BE SOED BY ORE. FOR CAR SHORTAGE Public Service Commission to Go to the Bottom in Investi gation of Shortage. i - (lly United Press) 'Salem, Sept. 7. The latc public service eommiion asked Attorney General Brown to prcptire a com plaint against the Southern Pacific nil account of it failure to furnijh car for Oregon shipper, especially lumbermen. The complaint may be ready by tonight. The commission plans a sweeping investigation. It may report facts lo the Incrstatc Com merce Commission. o CONFERENCE M. E. CHURCH SOUTH JIT CORVALLIS Former Albany Minister Here on Way There; Now. Presi ident Columbia College. Rev. II. S. Shanglc, president of Co lumbia College, at Milton, was in the city yesterday afternoon, while on hi. wav to Corvalli to attend the conference of the M. E. church South. which began its work there this morn ing, and will continue It over Sunday. Bishop W. R. Lambuth, of Oakdalc, Calif., is presiding, and among the prominent minister present from other place arc Dr. John M. Moore, general secretary of tlie home mis sion hoard, and Rev. W. E. Vaughn, editor nf the Pacific Methodist Advo cate. Appointments for the coming year will be announced Sunday ev ening. Rev. Shangle is a former pastor of the M. F church of this city, coming here 26 years ago, in 1890, serving here and at Tangent. His two sons arc doing well, one of them being postmaster nt Milton, the other prin cipal of the schools at Wnpata, Wash, o, t. Fust Traveling. . San Francisco, Sept! 5. John A. Dclion, Philadelphia, established a transcontinental transportation record today when he was pushed up to the city hall in his "donkeymobile," the motive power of which, consumes hay, no gasoline. The record Delion es tablished is the record tor slowness. The trip across the colitinent coif sinned four years and Delion says ne hurried, at that. The "donkeymobile" is an automobile-appearing vehicle, pushed by n donkey flushed, not pulled. The jaunt was made on a bet. Several accidents marred the long Initrnev. While Delion was crossing the Arizona desert, his motive power. kicked him in the head nnd rendered him tincousviout for several hour. MATED STATE T Miss Ethel Redfleld, Formerly of This City, Honored in Idaho Primaries. WINS NOMINATION AFTER GAME-CONTEST Judge Isaao N. Sullivan Re ceives Defeat That Was Due His Bad Record. Returns from, the primaries In Ida ho show that Miss Ethel Rcdficld. of l.cwistoiii formerly of Albany., ha net ii nominated 'itiperimcndcut of tchools on the Republican ticket, with prospect of her election, which her many Albany friends, rcgardlc. of olitics. hope will occur. Miss kedficld is a mine it', tins city, daughter of I-. M. Kcdiiild. and educated here, graduating in the class of 1897 from Albany College, with Mr. Mayme Allen llurkhart, of this city; Dr. Wayne Uridgeford. of Olym pia, Wash.; Dr. David Gotlcib. of Trinidad, Colo.; Dr. J. P. Johnson, of Portland; District Attorney Gale S. Hill, of this city; Mr. Caroline Salt marah Gamcubciri, of Portland: Lcw i W. Smick. of near Koicburg; Dr. Jo. Sternberg and Dr. W. E. Stew art, of Portland, and Miss Myrtle Worley, of the Albany schools, a no table class. .Miss Rcdficld afterwards Taught in the Albany ichools, going from here to. Lcwiston, in response lo a call to the high school there, fin illy being elected county superintend ent, which position the filled so effi ciently as to suggest her' candidacy to the stale position. A very capable woman, of splendid personality, her campaign will he watcher with great interest by Albany people. T Boise, Sept. 7. Late return indi cated that Isaac X. Sullivan was de feated for the nomination for justice of the stale supreme court. The Pro gressives fought Sullivan on account of his 1913 contempt case wherein the publisher and editor of the Boise Cap ital New wa sentenced to jail for printing Roosevelt's attack on the Idaho supreme court, after tlie court had barred the Prpgressive electors from the ballot. Boy Etcape. ' (By United Press) Salem, Sept. 7. Isaac Cams, of Portland and Henry Lloyd of Marsh field, escaped from the state boys' raining school last night. Their es cape was discovered at breakfast. Of ficers are pursuing them. ' Fish Are Doing Well. Three years ago a large num- her of Young Sunfish, or Bluc- gills, were planted ill. Third Lake, three miles east of Albany, through the efforts of A. C. Schmitt. This year fine catches of these fish are being made by men and boys angling in the lake. The fry were brought front " the East where this species of fish abound, nnd planted in the lake. Their reproduction has been remarkable and there seems to be a large number in the lake. There she is still small, but lnrge enough to be eaten. They are "said toi be a very delicious fish. Catches as high as 50 have been made at one time. With a little protection the lake would soon become very well stocked with this edible fish. Attend Count y Fair at Scio Last Day Tomorrow, With Good Program GUARDSMEN AT CLACKAMAS AWAIT MUSTER-OUT ORDER Not Known When Order Will Be Received; School Boy Soldiers Not Abandoned. (By United Pre) Camp Wilhycombe, Sept. 7. - Guardsmen continued their routine work despite Secretary Baker' mu-tcring-our orders. Colonel Clcnard McLauglin wa unable to predict when the order will be effective. Pl.n for "school boy soldier" and educa tional classes have not been aban doned. N. O. Mustered Out. Washington, Sept. 7. Secretary Ba ker has ordered the militia organiza tion home from the border muster ed out as soon as practicable, and returned to the normal status of na tional guardsmen. JAMAICA GINGER AND ALCOHOL MAKES GOOD BOOZE C. A. Hyland Got Intoxicated on Kick of the Ginger and Gets Five Days. C. A. Hyland is spending five days in the city jail as a result of his de bauch last night. He is ci.arged and convicted before Judge. F. E. Van Tassel, acting for L. G. Lcwclling, with having become intoxicated on a bottle of alcohol and two bottles of Jamaica ginger. "The ginger was hot. but had a good kick to it," he is said :o have explained. Hyland wa brought before the dis trict attorney's office and closely ex amined regarding the place he obtain ed bis goods, but it was obtained that he swore falsely to a local druggist to obtain the alcohol for mechanical purposes. The fact Is quite well estab lished that ..only one blind pig has been operating in the city. RUSSELL GOII AND ALICE MULLER MARRIED IN CORVALLIS Quietly slipping away from their friends in ibis city yesterday evening. Russell Gott and Miss Alice Mullcr were married at the home of Rev. D. II. I.ecch in Corvallis about. 8:30 o'clock. The only witness to the cere mony was Frank Stcllmachcr. Up on their return to the city a wedding supper wa served at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Muller at 1125 East Second street. But a few relatives were present at the supper. Mr. andxMrs. Gott will make their home for the present at the Muller home on Eat Second street, Mr. and Mrs. Mullcr having moved to their farm for the autumn. Mr. Gott is the well known card writer, window trimmer and store decorator for M. Sternberg & Co. He came here from Denver five years ago and has made many friends in this city. The bride is a daughter of-Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Muller and is popular with a wide circle of friends. She has been em ployed at the Hudkins store recently. o ARIZONA POSSE AFTER SIX SAVAGE BANDITS (By United Press) ' Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 7.- The sec ond posse started at daybreak to re inforce Sheriff Wheeler's posse chas ing the six bandits, who held up the Golden State Limited near Apache at midnight. The robbers apparently were amateurs. They used six charg es of nitroglycerine in a futile attempt to blow open the safe. E E Get Fifteen Hundred Yards of Germany's First Line ' - Near Vaux. ALLIES CONTINUE STEADY ADVANCE Roumanians Have Been Obliged to Evacuate Tutrakan and Danube. , (By United Press) London, Sept. 7. Gen. . Haig re ported that ftie German attacked Leuze wood last night and were re pulsed. They abandoned their wound ed. The British took a number of prisoners in the battle around Gin- chey. The French war office announc ed that the French captured 1500 yards of German first line positions between Vaux Chapitre and Chelota wood, northeast of Verdun. They took 220 prisoners and ten machine guns. The .Allies steady advance threatens Combles and Chaulnes, the two main supports of the German Somme army. The new French ad vance brought Foch's lines closer to the Chaulnes Deronne railway. Pet rograd announced that, the Russian artillery is shelling the Galician city of Halitz, 60 mites eastheast of Lem berg. This is the keystone! of the Aus tro German defenses. It is admitted the Roumanians have evacuated Tut rakan and Danube, 33 miles southeast of Bucharest, under pressure of su perior enemy forces. WEATHERFORD'S CAMPAIGN. T Covering the District in an Effi cient Manner, and Is Making Many Friends.. Roseburg, Sept. 6. Mark V. ,Wea therford. Democratic candidate for congress from the First district, ar rived in Roseburg Tuesday morning from a trip thru southern Oregon. He visited all sectioin of Jackson and Josephine counties. While in Joseph ine county he visited the Takilma mining district, where he addressed the miners. Sunday .night Mr. Wreathcrford de livered .an address in the Christian church at Grants Pass, where he dis cuascd the brewers' amendment.' He likened the bill to the act of currying a mule, in the bill -appearing more favorable at the head, but as you go farther down you find the dangerous part of the bill. ' At Grants Pass, on Monday fore noon Mr. Weathcrford was the guest of the Rogue River Valley Minister ial association, which he addressed on the brewers' amendment and also the prohibition amendment. Mr. Weathcrford spent Tuesday calling on the citizens and voters of Roseburg, where he was warmly re ceived. He states that the sentiment in southern Oregon is very strongly in favor of President Wilson and there is much favorable comment ov er his handling of the recent tsrike situation- ' Mr. Weathcrford left today for the north on his canvass of the district. He is travelling by automobile. ' o Big Loganberry Yield. H. W. Bixby writes the Capital Journal as follows: "I see by your paper where J. N. Rhinehart has raised six and a quarter tons of loganberries on one acre, and a third. 1 can go him one better. Off one acre and a quarter I have picked 14,558 pounds, or a tittle over seven and a quarter tons. We have the receipts to show for it." SHORT SESSION HELD IN CIRCUIT COURT Judge KelleyRenders Decisions in Cases; One Divorce Is Granted. Judge P. R. Kelly yesterday held a short eaion in Department No. 1 of the circuit court and several matters were disposed of. Bessie Scott was granted a divorce from D."G. Scott. In the case of Safred Schicman vs. G. E. Bogart, appealed from Justice of the Peace Cruzon's court at Leb anon, a decree was rendered reversing the decision of the lower court. The uit involved the question of title to real property. Judge Kelly holding that the lower court had no jurisdic tion over this question. S. R. Stevensons, the Brownsville druggist, was fined $50 for violating the prohibition law, and the fine sus pended. Stevenson sold some alcohol to Dewey Farwell, who signed an af fidavit declaring that the alcohol was for mechanical purposes and stated that he was of age. The druggist had no reason to question his statements, believing them trde, and sold him the goods. When Farwell drank the li quor and became intoxicated his parents complained to the district at torney's office. There was no inten tion on the part of Judge Kelly or District Atty. Gale S. Hill to question the honesty of Stevenson, but the pro secution was made to test the validity of the new prohibition law with re-. ?ard to the sale of intoxicating li quors to minors, ine sentence va suspended as soon as it was pro nounced. - o AMERICA-MEXICAN COM. HOLD FIRST SESSION A Big Problem Is the Giving of Financial Aid to Mexico. (By United Press) New London. Sent. 7. Extensive financial aid to Mexico without sug vestimz benevolence is one of the main problems confronting the Am erican-Mexican commission. If Mex ico establishes a stable government the United States government plans to aid by floating a big loan here. The commission's second session will be held tomorrow. PROHIBITION CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT HERE SEPT. 16 WMI Speajt From Train at 9:15: Event Will Be Generally Advertised. Prof. Coe, of McMinnville College, was in the city .today in the interest of the tour of the presidential candi date of the prohibition party thru Ore gon. The party consisting of Ex-Governor J. Frank Hanly, nominee; Ira Landruth,- candidate for vice presi dent; Oliver W. Stewart, a former nominee for president, and Dan A. Poling. They will stop at Albany Sat urday morning. Sept. 16, at 9:15 a. m, when there will be speaking from the rear of the train for thirty minutes hv some members of the party, in cluding Gov. Hanly. The event will be specially advertised, and no doubt a hi.? crowd will be present to hear the distinguished prohibitionists. It is desired that the city be flecorateu in honor of the event. Eight Years at Harrisburg. Harrisburg, Sept. 6. Supt L. L. Gooding will begin his fifth year as superintendent of the Harrisburg school's, with the opening of the term September 18. Mr. Gooding was born in the Hoosier State, where he taught school for 16 years. He has been in Oregon eight years and had charge of the schools at Scio two years before coming to Harris burg. Mr. Gooding was married in Illinois and he is the head of a fam ily of five children. Since coming here he purchased a five-acre tract on the edge of the city, which he improved and where he has a very pleasant home. ALBANY PEOPLE L "Scratch'em Cowboys" Invade Queen City and Capture Visitors For Round-up. GOV. WITHYCOMB ATTENDS OPENING DAY EXERCISES Sehool Exhibit" Said to Do Credit to More Advanced Draftsmen. Scio, Or., Sept. 7. The second day of the Linn county fair started off with a rush this morning. Before 10 'o'clock hundreds of autos and other kinds of vehicles had reached the fair grounds and people were viewing the stock, implements, and other kinds of exhibits. ' This is Albany day and it certainly looks like all of Albany was here. Several auto loads of Albany people wearing "Scratch 'em Cowboy" hats, with banners on the cars advertising the Harvest Festival and Round Up arrived in the city early and proceed ed to make the Hub City's presence felt' As a result of the enthusiasm worked up here hundreds of people from these parts will attend the Round-Up when if is taged in Al- , any next month. Governor Withycombe, who at tended the fair yesterday, was much impressed by the exhibits of Linn county school children. Many remark ible displays of farm products were highly praised while the exhibit in the manual training department prov ed to be of great interest to yester day's visitors. At first viewing the .ables, chairs and oher articles of fur niture exhibited .bx;Aibanjrr and Scio school district could easily, pass for the work of a funiture manufacturing .-oncern. Heavy rains during the past week were responsible for the absence of a number of entries in the livestock ex hibits yesterday. Every department was represented in the stock .parade but today .and tomorrow more con testants are expected. Stock judging commences today with final awards to be made tomorrow.. " ...... Several fast horses are in the rac ing, stable to attend the three day program. Yesterday Sunny Jim own ed by Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Vancouver. Wash., won first money from a field of five in the 2:25 pace. The Scio half nile track holds the state record of 1 03 and in speed events scheduled for today and tomorrow many fast heats are looked for. , Tomorrow's judging will decide one of the most important contests of the t'air, the supremacy of the prize baby boy and baby girl of Linn county. Ag ricultural and industrial exhibits will also receive rewards. Chamberlain Amendment Killed. (By United Press) Washington, Sent." 7. The senate evenue bill conferees eliminated the Chamberlain amendment prohibiting the importation of Canadian salmon, and killed the Pelan amendment em powering the president to refuse in terstate communication to belligerents interfering with American mails. . Prof. E. L. Wilson, and mother, Mrs. Frances Wilson, left this morn ing for Scio to enjoy a day at the fair.' ALBANY MAN, HAS A . THREE LINK AGATE That the Odd Fellows are the old est lodge in the world is asserted by O. P. Allphin, of this city, who has the evidence to prove it. Recently Mr. Allphin found a stone on the banks Of the Willamette, which he cut and polished, revealing three links, well defined, with small ieces of moss representing the holes. It is one of the oddest of the many odd stones found along the river. Being thousands of years old it means that there were Odd Fellows that loni go. I