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VOL XXXII
HOUSE IS TOLD
BYESCHTHAT
RAILROADS COST
636 MILLIONS
Statement Made to Legislat
ors by Member of the Inter
state Commerce Commit
tee. GOVERNMENT UPHELD
Each Declares That Troops
in France Would Have
Been Unxupplied Without
Federal Control of Roads.
WASHINGTON. KeK. Jl By
Associated Preaa Ttw t'altrd
Ststea Railroad adalaUtralloa
Unites place the not coat la
the governaet af the federal
control af Iba railroads at
million dollars.
Thia la lha statement mail Unlay
by Chairman Kch of the Interstate
Commerce committee to tha houaa.
Each aaid that thia amount would
hava to ba charged off to war loaa. Ho
atalad that It waa expensive but that
it waa wall worth it.
Each told lha committaa thai with
out government control of the railroads
during tha war it would hava been im
possible to hava secured tha necessary
transportation for tha American army
overseas.
Action Espeeled Soon
WASHINGTON. Kb. 81 By A. P.
It waa learned today that Presi
dential action on the oil leasing land
bill had been delayed due to tha desire
to obtain opinions from John Barton
Payne, soon to beconio secretary of
the interior and also from Secretary
of the Navy Joaephns Daniels.
The president is expected to take
action on the bill aometime before
midnight Wednesday at which time
the act would automatically become a
law.
' New Classified
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FOR SALE Ford touring ear, first
class C'jr.u'Itiu. l.Jn 8,000 miles.
Has Freatone demountable rims,
lira carrler,speedumcter, tool box,
three new tires and 1120 license.
Pries 1500. Terms if desired. Cnll
J. S. McFarland, Tangent, Ore.,
Phone 604 Rt 4. HKf
READY TO SPRAY Tha aeason Is
now open to spray trees and all
classes of ahrubery. Call W. F.'
Gouctt, Phone 723 J. f21
FOR SALE 110 Egg, Porter Soft
Heat Incubator, aa good aa new.
Price flO.OO, at ilatelwood Cream
station, 128 W. 2nd St. Kl
FOR SALE Boy'a No. 6, $10 shoes
12 Inches In height, for $4.00. Good
aa new. Burns Shoe Dr. f21
WANTED TO BUY Highest prices
paid for Oregon Fir Pitch any
quantity. For full Information,
write Northwestern Turpentine Co.
1212Gasco Bldg., Portland, Oro.
. . . 21f24
FOR SALE Can supply you with
good dry wood. Big fir limba. Call
C. P. Peabler, Phone 875. 21f24
FOR SALE 10 mixed hens, fat and
laying, $1.50 each. Call 63F21.
FOR BALE 5-room plastered house
with bath and basement. Lot 6flx
110, with street pavement paid. 7
bearing fruit trees, range, heater, 6
cords of wood in basement, laundry
tuba, and linoleum on floora. Price
$3,000, $600 down, balance $25 per
month. Located at 326 West 7th
. St. Beam Land Company, 133 Lyon
8treet 21f2"
FOR SALE-i-Three cows; ono woi
horse j Harry' MacHugh, Santium
road. 21f24
WANTED Girl to work on farm dur
ing summer, will pay good wagee,
write Mrs. J. D. Clumbers, Rt 0.
21f24
FOR SALE 3llt edge farm securi
ties. Interest 6 par cent, : ' .ale
semi-annually. Amount? $1' . or
' more, Phone 74, Barney Heiker, 108
W. 2nd St., Albany, Ore.
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itl day hava reported 14 new W,
I) rases of Influents. There are Ik:
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ALBANY TOSSERS
ARE VICTORS IN
GAME AT SALEM
Ical Tossers Claim Champ
ionship of Willamette
Valley
By tha slight margin of two points,
in one of the bitterest struggles of the
year, the Albany high school banket
ball U-am wrested a victory t'rum the
Salem team last evening and establish
ed their claim aa champions of the
Willamette valley and Southern Ore
gon. The Anal score waa 10 to 14, the
last two and deciding points fur Al-
, bany being made in the fourth quart
er. Handicapped by being away from
home and being in the minority as far;
aa gallery iuppurt was concerned the
Albany team gave a superb exhibition
of pluck and gaminess.
"Bud" Moore was the bright par
ticular star for Albany and A. Gill
had tha stellar role fur the Salem'
boys. Kxcellrnt team work of the
capitol city boys had a great deal to
do with the evenesa of the score. The (
advantage however was offset by lha
flghting determination that pervaded'
Albany'a quintet. I
Tha first half ended with the score, I
Albany 7 and Salem 4. The third'
; quarter tha game was tie 12 to 12. The
1 points were mostly mad throus. lout
( the game by long and difficult shots.
ine Aloany team win piay ri: re
next Friday night.
COUNTY TREASURER
ISSUES STATEMENT
OF FUNDS FOR YEAR Sacramento waa found not guilty to-
day of murdering Miss Jean Kimball,
Linn county had $105,43.67 on de- hotel cashier on Market street on No
posit to Its credit on Jsn. 1, 1920, ac-' yember 4 last,
cording to the report issued Friday i
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vj pi isb vnurv ruwvii, nium; vir
arer. The audit waa performed by
F. M. Red field, who haa done thia work
for Linn county for a number of
years.
Distribution of the funds at hand
are aa follows:
- 1!20 1919
General fund ..$ 1.433.00 $ 3,801.88
Gen. Road fund.
. 23,635.04 U04.87
Road Dia. fund . .
Special road dis
trict fund ....
2.202.25 4.C38.11
15,437.58
12.00
1.344.79
Co. school fund 622.56
School dial, fund 8,876.115
Union high school
fund 275.08
Common school
fund 694.69
Cities fund .... 1,301.72
Trust fund 3,958.26
School fair fund 63.53
Linn Co. fair fund 176 11
Indemnity funds 808.29
Institute funds . . 173.99
Ground squirrel or
rodent fund .. 200.00
Bonded road
fund 50.C44.74
1,989.57
Totals ....$105,403.67 $21,843
The amount on hand Janu
uary 1, 1919, $21,843.05,
plua the amount of re
ceipts fur the year,
total $884,028.11
Disbursements 778,624.64
,
"'nce $105,403.64
B. P. O. E. EXCURSION
STARTED FOR NEW
PORT AT 11:45 TODAY
The B. P. 0. E. Number 359 ex
cursion pulled out of this city today
on achedule time at 11:46 bound fur
Newport with about one hundred Al
bany elka on board and a good aixe
delegation from Lebanon. At Cor
vsllls a large number were to join the
poacssion which is to reach Newport
in due time for the "Deep Sea Feed"
thia evening. They were accompan
ied by an eighteen piece band which
is to play a prominent part from start
to finish.
LINN COUNTY, OREGON,
WARNING ISSUED
AGAINST OLIVES
SHIPPED FROM
CHICAGO HOUSE
State Food and Dairy Com
missioner Traces Poison
ing to Shipment of Pimen
to Olives.
SHIPMENTS RECALLED'DROPS HIS TITLE
Brands are Batavia, Ferndell'
and Richelieu, California!
Product; Sent to 53 Towns
in Eight States.
dsted Pre The Stste Superin
tendent of Foods and Dairies has
Issued a warning that poisoned
stuffed olives had been shipped
by a ahulesale house in Chicago
to dealers in 52 towns Over an
area of eight slates.
The olives are a "plminto olive" put
up In bottlea. The salesmen have been
Instructed to have the olives with
drawn from the market
Thia ia the first time that the bacil
lua botulinus has been found in stuff
ed olives. There are three brands in
volved, all from California. These are
the Batava, Ferndell and Richelieu
brands. They were packed in 1918.
A thousand bottlea were sold without
any report of poisoning. The first
caae was brought to the attention of
tha authoritiea recently.
Writer to Appeal
OAKLAND, Feb. 21 By A. P.
Miss Anita Whitney, lecturer, writer
and convicted of criminal symlical
isb here, haa announced that she will
take an appeal from the decision of
the lawer court. She faces a sentence
of from I to 14 years. ,
Woman Acquitted
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 21 By A.
P Ur. I.,li Ull.l-I Thuntnn nf
AUDITOR SENJOY
MILLS LECTURE
n:::..t.l c 1,
can.c. a
Real Treat to Small
Gathering
The handful of persons who braved
326.21) '"c "fl" ""d nttrnded the lecture
, give,, at the public library Inst even
662.76 '"If ly Major Thornton Mills under
2,918.25 ,n0 auspices of the Albany Chamber
3 677.50 f Commerce wm- well repaid for
I their venture.
254.84 Seldom has so charming n spcuK
774.92 er portrayed such simple and furda
88.36 mental truths as were convincingly
utlered bv tHe distinguish. d spci'K
er from Portland last evening. Ma
jor Mjtls clothed a messnco of (rood
cheer and optimistic promise In wn-
, tences punctuated with humor and ra
.05 dialing buoyant hope.
The substance of his thought wns
that a person should perform h is
daily tasks with his whole heart arid
soul and with a smile 0 his lips. He
described the spirit that moved men
l0 do, the least possible In the long-
.est space of time. Unselfish loyalty i
,.., mpoyer he declared brought
its own reward.
Astack the humdrum tasks of daily
life with a gri was a motto which
he staled would serve to litrMcn the
I burden of anyone's duties. The sh!r
jkrr and the man was continually want
ing to no less anu get more were
responsible he said for the precarious
conditions that exist in the world to
day. Admiral Recalled
PARIS, Feb. 21 By Associated
Press Rear Admiral Philip An
drews, comander of the American
warships in the Adriatic has been re
called because of disorders which oc
curred at Spalato, Rome dispatch
aaya today.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
SON-IN-LAW OF
SWIFT DENIES
ACCUSATIONS OF
FRENCH PREMIER
Count Minotto Says State
ment Made by Caillaux is
"Old Stuff" and That he
has "Heard it Before".
Since Release From Fort
Oglethorpe After Armistice
Titled Austrian Becomes
Mister and Goes to Work.
CHICAGO, Feb. 21 By Associated
Press James Minotto, son-in-law of
Louis F. Swift, declined to discuss the
statement of former premier Joseph
Caillaux on trial in Paria for trea
son, that he Minatto, waa the G.-rman
spy who duped him when Caillaux vis
ited South America in 1915.
That'e an old story, there is noth
ing to it," said Minotto today.
Since his release from Fort Oarle-
thrope, where he was interned by the1
government during the war, Minotto'
haa dropped the title of count. He is
at present employed in the office of
a Chicago exporting firm.
Minotto obtained a good deal of
notoriety during the war because of
his alleged pro-german tendencies. He
was arrested by government operat
ives after United States entered the
war and after a hearing interned for
the balance of the war.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 By As
sociated Pres Mexican federal au
thorities have located bandits who
kidnapped Joseph E. Askew. Ameri
can cilixen. in state of Durance, Feb.,
second, and troops in pursuit in hope
of affecting release.
Bond Given
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 By Asso
ciated Press A bond haa been given
by William Randolph Hearst In the
injunction proceedings regarding the
sale of the former German liners. It
is said to have been $10,000.
BANQUETTAKES
PLACE TONIGHT
Endeavorers Will Assemble
for Feast at Presby
terian Church
Educational banquet for the dele
gates of the Christian Endeavor con
vention will take place at six o'clock
this evening in the basement of the
First Presbyterian church. A similar
event for the intermediates will also
take place at the Baptist church
Tickets have been sold to over 400
people.
At the conclusion of the dinners
the services for the evening will com
mence at the Presbyterian church. De
grees received for study in the Ore
gon Christian Endeavor college will
be conferred by Walter Myers. An
address on loyalty will be made by
Paul Brown. Dr. Lapsley McAfee
will deliver the closing watch in the
convention auditorium.
An auspicious opening marked the
initial session of the 1920 convention
of Friday evening. Delegations from
various Western counties arrived on
special cars and were present for the
address of Dr. McAfee at the Presby
terian church.
' In his address Friday evening. Dr.
McAfee dilated upon the value of do
ing one's uttermost no matter what
the task. He referred to the men who
were in the service and gave their
uttermost while in France. He stat
ed that God'a love was unmeasured
and that salvation would be given to
the uttermost according to our meas
ure of sacrifice.
The largest delegation to arrive
came on special car from Portland
and were 87 in number. Lane county
delegation, 60 strong arrived In the
afternoon and marched to the United
Presbyterian church where they reg
istered. They were led by Ted Good
win, their song-leader.
(Continued on Page Four)
21. 1920
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MADRID, Feb. 21 By A.
P. The entire cabinet ia re
ported to hava resigned and
their resignations hava been
accepted by King Alphonao,
due to their inability to get
sufficient support to pass ap
propriations increasing tha
railroad rates.
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JUROR'S ILLNESS
AT MURDER TRIAL
SAID TO BE "FLU"
Case Postponed Until Tues
day Pending Kis -Recovery
M0NTESANO, Feb. 21 By Asso
ciated Press The fourth week of the
armistice day murder trials ended
here today. The postponment occas
ioned yesterday by the illness of Ed
ward Psrr, one of the jurors has been
continued until Tuesday.
Parr waa considerably improved to
day but Judtre Wilson decided that it
was unsafe to bring him into court.
His trouble has been diagnosed as in-
fluc nia. It is expected that he may
be well enough to continue Tuesday,
alter the holiday on Washington's
birthday.
Defendant Loren Roberts, one of
the 10 alleged L W. W, on trial has
entered his plea of insanity and with
the resumption of the case allienista
will testify for the defense concern
ing his condition.
Vandeveer will pin all his efforts
toward substantiating thia plea in or
der to destroy the effect ot the con
fession which Roberts made previous
to his trial. Roberts confesaion was
read to the jury during the case mack
by the state.
ARCHIE E. WILKINSON
CALLED BY DEATH"
AT PARENTS HOME
Archie Edward Wilkinson, 16-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkin
son, passed away this afternoon at the
family home 2 1-2 miles southeast of
Albany, following an illness of a
week.
The youth was attending school at
No. 10 grange hall when he became
ill. He was popular with large circle
of friends, attended the Sunday school
of the Grace Presbyterian church in
Albany. He',bi survived by his parents
who are prominent Oregon pioneers,
and two brothers, and three sisters,
all of whom are attending school.
Funeral arrangements had not been
made late this afternoon, but will be
announced later.
MANY TRANSFERS
OF REAL, ESTATE
OCCUR IN 1919
The past ye:ir has been marked by an
exceptionally large . number of real
estate transfers in Linn county ac
cording to the annual report of Miss
Velma G. Davis, county recorder.
Fees for the past year arc consider
:bly larger thnn those for 1918.
Sale of 2250 acres of timber lind
near Cascadia last week for a con
sideration of approximately $70,000 is
one of the few brer tnnrirKm.
corded lately. The land sold by Bird
rose to u. f. Diteman of Portland.
Receipts for the
book during the past year amounted
to $3776.55 from the land till.
book $80.75, was received making a
total of $3856.30.
AVIATOR MAKES '
NEW SPEED RECORD
SEATTLE. Feb. 21 Bv Associated
Press Major A. J. Smith, army avi
ator who arrived yesterday from San
Diego, plana to return Tuesday. He
made 186 miles from Portland to Seat
tle In one hour and twenty minutes.
Thia is said to be record.
Hlnes laauea Statement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 By Asso
ciated Press Director General Hinea
has assured the railroad labor organi
zations that the return of the railroads
March 1 would not affect the negotia
tions now pending as to the Interpre
tations or tne various wage agree
ments made during the federal control.
No. 248
AGED FATHER
ASKS COURT TO
FORCE SONS TO
SUPPORT HIM
William Bussard, Aged 89,
Appears Before Judge
Bilyeu and Tells Pitiful
Tale of Neglect.
SONS
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DISPUTS
Claim to Have Furnished
Parent with Necessaries;
Three Children out of
Eight Appear.
Support of William Bussard, aged
89 years, waa the question at issos)
in the caae that waa heard today be
fore the county court of Linn county.
Martin Bussard and Dorey Bussard
of thia city and M. L. Bussard of
Oregon city, sons of the complaining
witness appeared in response to tha
citation aent out by Judge Bilyeu.
The aged father upon examination
by District Attorney Gale Hill testi
fied that although he had eight sons
and daughters living he waa at the
present time being compelled to turn
to the county for charity.
He narrated the story of his exist
ence for the past four years since be
has been living in Albany, under the
questioning of Hill. He stated that
for the past two years he had subsist
ed principally upon a diet of beans,
potatoes and cracklings. He said that
an estimate of the cost of hia meals
for this period amounted to about 9
' cents a day or 3 cents a meal.
In response to a query from Hill
concerning hia clothes Bussard said
that the pair of trousers and shirt he
had on were the first given to him by
his sons in four years. He averred
that he picked Bp moat of his clothes)
from a rubbish box located outside of
a factory near hia dwelling at 128
West Water street He said that a
piece of cloth which be took from the
lining of the box and washed, he gave
to his son Dorey over a year ago to
have made into a shirt.
"I never saw it again, from that day
to this.," added Bussard. ,
Asked by Hill if it waa not a fact
that he had refused on one occasion to
let his son come into his house Bus
sard answered in the affirmative and
said: When Martin came to me, coax
ing me to go to the county poor farm,
. I ordered him from the house and if
I had been strong enough I would have
thrown him out."
A neighbor who lives in the same
house with Bussard corroborated all
the aged man's statements and said
that on many occasions he had found
t'.ie old man without food, wood, cloth
ing, medicine and living in a state of
hopeless filth.
He stated that he had furnished
. Bussard with food, clothing and fuel
many times during the two years that
he had known him.
Martin Bussard told the court that
he had done everything in his powe
to take care of his father during h
stay here and for the last forty ye?;
He produced bills for groceries w
he had paid for his father at vat
times during the last four yeary
contradicted his father's char '
' neglect
He contended that he had d.
of the contributing to the c"
support and that the negT
from the other brothers.. .
Dorey Bussard disputed
tion hnd alleged that he Ir
ed his quota toward c.
father. He said that
buying food for a lar
father kept and whie
more than four timi
senior consumed, i
M. L. Bussard pr
he had contributed
years and a quan
accused his fatK
auppliea and g i
had plenty. H '
had to work t4
fortunate enor
to support hi
Schools Hi
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