THURSDAY
MAYOR P. D.GILBERT
Delivers Warm Address to the
Council Condemning Slow
Methods in Vogue.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND CITY
COUNCIL DISCUSS "PIGS"
Public Dancing in Albany Also
Given Severe Grilling
by City Fathers.
"Our courts are a frost and I don't
think much of them," said Mayor Gil
bert, during a heated discussion on
the blind pig question at the regular
session of the city council last even
ing, which was begun when Council
man J. H. Simpson arose and said
that he had been informed ''that blind
pigs were on the increase in Albany
instead of on the decrease."
"The system here is rotten," said
Mayor Gilbert. "We arrest blind pig
gers, drag them into the municipal
court here, where they are convicted
without any trouble, the evidence be
ing plain and sufficient.
"The cases are then appealed to the
circuit court, where they are allowed
to be continually put off from one
time to another, until nnally enough
time !ias elapsed, to allow our evi
deuce to become worthless.
"It is no encouragement to the local
police to arrest the same man over
and over, bring him into the munici
pal court where he is convicted and
sentenced to a line and imprisonment,
and then have the case appealed lo
the circuit court, where it is shuffled
around and invariably continued, un
til rtually nothing more is heard of
it, or they arc turned loose.
"Thest slow and dilatory methods
of the courts are an injustice to the
city of Albany, and every 'blind-pig-ger1
should be tried at once. If they
are guilty, cinch them; if they are not
guilty, turn them loose.
"There are some men who have
been indicted five times and still noth
ing has been so far accomplished by
the courts in prosecuting them, which
is a gross injustice to the local police
and the officials of the city and de
mand immediate action on the part
of the people, if anything is to be
done toward putting a stop to the il
licit sale of intoxicating liquor in this
city."
Councilman Lyons stated that he
also condemned the methods of the
courts and said: "I believe that a
public protest should be sent the
court for its action in the matter."
Councilman Chambers stated "that
he had been told that large shipments
of liquor had been coming into Albany
on various occasions recently."
Councilman John H. Simpson, who
first broached the subject of increased
traffic in liquor here, said: "I have
been informed that the liquor traffic
is on the increase in this city, instead
of on the decrease, and I would like
to hear from the chief of police in
regard to the matter."
Chief of Police Daugiitry, who was
present at the meeting of the council,
arose and said: "Yes, there are plen
ty of 'blind pigs' in the city and as to
whether more liquor is being con
sumed here now than in the past, I
cannot say. However, 1 will say this.
I know where the 'blind pigs' are,
and 1 venture to say that if 1 raided
them I would find plenty of booze at
every one of them. But what is to
be done?
"If 1 raid the joints and confiscate
the booze I rind there, the 'boot-leggers'
start legal proceedings against
me, and I am then compelled to take
the booze back. I can only go as far
as the law allows me, and if any of
the councilmcn can suggest a plan by
which I can successfully operate, I
will be glad to hear it.
"Every bootlegger we have arrested
has been brought to trial in the mu
nicipal court and convicted, but they
immediately appeal to the circuit court
and it is then up to them."
Mayor Gilbert said: "There ought
to be some incentive for the city to
make a vigorous campaign against the
illicit liquor traffic, which could be
done with the co-operation of the
courts, but the present dilatory m -i'l-ods
now being pursued, only serve to
breed more 'blind-piggcrs.'"
Mayor Gilbert's address was heart
ily approved by every member of the
city council, all of whom were in
accord with the sentiments of the
chief executive.
Councilman Hulbert arose and ad
dressed the council concerning public
dances in this city, and said: "I have
been informed that public dances are
being held at Bussard's hall every
Saturday night and that liquor has
been used by sonic of those attend
ing. I was told that one man who
was at the dance Saturday evening
and had been drinking, later in the
evening nearly choked his wife into
insensibility."
F. E. Van Tassel, city recorder,
said: "A young man recently applied
for permission to run dances at iius
sard's hall and was told that he
would be violating the law if he did.
He consulted an attorney and was in
formed that club dances, properly con
ducted, would be pcrmissable, and I
understand that he has formed a bona
fide dailcing club. If any dances are
being run there, they arc supposed to
be club dances."
Councilman Chambers said: "As
far as that goes, a private dance is
to be conducted properly, and if the
HAZEL ERWIN SAYS SHE HAS
ALWAYS BEEN WAYWARD GIRL
Left Home Many Times and Was
in Chorus on Barbary Coast
in San Francisco.
Hazel Erwin, the woman arrested
in Salem and taken to Portland for
alleged complicity in the Wallace
murder case, told a story ot her early
life to the deputy district attorney in
Portland yesterday.
She said that she was the eldest of
the ten children of Lee Erwin, a farm
er residing near Thomas, about 12
miles east of Albany, and that she had
shown wayward tendencies from
babyhood and had ran away from
home many times.
At 17 years of age she left home and
went to San Francisco, where she
became a chorus girl on the Barbary
Coast, where she met William Tan
ner, a chauffeur, with whom she had
been living since February, although
she now admits they were nevermar
ried. After living togeher several months,
they lost their belongings in a tire and
last month they came to Albany and
went to Thomas where they visited
at the home of Hazel's father, where
they passed as man and wife. They
finally returned to Portland and were
living together when the murder was"
committed by Tanner in a lit of jeal
ous rage.
BRYAN FORCES RECORD VOTE
AGAINST SPECIAL PRIVILEGE
(Special to Evening Democra.)
Baltimore, June 28. Declaring that
the year 1912 is a crisis in the career
of the democratic party and that the
party of Jefferson and Jackson is op
posed to the' nomination of any can
didate who is under personal or politi
cal obligations to J. Pierpont Morgan,
Thomas F. Ryan or August Belmont,
William Jennings Bryan late last
night forced the passage of a resolu
tion which commks the democratic
party to a progressive candidate and a
progressive platform,
gressive platform.
In spite of the bitter opposition of
the conservative delegates, the reso
lution was passed by the convention
by a vote of 889 ayes to 196 noes.
Miss Ruth Fisher, daughter of Mr.
and Mis. H. G. Fisher, went to Mil
lersburg this morning where she will
visit friends for a few days.
MISFITS. I
Contributed by F. P. Nutting.
It looks somewhat like a red hot
fight between the east and west.
A Albany man remarked that he
had voted for Bryan for twenty years
and we have had good times all the
time.
Let everybody boost the Chautau
qua, whose assembly is Albany's red
letter annual event. The program
this year is not surpassed in the
Northwest.
All the children should buy Chau
tauqua tickets also. It is an edu
cator, as well as a place of amuse
ment. The Chautauqua spirit is worth $2.50
a ticket alone, without the entertain
ment, which is worth $5.50 at the low
est price, which is about half price.
Therefore the ticket buyer is getting
a veritable bargain.
Before buying any kind of stock put
it under a microscope.
It is mighty easy to get a thing we
want when we don't want it.
The start is a big thing in the
wor kof the day and in the doings of
life.
The Chautauqua is fortunate in se
curing Dr. Hinson, of the White Tem
ple, Portland, as the Bible instructor.
He is an able man, clean and conscien
tious, one who does not fly off on
every tangent.
The offense for carrying a revolver
should be so severe as to make man
scratch his head a dozen times be
fore doing it.
You are helping the world when you
help some one to be good.
After having the picnics rained on
Albany is certainly entitled to a good
day on the 4th. ,
Being chairman of the Chautauqua
grounds committee might be worse.
A great many little picnic parties are
held on the grounds, and the genial
chairman generally gets a hand-out.
The coming Chautauqua play
ground for children will have the
merit of being an entirely made-in-Albany
affair. Buy a ticket for your
children and let them attend this
modern place of amusement and in
struction. police suspect that they are not be
ing conducted properly, they have the
right to close them up."
The matter of dancing in this city
was discussed for some time by the
council, including several proposed
dances on July 4. and the mayor stat
ed that "there will be no public danc
ing in Albany on July 4 if I know
anything about it."
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GLM LEADS ON
HE FIRST BALLOT
Democratic Convention Holds
An All Night Session at .
Baltimore.
NEW YORK'S NINETY VOTES
GO TO GOVERNOR HARMON
All Candidates Receive Big
Demonstration When the
Speeches Are Made.
(Snccial to Evening Democra by
United Press.)
Baltimore, June 28. Following an
all night session of the Democratic
National convention in which the var
ious candidates were placed in nom
ination, the convention proceeded to
ballot on the selection of the' nom
inee this morning.
. On the first ballot the. result was as
follows: Champ Clark 4-40;$; Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson 324; Under
wood 117J4; Harmon 148; Marshall
31; Baldwin 22; Bryan 1, Sulzer 2;
not voting two.
The ten voes of the Oregon delega
tion were cast for Wilson. The eiirht
votes from Washington, ten frem
.Montana and eight from Idaho were
cast for Champ Clark.
Close political observers 'here are of
the opinion that the convention ficfit
will be long drawn out, with little
prospi-ct of selecting the nominee to
day. At 7:Z0 this morning the convention
adjourned until 4 p. m. at which time
another ballot will be taken.
A 11 o'clock last night Oscar Un
derwood of Alabama was placed in
nomination by Senator Uankhead and
at the conclusion of the nominating
speech the Underwood delegates
started a demonstration for their fa
vorite. Senator Reed was then recognized
by the chair and placed in nomination
Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri.
The mention of Speaker Clark's name
brought forth a tremendous ovation
which lasted sixty minutes.
Henry Wade Rogers of New Haven
took the platform and placed in nom
ination Governor Baldwin of Connec
ticut. The nomination of Governor Wood
row Wilson of New Jersey was the
signal for another wild demonstration
in favor of the New Jersey governor.
Marshall and Harmon were duly
placed in nomination and the conven
tion proceeded to ballot.
The vote by states:
Alabama Underwood 4.
Arizona Clark 6.
Arkansas Clark 18.
California' Clark 26.
Colorado Clark 12.
Connecticut Baldwin 14.
Delaware Wilson 6.
Florida Underwood 12.
Georgia Underwood 28.
Idaho Clark 8.
Illinois Clark 58.
Indiana Marshall 30.
Iowa Clark 26.
Kansas Clark 20.
Kentucky Clark 26.
Louisiana Clark 11, Wilson 9.
. Maine Clark 1, Underwood 2, Wil
son 9.
-Maryland Clark 16.
Massachusetts Clark 36.
Michigan Marshall 1, Harmon 7,
Wilson 10, Clark 12.
Minnesota Wilson 24.
Mississippi Underwood 20.
Missouri Clark 36.
Montana Clark 8.
Nebraska Clark 12, Harmon 4.
Nevada Clark 6.
New Hampshire Clark 8.
New Jersey Wilson 24, Clark 2,
Underwood 2.
New Mexico Clark 8.
New York Harmon 90.
North Carolina Wilson 6J4, Un
derwood 7Yi, Harmon J.
North Dakota Wilson 10.
Ohio Clark 1, Wilson 10, Harmon
35, Bryan 1, absent 1.
Oklahoma Clark 10, Wilson 10.
Oregon Wilson 10.
Pennsylvania Wilson 71, Harmon 5.
Tennessee Wilson 6, Clark 5, Un
derwood 6, Harmon 6.
Texas Wilson 40.
Utah Clark l'A. Wilson 6, Har
mon 'i.
Vermont Baldwin 8.
Virginia Wilson 9J4, Underwood
U'A.
Washington Clark 14.
West Virginia Clark 16.
Wisconsin Clark 6, Wilson 19, ab
sent 1.
Wyoming Clark 6.
Alaska Clark 4, Sulzer, of New
York, 2.
District of Columbia Clark 6.
Hawaii Clark 2, Underwood 1,
Wilson 3.
Poto Rico Clark 2, Wilson 3, Un
derwood 1.
Rhode Island Clark 10.
South Carolina Wilson 18.
Recess was declared until 4 o'clock
this afternoon.
Miss Anna Strom of the Democrat
office, has been seriously ill at her
home in this city for the past week.
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boar pigs, 2 years old. John Doy
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Dr. Lemon went to Mill City this
morning to look after his practice
there. He visits Albany once a week
and will bring his family down from
Mill City next trip to spend the
Fourth of July here.
JURY IN CASE OF OREGON
ELECTRIC VS. HYDE SECURED
Were Taken to Harrisburg to
View Premises of Defendant
Yesterday.
' Following the completion of the
case of Bacon vs. Lane county at the
circuit court in this city yesterday af
ternoon, a jury was empaneled to
he;ir the evidence in the action of Ore
gon Electric Railway vs. Francis M.
Hyde of Harrisburg. a suit brought
by the railway people to secure a
right-of-way through Hyde's farm
near Harrisburg.
The jury is composed of G. A.
Asche, Albany; G. W. Birtchett, Al
bany; W. A. Dibble, Lebanon: Sam
uel C. Hyder, Lacomb; C. H. Koontz,
Halsey; S. Livingstone, Albany; R.
A. McCulley, Halsey; James Nichols,
I'lainvicw; A. 11. l'arrish, Sodaville;
W. B. Thompson, Sweet Home;
Joseph N. Weddlc, Scio; and C. H.
Weider, Albany.
The entire jury was taken to Har
risburg yesterday afternoon by auto
mobile in charge of Bailiff W. H.
Warner of this city, where they in
spected the premises of the defendant,
returning home at midnight. The tak
ing of testimony was begun at 9
o'clock this morning and indications
were that the case would be given to
the jury some time this afternoon.
The case of Nellie McDaniels vs.
the Lebanon Lumber Company for
damages, which was to have been
tried next week, was continued until
the October term of court, with the
consent of both sides.
CAPTAIN FRANK C. STELLMACHER
WRITES ABOUT SPANISH WAR VETS
In view of the approaching en
campment of the Department of Ore
gon which convenes in Albany tomor
row, it may not be amiss to state a
few facts in regard to the order and
what the organization has accomp
lished and what the membership of
that organization stands for in a pub
lic and civil capacity in the state and
nation.
Shortly after the close of the Spanish-American
war and after the mus
ter out of the soldiers enlisted for that
war, there seemed to be a necessity
that those who had gone through the
trials of service in the tropics and in
other places where the authority of
the government determined they
could best be used. Form an organ
ization for their own mutual com
radeship and for the relief and bene
fit of those who might be in need and
in organization the better to promote
the interests of those who had been
enlisted during the days when the
country was face to face with the
actual need of more fighting men than
tne standing army ot the nation af
forded. The order has ideals and they cen
ter around the idea that there arc
greater opportunities for real serv
ice during the times of peace than in
the charge of troops on the battlefield
or in the trials of the long marches
or in the silent vigils of the night. The
soldier s work was not done when
he stacked arms. For instance those
who clung to the firing line or suf
fered in the fever camps of the trop
ics, the times arc richer for service
than when war's alarms shook the
Antilles or the Orient. Not only to
perpetuate the memories of service
days on land or sea, to keep eternally
fragrant the deeds of the heroic dead
and to give unsparingly of our sub
stance for the relief of ailing comrades
and their destitute dependents, the
United Spanish War Veterans areJ
consecrated as a brotherhood, but in
a larger measure and with higher pur
pose lo give to the nation in time of
peace the best treasure of the heart
and the ripest fruit of the brain in the
solution of the evcry-day problems ol
civil life.
Today a close inspection of what
the veterans of the Spanish-American
war arc doing will reveal that they
arc today occupying the foremost po
sitions in the work of bettering the
citizenship of the land and in endeav
oring to give to the rising generation
a keener appreciation of what patriot
ism is and how the country can best
be served in the quiet walks of every
day life. There arc sixteen veterans
in Congress serving the nation and
they have stood for the things that
will mean most to the rank and file
of the citizenship of the nation.
The real motto of the United
Spanish War Veterans' organization
is "to encourage honor and purity in
public affairs." v
In regard to war many are inclined
to the belief that the service of the
days of '98 and '02 were mere picnic
days and contained none of the hard
ships of service. This can easily be
dissipated when statistics' prove that
four hundred thousand of the youth
and manhood of the nation saw serv
ice in their fever-stricken camps of the
South, the islands of the tropical seas,
or in the Oriental archipelago. Al
most 100,090 followed the colors in
the Philippines. That conflict was
marked by 826 skirmishes and battles.
The mortality of all the campaigns
was 12,000 lives. For the first time in
history the American soldier fought
in the tropics and in the Orient.
The write rof the above is indebt
ed to an sir'icle written" by Past Com
mander Maurice Simmons of New
York for much of the information
contained in the above article.
o
Miss Eva Simpson of Chicago, who
is spending the summer in Albany
with relatives, went to Salem this af
ternoon to visit friends. Miss Simp
son is a daughter of Mrs. J. F. Simp
sun of Albany.
Owing to the rush of work to com
plete the Oregon. Electric to Albany
by July 4, the Shrincrs' excursion from
Albany will be run to Portland over
the Southern Pacific tomorrow morn
ing. About fifty-five members of the
local Shrine will go to Portland.
CONTRACT FORO.E.
TIS
A. C. Meyers of Portland Will
Build Passenger Station
At Fifth and Lyon.
CONSTRUCTION WORK WILL
BEGIN EARLY NEXT WEEK
Will Be of Red Pressed Brick
and Main Entrance Wil Be
on Fifth Street Side.
The contract for the construction
of the new passenger depot of the
Oregon Electric Railway company at
this city has been awarded to A. C.
Meyer, a building contractor of Port
land, at approximately $15,000, and ac
tual construction work on the new
structure will begin early next week,
by which time the excavation work
for the boiler room will probably be
completed by J. T. Wentworth & Son
of this city, who have had a crew of
men on the ground this week doing
that portion of the work.
The new passenger depot will be of
red pressed brick construction, of the
bungalow type of building, and it is
aid will be the best one on the com
pany's lines outside of Portland.
The new structure will 'occupy a
ground space of 112x30 feet and the
main entrance will front on Fifth
street. There will be two tloors open-
Ice Cream That Is
After you have tried the rest
try the best
Quality Brand
Made by the Klock Produce Company, of Albany
Sold retail at the following places:
Clover Leaf Milk Depot, 531 Lyon Street
T. F. Robinson Variety Store, 219 Lyon St.
Vienna Bakery and Confectionery Store,
124 Second Street
Alexander Confectionery, Main St., cast end
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Steel Wearing Plates for each clip
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Brass Boxes for Crank Shaft. Brass
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Others have only one and soma none
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Internal Gear. Crank shaft Is driven
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RATE OF ONE FARE WILL BE
GIVEN TO ALBANY ON OR, ELECTRIC
Manager Stewart of the Albany
Commercial Club received a dispatch
this morning from W. E. Coman. ecn-
eral passenger agent of the Hill lines,
to the effect that instead of the rate of
a fare and a third on their lines to Al
bany on July 4, one fare would be'
granted on all their lines to this city
on that day. This is greatly appre
ciated hy the people ot Albany and
111- rntirx W',11 t,.. v-.il..,, ,.,.1 .;n
bring a bigger crowd than ever to Al
bany. Duncan McKcrchcr. a former resi
dent of Albany, who has been spend
ing the past winter in AlvLso, Cali
fornia, arrived in Albany today and
will go to Crawfordsville tonight
where he will spend the summer with
his parents.
ing into the main waiting room and
the ticket office will be located in the
center of and at the front of the
building, between the two doors.
The baggage room will occupy a
space at the east end of the building
with a door opening upon the plat
form. Beneath the baggageroom in
the basement at the east end of the
building will bo located the furnace
and boiler room, which will contain all
the heating apparatus for the depot.
At the wcsKrn end of the building
on the Lyon street side will be located
a large private waiting room for la
dies, and the toilets wilt also be locat
ed in that portion of the1 building. Be
tween the ladies' waiting room and
the baggage room, the entire north
half of the building will be devoted
to one big waiting room for the gen
eral public.
The main floor of the depot will be
elevate dahout two feet above the
street level, sloping toward the plat
form. The contract states that the
structure must be completed on or be
fore October 1. H12.
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a clutch too for starting and stopping
the knife.
Ratchet Castings Separate from the
whocls. If one becomes worn out
or broken yon don't havo to replace
the wheel as you do In others. Re
duces your repair account.
Folded Cutter Bar. When on road
the Buckeye Cutter Bar is foldi'd ovor
tongue. No other as securely folded.
This feature may Suva an expensive
acoident.
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