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About Albany weekly democrat. (Albany, Linn County, Or.) 1912-1913 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1912)
A Multiplicity of Laws. Quality and not quantity should be the aim of the members' of the legislature in passing judg ment upo-n the merits of the vari ous bills which will be presented for their consideration at Salem. The average member labors un der the impression that his worth as a lawmaker is measured by the number of bills he presents for the consideration of his col leagues. This is a serious mis take. There is altogether too much legislation affecting a mul tiplicity of subjects. There are too many legislative, gnats in troduced by the average member, and too little attention is paid to the preparation of bills which arc calculated to be of some lasting benefit to the people of the entire state. The best lawmaker is not the man who secures the passage of the greatest number of bills but the one who secures the-defeat of the greatest number of vicious and frivolous laws. To repeal an existing law which has proved a dead letter on the statute books is the first duty which the lawmaker owes to his constitu ents. His second duty is to sup port only such legislation asis by himself a'nd his constituents deemed both necessary and ex pedient. s The Y. M. C. A: The Y. M. C. A. of Albany needs money. The newly acquir ed property of this organization must be financed and the officers and directors are looking to the business men for substantial as sistance. ' There is no organization which has done more genuine good among the younger generation than the Young Men's Christian Association. It has a field in every city and Albany needs the Y. M. C. A. as bad as the man agement now needs the support of local business men. S I LEBANON ITEMS. 1 Burleigh Dcnsmore, the 9-year-olil son of L. W. Dcnsmore, had his left hand and wrist badly bitten and torn last Sunday, while trying to separate to fighting dogs. Or. C. W. Ross dressed the wounds and lie is getting along nicely at tile present writing. Some spuds ill Tennessee this year. Well, 1 guess so. Roy Fitzwater heads the list with 6,6(10 bushels, (lie lilacklaw boys with 5,100, the McCor mick boys 2,600, Roy Evans 1,11(0, while some of the growers are still digging their crops. When you want to sec fine potatoes conic to Tennes see, tcclion. Grandma F. M. Snyder of this city cast her first ballot last Monday at the city election. Grandma Snyder will soon tie 94 years old and is prob ably the oldest woman voter in the suffragist and did not care much about voting but came to the pollis at the solicitation of her friends. J. 1 Wright has had a serious time the past few weeks wth an attack of blood poison resulting irom poison oak. Dr. J. P. Wallace came over from Albany yesterday to see his old fiiend 1''. Kcebler, who has had his scvuid stroke of paralysis. Mr. Keeb'er is getting sonic belter hut is still con fined to his bed most of the lime. Ml. Pickett, who lives iust south of the city, had a lively runiw.iy Mon day afternoon. Mis leatu st o-ted in fioni. of John Ray's blacksmith shop and ran. to C. II. Ralsion's corner, where they ran against an electric light pole, but little other damage was done. Telephone Co. No. 1 held a meet ing Wedne-day evening to consider ways and means oi remodeling and repairing the line. The Linn County Advocate has suspended publication tenipoiai ilv ow ing to sonic financial difficulties. Kx press. TANGENT NEWS Mrs. Irmily H. IVntecost ami bus bum, arrivi-d on Wednesday's train from Dayton, Wash., on n visit with bir brother, J. H. Scott who lives near bore, Homer Speer has moved his family to T.rit.eiit w here they will make their future- home. W. l Parker has moved on the Tisd.ili place where they expect to reiiK'in through the winter. W. I. Tisilale eaine up from Port land Saturday niht, and will move his family to Portland where they will make their home. Thomas Skelley has resigned his position as section foreman on the S. P. ami his place is now occupied by a man from Tali tot uia. Ah Humphrey has moved into the house lately vacated by I.. D. Sim ons. Mr. Chas. N. Pentieosi who arriv ed here a lew day a;o, made a short trip to Sutherliu, near Oakland, Ore gon, then left tor Walla Walla, Wash. I'annei s have been plowing and sowing their tall crops for the last two or three weeks They find the giound ttite wet but the yung grain may do laiily well il the winter is not too eold. There is much complaint that the field mice are destroying the grow ing crops; in many places the Hnunul is literally full of them. RK PORTER. DAD'S SUIT COST $20; THE SON'S COST $65 Court Says That Tailor Who Outfitted College Boy Cant Collect From Father. New York, Dec. 5. Sixty-five dol lars is too much for a college boy to pay for an overcoat when his fath er is wearing a $20 one. If the son does wear more expensive clothes than his father the father cannot be made to pay for them. This is th cgist of a decision hand ed down yesterday by Justice Hotch kiss when Arthur M. Rosenberg, a tailor of Middlcton, Conn., came into the supreme court to collect a $204 bill for clothes supplied to a Vesely an freshman. In 1909 John F. Bailey, sixteen-year-old son of Middlesex A. Bailey, teacher in the New York Training school for Teachers, at $3,500 a year, entered Wcslcyan. He had not been there lot iff when he walked into the best tailor 'shop in town, and this il what he ordered: One dress suit -.. $80 One overcoat . 65 One fancy vest .:. 14 One sack suit .'. 45 The boy did not pay, and Rosen berg wrote a letter to dad, inclosing the bill wit ha request for settlement. - Mr. Bailey sent back the following reply: "At the time my son, John F. Bai ley, purchased clothes of you he was receiving an allowance of fifty dol lar sa month. He thought he could save enough out of his allowance to pay the bill. He was evidently in sane. "I acknowledge )io responsibility whatever for this account. He need ed an overcoat and a dress suit. These I expected to purchase for him, the dress suit for thirty dollars and the overcoat at twenty dollars. The clothes that I expected to purchase were of the grade that I purchase for myself, and of the grade which is in harmony with his station in life." Justice Hotchkiss did not permit the case to go to the jury.- "This was no case of necessity, he said. "The father was willing and able to provide his son with the things he ought to have. The tailor (in advising the purchase of expensive goods), was inserting himself hit othe family cir cle and setting his judgment against that of the father.". FIRST GIRL IN THE FAMILY IN SEVENTY YEARS Chicago, Dec. 11. Janet ("Little Jane") has arrived to cast her sun shine in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baird -Willard, and there is much rejoicing because of the fact that she is the first girl born to the Willaru tanuly in seventy years. There have been scores of bovs. Janet, the "little queen,'' held court the other day and looked on the facet ot over 1UU male relatives, cousins, uncles, great-uncles and the two grandfathers. The Willard family made it a gala occasion. All brought ollerlugs. Scvera male relatives didn't know what to bring a girl and tonight Jan et's boudoir was piled high with sleds, drums, hobby horses and even one pair of skates. The men had bought all these tilings downtown without consulting their wives. HERMIT WOMAN DIES; BARBER GETS FORTUNE Aged Paralytic and Twelve Cats Asphyxiated in Her Dingy Home in Brooklyn. New York, Dec. 10. In a hovel she called home, scarcely fit for the cats that were her only companions, i s Octavio Frederich, 70 years old, 'reputed to be worth nearly a miliou dollars, was found dead. She had been burned and suffocat ed while cooking her Thanksgiving dinner. By her side were twelve Of Iter pets, dead. Eight others, stupe fied were found in another room of the second floor of Xo. 24-26 lloyt street, Brooklyn, where she had liv ed for half a century. All her money will go to Antonio Orekinto, a barber, who had a shop in the ramshackle old building, ami vlio hail for twelve years collected her rents and acted as her agent in all matters. Orakinto nave out a copy of a will which he said she had made on the -'nth of September last, leaving to him all her earthly pos sessions. These, if the will holds good include a jow of six houses in one of which she ilied, several lots ami almost three hundred thouamd dollars 'in cash and securities in the People's Trust Company, and the Brooklyn Saving's bank. A brother and siter, Alphonso and Entile Frederich, with whom she tpaarrelcd. it is said, twenty-live years ago. are living in San Diego. They, so far as the barber knows, are her only relatives and heirs to the estate which he claims umlr thlaoi-lullru which he claims under the will. Miss Frederich was paralyzed and had not been outside the rooms where she lived for vears. Trouble with the power on the main lino of t ho Oregon Flcctric railway iW-laycil train number 24 last night for a short time. The trouble occurred near Pirtle. I.elaml R. Gilbert, city editor of the Democrat, left this morning for Salem where he witnessed the lun in of four men at the OrcKon penitentiary. FIVE MENTODIEAT SALEM TOMORROW John M. Taylor and Noble Faul tier Will Die at 7:30 A.M. and Other Three at 11:30 A.M. TAYLOff MAY BE GRANTED STAY OF EXECUTION Efforts Being Made to Commute Sentences of Taylor and Faulder Now. Unless Governor West tonight commutes the death penalty imposed on John M. Taylor and Noble Faul der, 'who are sentenced to hang to morrow at the state penitentiary, five men will die on the gallows at the prison. There is a chance that Taylor may be granted a stay of execution while an appeal to the supreme court is taken but it is reasonably certain that at least three of the condemned men will die tomorrow Henry Roberts, Frank S, Garison, and Mike Morgan. Taylor and Faulder are scheduled to be hanged at 7:30 o'clock in the morning and the other three men at 11 o'clock. Noble Faulder and John M. Taylor are also sentenced to be executed on that day, but it is barely possible that at the last moment their sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment by Governor West. Extenuating cir cumstances are to be found in their cases, and an effort is being made to have their sentences commuted. H. E. Roberts, alias Jack Roberts, killed Donald Stewart and George Hastings in March of this year. Pri or to the murder he was incarcerated in the penitentiary at Walla Walla and at Salem. The two on the night of the murder were returning with three companions to Portland in an automobile from Oregon City and he sought to hold them up. When they refused to halt he fired into the party, killing Stewart and Hastings and wounding a third memher. Garrison has a long criminal rec ord behind him, graduating in crime when he murdered Roy Perkins at Marshficld in August, 1910. Perkins was his partner, and finding Garri son had stolen certain personal prop erty of his be went to Marshficld to have him arrested. Garrison follow ed him, killed him and then threw the body into the Coos river, where it was .discovered several months later. Af ter beinff arrested he confessed, but he repudiated the confession and stood trial. The jury found him guil tv of murder in the first decree. Mike Morgan killed John York at Grants Pass. York was a teamster and Morgan was in his employment lie knocked York senscles swith a club and then threw his body into the river, where it was found by some boys who were bathing. He was apprehended at Glendale, where he had sold some of York's personal property and had spent the money in drinking and carousing. He also contcsscd. John Tavlor was convicted of the murder of A. H. Perry in Harney county. Perry was a bully, and taking exceptions to some remarks made by Taylor, threatened to whip him. Tay lor warned him not to do so, saying he woukl kill him. He did not heed the warning and Taylor shot him. The bullet passed through the body of Perry and into that of one of Tay lor's friends, who also died afterwards from the wound sustained. Faulder killed Louis Gilbert in Klamath county. There is but little data available here with relation to this case, but it is understood that Gilbert had killed his dog and other wise imposed on him. Henry Frcerksen, a prominent farmer of Shcdds, arrived in Albany this morning and has been spending the day here doing his Christmas shopping. GOVERNOR WEST COMMUTES TAYLOR TO LIFE IMPRISEMENT Governor West this morning at 11 o'clock commuted the death sentence of John M. Taylor who was sentenced to be hanged at the state penitentiary tomorrow morning at 7:30 o'clock. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. A telegram to this effect was receiv ed here this afternoon by Attorney Mark Weatherford from J. K. Weath. erford who has been in eastern Ore gon since last Saturday in an endeav or to secure a writ of probable cause from the judge who tried the case at Burns last March when Taylor was sentenced to be hanged for the mur der of A. H. Perry, a laborer ,and Robert Settlemeicr, a horsetrader. An appeal will now be taken to the state supreme court in an endeavor to have the decision made at Burns reversed. The law firm of Weatherford and Weatherford of this city were retain ed several months ago by relatives of Taylor residing in San Louis Obispo, California, tosecuie an appeal of the C IX Ranch, the public stenograph e rand court reporter, whose offices have for several mouths been located in the First National Hank building, room 13, has moved his headquarters to the office of District Attorney dale S Hill, where his patrons will find him in the future. GIT! COUKCiL IT HERELASTEVElii Session Was Short and Nothing but Usual Business Was Transacted at Meeting. AMENDED SIGN ORDINANCE WAS LOST AT THIRD READING Matter of Location of City Hall and Cluster Lights Were Not Discussed. -sel ub J a p jo Day 'jjDqjiQ joKvyt sel, and Councilmeri Lyons, Chamb ers, Cameron, Simpson, and Hulbert attended the regular session of the city council which was held last eVen- ing. Councilman Snell was- absent, being confined to his home with a case of tonsilitis. After the councilmen had taken their seats last evening, the minutes of the last regular session and the ad journed session held last week were read and approved. 'I The committee on ordinances to whom was referred the matter of amending the plumbing ordinance reported and recommended that the ordinance be passed as read the first and second times. The re port was adopted and the ordinance read for the third time and passed.. The committee on ordinances also reported on the sign ordinance, rec ommending that it be passed as amended. The amendment to the sign ordinance makes the ordinance read to the effect that all signs must be ten feet above the sidewalk and allows them to swing no further into the street than ten feet from the building upon which they are placed: All signs must be of sheet metal and wooden and cloth signs are barred. When the ordinance as amended was read for the third time it failed to carry, Councilmen Chamb ers, Lyons and Simpson voting in favor of it and Councilmen Hulbert and Cameron against it. Councilman Snell being absent, the passage of the ordinance failed as his ote was necessary. Several crosswalks which were re ported to be in bad shape were re ferred to the committee on streets and public proprty with power to act. A mudhole at the foot of Thurston street which has been complained of was also referred to this committee for action. The report from the local firemen declaring Fred Hochspeier elected fire chief and Ed Horsky assistant chief, was read and placed on file. Resolutions calling for plans and specifications from the citv engineer for the paving of the alleys running through blocks 16, 17 and 13 and blocks 7, 8, 9, and 10 were read and adopted. Samuel C. Worrell and Dr. Kav anaugh were present at the meeting of the council last evening and ad dressed the council in regard to the grading of West Third street. The city attorney was instructed to bring suit against K. A. liamlord to com pel him to pay for grading work on this street which he has so tar refused to do. The matter of drying hose was discussed. Mr. Garman, a recent arrival in this city, addressed the council last evening and urged that some action be taken toward graveling Geary street in the vicinity of the Salem road in order to allow teams to reach the northeastern portion of the citv. Mr. Garman reported that the thor oughfare was practically impassable at present, i lie street superintendent was instructed to repair the street at one. The council adjourned. The matter of the location of the city hall which it was expected would he discussed last evenimr was not brought up and neither was the mat ter of a uniform system of cluster lighting for the business district. The next regular meeting of the council falls on Christmas night but it is thought that thet council will meet on that evening just long enough to adjourn until a later date. DEATH SENTENCE OF JOHN M. THIS MORNING AT 11 O'CLOCK ! case to the supreme court. I On last Saturday Attorney Mark Weatherford went to Salem where he ! presented a petition to Governor West ! showing a summary of the testimony in the case and explaining why Tay- lor should not have been sentenced to anything more than manslaughter at ine most, ine metnoa Dy which the local attorneys expect to reverse tne decision ot the lower court was also explained at that time. Judge J. K. Weatherford who went to Burns last Saturday was successful in securing a writ of probable cause from the court. The crime for which Taylor was sentenced to be hanged was commit ted last spring in Harney county and resulted from a quarrel among several men who got into an argument over some well drilling machinery. The action of Governor West in commuting Taylor's sentence to life imprisonment, leaves four men to be hanged at the state institution tomor row morning. S News on This Page is From Daily Issue of THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12. News on This Pap is 155 tS? CAN'T HO THE BABIES AND NURSE ART, TOO R. C. Ott, Fighting Alimony Plea Says Care of Children Keeps Him From $10,000 Salary. St. Louis, Dec. 11. Making a liv ing and playing nurse for his two children are tasks Ralph Chesley Ott, an artist, has. found it impossible to harmonize, he told Judge Hitchcock at the hearing of his wife's motion for alimony pending the trial of her divorce action. He said his attention to the chil dren has prevented him from put ting on the market paintings worth at least $2,000, and prevents his earn ing salary of $10,000 a year. After a marriage of three years, Ott's wife, Jane Schaufert, filed ac tion for divorce last August, making allegations which shattered the ro mance related by the couple at the time of their marriage that their love began 5,000 years ago in Egypt, when she was Princess Amneris, daughter of Khufu, one of the Pharaohs, and that she and her sweetheart had con ducted their courtship in the palace gardens until old Pharaoh interfered. Thousands of years later, the romance ran, the 'lovers were reincarnated she as Jane Schaufert and he as Ralph Olt. Owing to a misunderstanding Mrs. Ott did not appear in court, but she will give her testimony later. CHIEF OF POLICE AUSTIN FAVORS MICIPALROCKPILE Chief of Police Austin and Police- men Marshall and Rogers this morn ing escorted eleven vagrants to the depot where they were warned to leave the city. The hoboes scattered in all directions, some of them going north and some south. Chief of Police Austin is in favor of having the city secure a rockpile where these men could be placed at work crushing rock with a sledge hammer. He believes that this would keep the town free from this class of men, none of whom are very strong for hard labor. NEW TRAIN SCHEDULE GOES INTO EFFECT SUNDAY ON O.E. When the schedule of the Oregon Electric goes into -effect next Sun day there will be three local trains that will start each day from this city toward Portland besides the oth er five trains which run through from Portland to Eugene and Eugene to Portland. Local train No. 10 will be made up in Albany and will leave each morn ing for Portland at 7 o'clock sharp. Local train No. 16 which is also made up here will leave Albany for Port kind at 10:15 o'clock each morning. Local train No. 24 is also made up here and will leave Albany for Port land every afternoon at 4:45 o'clock. Following is the complete new schedule: Southbound No. 25 will leave at 6 a. m.; No. 1 leaves at 9:40 a. m.; No. 5 (limited) leaves at 11:10 a. m.; No. 9 leaves at 5:30 p. m.; and No. 13 (limited) at 7:30 p. m. Northbound No. 2 leaves Albany at 2 a. m.; No. 10 leaves at 7 a. m.; No. 14 leaves at 9 a. m. (limited): No. 16 leaves at 10:15 a. m.; No. 18 caves at 1 p. m.; No. 20 (limited) leaves at 3 p. m.: No. 24 leaves at 4:45 p .m.; and No. 26 leaves at 7:55 p. m. Today is probably the only time in history that the day of the month, the month, and the year are the same 12-12-12 or will ever be the same again. W" A'. s,oon' a prominent lumber man of Philomath was registered at the Revere hotel in this city yester day afternoon while thansacting busi ness here. Executors Notice of Hearing of Final is hereby given that the fin al account of J. H. Keelv and C. VV Kelly as executors of the last will and testament of A. B. Kelly, deceased, has been filed in the County Court Court of Linn Countv. Kt.n. nt n- gon, and that Mondav the 16th day of December, 1912, at the hour of one o clock p. m. has been duly appointed by such court for the hearing of ob- jciuuus iu sucn nnai account and the settlement thereof, at which time any person interested in such estate may appear and file objections thereto in writing and contest the same J. H. KELLY, C. W. KELLY, C. C. BRYANT, Executors. Attorney. First publication Nov. 15, 1912 last December 13, 1912. (Nov. 15-Dec. 13.) EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned lias been appointed by the county court of Linn Countv. Orenon executrix ot the last will and testa ment and estate of Rose E. Young, urtc.iscu. ,-vn persons naving claims against sain estate are hereby requir ed to present the same to the under signed at trie otfice ot L. L. Swan First National Bank Building. Albany Oregon, duly verified and with proper vouchers as by law reauired. within six months from the date of this no tice. Dated this 22nd day of Novem ber, 1912. INA XI. THOMAS. L. L. Swan, Executrix. Attorney for Executrix. (Nov. 22-Dec. 20.) 110F SEEING FUNDS TO START Whirlwind Campaignto Secure Subscriptions for the Local Y. M. C. A. Tomorrow. TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS IS SUM WANTEDTO START WORK City Will Be Thoroughly Cover ed By the Committees; All Are Asked to Donate. Tomorrow morning bright and early, the committee having in charge the whirlwind campaign for funds for the new Y. M. C. A. at this city, will begin their work in Albany and for the next week will thoroughly cover the city in an endeavor to se cure the sum of $2,000 immediately for use in taking over the property of the Alcc CIub, in renovating the rooms, and in guaranteeing the ex penses of the association for the coming year. The board of directors and the bus iness men who have volunteered to assist in the work of raising funds will meet this evening at 8 o'clock at the new Presbyterian church at the corner of Fifth and Broadalbin streets where the plans will be made for the J campaign tomorrow. Every public-spirited citizen of Al bany is urged to have his donation ready when the committee calls to morrow in order that no delay will be experienced in securing the amount of money necessary to start the work off right. Albany wants to have as strong an association as any other city in the state outside of the metropolis and to attain this end it will be neces sary that the residents of this city re spond liberally to the call for funds and help the officers of the associa tion give the enterprise the start necessary for its future success. Mr. Delos Foster of Kellogg, Ida- ho, who recently accepted the posi tion as general secretary of the local association, is expected to arrive in Albany within the next week or so to begin his work here and the peo ple of this city who are interested in the organization of a live association here are extremely anxious that every thing be in readiness for the begin ning of active work shortly after the first of the year. All contributions of any size will be appreciated by the soliciting com mittee and of course, the bigger they are the more they will be appreciated. The subscriptions will be payable in quarterly installments, beginning January 1st, 1913. Subscribers of the Democrat are urged to read every ad in the paper. The merchants in all branches of business are now making great slash es in their prices and by consulting the advertisements in this paper one may secure a good idea of where to purchase Christmas presents at the best advantage. A. C. Crawford of Siletz was in the city yesterday afternoon on business and while here was stopping at the Revere hotel. Linn County Pomona Grange will meet on Thursday, December 19th, with Grand Prairie Grange. Election of officers will be held and several important matters to come before the next legislature will be discussed. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned administrator of the estate of Hiram H. Dirr. deceased, has fijed with the county clerk of Linn county, Oregon, his final account in said es tate matter, and the Judge of said County Court has fixed the 28th day of December, 1912, at the hour of one o clock p. m. as the time for hearing objections to said account, if any there be. arid for the settlement of said estate. O. F. DIRR, Administrator of the Estate of Hiram H. Dirr. Deceased. WEATHERFORD & WEATHER FORD, Attys. for Admr. N29D27 ADMINISTRATRIX. NOTICE. Notice is hcucby given that the un dersigned administratrix of the estate of Charles Kicfer. deceased, has filed with the County Clerk of Linn Coun ty, Oregon, her final account in the matter of said estat.e and the County Court has appointed Monday, the 13th day of January, 1913, at the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the County Court room, in the Court House in the City of Al bany, Oregon, as the time and place for hearing objections to said final ac count, if any there be, and for the final settlement of said estate. Dated this 10th dav of December, 1912 MARGAREf KIEFER, L. M CL'RL, Administratrix. Atty for Admrx. D13-J10 o - NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE . MENT. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned, administratrix of the estate of Mary F. Rhoades, deceased, has tiled her final account in the matter of said estate with the County Clerk ot Linn county. Oregon, and the County Court of said countv has fixed Saturday, December 28th. 1912, at 10 oclock a. m. as the time for hearing objections to said final account and tor the final settlement of said estate. 1912 5 29111 day of November, T 1 ST1Tp'LLIE h "VERS. j. 31 1 its. Administratrix. Atty. for Administratrix. N29D27"