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PAGE FOUR THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS MONDAY, JANUARY IB, 1017. WOMENRUN TOWN They Hold All the Offices In Uma tilla, Ore. REFUSES' FORYuTTSTEfY I BY HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW TOOK CHARGE FIRST OF YEAR. Executed Campaign Coup Which Lift Men Gasping EltcUd Mayer, Four Members of Council, Recorder and Treaturor -All New Officials Are Married Promise Many Reforms. Kansas City.-Woman lias coma Into her own In Umatilla, Ore., says tho Kansas City Times. Umatilla now has a woman mayor, four councllwouicn. a woman recorder anil n woman treas urer. Tliey went Into olUce Jnn. 1. The only thing left for the men Is the offlco of town marshal, anil he or sho Is appointed by the mayor. The men aro hoping for the best. A campaign coup which has left the men gasping swept the women Into office It was not until 2 o'clock the afternoon of election day that the men realized the women had a ticket In the field. Down at the town hall, where the destinies of Umatilla arc shaped, the politicians laughed at the "rumor." It was n Joke, Tho smllos vanished when the ballots were counted, and Former Diplomat Prefers That Money Should Go to His Wife. New York. Charles II. Shcrrlll, mln. Ister to Argentina when Mr. Taft was president and organUer of tho great prepnmlness parade here, has refused to nccept f 100,000 bequeathed to him by his mother'nluw, Mrs. Sarah Bar ker Olbbs, w illed last May, leaving fcHH.TI'O to Mrs. Shcrrlll. His decllna. tlon became known when announce ment was made from the stato comp troller's otllce that an otllcinl appraisal had placed the net estate at fSS3,W0. Mr. Shcrrlll told n reporter over tho telephone from his home In Sixty-tlfth street that while ho was deeply moved by the bequest he preferred that It ) should go to the residuary estate and become part of his wife's share. Tho former diplomat seemed to feel that It was n thing of no consequence to look $100,000 In tho fnco or faces and then turn n cold shoulder. "It really wouldn't Interest any body," ho said of his refusal. "I don't like to discuss It: It's rather too per sonal for discussion. I simply felt that I'd rather hare the sum go Into the residuary estate and revert to Mrs. Shcrrlll." Officer Appeals For Parents' Aid Urges. That Elders Take, Youngsters In Hand Beforo Court' It ' Forced To Do 8o tho men still ore wondering just how "happened. AN TRANSIT I INFS IN The women won't tell. They won't ! eay whether It was "framed" at some j EewiDg circle, uriuge ciuu or cuurcu social. All they will say Is: "Now we're gulng to show the men what a strictly business and econom ical administration really Is." E. E. Starcher, who was running for re-election to the mayor's office, was defeated by his wife by twenty-eight Totes. All efforts to interview Mrs. Starcher have failed. However, after a conference in the kitchen Mrs. Star cher came to the door and gave out this statement: "As yet the women have nothing to say as to their future policy or as to why they desired control, but from the best Information we are able to obtain they were dissatisfied with the past administration, claiming inefficiency . and a general lack of business ability so for as the running of the city was concerned." Umatilla is a railroad town. All morning election day the women re 'mained nt home, busy with their dally 'duties. In the afternoon they put on their bonnets and begau a whirlwind campaign. They met the trainmen in the yards ns they came in from their various runs, buttonholed them and carried them off to the polls. Despite the fact that Mr. Starcher is chief dis , patcber at that place, be did not swing t the labor vote. . . All of the officers are married. Out of a possible 200 votes 174 were cast The defeat was decisive. HEW YORK GREATLY TAXED City Traffic Increasing at Rate of More Than 100,000,000 Annually. " GETS LICENSE ON CREDIT. Has the Time, the Place, the Girl, but No' Money. liacon, Ga. Simon Cox had the nerve and the girl, but not the money to pet married on. Cox took his troubles to Attorney Hu bert F. Rawls, who stood him in good stead In city court a few months hack, and Rawls agreed to stand good for the marriage accuse. Together Cox and the attorney went to the ordinary's office, and after ex plaining things Rawls got a license for Cox and Miss Ella Hardy of East Ma- CQll. 'Til pay you in a few days," Cox told the ordinary as he walked out of the office with the license in his hand. TRAIN ROBS HOLDUP MEN. Mail Carrier Beaten by Thieves When , Hook Snatches Letter Bag. New York. Alfred Lorenzo, a Yon kers mall carrier, notitled the police that n pouch filled with registered mat ter had been saved from two thieves by the projecting hook on the mall car of an exprefs train used to take mall tags on the fly. which grabbed it from Jils hands as the train flew past at .forty-five miles an hour. Lorenzo was at the depot putting the pouch In position on a small crane for the train to take It. Two thieves beat the mall carrier on the head, ne held the pouch tightly far above his bead. Presently the trdln came along, saved the situation, and the robbers fled. New York. In November the subway carried an average of 1,109,023 pnssen gers a day and the "L" 1.0H.SS3, a to tal of 2,214,500, nccordiug to a state ment issued by the Interborough Rapid Transit company. Public Service Commissioner Whit ney estimates that city traffic Is In creasing at the rate of more than 100.000,000 annually. More than 325 miles additional of subway and ele vated lines are being built. In 1S72 a total of 13S.722.10C passen gers were carried, or 147 rides during the year for each persou In the city. In 1SS2, the first year of the "L," 230, 510.S32 passengers were carried, or 215 rides for each person In the city. In 100C, tho first year of the subway. SSG.CGl.20G were carried, or 29S rides for each person. Under the enpflon of "Struggling to Keep Up With New York" the Inter borough officials wiy: "Each year the -problem of handling the millions of New York traffic grows Increasingly difficult The struggle Is bard, not to anticipate the city's fu ture needs, but merely to keep up with the present. Extensions of transit fn cilitlcs. no matter how rapid, do not seem able to keep pace with crowds and congestion. "In September the subway carried n daily average of 1.0G0.000 passengers, By November this average was In creased to 1,100.000 dally. "All this traffic, too. It should be re membered. was on lines designed orig' inally to core for 400,000 passengers daily. "Always It Is the same story. No matter how fast rapid transit lines are built In New York city, tho transports tlon needs of the population seem to keep ahead of them." Somo of our towns' boys vnrylnjt in ago from eight to fifteen years, htivo boon Inclined to trespass on oth er pcoplo's property. Especially hao thoy boon trampling on lawns, break ing down shrubbory, and breaking windows, and committing othor dep redations. This thing must bo stop ped. It ls known who somo of the trespassers nro and prosecution haa only boon withhold out of sympathy for parents and friends. ' But If It continues If parents can not control tho youngsters and coop orato with tho probation officer, bo that tt Is stopped, boiuo one's boys and some one's girls will mora than likely bo put umlor tho tight rolgn of being nindo wards of tho court, or may bo more soverely punished. Tho boys umlor 18 years of ago novo no legal right to smoke cigars, plpos, nor cigarettes, or to uso tobacco In any form. If tho law In this respect were enforced, our little chicken coop of i city Jail would bo running overfull, with no sparo room loft In tho sub-Jail on tho hill. Now a word to tho wise: thoro Is a threatened state wide cam paign of law enforcement In this ro spect; It la already on In Portlnnd. Si- lem, and somo other cities: May not parents, marshals, teachers, pollco forces, and ministers, cooperate and see if this condition ennnot be local ly eliminated, or at least, to that ox-' tent, that thero will be no danger of a head on collision, by having to drag somo of our boys before thorc corder or tho county court. Hoping that all Interested In tho well being of their children, will try and hold them In check, so that tho Juvenile officer may not become forced under the law, to urgo rigid measures, I remain respectlfully, the public's ser vant, J. Wi, Perkins, probation officer of Lano county, Oregon. C'eFunT' Woman la Deaif." Classified Ads For Sals, Rent, Wanted, Eto. WANTED Man to cut wood and rnlso potatoes on shares call on V, Knick erbocker, Dcadmntt's Forryr 3 rnlloj north of SprlnRfloUl. Sts. WANTED Second hand organ In good condition, Price to bo reason able Phono 14-IM4, I). J. Uonli DENTIST SUTTON BLDQ. . . PHONE 20-J Dr. ADALINE KEENEY FERRIS Homeopathlo Physician and Surgeon Office, Baptist I'nrsoimgo Corner 8ocoud and O Streets HOURS! TO 12. PHONE tO Dentistry DR. J. E. RICHMOND Springfield. Oregon,' lens kIiishor In Return to Nowi 1-4 LOST: Pair double case, largo glass. Olllco. Howard "WANTED for box factory, steady work ono planornmn. throe cut olf men, thrco band sawyers, ono cir cular rosnwyer. Fruit Qrowors Supply Co,, Hill, Cnl." FARM LOANS At tho lowost rntn and on tho easiest terms to ho hud. J. C. Holbrook, Springfield. FOR INFORMATION regarding homo- stond entries In Central Oregon, write enclosing stamped envelope to A. O. King or D. D. Tusslug, Broth era, Oregon. COCKERALS FOR SALE: White Leg horn puro bred O. A. C strain, alx months old, $1.00 each. Call pt 710 C street. FOR SALE Practically now Ollvor Typewriter number 5. Mnchtno la equipped with tabulator and back spacer. It Is In good running onlor Call at tho News office and have It demonstrated. Tonus. HOUSEHOLD GOODS At private salt January 25, on account of leaving for tho East. East Main street Stewart addition. Herbert Burghor Real Estate Transfers. 1 J. A. Cox et ux to Nancy Conrad Lots 7 and 8, block 1, Hollo addition to Springfield, 910. R. E. Brabham et ux to Sadie M. Perking 65 acres in township 17 south, rango 4 west, $10. D. W. ROOF, JEWELER SPRINGFIELD, . OREGON FINE WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIALTY Cleaning, Pressing REPAIRING Made to Measuro Suits Lemley Suit House Phono 75 MONEY SAVERS-TIRES Ono 110 x 3 Nou Bhlil hiiiiji Ono 30 x 3 Non Hkltl Himp Ono 34 x l Plain Htrnlght Hlilo Ono 35 x I Plain Q. I) Ono 30 x -Hj Squoogo treat! .$ D.SJfi .$10.00 .$17.00 .$20.00 .$32.00 Stoddard Dayton Garage 8th Avo. E. 242 Phono 148 Enot of Hotol Ooburn Half Block Euguno FORD SWITCH KEY SERVICE STATION NO. 1 Oregon EUGENE THEATRE Saturday, Jan. 20 I The Musical Success of Beauty, Fun and Faahion THEa PEOPLE " " S J nlT l ITV ' Throt Acts By CttPflm CuvJliIer V...L r.- r a. ! S . I r i r t 1 '-1 iivio ,viii'itii vi nw iotk, ormofi ana i.meijo. CHORUM LAUGHTER-SOG HITS MUSICAL GEMS-NOVEL 9ui, l'ihUanrl vrv nnl Sr r of Jhyoai Vimth." - Xt urJ-fwi-i Ptk NOTE Owing to the large Guarantee this company de mands for the plnylng'one night BtnndH we are compelled to scale all the loWcr floor nt $2.00. MAIL ORDERS NOW, For $2.00 scats only. All $1.00 and $1.50 scats will be sold in tho order of the line on the morning of the Rox Ofllce Sale, Friday, January 19, 10 A. M. Prices $2.00, $1,C0, $1.00 and $.50. Curtain 8:45 P. M. 1 CANT FIND ANY POOR. Utopia (Fluihtns, N. Y.) Hasn't On Parson Who Is In Ntad. New l'ork. Utopia Is Just nine and even-tenths miles from Manhattan. It Is sometimes called Flushing. In this- Utopia Is a Jefferson Demo cratlc club, which looks after the wants of the poor In Its vicinity around Christmas. Tho members contributed $1,500, and a committee was appointed to bunt out the needy that they might be sup piled with holiday baskets. The committee, after investigating, reported there were no needy In Flushing, and the Democratic club has $1,500 on its hands with which It doesn't know what to do. Fifty ent Offsr For ?11,000 Gtmt. New York. An offer of 50 cents for $11,000 worth of Brazilian diamonds waa the best Washington Forco could obtain. lie admitted stealing them from the steamer Vasurt last week, the New York police say. Disgusted with failure to rliid a buyer, ho left -the gems, lu a laundry and wrote tho com pany: Jlle Is Jit-hJ fit f5,000 bail. LEFT FORTUNE TO SERVANT. Relatives of Dead Woman Fight the Bequsit. Carlyle, III. Kate Mulcaby, gray haired and rheumatic, ls heir to an es. tate between $100,000 and $200,000, left by her mistress, Mrs. John McCabe, but relatives of tbe dead woman are going to to to break the will. Kate served Mrs. McCabe forty-one years. Mr. McCabe's husband was a prosperous physician when Kate came to work for them He died, leaving little- property. Kate left for u time, but Mrs. McCnbe's urgent plens caused her to return ut u financial nacrl(lce. Mrs. McCabe said Knte should be the sole heir to ,the mistress' property If Kate would stick by ber till dent!. Then oil whs struck on tho McCabe property, making Mrs. McCabe the richest woman In Clinton county. She kept her promise to Kate Just the same. Dog Stars In Motion Pictures. Carlisle, P.i. Kill, bank messenger bulldog and pet of Carlisle, will go down In pictorial history to future gen erutlons. He U starred In a motion picture drama performing his dally task of carrying the hotel deposit to the bank and returulug with the pass book. Among other popular tricks that have been Aimed Is that of smoking n pipe. $ t y S, 6, b P GUARDSMAN, JILTED, END8 LIFE IN UNIFORM & & Now York. Jilted on his return t from the Mexican border, Ezra ' "V B. Naylor, Jr., a New York na- $ ttonal guardsman, put on bis full $ t uniform, plugged all crevices In 4r f bis room, turned on tbe gas and t J- threw himself on his bed, with 4? his former fiancee's picture, and f died. On u table was the letter giving him bU release aud telling ' 111 in another had supplanted him. 4 - , . 4 3'$ $ J f 4"i 5 A f U. j-"- 1 00 IN GOLD $50 Diamond Ring $25 Gold Watch ABSOLUTELY Enter your name now in the big Springfield News ' Popular Girl Subscription Contest6 ' ' u - 1 St,) Contest Opens Thursday, January Closes February 13 Think of it! Only a little more than three weeks in which to win these valuable prizes. 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