THE
HERMISTON
HERALD,
SLAIN AND BURNED
HI GILL IS INDICTED CHILDREN
| Marine News
Father Arrested When Evidence Indi
Shipbuilding
FOR LIQUOR BRIBE cates Murder of Offsprings. Pacific Coast Yards
All Busy, is Report
Tacoma, Wash.—Four small children
were brutally murdered at Auburn
Sunday as they lay in their beds. The
room and beds had been saturated with
kerosene and then the house set on
fire.
Their father, S. A. Hewett, a North
ern Pacific brakeman in the railroad
yards at Auburn, was placed under ar
rest by the King county sheriff and
taken to Seattle following the gather
ing of a corwd of nealry 1000 persons,
among whom there was considerable
Executive is Said to Have Been Paid talk of lynching.
Hewett*’s story is that the four
$4000 to Protect Importers—13
children retired as uusal to their beds
Saturday night, but during the night
Indicted by Grand Jury.
one was taken ill. He went to attend
the little one, taking a kerosene lamp,
which he left burning on a chair be
Seattle, Wash.—The long-expected tween their two beds. Being restless,
he said he took a walk, returned later
indictments against Mayor Hiram C.
Gill, Chief of Police Charles L. Beck-
ingham and ex-Sherif
Robert T. Counsel for “Leak” inquiry.
Hodge, charging conspiracy to violate
the interstate commerce and Federal
liquor laws, and acceptance of bribes,
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were returned by the United States
re
grand jury Saturday and warrants
were placed in the hands of Deputy
Marshals for the arrest of these de
fendants and 10 others who were in
dicted.
The others indicted were four city
detectives, an ex-policeman, Edward
P. Baker, manager of the Jesse Moore
Hunt company, of San Francisco; Lo
gan and Fred Billingsley and two
associates of the Billingsleys.
The principal witnesses against the
Mayor, chief of police and ex-sheriff
were Logan and Fred Billingsley, who
were indicted several weeks ago for
conspiracy to violate the interstate
commerce laws and pleaded guilty, but
were not sentenced that they might be
Sherman L. Whipple, just chosen
counsel for the committee of the house
used as government witnesses.
As soon as they learned of the in of representatives in the “leak” in
dictments, Gill, Beckingham and De vestigation, is a leading New England
tectives Peyser, Doom and McLennan lawyer who has had many important
went to the Federal building and gave cases. He is distinctly a trial lawyer.
$3600 bail each.
Ex-Sheriff Hodge Mr. Whipple was born in 1862. He
was said to be arranging a bond. The is a graduate of Yale.
Billingsleys and W. H. Pielow and
William Frazier, transfer men, are al and fell into a sound sleep, from which
ready under bond for earlier indict he was awakened by flames crackling
ments and new security was not re all about him. Unable to reach the
quired of them.
children, he said he rushed to a neigh
C. J. Mullen, ex-Policeman, was in bor’s to give a fire alarm and then re
dicted charged with attempting to in turned, and with a garden hose tried
timidate the Billingsleys, government to quench the flames.
witnesses, in an effort to induce them
Examination of the children’s char
to jump their bond and flee to Canada. red bodies, the coroner said, revealed
Mayor Gill said that he would not the fact that their skulls had been
even temporary detach himself from crushed in, while the mattresses on
his office because of the indictment, which they lay were saturated with
and that he would be a candidate for blood.
re-election in 1918. If convicted of a
Behind a little trundle bed on which
felony the mayor would be removed slept the only girl of four, Myrtle,
automatically.
aged 6, was found a blood-stained
All of the defendants, 13 in number, hammer, and in the room an empty
are charged jointly with conspiracy in bottle labeled chloroform.
one indictment, with the exception of
Under the bed in which the three
Mullen, who is accused singly.
boys lay was found a blood-stained pil
Mayor Gill is accused by the govern low slip.
ment with having accepted a bribe of
The other three children, Ephraim,
$4000 last summer from Logan Bil aged 10; Arthur, aged 8, and Clar
lingsley at the time the alleged con ence, aged 5, were found in one big
spiracy began.
bed.
Mayor Gill, Chief of Police Beck
After the fire the father handed to
ingham and Hodge, together with the a neighbor, Frank McGilvray, an en
four city detectives, who are former velope containing the insurance poli
members of the waterfront division of cies which it is said he had taken out
the police dry squad, are charged with recently for his children and which
plotting with the Billingsleys to ship had been saved from the fire.
huge quantities of whisky into Seattle
under organized official and police pro
Oregon Troops Ordered Home.
tection.
Portland—“All Oregon troops on the
border ordered home.”
Hunt Loses Governorship
This telegram received Sunday after-
from Senator George E. Cham
On Supreme Court's Ruling noon
berlain, by Major W. W. Wilson, ac
Phoenix, Ariz. — The Arizona Su ting adjutant general, is the first an
preme court Saturday returned a de nouncement that has been made of the
decision of the government to recall
cision holding that Thomas E. Camp
from the Mexican border the last of
bell, Republican, is the de facto gov the Oregon contingent which was
ernor of Arizona.
called out seven months ago, and
The decision was signed by Justices which has been in continual service
Franklin and Ross.
Justice Cunning ever since.
ham submitted a dissenting opinion.
High Roumanians Die in Wreck.
The majority holds that the certifi
cate of election issued to Campbell is
Berlin—More than 100 Roumanians
prima facie evidence of his election. of high rank lost their lives in a train
The court issued no writ, stating its wreck near the Roumanian station of
belief that George W. Hunt would now
Tshura, according to a dispatch said by
surrender the office, but declaring that
the Overseas News agency to have
if he did not a writ would be issued.
been printed in the Russki Slovo. The
In a brief statement Mr. Hunt said
locomotive of a train carrying the Rou
he would not appear at the state house
manians to Russia jumped the track
on Monday and that the office and its
and the cars took fire.
belongings would be surrendered to
It is reported from the same source
Governor Campbell.
that 45,000 Roumanian refugees have
already settled in the Russian province
Sailors Drift Ten Days.
of Poltava and that a large number of
Willemstad, Curacao—Three French others continue to arrive.
sailors have reached the island of
Radio Covers Wide Span,
Buen Ayre, off the Venezuelan coast,
after having been at sea for 10 days in
San Diego, Cal. — The new naval
a small boat. They were in a starv raido station at Chollas Heights, which
ing condition, and brought with them was recently opened gave a demonstra
the body of one man who had died.
tion of its power Monday when the
The sailors reported they were mem operators on duty talked with Arling
bers of the crew of the French armor ton, Va., station, Darien, Panama,
ed cruiser Jeanne d’Arc, stationed at Nome, Alaska, and Honolulu, and over-
Martinique, and were carried off in heard French operators at work on the
their boat by the current.
island of Papeete, in the South Pacific.
The men were transported to Cura They concluded by exchanging the time
cao.
of day with operators at a radio sta
tion near Melbourne, Australia.
Haytien Ex-President Dies.
Villa Is Militant.
New York—News of the death of
General Davilmar Theodore, once presi
Washington, D. C.—No official in
dent of Haiti, was contained in private formation is at hand as to whether
letters from Haiti, received here Mon Villa or Carranza troops are to occupy
day. It was said that his death oc the terriotry left vacant by the Ameri- |
curred in Port au Prince January 13. cans, but the belief is strong here that |
General Theodore overthrew the gov Villa, who is credited with having a
ernment of General Oreste Zanor in, force of at least 8000 well-armed men
1914, and was in turn forced to abdi and who is now said to be at least four
cate the presidency in November, 1915. times as strong as when the American
He fled from Haiti, but returned after troops crossed the border, will make a
American interventon.
desperate effort to take the territory.
Seattle Mayor and Police Chief
Caught in Federal Net.
DRY SQUAD IS ALSO ACCUSED
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The Pacific Coast is getting its share
in steel shipbuilding contracts, accord
ing to the report of the bureau of navi
gation of the department of Commerce,
which covers ali contracts in American
shipyards up tc January 1, 1917. The
report has just been issued from
Washington. D. C.
It shows up to that date contracta on
403 ships reported, representing a
gross tonnage of 1,495,601, the largest
in the history of the United States.
During December American yards fin
ished nine steel ships and made new
contracts for 24 ships of 105,120 gross
tons.
On the basis of the report from the
bureau of navigation, the shipyards of
the Pacific Coast have contracts on 21
per cent of the ships under construc
tion, and these contracts represent 36
per cent of the gross tonnage.
The distribution of the contracts re
ported by January 1 to the bureau is
as follows on the Pacific Coast: Port
land, 14 ships of 67,400 gross tons;
Seattle, 28 ships of 161,920 gross tons;
Oakland, six ships of 30,600 gross
tons; and San Francisco, 28 ships of
175,028 gross tons. This is a total of
86 ships of 434,948 gross tons under
contract in Pacific Coast yards.
Open Rail Bids for Railway.
Seattle—At the office here Thursday
of the Alaska Engineering commis
sion bids were opened for 1300 tons of
steel rails for the Nenana-Fairbanks
division of the government railroad
in Alaska and also for a 40-ton switch
ing locomotive. The estimated cost of
the rails and locomotive is $55,000.
Bids were submitted by numerous
companies in various parts of the coun
try. The awards will be announced
here in a few days.
C. E. Dole, purchasing agent of the
commission, announced that a branch
office of the commission will be opened
at Portland, Or., with Joseph J. Hit-
tinger in charge.
Allard Takes to Water.
Sparkling California champagne
foamed and splashed into the Columbia
river Tuesday as it trickled from the
bow of the new five-masted auxiliary
schooner S. I. Allard, launched at St.
Helens, Miss Jessie Allard, of Eureka,
Cal., breaking the bottle as she christ
ened the stately vessel in honor of her
father, a banker of the California city.
The Allard’s initial dip was carried out
as programmed, there being not the
slightest hesitancy on the part of the
vessel when the last block was knocked
out of place.
Brings News ot Shipyard.
Aberdeen—W. J. Patterson, banker,
who returned from the East this week,
gives a positive assurance to business
that another shipyard is to be started
here, with ample capital, and that a
$1,000,000 high-grade paper mill,
backed by Eastern capital is also as
sured. The citizens must raise $2400
for the shipyard to prepare the site and
the city must give water rights for the
paper mill. Patterson says the East has
plenty of money that is coming West.
NORTHWEST MARMET REPORT
Portland—Wheat—Bluestem, $1.52
per bushel; fortyfold, $1.50; club,
$150; red Russian, $1.49.
Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $26.50
per ton; shorts, $30.50; rolled barley,
$42043.
Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy,
Eastern Oregon, $19@20 per ton; val
ley, $15016; alfalfa, $15016; valley
grain hay, $12@13; clover, $11,
Butter — Cubes, extras, 39c per
pound; prime firsts, 38c; firsts, 37c;
dairy, 30c. Jobbing prices: Prints,
extras, 40@42c; cartons. 1c extra;
butterfat, No. 1, 41c; No. 2, 39c,
Portland.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re
ceipts, 35@36c per dozen; candled, 27
@28c; selects, 40c.
Poultry — Hens, heavy, 17@18c per
pound; light, 16@17c; springs, 16@
18c; turkeys, live, 18@20c; dressed.
221@26c; ducks, 18@20c; geese, 12
@13c.
Veal—Fancy, 14@143c per pound.
Pork—Fancy, 13@133c per pound.
Vegetables—Artichokes, $1.15^1.25
per dozen; tomatoes, $6.00(6.50 per
crate; cabbage, $4@5 per hundred;
eggplant, 25c per pound; lettuce, $2.50
@3.50 per box; cucumbers, $1.50@
2.00 per dozen; celery, $5.50 per crate;
cauliflower, $2.5002.75; peppers, 2 5
©30c per pound; sack vegetables,
$1.25 per sack; sprouts, 12}c per
pound; rhubarb, 9@1lac.
Potatoes — Oregon buying prices,
$2.25@2.50 per hundred; sweets, $4.
Onions — Oregon buying prices, $6
per sack, country points.
Green Fruits—Apples, 75c@$1.50
per box; pears, $1.75@2.50; cranber
ries, $10011 per barrel.
Hops—1916 crop, 5@9c per pound;
1917 contracts, 10011c.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, fine, 28@33c ;
per pound; coarse, 33036c; valley, 33
@4lc; mohair, nominal.
Cattle—Steers, prime, $8.5009.00;
fair to good, $7.5008.40; medium,
$7.00 @7.50; cows, choice, $7.50@
7 75; medium to good, $6.7507.25; or
dinary to fair, $6.0006.50; heifers,
$5.50 @8.00; bulls,
$3.75 @ 6.25;
calves, $3.000 9.00.
Hogs — Light and heavy packing, |
$11.150 11.35; rough heavy, $10.000 |
10.85; pigs and skips, $9.75010.50;
stock hogs, $8.500 9.50.
Sheep—Yearling wethers, $9.000 |
10.50; lambs, »10.75@12.25; old weth- I
era, $8.75@9.75; ewes, $6.75@8.75.
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HERMISTON,
OREGON.
TO PRODUCE BABY BEEF
Labor the Greatest Blessing in Life
First Essential of Ticklish Busi
ness Is Quality.
By REV. JENKIN LLOYD JONES
Work is not the consequence of sin, but the triumph of man. Labor
instead of being a curse is the profoundest blessing in life.
Human labor then is no commodity, a thing to be bought and sold
like cotton or corn. Back of the hand is the directing brain, behind the
sweat are human longings, the love of human hearts, and the thirst of
human minds. Capital, the exploiter of labor, is but the labor of yester
day It is canned industry.
The unholiest combination the world has ever known is the selfish
combination of the toil of yesterday, dehumanized under the name of
capital, against the throbbing, thrilling toil of today, the uncanned wealth
held in solution in the sweat of today.
Peace between labor and capital will come only in a larger combine,
a higher fraternity, that will recognize the common interests between the
section man with his pick and the president with his pencil and his
“Ready Reckoner” of percentages.
POULTRY POINTERS
The practice of poultry feeding,
while governed largely by circum
stances, should as far as possible be
confined to the regular routine.
A hen eats approximately three to
four ounces a day, or about six pounds
a month. The amount fed each duy
varies with the appetite of the bird.
The success of egg production de-
pends largely upon the activity of the
bird. The reason the Leghorns excel
in egg production is largely because
they keep themselves in good physical
condition. They exercise.
It has been found that a few thor
ough applications of crude petroleum
to the interior of poultry houses will
destroy completely the common red
mite infesting chickens.
The hen that is first off the roost in
the morning, keeps busy during the
day and is the last to go to roost at
night is the profitable hen.
It will pay the poultry keeper to
nail up cracks in the back, sides and
root of his henhouse.
Some birds have the disposition to
take exercise, others have to be
forced. This is especially true of the
heavier breeds.
Overfeeding causes inactivity, which
will be manifested by no holes being
dug in the straw.
The skill of the poultry feeder is
tested by the manner in which he com
pels the hens to exercise.
Egg production is quite largely de
pendent upon keeping the birds in con
dition
It is not the large turkeys that are
so desirable, but the medium-size ones
that are pretty and smooth.
There is no danger of overfeeding,
providing the birds are compelled to
take sufficient exercise.
The hen that is inactive and shows
long toenails is seldom a good pro
ducer.
Divorce Seen as Sequel to
“Chocolate Eclair Marriage”
One of Kansas City’s divorce proc
tors—a woman—has found the true
cause of the divorce evil. She is Miss
Tiera Farrow, and has had her job
for only a few weeks, but she undoubt
edly has made a beginning! Perhaps
she will find a remedy in the same jig
time, remarks the St. Louis Post-Dis
patch.
It is not the corner saloon, the moth
er-in-law or the eternal triangle, says
Miss Farrow. Boiled down to its es
sentials, her theory seems to be that
there are too many chocolate eclair
marriages between persons of corn
beef and cabbage predilections. In
other words, the whole trouble Is that
the sentimental novel ideal of marriage
as a rose garden Is soon dissipated for
the young woman who finds that her
husband Is not a wavy-haired hero, but
only a matter-of-fact plumber or busi
ness man, as the case may be.
Thus, somewhere along In the honey
moon the poor young thing begins to
fear she Is neglected the first time
friend husband takes his newspaper
and cigar and forgets to blow her a
kiss for a whole hour at a stretch. Aft-
er a while there are tearful reproaches
Just at the moment he is at the most
absorbing part of the batting averages,
whereupon he wrathfully seizes his hat
and goes out to seek a sociable barten
der who will defend the Ty Cobb side
of a debate all night, if need be. Be
fore very long the bride is weeping her
tragical tale Into the ear of some sym
pathetic friend, while the bridegroom
is afraid to go home because he Is In
fee simple possession of what Is some-
times flippantly referred to as a "bun.”
Then It's her for the divorce court and
"limony.
A Little Bit of Everything
One out of four Australians has a
substantial bank account.
Many ostriches in South Africa are
hatched In incubators.
A six-mile bore under James Peak, In
the Rockies will cut 73 miles off the
transcontinental trip.
Among the tallest trees In the world
Is the Australian eucalyptus, which at
tains a height of nearly 500 feet.
Ireland has 84,869 laud holders hav
ing plats not exceeding an acre, 01,730
who hold more than one acre and not
more than five acres, 153,299 under 15
and 136,058 not exceeding 30.
Art of Papermaking Given
To the World by Captive
Chinese in Eighth Century
In a communication to the National
Geographic society, issued by the so
ciety as a bulletin, John Oliver Lea
Goree says :
“How much we deplore the strin-
gency in raw material for the paper
market brought about by the European
war, It should not be forgotten that to
the beneficent results of a battle fought
nearly twelve centuries ago can be
traced the introduction of the art of
papermaking to the western world.
Ollina is credited with having nurtured
the genius who first conceived the idea
of a writing material made from
fibrous pulp, and some investigators
profess to have found evidence that
paper existed in the celestial kingdom
at least two centuries before tile Chris-
tian era. Whether these claims of cen
turies of priority will endure the light
of further research, or whether they
will be discredited just as have been
the same nation’s claim to the inven
tion of the mariner’s compass and gun
powder. the fact is fairly well estab-
lished that when the Arabs defeated a
raiding party of celestials before the
gates of Samarkand, in the middle of
the eighth century, they captured a
party of Chinamen who were skilled
paper makers. It was from this city of
Russian Türkistan, once the capital of
that most ruthless of Mongol princes,
Tamerlane, that the art of these cap
tives spread throughout Asia Minor
and northern Africa, into Moorish
Spain and finally into Italy, where the
first extensive factories were estab-
lished in 1276 at Fabriano, still r cen
ter of the paper industry in southern
Europe.
“Up to the closing years of the eight-
eenth century till paper was made by
hand, sheet by sheet, but in the same
year that Napoleon fought the battle
of the Pyramids, Louis Robert, n
humille workman in the paper mill of
Didot, ut Essones, south of Paris, in
vented a machine for making paper in
an endless web. The Invention was de
veloped in England by the two Four
driniers, who lost a fortune in their
pioneer work. Their names, however,
are perpetuated in the papermaking
machines of the present day.
"The first American paper mill was
established by William Rittenhouse in
Roxborough, near Philadelphia, just 83
years after the first permanent Eng
lish settlement In the United States al
Jamestown.”
Wise and Otherwise
Only Successful When Stock, Farm
and Man Behind Both Are Adapt
ed to Risky Undertaking—
Feed Is Important.
The production of baby beef is a
very ticklish business. It is success
fully done only when stock, farm and
the man behind both are all adapted
to a very risky undertaking. The
whole object is to turn twelve to six
teen month-old calves off as prime fat
steers, weighing
1.000 to
1,400
pounds in much less time than re-
quired for general steer raising. The
whole thing means quality animals
to start with. It means offspring from
strictly beef strains, like Shorthorn,
Hereford, Angus or Galloway. Really
no other breed need apply In the pro
duction of real baby beef, says a
writer in Baltimore American. Both
mothers and offspring must be abun
dantly fed so as to keep these young
things steadily on the gain, eating to
their full capacity, from birth to mar
ket.
The calves must nurse their dams
and be given an abundance of nu
tritious grain from the very start,
both while on pasture and when in
winter quarters. Concentrated feeds
In addition to clover and alfalfa are
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absolutely necessary during the win
ter months. Long nursing on the
dams or an abundance of milk or
skim milk with grain is necessary.
This all means that splendid, well-
bred stock is to be used only.
It
means also that you have got to have
ideal farm conditions, an abundance
of the very best pasture and legume
hays, silage and grain feeds.
Can Be Done in East.
There is no reason why baby beef
cannot be made in the East, except
that labor is expensive or that farms
have not been farmed to produce high
est quality legumes and other grasses
for pasture. Besides this, the produc
tion of grain Is more expensive as
a rule in the East, thus contributing
to high costs In making beef. You see
the regular average pasture, with the
regular average method of feeding,
will not produce topnotch baby beef.
I do not mean to say that wc cannot
reach a point whore raising baby beef
may not be profitable in the East ; not
that, but wo have got to get ready for
that sort of farming first.
LABOR AND FERTILITY SAVED
Excellent Farm Practice to Haul Ma
nure Direct to Field Where It Is
to Be Utilized.
Farmers and scientists are pretty
well agreed that under ordinary farm
conditions the best place for manure
after It leaves the barn Is spread on
the field where It Is to bo utilized.
More and more farmers are building
their barns now with a view to driving
titrough the barn, loading the manure
directly on to tlie wagon or spreader,
and taking It out to the field each day.
This Is excellent farm practice. It
saves labor and soil fertility.
Rest spoils many a man who was
willing to work.
A skeptic Is a man who doubts some
of bis own stories.
Lambs oft rush Into Wall street
where old sheep fear to tread.
Fortunately there is seldom tiny need
of brains in a love affair.
Oh, Liberty, what a lot of divorces
are applied for in thy name!
Never kick a dog to which you have
not been properly introduced.
A dog’s bark may be worse than his
bite, but give us the bark, please. Just
the same.
It’s a fortunate thing for some men
Study the capability of your soil.
that their ancestors left them an hon
* • •
ored name.
Keep
the
pigs
growing all the time.
The man who considers himself a
• • •
brick never boasts of being a common
Marketing Is an art, and a specialty.
clay specimen.
• • •
It sometimes happens that the wom
What did your heaviest lamb weigh
an who Is disappointed In love isn't
at birth?
disappointed in marriage.
• • •
A man must be in business with an
Keep
the
lambs
growing; n stunted
other man or married to a woman in
a good sheep.
order to discover that he doesn't know lamb never makes
• • •
them.
Plan
the
season
’s work during the
When a man is fourni guilty of love
pay you.
in the first degree he should not kick winter months. • It • will
•
if he and his accomplice are given a
Celery may be banked with earth or
life sentence.
boards to cause it to bleach well.
• • •
The manure sprender Is not a pass
Honors for Potatoes
ing fad. It is a labor-saver and has
There never was a time ir. all Its come to stay. • • •
comparatively short history when the
Get a standard breed and see the
potato had so much honor thrust upon
It as at present In many countries, difference it makes in your poultry
widely separated, its yield and its keeping experience.
• • •
prices are subjects of eager discussion.
Clear
the
garden
of all weeds and
And yet it is only since the beginning
•f last century that its value as a food refuse. This material only harbors in
trouble.
»product has been recognized.
For sects for next year's
• • •
nearly 200 years after Sir Walter
It Is estimated that the man who
Raleigh introduced It Into England the
ships 20 cars of grain containing 20
potato was subjected to a “cold neg
per cent of moisture pays freight on
lect" and failed to obtain any serious
one car of excess water, using 15 per
recognition of its many virtues.
cent moisture as a basis.
¿5 GENERAL
FARM NOTES