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m m m - m m Wfz m m m tfuraal m Hp HI Bbh &hP H KH bb! I aH iKB H H!PBHflVNvBKHIIIIHv h H jH R VM jl7 BflV Bfl .M BbI ' BBB H BB BB BB & TTCBBBBSlBBMCTCTTBBBlBBBBWCBBBTTriBBBttBB IKfl flfl H B B BBtekJBL Jr Bb WT VbVB VbbWJBB I JP 'jCftll 'TlllBElff BEHrftflK! BvS BH IbvIbbHJ VBBw BL. JL B. .BflV. BB 00, a p. ed iat nil .... t "'- , . vol. xvni. SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1008. NO. 130. JUDGE STANDS BY THE MAYOR Hendricks Changes His Mind and Pleads Guilty JUDGE SAYS SCHMITZ DECISION IS CORRECT Mends Bis Opinion and Points Out How Easy It Is to Have the Matter Tested In Supreme Court (United Pross Loused Wire.) Ithe law thoro Is nn onsy nnd simple San rranclsco, Jan. 22. Tho first wny to bring tho matter boforo the uprcsston of opinion by presiding jMtlco of (he District Court of Ap pall James A. Coopor, concerning the recent decision of his court In tie Scbmltz case is contained in a tetter written to Attorney J. C. Hutchinson, of San Francisco nnd Palo Alto. In this letter tho Judgo aakes a lengthy dofonso of tho do riilon. Tho letter In pnrt follews: "I am sorry to havo disappointed jou and my good frlond who holpcd to elect me, but I simply took pari la Interpreting tho law ns I under itood, and I could not respuct my lf If I had done otherwise. If wc ire wrong In this Interpretation of supremo court. "In my opinion, and tho opinion of my associate, tho Indictment outirc ly falls to Btnta a public offonso. "Wo enmo to thfs conc'iuslon af ter careful study and consideration of all the authorities. Somo of ub havo had cotiBldornblo oxporlenca In Criminal lnw, not only in a practice of 21 yoars, but with nlno or ton yoarB on the bench, nnd wo did not corno to our conclusion linBtlly. "I can suy that, personally, I was never moro positive of tho correct ness of a decision in my life than J am of tho correctness of tho legal NEW YORK TO SUPPORT BRYAN BETWEEN THE LINES CHICAGO STO PEOPLES BARGAIN HOUSE r m SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAN BE HEAD BETWEEN THE ItpUXIJS OP THE LADDER IN THE NEW YORK MEETING LAST NIGHT OTHERS .MAY RE .MENTIONED, RUT RRYAN WILL GET THERE. Our Annual Clearing Sale is still continued and will be kept in full blast until further notice, We must have room for our Spring Goods. That is the reason we are offering our entire stock of up-to-date mer chandise at such sacrifice prices. Hundreds of articles all over the store sold at cost and less than cost. Read on 5000 yard- of beautiful Needle work Embroiderlos from 4 to In inches wide, going at less 'tan manufacturer's cost. Lot 1, Oc; j,ot 2. 12Jc yard Lot ;i. 13c yard worth 33c w" aids of Square Mash Linen Lat. all widths, worth 10 and 1-V jer yard, now 3c An our Colored and Black Dross Goods i'ing at I LKARIXG PRICES. " 4i! of Dark and Light Coor.i Outing Flannols, 7c qua K now ner vard 3o iwu.i ads of Dress and Walsting Si'k- new at- up-to-date goods 1 1 EARING PRICES. Clearing Prices a ne fallowing Goods this sea bs att-st Ladlos Coats, La d's Suits. Petticoats, Dross s ts. Furs, Raincoats, Rub bed Silk Coats, Ladles' Wahts, ladles Jackets, Chil dren's Furs and coat8, also Mu'inery and Fanoy Feathers. 574j h j (United Pros3 Leased Wire.) Now York, Jan. 22. Tho stnto of Now York will support William Jen nings Bryan for proBldont in tho Don vor convention. A't least, thials tho BiRnltlcnnco loading Democrats nt tach to tho calling off of tho pro posed conference of conservntivo Democrats which had been scheduled to convono tomorrow In tho Waldorf- Astoria. This conference had boon heralded aa another Brya affair. According to,,th.a.(wjBoacroB tho conference was called off because- It becamo apparont that oppopsitlon to Bryan could not bo solidified sufficiently to become dangerous. OREGON PIZENS FOR TAFT MANY IN COUNTIES IT IS A CASE 0E CELERY WITHOUT THE SALT Evelyn's Story and That of Other Witnessess Show Only the Salacious Side of the Situation INTERIOR AND WESTERN ORE GON GOING STRONGLY FOR THE GREAT WAR SECRinWRY PEOPLE RELIEVE HE IS SOUND, SOLID, SAKE AND SANE . flv AROUSES MOST ENTIIUS IASM. V proposition dlscussedjn the Schmltz case. "I know your idoa of tho character of a judgo nro such that you would not rospoct him if ho should dopart from his honost opinion, merely to pleaso tho public. I considered It my duty to Interpret tho law as I saw It. Even if by so doing I should loso your good opinion and tho good opinion of nil my friends. "I must do my duty, or roslgn. 1 novor yet havo shlrkod n duty If T knew If, nor have I evor written n decision with any othor vlow bo corroct on tho law." than to MRS. BRADLEY IS BROKE (United Pross Loasod Wire) Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. 22. With out friend or monty, and with four small children to support, Mrs. Anna Brcdley ie povirty-trlckn in a email hut on tho outskirts of tho city. Immodiatoly following her trial for tho murder of former Senator Arthur Brown, she sold books and with iho monoy paid her faro hor and purchasod groceries that laetQd up to tho present time. But now she is penniless. She finds that all nor (Editorial Corrospondonce.) Tho w'rltqr has takon pains to got expressions of opinion froin n great many Republicans In tho pnst two wookB. Ho attended tho closing ox orclsog of tho fnrmcro short courso In ngrloulturo and tho Oregon ncad omy of,BclencoB at Corvallls Friday Inst. Ue was at tho mooting of tho Stnto Press association at Portland Saturday nnd has met with farmora and fruit growors In Polk nnd Mar lon countlod In qulto largo num bors. jf The' general tendency of political, thought, bo far ns expressed in the choice of prosldentlnl candidates, in favorablo to Wm. II, Taft of Ohio for presldont. Thoro Is a scattering voto for Hughes of Now York, but tho drift of opinion is strongly In the diroctlon of tho Ohio man. Tnft Strong in Benton. Benton county Republicans bo fnr as Interviewed expressed a profor onco for Taft. A few who havo pref erences for Hughos nro not very pro nouncod, whllo Xho Tnft men nro vory outspoken. Landlord Bnkor of tho Corvallls hotel, who has had a long resldonco in western Orogon nnd n very successful experionco as a hotel man is a Tnft boomer. Ho sayB tha groat majority of tho traveling men are for Taft, They nro a protty good lml ox of public sontlmont, and gauge tholr politics from tho standpoint of what would constitute n successful administration from a bu&Inoss vlow, Thoy want to Bell goods. To do so thoy want a Proeidont who is a Biiro thing progporlty-Bottor,, not a vision ary or untried theorist and thoy fowl strongly, Mr. Baker toys, that Taft Is not a vislonnry. I talked with county people and butlnees men nnd found four-flftha of the Ropublloans I could draw out unqualifiedly for Tnft. Thoy fool ha le a eafe man and tho rank and filo of the party aro govornod by their instinctive footings of political sagac ity rathor than by cool crltiool analy- ie of the mugwumplan order. Thore is here and thoro a pronounoed advo cate of some othor candidate but or dinary eUlzens say Taft ovory time. Taft on the Common Level. Why are the rank and file bo out spoken for Tnft? Beoauso thoro Is (Unltod Prose Loasod Wire.) i sworn In ns a wltnosfl for tho do- Now York, Jan. 22. Mn Fran-0"80' Justlco Dowling finally ruled that I Min SMi1 1 nil tr Mm mill mrAH tifltlnlt wiiv v-vi ,r vuv will uiui ti iiiviia coe 12. Plorco, tho first wltnosB callod to tho stand this morning In tho trial tllor wnB BO milnh nriIuincMt HhouM of Hurry Thaw for tho imirdvr of b0 ndniUt0lli Tho dcf0IIBO nind0 nlt S nnrord Whtto, dontlfiod ThnW8Jofror t0 ft(lmlt tho w , lvlllonco HlKn.uurQtohlswlIl,whIchwnimndonn(, thon temporarily withdrew It. on tho ovonlng of hU marrlngo fj : Anlh0Iiy comstock wm tho next Evolyn Ncablt. wltnosa for tho dofonso. Ho snlil DlRtrlct Attorney Joromo obJoct-jThaw called at his ofllco In Fobru od to tho witness giving testimony , ary, 100-1, by appointment, nnd told along this lino. Ho Insisted that eho would bo unablo to Bwcar that tho document was In tho same condi tion, and that It road tho same as it did on tho night It was Blgnod. A longthy tochnlc.il discussion fol lowed. Anthony ConiRtock hna beon htm that a woll known New Yorkor (had acquired a hnblb of ruining young glrlu by drugging tlom in til npnrtmo;jtB at 122 Twenty-second, stroot. 11 (.Identified reglivtorod lot tcro Hont him by Thuw. (Continued on pago five.) IMMUNITY BATH MAKES TntMtOOK FOR TOWEtS 'Wash Me and I Shall Be Clean, Purge Me and I Shall Be Whiter Than Snow", Is the Motto (Unked Prois Lonecd Wlro.) prodlotod. Rumors thnt Honey would Portland, Or., Jan. 22. HamlltoncHnoU hlB cnao nKntHt nn by 0V. II, Ilondrlckn, n co-dofendant of denco of Rome of tho co-dofonduniu John Hnll nnd Edwin P. Mavh. W. V. Stelwor and others In tho land fraud havo boou r,fe 8,nco tl,Q day tho Ctt8a casoe, camo Into court this morning, opened, nnd thore was many indloo and, rovorslnghls former plon, pload-o'1" tnt this eupposltlon was cor ed guilty to tha olmrgo ngalnst him. root. Today's proceedings Boom lo It )a mild that two othor dofondnntB onr out this conclusion, will tako this saino courso, nnd thnt Edward W. Dixon, a Hpoclnl agont all throo defondante will then tako of tho gonoinl laud oHloo, teat I Hod tho stand and tostlfy as to their nl- this morning ns to his invoHtlgntloua logod cotiBpirncy to fonce public Into lnnd f ratal h in Eastern Orogon, lands, nnd tlfelr relations with John nnd tho couinootlon of Hnll and Hall and Edwin P. Mays. Mays with these ullogod vlolatloim of This action has been freqiuutly tho statute. THE WOMAN THIS TIME MADE THE GUN PLAY !rl??LUm;l a growing fooling that ho Is on the luviu Julius a uuttu iu uui uiu, uuu has answered "want" advortlse- $7.00 Raincoats tO Q tZ Now ! CJ O ?18.00 CoaU Q nn ?16.50 Suits rt Qf ?25.oo suits y rr Now JVJ The Store That Does The Business ments without succoes. Her condi tion became known yestorday, when h& asked a lawyer who was In Brown's office yoars ago, for assistance. Knocked Him Clear Out. (United P-obs Leased Wire.) Spokane. Wash., Jau. 22. F. G. plain, common lovol of everyday Americanism. Ho is not regarded as sonwtlonal or brilliant but ns seno and safe on all the vital Issuoh of Americanism and Republicanism. Hon. Julius C. Moreland, clork of tho supremo court of Oregon, has up to tho present not been an enthuslas tic Taft man. Ho has rather Inclin ed to Hughes. Spending somo time away from tho capital the past two Shot and Killed the Man and Then Turned the Pistol On Herself, aud May Die Now York, Jan. 22. In tho midst Sho eat down for a momont, and of acoros of shoppers In Maooy's dry, thon quickly pMllad a rvolvw from 'n Iinnitlimr nml Htnrtfwl tn uliruit. Ragsdalo. a well-known salesman of weeks, ho haa coroo to the conclusion this city, has been placed on trial that Taft Is tho choice of a majority of tho Republicans al Oregon, uw has com to this opinion slowly, but yesterday admitted It was a fact ihat more Republicans generally speaking goods storo at noon today a woman, Bupposod to be May Roberts Olark. leaped from a tablo in tho store's rofrtaurant, where she was dining with Frank Brady an advertising man, and shot him five times, Instant ly killing him. Ah the terrified diners woro dashing from tho largo Brady had no tlmo to dofend him self. Ho tried to run, but foil ovor dead. In tho panlo that onuuod kov ural womon woro trampled upon, a tow of thorn bolng slightly Injured. Tho woman shot horsolf 'twloo. The police say thoy found n -third rovolv- rooni, dropping knlvoa, forks, nap- or In hor handbag. Brady was 27 kins and ovon food as they ran, the years old, and tho woman was throo charged with tho Involuntary man slaughter of "Dusty" Dean In his sa loon October 1. Ragsdalo struck Dean with bis fist, who fell to the floor and never regained conscious (Continued on pago four,) murdress shot horcelf twice, and died a fow mlnutoo later in a hospital. Thero woro sevoral hundred per sons dining In tho place when the Clark woman otopped from tho ele vator and approached tho tablo at which Brady was sitting with Frank MoPhereon, of tho Evening To! eg ram J years hla senior. Thu. motlvo for th ohootlng la not known. IJrorylwdy Read Tho Journal locals. If you would sell your goods lot tho public know what you have. That's whaMkey won$. ness.