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EKTRA SESSIOfJ OF LEGISLATURE
IS CALLED BY GOVERNOR JOIIHSOH
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
REDIVIS10N OF THE STATE .
GHAflGINGJ ELECTION LAWS
These Are the Principal Subjects to Be Considered by the
Legislature Which Is to Convene Next Monday It Is Pur
posed to Give the Voters a Chance to Express Their
Preference for President, R arrange' Congressional Dis
tricts and' Change Laws to Suit oCnditions of Equal Suffrage.'
Sacramento, Cal., Nov. 21. Gov
ernor Hiram W. Johnson today is
sued a call for the special session of
the legislature .which will convene
at 2 p. m., Monday, November 27,
including therein 26 subjects for leg
islative action.
The presidential primarv is the
first subject to be dealt with in the
fallowing language:
"To provide for the expression of
the choice of the electors of the
state of California for president of
the United States, and to legislate
concerning the presidential prefer
ence primary, and to consider and
legislate upon the subject of a direct
pumary ior presidet ox the United I mjlssion recently made a public
States whereby the people of the I utilities commission at the constttu
state of California may express their tional election.
preference for president and may by Other matters Included In the call
direct vote select delegates to the are largely of state interest.
"PROPERTY
OWNER" ASKS
QUESTIONS
WANTS TO KNOW WHV COX
CRETK PAYING CONTRACTORS
DO NOT HAYE TO PIT VP A
GUARANTY HONI), AND OTHER
CONTRACTORS DO.
Ed. Journal: If a report of the
proceedings of the council for last
Monday evening Is correct, the coun
cil has gone on record for some
strange procedure.
The chairman of the street com
mittee gave it out early in the1 sea
son that all contractors for concrete
pavement must give a guarantee, al
though at that time none were doing
so. Since that time no guarantee
has ever been exacted from concrete
contractors. Yet all the while El
Oso and bltullthic pavements were
required to carry a five years' guar
antee bond and at the last meeting
of the council they are now asked
to give an additional bond for main
tenance. Chairman Lafky of the
street committee stated in open conn
cil in regard to this matter that the
people paying for concrete did not
want a guarantee much less wanting
a maintenance bond. The question
of treating nil contractors alike and
with equal justice naturally calls for
public attention. Contractors for
concrete pavement cannot be favored
in this manner without Injuring the
rights of property owners. If con
crete contractors are to be allowed
free rein, and can work a la carte
without any semblance of bond or
Sfuarante ewhy are other contractors
hauled down to the municipal grind
stone and loaded with technical re
strictions Justice to contractors Is
so interwoven T-to the rights of
property owners that favoritism to
contractors results in direct Injury
to propprtv owners. It is certainly
a p-rxne" statement to make that
standard pavements must be guar
anteed t0 the property owners, while
concrete pavement, which 's pure'y
experimental and unsatisfactory .in
other cities, is to be laid without any
guarantee whatever, and no mainte
nance bond Is required by th" city
Can anv nno ovnlnin this discr'min-
tion? PROPERTY OWNER.
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TALCOTT WAS
ELIGIBLE TO
PLAY IN GAME
Considerable interest has been tak
fn by those who are Intimate with
high school affairs concerning the
. Vn nhnnl
accusations tnaae again t. j.
that they plaved a man In the Eugene
broAt Z 8 Profess Tirk
wasu'thU n'rnlng by a Journal
reporter and said that there was
nothing whatever in the matter. He
stated that young Talcott, the boy
national convntlons which have for
their purpose the choosing of candi
dates for president."
The other matters named in the
call are as follows:
"The redivislon of the state into
new districts for the California leg
islature, congressional districts and
state equalization districts. To en
act modifications of the election laws
as may be necessary to carry out the
right of equal suffrage.
To provide for the lnspect'on
measurement and gradation of mer
chandise and wares by state officers.
To enact legislation defining the
enlarged powers of the railroad com-
in question, had come. to the Salem
school bringing with him 13 and one
half credits from the Lincoln High,
of Seattle. Young Talcott was in at
tendance Beven school days before
the Eugene game and was a bona
Ode student taking regular work.
and as far as was known he fully in
tended to keep on going to the school
In Salem. After the game, however,
he became discouraged with things In
general and decided to return to his I
nome m tne bound city. . .
There was no agreement with the
Eugene people as to the length of
time' a student must have been en
rolled before being eligible to play;
the only requirement being that bona
fide students taking regular subjects'
and having a passing grade in three,
should be played.
Some rumors were circulated that
Mr. Talcott had been paid to play
this game, but these ara all made out
of whole cloth aceordjng td Mr. Kirk,
and as letters from young Talcott,
which are on the student body tile,
will show The unexplained fact
that Mr. Talcott left school immedi
ately after the game, looks rather
bad, but this matter Is also cleared
up by "a letter which the boy wrote
from his home In Seattle.
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REPORTS OF CONFESSION
ARE NOT CONFIRMED
CNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE
Richmond. Ya., Nov. 21. Reports
that Beattie had confessed to the Rev.
Dr. Dennis were unconfirmed today.
It is believed that a detailed state
ment will be made after the execu
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BATTLESHIPS
START TONIGHT
FOR H0N0LOLO
CS'ITED CRESS LEASED Will.)
San Francisco, Nov. 21. With no
change in orders, which direct them
Hawaii, the armored
cruisers California. Colorado, South
Dakota. Maryland and west Virginia
leave here for Honolulu at . o'clock
this afternoon. They are equipped
for anv dutv or any weather, and
everv jackie is hoping for service in
China.
The fact that Mrs. Chaunrey Thom
as, wife of the v-.,r admiral, anil the
wives of other officers, plan to toliow
the Pacific fleet to Honolulu tomoi
row on the steamer Wilhelmlna is
taken to indicate that the fleet will
not get into Asiatic waters. The
cruiser Pennsylvania is held here In
reserve.
i tuch ammunition was taken
aboard the warships yesterday. Thl?,
it was explained, will be i.sed cn.y
for target practice.
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Just Like a Mine.
n Mvoa t vilin WIfcC.T
rK-n,nU Wash.. Nov. Jl Accord
ing to the report of the sis'. :n.-'.ii-anre
commissioner, J. H. f-cul--i
made public today, the cou.. 'in-.-for
his department for .the fir. '-t'
months in the year amou.T . t-
1301.343, or $1 6,863 more than v.
v --,,, , m,,;,.
taken d i uu..u.
, '"tI. of maintenance for the , 0
n" license
companies bae Deen
in the state.
Advocate 'eace.
Portland. Ore., Nov. 21. A
score of ministers here today
atiuounoed that they will aid in
arousing sentiment in favor of
the proposed arbitration trea
ties between the Vntted States
and England, and the I'uited
States and France, by advocat
ing the peace movement from
their pulpits next Sunday.
The American Peace and
Arbitration League of New
York has designated Sunday
as "Unity Sunday," and has
requited clergymen through
out the nation to hold special
services to urge the senate to
ratify the now pending trea-
ties.
YV0MAX WHO CHARGES HE KEPT
HER A PRISONER FOR FIFTEEN
MONTHS, NEARLY COLLAPSES
WHH HK IS SK1TVO FW'ING
HER.
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San Bernardino', Cal.,' Nov. 21.'
Shaking, with fear, Dv; A W. McOa-
vitt, "the man with the terrible eyes
was literally carried Into Superior
Judge Bledso's courtroom ' today td
stand trial on the charge of holding
Miss Jessie McDonald, a local hieh
school girl,' a captive for 15 months
tin a room adjoining his office. With
her - little son, Arthur, on her knee,
Miss McDonald was seated in the
courtroom when McDavit, a former
prominent local dentist was brought
in. Given a seat directly facing his
alleged victim, McDavitt slowly fast
ened his big "eyes" on Miss McDon
aid. ,
"Oh, those eyes." she shrieked.
"Those terrible eyes. For heaven's
sake, take me away. I cannot stand
them, they make me ' 'cold all over,
and then I feel like my body is Rim
ing to stone."
Fearing the girl would become
hysterical, the prosecutor secured
permission from the court allowing
Miss McDonald to remain away from
the courtroom until called to the
stand to tell her story. Then Mc
Donald will be removed to an ad
joining room.
The venire from which a jury will
be selected Is composed of sturdy
farmers from Redlands and Ontario.
The defense lost the first skirmish
today when the court refused to dis
miss the venire on the ground that
the undersherlff summoning them
was prejudiced against the accused
man.
OFFICERS
SHOOT MAN
ON SUSPICION
f UNITED PBESS LF.ASEt WIRE.
Vancouver, Wash., Nov. 21.
Shot down by officers, who suspected
that he was the man who wounded
Sheriff Ira Cresap in a pistol duel In
the railroad yards lust. Wednesday
niKht. John Hendinks. a profession-
it I tramp, known to the police. Is in
tii- county jail hep' today, vtnili'at-
eil of the charge.
Hendricks will lie utribV to leave
soon, however, as the wound in his
side is serious.
H rid ricks was shot by a deputy
sheriff near Vancouver. The officer
failed to dc-:ire his authority, ac
cording to Hendricks, and shot, he
savs, without warning. A full charge
of buckshot entered Uendricks' side.
fiuilty of Maiiniitiigliter.
(CNITED PBESS LEASED Willi. J
Sheli)y liie. Ind., Nov. 21. f'has.
K. Van I'elt, brother-in-law of Unit
ed States Snator John D. Works, of
California, was cfuvicu-d of man--'.;iu;hter
her- today, as the result of
the d ath of ( hurles Tindall, an at
1,1 nev. shot in the streets here last
i,i,;,Ht. The manslaughter verdict
ciiiies a sentence ;f from two to
21 v-urs.
All (Iff Willi Iteattie.
Richmond. Va.. Nov. 21. All
hope of a reprieve for the condemned
n;an vanished this afternoon, when
(iov'nor Mann declared.
'The Beatrix ra is absolutely
dosed, so far as I am concerned.
Thi3 is. final."
THE TRIAL
OF NT
HAS BEGUN
The Way the Law Works.
Olympia, Wash.. Nov. 21.
The state Industrial insurance
commission awards 17659.35
to relatives of the eight girls
killed in the Imperial powder
mill explosion at Chehalls.
Under the law.it will come
out of funds, produced by the
powder companies of the state.
and the Dupont company, the
largest of the throe powder
plants, says It will refuse to
pay its assessment, as it would
be paying the largest portion
of the bill made by Its -rival
company.
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I0DY IVflS
Borjy of Murdered Ben Good-
.': man Found in the Gutter
". Buried Under Pile of Grape
,'. Pomace. j
DEAD TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Mimk-red Man Was Jewelry Sale,
man and Carried $.1000 Worth of
Samples Was . Last Heard ()(
Saturday Evening, When He
Tulkd-d to Ills Employers Over the
I'hone Hody Was Discovered by
Accident,
San Francisco, Nov. Vil. -The body
of Benjamin Goodman, -a Jewelry
salesman of this city. -who has been
missing since Saturday evening, was
found this morning on a pile of pom
ace. The spot chosen for the dispo
sition of the body is a deei)' gutter,
where the corpse was dumped and
covered by many pounds of crushed
grape skins. The action of the wind
and the heavy tralllc at tha crossing,
one of the- outlets of the wholesale
district, is thought to have worked
the covering loose no that a foot pro
truding through tlie slimy mass act
ed as a signal to MDtoti dale, em
ployed in a wholesale house.
Gale, passing the spot, was about
to kick at the shoe when his gaze
was fastened by the leg extending
out of the pomace. Hastily scraping
off the covering, he exposed the
body, and then the bloody face and
crushed head.
The coroner's office was notified.
At the morgue It was found that the
man had been dead at least 2 hours.
Missing Since Sntnrday,
At 5:30 o'clock Saturday evening,
Goodman communicated with his em
loyer, and told of a sale he had in
view In the section where his body
was found. Since then neither his
relatives, friends nor employers
heard anything from him or learned
of the slightest clue as to his where
abouts until Gale's grewsome And to
day. Goodman, an expert salesman nnd
in whom his employers imposed the
highest trust, was allowed to carry
with him a case containing loose
gems and set stones valued at over
$.',000. Uesldes this he wore a dia
mond ring valued at $700, a small
stick pin with a chip diamond, a
horse hair fob and a costly watch.
Only the stickpin remained in his
clothing.
It was learned that the pomnce
which covered the corpse was only
cast Into the street yesterday morn
ing and was to he taken away today.
The harbor police station Is locat
ed only two blocks from the spot
where the corpse was uncovered
Ills Kelullii- olllieil.
Stockton. Cal.. Nov. 21. The first
news of the finding of Ilenjamin
flfwwhnnn'd Itrtflv u:m rurrtoil In l.iu
brother anil sister Joseph and Hess
Goodman, at Goodman's Jewelry
store, here by a United Press repre
sentative today.
"We received a telephone message
last night stating that Hen had been
missing since .Saturday and that foul
play was feared,' said Joseph Good- j
man. "My mother and father and t
ury sister left, for San Francisco this
morning to search for him. IJen was
married to Miss Verve, of Ran Jose,
two years ago. They have a little
baby."
Young O'l.car)' s Scrapper.
IOXITCI) l'HE UIW WK
New York, Nov t 21. Young
O'I.eary, the New York featherweight,
did not have the satisfaction of meet
ing his old enemy. Jimmy Carroll, of
San Francisco here, but he Is today
the possessor of a popular derision
over Kid Wagner He out-clevered
his opponent, meeting the latter's
leads with a succession of right and
left Jolts.
KKrtiiig .Hail IMmkI.
(dxitsp riM LUitn win 1
New . York. Nov. 21. Wm. H.
Riimell, preldent and rblef'owner
of the Boston National league base
ball club, died hero today.
DOM It!
THE GUTTER
ROCKEFELLER
lull
SED TO
The lleef Packer.
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Chicago, Nov. 21. Counsel
for the beef packers who are
being prosecuted for vlolatlou
of the criminal .'cause of the
Sherman anti-trust law did the
unexpected again today, when
.they appeared before United
States Circuit Judge Kohlsaat
and moved for an Immediate
entry of his decision quashing
thelr writs of habeas corpus
and "granting their appeals.
Kohlsaat granted their request.
On Saturday the attorneys for
the packers . protested , against
the Immediate entry of this or-
der, evidently with the Idea that
they might gain time for a new
coup. .,
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ASKKI TO TAKE A BUGGY 1UHK
IJV RIC(JUl), SHK WAS TAKKV
TO A BOXPIHK, ST1UPPK AND
TAItllKIl,
Lincoln Center, Kan., Nov. 21.
With calm demeanor, her voice emo
tionless and her eyes Axed steadily
upon her father and mother' ,ua they
sat before her In the crowded court
room. Miss Mary Chamberlain, the
pretty school teacher, took , the stand
today at the trial of three of the IS
men accused of tarring and feather
ing her, and told the story of the out
rage of August 7, last.
The witness declared that she was
taken to a bonfire by masked men,
stripped from the waist down, and
the tar applied to her bare flesh.., .
Asked why she a did not call for
help, she replied: "I- did call. I
screamed. Hicord, who was escort
ing me, remained hidden In the
bushes nearby, and did not re-appear
until It was all over." .
Miss Chamberlain recited her en
gagement with Edward Rlcord, tne
barber and village . beau, his insis
tence that she accompany him, his
strange actions as they neared the
rendezvous, the sudden appearance
of a man who pointed a pistol at the
side of the buggy, her frantic appeal
to -Rlcord and his hasty retreat Into
the bushes.
The teacher said that when she had
been tarred and feathered and the
masked men, had left, Rlcord re
turned from the bushes, helped her
Into her clothing and drove her home.
Hicord. shortly nfte'r this time,
openly boasted of having received a
considerable sum of money for de
coying the girl to the' rendezvous,
and later testified to the same effect.
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DISTURBED
SALVATION
ARMY MEETING
Is Salem to have a free speech
campaign carried on by the I. W. W."
Is the iiuestlon being asked on every
corner. I.lttle knots of Idle men are
beginning to congregate In the down
town portion df the city and this
' morning they overflowed Judge Welt
I ster s court room when one of their
i number was brought up for trial on
the i liiugK of disturbing one of the
Salvation Army street meetings.
A few weeks ago two young fel
lows were arrested by the police for
being out after 10:30. They felt
themselves badly treated and are now
trying to get even on the city by
telling offhelr troubles on the street
corners I hey soon had a following
of men who bad nothing else to do
but follow, and one of their meetings
was so close to that of the Salvation
Army that those people complained to
the police and Clark was arrested.
He was able to give ball nnd when
brought into court uskei for a Jury
trial which was granted him. The
n utter of selecting the Jury took up
most, of the morning and as the
crowd which was anxious to hear the
case could not be accomodated in the
little office of Judge Webster, the
court adjourned to the circuit court
rooms, where the Jury was Impaneled
this afternoon.
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A rainy day Is a good time to re
pair and oil up Urn extra harnens
used during the harvest season.
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Our colleges are crowded, and our
children are crammed, but neither
benefits from the experience.
Glnt TELLS
OF BRUTAL
HAD
ROADS
COHCEAL OVERCHARGES
ENGINEER SAYS HE PADDED
VALUES UP TO $8,000,000
TO FOOL COMMISSIOIIERS
Swears This Was Done by Rockefeller's Order and Was Done
to Fool the Railroad Commissioners and Make' the
Freight. Rates on Ores From the Mines Mere "Reason
able" Earnings on the Capital Invested He Also Says
That Old Rocky Benevolently Assimilated, His, the Engin-
., eers', Stock in the Road.
IcNiTio ruii Laai wns.l
, Washington. Nov, 21 That he
paddedj-eports of a railroad to hide
Its earnings under the personal In
structions of John D. Rockefeller's
attorney, and that the oil king some
how , "absorbed" aome valuable
stocks he held was the burden of
testimony today by C. H. Marti, an
engineer who constructed the Du
luth, Mesnba & Northern railroad,
testifying before the Stanley con
gressional committee, which la In
vestigating the steel trust.
Manx detailed the facts of Rocke
feller's securing control of the road
and then said after the road was put
In Rockefeller's brands he was In
structed to make a report padded to
show that the road was valued at
8,000,000. , ,
"The report," Marti testified,
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Shot for Renting Ilrother'l Wife.
Kelso. Wash., Nov. 21. Shot by
W. McRobprtu, his .brother-in-law,
Henry Radcllff, an employe at the
lumber cujiip of the Inman-I'oulsan
company, died here from his wounds
today. McRoberts was arrested pend
ing an Investigation of the story told
by him and other members of the
Rancllff and McRoberts,famlllcB.
According to McRoberts, Radcllff
was beating the wife of his .brother,
James Radcllff, when McRobertB In
terfered, The men quarreled and Radcllff,
It Is said, ran to his home and se
cured a gun for the purpose of shoot
ing McRoberts.
When he emerged from the house,
carrying a shotgun, McRoberts shot
him through the head with a rifle.
Knifc-d 11 In Spiw.
Tacomn, Nov. 21. After spend
ing $ 2 n 0 , his savings of months In
the logging camps, In threo short
weeks, Martin Hansen, a logger,
Ithrew himself into the bay Inst night
His body was discovered today.
Hansen has a wife In Norway that
he was Intending to send for with the
$250. '
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President Wiglitly III.
Washington Nov. 21. Though
the condition of President Tsft Is
much Improved today, every precau
tion Is being taken, and the presi
dent was forbidden by his physi
cian to go to his desk. As a renult
of this the cabinet meeting today
wns hepl n the White House li
brary. o
THOUSANDS
REGISTERED
ILLEGALLY
fiiHiTien vkhh miasm wtnal
ls Angeles, Nov. 21 -With the
general municipal election but two
weeks away, supporters of (leorgn
Alexander, the good government can
didate, and those of Job lliirrliuan
the Socialist and union labor nomi
nee, tills afternoon admit that the
uncovering of alleged wholesale
fraudulent registrations Is likely to
figure hugely In the result of the
balloting on December 5. To ascer
tain the Identity of persons responsi
ble for the Illegal registration, a
force of detectives connected with
district attorney's olllce, started a
house to house canvass of the city
nnd thousand of votes. It Is admit
ted by both factions, will hinge on
the result of. their investigation.
The voters of the city want ti
know which party. If either. Is re
"oonslble for the registration scan
dal. At a conference which lasted all
'nrenoon between Reiirewiitallves nf
the flood 'Government party, Social
ists. Police Chief Sebastian, Assis
tant District Attorney Hunna and
County Clerk 1-Iand,, evidence was
developed to show that hundreds of
Illegal voters had been Imported from
San Francisco and Nevada, but no
accusations were made against par
Men or persons It will be the work
of the detectives to ascertain the
guilty parties.
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The civil service system, as It
now ex'its, and is too often admin
istered. In a city of refuge for me
diocrity and Inefficiency
VALUE
"wag submitted to the Minnesota
state railroad committee, In order
to show that, the freight rate
charged on ore represented a reason
able return on the mony Invested,
and were not exorbitant. I padded
the report under Instructions from
George Murray, Rockefeller'! per
sonal counsel."
Marts said he at one time person
ally owned 19 shares of the com
pany's stock, and that he turned
over his holdings, without endorsing
them, whon told to do so, in order to
raise money with which to build a
branch line, when the company waa
forced to sell its stock as security.
He understood that his shares went
to Rockefeller's olllce.
But they never came back. He
(Continued on Page 6.)
OFFERS TO
SELL LOCKS
FOR $450,000
PKESIDEMT OF THE P. B. L. t P.
OFFER TO TUB5T OYER THE
CANAL AND LOCKS AT OREGOX
CITY FOR A DOVE SUM.
The state canal board met today
and accepted,, as far as It Is con
cerned, the offer made by President
Jossolyn, of the Portland Railway
Light and Power company to sell the
company's locks at Oregon City.
President Josselyn's proposition,
while not authorized by the company
but which he Bays It will accept. Is to
sell the locks for $4.r0,000 and to
provide power Humes for the paper
mills located noar the locks. This
will be a saving of 1100,000 over the
company's first offer which was to
sell the locks for $000,000, and put
In all tho necessary Improvements.
It Is estimated that the costof put
ting tho old locks In first class con
dition will not exceed $100,000. If
this offer is satisfactory to th gov
ernment, it will give good elflclent
locks In a reasonable length of time
nnd will do away with all litigation
und unnecessary delays. The secre
tary of tho board was Instructed to
take the matter up with the govern
ment, und It Is probable that It
will be heard from In a short time.
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i SCAMH VIVIAN' IMMIGRATION
TI'KNKD TO THIS SECTIOX
On account of the advertising In
the Scandinavian language by the
board of trade nnd the establishment
of the Swedish church nnd the co
operation of the pastor, Itev. John
(Mall, a number of Scandinavian
families have already come to this
vhlnltv looking for homes. This is
only the beginning for a host of oth
ers are planning to come In the near
future. With the Scandinavian home
builder our country will rapidly de
velop, and thereby the city us well
as the surrounding country, will en
Joy prosperity.
SOCIALISTS
STAY UP NIGHTS
JUST TO TALK
Portland, Ore., Nov. 1M. Fearing
that free speech win Jeopardized In
Portland bemuse two experlencd
Socialist speakers had been ordered
off a street last night while making
addresses, local Socialists, headed by
Julius Knlpsel. nil organizer, held a
street meeting at 1 o'clock th's
warning the patrolmnn on
the beat not to Interfere, Knipsel
talked for an hour to a larg-? crowd
that turned out to listen.
The polke did not disturb the
speaker, who purposely talk vj as
long as he cou'd.