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JK GILBERT SAYS DECISION. f?f-" mm:
!x . fined Dendinz nn nnimnl fr, . '
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if HELD liOCEfiT BUYERS
SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED
DOES HOT PROTECT FRAUD
: 7ne Judge Admits That He is J. Thorburn Ross' Brother-in-!
Law. But That the Case Had Nothina to Dn With Him
! (jis Troubles Judge Gilbert's Son and Daughter Acted as clty
i n,.imiAn frte Dncc Put Afhnn 4lnA LiJma I - i
i uimiiiiico "i nuoo, uui linen me juuyu Learnerj u He Had
1 Them Cancel Their Entries and Return the Money Ad-
vanced by Ross to Them.
' Furth (iots Big Job. 4.
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i Seattle uiok o . .
T -urth, president of the Seattle
Electric rnmnnnu 1
v.,,,, a8 Decn f
elected president of the Pjiret
Sound Traction Llghtand Power
company, a $40,000,000 corpora-
, - uoa wmcn 18 about to take over
(the properties in the Pacific
i Northwest, managed by Stone
and Webster, of Boston, Mass.
t iieaflminrtaro rin i i ,n.
j ISITBD rilESS LEASHD WI11E.
j in Francisco, Feb. 24. Admitting
it his son and daughter had acted
i dummy eiitryinen in the alleged
itrauds ot his wife's brothor-in-'.7,
J. Thorburn Ross, of Portland,
in W. B. Gilbert, of the United
m circuit' court of appeals today
jiinfd his part in the case,
j J. Thorburn Ross Is the husband of
iiW sister," he said. "When he
engaged In his land transactions
1 my son and daughter, without
' siting me, acted as entrymen for
, i They filed on clalniB and paid
a dqioilU. I am sure thoy were
'. ig honestly. Upon learning of the
,!ir I Investigated, and, finding
t in my opinion, the transactions
.41 tot legal, I compelled my son
ifaghter to refund their deposits
loncel their claims.'
Gilbert denies statements that
; wot decisions of his, In which he
i that any one buying land from
. wn who had obtained it by fraud
not responsible for theu fraud,
, Mart as a precedent to help free
m, Mi relative, lie also denied that
: 'mid permit the use of dummy en
'w by corporations, any more
,'jusubeen the case in the past
'. 'tore may be corporations," he
"which will obtain lund by fraud,
rt dummy entrymen, who them
a nil obtain the land for their
, W by fraud. My decision sim
protected the innocent buyer of
' tained through fraud, who was
fsniiant of the fund. No matter
, '! y personal opinion in a case
Mmust follow the decisions
of the United States supreme court in
such matters, and I did this. The su
preme court has already decided that
the buyer or land fraudulently ob
tained shduU not be held responsible
for the fraud? My decision haB not
changed the law a particle, nor has It
been a new Interpretation. It could
not possibly be used In Hi A Ptl DO nt
Robs."
THE WOOnilEX HAD
A PLEA8AM1 ETEMXC
A good time was had at the
Steeves' hall last night by the Wood
men of the World. It was In the na
ture of a celebration In honor of the
work done by W. B. Holdlman, dis
trict manager of this large and pros
perous order. Mr. Holdlman has
done Pxtrnslvo work here for the last
six months, which .has resulted In
there being about 100 applications
for membership to the local lodge.
The meeting last night was a high
ly enjoyable one, there being a musi
cal and literary program rendered,
which was followed by Ice cream and
cake, served by the ladies of the
auxiliary order. Henry St. Helens,
Mrs. E. C. Wells and the Woodman
quartet took part in the program.
Worse Than MeNniimnis.
Springfield, III., Feb. 24. The Illi
nois miners' convention today adopted
resolution branding the action of the
militia and the police at Lawrence a
"damnable outrage," and declaring
that by such actions "are McNaninra
outrages prompted."
THE MOOSE
WILL TAKE
DOTH FLOORS
The trustees of the Moose lodge, A.
G. Magers, William Wolf and George L.
Frazure, had a meeting" yesterday af
ternoon at which It was practically
agreed to take the two upper floors of
the building to be constructed at the
northwest corner of High and Court
streets. This settles the matter of the
size and height of the building to be
constructed by Messrs. F. N. Derby and
f. J. irky on their premises at the
above location. The building will be
about 80 feet wide and 90 feet long
north and south and will be three
stories high. The lodge room for the
Moose lodge will be fitted uu and fur
nished In an elegant manner, and when
complete and furnished will be the fin
est In the Northwest. There will be a
lodge room, a banquet room, reception
room for the ladies and a club room.
Workmen are now at work moving the
building off the ground and construc
tion will begin on the building in a
short time.
o
Hark In the Pen
J. P. Slvener, penitentiary trusty
who escaped, Is back. At Seattle he
wrote Supt. James that he was "gone
from Oregon forever." Imbibing too
freely soon afterward, he fell asleep
and awakened in jail.
t nnea pending an anneal (mm
sentence of five years' imnrinon.
nnt at San Quentln for falsify-
'IK a report of the bank to the
state bank examiner. 4
Nash some days ago begged to
be. removed to his home so that
he might be spared the disgrace
f of death In a Jail. -Permission
was granted by Judee nmmo
but It came too late.
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Juiler la Contempt.
'
Seattle, Feb. 24. Allan Stark,
head Jailer at the King county
Jail, has been notified to be pre-
pared to answer a charge of
contempt ot court In allowing a
federal prisoner, sentenced tn
POESIflEOT
on it
AS FALSI
Says the Statement That He
Said "the American People
Were Not Fitted for Self-
Government" is a Deliberate
Lie.
HIS ENEMIES CIRCULATE IT
And SeuHntloniil Sicnspapers I'luy It
Up, But It Has No Foundation, Hut
Was Created Out of Whole Cloth
What He 8nld Was (llren Correctly
In Press Kcporln, and Is as Appears
Below.
DeDartment of Agriculture.
WEATHER BUREAU.
WILLIS L. MOvKb, Uilef.
f 1NTT 10 WILLIS L. MOUKfc, UlW. I f
i v .i'2dl p, '4L'
nd Vicinity: Fair
and Sunday. Est.
'y winds.
'. ItXPUANATORV NOTB
l-'-Jufc."!!?. l m.. 1Mb Mrth. Ilm,. Air nreur. re-luced Iom Iwrt J!J&tfnffiWj
JtWi O "oll'oriin (UotU'd lines) pas lUrouuh p,ilnu of equllerapriure, , " '"
1,-U'Cl0Ud'; riu: .now: report mltn. AwtoMtowlui rMto
B four,; second, proclplutln of .01 Tncb or more for p.M M bour,; tlilrd. mwla-um wind velocllf.
j
; iloa . ForecaHt Till 5 p. m. Sunday.
I 8,1 Washington: Fair toulght a.id Sunday. Easterly winds.
h,m , Shippers' Forecast.
. '"ipraenti n. f, .u ... .iimm teninerature of almut 32 degrees,
u"east to Boise, 18 degree; south to Siskiyou. 20 degrees. Minimum
T'rtt. .bout 32 degrees.
m. Rlrer Forecast
ie next iwq ur im
EDWARD A. BEAL8, Wtrict Torwaster
northeast
temieratur
'tllf ' ,hr..dVi.
-' .iver at Portland will ntntlnua to fall slowly ror me uon v-v
UNITED riCERS I.RAHED Willi.
Washington, Feb. 24. Flat denlnl of
charges that he had said that thi
American people are unfitted for self-
government was made by President
Taft today In an official statement is
sued from the White House. The
statement follows:
"Among the falsehoods assiduously
circulated by persons and papers op
posing President Taft is one that in
his Lincoln day speech the President
argued that 'the people are not fitted
for self-government.'
"The President said nothing on that
occasion which could possibly be tor
tured Into such construction. The
speech In which the president refer
red to popular government was deliv
ered at a banquet of the New York
State Bar association January 20.
What he then said on this subject
and It was correctly quoted In the
newspapers on the following day, was
" 'Popular government we all believe
In. There are those of us who do not
believe that all the people are fitted
for popular government. Th fact is,
we know they are not. Some of us do
not (In re say so, but I do, and the ques
tion whether a people Is fitted for self
government, so as to mak government
for that iieople. Is determined by the
ability of the majority ot that peoplo
to place iiion Itself the restraint by
which the minority shall receive Jus
tice from the majority, It is the ques
tion of self-imposed restraint that de
termines whether a people Is fitted to
govern Itself." "
Imprisonment, to have tempor-
ary liberty outside the walls of
the Jail... Thomas Cheatham,
Junior first officer of the Orlen-
tal liner Minnesota, Is the pris-
oner referred to In the com-
plaint. :
WILL BUILD
ANOTHER
FII1E DDICK
BOTH (JKOt'ERV COMPANY mrvs
SITE OX LIBERTY 8TREET AND
WILL ERECT A THREE-STORY
BRICK FOR THE STORE'S HEW
HOME.
A deal was consummated today by
which the Roth Grocery company ac
quires title to the lot on Liberty
street Just south of Ye Liberty thea
ter. The lot is 42 by t65 feet and
the purchase was made Tor a future
home for the above-named firm. The
price paid Is $10,000 and Is almost
$400 a front foot. This Is considered
a good bargain for the Roth com
pany by real estate men.
The Roth Grocery company will
improve the property by the con
struction of a three-story building
and will occut the entire lower
floor from Liberty street to the al
loy for salesrooms and store room.
The second and third stories will be
for offlce purposes and lodging house
purposes.
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THE IIURSE
REPUDIATES
, COIIFESSIOIi
THOUSANDS OF IflBfflflT
PROTESTS SEHT GOVERHOR
TOSS -FROM PARIFifi MAST
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Militia is Used at Behest of Ma nufacturers to Prevent Textile
strikers Sending Their Children Out of the CityBy Keep
ing the Children the Companies Hope to Starve the Strikers
Into Submission Strikers Allege the Chief of Police Tales
His Orders From the Mill Owners.
lONITIR FltfBHH
New York, Feb.
of a confession In
ted responsibility
1.MHKD wmit.l
24. Repudiation
which she admlt
for the death of
ALEXANDER (LARK
CROSSES THE IHVIDE
After an illness of 10 days, Alex
ander Clark, an aged resident of Sa
lem, died at his rluldenn at the
Ieonard hotel on Front street at
12:30 this morning, the cause of his
death being peritonitis, from which
he had suffered Intennely for a per
iod of 48 hours before his death.
Mr. Clark was 71 years old last
Tuesday and has lived In Salem 3
years.
He Is survived by his widow and
Miss Nellie Clark, (he only child,
who were both at the beduldo at the
time of bis death.
eight Infants at the Brooklyn nur-
sory and Infants' hospital by oxalic
acid poisoning, was made here today
by Winifred Ankers, an attendant at
the Institution. In asserting that the
confession was false from beginning
lo end, Miss Ankers charges that the
statement was extorted from her by
the "biflldoiting tactics of Detective
James Klrby." In the confession al
leged to have been made by the
young woman last night she was
made to say that she killed the In
fants by putting oxalic acid In milk
prepared for them. The confession
was repudiated by Miss Ankers when
a formal charge of murder was
lodged against her today.
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OWL CONSTRICTION CO.
MAKE HOSE CIIAMJES
Thore lins been a reorganization of
the Owl Construction company. Under
the new reglmo A. II. Cook, recently of
Chlwtgo, III., Is In charge of the Insur
ance department, and will be able to
handle that part of the work very ably.
he has had a great deal of exig
ence nlong that line.
M K.. Ferdinand will have charge of
the real estatu and I). O. Barron will
have charga of the contract work.
The rooms have been thoroughly
renovated, and new furniture put In
place, and everything looks Inviting.
united riutsa liasib wiiii.j
Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 24. When
strikers tills morning undertook to
send children to outBlde nolnta where
frieuds would takit care of them, they
were stopped by the police, and when
strikers inslstod, they were unmerci
fully beaten by the militia.
Each child sent to the station bore
a card stating that the bearer had re
ceived the consent of the pareut that
It should be taken from tho cltv.
Folb.vlng the arrest ot eight wo-1
men, five men and ten children ut the
station, Marshal Sullivan ordered the
arrest of other strikers,- bringing tho
total of arrests up to 75, Including
men, women and children.
Arrested on Petty Charges.
The charges against the strikers
vary, most of them being charged with
obstructing the sidewalks and asBawlc
Ing police officers. The strikers were
arraigned In police court, scores of
soldiers and police surrounding the
court house during the hearing.
Hundreds of messages, denouncing
the action of the militiamen and police
were received here today by the mnj -or
of Lawrence. Marshal Sullivan Is
the object of scores of additional tele
grams, the burden of the messages bo-
lng that the mnrshin Is entirely unfit
ted for the position he holds.
Citizens Indignant.
The citizens of Lawrence are Indig
nant at the treatment accorded the
women and children by the orders of
the marshal, and It Is very probable
that they will take Immediate action
to secure his discharge from the police
department, even If more serious
charges against him do not follow.
When pressed for some reason for his
action today, Sullivan refused to Vx-
plaln.
'They are not going to ship' these
children away frhm Lawrence," was
the only comment he would make.
The children, for tho most part, are
chargod with obstructing the side
walks, while the parents are charged
with assault.
The police this afternoon are keep
ing everyone on the streets moving,
and declare they have received orders
to arrest any one openly criticising
their actions. Such persons, It was
announced, would be thrown Into Jail
and charged with Inciting a riot.
Would Force Children Back.
The strikers, nevertheless, do 'not
hesltnte to tell the police that they are
receiving their orders direct from the
mill owners, and not from the mayor
of Lawrence. They openly charge that
today's brutalities were ordered by
the textile operators, who are deter
mined to break the strike at any cost,
and even though they have to do It by
the starvation route.
Assistant Marshal Samuel Ixwnn
this afternoon declared that the police
would bring back Immediately the chil
dren alrendy sent out of the city, and
that the local branch of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
would apply to (he courts of New York
and Vermont for a ruling ordering the
return of (he children, (o Uwrence.
States guarantees to the people tho
right of liberty. Women of Lawrence
have the right to take tholr children
out of Massachusetts If they see fit.
Judging by your failure to uphold the
constitution they ought to do so."'
Seattle Protests.
Seattle, Feb. 24. The Seattle Star
today sent a telegram to Governor.
Fobs, of Massachusetts, protesting
against the hlgh-handod methods em
ployed by the militiamen under him,
to prevent the sending of children of
strikers to homes where they can be
properly cared for during the strike.
Tnroniu Indignant
Tacoma, Feb. 24. Aroused bv thu
atrocious attacks of the militia and
police on defenseless men and women
strikers ! the Lawrence textile strike,
the people of Tacoma are todny wiring
emphatic protests to Governor Eugene
E. Fobs, of Massachusetts, Following
Is a telegram sent bv the Tnrnmn
Times:
"Eugene N. Fobs, Governor of Massa
chusetts, Boston:
"This paper emphatically protests in
the name of humnnlty agaliiBt attacks
on mon, women and children by po
lice and militia at Lawrence, and
against the denial of unquestioned con
stitutional rights. Believe It your
duty to put a stop to such un-Amorl-
can acts. TACOMA TIMKS."
Aroused to boiling Indignation, pri
vate citizens and organizations are al
so telegraphic protests.
Congress Will Art.
Washington, Feb. 24. A congres
sional Investigation of the strike of
textile workers at Lawrence, Mass..
where men, women and children arc
being beaten and arrested by mil It la
and police, and their constitutional
guarantees disregarded ,,ls corlnln.
Chairman WIlsou, of the house com-
mlttoe on labor, today wired President
Golden, of the textile workers union,
for an official statement of today's po.
lice action. On receiving It. ho will at
once order his committee to Investigate.
. (ioiernor Is drilled.
Portland, Ore., Feb. 24. Shocked by
(be report of tyrannical treatment of
textile strikers who were clubbed by
inllltlumen at Lawrence today, E. O.I
Sawyer, editor of the Portland News,
today, at the behest of scores of cltt-
Somr "Big Business."
Denver, Colo.. Feb, 24. "Illg busi
ness 1ms simply thrown off, Its mask,
and Is working In the open," said
Judge lien Lindsay here today, dis
cussing the situation in Lawrence.
Similar action," ho continued, "on
tho part of the strikers would he de
nounced as anarchy. Tho world Is
startled when forces of greed use the
police and soldiers to capture little
children, and use their sufferings to
enslave their parents.
"It Is horrible, brutal and unchris
tian, but it Is whut the exploiters of
child labor and man labor are dolus In
every section of the country. The only
difference Is (hut tho mill owners are
doing It openly.
"Clearly these children and their trn-
tents nre being denied tlis rights guar
anteed by the constitution, but the con
ailtullon has long ce&aed to mau
much when dollars and privilege have
depended on Its violation.
"These children probably will not
miss the constitution, they havs
missed so muc halready. nig business
every whoro Is brutal, and everywhere
depends on the needs of little children
Governor Foss. of Massachusetts:; t0 lrr,rl" PreH Into submitting to
Tim constitution of the United)
(CoBtlaaod qq Pf I.)