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Newspaper Page Text.. ft VOL. XXII. SALEM OREC9N, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1012. NO. 278. yuLTtlOilll COUNTY AS A ATTOK EY CONDUCT OF THE DISTRICT ATTOftNEY S OFFICE WILL DE CLOSELY IIIQOIBED IIITO Judge Morrow Takes Matter Decide Late This Afternoon He Is Somewhat in Doubt as to His Legal Right to Do So--Testimony Was Taken by It Today as to the Conduct of the District Attorney's Office, and as to Whether or Not That Official Has Tried to En . -force the Laws. UNHID PRESS LEASED WIKB.J Portland, Ore., Aug. 29. Examining several witnesses, among them Gov ernor West, the Multnomah county grand Jury, without the guidance of a district attorney, today began a probe cf vice in Portland. It was slated that the witnesses teiitlfled, regarding the conduct of the district attorney's office, especially with reference lo cases where it was alleged no effort to prosecute had been made. After holding a short session the fjrand Jury, at the request of Gover nor West, requested Judge Morrow, of ARRESTED FjOR BANK ROBBERY WALTER DAVIS AM) WOMAN AL LEGED TO BE HIS WIFE IX CUSTODY ON CHARGE OF ROB BING MONTREAL BANK OF 271, 000. OMITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. New Westminster, B. C, Aug. 29. Another step In the Bank of Montreal robbery case was made when Walter Davis and a woman alleged to beb bis wife were brought to the city on a late train from Toronto, Ont., last night by Police Constable Walters, cf the local police force, and Detec tive Fraser, of the Plnkerton agency, and lodged In the provincial Jail. The officers left Toronto last Saturday night with the two suspects, who were arrested several weeks ago with marked bills in, their possession, amounting to $2020. Davis and his wife will be ar raigned In the police court tomorrow morning, but It is likely a remand until September 5 will be asked by the prosecution. Charles Dean, an other suspect In the robbery case in which the Bank of Montreal was loot d of $271,000 a year ago, comes up Tor preliminary hearing on the same !ay. lOl'NG MAN BITTEN BY DEAD RATTLESNAKE UNITED mMS LEASED WIBR.l Unity, Or., Aug. 29. What proved to be almost fatal was a rattlesnake bite received by Roy Varney, of McMlnn vllle. Friday afternoon. Mr. Varney was working on the Eldorado ditch, and finding a large rattlesnake cut it Into six pieces. He then picked up the piece with the- head, measuring about four inches and together with some companions on the ditch was examin ing the head. He pried its mouth open with his hand and in some manner his hand slipped and the snake's fangs pierced his thumb and forefinger. He walked the two miles distance to camp first binding his hand tight to stop circulation and trying to suck the poison from the wounds all the way. Ho refused to drink any llriuor, the usual cure in camps, saying if he was going to die he would rather die so ber than drunk. His hand was put in coal oil but his condition became so critical that he was taken to Willow Creek in a buggy. He was met at Mrs. Qulnn's ranch by Francis Rose In his automobile and conveyed to Malheur City, where he secured the services of Dr. Taylor and Is now reported out of , danger. Under Advisement and I the circuit court, to apoint a special j prosecuting atttorney to investigate ,the office of the district attorney. Judge Morrow stated he would decide whether or not to make bucIi an ap pointment lute this afternoon. He is somewhat In doubt as to his legal right to do so. Governor West today sent letters to Sheriff Stevens and Chief of Police Slovcr, notifying them that he had ap pointed Tom Word "special agent" for the state of Oregon In the vice campaign, and requested them to give 1 lilm such auslstance as possible BURGLARS GET BUSY AT PHILOMATH The Corvallls Gazette of Tuesday says: "Yeggmen, safe crackers,' bold ami bad highway robbers or would-be robbers entered five business houses at Philomath last night, but failed to get anything other than two old coins from the postofflce, and these were relics, keepsakes. The net re sult of the visit is four broken doors, a safe put out of commission and considerable excitement In the coun ty's western metropolis. The places entered were: Hason & Mason, hardware store. Postofflce. Gibbon & Sons, general store. Walters' butcher shop. Blacksmith shop. The attempted robber took place after 1 o'clock, it is believed, as per sons up at that time and In the vi cinity of the operations did not hear even the report of an explosion in the attempt tr oien the Gibbons safe. All of the places were entered from the rear and through the door In each Instance .except In the case of the Gibbons store, where they climbed a ladder and entered through an up stairs window. INSANE MAN THINKS JUDGE HAS ROBBED HIM Receiving a letter from G. A. Pcltz old, of Portland, which indicates that he Is mentally unsound as he declares that Judge Gantenbeln, circuit Judge of Multnomah county, has robbed him of bis home, and that he Intends to shoot him, Ralph Watson, private sec retary to Governor West, this morning called up the Judge and advised him of the contents of the letter, and also Its source. Peltzold's letter Is rambling. He says that the Judge has robbed him of his home, and that there are two ways of fighting for It through the courts, and by the use of a gun. The courts cost money, he says, and he has de cided In favor of the gun. He bates to follow out the latter course, as the judge has a family, and he has con cluded that he would give him one chance. This is to be by appealing to the governor to help him get bock his property, and then if he falls, he will go after the Judge, he says, like the boys of 1776 settled their scores. HIS WOMAN'S RIGHTS TALK WON A WIFE usrriD run lsaeed win J New York, Aug. 29. Because he ad vocated woman suffrage In a patriotic address of July 4th, last. Assistant District Attorney Herbert N. War. bosse, of Brooklyn, today owes the winning of Miss Bertha Bradley, of Oakland, Cat., whom he is to marry on September 27 at Woods Hole, Mass. Miss Bradley, a daughter of Corne lius Bradley, professor emeritus of the University of California, has long been an ardent suffragist GRAND JURY BE APPOIEITE . Grent Crush nt Funeral. Ixindon, Aug. 29. Owing to the crush of spectators at the funeral of General Booth today, the hearse reached the cemetery 30 minutes late. Thousands of persons fainted, and many suf- fered minor Injuries in the Jam. The crowd was the largest In the vicinity of the Salvation Ar- my headquarters, and most of the prostrations occurred there. Thousands of persons left the cemetery before the procession arrived. G. D. HILLIilAfi IS ACTIVE III PRISON CELL .MANAGES A DEAL BY WHICH HE SECURED A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF STOCK WITHOUT IT COSTING HIM A CENT. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 29. C. D. Hill man, the millionaire real estate man, who Is serving a two-year sentence at the McNeil Island penitentiary is again In the limelight as having engineered, it is alleged, through agents and em ployes, a gigantlo deal by which he se cured $1,000,000 worth of stock to him self in the American Investment and Improvement company without paying nny consideration for It. The com plaint Is made by George W. D. Lee, a brother of the former president of this company. He alleges that Hlllman rnd his brother. Homer, are In control now as the result of a loan made to D. H. I-ee, of $65,000. A mortgage on val uable suburban land was given for this and 3000 shares of stock. The complaint alleges that the treasury stock was divided botween the Hlllmans without paying anything for It Lee says that the company Is able to pay Its debts but that the Hlll mans plan to wreck the company so as to obtain the assets. The appoint ment of a receiver is asked. LUMBER COMBINE IS INVESTIGATED UNITED PRESS UASED WIKI.l 8eattle, Wash., Aug. 29. Cross-examination by Judge Milton D. Purdy of F. D. Becker, secretary of the Pa cific Coast Shipping association, oc cupied most of this morning's session in the hearing of the conspiracy charges against the Northwestern Lumber company and other retail lumber associations. Becker had giv en his direct examination yesterday afternoon. Purdy sought to show that the wholesalers refused to sell direct ly to consumers, not because of any understanding with the retail associa tions, but because it was "poor busi ness policy and unethical.'' Becker admitted that this was the case. He denied that there was any understanding or agreement to pre vent such sales, but that the whole salers and manufacturers In his as sociations were supplied with the In formation as to which houses were doing a retail business, and which did not come under that classifica tion, solely for their own teneflt Prosecutor McKercher, for the gov ernment, filed about 50 letters that passed between Decker and Secretary Mollis, of the Northwestern associa tion, In which attention is called to "unethical" firms. THE OREGON WOLF WON CHAMPIONSHIP UNITED PRESS UASED WIRE. Astoria, Ore., Aug. 29. The Oregon Wolf, piloted by John E. Wolff, to day won the motorboat championship of the Pacific coast, covering the 30. mile course In 60:45 4-5. The Wig wam wa second. The Oregon Wolf took the race easily, and could have made ranch faster time if she had been pressed. Railroad Talk Revived. . Marshfleld, Or., Aug. 29. Wal- ter E. Pierce, a railroad builder, of Boise, Idaho; J. M. Stevens, his engineer; H. M. Farren, re- cently of the Oregon & Southern railroad, and J. W. Ilosklns, a Roseburg capitalist, arrived here lnut night to look Into a proposl- tlon of building a road from Roseburg to this place. They have been at Roseburg and are hero to investigate conditions and see If there is sufficient business to warrant building a road, so Pierce announced at Roseburg. IS OPEUED Makes First Speech of Cam paign at Williams Grove, Pensylvania, Where State Grange Met This Morning. 1 IS GIVEN WARM WELCOME Ills Address Wiih Enthusiastically Re ceived by Hie Thousands of Dele gates, Gathered From All Parts of the SlaU', Who Acclaimed Him ns the Next President, of the United States He Screroly Criticised RoOHMPlt. UNITED PRESS IJtlHED WIRE.l Williams Grove, Pa., Aug. 29. The opening speech in his campaign for the presidency was made here today by Governor Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic nominee, In opening the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Grange. Wilson's address was enthusiastically received by the thou sands of delegates here from all parts of the state, who acclaimed him as ''the next president of the United States." The Democratic nominee at tacked Roosevelt and the Republican party, asserting that the Democrats should concentrate their efforts In Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio. Governor WIIboii said In part: "It 1s generally supposed that we are conducting national business along the lines laid down by Thomas Jefferson! but, as a matter of fact, we find that we have been conducting them along the lines laid down by Alexander Hamilton. Followers of Hamilton. "Hamilton believed that the com mon run of men had but little quali fication for such business, asserting that such matters could only be wise ly comprehended by those who led In commercial and Industrial enterpris es. And In our time the leadors of the Republican party have either con sciously or unconsciously adopted this notion. "They were our trustees, we their wards, and we took the part In com mon life that they planned and di rected. What went on In the meetings of the trustees we were not allowed to learn. As a matter of fact, we only found out by Impertinent questions, congressional Investigations and trlalB In court. We have not yet got to the end of the Inquiry, but found enough now to make It certain that we shall have to change the whole method and spirit of conducting the government. "It Is hard for a more farmer to see where his partnership Is recognized at all. U)W tariff duties have been established on many products of the farm, but no one seriously fears that the farmers of other countries could successfully compete in the food mar- ! I:ets of the United States with our farmers at home. HoonctpII for Protection. ''Roosevelt has proclaimed himself a convert to a protective policy. He said, while he admitted that some du ties were too high, on the whole the policy pursued by Republican admin. Istratlons had been right. He thought the prize money which had been re ceived under that system by the manufacturers of the country was le- (Contlsued oa Pact I.) BY SO BARLEY CROP A One-Mnn (internment, Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 29. Col onel Thedore Roosevelt's plan to solve the trust problem Is bitter ly denounced by William J. Bry an In the current Issue of the Commoner. "It la an audacious attempt," the editorial Bays, "to set up a one-man government. Roosovelt Is long on criticism, but short on construction. Ho can write a good Indictment of President Tuft but ho has not proposed a satis factory remedy. The truHt med icine he proposes is worse than the disease." DYIIAMITE PLANTERS INDICTED IEXTILE MILL MEN OF LAW RENCE. MASS- PLANTED EX PLOSIVES TO DISCREDIT STRIK ERSONE COMMITTED SUICIDE YESTERDAY. Boston, Aug 29. Indictments were returned', by the grand Jury today against several prominent textile men accusing them of "planting" dynamite during the labor troubles at Lawren ce, Mass., several months ago In an alleged attempt to discredit the strlk erg and to turn public feeling against the operatives. , The number of Indictments Is not known and the names of those against whom true bills were found are made. Ernest Plttman, member of the firm of W. W. Plttman and company, one of the largest In the textile trade of New England, committed suicide Tuesday afternoon following a con ference with District" Attorney Pel letler, which was said to have refer ence to the Lawrence dynamltlngs. Pelletler refused to say whether Pi tman's name was among those against whom he would ask Indict ments by the grand Jury. COHVALLIS & EASTERN IS IN GOOD SIIAI'E Railroad Commissioners Campbell and Miller returned last night from an Inspection of the eaBtern extension of the Corvallls & Eastern Rallrotid company, and, while they found the track In rough condition, they did not find any serlmiB defects. Certain rec ommendations looking to Its Improve ment have been forwarded to the superintendent of the nxid, and he has agreed to follow them out, Railroad Commissioner Miller, while returning from Albany, also In vestigated the circumstances sur rounding the death of Kay Palmer there last night, and found that the train men were not to blame for It. Palmer and another mun were riding Into Albany on a velocipede, und the Albany limited overtook them In a pass. They failed to Bee the train lie fore it was upon them, and Palmer's companion saved himself by leaping. Palmer, however, failed to get off the track, and was killed Instantly. As the train was coming around a curve, It was impossible for any of the train nif n to see the velocipede until the train was almoBt on it. WHALE CHOP IS SHORT! VOLCANOES RESPONSIBLE UNITE!! rHUII MIREO WIRE.l Seattle, Wash., Aug. 29. That the volcanic disturbance In AlaHka this year are accountable for the shortage of the whale catch In the north Pa cific waters, is the opinion of Captain Thomas Wilkinson, and Captain 11 Asset, of the whaler Patterson. Both are experienced whalers. They caught but 54 whales this year, compared with 187 last year. The eruptions, they claim, divert the small fish that drift with the tide and on which whales live, to other currents. GETS COD Of 0FTIIE1RTIIW CAPTURED THE DAYTOO POOL OF 125,000 SACKS AtlD HAS 90 PER CENT OF DREW GHAItJ Exporter Gets Control and Drives Shorts Wild When He Pur chased the Dayton Pool Price Paid Was $1.25 a Hun dred ,and Was the Highest in Years European Buyer's Will Probably Get Most of This Besides the Dayton Pool, Houser, the Man Who Purchased, Gathered 125,000 Sacks From Farmers. : One of the largest grain deals ever put through In the Paclflo Northwest came to light yesterday, Bays the Ore gonlan. By the purchase of the Day ton pool, M, H. Houser, tho exporter of tills city, practically secured a cor nor on all the brewing barley produc ed In this part of the country. Mr. Houser accomplished a similar feat laHt year and la credited with cleaning up a quarter of a million dollars by the operation. Last year he sold IiIb barloy In the east. This year he will export It. . Tho 1912 barley pool at Dayton con- tnlnnd about 125,000 sacks of brewing grade barley. For this Mr. Houser paid the farmers (1.25 a hundred, which Is the highest price paid for barley for export purposes In many years. At the close of last week tho Housi'r agents In the Dayton country bought up all the Individual lots' of choice barley to bo had, aggregating more than 120,000 bags. The total pur chase of more than 250,000 bags netted the hurley farmers of that section iu excess of $300,000. Europe Likely (Jets AH. It Is estimated by grain men that 90 per cent of the brewing barley in the Dayton, Wultsburg and Pomeroy sec tions has now passod Into the hands of Mr. Houser, who has also bought this quality In other districts. It Is probable that nearly all his purchases will go to Europe. The burloy crop abroad has suffered seri ous damage by recent unfavorable weather and European buyers are bid ding keenly for supplies here. It now looks as if they will have to come to Mr. Houser for what they want. The Europeans are only seeking the best brewing grade, With this quality now nearly all out of first hands, the excitement subsid ed yesterday In the Interior barley markets. A considerable quantity of weather dumaged grain remains un told, but there Is little demand, as yet, lor this. The Inferior grade barley will be used for feed purposes In the domestic markets. Shorts Panic Stricken. There was a rather large barley Hhort Interest In the northwest this year, and tho shorts, naturally, were panic stricken when Houser's exten sive buying operations became known. The attempts to cover added to the ex cllement In the big barley growing dis tricts of eastern Washington. Mr. Houser has by no means confin ed his attention to barley, as he has advanced this year to the position of the largest wheat exporter on the Pa cific coast, and probably In tho United States. It Is stated by competent au thorities that Houser has bought one. half of all the wheat that the farmers of Oregon, Washington and Idaho have sold so fur this season. As with the coarser cereal, Houser has pursued the policy of buying only choice grade. There Is u strung demand on the other ilde for firm, sound wheat, uud thh was bought In the early producing dis tricts. Hoimcr Huh Advantage. With a liberal supply of low -priced ships, which were, for the most part, chartered early In the season before the BhlMwners raised the rates, Hou ser bad a material advantage over MAY ACT SAME WAY ABOUT HEAVES tWrrlD PEEKS LSAEED WISE Sweet Home, Ore., Aug. 29. Keep ing his vow not to enter the church. Henry Gulhralth listened from the street, and heard his son, Rev. O. M. Galbralth, preach on his return here after 25 year' absence. Si some of tho other grain men whon It came to buying wheat. He has been nccuBcd by some of his competitors of plunging, but since bo lias the grain and tonnage in hnnd and there Is a Htrong engor market for American wheat In Europe, whore the crops are- not good, there appears to be plenty of method In his operations. The country wheat markets yostor dny were vory active, mid whenever tho furmors wore ready to sell they, found plenty of buyers. Prices were a cent hlghor than ore Tuesday and were about 5 cents a. biishel higher thun 10 days ago. DENTIST DISARMED HIS WIFE CULLED ALL HER UPPER FRONT TEETH BEFORE DICTATING BEB DIET AND CONDUCT-THEN SUED FOR DIVORCE ON INCOMPATIBIL ITY OF TEMPER. UNITED PRESS LE1IED WIU. Seattle, Wash.,' Aug. 29. That h pulled all her upper front teeth with out her consent and Imposed a diet of : one meal per day consisting of vegeta bles and nuts, Is the sensational reply made by Mrs. Florence E. Holcomb to the charges of Incompatibility filed by Dr. Augustus H. Holcomb, a dentist, who brought Biilt for divorce in July. Mrs. Holcomb describes her husband as "Idiotic and paranoiac." Dr. Holcomb was divorced In De cember, 1907, from his first wife, and. married his present wife In Juue, 1908. The first Mrs. Holcomb came lntu court on crutches to prosecute her case, and Dr. Holcomb was severely scored by the presiding Judge. CASE HAS COST H EARLY $I(HMMH ONITED PEEKS LEASED WINE. Soattle, Wash., Aug. 29. The at tempt to remove a receivership case from the state courts to the Jurisdic tion of ex-Judge C. II. Hanford, of the federal court, will cost the Peabody, HoughtoHIng company, of Chicago, approximately 198.000. This Is the ef fect of an order Blgnod by 'Judge Cushiunn today. Tho case was started by William R. Crawford, former president of the Seattle, Ronton & Southern railway, in tho state courts. He charges the Peabody Interests, bondholders of the traction coiiipuuy, with trying to freeze him out of $1,000,000 of stock. Through Kerr ft McCord, attorneys. the case was removed to Judge Han ford. The higher courts, however, re versed Ilanford's right of Jurisdiction, and Cushman taxed up tho coBta of litigation, receivership and attorney' fees to the Peabody company, distend of to the traction company. Million for Autos. Sacramento, Cul.. Aug. 29. Car'"r nlans, according to estimates com piled In the office of the secretary of state, spend an average of $3,000,000 a month for new automobiles and al most 150,000 a month for second-hand automobiles. More than, 2000 new automoh"m are registered every month In the office of the secretary of state. .