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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. .