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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1914)
THBT IS USED IN "Woman Supposed to Appear and Ask Accused Druggist Why He Killed Her Last October. HAS NO AFFECT ON HIM ' HIS ATTORNEYS DECLARE Previous Attempt to Murder Woman Is One of Reasons Why He Is Thought to Be Guilty. UNITED PBESS LEASED WIIUB. Los Angeles, Jan. 20. Th-, "third degree" with a "ghost" as the cen tral figure, was applied by arresting officers in an attempt to obtain from John 11. Grondiu, a young druggist, u confession to the murder of his wifo, Zolla, according to a statement made public yestorday by his attorneys. Urondin s attorneys doclared that shortly after he was arrested lust night flo was taken by detectives into a dark ened room, whore a "ghost" soon ap peared and demanded in gloomy tonees: "Why did you murder met" Prisoner Shows No Emotion. His attorneys said they considered such methods outrageous, but at the ame time positive proof of their cli ent's Innocence, as the shadowy form and the dismal quostion alike failed to movo him or to obtain from his the slightest admission of guilt. Grondin, who was charged with ha 5ng poisoned bis wifo and with having attempted to establish that .ho kiled herself by inhaling gas, was said by the police to have tried onc9 before, while living in Portland, Maino, to kill his wife, but for some reason had been afraid to complete the net and had res iwintcd !er. Letter Declared Forgery. When Mrs. Grondin was found dead, October 30, last, Grondin made public a note he uaid had been written by his wifo and left as an explanation of her aleged suicide. It contained an admission of infidelity and the hope that he would be happy with the "wo man who truly loved him." Handwriting exports assorted tho writing in the noto was a forgery and their assertion, coupled with the arrival here from Watervillo. Maino. of a wealthy young widow, In whom Grondiu was said to be Interested, caused the exhumation of Mrs. Grondin ' body, al though a coroner's jury had decided her a suicide. Patholiglsts reported on their exam ination of Mrs. Grondin 'a vital organs, aying they had found poison In thorn. Jrondin's arest followed. Mrs. Grondin wag the daughter of Ceorgo Daviau, a druggist of Water villo, where she wag married to Gron lin when he was 21 years old. Mr. Daviau engaged attorneyg and detec tives shortly after his daughter's death to make an investigation. lie also was eaid to have furnished the authorities Tiere with information concerning Gron din 's attempt to kill his wife in Port land, last year. F. A. M. HAS RECORD GROWTH. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIB ) Indianapolis, luu., J St 26. ts annual roport, announced today, offi cials of tho Federation of American Motorcyclists present figures which show that the organization during the year jiiBt closed enrolled 5,000 new members from all over the country. The 1913 additions to the membership Tirought the total up to 25,000 who have, joined since the organization of tho T. A. M. ten yoars ago. The P. A. M., it is explained in the report announced . rur.y ruiers organization, -woicn governs an motorcycle compe- Tiuons, anu wnicn, Dy tne estauusnment of a new bureau last year, affords mo torcycle tourists all sorts of valuable information in regard to routes and accommodations on such routes whou extensive trips aro to bo made. In cluded in this information are the best roads to follow, hotels whore best ac commodations can be had, the average price of gasoline in difforont soctions, and the location of sundry Bhops along the routes, whore repairs can be made. MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS ... . . . . 11 , M i I UAJbUMX iAJAtuM ""- -7la nvlo O. Bad! "5)0 2)1 odl poisonous and dangerous It affects every organ and funotion and brings about that low oondition that predisposes to most diseases and ailments. HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA cop. L foots it, and makes pure blood. OPEN FORUM. - ROAD BONDS. Editor Capital Journal: We want the facts about this bonding business and not to Bee what we can say about one auothor, so let us have the facts. From what I can learn, it is desired by the bond promoters, if they can get the 40 miles of Pacific Highway across the county built of the best pavement to be had, they will be satisfied to let tho county have rock or gravel road anywhere else. If they can get the county court to give them the sum of $130,000 toward that piece of road then the state has consented to give $150,000 and they will soon have the road com plete "Section 13. All moneys raised un der the provisions of this act shall bo used in constructing permanent roads in the county, which roads shall be con structed by tho county court under its exclusive jurisdiction and such export assistants as they may employ." " Of course every man in the count; will want his road paved and it will bo strange if tho court can settle the matter without some loud times. Tho Statesman says thore will be money enough to build tho paved way across tho comity and then 135 miles of rock road elsewhere, and then says the rock road is good for nothing. I will bo snt isified to seo good rock roads all over the county. Thoro is a pretty good piece of rock road beginning at tie Re form school and then going south for a mile or bo. Quito a good piece of rock road in South Salem. The roads from Salom to Dallas and Independence are fairly good roads, I know they are much bettor than they wore 20 years ago. The 175 miles just spoken of are not all of the county roads and it will bo a number of years before all of them will be made good. The large part of the roads traveled by the rural mail carriers are across roads and back ways that will be only dirt roads for a long time to come. This act authorizing the bonding of the county for the building of good roads also by sections 14 and 20 makes the count court' and treasurer into a banking house, four years after the bonds are issued the court commences levying a tax and collecting the same year after xoar to redeem the bonds when due. They put this money out in the hands of the different banks in the county at 3 per cent interest or they loan it on real estate at 6 per cent so if the whole amount of $850,000 is in bonds by the time they are due they will have in their bank the full amount. If congress had only gotten hold of this scheme for helping the farmers it would not have taken them so long to give us the currency bill. Boud the county, then tax the taxpayer to buy the bonds back, then loan the real estate owners the money to carry on thoir busiuoss with. Mr. Rodgors thinks I forgot tho intorest on the sinking fund. I did not forget it but kept it for another article. But he figures that our county bankers can get out of the people in the county who are anxious to borrow, the sum of $290,000 interest. If they can get that much it will be a good plan to keep the miu the business. The law says these bankers must do this amount of business without any cost to thfl COUIlty. j. woulj ,ike to know how thoy do it DEXTER FIELD. Salem, Jan. 23, 1914. WOULD DROP BOND PLAN. ' Editor Capital Journal: The post office department at Washington has announced that at an early date the weight limit on parcels will be advan ced to 100 pounds. The mail service aloof? our rnrnl route, will pall fnr lm. proved highways. These the national ' X &WY Oaio I B - -A. i cdh-eK 1 It thing. government is preparing to build as is shown by the appropriation of $25,000, 000 for the construction of post roads, now pending before congress. Oregon's share of this large fund will be $120,000. Adding this to the $240,000 state road fund, there would be a splendid beginning in the cam paign for better roads. It would seem the part of wisdom to drop the present agitation for an $850,000 bond issue by Marion county to build public highways and see which can be done with the funds which will be apportioned to us for road purposes. CONSIDERATION. Brooks, Ore., Jan. 21, 1914. LANDS AND BONDS. Editor Capital Journal: I enclose clipping in regard to "lands and bonds" from Up-to-Date Farming, which will doubtless be of considerable interest at this time. The articlo fol lows: "Propositions are often made in gov ernment affairs of the effect of which people need to be warned. The most deceptive one that has been presented for many years is variously discussed as rural credits, farm loan banks, mort gage bonds, etc. Whatever form this takes it ends with a scheme for the issue of marketable bonds on land, the farms and homes of the people. We are sorry to say this sehome is advocated by papers othorwise dovoted to the wel fare and progress of agriculture. Wo quote the following from a prominent November magazine: 'But to complete the job of financial reform is needed an adequato method of farm f iuance. The new law required to provide this need may be the first important act of congress at its regular session, which begins in Doeembor. It must enable farm bonds to vie with government bonds, so as to insure safety to inves tors and reasonablo rates to borrowers.' "As wo havo said this is a most seductivu proposition. Most people would like to have moro money, and proposals to make it easy for them to get money on loiig time at a low rate of interest are attractive, and were it possible to do so many farmers would contract such debts as would othorwise remain free from debt and yet bo just about as prosperous. But that is not the worst feature of the proposition. There nover before was anything pro posed so dangerous to the independent homes of the people of the United States as the issuing of marketable bonds based on these homes. Every "bond is a lien upon that on which it is issued, and the owners of those bonds would have liens upon the lands and homes upon which they wore issued. "The bonds being marketable would be bought up by the financiers and fi nancial institutions of the country that now control almost everything else but the farms, and soon the farms would be thug owned as the railroads, man ufacturing concerns and other industrial institutions are now owned. Make the land bonds vie with government bonds, and soon Buch a thing as an independ ent home owned by its occupant, a free and independent American citizen, would be a thing unknown. The Amer ican people would not surrender thoir independence. They would fight through rivers of blood first. But they may be induced to sell it for money borrowed at a low rate of interest." SUBSCRIBER, Route 8, Salem, Oregon. DENVER HOUSEWIVES COMBINE. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Denver, Jan. 20. To organize all tho housewives of Denver in a fight for pure food and lowor food prices, a Don ver branch of tho National Housewives League was formed here today. Mrs. C. M. Lillio was elected president. The movement has the backing of the Den ver Woman's club. Mrs. Julian D. Hoath of New York City is the Nation al president of tho league. DIVE FATAL TO AVIATOR, UNITED PHKHS LEASED WHS. London, Jan. 20, George Leo Torn plo, British aviator, wag killed today while flying at Bandon. He was mak ing a difficult dive whon a gust of wind caught the tail of his monoplane and the machine crashed to the ground. Tho aviator's neck was bro ken. Temple was the first British aviator to make a flight upside down in this country. v (jfrdi kr. JFj a M. QaJ. OjOUx f-ML -fur if tf DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, BALEM, OREGON, F UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 26. George Hodges, in charge of Postal Inspector Dnrand and Prosecuting Attorney Mc Guire, was taken to Portland, Or., on the boat from here last night to face a charge of using the United States mail to defraud. The charge is brought in connection with the sale of orchard lands. He waived extradition. Hodges is wanted in Portland on an old indictment charging him with fraudulent use of the mails in connec tion with the exploitation of the Colum bia River Orchard company. Hodges was indicted at the same time indict ments were returned against the late W. E. De Larm, R. H. McWhorter, A. J. Biehl and H. H. Humphries. Biehl was convicted before Judge Bean in the United States District court last Janu ary and is now serving a term in the United States prison. The part Hodges is said to have played in the affairs of the Columbia River Orchards company was as secre tary of the Oregon-Washington Trust company, which it is charged was or ganized for tho purpose of' handling the bonds of the orchard company. Hodges is said to have been very ac tive in markoting the bonds. De Larm is behoved to havo died at Flacorvillo, Cal., shortly before ho was indicted in Portland. CHICAGO HOUSE WILL TAKE CARE OF LOGANBERRIES Jesse Huber, a loganberry grower of South Bottom, says he has solved the problem of finding a market for the berries grown in this county, through a Chicago mail order house, which ad vises that it can easily tako care of the product. "Tho immense distributing facilities of this house," said Mr. Huber, "through parcel post, freight and ex press, brings it in touch with virtually every home in tho United States. It is backed with $20,000,0000. . "In its evaporated form the lognn bcrry will bo offered to all customers at reasonablo prices." HE OVERLOOKED THEM. The Man Cracksmen got into a meat market and stole $500 from the safo. The Woman Goodness! Were there no eggs in stock? THE ROUND-UP. Pupils of the Woodlawn schools have $5,820.81 in the banks of Portland. A suit is on at Ashland to docide the legality of the auto license. It is up before Judge Calkins, and will be de cided in a few days. The certified check for $500,000 for payment of Jackson county road bonds has been received and the money will be available early in February, or as soon as the bonds can bo printed and dolivered. Firo destroyed the store building at Broadmead, about oight miles east of Sheridan, Friday night. The loss is about $1500. Senator Bourne has boen prosented a gold plate by citizens of Nehalom, Til lamook, Bay City and Wheolcr, tho pre sentation being made to him at Wash ington Friday. The Cove-Minam wagon road, run ning from Cove into tho niountnins 14 miles and tapping a rich tlmbor sec tion, has been completed, tho work hav ing been done by the forestry depart ment. Wild geese and ducks are destroying the grain fiolds of Umatilla county, and, as It is against tho law to kill them the farmers will ask the government to c..rKO m w,e manor, anu give them protection. Tho thaw in Baker county, beginning Thursday, wound up with a snow storm, v r r tr iir .1 I 1 .A A ' - dssurs M- JCa4. JifjL raA-o," Alc q ruMJL,jtlx d CXslW 6 . i iit) MONDAY. JANUARY 28, 1914. THE Blankets, Com forts, Pillows Our entire stock of bedding at greatly reduced prices. Wool Blankets pure white wool blankets, 72x80. Regular $10 blankets. Special, $3.98. MERCHANDISt and at Sumpter there was a fall of four feot of snow that blocked tho "Polyg amy Central" road, the Sumpter Val ley, for 21 hours, and was only brokon by tho big snow plows. d One of tho armies of the idle reached Roseberg Friday, and will march on to California. It is stated that tho engin eer in charge of tho Pacific highway, at Ashland, will abandon the plan of building the road with convict labor, and will give work to tho unemployed gangs. Orogon has had nearly half an inch more than the average rainfall since September 1st. ... Portland population is 243,327. This is the official estimate of the city de partment of public works, reached after extensive ' research, in which the United States census, the last school census, the postoffice Toports and the city directory were taken into consid eration. Labor note in Astoria's 30-years-ago column: 'The Standard reports thnt thero aro about 1500 railroad laborers out of employment in Albina and East Portland." Tublio library advocates at Cor vailis have outlined beforo thn city council a plan. Thoir hope Is "to unite all the club libraries In tho city in one at the city hall, and somo day get a homo for it." Tho boys in the manual training de partment of tho Eugene high school are constructing an extension to the united rums leased wina. shop now In use. The work Is being' 01ympia, Wash., Jan. 0. Mrs. Clar dono entirely by students. Tho pinna iBHa I,lliIl!y o( Scattlo, who during the were drawn by a studont In tho archl- lttHt t"rm ot 1,10 ""I,r'o "ourt was al tectural drawing course. I 'owc'1 t,in ""usual privilege of arguing ROAD TO DEATH VALLEY. friKITSD rSKKS LEASED WTKI.l Sacramento, Cal.. Jan. 20, F, M. U'orax; H.mtr. Is to build a railroad to (his borax mines in Death Valley. Ar- t,,,,,s of incorporation of tho Valley railroad company were filed todav In the secretary of state's office. ' 1 . J 'A . ts wjs t reft, , (M4 t,Y IIIIIIIIIIMH1IIIMHIIIBII ' Mi LAST Of Our January Clearance Sale!! Time now to buy undermuslins. You should buy liber ally of these garments not only because prices are so low, but because qualities are so high. Six big tables full of these dainty undermuslins. Special One-Half Price "Richardson's Famous" table cloths, napkins, lunch cloths, tea cloths, dresser scarfs, table runners, guest towels, bath towels, in short every linen need can be supplied here. All at Reduced Prices. t wl" JTATt court MUFFLED KNOCKS, Solomon must have been a wiso man. What would you do for oxcubcs if about 250 or your 500 wives wanted to know where you were last night whon you crawl in about daylight t A sportsman is a city guy who pays $12.60 for the privilege of coming home with the manglod remains of a twenty five cent rabbit. Tho man who ownB a big automobile is always willing to agree with you whon you argue that walking is tho fin est exorcise. Every now and thon you run across a Ph. D. who can't toll his son how to find the greatest common denomin ator. Some men seem always to be going away or coming back from somewhere. The people who are clamoring for tho teaching of sex knowledge In, the schools soem to forgot that old nature has boon attending to that for the past 10,000 years and somehow or other made a pretty good job of it. Give thorn credit, fellows. Maybo tho renson they don't thank us when we offer them a seat in a street car is because they aro speechless with as tonishment. And you couldn't notlco tho high cost of living in the days when a brido thought a bed quilt was a dandy wed ding present. When a fellow can hand a girl a dime's worth of junk and stainod glass and li o believes it Is a $200 engage ment ring that Is Lovo. Cincinnati Enquirer. , WOMAN WINS OWN SUIT. , hor own caso, aftor she had disagreed j with her attorney, was awarded a re- IwiiuMuii ut nuuriy vw,wwu m sircei as sessments against her projwrty, in a decision handed down Saturday, Mrs. lialloy, who Is of Indian extrnc tlon, asked and was accorded the right to argue her own caso aftor sho had nn two wnmm. .. , ,de of a caso the previous dav. By Gross . A.aa.Vu Ck Aa. ' , , i WEEK LINENS G LIQUOR MEN TO FIGHT SPEAKEASIES IN SCRANTON ONITKD rilKSS LEAKED WinB. Scrniiton, Pa., Jan. 20. Saloonkeep ers and wholesale and retail liquor dealers are going to make Scranton ab solutely dry on Sundays. The liquor denlors and salooukoopers met here to day in conference with Mayor Edmund B. Jormyn to plan a campaign to abol ish tho Bpeakeasy, to regulate the sale of bottlod beer, and to put out of busi ness the "clubs" which heretofore have held open house with beor "drawn from the wood" on Sundays. THE GENTLE CYNIC, Tho follow who sows his wild oats dosorves to reap a grass widow. .The despondent lover shouldn't lose his hoart. Lot the successful lover tna. his. We are all attracted by our opposites. That may explain why a woman al ways likes man who is a good listener. Experience is a good school, but some of us nevor got boyond the kindorgnr ton stage. Probably the reason discrotion is the bettor part of valor is bocauso it can run fnstor. Thoro is quito a difference between a close friend and a closo mouthed one. - When wo speak of a delicate situa tion wo generally mean an indelicate ono. How can there be safety in numbers when too many cooks spoil tho broth t It is quito possible that the world Is happier bocauso one-half doesn't know how tho other half lives. The pessimist divides his time b tweon wnntlng what ho doesn't got and getting what ho doesn't want. Whon duty calls ,somo people always sond word they are out. Many a man la so skoptlcal that he wouldn't believe hi.i own conscience. Qunnity Isn't everything. A pint of happiness is worth a pock of trouble Heauty is only skin deep, but the rhlnocorous never blows his own horn, about it. New York Times. It's torrlnlo to bo obliged to love by contract. HENRYJR.5AYS one