All the' News that'sl.Fit to Print Everybody Reads the Daily Capital Journal a. i I - ! The Best I I .77e Largest MCE! Newspaper t v rs. m iSLx. - vs.. Circulation THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBEUAET 7, 1914. DDTC TWrt rcMTC 0N TRAINS AND NHWi rKlUCi 1WU CCINlO. 8TAND8, FIVB CHNXg. i til iyin f, 1 1 11 am i niirti jr - . .a fi ij 11 r iiti n. 11 IS BUSY IN NEW PLAC County Court Quietly Appoints Culver, Who Will Have Much Authority. GIVEN CONTROL OF MUCH ROAD WORK Will Have Good Deal to Say About Expenditure 1 of $150,000 Set Aside. The Marion County Court has very quietly appointed a county roadmaster in the erson of James Culver, the well known civil engineer and ex-sheriff, of Salem. This appointment was made during the January term of the tourt and Mr. Cluvcr is now engaged in drawing up plans, locating lines and performing other duties in road dis tricts where one or more thousand dollars will be expended for the con struction of permanent highways. Air. Culver was appointed by tho ourt under the old road law which authorizes each county to employ an able engineer to supervise and draw ip plans and specifications and adver tise for bids for road building in road districts which contemplate expending a thousand dollars or over. The road master files all plans and specifications with the county clerk and then is re quired to advertise for bids in one newspaper nearest to the district mak ing such improvements to its roads and in one paper located in the county seat. He has tho solo supervision as to material to be used by tho districts, plans and specifications and is author ized to superintend the work of con struction. Haa Big Job. Marion County's roadmaster now has a great amount of work on his hands. The county court has appropriated sM.jii.nou to the various road districts with which to build good roads and out of this amount there are 48 dis tricts which are planning to expend over $l,(idO this year. Mr. Culver will lie called upon to declare the lines, draw up specifications and plans and furnish the court with all the necessary data to advertise for bids. Although tho court has not as yet definitely decided what salary Mr. Cul ver will be allowed, .it is understood that the roadmaster is to receive $7,of attacking, succeeded yesterday in ler duv while on dutv. Mr. Culver has getting bail and was back at his home filed his bond with the county clerk aud, according to the court, is now busily engaged in laying out lines for highways. County Court Responsible. Vndcr the law the county court is entirely responsible to the tax payers in each road district for' tho work ot those seeming tho contract to build the roads. The court reserves the authority to reject any and all bids which it considers too high or unsat isfactory iu any way but it is required to buiM the highways nevertheless whether the contract is let or not and is authorized to pay for same out of the general road fund or a special fund. Under the old road law tho road mas ter had almost exclusive supervision of the manner in which $1,000 roads shall be built. In. tho event the $9."0, 000 bond issue carries in Marion county to be used for the constructing of permanent highways, the roadmaster is authorized to decide to a great extent whoro and how the money is to be ex pended, for tho reason that the law makes it his duty to designate lines arid prepare all plans and specifications for the construction of roads in the various districts contemplating an expenditure of over a tboufnnd dollars aud the sev eral thousand dollars apportioned to inanv districts for tho purpose of build' ing permanent highways will bring the work under the department to the ex tent the roadmaster will direct preps rations in everv detail with the excep tion of selecting tho bids. Corvallis will have a big trap shont- ing contett February 21 or 23 the date not having been settled yet. Wealthy Girl is Not Located Determined Search of All Convents in ' Northwest Being Made for Miss Frances Lount. UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Portland, Or., Feb. 7. A determined search is being made today of all con vents in the Northwest in an effort to discover the whereabouts of Miss Fran ces Lount, of Phoenix, Ariz., daughter of a wealthy ice manufacturer, who fled from the home of relatives here early Thursday morning, without informing them of her intentions. Carrying two suit cases, the girl was at the point of entering a waiting tax icab, when her cousin, awakened by the noise, attempted to intercept her. Miss Lount, however, managed to gain the taxicab and disappeared. She accidentally dropped a railway time table of a line operating to Seattle, and it is presumed she took the train to Puget Sound. Relatives are sure that Bhe left Port land with the sole object of entering a convent, as she has talked of it almost continually. Miss Lount disappeared in a similar manner more than a year ago, and was finally located in the monastery of Poor Clares, in Evansville, 111. On the suggestion of the mother superior she was taken from the convent for the rea son that she was "not of the tempera ment necessary for the sisterhood." Although the police were notified shortly after her disappearance, rela tives stated that their assistance was not needed. Miss Lount was very prominent in society in Phoenix, IS SPOn IS FREE UNITED TRESS LEASED WIRE. San Francisco, Feb. 7. Maury 1, Diggs did not try to hide the fact to lay that he was growing very weary of prison life. His inability to get bail .ilainly depressed him greatly. His face looked gloomy and the jauntiucss had disappeared from his air. In the courtroom he has maintained an excellent show of indifference but his case did not come up before Judge Crist today and there was nothing left for him but to spend tho time as well as he could in th city jail. His friend, Walter Gilligan, was not allowed to as sociate with him and in the society with other prisoners it was clear that he was not at all interested. , Bpotv Gives Bond. Paul Spott, tho third man arrested in connection with tho case of Ida Pear ring, the girl the three wore accused iu Oakland. The three men's hearing was sehed ulod for resumption Monday at 9 a. m The prosecution finished its testimony yesterday aftornoon and at tho next session the defense was expected to put on its witnesses.' It was clear from tho previous proceedings that the prisoners' lawyer would try to prove that Ida Knew wno JJiggs was r.rom nor first meeting with him that she is not 17 as she and her mother have repre sented, but 2(1 or 21, and that any rela tions which may have existed between herself and the accused men were of her own free will. No Record of Birth. Examination of the city and county roeords at San Jose, where the girl was born, failed to disclose a record of her birth, March 6, 189C, the date given by Mrs. Pearring, nor on any other date for some time before and after the one mentioned. As doctors did not, at thu time, make a regular practice of record ing births, the evidence was not of much value. Spott's case, which Is distinct from Diggs' and Gilligan 't, was set by Judge Crist todav for February 17. SIX MONTHS FOR BLAVEH. IJSITIO I'lirSS I.ltiS KD Willi l Pan Francisco, Feb. 7. Otto Zooll ner, a cabinet maker, was sentenced by United States Judgo Pooling to serve six months in the Alameda county jail for violating the Mann white slave act. Ho was found guilty of transporting Lucy H. Mehrstedt, 23 years old, from Oakland to Portland for immoral purposes. NO DELAY IN SUIT ERGE SOUTt Governor Gets Message From Attorney-General He Will Not Wait. SAYS LAW IS VIOLATED No Other Course Open But to Bring Suit to Dissolve Agreement, De clares McReynolds. The request for further time in which the state, might make a showing as to the injury that would be done it by the uumerging of the Southern and Central Pacific, has boen turned down by Attorney-General McRoynolds, who informs the governor that the suit will be prosecuted at once. The governor and the Chamber of Commerce of Port land a day or so ago asked for this further time, but vainly. That serious injury will result is almost certain to follow the seggregnltion of the two roads, as they are so closoly inter mingled, and have been uo for 30 years, that separation is next to impossible. Governor Wost this morning received mo iviumiifl uiai'oitu xiuiii AUtuiugj- General McKeynolds: "The president has rof erred to me your telegram of the fourth instant. Being of opinion that the control of the Central Pacific by the' Southern Pa cific constitutes a violation of the anti trust act uo other course is open to me but to bring suit to dissolve it. This decision was publicly announced several mouths ago, and, as it was reached after full consideration of facts sub mitted on behalf of the Southorn Pacific Co., it must be regarded as final and institution of tho Buit cannot be laved for further hearings." de- LIEUTENANT ACCOUSED. (united rnEss leased wiiie. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 7. Tho first court-martial in Scattlo for several years will bo held soon against Lieu tenant Robert H. Porker, Thirtieth in fantry, U. S. A., who is now held at Fort Lawton on charges of irregulari ties in his accounts at Fort William H. Seward, near Juneau, Alaska. Ho was brought down from tho north two weeks ago, and is waiting the general order from Major-General Arthur Mur ray, assembling the military court, The amount of money involved in the case has not been stated. COMMITS SUICIDE. f UN1T1.D MESS LEASED WIIIE. Medfurd, Or., Feb. 7. The body of David Akin, 40 years of age, wood chopper, was found in a cabin eight miles from Jacksonville by fanner boys this morning, with its throat cut from cart to ear and wrist cut open. A razor near the bodv Indicated suicide. The coroner will hold an inquest this afternoon. I Members of the Cherriun Club held a meeting last night and elected tho fol lowing officers: King liing M. L. Meyers. I Lord Governor Wood Walter L. SpauMing. , Chancellor of Kolls Carl D, GabricJ- son, .King's Jester Geo. II. Graves. Council of Nobles Duke of Lambert, Wm. McGilchrist, Jr.; Queen Ann's consort, J. B. Young; Archbishop of Rickroall, Ii. C. Bishop; Marquis of Marochina, Thos. H. Kay; Karl of Wal do, Kev. II. K. Marshall; Keeper of Orchard. W. 8. Walton. Dr.- Harry Olinger wis first elected King King, but that gentleman refused to accept, saving thnt tho position wan too royal, ami that he did not feel that he was capable of wearing tho crown. The members Insisted that Ir. Olinger should be lling. and several good talks were mnde endorsing the proposition, but the favored one wrw obdurate, and flatly announced that he would not serve. Tho club is now plnnning to hold a circus in the armory some time in the near future. It will be a two days' ses sion of amusement in tho war of side shows, pink term, etc., and the members will be there with bells and warpaint. HER JEALOUS RAGE Drinks Poison and Soon Passes Away in Orange, New Jersey, Hospital. BUTTON IS ONLY CLEW Falls From Slayer's Coat as She Runs Away From Home Where She Murdered Mrs. Manning. (UNITED PBESS LEASED WIRE. Newark, N. J., Feb. 7. Miss Hazel Herdman died at Orange, near here, this afternoon of bichloride of mercury poisoning, taken with suicidal intent. A few hours bofore her death she con fessed to slaying Mrs. Harriot Manning in the latter's home here last night. "I loved Mrs. Manning's husband," she told the police, "and he loved me. He had asked Mrs. Manning to get a divorce, but she refused. Mrs. Man ning stood in the way of my happiness and I docided to kill her. I'm sorry now that Bhe is dead.' ' Miss Herdman, heavily veiled, gained entrance to the Mauinng home last Ulgllb uy pruiUBBlug w UU HQ luvilllltiv friond of Mrs. Manning's from Phila delphia. Then she Bhot Mrs. Manning in the presence of the latter's mother and Bister. As she fled irom the house she dropped the revolver and an urn brolla. The police questioned Miss Herdman during the morning, but she convinced thorn that she had nothing to do with tho shooting. Then she swallowed poi son, and sent for tho police Nuid con fessed. "Manning frequently told mo," Miss Herdman Baid, "that he loved me, but said he could not marry me until ho got a divorce. Then I determined to got Mrs. Manning out of tho way." An Earlier Story. Newark, N. J., Feb. 7. Hazel Heir man, 23 yenrs old, of Vernon, N. J., confessed this afternoon, according to the police, to shooting and killing Mrs. Harriet Manning at the latter's home yesterday. Miss Heidman drank a so lution of bichloride of mercury this morning, She w.is removed to the Mountain Side hospital at Orange, whore her condition was reported crit ical. Mrs. Manning wns shot to death in tho presence of her mother and sister, by a woman who gained admittance to tho home of Mrs. Manning's mother liy saying she was "a friend from Philadelphia." Tho theory was advanced at first that the person possibly was dressed as a woman.' Mrs. Manning's sister declared, however, it was a woman s voice that asked lor ailniittnnce, An umbrella and revolver W'.-ro thrown away by the woman as she fled. A button fell from the slayer's rain cout and this is the only clew the police had, Jealousy, the police believed, wns the motive back of the crime, Mrs, Man ning hud separated from her husband, INTER CITY DEBATE TONIGHT. ft.'MiTRn runs leased wiiib.1 Washington, Feb. 7. Knactment ot a minimum wage law will bo the topic for (1 iinl debates here and in Philadel phia tonight between teams represent ting George Washington University and the University of Pennsylvania. REGIONAL BANK HEARING ON. tINITEU I'llESS I.EAHKO WIHU.J Los Angeles, Feb. 7. More than a score of southern California bankers met Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Secretary of Agriculture Houston when they arived here today to begin a regional bank hearing. Thoir first meeting will be held probably Monday, The Weather The Dickey Bird Fays: Oregon, fair southwest a n d east portions to nitiht snd Sunday, probably rnln, southerly winds. 'fill BEAT 11 THE 0QLL jIj Too jJ Explorer Shackleton May Use Motorsleighs in Antarctic Dash ,J VDu Vt .-'.'-v.J . . "VI ' I 1 : V Sir Ernest UNITED FDESS LEASED WIRE. London, Feb. 7. Sir Ernest Shackle ton, the famous English exploror, is pre paring to start about August on his at tempt to cross the antarctic region. His feat will bo watched by the whole world. It is probable that Shackleton LIKE CHINESE L'NlTrtO I'HESH I.EASKD WIIIE.1 Washington, Feb. 7. That Secretary of State Bryan is seeking tho Tokio government's consent to a Japanese ex clusion act similar to tho Chinese ex clusion law was stated on high author ity today. It was said the California alien land was tho principal obstacle. That is to say Japan iH willing to havo the "gen tlemen's agreement," by which Jap aneso coolie labor is excluded from tho United States, made statutory on condi- tion that the Japaneso land ownership ban iu California be raised. Toliio cares less, in short about open- ing the United States to more Japanese than it does about protecting those who already havo settled here, The houo immigration committee had not decided whether to resume hear ings on the linker bill. SALEM MISSION HOLDS ANOTHER OOOD MEETING Salem mission held iti second busi ness mel ting lust night ami a nice col lection was taken tor the purchase of tho four gospels of the New Testament Matthew, Murk, Luke and John to be given away in Salem. It was ulso moved that thoy collect unused Sunday school and churcn papers of all denom inations for free distribution ami to bu placed iu shops, factories, hotels and lodging houses, it was moved and car ried, to establish an employment bureau for the benefit of the unemployed of Salem. Mrs. K. L. Mclnturff and Mrs. .I. M. Kaviinuuiih or "II North High street, wero appointed the committee in charge. Phono Farmers IM. Any one being benefitted through this of- fico will be requested to give their tithes to the mission to be used iu the work for the Lord. Mrs. Mati of North Sulem volunteers to organize the choir. Good singing and preaching every even ing at 7::)0, except Saturday. Sunday school, " p. m.; preaching at 3 p. in. All are cordiallv invited. EOY SCOUT SUNDAY TOMORROW. (I'NITED IM1KSS I.EASr.D WIIIE. Washington, Feb. 7. Churches here will observe tomorrow as "Boy Scout Sunday." Many pastors have agreed to preach sermons on "Service," the watchword of Scotitdom. Shackleton. will take wingless uoroplanes that glide on sleigh runners for the purpose of drawing his slods. Whether he can keep hia engines from freezing Is the question. If be can perfect his flying motorsloigliB he will have Bounded the deathknoll of tho faithful Eskimo dogs. I Governor West wins this morning in vited to doHver tho principal address before tho National Civic Fedoration in New York next month, in tho following dispatch: "Tho National Civic Federation will hold on tho evening of Friday, March I) moil st or meeting at Carnogie Hall ou prison roform. Miss Anno Morgan, daughter of tho late I'iorpont Morgan, Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. linger Bacon, the coininittnn tn chargo, have asked mo to extend to you an invito tinn to bo tho principal speaker. Wiro nnswer immediately enro of national committee on prison labor, Columbia University. Am writing details, "K, ST AGO WIIITIN." I Governor West has not made up his mind whether he will attend. It is possible ho will go, and look after some business needing attention iu Wash ington nt that time. WOtiLD ESCAPE CHAIR. UNITED I'llESI LEASED WIIIE. Boston, Mums,, Fo'j. 7. Willinm Dorr of Stockton, Cal., convicted of murder ing his uncle, James A. Marsh, a rich soap manufacturer ot Lynn about n year ago, applied through his lawyer today for a commutation of tho death sentence. His petition wns sent to Governor Walsh, who referred it to the parole board. VANDERBILTS ARRIVE. (UKITKD riir.SS LEASED WIIIE. New York, Feb. 7. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, his wife, the Duke and Duchesd of Manchester nnd the other mombers of their party arrived hero to day on the United Fruit company's steamer Almimnte, which took them off from the Vanderbilt's yacht Mirror, wrecked on the Coloininn const. TO PROBE STEEL TRUST. IllNITrll 1'IIESH LEANED WIIIE. Wellington, Feb. 7. The Lane reso lution inlling for an investigation of the steel trust was practically killed today In the committee room, ami a substitute by Scuntor Harris, providing thnt tho interstate commerce commis sion conduct tho probe adopted. Some women's hats are dreams but too many of them come true. UERTA IS READY FOR Thousands of Troops Around National Palace and Guns Planted on Roofs. CONSPIRACY IN SUBURB CRUSHED Thirty Leaders Under Arrest and Much Arms and Am- . munition Taken. (UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. Mexico City, Feb. 7. A crisis seemed noar here today. Two thousand soldiers surrounded the national palace. In side President Huerta and his chief ad visers wore in conference. It was reported Felix Diaz was be hind a now revolt. Around the arsenal the houses had boen cleared of their occupants and machino guns had been mounted on the roofs. Batteries on Hills. Batteries were being mounted on the hills surrounding the city. At 10:30 a. m. the streets surround ing the national palace were packed with federal troops, nuorta himself was uudor heavy guard. War Minister Blanquet denied that hordes of Zapatistas were hovering in tho city's outskirts, awaiting an op portunity to ontor. Couriers from Guadeloupe, four miles north of tho capital confirmed reports that tho local gnriBon had revolted. Federal troops wero rushed to the scone in armored automobiles. Huerta Gains Upper Hand. That President Huerta had gained tho upper hand at the suburb of Gun lo loupo bocamo known later toduy through tho announcement that 30 con spirators had been arrested th'jre and that a quantity of contraband arms and ammunition had beeu seized by tho federals at the neighboring village of Santa Clara. Diaz Socks Presidency. Havnna, Feb. 7. Frionds hore of Felix Din?, did not disputo today that Diaz wns behind a movement in Mexico directed against both President Hu erta and General Carranza, tho consti tutionalist leader, and plan to place him in the presidential chair. They added that he believed it would win, but had mado no defiuito plans for re turning to Mexico. Reports that he al ready had done so and was personally directing his campaign thero, thoy de nied. Ho was secluded, thoy said, in tho country outside of Havana. riSIUNG FLEET IN PERIL. UNITED MISS LEASED WIHE.l Washington, Feb. 7. Destruction of the American fishing fleet jammed in the ico in the Bay of Islands seemed inevitable today, it was stated at the navy department. Tho naval tug To tomnc was dispatched to attempt relief measures, it was explained, but, on ac count of the vast floes, could not got within ten miles of the doomed boats. The bay Is between the west coast of Newfoundland and the east const of Canada. TRUST BILLS DUE NEXT. UNITED PRESS LEASED Willi. Washington, Feb. 7. Dcmcratic lenders predicted today thnt bills car rying tho suggestions voiced recently by President Wilson in regard to the trusts will bo reported to the house not later than tho middle of March. It wns expected that the hearing before the house judiciary cniniuiteo ou three bills to supplant the Sherman lnw would close next Saturday. The interstate com merce commission wns expected to close its hearing on the trade claim bill be fore Saturday. TO TROBE LOOTING, I UNITED I'lir.ss LEASED WHIR, Washington, Feb, 7. The resolution Introduced yesterday by Senator Nor ris, prinldiug for congressional Inves tigation of the alleged looting of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad was adopted by the senate today. AM