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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBEUAET 7, 1914.
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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
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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.
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