f t THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON. TUESDAY, FEB. 22, 1916. 5 SF.VF.N u t : n -4 t 0 IE AFTE IWENTO SALE u u y a NOTE SEALED UP IN BOTTLE FLOATS IN Continues until March. As this effects almost every department, it will be a Sav ing to you to BUY NOW. Monster Sale of Shoes Now on in THE BARGAIN SHOE BASEMENT I.Fiirrcnrte in fnmp From "George Bartholomew" Who Says He Is On Way 1H Silver Falls Timber Company to Handle Much of Log Out put of Nearby Camps II Washington's Birthday TRY SALEM FIRST MALKM COHIMBHCIAL CLUB - , . ? I EVIDENCE fl A Five-part Photo Drama of English sofiety and military life. Based on the great New York drama of the same name, ADDED VAUDEVILLE HENKLE A Renowned Musical Act. Today and Tomorrow BUGH THEATRE Special Crashed Into Passen ger and Freight Into the Wreckage A note addressed to the Portland Journal and signed "George Bartholo mew" was picked up by some boys yes terday as it floated dowu South Mill creek sealed up in a bottle. The note was found by the son of Frank Smith, of 21178 Oak street, and turned over to Sheriff Esch this morning. It was : dated December 20 from Salem and the stains on the paper indicate that it nail neen in tne water some. Time and also that there were a few drops of some pink liquid in the bottle such as strawberry soda as the white paper was dyed a delicate pink in spots. The writer speaks of John Linnd, who was murdered and whose body was placed in a trunk ami thrown into the river, as "Poor Linnd" and says that he will leave at once for parts un known where he expects to remain for some time. The letter in full follows: "Portland Journal, December 20, Sal em, Ore. Having seen in your news paper that I am wanted for the murder of Linnd, I take this opportunity and occasion to acquaint you with the fact that 1 am still enjoying good health and freedom, and despite the fact that the Scotland Yard of the West (Port land Police) are exerting superhuman efforts to encompass my downfall. As a moral squad the Portland police are very efficient, but at rounding up real criminals they are a huge joke. I will stay in Oregon a short time longer and then leave for parts unknown. Poor Linnd, the last time I was here ho was with me, but fate plays some queer pranks. "George Bnrthlomew. " Tho note is written in a bold round hand on wrapping paper with a pen cil. Sheriff Esch is of the opinion that the note was written by a practical joker who sought to gnin a little fun at the expense of the officers. Since the note was found in the creek below the penitentiary it is possible that one of the prisoners dropped tho bottle in the creek with the contained note to take a rap at his old enemies, the Portland police. However, the prisoners would have no way of securing the possession of a soda water bottle through any reg ular channeds. One branch of the creek in which the bottle was found flows through the prison yard. 4 o'clock ihis morning the New Haven officials revised their I'ft of dead in tile ililford wreck, accounting for six dead. The police at Milford also went ever their figures, sa; that six were killed, and possibly seven. Pifty Are Injured. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 22. Police estimates of casualties in the Milford wreck placed the injured at 50, in cluding those who had been slightly hurt. If tie carrier does not glY service notify the office. New York, Feb. 22. Tn the first ser ious wreck on the Xew Haven system in many months, three trains today piled up near Milford, Conn., killing six passengers, and four trainmen, ami ! injuring 10 other persons. Passenger train number 7-, bound Jr. f n i If1!! i for Xew York had stopped near Mil- fUDUC OCROOIS LUUialS lord because ot detective aiibreaks. A ! special passenger train following, j crashed into tho rear, turning over the j engine of the special and the last coach ; of the stalled train. A moment later, u Xew York bound freight on the next i track hurtled into the wreckage, piling j up the freight and blocking all tracks. The injured were picked up hy a fourth train and taken 12 miles back to ( Piidgrport. The impact hurled a coach over the freight train and toppled several cars into a 20 foot ditch. The company's statement said that the engine of the special passenger train jumped the track and crushed into the moving freight. Recovery of ten of the injured person;.- is doubt! ul. Probably Seven Dead. tw York, Feb. 22 Shortly beforo Washington's Birthday The public schools in Salem hold ex ercises this afternoon in commemor ation and celebration of Washington's birthdav as follows: Senior High school Address by the Rev. James Elrin on the "Characteristics of Wash ington", and music by tho orchestra and glee club. Washington junior high Address by the Rev.Cnrl H. Elliott and music and recitations. Englewood: Singing and recitations in the assembly hall of patriotic nature. Garfield: Each room held exercises including, songs, recitations and short talks suggestive of the occasion. Grant junior high school: An ad dress by the Rev. J. C Spencer in the assembly room, (he elementary grades holding exercises in their own rooms. Highland: Songs and addresses of a Portland, Ore., Feb. 22. A modern sawmill will be built by the Silver Fall" Timber company at Silverton this spring at a cost of approximately $500, 000. The plant will be operated in con nection with the logging camps of the same company near Silverton. M. C. Woodard, general manager of the company, has just returned from the east, where he purchased the neces sary machinery and equipment for the mill. He went to Silverton yesterday to make arrangements for the imme-' diate inauguration of construction ac- tivities. I The plant will be built at the edge ! of Silverton, a town on the Springfield f branch of the Southern Pacific, -Hi miles I south of Portland. A first class log-! ging road, about 2f miles in length, ! connects the town with the camps. ! Big Timber Tract Owned. i The company owns about 35,000 acres of first class timber laud in Marion and , Clackamas counties, tapped by this log ging road. It is estimated that 'his limber tract! contains more than J1UOfl,i:liii,0C, feet of splendid fir. Heretofore the company has cut its timber and sold the logs to other mills. For about IS month, how ever, owing to the depression in the lumber market, the camp has been idle. Construction work on the new plant will be done by day labor under im mediate direction of the compat y offi cials. It is planned to erect a com plete mill, modern iu every detail, in cluding dry kilns, sheds and loading facilities. The initial output of the plant will be about 230,000 feet per day of ten hours. Place in Log Market Kept. Facilities will bp provided, however, for operating both dny and night when conditions warrant. A force of 400 men will be employed in the mil) and camp. While the company proposes, in the future, to cut its log output in its own mill, it will not retire from the log market entirely. It will be in posi tion to offer its surplus log stock to other mills, but it is rather expected that the new plant will le able to con sume tho entire camp output. Orders have been issued tJ ase all possible speed in erecting the new plant in the hope of having it ready tor complete operation about N pt em ber 1. "If tho present upward t-i loney of the lumber market continue,' ""'J B. Menefee, vice-president of tbi Silver rails limber company, yesterday, "wo should be ablo to operate our mill on full time' from the moment that it is finished. If cnndiKoni improve, we should be able to operate il boiu iligNt and day. "While our principal business hereto fore has been logging, v.e have con templated going into the milling busi ness for the last few yews. We have awaited only the impr ivcmeot of the lumber trade that now hn set in "Wo arc nicely equipped to operate advantageously, for we have a fine stand of excellent timber and a good standard-gauge railroad connecting the timber stand with the Southern Pacific line nt Silverton. ' " 1 "While the lumber trade was in a state of depression, during the Inst few years we did not operate cur camp. We don't calculate to do much logging until our mill is completed, but expect to operate steadily and Indefinitely after that." JESSE L. LASKY Presents GERALDINE FARRAR The Metropolitan Star .in Temptation Life behind the scenes of a great opera company and truo incidents depicted in a great photoplay Pathe Weekly TODAY TOMORROW THURSDAY The Home of OPEN FORUM DOES SECRET SOCIETY EXIST IN SALEM HIGH SCHOOL? The Julius Caesar society, which was recently investigated by the district school board, has nil the elements of a secret organization. Their meetings are held secretly outside the school, no member of the faculty being present. Xo record of their meetings is dis closed, nor is their purpose known by tho majority of 'students. The members who appeared before the school board stated that the so ciety was not composed exclusively of students. Please note, however, that the outside members are alumni, many of whom are not in Salem to take part in activities of the society, and all of whom became members when they were students of Salem high school. Their plea thnt "friendship" is the purpose of their organization is as ridic ulous as it is incredible. With such a purpose, practiced after their manner, no organization could remain intact for over three years and continue to grow stronger. 'That they attempt to direct student politics is a more con vincing supposition, since from 17 stu dent members, the following positions are held: President of student body. president or. senior class, president of junior class, three members in wtudent council .football manager, also a few minor positions. A further reason that leads an oh-1 server to believe their aim is politics, is i mar tney persistently and repeatedly nominate their fellow members for of fices. Thus, since it is evident that the .Tu liiw Caesar society is a secret organiza tion, with the deducted purpose of con troling politics, then should not the state school law be complied with, which declares such organizations un lawful and provides a penalty therefor? if. T. start at it when he-pronounced his ulti matum. Xow I am a breeder of Barred Plym outh Ttocks and an exhibitor also and wouldn't wonder if I could guess the show and the circumstances mentioned above. A number of years ago I started with the best birds I could get from one of the best breeders on the Pacific coast .ind I find that those birds lay just ns many or more eggs than t lie mongiel scrub I used to keep or that some of my neighbors have. I do not want to start an argument with this man with tiie four coops of Barred Rocks, but if his birds were layers and I not exhibition birds why did he enter j them to compete against birds th.it are to lay and show botii! Now 1 have j found from personal experience as well i as from observation and reading thnt the nearer we get a pen up to the stand jard described in the Americ.in Standard of Perfection the better type of a lay er we have. Walter llogan in Poultry Craft says, " In the ideal Barred Plym outh Rock tho general contour of the oouy presents tne weiige shape so no ticeable in the good dairy cow." So please don t compare us to the beef cattle. I would like to say to Mr. Farmer No. 2 to keep his five dollar "rooster if ho is a good one, and buy another, but cull out his hens. Go to the Northwest Poultry Journal of Salem and get the "Call of the Hen,'' llogan 's system of picking out the lay ers. Call out the drones and get 2,"i eggs front 30 hents instead of 30 eggs from oi) hens. This can he done for it has been proven that egg laying qual ities ami beauty cm be found in the same lien. As 1 have said before, T purchased my start in the exhibition Hocks from one of the best breeders on the coast. He has bred exhibition Hocks for 21 years, was a big winner at the Pan.ima Pacific exhibition. I quote a few lines from one of his recent articles in a well known farm paper. I have heard it said that the breeder of fancy stock only breeds for show quality ami not for egg-l.iying quality. I can say that the nearer 1 can breed my birds to siiow and shape, according to the American Standard, the better layers I produce. This statement is ver ified under the Judge llogan Svstem which was used at the I'.inama-l'ncif ic International show at San Francisco, where my birds won 2nd, Ith and oth, against all breeds. W. IIAKVKY CRAWFORD, Salem, Oregon, Route Xo. J. No spe held its patriotic nature. Lincoln junior hiah school: cial exercises as the school regular recitations. Park: School assembled for the singing of patriotic songs and appro priate short addresses. Richmond: Recital ions and music suggestive of Washington in the as sembly room. COUNT GOES TO PRISON Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 22 "Count" .lean i)c .Marquette started for Folsom penitentiary today to serve five vears for burglary. Shortly before his arrest the "count" married Maud Baker, a motion picture actress. Although the man still insists he is i French noble, police records show he was born in Providence, R. I., that his real name was I.eouell Giauini, and his father, a rancher, of Ocean Park Heights. AN "ONION JUICE" ROBBER Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 22. The on ion juice highwayman is nt work in l.os "kvh-3 ninny, uuy jiond, grocery eiern, met him in in alley. The thug rubbed onion juice in Mom'l's eves, then while the tears trickled, lifted $00 from his victims wallet and fled. Do you realize that leather ban advanced during the past year, from 18 cents per sq. foot up to 40 cents. Because of enormous con tracts signed just before the war, the Florsheim shoes are selling at the same standard price and made of the same high class leather as here-to-fore. $5, $6, $7. In Salem only of us. HAMONMSHOP CO. The Toggery 1G7 Commercial St. Leading Clothiers ' OREGON TODAY TOMORROW AND THURSDAY In Lillian Gish and 1 DOLLY ROZESKA "The Liiy and the Rose" Produced by D. W. Griffith Also The Great Vacuum Robbery z-itcei Keystone Comedy Full of Thrills and Laughs. Special Matinee 10c Evening 15c, ChUdren 5c COMING Friday and Saturday "ALOHA OE" Home of Triangle" Price ti.'JO You'v teen and perhaps you've haa a knife you wouldn't mil for twice U.m, th nM..n;ireable-'riend kind the once-in-a-lifetime kind. And hpr i old raior friend the one that ia chosen for a comfortable shave from an assortment of several that were perhaps newly honed. Surh frienda are the ... 'w mm Pocket Knives and Razors W Tne finest, strongest blades that could possibly be found tempered exactly right for a keen, lasting edge avoiding brittlenesi but extremely hard. In construction, every detail is given careful attention, so that springs, joints, livets, linings and bandies will last as long as uie iimost lnaeaiructioie oiaaci. ! Ask for them by the name Keen Kutter and tee that you get them by looking for the trademark.. Every knife and raior bearii ft: KMSlX SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY la f ten Pile tt- RAY L FARMER HARDWARE CO. Secretary Houston Favors Flax in the WfaeUe Valley Washington, Feb. 22. -Further tes timony to the suitability of the cli mate and soil of the Willamette val ley for the production of flax comes from Secretary Houston of the de- LAYINO HENS AND SHOW HENS Editor Capital Journal: T read with interest the letter for and against the county agriculturist but can's see why under the sun this little piece was tack ed to one in favor of the agriculturist, for the benefit of some who ni.iv not have read the piece in Saturday's Joiirmtl, 1 reprint the following: One day 1 went through a poultry show with a certain farmer. We looked at every coop of birds iu the building and made casunl remarks about a gre.it many ot the birds on exhibit. There wnsi a enpouizing dini for that. Tiie next day I went through the same show with another farmer. At the very first cooper we met the owner, and the farmer begin asking all manner of questions. " Were they hatched iu an in cubator! What did he feed them when thiy were small.' What did it cost to raise them Irom the time, they were hatched till they began to lay f Did it :pav to breed to two-yeur-old roosters.' etc., etc." We came upon four coops of Barred Rocks that, had no cards or ribbunH mi- pnrtment of agriculture in a b tter to j on them. The f irmer was very curious Senator Chamberlain, commenting onf0 U(,W why. When we had" gone all letters from Oregon presented to the j the way around the fanner said : "Let1 department, including one from Vr, r,. us go beck and see if we can find out BARGAINS in USED FURNITURE We List a few items of our large stock: One fine set of high back hardwood Dining Chairs Airtight Heaters, all sizes 1 flf, lTn $2.00 Up $10.00 Up A. Pierce, of Portland. Secretary Houston, after anything about those four coops of comment- Karred Hocks." We found the owner ing upon the aid given through in-; in front of them. " What is the reason spection of Oregon tlux fields during your coops uren t tagged!" impnred season and present plans tor the last conducting experimental field work with the agricultural station tit Cor vallis. savs: "The numerous smnrf crops of fibre flnx grown in the vicinity of Snlem j ie time f " cried the farmer. " Xo during the Inst lu years have dem onstrated that the conditions of soil and climate in the Willamette valley are especially suited for the produc tion of flnx fibre, and with the pres ent demand for flax fiber conditions seem to he particularly favorable for the establishment of the industry in thnt locality. This department will gladly aid, so far ns possible, in de veloping tho cnterurise along eon servative lines. There is danger, however, of misleading farmers in a uew enterpurise of this kind with ex aggerated statement regarding re turns. Dr. Pierce is evidently misin formed regarding the price of flax straw. The yield of two tons per aer a mentioned in his letter, r conservative, but flax fiber straw, to gether with the seed, ns delivered by the farmer, is sold at an average price of about 413 per ton. making a return of about 420 instead of $",0 per acre. Tho value of the fiber ami the seed at present prices will doubt less average loO per acre but this is Others, all kinds and sizes A 1 i c fasts i . . but we .a in t stop ti -vooui or ju iirst class bteel Ranges One $30 sideboard, like new Several 6-f t. ext. Tables, round and square, J3 (0 j$ One $12 complete Kitchen Cabinet 55 QQ Several fine used Rockers n jqq One $8.50 16x10 l oavy beveled French plate Mirror $3.00 Used Dressers, all styles and sizes $3 00 Up GARDEN TOOLS Rakcs 15c to 75c IIoes 15c to 75c Shove,s 40c to $1.10 Spading Forks cn All kinds of Garden Hose 2c to 15c ft Largest stock of used Furniture in the West to pick from. Our Specialty We carry a fine new stock of Furniture also, and will exchange it for your old furniture and give you a good deal. We repair furniture and upholster, hang Awnings, pack furniture and household goods, re-tire baby car riages.Try us for anything. the farmer. "Well! Tiiese hens are bred to 1 ly and will not score high enough to compete with these show1 birds," replied tho owner. 'Can't a' hen lay eggs and be a show bird at the sir! ' replied the owner. "You niiiiht just as well try to raise dairy cows by; breeding them 'to the standard intended! for a beef show ns to try to raise lay-: ing hens by breeding to tho stindanlj intended for these fancy show birds."! "Say! I wish I had that five dollars back f paid out for a fancy rooster! last spring," cried the farmer. "How do you go about it to produce these laying hens?" "Well," the owner be gan, "I'll tell you how I have been do-! iug it. Three years ago I hjil one hun-j dred and twenty-five laying hens. All through January they didn't iverage me over six eggs a day. 1 marked the ones tiiat were laying and found 1 had nine thnt were doing the most of the1 winter laying. 1 put them in a separ-. ato coop the next spring and raised my next year's chickens from them. Last winter I culled out the drones Again, and this winter I am getting an aver-' ago of five dozen eggs a day from one hundred hens." The farmer looked at. him intently for; a few moments and said, "I'm eoinir to! begin culling out my hens, and I'll cut after it hBS been threshed, retted, the darn heads of f the drones living off broken, scutched, operations which areime. My hens have free ranee. I have carried on at the mill rather than on j not time to fool with no second pen." the farm." And he looked like he Wis hankering to E. L. Stiff & Son Wc sell the cheapest because our expenses are lowest Corner Slate and Liberty Sts. Phone 911 SI