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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
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Silver Falls Timber Company
to Handle Much of Log Out
put of Nearby Camps
II Washington's Birthday
TRY SALEM FIRST
MALKM COHIMBHCIAL CLUB
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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
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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
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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
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