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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON. TUESDAY, MAR. 7, 1916.
We Have Five Large Sales
Rooms filled with NEW SPRING MERCHANDISE our Buyers have been buying night
and day to secure for you a full and complete store full of MERCHANDISE bought at
OLD PRICES--No goods in our store so far bought at war prices.
OUR SIXTH SALESROOM
The Econemy and Shoe Bargain Basement
IS BEING FILLED WITH THE STOCK OF
The Boston Store
We mention a few Extra Specials you will find there-
SILK PETTICOATS
on sale tomorrow,
values to $5.00, now
98c
There are only 7 or 8
of these
WOOL DRESS SKIRTS
values to $7.50, on
sale tomorrow
98c
There are about 7 or 8
of these
CHILDREN'S
COLORED DRESSES
Size 4 to 6 vears, to
morrow 25c
These are values to
$2.50
SEVEN
EX-SUPERINTENDANT
JONES' MBIT
ABOUT STATE FAIR
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In the 10c and 15c Basement
White Hosiery 5c
Silk Gloves 15c
Brown Linen Toweling. . . 9c
Hat Frames 15c
Veils 15c
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TRY SALEM FIRST
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Germans Halted In Verdun
Attack, But Keep Trying
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rises 2."7 feet above the thickly wooded
country surrounding it.
No Damage at Hull.
London, Mar. 7. Absolutely no mili
tary damage wis done by Zeppelins in
their attack on the Hritish naval posi
tion 'at Hull, Sunday night, affording
to a. revise! official statement from tho
admiralty today. The innounccment
said 13 were killed. It denied Berlin's
claims that the naval establishment
suffered in any way from the ninety
bombs dropped in the vicinity.
Germans Take Fresnes.
Berlin, Mar. 7. Fresnes, 12 miles
southeast of Verdun, has been eiptured
ly the Germans, it was officially an
nounced today. Three hund'uer French
surrendered in the village.
Will Test Washington's
Minimum Wage Law
Ticoma, Wash., Mar. 7. Washing
ton's minimum wage law will probably
be put to the test of the highest courts
to determine whether it violates the
constitutional right of freedom from
imprisonment for debt, us the result of
action brought in- Justice Graham's
court here. According to State Labor
Commissioner K. W. Olsen today, the
entire question of minimum wage" legis
lation for women is involved, and he
said the st.ite will carry the contest to
the United (States supremo court if nce
cssnrv. The case involves A. M. Anderson,
head of a Tacomn collection firm, who
'was placed on trial on a charge of vio
' biting the act. He admitted the ficts
; as alleged, basing iiis defense on the
! constitutional provision against imjiris
ionment for debt.
Rosedale People
Attend School Program
(Capital Journal Special Service.)
Kosedale, Ore., Mar. 7. Tho pupils
of district No. 5, Murion county, gave
a short but very enjoyable program at
the school house Friday evening. As
sistant State Superintendent Welles and
County Superintendent Smith and Su
pervisor Smith each gave pleasing and
instructive nddresses on various phases
of Parent-Touchers' association work
and Industrial club work. After these
addresses a dainty luncheon wan served
by the ladies of the community. So en
joyable was the occasion that several
were heard to suggest that more gather
ings of a similar kind be arranged for
in the near future.
New Today ads costs you less than
you think worth more than you
realize.
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Grand Theatre
"For the sin which ye do by two and two,
Ye must answer for one by one."
The awful results of moral impurity vividly
pictured in
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DAMAGED GOODS
.RICHARD BENNETT in "DAMAGED GOODS
I A Mutual Spteuu Feature n stvix;- parts
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Graphic portrayal of the physical ruin that fol
lows in the wake of those who tread the flowery
path of worldly pleasures. Sheds a great awak
ening light on the human race.
A TRIUMPH OF MOTION PICTURE
REALISM IN SEVEN POWERFUL ACTS
RICHARD BENNETT, star of the original production, and his original com
pany of Broadway stars interpret this superb sociological drama.
ONLY PERFORMANCES - THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY
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TODAY and TOMORROW
ANTANELLI
Master HypnotistKing of Laugh Makers Mystifing Magic
Miss Marjorie Burk in Shadowgraph
is
That Create Wonder of Amusement
Regular House Pictures A Dollar Show for a quarter
88 BLIGH THEATRE Prices Be, 25c
Salem, Ore., Mareh 7, 101(1.
To tho Kditor:
I noticed in your issue of February
11 last, that I am given a rap by the
John Y. Kiehardson & Co. expert ac
countants. From this report I learn that
these worthv penrlemen u-irn Am ..im. a.i
I r O "W. Mlljlll'jril
by ono A. H. Lea, according to their
irpuri, m i-uei-H ine nooKs or the State
Fair Board during my term of office,
which checking included four months
of Meredith 's term. I would have ans
wered this before but I have been un
able to obtain a copy of the experts'
report from Mr. I.ea until March 2,
though promised it previously from
time to time by Mr. Lea. Finally, in
order to obtain the same, I was forced
to hire 8 stenographer at my own ex
pense. In justification to the retiring mem
bers of the Fair Board and myself I
think it is only fair and right' that 1
should correct the erroneous impres
sion that was gleaned from the articles
published relative to the report men
tioned. My annual report, which is on file
with the state treasurer shows that
there was Twrived bv the wcrctnry
trom nil sources .50,377.10, for the fis
cal yenr ending December 1, 1015. There
r'1"JB(?1l8',"r,8ed .,luri" t,,e Rnm'" period
flALW.ll, leaving a credit for the state
QS.M.id S28.0. This includes
$0,982.14 winch was on hand Decem
ber 1. 1914. Mv rpnn. i,:..i. : i ,
property, shows that there was expend-
Pit hr it ntlis.n: ... , , '
il) ur ine Board nieiu
Oers, dunnif the onr ,it mm .1..
of 7,(,07.40 tor permanent impruve
ments, such as pavement, water system
and equipment men's rest room, etc.
In addition to this I pnij out u' ,h(1
funds received in 1915, an old indirme.it
of WU0.47 to Mr. K. B. Tongue t"d a
ui, uie new pavillton, of 2,00.
8, making a total paid out for the
permanent improvements, including the
judgment, the sum of 10,042.07
There was received from the 1915
legislature an appropriation of $ti,9.!l
and donation of $1,000 by the
Mate board of control, from the flax
tunc), mukiug a total of 7,P31.37 Over
and above this sum, thero was 2,U0.K0
expended for permanent improvements;
which amount was paid out of the lW
eral fair fund. There was on hand De
cember 1, 1915, to the credit of the
w-1, faiuml "l t,le treasurer's
office, $8,208.08. These figures ,how
the s,mple truth in this matter. The
Mate lair Board has not fold us why
they spent the tax -payers' money uii
necessanly in the em,.loj-mi.it of
I ortlnnd experts to go over my books
when they could have learned the truth
for themselves in a very short time
by appointing an auditing committee
of two members of the board (which
had always been done in former years)
to compare tho boks and mv report
winch had already been audited by the
state treasurer's office and found cor
rect. At tho time the new secretary wbr
elected, M. L. Jones made a motion that
my books should be examined, and he
failed to get a second to the motion
and it looks very much like he ii the
one chiefly responsible for the mislead
ing report wl ioh hns been published '
was informed thai, on the day the re
port was giv,-i to tho public, a reporter
ginned Demission to the governor's
private iffice h i3 d;iev boy being
absent) the gover.or explaining '
report to him reciested him to place
Cent stress on the ilem claming there
was a deficit of l.f :.S..?i under my
regime. ' J
In keeninn- the lm.1ia T ,
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system that Mr. Meredith had used the
previous tive years, and continued to
use that system until the end of thr
fiscal year, December 1, 1915. At tlii
time I introduced an entire change i n
the system of bonkkeni.i nir i li '..1. ulw
for itself, and, in mv estimation serves
every purpose that a system of book
keeping is intended for. I am nut at
tempting to say how rotten the system
was, but I discovered, immediately lir-on-entering
upon the duties of the of
fice, that the system (in my opinion)
was very inconvenient, incomplete, and
nnsntwfuetnry. ami I so reported it to
members of the board and they auth
orized me to introduce a more complete
and convenient system and pui
same in oocvaiioii nt the beginning of
the next fiscal yea,-. December I, ill"
I his was done and I used the new ,-vs-tcm
two months when I was deposed fr
reasons "sufficient and --atisfaetery "
an stated in n communication, bv M '
done,, to the fair board, lie l,,,' ',
;.;forme:l the public what, he considers
sufficient and satisfactory reasons "
but, as tins report of the Port land ae
countnnts was give,, to the public ,(.
"oxtday, I m led to believe tht this
report was intended to convey this in
formation. If they intended t, be fair
report that I had introduced a new sv e
cm I explained this system to him
the first and only dhy he was in th
office Richardson's criticism regrrd
nig the system of keeping accounts
shows that the accountants understood
that they were to hand in a report un
favorable to me.
I deny that I ever entered into any
unauthorized contracts for tho state
fair board. I was authorized bv the
proper members to enter into every
contract I made. From their report
the accountants would have tiio public,
hel.eve that there were admissions to
tho fair grounds that were not account
ed for by me. Tb, i untrue ,nd mis-
I'Kdmg, as I turned over to my ,
'essors receipts trom every ticket sell
er for every ticket ho received, and, m
turn, receipted every ticket seller for
every ticket he returned unsold. Night
here T desire to reply to the communi
cation of M. I, Jones to the fair board,
and which appeared in your isue 0('
even date, in reference to the Turner
ini'kini unle ..-111,1.. t ;..
serts that "he mil another -,, i....
of the board presented the matter to
District Attorney King,,." )!,, Min thf
public this, leaving us to infer that it
was for the puri.oe of havin-f th..,.,
prosecuted. N.iw District Attorneyj
A IIP TQ CAREFUL DPEggPfg",
Ve QUlf ORI5YING ABOUT ; WHAT IS? THU X
LATEST STYLE- IN WATCH CHAINS' ANlj
COLLARS. SF YOU VVANT TO LET PEOPLE
KNOW; THAT VQU ARE jTHE REAL THING
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THf CICARBTTE Ji .
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pressuie that had been brnuirht. to bear
they hid concluded not to prosecute the
case. This was on Monday. October
1915. The facts in the case are
these: On October 3, 1915, Directors
Booth, Savage aim myself called on
District Attorney liingo, at his request,
at. his residence and wo laid the whole
matter before him, together with tho
or.il and written confessions of the
parties. At this time Attorney Kingo
demanded that I should bring tho wit
nesses before the grand jury the follow
ing morning and he would have the
case investigated. This I did but was
stopped at tho west entrance of the
COulltv ennrt lmuwn Vnr f I. T
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tho otiier member, being informed by
1 1-in umi rue matter wa ill settled.
Now District Attorney Kingo informs
me that when M. L. Jones and the oth.
er member culleil uul tnl.i fi..,t
they had concluded not to prosecute
the case, he informed them "that lie
could not drop it. He was satisfied
that a crime hid been committed and
the fcuilty parties must be punished."
This "pressure" that they mention to
the district attorney I 'suppose they
considered "sufficient and satisfac
tory" to them, yet I do not believe the
public takes tiio same view of the mat
ter. From their renoit it nnnnnr. (lmf
they criticised about everything (hit
' none in jin.), mill trom the manner
ill which thev u;ii-l,le.l lli.i f;i.,,.rt..
was certainly their intention to miike
their report as mi favorable for me as
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possioie.
The experts admit that thev never
found an irroirnl iritv nf ,.i.
tilOUlh thev infer Hint eerliilii v.,...,ii.i
find accounts were not in evidence. This
is untruo an. I it is not my fault that
Hiey um noi locate t lem. IIS I inform.
ed Kic hardsou A: company ninny times
that I would only be too'glad to issist
them in any way possible in thcirl
work. I
After nil that has been said it is a
fact that I never entered into thei
duties as secretary until April I, 1915;
that four months of Hie fiH. iil von- . I .
elapsed under former Secretary .Mere
dith; that, notwithstanding the "de
cided lack of organization and oipiip-
mini in me con.iuct or the slate fair
under the state fair board" 'is men-'
tioned in their report we held a fair
and are told by the public that it. was
us good or belter than any fair ever
held; that we ninde some decided ui.l
worthy improvements of a permanent
nature; that we sjient out of our (.on
eral fund more than .tJ.OOt) for this
work more than was appropriated by
the legislature, and, last but not lcist,
we had a balance at the end of the year!
of $2,225.80 more than the balance on
han I December 1, 1914.
Space forbids my going into the de
tails' my farther, but would stale that
any one interested ran get tiie true'
facts in the ca'.e from the annual re j
port, on file in the state treasurer's of-'
fice.
W. AI. JONES
II. Stevenson, at the Salem hospital,
March 4, 191(1, a son.
BORN
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, Articles of Incorporation for the Cap-
., , "" -"'filial City Cooperative Creamery Com
Jleurv Mursi en nt m,,..i. -r i i i ... . .
,, '.' . ' " pany wero tiled yesterday which mnrlia
March 7, 1 )10, a daughter. ! . , e
' ' "". thn beL'inuinur or a new cnonerntive
creamery in Salem which will operate
on a largo scale. Tho new creamery
will be located at 383 Court street and
will take over the plant of the Cnpital
BARR To Mr. and Mrs. Campbell C.
I'arr. of the I'ringlo neighboihood,
March 3, 1916, a son.
STEVENSON To Mr. and Mrs. Cliiudo ' City creamery,
Your Eastern Trip
Should be arranged via California so
that you can stop over at San Fran
cisco. Liberal stopovers allowed. The
cost is no more for this privilege on
either first or second class tickets.
Ogden Route
Train service is excellent. Three daily
transcontinental limited trains to Chi
cago and the East. Latest equipment.
All steel observation library cars,
through sleeping cars, dining car serv
ice unexcelled. Protected by electric
automatic block signals.
Overland Limited Pacific Limited
San Francisco UnitedAtlantic Express
Ask your local agent or write
John M. Si utt, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon
Southern Pacific - Union Pacific
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IIAN.VA At the home of her daughter, !
Mrs. J. W. Crittun, at Liberty,
March 7, ltlld. Mrs. Sophia J. Han1
na, in her ROfh year. i
The surviving children are Mrs. .7.!
W. Jtritton, of Liberty; T). A. Tlanna,!
of Portland: ('. K. II aniin nt Pneifi.. !
flrove, Oregon: Mrs. J. h. Oliver of
i-oik county; Mrs. J. II, Crawford, of
Liberty: V. V. Hnnnn, of Bethel, Ore
gon. All the children were at her bed
sid at the time of her death. I
Funeral services will bo held Wediies j
day afternoon nt 2 o'clock from tliej
mirlors of Kiidon find rti.ti.n
Services will be conducted by the Hey.
V. T. Porter and burial will be ill the
City View Cemetery.
Mrs. Sophia .1. Iltinna came to Ore
gon in 1SH3 from Missouri and has re
sided m Salem in vicinity since coin
when ( ,7 I V -v- toners nun ing to tnc state. She bad been a mem-
"ic I i tl Tiin"""' rrrMl1'"1 " h;' t the Christian church since her
lacy Mid to Inn, "that owmg to the fourteenth year.
iff ' f ""Till
MARGUERITE CLARK, IN
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