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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-12-21

taken at once. Building owners were
instructed 20 confer with members of
the Fire and Water committee or the
city engineer in order to secure specif-
cations.
The city engireer reported number
of uncompleted pieces of sidewalk i'm
the lre limits. The Judiciary commit
tee was instructed 20 comply with an
adopted motion ofsNovember and ad-
vertise for bids on the work that il
might be completed as soon as possible
under city supervision.
The city engineer, p. NJ. Morse. re-
ported that the Heights grading had
been completed and recommended that
II be paid for, except a portion on
Fourth street, which he recommended
be left unpaid, in order TO care for the
rolling of the streets next Spring.
k. d. Gould 4 Co. asked permission
to cXcayate a basement beneatht their
place of business on Oak street. The
petition was referred to the Fire and
Water committee with power to act.
A communication was received from
the Security & Savings Bank, of
Toledo, Ohio. reporting a fault with
the sewer bonds purchased by them.
The defect was cited as being i'm the
lnstallment coupons attached TO them.
CityAttorney Derby reported that he did
not see why the'bond would notbe salts
factory If the installment coupons
were left blank. The bond purchasers
asked that the city send them $40 in
order that they mi ght have the bonds
reprinted at an Ohio shop.
1t was reported to the council that a
large number of fir trees in the parks
of the city, and especially Eliot Park
along Indian creek, have been cut for
Christmas trees and other decorations.
The marshal was ordered to put an inn
mediate stop to such acts of vandalism
and the Recorder was instructed to
give public notice of the intention to
vigorously prosecute any and all of.
Tenders, which action will be con-
Cured in by all thinking citizens.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-12-21
SCHOOL CENSUS
SHOWS INCREASE

Clerk Of the City School Board, f.
A. Bishop, announces that the school
census of district No. 3, which has
just been COMPLETED shows an increase
Of AZ over that Of last year. The num-
Der of children in the district last year
between the ages of 20 and 1 years
numbered 1856. while this year they
total 932.
These figures do not include pupils
attending the city high school, who
are not residents of the county nor
high school pupils who are over q
years Of age.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09

knew he had been drinking heavily for several days, and attached no particular significance to his heavy footballs. Not until Miss Kelly went about her homework did the tragedy of the early morning hours become known.
 'I found the stove still burning. but very low" said Miss Kelly of the condition of the room when she en- tered. T couldn't breath for the cloud of smoke and soot It was suf- locating. I held my breath while I opened the window, and when I felt MT. Parketon's cold hand, I knew he was dead"
 Parketon was about 45 years old. and until a few days ago was em- ployed with the New Home Sewing Machine Agency but because of his drinking habits, Manager Bessey dis charged him. Then he secured em- ployment with the Singer agency. He and his wife. Mrs. Irene Parketon, a dressmaker, of 292 East Main street. became estranged several years ago. There is one son, about 15, with the mother. Parketon's mother and a brother are said to live in New Ca naan, or Norwalk.
 Dr. Krause notified Dr. Downs, who instructed Rourke & Rourke to take charge of the remains.
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in the local factories. Wheeler said he had instructed the man particularly not to encourage crime. but to buy any metals he could find that were of where the stuff was being stolen.
 After Captain Arnold had testified that the boys told him they were told to steal by Vener. Iannucci was call ed to the witness stand: It was his to its sudden and unusual step.
 Iannucci said he had been out of work several months on account of illness. He spent most of his time along the water front of Yellow Mill pond. near Waterview avenue and Willard street: He first met vener when Vener met him near the dump on Waterview avenue. and asked him if he could get any junk. "I told him Ididn't know. and he told me to try the shop.'' said Iannucci. 'He begged me to 20 in the shop. Then barns and steal handles from the cars he would give me half a dollar apiece
 ''The day I first met him on the dump he told me he had brother in Brooklyn who owned three foundries. and one n Maytford H He Es% SsouEhs ha brother along a little later and the brother offered me half a dollar apiece for the car handles. He offered to go and stand watch at the car barns while stole the handles. I refused to go. Next day he told me a junk man we call 'Beans' stole two han dies. Then the brother bought a screw driver from Beans and gave it to us to unscreW the brake handles from the trolley cars. Aiello and took Il one day. and he paid us $5 50 Then 'Greenie' and I took 12 and he paid us $6. He told us to get more. Then we took 17.'
 Attorney Merva was objecting to the form of questions propounded by Prosecutor Redden when the latter called the counsel for the two Kovoski brothers into whispered conference. The objections ceased. and a moment later the court ordered the case ad- jouroned. the smaller of the Kovoski boys released in custody of his coun- gel and the case thoroughly sifted He fixed bail for the stool pigeon at $500 and for the other boys at $50 each. No specific charges of theft have been lodged against "Greenie'' or Holinski. They are held for in- vestiEation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09
From Our Special CorresA

Hartford. Feb. sBy a party vote save one in the Senate today all of the Republican nominations for county commissioners were confirmed. in cun currence with the House. A strong effort was made by Senators McNeil of Bridgeport, Mahan of New London aad Spellacy of Hartford to secure cninority representation in Fairfield county by electing former Mayor Denis Mulvihill as a commissioner for that county
 Senator McNeil was the first to ad- dress the Senate in behalf of the can didacy of MT. Mulvihill. He said that the situation in Fairfield county diff fers from the situation in the other counties of the State. in that the peo- ple of Fairfield county have elected cnore Democratic Representatives and Senators than Republican This makes the county Democratic. Of all the senators and Representatives elected In Fairfield county the vote for the Dem ocratic members totalled 100000 while the Republican Senators and Repre- seatatives Tn that county received about 45,000 He said that the prin- ciple uf majority rule Is both Demo- cratic and fair and that MT. Mulvi- hill was unanimously endorsed by all of the Democrats of the county.
 If that was to be the principle by which the decision was to be made, then he thought 1t eminently proper that the other counties in the State should be entitled to the same con- Eideration-
 He said the argument advanced by Senator McNeil concerning the major
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09
COLEMANS CELEBRATE
 TRIPLE ANNIVERSARY.

The many friends of MT. and Mrs. Thomas F. Coleman called at their home, 514 Grand street, last evening to celebrate the 18th anniversary of their marriage, also the birthday of their son-in-law, Wm. F. Concannon, and Miss Hattie Freeman. MT. and Mrs. Coleman were recipient of many gifts, also Miss Freeman and MT. Con- cannon. Music was furnished by Lannon's string orchestra. prompting by Edward Rowe. Thomas Shanley and William Allen gave some good clog dancing and a buck and wing dance which was much applauded. Selections on the piano by Mrs. Con- cannon and Miss Freeman. Solos were sung by Edward Rowe, Misses Hattie Freeman, May Rowe, and Shophie Miller, also Messrs. Shanley and AL len. Among those present were. MT. and Mrs. Thomas F. Coleman, MT. and Mrs. William F. Concannon, MT. and Mrs. Thomas Lannon, MT. and Mrs. Edward Rowe, the Misses May Rowe, Sophie Miller, Maud Rowe, Hattie Freeman, Madeline Rowe, Messrs. Thomas Shanley, J. Rice, J. Callaghan, F. Rice, J. Kelley, w. AL len, W. Kelley ana R. Foley.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09
 RECORD
 BROKEN
Nine Divorces Granted at Morning Session of Su- perior Court and Ten More to Be Heard.

A record for the granting of divorces is being established today by Judge Milton A. Shumway in the civil Su- perfor court. Up to the noon recess ten of twenty petitions had been heard nine being granted. One was held up for further consideration. The other ten are to be heard by the court this afternoon.
 A separation because the defendant had been found guilty and convicted of the crime of bigamy. was allowed Mary Flynn of Southport. formerly a resident of this city. Mrs. Flynn's husband yesterday was Charles A. Flynn, well known in this city. and at one time prominent in politics. On Thanksgiving Day. 1909. he married Sadie Burke, resident of East Bridgeport. the ceremony being per- formed at St. Mary's church. One week later his legal wife had him ar rested Dec. F. 1909. he plead guilty to bigamy and was sentenced to a year in jail. The court allowed the plaintiff to assume her maiden name.
 Marion Chase Warren of this city was allowed a separation from her
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09

lty vote cast for Senators and Repre- sentatives in Fairfield county was not an argument based on principle, but had reference to merely an accident and one, he hoped, which would not be repeated. He eulogized most highly the present commissioners, Pease and Brophy, whose reelection he advocat- ed
 He said that every other county in the State elected Republican majori- ties in their legislative representation i: therefore Fairfield county is unique ana by all rules of fairness the can- didate of the majority of that county is entitled to election to the county board.
 He referred to the standing of MT. Mulvihill in Bridgeport saying that he received the largest plurality of votes ever given a candidate for Mayor. He pleaded for his election on the ground that Bridgeport, the second city in the State. backed by majority In the county, asks for ed candidate of unquestioned integ- rity and ability.
 Senator Judson said that he could mt agree with the views expressed by his young friend of the 22d district. He said that had Senator McNeil taken a large view of the situation his argument would be entitled to more consideration. He referred to the fact that nothing had been said con- eernins ger, the superior fitness of Mnlvi- hill over the Republican candidate; also that the question of minority representation seemed to be raised only in respect to the candidate of Fairfield county.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09
DID STOOL PIGEON
 OF STATE POLICE
 BEG BOYS TO STEAL?
Judge Wilder Causes Arrest of Pseudo De-
 tective Elm p|oyed by State Police
Witness Testifies that Vener Begged Him to Become Thief-State Policemen Protest as Warrant for
 Their Man Is Issued

When Cleveland Iannucci, aged IT, of Hewitt street. told in the city court today of his being coached to commit crime by a man whom the State police had engaged to secure evidence of metal thievery in local factories. Judge Wilder of the city court stopped the joint trials of Ian- nucci and other youths, held the stool pigeon in bail of $500 for theft. and continued the cases of the youths un- til tomorrow for a complete investi- gation by the members of the Bridge port police department.
 Iannucci was rounded up with half a dozen other boys last night. To- day. as result of few moments investigation by Assistant Prosecutor Redden. John Vener. aged %. of Booth street. formerly employed in the car barns of the Connecticut Co. in Con- gress street. was ordered arrested. police. They arrested the boys on the strength of evidence furnished by him. He was seated among spectators in the city court. waiting to testify to the big metal thefts of the boys. when Assistant Prosecutor Redden drew the Captain Arnold. and the latter placed his hand on vener's shoulder and led him to the pen. Meanwhile the State Policemen. Virelli and Wheeler. were entering a vigorous yet futile protest. They declared vener was not at fault. But Iannucci's story on the witness stand led the court to desire a thor ough sitting of the entire case
 The boys arrested in the roundup made last night by the State and local police include Iannucci. Henry and John Kovoski. Il and F. of 345 Willard street: John Aiello. IT. SS1 Connecticut avenue: Joseph Holik- skum. 12. 1872 Pembroke street: Albert Caczo. known among his comrades as "Greenie". aged 16. of 1ss Willard street.
 Iannucci. the Kovoski brothers and Vener were held for the theft of % six-pound cartridge cases, worth $104, from the American & British Mfg. Co
 Step by step Prosecutor Redden learned from the testimony of State Policemen Virelli and Wheeler that they had secured the services of vener through a private detective evidence of thefts on a wholesale scale
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09
 MUNICIPAL
 OWNERSHIP
Senator Donovan Proves Regu- lative Effect of NorwaIk's s
 Gas and Water Enterprises
Second Hearing on Public Utili- ties Bill Produces Extended Arguments Before Committee on Judiciary
Especial to The Farmer.)


 Hartford, Feb. s-south Norwalk and the advantages of municipal owner ship were we'll in the foreground, yes- terday, when the second hearing on the public utilities bill was before the committee on judiciary. Various citi- zens of the trying Norwalk communi- ties were before the committee. mar shalled by Senator Jeremiah Donovan. It appeared that municipal ownership of water and electric light has been a shining success among the Senator's 8 constituents and also beneficial to neighboring cities in which private companies have been obliged to cut rates under pressure of the Norwalk example. President Mellen asked to be heard on his bill establishing a court of commerce and date was set for Tuesday. Feb. 21.
 It became known at the outset that the alliance between railroad employ CT and employe for the defeat of the Business Mems measure, was a mat ter of fact, for Attorney B. c. Terry of New Haven, chairman of the joint legislative committee of the various organizations of railroad employees. asked that a special day be set apart for the hearing of men he proposed to bring there in opposition to the meas ure.
 Likewise Attorney L. F. Robinson of the legal department of the New Haven road, requested the committee to let him know we'll in advance a date when President Mellen may be able to speak in advocacy of the Court of Commerce Bill, as opposed to the proposed measure of the Busi- ness Mems association. The commit tee before adjournment fixed the date for Mir Mo1loD'a QnnoQ ranca on Eoh 21, week from next Tuesday.
 Representative Joshua Meltzer of Bridgeport figured prominently among the advocates of the business mems measure. His tilt with Attor- ney Terry was not without its mirth- full features. During the course of his remarks, Representative Meltzer had occasion to call attention to the attitude of he railroad employees and
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husband, Alfred A. Warren. also of this city for infidelity. Warren was formerly manager for the Pyramid Motor Car Co. In this city, and is still engaged here in the automobile busi- ness. Viola Way of Lewis street was named as the correspondent. A de- tective from local agency testified to finding the couple in a very com promising. position. The Warrens married April 5. 1898.
 to marry again. Judge Shumway al- lowed him a decree from his wife, Elsie w. B. Fry, also of Danbury. on the ground of infidelity, one Canary Of the Hating town being named as correspondent Alma R. Green of Danbury. witness in the suit that she had called on Mrs. Fry and found Canary at the house. Mrs. Green said she would tell Fry what she had seen. Mrs. Fry replied, eff you do there'n be murder
 'she was high flyer, she wanted to see the lights of the city," said Birdsey Dean of Sandy Hook in tell ing the court why his wife, Ella Dean, now of Seneca Falls, N. Y., deserted him. Dean was Is when he married Jan. g, 1898, and lived with his wife six years.
 Fannie B. Craft, of Stamford, was a divorced woman when she married William B. Conant, also of Stamford, on Sept. 1, 1888. Her first husband had obtained a divorce from her be- cause of her unfaithfulness. Today Conant obtained a decree on the same grounds, naming Edward Crabbe of Stamford as correspondent
 Desertion Oct. 27. 1902, was the ground on which Helen M. Blondel of9Stamford was freed from her hus- band, Frank w. Angle, who is now resident of this city. They were mar ried Sept. 21, 189S
 Infidelity was the cause of the de- cree being allowed Antonio Masello of this city in his suit against her hus- band, Joseph Masello. They married April 6, 1908, and the husband prov ed unfaithful three weeks later
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09
SELECTMEN MAY HAVE
 TO BUY OWN MEALS
Andrew M. Cooper Thinks They Should Since They Receive $50 Per Day
 For Their Services

Mr. Jackman said he had been talk ing to large property owner wno was of the opinion that the city was pretty we'll protected from fire; * well. but the trend has been in the past to build engine houses on the west side of the river. We want 10 build in East Bridgeport where 20 per cent. of the people live and section that pays s 1-3 per cent. of the total tax of the city. We had over 25 citizens here last night who wanted to speak in favor of this improvement. They did not get an opportunity to speak"
 MT. Wheeler said: we would ask that this s180O0 for new engine house in the Ninth district by direc- tion so we can go to work at once.
 Commissioner W. G. Taylor explain ed the needs of the engine house in the northern part of East Bridgeport, and of the great growth of that sec ton. He said that East Bridgeport proper had only the same fire protec- tion that 1t had 30 years ago. He recalled the issue of City Betterment bonds which did not cover all the ex- penditures for which 1t was intended. He did not believe the board wanted to take chance of getting left the way the proposed bonds for Yellow Mill pond bulkheads were not realized on.
 Zalmon Goodsell said 1t was evident that if all Improvements were to be granted that taxpayers would have to be called on to consent to an increase in the tax rate of one or two mills. He thought that if the paying for inn provements by direct taxation was to be carried out that 1t was wrong to keep putting off from year to year. He thought they should be taken care of as tn ecity grows.
 City Auditor Heating said: 'I have recommended that the money for the engine house should be raised by bonding. Ibeiieve the engine house is needed and should be built But it is a permanent improvement No current expense should be met by bonding. believe the engine house ment should be paid for from the funds intended for current expenses. There is no obstacle in the way of the engine house being built this year. Ground can be broken for the engine house on April and at the same time pay for the building by means of a bond issue"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09
MAGNIFICENT SCOTT MAUSOLEUM LOOTED
 AND BODY REMOVED
Entire Erie Police Force in -..77e1o House Search For the GhouIs-- of Black Hand After Ransom From Wealthy
 Family

l the wealthiest in this section of the state. William l.. Scott came here when he was IT, from Washingon, and amassed fortune through his two terms in Congress from 1884 to 1888 and died in Newport, R. l., on September g, 1891.
 Charles H. Strong, whose wife was daughter of MT. Scott, is president of the Erie & Pittsburg Railroad, the Erie County Electric Light Company and the owner of two newspapers. The family has instructed the police and detectives that no effort is to be spared in recovering the body and tracking down the ghouls. That other bodies were to have been carried away is one of the theories of the police. The niche in which the cask- cts containing MT. Scott and his wife lay side by side had been broken open and the one containing Mrs. Scott's body had been hauled part way out. It is believed that the robbers plan ned to carry away both these caskets but were frightened away.
 One theory that the police are working on is that Italians were con cerned in the ghoulish work. There is an Italian settlement near the cemetery but search of the houses there has so far failed to develop any clue.
 The fact that the family received 1CIICAS oA5hS0 DldCh I1duO QS1Iduu- ing $10,000 with the alternative of having their summer home blown to pieces some two years ago, adds strength to this theory. The per- petrators were later arrested. tried and convicted and are now serving a term in the penitentiary for the att tempted extortion. The antecedents of he men concerned in this crime are now being looked into.
 That a horse and wagon were used k< &xor f~,- 4v11 1vy,& Fv,<~ &Ia~
 tery was indicated by tracks in the snow. Footprints of four or six men, the detectives having unable to de- finitely determine the number, also are shown. The wagon tracks were followed to one of the unused gates of the cemetery but there they merg- ed with others on the beaten street and could not be followed. sis>
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09

The matter of meals for Selectmen was taken up by the Board of Appor- tionment and Taxation. at the open ing of the adjourned session. this morning. It looked very much as though the Selectmen may have to buy their own meals hereafter. The discussion was on the request of the board for an appropriation of $40 for meals
 Andrew M Cooper said: "The mem bers of the Board of Selectmen receive $50 a day. Any man getting that much money ought to be willing to buy his own lunch"
 Secretary Frank Braithwaite. who appeared for the board. said it had al- ways been the custom for the city to purchase the meals for the Selectmen while they were making voters. be- cause they had to be within call of the session at any time. and the rush of making voters came during the regular noon hour. The Board of Selectmen asked for $40 where they used to ask for $50.
 Mir Cooper said: "The sub-commit- ice believed last year that the Board of Selectmen had too many clerks. cil and secured an additional $150 without giving sufficient or any good reason why they should have the money. They have seven clerks. five Selectmen. two registrars. and the town clerk present at their sittings, and the greatest number of voters made in one day was 214. I think they could get along with fewer clerks.''
 TT should think it would be hard to find the voters with so much help | around" said MT. Osborn.
 .on &o an enEagement. and MT. Cooper took the chair in his stead.
 President Wheeler and Commissioner F. L. Cogill of tho Fire Board resum- cd their hearing where they left off last night MT. Cogill made strong plea for money for the installation of underRround cable. The sum of $10,- ooo is asked for this work Mir Wheeler urged that the work be done this year. as MT. Cogill said that if the police and fire department could install their cable at the same time st would be able to save about $30o