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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
HIGH COURT FACES -.
BANKRUPTCY TANGLE

Washington, D. CA difficult le-
gal problem has come forth from
North Carolina for the United States
supreme court to pass upon that may
affect bankrupts in all parts Of the
country for years to come Shorn OF
legal phraseology; the question is
when is thing concealed?"
John L. James was a storekeeper
in Onslow county, that state, previous.
tc February %. 1908, when a petition
Of Involuntary bankruptcy was filed
against him. Nothing unusual devel-
oped until James asked for his dis
charge from bankruptcy.
Conceals Goods in Swamp.
Just four months and three days
tefore the bankruptcy petition was
filed against him he had been charg-
ed with hiding in a swamp in Onslow
county five caddies of tobacco, one
case of gun shells, two trunks of
shoes and some dry goods, with in
tent to defraud his creditors.
Loses I'm Lower Court.
The circuit court of appeals for the
fourth circuit decided that, although
the goods were placed in the swamp
three days more than four months
before the prescribed time, there was
continuous concealing" because
without further action by James, the
offense repeated itself every day un-
I'll he disclosed the hiding place.
which was alleged to have been jan
uary 5, 1908.
1t is said the supreme court never
Il
er there is such an offense within the
meaning of the bankruptcy laws as
q continuous concealing." For this
reason the court was asked to pass
upon the principal. Decision as to
whether it will review the case is ex-
pected October 10.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
EQUINE GHOST ON RAILS.
Mystery of Apparation Is Solved by
a Train Grew.

Lewiston, Pa.-The apparit on of a
little old gray horse held up an early
train on the Philadelphia & Erie road
for short time and incidentally
scored a triumph for the Sherlock
Holmes system of turning mystery m
side out.
Richard Roke, a night caller. saw
the ghost. 1t was walking the floor
beams of the Juniata bridge between
this city and the Junction and it dis
appeared in a wink. Rowe's first
thought was that it was an omen of
disaster and he hurried up the tracks
and stopped an oncoming train.
The crew gave him the laugh but
finally agreed to make an investiga-
tion. Sure enough there We're gray
hairs on the lower cords and brackets
of the bridge and an Investigation
showed the tracks of the animal
where it left the stream and climbed
the banks. The horse was found les-
urely grazing in an adjacent pasture
,ot, apparently none the worse for its
crop of fifty-nine feet
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
ALBANY AVIATOR
FLIES WITH EASE

Albany, Or.-William Crawford of
this city, made a most successful
II ght with a bipane at the fair
grounds a mile south of this city. The
first attempt was foiled after reach
ing a height of about 30 feet by the
breaking of a portion of the mechan-
'sm and necesstating a landing for
repairs. Later the aviator again at
tempted a flight and succeeded in ris-
ing to height of over so feet and
travelling a half mile when he again
brought the machine to earth under
lull control.
Crawford's attempt in navigat ng
the air is the most successful one
ever carried out by a local man and
II is believed that with little exper.-
Cnce will solve the problem
General" as he is generally
known, is local man, and has been
working on this machine ever since
Burkhart established a station here
for trial flights over year ago. Burk-
hart gave up the work here and is
now in New York studying aviation.
Crawford has continue the work here
at Goltra
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
love Is A FAKE"
SAYS BRIDE OF 16
Married Fl Days, Wife of fg-Ycar
Old Husband Now Applies for Di-
vorce.

Chicago.-"There isn't such thing
as love-"
Mrs Helen Stanley, a sixteen-year.
o.d bride of twenty-one days, who has
filed SIT for divorce hgainst her
young husband, spoke these words
TO her former girl chums who gather
cred at her home, 1926 Grace street
The girls, most of them IA to Is
years old, pressed eagerly around
their playmate to learn from her the
terrible experience of matrimony.
Are you really going to get di-
Vorced " one of the children asked
in awe.
Mrs. Stanley nodded her head slow
~, the weight of her late adventures
adding dignity to her reply.
81 am going to get divorce because
replied. Her youthful audience gasp
ed.
"No love they asked, their eyes
opened wide in surprise.
mo love" the bride repeated calm
~ and with emphasis.
In her bill for divorce filed the
bride charges that her husband wooed
her by false promises, that he paint
ed a future Of air castles.
Mrs. Stanley, owing to the wealth
of experience meted out to her, was
q source of interest to her young
companions whom she had constantly
refused to see before today.
Loves young dream is a nightmare
girls" she announced. Loves
young dream is fake"
Mrs. Stanley before she married
was Miss Helen Tantlinger. She lived
with her parents at the Grace-street
home. She met what she told her
father and friends was her affinity
and mate. He was an usher in To-
cal amusement park.
Miss Tantlinger played the piano
and between the strains of the SYM
phonies she drummed out George
Stanley found occasion to offer him.
self as a husband. George Stanley
Is 19 years old. The courtship being
concluded the couple started on
boat for st. Joseph to have the knot
tied.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
$4,000 DEMANDED
FOR RETURN OF BOY
Men Who Abducted Son of Wealthy
New York Italian Declare Child
VIII BE Killed Unless Money Is
Paid

New York.--Vincenzo ISABELLA, who
big grocery and importing concern at
S69 Mulberry street, reported at po-
lice headquarters the disappearance
July 81 last of his 7-year-old boy,
Vincenzo, saying he was sure the boy
had been kidnapped, as he has been
Getting letters for three weeks signed
by members of the Malta.
The day the little fellow vanished
from in front OF his home at $50
the Mulberry street station, describ-
ed his son and asked if any such
Child had been found. The l.euten-
ant on the desk said no and ISABELLA
went on his way. He thought his
request amounted to the same thing
as sending out Of an alarm, whereas
no memorandum was made of the dis.
appearance.
All the blackmailing letters ISABELLA
received demanded $4,000 and were
all written in the same hand bore Dor,
| the same signature.
The letters stated that ISABELLA knew
| the Malta and could get the none,
20 them readily. They also stated thar
if he refused to meet the demand h,
would never see his child again.
ISABELLA says he paid no attention t,
the first letter and continued hi
search. His wife was i'll and he di,
not tell her of the letter nor of sub
sequent demands. He has since re
ceived five more letters, each repeat
ing the demand for $4,000 and tn
threat.
ISABELLA is said to be wealthy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
EDISON IN AUTO MISHAP Is
NEAR DEATH IN ALPINE RIDE
Inventor and Family Hang Over
Edge of PrecipIce When Machine
Skids-"Wizard" Doesn't Lose His

Interlaken, Switzerland Thomas
y. Edison arrived here after the
rost exciting experience of his for
elgn tour in which the inventor and
his family narrowly escaped being
Gashed TO death over an Alpine pre-
cipice.
The party, having lunched at Evian
les Baines, started on the route to
lnterlaken. Near the little village of
Troubois as the car was mounting
a steep hill at high speed, half way
up the driver discovered he had made
a mistage in the route. The road
was narrow and he attempted to turn
around.
The car skidded backward down
the steep incline and off the road
toward the very edge of the precipice
with clean drop of fifty feet to the
torrent below. 1t required a team of
oxen to drag the car back to the road
Mr.. Edison, after satisfying him.
self that the shock to the rest of the
rarty had no lasting effect, declared it
ADDED much to the fun of the trip and
that they had to apply such primitive
power as a yoke of oxen to ge him
out of a dilemma.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
MAN POLYGAMOUS,' SAYS
LEFT HANDED BLONDE
Handsome English Woman Saurizes
After Hunt for Husband but
VIII Try Again.


ChicagO.-These are the conclusions
of Mrs. Martha Grove Gibson, a veal
thy young woman of Lowestoft, Eng
land, following an eight months
search for her husband
Man is by nature a polygamous
animal.
Woman is by nature homogeneous
81 think all men are pOlygamous.
There never was a man that did not
covet his neighbors wife If she was
better looking than his own, in my
huble opinion. That is mans nature.
There never was a woman who
did not think her own ugly duckling
the sweetest thing that ever wore
trousers, 40 matter if he had the face
Of a gorilla and the manners of a
Berkshire pig"
William Worth Gibson left England
three years ago. ostensibly to investi-
gate the value of certain Alaskan min
irg properties. Gibson has not been
heard from since.
Mrs. Gibson says that her husband
eloped with a brunette and aban-
ooned her because she was "only a
left handed blonde"
Mrs. Gibson is strikingly handsome
however, and now declares that hav-
Ing done her duty in expending a
small fortune searching for Gibson,
she will marry again.
Mrs. Gibson and the young woman
who has accompanied her in her
search, Miss Ethel Schwarz, left Chi
cago for England today, taking the
Pennsylvania Limited for New York.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
MUSIC ON CONEY ISLAND
TOO MUCH FOR COPS NERVES

New York-At his Brooklyn home,
Joseph Richards a mounted police
man of the Coney Island station, IS
recovering his health after an illness
Cf several weeks from nervous. pros
tration. His physicians declare that
his illness was brought on by having
to listen to the continuous playing
Of hand organs ana bands at the am
usement places of Coney Island. Rich
ards post was in the heart of the
amusement resorts and one particu-
ar tune which has tremendous
vogue early in the season got such a
hold on him that he found himself
humming it even in his sleep. He
was unable to shake off the juggling
air and he finally became seriously
III worrying over his strange obession.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
INDIAN AND WHITE
WOMAN ARE ELOPERS
Husband Has Both Arrested, Man Is
Fined and Couple Separates

Fails City, Or.-One of the most
peculiar cases in the annals of Polk
county courts developed in the tria
of Martin l.. Fry, full-glooded Silet2
Indian, charged with eloping with tbs
wife of John Wridge, taking with
them her three small children. Mr.
and Mrs. Wridge are white. The
trouble started in Curry county two
years ago, when Fry and Mrs. Wridge
first met Later the Wridge family
moved to Long Beach, Washington.
they lived there about six months
when they separated, Wridge provid-
ing a separate home for his wife and
children.
About two months ago Mrs Wridge
and children went to Portland osten-
slbly to get some dental work done.
She did not stop in Portland, but
" ent direct to the Siletz Indian reser-
Nation where she again met Frye and
they came to this city and lived to-
gether until a week ago, when Wr-dge
appeared on the scene. He immedi-
ately swore out a warrant for Fry's
arrest In the meantime Fry was in
formed of Wridge's intentions and he
and the woman took the train to Sa-
lem. A special constable arrested
them on the train three miles from
here, and Fry was lodged in Jail,
While Mrs. Wridge was released on
$40 bail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wridge settled their
differences, the woman being given
the custody of the youngest child and
the husband taking the other two.
The Indian pleaded kuilty and was
fined $50 by Justice of the Peace ].
ii. Flower, which included the costs.
The court tried to reconcile Mrs.
Wridge with her husband, but she
stOutly refused to go back to him,
her intention of marrying
the Indian as soon as she could get
a legal separation from Wridge.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
ALLEGED POLICE
GRAFT IS ENDED

Portland, Ore, Sept. lit is semi
officially stated here today that the
big shakeup of the police department
yesterday afternoon marked the be-
S nning of the end of grating by po-
lice officials in the tenderloin and
that Mayor Rushlight and Chief of
Police Slower are bent on restricting
vice in the city without wholly erad-
!cating it.
The transfer of fifty patrolmen to
different districts, the reduction in
rank Of eight detectives, and the elm
ination of a number OF other officials
either by reduction or transferrence
is but the first step in making the
department more efficient and at the
same time cleaner.
The sudden orders of the chief
threw the department into a turmoil
1t was unexpected and had been so
carefully planned that no inkllng Of
the reorganization leaked until a few
minutes before the orders were is
sued.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
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LOCALS :
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Coal and wood. phone Main s.
Pastime pictures please all.
Dutch Henry for coal. Main ITS.
Snyder, chimney sweep. Tel. r 1912
Private board and lodging at 30I
w. Webb. Phone Black 34s1.
Phone Platzoeder for fresh mea
and lard Main 4lS.
Everybody goes to the Orpheum t
see the best and the clearest pictures
Wanted-Girl for general house.
work. Small family. SOC w. Court
Call at TT Thompson street fol
board and rooms. H. H. Copeland.
wanted-Situation by registered
pharmacist. Address &C." care Eas
Oregonian.
Housekeeper wanted at once at Ar.
lington Hotel, Good wages to right
party.
Special rates to horses boarded by
the week or month at the commercial
Barn, $40 Aura street, Phone Main IS
Everything that's good to eat, In
meats and groceries at the Cash
Market, phone Main 101.
B. L. Burroughs, agent for dry
wood and Rock Springs coal. Phone
Main s.
About 500 feet OF good new garden
hose for sale at cost price. Sharon &
Eddings.
Lumber at Darr's mill $1,000 per
thousand. Six miles west Of Mea-
cham. oregon.
Wanted-Girl to do general house
work. Phone Black 1862, AT Per-
kins avenue.
stolen from 1902 East Court street,
boys bicycle, Flyer make. Will pay
reward for return to above address.
Lost-Package containing little
girls black pumps. Finder return to
this office and receive suitable re-
ward.
II you want to move. call Renlai. ,
Bros. Transfer. phone 1891. Large
dray moves you quick. Trash hauled
once week. SAT Main street.
gage. moving household goods and
pianos and all kinds of job work,
phone Mainn 461. B. A. Morton.
You can't burn slate and gravel!
Don't try 1t. Phone Dutch Henry,
Main 173, for clean screened Rock
Springs coal-either lump or nut. II
burns clean and goes further.
Passengers to Portland can save
money and at the same time have an
enjoyable river ride by taking boat
from The Dalles. Str. Bailey Gatzert
leaves daily, except Friday and Sun
day at $3.50 p. m. arrives In Port.
land $50. Fare Sl.00.
Pendeton Business College opens
Sept. 5. A large enrolment is an
ticipated. Ten per cent discount will
be given to pupils enrolling before
September 20. Graduates assisted to
good positions. NJ. L. Clancy, b. A.,
Prin. :.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
MULES WILL HAUL TAFT
President and Champ Clark VIII BE
Given Special Rig I'm KaDsas.

Topeka, Kan.-Kansas has about
1900 motor cars, varying in value
from 5000 to 10000. But none of
them are good enough for President
TAFT or Speaker Champ Clark to ride
IN when they come to Kansas next
month. These officials will ride in
the finest carriage Kansas owns but
the carriage will be drawn by team
OF long-eared Kansas mules.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
SINCLAIR GIVES WIFE UP.
Author Abandons Reconciliation Hope
Flight on for Child

New York.-Having given UP all
hope of reconciliation with his wife,
Upton Sinclair is going abroad. The
real fight in the divorce suit, it is
SAID, will come for possession of the
con of the couple. Sinclair has an
idea that he will get charge of the
boy without a fight but others say
the mother will glake every effort to
see that he does not obtain him.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
DRUM MORMONS OUT
OF IOWA TOWN
Women Beat Dishpans, Fight Ensucs
and PrOsClytinp Elders Leave

Kamrar, Iowa.-Two elders of the
Mormon church left this city afoot
With the din of many dishpans echo
ing in their ears.
The elders were making proselyt-
ing speeches last night when a crowd
Of women, beating vigorously on
kitchen tinware created such pam
demonium that the speakers could
not be heard. Mormon sympathizers
sought to repe the attack by throw
ing water on the women, but at this
point husbands and brothers took a
hand and after lively fisticuffs, the
meeting was broken up.
A few members of the dishpan bri-
gade were out again today beating
quickstep time to the departure of
the missionaries.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
Spelling a Pitcher.

You know the fate of the pitcher
that goes to the well too often"
"Going to the well never hurt n
pitcher yet It's going to the corner
saloon that sends him back to the
bush leagues. s.'-Philadelphia Ledger
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
Unlucky.

"Bosher isn't very lucky in driving
bargains.
NO; he says he can't even change
his own mind without getting the
worst of the deal"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01

Native milking machines have been
in general use in New Zealand for
:our years. over one hundred cows
may be MIXED by one of them in less
than two hours.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01

Check a cough or cold in the lungs
before 1t develops a serious case.
BALLARDS HOREHOUND AND
SYRUP is an effective remedy for all
soreness or congestion in the lungs
or air passages Price 25c, soc and
s1.00 per bottle. Sold by A. C. Keep
pen & Bros.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
ARCHBISHOP GIVEN FUND.
Priests of Archdiocese of st. Pau
Pledge 500, 900 for Golden Jubilee,

st. Paul.-Priests of the Archd.o-
cese of st. Paul at the conclusion of
tneir four-day retreat at st. Paul
Seminary called Archbishop John Ire
land before them and presented him
with a fund of 100000 in honor of
his coming golden jubilee.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
For Rent.

To responsible parties. 8 room fur
nished home for term to 12 months
Barn and out buildings. Inquire 400
West Webb street.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
Let George HauI IL

Phone George Stangier at Gritman
Bros. Main 511, for light or heavy
hauling Of all kinds. Trunks. furni-
ture or pianos moved promptly and
with care to any part of the city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01

Eight sisters of the bride were pres
ent at ST. Kilda's church, Hartlepool
tEngland) when Miss Constance
Rowe, daughter of Alderman Rowe
of Hartlepool, was married to Herbert
l.. Hoff A ninth sister was unable
TO attend owing to absence abroad.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
Often.

what becomes of the average
mans money "
'1 guess It goes to the average wo-
man."-Judge.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01
Ice.

Ella-Do 1 make myself plain
Stella-Somebody has if you have
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01

Read the want ads.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-01

Pendleton Business College opens
Sept. 5. A large enrolment is an
ticipated, Ten per cent discount will
be given to pupils enrolling before
September 20. Graduates assisted to
good positions. NJ. l.. Clancy, B. A.,
Prin. ..
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-01
Memorial Day.

Memorial Day was observed in this
city Tuesday with beautiful and i'm
pressive program well carried out
As has been the custom for some
years, a procession was formed at the
court house square marching thence
to the cemetery where the forenoon
was spent in placing upon the graves,
flowers and tokens of loving remem-
brance. Es
Under the direction of Marshal Of
the Day. Tom wainwright the process
sion was formed at 10 o'clock a. m.
and marched to the cemetery in the
following order: Children, bearing
flowers and flags, under the lead Of
Mrs. Ed Smith; a firing squad; veter-
ans of the wars; citizens. Volleys
were fired over the graves of soldiers
who had died during the past year,
and the graves of others were banked
with flowers and flags.
The Memorial address was deliver
ed at the Ohio street M. E. church
Tuesday afternoon at 2:3O o'clock by
Rev. w. H. Rose.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-01
The Standard Oils Possessions.

The company has 5000 miles of
trunk linz, Is 600 miles of feeders and
controls "a per cent of the refining
business of the country; its twenty
two refineries have a daily capacity
of from 5000 to 1000 barrels.
1t has erected and maintains oil
supplies in nearly 1900 stations in
the United States; holds $4,000, 600
barrels of oil continually in reserve
and requires 5000 tank cars and
1000 tank wagons to handle initial
domestic distribution.
More than one-half of the COM
pany's refined products is consumed
abroad, 200 vessels, including sixty
ocean tank steamers, being engaged
in transporting its products, and this
foreign business has brought to this
country more than 81, OOO, ,O0O, 600 of
foreign gold.
The company employs more than
10000 men, and in forty years Of cor
porate existence has had no labor
troubles.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-01
East Lone Oak.

Miss Grace Gerkin who has been
making an extended visit with her
sister, Mrs. Howard Smith, of Hunt
ingburg, Ind, returned home last
Monday.
Mrs. E. S. Eckles is having chicken
pox at this writing.
A nice shower of rain fell last Sat-
urday which made the farmers re-
joice for the ground was getting
pretty dry.
Several of the ladies' met at the
church last Friday and sewed the
carpet for the platform, which they
had recently purchased. On Tuesday
afternoon they met and gave the
church a thorough cleaning. ~ .'c'.
Several parties from this neighbor-
hood visited the Fairview cemetery
last Sunday and decorated the graves
of loved ones that have passed away.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Harper planned
a birthday party for their little daugh-
ter, Fern, last Saturday, but on ac.
count of the rain there were only
Leslie and Margaret Harper, and
Nellie Thomas present Refresh
ments were ice cream, cake and
candy.
Mrs. Leola Thomas London visited
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. B. Thomas, last week. They
served ice cream to a few of their
close neighbors while she was there.
Mrs. Ida Booth Hall visited at the
home of her brother, T. j. Booth, the
first of this week.
C. M. Thomas is having his house
remodefed and putting up a concrete
porch on the south and east of it.
D. T. Rogers of Rich Hill visited
relatives and friends in Star, Brack-
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-01
Anderson Beckham.

Anderson Beckham, aged SO years
and 2 months, departed this life at
his home, 2 miles southeast of this
city, Wednesday, May "a, 1911, after
long illness. He was native of
Tennessee and located in this county
at an early age. He is survived by a
widow, two sons and one daughter.
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. w. n. Rose were held at the
residence Thursday afternoon and
interment was made in Elliott ceme-
terry.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-01

ney and this neighborhood last week.
The Nuckols Bros. had horse
killed by lightning during the electric
storm last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Requa are re-
ioicing over little baby girl, who
arrived last Tuesday. All parties
doing well.
PUSSY WILLOW.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-01
M. E. Church, South.

Sunday school, $50; preaching by
Presiding Elder Rev. W. G. Beasley,
HOO a. M; sacremental service after
the sermon. All members should
participate. Epworth league, ZOO p.
M; preaching at 500 p. m; business
session of quarterly conference on
Monday at 500 p. M; prayer meeting
on Wednesday at 500 p. m. All are
cordially invited to attend these SER
vices. j. A. Jared, P. C.