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CHARGES AGAINST HILL DISMISSED OP VTCE-I'RESI I OF TITLE GUARANTEE COM- CLEARED. Attorney Will IVoxrcilte Treasurer Steel, hut Passes It l'p to Successor. Portland, June H. Hill, vice-president of the defunct 1 itle Guarantee Trust Company, will not be prosecuted on the four charges on which he was indicted with J. Thorburn Ross, T.

T. Burkhart and J. E. Aitchison. All four charges were dismissed this morning in the Circuit Court by Presiding Judge Oantenbein at the motion of the Deupty District Attorney, The dismissal of the charges as to Hill does not affect the other three bankers, and they still have the charges hanging over them.

Ross is the only one who has had a trial and he was tried on only one of the four charges. It is the opinion of District Attorney Manning that Hill was not active as an officer of the bank and knew practically nothing of the deals "which led to the indictments. The books of the bank revealed no active participation by Hill. If State Treasurer George A. Steel Is indicted because of tht part he played in the handling of the educational fund of the state, which resulted in its dissipation by the officials of the Title Guarantee Trust it will be returned by a grand jury or an information will have to be filed by George J.

Cameron when he assumes charge of the office of District Attorney. RETURNS OF THK ELECTION Chamberlain Plurality of 10.17 Over Cake for Senutor. Portland, June give Chamberlain, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, a plurality of 1937 over H. M. Cake, the Republican nominee.

In the First Congressional District W. C. Hawley, Republican, has a plurality of 17,338. Representative Ellis has been re-elected to Congress by a plurality of 22,165. Aitchlson, Republican, in the Second Congressional District, received a plurality of 12,492.

State Dairy and Food Commissioner, J. W. Bailey, Republican, has a plurality of 39,819. It. S.

Bean, Republican-Democrat, for supreme judge, received a total vote of 82,729. The total number of votes cast in the state approximated 000. Starts Launch Service. Lewiston, Idaho, June Ralph Baughman, master of the steamer Mountain Gem, plying between Kennewick and Priest Rapids on the Columbia, arrived in the city last evening in a gasoline launch, which he will use for passenger service on the Snake River, between Lewiston-Clarkston and Asotin. The boat was built for Captain Baughman in Seattle.

It is 45 feet long, has a 25-horsepower engine and is licensed to carry 2 5 passengers. Its speed in still water is 25 miles per hour. The boat started on the Aso-4in run this morning and it is expected to make the six-mile trip in 35 minutes. Three round-trips per day will be made, the boat's schedule being arranged to connect with Northern Pacific trains at Lewiston. lioom Piles for Washington, D.

June 8. friends of Senator Samuel R. Piles, of Washington, and George A. Knight, of California, have launched the booms of the two men here for the vice-presidency by the Chicago convention. It is urged that either -would add strength to the Republican ticket on the Pacific Coast and in the far west.

Republican leaders are now looking carefully into the political conditions In that section of the country. It is considered absolutely necessary that the Coast states be held fast In the Republican column. This can bo done, say friends, by naming either Senator Piles or Mr. Knight. They further argue that It Is time the far west was being recognized by a place on the national ticket.

Protest Against Picture. San Francisco, June 8. picture General Robert E. Lee, leader of the Confederate forces, hanging on the wall of the high school at Redding, has precipitated an oldtime row with the members of the G. A.

R. as the active agents for Its removal. The picture was placed there two weeks ago by one of the teachers, and as soon as they lear.iod of it the veterans protested. SECRET 13 YEARS. larrlcs In City in IHOS, bnt Keiv Know of It.

fan Francis 'o, June le i cl. er in the life of the late 11. Craig, v.ho took his life ih "ory of the Masonic Temple ii Oak'and las' Thursday, which was tiown to only a of his most inimate friends, was laid bare in Oakand today when Mrs. Helen Li. Craig, residing at 1310 Harrison street, announced that he was the vidow of dead man.

Thirteen years ago Mi-s Helen Jardbury anl Dr. VY. 11. Craig were married in a hotel at Baker City, by the Rev. Mr.

Hell. The ceremony was performed on April 23, It occurred less than three years after he dentist had been divorced from ais second wife, Mrs. Marian Craig. During these 13 years not more than half dozen persons were aware of 'he marriage. Dr.

Craig was s'leni and his wife, who was of a retiring disposition, never put herself forward, though she was aware that her husband was known to many of his friends as a single man. Murderer Caught After a Year. Ritzvillo, June 8. Tlireel was arrested at Lind on a charge of murder committed a year ago in February in Bentonville, Ark. Stoutly denying that he was the mau wanted in Arkansas, an hour's sweating and being confronted with letters he had written and photographs of the man wanted in the East, he broke down and cried like a child and admitted he was the man wanted.

The sheriff from Bentonville Is on his way here, but the washout has delayed him. Threel gave his name at first as Arthur James. He has a wife here, and they have been in the vicinity of Othello in this county for the past year, where he worked at the carpenter trade. He cut a man all to pieces, it is alleged, but he says the man lived some weeks. DIRECTOIRE GOWN IN IDAHO.

Identity Unknown, but She Creates Great Excitement. Wallace, Idaho, June 7. sensations of the people of Chicago and New York who have stood aghast at the new directoire gowns were experienced by the people of this city today. The peaceful quiet of an Idaho Sunday was rudely interrupted by the appearance of a woman on the main street here gowned in one of these sheaf creations. This was the first appearance of one of these gowns in Wallace, and the effect on the population was somewhat startling.

Pull Conductor OH' Car. Bakersfield, June 8. streetcar was held up on the outskirts of the city about midnight last night and Conductor Frills robbed of $41. The deed was committed by two masked men, one of whom jumped aboard the car, pulled the conductor to the ground and robbed him, while the other stood guard with guns. The car continued on its way, the motorman and failing to see the attack made on the conductor.

No trace of the robbers has been found. 8000 Acres Are Sold. Spokane, June 8. the sale of Brewster Flat state school land at Concully, held by Land Commissioner Ross, Saturday, 8000 acres were sold, leaving 865 acres unsold. The average price per acre was $30.

Total amount of sales is $2 50,000. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat prices: Club 89c; red Russian. 87c; bluestem, 92c; Valley, 89c. rolled, $27 brewing, $26.

Oats 1 white, gray, $27. Wilamette Valley, fancy, $17; do, ordinary, $15; Eastern Oregon, mixed, $16; clover, $14; alfalfa, $12. Butter 25c; fancy, 23c; choice, 20c; store, 16c. 20c; uncandlsd, 19c. crop, Wool lb; Eastern Oregon, aa to shrinkage.

Mohair 18c lb. SEATTLE MARKETS. Wheat 90c. Oats Sound, per ton; Eastern Washington, per ton. per ton.

Washington timothy, per ton; Puget Sound hay, 12 per ton; wheat hay, 112.50 per ton; alfalfa, per ton. Butter creamery, 26c per ranch, 22c per lb; Oregon, per lb. local, 23c per Eastern and Oregon. 21c par doc. ABERDEEN HERALD.

THURSDAY. JUNE 11. 1908. WASHINGTON, 0. ITEMS OF INTEREST solikkrs keryixg ix pijcmil to bko.ze MEDALLIONS.

Interstate Commission Act on Lumber ltate Cases After July 1. Washington, D. C. have been made of Senators and Representatives by soldiers who served in the Philippines as to the cause of delay in delivering the bronze medals! which were authorized by the act of June 1906. Investigation at the War Department discloses the fact tliat these medals are ready for distribution.

but are sent out only upon application of the soldier. They are distributed by the Quartermaster-i General, i'nited States Army, ami applications addressed to him here will be promptly honored. The act authorizing the issuance of these tnediijp provided for striking off such medals of bronze, bearing suitable device, "to each of the several officers and enlisted men and families of such as may be dead, who, having volunteered and enlisted under the calls of the President for the war with Spain, served beyond the term of their enlistment to help suppress the Philippine insurrection, and who subsequently received an honorable discharge from the United States army, or who died prior to such discharge." Those regiments from Oregon, Washington and other Western states which served in the Philippines after the close of the Spanish war, are entitled to these medals, and applications from individual soldiers, with a statement of service coming within the scope of the law, will bring forth medals from the Quartermaster-General's office. The act to amend the National banking law, approved May 30, provides that the total amount of notes issued under the provisions of the act, secured otherwise than by United States bonds outstanding at any time, shall not exceed $500,000,000. In order that the distribution of notes to be issued under the provisions of this act may be made as equitable as practicable between the various sections of the country, the Secretary of the Treasury will not approve applications from associations in any state in excess of the amount to which such state would be entitled of the additional notes authorized on the basis of the proportion which the unimpaired capital and surplus of the National banking associations in such state bears to the total amount of unimpaired capital and surplus of the National banking associations of the United States.

The quota assigned to Oregon with a bank capital and surplus of $6,170,000 is $2,114,000. According to a ruling made by Commissioner of Pensions Warner, it will not be necessary for soldiers' widows now on the pension rolls at a rate of less than $12 per month to make any formal application to the department to obtain the increased rate provided for by the widows' pension bill signed by the President April 19 last. To all those now on the rolls the increase will take place automatically and the higher rate will be paid by the pension agent at the next quarterly payment upon receipt of the voucher properly executed. The rate of $12 begins with the date of the act, April 19. Widows not on the rolls who were married to a veteran prior to June 27, 1890, are required to make application, but do not have to prove dependence as before, or that the soldier died as result of his war services.

Application blanks for this purpose can be obtained from senators or representatives. It Is doubtful If the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Pacific Coast lumber rale iases will be rendered much before July 1. Several weeks' work remains to be done, although every effort is being made to expedite these decisions. It is proposed to announce simultaneously the decision in all the Pacific Coast lumber rate cases, as the points involved arc practically the same in all. The supervising architect has announced that bids will be opened July 16 for public building sites 130x135 feet at Albany and l.a Grande and 140x140 feet at Peudltton, Or.

Thomas H. Slavins, quartermaster of the maneuver camp at Pine Camp, New York, has been assigned to the of United States military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kau. ROAD EAST BLOCKED AG Month May He Required to Replace Railroad Lines. Butte, June S. Northern Pacific east from Butte is again tied up today by a new washout of 600 feet cf track near Jefferson Island, a small station in the Jefferson River alley, about CO miles from liut.ie.

Two steel trestles on the Great Northern are reported today as having gone out, near Basin, 35 miles north of Butte, adding to the demoralization of that road. Great Northern railway officials will not venture an opinion as to when normal conditions will be re- i stored, one official stating that in his belief a month's lime would be nec-! essary to put the Montana line of the Northern Pacific in proper condition. The Great Northern telegraphic service is completely and the officials fear they have yet to learn of the real magnitude of the destruction wrought by the flood waters. The situation west of this city is not so serious. The Postal Telegraph Company has a wire to Seattle and there is a telephone line to Spokane, Widow (Jets Bank Cashier's Money.

Pittsburg, June 8. romance of Cashier "Billie" Montgomery all-round sport, confirmed bachelor and rounder, who is now in the county jail while the receiver of the Allegheny National Bank figures out how much more than $1,250,000 his accounts at the bank are short, seems likely to be told in its en- WILLIAM MONTGOMERY. tirety, as the result of a discovery made in the investigation of the books of the wrecked bank. Montgomery has been accused of gambling in mining stocks, extravagance and of juggling bills, but he always has been thought free from entanglements with women. Entries in his books show the payment of 150,000 within a few months of his arrest, and larger amounts during the year preceding, to a splendid, dashing young widow.

Arrest Lewiston Lawyer. Lewiston, Idaho, June J. G. Crawford, candidate for the nomination for County Attorney on the Republican ticket, was arrested last week on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Crawford says his arrest Is a political scheme to defeat his candidacy for the office, and charges officials of the United States Land Office with being implicated In the conspiracy.

The complaining witness is George Wagner, a well-known and prosperous farmer of Orofino, who alleges Crawford represented to him that contest had been filed against a homestead upon which Wagner made application for final proof. Wagner states he advanced $30 to Crawford to retain him as counsel and securing patent to the land. He alleges investigations at the local land office, made with the assistance of a land office inspector, disclosed the fact no contest had been filed against his property. Life Saved by Her Hair. Tacoma, June 8.

from a clump of woods surrounding the farm of Theodore Pflugmacher, and stealing up behind Mrs. Barbara Pflugmacher, 65 years of age, who was kneeling in a field, an unknown man, evidently insane, fired a bullet at the old woman, but the piece of lead struck her hair that was tightly braided in a coil at the back of her head and she escaped almost instant death. Seeing that he had not killed his Intended victim, the enraged man pounced upon the aged woman and rained a succession of blows with the butt of a pistol upon her head, until he left her bleeding and unconscious upon the field. After the man fired the shot, Mrs. Pflugmacher streamed and her aged husband bounded toward the assailant.

The Insane man ran to a clump of woods. About ten feet from a fence the assailant halted and firad twice at the woman's husband, but neither bullet took effect. Look into our ea week a small Jr payment down will furnish Parlor, Dining Room. Bed Room and Kitchen completely. Beautiful three and four room outfits ranging as low as $75.00 and $100 00.

FREE ICE With all Refrigerators sold between now and June Ist we will furnish ice FREE for 30 days. Terms: One-fourth at time of purchase, balance easy payments. H. L. Cook Co.

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