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About Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1915)
OK MIPS CITV KXTKWPKIRK. I'KIDAV, APiTST 27, DUCT ROAD FIDS ARE SWELLED OF MISUNDERSTANDING Of BECAUSE Wrong Advice From Representative Schuebel, on His Return From State Legislature, Leads to Wrong Apportion mentDistricts Will Receive 70 Per Cent of General Road Tax Under Recently Enacted Statute. Clai-kama county road !llrl''t n-cclve M J-3 per cent of the reneral roiinly road lax collected within their boundaries till year nil the remain Inn 3.1 W per cent of the tax will so to th general county nJ fund, although the lat la at It existed before ami after May 22. when tha act of the leg islature became effective, provided dif ferently. The county court met to make the apportionment early In the year and railed In C. Srhuebcl. who had Just re turned from the legislature, to learn! the changes In the road law. Mr. 8chuetel told the court that, ai he remembered the law. the county would be required to give S I per cent of the general county road tajea to the dltrtcts and the court made the apportionment on that bam. allowed lo rolle. t per cent uii.lt r a Konie time after the apportionment i ape 11 thartrr proiiro aulhurlird by hid oren made, the county ciffu 11 : the Icrutaitir many year ao learned thai au amendment to the' When the mUuke dloctvd. late law provided road dlMrtt l would the county court determined that II leel TO per cent of the money col J we I'KI lle to rhanc the apiHiitlon-.H-ted within their boiindatie and not ! ment. The mlik will mean that M 13 per cent. the general county road fund will be Hut. a the apK)itlonment waa made M lei than It ould ham been before the amendment of the leglsU-' If the iO per rent bal had been fol ture became effective on May ::. the lowed In apportionment. court would have been required to ap- f. t,huetel id Tuesday that In S42,000 COES TO ROADS Willi CITIES OKDiON riTV. Ore. Aii. II (Ed lior of the Knterpritxl -Kindly r- plain more fully the figure you pub llh In Kalutday a Uue coin eniln nd fund rtprnded lu the lal ey- en month. The llein of ISI.I2S J U nirrecl In tli.il It show the total amount drawn from the general road fund for that prrlinl Hut out of that amount li'.MXiO or atKiiil 1 per cent, ha Iwcil paid to ilk In t'larkama enmity, uone of whiih tan lie uej on lounty road or by road auperv lor. The rltle of the county will receive about tn.mo of the teiieral road fund for Ihl year. In all falrneta. we think taxpayer In ( neral are equally Intrtrkted In know. In how thli part of the road fund I pent. II. 8. ANI'KltSOV. PMSIOINT SAMUEL RIA OF PENNSYLVANIA ROAD UNOMQOIS OPERATION portion only the amount provided un , h ,,,.., now ,t rtmBt. r0r, uer tne om law. in me rare oi an road district, and of all town, ri.ept ; hM '" ' Ing Oiwego and Oregon City. thl Irl.ta SO per rent of the roa would have been 50 per cent, or 1 3 3, collected prior to May :: and .0 per per cent le than the aum actually tent collected after that date. County amirtloned this year br the county : Judge Anderson Mleve that thli court. Oregon City and 0eto were wine roure could he leen followed rdmm NOW WANTS BETTER HIGHWAYS ' i. h V X I yet NSe"J ' J' jl fhoto b Ameilean fma Awk-i.iIob. COUN YROADNAY T BE PAVED AS TEST OfHARD-SuRrACt r"::;;;:::',fROADHONEyis.iT WASTED, SAYS JUDGE WORSWICK COMPANY OFFERS TO LAY ROAO WITH GUARAN TEE FOR $1 A YARD. IHPROVEHENT FROM ABERNATHY TO GLADSTONE COST J!2,00O Judge Anderaon Say Offer Will Be Conaidered at September Term of County Court Croiting May ' Be Improved. Araln thli year Oregon la rv pending nearly $5,000,000 of local j tax money for county and dltrl t j roada. : Of thla. at let IJ.SOO.OtO I be- tnar expended for repair. The roada will receive little perma- nent benefit. The. work tnuM be done over and over aealn the fob lowlnir rear. Road taxe run from S mill to 10 mill In many of the rounlle. 4 If one mill only were diverted from the local county and dlatrlct road Uxei to a tat- Tind. It would yield $900,000 to be exended In permanent Improve- BIO OF WORSWICK COMPANY CALLEO HIGHER THAN COST OF MAIN STREET WORK. ORKOO.N CITY. Ore.. Auit. iKd Itor of the Knterprle A to thej ti)t cf county fund on mad. e might further ay that If It I true that j AI.HANY. Ore.. au : j move mint for the ornnltatt'n of good rvud aiMK-latlon In All'any haa l i. n tarted ly local htuliien men. I'e tlllon ettl,i( up the puriHxe r in rlulallin thla aflrrn.H'tt and were lively li;ned by all rla 4ie. " A sihmI roada are e-n-nlUI the I rogre of the country." y the je t'lu.n. "an I the bull. linn of ,:oo nud tk-penda largely on a majority of the people belli Informed on road building. It I proposed to form an VI tuny Cool Koad aM-Ullon lor the Haniuel Ilea, prealdent of the I'enn ivania railroad, who ha been III In HI Home In tiladwyne. '.. for anver al day, waa taken to the I'nlveralty oi rcnn.yivaiila hiwpltal for an oiera lion. The report that Mr. Ilea III nea wa eerlou waa denied at the of- lice of the company. The financial dUtrlrt. however, heard that Mr. Hea very lick man. TOOZE TELLS TEACHERS NEW SCHOOL COURSE City Hiliool Huperllilendelil T.xne etplalued the new Iraclier' training I'otime at the I'lai kama toiiuly lntl liile Tueadny aflerniMUi. lelde lak lui up the laleat addition to IheVlgh cIiiniI work, Mr. Tooie gave an outline of the work of the local ehool. A party of Ml leaiher. ho are al I lending the training i IkmiI, villrd the local paper lullla Tueaday afleiniHiti plllilo I planned for tonight. The whool will iloae Friday. EIRE IN SLASHINGS NEAR OREGON CITY DR.II D.S ELDOJ OF U. OF 0. TALKS TO TEA HE IMPORTANT CHANOII PROPOItO IN ITATI ASSOCIATION ARE oyuiNto BV SPIAKIR ORECON'S SHOWING AT QPOSmOM HIGHLY PRAISED 6Y EOCENE HAH l'i:rpoe of lnvetktlng and atadv- lug road building. t'Utnt"ititii; Infori.ia Ion gained and furthering road hil lit In tliji .1 .1. ..r lu H .. . ninway t or nearly all of the nmrey unent ri.'tv i.. I in. i i... . . .. In the pat ha been a wante. then the ,rc wlllln to join u. h an ao.-la I'rePH OI I'M CIItl I IIT II I1UIT lUPIIIieil fl.in r... I.Im.I .... . ...I . . k 1.1. k. : ........ . .. J '' I'M, KK - " Im PU"ninic that rart to tne worl.l ; r,. ,,.,n. nav V agreed " iiniu piii tair v iiuii-i vi iiioic m . AFTER ALLECED THREAT ED SWEITZER, OF THIS COUNTY. FACES INSANITY CHARUGE IN PORTLAND. U, nil year. In ten year thla would be 300 m'los of fine highway, upon w hlch there would be little annual maintenance co;t. The road would be an asset to the Mate In- atead of a duty or muddy ItaMI- tty requiring $.0to.0iX) or $1.000.. j 000 a year for makeshift upkwp. We are anendinr more ner ran- Ita for road In Oreson than most other tato. Tut we are not get- ( f tin? enough for the money. Our salvation will be to divert part of ! our present heavy expene Into permanent construction. Then we will have something to show for our money at the end of every year. Oregon Voter. i. 5. t. .i . .t, J .. i t i If. on the other hand. Ihl should be a n a n..vtlng to be called ate reojieMcd The county road from the Abernathy bridge to Gladstone may be paved this year, following the offer made by V. H. Worewlck to the county court to lay a four-Inch asphaltic concrete pave-' ment with a 10-year guarantee tor $1 a square yard. I Representatives of the paving com pany describe the offer was an unusual j one as the company, which is at the present time improving Main street, j already had a plant and all its equip-1 ment on the ground. Furthermore.) the contractors told County Jundge An- derson. they wished to let Clackamas I county try hard-surface roads and ! would lay the road to demonstrate the j value of permanent road construction.! A 16-foot road with a two foot shoul- i hard surface Is offered for $1 a yard der of macadam on both sides of the PECULIAR SITUATION FACED AS by the paving company. A 10-year RESULT OF METHOD USED guarantee would be covered by a sure- in HANDLING MONEY, ty bond. In case the county accepted i . the offer. part of the newspapcri. or If. In other j . i words. It khould prove to te not true' i that the road of Clai kan-a county j 1 are "trails of mud and dun'' while thej I road of adjoining counties are good, j then the press Is guiltv of doing an' i Injury to property owners by detract , Inir from one of the valuable assets of any county, its highway. I The general tone of the Oregon City press seems to be that any other road ' than a hard surfaced pavement Is a i failure and a waste. While we are ! willing to admit that the hard surface : road is the best and most desirable. ; we do not see how the road fund ran i be used to build that kind of road only. I To do so Is to say to the farmer who J I must go out Into the big fertile areas of Clackamas county. "Go and raise CLANTON WILL STAY AS HATCHERY HEAD SAI.K.M. Ore . Aug. Iteporl that It. K. Clanlon. upcrtntf ndent of hatch eric, might lie removed because of the view of Commissioner Wurren that Clunton'R administration was- not ob tu.i.Tt, the result desired, were not fulfil, ed vcMcrdar at the mee'ii.i; of the stito f if h and came roimniioiloi.. ,YET PAYS OUT INTEREST I roHow'n.- uu executive session, v. wm ' nil. nnuln..la mnA .. 1 1. n m tn n.t! f H ItOll lll'l ll thill nil llfllfin hllil !. It W"l I ..V", , .ni, ,o i (til I, III, UUI(I " - ' ' ...... ...... j markets as best you can over roads nn I Improved In any way. You w ill be The cost of the highway would be about $12,000 and the dis tance of the Improvement a mile and a intra. I Clackamas county is paying interest at the rate of 6 per cent on $103,354,511 In the general, district and special same ' busy enough to keep you at home, and ' you need no pleasure drive. We who j live In the more thickly populated dls I trlrts close to town will take your tax j money to build paved roads, which Is I the only kind we rare to use or make. I We have come to the conclusion, after looking the whole subject over from the rear seat of a Wlnton Six, that the plank road, the gravel road, and the ordinary rrushed rock road, which have been reaching out Into your out lying districts, are all alike miserable failures, and an entire waste. True, you ran haul two or three ton loads over them, but they throw dust In our eyes In summer, and cut the tires, a, id lanen. it wus mummed that no change would be made. That the gov ernor and other member of the com mission were In favor of Clanlon re tention despite Warren's attitude, was reported. Repairs and Improvements to the house at the Honnevllle hatchery were ordered and Superintendent Clanton will move to Honnevllle to be In ac tlve supervision of the work. The commission announced that with Clan ton In close charge of the work a re duction In salery expense there would probably be brought about. Kd SwelUer. of llorlng. was arrested In Portland Wednesday by Deputy Sheriff Ward and I'lilllip. following an alleged threat oil th life of Minn ( athcrlna lleufert. an employee of the droller society, a German publishing company He was charge, with Insan ity and linked up In the Multnomah county Jail. Mis lleufert said Wednesday morn Ing that alio became acquainted a year ago with Swelter when the lleufert family moved to Itorlng. and became neighbors of the Sweitier family. Miss lleufert claim Rwelter'i pro posal of marriage liei aino to Insist ent and that for the. last two weeks h has been following her on her way to and from work. It Is also said lie tried to break In her room one i!ay and senrrh for pictures. Tueaday Sweitzer-agnin met the girl. "Kd," Mis lleufert cried, "you'll have to quit following me." "If you try to make me quit follow. Ing you It will have to be by a bullet and if you do that you'll get tho same thing, too," Sweltzer Is alleged to have answered. This answer frightened the girl and she told the Sweltzer family and also her own pnrent. A small fire la burning In slushing" about four mllrs raat Oregon fit r In the canyon on the Abernathy. The fire la on proH-rty of Judge (Irani II IMmtck. president of the Wlllametle alley Southern, and Is believed to bl under control. The blaie broke out Friday night when the home of Helh I'. Powers burned o the ground and brush near the house caught fire. Twelve men fouth the flume pari of the night until Ihey were controlled. The cause of the fire of the Power home la not known. The loa wa slight. Stndrdlitlofi lahlblt Fin! educa tional O'aplay en Ground, He Dtclar Training School Highly Approved, ADVANCES ALLOWED IN FREIGHT TARITES KAI.KM, Ore. Aug IS Graduated advance of from I to rent In pack age charge for Intrastate shipments weighing les then Iini pound, a pro poacd In tariff filed with the public ervlce, commission of Oregon and Washington, by eiprcs compalile op crating In the two states, were a I lowed iy the two commission follow. Ing a conference held in Portland Won. day. AitniK'unceinent of the decision of the commission wa made here yes- erday. The advance will do efec tlve September 2. The new rate oil Intra slate express business, w hich are mude on the same scale as were allowed recently by the the ground and Die displny one of the iimm i iiiiiiicie among ine aiuie ri Plan for reorganising the Oregon Tern tiers' association were (old Wed liisday by Dr. II l. Hhi ldron. head of the department of education of the I diversity of Oregon, In an addirsi be lore the f Isimm-.h county ten In r Ivlnlng a lllNil A meeting of mil gle fron eiir i.niily In the .title will be h l-l at Mi dford durln- ,h I'hrlalma hulld when the reorganisation of the a r'allou will he r'le: t, d. One d"l"i.e will he elected for every hundred It ai der In a county and one from ev. rry organlied body of teacher ('! k m will have tour represeiitallvta at the convention, threw for the ti n rs lu the county slid one to n .n enl the roiinly organ'ratlon of ! ,i .. IT Sheldon a',d Hint Ihn principal i lianee In the aio"Vbn would In 'he a'm:i' hmeiil of (he two illtlsli r plan. The eastern division ha few member, he Mid. and Interest wa U ll com bining the two section of the aor!a Hon, one strong body would be formed, nulled In everv way lr. Sheldon recently returned from the convention of the .Viilonul Kduca tlonal association at Oakland, ( ul , and told the teacher the woik being taken up mere, lie snlil mat Oregon wa Well represented In Btteinlanis- The university man was I I in hi praise of Oreg.m' representation at the San Priinclscn riMsltlon The Ore. gotl building Is Hip most ntlr.i t!e on Interstate, commerce commission tiller slate business, and effective Sep tetulier 1. are an Increase of I !i! per cent In the two stales, as compared wl(h an average Increase on all lut.-r hll.lts. The sliindiirdlatlon exbltill of Ore gon Is by fur the best edial Ion il ev hlblt In the exposition and Is attract state business in the I'nlted Sillies ofi Ing nation wide attention among edit- 3 S6 per cent. LAST CENT SPENT TO BUY GASJO END LITE HILLSDALE MAN TAKES OWN LIFE IN PORTLAND HOTEL TRAGIC NOTE IS LEFT. mnnA Lit. Il, 1 In case of an Improvement, the , T . .. crossing at the Intersection of the I , m, i ln 'n'r spatter mud over our ma- county road and the Southern Pacific I, . ' , h"!, """L chines and ruin the polish." would be improved. The railroad, n nd X .ZnrJtr' I That may not 1. what you say company Dad done some work in this I section of the road during the last Every road district In the county has few months but the county court con- a dlstrlct funi nl many have special Biders that it still can be bettered. ,,mdB- Many of these funds Bflow a Judge Anderson said Saturday that I "i1 others h.ve a surplus. the offer nf the paving company would thiS, Way l,he c?u,n,y' at ,he nt h onDMo, . Oeni nmitA. . I time, is paying interest on money spent for road work while there is still road money In the county treas-j be considered at the September term of the county court. He said that while the offer was prnhabh au ex ceptional ono the county tii ' not have on hand at '.hn present lime ready money t met tfc! cob o lb'? im broeptaert. . . t $111,800 SPENT ON ury. If the county was able to apply money In district funds with a surplus cept as one rea between the lines, but this IS what you say in your Issue of Tuesday. "Tens of thousands arc being spent now, this summer, on gravel and rock which will be pounded out of sight In the mud when winter comee.'' Will It? This cocksure statement will not be bourn out by fact. Your humble servant hag lived most of the to those district funds with a deficit, THE LAST 7 STUDY OF FIGURES IN OFFICE OF CLERK SHOWS THAT WORK IS NOW AT HEIGHT. time for thirteen years on a gravel the county would be saving now over roau lnal was "ml apo,u ,1Iieen ycar9 $120 a month. 8f:0, " nn' 8 Ppr','rt l0a''- 11 , , , ' has carried thousands of totiB of County Jti'Jge Anderson explained ,,.,. in ,W( ,., -.i.v, u,.-n , that in many of the districts a project any ropMr The money bf that ,,,. "ao 'r umii uie iae i trIi:t has 1)f,n mMv , pxtoni. were collected and apportioned to thejlng the r0B(, Bnd j)tner jea( ,nto districts, and the result was that a de- ,t and l)dhy a , gmooth wcar flclt was created which will not exist Mrfacjs rnuI(I hc ptlt on It for (lfIg as soon as the tax-collecting s com-j than on1.halr ,ft irp of pw p e ted. He Illustrated his point by ex- TnB mara(Iam or el roa(, , ! ' " r..:l u.e conn, ,he perre,.t roa,, ,,, , am w1 t .and the supervisor were anxious to ,eave to tn til(ik f ronv,ndn: i crusher and road equipment were lnjwa,,ie Uhat part of the county, although the! '' " I district ISfWrnl tho fnnHa nl lliot 11 'S mV hellfif that tl)i HlllOolh RUT- !f teniae time. However the work w. far oad v il1 rapidly come Into I1R. ,lnno a n it th latrir.t f,.n ..in u ' W willing, and tjager, to extend the squared as soon as the second half ofiT B"y r"'l''r'-il w"' .Invent NATION TO AID STATE EFFECT OF LABOR 8AVING MA CHINERY FEARED IN ADDING TO WOES OF UNEMPLOYED the taxes are paid. The last call for general road fund wan-ants was made April 11. The general county fund has a balance of $11,617.76. The total Indebtedness of all the road funds is $135,139.29 but Records in the office of County Clerk Harrington show that in the first seven months of this year, or un til August 1, $177,839.55 was spent in road and bridge construction and main tenance. This Included money spent In the county Is not paying Interest dn a the general road fund, the district j part of that sum because the warrants funds and the special funds. i have not been endorsed "not paid for Segregated, the money spent came want of funds" by the county treas-j from the following funds: , General urer. roads, $54,925.42; district, $87,714.19, and special, $35,199.94. A study of the items shows that five or 6ix timed as much work, is being done now as In January or February. The expenditure by months follows; District Fund and Special General Road Fund. January . February March . . . April .... May June July .$ 3.748.34 . 4,555.60 . 13,852.92 . 45,250.29 . 19.593.40 , 36,735.95 , 18,903.11 Fund, $ 494.25 1,870.09 3.402.00 7.287.99 6,303.00 10.162.76 5,679.85 NEW ML' IS OPEN FOR TRAFFIC the raveling out of the wearing snr face, but not to say that we will build hard surface roads or none. As to the road from Orr-gon City to Gladstone at $1.00 per yard being a "rare bargain," I would May, do a lit tle figuring first. $1.00 per yard for 4-Inch pavement is an advance of V per cent per cubic yard on the price of the 6-inch pavement at $1.20, and be- sides there is no old pavement to haul away. Furthermore, what is It that makes a 4-Inch road practical on that stretch, If It Is not the gravel base that is al ready there? H. S. ANDERSON. PORTLANDERS GET LICENSE. Mathilda Carllne Runke and Carl O. Schafer, 342 Clackamas street, Port land, secured marriage license here Wednesday afternoon. MIL-WAUKIE, Aug. 25. (Special) The road between Portland and Mil waukie is completed, after being closed for several weeks. The repairs were made under the direction of W. H. Counsell by Jeffery & llufton. It is considered a paved roadway by the county court, as the surface was oiled and rolled with heavy oil, and Is now considered one of the best pieces of roadway In Clackamas county. It cost the county something like $10,000, because of the deep road rock cuts and fills. SON OF MILLIONAIRE HELD. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 25. A young man, declaring himself to be Jack Ellison, son of John Ellison, of the firm of John Ellison & Sons, mil lionaire Philadelphia manufacturers, was arrested here today on a charge of passing a fictitious check for $75. The charge was placed against him by Alfred Mitchell, local representative of the Ellison company, who says the youth is an lmposter. ' The young man is declared to have) jumped a board bill In Tacoma. SALEM, Ore., Aug. 20. Efforts to Bolve the problem of unemployment will be made by Secretary of Labor Wilson and state and municipal labor officials, according to O. P. Hoff, state labor commissioner, who has Just re turned from San Francisco whero he attended a conference of labor offi cials from all part of the United States. That Secretary Wilson in much In terentnl In the subject of finding work for the unemployed was Btated by Commissioner Hoff. Secretary Wil son will co-operate with slate Bnd city officials, he assured those at the con forence. "A number of the speakers," said Mr. Hoff, "were of the opinion that with the population of the country growing and the gradual Installing of new labor saving machinery that the ui.employment problem was far from being settled. Several advocated a shorter work day, and other thought employment might he furnished to thousands of persons on the roads, ad vocating a supervision of construct tlon by the federal government. An other novel suggestion that was fa vorably considered was the raising of an army for national defense to work part of time building roads. It was declared that roads could be built cheaply without Interfering with oth er labor In this manner and at the same time the country would be pro tected In case of war." 7 PAY FINE AND GOES TO JAIL Declaring that he would not pay a cent to the city and that he would go to Jail first, Irish Rlchort, convicted Wed nesday before Recorder I.oder on a charge of using profnno language, la today serving tho second day ol a 30- day sentence. Rlchcrt waa arrested by Chief of Police Shaw and taken be fore tho recorder Wednesday afternoon and found guilty. Ho was given a $10 fine and a Jail sentence but tho re corder told him thnt with llio payment of tho fine the sentence would be sus pended. Rlchort was not slew In tell Ing tho court he would bourd off the city before giving money to the town. Mlns Yelda Cox was the complaining witness. DETECTIVE8 RECOVER DIAMON08 SCOTCH TO MEET AUG. 27. The Robbie Hums' society will hold a postponed literary and social meet ing a tthe recldence of E. C. Dye, cor ner Ninth and Jefferson streets, next Friday night, August 27. Several Portland mimical and literary persons will participate in the program. The affair will also partake of the nature of a lawn social, and there will be re freshments and further entertainment In keeping with the spirit of sn out- 1 door festival. I.OS ANGKI.ES, Cal., Aug. 25. De tectives Fred Doty and P. J. Hayes of tho San Diego police department today recovered In Ixis Angeles diamond valued at $3000, comprising a part of the $10,000 In Jewelry stolen from Mrs Elizabeth Rea, Montana tourist In Sun Diego July 31. PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 25. -Spend Ing his last 25 rent pli-ie to drop Into a gas meter (hut he might commit sui cide by Inhaling tho deadly fumes, Paul It. Hchtnlti of lllllsdals, Ore., end ed tils life at the (iilninn hotel. The body was not found until today, ill- though the ni t was committed ninny hours before. The suicide had taken every precau tlon to muko way with himself. Fur niture was found piled against t door. Tho body was found wrapt In an old comforter by Alice Iloone, chambermaid. A unto was left to Mrs. Gladys Schmits, presumably his wife, rurn route No. ,2, box 191. The writer urged her to take good rare of their lit tie daughter, Gracln. The note was evidently written while tho life of the victim was slow ly ebbing awny for he wrote, "I am growing sleepy." In another paragraph tlm writer said that, "I told you thai I could not and would not llvo without the one I loved, so I havo taken the only course loft." TO ALBRIGHT BOY HOME AFTER SECOND TRIAL TO COMPOSITION YOUTH FOUND AT ALBANY WITH PARTY OF HOBOS FATHER GOE8 AFTER 80N. After his second attempt to leave home and tour the world, Orvllle Al bright, aged 13 years, is today back with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Albright. The youth was found Wednesday morning In a hobos camp near Al bany upon a description sent out by Chief of Police Shaw. Deputy Sheriff Cockran, of Linn county, found the boy and telephoned early Wednesday to the local ponce. Mr. AiongM. father of the runaway youth, left Wed nesday morning for Albany, returning that night with his son. Young Albright started to the Han Francisco exposition about a month ago and was picked up at 'Jefferson after an absence of over a week. REV. GORMAN, OF PORTLAND, WHO IS NOW IN 8EATTLE, SIGNS CONTRACT. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 19. Frank W. Gorman, the Portland preacher, who Is appearing at a local theatro to day, is resigning his various religious offices and has signed a contract to continue as an actor on tho Pant ages circuit. Rov. Gorman wired his resignation of the pastorute of the Atkinson Mo mortal church In Portland lute yester day, and is now embarked on a per manent theatrical career, besides his position as pastor of tho Atkinson Me morial church, Rev. Mr. Gorman Is al so moderator of the Portland Associa tion of the Congregatlonnl churches, seeretury of the Portland ministerial federation, and holds other religious offices. -lie will resign from all of these Immediately, severing every tie that binds him to the church except his membership. cators. ho lb lured. The t,iuditrdlr lion Idea, whli h win orlKluutid In this stale, la highly approved ,y the thou sand of teacher and Instrm tort who saw thti illspluv. Many California nml eastern educator have spent mi entire, day study Hit: I lie sliindiirill.Mtleii ilia play, he mild. The state department of public Inslriicllon hit rerelved many letler of congratulation on the new vatem. t Hit urged the teachers to lake up the correspondence l ourws of the uni versity, which are offered at a small cost. !r. Pheldoii studied the work of tho training s, hool and highly approved the work, lie said (hut his only regret whs thai, so few teucher look advant age of the Institute and said he wmili) urge the adoption of a law by the net legislature which would compel teach er to attend part of the annual truln Ing school. He suggested that a dny and a half or two dny or the school work ronslsl of lecture by prominent educators and that every teacher he. compelled to attend. A pnrty of teacher Inspected tin. Oregon City municipal rillerlim sta tion lute, yesterday afternoon. Over 100 teachers are attending the school. GIRL FORCE8 AIR FROM WATER WINGS AND ALM08T DROWNS BEFORE HELP ARRIVES. STAGE OVERTURNS; 8IX INJURED MONROVIA, Cal, Aug. 25. Half a dozen passengers on the Fellow's Camp stage, running between Fellow's Camp and Azusa, were injured today, when the stage was overturned on the narrow roadway of San Gabriel can yon, hurling the victims to the bottom, 35 feet below. Miss Mary Hwopp, an operator em ployed by tho Pacific Telephone & Telogrnph company, and Fred 1 1 nines, who rescued her, had a narrow es cape from drowning Into Wednesday while they were swimming In the river at Canomnh, Miss Swopo swam about 75 feel out from shore to a log raft with the aid of water wings. After resting on tho rnft. she started back and when about 20 feet from the raft, the wings shifted under her arms. In nn effort to hold, them, she pressed her nrms close to her side, forcing tho nlr from th wings. Sho became excited and was seen from the shore. Reviirnl swimmers started out to nsslst her and Haines was the first thero. Miss Swopo gripped him by tho throat and twlco tho pair were taken under the water. Haines started for shore with MIsh Swope and was met by others In the party. Tho girl was unconscious when taken from tho wnter but soon recovered. JOHN DUFFY DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Jdhn Duffy, born In this clly 45 years ago and a resident of Clackamas county until 10 years ago, has died at his home In Nevada, according to word received hye Saturday by friends. He was III some time. The body will be taken to San Francisco for Interment He Is survived by one daughter and two sisters. 1 1