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10 THE -MOUSING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, SEPTE3IBEK 13, 19G3. RELATIVES STRIVE FOR SETTLEMENT Gas Company's Ire Likely to Be Appeased in the Velguth Case. ..... MONEY PATENT ARGUMENT Employers Xot Eager o Prosecute, and Embezzler May Escape Full Consequences of Crime To Be Arraigned Today. Unless all signs fall the early dawn of a brighter day for Bernard O. Velguth, the confessed gas office embezzler. Is not far away. Although It Is hardly probable that the silly youth -will entirely escape the consequences of his attempt to lead the life of a Pittsburg millionaire on a salary of $S0 a month, there is every prospect that when his case comes on for trial the District Attorney's office will find itself playing against a combination of forces that will render a conviction uncertain and virtually preclude more than a nominal sentence. Though the action of the gas company In filing charges against Velguth and causing his arrest has taken the settle ment of the case out of the corporation's hands, there is abundant evidence that Velguth's employers already recognize that from a standpoint of dollars and cents, a serious mistake was made when the delinquency of the young man was published to the world through his arrest. Friends of the boy are confident that before many days have elapsed his short age will be made good, so far as the limited means of his family will permit, and that the gas company's prosecution will be of such a perfunctory character that the state will not be Justified in asking that he be sternly dealt with. Gas Company Culpably Negligent. The more the defalcation of young Velguth is investigated the more strongly does it appear that, as the public has already decided, the Portland Gas Com pany was less sinned against than sin ning. Among other remarkable facts it has developed that Velguth was under no surety bond, and that nearly two years ago the practice of requiring surety bonds for employes entrusted with the collection and handling of money was, abandoned in the gas company's office. Investigation shows that upntil two years ago Velguth and most of his fellow-clerks were bonded, in accordance with the custom all but universal among large corporations, but about that time Velguth's bond ran out and it was not renewed, and so in the case of other employes of the gas office. Undoubtedly this fact had much to do with the long immunity from detection the young embezzler enjoyed. Had Vel guth been bonded the bonding company would unquestionably have demanded re lease from its obligation the moment it discovered that an JSO clerk was buying wine and riding in automobiles, and the disgrace of the youth and the shame and sorrow his actions have caused a widowed mother and other relatives would have been avoided. General Sympathy for Family. Sympathy for the mother and other members of the Velguth family Is gen eral, and is said to be having its effect in securing money to make up his defal cation. Fred T. Merrill, proprietor of Edel Brau Castle, the roadhouse on the Base Line road, which is alleged to have been one of the resorts most patronized by young Velguth and Mrs. Nadine Nich ols on their automobile rides, is authority for the statement that a number of re Bort keepers who profited by Velguth's foolish extravagance, are willing to "come to the front" to help him out in a financial way, and says that he has offered to contribute his share, although he denies that Velguth was his patron to anywhere near the extent rumor has re ported. "Velguth spent less than $100 at my place, all told," said Merrill yesterday. "He bought a few bottles of wine there at different times, but I have no in formation that he was ever there to exceed three or four times, and on only one occajion. when he came out with an automobile load of young men of his own age. was there any unusual amount of money spent." Velguth to Be Arraigned Today. Velguth will be arraigned in the State Circuit Court this morning at 9:30 o'clock, at which time, if the gas company has learned enough from the chaos of its books to Justify its claims of a defalcation of from $15,000 to $20, 000, an application for Velguth's rear rest and the raising of his ball bond from $6000 to $10,000 will be made. As a matter of fact, it is asserted by some persons who are in a position to know, that the total shortage so far actually figured out is less than the $6000 Velguth admits. There is small prospect that Mrs. Nichols and her aunt, whom the gas company was at one time exceedingly anxious to drag into the case in the hope of recovering some of the stolen money, will be sub penaed. The fact that the women are said to have been induced to give up whatever money and jewelry Mrs. Nichols still retained of that given her by Velguth may shed some light on this feature of the case. If the story is true Mrs. Nich ols will no longer flash the three- ; carat diamond ring she received from Velguth and the money that he paid for it will eventually Arid its way back Into the gas company's treasury. Other than the alleged return of the big diamond, there were no develop ments In the case yesterday, so far as the public was informed. PERSONAMYIENTION. W. J. Barry, of Astoria, a well-known politician was at the Imperial yesterday. C. M. Winant. a merchant of Newport, Or., and his family are stopping at the Imperial. Mrs. E. O. McCoy and Miss McCoy, of The Dalles, were here yesterday 'on a shopping tour. W. J. Shotwell. of Oakland. Cal., gen eral agent of the Denver & Rio Grande. ' Is registered at the Portland. William Faulkner, of Los Angeles. Pa cific Coast manager for the Fairbanks Morse Company, is at the Portland. O. P. Lovejoy, of Janesville, Wis., who is largely interested in lumbering on the Coast, was at the Portland yesterday. v Judge J. Q. A. Bowlby. of Astoria, Is at . the Imperial. Judge Bowlby is president of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce. W. L. Whltmore returned yesterday from Los Angeles, where he has been for the past month looking after his orange grove. Professor R. H. Washburn, of the Kimball School of Theology, Salem, is spending a few days in Portland. He is accompanied by his family. M. G. Munly, an attorney of this city, accompanied by his family, are home from a i.W4 months" ylslt at Hunter Bay. Alaska, where Mr. Munly has ex tensive interests in the salmon packing industry. Archie Buchtel. son of Joseph Buchtel. who had been at Antelope, Eastern Ore gon, as bookkeeper for a business firm, has returned to Portland with his wife. George Steunenberg, of Caldwell. Idaho, is a Portland guest. Mr. Steunenberg Is a brother of the late ex-Governor Steu nenberg. and is cashier of a bank at Cald well. Judge Erskine M. Ross, wife and son. of Los Angeles; Judge William Morrow, of San Francisco, and Clerk F. D. Mono ton, are here for the sitting of the United States Circuit Court. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mitchell, or Neode sha. Kan., and Miss Maud Mitchell, of Belleville, 111., recently arrived in this city to visit Mr. and Mrs. A. Mitchell, who came to Portland in 1902 from Illi nois. The latter has no desire to return East to remain permanently. E. Shipley, of Giddings, S. D.. came "West a few day?, since to visit hi? bro ther. M. H. Shipley, at Forest Grove, who came to Oregon In 1S73. Both visited Portland last Wednesday. The Dakotan finds many things to please him. and if he were a younger man it is probable that he would remove West. Charles L. Parrlsh. who has held a position as chief clerk in the State Land Office at Salem, Or., during the past four years, has moved with hio family to Portland, where they will be permanent residents. Mr. Parrish has Just closed a contract for the construction of a seven room dwelling on Weldler street near Twenty-first street in Irvington. Dr. Bobert Dempsey. of Vallejo, Cal., but a resident of Portland for 20 years prior to his going there about eight years since, arrived a few days ago to visit his brother, H. A. Dempsey. The changes here for the last few years have been so rapid that the portion of the city he once knew so well he now knows not. For special reasons he is compelled to remain in California, but he longs for the time to come when he can return to his own. CHICAGO. Sept. 12. (Special.) Oregon ans registered today as follows: Majestic O. S. Foster, and wife, Port land. Great Northern C. C. Going, Portland, A. J. Darling and wife, Portland. Briggs House Jacob Shamprior. Morrison G. H. Jones and wife. NEW .YORK. Sept. 12. (Special.) Northwestern people registered today as follows: From Portland L. the Cumberland; H. Pence and wife, at Thogren and wife, at the Hotel. Astor; G. R. Amsdean, at the Imperial. From Seattle T. P. Bradley, at the Broadway Central; Mrs. J. Coort, at the Hotel Astor; W. N. Vandewerker, Mrs. 9. E. Fairbanks, at the Breslin. FINE BRIDGE TO BE BUILT CONCRETE VIADUCT PLANNED FOR SULLIVAN GULCH. Cost to Be Heavy, but Executive Board Favors Most Sub stantial Type. Although it will cost approximately $20,000 more than it would were a steel structure erected, the bridge across Sullivan's Gulch on Grand avenue will be of reinforced concrete construction. At a special meeting of the Executive Board held yesterday afternoon It was decided to defer action on the awarding of the bids that have been opened until the city ordinances can be amended to permit of reinforced concrete construc tion. The Coumil will be asked to make this amendment at the next meeting. With the exception of D. A. Pattullo the members of the board unanimously favor having the bridge built of rein forced concrete despite the fact that steel construction would cost materially less. They believe that concrete will last longer, be more satisfactory and that in the long run the city will ben efit more than it would if the bridge were made of steel. Yesterday morning the bridge com mittee met to recommend the award ing of the contract, but examination of the ordinances revealed the fact that the Executive Board is not empowered to award contracts for reinforced con crete construction of bridges. The board is authorized to receive bids for this form of construction, but through an oversight cannot award the con tract. The committee recommended to the board that the bridge be built of concrete. After lengthy discussion the board, which met in the afternoon, decided to defer action until the Council had remedied the defect in the ordinance treating on the point of bridge con struction. C. A. Cogswell declared him self in favor of concrete, citing in stances where in other cities steel bridges have been torn down to be re placed by concrete structures. W. G. Mc pherson and Mayor Lane were also op posed to having the contract awarded for steel construction. Mr. Pattullo was the only one present who championed the cause of steel. But one bid for concrete construction has been submitted and that was made by the Standard Construction Company, amounting t'o $73,810. Six bids for steel construction have been received, the lowest of which is $51,376, submitted by the International Construction Com pany. But when the ordinance is amended it is probable that bids for reinforced concrete will be readver tised. The question of whether part and not all of the franchise granted the old City & Suburban Street Railway Com pany on Grand avenue can be surren dered was referred to City Attorney McNary. The street railway company is anxious to forfeit the part of the fran chise across Sullivan's Gulch on Grand avenue, or otherwise it would have to stand one-fourth of the cost of con struction of the bridge. Howard Whiting, representing the Warren Construction Company, ap peared before the board and endeavored to have remitted the fine of $500 as sessed against his company for delayed strtet improvement, but was unsuc cessful. He presented a petition from the property-owners, but the members of the board were unrelenting. The work on Second street was approved by the board. Pipe Line Across the Isthmus. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 12. The Union Oil Company, of this city, has Just com pleted its pipe line across the Isthmus of Panama, and within 45 days it will be supplying Atlantic seaboard cities with California fuel oil. The pipe line is to be operated In connection with tank steamers on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides. In length the pipe line is 52 miles. Oil will be pumped over the Culebra grade at the rate of 25,000 barrels a day. National Hoo Hoo Election. OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Sept. 12. The National Hoo Hoo convention ad journed today to meet next year at At lantic City. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: A. C. Ramsey, St. Louis, enark of the universe; Thomas H. Rogers. Oklahoma City, senior Hoo Hoo; W. W. Everett, San Francisco, ju nior Hoo Hoo; George M. Duncan, of Houston, Tex., bojum; J. H. Baird, Nash ville, Tenn., scrivenoter; Charles Wolflin, Evansville, Ind., Jabberwock; George E. Youle, Portland Or., custodian: John Al- cock Baltimore, arcanoper: R, W. Polk T I.. I- T, J j ' PROVERBS. CHAPTER VII. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy Angers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom. Thou art my sister; and call understand ing thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice. And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house. In the twilight. In the evening. In the black and dark night: And, behold, there met him a woman, with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. (She is loud and stubborn, her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him. PI E Engineer Clarke Advises Wa ter Board to Make Trial. SUCCESS IN OTHER CITIES In Outlying Districts Where Mains Are Small and Undisturbed It Is Believed Wooden Pipes May Be Safely Used. Wooden water pipes will be given a trial In Portland. Engineer Clarke, of the water department, yesterday after noon submitted a' report to the "Water Board, In which he. favored the stave pipes being laid in the residential and outlying districts. The report of Mr. Clarke flattered stave piping, and in it he said that wooden mains were merito rious. The members of the board were much Impressed with the report of Mr. Clarke, and It is "understood that when small mains are needed for outlying districts bids for wooden pipes will be adver tised for. The members have expressed themselves as being in favor of wooden mains If It could be demonstrated that they were better than metal, cost, dura bility and all things to be considered. Mayor Lane has been an ardent advocate of wooden mains. According to Mr. Clarke, it costs about 40 per cent less to purchase and lay wooden pipe than metal mains. Where it can be laid and allowed to remain undis turbed It is believed, or at least thought, that wooden pipe is superior to metal. But where It has to be removed or changed about it gives endless trouble. Wooden mains are still somewhat of an experiment, according to Mr. Clarke, and this is why he does not favor their being laid in the down-town and thickly popu lated districts of Portland. Mr. Clarke. In making observations and obtaining Information for his report, vis ited many of the cities in the Northwest that use stave pipes. Among them are Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham, Olympia fcnd St. Johns. He found that miles of wooden mains are being laid in the dif ferent cities, but that their use in the down-town districts is being avoided. He says in his report that the factories which manufacture the staves at Tacoma, Seat tle and other places are doing a rushing business, and that they are planning vast improvements, which Is evidence that the demand for wooden pipe Is rapidly grow ing in proportions. Mr. Clarke states in his report that, from what he can learn, the life of stave pipe depends largely upon the durability of the iron bands which hold the pieces together. As long as the wood in thor- Xuhly. .saturated with. watj it remains PESWlLLB WOOD THE OLD, OLD STORY THE YOUTH AND THE HARLOT I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey. He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. With her much fair speech, she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. He goeth after her straightway as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird haste tn to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Hearken unto me, now therefore O ye children, and at tend to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded; yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going' down to the chambers of death. Written by King Solomon about 1000 B. C. intact and is" nerfectly preserved. He states that Its carrying capacity Is great er than that of metal pipe and that it is free from electrolysis. But Mr. Clarke is not overconfident of the good qualities of stave pipe. He says that there are no instances of its being used a great many years and that It Is still somewhat in the experimental stage. For a wooden main to have been used 20 years was the extreme limit, so far as Mr. Clarke could learn. In most places the pipes had been in the ground about eight years. There can be but little doubt but that the report of Engineer (Jlarke opens the way for the Introduction of wooden mains in Portland. Extensive repairs have to be made by the water department, and as there is a shortage of funds, economy is considered in everything. PAXT0N WILL IS FILED Lawyer Left Property of $20,000 to Wife and Mother. Beach & Simon, attorneys for the estate of O. F. Paxton, deceased, filed the last will and testament of Mr. Paxton in the County Court yesterday and J. H. Vogt, named therein as executor, was ap pointed as such, by the Court. The will devises the property, valued at about $20,000. equally to the mother and widow of Mr. Paxton. In addition, however, there was considerable life insurance which was directly payable to them as beneficiaries. Xew Incorporations. Incorporation articles of the Ames Bag Machine Company were filed yesterday. The incorporators are Zera Snow. Wal lace McCamant and C. N. McArthur. The objects of the company are to manufac ture bags and stamp bags. The Red Cross Hospital Association filed articles of Incorporation In the of fice of the County Clerk yesterday; the objects announced are to furnish medi cines and drugs and surgical treatment and hospital services. The capital stock is $5000 and the incorporators are E. Mallory, F. M. Colwell and I. M. Bassler. Dom Zan" Xot Contesting Will. The statement has been erroneously made that Dom J. Zan was Interested in the contest of the will of Frank Zan, and that he was a son. He Is a son of Marino Zan, and is not engaged in con testing the will of Frank Zan. BRAINS PLUS ENERGY Make capital. They are often the whole) capital, especially of a young man. Pru dent men insure it.- Full particulars free. No importunity. PENN MUTUAL LIFE, Sherman & Harmon, Gen'l Agents. PORTLASD DAT AT STATE FAIR. Low Bate and Special Train. September 13 has been named as Portland day at the Oregon State Fair, and a spe cial train has been arranged for that will leave ue Union Depot, Portland, at 8:30 A. M., August 13, and will leave the Fair Grounds at 6 P. M. the same day on the return trip. ' An exceedingly low rate of $1.50, which Includes admission to the grounds, has been made for this occasion, and tickets may be secured either at the Southern Paciflo ticket office. Third and Washington, streets, or at th Union Depot ITS GROWTH RAPID District Southeast of Portland Filling Up With People. OVER 2000 NEW HOMES Territory Between the City's Lim its and Mount Scott Contains Population Estimated in Excess of 12,000. Although Portland added 6000 to its population when it annexed Mount Tabor and Montavilla, that movement left out side in the Immediate suburbs more than 15,000 people, who will be knocking at the city's front door at the next general election. From the southeast limits on to Mount Scott there are alone more than 12,000 people living outside the city limits, and houses are building In every direction. By actual count 1000 new houses of all classes have been built south of the Powell "Valley Road since the first of the year, and there is no abatement in building operations In that direction. One can count at present over 200 cottages under construction and the foundations for 60 more are being started. W. E. Spiser. who has just completed a $25,000 electric mill plant on the Powell Valley Road, declared this week that there are no less than 1000 school children In that district. No. 47, with room enough for less than 400. "What the district will do with the children out there." he said, "with only these sheds to house them in Is more than I can see. We will have to have two big school buildings at once. Catarrh cannot be washed away with sprays, Inhalations and such treat ment, nor ran it be smoked out with medicated tobacco, cigarettes, etc. When you attempt to cure Catarrh with such things you are wasting time and allowing the impurities and poisons in the blood, which produce the disease, to get so firmly rooted as to become not only a disgusting trouble, but a very dangerous one. The annoying symptoms of ringing noises in the ears, "hawking and spitting," headaches, mucus dropping back into the throat, impairment to the senses of taste and smell, and a feeling of general debility, prove that there is a deep-seated cause for Catarrh. This cause is a polluted and unhealthy condition of the blood, and the disease cannot be cured until this is removed. The only way to get rid of Catarrh permanently i3 to purify the blood, and S. S. S. is the ideal remedy for this purpose. It soon clears the system of all impurities, purges the blood of all catarrhal matter and poisons, and effectually checks the progress of this disgusting and far-reaching disease. S. S. S. puts the blood in perfect order, and a3 this pure, healthy blood goes to every nook and corner of the body Catarrh is permanently cured. Book with information about Catarrh and medical advice free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GAm one near the Powell Valley Road and an other further south, to house all our children. You can Judge of the growth when I say there are already six new churches built arjd under way in this section. These are the Baptist, already built; the Presbyterian, now building; the Presbyterian, at East View; the Methodist, at Lents, nearly completed, and the Friends, now building. These represent about $20,000 in cash and labor." The sale of nearly 100 lots in 'a new addition near the Powell Valley Road to persons who will build is reported. One man will build 26 houses. Building on the Powell Valley Road is steadily moving eastward toward Kelly Butte. Orchards and fields are being platted and being rapidly covered with cottages in this direction. Toward the south the building area extends to and beyond the Clackamas County line. At Lents building has extended eastward, north ward toward the Powell Valley Road and southward toward Clackamas County, and the whole country Is being cleared of brush for home-builders. With a 12-room schoolhouse, there will not be sufficient room to house the children at the open ing this Fall. Principal Hershner ex pects to have all he can do to handle the vast Increase In the Lents District. East of Lents, where a year ago there were only a few farm houses, there is now a crowded schoolhouse and a grow ing settlement. Here a prosperous church has been established by Rev. Hiram V. Vrooman, who may erect a church build ing in the near future. Portland sub urbs now extend nine miles in the south east, which Is almost to the Sycamore station on the O. W. P., nearly In sight of Gresham, 13 miles from Portland. On the Base Line Road buildings are moving eastward rapidly toward Rock wood, and are now past the Russellville Schoolhouse. which Is seven miles from the Courthouse. The building boom at Montavilla Is moving both north and south. On the north more than 100 acres have Just been laid out and this will carry settlements to the O. R. & N. Com pany's tracks. This company has recog nized that section by establishing a flag station on the strip of ground donated by the people several years ago. In the northeast, settlement is press ing toward the Columbia River. In a new addition In that direction, through which the big pipe line from Mount Tabor Is being laid, so rapidly js settle ment extended that people are living In tents until they can get their cottages under cover. Within an average radius of seven miles from the Willamette River, with East Morrison street at the center line, there Is a most remarkable building activity inside and beyond the city limits. Gangs of telephone and elec tric light men are at work in innumer able places out in the suburbs. Building material is being hauled in all directions on all the roads eastward. Inside of two years Portland suburbs will have reached beyond Miiwaukie. Woodstock, Mount Scott, Sycamore. Kelly Butte, Rockwood, Gravel Hill and to the Columbia River on the north. Where one day may be seen a grove of small firs or orchard of prunes and apples In the suburbs, the next will dis close a clearing. Streets are soon lo cated, water pipes laid and foundations for cottages started over night. To keep in touch with all this suburban progress one must travel seven days in the week through these districts. While no record Is kept, the number of buildings of all classes put up in the suburbs this year Is estimated at over 2000, and . the work goes on. IRRIGATION NEAR BURNS General Hearing on Segregation of Land Under ' Carey Act. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 12. The hearing to be con ducted by the Land Office at Burns. Or., to determine whether 53.444 acres shall be set aside for irrigation under the Carey act, on petition of the State of Oregon, will be general. The Assistant Secretary of the Interior today granted the request of the Pacific Livestock Com pany for permission to furnish testimony on the available water supply. A special agent from the General Land Office is now investigating the character of the land to determine whether it Is capable of segregation under the Carey act. When he has completed his work ail interests will be heard. New Northwest Postmasters. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 12. Postmasters appointed: Oregon Gravelford. Fred Moser, vice Mary B. Bennett, resigned. Washington Proebstel, William B. Fletcher, vice J. F. Paynter, resigned; Seguin, Jens Bugge, vice John B. Knapp man; Wuconda. Lee Klrby, vice J. R. Vanslyke, resigned. Assignments of Army Officers. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 12 Major Lotus Nlles, Ar tillery Corps, . will proceed to Fort Casey, Wash., and assume command of that post. Captain Ira A. Haines will pro ceed to Vancouver Barracks and assume command of the Eleventh Battalion, Field Artillery. Addition to Hellgate Reserve. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 12. Assistant Secretary Ryan today signed an order recommend ed by the Chief Forester adding 6400 acres to the Hellgate Forest Reserve in Montana. JOHN D. SAYS NOT GUILTY Separate Trial Demanded In Ohio Trust Prosecutions. FINDLAT. O.. Sept. 12. A plea of not guilty has been entered In the Probata Court here by John D. Rockefeller on the charge of violating the antitrust law through the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Rockefeller was not personally in court. He pleaded through an attorney. The defendants in the cases against the pipe lines also pleaded not guilty in the same way and each demanded a separate trial by jury. Judge Banker adjourned court until the first Monday in October to make this possible. Fairbanks Speaks at Concord. CONCORD, N. H.. Sept. 12. Vice President Fairbanks today attended the State Fair here and delivered the princi pal addreps. CURES CATARRH SHEEPMEN TO MEET Woolgrowers' Convention at' Condon September 18. IMPORTANT WORK PLANNED Reduction of Duty on Wool to Be Opposed Stringent Stock In spection Law Is Likely to Be Favored. The regular annual meeting of the Oregon Woolgrowers' Association will be held at Condon Tuesday, September 18. Many important questions confront the woolgrowers' interests this year and the meeting will be one of impor tance. In case the Dlngley schedules are to be amended, the wool-manufacturing Interests will make every ef fort to modify the present Import du ties on wool. A circular letter announcing the an nual meeting of the association has the following to say regarding the In terests of the woolgrower: The exportation of sheep from the state la heavily handicapped by the Federal regula tions and the Quarantine laws of other states, where our surplus should find a ready market. So long as scab is prevalent In the state, the clean as well as the unclean must suffer. Other states have enacted stringent stock In spection laws which, with the co-operation of. the Federal officials, have eradicated contagious diseases from their domestic animals. It Is up to the stockgrowers of this state to form ulate and propose such legislation as will have a like result In Oregon, and then see to It that it Is carried through the Legislature. Ore gon sheep dare not cross the state line in search of a bite of grass, but Oregon moun tain ranges seem to be the legitimate Sum mer resort of thousands of foreign sheep. The migratory tax law has been declared unconstitutional, but it is apparent, in the court's opinion, that a law could be drawn up that would have the desired effect of pre venting the encroachments of sheep from other states, that pay no taxes in, or In any way help support, our state government. Forest reserves, marketing wool and surplus stock, the right to trail stock through re serves and reservations, and many other sub jects of great Importance to woolgrowers will be discussed at this meeting, and concerted ac tion should be taken on several propositions. We hope you will be able to attend, and give us the benefit of your observations and ex perience. While all cannot speak out In meet ing, each person's opinion and vote counts In settling these auestions. The expressed opinion off the woolgrowers of the State of Oregon In convention assembled will have no little effect on our legislative representatives In the state, and also will be duly considered in the halls of our National Congress, and even by the Executive Depart ments at Washington. All woolgrowers and others interested in tho sheep Industry, whether regularly eleeted or not. are Invited to attend this meeting at Condon on September 18. 1906. The officers of the Oregon Wool growers' Association are as follows: Robert Keys, president; K. C- Warner, vice-president; H- C. Rooper, secretary and treasurer; executive committee, R. R. Keys, Wheeler: J. C. Smith. Uma tilla; T. R. Hynd, Morrow; W. G. Ayre Baker: J. H. Dobbins. Wallowa. Xot Theoretical Enough. PORTLAND, Sept. 12. (To the Editor.) Tour article on forest rangers calls to mind the following experience on the sub ject: A prominent citizen of Portland and myself hired a guide and went on a hunt ing trip to the south fork of the McKen zie some 20 miles from any habitation. The guide, a natural hunter, 35 years old, in the mountains from the age of 17, knows the name of every tree in the for est, puts out more fires in his own in terest than a forest ranger; kills more vermin every year and protects more game by so doing than a hundred game wardens, strong as an ox, good-natured and temperate. Here, we said, is an ideal candidate for the Job of forest ranger, $60 a month, living on the ground and know ing the country. We had him come to Portland to take the civil service exam ination. He was taken into the woods with 21 others for the practical part of the examination, answered all questions diamond hitch, how long a man could live on a sack of flour In the woods, how to put out fires, what a given tree would scale in lumber; complimented by the examiner on the practical features. Next, what is the homologous side square of an isosceles triangle? Box the mariner's compass, and do you understand survey ing? "Vale appointment for $60 a month. We have never heard from the case since. DR. NEY CHURCHMAN. Dr. W. Norton Davis IN A WEEK We treat successfully all private nervous and chronic diseases of men, such as vari cocele, hydrocele, sores, ulcers, skin dls eases, syphilis (blood poison), gonorrhea and ailments of the kidneys, bladder, stomach, heart and liver. 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