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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1907)
THE MOKNIXG OKJEGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1907. HARRIMANTO BRING CDALTO PORTLAND Shifts Engineering Force From Oregon and Washington to New Field. BUILD A SIX-MILE ROAD This Stretch Needed to Connect With O. R. & "S. so That Coal May Be Shipped From the Hanna ford Creek District. SEATTLE. "Wash., July 23. (Spe cial.) Engineer A. H. Abbott, in charge of preliminary work on the Oregon & Washington at Vanvouver, was transferred to Centralia to take charge of the immediate construction of .a six-mil road the Harriman In terests will build up Hannaford creek to the coal properties of the Wash ington Union Coal Company. This corporation .financed by Harriman In terests, owns several thousand acres of coal, land and will have mines ready for shipment of coal within 90 days. The fuel is to be delivered to the O. R. & N. at Portland and a six-mile road Is needed bo allow shipments temporarily over the Northern Paci fic. Besides other work about Cen tralia. Engineer Abbott and most of his force working In the South are Instructed to build the line to the coal fields Immediately. Harriman Interests will not modify the plan adopted months ago, of de laying construction work until all franchise Questions are settled in Se attle and Georgetown. When Henry T. Baldwin, the new Chief Engineer of the Oregon & Washington, went over the route in the South, he found grade stakes the engineers were setting out being destroyed by farmers,- livestock and small bays. He made the proposal that if the road is not to begin con struction work now , the engineers be transferred until construction is com menced and a saving made In labor. He reported much of te work done "heretofore would have to be re-done because of the loss of grade stakes, and his proposal was adopted. The order to build the coal road was coin cident with this movement. Bids for construction of the line up Hannaford creek will be received within ,a few days. DEAD OF THE NORTHWEST Daniel Varnet, Pioneer of Pierce County, Washington. TACOMA. Wash., July 13. (Special.) Daniel Varnet, a pioneer of Pierce County, died yesterday of paralysis, at the residence of his son, Charles Var net. He was 79 years of age and is survived by two sons, Charles and Dan iel. Mr. Varnet crossed the plains In 1S50. and a few years later took a claim near Orting. When the settlers became alarmed at the prospect of an Indian uprising in 1855, he took the women and children of two of his neighbors and with his ox team conveyed them safely to Stella coom. He had several narrow escapes during the war that followed. In 1889 he went to mining at Goldhil, Or., re maining there until 1905, when he came to Tacoma to make his home with his son. CLAIMS THEY CANNOT OBJECT Manager Fuller Says Mllvraukie People Have No Kick. SALEM. Or.. July 23. (Special.) Reply ing to the complaint lodged, with the Railroad Commission by the citizens of Milwaukie, charging inadequate freight service at that station on the O. W. P. line of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company system. Manager F. I. Fuller contends the service is fully up to standard of similar suburban electric railways and maintains that the com plaint of the Mllwaukieltes la not well founded. He states, however, that the company will be glad to build the com bination passenger and freight shed peti tioned for if the citizens of Miiwauttle will furnish the site. JUNK DEALER ROBBED BT BOY Gets $20 In Money and Two Checks, Then Skips. ' LEBANON, Or.. July 23. (Special.) A warrant was Issued today In the Justice Court against . Huck Jones, an 18-year-old Lebanon boy, on a charge of robbing the bunkhouse of Ben Pruss, a Portland Junk dealer who Is camping In an old bouse near Lebanon. Young Jones broke Into the shanty early this morning and took $20 In money and two checks on a Portland bank for J130. . After taking the money he went to Albany and took the noon train for Newport, where he will probably be arrested tomorrow. He Is considered only half-witted and scarcely responsible. MERELY INSPECTING RESERVES Secretary Wilson Says Ills Visit Has No Political Significance. SPOKANE, Wash., July 23. (Special.) Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson was In Spokane tonight and in an lnter , view told a press representative his mis sion In the West was for the sole pur pose of Inspecting forest reserves. He denied that his trip had any political sig nificance., He has Just completed a hur ried Investigation of forest reserves In North Idaho and leaves tomorrow morn ing for Wenatchee, from where be will go to Puget Sound. In -the party are Jasper Wiison, his son, and Chief Inspec tors E. A. Sherman and Bl T. Allen. whose districts combined Include all the Paciflo Northwest states. CLERK SHORTEN ACCOUNTS Kentucky Man Emphatically Denies Embezzlement Charge LOUISVILLE, Ky.. July 23. William J. Beminon, retiring County Clerk, was ar rested today on a charge of embezzle ment. It being alleged that he la short in bis accounts as Clerk of Jefferson County In a sum approximating from to tSO.flPO. The arrest was made at the 1n staooe of Mayor Bingham and caused a, great sensation. Mr. Seminon furnished a bond In the sum of 25,000 within a short time after hi arrest. Seminon was one of the officials whose office was declared vacant by the Court of Appeals in deciding the election con test canes. He was elected as a Demo crat. -When his successor. Phil M. Thompson, was appointed a few days ago, the accounts of the office were checked up, with the result that the head bookkeeper this afternoon declared that there was a shortage of over J45.000. When Seminon's successor was ap pointed the former had just mailed a check for $15,000 to the State's Audi tor's office for the month of June. Pay ment on this was refused by the bank on which it was drawn, and Mr. Semi non declared publicly that he had stopped payment when he found he waa not to be retained In office, his Idea being to have all accounts checked up and to settle In full with the state on his retirement. When Interviewed tonight, he stated emphatically that a full examination of the books would show that he did not owe the state over $22,000, the amount of hjs collections for June and July, which he had the legal right to with hold until he had been given his quie tus, and which will be paid in full. SEASON BEST IN HISTORY TACOMA EXPECTS TO EXPORT LARGE TONNAGE. Balfour, Guthrie & Co. Predict Early Season With Big Initial Busi ness and High Prices. TACOMA. Wash., July 23. (Spe cial.) Balfour, Guthrie & Company, look for the coming wheat exporting season to be the busiest in the history of Tacoma. Although no vessels have been chartered by this firm to load wheat at this port, they are on the watch for available tonnage. The biggest season in recent years was in 1892-1893. when 100 vessels sailed from Puget Sound with grain cargoes. Per haps not quite so many wheat vessels will sail from Tacoma this season, for It Is tqulte probable that more big tramp steamships will be fixed than ever' before. L. G. Patullo. department manager of Balfour, Guthrie & Company, said today there Is no doubt that 'the ton nage of the coming wheat fleet will exceed that of any previous season. He is of the opinion that the season will open earlier, and that more busi ness will be done in the first few months than usual. He said new wheat on the Tacoma export market will this season open at from 8 to 10 cents higher than the ruling quotations of recent years. None of the new crop has appeared as yet, but will be on the market within a few weeks. The quotations will be for the first of the yield; Bluestem S2c, club 80c and red 77c to 78c. For several years opening quotations have been low, but a good world's market Is the occasion of high ' prices for the Washington farmer this Summer. Walla Walla Has Big Yield. WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 23. (Special.) Never before In the history of Walla Walla County has there been such a crop as there is this year, and reports from every section of the Walla Walla Valley verify the fact that a bumper crop will be the re-i suit. On the hundred acres tract of land owned by Chris Ennls, 6400 bushels of wheat Is expected to be harvested. This will break all prev ious records In Southwestern Wash ington. The grain Is Turkey Red, and is believed to be the coming crop of the county. 6 ? t:Tt V X, fJ 4 .-, , v 4 1 ' ' ft ':.-'. f DESCENDANTS OF A KEXTC CKY-ILXrWOIS FAMILY WHO CAME TO OREGON AS PIONEERS. ' The descendants of Lawrence and Mary Roelofson, pioneer settlers of Kentucky and Illinois In the early years of the nineteenth century met July 21 at the residence of J. I Johnson, near the city of Woodburn. in honor of an octogenarian uncle, William A. Roelofson, of Tremont, 111., who Is visiting his relatives on the Pacific Coast. The direct descendants of Mr. Roelofson's father and mother, to the number of M persons, met by prearrangement under the luxuriant shade of the Johnson residence, where a bountiful dinner was spread beneath, the trees. . v A reminlscent'speech of remarkable power and pathos was made by Mr. Roelofson, the last survivor of the original stock, whose Immediate descendants In Oregon are Messrs. J. L. and J. H. Johnson, of Port land; their sisters, Mrs. Mary A' Hall, of ' Woodburn, and Mrs. Sarah F. Jack, of Pleasant Home, who, with their parents. Rev. and Mrs. Nelll Johnson, crossed the, plains with ox-teams In 1851. They are the last survivors of the. Roelofson-John son branch of the family. Mrs. Minnie Chenoweth and Mr. Lafayette Goudy, of Portland, and Mr. John T. Goudy, of McMlnnvllle, are all that are left of the two Roelofson Goudy branches. Mr. IL W. Scott and his sisters, Mrs. Mary F. Cooke, Mrs. A.- S. Duniway, Mrs. C. A.' Coburn and Mrs. II. L. Palmer, of Portland. Immigrants of 1862, are the last survivors of the Roelofson Scott branch. In ,Oregon there are four branches of the Roelofson stock two Goudy branches, one Johnson and one Scott. After dinner and speech-maklnsr were concluded it waa proposed by J. H. Johnson, of Portland, to or ganize the Roelofson Clan, to which the 80 descendants present responded with their names. Mr. J. L. Johnson was chosen president; Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, vice-president, and Miss Nina B. Johnson, secretary. . ' Mr. J. H. Johnson, Mrs. Edith Haller, Mr. George Jack and. Mr. Edwin Hall 'were made members of the executive committee; with power to arrange for the next annual meeting of the clan. Mrs. Duniway made a feeling and felicitous speech appropriate to the occasion, at the close of which she announced that every voting member, of the clan present and all the voting members-in-Iaw who belonged to it by marriage had signed the equal suffrage petition, a statement which waa enthusiastically applauded by all present. ' An additional call to order before final adjournment resulted In electing Mr. William A. Roelofson honorary president and Rev. W. R. Brshop, of Portland, honorary member and chaplain. The reunion abounded in folk-lore songs and stories of auld lang syne. The exercises were concluded by a fervent prayer offered by Mr, Roelofson, who leaves this week for a visit among relatives on Puget Sound, after which he will return to his borne In Tremont, 111., with little if any prospect of ever meeting again with his clan this side of the great hereafter. In the above picture are four generations of the Roelofson family, the eldest being Mr. Roelofson, aged 8S, in the center of the group. The others are all descendants of -sisters of Mr. Roelofson, several, how ever, being related to the family by marriage. - LEVY IS TO HIT ALL Lane County Assessor Adopts New Policy. NOTE-HOLDERS MUST PAY Valuation of . Extensive Timber Lands and Southern Pacific's Holdings Will Bo Double the Estimate of Last Year. EUGENE, Or.. July r (Special.) The course which Assessor Keeney, of Lane County,' Is taking In making up the as sessment roll at this time. Is meeting with the approval of most of the people and the thorough disapproval of a few. Mr. Keeney has made It his particular business to ascertain the real value of property and assess with some degree of uniformity. Three notlcable changes will be made that will add to the Income of the county when the next levy Is made. First, the notes covering mortgages will be enumerated, timber lands will be as sessed higher, and the Southern Pacific will pay more on its roadbed, rolling stock and its lands. Thousands of dollars in thoroughly secured notes have escaped taxation In the 'past partly because of the difficulty of finding them and partly, no doubt, be cause of the habit of letting them go. The mortgage records of the county will form the basis of what assessments are made although other evidence will be used where there is any attempt to evade the payment of taxes on this form of wealth. The assessment on timber lands will be about doubled at the next assessment. Lest year the average was about $5 to $7 per aore. This year it will be $10 or $13. Some of the heaviest taxpayers on timber In. Lane County will be the Booth KTelly Lumber Company on 103,849 acres; Weyer hauser Timber Company, 22,402; Drew Timber Company. 20,748; Storey Bracher Company, 6840; Starret & Hovey, 9451; Morton, Lewis & Chick, 10,690: Leffeng-will-Madalon, 10,278; Hackley Phelps & Bonnel, 8366. besides numerous Individuals who have large holdings. It Is impossible to estimate at this time how much timber land there Is In this county but a dozen of the large corporations alone hold more than 200.000 acres. - The Southern Paciflo congressional lands consisting largely of timber but quite dif ficult to classify, will be assessed at an average of $8 per acre or Just double last year's figures. The lands held by the rail road company will aggregate nearly 300,000 acres, and at the increased valuation will alone add more than $1,000,000 to the as sessable property of Lane County. The valuation of the rolling stock and roadbed will be raised $1000 a mile and there are 74.64 miles of track in the county. The statement of the Southern Paolflo of its rolling stock, while not very helpful in aiding the Assessor tp make up bis rolls. Is very interesting as a few items of the description will show. The following Is an exact copy of the statement made by the company for the Information of the Assessor In making his total assess ment of Lane County: - Av.raite N"o. Value. Total. Locomotives, all elaie. 72 $2000 $144,000 PasBenger and chair cars 41 13S0 - BS.SSO Cattle cars 44 123 4.840 Caboose i 87 200 7,400 . The total valuation averages about $500 per mile and the assessment will be $1000. Kumerlo Reaches Quarantine. VICTORIA, B. C, July 23 Bringing ROELOFSON CLAN ORGANIZES NEAR W00DBURN i 1 ph 1 r jW w Z' vf.iti X r X ,1" if y 1177 Japanese from Honolulu the Kuraerlc reached William Head quarantine station tonight. The steamer will be examined tomorrow. The steamer Akt Maru also reached William Head tonight from Yo kohama. - - HIS OWN SPECIALIST. Man May Be When He Can Go to Sleep at Will. YJpplncotfs. The man who can do hard and ef fective brain work during the day and then go home, banish his cares, and take his ease, is a man to be envied. He Is all too scarce. Witness the in crease in the men one meets who are permaturely gray - or bald or wrinkled. The man without a. wrinkle Is either a man without a care or one who has mastered the secret of work ing without worrying. The late Chancellor Runyon. of New Jersey," one of the hardest worked men that ever sat on the bench of that state, was noted for the number of Im portant cases he tried and the strong and permanent character of the de cisions he rendered. Late every after noon he went home and at once ex changed his shoes for a pair of com fortable old slippers. In referring to his habits, the Chancellor was ac customed to remark: "When I come home and take off my shoes, I at the same time take off my cares and worries. When I put on my slippers, I slip on also a feeling of ease and comfort. I banish from my mind the cases that absorb me all day at the office or In the courtroom. I am ready to enjoy my library, to play a game of whist, or to entertain -company, as the case may be." That is where all the work-burdened men would like to get It is purely a Bersonal matter. The will must come in to assist the brain. Unless a man has abused his digestive functions and upset his nervous system, he can, in most instances, acquire what has been called the will habit. When he has learned to go to sleep and wants to go to sleep, to get the rest a sound sleep affords, he has won half the battle. With a reasonable amount of exercise to add to the sleep, the problem of working the brain and banishing the worry has been very large ly solved. Not many visits from physi cians, nor -much medicine, will be re quired. -The man will have become his own specialist. POSSE KILLS H0RSETH1EF Death Ends Flight After Breaking From California Jail. CHICO, Cal.,.July 23. V. Cunningham, wanted on the charge of horse stealing, with Archie Metz, who has confessed, was arrested last night at Susanvllle, Larsen County. A dispatch from there tonight says Cunningham broke Jail, was pursued by a sheriff's posse and Instantly killed. New Swimming Record. NEW YORK, July 23. C. M. Daniels, of the New York Athletic Club, swimming in the 60-yard race in. the Larchmont Yacht Club's water ports, today made a new record of 25 4-5 seconds. The former record was 27 2-5 seconds, made by T. E. Kltchlng. Frantz to Call Election. GUTHRIE, Okla., July 23. Governor Frantz tonight announced, that the call for the election for the ratification of the Constitution will be issued tomorrow .The date Is September 17. Father's Fairy Tales. Hauler's. Freddie. Have you fold me all the fairy-stories you know, ma?" Mrs. Cobwlgger Yes, dear; all ex cept the ones your papa tells me. Hi 5. V I -i 4 ' :xr,y x iiYB?l,iYHgja T X I Hottest of Season South of the Middle West. MAXIMUM OF 102 DEGREES Entire Country Is Tncomfortably Warm With the Exception of New England, Faclfio Coast and the lower . Lake States. - WASHINGTON, July 18. The high est temperature of the , present Sum mer south of the Middle West, with the maximum ranging from 90 to 102 degrees and the mercury soaring above the seasonal average over the rest of the -country, except New Eng land, the Pacific and lower lake states. Is today's heat record as announced by the Weather Bureau. The high temperatures will continue tomorrow In the South, the Central West States and In the Central valleys, but In other sections showers promise relief. In this city the downtown ther mometers registered 96. HEAT STRIKES DOWN HORSES Streets of Kansas City Cumbered . With Their Bodies. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 23. One hun dred and twenty-flve horses dropped dead on the streets here today from the effects of heat. Two persons were prostrated. Today was the warmest day of the Sum mer, the Government thermometer regis tering 96 degrees. At Emporia and Con cordia, Kas., temperatures of 100 degrees Were reported. FLOOD SWEEPS BIG DISTRICT Farms and Railroads Damaged in Wisconsin Valleys. - LACROSSE). Wis., July 23. Telephonic communication with the flood stricken districts In LaCrosse, Vernon, Monroe and Crawford counties la being restored. Not a farm In the LaCrosse, Coon and Up per Klckapoo River valleys has escaped damage. The damage to the five rail roads centering at LaCrosse will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars and almost every bridge has been taken out. GIVES TIP TO COMMISSION'S REPORT MAY MEAN MCCH TO OREGON. Declaration on Use of Surplus to Build Branches Foreshadows Future Legislation. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July m-.. If the Interstate Commerce Commission had the right to direct the expenditure of the surplus earnings of the Harriman system, the Pacific Northwest would be much more rapidly developed than It can or will be while Mr. Harriman Is supreme." An inkling of the attitude of the Com mission was contained in Its report on Mr. Harriman made public last Sun day. "The credit of the railroad company is founded upon the resources and prosperity of the country through which it runs," said the Commission. "Its surplus funds and credit should be used for the betterment of its lines and In extensions and branches to de velop the country contiguous to It. The testimony taken upon this hearing shows that about 50,000 square miles of territory In the state of Oregon, sur rounded by the lines of the Oregon Short Line R. R. Co.. the O. R. & N.. and the Southern Pacific, Is not de veloped, while the funds of those com panies which could be used for that purpose are being invested In stocks like the New York Central and other line having only .a remote relation to the territory In which the Union Pacific system is located." This Is the first time the Interstate Commerce Commission has formally expressed Its opinion on the manner in which Mr. Harriman has neglected a vast territory tributary only to his own lines, a territory which W. W. Cotton recently declared to the Com mission "was not worth fighting for at the present time." While arguing the Spokane rate case. Mr. Cotton went to a map of the United States and, point ing to the entire region east of the Cascade Mountains in both Oregon and Washington, deliberately told the Commission that his road did not care to enter that territory and Intimated that it would be many years before Mr. Harriman would go to the ex pense of building branch lines into territory that la only awaiting rail roads to show a wonderful develop ment. Under the Interstate commerce law the Commission cannot compel Mr. Harriman to build branch lines Into the country tributary to his lines, but has the right to express Its views and to show its ap proval of publio sentiment, and the time may come when legislation may be en acted by Congress which, will have the effect of estopping Mr. Harriman from expending his surplus In the stocks of remote railroad systems, thereby vir tually compelling him to spend Ms sur plus in his own terr1try or else reduce rates and give the shippers the benefit. That any such legislation will be recom mended in the immediate future Is ques tionable and, even when it does come. Congress will probably be able to solve this problem only by indirection. Never- Pure Flavorings OEUZtOSS VanUTa TSnTS Oraruj Roseate have been given the preference and are now used and appreciated by millions of housewives who have used them for half a century. HEA RECORD SPECIAL Portland's Best Shoe Store . On April 1st we opened this store with the NEWEST and CH0I0- jGST stock of FINE FOOTWEAR in the Pity, and it is onr firm deter mination to close out all accumulations of a busy season at this time; this policy insures to onr patrons FRESH and STYLISH SHOES every day in the year. The price redactions are nnmerons and extend throughout the MEN'S, BOYS', LADIES', MISSES' and CHIL DREN'S Departments. Men's Genuine Patent Colt and Gunmetal Blucher Oxfords, regular $4.00 values, now $3.35 And many other styles too numerous to mention. We invite your attention to our Special $3.50 Window Display of Men's Shoes; your choice of any style in this window, pair $3.50 Misses' and Children's Oxfords in white, black or tan, at ridicu lously low prices. osenthal's Sev'ath and Whingt'n See our Windows. theless, the Commission Is now on record, and something better may follow. Incidentally, it may be said in passing that the opinion of the Commission will not bring Joy to the heart of Brooks Adams, the Boston theorist, who was principal counsel for the City of Spokane in the argument of the Spokane rate case. Mr. Adams would revolutionize the system of railroad management In the United States, in order to give Spokane a better rate than Its neighboring cities which have water competition, and one of the main contentions of Mr. Adams was that the railroads should be denied feel tho exquisite thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and fear. Every woman should know that tho danger, pain and horror of child-birth can ba entirely avoided by the use of mother's Friend, a scientific liniment for external nso only, which toughens ao4 renders pliable ; all the parts, and assists nature in its sublime work. By its aid thousands of women have passed this treat crisis in perfect safety and without pain. Sold at $i.oo per bottle by druggists. Our book of priceless value to all women sent free. Address BKAOnSLO KEOOlATtm Ot Mlmatm. Om. At the ' United Cigar Stores Special Feature This Week. Palma de Cuba Bouquets 5 c; each Same rate by the box. Here's a cigar that meas ures up to the standard of most three-for -a-quarter Havana Cigars. The filler and wrapper are Havana tobacco and the cigar will appeal to Havana Cigar smokers. UNITED CIGAR STORES COMPANY SALE :AT All low cuts, such as Oxfords, Garden Ties, Pumps, Slippers, etc., are greatly reduced. Below we mention a few of the many Midsummer Bar gains : Ladies' White Canvas 2, 3 and 4-HoIe Gibsoa Ties, genuine Goodyear welt; regular $2.50 val ues; now ; $1.25 Ladies' Patent Colt and Gunmetal Gibson Ties, Goodyear welt; regular $3 vals, now.. $1.95 Ladies' Patent Colt and Gunmetal Blucher Ox fords and Gibson Ties; also Button Oxfords; hand-turned and Goodyear welt; regular $3.50 and $4.00 values, now $2.85 Sev'nth and Washing t'n Formerly at 149 Third Street, the privilege of expending their surplus In betterments and Improvements. In tho opinion above quoted, the Commis sion specifically says: "Surplus funds and credit should be used for the betterment of its lines and in extensions and branches to develop the country contiguous to it." Mr. Adams had Insisted that all extensions and bet terments should be made out of funds raised by the Issuance of new stock. The probability Is that the Commission thinks as much of the remainder of the argument of Brooks Adams as It does of his theory as to the use of surplus. Is the Joy of th household, for without it no happiness can bo complete. How west the picture of mother and babe, angels smilo at and commend the thoughts and aspirations of the mother bending over tho cradle. TTja ordeal through which the expectant mother mustpass, how aver, is to fall of danger and suffering that she looks forward to the hoar when she shall