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1909. 12 THE MORMXG OKEGOXIAX, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, s 0 .TO BUILD LARGE MILL Work Started on Cereal Plant That Will Involve Outlay of $1,000,000. -DOCK TO BE CONSTRUCTED ifste! Frame Elevator Will Also Be Included and Mill Will Be the Moyt Complete of Its t Kind In West. Work has bpen started In this city on ' rhat will b the largest and most com ; pl'te cereal mill In the Wt Jt Is the . xlant of the Alters Bros.- Milling Coin jajiy and will be located on the site ot :the present Albers dock, on the west sida ' ct tnc river just north of JWnsworth dock. Several months ajro the company pur- chased additional property on the water ' front in that vicinity, and it now owns !' feet of what is considered aboul the finent river frontape in the city. This tract will be covered with its docks, warehouse, mill and elevators. When all lls .complete, it will represent a capital outlay of about l..0irt. Build JSix-Slory Brick. The mill proper, construction of which , wdl soon bf-Bin. will be of brick and six ' etorles In heisht. It will be built on the railroad track on the west of the prop- erty. It will have a frontage of 100 feet 1 on the track and will be f feet deep. 1 Tne boiler and enRine-room will occupy l R iroace H by 30 feet. An important part of the plant will be a steel-frame elevator, the plana for which are now being drawn. Workmen are now employed in tearing down part of the old dock on the site of the mill and the laying of the concrete foundation will begin in a few days. The dock is to 1 be rebuilt, and when finished It will ex tend along the entire water frontage. Mill Ready This Winter. All the details of the buildings have not ' yet been worked out. but when they are , readv. work on the .structures will be rushed. It is expected the mill will be ready for operation before the Winter is far advanced. The old mill of the Albers Company, a four-story brick covering nearly naif a block at Kront and Main streets, wilj be given up when the new mill is completed. The company is un able to handle all its business at the present plant and work on the new struc ture will tl.erefore bo rushed. The Albers Bros. Milling Company also has mills and docks at Seattle, Tacoma and San Francisco. The head office of the company is at Portland, and here its principal milling establishment will be located. Henry Albers Is president of the ' company. William J. Albers is vice-president and George Albers is secretary and . treasurer. Henry and William J. Albers have charge of the Portland business, and lorge Albers manages the business on Puget Sound. The company makes a specialty of manufacturing rolled oats and also turns out a variety of other cereal products and mill feed. r: BEILLIAJfT YOTjyG ACTEESS AT BUNGALOW TONIGHT. 'f: sit:: f-Jr 1 1 ,0 'S 4- A . ' n I 'l-.t'ii'' ' YOUTHFUL THIEVES CAUGHT t. L- Biddle and Bride Arrested for Bobbins Room. Detectives Carpenter. Coleman and Price arested the most youthful pair of room thieves lust night of which the Portland Police Department has any record. The thieves are E. L. Biddle. age 19. and his wife. Isabel Biddle, who Is a bride of but six months. They were caught with the proceeds of the robbery of the room of Miss Viola Dtt Bolse. who lives at the Oak rooming house, at Seventh and Oak streets. Her room was entered Monday night and clothing and Jewelry to the value of nearly $400 were stolen. From a description obtained from the landlady of this house the police eaugnt Biddle last night at his rooms. 390 Ev erett street. The officers found the Jewelry and the clothing both In Bid die's room, and in a house at East Pine street and Grand avenue, where the youthful robber had cached his loot. The police say that neither the young fellow nor his bride have been em ployed. The girl says her parents live in Portland, but refuses to reveal their Identity. Biddle has never fallen into the hands of the police before. Skele ton keys were found in his possession, which convinces the police that he made a practice of robbing rooms. SUICIDE IS MOST HORRIBLE Blacksmith. Brooding Over Disgrace, Blows Off Head. HILLSPORO. Or.. Aug. 11. (Specials Jacob Schearer. a bachelor blacksmith living about eight miles northeast of here, was found dead in his shop this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock with the top of his head !own off and a shotgun resting between Us legs. It is surmised he eat down last night late, set the muzzle of the gun against his head and pulled the trigger with his toes. Schearer had been brooding much of late over an arrest he had undergone lately, brought about by an assault made upon C. C. Arns. when he went to col lect a bill. His sanity was questioned and he was examined by a commission, which found him sane. He was placed ' tinder $;oK bonds to keep the peace. Schearer considered this arrest as a disgrace, and had brooded over it. He Is said to have told the wife of Charles Miller that he would commit suicide. He was a native of Switzerland. CHINESE COOK DROWNED l. Toy Falls Overboard From the Bailey Gatzert and Is Lost. L Toy. second cook on the steamer Eal.ey Gatzert, fell overboard shortly after the boat left Vancouver for Port land, about 9 o'clock last night, and was drowned. Lee was seasick and went to the Mile of the boat on the lower deck Just us the stearr.er was passing- through the Columbia River brUS- He lost his balance and with a cry tumbled Into the water. A passenger saw the accident, gave the alarm, and the boat was stopped and turned around. It cruised about for some time, playing the searchlight on the water, but the Chinaman was not seen. I,ee Ty was 3- years old. evera) relatives are said to be living in Chinatown. N: i IDA ST. I.EOS. Ida St Leon Is the charming and beautiful actress who will be seen as Polly in the delightful play, "Polly, of the Circus." at the Bungalow Theater tonight and the remainder of the week. This interesting drama Is presented by Frederic Thompson, of New York Hippodrome fame and was written by .Margaret Mayo, a former Portland girl. CLUB TIKES ACTION Steps Are Taken to Put End to Auto Accidents. BAN ON SPEED FIENDS Police Patrol Is Advocated and Children Will Be Prohibited j From Driving Machines on t City Thoroughfares. The first gun in the Portland Automo- f rom 10 to 16 years are permitted to drive cumbersome automobiles in direct violation of the law. Steps will be taken to curb this practice. Many in atancce of recklessness on the part of owners of machines and hired chuuffeurs on the crowded downtown streets were cited. Speaking on the subject President AV'emme said: 4,lf motorists would only use a little horse-sense in driving through the busy thoroughfares and crossing bridges fewer accidents would be recorded. It is a com monplace thing to soe a driver swoop down upon a throng of people who step from the curb on or off a streetcar. In nearly every Instance the motorist at the wheel continues to 'crawl' and wiggle his way through the throng, imperiling the lives of the pedestrians, when he siiould come to a full stop. I propose with the assistance of my fellow-members and with the help of the authori ties to make that fellow obey the laws of the road." Various ways of dealing with the con victed driver were discussed. It was ap parently the prevailing sentiment that the punishment now, which is invariably a mall line, is not severe enough. The hopa was expressed that the court and convicting magistrates1 will impose heavier sentences. QVESTIOX OF CISHMAXS SUC CESSOR AGITATES. Harris Trunk Co. for trunks and bags. bile Club's war against reckless motor- ! ists was fired at a largely attended meet- ! PDIFIRDV Tfl DC PURMPCn ing at the Commercial Club last night j KK It fl K I Ml Kh llflfl SlirlJ If the Indignation expressed at the gath- IIIIWllll IV UU WIIIIIIWa.W erlng can be taken as an indication of future action, a ban win be piacea on speed fiends and child drivers.. Drastic measures were proposed and regulations governing speed limits are to be strictly enforced. The crusade will begin immediately and no motorist will be exempt from the stringent resolutions adopted, according to speakers last night. That the law now in force shall be respected and abided by was the sense of the meeting, which was called at the solicitation of President Wemme. of t"he Automobile Club. The recent automobile accidents within the city limits and on the subur ban speedways served as an incentive for many fiery addresses. Hired and inexperienced chauffeurs, who, it Js averred, are accountable for most of the recent automobile accidents, were severely criticised. Every precau tion which might prevent" inexcusable ac cidents will be resorted to. it w.is said. Constable Wagner volunteered to name a squad of deputies who will continually patrol the favorite paths of the drivers with the hope of apprehending them. In order to further this end of the crusade, automobile dealers will be asked to con tribute the use of patrol cars. Care In Granting Licenses. A resolution proposed by Vice-President Dickinson, of the Portland Automobile Club, was adopted at the meeting. ThJ resolution provides for more stringent regulations before permitting public and private chauffeurs to secure licences; ab solute compliance with the city and county speed laws by all motorists, and notice to be served upon all purchasers of autoir obiles, private and hired chauf feurs relative to the speed limits. Tho members of the local organization of mo torists will, with the assistance of the representatives of the law. bring about the arrest of violators of any of the ordi nances regulating automobile traffic, either on business thoroughfares or coun try speedways. The law. requiring chauffeurs to be at last IS years of ace. will hereafter be strictly enforced. This will, it' Is hoped, dispense with the child-driven cars, which daily jeopardize the lives of pe destrians. In a fluent address George W. Stapleton clearly Interpreted the law and the requirements of motorists. "Tho local motorWts are making a fair bid to have the speed laws of the city and slate provide for a snail-like pace." he said. .t ....,4 limh ara i io iAnnnpHifa N as under the existing circumstances by Inexperienced fcnd reckless motorists, it will behoove the Legislature to reduce the present soeed limits." Will Provide tor Patrol. Various ways and mean? were dis cussed before the meeting relative to coping with the speed fiends. The more favorable of the many suggestions were embodied in a resolution proposed by George Klelser. a member of the City Examining Board for automobile drivers. The- resolution recommended that the Portland Automobile Club ask the city officials to appoint two motorcyclists as an adjunct to the police force to patrol the speedways for the purpose of making arrests and f?curing the convictions of violators of the speed ordinance.- Particular stress was laid upon the fact that scores of children whose ages range Upholders of Convention and Pri mary Methods Respectively in Clash Filibustering Feared. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Aug. 11. Special.) The southwest legislative delegation is split on the question of method to be adopted in the selection of candidates to fill the vacancy created by the death of Congressman Cushman. At the confer ence In the Governor's office tonight per sonalities were indulged in, Shutt, of Pierce County. accusing Slayden, of Pierce, who is a congressional candidate, of being afraid to go up against a di rect primary. "You needn't lose any sleep over that," retorted Slayden. "I'm not losing any sleep over your af fairs." said Shutt. "You did last June," said Slayden, "when they pulled you out of a sick bed to vote against me for Speaker." Bishop, of Jefferson, and Erickson and Cameron, of Pierce, favored going ahead under the present law and nominating candidates by the convention method. Metcalf. Shutt and Sayre. of Pierce, wanted the primary law amended to ap ply to special elections, and others ex pressed themselves as indifferent. Be fore the conference ended Governor Hay intimated that he would not call the spe cial election until the Legislature had acted on the question. It is probable a bill amending the pri mary law will be introduced tomorrow, and that the anti-administration forces will attempt to filibuster it to death. Finish Havtlcy Suits in Portland. OREGON CITY. Or.. Aug. 11. (Spe eitl.) The suit of the Crown-Columbia Pulp and Paper Company against the Hawiey Pulp and Paper Comapny. which has been on trial here for the last two days, will be continued in Portland. All of the testimony has been presented and the arguments will be heard before Judge Clcland in Multnomah County. The Ore gon City Manufacturing Company, which also has a suit pending against the Haw ley Pulp and Paper Company, will also introduce testimony at Portland, for both suits are very similar, except that some additional evidence will be presented by the Oregon ' City Manufacturing Com pany. The suit is based upon the allega tion that the Hawiey Company has closed some rights of way which should have been left open in the interests of the plaintiff company. Union Peace Meeting Tonight. A union peace meeting will be held this evening at the Sunnyside Congregational Church. The meeting will be addressed by Robert C Boot, of Los Angeles. Pa cific Coast representatives of the Ameri can Peace Society. A cordial Invitation is extended to all friends of peace and r good-will to alL COASTAL FREIGHT B SERUICEP DPOSED Taft to Hear of Plan to Con trol Transcontinental Freight Charges. NATION TO AID NEW LINES B. X. Baker, in Report of Panama Discrimination. Outlines Meth od or Fishting Exorbitant Freight Rate. BALTIMORE. Md.. Aug. 11. Recom mendation that the Fe.leral Government aid in establishing independent steam ship lines from the Isthmus of Panama to shipping points on the Pacific and Atlantic seaboards, and so combat the present control of coast-to-coast freight rates by the transcontinental railroads are embodied in the report of Bernard X. Baker, of this city, who at the Instance of President Taft has bcn investigating the matter of freight ratas over the Panama Railroad, bearing on allnged dis criminations by the Panama Railroad and Panama Steamship Company against American commerce crossing the Isthmus. The plan proposed does not contemplate that the Governmr nt enter the steamship business. It simply provides that by m?ans of postal contracts one line of new and up-to-date steamers shall be estab lished on the West ?east, connecting Seattle, Portland. 9an Francisco and San Diego with Panama, and the East Coast connecting New- York and New Orleans with Colon. These two lines would use the Panama Railroad for trans-shipments, and Mr. Baker urges that the Government estab lish a flat rate across the Isthmus for all shipments, whatever their origin. Mr. Baker believes that the mall con tracts will be sufficient encourage ment to money Interests to establish these new lines of steamers. He says he has assur ances that the money will be forthcoming if the present Administration will exer cise its rights under the postal laws, and award the mail contracts as outlined above. With these steamer lines In operation. Mr. Baker believes that successful com petition with the transcontinental rail lines will be established. He proposes that the Government cancel Its contracts with the proposed lines as soon as any transcontinental road shall secure an in terest in them. WOMAN ASSAILS MORROW (Continued From First "Page.) again Mrs. Brown turned on Morrow. "That blackmailer, that skunk ' she beean, pointing' at him, but got no further. The entire committee intervened. In reply to a question, Mrs. Brown said she never heard Judge Root's name men tioned by Mr. Palmer. Woman Goes With Spicy Retort. "You could have found that out yester day," she asserted. "You kept me ther two hours and a half and whipped the life out of me." When excused, Mrs. Brown shot a final retort at the committee, saying: "Well, if you don't want to hear any more from me about Mr. Morrow, I'll go." And she went, slamming the door behind her. Prior to Mrs. Brown's sensational accu sations, Mrs. Mollle Wilson, record de fendant In the Ramsey case, and William Morrow, son of P. F. Morrow, corrobor ated the latter's testimony of Monday that Jordan was in a conspiracy to "fix" the Supreme Court through the agency of Mrs. Brown and E. B. Palmer. Rake Goes Into Mire. They told that Dr. Jordan showed them a copy of the decision in the "dog" John son case and that In doing so Jordan remarked: "There, I told you the Su preme Court was rotten." The story Is that by fixing up the decision In the Johnson case, it was planned to have a basis for predicating a decision in the Ramsey case. It was also testified that while Supreme Justice Root was under fire. Jordan expressed the hope that Root would hang on until their case was de cided. The muckrake struck deep into the mire of family scandal when Don Morrow, son of P. F. Morrow, was called. Don. who Is 20 years old. Dr. Jordan's office boy and Is estranged from his father. He accused his father of the grossest im morality arrd indecency and declared that the elder Morrow had come to him with a proposition to sign an affidavit that he was present during a conversation parti cipated in by Jordan. Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Wilson and others in which the parties had talked of having fixed the Supreme Court. Kxtortion Is Hinted At. The eider Morrow, said the son. pro posed to extort $2500 out of Dr. Jordan on the threat of submitting the affidavit to the Supreme Court and thereby de feating cases in which Jordan was in terested. Don Morrow said he was never present during such a conversation and refused to sign the affidavit. 4'I told my father, Mr. Morrow, and I am ashamed of the name." he said, "that I would tell Jordan. Then he cha-sed m around the table with his hand on his pocket and said: If you do, I will kill you.' ' Don Morrow said his brother. Will Mor row, also came to him and wanted him to tell Jordan that unless he paid their father $500. they would file affidavits in the Supreme Court that would defeat Jordan's cases, and at another time want ed him to tell Jordan the elder Morrow would kill him if he did not pay over $500. Witness Contradicts Story. Will Morrow afterwards emphatically denied this story and denied the truth of his brother's charges of the father's im morality and neglect of his family. After the hearing was adjourned until tomorrow night, the committee expressed the belief that Mrs. Brown and Don Mor row, who came over to Oiympia tonight with Dr. Jordan, had been coached on their testimony. P. F. Morrow gave out a statement in which he paid he has documentary proof that Dr. Jordan Is en deavoring to alienate his son and wife from him and secure possession of their property and that he believes Don Mor row is under the hynotic influence of Dr. Jordan and Is not responsible for what he. says. P. F. Morrow Is one of the principal witnesses in the accusations of a con spiracy in the Ramsey case and for a time was employed to secure testimony by Dr. Jordan, who Mrs. Wilson says financed the case. SITUATION NOW ACUTE CHICAGO RAILROAD MEX CAN NOT KFACH AGREEMENT. Tnion Leaders Demand More Than Promises and Say Trouble May Come Very Soon. CHICAGO, Aug. 11. The streetcar sit uation in this city became darker to day than it has been at any other time since the union men voted to strike. The failure of the conferences between the union leaders and the street railway gave rise to a growing dissatisfaction among the employes. The union officials tonight demanded something besides promises to place be fore their men, and declared that unless they get it soon they will not be responsi ble for what might occur. President Mitten, of the City Railway Company, proposed to give the increase asked, but making the 30 cents an hour scale applicable only to those employes who have been in the service' ten years. This offer was rejected. President John M. Roach, of the North and West Side lines, has promised to make the union men a definite offer tomorrow. COURT IS FOR ARBITRATION Strikers Get Order Citing Car Com pany to Appear Before Judge. PITTSBURG, Aug. 11. Judge MacFar land, of the Common-Pleas Court, on pe tition of the strikers, today granted an order citing the Pressed Steel Car Com pany to show cause why the court should not appotnt arbitrators. Tho strikers at McIQees Rocks were active patroling the entrances to the company's plants. Police re serves were called -out when the men began to ' stop streetcars to search for strikebreakers, and the state troops were busy dispersing crowds. A fore- DI HIDROGARB SGOYERY OF ON OIL A discovery that will be of great value to the whole State of Ore gon, for this mineral is not found elsewhere in the United States, and every man, woman and child in the Slate of Oresron should take an interest in this great discovery. Almost every man, woman and child in the State of Oregon is familiar with the story of the Nehalem beeswax, so much so that we need not repeat it here, and the fact that this beeswax story has been given credit has withheld from discovery the fact that this wax is mineral wax, and indicates a large deposit or lake of hydrocar bon oil. Colonel Kit Carson, grandson of the original Kit Carson, and an expert on all minerals, of 32 years' standing, noticed a large piece of this wax in the office window of the Nehalem Bay Land Co., at 274 Oak" street, this city, about one month since. He immediately recog nized its significance, and, on being shown the sand rock taken from the same place, he immediately asked to be shown over the ground where this wax and rock were found, going with the understanding that he was to go as expert for the company, in which he would be an equal holder, rather than expert this ground for wages. Mr. J. J. Walter, vice-president of the Nehalem Bay Land Co., and . llrv Carson left on the evening train for the field that tame day, and upon arriving at Nehalem Peninsula Mr. Carson was astonished at the extensive signs of hydrocarbon oil. The carboniferous sands he found in great quantities on the Nehalem Bay Land Co.'.s holdings, and they immediately secured by lease the surrounding property. Mr. Carson's wide experience in other oil fields has caused him to look up the Government treological statistics touching this location, and he finds this the oldest formation along tlie Pacific Coast. Facts found therein favor a deposit of hydrocarbon oil. Upon his return from Nehalem, Mr. Carson extracted from the carboniferous sand rock over two ounces of the pure white hydrocarbon oil. This oil retails at all drugstores for one dollar and twenty-five cents per gallon. The Smithsonian Institute, perhaps the most learned scientific institution in the world, in passing upon the Nehalem wax pronounced it Ozokerite or mineral wax. Our own State Chemist, after a thorough analysis, gives the same results, and Mr. Carson finds that chemicals that will dissolve beeswax have no effect on Nehalem wax. The Necarney City Hydrocarbon Oil Co., incorporated under our state laws, capitalized for but $50,000, has been organized to develop this discovery. They have placed on the market just enough of the stock to assist in developing the property. They have purchased a first-class drilling outfit and all necessary machinery and tools, which will be shipped to the ground next week, and drilling is to commence at once. The par value of the stock is $1 per share, and, with this small capitalization, when the oil is secured, this stock will be worth any where from $500 to $1000 per share. The company pays no salary to any of its officers, and will not do so until results warrant same. A $100 investment in thisTstock may make the investor an independent fortune. ' The office of the company is at 274 Oak street, ground floor of the Board of Trade building, where they will be glad to furnish any information, and show the wax, carboniferous sand rock and the hydrocarbon oil extracted therefrom. Necarney City Hydrocarbon Oil Co. (inc.) 274 Oak Street, Board of Trade Building, Portland, Or. man. going to work, fired in the air when he supposed he was about to be Early tomorrow 47 Schoenville strikers and their families will be evicted from the company's houses at McKee's Rocks. The Sheriff warned his deputies tonight to use peaceable means in the evictions. ELECTRIC CHARGE FATAL Man' on Hay Derrick Instantly Killed by Contact. XAMPA, Idaho, Aug. 11. (Special.) M. F. Wilson was instantly killed by elec tricity, two miles west of thie city, yes terday. With other workmen he was en gaged in moving a hay derrick from a field to the road, and in passing under the heavily charged power line the pole of the derrick came in contact with the wire. Wilson, wno was standing on the derrick and holding to the pole, received the full strength of the current and dropped dead Instantly. ' Wilson was about 50 years old, in poor circumstances financially, and leaves four children, the oldest 19 years of afre. 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