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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1910. 13 IKIiiiimyadli BONDS VOTED FOR BULL RUN MAINS River be had at once. " The resolution was adopted and Mayor Simon appoint ed Councilmen Baker, Watkins and Belding. Councilman Watkins succeeded in having ordinances passed rescinding the action of the Council In ordering certain streets opened in' the viclnty of the Patton Home. If these had gone through, it might-, have injured that project seriously. A new and large home is under way there, costing $100,000. 4 O.R.&N.TQ ASKBIDS IT IS Natural Laxative - Water H Quickly Relieves: H Biliousness, Sick Headache, g Stomach Disorders, M and Despite Petition, Bridge Work Continues. FACT Councif Orders $1 ,000,000 Issue, Dates of Sale to Be Set Later. AWARD CONTRACT APRIL 1 I CONSTIPATION AM ABSOLUTE 12 SUBJECTS ACTED UPON Veto of Printing .Award Sustained. Vacation Application With Com mittee Cement-Street Plans Ordered Taxi Law Passed. COrXCIL ACTS OX BOZEX SUBJECTS. Issue of tl.000.000 bonds for the corstruction of second pipe line to Bull Run River was ordered. Mayor's veto of city printing ordi nance was sustained. Applications of the O. R. & N". Company for street vacations v.ere ordered referred to a special com mittee. Order to widen Vista avenue, on Portland Heights, was rescinded. City Engineer was ordered to pre pare specifications for concrete pavement for First street and other thoroughfares in South Portland. The proposed ordinance to keep streets clear of obstructions by mer chants was referred to committee. An ordinance was passed fix ing the maximum rates for auto hire, but action was deferred on the fraud" ordinance to protect drivers of taxlcabs. Time allowed the Western Union to place wires underground was ex tended to May 1. A special permit for Wakefield & Co. to haul dirt was voted. John F. Cordray was granted a permit to erect a bandstand at the Oaks. A resolution introduced by Coun cilman Baker to establish a free ferry temporarily at Madison street was refererd to special committee. Action to open certain streets near the patton Home for the Aged was rescinded. The City Council yesterday morning ordered, by unanimous vote, $1,000,000 of bonds' for the construction of the second pipeline to Bull Run River for increasing the water supply of Port land. This makes . It possible for the "Water Board to secure funds as they may be required to carry forward this Improvement. Dates for the sale of the bonds will be fixed by the Water Board soon, as some of the money will be required for actual construction work, the con tract having been awarded to the Bchaw-Batcher Company, of Sacramen to. The big conduit will be completed within a year, it is expected, and the connection made with the two large reservoirs now in course of building at Mount Tabor. The job is to be rushed with all possible "speed. Mayor Simon's veto of the ordinance awarding to the Portland Daily Ab stract the city printing for the en suing year was sustained by five to nine. The Mayor's reason for raising his objection was that the Daily Guide submitted a bid one-third less. The committee on current expenses will again take up the subject and make another report to the Council. Vacation Application Waits. Application of the O. R. & N. Com pany for the vacation of a number of East Side streets for use by the cor poration named were referred to the special committee named recently by the Council. Mayor Simon and the members of the committee will ask the company for some concessions before making any report to the main body. An ordinance was passed rescinding the previous action of the Council In widening Vista avenue, on Portland Heights, to 60 feet, as it has been de cided to make it 45 feet wide instead. Councilman Belding won his fight for specifications for concrete on First street and other thoroughfares in South Portland, and City Engineer Mor " ris was directed to prepare them. This is a new venture, designed by Mr. Beld ing and petitioned for by a large num ber of his constituents to obviate the necessity of paying for a patented ar ticle at what they declare are much higher prices. Councilman Lombard introducefTTiis proposed ordinance, the provisions of which will prohibit merchants from using sidewalks and streets for private dispatching. "Without, comment, the measure was referred to the committee on streets. It is probable that it will be fought bitterly by a number of large wholesale establishments. Taxicab Law Passes. Mr. Lombard's ordinance to fix the maximum rate of taxicabs at S3. 50 an hour and of automobile at $5 an hour, was passed, but the objection of Coun cllmen Concannon and Driscoll to the passage of his proposed measure " to make it a misdemeanor to cheat a cab driver, held it up temporarily. "Class legislation," is what the two members of the Council termed this measure. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany was given an extension of time to May 1 in which to lay the remainder of its wires in the conduits. Council men Cellars and 211is objected, say ing the company has had three ex tensions and shou-ld have no more; that it is not doing its best to comply, and should be punished. The Council voted a special permit for Wakefield & Company, which will allow it to haul dirt in cars over Haw thorne avenue without payment of ex tra costs to the city. Councilman Rush light had made a strong fight to com pel the company to pay 25 cents a car, as required under his interpreta tion of an ordinance. Just before the vote was taken Mr. Rushlight said that he had found the company has been hauling dirt, regardless of hav ing no permit, and said It might as well proceed without any, but the Council majority differed. Cordray tlets Permit. John F. CJcrdray was granted a spe permit to build a bandstand at the Oaks. Councilman Lombard ob jected to - this ordinance at the last session, saying it would give the right to build a frame theater. Mr. Cordray took the floor and said Mr. Lombard's deductions were "silly;" that it is in tended only to, build a modern band stand and nothing more. Councilman Baker introduced a reso lution calling for a special committee to investigate having a free ferry placed in operation temporarily at Madison street. Owing to the delay in completion of the new span there, he said, it is urgent that some means of conveyance across the Willamette ROBERT EDESON TONIGHT Famous American Actor to Appear in "A Man's a Man." Robert Edeson will appear for a special engagement at the Bungalow Theater tonight, when he will present for the first time before a local audience "A Man's a Man," a new play of American life of the present day. by Anna Steese Richard son and Henry Leslie FVidenberg. Mr. Edeson's new play, which is said to be the most effective vehicle secured for his use since the beginning of his stellar 7. T F t T if -f V ' .ft I Jit . . - i "I. V&fS I Robert Edeson. career, differs radically from any dra matic production of the past few seasons. Telling an original and vitally interesting story in a daring and convincing manner "A Man's a Man" severely censures leg islative corruption and the evils result ing from dishonest divorce laws. The scenes are laid in New York City and the capital of a Western state in which marriage has become almost a mockery because of the ridiculous ease with which it is possible to legally dissolve matri monial -bonds. The idea for the drama is said to have had its basis in the recent experience of a prominent Standard Oil millionaire, who succeeded in having a state legislature pass a bill making, in sanity a ground for divorce, which law was repealed immediately after this mag nate had taken advantage of it in order to free himself from the wife of his youth whom he had come to regard as an obstacle to social ambitions, inspired by his 6udden rise to wealth and power. PERS0NAL MENTION. A. C. Crawford,' of Hermiston, is at the Ramapo. . Mr. and Mrs. William B. Orr are at the Nortonia. O. E. Davis, railroad contractor at Bend, is at the Nortonia. E. W. Thomas, of The Dalles, was at the Oregon yesterday. W. J. Clarke, a newspaper man at Gervais, is at the Imperial. . J. R. Moore, real estate dealer at Eu gene, was' at the Imperial yesterday. F. E. Vollmer. hotel owner at "Kelso, Wash., was at the Ramapo yesterday. Charles' F. Hyde, a Baker City at torney, came to the Cornelius last night. A. W. Thornton, one of San Fran cisco's general insurance agents, is at the Oregon. Alfred Hall and his son, Cowan, are here from Seattle and are registered at the Lenox. K. C- Bowers, of Kennewick, politi cian -.of Southwestern Washington, is at the Imperial. Grant Geddes, manager for the Ore gon Lumber Company, of Baker City, is at the Imperial. George S. McLean, of Seattle, who is interested in several Oregon enter prises, is at the Portland. Rev. Seldon Ewing, ol Timber Valley, is at the Lenox. He is engaged in closing a large timber deal. George T. O'Brien, who is "boosting" for Medford, "where the pears come from," arrived at the Oregon last night. B. E. Palmer, general freight agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Tacoma, is at the Fort land. H. D. Chetlain, connected with the management of the Lincoln Hotel at Seattle, Is spending his vacation at the Seward. J. H. Sheldon, canner of fish at St Helens, passed through the city yes terday, returning from Seattle and was at the Imperial. A. M. Lara, dealer in general mer chandise at Bend, is replenishing his wares in the wholesale district and is at the Cornelius. H. Withlngton, an attorney of Med ford, arrived at the Seward yesterday and will be engaged in Portland courts the rest of the week.- R. D- Crandall, fisherman of Quinn, is among the arrivals at the -Perkins. Mr. Crandall asserts that the price of fish will increase in the near future. W. P. Keady, former member of the board of regents of the University of Oregon, but now at Seattle, is at the Cornelius while visiting old Portland friends. W. C- Bowers, breeder of draft horses at Marcellus, Mich., is making an in vestigation of the demand for heavy animals in Portland. He is at the Per kins, accompanied by his wife and chil dren. J. C- Bortle, manager of a New York syndicate of capitalists who have re cently purchased a 5000-acre tract of fruit land in Yamhill County, yesterday returned to the Nortonia from a trip East. Andrew Kennedy, special agent for the Department of the Interior, reached the Cornelius last night from Wash ington. T. C. where he has been in attendance at the Ballinger-Pinchot in quiry. Chief Hopson, of the Reclamation Service, left last night for a two weeks' trip to Klamath Falls and Nevada. A complete statement of the cost of the Klamath Falls project will be deliv ered to the Water Users' Association within ten days. LASTJCALL. If you don't order your Hot Cross Buna right away you may find 'em all gone. Take no chances' they're too good to miss. Order of your dealer or at either branch Royal Bakery & Confectioner-- High Official of Railroad Says No Attention Will Be Paid to Refer endum New Crossway Is deeded by Portland. Notwithstanding the filing of a refer endum petition with the City Auditor by State Senator Kellaher and others, the O. R. & N. Company will proceed to secure bids for the construction of its' proposed steel bridge across the Willamette River, and will award the contract for the work about April 1 or 2. Positive declaration to this effect was authorized yesterday by a high official of the O. R. & N. Company, which leaves no doubt that the rail road officials are determined to pay no attention to the referendum, as Arthur C. Spencer, of counsel for the company, contends that the referendum cannot apply successfully to this ordinance, wjiich grants the vacation of, 100 feet on Adams' and the same amount of space on Oregon street for the east approach of the proposed steel span. Will Petition Cause Delay? City Attorney Kavanaugh and others informed on tha action of the referen dum are of the same opinion as is Mr. Spencer, and it is being generally con ceded in official circles that the ref erendum petition will not delay the bridge very long, if at all. It Is believed friends of the refer endum petition will immediately seek to enjoin the O. R- & N. Company, in event it awards the contract for the steel bridge and commences active op erations, but Senator Kellaher would not make this definite when asked for a statement. "One thing is certain," said Mr. Kella her, "the referendum does apply, and the railroad company is tied up as tight as it ever could be right now. That corporation is not greater than the people of Oregon, who are acting under a constitutional amendment giving them the right to say what shall or shall not be done. Let the O. R. & N. Company turn a shovelfull of dirt, and see what happens. They need not think that because the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company put through a dummy suit and won out against the people on its blanket fran chise that the railroad company is going to do the same thing. It will be a real fight this time." Mayor Simon and Councilmen Rush light, Menefee and Wallace held a meet ing of the committee named by the Council to negotiate with jihe O. R. & N. Company for concessions for the Broadway bridge. Charles H." Carey, legal representative of the Northern Pacific Railway, which owns 40 per cent of the Terminal Company stock, was present. He assured the Mayor and members of the committee that his client will not interpose or seek to in terpose any obstacle in the way of the high bridge project, and that he will assist in securing for the city the right to place piers for the big span in the terminal yards. Petition Aimed at Ordinance. The referendum petition, which has 38S2 names, is aimed at the ordinance recently passed by the Council vacat ing 100 feet on Oregon and Adams streets for the steel bridge. The up per deck of this span is for public use and is urgently needed, as the present Steel bridge Is worn out and must soon be abandoned. Mayor Simon signed the ordinance for this reason. He is satisfied that the city will re ceive fair treatment from the railroad companies in due time. General Manager O'Brien, of the Har riman lines, is absent from the city. As soon as he returns the Mayor and members of the special committee will take up with him the subject and urge that he concede what is needed for the Broadway bridge and other things con nected with the city. ' If any injunction is issued it can only apply to the portions of city streets ordered to be vacated by the Council. The railroad company's span, to be used purely for railroad purposes, would not be stopped, it is declared, but the public deck, so badly needed, would be indefinitely held up until a vote could be taken upon it. WOMEN UNITE TO BUILD MONDAY' MTTSICAIi CLUB HAS AUDITORIUM PliAX. Daughters of Confederacy and So cial Organization to' Form Stock Company. The Portland Auditorium Association is being formed by the Monday Musical Club and Daughters of the Confederacy, and ways and means have been devised for the commencement of an active au ditorium campaign. The two organizations have desired to form a stock company and will share their surplus stock with other organizations interested in seeing an auditorium built for Portland. The proposed sale of buttons will be gin soon. Each button will sell for Jo and will entitle the purchaser to a life associate membership in the Portland Auditorium Association. When a suf-: flclent fund is secured by the button sale a site will be purchased. Funds for the construction of the building will be raised by the issuance of bonds. The Monday Musical Club has as its objects: The promotion of musical ed ucation and development of Its mem bers; stimulation of a love for music, and advancement of the cause thereof; construction and maintenance within the City of Portland of a suitable, com modious auditorium. or concert hall for the use of the club and for public pur poses. .To the end that said city shall be provided with a convenient building in which high-class musicians and other eminent artists from abroad may be heard with a sense of comfort and at prices corresponding to those in other cities-. The club and the Daughters of the Confederacy have been working for the last six months with the auditorium in view. That the building may be self supporting the women plan to Install clubrooms, studios and storerooms in connection with the main auditorium. Clatsop County Warrants Called. ASTORJA, Or., March 23. (Special.) County Treasurer Sherman will is sue a call tomorrow for all the gen eral fund warrants indorsed prior to U In EMERGENCY Try 1 Ensyadi 5aao tJ NATURAL APERIXtfT WATER. Aroid Substitutes sBHaHHIl THiHIIIn3l7Tgt3nWR-waMlHt,-" "wttb 11 31 AFTER the dentist has je x paired the damage your teeth have suffered through neglect, the daily use of Dr. Lvon s PERFECT Tooth Powder will cleanse, preserve and beautify them, without in jury, and impart purity and fragrance to the breath. March 1, 1909. The principal, and in terest on the warrants included in this call amount to $12,500. Today he turned over to the City Treasurer $40, 268, collected on the 1909 roll as mu nicipal, park and public library taxes. 'S NAME SAVED FRIEND SUFFERS FOR CRIME TEACHER COMMITTED. George Murdock, of Salem, Is In dicted for Act He Didn't Com mit Pays Penalty. Rather than reveal the name of the young woman who shot a hole through a rural free delivery mailbox, while in his company last July, George Mur dock yesterday pleaded guilty to the crime and paid a line of $25 In the United States Court. Mr. Murdock has been one of the well-known school teachers of Inde pendence for many years. During the Summer of last year he attended a teachers' institute at Monmouth, to which a large number of young women were attracted for a course of instruc tion in teaching. On Sunday, July 25, Murdock invited one of the party to a picnic in the country, and took along a gun. During the day they engaged in shooting at a mark, but one of the bullets perforated the mail equip ment through the misdirected efforts of the young woman to connect with the target. Murdock refused to advise the postal inspectors of the name of the school teacher who pulled the trigger, and was himself Indicted by the Federal grand Jury. He was arrested at the law school of the Willamette Univer sity at Salem, where he is now a stu dent, and came to the Government building yesterday armed with a large roll of yellow-backed bills to deposit as bond for his appearance. After dis cussing the matter with District At torney McCourt, the latter concluded that the crime was not premeditated, and recommended that Judge Bean im pose as light a fine as consistent. Mr. Murdock immediately visited the office of Clerk Marsh and secured a receipt for the cash. Asked- for the history of the case, the young man smilingly refused to discuss it. He said: "I was in hopes that nothing might be said about the case. It was an ex pensive picnic all right. I could not fight the case without bringing in the name of th young woman who was with me, so concluded to pay the fine." WOMEN SING TO Y. M. C. A. Easter Music to Take Place of Ad ' dress Next Sunday. Anrangements have been made for a special musical service in which a chorus of 30 women' will participate at the regular men's meeting in the audi torium of the Young Men's Christian Association next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The chorus will be made up of members' of the Tukaloa and Altrul clubs of the Y. W. C. A. and will be led by Miss Louise Heilman. The accompanist will be Miss Margaret Smith. All the music will be appropriate to Easter. The programme will last about an hour and the usual address will be dispensed with. Besides the chorus numbers there will be solos, duets and quartets. In the boys' department the meeting at 3:30 will be addressed by Stanley Baker, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. employment department. There will be music and moving pictures. CHICAGO BOOMS PORTLAND Iia stern Publication Stiows Rose Beauties Grown Here. The Portland Commercial Club is in receipt of the Easter number of the Weekly Florists' Review, of Chicago, containing a reproduction of two Port land rose photographs taken by G. S. Crego, staff photographer of the Com mercial Club. The hedge in front of the residence of Dr. M. Klrkpatrick was taken September 10, and the show of roses was as fine as is usually seen in June. Another photograph shown was that of Caroline Testout roses, grown at Eighteenth and East Washington streets. In connection with the pic tures the Review publishes a paper read by William S. .Sibson, of Portlajrd, at the annual convention of the Na tional Rose Society in New York City on March 16. Report of Diphtheria Refuted. SEASIDE, Or., March 23. (Special.) Word has reached here that people at other points have the impression that there are several cases of diph- That property which is as highly improved as Laurelhurst and which is as ideally located and as highly restricted could not be purchased in other large cities of the United States for double what is being asked for lots in Laurelhurst, which is the most highly improved and close-in restricted residence property in Port land. We know that we are selling Laurelhurst too low and the best evidence of this lies in the fact that a number qf people who purchased from us in Laurel hurst have resold at advances of from $200 to $300 per lot over what they paid. We Have Sold Over One Million Dollars in Laurelhurst Lots at Prices 50 Per Cent Too Low We Base This Statement on What Is Being Asked for Lots in Other Residence Districts Not Nearly So Well Improved, Not Half So Well Located and Much Further Out From the Heart of the City. Just realize if you can what this means. Here is a magnificently located tract of 444 acres, right in the heart of the city. It is all being more highly- im proved than any other residence section of Portland, and has two carlines run ning directly to and through it, with two more lines within two blocks of its southerly portion. And lots are being offered for sale at prices as low as you would have to pay for lots in districts with few, if any, improvements. Take, as an example, the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tacoma or Seattle in no one of them can highly improved and restricted residence lots within one and one-half miles of the center of town be purchased at double the price at which Laurelhurst lots are selling. As a matter of fact, lots in other high-class additions right here in Portland are being sold today for double what is being asked in Laurel hurst, and there is no section of Port land which is as highly improved as Laurelhurst will be when improve ments now under way are completed. See Laurelhurst and You Will See Why We Are Offering in Tha,AdditiDnvyith Character Lots From $700 Up-Terms: PRICES ADVANCE APRIL 15TH See This Property for Yourself See Some of the Other Tracts Then You Will See Why Take Montavilla or Rose City Park cars. Both lines run to and through the property. Or call at our office or phone and make an appointment' and we will show you Laurelhurst in our automobiles. Deal with any of our authorized brokers if you prefer. AUTHORIZED BROKERS I Charles K. Henry Co. Wakefield, Krles A, Co. Georice D. Schalk. H. P. Palmer-Jones Co. Holmes A. Menefee. Mall A Von Borwtrl. Maekle A Rountree. H. V. Bryan & Co. Friok-Dodd Co. Ruff-KIeinsorge Land Co. Dubois A' Cropkett Realty Co. Phapin A Herlow. Haas A Rlngler. SAI,KM AGENCY, A. N. MOORES, -2 BISH-BREVJ1AN BLOCK. El'GElVB AGEP.TV, M.VULADRt' A SHUMATE. ALBANY AGEXCV, A. T. STARK. WAIXA WALLA AGENCY, DRl'MHELIiER A ETMS. W. C. KOEHNE. 522-526 Corbett Building Phones Main 1503, A 1515 therla here, but this Is untrue. - In an Interview Dr. W. C. Lewis said today that there had been diphtheria in three families but that they were re leased from quarantine a good while ago. Health conditions never have been better. SALT LAKE EDITOR WEDS LcRoy Armstrong Is Married Oregon Woman In Portland. to Lerojr Armstrong, editor of the Salt Lake Herald-Republican, was quietly wedded to Mrs. M. S. Adams at the Hotel Portland- last rrtght. William G. Eliot, Jr., pastor of the First Unitarian Church, officiated. Mr. Armstrong is one of the force ful newspaper men of the Middle West, being a graduate of the Chicago Herald and an associate of Opie Read. John McCutcheon, George Horton, now Min ister from the United States to Greece, and McGovern. Mr. Armstrong went to the Republican, Salt Lake City, four year ago as editor-in-chief. The com pany absorbed the older paper, the Herald, in July of last year. Mrs. Armstrong is a native of The Dalles, and for many years has made her home at Portland and Hood River alternately, at both of which places she Is the owner of large property interests. The wedding was attended by a num ber of intimate friends. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong will go to Hood River this morning, thence to Salt Lake. Tea Is more beneficial if made with hard tva tr. OUT-OF-ORDER KIDNEYS WILL ACT FINE AND ANY BACKACHE SIMPLY VANISHES Just a Few Doses Regulate the Kid neys and Bladder and Make Lame Backs Feel Fine. The most effective and harmless way o cure backache and regulate out-of-order kidneys, or end bladder trouble. Is to take several doses of Pape's Diuretic. You will distinctly feel that your kidneys and urinary organs are being cleaned, healed and vitalized, and all the miserable symptoms, such as back ache, headache, nervousness, rheuma tism and darting pains, inflamed or swollen eyelids. 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