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13 THE 3IORS1NG OKEGONIAJT, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1910. MORRISON STREET EXTENSION SURE Last Obstacle to Lengthening of Thoroughfare "Is Appar parently Removed. SETTLEMENT OUT OF COURT Suit Brought by Six Property Own ers Who Opposed Extension Dis missed Payment of $224,000 Damages Will Be Next Step. Apparently the last obstacle to the extension of Morrison street from Chapman street, vhera it is blocked by the old Exposition building, through nearly to Twenty-first street, has been removed. Judge 3Iorrow issued a writ yesterday from Circuit Court dismiss-Ins-.the suit brought by the 6ix appell ants who have been contesting the ex tension of this street, for a settlement has been reached out of court with them. W. A. Carter. Charles H. Korell and W. H. G-rindstaft are the men who have Jiave been active in lining up the op ponents of ' the extension scheme. When the plan was first broached a year and a half ago, several persons who owned property on Morrison street in the neighborhood of First and Sec ond streets thought they foresaw much damage to their interests if the street were to be continued beyond where Jt now steps and made into one of the trunk thoroughfares of the city. So they appealed to the Circuit Court from the action of the City Council in ordering the extension. Before this th.ey had objected to the report of the viewers, alleging that too great damages were awarded those through whose property the 6treet would pass if extended. This protest was made to the City Council, which re-referred the matter to the viewers. A report identical with the first was brought in, and the Council, with only, one dissenting vote, ordered the- work done. Then the appeal was taken to th.e Circuit Court. Objectors Receive $11,650. Certain, ones who believed the ex tension was the. best thing that could happen to the street undertook to bring enough pressure to bear upon those who thought otherwise to remove their objections, and in this they were suc cessful. The appellants represented $11,650 of the total amount of $224,000, which, was to be assessed against all property-owners along the street to pay the damages to the property to" be affected ty the extension. That their objections have been removed means that they have received $11,650. or its equivalent, as follows: F. W. Mulkey, 1900; Elizabeth Smith, $4000; M. Mc Namara, $850; St. Charles Hotel Com pany, $1800; Clara Kaufman, $2000; A. B. Steinbach, $1100. The next proceeding will be Wednes day, when the Council orders the City Auditor to enter in the lien docket the amount of the assessment along the street, the $224,000 that will go to those whose land is damaged , by the extension, and there will be 10 days in which this assessment must be paid. At the next meeting of the Council af ter the 10 days are up, a resolution de claring the street open will be passed, and the work will be ordered done. Exposition Building Chopped. A large chunk of the Exposition building will be taken off. A small corner of the Multnomah Club s grounds will also be included in the Etreet after Chapman street is passed. Then after Twenty-first and the block beyond, Ella street is to be crossed, and a triangle will be chopped off the block bounded by Ella street and Twenty-first. The lot at the corner of Twenty-first and Washington will be left as it stands, for Morrison street will run into Washington 'Just before It reachas the corner of Twenty-first. Altogether, about a dozen property owners are affected by the extension: W. H. Gorden, Ellis & Palmer, A. Mc Gregor, King Estate, W. A. Carter, Hi bernia Savings Bank, H. L. Pittock, F. W. Leadbetter, Russell & Blyth, and the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. These have not been opposing the ex tension. The opposition has all come from the other end of the street. Jt is said that the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company will ex tend the streetcar line along Morrison street to a connection with that on Washington street as soon as the thor oughfare is cut through. Then a con-, tinuous route from Portland Heights and Council Crest will be run to Mount Tabor. One of the arguments used by those who worked for the extension was this same streetcar route, and the fact that it would divert much traffic from the already-overcrowded lines of Washington street. STOCK SEAL IS DESCRIBED Defendant in Devlin-Reddy Suit Be gins Testimony. Although live weeks have been con sumed in hearing the testimony in the Devlin-Reddy suit over stock of the Pacific & Eastern Railway Company, the defendant has just commenced to put in its . testimony. The -first witness was ieard by Circuit Judge Gatens yester day, after the case had been continued for a week to give the parties a rest. S- W. Stryker was the principal witness yesterday. He told of agreeing with W. Cooper Morris to sell his stock in the Pacific Si Eastern, otherwise known as 'the Medford & Crater Lake road, for $3500, understanding that Morris would sell, for the tame amount. Five hundred dollars were to be added to this, making the selling price $7500, Morris, said Stryker. telling him Dr.. J. F. Reddy must be paid the $500 to nego tiate the deal. It was not until long after Stryker received his $3500, he said, that he learned that Morris sold Stryker's stock t J. C. Lewi for $6000. pocketing the difference. 31500. He said also that Morris did not sell his own stock at all. ; George L. Estes. associated with Mor ris and' Stryker in the purchase of the road, and A. E. Hammond, a civil en gineer, also testified yesterday. Ham jmond said the Pacific & Eastern' was worth at least JIOO.OOO when it was turned pver to the Oregon Trust. Court Notes. Wesley S. Williams filed a divorce .euit in the Circuit Court yesterday against Myrtle Williams, alleging that she deserted him in April, 1305, writ ing him afterward that she did not in tend to live with him any longer, and wished he would get a divorce. They have a boy 6 years old. liie marriage took place at North Platte, Neb., No vember 1. 1904. Charles C. Smith was released by order of Presiding Judge Morrow in the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon, having sworn out a writ of habeas corpus. As the Canadian government. which wanted him at Calgary, Alberta, for alleged horse stealing, refused to pay his railway fare to that place and no requisition papers had been sent on which, to hold him, he could not be kept in jail. H- S. - Fargo filed suit in the Circuit Court yesterday against Samuel Chellew to recover $53), said to be owing as com mission for the sale f 100 acres of land in Marion County known as the Shearer estate. Fargo says he sold it to Thomas W. Sharpe for $11,000 on April 29. and that Chellew had agreed to pay him the regular commission.' RURAL FREE DELIVERY Fear It May Be Abolished, ' and Merged in Contract System. ' GRESHAM. Or.. July 11. (To the Edi tor.) A Balem dispatch in The Oregonlan of last Saturday Quotes Representative Hawley as saying that no rural free de livery extensions may be expected for many months In Oregon. That statement may be accepted as ap plying to the whole United States, as it CIVIX WAR VETERAN RE CEIVES LAST HONORS FROM COMRADES. 1- t i. A " 'SSI 'J . ' The Late Major George Williams. The funeral of the late Major George Wi!!iams.t who died Fri day, July 8, was held Sunday afternoon at the oPrtland Crem- ' atorium. The services were Conducted by Dr. T. L- Eliot and members of Garfield Post. G.- A. P T. B- M. McDevitt acted as master of ceremonies. Major Williamsj career as a soldier was reviewed by M. L. Pratt. Solos were rendered by Mrs. Imogen Hardlng-Brodle. has been generally known in postofnee cir cles that there is to be an attempt to cur tail . the rural service from now on. In fact, there will most likely be an effort made to abolish it altogether in its present form, and substitute the contract or star route system in Its place The Rural Free Delivery News, offlelal pa per of the rural letter carriers, published at Washington. I. C, in the current issue says that preliminary plans are being made to abolish rural free delivery. The sub ject has been one of serious consideration by the Postmaster-General, for the past six months, and he hopes to be. able to furnish President Taft with ample reasons for the change before the President sub mits his next annual message to Congress In Decemoer. , It Is the belief of many postal cfflcials that the President will readily approve of the suggestions of the Postmaster-General in the matter and make .a recommendation to Congress to enact the neveseary laws for the change. Already Postmaster-General Hitchcock has consolidated the division of star mail routes ar.ri rural free- delivery Into what is now known as thA division of rural mails. Th4s is the flrst step toward making the two services similar. A special committee was appointed a few weeks ago to formulate plans in organizing th.e new division, and during the next few months . this committee will make a thor ough study of the workings of rural free delivery and the star route service, with a view to furnishing the Postmaster-General wtth the necessary data for a recommenda tion to place ail rural free delivery under the contract system. The men who com pose the committee are: Robert S. Sharp, Chief Postofnee Inspector; Theodore L Vfeed, Chief Clerk of the Postofnee Depart ment; George F. Stone. Assistant General Superintendent of the Railway Mall Service: Robert M. Pindell. Chief Clerk of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, and William Jt. Spiltman, Superintendent of the Rural Free Delivery branch of the service. These statements show that there are enemies to- rural free delivery holding hlsh places in the United States Government, chief among whom Is the Postmaster-General. It has been an open secret among the postal employes that Mr. Hitchcock has no love for this branch of the service and that . Senator Bristow, of Kansas, formerly Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, is in sympathy with the movement to let the business go to contractors. Mr. Bristow, while fourth assistant, helped .to take from the rural carriers many thousands of dol lars earned by hard work. The late Sen ator Mitohell. of Oregon, and Senator Alli son, of Iowa, stopped the abuse , before it went too far. but the carriers never got what they lost. The House postofnee committee has also seriously considered the matter of combining the two systems under a contract law; and it is said that a number of the members are favorable to the change. All of them, from the Postmaster-General down, are using the watchword "economy" as a pre text to foist a. patronage graft upon the people in mammoth proportions, where no such thing scan now exist under the classi fied service, which embraces every rural carrier in the United States. Rural free delivery is the child of the grange. It had its first inception there and through the efforts of the National Grange in the halls of Congress It was begun and operated and has been extended, until now millions of farmers are enjoying its benefits. To the Grange, then, belongs the duty of combatting the proposed changes. Right away each and every subordinate Grange in the whole country should take the matter up and demand of the National body that It take action. The National Grange will meet at Atlantic City, N. J., In November, and should send its best committee to Washington, D. C, next Winter to fight for the farmers- rights in this matter. No argu ment need be advanced as to the merits of rural rrae delivery. Lach and every newspaper is a benenciary of the system and should lend its aid in the cause. E. G. 21, CARNIVAL MAN INDICTED Manjiel Fonseca. Attempted to Kill J. r D. Devaui, Is Charged. SALEM, Or.. July 11. (Special.) Late today the grand jury filed a true bill against Manuel Fonseca, charged with assault with intent to kill. It is alleged that he attempted to club J. D. Devaui. The men were with the carnival company appearing at the cherry fair. Before leaving the carnival company had a run of difficulties, another em ploye mangling his foot by jumping from a Willamette River dock. Trunks, suit cases and bags. Largest variety at Harris Trunk Co., 132 Sixth. FARMERS GIVE AID Willow River Valley Folk Won't Stand "Freezeout." GAME, PLAYED, REVEALED Malheur . County Pioneer Declares Willow River Land & Irrigation Co. Would Eliminate Settlers. Eastern Oregon Firm to Aid. "Whatever may be thought of the Eastern Oregon Land Company by other sections of the state, the farmers of Willow River Valley have been aided by the owners of the old Dalles mili tary land grant and have thrown their interests with the land company as against the Willow Creek Land & Irri gation Company, controlled by Dennis Brogan," said M. G. Hope, one of the old residents of Malheur County, yes terday, while discussing the conten tions which the two land concerns are threshing out in both the State and Federal courts- - , Mr. Hope has been identified with Eastern Oregon for more than 30 years, and is personally acquainted with al most every inhabitant. "The Willow River Land & Irrigation Company has been trying to freeze out the farmers over there, while the East ern Oregon Land Company has stood by them. That is the sltuatlo.n,v continued Mr-. Hope. Colonization Scheme Started. "Prior to the time that Mr. Brogan, of the Willow River Company, came into Malheur County, the farmers had agreed with Mr. Martin, of the Eastern Oregon Company, to organize a Farm ers' Water Users Association,, and a verbal agreement was made which in cluded all the farmers along the creek who use water for irrigation. The as sociation was organised and purchased the earliest water rights on Willow River from the Christian Brotherhood. The brotherhood had promoted a col onization scheme about eight years ago and had failed. "We planned to build reservoirs, and did purchase sites where the flood wa ters were to be stored, for Summer irrigation. The Eastern Oregon Land Company agreed to put its lands in with ours on an equal distribution of water. "Then Mr. Brogan came in there and proceeded to buy out a lot of the farm ers and their water rights along the creek. For some reason the farmers would not stick to their verbal agree ment to stand together. Brogan then bought reservoir sites and built his reservoirs. He stored the flood waters last Spring, and they have since been used in the Irrigation of new lands. "The result is that the farmers who are dependent on water in May and June cannot get it now, and there will be a very light crop there, if any. The Brogan Company will not sell the farm ers water at any price. For that rea son I make the assertion that he is attempting tt freeze the old-timers out and buy their lands-at his own price. "Brogan recently offered to sell water to the Eastern Oregon Land Company for the irrigation of the very lands which are now in the United States Court 'asserting riparian rights, at the rate of $75 per acre. Mr. Martiu refused to purchase unless the Willow River Company would supply all the farmers along the creek with water at the same price. Brogan refused to do that, and then offered to purchase the Eastern Oregon lands at $75 per acre. Mr. Martin stood by bis agreement with the "farmers and declined to sell. "The officers of the Farmers Water Users" Association, President I. W. Hope and Secretary Cleveland, have brought 'almost the same suit in Mal heur County that is now pending in the United States Court against the Willow River Land & Irrigation Com pany.'. We want the water of Willow Creek for the same purposes as does the company, and as we have the prior right to the flood waters, we hope ulti mately to secure them. "In any event, we believe that the courts will give us the right to use the same amount of water from Willow Creek that we have used for many years prior to the advent of the Willow River Company and its reclamation scheme. It is a priority, ajnd they will WONDERFUL CURE OF SORE HANDS Skin Peeled and Flesh Got Hard and Broke Blood Flowed in Fifty Places "Single Box of Cuti enra Ended Suffering." About eleven years ago I was troubled with sore hands, 6o sore that when I would put thein in water the pain would very nearly set me crazy, the skin would peel off and the flesh would get hard and break. There would be blood flow-" ing from at least fifty places on each hand. . Words could never tell the suffering I endured for three years. I tried everything that I was told to use for fully three years, but could get no relief. I tried at least eight different doctors, but none of them seemed to do me any good, as my hands were as bad when I ' got through doctoring as when I first began. I also tried many remedies, but none of . them ever did. me one cent's worth of good. I was discouraged and heartsore. I would feel so bad mornings when I got up, to think I had to go to work and stand the pain, for ten hours, and I often felt dike giving up my position. Before I started to work mornings I would have to wrap every finger up separately, so as to try and keep them soft and then wear gloves over the rags to keep the grease from getting on my work. At night I would have to wear gloves in bed. In fact, I had to wear gloves all(the time. After doetor ing for three years, and spending much money, a 6ingle bos of Cuticura Ointment ended all my suf f erige. - It 's been eight years since I used any and I don't know what sore hands are now, and never lost a day's work while using Cuticura Oint ment. (Signed) THOMAS A. CLANCY, Nov. 11, 1909. 310 N. Montgomery St., Trenton, Nv J. Send to Potter Drug & Chem. Corporation, 131 Columbus . Ave., Boston, for latest 32-page Cuticura Book on care and treatment of skin and hair. " have to send sufficient water down the river to raise our crops." SYSTEM IS INTRODUCED COMMERCIAL CliCB TO CLASSI FY INDUSTRIAL LITERATURE. New Publicity Manager Introduces Innovations New Directory Will Be of Mucb Use. Under the supervision of C- C. Chap man, publicity manager of the Port land Commercial Club, innovations are being introduced in the publicity and colonist departments. There will be installed in the Con vention Hall of the Commercial Club a huge rack wiere all booklets Issued by the railroads, literature pertaining to the exploiting of any country or district issued by the commercial clubs of those districts or cities, county pa pers and the like will be alphabetical ly arranged, 60 that any visitor, tour ist or colonist may have access to all. This new system will be called a locality and general information file. The fil ing of county newspapers i6 a new feature, introduced by Mr. Chaptnan. - Another new feature of the depart ment will be a directory containing the names and addresses of all Portland residents interested in out-of-town localities whereby any 6tranger in quiring about business interests in any part of the state may be put immediate ly in touch with some one knowing that particular locality. ' Included in the new filing system provision will be made for circulars. newspaper clippings, magazine articles and the like pertaining to Oregon. "This new system," said Mr. Chap man, "undoubtedly will - be of much benefit to both, the counties of the state and homeseekers in search of some locality in which to settle. Re peated calls have been made upon our department for literature pertaining to some particular section of the state and on account of our lack of any or ganization, such as we are now install ing, we were forced to refer them either to the Chamber of Commerce or the railroad offices. With the installation of the new system we shall be -able to supply any number of such calls. We shall be prepared to nandle thousands of booklets, circulars, newspaper ar ticles and the like. Our department will set to work Immediately to obtain all such literature, so that our new 6ystem will be complete in a short time. The railroads and other promotion bureaus. I think, will gladly help us." Work of installing the rack In the Convention Hall and the work of sys tematizing the whole department will begin this week and will be in good shape in a short time. NO PROCLAMATION, EDICT Amendment Providing . Votes for Women to Ee Voted On.. OLYMPIA, Wash., July 11. (Special.) Governor Hay will Issue no proclama tion for the primary election of Septem ber 13, the Attorney-General having- ad vised him today that none is necessary, but one will be Issued later for the gen eral election. Secretary of State Howell has prepared advertisements announcing the constitu tional amendment' to be voted on thi6 Fall, permitting the Legislature to enact laws which will enable women to vote. The cultivated hyacinth is a native of Persia, and Aeia. Minor. HOTEL HOTEL OREGON SEATTLE ' Portland' Live, Growing Hotel. New, Modern, Centrally Located. EUROPEAN PLAN. EUROPEAN PLAN- 7th and Stark, Portland, Or. Pioneer Square, Seattle, Wn. WRIGHT-DICKINSON WRIGHT & DICKINSON HOTEL COMPANY, Props. HOTEL COMPANY, Props. New Perkins Fifth and Washington Sts. Opened Tune. 1908. 'A. hotel rn the very hurt of Portland's business so tlvity. Only hotel equipped with wireless telegraph. Every convenience for comfort of commercial men. Modern in every respect. Rate J1.00 and up. 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