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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1910)
THE MORNING- OREGONTAN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 11Q. 10 HOTELS ABE DUPED E. Mason, Pretended Diplomat, Passes Bad Checks. 7 HOSTELRIES . VISITED Phil Motschan, Jr., or Imperial, Be comes Suspicion -Hliea Patron Is Cnable to Show Credential. Got. Hay Eellered Forgery. Pretending to be a special dlplomatlo representative of President Diss, or Mexico, a smooth sharper giving the name of E. Mason, registered at no less than .even hotel. In this city amd made an attempt at each of them to secure money on hie checks. Me succeeded at two. clearing up by his operation, and disappeared. He is supposed to have gone southward Sun day morning. . . The stranger, who was indisputably a diplomat, though not accredited from the neighboring republic, was a man 1n the early forties, very well dressed and of plausible manner. In each ho tel he registered -E. Mason and wife. Feattle." and made some acceptable ex planation to account for the wife not being with him. saying that sbe would arrive on another train. At the Imperial Hotel, after register, lng and going through the preliminary talk which was calculated to Ingratiate him with the management. Mason ap proached Phil Metschan. Jr that he was a representative of the Mexican government, that he was tem porarily short of resdy cash and would like to have an advance on his per sonal check. Metschan was politely wary and asked Mason If he had any credentials from the Mexican capital. The stranger gave an unembarrassed explanation that he had not his papers with him. - lie produced, however, a letter of recommendation from Governor Hay. of Washington, which is beileved to be a forgery. Diplomat met diplomat when Metschan gently but firmly told the Ambassador that the hotel com pany was also short of funds for the moment. Mason did not remain long at the hotel after that. Better luck met him at the Seward and at the Cornelius. In each of which his paper was honored for a part of Its value. One of the hotels received a, check for ll and gave 13S on It. The other advanced 10 on a check calling for $. Both were drawn on a Seattle bank. The Perkins, the Oregon and the Madras were also attempted by Mason, fcut In each case he failed to make a killing. At each place he went through the formality of registering himself and "wife." produced the same line of ta'.k and disappeared soon after his attempt had succeeded or failed. He had no heavy baggage. At some of the places he produced a letter pur porting to be from President Diaz, but not accrediting hla as a diplomatic agent. The rase was reported to Captain Moore of the detective bureau, who assigned Detectives Day and Hyde to the case. He left no trail upon leav ing this city. lirnillTJP PirTU RlnTIIDAI ncnmil O uuiin uHiunnu Detectives Investigate Circumstances of Warren Joy's Demise. Nothing to Indicate that Warren Joy. the aged hermit of Woodstock, died by other than natural causes was found by Detectives Carpenter and Price, who Investigated the case yes terday. The old man. whose decom posed body was found near his cabin In the woods. Is held to have died from heart failure, following a series of fainting fits from which he had been suffering. The body of the hermit was found by Georre Glllard and Joe Gray, two boys who were rambling through the woods, and they reported their find to the authorities. Mrs. Elizabeth Truman, of Larena avenue and Thirty-fourth street, had known Joy for the past eight years, the cooked his meals during his re cent illness until Isst week, when she was taken sick herself. She says that he had been a frequent sufferer from fainting spells and that on one occa sion, about six weeks ago. a clergy man named Potter and his two sons hauled Joy home In a wheelbarrow when he was seized by one or his fits. Joy. who was S2 years old. ob jected to allowing anyone to visit him at his cabin, so little Is known of his affairs. The detectives are satisfied, however, that Joy died a natural death. The body was turned over to the Coroner, but no Inquest will be held. MORE PAVING IS PLANNED at i ntnT.niiiin.Mrm iifptt in Be Given Hard Surface. A new district for hard-surface pave--nent hss been formed called the East Thtrty-nlnth-streft district. This dis trict embraces East Ninth from the north tne of East Stark to Kast Ankeny. be--ween East Thirty-ninth and Floral: East sk betwern East Thirty-third and East fhlrty-ninth: East Pine between East Thirty-second and East Thirty-third: t Thirty-third between East Stark nd East Ankeny: East Thirty-fifth be- ween East Stark and East Oak: East hirty-sevenrh between East Stark and :ut Oak streets- It Is proposed to lay asphalt on concrete pavement and the ost is estimated at $74,000. All these treets are to be Improved In one dis- ncu all the territory being In the south ide of Laurelhurst. The Improvement of these streets will ve ready access to the new City Park i Laurelhurst. The Sunnyslde Push tub eouRht to have East Thirty-fifth treet extended from East Stark to the ark tract, but the plat had already been isde and filed, and the club failed to t the street It asked for. but It Is onstdered that the other streets platted ill furnish plenty of access to the park. PERS0NALMENT10N. Samuel Rugh. of Eugene, is at the erklns. E. Rlste. of Ashland, Is staying at ie Perklna A. Root, of Hood River, is staying t the Ramapo. J. C. Hawthorne, of Carlton, is stay 's; at the Cornelius. J. A- Howard, of Salem. Is re I Is --red St the Cornellua Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Howard, of Ba rn, are at the Lenox. W. J. Kellogg, of Efttacada. la reg .tered at the Portland. Oeorgs M. Patterson, of Salem, was among the arrivals at the Perkins yes terday. H. O. Fawsett and family, of Baker City, are at toe Perkins. J. J. Hayea and son. of Wallace. Idaho, ars at the Portland. William James, of Los Angeles. Is registered at the Raraapo. O. H. Currier and L. Becker, of Rainier, are at the Perklna Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Richmond, of Med ford, are at the Imperial. Mrs. Charles . Wtss and LanU Wlas. of Shelton. are at the Lenox. Edgar Merin and Charles Hug. of Enterprise, are at the Imperial. W. C. Morris, a prominent contrac tor of Seattle. Is at the Oregon. C M. Eager, a business man of Pen dleton. Is registered at the Imperial. J. R. Van Houten and J. 3. Cart wright, of Seaside, ars staying at the Imperial. Herbert E. Law. part owner of the Falrmount Hotel In San Francisco, Is at the Portland. V. R. Froula and family, of St- Paul, who have come to Oregon to locate, are staying at the Lenox. Mr. and Mrs. M. Katzky. of Minneapo lis, are spending the Summer with their sons Fred. Otto and Leo Katzky, at Lenta Miss May Dwyer. 1198 Yamhill street, leaves today for Alaska. She will visit friends at Cordova for the rest of the summer. ' N. Berkley, a prominent mining op erator In the granite district of East ern Oregon, of Pendleton, Is at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Moores, with their daughter. Mrs. A. 8. Wells, and Mrs Anna Baker left yesterday for Newport. Or., where they will pass several weeks. G. R. Andrews, an expert golf play er of Seattle, was at the Portland yes terday, on hla way to the golf links at Gearhart Park, to take part In the tournament that begins today. Two automobile parties ended long trips at the Oregon Hotel yesterday. Mr. and Mrs E. McCredey and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones came by automobile from Newport: and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Mayes and Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Dean motored from Seattle. E. C Jorgensen. proprietor of the Lenox Hotel, and W. C. Bristol, ex Cnlted States Attorney for the Port land district., will leave Sunday on an automobile trip through Southern Cal ifornia and parts of Old Mexico. Mr. Jorgensen will ship his car to San Francisco and the trip overland will tart from that city. ' They expect to be absent a month or six weeks. - CHICAGO. Aug. t (Special.) Mr. and Mra A. J. Shanks, of Portland, are visit ors In Chicago today, registering at the Grand Pacific. NEW YORK. Aug. t. (Special.) Ous C. Moeer and wife and Harry L. Keats and wife, of Portland, are staying at the Hotel Belmont. E. S. Clary and family, of Portland, ar rived In New York today after an ex tended European tour. LOCAL ARCTICS WILL HELP Join Commercial Club to Secure Brotherhood Convention. Following the decision of the Port land Commercial Club to make an ef fort to secure ths convention of the Arctic Brotherhood for this city in 1911. local members of the organiza tion have Joined with the club offi cials In their efforts. A. G. Shoup. of this city. Is a member of ths brotherhood and yesterday con ferred with C C. Chapman, manager of the Commercial Club, with reference to the movement. He promtses his support and will use his influence among other members. It Is practically assured that the meeting will come to this city, as no other place Is actively bidding for It. "While we are not strong In num bers." says Mr. Shoup. "one hundred NEW DISTRICT COMHIRnAL J P1TEIUTE DENT. FROM Of- t-n RY TE1XPHON E AND TELEGRAPH CO. J6 C. H. Moore. Throush orders Issued Ancust 1. the Psclfle Telephone a Telexraph Com pany has abandoned Its headquarters and district organisations at SaWra and The Dalles and Incorporated the management of the districts under the Portland office. C. H. Jloore. former district commercial manager for Port land, has been promoted to district commercial superintendent of all the business of the enlsrged district. C. E. Hickman, ex-manager, has been trans ferred to Rpokane. The Portland district at this time includes the counties of Clatsop. Colom bia, Multnomah. Tillamook. Washing ton. Tsmhitl. Poik. Clackams Rood River. Wasco. Wheeler. Marlon. Una. Beaton. Lincoln and Lane. In Oregon, and the south half of Pacific. Cowlitz. Waklakum. Skamania and Clark, In Washington. Mr. Moore cams to Oregon five years sgo as a clerk la the office of the company, his first promotion being to the position of contract agent, and la May. 1909. he went to Tscoma as dis trict commercial manager. , June 6. or this year. Mr. Moore wee returned to Portland to assume a similar position. L. R. Tsrnall was appointed com mercial manager for the Portland dis trict. of our fellows can make , as much noise as a thousand of many other organizations. Boy Accused of Theft. SALEM. Or, Aug. t. (Special.) The police believe they have one of a gang of local boy bicycle thieves In the per son of Nicholas Schortegen. 13 years old. who was arrested today while try ing to sell portions of a wheel stolen from C. D. Burton. Scores of bicycles have been missed in the past few months and ths police are of theoplnion that In each case ths theft was the work of small boys. - . t ' ' - a. 1 ABLE MEN M THE HEAD BOARD OF UNDERWRITING MAN AGERS APPOINTED. Pacific States Fire Insurance Com pany Announce Personnel of Board. Officers F. E. Beach, president; E. O. Jones, vice-president; F. I. Fuller, second vice-president: A. H. AverllL third vice-president; William M. Cake, attorney. Executive Board F- E. Beach. E. O. Jones. F. L Fuller. A. H. AverlU. L. G. Clarke. Dr. A. E. Rockey, Judge Will lam M. Cake. Temporary Offices 204-207 Commer cial Club Building. The Pacific States Firs Insurance Company, in carrying out Its estab lished policy of availing Itself of the highest order of skill In the manage ment of the technical details of the company's business, announces to the public the sppolntment of its perma- BOARD OF UNDERWRITING MANAGERS PACIFIC STATES FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. 'l' I- - - miiO" if 4 J , A L nent board of underwriting managers. The personnel of the board is as fol lows: C. A. Craft, underwriter of the company; W. J. Clemens and Chester Dee ring. The men at the head of the Pacific States Fire Insurance Company have already carried the work of the com pany's organization to a point where the enterprise Is claiming the recog nition of practical fire Insurance men of ability, and of high standing In the community. The men who will have charge of the underwriting work of the company have gone over carefully every detail of the company's plans, and the success of the company's man agement In having secured the accept ance of the high positions they will hold in the company of the three men who will compose its board of under writing managers in Itself will com mend the Pacific Ststes Fire Insurance Company to the public's best respect and consideration. r a r.,rt the underwriter of the company, is one of the best known In surance men or tne towu as surveyor and Inspector of the Pa .1,1. n f t'nderwriters for a num ber of years. For the past two years he has been in run cnu .- . i .Mnoh of Johnson or Hlgglns. the largest fire Insurance bro kers In the world, with headquar ters at Seattle. He has resigned this highly responsmie position m up his work with the Paclflo States t-T T-..,r.nie Cnmnanv here. W. J. Clemens, of Portland, conducts one of the largest ana most uremi e i..iip,hm agencies of the erai mo " " " ' ... . . Northwest. He has grown up with the business, and he Is master of every de tail of the science or lire imureu . . i n tnH.v hM entire charfte of placing all the fire Insurance of some of the largest Portland corpora tions. His anility in m " may be better appreciated by the state ment that at one time he handled all .. , . V. - Clracrnn T? n 1 1 tne lire insurants " road Navigation Company here, one of the most important uuni nueo ui railroad in the country, a trust that . i ...... .-ti. jllnniiiRhed. He now handles at Portland the business of the Royal Fire Insurance company, 01 Liv erpool, with assets of 190,000.000. the i insurance comnanv in the worfd. The annual Income of this sin gle company now approximates 000.000 a year. He also handles the . , h Franklin Fire lnSur- ance Company, of Philadelphia, one of the most representative oi u can companies. He Is general agent In Oregon for the Jefferson Fire Insur ance Company, of Philadelphia, found ed over 60 years ago. As general agent, he has entire charge In Oregon of the business of the Fidelity A Deposit Companv. of Baltimore, with assets of over $e.000.000. He Is also general agent In Oregon of the London Guar antee Accident Corporation, with assets bordering closely on to 13,000, 000 In the local field Mr. Clemens is vice-president of the Portland Auto mobile Club, one of the largest auto mobile organizations of the West. He handles today a very large line or fire, marine, automobile, accident and casualtv insurance, and the greatest confidence Is reposed in his Judgment as a specialist of the -first order of ability in the lines that he attempts to control. Chester Deerlng Is a member of the local firm of Jackson Deerlng. one of the best known of the Portland fire Insurance agencies. Mr. Deerlng Is dis tinctively s fire Insurance man of a lifetime's training In positions of great trust and responsibility. He first came to Portland In 1895. as special agent for the Pennsylvania Fire In surance Company, of Philadelphia. He had previously served In the same ca pacity In California and Arizona, with the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, of Brooklyn. N. Y. He left Portland to accept the position of superintend ent of agencies for the Coast, for the Pennsylvania company, with head quarters In San Francisco. He was subsequently promoted to the respon sible position of assistant manager for the company, with a field embracing all the Pacific Coast states. Mr. Deer lng had charge of all the work of ad justing the losses of the Pennsylvania In the San Francisco fire, a special tribute to his ability In his grasp of all the details of the fire insurance business- Jackson St Deerlng repre sent at Portland the interests of the Pennsylvania Fire Insur-ace Com pany, with assets' of over t7.I00.000. the London Assurance. Incorporated by royal charter, mo. and with total as sets of about 115.000.000 the United States branch of this society alone has assets approximating tl0.000.000). and the Fidelity Casualty, of New York, wl'h assets of over $8,000,000. A prominent local business man in talking to one of the officials of the Pacific States Fire Insurance Company some days ago. ventured the opinion, that the Portland people must begin to realise that this enterprise has ths eompanles of the country- "What you already have accomplished." he added, "Is Just what some of my friends among the representative men of the city told me could not be done. Is It not true," he added further, "that the things accomplished that are worth while in this world, are always done In the face of discouragement from some of the best business men, who lay down the dictum that any move out of the ordinary channels of effort by the leaders of business activity In the community, .must necessarily be Impossible of accomplishment? Here is a company." he continued, "that without any special heraldry of trum pets, has reached a point where It has been enabled to entrust the Important work of the Immediate organization of Us agency forces to the direction of three of the best known Insurance men of the Coast, and that is ready to an nounce to the public beyond fKls that as soon as It may be practicable to complete the work of agency organiza tion, the company will be In a position to accept business. This Is rapid work of company organization with a ven geance, and with every man Interested In Portland and the state at large who knows anything of what you have al ready done. I predict for the Pacific States Fire Insurance Company a bril liant future." Business men generally are coming to understand that the dangers that , 3 rl- making of one of the great insurance formerly menaced the business of fire inniirancft. have been laraely eliminat ed as the result of the experiences gained In the San Francisco lire. i ne Oregon field is a wide open one. The business for a big local fire insurance company Is here, and the people of the state will show a feeling of Intense loyalty to the home Institution. The Pacific States Fire Insurance Company was started right, the company will be conducted along conservative and safe lines, with men of practical experience and of recognized ability in charge of the technical details of Its different departments, and the company will ..I.. . nl... amnnff tho most HllCCeSS- ful financial institutions of the state. The good will oi tne teaaing ousioena men of the state towards the enter prise of the Paclflo States Fire Insur ance Company is evidenced by the large numbers of letters mat reacn tne office of the company, bearing expres sions of good will with voluntary of fers of business. One of the most rep resentative of Portland s nusiness houses is the Ellers Music House, the largest retail piano house in the world. In 1909 this house handled a business exceeding 14,000,000 In volume. The following letter that reached the Pa cific States Fire Insurance Company, from Hy Ellers, founder, vice-president and managing director of the Ellers corporation, with the head house In Portland, and numerous large branch houses at different points on the Pa cific Coast, will show the people of the country Just what the Portland people think of the Pacific States Fire Insur ance Company, where the men at the head of the company are best known. Portland. Or. July A 1910. B. O. Jones, Vice-President Pacific States Fire Insurance Company, Portland. My Dear Mr. Jones: It Is indeed a pleasure to note that you have com pleted your plans, which mean the establish ment of another Institution In Portland that will eventually prove a most important factor In furthering Pacific Coat development. We shall certainly be only too glsd to fur nleh you a liberal portion of our business, not only In this state, but aleo In other states where we do business, and we are confident that anyone having the welfare of the city at heart will fee! the same way as we do about this. Portland has needed a concern of this kind for years, and we are confident your enterprise will meet with enormous success. With elncerest wishes to this effect, we are, very sincerely yurs. EILER8 MVSIC HOUSE. Per Hy. Eilers. LAND OWNER COMPLAINS Objection Is Made to Assessment for rtepnving on Third. Charging that the tearing up of a block of asphaltum on Third street. between Oak and Stark streets, was n nnlustlfiable exDense. v. M. C. Stlvs, manager of the Seattle Dock Company, yesterday filed a remon strance In the City Auditor's office against the assessment of $353.26 made against the company's property as pro rata share to pay for the new paving. Mr. Silva declared that for additional cause for remonstrance the advertis- lns- of the work had appeared In "'S " " ' tr . real estate paper which he never reads and consequently he knew nothing of "In the first place, the old asphaltum was In good condition." said Mr. Stlva yesterday, "and It was not necessary to replace It with new paving. I was not officially Informed that the wflrk was to D uunw aau aiu uui wluvvw oi it until I discovered the street beiig torn up, preparatory to laying the J-w to he done ana aia not xnowioi paving. rcrBocnuy, i ieci umi mp work was not called ror. and i in tTi(i tn nlaoe the burden of the u un-r igs.l necessary expense where it oeiongs.. . Piano Buying Now Easy Von rriTiBt. aeft to must secure a good, reliable make, that will give a lifetime of satisfactory service, and you must buy at the lowest price. This store acts as a clearing-house for all grades of pianos, but only the best values in each grade instruments that have answered, splendidly the severest artistic tests. So much for quality. The Wiley B. Allen Co.'s well-known policy of selling pianos and player pianos at "One-Honest-Price-To-All" was adopted, not only because it is right, but because it stands the acid test of business. It pays. We never operate any peculiar schemes. No bonds, no contests, no so-called life insurance, no club sales. Therefore, we are able to make absolutely the same price to everyone. We advertise and sell standard makes at legitimate PnWe ask you to call at our store on a visit of inspection, not because we want to urge you to buy a piano, but we feel sure our straightforward selling method and reasonable prices will cause you to come to our store when you are ready to purchase. If you have an old piano to exchange, we will allow a fair price fro it and terms on the balance may be arranged to meet your convenience. 304 Oak St. SERVICE NORTH BAD F. S. West Believes Portland Should Tap Alaska Trade. MUCH BUSINESS IS THERE Steamship Companies, However, In duce Men to Go to Alaska on False Pretenses, Says Mr. West on His Return. . m. t .teamers operating between Portland and Alaskan points would be a paying enterprise in tne upiunu. - .r of the Goodyear Rubber Company of thto city, who has just re- turned from a trip xo m " -- -dpal points along the Tukon River. Mr. m.. j that the service on the Seattle steamers is deplorable and that nearly all the passengers " ' ""Although I telegraphed for reserva tions many days before the steamer left lays Mr. West,- "when I arrived at the Ilocks I found that I would have to be content with a cot In the dining-room or "main at home. As my business was urs-ent I decided to go anyway. ?It seems that the vessel was prepared to accommodate only about half the pas senger list. More than 100 of us had to S in the dining-room. We could not get to bed before U o'clock and were trousea every morning at 5 o'clock. Comfort was out of the question. For euS Tor nine days I did not have an opportunity of removing my clothes. Table Fare, Too, Is Poor. ."Finally, when we reached one of the Alaskan ports, some of the passengers ftB the Vessel and I was J'?un2u enough to secure a 'stateroom. But sh a stateroom as it was. It was sep arated from the othe, -rooms witt canvas partitions and I shared It with two 0t"Aso the fare in the dining-room, maybe I should not complain, as it to x.Y everywhere in Alaska, but I only want to Ty that I have obtained better meato on nearly all other trips I ever t0Mr.' West declares that trade con ditions in Alaska are not so Promis ing now as might be desired. Even in this some of the steamship compa nies are to a certain extent responsi ve herh.nks. They have advertised that men are wanted, at a high rate of wages, and that good accommoda tion! can be secured at any of the mlge f"To"f the matter is." he says. .... " -v rnnrA men now in mat nici . Alaska than the district can care for. the placer mines are operat fa " basis, and they have al lng on a low basis, ana tney thf men they need. There Is not much rtminnal miners. I ?et several dozen of them coming Some on the boat- Nearly all of them were 'broke' and some of them were working their passage. They said that they had been induced to go there V"" l" inuring offers of some of the companies, who repre- ""T.. h,t conditions were h t tn really are Iar u EDICU t-V .. Much Business to Be Secured. The fact that the present lines have no competition, to my notion. Is large ly responsible for conditions on board the vessels, as well as In many of the cities. Most of the Alaskan towns are i - ; 7 , . nnrJ condition flourishing when they have on y their own POPUia wnen tney -- - -- - - tlon to support, but when they start to pour in neariy nu " pie as live In body suffers. HIO LUB1I uivi, k.v.j ooay excellent chance two verv important things in purchasing a piano.. You to get Alaskan trade, but we must go after it In the right way. It Is for ever too late to get the best part of this business. as it Is gone. But Alaska will always be a profitable field for any line of commercial activ ity and Portland cannot afford to waste time in making a bid for that business. "In addition to the mining, the coun try is developing its agricultural re sources in many sections. Here is an other fertile field for future business. "Other things being equal, Portland will be given a preference by most Alaskan merchants, I am sure. "But first of all, we must have a line of steamers operating directly be tween this city and Alaskan porta." MAZAMAS START TO CLIMB , Expedition Leaves for Three Sisters Peaks This Morning. - With 50 members in the party, the Ma zamas will leave at 8:30 o'clock this morning for Eugene and their cross country trip of 54 miles east to the foot of the Three Sisters, where they will en camp preparatory to making ascent of the mountain peaks. The party expects to reach their camping point on the Mc Kenzie River some time tomorrow night. They will be gone until August 24: Those who will form the party are: C. M. Scott. Donald Payne, Thomas D. Eliot, Miss Henrietta Eliot, Miss Martha Goldnap, Miss L. Alway, Miss Jane Stearns, Miss Eleanor Gile, Dr. D. Kerr, Miss Julia Cowperthwaite, Miss Nettie Fair, Dr. Akin. R. W. and Jack Mon tague. C. I Waiter, G. W. Weister, Pro fessor E. E. Coursen. Miss Geraldlne Coursen. Miss Maud Holliday, Miss Sadie Settlemeler. Miss J. Stewart, Miss Mary CConner, C. B. Aitchison, Francia Bene fiel, J. W. Benefiel, C. W. Whittlesby, L. E. Anderson, H. M. Prouty, E. L. Winter. George Weister, H. H. Riddell and wife, all of Portland: Dr. C. Barck, of St. Louis; H. T. Ferrin, of Forest Grove: Mrs. Marion Randall Parsons, of Berkeley, Cai.; Professor and Mrs. Ira A. Williams, of Ames, la.; Mr., and Mrs. Fred Groner, of Hillsboro; E. P. Sheldon, of Beckwith, Cal., and George H. Cur rier, of Rainier. . WATER MAINS PROVIDED Contracts n Various Streets Are Let by Water Board. At a meeting of the Water Board yes terday contracts for installation of water mains were awarded as follows: William Stevenson, for work on East Washing ton street, $1192.36; Jahn Contracting Company, Brazee street, $5098.86; M. O'Reilly, Park street, $1291 80: William Stevenson. Hancock street, $5996.20: Ore gon Iron & Steel Company, East Harrison street, $5590.90; Jahn Contracting Com pany. Alberta street. $2921.90; Jahn Con tracting Company, Thurman street,$I7, 847.80; Pacific Bridge Company, Sumner street, $408.70; National Contracting Company. Fourth street, $5987; Oregon Iron & Steel Company, Mississippi ave nue. $10,757.35: Barber Asphalt Company, East Glisan street, $24,570.75. Bert Haney appeared before the Board and requested that new water main be installed on East Fifteenth street, be tween Thompson and Knott streets. He said that the present main was too small to accommodate the residents in the block and desired that a larger main be laid before the work of paving the street was begun. Resolutions were adopted or dering the laying of an eight-inch main. Humane Society Directors to Meet. The board of. directors of the Oregon Humane Society will hold its regular monthly business meeting on Friday after noon,' at which the work for the past month will be reviewed. During July an unusually large number of complaints have been made to the society and a a result nearly 100 arrests have been made on charges of cruelty to animals. IVilliam J. Fisher Is Dead. William J- Fisher, a retired farmer, died at his home, 693 Miller avenue, Mon day after a brief illness. He is sur vived by his widow and several children. and Safe sei. Din ana via. Mr. Fisher had lived in Portland for five years. Prior to coming here be lived In Missouri. Two million acres In New South Wales have been reclaimed by Irrigation. FULL, PURE-TONED AND LASTING Not one whose tone slurs after using it a short time. You can not be too critical about buying a piano. It is not an event that occurs every month. "When you buy, examine ours, and we guarantee you will speak noth ing but favorably of them. BUSH & LANE PIANO CO. 386 Washington St, Bet. W. Park and Tenth Streets. TALKS on TEETH By Rex Dontal Co., Dentists. PUS POISON Many unfortunates who have Pyor rhea (loose teeth) and receding gums imagine that it originated froth a bad stomach. Some of the leading stoma tologists claim this, and in a few iso lated cases this may be true, but in a large majority of cases the diseased (bad) stomach comes from pyorrhea. Swallowing pus is as certain poison as arsenic given in small doses. Though very much slower in its deadly devas tation of the membrane pf the Intes tines. We know this bejwnd the per adventure of a doubt, for in most cases almost immediately after removing the cause of pyorrhea the stomach trouble begins to respond to the treatments and disappears with the curing of the pyor rhea. Alveolar Teeth, Where Brtdgework Is Impossible. If only your front teeth are left, say three or four or more, we can replace all those that have been lost on both sides clear back with perfect Alveolar teeth, whilst bridgework would be Im possible even if you had eight or ten front teeth to tie to. If you have only two back teeth on each side, say mo lars, we can supply all the front teeth that are missing with beautiful, serv iceable, lifelike Alveolar teeth. This could not ' possibly be done by the bridge route. And where bridge work is possible, there is no comparison be tween the two. A very large percent age of our work is taking out bridge work put In by supposedly high-class dentists, and replacing it with the beautiful and artistic Alveolar Teeth. And. unlike bridgework In another re spect, it is practically painless. No boring or cutting into the gums, nothing to be dreaded. Now. then, prices being equal, which would you choose? Curing Pyorrhea (loose teeth), a dis ease given up by other dentists as in curable is another of our specialties. We cure it absolutely. It's a boastful statement to make, but we can do any thing that is possible in dentistry, and what we do is always of the very high est class Our booklets. Alveolar Den tistry are free. Write for one if you cannot call. We have samples of our work to show at all times. THE REX DEXTAL CO., DENTISTS, 311 to 314 Ablpgton Bldg, 106 V4 3d St.