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THE MORNING OREGOMAX. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1911. 12 POSTOFFICE WILL BESHUT SUNDAYS DEBATING TEAMS OF THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL WHO WILL FREE OF without paying the Government license and having It registered, was to have been arraigned, but could not under MEET TEAMS OF THE WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOLS TOMORROW NIGHT stand English sufficiently. An inter preter will be employed. He will plead April SO. His bail was increased from FEDERAL CHARGE $500 to $1000. 9 BRIDGE ACTION UPHELD 3 lALEfi ( It i ; its ; ' ') New Ruling Gives Employes Chance to Rest One Day in Week, if Work Is Done. COLLECTIONS 'TO BE MADE Order r.ttmlit April t Inr-lodes All Sulfations la lly enrral Prllvery Window In Main Offk- Open Hour. Tttr.nln April tre Portland Tot-fn- an4 : substations be closed Pjndr- lth the exception of t"!e central delivery windows at tba maia office. Mrh will be ofx-n to the traveller rub:!'" between l and It o'clock. This order vu Issued by Iv,f mulrr Mrrrlt k yesterday. f t?e 11 carrier, now employed In tie city delivery servl-e. only about is wt i be obi!ce to work rtuni)s under tn new rule. proldrd the ISO ran sort and rout tiielr mail la trie pe. Ifled time Monday morninc. If they.csnnot tiey will b rbMsed to work for a short time Sunday In sorttn the mall fr Monday mornlec delivery. Post msstor Mrrrlrk Is not vet atire how this detail 111 work out. Collection to Be Made. Te ! carriers wr.o will be obliged to do regular duty oa Sunday will be required to ciake the collection from street a letter which Mr. iler- rlck received from First Asrlatant I'natmaeter eneral .rsndfleld ajl"Jt triat the collection la not to be dls !en,ed with by the tew order. Mr. Mrrrlrk sars he has received It.ooa cards asklnc that tlie Poatofflca closed Snnd). and that between 3 O0 and leo petitions have also been sent htm. Attorney Charles J. rSchna txl wrote him. he said, s-ytns; the offers- oucht nut to be rlosrd Sundays any more than the streetcars should aot be operated. Wltu the letter authortxinc Sunday closing was another from Mr. Grand field saytna: that complaint had been made to the department aaalnst- car riers In uniform circulstln petitions for Sunday closlna and Importunlnc residents on their routes to sign them, to the nertect of ths carriers duties and the annoyance of patrons. He said alio complaint had been made tlat cards had been collected by ths carriers from street boxes where de posited by residents, lie said this must cease, but aa he sent the order for Kundsy closing st the same time, the order to tiie carriers would seem to be superfluous. Circular Is General. The Sunday closlns- order appears to be a circular for ths benefit of all postmasters In the country. It reads: "My dear sir As you know the FVst-tnater-enera! Is deeply Interested In t ie welfare of postal employes, believing 1 beratllty with respect to compensation and other conditions of employment to be the best policy, lie has recommended repeatedly that a law be enacted su I'lortsinc htm to extend the annual leave of absence with pay for poatoflre clerks snd city letter-carriers from IS to 30 slays. Although provision to this end was made In the appropriation act for the next fiscal year as passed1 br the enate. this section of the blU failed In conference. Section J of the art. how ever, provides for allowing clerks snd carriers compensatory time off for Sun stay ork as follows: Substitutes Not Included. "That hereafter for services required en Sundays of supervisory officers, clerks In first snd second-class postof fires and cite letter-carriers, compen satory time off durlnc the worklns days In amount equal to that of the Sunday employment may be allowed, under such reaulatkns as the rowtmaster-Oeneral may prsotibe; btit this provision shall net spply to auxiliary or substitute em gloves. "The Postmaster-General Is very ani lus to slve the employes the benefit of t its lectststlon Immediately, betievlng flat they are entitled to one day's rest in seven snd that their efficiency will be Increased therebv. At present, how ever, nearly one-half of the carriers re port every Sunday to make dellveretes tsmisli tl.eir windows, their averas s-rvice beins; about three hours, al though the amount of mall delivered Is serv small. As pnctl.al;y all o the car- Tiers are schedu1 fr li hours' work durlnc the remaining six d.oe of the week it Is Impossiole to aUow them com pensatory ttme for this riundav work un der present cnrulltion. Is becomes nec essary, therefore, to Chans the prac tice with reference to the delivery of raail cn tfunday. Conditions Are Named. "In a laxse number of offices the de fartment has authorised the diacont'n tiance of Sunday service where the sen timent was favoraole snd seemed to Jus tify such action. It is believed, there f re. that the discontinuance of the ttun tav delivery, through the carriers win dows at least, ran be effected without Saccinventencc to the pubdc and with gr.u benefit to the officers and em- love of the postufflces under the fol lowing conditions: "Tre general d'-llverr s-tndow should It kept open sunlctent ler.cth of time t sccominodate tl:e traveling public. Ml-ll should be received snd d;spatcl.ed aa usual and distribut ed to boxea. emu.-ch clerks being detailed for duty on Sunday tt carry tins plan Into effect: such clerks s.-ould be allowed com pet; ory time off Cur'.rg the week. "Any patron desiring sn Important per sonal commur.lcit!or. delivered to hlin cn jSunday should be scomimHl.itcd up'n yayment of the prescribed fee for sp 11 delivery service. K.arly lU'portlnr, Itrqulrrd. To prevent any delay In the first de livery M or ley morning carriers should le reou:red to report a little csrlier on tr.at day to route t;:e.r nvwL The only alternative In tlie caue of carriers fail ing to route their mail within tl-e pre scribed time on Monday morning would be !o require such carriers to tsrrve a sufficient liineon eitinday to perform S.ls work. T:;e Sunday collection from :reet boxes shoul-l not be discvnttnued. "Tfe department requests your esrrtest co-operation to bring sbout this dur.tSvy closing, and suxcesM that If you have any doubt as to the altitude of the pubi c cn the subect you tsks the matter up with the press of your city, with the rr.aters and relisious assK .atiora. and With commercial bodies; and tr-.at yu Irr-iiri to tl.e deptirtment the result and whether t.ie plan outllnea In tr.n lettt-r rsnnot be put Into effect Immediately. Isura very Uuly. "O P. ORANIPtS;l.D. "First Assistant Fostmastcr-iisnerai." t "r .V 1 .A Ssr szs Afftr-roatlve Team rRradlaar Kress 1-ft I Isrrsee J. lstuasi Sid Ksri t.wsMte. t Hlabtt Bottess Hew Albert tire E Chief Cox Puts Check on Ex position Publicity. NOISE PENETRATES WALLS rr Travels from San lanolco to Blow for Panama Fair, but I'rrinlt to btlr I'ortland I-x-Ijocs Is Refused. Oiler of Polios Cox last night forbade Wllllsm Hooper, a negro of San Fran cisco, who savs he was sent out of the iiolden Uste City by the Panama-Pacific Kxposltlon organization to advertise the fair with a coach horn, from blowing the Instrument In the city. Hooper Is an ardent Y. M. C. A. worker and a musician. He arrived In the city yes terday and after entertaining the boys class at the Y. M. C. A. on the mandolin, guitar and banjo early In the evening, hurried to the police station to see the Chief and ask for a permit to blow ths horn on the street today. Attached to the coach horn are two silk ban ner, one with "San Francisco. Cal.." on It snd on the otiicr, "l'snama-Pacific Exposition. li:." The ahilil notes of the horn rang through the police station at 7:30 last night- It Is a specially made coach horn. six and a hair reet long, designed to maintain a high key and "rip" that de lights the ear or slide-trombone players. The clear notes of the call echoed through the old bsstllc. the walls vi brated from the sound and the Iron bars of the cells tingled In response to the harmonious chord. Sound Pierces floors. The prisoners rubbed their eyes snd sat up In expectancy, while Chinatown awakened and Chung Chung, the layman attorney for the Celestials, leisurely sauntered Into the stsflon to learn whence came the bugle notes, and a fire man from the englne-nouee adjoining he station hurried Into headquarters. Chief Cox was upstairs when the pene trating notes pierced the floors and shot skyward through the elevator shaft and be csme down to Invest Ixate. Hooper stood In the midst of sn sinlr. Ir.g crowd, tor the notes he had blowu on t:ie coach horn were clear as a bell and had "class." As the Chief stepped from the elevator he was pointed out to Hooper and Hooper Immediately ad- Yanc-"d toward htm with the horn to ex plain his mlr. Hon and sak for a permit to blow It on the avert. "No. I told you or your agent this sfternoon that you couldn't blow It." said t.'ie Chief. svnd I don t want to tell you again. Ixm't you blow It attain." and the Cnlef walked out of the sxatlon. Hooper was downcsst snd looked puxsied. He explaltd later that he was work'ng under Instructions of ths Psns rj-IWill; Exposition In applying tor a pvrniit before blowing the horn. He said r. arrived yesterday, and went to the t.old-n West Hotel. He ssld he wss told t: ere that he should hsve sn attorney I if:- HORN ED 1 FAXAilA-PACTFlO FAIR 'BOOSTER'" FORBIDDEN TO BLOW FAMOUS COACH HORN IN PORTLAND UILLIAM r, -x IS "U i7. -J it i 1 - va Rlahtd Tea Itosv Hussell Barsl, Necstlve Teeisi. Hesdlna tTom Left leer. Klcksrd t see and arlyle Uelaler. ohtsln a permit for him to advertise the fslr snd wss referred to a negro named Loieson. Agent Set-). lajor. Hooper did not e I.awon after his conversation with him. but It was learned thst lavion went to Mayor Simon, and the Mayor referred him to the Chief of Police, who refused to grant a, permit Not hearing from Ijtwson. Hooper said, he hurried from the Y. M. C. A. to the police station to see the thivf himself. Whtls waiting for the Chief. Hooper ex plained to the officers preeent his mis sion and the speclnl .construction of the horn, which maintained a high key and gave It "rip." AH were anxious to hear and persusded Hooper to try it. Hooper csutloned the officers that II would make the windows vibrato snd reluctantly placed the mouthpiece to his lire. Then the notes pealed out. rich snd clear, snd thst wss the first snd last time the horn will be heard In Portland. FORENSIC CONTEST SON tXTKItSCHOUSTIC . DEBATES TO BE1.I.V O.N FKIDAY. Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson High Schools to Discuss Com mLsnlou Govern nicut. The opening debate of the Portland Interscholastlc Debating League will be Friday night with three schools par ticipating. These will be Lincoln High School. Washington High (school and Jefferson High School. Debates will be held at each school. The subject for debate Is; Resolved, thst the general plsn of commission government as adopted by Des Moines. Ia.. should be adopted by the City of Portland. In the Washington High School Audi torium the affirmative team from Washington will debate with Loncoln s negative team. At the Lincoln High School the Lincoln affirmative will meet the Jefferson negative. At Jef ferson High School the Wsshlngton negative will meet the Jefferson affir mative. The debating will begin at o'clock. The Portland Interscholastlc Debat ing League was organised last Fall. Monthly debates will be held commenc ing with tomorrow night's arguments. Inter-class debates have been beld at each of the schools. The Lincoln High School's affirma tive tram Is composed of Russell Burst. Clarence J. Toung and Earl Goode. The negative team or this school Is composed of Albert Oenlner. Carlyle Ueislcr and Richard Case. GULCH FILL TO BE TOPIC Sooth Portland Boosters to DIm-uss Marquam Proposition. The South Port laud Boosters have called a special meeting of l.'ie tax payer for tonight at St. Lawrence HalL Third and Shermnn streets, to consider further the reports of the committees appointed to obtain data on the proposed filling of Marquam Gulch, the Mouth r'trie boulevard and ths children's playground. Action will also be taken upon the Corbett-strect fill, following the deci sion or Judge' MeClnn. In the Circuit Court, that the city can proceed and condemn adjoining property. ? . .. i HOOPK.rt. Government Fails to Prove Saloonman Stole Bullion From Mails. STATE CASES ARE PENDING Mailing Clerk at Station E Is In dieted on Eight Counts Accusing Him of Kirilnfi Letters. "White Slato" C'ase Vp. Reeniisa the Government could not rotineit Jumeji Whnlcn. saloonkeeper, With tlHI)OSlllS of aold bullion once In the mails of the United States Uovern ment the Federal srand Jury yesterda brouclit In "not a true bill" against the This action clears away the only Fed eri case resfins nsalnst Whalen 111 con nectlnn with the theft or IS. 000 n gold hulllon which formed M shipment irom Alaska on the steamer Humboiai in oep lember. 1910. in this theft, one of the most ex lenolve In the amount involved In tn history of the fnlted States, llie puiuon wss divided Into two lots J66.O00 under the control of the express rompany and sts.ooo In the form or a registered letter. The Government had to do only with the theft or the registered mull and ror this Whalen was arrested and charged specifically with "Healing a package from the Postorfice" September 1". When the evidence was examinee Pnrtland official discovered that they could not esiubllsh the essential fact tha Whalen sold any portion of the gold nui linn which was In the registered pacK age. it was also runner npveii'iru ii'hniin even If he committed the tnext must have committed the act outside of th. InrlMilirtlon of tlie Oregon court, and that his indictment must take place in Alaska. State Charges Pending. Whalen Is confined in the Multnomah County Jail under bonds of K2.0OO. Three state charges are filed against him concealing stolen property, swindling snd cashing a bogus check on the Mer rhinii Xatlnnnl Bank. On the last chares bonds were fixed at $10,000. M. F. Gav. a mailing clerk at otanon K. was Indicted by the Federal grand Jury yesterday, with 33 other persons. i:v Is charced on eight counts with having embexzled from letters which nassed through his hands and Is ac cused of destroying some of them. The letters were addressed to me Smith Ingram Company. Kansas City International Remedy Company, In dianapolis, and Mrs. Burton Mack, East Randolph, N. Y. Uay is cnargea wnn having Intercepted, opened and de stroyed the Kansas City letter. The Indictment does not accuse him of tak ing money from this one. But he I alleged to have taken a 5 certificate of the Mechanics & Farmers Building & Lonn Association, of South Carolina, and 50 cents from the Indianapolis let- er and 11.50 from the letter to Mrs. Mack. The offenses were committed on December 2, the Indictment avers. Big Task Performed. With the 34 Indictments and four not true bills returned yesterday afternoon he grand Jury submitted to Judge Wolverton Its final report. It began Its deliberations March 14. snd through he good management of Lnited States District Attorney Mccourt was SDie to consider more than 66 cases and to re turn 0 true bills and 16 not true bills. n the 16 days 1S6 witnesses were ex amlned. . The white slave traffic occupied a part of the grand Jury's time, four in ictments against persons accused of lolatlng the law against the traffic being returned last night. Peter La- vole Is accused of violating the white lave law by transporting Myrtle Love lace September 6, 1910, from Portland to Camas, Wash., on the steamer lone. Hla ball was fixed at 15000 on this charge, and at $1000 on a charge of sending an obscene postal through the mail to Roy Turner. "White Slavers" Are Accused. Charles Peters is also held under 1000 bond, having been Indicted for ransportlng Minnie Hill from Redding, Cal.. to Medford. The girl was recently sent to the balera Insane Asylum. W . E. Dunlap was Indicted for the al leged transportstlon of Mrs. Anna Ren- rro from Los Angeles to Portland Jan uary 31. the grand Jury returning five counts against him. Alice Patterson is alleged to have enticed Emma Lane from Portland to Kelso. Wash., on December S. Selling liquor to Indians wss an other question to which the grand Jury gave attention, owing to complaints of violence among the Indians re cently made. Among those Indicted were: W. O. Rust, AJfred Slade. Sell Mastersoa. Elmer Hammer. Dave Krara ovlch, E. J. Frazer. Patrick M.rCormlck. James Alkena, Carl Lawson, Harry Kee, T. W. Kilmer, O. L. Sledge and William Burgess. The most of these live at Madras. Kilmer lives In Crook Coun ty and AJkens at Waplnltia. Smuggling Xot Proved. Ths grand Jury found insufficient evidence against Sam Scheffs to Justify an Indictment charging the smuggling of 230 S-tael cans of contraband opium. A not true bill was also returned against Newton Sutton, accused of as saulting Ira Strong with a knife, and against Nick Cosmos, accused or par ticipating with Peters in bringing Minnie Hll! rrom Redding to Medford. Hugh Hough was arraigned before Judge Wolverton yesterday on a charge of selling liquor to Indians and will plead April 6. Lanlge Flubella. alleged to have maintained a still at Estacada FOSTDM Instead of Coffee Means Better nerves to thousands ' Tfi r ere s a Reason Read the "ROAD TO WF.I.I VILLE" In packages. City Attorney Can Matnaln Suit Against Street Railway. - Contention of the Portland Katlway, I.ff?ht & Power Company that City At torney Orant had no right as a citizen to institute quo warranto proceedings against the company to determine by what right it was using the Hawthorne bridge, as made in the demurrer of the company, was overruled yesterday by Presiding Judge Gantenbein, and the cmm must now go to trial on its merits. The case. whn settled, will deter mine whether the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company will have to pay $100 a month, as It did on the old Madison bridge, for the right to oper ate its cars across the bridge, or will be compelled to pay $15,000 a year for the privilege, as required by the act passed by the people, authorizing the con struction of the new bridge. ' Ten days have been given the com pany to prepare and tile Its answer in the case. Following this the case will take its regular turn for trial. When the new Hawthorne bridge was completed, the question of paying $15,000 a year came up, the company protesting that its franchise over the old bridge held good on the new bridge. iJany of the Councllmen were In favor of bringing the subject to Issue at once before allowing the cars to be operated across the bridge, but Mayor Simon entered into a stipulation with the com pany, permitting It to operate lis cars over the bridge on condition that the merits of the case should he settled later, and that the stipulation should not In any manner be taken as evidence against the city when the case should come to trial. SOURCE OF DRUG SOUGHT Death of Sirs. Grace Blosscr to Be Investigated. Unwilling to let drop the death of Mrs. Grace Bloeser In Sellwood Tuesday, on tlie theory that she took her own life. the District .Attorney laid the facts in the case before Captain of Detectives Moore yesterday, with a request that his men make a careful investigation. I he prosecutor does not assert that there was foul play, but certain facts are cf a nature which calls for further consid eration, he believes. The failure to find any remainder or trace of the drug; which caused death has mystified the authorities. A canvass of the Sellwood drugstores brought denial from all that they hod sold prusslc acid or cyanide of potassium recently. An effort will be made to find the p'.oco where the drug was sold. An inquest will be held by the Coroner, probably today.- Detectives have been as signed to the Investigation. The funeral or Mrs. Blosser will be held today at 1 o'clock rrom the home. East Seventh and Maiden avenue, Sell wood. HOLZMAN SUSPECT FOUND Farmer Thinks Murderer Is In Lum- ber Camp Near The Dalles. That the man who killed Barbara Holzman In a rooming-house at Missis sippi avenue and Russell street on March 14 Is In a lumber camp across the Columbia River rrom The Dalles Is the belter of a farmer of the vicinity, who reported his susplcision to the Chief of Police The Dalles yesterday. Word was sent Immediately to Chief of Po lice Cox. and Captain of Detectives Moore sent Detective Coleman to The Dalles last night to make the investi gation. The Informant bases nis nenet upon a general resemblance of the suspect to the man described by Mrs. Bertna Nelson, and upon the fact that he car ried a towel similar to the one carried away from the Russell-street house by the murderer. He was seen to take this towel from his baggage and wash it in a furtive manner, says the farmer. The suspected man was nervous and excited, which first aroused suspicion. Ashland- Fights Open Snnday. ASHLAND. Or.. March S9. At a meeting of the City Council last night Attorney F. w. Moore, representing the Sunday-closing faction, challenged the legality of Saturday's referendum vote by which the recently-passed city SALE LATE U. S. Army Goods SOMETHING TO PLEASE EVERYBODY, AS SUCH GOODS ARE OU r OF THE ORDINARY OI.DS. WORTM AX KIXG BUILDING, FIFTH A.MJ WASHINGTON STREETS. Blankets ...S3.25-S4.50 Navy Flue Cloth, 56 Inches wide, per yard SI. 5 Rifle, new S3.00 Carbines S3.95 Blue Flannel Shirts $2.25 Sweater Shirts ....SI. 75 Slumber Rugs S3. 75 Half-Wool Socks. 25 Coverall Coats Sl.OO Heavy Underwear. .Sl.OO Cotton Drawers 35 Wool Trousers S2.25 Khaki Trousers yilc Vool-Llned Hoods 75 Bayonet Sets 75 Navy Ship ILamps SIO.OO Candle Sticks. ...... .40 Things to Please Ladies, Too Fancy Pillows with arm chevrons on crimson cloth, V. S. ordnance; unusual goods. Sailor Blouses, with blue collars. Silk Eibbons, Embroidered Chevrons for fancy work, Braids and Buttons, Bags, Blankets, Gold Chev rons, Duster Coats for automobile, heavy Overcoats with hood for automobiling, Candlesticks, Fancy Cards, Head Nets, Blue Cloth, Military Capes, Petticoats. Other Goods and Curios Galore From TJ. S. Government arsenals. Things out of the ordinary to please you. Catalogues with prices on at entrance. Open 8 A.M. until 9 P.M. Saturday, 10. py Sale Closes 1 "O emington-Wahl 1 Adding and Subtracting i Typewriter will do all your writing and adding in Your Way Visible Writing Visible Adding . Remington Typewriter Company (Incorporated) 245 Stark Street. PrQ Ipif s PERFECT is used by people endorsed by the ordinance making a closed Sunday was repealed. The legality of the action was attacked on technical grounds. The ordinance approved at the election per mits open theaters, baseball games, cir cuses, rinks and bathing resorts. A bit ter fight had been made by both fac tions. The open Sunday will not be de clared until the city has investigated the legality of the referendum vote. FATHER OF 5 TO ROCKPILE i Failure to Support Family Brings Delinquent 6 Months' Sentence. Fred Fish, the father of five chil dren, was sentenced to serve six months on the rockpile by County Judge CTee ton yesterday for failure to support his family. While Fish Is at work on the rockpile bis family will be paid $1.50 a day for his labor. The Fih family are so near starva tion that the county, after in vestigating the case, has promised to aid the mother and children to some extent In addition to the amount to bo Leg and Hand Irons Crimson Cloth Overcoats, black Blouses Cartridges Watet Belts Straps .... Holsters Shoes, pair Shoes, pair Sabers Hunting Bags ..... Tents Sconces Helmets LI. S. Coat Arms. . . . f. Y. Coat Arms... Paper Weights Knife Bayonets.... 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