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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1911)
TOE MORXING OREGON! A FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1911 1 1S WITNESSES WILL DECLARE FORGERY Persons Whose Names Appear on University Petitions to Be Called Today. REFERENDUM DANGER SEEN Fapporler Contend That If Fale 6lffnatai9 Are Sot Xri f"r VrffUng Parpoa of Applica tion It Shoo Id Stand. Counsel for the Unlreraltr of Ore gon today will call several witness who win testify that what purport to b their signature to the university referendum petitions are rank for- verta. written Into the petition without thetr knowledge- or authorisation. The war was paved for the Introduc tion of tbls testimony yeelerdar whoa four defective from tha Burns Oet re tire Aaenry told the court that numer ous signature on various petitions war eltr.er forced or that thai resi dents addresses given wera fictitious. The entire day waa occupied by tha examination of w. J. 1 riant. C. M. Archer, W. N Dana and J. M. Felton. , detartlrea a ho Investigated a ft-feat many ef the signatures on tha refer endum petitions as to their genuine ness. ,' rata AMmm tit em. In niany case, testified theee wit nesses. It waa Imposslbla to find tha man whose signature appeared on the petition at the address given In the pe tition. In other rises tha address given was a vacant lot. and In one rase what would have been a point In the middle of tha Willamette Klver. Several In stance were related In which It wa found thai tha alleged petition algner had not resided at the address given In the petition for aa long aa three, five, and In on case ten yeara. twtectlva Archer said that In trying to find one of the petition signers, he fmnd the addrese to be a millinery srorev I'pon making his business known the sleuth waa given to understand In polite but plain language by Hie pro prietress that "no men were allowed around here." He withdrew. W. T. Mater, of Salem, and Martin I- flpee, of tbls city, who appear for the university, expert to conclude their raea today. They contend that they have already presented sufficient evi dence of fraud to Invalidate eouch name on the petition to defeat the referendum. While none of counsel for tha de fense will Intimate the line of Its evi dence. W. H. CKen and H. J. Parklson. who-ere associated with Attorney-Uen-eral Crawford and Harry Yanckwlch In contesting tha university suit, declare that, should every signature on the pe tltlons circulated by those circulator whose work haa been attacked by tha plaintiff be rejected. sufficient num ber of genolne signature would remain to insure the referendum of the appro priation bills. Case Haauj Oatioes. It Is conceded by both partlea to tha pending friendly Utlgatlon that the suit Involve an Issue) greater than the mere referendum of the appropriations for the university. Important points will necessarily have to be decided as to the sufficiency of evidence of fraud In order to Invalidate a referendum pe tition. It Is In this phase of the casa that Mr. ITRen and Attorney-General Craw ford are particularly Interested. In any event. It la assured that tha casa wtll be carried to the Stats Supreme Court, recardleas of the outcome in tha Circuit Court. It will be contended by Attorneys Slater and Pipes that they have pro duced evidence showing that many of the signatures and addresses on the pe titions circulated by several of the cir culators wera forged or fictitious. I'pon this showing. It will b argued by counsel for tha university, that every signature on petitions circulated by these circulators should be rejected. Attorney - General Crawford. Mr. ITRen and other friends of the. refer endum Insist, that If this contention prevails and Is sustained In the court It will provide a most convenient in strument for defeating the application of tha referendum. Kor Instance theee friends of tha referendum maintain that under such a ruling, all that would be necessary to Invalidate any referendum petition would be for those opposed to the application of the referendum to see that one or more fraudulent signa tures mn written In several of the Individual sheets of the petition. Un der this practice It would be an easy matter to Invalidate ji sufficient num ber of Individual sheets to defeat the referendum altogether. Advocates of the referendum take the position that every signature to the referendum petitions In the univer sity rase should be considered and counted aa genuine unless It la proved fraudulent. With this reasoning, par ticularly aa It Is applied In the pend ing case, friends of the university will not agree. They point out that such a decision by tha courts would serve to encourage fraud In circulating both Initiative and referendum petitions. They argue that under such a ruling fraud could be extensively practiced in securing signatures, and then It would remain for those directly concerned to prove that the petition contained a auf f I. lent number of forged or fictitious algnaturee to Invalidate It. PERSONALMENTION. R. r Allen, of Salem, Is at the Im perial. W. II. Marvin, of Albany, is at tha Perkins. Allen Eaton, of Eugene, la at the 1 mnerl&l. U TV. Sims, of The Pallea, la at the I Cornelius. W. S. I.yaona. Mayor of Kelso, is at the Perkins. A- W. Andrews, of I -a Grande, la at the Oregon. H Boyer. a merchant of Scappooae. la at the Perkins. Mrs. ( C- Lvy. of Cascade Locks. Is at the Portland. R. U Shaw, an attorney or Mill City. Is at tha Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. John Darby, of Shaw, are at the Perkins. F. L. Chambers, a Eugene merchant. Is at tha Imperial. Fred M. Cummin, of Med ford. I at the Portland Hotel. T. A. King, a Eugene merchant. Is at the Oregon Hotel. H. A. Thlro'f. I registered at the Oregon from Medford. O. W. Howard, of Florence. Is regis tered at the Cornelius. , Dr. W. H. MrKinaey. ef Helix. Is reg istered at the Perkins. R. D. Lock. merchant ef Indepen Once. a at the Perkins. Ir. and Mrs. T. C. Brosiut and daugh- , ter. from Hood River, are at tha Bow ers. P. A. Finseth. a merchant of The Dalles. Is at the Imperial. Herman Wis, a merchant of As toria. Is at tha Imperial. I. Burpee, a business man of The Dalles. Is at the Cornelius. William WrlgM. a sheep raiser of P-rlnevllle. la at the Perkins. Leslie Butler, a Hood River banker. Is registered at the Perkins. A. J. Olsen. a merchant of Gold Hill, is registered at the Perkins. H. C. Huntington, a fruit grower of Mount Hood, is at the Perkins. Mr. and Mr. J. C. Maguire. of Kla math Falls, are at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Scott are regis tered at the Cornejiu from Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Greenwood, from Medford. are at the Bowera. Alfred 8. Carpenter, of Medford. was registered at the Portland yesterday. K. C. Eldrldge. a merchant of Inde pendence. Is registered at the Oregon. A. M. Crawford. Attorney-General. I registered at the Imperial from Sa lem. Charles Bllveu. s business man of Dallas, and Mrs. Bllyeu. are at the Oregon. Dr. Andrew Kershaw, of Wlllamlna. Government agent on the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, is at the Imperial. Miss Lillian Smith, of Astoria. Or is the guest of A. K. Cann. Jr.. and Miss Florence Csnn. st their home in Irvlngton. C. B. Rathbun. city editor of the Se attle Daily Times, passed through the city last night, bound home from a two weeks' hunting trip in Klamath County. Frank Buck, chief clerk In the of fice of the United States District At torney. Is receiving congratulations over the arrival of a baby girl at his home. CHICAGO. Oct. i. (Special.) W. L. Bentley. of Portland, was registered at the Great Northern Hotel today. I FIGHT BEGUN POSLAM CLEARS PIMPLES AWAY State Executive Committee Outlines 1912 Campaign. $25,000 FUND- IS WANTED SLIVER ADMITS GRIME STEVK POflGADA frENTEXCED TO &E11VK TEX YEAKS. Prisoner Becomes Hysterical I1 low ing Hearing and Threatens to Commit Suicide. Breaking down completely when lie saw a formidable array of witnesses against him. among whom was 16-year-old Babe Vernon, whom he lured Into the underworld as a white alave. Steve Poulgada. an Italian, pleaded guilty to eight counts In a white slave Indictment In the I'nlted States Dis trict Court yesterday and waa sen tenced to 10 years In the Federal peni tentiary at McNeil Island. The sen tence was the maximum for the of fense. ' In passing sentence Judge Bean aald that he considered the clrcumstancea In this case revolting in the extreme and Imposed the heavy sentence not only aa a punishment for Poulgada. but also as a warning to others who are engaged In white alavery prac tices. "If the reformation of the defend ant was all that was to be considered." aald Judge Bean. "I would be Inclined In thla case to show leniency, but in this rase a young girl waa dragged to the depths of depravity and that Is a serious thing. Our young girls must be protected and in passing the maxi mum sentence I do so aa a warning to others." When Poulgada realised what had transpired he became hysterical and It waa neceasary for two deputy I'nlted States Marshals to hold him. He -declared that ha would never go to jail live and threatened to dash out his brain at the first opportunity. Poulgada was charged In eight counts of an Indictment with bringing a woman named Lillian Thompson from Spokane to Portland for Immoral pur poses and with taking Babe Vernon. 1 yeara old. from Portland to Sacra mento. Cal. It waa expected that a defense would be made, hut Poulgada. seeing that he had no chance, broke down and ad mitted everything. . P. Xrwell, Chairman. Says Party In Oregon. Ia Well Organized and That Right Warfare Agalnt Grog Will Win. While there is little or nothing doing In Oregon along non-partisan Prohibi tion lines, and talk -.Lout a state-wide omnalffn In 1919 aeeme to have j ceased, conditions are quite different ' In the Prohibition party camp, nays J. P. Newell, chairman of the state com mittee. "In accordance with the stirring declaration, set forth on one of our banners Jn the great temperance pa rade In Portland a year ago: 'If by fraud and deception you brat u on the eighth of November, we will be at your throats again on the morning of the ninth. The fight will never cease un til the saloon dies," said Mr Newell. "No sooner was it known that consti tutional prohibition was defeated than, regardless of the action of other tem perance organizations, preparations for the campaign of 1912 were begun by party Prohibitionists. Aa a result, al though the election la a year or more away, the party organization is In far better shape than ever before In an off year. Many counties are thorough ly organized, and organization work is going on vigorously In many others." 3.eoO Fssd la Also. In the last few days there was held In Portland a largely attended meeting of the state executive committee, mem bers of which are: J. P. Newell, chair man. Portland: F. McKercher. vice chairman. Portland: B. Lee Paget, treasurer. Portland; E. E. Taylor, sec retary. Portland; T. 8. McDanlel, Port land; I. H. Amos. Portland; E, T. John son. Portland: W. P. Elmore. Browns ville; Hiram Gould. Forest Grove; C J. Bright. The Dalles; Leslie Butler, Hood River: Dr. George B. Pratt. Portland; Virgil G. Hlnshaw, Portland; W. E. Crltchlow. Portland. Believing conditions opportune, the committee launched an "Out-to-Win" campaign for 1911. and pledged Itself to raise a campaign fund of not less than 1:5.000. Of this sum. pledges for over ISnoO were In the hands of the commit tee before Its adjournment "While to the superficial observer It might seem that- defeat In Oregon a year ago. defeat in Texas a few months back, and the recent defeat in Maine would have a tendency to dampen the ardor of the most Intense Prohibition ist, not so with the party Prohibition ists." said Mr. Newell. "He sees In these defeata the beginning of the end. eeeae Is Predicted. "Believing that the liquor question must finally be settled and settled right, he has perfect confidence In the outcome. He la aware that no question I ever settled by the people the right way until they have tried every wrong way, and he Is confident, with the pass ing of non-partisan prohibition now rapidly on the wane, that the eyes of the people will be open to the right way. Indeed the only way. through which the destruction of the traffic In Intoxicating liquors can be brought about a party built for and pledged to accomplish this purpose. "To the party Prohibitionist. It la perfectly clear that had the money, enthusiasm and votes which were back of the constitutional amendment forces In 1S10 been back of the Prohibition party, that party would without doubt have been placed In control, not only of the law-making but the law-enforcing machinery of the atata gov ernment. Had the vote cast for pro hibition In both Texas and Maine been cast for the candidates of the Pro-i hibitlon party, not only would prohibi tion have been the rollcy of these two states, but the policy would be en forced as It never has or never will be under any other condition." skews Overnight Results la Miner Tronblee -Ecsesaa and eLIke Dis eases Are ttalrklr CI So intense and active is the healing power concentrated In Poslam "that when used to clear away pimples or un due redness of the skin, results are to be noted overnight, and for these pur poses Poslam Is used extensively by those who have no more serious trou bles. The free sample, sent on request by the Kmergencv -Laboratories. 32 West 25th street. New York, Is eufflclent to prove how needlessly skin aggrava tions are endured. In the complete and permanent cure of eczema, acne, bar bers' itch and deeply seated skin dis eases Poslam has won name and fame as the most rapid and perfect healing remedy yet evolved. Itching stops at once. Chronic cases which have baf fled other treatment are easily mas tered. Poslam is sold for 50 rents by the Owl Drug Co. and all druggists. Poslam Soap, medicated with .Poslam. Is best for your skin. Antiseptic. Pre vents disease. Large cake, 24 cents, at druggists. coast, short knlckerbocker trousers, blue cap. red necktie, light shirt with white collar, black shoes and stockings. GARBAGE PLANT IS GOOD So Says Correspondent Who Saw II nd Scores Knocker". pnnTT.ivn r - . t . L - - . - - - ... v. , w . 1 i u 1 1 1 n i Kdltor.) So much haa been said about J the Incinerator or- garbage plant of late that, aa a citizen and a taxpayer, I I decided to take a trip out there and I a lor myself whether our good 1 money Is being squandered In a "no good plant" or not. To say that I am surprised at the Immensity of the Institution Is putting It mildly. I was amazed at the size and the quality of the buildings, aa I expected to find a tumbledown shack unfitted for the work of cremating the garbage of a large city. Instead. I found a large structure composed of brick, stone and cement. fireproof throughout and complete with all modern appliances. I counted at least a dozen wagons filled with the wettest kind of garb age such aa fruit, vegetables, etc. They were dripping along the road- wnen they came up the Incline Into the building. I saw them dumped, and It did not take any time apparently to consume It. I could aee no smoae at all and. aa for odors emitting, there waa none. All of us have paased many butcher shops and high-toned oyster parlors In our rlty that had no cologne on tap, at least, you would cot auspect It on pasalng. I am led to believe that It is time for knockers to call a halt, if they are honest and have the good of the city at heart. Let them go out and aee for themselves; they would change their opinions. It look to me there is a coon In the woodpile, or perhaps there Is no more milk In the cocoa nut. By giving thla space in your valu able paper, you will perhapa be the means of causing others to Investigate and learn the true state of things. E. G. HITCH INSOX. Sea May Have? Lured Away Yonth. Thought to have run away from the Brooklyn School to go to sea, a desire for which he had often expressed, a reward of $25 has been offered by Chief of Police 81over for the recov ery of Melvln L. Clements, aged 13 years. Clement Is described as being five feet tall, with brown hair and large brown eyes. He had on a dark blue serge suit with double-breasted CHILDREN BRED IN STREETS Mother Condemns Careless Parents and Flretrap Schoolhouscs. PORTLAND, Oct. 6. To the Editor.) The matter of child life and all the forces bearing upon the social evil have for some time been "uppermost In my mind. I would like to write this out and perhaps see It In print and thus "lay the ghost" that 1 stalking about the halls. I feel that primarily the responsi bility begins early In the very begin ning, and with pre-natal- impressions, it is sad to relate, but much of the time more Interest Is taken in the gar ments which the little stranger is to wear than In the right building of Its mind. Tempers are lost and much weep ing and storming Indulged in. One of the most beautiful children I have ever seen was one who, before It came into the world, waa trained In scenes of beauty. Its mother wduld go to one of the beautiful parks and stay there for hours contemplating the roses, list ening to the songs of the birds and praying to her Maker. Never have I seen anything so ethereal as that child! Permit me to criticise the views tak en in many cases of the responsibility due a child. Often its parents will be stow upon It a very high-sounding name. Isabel. Dorothy, Goldje, Pansy, and o on for an endless- enumeration, and after It has reached the age of 1. they will clothe It in a picture dress with blue stockings and slippers and turn It out upon the street with the rest of the children, only giving it cas ual attention. In passing these groups of children I have been shocked at the expressions they use and I hurry on with my baby that It may not hear the language. I wonder If .that Is a full discharge of duty. Is It at all wonder ful that young girls go astray, even where their parents have been respec table people? To my mind, something Is more necessary than a "pretty name," and the blue stockings and fan tastic dress do not make up for It. Another peril which Is a shame la that when these street-bred children have reached school Age, there is a law which Is compulsory about their being sent to school. They must go and every day sit In one of the frame schoolhousea which will, one day, as sure aa 'there is a law of recompense, burn, and will then be featured In pic ture plays In S-cent places all over the country. People will read the pa pers with horror and count the little names of those who were smothered In smoke before they could respond to the fire drill, or were suffocated so their little legs would not carry them out of the building, out of the smoke which Is always worse than a fire to handle. The horrors of the old fires which are remembered will be repeated In this city. The Iroquois fire in Chicago, the burning of the General Slocum In New York, the Triangle shirt waist fire in New York, all will be recalled when U a T T 1 r 1 llllll l av. rtarrv. we are maKins up a mue nsnins - - - i ill T T IV ay, narry, we are maxing up a party for to-morrow.. I have just to Jim Wesley and he will go. What "Good ! Come down to the office to-night. The fellows will be here." In making up a party for sport or Bell Telephone is indispensable. Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph arty : little fishing telephoned . do you say ? ( ' . 1 at rive-tnirty . j pleasure ihz 1 ' .'2yI some day these fair little bodies will be tenderly carried out of the hardly damaged schoolhouse and laid in rows before their distracted mothers, all smothered In smoke, kindled by the greed of something, and the hide-bound Ideas of someone who in stubbornness will not permit fireproof buildings to be built, who have taken advange of the weakness of the ones in author ity in the matter of city ordinances and have thus been enabled even to add to these firetrap schoolhouses ad ditions of wood; men who have smoth ered their consciences in some way. Frankly, after being in most of the principal cities of this country. It is possible to say that there is no place of the size of Portland which has such wretched school buildings, with the ap parent Intention of keeping them. There Is no place where In the new buildings of fireproof construction which are go ing up now. Is there so little sense shown In the lighting and other es sentials, and In the construction of stairways for the health and comfort of young, growing people, it seems 10 do only a question of elaboration and draughtsmanship. No other things are taken Into consideration seriously. Just why any people are willing to allow such monuments to their Ignorance to go up Is a wonder to a trained mind. In New York, should such things be attemDted. the women would rise up and march' In mobs to stop it. They give their children fancy names and the blue stockings, too. and they allow them to run the streets to a certain extent, but the schools must be safe and sane and properly conducted or there is immediate trouble. When my baby Is of school age, I expect to have him sent to a scientifically planned school or I will take the consequences of the law. I do not intend to Invite upon myself the horror which is now stalking this city 01 rorunnu. urenuu, and its towns. 1 NIOBE. A Southern Trade Mirror. A trade-prosperity edition of the Times-Despatch newspaper of Ricn mond. Va.. haa been received. It re fleets clearly trade conditions in that region, and is eminently reaaapie. BILIOUS HEADACHE. BAD BREATH IM SOUR STOMACH MEAN LAZY Lie Ji BOILS; Turn the rascals out the headache, the biliousness, the -indigestion, the sick, sour stomach and foul gases turn them out tonight and keep them out with Cascarets. - . Millions of men and women take a cascaret now and then and never kno the misery caused by a lazy liver, clogged bowels or an upset stomach. Don't put In another day of distres s. Let Cascarets clean and regulate your stomach; remove the sour, undigested and ' fermenting food and that misery-making gas; take the excess bile from your liver and carry off the decomposed waste matter and poison from the Intestines and bowels. Then you will feel great. k , " ' i r,.t tnnip-hf will straiehten you out by morning a 10-cent box means a clear head and cheerfulness for months. Don't forgot the children their little insides need a good, gentle cleansing, tou WOMAN SUES OVER STOCK 10,000 Sliarrs In Electric Garment Company Iicciiicd l'sclr. Offering two certificate for toot) share each of non-voting stock In the I'nlted Electric Garment Company, which ah asserts "Were given her by Burton R. Charles, a representative of the Thermal Garment Company. In ex change for a deed to two lota In North Aiblna, Sarah M. Gerow haa filed suit la the Circuit Court to have the deed annulled and to recover 1 1440 damages. She asserts that an agent for the Thermal Garment Company represented to her that the stock would pay phe nomenal dividends. The property was transferred July 15. ISO, and. the plaintiff complains, the returns from the Investment have thus far been nil, and her 14.004 share of non-voting stock In the garment enterprise are all she bas to show for lb THE VALUE OF GAS FOR COOKING y We have made arrangements with the 'Meier & Frank Company for a series of lectures and demonstrations on the economical uses of gas, con ducted by Mrs. Edna Howard Baker, an expert in the Culinary Depart - ment and on the uses of gas. These lectures and demonstrations Avill be held at the Meier & Frank store on Tuesday and Friday afternoons, on the fourth floor, Fifth Street side, in the Stove Department, beginning Octo ber 3rd and continuing until further notice. The ladies are cordially invited to attend these lectures, as we feet ' that a great deal 'can be"learned from the lectures and demonstrations on the economical uses of gas for cooking. Should a'ou have any trouble with your gas range and not be able to get results, Mrs. Baker will call by ap pointment and go into details, explaining and demonstrating how to oper ate your gas range to get the best results, also prepare and cook on the gas range some special dish that you have been unsuccessful with. Mrs. Baker's services are free to our consumers. ' Call Main 6500 and ask for the Demonstrator. , e Portland Gas & Coke Company too psr box '"SC 3 1 1 1 1 1 J VI ZllU i ' ft'AfS Also S5eand. jfl I fij 1 IM""4 Anv Drug store 0t4 V 12.45 W.S.JOHN5QN Kcxp Thi Keceipl ttkrewftotocUM - ANN jr?"!' ryiHIS is a receipt printed by a National Cash Register It tells you how much you paid , to whom you paid it, and safeguards you in case of error. When you have the receipt you can prove that you paid for your goods. This pre vents unpleasant contro versies' between you and the mer c h a n to r: h i s employes. The merchant has a duplicate of every receipt with which the cash in the register tallies at the end of each day. He knows exactly how much money he has received every 24 hours he can check his leaks and thus reduce his business losses. He is sure that he has made his profit on every sale. He gives better value than an unsystematic merchant. The National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio E. T. KELLEY, Sales Agent, 354 Burnside Street, Portland, Ore; '