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THE BIORNIX6 -OREGUNXAX. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913.
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GiVEN EXTENSIONS
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Sewer Contracts to Be Let by
Executive Board at Spe
cial Meeting Monday.
All Departments Assigned to
Proper Head Under New
Administration.
AERIAL TRUCK IS ACCEPTED
BUYER IS UNDER BIGEL0W
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Mrs. Simmons and Delia. Reed--Discharged'
From -City's Service Tor
Theft of Furs and Other Ap
parel From-Police Station.
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TIVE BOARD IX BRIEF.
Extensions of time for the com
pletion of 91 street-pavjng- contract
allo-wed.
Arrangements made for special
Anal meeting- Monday to award sewer
contracts amounting; to about $230,
J(KX Fire aerial truck formally accepted
alter tests.
Question of financing new City Jail,
now Incomplete, passed along to new
administration.
Hearing granted to John Keating
on the mysterious sewer bid which
was tampered with in the Auditor's
office.
Airs. Isabella Simmons, ei-pollc,
matron, and Delia Reed, fromer
stenographer of Chief of Police
filover. found guilty of charges ot
theft and discharged, from city's
service.
Fearing that the new City Commission
is going to adopt a system of handling
etreet paving- contracts which will make
extensions of time on contracts diffi
cult to secure, several contractors yes
terday took advantage of the last meeting-
of the City Executive Board and
petitions for extensions of time on 91
contracts were allowed.
In some cases extensions were grant
ed until June, 1914, on contracts which
should be completed within the next
two months. In other cases the exten
sions were granted on work that
should have been completed last De
cember. Under the law the city has the power
to collect from the contractors penal
ties for delays of work unless there is
reasonable cause for the delay.
The extensions granted yesterday
cover paving to cost about $ 1,000,000.
Special Meeting; Called.
The Executive Board will hold its last
meeting Monday at 4 P. M. Among
other things sewer contracts amounting
to close, to $250,000 will be awarded.
Bids for the work were opened yester
day and a special meeting of the sewer
committee was called for Monday to let
the contracts.
Inasmuch as there Is no money left in
the city treasury for the completion of
the new City Jail on Second and Oak
streets, the Board passed the problem
of raising money along to the Commis
sion. Bids wore on hand for the cells
in the prison but upon suggestion of
Mayor Rushlight were not opened.
The new aerial fire truck which was
received in the city Thursday was given
official tests yesterday morning by
members of the fire committee and the
apparatus was formally accepted.
TCeatlntr to Be Heard.
Declaring that the action of the sewer
committee in rejecting the bid of John
Keating for the Halsey-street sewer
was virtually accusing Mr. Keating ot
, having tampered with the bids In the
Auditor's office. Attorney Dan Malar
key asked that a special hearing of the
case be set for Monday. The request
was granted.
Mrs. Isabella Simmons, former police
matron, and Delia Heed, former stenog
rapher for Chief of Police Slover, were
found guilty yesterday by the police
committee of the Board of having taken
a quantity of furs and dry goods left
at the police station for safe-keeping.
The two women accordingly were dis
charged from the city service.
POLICE MATRON LET OUT
airs. Samuel Simmons Discharged
by Executives.
Mrs. Samuel Simmons, police matron
and Delia Reed, assistant secretary to
Acting Police Chief Slover, who was
under suspension, were both discharged
by the Executive Board late yesterday,
after the police committee had. pre
sented a report in which their dismissal
was advised.
in her hearing Thursday. Mrs. Sim
mons only presented the statements by
herself and daughter that it was a
tommon custom for police attaches to
take anything about the police station
that was not tagged as evidence or
otherwise. She said tnat she thought
nothing of the fact that her daughter
had taken articles from the property,
because, she said, her daughter told her
that Nick Beutgen. clerk of the Muni
cipal Court, had advised her she might
take anything not tagged.
The property Involved, which was
stolen from six downtown stores, was
recovered by Detective Sergeant Robert
Craddock, after he had placed under ar
rest three women who were afterward
convicted of the thefts. The entire
bills of goods, valued at nearly $6000
consisted of small merchandise, hats,
shoes and small articles of apparel.
Ties which were said to have been part
of the loot appeared in the police de
partment and the open charge was
made that an officer high In rank was
een and charged with wearing one of
the stolen ties. When checking over
of goods revealed that some was miss
ing. Detective Craddock was assigned
to locate the goods. Shortly after, Mrs.
Simmons and Miss Reed were charged
with larceny, and are now under indict
ment. STEAMER POTTER.
First Trip Postponed.
The first regular trip of the O.-W.
R. & N. steamer T. J. Potter to North
Beach this season, which was origin
ally announced as Saturday, June 2S,
1:00 P. M., has been postponed for one
week; account unexpected changes and
repairs. Definite dates will be an
nounced later. Adv.
Rifle Wielding Is Charge.
HILLSBORO, Or., June 27. (Special.)
Philip Galasino, a barber, ten miles
northeast of this city, is in Jail in de
fault t $2000 bonds, charged with
pointing a rifle at William Brown and
threatening to shoot if he did not leave.
The prisoner was living on the United
Railway, in a tent, and had been hav
ing trouble with his wife. The woman
aid he had shot at her and missed,
and Brown went over to see if he
couldn't end the trouble, when the en
raged husband drew the gun and
threatened to kill the visitor-
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CITY JODGE NAMED
John H. Stevenson Selected by
Mayor-Elect Albee.
NEW METHODS PROMISED
Appointee Says He Will Strive to
Make Municipal Court More Than
Place Where Men. and Women
Fined and Sentenced.'
AIJL APPOINTEES NOW DECIDED
ITON;
Mayor-elect ' Albee yesterday de
clared that all officers to be ap
pointed by the City Commission,
which will take office July 1. have
been decided upon.
He said no further applications for
places or recommendations for those
seeking places are wanted.
With the selection of John H.
Stevenson for Municipal Judge, there
are but two other appointments to
be announced, these being City En
gineer and Purchasing Agent. They
have been selected, but their names
have not yet been made public.
The scramble for positions has
-been tremendous and the Mayor and
Commissioners-elect have been be
besleged from the moment of their
election for places in the city service.
John H. Stevenson will be the new
Municipal Judge, succeeding George
Tazwell next Tuesday morning, July 1,
when the City Commission will assume
the government of Portland. Mayor
lecr Albee, who was looked to for
the recommendation, anounced yester
day that he had settled upon Mr.
Stevenson.
Mr. Stevenson is a native nor. nt
gon, having been born in "PoppBt
ove December 25, 1878. At an early
NATIVE SON, FORMER REPORTER, WHO READ LAW BOOKS
AT NIGHT, IS SELECTED FOR MUNICIPAL JUDGE.
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age his parents moved to a farm near
there, where he grew up, being edu
cated in a country school. Later he
attended a Portland business college.
He -was employed on the repertorial
staff of the Evening Telegram for a
period of seven years, during the lat
ter part of which he read law in his
own room at night, as he had always
wanted to be a lawyer. He put in his
time by day "running down" stories
for his paper and much of his time
by night in the study of law. By
dint of hard work, he prepared himself
for admission to the bar, and his am
bition was realized in 1907, when, by
special examination by the Supreme
Court, he became a practitioner.
Practice. Is Taken Up.
Shortly after his admission to the
bar, he was appointed to the position
of Deputy District Attorney for - the
Fourth Judicial District by John Man
ning, who was District Attorney at the
time. Mr. Stevenson served one year
in that capacity, when he resigned to
become associated in the practice of
law with John F. Logan, where he .has
remained until now.
Mr. Stevenson was not a candidate
for the Municipal Judgeship, but
Mayor-elect Albee. In looking about for
a nrst-class man for that place, asked
him if he would accept it. Regarding
the offer from such a source as an
opportunity to perform a real public
service and wishing to avail himself
of the opportunity, Mr. Stevenson ac
cepted, although, as to the salary, he
will be somewhat the loser.
"There Is little I care to say at
this time," said Mr. Stevenson, when
informed Of his selection, "but I shall
endeavor to serve the people to the
very best of my ability while on the
bench. I wUl put modern methods in
vogue in the Municipal Court to the
fullest possible extent, Including some
kind of a night session, just as soon
as that can be worked out.
Modern System Favored.
"I am in sympathy with the modern
system of handling police prisoners
and shall strive to make of the court
something more than merely a place
where men and women are fined or
sent to jail. I have no sympathy for
the time-worn nne-and-Jall systems
that have led to nothing better, espe
cially as applied to women. I shall
try every case in the open and decide
each on its merits to the best of my
ability."
Mr. Stevenson has made a careful
study of this kind of work, and, while
a member of the Municipal Vice Com
mission, was able to obtain a great
deal of information at close range.
Mr. Stevenson is married and has
one child. The Stevenson home is at
868 Hancock street.
STEVE3SSOX.
DEPOTIES ARE KEPT
W. P. La Roche, New City At
torney, Names Aides.
H. M. T0MLINS0N TO STAY
Jj. E. Latouretto Also Remains
In Office Organization Stanley
Myers, C. T. Haas and F. W. t
Stadter Added to Force.
Organization of the office of City At
torney will be effected by W. P. La
Roche, the new head of the department,
by the retention of H. M. Tomlinson
and L. E. Latourette, present deputies,
and by the appointment of Stanley
Myers, C. T. Haas and F. W. Stadter.
Announcement to this effect was made
yesterday. They will take over the
business July 1.
Mr. La Roche was chosen by the
City Commissioners-elect upon recom
mendation of Mayor-elect Albee last
week. Since that time he has been
engaged in choosing his deputies, and
when the Commission met yesterday
morning he was ready to announce his
selections.
Mr. Tomlinson Is at present the chief
deputy in the office, having served in
that capacity during the regime of
Frank S. Grant as City Attorney. He
is a graduate of the Bridgeton (N. J.)
Institute, of Cornell University in the
class of 1897, and he also took a spe
cial law course of one year in Brown's
University of Providence. He was ad
mitted to the bar In 1S98, at which
time he came to Portland. He traveled
for one year for a commercial agency,
practiced law for four years, and then
was appointed as a deputy In the City
Attorney's office by J. P. Kavanaugh,
now a Circuit Judge. He was reap
pointed by Mr. Grant and has been in
the service of the city for six years.
It is considered as a distinct compli
ment to him to be reappointed by Mr.
La Roche, this being his third appoint
ment. Mr. Latourette was also complimented
by a reappointment. He has served
three years In the office. He Is a grad
uate of Columbia University (New
York) in the class of 1899. He has
been practicing law here ever since.
C. T. Haas is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Minnesota Law School of the
class of 1909. He has been associated
with Joseph Woerndle in the practice
of law here since.
Mr. Stadter was born at Hedrick, la.,
in 1877. He is a graduate of the col
lege of law of the Chicago-Kent School
of the class of 1909. He came to Port
land soon thereafter and has been prac
ticing law since, being associated with
the firm of Schnabel & La Roche. '
Mr. Myers is 27 years old. He was
educated in the University of Chicago
and the University of Kansas and was
admitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of Kansas in 1909. Since he
came to Portland he has been engaged
In newspaper work, having been with
the Evening Telegram awhile and later
assistant city editor of the Journal.
He lives at 60 King street.
HENDERSON FOUND GUILTY
Dublin Broker Captured In Port
land, to Serve Four-Year Term.
William Francis Henderson, a fuel
tlve from Dublin, who had stolen about
$25,000 and was apprehended in Port
land last Spring and extradited to Ire
land after a fight in the courts last
lng ten weeks, was sentenced to serve
lour years In prison June 11.
Henderson was a prominent stock
broker in Dublin at the time of his
downfall. May, 1912. He decamped and
was located in Portland In February,
1913, and Sergeant Owen Fagan. of the
jjUDiin detective force, was sent to
Portland to take Henderson back. Fa
gan had to remain ten weeks before his
prisoner's resources in -the courts were
exhausted, when he hurried home with
him.
In a letter to his friend, James Beggs,
of Portland, Fagan said that Hender
son lived so luxuriously on the tra.n
crossing the continent that the detec
tive was forced to subsist on toast and
tea for five days to keep from running
Proposed Ordinances Must Be Intro
duced by Member of Board Ad
ministrative Code Promised for
Tuesday's Meeting.
Final plans for launching the com
mission government Tuesday morning
were perfected yesterday at a lengthy
meeting of Commissioners Daly,
DIeck, Bigelow and Brewster with
Mayor-elect Albee in the Mayor's room
at the City Hall. Rules to govern
commission meetings were outlined, ar
rangements were made for the bonds
of all members of the commission and
other employes of the city, the various
departments were finally assigned to
the five divisions of the government
and the duties of all officials were
outlined.
The Commission will take up the
government of the city where the
present administration leaves off. The
administration will begin with a reg
ular Commission meeting at the City
Hall at 9 A. M.. at which an adminis
trative code will be adopted, the oaths
taken by the elective officials and the
now wheels of government act In mo
tion. It is likely that on the first day
ordinances will be considered and there
Is a probability that some measures
may be passed.
Preparatory Moves Planned.
All arrangements for the change of
officials will be completed before that
time. Mayor Rushlight will move out
of his office preparatory to the com
ing of Mayor-elect Albee. and the
Building Inspection department "will
move from its quarters to give room
for the offices of the Commissioners,
adjoining the offices of Mr. Albee.
These preliminaries will all be at
tended to by Monday night.
At the meeting yesterday it was
definitely decided that the position of
Purchasing Agent shall be under the
jurisdiction of Commissioner Bigelow,
of the Finance department. It orig
inally was in the department of Pub
lic Affairs under Commissioner
Brewster. Commissioner Brewster
favored the transfer, as did all the
others. The bond of the purchasing
agent was fixed at $25,000, that amount
Deing considered sufficient to cover the
value of all property In the possession
of that official at any one time.
"Water Department Intact.
It was decided to keep the Water
Department the same as It is at pres
ent instead of transferring the engi
neering division into the department
of the City Engineer. The close rela
tionship between the engineering di
vision of the department and the oper
ation department makes the continua
tion of the present system preferable.
It Is said. The collection of garbage,
which comes under the Health Depart
ment, was assigned to Commissioner
Daly.
A change in the method of intro
ducing ordinances was made so that
all must be introduced by a Commis
sioner. The original plan was to have
measures introduced by petition as well
as by a Commissioner. This plan was
considered unnecessary inasmuch as
any measure with merit can find a
member of the Commission willing to
Introduce it upon request.
City Attorney-elect LaRoche and
Clerk Grutze, assisted by others; have
been working for more than a week
on an administrative code. They have
all the points worked out for the be
ginning of the government. Other de
tails will be added gradually after the
Commission is in operation.
STEAMER POTTER.
First Trip Postponed.
The first regular trip of the O.-W.
R. & N. steamer T. J. Potter to North
Beach this season, which was origin
ally announced as Saturday, June 28,
1:00 P. M., has been postponed for one
week; account unexpected changes and
repairs. Definite dates will be an
nounced later. Adv.
Katherine L. Norton. New Bedford,
Mass., ways: "I had a terrible pain
across 'ray back, with a burning and
scalding feeling. I took Foley Kidney
Pills as advised, with results certain
and sure. The pain and burning feel
ing left me, I felt toned up and invig
orated. I recommend. Foley Kidney
Pills." For backache, rheumatism,
lumbago, and all kidney and bladder
ailments use Foley Kidney Pills. Hunt
ley Bros.. Fourth and Washington Sts.
NEWSPAPER MAN NAMED AS
SECRET Alt V TO COMMIS
SIONER . ALY,
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James McCool. a
Will Daly, Commissioner of
Public Utilities, yesterday an
nounced the appointment of
James McCool, a reporter for the
Journal, as private secretary, the
appointment tq take effect next
Tuesday, when the new Commis
sion assumes office. Mr. McCool
is one of the best-known news
paper men in the city, having
been here for six years. During"
most of that time he has repre
sented the Journal at the City
Hall. In that capacity he has be
come thoroughly familiar with
city affairs. He came to Portland
six years ago from Walla Walla,
Wash., where h4s parents live.
He formerly was a student at An
napolis, having passed two years
at that institution. He is 29 years
of age.
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You 11 find
GHIRARDELLPS
Ground Chocolate
Over the mountain trail, some
times a hundred miles from the
railroad, the pack train carries
Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate
into the pioneer country where
nothing is taken unless the call
is urgent.
Because of its nourishing-, invigorating
qualities, because it sustains in the
heavy outdoor work, because it serves as
food and drink Ghirardelli's Ground Choc
olate goes to the frontier with the first sup
plies. The ideal beverage for
all people at all times.
D. OHIR ARDBLLI CO.
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8iaco 1852
NO AGREEMENT REACHED
WELFARE COMMISSION AXD
STORE PEOPLE CONFER.
Plan to Give "Women and Minors
Saturday Evenings Off During;
Summer Held in Abeyance.
Representatives of various retail
stores employing women and minors
met in private conference with the
new Industrial Welfare Commission
yesterday and failed to reach an agree
ment that women and minors should
not be employed after 6 o'clock Sat
urday nights.
The retailers agreed with the mem
bers of the Commission that it would
be a good thing for such workers to
have Saturday nights off during the
hot weather, but said such a rule
virtually would mean that they must
close their places of business. They did
not think this would be fair unless
their competitors employing men
should close also.
It was agreed that the retailers rep
resented should see what could be done
to have all stores in competition with
them &iose Saturday nights during the
hot weather and that another meeting
should be held Monday, July 7, for
the purpose of making a disposition of
the question.
"The members of the Commission are
a unit in the determination that women
Elks' Excursion
$1 Round Trip
Children 50c
Bonneville and Return
Sunday, June 29
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Special Train
leaves Union Depot 9 A, M., returning leaves Bonneville at
5:30 P.M. for
ELKS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
Get tickets from Secretary Elks' Lodge or Sunday at the
Union Depot.
Picnic, Rain or Shine, Plenty of Tents and Shelter.
and minor workers shall not be em
ployed Saturday nights during the hot
weather," said Rev. Father Edwin V.
O'Hara, chairman of the Commission,
last night. "We are not asking that
the stores be closed and we trust that
the employers will be able to make ar
rangements so that they will not be
compelled to close. We hope that the
employers will have made some def
inite disposition of the matter by the
time of their next meeting with the
Commission. Otherwise we will be
compelled to take steps to enforce our
ruling."
The stores represented at yesterday's
meeting were: Olds, Wortman & King,
Meier & Frank, Llpman, Wolfe & Com
pany, W. H. Markel & Company. Rob
erts Bros.. Ben Selling, Woolworth's,
Eastern Outfitting Company and the
Emporium.
Ashland Office Gets Louis Bodge.
ASHLAND, Or, June 27. (Special.)'
The local weather station will have a
new volunteer observer July 1, -when
Louis Dodge succeeds O. G. Eubanks,
retired. The station hero was insti
tuted over 30 years ago by F. II. Car
ter, who personally attended to the
taking of observations for over a quar
ter of a century, having been succeeded
by Mr. Eubanks. Incidental to this
service the records show that the rain
fall in this district during the month
of June, up to the 25th Inst., has been
2.58 Inches, an amount exceeded by
only three previous Junes in the history
of the local weather service, viz., 188S,
5.20; 1891, 2.96; 1912, 2.62 Inches. 18S8
showing the heaviest precipitation on
record.
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