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TITC MORNING OREGONTAN, WEDNESDAT, JANUARY 7, 1914. UNION PACIFIC WIAY DIVIDE $76,498,000 Executive Committee to Rec ommend Adding Cash to B. & 0. Distribution. EARNING POWER REDUCED Annual Dividend Wonld Be Corre spondingly Decreased Stock Is , That Acquired in Southern ' Pacific Unmerglng. NEW YORK, Jan. 6. The executive committee of the Union Pacific Railroad Companytannounced today that it would recommend the distribution among its stockholders of the Baltimore & Ohio etock owned by the company, par value, $82,000,000, together with fi per share In cash. Estimated on the present mar ket value of Baltimore & Ohio stock, this Is equivalent to an extra dividend of 33 per cent. The executive committee will lay this recommendation before the board or directors, which meets Thursday. It recommends, also, that If this distri bution Is carried Into effect the regu lar annual dividend be correspondingly reduced; that is, from 10 per cent to 8 per cent. Committee Issues Statement. The company's statement follows: "The executive committee today de cided to recommend to the board of directors, which meets Thursday, to distribute among: the holders of the common stock of . the Union Pacific Railroad Company the Baltimore & Ohio stock owned by it, together with S3 per share In cash. It is proposed to distribute to the holder of each share of Union Pacific common $12 par value in Baltimore & Ohio preferred, now yielding, at 4 per cent, 48 cents; and 22.50 par value in Baltimore & Ohio common, now yielding, at 6 per cent, 91.35, and $3 In cash, say at 6 per cent per annum, 18 cents, or a total of $2.01. "The executive committee also rec ommends that If carried into effect the regular annual dividend be correspond ingly reduced that Is, from 10 per cent to 8 per cent per annum." Earning Power Reduced. About $42,500,000 of the Baltimore & Ohio stock was acquired last July from the Pennsylvania Railroad, which re ceived from the Union Pacific an equiv alent amount of Southern Pacific stock, which the Union Pacific was obliged to give up as the result of the Supreme Court decision forcing the dissolution of the Union Pacific system. The re mainder was acquired in 1908. during the regime of the late E. H. Harriman. The effect of the distribution is to decrease the earning power of the Union Pacific 2 per cent. The invest ment on which this 2 per cent was earned now becomes the property of the individual stockholders. Union Pacific owns $53,607,000 Balti more & Ohio common and $28,480,000 preferred. Around today's prices the market value of this $82,087,000 stock is $70,000,000. As Union Pacific has $216,633,000 common stock, the $3 a share cash dividend to be declared calls for $6,498,000 cash, making the total money value of the forthcoming divi dend $76,498,000. I i M'KEYXOLDS APPROVES PL-AX Reduction of Dividend by Two Per Cent Is Assumed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. Attorney General McReynolds was pleased to night with the announcement that the Union Pacific would distribute Its Bal timore & Ohio stock among its stock holders. Such a distribution, it was said, was in agreement with the Attorney-General's plan for a separation of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific roads provided for in the decree of the Supreme Court. It became known tonight that re ports several weeks ' ago that Union Pacific was about to cut a melon in the distribution of this Baltimore & Ohio stock led Mr. McReynolds to ask Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the Union Pacific board, to a conference which resulted in the plan announced today. At that conference the Attorney-General assumed that a distribu tion of Baltimore & Ohio stock should be accompanied by a reduction from 10 to 8 per cent In the Union Pacific annual dividend. At that time the Attorney-General took the position that a railroad should be operated for the benefit f the traveling public as much as for the benefit of thosewjio received divi dends. COMPANION OF GIRLS HELD Youth at Oregon City Mast Answer to Grand Jury. OREGON CITY, Or., Jan. 6. (Spe cial.) Jack Davis, the oldst of the party of runaways who were brought back from Astoria by Constable Jack Frost, was this morning placed under a $500 bond for appearance before the grand jury. He failed to provide the bond and was lodged in the County Jail. Margaret Curtis. Ethel Forsythe and Viola Monghan are out of Jail, the Forsythe girl being released on $200 bond. The preliminary hearing of Jack Davis was held in the court of John N. Keivers, Justice of the Peace. The others of the party were released upon their own recognizance. NEW CANNERY IS PROPOSED White Salmon Co-operative Associa tion to Build Plant. WHITE SALMON. Wash.. Jan. 6 (Special.) At a meeting of the direct ors of the newly-organized Columbia River' Co-operative Association in the Commercial Club rooms, plans were formulated for the distribution of stock in the new cannery. It was decided to place the capital stock at $10,000, with shares at $25 each, no stockholder to have more than one vote, regardless of how much stock he holds. Three fourths of the stock must be subscribed and one-fourth paid in before opera tions begin. The cannery will be patterned after the Benton County. Oregon, Growers' Association, and George H. Tinker, who is manager of - the Benton County cannery, has been offered the position of supervisor here for one year. SOMER CONTRACT IS UP Terras Set and Commissioners Will Gt Contract Today. Terms of the proposed contract to be entered Into between the County Com IrOsslonexa and, tba anufacjturers' Ap- pralsal Company for the Installation of the Somer unit system of realty valua tions were agreed on at & conference between the contract committee ap pointed by the Commissioners and a representative of . the company, and will be submitted to the Commissioners today. By the contract drafted yesterday the work must be completed by October 1. The 1914 taxroll must be completed and ready, for the Board of Equalization September 14. Because of this two weeks' margin the entire system will not be available this year, but As sessor Reed said yesterday that the new system will be used this year just as ' fast as It is installed and that what little is not completed by Septem ber 14 will not" impair the operation of the rest of the system. As soon as the contract is signed by the Commissioners, the copies will bo sent to Cleveland, for the signature of Walter Pollock, president of the company. Work of installation will begin immediately after the contract is signed and delivered. This should take not more than ten days or two weeks said Mr. Reed. The committee appointed by the Com missioners, which drew the contract, 13 composed of Assessor Reed, chair man; Robert H. Strong, William Mao Master, Dean Vincent and George D. Schalk. C. A. Penington, representative of the appraisal company, met with the committee yesterday. The new system involves the assess ment of buildings on a square foot valuation after the buildings have been inspected, measured and classified and the assessment of real property in GENERAL ROSALIE JONES AND v; - vt iff I ' Photo by Bain. IN THE5 PARTY STARTING ON THE MARCH WERE EVA WARD, MARTHA KLATSCHKIS, COLONEL IDA CRAFT, GENERAL ROSALIE JONES, AND THE BUGLER, MILTON WEND. IT IS PLANNED TO MAKE 25 MILES A DAY. every block based on a unit foot valua tion determined by the Assessor and property owners. SUFFRAGE ARMY LIMPS FOOTSORE HIKERS MAKE 20 MILES OVER HILLS NEAR ALBANY. General Jones and Two Aides Are Only Ones Who Have Not Accepted Lift Since Leaving New York, ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 6. Superstitions were forgotten tonight by "General" Rosalie Jones and her fellow-suffragist hikers when they reached the ho tel at Ravina, 13 miles south of nere. With sighs of relief they dropped down on couches, chairs and floors, express ing gratification that the end of their Journey was near. The marchers covered today approxi mately 20 miles of rough, hilly roads between Cats.tlll and Ravina. More than once the bruised feet of the "general" caused her much discomfort, but she plunged on determinedly. She was flanked by "General" Ida Cratt and "Colonel" Martha JKlatschken, the only two other women who have not accepted a "lift" since leaving New York, and a score of war correspond ents and sympathizers. It is expected the hikers will reach Albany about noon tomorrow. Several hundred men and women will Join them at the outskirts of the city. They will go direct to the Capitol and present their petition for greater rights for women to the Governor and the Legis lature. ROMANCE OF RUGS TOLD II. O. CARTOZIAN MAKES ADDRESS AT THE ROTARY CLUB. PartB of Speech Sound Like Pases of Arabian Nights When Per sian Secrets Told. The real romance of the Persian and Turkish rugs was told to the members of the Rotary Club at their luncheon yesterday at the Oregon Hotel, by H. O Cartozian, of Cartozlan Bros., and there were parts of his address that sounded almost like pages from the Arabian Nights. Mr. Cartozian told how the spirit of the Persian people went into the rugs that they wove and how many -of the nnest rugs were the work of a single person's lifetime, telling the history of his family or relationship. "Like a rare painting or a violin which Is worked over with the minute care of a master craftsman," he said "there are many rugs which it would be impossible to duplicate or imitate, so marvelous is their texture and color ing, and design. Some of them could not be imitated in painting for ten times the prices- for which they are soiu. Rugs representing values of thou sands of dollars were displayed by Mr. Cartozian at the luncheon and his niece gave a demonstration of the actual art of rug making on a loom installed in the dining-room. Among the rugs displayed was one valued at about $5000 and one rug many years old which once had been hung in a mosaue and which still retains its colors as brilliant as when it was woven long ago. C. N. Stockwell, who is to leave Thursday for Alaska, to represent the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company, gave vl farewell talk to his fellow Rotary Club members. Bible Class to Kally. There will be a rally of the Bible classes at the Y. M. C. A. this evening. After supper Dr. A. L. Hutchison will make a 15-mlnute talk to the students In the auditorium at 6:20 o'clock ba loro .tiey go o Jfeelr classes . . . GOVERNOR PURSUES HIS STRIKE INQUIRY Lack of Harmony Among Ke weenaw County Officials Is Disclosed. PRIVATE : MEETINGS HELD Some of Consultants Unwilling to Give Views in Public; Prose cutor Applicant for Mem bership In Union. HOUGHTON, Mich., Jan. 6. Gov ernor Ferris, of Michigan, gained much first-hand information today regarding "ARMY" OF SUFFRAGISTS MARCHING FROM NEW YORK TO ALBANY. the copper miners' strike, which has been in progress for more than five months. Especially did the Governor learn about the number of county and com pany deputies in the strike zone and the extent to which so-called "gun men" have been used, or are being used. The Governor obtained this infor mation ' from the Sheriffs. Prosecuting Attorneys and Supervisors of the two counties affected by the industrial dis pute. At the conclusion of his sessions he impressed on them that they must work together in maintaining law and order and in protecting Jite and prop erty. Deportation Is Deplored. Twice the Governor referred in pub lic to the Moyer deportation, and it was learned that he also took occasion to deplore Its effects at practically every conference in private with delegations of business men and others who are unwilling to express their views in the presence of newspaper reporters. The Governor tonight questioned An thony Lucas, Prosecuting Attorney of Houghton County, and Judge P. H. O'Brien, of the Circuit Court, who came from L Ansein, an adjoining county, where they have been holding court on strike cases transferred from this Jurisdiction on changes of venue. Two cases were disposed of there today, one defendant pleading guilty and being- sentenced to 60 days In Jail and another being acquitted after a. Jury trial. The charges were carrying concealed weapons and intimidation. Troops Still on Duty. Governor Ferris found an interest ing field for inquiry in the Keweenaw County situation. Normally the three bl- mines there employ some.20U0 men. and he was told that 95 per cent of the population in the Mohawk, Allouez and Ahmeek districts were members of the Western Federation of Miners. Troops were sent into the county last Summer, and a company is still on duty there. The Governor learned that in both counties about 64 militiamen are em ployed as mounted police. He ex pressed the opinion that their reten tion here was a mistake. He indicated that hereafter the state will return Na tional Guardsmen to their homes after their tours of duty haxe expeired. wnat they do after they get back where they started from is of course their own affairs, the Governor said. Keweenaw Officials at Oats. Officials of Keweenaw County spent a bad hour with the Governor. The State Executive drew out that Sheriff Epting and James A. Hamilton, Prose cuting Attorney, had not always been In harmony, the prosecutor saying that he never had been consulted on any strike matter and that no cases arising from arrests had been called to his attention. Wesley Clark, chairman of the board of supervisors. Indicated that the board and Sheriff had disagreed on the question of withdrawing the com pany of state troops. The Governor also drew from the prosecutor the fact that the latter had made application for membership in the estern Federation of Miners and paid $5 to that organization. The official said he never had Joined and did not consider himself a member. He refused to make public his reasons for sending in the application and the privilege of explaining to the Governor In private was given him. Search for Gnu Not Thorough. Sheriff Hepting admitted no thorough search was made for weapons and dynamite in his Jurisdiction. Every house almost contained a shotgun or rifle because of the good hunting in that section, he said. Dynamite was not found in any of his investigations. As a basis of future consideration of the strike situation in the northern part of the district the Governor ob tained these figures today: Normal Pres- Im'd Mine force. nt. men. Mohawk 800 167 Ahmeek S30 2! 170 Allouez .'. 3J 10 52 Wolverine 500 141 North Kearaarire .......... .4.10 l:5 . ... South Kearsarge 255 220 60 The last three mines are in Houghton County, but so close to the county boundary that the six constitute a group. The properties named have caused the mine operators 'considerable anxiety and it was only after work had been resumed In practically all fithex producing jaJnea of. te cogger. country that any attempt was made to open up the northern properties. It is probable that many of the fresh im portations of outside nonunion work men will be sent to those six workings, it is said. P0MER0Y BOY IS SUICIDE Harold Lathrop, Aged 2 3, Despond ent When Parent Refused Money. Harold Lathrop, a well-dressed young man, 23 years old, a. member of the Young Men's Christian Association at Hood River, was found dead early yes terday at East Second and Salmon streets. In his pocket was a letter from his mother in Pomoroy, Wash., in which she said she could furnish him no more money. He shot himself with a. cheap, 32 caliber revolver, and the weapon was lying a few feet away. J. S. Mullen and Ed Winzreed, who found the body, summoned Patrolmen Coulter and Stone. Detectives Hyde and Vaughn later investigated the shooting, and said it was suicide clearly. In the young man's pockets were found several unset gems, caid to be of an imitation compound. His watch fob-was in his clothes, but his watch was missing. . No money or negotiable property was on his person. Since coming to Portland Lathrop had been living at the Y. M. C. A. and still retained his room there. General Secretary Stone talked with him Mon day, offering to help him find employ- ment This Lathrop . declined, saying several business men were friends of his and would assist him. Mr. Stone was particularly impressed with the fact that the young man was fault lessly dressed and with his courteous manner. The body was taken to the morgue of Dunning & McEntee, who communi cated with the young man's mother. MRS. GERLINGER ON STAND Woman Tells of Alleged ' Breach of Promise hy Lloyd-Prank. Mrs. Gertrude Gerlinger, plaintiff in the $50,000 breach of promise suit against Lloyd Frank, testified yester day on her own behalf that her alleged engagement to Frank followed an ac quaintance of nearly four years with him, and that before he left Portland, in May, 1912, to tour Europe he said that he expected to marry her after his return If she had obtained her di vorce. The divorce, she testified, was obtained at Astoria in June, 1912, a month after Frank had left for Europe. In January, 1913, she testified they be came engaged. She met Frank in Portland in 1909, several years after she and her hus band had come West to live. After their engagement, Frank con tinued his attentions, she said, and be gan to furnish a house in which they expected to live. Some of this fur niture she still has in her possession. In March, 1913, she testified that he breached the contract of marriage. This, she said, was after she had an nounced her engagement to many of her friends. She was on the witness stand under cross-examination by Attorney George Joseph when Judge Davis adjourned court yesterday afternoon. The suit was filed last July. The de fense is a general denial of the issues and Frank's liability to damages. BAN ON SCHOOL DANCING (Continued From liMrst Paja.) Graff made the comment that he thought Professor Robert Krohn, phy sical director of the schools, would bo a satisfactory Judge of what Is proper to be taught in the first three grades. In which it was agreed that folk games should be taught as heretofore. Folk Games Defined. Just what folk games are to consist of was defined by Professor Robert Krohn after the Rev. C. C Rarick, pastor of the Central Methodist Church, had said that before he could acquiesce to having the games taught ne wished assurance that a line would be definitely drawn between games and dancing. "A folk game," said Professor Krohn, would be a game to consist of a song and a pantomime movements of the arms to suggest forms of life, such as the motions of birds, butterflies and the like. "The children hold hands, trot around In a ring and sing songs. We could not give any complicated steps in these lower grades. "The formal gymnastic work," he explained further, "is all right for the upper grades, but the little children need some kind of play in their gym nastics. We would like to keep these folk games in the schools. Dr. Sommer Hia Idea of Dance. Dr. Sommer also explained what he understood by folk games. "If 20 or 30 girls in the schoolrooms form in a circle and run half way round in ono direction and then run half way back, to music, that's not dancing," said he. ' "1 classify as dancing where the opposite sexes play to music to gether." Whether dancing should be permitted in the schools after school hours, in connection with social center work and neighborhood gatherings, was not so clearly settled. Mr. Plummer explained that he had gone to Salem yesterday to confer with the Attorney-General in regard to the law about dancing in the schools, and that the Attorney-General had said he was advising schools throughout the state that they might use assembly halls for dancing purposes, taking the tas4 a jhe, Jaw. fotMda gaaclng A Cabaret g T Programme of Variety and Originality The Hotel Oregon Cabaret con tinues its popularity. This week a new singer was added to the popular chorus and unique spe cialties introduced in the solo and ensemble work. The Hotel Oregon Orchestra, under the di rection of Signor Pietro Marino, is rendering; a well-balanced programme of all the popular pieces and classics. Merchant's Lunch 50c The leading citizens of Portland gather for their noonday repast in the Rathskellar Grill. Service and cuisine unexcelled. Hotel Oregon Wright-Dickinson Hotel Co., Proprietors. M. C. Dickinson Managing Director. only in rooms used for actual school recitation purposes. . This legal construction led to some warm argument. Rev. Delmer H. Trim ble, of Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. J. K. Hawkins, of Sell wood Methodist Church; E. N. Welch, of the Central Methodist Church, and others declared themselves absolutely opposed to dancing in the schools at any time. Rev. Mr. Trimble said that If it were permitted he would with draw his children from the schools. An assertion by Rev. J. K. Hawkins that Mr. Plummer was unfair and prejudiced precipitated some ill-feeling. He said that Mr. Plummer and Dr. Sommer, the chairman, had their minds made up, and that they were so dis courteous as to "hobnob" together while some of the speakers were on the floor. "I wish to eay, sir, that I have been down here for three nights until 12 o'clock, and I have given everyone a fair chance," was the warm rejoinder of Dr. Sommer, the chairman. "And I made the proposal myself that we take dancing out of the schools before you had spoken against it." "To show the extent to which we were 'hobnobbing,' I will read to you Just what I was "hobnobbing" about and I had written this out before I heard what you said." He read this note: "I will recom mend to the board a resolution that the dancing in the recitation-rooms and assembly-halls in the public schools conform with the laws of the state. And when community dances are given, they shall be properly chaperoned." Plummer Favored Dancing. Mr. Plummer said that he believed In dancing, and that if he followed his honest conviction he would have danc ing in the schools, especially in the neighborhood meetings, where parents could go with their children. "But I am coming here and trying to meet you more than half way," he said, "and trying to be entirely fair and courteous to you, so that we can decide this question to the best inter ests of all the people of the city. You must remember that we are here rep resenting everybody, and not a mere few. - If you knew me better, you would not accuse me of being unfair." Mrs. W W Williams, of the Wood lawn Parent-Teacher Circle; Mr. De Graff, W. N. Coffey and others warmly commended the fairness of the members of the committee at all times. Mr. McCulloch had previously de clared that he was especially impressed with the fairness with which the mem bers of the board and of the committee were trying to handle the question. "I desire especially to express my appre ciation of the Judicial temperament dis played by the board last Friday, and by members of the committee tonight," he said. stork's visit ill-timed Twins Left at Home of Man Oat of Work and Destitute. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Jan. 6. (Special.) An example of ill-timed generosity on the part of the stork was Wood-Lark Bldg. -Alder and West Park Truss Us- rom carries comfort and safety. Our truss-fitters are expert men and women. Our prices fair. SINGLE TRUSS, Sl.OQ UP DOUBLE TRUSS, gl.5Q UP HOT TEA BREAKS A COLD TRY THIS Get & small package of Hamburg Breast Tea,' or,- as the German folks call it, "Hamburger Brust Thee," at any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of boiling water upon It, pour it through a sieve and drink a teacup full at any time. It Is the most effective way to break a cold and cure grip, as it opens the pores, relieving congestion. Also loosens the bowels, thus breaking a cold at once. It is Inexpensive and entirely vege table, therefore liaxmiMs, A4t, f Clanks & Co (7$ Tomorrow, Men Manhattan Shirts Go On Sale ' There'll be many places where you can buy, but remember; at this store you'll be offered onTy the new fabrics and the new colorings, for eveiy shirt is of the present season, spic and span ready; for service. Reductions Are Generous $1.50 Manhattan Shirts $1.15 $2.00 Manhattan Shirts $1.35 $2.50 Manhattan Shirts $1.85 $3.00 Manhattan Shirts $2.25 $3.50 Manhattan Shirts $2.65 $4.00 Manhattan Shirts... ...$2.85 $5.00 Manhattan Shirts $3.55 The fabrics are madras, percale, silk and linen, pure silk, Scotch flannel Men's Suits, Overcoats and Raincoats -All Greatly Reduced All Boys' Clothing Reduced Ladies' and Misses' Suits and Coats All Greatly Reduced BEN SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER Morrison Street at Fourth Sole Portland Agent Dunlap and Brewer Hats reported to the County Commissioners today by a man who a month ago asked help because he was destitute, without work and had a family of nine children and a wife to care for. Today he re ported the stork had left twins. The Commissioners gave the asked for aid. LOAN AGENTS ARE LOSERS Speculators in Old City Warrants Are Unable to Collect. Speculators who have been busy for a week or two digging up old city warrants and obtaining assignments from the persons to whom the war rants are made out found yesterday that their work has been unprofitable. When they appeared at the Auditor's office for payment City Auditor Bar- bur refused to recognize them. The warrants for the most part are for election services, and have not been paid because the owners have never claimed them. Loan agents obtained the names of the persons to whom they were made out and procured as signments of the amounts from .hese people. Auditor Barbur holds that inasmuch if: yf 2f PADEREWSKI says of the STEIN WAY PIANO 5 PADERETWSKI, not only the greatest Pianist in the world today, but the greatest Pianist the world has ever heard, will play at the Armory Friday, January 9. PADEREWSKI says of the STEINWAY "Although I Tas delighted and inspired faith the Stein rvecs Piano at my first concert, my enthusiasm and inspira tion increased at my second concert, and became still greater at the third, and thus it has gone on crescendo until my present tournee, during which my joy in the grandeur, the power and the ideal beauty of the tone and the perfec' lion of touch and mechanism is unbounded." S The STEINWAY is universally acknowledged as the STANDARD by which all pianos are judged. Paderewski Makes Records Exclusively for theVictor p . ( Floor...... rices i Balcony Seats now selling at Sherman JPay &Go. VICTOR TALKING MACHINES BTEINWAT, WEBER Morrison at Sixth, Portland, Opp. Postoffice as ha does not know that the assign ments are legitimate he, has no author ity to pay the amounts. SIX WIDOWS GET PENSIONS Lincoln County Court Kejccts Peti tions of Two. TOLEDO, Or., Jan. 6. (Special.) The Lincoln County Court has granted pensions to six widows, the amounts averaging $18.75 a month. The application of one widow with nine children and 240 acres of land, nine cows and a horse was rejected, as was one from a widow who has money in the bank. Struble Is Indorsed. LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 6. (Special.) The Lewiston Commercial Club in dorsed the appointment of Walter R. Struble by the Governor as a repre sentative to act with similar commis sioners from Oregon and Washington to confer with the United States Gov ernment officials for making thorough Investigation of power and navigation possibilities on the Columbia and Snake Rivers, along the lines between the three states. $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00 $2.50t $2.00. $1.50. $1.00 Sherman, Clay & Co.'s. AND OTHBR PIAltOS PIANOLAS