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y K 2 GAME AND FISH JOBS ABE CREATED More Moneyfor Salaries Resultant Need. REORGANIZATION IS IN SECRET Member and Clerk of Commis sion Become Head Wardens. FIN LEY, CLANTON SHIFTED Ex-Masters of Two Departments Also Get Redaction In Salaries Gov ernor Keeps in Close Touch "With Proceedings. SALEM, Or.. Feb. 11. (Special.) Although retrenchment of expenditures had long: been heralded, more money for salaries was made necessary by the State Game and Fish Commission at a meeting behind closed doors to day at which the two departments vir tually were reorganized. Appointment of their own deputies by the newly named Master Fish and State Game Wardens was provided. Two new positions, to which Game Warden Finley and Fish Warden Clan ton were appointed at reduced salaries, were created, while C. H. Evans, mem ber of the Commission, was made State Game Warden and Theodore Opsund, clerk of the Commission, was appointed Master Fish Warden. (salary lucrcw SIOOO Yearly. The increase in aggregate salaries Is 11000 a year. Mr. Finley was appointed superin tendent of the educational and biolog ical department and R. E. Clanton will be superintendent of hatcheries. Both positions were created at the meeting:. ' The salary of each will be S3400 a year. Their salaries as Master War dens were $3100 each. State Game Warden Evans and Mas ter Fish Warden Opsund will receive salaries of $2100 a year. "" - Governor In Close Touch. While Governor West was not pres ent, he was in close touch with the members of the Commission during the meeting and, it is believed, his desires wero followed to the letter. Before the meeting the Governor sent the Commission a letter recommending an annual saving over the expenditurei of last year $37,500 and during the meeting he accepted the resignation of C II. Evans, as a. Commissioner, so he could be appointed Game Warden. It was announced that Mr. Opsund would serve as clerk of the Commis sion, as well as fill the office of Master Fish Warden. Quick Change llifcutcd. Mr. Evans remained a member of the Commission, actively participating in tho deliberations until it came time to name him State Game Warden, when "Presto!" A messenger arrived from Governor West with the announcement that Mr. Evans' resignation as Commis sioner has been accepted. Commissioner Clifford moved that Mr. Evans be up pointed State Game Warden and the motion was carried by unanimous vote. Announcement was made that the new Game Warden and the new Master Fish Warden would employ all field men, which constitute the larger part of the employes. The. plan considered at a former meeting to divide the state into four districts, was not adopted, although the Game and Fish Wardens were in formed they could do that If they liked. Finley and Clanton Silent. It also was announced that the sug gestion of Governor West that the ex penses bo cut would be adopted. While evidently not pleased with the reductions of their salaries, Messrs. Clanton and Finley said they had noth ing to say on the subject. Both indi cated they would continue their work. Mr. Opsund said he could attend to the duties of Master Fish Warden and those of clerk without any trouble. Governor West said he had no one under consideration as a successor of Mr. Evans as Commissioner, but of one thing he was certain, and ttiat was ex penditures could be reduced In the de partment. Floyd Biljeu, chairman of the Commission, said the cost of main taining; the department would be ma terially reduced. M. J. Kinney opposed the appoint 1 ment of Mr. Clanton as superintendent of hatcheries, and George H. Kelly voted against the creation of the office. Minutes Give Insight. The following excerpts from the min uses, as prepared by Mr. Opsund, give an idea of what transpired, so far as the minutes contain it. at the meeting behind closed doors: "A communication, under date of February 11. from Governor West with references to the reorganization of the fish and game service was read, after which Mr. Kelly moved, seconded by Mr. Evans, that the recommendation of the Governor be ordered filed with the secretary, having acknowledged receipt thereof, advising the Governor that same would have careful attention. Mo tion carried unanimously. "Mr. Kelly moved, seconded by Mr. Evans, that the. heads of the various departments be required to prepare and submit to the Board at its next meet ing a careful budget of the expenses of their respective departments against the various funds for the year ending .(Concluded on, Page BUZZ OF SAWMILLS, LONG IDLE, IS NEAR MANY SOTjTITWEST WASHINGTON PliANTS TO START SOOX. O.-AV. It. & Jf. Company Kinds Period of Activity Near, In Survey of Conditions. More than a dozen lumber and shin gle mills in Southwestern Washington that have been idle through the Win ter months are arranging to resumo operations within the next few weeks. Traffic officials of the O.-W. B, & N. Company recently started a canvass of the situation to determine the possible extent of revival in the lumber trade in its territory. Reports already received are gratifying. They show that a steady Improvement is In progress. The Mutual Lumber Company at Tenino, It is learned, has arranged to start operations this week after an idleness of three or four months. Both Its mill and logging camp will become active. Tho Martin mill at Centralia will start work about March 1. Meanwhile some repairs to the plant are in prog ress. The Venness mill at Winlock, Wash., is another that is preparing to begin work again. The plant will be run ning full blast by March 1. it Is re ported. At Castle Rock the plant of the Bul land Shingle Company will resume ac tivity about March 1. It has been idle for several months. At various other places in the terri tory immediately tributary to the O.-W. R. & N. lines a resumption of operations is due within the next few weeks. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Feb. 11. (Spe cial.) The mills of the Harvey Milling Company, of this city, on the North Fork of the Lewis River, have resumed operations and are employing nearly 100 men. The Du Bois Lumber Company's mill In this city also recently resumed op erations. STUDENTS PUT ON HONOR University of Wisconsin Grants Sys tem, After Discussion. MADISON, Wis.. Feb. 11. Adoption of the honor system at the University of AVisconsin was announced today. Cases involving men students will come under the jurisdiction of the men's student court and cases involving wom en under the women's Judiciary com mittee. According to the system a stndent must refrain from giving. aid in exam ination as well as from receiving it. Honor agreements must be made by each class at the beginning of each semester. The faculty Tecognized the petition of the students for the honor system after discussions lasting five months. The system will apply to all colleges except' the law school and covers both graduate and undergraduate students. NEW JOB AWAITS MR. PEIL Former North Bank Official May Be J. D. Farrell's Assistant. Frank A. Pell, who resigned a few weeks ago as assistant secretary ol the North Bank Railway, probably will become connectea with the O.-W. R. &. N. Company in an executive capacity It is reported that ne Is to become as sistant to J. D. Farrell, president ol the O.-W. R. & N. Company. Mr. Peil returned a few days a?u from a vacation trip to California. Ht had been with the North Bank foi about six years and previously was with the Great Northern at St. Paul. He is regarded among railroad met generally as one of the most competent among the younger generation of offi cials on the Pacific Coast. MEN FAVOR; WOMEN FIGHT Wives Wage War on Saloons as Hus bands Ask Retention of Kuiii. VISALIA, Cal.. Feb. 11. (Special.) Five hundred women took part in at anti-saloon demonstration today, pa rading the streets of the city. Prior tc the parade the women organized them selves into an auxiliary to the Good Government League of Visalia ana pledged themselves to vote against the ordinance granting licenses to saloons Miss Carrie Barnett. teacher in the public schools, was elected president. The Merchants' Association adopted resolutions today favoring the reten tion of the saloons. The election will be held February 24. FLYER TOPS MOUNT BLANC Aviator Ascends Three 51 lies in Fog to Pass Over Peak. AOSTE, Department of Isere, France. Feb. 11. M. Parmelin. a young French aviator, flew over Mount Blanf today at a height of about three miles. He left Geneva, Switzerland, thU morning -after waiting a week for a clear day. When he rose the weathe; was splendid, but his aeroplane plungec into a thick fog on the French side ol the Alps. MOBS STONE PARLIAMENT Serious Disturbances Continued bj Japanese Agitators. TOKIO. Feb. 12-Serlous disturb ances have occurred in connection with agitation against the ministry at Osaka. Mobs stoned the Parliament building today. The disturbance is the outcome of the fight for lower taxes. PACIFIC in DEMANDED 111 SPIT Southern's Control of Central Attacked. "SUNSET" DECLARED FAVORED Portland Said to Have Been Deprived of Competition. LONG HAUL GOES SOUTH Ogdcn Gateway, .Government Con tends, Now Receives Only Such Trarflc as Southern Cannot Control for Its Other Routes. SALT LAKE CITT, Feb. 11. Alleging that Southern Pacific control and op eration of the Central Pacific con stitute a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act and of the railroad laws under which the roads were founded, Attorney-General McReynolds, through District Attorney Ray,, filed suit in the United States District Court today ask ing for a complete dissolution ' of the relations alleged to be existing between the two lines. The Government also seeks to enjoin the Southern Pacific Company from voting Central raciflc stock or deriving any profit from that line pending dis position of the suit, and asks that the Central Pacific be enjoined from recognizing the Southern Pacific con trol.. Line Declared Competitor. The petition sets out that the South ern Pacific Company owns and operates the "Sunset Route," a joint rail-and-water service between New York City and Pacific Coast points in California and Oregon, consisting of its "Atlantic Steamship Lines" from New York to New Orleans and Galveston and Its railroad lines, those from Gulf ports to the Pacific Coast, and that the Cen tral Pacific, with its connections, is a natural competitor of this route. It Is further set out on information and belief that if the Central Paclflo were free to c:t In its own Interest it would build its own line from Natron, Or., to Portland, thus providing two competi tive railroads between San Francisco and Portland in place of the present dingle railroad. Connected Line Intended. The Government takes the position that the Pacific railroad laws, which -Concluded on Page B. IF YO(j HA V VO fA VOfity i RGlSlBHBpfJ HAVE YOU GfSr " 74 P'cZ wJii s'Tosvm. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. S3 degrees; minimum, 40 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; winds mostly southerly. Foreign. Divorce suit follows daring pose of London beauty. Page 3. , National. Portland's death rate lowest of any city in llnited States. I'ago L Senators confer with President in trust programme. Page 7. Unmerging of Southern and Central Pa clflo demanded by Government. Page 1. Partners taxed on Incomes even though money is left in business. Page 4. Domestic. Bones of antedlleuvlan man believed found in asphalt beds of California. Page L "Witnesses testify lumberman who cut oft own lamlly in will was demented. Page 3. Monroe's captain 'says Nantucket ignored wireless inquiry. Page 2." Copper miners certify they were treated harshly. Page 2. ' Missionary tells of three-year hike on hunt for lost 'wife and son. Page 5. 1 Sports. ' Columbia five' makes high score In defeat- ing Academy. Page 12. Oregon basketball team to play Multnomah Club tonight. Page' 12. McLoughlln scores Wilding's tennis amend ment idea to Improve game. Page 12. Evcrs refuses to play with Boston or sanc tion deal by which Murphy benefits. Page 12. Pacific Northwest. House eats near Baker now affected with rabies. Page 6. Seven Linn County cities organize. Page 7. Several sites for interstate- bridge location on Vancouver side are considered. Page 8. Southwest Washington development body meets tomorrow. Page 6. Oregon Fish ar.d Game Commission creates new Jobs. Page 1. Converts to hog raising Increase In South ern Oregon. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Hop buying attracted by lower range of prices. Page IT. Selling over holiday checks advance In wheat at Chicago. Page 17. Stock market not affected by. filing ol Southern Pacific suit. Page 17. Tonnage floated in United States shows de crease. Page 16. Low rate on grain to Orient declared reached. Page 12. " Portland and Vicinity. Many sawmills of Southwest Washington soon to resume. Page 1. Meeting at Armory and banquet at Mult nomah in Lincoln Society's celebration. Page 2. Honor to Lincoln wilt be general in Port land today. Page 1. Ad Club session puts Tower of Babel to shame. Page 11. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Railroad dissolution suit may result in rush-' ing Natrou-Klamath cut-off. Page IS. Dolph block, near City Hall, committee's choice for auditorium site. Page 11. Receiver Hunt to keep "seized" cashier books on permission of Judge Gatena. Page 16. Oregon Irrigation Congress this year to be for ditch-users first. Page 11.- Plot of Fish and Game Commission likely means political machine. Page - Associated Press re-establishes leg Portland bureau, page 4. WAGE INCREASE GRANTED Union of Indianapolis Streetcar Men, However, Not Recognized. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 11. An In crease of wages was granted, but the streetcar men's union was not recog nized in the decision given today by the State Public Utilities Commission In the controversy between the local streetcar company and Its employes. NOW IS THE TIME TO REGISTER. I IT JTsl rT S M PORTLAND TO PAY TO Schools and Patriotic Bodies Pay Tribute. PARADE BIG FEATURE TODAY Veterans of Two Wars and Militiamen Will March. BANQUETS WILL FOLLOW Day Devoted to Memory of Emanci pator on 105tli Anniversary of His Birth, Will Close With Dancing This Evening. PRINCIPAL ENTERTAINMENTS TODAt. 11 A. M. Programmes in all pub lic schools of the city,- under the auspices of the Lincoln Memorial Society, with special speakers 'sent from the society. 2:30 P. M. Patriotic programme under the auspices of the Lincoln Memorial Society, held at the Arm ory. Award of prizes for school es says on Lincoln. 6:30 P. M. Annual banquet of tho Lincoln Memorial Society at tha Multnomah Hotel. 7:30 P. M. Progressive Business Men's Club Lincoln day dinner and dance at Multnomah Hotel. 8:30 P. M. Lincoln day dances given by the Scottish Kite Masons at the Masonlo Cathedral, by tha Woodmen of the World at the Arm ory and by various other fraternal organizations. Under the auspices of the Lincoln Memorial Society the principal features of the celebration of the 105th anni versary of the birth of Abraham Lin coln will be given In Portland today. Veterans, of the Grand Army of the Republic, Spanish "War Veterans and other organizations will participate in the celebration. ' Schools -to Hold Exercises. Every, school . in the city will hold patriotic exercises at 11 o'clock and a speaker appointed by the Memorial So ciety will give the occasional address. The schools will not be dismissed du ing the day, but the members of the boys drum corps and the prize-winners in the Lincoln essay contest will (Concluded on Page 2.) yVOV?5 YOU " You? W4 HONOR LINCOLN PORTLAND DEATH RATE IS LOWEST OXLY 11 PEKSOXS OP EVERY 1000 DIE IN C1TV IX YEAR. Government Statistics Show Public Health Conditions of Entire Xation Satisfactory. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. A satisfac tory condition or the public health in 1913 is indicated by the general death rate of 13.8 per 1000 of estimated popu lation in the registration states and cities, statistics for which the Census Bureau announced today. The rate for the same territory In 1912 was 13.6 and in 1911 was 13.9 per 1000. Of the 18 registration states. Mary land, with 16.3 per 1000, showed the highest rate; Minnesota, with 10.7, the lowest. Other states' rates were: Cal ifornia, 13.4; Colorado, 11.9; Connecti cut, 14.4; Indiana. 12.8; Kentucky, 13.4; Massachusetts, 14.7; Michigan, 13.1: Missouri, 12.4; Montana, 13.0: New Hampshire, 14.1; New Jersey, 14.7; New York, 15.2; Ohio, 13.1; Utah. 11.6; Ver mont, 12.6; Wisconsin. 10.9. Of the 45 registration cities, Port land, Or., with 11.0 per 1000, showed the lowest rate; Memphis, with 22.9, the highest. Other cities' rates were: Los An geles, 14.9; Oakland, Cal., 12.3; San Francisco, 16.7; Denver, 14.6; Wash ington, 17.5; Atlanta, 17.3; Chicago, 17.1; Indianapolis, 16.3; Louisville, 17.2; New Orleans, 21.3; Baltimore, 19.4; Bos ton. 17.2; Detroit, 19.2; Minneapolis, 13.0; Kansas City, 16.3; St- Louis, 16.2; Omaha, 15.3; New York. 16.2; Cincin nati, 17.2; Cleveland, 15.7; Columbus, 16.2. ELECTION BILL IS PASSED Temporary Method for Selection of Senators Is Provided. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. Without a rollcall the Senate passed a bill today to provide a. temporary method for the nomination and election of Senators In States that have not legislated to carry out the 17th constitutional amendment for the direct election of Senators. An amendment to make the measure apply only to elections was defeated, 37 to 16. The law will be effective only until tho various states provide their own machinery for nominating and electing Senators. Where no such methods are provided the bill win make the state laws for nominating and electing state officers applicable to Senators. The only fight, against the measure came from Southern Senators. PASTOR AWAY, WIFE QUITS Rev. Adolpli Gaudlitz Says He Re turned to Find Self Divorced. After a visit of about two months in California points Rev. Adolph Gaudlitz returned home last week and found that he was divorced and that he had been deprived of his personal property and a ten-acre tract of land near Troutdale, so he alleged In a petition filed yesterday ny Attorney C. J. Schna bel to reopen the divorce proceedings. Rev. Mr. Gauditz, who is a retired German Lutheran preacher, said that he went south in December because of his health and on the advice of his wife, Mrs. Theresa Gaudlitz. During his absence he says his wife secured a di vorce, through Attorney A. E. Hooker, alleging desertion as a cause, service being had by publication. JUDGE WATTERS RECEIVER Kinney Property on Coos Bay, Worth Nearly $1,000,000, to Be 'Sold. MARSH F I ELD, On Feb. 11. CSpo clal.) Judge Virgil E. Watters was to day appointed reoeiver for the Kinney properties by Judge Lawrence T. Har ris, of Eugene, who came here to make the appointment. Fred K. Gettins was appointed guardian for I T. Kinney to answer a suit in equity brought by Fred Holllster and H. J. Issacs. of North Bend. L. D. Kinney is in a sanitarium in San Francisco. The receiver will sell the property that is variously esti mated at from $500,000 to SI, 000,000, when the suit is finished in the Cir cuit Court, some time within the next two months. EXPRESS DIVIDEND IS CUT Adams Company Affected by Parcel Post, W all Street reels. NEW TORK, Feb. 11. The Adams Express Company today reduced its quarterly dividend from $3 to $1.50 a share. The company lias been paying dividends at the rate of $12 a year since 1903. The company announced that today's distribution was to be paid out of Its "accumulated revenue from investments." It was assumed In the financial dis trict that decreased earnings due to the establishment of the parcel post was chiefly responsible for the reduc tion. POSTAL BILL IS SWELLED Appropriations of $310,000,000 Largest Ever Known. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. Nearly J5. 000,000 had been added to the total of the postoffice appropriation bill as it passed the House when the Senate com mittee completed today its work on the measure. It carries 1310,000,000, the largest amount ever appropriated for postal purposes. Maximum salaries for rural mail carriers would be increased under the bill to $1200. the total Increase for this purpose amounting to 11,350,000. ANTEDILUVIAN MAN F01DKPHALT Find Believed First in North America. AGE MAY BE 200,000 YEARS Bones of Mammoth Bear Lie Near Skeleton of Pigmy. THEORY IS STRENGTHENED University of California Scientists l-'ind Additional Reasons for Believing Asia and America Onco United. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11. The skele ton of what appears to have been a prehistoric pigmy, less than three feet in height, is on its way today from tho asphalt beds of La Brea to the Smith sonian Institution in Washington. It the genuineness of the find is veri fied there, the La Brea skeleton will take place in the history of anthro pology as the first remains of ante diluvian man found on the North American Continent. "To my mind," said Director Frank: Daggett, of the Museum of History. Science and Art. under whose direc tion the excavations have been carried on, "there can be no doubt that these bones are those of a man. To what geographical period he belonged must be a matter of conjecture. Only care ful researches yet to be made can de termine the truth." Find May Be 200,000 Yearn Old. Indications are that the skeleton be longs to the pleistocene period, rough ly Placed at 200.000 years ago. First was found the skull, last Friday. Since then the remainder of the skeleton, said to be in an excellent state of preservation, have been scraped from their casing of asphalt with the most minute and painstaking care. Near by was the trunk, still erect, of a tree, the top of which was overlaid by 20 feet of asphalt. Close to the tree trunk were the bones of a mammoth bear, of a species already classified as belonging to the pleistocene period. Aleutian Theory Fortified. Scientists of the University of Cali fornia have contended that North America and Asia were at one time Joined, and that, geologically speaking the backbone of the continent was in the Aleutian Islands. Across this neck of land. they believe. came the eohippus. the little two-toed progen itor of the domestic horse. The find at La Brea, ir It proves what it seems, will strengthen their contention that there once was an in terchange of life between the two con tinents. FLYER TO CHANGE ENGINES Christofferson to Return Home by Train for Xew Machinery. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11. Silas Christofferson, the San Francisco avi ator who left this city Monday morn ing for a pathnnding flight to San Diego told Mrs. Christofferson by long-distance telephone tonight from Bakers field that he would take the next train for home to procure a stronger engine for his biplane. The aviator's second attempt to cross the Tejon Pass, 3600 ieet, convinced him that his engine was not sufficient ly pbwerful to accomplish the most dif ficult part of his aerial journey. SUFFRAGISTS CALL RALLY Mass Meetings From Coast to Coast to Memorialize Congress. NEW TORK. Feb. 11. The official board of the National Woman Suffrage Association today issued a call to the suffragists of the country to rally at an open mass meeting on Saturday, May 2, in every city, village and ham let from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The signal is to be a trumpet call, to which suffragists are to respond by singing a hymn and to adopt at the time a Nation-wide resolution, to be presented to Congress, demanding political freedom for American women- SCHOOLS ADD 3600 PUPILS Figures Now 2 7,259; In September C 3,6 6 4 Kstlraates Exceeded. Public schools of Portland have mads a gain of 3600 in registration since the opening of the September term. The total registration as announced yesterday by the Superintendent of Schools is now 27,259, while the enroll ment on the first dair of school in Sep tember was 23.664. All high schools of the city show an Increase in attendance somewhat above estimates made in the office of the Superintendent. Mrs. Ward Entertains Royalty. LONDON, Feb. 11. The King and Queen were the guests at dinner to night of Mrs. John Hubert Ward, at Dudley House. Mrs. Ward, before her marriage, was Miss Jean Reid, daugh ter cf the American Ambassador.