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TIIT MOltXIXG OREGOIHAX, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1914. MOVE IS IDE 10 REFER METER PLAN Citizens' Committee Is Formed . to Organize Work for Ref k erendum on Scheme. MASS MEETING IS PLANNED Volunteer Organization to Circulate Petitions to Be Launched. Collecting Penalties Under Tax Law Opposed. 3.i Preliminary steps toward invoking the referendum on Commissioner Daly's $500,000 water meter ordinance were taken Tuesday night at a meeting of citizens in the office of W. L. Boise, in the Railway Exchange building. The meeting began as a session of a special committee appointed by the Taxpayers' Association to investigate the water meter situation and report its findings. It developed soon after . V. Conway, as chairman, had called the gathering to order that every per son present was opposed to the costly metering plan. Mr. Boise suggested that the original committee dissolve and form a citizens committee to or ganize the preliminary work for the referendum, and the plan was adopted Mr. Conway was made chairman of the new committee and G. "W. Gordon secretary. Its other members are Hoger Sinnott, Henry Hahn. P. W. Goldapp. W. L. Boise, G. A. Bogt and Dr. William Deveny. Persons opposed to the meter plan will be selected from every part of the city as members of a general referen dum committee. After a preliminary meeting of this general committee it is planned to call a mass meeting in the Central Library, at which a volun teer organization of petition circula tors will be formed. "Volunteer to Do Work." "Practically all the work will be Gone by volunteers," said Mr. Boise. "If we Interpret right the sentiment of our committee this referendum will carry overwhelmingly. I feel certain that we can get all the signatures re quired in two weeks' work. With vol unteer circulators and volunteer work generally I don't expect the whole cost of preparing petitions and circulating them to exceed $100." His views were emphasized by others. It was the general feeling that public sentiment stronsrly against the ex penditure yf $500,000 for equipping the city with meters. Mr. Conway said that in view of the practically unanimous stand taken by the various improvement clubs against the meters, he thought much of the or ganization work could be handled through them. With Mr. Conway as chairman, a EUb-committee composed of Leo Pried, representing the West Side, and W. L. Boise and L .II. Wells representing the East Side, was appointed to begin the eelecting of the general referendum committee. Tax Law May Be Attacked. Earlier in the evening, acting as rep resentatives of the Taxpayers' Asso ciation, those present decided to rec ommend action to restrain the County treasurer irom attempting to collect penalties exacted under tho ntW tax law from persons who have paid half of their taxes. Under the law a penalty f 1 per cent a month, beginning with May, is exacted cn the unpaid half of tho taxes. Roger B. Sinnott reported that hs had interviewed members of the city government, of the School Board and some of the County Commissioners and that all had assured him their depart ments could get along without trouble on half the taxes until the regular time for payment of the other half in Septem- ber. as provided by the old law. Mr. Sinnott reviewed the increase of taxation for the past ten years in Portland and said that the burden had become almost intolerable, $9,000 000 being the sum the taxpayers must pay within a few weeks. This sum, said Sir. Sinnott, will be taken out of the channels of business at one time which he declared to be wholly un called for and unnecessary; It should be paid in quarterly payments as the money is needed, he said. "The only persons who will benefit with the collection of this great sum at one time," he said, "are the banks. We hope to get a decision of the court that will permit quarterly payments to be made, before April 1. While the law seems plainly against us. the courts are using equity and Justice in their decisions nowadays." Meter Support Voted Down. A motion to indorse the meter system adopted by the City Commission was voted down by a substantial majority at the meeting of the South Mount Tabor Improvement Association Mon day night The subject was discussed .u r" feter3n. George G. Root and others, who declared the meter system will b an expensive, never-ending bur den on the waterusers of Portland Sev eral favored the plan, but on a vote the indorsement was defeated The club discussed the erection of fireproof concrete and brick school houses, and it was the sentiment of the meeting that the cost of building school houses in Portland has become ex cessive. The club favored the slnirle etory united plan building as a substi tute for the concrete schoolhouses. Reports were received from the street committee to the effect that progress Is being made in the opening of new thoroughfares. It was the sense of the meeting that there should be a south entrance to Mount Tabor Park. Thompson School; Miss Etta Bailey, of the Failing School, and Miss Gertrude Great house, of the Chapman School all teachers spoke strongly in support of Mr. Rigler s book. Five argued against "Numbers Step by Step," including three members of parent-teacher associations Mrs. W. J. Hawkins, of the Atnsworth Associa tion; Mrs. B. E. Cogswell, of the Wood stock Association, and Mrs. Newton C Gauntt, and two teachers. Miss Eleanor McCarty, of the Ladd School, and Miss Jane Stearns, of the Washington High School. Those who favored the Rigler book held that it was "simple, clear, definite, efficient, accurate and sufficient." Tbe opponents declared it did not encourage mental processes of brain work in the child. Books were also presented for ad op tion by the following firms: Watson & White edition by Heath & Co, Stone- Mills edition by Benjamin H. Sanborn Wentworth-Smith edition by Ginn 4 Co., Hamilton's arithmetic by the American Book Company, Braden's reader and Williams' Mental Drill Book by the Educational Publishing Com pany. The matter of selecting a book was taken under advisement. NEW CHARGES ARE MADE LAWYER KLUG ACCUSED OP FORG. I.G TWO MORTGAGES. E TEXT DEBATE SEEMS TO FAVOR PORTLASD MAX'S PRODUCT. Opponents to "Numbers, Step by Step" Contend It Dors Aot Encourage Child' Own Brain Work. Interest at the public audience given the publishing houses of textbooks on arithmetic by the School Board Tuesday night hinged upon a heated debate as to the merit of the book "Numbers Step by Step" written by Frank Rigler, for merly superintendent of Portland schools. A wide degree of estimate was heard, both for and against the Rigler book, but the crowd, which overflowed the board chambers, was unmistakably favorable to the Portland man's book. Judging from the drift of the argument and the interchange of applause. Nine from the audience Fannie O. Porter, principal of the Falling School, W. H. Herrln. head of the commercial department of Lincoln High School; Mrs. Alevia Alexander, principal of the Lown8dae School; Miss Mary Harris, of the Failing School: Miss Aphla Dimlck, principal of the Brooklyn School; Miss Edith Wright, of the Eliot School; Alias It ha Cheaullo. of the Herman Verier Reports Making Loans f $1000 and $400 on Instruments Be Finds Are Worthless. Two more alleged false mortgages, said to have been issued by George Ludwlg Klug, a Portland attorney one to secure the loan of $1000 and the other to secure $400 were reported to District Attorney Evans Tuesday by Herman Vetter, to whom both the pre tended mortgages were made. Two new complaints charging Klug with issuing forged instruments were issued by Deputy District Attorney Mowry and warrants placed in the hands of a deputy constable for service. Klug was arrested last Friday charged with forgery of Circuit Judge Cleeton's and County Clerk Coffey's names to a pretended mortgage, on which he borrowed $400 from George Dudek. He was released on $2500 bond. Vetter came to District Attorney Evans and brought with him copies of what pretended to be mortgages, on which he said he had let Klug have $1400. The $1000 mortgage and note 1 was euppqsed to secure were signed by Hulda Herman, administratrix of the estate of Charles A. Herman. The note and mortgage were dated December 16, 1911, and purported to transfer "lot or tract No. eleven (11) of Lamargent Park No. two (2), containing six acres, more or less." and was payable three years from date, with interest at 8 per cent. On the back of the instrument were notations indicating that the instru ment had been received for record by "T. J. Cleeton, Judge for county of Multnomah County," and that the mort gage was recorded "in book probate on page 381, records of mortgages of said county." The smaller mortgage was made by W. E. Hankins, pretending- to secure the loan of $400 made by Vetter. PASSENGER PUT OFF TRAIN I. W. Conroy, Starting for Dying wife, Says He Imbibed Too Much. Weepinsr and struggling, I. W. Con roy was ejected from the train for St. Paul at the North Bank Station at 7 o'clock Tuesday night. He was taken to police headquarters by Patrolman Humphreys, charged with being drunk. Conroy told the police a pitiful story when booked at the jail. He said his wife was dying and that he lost the train through over-indulgence in liquor. Conroy will be released in time to catch the 9 o'clock train this morning. Bishop Cooke Is Elected. Bishop R. J. Cooke, the resident bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, was Tuesday elected chair man of the headquarters committee of the Anti-Saloon League of Oregon by the other members of the headquar ters committee. He succeeds Rev. Benjamin Young, D. D., who had held this office for many years. JUKES DESCENDANT DIES GALLOWS Woman Convicted as Accom- plice in. Murder Prays as Plew Is Executed. Bring .Back Its Gloss, Luster, i Charm and Get Bid of Dandruff. APPEAL DELAYS HANGMAN Prison Rules Prevent Final Sleet ing of Couple Mrs. Wake'eld's Case Appealed, and Sex Has Aroused Sympathy. HARTFORD. Conn.. March 4. James Plew, who murdered William Wake field at Middlebury last June In order that he might marry Mrs. Wakefield, was hanged early yesterday in the state prison at Wethersfield. In a cell in the "death row" near the execution chamber was Mrs. Wake field, under sentence of death for com plicity in the crime. She was origin ally sentenced to die with Plew, but by coincidence arguments were made for a new trial before the Supreme Court on the day she was sentenced to be hanged, the appeal acting as a stay of execution. Mrs. Wakefield was praying when Plew paid the penalty of the law. Plew requested permission to see Mrs. Wake field before he died, but this privilege was denied him by the prison rules. James Plew, a descendant of the Jukes family, which has produced. It is said, nearly a thousand degenerates, confessed the murder of William Wake field at Middlebury. June 22, 1913. in order that he might marry Mrs. Wake field. The two had been living to gether as husband and wife for some time. While Mrs. Wakefield looked on. Plew drugged Wakefield on the night of June 21 and then dragged him to a nearby woods, where he shot and stabbed him to death. If no error is found and the sen tence pronounced on Mrs. Wakefield is carried out, she will be the first woman to be hanged in Connecticut since Colonial days. Many prominent women and suffrage leaders through out the country have interested them selves in her behalf. To be possessed of a head of heavy. beautiful hair; soft, lustrous, fluffy wavy and free from dandruff is merely a matter of using a little Danderlne. It is easy and inexpensive to have nice, soft hair and lots of it. Just get a 2o cent bottle of Knowlton's Dan derine now all drus: stores recommend it apply a little as directed and within ten minutes there will be an appear ance of abundance; freshness, fluffiness and an incomparable jeioss and lustre. and try as you will you cannot find a trace of dandruff or falling hair; but your real surprise will be after about two weeks use, when you will see new hair fine and downy at first yes but really new hair sprouting out all over your scaip jjanclerlne Is. we believe, the only sure hair grower; destroyer of dandruff and cure for itchy scalp and it never fails to stop falling hair at once. If you want to prove how pretty and sort your hair really is. moisten a cloth with a little Danderlne and carefully draw It through your hair taking one small strand at a time. Your hair will be soft, glossy and beautiful in just a few moments a delightful surprise awaits everyone who tries this. Adv. halted as a suspicious character. Stros was removed to the County Jail re cently and had so far regained his strength as to be able to resist Sheriff Wcrd and Deputies when taken from the hospital. HERS BEGRUDGE LOAN ILLINOIS ASKED FOR 130,00 FOR FIGHT IJf COLORADO. SPAULDING ESTATE LISTED Inventory Gives Value at $124,874. Campbell Holdings $28,405. The inventory of the estate of Mor ton M. Spaulding, filed Tuesday by .Tames B. O'Shea, G. W. Bates and H. W. Fries, fixes the value at $124,- 874.0S. of which $105,450 is real estate and the remainder personal property. The real estate is situated in Multno mah and Clatsop counties. Mr. Spaul- dine died intestate February 2. Walter A. Campbell, the Gilliam County rancher who died in Portland February 3, left an estate valued by the appraisers at $28,405.14, according to the inventory filed by John Nelson, John Richmond and S. B. Couture. Mr. Campbell was Joint Representative from Gilliam, Sherman and Wheeler coun ties at the last session of the Legislature. "BIG TIM" HEALEY SINKS Special Policeman Shot on Duty in Critical Condition. Weakened by the effects of a second operation, "Big Tim" Healey, special of ficer and night watchman, shot two months ago while on duty on Portland Heights, is again in a critical condition ut St. Vincent's Hospital. Late last night Mr. Healey was reported resting easy and his remarkable fortitude is credited to the unceasing attention of his bride of three months. Healey fell wounded with two bullets through his body from the gun of Louis Stros. who with another man had been WEDDED FRITZI SCHEFF ALMOST GETS PROPOSAL Zealous Jsher Warns Mar. Won at Orpheum Performance Quentin In terviews Clever, Dainty Actress and Learns Things Hard to Reconcile. BT JOSEPH M. QUENTIN. IN dancing, singing, amateur opera and gymnasium work I have seen some young women in my time, and Frital Scheff bears the palm for fine physical appearance and dainty, ele gant shape. Fritzi's personal charm is as potent as ever .and so much is this so that a serious proposal of marriage was just about to be slipped over the footlights to her last night at the Orpheum, by a man who said he meant business, when a zealous usher warned him in time that In private life the fair Fritzi is now Mrs. Anderson. "Great ," said the chagrined would-be husband, "the last I heard of the lady's private affairs she had Just ceased being Mrs. John Fox. There's no chance for me around here. Guess I'll beat it." Ha did. The fact that a marriage proposal for Fritz! had been intercepted by a vigilant usher was not permitted to reach the little prima donna's ears, as her manager said he would not be re sponsible for artistic temperament. But, to get back to Fritzi Scheffs shape. She is apparently in as fine physical, condition as the athlete in good training, and as supple. She is neither stout nor thin just right. I was introduced to Fritzi Scheff as she reached her dressing-room after she had sung to the audience and made good as a singer. Her gown was chic, her hat saucy, her smile winning, and although sh wore long white kid gloves, she shook hands with hearty good-fellowship. "I eat what I like and when I like," said Fritxi, In reply to questions. "I do not avoid sugars and pastry, if 1 desire them, and I do not take gymna sium exercise, as that might not be good for my voice. Some folks won der why I don't get stout and ask me what I do to prevent it, and I reply: 'Nothing.' I don't fidget, I try to keep quiet and restful when I am not before the public, and I believe in mental phil osophy." "Do you long for home and cooking and that sort of thing?" "Of course." said Frltzi, in a pnzzled tone, "I really am a good cook and I pride myself on the way I make salad. But for the present I am engaged in professional stage work, because it Is my work in life, and the home life I long for some day must wait.. Profes sional work will in time get me the home." "In private life are you still Mrs. Fox?" I hazarded. "Sow. why will people interfere with my purely personal affairs?" said Fritziv in sudden wrath that melted away in a sudden sunny smile. "They pay to see me on the stage. Very well. Is not that all they are entitled to? The idea! But, since you have asked the question, I will answer it. In private life I am Mrs. Anderson. I married Mr. Ander son, who for two years was my leading man. I hate being alone. Mr. An derson keeps the part in life that 1 like hlra to keep. He never fusses about me at the theater and givs me what I like my liberty as an artiste at the theater. I have my manager and my husband if I call him to make all business arrangements for me at the theater. That is so nice." "Do you prefer vaudeville to what we may call the legitimate in opera, or comic opera?" "I have to be satisfied, just now," said Fritzi demurely. "I have got to live. In America the field for comic opera is becoming less. The taste of the theater-going public is changing. We are in a revolution. The result is high-class vaudeville and moving pictures. In these activities a man and his wife can visit a theater and listen to an artiste for one-quarter the price he would, have paid for grand or comic opera and leave tbe theater, if desired, in say 15 mintues. Take my own case, just now. In "Mademoi selle Modeste,' my late comic opera. I sang only three or four songs. In my present vaudeville engagement I sing about the same number of songs and 1 am only engaged for the two perform ances, 20 minutes or so each day be fore the public. Mr. Anderson is with me on this trip, of course. He is at the hotel now, and this Winter is en gaged in writing a play." Fritzi Scheff talked on in this strain for a few moments and then switched onto her private life, that private life of hers which she insists includes a quiet country home somewhere on the Long Island Sound, golf, tennis, riding horseback, sitting In but not driving an automobile, cooking and making fancy salads. Somehow Fritai's domesticity ' sur prised me. I noticed, however, that during our conversation she never mentioned children, and I can't think of those lovely hands mixing a salad and that arttstio personality fussing over a kitchen stove, intent on ham and for the other beloved one, who has to catch a. train on his way to work. Attention Called to Fact That $100,000 Contributed to Western Fed eration Is Still Unpaid. PEOKIA, 111., March 4. A plea for the loan of $150,000 to the international organization of the United Minework ers of America to carry on the labor war in Colorado precipitated a fight Tuesday at the convention of the Illinois Mineworkers. The resolutions commit tee had recommended immediate ap propriation of this sum, but in the mo ment of adjournment an effort was being made to submit the question to a referendum vote. Duncan McDonald, secretary of the state organization, In opposing the loan, called attention to the action of t Illinois State Board in lending $103,000 to the Western Federation of Miners. He said that this loan was for 90 days, and up to the present no re turn of the money had been made, al though u was past due. Other delegates asserted that if the wage scale conference at Philadelphia came to some agreement so that Illi nois miners knew what was before them they would feel they were in a position to send the money without further debate. They also said it would be unwise to lend this money to the West when it might be needed to care for the families of Illinois miners, who will be out of work until the new wage agreement is reached. FATHER DIESJN CHICAGO Portland Woman Notified of Death of Millionaire Parent. Henry Harms, millionaire railroad man and landowner, is dead at his home in Chicago, according to messages re ceived Tuesday by his daughters, Mrs. T. D. Condon. S05 Richmond street, St. Johns, and Mrs. August J. Krueger, 1515 East Tenth street. North. The estate is to be divided between four daughters and one son. Mr. Harms was 82 years old. He came lo the United States from Germany when he was 23 years old. He settled in Illinois almost immediately after his arrival In this country. Mr. Harms' property consisted of 20 miles of railroad In Illinois, and more than 1000 acres of land, besides large tracts of city property. LIXX yUuS XOW OUTKCX WOMEN Only 668 of Fair Sex Sign Names as Against 2200 of Sterner Sex. ALBANY, Or.. March 4 (Special.) More than three times as many men as women have registered In Linn County thus far. The total registration up to last Saturday night was 2S68, and of this number exactly 2200 were men. Only 668 women have signed the reg istration rolls here this year. The. reg istration of men and women by parties is as follows: Men. Women. Total. Republicans 1,1 SO 81 S 1.44S Democrats T0 107 D57 Prohibitionists l' 137 2S:i Progressives ......... 33 16 45 Socialists It 77 Independent 74 -4 US Miscellaneous ......... 1 1 Refused to state 8 I U Totals 2,200 068 2.868 Firemen Flan Exhibition. In connection with the annual dance of the Portland Fire Department, March 17. an exhibition fire drill will be held at the plant of the Pacific Bis cuit Company on North Eleventh street. About an hour before the dance begins a general alarm will be sounded, which will bring all the central fire ma chines and nearly 200 men to the scene of the "fire." Exhibitions will be given of wall- 20 Extra Stamps 20 Thursday, Friday and Saturday Spraying Season Is at Hand UMBRELLAS 1 JUST RECEIVED 15 and 18-inch handles. We are now show ing the latest styles in umbrellas Tor Spring anil Summer. You ean! buy the well known " India " frame here. Prices $1.50 to $6.0O - All umbrellas are guaranteed. Special: $1.50 val., trood water - proof fabric, eisrlit ribs, $1.09 in 1 "Morse" Flower and Vegetable Seeds Fresh and True to Name A very complete assortment in 5S 10?, 15? pack ets. Lawn Grass, NO weed seeds, pound - 25 ? White Clover Seed, genuine, ' pound. . .25 SPECIAL ON SUITCASES ii For three days only we offer Genuine Cowhide Suit Case, extra heavy straps all around, reinforced corners, catches, good lock, either 24 or rt O C 26-iuch lengths, for tPUtUU This case is usually sold by others for $10.00. 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