Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1914)
9 DECLARATIONS OF 11 OF 12 ASPIRANTS IN Illegally held in Theodore Wolszewskf- ard, he eeemed a. shade too positive. How sure are you T' asked the ser geant. "All chickens look pretty much like, don't they?" Housewife Save about $ 1 2 and relieve your self of the drudgery of sweeping and ironing. From April 15th to June 1st by special arrangement we are enabled to offer you "Not my chickens." protested Pom- olski. "They like me and they like heir own home. They'd come bacK n a minute if they could get out of Wolszewski's yard, just like homing pigeons." Detective Serjeants Golden and Ala. oney were sent to make the expert Four More Urged by Taxpayers for Representatives Com ply With Requirements. mert They opened the Bate of the Wolezewski yard and out walked the duck, followed by the chickens. Un ostentatiously joining the flock and rying to look as much like chickens as possible, so there might be no hitch. lie Simplicity Sweep Cleaum the detectives trailed the duck. A quarter of a mile away the duck OTHER CANDIDATES ENTER EX-GAME WARDEN WILL BK BIR1ED TODAY. THE OIORNIXa OKEGOXIAN, TUESDAY, APRIL. 7, 1014. Kelson Jt. Jacobson, Filing for Re publican Nomination for Con gress, Declares in Kavor of Pushing River Work. SALEM, Or.. April 6. (Special.) With the filing of declarations today of Lloyd J. Wentworth, S. B. Huston, John Gill and S. B. Cobb, all the ticket except one of the 12 men asked by citl zens of Multnomah County to become aspirants for representative in the Leg islature have filed with Secretary of State Olcott. Those who had men the requirement of the law before today were Ben Selling, Dr. Andrew b. fcmitn. Oscar W. Home, E. V. Littlefled, Louis Kuehn, Plowden Stott and D. C. Lewis. These aspirants have the same plat form, which is as follows "In response to. a large petition from taxpayers, urging me to be a candidate for the purpose of securing relief to the taxpayers, I am now a candidate. If elected I will oppose all useless boards and commissions. There are nearly 100 stateboards, commissions and commissioners handling public money. Many of these perform serv ice of value, but there should be a gen. eral consolidation in the interest of co ordination, harmony and economy. Lower taxes next year and thereafter will be the end I will seek. Please print after my name on the primary ballot the following: "Taxpayers" can didate. Lower taxes in the future.' Mr. Jackson Gives Platform. Nelson R. Jacobson. of Portland, seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in the third district, favors liberal appropriations for Columbia River imnrovements and everything to promote the interests of Oregon. He favors legislation compelling the State to enfranchise women. He op poses "prohibition that does not pro hiblt," and favors strict enforcement of the liquor laws regulating the traf fic. Mr. Jacobson wants the civil serv ice laws reformed to "give practical men preference over the theoretical. A. V. Flegel, of Portland, who filed a declaration as an aspirant for the Democratic namination for Congress in the Third District, says "I "will -during my term of office give the public business the same at tentlon that has heretofore been given to my private business. "Favor only such measures and com missions as are of direct public benefit' is the slogan of W. 11. Downing. sublimity, who seeks the Democratic nomination for State Senator in th First District. The following aspirants for Republican nominations for Repre sentative in the Legislature were filed today: Mr. Crouse Ur-cea Lower TaiM. Tom Crouse, Salem, First District platform: "Reduction of taxes; fewer commissions and office holders; re vision or voters registration law; pay ment of taxes semi-annually and re duction of penalties; repeal of many frivolous and vexatious laws; enact ment of fewer laws; rigid economy in the expenditure of public funds." J. M. W. Bonney, Woodburn, First District: slogan: "Endeavor to repeal worthless laws, abolish worthless com missions and oppose extravagant ap propriations." A. C. Libby, Jefferson, First Dis trict; slogan: "Fewer laws and com missions; taxes payable in install ments." Everett Logan, Portland, Eighteenth District; slogan: ".ew laws, more justice, personal responsibility for officials." Forrest S. Fisher, Portland, Eigh teenth District; slogan i v.- t m Peter O. IllUitrom. VANCOUVER, Wash.. April 6. (Special.) The funeral services of Peter O. Hilstrom. Game War den and Deputy Sheriff of Clarke County, who was killed by the overturning of an automobile into Salmon Creek yesterday, will be held at the Knapp Chapel, at 1:15 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Walter Irving Beck, pastor of St. Paul's English Lutheran Church, will officiate. Washing ton Lodge No. 4. A. F. & A. M., will have charge of the funeral and will escort the body to the Port land Crematorium, leaving Van couver on the 2:15 P. M. ferry. Mr. Hillstrom was recently in itiated into the Eastern Star. He had been a member of the Mod ern Woodmen of America for 15 years. The County Commissioners adopted resolutions of respect to day and ordered the Court House closed during the funeral hour. The Court House flag is flying at hslf mast. and your choice of two other electric appliances, a combination averaging in price over $50.00, for $ 3 Down $ 3 a Month (tffa less than cost of "Sweep Clean" Qjt The " simplicity'" is light, strong and simple to operate. It has our absolute endorsement and guarantee. Make your reservations at once. Here are a few of the combinations to choose from at $39: $40.00 4.00 10.00 Sweep Clean , Percolator . . . G. E. Toaster ..$40.00 .. 7.50 .. 3.75 tcrnea into an open gate. So did Tne chickens. The detectives trailed, noting that the yard surrounded No. 8622 Houston avenue. "See!" cried Pomolski. "This is where I live!" So Pomolski kept his chickens and Wolszewski was fined flO in the South Chicago court. V Sweep Clean . -f ,mVi aSv V Toaster X gk : Chafing Dish AJBmA Reg.Price $54.00 j it mi-ii iiiBTr - 'i -jit i.inr.--.. ! ir ' Reg. Price .$51.25 Sweep Clean $40.00 8-in. Elec Fan.. 9.75 G. E. Toaster 3.75 Reg. Price $53.50 Sw'p Clean .$40.00 El Grillo . . . 5.00 Percolator .. 7.50 Swp Clean .$40.00 G. E. Grill ... 8.75 Hot P't Iron 3.50 Reg. Price ..$52.50 Reg. Price ...$52.25 Remember You Can Make Reservations Now Portland Railway Light & Power Co. Portland Salem Vancouver tion; fewer commissions; lower taxes." C. W. Brant, Salem, First District slogan: "Fewer laws, economy in ex penses and appropriations and abolish ment of worthless commissions." Ivan G. Martin, Salem, First Dis trict; slogan: "Fewer laws, economy in expenses and appropriations and abolishment of worthless commis ions." Knterprlne Man Flies. Daniel W. Sheehan, of Enterprise seeks the Democratic nomination for Representative in the Legislature from the Twenty-Fourth District. His slogan is: . "Will work for the general weiiare or union ana Wallowa coun ties." John P. Rusk, of La Grande, speaker of the House in 1909, today filed his declaration as an aspirant for the Prograssive nomination for Represen tative in the Legislature from the Twenty-Sixth District. He favors re auction 01 expense or state govern ment, fewer commissions, two tax pay. menis witnout reoate, interest or penalty, non-partisan Judiciary, pro portional representation in the Leg islature ana a one-nouse Legislature. BRIDE WON AT PINOCHLE Rich Woman of 5 6 Unable to Resist Skill of Man of 25. PHILADELPHIA. April 2. William E. Diener Is back at work again after having eloped to Baltimore with Miss Margaret A. Getz, 56 years old. Diener is 25. 'No, I won't say anything about our marriage," he said. "We were married and that is all there is to it." Diener lives with his mother at 2554 South Darien street. He slipped away with Miss Getz without informing any of his friends or relatives. The bride is said to be worth nearly $200,000 and to be one of the largest real estate owners in the southern section of the city. She also is interested in. the coal business. According to friends of the two Diener met his wife about a year ago. "Less legisla. I Pinochle games were played every night First Drill in Sounding for Sup ports Goes 18 Feet. WORK DONE FROM SCOW with the drilling machinery. was moored near the foot of Washington street.- Now thatthe work has commenced, it will be continued until completed, or high water interferes. It is expected that it will require about a month, or more, to make the necessary borings. The traffic on the Vancouver ferry increases continually and it is pre dicted that by the time the bridge Is completed, the ferry will be unable to give adequate service. Eren now there are -many delays and when a funeral procession attempts to cross the Co lumbia River, it is sometimes broken in two sections. When the ferry gets within a few hundred feet of the Oregon shore, praatically the entire number of pas sengers crowd to the end or tne rerry, to be ready to run for the car at the tnn rf th nl 1 Tl Wtfk AM tn b Able tO ITPt 1 Tt.,nm.m- Tli.it HmlHtntf 4cCKCrtllnt All Traffic on Terry Declared Increas-1 infirm oersona consequently I " Improvement Jieips roorer reo- S1H6LETAX MENACED Increase of Two Mills in Levy Arouses Vancouver. CONVERTS ARE BEING MADE of G. R. Kittleson. on Burnt Ridge. 18 miles southeast of Chehalis. was dyna mited Thursday night. The perpetrator of the outrage is suspected, but no arrests have been made. KcLo May Buy Water Plant. KELSO. Wash.. April 6 (Special.) waterworks system will be up for con sideration by the Council tomorrow night. Mayor Hubbell has made an ex tensive investigation and submitted bis findings. he called at her home and several I weeks ago Diener asked Miss Getz to I marry him. His skill at pinochle seemed to have captured Miss Getz and she consented. When W. W. Meredith. a farmer at Wood. land. Alberta, Canada, dressed some ducks for local markets, he found the stomachs of several birds filled with flake gold, seven of tne pieces measuring irom a sixieenta to an eighth of an inch in diameter. Ing Itapidly and Conditions . lectins Car Service Said to Be Unsatisfactory. VANCOUVER. Wash., April 6. (Spe cial.) The first boring for the Colum bia River Interstate Bridge supports was done here today and bedrock was I found at a depth of 18 feet. The bcow, have little chance of proper accommo dation on the cars. The bridge will be built out os an extension of Washington street. Van couver, and will cross the Columbia! River at right angles. plo Said to Be Fallacy. Government More Costly. WHERE INTERSTATE BRIDGE WILL END IN VANCOUVER II S I TRAGEDY CAUSES SUIT - TSOO ASKED FOR DEATH OF BOY WHO TRIED TO SAVE GIRL. 30-YEAR MYSTERY LIFTS ;ro Convict, Dying, Tells Inmate of Murder. PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. April 2. A deathbed confession of a negro convict in the Lastern fenitentiary, officials say, has cleared the mystery of the dis appearance more than thirty years ago I of Francis K-lndt, a justice of the peace, from his home in Millport. Pa. The negro told a fellow convict that he was present when a man whose name he did not know was murdered and robbed on a mountain side near ftllllport and the body buried. FOOTBALL COST IS SHOWN Doctors and Drags at Princeton Cost $2 62 In One Month. NEW YORK. April 2 (Special.) The "Increased cost of college foot ball" is shown in the report of the Princeton Athletic Association for the year ended June 30, 1913, just submit ted. It cost J262.B5 for doctors and drugs In one month of the football season and J119.76 during another. The base ball team spent only JS2.34 for medical bills. FELIX'S FOWLS ARE HOMING Duck. In Lead, They Go Home When Thiers Garden Gate Opens. CHICAGO, April 3. When Felix Pomolski complained to the police of tne south Chicago station that one duck and a half hundred chickens jowned by him were being forcibly and if - : ii zK l --r i i i " .r ,- ' t? ft' i . - , T V- - - - WW I hjMfilm Father of Youth Who Soerlflcwd Life Says Southern Pacific Esglutr Was Careless. OREGON CITT, Or.. April 6 (Spe cial.) C. P. Hagen, father of Melvin Hagen, who lost his life In an effort to save Alma Summerfield January 7 while crossing the Molalla River tres tle, filed a suit against the Southern Pacific today in the Circuit Court for $7500 for damages due to the death of hi son. The father charges in his complaint I pose it mis year. ,'ANCOUVER, B. C April . (Spe- lal.) Following a recent Council meeting in which it was declared that an Increase of two mills in the taxa tion levy of Vancouver was impera tive, the impression Is widespread that next year Vancouver will go back to the taxing of improvements. For the ouuet. It la considered likely that 25 per cent valuation win be piaceo on Imnrovements.' The Council is at present consiuenng the taxing of improvements in an rouver. which has been widely heralded as the single tax city or. Canada. Alderman Mahon. chairman ot tne fire and police committee, declared the Council should return to an improve ment tax. banishing the "single tax.' for both economic and financial rea aonn. Alderman Crowe Is another advocate of an improvement tax. but said he believes it would be a mistake to lra- that C. H. Kenny, the engineer in charge of the train, was "reckless. careless and Incompetent." and that his eyesight was so weakened that he was compelled to wear spectacles. -Me xur- ther alleges that Kenny, "prior to Jan- Mayor Baxter, although a single taxer. is considering the question, al though he says a return to the im provement tax would be inadvisable this vear. Alderman Crowe aeciarea mat tne uary 7, 1914. had killed 21 persons, all I assessments of downtown property are Known to tne piaintni. The train was an hour late and was running at a speed of 40 miles an hour at the time the tragedy happened. I says the plaintiff. He avers that the track north of the trestle is straight and that a capable and competent en gineer could have stopped the train up to. or even above, what could be obtained for the sites. The "single tax" was introduced under the plea that it would benefit the working man." said Alderman Mahon. to a Vancouver newspaperman. It has been found, however, that it does lust the reverse. It places an before it reached the spot where Miss I additional burden on him and takes it Summerfield and Melvin Hagen were. The tragedy happened at about 7:30 o'clock in the evening, when Melvin Hagen. Alma Summerfield and Rosa Summerfield were on their way from their home at Canby to Barlow. When almost across the trestle they heard the train and the three started to run. Alma Summerfield either fainted or 1 caught her foot and Hagen turned around ard seized her. They were hit by the train and thrown to the ground. 80 feet below. Each was 18 years old. Logger Killed Xear Doty. CHEHALIS. Wash.. April 6. (Spe- I clal.) Millard Workman, an employe in the logging camp of R. M. Griffith. near Doty, lost his life, and Swan Knudson was injured seriously. A log bounced off a stump and struck the two men. Workmen was killed instant ly and Knudsen sustained a broken leg and bad bruises. A orkman leaves widow and several small children. TOP FOOT OF WASHINGTON STREKT, WHERE BRlTJflB WILL LAND, BOTTOM LOOKING ACROSS RIV ER FROM VANCOUVER, THE CROSS MARKS OREGON LANDINU SIX Court Convenes at Kalama Today. KELSO. Wash-. April . (Special.) The April term of the Cowllts County Superior Court win convene at K lama. Tuesday. There are three crimi nal eases to be tried as the result of indictments by the recent grand Jury and three other criminal cases. off the business block owner, who well able to pay It. "I am a strong advocate oi a return to the tax on. .improvements. Look the expense of the Fire Department called for by the high buildings which the department must protect. Tnes buildings, making a revenue, should contribute to the upkeep of a fire brigade. 'A tax of 25 mills on Improvements, which are valued at $76,000,000. would give us $380,000. which would buy us nreboat, a water lower ana give money to spare. The proposed extra levy of Z mill would provide $$00,000 additional revenue, yet even with this addttio the estimates have had to be cut to the bone and are no greater than th corresponding ones lor the precedin year. Mayor Baxter (declared openly th before next year there would have be a change in the methods of assess ment. There is a strongly expressed sentl ment here that eventually Vancouve will be complied to relinquish the "single tax" for all time, although it Is thought probable the taxation improvements will be limited. Bnrnt Ridge Plant Dynamited. CHEHALIS, Wash., April . (Sp clal.) The sawmill boiler at the m The grmiilte statu of Kins Edward VII. recently dedicated at Aberdeen, la believed to be the first I ran He statue of a ruler Advisability of Kelso buying the local .rectd ulnre the day of the Pharoahs. Chehalis, Centralia.Tacoma, Seattle .Intermediate Stations Daily, Three Day Trains, One Night Train. Daily, Two Day Trains to Olympia, South Bend, Raymond And Daily to ABERDEEN, IIOQUIAM, Three Trains. Use the Pioneer Line Coaches, Smokinsr Cars, Tarlor Cars, Dinincr Cars on Day Trains. And the Famous Northern Pacific Dining Car Service, with those Great Bis Baked Potatoes. Coaches and Tourists and Standard Sleeping Cars on Night Trains. Round Trip Excursion Fares Daily June 1 to September 30 to all Points East. Stopovers allowed and long return limit. May 19 to 20 to Chicago May 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, to Atlanta, Ga. Rates Open to All Tickets and Information, 255 Morrison Street Phones: Main 244, A 1244 A. D. Charlton, A. G. P. A., Portland, Or. y: Northern Pacific Railway in V ' You might call it "Bottled Sun shine," For it looks so clear and bright And its always pure and wholesome. You can drink it day; and night. Erewed by Henry Weinhard Brewery. Large or Small Bottles. Phone for a case today. Phone Main 72. A -11 72.