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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1920)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1G. 1020 S of age, confessed to the robbery of the grocery store of J. T. Grant, 847 Williams avenue, on the night of Jan uary 9, according to John Ooltz, lieu tenant of detectives, who made an in vestigation yesterday. They will be tried in municipal court today on a charge of assault and robbery and being armed with a dangerous weapon. Mr. Grant reported the loss of a watch and $19 in money at the time of the robbery. One of the boys is said to have entered the store and asked for cigarettes. Under cover of this act the other entered and held up Mr. Grant. The two made their escape in an automobile, which they are said to have admitted stealing at the library. DEFINE' hterpretation Depends on View of Legislators. MANY BILLS ARE TRIVIAL L.AWTKR. WHO PRACTICED HliRU SINCE 1881 IS IiliAD. llair-lloliday in Office or Multno mah Connty Clerk Is Regard ed as Crave Issue. SOU) LIBERALLY n ; EMERGENCY I V V STATE CAPITOL, Salem. Or, Jan. 13. (Special.) This is a special ses sion, an extraordinary session of the legislature, called to consider emer gency legislation. What constitutes an emergency depends on the Indi vidual member of the senate or house. "Emergency" is defined by a num ber, judging from the way they vote, as salary fixing and minor road mat ters; creation of new offices and the like. If the special session had not met there would be a considerable number of state and county officials who would have had to worry along with out an increase. But just how the salary fixing can be construed aa emergency legislation is a puzzle. Another grave emergency which has been met by the legislature through Senator Orton, is giving the deputies of the clerk of Multnomah county a half holiday on Saturdays. Manx Salary Bills Bob Up. Some idea of the salary bills can be gained from scanning this list: Increasing salary for deputy labor commissioners; increasing pay and expense money for district eealer of weights and measures; increased sal ary for attorney of Deschutes county; more pay for the officials of Malheur, Morrow, Coos, Jackson and Union counties; more pay for county sur veyors; increased pay for school su perintendent of Clackamas county; a stenographer for the school superin tendent of Linn county; increased sal aries for the attorney-general, state superintendent of public instruction; state highway engineer, eorae of the circuit judges and a number of in creased allowances for expense ac counts. New jobs which the legislature has been asked to create are such as a meat and herd inspector for Coos county; a state biologist at JJ00O a year; a state diver and lake commis sion and another circuit judge. Road XjiNlatIon Asked. Among the road legislation consid ered as "emergency" may be men tioned a bill authorizing the state highway commission to go Into the cement making business; a bridge across the big Nestucca; a state road for Malheur county and another for Sherman' county ; two bills prohibiting the payment of royalties on patented pavement, one making such payment a penitentiary offense. Road bills which may be considered legitimately emergency are the new road bond bill and the constitutional amendment to increase the state's indebtedness for roads, the bond bill being dependent on the passage of the amendment. The gasoline bill is also considered as legitimate- A. bill for the maintenance of roads by state and county could have waited until the regular session, but fits in nicely into the present road programme. Not all of the measures which have been enumerated as showing what some members consider emergency legislation have been enacted, but a fair percentage has been approved by the house or the senate. ill v t i l " h IV i John T. McKrc. t John T. McKee. who died Wednesday at 586 Everett street, was born in Iowa in 1861. He graduated from Lenox college. Hopkinton, la., in 1884. and was admitted to the bar in Iowa in 1887. He came to Portland In 1891 and continued in the practice of law until the time of his death. He was a life member of the Multnomah club, having joined the club shortly after his arrival in Portland. Surviving' Mr. McKee are two sisters. Miss Marie L. McKee of Portland and Mrs. J. H. Me Pike of Middleton. Idaho, and three brothers, William McKee of Coggon, la.; Walter and Henry P. McKee of Portland. Funeral services will be from Finley's chapel today at 2:30 P. M. and will be conducted by Rev. H. H. Griffith, pastor of the First Christian church. MORTON TIMBER ACTIVE Mills Being Established and Tracts Cruised. . MORTON. Wash.. Jan. 15. (Spe cial.) According to C. W. Stude baker, he has sold his interest in the Spaulding Timber company of Morton, and Mr. Chellicam, of the Shell Lumber & Shingle company of Seattle, has bought an interest in the firm, together with Fred Miller. Mr. Miller is associated with Deloss Kpaulding, head of the company, in its active management, but Mr. Chel licam will continue to reside in Se attle. Tom Stinson of Riffe is having cruised a tract of timber immediately west of Morton owned by the Mil waukee Land company. He contem plates the erection of a sawmill. Another sawmill of about 30,000 capacity is soon to be built here by Portland interests. This will make a total of six sawmills and one shin gle mill at Morton. They were pursued in a machine for several blocks, but trace of them was lost at Williams avenue and Russell street. They were arrested later by Patrol man Craig and held for investigation. VANDERVEER PAYS FINE I. W. W. Attorney at Last Moment Decides Xot to Appeal. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 15. (Special.) George F. Vanderveer, at torney for William Haywood the no torious I. W. W. leader, convicted in the east of sedition, and who is de fending a number of I. W. W. here, today paid the fine of $4 and costs mposed upon his companion. Cather ine Beck, yesterday by Cedrick Mil- er, police judge, for violation of the city traffic ordinance. Mr. Vandervere defended his friend. an-d when the judge imposed the fine, said he would appeal the case to the superior court. However, he changed his mind and paid the fine. The wom an was driving a car in which Van derveer escaped after talking to pris oners in the county jail, in violation of the law. 205 GO TO NIGHT SCHOOL Knights or Columbus Classes Open With Good Attendance. With 20o students reporting, the free night school which the Knights or coiumbus committee on war activ ities will conduct here for the benefit of former service men, opened last nignt at 290 Grand avenue North Only the students in half of the sub jects were summoned to appear last night, and the students registered in the remaining subjects will report at :15 o cjock tonight for arrangement of classes and assignment of lessons. Total registration for the school up . to last night was 4j7. Students in the following subjects have been asked to report tonight at i :1a o clock accountancy, bookkeep ing, beginners' English, business English, mechanical drawing, high school mathematics, and auto me chanics. Actual class work will start Monday evening. it I am Offering You an Exceptional Opportunity in these Fiber Silk Shirts 5.95 Each at Two for $11.50 Should you delay buying now, you will pay $10 later on for identical quality. Sold on the Main Floor mo ii 'MorrisanStreet ai My Store Closes Every Evening at 6 chards by the recent cold epell, ac cording to a telegram received by J. C. Cooper of McMinnvllle, president of the Western Walnut association, from Senator McNary. The message was in answer to a letter sent by the walnut growers' association to Sena tor McNary asking for an investigation. Bend Smallpox Mild. BEND. Or., Jan. 15. (Special.) Six cases of smallpox are under treat ment at the city pest house, it was reported today by Dr. Anna Ries Fin ley. city physician. - Dr. Finley be lieves there are many more cases in the city, but they have not been diag nosed, due to the light form of the disease. Bend Census Time Extended. EEXD, Or., Jan. 15. (Special.) Word was received today , from Dis trict Census Supervisor Terrill, in Wasco, that the time allotted enumer ators here has been extended seven days. Three of the five census tak ere at work here completed their dis tricts this afternoon, but a recheck ing will be made by unofficial enumerators hired by the Bend com mercial club. 1 nc 0 1 KHF4L 'ENN SOCIETY DISCUSSED Alumni and Former Students Hold ! Meeting Here. j Alumni and former students of the University of Pennsylvania met last night at the office of Dr. J. F. Don- i nelly, in the Medical building, and I drew up tentative plans for the re organization of the alumni associa tion here. Several years ago there was an active organization in this city, but it ceased to function during the war. The meeting last night was called by W. G. Oberteuffer, one of the past presidents. While an organization was not per fected last night, it was decided to go ahead with the formation of an active club. On January 22, which is a big day for the university students and alumni, a banquet is planned by the association. PORTLAND LAWYER LOSES Jnry at CorvaJIis Allows $1 Sam- ages to Keely. CORVALL1S, Or., Jan. 15. (Special.) Attorney Keely of Portland lost his damage case in the Benton county court today. He sued Ben Porter of Monroe for alleged damages resulting from an automobile collision to the extent of J10.000. The jury awarded him $1. This is the second case that has been lost here lately where the plain tiff acted as his own attorney. In the other case a man named Gold man conducted his damage suit against the county for running a road through his place. The viewers had already awarded him $300, while the jury decided he was not entitled to anything. mm ."-' - : . . fik Ni vfc ff H FATTY STiTa m , ARBUCKLE in JKXX FA "'THE GARAGE" JfAS h'l WALLACE REID ' fj f.' 1 f'i in M $ V 11 "Hawthorne of the Iff W i fcj U. S. A." M l f'i WI Lift AM CANED PEANUTS" LATEST Confection From Land of Xippon eso Declared Good.' E. N. Weinbaum, foreign trade secretary of the Chamber of Com merce, has a treat for friends who call at the office in the form of a confection said to be popular In the land of the Nipponese. It is "canned peanuts," a combination of the syrup of the cane with the kernels of the lowly "goober." K. Muraki of New York. who visited Portland a week ago in connection with development of Japanese trade in this country, sent to the trade secretary samples of the peanut product. Japan is not a grower of the pea nut, but imports large quantities from I'lviiii. which are distributed to the world trade. Trees to Be Inspected. Government representatives will make a survey on the damage done in Oregon to walnut and filbert or- YOUTHS ADMIT ROBBERY Ben Pearlman and Everett 31c Donald, 19, in Custody. j?vn T -'---ti. mechanic, and Ever ett iit.l.juiil, liuoier, both 19 years MALE and FEMALE Starts Tomorrow ORCHESTRA MATINEE DAILY See Ad Page 4 - nmmrimi1 OPENING FR 1 DAY eJANUARY 16. art fi- h 3 Sri I UK 'A insane greyys triumphant novel A$TcftkDVANR$ vonn, n PORTLAND'S BEST PHOTOPLAY HOUSE - Starting Tomorrow - ....... i . i . i . . i ii ii k Starring UANE NOVAKr- I ,ober(r HOLT SPROTTE K LIVIIOSTONE DRY" OF THE FROZEN NORTH " Where men live fast and die Jaster Just to think Portland's incomparable scenery and cli mate so ideally lend themselves as a back ground to this splendid picture. Si INIusical Interpretation of this picture has been per sonally selected by Mr. Gnterson Two concerts will be played each afternoon and evening:. JEAN HERSHOLT who plays two of the prin cipal parts, WILL APPEAR IN PERSON during the showing of this picture. nut:.- ".ftr m CONCERT NUMBERS Second Hungarian Rhapsody F. Liszt Serenade G. Pierne ADMISSION PRICES: Evenings "3 Adults 314 Children 13 Loges -54c All Prices Plus War Tax Afte'rnoons Adults Children 13o Loges'. 45 22c 3 3 i ml SL-f (Hi . 'hi t mi